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Bombs in Envelopes Jolt

A Nation Riven by Vitriol
Devices Are Sent to Democrats and CNN —
Trump Denounces ‘Despicable Acts’
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Pipe bombs were sent to sev-
eral prominent Democrats, in-
cluding former President Barack
Obama and former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, setting off
an intense investigation on
Wednesday into whether figures
vilified by the right were being
targeted.
From Washington to New York
to Florida to Los Angeles, the au-
thorities intercepted a wave of
crudely built devices that were
contained in manila envelopes.
In the center of Manhattan, the
Time Warner Center, an elegant
office and shopping complex, was
evacuated because of a pipe bomb
sent to CNN, which has its New
York offices there. It was ad-
dressed to John O. Brennan, a
critic of President Trump who
served as Mr. Obama’s C.I.A. di-
rector.
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
None of the devices harmed
The Time Warner Center in Manhattan was evacuated because of a bomb received by CNN, which has its New York offices there. anyone, and it was not immedi-
ately clear whether any of them
could have. One law enforcement
official said investigators were ex-
similar to one found Monday at
the home of George Soros, the bil-
lionaire philanthropist and liberal
donor, in a New York City suburb.
Coming less than two weeks be-
fore the midterm elections, the
discovery of the pipe bombs re-
verberated across a country al-
ready on edge, stirring anew
questions about whether political
discourse had grown too vitriolic.
Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama, Mr.
Soros and CNN have all figured
prominently in right-wing poli-
tical attacks — many of which
have been led by Mr. Trump. He
has often referred to major news
organizations as “the enemy of
the people” and has shown con-
tempt for CNN.
Mr. Trump, speaking at the
White House on Wednesday,
called the attempted bombings
“despicable acts.”
“In these times we have to
unify,” Mr. Trump said. “We have
to come together and send one
very clear, strong, unmistakable
message that acts or threats of po-

WORRIES ADD UP Spies Are Listening, but Trump Stays on iPhone amining the possibility that they
were hoax devices that were con-
structed to look like bombs but
litical violence of any kind have no
place in the United States of
America.”

AS STOCKS PLUNGE
Ignoring Warnings by
Losses Erase the Market’s
Gains for the Year
By MATT PHILLIPS
Another wave of selling hit the
nearly decade-long bull market as
investors worried that the ideal
climate they have long enjoyed —
a surging economy, low interest
rates and fast-growing corporate
profits — would soon be behind
them.
The benchmark Standard &
Poor’s 500-stock index shed 3 per-
cent on Wednesday, wiping out its
gains for the year. The tech-heavy
Nasdaq composite index was
down 4.4 percent, and has fallen
more than 12 percent since early
September.
Markets in Japan, China and
Hong Kong matched Wall Street’s
drop in Thursday morning trad-
ing. In one potentially positive
sign, futures markets that track
the performance of stocks in the
United States rose, suggesting in-
vestor attitudes might brighten
when Wall Street opens.
Just over a month ago, the S.&P.
500 was up nearly 10 percent for
2018, with expectations that com-
ing quarterly corporate earnings
reports — juiced by a generous
tax cut and strong economic
growth — would keep sending
stock prices upward.
It hasn’t worked out that way.
Instead of celebrating quarterly
profit and sales numbers that
have largely lived up to expecta-
tions, investors have zeroed in on
potential risks to the economic
and corporate profit outlook for
the coming year. Rising commod-
ity costs tied to tariffs on imports,
expectations that the Federal Re-
serve will keep raising interest
rates, and an economic slowdown
in China could all start to bite. And
that’s on top of investors’ anxiety
about what the midterm elections
could mean for their portfolios.
“It was kind of a market that
was looking for a reason to have
some money come out of it,” said
Tony Dwyer, chief market strat-
egist with the brokerage firm
Canaccord Genuity in New York.
“And it found it.”
The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age fell 608 points, or 2.4 percent,
on Wednesday. And the Nasdaq
has now fallen into correction ter-
ritory — a decline of more than 10
percent from an earlier peak,
which indicates a drop that’s more
serious than a garden-variety
Continued on Page A19
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
and MAGGIE HABERMAN
WASHINGTON — When Presi-
dent Trump calls old friends on
one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe
or solicit their latest take on how
he is doing, American intelligence
reports indicate that Chinese
spies are often listening — and
putting to use invaluable insights
into how to best work the presi-
dent and affect administration
policy, current and former Ameri-
can officials said.
Mr. Trump’s aides have repeat-
edly warned him that his cell-
phone calls are not secure, and
they have told him that Russian
spies are routinely eavesdropping
on the calls, as well. But aides say
the voluble president, who has
been pressured into using his se-
A Blue Dog Tests Tennessee’s Shift to Bright Red
By JONATHAN MARTIN
MEMPHIS — As Phil Bre-
desen, the former Democratic
governor of Tennessee now run-
ning for Senate, was wrapping up
a voter forum at Rhodes College
recently, the liberal-leaning mix of
students, faculty and local resi-
dents began to grow restless from
his unapologetically moderate
brand of politics.
Finally, an audience member
stood up and drew scattered ap-
REBOUND
A Throwback Senate Bid
plause by saying that supporters
of Mr. Bredesen were “a little bit
troubled” by his vow to back Pres-
ident Trump when he thinks the
president is right. On what issues,
the candidate was asked, would
you support or oppose Mr.
Trump?
It was the political equivalent of
a batting practice pitch, a friendly
heave served up so Mr. Bredesen
could reassure supporters in his
hotly contested race — and per-
haps catch the attention of pro-
gressives further afield.
But Philip Norman Bredesen
Jr., a low-key 74-year-old wealthy
former health care executive, has
no appetite to go viral.
After allowing that some people
“have very emotional reactions”
to Mr. Trump, he said it was im-
portant “to knock that stuff back
and try to think carefully about is-
sues.” Then he discussed trade
policy.
Continued on Page A12
Aides That Cell Calls
Are Unsecured
cure White House landline more
often these days, has still refused
to give up his iPhones. White
House officials say they can only
hope he refrains from discussing
classified information when he is
on them.
Mr. Trump’s use of his iPhones
was detailed by several current
and former officials, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity so they
could discuss classified intelli-
gence and sensitive security ar-
rangements. The officials said
Phil Bredesen, above, a moderate Democrat, is focusing on local
issues in his Senate race with Representative Marsha Blackburn,
top, a hard-line Republican who has nationalized their contest.
they were doing so not to under-
mine Mr. Trump, but out of frus-
tration with what they considered
the president’s casual approach to
electronic security.
American spy agencies, the offi-
cials said, had learned that China
and Russia were eavesdropping
on the president’s cellphone calls
from human sources inside for-
eign governments and intercept-
ing communications between for-
eign officials.
The officials said they have also
determined that China is seeking
to use what it is learning from the
calls — how Mr. Trump thinks,
what arguments tend to sway him
and to whom he is inclined to lis-
ten — to keep a trade war with the
United States from escalating fur-
ther. In what amounts to a mar-
Continued on Page A15
SHAWN POYNTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
WILLIAM DESHAZER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
would not have exploded.
The F.B.I. said the devices were
The parcel sent to CNN was addressed to the former C.I.A. direc-
tor John O. Brennan, a figure vilified by the right. Page A18.
At Saudi Event, Caravan’s Trail:
Prince Deplores Honduran Feud
‘Heinous Crime’ To Global Furor
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The
crown prince of Saudi Arabia on
Wednesday denounced the
“heinous crime” committed
against Jamal Khashoggi, the dis-
sident writer killed in Turkey. It
was his most public attempt yet to
separate himself from Saudi oper-
atives suspected of the killing,
who include some of the crown
prince’s own aides.
The comments by the crown
prince, Mohammed bin Salman,
were made during a panel discus-
sion at an opulent investor confer-
ence in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
They came as the relationship be-
tween Saudi Arabia and Turkey
continued to sour over the Oct. 2
killing at the Saudi Consulate in
Istanbul, and as Saudi Arabia’s
economic and political ties with
the West are increasingly at risk.
Prince Mohammed insisted
that Turkey and Saudi Arabia
were collaborating to bring those
who committed the killing to jus-
tice.
“The crime was really painful to
all Saudis, and I believe it is
painful to every human in the
world,” he said in Arabic, accord-
ing to a simultaneous translation.
“It is a heinous crime that cannot
be justified.”
A Saudi-Turkey split, he said,
“will not happen, and we will
prove to the world that the two
governments are cooperating to
punish any criminal, any guilty
person, and justice in the end will
appear.”
The crown prince’s comments
came amid reports by both Saudi
and Turkish news agencies that
Continued on Page A6
He continued in the same vein
Continued on Page A18
This article is by Azam Ahmed,
Katie Rogers and Jeff Ernst.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras
— The flier began circulating on
social media in Honduras this
month, showing a lone migrant
sketched against a bright red
backdrop.
It was a call to join a caravan,
the work of leftist activists and po-
liticians who had helped lead mi-
grants north in the past. But they
also tossed a political spark into
the mix, blaming their right-wing
government for the exodus: “The
violence and poverty is expelling
us.”
They never expected it to ignite
an international firestorm.
Far from Honduras, the White
House was busy grappling with
the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a
columnist whose death inside a
Saudi consulate had tarnished
Saudi Arabia, a vital ally of the
Trump administration. And with
the midterm elections in the
United States only weeks away,
President Trump was eager to
change the script.
The caravan gave him a new,
politically advantageous story to
tell. Stoking American anxieties
about immigration had worked
well as a cornerstone of his 2016
campaign. The president’s top
aides, including Secretary of
Homeland Security Kirstjen
Nielsen and the White House chief
of staff, John F. Kelly, began brief-
ing the president on the caravan’s
progress the week before last,
senior White House officials said.
Within days, the president be-
gan using Twitter to attack the mi-
grants, putting the blame on Dem-
Continued on Page A8

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Groundwork for a Tax Cut
President Trump has promised that he
will cut middle-class taxes. It isn’t going
to be easy. PAGE A15
Defectors’ Path Gets Harder
A North Korea crackdown and the
Trump administration’s curbs on refu-
gees have slowed arrivals. PAGE A10
Rivals That ‘Need Each Other’
Wary of President Trump’s actions,
Japan and China are seeking a thaw in
their relations. Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe will visit Beijing this week. PAGE A4
NEW YORK A20-25
Discord Among the Flock
As allegations of abuse persist, New
York Catholics discuss why they left the
faith, and why they stayed. PAGE A20
‘Blackface’ Views Denounced
Megyn Kelly’s racially insensitive com-
ments were condemned privately by
the NBC News chairman and publicly
by three of the network’s stars. PAGE B1
SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-12
Boston Is in Command
Behind a strong start from David Price,
the Red Sox took a 2-0 lead over the
Dodgers in the World Series. PAGE B8
The Unhappy Warriors
Senator Ben Sasse and the writer Max
Boot lament their disillusionment with
the right wing in new books. PAGE C1
No, Really, He’s Big in Rap
Shane Lindstrom, a.k.a. Murda Beatz,
may look like Shaggy of “Scooby Doo,”
but he keeps producing hits. PAGE C1
Raf Simons’s Big New Ideas
Vanessa Friedman talks with Calvin
Klein’s chief creative officer about Andy
Warhol and the state of style. PAGE D1
A Pelosi in Trump Country
With a new documentary, the Demo-
cratic leader’s daughter Alexandra
Pelosi explores the other side. PAGE D1
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THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
Luminous
Geoffrey Weglarz, left, pictured with his brother, Larry, was found dead in a car in Manhattan.
A First Call That Led to Much More
By MICHAEL WILSON
It started with a photograph in a Manhat-
tan neighborhood weekly. The Villager
covered police activity around a parked
vehicle on East 12th Street late in August
and published a photo of the scene. A
middle-aged man had been found dead in
his car, seemingly of natural causes.
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phone call.
I dialed the police public information
S U P E R N OVA E A R C L I P S office, which identified the dead man as
18k / Brilliant Diamond / Geoffrey Corbis, 61, of Bridgeport, Conn. I
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Googled him and came up with one hit —
only one? — at a corporate consulting and
coaching firm. His bio hinted at a life fully
lived: “Geoffrey has also worked profes-
sionally in Manhattan as an actor, singer,
and ballet dancer,” it read.
With growing curiosity, I dived deeper
and found a new GoFundMe campaign on
behalf of the family of Geoffrey Weglarz
Corbis — the photo was the same as the
one on the consulting firm’s site. He had
taken his life in his car, the campaign site
explained, and he left no money for a fu-
neral.
A mystery was taking shape. I Googled
PA U L M O R E L L I .C OM
Geoffrey Weglarz and got many more
N YC : 8 95 M A D I S O N ( 7 2 N D & M A D I S O N ) results than the single one for Corbis. The
P H L : 1118 WA L N U T S T R E E T highs and, more so, the lows of one man’s
212. 5 8 5 . 42 0 0 life played out in the search results.
He was a software developer in that
field’s early days, on the rise in Manhattan.
Then he was an out-of-work man in his
50s, being interviewed for a television
report about unemployment in middle age.
Then he was an unhappy customer at
McDonald’s who blew a fuse in the drive-
Kick It through one night and hurled his sandwich
— they got the order wrong — at the wom-
an who had served it to him. She was
pregnant. The story went viral.
I went back to the GoFundMe page and
made the most important call of them all,
to the host of the campaign, Pamela Linde-
mann, in Florida. She was the dead man’s
sister, and she filled in the outlines of a
unique and complicated life — and a cru-
cial detail about his death.
After a successful career in software
development, with a nice home and a
family, he would lose all those things, wind-
ing up fitting all his possessions in his car.
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One can only guess why it seemed to be
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over the edge, but he drove to East 12th
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Of Interest
NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

A headless ghost of a worker Revenues for Calvin Klein increased

decapitated during the Brooklyn by 10 percent in 2017, according to
Bridge’s construction is said to haunt the annual report of PVH Corp., the
the area. (No word on sightings of parent company.
the five gray aliens that a woman It’s Still Warhol’s World D1
said abducted her nearby in 1989.) •
Where Are Brooklyn’s Bodies Buried? New York’s second-oldest private
We’ll Show You D8
social club, the Harmonie Club, was
• started in 1852, and women were
As we age, muscles and other first admitted as members in 1986.
supportive tissues around the eye (The oldest, the Union Club of the
relax. That, paired with waning City of New York, is still all male.)
elasticity in the skin, causes fat that The Harmonie Club Joins the 21st Century D7
was once at deeper levels to migrate •
to the surface, causing eyelid bags. NADINE REDLICH
In a report this summer, the
The Fix for Dark Circles, Bags
And Droopy Lids D4
European Food Safety Authority
When the BBC One show concluded that “there is no evidence
•
“Bodyguard” debuted in Britain in that large fences have been effective
The messaging app WhatsApp says
August, it drew more than 10 million for the containment of wild suids,”
that there are six people in the
television viewers over seven days for using a word for the pig animal
average chat group.
its first episode, the largest audience family.
Psst. WhatsApp Needs Fixing.
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for a new drama on British TV since Danes Hope a Big Fence Will Block
“Downton Abbey.” A Pig Disease A9

Can ‘Bodyguard’ Duplicate Its Success

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The Conversation Spotlight

FIVE OF THE MOST READ, SHARED AND DISCUSSED POSTS STORIES FROM OUR READERS
FROM ACROSS NYTIMES.COM

Tiny Love Stories, a new Modern Love project, asks contribu-

1. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and CNN Offices tors to share their epic love stories in 100 words or less. This
Are Sent Pipe Bombs week’s batch of micro-nonfiction includes five tales of sepa-
Wednesday’s biggest news story was that of the pipe bombs rate vacations, public-transit aficionados and other romantic
sent to prominent Democratic figures, including Mrs. Clinton, gains and losses. Read one here.
Mr. Obama, Representative Maxine Waters, the former attor-
ney general Eric H. Holder Jr., the former C.I.A. director John
Brennan — care of CNN — and the billionaire philanthropist
George Soros. (The package for Mr. Holder was misad-
dressed and rerouted to Representative Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, whose name was listed as the return address.) This
article was updated several times Wednesday as information
about additional explosives became available.

2. Alexander Soros: The Hate That Is Consuming Us

The bomb addressed to George Soros was the first to be
reported: It was delivered to Mr. Soros’s home on Monday. In
this Op-Ed article, Mr. Soros’s son, Alexander, argued that the
explosives are a consequence of our national politics of de-
monizing opponents.

3. In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate.

It’s an Obsession.
Since the turn of the millennium, Nestlé Japan has released
almost 400 new flavors of Kit Kat bars, including Okinawan
sweet potatoes, adzuki bean sandwich and wasabi — some of
them available only in particular regions. Tejal Rao’s deep
dive into Japan’s Kit Kat culture appears in the Sunday maga-
zine’s special Candy Issue, coming this weekend.
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Putin Asserts
Move by U.S.
Puts Europe
In Danger
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
MOSCOW — President Vladi-
mir V. Putin warned on Wednes-
day that if the United States de-
ploys new intermediate-range
missiles in Europe after with-
drawing from a nuclear treaty
prohibiting these weapons, Eu-
ropean nations will be at risk of
“a possible counterstrike.”
President Trump said over the
weekend that the United States
intends to pull out of a 1987
agreement banning short- and
intermediate-range missiles
that are launched from land. He
said Russia was cheating on the
deal and said it was flawed be-
cause China is not a signatory.
The United States, Mr. Trump
said, will develop weapons now
prohibited by the treaty, prompt-
ing Russian warnings of a new
arms race.
On Wednesday, speaking at a
news conference in Moscow, Mr.
Putin said European countries
would bear the risk of Mr.
Trump’s decision if new missiles
wound up in Europe.
“The main question is, if the
United States does withdraw
from this treaty, what will it do
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with these newly emerging mis-
siles?” Mr. Putin said. Any Euro-
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, left, and President Xi Jinping of China at the Group of 20 meeting in 2016. The two will meet again this week in Beijing. pean nation that accepts the new
missiles, he said, “will have to

Rivals Try to Get Along, Whether They Like It or Not

By JANE PERLEZ
BEIJING — Six years ago, angry dem-
onstrators filled the streets in dozens of
Chinese cities to protest Japan’s claim to is-
lands in the East China Sea, surrounding
Tokyo’s embassy, overturning Japanese
cars and in some cases even attacking
sushi restaurants.
Two years later, President Xi Jinping
met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the
sidelines of a regional conference in Bei-
jing, and the body language said it all: Mr.
Xi could barely muster a smile during an
awkward handshake for the cameras.
As Mr. Abe on Thursday begins the first
state visit to China by a Japanese leader in
eight years, no one is expecting the Asian
powers to become instant partners, or
even to manage a major reconciliation. But
in the age of Trump, both are looking for a
little more normality.
Battered by plummeting relations with
Washington, and particularly by President
Trump’s trade war, Mr. Xi is looking to a
friendlier Japan as a hedge. And though
Mr. Abe has met more often with Mr.
Trump than any other foreign leader has,
he is well aware of the president’s fickle
treatment of American allies and also
wants to cover his bets.
“Both sides need each other,” said Yu
Tiejun, a Japan expert at Peking Univer-
sity. “They need to improve relations as a
response to the uncertainty brought about
by Trump in Asia. This is a good beginning
— better than a deterioration.”
Neither side is expecting miracles. The
countries are strategic rivals, each trying
to promote itself as the partner of choice
for less powerful Asian nations. And their
bloody history, dating back to World War II
and before, remains a major obstacle.
Analysts say the optics of Mr. Abe’s
three-day visit will be more important than
the concrete outcomes, which are likely to
be modest. About 500 Japanese business-
people are expected to accompany Mr. Abe
to Beijing, a signal that both sides want the
trading relationship — which took a deep
dive from 2012 to 2014, after the rupture
over the disputed islands — to keep grow-
ing.
China is Japan’s largest trading partner.
Even as Mr. Trump’s trade conflict with
China rages, the Japanese auto giant Toy-
ota plans to increase production in China
by 20 percent, expanding plants in two ma-
Motoko Rich contributed reporting from
Tokyo. Luz Ding contributed research.
jor Chinese cities, according to news re-
ports in Japan.
To show that its ties with China can im-
prove, Japan has agreed to sign an accord
in Beijing calling for them to work together
on infrastructure projects in developing
countries.
But even that agreement will reflect the
two powers’ rivalry. Japan has stipulated
that it does not want to be involved in so-
called Belt and Road projects — China’s
ambitious bid to draw countries into its or-
bit through infrastructure investment —
unless international standards of transpar-
ency and fiscal sustainability are applied,
said a senior Japanese official, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity according to
diplomatic custom.
Some countries involved in Belt and
Road projects, like Malaysia and Sri
Lanka, have accused China of saddling
them with excessive debt. By insisting on
standards developed by the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Develop-
ment, of which Japan is a member but
China is not, Japan can signal to develop-
ing countries that it is a fairer partner, the
Japanese official said.
Japan believes it has made that distinc-
tion clear in Myanmar, for example, where
it is the biggest foreign donor. Japan has
built functioning infrastructure there,
while China was forced to cancel dam con-
struction over environmental concerns
and is bogged down in negotiating the fi-
A building site in Myanmar, where Japan is the biggest foreign donor. To-
kyo and Beijing want to be the partner of choice for smaller Asian nations.
nances of other projects.
Strategically, Japan is also seeking to po-
sition itself in the region as a counterforce
to China. Last month, a Japanese subma-
rine participated in war games in the South
China Sea for the first time, then visited
Vietnam, an indication that Japan was pre-
pared to stand with other countries against
China’s territorial claims in the crucial wa-
terway.
As China rapidly modernizes its mili-
tary, Japan remains wary of its strategic
intent. Six years after the dispute over the
contested East China Sea islands — known
as the Senkaku in Japan, and the Diaoyu in
China — the Chinese Navy has kept up the
pressure, sending the same number of
coast guard vessels into the waters off the
islands as it did in 2017, the Japanese offi-
cial said.
With such concerns in mind, Japan is en-
thusiastically participating in an informal,
implicitly anti-China alliance with the
United States, India and Australia, which
has become known as “the quad.” The
Trump administration has promoted the
grouping, emphasizing that all four coun-
tries are democracies and changing the
name of the Pacific Command in Hawaii to
the Indo-Pacific Command, to signal In-
dia’s strategic role and the range of forces
that could unite against China.
Indeed, soon after Mr. Abe returns from
China he will host Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi of India, its partner in the quad.
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But the Chinese do not seem overly con-
cerned.
“There is a possibility they could cooper-
ate against China,” Hu Lingyuan, head of
the Center for Japanese Studies at Fudan
University in Shanghai, said of the Indo-
Pacific group. “But it could not go far.”
Ezra F. Vogel, a China and Japan special-
ist at Harvard, said that Mr. Abe, a “prag-
matic nationalist,” had a better chance of
improving ties with China than did Japan’s
opposition Democratic Party, which dur-
ing a brief stint in power presided over the
worsening of relations in 2012, despite its
stated policy of getting closer to China.
Unlike the United States, Mr. Vogel said,
Japan never harbored illusions that China
would become like the West, an outlook
that has led to more realistic expectations
about the extent of a possible rapproche-
ment. Animosity between the two Asian
powers is also being reduced by “soft
power” factors, like the more than eight
million Chinese tourists who visited Japan
this year.
Shiro Armstrong, director of the Aus-
tralia-Japan Research Center at the Aus-
tralian National University, said that for
Japan, “the balancing act is not to give
away too much” as its ties with China de-
velop.
“The important thing is the U.S. security
relationship is vital for Japan,” he said.
“That’s nonnegotiable, and that’s what Ja-
pan needs to protect while it improves its
relationship with China and other coun-
tries.”
Still, some Chinese analysts have sug-
gested that given the volatility of Mr.
Trump, who has warmed to Japan’s nem-
esis North Korea and threatened in the
past to pull American troops from the re-
gion, Mr. Xi should be able to sow doubts
about Japan’s American allies during Mr.
Abe’s visit.
“The Trump administration’s economic
nationalism and trade protectionism are a
leading driver to improved ties between
Beijing and Tokyo,” said Zhu Feng, an Asia
expert at Nanjing University. “Trump
clearly increases Japan’s skepticism to-
ward America’s role and credibility in the
region.”
But China should not expect too much
from that, at least in the short term, Mr. Vo-
gel said.
“Abe is thinking of a long time frame, of
building a framework where China and Ja-
pan can work together and live together as
neighbors without conflict,” Mr. Vogel said.
understand that they put their
own territory under the threat of
a possible counterstrike.”
“I don’t understand whether
Europe should be put in a situa-
tion of such a high level of dan-
ger,” he said. “In fact, I don’t see
any reasons for that.”
On Tuesday, speaking in Mos-
cow, the United States national
Russia would weigh
a ‘counterstrike’ to
American missiles.
security adviser, John R. Bolton,
said the risk in fact sprang from
Russian noncompliance. He as-
serted that Moscow had already
deployed banned missiles.
The United States says the
Russians have deployed ground-
launched missiles known in the
West as the SSC-8. They have a
range banned by the treaty and
are capable of hitting European
targets, the Americans say.
The issue has proved divisive
among members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Whatever threat the new Rus-
sian missiles may pose, many
European leaders have objected
to Mr. Trump’s plan to scrap the
treaty.
On Wednesday, the NATO sec-
retary general, Jens Stolten-
berg, said European members
were unlikely to deploy new
weapons.
“We don’t want a new Cold
War,” he said. “I don’t foresee
that allies will deploy more nu-
clear weapons in Europe as a re-
sponse to the new Russian mis-
sile.”
Mr. Putin said Russia would
be able to quickly deploy inter-
mediate-range missiles if the
United States withdraws from
the agreement, which is known
as the I.N.F. Treaty.
“This will be very rapid and ef-
fective,” he said. “Indeed, what
was the formal pretext of our
partners withdrawing from the
I.N.F. agreement? It was the ac-
cusation against us that we have
ostensibly violated it.”

Racist Rant on Flight Prompts Inquiry in Britain and Vow for Justice in Spain
By CHRISTINE HAUSER was posted online. was made to us, our officers have was in the aisle, after he tried to After the flight attendants this racist, hate-filled man is pun-
The British police say they are Flight attendants forced the identified both parties involved get past her to sit by the window. moved the woman, the plane took ished, but also to force the com-
investigating a white man who be- woman, not the man, to move, and and are progressing a number of Ms. Gayle, who has arthritis, ap- off from Barcelona, and the man pany to change its procedures in
rated a black woman with racist Ryanair’s handling of the episode enquiries,” adding that they parently did not get up as quickly apparently did not face any imme- such cases and support victims
was intensely criticized, with peo- learned of the video on Sunday. as he wanted, so he started to diate consequences. rather than aggressors.”
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week, adding that they plan to
turn over their findings to the
Spanish authorities.
The police in Essex, a county in
southeast England, said on Tues-
day that they had identified both
passengers in the “racially aggra-
vated incident,” which occurred
on Friday while the airplane was
still on the tarmac in Barcelona.
A video of the tirade, in which
the British man called the woman
a “stupid, ugly cow” and an “ugly
black bastard,” was recorded by a
fellow passenger and has been
viewed millions of times since it
Raphael Minder contributed re-
porting.
ple urging a boycott of the Dublin-
based budget airline and British
lawmakers calling for action.
Because Ryanair is an Irish
company and the incident hap-
pened on the ground in Spain, the
man most likely could not be pros-
ecuted in Britain, said Karl Turner,
a British lawmaker who speaks
for the Labour Party on trans-
portation.
In Spain, the state agency re-
sponsible for air safety said that it
could penalize the passenger if its
investigation into his behavior
concluded it was that of a “conflic-
tive passenger.”
The Essex Police said on Face-
book on Tuesday, “Since the report
“There are agreed national pro-
tocols to follow when incidents are
reported to have happened in an-
other country,” the police said. “As
such, we will be conducting an in-
vestigation to submit to the Span-
ish authorities in due course.”
A spokeswoman for the police,
reached by telephone on Wednes-
day, said that the inquiry was con-
tinuing and that no arrests had
been made. The spokeswoman,
who said she was not authorized
to be quoted by name, declined to
confirm the name of the man,
whom the BBC and other British
news outlets have identified.
The man started ranting at the
woman, Delsie Gayle, while he
point his finger in her face, and
she told him to stop, she said in an
interview with ITV News on Mon-
day.
The video by the fellow pas-
senger, David Lawrence, captures
the moments when the man,
seated near a window, berated
and bullied the woman, ordering
her to move. In addition to the in-
sults, he told her not to speak to
him in a “foreign language,”
though Ms. Gayle, who was born
in Jamaica, was speaking English.
“I feel very low,” she said in the
interview. “He paid a fare to go on
holiday, I’ve paid mine, so why
does he abuse me for that due to
the color of my skin?”
Mayor Ada Colau of Barcelona
said on Facebook on Tuesday that
the city would take legal action.
“Above all, we want to express
our solidarity with the victim and
our repudiation, not just of the rac-
ist, shameless, rude man that per-
petrated this act of violence and
hate, but also of the company for
making the woman move seats,
rather than the person guilty of
the verbal attack, who deserved to
be removed from the plane and
taken straight to a police station,”
she said.
“As a city we’re going to take
this seriously, initiate legal action
and present the video as proof,”
Ms. Colau said. “Not just so that
The airline said it had turned
over the video to the police in Es-
sex, who are in charge of the re-
gion around London Stansted Air-
port, where the flight landed.
On Wednesday, a reporter for
The Daily Mirror published a vid-
eo on Twitter of the police entering
Chinn Brook House, a retirement
home in Birmingham where the
man is believed to live. Calls to the
center were not answered.
An official at Optivo, the British
housing provider for the man at
the home, did not immediately re-
turn a request for comment. News
reports said the man had refused
to speak to reporters outside the
center.
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A6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
Killing at the Consulate
Saudi Prince Denounces ‘Heinous Crime’ in Death of Khashoggi
From Page A1
he had spoken by telephone about
the Khashoggi case with Saudi
Arabia’s principal accuser, Presi-
dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan of
Turkey. It was the first official
word that the two leaders, consid-
ered regional rivals, had spoken
about the case.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Erdogan
repeated his demand that those
responsible for Mr. Khashoggi’s
death be brought to justice. “We
are determined not to allow a
cover-up of this murder,” he said in
a speech to Turkey’s State Coun-
cil.
Some of the crown prince’s
close subordinates have been im-
plicated by Turkish officials in the
killing of Mr. Khashoggi, 59, a
Washington Post columnist.
Western intelligence officials
have said the Saudi agents would
almost certainly not have acted
without the knowledge of or in-
structions from the 33-year-old
crown prince, who is considered
the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia.
For weeks, the Saudi royal au-
thorities insisted that Mr.
Khashoggi had left the Istanbul
consulate the same day he visited.
It was only this past Saturday that
the Saudi authorities admitted he
had been killed inside the build-
ing, describing it as an accident.
They said 18 Saudis suspected of
involvement had been detained in
Saudi Arabia.
Turkish officials have said they
have evidence including audio re-
cordings that a team of Saudi as-
sassins killed Mr. Khashoggi
within minutes of his entry to the
consulate, dismembered his body
and then tried to cover up his
death — even creating a fictitious
trail by having a Saudi agent who
resembled Mr. Khashoggi walk
out of the consulate wearing the
victim’s clothes.
President Trump, a close ally of
the Saudi royal family, has said he
is skeptical of the Saudi explana-
tions for what happened and has
called the cover-up “one of the
worst.”
In an interview with The Wall
Street Journal on Tuesday, Mr.
Trump said that ties between the
United States and Saudi Arabia
would be damaged if the crown
prince had been dishonest with
him. “Certainly it would be a very
bad thing in terms of relation-
ship,” the president said. “It would
take a while to rebuild.”
Mr. Trump’s Central Intelli-
gence Agency director, Gina
Haspel, has been in Turkey for the
past few days to get more infor-
mation from her Turkish counter-
parts.
The Sabah, a pro-government
Turkish newspaper, reported that
Turkish officials had shared evi-
dence including audio recordings
with Ms. Haspel. American intelli-
gence officials would not com-
ment on Ms. Haspel’s meeting.
For the recordings to have real
usefulness to the C.I.A. or other
agencies, the Turks would have to
Reporting was contributed by Ben
Hubbard from Beirut, Lebanon;
Carlotta Gall from Istanbul; David
D. Kirkpatrick from London; Ju-
lian E. Barnes from Washington;
and Rick Gladstone from New
York.
Why a Journalist’s Killing Has Resonated Around the World
By MEGAN SPECIA
The killing of the dissident writ-
er Jamal Khashoggi inside the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has
resonated internationally in an
unusually powerful way. In the
weeks since he disappeared, his
case has become a top story and a
focal point for outrage.
All of this attention has raised
questions about why the killing of
one man has set off a louder up-
roar than other Saudi actions —
such as the war in Yemen and the
humanitarian crisis it has caused
there, or the roundup at home of
hundreds of political rivals.
The answer seems to lie partly
in the nature of Mr. Khashoggi’s
death and the way it came to light,
amplified by his prominence. The
controversy also reflects a grow-
ing discomfort with Saudi Arabia’s
increased aggressiveness under
the leadership of its brash young
crown prince.
Here are some of the reasons
the killing has stirred such fasci-
nation and outrage, and why it
could have political ramifications
for Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Khashoggi was a prominent
writer with powerful friends.
He was not only a well-known
journalist, but a man used to rub-
bing shoulders with political
elites. He became friends with
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, and had been close to
Saudi royals. He spent years ris-
ing in the ranks of the Saudi media
and later served as an unofficial
spokesman and adviser for the
royal family.
But his career in Saudi Arabia
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaking at an investor conference on Wednesday in Riyadh, sought to distance himself from Jamal Khashoggi’s killing.
provide a full copy so American in-
telligence operatives can perform
technical analysis and establish
their authenticity. But even then,
the recordings would most likely
be of little value on the key policy
question: whether the Saudi
crown prince was connected to
the killing, officials briefed on the
intelligence said.
The officials said there was little
reason to doubt the basic Turkish
account of Mr. Khashoggi being
brutally murdered in the consul-
ate. But the officials said intelli-
gence agencies remain uncon-
vinced that any of the information
gathered from the consulate will
resolve the fundamental question
of the crown prince’s involvement.
Some government officials be-
lieve Prince Mohammed ordered
action to be taken against Mr.
Khashoggi but did not intend for
him to be killed. Others believe
Prince Mohammed wanted him
killed.
Saudi Arabia has denied that its
leaders ordered the operation
against Mr. Khashoggi or even
knew that it had taken place until
days later.
The intrigue surrounding the
crown prince’s appearance on a
panel at the investment confer-
ence was amplified by a fellow
panelist, Prime Minister Saad Ha-
riri of Lebanon, who nearly a year
ago was detained in Saudi Arabia,
apparently on the orders of the
came to a halt when Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman barred
him from writing in the kingdom
as part of a widespread crack-
down on dissent.
Mr. Khashoggi went into self-
imposed exile in the United
States, becoming a prominent
critic of the Saudi monarchy in
regular columns for The Washing-
ton Post. The crown prince often
was the focus of his criticism, with
recent columns slamming him for
“peddling revisionist history,” for
jailing prominent women’s rights
activists and for stifling free
speech.
Assassinations of any kind get
attention, and they spark fear. But
when the victim is as well known
as Mr. Khashoggi was, it puts a
face to the fear, said Michael J.
Glennon, a professor of interna-
tional law at Tufts University.
“These are specific people with
names and faces who are promi-
nent, and in many cases well con-
nected,” he said.
The gruesome death gave a
face, as well, to the larger-scale
type of aggression being carried
out by Saudi Arabia and made it
feel far more tangible.
A killing inside a consulate, often a
place of refuge, is shocking.
The location of Mr. Khashoggi’s
killing only served to add intrigue.
Turkish officials identified 15
men, some with proven links to
the Saudi crown prince, who they
say were involved in the killing.
Saudi officials say Mr. Khashog-
gi’s death was a rogue killing and
deny any links to the royal family.
The brazenness of a targeted
killing by Saudi agents on Turkish
crown prince. The strange cir-
cumstances surrounding Mr. Ha-
riri’s visit back then caused an in-
ternational stir, but the two men
appear to have made up since Mr.
Hariri’s release.
Mr. Hariri did not address the
incident, instead focusing his re-
marks on the development of Leb-
anon’s economy. But Prince Mo-
hammed sought to joke about it.
“His Excellency Prime Min-
ister Saad is staying for two days
in Saudi Arabia,” the crown prince
said, “so I hope that rumors don’t
start that he’s been kidnapped.”
Mostly, the crown prince used
the appearance to promote what
he described as his country’s rich
and glorious future.
“I don’t think that there is any
challenge before the great Saudi
people,” he said. “All of our
projects are proceeding, reform is
proceeding, our war on extrem-
ism is proceeding, our war on ter-
rorism is proceeding, developing
the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
proceeding. No matter how they
try to stop our efforts, we won’t
stop.”
He suggested that the countries
of the Middle East could one day
form an economic engine like Eu-
rope. And in a surprising note of
magnanimity, the crown prince
said that even Qatar — a neigh-
boring adversary targeted by a
Saudi-led embargo — had a dy-
namic economy that would play
Jamal Khashoggi during a television interview this year. Turkish
officials have identified 15 men who they say were involved in his
killing. His prominence has amplified the interest in the case.
soil not only violates international
law but may also be seen by the
Turks as a challenge to their au-
thority.
The 1963 Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations — which Tur-
key and Saudi Arabia both signed
— lays out international law gov-
erning consulates and embassies
and provides protections for dip-
lomatic officials and facilities.
“They kind of escape the juris-
dictional grip of the receiving
state,” explained Jan Wouters,
professor of international law at
K.U. Leuven in Belgium. “But that
is based on a kind of understand-
ing that these people will adhere
to the law and will not abuse the
freedom and space they are given
under international law.”
The Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
an important role in the future of
the region.
Prince Mohammed was
greeted with an ovation as he en-
tered the ballroom at the Ritz
Carlton hotel, where business
leaders from around the world
have converged to network and
make deals — though many can-
celed last week, citing the stigma
of the Khashoggi scandal.
Throughout the day, bankers
and business executives at the
‘We are determined
not to allow a
cover-up,’ Turkey’s
president declares.
conference, known as the Future
Investment Initiative, wondered
whether the prince would actually
make an appearance, which was
added and then mysteriously dis-
appeared from the conference’s
online agenda.
Despite the Khashoggi uproar,
the conference hummed along on
its second day, with discussions
focused on capital markets, sover-
eign wealth funds and investing in
Saudi Arabia’s emerging technol-
ogy sectors.
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is a protected space under inter-
national law. Although it is in
Turkish territory, local officials
cannot enter without Saudi con-
sent.
Embassies and consulates the
world over are seen as places of
political refuge, and while they are
subject to some local laws, the fa-
cility and the diplomatic staff
working inside are shielded from
law enforcement in some cases.
But in cases of grave crimes,
like the Khashoggi killing, that im-
munity can be lifted.
“The fact that it occurred in a
consulate just put all of this in bold
relief,” said Mr. Glennon. “Embas-
sies and consulates are suppos-
edly safe zones. These are places
where one seeks refuge, so it’s all
the more brazen.”
Although pitches were being
made in the hotel’s hallways, it
was premature to say whether the
absence of top American bankers
would be a drag on deal making or
open new opportunities for invest-
ors from Russia and China.
On Tuesday, Saudi Aramco an-
nounced the signing of 15 deals
worth more than $30 billion with
companies in eight countries: the
United States, France, China, Ja-
pan, the United Arab Emirates,
Britain, South Korea and India.
It remains to be seen whether
the crown prince’s remarks about
Mr. Khashoggi will allay the lin-
gering concerns.
“It was something he had to do
in some form,” said Ralph Simon,
the chief executive Mobilium
Global, a London-based mobile
technology company. “There was
a lot of opposition to people com-
ing to this event and I was hoping
there would be some form of pub-
lic statement.”
But the shifting Saudi state-
ments on Mr. Khashoggi have in
some ways only deepened foreign
suspicions about the crown
prince’s role. They were fanned
further by a social-media back-
lash on Wednesday over pub-
lished photographs of a staged
condolence gesture by the crown
prince, shown shaking hands with
Salah Khashoggi, a son of the slain
journalist, who is barred from
leaving the kingdom.
Leaks to Turkish media kept the
story in the headlines.
After Mr. Khashoggi’s disappear-
ance inside the consulate on
Oct. 2, the Turkish authorities be-
gan strategically leaking informa-
tion to pro-government news out-
lets within the country. The calcu-
lated strategy assured that his
case stayed in the headlines day
after day, as Saudi officials ini-
tially denied any knowledge of his
fate.
The leaks offered grisly de-
scriptions of audio recordings that
revealed Mr. Khashoggi had been
dismembered, his head and fin-
gers cut off, incensing the interna-
tional community. Accounts of a
body double, hunts for remains
and reports of private jets spir-
iting away Saudi officials only
added to the drama.
The leaks, some of which were
confirmed by President Erdogan
in a speech on Tuesday, put pres-
sure on the Saudi government to
offer an explanation on Mr.
Khashoggi’s whereabouts.
The Saudi crown prince had al-
ready set the stage for tense
geopolitics.
Prince Mohammed has been ruth-
less in his pursuit of regional dom-
ination, and that has made him
some enemies. Many have ques-
tioned his country’s war in Yemen,
its apparent coercion on the Leba-
nese prime minister to resign and
its confrontation with Qatar.
Turkish and American intelli-
gence officials say they believe
the men behind Mr. Khashoggi’s
killing are linked to the crown
prince. While Saudi Arabia denies
that, the apparent links have
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Foreign critics of Saudi Arabia
also widened on Wednesday to in-
clude the top leadership of its re-
gional nemesis Iran, which had
been conspicuously silent on the
Khashoggi killing.
President Hassan Rouhani of
Iran said in remarks quoted by its
official news agency that “nobody
could expect to see such an orga-
nized murder in the current cen-
tury, and an establishment plan
for such a brutal killing.”
Mr. Rouhani also suggested the
killers had been emboldened and
encouraged by the United States,
which regards Saudi Arabia as its
principal Arab ally. “I don’t think
any country dares to commit such
a crime without a green light from
the U.S.,” he was quoted as saying.
Saudi officials at the investment
conference tried to keep the focus
off Mr. Khashoggi’s killing and on
their big plans for the kingdom.
“It was a tragedy and a very
shocking moment for all for all of
us, and I think everyone has to
make the decision for them-
selves,” said Princess Reema bint
Bandar Al Saud, who had just giv-
en a talk about her work with the
Saudi sports authority.
“There are 33 million people in
this country who are trying very
hard to move this country for-
ward, and we have a very clear vi-
sion,” she said. “This is why we
are telling people to take the initia-
tive to invest in our future.”
called the crown prince actions in
general into further question.
The death of a single man — Mr.
Khashoggi — has come to encap-
sulate a troubling vision of Prince
Mohammed’s Saudi Arabia as a
nation in which the leader can act
with impunity, targeting dissent-
ers and political opponents at will.
Now, President Erdogan may
see the Khashoggi case as a
chance to check the prince’s
power and limit the reach of a re-
gional rival.
The divergent narratives about
Mr. Khashoggi’s death have left
the United States stuck between
two allies. President Trump has
sent mixed signals, swerving be-
tween defending Saudi Arabia
and pressing for answers.
Beyond the geopolitical fallout
and the international implica-
tions, there is no denying that for
many people, Mr. Khashoggi’s
death has hit home on an emo-
tional level.
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Madawi Al-Rasheed, an expert
on Saudi Arabia and a professor at
the Middle East Centre of the Lon-
don School of Economics, wrote in
a recent column that the killing
has seemed to capture Western
attention in a profound way. Taken
alone, she said, the circumstances
around his death are enough to be
a “a legitimate source of outrage.”
“This would be murder by a
state — or the organs of a state —
of an unarmed journalist, without
judicial process, on diplomatic
ground outside the territory of the
perpetrators’ country,” Dr. Ra-
sheed wrote. “It is this dreadful
cocktail of circumstances that ex-
plains the general outrage that it
has sparked.”
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Migrant Caravan

Mass Exodus’s Trail: From Honduran Political Feud to Global Furor

From Page A1
ocrats and threatening to cut
funding to Central American gov-
ernments: “We are a great Sover-
eign Nation. We have Strong Bor-
ders and will never accept people
coming into our Country ille-
gally!”
What began as a domestic poli-
tical dispute in Honduras — an ef-
fort to undermine newly re-
elected President Juan Orlando
Hernández and to call attention to
the plight of migrants — quickly
became an international row, a
source of embarrassment in Hon-
duras, consternation across the
region, and political opportunism
in the United States.
Initially planned as a modest
caravan of a few hundred people,
it grew quickly to about 7,000 as
desperation, local media coverage
and a swirl of domestic and Amer-
ican politics combined to trans-
form it into the largest movement
of migrants north through Mexico
in recent history. Even those who
helped spur the mass movement
never imagined it would expand
so much, so fast.
“I never expected this to get so
big,” said Bartolo Fuentes, a mi-
grant advocate and former law-
maker who helped promote the
caravan, which started on Oct. 13.
"Maybe it would come to a thou-
sand people. But this big? No
way.”
For leftist politicians like Mr.
Fuentes and Luis Redondo, a con-
gressman, the caravan offered a
perfect way to encourage mi-
grants to travel safely in a large
group — and attack the govern-
ment at the same time.
After Honduras’s divisive presi-
dential election in November,
which the Organization of Ameri-
can States found so problematic
that it called for a new vote, people
took to the streets in deadly pro-
tests against what they saw as a
fraudulent vote count.
Despite the controversy, the
Trump administration gave its of-
ficial support to Mr. Hernández, a
loyal ally who cooperated with
Americans during his first term
on issues like stopping the flow of
drugs and migrants toward the
border. With that, Mr. Hernández
took office, but he remained a po-
larizing figure accused of corrup-
tion and amassing too much
power.
Determined to denounce Mr.
Hernández’s administration and
support the migrants, members of
the opposition started promoting
the caravan as an example of what
happens when a government fails
Annie Correal contributed report-
ing from Huixtla, Mexico, and Julie
Hirschfeld Davis from Washing-
ton.
Migrants on the move in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras, last week. Initially, the caravan was to involve only a few hundred people.
its people. In Tegucigalpa, the cap-
ital, a prominent member of the
opposition went to the Mexican
Embassy and threatened to send
out multiple caravans as long as
the situation in Honduras re-
mained the same, according to
two senior Mexican officials.
“This time it will be so big that
when they see everyone walking,
they should ask, ‘Where are they
coming from and who is responsi-
ble for so many people leaving
Honduras?’” said Mr. Redondo in
a Facebook post on Oct. 5 in which
he shared the caravan poster.
“This is a consequence of corrup-
tion, lack of security, impunity;
those responsible are the corrupt
and corrupters of the national
party.”
On that score, the government’s
opponents were successful. Mr.
Trump demanded that Mr.
Hernández stop the caravan,
though by then the migrants were
already in Guatemala, and it was
unclear what Mr. Hernández
could do. Still, Mr. Trump threat-
ened to cut off aid to the country if
the caravan was not turned
around.
“The United States has strongly
informed the President of Hon-
duras that if the large Caravan of
people heading to the U.S. is not
stopped and brought back to Hon-
duras,” Mr. Trump wrote last Mon-
day. “No more money or aid will be
given to Honduras, effective im-
mediately!”
It seemed to panic the Hon-
duran government. In what ap-
peared to be an attempt to deflect
responsibility, the Honduran am-
bassador to the United States,
Marlon Tábora Muñoz, sent Rep-
resentative Matt Gaetz, Republi-
can of Florida, a video in which
young men handed out single bills
of currency to migrants standing
in line.
Mr. Muñoz also said that
George Soros, American nonprof-
it groups, or a drug cartel might be
helping fund the caravan, said Mr.
Gaetz, who posted the video to
Twitter, adding: “Footage in Hon-
duras giving cash 2 women & chil-
dren 2 join the caravan & storm
the US border @ election time.
Soros? US-backed NGOs? Time to
investigate the source!”
The claims were later de-
bunked, and the video wasn’t even
shot in Honduras. It happened in
Guatemala. Migrants in the cara-
van told The New York Times that
people who wanted to help them
handed out the equivalent of
about 13 to 26 cents. The migrants,
who have been surviving on hand-
outs from strangers, said they
were not paid to join the caravan.
The ambassador declined to
comment. But he was hardly the
only person in the Honduran gov-
ernment looking to cast blame for
the exodus on foreigners. On
Tuesday, Vice President Mike
Pence said that Honduras’s presi-
dent had told him that Venezuela
was providing funding to support
the migrants, without offering evi-
dence. Mr. Hernández’s office did
not respond to requests for com-
ment.
The political fallout from the
caravan has been disastrous for
Honduras. But Republicans wel-
comed the pivot of Americans’ at-
tention away from the Khashoggi
killing to a topic that has long
gained traction with Mr. Trump’s
political base.
Newt Gingrich, the former
speaker and an occasional Trump
adviser, was among the Republi-
cans following news of the cara-
van, even as global coverage re-
mained squarely focused on Mr.
Khashoggi.
Republicans hope that the in-
creased coverage of the migrants
will prompt certain voter groups,
like white suburban women, to
veer away from Democratic can-
didates, especially if Mr. Trump
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can stoke fears about gangs and
drugs, Mr. Gingrich said.
“It creates a safety factor” for
those voters, he said. “If the first
7,000 to 15,000 get in, what signal
does that send?”
Mr. Gingrich added, “Trump un-
derstands in the current Ameri-
can political structure you have to
win polarized campaigns.”
Mr. Fuentes and others had
aimed to embarrass their govern-
ment by portraying the caravan
as a powerful statement on the
cost of failed domestic politics.
But they accidentally overshot the
mark, precipitating a regional cri-
sis.
The coverage of the migrants
and the political blowback — in
Honduras and in the United States
— has been intense. After follow-
ing the migrants into Guatemala,
Mr. Fuentes was detained and
sent back to Honduras, where he
has stayed away from the spot-
light, afraid the government will
retaliate against him.
Mr. Fuentes said he was op-
posed to this government and
wanted Mr. Hernández out of of-
fice. But he helped spread the
word about the caravan because
the road north is dangerous, he
said. “If you leave in a small
group, you’re heading for disas-
ter,” Mr. Fuentes said, adding that
most of the migrants simply
joined on their own.
Indeed, if he helped light the
match, many others, including Mr.
Trump and the pro-government
news media in Honduras, fanned
the flames.
The flier and private WhatsApp
groups that sprang up across the
country were most likely the ini-
tial sources of information for
many who joined the caravan. But
interviews with several dozen mi-
grants on the trail credited a pro-
government television station
with sounding the media mega-
phone.
The day before the caravan
started, a popular program on
HCH News dedicated more than
an hour to discussing the caravan.
The coverage was geared in part
toward embarrassing the organ-
izers and spreading disinforma-
tion about how Mr. Fuentes was
paying for the migrants’ food and
transportation (an allegation he
later denied on the program).
But the effort backfired. Far
from delegitimizing the caravan
by convincing the public it had po-
litical roots, the hosts inadver-
tently presented many Hon-
durans who wanted to flee with
the perfect opportunity to do so.
Between 200 and 300 people on
average leave Honduras every
day, risking the journey north in
search of a future away from the
poverty and violence that make
daily life a struggle. Since the last
caravan in the spring, a devastat-
ing drought has forced even more
people to ponder the uncertainty
of migrating.
Olvin Alexander Martínez, 21,
who worked with his brother and
father at a palm oil company in
Trujillo, said this year’s yield “was
not enough,” costing family mem-
bers their jobs and him a large
part of his salary.
Mr. Martínez decided to join the
caravan, which now includes Sal-
vadorans, Guatemalans and Mex-
icans.
Franklin Barahona, 26, a Hon-
duran migrant from La Ceiba, said
he joined the caravan at the begin-
ning, then spread the word over
WhatsApp and Facebook.
Mr. Barahona and his travel
companion, Flavio Williams, also
26, had seen news reports that
suggested members of the cara-
van had been paid by Honduran
politicians and that their march
was motivated by politics.
“The truth is, it’s false, it’s to-
tally false,” Mr. Williams said of
the accusations.
“Five thousand, 7,000 people
aren’t going to come risk their
lives just because of politics, much
less their children’s, their wives’
— they’re not going to do it be-
cause of politics,” he added.

Appearances Can Be Deceiving: How Images Are Misrepresented

By KEVIN ROOSE
A group of Honduran migrants traveling through Mex- Claim: Caravan members are burning American flags Claim: Mexican police officers have been injured
ico toward the United States has attracted enormous VERDICT: MISLABELED/UNPROVEN by caravan members in bloody street fights
amounts of attention in recent days, including a litany of
VERDICT: MISLABELED/UNPROVEN
false, misleading and unproven statements circulating on A widely shared Facebook post claimed
social media. to show three photographs of migrants
Some of this misinformation has been fueled by state- in the caravan burning an American
ments from officials in the United States, including Presi- flag as they approached the United
dent Trump, who spread an unproven rumor that “crimi- States. The post has been shared more
nals and unknown Middle Easterners” were among the than 19,000 times on Facebook.
group. (He later admitted there was “no proof” for his But according to Snopes, the fact-
statement.) Other rumors have been shared on Facebook, checking site, none of the images are of
Twitter and other social media platforms. caravan members, and none were
Here is a closer look at four widely shared images of taken this year.
the caravan, along with why the claims made about them “One of the images doesn’t even
shouldn’t be taken at face value. feature a flag, another was taken in
London, and all of them are at least two
years old,” Snopes wrote.
Claim: Caravan members are boarding Reverse image searches reveal that
the first image was taken at an anti-
buses and trains instead of walking Trump rally in New Mexico in 2016 — it
VERDICT: MISLABELED/UNPROVEN shows a protester burning a Trump
banner, not an American flag. The
second was taken in London at a 2010
demonstration, and the third was taken
at a street protest in 2016, during the graph’s legitimacy has not been dis-
Republican National Convention in puted; however, several right-wing
Cleveland. news sites, including Breitbart and
There is one photo known to show Infowars, have given the photograph
Hondurans burning an American flag, misleading context, implying that it
which has circulated widely online. showed members of the migrant cara-
That photo, which was taken this van. In fact, according to Snopes, a
month in Tegucigalpa, the capital of caption on the original photo said the
Honduras, showed a group of people flag burning took place hundreds of
burning a United States flag with a miles from where the migrant caravan
swastika rendered on it. The photo- was that day.

Images of injured police officers went viral after being

posted to right-wing Facebook groups such as Trump
Claim: Caravan members are carrying dangerous diseases Train, Make America Great Again, and the Diamond and
VERDICT: MISLABELED/UNPROVEN Silk Fan Page. They have also gotten thousands of re-
tweets on Twitter. The caption on one Facebook post
Fears about imported diseases are read, “Mexican police are being brutalized by members
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One viral Facebook post claimed to have photographic
evidence that the migrants in the caravan were not trav-
eling on foot, but were instead boarding buses and trains.
The post was shared more than 80,000 times.
But a reverse image search indicates that the photos in
the post are not from the caravan. The first photo, of
migrants sitting on top of a train, was taken in 2013, ac-
cording to The Associated Press website.
The second photo, of migrants boarding a bus, was
taken for Agence France-Presse during another Central
American migrant caravan in Puebla, Mexico, in April.
common among critics of migrant cara-
vans. The image at right was shared by
the Twitter user @TIMENOUT.
The image of the tweet, which was
then shared to Facebook, received
thousands of shares after being posted
by several large groups, including one
for followers of the QAnon conspiracy
theory.
The image was mislabeled. It is not
from the caravan of Honduran mi-
grants; it is from a 2014 news segment
on illegal border crossings aired by an
ABC News affiliate in Arizona. In the
segment, a Border Patrol agent claimed
that people in contact with unauthor-
ized immigrants had contracted sca-
bies, a contagious skin infestation.
Medical experts told PolitiFact in 2015
that there was no evidence that unau-
thorized immigrants were causing an
uptick in disease at the border.
There are no known reports of dis-
eases being carried by members of the
Honduran caravan.
of this caravan as they attempt to FORCE their way into
Mexico.”
Several Mexican police officers, along with migrants
and journalists, have been injured in caravan-related
incidents, according to reports citing United States and
Mexican officials.
But these are old photos unrelated to the caravan.
One widely shared photo, of a bloody police officer,
was taken in 2012 at a student protest in Mexico, and
was on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency.
A second widely shared image, of a police officer with
a bloody nose, appeared in a 2011 news article about a
clash in Mexico’s Oaxaca region, according to Fact-
check.org, which reviewed the images. And a third photo,
of an injured police officer, can be traced to a Mexican
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times, including on Facebook by Virginia Thomas, the
wife of the Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas.

Danes Hope a Big Fence
Will Block a Pig Disease
But Plan Has Little Scientific Support
By MARTIN SELSOE SORENSEN
TONDER, Denmark — Trying
to halt the spread of a disease that
can wipe out domestic pig popula-
tions, Denmark intends to build a
fence along its border with Ger-
many to keep out the pigs’ wild
cousins. There are just a few wrin-
kles to the plan.
To the government’s frustra-
tion, many Danes see the fence as
being about more than just swine.
Depending on their backgrounds
and political stripes, people have
called it a possible step toward
blocking refugees, a detriment to
wildlife, a reminder of painful his-
tory, or a violation of the European
Union ethos of invisible borders
and free movement.
Oh, and there is little scientific
evidence to suggest that it will
work.
“We have to enter the imagina-
tion of a pig,” said Bent Ras-
mussen, the chief forest manager
for the area, who is in charge of the
project. “It’s not easy.”
The African swine fever virus
poses a serious threat to produc-
tion of pork, a major export for
Denmark. It spreads readily and
is highly resilient, capable of sur-
viving for months in pork prod-
ucts and feces. There is no vaccine
or treatment, and the only way to
contain an outbreak is to cull the
population, as Romania did re-
cently, killing 230,000 pigs.
The virus is usually harmless to
its traditional hosts, African ani-
mals like warthogs and bushpigs,
as it is to people. But in domestic
pigs and wild boars, it causes a
hemorrhagic fever that is often le-
thal. In recent years, it has be-
come widespread in Russia, and
outbreaks have become increas-
ingly frequent in other parts of Eu-
rope and Asia. In just the last few
months, they have been reported
in Romania, Belgium, Bulgaria
and seven provinces of China.
Denmark’s $20 million answer
includes a public awareness cam-
paign, expanded permission to kill
wild boar, and a fence about five
feet tall along the 42-mile land bor-
der, across the neck of the Jutland
peninsula, from the North Sea to
the Baltic. In France, regional offi-
cials this week revealed plans for
fences along parts of the country’s
border with Belgium, also to block
African swine fever, but details
and timing remained unclear.
The Danish Parliament has ap-
proved the fence, and work is ex-
pected to begin early next year,
though environmentalists have
appealed to the European Union
to stop it.
But there are holes in the plan
— or, more precisely, holes in the
planned fence, which will have
openings for 15 official border
crossings, five waterways and
passages for local farmers. It has
to comply with an array of Euro-
pean Union rules and other inter-
national strictures protecting
wildlife habitat and the movement
of people and goods.
“My job is to disturb the wild
boar as much as possible and hu-
mans and other wildlife as little as
possible,” Mr. Rasmussen said
during a drive along a reed-cov-
ered ditch separating Danish
farmland from a German village.
The hope is that animals like
deer and otters will still be able to
cross the border, but boar will be
deterred. Critics ask why that
would work, given that the wild
pigs are smart and curious, and
regularly forage over long dis-
tances.
In a report this summer, the Eu-
ropean Food Safety Authority
concluded that “there is no evi-
dence that large fences have been
effective for the containment of
wild suids,” using a word for the
pig animal family.
Hans Kristensen, a hunter and
founder of a Facebook group op-
posed to the fence, said, “It’s like
creating your retirement fund by
buying a lottery ticket.” He said
there was no reason to think it
would keep out German boars.
Then there is the matter of
Flensborg Fjord, an arm of the
Baltic that forms the eastern part
of the international boundary. A
floating barrier would extend the
fence into the waterway, to about
100 feet from shore. But the fjord is
more than 15 miles long and less
than a mile wide in places — and
wild boar, which venture readily
into water, are strong swimmers,
even when they are young.
Experts note that the Belgian
outbreak of African swine fever
occurred far from any others, indi-
cating that people, not pigs, trans-
ported the virus into the country.
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rope,” said Dr. Klaus Depner of the
Federal Research Institute for An-
imal Health in Germany. “Fences
cannot prevent such events.”
Vittorio Guberti, a leading wild-
life disease epidemiologist, said
the fence was likely to “reduce the
speed at which wild boar move,”
but he, too, said that unwitting hu-
mans were the main factor in
spreading the disease.
The Danish plan includes
putting wildlife cameras where
roads cut through the fence, to
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Some politicians have called for
reinstatement of border controls
to stop the flow of migrants into
Denmark, and they see a value to
the boar fence and cameras that is
not what the center-right govern-
ment intended.
“Hooray, we’re getting a fence
on the Danish-German border,”
Kenneth Kristensen Berth, a
spokesman on European Union
affairs for the right-wing Danish
People’s Party, wrote on Face-
book. “We should add a couple of
meters so the fence not just keeps
German wild boar away, but also
illegal immigrants, asylum seek-
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Don’t tell Henrik Refslund Hansen, above, a pig farmer, that it’s a
“border fence.” He prefers the term “veterinary fence.” Bent Ras-
mussen is in charge of the border, er, veterinary fence project.
ers and adventurers!”
The party has also asked the
minister of justice about possibly
“striking two birds with one
stone” and using the wildlife cam-
eras to look for people crossing
the border illegally.
Such talk angers Henrik Refs-
lund Hansen, a farmer. He vehe-
mently supports anything that
might protect his pigs and says
that talk of refugees just muddies
the issue.
“It’s indecent,” he said. “It’s not
a border fence; I don’t want to
hear any of that. It’s a veterinary
fence made to protect our ani-
mals.”
Mr. Hansen knows what is at
stake. In the 1980s, as a teenager,
he watched as an outbreak of
pseudorabies, another viral dis-
ease, forced his family to cull thou-
sands of pigs, and he retains the
chilling memory of earth-moving
equipment removing the car-
casses.
But along the border, the
planned fence is a source of un-
ease for Denmark’s ethnic Ger-
man minority, about 15,000 people
who maintain German-language
schools and publish a newspaper
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in German.
Jorgen Popp Petersen, a pig
farmer and local representative of
the minority’s political party, re-
calls “fanatics” in his childhood re-
sisting intercommunity mar-
riages and calling for a redrawing
of the border, which has changed
several times over Danish history,
often through warfare. The fanat-
ics and their views are gone, he
said, but sensitivities over ethnic
divisions and national boundaries
remain.
The fence, he said, is a way to
say that Denmark is fixing things
by leaving Germany “to sink or
swim” with the virus. “We can’t
solve any problems by holing up.”
Denmark’s minister of envi-
ronment and food, Jakob Elle-
mann-Jensen, said he understood
that sensitivity, adding that he al-
most choked on his coffee when he
first heard the idea of a border
fence.
“It’s very un-European to build
fences and boundaries between
countries,” he said. “I fight for free
movement in every other context.
When it’s right in this context it’s
because such a large part of ex-
ports is at risk.”
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By MIRIAM JORDAN
SALT LAKE CITY — Before sunrise
each day, Holly Hwang nestles her little
girl into a carrier and bikes her to a day
care center. It is a 10-mile slog, some-
times through rain or snow, before she
reaches the warehouse where she earns
$9.52 an hour operating a forklift. After
clocking out, she rides back another 10
miles to pick up her 4-year-old and head
home.
The commute can be exhausting, but
not compared with the grueling journey
that brought her here. It started when
she escaped from her native North Korea
to China with the help of a smuggler, who
then sold her into servitude, and mar-
riage, to a stranger. She fled once again
and arrived in Salt Lake City with her
child nearly three years ago — one of a
dwindling number of North Korean de-
fectors admitted to the United States in
recent years.
“My life is settled and very safe in
Utah,” said Ms. Hwang, 39, who hopes to
learn enough English to become a truck
driver.
North Koreans have been fleeing eco-
nomic and political oppression by the
thousands for two decades. While most
have ended up in South Korea, which
grants them automatic citizenship, at
least 220 have come to the United States
since 2004, when Congress passed the
North Korean Human Rights Act and
opened the door to political refugees.
Now, though, a crackdown by North
Korea on its border, along with the
Trump administration’s overall curbs on
refugee admissions, has slowed new ar-
rivals to a trickle.
President Trump has made significant
efforts this year to engage North Korea’s
mercurial leader, Kim Jong-un, in hopes
of halting the country’s nuclear weapons
program. His administration’s limit on
refugee admissions, analysts say —
whether such a consequence was in-
tended or not — has aided the North Ko-
rean leader in his attempt to slow the
pace of defections from a country seen as
one of the most repressive in the world.
Only one North Korean defector ar-
rived in the United States in 2017; five
have been admitted this year.
Supporters of the 2004 humanitarian
law, which Congress reauthorized in July
and Mr. Trump signed once again into
law, have expressed concern that the
drop in arrivals dilutes any message to
North Korea that the United States is
committed to integrating human rights
with national security.
“The fact they are working on a nucle-
ar agreement doesn’t take anything
away from the fact Kim Jong-un is op-
pressing his people,” said Hans Van de
Weerd, vice president for United States
programs at the International Rescue
Committee, one of the organizations that
helps settle North Koreans in the United
States.
The United States admitted 22,491 ref-
Alex Goodlett contributed reporting.
‘To be living as a North Korean defector in America is the biggest treason to the country.’
ANDREW HONG, executive director of the group Emancipate North Koreans
ugees from all countries in the fiscal year
that ended Sept. 30, the lowest number
since the refugee resettlement program
was created in 1980 and less than half the
number the government had said it was
going to allow. Last month, the govern-
ment set the ceiling at 30,000 for the cur-
rent fiscal year.
But 11 nations have been singled out
for special scrutiny, based on security
considerations, under what had initially
been known as Mr. Trump’s travel ban.
North Korea is one of them, and the more
stringent background checks have ex-
tended the time it takes for United States
agencies to process cases from North Ko-
rea. What once took months now takes
years.
State Department officials have said
that the current regulations require “ex-
treme vetting” of nationals from a num-
ber of countries, and have not drawn any
connection between the downturn in
North Korean refugee admissions and
the Trump administration’s attempt to
forge new political openings with Mr.
Kim.
The additional screening of North Ko-
reans was, in fact, introduced when Mr.
Trump was at odds with the North Kore-
an leader. Analysts said North Korea’s in-
clusion was likely intended in part to
help fend off legal challenges to the trav-
el ban that argued it was based on reli-
gion, since the other 10 countries includ-
ed have Muslim majorities.
“The United States continues to pri-
oritize the admission of vulnerable refu-
gees,” a State Department spokeswom-
an said in a statement.
The first nine North Korean defectors
arrived in the United States in 2006. En-
tries were in the double digits each year
Ms. Hwang on a lunch break at work. “My life is settled and very safe in Utah,” she said.
Happy to Be Here,
So Far From Home
Admission of North Korean Defectors Slows to a Trickle
Holly Hwang dropped off her daughter, Mee, at day care, top,
before heading to work at an aid-distribution center operated by
the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, above. She is trying to
learn English well enough to pass a commercial driver’s test.
until 2016, the year before Mr. Trump
took office.
Leaving the highly fortified country is
notoriously difficult. North Koreans
climb mountains, trudge through rugged
terrain and cross rivers in their bids to
escape. Even if they elude border agents
and make it into China, the most com-
mon escape route, they risk being appre-
hended and repatriated by Chinese au-
thorities.
In recent years, the vast majority of es-
capees have been women, often sold into
forced marriages in China. Others are
trafficked for sex or cheap labor.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX GOODLETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Joanna Kim, who arrived in Salt Lake
City last month, said that the Trump trav-
el ban and the extra vetting that followed
are to blame for her two “very hard and
long” years parked in an immigration de-
tention facility in Bangkok.
Other North Koreans who had applied
to come to the United States gave up, she
said, because the protracted wait be-
came too stressful. They could reach
South Korea in a matter of weeks.
Many, like Ms. Hwang, have no contact
at all with the loved ones they left behind.
Families there cannot exchange letters
in the mail; there is no internet coverage.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
Moreover, there are fears that North Ko-
rean authorities could exact retribution
against families if it is discovered that
their close kin live in the United States.
“To be living as a North Korean defec-
tor in America is the biggest treason to
the country,” said Andrew Hong, execu-
tive director of the group Emancipate
North Koreans, a nonprofit that assists
defectors in the Chicago area.
Those in touch with family in North
Korea struggle to support themselves
and those they left behind. In contrast to
the enormous success of South Korean
immigrants and their descendants in the
United States, most North Koreans, as a
result of limited education and English,
qualify only for low-paying work.
G.D. Hwang, a defector who arrived
two years ago, works at a factory by day
and at a Walmart overnight. Every two
months, he funnels cash to his family
through an informal money-transfer net-
work.
Staring sadly at a frayed print of a dig-
ital photo of his wife and two children, he
said, “I am free but it’s lonely without my
family.”
In her first attempt to reach China, Ms.
Hwang, the single mother, was captured
by North Korean border agents and de-
livered to a labor camp, where she har-
vested potatoes and collected wood. If
she talked to another detainee, she re-
called, a guard might grab her by her
hair and stomp on her. She was released
when she fell gravely ill, she said.
“I was purple and blue and almost
gone,” she recalled, her eyes glassy with
tears as she shared her story in a play-
room at the International Rescue Com-
mittee as her daughter, Mee, resplendent
in a shimmery pink Korean long dress,
entertained herself nearby.
Ms. Hwang and a sister eventually
made it to China with the help of a broker,
only to be sold off as brides to Chinese
men who took them to different cities.
They have not seen each other since.
Together with her baby from the
forced marriage, Ms. Hwang made the
passage to Thailand in 2015 with the help
of South Korean guides. In Bangkok,
mother and daughter were processed
and on their way to the United States
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speedy transition.
Ms. Hwang, who helps load goods with
heavy machinery at a Mormon aid distri-
bution center, says her dream is to study
business. She is also striving to master
enough English to pass a commercial
driving exam. “You make good money as
a truck driver,” she said.
Like many North Koreans, she has
found a South Korean church that pro-
vides her a sense of community and
some financial support. But she still finds
herself thinking often about home, she
said.
“U.S. life is better. North Korea is hell,”
she said. But she added: “I’m lonely and
miss my family in North Korea. If some-
one said they don’t miss home, they’re ly-
ing.”

Election 2018 Battleground Districts
In Florida Swing District, ‘Inconvenient’ Republican Stands in the Way
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
MARATHON, Fla. — If Repre-
sentative Carlos Curbelo clings to
his seat in Congress come Novem-
ber, defying the political odds for a
moderate Republican in one of the
nation’s most competitive dis-
tricts, it will be in part because of
people like Gary Graves, the
owner of a Florida Keys seafood
business. His spiny lobster catch
has been hit with costly tariffs as
part of the White House’s trade
war with China, yet he supports
President Trump, and Mr.
Curbelo, anyway.
“Damn right,” said Mr. Graves,
73. “To give in to the Chinese — I
mean, we know what they’ve been
doing to us. Why should we be
stiffed?”
If Mr. Curbelo loses, it will be in
part because of people like Josh
Mothner, a real estate agent who
has watched with alarm as health
care choices for himself and his
wife, a cancer survivor, have
dwindled in the rural Keys. He
considers the congressman a cen-
trist too willing to go along with
the president on issues like re-
pealing the Affordable Care Act
and too powerless to move his col-
leagues to the middle on issues
like immigration and climate
change.
“He is unable to overcome the
extreme wing of his party,” said
Mr. Mothner, 57. “We need to
change the team.”
Dueling assessments of his ten-
ure are the norm for Mr. Curbelo
in the sprawling 26th Congres-
sional District, which stretches
from the western Miami suburbs
to Key West — a distance of more
than 150 miles. Relatively few peo-
ple, about 53,000 of the district’s
417,000 registered voters, live in
the Keys. But in a contest as close
as this one, they might be enough
to decide this election, a leading
national indicator for the 2018
midterms.
A loss by Mr. Curbelo could be a
strong sign of a long-anticipated
blue wave rolling across the big-
gest presidential swing state, and
one more hurdle for Republicans
hoping to keep control of the
House. If he wins, it will most
likely be seen not as a credit to the
Republicans, but as a sign of the
unique appeal of Mr. Curbelo him-
self. He is a Latino perhaps best
known as an evangelist for cli-
mate science who, if he succeeds,
might have identified a way for
Republicans in Democratic-lean-
ing districts to survive in the
Trump era.
Throughout his re-election
campaign, Mr. Curbelo, a two-
term incumbent who was also a
top Democratic target in 2016, has
remained unperturbed. “Wel-
come to my world,” he tells other
Republicans who find themselves
in tight races this year. “It’s better
this way. You stay in shape, politi-
cally.”
Squaring Off in Florida,
Candidates Trade Barbs
Over Graft and Racism
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
and LISA LERER
DAVIE, Fla. — Blistering ver-
bal assaults overtook the race for
Florida governor on Wednesday
night, as rivals Andrew Gillum
and Ron DeSantis presented vot-
ers with an onslaught of character
insults in their final debate before
the November election.
Mr. DeSantis declared Mr.
Gillum a corrupt liar. Mr. Gillum
all but accused Mr. DeSantis of be-
ing a racist, at one point spelling
out on stage a slur used against
African Americans.
And so it went for the duration
of the debate, which picked up
where the candidates left off in
their first debate on Sunday.
Wednesday’s contentious affair
quickly devolved into a contest of
raised voices, ignored time limits
and wild cheers and jeers from the
audience. The personal attacks
suggested a hard edge to the last
stretch of an already intense con-
test in the nation’s biggest presi-
dential swing state, where more
than 1.4 million voters have al-
ready cast early ballots.
Mr. Gillum, a Democrat, found
himself on the defensive for much
of the debate over attacks regard-
ing gifts he appears to have re-
ceived improperly as mayor of
Tallahassee. Mr. DeSantis, a for-
mer three-term Republican con-
gressman, seemed rattled over
questions about his associations
with far-right groups. Both sides
appeared eager for character to
emerge as the defining issue in
what remains of the sharply parti-
san campaign.
The debate, held at Broward
College and hosted by the Florida
Press Association and Leadership
Florida, began with a question to
Mr. Curbelo won re-election by
nearly 12 percentage points two
years ago even as Hillary Clinton
carried his district by 16 points.
His Democratic opponent that
year, former Representative Joe
Garcia, told Mr. Curbelo once the
results were in that he had proved
himself so decisively that he
would be able to hold the seat for
life.
Yet here Mr. Curbelo is again,
fending off a serious challenge
from another Democrat, Debbie
Mucarsel-Powell, 47, a former as-
sociate dean at Florida Interna-
tional University’s medical school.
She portrays Mr. Curbelo, 38, as a
double talker who gives moderate
policies lip service, but ultimately
votes mostly with Republican
leadership.
“You can talk and talk and talk
and talk, and look good, but then it
Mr. DeSantis about the pipe
bombs delivered earlier Wednes-
day to high-profile Democrats, in-
cluding Bill and Hillary Clinton,
Barack Obama, Eric Holder and
Representative Debbie Wasser-
man Schultz of Florida, who sat in
the debate hall audience. Outside
the debate hall, a woman in a
group of demonstrators backing
Mr. DeSantis held a sign that read,
“Democrats Fake News Fake
Bombs.”
Mr. DeSantis, 40, noted that he
practiced baseball with Republi-
cans who were shot and injured in
Virginia last year.
“I know firsthand that when we
start going down that road, it can
be very, very deadly, so I condemn
that,” he said, before warning
against “jumping to conclusions”
about the explosives sent exclu-
sively to Democratic politicians,
and to CNN.
Mr. Gillum, 39, quickly turned
the question on his competitor, as-
signing blame to the “collapsing of
our political discourse” under
President Trump, an enthusiastic
supporter of Mr. DeSantis.
“My opponent, endorsed by
him, has run this race very, very
close to the Trump handbook,
where we call each other names,
where we run false advertise-
ments,” he said.
The jabs flew from there, with
Mr. DeSantis, calling Mr. Gillum a
career politician who distorted the
truth about apparently accepting
improper gifts from a lobbyist
friend and businessmen who were
actually undercover F.B.I. agents
investigating Tallahassee’s com-
munity redevelopment agency.
Mr. Gillum insists he is not the tar-
get of the investigation, which be-
gan in 2015 and has yet to result in
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doesn’t matter if you’re not doing
anything and there are no re-
sults,” she said in a recent inter-
view at a Cuban-Venezuelan cof-
fee shop near her western Miami-
Dade County campaign office,
where she ordered an arepa, a sa-
vory cornmeal patty stuffed with
shredded beef and cheese.
Ms. Mucarsel-Powell’s argu-
ment against Mr. Curbelo has
failed in the past. She says it is dif-
ferent this time, because she has
more to use against him: That he
helped write the Republican tax
bill. That he failed to pass legisla-
tion protecting immigrants
brought into the country illegally
as children. That he filed a carbon-
tax bill three months before the
election, knowing it was doomed.
That he voted to repeal Oba-
macare in a district with one of the
highest number of enrollees in the
Republican Ron DeSantis, left, and Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee, on Wednesday.
any indictments. The gifts, made
to Mr. Gillum during a pair of 2016
trips to New York and Costa Rica,
are the subject of a separate state
ethics investigation.
Records made public on Tues-
day suggested that Mr. Gillum
knowingly took a free ticket to the
hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”
from the undercover agents in Au-
gust 2016. Mr. Gillum maintained
in the debate that he did not know
the agents had paid for it, though
he acknowledged he should have
asked to make sure.
“I arrived at the theater and re-
ceived the ticket from my
brother,” Mr. Gillum said “I should
have asked more questions to
make sure that everything that
had transpired was above board.”
Mr. Gillum said he thought his
younger brother, Marcus Gillum,
had swapped Jay-Z and Beyoncé
tickets with Adam Corey, Mr.
Gillum’s lobbyist friend, in ex-
change for the musical tickets.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAUL MARTINEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Representative Carlos Curbelo, above, a Republican, at a cam-
paign stop in Marathon, in the Florida Keys, and Debbie Mu-
carsel-Powell, the Democratic candidate, in Coral Gables. The
district spans liberal southern Florida and the conservative Keys.
country.
Mr. Curbelo’s health care vote
inspired her to run, said Ms. Mu-
carsel-Powell, who lost a State
Senate bid in 2016. She has also
campaigned in personal terms on
gun control: Her father was shot
and killed in her native Ecuador
when she was 24. (Mr. Curbelo is
the only Florida Republican en-
dorsed by Everytown for Gun
Safety, the gun-control advocacy
organization founded and fi-
nanced by Michael R. Bloom-
berg.)
Ms. Mucarsel-Powell said she
has been underestimated be-
cause, unlike Mr. Curbelo, the Mi-
ami-born son of Cuban exiles, she
immigrated to the United States
as a teenager and did not move to
Florida until she was an adult.
About 61 percent of the district’s
registered voters are Hispanic;
both candidates speak fluent
Spanish. Mr. Curbelo says his
presence is uncomfortable to Lati-
no Democrats on Capitol Hill: The
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
denied him membership over his
votes.
“I’m inconvenient,” he said.
“And then I’m also inconvenient to
a lot of Republicans, too.”
Democrats have struggled with
turnout in majority-Latino dis-
tricts, and Ms. Mucarsel-Powell
Then, paraphrasing Jay-Z, Mr.
Gillum tried to turn the debate to
policy issues: “We got 99 issues,
and Hamilton ain’t one of them.”
Mr. DeSantis demanded that
Mr. Gillum waive confidentiality
in the state ethics inquiry, which
will not be completed before Elec-
tion Day. “Get all the evidence and
statements out there so the voters
of Florida can know everything is
on the up-and-up,” he said.
Mr. Gillum countered that Mr.
DeSantis should release detailed
travel records of more than
$145,000 in taxpayer-funded trips
he took to New York, including
two visits to appear on Fox News,
while in Congress. “Where is the
evidence of where you went and
how our money was spent to be a
junket for you to go to New York
and hang out in ‘Faux News and
Friends’?” he asked.
Racial politics filled the debate
from the start after Mr. Gillum
noted that, on Tuesday, a white su-
made a misstep herself last week
when her campaign scheduled an
event with Representative Bar-
bara Lee, a California Democrat
who said in 2016 that Fidel Cas-
tro’s death should be mourned, an
unwelcome statement in exile Mi-
ami. Ms. Lee’s visit was scrapped
at the last minute. But the event,
featuring Representative Nancy
Pelosi, the House minority leader,
A close race that may
be a bellwether for
the midterms.
still drew furious protesters — in-
cluding the local Republican Party
chairman, a onetime Curbelo aide
and two members of the Proud
Boys, a far-right organization the
Southern Poverty Law Center
considers a hate group — who
banged on the door and yelled that
the candidates were “comunistas”
and “brujas” — witches.
The party chairman later apolo-
gized. Mr. Curbelo disavowed the
demonstration, but cast Ms. Mu-
carsel-Powell as politically tone-
deaf. He also echoed Republican
television ads that have criticized
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premacist group put out a racist
robocall against Mr. Gillum for the
second time in the campaign.
But matters got uglier later,
when Todd McDermott, the de-
bate moderator and an anchor for
WPBF, the ABC News affiliate in
West Palm Beach, asked Mr. De-
Santis about past speaking en-
gagements at far-right confer-
ences and campaign contribu-
tions from a donor who called Mr.
Obama a racist slur on Twitter. Mr.
DeSantis did not take the question
well, raising his voice and slam-
ming the lectern.
“How the hell am I supposed to
know every single statement
somebody makes?” he re-
sponded. “I am not going to bow
down to the altar of political cor-
rectness.”
Mr. Gillum looked on, mouth
open, with a half-smile on his face.
“My grandmother used to say,
‘A hit dog will holler,’ and it hol-
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Ms. Mucarsel-Powell’s husband
for having worked as a lawyer for
a Miami business partly owned by
a wealthy Ukrainian banker who
has been accused in lawsuits of
corruption. In a debate on Sunday,
Ms. Mucarsel-Powell called the at-
tack “desperate.”
In the interview, Ms. Mucarsel-
Powell said some people have
tried to dismiss her as a generic
Latina Democrat, a ballot place-
holder waiting for a national tide
that lifts all Democrats — a char-
acterization she angrily rejects.
“I’m not just a face and name
that they picked to run against
Carlos Curbelo,” she said. “It was
my choice.”
Young women have come up to
her on the campaign trail and
whispered that they too are immi-
grants, she said, as if they were
embarrassed to say it aloud.
“There’s nothing to be ashamed
about,” Ms. Mucarsel-Powell said,
her eyes watering.
Mr. Curbelo, a frequent Trump
critic, is similarly offended by the
suggestion that he is the sort of ge-
neric Republican whose political
future can be determined by pre-
vailing national trends.
“I’m simply a reflection of what
the free-market, small-govern-
ment conservative party is going
to look like in the future —
whether it’s called the Republican
Party or something else,” he said
in a recent interview at Keys Fish-
eries in Marathon after digging
into a platter of shrimp, mussels
and crab. “Because we see young-
er voters more and more rejecting
both parties.”
First, he said, he will try to se-
cure re-election in a complicated
district that behaves differently
depending on geography: Its vot-
ers are more conservative in the
Keys (with the exception of liberal
Key West, where Mr. Curbelo was
recently heckled at a candidate
forum) and more liberal in the Mi-
ami suburbs (with the exception
of conservative Cuban-Ameri-
cans, most of whom consider Mr.
Curbelo a favorite son and have
consolidated behind Mr. Trump,
after initial skepticism toward
him in 2016).
In the Keys, Mr. Curbelo trum-
pets the growing support for Mr.
Trump’s decision to punish China
over trade and for his own push to
secure federal dollars for Hurri-
cane Irma recovery. In Miami-
Dade, he notes he wants to reduce
health care costs and plans to vote
for a state constitutional amend-
ment to restore felons’ voting
rights.
“I feel like I can be myself and
represent this district, and I know
a lot of my colleagues struggle
with that,” Mr. Curbelo said. “The
best strategy is to be authentic
and not worry so much about be-
ing re-elected. I think that’s what’s
generated so much cowardice in
our politics.”
A presidential swing
state’s final debate in
the race for governor.
lered through this room,” he said,
spelling out letter by letter the slur
Mr. DeSantis’s donor used. “I’m
not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist.
I’m simply saying the racists be-
lieve he’s a racist.”
“I am not going to sit here and
take this nonsense from a guy like
Andrew Gillum who always plays
the victim, who’s going out and at-
tacking and aligning himself with
groups who attack our men and
women in law enforcement, attack
our military,” Mr. DeSantis shot
back.
The candidates briefly touched
on policy matters, reiterating
their opposing positions on gun
control, the minimum wage and
immigration. Mr. Gillum por-
trayed Mr. DeSantis as an un-
checked supporter of charter
schools and an acolyte of Educa-
tion Secretary Betsy DeVos. Mr.
DeSantis announced the release
of his health care plan, tucked into
his website a few hours before the
debate, and defended the robust
economy under Gov. Rick Scott, a
Republican, after Mr. Gillum said
many Floridians still struggle to
make ends meet.
Tensions were so high that after
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the debate, representatives from
each campaign broke into a shout-
ing match before a gaggle of tele-
vision cameras.
Representative Matt Gaetz, a
Republican, called Mr. Gillum a
liar and accused him of “playing
the race card.” He told the former
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Le-
vine that he would have beat Mr.
Gillum in the Democratic primary
if the revelations about the “Ham-
ilton” tickets had come out earlier.
Chris King, Mr. Gillum’s run-
ning mate, said Mr. Gillum would
prevail in a contest about person-
alities and integrity.
“We’re confident in the charac-
ter debate,” he said.
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Election 2018 Issues and Identity
A Blue Dog in a Changing Tennessee Is Testing Its Shift to Bright Red
From Page A1
In this year of liberal resistance, when
Democratic passions are running high
and Senate candidates like Beto
O’Rourke of Texas are trying to harness
that energy, Mr. Bredesen is doing just
the opposite. He is hoping to lower tem-
peratures, blur the lines between himself
and Republicans, and run on local issues
against Representative Marsha Black-
burn in a state that Mr. Trump carried by
26 points.
It is a throwback campaign, the sort
that Southern Democrats used for years
to distinguish themselves from their na-
tional party, in a region that has moved
decisively away from its political roots.
But as Democrats eye winning back
some of the South’s fast-growing states,
Mr. Bredesen’s approach also represents
a well-timed political science test of
which strategy is more effective: his
brand of political vanilla that reflects the
history of the state, or the more unrepen-
tant, and perhaps more inspiring, brand
of liberalism on offer from Mr. O’Rourke.
In fact, Mr. Bredesen may be running
the most cautious, high-profile Senate
campaign of any Democrat in the coun-
try.
He came out in support of Justice Brett
M. Kavanaugh — after the searing Sen-
ate hearings. He has aired a commercial
in which he shoots sporting clays and
trumpets his “support of the Second
Amendment” as well as his N.R.A. A rat-
ing as governor. He casually scorns his
party’s drift left and leaders like Chuck
Schumer in language more often heard
from Republicans.
“I remember sitting down here as gov-
ernor during the time of the Great Reces-
sion, where, I mean, there’s just a lot of
pain, and everybody wants to talk about
what bathroom somebody’s using or
something, you know?” he said in an in-
terview, when asked why this state had
turned right. President Barack Obama,
he added, was “a very smart guy, but
kind of elitist in his leanings.”
This style helped Mr. Bredesen win the
governorship twice in the previous dec-
ade, convincing him that he could cap-
ture the seat currently occupied by his
close friend, Senator Bob Corker, the Re-
publican who retired rather than bite his
tongue about Mr. Trump.
Yet in the immediate aftermath of the
Kavanaugh confirmation fight, Mr. Bre-
desen saw his polling sag as conserva-
tive-leaning voters aligned themselves
with the Republicans. The race has tight-
ened again, according to public and pri-
vate surveys, but the court battle was a
boon to Republicans here.
Ms. Blackburn, a hard-line conserva-
tive from exurban Nashville, has de-
lighted in the opportunity to nationalize
the race: at a debate earlier this month
she referred to Hillary Clinton over 20
times.
Tennessee has shifted dramatically to
the right in the last decade. Its congres-
sional delegation and state legislature
have become dominated by Republicans
with Democrats all but extinct outside
Tennessee’s major cities.
That may be why Mr. Bredesen has for
months, in public and private, repeated
the same assessment of his chances: If it
is a contest between him and Ms. Black-
burn, he will win. But should the race be
framed as a Republican versus a Demo-
crat, he will lose. And it’s why his friend
Mr. Corker originally felt him out about
running as an independent to avoid the
party-label stigma, according to officials
familiar with the conversation.
“He’s well-respected, he’s popular, he
was a good governor, but he’d sit in be-
tween Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth
Warren,” said Senator Lamar Alexander,
the state’s senior Republican. “And un-
fortunately for him, the Kavanaugh
nomination reminds people of that. I
have Republicans and independents who
are uncomfortable with Trump and may-
be even uncomfortable with Marsha but
they are furious about Kavanaugh.”
But if that anger propels Ms. Black-
burn to victory, 2018 will be remembered
as the year Tennessee made a sharp
break from its tradition of electing prag-
matic leaders — a tradition that has en-
dured even as the state has been tugged
right.
This race, therefore, is not just a clash
between a centrist Democrat and a con-
servative Republican. It is a test of
whether Tennessee will remain political-
ly distinct or become just one more reli-
ably red bastion, like Mississippi to the
south or Kentucky to the north.
“In our mind we think we’re a little
more progressive, a little more ad-
vanced, but I don’t know,” said Raumesh
Akbari, a Democratic state legislator in
Memphis.
Traditional Alliances Fray
To understand the race between Mr.
Bredesen and Ms. Blackburn, you have
to understand the political history of this
495-mile-long state.
“It all goes back to the Civil War,” said
Mr. Alexander.
That can be said for much of the South,
of course, but the war shaped Tennessee
differently than its neighbors. Tennessee
was the last state to join the Confederacy
and the first one to rejoin the Union, hav-
ing sent more troops to fight for the north
than any other southern state.
That is because its mountainous east
was inhospitable to plantation slavery
and remained largely loyal to the union
— and to the party of Lincoln. Voters in
the state’s eastern-anchored second
Congressional District have not elected a
Democrat since before the first shots
were fired at Fort Sumter.
“My father also used to say that for 75
years after the War, the Union pension
checks continued to come into east Ten-
nessee,” recalled Al Gore, the former vice
president and senator from Tennessee,
whose political baptism by fire came in
his father’s unsuccessful run for re-elec-
tion to the Senate in 1970.
But Democrats were ascendant in the
middle and western tiers of the state and
the party had a hold on politics until 1966,
when Howard Baker won a Senate seat
and ushered in a half-century of robust
political competition.
“The competition attracted talented
people into public life,” said Mr. Alexan-
der.
It took skill, he said, to forge coalitions
between the old-guard Republicans in
the east, the ancestral Democrats in the
middle and west and the newly empow-
ered black voters.
This demand created an incentive for
Tennessee’s politicians to hug the poli-
tical center and kept the state from lurch-
ing to the right like other Southern
states.
“A kind of balance of power, equilib-
rium, set in,” Mr. Gore said.
Tennessee elected a stream of stand-
out statewide officials like Mr. Baker, Mr.
Gore, former Senators Bill Frist and
Fred D. Thompson who “all made Ten-
nessee look good on the national stage,”
said Representative Steve Cohen, a wily
Memphis Democrat who served in the
state legislature before coming to Wash-
ington.
And for four decades, starting with Mr.
Alexander, the two parties traded the
governorship back and forth every eight
years as the state became an auto-mak-
ing powerhouse and Nashville boomed
into the crane-filled destination city for
tourists and transplants it is today.
Even as the state grew more forbid-
ding for Democrats, a breed of business-
aligned Republican moderates kept win-
ning. Today, Tennessee is led by Gov. Bill
Haslam, a Republican and heir to the Pi-
lot Oil fortune, and represented by Mr.
Corker and Mr. Alexander in the Senate.
It is a lineup that is more garden party
than tea party.
“We have never elected a fire-breath-
ing Republican statewide,” state senator
Jeff Yarbro, a Nashville Democrat, noted
over a meat-and-three-sides lunch in his
city one day last month.
Up the hill, in the State Capitol, Mr.
Haslam said Mr. Bredesen was trying to
place himself as the rightful heir to the
state’s mantle of moderation.
“He’s making the argument, ‘I’m an-
other pragmatic in the tradition of Ten-
nessee leaders, I’m going to do what’s
best for Tennessee,’” said Mr. Haslam.
“And that’s always been a good argu-
ment in Tennessee.”
Yet the same forces — the rise of trib-
alism, the decline in regional media and
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lenges for Democratic candidates, activ-
ists and voters in states that President
Trump carried in 2016.
the Democrats’ shift left — that have po-
larized politics across the South have
taken root here.
And, Mr. Haslam added, there are a
growing number of voters in the state
who were raised elsewhere and care lit-
tle about local history. Many came to Ten-
nessee for its favorable business climate
and lack of an income tax.
“Our tea party here is made up of peo-
ple that didn’t grow up here,” he said, re-
calling how, when he ran in 2010, he
would see voters wearing Yankees, Cubs
and Bears hats and offering a common
refrain: “We left for a reason.”
Trump Looms Over Election
Ms. Blackburn, 66, has heard the cri-
tique of her combative style of politics
before, often secondhand from the state’s
center-right business elite: She just does
not measure up to Tennessee’s lineage of
statesmen.
She does not hesitate to call this line of
attack unfair.
“We’ve never had a female U.S. sena-
tor,” Ms. Blackburn said in a cafe in
Franklin, a quaint town in her middle
Tennessee district. “So that is something
Al Gore, then a Tennessee senator, announcing he would seek the Democratic
nomination for the presidency in his hometown, Carthage, in June 1987.
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that would be new.”
She first made her name as a state leg-
islator, egging on local conservative talk
radio hosts and battling her own party’s
attempt to implement an income tax. She
became even better known after coming
to Congress in 2003 thanks to her fre-
quent cable-news appearances.
But she has never been a nominee for
statewide office and she is plainly tugged
between competing impulses that reflect
the larger uncertainty about Tennessee’s
place on the political spectrum: Should
she tone down her hard-line tendencies
to appeal to a broader audience in the
fashion of other leaders, or should she
amplify her partisan style to energize
Mr. Trump’s enthusiasts in a state he
would likely win again in 2020?
After invoking her gender without be-
ing prompted, she quickly backed away
from what could be seen as making any
claim of misogyny.
The skepticism about her, she said, is
not based on gender. “It is rooted in unfa-
miliarity,” she insisted.
Ms. Blackburn also readily acknowl-
edged that she is more conservative than
Mr. Corker and Mr. Alexander — “I am to
the right of them,” she said — but said
she can work across party lines.
“I have a long history of bipartisan ac-
complishment,” she said.
And on Mr. Trump, she is eager to tie
herself to him on policy but seems to rec-
ognize she must not fully condone his
personal conduct.
“Do I think he’s a good man?” she
says, repeating the question. “I think he
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Phil Bredesen, who twice won Ten-
nessee’s governorship, at a museum
for Ned Ray McWherter, the state’s
46th governor. Left, Mr. Bredesen’s
opponent, Representative Marsha
Blackburn, talking with a potential
supporter in Cleveland, Tenn.
is a really good example to legislators on
how to make a promise and keep it.”
The day after Mr. Bredesen spoke at
Rhodes College last month, Ms. Black-
burn campaigned at a tailgate before a
University of Memphis football game.
Before posing with the cheerleaders, the
congresswoman encountered a support-
er named Teri Melkent.
Ms. Melkent used to work in the medi-
cal device industry, but now stays home
with her two children. She cares deeply
about immigration, her “right to bear
arms,” and thinks Mr. Trump is “doing a
great job.” And the Democrats’ treat-
ment of Justice Kavanaugh? “An abso-
lute, ridiculous travesty,” she said.
Ms. Melkent lives in Germantown, a
comfortable Memphis suburb that was
on the front end of the state’s shift toward
the G.O.P.
But Germantown is also home to
James S. Dickey Jr., a certified public ac-
countant who voted Republican up until
2016, when he could not stomach Mr.
Trump.
“I think he’s an idiot,” Mr. Dickey said
of the president, upon leaving Mr. Bre-
desen’s college forum.
Mr. Dickey, who’s backing Mr. Bre-
desen, predicted “a lot of Republicans
will end up voting for Phil.”
Mr. Bredesen, who still speaks with
the bluntness of the boardroom he led at
HealthAmerica Corporation before he
became Nashville’s mayor, said revul-
sion toward Mr. Trump among Demo-
crats had given him a wide berth.
This assumption, along with his sup-
port for Justice Kavanaugh, irritates
some Democrats, and Mr. Bredesen lost
some volunteers after the court fight.
But progressive leaders here are urg-
ing their allies not to walk away.
“You can get on your political high
horse but the consequences are pretty
severe,” Ms. Akbari said, invoking the
cost of purity in the 2016 election.
Mr. Bredesen must maximize his sup-
port among African-Americans, who
make up about 16 percent of the state’s
electorate, overwhelm Ms. Blackburn in
Tennessee’s largest urban areas and
split or at least hold down his losses with
the rural voters in the middle and west-
ern part of the state.
There are many younger Republicans
in the state who think this is fantasy, that
no Democrat is viable here.
“I always believed that Blackburn
would be successful, in part due to our
move from a conservative state with a
shade of blue dog to a single-party state
today,” said Mark Braden, a Nashville-
based Republican strategist, alluding to
Tennessee’s faded brand of moderate
Democrat.
Mr. Gore, and more than a few of his
Republican friends in Nashville’s well-
heeled precincts, do not believe it.
“The political culture of the state writ
large has a lot of resilience, and still re-
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wards candidates in either party who
reach out beyond their party boundaries
and try to frame a reasonable-sounding
message that isn’t too hot, isn’t too left,
isn’t too right, but really focuses on kind
of a common-sense approach to govern-
ing well,” the former vice-president said
near the end of an hourlong conversation
in his Nashville office last month.
But Mr. Alexander, who said he
“might” run again in 2020, sees the end-
ing of that cycle of history.
“We’ve sort of gone the full circle back
to a one-party system,” he said, before
posing a question to which he seemed to
know the answer.
“If Tennessee becomes a one-party
Republican state do we lose that compe-
tition that I think created a stream of tal-
ented people over the last 50 years?”

Election 2018 The Voters
Early Voting Shows One Thing: Strong Turnout
By LIAM STACK
Early voting for the midterm
elections has begun in states
across the country, and enthusi-
asm — and voter turnout — both
appear to be high, with hundreds
of thousands of mail-in ballots
arriving in Florida and voters
lining up around the block in
Texas.
Turnout has surged among
Republicans, Democrats and
independents, according to poll
data. As of Tuesday afternoon,
more than seven million people
had voted early, according to
data compiled by Michael Mc-
Donald, a professor of political
science at the University of
Florida who studies elections.
“If these patterns persist, we
could see a turnout rate at least
equaling the turnout rate in 1966,
which was 48 percent, and if we
beat that then you have to go all
the way back to 1914, when the
turnout rate was 51 percent,” he
said. “We could be looking at a
turnout rate that virtually no one
has ever experienced.”
Publicly available data on
early voting suggests more
likely Republican voters than
likely Democrats have so far
cast their ballots, but it is too
early to draw any firm conclu-
sions. Here is a guide to how
early voting works and why the
information we see now may not
resemble the final result after
Election Day.
How does early voting work?
Early voting works differently in
each state, but it generally take
two forms: in-person and by
mail.
Generally speaking, mail-in
votes tend to skew Republican,
in part because mail-in voting is
popular with older voters. Some
states make it easy for older
people to vote by mail but hard-
er for younger people to do so:
In Michigan, for example, any-
one over 60 can get an absentee
ballot. In-person early votes
tend to favor Democrats.
Stephanie Saul contributed report-
ing.
Everything you need to
know for your business day
is in Business Day.
The New York Times
Early voters in Las Vegas on Saturday. Roughly seven million people have already voted.
How are early voting figures col-
lected?
Early voting figures are gathered
from state and local election
authorities, who keep a record of
who has voted. That data can be
analyzed using computer models
or publicly available information
— like age, race or party regis-
tration — to make an informed
guess about how someone voted.
But any analysis of early vot-
ing figures is missing the crucial
evidence, because the available
data does not include how a
person actually voted. And it is
important to keep in mind that
not everyone who is a registered
Democrat, say, always votes for
Democratic candidates.
Which party is in the lead?
That’s a tricky question, in part
because who you voted for is not
public information, but also
because the snapshot of early
voting results on any specific day
does not necessarily represent
what the final result will be.
Whoever is in the lead now may
not be the party that actually
wins.
Right now, Republican-seem-
ing voters have cast more ballots
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than Democratic-seeming voters,
but that’s largely because mail-in
ballots are sent to voters weeks
before Election Day (to give
them time to cast a vote and mail
it in.) That means when early
voting first opens, mail-in ballots
are usually the first votes to be
counted.
“The ebb and flow of the elec-
tion cycle generally is — and it’s
not true in every single state but
it is true in the national aggre-
gate — Republicans tend to run
up the score early with the ab-
sentee vote, Democrats come
back strong with a pretty mas-
sive surge in in-person early
voting, then on Election Day the
vote tends to be closer to parity
with a slight Republican lead,”
said Tom Bonier, the chief execu-
tive of TargetSmart, a data ana-
lytics firm that has collected
early voting figures. “Republi-
cans tend to have to play catch
up on Election Day.”
Age is also a factor, Mr. Mc-
Donald said.
“As we get closer to Election
Day, you see that younger people
tend to vote later than older
people,” he said. “So younger
people will enter the electorate
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as we get into next week.”
How does this compare with 2014
and 2016?
Early voting has become more
popular in recent years, with
more than 22 million people
casting early votes during the
2016 election. And enthusiasm in
the 2018 midterms is high. Voter
turnout on Monday, the first day
of early voting in Texas, was up
325 percent in Dallas County and
213 percent in Harris County,
home to Houston, compared with
the first day in 2014, according to
figures provided by Texas Demo-
crats.
Early voting turnout appears
to have jumped considerably
since 2014. But Mr. McDonald
cautioned against making year-
to-year comparisons because so
many variables can change in
each state from election to elec-
tion.
“Even when we can look at
prior data, the laws may have
changed or the campaign strat-
egies may have changed, so it
may not reflect a true differ-
ence,” he said. “But my judgment
looking at these numbers — and
I’ve been doing this since 2008 —
is that there is higher turnout.”
Voter Registrations Surge
With the Help of Snapchat
By CECILIA KANG
WASHINGTON — Taylor Swift
has nothing on Snapchat — at
least when it comes to persuading
people to register to vote.
Snap, the company behind the
popular social media service, said
on Tuesday that it had helped
more than 400,000 users register
to vote during a recent two-week
period. Much of the activity, the
company said, was in key battle-
ground states like Texas, Florida
and Georgia.
Snapchat, which is popular
among teenagers and young
adults, pushed people 18 and over
to register by adding a button
about doing so on each user’s pro-
file page. The company also sent
video messages to all of those us-
ers urging them to register.
The users were directed to a
nonpartisan voter registration
website, TurboVote.org. Once
they answered a few questions
about their potential eligibility as
a voter, TurboVote directed them
to state and local election boards
to officially register.
“There is no more powerful
form of self-expression than the
ability to vote,” said Jennifer
Stout, global head of public policy
at Snap. “The numbers we’ve
seen have been fantastic and have
shown us that our users have been
some of the most engaged com-
munities out there.”
This month, Ms. Swift urged her
fans to vote. In the days after her
appeal, more than 166,000 people
submitted new registrations on
Vote.org, a huge surge. The num-
ber couldn’t all be attributed to
her, but about 40 percent of the
new registrants were 18 to 24
years old, the age of many of her
fans.
It appears that Snap may have
had an even bigger effect, getting
418,000 people to register. Of that
total, 79,148 registered in Texas,
29,044 in Florida, 22,649 in Geor-
gia and 17,994 in Ohio. All those
states have competitive races.
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
and Google have also pushed vot-
er registration drives, by linking
to sites like TurboVote, which
work with companies in their vot-
er drive, provide information on
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candidates and voter initiatives
and send text and email remind-
ers to users.
Young Americans are histori-
cally among the least consistent
voters. But there are signs that
they are more engaged than usual
in this year’s elections, speaking
up on issues like immigration, gun
control and health care. And on so-
cial media, many young people
have promoted their voter regis-
trations and have pushed their
peers to vote.
“For young people, voting isn’t
as much a civic duty as it is an
identity issue,” said Brandon Nay-
lor, a spokesman for Democracy
Works, which runs the website
TurboVote.
Snapchat’s younger demo-
graphic has attracted candidates
to the service ahead of the
midterm elections. In the hotly
contested race for Senate in
Over 400,000 are
added to electoral
rolls, many in key
battleground states.
Texas, between Ted Cruz, the Re-
publican incumbent, and his Dem-
ocratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke,
the candidates have used
Snapchat to post stories on the
trail. Both have appeared on
Snapchat’s political television
show on the app, “Good Luck
America.”
Still, it is unclear how many
young people will show up at polls
on Nov. 6. In 2014, in the last
midterm election, only 17.1 per-
cent of 18- to 24-year-olds voted.
And it would be too simplistic to
attribute any uptick in young
votes directly to the voter cam-
paigns of social media outlets like
Snap, Instagram and Facebook,
experts say.
“It’s always difficult to forecast
voter turnout,” said Donald
Green, a professor of political sci-
ence at Columbia University. “And
it’s hard to say any Taylor Swift-
style surge will make a differ-
ence.”
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Election 2018 Issues and Identity
On Campaign Trail,
Mothering a Legacy
By ASTEAD W. HERNDON
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — An air of
solemnity hangs over Lucy Mc-
Bath’s bid for Congress.
It is present in her campaign
stump speech, when she recounts
the 2012 murder of her son, Jordan
Davis, a black teenager who was
shot and killed by a white man at a
gas station when the 17-year-old
refused to lower the volume of the
rap music playing in his car.
It is present in her interactions
with voters in Georgia’s Sixth
Congressional District, who often
greet Ms. McBath with weary
eyes and deep condolences before
discussing policy issues like
health care or asking for the requi-
site candidate selfie.
“What I’m doing today is still
mothering his legacy,” Ms. Mc-
Bath said at a meet-and-greet
event in this Atlanta suburb. “I’m
extending what I would do for my
son to my community.”
Voters listening to Ms. McBath
remark on how different she is
from other politicians — how quiet
the room gets when she talks, how
personal her stories are.
“You feel for her as a mother,”
said Cheryl Brown, 60, who for
years before meeting Ms. Mc-
Bath, kept a Jet Magazine cover
featuring Jordan Davis at her At-
lanta-area home. The cover read,
“Is Your Child Next?,” and it res-
onated with Ms. Brown because
she, too, fears her black son could
fall victim to racist violence.
More than anyone else running
for Congress, Ms. McBath, the
Democratic nominee in a Republi-
can-leaning race, is redefining so-
cial justice in politics this year, in
large part through her deep per-
sonal connection to the Black
Lives Matter movement. Yet she
is also far from the only candidate
this election cycle to explicitly dis-
cuss issues of racial injustice and
violence against minorities.
Many Democratic candidates
across the country, after years of
tiptoeing around issues of race out
of fear of alienating white voters,
are slowly adopting the language
of anti-racist activists. It is an at-
tempt to connect more closely
with black voters, in particular,
whose turnout will be key in sev-
eral of November’s most hotly
contested midterm elections. Re-
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advertisements that lambaste
Democrats on that move, casting
their evolution as a sign of a cor-
roding culture that’s too politically
correct.
A new advertisement from the
National Republican Campaign
Committee about who “owns” the
Democratic Party, for instance,
begins with an image of Colin
Kaepernick, the former N.F.L.
quarterback who knelt during the
national anthem to protest police
brutality. “Prima donna athletes
protesting our anthem” the adver-
tisement begins.
It is a clash that is playing out
repeatedly in critical races from
Maine to Texas. Observers said
such explicit appeals to racial poli-
tics are a sign of how cultural
fights and political ones have
fused in contemporary politics, es-
pecially in the era of President
Trump and several high-profile
police killings of young black peo-
ple such as Botham Jean in Dallas,
who was killed in his own apart-
ment in September.
Ms. Brown’s husband, a 59-
year-old attorney named Mark
Brown, said he considered his
vote for Ms. McBath to be a re-
buke against those who have “car-
icatured the Black Lives Matter
movement.”
“This isn’t kids protesting in the
street with signs,” he said. “This is
a middle-aged black woman talk-
ing about her lived experience.”
Republicans are locked into the
moment, too, but from the oppo-
site direction.
Fueled by Mr. Trump’s attacks
on protesting N.F.L. players like
Mr. Kaepernick and the presi-
dent’s dismissals of any discus-
sion of police brutality as anti-po-
lice, Republicans have raced to
mimic his language.
Senator Ted Cruz, locked in a re-
election battle in Texas, in August
unveiled a television advertise-
ment touting his pledge to stand
for the national anthem. Other Re-
publicans in tough races have run
similar ads, like Brian Kemp, the
party’s nominee for governor of
Georgia, and Marsha Blackburn,
the Tennessee Senate candidate.
Representative Bruce Poliquin,
a Maine Republican who is in a
highly competitive fight for re-
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Lucy McBath, whose son was murdered in 2012, is the Democratic nominee in a Republican-leaning Georgia Congressional race.
election this fall, immediately
called for residents to boycott
Nike on his campaign Facebook
page in September after Mr.
Kaepernick became the face of the
shoe company’s recent “Just Do
It” marketing campaign.
In Wisconsin’s First Congres-
sional District, also considered a
key race, Republicans recently at-
tacked the Democratic nominee,
Randy Bryce, for once tweeting
“when the police become the ter-
rorists” in response to a local re-
port about police misuse of power.
In a television advertisement
released in September, Republi-
cans deployed Mr. Bryce’s
brother, a police officer, as a
spokesman. He argued the tweet
is a reason to vote for his brother’s
opponent.
“When people refer to police of-
ficers as ‘terrorists,’ that hits a lit-
tle too close to home,” said James
Bryce, as the tweet flashed across
the screen. “I don’t want to be rep-
resented by someone who has
shown contempt for law enforce-
ment.”
Mr. Trump, to big applause, al-
ludes to Mr. Kaepernick’s protest
at almost every campaign rally. At
a recent stop in Minnesota’s First
Congressional District, where the
Democratic nominee, Dan Fee-
han, had previously expressed
support for Mr. Kaepernick’s pro-
tests, the crowd erupted when Mr.
Trump said, “We’re proud to stand
for our national anthem.”
Mr. Feehan is an Iraq War vet-
eran but in an increasingly con-
servative portion of the state. It is
one of the few seats election ex-
perts think could flip from Demo-
crats to Republicans this Novem-
ber, and Republicans see the line
of attack as especially potent.
On the Democratic side, some
candidates have tried to make ex-
plicit appeals to racial justice to in-
spire new voters. Mandela
Barnes, the party’s candidate for
Wisconsin lieutenant governor,
donned Mr. Kaepernick’s jersey
while on the campaign trail, and
had a Twitter row with Gov. Scott
Walker, a Republican, regarding
the same issue. Representative
Beto O’Rourke of Texas, trying to
unseat Mr. Cruz, went viral with
his speech to black audiences re-
garding the death of Mr. Jean, who
was killed in his apartment after
an off-duty police officer said she
mistook him for a burglar.
Even in fights among Demo-
crats, Ayanna Pressley, the Bos-
ton city councilor who defeated in-
cumbent Representative Michael
Capuano, used her support of Mr.
Kaepernick’s protests to draw a
rare point of daylight between
herself and Mr. Capuano. She was
battling to represent Massachu-
setts’ only congressional district
with a majority of nonwhite vot-
ers, and some in the city believe
the issue helped push Ms. Press-
ley over the top.
“Both in terms of issues and
platforms, any candidate that
claims to be progressive cannot
have a viable campaign without
centering issues of racial and eco-
A Winning Ticket Is Sold in South Carolina
By MATT STEVENS
and KAREN ZRAICK
We are sorry to report you did
not win the Mega Millions jackpot
— unless you’re one very lucky
person in South Carolina.
Someone there probably could-
n’t believe his or her eyes when
the magic numbers for the $1.54
billion prize were announced
Tuesday night: 5, 28, 62, 65, 70;
and the Mega Ball: 5.
The winning ticket was sold at a
convenience store, KC Mart No. 7,
in Simpsonville. The winner has
not yet come forward, and has 180
days to do so.
“We don’t know at this point
whether it’s one person or a group
of persons, or anything about the
identity of the player,” Tony Coo-
per, the chief operating officer of
the South Carolina Education Lot-
tery, told reporters outside the
store on Wednesday.
Mr. Cooper counseled the win-
ner to “take a deep breath, put
that ticket in a secure location and
consult with a trusted adviser.”
And then, of course, to call the lot-
tery.
It’s possible that the public will
never learn who won. South Car-
olina is one of a handful of states
and territories where lottery win-
ners can remain anonymous.
The store’s owner, C.J. Patel,
will receive $50,000 once the win-
ner comes forward, publicly or
not. He said he felt very fortunate,
and also hoped that selling the
winning ticket would bring him
more customers.
“Whoever the winner is, hope-
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and Daniel Victor contributed re-
porting.
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nomic justice,” said Janaé Bonsu,
the recently named co-director for
Black Youth Project 100, one of the
main activist groups born out of
the Black Lives Matter move-
ment.
Experts on racial justice and po-
litical science said Mr. Trump’s
sometimes inflammatory rhetoric
is bringing glaring visibility to ra-
cial and social justice divides, but
similar fights have long simmered
in American politics.
Carol Anderson, a professor of
African-American studies at
Emory University in Georgia,
pointed to previous examples of
how grass-roots movements
about racial justice have long had
an electoral impact, sometimes
unintended. In the 1960s and ’70s,
To Democrat, fighter,
mother, she hopes to
add Congresswoman.
for example, the Democratic Par-
ty’s embrace of civil rights legisla-
tion led to Richard Nixon’s “South-
ern Strategy,” which helped Re-
publican conservatives dominate
the South for decades.
Professor Anderson said schol-
ars may come to see the Black
Lives Matter movement as a simi-
larly transformative political mo-
ment, which realigned the rheto-
ric of both political parties for
years to come.
“For those who are dealing with
worrying that their babies are go-
ing to be shot by cops, that move-
ment gave voice to that angst,”
Ms. Anderson said. “But I think
for the Republicans, what it did is
it provided another target for
them to continue to troll in rac-
ism.”
Republicans push back against
that characterization of racial
bias. In interviews, conservative
The line to get lottery tickets on Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif.
fully he spends that money locally
and does some good for the com-
munity,” Mr. Patel said.
Mega Millions, which revised
the jackpot on Wednesday morn-
ing from the previous amount of
$1.6 billion, said there were no
other winners out of the 15.7 mil-
lion people who bought tickets.
But 36 tickets nationwide were oh-
so-close, matching five of six num-
bers.
Reaction on Twitter came
quickly — at least from those who
did not win.
“I didn’t win the lottery, but I’m
still planning on dying alone,” the
TV host and comedian Conan
O’Brien said.
Lotto fever has gripped the na-
tion in recent weeks as jackpots
have continued to swell. Tues-
day’s $1.54 billion prize — which
offered a lump sum of $878 million
— was initially advertised as the
largest lottery prize ever, surpass-
political operatives said their par-
ty’s willingness to attack Demo-
crats on issues such as standing
for the national anthem does not
come from a place of bigotry, but
an attempt to point out what they
characterize as Democrat ex-
tremism.
Even those who denounced the
lines of attack on moral grounds,
like Republican strategist Evan
Siegfried, said it could be effec-
tive. “A sizable portion of America
and the Trump base feel that the
country isn’t what it used to be
and that patriotism is under as-
sault,” said Mr. Siegfried. “It suc-
cessfully preys on the feeling that
America has become a strange, if
not foreign, place that no longer
reflects their values.”
Ms. McBath remains an under-
dog running against the Republi-
can incumbent, Karen Handel.
However, the National Republican
Congressional Committee an-
nounced a round of television ad-
vertisements supporting Ms.
Handel this week, a sign that Re-
publican officials think the race
may be tightening.
In an interview, Ms. McBath
stressed that she was not a single-
issue candidate, but it was never-
theless important for her to ac-
knowledge that her son’s murder,
and the political activism that fol-
lowed, was her entry point into
politics.
“At the end of the day, whatever
you think about me; whatever
happens or whatever I become in
the future, I’ll still always be Jor-
dan’s mom,” Ms. McBath said.
Placing her son’s death at the
center of her political messaging
has made the campaign more spe-
cial, Ms. McBath said, but will also
make election night more viscer-
ally personal.
“I’m risking my son’s legacy for
the people of this district,” she
said, wearing a button that out-
lined the three titles she hopes will
propel her to Congress: “Demo-
crat. Fighter. Mother.”
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jackpot drawn in 2016. But when
the amount was lowered on
Wednesday, it became the second
largest ever.
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in 44 states as well as Washington,
D.C., and the Virgin Islands. If no
winner comes forward, the prize
money will go back to those states
and territories, divided in propor-
tion to how many tickets each
sold, Mr. Cooper said.
Tickets cost $2, which seems
like a relatively small price to pay
for a chance at becoming rich.
(And it does some good: About 43
cents of every dollar wagered
goes to education, Mr. Cooper
said.) But the odds of winning the
Mega Millions are about 1 in 302
million.
If you are among the many who
did not win on Tuesday, never fear.
Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot
has grown to $620 million.
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The 45th President The Agenda

Spies Are Listening (and Learning), but President Stays on His iPhone
From Page A1
riage of lobbying and espionage,
the Chinese have pieced together
a list of the people with whom Mr.
Trump regularly speaks in hopes
of using them to influence the
president, the officials said.
Among those on the list are
Stephen A. Schwarzman, the
Blackstone Group chief executive
who has endowed a master’s pro-
gram at Tsinghua University in
Beijing, and Steve Wynn, the for-
mer Las Vegas casino magnate
who used to own a lucrative prop-
erty in Macau.
The Chinese have identified
friends of both men and others
among the president’s regulars,
and are now relying on Chinese
businessmen and others with ties
to Beijing to feed arguments to the
friends of the Trump friends. The
strategy is that those people will
pass on what they are hearing,
and that Beijing’s views will even-
tually be delivered to the presi-
dent by trusted voices, the offi-
cials said. They added that the
Trump friends were most likely
unaware of any Chinese effort.
L. Lin Wood, a lawyer for Mr.
Wynn, said his client was retired
and had no comment. A spokes-
woman for Blackstone, Christine
Anderson, declined to comment
on Chinese efforts to influence Mr.
Schwarzman, but said that he
“has been happy to serve as an in-
termediary on certain critical
matters between the two coun-
tries at the request of both heads
of state.”
Russia is not believed to be run-
ning as sophisticated an influence
effort as China because of Mr.
Trump’s apparent affinity for
President Vladimir V. Putin, a for-
mer official said.
China’s effort is a 21st-century
version of what officials there
have been doing for many dec-
ades, which is trying to influence
American leaders by cultivating
an informal network of prominent
businesspeople and academics
who can be sold on ideas and pol-
icy prescriptions and then carry
them to the White House. The dif-
ference now is that China, through
its eavesdropping on Mr. Trump’s
calls, has a far clearer idea of who
carries the most influence with
the president, and what argu-
ments tend to work.
The Chinese and the Russians
“would look for any little thing —
how easily was he talked out of
something, what was the argu-
ment that was used,” said John
Sipher, a 28-year veteran of the
Central Intelligence Agency who
served in Moscow in the 1990s and
later ran the agency’s Russia pro-
gram.
Trump friends like Mr.
Schwarzman, who figured promi-
nently in the first meeting be-
tween President Xi Jinping of
China and Mr. Trump at Mar-a-
Lago, the president’s Florida re-
sort, already hold pro-China and
pro-trade views, and thus are
ideal targets in the eyes of the Chi-
nese, the officials said. Targeting
Julian E. Barnes contributed re-
porting.
President Trump has two official iPhones that have limited abilities and a third that is no different from most iPhones in use.
the friends of Mr. Schwarzman
and Mr. Wynn can reinforce the
views of the two, the officials said.
The friends are also most likely to
be more accessible.
One official said the Chinese
were pushing for the friends to
persuade Mr. Trump to sit down
with Mr. Xi as often as possible.
The Chinese, the official said, cor-
rectly perceive that Mr. Trump
places tremendous value on per-
sonal relationships, and that one-
on-one meetings yield break-
Intercepting calls is a
relatively easy skill for
governments.
throughs far more often than reg-
ular contacts between Chinese
and American officials.
Whether the friends can stop
Mr. Trump from pursuing a trade
war with China is another ques-
tion.
Officials said the president has
two official iPhones that have
been altered by the National Secu-
rity Agency to limit their abilities
— and vulnerabilities — and a
third personal phone that is no dif-
ferent from hundreds of millions
of iPhones in use around the
world. Mr. Trump keeps the per-
sonal phone, White House offi-
cials said, because unlike his other
phones, it can store his contacts.
Apple declined to comment on
the president’s iPhones. None of
them are completely secure and
are vulnerable to hackers who
could remotely break into the
phones themselves.
But the calls made from the
phones are intercepted as they
travel through the cell towers, ca-
bles and switches that make up
national and international cell-
phone networks. Calls made from
any cellphone — iPhone, Android,
an old-school Samsung flip phone
— are vulnerable.
The issue of secure communica-
tions is fraught for Mr. Trump. As
a presidential candidate, he regu-
larly attacked his Democratic op-
ponent, Hillary Clinton, during
the 2016 campaign for her use of
an unsecured email server while
she was secretary state, and he
basked in chants of “lock her up”
at his rallies.
Intercepting calls is a relatively
easy skill for governments. Amer-
ican intelligence agencies con-
sider it an essential tool of spy-
craft, and they routinely try to tap
the phones of important foreign
leaders. In a diplomatic blowup
during the Obama administration,
documents leaked by Edward J.
Snowden, a former contractor for
the National Security Agency,
showed that the American gov-
ernment had tapped the phone of
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Ger-
many.
Foreign governments are well
aware of the risk, and so leaders
like Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin avoid us-
ing cellphones when possible.
President Barack Obama was
careful with cellphones, too. He
used an iPhone in his second term,
but it could not make calls and
could receive email only from a
special address that was given to
a select group of staff members
and intimates. It had no camera or
microphone, and it could not be
used to download apps at will.
Texting was forbidden because
there was no way to collect and
store the messages, as required
by the Presidential Records Act.
“It is a great phone, state of the
art, but it doesn’t take pictures,
you can’t text. The phone doesn’t
work, you know, you can’t play
your music on it,” Mr. Obama said
on “The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon” in June 2016. “So
basically, it’s like — does your 3-
year-old have one of those play
phones?”
When Mr. Obama needed a cell-
phone, the officials said, he used
one of those of his aides.
Mr. Trump has insisted on more
capable devices. He did agree dur-
ing the transition to give up his
Android phone (the Google oper-
ating system is considered more
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vulnerable than Apple’s). And
since becoming president, Mr.
Trump has agreed to a slightly
cumbersome arrangement of hav-
ing two official phones: one for
Twitter and other apps, and one
for calls.
Mr. Trump typically relies on
his cellphones when he does not
want a call going through the
White House switchboard and
logged for senior aides to see, his
aides said. Many of those Mr.
Trump speaks with most often on
one of his cellphones, such as
hosts at Fox News, share the pres-
ident’s political views, or simply
enable his sense of grievance
about any number of subjects.
Administration officials said
Mr. Trump’s longtime paranoia
about surveillance — well before
coming to the White House he be-
lieved that his phone conversa-
tions were often being recorded —
gave them some comfort that he
was not disclosing classified infor-
mation on the calls. They said they
had further confidence he was not
spilling secrets because he rarely
digs into the details of the intelli-
gence he is shown and is not well
versed in the operational specifics
of military or covert activities.
In an interview this week with
The Wall Street Journal, Mr.
Trump quipped about his phones
being insecure. When asked what
American officials in Turkey had
learned about the killing of the
journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, he re-
plied: “I actually said don’t give it
to me on the phone. I don’t want it
on the phone. As good as these
phones are supposed to be.”
But Mr. Trump is also famously
indiscreet. In a May 2017 meeting
in the Oval Office with Russian of-
ficials, he shared highly sensitive
intelligence passed to the United
States by Israel. He also told the
Russians that James B. Comey,
the former F.B.I. director, was “a
real nut job” and that firing him
had relieved “great pressure.”
Still, Mr. Trump’s lack of tech
savvy has alleviated some other
security concerns. He does not
use email, so the risk of a phishing
attack like those used by Russian
intelligence to gain access to
Democratic Party emails is close
to nil. The same goes for texts,
which are disabled on his official
phones. His Twitter phone can
connect to the internet only over a
Wi-Fi connection, and he rarely, if
ever, has access to unsecured
wireless networks, officials said.
But the security of the device ulti-
mately depends on the user, and
protecting the president’s phones
has sometimes proved difficult.
Last year, Mr. Trump’s cell-
phone was left behind in a golf cart
at his club in Bedminster, N.J.,
causing a scramble to locate it, ac-
cording to two people familiar
with what took place.
Mr. Trump is supposed to swap
out his two official phones every
30 days for new ones but rarely
does, bristling at the inconven-
ience. White House staff members
are supposed to set up the new
phones exactly like the old ones,
but the new iPhones cannot be re-
stored from backups of his old
phones because doing so would
transfer over any malware.
New phone or old, though, the
Chinese and the Russians are lis-
tening, and learning.

After Promise, Scramble to Make a Plan

By JIM TANKERSLEY
Ten months before President
Trump began making promises of
a 10 percent tax cut for the middle
class, he signed a sweeping bill
that included a 10 percent tax cut
for the middle class.
That cut was included in a $1.5
trillion package that immediately
became Mr. Trump’s signature
piece of legislation on economic
policy. But middle-class Ameri-
cans say they have not felt much
of an effect, in part because three-
quarters of the tax cuts went to
corporations and high-income
earners.
As a result, middle-class Ameri-
cans have not rallied around the
Trump tax cuts in the way the
president and congressional Re-
publicans had hoped. So Mr.
Trump found another way to get
the tax cuts back in the news be-
fore the midterm elections in No-
vember by pledging to deliver an-
other round very soon.
Mr. Trump began talking about
this next tax cut last weekend,
telling supporters that he was pre-
paring another middle-class cut,
on top of the ones already in place,
and that Congress would pass it
imminently. Congress will do no
The pattern would most likely
involve Mr. Trump outlining broad
goals for the cuts — for example, a
10 percent tax reduction for
households earning less than
$75,000 a year, offset by other tax
increases or spending cuts, in or-
der to avoid adding to the federal
budget deficit. He would leave it to
congressional leaders to work out
the details but, like the last round,
would not shy away from publicly
telling lawmakers what he ex-
pected to see in the final bill.
The president has suggested a
more aggressive and certain time-
table in public. He has promised
that the cuts would be “put in
place” in the next week. He told in-
terviewers from The Wall Street
Journal on Tuesday that “we can
make it revenue neutral,” mean-
ing that the lost revenues from the
tax cut would be offset by either
spending cuts or tax increases. He
has said repeatedly that the cut
would be for the middle class only.
It has been an unorthodox chain
of events, particularly since Mr.
Trump could be spending his time
promoting the middle-class bene-
fits of the law he signed last year.
The law signed in December
will provide a roughly 10 percent
mates, compared with about $40
billion for those earning $75,000
or less.
But with the tax cut consis-
tently failing to attract support
from a majority of Americans, Mr.
Trump has taken to talking about
new cuts, which could mean,
eventually, that congressional Re-
publicans will try to turn them
into a bill.
“This administration, the presi-
dent has an idea, he gives voice to
it,” said Rohit Kumar, a former ad-
viser to Senator Mitch McConnell
of Kentucky, the majority leader,
who now leads the Tax Policy
Services group for PwC. Often, he
said, the result is, “If it sells, eh,
we’ll pursue it.”
That pursuit could be particu-
larly tricky next year. For one, Re-
publicans have to hold the House
and the Senate. Next, they would
need to write a bill that specifi-
cally targets the middle class
without adding to the deficit.
If Mr. Trump is set on rate cuts,
Tax Policy Center researchers
noted, those writing the bill could
neutralize their benefits for high
earners by inserting what is
called a “bubble” rate higher on
the income scale, which is in-
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such thing; it is not in session until
after the elections, and no one on
Capitol Hill expects a tax cut of
any kind to pass in the lame-duck
session at the end of the year.
Instead, the White House and
congressional Republicans are
scrambling — after Mr. Trump’s
apparently off-the-cuff declara-
tions — to lay the tracks for an-
other tax cut if Republicans hold
onto control of both the House and
the Senate in November.
In that case, a senior adminis-
tration said, the tentative plan
would be for another round of tax
cuts, following a process similar to
the one Mr. Trump used to get the
tax overhaul that he signed into
law in December.
cut in tax liability, on average, in
2019 for households earning
$30,000 to $75,000 a year, accord-
ing to the congressional Joint
Committee on Taxation. (Median
household income was just over
$61,000 last year, according to the
Census Bureau.)
The independent Tax Policy
Center in Washington estimates
that households in the middle
quintile of taxpayers will see, on
average, a $930 tax cut from the
law this year. The cut for higher
earners is larger as a share of in-
come, and overwhelmingly larger
in dollar terms: Households earn-
ing $100,000 or more will combine
to see $219 billion in tax cuts next
year, the joint committee esti-
tended for just that purpose. Re-
publicans could also expand the
earned-income tax credit, or in-
vent a new credit just for the mid-
dle class, Mr. Kumar said.
As for the offsets, they are even
harder. Data from the Tax Policy
Center suggests that a true 10 per-
cent cut in tax liability for house-
holds earning $75,000 or less
would reduce revenues by more
than $300 billion over the course
of a decade. A broader definition
of “middle class” would escalate
the cost considerably.
“I don’t know what the easy off-
sets are,” Mr. Kumar said. “There
was never anything easy to make
anything like a 10 percent middle-
class tax cut revenue neutral.”
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A report by a top scientific group urged the creation of technologies to take out the carbon dioxide already loaded in the atmosphere.
Call From Scientists to Scrub the Air of Carbon
By BRAD PLUMER
WASHINGTON — With time
running out to avoid dangerous
global warming, the nation’s lead-
ing scientific body on Wednesday
urged the federal government to
begin a research program focused
on developing technologies that
can remove vast quantities of car-
bon dioxide out of the atmosphere
in order to help slow climate
change.
The 369-page report, written by
a panel of the National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering and
Medicine, underscores an impor-
tant shift. For decades, experts
said that nations could prevent
large temperature increases
mainly by reducing reliance on
fossil fuels and moving to cleaner
sources like solar, wind and nucle-
ar power.
But at this point, nations have
delayed so long in cutting their
carbon dioxide emissions that
even a breakneck shift toward
clean energy would most likely
not be enough. According to a
landmark scientific report issued
by the United Nations this month,
taking out a big chunk of the car-
bon dioxide already loaded into
the atmosphere may be necessary
to avoid significant further warm-
ing, even though researchers ha-
ven’t yet figured out how to do so
economically, or at sufficient
scale.
And we’ll have to do it fast. To
meet the climate goals laid out un-
der the Paris Agreement, human-
ity may have to start removing
around 10 billion tons of carbon di-
oxide from the air each year by
midcentury, in addition to reduc-
ing industrial emissions, said
Stephen W. Pacala, a Princeton
climate scientist who led the pan-
el. That’s nearly as much carbon
as all the world’s forests and soils
currently absorb each year.
“Midcentury is not very far
away,” Dr. Pacala said. “To de-
velop the technologies and scale
up to 10 billion tons a year is a
Fugitive White Nationalist Leader Is Arrested by F.B.I. ‘Catastrophic’ Typhoon Hits
By ADAM GOLDMAN
and ALI WINSTON
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I.
arrested the leader of a violent
California neo-Nazi gang on a fed-
eral conspiracy charge after he
fled the country earlier this
month.
Robert Rundo, 28, of Hunting-
ton Beach, Calif., is being held at
the federal jail in downtown Los
Angeles. He was charged in a
criminal complaint that was un-
sealed Tuesday.
Mr. Rundo apparently crossed
into Mexico two weeks ago from
California and then made his way
to Central America. He was later
brought back to the United States,
where he was arrested Sunday at
Los Angeles International Air-
port, according to two people fa-
miliar with the case who spoke on
the condition of anonymity be-
cause they were not authorized to
speak publicly.
He is the founder of the Rise
Above Movement, a neo-Nazi
gang based in Southern California
whose members were involved in
violent activity at protests
throughout California in 2017. He
and three other Californians asso-
ciated with the group — Robert
Boman, 25, Tyler Laube, 22, and
Aaron Eason, 38 — were charged
with inciting riots, according to
court documents. Mr. Boman and
Adam Goldman reported from
Washington and Ali Winston from
New York.
frightful endeavor, something that
would really require a lot of activi-
ty. So the time would have to be
now.”
The panel’s members conceded
that the Trump administration
may not find the climate change
argument all that compelling,
since the president has disavowed
the Paris Agreement. But, Dr.
Pacala said, it’s quite likely that
other countries will be interested
in carbon removal. The United
States could take a leading role in
developing technologies that
could one day be worth many bil-
lions of dollars.
Right now, there are plenty of
ideas for carbon removal kicking
around. Countries could plant
more trees that pull carbon diox-
ide out of the air and lock it in their
wood. Farmers could adopt tech-
niques, such as no-till agriculture,
that would keep more carbon
trapped in the soil. A few compa-
nies are building “direct air cap-
ture” plants that use chemical
agents to scrub trace amounts of
carbon dioxide from the air, allow-
ing them to sell the gas to industri-
al customers or bury it under-
ground.
But, the National Academies
panel warned, many of these
methods are still unproven or face
serious limitations. There’s only
so much land available to plant
new trees. Scientists are still un-
sure how much carbon can realis-
tically be stored in agricultural
soils. And direct air capture plants
are still too expensive for mass de-
ployment.
In theory, it might be possible to
collect wood or other plant matter
that has absorbed carbon dioxide
from the air, burn it in biomass
power plants for energy and then
capture the carbon released from
combustion and bury it deep un-
derground, creating, in essence, a
power plant that has negative
emissions. While no such facilities
are operating commercially today,
the technology to build them ex-
ists.
Robert Rundo in Berkeley in 2017, as identified by ProPublica in
this image from YouTube, faces charges of inciting violence.
Mr. Laube were arrested on Tues-
day morning in Southern Califor-
nia. The F.B.I. said it was still
searching for Mr. Eason.
Earlier this month, another four
members of the Rise Above Move-
ment — Benjamin Daley, Michael
Miselis, Thomas Gillen and Cole
White — were indicted on conspir-
acy to riot charges for attacking
counterprotesters during last
year’s Unite The Right rally in
Charlottesville, Va. Mr. Rundo left
the country shortly after the four
were arrested at the beginning of
the month.
The F.B.I. said that Mr. Rundo
and other members of the group
attacked protesters in 2017 in sev-
eral places, including Huntington
But one potential problem with
this approach, the National
Academies panel said, is that the
land required to grow biomass for
these power plants could run into
conflicts with the need for farm-
land for food. The panel estimated
that this method might one day be
able to remove 3 to 5 billion tons of
carbon dioxide from the air each
year, but possibly much less, de-
pending on land constraints.
That’s a far cry from the 10 to 20
billion tons of carbon dioxide we
may need to pull out of the air by
the end of the century in order to
limit overall global warming to
around 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 de-
grees Fahrenheit), according to
the recent United Nations report.
That figure assumes nations man-
age to decarbonize their energy
A warning that merely
reducing emissions is
no longer enough.
and industrial systems almost en-
tirely by 2050.
If nations fail to hold global
warming below that 1.5 degree
level, the United Nations report
warned, tens of millions more peo-
ple could be exposed to life-threat-
ening heat waves and water short-
ages, and the world’s coral reefs
could disappear almost entirely.
The National Academies panel
recommended a dual strategy.
The United States could set up
programs to start testing and de-
ploying carbon removal methods
that look ready to go, such as neg-
ative emissions biomass plants,
new forest management tech-
niques or carbon farming pro-
grams.
At the same time, federal agen-
cies would need to fund research
into early-stage carbon removal
techniques, to explore whether
Beach, Calif.; the University of
California, Berkeley campus; San
Bernardino, Calif.; and Char-
lottesville, Va. The criminal com-
plaint outlined the group’s hateful
ideology and its embrace of vio-
lence.
The F.B.I. said that Mr. Rundo
and other gang members used the
internet “to prepare to incite and
participate in violence” at various
political events and committed vi-
olent assaults while at those
events. The F.B.I. added that the
men applauded each other for the
attacks and “publicly documented
their assaults in order to recruit
more members” to carry out vio-
lence.
Mr. Rundo appeared before a
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they may one day be ready for
widespread use.
For instance, scientists have
long known that certain minerals,
like peridotite, can bind with car-
bon dioxide in the air and essen-
tially convert the gas into solid
rock. Researchers in Oman have
been exploring the potential to
use the country’s vast mineral de-
posits for carbon removal, but
there are still major questions
about whether this can be done
feasibly on a large scale.
In its report, the panel laid out a
detailed research agenda that
could ultimately cost billions of
dollars. But given that carbon re-
moval could “solve a substantial
fraction of the climate problem,”
the report said, those costs are
modest. For comparison, the fed-
eral government spent $22 billion
on renewable energy research be-
tween 1978 and 2013.
Outside experts hailed the re-
port as a sign that carbon removal
is finally becoming central to the
discussions around how to tackle
climate change.
“We’re moving from the early
stage of ‘what is carbon removal?’
to figuring out what specific steps
can be taken to get these solutions
at scale,” said Noah Deich, execu-
tive director of the group Car-
bon180, which recently began an
effort to bring researchers and
companies together to help bring
carbon removal technologies to
the marketplace.
The National Academies panel
did, however, warn of one poten-
tial drawback of carbon removal
research. It could create a “moral
hazard,” in which governments
may feel less urgency to cut their
own emissions if they think that
giant carbon-scrubbing machines
will soon save the day.
To that end, the panel stressed
that carbon removal, if developed,
could only be a part of a larger
global warming strategy. “Reduc-
ing emissions,” the report noted,
“is vital to addressing the climate
problem.”
federal judge in Los Angeles on
Tuesday morning and was or-
dered detained pending trial. Mr.
Boman and Mr. Laube were also
expected to make an initial ap-
pearance in federal court.
Before founding the Rise Above
Movement, Mr. Rundo served 20
months in a New York State pris-
on for stabbing a rival gang mem-
ber from MS-13 in a 2009 attack in
Flushing, Queens. At the time, he
was part of a small, multiracial
neighborhood gang called the
Original Flushing Crew, which
was in a feud with a subset of
MS-13, known as the Guanacos
Little Cycos Salvatruchas, accord-
ing to a 2012 federal indictment.
Mr. Rundo’s ties to white su-
premacist groups and ideology
have gradually deepened since
his sentencing, according to the
authorities. Since creating his
movement sometime around 2017,
Mr. Rundo has established ties be-
tween the group and the West
Coast chapter of the Hammer-
skins, an international network of
neo-Nazi skinheads whose mem-
bers have been involved in at least
nine murders in four states.
Earlier this year, Mr. Rundo
traveled to Europe with members
of his group in order to participate
in mixed-martial arts tourna-
ments hosted by neo-Nazi organi-
zations in Germany and Ukraine.
While in Europe, the F.B.I. said
that Mr. Rundo and others cele-
brated Adolf Hitler’s birthday and
met with European white suprem-
acists.
Agencies Had No Notice
Of ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy
By RON NIXON
WASHINGTON — The Trump
administration did not tell key
government agencies about its
“zero tolerance” immigration pol-
icy before publicly announcing it
in April, leaving the officials re-
sponsible for carrying it out un-
prepared to handle the resulting
separations of thousands of chil-
dren from their families, accord-
ing to a government report re-
leased on Wednesday.
The Department of Homeland
Security, which apprehends bor-
der crossers, and the Department
of Health and Human Services,
which cares for separated mi-
grant children, were both caught
off guard when Attorney General
Jeff Sessions announced plans to
criminally prosecute anyone who
crossed the border illegally, the re-
port said.
“There must be consequences
for illegal actions,” Mr. Sessions
said before dozens of sheriffs from
counties on the United States’ bor-
der with Mexico.
Because they did not know
about the “zero tolerance” policy
in advance, officials at the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security said,
they did not take steps to prepare
for the resulting family separa-
tions. Staff members at the De-
partment of Health and Human
Services said their leaders told
them not to prepare for an in-
crease in children separated from
their families because homeland
security officials claimed that
they did not have an official policy
of separating parents and chil-
dren, according to the report,
which was prepared by the Gov-
ernment Accountability Office,
Congress’s nonpartisan investiga-
tive arm.
The enforcement of the policy
led to the separation of nearly
3,000 children from their parents,
setting off weeks of national pro-
tests, with Democrats and many
Republicans calling on President
Trump to end it. The president
eventually relented and moved to
halt the family separations,
though the government struggled
in some cases to reunite those it
had already separated.
“This disturbing G.A.O. report
shows the tragic consequences of
carrying out a cruel and mis-
guided policy impacting thou-
sands of families without any
preparation or prior notification
to the agencies charged with im-
plementing it,” said Representa-
tive Frank Pallone Jr., Democrat
of New Jersey, who requested the
report.
Katie Waldman, a spokeswom-
an for Department of Homeland
Security, said federal agencies
had reunited thousands of chil-
dren with their families under a
court order.
“In addition, we have prevented
the reunification of children with
adults who were not their parents,
or were unsafe for children,” she
said, citing reports of child abuse
or parents with criminal records.
She said the Trump administra-
tion continues to criminally pros-
ecute single adults apprehended
at the border. She declined to elab-
orate on other details of the re-
port.
The report comes as the Trump
administration is grappling with
thousands of migrants, mainly
from Central American countries,
seeking asylum on the southwest-
ern border. An estimated 7,000 mi-
U.S. Territory in the Pacific
By JACEY FORTIN
A devastating super typhoon
slammed the Northern Mariana
Islands starting late Wednesday,
destroying more than 100 homes
in what meteorologists said could
be the strongest storm to have
struck the United States this year.
The Northern Mariana Islands,
a United States commonwealth in
the Pacific Ocean, northeast of
Guam, include Saipan, Tinian and
Rota. They are home to more than
52,000 people, the vast majority of
whom live in Saipan.
The eye of the storm, called
Yutu, passed directly over Tinian
around 2 a.m. local time on Thurs-
day — the islands are 14 hours
ahead of the East Coast — with
wind speeds reaching 180 m.p.h.
or more, the equivalent of a Cate-
gory 5 hurricane.
Later Thursday morning, ty-
phoon warnings were still in effect
as reports of the overnight dam-
age rolled in. About 100 homes had
been destroyed in Tinian, Bran-
don Aydlett, a meteorologist with
the National Weather Service,
said in a phone call from Guam.
He added that in Saipan, there
were reports of collapsed roofs,
fallen power lines and decimated
trees.
“I would say this is catastrophic
damage,” Mr. Aydlett said, adding
that there had been many re-
quests for emergency shelter and
medical care but he did not have
grants recently entered Mexico
fleeing the grinding poverty and
violence of El Salvador, Guatema-
la and Honduras. Many of the mi-
grants said they were headed to
the United States, frustrating Mr.
Trump, who said without proof —
then backtracked — that the cara-
van of migrants contains “Middle
Easterners” and suggested that
the migrants were induced to
make the journey by his Demo-
cratic opponents.
Data released on Tuesday by
Customs and Border Protection,
the parent agency of the Border
Patrol, showed that the agency
apprehended 16,658 people in
families in September, a record.
Such arrests reached 107,212 for
the 2018 fiscal year, which ended
Sept. 30, exceeding the previous
high of 77,857 in the 2016 fiscal
year. In total, nearly 400,000 peo-
ple were apprehended by border
agents in the 2018 fiscal year.
The “zero tolerance” policy was
supposed to serve as a deterrent
to families traveling with children.
But from the outset, the policy
seemed poorly planned.
According to the Government
Accountability Office report, days
after Mr. Sessions announced the
policy, leaders of agencies at the
Department of Homeland Securi-
ty, including Customs and Border
Protection, sought guidance from
the Kirstjen Nielsen, the home-
land security secretary, on how to
enforce it.
In May, the department finally
Report details lack of
preparation for family
separations.
issued a memo directing border
agents to refer all individuals
crossing the border illegally to the
Justice Department for prosecu-
tion. Adults were turned over to
Immigration and Customs En-
forcement and placed in detention
facilities. Migrant children were
sent to the Department of Health
and Human Services.
Under a 1997 court agreement,
migrant children cannot be de-
tained for more than 20 days.
Many of the children were
placed in government-run shel-
ters thousands of miles away from
their parents. But the report found
that in some cases, officials at the
Department of Homeland Securi-
ty did not notify staff at the shel-
ters that a child had been sepa-
rated from his or her parents.
It was not until July 6, 16 days
after Mr. Trump signed an execu-
tive order aimed at ending the
family separations and 10 days af-
ter a federal court halted the pol-
icy, that federal agencies devel-
oped a system to determine
whether children were separated
from their parents, the report
said.
Most of the separated children
have been reunited with their
families under a court order. But
Mr. Pallone said the administra-
tion took too long to develop a
process to identify and reunite
families.
“The gross failures detailed in
this report will be long remem-
bered, but hopefully never re-
peated,” he said.
concrete information on the num-
ber of injuries or fatalities.
President Trump declared an
emergency in the Northern Mari-
ana Islands and authorized the
Federal Emergency Management
Agency to begin disaster relief ef-
forts.
Some FEMA workers had ar-
rived in the commonwealth by
Thursday morning, said Gregorio
Kilili Camacho Sablan, the com-
monwealth’s delegate in the
House of Representatives, in a se-
ries of posts on Twitter. He added
that ports were closed, many
flights were canceled, several
shelters were filling up, and some
health care facilities had been
damaged or were running on gen-
erator power. He warned resi-
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dents to stay indoors if possible.
The storm is now moving north-
west, away from the islands, but
residents should still watch out for
sudden gusts, bands of rain and
large ocean swells, Mr. Aydlett
said, adding that the recovery pe-
riod from damage already in-
curred by strong winds was likely
to be long.
“Most people we’ve talked to
have no prior storms to compare
this one to,” he said. “I believe that
Yutu will become a storm that fu-
ture storms will be compared to.”
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After Evacuation, Confusion and False Alarms Left’s Most Vilified Find
By MICHAEL GOLD
They turned out to contain
scrap metal and children’s books
in California and a USB drive in
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office in
Manhattan.
But people across the country
were not taking any chances with
suspicious packages after six pipe
bombs were sent to prominent
Democrats on the East Coast.
Confusion, caution and even
some panic spread in New York
and other cities after the explo-
sive devices were found in pack-
ages addressed to former Presi-
dent Barack Obama, former Sec-
retary of State Hillary Clinton and
others who have faced sharp criti-
cism from the right.
Media outlets seemed to be es-
pecially vigilant after a device
was found in New York City, at the
CNN offices in Time Warner Cen-
ter. Its envelope was addressed to
Mr. Obama’s C.I.A. director, John
O. Brennan.
That discovery prompted the
mass evacuation of the Time
Warner complex shortly after 10
a.m. CNN employees said that an
alarm went off and they were told
to leave the building, but that they
were not told why.
MJ Lee, a political reporter at
the network, said on Twitter that
she was directed to go to a stair-
case “immediately” at the time of
the evacuation.
“I wasn’t allowed to grab a coat
or any of my belongings,” she
wrote.
By that point, news of the pack-
ages sent to Mr. Obama and Mrs.
Clinton had been widely reported.
But once the situation at CNN be-
came clear, it seemed to set off a
flurry of reports of suspicious
packages across the country.
News organizations in particu-
lar seemed to take precautions on
Wednesday. The device at CNN
was found two days after a shoot-
ing at a Fox affiliate in Washing-
ton, which deepened the concerns
over newsroom security that were
raised when a gunman killed five
people at a newspaper in Annapo-
lis, Md., in June.
In San Diego, a building that
houses The San Diego Union-Trib-
une newspaper, an office for Sena-
tor Kamala Harris, and other busi-
nesses was evacuated Wednes-
day morning after five boxes were
spotted in a patio area.
Reporting was contributed by Jac-
lyn Peiser and Eliza Shapiro from
New York, Brent Crane from San
Diego, and Thomas Fuller from
San Francisco.
Bombs in Envelopes Jolt a Nation Divided by Vitriol
From Page A1
later Wednesday at a rally in Wis-
consin, encouraging “all sides to
come together in peace and har-
mony,” before taking aim at the
news media.
“The media also has a responsi-
bility to set a civil tone and stop
the endless hostility and constant
negative and oftentimes false at-
tacks,” Mr. Trump said.
Mrs. Clinton, in an address to a
crowd of about 200 Democratic
donors in Florida, said: “It is a
troubling time, isn’t it, and it’s a
time of deep divisions and we
have to do everything we can to
bring our country together.”
In Manhattan, Mayor Bill de
Blasio called the attempted bomb-
ings “an effort to terrorize” and
vowed the city’s residents “won’t
allow terrorism to change us.”
But Jeff Zucker, the CNN world-
wide president, accused Mr.
Trump of demonizing journalists.
“The president, and especially
the White House press secretary,
should understand their words
matter,” Mr. Zucker said.
All the devices were packed in
envelopes lined with Bubble Wrap
and bearing return addresses
with the name of Debbie Wasser-
man Schultz, the Florida con-
gresswoman who was once chair-
woman of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee, the F.B.I. said.
The mailing labels were comput-
er-printed, and six first-class
stamps were affixed to all of the
envelopes.
A fifth device sent to Mr. Oba-
ma’s attorney general, Eric H.
Holder Jr., was apparently incor-
rectly addressed, and because Ms.
Wasserman Schultz’s name was
on the return address, it was deliv-
ered to her district office in Flor-
ida, the F.B.I. said.
Another package addressed to
Representative Maxine Waters, a
California Democrat, was inter-
cepted at a congressional mail fa-
cility, Ms. Waters said in a state-
ment. In recent months, Mr.
Trump and Ms. Waters have often
ridiculed each other.
Later, yet another package ad-
dressed to Ms. Waters was discov-
ered at a mail center near down-
town Los Angeles, according to a
law enforcement official. The dis-
covery forced the evacuation of
the site.
The device that went to CNN’s
Reporting was contributed by Al
Baker, Nicholas Fandos, Alan
Feuer, John Ismay, Lisa Lerer, Mi-
chael S. Schmidt, Matt Stevens, Ali
Watkins and Ali Winston.
Near Time Warner Center in Manhattan on Wednesday shortly after the building was evacuated.
The police closed the surround-
ing blocks and conducted an in-
vestigation, but the boxes only
contained seemingly ordinary
items: a football, a shoe, two chil-
dren’s books and an empty bag of
potato chips.
The boxes were not addressed,
according to Kevin Wadhams, a
lieutenant with the San Diego Po-
lice Department, and were left by
an unknown person overnight.
Mr. Wadhams said that while of-
ficers were aware of the wave of
pipe bombs being found, the po-
lice investigation was routine. But
not everyone who worked in the
building was so certain.
“It’s in context of all the other
packages,” said Nathan Otto, 35,
who works for the city auditor in
San Diego, as he headed back to
work after the evacuation. “Who
knows how many false alarms are
going around the country now?”
There were certainly others.
The police were called to the Los
Angeles Times building in El Se-
gundo, Calif., after reports that
suspicious envelopes were deliv-
ered there. The building was not
evacuated, and officials said the
packages did not contain explo-
sive devices.
And as the police in San Diego
blocked off streets, hundreds of
miles north, in Fresno, Calif., a
bomb squad was sent to the of-
fices of KSEE-TV and KGPE-TV
after a suspicious package was
One device was sent to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y.
offices arrived by courier, a law
enforcement official said. Howev-
er, it still had half-a-dozen first-
class postage stamps on it. Inves-
tigators believe the bomb deliv-
ered to Mr. Soros’s home was
dropped off in his mailbox.
The device sent to Mrs. Clinton
was found late Tuesday by a Se-
cret Service employee who
screens mail for her, a statement
from the Secret Service said.
A security guard at the Clinton
Foundation’s Midtown Manhattan
offices said the package was ad-
dressed to Mrs. Clinton’s home in
Westchester County, north of New
York City, not her offices.
The package addressed to Mr.
Obama was intercepted early
Wednesday by Secret Service per-
sonnel in Washington.
A law enforcement official said
the devices were made with a 1-
inch-by-6-inch length of PVC pipe
filled with suspected pyrotechnic
powder and broken glass to serve
as shrapnel. They had a small but-
ton battery with a digital clock as a
timer and a hot bridge wire initia-
tor, the official said.
The devices contained some of
the components that would be re-
quired to build an operable bomb,
but law enforcement officials
would not say late on Wednesday
whether they were viable.
The devices were being sent to
the F.B.I. lab in Quantico, Va.,
where they would be analyzed.
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found in the television stations’
shared parking lot.
Inside the package, police offi-
cers found trash and scrap metal,
Mark Hudson, a lieutenant in the
department, said. An officer at the
scene said it appeared the detritus
“might have been left there by
some homeless person,” Lieuten-
ant Hudson said.
In New York at the Time
Warner Center, Agne Nasevioiute,
31, said she was attending a mar-
Uncertainty over
suspicious packages
across the country.
keting and technology conference
when security officers inter-
rupted and told attendees to leave.
“It’s my first time in New York
and this happens,” Ms. Nase-
vioiute, who works for a company
in Lithuania, said. “But I’m happy
that nothing serious happened,
and that’s the most important
thing.”
About an hour after the evacua-
tion, some phones in the city
buzzed and blared with an emer-
gency warning that urged people
near the building, at West 58th
Street and Eighth Avenue, to shel-
A senior law enforcement offi-
cial in New York, describing the
bomb sent to CNN, said it was in-
tercepted in the basement mail-
room and resembled the others:
“Same package. Same device.”
On Wednesday afternoon, New
York City’s police commissioner,
James P. O’Neill, said that the
CNN bomb was “a live explosive
device” and that it would be ren-
dered harmless and sent to the
F.B.I. to be analyzed. The package
that contained the device also in-
cluded white powder that the po-
lice were testing to determine if it
was toxic, he said.
Some bomb technicians who
studied photos of the device that
circulated on social media sug-
gested that the bomb sent to CNN
had hallmarks of fake explosives
— the kind more typically de-
picted on television and in movies,
rather than devices capable of
detonating.
A digital clock was taped to the
middle of the pipe, a feature that
experts say is typically shown on
fictional bombs in an attempt to
ratchet up dramatic tension, but
unnecessary in real life.
In fact, bomb makers generally
avoid attaching visible clocks to
their devices to keep from tipping
off their targets about when the
bombs are set to explode.
This month, federal authorities
said they intercepted multiple
packages suspected of containing
the lethal substance ricin, ad-
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ter in place while the police inves-
tigated.
Two nearby public schools, In-
dependence High School and the
High School for Environmental
Studies, were also put under the
same shelter in place order, the
city’s Department of Education
said. It lasted less than an hour.
With information scant, some
residents said the alert frightened
rather than informed.
Others pointed to the message’s
imperfect location targeting.
Some people in the area of the
Time Warner Center said they did
not receive it, while people who
said they were elsewhere in New
York did.
A follow-up alert sent an hour
later that said a bomb squad had
removed the device did little to
quell fears.
New York’s governor was also
on a heightened state of alert. On
Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Cuomo
said in a news conference that a
device was sent to his office in
Midtown Manhattan. The build-
ing was evacuated, with workers
spilling onto the streets as the po-
lice investigated.
The device turned out to be an
unrelated thumb drive, a New
York police spokesman said.
Richard Azzopardi, a spokes-
man for the governor, said on
Twitter that the device contained
“computer files” on the far-right
group the Proud Boys.
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
dressed to Mr. Trump and at least
two top Pentagon officials. In Feb-
ruary, an envelope containing a
white, powdery substance that in-
vestigators later determined was
cornstarch was sent to the Man-
hattan apartment of Donald
Trump Jr.’s mother-in-law.
On Wednesday, the authorities
said bomb technicians would seek
to determine where the bombs’
components were bought or the
bombs were made. Evidence tech-
nicians will try to recover traces of
DNA or fingerprints from the
components and the envelopes
that contained the bombs.
Federal agents with the United
States Postal Inspection Service
could play an important role in the
investigation if any of the pack-
ages were sent through the mail.
The envelopes had more post-
age than needed to be delivered,
said a former law enforcement of-
ficial briefed on the investigation.
The extra postage led investiga-
tors to believe that the person who
sent the devices wanted to avoid
going to a post office to buy the
correct postage — a step to evade
detection, the official said.
The Postal Inspection Service
would examine the postage and
postmarks and seek to determine
where the envelopes were mailed
from. Investigators could exam-
ine surveillance video at post of-
fices and around blue letter boxes
where the packages may have
been deposited.
Themselves as Targets
By JEREMY W. PETERS
WASHINGTON — One suspi-
cious package went to George
Soros, the billionaire investor and
liberal philanthropist who is a per-
petual target of conservative con-
spiracy theories and smears — ev-
erything from being a former Nazi
to the secret financier of the cara-
van of migrants making its way to-
ward the United States.
Another went to John O. Bren-
nan, the former C.I.A. director of-
ten maligned by conservatives as
a leading conspirator in a “deep
state” plot to undermine Presi-
dent Trump. Hillary Clinton was
also sent one, as were President
Barack Obama and his attorney
general Eric H. Holder Jr. — all of
them subjects of fantastical, far-
flung rumors and misinformation
campaigns.
Law enforcement officials have
not identified any suspects or mo-
tives in the rash of explosive de-
vices that arrived this week at the
addresses of some of the most vili-
fied public figures in Democratic
politics. For a country already on
edge — consumed with over-
heated partisan rancor and divid-
ed over matters as basic as what
separates fact and fiction — the at-
tempted attacks marked an unset-
tling turn less than two weeks be-
fore a crucial midterm election.
But for a moment, at least, the
political world paused on Wednes-
day to urge greater calm in a cli-
mate that had become danger-
ously inflammatory. Speaking at
the White House, the president
condemned the acts, saying that
“acts or threats of political vio-
lence of any kind have no place in
the United States of America.”
Mrs. Clinton, speaking at a
Democratic fund-raiser in Flor-
ida, called the moment “trou-
bling” and “a time of deep divi-
sions.”
“We have to do everything we
can to bring our country together,”
she added.
Representative Steve Scalise, a
Republican who was shot and al-
most killed in a mass shooting at a
congressional baseball practice
last year, called the acts “evil” and
said, “As a nation, we must agree
that this is a dangerous path and it
cannot become the new normal.”
Those attempts at reconcilia-
tion and reflection, however,
quickly gave way to the kind of re-
flexive, tribal defensiveness that
is far more common today.
Many prominent conservative
commentators — among them
some of the president’s most ar-
dent defenders — quickly pointed
the finger at the left, accusing un-
named liberal agitators of sending
the packages in a ploy to make Re-
publicans look radical right before
the midterms.
Rush Limbaugh, who hosts one
of the most listened-to radio pro-
grams in the country with a
weekly audience of about 14 mil-
lion, questioned whether the
bomb scare was part of an elabo-
rate hoax perpetrated by Demo-
cratic operatives and Mrs. Clin-
ton.
“Mrs. Clinton, it’s your party,
forgive me, that is encouraging
this kind of thing,” Mr. Limbaugh
said on his show on Wednesday.
“It is the Democrat Party that’s
home to all of these mobs,” he con-
tinued. “There’s a smell test that
this stuff has to pass. And, so far, a
lot of people’s noses are in the air,
not quite certain of what to make
of this.”
Alex Jones, the conspiracy ped-
dler who runs the website In-
fowars, said the bombs were likely
plants by the left and its allies in
the media like CNN, where the
package to Mr. Brennan was sent.
“This is introducing them as the
targets so they can whine, and
moan, and predict, ‘If Trump does-
n’t stop, you’re going to get us all
killed,’” Mr. Jones said on his daily
online program.
Regardless of the culprit’s iden-
tity or political sympathies, there
is no dispute that the people on the
receiving end of the packages
have all been targets of the kind of
insults, threats and wild theories
that often originate on right-wing
websites and message boards,
and then spread after others on
the right, and sometimes the pres-
ident himself, elevate them to le-
gitimacy.
Mr. Trump has done so in sev-
eral notable instances lately, in-
cluding spreading the unfounded
Isabella Grullón Paz contributed
reporting.
Targets of Explosive Devices
In recent days, at least seven explosive devices have been found.
Maxine Waters
Los Angeles
Eric H. Holder Jr.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Sunrise, Fla.
rumor that Mr. Soros is somehow
involved in paying for the migrant
caravan. Last week Mr. Trump
tweeted a video that purported to
be of someone connected to Mr.
Soros handing out cash to the mi-
grants. There is no evidence Mr.
Soros has played any role in fi-
nancing the caravans.
“Can you believe this, and what
Democrats are allowing to be
done to our Country?” the presi-
dent wrote.
Experts in political violence
said the attempted bombings
seemed distressingly in line with
the dehumanizing us vs. them ten-
or that has marked the current po-
litical discourse.
“People feel encouraged to at-
tack people who are voting for the
other party,” said Carolyn Lu-
kensmeyer, the executive director
of the National Institute for Civil
Discourse. “And this has now be-
come ‘If you’re not with me, you’re
against me. And not only are you
against me, but you are danger-
ous.’”
“This is a virus on our society,”
she added.
The story of the migrant cara-
van has triggered an outpouring
of outrage in conservative news
media. With its compelling im-
ages — video of thousands of Lat-
in Americans making a march
north toward the United States,
broadcast almost hourly by Fox
News — the caravan has become
the visual manifestation of the
fears and anxieties over illegal im-
migration that Mr. Trump and
other conservatives, as well as
many Republican candidates in
the midterms, have warned about
repeatedly.
The caravan has also become
the vehicle for some of the more
outrageous conspiracy theories
about immigrants, including a
claim by the president that Middle
Easterners were among the
marchers. Mr. Trump later ac-
knowledged that he had no proof.
Mr. Trump and his allies have
tried to link the caravan with what
they have depicted as a menacing
threat from the “mob” of Demo-
cratic protesters who have rallied
against his administration. In the
eyes of many conservatives, these
portrayals are helpful politically
as a way of casting Democrats as
undermining law and order —
both on the southern border and in
the public square.
Mr. Limbaugh suggested that
the attempted bombings on
Wednesday were a way of divert-
ing attention from the caravan.
“And by the way, guess what’s
also not in the news now?” Mr.
Limbaugh asked his audience.
“That’s the other mob that’s find-
ing its way north through Mexico
attempting to crash the U.S. bor-
der at or near Election Day.”
Angelo Carusone, president of
Media Matters for America, a lib-
eral group that critiques conser-
vative news media, said he saw
the bombs as evidence of how the
president’s verbal threats can be
amplified and potentially lead to
physical harm.
“There had been this pretty ge-
neric brewing narrative of left-
wing violence, and those are the
entities that got targeted,” he said,
noting that packages were sent to
those who had recently made
comments that conservatives
said were inciting violence: Rep-
resentative Maxine Waters, who
called for demonstrators to con-
front Republicans; Mrs. Clinton,
who said in a recent interview that
civility with the right was not
achievable; and Mr. Holder, who
said in comments he later clarified
that Democrats should “kick” Re-
publicans when they go low.
Mr. Trump singled them all out
by name in a video he filmed at the
White House last week. “They’re
losing it,” he said.
The caravan, Mr. Carusone add-
ed, quickly became a piece of the
story of the Democratic “mob”
when Mr. Trump and others on the
right linked it to Mr. Soros and the
Democrats.
“You can’t divorce Trump from
the right-wing media at this mo-
ment,” Mr. Carusone added.
In his remarks at the White
House, Mr. Trump said an investi-
gation into the bombings was un-
derway, and that “the full weight
of our government is being de-
ployed to conduct this investiga-
tion and bring those responsible
to justice.”
Preventing political violence,
he said, was a “very bipartisan
statement.”
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First, Call for Unity, Then More Digs at the News Media and Democrats
By KATIE ROGERS
and EILEEN SULLIVAN
MOSINEE, Wis. — President
Trump stood in the White House
on Wednesday afternoon to de-
nounce the bomb scares targeting
several prominent Democrats and
to deliver a somber plea: “We
have to unify.” It is a directive he
has given the country before, after
mass shootings and other politi-
cally poisonous tragedies that
have punctuated his time in office.
He does not seem to follow his
own advice for long.
So it went on Wednesday
evening, when Mr. Trump ap-
peared to revert to partisanship
as usual, just in a softer tone of
voice. Here in Wisconsin, he em-
barked on his 38th campaign rally
since assuming the presidency
with a bit of rhetorical jujitsu,
managing to weave jabs at the
news media and Democrats into
an opening call for Americans to
“come together in peace and har-
mony.”
“We should not mob people in
public spaces or destroy public
property,” Mr. Trump said in a
thinly veiled reference to his latest
turn of phrase — “jobs not mobs”
— and a castigation of how liberals
reacted to Justice Brett M. Kava-
naugh’s battle to be confirmed to
the Supreme Court amid multiple
accusations of sexual misconduct.
The president flicked at a sug-
gestion popularized by liberals
and some members of the news
media who have suggested his na-
tionalist views are akin to Adolf
Hitler’s: “No one should care-
lessly compare political oppo-
nents to historical villains.”
And somehow, Mr. Trump made
the day’s news about his own
problems with the news media.
He called on journalists “to set a
civil tone” and to “stop the endless
hostility and constant negative
and often false attacks and
stories.”
Then Mr. Trump again directed
the crowd’s attention to his bipar-
tisan efforts: “By the way, do you
see how nice I’m behaving to-
night?” he asked. “Have you ever
seen this? We’re all behaving very
well!”
(Minutes later, the president
broached the topic yet again: “I
think we will be bipartisan on in-
frastructure.”)
Still, the performance by Mr.
Trump and the slate of Wisconsin
Katie Rogers reported from Mosi-
nee, Wis., and Eileen Sullivan from
Washington.
Slumping Market Enters
Negative Territory for the Year
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slump. The S.&P. 500 is down to
2,656.10, more than 9 percent off
its recent peak on Sept. 20, mean-
ing it, too, is nearing a correction.
The sell-off has come as poli-
tical discord has jumped with
Election Day less than two weeks
away. On Wednesday, the discov-
ery of explosive packages sent to
prominent Democrats, including
former President Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton, the former
secretary of state, as well as CNN,
added to an already tense envi-
ronment.
Some market observers think
that investors may be moving to
the sidelines before what could be
a very close and bitter election.
“I think people just want to
clear the decks and get the heck
out before the midterm elections,
frankly,” said Chris Rupkey, chief
financial economist at MUFG Un-
ion Bank.
President Trump has repeat-
edly cited the strong performance
of the stock market as evidence of
the success of his administration’s
business-friendly approach. And
as the market has slid lately, he
has ratcheted up his criticism of
the Federal Reserve’s plan to raise
interest rates as economic growth
remains strong.
Low interest rates have helped
support economic growth and the
stock market since the financial
crisis 10 years ago. But with un-
employment at a 49-year-low, the
Fed is now raising interest rates,
saying it wants to keep the econ-
omy from overheating, which
could set off inflation. The Fed is
expected to raise interest rates
again at its next meeting in De-
cember.
The rise in interest rates has
been particularly painful for some
pockets of the markets. Shares of
homebuilders are down more than
16 percent this month, as rising
mortgage rates have made houses
less affordable. Smaller compa-
nies — which are heavily exposed
to floating-rate debt — have also
been hurt by rising rates, which
increases the cost of their debt
payments. The Russell 2000 index
of small-capitalization stocks has
fallen more than 13 percent in Oc-
tober.
And the president’s trade war
with China has increasingly pre-
occupied the markets, analysts
said. Official numbers released by
President Trump soberly discussed a series of bomb scares on Wednesday afternoon during a planned event at the White House.
Republicans who took the stage
here served as further confirma-
tion that, with less than two weeks
to go until a round of midterm
elections in which the leadership
of the House is at stake, not even
reports of explosive devices could
do much to halt months of highly
divisive messaging at campaign
rallies.
Mr. Trump did address the re-
ports in his opening remarks, call-
ing the episodes “an attack on our
democracy itself” and promising
swift justice.
“Such conduct must be fiercely
opposed and firmly prosecuted,”
the president said. “We want all
sides to come together in peace
and harmony. We can do it.”
Two other Republicans who
took the stage here at an airport
hangar in the 4,000-person town
of Mosinee began their speeches
with a short disclaimer — essen-
tially, terrorism is bad — before
denouncing Democrats for their
immigration policies and the cost
of health care.
STOCKS & BONDS
The S. & P. 500 Index
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Previous close
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10 a.m. Noon
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5-Year Treasury Notes
High yields at auction.
3.2%
2.8
2.4
2.977%
2.0
1.6
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Department THE NEW YORK TIMES
Beijing last week showed China’s
economic growth has slowed to
6.5 percent, its lowest level since
2009.
The slowdown in China, the
world’s second-largest economy,
could mean falling sales for Amer-
ican companies that export to that
market. As large consumers of
metal who have invested heavily
to gain access to the Chinese auto
market — the world’s largest —
carmakers are particularly vul-
nerable to such risks. On Wednes-
day, Ford cited weak sales in
China for falling profits. Company
officials said issues surrounding
trade disputes — including tariffs
on imported steel and aluminum
— could cost Ford $1 billion this
year.
“What is really happening here
is that people are saying, ‘We just
don’t know about trade. We don’t
know how that’s going to hit the
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
Speaker Paul D. Ryan had some
trouble breaking through a “Build
the Wall!” chant.
“Let me just say something that
I think needs to be said on a day
like today,” Mr. Ryan said.
“Build the wall!” a group in the
crowd shouted.
Mr. Ryan replied that he would
“get to that,” cracking a smile.
“Build the wall!” the group
yelled, louder that time.
“Did you see the news this
morning about these devices?”
Mr. Ryan eventually asked. “That
is terrorism. There is no place for
that in our democracy. We reject
that, and I just want to say thank
God for our law enforcement.”
Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican
who is battling for a third term,
also briefly touched on those re-
ports.
“An attempt to engage in a ter-
rorist act against any American is
an attack on every American,” he
said.
In his remarks earlier at the
White House, Mr. Trump said the
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margins or the earnings streams
next year,’” said Michael Purves,
chief global strategist at the bro-
kerage firm Weeden & Company.
Mr. Purves said investors were
eager for a resolution to the trade
dispute and nervous that it could
escalate further.
“I think there is a game of
chicken going on between Trump
and the markets right now,” he
added.
On Wednesday, the market
tumble snowballed over the
course of the day. Technology
companies that have driven big
market gains were badly battered.
Shares in the tech heavyweights
Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook
all fell more than 5 percent. Netflix
fell more than 9 percent after a
media report that Apple planned
to announce a subscription televi-
sion service that would go head-
to-head with its streaming serv-
ice.
The news wasn’t all bad for
tech. Later Wednesday, Microsoft
reported results that exceeded an-
alyst expectations, sending its
shares higher in after-hours trad-
ing. And Tesla shares also rose in
after-hours trading after the elec-
tric-car maker reported its first
profit in two years.
More high-profile results from
tech companies are due in the
coming days. Google’s parent
company, Alphabet; Amazon; and
Twitter are scheduled to report re-
sults on Thursday. And Face-
book’s earnings report on Tues-
day will be of intense interest: The
company’s report last quarter
sent its stock price diving, erasing
more than $100 billion in share-
holder wealth.
packages of explosives were sent
to “current and former high-rank-
ing government officials,” without
specifying the intended recipi-
ents: former President Barack
Obama; the former Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary Clin-
ton; John O. Brennan, the former
C.I.A. director; and Representa-
tive Maxine Waters, Democrat of
California — four of the presi-
dent’s favorite political targets.
Another device, which was appar-
ently intended for the man who
served as Mr. Obama’s attorney
general, Eric H. Holder Jr., was
misaddressed.
The package for Mr. Brennan,
which included an unidentified
white powder, was sent to the New
York offices of CNN, the cable
news network that Mr. Trump reg-
ularly denigrates. New York’s
mayor, Bill de Blasio, called the
suspicious packages “an effort to
terrorize.”
Mr. Brennan has been an out-
spoken critic of Mr. Trump’s, ulti-
mately leading the president to
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strip him of his security clearance.
Mr. Brennan works as a paid con-
sultant to MSNBC, not CNN. The
return address on the package
sent to CNN was that of Repre-
sentative Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, Democrat of Florida and
a former Democratic National
Committee chairwoman.
“We will not be intimidated by
this attempted act of violence,”
Ms. Wasserman Schultz said in a
statement on Wednesday
evening.
Several of the president’s past
rally targets seemed skeptical
that he would temper his lan-
guage, and others suggested that
Mr. Trump’s words had put his po-
litical opponents in danger. Nancy
Pelosi of California, the House
Democratic leader, and Chuck
Schumer of New York, the leader
of the Senate Democrats, called on
the president to take back com-
ments he has made that condone
acts of violence — last week, Mr.
Trump praised a Republican con-
gressman for body-slamming a
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They said in a joint statement
that “President Trump’s words
ring hollow until he reverses his
statements that condone acts of
violence.”
At a conference on Wednesday
in Texas, Mr. Brennan seemed
cautiously optimistic.
“What he said today is what a
president should be doing,” Mr.
Brennan said. “But follow up on
those words with actions, and
with his future comments. I’m
hoping maybe this is a turning
point.”
The president has shown little
regard for refraining from deliver-
ing divisive messages hours after
more sober missives delivered in
Washington, but he did not call out
his frequent rally targets, several
of whom received packages on
Wednesday, by name. And though
“lock her up” chants rang out, Mr.
Trump did not bring up Mrs. Clin-
ton.
The president instead directed
the crowd to his usual potpourri of
factually dubious claims about
Democratic policies, lingering on
the fear-first immigration mes-
saging his White House hopes to
harness in time for the elections.
“Democrats oppose any effort
to secure our border,” Mr. Trump
said, once again glossing over the
fact that Democrats favor border
security measures — but not the
construction of the president’s
long-promised wall on the south-
western border. Mr. Trump then
hinted that he would be following
through on repeated suggestions
that he would send the military to
the border, even though the mili-
tary is prohibited from engaging
in policing activities.
“Wait till you see what happens
over the next few weeks. You’re
going to see a very secure border.
You just watch,” he said. “And the
military is ready. They’re all set.
They’re all set. They’re all ready
and there is nobody like them.”
Through it all, Mr. Trump urged
his supporters to pay attention to
how quietly he was speaking. He
tried, at different points, to em-
phasize the positive.
“Kanye West likes me,” the
president said. “Interesting guy.”
“Kayne’s an idiot!” a lone rally-
goer shrieked in reply.
Indeed, at times, it was clear
some attendees did not want to
participate in a lower-decibel
rally.
“I’m trying to be nice,” the pres-
ident said in a reminder that
seemed as much meant for him-
self as it was for the crowd.
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A STRUGGLE OF FAITH AS ABUSE SCANDALS PERSIST

“I need to run into the building and I need to be a part of the solution,” the Rev. Agustino Torres said. “Your heart feels a hundred thousand things, but I know that’s what I’m meant to do.”

Why They Stay. Why They Can’t.

Text by LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ and MARIANA ALFARO
Photographs by ADAM FERGUSON
New York City is a Roman Catholic stronghold. ‘It was a lot of anger, pain, disgust,
One out of every three residents identifies as a Catholic. And there are more than
four million Catholics in the city and seven surrounding counties.
depression, thinking about people going
So when a series of scandals involving the Roman Catholic Church unfolded in through decades of pain.’
rapid-fire succession this summer, New York gasped.
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First came accusations of sexual abuse by a premier American cardinal, Theodore
THE REV. AGUSTINO TORRES,
E. McCarrick, who quickly resigned but left in his wake lingering questions about the 41, Bronx
role Pope Francis played in covering up the predatory behavior.
Days after the Pennsylvania report was
In August, an 884-page grand jury report out of Pennsylvania landed with a thud, published, the Rev. Agustino Torres, 41,
offering a grim catalog of seven decades of child abuse by more than 300 priests. was invited by the Archdiocese of New
And last month, the attorneys general of New Jersey and New York followed York to lead a prayer hour in Manhat-
tan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral for victims
Pennsylvania’s lead, announcing investigations into claims of clergy abuse and cover- of abuse within the church. As he left
ups, joining five other states that have started similar inquiries. Last Thursday, Penn- St. Patrick’s, young Catholics ap-
sylvania dioceses said they had received subpoenas for documents as part of an inves- proached him to talk about the grand
jury report.
tigation by the United States Justice Department.
Mr. Torres, a Franciscan friar who is
The revelations have forced a painful reckoning that continues to reverberate
originally from Puerto Rico and is part
across the five boroughs, among the devout and the lapsed, young and old, newcomers of the Saint Crispin’s Friary in the
and native-born. Their disparate internal struggles offer a window into the rich com- Bronx, said he felt anger, pain and
disgust when he learned of the scandal.
plexities of Catholicism in one of the most diverse cities in the world.
But instead of turning his back on the
Here are nine of their stories. church, Mr. Torres said he planned to
stay and make it better.
“This is a little dramatic, but the
word that I felt is that the church is
kind of on fire and I need to run into the
building and I need to be a part of the
solution,” he said. “In the moment, your
heart feels a hundred thousand things,
but I know that’s what I’m meant to
do.”
For Mr. Torres, the Catholic faith
represents “a wonderful mix between
culture, tradition and salvation.”
“To know that we do indeed have a
soul, and our soul is eternal and there is
an eternal destiny for us. And to know
that Jesus is alive, is why I’m Catholic,”
he said.
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Why They Stay. Why They Can’t.

‘My husband suffered. He just lost his
mom. I suffer, we all suffer. But when
you have Papa Dios when you suffer,
it’s soothing.’

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ANTONIO JIMENEZ, 57, and

ROSANNA JIMENEZ, 56, Staten Island
In the face of the church’s sexual abuse
scandal, Rosanna and Antonio Jimenez
made a decision: to get even more in-
volved, and not shy away from the church.
“You can show everyone that this is not
going to stop us,” Ms. Jimenez said. “And
that, if anything, we’re going to do even
more.”
She sings in the choir at The Parish of
St. Joseph and St. Mary Immaculate in the
Rosebank neighborhood of Staten Island,
and volunteers with parish faith groups.
She has even begun attending Mass daily.
The couple had always been active in
the church, but they experienced what
they described as a “deep conversion” in
the late 1990s, during a three-day Cursillo
retreat.
“If I did not have the faith and if I was-
n’t rooted in God the way I am, I would be
having an anxiety attack every night,”
said Ms. Jimenez, 56.
Mr. Jimenez, 57, added that his faith had
allowed him to let go of worries that would
have, in the past, cost him sleep.
“Anything that is not at the reach of our
hands is at the reach of God’s hands,” he
said.
This, they said, is how they approach
the current scandals shaking the church.
“For me personally, it’s another deeper
conversion,” Ms. Jimenez said. “Now it’s
time for me to reach a higher level in the
sense of my faith. It’s a test of our faith.
But when your faith is tested, it makes you
stronger.”

THOMAS MCGARVEY, 52, Queens

‘In my opinion, For Thomas McGarvey, being a fol-
the Devil won’t lower of the Catholic Church is not only
an act of devotion, it is also an act of
win.’ resistance.
Mr. McGarvey said he was 16 when
he was first sexually assaulted by the
Rev. Robert Brown, a priest at his local
church, Sienna Parish in Franklin
Square, N.Y. Mr. McGarvey, who had
joined the church’s youth ministry in
search of guidance, said the abuse went
on for 14 years. It only ended when the
priest died.
“I hate saying his name,” said Mr.
McGarvey, now 52. “I thought I had a
father figure, you know, because my
dad wasn’t there. And he took advan-
tage of me.”
Decades later, Mr. McGarvey was
among the victims who received a
monetary settlement from the Diocese
of Rockville Centre as part of its Inde-
pendent Compensation and Reconcilia-
tion Program. He now lives in Jamaica,
Queens, and goes to Mass weekly at
JACQUES DAVID, 50, Brooklyn
Our Lady of the Cenacle Church. ‘The church is wrong. I think it’s time for us to stand
up and say, ‘This is unacceptable.’”
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Though he remains skeptical of cler-
gymen and the Vatican hierarchy, Mr.
McGarvey said he has never allowed
the abuse to damage his faith in God.
To do so, he said, would let evil win.
“God gave the Devil over a hundred
years to try to destroy his church,” he
said. “The best way that he’s going to
try to do that is within. I’m not going to
let the Devil get the best of me.”
Mr. McGarvey did leave the church
for a few years, disillusioned by the
lack of support he felt when he finally
opened up about the abuse. But he said
he never stopped believing. In the end,
a sense of duty toward the faith drew
him back in.
“I was angry at God. I was angry at
the Catholic Church,” he said. “But
then, I forgave.”
Jacques David, 50, said he believes the
stands with those cover-up of sexual abuse shows the
church hierarchy has not adhered “au-
Mr. David, who grew up in Kentucky,
now attends Sunday Mass at St. Charles
Borromeo Church in Brooklyn Heights
who are thentically to what Jesus taught.”
“We are broken people, and so it doesn’t
with his wife and two children, who are
being raised in both the Catholic and evan-
marginalized and shock me that this has taken place. What
shocks me more is sort of the response to
gelical traditions.
Mr. David said he wanted his children to
those are the it,” he said. “That’s what I think disap-
points and what leaves people cynical and
grow up with a strong sense of faith so
they, like him, can adhere to the principles
individuals who I bitter and frustrated.”
The Pennsylvania report, he said, pro-
of Catholic social teaching and its empha-
sis on selflessness, service and charity as
believe are closest vides an opportunity for lay Catholics to
demand more accountability.
a road to salvation.
“The one thing I remember my dad
to God.’ “As Catholics we’re sort of accustomed
to just waiting for people to tell us how it’s
telling me, as a young boy, is: ‘Don’t let
others cause you to lose your salvation,’”
going to be, what the church rules and he said. “I never understood what he
regulations are,” he said. “Christ lives and meant by that. But as I’ve grown older,
dwells in us. And so I think, as lay people, and now that I have children, I understand
we have a sense of what is right and what a little more.”

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‘The Catholic Church has to make right by all the sex
abuse victims. Make right by them and come clean.’
DANIEL DOUGHERTY, 58, Queens
Daniel Dougherty was an active parishio-
ner at the Church of St. Mary in Long
Island City in Queens for 29 years, volun-
teering as an usher and attending Mass
regularly.
But he walked away two years ago at
the behest of his younger brother, Shaun
Dougherty, who was sexually abused by a
priest as a child.
Daniel Dougherty, 58, said he could no
longer stomach providing financial and
volunteer support for an institution that
had so deeply scarred his brother.
“Shaun said, ‘You’re helping them fight
me. You’re helping them raise money by
collecting at church. It’s never going to
change unless parishioners change,’”
Daniel Dougherty recalled. “I had to do
some soul-searching and he was right.”
As an elementary school student in
Pennsylvania, Shaun Dougherty was
repeatedly molested by a priest who
would pull him onto his lap and grab his
genitals as they drove around in a car.
Shaun Dougherty is among the victims
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‘The hurt that’s been
caused to people of
faith by people of
faith, that’s just really
hard to come to
terms with.’
RAYA ABAT, 27, Manhattan
For a time in high school and college,
Raya Abat, 27, left the Catholic Church.
She had grown up attending two
churches near her home in Morning-
side Heights in Manhattan, Notre
Dame and Corpus Christi.
“I questioned a lot of things,” she said
about her decision to step away from
the church. “All the rules and all the
hierarchy and all of that was just some-
thing I was very opposed to, and I
needed some time away from that.”
Eventually, Ms. Abat said she was
able to “come to peace” with her iden-
tity as a Catholic. Her temporary break
from Catholicism, she said, strength-
ened her faith and has allowed her to
better cope with the recent scandals.
“It definitely makes me angry,” she
said. “But it doesn’t make me want to
leave. If anything, it makes it more
urgent for me to stay, not to abandon
this church and the people who are in it
because we need to heal together. And I
can’t do that by leaving.”
Today, Ms. Abat is not only a practic-
ing Catholic, she is also involved with
multiple faith ministries across New
York City. She leads Ascension Adults
in Action, a group of parishioners at the
Church of the Ascension in the Upper
West Side. She offers support to young
adults who participate in the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps, an organization of lay
volunteers who spend a year working
in the city’s poorest communities. She
is also on the ministry team for Charis
NYC, which offers retreats to young
adults.
Through these groups, Ms. Abat said,
she has been able to share and under-
stand her anger about the sex scandals
with other young Catholics.
“I’m grappling with my own uncer-
tainties about the whole situation,” she
said. “But it’s more so accompanying
each other through that pain, and see-
ing how Christ is present with us.”
mentioned in a grand jury report released
in 2016 about sex abuse in the Altoona-
Johnstown Diocese, he said.
“I was thinking about my brother and
all he’s been through and just the enor-
mity of it all,” Mr. Dougherty said. “How
could I be a part of this? I felt like a hypo-
crite.”
Since then, Mr. Dougherty said, he has
been attending an Episcopal Church on
Park Avenue. He likes that women can be
ordained priests, and the Episcopal
Church’s views on sin: “light on guilt and
heavy on compassion.”
Mr. Dougherty said he would consider
returning to the Catholic Church only if
comprehensive reforms were imple-
mented and state laws were changed to
prosecute priests accused of older crimes.
He said he sometimes thought about all
the money he donated over the years, and
how it was used.
“I do miss it,” Mr. Dougherty said about
the church. “I love the Catholic Church,
but I can’t go there anymore right now
until they fix this.”
N A23
FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ, 21, Brooklyn
Fernando Sánchez relied on his faith after
‘We think
he told his family he was gay when he was
a senior in high school.
this is going
“It was a very dramatic time,” said Mr.
Sánchez, 21, a student at Baruch College.
to be like the
“I went to church. Just praying. I really
relied on that.”
#MeToo
It was an instinctual response. He was
raised Catholic in Ecuador, where he at-
movement
tended a Catholic school. He went to Mass
every Sunday. He had been an altar serv-
and nothing
er.
“Everything I grew up around was happens.’
Catholic,” said Mr. Sánchez, who lives in
Bushwick, Brooklyn, and moved to the
United States with his family about four
years ago.
But Mr. Sánchez recently stopped going
to church after learning from news reports
that a priest he had idolized in Ecuador
had sexually abused teenagers. Feeling
betrayed, Mr. Sánchez said he had grown
increasingly vocal about his concerns
about sex abuse in the church, especially
after the grand jury report.
After coming out, Mr. Sánchez said he
initially convinced himself that the church
“didn’t hate me for being gay.” He even
joined an Upper East Side church that had
an L.G.B.T.Q. group. But he ultimately
found it impossible to worship in a church
that was hostile to homosexuality, even if
there were havens where he had felt wel-
come.
He still occasionally accompanies his
parents to Mass. And he acknowledges his
“soft spot” for the Catholic faith.
“I’ll probably still have a nativity scene
in my house for Christmas. I have a rosary
and have stamps of the Virgin Mary,” Mr.
Sánchez said. “I still believe these are all
good things. I just can’t keep supporting
the church as an institution.”
‘Saying that I’m not a Catholic is a
huge statement. The fact that I was
raised something, and I’m deciding
whether or not I am still that thing.’
THERESA SCHLIEP, 21, Bronx
Theresa Schliep, a senior at Fordham
University in the Bronx, wrestles with
whether to still identify as a Catholic.
She grew up in a family with deep Irish-
Catholic roots; her parents took her to
Mass every Sunday near their home in
New Jersey. But as she got older she
realized that her positions on many social
issues — like abortion and same-sex mar-
riage — were at odds with the church’s
central teachings.
“I felt I didn’t fit in,” said Ms. Schliep,
who is 21 and studying English and his-
tory. “I also didn’t believe in a lot of the
tenets of the Catholic Church. The fact
that there are no female priests has al-
ways bothered me.”
Ms. Schliep has largely stopped going to
church. When she does accompany her
boyfriend to Mass, she feels guilty receiv-
ing communion. To participate in the
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sacrament feels disrespectful to her
friends and relatives who remain steadfast
in their beliefs.
“At this point I don’t really know if I
identify as a Catholic,” she said. “That’s
something I’m still trying to figure out.”
Yet she wound up at a Jesuit university,
and some of her favorite academic pur-
suits have involved studying the history of
the church.
Complicating her decision about
whether to participate as a Catholic is a
fear of showing a lack of respect toward
her parents, and her Irish heritage. Her
mother, she said, wishes she and her five
siblings were “very pious, fervent support-
ers of the Catholic Church.”
“She recognizes its faults, too,” Ms.
Schliep said. “But she’s worried about our
salvation.”
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Trump Looms Over Debate by Senate Candidates in New Jersey Subway Fare
By NICK CORASANITI
Senator Robert Menendez of
New Jersey and his Republican
challenger, Bob Hugin, squared
off in a debate Wednesday night
that simmered with an undercur-
rent of contempt, but rarely
erupted into the mudslinging that
has defined the race as the candi-
dates repeatedly focused their
disagreements on President
Trump’s record.
The only scheduled debate be-
tween the men took place as the
contest for Mr. Menendez’s seat
was becoming unexpectedly
close. Mr. Menendez is seeking re-
election in a deeply blue state
where Mr. Trump is immensely
unpopular during a year when
Democratic energy is surging.
But dogged by a federal corrup-
tion trial last year that ended in a
hung jury, Mr. Menendez has
maintained slim leads in most
polls and has come under a wave
of negative attacks from Mr.
Hugin. A poll from Rutgers Uni-
versity released on Wednesday
found Mr. Menendez leading by
five points.
Throughout the hourlong de-
bate in Newark, hosted by NJTV,
the candidates debated the fed-
eral tax law, immigration, race re-
lations and corruption.
The president as a liability
With a motivated Democratic
base in New Jersey threatening to
claim traditionally Republican
congressional districts, Mr. Me-
nendez has sought in the closing
weeks of the campaign to tether
Mr. Hugin to the president, hoping
voters will make the race a proxy
referendum on Mr. Trump.
Throughout the debate, a pre-
vailing line of attack for Mr. Me-
nendez was to paint Mr. Hugin as
a rubber stamp for Mr. Trump on a
variety of issues, including the
federal tax law, the nomination of
Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Su-
preme Court and health care.
“You can’t in 60 minutes change
what you’ve been for 60 years,”
Mr. Menendez said.
But Mr. Hugin did try to dis-
tance himself from the president.
“No I’m not a Trump Republican;
I’m an independent Republican,”
Skelos and His Son Are Sentenced to Prison in Corruption Retrial
By BENJAMIN WEISER
and VIVIAN WANG
Dean G. Skelos, the former New
York State Senate majority leader
who wielded sweeping power in
the Legislature for nearly a dec-
ade, was sentenced to four years
and three months in prison on
Wednesday for a corruption
scheme involving his son.
Mr. Skelos, 70, a Republican
from Long Island, had been re-
tried after an earlier conviction, in
2015, was overturned on appeal.
After that trial, he was sentenced
to five years.
Mr. Skelos had forged a formi-
dable reputation in New York poli-
tics as one of “three men in a
room” who largely controlled de-
cision-making in Albany. The trio
also included Sheldon Silver, the
former Democratic speaker of the
State Assembly, who was also con-
victed of corruption in a separate
retrial this year; and Gov. Andrew
M. Cuomo, who has not been ac-
cused of any wrongdoing.
But Mr. Skelos’s reign came to a
swift and ignominious end when
federal prosecutors charged in
2015 that he had abused his power
by pressuring business execu-
tives to give his son about
$300,000 for a patchwork of no-
show or low-show jobs.
Mr. Skelos had made clear, the
government said, that he would
kill legislation that the executives’
firms were seeking if they did not
comply with his demands.
In remarks to the judge before
the sentence was imposed, Mr.
Skelos spoke at length about his
love for his family, including his
son, and pleaded with the judge to
consider how a harsh sentence
would affect them.
“I truly am remorseful, your
honor,” he said. “I have disap-
pointed so many, and that’s what
Jesse McKinley contributed re-
porting.
Corrections
SPORTS
An article on Wednesday about
David Freese’s performance in
the postseason referred incor-
rectly to Texas Rangers pitcher
Neftali Feliz. He was in his second
full season in 2011; he was not a
rookie.
An article on Wednesday about
the Boston Red Sox’ victory in the
opener of the 2018 World Series
misidentified the Dodgers pitcher
who yielded a double to Andrew
Benintendi in the seventh inning.
He is Julio Urias, not Pedro Baez.
ARTS
A picture caption with the Critic’s
Notebook column on Wednesday
misidentified an actor shown in a
scene from “What Price Holly-
wood?” He was Gregory Ratoff,
not Neil Hamilton.
Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, right, and his Republican challenger, Bob
Hugin, debated the federal tax law, immigration, race relations and corruption on Wednesday.
he said. At one point he criticized
Mr. Trump as being “divisive on
the issue of race.”
Mr. Menendez said several
times that Mr. Hugin had donated
to Mr. Trump’s presidential cam-
paign and had been chairman of
his campaign in New Jersey.
That Mr. Hugin would try to
separate himself from Mr. Trump
is understandable: A recent Rut-
gers poll found that Mr. Trump
had a 56 percent unfavorability
rating among likely voters.
A sore point in the state: taxes
It may be a signature accomplish-
ment of Mr. Trump’s tenure, but
the tax bill passed last year has
not been well received in New Jer-
sey, largely because of a limit
placed on state and local tax de-
ductions, known as SALT. And
there are few topics that New Jer-
sey residents complain about
more than taxes.
Mr. Menendez, who voted
against the bill and was a vocal
critic, accused Mr. Hugin of essen-
Dean G. Skelos leaving Federal District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday. He and his son, Adam, will each serve four years.
troubles me. I’ll never get over
that.”
The judge, Kimba M. Wood of
Federal District Court in Manhat-
tan, praised Mr. Skelos’s long ca-
reer of helping his constituents.
But that career had been cor-
rupted, she said, after his ascen-
sion to the pinnacles of power.
“Once you became the Senate
majority leader, you began to ig-
nore in part what I have called
your moral compass,” Judge
Wood said.
She continued, “What makes
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Saturday of “Gloria: A Life” omit-
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about the play “India Pale Ale”
misspelled the costume designer’s
given name. He is Arnulfo Mal-
donado, not Arnuflo.
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tially supporting the tax law and
scoffed at his opponent’s argu-
ment that he opposed the SALT
provision.
“There are some good parts of
the tax reform bill,” Mr. Hugin
said. “But the SALT means that I
could have never voted for that
bill.”
When pressed by a moderator
about whether he supported other
elements of the tax bill, Mr. Hugin
largely demurred, though he said
he believed that some of the cor-
porate tax cuts made the United
States more competitive with
other countries.
Mr. Menendez tried to score
points by highlighting Mr. Hugin’s
personal wealth. “He likes it be-
cause he got a big tax cut as a re-
sult of it,” Mr. Menendez said.
Comparing health care records
A Monmouth University poll this
month found that health care was
the top concern in New Jersey
among likely voters.
Mr. Menendez repeatedly re-
your crimes particularly serious
is you corrupted major govern-
mental processes.”
Hours after his sentencing, Mr.
Skelos’s son, Adam, 36, was sepa-
rately given a sentence of four
years in prison. He had previously
been sentenced to six and a half
years.
Both men were retried and con-
victed in July after their original
convictions were overturned by a
federal appeals panel, which cited
a 2016 Supreme Court decision
that narrowed the legal definition
of corruption. The panel found
Judge Wood’s jury instructions
were too broad and jurors might
have convicted the Skeloses for
conduct that was not unlawful un-
der the Supreme Court ruling.
In a departure from the original
trial, Dean Skelos took the un-
usual step of testifying in his own
defense at the retrial. Under ques-
tioning by his lawyer, G. Robert
Gage Jr., he said he had sought
help for his son only as a con-
cerned father, and he denied ever
intending to trade official actions
for that help.
“Absolutely not,” he said.
“That’s not the way I was brought
up.”
He also criticized Adam, whom
he described as volatile and some-
times abrasive, for invoking his
name as he looked for work.
On Wednesday, Judge Wood
suggested that Mr. Skelos had
been unrepentant and his testi-
mony, at times, outright false.
While a four-year sentence would
have otherwise been appropriate,
she said, his lies warranted an ad-
ditional three months.
POOL PHOTO BY JULIO CORTEZ
minded viewers that he was one of
the principal authors of the Af-
fordable Care Act. He also as-
sailed Mr. Hugin’s record as chief
executive officer of Celgene, a
pharmaceutical giant, which
raised the price of a cancer drug to
$16,000 from $6,000 during his
nearly 20-year tenure.
Mr. Hugin defended Celgene’s
record, saying its medicines had
saved lives.
“Cancer is not cheap,” Mr.
Hugin said. “There are thousands,
hundreds of thousands of patients
that are alive today that wouldn’t
otherwise be alive, because of Cel-
gene.”
A frosty exchange
For most of the debate, the candi-
dates rarely interrupted each
other or raised their voices. But
after 50 minutes of avoiding out-
right confrontation, Mr. Menen-
dez erupted as Mr. Hugin sought
to defend an advertisement his
campaign released that resur-
rected unsubstantiated allega-
“When you testified, you dis-
claimed any criminal responsibil-
ity,” the judge said, adding, “Al-
though a defendant has a right to
testify in his own defense, giving
false testimony must be pun-
ished.”
Federal prosecutors in Manhat-
tan had cited Mr. Skelos’s testi-
mony at the retrial — “he lied re-
peatedly,” the government wrote
— to argue that he deserved an
even greater sentence than he re-
ceived after his first trial.
A prosecutor, Thomas A. Mc-
Kay, expressed sympathy for Mr.
Skelos’s family, but said the sena-
tor knew he was putting his family
in jeopardy by breaking the law.
“He did it anyway,” Mr. McKay
said.
He also noted that the former
senator continued to collect a pen-
sion of nearly $100,000 a year,
“paid for by the victims of his
crime: the people of New York.”
Mr. Skelos’s lawyers had ar-
gued that the he had already been
severely punished by his fall from
grace and the public scrutiny that
followed. In seeking leniency, they
described a broken man, one who
had sunk deep into depression
and had come to rely on alcohol to
finish each day.
Indeed, while the trial captivat-
ed Albany mostly for its tale of a
longtime power player’s fall, it
also revealed, in stark detail, the
deterioration of a once-unshak-
able bond between father and son.
In the years since Mr. Skelos’s
arrest, the two men went from
sharing multiple phone calls a day
to barely speaking at all. While
tions seeking to link Mr. Menen-
dez to underage prostitutes.
“It’s a lie, Bob,” Mr. Menendez
said, turning completely to face
Mr. Hugin and gesticulating di-
rectly at him. “And you know it’s a
lie.”
Mr. Hugin tried to interject, but
Mr. Menendez kept going.
“I didn’t interrupt you,” he said.
“Don’t interrupt me.”
Mr. Hugin, with a mild eye roll,
waited as Mr. Menendez went on
the attack about Celgene “not
telling patients about potentially
fatal side effects” of a cancer drug.
“You did that,” Mr. Menendez
said. “Who does that?”
Mr. Hugin, remaining calm,
stood his ground and offered a
terse rebuttal.
“Nope,” he said. “Not true.”
On the trial
While Mr. Menendez tried to tie
his opponent to Mr. Trump, the Re-
publican challenger worked to
weave Mr. Menendez’s ethics trial
into nearly every issue.
In Mr. Hugin’s opening state-
ment: “He doesn’t want to talk
about anything in his record of
corruption and failure.”
On Mr. Menendez missing
votes: “He wasn’t there because
he was on trial in a federal court.”
On 10 of the 12 jurors in Mr. Me-
nendez’s federal trial believing
that he was innocent: “He abused
the power of his office, disgraced
the Senate.”
Mr. Hugin also sought to make
the case that Mr. Menendez’s
ethics have made him an ineffec-
tive senator.
“We get the least back from
Washington than any state in the
country,” Mr. Hugin said. “It’s not
right; it’s time for change.”
Mr. Menendez acknowledged
some “mistakes” in office but
asked voters to look at his lengthy
record.
“I understand there are people
in our state who are disap-
pointed,” Mr. Menendez said.
“And I apologize to them. But I
also want them to look at my total-
ity of service of standing up for the
people of New Jersey.”
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Mr. Skelos had once filled the role
of loving, watchful father — a role
that, by his own account, had led
to the actions that brought him to
trial — by the time of their sen-
tencing, Adam Skelos was es-
tranged from his father and had
reconnected with his biological
parents.
“Although our relationship is
strained, I hope someday that it
will be restored,” the former sena-
tor told Judge Wood.
Several hours later, Adam Ske-
los echoed his father’s comment at
his own hearing.
"The past three years have not
been easy for me,” he said. “The
relationship with my father and
his side of the family has been dev-
astated. We don’t talk anymore,
and that’s a loss I thought I would
only experience in death.”
The convictions of Mr. Skelos
and Mr. Silver, as well as several
other leading political figures this
year, cast a harsh spotlight on the
culture of secrecy and influence
peddling in the state capital.
In March, Joseph Percoco, a for-
mer top adviser to Mr. Cuomo,
was convicted in a bribery case
and sentenced to six years in pris-
on; in July, Alain E. Kaloyeros, the
principal architect of Mr. Cuomo’s
key economic revitalization pro-
gram for upstate and western
New York, was convicted in a bid-
rigging scheme. He is awaiting
sentencing. (Mr. Silver was sen-
tenced in July to seven years in
prison.)
Mr. Skelos had no comment as
he left the courthouse with his
wife, Gail; she said, “We’ll get
through it.”
That Stinks:
Nachos, Meat
... Crab Legs?
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
It is an unspoken compact
among subway riders in New
York City: If you are going to eat
on the train, keep it simple. But
sometimes, there are messy scoff-
laws.
The subway’s leader, Andy By-
ford, drew a line in the sand this
week, urging riders not to eat
roast chicken on the train.
“I don’t mind someone having a
snack,” Mr. Byford said at a board
meeting of the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority on Mon-
day. “A full-on subway meal or a
roast chicken, leaving the bones
all over the place, isn’t accept-
able.”
Mr. Byford, the president of
New York City Transit, weighed in
on the long-running debate about
whether food should be banned on
the subway during a board discus-
sion about track fires. The current
subway rules permit eating,
though they prohibit carrying liq-
uids in an open container — a pro-
vision that is rarely enforced.
The head of the
subways draws a line
on messy eating.
Carelessly tossed out food con-
tainers can cause fires.
On Wednesday, Mr. Byford dou-
bled down on his comments,
telling reporters that the person
he witnessed eating roast chicken
had gone too far.
“It’s impossible to come up with
a definitive list,” Mr. Byford said,
in reference to foods that are rude.
“But I think it’s not considerate.”
Last year, the authority’s chair-
man, Joseph J. Lhota, said he
would consider banning food, like
Washington’s Metro system does.
Mr. Lhota cited a rider eating Chi-
nese food that fell on the floor.
Mr. Lhota said on Wednesday
that food should not be banned,
but that New Yorkers need to
learn to be more polite about it.
“I’m equally as offended as
Andy is about seeing people drop
the remains on the floor,” Mr.
Lhota said. “It’s not necessary.”
So in the absence of any official
prohibition where exactly is the
line when it comes to food on the
subway? Riders voiced their opin-
ions on Twitter this week, with re-
ports of cheesy nachos, a carton of
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, King
Crab legs and edamame pods spit
on the ground. (All of which pre-
sumably would make it on Mr. By-
ford’s list.)
One subway rider, Paul Brady,
saw “a guy eating roast pork and
fried rice with chopsticks out of a
Styrofoam clamshell this very
morning on the F.”
It is an unofficial law that you
“don’t eat anything with an aroma
that exceeds your physical space,
except pizza, but only if it’s obvi-
ous you’re eating it as fast as you
possibly can,” Dan Rivoli, The
New York Daily News transit re-
porter, posted on Twitter.
Some foods, riders agreed, were
fair game — and maybe even nec-
essary if riders never know how
long they will be stuck on a train.
Others suggested that the author-
ity had bigger problems, like the
subway service. “I am offended by
trains that don’t work,” one rider
posted on Twitter.
Mr. Byford, a respected transit
leader who previously worked in
London and Toronto, said he had
never seen roast chicken on the
subway in those cities. But he had
seen other delicacies.
“You see often in London, par-
ticularly on a Friday or Saturday
night, you do see people eating
burgers,” Mr. Byford said. “Eating
a burger, I get it, on a Friday night,
you get the munchies. But don’t
then drop half of your order on the
floor and smear your hands on the
seat.”
Even Charles G. Moerdler, the
M.T.A. board member who asked
Mr. Byford about food, seemed to
know he was raising a thorny is-
sue.
“To add kerosene to the fire,
have you given thought to remov-
ing the right to sell food on the
subway or to eat on the subway as
a way to avoid rubbish accumulat-
ed on the tracks?” Mr. Moerdler
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said.
For some, Mr. Byford’s com-
ments ignore the reality that New
Yorkers who juggle several jobs or
have long commutes may be more
pressed for time and their subway
ride is the only chance they have
to eat.
In 2012, Mr. Lhota struck a more
compassionate tone. He said he
did not want to ban eating on the
subway because it could hurt
some communities. He said he
had watched too many children
eating breakfast on-the-go, like
bagels or muffins.
“I don’t want to deny the kid,’’
Mr. Lhota said, “the only time that
day he’s going to get food.”
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The Governor and His Opponent Had a Harsh and Peculiar Debate
By VIVIAN WANG
and JESSE McKINLEY
It finally happened: After days
of back-and-forth over who was
too afraid to face whom, Gov. An-
drew M. Cuomo and his Republi-
can challenger, Marcus J. Moli-
naro, squared off on Tuesday in
their first and likely only debate.
But if you left the debate feeling
unenlightened about the candi-
dates’ visions for New York,
you’re probably not alone. The de-
bate, full of ad hominem attacks
and calculated evasions, was a lot
to digest — or sometimes even to
listen to, as Mr. Cuomo and Mr.
Molinaro jockeyed to be heard
over the other’s interruptions.
That’s why we broke down what
happened, why it happened and
what the effect, if any, could be in
the two weeks remaining before
Election Day.
It Got Ugly, and Fast
Considering it was only an hour,
and was perhaps Mr. Molinaro’s
best chance to make a dent in the
governor’s substantial lead in the
polls, it wasn’t surprising that he
wanted to go quickly on the attack.
He accused the governor of lead-
ing “the most corrupted state gov-
ernment in America” and of being
“born on third base.”
But Mr. Cuomo was just as com-
bative, turning accusations of
pay-to-play right back on Mr. Mo-
linaro, and, when he wasn’t out-
right interrupting Mr. Molinaro,
smiling and nodding sarcastically
at him.
Mr. Molinaro tried to couch his
attacks in a more dignified tone,
repeatedly calling Mr. Cuomo
“sir” and denouncing the “bully-
ing and the threatening” that he POOL PHOTO BY MARY ALTAFFER
said had come to dominate New
The candidates for governor of New York, the incumbent Andrew M. Cuomo and Marcus J. Molinaro, argued over each other for a large portion of Tuesday’s debate.
York politics. But overall, the
gloves came off early and stayed
off, as the two men bickered over that he had not voted for Mr. bate as a platform to give voice to visited the press room to glad- emblematic of his campaign was a big stage and a prime-time slot
the Metropolitan Transportation Trump, or that he had denounced wonky changes to the tax code or hand reporters and convince “Empire State of Mind,” a Jay-Z to talk about his candidacy. But
Authority, medical marijuana, some of the president’s rhetoric, expansions of mental health care them that he had succeeded in and Alicia Keys hit, a curious and Mr. Cuomo sucked up much of the
and, of course, President Trump. Mr. Molinaro instead sidestepped that could sway voters to his side, making his case. Mr. Cuomo did perhaps misstated choice, given oxygen on the screen. Many of the
“Is this how we’re doing it?” Mr. the governor’s questions about Mr. Cuomo, with all the benefits of not pay a visit, instead sending his that “New York State of Mind” is a points that Mr. Molinaro has
Molinaro asked as Mr. Cuomo in- whether he supported Mr. Trump, incumbency, faced no such pres- campaign chairman and a senior classic from his friend and sup- sought to highlight — corruption
terrupted him again. possibly in an effort not to alienate sure. adviser to spin reporters. The gov- porter, Billy Joel. convictions tied to Mr. Cuomo’s
Yes, yes it was. some of his Republican base. Mr. The governor spent most of the ernor, an aide said, was long gone. But perhaps the biggest flub administration, or the still-weak
Molinaro later told reporters he debate demanding answers from came in the closing seconds of the economic health of upstate com-
Meet Marc Trump — Er, Molinaro did not want to allow Mr. Cuomo to Mr. Molinaro rather than describ- The End Was . . . Weird debate, when he was pressed by munities — went more or less un-
The debate was an opportunity for force him into an oversimplified ing his own vision for a third term. The governor made a few head- moderator Marcia Kramer to sing touched.
Mr. Molinaro — who has struggled answer. When he did talk about himself, it scratching statements during the a little. (Yes, this actually hap- With less than two weeks re-
to raise money and awareness — But whatever Mr. Molinaro’s was more backward-looking than debate, including a rejoinder early pened.) Mr. Cuomo laughed and maining in the race, Mr. Molinaro
to introduce himself and his ideas reasoning, the lack of a clear, un- forward, touting bills he had in the debate that he had “no prob- demurred, before joking that if is running out of time to make vot-
to voters. And by and large, he equivocal rejection of Mr. Trump signed or declarations he had lem ducking responsibility.” (Pre- Ms. Kramer, a longtime CBS poli- ers hear those points. He’s run-
spoke cogently and convincingly dovetailed nicely with the gover- made. sumably he meant “taking.”) tical correspondent, wanted to ning out of money, too.
about policy and his vision for the nor's campaign strategy of belit- What took place behind the At another juncture, he needled hear him sing, she would have to And as Mr. Cuomo did not com-
state. tling Mr. Molinaro as nothing but a scenes also spoke to the hurdles Mr. Molinaro for being “a lifetime come to the shower. (Yes. This mit any serious gaffes (weirdness
But Mr. Molinaro also failed to "Trump mini-me." facing Mr. Molinaro, perhaps even politician,” an odd rebuke from a also actually happened.) aside), it seems unlikely that this
neutralize Mr. Cuomo’s central more so than what happened on man who has been enmeshed in debate will change the direction of
strategy of tying him to the presi- The Incumbent Acted Like It air. politics for most of his adult life. What Next? the race — a direction that is de-
dent. Rather than emphasizing While Mr. Molinaro needed the de- After the debate, Mr. Molinaro He also said that the song most Mr. Molinaro got what he wanted: cidedly not in Mr. Molinaro’s favor.

Cuomo and Molinaro Massaged the Truth and Deflected Criticisms

By TYLER PAGER
After weeks of delays and pos-
turing that had cast their debate
into doubt, Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo and Marcus J. Molinaro
wasted little time before going
into attack mode on Tuesday.
Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat run-
ning for a third term, and Mr. Moli-
naro, the Republican challenger,
sparred during an hourlong de-
bate that featured more theatrics
and bickering than substantive
policy discussions. Still, the candi-
dates practiced some revisionist
history. Here’s a review of some of
their statements where the truth
may have been stretched.
The State Budget
Mr. Cuomo spoke of his economic
achievements early in the debate.
passing state budgets.
“I passed seven budgets on-
time, in a row,” he said.
That statement is demonstra-
bly false. In 2017, for example, leg-
islators passed the budget more
than six days late.
The Subway Crisis
The state of the New York City
subways has loomed large over
Mr. Cuomo’s tenure as governor
because he controls the Metropol-
itan Transportation Authority, the
agency that runs the subway, but
the system has rapidly deterio-
rated in recent years.
Mr. Cuomo defended his stew-
ardship of the subway Tuesday,
saying, “You have never seen a
governor take more responsibility
for the M.T.A. than I have.”
Republicans for delaying the
process.
“I think you should ask my op-
ponent why he voted against it,”
Mr. Cuomo jabbed.
Mr. Molinaro, who said he now
supports the use of marijuana for
medical purposes, did vote
against a bill to legalize medical
marijuana when he served in the
State Assembly. When Mr. Cuomo
pressed him on his vote, Mr. Moli-
naro deflected, saying he has not
been in the Legislature for years.
But Mr. Cuomo has not always
favored legalizing medical mari-
juana. During his first run for gov-
ernor, Mr. Cuomo stated his oppo-
sition to medical marijuana, say-
ing the dangers of the drug “out-
weigh the benefits.” He reversed
course in January 2014, signing an
evasive in seeking the president’s
support.
In 2015, Robert Trump, the pres-
ident’s brother, hosted a fund-
raiser for Mr. Molinaro during his
re-election campaign for
Dutchess County executive. Mr.
Molinaro also showed support for
the president on social media,
posting photos with Trump family
members and using the slogan,
“Make America Great Again.”
Corruption Allegations
Corruption in Albany has dogged
the Cuomo administration, as
some of the governor’s associates
have been convicted of corrup-
tion-related charges. Mr. Molinaro
criticized Mr. Cuomo for his
record, saying he has “led the
most corrupted state government
tract,” Mr. Cuomo said during the
debate.
Mr. Molinaro denied the allega-
tions, calling Mr. Cuomo’s state-
ments “highly hypocritical.”
“I find that entirely ridiculous,”
he said.
Billy Joel or Jay-Z?
Did Mr. Cuomo confuse his favor-
ite songs?
Some of Mr. Cuomo’s close ob-
servers were surprised when the
governor said his favorite song
was “Empire State of Mind” by
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
The surprise stems from Mr.
Cuomo’s well-documented friend-
ship with Billy Joel, who has a
song by a similar name: “New
York State of Mind.”
An analysis of Mr. Cuomo’s mu-
sic choices does not provide con-
clusive evidence, showing that
both songs have appeared in his
repertoire. In 2012, the Cuomo ad-
ministration used the Jay-Z song
in advertisements for a statewide
business campaign. When Spotify
announced it would relocate to 4
World Trade Center, Mr. Cuomo
released his own Spotify playlist,
which included both songs. (Mr.
Joel’s song appeared second on
the playlist, whereas the Jay-Z
song was listed 13th).

The Art of
He said state spending under his But, Mr. Cuomo has played a executive order that allowed lim- in America.” Mr. Cuomo, in turn,
watch has not exceeded 2 percent key role in the system’s demise by ited use of the drug by those with sought to draw attention to cor-
growth. not providing it with sufficient serious illnesses. ruption allegations during Mr.

“Our increases are now down to
2 percent,” he said. “That is lower
than any governor in modern his-
tory.”
It is true that Mr. Cuomo has
reined in state spending, but he
has not met the 2 percent bench-
mark he highlighted. The Citizens
Budget Commission, a nonparti-
san, nonprofit organization, found
that the budget for fiscal year 2019
increased 4.5 percent. The budget
also surpassed 2 percent growth
the year before.
Mr. Cuomo also boasted of his
punctuality when it comes to
funding. In fact, he has even di-
verted funding away from the sub-
way. Moreover, he has repeatedly
blamed Mayor Bill de Blasio for
the state of the system, emphasiz-
ing the city’s ownership of the sub-
way.
Legalizing Medical Marijuana
As state officials mull whether to
legalize recreational marijuana,
the candidates sparred over the
process of legalizing marijuana
for medical purposes, which the
state approved in 2014. Mr. Cuomo
blamed Mr. Molinaro and other
Molinaro’s Support of Trump
In recent months, as Mr. Cuomo
has ratcheted up his attacks
against President Trump, he has
sought to portray Mr. Molinaro as
“an acolyte of Donald Trump.” On
Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo continued
that effort, in one instance point-
edly asking Mr. Molinaro if he sup-
ported Mr. Trump.
“Let’s get out of this conversa-
tion,” Mr. Molinaro said.
Although Mr. Molinaro has said
he did not vote for Mr. Trump in
2016, he has not always been so
Shoe Fitting
Molinaro’s tenure as Dutchess
County executive.
Mr. Cuomo has questioned the
employment of Mr. Molinaro’s
wife, Corinne Adams, at Tinkel-
man Architecture, which has re-
ceived thousands of dollars in con-
tracts and subsidies from a
Dutchess County development
agency.
“Your County Legislature is
calling for an investigation on you
for kickbacks and perjury where
you give a contract to a vendor
and then a family member got a
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EDITORIAL
Elections Could Be
Hacked. Vote Anyway.
Will November’s election be hacked? A quick
sampling of news stories over the past couple
of years offers little comfort.
In the months before the 2016 presiden-
tial election, Russian hackers tried to infil-
trate voting systems in dozens of states.
They succeeded in at least one, gaining ac-
cess to tens of thousands of voter registration
records in Illinois.
In April, the nation’s top voting machine
manufacturer told Senator Ron Wyden of Or-
egon that it had installed remote-access soft-
ware on election-management systems that
it sold from 2000 to 2006. Mr. Wyden called it
“the worst decision for security short of leav-
ing ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.”
This is part of a
series on voting in
America.
At a hacking convention last summer, an
11-year-old boy broke into a replica of Flor-
ida’s state election website and altered the
vote totals recorded there. It
took him less than 10 minutes.
All along, the nation’s
top intelligence and law en-
forcement officials have
been sounding the alarm,
warning that Russia is engaged in a “24/7,
365-days-a-year” effort to disrupt the coming
midterm elections and imploring Congress
and the White House to take more decisive
action.
President Trump may not believe that
the risk is real, but the American people do.
An overwhelming majority say they are con-
cerned about election security, and more
than 60 percent say the Trump administra-
tion should be doing more to protect the vote
from foreign interference.
Numbers like these suggest that
whether or not hackers manage to gain ac-
cess to voting systems, they have already
achieved their main goal, which is to sow per-
vasive doubt over the integrity of American
elections. Whoever wins, this lack of confi-
dence is as damaging to the nation’s democ-
racy as it is to its national security. And it
drives down turnout at the polls, as voters
who are already skeptical of the political
process begin to believe not just that their
vote won’t count, but that it literally won’t be
counted.
Meanwhile, the Russians show
no signs of slowing their efforts to
disrupt American elections. On Fri-
day, the Justice Department
charged a Russian woman working for a
close ally of President Vladimir Putin with
participating in a plot “to spread distrust to-
ward candidates for U.S. political office and
the U.S. political system.”
What to make of it all?
First, the bad news. America’s voting
systems, like all large and complex comput-
erized systems, are highly vulnerable to
cyberattack. “The vast majority of technical
infrastructure for our voting is absolutely,
without doubt, woefully insecure,”
said Matt Blaze, a University of
Pennsylvania computer-science pro-
fessor who studies voting machine
security.
The handful of companies that
design and make nearly all of Ameri-
ca’s voting machines insist that their
equipment is cordoned off from bad actors on
the internet, but in fact there are multiple
ways in for anyone who is motivated, persist-
ent and willing to commit a federal crime.
These manufacturers could choose to share
information in order to help researchers and
LETTERS
Terrorism at Home: Bombs in the Mail
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “Explosive Devices Sent to
Hillary Clinton, Obama and CNN”
(nytimes.com, Oct. 24):
One or more persons are send-
ing bombs to those regarded as
enemies by many Republicans.
There may be political motivations
behind these attempted bombings,
or we may be talking about a seri-
ously deranged person or persons
seeking to destroy partisan ene-
mies and encourage more Republi-
cans to vote. Whoever is doing
this, and why, may or may not be
determined.
But let’s make no mistake about
what is happening: An attempt is
being made to injure or kill some
individuals, most likely in an at-
tempt to affect the outcome of next
month’s midterm elections. And
Trump and the Tax Cut
TO THE EDITOR:
MATT CHASE
Re “About That Tax Cut He Prom-
ised” (news article, Oct. 24):
Now Donald Trump shamelessly
pulls out of his hat a promise to cut
middle-class taxes by 10 percent,
experts identify security weaknesses, but in- saying: “We won’t have time to do
stead they have zealously guarded it as pro- the vote. We’ll do the vote later.”
prietary, even when the outcome of a presi- Don’t sweat the small stuff.
When he actually had the chance
dential election has been at stake — as John
to pass a tax-cut bill, we saw his
Kerry found out when his 2004 presidential
true priorities. He showered riches
campaign attempted to look into voting irreg-
on business, wealthy people and,
ularities in Ohio.
not coincidentally, himself.
Our reliance on these newer voting tech-
The middle class he supposedly
nologies is largely the result of the failures of cares so much about got token
older ones. In the weeks after the 2000 presi- crumbs. He is cynically counting
dential election, the entire country sat on on the blind loyalty and endless
gullibility of his fiercely loyal base.
edge as Florida poll workers painstakingly
We’ll see what happens on Election
examined butterfly ballots and hanging
Day.
chads. Following that disaster, Congress
passed the Help America Vote Act,
JANICE GEWIRTZ
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.
which established a federal agency,
the Election Assistance Commission,
to serve as a resource and clearing-
house for state election officials. U.S. Hostility Toward Iran
But the commission, which has
TO THE EDITOR:
been a political football since its cre-
I greatly appreciated your Oct. 17
ation, is perennially understaffed and article about how the Trump ad-
underfunded. Most of the nearly $4 billion ministration’s policy toward Iran
that it initially got from Congress was spent might be compromised by the
on machines that were designed without an- Saudi assassination of the journal-
ticipation of the sort of coordinated cyber- ist Jamal Khashoggi. It highlights
attacks America now faces. And these ma- the sheer irrationality of President
Trump’s hostility toward Iran. Iran
chines are now approaching the end of their is being sanctioned although it has
useful life. complied with an international
Now for some good news. Elections offi- arms control agreement.
cials have become acutely aware of these Iran is hardly a beacon of human
risks to America’s electoral security. In a rare rights and is definitely meddle-
example of bipartisanship, Republicans and some in the region, but compared
with Saudi Arabia it’s a Jeffersoni-
Democrats are communicating with
an democracy. Crown Prince Mo-
one another and with their counter- hammed bin Salman and the Saudi
parts around the country, royal family will probably end up
sharing information and suffering few consequences for the
murder of Mr. Khashoggi, while
shoring up defenses
where needed. Most en- Iranians will continue to suffer
couraging, the key fixes because of the bizarre hatred the
The system’s Trump administration and its
vulnerabilities are relatively simple, and supporters, and many in Congress,
are real, but everyone agrees on what have for Iran.
please do not they are. The Islamic Revolution and the
stay home. One, provide a paper Iran hostage crisis were 39 years
trail for every vote. Hack- ago. It’s time to move on. Former
President Barack Obama recog-
ers work most effectively in the dark, so they
nized this.
love voting machines that produce no paper
Iran could be very useful in
verification. Currently, five states — Dela- helping resolve some of the in-
ware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey and tractable problems in the region,
South Carolina — run their elections from Afghanistan to Syria. It can
entirely on paperless touch-screen certainly play a far more construc-
tive role than Saudi Arabia. Let’s
machines. But all five states are con-
remember that most of the 9/11
sidering a switch back to paper bal-
hijackers came from Saudi Arabia.
lots in time for 2020. In this year’s midterms,
None came from Iran.
19 states and Washington, D.C., will use only
paper ballots. ANDREW VAN VELZEN, TORONTO
Two, audit the vote. The best way to do
this is known as a risk-limiting audit, which
means comparing the digital tally to a manu-
al count of a randomized sample of paper bal-
New Moms and Asians: Victims of Health Neglect
lots. This type of audit can identify voting TO THE EDITOR:
tabulation errors resulting from either ma- Re “Fragile Babies, Worn Workers
and Costly Care” (front page, Oct.
licious attacks or software failures.
11), about a worker at a Queens
Three, give states more resources. After maternity center who stabbed three
dragging its feet for babies and herself: This attack was
years, Congress in tragic but shouldn’t obscure the
March approved $380 need that these centers may be
million in grants to filling to provide a watchful eye and
states for election security. better care for women who have
just given birth. In a culture where
These are all smart and desperately friends and family turn their focus
needed improvements, and Congress could immediately to the new baby, a new
lock them in with the Secure Elections Act, a mom’s health can be neglected,
bipartisan bill that appeared headed toward including by her.
passage but got hung up over the summer. Many maternal deaths in the
What can voters do? For starters, take United States occur after women
leave the hospital. An estimated 60
advantage of early voting if your state offers
percent could be prevented if wom-
it. The sooner votes are in, the more time offi- en and families knew more about
cials have to detect irregularities. postpartum risks, women sought
Most important, don’t stay home be- medical attention immediately if
cause you believe that cyberattacks will rig they suspected that something was
the results of the election. “It’s true that wrong and health professionals
acted swiftly on the mother's con-
these systems are vulnerable,” said Mr.
cerns.
Blaze, the voting-security expert. “It’s also Having a safe place where new
true that you should vote on Election
mothers’ health needs are attended
Day. The worst outcome would be if to is an important public health
people conclude that there’s no point measure and one that could save
in voting.” lives.
MARIA SCHNEIDER, BROOKLYN
The writer works for a public health
consulting firm.
TO THE EDITOR:
Your article is a heartbreaking
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
this action most definitely falls
under the definition of “terrorism.”
So let’s be blunt and honest in our
terminology and call what’s hap-
pening terrorist acts. No linguistic
pussyfooting around the truth.
This is domestic terrorism, and
people may die as a result.
Whether or not one is in the line
of fire, this is terrorism aimed at all
of us who cling to notions of a free
and open democracy.
KATHY HEGGEMEIER, CARY, N.C.
TO THE EDITOR:
My suggestion for a White House
press statement: “We condemn
these attempted acts of violence
against Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton and were really just kid-
ding when the president said he
liked candidates who body-slam
reporters, suggested beating up
protesters and encouraged hateful
chants at rallies. We are hopeful
that saying these things day after
day at large public rallies has not
been inciting hatred in others.”
LARRY LOBERT
GROSSE POINTE PARK, MICH.
Register to Vote at School
TO THE EDITOR:
“Time to Close the Democracy
Gap” (editorial, “Tune In Turn Out”
series, Oct. 19) says that all the
innovations that address voter
engagement are intuitive and easy
to carry out.
Voter registration and preregis-
tration through high schools has
enormous promise. Even in states
that don’t have formal preregistra-
tion laws, young people can gener-
ally register to vote if they will turn
18 by the next election. This means
that the vast majority of high school
students can register or preregister
before they graduate.
The best models in high schools
involve peer-to-peer engagement
combined with robust civics educa-
tion and nonpartisan outreach to
the entire school community about
the deadlines and mechanics of
voter registration and voting. Yet
most high schools have no plan, no
budget and no training to make
sure that every graduate is a voter.
Effective implementation de-
pends on high school communities,
including students, parents, teach-
ers, administrators and school
boards, all getting involved.
LAURA W. BRILL, LOS ANGELES
The writer is founder and director of
The Civics Center.
Doctor, Get to the Polls
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “Doctors Should Tell Their
Patients to Vote,” by Danielle Ofri
(Sunday Review, Oct. 21):
Before admonishing patients to
vote, Dr. Ofri and other physicians
should recall that old bromide “do
as I say, not as I do.”
It has been reported that doctors
vote 9 percent less than the gen-
eral population and 22 percent less
than lawyers.
It would be prudent for doctors
to first ensure that they and their
colleagues are registered to vote
before urging their patients to do
the same. Hypocrisy is never at-
tractive.
KEVIN R. LOUGHLIN, BOSTON
The writer is professor emeritus at
Harvard Medical School.
reminder of the serious lack of
mental health services for the Asian
community in New York.
Yu Fen Wang’s family saw the
signs of an impending breakdown,
but they lacked the resources to
find her the help that she needed.
Cultural stigma prevents open
discussion of mental health issues
like depression in the Asian com-
munity. Even if a patient is willing
to seek treatment, there are few
hospitals and clinics equipped to
offer culturally appropriate mental
health services.
One-size-fits-all treatment op-
tions are ineffective, given the
cultural diversity among Asian New
Yorkers. For instance, there are
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20-plus Asian languages spoken in
the community, and it is a herculean
challenge to find mental health
professionals capable of communi-
cating in one or more Asian lan-
guages.
Moreover, some of the poorest
New Yorkers are Asians, and do not
have access to treatments offered
through insurance.
We need serious investment in
mental health services appropriate
to the Asian community to prevent
tragedies like this from happening
again.
JO-ANN YOO, NEW YORK
The writer is executive director of the
Asian American Federation.

NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Our Real
‘National
Emergies’
IT’S NOT ABOUT immigration. It’s about
bigotry.
That’s the real story — to the extent
there is a story at all — about the caravan
of 5,000 impoverished Central Americans
rampaging toward the United States bor-
der at, er, two miles an hour.
President Trump, ever the champion
speller, declares this to be a “National
Emergy”! He may call out the Army! He’s
talking about sealing the border!
So, here’s some perspective, by my
back-of-envelope calculations:
■ More than 1.4 million foreigners immi-
grate to the United States each year. If,
say, half the caravan reaches the border,
and half of those people actually enter the
U.S., they would represent less than one-
tenth of 1 percent of this year’s immi-
grants.
■ If the caravan proceeds by foot, during
the period of its journey 16,800 Americans
will die from drugs.
■ In the period of the caravan’s journey,
perhaps 690,000 Americans will become
homeless, including 267,000 children.
■ In the period of the caravan’s journey,
8,850 Americans will die from guns, in-
cluding suicides and murders.
■ In the period of the caravan’s journey,
perhaps 9,000 Americans will die from
lack of health insurance (people die at
higher rates when they’re uninsured, al-
though there’s disagreement about how
much higher).
Maybe the real “National Emergy” is
drugs, homelessness, gun deaths and
lack of health insurance?
Trump’s trumpeting isn’t protecting
America, and the number of people is so
modest that the issue isn’t really even im-
migration. Rather, it’s fearmongering.
Scholars have found that reminding peo-
ple of dangers makes them temporarily
more conservative, so this kind of ma-
nipulation can be an effective campaign
tactic.
Remember the 2014 midterm elec-
tions? This is a replay. In the run-up to
voting, Republicans ratcheted up fears of
a “border crisis” with terrorists sneaking
in from Mexico to attack us, plus alarm
about Ebola and the risk that the out-
break in West Africa could reach Amer-
ica.
“President Obama, you are a complete
and total disaster, but you have a chance
to do something great and important:
STOP THE FLIGHTS!” tweeted Donald
Trump at the time. His public health vi-
sion: Let Ebola destroy Africa and much
of the rest of the world, but try to seal off
the United States from infection.
Trump also tweeted then that if a New
York physician who returned from West
Africa developed Ebola (as he later did),
“then Obama should apologize to the
Drugs, homelessness,
guns and lack of health
insurance matter more.
American people & resign.” And a Fox
News contributor, Dr. Keith Ablow, said in
a radio broadcast that Obama maybe
wanted Americans to suffer Ebola be-
cause his “affiliations” were with Africa
rather than America.
In the 2014 elections, Republican candi-
dates ran hundreds of ads denouncing the
Obama administration’s handling of
Ebola. News organizations chronicled
this “debate,” but in retrospect they were
manipulated into becoming a channel to
spread fear — and win Republican votes.
Politically, this was quite effective, and
Republicans won sweeping gains across
the country and seized control of the Sen-
ate. Yet Ebola, like the Central American
caravan, is a reminder of the distinction
between grandstanding and governing.
Obama’s technocratic Ebola program
— working with France and Britain, plus
private aid groups — may have worried
voters, but it was effective. Instead of ca-
reening around the world to kill millions
and devastate the global economy, the
Ebola virus was contained and eventually
burned out. Good governance often turns
out to be bad politics, and vice versa.
The same is true of immigration.
Perhaps the approach with the best
record is aid programs to curb gang vio-
lence in countries like Honduras, to re-
duce the factors that lead people to at-
tempt the dangerous journey to the
United States. Yet it’s not tangible and
doesn’t impress voters. So Trump instead
is talking about an expensive wall and
about cutting aid to Central America,
even though this would magnify the crisis
there and probably lead more people to
flee north.
“Cutting off U.S. aid to these humani-
tarian organizations will just push more
children into desperation and silence the
most persistent voices for reform,” said
Kevin Ryan, president of Covenant
House, which assists children in the
United States and Central America. “It’s
exactly the wrong move.”
I fear that we in the media have become
Trump’s puppets, letting him manipulate
us to project issues like the caravan onto
the agenda.
Trump is right that, although there’s no
evidence of it, “there could very well be”
Middle Easterners hiding in the caravan.
It’s equally true that the Easter Bunny
“could very well be” in the caravan.
Speaking of Easter, Jesus Christ “could
very well be” in the caravan.
So let’s stop freaking out about what
“could very well be” and focus on facts.
Here are two: First, the Caravan won’t
make a bit of difference to America. Sec-
ond, we have other problems to focus on,
from drugs to homelessness to health
care, that genuinely constitute a “Na-
tional Emergy.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
We Must Stop Helping
The Saudis in Yemen
Bernie Sanders
T
HE likely assassination of the
Saudi critic and Washington
Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi
underscores how urgent it has
become for the United States to redefine
our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and
to show that the Saudis do not have a
blank check to continue violating human
rights.
One place we can start is by ending
United States support for the war in
Yemen. Not only has this war created a
humanitarian disaster in one of the
world’s poorest countries, but also Amer-
ican involvement in this war has not
been authorized by Congress and is
therefore unconstitutional.
In March 2015, a coalition of Arab
states led by Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates started a war against
Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Since then, many
thousands of civilians have been killed
and many more have lost their homes.
Millions are now at the risk of the most
severe famine in more than 100 years, ac-
cording to the United Nations. The chaos
in Yemen has also provided fertile
ground for extremist groups like Al
Qaeda and the Islamic State, and created
Homelessness Is Everyone’s Business
Marc Benioff
SAN FRANCISCO
W
HEN I was in business
school in the 1980s, I was
taught that the business of
business is business.
“There is one and only one social respon-
sibility of business,” the economist Mil-
ton Friedman wrote in “Capitalism and
Freedom”: “to increase its profits.”
Unfortunately, some chief executives
still embrace this myopic view and be-
lieve that they have a duty to sharehold-
ers alone, with little or no responsibility
to the communities in which they oper-
ate. I contend that business must have a
purpose beyond profits, and that such
purpose can, over time, benefit both
stockholders and stakeholders.
I’ve seen this in my hometown, San
Francisco, and the surrounding Bay
Area, which has the third-highest num-
ber of billionaires on the planet. Some
high-net-worth individuals have been
extraordinarily generous in supporting
public schools, hospitals and communi-
ties. Others, however, have given little or
nothing and seem content to let local
government bear the burden of enor-
mous challenges alone.
San Francisco is experiencing a full-
blown homelessness crisis. I’m a fourth-
generation San Franciscan, and while
there has always been homelessness, I
have never seen it this bad.
Families with children are living in
cars and are packed into homeless shel-
ters. There are tent encampments in city
parks. A recent count found that on one
night, a shocking 7,500 individuals were
homeless in San Francisco. Every night,
more than 1,000 people are on waiting
lists for emergency shelter.
City officials, businesses and commu-
nity groups have stepped up, but given
the scale of this crisis, these efforts are
simply not enough. This is a humanitar-
ian emergency and it demands an emer-
0 gency response. San Francisco’s epi-
ADAM MAIDA
new opportunities for intervention by
Iran.
The United States is deeply engaged in
this war. We are providing bombs the
Saudi-led coalition is using, we are refu-
eling their planes before they drop those
bombs, and we are assisting with intelli-
gence.
In far too many cases, the bomb’s tar-
gets have been civilian ones. In one of the
more horrible recent instances, an
American-made bomb obliterated a
school bus full of young boys, killing doz-
ens and wounding many more. A CNN
report found evidence that American
weapons have been used in a string of
such deadly attacks on civilians since the
war began.
Yet last month, responding to congres-
sional concerns, Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo officially certified to Congress
— and Secretary of Defense James Mat-
tis affirmed — that the Saudis and Emi-
ratis are making “every effort to reduce
the risk of civilian casualties.”
The data refute these claims. Accord-
ing to the independent monitoring group
Yemen Data Project, between March
2015 and March 2018, more than 30 per-
cent of the Saudi-led coalition’s targets
have been nonmilitary. According to the
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data
project, civilian deaths in one region in-
demic of homelessness is solvable, but
only if we devote the resources that are
necessary.
That’s why I and the company I
founded, Salesforce, are part of a broad
coalition of San Francisco citizens, busi-
ness leaders, elected officials, teachers
and community activists who are sup-
porting Proposition C on the November
ballot. Proposition C would impose a
small tax, half of 1 percent, on San Fran-
cisco’s wealthiest businesses, ones with
annual gross receipts over $50 million
generated in the city). If, say, a business
brings in $55 million in San Francisco, $5
million would be subjected to the tax.
Large retailers would pay an even small-
er tax: just 0.175 percent of gross receipts
over $50 million.
This would raise up to $300 million a
year to address homelessness, roughly
double what San Francisco spends now.
Under a comprehensive plan devel-
A modest tax on San
Francisco companies will
help get people homes.
oped by experts in the field, this new
funding would address this crisis from
every angle. More bathrooms, so that
people wouldn’t have to relieve them-
selves on city streets. More than 1,000
new shelter beds. Up to $75 million to
treat the severely mentally ill. Up to $150
million for 4,000 additional units of hous-
ing. And assistance or subsidies to help
prevent San Franciscans from becoming
homeless in the first place.
Opponents of Proposition C have
raised objections that do not stand up to
close scrutiny. They claim that this tax
will drive away business and jobs, but of
the tens of thousands of businesses in
San Francisco, fewer than 400 will meet
the $50 million threshold — small- and
medium-size businesses are effectively
creased by more than 160 percent over
the summer from earlier in the year.
People inside the administration un-
derstand these facts. Several days after
Mr. Pompeo issued the certification, The
Wall Street Journal reported that he had
overruled the State Department’s own
regional and military experts, siding in-
stead with members of his legislative af-
fairs staff who argued that not certifying
could endanger United States arms sales
to the Saudis and Emiratis. President
Trump himself echoed this logic when
asked about the murder of Mr.
Khashoggi, claiming that the Saudis are
spending “$110 billion” on military equip-
ment.
It gets worse. The Intercept reported
that a former lobbyist for the arms man-
ufacturer Raytheon, which stands to
make billions of dollars from those sales,
leads Mr. Pompeo’s legislative affairs
staff.
The administration defends our en-
gagement in Yemen by overstating Irani-
an support for the Houthi rebels. But the
fact is that the relationship between Iran
Congress needs to step in
to end our complicity in
human rights abuses.
and the Houthis has only strengthened
with the intensification of the war. The
war is creating the very problem the ad-
ministration claims to want to solve.
The war is also undermining the
broader effort against violent extre-
mists. A 2016 State Department report
found that the conflict between Saudi-led
forces and the Houthi insurgents had
helped Al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s
Yemen branch “deepen their inroads
across much of the country.” As the head
of the International Rescue Committee,
David Miliband, said in a recent inter-
view, “The winners are the extremist
groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS.”
Above and beyond the catastrophe
that this war has created, there is the fact
that American engagement there has not
been authorized by Congress, and is
therefore unconstitutional. Article I of
the Constitution clearly states that it is
Congress, not the president, that has the
power to declare war. Over many years,
Congress has allowed that power to ebb.
That must change.
In February, along with two of my col-
leagues, Mike Lee, Republican of Utah,
and Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connect-
icut, I introduced Senate Joint Resolu-
tion 54, calling on the president to with-
draw from the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
We did this for two reasons. The first is
that the war is a strategic and moral dis-
aster for the United States. The second is
that the time is long overdue for Con-
gress to reassert authority over matters
of war.
The Senate voted 55 to 44 to delay con-
sideration of the resolution. Since then,
this crisis has only worsened and our
complicity become even greater.
Next month, I intend to bring that res-
olution back to the floor. We will be add-
ing more co-sponsors, and colleagues in
the House have offered a similar meas-
ure. The brutal murder of Mr. Khashoggi
demands that we make clear that United
States support for Saudi Arabia is not un-
conditional.
I very much hope that Congress will
act, that we will finally take seriously our
congressional duty, end our support for
the carnage in Yemen, and send the mes-
sage that human lives are worth more
than profits for arms manufacturers. 0
BERNIE SANDERS, an independent, is a
United States senator from Vermont.
exempt. The city’s Office of Economic
Analysis has concluded that any impact
on the local economy would be “small” —
a mere 0.1 percent over 20 years.
The real threat to business comes from
the homeless crisis itself. A major medi-
cal association recently pulled its con-
vention out of the city, saying that its
members no longer feel safe on our
streets. Hotels and restaurant owners
are increasingly worried that tourists
will stay away. If employees can’t walk
safely to work, companies might think
twice about moving to the city.
It’s also time to put to rest the claim
that more generous support for the
homeless will only attract more home-
less people to our community. The city’s
own analysis found no research showing
that expanding homeless services in-
creases homelessness. An overwhelm-
ing majority of homeless people in San
Francisco are from San Francisco. They
are our neighbors and they desperately
need our help.
Finally, although critics are correct
that money alone cannot solve homeless-
ness, it’s also true that all effective solu-
tions require money. For example, the
Heading Home campaign, an innovative
public-private partnership involving the
city, businesses and nonprofit groups,
has raised $37 million to help find homes
for 800 families — with more than 350
families already in their own home or in
the process of finding one.
Proposition C is a referendum on the
role of business in our communities. The
business of business is no longer merely
business. Our obligation is not just to in-
crease profits for shareholders. We must
also hold ourselves accountable to a
broader set of stakeholders: to our
customers, our employees, the envi-
ronment and the communities in which
we work and live.
The wealthiest businesses and busi-
ness owners need to step up and give
back to the most vulnerable among us.0
MARC BENIOFF is the chairman and co-
chief executive of Salesforce.
N A27
GAIL COLLINS
Trump Gets
Terrible,
As Usual
TERRIBLE WEEK. DONALD TRUMP was on
the road trying to rev up the country
against a pitiful caravan of poor people
struggling through Mexico. Meanwhile,
there was a spate of bombing attempts
directed at some of the president’s regu-
lar tirade targets, from Hillary Clinton to
George Soros to CNN.
The F.B.I. is working on the bombs.
Trump has urged the country to unify, to
which the country presumably replied,
“Now you tell us?”
At his rally in Wisconsin on Wednes-
day night, Trump did have some early
words for peace and harmony. Then he
demanded that the media “set a civil tone
and to stop the endless hostility and con-
stant negative and often time false at-
tacks.” You would think that for at least
one evening he’d just mention the impor-
tance of a free press. Or even suggest
that, say, body-slamming reporters is a
bad thing.
This is getting scarier and scarier. The
president has been on a rally marathon
in which he alternates between saying
things that are meant to whip his audi-
ence into rage and things that are just
wildly egocentric and imaginary. He’ll
never improve. All we can do is hope he
sticks to his less dangerous form of aw-
fulness.
We want the Donald Trump who yowls
about wildly overestimated crowd sizes
and nonexistent achievements. For in-
stance, on Monday in Houston he
bragged about Brett Kavanaugh and
gave the audience a primer on Supreme
Court appointments that went like this:
“Who — who appointed the highest
percentage of judges? No, no, no, it was-
n’t Hillary Clinton. No, she didn’t make it,
remember? She didn’t make it. No, you
know who it is? You’ll never guess. It’s
called George Washington. And we’re af-
ter George Washington. So, a very big
thing, no, George Washington, why? Be-
cause he just started. He did 100 percent.
Nobody’s ever going to break that
record. Nobody’s ever going to break the
record of George Washington.”
Always do enjoy bringing you some
Trumpian oratory.
And — wait! In actual reality, Trump is
not after George Washington. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt placed nine justices on
the Supreme Court and Ronald Reagan
got four. Trump has gotten two, the same
number as George H.W. Bush, Bill Clin-
ton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
I am telling you all this to cheer you up.
During the rally tour, the preferable
making-stuff-up Trump also announced
“a very major tax cut” just for middle-in-
come people, which would be passed be-
fore Nov. 1, or after the election, or “next
week,” depending on when you were lis-
tening.
“We’ve been working on it for a few
months,” he said in Houston.
This appeared to be total news to ev-
erybody in his administration. But may-
be the “we” Trump referred to was
Ivanka and Jared. Jared is great with
numbers. Just because his company is
teetering on bankruptcy due to one of the
most disastrous deals in real estate his-
tory doesn’t mean there isn’t some tal-
ent. That sort of thing runs in the family.
Asked about details of his plan — like
who would count as a middle-income
person — Trump said they’d be coming
“sometime just prior, I would say, to No-
vember.”
That would mean . . . next week. Well,
some details. Maybe its name.
Pop Quiz: What do you think would be
a good name for Trump’s tax cut?
A) Herman
B) Biggest Middle-Class Tax Cut Since
George Washington
C) Thing That Never Was
I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda
Things can get worse and
with him they always do.
going for Herman. Or Rocco.
The cruel-is-cool Trump has been rant-
ing about immigration, claiming the car-
avan of desperate families making their
way out of Central America included bad
people “from the Middle East.” None of
the reporters who have been walking
through the caravan have come across
anything like this. The president claimed
he learned it from Border Patrol officers.
He quotes unnamed Border Patrol offi-
cers a lot. You get the impression that in
the still of the night when everybody else
is asleep and he can’t think of anything to
twitter, he calls up the border police and
chats about their day.
“Wait until you see what happens over
the next couple of weeks,” he told the
Wisconsin crowd, in one of the more omi-
nous moments of the night. “You are go-
ing to see a very secure border. Very se-
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cure. You just watch. The military is
ready. They’re all set.”
John Bolton, the freaky national secu-
rity adviser, and John Kelly, Trump’s
chief of staff, had what is known in polite
circles as a “profanity-laced argument”
about border policy. We’ve been hearing
a lot lately about Kelly’s temper. This is
sort of disturbing, since he’s supposed to
be one of the not-insane people in the ad-
ministration who will keep a lid on things
if the president goes totally batty. An-
other is Defense Secretary Jim Mattis,
who Trump recently described as “sort
of a Democrat” who “may leave. I mean,
at some point everybody leaves.”
When you’re down and out, keep that
last little bit in mind. At some point ev-
erybody leaves. 0
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We Have Late Onset Tay-Sachs...

Do You Know What It Is?
Allie & Katie Buryk's Story
It took the two of us,
30-year-old twins, eight
years to find out what was
wrong.
Our symptoms start-
ed slowly. At first, there
was the difficulty climb-
ing stairs. Our leg muscles
were weak and we had trou-
ble standing from a sitting
position without using our
hands. We couldn’t squat.
Sometimes our legs would
just give out and we would
Allie (left) & Katie Buryk.
fall. And our speech changed, words came tumbling out and sometimes people didn’t
understand us.
Finally, genome sequencing informed us that we had Late Onset Tay Sachs. And
now here it is four years later, with no treatment and no cure.
Our bodies don’t produce enough of an enzyme which, right now, has no replacement.
Infants who develop symptoms early usually die by age 2. Juveniles with symptoms
pass away in their teens. So we guess we're lucky to be alive. That's how it feels
sometimes. But we know the disease will continue and in our futures are wheelchairs,
difficulty swallowing, cognitive decline and perhaps mental illness.
We have decided to go public and raise money, awareness and mount a search
for a cure. Sure it’s for us but perhaps more importantly, it is for infants and kids who
aren’t as lucky as we are. And it’s for their families who embark on this difficult and
sad journey.

UPDATE...
To date, we have funded seven grants. Two studies for designing future clinical
trials including one study using wearable devices to collect patient data on walking and
falling. The other study created tools for researchers to further explore and test the
efficacy of potential therapies. The fourth grant allows researchers to test if drugs are
already approved by the FDA for other diseases could be a treatment for us. The three
most recent grants focus on gene therapy. These grants are for completing safety
studies, studying the best ways to administer the treatment, and researching deliver-
ing the therapy through cerebral spinal fluid.
In addition, our good friend, Peggy Furth, made a significant donation to the Mayo
Clinic which was used to create the Mayo Clinic Lysosomal Initiative. The premier
health institution in this country, if not the world, will be looking for a cure.
And, thanks to your donations, a group of scientists/clinicians, led by Dr. Steven
Walkley, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will come together on October 26th for
an intense one-day meeting designed to accelerate research toward effective treat-
ment of late onset Tay-Sachs disease.

We need to continue the search. Whatever your contribution, it will help fuel our quest
to make a difference in our lives and those of so many others. It gives us hope.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018

DOUG CHAYKA

Psst. WhatsApp Needs Fixing. Pass It On.

Should the world worry about
WhatsApp? Has it become a virulent
new force in global misinformation and
political trickery?
Or, rather, should the
FARHAD world rejoice about Whats-
App? After all, hasn’t it
MANJOO
provided a way for people
everywhere to communicate
STATE OF
THE ART securely with encrypted
messages, beyond the reach
of government surveillance?
These are deep and complicated
questions. But the answer to all of
them is simple: Yes.
In recent months, the messaging
app, which is owned by Facebook and
has more than 1.5 billion users world-
wide, has raised frightening new poli-
tical and social dynamics. In Brazil,
which is in a bruising national election
campaign, WhatsApp has become a
primary vector for conspiracy theories
and other political misinformation.
WhatsApp played a similar role in
Kenya’s election last year. In India this
year, false messages about child kid-
nappers went viral on WhatsApp, lead-
ing to mob violence that has killed
dozens of people.
WhatsApp said it was working to
reduce the spread of misinformation on
the service. Critics charge that it is not
doing enough — and there is some
We may have to merit to their claims. Yet the deeper
you dig into the problems, the more
intractable they can come to seem,
accept that the even if the company were moving heav-
en and earth to fix them.
service will be a Unlike Facebook, Twitter or Insta-
gram, WhatsApp isn’t a social network.
conduit for bad It is mostly a bare-bones texting app in
which most conversations are private
information. and unmediated by any kind of algo-
rithm meant to amp up engagement.
This design means WhatsApp has little
control over what content takes off and
what doesn’t; in most cases, the com-
pany cannot even see what is happen-
Continued on Page B7

Tesla Reports a Rare Profit,

But Daunting Trials Remain
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Tesla on Wednesday reported its first
quarterly profit in two years and its big-
gest ever. But for the electric-car maker
and its unpredictable chief, the question
is whether it can keep making money.
The company’s third-quarter earnings
were helped by cost-cutting, spending
less on future models, delaying pay-
ments to suppliers and, most important,
rushing to sell as many cars as possible.
It may not be able to do all those things
quarter after quarter.
The company declared it a “historic
quarter” and its chief executive, Elon
Musk, promised that future would be
brighter still, telling analysts on a confer-
ence call he expected Tesla to be prof-
itable in the fourth quarter and in “all
quarters going forward.” He was saying
in effect that his company was no longer
in start-up mode.
Tesla reported a $312 million profit for
the three months that ended Sept. 30,
thanks to a surge in production and sales
of its Model 3 sedan. The company has
long promised that the model would help
make electric vehicles and Tesla itself a
mass-market phenomenon.
The report is a milestone for Mr. Musk,
whose leadership was cast in doubt in re-
cent months as he faced a lawsuit by reg-
ulators over his musings on Twitter
about taking the company private. He
had also hurled insults against short-
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NBC News Chief Denounces

CHRISTOPHER GREGORY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

New York’s attorney general asserts that Exxon engaged in a “longstanding fraudulent scheme” to deceive shareholders.
‘Blackface’ Remarks by Host
By JOHN KOBLIN
NBC anchor Craig Melvin called her
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Lawsuit Says Exxon Misled Investors on Climate

By JOHN SCHWARTZ
New York’s attorney general sued
Exxon Mobil on Wednesday, claiming
the company defrauded shareholders by
downplaying the expected risks of cli-
mate change to its business.
The litigation, which follows more
than three years of investigation, repre-
sents the most significant legal effort yet
to establish that a fossil fuel company
misled the public on climate change and
to hold it responsible. Not only does it
pose a financial threat to Exxon that
could run into the hundreds of millions of
dollars or more, but it could also strike a
blow to the reputation of a company that
has worked to rehabilitate its image,
framing itself as a leader on global
warming.
The suit does not charge Exxon with
playing a role in creating climate change,
though the burning of fossil fuels is a ma-
jor contributor to human-driven warm-
ing. Rather, it is a fairly straightforward
shareholder fraud suit, the kind that New
York attorneys general have long
brought and successfully prosecuted un-
der state law.
It says the company engaged in a
“longstanding fraudulent scheme” to de-
ceive investors, analysts and underwrit-
ers “concerning the company’s manage-
ment of the risks posed to its business by
climate change regulation.”
Exxon essentially kept two sets of
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and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Megyn Kelly struggled on Wednesday
to contain a growing crisis over her ra-
cially insensitive remarks during a “To-
day” show broadcast, statements that
propelled longstanding tensions be-
tween the former Fox News anchor and
her NBC News colleagues into public
view.
Several of Ms. Kelly’s fellow NBC stars
denounced her for wondering aloud, on-
air during “Megyn Kelly Today” on Tues-
day, why it was inappropriate for white
people to dress in blackface on Hallow-
een.
On Wednesday’s “Today” show, the
comments “racist and ignorant,” and Al
Roker, the usually genial weatherman,
said that Ms. Kelly “owes a bigger apol-
ogy to folks of color around the country.”
The MSNBC anchor Jacob Soboroff
wrote on Twitter that her remarks were
“vile.”
Ms. Kelly issued a tearful apology of
her own at the top of her 9 a.m. broad-
cast, telling viewers, “I’m Megyn Kelly
and I want to begin with two words — I’m
sorry.” Hours later, her boss, the NBC
News chairman Andrew Lack, criticized
her comments at a private gathering of
network employees — and offered no
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B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
Wells Fargo
Suspends 2
Amid Review
Of Practices
By EMILY FLITTER
Wells Fargo said it had sus-
pended two senior executives as
part of a continuing regulatory re-
view of its sales practices, the lat-
est blow to a bank that has spent
years reeling from scandals.
The bank said on Wednesday
that it had placed its chief auditor,
David Julian, and its chief admin-
istrative officer, Hope A. Hardi-
son, on immediate leave and re-
moved them from the company’s
operating committee of senior ex-
ecutives.
Ms. Hardison had been one of
the executives in charge of a
broad effort to clean up the belea-
guered bank. It has been repeat-
edly punished by federal and state
regulators for its deceptive sales
practices. American Banker, a
trade newspaper, last month ran-
ked her No. 10 on a list of women to
watch in banking.
Wells Fargo suspended Ms.
Hardison and Mr. Julian at the re-
quest of regulators at the federal
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, according to a person
briefed on the decision but not au-
thorized to discuss it publicly.
“These leaves relate to previ-
ously disclosed ongoing reviews
by regulatory agencies in connec-
tion with historical retail banking
sales practices,” the bank said in a
statement on Wednesday. Wells
Fargo said the moves had nothing
to do with the bank’s reported fi-
nancial results or internal finan-
cial controls.
Ms. Hardison didn’t respond to
requests for comment. Mr. Julian
declined to comment, his son said.
In February, the Federal Re-
serve imposed restrictions that
prevent Wells Fargo from grow-
ing and opened the bank up to a
wide review designed to stop its
misconduct. The Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency is
also digging into the bank’s opera-
tions and requesting changes that
regulators believe will eliminate
the potential for more customer
abuses.
Wells Fargo once enjoyed a
sterling reputation in the banking
industry. But it has been rocked by
years of trouble. Many of the prob-
lems involved employees opening
phantom bank accounts in unwit-
Heeding a request
made by federal
regulators examining
customer abuse.
ting customers’ names, inappro-
priately signing them up for auto
insurance and modifying their
mortgages without authorization.
When the Fed announced the
heightened scrutiny, Wells Fargo
executives said they expected it to
last until September. But Timothy
J. Sloan, the bank’s chief execu-
tive, said this month that the regu-
latory actions would last longer
than initially envisioned.
“We are still planning on oper-
ating under the asset cap through
the first part of next year,” Mr.
Sloan said during an Oct. 12 con-
ference call with bank analysts.
“During the past two years, we
have become more customer-fo-
cused, made significant leader-
ship and board changes, strength-
ened risk management and con-
trols, simplified the organization,
and invested in our team mem-
bers,” Mr. Sloan said in the state-
ment. “We remain steadfast in our
focus on making things right for
customers and building a better
Wells Fargo.”
Stacy Cowley contributed report-
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The Cuadrilla Resources fracking operation at Preston New Road in Lancashire, England. On Tuesday, tremors registering a magnitude of 0.4 were felt in the area.
Britain Fracks and the Earth Shakes. Will Protesters Be Galvanized?
By STANLEY REED
Less than two weeks after an
energy company won a court bat-
tle over opponents who feared hy-
draulic fracturing would cause
seismic tremors in northwest
England, the drilling work ap-
pears to be doing just that.
On Tuesday and Wednesday,
monitors in Lancashire, where the
fracking operation is underway
along Preston New Road, re-
corded tremors that registered
just below the threshold for shut-
ting down drilling. Weaker trem-
ors were recorded last week.
Jacqui Reid, a spokeswoman for
Cuadrilla Resources, the com-
pany operating the site, said that
Cuadrilla had halted the fracking
after the tremor on Tuesday, but
that it would proceed with the
work, although cautiously. She
said Cuadrilla, whose fracking
had been moving much more
slowly than would be common in
the United States, hoped to accel-
erate the pace next week.
“Regulators have been advised
and we anticipate we will continue
work at Preston New Road tomor-
row as planned,” the company
said in a statement on Wednesday.
The tremors may have been
modest, but they were unwelcome
for Cuadrilla and other companies
that hope to develop a shale-
drilling industry in Britain. There
has been no fracking and little
shale drilling in the country since
a Cuadrilla operation in the same
region led to earthquakes in 2011.
Surveys have indicated that
Sequel With a Happier Ending? A Tycoon Plans to Build a Titanic II
By KAREN ZRAICK
Would you buy a ticket for the
Titanic?
That’s a dream or a nightmare,
depending on who you are, but a
colorful Australian business ty-
coon wants to make the option a
reality.
Clive Palmer, a mining magnate
and conservative politician, says
his long-stated wish to build a rep-
lica of the famously opulent ship is
back on after years of delays.
On Monday, he announced that
his cruise ship company, Blue Star
Line, would establish a European
headquarters early next year,
most likely in Paris, to get the Ti-
tanic II onto the high seas.
“Millions have dreamt of sailing
on her, seeing her in port and ex-
periencing her unique majesty,”
he has said. “Titanic ll will be the
ship where those dreams come
true.”
The project was originally an-
nounced in 2012, but it was sus-
pended three years later amid a
payment dispute between Mr.
Palmer’s flagship company, Min-
eralogy, and Citic, a state-con-
trolled Chinese company.
Late last year, a top Australian
court ruled that Citic should pay
the company millions in royalties
from an iron ore project. The legal
tangle between the two parties
continues, but Mr. Palmer said the
court’s ruling had spurred him to
restart work on the Titanic II.
He also appointed his nephew,
Clive Mensink, as the project’s Eu-
ropean director. Mr. Mensink was
previously managing director of
Queensland Nickel, another of Mr.
Palmer’s businesses, which col-
lapsed in 2016. Mr. Mensink then
moved to Bulgaria, and has not re-
turned to Australia to face ques-
tioning by liquidators, leading to
arrest warrants.
People protesting the return of fracking to Britain this month.
Operations were shut down in 2011 after a series of tremors.
substantial quantities of natural
gas may be trapped in the rocks
below British soil, but envi-
ronmental groups, residents and
local planning authorities have
opposed efforts to use fracking
technology to extract the fuel.
The recent tremors, analysts
say, will probably provide fodder
for those who fear fracking or op-
pose the country’s developing a
new source of fuel that produces
carbon dioxide emissions, which
have been cited as causing cli-
mate change.
“The opposition is not going
away,” said Paul Stevens, an ener-
gy expert at Chatham House, a re-
search organization based in Lon-
don. The tremors, he added, were
In a statement, Mr. Palmer said
Mr. Mensink had not returned be-
cause the liquidators would not
pay his travel expenses, and
called him “the perfect candidate
to deliver a world class experi-
ence with Titanic II.”
“He shares Blue Star Line’s pas-
sion for recreating the ship of
dreams as a symbol of love and
peace in the world, playing to the
Jack and Rose in all of us,” he add-
ed, referring to the characters
played by Leonardo DiCaprio and
Kate Winslet in the blockbuster
1997 movie.
The company released a video
rendering of the cruise ship, com-
plete with passengers in period
“simply going to reinforce it.”
What happens over the next
few weeks at the Preston New
Road site, carved out of farmland
near Blackpool, is considered cru-
cial to the future of Britain’s shale
energy industry. With the support
of Prime Minister Theresa May’s
government, Cuadrilla and other
companies have pushed planning
officials to allow drilling and
fracking at some sites. The gov-
ernment hopes Britain can rep-
licate the experience of the United
States, which has become an oil
and gas exporter largely because
of fracking.
The government has placed
tight restrictions on the activity.
For instance, Cuadrilla is required
garb as they enjoyed the ornate
formal dining rooms, a smoking
room, the famed grand staircase
and even a Turkish bath.
Mr. Palmer said the ship would
hold 2,435 passengers in first-,
second- and third-class cabins —
and include more than enough
room for all of them in fully en-
closed, motorized lifeboats.
The original Titanic was the
largest passenger liner in the
world and was considered unsink-
able when it hit an iceberg and
sank during its first voyage, in
April 1912. It had been traveling to
New York from Southampton,
England, with only 1,178 lifeboat
seats for about 2,224 passengers
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
to put seismic monitors around
the site to detect tremors. The
threshold for shutting down oper-
ations is a magnitude of 0.5, a level
that seismologists say is well be-
low what could threaten life or
property.
Richard Luckett, a seismologist
for the British Geological Survey,
an agency that is monitoring the
Cuadrilla site, said in a telephone
interview that such tremors were
predictable as a result of fractur-
ing. The agency reported that the
shudder on Tuesday had regis-
tered 0.4.
He said tremors of that size
could not be felt by people near
the site and posed no threat of
property damage, adding that “0.4
does not worry me as a seismolo-
gist.”
But the agency subsequently
reported that a tremor on
Wednesday had registered 0.5, al-
though Cuadrilla said that was a
result of the reading’s being
rounded up from 0.48.
In an emailed statement, Brit-
ain’s Oil and Gas Authority de-
scribed the tremors as “low-level
seismic activity that can only be
detected with specialist equip-
ment,” and said that it was “moni-
toring carefully” Cuadrilla’s activ-
ities to ensure they “remain in
line” with approved plans.
Despite the tight scrutiny and
obstacles like a lack of domestic
hydraulic-fracturing expertise,
Cuadrilla and other companies
say they are confident they can
make a successful business out of
shale-gas drilling in Britain if the
and crew members. The dead
numbered about 1,500.
Mr. Palmer, who recently put up
billboards with the slogan “Make
Australia Great” across the coun-
try and maintains a lively social
media presence, said his new ship
would employ modern safety and
navigation methods. He said it
would travel a regular London-to-
New York route and make other
stops around the globe, “attract-
ing unrivaled attention, intrigue
and mystery in every port she vis-
its.”
The company had previously
boasted that it received thou-
sands of inquiries about booking,
and several offers of over $1 mil-
country’s rock formations prove
suitable. They argue that more
drilling and fracking are needed to
discover what resources Britain
has and whether they can be used
commercially.
Cuadrilla finally managed to
drill wells at the Preston New
Road site this year and began
fracking there this month after
A tremor is not felt at
the surface, but
drilling is halted, just
to be safe.
overcoming a last-minute court
challenge from a local envi-
ronmentalist.
It seems possible that the latest
tremors may slow the operations
further, piling up costs for crews
and fracking equipment. The
tremors may also energize pro-
testers, who have kept a vigil out-
side the gate of the site for
months, occasionally obstructing
truck traffic.
Reached by telephone near the
Preston New Road site on
Wednesday, Katrina Lawrie, a
protester who has lived in a make-
shift camp in the area for 18
months, said the tremors “had
made people more resolute.”
“Our worst nightmares are be-
ginning to come true,” she added.
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Clive Palmer, an Australian
mining magnate, wants to
recreate the “unique majesty”
of the Titanic, which hit an
iceberg and sank in 1912.
lion to travel on the ship’s first
voyage.
When it was first announced,
Blue Star said the ship would be
built in Nanjing, China, by CSC
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Jinling Shipyard, a Chinese state-
owned company. In 2015, The Aus-
tralian reported that workers at
the shipyard said they had heard
of the project, but had never be-
gun work on it.
“The Australians have used this
for propaganda,” one worker said.
“It will not happen.”
The company’s most recent
news releases did not mention
where the ship would be built.
But there is another Titanic rep-
lica being built in China, where the
1997 movie was wildly popular. It’s
intended to be the star attraction
of a theme park in Sichuan Prov-
ince, far from the sea. It is also
years behind schedule.

After Trump Slammed Harley-Davidson, an ‘Inexplicable’ Drop in Sales
By PETER EAVIS
Harley-Davidson on Tuesday
reported a surprisingly large de-
cline in United States motorcycle
sales.
The company and its execu-
tives spent much time discussing
the hit. Curiously, though, there
was no mention of President
Trump’s attacks on the company
and what role they might have
played in the poor sales.
Harley-Davidson’s situation
highlights the predicament faced
by companies targeted by Mr.
Trump. His administration’s trade
policies are hitting the businesses
No mention of
president’s attacks in
discussion of declining
motorcycle purchases.
of many companies. If executives
respond, they risk provoking a
public rebuke from Mr. Trump
that may reduce demand for their
companies’ products. But if his
comments could be affecting their
businesses, investors expect
some details.
Harley-Davidson announced at
the end of June that it was shifting
some of its production out of the
United States to avoid retaliatory
tariffs that the European Union
had imposed. After the announce-
ment, Mr. Trump criticized the
company several times on Twitter,
and said he supported a boycott of
its products.
Harley-Davidson’s overall prof-
it increased in the third quarter,
but its retail sales in the United
States plunged 13.3 percent from a
Exxon Kept 2 Sets of Books
On Climate, Lawsuit Says
From First Business Page
books when accounting for the ef-
fects of climate change, prosecu-
tors said. The company told the
world that it was prepared for the
more stringent regulations that
would inevitably be required to
combat global warming. But in re-
ality, according to the complaint,
Exxon’s internal estimates dis-
counted the potential future costs
of climate policies, even though
the threat of government action
“exposed the company to greater
risk from climate change regula-
tion than investors were led to be-
lieve.”
The investigation has spanned
the tenures of two New York attor-
neys general and has also in-
volved attorneys general from
other states. Exxon has attempted
to block the inquiry in courts in
three states, and has painted it as
an attempt by bullies to restrict
the company’s First Amendment
rights and as part of an anti-fossil-
fuel conspiracy backed by, among
others, the Rockefeller family.
Scott J. Silvestri, an Exxon Mo-
bil spokesman, said Wednesday
that the New York attorney gener-
al’s office had “doubled down on
its tainted, meritless investigation
by filing a complaint against Exx-
on Mobil.”
The “baseless allegations,” Mr.
Silvestri said, “are a product of
closed-door lobbying by special
interests, political opportunism
and the attorney general’s inabili-
ty to admit that a three-year in-
vestigation has uncovered no
Clifford Krauss contributed re-
porting from Houston.
Ex-Chief of I.M.F. Heads
To Prison in Fraud Case
By RAPHAEL MINDER
MADRID — Rodrigo Rato, a
former managing director of the
International Monetary Fund,
was set to enter a Spanish prison
on Thursday after failing to win an
appeal of his 2017 conviction for
credit card fraud while running
Bankia, a giant Spanish lender
that nearly collapsed in 2012.
Mr. Rato, 69, who was sen-
tenced to four and a half years in
prison, was convicted with dozens
of other former directors and ex-
ecutives of Bankia for misusing
the bank’s funds to make their
own lavish purchases. Over a dec-
ade, Bankia’s executives unlaw-
fully used the company’s credit
cards to make purchases totaling
12.5 million euros.
The imprisonment will mark
another chapter in the long-run-
Other points of view
on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
The New York Times
Harley-Davidson may hope to escape further criticism from President Trump. But analysts doubt his comments had a big impact.
year earlier, more than double the
decline in the second quarter.
“There was an inexplicable ac-
celeration in the magnitude of the
decline in U.S. retail sales,” said
Rommel Dionisio, an analyst at
Aegis Capital. “In a fairly strong
economy, it took many investors
by surprise.”
wrongdoing. The company looks
forward to refuting these claims
as soon as possible and getting
this meritless civil lawsuit dis-
missed.”
Barbara D. Underwood, the
New York attorney general,
brought the lawsuit under the
Martin Act, a state law that gives
her sweeping powers to investi-
gate and prosecute securities
fraud. The suit demands that Exx-
on turn over all the money it made
through the alleged fraud and
make restitution to investors.
“Investors put their money and
their trust in Exxon, which as-
sured them of the long-term value
of their shares, as the company
claimed to be factoring the risk of
increasing climate change regula-
tion into its business decisions,”
Ms. Underwood said. “Yet as our
investigation found, Exxon often
did no such thing.”
The investigation first came to
light in November 2015, about a
year after it was begun by former
Attorney General Eric T. Schnei-
derman. Before long, other state
attorneys general announced
their support for Mr. Schneider-
man’s efforts; some, notably
Maura Healey of Massachusetts,
started investigations of their
own.
The lawsuit says that Exxon
told investors that when it was
planning for its oil and gas re-
serves, its investments and its es-
timates of demand for its prod-
ucts, it applied an added cost, or
“proxy cost,” that represented the
likely effects of future climate reg-
ulations. But in many cases, the
suit says, the company “applied
much lower proxy costs than it
represented or no proxy costs at
ning case of Bankia and its mis-
management. Mr. Rato, a former
finance minister of Spain, who
was once seen as a potential
prime minister, is the most promi-
nent Spaniard to enter prison
since the country was plunged
into a European banking bailout
by Bankia’s near-collapse.
His predecessor as chairman of
the bank, Miguel Blesa, was also
sentenced last year to prison for
misusing the company’s funds.
Five months later, Mr. Blesa killed
himself with a shotgun.
This week, Spain’s national
court rejected Mr. Rato’s appeal to
have the prison term suspended
while he tries to file a final appeal
before the constitutional court. In-
stead, the national court set
Thursday as the deadline for Mr.
Rato to enter prison of his own ac-
cord.
Mr. Rato and other former
Bankia executives are still await-
ing a ruling in another, broader
case centered on their misman-
agement of Bankia. In that case,
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
The sharp slowdown may have
had little to with Mr. Trump’s com-
ments. Going into the third quar-
ter, Harley-Davidson already
faced a long-term decline in de-
mand for its motorcycles in the
United States as well as a glut of
attractively priced used vehicles.
Senior Harley-Davidson execu-
New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood’s investigation is three years in the making.
all,” which exposed Exxon to
greater regulatory risk.
Prosecutors added that “Exx-
on’s fraud was sanctioned at the
highest levels of the company,” in-
cluding by its former chief execu-
tive, Rex W. Tillerson. Mr. Tiller-
son, who went on to serve as Pres-
ident Trump’s first secretary of
state, “knew for years that the
company’s representations con-
cerning proxy costs were mislead-
ing,” according to the complaint.
Exxon has been the focus of
other legal actions and inquiries
over its past statements and its
role in the public debate over cli-
mate change. Echoing the New
York case, the Securities and Ex-
change Commission opened an in-
vestigation in 2016 over the com-
pany’s practice of not writing
they stand accused of misrepre-
senting the bank’s financial
soundness as it was preparing a
public stock offering in 2011.
Bankia went on to report a loss
for 2012 of €19.2 billion, then the
largest in Spanish corporate his-
tives discussed such challenges
on a conference call on Tuesday,
but they said nothing about the
possible effect of Mr. Trump’s at-
tacks.
“We have no evidence to sug-
gest that trade and tariff issues
impacted customer intent to pur-
chase,” Patricia Sweeney, a com-
down the value of oil reserves in
light of the risk of climate change
regulations, as other energy com-
panies do. The commission
dropped that inquiry in August.
Also, several cities, counties
and the state of Rhode Island have
sued the fossil fuel industry to re-
coup the costs of dealing with sea
level rise and other effects of a
warming world. Those cases rely
on creative and relatively untest-
ed legal theories, however, and
some of the suits, including one
filed by New York City, have been
dismissed, though the plaintiffs
have said they will appeal.
Lee Wasserman, director of the
Rockefeller Family fund, which
supports holding fossil fuel com-
panies accountable for climate
damages, said of Ms. Under-
tory. Separately, Mr. Rato has also
been investigated for tax evasion
relating to property purchases, in-
cluding that of a hotel in Berlin.
Mr. Rato was the finance min-
ister in the conservative govern-
ment of José María Aznar, which
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pany spokeswoman, said in an
emailed statement after the con-
ference call.
Harley-Davidson’s reticence
about Mr. Trump’s comments may
shield it from further criticism.
But public companies are re-
quired to give shareholders a
timely and relatively detailed as-
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
wood’s lawsuit: “Apparently, Exx-
on has deceived the investing pub-
lic about the economic conse-
quences of climate change, just as
they deceived the general public
about the ‘catastrophic’ harm
they knew their products would
cause. It’s past time for Exxon to
make their investors whole and to
pay its fair share of the massive
damages communities across the
nation now face.”
Internally, Exxon has acknowl-
edged climate change’s effects on
its operations and planned ac-
cordingly. The company has long
conducted research into climate
change, much of it published in
the scientific literature. In 2015,
Inside Climate News and The Los
Angeles Times reported that Exx-
on was well aware of the risks of
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was in office from 1996 to 2004. He
then led the I.M.F. from 2004 to
2007, winning the job thanks to his
reputation as the architect of
Spain’s construction-led boom.
After his return to Madrid, Mr.
Rato took over from Mr. Blesa as
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sessment of any significant forces
affecting their financial results.
Staying silent about the possible
harm done by Mr. Trump’s attacks
may seem to be a wise public rela-
tions move, but it could also keep
important information from in-
vestors.
Some analysts said they saw no
evidence that Mr. Trump’s tweets
had a meaningful effect on
Harley-Davidson’s third-quarter
results.
Felicia Hendrix, an analyst at
Barclays, said that the quarter’s
sales were mostly in line with re-
cent trends, and that September’s
sales were quite strong.
Customers, she said, had held
back on purchases early in the
quarter in anticipation of the re-
lease of new products later in the
period.
“None of our dealer checks
would indicate that there was any
fallout from the Trump comments
this summer or that they felt that
customers were boycotting their
stores,” Ms. Hendrix wrote in an
email.
Mr. Trump’s criticism may also
have made Harley-Davidson’s
products more attractive to
customers who don’t support him.
“This is a pretty divided nation,”
said Jaime Katz, an analyst at
Morningstar, “so for every
customer that supports Trump’s
boycott, there is probably one who
doesn’t support it.”
Still, Harley-Davidson’s appeal
to older blue-collar American
men, a group that has lent solid
support to Mr. Trump, most likely
meant his calls for a boycott fell on
receptive ears.
“I believe it was a temporary
factor in the industry in impacting
U.S. sales of Harley-Davidson
motorcycles,” said Mr. Dionisio,
the Aegis Capital analyst.
A contention that
the accusations are
driven by ‘political
opportunism.’
climate change and used that re-
search in its long-term planning
for activities like drilling in the
Arctic, even as it funded groups
from the 1990s to the mid-2000s
that denied serious climate risks.
The company pledged to stop
funding groups that directly chal-
lenged the science of climate
change in the mid-2000s, and says
today that it accepts the science
and the need for action to blunt the
worst effects. The company sup-
ported the Paris climate deal and
opposed the decision by Mr.
Trump to withdraw from the
agreement. It also publicizes its
development of renewable energy
technologies such as biofuels.
In addition, Exxon recently an-
nounced it would spend $1 million
over the next two years to finance
a group promoting “carbon divi-
dend” legislation that would tax
carbon dioxide emissions and
then return the money that is col-
lected back to taxpayers. (The
proposal that the company sup-
ports would also protect compa-
nies that emit fossil fuels from
lawsuits over the effects of cli-
mate change.)
The New York lawsuit poses “a
real risk to Exxon’s reputation,”
said Michael Burger, executive di-
rector of the Sabin Center for Cli-
mate Change Law at Columbia
University. He said it was espe-
cially concerning for investors,
who rely on the company’s state-
ments.
“If Exxon has been misleading
on this,” Mr. Burger said, “what
else has it been misleading
about?”
Rodrigo Rato, sentenced last
year to four and a half years in
prison for misusing funds at
Bankia, the large Spanish
bank, lost his appeal this week.
chairman of Caja Madrid, a re-
gional lender, in 2010. He helped
spearhead a seven-way merger to
form Bankia after the bursting of
Spain’s construction bubble in
2008. But he resigned as execu-
tive chairman in 2012 just before
the state nationalized the bank
and negotiated a bailout to rescue
it and smaller struggling banks in
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After Bankia’s bailout, the focus
shifted to the courtrooms. In 2014,
Mr. Rato and others were ordered
to stand trial for misusing their
credit-card privileges while also
providing dozens of members of
the board and their well-con-
nected friends with unauthorized
company credit cards that were is-
sued separately from their normal
remuneration packages. The
cards were used for personal pur-
chases, like clothing, restaurant
meals and travel, as well as cash
withdrawals.
The prosecution accused Mr.
Rato of making illegal personal
purchases while running Bankia
worth €54,800.
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3M (MMM) 183.97 259.77 184.54 ◊ 8.01 ◊ 21.36 ◊ 21.6 Charter Co (CHTR) 250.10 396.64 306.05 ◊ 11.84 ◊ 10.05 ◊ 8.9 Halliburto (HAL) 34.19 57.86 34.23 ◊ 1.37 ◊ 17.26 ◊ 30.0 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 68.61 93.70 83.09 ◊ 4.48 + 18.34 + 12.9
Abbott (ABT) 53.61 74.15 66.94 ◊ 1.63 + 20.87 + 17.3 Chevron (CVX) 108.02 133.88 110.21 ◊ 3.19 ◊ 7.57 ◊ 12.0 Home Depot (HD) 160.53 215.43 176.97 ◊ 1.56 + 6.59 ◊ 6.6 PepsiCo (PEP) 95.94 122.51 112.96 + 2.83 + 2.00 ◊ 5.8
AbbVie (ABBV) 79.26 125.86 79.41 ◊ 3.55 ◊ 13.39 ◊ 17.9 Cisco Syst (CSCO) 33.67 49.47 44.07 ◊ 1.35 + 27.44 + 15.1 Honeywell (HON) 139.51 167.72 145.34 ◊ 5.26 + 0.58 ◊ 4.2 Pfizer (PFE) 33.20 45.81 42.48 ◊ 1.62 + 17.12 + 17.3
Accenture (ACN) 138.05 175.64 153.12 ◊ 4.97 + 10.23 + 0.0 Citigroup (C) 63.18 80.70 63.80 ◊ 1.93 ◊ 14.06 ◊ 14.3 IBM (IBM) 127.00 171.13 127.21 ◊ 4.00 ◊ 18.39 ◊ 17.1 PMI (PM) 76.21 111.25 89.20 + 0.70 ◊ 17.84 ◊ 15.6
AIG (AIG) 42.17 65.45 42.23 ◊ 1.95 ◊ 35.16 ◊ 29.1 Coca-Cola (KO) 41.45 48.62 46.73 + 0.37 + 1.19 + 1.9 Intel (INTC) 40.49 57.60 42.42 ◊ 2.08 + 3.59 ◊ 8.1 Procter Ga (PG) 70.73 93.14 89.46 + 2.30 + 2.85 ◊ 2.6
Allergan (AGN) 142.81 197.00 178.91 ◊ 8.74 ◊ 2.19 + 9.4 Colgate (CL) 61.28 77.91 64.64 + 1.24 ◊ 10.02 ◊ 14.3 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 118.62 148.32 137.47 ◊ 1.46 ◊ 2.94 ◊ 1.6 Qualcomm (QCOM) 48.56 76.50 62.62 ◊ 3.76 + 15.43 ◊ 2.2
Allstate (ALL) 88.29 105.36 92.09 ◊ 3.98 ◊ 1.66 ◊ 12.1 Comcast (CMCSA) 30.43 44.00 34.12 ◊ 1.53 ◊ 6.52 ◊ 14.8 JPMorgan (JPM) 95.95 119.33 103.29 ◊ 1.96 + 2.35 ◊ 3.4 Raytheon (RTN) 179.30 229.75 182.11 ◊ 9.27 ◊ 3.70 ◊ 3.1
Alphabet (GOOGL) 977 1291 1057 ◊ 57.79 + 6.94 + 0.4 ConocoPhil (COP) 48.97 80.24 65.69 ◊ 3.53 + 28.83 + 19.7 Kinder Mor (KMI) 14.69 19.83 16.51 ◊ 0.53 ◊ 9.63 ◊ 8.6 Schlumberg (SLB) 52.97 80.35 53.01 ◊ 2.08 ◊ 15.10 ◊ 21.3
Alphabet (GOOG) 961 1274 1051 ◊ 52.98 N.A. N.A. Costco Who (COST) 159.47 245.16 223.76 ◊ 4.99 + 37.88 + 20.2 Kraft Hein (KHC) 53.03 82.48 55.78 ◊ 0.82 ◊ 27.76 ◊ 28.3 Simon Prop (SPG) 145.78 186.03 174.01 + 1.32 + 6.19 + 1.3
Altria Gro (MO) 53.91 74.38 62.31 + 0.46 ◊ 2.84 ◊ 12.7 CVS Health (CVS) 60.14 83.88 69.81 ◊ 2.64 ◊ 8.16 ◊ 3.7 Lilly (LLY) 73.69 116.61 106.32 ◊ 4.07 + 24.83 + 25.9 Southern C (SO) 42.38 53.51 46.02 + 1.29 ◊ 12.13 ◊ 4.3
Amazon.com (AMZN) 965 2050 1664 ◊104.50 + 70.53 + 42.3 Danaher (DHR) 90.13 110.13 95.81 ◊ 1.61 + 5.34 + 3.2 Lockheed (LMT) 291.52 363.00 311.13 ◊ 10.22 ◊ 0.65 ◊ 3.1 Starbucks (SBUX) 47.37 61.94 58.06 ◊ 0.75 + 6.96 + 1.1
American E (AXP) 87.54 111.77 101.84 ◊ 2.54 + 8.50 + 2.6 DowDuPont (DWDP) 52.58 77.08 52.68 ◊ 2.00 ◊ 26.69 ◊ 26.0 Lowes (LOW) 75.36 117.70 96.53 ◊ 1.59 + 18.94 + 3.9 Target (TGT) 54.04 90.39 82.27 ◊ 0.40 + 30.73 + 26.1
Amgen (AMGN) 163.31 210.19 187.88 ◊ 9.76 + 4.16 + 8.0 Duke Energ (DUK) 71.96 91.80 84.75 + 2.45 ◊ 3.68 + 0.8 Mastercard (MA) 140.61 225.35 195.69 ◊ 6.74 + 34.22 + 29.3 Texas Inst (TXN) 91.50 120.75 92.01 ◊ 8.24 ◊ 4.59 ◊ 11.9
Apple (AAPL) 150.24 233.47 215.09 ◊ 7.64 + 36.91 + 27.1 Emerson El (EMR) 57.47 79.70 66.01 ◊ 2.96 ◊ 1.09 ◊ 5.3 Mcdonald’s (MCD) 146.84 178.70 177.35 + 0.20 + 8.22 + 3.0 Union Paci (UNP) 109.83 165.63 140.45 ◊ 3.47 + 24.40 + 4.7
AT&T (T) 30.13 39.33 30.36 ◊ 2.66 ◊ 12.91 ◊ 21.9 Exelon (EXC) 35.57 45.05 44.52 + 0.99 + 11.41 + 13.0 Medtronic (MDT) 76.41 100.15 91.47 ◊ 1.62 + 16.29 + 13.3 UPS (UPS) 101.45 135.53 107.93 ◊ 6.31 ◊ 9.83 ◊ 9.4
BoFAML (BAC) 25.81 33.05 26.19 ◊ 0.83 ◊ 5.38 ◊ 11.3 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 72.16 89.30 77.62 ◊ 2.22 ◊ 7.01 ◊ 7.2 Merck & Co (MRK) 52.83 73.49 70.54 ◊ 1.56 + 11.77 + 25.4 UnitedHeal (UNH) 205.88 272.81 256.32 ◊ 8.54 + 23.14 + 16.3
Berkshire (BRKa) 270250 335900 299895 ◊5105.01 + 5.42 + 0.8 Facebook (FB) 145.60 218.62 146.04 ◊ 8.35 ◊ 14.99 ◊ 17.2 MetLife (MET) 40.10 55.91 40.24 ◊ 2.30 ◊ 25.67 ◊ 20.4 US Bancorp (USB) 48.49 58.50 50.28 ◊ 1.09 ◊ 7.25 ◊ 6.2
Biogen (BIIB) 249.17 388.67 302.05 ◊ 14.10 ◊ 4.33 ◊ 5.2 FedEx (FDX) 208.85 274.66 209.20 ◊ 9.18 ◊ 7.37 ◊ 16.2 Microsoft (MSFT) 78.01 116.18 102.32 ◊ 5.78 + 29.75 + 19.6 UTC (UTX) 115.40 144.15 122.07 ◊ 7.95 + 1.95 ◊ 4.3
BlackRock (BLK) 376.31 594.52 378.66 ◊ 8.83 ◊ 20.07 ◊ 26.3 Ford Motor (F) 8.17 13.48 8.18 ◊ 0.41 ◊ 32.14 ◊ 33.8 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 37.42 46.54 41.32 + 0.06 + 0.56 ◊ 3.5 Verizon (VZ) 43.97 58.44 57.42 + 0.21 + 17.33 + 8.5
Boeing (BA) 254.50 394.28 354.65 + 4.60 + 33.33 + 20.3 Fox (FOXA) 24.81 50.15 44.71 ◊ 0.92 + 70.45 + 29.5 Morgan Sta (MS) 42.88 59.38 43.49 ◊ 1.03 ◊ 14.84 ◊ 17.1 Visa (V) 106.60 151.56 134.26 ◊ 4.86 + 23.84 + 17.8
BONY Mello (BK) 45.16 58.99 45.33 ◊ 0.95 ◊ 14.28 ◊ 15.8 Fox (FOX) 24.30 49.65 44.29 ◊ 1.08 + 73.28 + 29.8 Nextera En (NEE) 145.10 176.83 175.60 + 4.97 + 13.86 + 12.4 Walgreens (WBA) 59.07 80.68 74.20 ◊ 3.06 + 10.27 + 2.2
Booking Hl (BKNG) 1631 2229 1754 ◊ 76.42 ◊ 9.25 + 0.9 GE (GE) 11.21 22.31 12.17 ◊ 0.52 ◊ 44.40 ◊ 30.3 Netflix (NFLX) 178.38 423.21 301.83 ◊ 31.33 + 53.98 + 57.2 Walmart (WMT) 81.78 109.98 97.56 ◊ 0.24 + 10.89 ◊ 1.2
Bristol-My (BMY) 48.67 70.05 48.83 ◊ 1.82 ◊ 23.28 ◊ 20.3 General Dy (GD) 172.86 230.00 173.24 ◊ 14.51 ◊ 18.31 ◊ 14.9 Nike (NKE) 52.67 86.04 72.12 ◊ 1.23 + 35.01 + 15.3 Walt Disne (DIS) 96.89 119.69 111.61 ◊ 6.24 + 13.55 + 3.8
Capital On (COF) 85.17 106.50 85.86 ◊ 1.18 ◊ 4.09 ◊ 13.8 Gilead Sci (GILD) 64.27 89.54 68.01 ◊ 3.66 ◊ 15.09 ◊ 5.1 Nvidia (NVDA) 180.58 292.76 199.41 ◊ 21.65 + 0.37 + 3.1 Wells Farg (WFC) 50.02 66.31 50.19 ◊ 1.37 ◊ 9.44 ◊ 17.3
Caterpilla (CAT) 112.25 173.24 112.34 ◊ 6.64 ◊ 18.74 ◊ 28.7 GM (GM) 30.56 46.76 30.56 ◊ 1.56 ◊ 34.25 ◊ 25.5 Occidental (OXY) 62.47 87.67 68.23 ◊ 2.41 + 3.66 ◊ 7.4
Celgene (CELG) 74.13 123.25 74.71 ◊ 5.06 ◊ 37.92 ◊ 28.4 Goldman Sa (GS) 208.40 275.31 209.18 ◊ 9.38 ◊ 14.56 ◊ 17.9 Oracle (ORCL) 42.57 53.48 46.76 ◊ 1.23 ◊ 6.44 ◊ 1.1

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

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA GOVERNMENT BONDS

Yields 52-Week Total Returns Market Breadth Yield Curve Key Rates Most Recent Issues
FINRA-BLOOMBERG FINRA-BLOOMBERG All Investment High Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago 10-year Treas. Prime Rate
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES CORPORATE BOND INDEXES Issues Grade Yield Conv 2-year Treas. Fed Funds Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield
4% 6%
8% high yield +6.26% + 2% high yield +0.42% Total Issues Traded 8,506 6,305 2,021 180 T-BILLS
Advances 4,732 3,824 854 54 5 3-mo. Jan 24 ◊ ◊ 2.34 2.34 ◊ 2.34
Declines 3,345 2,248 980 117 3 6-mo. Apr 25 ◊ ◊ 2.48 2.47 –0.01 2.48
+ 1 Unchanged 89 48 36 5 4
6 52 Week High 32 17 14 1 BONDS & NOTES
0 52 Week Low 833 572 227 34 2 3 2-yr. Oct 31 2~ ◊ 100.07 100.08 +0.32 2.88
Dollar Volume* 27,190 19,071 7,162 956 5-yr. Sep 30 2~ ◊ 99.68 99.69 +0.31 3.01
End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. 2 10-yr. Aug 15 2~ ◊ 98.03 98.05 +0.52 3.17
4 – 1 Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 30-yr. Aug 15 3.000 ◊ 93.70 93.72 +0.63 3.37
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most 1 TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
– 2 active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 15 | ◊ 98.30 98.34 +0.20 1.06
2 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jul 15 } ◊ 97.31 97.41 +0.38 1.08
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
– 3 unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 20-yr. Jan 15 2ø ◊ 113.57 113.73 +0.45 1.14
*Par value in millions.
3 6 2 5 10 30 2017 2018 30-yr. Feb 15 1.000 ◊ 94.05 94.22 +0.43 1.26
0 invest. grade +4.49% – 4 invest. grade –1.96% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
2017 2018 2017 2018 Standard & Poor’s.

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

AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0270 36.9720
One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7058 1.4168
One Dollar in Yen
Comcast Corp New (CMCS) 4.700 Oct’48 A3 A– 98.088 97.223 97.223 0.108 4.877 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1458 6.8600 0.95 euros $1 = 0.8773 China (Yuan) .1441 6.9420 120 yen $1 = 112.26
Cvs Health Corp (CVS) 5.050 Mar’48 Baa1 BBB 99.555 98.668 98.668 0.239 5.138 Brazil (Real) .2678 3.7335 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1275 7.8407
At&t Inc (T) 4.500 Mar’48 Baa2 BBB 84.750 83.578 84.154 0.702 5.606 Canada (Dollar) .7662 1.3052 India (Rupee) .0137 73.2200
Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen Boerenl (RABO) 1.375 Aug’19 Aa3 A+ 98.801 98.738 98.784 0.108 2.950 Chile (Peso) .0014 690.37 0.90 Japan (Yen) .0089 112.26 115
At&t Inc (T) 3.400 May’25 Baa2 BBB 95.350 93.394 94.135 0.369 4.441 Colombia (Peso) .0003 3165.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2401 4.1655
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD) 4.900 Feb’46 A3 A– 99.298 96.072 97.179 0.387 5.092 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0200 49.9500 New Zealand (Dollar) .6528 1.5319
Qualcomm Inc (QCOM) 4.300 May’47 A2 A– 91.773 90.952 91.773 1.206 4.834
At&t Inc (T) 5.450 Mar’47 Baa2 BBB 98.736 95.565 95.975 –2.014 5.739
El Salvador (Colon) .1142 8.7590 0.85 Pakistan (Rupee) .0077 130.10 110
Guatamala (Quetzal) .1292 7.7400 Philippines (Peso) .0186 53.7500
Anheuser-busch Inbev Worldwide Inc (BUD) 3.500 Jan’24 A3 A– 100.000 97.890 98.117 0.326 3.902
Honduras (Lempira) .0416 24.0440 Singapore (Dollar) .7243 1.3806
Comcast Corp New (CMCS) 4.950 Oct’58 A3 A– 98.759 97.831 97.831 –0.302 5.077
Mexico (Peso) .0510 19.6001 0.80 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1138.8 105
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0311 32.1900 Taiwan (Dollar) .0323 30.9800
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5984.0 Thailand (Baht) .0304 32.9200
Sprint Cap Corp (SFTBF) 6.875 Nov’28 B3 B 101.375 96.550 98.500 0.000 7.085 Peru (New Sol) .2996 3.3376 0.75 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 23348 100
Charter Communications Oper Llc / Charte (CHTR) 4.500 Feb’24 Ba1 BBB– 100.481 100.277 100.481 0.301 4.394 Uruguay (New Peso) .0305 32.8400
Charter Communications Oper Llc / Charte (CHTR) 4.908 Jul’25 Ba1 BBB– 100.805 100.516 100.622 0.387 4.795 ’17 2018 ’17 2018
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Charter Communications Oper Llc / Charte (CHTR) 5.375 May’47 Ba1 BBB– 90.856 88.600 90.417 0.385 6.087 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6544 .3767
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PTRB) 5.750 Feb’29 Ba2 BB– 94.140 90.400 91.600 –0.900 6.904 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1508.0
Norway (Krone) .1197 8.3509 Egypt (Pound) .0560 17.8600
Hexion U S Fin Corp (APO) 6.625 Apr’20 Caa1 CCC+ 95.000 90.500 90.563 –1.313 13.944 Britain (Pound) 1.2880 .7764 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2666 3.7513
Poland (Zloty) .2641 3.7858 Iran (Rial) .00002 42000
Clear Channel Worldwide Hldgs Inc (IHRT) 7.625 Mar’20 Caa1 CCC+ 100.375 99.430 100.000 –0.250 7.615 So. Africa (Rand) .0687 14.5550
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0441 22.6970 Russia (Ruble) .0152 65.6338 Israel (Shekel) .2714 3.6840
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 6.750 Mar’28 Ba2 BB 102.938 102.375 102.500 0.020 6.383 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6728
Denmark (Krone) .1527 6.5490 Sweden (Krona) .1096 9.1237 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4104 .7090
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PTRB) 5.998 Jan’28 Ba2 BB– 97.350 93.750 94.645 –0.955 6.786
Europe (Euro) 1.1398 .8773 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0022 .9978 Kenya (Shilling) .0099 101.10
Energy Transfer Equity L P (ETE) 5.500 Jun’27 Ba2 BB– 102.625 102.224 102.495 –0.255 5.129 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0035 283.82 Turkey (Lira) .1755 5.6987 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.2975 .3033
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Microchip Technology Inc (MCHP) 1.625 Feb’25 B+ 127.979 118.000 123.177 –8.676 –1.828
Nxp Semiconductors N V (NXPI) 1.000 Dec’19 Ba2 BB+ 101.650 100.757 101.064 –1.278 0.030
Tesla Inc (TSLA)
Tesla Inc (TSLA)
1.250
2.375
Mar’21
Mar’22
B–
B–
104.662
112.753
101.913
109.350
102.922
109.886
0.370
1.687
0.005
–0.515
FUTURES
Monetary
Microchip Technology Inc (MCHP)
Wayfair Inc (W)
1.625
0.375
Feb’27
Sep’22
B+ 94.510
126.864
90.750
123.097
90.750
123.097
–5.930
–6.278
2.886
–4.995 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $80 $66.82 a barrel
Dish Network Corp (DISH) 3.375 Aug’26 Ba3 CCC+ 90.900 82.550 89.250 –1.171 5.059
Micron Technology Inc (MU) 3.000 Nov’43 BB+ 132.968 123.536 123.536 –9.434 1.825 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 429.50 342.50 Dec 18 369.50 369.75 367.75 368.25 ◊ 2.00 764,298
Illumina Inc (ILMN) 0.500 Jun’21 BBB 137.294 120.300 125.300 –9.865 –7.937 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1060.50 812.25 Nov 18 855.75 856.75 850.00 850.25 ◊ 7.25 190,750
On Semiconductor Corp (ONNN) 1.000 Dec’20 BB– 109.500 101.250 109.500 0.448 –3.335 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 622.00 468.25 Dec 18 510.00 510.75 496.75 499.50 ◊ 9.50 232,861 70
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 117.60 101.50 Oct 18 113.10 113.78 112.70 113.28 + 0.50 3,473
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 65.28 43.80 Dec 18 55.10 57.53 55.10 57.53 + 3.00 99,927
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 2911.00 1871.00 Dec 18 2190.00 2228.00 2133.00 2137.00 ◊ 50.00 91,569 60
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 192.30 95.10 Dec 18 121.10 124.35 120.00 120.25 ◊ 0.85 113,242
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 18.83 10.80 Feb 19 13.73 14.24 13.71 14.01 + 0.20 389,592
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1386.00 1162.10 Oct 18 1231.60 1231.60 1228.50 1227.80 ◊ 5.60 80 50
Silver COMX $/oz 15.63 13.90 Oct 18 14.67 14.67 14.66 14.61 ◊ 0.12 3
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 3.33 2.57 Oct 18 2.75 2.76 2.75 2.75 0.00 264
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 107.16 40.60 Nov 18 66.17 67.72 66.05 66.82 + 0.39 476,388 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.45 1.35 Oct 18 2.24 2.27 2.23 2.25 0.00 51,767
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 5.98 2.57 Oct 18 3.22 3.25 3.16 3.17 ◊ 0.05 48,895 ’17 2018
Home Year
Mortgages Wednesday
Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Source: Thomson Reuters
Federal funds 2.20% 1.16% Durable Goods Orders +40%
Prime rate 5.25 4.25 Change from
15-yr fixed 4.07 3.15 previous year
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: MID- AND SMALL-CAPITALIZATION STOCK FUNDS
15-yr fixed jumbo 4.61 3.82 Aug. ’18 +11.8% –40
July ’18 +10.0 ’13 ’18 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
30-yr fixed 4.74 3.92 Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.82 4.18 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 4.33 3.42
Consumer Borrowing +8%
Vanguard Mid Cap Index Admiral(VIMAX) MB ◊4.1 ◊0.6 +8.4 0.05 41,049 Delaware Smid Cap Growth A(DFCIX) SG +11.2 +28.3 +10.8 1.17 1,038
Change from Vanguard Small Cap Index Adm(VSMAX) SB ◊2.7 +1.1 +7.7 0.05 38,323 Kinetics Small Cap Opportunities No Lo(KSCOX) SB +13.5 +21.9 +8.7 1.64 258
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 4.20 3.59 previous year Fidelity Low-Priced Stock(FLPSX) MV ◊5.3 ◊0.6 +6.8 0.62 28,359 Lord Abbett Developing Growth I(LADYX) SG +14.1 +21.0 +7.1 0.69 916
1-year adj. rate 4.08 3.21 DFA US Core Equity 2 I(DFQTX) MB ◊3.2 +1.4 +8.6 0.21 26,712 Wasatch Ultra Growth(WAMCX) SG +15.2 +20.7 +12.9 1.26 296
Aug. ’18 +4.7% 0 T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth(RPMGX) MG +1.0 +3.5 +11.2 0.75 25,335 Morgan Stanley Inst Mid Cap Growth I(MPEGX) MG +14.6 +19.3 +7.0 0.72 305
July ’18 +4.5 Vanguard Extended Market Index Admiral(VEXAX) MB ◊3.2 +0.4 +7.6 0.08 21,617 Baron Opportunity Instl(BIOIX) MG +13.5 +18.8 +10.4 1.13 96
’13 ’18 T. Rowe Price New Horizons(PRNHX) SG +10.1 +13.5 +12.8 0.77 21,391 Wasatch Micro Cap(WMICX) SG +11.5 +18.6 +11.1 1.92 495
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Fidelity Extended Market Index Premiu(FSEVX) MB ◊3.2 +0.4 +7.6 0.07 19,719 Kinetics Paradigm Instl(KNPYX) MG +9.2 +18.0 +10.0 1.44 215
DFA US Small Cap I(DFSTX) SB ◊5.0 ◊2.4 +6.9 0.37 19,169 Aegis Value(AVALX) SV ◊1.4 +18.0 +2.2 1.75 120
$75K line good credit* 1.99% 5.21%
Producer Prices +6% DFA US Small Cap Value I(DFSVX) SV ◊6.8 ◊4.9 +5.5 0.52 16,245 ClearBridge Small Cap Growth IS(LMOIX) SG +12.3 +17.5 +9.2 0.78 1,328
$75K line excel. credit* 1.99 4.50 Vanguard Explorer Adm(VEXRX) SG +4.2 +8.8 +8.7 0.31 13,098 Wasatch Small Cap Growth Investor(WAAEX) SG +10.7 +16.7 +8.5 1.23 1,179
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Slipping ‘Tonight Show’ Gets Veteran NBC Producer
By JOHN KOBLIN
At a crucial moment in late-
night television, a new showrun-
ner is taking over “The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” a
onetime ratings winner that lost
its lead in total viewers soon after
the inauguration of President
Trump.
A 27-year veteran of NBC, Jim
Bell, will become the so-called ex-
ecutive in charge at “The Tonight
Show” immediately, the network
said on Wednesday.
Mr. Bell is taking over the pro-
gram at a time when “The Late
Show With Stephen Colbert” is not
only dominating the late-night
ratings, but also cutting into Mr.
Fallon’s lead among a group of
viewers prized by advertisers:
adults between the ages of 18 and
Host’s ‘Blackface’ Remarks
Are Denounced by Network
From First Business Page
praise for her attempts to redeem
herself.
“There is no other way to put
this, but I condemn those re-
marks,” Mr. Lack said at a midday
staff meeting held in the “Satur-
day Night Live” studios in Mid-
town Manhattan. “There is no
place on our air or in this work-
place for them.”
His comments were seen within
NBC as a stinging rebuke, accord-
ing to interviews with four people
close to the network who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to de-
scribe sensitive conversations.
Even before this week, the fu-
ture of Ms. Kelly’s show was up in
the air. During a meeting this
month, Ms. Kelly and Mr. Lack
discussed a possible winding-
down of her portion of the “Today”
show by the end of the year, ac-
cording to two people briefed on
the conversation. And Ms. Kelly
has expressed among friends her
dissatisfaction with its top news
executives.
Late Wednesday, Ms. Kelly and
her Hollywood talent agency, Cre-
ative Artists Agency, ended their
relationship, according to two
people informed of the decision.
With a reported annual salary
of $17 million and the NBC hype
machine in full swing, Ms. Kelly,
47, arrived at 30 Rockefeller Plaza
49.
Mr. Fallon took over “The To-
night Show” from Jay Leno in
2014. His cheerful, enthusiastic
style made him the leader in total
viewers until the spring of 2017,
when Mr. Colbert leapfrogged him
in the Nielsen ratings.
Mr. Bell, a longtime executive
producer of “Today,” is not only a
producer but a bona fide network
executive. He has a big title: presi-
dent, NBC Olympics production
and programming.
By installing him at “The To-
night Show,” NBC is employing a
strategy that had success at CBS.
Two years ago, CBS hired Chris
Licht, the executive producer of
“CBS This Morning,” to take over
Mr. Colbert’s then-struggling
show. Like Mr. Licht in the time
before he took that job, Mr. Bell
last spring hoping to become the
first Fox News personality to suc-
cessfully leap to the gentler realm
of morning network TV.
Instead, she has struggled to at-
tract viewers and offended celeb-
rity guests (notably the actress
Jane Fonda). She also alienated
some “Today” show colleagues
with her coverage of in-house har-
assment scandals involving Matt
Lauer, the former “Today” anchor,
and Tom Brokaw, the former NBC
anchor, according to two people
with knowledge of the matter.
On Tuesday’s show, her com-
ments — in which she suggested
that, when she was a child, dress-
ing in blackface was accepted “as
long as you were dressing up as a
character” — left many NBC
News employees stunned and ex-
asperated. At a post-broadcast
meeting, members of Ms. Kelly’s
“Today” team expressed discom-
fort with what she had said on-air,
according to several people
briefed on the discussion, al-
though Ms. Kelly was not present.
Her remarks came during a
round-table discussion of how, as
she put it, “the costume police are
cracking down” on Halloween out-
fits. “You do get in trouble if you
are a white person who puts on
blackface on Halloween, or a black
person who puts on whiteface for
Halloween,” Ms. Kelly said. “Back
when I was a kid, that was O.K., as
long as you were dressing up as a
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has no experience in late night.
In the two and a half years since
Mr. Licht started working with Mr.
Colbert, the viewership for “The
Late Show” has skyrocketed,
while the number of people watch-
ing Mr. Fallon’s program has
dropped precipitously.
At “The Late Show,” Mr. Licht
helped the host play to his
strengths as a political satirist, in-
sisting that he focus on the news,
which was Mr. Colbert’s bread and
butter when he hosted “The Col-
bert Report” on Comedy Central.
After Donald J. Trump entered the
White House, Mr. Colbert started
to build ratings momentum as Mr.
Fallon lost viewers.
NBC officials insisted on
Wednesday that Mr. Bell would
not try to make Mr. Fallon empha-
size the news of the day. Instead,
character.”
She added that she was per-
plexed by the criticism of Luann
de Lesseps, a cast member of
“The Real Housewives of New
York” who was criticized for
dressing up as Diana Ross, com-
plete with an outsize Afro wig.
“People said that that was racist,
and I don’t know, I felt like, who
doesn’t love Diana Ross?” Ms.
Kelly said, adding: “I can’t keep
up with the number of people that
we’re offending just by being nor-
mal people.”
Several hours later, she emailed
the “Saturday Night Live” alum-
nus is expected to continue to lean
into his fun-and-games persona.
In the new television season,
which started a month ago, Mr.
Colbert’s show is averaging 3.6
million viewers, dwarfing the 2.4
million who tune in for “The To-
night Show.” A saving grace for
Mr. Fallon is that he has held on to
a larger percentage of adult view-
ers under 50, the rating point that
matters most to advertisers.
Even through his ratings strug-
gles, Mr. Fallon has remained the
most-watched late-night host
among young adults. But his lead
in that key demographic is slip-
ping. The latest measure has “The
Tonight Show” scoring just a tenth
of a ratings point more than its
CBS rival. That’s the closest the
margin has been since Mr. Colbert
an apology to colleagues. “The
history of blackface in our culture
is abhorrent; the wounds too
deep,” Ms. Kelly wrote. “I’ve
never been a ‘pc’ kind of person —
but I understand that we do need
to be more sensitive in this day
and age.”
“NBC Nightly News” devoted
segments to Ms. Kelly’s remarks
during its Tuesday and Wednes-
day editions. On Tuesday, the
broadcast included a Fox News
clip from 2013 in which Ms. Kelly
weighed in on the race of Santa
Claus. “For all you kids watching
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took over “The Late Show” from
David Letterman in 2015.
Before the arrival of Mr. Bell,
“The Tonight Show” was run by a
triumvirate of producers: Mike
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at home, Santa just is white,” she
said. That same clip was shown
again during Wednesday’s 7 a.m.
hour of “Today.”
For NBC News, the “blackface”
flare-up was yet another head-
ache.
The news division has come un-
der scrutiny for what its execu-
tives may have known about the
workplace behavior of Mr. Lauer
before he was fired in 2017 after al-
legations of sexual harassment
were made against him. In May,
an NBC investigation cleared net-
work executives of any wrongdo-
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Jim Bell, a 27-year NBC
veteran and a longtime exec-
utive producer of “Today,”
will try to put Jimmy Fallon’s
program on surer footing.
DiCenzo, Katie Hockmeyer and
Gerard Bradford. On Monday, Mr.
DiCenzo announced on Twitter
that he was stepping down after 10
years with Mr. Fallon. Ms. Hock-
meyer, who is to go on maternity
leave soon, will stay on as a top
producer. Mr. Bradford is ex-
pected to have a different pro-
ducing role at the show.
Lorne Michaels, the creator and
longtime executive producer of
“Saturday Night Live,” will keep
his title of executive producer of
“The Tonight Show.” Mr. Michaels
is also the executive producer of
the program that follows it on
NBC, “Late Night With Seth Mey-
ers.”
Even before Megyn Kelly
made racially insensitive
remarks on Tuesday, the
future of her morning show
at NBC was up in the air.
ing in the matter, but drew criti-
cism because it was conducted by
in-house counsel, rather than an
outside law firm.
Mr. Brokaw was also accused of
making unwanted advances —
claims that he denied. And in Sep-
tember, the journalist Ronan Far-
row and his NBC producer, Rich
McHugh, accused the network of
impeding a report about Harvey
Weinstein and sexual assault, an
investigation that Mr. Farrow con-
tinued at The New Yorker. (NBC
said it did nothing wrong.)
Ms. Kelly covered each of those
episodes extensively on her morn-
ing show. Last month, she sug-
gested on the air that outside in-
vestigators should look into the
matter of NBC’s handling of the
Farrow story.
On-air errors, even contentious
ones, can sometimes be smoothed
over if an anchor has big ratings.
But in her first year at NBC, Ms.
Kelly’s portion of “Today” has av-
eraged 2.4 million viewers, a drop
of nearly 400,000 from the same
hour’s average before her arrival,
according to Nielsen.
Her “blackface” remarks on
Tuesday could further complicate
her job. A Netflix spokeswoman
said on Wednesday that cast
members of the political drama
“House of Cards” had decided to
pull out of a scheduled appear-
ance on “Megyn Kelly Today.”
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PERSONAL TECH

A Cheaper Phone For the Rest of Us

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The iPhone XR lacks the large screen and dual lens camera of the XS models, but is otherwise similar. Below, from left, the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and XR.

By BRIAN X. CHEN
Good news, Apple loyalists: You
won’t have to burn $1,000 on your next
iPhone. That’s because for about $750,
you can have the iPhone XR, which is
just as fast and nearly as capable as its
more expensive counter-
TECH FIX parts.
The cheaper iPhone,
which becomes available
this Friday, is the model that most
people should buy. This year’s other
iPhones — namely the XS and XS Max
devices, which cost about $1,000 and
$1,100 and are already in stores — are
luxury devices better suited for enthu-
siasts willing to spend a premium for
superior cameras or a jumbo screen.
For everyone else, the XR is perfectly
adequate and has few downsides. Its
6.1-inch screen, which is based on LCD,
an older display technology, looks ever
so slightly inferior to the OLED screens
on the XS phones — but you would
need to be a movie buff to notice the
difference.
The XR’s single-lens camera is also
less capable than the dual-lens cameras
on the XS models. Yet the XR can still
produce very satisfying photos of peo-
ple using portrait mode, also known as
the bokeh effect, which puts the pic-
ture’s main subject in sharp focus while
gently blurring the background.
The XR is slightly less durable than
its more expensive cousins. Its glass
back is not as tough as the one on the
XS. Its casing, or chassis, is composed
of aluminum instead of the more robust
stainless steel on the costlier phones.
Yet these differences are negligible. (I
recommend that people use a case to
protect those parts of the phone any-
way; carrying a phone without a case is
a bit like driving a car without bump-
ers.)
All of these minor negatives add up
to a win for price-conscious consumers,
especially as smartphone
prices keep climbing —
iPhones a few years ago
started at about $650, while
prices for Android phones from
Google and Samsung have also
shot up to between $700 and
$1,000.
After I tested an XR for four
days, here are the highlights.
A bright and vibrant display
Apple developed a new kind of
LCD to improve color accuracy
and squeeze the XR’s screen
into the corners of the phone.
The result is what Apple calls a
Liquid Retina display, which
looks better — brighter and
more vibrant — than past iPhone LCD
screens.
I confess that I struggled to see a
difference between the Liquid Retina
screen and the OLED on an iPhone XS.
The distinction is most evident in
blacks: If you look at a photo taken in
the dark, you will notice that the blacks
on the XR’s screen have a faint blue
glow, which is coming from the back-
light used to illuminate the screen,
while the blacks on the XS look darker
and more realistic because the OLED
technology turns off individual pixels to
make them black.
While browsing Instagram on the XR
and the XS, I came across a few photos
that clearly looked better on the XS’s
OLED screen. One example was a
professional photo for a New York
Times Cooking article about cherry
season. In the photo, which shows a
variety of cherries in colorful baskets,
the reds and cyans looked more accu-
rate on the XS than on the XR, and
some of the red stains on the wood
table were more visible on the XS.
These downsides were trivial. The
vast majority of your time on a phone
In an era of skyrocketing
smartphone prices, it’s a
relief that Apple’s $750
iPhone is just as powerful
and nearly as capable as
its $1,000 counterparts.
will probably be spent looking at ama-
teur photos taken by friends and family
anyway, so it’s worth saving $250 to
have this slightly less vibrant screen.
Single-lens camera
If you are debating between an XS and
XR, your buying decision will probably
come down to the camera. The XR’s
single-lens camera takes excellent,
clear photos with lifelike colors, but
because it lacks a second lens, it is less
capable at taking those DSLR-like
portrait mode shots, which are a lot of
fun.
To do portrait mode with the XR’s
single lens, Apple used ma-
chine learning, which involves
computers analyzing images to
recognize people in the photo
and properly sharpen them
while blurring the background.
Apple decided to limit its ma-
chine-assisted image process-
ing on the device specifically to
human subjects.
In contrast, the second lens
on the XS camera helped the
device do portrait shots of a
wider variety of subjects, like
dogs and objects. In addition to
the help of machine learning,
the two lenses worked together
to create a depth-of-field effect
that kept the main subject in sharp
focus while blurring the background.
When you attempt to take a portrait
photo of a nonhuman, the XR camera
will display the message “No person
detected.” This was the biggest downer
to me as a dog owner and foodie (and
what ultimately drove me to buy an
XS).
In contrast, Google’s $800 Pixel 3
also has a single lens and, with the help
of machine learning, did a fantastic job
in my tests producing portrait mode
photos featuring dogs, food and people.
Apple said that for the XR’s portrait
mode, the company wanted to focus on
getting photos of people to look just
right.
That said, people who are less dog
crazy and more interested in shooting
photos of, well, people probably won’t
mind this limitation on the XR. In my
tests, the XR was excellent at taking
portrait photos of my partner, properly
sharpening details of her head, includ-
ing her hair strands, while blurring the
background.
Battery, speed, thickness and colors
Let’s speed through what else you need
to know about the XR:
■ Apple said the XR had the longest
battery life among the new iPhones. It
gets 16 hours of video playback, com-
pared with 15 hours on the XS Max. In
my tests, I didn’t notice a meaningful
difference. Both iPhones had long
enough battery life to get me through
the day.
■ In speed tests measuring a single
computing core with a benchmarking
app, the XR was just as fast as the XS,
49 percent faster than Google’s Pixel 3
and 45 percent faster than Samsung’s
Galaxy S9.
■ The body of the XR is about half a
millimeter thicker than the XS partly
because the cheaper phone had to
make room for the backlighting used to
illuminate its LCD screen. In addition,
the XR’s 6.1-inch screen is a bit bigger
than the XS with a 5.8-inch screen. As a
result, it felt bulkier in the pocket than
the XS. (Of course, the XS Max with a
6.5-inch screen felt the bulkiest.)
■ The XR lacks 3D Touch, the iPhone
feature that lets users control some of
the software by exerting pressure on
the touch screen. Instead, placing your
finger over a button, like the camera
shortcut on the lock screen, and holding
it down results in haptic feedback. This
is a negligible omission: I forgot that
3D Touch even existed because I rarely
use it.
■ The XR comes in six colors: white,
black, blue, yellow, coral and red. The
XS phones come in three: gold, white
and black.
As is often the case for new gadgets,
good things come to those who wait. If
you resisted splurging on the XS to wait
for the XR, you will be rewarded with a
great phone — and some extra cash
lying around.

Tesla Reports a Profit, but Trials Remain Bet on Cloud Is Paying Off for Microsoft
From First Business Page
sellers and admonished analysts
on a call for asking “boring, bone-
head questions.” He agreed last
month to step down as chairman
of the company to settle a lawsuit
in which the Securities and Ex-
change Commission accused him
of misleading investors about his
plans to take the company private.
On Wednesday, he was even-
tempered on a conference call
with analysts. He declined to an-
swer a question about the makeup
of the company’s board, saying he
would discuss only operational is-
sues. (In the agreement with the
S.E.C., Tesla agreed to appoint two
new independent directors to its
lion in cash. In the second quarter,
the company reported a $718 mil-
lion loss.
Tesla ended September with $3
billion in cash compared with $2.2
billion at the end of the previous
quarter. The company generated
$881 million in free cash flow —
cash produced through opera-
tions less capital expenditures.
“The cash-flow number is impres-
sive,” said David Whiston, an auto
analyst at Morningstar. “That’s a
lot of cash for a company their
size.”
But the company could face dif-
ficulties ahead. The increase in
sales of the Model 3 could cause
demand to soften in the fourth
quarter.
more cars than the previous quar-
ter, there’s a good chance they can
keep profits going,” Mr. Whiston
said.
In a sign that buyers are still in-
terested in the car after months of
waiting for it, Tesla said that of the
455,000 Model 3 reservations it re-
ported having in August 2017,
fewer than 20 percent had been
canceled.
Tesla next year is supposed to
start making a more affordable
version of the Model 3 priced at
$35,000, and Mr. Musk has said
that Tesla would lose money on
that model if the company
produced it now. The cheaper
Model 3 is important because the
$7,500 federal tax credit available
By KAREN WEISE
SEATTLE — Apple has its cash
cow, the iPhone, which has made
it the world’s largest public com-
pany. Amazon transformed an ar-
ray of industries, from logistics to
the way consumers buy, to be-
come the second largest. For
Microsoft, which is gaining
ground on Amazon, growth runs
straight through the cloud.
In the past several quarters,
Microsoft’s commercial cloud of-
ferings have grown by big leaps,
helping push the company’s mar-
ket cap to about $785 billion. On
Wednesday, the company re-
ported that the fast growth had
continued in the latest quarter, as
part of an earnings statement that
cusp of a $1 trillion market capital-
ization and could surpass Ama-
zon, they’d think you were crazy,”
said Dan Ives, a managing direc-
tor at Wedbush Securities. “It
speaks to how significant this
cloud shift is, and what a strong
hold Microsoft has on the cloud.”
Amazon all but created the idea
of cloud computing after it first
built out remote data centers to
store information and run ad-
vanced tools on its own data. But
Microsoft has been gaining
ground fast in recent years, estab-
lishing itself as the second-strong-
est provider.
When Satya Nadella became
chief executive in 2014, Microsoft
largely depended on selling its
But analysts and investors say
the company is well positioned for
the increasingly popular ap-
proach called “hybrid cloud,”
which lets enterprises, like com-
panies or government agencies,
use one set of tools to manage
what they store both on their own
servers and on shared space in the
cloud.
“Microsoft is unique in the
sense that it has the ability to play
in both environments,” said Sid
Parakh, a portfolio manager in Se-
attle at Becker Capital, which in-
vests in Microsoft. “Legacy
customers are already working on
Microsoft products, and it pro-
vides a level of continuity to tran-
sition to the cloud.”
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board.)
In the 15 years since Mr. Musk
and his partners founded Tesla,
the company has never reported
an annual profit. In previous quar-
ters, the company’s costs in-
creased as it made more cars. To
finance its operations, Tesla,
which also makes solar panels
and batteries, has had to sell
stock, take out loans and ask
customers to make $1,000 refund-
able deposits for cars and energy
products that they might not get
for many months.
The profit the company re-
ported in the third quarter will
help stabilize Tesla’s finances and
end a streak of quarters in which
the automaker used close to $1 bil-
The company, which until re-
cently only sold tens of thousands
of luxury cars a year, will need to
find many more buyers for the
Model 3, which sells for $46,000 to
$64,000 before tax incentives. Mr.
Musk said that the company ex-
pected sales to remain strong as it
starts shipping the car to Europe
in the first three months of next
year and Asia after that.
Tesla produced more than
53,000 Model 3 cars from July to
September, nearly twice as many
as in the previous three months.
Deliveries of the Model 3 totaled
more than 56,000, about three
times as many as in the previous
quarter.
“As long as they keep producing
to buyers of Tesla cars will be cut
by half on Jan. 1 and phased out
entirely over the course of 2019,
making the company’s cars more
expensive.
Tesla recently began offering a
Model 3 priced at $46,000 as an in-
terim step before it can produce
the $35,000 version. “We don’t re-
ally have the ability to get to
$35,000 right away,” Mr. Musk
said, but he said Tesla was “proba-
bly less than six months from
that.”
Tesla shares closed at $288.50
on Wednesday before its earnings
were released, down more than 20
percent from early August. The
stock was up 10 percent in after-
market trading.
beat analyst expectations and the
company’s own guidance across
every segment of its business.
Microsoft’s first-quarter reve-
nue was up 19 percent over the
previous year, to $29.1 billion. Net
income rose 34 percent, to $8.8 bil-
lion.
“We are seeing larger and long-
er-term customer commitments
to the cloud,” said Amy Hood, the
company’s chief financial officer.
Shares in the company rose as
much as 4.6 percent in aftermar-
ket trading, in response to the
earnings. During market hours,
shares had fallen more than 5 per-
cent in a marketwide sell-off.
“If you told an investor a few
years ago that Microsoft is on the
Windows operating system on
personal computers, even as
smartphones were ascendant. He
shifted the company to focus
much more on its cloud computing
business.
The breakneck growth of Azure,
Microsoft’s core cloud offering,
slowed more in the most recent
quarter than some analysts had
expected. It was up 76 percent, af-
ter several quarters of being up
from 85 to 98 percent. And Azure
may not even be profitable, said
Karl Keirstead, an analyst at
Deutsche Bank, as the company
heavily invests engineering re-
sources in new products and the
construction of new data centers
around the globe.
In a call with analysts, Mr.
Nadella said that “we don’t think
of hybrid as some stopgap to move
to the cloud,” and that Microsoft
was investing in building out its
hybrid offerings.
“This is a place where we are
leading,” he said.
The company’s year-over-year
growth in server products and
cloud services was 28 percent,
which Ms. Hood said was a sign
that the company was meeting
customer demand. That makes it
“not a challenging decision” to in-
vest heavily in the cloud business,
she said. And the company has
money to spend in part because
the legacy Windows business is
still lucrative.

Nurturing, While He Can, His Tiny Flat Glass Baby
By The New York Times
How do New York Times journalists
use technology in their jobs and in their
personal lives? Choire Sicha, the editor
of the Styles desk at The Times, which
reports on everything from weddings
and fashion to social change and self-
care, discussed the tech he’s using.
What does your tech setup look like? And
what do you do to make it look stylish?
Like 19 out of 20 Americans, according
to the Pew Research Center, I have a
mobile phone. Like those belonging to
three out of four Americans, according
to the same, mine is a janky hand-held
device that I use for talking, playing
games, reading, writing, taking photo-
graphs, keeping in touch with friends,
checking weather, hate-reading, Net-
flixing, learning chords to 1980s songs
from websites that probably give me
weird viruses and creating expressions
of my identity to display to strangers
across the internet.
Why do we do that? I use this phone
more than I use my office laptop. I use
this phone more than I use any other
device in my life, including my televi-
sion. Sometimes instead of turning on
the television I will just watch televi-
sion on my phone. Don’t tell David
Lynch!
I also should stop calling it my phone,
because I do not make phone calls on it,
because phones are fairly useless as
phones and mostly because the phones
are infested with incessant spam calls
that apparently, as with school shoot-
ings, food-borne illness incidents and
the removal of registered voters from
the rolls, we are incapable as a society
of preventing in any way. Also, because
I am on an Android phone (a Pixel XL),
none of my friends will text with me,
and it makes me sad. They love their
beloved iMessage on their beloved,
stupid iPhones. Companies don’t care
about us, or at least not me. They care
about themselves (and about not pay-
ing taxes in America, and I get that,
truly, I have been there myself ).
My phone does have a New York
Fashion Week PopSocket on it, though,
and I’m a real PopSocket convert! It
makes reading in bed great again.
What’s so janky about your setup? What
features or tools are on your wish list to
make it better?
It’s agonizing and surreal that for this
WhatsApp Needs Fixing.
But Is That Even Possible?
From First Business Page
ing on WhatsApp, because the service
encrypts messages automatically.
That means the real problem may be
not so much WhatsApp the company
or WhatsApp the product but some-
thing more fundamental — WhatsApp
the idea.
When you offer everyone access to
free and private communication, lots of
wonderful things may happen — and
WhatsApp has been a godsend to
vulnerable populations like migrants,
dissidents and political activists. But a
lot of terrible things are bound to hap-
pen, too — and it might be impossible
to eliminate the bad without muzzling
the good.
In this light, WhatsApp is a powerful
and permanent new reality and its
problems aren’t likely to be solved as
much as fitfully and sometimes unsat-
isfyingly managed. For better or
worse, we are going to have to learn to
live with it.
“I thought WhatsApp would be a
very dark place, a wild place, where all
these conspiracy theories would be
spreading and we wouldn’t know what
they were talking about,” said Yaso-
dara Córdova, a fellow at DigitalHKS, a
center at Harvard’s Kennedy School
that examines the role digital technolo-
gies play in government. Ms. Córdova
has been working on Comprova, a
fact-checking project to monitor social
media sites during Brazil’s election.
“But what I learned is that the
stories on WhatsApp are common to
all the media here,” she said.
What sets WhatsApp apart is speed
and reach, Ms. Córdova said. In Brazil,
more than 120 million people use the
service, which is offered free as part of
mobile internet plans (that is, using
WhatsApp does not count against
people’s data rate). As it does in its
other big markets — India, South Afri-
Email: farhad.manjoo@nytimes.com;
Twitter: @fmanjoo.
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Choire Sicha, styles editor for The Times, texting on his Samsung Galaxy Note 9 at the paper’s headquarters. Above left, Mr. Sicha’s well-worn Google Pixel XL.
funny time-window in human society
there is an annual New Phone Season.
Each year we are besieged by very
barely updated versions of existing
phones that are larger and more ex-
pensive than ever, and usually just as
fragile. As the New Phone Season
approaches each year — it’s usually
September to October, when Google,
Samsung, Apple and others either
bring out or announce their annual
lines — one tries ever more desper-
ately to time the death of one’s prima-
ry digital device to coincide with it.
My phone is ragged now. We barely
made it. The screen is horribly burned
in. It’s hot. When I plug it in, it begins
to download and update things and
everything freezes. It smells a little
bad?
And now the decision time is here,
and I’m unhappy.
The more I’m put in the position of
deciding whether I will spend more
than $1,000 on a “phone” (as the prime
large-size offering from each of the
three major companies ends up being
more than two weeks’ take-home pay
ca, Saudi Arabia and much of Europe
— WhatsApp functions in Brazil as an
all-purpose communications tool. It is
used for chatting and joking, for trad-
ing photos and memes, for news, for
political activity and more.
Because of that centrality, Ms. Cór-
dova argued that the problems on
WhatsApp in Brazil were mainly a
function of the country’s broken poli-
tical and media environment.
“For example, we don’t really have
public libraries in Brazil,” she said. “We
don’t have a lot of sources of what
people would consider reliable infor-
mation — and the lack of good sources
of information reinforces their beliefs
when they see something false on
WhatsApp or Facebook.”
Which is not to say WhatsApp is
without tools to rein in the mess. This
year, after the mob violence in India —
another problem that existed before
WhatsApp, and may simply have been
amplified by the app — the company
instituted rules to limit WhatsApp’s
“virality.”
In the past, people could freely for-
ward a WhatsApp message to anyone.
Now they are restricted to forwarding
a message to 20 “chats,” distinct con-
versations with an individual or group
of up to 256 people. (There are six
people in the average group, Whats-
App said.) In India, WhatsApp has an
even more restrictive forwarding limit:
five chats.
WhatsApp characterized the limits
as an experiment. As the company
learns more about how the limits affect
users’ behavior, a spokeswoman told
me, it could introduce additional fine-
grain limits.
In an op-ed article in The New York
Times last week, a group of Brazilian
researchers called for WhatsApp to
institute the Indian forwarding limit in
Brazil to cut down on false news dur-
ing the campaign. WhatsApp has de-
clined to do so. The spokeswoman said
there was not enough time to change
before the election, which takes place
on Sunday. (Changing the rules would
PERSONAL TECH
TECH WE’RE USING
for a Whole Foods employee) or dar-
ingly branch out into the slightly less
premier brands, the more I realize how
awful it is that these disgusting, beep-
ing, needy Tamagotchis are my most
constant companion. I have a more
active friendship and, to be honest,
romantic life with my phone than I do
with almost any humans. Can this be
good for me? Am I an experiment?
At the very least I would like them to
make digital devices that aren’t incredi-
bly fragile and scratchable. Right now,
until they just punch the circuitry into
the back of our skull, like the way they
murder cows, we have to carry these
things around as if they were tiny flat
glass babies.
Will I buy an iPhone? A Note 9? A
Pixel 3? Will I buy a one-way ticket off
this crazy thing and set myself free?
Not as long as I have a job, I suppose.
*Looks around office nervously*
In the end, I finally bought a Sam-
sung Galaxy Note 9.
How has tech affected style?
The biggest trend around the world is
require people to update their app, a
process that takes weeks.)
The company also pointed out that
most discussions on WhatsApp are not
viral forwards but instead are intimate
conversations between individuals or
small groups. “This is very different
from other apps that are designed as
broadcast platforms (rather like a
global public square) where you can
reach an audience of millions at the
push of a button,” wrote Chris Daniels,
vice president of WhatsApp, in a Face-
book post last week.
It is precisely WhatsApp’s close-knit
sensibility that makes rumors on the
service so pernicious. Familiarity on
WhatsApp breeds trust, which most of
that nearly every man now has a worn-
in rectangle in the front pocket of his
jeans. I also predict that hand-enlarge-
ment surgery for women will briefly
become a trend until the time of the,
you know, putting the phones into the
skull bones. Then there are no more
worries!
The best part of how they’ll put the
phone in our heads is that when the
seawaters all rise, the phone will be the
last part of us to get wet.
What other tech product are you cur-
rently obsessed with?
The majority of my tech use actually
occurs while I sleep. I have a Wirecut-
ter-endorsed Coway air filter, which
may or may not be doing anything, but
I love it to death, and a small sym-
phony of Dyson fans and Bose noise
machines that create an envelope of air
and sound all around me, as if Kate
Bush were constantly twirling at high
speed while I dream the night away.
This setup saves marriages and also
soothes cats. If you sleep in silence
next to someone, you are doing it
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the time is a pretty great social good.
But in fast-moving situations with high
stakes — natural disasters, wars, ter-
rorist attacks or elections — trust on
WhatsApp is turned on its head, becom-
ing a key force behind viral falsity.
That was the finding, at least, of a
2016 study by Tomer Simon, a re-
searcher at Tel Aviv University who
looked at how people used the internet
during emergencies.
Dr. Simon’s study concerned the
kidnapping, in the summer of 2014, of
three Israeli teenagers who were hitch-
hiking in the West Bank. The kidnap-
ping led to an enormous Israeli military
incursion into the West Bank; the boys
were found dead over two weeks later.
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wrong!
The tongue of this whooshing envel-
ope, if you will, actually intrudes into
my person in the form of a small plastic
mandibular advancement device. It’s a
kind of fancy mouth guard, and the
technological arms race around sleep
apnea is fascinating. For instance,
while I was being fitted with this de-
vice — it gently juts the jaw forward,
basically, allowing you to breathe while
you sleep and not rush toward death as
quickly — it was casually mentioned
that if it didn’t fit handily, they could
install little bumps on my teeth that
would fit into slots in the device, lock-
ing it in overnight, in a real steampunk
nightmare of medical intervention. It
fit.
Does your lover or spouse report
that your snoring is terrible? Do you
feel exhausted in the morning? Do you
feel like you have a cold all the time but
you don’t? Do you wake up suddenly at
night screaming in panic? No, wait,
that last one’s normal.
The rest of you, visit an otorhino-
laryngologist today!
A protester holding a sign accusing
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right candi-
date for president of Brazil, of lying
on WhatsApp, a service used by 120
million people in the country.
The Israeli military had instituted a
gag order on press reports of the kid-
napping, but on WhatsApp, Israelis
began circulating stories about “some-
thing” being up. Through careful field
research, Dr. Simon collected and
sought to identify the source of many
rumors that spread on WhatsApp in
the earliest hours after the kidnapping.
The rumors, Dr. Simon found, had a
remarkable amount of detail. Several
included the names of the kidnapped
boys, which had not been made public.
A few offered key facts about the
search. And at least one of the rumors
seemed deliberately intended to de-
ceive — it said the boys had been res-
cued, and that the militants who kid-
napped them were killed.
Dr. Simon tracked down the rumors
to a surprising source: journalists and
other civilians who had been briefed on
the operation, and who had used
WhatsApp to leak details to their fam-
ilies or colleagues in small groups they
assumed were private.
The rumor that said the boys had
been rescued was the most widely
circulated. Of the people Dr. Simon
interviewed, “two shared it only with
one family member, two shared it with
their WhatsApp family group, one
shared it with an I.D.F. officers’ Whats-
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App group, one first-responder shared
it verbally with his colleagues during
his shift and one refused to answer the
question,” he wrote, referring to the
Israeli Defense Forces by the initials.
The story here isn’t of malicious and
indiscriminate rumor-mongering, Dr.
Simon told me. It is, rather, a story of a
few people who trusted other people,
who in turn trusted others, each pass-
ing along what he or she considered
important and necessary information
to friends and colleagues.
It’s a story of human nature. And
that’s why, beyond learning to inhibit
our natural tendency to share, it’s hard
to know what can be done about false
news on WhatsApp — other than brac-
ing yourself for more.
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WORLD SERIE S • DODGER S VS. RED SOX

The Red Sox Leap Ahead

Price Pushes Postseason Demons Aside as Boston Takes Command

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By BILLY WITZ Game 3

BOSTON — No matter how often Da-
vid Price came up short, no matter how
frequently he looked in the mirror to
search for answers to his playoff short-
comings, he kept getting back on the
mound.
RED SOX 4 If there were a cloud
DODGERS 2 around him, it never
darkened his mood.
Boston leads “I always enjoy do-
series, 2-0 ing this,” he said. “Just
because I failed in Oc-
tober for about nine straight years, it did-
n’t take away my passion from baseball.
This is something I fell in love with when-
ever I was 2 years old.”
This October is getting easier and easi-
er for Price to love. After pitching the
Boston Red Sox into the World Series last
week, he put them halfway to a title on
Wednesday with six strong innings in a
4-2 victory over the Los Angeles
Dodgers.
The victory gave the Red Sox a two-
games-to-none lead as the Series heads
to the West Coast this weekend, putting
them halfway to their fourth title in the
last 15 seasons.
Friday, Dodger Stadium: 8 p.m. Eastern, Fox
Projected starters
Walker Buehler, RHP, Dodgers
T.B.D. Red Sox
The Red Sox, while riding Price and
another sterling effort from their
bullpen, also flashed the relentless, high-
contact, low-strikeout offense that car-
ried them to a franchise-record 108 vic-
tories in the regular season and helped
them dispatch the Yankees and the de-
fending champion Houston Astros in the
American League playoffs.
All four of Boston’s runs on Wednes-
day were pushed across with two out, in-
cluding an outburst in the fifth that
seemed to be conjured out of thin air.
Hyun-Jin Ryu, the Dodgers’ left-
handed starter, had set down seven in a
row — including the first two batters in
the fifth — while nursing a 2-1 lead. Then
Christian Vazquez, the Red Sox’s No. 9
Andrew Benintendi, top, stopped a Dodgers rally before it could begin with a leap- hitter, fell behind 0-2, fouled off a cutter,
ing catch of Brian Dozier’s line drive leading off the fifth. Above, David Price worked took a fastball for a ball and stroked a sin-
out of early trouble to earn the win, giving up two runs on three hits in six innings. Continued on Page B11

Despite a Marquee Matchup, David Ortiz, one

of the most
followed

Baseball Fails the Fame Game baseball players

By KEVIN DRAPER
Major League Baseball has a dream
matchup for the World Series as two of
its marquee franchises, the Boston Red
Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers, face
on Instagram,
has not played
No baseball player ranks among the since 2016.
100 most followed athletes on Instagram,
according to the company. The top base-
ball players are Alex Rodriguez and Da-
vid Ortiz. Both retired in 2016. The most
followed active player is Mike Trout of
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off.
But oddly, it also has a problem: Most
people, even sports fans, might struggle
to name a single player on the field.
The percentage of Americans who say
baseball is their favorite sport to watch is
at a low. Fewer baseball players have
crossed over into wider popular culture
than did a couple of decades ago. There is
no Derek Jeter or Ken Griffey Jr. at the
moment.
By almost any measure, baseball play-
ers just aren’t well known. ESPN’s annu-
al ranking of the most famous athletes in
the world includes 13 basketball players,
seven football players, several cricket
players, two table tennis stars and zero
baseball players. And ESPN is a media
partner of M.L.B.
the Los Angeles Angels. He has 1.5 mil-
lion followers. LeBron James has almost
44 million; the N.F.L.’s Odell Beckham Jr.
has 12 million.
The company Luker on Trends, which
conducts the ESPN Sports Poll, asked
6,000 American sports fans to name their
favorite athletes in 2017, and only three
baseball players made the list. Jeter, who
had retired in 2014, made the list. So did
Babe Ruth, who died in 1948, and Pete
Rose. In 1989, M.L.B. barred Rose, then
the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, for
life for betting on baseball games, the
sport’s cardinal sin.
On OpenSponsorship, a platform that
connects athletes and brands, Cubs
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Three Found Guilty in N.C.A.A. Basketball Recruiting Scheme
By MARC TRACY
A jury returned unanimous
guilty verdicts against two former
Adidas employees and an aspi-
ring sports agent in Manhattan
federal court Wednesday after
more than two days’ deliberation,
concluding that it constituted
fraud for the defendants to funnel
money to the families of college
basketball recruits in exchange
for the prospects’ commitment to
teams sponsored by Adidas.
James Gatto, Adidas’s former
head of global basketball market-
ing; Merl Code Jr., another former
Adidas employee; and the aspi-
ring agent Christian Dawkins
were found guilty of wire fraud
and conspiracy to commit wire
fraud, after a three-week trial.
The three men could face sev-
eral years in prison. Judge Lewis
A. Kaplan set sentencing for
March 5, just before the start of
N.C.A.A. basketball’s postseason.
But the larger question is whether
the verdicts will have any effect on
what is still widely considered
business as usual in college bas-
ketball.
Current and former college
sports officials say basketball op-
erators likely are still connecting
families of valuable prospects
with money in violation of
Where the Spirits of Boston’s Other Baseball Past Still Stir
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
BOSTON — Tobacco juice and
sunflower seeds are no longer
strewn along the right-field line,
and the trolley tracks that guided
legions of fans directly into
Braves Field have long since been
paved over.
But the history of championship
baseball lingers in the cracks and
concrete walls of the old right-
field pavilion of Braves Field,
where Boston professional base-
ball was integrated, where the
Cleveland Indians last won the
World Series and where Babe
Ruth pitched one of the greatest
games in Series history for the
Boston Red Sox.
That gem by Ruth helped the
Red Sox win the championship in
1916, the only previous postseason
meeting between this year’s
World Series franchises. (The Red
Sox defeated the Brooklyn Rob-
ins, the forebears of the Los Ange-
les Dodgers.)
Today, the remnants of that
long-ago stadium can be seen in
the little clues around what is now
Nickerson Field, a soccer and la-
crosse stadium at Boston Univer-
sity. The passageway under the
stands remains virtually intact
from the Boston Braves’ days, and
the team’s old administration
building is now a B.U. police sta-
tion.
Nickerson Field is a historical
marker that connects a sports-
crazy region’s bountiful present to
a glorious past. The line from
Babe Ruth to Tom Brady, two of
the greatest to ever play here,
goes right through the field.
Millions of fans attended the
Boston Braves’ National League
games from 1915, when Braves
Field opened, until 1952, when the
team moved to Milwaukee.
Among them was a boy named
Robert K. Kraft, who would be-
come the owner of the New Eng-
land Patriots.
“I’ll never forget when they
moved,” Kraft, 77, said in a tele-
phone interview about his beloved
Braves. “It completely rocked my
world. I was 12 years old and I ac-
tually remember crying over it.”
Kraft used to sit along the third-
base line, where he discovered he
could catch more foul balls, and he
still reels off the names of his old
heroes as if they were members of
his current football team: Bob El-
liott, Alvin Dark, Del Crandall, Sid
Gordon.
He recited the old saying about
Spahn and Sain and praying for
rain, referring to the team’s two
best pitchers, Warren Spahn and
Johnny Sain. If not for a child’s
painful memory of that betrayal,
the Patriots might not exist today
Miami’s Hassan Whiteside, who scored 22 points, dunking in the
first half over Tim Hardaway Jr. (3) and Frank Ntilikina (11).
N.C.A.A. amateurism rules. How-
ever, some operators may be
chilled by the fact that, as of
Wednesday, three people involved
in such a scheme have been con-
victed of federal crimes.
Gatto’s attorney indicated after-
ward that his client would appeal.
The allegations, first revealed
in September 2017, laid bare what
many had long assumed or known
about college basketball at its
highest levels: that its top players
— who for a decade have been re-
quired to wait at least a year after
high school before entering the
N.B.A., and who are prohibited by
N.C.A.A. rules from accepting
payment beyond scholarships
and related costs — were getting
money under the table via a
murky underworld of agents,
“runners” and other interested
parties.
The charges in this case also
further exposed the outsize influ-
ence of the major basketball ap-
parel companies — Nike, Adidas
and Under Armour — on college
sports. They invest millions of dol-
lars establishing a pipeline of loy-
alists that begins with their own
pre-college “grass-roots” leagues,
runs through college teams they
sponsor and culminates in star
players whom they sign to en-
dorse their clothes, gear and
Is this heaven? No, it’s Braves Field in 1953, growing wild after the team moved to Milwaukee. Below left, Jackie Robinson with Sam
Jethroe, who broke the color barrier in Boston in 1950. Below right, celebrating the National League’s 75th anniversary in 1952.
as winners of five Super Bowl ti-
tles with Brady as their quarter-
back. They could have been the St.
Louis Stallions or the Jacksonville
Sand Crabs.
But before James Busch Orth-
wein, former owner of the Patri-
ots, could execute his plan to move
the team to St. Louis and rename
them the Stallions, Kraft stepped
in and bought the Patriots in 1994
with the intention of keeping them
in New England.
He had invested $25 million to
buy the Patriots’ stadium, and
when an earlier owner, Victor
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sneakers.
In this case, federal prosecutors
said that the defendants had fun-
neled money from Adidas to
prospects who wound up at three
teams sponsored by the sneaker
giant: Louisville, Kansas and
North Carolina State.
These schools, prosecutors as-
serted, were victims, since they
were unwittingly playing ineligi-
ble athletes, risking N.C.A.A. pen-
alties.
“As a jury has now found,” said
Robert S. Khuzami, the United
States attorney for the Southern
A trial showed the
influence of major
apparel companies.
District of New York, “the defend-
ants not only deceived universi-
ties into issuing scholarships un-
der false pretenses, they deprived
the universities of their economic
rights and tarnished an ideal
which makes college sports a be-
loved tradition by so many fans all
over the world.”
In a statement, Adidas said it
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Kiam, offered Kraft triple that to
buy the decrepit old building,
Kraft turned it down. The Patriots
would not follow the Braves out
the door to the Midwest.
“No amount of money could
make up for what I felt and what
all the dedicated fans in the region
felt at that time,” Kraft said.
Braves Field opened in 1915 as a
grand, concrete-and-steel edifice
that claimed to be the biggest of its
kind. The size attracted the Red
Sox, who asked the Braves if they
could play the 1915 World Series
there, less than two miles from
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Heat Roll Past Knicks; Nets Keep Cavaliers Winless
By The Associated Press
Hassan Whiteside scored 22
points and grabbed 14 rebounds,
Josh Richardson added 21 points,
and the Miami Heat rolled past
the visiting Knicks, 110-87, on
Wednesday night.
Rodney McGruder added 19
points on only eight shot attempts,
and Goran Dragic had 13 points
for the Heat, who outscored the
Knicks by 76-38 in the middle two
quarters.
Miami scored 45 of those points
in the third quarter, matching the
third-highest scoring period in
franchise history. The Heat made
8 of 10 shots from 3-point range in
that quarter, doing better there
had “strengthened our internal
processes and controls and re-
main committed to ethical and fair
business practices.”
Though the verdicts’ larger im-
pact on college basketball was not
immediately clear, after Wednes-
day there appears to be precedent
that cheating N.C.A.A. bylaws can
have consequences beyond col-
legiate infractions.
“Now you don’t just have to
worry about what the N.C.A.A.
does to you — you have to worry
about going to jail,” said Dan Bee-
be, a former Big 12 commissioner
who consults with conferences.
There are still two other trials
stemming from the charges to
come, involving four assistant
coaches from different major pro-
grams who were accused of plot-
ting to direct players to various
managers, including Dawkins, in
exchange for kickbacks.
The basketball establishment
has already started reacting to the
charges. An N.C.A.A. commission
convened to reform the sport,
chaired by Condoleezza Rice, the
former secretary of state, had its
proposals implemented a couple
months ago.
At the same time, the college
sports establishment has indi-
cated no movement toward re-
Fenway Park, to accommodate
more fans.
It had a huge outfield, particu-
larly in right, and it was not un-
common for hundreds of fans to
stand in the outfield playing area
behind ropes, taking in the action
at arm’s length from the players.
The Red Sox beat the Philadel-
phia Phillies in five games, and
Braves Field hosted the World Se-
ries again the next year when Bos-
ton played the Robins. In Game 2,
before more than 47,000, Ruth
pitched a 14-inning complete
game in a 2-1 victory, and the Red
than from 2-point range (7 for 10).
Damyean Dotson scored 20 for
the Knicks, who got 14 from Tim
Hardaway Jr. and 13 from Mario
Hezonja. The Knicks were
outscored by 24-0 from 3-point
range in the third quarter, missing
all eight of their tries from beyond
the arc.
There was no sense of the Heat-
Knicks rivalry from years past.
After the final horn, Knicks Coach
David Fizdale — a former Miami
assistant — lingered on the court
and hugged several Heat coaches
and players, with Dwyane Wade
getting his last embrace. Wade
presented Fizdale with one of his
jerseys, leading to yet another
hug.
forming its economic system that
appeared to prompt the scheme:
multimillion-dollar apparel spon-
sorships; huge financial incen-
tives to win big; and amateurism
rules that bar paying players.
The scandal eventually may
lead to the end of the N.B.A.’s
“one-and-done” rule, which cur-
rently bars players from entering
the draft until one year after their
high school class’ graduation.
Last week, the N.B.A. announced
a new program in its development
league designed to encourage the
best would-be freshmen to skip
college and instead enter the G
League and train for a year while
receiving a $125,000 salary.
The N.C.A.A. is also expected
to, at some point, investigate the
schools involved for violations.
Prosecutors had asked the organi-
zation to hold off on such probes
as long as their own process was
still playing out.
Wednesday’s news also demon-
strated that universities may be
considered victims of fraud in a le-
gal sense even when their employ-
ees, such as assistant coaches, are
in on the schemes. There was tes-
timony, for instance, that an as-
sistant coach at Louisville knew
that Adidas employees had ar-
ranged for money to be sent to the
father of a prospect.
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Sox won that series in five games,
too.
The only noticeable drawback
at Braves Field was the old loco-
motives steaming in and out of the
old Boston & Albany rail yard,
spewing cinders on the fans and
players. Some of the stands were
covered, but the right-field pavil-
ion was open then, as it is now, as
Nickerson Field’s main seating
area.
“People can go there today and
sit in the same seats that people
sat in for the 1916 World Series,”
said the president of the Boston
NETS 102, CAVALIERS 86 D’Angelo
Russell scored 18 points and Joe
Harris added 16 as the Nets won in
Cleveland, keeping the Cavaliers
winless this season.
The Nets outscored Cleveland
by 38-17 in the third quarter, forc-
ing Cavaliers Coach Tyronn Lue to
use four timeouts in the period.
The Nets, who placed six players
in double figures, broke a 10-game
losing streak in Cleveland and
won for the first time at Quicken
Loans Arena since April 3, 2013.
Cleveland, which has been in
the last four N.B.A. finals, is off to
a rocky start as it tries to move on
in the wake of LeBron James’s
free-agency defection to the Los
Angeles Lakers. The Cavaliers
N B9
“They’re defrauding their own
organization, their own employ-
er,” Beebe said, “because they
sign off on compliance forms that
indicate they’re going to comply.”
In the most prominent scheme,
Dawkins, Code and Gatto worked
to send $100,000 in four install-
ments to the father of Brian Bow-
en II after the son, a top prospect,
committed to Louisville in the
spring of 2017.
Munish Sood, a money man-
ager who was initially charged be-
fore reaching an agreement with
the government, testified that he
was in on the plan. Bowen’s father,
Brian Bowen Sr., confirmed much
of the allegations in his own testi-
mony, though he said that his son
never knew about the deal.
Brian Bowen II was removed
from practices at Louisville when
the charges came out. He trans-
ferred to South Carolina but was
not permitted to play, and then en-
tered the N.B.A draft before with-
drawing to play for a professional
team in Australia.
The three men charged in the
case had pleaded not guilty, and
none of them took the stand. Their
primary defense was that their
behavior may have violated
N.C.A.A. bylaws, but that it was
not a federal crime.
Braves Historical Association,
Bob Brady, whose grandfather
was a devoted fan of the team.
If not for the research and advo-
cacy of the historical association,
small existing details from the old
yard, like the pointed capstones
along the perimeter wall of Nick-
erson Field, might go unnoticed.
There are also photographs of
Braves Field and its players and
plaques commemorating the orig-
inal stadium in the hallway under-
neath Nickerson Field’s main
stands. The street behind home
plate, which used to be called
Gaffney Street after the owner of
the Braves when the stadium
opened, is now Braves Field Way.
The Braves won the 1914 World
Series, but did not get back until
1948, when they lost Game 6 at
home to the Indians. It was the
last time Cleveland won the World
Series.
Perhaps the most significant
event at Braves Field came on
April 21, 1950, when Sam Jethroe,
an African-American outfielder,
broke Boston baseball’s color bar-
rier. That was nine years before
Pumpsie Green played for the Red
Sox.
One of the last things the
Braves did before they left Boston
was sign Hank Aaron, in June
1952. But Aaron, who broke Ruth’s
home run record in 1974 for the At-
lanta Braves, never played for the
big-league club until it moved to
Milwaukee.
Once the Braves vanished from
Boston, B.U. bought the field,
which still sits alongside the train
tracks overlooking the Charles
River and Cambridge, a view
largely blocked by an elevated
highway. The Patriots and the
Boston Breakers of the old United
States Football League played at
the stadium, as did the Boston
Bolts of the American Soccer
League.
Today, three large dormitories
hover over the field behind the
area where home plate was. Most
of the students are oblivious to the
rich history that once played out
below.
“I don’t know much about base-
ball,” said Ayush Suri, a freshman
from New Delhi, “but I’ve heard of
Babe Ruth. He played down
there? That’s crazy.”
A few years ago, Kraft sat on the
same field during a ceremony for
honorary graduates, and he re-
flected on his summer days spent
listening to games on the radio
and chasing foul balls down the
third-base line.
“It was full circle,” Kraft said.
“You know, loyalty is very impor-
tant to us, and I still have that
memory. But anyhow, it worked
out well.”
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lost their first two games on the
road, against Toronto and Minne-
sota, then took a 133-111 loss in its
home opener against Atlanta.
The Cavaliers are 0-4 for the
first time since 2003-04, when
James was a rookie and the team
lost its first five games.
The first half had 11 lead
changes, and the teams were tied
at 45-45 going into halftime. Then
the Nets took over, hitting 16 of 22
from the field in the third quarter
to pull away.
Harris made a 3-pointer that
put the Nets up by 50-47, and the
Nets never trailed again. Jared
Dudley’s second 3-pointer of the
run pushed the lead to 68-50 with
6:12 remaining in the quarter.
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WORLD SERIES EASTERN CONFERENCE AMERICAN CONFERENCE
(Best-of-7, x-if necessary)
All Games on FOX
Boston leads series, 2-0 Atlantic W L Pct GB East W L T Pct PF PA
Tuesday, Oct. 23: Boson 8, Los Angeles 4
Wednesday, Oct. 24: Boston 4, Los Toronto 5 0 1.000 — N. England 5 2 0 .714 214 179
Angeles 2 Miami 4 3 0 .571 151 177
Friday, Oct. 26: Boston at Los Angeles Nets 2 2 .500 2{
(Buehler 8-5), 8:09 p.m. Jets 3 4 0 .429 182 176
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Boston 2 2 .500 2{
8:09 p.m. Philadelphia 2 2 .500 2{ Buffalo 2 5 0 .286 81 175
x-Sunday, Oct. 28: Boston at Los Angeles,
8:15 p.m. Knicks 1 4 .200 4 South W L T Pct PF PA
x-Tuesday, Oct. 30: Los Angeles at Boston,
8:09 p.m. Southeast W L Pct GB Houston 4 3 0 .571 155 144
x-Wednesday, Oct. 31: Los Angeles at Tennessee 3 4 0 .429 106 127
Boston, 8:09 p.m. Orlando 2 2 .500 —
Miami 2 2 .500 — Jacksonville 3 4 0 .429 116 146
RED SOX 4, DODGERS 2 Indianapolis 2 5 0 .286 189 185
Atlanta 2 2 .500 —
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Dozier 2b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Charlotte 2 3 .400 {
Bellinger cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Pittsburgh 3 2 1 .583 171 154
Turner 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .333 Washington 1 2 .333 {
Freese 1b 2 1 1 0 1 0 .600 Central W L Pct GB Cincinnati 4 3 0 .571 184 203
Pederson ph-lf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Machado ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .286 Milwaukee 3 0 1.000 — Baltimore 4 3 0 .571 176 101
Taylor lf-2b 3 0 0 0 1 1 .000
Kemp dh 3 0 0 1 0 1 .143 Detroit 3 0 1.000 — Cleveland 2 4 1 .357 151 177
Hernandez cf-2b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 West W L T Pct PF PA
Muncy ph-2b-1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .333 Indiana 3 2 .600 1
Puig rf 3 0 1 1 0 0 .167 Kansas City 6 1 0 .857 260 182
Barnes c 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Chicago 1 3 .250 2{
Grandal ph-c 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 L.A. Chargers 5 2 0 .714 195 163
Totals 29 2 3 2 3 8 Cleveland 0 4 .000 3{
Boston ab r h bi bb so avg. Denver 3 4 0 .429 165 164
Betts rf 4 1 3 0 0 0 .500 WESTERN CONFERENCE Oakland 1 5 0 .167 110 176
Benintendi lf 3 1 0 0 1 2 .500
Pearce 1b 2 0 0 1 1 0 .000
Moreland ph-1b 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Southwest W L Pct GB NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Martinez dh 4 0 1 2 0 0 .429 New Orleans 3 0 1.000 —
Bogaerts ss 4 1 1 0 0 2 .143 East W L T Pct PF PA
Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .167 Memphis 2 1 .667 1
Kinsler 2b 3 0 1 1 0 0 .143 Washington 4 2 0 .667 126 121
Bradley Jr. cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 .143 San Antonio 2 2 .500 1{ Phila. 3 4 0 .429 154 138
Vazquez c 3 1 1 0 0 1 .333
Totals 31 4 8 4 2 8 Dallas 2 2 .500 1{ Dallas 3 4 0 .429 140 123
Los Angeles 000 200 000—2 3 0
Houston 1 3 .250 2{ Giants 1 6 0 .143 137 185
Boston 010 030 00x—4 8 0
Northwest W L Pct GB South W L T Pct PF PA
LOB—Los Angeles 4, Boston 5. 2B—
Betts (1), Bogaerts (1). RBIs—Kemp Denver 4 0 1.000 — New Orleans 5 1 0 .833 204 163
(2), Puig (1), Pearce (1), Martinez 2 (4),
Kinsler (1). SF—Kemp. Portland 2 1 .667 1{ Carolina 4 2 0 .667 142 131
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Baez 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 5.40 Pacific W L Pct GB Minnesota 4 2 1 .643 177 165
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PriceW1-0 6 3 2 2 3 5 88 3.00 Golden State 3 1 .750 — Green Bay 3 2 1 .583 148 144
KellyH2 1 0 0 0 0 2 11 0.00 L.A. Clippers 2 2 .500 1 Detroit 3 3 0 .500 157 158
EovaldiH1 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 0.00
By The Associated Press Inter, which was left with six points. trio that fueled Liverpool’s march to KimbrelS1-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.00 Phoenix 1 2 .333 1{ Chicago 3 3 0 .500 170 134
T—3:12. A—38,644 (37,731).
Rafinha filled in for the injured Li- PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 2, NAPOLI 2 An- the Champions League final last sea- Sacramento 1 3 .250 2 West W L T Pct PF PA
onel Messi by scoring the opening goal gel Di Maria rescued Paris Saint-Ger- son combined to hand Red Star an- L.A. Lakers 0 3 .000 2{
PRO HOCKEY L.A. Rams 7 0 01.000 235 128
to lead Barcelona to a 2-0 victory over main with a superb equalizer in stop- other heavy loss, after its 6-1 thrashing
WEDNESDAY Seattle 3 3 0 .500 143 117
visiting Inter Milan in the Champions page time to salvage a draw with vis- at Paris Saint-Germain in their last N.H.L. STANDINGS Miami 110, Knicks 87
Arizona 1 6 0 .143 92 184
League on Wednesday. iting Napoli. match in the competition. Nets 102, Cleveland 86
Xherdan Shaqiri played a key role in San Fran. 1 6 0 .143 158 218
Chosen by Manager Ernesto Di Maria curled the ball past goal-
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 111, Dallas 104
Valverde to take Messi’s place in the the win — helping to set up two of the Toronto 112, Minnesota 105 MONDAY
keeper David Ospina into the top left Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA Utah 100, Houston 89 Atlanta 23, Giants 20
starting lineup, Rafinha recovered the goals — on a night he was whistled and
corner to spare P.S.G. a second loss in Toronto 7 3 0 14 38 32 Chicago 112, Charlotte 110 THURSDAY, OCT. 25
ball to start an attack in the 32nd booed whenever he received the ball.
Group C. Montreal 5 1 2 12 27 21
Indiana 116, San Antonio 96 Miami at Houston, 8:20
minute, then finished it off by scoring The jeers came from a few sections of Philadelphia at Milwaukee
Despite the 93rd-minute equalizer,
from a pass by Luis Suarez. the crowd and were presumably from Boston 5 2 2 12 31 24 L.A. Lakers at Phoenix TENNIS
the P.S.G. star Neymar seemed frus-
Jordi Alba provided a second goal Red Star fans who, officially at least, Tampa 5 1 1 11 28 18 Memphis at Sacramento
trated with the result, marching were supposed to be banned from at- Washington at Golden State ERSTE BANK OPEN
with seven minutes remaining. straight off the field without shaking Buffalo 5 4 0 10 22 25
Messi cheered the goals from the tending the game as a punishment for THURSDAY Wiener Stadthalle
anybody’s hands and kicking a plastic causing trouble during the Serbian
Ottawa 4 3 1 9 29 29 Cleveland at Detroit, 7 VIENNA
stands at Camp Nou, his right arm in a object. Florida 2 3 3 7 26 32 Portland at Orlando, 7 Singles
sling after fracturing it in a win over team’s playoff at Salzburg in August. Boston at Oklahoma City, 8
First Round
Forward Lorenzo Insigne put Napo- Shaqiri was born in Kosovo, the for- Detroit 1 6 2 4 20 39 Gael Monfils, France, d. Steve Johnson,
Sevilla last weekend. li ahead in the 29th minute with a cool
Denver at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 United States, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Karen
Khachanov, Russia, d. Dennis Novak,
“We all had to step up given that ev- mer Serbian province that declared in- Metropolitan W L OT Pts GF GA
Austria, 6-3, 7-5. Kyle Edmund (8),
finish, and P.S.G. tied it in the 61st dependence in 2008, but plays for Carolina 5 3 1 11 29 26 HEAT 110, KNICKS 87 Britain, d. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina,
eryone, my players, our fans, our ad- when Napoli defender Mario Rui 6-3, 7-6 (3). Mikhail Kukushkin,
Switzerland’s national team. Serbia NEW YORK (87)
versaries, we all had Messi’s absence scored an own goal.
Pittsburgh 4 1 2 10 26 25
Ntilikina 3-7 1-2 9, Thomas 2-6 0-0 6, Kanter
Kazakhstan, d. Grigor Dimitrov (3),
does not recognize Kosovo’s independ- Bulgaria, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
on our minds,” Valverde said. “We al- The Belgian forward Dries Mertens Wash. 4 2 2 10 34 30 4-7 0-0 8, Burke 1-10 0-0 3, Hardaway Jr. 4-10 Second Round
ence, and relations between the two 4-4 14, Hezonja 4-15 3-6 13, Kornet 0-1 0-0 0, Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, d. Fabio
ways play as a team, and we have a scored from close range in the 77th af- Devils 4 2 0 8 22 14 Vonleh 3-8 0-0 6, M.Robinson 2-3 0-0 4, Baker Fognini (7), Italy, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Kevin
countries remain tense. 0-2 0-0 0, Trier 2-8 0-0 4, Dotson 8-14 1-2 20.
recognizable playing style, but Messi ter a sloppy mistake from P.S.G.’s Mar- Columbus 4 4 0 8 24 30 Totals 33-91 9-14 87.
Anderson (2), South Africa, d. Jurgen
Melzer, Austria, walkover. Borna Coric
gives us that touch of brilliance. We IN OTHER GAMES Thierry Henry’s first (6), Croatia, d. Lucas Pouille, France, 4-6,
quinhos, who failed to deal with a loop- Phila. 4 5 0 8 31 37 MIAMI (110)
hope he recovers quickly. I think ev- Champions League match as Monaco McGruder 6-8 4-5 19, Olynyk 4-8 2-2 11, 6-0, 6-4.
ing ball into the penalty area. Islanders 3 4 1 7 22 23 Whiteside 8-14 6-10 22, Dragic 4-9 3-4 13,
eryone at the stadium missed him.” manager ended in a 1-1 draw with host Richardson 8-14 0-0 21, D.Robinson 1-3 0-0 3, WTA FINALS
Indeed, before kickoff Barcelona LIVERPOOL 4, RED STAR BELGRADE 0 Club Brugge . . . Luuk de Jong scored Rangers 3 5 1 7 24 30 Haslem 0-2 0-0 0, Jones Jr. 0-0 0-0 0, Adebayo
1-3 2-4 4, T.Johnson 4-10 2-3 10, Wade 3-10 0-0 Singapore Indoor Stadium
fans chanted “Messi! Messi!” when Mohamed Salah scored in each half to an 87th-minute equalizer for PSV 7. Totals 39-81 19-28 110. SINGAPORE
images of the club’s all-time leading lead Liverpool past Red Star Belgrade, Eindhoven in a 2-2 draw with visiting WESTERN CONFERENCE New York . . . . . . . 27 18 20 22—87 Round Robin
Miami . . . . . . . . . . 16 31 45 18—110 Singles
scorer appeared on stadium screens. giving the Egyptian winger 50 goals in Tottenham . . . Borussia Dortmund 3-Point Goals—New York 12-33 (Dotson 3-8,
Red Group
Central W L OT Pts GF GA Anqelique Kerber (1), Germany, d.
Barcelona controls Group B with just 65 appearances for the English thrashed visiting Atlético Madrid, 4-0 Ntilikina 2-3, Thomas 2-4, Hardaway Jr. 2-5,
Naomi Osaka (3), Japan, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Nashville 7 2 0 14 31 20 Hezonja 2-8, Burke 1-1, Baker 0-1, Kornet 0-1,
nine points after its third win in as club. . . . Porto defeated Lokomotiv Moscow, Vonleh 0-1, Trier 0-1), Miami 13-29 (Richardson
Sloane Stephens (5), United States, d.
Colorado 6 1 2 14 33 20 Kiki Bertens (8), Netherlands, 7-6 (4), 2-6,
many matches. It was the first loss for Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane 3-1 . . . Schalke was held to a scoreless 5-6, McGruder 3-3, Dragic 2-3, D.Robinson 1-3,
Wade 1-3, Olynyk 1-5, Adebayo 0-1, Haslem
6-3. Standings: Sloane Stephens 2-0
(sets 4-2), Angelique Kerber 1-1 (3-3), Kiki
also netted at Anfield, as the attacking draw by host Galatasaray. Winnipeg 6 3 1 13 31 28 0-2, T.Johnson 0-3). Fouled Out—None.
Bertens 1-1 (3-3), Naomi Osaka 0-2 (2-4).
Rebounds—New York 45 (Dotson 10), Miami
Chicago 5 2 2 12 33 33 White Group
51 (Whiteside 14). Assists—New York 20
Standings: Elina Svitolina 2-0 (4-
(Ntilikina 5), Miami 24 (Olynyk 6). Total Fouls—
Minnesota 4 2 2 10 22 24 1), Karolina Pliskova 1-1 (3-2), Caroline
New York 23, Miami 15. A—19,600 (19,600).
HOCKEY
Wozniacki 1-1 (2-3), Petra Kvitova 0-2 (1-4).
Dallas 4 4 0 8 23 23
NETS 102, CAVALIERS 86
St. Louis 2 3 3 7 25 29 SOCCER
BROOKLYN (102)
Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA Harris 6-9 0-0 16, Dudley 4-5 0-0 12, Allen

Islanders Squander 2-Goal Lead to Panthers 5-9 0-1 10, Russell 5-14 6-6 18, LeVert 5-12
M.L.S. STANDINGS
San Jose 5 3 1 11 31 25 0-0 10, Hollis-Jefferson 3-10 2-4 8, Faried 0-1
0-0 0, Davis 4-6 2-2 10, Napier 2-6 2-2 8, EAST W L T Pts GF GA
Anaheim 5 4 1 11 25 25 Dinwiddie 3-6 0-0 8, Crabbe 0-7 0-0 0, Musa x-Atlanta . . . . . 21 6 6 69 69 40
1-2 0-0 2, Pinson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 38-87 12- x-Red Bulls . . . 21 7 5 68 61 33
Vancou. 5 4 0 10 27 29 x-N.Y.C.F.C. . . . 15 10 8 53 56 44
15 102.
By The Associated Press Dadonov scored for the Panthers. Rob- the first with his third goal of the sea- x-Philadelphia. . 15 13 5 50 48 47
Calgary 5 4 0 10 32 27 CLEVELAND (86)
Mike Hoffman scored a power-play in Lehner finished with 38 saves on 41 son at 18:36. Josh Bailey picked up the Osman 4-12 0-0 8, Love 4-9 4-5 14, Thompson
D.C. United . . . 14 11 8 50 60 50
Vegas 4 4 0 8 18 21 Columbus . . . . 13 11 9 48 40 43
goal 33 seconds into overtime and shots. assist. 1-10 0-0 2, Hill 3-8 0-0 7, Hood 4-10 2-2 10, Montreal . . . . . 14 15 4 46 47 52
Nance Jr. 2-7 0-0 4, Dekker 2-2 0-0 4, Zizic
lifted the Florida Panthers to a 3-2 vic- The Panthers were called for delay Eberle increased the lead at 11:42 of Edmonton 3 3 1 7 18 25 0-0 0-0 0, Sexton 6-10 2-2 14, Nwaba 0-0
New England .
Toronto FC . .
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11 38 48 55
6 33 55 63
tory over the Island- of game with just under three minutes the second against Reimer, finishing Arizona 3 5 0 6 15 18
0-0 0, Smith 3-5 1-1 7, Clarkson 4-14 6-6 14,
Korver 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 34-89 15-16 86.
Chicago . . . . . .8 18 7 31 48 61
left in regulation, but the Islanders off a pretty passing sequence with his Orlando City . . .8 21 4 28 43 73
PANTHERS 3 ers on Wednesday L.A. 2 6 1 5 17 32 Brooklyn . . . . . . . 24 21 38 19—102
night. wiped out that power play when first goal of the season. Barzal and An- Cleveland . . . . . . 17 28 17 24—86 WEST W L T Pts GF GA
WEDNESDAY 3-Point Goals—Brooklyn 14-34 (Dudley x-FC Dallas . . . 16 7 9 57 51 39
ISLANDERS 2 The winning goal Mathew Barzal was sent off for inter- ders Lee assisted. Florida 3, Islanders 2, OT 4-5, Harris 4-5, Napier 2-5, Dinwiddie 2-5, x-Kansas City . 16 8 8 56 60 39
Overtime was the fourth of the ference at 18:35. That penalty led to Last season’s Calder Trophy winner Toronto 4, Winnipeg 2 Russell 2-7, Hollis-Jefferson 0-2, LeVert 0-2, x-Los Angeles FC 16 8 8 56 65 48
Crabbe 0-3), Cleveland 3-18 (Love 2-5, Hill x-Seattle . . . . . 16 11 5 53 47 34
season for Hoffman. the power-play chance in overtime and as the league’s top rookie, Barzal leads Tampa Bay at Colorado 1-4, Smith 0-1, Nance Jr. 0-1, Sexton 0-1, Portland . . . . . 14 9 9 51 50 46
Brock Nelson and Jordan Eberle add- Hoffman’s goal, which completed a the Islanders with eight points Vancouver at Vegas Osman 0-2, Clarkson 0-4). Fouled Out— Real Salt Lake . 14 12
LA Galaxy . . . . 12 11
7 49 55 55
9 45 61 60
None. Rebounds—Brooklyn 44 (Davis 10),
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Price Pushes Postseason Demons Aside as the Red Sox Take Command
From First Sports Page
gle to right.
Mookie Betts followed with a
single to center and, after Andrew
Benintendi worked an eight-pitch
walk, the bases were loaded and
Ryu was gone.
“Trying to be a tough out and
not give them anything,” Be-
nintendi said of the at-bat. “When
we do that, things seem to work
out that way.”
After Ryu departed, Ryan Mad-
son, who had walked Steve Pearce
on four pitches in Game 1, did it
again — on five pitches this time,
forcing in a run to tie the score, 2-2.
J. D. Martinez, who led the ma-
jor leagues in runs batted in this
season, followed by lining a single
to right that scored Betts and Be-
nintendi, and the Red Sox had all
the runs they needed to leave Fen-
way Park with the Series momen-
tum.
Once Price completed six in-
nings — allowing two runs and
three hits, walking three and
striking out five — Joe Kelly, Na-
than Eovaldi and Craig Kimbrel
buzzed through the seventh,
eighth and ninth innings, retiring
the Dodgers in order.
The Dodgers are surely eager
to return to the far more welcom-
ing environment at home. The
weather will be balmy — the fore-
cast for Friday is sunny with a
high of 85 — and they will feel the
warm embrace of their fans.
The Dodgers had a hard time
adjusting to the elements in Bos-
ton. The pitching coach Rick Hon-
eycutt complained after Game 1
about the proximity of fans to the
bullpen mound, and the weather
— 47 degrees with a 12-mile-per-
hour breeze at the start of Game 2
— left them chilled.
Los Angeles shortstop Manny
Machado took grounders during
batting practice with his throwing
hand tucked inside his sweatshirt.
On defense in the first inning,
third baseman Justin Turner, sec-
ond baseman Brian Dozier and
Machado all kept their right
hands in their back pockets be-
tween pitches, while first base-
man David Freese windmilled his
arms to stay loose.
Ryu, however, was undeterred
by the frigid conditions early on.
He shrugged off a hiccup in the
second inning, when Xander Bo-
gaerts doubled off the Green Mon-
ster with one out and Ian Kinsler
brought him home with a crisp,
two-out single to left.
It provided an early advantage
for Price, who had not won a play-
off game in 11 starts for Tampa
Bay, Detroit, Toronto and Boston
until breaking through with six
shutout innings in the A.L.C.S.
clincher at Houston.
The ensuing days, he said, had
felt lighter. Though he had never
ducked responsibility for his Octo-
ber performances — often reveal-
ing a degree of vulnerability — he
admitted that Monday’s media
day had been different.
Baseball Falls Behind
In the Fame Game
From First Sports Page
pitcher Yu Darvish is the only
baseball player to crack the top
100. Darvish, who is Japanese, has
a huge following in his home coun-
try.
Regardless of these numbers,
Chris Park, the baseball executive
in charge of marketing, says the
sport’s present, and future, are
rosy. In an interview this month,
he emphasized the connections
between fans and their local
teams.
“There are very few bonds that
are as intense as a major league
baseball club and its fans,” he said.
According to the league office,
game telecasts for 12 teams ran-
ked first in their markets during
prime time this season. In 24 of the
25 American markets with M.L.B.
teams, the games top the rankings
on cable during prime time. Col-
lectively, M.L.B.’s teams have the
highest attendance of any sports
league in the world, by a fair mar-
gin.
Park also noted baseball’s huge
international appeal, particularly
in Latin America and in Asia.
“Shohei Ohtani, Hyun-Jin Ryu,
they have uniquely impactful and
important profiles in countries
around the world,” Park said, add-
ing that a particularly talented
crop of young players is just now
coming of age. One of those play-
ers is Mookie Betts, 26, who is
playing in the World Series for the
Red Sox.
The issue of baseball’s dearth of
widely known stars commanded a
lot of attention at this summer’s
All-Star Game. Baseball Commis-
sioner Rob Manfred was asked
about the relatively low public
profile of Trout, a seven-time All-
Star and two-time winner of the
American League Most Valuable
Player Award. Trout might be rec-
ognized walking along Fifth Ave-
“I got to look forward to it for
the first time,” Price said on Tues-
day. “Today it’s definitely a weight
lifted off me, for sure. Not like food
tastes better or anything like that,
but it was time.”
The only trouble Price encoun-
tered was in the fourth, when the
Dodgers ditched their usual plan
to work counts and hunt for a pitch
in a particular zone.
Freese led off by lining a single
nue, but he might not.
Trout, 27, could be hugely popu-
lar if he wanted to be, Manfred
said.
“He has to make a decision that
he’s prepared to engage in that
area,” the commissioner said. “It
takes time and effort.”
The typically understated Trout
— his personality is best defined
by his weather obsession — re-
sponded that he was doing as
much as he could. He said the long
baseball regular season, 162
games over roughly 183 days, pre-
vented him from dedicating time
to marketing himself.
David Schwab, a senior execu-
tive at Octagon, a global sports
marketing firm, said the setup
was hardly ideal.
“They may get 190 games,”
Schwab said, including the post-
season. “They have 75 percent of
their time committed already.”
On-field performance gives ath-
letes the ability to become stars,
Schwab said, but their person-
alities and passions help them be-
come megastars.
As examples, he compared
Shaquille O’Neal with Tim Dun-
can, perhaps the best two big men
in recent N.B.A. history. While
O’Neal’s gregariousness and ad-
vertising ubiquity made him a
global superstar, Duncan’s re-
served nature meant that he
rarely connected with fans be-
yond basketball.
To be fair, O’Neal’s highlights
were rim-rocking — and occasion-
ally rim-breaking — dunks. Fans
had a harder time getting excited
about the tidy bank shots from
Duncan, who was known as the
Big Fundamental.
“We live in an era of five-second
clips or three-second clips,” said
Schwab, which helps explain
baseball’s problem.
GIFs of game-winning 3-point-
ers and dunks or of Hail Mary pas-
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to right, and Machado followed
with a sharp single to center. Chris
Taylor then drew a walk, watching
a couple of fastballs off the inner
edge of the plate. Matt Kemp, just
as Machado had, jumped on the
first pitch — a changeup — and
flied out to center, scoring Freese
to tie the score at 1-1.
That set off activity in the Bos-
ton bullpen and set up a tense at-
bat with Enrique Hernandez, who
The Instagram numbers tell the story: LeBron James has over 40 million more followers than
Mike Trout, the most followed active player in Major League Baseball.
ses and big tackles rocket around
the internet to millions of margin-
al fans. But a large part of base-
ball’s appeal comes from develop-
ing drama, like duels between
pitcher and batter in which the hit-
ter might foul off numerous 90
mile-per-hour sinkers to wear
down the pitcher.
Certain fans might celebrate a
‘We live in an era of
five-second clips or
three-second clips.’
perfectly executed defensive shift
as much as a triple to the outfield
gap. Baseball, on average, at-
tracts the oldest television view-
ers of any major sport.
A number of other factors con-
tribute to the stardom gulf. Col-
lege baseball and the minor
leagues are not followed widely
enough for players to become
known until they break into the
majors. Stars in other sports are
often well known before they turn
pro. Baseball’s veteran hierar-
chies and unwritten rules have
long prized conformity and dis-
missed displays of individuality as
showboating. A recent M.L.B.
campaign called Let the Kids Play
aims to change that part of the
fouled off three consecutive 3-2
pitches until — just after a “Beat
L.A.” chant from the crowd — he
swung through a letter-high fast-
ball. But then Yasiel Puig con-
nected on the first pitch he saw for
a single to center, scoring Macha-
do and giving the Dodgers a 2-1
lead with Taylor at third.
Price bounced back to strike out
Austin Barnes and escape the
jam.
game’s culture, but political activ-
ism has been limited.
Television exposure may be a
factor, too. Every N.F.L. game ap-
pears on some form of national TV,
as does a high percentage of
N.B.A. games. Most baseball
games are televised only locally.
There is also the limited effect a
baseball star can have on his
team’s success. Position players
can bat only a few times a game,
and dominant starting pitchers
take the mound only every five
days. But a quarterback has the
ball in his hands every offensive
play, and an N.B.A. player can
stay on the court for an entire
game.
LeBron James has made eight
straight N.B.A. finals and won
three of them; Tom Brady has
made eight Super Bowls with the
Patriots and won five. The spot-
light is on them continually.
Trout, on the other hand, has
largely been missing from base-
ball’s biggest stage. He has played
in just three playoff games total,
all losses.
“As far as crossing over into the
mainstream, I don’t think baseball
has ever really been at that level,”
said Pat Mahomes, a former ma-
jor league pitcher.
Were he alive, Mickey Mantle
might disagree.
Mahomes’s perspective comes
from his 11 seasons in the major
leagues. His son, Patrick Ma-
“That’s what good pitchers do.
He minimized the damage,”
Kinsler said.
On his way off the mound, Price
took a detour to home plate for a
conversation with the umpire Ker-
win Danley, presumably about
several calls on pitches along the
inside edge.
In past years, that might have
signaled an unraveling, but not
this October.
homes II, is perhaps the most ex-
citing young player in the N.F.L.
The elder Mahomes played with
Ortiz early in his career, and while
Ortiz is now known as Boston’s
home-run-hitting, gregarious Big
Papi, it wasn’t always that way.
“For a long time he wouldn’t do
interviews, because he didn’t
think he could get his point
across,” Mahomes said. “It took
him a long time to get comfortable
to be able to do that. Then came
the 500 home runs and the World
Series championship — that
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Schedule
Dodgers vs. Red Sox
(Boston leads series, 2-0)
Game 1 Red Sox 8, Dodgers 4
Game 2 Red Sox 4, Dodgers 2
Game 3 Friday, 8 p.m.
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
Game 4 Saturday, 8 p.m.
Dodger Stadium
Game 5* Sunday, 8:15 p.m.
Dodger Stadium
Game 6* Tuesday, 8 p.m.
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Game 7* Wednesday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
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helps, too.”
Perhaps star power is cyclical.
Basketball experienced its mod-
ern nadir in the mid-2000s, after
the generation of Michael Jordan,
Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley,
Karl Malone and Hakeem Olaju-
won had retired. The N.B.A. lulled,
and then James, Stephen Curry
and Kevin Durant arose.
Maybe the next group of Jeters
and Big Papis is right around the
corner — or better yet, some-
where in the Dodgers’ and Red
Sox’ dugouts.
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Portuguese Soccer Club Is Closer to Unmasking Anonymous Accusers

By TARIQ PANJA bloggers. of users of Google services were perhaps most worryingly for the Benfica’s search for the blog- site publishing the leaked infor-
Google Inc. and other internet The efforts have paid off. “We protected by a company with prin- club, efforts to influence the refer- gers and web users has domi- mation is run by the same person.
service providers have turned only confirm that we made agree- ciples and, above all, respect for eeing system. Benfica denies nated the headlines since The In its lawsuit in California, Ben-
over confidential user information ments with those digital plat- users who trust their platforms,” wrongdoing. It has separately New York Times first reported on fica claimed the details published
to a Portuguese soccer team that forms,” said a spokesman for Ben- said the writer, a professional been charged with illegally ob- the issue earlier this month. Ben- online were “trade secrets” that
may help it identify anonymous fica. He declined to provide fur- services worker with two chil- taining confidential information fica fans have also tried to unmask buttressed its success in winning
bloggers who have written about ther details of the information the dren. “I think it opens a very seri- from a mole working inside the the identity of those behind the titles and cultivated an academy
allegations of wrongdoing against team received. ous precedent that will only allow justice ministry. blogs. In at least one case, the system that generated “more
In a statement, Google said it those with financial possibilities The bloggers’ cases are not name and photograph of a man than any other club in the world”
the team.
complied with the legal process. to remain anonymous.” without precedent. They are simi- suspected of being one of the blog- in player sales this decade. The
The information was turned
“Google gave notice to impacted Benfica’s status within Portugal lar to a yearslong legal battle be- gers was widely circulated on the claim did not mention police raids
over as part of a lawsuit filed by
users who then had an opportuni- is immense. The team counts at tween Chevron and internet internet but turned out to be on Benfica’s offices or ongoing in-
the team, the Lisbon-based Ben- least half of the country’s 10 mil- wrong.
ty to challenge the legal process in providers Google, Yahoo and vestigations into results manipu-
fica, this year in United States Dis- Microsoft in which the company lation and corruption.
a U.S. court,” said a spokeswoman Fans of Benfica’s rivals, Sport-
trict Court in California as part of for the company. sought identity information be- ing Clube de Portugal and F.C. “Despite commencing numer-
an effort to stop the bloggers. The owner of the popular Art- longing to activists, attorneys, Porto, are behind most of the ous actions, both civil and crimi-
Benfica, the serial national
champion, has been battling a tide
ista do Dia blog is among those Google hands over journalists and others who have blogs the team is targeting for le- nal, in Portugal, Benfica has thus
whose user identity has very spoken out against the company. gal action. Benfica alleges the two far been unable to stem the tide of
of leaked information for much of likely been passed on to Benfica user data as part of Albert Gidari, consulting direc- other teams are part of a conspir- stolen information or identify the
the past year. The leaks have been by Google. He received an email tor of privacy at the Stanford Cen- acy to discredit it, a claim that is thieves. It is clear to Benfica that
drip-fed onto a specially created from Google in September telling Benfica’s lawsuit. ter for Internet and Society, said typical in soccer in Portugal, only with the cooperation of the
website since December, pro- him he could try to quash Benfi- Google had little option but to where club executives frequently hosting organizations will Benfica
ducing sensational headlines and ca’s demand through a legal chal- comply with Benfica’s subpoena. launch allegations against one an- be able to stop the campaign to
leading to a crisis within a club lenge. Internet companies get hundreds other. The leaks first appeared on discredit it,” its U.S. lawyers
that counts some of the country’s lion citizens as fans, the weight of
Faced with thousands of dollars of thousands of similar requests, a weekly television show on Por- wrote.
most important politicians and which gives it a greater cultural to’s channel, before a website
of legal fees, the author, whose said Gidari, who spent 20 years Gidari, the former privacy law-
business figures as members. identity The New York Times has and social significance than most representing some of the world’s called O Mercado de Benfica ap- yer, said the suit seemed similar to
However, Benfica was unable to confirmed, was only able to reply ordinary sports teams. Even in biggest technology companies in- peared in December 2017. others brought by other organiza-
stop the leaks through Portugal’s with an impassioned email, in good times, details of exploits in- cluding Google. “It isn’t scalable Porto’s communications direc- tions confronting the public dis-
legal system. So the club, a two- which he outlined that he had not side its Estadio da Luz home dom- to know what’s behind each case,” tor Francisco Marques said he re- closure of damaging information.
time European champion, turned been responsible for the leak, and inate local media. he said. ceived the data anonymously He added that though in some
in April to California’s courts. It is- that he had, like many others, The leaks, which began last Google already goes “one step from an individual purporting to cases there may be valid reasons
sued subpoenas to Google and a written about a subject of enor- year, have purported to show in- beyond” what it is required to do be a fan of the club. Marques said behind subpoenas, they are often
handful of other companies that mous public interest. fluence peddling schemes that by giving notice of the subpoena he passed all the files he received “strategic lawsuits brought to si-
own the platforms used by the “I thought Google and billions targeted top soccer officials and, to users, he added. to the police. He suspects the web- lence critics.”

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Dallas-Ft. Worth 58/ 52 0.41 64/ 52 C 73/ 55 S Dakar 88/ 79 0 88/ 78 PC 87/ 77 C Nassau 86/ 73 0.20 86/ 77 Sh 86/ 77 W Barnegat Inlet ................. 8:35 a.m. .............. 9:00 p.m.
Denver 64/ 43 0.08 67/ 42 PC 68/ 45 PC Johannesburg 76/ 48 0 84/ 55 S 87/ 57 S Panama City 84/ 75 0.05 85/ 73 T 85/ 74 T The Battery ..................... 9:00 a.m. .............. 9:25 p.m.
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storm system will spread rain as far north
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Osamu Shimomura, 90, Dies; Won Nobel for Finding a Glowing Protein
By KENNETH CHANG
Osamu Shimomura, who
shared the Nobel Prize in Chem-
istry in 2008 for his discovery of a
glowing jellyfish protein that is
now ubiquitous in biomedical re-
search, died on Friday in Naga-
saki, Japan. He was 90.
Nagasaki University, his alma
mater, announced his death.
“Osamu was a quiet and bril-
liant researcher,” Martin L. Chal-
fie, a professor of biological sci-
ences at Columbia University who
shared the Nobel with Dr. Shimo-
mura and Roger Y. Tsien of the
University of California, San
Diego, said by email. “What al-
ways struck me about Osamu was
his intense dedication and mas-
terful work on a fundamental
problem in biology — how can dif-
ferent organisms generate light?
— that was, ironically, far from the
limelight before the Nobel.”
In 1961, Dr. Shimomura, then a
researcher at Princeton Univer-
sity, spent the summer scooping
jellyfish, specifically the species
Aequorea victoria, out of Puget
Sound in Washington State. He
was working for Frank H. John-
son, a Princeton marine biologist,
who was interested in how the jel-
lyfish glowed green when agi-
tated.
They extracted a luminescent
material from thousands of them
and took it back to Princeton for
further study. By February of the
next year, Dr. Shimomura recalled
in his autobiography at the Nobel
website, they had obtained about
five milligrams of a nearly pure lu-
minescent protein, which they
named aequorin. Dr. Shimomura
also found trace amounts of an-
other protein that glowed green.
That is now known as green fluo-
rescent protein, or G.F.P.
Unlike most other light-pro-
ducing proteins, which require a
reaction with other chemicals to
glow, green fluorescent protein
turned green simply when ultravi-
olet light was shined on it.
Other scientists later deter-
mined the gene that produces
G.F.P. and were then able to stitch
it into the DNA of other organ-
isms. With that genetic modifica-
tion, fluorescent snippets were at-
tached to proteins that biologists
were interested in.
Proteins are the machinery of
cells, doing the work that keeps
organisms alive. This became a
revolutionary way for biologists
to track the comings and goings
and interactions of specific pro-
teins, easily visible under a micro-
scope — akin to attaching a GPS
device to a person traveling
through the tumult of a city.
“The importance of Dr. Shimo-
mura’s contribution to contempo-
rary biological discovery cannot
be overstated,” Nipam Patel, di-
rector of the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.,
where Dr. Shimomura worked
from 1982 to 2001, said in a state-
ment.
Osamu Shimomura was born on
Dorcas Reilly, 92; Souped Up a Casserole
By KAREN ZRAICK
It takes just minutes to whip up,
and contains a mere six ingredi-
ents. But more than six decades
after Dorcas B. Reilly invented the
classic American dish of green-
bean casserole when she worked
in the Campbell Soup Company
test kitchen, it remains a staple at
Thanksgiving Day dinners across
the country.
Mrs. Reilly, who died on Oct. 15
at a hospital in Camden, was
among the first full-time employ-
ees of the Campbell’s home eco-
nomics department, where she
helped to create recipes printed
on the labels of its products. Her
husband, Thomas H. Reilly, con-
firmed her death. She was 92.
“We worked in the kitchen with
things that were most likely to be
in most homes,” Mrs. Reilly once
said. “It’s so easy. And it’s not an
expensive thing to make, too.”
Her recipe calls for mixing a can
of cream of mushroom soup,
cooked green beans, a bit of milk,
soy sauce and pepper. Pop it in the
oven, toss some crunchy fried on-
ions on top, and voilà.
The dish epitomizes the easy
recipes that became popular in
the 1950s, when companies pro-
moted them to increase demand
for their products.
“It was convenience with a
touch of glamour,” said Laura Sha-
piro, a culinary historian and au-
thor of “Something From the
Oven,” a book about American cui-
sine in the 1950s.
She added that the French’s
crispy fried onions that the recipe
called for were the “touch of gen-
ius” in the dish.
Mrs. Reilly was a supervisor in
1955 when she first put together
the recipe, originally called the
“Green Bean Bake,” for an article
by The Associated Press. It was
among hundreds she had created,
including a tuna-noodle casserole
and Sloppy Joe “souperburgers.”
But none became quite as fa-
mous as the Green Bean Bake.
The company says that more than
Aug. 27, 1928, in Kyoto, and his
childhood and education were
fractured by World War II. With
his father serving in the Japanese
Army, he and his brother and sis-
ter were sent to live with grand-
parents near Nagasaki. At 16 he
graduated from high school with-
out ceremony or diplomas, at a
factory where his class had been
sent to repair aircraft engines.
On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after
the atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, he saw an American
B-29 bomber drop two or three
parachutes. A few minutes later, a
second B-29 appeared.
“At the moment I sat down on
my work stool,” Dr. Shimomura
A major element of
biological research,
lighting up the inner
workings of cells.
wrote in his Nobel autobiography,
“a powerful flash of light came
through the small windows. We
were blinded for about 30 seconds.
Then, about 40 seconds after the
flash, a loud sound and sudden
change of air pressure followed.
OSAMU SHIMOMURA/MARINE BIOLOGICAL
LABORATORY, VIA EPA
The jellyfish from which green
fluorescent protein is derived.
We were sure there was a huge ex-
plosion somewhere, but we didn’t
know where.”
It was the atomic bomb being
dropped on Nagasaki.
“The sky was rapidly filling
with dark clouds,” he wrote, “and
when I left the factory to walk
home, about three miles away, a
drizzling rain started. It was black
rain.
“By the time I arrived home, my
white shirt had turned gray. My
grandmother quickly readied a
bath for me. That bath might have
saved me from the ill effects of the
strong radiation that presumably
existed in the black rain.”
After the war, he repeatedly ap-
plied to college and was repeat-
edly rejected. He was finally ad-
mitted to Nagasaki Pharmacy
MEL EVANS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dorcas B. Reilly prepared her
famous green-bean casserole
at the Campbell Soup test
kitchen in Camden in 2005.
A six-ingredient dish
created in 1955 that
Americans have loved.
20 million American homes will
serve the dish this Thanksgiving.
“She took a lot of pride in it,” Mr.
Reilly said. “She was delighted
when anybody said they liked it,
and most everybody liked it.”
In interviews over the years,
Mrs. Reilly noted that the
casserole’s appeal was in its sim-
plicity. It employed the popular
Midwestern technique of using a
creamy soup to bind a casserole,
but mixed in some new ingredi-
ents. It took off when Campbell’s
began printing the recipe on its
cans of cream of mushroom soup.
Dorcas Lillian Bates was born
on July 22, 1926, in Woodbury, N.J.
Her mother, Dorcas Lillian Webb,
was a homemaker, and her father,
Frederick Bates, was an electri-
cian at the Drexel Institute of
Technology, now known as Drexel
University.
She and her brother, Linwood
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018
College in 1948, even though he
was not planning to become a
pharmacist. He discovered an in-
terest in chemistry there and
graduated at the top of his class in
1951. (Nagasaki Pharmacy Col-
lege later became part of Naga-
saki University.)
He was an assistant in a chem-
istry laboratory at Nagasaki for
four years, then obtained a leave
of absence to study for a year at
Nagoya University. The professor
he worked for, Yoshimasa Hirata,
assigned him a seemingly impos-
sible task: to try to crystallize a
glowing organic compound called
luciferin, found in a small crus-
tacean in the coastal waters of Ja-
pan. A renowned zoologist at
Princeton, E. Newton Harvey, had
tried for 20 years to make crystals
of luciferin and failed.
Dr. Shimomura succeeded after
10 months. His stay at Nagoya
was extended a year, and he and
Professor Hirata published a pa-
per describing their findings. It
caught the attention of Dr. John-
son, a disciple of Dr. Harvey’s, who
in 1959 offered the young scientist
a job in his laboratory.
In the 1970s, Dr. Shimomura ex-
amined aequorin, green fluores-
cent protein and other biolumi-
nescent materials. In 1982, he
moved to the Marine Biological
Laboratory as a senior scientist.
He retired in 2001.
Dr. Shimomura received the
Asahi Prize, one of the most pres-
tigious honors in Japan, in 2006.
He later noted that the Wash-
ington waters where he and his
co-workers had collected so many
Aequorea jellyfish — 850,000 over
19 trips from 1961 to 1988 — had
become polluted, and that after
1990 the jellyfish became sparse,
perhaps as a result of the Exxon
Valdez oil spill off Alaska in 1989. If
the disappearance had occurred
20 years earlier, he would never
have learned about aequorin or
green fluorescent protein.
Dr. Shimomura is survived by
his wife, Akemi Shimomura; a
brother, Sadamu; a sister, Set-
suko; a son, Tsutomu; a daughter,
Sachi Shimomura; and two grand-
children.
In 2013, Dr. Shimomura went to
Los Alamos National Laboratory
in New Mexico, the birthplace of
the atomic bomb, to give a talk
about green fluorescent protein.
While there he asked John E.
Pearson, the Los Alamos scientist
who had invited him, about the
parachutes he had seen dropped
by the first B-29 over Nagasaki.
He had been told that they carried
instruments to measure the ex-
plosion.
After some hunting, models of
the original parachute payloads
were found.
“Some guy came up and started
explaining what we were looking
at,” Dr. Pearson recalled. “Osamu
said, ‘Yes. I watched them falling.’
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone
quite as stunned as that guy.”
Tomlinson Bates, grew up in
Glassboro, N.J., and Camden. She
attended Camden High School,
along with Thomas H. Reilly,
whom she would marry in 1959.
In a phone interview, Mr. Reilly
said Wednesday that he fell in love
with her in the fall of 1940, “but it
took awhile” to get together. He
served in World War II and the Ko-
rean War after high school, while
she studied home economics at
Drexel. After graduation, she
went to work at the Campbell’s
test kitchen in Camden.
Mr. Reilly said his wife had
grown up in a family of cooks,
which spurred her love of food.
Even after spending all day in a
test kitchen, she would cook at
home as well, experimenting and
using fresh ingredients. She did
make a lot of soup, Mr. Reilly said.
The couple settled in Haddon-
field, N.J., where Mr. Reilly got a
job as a high school English
teacher. The couple had one son,
Thomas B. Reilly, and a daughter,
Dorcas Tarbell.
In addition to her husband and
children, Mrs. Reilly is also sur-
vived by four grandchildren and
one great-granddaughter.
Mrs. Reilly left Campbell’s in
1961 to raise her children, but re-
turned years later as a manager, a
position she held until she retired
in 1988.
In 2002, Campbell’s donated the
original recipe card for the green-
bean casserole, written by Mrs.
Reilly, to the National Inventors
Hall of Fame.
These days, fresh ingredients
and complicated recipes are all
the rage, and the creamy
casseroles of the 1950s are decid-
edly out of fashion, and some-
times derided. But because it be-
came so ubiquitous at holidays,
the green-bean casserole endures,
evoking powerful nostalgia for
many Americans.
“If you have the love and memo-
ry of this, you will never think it’s
gross,” Ms. Shapiro said. “You will
think of it as the food of your past
and you will cherish it.”
Osamu Shimomura in 2008 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, where he
accepted a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a luminescent protein.
Deaths
Blechner, Michael McGurk, John
Huntington, Patricia Rubin, Mae Koenig
Jonas, Barbara Shubik, Julie
Kempner, Thomas Slaughter, Lee
Leichman, Cynthia Stoll, Fred
Lipton, Lini Sylvia, Pat
BLECHNER—Michael,
88 years old. Died October 19,
2018. A legend in his industry,
55-year tenure with Stark Car-
pet. Admired and loved by all
who knew him. Loving and
devoted husband to Florence.
Role model and loving father
to his son and daughter, Elise
(Mark). Loving sister and
brother to the late Sara and
Charlie, adored by his grand-
children, Danielle, Julia, Josh-
ua, Benjamin and Edward
and a wonderful uncle. A
warm-hearted, loving man
with a great sense of humor.
He will be deeply missed by
all.
HUNTINGTON—Patricia S.
The partners, counsel, asso-
ciates and staff of the firm of
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
and Garrison LLP express
profound sorrow at the death
of Patricia S. Huntington, be-
loved mother of our friend
and partner David S. Hunting-
ton. We express our deepest
sympathies to David and to
all other members of the
family.
JONAS—Barbara.
We are grief stricken at the
startling news of Barbara's
passing, our friend for de-
cades. Our love, heartfelt
condolences and prayer for
strength for Donald, John and
Kirby, grandchildren, other
family and friends of Barba-
ra- So smart, vivacious, ac-
complished. She will be in our
hearts always.
Fred and Barbara
JONAS—Barbara L.
The Harmonie Club notes
with sorrow the passing of
our honored member Mrs.
Barbara L. Jonas. We extend
our heartfelt condolences to
the entire family.
The Harmonie Club
JONAS—Barbara.
The John Klingenstein family
mourns the loss of Barbara
Jonas.
KEMPNER—Thomas Lenox,
Sr., 91, Investment Banker
Thomas Lenox Kempner Sr.,
loving husband of Ann Bern-
hard Kempner, proud father
of Thomas Jr., Adeline, and
James, and proud grandfath-
er and great-grandfather,
died peacefully at New York-
Presbyterian/Columbia Uni-
versity Medical Center on
Tuesday, October 9th. He was
91 years old. Mr. Kempner
was the grandson of Carl M.
Loeb, the founder of Carl M.
Loeb & Co, which later be-
came Loeb Rhoades & Co.,
one of the iconic Wall Street
brokerage and banking firms.
Mr. Kempner began his busi-
ness career working for his
grandfather in September
1950, after distinguished ser-
vice in the U.S. Navy. He be-
came a General Partner in
January 1957. Mr. Kempner
then became Chairman and
CEO of Loeb Holding Corpor-
ation after Loeb Rhoades &
Co., merged into Shearso-
n/American Express. During
an esteemed banking busi-
ness career, Mr. Kempner
served on many public and
private company boards. Mr.
Kcmpner was born in Pitt-
sburgh and was the son of
Alan Kempner and Margaret
Loeb Kempner. Alan was an
executive with the publishing
company of Farrar & Strauss.
Mr. Kempner was a graduate
of the Choate School and
Yale University, where he
was elected to and was a
member of both the scientific
Honor Society, Sigma Xi, and
the engineering Honor Socie-
ty, Tau Beta Pi. He was a ge-
nerous supporter of Choate
and Yale, and recently with
his son Thomas Jr., endowed
a chair in computer sciences
in the Yale School of En-
gineering & Applied Sciences.
He was also a long-term sup-
porter and committed partici-
pant in the activities of CATO
Institute, Manhattan Institute
and Club for Growth. Dona-
tions may be made in Mr.
Kempner's name to: The Ro-
gosin Institute, Attn. Dr. Barry
Smith, CEO, 505 East 70th
Street, NY, NY 10021.
LEICHMAN—Cynthia Gail,
MD, died October 20, 2018, in
Solana Beach, California. Gail
shared her life and her love
for over fifty years with her
soul mate and husband,
Larry; she was the proud
mother of Joshua, Jeffrey
and Jeremy; grandmother of
Charlotte, Meriah, Oliver, Fit-
sum, Clay and Cassidy; and
sister of Bruce Pattridge. Gail
was passionate about cook-
ing, cats, and walking on the
beach; a sensitive and loving
woman, she is deeply missed
by her family and friends.
The daughter of Willard and
Doris Pattridge, Gail grew up
in Perry, New York, before
attending Rochester Univer-
sity and Wayne State Univer-
sity School of Medicine. As a
physician, her compassion
and skill comforted the thou-
sands of patients whose lives
she touched over forty years
as an oncologist in Detroit,
Southern California, and New
York. In her career as an
academic, Gail was recog-
nized as an unassuming and
brilliant clinical researcher
with an impressive research
record, and a cherished col-
league at Wayne State Uni-
versity, the University of
Southern California, Roswell
Park, and NYU, mentoring
numerous trainees before re-
tiring as Professor of Medi-
cine. Donations are wel-
comed to the GI Cancer Re-
search Program at New York
University, Perlman Compre-
hensive Cancer Center in
care of Drs. Deirdre Cohen
and Elliot Newman.
Violette, Richard
Walsh, John
Wang, Charles
Zimmer, Laurette
LIPTON—Lini,
passed away comfortably at
home on October 23rd, at the
age of 96. The funeral will be
at Frank E Campbell “The
Funeral Chapel” Madison
Avenue at 81st, on Friday, Oc-
tober 26th at 11:30am. The
shiva will be at Lini's apart-
ment on Saturday, October
27th at 7:30pm. Donations in
her memory can be made to
the 92nd Street Y or The Blue
Card. May Lini's memory be
a blessing.
LIPTON — Lini.
The 92nd Street Y Board of
Directors and staff mourn
with heavy hearts the passing
of longtime Board member
and dedicated supporter, Lini
Lipton. She will be dearly
missed. Our thoughts and
prayers are with Lini's friends
and family. May they be
comforted among the mour-
ners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Laurence D. Belfer, Chair
Marc S. Lipschultz,
Chair Emeritus
Henry Timms, President
McGURK—John D.
As founding partner of Al-
manac Realty Investors,
John established a legacy of
civility, strong ethics, innova-
tion, community and endur-
ing investment judgment. He
was a mentor and a friend to
all of Almanac's team mem-
bers (many of whom he hired
and worked with for de-
cades), his investors, and the
management teams of the
companies he invested in.
Born in Newark, New Jersey
1943, he and his three siblings
moved to Los Angeles in
1949. He graduated from Loy-
ola in 1965, and deployed to
Vietnam with the United
States Coast Guard the fol-
lowing year, achieving the
rank of ensign. After return-
ing home, he enrolled in the
MBA program at USC. John
met the love of his life
Moreen in 1971 while living in
Los Angeles, and they re-
mained together until the
time of his death. They
moved to New York City in
1980 where they raised two
loving and devoted sons Colin
and Bryan. John was a prin-
cipled advocate of active ci-
tizenship in the City and de-
voted much of his spare time
towards making it a better
place to live. He enjoyed
laughter, good conversation,
travel, food and sports of all
kinds. He was generous in
sharing his time and wisdom
with the causes, institutions,
and people that were impor-
tant to him and his family. He
was especially committed to
organizations that valued
education, veterans and
assisting the less fortunate.
John started his real estate
career in the investing arm of
Prudential Insurance Compa-
ny in 1971 and rose swiftly to
run its East Coast operations.
In 1981, with the Rothschild
family, he founded Roth-
schild Realty, Inc. The initial
focus of the business was ad-
visory and investment bank-
ing activities but soon
evolved into principal invest-
ing. Rothschild Realty was
spun out of Rothschild in 2007
and renamed Almanac Real-
ty Investors in 2011. He re-
tired as managing partner in
2009 but remained active in
the firm as a partner and
member of the investment
committee. He announced
his formal retirement in Sep-
tember of this year. In the
mid 1990's, under John's lead-
ership and with $1million of
initial capital, the firm began
investing in REITs and real
estate companies. His early
intuition and sense of oppor-
tunity led to the formation of
what has become the Alman-
ac Realty Securities series of
funds. John and his team
have since invested over $5
billion into 42 companies pur-
suing a wide array of real es-
tate opportunities on behalf
of large institutional inves-
tors. John represented Al-
manac on over a dozen port-
folio company boards. He will
be remembered by his family
and associates for a steadfast
sense of personal ethics and
as an exceptional judge of
character. In every aspect of
his life, his primary invest-
ment was in people. A Me-
morial service will be held at
Frank E. Campbell “The
Funeral Chapel” 81st at Ma-
dison Ave. The Family will re-
ceive guest from 3:30pm-
5pm. Service will start at 4pm.
In lieu of flowers, the family
has asked for contributions to
one of John's favorite organi-
zations. Links available at
John's online obituary at
www.frankecampbell.com/
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Deaths
RUBIN—Mae Koenig,
passed away peacefully on
September 30, 2018 in Phi-
ladelphia, Pennsylvania. She
was born in the Bronx, New
York on January 25, 1929 to
Bertha and Leon Koenig. She
attended Walton High School
and graduated in 1950 from
Hunter College in New York
with a degree in chemistry.
She spent the majority of her
working years as a petroleum
chemist for Exxon Mobil
where she was the holder of
52 patents. She was prede-
ceased by husband, Benja-
min Rubin. She leaves behind
a brother, Bernard Koenig
(Sharon), nephews Jeffrey
Koenig (Carla) and Mitchell
Koenig (Cheryl) as well as
grand-nephews and nieces.
There are no funeral services
planned at this time.
SHUBIK—Julie Kahn,
died at her home in Branford
CT on October 18, 2018. She
was 78. She was predeceased
in August of this year by Mar-
tin Shubik, her husband of
47 years. She is survived
by her daughter, Claire Shu-
bik-Richards, her son-in-law,
Seth Richards-Shubik and her
grandsons, Elliott and Leop-
old Shubik-Richards. The fa-
mily will be receiving visitors
from 2-4pm on Sunday, Octo-
ber 28 at 18 Rockland Park in
Branford, CT. A memorial
will be held in early 2019; de-
tails will be forthcoming.
Please contact the Robert E.
Shure Funeral Home at
203-562-8244 for further de-
tails.
SLAUGHTER—Lee,
passed away peacefully on
October 21, 2018. Lee was the
beloved wife of the late
James C. Slaughter. Lee is
survived by her nephews,
William Slaughter, Charles
Slaughter, and Robert J.
Slaughter, as well as her
grandnieces and nephews,
Sam, Joe, Willa, Hannah, Nell,
Jake, Ben, Cooper, Riley, and
Jackson. She held a lifelong
passion for music and dance
expressed through her long
time support for the Mannes
College of Music, The Metro-
politan Opera, and the School
of American Ballet. At her re-
quest, there will not be a me-
morial service
STOLL—Fred C. ,
91, of Port Saint Lucie, Florida
passed away October 22, 2018
in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
Fred was in the United States
Army, serving proudly during
WWII. He graduated from Le-
high University in 1949 with
his BSCE. He started Hum-
phrey's and Harding Inc Con-
struction Engineers in 1951.
Survivors include wife of 43
years, Judith Stoll of Port
Saint Lucie, Florida; daugh-
ter, Margot Bartell of West-
field, New Jersey; grandchild-
ren, Thomas (Allison) Sabol,
and Christopher Bartell;
great - grandchildren, Cole
and Gibson Sabol; cousins,
Fred “Billy” W. Stoll of Wool-
wich, New Jersey and Lillian
Kipp, Annapolis, MD. Memor-
ial Contributions may be
made in lieu for flowers, to
the Northern Westchester
Hospital Cancer Center
Health and Wellness in ap-
preciation of the care re-
ceived by Michael Rosen,
MD, 400 E Main Street Mt.
Kisco, New York 10549. Servi-
ces will be conducted at St.
Joseph's Catholic Church in
Somers, New York at a later
date. An online guestbook
may be signed at
haisleyfuneralhome.com
SYLVIA—Pat.
UJA-Federation of New York
mourns the passing of Pat
Sylvia, beloved mother and
mother-in-law of our dear
friends, Jonathan and Jodie
Elyachar. We extend our
heartfelt condolences to the
entire Elyachar family.
Jeffrey A. Schoenfeld,
President; Robert S. Kapito,
Chair of the Board;
Eric S. Goldstein, CEO
VIOLETTE—Richard.
On Sunday, October 21, 2018,
the New York Jockey Injury
Compensation Fund lost a
great leader. Rick Violette, a
member of the board and its
chair for more than 20 years,
who guided the organization
through its startup and diffi-
cult years, passed away. He
was a highly respected trai-
ner of thoroughbred horses
who had an outstanding
career with more than 800
wins. He guided the NYJICF
in providing needed medical
care and wage replacement
for jockeys, apprentice jock-
eys and exercise riders when
injured on a New York State
racetrack. Before the NYJICF
existed, these benefits were
difficult, if not impossible, to
obtain. Rick can be credited
for providing benefits to
those covered by keeping the
NYJICF operating efficiently.
We on the NYJICF Board of
Directors and all covered ri-
ders owe him a great debt.
He will be missed and re-
membered fondly.
New York Jockey Injury
Compensation Fund
Deaths
VIOLETTE—Richard.
Howard Lavin and Marty
Minkowitz of Stroock &
Stroock & Lavan LLP send
their heartfelt sympathies
and deepest condolences to
the family and colleagues of
Rick Violette, a friend and
client, who passed on Sunday,
October 21, 2018. Rick was a
dedicated champion for thor-
oughbred racing, serving for
more than 25 years on the
board of the New York Thor-
oughbred Horsemen's Asso-
ciation, including as its pres-
ident from 2008-17. For more
than 20 years, he was chair of
the New York Jockey Injury
Compensation Fund, a
Stroock client from its incep-
tion in 1991. Over four de-
cades as a thoroughbred trai-
ner, Rick amassed more than
800 wins, including recent vic-
tories with Diversify, a win-
ner of multiple stakes races.
He will be remembered for
his tireless dedication and
zealous advocacy, and he will
be greatly missed by all in the
racing community.
WALSH—John F.,
Age 83, formerly of Scarsdale
on October 21, outside Phi-
ladelphia. He is survived by
Nora, his beloved wife of 60
years, his six children, four
children-in-law, five grand-
children, and his brother,
James. He received his BA
from Fordham and PhD from
Clark. He taught at Fordham
for 45 years and chaired the
Psychology Department.
There will be a memorial
mass at Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church in Scarsdale on
October 27 at 10:30am. Inter-
ment will be private. Memor-
ial donations to the Bowery
Mission.
WANG—Charles B.
Bruce Ratner mourns the
passing of his dear friend
Charles Wang. Charles, in his
quiet way, dedicated his life
to helping others. Founder of
Smile Train, Charles and his
organization helped over one
million children with cleft sur-
gery lead normal and fulfill-
ing lives. His many other cha-
ritable acts changed the lives
of students, patients, and so
many others all over the
world. He positively impacted
the cultural and civic land-
scape of our region. He was a
visionary leader in technolo-
gy and sports. But, above all,
he loved his family: his wife,
Nancy; his children, Kimber-
ly, Jasmine, and Cameron;
his mother, Mary; and his
grandchildren. I was privi-
leged to know Charles and be
his friend. I will miss him.
My heart goes out to the
Wang family.
Bruce Ratner
ZIMMER—Laurette L.
(”Laurie”) (nee Lefebvre),
peacefully on October 15,
2018 of Worcester, MA, for-
merly of Wantagh, NY, at the
age of 88, surrounded by her
son and daughters. Beloved
wife of Donald who prede-
ceased her shortly before
their 60th anniversary. Lov-
ing mother of Donald, Cather-
ine Z. Collins, (J. Christopher),
Anne Z. Bradley (Brush), and
Susanne Stone (James).
Cherished grandmother of
Thomas, Andrew, Rosie, Sa-
rah, Daniel, Michelle, Nicole,
Parker, and Christian. Adored
sister-in-law of the late
Robert (sister-in-law Marge),
and the late John (late sister-
in-law Patricia), and nume-
rous nieces and nephews.
Laurie grew her strength
from her faith, family and
friends. Her faith was un-
wavering, her love for her
husband, children, grand-
children, brothers-in-law and
sisters-in-law, nieces and nep-
hews was endless, and she
fully enjoyed her friends and
the various sewing groups
she participated with over the
years. She cherished the gift
of family and considered her
life blessed. Graduate of Hun-
ter College (1951). Proud and
long serving member of the
local embroidery guild, as
well as an active member of
St. Frances de Chantal parish
for over 50 years. She was an
exceptional sewer, an avid
reader, as well as faithful sail-
ing companion to her hus-
band, and a past member
with her husband of South
Bay Cruising Club and Unqua
Corinthian Yacht Club. She
will be dearly missed by her
loving children and grand-
children with whom she
shared many delightful life
events, laughter and wonder-
ful memories. Family will re-
ceive friends October 26,
2018, 2-5pm and 7-9pm, at the
Charles J. O'Shea Funeral
Home: 603 Wantagh Ave.
(Exit 28N SS PKWY) Wan-
tagh, NY. Mass of Christian
Burial will be held October 27,
2018, 9:30am at St. Frances de
Chantal R.C. Interment to fol-
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Wanda Ferragamo, Who Reigned Over a Luxury Goods Empire, Is Dead at 96
By RACHEL SYME
Wanda Ferragamo, who
stepped in to run her husband Sal-
vatore Ferragamo’s shoemaking
business after his death in 1960
and then oversaw its expansion
into a global luxury goods brand,
died on Friday in her hilltop villa
near Florence. She was 96.
An internal company memo
signed by her surviving children
confirmed her death.
When Salvatore Ferragamo
died of cancer in 1960 at 63, Mrs.
Ferragamo, then 38, decided to
take over the business herself, de-
spite having no experience work-
ing in the industry — or working
outside the home at all.
“I had never worked in my life
before my husband died,” she told
Time magazine in 2007. “I was a
very young girl when I met him.
At that time, women were taught
only to play the piano and paint
and learn about culture. That’s
all.”
The couple had six children, the
youngest being only 2 years old.
But she felt that she had to carry
out her husband’s vision — to
push the company beyond
footwear. And she insisted that it
be known by his full name, Salva-
tore Ferragamo.
Over five decades, first as presi-
dent and then as chairwoman,
Mrs. Ferragamo oversaw the
growth of the company from a
small shoe-design and manufac-
turing concern in Florence into a
leading luxury goods house that
ranged beyond shoes to sell
leather wallets, silk scarves, crys-
tal flacons of perfume and much
more.
When she had inherited the
business, it made 800 pairs of
shoes a month. By 1981, it was
making 60,000 a month in addition
to selling handbags and men’s
wear. She introduced eyewear in
the 1990s, and she opened stores
in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai
and Mexico City.
Tony Hoagland, 64, Silly Wit That Shone in Poetry
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Tony Hoagland, a widely ad-
mired poet who could be both hu-
morous and heartfelt, often in the
same poem, died on Tuesday at his
home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 64.
The cause was pancreatic can-
cer, said his wife, the writer Kath-
leen Lee.
In seven poetry collections, the
most recent, “Priest Turned Ther-
apist Treats Fear of God,” pub-
lished this year, Mr. Hoagland
found insights and imagery in the
everyday: a pool in an Austin,
Tex., park; a spaghetti strap on a
woman’s dress that won’t stay put;
an old man dying awash in para-
noia from too much Fox News.
He liked jarring juxtapositions,
and he wasn’t afraid to throw pop-
culture references into his poems
or go for a laugh-out-loud re-
sponse. One poem he read often —
including on the “PBS NewsHour”
in 2012 for Valentine’s Day — was
“Romantic Moment” (2007), about
a couple who has just watched a
nature documentary:
It is just our second date, and
we sit down on a rock,
holding hands, not looking at
each other,
and if I were a bull penguin
right now I would lean over
and vomit softly into the mouth
of my beloved
and if I were a peacock I’d flex
my gluteal muscles to
erect and spread the quills of
my cinemax tail.
“I’m proud to be a funny poet,”
Mr. Hoagland, who taught at the
University of Houston, told The
Houston Chronicle in 2008. “Hu-
mor in poetry is even better than
beauty. If you could have it all, you
would, but humor is better than
beauty because it doesn’t put peo-
ple to sleep. It wakes them up and
relaxes them at the same time.”
But others of his poems were in-
deed quite beautiful, and even the
funny ones were hardly inconse-
quential.
“He never excludes the reader,”
the writer Antonya Nelson, a long-
time acquaintance, once said.
“He’s interested in making the
poem accessible and inclusive. He
wants to entertain you, but none of
that means his poetry is frivolous.”
Rich Levy, a poet and director of
Inprint, an organization that pro-
motes writing through workshops
and readings, cited one of Mr.
Hoagland’s books of essays about
poetry to convey his belief that po-
etry should be for everybody.
“You could see this anti-elitism
in his publications — witness ‘Real
Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry
and Craft,’ which by its title says,
‘Come on in, we promise not to
take ourselves too seriously,’ ” Mr.
Levy said by email. “Even though
Tony loved poetry so deeply, he
didn’t want his passion for it to ex-
clude anyone who was open and
ready to read and think.”
Mr. Hoagland’s poems could
find the pain in a broken relation-
ship, the wonder in a blooming
dogwood, or — as in these lines
from “Summer in a Small Town”
(2009) — the bittersweet quality in
Science Times. Tuesdays.
Mrs. Ferragamo would arrive
at the office every morning at
10:30. In the hallways of the com-
pany’s headquarters, in the Palaz-
zo Spina Feroni, a magnificent
Medieval palace on Via de
Tornabuoni in Florence, she was
known as “Signora,” always wear-
ing elegant clothing and her trade-
mark seven-centimeter high
heels.
One of her first and boldest deci-
sions was to make her daughter
Fiamma the company’s creative
force. Fiamma Ferragamo was 19
when her father died, and she had
already been designing shoes un-
der his tutelage.
The decision paid off: Fiamma
invented the Vara shoe, a round-
toed pump with a grosgrain rib-
bon and gold medallion that re-
mains the company’s most popu-
lar item. Another daughter, Ful-
via, oversaw the company’s ex-
pansion into silks.
Her four other children — Gio-
vanna, Leonardo, Massimo and
Ferruccio — were also given
prominent roles in the company,
as were grandchildren later on.
Insisting that the business
should remain in the family, Mrs.
Ferragamo rejected several offers
over the years to sell it, and she
navigated its first public stock of-
fering in 2011. According to
Bloomberg News, Salvatore Fer-
ragamo now reports an annual
revenue of over $1.6 billion.
In 2004 Mrs. Ferragamo was
awarded the Cavaliere di Gran
Croce, or grand cross, a top honor
in Italy. She stepped down as
chairwoman in 2006 and took the
title of honorary chairwoman. She
remained as head of the Ferrag-
amo Foundation, an educational
initiative begun in 2013 that sup-
ports young Italian artisans with
funding and training courses.
Wanda Miletti was born on Dec.
18, 1921, in Bonito, a hilly village in
southern Italy about 55 miles east
of Naples. Her father was a medi-
cal doctor and the town’s mayor;
Tony Hoagland wasn’t afraid to use pop culture references or go for a laugh-out-loud response.
An interest in making
poems ‘accessible and
inclusive to readers.’
a familiar scene:
All August the Ferris wheel will
turn
in the little amusement park,
and screaming teenage girls
will jump into the river
with their clothes on,
right next to the No Swimming
sign.
Trying to cool the heat inside
the small towns
of their bodies,
for which they have no words;
obedient to the voice inside
which tells them,
“Now. Steal Pleasure.”
Anthony Dey Hoagland was
born on Nov. 19, 1953, at Fort
Bragg, N.C. His father, Peter, was
an Army surgeon who later had a
private practice in Louisiana; his
mother, Patricia (McMoil)
Hoagland, was a homemaker. He
was an Army brat, he would say,
whose family moved quite a bit
during his childhood. He spent
time in Hawaii, Texas, Alabama,
Louisiana and Ethiopia.
“You grow up expecting your
circumstances to change,” he told
The Chronicle in 2010. “You’re
very amphibious.”
It was an upbringing, he said,
that left a certain emptiness.
“My parents were disconnected
from their parents,” he said in a
2006 interview with poets.org.
“We were middle class. There was
no religion in my family. So there
was an absence of ceremonial
knowledge, there was an absence
of inherited knowledge, there was
an absence of family stories, and
there was an absence of instruc-
tion.”
Wanda Ferragamo at the Palazzo Feroni headquarters in Flor-
ence, Italy, in 2007, and in the 1940s with her husband, Salvatore.
her mother was a homemaker.
It was in Bonito that she met
Salvatore, who was 24 years her
senior. He had been born there in
1898, the 11th of 14 children of a
poor farmer and his wife, who
grew wheat and olives. But it was
a circuitous path that had led him
to Wanda.
Mr. Ferragamo had left school
at 9 to work as an apprentice to a
Poetry became something of an
anchor for him.
“I got deeper and deeper into
the world of poetry,” he said, “sim-
ply because it was the only thing
that stayed constant in my life con-
tinuously, year after year, and then
decade after decade.”
He attended Williams College in
Massachusetts for a time but ulti-
mately earned his undergraduate
degree in general studies at the
University of Iowa in the
mid-1970s. Mr. Levy knew him
back then.
“We were together as under-
graduates at Iowa, in our first po-
etry writing class together, led by
Chase Twichell,” he recalled. “And
then writing workshops, with Lou-
ise Gluck and Sandra McPherson
— Tony with his Peruvian shoul-
der bag and blond braid seemed
on his way down the road toward
the Beats, leaving the rest of us be-
hind in our flannel shirts and
jeans.”
In the early 1980s Mr. Hoagland
received a master of fine arts de-
gree at the University of Arizona.
His first poetry collection,
“Sweet Ruin,” was published in
1992. His 2003 collection, “What
Narcissism Means to Me,” was a
finalist for the National Book Crit-
ics Circle Award for poetry.
Later collections included “Un-
incorporated Persons in the Late
Honda Dynasty.” Reviewing it in
2010 in The New York Times,
Dwight Garner wrote of Mr.
Hoagland, “His erudite comic po-
ems are backloaded with heart-
ache and longing, and they func-
tion, emotionally, like improvised
explosive devices: The pain
comes at you from the cruelest an-
gles, on the sunniest of days.”
In addition to “Real
Sofistikashun” in 2006, Mr.
Hoagland published another col-
lection on poetry and poetry writ-
ing, “Twenty Poems That Could
Save America and Other Essays,”
MASSIMO SESTINI
local cobbler. By age 11 he was
working in the trade in Naples.
When he was 16, he traveled to the
United States, first to work at a
shoe factory in Boston, and then to
Santa Barbara, Calif., where he
joined his brothers. He wound up
in Hollywood, where he set up a
business making shoes for the stu-
dios during the silent film era.
There he made Egyptian san-
KATHLEEN LEE
in 2014.
Those books made him some-
thing of a champion of poetry, one
happy to rebut those who would
say that it has lost relevance in the
modern age.
“I really like the idea of being
the frontman for American poetry,
its glories and possibilities,” he
told The Portland Press Herald in
2015. “Contemporary American
poetry deserves a lot more read-
ers.”
He thought poetry was at its
best when read aloud, and he often
read at poetry festivals and other
events.
“A poem in the air is different
than a poem on the page,” he told
The Times in 2012. “A poem when
you read it is getting the best at-
tention it will have. You experi-
ence it in real time.”
In addition to Ms. Lee, Mr.
Hoagland is survived by a brother,
Christopher.
His most recent collection in-
cludes a poem called “A Walk
Around the Property.” It ends with
these lines:
The moon shines down from the
black November sky.
The tide rises like a sweeping,
white-ruffed arm,erasing all
the pages that have come
before.The evidence
accumulates that nobody is
watching over us,and
gradually, as the streets and
houses drift toward night,all
the words inside them close
their eyes;
the sentences coil up like snakes
and sleep.It’s just me now
and my famous aching
heartunder the stars — my
heart that keeps moving like
a searchlight
in its longing for the hearts of
other people,
who in a sense, already live
there, in my heart, and keep
it turning.
dals and Western boots for Cecil
B. de Mille’s large-scale epics, and
became a sought-after heel-
maker for screen sirens like Joan
Crawford, Anna May Wong, Greta
Garbo and Lillian Gish.
He returned to Italy in 1927 and
set up a shoe shop in Florence.
The financial crash of 1929 had
him declaring bankruptcy, but by
the late 1930s he had been able to
pay off his debts and purchase the
Palazzo Spini Feroni.
VIA MUSEO SALVATORE FERRAGAMO
When he moved in, Mr. Ferrag-
amo wanted to fill the building not
only with footwear but also with
family. So he went on a tour of Ita-
ly — to go “shopping for a wife,” as
he wrote in his autobiography. He
found her in his hometown, Boni-
to, where he had become a local
benefactor.
There, Dr. Miletti invited Mr.
Ferragamo to his home and, ac-
cording to Mr. Ferragamo’s mem-
oirs, the two men entered into a
conversation about the contours
of the foot. Mr. Ferragamo asked
Dr. Miletti’s daughter, Wanda, if he
could use her for a shoe-fitting
demonstration. He fell in love with
her the moment he saw that she
“had one toe peeping out of her
stocking,” he wrote.
Two weeks later, Mr. Ferragamo
sent her a pair of custom black
Annapurna Devi, 91,
‘A Rare Talent’ in Her Era
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Annapurna Devi, a noted Indi-
an musician and teacher whose
decision to stop performing rela-
tively early in her career made
her something of an enigma, died
on Oct. 13 in Mumbai. She was 91.
Ram Nath Kovind, India’s presi-
dent, was among those noting her
death. “She was a rare talent and a
generous teacher,” he said on
Twitter, calling her life “a poignant
inspiration for women artists.”
Ms. Devi learned at the feet of
her father, Allauddin Khan, a
revered figure in Indian classical
music, and was married for years
to one of his students, the sitarist
Ravi Shankar. She played the sur-
bahar, often described as a bass si-
tar, a difficult instrument that few
if any women of her era played.
The small number of people lucky
enough to hear her were amazed
by her mastery of it.
She and Mr. Shankar, who died
in 2012, played together a few
times; after their concerts, she
once said, fans seemed to respond
more to her than to him. (A 1973
movie, “Abhimaan,” is often said
to have been inspired by their
marriage and the tensions in it.)
By the early 1960s she had
stopped performing.
“Some hold that Raviji pres-
sured her not to be in competition
with his career,” George E. Ruck-
ert, the author of five books on the
music of India, said by email, re-
ferring to Mr. Shankar, “but others
simply comment that the concert
and recording politics and travels
of the modern musician were not
to her liking.”
Whatever the case, her public
appearances and interviews vir-
tually ceased. Few recordings of
her exist. Instead she became a
sought-after teacher, passing
along the classical traditions her
father had conveyed to her.
“The contribution of Annapur-
na Devi is heard largely through
her students, who were diverse of
instrument and abilities,” said Mr.
Ruckert, who studied under her
brother, the sarod master Ali Ak-
bar Khan, and is a senior lecturer
emeritus at the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. “She was a
very strict teacher, and hence not
for everybody, but she turned out
musicians of the highest caliber.”
She was born Roshanara Khan
in April 1927 (the exact date is un-
Annapurna Devi playing the surbahar, which she mastered.
suede oxfords. “I had never worn
anything so comfortable,” Mrs.
Ferragamo later recalled. “I
thought I could fly.”
They married in a church in Na-
ples in the fall of 1940 — she was
18, he was 42 — and as Mr. Ferrag-
amo told it, they spent their first
married night watching Allied
planes attack the city.
They and their family later
lived in a 30-room villa in Fiesole,
a village on the banks of the Arno
River four miles northeast of Flor-
ence.
The Ferragamo headquarters
in Florence is also the site of the
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, an
archival museum that Mrs. Fer-
ragamo helped found in 1995 to
chronicle and celebrate her hus-
band’s footwear innovations, in-
cluding the first cork wedge san-
dals and the architectural cage
heel, a hollow metal cylinder that
was strong enough to support
body weight.
Mrs. Ferragamo is survived by
her son Ferrucio, who is now pres-
ident and chairman; her daughter
Giovanna Gentile Ferragamo,
who is vice-chairwoman; her son
Massimo, who is chairman of Fer-
ragamo USA; her son Leonardo,
who is also a senior executive; 23
grandchildren; and many great-
grandchildren. The family says
she leaves “more than 70” de-
scendants.
Fiamma di San Giuliano Fer-
ragamo died of breast cancer in
1998 at age 57. Fulvia Visconti Fer-
ragamo died, also of cancer, in
March at 67.
Even after stepping into an hon-
orary role, Mrs. Ferragamo con-
tinued to advise her children. In-
ternally, she was known as the
company’s “second pioneer.”
“When my husband died his
dream was a House of Ferragamo
where you could buy shoes and
everything else for elegant dress-
ing,” Mrs. Ferragamo told The
Times in 1981. “So little by little we
followed that dream.”
clear) in Maihar, in the Indian
state of Madhya Pradesh, to Al-
lauddin Khan and Madina Begum.
Her father was a court musician at
the time, and she was given the
name Annapurna Devi by the lo-
cal maharajah. She showed musi-
cal aptitude as a child, and her fa-
ther began training her, alongside
her brother and Mr. Shankar.
“They all learned the vocal arts
of the old dhrupad tradition,
wherein strict attention to the
rhythmic design of the composi-
tion had to be followed in the im-
provised sections,” Mr. Ruckert
wrote in his email. That approach,
he added, “was also applied to the
instrumental style which they
learned under his very thorough
discipline.”
She married Mr. Shankar in
1941, when she was a teenager.
The daughter of an
icon in Indian
classical music.
Their approaches to music di-
verged over time, with Ms. Devi
remaining a classical purist while
Mr. Shankar, who would catch the
interest of George Harrison of the
Beatles, was more exploratory
and populist. They separated in
the early 1960s and later divorced.
As a teacher, Ms. Devi chose her
students carefully. Mr. Ruckert
said that those who had studied
under her told stories of arriving
at her apartment in Mumbai for a
lesson and being required to
spend an hour in the warm-up
room playing repetitive exercises
before the teaching even began.
“The great flutist (bansuri)
Hariprasad Chaurasia once com-
mented, ‘If I closed the door of the
apartment incorrectly upon en-
tering or departing, she would not
see me for weeks!’ ” Mr. Ruckert
recalled.
Her other students included the
sitarist Nikhil Banerjee and the
bansuri player Nityanand
Haldipur.
In 1982 Ms. Devi married
Rooshikumar Pandya, one of her
sitar students. He died in 2013.
Her son with Mr. Shankar, Shub-
hendra Shankar, died in 1992.
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Robert Glasper’s new identity.
BY GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
4 MUSIC REVIEW
Igor Levit explores his view
of ‘Life.’ BY JOSHUA BARONE
NEWS CRITICISM
He Can’t Stop Making Hits
How Murda Beatz became
a top hip-hop producer.
By JOE COSCARELLI
LOS ANGELES — Shane Lindstrom, an easy-
going 24-year-old from the undistinguished
Canadian side of Niagara Falls, cuts a curi-
ous figure for a rap-world star.
He has a young man’s beard, fuller off the
edges of his face, and a feathered bowl of
reddish-blond hair that often flops onto his
designer sunglasses. His cluster of dia-
mond chains includes one depicting an
oversize chef emoji, complementing his
iced-out, rose gold Audemars Piguet watch.
But it’s Lindstrom’s producer name that
is maybe most jarring for an amiable dude
from north of the border: Murda Beatz, or
just Murda to everyone who knows him.
“People aren’t expecting me to look how I
do,” he said. “But that’s one of the main rea-
sons it works so well: the surprise factor.”
It first worked about five years ago when,
after some long-shot social media network-
ing, a less flashy Murda showed up on Chi-
cago’s South Side to collaborate with Chief
Keef’s GBE crew. And it worked again when
Murda appeared on the Atlanta doorstep of
a then-little-known trio calling itself Migos.
“They just really wanted to get me out
there to make sure I was making my beats,
because they were fire,” Murda recalled.
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‘Bodyguard,’ a hit
in Britain, sets out
to conquer the U.S.
BY ROSLYN SULCAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018 C1
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JENNIFER SZALAI
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Dismantle
The G.O.P.?
Or Just Look
Past Politics?
Two unhappy conservatives
long for alternative futures.
TO HEAR MAX BOOT tell it, he feels as forlorn
as the despondent, battered elephant on the
cover of his new book, “The Corrosion of
Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.” Boot
minutely describes a disillusionment that
wasn’t only “painful and prolonged” but
“existential.” Here he is — a lifelong Repub-
lican with sterling neoconservative creden-
tials (an enthusiastic supporter of the Iraq
War and a champion of “American empire”)
— explaining why he’s eager for the day
when “the G.O.P. as currently constituted is
burned to the ground.”
The scorched-earth rhetoric reflects not
just a pro-war pedigree but also a profound
feeling of betrayal. In the run-up to the No-
vember 2016 election, Boot was a vocal
Never Trump conservative who couldn’t
fathom that a “crudely xenophobic” reality
television star would become the standard-
bearer of the Grand Old Party, much less
president of the United States. Along with
the Nebraska senator Ben Sasse’s “Them:
Why We Hate Each Other — and How to
Heal,” another new volume by a Republican
critic of President Trump, Boot’s book at-
tempts to answer a looming question for
conservatives unhappy with the current oc-
cupant of the White House: What now?
“The Corrosion of Conservatism” does
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The Corrosion Them: Why We
of Conservatism: Hate Each Other —
Why I Left the Right and How to Heal
By Max Boot By Ben Sasse
JASON ZINOMAN
ON COMEDY
Schmaltz
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Pays Off
In Laughs
Adam Sandler’s Netflix special
embraces his sentimentality.
IN THE MIDDLE of his easygoing hang of a
new special, “100% Fresh,” Adam Sandler,
one of the biggest movie stars in the world,
walks into a Times Square subway station
and, disguised in a hoodie and sunglasses,
tries his hand at busking.
At a microphone, he starts singing about
how his grandmother just died. A few com-
muters stop to listen. He leans into the song,
asking with conviction how he will tell his
kids before dancing his way to the punch
line: “I guess I’ll go to a bingo game and
steal somebody else’s grandma, and hope
that my dumb kids can’t tell the difference.”
The camera focuses on a few people who
are distinctly unimpressed. No one puts a
coin in the empty guitar case. Sandler holds
back a chuckle.
How in the world did Adam Sandler be-
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come one of the most famous comedians
alive? This scene, where, stripped of his ce-
lebrity, he bombs in front of strangers, both
asks and answers the question, since he
comes off as deeply ordinary but also more
than willing to present himself as such.
Many comics would not have included it,
but there’s always been a vulnerability to
Sandler’s frustrated Everyman charisma.
As this eternally boyish comic has moved
‘People aren’t expecting me to look how I do. But that’s one into his 50s, this aspect of his appeal has
of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.’ come to the fore.
Sandler got his start telling jokes in com-
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BETTER KNOWN AS MURDA BEATZ edy clubs, but he rocketed to fame doing
sketches on “Saturday Night Live,” pro-
ducing blockbuster albums dominated by
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A Cold War Thriller Takes an African Turn

Spying remains a family affair
as a German series returns
for a 10-episode season.
YOU MAY FIND the scheme at the center of
“Deutschland 86” a bit confusing. That’s all
right; so does Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay),
the reluctant East German spy roped into
carrying it out.
As it’s explained to him, his government
needs him to facilitate an illicit sale of West
German weapons to South Africa, with the
assistance of the African National Congress
— even though the A.N.C. is bitterly op-
posed to the apartheid regime, and South
Africa is allied with East Germany’s rivals
in the Cold War.
Martin is told the deal is for the greater
good. But he still has questions. “East,
West,” he says. “Who are the good guys?”
In the pulpy-serious “Deutschland 86,”
the definition is very flexible.
The 10-episode series, beginning Thurs-
day on SundanceTV, is the follow-up to

Deutschland 86
Thursday on SundanceTV

2015’s “Deutschland 83,” a German-Ameri-

can coproduction created by the wife-and-
husband team Anna and Jörg Winger. That
season introduced Martin as a naïve border
guard, recruited by his aunt Lenora (Maria
Schrader), a cynical, formidable intelli-
gence operative, to infiltrate the West Ger-
man military in 1983.
The drama was like a peppermint
schnapps chaser to the moody vodka shot of
FX’s “The Americans.” It had a pop sensibil-
ity and stylish air, and it was as much a com-
ing-of-age story as a Cold War thriller.
Picking up three years later, “Deutsch-
land 86” broadens its scope and shifts its
axis, focusing on how the battle between
capitalism and Communism enfolded north
and south as well as east and west.
The series (subtitled in English) opens in
Cape Town, where Lenora shares a stun-
ning midcentury-modern apartment with
Rose Seithathi (Florence Kasumba), an
A.N.C. agent. (There’s a striking scene in
which the two operatives stride down a hall-
way, equal in their deadly confidence, then
separately enter the “Whites” and “Non-
Whites” elevators.)
They’re selling arms to the enemy be-
cause East Germany is dead broke, in debt
to the West, cut loose by Mikhail Gor-
bachev’s Soviet Union. Its bureaucrats are
left to try to salvage Communism through
fire-sale capitalism: selling off artworks,
importing garbage from West Germany, al-
lowing medical tests on its citizens. At least,
they console themselves, they’re not starv-
ing like the Romanians — yet.
Needing help, Lenora finds Martin at an
Maria Schrader and Jonas
Nay in “Deutschland 86.”
The series is a follow-up to
“Deutschland 83,” from 2015.
orphanage in Communist Angola, where
he’s been exiled after disobeying orders, at
the end of “Deutschland 83,” in order to
stave off a nuclear war. He’s a more somber
character now, hardened and healthily mis-
trustful, but he agrees, in exchange for be-
ing allowed to return home and see his
young son.
The new season is more action-oriented
than the first, skipping across the continent
of Africa and both sides of the Berlin Wall,
abetted by some hefty exposition down-
loads and pop-cultural references. (Falco
fans, you shall not be disappointed.)
The story feels more strained in its efforts
to keep numerous characters from the “83”
season busy. In East Germany, Annett (So-
nja Gerhardt), the mother of Martin’s son,
has become a zealous functionary in the
Stasi, where Walter (Sylvester Groth), Mar-
tin’s father, is pitching an arms-smuggling
plan inspired by a German version of “The
Love Boat.” Another thread, involving ac-
tivists in West Germany and the growing
AIDS crisis, feels detached.
There’s a lot of history and genealogy to
recall in these subplots, and the three years
that have passed since “83” are like three
centuries in peak-TV time. “Deutschland
86” largely stands on its own, but you may
need a Google tab open while watching.
The show’s strength remains Lenora and
Martin, who are both partners and antago-
nists. He’s a patriot but a confused one, try-
ing to keep his moral bearings while his
country loses its own. To Lenora, Martin is a
callow, self-indulgent boy, unwilling to sac-
rifice the few to help the many: “You can’t
see past the end of your own nose.”
Schrader, radiating ’80s Eurocool, gives
swagger and charisma to what might other-
wise be an empty villainess.
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For “Americans” fans in withdrawal, this
isn’t a perfect replacement. It’s not a slow
burn but a potboiler, and it sometimes
lurches into “24”-esque absurdity and
James Bond sudsiness. (When Martin is as-
signed to seduce a mark, there’s a cornball
shot of him framed, “Graduate”-style, be-
tween her calves.)
But it has a similar sense of espionage as
an intimate entanglement and a theme of
risking one’s life for a lost cause, because
family is family and home is home. And the
details are remarkable, like the Angolan
war orphans — at risk of being conscripted
as soldiers in an exploitative proxy war —
sitting on the floor to play RisiKo!, a variant
of the global conquest board game Risk.
That’s “Deutschland 86” in miniature. It’s
good fun, but it knows that its subject is
more than a game.

Can ‘Bodyguard’ Duplicate Its Success in the U.S.?

The most popular television
show in Britain in years is
now available on Netflix.
By ROSLYN SULCAS
LONDON — It’s been pretty grim in Britain
over the last few months. Brexit, Brexit,
Brexit. Newspaper headlines and social
media keep telling us that the country has
never been more divided. “Brexit preppers”
are stockpiling food and medication. Half
the cabinet is in a perennial state of offi-
cially outraged fury and imminent resigna-
tion. The beleaguered prime minister, The-
resa May, keeps insisting there is a way for-
ward.
But two months ago, the country found a
way to come together, heal the divisions and
ignore the politicians. Well, the real ones at
least.
The BBC One series “Bodyguard,” writ-
ten by Jed Mercurio (“Line of Duty”), de-
buted here in late August, drawing more
than 10 million television viewers over sev-
en days for its first episode, the largest audi-
ence for a new drama on British TV since
“Downton Abbey.” You may never have
heard of this show, which stars Richard
Madden (“Game of Thrones”) and Keeley
Hawes (“The Durrells in Corfu”), but it had
Britain riveted.
Unfolding in unfashionable weekly in-
stallments, “Bodyguard” fueled nonstop
speculation in the British media about the
twists, turns, implications and resolution of
its hall-of-mirrors plot, which involves an
Afghanistan war veteran assigned to guard
the chilly and ambitious home secretary, to-
gether with assorted terrorist threats and
back-stabbing political intrigue.
More than 10 million viewers tuned in the
night of the final episode, in late September.
Counting delayed viewing, more than 24
million watched at least part of the first sea-
son, according to the BBC. “We’re back in
ated a big water cooler moment in the U.K.,”
said Larry Tanz, the vice president for con-
tent acquisition at Netflix. “Now you will get
global conversations going, crossing differ-
ent cultures and languages.”
Do you care? Should you care? Why was
it so popular in Britain? Will it hit the same
cultural nerve in the United States? Here is
a spoiler-free guide to who’s who, what’s
what and some theories (O.K., speculation)
about why “Bodyguard” kept the Brits riv-
eted.
What’s It About?
David Budd (Richard Madden), a former
soldier, is assigned as the protection officer
for Britain’s home secretary, Julia Monta-
gue (Keeley Hawes). Budd is estranged
from his wife, suffering from post-traumatic
stress disorder, and angry about the deci-
sion to send British troops to Afghanistan,
tion, citizenship, policing and all matters of
national security, making him or her an ex-
tremely senior figure in government.
Another bit of British terminology: MI5,
known as the Security Service, is responsi-
ble for domestic intelligence, like the F.B.I.
Together with the police, the service reports
to the home secretary. In “Bodyguard,” the
director general of MI5, the snaky Stephen
Hunter-Dunn (Stuart Bowman), is engaged
in a bitter fight for territorial control with
Commander Anne Sampson (Gina McKee),
the head of the Metropolitan Police Counter
Terrorism Command.
Why Was the Nation Spellbound?
Mercurio already has one hugely successful
series, “Line of Duty,” running on BBC One,
so he has a following among British viewers
who love the convoluted twists and nothing-
NETFLIX
Richard Madden, who
played Robb Stark in
“Game of Thrones,’’
portrays an Afghanistan
war veteran assigned to
protect an ambitious
home secretary in
“Bodyguard.’’
‘Clearly it created
a big water cooler
moment in the U.K.’
salaciousness. “Bodyguard” combines “the
most popular genres in British TV” — the
crime drama and the conspiracy thriller —
while “also incorporating the always popu-
lar subplot of forbidden sex,” he wrote in an
email.
Mercurio’s “exceptional gift for tension”
is enhanced by a reputation for killing off
major figures in early episodes of a series,
Lawson said. “The viewer sitting down to
watch “Bodyguard” was nervously aware
that the ‘James Bond Rule’ — the protago-
nist must survive to play another day —
may not apply.”
Mercurio himself didn’t seem to have any
particular theory about why “Bodyguard”
had resonated so widely in Britain. “There
is always a measure of good fortune about
these things,” he said in a telephone inter-
view. Although he had wanted to write
about the world of politics, he said he hadn’t
used Brexit as a backdrop since it would
have been “impossible to predict what poli-
tical events would be happening.” Instead,
he said, he chose to focus on national securi-
ty.
One theory holds that despite the topical
themes, the key to the show’s popularity lies
in its escapism — it was a relief to watch a
world in which Brexit doesn’t exist, and a
lone hero can resolve all problems (except
his own, of course) in time-honored action-
star fashion.
But Brexit angst probably figures into it
somehow. “It’s set in a version of Westmin-
ster in which not only can no politicians
trust each other, but neither can any of them
of them rely on the police or the spies,” Law-
son said. “My hunch is that future histori-
ans will find the huge success of ‘Body-
guard’ a reflection of the ‘trust no one’ mood
in U.K. culture in this period.”
So How Will U.S. Audiences Respond?
One big difference for United States audi-
ences is that Netflix will release all the
episodes of “Bodyguard” simultaneously,
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the world of the water cooler — a bygone
era when we all watched TV at the same
time,” Zoe Williams wrote in The Guardian.
Even the (real life) politicians weighed in.
Ms. May said she switched off after 20 min-
utes. “I watch TV to unwind,” she told re-
porters. “I’m not sure a drama about a fe-
male home secretary is the best way for me
to do that.” Amber Rudd, who was the home
secretary when “Bodyguard” was being
filmed, wrote an article about the show for
The Times of London, later commenting
slightly coyly to The Telegraph that some
(ahem) aspects of the relationship between
the home secretary and the bodyguard
“may be a little far-fetched.”
Now “Bodyguard” is available to you.
Netflix, which acquired the series at an
early stage in production, released it on
Wednesday in 190 countries. “Clearly it cre-
which Montague supported.
A quick succession of high-adrenaline
events is woven into lower-key intrigue that
includes a venomous rivalry between the
police and the secret service, and a mysteri-
ous document that may implicate someone
very high up in government and allow Mon-
tague to make a grab for power. Sexual ten-
sion makes an obligatory, steamy appear-
ance. Meanwhile, the poker-faced Budd re-
mains mostly inscrutable. Is he really pro-
tecting Montague? Or does he intend to use
his position to take revenge for Afghani-
stan?
What Is a Home Secretary, Anyway?
There isn’t an exact correspondence in the
United States government. The home sec-
retary in Britain is responsible for immigra-
whereas British audiences largely watched
casting of Madden, who played Robb Stark the show from week to week, with cliffhang-
in “Game of Thrones,” definitely didn’t hurt. ers building chatter and suspense. “We are
(“Bodyguard” has attracted exceptionally all in the same time zone here, and it re-
high numbers of the coveted 18-34 age minded everyone of that lost pleasure of
group.) Neither did the fact that he is also picking over the same hour of TV,” said
what the British call “fit.” (Naturally Mad- Piers Wengers, the BBC executive in
den is already being identified as the next charge of dramas.
James Bond.) British television drama, Wengers said, is
In a telephone interview, Madden said he built on the traditions of British theater and
was “absolutely blown away” by the suc- on heavily serialized narrative, often writ-
cess of “Bodyguard.” “I’m still catching up ten by one person. “You get a single vision,”
with the extent of it,” he said, adding that he said. “I think ‘Bodyguard’ had the time-
the show touched on “a lot of subjects we honored trick of forcing viewers to lean in
can relate to around privacy; how much and think about what would happen next.”
right the government have to read your Mercurio said he hoped storytelling
texts and emails, how that would play out.” would prevail even if watching habits were
Mark Lawson, a culture columnist for different. “It’s very fast-paced with lots of
The Guardian, attributed the show’s suc- thrills,” he said. “I would hope that’s what
cess to its blend of gripping narrative and people respond to.”
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Arts, Briefly
N E W S F R O M T H E C U LT U R A L W O R L D

XXXTentacion Admitted Stephen Hawking Items Ready, Set, Go

To Violent Acts on Tape At Auction Next Week YOUR DAILY ARTS FIX

Before the rapper XXXTentacion In 2009, the physicist and author

was shot and killed in Florida
this summer, the 20-year-old had
been on an accelerated track to
mainstream success, with hit
songs and albums that earned
him a $10 million record deal for
his next release.
At the same time, he faced
potentially career-hobbling crim-
inal charges — including aggra-
vated battery of a pregnant
victim, false imprisonment and
witness tampering — that made
him one of the most contentious
figures in music at his death.
In public, XXXTentacion, born
Jahseh Onfroy, had denied the
charges. But in a newly released
recording from around the time
of his 2016 arrest, provided by
the Miami-Dade County state
attorney’s office and first re-
ported by Pitchfork, XXXTenta-
cion seemed to admit to abusing
his former girlfriend, in addition
to other violent acts.
“I put my source of happiness
in another person, which was a
mistake initially, right?”
XXXTentacion, below right, can
be heard telling a small group of
unidentified people in the
graphic recording. “But she fell
through on every occasion until
now. Until I started [expletive]
her up. I started [expletive] her
up because she made one mis-
take. And from there, the whole
cycle went down.”
He added: “Now she’s scared.
That girl is scared for her life.
Which I understand.”
The Miami-Dade County state
attorney’s office, which dropped
the charges against the rapper
after his death, said in a state-
ment, “The defendant makes
admissions to multiple criminal
acts in the recording.” But the
office added that the tape “would
likely not have been admissible
at trial because of the way it was
recorded (without knowledge/
consent of the other parties).”
Representatives for the rapper
and his estate did not respond to
a request for comment.
In the 27-minute tape, he de-
tailed his romantic entangle-
ments, spoke of suicidal thoughts
and took responsibility for a
stabbing in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
He also referred to a stabbing in
Orlando, and how it affected his
That Talking Boulder? It’s Oscar-Caliber
Dianne Wiest is reprising her role in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” after starring in the play as Winnie at
Theater for a New Audience last year. No, not on Broadway — in Madison Square Park. The Oscar-winning
actress is performing selections from Beckett’s 1961 play at noon daily through Friday. She’s easy to spot: She’s
the one dressed as a boulder. But unlike some other creatively dressed park denizens, Wiest’s geological couture
is art, not fashion. Arlene Shechet, the ceramic artist, crafted the costume as a part of her park installation in
the park, “Full Steam Ahead,” on view until April 28. PETER LIBBEY
former girlfriend. “She knew,” he
said. “So she’s scared. She thinks
I’m going to kill her.”
Elsewhere, he added: “I dis-
gust myself every day. And, you
know? It’s funny — I love it.”
In a January 2017 deposition,
XXXTentacion’s ex-girlfriend
detailed a pattern of violent
behavior in their relationship,
including him choking, punching,
stomping and threatening to
murder her.
As his career took off,
XXXTentacion had alluded to the
abuse claims in his music and
repeatedly denied the charges in
messages to his fanatical follow-
ers. He alternately made crude
MIAMI-DADE CORRECTIONS & REHABILITATION
DEPARTMENT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stephen W. Hawking gave a
party for time travelers.
Invitations were not made
public until after the event. They
were meant to last long enough
to reach future humans who
might develop the opportunity to
time-travel back to the party.
Perhaps they didn’t — or won’t
— work: Video footage from the
party showed Hawking sur-
rounded by champagne, snacks PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD
and balloons, sitting all alone.
AND TAMARA STEFANOVICH
Now, you can buy one of those
invitations, or at least make an The pianists perform pieces
offer. It is one of nearly two doz- by Bartok, Messiaen and
en items from the estate of others. 7:30 p.m. at Zankel
Hawking, who died in March at Hall.
76, that will go up for auction carnegiehall.org
next week. Starting Wednesday,
they will be for sale as part of a
Christie’s online auction featur-
ing items that belonged to Hawk-
ing, Sir Isaac Newton, Charles
Darwin and Albert Einstein.
Most of the lots are what you
might expect from renowned
physicists and biologists: scien-
tific papers, friendly correspon-
dences and portraits. But Hawk-
ing, the most contemporary of
the bunch, also left behind some
more personal items including a
BRYAN ANSELM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES black bomber jacket, the script
‘PLOT POINTS IN OUR
from an episode of “The Simp-
SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT’ A
sons” on which he appeared, and
play about the complications
a motorized wheelchair that he
of gender and love. 7 p.m. at
used in the 1980s and 90s.
Hawking spent most of his life the Claire Tow Theater.
steadily losing control over his lct.org
muscles because of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s
disease.
An auction highlight will be
Hawking’s Ph.D. thesis, com-
jokes about domestic violence posed in 1965 and typed by his
and, in a more reflective mo- wife, Jane Wilde Hawking. Called
ment, offered to donate money to “Properties of expanding uni-
domestic violence prevention verses,” it is about the origins of
programs. time and space as we know it.
“I’m insensitive because I Another item, a 1988 copy of
refuse to accept a reality for his best-selling book, “A Brief
myself that is not my own,” he History of Time,” is marked with
said in one social media post. He his thumbprint as a signature.
added at the time, “They wanna The 52 lots also include a letter ‘THE FERRYMAN’ A family
crucify me, I ain’t having it.” defending Darwin’s ideas about
gathers for the harvest in
In the tape, XXXTentacion also evolution, a manuscript captur-
ing Newton’s fascination with Northern Ireland in 1981. 7
discussed his own demons with a
rawness that he brought to his alchemy and a book on Einstein’s p.m. at Bernard B. Jacobs
music. “You ever seen somebody understanding of relativity. Theater.
get raped?” he said. “You ever The online auction, which is theferrymanbroadway.com
seen somebody try to kill your titled “On the Shoulders of Gi-
mom in front of you?” ants,” will last until Nov. 8.
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Echoes of the Past:

A Romantic Take
On Bach’s Music
A brilliant violinist It was a gutsy choice. But as I
listened to Ms. Hahn, 38, embark
delights listeners with once more on that 18-minute
her fire and panache. workout of runs, arpeggios and
triple stops, I felt some of the
magic drain out of the evening.
ENCORES HAVE NEVER been an af- That’s because this time around,
terthought for Hilary Hahn. In re- my focus shifted from Bach’s gen-
cent years, this brilliant violinist ius to Ms. Hahn’s skill, and to the
has commissioned 27 short solo audible deliberation that went
pieces from as many composers to into every note.
expand her stash of end-of-con- Sure, the occasional bass tone
cert treats. rang out even more forcefully on
She might have been expected her second go; Ms. Hahn took ex-
to pick one on Tuesday, when she tra time on one thoughtful pause
gave her first-ever violin-alone re- and allowed herself a tiny slurp on
cital in New York at Alice Tully an expressive slide from one note
to the next. But her interpretation
had clearly been hewed in stone,
one meticulous stroke at a time.
What most surprised me about
Ms. Hahn’s take on Bach — she
performed the first sonata and the
first two partitas — was its throw-
back glamour. On Tuesday she
HIROYUKI ITO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
played on an 1865 Vuillaume (one
of two instruments by that maker The pianist Igor Levit performing a wide-ranging program of works by Brahms, Busoni, Schumann and Liszt at Zankel Hall in Manhattan.
that she used for her new Bach re-

Exploring Life, in Just Two Hours

cording), producing a high-gloss
sound of enormous power. There
is an uncanny high-definition
quality to the consistency of that
sound: Across strings, in different
registers and bow strokes, it
Igor Levit plays selections “Life.”) I’ve been walking around with
these pieces in my headphones for weeks, In command, even while
maintains the same brilliance and from his latest album in a but in person they were newly poignant and playing back-breakingly
focus. probing and poignant recital. more extreme than ever: meditative quiet difficult long pieces
In meditative movements like or cathartic outcry, with virtually nothing in
the Adagio of the G Minor Sonata, between. without interruption.
Ms. Hahn takes an unabashedly AN IGOR LEVIT RECITAL is never an easy out- The differences between recording and
Romantic approach, with slow ing, for him or the audience. live performance weren’t so stark at the be-
tempos that allow her to spin out In one marathon concert, he played ti- ginning, in Brahms’s consistently mighty that composer’s Fantasia and Fugue on “Ad
HIROYUKI ITO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the melody in shiny ribbons. Her tanic works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven transcription of Bach’s famous Chaconne, a Nos, ad Aalutarem Undam” (originally for
take on that sonata’s fugue, too, and Prokofiev. When he last appeared at minimal version of the work as exposed as organ, and transcribed for piano by Buso-
Hilary Hahn gave an unaccompanied
was designed to maximize sound, Zankel Hall, the subterranean chamber the original for solo violin. (Not that Mr. ni). Together, those two works run longer
violin recital on Tuesday in a
with short notes rendered solid — space at Carnegie Hall, he followed an hour Levit, who plays with commanding preci- than 40 minutes; both are back-breakingly
program titled “Solo Flight,” which
almost broad — and only the diffi- of music by Shostakovich and Frederic sion and a preternaturally clear lower regis- difficult, for different reasons.
was part of the White Light Festival.
cult triple stops ringing out Rzewski with, nonchalantly, the hourlong The brief “Parsifal” transcription is a
harshly, like gunshots. “Diabelli” Variations. slow burn that requires extreme patience.
Hilary Hahn
The 31-year-old pianist’s return to Zankel Igor Levit Mr. Levit played the church-bell-like bass
Performed on Tuesday at Alice Tully Ms. Hahn dispatched fast
on Friday was a little shorter by comparison Performed on Friday at Zankel Hall.
line with an unwavering rubato that led
Hall, Lincoln Center. movements like the Gigue of the D
— just two hours, including an intermission gradually to the grandeur of a vast cathe-
Minor Partita with such fire and
— but larger in scope and reaching cosmic dral. The lengthy “Ad nos,” however, is all
Hall as part of Lincoln Center’s panache that the audience
profundity. I suppose we should have ex- ter, would need to hide.) but symphonic, with dizzyingly virtuosic
White Light Festival. But her erupted in spontaneous (and gra- pected as much from a program inspired by But in the second work, Busoni’s “Fanta- passages that provide blurry-handed thrills
evening of Bach culminated in the ciously acknowledged) applause. Mr. Levit’s latest album, titled simply yet sia Nach J. S. Bach,” Mr. Levit achieved
sprawling, majestic Chaconne With sure dramatic instinct she and placid interludes that Mr. Levit rel-
formidably, “Life.” such hushed tranquillity, the sound of
from the Partita No. 2 — the Ever- zoomed in on moments of pathos, ished.
That recording, which cements Mr. Lev- breathing around me was dangerously loud
est of the violin repertory. Which lingering on a sighing motif, or it’s status as one of the essential artists of by comparison. Listening through head- It was during those serene moments that
one of her commissioned encores building up crescendos with mus- our time, is an expansive exploration of life phones, especially on the go around a city, his playing was at its most inward, almost
would she pick to follow that? cular impatience. itself, and a reaction to the death of his best it’s tempting in moments like this to adjust (but not quite) to a fault. Would this ap-
None, it turned out. Instead, she Her playing evoked the Bach of friend, the artist Hannes Malte Mahler, who the volume as needed, which exacerbates a proach to performance have the power to
scaled the Chaconne a second past generations, like Itzhak Perl- was killed in a bike accident in 2016. But flattening effect already inherent in record- carry a concerto? We in New York wouldn’t
time. man’s recording from 1988. Her “Life” is far from an elegy; it’s by turns ings. In person, Busoni’s music had the abil- know. While Mr. Levit continues to reach
contemporaries often now play mournful, searching and celebratory, even ity to reach its holy potential. And Mr. Levit new heights with each recital, he has yet to
this repertory with feathered bow transcendent. sensitively carried the piece’s calm ending, make his orchestral debut here.
Everything you need to strokes, gestural phrasing and On Friday, Mr. Levit played much of the without a pause, into the lyrical opening of That will change next March, when he is
swift tempos inspired by the his- album’s weighty program, including works Schumann’s “Ghost” Variations. scheduled to play Beethoven’s Third Piano
know for your business day torically-informed-performance Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic at
and transcriptions by Brahms, Busoni, Remarkably, he also took no pause be-
is in Business Day. movement. Ms. Hahn plays as if Liszt and Schumann. (The encore, Mr. tween Liszt’s transcription of the Solemn Carnegie Hall. It’s about time he moved up-
The New York Times that shift never occurred. Rzewski’s “A Mensch,” also came from March to the Holy Grail from “Parsifal” and stairs to the big auditorium.

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An Experiment Pushes a Style Into the Future

Robert Glasper has become an
ambassador and a connector.
SOMEWHERE CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT on a mid-
October Sunday, the rapper Yasiin Bey hun-
kered down into a shimmy on the Blue Note
stage, his eyes on Chris Dave’s snare drum.
The night marked the halfway point of
Robert Glasper’s residency at club, continu-
ing through Sunday. The pianist held the en-
ergy just below a boil as he dotted the band’s
high-friction groove with chords from one of
his three keyboards. The D.J., Jahi Sun-
dance, dropped samples over Mr. Dave’s
drums and Derrick Hodge let wide, dark
tones resound on the electric bass.
Mr. Glasper, 40, is just the fourth musi-
cian to do a full month at the Blue Note.
(The others have been Dizzy Gillespie,
Chick Corea and, for the past 13 Decembers,
Chris Botti.) The residency is yet another
reminder that he is probably the most
prominent jazz musician of his generation.
He’s gotten there by playing within and
without jazz, and pushing the music to re-
consider its boundaries.
He’s known in particular for his Robert
Glasper Experiment, an electric fusion
quartet that has helped define a possible
mainstream future for jazz, and his guest
work with rappers like Mr. Bey (more
widely known as Mos Def ), Common and
Kendrick Lamar.
Nowadays, he’s embracing his identity as
a producer and a connector as much as a pi-
anist. In the spring he released “August
Greene,” the debut from a three-man col-
lective with Common and the drummer-
producer Karriem Riggins. And over the
summer he toured with R+R=NOW, a fu-
sion supergroup with the stated intention of
addressing the political moment.
As he’s helped to wash away artificial di-
vides between jazz and other contemporary
black music, Mr. Glasper has spoken with a
casual candor not typical of jazz musicians.
“If you ever heard Miles Davis talk, I’m no
different than Miles,” Mr. Glasper said earli-
er this month. “His freedom in talking about
where he is in the music and what he’s try-
ing to do.”
Sometimes that freedom spills over. Last
year Mr. Glasper drew criticism for making
comments that seemed to suggest that fe-
male listeners have a narrower interest in
jazz improvisation than men do. He apolo-
gized, saying he had simply meant to ex-
press that jazz should try harder to reach
female audiences.
Mr. Glasper arrived in New York more
than 20 years ago already somewhat pre-
pared for the spotlight. Raised in Houston
going to gigs with his mother, a professional
musician, his first jobs were in church. By
17, he was the pianist at a church with thou-
sands of parishioners.
Attending the New School in New York in
the late 1990s, he met the vocalist Bilal, a fel-
low classmate who soon found neo-soul
semi-stardom. Mr. Glasper became his mu-
sical director; a few years later he took the
same position with Mos Def. Soon he was
also leading the Experiment, featuring Mr.
Hodge, Mr. Dave and Casey Benjamin, who
doubled on alto saxophone and vocoder.
The group’s 2012 album “Black Radio”
had hits. Vocalists guested on almost every
track, including Erykah Badu, Bilal, Mr.
Bey and Jill Scott, and it featured some of
Mr. Glasper’s most glamorous songwriting.
Pondering the industry insiders who would
be voting in each category, he chose to sub-
‘I’ve literally played with
the best people in each
genre. And so I’ve
learned from the best.’
ROBERT GLASPER
mit the album for Grammy consideration
under R&B, rather than jazz. “I felt like the
R&B world got it, and the jazz world didn’t,”
he said.
By nudging open the door between those
spaces, he became a symbol of the hybrid
energy already flowing between them. The
big-ears ethic that has dominated jazz over
the past 15 years — a desire to push into
spaces said to be off-limits — applies to R&B
as well. And the jams where young jazz mu-
sicians hang out today are starting to look
more like his Blue Note stage: a producer
with a laptop open, a keyboardist manning
a control station, an electrified rhythm sec-
tion, a vocalist or two.
Above left, Robert Glasper,
Yasiin Bey, Jahi Sundance,
At the beginning of the month, Mr. Derrick Hodge and Chris Dave
Glasper started his residency with a series at the Blue Note. Top, Mr.
of nights featuring the original Experiment Glasper. Above, Mr. Bey, also
rhythm section. The trio played a mix of known as Mos Def.
Herbie Hancock’s 1970s songbook, J. Dilla
beats, Glasper originals and jazz standards.
“A lot of people, when they do that, they play
at the genres,” he said, speaking about
blending styles. “I’ve literally played with
the best people in each genre. And so I’ve Robert Glasper
learned from the best.” His residency at the Blue Note
You could say something just a little dif- continues through Sunday;
ferent about his piano playing. In his early bluenotejazz.com.
trios, it was something to revel in, touched
by a beautiful, eager desire, drawing on Mr.
Corea, Mr. Hancock and Brad Mehldau. But
over the years, he seems to have internal-
ized more than just the musical DNA of the
quiet storm and smooth-jazz records he also
reveres: His piano playing is now haunted
by their sense of emotional remove, too.
But if Mr. Glasper has stepped into a new
role as an ambassador, the role suits him.
Around the middle of that Sunday set to-
gether, Mr. Bey and Mr. Glasper welcomed a
special guest: Talib Kweli. The crowd felt a
spark of bliss as the duo once known as
Black Star skipped kinetically through the
verses to “Thieves in the Night,” from their
1999 album. Mr. Glasper’s band played the
pensive, swirling beat with a reverent
gusto, and the two M.C.s tossed the song’s
final phrase back and forth to each other:
“Take the Black Star Line, right on home.”

Murda Beatz Can’t Stop Making Hits

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“They didn’t believe that I was the kid mak-
ing them.”
In the years since, Murda Beatz has
moved, alongside his old friends in Migos,
through the mixtape circuit to the pop
charts. As his instrumentals have evolved
from faithful versions of the ominous, 808-
heavy Atlanta trap sound toward more me-
lodic, sample-based and elaborate composi-
tions, his clientele has also expanded.
Singles like 2 Chainz’s “It’s a Vibe” and
Travis Scott’s “Butterfly Effect,” as well as a
smattering of Drake album cuts and fea-
tures, led to a sonic boom for Murda this
year: “MotorSport” by Migos, featuring
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, was too big to fail,
settling in the Top 10; Drake’s “Nice for
What,” built around a Lauryn Hill sample,
spent eight weeks at No. 1; and “Fefe,”
which brought together Minaj and 6ix9ine,
peaked at No. 3 on its way to nearly half a
billion YouTube views.
Now Murda is on the path to headline his
own tracks à la Calvin Harris and DJ Khaled
(“but bigger,” he said). The demand for his
beats, along with his connections, has re-
sulted in a deal with Interscope Records as
both an artist in his own right and the head
himself with a group of collaborative
producers who would work to “keep recre-
ating the sound of music,” he said. And he
planned to move away from quantity, the
prevailing ideology in modern rap, toward
custom quality, building songs and whole
projects in the same room with top-tier rap-
presence who became his manager.
Litwin, a genial operator with a Star of
David chain, was then working as a party
and concert promoter while selling gold and
diamond grills. He connected with Murda
through the security guard at their mutual
jeweler, and was baffled when Murda in-
sisted on playing him beats. “He was very
persistent,” said Litwin, who was not ex-
actly in the music business. “Murda hit me
up like 15 times in five days.”
But because Litwin, 32, ran in the same
circles as local artists like Drake and the
Weeknd, “I thought I could use him to get
me to everyone in Toronto,” Murda said.
“And I did,” Litwin added.
Together, the pair practiced the timeless
art of faking it as if they’d already made it. “I
would bring him out to the clubs and make
sure he was treated like a superstar,” Litwin
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said. “Everyone would be like, ‘Who the hell
is this white kid?’” If Litwin spotted a celeb-
The Canadian producer
rity, he would make a mortified Murda pose
Murda Beatz recording
for a photo to post on social media.
at Paramount Recording
“I’d tell them, ‘Murda Beatz, Migos
Studios in Hollywood.
producer,’” Litwin said. “They’d be like:
‘Oh, really — what’d he produce? “Ver-
sace”?’ No. ‘“Fight Night”?’ Nope. ‘“Hand-
some and Wealthy”?’ No. ‘So what’d he do?’
includes a lot of late nights and downtime.
Through work with artists like the Game,
Jeremih and Partynextdoor, Murda, who
has never been too shy to FaceTime a fa-
mous person, worked his way up the chain.
Boi-1da, Drake’s go-to producer, credited
Murda for his relentlessness. And he said
the unlikeliness of Murda’s career often
worked in his favor. “It’s just so interesting
that this little white kid from Niagara, who
kind of looks like Shaggy from ‘Scooby Doo,’
is making these hard trap beats,” he said. “It
looks crazy, but people love it. And Murda
can always back it up with the music.”
The rapper G-Eazy, who took Murda on
tour as a D.J. opener this summer, added in
a text message: “He’s almost like an alien
because his origins don’t seem to make a lot
of sense. He’s from the middle of nowhere in
Canada, but somehow he’s making some of
the most culturally relevant music.”
In the studio, Murda can be easily dis-
tracted by, say, putting in an order for wings
or hopping on the phone with an incarcerat-
ed rapper to play him unreleased music. But
when it’s time to create, he’ll futz with a
MIDI Keyboard melody or a drum sound
with savant-like focus. “When he works, it’s
almost like he’s unconscious, and the music
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of a label imprint to foster talent.
But joining the rap establishment as an
in-demand producer can also mean that
you’ve been stamped with an expiration
date. Artists and listeners are fickle, always
searching for the next sound, and hip-hop is
a veritable graveyard of producers who de-
fined a moment only to wither.
“People get content — they buy their
house, their cars, their grills, and they get
comfortable,” Murda acknowledged. “But
I’m not here to be hot for a year.”
In an interview over a sushi dinner and,
later, at a Koreatown driving range, a boy-
ish Murda, who whacked golf balls with
“Happy Gilmore”-esque abandon, said he
was steeling himself for the future now that
he’d made it to the top.
He was in the process of surrounding
pers. (Pop singers have also come calling.)
The five-times-platinum “Nice for What”
was an inflection point. Rather than drop-
ping off a premade digital beat pack, his big-
gest hit to date was made at Drake’s house,
over a game of NBA 2K18, when the rapper
ordered up a beat with a female vocal sam-
ple, and Murda made it on the spot. (Drake
located the song’s additional Big Freedia
sample himself on YouTube, Murda said;
the producer BlaqNmilD later added the
New Orleans bounce section.)
The process was a throwback to Murda’s
pre-fame days living in an Atlanta studio
with Migos, creating five to 10 songs a day.
But while Murda first made his name on
mixtapes like “No Label 2,” he existed on
rap’s periphery until returning to Canada in
2014 and meeting Cory Litwin, a night life
‘“Emmitt Smith”!’ And they’re like,
‘I’m not here ‘What?’ ” He added: “Every club we’d go to,
I’d be like, ‘Play “Emmitt Smith,”’ and the
to be hot D.J. would say he didn’t have it. I’d tell them,
for a year.’ ‘You have 10 minutes to download it and
play it or you’ll never play in this city
again.’”
Murda had a similar knack for hustle and
finesse, dating back to his days tweeting at
rappers and their lower-level associates to
make connections and send free beats. In
high school, as he transitioned from a drum-
mer obsessed with Travis Barker to a bed-
room beatmaker, Murda would identify ob-
scure rappers that his peers enjoyed and
target them for collaborations.
Relentless networking worked in the ac-
tual music industry, too. Friendships lead to
collaborations, especially in a business that
just makes itself,” G-Eazy said.
So even while Murda has considered
slowing his pace in favor of longevity, it’s
proven hard to stop the itch. His beats are
still popping up on nearly every major rap
release, including Future and Juice WRLD’s
collaborative mixtape and Quavo of Migos’s
solo debut, where Murda has four songs, in-
cluding one somewhat bafflingly featuring
chopped-up vocals from Madonna. He re-
cently sent more beats to Drake, he said,
and hoped for another hit soon with Cardi B.
Any decline in productivity seemed un-
likely, if a studio session over the summer
was any indication. It was past 2 a.m., and a
producer that Murda had recruited for his
Murda Gang collective offered tentatively,
“Let’s aim for five beats tonight.”
Murda shot back, “Let’s aim for 10.”
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Schmaltz Pays Off for Adam Sandler
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two-person scenes in the tradition of the
2,000 Year Old Man and of course making
broad, critically reviled comedies. This spe-
cial is not really a return to form so much as
him trying something new, cutting together
a series of performances, at the Comic Strip
Live on the Upper East Side, the Grand Ole
Opry in Nashville and elsewhere, with nods
to his family and career interspersed with
clips of him on the street doing funny walks,
making faces.
He tells some jokes, but most of the ma-
terial involves songs, reminding audiences
that he really anticipated what the musical
comedy trio Lonely Island brought to “Sat-
urday Night Live” in the first decade of this
century, nimbly packaging jokes about
masturbation, the school lunch lady and an
anthem for Jews (“The Chanukah Song”)
inside a dizzying number of musical paro-
dies (hip-hop, Devo, love ballads).
As he has become a middle-aged movie
star, his perspective has shifted. It’s cer-
tainly unlikely that in his 20s he would have
begun a joke, as he does here, by asking,
“Do you ever have a friend who rescues too
many animals?”
And yet, this special has all the hallmarks
of his herky-jerky comedy: a loopy, lewd
Dismantle the G.O.P.? Or Just Look Past Politics?
CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
double duty as a mea culpa memoir and a
political manifesto, detailing Boot’s “heart-
breaking divorce” from the Republican
Party after decades of unstinting loyalty. He
charts a political trajectory that gave his life
social and emotional meaning. As the 6-
year-old son of Jewish refuseniks, Boot emi-
grated from the Soviet Union in 1976; at 13,
he was inducted by his father into the world
of “learned, worldly, elitist” conservatism
with a gift subscription to National Review.
Years later, even amid the peer pressure
of “Berzerkeley,” the young Republican per-
sisted. He may have been a white man of
some means, but he enjoyed seeing himself
as a besieged minority. He “loved making a
bonfire” of Berkeley’s “liberal pieties” in his
column in the student newspaper and
trolling his peers with a “Bush-Quayle ’88”
sticker on his dorm-room door. He swiftly
clambered up the echelons of the conserva-
tive establishment, editing the op-ed page
of The Wall Street Journal by the time he
was 28 and eventually advising the presi-
dential campaigns of John McCain, Mitt
Romney and Marco Rubio.
Those candidates all lost their bids for the
highest office, but it would take Boot a while
to get to where he is now — repulsed by the
Republican Party’s fealty to Trump and in-
structing Americans to “vote against all Re-
publicans.” His surprisingly anguished
book is peppered with so many penitential
lines (“I am embarrassed and chagrined”)
and so much bewildered disappointment in
figures like Rubio (“I thought he was a man
of principle”) and House Speaker Paul
Ryan (“I had viewed him as smart, princi-
pled and brave”) that even the most die-
hard leftist might be moved to hand Boot a
hankie.
Not that he’s a particularly moving styl-
ist; Boot’s clean, starched prose marches
forward with all the spontaneity of a mili-
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sense of humor that often spins into the ab-
surd; muffled anger that periodically ex-
plodes into comic violence; and the kind of
delirious physical and vocal silliness that
makes him the modern inheritor of the lega-
cy of Jerry Lewis. But what makes this his
most satisfying work since “Punch Drunk
Love” (2002), directed by Paul Thomas An-
derson, who filmed some of his stand-up in
Los Angeles (Steve Brill directed the spe-
cial), is how fully it embraces a signature of
his late career: an unapologetic sentimen-
tality.
When film mavens defend Sandler (and
yes, such people do exist), they tend to cite
his amiable charm, his surprisingly under-
stated and persuasive dramatic perform-
ances in movies like the recent “The Mey-
erowitz Stories (New and Selected)” or his
sneaky surrealist streak in early movies
like “Billy Madison” and “Happy Gilmore.”
What distinguishes Sandler from other
aging star comedians is his gift for
schmaltz. Billy Crystal can overdo it, while
Jerry Seinfeld, for all his hard-working
showmanship, still can’t quite go there, re-
maining a chilly observer instead of an in-
trospective participant.
But lately Sandler has had a knack for
finding the pitch-perfect emotionalism to
JENNIFER SZALAI
tary parade (he’s uncommonly fond of
words like “pusillanimous” and “japery”).
But the stodginess reveals how much soul-
searching it must have taken to write this
candid, reflective book. For his entire life,
Boot wanted to be a good soldier. Instead
he’s now in his late 40s, waking up to the his-
torical brutality of “white identity politics”
(“I have had my consciousness raised,” he
says) and incredulously wondering, “How
could all these eminences that I had worked
with, and respected, sell out their professed
principles to support a president who could
not tell Edmund Burke from Arleigh
Burke?”
How indeed? And Arleigh who? The con-
fident name-dropping (of an admiral in the
Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations,
natch) is quintessential Boot, who de-
scribes himself as one of the “sophisticates”
of the Republican Party.
There’s something refreshing about an
elite conservative owning up to being an
elite conservative. The closest that Sasse
comes to doing the same in his new book is a
cryptic recollection about how, when he and
his wife lived in Chicago, they “were fortu-
nate to be able to make ends meet.” (He was
working as a management consultant at the
time.)
Sasse (B.A. from Harvard, Ph.D. from
Yale) spends a great deal of “Them” honing
his down-home credentials (Nascar, TGI
Fridays). He emphasizes the importance of
civil debate, denouncing Fox News and
MSNBC, and laments the extreme partisan-
ship that characterizes public life in the
Trump era. But “the dysfunction in D.C.,” he
says, stems from something “deeper than
economics,” and “deeper and more mean-
ingful” than politics. “What’s wrong with
America, then, starts with one uncomfort-
able word,” he writes. “Loneliness.”
He shores up his argument by referring
to scholars of social isolation like Robert
Putnam and Eric Klinenberg — though the
socially conscious Klinenberg (with his em-
ON COMEDY
make a memorable comic moment. Music,
the most nakedly emotional of art forms,
helps.
When elite comedians paid tribute to Da-
vid Letterman in the final month of “Late
Show,” no appearance was as movingly
heartfelt as Sandler singing a song to “the
king of comedy, our best friend on TV.”
Hearing him warble about how he would
miss Letterman, the least sentimental of
talk-show hosts, was only slightly less ex-
pected than a performance the next year on
“Conan” when he sang a preposterous
breakup song about getting rid of his chair
with such poignant deadpan that it didn’t
even qualify as parody. In movies, Sandler
has gone from playing nitwit kids to easily
bruised, often overwhelmed dads in “The
Week Of” and the “Hotel Transylvania”
franchise.
In his special, Sandler does not close with
his funniest joke but rather — after a dismal
bit about astronaut sex that evokes some of
his most indulgent cinematic duds — with
two deeply emotional songs, the first a trib-
ute to Chris Farley that runs through his ca-
reer, describes in detail discussions about
his addiction and death, and concludes on a
note about how his comedy lives on. Then
Sandler moves on to a song about his love
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By Max Boot
By Ben Sasse
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$24.95.
phasis on the crucial role of publicly funded
institutions) might find it hard to recognize
the conclusions Sasse has drawn from his
work. Community, Sasse says, is fostered by
individual acts of charity and fellow-feel-
ing; government does what it needs to do
when it gets out of the way. “Citizens in a
republic must cultivate humility,” he writes
in a section titled “Civics 101.” It’s “the only
way to preserve sufficient space for true
community and for meaningful, beautiful
human relationships.”
This is standard conservative stuff; a lit-
tle cloying in the delivery, sure, but not
shocking. After all, Sasse — who regularly
boasts about having one of the most conser-
vative voting records in the Senate — does-
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for his wife that segues into a tribute to his Adam Sandler in “100%
relationship with the audience, as a nostal- Fresh,” his new Netflix
gic montage of Sandler plays, showing him special, which shows off his
as a kid, then a teenager and, finally, a mov- unapologetic sentimentality.
ie star. Then he ends with his daughters
telling dirty jokes.
How these personal bits work for you will
vary. As someone who grew up watching
Sandler on “Saturday Night Live” — when
he was joking about crank calls, I was mak-
ing them — and now is, like him, a father
with two daughters, I am perhaps more sus-
ceptible than most.
But make no mistake: laughs followed by
tears — even cheap ones — make a potent
combination. And Sandler is working on the
most universal of subjects: nostalgia and
the importance of family. Many of his bits
are elaborate attempts to hold on to his old
obscene jokiness while playing the patri-
arch.
When he tells a story about his sixth-
grade daughter asking what it means when
boys say, “That’s what she said,” Sandler
makes a show of trying to figure out how to
explain this cleanly, without cursing. And as
he dramatizes his struggle, his daughter
throws a lifeline: “Don’t worry, Daddy, you
tried your best.” To which, Sandler adds,
“And I was like, ‘That’s what she said.’”
n’t have a responsibility to become a Demo-
crat in the Trump era, much less satisfy
Boot’s desire for a politician who can “make
centrism sexy.” (I had to laugh before I
cringed.) Even Sasse’s ability to sentimen-
talize “rootedness” in little communities in
one breath and welcome the “uberization”
of existing industries in the other can be
chalked up to an old strain of techno-opti-
mism among business-friendly conserva-
tives.
What’s curious, then, is not so much the
careful avoidance of politics — politicians
are really good at this — but Sasse’s re-
peated assertions that political solutions
are meaningless. “Ultimately, it’s not legis-
lation we’re lacking,” he writes. Public ser-
vants like him “simply need to allow the
space for communities of different belief
and custom to flourish.” It’s a pretty idea,
MATTHEW DeBOER
though anyone familiar with how “belief
and custom” have long propped up local
prejudices (Jim Crow being a glaring exam-
ple) knows that there’s nothing simple
about it.
As he did in his previous book, “The Van-
ishing American Adult,” Sasse talks a lot
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yet he has chosen to be a United States sen-
ator, spending five days a week away from
his family back in Nebraska in order to do
whatever it is he does in Washington —
which is what? Apparently vote with Trump
close to 90 percent of the time and help his
party try to bulldoze health care legislation
and tax cuts through Congress, keeping
crucial details secret until the last minute —
all the while writing a book that solemnly
proclaims the necessity of respectful debate
and “engaging ideological opponents.”
“Our occupation links us to other people
and gives us an identity and a sense of
meaning,” Sasse muses, before waxing lyri-
cal about a bedbug exterminator. For all his
paeans to other people’s jobs, you might be-
gin to wonder what the senator makes of his
own.
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E! E! News (N) Bride Wars (2009). Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway. (PG) Life as We Know It (2010). Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel. (PG-13)
Michael Blake, who also wrote the screen-
ELREY 600 Miles (2015). Tim Roth. (R) (6) . The Crow (1994). Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson. (R) Waxwork (1988). College students trapped in wax museum. (R) Stargate SG-1
play. Costner plays a Union lieutenant on
ESPN Countdown College Football Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech. SportsCenter SportsCenter
the American frontier. In his review for The
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Times, Vincent Canby wrote that it’s “the
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kind of rugged frontier adventure that
FOOD Halloween Wars (G) Halloween Wars (G) Halloween Cake-Off (G) Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Halloween Cake
every 10-year-old boy dreams of living, and
FOXNEWS The Story With Martha MacCallum Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) Hannity (N) The Ingraham Angle (N) Fox News at Night with Shannon Tucker Carlson
(N) Bream (N) Tonight possibly every actor dreams of re-creating.”
FREEFRM Hotel Transylvania (2012). (PG) (6) The Haunted Mansion (2003). Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp. (PG) Decorating Disney: Halloween The 700 Club The Final Girls DEUTSCHLAND 86 12 a.m. (Friday) on Sun-
FS1 College Football Baylor vs. West Virginia. Football Inside Slant ESports Athletes Rising danceTV. The Cold War spy thriller series
FUSE Malcolm, Middle Malcolm, Middle My Wife & Kids My Wife & Kids The Fighting Temptations (2003). Unemployed man forms gospel choir. Strenuously uplifting comedy. (PG-13) My Wife & Kids “Deutschland 83,” which follows the ex-
FX l Goosebumps (2015). Jack Black, Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015). Voices of Adam Sandler. Animated. Dracula Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015). Voices of Adam Sandler. Animated. Dracula . Fun Size ploits of an East German spy in West Ger-
Dylan Minnette. (PG) (6) sends grandson to monster boot camp. Amiable and colorful. (PG) sends grandson to monster boot camp. Amiable and colorful. (PG) (2012). (PG-13) many, originally aired in 2015. Its sequel
FXM The Maze Runner (2014). Dylan Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario. Teens escape Maze but Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015). Teens escape Maze but face new
O’Brien. (PG-13) (5:30) face new obstacles. Respectable doses of adrenaline. (PG-13) (7:50) obstacles. Respectable doses of adrenaline. (PG-13) (10:35)
comes three years later and moves the plot
FXX black-ish (PG) black-ish (PG) The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Archer (MA) three years forward.
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GSN Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Cash Cab (G) Cash Cab (G) Family Feud What’s Streaming
HALL Falling for You (2018). (6) 2018 Countdown to Christmas 2018 Miracles of Christmas Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls
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HIST Mountain Men “The Rising Storm.” Mountain Men “Double Jeopardy.” Mountain Men “The Gauntlet.” (N) The Return of Shelby the Swamp Mountain Men “The Rising Storm.” Mountain Men
(PG) Morgan’s plane breaks down. (PG) (PG) Man (N) (14) (10:03) (PG) (11:05) (PG) (12:03)
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ID Evil Lives Here “Something Wasn’t In the Shadow of Halloween A college The Coroner: I Speak for the Dead The Case That Haunts Me “Trick or 48 Hours on ID “Don’t Scream.” A Coroner: I Speak
Right.” (14) student is found murdered. (N) “One Tiny Bone.” (N) (14) Treat.” (Series Premiere) (N) (14) young wife calls 911. (N) (14)
IFC We’re the Millers (2013). Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis. Misfits pose as . The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005). Steve Carell, Catherine Keener. Dysfunctional co-workers try We’re the Millers (2013). Jennifer
family to transport drugs. Occasionally hilarious. (R) (6:30) to end friend’s sexual innocence. Charmingly bent comedy. (R) Aniston, Jason Sudeikis. (R)
LIFE Grey’s Anatomy “Go Big or Go Home.” Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance (2018, TVF). Parisa Fitz-Henley, Burgess William & Kate (2011, TVF). Ben Cross, Camilla Luddington. Prince William Harry & Meghan
(14) Abernethy. Love story of British prince and American actress. meets Kate Middleton at college. (10:03)
LIFEMOV A Lover Betrayed (2017). Jamie Lun- A Sister’s Secret (2018). Margaret Anne Florence, Paula Abdul. Twin’s switch- Her Boyfriend’s Secret (2018, TVF). Kelly Sullivan, Mark Famiglietti. Home A Sister’s Secret
er, Jason Brooks. (6) ing-places prank turns tragic. renovator realizes new boyfriend needs work. (2018). HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES

7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 Orson Welles
LOGO Mama’s Family Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. A husband and wife, unaware that each is an assassin, are as- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Brad Pitt. A husband and wife, unaware that each
(PG) (7:04) signed to kill each other. A goof and a drag. (PG-13) (7:35) is an assassin, are assigned to kill each other. A goof and a drag. (PG-13)
CITIZEN KANE (1941) on Filmstruck. The
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Neptune Pool (site of a benefit swim last
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Sunday) is one of the most iconic features
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of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif.,
MSNBC Hardball With Chris Matthews (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word The 11th Hour Rachel Maddow
which was built for William Randolph
MTV Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (N) Tattoo Far? Tattoo Far? Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Tattoo Far? Tattoo Far? Pineapple Exp
Hearst. He and his extravagant abode
NBCS American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) American Ninja Warrior (PG) Ninja Warrior
provided the basis for Orson Welles’s most
NGEO City of Dis. Wild Spaces Life Below Zero “Feast or Famine.” Life Below Zero: Ice Breakers (N) Life Below Zero (14) Life Below Zero “Home Again.” Ice Breakers
famous film, in which his main character,
NICK The Loud House The Loud House iCarly (G) SpongeBob Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012). Voices of Ben Stiller. (PG) Friends (PG) Friends (PG) Friends (PG)
Charles Foster Kane, is a stand-in for
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Hearst, and Kane’s “Xanadu” is the Florida
NY1 Inside City Hall (N) News All Evening News All Evening NY1 Live At Ten (N) Inside City Hall News All Night
. Titanic (1997). Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. (PG-13)
equivalent of Hearst’s castle. With the
OVA Ocean’s Twelve (2004). George Clooney, Brad Pitt. (PG-13) The Wine Show (G)
release on Netflix next week of Welles’s
OWN 20/20 on OWN (14) 20/20 on OWN (14) 20/20 on OWN “Blood Ties.” (14) 20/20 on OWN (N) (14) 20/20 on OWN “Kelley Cannon.” 20/20 on OWN
long-unfinished “The Other Side of the
OXY Chicago P.D. (Part 2 of 2) (14) Chicago P.D. “Chin Check.” (14) Chicago P.D. A hoarder is arrested. Chicago P.D. “Thirty Balloons.” (14) Chicago P.D. “Conventions.” (14) Chicago P.D.
Wind,” now is a great time to revisit Wel-
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les’s best-known masterpiece. The fact that
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“Citizen Kane” is available to stream is
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something that Hearst would most likely
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have been outraged about (he tried to
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Law & Order “Stiff.” A man is a suspect Law & Order “Vaya con Dios.” A crucial Law & Order “Endurance.” A boy dies Law & Order “Turnstile Justice.” (14) Law & Order “Dissonance.” A star vio- l Deutschland
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in his wife’s death. (14) case involves a foreigner. (14) in a suspicious fire. (14) linist is murdered. (14) 86 “Tar Baby.” (N) this movie’s greatness was known from the
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SYFY Wrong Turn (2003). Desmond Harrington. Inbred cannibals terrorize med stu- The Cabin in the Woods (2011). Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth. Five Karma (2018, TVF). Mandela Van Peebles, Brytni Sarpy. moment it came out. “It can be safely
dent and campers in West Virginia. Tedious would-be horror flick. (R) friends at remote cabin are under observation. High-concept horror. (R) Demon stalks man who unleashed it. (11:04) stated,” Bosley Crowther wrote in an article
TBS Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The Out- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Guest Book The Guest Book Brooklyn Nine-
Pick.” (PG) Visa.” (PG) Movie.” (PG) ing.” (PG) ory (PG) ory (PG) ory (PG) ory (PG) “Finding Reality.” “Under Cover.” Nine (Part 2 of 2) for The Times about the 1941 premiere,
TCM . The Woman in White (1948). Elea- High Anxiety (1977). Mel Brooks, Cloris Leachman. Head of mental hospital . Enter Laughing (1967). Reni Santoni, Jose Ferrer. . Protocol (1984). “that suppression of this film would have
nor Parker, Alexis Smith. (6) is a little crazy himself. Typical Brooks satire. (PG) (PG) (12:15) been a crime.” GABE COHN
TLC 90 Day Fiancé (PG) (6) Long Island Medium (PG) Long Island Medium (PG) Long Island Medium (PG) Long Island Medium (PG) (11:03) Island Medium
TNT NCIS: New Orleans “Second Line.” A N.B.A. Boston Celtics vs. Oklahoma City Thunder. N.B.A. Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers.
Navy man is killed during a parade. ONLINE: TELEVISION LISTINGS
TRAV The Dead Files (PG) The Dead Files (PG) The Dead Files (PG) The Dead Files (N) (PG) Haunted Live “Oct. 19, 2018.” (14) The Dead Files Daily television highlights, recent reviews by
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The Times's critics, series recaps and what to
watch recommendations. nytimes.com/tv
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USA NCIS “Rendezvous.” A Navy SEAL goes NCIS “Voices.” A person of interest is NCIS “Ready or Not.” The team tracks NCIS “Double Down.” A senator’s son The Purge “The Giving Time Is Here.” NCIS: Los Angeles
missing in Paraguay. (14) found murdered. (PG) an elusive arms dealer. (14) is injured. (14) Lila grapples with rejection. “Leipei.” (14)
Definitions of symbols used in Ratings:
VH1 Space Jam (1996). (PG) (6) . Forrest Gump (1994). Slow-witted innocent caught up in 20th century’s great events. Good special effects, fantastic Hanks. (PG-13) Hall Pass (2011). Owen Wilson. (R) the program listings: (Y) All children
VICE Bong Appetit Bong Appetit Bong Appetit Bong Appetit Bong Appetit Demolition Man (1993). Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes. (R) Bong Appetit ★ Recommended film (Y7) Directed to older children
✩ Recommended series (G) General audience
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come to the Wild Side.” (14) the City.” (14) Out.” (N) (14) Out.” (14) (10:01) Out.” (14) (11:01) Hop Atlanta (14) (N) New show or episode suggested
(CC) Closed-caption (14) Parents strongly cautioned
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(HD) High definition (MA) Mature audience only
YES U.E.F.A. Champions League Soccer CityLife Inside City Women’s College Soccer North Carolina State vs. Virginia. Homegrown
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colonization and the Vietnam War. On this 12-day Santiago, St. James’s Way, to the shrine of the apostle from residents and Times-selected experts how
journey, visit the modern yet traditional Hanoi and Ho James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Many just these dishes evolved and the cultural significance
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ENCOUNTERS

Raf Simons of
Calvin Klein on art
and on admiring
‘people who have
an opinion, even if
it’s against me.’
JESSICA BAL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Alexandra Pelosi is a filmmaker and daughter

of Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader.

Dissecting
The Psyche
Of the Right
Alexandra Pelosi belongs to a
Democratic family but wants
to understand the other side.
By SHAWN McCREESH
Alexandra Pelosi’s schedule over a recent
24 hours read like a liberal elite Mad Lib.
On a Sunday night, Ms. Pelosi, a docu-
mentary filmmaker, was at the 92 Street Y
to hear her mother, Representative Nancy
Pelosi, in conversation with Paul Krugman,
the economist and columnist for The New
York Times. The next afternoon, she at-
tended a fund-raising lunch for Democrats,
at a hotel on the East Side with Hillary Clin-
ton. Then she popped over to the HBO head-
quarters at Bryant Park, where she has an
office in a power corridor next to Ronan
Farrow’s and across the hall from Sarah
Jessica Parker’s. Later, she hurried down to
N.Y.U. to hear her mother speak on a panel
about women in power.
Maybe it’s just what you’d expect from
the daughter of the House Democratic
leader. But the younger Ms. Pelosi’s cable-
news-viewing habits may surprise you.
“If I hear the term ‘blue wave’ one more
time, I am going to personally walk up to
MSNBC and punch someone in the face,”
she joked, between sips of coffee in the HBO
cafe overlooking the New York Public Li-
brary. “Yes, there’s a blue wave coming out
of Manhattan and Los Angeles, where peo-
ple are sitting home knitting their vagina
hats. There’s no blue wave in Alabama.
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It’s Still Warhol’s World By VANESSA FRIEDMAN

When I first heard that one of Raf Simons’s Big New Ideas for the transformation of Calvin Klein was Andy Warhol, I
rolled my eyes.
As an art-fashion play, it seemed a little obvious. A pop icon household name for a pop icon household name. The
creative who embraced Campbell’s Soup being the symbol of a creative who embraced underwear. No matter that they VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

(Calvin and Andy) actually used to hang out with the same crowd. That was then; this was mid-2017.
Mr. Simons, who is Belgian, had arrived the September before as the brand’s first chief creative officer, to much
After 166 Years
ballyhoo about the reinvention of an American icon, and much joy on the part of the fashion crowd. As a designer, he had The Harmonie Club has its
been a hero of sorts to the style set since he introduced his own men’s wear brand in 1995, and then revived Jil Sander (in first female general manager.
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sovereignty over your one and only heart.
Reclaim that power for yourself.
Cheryl Strayed I’m shouting yes to every-
thing Steve said and most of all to this:
Devise an escape plan. You signed your
letter Cornered Without an Exit, but I
don’t think that’s an accurate description
of your situation. The truth is, you’re
cornered with an exit in view — and the
day you’re legally old enough to move out
of your parents’ home, you’re free to walk
through it. Hold on to that, Cornered.
Don’t imagine yourself a sitting duck.
Instead, picture yourself as a bird flying
away. Let your vision of leaving behind the
homophobes who’ve oppressed you be the
beacon that lights your path through these
high school years. It makes sense to me
that you’ve chosen to remain closeted to
protect yourself, but there will come a day
in the not-too-distant future when you
won’t have to do that anymore. There are
so many of us who will accept you as you
are. It’s hideous that your family isn’t
capable of doing that (and may never be),
and it’s heartbreaking too. But you will
soon be out from under their command.
You have the capacity to create the life
you want and deserve. Your letter is proof
to me that you’re already doing that.
book that might help: “On Forgiveness”
by the Scottish theologian Richard Hol-
loway, a former bishop who left the church
and has been an outspoken L.G.B.T.Q. ally.
CS I’m less forgiving than Steve is in this
case. I’m not convinced your parents’
motives are rooted in love. Gone are the
days when we could chalk up homophobia
to ignorance. Those in the L.G.B.T.Q.
community have been courageously
telling the truth about their lives for dec-
ades. Scientific research and common
sense long ago repudiated the once-held
view that homosexuality is pathological.
Normal, healthy sexuality exists on a
continuum. If you’re an adult who doesn’t
know that to be a fact in this nation in this
era, you’ve decided not to know. If you’ve
used your religious beliefs to justify the
condemnation of a group of people based
on who they love, then your religion is
unjustifiable. Homophobia is a willful act
of hate. I do hope you someday have a
sense of love and connection with your
family. I hope you feel accepted and seen
by them. I know for certain it’s possible
that they will open their minds and hearts
to you — out and gay — because they
realize the price they’d have to pay in
losing you is too dear. But if they don’t, if it
really does end up that you have to leave
them, I want to tell you that you won’t be
alone. You will be loved. There are so
many good people out here.
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Halloween is the one night a year when you can step out in your most outlandish gear without feeling ridiculous. But for many in the fashion flock, such dressing
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That’s not a bad thing. After all, if the industry didn’t get a little weird on occasion, it wouldn’t be fashion. It would be just clothes. The hotly anticipated
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The Fix for Dark Circles, Bags and Droopy Lids
DO C TO R S The eyes have it — the good stuff (smiling, winking, widening in delight), and also
W EIGH IN
the less-good stuff that goes with the good stuff (crow’s-feet, crinkling, under-eye
O N HOW TO
TREAT O UR
bags). No one would advise you to give up the good. But is there a way to make the
EYE WO E S . inevitable signs of a life fully lived a little less obvious?
Deflate Bags and Puffiness
First, eliminate the simple-fix causes of
eye swelling, like seasonal allergies.
“Some people have fluid retention, often-
times due to allergies,” said Dr. Michelle
Henry of the Laser & Skin Surgery
Center of New York. “We can easily put
them on an antihistamine.”
Otherwise, puffy eyes are the result of
changes in underlying facial structures.
As we age, muscles and other support-
ive tissues around the eye relax. That,
paired with waning elasticity in the skin,
causes fat that was once at deeper levels
to migrate to the surface, causing eyelid
bags.
“Further, as deep internal fat pads
descend with age, the under-eye hol-
lows, making the protrusion more pro-
nounced,” Dr. Henry said.
Most people can be treated with frac-
tional lasers, like the Fraxel Repair, to
tighten the skin, along with filler for
smoothing. “With bags you see the
fullness and then a little depression,” she
said. “When you fill that depression, it
creates an optical illusion of smooth-
ness.”
Unless, of course, the bags are very
big, in which case a blepharoplasty —
surgery that removes excess skin and
fat — will be necessary. Because puffi-
ness is caused by changes in the under-
lying structures of the face, products,
alas, can’t permanently correct them.
Smooth Wrinkles and Creases
“Botox works for crow’s-feet because it
releases the muscle around the eye,” Dr.
Henry said. “But as collagen wanes and
the lines become etched in, the standard
treatment is a fractional laser, which
works particularly well when people
have crepey skin around the eyes.
Fractional lasers make micro-injuries
in the skin (and may leave you red for a
A Convenience Store for the Organics Crowd
By SHEILA MARIKAR
You’ve heard of conscious uncoupling. But a
conscious convenience store?
Thus aspires the Goods Mart, which
opened on Lafayette Street in SoHo on Mon-
day, in a narrow space formerly occupied by
a shop that served desserts in Mason jars.
Instead of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
in dusty aisles, here there is cinnamon-
toast-flavored “crunchy superfood clus-
ters.” Instead of Pepsi and Coke, there is
kombucha and some kind of CBD drink.
There are no single-serve plastic bottles, as
at the 48 7-Elevens around the city; there is
no cat (alas), as at the local grocer. It’s like a
compressed version of Whole Foods, but
without the compromised feeling of Ama-
zon ownership.
The Goods Mart was founded by Rachel
Krupa, 38, a publicist who saw social oppor-
tunity in mundane shopping. “More than
anything else right now, we want to know
who our neighbors are, we want to talk to
people, we want to have this connection,”
Ms. Krupa said. “You can have that some-
times by going to a bar, but you can also
have it with your everyday staples.”
Though not so much, perhaps, by getting
them from a much-chastised vending ma-
chine company initially named Bodega, af-
ter the cherished New York institution, to
widespread derision.
Ms. Krupa is a convenience-store nostal-
gist, having frequented one in the Sunoco
gas station in her small hometown in north-
eastern Michigan. “It was that hub where
you’d run into high school friends or neigh-
bors,” she said. “If your mom said, ‘Go get
milk,’ you’d go to get out of the house and
see who else is there — is the guy that you’re
crushing on getting gas?”
In 2010, she started Krupa Consulting in
Los Angeles, a firm that specializes in the
promotion of eco-conscious brands of food
and home goods. She missed having that lo-
cal hangout where she could pick up snacks
and catch up with people in the community,
and last year came up with the idea of a
healthy convenience store, where she could
make available a carefully chosen selection
of products and offer shelf space to new
brands, some of which she also represents.
“Bodegas have some great products, but
they also have all of the other things,” she
said, meaning conventional candy and
soda. “It makes your process of selecting
what you want much harder.”
Everything the Goods Mart sells is non-
G.M.O. and free of artificial flavors, pre-
servatives and dyes. Some are organic or lo-
cally made. Ms. Krupa is trying to cull the
offerings so shoppers don’t succumb to a
paralysis of choice. “Instead of having 50
kombuchas, we have six or seven,” which,
By CRYSTAL MARTIN
couple of days). The resultant healing
process creates collagen. For those with
darker skin that is intolerant of frac-
tional lasers, micro-needling will trigger
collagen building.
As for eyelids (both top and bottom),
they get crinkly and lose elasticity. La-
sers and radio frequency treatments like
Thermage will smooth and tighten that
skin.
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Clockwise from top: Rachel
Krupa in her store, the Goods
Mart, in Manhattan; produce; a
slushie alternative; and Ms.
Krupa, right, with a customer.
SKIN DEEP
Even those of us who are avid interventionists may shy away from eye pro-
cedures. The area is so delicate, its function so integral. As it turns out, though,
noninvasive eye treatments use familiar tools of the anti-aging trade — neurotox-
ins (Botox and Dysport), fillers, lasers and collagen builders — often in interesting
ways, to smooth, lift, plump and depuff.
Lighten Dark Circles
To treat dark circles, a doctor must first
determine the cause. Volume loss, pig-
ment and visible blood vessels, or some
combination of all three, are the usual
culprits. If you gently spread the area
with your fingers so that the skin is tight,
you’ll be able to see what’s going on.
“If the darkness disappears when you
spread the skin, it’ll likely get better with
filler,” Dr. Henry said. “What you’re
seeing is shadows created by volume
loss.” She injects hyaluronic acid fillers in
the tear trough.
“My fillers of choice for this area are
either Restylane Refyne for someone
who needs a lot of volume, or Belotero,
which we can inject more superficially on
patients who don’t need a lot,” she said.
When you stretch your skin, you may
she admitted, “is still a lot.”
The first Goods Mart opened in April in
the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Ange-
les, down the street from A.P.C. and Aesop
stores, next to a carwash. Besides highfa-
lutin versions of household staples (bam-
boo toothbrushes for $6.95, organic pack-
aged ramen for $2.75), the Los Angeles
Mart has a bulletin board advertising vol-
also see blood vessels and brown pig-
ment. “You’re seeing whatever is be-
neath the surface, and some of that is
determined by genetics,” said Dr. Dhaval
Bhanusali, a dermatologist who prac-
tices in New York and Miami. If the skin
is very thin, you’ll see more of every-
thing, so he suggests a gentle retinol,
like RoC Retinol Correxion Eye Cream
($18), to thicken it.
Darkness caused by excess brown
pigment (melanin) can be faded with
topical products or in-office chemical
peels. Kojic acid and vitamin C are on
the gentler end of the spectrum, lighten-
ing pigment gradually. In-office peels
fade melanin faster than over-the-
counter products.
Lasers like the V Beam and Excel V
target blood vessels, destroying them.
The V Beam is better tolerated by peo-
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unteering opportunities and trivia nights.
There is also a leafy green lounge, where,
on a recent Saturday, people placed their
laptops on repurposed buckets and tasted
free samples of small-batch cottage cheese.
The Los Angeles store accepts E.B.T.
cards, issued by the state welfare depart-
ment, and Ms. Krupa is waiting for govern-
ment approval to do the same in New York.
Lift Heavy Brows
A drooping brow could be a case of an
over-Botoxed forehead. “The frontalis
muscle in the forehead, whose job it is to
raise the brow, is weakened when you
over-inject it to smooth horizontal fore-
head lines,” said Dr. Marina Peredo of
Skinfluence, a dermatology practice in
Manhattan. “Then the brow drops.”
When a patient comes in complaining
about forehead lines but also has a low
brow, Dr. Peredo asks her to squint,
frown and raise her brows, all in an
attempt to see how the muscles are
functioning.
“I tell them, ‘You can’t have both a
smooth forehead and lifted brows,’” she
said. “Ninety-nine percent of women
prefer lines to heavy brows.”
Dr. Peredo also said that in the right
hands, neurotoxins can do a lot to re-
shape brows: “We can elevate the center
of the brow to get more arch, lift the tail
of the brow to give it more of a flare, and
lift the medial section of the brow to
open up the eyes.”
ple with light skin because the high
energy used may cause hyperpigmenta-
tion in darker skin; the Excel V works
well on all skin colors.
“Usually the vessels darken right
after the treatment, then over two to
three weeks, the body removes the
debris and the pigment under the eyes
dissipates,” Dr. Bhanusali said.
Volume loss in other parts of the face
can cause under-eyes to look dark, too.
Sunken temples, which create an unbal-
anced facial structure, can make the
eyes look hollow. “A lot of things are
involved — the forehead, cheeks, tem-
ples — so sometimes we have to treat
those areas, too,” Dr. Peredo said. If a
patient is concerned with shadowing
around her eyes, she may inject filler to
add volume at the temples.
Produce past its prime, sourced from local
farms, gets donated to homeless shelters,
she said, where it can be used as ingredients
in other food.
Goods Mart shoppers are prompted to tip
a percentage of their bill upon checkout,
and every month the store donates the tips
to a local nonprofit. (NYC Parks Steward-
ship will be its first New York beneficiary.)
“She emailed us, introduced herself as
the owner of this new business and told us
about this practice they had instituted of do-
nating tips,” said Tina Christopulos, the co-
chairwoman of fund-raising at Mi-
cheltorena Elementary School, a block
away from the Silver Lake store. “I was con-
cerned, at first — would we be taking tips
away from employees? She explained it fur-
ther, and I was astonished, by the end of
June, that they had raised over $1,000 for
us.”
“I have stopped in half a dozen times,”
Ms. Christopulos said. “They have delicious
burritos,” made by the restaurant Burritos
La Palma, which was praised by the food
critic Jonathan Gold. The other co-chair-
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woman of Micheltorena is a fan of the or-
ganic kombucha slushie — like a Slurpee,
but without the high-fructose corn syrup.
Last month, Ms. Krupa organized a
happy hour for the school’s students and
gave out 100 organic Popsicles. On Satur-
day, the New York store will lead an outing
to weed and add mulch to trees planted in
SoHo. In September, Ms. Krupa leased an
apartment on Mott Street, and she is con-
tinuing to work at her firm’s New York of-
fice.
She hopes eventually to arrive in the mid-
dle of the country, she said, “where there’s
less access to the better options. If we could
pop up on a heavily trafficked highway stop,
or a place where younger families are start-
ing to move, that’s where we could really
make a difference.”

It’s Still Warhol’s World
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
2005) and Christian Dior (in 2012, after the
John Galliano disgrace).
Now he had been handed the keys to the
Klein kingdom, brought in to turn around
what had become a stale brand living on
past glory (though one with $8 billion in
sales): Redo the stores, rethink the lines,
change the teams, upend the ad campaigns,
reinvent the wheel, cause a ruckus.
His first show, in February 2017, was one
of the most anticipated in New York in
years. Everyone was so excited, he won the
Council of Fashion Designers of America
awards for both men’s and women’s wear
before either collection had even been sold.
By the second show, in September 2017,
Warhol had entered the mix, along with
quilts and prairie dresses and, later, hazmat
suits. Mr. Simons was making a soup of
American identity.
Turns out he was more prescient than
anyone knew.
Just a year later we are living in a Warhol
moment inside a Warhol moment inside a
Warhol moment — in a country run by the
most Warholian president we have ever
had, at a time when Instagram has made ev-
eryone an influencer for 15 minutes, during
a year where the Warhol body of work is be-
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ing celebrated as never before.
In late September, “Contact World,” an
exhibition of almost 130,000 of the Warhol’s
unseen photographs, opened at the Cantor
Arts Center at Stanford University. Next
month, “Andy Warhol — From A to B and
Back Again,” the first major retrospective of
Warhol since 1989, will take place at the
Whitney Museum in New York.
And on Friday, an accompanying show of
48 of Warhol’s 102 shadow paintings, the se-
ries commissioned by the art dealer and col-
lector Heiner Friedrich and first exhibited
in 1979, will open to the public on the ground
floor of the Calvin Klein headquarters on
39th Street, in the space where its fashion
shows are held.
Amid it all is Mr. Simons, who, when he
joined Calvin Klein in 2016, convinced Steve
Shiffman, the chief executive, to cut a deal
with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts. It extended far beyond the typi-
cal one-off, pay-to-play artist-fashion col-
laboration (which have become as common
as bugle beads these days) and would allow
Mr. Simons unprecedented access to the
Warhol archive for three years.
Now there are Warhol flower paintings
on Calvin Klein jeans and denim jackets.
Images from Warhol’s film “Kiss” on CK un-
derwear. Warhol silk screens of a young
Dennis Hopper and Sandra Brandt on
Calvin towels and dinnerware. Prints from
the disaster series of mangled cars and
electric chairs on full New Look skirts and
twisted tank tops. Stephen Sprouse por-
traits on fringed scarves.
All of that suggests that anyone trying to
understand this weird Warhol moment
could do worse than talk to Mr. Simons.
The Democratic Ideal
One of the few places in the world of Raf Si-
mons where there are no Warhols is his
home. Instead there is a curvy maraschino
cherry red mohair sofa by the midcentury
furniture maker Jean Royère, framed by
two matching red mohair marshmallowlike
chairs, around a Gio Ponti coffee table.
There are carefully constructed arrange-
ments of Noguchi floor lamps. There is art
by Cady Noland, Cindy Sherman, Rose-
marie Trockel, Isa Genzken and Sterling
Ruby. There are Picasso ceramics and two
Le Corbusier lamps from Chandigarh, the
Indian city imagined by Nehru as the em-
bodiment of the country’s modern ideals.
Mr. Simons, 50, moved into the apart-
ment, a penthouse on the Far West Side of
Chelsea framed by art galleries, five
months ago, after living in the Stella Tower,
the Art Deco apartment building in Hell’s
Kitchen designed by Ralph Walker. Mr. Si-
mons had moved there when he started at
Calvin and was thinking about what lan-
guage he wanted to build for the brand.
“I liked the idea of connecting an Ameri-
can major brand to an American major art-
ist, whose body of work spoke about things
very relevant to Calvin Klein,” he said, lean-
ing back on his sofa. It was a week before
the “Shadows” show would open. “I knew
Calvin had links with artists, but the names
that always came up were Donald Judd,
Dan Flavin — minimalists, because he was
a minimalist. Andy Warhol stood in the mid-
dle of the contemporary environment. In his
approach, his vision, his obsession with su-
perstars and famous people, his sense of
commercial product, he was very demo-
cratic. Calvin is very democratic.”
Mr. Simons was wearing a big red and
black sweater from his fall collection, half of
it knitted inside out. (Exposing the under-
belly of the country’s myths is one of his
themes.) There were some yarn bits dan-
gling.
They were the only loose ends in the
apartment, which was pristine the way a
gallery is, despite Mr. Simons’s large and
hairy dog, a Beauceron named Luka after
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Top, Raf Simons at the “Shadows”
exhibition at Calvin Klein
headquarters. Above, Andy Warhol
at Heiner Friedrich Gallery in 1979.
Right, another view of the paintings.
the Suzanne Vega song. (Luka has a Ster-
ling Ruby-designed dog bed in the Calvin
Klein offices, though much of Mr. Simons’s
art and furniture seems to go back and
forth.)
Of course, Mr. Simons would also like to
own Warhols, he said, with a sort of bright-
eyed desire. Especially “the disaster work
— any car crash or disaster or electric chair.
I just think they are so . . . it’s difficult to ex-
plain. When you say you adore that body of
work, it seems like you are someone who
adores violence and horror. With Warhol, I
am more attracted to the work that doesn’t
deal with famous people, because my world
is already dealing so much with famous
people.” (Calvin Klein had one of the more
star-studded front rows at New York Fash-
ion Week in September: Rami Malek, ASAP
Rocky, Saoirse Ronan, Millie Bobby Brown,
Selah Marley, Russell Westbrook, Trevor
Noah and Jake Gyllenhaal were all there —
to name a few.)
“Generally people don’t like to live with
complicated subject matter,” Mr. Simons
said. “But I have to feel the artwork stands
for something that is important to me. I
don’t like the idea that it has to fit my envi-
ronment at all. I think that’s why I started
looking at art and reading about it and em-
bracing it — because it takes me away from
my own work.”
Art vs. Fashion
Mr. Simons started looking at art when he
was teenager in Neerpelt, in Belgium. He
discovered it by watching TV shows featur-
ing the curator Jan Hoet, though he discov-
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Above, a look at Calvin Klein’s
spring 2018 collection. Above
that, a view of spring 2019.
ered Warhol mostly through T-shirts and
skateboards.
He began collecting early on and is very
close to a number of artists, including Mr.
Ruby, George Condo and Cindy Sherman,
who are often at his shows. (His parents — a
soldier and a housekeeper — used to be at
his shows, too, but now New York is too far
to travel.)
The whole fashion-art thing, which tracks
back to Schiaparelli and the Surrealists, can
seem like a cliché, but it has been a thread in
Mr. Simons’s story since long before he was
famous or had any money. He can appear
somewhat irked, in a competitive way,
when his peers make references to artists
he has been collecting for years, like Isa
Genzken, who recently popped up as an in-
fluence at the Proenza Schouler show.
“Of the top three or five things that are
important to me, outside of family and love,
art is No. 1,” said Mr. Simons, who studied
industrial design and has no formal fashion
training. “It’s way more important than
fashion. Sometimes I think it would be very
attractive to be able to bring ideas out and
not have to think about them in relation to a
system or structure or commerce.”
Which is to say: to pull a Helmut Lang, a
designer who walked away from fashion in
2005 and is now a sculptor on Long Island.
“I think about it often,” Mr. Simons said. “I
keep thinking of things I would like to do
that are not fashion. Making movies, mak-
ing art — the practice of making something.
In fashion, the actual practice of being a de-
signer has changed so much.”
With big brands like Calvin Klein, it does
not involve much of what the world consid-
ers hands-on design, but it does involve a
performative aspect, which is not really Mr.
Simons’s thing. He is much less interested
in being a public figure than many of his
peers are, though he is getting more com-
fortable in the role.
(You can see the evolution in the “Dior &
I” documentary that was made about his
first year at Dior and now, at the end of
shows, when he is mobbed by reporters and
celebrities paying homage, and looks both
embarrassed by the display and slightly
pleased — and embarrassed that he is
pleased.)
He doesn’t like to do interviews very
much, but once he agrees and starts talking,
he tends to treat them like long bouts of
psychoanalysis in which he plays patient
and doctor.
“It’s always on my mind,” he said. “Is this
what you do? In a way I don’t think I’m a
fashion designer. I used to be so upset when
people called me that. Now it doesn’t matter
so much.”
Selling Out
Jessica Morgan, the director of the Dia art
foundation, which organized the “Shadows”
show, sees Mr. Simons’s use of Warhol in his
designs as reflecting the fascination with
youth culture that is a hallmark of his men’s
label. (Calvin Klein sponsored the restora-
tion of all 102 canvases, which will go on dis-
play at Dia Beacon in about five years, when
a special gallery has been built.)
To Ms. Morgan it’s his version of the way
kids put posters or other pictures on their
walls to define their own character.
This turns out to be pretty close to the
truth. “With Dennis, Sandra, Stephen
Sprouse — I liked the idea that Andy Warhol
defined his heroes by making silk screens of
them,” said Mr. Simons, who was by then
drinking La Croix flavored seltzer, though
not eating the snacks — mixed berries,
Ladurée macarons, chocolate — that had
appeared.
“Sometimes they got famous after the
N D5
portrait. In my case, I was thinking who
could be a symbol for the body of work I’m
trying to shape at Calvin Klein? So I
thought I might now and then, out of
Warhol’s body of work, take people and re-
introduce them to the audience as heroes of
mine. Whether they are famous or not I
don’t care so much, and for what reason I
also don’t care.”
“Dennis Hopper was an incredible repre-
sentation of the American cowboy. Sandra
is someone I admire as a person, and I like
the connection with Ingrid and Andy and
Interview. Stephen Sprouse was one of the
few American designers who had a kind of
approach I link more to Europe and the peo-
ple who inspired me, because they were fas-
cinated by youth and generational dia-
logues, like Gaultier, Helmut Lang.”
Mr. Simons doesn’t care if people don’t re-
ally get that his use of Warhol is as much in
the interests of Warhol, who tasked his
foundation with licensing his work after his
death in order to create income to support
other artists, as in the interest of Calvin.
“If there’s a link between fashion and art,
the assumption is always it’s the designer
who wants to exploit it for commerce,” Mr.
Simons said. “Not the artist who is exploit-
ing the designer.”
Not that the Warhol foundation is exploit-
ing Calvin Klein. It’s more like symbiosis.
As to how much Calvin Klein paid for the li-
censing rights, Mr. Shiffman would not say,
though he called it “an appropriate” num-
ber. According to the annual report of PVH
Corp., the parent company, revenues for
Calvin Klein increased by 10 percent in 2017.
Everyone Has an Opinion
Sometimes it’s hard during all the mono-
logues and musing to figure out if Mr. Si-
mons is talking about Warhol or himself.
He’s very attracted, for example, to the idea
that Warhol’s work has been re-evaluated
over time, because though he won’t say it
exactly, none of what he is trying to do at
Calvin, including building Warhol into the
brand vocabulary, will make sense unless
he is given the time to layer it all in and let it
percolate through the public consciousness.
“I used to be very fragile about how peo-
ple would react to my work,” he said, “but I
have become more and more at peace with
the idea that bad reactions can also be good,
because at least it’s a dialogue. But in that
way I have to split up my reactions to it, and
the reactions of the companies I work for,
because a lot of companies seem most inter-
ested in the reactions of millions of people
that I hardly know who they are. And every-
thing has to work on a tiny screen, instantly.
It’s not that difficult to make something that
looks good on a tiny screen, and then in re-
ality turns out to be a disaster on a person.
“The nature of fashion has changed. In
Antwerp, I have more time to be quiet and
to draw. Here, there’s no time to write things
down. Everything is organized and in the
agenda. It’s all talking. That’s the scale and
intensity of the work. At Dior, I had the same
sense of running against the clock, the fire
at my heels.”
This sounds like a complaint, but it isn’t,
really. When Mr. Simons left Dior, there was
speculation that it was a protest against the
increasingly hectic fashion system, but
then he turned up at Calvin Klein, which is
even bigger and more demanding, so that
doesn’t seem to have been the issue. Mr. Si-
mons has, essentially, traded up three
times, each time for an evermore commer-
cial, dominant brand, as he acknowledged.
“It’s my choice, my responsibility,” he
said. “Clearly, I am attracted to it. I imagine
there are people who think I was selling out
by coming here, but it’s not such a problem
for me. Not that I don’t care. I care a lot. But
I don’t care so much about the fact people
have an opinion. I actually admire people
who have an opinion, even if it’s against me.
The problem now in fashion is everything
gets judged immediately.”
Behind his head, through three sets of
floor-to-ceiling glass doors, the trees and
bushes in pots on the terrace outside his
apartment were being buffeted by the wind.
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Mr. Simons had bought the plants himself
from the Chelsea flower market. He does
not believe in gardeners or decorators, but
he does believe in installers.
Later he would stop in at the Calvin head-
quarters to check on the installation of
“Shadows,” which is especially challenging
because each canvas has to be hung touch-
ing the other, so it looks like one continuous
painting. But each canvas is not exactly
alike; the more you look, the more differ-
ences you see. Which is a metaphor for
something in fashion, if beholders care to
think about it.
“The most interesting things happen
over time, and sometimes you have to look
at something for a long time to see if it
makes sense,” Mr. Simons said. He was talk-
ing, once again, about Warhol. I think.
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Dissecting the Psyche of the Political Right
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
There’s no blue wave in Ohio.”
“MSNBC is barred from my household,”
Ms. Pelosi, 48, said. “CNN is barred from
my household.” She thinks all Manhattan-
ites ought to be tuning into Fox News
nightly. It’s not that she’s a Republican. It’s
just, she said, that “We don’t want our kids
to be pod people.”
This year she brought her two sons, who
are 10 and 11, on an odyssey across what
Sarah Palin once called “real America.” To-
gether they went to rallies for President
Trump (“Far more interesting than any-
thing you’ll hear at a Manhattan dinner
party”), to the fabled and still-under-con-
struction border wall, and into the homes of
Trump voters. The result is “Outside the
Bubble,” Ms. Pelosi’s 12th film for HBO, due
out Monday.
It’s not just another episode of the
learned cosmopolitan descending from the
ivory tower to produce anthropological dis-
courses on that strange creature known as
the Trump voter and make it back to the big
city in time for a martini. Though she is
Democratic royalty, Ms. Pelosi has spent
much of her career dissecting, with compas-
sion, the psyche of the political right in this
country.
“Everything she does, she immerses her-
self in doing,” said Sheila Nevins, the
grande dame of documentary who, when
she was president of HBO Documentary
Films, was Ms. Pelosi’s champion. “She
swallows her subjects whole and spews
them out the way they should be spewed.”
For her part, Ms. Pelosi refers to Ms. Nevins
her “TV mom.”
Ms. Pelosi’s first film, released in 2002,
was “Journeys With George,” shot during
her time as NBC’s embed on former Presi-
dent George W. Bush’s campaign plane.
Later, she parsed the beliefs of evangelicals
in “Friends of God” (2007) and chronicled
the rise of the Tea Party with “Right Amer-
ica: Feeling Wronged” (2009).
She spent some of the Obama years as a
roving correspondent for Bill Maher. “She
knows how to get people to reveal them-
selves,” Mr. Maher said in a phone inter-
view. “She’s sympathetic, genuinely. She’s
not fooling people, as so many in the media
do — act like they’re your friend and then it
comes out and they’re like, ‘Oh, this jerk
was just pretending to be friendly so he
could make fun of me.’” (He used a stronger
word than jerk.)
Filming Across the Aisle
Ms. Pelosi said: “I was indoctrinated into a
Democratic Party cult from a very early
age. But I know that’s not the only America
and we need to understand the other side.”
She seems like one of the few trying. Mr.
Trump now refers to Democratic voters
simply as “mobs.” Hillary Clinton said in an
interview with CNN this month that “you
cannot be civil with a political party that
wants to destroy what you stand for.” Even
Michael Moore, the blue-collar troubadour
who foresaw Mr. Trump’s path to victory,
portrayed the president as a Hitler-like
manqué in his most recent film, “Fahrenheit
11/9.”
If bridging today’s partisan chasm seems
an Augean endeavor, Ms. Pelosi believes ca-
ble news is to blame. “There’s too much
profit being made right now on the divide,”
she said. “How many people in those cable
news studios ever really go spend the night
in America, not just in the Four Seasons in
wherever Trump is at the moment, but I
mean really go to somebody’s house, have
dinner and talk to them?”
Still, she remains a kind of bipartisan
Wilkins Micawber, the optimistic clerk in
“David Copperfield.” “I don’t think it’s as
bad as people are saying,” Ms. Pelosi said. “I
just don’t know that we’re as filled with hate
as cable news leads us to believe. It’s hard to
Still Clubbing on His Own Terms
By MICHAEL MUSTO
Who says night life is only for the young?
Certainly not Paul Galluccio, 82, the co-
owner of Townhouse Bar, a well-appointed
gay piano bar on East 58th Street that
draws dapper gentlemen and their younger
male admirers, some of whom are reputed
to be on the hunt for sugar daddies.
“I don’t want to retire,” Mr. Galluccio said
on a recent Saturday night, when he arrived
around 8 p.m., dressed in a striped
Façonnable shirt, as he slowly climbed six
steps of the front stoop. (He has arthritis.)
“I love working. It’s a hobby, and I have so
much fun every day.”
Mr. Galluccio, who was visiting from his
primary home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sat
in a brown leather lounge chair in the main
room, which is bedecked with red-on-gold
damask wallpaper, Tiffany-style hanging
lights and framed architectural drawings.
A pianist in the corner played “Over the
Rainbow,” as a slightly balding man in his
mid-30s, wearing a short-sleeved shirt, got
up off his stool to sing along off-key.
The Townhouse, which turns 30 next
year, is also the rare gay bar that enforces a
conservative dress code. Its website ad-
vises against baseball caps, gym wear,
ripped clothing, oversize jeans and do-rags.
(People of color have not always felt wel-
come there.)
Mr. Galluccio scanned the crowd, which
included a septuagenarian in a polo shirt
and pink pants chatting with a guy half his
age who wore sunglasses. There was also a
group of men in their mid-30s, all wearing
T-shirts and drinking martinis.
“Look at those shoulders,” Mr. Galluccio
said, noticing a sandy blond 20-something
in cargo shorts sitting with an older man on
the banquette.
If the crowd seemed slightly younger
than it used to be, that’s no accident. Mr.
ENCOUNTERS
Alexandra Pelosi, top left,
working on her latest
documentary, which also
features Paul Hela, middle, a
Pennsylvania coal miner. For
an earlier film, she trailed
George W. Bush, bottom right,
in 2000. Her mother, Nancy
Pelosi, the House Democratic
leader, bottom left, said Ms.
Pelosi was “not particularly
interested in politics.”
CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
hate up close.”
The film, which examines the issues on
which Americans are most divided (immi-
‘IT ’ S H A R D gration and abortion, for starters), is testa-
TO H AT E ment to her sunniness. In one remarkable
U P CLOS E .’ exchange, a fanatical supporter of the presi-
dent tells Ms. Pelosi, without realizing ex-
actly to whom he is speaking, that his ilk re-
fer derisively to the far left as “Nancy Pelo-
si’s grandchildren.”
But, after the documentarian produces
the actual grandchildren of Representative
Pelosi for his perusal, he lowers his dukes
and the unlikeliest of friendships is able to
blossom.
However, the younger Ms. Pelosi does
concede that the connection between the
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Galluccio has been courting those without He was married to a woman at the time,
AARP memberships. On weekend nights, but they divorced in 1972 after 12 years. (He
the smaller lounge downstairs now features
considers his daughter, Pamela Galluccio
shirtless go-go boys of all races, writhing to Riccio, 51, a real estate agent who lives in
European disco. Eastchester, N.Y., his best friend.)
“The older people don’t go out as much,” After the split, he went out clubbing a lot
he said. “They move away or they’re dead. in Manhattan, at places like Adam’s Apple, a
You need to bring in younger people.” disco and restaurant on East 61st Street.
“Our regular customers are in Palm “Guys and girls were picking me up,” he
Springs,” he added. “Or six feet under.” said. “Sometimes I liked the guy, sometimes
Mr. Galluccio did not set out to become a the girl. But I preferred men. They don’t
nightclub owner. Born and raised in want to own you. Women right away say, ‘I
Hawthorne, N.J., he dropped out of want to get married.’”
Hawthorne High School at 16 to pursue In 1988, while he was at a gay piano bar in
playing the clarinet, sax, flute and piano. the East 50s (he thinks it was called Regent
That same year, he got sidelined into retail, East), he met and fell in love with a distin-
and in 1960 he opened Paul Scott Ltd., a bou- guished young man in the hotel business,
tique in New Rochelle, N.Y., turning down a with whom he had a 17-year relationship.
job with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. (Mr. Galluccio would not name him, be-
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president and his aggrieved electorate is
unlike anything she’s ever seen before. “It is
cultlike, and there’s nothing you can do to
break it,” she said. “The more outrageous he
gets, the more they love him. They’re like,
‘That’s our guy!’”
As for Ms. Pelosi’s sang-froid outside the
bubble? “I get that Republicans have spent
hundreds of millions of dollars to turn my
last name into a curse word,” she said. A
blanket of ads works. “It’s like, duh, you
turn on the TV and you see McDonald’s
makes good fries. You can’t blame them.”
She was once spit on by a Republican voter,
she said, while filming at the Iowa State Fair
during John McCain’s 2008 campaign.
Later, in a room backstage at N.Y.U. be-
REBUFFED,
PAUL
G ALLUCCIO
OP ENED HIS
OWN G AY SP OT.
Paul Galluccio, center,
downstairs at the Townhouse
Bar with the dancers Yoinel
Aguilar and Troy Luzunaris.
fore the panel, Representative Pelosi, not
one hair out of place, chastised her daugh-
ter for not having brushed her own long,
dark mane. Also in the room, chuckling at
this perhaps familiar scene, were Ms. Pelo-
si’s father, Paul; her sons; and her husband,
Michiel Vos, a Dutch journalist she met at a
film festival in Amsterdam.
The younger Ms. Pelosi was wearing the
green plaid skirt she first wore at Catholic
girls’ school in San Francisco, a plum-col-
ored jacket and lilac glasses. She has long
had an affinity for purple and said she was
known as “the purple sheep” in the family.
“I wouldn’t call you a black sheep,”
mother said to daughter. “I’d call you an in-
dividual.”
Mom Hasn’t Seen the Movie
“What you have to know about Alexandra,”
Representative Pelosi said, “is that when
she was a teenager in high school — we did-
n’t know this until later — but at night she
used to sneak out and go up to the Univer-
sity of San Francisco, where they had a ra-
dio station, and she used to go and do the
graveyard shift.”
Alexandra said she remembered playing
grunge and punk rock on the radio (“any-
thing by SST Records”), and having “the
biggest loser boyfriends,” who she defined
as “dirty unwashed wannabe rock stars that
never went anywhere — but I thought they
were the greatest guys in the world.”
She is the youngest, the fifth child born in
six years, and it wasn’t until she was nearly
out the door that her mother seriously con-
templated a run for office. The elder Ms.
Pelosi remembers first broaching the topic
with her daughter, saying: “I’d probably be
gone about three nights a week. Whatever
answer you have is O.K. with me.” To which
her daughter replied: “Mother, get a life.
What teenage girl wouldn’t want her
mother out of the house three nights a
week?”
It’s been said that the younger Ms. Pelosi
partly inspired the camcorder-wielding
character of Catherine Meyer on “Veep,”
the daughter of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Selina
Meyer. “I can neither confirm nor deny,” Ms.
Pelosi said with a shrug. She almost never
tells her mother about her work until she is
finished with a project because, she said,
“you don’t want Nancy Pelosi editing your
movie.”
This latest film is no exception. “I don’t
even know what it’s about,” Representative
Pelosi said, with a look toward her daughter.
Told it was about Trump voters, she said
with convincing surprise, “Oh, is it?” then
paused. “She holds these things very close
to the vest.”
Has her youngest always been fascinated
by “the other”? “Well, she’s interested in
the American people, she’s not particularly
interested in politics,” Representative
Pelosi said. “She thinks, basically — she’s
told me that we’re talking heads and were
largely boring.”
First elected to Congress in 1987, Nancy
Pelosi has seen many iterations of the di-
vide. Is she as hopeful as her daughter
about the state of the one we find ourselves
in today?
“Well, I do think that there were differ-
ences of opinion in our country and that’s a
healthy thing, our founders told us it’s O.K.
to disagree,” she said. “But I do know what
the president presents, and I think it’s a
message of fear that exacerbates any differ-
ences that we may have in our country.”
Does she mind that her grandchildren
have been catching that president’s road-
show?
“It’s great, it’s great,’’ she said. “They
should see America in all of its manifesta-
tions.” But then, like a good pol, she con-
cluded with a cautious note: “I again ha-
ven’t heard very much about all of this yet,
because I haven’t seen the movie.”
cause he is not openly gay.)
The two would go clubbing together. One
night, Mr. Galluccio tried to go back to that
bar himself and was ignored by the door-
man. Infuriated, he decided to open a piano
bar of his own. In 1989, he spotted an apart-
ment building on East 58th Street that was
for rent, and he and a business partner, Bob
DeBenedictis, signed a lease and opened
the Townhouse.
“There were young guys who were at-
tracted to older men and now knew where
to find them,” Mr. Galluccio said. “Some
were hustlers. We’d try to curtail that. We
found out what was going on and said,
‘You’re not welcome here.’”
“I wanted a place to bring my parents to,”
he said. In fact, six months after it opened,
he did so, and his father liked the place so
much he joked about wanting to become a
regular. Mr. Galluccio replied: “Dad, you’re
not allowed unless I accompany you.”
Mr. Galluccio now runs other nightclubs,
as well as restaurants and hotels. In 1996, he
opened Lips, a drag bar on East 56th Street
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that has offshoots in San Diego, Atlanta and
Fort Lauderdale. “Ninety percent of our au-
dience is straight: bachelorette parties, an-
niversaries, divorce parties,” he said. “I love
seeing people laugh.”
He is also a partner in the Westside Club,
gay bathhouse in Chelsea, which opened in
1995. It remains open despite the popularity
of hookup apps like Grindr. “But people like
to see what they’re getting in person,” Mr.
Galluccio said. “We see things are starting
to pick up again.”
Despite his arthritis and advancing age,
Mr. Galluccio isn’t out of commission him-
self. Not long ago, while he was at a 7-Elev-
en in Fort Lauderdale, he noticed that a 32-
year-old guy was cruising him.
“We started going to dinner and movies,”
he said with a twinkle.
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The Harmonie Club Joins the 21st Century

Davina Weinstein is the first
woman to become general
manager in its 166-year history.
By SHIVANI VORA
The new general manager of the Harmonie
Club, Davina Weinstein, stood in its gleam-
ing marble lobby on an early October
evening and mingled with members who
congratulated her on landing the job.
“Davina, you deserve it,” said a woman in
her 60s with immaculately coifed hair and a
Chanel jacket. Another woman, this one far
younger and wearing a string of pearls,
reached over for an embrace.
The appointment of a new general man-
ager at the organization, founded in 1852
and New York’s second-oldest private so-
cial club, wouldn’t usually be noteworthy,
but Ms. Weinstein, 52, is the first woman to
hold the post.
Formerly Harmonie’s assistant general
manager, Ms. Weinstein is also one of the
first female general managers of a social
club in New York that started for men only.
And, even though there are more than 40
longtime private clubs in the city, she is the
only female general manager of one.
Even women’s clubs such as the Cos-
mopolitan Club, the Colony Club and the
Women’s National Republican Club have
male managers.
“It’s a major accomplishment,” said
Charles Dorn, a consultant and recruiter for
private clubs who used to be the general
manager of the Union Club of the City of
New York, the oldest private social club in
the city, which is still all male. “Social clubs
are traditionally playgrounds for men who
are part of old-money New York. Davina
has broken that stereotype by becoming a
leader of one.”
Archaic in the age of #MeToo and at a
time when women in top political and corpo-
rate jobs aren’t an anomaly? Maybe, but
New York’s social clubs are a historical, sig-
nificant part of the city’s power structure.
Situated in an eight-story Beaux-Arts
building designed by Stanford White on
60th Street off Fifth Avenue, the Harmonie
Club was started by a group of six German-
American New Yorkers for other male Ger-
man immigrants who enjoyed singing and
debating together.
The club moved from the Lower East Side
to its current home in 1905 and became a
gathering spot for elite Jewish-American
industrialists, financiers and businessmen
including those from the Guggenheim and
Bloomingdale families, Andrew Saks and
Adolph S. Ochs (a former publisher of The
New York Times).
Members today include Carl Icahn, sev-
eral from the Tisch and Nederlander fam-
ilies, and Mortimer Zuckerman. Women
Davina Weinstein, general
manager at the Harmonie Club,
New York’s second-oldest social
club. Above, the main dining
room. Right, a ballroom
chandelier and the club crest.
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were first admitted as members in 1986.
Harmonie’s president, Robert Werbel, said
that out of 950 members, approximately 30
percent are female. “Women are an impor-
tant part of who we are,” Mr. Werbel said.
“Davina’s promotion reflects that.”
Ms. Weinstein, who grew up in Amherst,
Mass., worked in restaurants throughout
her years at the University of Massachu-
setts and Lesley University, where she
earned her undergraduate degree in man-
agement, and found her way into social
clubs when she got a job as a bartender at
the Harvard Club in Boston in 1990.
She eventually became the general man-
ager of the College Club, also in Boston, and
came to New York in 1999 to take on the in-
terim role of operations manager at the Un-
ion Club. “I always wanted to live in the city,
and that temporary job was my way in,” she
said.
Later that year, Ms. Weinstein applied for
what she thought was the assistant general
manager job at the Harmonie Club, under
Frank Saris, the general manager at the
time.
“It turned out that I was the assistant to
the general manager, not the assistant gen-
eral manager,” she said. After sticking it out
for a few years, Ms. Weinstein decided that
she needed a break and moved to central
Mexico for six months.
When she was back in New York, Har-
monie’s general manager, Christopher
Carey, asked if she would be interested in
becoming the club’s director of catering.
She accepted and eventually became the as-
sistant general manager, for real this time.
Mr. Carey decided earlier this year that
he wanted to step down from day-to-day
management and focus on long-term stra-
tegic issues such as raising money to re-
store the club’s facade, and on Sept. 12, the
club’s board of governors elected Ms. Wein-
stein as its new leader.
This isn’t the typical way private social
clubs pick managers, according to Mr.
Dorn. “Most clubs find new general manag-
ers through search firms and don’t look to
their employees, so it’s even more of a big
deal that Davina was chosen,” he said.
Like many old-school social clubs, Har-
monie has lost some luster in the last dec-
ade. Mr. Dorn said that these clubs, in gen-
eral, struggled with membership after the
2008 stock market crash. “The clubs were
expensive to join and seen as out of touch
and irrelevant,” he said. “The longtime
members were getting older, and the clubs
weren’t attracting new ones.”
Ms. Weinstein acknowledges that Har-
monie had challenges after the crash and
said that she is determined to make the es-
tablishment more contemporary and acces-
sible. The club has already become more
family friendly, with a social calendar filled
with events for children such as music and
sports classes and the Saturday family
brunch, which was once a mandatory jacket
affair.
“Now, you can come in jeans, and we have
seen attendance go from less than 30 people
to more than 200,” Ms. Weinstein said. “The
club over all is not nearly as stuffy and for-
mal as it was 20 years ago.”
Getting in easier, too. An application
process that formerly involved an eight-
page form, a dozen references and several
rounds of in-person interviews stretching
over more than six months has been
streamlined to a four-page application, with
fewer references required; applicants can
also do interviews by Skype.
And, in what would have been a gasp-in-
ducing proposition several years ago, Har-
monie is offering a four-month, $1,000 guest
membership. (Full-time membership costs
$1,500 to $6,000 annually, depending on a
member’s age.)
Mr. Dorn said that social clubs need more
diverse managers as well as members if
they’re going to survive. “Harmonie was
smart to pick Davina because she wanted to
push the club into the future,” he said. “The
people joining social clubs today aren’t in-
terested only in whiskey nights and jack-
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Where Are Brooklyn’s Bodies Buried? We’ll Show You
The Madame Morbid trolley
ride is year-round, but October
is especially good for business.
By MOLLY FITZPATRICK
Allison Chase was born to be spooky.
When her older brother got a diagnosis of
Type 1 diabetes as child, largely excluding
him from the sugar-fueled pleasures of
trick-or-treating, Ms. Chase’s parents
wanted to make sure he could nevertheless
enjoy Halloween to its fullest. Her father be-
gan to stage elaborate charity haunted
houses out of the family’s West Hartford,
Conn., home and later, as his project ex-
panded, in a local vacant department store.
Strangers would wait in line for hours for
the privilege of very possibly peeing their
pants in fear. (Mr. Chase proudly kept count
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of such incidents.)
As a child, Ms. Chase, now 31, was un-
fazed by the Jell-O brains in the refrigerator
and the annual arrival of U.P.S. packages
containing fake severed heads. “I didn’t
even think it was strange,” she said. She
dreamed of growing up to be the Wicked
Witch of the West, but has found perhaps,
an even more fitting vocation.
She’s the chief executive and lead tour
guide of Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours,
which escorts brave souls on a 90-minute
expedition around Brooklyn to the sites of
battlefields, ghostly visitations, Mafia exe-
cutions and extraterrestrial encounters.
The tour, which costs $49, runs year-round.
October is, unsurprisingly, good for busi-
ness.
On a recent Wednesday, Ms. Chase
picked up her guests from an M.T.A. bus
stop on Driggs Avenue in a replica turn-of-
the-century trolley, outfitted with a fog ma-
chine and haunting piano music. Imagine a
Victorian funeral parlor on wheels, com-
plete with green velvet curtains and a row
of glamorous chandeliers overhead — a B62
rerouted from hell.
As the guide, Ms. Chase looked like an Ed-
ward Gorey illustration come to life. Her
uniform was a floor-length 19th-century-
style mourning dress (resourcefully
hemmed with a safety pin) that lent her a
gothic, consumptive elegance. Her eyes
were rimmed with heavy shadow; her black
bob was adorned with a fascinator and veil.
“Mad” Matt Zaller, Madame Morbid’s chief
operating officer and Ms. Chase’s ex-
boyfriend, served as the evening’s coach-
man.
The crowd was made up primarily of
Allison Chase, top left, the
lead tour guide and chief
executive of Madame Morbid’s
Trolley Tours, escorts brave
souls on expeditions around
Brooklyn to the sites of
ghostly visitations, Mafia
executions, battlefields and
extraterrestrial encounters.
Matt Zaller, above left, is
the chief operating officer of
the business and a frequent
coachman of the replica
turn-of-the-century trolley,
which is outfitted with a
fog machine and haunting
piano music.
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Brooklyn residents, excited as much by the
prospect of selecting Halloween candy from
a black plastic caldron as they were of win-
ning a syringe-shaped pen for correct an-
swers to trivia questions. (How many peo-
ple must you murder in order to qualify as a
serial killer? Three.) Throughout the tour,
passengers remained on board, but exter-
nal speakers occasionally were employed
by Ms. Chase to roast passers-by. In
Williamsburg, for example, she called out to
a pedestrian: “Sir with the fedora, what lib-
eral arts school did you attend?”
The first stop was the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. In the small inlet there, once known as
Wallabout Bay, more than 11,500 American
colonists died in appalling conditions while
trapped aboard British prison ships. (They
are also honored by the Prison Ship Mar-
tyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park.) Their
bones washed ashore for decades, not far
from the scene shop where “Saturday Night
Live” sets are now built, Ms. Chase said.
With a view of the Brooklyn Bridge in the
distance, Ms. Chase went on to describe
how 12 people were crushed to death in a
stampede six days after its grand opening
in 1883. A headless ghost of a worker decapi-
tated during the bridge’s construction is
also said to haunt the area. (No word on
sightings of the five gray aliens that a wom-
an said abducted her nearby in 1989.)
As Mad Matt barreled over the Gowanus
Canal, Ms. Chase noted that the 1.8-mile-
long waterway has a storied reputation as a
dumping ground for bodies, not to mention
that it once tested positive for gonorrhea.
Shortly thereafter, she paid her respects to
the hundreds of Revolutionary War soldiers
who perished in the Battle of Brooklyn, and
who are believed to be buried in a mass
grave under the Staples on Fourth Avenue.
(This revelation drew audible gasps from
an otherwise giggly audience.)
“We don’t realize that we’re building over
dead people until it’s too late,” Ms. Chase
said dryly. “We don’t do it on purpose, but
we also don’t talk about it.”
Then it was on to Park Slope, where 11-
year-old Stephen L. Baltz made national
headlines in 1960 as, initially, the sole sur-
vivor of a catastrophic midair collision be-
tween two planes; one crashed in Staten Is-
land, and the other at Seventh Avenue and
Sterling Place. The boy died the following
day, and locals have since reported seeing
the specter of a child searching for his lost
luggage.
In Prospect Heights, Ms. Chase led an an-
imated discussion of the severed goats’
heads that have been discovered through-
out Prospect Park in recent years, and the
mummies biding their time in storage at the
“notoriously haunted” Brooklyn Museum.
A real-life fender bender near Grand Army
Plaza seen through the trolley windows
added an unexpected element of excite-
ment to the tour, but thankfully, zero gore.
Ms. Chase herself lives in Brooklyn and
has been a New Yorker for the past 13 years.
“I’ll never leave,” she said. “I’m going to
haunt it when I die.”
“There have been so many battles here,
so many Mafia murders, and things are al-
ways popping up out of the blue,” Ms. Chase
said. “Since deeds and documents have
been traded throughout hands over the past
couple centuries, we don’t know that trage-
dies have happened on the spot until those
articles and information are later revealed.”
Madame Morbid offers a view of Brook-
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lyn’s incredibly dense history, as well as an
unsettling reminder of what an easily over-
looked necropolis it is. There’s a macabre
past beneath just about every single un-
assuming park, high-rise and Trader Joe’s.
(Ms. Chase cares about the living, too. Ten
percent of Madame Morbid’s ticket sales
benefit Brooklyn’s homeless population.)
The trolley tour ends where it begins — in
Williamsburg, near the Two Boots Pizza
whose menu includes a vampire-repelling
Madame Morbid pie, heavy on the garlic
and crowned with a pesto pentagram.
Some evenings, Ms. Chase and her cohort
go back out for several more spins around
the borough. On each return, she bids her
passengers farewell.
“Now you know where all the bodies are
buried,” she said.