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Diversifying
Film Academy
Is a Tall Order
Look at Actors Branch
Shows Challenges
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
and BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES — Roughly 87
percent are white. About 58 per-
cent are male. As many as two-
thirds are at least 60 years old.
As the Academy of Motion Pic-
ture Arts and Sciences scrambles
to address an outcry over a lack of
diversity among its membership,
a close look of its largest group,
the actors branch, shows that end-
ing the imbalance within its ranks
might be more difficult than, say,
predicting the annual Oscar win-
ners.
The academy is typically reluc-
tant to disclose the identities of its
members and does not regularly
provide demographic information
about them. There is no set stand-
ard for membership and no con-
sistency when it comes to how
many people from the film indus-
try are invited to join each year.
But an examination by The
New York Times of the actors
branch — whose more than 1,100
members control acting
nominations for the Academy
Awards — revealed the basic ra-
cial outlines of the group. Using
public and private databases, The
Times compiled data on nearly
1,100 acting branch members.
Along with the white members,
about 6 percent are black, under 4
percent are Hispanic and less
than 2 percent are Asian. Women
make up about 42 percent of the
branch. A spokeswoman for the
academy confirmed all of those
percentages.
The academy has stated that its
aim is to double the number of mi-
norities in its overall membership
Continued on Page B2
Fatal Crane Crash in Lower Manhattan
The collapse on Friday on Worth Street, which happened as workers were trying to secure the crane, killed a pedestrian. Page A16.
App Provides Anonymity to Teenagers, and to Predators, Too
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
The allegations are beyond
chilling: two Virginia Tech fresh-
men charged with the premed-
itated kidnapping and killing of a
13-year-old girl who, the authori-
ties say, communicated with her
murderer online.
But the way they chatted — on
a wildly popular messaging app
INTERNATIONAL A3-9
Investigating a Death in Egypt
An Italian student, Giulio Regeni, above,
killed in Cairo, had secretly written arti-
cles critical of Egypt’s leader. PAGE A3
Zika Virus Found in Saliva
Brazil said the virus was found in sam-
ples of human saliva and urine. PAGE A4
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Syrian refugees near a crossing gate on the Turkish border on Friday. Tens of thousands of civilians were fleeing the Aleppo area.
Assad Forces Gain Momentum Around Aleppo Trump’s Bid
A Surge of Refugees
By ANNE BARNARD
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian
and a Major Blow to
government and allied forces
pressed their most significant ad-
vance in months on Friday, send-
ing insurgents scrambling and
tens of thousands of civilians flee-
ing toward the border with Tur-
key.
The advance has accelerated in
recent days, with new momen-
tum from heavy Russian air-
strikes in the northern province
of Aleppo, according to Syrian
state news media, residents and
antigovernment activists. The
called Kik — has increasingly be-
come a source of concern for law
enforcement.
The death of Nicole Madison
Lovell, a liver transplant and can-
cer survivor from Blacksburg,
Va., has put Kik — widely used by
American teenagers but not as
well known to adults as Snapchat
or Instagram — in the spotlight
at a time when law enforcement
officials say it has been linked to
a growing number of abuse
NATIONAL A10-15
Funeral for Oregon Protester
Mourners came from across the West to
remember LaVoy Finicum, part of an
armed protest group who was killed by
the authorities in a chase. PAGE A10
Capitol Perk Gets the Brushoff
Taxpayer-funded oil paintings of con-
gressional members on display in the
Capitol have been banned.
NEW YORK A16-20
Shootings Show Risk to Police
The wounding of two officers in the
Bronx reflects the danger of stairwell
patrols at housing complexes. PAGE A17
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
Is Going Easy
On His Wallet
the Opposition
government’s gains have given a
morale boost to loyalists and
prompted opponents of President
Bashar al-Assad, including Tur-
key and Saudi Arabia, to calcu-
late their next moves.
The government’s gains in
Aleppo Province, building on ear-
lier ones in Dara’a in the south
cases. Neighbors say that the day
before she died, Nicole showed
them Kik messages she had ex-
changed with an 18-year-old man
she was to meet that night.
Kik is cooperating in the in-
vestigation. Its officials say they
responded to “multiple emergen-
cy requests” from the F.B.I. for
information that helped lead to
the arrests of the students, David
Eisenhauer, 18, and Natalie Marie
Keepers, 19, both aspiring engi-
ARTS C1-6
PAGE A10 Playing May Break Your Heart
The video game “That Dragon, Cancer,”
above, uses magical realism to help tell
the story of a Colorado couple and their
terminally ill son, Joel, 5, who died while
the game was in development. It is the
latest example of the medium’s evolu-
tion as a platform for memoir. PAGE C1
BULENT KILIC/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
and Latakia in the north, also
scuttled United Nations-mediat-
ed peace talks this week in Ge-
neva. Neither side saw much to
discuss there: The government
believed it was achieving its
goals on the battlefield, while the
opposition accused the Assad ad-
ministration and Russia of using
negotiations as a cover for indis-
criminate attacks.
Russia’s four months of esca-
lating military intervention have
strengthened the government, al-
lowing Mr. Assad’s forces to go
on the offensive in several prov-
Continued on Page A7
STEPHANIE KEITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
neers from Maryland. And ex-
perts in Internet crime caution
that the app is just one of many
digital platforms abused by all
manner of criminals, from small-
time drug dealers to terrorists.
But law enforcement officials
say Kik — used by 40 percent of
American teenagers, by the com-
pany’s own estimate — goes fur-
ther than most widely used apps
Continued on Page A3
SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6
New Rebuff to Fantasy Sports
Citigroup said it would begin blocking
New Yorkers’ debit and credit card pay-
ments to the two largest fantasy sports
sites, FanDuel and DraftKings. PAGE D1
BUSINESS DAY B1-8
Jobs Data Shows Rise in Wages
Job creation slowed in January, accord-
ing to the Labor Department, but wages
picked up significantly in a sign of
strength in the labor market.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Gail Collins
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
and SARAH COHEN
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Don-
ald J. Trump once boasted that he
could someday be the only per-
son to turn a profit running for
president. He may be closer than
anyone realizes.
Mr. Trump’s campaign spent
just $12.4 million in 2015, accord-
ing to disclosures filed with the
Federal Election Commission,
millions less than any of his lead-
ing rivals for the Republican
nomination. More than half of Mr.
Trump’s total spending was cov-
ered by checks from his support-
ers, who have thronged to his
stump speeches and bought mil-
lions of dollars’ worth of “Make
America Great Again” hats and
T-shirts.
About $2.7 million more was
paid to at least seven companies
Mr. Trump owns or to people who
work for his real estate and
branding empire, repaying them
for services provided to his cam-
paign. That total included more
than $2 million for flights on his
own planes and helicopter, a
quarter of a million dollars to his
Fifth Avenue office tower, and
even $66,000 to Keith Schiller, his
bodyguard and the head of secu-
rity at the Trump Organization.
Continued on Page A12
City’s Homeless Young People:
Overlooked and Underserved
By NIKITA STEWART
Hundreds of homeless young
people are in plain sight every day
in New York City.
They are sitting on the floor at
the Port Authority Bus Terminal
and charging their phones as if
they were college students await-
ing a bus home. They are huddled
on the sidewalk, hanging out.
They sleep on friends’ couches
and in strangers’ beds. They stay
with “Uncle A.C.E.,” code for the
long route of the A train, where
they can spend hours unbothered
and unnoticed.
Mostly, they just blend in, peo-
ple in their late teens or early 20s,
navigating a treacherous path
into adulthood.
On Monday, New York City is
scheduled to hold its annual count
of homeless people, as part of a na-
tionwide tally coordinated by the
federal government. The under-
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CLINTON EMAILS
DRAW OUT FIGHT
ON SECRET DATA
SPARRING BY AGENCIES
At Debate’s Core: Drone
Program, Classified
but Well Known
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — Some of the
nation’s intelligence agencies
raised alarms last spring as the
State Department began releas-
ing emails from Hillary Clinton’s
private server, saying that a
number of the messages con-
tained information that should be
classified “top secret.”
The diplomats saw things dif-
ferently and pushed back at the
spies.
In the months since, a battle
has played out between the State
Department and the intelligence
agencies — as well as Congress
— over what information on Mrs.
Clinton’s private server was clas-
sified and what was the routine
business of American diplomacy,
according to government officials
and letters obtained by The New
York Times.
At the cen-
ter of that ar-
gument, the
officials said,
is a “top se-
cret” program
of the Central
Intelligence
Agency that is
anything but
secret. It is the Clinton
agency’s long
effort to track and kill suspected
terrorists overseas with armed
drones, which has been the sub-
ject of international debates, nu-
merous newspaper articles, tele-
vision programs and entire
books.
The Obama administration’s
decision to keep most internal
discussions about that program
— including all information about
C.I.A. drone strikes in Pakistan —
classified at the “top secret” level
has now become a political liabil-
ity for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential
campaign.
Some of the skirmishes over
Mrs. Clinton’s emails reflect the
disagreements in a post-9/11 era
over what should be a govern-
Continued on Page A11
Behind-the-Scenes Push
Emails show that while she
was secretary of state, Hillary
Clinton lobbied Congress for the
Affordable Care Act. Page A11.
taking involves more than 3,000
volunteers who will fan out across
the five boroughs to record how
many people are found to be living
on the streets.
But many young homeless peo-
ple are overlooked.
Undercounting them means
fewer social services for people at
particular risk of being drawn into
prostitution and cycling into long-
term homelessness, according to
organizations that specialize in
helping young homeless people.
In the past two years, after criti-
cism that the city was not doing
enough, it added shelter beds for
people 16 to 20 and now has 453
beds. Mayor Bill de Blasio an-
nounced last month that over the
next three years, the city would
add 300 beds.
But groups serving young
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INTERNATIONAL
China Supplies North Korea
With the Finer Things
China, whose companies were in-
volved in equipping a ski resort in
North Korea, told a United Nations
panel that sanctions barring the sale
of luxury goods to the North did not
apply to the project. PAGE A4
Furor Over French Language
Textbook publishers in France have
embraced a raft of spelling and ac-
cent changes, stoking the ire of tra-
ditionalists. PAGE A4
Shadow on Malaysia Leader
The end of an official investigation
has not quieted questions about how
hundreds of millions of dollars end-
ed up in the accounts of Prime Min-
ister Najib Razak. PAGE A5
El Salvador Case Revisited
A United States judge ordered the
deportation of a Salvadoran ex-colo-
nel accused in the murder of six Jes-
uit priests, a housekeeper and her
teenage daughter during El Salva-
dor’s civil war in the 1980s. PAGE A6
German Fear on Refugees
An Algerian couple arrested on sus-
picion of belonging to the Islamic
State entered Germany and applied
for asylum as Syrian refugees, the
German authorities said. PAGE A7
Historic Meeting for Pope
Pope Francis will meet in Cuba with
the leader of the Russian Orthodox
Church. PAGE A8
Obstacles to Ukraine Peace
Yulia V. Tymoshenko, who leads a
party in Parliament, said she op-
posed constitutional changes crucial
to an accord with Russia. PAGE A8
Earthquake in Taiwan
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck
Taiwan, killing at least five people
and trapping many more. PAGE A9
Corrections
FRONT PAGE
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order by the Obama administra-
tion that state and local law en-
forcement agencies return fed-
eral surplus military equipment
erroneously included two items
on a list of equipment being sent
back. Camouflage clothing and
.50-caliber machine guns are not
among the recalled items. (Both
of those items are on a new list of
prohibited material.)
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NATIONAL
Cruz Says Carson Falsehood
Was an Honest Mistake
Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential
campaign acknowledged that it had
made a coordinated effort during
the Iowa caucuses to spread a false
story that a Republican rival, Ben
Carson, was dropping out of the
race. But the campaign defended its
actions as an honest mistake while
the Carson campaign escalated the
dispute. PAGE A13
Fallout in Flint Water Crisis
A high-ranking Michigan regulator
was fired for her role in the drinking
water crisis in Flint. PAGE A10
Photos of U.S. War Abuse
The Pentagon released 198 photo-
graphs taken more than a decade
ago during detainee abuse investi-
gations in the Afghanistan and Iraq
wars. PAGE A15
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Coffee Seller Prepares
For Jolt in Super Bowl Ad
The devoted fan base of Death Wish
Coffee, a fast-rising brand from up-
state New York, recently helped
land the company a prized adver-
tisement spot during the Super Bowl
broadcast on Sunday. PAGE A18
City Council Raises Its Pay
The City Council voted to give its
members a raise of nearly a third
over their current base salaries
while enacting a series of reforms —
some of which would apply only to
future city lawmakers. PAGE A20
OBITUARIES
Edgar D. Mitchell, 85
He became the sixth man to walk on
the moon. PAGE A21
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1989, misstated the change in the
N.B.A. draft that year. The draft
contracted to two rounds; it did
not expand to two rounds.
An article in some editions on
Jan. 28 about Serena Williams’s
victory over Agnieszka Radwan-
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
Twitter Steps Up Scrubbing
Of Extremists’ Accounts
Twitter said that it had suspended
‘‘ This is not the way to
go about things. My mes-
sage to the academy was
125,000 accounts associated with ex-
tremism since the middle of 2015. just this: I, Angie, voter,
The crackdown came amid United
wrote them: I VOTE FOR
States government pressure on
Twitter and other technology com- PERFORMANCE. . . .
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bat terrorists online. PAGE B1
Firm’s Awkward Beijing Ties
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ANGIE DICKINSON,
an actress, about an angry mis-
When the Chinese police this week sive she sent to the Academy of
accused an Internet financing busi- Motion Picture Arts and Sci-
ness, Ezubao, of functioning as a $7.6 ences over proposed diversity
billion Ponzi scheme and announced initiatives. [B2]
21 arrests, the charges were con-
veyed by the same official outlets
whose favor the company once cur-
ried, like Xinhua, the main govern- ARTS
ment news agency. PAGE B1
Artists Redevelop
Infighting Over G.M. Suit Photography’s Stepchild
The plaintiffs’ lawyers suing Gen- To stand out, the artist Annie Lopez
eral Motors over its faulty ignition turned to a 174-year-old photo-
switch have been fighting to hold graphic printing process — the cya-
the carmaker accountable for the notype — and brought it roaring
defect. But they are also fighting back to relevance. PAGE C1
among themselves, undermining
the litigation. PAGE B1
SPORTS
Argentina Offers Debt Deal
Argentina has offered to pay $6.5 bil- A Capital of the Dead
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hedge funds holding bonds it de- The road to this year’s Super Bowl
faulted on 14 years ago. PAGE B3 in the Bay Area runs through Colma,
Calif., a small town outside San
VW to Delay Earnings Francisco that has become a necrop-
olis for the city. PAGE D1
Volkswagen said that it would delay
reporting its annual earnings and
move back the date of its annual
shareholders’ meeting because of OP-ED
uncertainty about the cost of its die-
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Italian Wrote Critically of Egypt’s Leader Before Death
By DECLAN WALSH
CAIRO — The furor surround-
ing the death of an Italian student
whose body was discovered
Wednesday on an Egyptian road-
side grew Friday as Italian in-
vestigators flew to Cairo to help
find his killers, and it emerged
that the young man had secretly
written from Egypt for a left-
wing Italian newspaper.
The newspaper, Il Manifesto,
published an article on Friday
that the Italian student, Giulio
Regeni, 28, had written under a
pseudonym weeks before he was
found dead that was sharply crit-
ical of the Egyptian president,
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, while de-
scribing faltering attempts by
Egyptian unions to organize.
There was no indication that
Mr. Regeni’s writing led to his
death, but the article contributed
to the broader Italian outrage
over Mr. Regeni’s injuries as
news outlets pointed an accusa-
tory finger at the Egyptian secu-
rity forces. Egyptian officials said
on Thursday that Mr. Regeni had
been tortured extensively and
probably died from a brain hem-
orrhage.
“Giulio, Egyptian police under
accusation,” read the headline of
La Stampa, a Turin-based daily
newspaper.
Hoping to defuse a potentially
damaging crisis with a relatively
Gaia Pianigiani contributed re-
porting from Rome, and Merna
Thomas and Nour Youssef from
Cairo.
App Offers Anonymity to Teenagers, and Predators
From Page A1
in shielding its users from view,
often making it hard for investi-
gators to know who is using it, or
how. (Yik Yak is another popular
app under fire for its use of anon-
ymous messages.)
“Kik is the problem app of the
moment,” said David Frattare,
commander of the Ohio Internet
Crimes Against Children Task
Force, which includes hundreds
of law enforcement agencies.
“We tell parents about Kik, and to
them it’s some earth-shattering
news, and then it turns out it’s
been on their kid’s phone for
months and
months. And as
a law enforce-
ment agency,
the information
that we can get
from Kik is ex-
tremely lim-
ited.”
Nicole Kik’s ap-
Madison peal to young
Lovell people goes
far beyond
anonymity.
Teenagers like its special emoji
and other features. It offers free
and unlimited texting. And like
AOL Instant Messenger and My-
Space before it, Kik is a space
that parents are unlikely to know
about. But it is also place where
inappropriate sexual content and
behavior can flourish.
Cases involving Kik in just the
past 10 days include:
ÆA St. Louis man charged with
using Kik to exchange child por-
nography.
ÆA western New York man
charged with finding a 14-year-
old girl through Kik and, posing
as a teenager, sending her sexu-
ally explicit messages and trying
to get her to meet him.
ÆAn Alabama man charged
with statutory rape and the at-
tempted kidnapping of a 14-year-
old girl he contacted on Kik.
ÆA Colorado man charged with
taking a 13-year-old Connecticut
girl to a hotel and sexually as-
saulting her, after chatting and
arranging the meeting on Kik.
“The Kik app has become so
popular, it’s probably the one
where law enforcement has seen
the most activity,” said Leslie
Rutledge, the Arkansas attorney
general, who issued a public plea
last year to parents in her state to
educate themselves about their
children’s online habits after two
Arkansas men used Kik to solicit
nude photos from under-age girls
— and an undercover investiga-
tor.
Founded in 2009 and based in
Canada, Kik aspires to become
the Western version of WeChat,
the hugely successful messaging
service in China that offers free
texting, e-commerce and content
delivery. Its main appeal is pri-
vacy and anonymity: The app is
free, and allows people to find
strangers and communicate with
them anonymously, through a
user name.
“We view user names and ano-
nymity as a safe way to connect
with people you meet on the In-
ternet,” said Rod McLeod, a
spokesman for Kik.
The company is taking a varie-
ty of steps, including sponsoring
an annual conference on crimes
against children and posting a
law enforcement guide on its
website, to “assist in preventing
child exploitation,” said Lisa van
Heugten, who was hired two
years ago and helped form a spe-
cial Kik division devoted to field-
ing law enforcement requests.
Kik estimates that it has 275
close European ally, Egyptian of-
ficials promised cooperation and
vowed to find Mr. Regeni’s kill-
ers. The Italian prime minister,
Matteo Renzi, spoke with Mr. Sisi
by telephone and both agreed to
cooperate to “unravel the mys-
tery,” Mr. Sisi’s office said in a
statement.
Italian officials had strenuous-
ly urged Egypt to allow a joint in-
vestigation into the killing, and
on Friday evening, a team of Ital-
ian and Interpol investigators
was scheduled to land in Cairo,
officials from both countries said.
That was proof, said Egypt’s
ambassador to Rome, Amr Hel-
my, of the two countries’ “mutual
desire to identify the culprits who
committed this criminal, shame-
ful act.”
But before the Italians had
landed, Egyptian investigators
claimed to have made a break-
through that, to critics, raised the
specter of a cover-up. Having de-
termined that Mr. Regeni’s kill-
ing was a “criminal and not a ter-
rorist act,” an interior ministry
official said, the authorities had
arrested and were investigating
two suspects in Giza.
Mr. Regeni, a doctoral candi-
date at Cambridge University, ar-
rived in Egypt in September to
conduct field research into
Egypt’s labor movement, partic-
ularly among street vendors.
That is a sensitive subject in a
country where disgruntled work-
ers helped oust President Hosni
Mubarak in 2011. Mr. Regeni’s ac-
ademic supervisors said he took
care not to get into trouble with
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million users worldwide, with 70
percent of them in the United
States. But the very anonymity
and secrecy that make Kik ap-
pealing also pose serious chal-
lenges for law enforcement. The
app asks for the user’s real name
and email address, but it works
even if those are fictitious, and
the user does not have to supply
a phone number.
Unlike some competing apps,
Kik says it does not have the abil-
ity to view written messages be-
tween users, or to show them to
the police. It can view pictures
and videos, but retains them only
until the recipient’s device has
received the message. Those
practices are legal.
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his research, although he wrote
on the side for Il Manifesto. He
used a pseudonym because he
worried about the “general at-
mosphere of repression” since
Mr. Sisi came to power in 2013,
said Giuseppe Acconcia, a jour-
nalist at the paper, in an email.
Mr. Acconcia said that in re-
cent weeks Mr. Regeni had ex-
pressed concern about the harsh
government-led crackdown be-
fore the anniversary on Jan. 25 of
the uprising that ultimately
ousted Mr. Mubarak, but did not
report specific threats to himself.
It turned out that Jan. 25 was
the day Mr. Regeni disappeared,
shortly after he left his apart-
ment to meet a fellow Italian near
Tahrir Square in Cairo. Who took
him, and why, are the central
questions facing investigators.
In recent years, Islamist mil-
itants have been responsible for
the deaths of many foreigners in
Egypt, most recently in the sus-
pected bomb attack that downed
a Russian jetliner in October.
But in Mr. Regeni’s case, the
strongest suspicions have fo-
cused on the security forces be-
cause the circumstances of his
disappearance match those of
many Egyptians who have van-
ished into secretive detention fa-
cilities, run by the security
forces, where torture is common.
Most appear in court or jail, but
some have been found dead.
Mr. Regeni’s body was discov-
ered hours after Mr. Sisi met with
an Italian trade delegation in Cai-
ro Wednesday. In the meeting,
Italian officials expressed con-
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With a court order or in a dire
emergency — as in Nicole’s
death — the company can pro-
vide the authorities with a log of a
user’s sent and received mes-
sages, and in some cases can sup-
ply the user’s Internet protocol
address, giving a physical loca-
tion.
In deciding what information
to store, the company says, it
aims to “strike a balance” be-
tween “protecting user privacy
and the need to remove bad ac-
tors from our platform and assist
law enforcement.”
But Kik says it can find users
on its system with only a user
name. And because Kik is based
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cern for Mr. Regeni, who was
then still missing. That evening,
the Italian ambassador to Cairo
cut short a diplomatic reception
when he learned that Mr. Rege-
ni’s body had been found.
The furor over Mr. Regeni re-
ceived limited coverage on
Egypt’s pro-government televi-
sion channels, although some
lashed out at foreign criticism,
which was painted as part of an
Islamist plot to destroy Egypt’s
relations with Italy. Others exon-
erated the police. “If they kid-
napped him, they would never let
him go,” said Khairy Ramadan, a
leading television host. “They
would never throw him out like
this. This is criminal work.”
On social media, other Egyp-
tians say the case is a suggestion
that even foreigners — who are
regularly painted as spies by the
news media, but rarely subjected
to violence by the security forces
— are not immune from the
harsh treatment many Egyptians
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us.”
Law enforcement officials say
they often run across Kik in cases
of “sextortion,” or blackmail, in
which a sexual predator coaxes a
young person to send nude pho-
tos — and then threatens to post
the photos online, or alert the
child’s parents or harm the child,
if he or she does not send more.
David Finkelhor, director of
the Crimes Against Children Re-
search Center at the University
of New Hampshire said research
suggests that social media has
not spawned an uptick in violent
crimes involving children, but
cases involving pornography are
on the rise. So are arrests.
Professor Finkelhor cautions
against “technophobia,” saying
character traits — not technology
— make young people vulner-
able. Those who are socially iso-
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rested the man they said had
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ty. She said she had been mourn-
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RODONG SINMUN, VIA EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in an undated photograph at the Masikryong ski resort, which was built with equipment that passed through China. It opened in 2013.

China Keeps Luxury Goods Flowing for North Korea

By JANE PERLEZ and YUFAN HUANG
BEIJING — After North Korea’s
leader, Kim Jong-un, ordered his army
to build a world-class ski resort, the im-
ported equipment for it was soon at
hand, including snowmobiles, snow-
blowers and even a mile-long cable car
system manufactured by a leading Aus-
trian company.
By almost any estimate, the sale of
such items appears to violate the intent
of United Nations sanctions meant to
punish the North for its nuclear weap-
ons program — specifically, sanctions
targeting luxury goods, intended to cov-
er products like Champagne and caviar,
yachts and expensive cars.
But China, whose companies were in-
volved in providing the equipment for
the Masikryong ski resort, which
Billions in High-End Goods Help Assure Loyalty at the Top
opened in 2013, told a United Nations
panel that those sanctions did not apply
because skiing is a “normal activity” in
North Korea, a country where most of
the population is impoverished and food
shortages are common.
“Skiing is a popular sport for people,
and ski equipment or relevant services
are not included in the list of prohibited
luxury goods,” the Chinese said, ac-
cording to last year’s annual report
from the United Nations panel, which
monitors sanctions violations.
Weeks after North Korea detonated
its fourth nuclear bomb, and days after
it said it would soon launch another
long-range rocket, the United States
and China are still at loggerheads over
how — or whether — to deepen sanc-
tions against the isolated nation. And as
the example of the skiing equipment
shows, even the sanctions currently in
place often prove toothless.
The United Nations sanctions, im-
posed in 2006 and tightened since then,
still allow China to trade with North Ko-
rea in vital sectors like oil, banking and
shipping — but billions of dollars’ worth
of luxury items also manage to slip
through.
While luxury goods may seem a rela-
tively minor issue, experts on North Ko-
rea say they help to ensure the loyalty
of the tiny elite around Mr. Kim, helping
to keep his government intact.
Tensions between Washington and
Beijing over who is to blame for North
Korea’s growing nuclear arsenal burst
into the open again this week, after the
North said Tuesday that it would launch
a satellite into orbit this month. The
United States and its allies believe the
true purpose of such launches is to
eventually develop an intercontinental
ballistic missile that can deliver a nucle-
ar warhead.
Daniel Russel, the United States as-
sistant secretary of state for East Asian
and Pacific affairs, said such a launch
would be “an unmistakable slap in the
face to those who argue that you just
need to show patience and dialogue
with the North Koreans but not sanc-
tions,” a clear reference to China.
In response, a Chinese Foreign Min-
istry spokesman, Lu Kang, suggested
Wednesday that it was the United
States that had lost the most from the
North Korean announcement. “As for
whose face the D.P.R.K. slapped, the
country itself knows well,” Mr. Lu said,
using the initials for North Korea’s for-
mal name, the Democratic People’s Re-
public of Korea.
But on Friday, President Obama
spoke by telephone with President Xi
Jinping about the planned missile test,
and in a summary of the call, the White
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Brazil Finds In France, Tempers Flare Over Spelling

Zika Virus
In Saliva;
Risk Unclear
By VINOD SREEHARSHA
and SIMON ROMERO
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian
scientists said Friday that they
had detected the presence of the
Zika virus in samples of human
saliva and urine, a first for Brazil.
The Brazilian researchers
warned that the virus might have
the potential to spread through
kissing or urine, but they were
quick to point out that this still re-
mains to be proved. Nonetheless,
the announcement amplified con-
cern in Brazil with many people
pointing out the possible impact
to the annual Carnival celebra-
tion, which began on Friday.
“It is something we have to fur-
ther investigate,” said Dr. Myrna
Bonaldo, the head of the Flavivi-
rus Molecular Biology Laborato-
ry at Fiocruz, a prominent re-
search institute here. “We are not
yet sure if Zika can be transmit-
ted to others” through saliva or
urine, she said.
The findings point to the fre-
netic efforts by researchers in
Brazil and other countries to de-
termine the risks posed by the
Dr. Myrna Bonaldo, above, said on Friday that there was no
proof that the virus could be transmitted through kissing.
French Polynesia.
The Brazilian researchers at
Fiocruz said that their studies
had detected the virus in an ac-
tive form in human saliva and
urine samples.
Dr. Bonaldo and officials at the
institute said that they had ob-
tained the samples from two pa-
tients with Zika-like symptoms;
one was found to have the virus
in urine, the other had Zika in the
saliva sample. It remained un-
clear whether the tiny sample
size was enough to produce solid
conclusions.
“The significance of the results
is unclear,” said Dr. Peter J.
Hotez, dean of the National
School of Tropical Medicine at
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this is really some troubling
news,” said Kalina de Andrade,
28, a cashier at a store in the sea-
side Botafogo neighborhood of
Rio.
Ms. de Andrade, who is five
months pregnant, said that it had
become increasingly difficult to
discern all the risks associated
with Zika ever since the federal
authorities declared an emergen-
cy after the outbreak of the virus
several weeks ago.
“The government needs to get
better at explaining to the pop-
ulation what this means,” she
said, emphasizing that annual
Carnival celebrations officially
got underway here on Friday.
“With Carnival starting, people
are going to be having sexual re-
By DAN BILEFSKY
LONDON — In France, the
land of Molière, questions of lan-
guage are so sacred that every
Thursday the “immortals,” the
guardians of the French lan-
guage at the Académie Fran-
çaise, meet to discuss — among
other things — proposed changes
to the institution’s vaunted dic-
tionary.
The last complete edition of the
dictionary was published in 1935,
according to the academy, and
changes evolve over centuries.
The newest complete edition is
not finished — the authors have
reached the letter R.
So it was perhaps not surpris-
ing that tempers flared this week
after a news report from the
broadcaster TF1 that changes
were afoot to cut back the cir-
cumflex accent, known as “the
hat,” from French-language text-
books.
Adding to the horror, the re-
port said that as of September,
when the new school year began,
teachers would also have to make
changes affecting about 2,400
French words, including spelling
oignon — or onion — as ognon.
Among the words appropriated
from English, news reports not-
ed, the hyphen in week-end
would be eliminated, along with
the hyphen in tictac (now tic-tac,
or ticking, like a clock), while
leader would be given a French
used to show solidarity after the
satirical newspaper Charlie Heb-
do was attacked by terrorists ear-
ly last year.
One Twitter user called Gui-
llaume C. reacted to the spelling
changes, including the pruning of
the circumflex, as a personal af-
front. “I started the day with a bit
of vomit in my mouth,” he wrote
on Twitter.
Others were quick to warn of
the linguistic perils of losing the
circumflex to distinguish be-
tween sûr, or sure, an adjective,
and, sur, or on, a preposition.
“I am sure your sister is well”
and “I am on top of your sister
she is well” are not the same
A plan to cut back
on an accent inspires
a droll Twitter
hashtag.
thing,” wrote another Twitter
user, using a colloquial form of
French.
In fact, the circumflex is be-
coming optional on i’s and u’s,
and only on those words that do
not need it. It will remain manda-
tory in several French verb tens-
es and when there is a clear dis-
mendations that many textbooks
and schools had chosen to ignore.
In 1635, Cardinal Richelieu, the
chief minister of Louis XIII, es-
tablished the Académie Fran-
çaise to rule on the usage of the
French language.
The 1990 changes that caused
all the fuss this week also came
up in 2008, when the Education
Ministry published a bulletin urg-
ing schools to put them in place.
Nicolas Sarkozy was president
at the time of that bulletin, which
was largely ignored. Another bul-
letin issued by the ministry to
schools in 2015 — this time during
the presidency of François Hol-
lande, a Socialist, received a simi-
larly muted reaction.
This latest debate appears to
have been reignited when educa-
tion officials again this year re-
iterated their plea. Only this time,
publishers of textbooks decided
to embrace them.
Patrick Vannier, who works in
the elite dictionary service of the
Académie Française, said by
phone from Paris that the back-
lash appeared to be overwrought.
But he said he was heartened
that in the age of the iPhone, the
French remained so wedded to
their dictionaries.
“I am happy that this shows
the extent to which the French
are still attached to their lan-
guage,” he said. He added, “It
also shows that there is a lack of
historical perspective and that
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mosquito-borne Zika virus as it
spreads through more than two
dozen countries in the Americas.
Brazilian doctors have already
linked Zika to an increase in ba-
bies born with abnormally small
heads, a condition known as mi-
crocephaly, though research
Baylor College of Medicine. “We
know, for example, that dengue is
only transmitted via Aedes mos-
quito bites, and yet we can find
the dengue genome in urine and
saliva. So more research would
need to be done to determine if
Zika can be transmitted via kiss-
lations and exchanging saliva,”
she said. “That means the virus
could spread even more.”
The researchers at Fiocruz
said that they had conducted
tests to rule out the presence of
dengue and chikungunya, virus-
makeover and be spelled leadeur.
Nénuphar, or water lily, would be
spelled nénufar.
The reaction on social media
was harsh and swift, as intellec-
tuals, teachers and traditionalists
took to Twitter to vent their an-
ger at what many saw as an at-
tinction in meaning.
Joining the revolt, the National
Inter-University Union, a right-
leaning student group published
a petition accusing the education
minister, Najat Vallaud-Belka-
cem, of abusing her “authority”
people think that changes of lan-
guage are fixed for all eternity,
when, in, fact, they evolve.”
Indeed, it is a sign of the times
that attitudes toward language in
France are shifting. Three years
ago, when a proposed law was in-
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teams are still trying to prove
this connection.
French scientists had already
published research last year in
the Journal of Clinical Virology
that located the Zika virus in hu-
man saliva following an outbreak
of the virus in 2013 and 2014 in
Mariana Simões contributed re-
porting.
ing.”
“For now,” Dr. Hotez added, “it
still seems highly likely that the
overwhelming number of cases
of Zika are transmitted through
mosquito bites.”
The announcement at Fiocruz
on Friday morning quickly
spread on social media, sowing
confusion among some in Brazil.
“I’m trying to remain calm, but
es that are part of the same fam-
ily and transmitted by the same
mosquito, Aedes aegypti.
A potential upside to Friday’s
revelation could involve develop-
ing urine tests as a diagnostic
tool to determine when patients
in Brazil have Zika. Brazil still
lacks widespread availability to
tests for Zika, a virus that shows
no symptoms in most of the peo-
ple who get it.
tack on centuries of culture and
history.
In a sign of the frenzy inspired
by the changes, “Je suis circum-
flex” became a popular hashtag
on Twitter — an allusion to “Je
suis Charlie,” the rallying cry
Aurelien Breeden contributed re-
porting from Aix-en-Provence,
France.
to overturn the rules for spelling
in French.
Unfortunately for them, Le
Monde noted, the students incor-
rectly conjugated the verb “to au-
thorize,” misspelling the word.
But for all the outrage, the
Education Ministry said that the
changes were nothing new and
that, in fact, they had been ap-
proved by the Académie Fran-
çaise in 1990 as optional recom-
troduced to allow French univer-
sities to teach more courses in
English, one leading intellectual
called it a “suicide project.”
But last year, France’s minister
of culture, Fleur Pellerin, said
French was not in need of protec-
tion from foreign influences, in-
cluding English. Her words were
welcomed by modernizers.
After all, she is the leadeur of
the ministry.
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Another Inquiry Ends, but Scrutiny of Malaysian Leader’s Finances Persists

By AUSTIN RAMZY
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —
After Malaysia’s attorney gen-
eral cleared Prime Minister Najib
Razak of corruption charges in-
volving hundreds of millions of
dollars that ended up in his bank
accounts, Mr. Najib issued a
statement of his own.
“The matter has been compre-
hensively put to rest,” he said last
week. “It is time for us to unite
and move on.”
That has not happened.
Instead of answering the ques-
tions about the money and its
possible links to a heavily indebt-
ed Malaysian sovereign wealth
fund, the attorney general’s an-
nouncement has only sharpened
them.
The attorney general,
Mohamed Apandi Ali, said the
largest sum in question, $681 mil-
lion, was “a personal donation”
from the Saudi royal family, most
of which — $620 million — was
later returned because it was not
used.
“It’s not logical at all,” said
Azral Shah, 28, a computer net-
work analyst taking a cigarette
break outside a Kuala Lumpur
high-rise this week. “I’m not sure
what is the true story, but most of
the nation doesn’t think that
what they are telling us is true.”
Indeed, the attorney general’s
statement has been overshad-
owed by fresh doubts, whether in
Malaysia or Saudi Arabia.
“There is no clear explanation
as to how this huge sum of money
Doubts about the
official explanation
and the United States are investi-
gating transactions involving the
Malaysian sovereign wealth
fund, 1Malaysia Development
Berhad, or 1MDB. Mr. Najib set
up the fund and is the chairman
of its advisory board.
The Swiss attorney general’s
office said on Friday that its in-
vestigation had found serious ev-
idence that suggested that $4 bil-
lion had been misappropriated
from Malaysian state-owned
companies. Some of that money
was transferred into bank ac-
counts of former Malaysian offi-
cials and former and current offi-
cials from the United Arab Emir-
ates, the Swiss authorities say.
The announcement said the
Swiss were looking into several
business deals between United
Arab Emirates state-owned com-
panies and 1MDB, as well as alle-
gations involving a small oil com-
pany called PetroSaudi that car-
ried out a joint venture with
1MDB.
On Monday, Singapore said it
had seized “a large number of
bank accounts” in connection
with the investigations.
Opposition politicians in Ma-
laysia have demanded that Mr.
Apandi, the attorney general,
prove that 1MDB was not used as
Mr. Najib’s political slush fund.
The question for Mr. Apandi
was “how did he satisfy himself
that, even if the funds deposited
into the prime minister’s person-
al bank accounts came from the
mysterious Arab donor, the
money did not originate from
1MDB?” said Tony Pua, an oppo-
sition member of Parliament
from the Democratic Action Par-
ty.
Mr. Apandi, appointed by Mr.
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Prime Minister Najib Razak prayed last week before meeting
with reporters in Putrajaya, Malaysia’s administrative capital.
published reports.
The funds arrived in 2013,
when Mr. Najib’s party, which
has led Malaysia since its inde-
pendence from Britain in 1957,
faced a powerful election chal-
lenge. What some analysts have
described as an orgy of campaign
spending helped the party win a
a lot of money from the prime
minister to run their campaigns,
it’s an admission that they are
privy to sources of funding,
which they have not disclosed,”
said Terence Gomez, a professor
at the University of Malaya who
researches money in the nation’s
politics. “Now it’s been exposed,
and we find out that a foreign
country is supporting the prime
minister and the party.”
At the same time, the attorney
general suggested that Mr. Najib
did not need $681 million for the
election since he returned most
of it. Mr. Apandi did not say how,
when or to whom the money was
returned, nor what Mr. Najib did
with the remaining $61 million.
In his news conference, the at-
torney general also addressed
another deposit in Mr. Najib’s ac-
tight race. count, about $13 million that was
Members of Mr. Najib’s cabinet transferred from SRC Interna-
have previously described the tional, a former subsidiary of
funds as political donations, and 1MDB now owned by the Finance
at least one prominent party Ministry, which Mr. Najib con-
member has acknowledged re- trols. Mr. Apandi said that there
ceiving funds from Mr. Najib. was no evidence Mr. Najib “had
“By the very fact that his party any knowledge” of the deposit.
members have admitted they got Mr. Najib has not commented
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on the transaction.
“They’ve stopped caring about
whether the story makes any
sense,” said Ambiga Sreeneva-
san, a lawyer and former presi-
dent of the Malaysian Bar Coun-
cil. “They just want the image of
closure.”
Despite public concerns, Mr.
Najib seems to have consolidated
his position, last year dismissing
a deputy prime minister who
raised questions about the 1MDB
scandal. Likewise, Mukhriz Ma-
hathir, the son of Mr. Mahathir
and a leading critic of Mr. Najib,
was ousted on Wednesday as the
top official of a federal state, in
what he called retribution for
publicly criticizing Mr. Najib.
But the slowing economy, the
low price of oil and a recently in-
troduced tax on goods and serv-
ices as well as the continuing
1MDB scandal have dampened
broader public support, said Ibra-
him Suffian, director of the Mer-
deka Center, an independent poll-
ing agency in Malaysia. Mr. Najib
is likely to face a tough challenge
to retain his position in elections
expected in 2018.

for how a huge sum of
money was moved.
was moved into Najib’s accounts,
the banks used by these Arabs,
the sources of the fund, the busi-
ness of the donor,” Mahathir
Mohamad, a former Malaysian
prime minister who has become
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Najib in the summer, has de-
clined to answer questions or re-
lease details of his investigation.
“I stand by my decision,” he said
by text message. “No further
comment.”
Nor has Mr. Najib publicly ex-
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one of Mr. Najib’s harshest crit-
ics, wrote on his blog.
In Saudi Arabia, Foreign Min-
ister Adel al-Jubeir said that he
accepted the attorney general’s
opinion that there had been no
wrongdoing, but he also said that
he did not think that the money
had come from the Saudi govern-
ment or that it was a political do-
nation.
“It is a private Saudi citizen, I
believe, and the funds went to an
investment in Malaysia,” he said
in an interview on Thursday.
One member of the royal fam-
ily and one associate of the fam-
ily, speaking on the condition of
anonymity, said that the money
had come from a Saudi prince
and confirmed that it was not a
donation. The associate ques-
tioned the reported sum but said
the funds were part of a business
deal.
The attorney general’s deci-
sion shut down an investigation
by Malaysia’s anticorruption
commission, leading the panel to
seek a review of the ruling, and
the country’s former law min-
ister filed suit to reverse it.
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troubling questions.
A political donation of $681 mil-
lion, equal to about 2.6 billion Ma-
laysian ringgit, would be an exor-
bitant sum in Malaysian politics.
An American presidential cam-
paign costs about $1 billion. Ma-
laysia has less than a tenth the
population of the United States.
Such a large donation would
not necessarily be illegal. Ma-
laysian law restricts candidates
for Parliament to about $50,000 a
campaign, but there are no limits
on spending by political parties
or curbs on overseas funding.
If the donation was above-
board, it may have taken a circu-
itous route. Malaysian investiga-
tors said the $681 million was
transferred to Mr. Najib’s ac-
counts in two deposits from a
British Virgin Islands-registered
company through a Swiss bank
owned by an Abu Dhabi sover-
eign wealth fund, according to

Missing Czechs Return Home

In an Apparent Swap Deal
By HANA de GOEIJ
PRAGUE — Five Czechs who
had been missing in Lebanon
since July and were presumed
kidnapped have arrived home,
but the joyful response has been
tempered by revelations that
Prague had released two terror-
ism suspects, apparently as part
of a deal to secure their release.
On Thursday, Czech officials
freed from detention two men
who are wanted by the United
States: Ali Taan Fayad, a citizen
of Lebanon who is also known as
Ali Amin, and Khaled el-Merebi,
a citizen of Ivory Coast. The five
Czech citizens were freed the
same day.
Mr. Fayad and Mr. Merebi —
and a second Ivorian, who was
will only encourage criminal
groups and terrorists all over the
world.”
The Czech defense minister,
Martin Stropnicky, told the news-
paper Hospodarske Noviny that
the five Czechs had been released
in exchange for a guarantee that
Mr. Fayad would not be extradit-
ed. Mr. Stropnicky later appeared
to backtrack somewhat, however,
supporting the Foreign Minis-
try’s official line that the Czech
Republic does not negotiate with
terrorist groups.
The foreign minister, Lubomir
Zaoralek, has denied that there
was an exchange deal, Reuters
reported.
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American Embassy here, the
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Prague in 2014 and were accused
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agents who had posed as Colom-
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Pelikan, said he had spoken with
the United States ambassador,
Andrew H. Schapiro, and
“cleared things up.” He did not
provide further details.
Prime Minister Bohuslav
Sobotka said the authorities had
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Czech government decision to re-
lease Ali Fayad and Khaled el-
Merebi,” the American Embassy
said in a statement. The United
States had sought the extradition
of all three men to the United
States. The embassy said there
was “no justification” for releas-
ing the two prisoners, adding, “It
republic’s allies should respect
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U.S. Judge
THE SATURDAY PROFILE

Veteran Diplomat Takes a Quiet but Crucial Role in Colombia Approves

Extradition
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
WASHINGTON

N
OT every private equity executive
has a pair of battle-scarred
AK-47s hanging on his office wall.
But Bernard Aronson does, reminders
of an eventful career as a leading diplo-
mat and negotiator in Latin America.
One rifle was the gift of a commander
of the leftist guerrilla forces in El Salva-
dor, the other from a leader of the rightist
contra army in Nicaragua — two coun-
tries where he helped end years of blood-
letting.
Now Mr. Aronson, who runs a Wash-
ington-based private equity firm called
ACON Investments, has returned once
again to the diplomatic field, serving as
President Obama’s special envoy to
peace talks between the government of
Colombia and that country’s largest and
oldest rebel force, the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The negotiations, to end a guerrilla
conflict that is now more than 50 years
old, have been proceeding in fits and
starts since at least as far back as 2012.
They are now entering a crucial stage,
with the two sides facing a self-imposed
March deadline to reach a final agree-
ment.
Mr. Aronson, 69, has played a quiet but
crucial role, entering the talks early last
year at a time when they appeared in
danger of stalling.
He has met repeatedly with FARC ne-
gotiators in Havana, where the talks
have been taking place, as well as with
the government’s negotiators. He has
also met with President Juan Manuel
Santos of Colombia and with Álvaro
Uribe, a former president who is one of
the most vocal opponents of the peace
talks.
Of Ex-Colonel
By ELISABETH MALKIN
MEXICO CITY — In a ruling
that revisits one of the most noto-
rious events of El Salvador’s bru-
tal civil war, a United States fed-
eral judge has ordered the de-
portation of a former Salvadoran
colonel accused in the murder of
six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper
and her teenage daughter.
Spain, not El Salvador, sought
the extradition of the former offi-
cer, Inocente Orlando Montano
Morales, to put him on trial in
Madrid. Mr. Montano, 73, along
with 18 other former military offi-
cers originally indicted by a
Spanish judge, have remained
free under an amnesty law
passed a year after the war end-
ed in 1992.
But now the ruling moves the
prosecution of the case a crucial
step closer to a courtroom.
In her decision on Thursday,
Judge Kimberly A. Swank of the
United States District Court in
the Eastern District of North Car-
olina, agreed with the Spanish
LEXEY SWALL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES evidence that showed that Mr.
Montano was present at a meet-
“I remember my father being on the phone, getting reports of which of his friends had been ing of the military high command
beaten up on the Freedom Rides.” that ordered the murders, which
were carried out by an elite Sal-
BERNARD ARONSON vadoran unit trained by the Unit-
ed States military.
“A government official who

M
“Bernie Aronson has an unparalleled R. ARONSON played a similar Timochenko, met in Havana and shook phere in Washington. acts in collaboration with others
understanding of how to be firm when you role in the El Salvador talks, hands before the cameras, in a show of After college he was a Vista volunteer in outside the scope of his lawful au-
need to be, and at the same time how to de- where he won the confidence of their commitment to reaching an accord. a poor region of Kentucky, then went on to thority,” she wrote, “may reason-
velop the empathy that builds trust,” Ser- the guerrilla commanders. It was the most News outlets in Colombia reported that work for an insurgent group within the ably be considered a member of
gio Jaramillo, one of Colombia’s lead nego- prominent of those commanders, Joaquín Mr. Aronson was at the historic meeting, United Mine Workers that ousted its long- an armed gang under the Span-
tiators, said in an email. Villalobos, who presented Mr. Aronson and a name card was set out for him at the time president, Tony Boyle. He later be- ish terrorist murder statute.”
As a Democrat who served as assistant with one of the rifles displayed on his of- table with the presidents. But he was not came a speechwriter for Vice President In the early hours of Nov. 16,
secretary of state for inter-American af- fice wall. there. Walter F. Mondale, and then for President 1989, members of the unit entered
fairs under the first President George The gun is mounted on a wooden plaque It was Yom Kippur, the holy Day of Jimmy Carter, and worked in the office of the grounds of the Central Ameri-
Bush, Mr. Aronson has made both peace on which Mr. Villalobos wrote in marker, Atonement in the Jewish faith, and Mr. the White House chief of staff. can University in San Salvador
and war. “To Bernard, with the respect and friend- Aronson, who is Jewish, was at home, fast- After Mr. Reagan was elected president, and ordered the rector, the Rev.
He was involved in carrying out Mr. ship that peace has given us.” ing. “It was my Sandy Koufax moment,” Mr. Aronson became the policy director Ignacio Ellacuría, and five other
Bush’s invasion of Panama in 1989, and he The other rifle is mounted on red velvet, he joked, referring to the Hall of Fame for the Democratic National Committee, priests into a garden in front of
was a strong supporter of the contras in in a frame. Its firing mechanism was dis- pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who and while there he became involved in the their house where they were
Nicaragua in their fight against that coun- abled by United Nations peacekeepers in refused to play on the holiday. angry polemics around American inter- killed. The housekeeper, who
try’s leftist Sandinista government. While 1990 when the contra army demobilized. While significant hurdles remain, the vention in Central America. Mr. Aronson
never holding a position in the Reagan ad- Mr. Aronson, soft-spoken but insistent, two sides have never before come this backed military aid for the contras, but
ministration, he did help write an impor- with Bernie Sanders-style white hair, re- close to ending a war that has killed more wanted them to commit to protecting hu-
than 220,000 people and driven millions
tant speech for Ronald Reagan praising
the contras as freedom fighters in a world-
flected on these earlier episodes and on
the long road of the Colombia talks, evok- from their homes. Mr. Santos was in Wash-
man rights.
When Mr.Bush became president in
A Salvadoran accused
wide battle against Soviet expansion. ing a conversation with Mr. Villalobos af-
ter the El Salvador peace deal.
ington on Thursday, where he met with
Mr. Obama in what emerged as a celebra-
1989, Mr. Aronson was given the job of as-
sistant secretary of state, with backing
in a 1989 massacre
But Mr. Aronson also helped bring about
the demobilization of the contras after the “I asked Joaquín, ‘Could we have made tion of the impending peace deal. from members of both parties in Congress. can be sent to Spain
Sandinistas lost elections in 1990. And he peace earlier?’” Mr. Aronson recalled. It was a busy time, when Latin America
to stand trial.
M
played an important role in negotiating the “And he said, ‘I don’t think so, because we R. ARONSON grew up in Rye, N.Y. was regularly in the headlines.
1992 peace accord that ended the civil war had to change our minds.’ ” Mr. Aronson His father, Arnold, was a key fig- There were the Sandinistas, the contras,
in El Salvador. added, “I think the same is true with the ure in the civil rights movement, El Salvador, Panama, massacres in Haiti,
In a recent interview in his Washington FARC.” playing a critical role in mobilizing Jewish drug lords threatening the stability of Co-
The most fundamental change of mind, lombia and the Latin American debt crisis. worked with another Jesuit com-
office, a few blocks from the White House, and white supporters. Arnold Aronson
Mr. Aronson said, was deciding that peace Mr. Aronson helped forge a bipartisan munity, and her daughter were
Mr. Aronson said that in the Havana talks helped organize the 1963 March on Wash-
was preferable to more fighting. But there consensus that led to ending the contra killed because they were witness-
he has applied the lessons he learned in ington, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
were other steps along the way. war, and there was bipartisan backing for es.
those earlier episodes. His most important King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream”
the peace process in El Salvador. Father Ellacuría was trying to
contribution has been simply to treat the A major breakthrough occurred in Sep- speech, and the younger Mr. Aronson, a
broker peace between the mil-
FARC negotiators with respect, he said, tember, when the two sides agreed on a high school student at the time, was there “There was a tradition of Democrats
itary-backed government and
perhaps cracking the stereotype of the ar- framework for how rebel fighters would be in the crowd. serving in Republican administrations and
leftist rebels at the time. But
rogant imperialist. The change in the Oba- punished for crimes committed during the “I remember my father being on the vice versa, especially in foreign policy,”
many in the high command
ma administration’s posture toward Cuba, war and then set the March deadline for a phone, getting reports of which of his said Mr. Aronson.
viewed him with suspicion, be-
an important FARC backer, has also had final deal. friends had been beaten up on the Free- “Bipartisanship wasn’t just some airy
lieving him to be sympathetic to
an effect. With those pieces in place, Mr. Santos dom Rides,” Mr. Aronson said. idea,” he added. “It was an effective policy
the guerrillas of the Farabundo
“Maybe,” he said, “they see that the ene- and the FARC’s top commander, Rodrigo His career would seem impossible to- that turned these divisive issues into win-
Martí National Liberation Front.
my is not the enemy they once thought.” Londoño, who uses the nom de guerre day, with the overheated partisan atmos- wins.”
Judge Eloy Velasco of Spain’s
National Court has been investi-
gating the case since 2008 under
Assange Arrests Sanctions’ End Benefits State-Backed Iran Companies Spain’s universal jurisdiction law,
which allows Spain to prosecute
certain crimes not committed on
Were Arbitrary, By THOMAS ERDBRINK terror. $50 billion or so in annual in- lifted only two weeks ago, Irani- its territory. Five of the six Jesu-
its, including Father Ellacuría,
TEHRAN — Only weeks into “We are not getting any credit, vestment that the country needs. ans are already complaining
U.N. Panel Says what was widely anticipated to
be a helter-skelter, post-sanc-
inside or outside of the country,
we can’t make transfers and the
“Our bigger companies are our
top priority,” said Amin Aman-
about the glacial pace of change.
“Sure there is money coming
were Spanish.
But after Judge Velasco issued
government has other priorities,” zadeh, a financial reporter for in,” said Reza Alaverdi, a porter an indictment in 2011, the arrest
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE tions rush of Western money and
Mr. Esghi said. Next week Mr. several Iranian newspapers. at Tehran’s grand bazaar as he warrants languished in El Salva-
GENEVA — The WikiLeaks expertise into Iran, limits to the dor, where all of the defendants
country’s opening are beginning Esghi, the public face of the larg- “They are the only ones who can was pushing a cart laden with lo-
founder, Julian Assange, has est private business ownership handle foreign investment. Also, cally produced shirts through the live, with the exception of Mr.
been arbitrarily detained by Brit- to emerge as the conservative Montano.
organization in the country, will if they improve the whole econ- narrow alleyways. “It’s just not
ain and Sweden for more than leadership seeks to limit the He had moved to Massachu-
be shutting down his own busi- omy will.” coming to me.”
five years, according to a report reach of Western influences. setts, where he was arrested on
ness, a bus factory, and sending But critics of the quasi-socialist One of the few indicators of
issued Friday by a United Na- Behind the headlines announc- immigration violations after the
his remaining 14 employees conglomerate system dismiss change visible to all, Iran’s na-
ing big business contracts with indictment was issued. He was
tions human rights panel. home. The reason, he said, is that such claims, saying it is notori- tional currency, the rial, has not
European companies it is becom- then moved to a detention center
The panel, the Working Group there is no work and no prospect ously corrupt and inefficient. moved since the lifting of the
ing increasingly clear that, so far, in North Carolina. Last year, as
on Arbitrary Detention, said the of any, even after the lifting of More likely, they say, the con- sanctions. “The government
the only deals being struck have his sentence was ending, the Jus-
two countries should compensate sanctions. servative leadership’s overriding wants to keep the price of the dol-
been with the state-backed con- tice Department, acting on behalf
Mr. Assange and take action that “I’ll be the unemployed secre- aim is to keep Western influence lar high, now that they have ac-
glomerates. These are the groups in the economy and society to a of Spain, sought his extradition.
would allow him to move freely, that dominate major industrial tary general of the Tehran Cham- cess to dollars,” said one money
minimum. Almudena Bernabeu, a lawyer
according to the report. and commercial sectors of the changer who refused to give his
Iran’s hard-line factions do not with the Center for Justice and
Mr. Assange has sought to Iranian economy and are tightly name.
dispute the point. “Investments Accountability, a human rights
avoid extradition to Sweden, controlled by pension funds and The housing market has group based in San Francisco
where he is wanted for question- investment companies linked to Little or nothing through our big enterprises can
be controlled,” said Hamidreza
stalled, as have land prices, a re- that first filed the case in the
ing on accusations of rape, and flection some say of the crash in
has taken refuge in the Ecua-
state organizations, like the Rev-
olutionary Guards.
trickles down to the Taraghi, an analyst who is close the oil market. “As long as oil
Spanish court, said Judge
Swank’s decision was a prece-
to Iran’s leaders. Really opening prices are low not much will
dorean Embassy in London since
2012.
As a result, little or nothing is lower levels of the up the country, in the way some change,” said Ismael Tabrizi, a
dent for extraditing somebody
charged under a law of universal
trickling down to the lower levels emerging-market countries have,
It was uncertain on Friday of Iran’s beleaguered but still private sector. is out of the question, he said.
watch seller.
Those in the private sector
jurisdiction.
whether the symbolic victory for enormous private sector. “We “That would provide leverage The judge ruled that “Spain
Mr. Assange would have a practi- have a conflict of interest with have few hopes of fast improve- has the jurisdiction, that it has
to Western governments and in- ment, said one entrepreneur,
cal effect. The judgments of the the government,” said Bahman vestors, leverage they would use enough evidence, that all the re-
Esghi, the secretary general of ber of Commerce,” he said. “Iron- frustrated that international quirements are there to extradite
United Nations panel in Geneva to influence our politics, culture
the Tehran Chamber of Com- ic, isn’t it?” partners are not providing credit to Spain,” said Ms. Bernabeu,
are not legally binding, but hu- and society.”
merce. “Because they have out- The lifting of the sanctions, Mr. and banks refuse to make trans- who represents the family of one
man rights officials say they are Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatol- fers.
considered authoritative and car- grown all their competitors.” Esghi said, will have some posi- of the slain priests, Father Igna-
lah Ali Khamenei, has been em- The problem he says, is that
All the major international tive effects for those in the pri- cio Martín-Baró.
ry a moral weight. phasizing that point ever since while the state-backed conglom-
deals signed in recent weeks vate sector who manage to get In December, Judge Velasco is-
Sweden wants to question Mr. the nuclear deal was signed in erates cinch deals with the help
have involved state or semistate- their hands on some of the money sued new warrants seeking the
Assange, 44, about allegations of July. Most analysts say it will be of special guarantees, the gov-
backed industries. The national coming in. “But mainly, it seems, arrest of 16 defendants in El Sal-
rape and sexual assault. He has a long time, if ever, before Iran ernment is doing nothing to help
carrier, Iran Air, signed a deal to the government is getting fatter vador. Since the original indict-
denied the accusations and ex- relaxes controls even to the level smaller businesses and entrepre-
buy more than 100 planes from and fatter,” he said. ment named 20 officers, two have
pressed a willingness to cooper- of China when it began reforms in neurs secure credit.
Airbus. The Iranian Mines and President Hassan Rouhani on become state witnesses and one
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ate with the investigation, but he
has resisted extradition to Swe-
den fearing he would then be
turned over to the United States,
where he faces prosecution and a
lengthy jail sentence for publish-
ing more than a quarter of a mil-
Mining Industries Development
and Renovation Organization,
one of the largest state entities,
started a $2 billion joint venture
with an Italian steel producer,
Danieli. PSA Peugeot Citroën of
France will invest $439 million in
Tuesday repeated the govern-
ment’s aim of achieving 8 percent
growth this year, not an unrea-
sonable goal given the influx of
frozen assets and the enormous
investment needed for Iran to
modernize facilities grown de-
the 1970s.
Already the influx of foreigners
that comes with the foreign in-
vestments just agreed to will be
an issue for the hard-liners who
say they protect Iran’s ideology,
Mr. Esghi said. There are cur-
rently fewer than 1,000 Western-
“I just went to a conference in
Dubai,” said Kaveh Sheikholesla-
mi, an importer of neurosurgery
equipment. All the Western man-
ufacturers wanted to sit down
with him, he said. But he could
not close any deals.
died as the indictment was is-
sued.
The National Civil Police has
acknowledged that it has the
warrants but has failed to carry
them out, asking for legal guid-
ance. This week, El Salvador’s
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lion secret government cables.
When news of the panel’s find-
ing in favor of Mr. Assange
emerged on Thursday, the gov-
ernments of Sweden and Britain
issued separate statements dis-
puting its conclusions, and Lon-
don’s Metropolitan Police said it
would “make every effort” to ar-
rest Mr. Assange if he left the em-
bassy in London.
carmaker Iran Khodro.
But when smaller private busi-
nesses reach out to their foreign
counterparts the response they
get is still: how will you pay? Nu-
clear sanctions might be lifted
but almost all international banks
continue to shy away from the
Iranian market because of unilat-
eral American regulations that
label Iran as a state sponsor of
crepit after years of sanctions.
But to achieve such growth lev-
els, experts here say, particularly
in an era of low oil prices, would
require an easing of financial
strictures that Iran’s conserva-
tive leaders show no signs of tol-
erating.
Some analysts say the state-
backed conglomerates are the
only entities able to handle the
ers living in Tehran, a city of 12
million. “Imagine a hundred
thousand living here,” he added.
“They don’t have the stomach for
that.”
For President Hassan Rouha-
ni, who ran on the promise of lift-
ing sanctions and ending Iran’s
isolation, the continuing restric-
tions could pose political prob-
lems. Although sanctions were
“I wanted to buy a $30,000
product, but they asked me, ‘Can
you transfer to our bank ac-
count?’ I had to say no, finished
my coffee and moved on.”
Everything you need to
know for your business day
is in Business Day.
The New York Times
security and justice minister,
Mauricio Ramírez Landaverde,
said that contradictory legal deci-
sions still remained to be clar-
ified.
Of the legal confusion that has
stalled the arrests in El Salvador,
Ms. Bernabeu said, “We put all
the institutions upside down.”
Gene Palumbo contributed re-
porting from San Salvador.

A Syrian boy was comforted amid the rubble on Thursday after a what appeared to be an airstrike in a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria.
Syrian Government Forces Gain Momentum Around Aleppo
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inces at once for the first time in
years. It remains to be seen
whether the most recent ad-
vances will hold. But they have
dealt major blows to the armed
opposition and made crucial mil-
itary gains around the divided
city of Aleppo, the provincial cap-
ital that was once Syria’s largest
city and industrial hub.
Government forces and pro-
government militias, including
the Lebanese group Hezbollah,
have cut the main supply route
for weapons and humanitarian
aid north of the city. If the gov-
ernment and its allies advance
farther south, they could sur-
round rebels in Aleppo and em-
ploy the type of “starve or sur-
render” siege the government
has used elsewhere.
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Germany Says It Fears Terrorism Suspects Are Posing as Refugees
By ALISON SMALE
BERLIN — An Algerian cou-
ple, suspected of planning a ter-
rorist attack in Berlin and ar-
rested on suspicion of belonging
to the Islamic State, entered Ger-
many late last year and applied
for asylum as Syrian refugees —
part of a pattern of terrorism sus-
pects entering Europe under the
guise of fleeing war, the German
authorities said Friday.
The police in Berlin published
a photo they said was of the hus-
band, showing a bearded man
with his face blacked out, point-
ing a pistol at the camera, with
two Kalashnikov rifles propped
up beside him on a sofa strewn
with other weapons. The photo
was believed to have been taken
in Syria, where German media
reports said the man had re-
ceived terrorist training with the
Islamic State.
The man, not named by the po-
lice but identified by the media as
Farid A., 34, and his wife, 27, had
been sought on an international
warrant initiated by the Algerian
authorities. They were under sur-
veillance at their refugee shelter
in the town of Attendorn, about
an hour’s drive northeast of Co-
logne, and were arrested in co-
government airdrops of food.
People there were celebrating on
Friday and thanking the troops in
videos posted on social media.
The government gains have in-
creased the sense of alarm
among antigovernment insur-
gents and their civilian support-
ers, sending thousands of people,
including women and children
with whatever they can carry,
fleeing through orchards.
In one video posted on social
media, a woman can be heard
calling out: “Russia is bombing
us, Iran is bombing us, Daesh” —
another name for the Islamic
State — “is bombing us. Where
should we go?”
A man who said he was from
Homs Province, several hundred
miles to the south, said he had
fled to one town after another in
Aleppo Province, always chased
by bombardments and shelling.
“They killed my mother. They
killed my father. They killed my
brother,” he said. “Where are the
Arabs? Where is Islam?”
The United Nations said 20,000
people were stuck at the border
fence between Syria and Turkey,
and aid groups said as many as
50,000 were expected. Turkish of-
ficials have said they will allow
refugees to cross, but it was not
clear when they would open the
crossing or how many would be
allowed through. A few people re-
quiring urgent medical care are
being taken to Turkish hospitals.
The United Nations’ director of
humanitarian operations, John
Ging, told the Security Council on
Friday that the situation around
Aleppo, and the closing of an im-
portant border crossing with Tur-
key, could prevent food and medi-
cine from reaching 325,000 people
caught in the fighting, according
to two diplomats who attended
the closed meeting.
Opponents of Mr. Assad from
the area under attack expressed
anguish that the government ad-
vances had continued while talks
were set to take place in Geneva.
Yaser al-Hajj, an activist who has
often helped foreign journalists in
Aleppo, left the talks before they
were halted when he heard of the
ordinated raids in three states on
Thursday. They were suspected
of plotting an attack in Berlin, the
police said Friday in a statement.
As many as one million asylum
seekers entered Germany last
year. An initial warm welcome,
particularly for Syrians, soured
after the terrorist attacks in and
around Paris in November, which
killed 130 people, and the police
found documents suggesting that
some assailants had entered Eu-
rope posing as refugees.
Hundreds of assaults and rob-
beries during New Year’s Eve
celebrations in Cologne, attribut-
ed to young men of Arab or North
African backgrounds, further
heightened fears over the conse-
quences of the migrant influx.
On Friday, the head of Germa-
ny’s domestic intelligence agen-
cy, Hans-Georg Maassen, said
the Islamic State, also known as
ISIS or ISIL, was using the wave
of newcomers to infiltrate Eu-
rope.
The authorities in Europe have
“seen repeatedly that terrorists
are being smuggled in, camou-
flaged as refugees,” Mr. Maassen
said on ZDF public television.
“That is a fact that security au-
thorities must always seek to rec-
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Displaced people moved toward the Turkish border Friday. The
United Nations said 20,000 were stuck on the Syrian side.
intensifying attacks not far from
his hometown, Marea.
“I cannot stay here,” he said at
the airport in Geneva before he
left. “Why is the United States
letting this happen? They are let-
ting Russia do whatever it wants.
This will help the terrorists.”
Mr. Hajj was referring to fight-
ers for the Islamic State, also
known as ISIS, which he said
would benefit from the losses suf-
fered by rival insurgents. Russia
has said it sees no distinction be-
tween the Islamic State and other
insurgent groups.
Josh Earnest, the White House
press secretary, said the Obama
administration was deeply con-
cerned about the worsening hu-
manitarian crisis in Aleppo.
“There’s the possibility that
government forces backed by the
Russians would encircle that city
and essentially lay siege to that
city, and that would obviously ex-
acerbate a terrible humanitarian
situation there,” Mr. Earnest
said.
He also said Russia’s intensi-
fying military campaign to sup-
port the Syrian government was
delaying a political resolution to
the war because it “gives the As-
sad regime less of an incentive to
come to the negotiating table and
act constructively in conversa-
ognize and identify.”
The Berlin police said on Fri-
day that they had first received a
tip in December from Mr. Maas-
sen’s agency, the Office for Pro-
tection of the Constitution, that a
terrorist plot might be brewing.
On Jan. 10, the agency gave an
unspecified tip that involved sus-
A security official
calls for more scrutiny
of newcomers.
pected supporters of ISIS pos-
sibly involved in planning an at-
tack in Berlin, a police statement
said.
The tip “was taken very seri-
ously” and intensive surveillance
began, the police said. “That pro-
cedure established that the af-
fected persons were behaving
very noticeably and in a conspi-
rative way.”
Considering the danger of a
possible attack, the police
weighed the chances that the sus-
pects would detect the surveil-
lance against the prospect of ob-
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tions there.”
After the Security Council
meeting, the French ambassador,
François Delattre, criticized Rus-
sia for its bombardments and
said the Syrian opposition could
not be expected to “negotiate
with a gun to their head.” Vitaly I.
Churkin, the Russian ambassa-
dor to the United Nations, re-
sponded that a broader cease-fire
would be required. “We cannot
stop this unilaterally,” he said.
The new advances are squeez-
ing rebel groups north of Aleppo
that have been holding off Is-
lamic State militants, who want
to expand into a coveted section
of rebel-held territory near the
Turkish border. Long controlled
by United States-backed insur-
gents and hard-line Islamists,
that strip of land is wanted by
nearly every party to the conflict.
Kurdish militias want the area
to connect two enclaves they con-
trol near the border to the east
and west. That is where the Unit-
ed States and Turkey sought last
year to create a “safe zone” for
refugees, free of Islamic State
fighters. That plan broke down
when the two countries, NATO al-
lies, disagreed on the details.
Turkey would be particularly
troubled if the Kurds, whom it
considers its main enemy in the
taining more information and de-
cided to go “into the open,” the
statement said. About 300 of the
450 police officers involved in
Thursday’s raids were deployed
in Berlin, where four homes and
two businesses were searched.
The other raids were in Atten-
dorn and in Hanover.
In Berlin, the police arrested
an Algerian, 49, who they said
had lived in the German capital
since 2000 under various identi-
ties. He left in 2013 and returned
a year later with fake French
identity papers, the statement
said. He had been sought on
charges of falsifying documents,
and remained in custody on Fri-
day, as did the Algerian couple.
The police said they had so far
not found any evidence of a con-
crete target in Berlin for a terror-
ist attack. No arms or explosives
were found in Thursday’s raids,
but the police said they had
seized a large number of comput-
ers, documents and cellphones.
Another 30-year-old man was
investigated in Berlin and a 25-
year-old man at a refugee shelter
in Hanover, the police said, but
they were not detained. Both
were also Algerian citizens.
The 30-year-old came to Ger-
area, further encroached on the
border area.
It would be unusual, though,
for Turkey to send in troops with-
out consulting with the United
States, even though their rela-
tionship has been strained by
Turkey’s frustration that the
United States is more focused on
battling the Islamic State than
Mr. Assad.
A Saudi official said on
Wednesday that the kingdom
would consider sending troops to
Syria to fight the Islamic State,
but it appeared he had spoken
without consulting with regional
allies, and it was not clear what
kind of deployment he meant or
where it would be.
In neighboring Idlib Province,
west of Aleppo, insurgents were
on alert for shortages and price
increases because of the cut in
the Aleppo supply road, accord-
ing to an antigovernment activist
in the area.
“Today, I wanted to buy salt,”
said the activist, Mohammad
Moataz. “The guy told me: Start-
ing the middle of this month, no
more salt. No cars are coming
from Aleppo. The bakers couldn’t
find salt for their bakeries.”
The blockade on the road will
most likely force cargo to be re-
routed through Idlib Province,
where the territory around the
border crossing with Turkey is
controlled by the Qaeda-linked
Nusra Front. That “will probably
give the jihadists greater lever-
age” over other rebel groups,
wrote Columb Strack, a senior
analyst at IHS Country Risk.
Airstrikes and bombardments
in the area may indicate that gov-
ernment forces plan on pressing
south to cut the Idlib road as well
and surround Aleppo.
“This would provide the gov-
ernment with substantial lever-
age to eventually negotiate over
the future of the city from a posi-
tion of strength,” Mr. Strack
wrote, adding that residents of
Aleppo “would probably face a
humanitarian crisis, as already
seen in other besieged towns
such as Madaya, but on a much
larger scale.”
many in 2004 and currently had a
valid residence permit, the police
statement said. It said without
further detail that the 25-year-old
had had “proven contact” with
Belgium, where several of the
Paris terrorist assailants also had
ties. German media, citing un-
identified security sources, said
the younger man had recently
visited Molenbeek, the suburb of
Brussels where several Paris as-
sailants lived or visited.
The police statement said that
all five people connected with
Thursday’s raids had been of-
fered to be formally questioned,
“and this offer was partly ac-
cepted,” suggesting that one or
more of those held might give
more information about the al-
leged plan for an attack.
Asked how much Germany
should fear a terrorist attack, Mr.
Maassen suggested that was the
wrong question.
“The expression ‘fear’ is the
wrong one here,” he said. “We
are in a situation which is seri-
ous, and we have a high risk that
there can be a terrorist attack.”
But, he added, security serv-
ices and the police are on high
alert. “Our goal is to minimize the
risk,” he said.
N A7
Belgium Opts
To Double
Its Spending
On Security
By MILAN SCHREUER
PARIS — The Belgian govern-
ment announced police and intel-
ligence changes on Friday in-
tended to address criticism of its
failure to properly monitor or ar-
rest the Islamic State-inspired
extremists who used the country
to plot the Nov. 13 attacks in
Paris.
Three of the Paris attackers, in-
cluding the suspected ringleader,
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, were resi-
dents of the immigrant district of
Molenbeek in the capital, Brus-
sels. At least one of the attackers,
Salah Abdeslam, remains at
large, having eluded Belgian au-
thorities after re-entering the
country, which remains on high
alert.
The evident failures of Bel-
gium’s police and intelligence
service set off intense soul-
searching about how to overcome
the linguistic and political barri-
ers to more coherent and effec-
tive policing in the country, fa-
mously divided among French,
Dutch and German speakers.
Flemish politicians in the north
of the country have been most
vocal in blaming divisions and
bad cooperation among the polic-
ing zones for the lack of law and
order in Brussels’ poorer neigh-
borhoods.
The plan announced Friday, af-
ter weeks of back-room haggling,
mostly skirts any streamlining of
bureaucratic redundancies or
ways to better share intelligence
across agencies and regions di-
vided by linguistic rivalries.
Instead, it will double spending
— to about $446 million — on the
police, intelligence and justice de-
partments, as well as add 1,000
officers by 2019 in the area known
as the canal zone, which includes
Molenbeek.
About 300 of those officers will
supplement local police forces
this year to help fight terrorism
and crack down on illegal traf-
ficking in arms, drugs and false
passports, tasks once mostly the
domain of federal agencies. The
additional officers will also be
used to tighten border controls,
especially at international air-
ports.
Yet the plan’s emphasis on po-
licing and monitoring largely im-
Addressing criticism
aired in the wake of
the attacks in Paris.
migrant areas has already made
many uncomfortable.
Under the plan, the justice de-
partment will be allowed to close-
ly scrutinize mosques not offi-
cially recognized by the govern-
ment, which often take the shape
of nonprofit organizations.
Mosques can then be shut down
in case of fiscal or other irregu-
larities, officials said.
“The goal is to detect and pick
out jihadi fighters and possible
terrorists in Molenbeek and the
canal zone,” said Interior Min-
ister Jan Jambon. “We want to
know who is staying in Molen-
beek.”
The day after the Nov. 13 ter-
rorist attacks, which killed 130
people, Mr. Jambon said on na-
tional television that he would
put together a plan to “clean up
Molenbeek” and proposed carry-
ing out a census in the poorest
areas of Brussels by “going door
to door and seeing who actually
lives there.”
The proposition by Mr. Jambon
— a Flemish nationalist — was
quickly denounced by several
French-speaking mayors of Brus-
sels (which has 19 mayors) and
denounced by the local authori-
ties, who said it would stigmatize
Muslims in those areas even
more.
“The Muslim community in the
canal zone is 300 percent against
this sort of radicalism,” said
Johan Berckmans, chief commis-
sioner of the policing zone re-
sponsible for Molenbeek.
“Only a few people are in-
volved in radicalist activity and
we have to uncover their net-
works,” he added, “but by doing a
population census and intruding
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in their homes we will stigmatize
the whole of the community and
lose their confidence in our police
corps.”
Pieter Van Ostaeyen, a Belgian
historian and expert on terror-
ism, acknowledged that there
was a problem in the poor neigh-
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
borhoods of the bigger cities in
the country, such as Brussels,
Antwerp, Verviers and Charleroi,
but that the link between those
problems and terrorism was un-
clear.
“The main problem is that ter-
rorists can move freely across
borders inside Europe and that
intelligence on these individuals
can’t,” Mr. Van Ostaeyen said.
A8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
In a First, Francis Plans to Meet With Leader of the Russian Orthodox Church
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
and JIM YARDLEY
VATICAN CITY — Pope Fran-
cis will travel to Cuba on Feb. 12
for a historic meeting with the
leader of the Russian Orthodox
Church, the first meeting be-
tween a pope and the Russian pa-
triarch, the Vatican announced
on Friday.
For Francis, the meeting is the
result of delicate and sustained
diplomacy, some of which began
decades ago under Pope John
Paul II, and it is another mile-
stone in his efforts to reconcile
the Roman Catholic Church with
Eastern Orthodox churches. The
Western and Eastern branches of
Christianity split nearly 1,000
years ago.
The breakthrough also high-
lights Francis’s ties to Cuba, as
President Raúl Castro “was in-
Elisabetta Povoledo reported
from Vatican City, and Jim Yard-
ley from Rome. Ivan Nechepu-
renko contributed reporting from
Moscow.
2 Saints, Long Dead, Get
Lively Welcome in Rome
By JIM YARDLEY
ROME — Along the broad
boulevard leading to St. Peter’s
Square, the faithful pressed for-
ward. Nuns pointed cellphone
cameras. Others stood on tiptoes,
trying to catch a glimpse. Squad-
rons of police officers restrained
the crowds and blocked traffic, as
motorists could do little except
step out of their cars and watch
the show.
The ancient heart of Rome, a
national capital as well as one of
the world’s most fabled cities,
ground to a halt late on Friday af-
ternoon as the sun fell slowly
over the Tiber River.
The reason?
The bodies of two long-de-
ceased Roman Catholic saints,
Padre Pio and Padre Leopoldo,
their silicon-enhanced corpses
enclosed in glass boxes, were pa-
raded through the old city in a
solemn procession to the Vatican.
For many, it was an incredible
spectacle. For others, it was a
profoundly spiritual moment.
And for still others, it was all a bit
weird.
But as tens of thousands of
people descended on St. Peter’s
Square, the procession was a re-
minder that even as the Vatican
has embraced the modern media
age with papal Twitter accounts,
papal selfies and papal Google
hangouts, it also still communi-
cates in the symbols and tradi-
tions of the medieval age. (Even
as the Vatican livestreamed part
of the event on its website.)
“We are devoted to Padre Pio,”
said Anna Oppedisano, who had
come from northern Italy to see
his remains. “For us, it’s not just
an event. It has a religious mean-
ing. Seeing him go through the
streets of Rome is important to
us, for what it represents. It has a
highly historical and symbolic
value.”
For Pope Francis, rolling out
the two saints is a signature mo-
ment in the Jubilee year that he
has called to celebrate the theme
of mercy. Next week, Francis will
dispatch a group of priests
around the world — so-called
Missionaries of Mercy — to ab-
solve sins, and Padre Pio and Pa-
dre Leopoldo are being offered
up as good examples.
Francis has always champi-
oned the ways that some Catho-
Gaia Pianigiani contributed re-
porting.
Ukrainian Ex-Premier’s Visit to Washington Highlights Obstacles Facing Peace Pact
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — Yulia V. Ty-
moshenko, a former prime min-
ister of Ukraine who now leads a
minority party in Parliament,
said on Friday that she and her
allies would staunchly oppose
constitutional changes that the
United States and European pow-
ers view as crucial to carrying
out a peace agreement with Rus-
sia.
Her remarks underscored the
enormous obstacles still facing
the nearly year-old peace accord,
known as Minsk II. A shaky
cease-fire has sharply reduced
the bloodshed in eastern
Ukraine, where pro-Russian
rebels launched a separatist in-
surgency in 2014, but the accord
has never been enacted, largely
because of acute disagreements
over how voting in the region
would be organized.
Ms. Tymoshenko’s comments,
though not new, were particular-
ly notable given that she made
them in Washington. The United
States has been one of the new
Ukrainian government’s strong-
est allies and one of its main sup-
porters in securing help to pre-
vent an economic collapse, in-
cluding billions in credit from the
International Monetary Fund.
volved in organizing the meet-
ing,” the Rev. Federico Lombardi,
the Vatican spokesman, said at a
news conference.
“The encounter has been un-
der preparation for a long time —
it wasn’t improvised,” Father
Lombardi said.
He said discussions had been
underway “for at least two
years,” and the fact that both
leaders planned to be in Latin
America created the possibility of
a “neutral place” for a meeting.
Francis was already planning
to travel to Mexico next Friday
for a six-day visit. Now, his plane
will stop at José Martí Interna-
tional Airport in Havana, where
the pope and Patriarch Kirill I,
the leader of the Russian Or-
thodox Church, are expected to
hold a private, two-hour meeting.
The two men will then release
a joint declaration before Francis
continues to Mexico City. Patri-
arch Kirill was already scheduled
to be in Cuba for an official visit.
The pace of reconciliation be-
tween Russia, the largest country
lics, including large numbers of
poor people, sometimes express
their Catholic faith through “pop-
ular devotions.” And venerating
relics — objects or even bone
fragments believed to come from
saints — is deeply ingrained in
Catholic tradition.
But there is an undeniable
showbiz quality to their arrival in
Rome. The two saints were Capu-
chin friars who died in the 20th
century, but it is Padre Pio who is
still a major Catholic rock star,
with a global following that has
grown since his death in 1968.
Earlier in the week, Italian news
channels dispatched reporters to
southern Italy, where Padre Pio’s
remains are kept inside a modern
sanctuary, so that they could
broadcast live shots as the corpse
began its journey toward Rome.
Not everyone is so thrilled. On
his talk radio program Friday
morning, the commentator, Os-
car Giannino, teasingly mocked
the whole event while his guest,
Massimo Fini, a writer and self-
described honest pagan, ques-
tioned why more than 1,000 Ital-
ian police officers were handling
security (rather than Vatican se-
curity such as the Swiss Guards)
at cost to ordinary citizens.
“The Swiss Guards should pro-
tect him, or he should protect
himself, given that he is a saint,”
Mr. Fini joked.
Robert Mickens, a longtime
Vatican analyst, said venerating
saints or praying at the tombs of
martyrs is a time-honored Catho-
lic practice, but he questioned the
decision to display the remains of
the two saints. “What I find so
distasteful, wrongheaded and
sort of bizarre is parading these
things under glass boxes,” said
Mr. Mickens, the editor of Global
Pulse magazine. “This is like
Lenin’s Tomb, for God’s sake.”
The Vatican did not always em-
brace Padre Pio, either. It initiat-
ed numerous investigations
against him, beginning in the
1920s, after his devotees said he
had supernatural powers and
carried the stigmata, the mark-
ings of the crucifixion wounds of
Christ. But the Vatican later re-
versed course, and Pope John
Paul II named him a saint in 2002.
A major part of Padre Pio’s
wide appeal — and perhaps one
reason Pope Francis is using him
as the symbol of his year of mer-
cy — is his reputation for listen-
ing to confessions day in and day
Yulia V. Tymoshenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine, be-
fore the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday in Washington.
Wrapping up a weeklong visit
in which she met with top admin-
istration officials and members of
Congress, Ms. Tymoshenko, 55,
also said that she would push for
early parliamentary elections —
“the sooner, the better” — which
are opposed by the United States
because the parties of President
Petro O. Poroshenko and Prime
Minister Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk
are virtually certain to lose seats.
The two men are considered al-
lies of the West. But both have
A step closer, almost
1,000 years after an
East-West split.
in the world, and the Vatican, the
smallest, has been swift. The two
agreed to establish formal diplo-
matic relations only at the end of
2009, and President Vladimir V.
Putin of Russia met Francis in
June 2015, in what was seen as a
break of Russia’s isolation from
the West over the Ukraine crisis..
Since the beginning of his pa-
pacy in 2013, Francis has worked
to reconcile divisions in Christi-
anity that trace to the Great
Schism of 1054, which formally di-
vided the Eastern Orthodox and
Western churches. Francis al-
ready has ties to other Orthodox
leaders, especially with Ecumeni-
cal Patriarch Bartholomew I of
Constantinople, considered the
spiritual leader of the world’s Or-
thodox Christians.
The bodies of Padre Pio and Padre Leopoldo were carried on Friday through Rome to the Vatican, part of a Jubilee celebration.
The reliquary containing the remains of Padre Pio on Friday in
Rome. Tens of thousands descended on St. Peter’s Square.
out during his lifetime, including
from John Paul ll, before he be-
came pope. Lore has it that Padre
Pio heard two million confes-
sions.
Today, Padre Pio’s image is
still widely displayed across Italy,
and millions of pilgrims have vis-
ited his sanctuary in the hilltop
town of San Giovanni Rotondo, in
the southern Italian region of Pu-
DREW ANGERER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
been dogged by criticism that
they have failed to sufficiently
root out endemic corruption. This
week, Ukraine’s economy min-
ister, Aivaras Abromavicius,
abruptly quit his post, saying, “It
has become clear that any kind of
systemic reform is decisively
blocked.”
The continuing corruption and
the failure to carry out the Minsk
accord have prompted some frus-
tration among American and Eu-
ropean officials. Vice President
But the Russian Orthodox
Church has long resisted over-
tures from the Vatican. John Paul
II tried but failed to arrange a
meeting with its leaders, and his
successor, Pope Benedict XVI,
also did not meet the patriarch.
Much of the friction seems to
have been the product of a terri-
torial dispute, as Russian Ortho-
dox leaders have accused the Ro-
man Catholic Church of prosely-
tizing in Russia and Ukraine, ef-
fectively encroaching on Ortho-
dox turf. Even in announcing the
meeting, the Russian Patriarch-
ate said in a statement on its
website that differences over
church policy in Ukraine re-
mained a “bleeding wound.”
A separate statement, issued
jointly by the Moscow Patriarch-
ate and the Holy See, expressed
delight over the meeting, calling
it “an important stage in rela-
tions between the two churches.”
Both parties hoped the event
would be seen as “a sign of hope
for all people,” the statement
said.
glia. In 2008, his body was ex-
humed, treated with chemicals,
adorned with a silicon replica of
his face and placed inside an oxy-
gen-free glass box so that pil-
grims could see him.
For this week’s trip north to
the Vatican, the glass box was
placed in a second, protective
glass box, loaded into a win-
dowed hearse and driven up the
Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with Mr.
Poroshenko for four hours on the
sidelines of the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
last month and was said to have
pressed the Ukrainian leader on
both fronts.
In an interview in her hotel
suite at the Willard InterConti-
nental, near the White House,
Ms. Tymoshenko said that the
Minsk agreement was flawed be-
cause it combined political and
military issues, and that Ukraine
could not move forward with re-
gional elections until it had great-
er assurances regarding its secu-
rity, including control of the bor-
der with Russia.
She said that early parliamen-
tary elections were needed to
build public legitimacy and to
“reboot” the government before
the constitutional changes —
which would grant greater auton-
omy to the disputed eastern re-
gions — could win approval. But
only Mr. Poroshenko can call ear-
ly elections, and both he and
Ukraine’s Western allies oppose
the idea.
In a bid to push the peace deal
forward, Victoria J. Nuland, an
assistant secretary of state, met
last month with Vladislav Surkov,
a senior adviser to President Vla-
dimir V. Putin, in the Russian en-
The Russian church also cited
in its statement the persecution
of Christians in the Middle East
and Africa as an incentive to try
to heal past divisions.
“It is necessary to put aside in-
ternal disagreements and unite
efforts for saving Christianity in
the regions where it is subjected
to the most severe persecution,”
the statement read.
Alberto Melloni, a Vatican his-
torian, also noted that the Cuba
meeting has meaningful geopolit-
ical implications, because it
comes at a time when the United
States and Europe diplomats are
working to isolate Russia.
The Russian church is closely
aligned with the Russian govern-
ment, Mr. Melloni said, and the
meeting with the pope would
have required permission from
Mr. Putin. Signing off on the
meeting allows the Russian pres-
ident to show the different ave-
nues he can use to avoid isola-
tion, Mr. Melloni said.
“For Putin, it is a good result,”
he said. “It is very geopolitical.”
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highway in a caravan of Capu-
chin friars. At one point, the en-
tourage pulled into one of Italy’s
familiar highway rest stops, the
Autogrill, which are usually
teeming with travelers queuing
for espressos and sandwiches.
Out popped a dozen or so brown-
robed friars, an archbishop and a
coterie of police officers.
Given the widespread news
coverage, it did not take long for
people to figure out who had
pulled in.
“Waiters and bartenders left
their positions to go touch the
hearse,” said Stefano Campa-
nella, director of Teleradio Padre
Pio, a television and radio net-
work dedicated to the Italian
saint. “There were even people
on the highway overpasses who
took pictures.”
The caravan arrived in Rome
on Wednesday evening, stopping
first at St. Lawrence Outside the
Walls, an ancient church where
thousands of faithful lined up for
hours to see Padre Pio. On Thurs-
day, the corpse was moved to San
Salvatore in Lauro, a church just
across the Tiber River from the
Vatican. There, the local priest,
Father Pietro Bongiovanni, was
busily preparing for round-the-
clave of Kaliningrad. The accord
will also be a main topic of dis-
cussion next week at the annual
Munich Security Conference,
where Mr. Poroshenko is expect-
ed to come under heavy pressure
from American and European of-
ficials to move ahead with the
constitutional changes, as a pre-
cursor to elections in eastern
Ukraine.
But Ms. Tymoshenko said that
Ukraine’s Western allies ap-
peared to be putting their own
political interests first.
“Both the European Union and
the United States are facing their
own complicated political con-
cerns,” she said, noting the Unit-
ed States presidential election
and refugee crisis in Europe.
“The United States and the Euro-
pean Union want to end the
Ukrainian problem at any cost, as
fast as possible,” she said.
Ms. Tymoshenko spent 28
months in prison as the nemesis
of former President Viktor F.
Yanukovych, who was ousted in
the Maidan revolution two years
ago. She was released in Febru-
ary 2014, a day after Mr. Yanuko-
vych fled Kiev, the capital.
She is hardly uncontroversial.
Although her jailing was viewed
as political, voters were clearly
wary of her after she emerged
Francis is proving to be an am-
bitious, diplomatic actor on the
world stage. He helped broker
the reconciliation between the
United States and Cuba, and won
the regard of Mr. Castro, the Cu-
ban president. Mr. Castro, in
turn, helped arrange plans for the
meeting next week.
Francis is also moving aggres-
sively to complete another long-
held Vatican goal — the restora-
tion of diplomatic ties with China.
Francis has spoken of his desire
to become the first pope to visit
mainland China.
This week, Francis used an in-
terview with Asia Times, an Eng-
lish-language online publication
in Hong Kong, to convey his
greetings for the Lunar New
Year and to offer reassurances
that a rising China should not be
regarded as a threat.
“For me, China has always
been a reference point of great-
ness,” Francis said in the inter-
view. “A great country. But more
than a country, a great culture,
with an inexhaustible wisdom.”
clock Masses before the proces-
sion moved to the Vatican on Fri-
day afternoon.
Father Bongiovanni is one of
the local caretakers of the Padre
Pio movement. Devotees of the
saint regularly meet in his
church, which houses several Pa-
dre Pio relics, including one of his
garments, a cloth stained with his
blood and one of his gloves. In
2000, Father Bongiovanni took
the relics on a two-week tour of
Argentina at the invitation of Car-
dinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the
archbishop of Buenos Aires —
who is now Pope Francis.
“He had us start with the poor-
est of all,” Father Bongiovanni re-
called of a tour that began in the
slums as Francis hoped seeing
the relics might lift public spirits
with Argentina then mired in eco-
nomic crisis.
On Friday, Father Bongiovanni
walked with the procession to the
Vatican, smiling and singing. He
was possibly a bit relieved. A day
earlier, as he awaited the arrival
of Padre Pio at his church, the
phone in his office was ringing off
the hook.
“It has been ringing every
minute for a month!” he said,
chuckling.
from prison, and she and her par-
ty have struggled because of
their association with past
Ukrainian administrations noto-
rious for entrenched corruption
and pervasive mismanagement.
Ms. Tymoshenko is widely
known to harbor continuing na-
tional political ambitions. Her op-
position to the constitutional
changes and her push for early
elections undoubtedly reflect a
move to capitalize on the falling
popularity and perceived political
weakness of Mr. Poroshenko and
Mr. Yatsenyuk.
The minority faction that her
party, Fatherland, controls in
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Parliament does not by itself
have enough votes to block the
constitutional changes. But the
changes, which can be approved
only by a supermajority of 300
out of 450 votes, are also opposed
by another influential minority
party, Self-Reliance, and by nu-
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
merous other lawmakers.
Ms. Tymoshenko said that
pushing too quickly to carry out
the accord could allow Russia to
retain the ability to destabilize
Ukraine politically at Mr. Putin’s
whim.
“It seems to me a fundamental
mistake to try to end the Ukrain-
ian conflict at any price,” she
said.
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China Vows
To Punish
Managers
For Inferno
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
BEIJING — The blasts that
killed 165 people at one of China’s
busiest seaports last year were a
result of a culture of mismanage-
ment at a chemical warehouse
and lax oversight by regulators,
according to a government in-
vestigation whose results were
released Friday.
In the report, officials with the
State Council, China’s cabinet,
described the explosions in Tian-
jin six months ago as a man-
made disaster that had caused
$1.1 billion in damage, destroying
more than 300 buildings and in-
juring nearly 800 people, accord-
ing to Xinhua, the state news
agency.
Officials vowed to punish 123
government workers in connec-
tion with the blasts, citing dere-
liction of duty. Another 49 people
have already been placed under
investigation, many of them em-
ployees of Rui Hai International
Logistics, which operated the
warehouse at the center of the
blasts.
The explosions, one of the
worst industrial disasters in Chi-
nese history, prompted unusually
impassioned calls for action from
the Communist Party. Many peo-
ple pointed to the disaster as a PICHI CHUANG/REUTERS

watershed moment, saying it had
exposed the high cost for Chinese
society of rapid industrialization.
Ma Jun, a prominent environ-
mentalist, said Friday that the in-
vestigation underscored the need
to improve communication
among government departments
and to crack down on companies
that violated safety rules.
“This was by no means, at all, a
natural disaster,” Mr. Ma said. “It
was caused by human error: one
error after another, one failure af-
Mismanagement and
lax oversight are
blamed for blasts in
Tianjin, a report says.
ter another.”
Greenpeace called for an over-
haul of China’s chemical manage-
ment system, saying in a state-
ment on Friday, “Tianjin should
be the catalyst for this.”
The report said the explosions
had occurred when an improp-
erly stored chemical became too
dry and ignited, setting fire to
nearby containers full of explo-
sive substances. The chemical,
nitrocellulose, is used in nail pol-
ish and lacquer. It was near con-
tainers of ammonium nitrate, a
highly explosive chemical com-
monly used in fertilizers.
Officials said that Rui Hai had
committed a series of safety vio-
lations, including illegally build-
ing a freight yard, illegally stor-
ing hazardous materials and
showing “inept safety manage-
ment.”
Rui Hai was storing more than
11,000 tons of hazardous goods at
its warehouse before the disaster,
including more than 200 tons of
nitrocellulose and 800 tons of am-
monium nitrate, far in excess of
what was allowed, the investiga-
tion found. Rui Hai’s license will
be revoked, and its executives
will be banned from working in
the chemical industry, the report
said.
Rescue workers at damaged buildings in Tainan, Taiwan, on Saturday. The epicenter of the 6.4-magnitude earthquake was about 30 miles southeast of Tainan.
Taiwan Mobilizes Army to Search Rubble After Earthquake
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
BEIJING — A 6.4-magnitude
earthquake struck southern Tai-
wan early Saturday, killing at
least five people, trapping dozens
more inside a toppled residential
building and casting a somber
mood across the country as fam-
ilies gathered to celebrate the Lu-
nar New Year.
Residents in the city of Tainan,
along Taiwan’s western coast,
were jolted awake at about 4 a.m.
as the ground shook for nearly
two minutes. Some thought a
bomb had gone off and rushed to
find shelter; others climbed from
their windows, desperate for an
escape.
In one neighborhood, a 17-story
apartment building with at least
150 housing units collapsed, trap-
ping more than 30 people inside.
In another area, office buildings
slanted sideways, teetering
Zhang Tiantian contributed re-
search from Beijing.
China Helps Keep the Luxury Goods Flowing for North Korea
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House said that both leaders “re-
affirmed their commitment to the
complete and verifiable denucle-
arization of the Korean Peninsu-
la.”
They agreed that a test would
violate United Nations Security
Council resolutions, and that a
“strong and united international
response to North Korea’s provo-
cations” was important.
The North’s announcement
was an embarrassing setback for
China, coming just hours after
one of its senior diplomats, Wu
Dawei, had arrived in Pyong-
yang. Both China and the United
States had known, based on sat-
JOHNSON LIU/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
A woman was helped to safety in Tainan. The earthquake was
particularly shallow, increasing the odds for severe damage.
above busy streets.
The Taiwanese authorities said
they had mobilized the national
army to search through the rub-
ble, and as of Saturday morning,
Mr. Wu had an unpleasant
task, said Cheng Xiaohe, an asso-
ciate professor of international
studies at Renmin University.
“That the North Koreans carry
on regardless and announce their
launch plans makes it more em-
barrassing for China, which has
been arguing against more crip-
pling sanctions and urging coun-
tries to solve the problem peace-
fully,” he said.
The Chinese hope to prevent
tougher sanctions for fear that
the North will become a hostile
neighbor, a policy that diplomats
said appears to have been shaped
by President Xi Jinping last sum-
mer. In talks last week with his
Chinese counterpart, Foreign
Minister Wang Yi, Secretary of
221 people had been rescued. A
10-day-old girl, a 56-year-old
woman and a 40-year-old man
were among the dead and more
than 300 people were injured, of-
Chinese customs data showed
that North Korea imported $2.09
billion in luxury goods between
2012 and 2014, according to recent
congressional testimony by Bon-
nie S. Glaser, senior adviser for
Asia at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
Among the items that have
slipped through the sanctions are
Mercedes-Benz S-Class cars,
photographs of which appeared
in last year’s United Nations re-
port. An unidentified American
company armored the cars, the
report said. It also said that a lux-
ury yacht worth as much as $6
million, made by a British compa-
ny, Princess Yachts Internation-
al, made it into North Korea and
has been used by Mr. Kim.
ficials said. There were also re-
ports of people trapped inside
razed vegetable markets and
piles of concrete debris.
As dawn broke, a scene of cha-
os emerged along many streets,
and people wept as they
searched for relatives two days
before the Lunar New Year holi-
day.
“Where are the people?” said a
headline on local television. “The
agony of not being able to find
your family.”
The earthquake was particu-
larly shallow, with a depth of 6.2
miles, according to the United
States Geological Survey, in-
creasing the odds for severe
damage. The epicenter of the
quake was about 30 miles south-
east of Tainan, Taiwan’s oldest
city.
In social media posts, residents
of Tainan, which has a population
of nearly two million, said they
had flashbacks to a 1999 earth-
quake that killed more than 2,000
people, one of the worst natural
equipment to be shipped to North
Korea.
The luxury goods sanctions
have a glaring loophole: Each
country is permitted to define
what it considers luxury goods.
The United States has published
a detailed list, down to such items
as vanity cases, binoculars and
television sets larger than 29
inches. The European Union says
“articles and equipment for ski-
ing, golf, diving and water
the one-room guest suite
disasters in Taiwan’s history,
though there was no indication
that the damage on Saturday was
comparable.
“I was terrified,” said a woman
who gave her last name as Lin,
according to United Daily News,
a Taiwanese newspaper. She said
she rushed out of her apartment
when the shaking began, fearing
she would be trapped inside.
At the site of the collapsed 17-
story apartment building, in the
Yongkang district, a mother
stood crying. While she and her
son had been able to escape, her
daughter remained inside the
building, Apple Daily, a Taiwan-
ese newspaper, reported.
High-speed trains were de-
layed, and thousands of housing
units were said to be without
electricity. Gas and water pipes
were also reported to be dam-
aged.
Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-
jeou, and its president-elect, Tsai
Ing-wen, canceled New Year
plans and were headed to Tainan.
sports” are luxury goods and
bans them from export to North
Korea.
But China has failed to publish
such a list and has not honored
those of other countries, the doc-
uments of the United Nations
panel show. Because it has never
defined luxury goods, China can
argue that cable cars for Mr.
Kim’s prestige resort were per-
missible, even justifying them as
equipment for the masses.
Elizabeth Dooley Photography

The blasts in Tianjin turned a
flourishing economic zone into an
apocalyptic scene overnight. The
report said that more than 12,400
cars had been damaged, as well
as more than 7,500 shipping con-
tainers.
While the blasts brought se-
vere pollution to nearby water-
ways and soil, the report said
that there appeared to be no last-
ing damage to the Bohai Sea.
Zhang Tiantian contributed re-
search from Beijing.
ellite imagery, that the North
was planning another launch,
and one of Mr. Wu’s main goals
for the trip had been to persuade
the North Koreans not to pro-
ceed, diplomats said. The dates
the North gave for the launch
suggested it was likely to occur
as China celebrates its weeklong
Lunar New Year holiday, starting
Sunday.
On his return to Beijing on
Thursday, Mr. Wu conceded that
China had little leverage over its
recalcitrant ally. “I said every-
thing that must be said. I did
what must be done,” he told re-
porters. “But what the outcome
will be, I don’t know yet.”
Patrick Boehler contributed re-
porting from Hong Kong, and
Gardiner Harris from Washing-
ton.
State John Kerry made little
headway in persuading China to
toughen sanctions against North
Korea, and he warned that the
United States would most likely
move ahead on its own.
Tougher sanctions legislation
is moving through Congress that,
among other things, would target
Chinese banks that do business
with North Korea. The adminis-
tration has been reluctant to call
for such sanctions, known as sec-
ondary sanctions, and it is not
clear what the White House
would do about the legislation,
American experts said.
The luxury goods sanctions are
one area where there is plenty of
room to close loopholes exploited
by Chinese middlemen and trad-
ers, to whom the government
turns a blind eye, experts on
North Korea say.
In 2014, China exported $37
million worth of computers; $30
million of tobacco; $24 million of
cars; and $9 million of air-condi-
tioning equipment to the North,
according to trade statistics from
the United Nations Department
of Economic and Social Affairs.
In all these categories, China was
the top exporter, the United Na-
tions said.
The cable cars for the Masik-
ryong ski resort, which are at day
least 30 years old and out of fash-

ion on European ski slopes, were
night
made by Doppelmayr, an Austri-
an company, and used for years
in Ischgl, a skiing town in Aus-
tria. After the resort decided to
install new cable cars, the old
ones were sold to an Austrian
secondhand dealer, Pro-Alpin, ac-
cording to Ekkehard Assmann,
head of marketing at Doppel-
mayr. Pro-Alpin, in turn, sold the
cable cars to an unidentified Chi-
nese company, according to Pro-
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led the occupation of an Oregon
wildlife refuge, with an armed en-

Draws Vows of Defiance

tourage outside LaVoy Finicum’s fu-
neral on Friday in Kanab, Utah.

By JULIE TURKEWITZ
KANAB, Utah — The mourners and
sympathizers came from across the
West on Friday, in pickups flying Ameri-
can flags, to attend the funeral here of
LaVoy Finicum, the one member of a
band of armed protesters in Princeton,
Ore., who was killed last week after a
car chase with the authorities.
Other members of the group, who had
taken over a federal wildlife sanctuary
in a quest to claim government land,
were arrested in the episode, while four
protesters remain holed up in Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge — under in-
dictment and sporadically negotiating
with the F.B.I.
Mr. Finicum, who was 54 and lived
just southwest of here in Cane Beds,
Ariz., was a rancher and father of 11. To
his detractors, he was a doctrinaire
leader of an illegal protest that is deeply
opposed by many who live near the ref-
uge. To his admirers — many of whom
traveled great distances to attend his
daylong funeral — he was a martyr to
an antigovernment cause.
“We just felt compelled to be here, to
honor a true patriot,” said Jeff Esposito,
60, who had driven more than five hours
from Kingman, Ariz., to mourn a man he
had never met. “And after this we are
going to carry his mission forward: to
push back against the government.”
In this small city of red rocks and
sagebrush, about a thousand people
packed a low-slung Mormon church for
the funeral. Not a seat remained open;
some people gathered in overflow
rooms. Boys in jeans and crisp white
shirts stood silently along the walls,
camel-colored cowboy hats in hand, as
the Finicum children sang hymns and
sobbed their way through speeches.
In the back, a Nevada woman, Diana
Clark, 36, said Mr. Finicum and other
occupiers had “awoken a giant.”
“All of us ranchers feel like we’re
backed into a corner,” she said. “And it’s
hard to get anyone to acknowledge our
needs, and so they gave us a platform.”
Among the visitors was Cliven Bundy
— whose sons Ammon and Ryan led the
takeover at Malheur — and several peo-
ple who had participated in the occupa-
tion, including Nickolai Thornton, 39.
“He was a father figure, no doubt
JULIE TURKEWITZ/THE NEW YORK TIMES
about it,” said Mr. Thornton, of Mon-
tana, who added that he was in a car
just behind Mr. Finicum on the day the
rancher died, and that he narrowly
missed being apprehended by the au-
thorities. “He was a true cowboy.”
After the service, the Finicum family
exited the church and two of Mr. Fin-
icum’s daughters spoke to an audience
that included cowboys on horseback
and members of so-called patriot
groups wearing camouflage and carry-
ing small weapons.
The women vowed to continue their
father’s fight against the federal gov-
ernment.
“Yesterday’s extremists typically be-
come tomorrow’s heroes,” Tierra Belle
Collier said. “Do we believe that two
hands up in surrender justifies the use
of deadly force?” she continued, calling
for a second investigation into her fa-
ther’s death.
Behind her sat the elder Mr. Bundy,
who became a rallying figure for some
in the rural West after federal authori-
ties tried to confiscate cattle he had
been grazing illegally. He watched the
scene on horseback. “I’m here to honor
a great man,” he said after the speech-
es. “He was basically crucified.”
Mr. Finicum had been among the first
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZACH GIBSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Perk of Capitol Power, a Symbol of Political Excess

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
WASHINGTON — In a corridor just a few
feet from the floor of the United States Senate
hangs a 19th-century oil painting of Henry
Clay, the dexterous and venerated Kentucky
lawmaker. He is portrayed with his hands fold-
ed and his lips pursed with slight impatience,
as if, like his greatest admirer, Senator Mitch
McConnell, the majority leader, he longs to es-
cape formality and get back to the business of
legislating.
The portrait, purchased by the United
States government in 1881 for $4,000 along
with nearby paintings depicting Daniel Web-
ster and John C. Calhoun, is among scores of
oil portraits that decorate the United States
Capitol.
Today, were Mr. Clay to be memorialized in
the traditional fashion — the trio of images
would have cost $99,104.67 in today’s dollars —
someone would have to shake a tin cup at do-
nors. Or maybe start a “super PAC.”
Taxpayer-funded oil paintings of members
of Congress — as well as of the president, the
vice president and cabinet members — have
been officially banned, thanks to an amend-
At top, a portrait of former Representative Shirley Chisholm, Demo-
crat of New York, hanging in the Capitol. Above, another painting
showed Tom Lantos, a former California congressman and fellow
Democrat. It is in the Foreign Relations Committee hearing room.
ment to the latest federal budget conceived by
Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana,
who was offended by the practice.
The savings to taxpayers are negligible by
federal standards. The cost of the portraits, ac-
cording to a report prepared by the Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Commit-
tee, averages roughly $25,000 apiece. Elim-
inating the funding, the report said, saves the
government less than $500,000 annually. Con-
text alert: The Pentagon’s new F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter costs $98 million — without the
engine. That’s about 3,920 portraits.
But in a trillion-dollar federal budget, in
which it is increasingly hard to make a signif-
icant dent in spending short of cutting entire
programs, agencies or war efforts, lawmakers
love to find small symbolic savings, especially
those that take a whack at the perks of the
powerful.
“Families struggle to pay their mortgage
and feed their families,” Mr. Cassidy said,
“while the federal government spends money
on paintings of government officials that are
often placed in the back of a government bu-
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By MITCH SMITH
A high-ranking Michigan regulator
was fired Friday for her role in the
drinking water crisis in Flint, broad-
ening the fallout from a situation that
and chief spokesman, Brad Wurfel, both
of whom were criticized for failing to
recognize the scope of Flint’s water
problems and for belittling those who
attempted to raise alarms. A fourth em-
Though a number of government
agencies have been faulted for their re-
sponse in Flint, the Environmental
Quality Department has been held up
by critics as particularly egregious.
vironmental Quality officials admitted
in October that they had erred in not re-
quiring corrosion controls.
In recent weeks, Michigan’s attorney
general, the F.B.I. and other federal
Legionnaire’s disease that they suspect-
ed could be related to the water supply,
again called for the resignation of Mr.
Snyder, a Republican.
A Republican-led Congressional com-
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has endangered the health of children,
prompted criminal investigations and
become an issue in the presidential
campaign.
Liane Shekter Smith, who led the
Michigan Department of Environmen-
tal Quality’s Drinking Water and Mu-
nicipal Assistance unit, was fired after a
disciplinary conference. Her firing fol-
lowed the resignations in December of
the department’s director, Dan Wyant,
ployee, who worked under Ms. Shekter
Smith, has been suspended.
“Putting the well-being of Michigan-
ders first needs to be the top priority for
all state employees,” Gov. Rick Snyder
said in a statement about the firing.
“Anything less than that is unaccept-
able. The D.E.Q. is working to change
this culture and ensure mistakes that
endanger our residents don’t occur
again.”
That agency failed to require corrosion
controls mandated under federal law
when Flint changed its water source
from Lake Huron to the Flint River in
April 2014. The lack of anti-corrosion
chemicals caused pipes to disintegrate
and leach lead into the water. Lead,
which is especially harmful to children,
is toxic and can have irreversible health
effects. After initially dismissing out-
siders who warned of the lead risk, En-
agencies have announced investiga-
tions. Mr. Snyder, who has apologized to
Flint residents, has been under fire. Hil-
lary Clinton has announced plans to vis-
it Flint on Sunday, and she and Bernie
Sanders will hold a debate there next
month.
On Friday, Mr. Sanders, responding
to the release of emails that showed
state and local officials had also delayed
warning residents about an outbreak of
mittee has also targeted the United
States Environmental Protection Agen-
cy for scrutiny. At a hearing on Wednes-
day, committee members pressed the
agency for an explanation of why top of-
ficials waited months to publicize their
own scientist’s concerns about lead in
Flint. Susan Hedman, a presidential ap-
pointee who oversaw the E.P.A. region-
al office in charge of Michigan, an-
nounced her resignation last month.

Clinton Lobbied for Health Care Law as Secretary of State, Emails Show
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — On Christ-
mas Eve in 2009, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton was awake
before dawn to personally mon-
itor a critical moment in the na-
tion’s history.
But Mrs. Clinton, the country’s
top diplomat, was not observing a
covert operation in the Middle
East or tracking pivotal negotia-
tions with a foreign power. Her
television was tuned to C-Span,
and she was watching the Senate
vote on President Obama’s land-
mark health care law.
Emails released last week by
the State Department that were
found on Mrs. Clinton’s private
server show that she was keenly
interested in the administration’s
push to win passage of the health
care law.
When an aide, Miguel Rodri-
guez, contacted her to let her
know that the Senate had ap-
proved the bill by a 60-to-39 vote,
Mrs. Clinton was way ahead of
him.
“Thx — I got up to watch it,”
Clinton Emails Draw Out Fight Over What Should Be a Government Secret
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ment secret and what should not.
Nonetheless, 22 emails on Mrs.
Clinton’s server were held back
from a tranche made public last
week. Those 22 emails were
deemed so highly secret that
State Department officials in this
case agreed with the intelligence
agencies not to release them
even in redacted form.
The emails are included in sev-
en distinct chains that comprise
forwarded messages and replies,
and in most cases involved dis-
cussions of the C.I.A. drone pro-
gram, government officials said.
At a Democratic presidential
debate in New Hampshire on
Thursday night, Mrs. Clinton dis-
missed the issue, as she has in
the past. She said the govern-
ment was overzealously classify-
ing information after the fact, cit-
ing as evidence the State De-
partment’s finding that two
emails sent to Colin L. Powell’s
private email account and 10 oth-
ers sent to the personal accounts
of aides to Condoleezza Rice
when each served as secretary of
state should now be classified
years after the fact. It is against
the law to have classified infor-
mation outside a secure govern-
ment account.
“This just beggars the imag-
ination,” Mrs. Clinton said, going
on to argue that the issue was
merely an extension of Repub-
lican criticism over the attack
against the American mission
and C.I.A. annex in Benghazi,
Libya, in 2012.
It remains unknown what ex-
actly the 22 emails contain, given
their classification as “top se-
cret,” but the officials described
them generally, on the condition
of anonymity. The officials in-
cluded people familiar with or in-
volved in the handling of the
emails in government agencies
and in Congress.
Spokesmen and women for the
State Department, the C.I.A. and
the intelligence agencies’ inspec-
tor general declined to comment
on the content of the emails.
Security Designations
Some of the emails include ma-
terial classified at the highest lev-
els, known as Top Secret/S.A.P.,
according to a letter sent to the
Senate on Jan. 14 by the inspector
general of the nation’s intelli-
gence agencies, I. Charles Mc-
Cullough III. That designation re-
fers to “special access pro-
grams,” which are among the
government’s most closely
guarded secrets.
Several officials said that at
least one of the emails contained
oblique references to C.I.A. oper-
atives. One of the messages has
been given a designation of
“HCS-O” — indicating that the in-
formation was derived from hu-
man intelligence sources — a de-
tail that was first reported by Fox
News. The officials said that none
of the emails mention specific
names of C.I.A. officers or the spy
agency’s sources.
The government officials said
that discussions in an email
thread about a New York Times
article — the officials did not say
which article — contained sensi-
tive information about the intelli-
gence surrounding the C.I.A.’s
drone activities, particularly in
Pakistan.
The officials said that at least
one of the 22 emails came from
Richard C. Holbrooke, who as the
administration’s special envoy
for Afghanistan and Pakistan
would have been intimately in-
volved in dealing with the ram-
ifications of drone strikes. Mr.
Holbrooke died in December
2010.
Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private
email server while secretary of
state was first disclosed in
March, and since then the State
Department has slowly released
33,000 emails that Mrs. Clinton
and her aides determined were
work-related. None of the emails
sent through Mrs. Clinton’s serv-
she wrote back. “What did Reid
say while voting that caused
laughter?” (The majority leader,
Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada,
had inadvertently voted against
his own bill, before quickly
changing his vote.)
The email messages show that
throughout the fall of 2009, as the
health care push entered a deci-
sive phase, Mrs. Clinton lobbied
some members of Congress for
votes and even debated some-
times-esoteric policy proposals
with aides, some of whom had
worked with her in the White
House when she was first lady,
after her own failed attempt to
push a national health care over-
haul.
The messages, with granular
detail and sometimes boosterish
tone, help explain why even
among Democrats she remains
one of the Affordable Care Act’s
most ardent champions.
“Hope you’ve had a good, albe-
it busy summer and are a little
rested up in prep for the full court
health care push,” Mrs. Clinton
wrote on Sept. 2, 2009, in a mes-
Hillary Clinton appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January 2013, when she was secretary of state, to testify about the Benghazi attack.
er were marked as classified, the
officials said, and most were writ-
ten by her aides and forwarded to
her. That is also true of the emails
forwarded to Mr. Powell and Ms.
Rice, which until now have been
in the department’s unclassified
archives.
The handling of classified in-
formation on Mrs. Clinton’s serv-
er is now the subject of an in-
vestigation by the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, as well as
the State Department’s security
and intelligence bureaus. Accord-
ing to the law and security pro-
cedures Mrs. Clinton agreed to
follow when she became secre-
tary, such material should not
even have been sent over the
State Department’s official but
unclassified state.gov server.
At the same time, the officials
said, some of the classifications
being sought for the emails fall
into a gray area between public
knowledge and secrecy. In such
instances, the original source of
the information — and thus the
level of its classification — can be
disputed, and has been, vigor-
People gathered at the site of a missile attack in the village of Tappi, Pakistan, in October 2008.
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sage to Neera Tanden, who had
been her top domestic policy ad-
viser in the 2008 race and had
gone to work on health policy in
the Obama administration.
“What’s happening on that
front?” Mrs. Clinton asked. “Is
there a new strategy? I know
POTUS will speak on 9/9. Will we
hear the specifics of what the
Admin wants Congress to do?
Let me know if I can help.”
One former senior administra-
tion official, however, said that if
Mrs. Clinton was deeply interest-
ed in the health care law, she did
not show it during cabinet meet-
ings and other gatherings in the
White House.
“I saw no evidence that she
was interested or following, actu-
ally to the contrary,” said the for-
mer official, who requested ano-
nymity in discussing events that
were not public.
But Ms. Tanden, who started
working for Mrs. Clinton in the
White House in the 1990s and is
now president of the Center for
American Progress, a liberal
think tank in Washington, said
ously at times, they said. Other
emails have been the subject of
rigorous debate over what consti-
tutes a secret and what the na-
tion’s diplomats can say about in-
telligence matters as they grap-
ple with international crises.
“While the secretary of state
has a duty to protect classified in-
formation, as all of us do in a posi-
tion of trust, here she did not
have the benefit of six-plus
months of interagency classifica-
tion reviews,” said Representa-
tive Adam B. Schiff of California,
the top Democrat on the House
Intelligence Committee. “The
same information said by people
in two different positions may re-
ceive two opposite classification
determinations.” Though the
State Department accepted the
C.I.A.’s classification of the 22
emails, it has also sought to chal-
lenge accusations that it was neg-
ligent in handling secrets.
During the review, the State
Department has rebutted claims
by at least one intelligence agen-
cy that information in some of the
emails ought to remain classified.
the continuing interest in health
care was hardly a surprise.
“The thing that I think the
emails show you is she’s secre-
tary of state and super-focused
on health care,” Ms. Tanden said.
“I worked for Hillary for a really
long time, at the beginning of
when I worked for her, in the
middle of the time I worked for
her and at the end of when I
worked for her, in her mind,
health care is a right.”
During her campaign this year,
Mrs. Clinton has shown similar
resolve. “Now, before it was
called Obamacare, it was called
Hillarycare,” she told an audi-
ence last month in Clinton, Iowa.
Congressional officials who
worked on the Affordable Care
Act said that Mrs. Clinton was an
important and effective advocate.
“She was helpful when we
needed votes, having served in
the Senate and still having
friends and colleagues there,”
said one former Senate adviser,
who asked not to be identified in
discussing internal deliberations.
“She did have credibility. She was
Some of those include the
emails that led Mr. McCullough’s
office to refer the matter to the
Justice Department last summer,
prompting the F.B.I.’s investiga-
tion. Mr. McCullough made the
referral based on an assessment
that four of 40 emails that it sam-
pled early on in the process con-
tained “top secret” information.
Now, after months of review,
only one of those four turned out
to be classified at that level. (The
State Department counts that
email among the 22 of last week.)
A second of the four emails has
been downgraded to “confiden-
tial,” the lowest level of classifica-
tion. The third was released last
fall.
Different Sources
The fourth involved an email
sent by Kurt M. Campbell, the as-
sistant secretary of state for
Asian affairs, shortly after a
North Korean ballistic missile
test in July 2009. The email has
not yet been made public, even in
redacted form, but the State De-
HAJI MUJTABA/REUTERS
considered an expert.”
That expertise is clear in some
of the email messages, in which,
for example, Mrs. Clinton ques-
tioned a decision by Senator Max
Baucus of Montana, a main draft-
er of the legislation, to use non-
profit health insurance coopera-
tives to compete with profit-mak-
ing insurers, rather than a gov-
ernment-run health plan, known
as the public option.
“But the ‘system’ let the Blues
go public,” she wrote in a mes-
sage to Ms. Tanden, referring to
the health insurance giant Blue
Cross/Blue Shield, after learning
of the Baucus plan. “What’s to
prevent the co-ops from incorpo-
rating down the road? The return
of nonprofits would have to re-
quire no changes.”
At other times, the White
House enlisted her to lobby for
support.
“I have calls into both Ross and
Berry — how many votes are
they short?” Mrs. Clinton wrote,
in a message to an aide on Satur-
day, Nov. 7, 2009, just hours be-
partment has challenged an as-
sertion from the National Geo-
spatial-Intelligence Agency,
which gathers data through satel-
lite images, that the email includ-
ed information that came from a
highly classified program.
In a letter this past Dec. 15 to
Senator Bob Corker, the Tennes-
see Republican who is chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, a State Department
official said that the information
could not have been based on
N.G.A.’s intelligence because Mr.
Campbell did not receive any
classified intelligence briefings
for what was a new job for him
until a few days after the North
Korean test.
More broadly, the memo stat-
ed, diplomats working at the
State Department or in embas-
sies around the world constantly
receive and pass on information
from unclassified sources — so-
called parallel reporting — that
can involve highly classified mat-
ters. That can make it difficult to
determine with confidence
whether information in any sin-
gle email came from a classified
source.
“When policy officials obtain
information from open sources,
‘think tanks,’ experts, foreign
government officials, or others,
the fact that some of the informa-
tion may also have been available
through intelligence channels
does not mean that the informa-
tion is necessarily classified,” the
department’s assistant secretary
for legislative affairs, Julia Fri-
field, wrote in the December let-
ter to Mr. Corker.
Another email whose classifi-
cation has been disputed was dat-
ed April 20, 2011, and was among
those that prompted members of
Congress and Mr. McCullough’s
office to begin a review of the
State Department’s release of the
emails by court order under the
Freedom of Information Act.
It was from Timmy T. Davis, an
officer in the State Department’s
Operations Center, and it con-
veyed to Mrs. Clinton’s senior
staff security concerns in Libya
during the war against the coun-
try’s leader, Col. Muammar el-
Qaddafi.
At the time, J. Christopher Ste-
vens, the future ambassador to
the country, was secretly trav-
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fore the House voted to approve
the health care measure.
She was referring to Repre-
sentatives Marion Berry and
Mike Ross, Democrats of Arkan-
sas, her onetime home state. Mr.
Berry supported the law; Mr.
Ross did not.
On Dec. 24 of the same year,
when Mrs. Clinton wondered
what Mr. Reid said to cause
laughter, her aide, Mr. Rodriguez,
replied by email that he did not
know.
“But it must have been very
funny because this crowd is not
very happy to be working today,
especially at this hour,” he wrote,
adding, “Both Senators Coburn
and DeMint wanted Leader Mc-
Connell to run out the clock rath-
er than capitulate and agree to an
early vote.”
Mrs. Clinton, who as a senator
from New York had firsthand ex-
perience battling with the Repub-
licans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma
and Jim DeMint of South Caroli-
na, fired back, “No surprise w
those two!”
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eling there as an envoy to the op-
position leadership and had tele-
phoned the Ops Center, as it is
known, to advise it about his situ-
ation on the ground.
Mr. Davis sent his message,
marked “S.B.U.,” or “sensitive
but unclassified” to two of Mrs.
Clinton’s closest aides, Huma
Abedin and Jacob J. Sullivan, as
well as to Alice G. Wells, an exec-
utive assistant to Mrs. Clinton
who is now the ambassador to
Jordan.
At issue were two sentences in
the email referring to reports by
Africom, the American military
command for Africa, describing
the movement of Colonel Qadda-
fi’s forces near the city of Ajdabi-
ya. In a letter on Nov. 24 last year,
Ms. Frifield detailed how the in-
formation in the email differed
significantly from the suspected
intelligence source and could
well have been based on public
briefings given the day before by
NATO’s military about the course
of the war.
“The conclusion that the in-
formation in the email was drawn
from that intelligence product is
unsubstantiated and on its face
wrong, given the differences be-
tween the information in the
email and the information in the
product,” Ms. Frifield wrote.
Even in the case of the drone
program, so much information
about the strikes has filtered into
public view that the C.I.A. did not
object to every allusion to it, al-
lowing at least vague references
in the emails that the State De-
partment has released so far.
In late October 2009, as she
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prepared for a trip to Pakistan,
Mrs. Clinton asked her aides for
good answers to questions she
might expect while in the country
about Blackwater, the private se-
curity company that Pakistanis
had long suspected was secretly
operating inside the country.
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Ms. Abedin responded by
email that the aides were work-
ing on an “answer sheet” for the
tough questions she might get on
the thorniest issues about Ameri-
can-Pakistani relations — includ-
ing Blackwater, the security of
Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, and
drones.
“You will have tonite or tomor-
row am,” Ms. Abedin wrote.
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Trump’s Campaign Bid, Billed as Self-Funded, Is Going Easy on His Wallet
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While the convoluted account-
ing is required by law — so that
Mr. Trump’s companies do not
make illegal corporate contribu-
tions directly to his campaign —
it also means that Mr. Trump is in
effect taking millions of dollars
out of one pocket and depositing
it into another.
What remains is a quintessen-
tially Trumpian endeavor that
blurs the line between campaign-
ing and brand-building and com-
plicates Mr. Trump’s claims that
he is funding his own White
House campaign. About three-
quarters of Mr. Trump’s total
campaign spending has either
gone to reimburse his own busi-
nesses or has been covered by
funds from grass-roots donors,
according to an analysis by The
New York Times of F.E.C. re-
ports. Virtually all of the money
Mr. Trump himself has put into
the campaign was lent, rather
than donated outright, meaning
that he could potentially sell
enough hats and T-shirts to pay
himself back down the road.
“I think there’s always been a
case to be made that Donald
Trump looked at this as a way to
extend his brand to a new gener-
ation of people,” said Rick Wil-
son, a Florida-based Republican
strategist who has done work for
a group supporting Senator Mar-
co Rubio of Florida. “I bet ‘Art of
the Deal’ was in the remainder
bin until this year.”
Mr. Trump’s advisers resist the
idea that he is in the campaign to
make money. They note that Mr.
Trump’s political stands have
cost him money, too, as when
Macy’s, which has sold Trump-
branded men’s wear, and NBC,
which airs the reality show “The
Celebrity Apprentice” that Mr.
Trump hosted, cut ties with Mr.
Trump over his comments about
illegal immigration.
“It’s not just the business Mr.
Trump has lost but the business
opportunities that are not coming
to him because of the strong
stands he has taken,” said Corey
Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s cam-
paign manager. “I’ve personally
been there in the room when he
has been offered massive, mas-
sive business opportunities out of
the country, and he says he does
not want to do them because his
sole focus is running for the pres-
ident of the United States.”
But Mr. Trump has been dubi-
ous in the past of wealthy busi-
nessmen, like Steve Forbes and
Michael R. Bloomberg, who actu-
Nicholas Confessore reported
from Manchester, and Sarah Co-
hen from New York. Maggie Ha-
berman and Jeremy B. Merrill
contributed reporting from New
York.
Trump’s Stance on Borders
Might Stir New Hampshire
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
Political pundits and Republi-
can leaders like to say that no-
body could have foreseen the ex-
traordinary rise of Donald J.
Trump’s presidential candidacy.
But there were early signs that
the electorate was ready for an
insurgency like the one Mr.
Trump has inspired this election.
And some of the most powerful of
those indicators came from New
Hampshire.
In 2014, Scott Brown, a Repub-
lican and former Massachusetts
senator who was running for a
Senate seat in New Hampshire,
aired an ad that seemed a curious
fit for the state: As ominous mu-
sic played in the background, and
scenes of southern border cross-
ings flashed on the screen, Mr.
Brown described an “immigra-
tion crisis” sweeping the country.
“Americans go through securi-
ty before they get on a plane, en-
ter a government building or at-
tend a ballgame,” Mr. Brown
said. “But folks who come here il-
legally? They just walk across
the border. That’s wrong.”
The advertising message from
Mr. Brown seemed surprising for
several reasons. It collided with
national Republican leaders’
moves to temper the party’s
views on immigration after the
2012 election. And it was aired in
nearly all-white New Hampshire,
some 2,000 miles from Mexico.
Even so, it had a powerful im-
pact, helping Mr. Brown survive
a crowded primary and make the
race with the incumbent senator,
Jeanne Shaheen, competitive. It
also prodded Ms. Shaheen to dis-
tance herself from President
Obama’s planned executive or-
ders on immigration.
“Scott did something that the
national party was actually argu-
ing against,” said Eric Fehrn-
strom, a consultant for Mr.
Brown in that race. “It worked
for him.”
Mr. Brown narrowly lost that
contest, 51 percent to 49, but his
campaign recognized something
Above, Donald J. Trump signed autographs after an event in
Portsmouth, N.H., on Thursday. Right, a crowd listened as Mr.
Trump spoke at a campaign event at the Exeter Town Hall in
New Hampshire. More than half of his total campaign spending
last year was covered by checks from his supporters, who
bought millions of dollars’ worth of campaign merchandise.
ally spend their own money on
campaigns for high office. During
the 2000 election, according to
Fortune magazine, when Mr.
Trump flirted with an independ-
ent bid for president, he sched-
uled paid speeches in the same
cities where he was holding polit-
ical events. “It’s very possible
that I could be the first presi-
dential candidate to run and
make money on it,” Mr. Trump
said at the time.
Some of the costs for which Mr.
Trump’s companies are now
charging his campaign would
probably be incurred even if he
were not running for president,
such as salaries for borrowed
Trump Organization personnel
and some of his private plane
flights. Excluding short hops
around the New York City area,
Mr. Trump’s private aircraft
logged 66 flights in July, August
and September 2015, according to
the most recent available federal
flight records. During the same
period in 2014, the aircraft made
51 flights.
Mr. Trump would hardly be the
first person to find a financial up-
side to running for president.
that the national party seemed
for months to miss: The party’s
base was deeply angry, and white
working-class voters, like those
in New Hampshire, felt neglected
by and alienated from the politi-
cal system.
“That message was ripe for
Mr. Trump to come in and run
with it,” said David N. Bossie, the
president of the conservative
group Citizens United. And, with
Mr. Trump’s combination of ce-
lebrity and command of a media
microphone, Mr. Bossie said, he
is the perfect person to capitalize
on it.
Mr. Trump has emerged as the
champion of those voters who
feel neglected, in large part by
viscerally amplifying Mr.
Brown’s message that the bor-
ders are not secure, America is
not safe from terrorism, the econ-
omy is lagging and immigrants
are poised to do harm to the Unit-
ed States. Mr. Brown, as it hap-
pens, endorsed Mr. Trump this
week.
These themes, which have
helped propel Mr. Trump’s ascen-
sion in the polls, might also help
him regain his trajectory after a
loss in Iowa. Immigration is one
of the few issues where Mr.
Trump is to the right of Senator
Ted Cruz of Texas, and one where
he can puncture Senator Marco
Rubio of Florida as too moderate.
Mr. Trump’s first wave of ads
framed illegal immigration as a
national security concern in stark
terms, and he has used this argu-
ment to shape the Republican de-
bate for months.
“Now, they’re all trying to be
tougher than me — nobody can
be tougher than me,” Mr. Trump
said Tuesday night at the rally in
New Hampshire where Mr.
Brown endorsed him.
The Brown campaign was not
alone in deploying a focus on na-
tional security and immigration
in the midterm races two years
ago.
Other Republicans sensed the
growing anxieties of voters: Rep-
ELECTION
Mike Huckabee, who dropped out
of the Republican race on Mon-
day, has used his campaign mail-
ing lists to hawk miracle cures for
cancer. A variety of failed Repub-
lican contenders have parlayed
White House bids into lucrative
careers on radio and television.
And Hillary Clinton’s six-figure
speaking fees are due, in some
measure, to her high profile as a
former candidate and cabinet
secretary.
But a tour through campaign
filings suggests that no one
meshes business and political
pursuits quite as seamlessly as
the candidate whose campaign is
built on his celebrity.
Mr. Trump spent $114,000 to
stage an enormous rally in Sep-
tember in Dallas, even though
Texas does not hold its primary
until March. He spent about $2
million on hats, T-shirts and oth-
er merchandise, roughly half of it
going to a Louisiana-based com-
pany, Ace Specialties, owned by a
board member of Mr. Trump’s
son’s charitable foundation. Dur-
ing the last half of 2015, Mr.
Trump’s campaign spent more on
renting stages and audiovisual
resentative David Brat of Virgin-
ia beat Eric Cantor, the incum-
bent congressman and a member
of the Republican leadership, in
their 2014 primary race by com-
bining worries about immigra-
tion and terrorism. And Senator
Thom Tillis used a similar mes-
sage in North Carolina.
A Senate campaign
uncovered a
hot-button issue.
Soon after Mr. Brat’s victory,
attempts at a comprehensive im-
migration overhaul crumbled in
Congress, and Mr. Obama an-
nounced plans for executive ac-
tions to halt some deportations.
National Republicans became
less fearful of their candidates’
talking about illegal immigration
at that point, and it was a topic in
several races.
Still, after the 2014 midterms in
November, Republicans and busi-
ness leaders believed they had
2016
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equipment ($1.4 million) than on
voter lists, field offices and col-
lecting signatures to get onto bal-
lots ($1.2 million.)
It remains to be seen whether
Mr. Trump’s campaign operation
is better at promoting the candi-
date’s brand or at winning elec-
tions. He lost the Iowa caucuses
by a few percentage points. On
the other hand, Mr. Trump has
sold 179,000 copies of his new
book, “Crippled America,” ac-
cording to Nielsen BookScan,
about $4 million worth of sales at
the list price.
Mr. Trump himself can seem
hazy on the distinction between
his political and business pur-
suits. Virtually every Trump
speech includes a reference to
IAN THOMAS JANSEN-LONNQUIST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
found a way to placate voters’
fears and contain the insurgen-
cies, a conclusion that turned out
to be far from correct.
“Trump is hitting a message
that has been building in the
country for some time,” said
Greg Mueller, a Republican strat-
egist who advised the conserva-
tive commentator Patrick J. Bu-
chanan when he challenged Pres-
ident George Bush in the Repub-
lican primary in New Hampshire
in 1992. Candidates positioning
themselves otherwise in the pri-
mary, such as by supporting im-
migration reform, he added,
“may as well be committing polit-
ical suicide.”
In New Hampshire, concerns
about immigration have long
been a potent weapon. Mr. Bu-
chanan talked in 1992 about build-
ing “the Buchanan fence” along
the southern tier of the country.
“Must we absorb all the people
of the world into our society, and
submerge our historic character
as a predominantly Caucasian
Western society?” said Mr. Bu-
chanan to the columnist George
Will at the time.
More recently, Gov. Maggie
Hassan of New Hampshire, who
one of his hotels or casinos; re-
cently he heaped praise on the
Doral, the luxury golf resort out-
side Miami he acquired in 2012.
He often suggests that the Oba-
ma administration should have
read his book “The Art of the
Deal” before negotiating the Iran
nuclear agreement. (As Mr. Wil-
son suspected, sales of that 1987
best seller have lately skyrocket-
ed, from 3,000 copies in 2014 to
47,000 in 2015.)
At a campaign event in Exeter
on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump
promoted his soon-to-open Wash-
ington hotel, which will be in the
renovated old post office building
on Pennsylvania Avenue.
“It’s going to be a fantastic
project,” Mr. Trump promised.
is challenging Senator Kelly
Ayotte for her seat, was among
the first Democratic governors to
call for a halt to Syrian refugees
coming into the country after the
terrorist attacks in Paris and San
Bernardino, Calif.
“I’m surprised nobody picked
up on it prior to him,” Michael
Dunbar, a local conservative ac-
tivist, said of Mr. Trump. Mr.
Dunbar led the “Draft Trump”
movement in 1987, when the real
estate developer was promoting
his book “The Art of the Deal.”
“The border has been an issue
for a decade,” Mr. Dunbar said,
comparing concerns about illegal
border crossings to worries
about a terrorist threat.
“I live in a small town in
Hampton, New Hampshire. I
don’t worry a whole lot about ter-
rorists. But if I got to a city, I’ve
got to be aware here. I shouldn’t
have to do that in my country.”
Mr. Brown was among the first
to use the immigration issue in
ads in Senate contests in the 2014
midterm races. He ultimately
aired three spots, all of them in-
sinuating a threat in more muted
tones than Mr. Trump has used.
“Scott was careful to stress the
“We’re going to try and have it
open for a certain date,” he told
the crowd, adding, “sitting on
Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Mr. Lewandowski, the cam-
paign manager, said there was no
confusion back at the campaign
headquarters (a slice of the fifth
floor of Trump Tower). Since the
campaign is not allowed to take
in-kind contributions from the
company, Mr. Lewandowski said,
every borrowed Trump employee
and flight-hour has to be properly
compensated out of the campaign
account.
“We pay fair market value for
all the items that we use,” Mr.
Lewandowski said. “We pay the
Trump Corporation or the Trump
entities such things as the rent
for the headquarters.”
Some critics remain uncon-
vinced that all of the help Mr.
Trump’s companies are provid-
ing his campaign is being prop-
erly accounted for.
In December, Mr. Trump
threatened legal action against a
pro-Jeb Bush “super PAC,” Right
to Rise, after the group ran ads
suggesting Mr. Trump was not fit
to be commander in chief. But the
threat was delivered by Alan
Garten, general counsel to the
Trump Organization, rather than
by Mr. Trump’s campaign.
Reminded that candidates are
forbidden to use corporate re-
sources for campaign purposes,
Mr. Trump’s company argued
that an attack on Mr. Trump any-
where was an attack on him ev-
erywhere. “The Trump Organ-
ization has vigorously policed Mr.
Trump’s brand and business in-
terests for many years,” the com-
pany said in a statement. “Those
rights are not forfeited by virtue
of Mr. Trump’s candidacy.”
Right to Rise has filed an F.E.C.
complaint, charging that Mr.
Trump is illegally using corpo-
rate resources to further his cam-
paign.
There are signs that Mr. Trump
has begun to invest more signif-
icantly in a traditional political
apparatus. His campaign’s pay-
ments to companies not affiliated
with the Trump Organization
doubled between August and No-
vember. As of the end of Decem-
ber, Mr. Trump had spent almost
as much on field staff ($2 million)
as on promotional merchandise
and marketing ($2.5 million).
And at the moment, Mr. Trump
leads by double-digits in national
polls and in New Hampshire,
which holds its primary on Tues-
day.
One way or another, he sug-
gested Wednesday, he will win.
“If I don’t make the White
House on Pennsylvania Avenue,”
Mr. Trump told his supporters,
“I’m going to be living on Penn-
sylvania Avenue anyway.”
Scott Brown in Amherst,
N.H., in 2014. In his unsuc-
cessful 2014 campaign, Mr.
Brown touched on immigra-
tion concerns that may have
hinted at Mr. Trump’s success.
need for compassion when ad-
dressing the immigration crisis
and avoided using caustic immi-
gration rhetoric so that he didn’t
alienate independent voters who
can tip the balance of New Hamp-
shire elections,” said Ryan Wil-
liams, a Republican strategist
who worked on the Brown cam-
paign.
But by the end of the race, Mr.
Brown said he was voicing “ra-
tional fears” of voters, and yoked
immigration concerns to the Ebo-
la outbreak in the fall of 2014.
For voters concerned about il-
legal immigration, the issue cuts
against a rigid view in New
Hampshire that laws are meant
to be enforced.
In interviews, some of Mr.
Trump’s ardent supporters have
frequently mentioned immigra-
tion as a reason for supporting
him, even echoing those ads from
Mr. Brown.
“I’m a Polish immigrant; my
parents came over from Poland
in the 1930s, and my grandpar-
ents,” said Carol Le Lacheur, the
former daughter-in-law of a local
official in Lowell, Mass., just over
the border from New Hampshire,
who attended a rally of 7,500 peo-
ple for Mr. Trump.
“They taught us to work hard,
to be loyal to this country.”
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Her family, she said, came to
the country legally.
Mr. Fehrnstrom, Mr. Brown’s
former consultant, called the Re-
publican Party leaders’ redirec-
tion on immigration after the 2012
election a huge miscalculation.
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
“They told their candidates to
support a pathway to citizenship
for illegal immigrants as a way to
increase outreach to Hispanics,”
said Mr. Fehrnstrom, who also
advised Mitt Romney in the 2012
presidential race.
“And candidates who followed
that advice are struggling. Don-
ald Trump went in the opposite
direction and he has total com-
mand of the 2016 field.”

Once Cautious in Campaign, Rubio Shows More of His Personal Side
By MICHAEL BARBARO
and JEREMY W. PETERS
MANCHESTER, N.H. — To
hear his rivals tell it, Senator
Marco Rubio is a robotic candi-
date, soullessly spitting out
canned lines on the stump —
“constantly scripted and con-
trolled,” in the words of Gov.
Chris Christie of New Jersey, who
has derided him as “the boy in
the bubble.”
But as the presidential cam-
paign enters its most intense
phase yet, Mr. Rubio’s cautious
style has quietly but unmistak-
ably evolved, shedding its imper-
sonal rime and offering intimate
— and increasingly improvised
— glimpses into his childhood,
his family and even his finances.
When a retired voter here de-
spaired over the sinking value of
his home, Mr. Rubio surprised
the audience by recalling, in pain-
ful detail, his own real estate tra-
vails, right down to the cost of
having a next-door neighbor’s
home slip into foreclosure. “They
sold it for $300,000 — half what I
paid for my house,” Mr. Rubio ex-
plained. “So that reset everyone’s
value for years.”
When a mother described the
toll of raising an autistic child,
Mr. Rubio spoke for seven emo-
tional minutes about watching
the 2-year-old daughter of a fam-
ily friend wrestle with the dis-
order. And when a libertarian
asked him about the excesses of
the criminal justice system, Mr.
Rubio told the story of his own
run-in with the police when he
was 18.
As he reconstructed a loud
night of beer drinking in a Miami
park, Mr. Rubio stopped himself
and smiled. “Please don’t tell my
kids,” he asked his audience play-
fully.
From the start, Mr. Rubio, 44,
has operated under the assump-
tion that his relative youth and
lack of executive experience re-
quired him to display the firmest
possible command of facts and
figures, of ideology and geopoli-
tics.
But the newly personal and un-
guarded approach to campaign-
ing is a recognition that the as-
sets he has worked hardest to de-
velop — mastery of foreign pol-
icy, and a bruising critique of the
Obama era — are not enough by
themselves to capture the hearts
of voters. And that the ones he
was born with — a compelling
family history and an innate
charm — will only grow more im-
portant as he appeals to broader
sections of the electorate.
It is also a reminder that Mr.
Rubio, for all his dexterity as a
public speaker, did not start cam-
paigning for president full time
until December. He required
time, advisers said, to become
comfortable with the daily
rhythms of interacting with and
fielding questions from hundreds
Cruz Aides Spread False Report in Iowa That Carson Was Quitting
By TRIP GABRIEL
and ALAN RAPPEPORT
As Iowa Republicans headed to
the caucuses on Monday night,
Senator Ted Cruz’s campaign left
recorded messages for support-
ers with “breaking news” that
Ben Carson would drop out of the
race, and told them to “inform
any Carson caucusgoers of this
news and urge them to caucus for
Ted instead.”
The false report, echoed in an
email and in a text message sent
to campaign volunteers, was
trumpeted by at least some Cruz
precinct captains when they ad-
dressed their caucuses. When
Mr. Carson’s wife, Candy Carson,
arrived at two precincts to speak
on his behalf, she was furious to
learn that speakers for Mr. Cruz
had suggested moments earlier
that her husband was quitting the
race.
The Cruz campaign on Friday
acknowledged it had made a co-
ordinated effort to spread the
story. But it defended its actions
as an honest mistake based on
“reports,” namely Twitter mes-
sages from reporters saying that
Mr. Carson was heading home to
Florida after Iowa, rather than to
New Hampshire or South Caroli-
na, where the next contests were
to be held. However, those mes-
sages were followed almost in-
stantly by another from one of
the reporters stating that Mr.
Carson would remain in the race
“no matter what.” A senior strat-
egist for Mr. Carson, Jason Os-
borne, had reiterated on Twitter:
“Not standing down.”
The Carson campaign, which
has angrily accused Mr. Cruz of
dirty tricks, escalated the feud on
Friday by using the audio record-
ing of the message left by Cruz
supporters in a fund-raising
Matt Flegenheimer contributed
reporting.
Senator Marco Rubio shared a stage with his family on Friday in Derry, N.H. The state’s voters will head to the polls on Tuesday for a presidential primary.
of voters from morning until
night.
As voting neared in the Iowa
caucuses last week, Mr. Rubio’s
speeches about America at the
brink and the perfidy of Presi-
dent Obama suddenly contained
a disarming detail about his fa-
ther: Mario Rubio was a Cuban
native, and his English was so
poor when he arrived in the Unit-
ed States, his son recalled, that
he needed a cousin to write down
a phonetic message for him to re-
cite to potential employers: “I am
looking for work.”
In New Hampshire a few days
ago, Mr. Rubio described his old-
er brother’s agonizing experi-
ence with the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs. “I’ve seen this
firsthand,” he said. To this day, he
said, his brother is battling the
agency to pay for dental prob-
lems that began during his serv-
ice as a Green Beret.
“How do we really know it hap-
pened in the Army?” Mr. Rubio
said, mimicking government bu-
reaucrats quizzing his brother.
“He says, ‘Well, it’s the only time
when I ever jumped out of a
Left, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas at a town hall meeting on Friday in Salem, N.H. Right, Ben Carson at the National Prayer Break-
fast on Thursday in Washington. The Cruz campaign acknowledged spreading the story but said it was a mistake.
email. “Hello,” the call began,
“this is the Cruz campaign with
breaking news: Dr. Ben Carson
will be suspending campaigning
following tonight’s caucuses.”
Mr. Cruz, who won the Repub-
lican caucuses, apologized to Mr.
Carson this week. At a news con-
ference in Washington, Mr. Car-
son said that Mr. Cruz had not
gone far enough in addressing
the situation and called on him to
fire the staff members who
spread the false rumors.
Mr. Carson’s fourth-place
showing in Iowa, where he got 9.3
percent of the vote, was equal to
or slightly better than his support
in polls before the caucuses, rais-
ing doubts about whether the
Cruz disinformation swayed
many voters.
Nonetheless, the issue has be-
come a distraction to Mr. Carson
ahead of the New Hampshire pri-
mary on Tuesday, and it has
raised questions about the tactics
of the Cruz campaign.
“It’s really demoralizing. Peo-
ple are angry,” Mr. Osborne said.
“Every day, as more information
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ELECTION
plane.’”
The crowd erupted into know-
ing laughter.
Mr. Rubio can still slip into
seemingly automated trances on
the campaign trail. During a visit
not long ago to a college campus
in Henniker, N.H., he vowed to
tailor his remarks to the young
people in the audience and began
Offering glimpses of
a childhood, family
and finances.
with a promising snippet of biog-
raphy. “I am an adjunct professor
on leave,” he told the students.
But he then proceeded to deliver
his standard stump speech al-
most word for word, taking the
students on a tour of global dicta-
tors (“There is a lunatic in North
Korea with a hydrogen bomb, po-
tentially”) and cataloging the
misdeeds of the Obama era (“We
betray our allies like Israel”).
CHERYL SENTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
comes out, he’s getting more ani-
mated about it,” he added, re-
ferring to Mr. Carson.
Since Mr. Carson rose to the
top of Iowa polls last year, his
campaign has faced major up-
heavals. This week he shed staff
members to cut costs. He had re-
frained from attacking his rivals
throughout the campaign, but he
has latched on to the Cruz tactics
to garner attention and, now, to
raise money.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Cruz
defended the voice mail mes-
sages, saying they were not de-
ceptive because they had said
Mr. Carson was “suspending
campaigning” by not going di-
rectly to New Hampshire from
Iowa.
“Our campaign shared an ac-
curate report that Carson was
suspending campaigning after
the caucuses — he went home
and he went to D.C. — and these
voicemails do not suggest that he
would completely drop out of the
race,” said the spokeswoman,
Catherine Frazier.
While perhaps narrowly cor-
2016
And even some of the anec-
dotes and one-liners that he
seems to share spontaneously
are not quite so. Some of his ma-
terial — like asking, “When was
the last time that you read about
a boatload of American refugees
arriving some other place?” as a
testament to American excep-
tionalism — dates to 2008 or even
earlier.
But at his rallies and town hall
forums across Iowa and now
New Hampshire, he keeps find-
ing ways to open up, with person-
al vignettes and spontaneous hu-
mor.
Voters have learned that Mr.
Rubio’s parents drove him, as a
child growing up in Las Vegas,
through the city’s upscale neigh-
borhoods to show him the infinite
possibilities of American capital-
ism — and to gawk at the gaudy
home of Liberace. (“He had a
nice house,” Mr. Rubio said.)
They know now that one of Mr.
Rubio’s sons lost a 7-year-old
friend in a senseless shooting (by
a “19-year-old punk thug”).  And
they discovered that Mr. Rubio
loves the new Geico commercial
rect, it is largely understood that
suspending a campaign means a
candidate is quitting. That was
how Representative Steve King,
Republican of Iowa, who en-
dorsed Mr. Cruz, interpreted the
report in a Twitter message he
posted about 20 minutes after the
caucuses began on Monday:
“Skipping NH & SC the equiv-
alent of suspending. Too bad this
information won’t get to all cau-
cus goers.”
A minute later, Mr. King add-
ed: “Carson looks like he is out.”
The Carson campaign pre-
pared a timeline for its internal
use showing that the episode be-
gan at 6:43 p.m. in Iowa when a
CNN reporter, Chris Moody, said
on Twitter, “Carson won’t go to
NH/SC, but instead will head
home to Florida for some R&R.”
Moments later Mr. Moody
tweeted, “Ben Carson’s cam-
paign tells me he plans to stay in
the race beyond Iowa no matter
what the results are tonight.”
Ten minutes later, Mr. Os-
borne, who was traveling with
Mr. Carson, clarified in a Twitter
featuring a spy whose mother
pesters him about squirrels in the
backyard as he fights off violent
gunmen (“I have to get those
people on my campaign,” he
said).
In interviews after events
here, voters described Mr. Ru-
bio’s biography as his chief ap-
peal, drawing them in despite lin-
gering questions about his résu-
mé. Carol-Ann Fitzgerald, 58,
who describes herself as “more
Democratic than Republican,”
said she teared up on Thursday
afternoon when Mr. Rubio re-
called his father’s trouble finding
work when he immigrated from
Cuba. It was, she said, the story
of her own father, a French-
speaking immigrant from Cana-
da.
“That’s what hit home for me,”
Mrs. Fitzgerald said.
So it was, too, for Tom and
Wynne DeMille, who listened to
Mr. Rubio in Manchester. “It’s
who all of us are — children of im-
migrants,” she said. “It’s inspir-
ing,” her husband said.
“He is a good storyteller,” Mr.
DeMille added. “And people love
KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS
message that the candidate “will
be going to Florida to get fresh
clothes b4 heading out on the
campaign trail.”
At 7:07 p.m., as caucuses
across the state were being called
to order, the first of two recorded
calls went out to Cruz volunteers
telling them to spread the word
to Carson supporters that they
should “not waste a vote for Ben
Carson and vote for Ted Cruz.”
Mr. Cruz has largely dismissed
questions about his campaign’s
behavior on Monday night.
Speaking to reporters on Thurs-
day, before Mr. Carson released
the audio, Mr. Cruz said it was
“part of the democratic process
to pass on things that are true
and accurate.”
“I’m not sure y’all would want
that to be considered unethical,
passing on the stories that each
of you write,” he said.
He made no distinction be-
tween a reported article and 140-
character Twitter posts sent on
the fly that provided the Cruz
campaign with an opportunity to
try to undermine Mr. Carson.
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HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
stories.”
In a campaign whose humor
quotient has sometimes rivaled
or exceeded its policy rigor, Mr.
Rubio has even managed to dis-
tinguish himself lately as a nim-
ble comic.
While campaigning in Salem,
N.H., Mr. Rubio admitted that his
four children, who have been
growing up in sunny Florida, des-
perately wanted it to snow on Fri-
day despite the inconvenience it
posed to the state’s full-time resi-
dents. (And snow it did.) He
pinned blame for the precipita-
tion on his Democratic rivals.
“That’s not my fault. That’s
Hillary Clinton,” he cracked to
laughs from the crowd. “Or may-
be it was Bernie. It was one of
them.”
A member of the audience
yelled out an alternative explana-
tion.
“It was Trump!”
Mr. Rubio smiled and gamely
coined a new meteorological slo-
gan for his opponent. “I’ll make
America snow again,” he yelled
back. “Right?”
New Districts
Struck Down
By U.S. Court
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Fed-
eral judges on Friday struck
down two majority black con-
gressional districts, saying that
race was the predominant factor
in drawing those lines and that
state legislators lacked justifica-
tion in doing so.
Two of the three judges on the
redistricting panel hearing the
2013 lawsuit agreed that the size
and composition of the First and
12th Districts violated the Consti-
tution’s equal protection provi-
sion. The judges ordered the
General Assembly to devise new
boundaries by Feb. 19, although
Republican lawmakers who
helped shepherd the changes
through the legislature in 2011
said a swift appeal was coming.
The state could seek a delay from
the United States Court of Ap-
peals for the Fourth Circuit.
North Carolina congressional
primaries are scheduled March
15, with mail-in absentee ballots
already being turned in. The 2011
lines, which were initially signed
off on after review by the federal
Justice Department, have helped
Republicans expanded their ma-
jorities in the General Assembly
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and within the state’s congres-
sional delegation.
The ruling “is a huge victory in
our fight against 21st-century
racism and discrimination,” said
the Rev. William Barber of the
state N.A.A.C.P., which has sued
in state court over the maps.
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
Plaintiffs said it made no sense
for Republican lawmakers to in-
crease the majority black voting
age populations when the dis-
tricts had elected black lawmak-
ers for more than 20 years. State
lawyers argued that the predomi-
nant motives were political ad-
vantage in the 12th District and
avoiding legal challenges under
the Voting Rights Act in the First.
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6 Keys on Clinton’s New Hampshire To-Do List
By PATRICK HEALY
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hilla-
ry Clinton knows exactly what
she needs to do to pull off a sur-
prise victory in the New Hamp-
shire primary on Tuesday, her
advisers say. But it is not clear
she has enough time — or enough
voters open to hearing her mes-
sage — to make it happen.
With four days to go until the
primary, Clinton advisers, guided
by a mix of public and private
polling in New Hampshire, think
that she is running roughly 15
percentage points behind Sena-
tor Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Many of these advisers think that
the best outcome, realistically,
would be holding Mr. Sanders to
a single-digit win, which they
could then try to attribute to his
being from a neighboring state.
Of course, that advantage has
historically benefited Massachu-
setts candidates, not Vermonters.
But a neighbor is a neighbor, her
advisers plan to argue.
Still, Mrs. Clinton and former
President Bill Clinton, having
pulled off her upset win in New
Hampshire in 2008 and his come-
back for a second-place finish in
1992, feel in their bones that any-
thing is possible for the Clintons
in this state so long as they work
hard enough. Here are the six
key factors that, in the Clintons’
view, will determine whether she
will win here.
WOMEN Democratic women pro-
vided the margin of victory for
Mrs. Clinton in the 2008 primary
here, and many of those voters
made up their minds in the final
week of campaigning. Some
women said they were influenced
by widely broadcast video of Mrs.
Clinton choking up on the eve of
the primary; others said they
were put off by what they saw as
Barack Obama’s churlishness in
describing Mrs. Clinton as “lik-
able enough” during their New
Hampshire debate.
Leah Mutz, left, and her children, Isaiah, 3, and Anjah, 5, with David Allen, her partner’s father, at his home in Lyme, N.H.
In New Hampshire, Knowledge of Sanders Is Organic
By JASON HOROWITZ
HAVERHILL, N.H. — In a
kitchen where tin pails and rustic
kitchen tools hung from the ceil-
ing beams, Glen Putnam pointed
to the old box television atop a re-
frigerator that throughout his life
has brought him the latest about
Bernie Sanders.
“I knew about him before from
news and stuff like that, the 6
o’clock and the 11 o’clock news,”
said Mr. Putnam, 31, the owner of
Winsome Farm Organics, a dairy
and meat farm that looks out onto
the icy Connecticut River and
neighboring Vermont. “He was
the mayor when I was a kid.”
Mr. Sanders was mayor of Bur-
lington, 75 miles away in another
state. But when he began his
presidential campaign, he needed
no introduction in the idyllic
towns just across the New Hamp-
shire border. For decades, a
shared media market has
brought Mr. Sanders’s Democrat-
ic socialism, semi-combed hair
and Brooklyn accent into towns
like Haverhill, Orford and Pier-
mont, where people have had
opinions about him for years.
“I like Bernie’s character,” said
Mr. Putnam, who, despite leaning
Republican in most things, said
his family would probably vote
for Mr. Sanders. “This is where
he’s from.”
Mr. Sanders is leading Hillary
Clinton in New Hampshire polls,
often by a large margin. The Clin-
ton campaign has tried to use his
neighbor status to diminish the
impact of his potential victory
here, pointing out that New
But recent surveys show Mrs.
Clinton and Mr. Sanders splitting
the female vote — a worrisome
sign for her if she hopes to coun-
ter Mr. Sanders’s strong support
among young people and inde-
pendent voters. On Friday, Mrs.
Clinton made an unabashed ap-
peal to women at a rally here
with four female United States
senators, Gov. Maggie Hassan,
and Lilly Ledbetter, a leading ad-
vocate for equal pay. Senator
Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
drew huge applause when she
applied a slogan of Mr. Sanders’s
to Mrs. Clinton. “When folks talk
about a revolution, the revolution
is electing the first woman presi-
dent of the United States,” she
said. “That’s the revolution.”
REGISTERED DEMOCRATS If Mrs.
Clinton can win a majority of
New Hampshire Democratic vot-
ers, history indicates she will win
no matter how popular Mr. Sand-
ers is with independents. No
presidential candidate has ever
won the primary without a plu-
rality of his or her own party’s
voters.
With that goal in mind, Mrs.
Clinton used the word “Demo-
crat” seven times during Thurs-
day’s debate and repeatedly
aligned herself with President
Obama and his policies. “She was
trying to put Bernie on an is-
land,” said Dante J. Scala, a politi-
cal scientist at the University of
New Hampshire, of Mrs. Clin-
ton’s attempts to portray him as
“a holier-than-thou progressive
who would be unable to work
with members of the Democratic
Party.”
But polls this week were mixed
about which candidate led with
Democrats: They were tied in a
Boston Globe/Suffolk University
poll, while Mr. Sanders had an
edge in a WBUR/MassINC poll.
SUBURBAN PARENTS To attract
more of these voters, Mrs. Clin-
ton has been championing pol-
Hampshire often rewards New
Englanders, including when Paul
Tsongas, a former Massachusetts
senator, beat Bill Clinton here in
1992. Mr. Sanders has tried to ar-
gue the opposite, that New
Hampshire will be a tough fight,
but at times seems to be of two
states of mind on the issue.
“Vermont is a sister state to
New Hampshire, and many peo-
ple here in New Hampshire, at
least along the border, know my
record and I believe they are sup-
porting me because they know
me,” Mr. Sanders said on
Wednesday in Concord, N.H., af-
ter driving across the border
from his home in Burlington.
Perhaps understanding that
answer played directly into the
Clinton critique, he immediately
added that New Hampshire vot-
ers still knew Mrs. Clinton better
than him.
“Bottom line is her husband
ran for president here twice, she
ran and won here in 2008,” he
said. “So you know I think that
argument, that the only reason
we are doing hopefully well here
in New Hampshire is because we
are from a neighboring state, is
not totally true.”
A drive along the border does
suggest that it is at least a little
bit true. Along the mostly frozen
Oliverian Brook, “Bernie” signs
hang by bridges and boarding
schools and piles of logs. Down
Route 10, a gently winding coun-
try road that flooded quickly on
Wednesday in a hard driving
rain, there also were deep pock-
ets of support for Mr. Sanders.
At the Corner Scoop, a clap-
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
ELECTION
icies like employee profit-sharing
and a college aid plan that would
allow students to avoid debt. At a
campaign rally here on Friday,
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of
New York asserted that Mrs.
Clinton “empathizes with the real
struggles of every family in this
community,” and Governor Has-
san repeatedly invoked Mrs.
Clinton’s support for “working
families.”
The polls suggest that Mr.
Sanders has the edge with likely
Democratic primary voters who
graduated from college or earn
higher incomes. But Clinton ad-
visers believe that her policies —
especially on paid family leave,
equal pay, and student debt —
will appeal to more voters than
Mr. Sanders’s plans, as long as
her campaign has time to present
them. “We’ve got to focus on mid-
dle-income, middle-aged, work-
ing parents, from about 35 and
up,” said Joel Benenson, Mrs.
Clinton’s chief strategist, at a
breakfast here on Friday.
TWO KEY COUNTIES Mrs. Clinton
won Hillsborough and Rocking-
ham counties in 2008 with about
42 percent of the vote. The coun-
ties are on the border with Mas-
sachusetts and tend to favor can-
didates from that state; some po-
litical experts think that any
hometown advantage for Mr.
Sanders is likely to surface in the
western and northern counties
that share newspaper and televi-
sion markets with Vermont. Ac-
cording to one recent poll, Mrs.
Clinton is running roughly even
with Mr. Sanders in Rockingham
County, which includes Ports-
mouth and Exeter, but trailing
him in Hillsborough County,
which encompasses the vote-rich
cities of Nashua and Manchester.
MESSAGE DISCIPLINE Clinton ad-
visers think that Mrs. Clinton has
found her political groove by de-
nouncing injustices like shooting
massacres across the nation and
the drinking water crisis in Flint,
board grocery store in Piermont,
Ginger Rayner, 47, paused from
making “bulkie” sandwiches (a
New Hampshire colloquialism for
roll) and said she admired Mr.
Sanders’s “genuine sense of con-
nection” to people here. “He un-
derstands people up here,” she
said.
Farther down Route 10, Bernie
lawn signs stuck in the snow be-
came dense, especially as the
barns gave way to houses in
more liberal and wealthy Lyme.
David Allen, who lives in
Lyme, was proud of the Bernie
sign outside his house. He said
that Mr. Sanders was a known
quantity even to those who dis-
agreed with him. When he was
younger and more conservative,
he said, the local New Hampshire
publications he read would dis-
cuss Mr. Sanders and his ideas as
“more of a scary thing.”
That sentiment still lingers
along the border, and signs for
Donald J. Trump are not unusual
to see outside red barns. In
Orford, Jeff Rose, 53, a Repub-
lican and the owner of the Me-
andering Moose, a graphics busi-
ness, said, “We really are ‘don’t
tread on me’ and ‘live free or die’
up here.”
Leah Mutz, who lives in Ver-
mont and is the partner of Mr. Al-
len’s son, said that a man pulled
her aside when he saw her Ver-
mont plates at an Orford gas sta-
tion to tell her Mr. Sanders’s so-
cialism was not welcomed on this
side of the border.
But in and around Hanover,
where Dartmouth College stu-
dents jogged along the river, Ber-
2016
Mich. She is visiting Flint on Sun-
day in a campaign trip that is
likely to receive heavy media
coverage back in New Hamp-
shire. Her passion for the less for-
tunate is appealing to some in her
New Hampshire target audi-
ences, particularly women and
parents, according to interviews.
And her advisers say she will not
be thrown off message by issues
that are not her main concern,
such as whether she will release
the transcripts of her paid
speeches to Wall Street banks,
corporations and nonprofit
groups. “I don’t think voters are
interested in the transcripts of
her speeches — they’re interest-
ed in, will she take on the power-
ful forces of Wall Street?” Mr.
Benenson said.
TIME In the final days before the
1992 New Hampshire primary,
Mr. Clinton made a strong come-
back in the polls after weeks of
reports about his extramarital
behavior and his Vietnam War
draft record. Some advisers be-
lieve that if Mr. Clinton had had a
few more days, he might have
won the primary, instead of fin-
ishing eight points behind former
Senator Paul Tsongas of Mas-
sachusetts. In 2008, Mr. Obama
had a double-digit lead in New
Hampshire after his win in the
Iowa caucuses; five days later,
Mrs. Clinton came back and beat
Mr. Obama here by almost three
points. Like her husband’s for-
mer aides, some advisers to Mrs.
Clinton believe that if she had
more time to make her case in
New Hampshire, the better her
odds of closing strong and per-
haps winning would be.
William Shaheen, a longtime
New Hampshire friend and sup-
porter of the Clintons, said no one
on the Clinton team was “leaving
or giving up” the state to Mr.
Sanders. But is it winnable for
her? “It could be,” he said, “but
it’s a long, long shot. We know
what we need to do, though.”
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
nie signs frequently adorned
mailboxes.
Though Mr. Sanders is the fa-
vorite to win the state’s primary,
past results suggest he could do
especially well in the counties
closest to Burlington, which in
2012 went for President Obama
by a larger margin than did the
rest of the state.
Sharon Nordgren, a state rep-
resentative from Hanover sup-
porting Mrs. Clinton, said the
candidate had the support of the
political establishment in New
Hampshire, where she had been
campaigning since last spring.
That said, she allowed that there
would probably be some extra
enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders “be-
cause he is a neighbor.”
The enthusiasm at Dartmouth
during a recent speech by Mr.
Sanders was palpable. Young stu-
dents cheered every promise the
senator made and snapped in ap-
proval when he concluded the
rally.
Afterward, Randy Leavitt, 59,
of South Royalton, Vt., who at-
tended the rally in a padded Su-
perman suit holding a sign that
said “Bernie Is My Superhero,”
explained that, despite his mis-
sion to spread the word about Mr.
Sanders, his work in New Hamp-
shire had already been done.
“The Valley News is the local
paper on both sides of the river,”
he said. As a result, people in this
part of New Hampshire were fa-
miliar with not only Mr. Sand-
ers’s name, but also the policies
and politics for which he stood.
“It’s not like, ‘Oh, he’s that old
guy we all know from Vermont.’”
ON THE TRAIL
MYSTERY SOLVED
Sanders’s 1960s Kibbutz Is Identified,
But Members Don’t Really Recall Him
JERUSALEM — Senator
Bernie Sanders volunteered on
an Israeli kibbutz in the 1960s,
but he has always been vague
about the specific location.
Now, the mystery about the
senator’s past appears to have
been solved, in the archives of
the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Yossi Melman, a longtime
Haaretz writer, remembers an
interview he did with Mr. Sand-
ers in 1990, the year he was
elected to represent Vermont in
the House. Haaretz dug up that
clip, in which Mr. Sanders said
he had spent several months in
1963 working on Kibbutz Sha’ar
Ha’amakim, near Haifa in
northern Israel, as a guest of
the Hashomer Hatzair youth
movement.
The movement, whose He-
brew name translates to “The
Young Guard,” was a socialist,
Zionist secular Jewish youth
group that shared the name of a
workers’ party in pre-1948 Pal-
estine.
The original 1990 article,
headlined “The First Socialist,”
said that after spending time on
the kibbutz with his wife at that
ENDORSEMENTS
Adelson-Owned Newspaper in Nevada
Backs Rubio as ‘Best-Positioned’ to Win
Senator Marco Rubio of Flor-
ida won the endorsement on
Friday of The Las Vegas-Re-
view, Nevada’s largest newspa-
per, an important boost in a
state that could play a key role
in his efforts to win the Republi-
can presidential nomination.
But the endorsement is sig-
nificant not just in what it said
about Mr. Rubio — it called him
the “best-positioned to advance
from the primary season and
allow the G.O.P. to win the
White House” — but for what
people will read into it as a po-
tential harbinger of the prefer-
ences of the paper’s new owner,
Sheldon Adelson.
Mr. Adelson is one of the
most generous contributors to
Republican candidates. He has
yet to publicly pick a favorite in
the Republican presidential
contest, making his choice a
matter of great intrigue. People
close to Mr. Adelson, who owns
several Las Vegas properties
NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Trump’s Snow Day Has Opponents
Questioning His ‘Commitment’
Donald J. Trump is taking
some heat for taking a snow
day four days before the New
Hampshire primary.
The Republican presidential
candidate canceled a town-hall-
style event at the Londonderry
Lions Club on Friday, citing
“weather and airports being
closed.” The region got five to
eight inches of snow, but the
airports in nearby Manchester,
N.H., and at Logan Airport in
Boston were open on Friday.
Other candidates carried out
their campaign events as
planned on Friday, and some
suggested that Mr. Trump’s
cancellation showed his lack of
dedication to the state. Mr.
Trump, who usually travels on
Larry David played Bernie Sanders and Kate McKinnon was
Hillary Clinton on the Oct. 17 episode of “S.N.L.”
‘LIVE, FROM NEW YORK ... ’
Sanders to Meet His Comedic Match
In ‘Saturday Night Live’ Appearance
Senator Bernie Sanders of
Vermont plans to travel to New
York this weekend to appear on
“Saturday Night Live,” inter-
rupting his campaign in New
Hampshire for some national
television exposure, according
to a senior campaign official.
Larry David, who has played
the senator several times on the
show to wide acclaim, will host
the episode. The visit comes as
Mr. Sanders is seeking to notch
his first victory of the nominat-
ing contest in New Hampshire,
where he holds a comfortable
lead in polls over Hillary Clin-
ton.
Mrs. Clinton and Donald J.
time, Mr. Sanders seemed to
have lost his connection “to Is-
rael, Zionism and Judaism,” Ha-
aretz reported this week. Mr.
Sanders has long described
himself as a democratic social-
ist.
Kibbutz members inter-
viewed this week by Israeli and
American Jewish news organi-
zations said they did not re-
member Mr. Sanders specifical-
ly.
“The only thing I remember
is that we had around 100 volun-
teers here, and some of them
were French and some were
American,” Albert Ely, 79, who
once managed the orchard, told
The Forward, a New York-
based Jewish newspaper. “And
someone named Bernard was
an American. Usually Bernard
is a French name.”
Mr. Ely said that on Sha’ar
Ha’amakim, “you care about
your brother or your neighbor
or whoever it is.” The kibbutz
was founded in Romania in 1929
and established in pre-state Is-
rael in 1935. It saw the Soviet
Union as a model, and often
flew the red flag.
STEVEN ERLANGER
like the Venetian, say he is fond
of Mr. Rubio. The two met in
Las Vegas in December.
The Review-Journal’s edito-
rial said the Adelson family had
no input into
the endorse-
ment: “The
Adelsons
have de-
tached them-
selves from
our endorse-
ment process,
and our en-
dorsement of
Sheldon Sen. Rubio
Adelson does not rep-
resent the
support of the family.”
The Republican caucuses in
Nevada are on Feb. 23, three
days after the South Carolina
primary. Mr. Rubio, who spent
part of his childhood in Las
Vegas, has a considerable cam-
paign operation in the state.
JEREMY W. PETERS
his private jet, tends to fly home
to his Manhattan penthouse af-
ter each day on the campaign
trail. He has said he often needs
to attend to company business
in the mornings.
But Rick Tyler, a spokesman
for Senator Ted Cruz of Texas,
suggested that Mr. Trump was
not taking New Hampshire se-
riously. “Everyone likes to go
home at night, but those who
don’t show a commitment to
winning will lose,” he said.
Mr. Trump has mocked for-
mer Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida as
being “low energy,” but a
spokesman for the Bush cam-
paign said Friday that Mr.
Trump might be too much of a
homebody to fight for the nomi-
nation. ALAN RAPPEPORT
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Trump have already been on
“S.N.L.” this campaign. Mrs.
Clinton appeared in October
alongside Kate McKinnon, who
played Mrs. Clinton nursing a
“scalding hot vodka” at a dive
bar as she overheard people
talking about voting for Mr.
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
Trump; the actual Mrs. Clinton
was behind the bar, pretending
to be a regal bartender and neu-
tral observer in a pressed white
dress shirt, with the name
“Val.”
In November, Mr. Trump
played a presidential candidate
with two well-coiffed doppel-
gängers who tried to outboast
him. YAMICHE ALCINDOR
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U.S. Limits Release of Detainee Abuse Case Photos New Stanford President
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — The Penta-
gon on Friday released 198 pho-
tographs from detainee abuse in-
vestigations in the Afghanistan
and Iraq wars. The pictures, tak-
en more than a decade ago dur-
ing the Bush administration, con-
sist largely of close-up views of
scrapes and bruises on detain-
ees’ bodies.
However, the military is con-
tinuing to block the disclosure of
about 1,800 other photos from the
same criminal investigations,
saying that their release would
endanger American service
members serving abroad.
The photographs are a focus of
a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit filed in 2004 by the Amer-
ican Civil Liberties Union in the
wake of the Abu Ghraib prison
torture scandal. That case has re-
sulted in the release of many doc-
uments and memos about abu-
sive interrogation practices, but
it ran into turbulence in 2009 over
the photos.
After making public Bush-era
memos about torture in response
to the same lawsuit, the Obama
administration was initially going
to comply with an order to re-
lease the first group of pictures
from the detainee abuse investi-
gations as well.
Paintings of two other former members, both from California: George Miller, left, a Democrat, and Buck McKeon, a Republican.
A Perk of Capitol Power, Now a Symbol of Its Excess
Has Biotech Connection
Two of the 198 photographs from detainee abuse cases released
by the Pentagon, which blocked the disclosure of 1,800 more.
But a political backlash over
the wave of disclosures was
growing, with some former Bush
administration officials, including
former Vice President Dick Che-
ney, denouncing the release of
the memos as endangering the
country.
Against that backdrop, Robert
M. Gates, then the defense secre-
tary, appealed to President Oba-
ma to reconsider the release of
the photographs, warning that it
could provoke attacks against
American troops.
Mr. Obama changed his mind
and obtained legislation from
Congress permitting the defense
secretary to exempt the photos
from disclosure under the infor-
mation act. The reversal was an
early milestone on secrecy policy
for an administration that had
promised to be the most trans-
parent in history.
Under the statute, the exemp-
tion expires after three years.
Leon E. Panetta, Mr. Gates’s suc-
cessor as defense secretary, ex-
tended it in 2012, and the current
Pentagon chief, Ashton B. Carter,
extended it again in November,
but decided that the 198 photos
could be made public.
Jameel Jaffer, an A.C.L.U. law-
yer, said the “selective disclo-
sure” of the presumably more in-
nocuous photographs should not
be a distraction from what was
still being concealed.
“It forces you to ask what
might be in the other photos that
are still being withheld,” he said.
“These ones show individuals
with injuries of various severity.
What’s in the 1,800 photographs
the government still hasn’t re-
leased?”
Cmdr. Gary Ross, a Pentagon
spokesman, said in a statement
that the criminal investigations
into allegations of detainee abuse
by American military personnel
had substantiated about 14 cases
and cleared 42 others. Of the sub-
stantiated cases, 65 service mem-
bers received disciplinary action
ranging from letters of repri-
mand to life imprisonment — in-
cluding 26 who were convicted at
courts-martial, he said.
“The president has made very
clear,” he said, “that the United
States will ensure the safe, lawful
and humane treatment of individ-
uals in U.S. custody in the context
of armed conflicts, consistent
with the treaty obligations of the
United States, including the Ge-
neva Conventions.”
ZACH GIBSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
By STEPHANIE SAUL
Over the years, Stanford Uni-
versity’s incoming president,
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has devel-
oped a career that successfully
melds science, business and aca-
demia.
At Rockefeller University in
New York, where he is currently
president, he is known not only
for his fund-raising prowess, but
also for directing a laboratory
that specializes in studying brain
development and what goes
wrong in neurodegenerative
brain disease.
He may be best known, though,
for his work at Genentech. As the
No. 2 executive in research, he
oversaw 1,400 scientists in one of
the most innovative and success-
ful companies in the biotech in-
dustry, known for the ground-
breaking cancer drugs Avastin,
Rituxan and Herceptin.
His appointment at Stanford,
announced on Thursday, follows
what the university described as
“an extensive, global search” to
find a replacement for John L.
Hennessy, who announced last
year that he would be stepping
down this year after 16 years as
president.
In a telephone interview Fri-
day, Dr. Tessier-Lavigne, 56, de-
clined to identify his immediate
priorities at Stanford, where he
previously served on the faculty,
but added, “We do have to ensure
access, broadly, both in terms of
access for people who are disad-
vantaged socioeconomically and,
of course, diversity.” He said cur-
rent financial aid programs at
Stanford were already a huge
step in ensuring access.
Stanford benefits greatly from
its relationships in Silicon Valley
and also in the biotech industry, a
field in which, in addition to his
executive role at Genentech, Dr.
Tessier-Lavigne has been in-
volved, at several startups.
One such startup, Denali Ther-
apeutics, which he helped found,
focuses on Alzheimer’s and other
neurodegenerative diseases. The
company raised more than $200
million in its initial round of fund-
ing, considered a huge amount
for a company starting out in
drug discovery. The company is
based in South San Francisco,
Calif.
Dr. Tessier-Lavigne also
serves on the board of Juno Ther-
apeutics, a Seattle-based compa-
ny that focuses on treatments
that harvest cells from cancer pa-
tients, then reprograms them to
fight the cancer. Juno’s chief ex-
ecutive officer, Hans Bishop, said
Friday that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne
is “really demanding about per-
formance, but on the other hand
equally focused on people devel-
opment.”
Andrew Pollack contributed re-
porting.
In the interview, Dr. Tessier-
Lavigne said that before taking
the reins at Stanford in Septem-
ber, he will review all his corpo-
rate relationships with the board
to determine whether any con-
flicts of interest exist.
At Rockefeller University, Dr.
Tessier-Lavigne was the ninth-
highest compensated university
president, according to The
Chronicle of Higher Education’s
most recent survey of private col-
leges, earning $1.38 million a year
in salary and benefits. Dr. Tes-
sier-Lavigne’s salary at Stanford
has not been set, said Lisa Lapin,
a Stanford spokeswoman. “Marc
has told the board of trustees that
he will accept whatever compen-
sation they deem appropriate,”
she said.
Dr. Tessier-Lavigne said he
was the first person in his imme-
diate family to have obtained a
college degree. He was born in
Ontario, Canada, to a French-Ca-
nadian father and an English-
Canadian mother, and raised in
England and Belgium, where his
father served in the Canadian
military.
He is an American citizen, but
describes his personality as more
formal than that of most Ameri-
cans, a trait he hopes will not be
off-putting to Stanford students.
He received a degree in phys-
ics at McGill University in Mont-
real, then was selected as a
Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Later,
while studying for his doctorate
in physiology at University Col-
lege London, he first became in-
volved in researching human
brain development.
According to Susan K. McCon-
nell, a professor of biology at
Stanford, Dr. Tessier-Lavigne
was responsible for a “long list of
amazing discoveries” involving
identifying molecules that guide
the growth of nerve connections
in the developing brain.
In addition to Stanford, he has
served on the faculty at the Uni-
versity of California, San Francis-
co, and did postdoctoral work at
Columbia.
While at Rockefeller, a bio-
medical research university, Dr.
Tessier-Lavigne has been in-
volved in the development of the
New York Genome Center, a con-
sortium of medical and research
centers based in Manhattan that
is funded by government, private
donations, and the pharmaceu-
tical and biotech industry.
Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s wife,
Mary Hynes, is also a neurosci-
entist whose career path is some-
what similar to her husband’s. In
addition to having run a research
laboratory for Genentech, she
was a senior research scientist in
the Stanford Department of Biol-
ogy from 2003 to 2011 before con-
tinuing her research at Rockefel-
ler, focusing on developing treat-
ments for Parkinson’s disease.
The couple has three children.

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reaucracy, never to be seen by
the public.”
Mr. Cassidy tucked the ban
into a 2014 spending bill, and it
was recently renewed in the
budget for another two years. He
tried to make the ban — the Elim-
inating Government-funded Oil-
painting Act, or “Ego” Act — per-
manent, but Senator Harry Reid
of Nevada, the minority leader,
personally objected to the meas-
ure on the Senate floor, leaving
some Republicans to snicker that
he just wanted his painting paid
for when he retires next year.
Portraits of former House
speakers and Senate leaders are
among those historically paid for
by taxpayers. (Mr. Reid’s office
would not comment.)
Mr. Cassidy and other spon-
sors of the measure, like Senator
Deb Fischer, Republican of Ne-
braska, were particularly irked
by a $22,500 portrait of John Bry-
son, who served as secretary of
the Department of Commerce for
a mere eight months, and the
$38,350 spent by the Environ-
mental Protection Agency for a
portrait of the onetime adminis-
trator Lisa Jackson.
They and others believe that
officials should either pay for
their portraits themselves — as
many already do — or better yet,
take a selfie.
“The expensive antiquated no-
tion that all of these officials
should get portraits is nonsense,”
said Steve Ellis, a spokesman for
Taxpayers for Common Sense. “A
simple photograph would do.
This is more about stroking egos
than preserving history.”
Oil portraiture has served a
role in documenting American
history from the time of the colo-
nies. Art in Congress was ac-
quired over time as the Capitol
was constructed. Patriotic and
commemorative art was sought,
with the intent of committing the
people and events of a new na-
tion to posterity. “The collection
represents American history in
many ways,” said Melinda K.
Smith, the Senate curator. “They
are not just portraits. There is a
story behind each one of them.”
For instance, another painting
of Mr. Clay — he served as a sen-
ator, secretary of state and House
speaker, in addition to running
for president several times — de-
picts him in the Old Senate
Chamber, of which there are no
known photographs, memorializ-
ing the final months of his life and
the first session of the 32nd Con-
gress. Consider, too, the portrait
of Mike Mansfield, the Senate
majority leader, in an unusually
casual full-length pose. He was
essentially tricked into standing
for it, as he often claimed that he
would rather not be remembered.
The Senate collection largely
comprises 19th-century art and
classic formal portraiture, while
the House has traditional and
more contemporary portraits.
In one House hallway hangs a
striking portrait of the first black
female elected to Congress, Shir-
ley Chisholm of New York, seem-
ingly towering over the Capitol, a
finger upheld in defiance. One
can also view the likeness of Tom
Lantos of California, onetime
chairman of the House Commit-
tee on Foreign Affairs, depicted
with his poodle, and Les Aspin of
Wisconsin, the former head of the
Armed Services Committee, rum-
pled, a tad frenzied and hanging
out with his dog, Junket.
Many portraits hang in the
public and restricted areas of the
Capitol, in committee hearing
rooms and out of visitors’ sight,
such as the leadership offices,
where heads of state are greeted.
Art in the Capitol follows
American portraiture history. Oil
portraits were an important
method of chronicling the 18th-
and 19th-century lives of the pow-
erful and well-to-do, said Bran-
don Brame Fortune, the chief cu-
rator at the National Portrait Gal-
lery in Washington. (Martha
Washington commissioned por-
traits of herself and George.)
Later in the 19th century, some
of the government offices began
National Briefing
to pay for portraits, she said,
through both public and private
funds. “Portraits today use the
same techniques, the same ma-
terials. They really haven’t MID-ATLANTIC
changed,” she said. “Oil painting
is very much alive and well.”
Portraits have come under at- Pennsylvania: Attorney General Loses Bid for License
tack as frivolous before. In 1977, Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s law license will remain suspended
President Jimmy Carter derided after the State Supreme Court on Friday denied her request to have it
them as a luxury, yet the practice reinstated while she fights criminal charges of leaking grand jury ma-
continued. Taxpayer, private and terial and lying about it. The court said she did not seek the recusal of
other fund-raising has been em- Justice Michael Eakin early enough and therefore waived her ability to
ployed, and some portraits are
object on that basis to the court’s unanimous decision to suspend her li-
gifts.
cense in September. The court’s action could pave the way to an un-
A portrait of former Represent-
precedented vote in the Senate on whether to remove her from office. A
ative Edith Nourse Rogers, Re-
spokesman said that Ms. Kane, a first-term Democrat, was disap-
publican of Massachusetts, the
pointed but not surprised. A Senate committee voted along party lines
longest-serving female member
last month to hold a floor vote on removing her if the court denied her
of the House and a staunch advo-
request. All four Republicans were in favor and all three Democrats vot-
cate of veterans, was paid for by
funds collected by veterans who ed no. Ms. Kane had argued that Justice Eakin should not have partici-
donated the works to the House. pated in the vote because of his involvement in a salacious email scan-
There was talk last summer of dal. She has released hundreds of emails, including some that Justice
removing statues and portraits of
Eakin, a Republican, sent and received through a private email account.
Confederate leaders from the
He has been suspended awaiting trial before an ethics court. (AP)
Capitol after the Confederate flag
was removed from the South Car-
olina State House. SOUTHWEST
But many objected, including
Mr. McConnell, who noted that
the portraits of Mr. Webster of
Texas: Officer Kills Unarmed Man
Massachusetts, Mr. Clay of Ken- Chief William McManus of the San Antonio police on Friday pledged a
tucky and Mr. Calhoun of South thorough investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by an
Carolina were chosen by a five- officer. The man, Antronie Scott, 36, was wanted on warrants for being a
member panel headed by a cer- felon in possession in a firearm. He was spotted Thursday night by un-
tain senator of the day: John F. dercover detectives and pulled over by a uniformed officer. Chief Mc-
Kennedy. “The Capitol is a work- Manus said that as the officer, John Lee, approached, Mr. Scott got out
ing history museum,” he said. of the car quickly and spun toward him. “The officer shouted to ‘show
me your hands,’ and as soon as that statement was made, you heard a
gunshot and it hit the individual in the upper torso,” he said. He said the

Funeral for Oregon Protester Draws Vows of Defiance officer said he feared for his life. The chief said a dashboard camera did
not record the shooting because of the way the officer’s car was parked,
and the officer’s precinct has not distributed body cameras. There is au-
Paiute Indian artifacts that were barrier. He got out of the car, and In recent days, antigovern- dio of the encounter. (REUTERS)
From Page A10 stored at the facility, angering the after it looked to the officers like ment groups around the country
armed activists to take over the tribe. he was reaching in his jacket for have called his death unjustified, Texas: ‘Affluenza’ Teenager Is Sent to Adult Jail
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Malheur refuge, 30 miles south of
Burns, Ore., on Jan. 2 to protest
federal ownership of Western
lands and demand that the lands
be turned over to local owner-
ship. What followed was a stand-
off against law enforcement, led
After weeks in which the au-
thorities did not confront the pro-
testers — though the townspeo-
ple and even the governor of Ore-
gon demanded that they leave —
a convoy of the protest leaders
left the Malheur compound on
Jan. 26 for the town of John Day,
a gun, he was shot, the authori-
ties have said.
Disputes continue over the cir-
cumstances of Mr. Finicum’s
death and over how he should be
remembered. He himself had
said that he considered death
preferable to prison.
holding demonstrations and
sometimes invoking the lan-
guage of the Black Lives Matter
movement. “Hands up, don’t
shoot,” protesters yelled at one
event in Oregon.
Others called Mr. Finicum’s
death tragic but warned that
The teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-
driving crash was transferred to an adult jail on Friday, a week after a
judge initially refused to do so. Ethan Couch, 18, was moved to the Tar-
rant County jail from a juvenile detention center in Fort Worth, where
he has been since being deported last month from Mexico. He and his
mother fled to Mexico while prosecutors investigated whether he had
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by Ammon and Ryan Bundy and
comprising primarily people
from outside Oregon. The pro-
testers set up camp in the federal
property, ripped down a fence
and commandeered vehicles be-
longing to the federal Fish and
Wildlife Service. Mr. Finicum led
a videotaped tour of the Burns
Books of The Times. Weekdays.
north of Burns, where they
planned to hold a community
meeting to muster support.
Instead, the two cars of pro-
testers were apprehended by the
police. While some were taken
into custody, Mr. Finicum was fa-
tally shot after he sped away
from law enforcement officers
and drove his pickup into a snow-
drift as he tried to breach a police
In a video released by the au-
thorities, Mr. Finicum can be
seen climbing from the vehicle
and flailing his arms after it end-
ed up in a ditch near the road-
block. He appears to reach for
something as he is shot by the po-
lice. The Deschutes County Sher-
iff’s Office is leading an investi-
gation into his death, which will
take at least a month.
making him a martyr could in-
spire future antigovernment ac-
tion. “He’s no folk hero,” said
Mark Pitcavage, who studies ex-
tremism for the Anti-Defamation
League and recently wrote about
Mr. Finicum’s death. “He’s no
hero at all. He’s just a guy who
got caught up in an extreme
cause. And ended up dying be-
cause of that.”
violated his probation in the 2013 drunken-driving case. Sheriff Dee An-
derson of Tarrant County and prosecutors had pressed Judge Timothy
Menikos last week to allow the transfer to an adult jail, but the judge did
not do so. It was unclear why the judge changed his mind. A hearing is
scheduled for Feb. 19 to determine whether Mr. Couch’s case will be
moved from juvenile court to the adult system. He was 16 — and had a
blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit for adult drivers — when
he swerved off a road near Fort Worth and hit a disabled car, killing its
driver and three people helping her. Mr. Couch was sentenced to proba-
tion, which included terms that barred him from drinking or leaving
Tarrant County. (AP)
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STEPHANIE KEITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Crane Collapse Kills Man

On Busy Manhattan Block
Amid High Winds, Workers Tried to Secure
Equipment Before It Came Crashing Down
By RICK ROJAS
and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
The crew operating a crane in Lower
Manhattan on Friday morning took note
of the wind gusts accompanying the fall-
ing snow.
The workers, officials said, decided
they needed to lower the crane to a secure
level, and so around 8 a.m., they began to
bring down its boom, which stretched 565
feet toward the sky.
But instead of a steady, controlled de-
scent, the crane began to topple over sud-
denly before plunging into a free fall and
crashing onto Worth Street in TriBeCa.
A man walking on the street was killed
by the falling crane, and the surrounding
blocks were littered with debris and
stricken by panic as people who had been
headed to work fled from what some
thought was a bomb exploding.
“It shook the building,” said Robert
Harold, a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society,
who heard an enormous crash from his of-
fice on Worth Street and then saw the
crane on the street. “You could feel the vi-
bration.”
Three other people were injured. Two of
them were hospitalized with serious inju-
ries from debris tossed off by the collapse,
which left tangled wreckage stretched
over roughly two full blocks.
More than 140 firefighters converged on
the scene, along with scores of police offi-
cers and utility workers dispatched to
handle gas leaks and other damage
caused by the impact.
For all the commotion that shook the
neighborhood, not far from City Hall and
the state and federal courthouses, Mayor
Bill de Blasio said it was remarkable that
the human toll was not worse.
“You can see how powerful the damage
was,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news confer-
ence near the scene, “but you can also see,
again, that it was something of a miracle
that there wasn’t more impact.”
“And thank God,” he added, “we didn’t
have more injuries and we didn’t lose
more people.”
The authorities identified the man
killed on Friday as David Wichs, 38, who
lived on the Upper West Side of Manhat-
tan. Mr. Wichs was born in Prague and im-
migrated to the United States as a teen-
ager, and later received a mathematics
degree from Harvard, his sister-in-law,
Lisa Guttman, told The Associated Press.
A 45-year-old woman injured her leg
and had a cut on her head, and a 73-year-
old man sustained a head wound, officials
said. Both were in stable condition at
Manhattan hospitals. A third person had
minor injuries.
The crane, known as a crawler, was be-
ing used to install generators and air-con-
ditioning units atop 60 Hudson Street, the
former Western Union building, and had
been inspected by the Buildings Depart-
ment on Thursday to approve an exten-
sion to its present length, of-
ficials said.
With the capacity to carry
as much as 330 tons, the
crane was “very, very
A shower
large,” said Rick Chandler,
the buildings commis-
of debris
sioner. Mr. de Blasio said it injures three
was rated to withstand
wind gusts of up to 25 miles in TriBeCa.
per hour, but as the wind
neared 20 m.p.h. on Friday,
the crew decided to secure it.
The crane was being operated by Ga-
lasso Trucking and Rigging, in Maspeth,
Queens. The company’s chief executive,
Frank Galasso, did not immediately re-
spond to a message for comment.
As a precaution, officials ordered that
376 other crawler cranes currently oper-
ating in the city, as well as 43 of the larger
tower cranes, be secured, the mayor said.
The damage from the fall caused leaks
in a water main and in multiple gas lines,
though officials said those leaks had not
reached dangerous levels. Nonetheless,
gas service in the immediate area was
shut off. Many streets were also closed,
and subways lines skipped nearby stops.
Officials said the disruptions were ex-
pected to continue at least
through the weekend.
The Police Department
and the Buildings Depart-
ment have opened investi-
gations into the collapse.
The episode comes amid a
construction surge in New
York that has made the long
booms of cranes ubiquitous
fixtures across the skyline.
There has also been a
spike in construction fatalities in the city
over the past two years. An investigation
by The New York Times in November
found that the rise in deaths as well as in-
juries had far exceeded the rate of new
construction over the same period, that
supervision at building sites was often
lacking, and that basic safety steps were
not being taken to prevent workers from
ANDREW HINDERAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
falling. The crane,
Many of the cases examined by The known as a
Times involved individual workers toiling crawler, fell on
on smaller projects in rapidly gentrifying Friday as a crew
neighborhoods. But the dangers posed by
construction cranes have long been part
lowered it as a
of the New York streetscape, as well. precaution. It
was being used
With construction accidents a growing
to put generators
cause for concern in recent years, the city
has responded by hiring more building in- and air-condi-
spectors. The mayor said crane safety tioning units atop
had improved significantly since 2008,
the former West-
when several people were killed in crane ern Union build-
accidents on Manhattan’s East Side. ing at 60 Hudson
“I want people to hear me loud and
Street. Above,
clear: We’ve had some construction site
incidents that are very troubling,” Mr. de over 140 firefight-
ers responded to
Blasio said. “We have more and more in-
spectors who are going to get on top of the scene.
that. We’re going to be very tough on
those companies.”
“This is a totally different matter,” he
added. “This was a company that was
putting their crane into the secure posi-
tion as we would have wanted them to.”
In 2012, one person was killed and four
others were hurt when a 170-foot crane
collapsed at a construction site for the ex-
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By LIAM STACK
The life of David Wichs, the 38-year-
old trading firm employee who was
killed Friday morning when an enor-
mous construction crane crashed onto a
“David was the nicest, most trustwor- becca Guttman, communist education that he and his came in and out of their brownstone
thy person that I have known,” said and worshiped at peers faced. apartment building to grieve.
Mark Gorton, the founder and manag- Congregation Ke- “In Czechoslovakia I don’t really feel One neighbor, Lisa Wolfe, said Mr.
ing director of Tower Research Capital, hilath Jeshurun on Jewish,” he told the author when he was Wichs seemed to be immune to the daily
the trading firm where he worked. “I East 85th Street. 11. “That is mostly because if I tell others stresses of a city that could sometimes
have worked with him for over 15 years, “This is obvi- that I am a Jew, I can make big problems be harsh.
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street in Lower Manhattan, was distin-

guished by the kinds of achievements
that figure in many immigrant dreams.
But those who knew Mr. Wichs, who
immigrated to the United States from
Czechoslovakia as a teenager, remem-
bered a fundamentally humble and
warmhearted man.
Reporting was contributed by David W.
Chen, Christine Hauser, Noah Remnick
and Rick Rojas.
and in that whole time, he treated every
person he dealt with in a nice and decent
way.”
Mr. Wichs’s abilities surfaced early.
He was a 1995 semifinalist in the West-
inghouse Science Talent Search while a
student at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, then
went on to earn a degree in mathematics
from Harvard University. A career in fi-
nance followed.
Mr. Wichs lived on the Upper West
Side of Manhattan with his wife, Re-
ously a horrible, for myself.” “Every neighborly interaction was so
horrible tragedy,” But in the United States, he pros- unusually lovely,” she said.
said Rabbi Elie We- pered. His sister-in-law, Lisa Guttman,
Ms. Wolfe remembered watching him
instock, a leader at praised his ambition and drive in a tear-
build a sukkah on his terrace for the
the synagogue. “An ful interview with The Associated Press
outstanding young on Friday. Jewish holiday of Sukkot each fall and
David Wichs recalled sharing in holiday joy with the
man killed in a ter- “He really created a life for himself,”
rible accident.” she said. “He literally took every oppor- man she called “so quiet and warm and
As a child, Mr. Wichs was featured in a tunity he could find.” decent.”
book on the lives of Jewish youth in Despair and shock hung over the fam- Mr. Wichs was, she said, a “great per-
Eastern Europe, where he described the ily’s quiet Upper West Side block on Fri- son who felt unusually gentle for some-
twin pressures of anti-Semitism and day as anguished friends and relatives one who lived in this city.”

Shootings Highlight
Dangers to Police Patrols
In City’s Public Housing
By WINNIE HU
and AL BAKER
Malik Chavis made himself at
home in the red brick apartment
building in the South Bronx, even
though it was his girlfriend who
lived on the seventh floor. He
would often hang out in the stair-
well, a can of beer or cigarette in
hand, neighbors said.
But if the stairwell was Mr.
Chavis’s place of comfort, it was a
known hazard to New York City
police officers who conducted up-
and-down sweeps known as verti-
cal patrols of the building in the
Melrose Houses, a public housing
project. Step by
step, they
would navigate
its narrow turns
on the lookout
for drug deals
and other illegal
activities.
It was in this
Malik Chavis stairwell that
four police of-
ficers found Mr. Chavis and an-
other man drinking beer on
Thursday night. The officers
asked the men for identification.
Mr. Chavis, 23, said he did not
have his, and started to lead the
officers to his girlfriend’s apart-
ment when he spun around in the
hallway and fired on them with a
semiautomatic pistol, wounding
two police officers before fleeing
into her apartment and fatally
shooting himself in the head, the
police said.
The shooting served as a blunt
counterpoint to a trial unfolding in
Brooklyn, in which a police officer
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By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Before the jury entered a court-
room in State Supreme Court in
Brooklyn on Friday, prosecutors
and defense lawyers at the trial of
Peter Liang, a police officer whose
gunshot killed an unarmed man in
the stairwell of a housing project,
approached the judge.
At issue were events that had
taken place in another part of New
York City: The night before, two
officers, Diara E. Cruz and Patrick
Espeut, were shot in a housing
project in the Bronx. They were
performing the same type of stair-
well patrol Officer Liang was con-
ducting in Brooklyn on Nov. 20,
2014, when he fired his gun and a
bullet bounced off a wall and killed
Akai Gurley, 28, who was walking
down the stairs with his girlfriend.
Trolley Enthusiast on a Plan
For a Streetcar Line: Hire Me
By COREY KILGANNON
Now that Mayor Bill de Blasio
has unveiled a proposal to build a
16-mile streetcar line along the
East River in Brooklyn and
Queens, the Trolley Man of Brook-
lyn would like to offer his services.
The Trolley Man — otherwise
known as Bob Diamond, an engi-
neer and rail buff from Flatbush,
Brooklyn — has spent decades
trying to revive trolleys in his bor-
ough, and even began construc-
tion of a line before he was forced
to abandon the project in 2003.
Mr. Diamond, 56, said he was
delighted to hear about Mr. de Bla-
sio’s plan. He wanted the mayor to
know that he was available to help
and could provide access to vol-
umes of studies and plans related
to rail construction that he said
could save the city time.
“We even still have a rail car sit-
ting on the tracks behind Fairway
in Red Hook,” Mr. Diamond said
on Thursday, mentioning one of
the Brooklyn neighborhoods that
the proposed streetcar line would
traverse. “If the mayor wants to
use it, he’s more than welcome. It
has a beautiful paint job.”
who seemed perhaps overly cog-
nizant of the dangers of a stairwell
fired his gun and killed an un-
armed black man, Akai Gurley, as
he walked down the stairs in 2014.
Police officers have testified at the
trial of Peter Liang, who faces
charges that include manslaugh-
ter and official misconduct, that
patrolling stairwells is among the
most perilous assignments in the
city’s housing projects.
While crime has receded city-
wide over the last two decades, it
has persisted in public housing
projects where gang violence and
narcotics are often a part of daily
life. Within the Police Depart-
ment, about 2,350 officers in the
Housing Bureau are responsible
for monitoring narrow stairwells,
crowded halls and rooftops in the
city’s more than 300 public-hous-
ing projects.
“Patrolling housing projects is
dangerous,” said a senior law en-
forcement official who spoke on
the condition of anonymity be-
cause the investigation into the
Bronx shooting was continuing.
“There are inherent risks. You go
up one flight, but then you turn a
corner. And, before you go up an-
other flight and turn the next cor-
ner, you never know what’s
around that corner.”
Patrick J. Lynch, the president
of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent As-
sociation, the city’s largest police
union, said on Friday, “The simple
truth is that there is nothing ‘rou-
tine’ about ‘routine vertical patrol’
in our city’s housing projects.”
The Police Department allows
officers on vertical patrols to use
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Like Officer Liang and his partner,
Shaun Landau, the officers shot
on Thursday were still relatively
new to the job.
“We had one primary concern:
It’s that the defense not be allowed
to refer to last night’s shooting in
any way in any question during
the trial,” Joe Alexis, an assistant
Brooklyn district attorney, told
Justice Danny K. Chun.
Officer Liang, charged with
manslaughter and other offenses,
entered the stairwell of the Louis
H. Pink Houses in East New York
with his 9-millimeter Glock pistol
drawn. Prosecutors have spent
much of the two-week trial argu-
ing that unholstering his weapon
was unwarranted and reckless in
a place filled with residents going
about their lives.
The events of Thursday night,
The mayor’s $2.5 billion plan en-
visions a line that would wind
through bustling and developing
neighborhoods such as Astoria
and Long Island City in Queens,
and Greenpoint and Dumbo in
Brooklyn, as well as Red Hook,
where Mr. Diamond’s group, the
Brooklyn Historic Railway Asso-
ciation, had begun building a trol-
ley line more than 20 years ago.
Mr. Diamond is enamored of
Brooklyn’s history with trolleys,
which stretches back to horsecars
in the early 1800s and cable cars in
the middle part of that century.
Electric trolleys became so plenti-
ful that Brooklyn’s baseball team
was named the Trolley Dodgers in
the 1890s, before the name was
shortened to the Dodgers.
Mr. Diamond’s trolley project
began in the 1980s when he de-
cided he wanted to build the first
trolley line to run in Brooklyn
since 1956, one that would link Red
Hook to Downtown Brooklyn.
Relying on public and private
donors, Mr. Diamond built tracks
on donated private property along
the Red Hook shoreline. He re-
stored old trolley cars and erected
electric poles.
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The Melrose Houses in the Bronx, where police officers were on patrol in a stairwell when they encountered Mr. Chavis.
their discretion in drawing their
weapon, a policy that has not been
changed since Mr. Gurley was
killed. But the department has
taken steps to reinforce training to
ensure that when officers do draw
their gun, they keep their finger
outside the trigger guard and off
the trigger, police officials said.
At the Melrose Houses, which is
operated by the New York City
Housing Authority, officials said
that all the lights were working in
the stairwells and hallways at the
time of the shooting on Thursday,
and that additional security
measures included 10 outdoor se-
curity cameras. The authority
plans to install closed-circuit tele-
vision cameras inside the build-
ings, including stairwells and hall-
ways, later this year.
“This tragedy underscores the
importance of continuing compre-
hensive security upgrades
throughout Nycha develop-
ments,” said Aja Worthy-Davis, a
spokeswoman for the housing
agency.
Officer Liang was on a vertical
patrol in a darkened stairwell at
the Louis H. Pink Houses in East
New York when he pulled out his
gun as he headed to the roof, his
lawyers have said. His gun went
off, the round flying down the
stairway and striking Mr. Gurley.
Within hours, the Police Depart-
ment acknowledged a grave error,
and Mayor Bill de Blasio and Po-
lice Commissioner William J.
Bratton visited his family’s home
to apologize.
While well lit on Friday, the
stairwells at the Melrose Houses
were far from pleasant. They were
grimy and reeked of urine.
Cigarette butts, a plastic bag with
traces of white powder and an
empty Budweiser bottle littered
the stairwell.
Several residents said that
in which the officers were shot by
a man they encountered during
what is
known as a
vertical pa-
trol in the
Melrose
Houses in
the South
Bronx, seem
to under-
score the Po-
lice Depart-
Police Officer ment’s view
Peter Liang that housing
project stair-
wells can be perilous places to pa-
trol.
Officer Liang’s defense has in-
sisted on the danger of such
spaces throughout the trial.
But, Mr. Alexis told the judge,
“That tragic shooting is much dif-
Mr. Diamond got approvals and
financing, bought 15 vintage street
cars and installed 1,500 feet of
track. But it all fell apart in 2003
when the city, he said, lost interest
in his project, scrapped the plan
and ripped up the tracks.
His fleet of trolleys included one
A stairwell in the Melrose Houses on Friday. Several residents
said men tended to gather and hassle people on the stairs.
young men, often from other
buildings, tended to congregate
on the stairs and hassled
residents who had to rely on them
whenever the elevator malfunc-
tioned — another problem, along
happened with some frequency in
the city’s housing projects.
“Sometimes you come out, you
have to be asking for permission
to pass by,” said Gloria Ramos, 64,
who has lived in the building for 14
Wanda Sines, the mother of Be-
linda Sines, the girlfriend of Mr.
Chavis, said she welcomed the po-
lice officers on the vertical patrols.
“I love it,” she said. “I’m secure if I
see a cop in there, I speak to them,
I say hi.”
The two officers wounded in
Thursday’s shooting joined the
Housing Bureau in January 2014
after graduating from the Police
Academy. While not rookies, they
were relatively new to the depart-
ment. Officer Patrick Espeut, 29,
ferent than what happened here.”
Robert E. Brown, a lawyer for
Officer Liang, who had worked on
the police force for only about 18
months at the time of the shooting,
disagreed.
Looking at the screen of his cell-
phone, Mr. Brown read remarks
made by Mayor Bill de Blasio af-
ter the Bronx shooting. “It’s an-
other example of what our officers
confront every single day,” Mr.
Brown said, quoting the mayor,
“keeping us safe not only in the
streets of New York City, but in the
stairwells and the hallways of our
public housing developments.”
Mr. Brown finished quoting the
mayor, put the phone down and
continued: “What happened last
night in the Bronx is remarkably
similar to the setup to this case:
Two rookie police officers, they’re
car from Norway, three Pullman
cars from Boston that he bought
for $9 total, a locomotive pur-
chased from a New Jersey soy-
bean farmer and a dozen cars
from Ohio.
“My advice to the mayor is to
create a structure that would sur-
EDWIN J. TORRES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
who was hit by gunfire in the
cheek, was released from a hospi-
tal on Friday afternoon. Officer
Diara E. Cruz, 24, who was hit on
the side of her body underneath
her bullet-resistant vest, was
listed in stable condition.
Mr. Lynch said both officers had
performed stairwell patrols
countless times without incident,
before running into Mr. Chavis,
who had a long arrest record, in-
cluding for violent crimes, and
had served time in state prison.
He had been in violation of the
terms of his current parole for fail-
ing to perform community serv-
ice.
After shooting at the officers,
Mr. Chavis fled into his girlfriend’s
apartment. Mr. Chavis called his
father, told him “I shot this cop”
and hung up, the police said. Mr.
Chavis asked another man in the
apartment to shoot him, and when
the man refused, he went into a
bedroom and shot himself in the
head, the police said.
Mr. Chavis had written on social
doing a vertical patrol, they’re am-
bushed.”
He asked Justice Chun to se-
quester the jury for the duration of
the trial, preventing them from
reading, watching or discussing
any news. The judge declined. In-
stead, he said he would caution
the jury not to read any news cov-
erage about Officer Liang’s case.
“I think we have a smart jury,”
the judge said.
As the trial finished for the day,
Justice Chun sternly warned ju-
rors to avoid reading not only cov-
erage of Officer Liang’s trial, but
also any articles that might even
mention the case.
On Friday, the defense
produced its last witnesses before
Officer Liang takes the stand,
which he is scheduled to do on
Monday. They included a the judge sustained it.
KEVIN HAGEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
vive his tenure in office,” Mr. Dia-
mond said. “The problem with
these projects is that eventually
they hit an elected official who
says, ‘I won’t get the credit, so
why should I do it?’ ”
Mr. Diamond also pointed out
that in the early 20th century
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Officers Patrick Espeut and
Diara E. Cruz, who were shot.
media about his daughter, which
might have given him a reason to
live, police officials said. At the
same time, the officials said, he
may not have wanted to return to
prison. In addition to the semiau-
tomatic pistol Mr. Chavis was car-
rying, officers found a sawed-off
shotgun in a bag in the apartment
where he killed himself.
Ms. Sines, who was visiting her
daughter’s apartment on Thurs-
day night, said that her daughter
had been dating Mr. Chavis since
October. She said that Mr. Chavis,
whom she described as a “clean
fanatic,” had worked the night
shift stocking shelves at an Old
Navy store in the Bronx. “He was
a very good guy, that’s why I can’t
believe it happened,” she said. “He
helped my daughter out a lot.”
But Mr. Chavis left a different
impression on other neighbors.
Katherina Martinez, 28, a home
health aide who lives on the eighth
floor, said she was suspicious of
Mr. Chavis because she would see
him loitering in the stairwells.
Susie Hodges, 73, who has lived
in the building for five decades,
said that violence had become a
fact of life there. “I’m just relieved
the cops survived,” said Ms.
Hodges, whose son is a police offi-
cer. “They were just trying to do
their job and keep us safe.”
weapons expert, a former police
lieutenant and a private investiga-
tor, Daniel Reefer, whom the de-
fense had hired to stake out the
stairwell where Mr. Gurley was
killed.
Mr. Reefer said he visited twice
last month, spending an hour each
time. He positioned himself on the
eight-floor landing and
videotaped foot traffic. “There
were zero pedestrians going up or
down the stairs” on either visit, he
said.
When it was time for Marc
Fliedner, an assistant district at-
torney, to question Mr. Reefer, he
asked if perhaps no one took the
stairs because of what had hap-
pened there to Mr. Gurley.
Before Mr. Reefer could re-
spond, the defense objected, and
Bob Diamond, a historian and
longtime fan of trolleys, with
an antique train headlamp at
his Brooklyn home this week.
streetcars ran over all four
bridges that cross the East River,
a fact that made him consider the
possibility of bringing streetcars
back to Manhattan.
On the Manhattan side of the
Williamsburg Bridge, he said,
there is an abandoned under-
ground trolley terminal at Essex
Street, and on the Manhattan side
of the Queensboro Bridge there is
an old depot.
“It’s funny, the thing hasn’t even
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been built yet, and I’m already
thinking about expanding it,” said
Mr. Diamond, who became known
for discovering a forgotten rail-
road tunnel, built before the Civil
War beneath Atlantic Avenue, in
1979, when he was 19. He helped re-
store the tunnel and led tours for
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
years before the city shut the tun-
nel in 2010, citing safety concerns.
“Maybe there’s a way I could fit
into this, and be an adviser to the
mayor,” Mr. Diamond said of the
new proposal.
He added that he could even
draw a small salary.
“Give me a try for a couple
weeks and see if I work,” he said
he would tell the mayor’s team.
“Then I can get my teeth fixed.”
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With Super Bowl Ad, Coffee Seller Prepares for a Jolt

By JESSE McKINLEY ing another New York company, decided they wanted a little more Dean Cycon, the founder of
ROUND LAKE, N.Y. — There’s Vidler’s, a five-and-dime near jolt in their java. Dean’s Beans, said in an email
no question that Death Wish Cof- Buffalo). Death Wish was chosen “Customers would come in that Death Wish had “recreated
by a public vote, presumably asking for the strongest cup of our formula.”
fee, a pirate-flag-adorned brand
fueled by, you know, Death Wish. coffee,” Mr. Brown said in a “Was anything they did ille-
from upstate New York, is strong,
like really strong, like linebacker- The ad, developed and pro- phone interview from San Fran- gal? Nope,” he said. “Was it un-
duced by RPA, whose Super cisco, host to many of the Super ethical and deceptive? In my
strong, like Super Bowl-hype
Bowl clients also include Honda, Bowl festivities this year. “And I mind, yes.”
strong, but is it the strongest cof-
features a group of waterlogged wanted to mess with them a little Mr. Brown said he had heard
fee in the world?
Vikings jonesing for a cup of joe. bit.” Mr. Cycon’s complaints, but had
Yes? No? Yes? No? Yes? No?
The commercial, which will ap- So it was that Mr. Brown de- only compliments for Dean’s
Dunno. (Note: The author of this pear during the third quarter, has cided to search out an especially Beans. “He has a great business
article was highly caffeinated.) some of the skeleton staff at the strong mix of robusta and Ara- model,” Mr. Brown said, though
What is certain, however, is Death Wish offices working 70- bica beans online and try it on he also noted that “when my cus-
that Death Wish Coffee, like a hour weeks in preparation for an customers, who he initially antici- tomers came in looking for a
halfback in an open field, is en- onslaught of fatigued football and pated would be “truck drivers, stronger cup of coffee,” Dean’s PHOTOGRAPHS BY NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
joying a remarkably lucky run caffeine lovers looking to lift the night-shift workers, doctors.” Beans was already among the
since first hitting the market Above, Jake Bra-
Monday morning fog. To his surprise, however, the shop’s offerings.
some three and a half years ago, dy seals bags of a
“It’s almost like fans are more online buyers — it remains pri- Regardless of such coffee
with a warning label proclaiming excited than we are,” said Kane marily an Internet brand, and not clashes, Death Wish seems to
special blend at
it the “World’s Strongest Coffee.” Grogan, the company’s customer a cheap one — were more di- have found its own niche, ac- Death Wish Cof-
And while such a determina- service manager. “We’re in the verse. “My mom’s friends from cording to Mr. Grogan, who says fee’s processing
tion is probably better left to ex- middle of it, so we’re more wor- high school, like 75-, 80-year-olds, it is popular with coders, gamers plant in Round
perts, Death Wish Coffee’s rabid ried than anything.” call me up saying this is my fa- and other loners, as well as the Lake, N.Y. The
fan base, including heavy-metal Fretting about filling huge or- vorite coffee,” Mr. Brown said. occasional journalist. company boasts
rockers and freezing-cold truck- ders, of course, is the kind of con- Mr. Brown’s big win, however, Like many who work at Death of its coffee’s caf-
ers, recently helped to land the cern most small businesses appears to have unleashed a re- Wish’s offices — housed in a
company a prized advertisement feine content, left.
would happily have, something gional rivalry with another, more bland warehouse off a country
spot during the Super Bowl acknowledged by the company’s established company — Dean’s road — Mr. Grogan has several
broadcast on Sunday as part of a owner, Michael Brown, a former Beans, in Orange, Mass. — which elaborate tattoos and a fondness
contest by Intuit, whose products accountant who once worried claims the idea, and some of the for music. (“I have four drum- a dilated pupil and the far side of thusiasm for life and a sudden de-
help people balance their books about falling asleep at his desk at early beans, for Death Wish mers on my staff,” Mr. Brown the moon. On a recent morning, a sire for another cup.
and prepare their taxes (just like the state comptroller’s office. came from its signature brew, said.) There’s a punching bag in few sips brought an undeniable Such ups and downs, of course,
coffee). Mr. Brown, 35, created the called Ahab’s Revenge. Dean’s the corner, and paintings sent in buzz to this reporter’s head, as are the perils of working at Death
The contest invited businesses Death Wish brew in the base- Beans strikes a similarly omi- by fans, many of whom appar- well as what might be described Wish, Mr. Grogan said. “It used
with fewer than 50 employees to ment of Saratoga Coffee Traders, nous tone in its marketing (“Be- ently cannot sleep. as a kind of a pleasant arrhyth- to be kind of an all-day thing,” he
enter to win the 30-second ad, a cafe he owned in nearby Sara- ware: contains the highest caf- Indeed, even brewed at moder- mia. A single cup provided about said, of his own intake. “But it
winnowing thousands of contest- toga Springs, after a group of ap- feine content of any organic cof- ate strength, the coffee’s color 45 minutes of jittery high energy, kind of wears off if you drink it
ants down to a final three (includ- parently somnolent Saratogians fee!”). falls somewhere between that of followed by a sharp drop in en- too much.”

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high 70° Record .................... 1.43 Since Oct. 1 ............ 29.7
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Cincinnati 43/ 25 0 47/ 30 PC 50/ 33 PC Kingston 88/ 72 0 85/ 73 PC 85/ 75 PC
West Virginia
will generally be clear to the horizon. 70s
Cleveland 38/ 28 0 41/ 30 C 48/ 33 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 88/ 66 0.13 85/ 73 PC 85/ 72 PC 38/21 Not as cold
Colorado Springs 36/ 11 0.01 47/ 25 S 39/ 14 PC Algiers 68/ 32 0 69/ 51 C 67/ 46 Sh Mexico City 75/ 40 0 69/ 38 PC 70/ 37 PC High Tides
Columbus 40/ 25 0 43/ 29 PC 48/ 34 PC Cairo 67/ 56 0 63/ 50 S 60/ 48 C Monterrey 64/ 37 0 73/ 39 S 75/ 50 S Color bands
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Concord, N.H. 33/ 18 0.48 39/ 29 PC 43/ 20 S Cape Town 92/ 63 0 81/ 63 S 77/ 64 W Montreal 28/ 18 0 35/ 26 C 28/ 13 PC Atlantic City ................... 5:28 a.m. .............. 5:48 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water
Dallas-Ft. Worth 59/ 37 0 56/ 36 S 65/ 39 S Dakar 84/ 70 0 85/ 70 C 88/ 73 PC Nassau 88/ 63 0.11 81/ 69 PC 77/ 62 W Barnegat Inlet ................ 5:37 a.m. .............. 6:04 p.m. 43/24 Not as cold temperature.
Denver 34/ 17 0.01 48/ 24 PC 37/ 15 PC Johannesburg 75/ 55 0.16 79/ 61 PC 85/ 57 PC Panama City 93/ 70 0 93/ 73 S 93/ 74 S The Battery .................... 6:14 a.m. .............. 6:40 p.m.
Des Moines 32/ 22 0.01 39/ 32 S 42/ 22 SS Nairobi 81/ 57 0 82/ 57 S 84/ 61 S Quebec City 23/ 14 0 27/ 20 C 20/ 2 PC Beach Haven ................. 7:04 a.m. .............. 7:30 p.m.
Detroit 39/ 26 0 40/ 29 C 47/ 33 PC Tunis 64/ 47 0 66/ 48 PC 68/ 49 PC Santo Domingo 86/ 64 0 85/ 68 PC 83/ 68 PC Bridgeport ..................... 9:16 a.m. .............. 9:47 p.m.
El Paso 54/ 24 0 56/ 30 S 64/ 34 S Toronto 37/ 25 0 39/ 28 C 42/ 31 PC City Island ...................... 9:10 a.m. .............. 9:47 p.m.
As high pressure slides off the Middle At-
Fargo 31/ 16 Tr 39/ 31 W 34/ 12 Sn Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 48/ 45 0.19 49/ 37 PC 48/ 43 C
Hartford 34/ 20 0.47 42/ 24 PC 44/ 24 PC Baghdad 68/ 41 0 63/ 48 PC 61/ 44 Sh Fire Island Lt. ................. 6:32 a.m. .............. 6:58 p.m. lantic Coast, a weak cold front will move
Winnipeg 16/ 5 0 30/ 23 SS 26/ 4 C
Honolulu 83/ 71 0 81/ 65 Sh 76/ 62 S Bangkok 91/ 72 0 87/ 61 PC 81/ 61 S Montauk Point ................ 7:04 a.m. .............. 7:27 p.m. toward the eastern Great Lakes, resulting
Houston 61/ 40 0 61/ 35 R 65/ 42 S Beijing 38/ 21 0 42/ 19 S 44/ 21 S South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 9:23 a.m. .............. 9:56 p.m.
Indianapolis 40/ 23 0 46/ 29 PC 49/ 28 PC Damascus 65/ 37 0 56/ 38 W 57/ 32 Sh Buenos Aires 93/ 66 0 88/ 70 PC 84/ 68 T Port Washington ............ 9:21 a.m. ............ 10:00 p.m. in snow showers in upstate New York and
Jackson 55/ 28 0 55/ 29 PC 59/ 40 S Hong Kong 62/ 52 0 58/ 47 W 60/ 53 S Caracas 84/ 72 0 86/ 75 S 87/ 75 S Sandy Hook ................... 5:46 a.m. .............. 6:12 p.m. northern New England. Heavier snow
Jacksonville 57/ 36 0 56/ 38 PC 57/ 34 PC Jakarta 88/ 78 0.37 88/ 75 T 87/ 75 T Lima 86/ 74 0 86/ 74 PC 86/ 74 PC Shinnecock Inlet ............ 5:32 a.m. .............. 5:57 p.m.
Kansas City 42/ 26 0 47/ 33 S 48/ 28 PC Jerusalem 65/ 47 0.01 51/ 41 Sh 46/ 37 Sh Quito 71/ 54 0.09 78/ 55 T 73/ 54 R Stamford ........................ 9:19 a.m. .............. 9:50 p.m.
squalls are possible across the Tug Hill
Key West 67/ 64 0.11 73/ 60 Sh 65/ 58 PC Karachi 79/ 58 0 83/ 57 PC 84/ 57 PC Recife 86/ 79 0.10 86/ 77 T 87/ 78 S Tarrytown ....................... 8:03 a.m. .............. 8:29 p.m. Plateau and western Adirondacks.
Las Vegas 59/ 37 0 61/ 41 S 67/ 45 S Manila 89/ 77 0.13 86/ 75 Sh 84/ 75 PC Rio de Janeiro 95/ 76 0 92/ 77 S 90/ 77 S Willets Point ................... 9:15 a.m. .............. 9:53 p.m.
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The Young Homeless Population of New York: Overlooked and Underserved
From Page A1
homeless people said recently
that the efforts fell far short of the
need. The problem, they said, is
how “homeless” is defined.
Young people staying tempo-
rarily with friends and extended
family are “technically homeless,
but they 0are not sleeping under a
bridge,” said Douglas O’Dell, the
executive director of SCO Family
of Services, a nonprofit focused on
ending homelessness and helping
low-income people and troubled
young people.
Last year, the total number of
sheltered and unsheltered home-
less people in the city was 75,323,
which included 1,706 people be-
tween ages 18 and 24. The actual
number of young people is signifi-
cantly higher, according to the
service providers, who said the
census mostly captured young
people who received social
services. The census takers were
not allowed to enter private busi-
nesses, including many of the late-
night spots where young people
often create an ad hoc shelter by
pretending to be customers.
The Legal Aid Society in 2013
filed a lawsuit against the city de-
manding beds for young people,
saying the need far exceeded
what the city had documented.
Since Mr. de Blasio took office in
January 2014, his administration
has struggled to reduce homeless-
ness, a problem that had risen to
crisis levels under his immediate
predecessor, Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg. The de Blasio admin-
istration has fashioned different
strategies for homeless veterans,
for families with children and for
people with severe mental illness,
who are often the most visible.
But less familiar to the public
are the people in their late teens
and early 20s who are homeless
and present particular challenges
and risks. Many of them are run-
aways, or former foster children
who are now too old for state
services, or been victims of abuse
or homophobia at home.
Homeless young people who
were interviewed said they felt
they had no choice but to live on
their own.
“The reason why a lot of kids
and a lot of youths are undetected
in this system is because we are
being forced to be adults,” said
Shatiera Freeman, 23, a former
foster child and runaway who said
she first became homeless when
she was 15.
A more accurate estimate of the
number of young, unaccompanied
homeless people would help bet-
ter determine how many emer-
gency shelter beds and transi-
tional apartments are needed to
serve them, some service
providers said.
The federal Department of
Housing and Urban Development
has been taking steps to improve
the counts. A pilot supplemental
survey singling out young people
was started in December 2012 in
Boston, with several other cities,
including New York, following
within months.
Julian Castro, the federal hous-
ing secretary, has pushed cities to
further refine their youth counts,
and last year, New York expanded
its supplemental survey of young
people to four days.
Bill Chong, the commissioner of
New York City’s Department of
Youth and Community Develop-
ment, said there had been im-
provements in how the count was
Crane Collapses, Killing Man in Manhattan
From Page A16
tension of the No. 7 train. Last
year, a crane dropped an air-con-
ditioning unit 28 stories to the
street in Midtown Manhattan.
Seven people suffered minor inju-
ries in that episode.
Roughly 300 large cranes are in
operation in the city at any given
time, said Scott M. Stringer, the
city comptroller. On Friday, Mr.
Stringer cited two recent audits
while repeating earlier criticisms
of the Buildings Department’s
oversight of cranes.
“This report, and every major
crane accident afterward, should
be a wake-up call,” he said. But, he
added, the Buildings Department
“keeps sleeping on the job.”
Joe Soldevere, a spokesman for
the Buildings Department, said
the city had already adopted
many of Mr. Stringer’s recommen-
dations. “We need to all focus on
responding to this emergency, not
clouding the facts,” he said.
“There is more oversight of
cranes in place than ever before.”
Reporting was contributed by Al
Baker, David W. Chen, Sandra E.
Garcia, James C. McKinley Jr.,
William K. Rashbaum and Noah
Remnick, and research by Susan C.
Beachy.
Abdul, 23, at Safe Horizon in Harlem, has been homeless since 2010 and has stayed in various shelters and homes.
Kimberly Howard and Robin Walters, outreach workers, talked with a homeless young person
one night last month after giving him a blanket. Some homeless young people, including George
Levy, above right, and Tamantra Bowen, bottom right, are regulars at the Door, a drop-in center.
run since last year.
The agency, which oversees the
specialized shelters for young
homeless people, received input
from young people to improve the
count, Mr. Chong said. The agency
has also nearly doubled the num-
ber of survey locations, to 60 from
34, with a focus on places young
people are known to gather, in-
cluding some public libraries.
On the night of the official
count, as part of a contract with
the city, the Hunter College Silber-
man School of Social Work con-
ducts a so-called shadow count to
gauge the accuracy of the official
count, and this year, the school has
recruited more young adults and
college students to pretend to be
homeless and record whether
they are approached by official
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Mr. Soldevere said the city had
six crane inspectors and no in-
spection backlog. He also said the
department would be hiring addi-
tional crane inspectors — and 100
additional inspectors over all — to
bolster the de Blasio administra-
tion’s efforts to improve construc-
tion safety.
In TriBeCa, some in the neigh-
borhood said they had noticed the
arrival of the crane that came
crashing down on Friday. It was
installed on Jan. 30.
Wajid Hayat, who works at a
sandwich shop near the site of the
collapse, said the crane caught his
attention as he left work on Thurs-
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016 N A19
turning away 240 people a month.
Since then, Covenant House has
added 76 beds, bringing its total to
205, he said. The city still has a
long way to go, he said, but Mr. de
Blasio’s plan to add 300 beds city-
wide will help.
In interviews, young people
said navigating the system was
difficult when they were still
learning about themselves and
making mistakes.
George Levy, 22, who is gay,
said he left his native Jamaica to
escape discrimination. In New
York, he has traded sex for some-
where to sleep, he said. He was
staying with friends but had no
key and had to wait for them to get
home each day.
“The thing is, I’m there, but I’m
not really there,” said Mr. Levy,
who is trying to gain authorization
to work in the United States. He
would like to be a detective.
Each day, Mr. Levy goes to the
Door, a drop-in center for young
people. On a recent Tuesday after-
noon, Mr. Levy, Ms. Freeman and
Tamantra Bowen, a 20-year-old
from Guyana, talked about the tra-
vails of being young and having
nowhere to live.
They were all in different places
in their efforts to escape home-
lessness. Mr. Levy was sleeping in
friends’ apartments, Ms. Bowen
was in a shelter, and Ms. Freeman
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE NAUGHTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
was recently placed in so-called
supportive housing, where an
apartment comes with social
services to assist her.
They long for more, which
comes with obstacles.
A focus on people in
their teens and early
20s as officials plan
an annual count.
Abdul, a native New Yorker,
was 17 when he became homeless.
His mother had died five years
earlier, and he was living in South
Carolina without a support sys-
tem. He returned to New York and
bounced from one relative’s house
to the next, unable to make ends
meet or to see eye to eye with his
roommates.
Now 23, he said he wanted peo-
ple to understand that homeless-
ness is not a preference. “I, we,
didn’t choose to be here,” he said.
Since becoming homeless, Ab-
dul said, he has found shelter with
“Uncle A.C.E.,” the A train; at Cov-
enant House, where he was kicked
out for missing curfew; at Belle-
vue, a city-run shelter for adults
where his phone was stolen twice;
and in an office where he worked
counters. searching for signs of homeless- workers also gave out their cards,
as a security guard. He would
“It’s in everyone’s interest to ness. They are outreach youth ad- hoping a young person would de-
have as accurate data as possible vocates for Safe Horizon, a non- cide to seek help at Safe Horizon leave at 6 a.m., before other
so we can design programs that profit focused on homeless young or some other nonprofit. employees began to arrive, and
meet the needs of young people,” people and domestic violence vic- The help, however, is not always then return, alongside them, at 9
Mr. Chong said. “That’s why we’re tims. there, Ms. Walters and Ms. How- a.m.
always looking to strengthen the It was freezing. The outreach ard said. Abdul, who now works at a
four-day survey. Just to have workers did not find anyone in the “There’s not a lot of resources drugstore, did not want his sur-
young people say: ‘You should go usual hangouts — around Cov- for these young people,” said Ms. name used because he did not
there. You should go there. That’s enant House New York, a youth Howard, who entered a career in want his employer and others to
where I used to hang out.’” homeless shelter near the Port social services because of her own learn about his situation. He is
In the city, young homeless peo- Authority, or behind Ali Forney homeless experience. “There’s a now staying in a shelter, where he
ple can be chameleons blending in Center, a drop-in center for home- lot of times when there is no op- pays 30 percent of his income to-
with average New Yorkers by the less young people in Harlem. tion. There’s no beds.” ward his stay. He said he had
bright lights of Times Square, the But inside the Port Authority Covenant House turns away saved $6,000 and recently re-
lightless halls of stations and ter- Bus Terminal and Pennsylvania about 70 to 80 young people seek- ceived a rental assistance voucher
minals, and the pitch dark of al- Station, they found young men ing shelter each month because through the city’s Living in Com-
leys. who were homeless and who read- the group does not have enough munities program.
At 7:30 on a recent night, Robin ily accepted the items the workers beds, said Creighton Drury, the “The only thing is finding who
Walters and Kimberly Howard got offered: granola bars, crackers, executive director. But that is will accept it,” he said. “I’m out
into a Dodge sport-utility vehicle condoms, blankets, gloves and, progress from last year, Mr. Drury here on the grind again. I can do it.
on 125th Street and started the most popular, socks. The said, when Covenant House was I can put my mind to it.”
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day evening. People were taking
photographs of it because of its
height, he said.
“When I saw the crane, it was
looking very scary, like it was
shaking,” Mr. Hayat said. “I
thought, ‘The snow is coming, STEPHANIE KEITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
maybe something could happen.’” The collapse, which came during the morning rush, left tangled wreckage stretched over roughly
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Those who were nearby when two full blocks. “You can see how powerful the damage was,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news
the equipment fell said the col- conference. He added, “Thank God we didn’t have more injuries and we didn’t lose more people.”
lapse was terrifying. Veronica
Keegan, 57, was walking on Duane was going to run for shelter.” might have gone off, she covered tor at HarperCollins, said she did
Street when she heard one clang Julia Cheiffetz, 37, was leaving a her head and sprinted toward not see any construction workers
after another; she feared a build- doctor’s office at 40 Worth Street Church Street as the crane tum- clearing the street.
ing was collapsing. “I heard what around 8:20 a.m. when she heard bled down not far away. Her leg “It was like something out of a
sounded like bending metal and it
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a creaking noise and a grumble. At was injured when it was hit by ‘Transformers’ movie,” she said,
got louder,” she said. that point, debris began to fall some of the falling debris. “where some giant thing comes
“I was petrified,” she added. “I from the sky. Thinking a bomb Ms. Cheiffetz, an executive edi- out of the sky.”
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Expert Witness Says Gallery in Art Fraud Case Relied on Fakes City Council
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
For its final 18 years, Knoedler &
Company, the 165-year-old busi-
ness that once reigned as New
York’s oldest art gallery, largely
depended on profits it made from
the sale of fakes attributed to Ab-
stract Expressionist masters such
as Jackson Pollock and Willem de
Kooning, an accounting expert
testified on Friday in Federal Dis-
trict Court in Manhattan.
The expert, Roger Siefert, testi-
fied on behalf of Domenico and
Eleanore De Sole, who paid
Knoedler $8.3 million in 2004 for a
painting falsely attributed to
Mark Rothko. They have accused
the gallery and its former presi-
dent, Ann Freedman, of partici-
pating in fraud by selling more
than 30 bogus works that were
supplied by Glafira Rosales, a
dealer from Long Island. The
gallery and Ms. Freedman have
said that they too were duped by
the forgeries.
Duped or not, the gallery
profited handsomely from the
The Word Delivered From Black Pulpits, Now Available Online
Over dinner one night in
Harlem, the Rev. Nicholas
Richards delivered the news to
his father. The younger Mr.
Richards was the assistant pas-
tor at Abyssinian
ON Baptist, one of the
most storied African-
RELIGION American churches
in the country. In his
SAMUEL G. early 30s, he was a
FREEDMAN
princeling awaiting
the call to his own pulpit.
But that evening last summer,
Mr. Richards looked at his father
and told him that he was leaving
his prestigious position to found
an online start-up. His father,
Bernard Richards, could only
ask: “How are you going to make
money on this? How are you
going to take care of yourself?”
For all its financial uncertainty,
though, the start-up promised to
deepen Mr. Richards’s religious
life. He was leaving Abyssinian
to create a website called Roho
— the Swahili word for spirit —
that would both archive and
disseminate videos of the ser-
mons of black ministers. The site
would also, in this era of
analytics, compile data on how,
when and why users viewed the
sermons.
Now, a year later, Roho has
15,000 hours of sermons from
several hundred ministers and
draws 50,000 visitors a month.
And, going to Bernard Richards’s
fatherly worries, his son has
raised $500,000 in venture capi-
tal from a cadre of African-Amer-
ican investors.
“It’s the whole idea of Spotify
meets the word of God,” said the
Rev. Charley Hames Jr., the
senior pastor of Beebe Memorial
Cathedral in Oakland, Calif., and
one of the ministers featured on
Roho.
“It’s a continuation,” said
Lawrence Mamiya, an author of
the authoritative history “The
Black Church in the African-
American Experience.” “Black
churches got into radio technol-
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fakes, according to Mr. Siefert’s
calculations. Using financial re-
painting.
Mr. Siefert said that Ms. Freed-
gallery would have made a cumu-
lative profit of about $3 million,
Votes to Give
ports from the gallery, he said that
works supplied to Knoedler by
Ms. Rosales sold for $69.7 million
man had arranged a profit-shar-
ing arrangement with Knoedler
and that her commissions had ris-
even without the sale of any Ros-
ales works, from 1994 to 2008.
Mr. Siefert also agreed, in re-
Its Members
between 1994 and 2011, when the
gallery closed in advance of a host
of lawsuits from collectors.
en over the years, from 10 percent
in the 1990s to 30 percent by 2008.
He said she had earned $10.3 mil-
sponse to questions from Mr.
Robertson and Luke Nikas, a law-
yer for Ms. Freedman, that there
Higher Pay
Without the $32.7 million in net lion in total from the sale of the was no way to tell what sort of By J. DAVID GOODMAN
income from the so-called Rosales Rosales works. (Because he was profits the gallery might have The City Council voted on Fri-
works, “Knoedler would not have focusing on art sales, he said, he generated if it had been involved
day to give its members a raise of
been a profitable enterprise,” Mr. was omitting the fact that in 2011 with selling art works other than
nearly a third over their current
Siefert testified. The gallery’s cu- the gallery earned $18.7 million the forgeries from Ms. Rosales.
base salaries, the first pay bump
mulative deficit for that period
from the sale of its headquarters, Also on Friday, James Martin, for elected officials in New York
would have been about $3 million,
an Upper East Side townhouse.) an art conservator, testified that City since 2006, while enacting a
he said.
Mr. Siefert said his calculations he had examined 16 of the Rosales series of reforms — some of which
But lawyers for Ms. Freedman
showed that if income from the works sold by Knoedler that were would apply only to future city
and Knoedler challenged his con-
sale of the Rosales works were re- said to have been created by dif- lawmakers.
clusion, suggesting, among other
moved, the gallery would have op- ferent artists between 1949 and Each measure — including bills
things, that if the gallery had not FRED R. CONRAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES
erated at a loss in 10 out of the 18 1959, and found indications that to ban most forms of outside in-
spent its time selling the Rosales Knoedler & Company’s former
works it would have focused on years that he had examined. But they were fake. Signs included come, require online financial dis-
president, Ann Freedman. closures and end paid allowances
selling other works that could when questioned by Mark suspicious signatures and the use
have made up any deficit. Robertson, a lawyer for Knoedler, of anachronistic materials, like oil for committee work — passed by
Ms. Rosales, who has pleaded lawyer for the De Soles. All of the Mr. Siefert acknowledged that if paint with a pigment, Yellow 74, wide margins. The closest vote
guilty to criminal charges stem- works were created in a garage in he omitted from his calculations that was not available when the came on the bill to raise the Coun-
ming from the scheme but has not Queens by an immigrant artist the years from 2009 to 2011, a peri- works were supposed to have cil salary to $148,500 from a base
yet been sentenced, earned about named Pei-Shen Qian, who has od when no fakes were sold and been made. of $112,500, which passed 40 to 7.
$26 million from the sale of the said he was typically paid only Knoedler ran annual deficits from “The materials were pointing to Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Demo-
paintings, said Gregory Clarick, a several thousand dollars for each $1.6 million to $2.3 million, the a common source,” he said. crat who is the Council speaker,
said that the reforms would “in-
crease transparency and fair-
ness” and that the limits on out-
side income — which came in ex-
change for the Council’s awarding
itself $10,185 over the recommen-
dation of a city commission on pay
at $420 billion since 1980 — and increases — “are groundbreak-
included a way to generate reve- ing.”
nue. Essentially, ministers would Councilman Ben Kallos, a Man-
trade use of their sermons for hattan Democrat who sponsored
access to Roho’s user metrics. two of the reform bills, said the
Both individual and institutional Council was voting on proposed
users would pay for premium use legislation that
of the site. And, on the assump- had been “long
tion Roho attracted sufficient sought after.”
eyeballs, advertisers would Government
sponsor content. (The site has watchdog
been free to all users thus far in groups agreed,
order to build traffic, but is ex- even if some ob-
pected to convert to a pay model jected to the
next month.) speed of the
One of the first prospective Melissa Mark- vote — two
investors to receive the pitch was days after their
Viverito
David J. Grain. A native of first and only
Brooklyn who grew up in the public hearing
church, Mr. Grain had gone onto — and the lack of public input be-
to start a private equity firm fore the laws took final shape.
focused on media and communi- Few of the council members
cations. Now in Sarasota, Fla., he chose to explain their votes on the
said he missed regular access to package of bills related to pay
high-quality preaching. He be- raises and reforms. None struck
came Roho’s lead investor. dissonant notes, as were heard at
“I’m someone who likes to get the Wednesday hearing, com-
his pray on,” Mr. Grain said. “So, plaining that their pay was not go-
most importantly, Roho was
ÁNGEL FRANCO /THE NEW YORK TIMES ing up enough. Many instead used
something I was looking for. You their allotted time on Friday to ex-
The Rev. Nicholas Richards started a website that collects videos of black ministers’ sermons. don’t write a check like mine
plain why they were voting for a
otherwise.” particular street or public place to
“But I also try to ‘Moneyball’
ogy quite early, in the ’20s, and pleship classes. Major congrega- do not just want to hear a ser- be renamed in their districts.
when television came in, they got tions live-stream their services mon, we want to be able to dis- anything I do,” he continued, Councilman Paul Vallone of
referring to a book and movie
into that. The pastors who have and upload their pastors’ ser- cuss it as an online community — Queens did explain his vote
become savvy with technology mons onto YouTube. And there encouraged Mr. Richards to start about a data-driven, analytical against the salary increase. Mr.
approach to assembling a com-
have tried to use it, putting infor- are a handful of donation-sup- building that function, though it Vallone, a lawyer and a Democrat,
mation and sermons online. And ported websites that collate has not yet gone live. He has petitive baseball team. “I try to
is one of four council members
collecting data from sermons is a examples of black preaching, grind lots of data. So someone
already taken his friends’ advice who earn a significant amount of
real advance.” though often only as text from a like Nicholas, who started with
about making biblical passages money from outside income. In re-
Indeed, such technological geographical area. data, showed an unusual and
and inspirational writings avail- cent days, he had sought to rally
disruption runs headlong into Such was the church world as refreshing level of commitment.”
able on the site. support for a last-minute amend-
one of the proudest traditions of Mr. Richards experienced it With $500,000 in seed money
Mr. Richards’s beta testers ment that would cap, rather than
the black church — the aural and during his graduate studies at in hand — the goal is to raise at
also awakened him to the way a ban, outside income like his,
visual spectacle of what is called Emory University in Atlanta and least $5 million — Mr. Richards
“the preaching moment.” The at Union Theological Seminary in still faced the problem of per-
Sunday morning sermon in a New York, and in nearly a dec- suading black ministers, particu-
ade as an intern and then a staff larly those of the boomer genera-
black church typically runs 45
minutes or more, nearly the member at Abyssinian. He had Roho, ‘spirit’ in tion or older, to willingly part Backing increased
length of an entire service in a
Roman Catholic or mainline
taught himself a bit of computer
coding along the way, but never
Swahili, collects with sermons, their most cher-
ished intellectual property.
salaries, and a
Protestant church. considered himself particularly moments on video. To try to assuage such con- series of reforms.
Many of today’s great black tech-inclined. cerns, Mr. Richards brought on
ministers come from elite divin- Inspiration first flickered sev- as a consultant Martha Simmons,
ity schools and can inflect their eral years ago, when he deliv- the publisher of a widely read
homilies with biblical historicity, ered a sermon as the guest site like Roho could not only put magazine about African-Ameri- which comes from his legal prac-
Greek and Hebrew etymology, preacher for an out-of-town out content but also collect data can ministry. With her, Mr. tice, but chose not to introduce it.
and the modern theology of church. A congregant asked Mr. — about what kind of sermons Richards landed several promi- Councilman Alan Maisel of
Tillich and Niebuhr. But the Richards if he could share a copy people sought, about the nent ministers, including the Rev. Brooklyn said he voted no be-
classic sermon still consists of of the oration. And Mr. Richards demographics of users, about Cynthia L. Hale, the pastor of cause he believed the Council
the old-fashioned “three points came to realize that what the how long a viewer or listener Ray of Hope Christian Church in “should have accepted the recom-
and a whoop.” (A whoop, for the listener probably wanted was not would actually stick with a given Decatur, Ga., and the Rev. Otis mendation” of the Quadrennial
uninitiated, is the preacher’s just one sermon but access to sermon. Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Advisory Commission, a panel ap-
climactic moment of sung-spo- many. “I found this à la carte version Church of Christ in Chicago. pointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio,
ken improvisation under the There was, to Mr. Richards’s of people experiencing their Even some of those who were which last year recommended a
influence of the Holy Spirit.) And knowledge, no single online faith,” Mr. Richards recalled. initially cautious, such as the salary increase to $138,315. (The
the relevant metrics are how repository for outstanding black “People want to choose. ‘I want a Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, the vote on Friday also increased the
many “amens” the congregation sermons. So he spent a weekend sermon about marriage, about 10 pastor of Abyssinian Baptist, pay for borough presidents, dis-
offers and how many sinners in early 2014 building a website minutes long, and I want it at 2 agreed to give Roho a try. trict attorneys, the public advo-
answer the call to the altar. with audio files of sermons. He in the morning on a Wednes- “Our calling, at least as I see it, cate and the mayor, who said he
At the same time, as Dr. then conscripted about a dozen day.’” is spreading the word of God,” he would forgo his bump — to
Mamiya noted, black churches of his college friends to serve as In early 2015, Mr. Richards put said. “And any way you can, you $258,750 from $225,000 — this
have seized on the efficacies of a focus group to provide feed- together a business plan. It in- should avail yourself of it. This is term.)
the digital revolution. Churches back. More formal test groups cluded numbers about the money a new tool. I wonder how people But Mr. Maisel, who is a Demo-
use websites for everything from were assembled later. black Christians gave to their felt about Gutenberg when he crat, said he would still take his
receiving tithes to teaching disci- Their recurrent response — we churches — one estimate sets it came up with the press.” salary increase, which is retroac-
tive to Jan. 1. None of those voting
against the raise, including all
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The New York Times.

Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14 Dies at 85;
Became Sixth Man to Walk on the Moon
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Edgar D. Mitchell, who became
the sixth man to walk on the moon
as a member of NASA’s first lunar
mission devoted exclusively to
scientific research, died Thursday
at a hospice in West Palm Beach,
Fla. He was 85.
NASA announced his death,
which came one day before the
45th anniversary of his moon
landing.
The Apollo 14 flight, launched on
Jan. 31, 1971, took Commander
Mitchell and his fellow Navy offi-
cer, Capt. Alan B. Shepard Jr., to
the moon’s Fra Mauro highlands.
Captain Shepard had been Ameri-
ca’s first man in space 10 years
earlier.
Maj. Stuart A. Roosa of the Air
Force remained in orbit snapping
photographs of potential sites for
future missions while awaiting his
colleagues’ return in the lunar
module.
The first two flights to the moon
— the epic Apollo 11 of July 1969
with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Al-
drin, and Apollo 12 four months
later — were largely devoted to
testing whether men could sur-
vive there, albeit it for a brief peri-
od. Apollo 13’s scheduled moon
landing had been aborted by a
near-disastrous oxygen tank ex-
plosion.
For the 14th mission, scientists
were counting on Commander
Mitchell and Captain Shepard to
be the first astronauts to return
with a large collections of rocks
from high elevations, where some
might be old enough to provide
clues to the moon’s origin and its
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, 72, Defender
Of Rights of Corporate Ex-Wives
By MARGALIT FOX
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, whose
high-stakes, highly publicized di-
vorce settlement of 1997 engen-
dered a national conversation
about the economic worth of cor-
porate spouses, died on Thursday
in Stamford, Conn. She was 72.
The cause was complications of
multiple myeloma and plasma cell
leukemia, her son-in-law Andrew
Regier said.
Ms. Jorgenson Wendt had been
married for more than 30 years to
Gary C. Wendt when, in 1996, she
learned that he planned to divorce
her. At the time, Mr. Wendt was
the chief executive of the GE Capi-
tal Corporation, the financial
services arm of General Electric,
which was widely described as the
company’s most profitable sub-
sidiary.
Connecticut, where the couple’s
divorce played out, is not a com-
munity property state. Ms. Jor-
genson Wendt, who estimated her
husband to be worth more than
$100 million, refused his proffered
settlement of roughly $10 million,
demanding 50 percent of his net
worth. As a result, she became a
nationally known symbol of the
company wife as hardworking si-
lent partner.
“This is not about need,” Ms.
Jorgenson Wendt told The New
York Times in January 1997. “I can
get along on $10 million, but why
should he get $90 million? I en-
tered into this marriage as a part-
ner. I don’t know when he decided
that it was not a partnership.”
Mr. Wendt countered that he
was worth only $20 million and
therefore had indeed offered her
50 percent.
Because divorce laws vary from
state to state, Wendt v. Wendt was
not expected to set a national legal
precedent, whatever its outcome.
But it did set something of a social
precedent, raising the question of
whether it is appropriate, or even
possible, to put a price on tradi-
tional spousal fealty.
Ms. Jorgenson Wendt argued
that she been a crucial associate in
her husband’s climb up the corpo-
rate ladder — supporting him
through business school, main-
taining their home, raising their
children and serving for years as
an indefatigable hostess.
“I ran his family very smoothly,”
she said in court. “I ran his house-
hold. He never had to question
what was going on in the house-
hold with his family. He came
home. He was taken care of. Now,
if a man had to do this — if he had
to buy his groceries, do all the
things that a wife does, plus raise
a family, plus keep the home — he
couldn’t be where he is today if
there wasn’t someone at home al-
lowing him to do those things.”
The case spawned both eager
anticipation and anxious appre-
hension among the corporate-jet
set nationwide. Ms. Jorgenson
NASA
Cmdr. Edgar D. Mitchell had a
doctorate in flight sciences.
evolution. (Apollo 11 and Apollo 12
had landed in fairly level areas.)
Spending just over nine hours
on two moonwalks, the astronauts
collected more than 94 pounds of
rock samples, piling them in a
two-wheeled cart they were haul-
ing. But they missed out on com-
pleting one important task.
NASA had hoped that they
could climb to the rim of the nearly
400-foot-high Cone crater and
collect especially significant rock
samples there. But in lugging the
cart the astronauts found the
climb to be difficult and experi-
enced rapid heartbeats. Mission
control, concerned about exhaus-
tion and wary of time constraints,
ordered them to turn back. Unbe-
known to the men at the time, they
were only about 20 yards from
their goal.
Lorna Jorgenson Wendt said on a proffered settlement, “I can
get along on $10 million, but why should he get $90 million?”
Wendt appeared often on televi-
sion and was featured on the
cover of Fortune magazine in Feb-
ruary 1998 under the headline
“What’s a Corporate Wife
Worth?”
What Ms. Jorgenson Wendt
was worth, according to the 519-
page opinion handed down in De-
cember 1997 by Judge Kevin Tier-
ney of the State Superior Court in
Stamford, was about $20 million.
His ruling split the couple’s
competing demands, giving Ms.
Jorgenson Wendt half of her hus-
band’s hard assets — including
cash, securities, homes in Con-
She sued for half his
assets, claiming rights
as a crucial partner in
her husband’s ascent.
necticut and Florida and $252,000
a year in alimony — while award-
ing her a far smaller percentage of
his future earnings, 50 percent of
which she had also sought.
In what The Times later charac-
terized as “the understatement of
the year,” Judge Tierney wrote,
“This court is mindful that this de-
cision will be read with a great
deal of interest by corporate offi-
cers.”
Ms. Jorgenson Wendt appealed
the ruling, requesting at least $35
million. In 2000, Connecticut’s Ap-
pellate Court upheld Judge Tier-
ney’s original award.
After her divorce, Ms. Jorgen-
son Wendt spent many years lec-
turing on financial parity during,
and after, marriage. (She strongly
recommended prenuptial agree-
ments.) In 1998, she founded the
Equality in Marriage Institute, a
clearinghouse for information on
the subject, which she ran until it
ceased operations in 2006.
The daughter of a Lutheran
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
Commander Mitchell, who had
a doctorate in flight sciences, had
long maintained a parallel interest
in the study of consciousness, a
fascination that was heightened
during his return from the moon.
“It was a sense of the Earth be-
ing in critical condition, a recogni-
tion of the massive insanity which
had led man into deeper and
deeper crises on the planet,” he
told the writer Francine du
Plessix Gray in The New York
Times Magazine in August 1974.
“Above all, I felt the need for a
radical change in our culture. I
knew we were replete with un-
tapped intuitive and psychic
forces which we must utilize if we
were to survive, forces that West-
ern society had programmed us to
disregard.”
Heading home, Commander
Mitchell secretly conducted an ex-
periment in extrasensory percep-
tion — thought transference —
while his fellow astronauts were
asleep. He concentrated on sym-
bols in a set of cards he had
brought with him in the hope that
four people he had selected back
on Earth could read his thoughts
and determine what those draw-
ings were.
In discussing the experiment at
a news conference five months
later, he said it produced “results
far exceeding anything expected.”
Of the 200 guesses by his contacts
back on Earth, he said, 51 correctly
identified his thoughts.
Another Apollo 14 moment hav-
ing nothing to do with rocks was
provided by Captain Shepard,
who took three golf balls with him
LIBRADO ROMERO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
minister and a homemaker, Lorna
Joyce Jorgenson was born in Mi-
not, N.D., on June 14, 1943. When
she was a teenager, the family
moved to Rio, Wis., where she fell
in love with young Mr. Wendt, a
classmate.
The couple earned bachelor’s
degrees — hers in music — from
the University of Wisconsin, and
in 1965, after graduating, were
married. They began their wed-
ded life, she later said, with $2,500
between them.
The Wendts moved to Cam-
bridge, Mass., where Mr. Wendt
attended Harvard Business
School. Ms. Jorgenson Wendt
worked as a music teacher, though
she gave up her professional life
for good a few years later, after the
birth of their first child.
When her husband earned his
M.B.A., Ms. Jorgenson Wendt was
awarded a Ph.T. — an actual cer-
tificate, presented by a Harvard
dean to students’ wives in those
years for, in its words, Putting
Hubby Through.
Ms. Jorgenson Wendt’s sur-
vivors include her companion of 17
years, Spencer Dean Wallin; two
daughters, Sarah Wendt and Ra-
chel Nash; five siblings, Karen
Rudrud, Kathy Seyberth, Ruth
Nordal, Ronald Jorgenson and
Rick Jorgenson; and three grand-
children.
Mr. Wendt, who remarried in
1998, is now the chairman of Deer-
path Capital Management.
In recent years, Ms. Jorgenson
Wendt, who lived in Stamford and
on the Upper West Side of Man-
hattan, devoted herself to philan-
thropic causes.
Though she became a standard-
bearer for compensating the
woman behind the man, Ms. Jor-
genson Wendt always asserted
that her case was more about
principle than payout.
“I was not a 10 percent partner
in our marriage, I was a 50-50
partner,” she told “CBS This
Morning” in 1997. “He may have
earned the bacon, but I shopped
for it.”
Commander Mitchell moving across the moon in February 1971.
Lunar dust can be seen clinging to the boots and legs of his suit.
to the moon.
Wielding a makeshift 6-iron, he
hit a shot, televised back to Earth,
that traveled “miles and miles and
miles,” as he put it, in lunar gravity
only one-sixth that of the Earth.
(The shot was presumed to have
gone more than 800 feet, more
than six times his normal range
with a 6-iron back on Earth.)
Edgar Dean Mitchell was born
on Sept. 19, 1930, in Hereford, Tex.,
and grew up in Artesia, N.M. He
became fascinated by flight when
he watched crop duster pilots fly-
ing biplanes from an airfield near
his home.
He received a bachelor of sci-
ence degree in industrial manage-
ment from Carnegie Institute of
Deaths
BLOCK–Jeffrey L., died Jan-
uary 12, 2016 in Westport, CT,
beloved husband of Helen for
FADEM–Edna Mae.
35 years. He was the proud
father of Mike Meredith and
Gabriel and the grandfather
of three. He also leaves his
much respected brother
Elliot and soulful sister Diane.
Jeff will be remembered for
his disarming wit, keen intel-
ligence and kind disposition.
He was an avid basketball
player often challenging and
surprising far younger op-
ponents. A skilled skier, he
shared his love for adventure
with friends and their grown
children. He was a sensitive
man who wrote stirring poe-
try for the delight of the se-
lect few with whom he
shared this talent. After a
long career at PriceWater-
HouseCoopers. where he suc-
ceeded with creativity, grit
and indomitable initiative,
Jeff dedicated his time and
energy to the grass roots or-
ganization Save Westport
Now. Donations in Jeff s me- fairs and travel with Lee. Sun-
mory may be made to:
www.specialolympics.org
and www.nationalparks.org
DALEY–Patrick,
died February 5, 2016. Patrick Diane and Jeff Kennedy; her
Daley, Senior Vice President
and Publisher, Scholastic children Jill and Robert Serl- hews, the joy of her life. Ce-
Education, is mourned by his
colleagues and friends who
were honored to publish the
brilliant and engaging read- her grandchildren, Rachel
ing programs he developed
that helped transform the
lives of millions of students. lin and Carly Ivrey and Cody
As a young classroom teach-
er in Burlington, VT, Patrick in love with their Grandma LOVETT–Lawrence D.
got some advice that would
change his life: you must do
whatever it takes to get them
to read. He joined Scholastic
in 1988, vowing to create the
highest-quality, most engag-
ing reading materials that
would help even the most
profoundly struggling read- stand. Contributions may be
ers to read with joy. Patrick made in Sunny s memory to
was the editor of Scholastic
Action magazine, which
serves at-risk students and
went on to develop READ
180, the premier reading in- GILLETTE–Joan,
tervention program for of New York, NY, 81, on Fe-
grades 3-12. His passion for bruary 2, 2016 of complica-
helping children learn to read tions from cancer. Joan was
was his driving force. He put
his heart and soul into READ
180 and other programs de-
signed to serve the diverse
populations of children who
needed stories in which they
could find themselves. It is
thanks to Patrick Daley and
his big ideas, bigger energy, ing Stan s death, Joan found US Army from 1954-1956. He
and huge heart that millions
of children have learned to
read. His wisdom and pas- gaged when she was 18. Joan
sionate dedication to children is survived by her daughter
will remain with all who knew Patty, her stepson Richard
and worked with him. Patrick Gillette, her grandchildren
is survived by his loving hus- Kyle and Blake Norman, Ja-
band Daryl Hair and two sis- sara Myles and Holly Martin then joined his family compa-
ters, Mary and Kathy along
with extended family.
Richard Robinson
CEO, Scholastic
DIAMOND–Gerald, 88, on Fe-
bruary 4, 2016. Life partner, https://giving.mskcc.org/find
soulmate and wife of Susi, de-
voted father of Gayle Dia-
mond Crespy and dear fath-
er-in-law of Scott Crespy, GREENSPAN–Florence.
grandfather of Hannah and
Leah. Jerry will be missed by
his extended family and
friends. Service Sunday, Fe-
bruary 7, 12 noon at The
Riverside, 76 St. and Amster-
dam Ave. Donations in his
memory may be made to He-
brew Immigrant Aid Society,
or the World Jewish Con-
gress.
N A21
Part of the first lunar
mission devoted
exclusively to
scientific research.
Mr. Mitchell’s two marriages
ended in divorce. Survivors in-
clude four daughters, Karlyn,
Elizabeth, Mary and Kimberly,
and a son, Paul, according to the
South Florida website TCPalm-
.com. Kimberly Mitchell is a for-
mer city commissioner of West
Palm Beach.
Mr. Mitchell owned a business
consulting firm in South Florida
but retained his interest in study-
ing the mind.
In 1973 he founded the Institute
of Noetic Sciences, a California-
based nonprofit that supports re-
search in the field. Its name is de-
NASA rived from the Greek word vari-
ously defined as intellect or inner
wisdom.
Mr. Mitchell created a stir in
2008 when he told a British radio
Technology (now Carnegie Mel- station that his contacts in mili-
lon University) in Pittsburgh in tary and intelligence circles had
1952 and joined the Navy the next told him that “we’ve been visited
year. on this planet, and the U.F.O. phe-
After flying fighter planes, he nomena is real,” but that govern-
obtained another bachelor’s de- ments had “covered up” the mat-
gree, in aeronautics, from the Na- ter for at least 60 years. (His boy-
val Postgraduate School in 1961. hood home was 40 miles south of
He earned his doctorate, in aero- Roswell, N.M., site of the celebrat-
nautics and astronautics, from the ed claim of an unidentified flying
Massachusetts Institute of Tech- object crash and government
nology in 1964. He graduated from cover-up in 1947.)
test pilot school, then joined the NASA, Mr. Mitchell’s former
astronaut corps in April 1966. employer, was quick to respond.
Apollo 14 was Commander “NASA does not track U.F.O.s,” a
Mitchell’s only spaceflight. He re- spokesman for the agency said.
tired from NASA and the Navy in “NASA is not involved in any sort
1972 and at his death lived in Lake of cover-up about alien life on this
Worth, Fla., south of West Palm planet or anywhere else in the uni-
Beach. verse.”
Deaths Deaths
Block, Jeffrey
Daley, Patrick
Greenspan, Florence Marcus, Amy
Israel, Deborah Panush, Hyman
Diamond, Gerald Kohnop, Pearl St. Lifer, Herbert
Fadem, Edna Lovett, Lawrence
Gillette, Joan Maidman, Gail
ISRAEL–Deborah. MAIDMAN–Gail Ann Lowe.
Longtime resident of Glen On January 31, 2016 peaceful-
Cove, NY. Wife of the late, ly, surrounded by family, Gail
Leo, adored mother of Fred, left the world of the living and
Steve (Marsee), Michael joined her parents in the Gar-
(Michele), and David (Lucre- den of G-D. Magnificent and
tia). Most loved grandmother beautiful Gail s time came
of Isa, Samantha, Jake, Harri- too soon for her loved ones.
son, Sam, Sarah, Blake, Wil- Her kindness, beauty, gra-
liam, and Daniel. Service Sun- ciousness, wit, and elegance,
day, 9:00am, at Gutterman s will shine on. Beloved wife of
Of New Rochelle, NY, 88, died 8000 Jericho Turnpike, Wood-
peacefully on February 2, bury, NY. Interment to follow
Richard H. M. Maidman, lov-
ing ex-wife of Stephen D.
2016, surrounded by her be- at Washington Memorial Haymes. Nurturing mother of
loved husband of 67 years, Park, Coram, NY. Evan A. Haymes (Regina)
Leroy Lee and her family. and Starr H. Kempin
The daughter of the late
Charles and Patricia Raizen,
(Jacques). Kind stepmother
of Patrick (Jacqueline, de-
Sunny lit up every room she parted) Maidman, Mitchel
entered. She loved life and
her passions were family,
(Arlene) Maidman and Dag-
ny (Molly) Maidman. Loving
gardening, music, world af- KOHNOP–Pearl, 97, on Jan-
Momma Gail of Esme,
uary 30. Devoted wife of the
ny, an honors graduate of late Dr Ben Kohnop. Proud
Theodore Haymes and Sterl-
ing Kempin. Loving Step-
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Hunter College grad. Avid Momma Gail to Allison, Bea-
reader, bridge and scrabble trice, Jonathan, Harrison, Ju-
PA, is also survived by her
children Steven Fadem and player, she enjoyed theater, lia, Ezra, Sage and Cassidy
Laurie Baskin, Barbara and art, ballet, music. Loving
Jeff Hayden, Kathy Ivrey and
Maidman. For Shiva Informa-
daughter, sister, doting aunt tion, please call 212-755-2595.
to three generations. She is Celebration Service to be
adored brother Roy and his missed by nieces and nep-
held Wednesday, April 6,
ing and David Raizen and dar Park Paramus February
11am at Temple Emanu-El,
Fifth Avenue at 65th Street.
Bettina Daloia and their child- 7. FamilialDysautonomia.org
ren. Her greatest legacy is
Donation can be made to
either: The Gail Ann Lowe
Maidman Scholarship Fund
and Chloe Fadem; Mark, Da- at the American Academy of
niel and Sarah Hayden; Cait- Dramatic Arts c/o Susan
Kennedy, who were all madly
Zech, President, 120 Madison
Avenue, NYC, NY 10016 or to
The Gail Ann Lowe Maidman
Sunny and she loved them
back with an intense fervor.
Fund at the Jewish Commun-
al Fund, 575 Madison Ave.,
She taught all of us what it
means to be loving and car-
New York, NY 10022.
ing and how to overcome any MAIDMAN–Gail Ann Lowe.
adversity with a smile, tenaci-
ty and grit. She will be missed
On January 31, 2016 our dear
Mother and Momma Gail
in ways she will never under- moved from our earthly hugs
and kisses to becoming our
everlasting guiding light.
Temple Israel or a charity of Shine bright beloved Mom.
one s choice. Adoringly, Evan Adam,
Regina (nee Teplitsky),
Esme Jemma and Theodore
Mason Lowe Haymes
MARCUS–Amy L.,
originally from New Jersey
the daughter of the late Helen Venetian Heritage Inc. and and longtime resident of New
and Leonard Glickman. Joan Fondazione Venetian Heri- York City, passed away
peacefully on February 5. Be-
married Stanley C. Gillette tage Onlus mourn the death
with whom she had a daugh- of its Founding Chairman, loved daughter, sister, aunt,
ter, Patty Gillette of Sleepy Lawrence D. Lovett, who friend will be remembered
Hollow, NY. For 40 years was a distinguished member for her smiles and laughter.
Beloved member of Town
Joan and Stan had a loving of the boards for more than
and happy marriage. Follow- 15 years. Larry served in the and Village Synagogue,
Times Squares Dancers of
love again with Bob Pitofsky, graduated Harvard College New York. Graduated from
to whom she had been en-
with honors and Harvard
Law School in 1954. He began
Beth Israel Nursing
and Pace College. Amy
School
his career as a cargo ship and worked at Beth Israel and the
tanker broker in New York
and went on to become VP of
92nd Street Y s Senior Pro-
gram. Amy will be missed by
many! She is survived by a
Eastern Steamship Lines. He
sister, a brother, four nieces,
three nephews. Services will
and four great-grandchildren. nies as President of Bur-
Memorial service Sunday,
February 7, 1pm at
goyne Properties Company,
The Suwance Steamship Compa-
be held February 7th, at The
Riverside, 180 West 76th St.,
Riverside, 76th Street and ny and the Piggly Wiggly Cor- New York at 10am.
Amsterdam Ave. Donations poration simultaneously. Lar- PANUSH–Hyman,
in her memory to Memorial ry was devoted to the arts, 100, on February 5, 2016. Be-
Sloane Kettering at primarily the Metropolitan
Opera. He served as Pres-
loved husband of the late Mir-
iam and Zelda, devoted fath-
-and-donate-giving-page. ident of the Board of the Me- er of Miriam, Donnie, Ben-
tropolitan Opera Guild from
Zion, Bashie and David.
1971-1979 and Chairman from Adored grandfather of Elana,
1979 to 1986. He was President Adina, Moshe, Sippy, Yitzy,
of the Metropolitan Opera
Zerlina, Lucy, Michelle and
Association Board, Chairman Jake. Great-grandfather of
of its Executive Committee Dovi, Aliza and newborn
and Chairman of the Cham- baby girl. Service Sunday, Fe-
ber Music Society of Lincoln bruary 7, 11:15am at The
Center. In 1996 he devoted
himself to restoration
Riverside, 76 St. and Amster-
dam Ave.
projects in Venice and in 1998
founded Venetian Heritage, ST. LIFER–Herbert W.,
raising funds for the preser- of Larchmont, NY, 85, died
vation of Venetian art and ar- peacefully on February 4,
chitecture in Venice and 2016. Loving and beloved hus-
those regions of the Mediter- band of Barbara (Sisholz) and
ranean rim subject to Vene-
tian influence. On behalf of
adored father of Nancy and
Elizabeth (Steven Ostrow).
the board, we extend our sin- Fun loving uncle and cher-
cere condolences to his fami- ished friend. He will be
ly. We will miss him. missed by all who knew him.
With sadness, Mrs. Karen Pierre Durand, Funeral Sunday, February 7,
Zarembski of Baltimore, MD Venetian Heritage Inc., 2016, 11:30am, at Zion Me-
and Mr. Eric Greenspan of Chairman and President; morial Chapel, 785 East Bos-
Brooklyn, NY announce the Valentina Nasi Marini Clarelli, ton Post Rd, Mamaroneck,
Fondazione Venetian
passing of their beloved NY 10543 (www.zionchapel-
mother, Mrs. Florence Heritage Onlus, President .com). The family will be re-
ceiving at his home Saturday
Greenspan. Florence Wolf
was born on December 28, evening from 7:30-9:00pm and
1920. She later married Julius Sunday afternoon following
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Greenspan and had two child- the funeral service until
ren, Eric and Karen. She also 4:00pm. Charitable contribu-
had six grandchildren, and tions to Alzheimer s Disease
nine great-grandchildren. Her Research or the American
children wish to remember Lung Foundation would be
her as a deeply loving mother greatly appreciated.
and patriotic American who
worked more than two de-
cades with the Coast Guard. In Memoriam
She was a lover of all things
music – whether it was tak- GUSTIN–Brenda. Hard to
ing her children to Broadway imagine we lost this beautiful
shows or jogging down woman one year ago on Fe-
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
Avenue J with her head- bruary 7. We love and miss
phones on. The funeral is set you every day Mom. You
to take place this Sunday, are the light that shines on
February 7th at the IJ me. You always were and
Morris Funeral Home at you ll always be.
1895 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, Nick Gustin
NY 11210. Ken Gustin
A22 N THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS/LETTERS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016

The Stakes in the Democratic Race

TO THE EDITOR: cially. However, watching his rising pop-
Re “Democrats Clash on Money’s Role ularity, I remember the stinging disap-
in Bitter Debate” (front page, Feb. 5): pointment and sorry aftermath of the un-
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher, Chairman
It may be true that some or even all of successful George McGovern campaign
Founded in 1851 ADOLPH S. OCHS ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER ORVIL E. DRYFOOS ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER Senator Bernie Sanders’s proposals will in 1972, when Richard M. Nixon won by a
Publisher 1896-1935 Publisher 1935-1961 Publisher 1961-1963 Publisher 1963-1992 not pass any time soon. But if Democrats landslide.
don’t stand for such things as single-pay- I don’t think many Democrats or pro-
er health care and a $15-an-hour mini- gressives want that to happen again. I’m
mum wage, who will? worried that Mr. Sanders might lead us
Hillary Clinton seems to want to com- right into a huge defeat.

The Republican Refusal to Aid Flint promise with the Republicans before the
debate even begins. Her refrain seems to
be “No, we can’t,” a sad twist on Presi-
dent Obama’s slogan of 2008.
DEBORAH STEWART
Seattle

The water crisis in Flint, Mich., has elicited a lot more
hand-wringing and apologies than concrete actions to pro-
vide for the needs of children and adults whose health may
be damaged by water from pipes that are leaching lead
into taps all over the city. The state government, whose of-
ficials caused this crisis, has been loath to commit sub-
stantial funds to long-term needs, and Congress, under the
control of Republicans, is finding excuses not to rescue
this poverty-stricken, majority-black city of nearly 100,000
people.
The evasions were on prominent display on both sides
of Congress this week.
A House oversight committee held a hearing on
Wednesday whose purpose was purportedly to identify
those responsible for the Flint crisis and determine what
could be done to alleviate it. But the committee failed to
summon Rick Snyder, the Republican governor of Michi-
gan, whose environmental officials and emergency man-
agers were the ones who made monumental blunders that
led the city to draw water from the polluted Flint River
without treating it properly. Instead, Republicans heaped
blame on the Environmental Protection Agency, which
made mistakes but was a bit player in this drama.
Then on Thursday, in the Senate, negotiations be-
tween Republicans and Democrats on a financial aid pack-
age for Flint, to be attached to a bipartisan energy bill
awaiting passage, broke down, and Democrats refused to
approve the bill without the aid package, pushing any
hope of assistance into next week.
The Democrats have already yielded a lot of ground,
cutting their original $600 million aid package to less than
half of that, only to meet Republican objections that the
costs were not fully offset by other cuts in federal spend-
ing and that no money should be provided until Michigan
had a more thorough plan on how the money would be
spent.
There is little doubt that some, perhaps all, of Flint’s
corroded pipes will need to be replaced, at a cost that the
governor estimates at $767 million and others say could be
above $1 billion. We believe that the Army Corps of Engi-
neers ought to do the job and bill the state for its services.
It is outrageous that Flint residents, even though the city
has switched back to cleaner water from Lake Huron, still
have to rely on bottled water and filters because the lead
continues to leach from the pipes.
There is no doubt that thousands of Flint residents
will need monitoring, medical supervision and educational
support for many years to come. Some 8,000 or more chil-
dren under the age of 6, whose developing brains can suf-
fer irreversible damage from exposure to lead, drank the
poisoned water, and some are already showing symptoms.
They need immediate access to supportive preschool pro-
grams; monitoring by school nurses and teachers trained
to spot and care for children with developmental difficul-
ties (Michigan ranks last in the ratio of school nurses to
students); and nutritious meals high in calcium, vitamin C
and iron, which mitigate the effects of lead.
Experts are uncertain about the degree of permanent
brain damage caused by the amount of lead ingested by
Flint youngsters. That may take years to assess fully, but
these youngsters and their parents deserve every bit of
support they can get for the harm they have suffered and
will continue to suffer from the government’s mistakes.
And children are not the only victims. Lead poisoning
can have severe consequences for people of all ages. It will
be crucial for everyone — every baby, adolescent and
adult — to be monitored by a primary care doctor who can
keep close watch on his or her medical needs. Providing
that service will require immediate money from the state
and federal governments — and a long-term commitment
from the state to the victims for decades to come.
EDEL RODRIGUEZ
TOM SOUTHWICK
Princeville, Hawaii
TO THE EDITOR:
Senator Bernie Sanders is a man who
should be greatly admired for his elo-
quence and intelligence. However, what
is at stake in the race for the presidency
is the future of our world, and what is
needed is a Democratic candidate who is
electable against what will be a formida-
ble Republican ticket.
Hillary Clinton is far more electable
than a man who carries the baggage of
being a “socialist”; too many moderate
swing voters would probably object to
this. And in what will no doubt be a very
close election, every vote is needed.
DAVID J. GOLDBERG
New Orleans
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “2 Questions for Bernie Sanders”
(column, Feb. 4):
Thanks to Nicholas Kristof for raising
those questions about Mr. Sanders’s
electability and how he would translate
his vision into reality. I wanted Bernie
Sanders to raise all the issues he (and I)
believes in and supported him finan-
The Critics Still Win
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “Everybody’s a Critic” (news anal-
ysis, Sunday Review, Jan. 31):
Our new work puts to the test A. O.
Scott’s contention that “everyone is a
critic.” When we embarked on our re-
search project, we had the same gut feel-
ing as Mr. Scott, who laments that “the
inflated, always suspect authority of ink-
stained wretches like me has been
leveled by digital anarchy.”
There are also studies (by other
scholars) that highlight the importance
of user reviews, and show that con-
sumers and experts use different criteria
in forming their opinions. But we were
surprised to find that the rumors of crit-
ics’ demise were greatly exaggerated, to
paraphrase Mark Twain.
Our earlier work, published in The
Journal of Marketing using data from the
1990s, shows that the opinion of profes-
sional critics was an important determi-
TO THE EDITOR:
Two questions for Nicholas Kristof and
Democratic skeptics of Bernie Sanders:
1) How do you think the current “Know
Nothing” majority party currently domi-
nating Congress will respond to a Presi-
dent Hillary Clinton? Do you think she’ll
get a warmer reception than President
Obama?
2) Who will wage the better “good
fight” as president against the majority
“Know Nothings?” ANTHONY LORTS
Sarasota, Fla.
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “Plain Talk Pulls Young Voters to
Sanders’s Run” (front page, Feb. 5):
The problem with Bernie Sanders’s
campaign and its surprising success is
not that Hillary Clinton’s nomination is
threatened. It’s that the Sanders cam-
paign will have sucked up all the enthusi-
asm of millions of young volunteers,
leaving disappointed and apathetic
youths for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign once
she wins the nomination.
It’s not Mr. Sanders’s success that
threatens Mrs. Clinton; it’s the effect of
his loss that will pose a huge challenge.
MICHAEL JACOBSON
New York
Abortion and the Zika Virus
TO THE EDITOR:
The Times editorial board is right that
the Zika virus creates “anxiety” for wom-
en in Latin American countries (“Fight-
ing the Zika Virus on Multiple Fronts,”
Feb. 3). But women’s reproductive
health care in Latin America isn’t a crisis
today just because of the virus; it has
been an ongoing crisis.
Lawmakers who have bent their knees
to evangelicals and Catholic bishops lob-
bying to make abortion laws more re-
strictive have shown disgraceful hypoc-
risy. Women in Latin America with
healthy pocketbooks can circumvent any
restriction on abortion or contraception.
It’s only the poor and marginalized, and
those who live in rural areas, who suffer.
Reports that lawmakers may be re-ex-
amining their conscience and the law in-
dicate that there might be hope (“Zika
Reignites Battle in Brazil Over Abor-
tion,” front page, Feb. 4).

An Investment in Colombia’s Peace nant of the financial success of films. In

our new work, we compare the influence
of user reviews to the effect of profes-
When the pope visits Mexico in the
coming weeks, we pray that he will speak
to the real change that women in Latin
sional critics on box office revenues. America desperately need. And that poli-
President Obama hosted President Juan Manuel San- cotics. Mr. Obama hopes to contribute $450 million to the ticians will do the right thing.
We are using the latest statistical
tos of Colombia in the White House this week to celebrate peace effort to build up legal institutions, improve educa- JON O’BRIEN
methodologies, and exploring 21st-cen-
the imminent signing of a peace agreement that could end tion and promote economic growth. tury data. President, Catholics for Choice
one of the longest-running conflicts in history. One of the early challenges of the post-truce era will Washington
But critics still win, hands down. It
Having spent $10 billion over the past 15 years train- be the establishment of special tribunals. The Colombian seems that moviegoers place much more
ing and supporting Colombia’s security forces, Washing- government and the FARC reached a deliberately vague weight on the views of Mr. Scott and his
ton officials are understandably feeling proud of America’s agreement on transitional justice last year, which has colleagues when deciding which movie Empowering Women
contribution to the country’s turnaround. After nearly raised valid concerns that serious war criminals could go to see than on the opinions of “super au-
dience reviewers” of various varieties TO THE EDITOR:
three and a half years of peace talks, the government of largely unpunished.
that are available on websites. To use Mr. Re “Battling Tradition With Defiance”
Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Co- It is unrealistic to expect that every war crime com- Scott’s analogy, his group of “soldiers in (front page, Jan. 31), about the struggle
lombia, or FARC, a Marxist-inspired insurgency, expect to mitted during the five-decade war will be punished. How- the culture wars” (critics) seems to be for women’s economic empowerment
sign an armistice in March. ever, the most serious crimes committed by FARC winning the battle, at least for the time and participation in India:
“We all know that it’s easier to start wars than to end commanders and Colombian military personnel should being. S. ABRAHAM RAVID This is a global challenge. I have yet to
them,” Mr. Obama said at an East Room ceremony. “But lead to meaningful sanctions. If the tribunals are per- New York visit a country where women don’t face
after half a century of wrenching conflict, the time has ceived as incompetent or too lenient, the prospect of a last- The writer is a professor of finance at Ye- economic barriers, from domestic vio-
shiva University. lence and workplace harassment to un-
come for peace.” ing peace will be in jeopardy.
As Mr. Obama’s phrasing suggests, the administra- One of the main goals of Washington’s long effort to equal pay and restrictive gender norms,
and individuals, families, communities
tion knows that even a formal peace accord cannot by it- stabilize Colombia was to cut cocaine production in half.
self heal the wounds of a long and painful conflict. The Yet the drug trade is still booming, kept afloat in large A Coconut Palm’s Allure and economies all pay the price.
But I’ve seen how leaders are commit-
next phase will require a well-managed transitional justice part by strong demand in the United States. There is no ted to act in their countries’ best interest
process, a concerted effort to address the country’s en- easy fix to this problem, but the time has clearly come for TO THE EDITOR:
and foster economic growth and devel-
Re “Where We See Tangled Trees, He
trenched inequality and new approach to counternar- a new approach. opment, as Prime Minister Narendra
Sees Social Networks” (The Saturday
Modi is working to do in India. The
Profile, Jan. 30): Peter Wohlleben, a Ger-
United States supports these efforts.
man forest ranger, is right. Trees are so-
That’s why we work with countries to
cial beings and nurturers. I know because
EDITORIAL OBSERVER ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON one nurtured me.
empower women in the economy, using
programs, partnerships, multilateral ini-
The coconut palm in our front yard was
tiatives and plain old-fashioned diplo-
The Sincerest Form of Flattery my best childhood friend. Every day I
would sit against its bark and talk about
everything while massaging its trunk.
macy to advance the status of women
and girls, who are the next generation of
workers.
“Immature poets imitate; mature po- used clipped-cadence flourishes like, poor. Both candidates now take their When ripe coconuts would drop, I sa-
ets steal,” T. S. Eliot said, meaning that “Here’s what I want ya to know, guys,” audiences on a Caribbean tour of over- vored the sweet milk, shielded from the Clearly our work is far from finished. It
the best poets seek to improve on last- to raise topics her rival holds dear: in- seas tax havens and pledge to close tax broiling sun by glorious green fronds. will take action from many — policy mak-
ing ideas. It would seem that the come inequality, poverty, the Koch loopholes for wealthy individuals and In 1971 there was an outbreak of lethal ers, law enforcement, community lead-
Democratic presidential primary’s ma- brothers, taxing millionaires. “We’re corporations, a longtime stance of Mr. yellowing in Miami, a disease that pri- ers, employers and parents — to unlock
ture poet is Hillary Clinton, who has going where the money is, the money is Sanders’s. marily affected coconut palms, killing women’s economic opportunity in all sec-
been adopting the progressive words, where the wealthy are, we’re gonna Mr. Sanders now promises to in- thousands of them. We lived in a Miami tors. The alternative is economically and
and style, of her rival Bernie Sanders. change the tax code and make them crease government funding to Planned suburb. morally unsustainable.
The Vermont senator’s longstanding pay for all of the benefits they’ve got Parenthood, an organization Mrs. Clin- When its fronds turned yellow, the third CATHY RUSSELL
call for revolution against a system here in America!” she shouted. ton has championed for years. He also stage of the disease, inevitably followed Ambassador at Large
rigged against the poor and middle This is the sincerest form of flattery. puts equal pay for women front and by death, I was devastated. One after- for Global Women’s Issues
class resonates with young Democrats Here’s what Mr. Sanders said when he center in his speeches, another issue noon, I wrapped my legs and arms around Department of State
who jam convention halls to hear his was inaugurated as the mayor of Bur- Mrs. Clinton, endorsed by many its trunk and loudly begged for it not to Washington
booming, Brooklyn-accented voice. lington, Vt., 35 years ago: “In America women’s groups, has owned in the past. die, openly spilling tears on its bark, not
Some Democrats say it’s great that Mr. today, the rich are getting richer, the Mrs. Clinton’s Sanders impression is caring that people outside or in passing
Sanders is nudging Mrs. Clinton to the poor are getting poorer and the millions least convincing when she rails against cars witnessed such naked desperation.
left. Others say she’s merely parroting big finance. She has a legitimate plan to ONLINE: MORE LETTERS
All the coconut palms in our neighbor-
the race’s true progressive. rein in what she calls the “shadow hood died, except mine. It survived, “The adverse effects of free trade are
In April, leading Mr. Sanders by more banking” economy — hedge funds, big
than 50 points nationally, Mrs. Clinton Hints of Bernie insurers and the like. But her Bernie-
watching over me for years afterward.
MICHAEL ROYCE
concentrated among displaced
workers and small businesses,” a reader
traversed Iowa in her “Scooby bus,” esque tough talk seems less convincing
speaking to handfuls of people at highly Sanders in Hillary when she continues to court Wall Street
Forest Hills, Queens writes. nytimes.com/opinion
orchestrated round tables, favoring ev-
erybody-wins subjects like help for Clinton’s speeches. contributions.
At a CNN town hall in New Hamp-
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small business. In July, she opened up shire on Wednesday night, and in

on Republicans, without mentioning
her Democratic opponents. In Septem-
ber, Mrs. Clinton told a gathering in
Ohio that she was “kind of moderate
and center.” A month later, after poll
numbers showed that Mr. Sanders was
gaining on her in Iowa, she drew criti-
of families in the middle are gradually
sliding out of the middle class and into
poverty.” He’s been saying that ever
since. Trying to beat Bernie Sanders at
his own game carries risks for Mrs.
Clinton. Democrats frequently fault her
on trustworthiness, accusing her of
Thursday night’s debate, the two candi-
dates bickered over who is a “progres-
sive.” At the town hall, Mrs. Clinton said
she found it amusing how “Senator
Sanders has set himself up as the gate-
keeper of who gets to be a progressive.”
But Mr. Sanders said, “I do not know
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cism for newly portraying herself as a
“progressive.”
Now locked in a tighter race, Mrs.
Clinton is holding big rallies too, and
she increasingly channels the Bern. As
both Democratic candidates made clos-
ing arguments at rallies in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, before the caucuses, it
was remarkable how Mrs. Clinton’s
talking points, style, even hand ges-
tures resembled Mr. Sanders’s. In a
fiery speech in a high school gym, she
changing her positions to suit the po-
litical moment.
Responding to Mr. Sanders’s call for a
$15 per hour minimum wage, Mrs. Clin-
ton, who favors raising the federal
minimum to $12, now says she supports
state and local efforts for higher min-
imums. Her call for a “fair share sur-
charge” on people making more than $5
million a year is a response to Mr.
Sanders’s signature call for the rich to
take on a greater role in caring for the
any progressive who has a super PAC
and takes $15 million from Wall Street.”
The merging of the philosophies pur-
sued by these two very different poli-
ticians is a fascinating twist in the race.
After an entire political career as a
voice in the wilderness, Mr. Sanders’s
lifelong message is resonating. The
challenge for Mrs. Clinton is to listen
and adapt to what these voters are de-
manding, not just to imitate what Mr.
Sanders says.
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GAIL COLLINS
The Things
We Love
To Loathe
When it comes to bringing us all to-
gether, I don’t think anybody is better at
it than Martin Shkreli.
Shkreli is a 32-year-old former hedge
fund manager — see, I just said “hedge
fund manager” and already masses of
readers are shuddering in unison. He’s
the one who bought rights to a drug
needed for H.I.V. patients and then hiked
the price 5,000 percent. He later ap-
peared, wearing a hoodie, before a
Forbes Healthcare Summit to say his
only regret was that he had not raised it
higher.
Yes! That guy! Naturally, all this drew
a lot of congressional critics, and Shkreli
expressed a yen for an honest exchange
of opinions. (“I would berate them. I
would insult them.”) He got his chance
this week when he was called before the
House oversight committee, where he
took the Fifth, while smirking and twid-
dling a pencil.
This was the committee whose
Democrats and Republicans kept shriek-
ing at each other during the Benghazi
hearings. Now, every member was
united in a bipartisan desire to leap over
the table and strangle the witness. No-
body has brought forth so much shared
emotion since the video of Nora the Pi-
ano Cat.
The point here is that there really are a
few things we can agree on, even in these
troubled times. In the spirit of Shkreli,
let’s look for some others on the cam-
paign trail:
Rick Santorum is the worst friend in
the world. Santorum, a former senator,
was running for president until this
week, when he reminded the nation that
he was in the campaign by resigning
from it. He then announced he was en-
dorsing Marco Rubio.
That won Santorum an invitation to
appear on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to
talk about his big decision. Asked what it
was about Rubio’s performance as a sen-
ator that impressed him, he said: “I
guess it’s hard to say there are accom-
plishments.” Pressed on that interesting
take, Santorum continued helpfully:
“The first four years he was in the minor-
ity and nothing got done. And by the way,
what happened this year under the Re-
publicans that he got done?”
Recovering from that bout with sen-
tence structure, Santorum closed by not-
ing that the public was “looking not at
someone with accomplishments and a
As New Hampshire
goes, so goes
everybody.
track record but someone who had a —
who was considered someone who was
an outsider.”
We are enjoying the idea that Donald
Trump screwed up the deal. If he fades in
New Hampshire, will it be because he
hasn’t been able to master the business
side of the game — direct mail, polling,
organization? If so, was he possibly too
cheap to pay for it? The campaign says
absolutely no, but it’s a lot of fun asking.
Hillary Clinton should not have given
those speeches for Goldman Sachs. Clin-
ton did very well at a Democratic forum
and debate this week. Except when she
was asked, during the forum, why she ac-
cepted $675,000 for giving three
speeches for the investment banking
firm Goldman Sachs. (“That’s what they
offered.”) She had a somewhat less awful
response at the debate, but then was un-
able to say whether she’d ever release
the speech transcripts. (“I will look into
it.”) The situation here is clear. Clinton is
never going to say she’s sorry, release
transcripts or announce that she’s de-
cided to clear everything up by donating
$675,000 to charity. It is what it is, and
you’re going to have to take it or leave it.
It’s kind of pathetic they’re not letting
Carly Fiorina into the Republican de-
bate. True, she’s irritating, but she’s the
only real candidate who was excluded.
You’ve already got seven guys on the
stage, so what the heck. However, the
world is probably not universally in
agreement with Fiorina’s theory that she
was the victim of a plot by ABC and the
Republican National Committee to dis-
empower New Hampshire voters be-
cause the other candidates are so afraid
of her.
Marco Rubio gets really good jobs. We
have heard a lot already about Rubio’s
$800,000 advance for a very modest
memoir about his formative years. And
the billionaire auto dealer who donated
$100,000 to Florida International Univer-
sity, where Rubio was hired as a visiting
professor for $69,000. This week, NBC
News reported that he worked less than
10 hours a week during his first semester
at the teaching gig, missing three of his 10
classes.
Jeb Bush is the worst campaigner in
the history of campaigns. New Hamp-
shire is his kind of state, and this should
be his resurrection moment. What do we
have? A video of Bush delivering his
zinger line to a silent room and telling the
audience: “Please clap.” A campaign vid-
eo of the candidate putting on a hoodie.
Plus, I believe I speak for many people
when I say that it is not a good sign when
you have to drag in your 90-year-old
mother. 0 in Woods Hole, Mass.
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
Autocorrect and the
Tao of Texting
By Mary Phillips-Sandy
O
F all Internet memes, one of
the most enduring involves
autocorrect, the smart-
phone gremlin that can turn
text exchanges into a game
of chance. There are websites and books
devoted to autocorrect’s mishaps, not to
mention shirts, mugs and calendars
printed with popular autocorrected mes-
sages.
This stuff is funny, sure, but after years
of scrolling past “no ducking way” posts,
I’ve come to believe that autocorrect ac-
tually has useful things to tell us — if only
we’d listen.
Some people get so frustrated with au-
tocorrect that they disable it completely,
but then you run the risk of telling a date
that you’ll “be thfre asd oon sa i gte off th
trnai.” To which your date will reply, “Are
you O.K.?” And you will reply, “Osrrt. I
hvae agocrructs rurtned pff.” And then
you will be single again.
It’s also possible to teach autocorrect
about your linguistic quirks, so it under-
Mary Phillips-Sandy is a writer and edi-
tor in New York.
T-Shirt Weather in the Arctic
By Mark Urban
and Linda Deegan
W
E crested the northern
rim of Alaska’s Brooks
Range, and from the
windows of our truck
looked out across the
undulating foothills toward the Arctic
Ocean. Instead of seeing snow as we had
in years past, we were greeted by a land-
scape already green with spring.
We flew by helicopter to our remote
camp and shed our heavy parkas. The fish
we had come to study had already disap-
peared downstream to spawn.
We now realize that what we saw last
May was historic — the hottest May for
Alaska’s North Slope during what scien-
tists recently concluded was the hottest
year on record for the earth. We also saw
the future.
Last year, the earth’s temperature
passed the mark of 1 degree Celsius above
preindustrial levels. Civilization took 165
years to reach that mark, and now the in-
crease could reach 2 degrees Celsius in
just 30 more years, a point at which the
risks from sea-level rise, drought and
other effects could increase significantly.
Despite promises made in Paris to cut
greenhouse gas emissions, we will still
need to make it through the hottest years
of a looming global heat age. Along with
the many challenges we face, we must fig-
ure out how to protect ecosystems and the
benefits they provide.
Each spring for the last 30 years, our
team of biologists has traveled to remote
field camps in Arctic Alaska. The Arctic is
warming faster than anywhere else in the
world as seawater replaces sea ice, paint-
ing the Arctic Ocean blue and fueling a
dangerous feedback loop. The white sea
ice reflects the sun’s energy back into
space through what is known as the albe-
do effect. But as the ice melts, the dark
Arctic seawater is now absorbing that
Mark Urban is an associate professor in
ecology and evolutionary biology at the
University of Connecticut in Storrs. Linda
Deegan is a senior scientist at the Marine
Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center
SEYMOUR CHWAST
stands you always mean Mariska Hargi-
tay (the “Law & Order” star), never
Marisa harbor day. But let’s be real: If I
can’t slow down long enough to type
clearly, there’s no way I have time to
make lesson plans for my phone.
So we forge ahead, never knowing
when autocorrect will decide to insert it-
self into a conversation. You can think of
this as yet another modern annoyance,
or you can do as I do, and embrace the
excitement and wisdom it brings to your
life.
For example, last summer I sent a se-
ries of texts to report that my mother,
who lives in central Maine, was in the
hospital after surviving a “bear” attack.
How thrilling this must have been for my
friends, who spent several minutes
thinking I was about to relate an outdoor
adventure story, instead of a boring up-
date from a cardiac ward!
A mom I know was the beneficiary of
an even better auto-improvement. She
wanted to arrange a get-together for her
daughter and a friend, so she texted the
other girl’s parent. “Do you want a play-
mate?” her phone inquired. Well, phone,
now that you mention it, that is a surefire
way to spice up the 84th viewing of
“Frozen.”
heat, turning up the earth’s temperature.
With the early spring, snow melted
roughly two weeks earlier than in the past
and plants turned green soon after. Lakes
thawed about 10 days earlier, and Arctic
grayling, a fish, bred weeks earlier.
An early spring has long-term conse-
quences. When grayling breed three
weeks earlier, for instance, their offspring
get a head start on feeding and grow nine
times larger. This might seem like a good
thing, until you consider that the same
warmer temperatures dry the rivers that
enable these grayling to swim to lakes
where they spend the winter. As these fish
wait in shallow pools for the rivers to flow,
bears and birds enjoy a captive feast. If
rivers do not flow before winter, the fish
freeze. The drying of these rivers could
threaten some grayling populations.
Last May’s warmth deceived white-
crowned sparrows into breeding earlier
We expected to find
snow. We saw green
instead, and the future.
than usual. When a snowstorm roared in,
the sparrows abandoned their ill-timed
nests, leaving their eggs behind to perish.
Thunderstorms also raged over our
camp. These storms used to be rare in the
Arctic, but they strike often now. Light-
ning has set fire to the tundra, releasing
into the atmosphere huge stores of an-
cient carbon from the permafrost. Sink-
holes are also opening up in the thawing
tundra. Walk up to one, and you will hear
the trickle and clatter as heat dissolves
permafrost into cascades of ice age mud
and stones.
We are only just beginning to under-
stand these changes. Ecosystems involve
a complex web of connections among
species and the physical environment. Cli-
mate change alters these connections in
ways that can surprise and baffle us.
For example, scientists thought they
understood Arctic streams until we added
nutrients to one to mimic what happens
Sometimes autocorrect just wants to
provide a bit of inspiration, like those
sayings on tea bags, except with real-
world context. A friend involved in a
group text chat, when asked if so-and-so
had done such-and-such, tried to re-
spond that so-and-so “probably” did. Her
phone had other ideas. “Poetically,” it
said. I’ve been reflecting on this for
weeks now. Shouldn’t we all strive to do
things poetically?
Other times, this humble smartphone
feature reveals itself to be a visionary. I
once received a text asking if I had “a pa-
pal account.” I knew right away that the
sender was trying to get my PayPal in-
formation, but if you think about it, a pa-
pal account would revolutionize faith for
millions of people. With just a few taps on
your phone, you could confess on the go,
update your sacraments and check dis-
pensation status at any time.
Perhaps the clearest proof that auto-
correct is smarter than we are is its abil-
The deeper wisdom of
your smartphone’s
annoying spellchecker.
ity to give voice to the voiceless. Cats,
specifically. My cat got his paws on my
iPhone and managed to send a text to my
husband, and whatever feline gibberish
he entered was transformed into a sin-
gle, sensible word: Nolan.
My husband immediately understood
this as a conversation-starter about No-
lan Ryan, the legendary Major League
Baseball pitcher. Meanwhile, I had no
idea my cat was interested in sports. The
whole thing has brought us closer to-
gether.
A little over a year ago, our household
welcomed another small mewling crea-
ture, and as every parent knows, babies
are drawn to glowing smartphone
screens as moths are . . . drawn to glow-
ing smartphone screens. Last fall, my
son, age 11 months, retrieved my phone
from between the couch cushions and
sent a series of texts to my brother.
First, four baseball emojis (I chalk this
up to the cat’s influence). Then a beauti-
fully evocative phrase appeared, cour-
tesy of fat baby fingers meeting autocor-
rect: “Meg’s bight effigy.”
I have no idea what this means, but it
certainly sounds like the start of some-
thing profound. I tried to get the baby to
finish his thought, but he wanted only to
put the phone in his mouth. So, until he
texts me otherwise, I’m going to assume
he is a genius.
Indeed, autocorrect has an uncanny
ability to reveal our authentic selves. A
Midwestern couple I know was texting
back and forth about head colds: He
complained of nasal congestion, so she
suggested he cut out dairy until he recov-
ered. “I can’t love without cheese,” came
his response. The heart wants what it
wants. Nobody knows this better than
autocorrect.
The word “love,” on its own, is all the
evidence I need to prove that autocorrect
knows me better than I know myself. For
years, my phone has had a habit of re-
placing “love” with “L&O,” which is, of
course, shorthand for “Law & Order.” My
husband is wonderful, but every time I
tell him that I L&O him, I am reminded of
the truth, which is that the longest rela-
tionship I’ve ever had is with Dick Wolf’s
police drama.
Text me, Marisa harbor day? 0 curity Council to pass a resolution on a
when the tundra thaws. A rare moss
materialized and blanketed the stream-
bed. A new set of insects appeared, but
they sheltered in the moss instead of drift-
ing into the waiting mouths of hungry
grayling. So in a roundabout way, a more
productive stream made for skinnier fish.
The surprises pose serious risks be-
cause we can’t prepare for what we don’t
know. We can no longer be satisfied to
watch and document these changes. We
must predict and prevent them.
Sustaining life through the coming heat
age will require tough decisions as we tri-
age the rising number of climate casu-
alties. We cannot hope to save all species
when we haven’t even figured out how
many species there are.
We might focus initially on protecting
those with the greatest importance to
other species and ecosystems, the so-
called biotic multipliers of climate change.
For instance, top predators are often sen-
sitive to climate change and magnify cli-
mate effects by yanking hard on the
threads that connect them to other
species in the food chain.
Our current approaches to identifying
which species and ecosystems are most at
risk are primitive. Most predictions rely
on the correlation between a map of an an-
imal’s range and a few climate factors. As
biologists, we need to develop forecasts
that rely on causes, not correlations, as
our colleagues studying the atmosphere
did years ago. This will require an en-
hanced effort to comprehend how species
survive, reproduce, evolve and move
across landscapes, and how changes in
the climate alter each of these factors.
We also need experiments that
replicate a warming environment. Scien-
tists know how to heat small plots of tun-
dra with open-topped plastic enclosures
and forests with heated cables. But the
small size of these efforts limits our ability
to understand consequences for larger an-
imals and ecosystems. We need to engi-
neer ways to warm bigger ecosystems ex-
perimentally by heating up entire lakes,
streams, fields and even forests.
We plan to return to the Arctic again in
May. This year is predicted to be even hot-
ter than the last. We’ll be ready this time.
We understand now that we have already
entered the heat age. 0 kara to be saved.
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ROGER COHEN
Europe's
Huddled
Masses
WASHINGTON
From London to Athens, Europe is
questioned. Some people, mainly refugees
from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are dy-
ing to get into the European Union. Many
British conservatives are fighting to get
out of it. Others, including President
Vladimir Putin of Russia, plot to under-
mine it. Yet others are bored by it: The
20th century and the strategic
imperatives behind NATO and the Euro-
pean Union seem far away to wired
millennials.
The two most powerful symbols of Eu-
ropean integration — the euro that binds
19 European Union states in a common
currency and the Schengen accords that
allow people to move freely among 22 Eu-
ropean Union nations — are in danger of
unraveling under the pressure of polar-
ized politics, diverging economic perform-
ance and the influx of more than one mil-
lion desperate migrants and refugees in
the past year.
There is an identity crisis. Christian Eu-
rope, a notion that Prime Minister Viktor
Orban of Hungary has turned into a kind
of illusory fetish, is in fact much less Chris-
tian. Around 6 percent of the European
population is Muslim today; by 2030 that
figure will be 8 percent.
A small minority of those Muslims —
told by online jihadist propagandists that
there is no gray zone between Islam and
the infidel, only the obligation to slaughter
the unbeliever — drift off via Turkey to
ISIS-held territory in Syria and return to
kill — Charlie Hebdo, the Paris kosher su-
permarket, Paris sports and music halls
and restaurants, the Brussels Jewish mu-
seum. Division and demagogy spread.
Xenophobic rightist parties thrive at the
margins from Sweden to Greece.
At Cologne and Stockholm stations, in
the two countries that have overwhelm-
ingly taken in the most refugees, two ram-
pages — by asylum seekers against wom-
en in Germany and by masked nationalist
thugs against refugee children in Sweden
— illustrate the tensions.
Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime min-
ister, recently told my colleague Jim Yard-
ley: “This is not Europe. This is a night-
mare.” That nightmare is one of looming
fragmentation, violence and walls for the
half-billion people now moving freely be-
tween Warsaw and Lisbon.
It can be averted. The Europe of today is
not the Europe of the 1930s. In Berlin, An-
gela Merkel stands tall, a European leader
of immense stature. Still, the fissuring
pressures are intense.
Sometimes, as Yeats noted, “the falcon
cannot hear the falconer.” We live in an age
of unraveling. The postwar is over. The
post-Cold War is over. The United States,
under President Obama, has quietly re-
treated from Europe. Washington is no-
where to be seen on the refugee crisis, the
absent power, much as it was absent from
the Minsk process on the Ukraine crisis.
The world is most dangerous in a power
vacuum. The geopolitical divides across
the world are the most marked in at least a
generation. This makes every issue more
intractable. The United Nations has
proved a complete dud on Syria. It took al-
most five years, 250,000 dead and more
than 11 million displaced people for the Se-
“road map” to peace. That map, for now, is
utter fiction. For as many years, Obama
did nothing.
Now refugees stream from Syria and
elsewhere into Europe. If they carry a
banner, it should read, “Reap what you
sow, feckless world.” A digital migration of
epic proportions is underway. Each
refugee has a smartphone and knows his
or her desired destination.
From this New Europe to New Hamp-
shire, unpredictable forces are at play.
Show me a Donald Trump, even a slightly
Iowa-humbled one, and I’ll see you with a
Marine Le Pen.
The strange thing is this troubled Eu-
rope has rescued the United States. That’s
new. Without Merkel’s courageous deci-
sion to take in 1.1 million refugees last year,
Refugees add further to
an identity crisis.
Europe would have faced catastrophe —
and America, even in an election year,
could not have ignored violent mayhem
among its allies as borders closed and
“huddled masses yearning to breathe
free” were cast adrift.
Another 65,000 refugees arrived in Ger-
many in January, setting the country on
course for 780,000 more this year. Some
200,000 mainly Muslim children are en-
tering German schools. Imagine if Amer-
ica, which has four times the German pop-
ulation, were to register 800,000 mainly
Muslim children in schools in a few
months. On reflection, don’t even try.
Nobody knows what Germany’s limit is.
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But there is one. Merkel’s Christian
Democratic Union will turn on her if the
numbers keep rising. Other European na-
tions are not going to take significant quo-
tas: There’s scant democratic support for
the right and ethical thing to do.
So Germany has to cut a deal with Pres-
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.
The deal will probably see Turkey getting
piles of cash — and perhaps the visa
waiver that Turks desperately want from
Germany — in exchange for Turkey
strictly curtailing the flow of refugees to
an agreed number who would not have to
risk their lives in flimsy boats.
Turkish politics have become German
domestic politics. A troubled Europe, cast
loose from America, slouches toward An-
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Twitter Is More Aggressively Scrubbing Accounts With Ties to Extremists

By MIKE ISAAC
For years, Twitter has positioned itself
as a “global town square” that is open to
discourse from all. And for years,
extremist groups like the Islamic State
have taken advantage of that stance, us-
ing Twitter as a place to spread their
messages.
Twitter on Friday made clear that it
was stepping up its fight to stem that
tide. The social media company said it
had suspended 125,000 Twitter accounts
associated with extremism since the
middle of 2015, the first time it has publi-
cized the number of accounts it has sus-
pended. Twitter also said it had ex-
panded the teams that review reports of
accounts connected to extremism, to re-
move the accounts more quickly.
“As the nature of the terrorist threat
has changed, so has our ongoing work in
this area,” Twitter said in a statement,
adding that it “condemns the use of Twit-
ter to promote terrorism.” The company
said its collective moves had already
produced results, “including an increase
125,000 accounts have
been removed since the
middle of last year.
in account suspensions and this type of
activity shifting off Twitter.”
The disclosure follows intensifying
pressure on Twitter and other technol-
ogy companies from the White House,
presidential candidates like Hillary Clin-
ton and government agencies to take
more action to combat the digital prac-
tices of terrorist groups. The scrutiny
has grown after mass shootings in Paris
and San Bernardino, Calif., last year, be-
cause of concerns that radicalizations
can be accelerated by extremist postings
on the web and social media.
Online extremist content includes
Twitter accounts like @Musliiiiimah_1.
In a Twitter message posted in Decem-
ber, just hours after the San Bernardino
attack, the account pointed to the shoot-
ings as an example of ISIS retaliation
against the United States for its involve-
ment in Syria and Iraq, according to a re-
port from the SITE Intelligence Group,
which tracks terrorists’ communica-
tions. The account is now suspended.
“Twitter works as a way to sell books,
as a way to promote movies, and it works
as a way to crowdsource terrorism — to
sell murder,” James B. Comey Jr., direc-
tor of the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
Continued on Page 7

Lawyers Jobless Rate

Suing G.M. Is Under 5%
Now Fight And Wages
Each Other Are Rising
By BARRY MEIER By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
The plaintiffs’ lawyers suing Is the American worker finally
General Motors over its faulty ig- getting a raise?
nition switch have been fighting to After years of scant real gains
hold the carmaker accountable for despite steadily falling unemploy-
the defect. But those lawyers are ment and healthy hiring, wages
now fighting among themselves, picked up significantly last month,
threatening to throw the litigation a sign the job market could be
against G.M. into disarray. tightening enough to force compa-
First, the lawyer who exposed nies to pay more to attract and re-
the deadly defect urged a judge to tain employees.
remove the three plaintiffs’ The half a percentage point in-
lawyers leading the litigation, ac- crease in average hourly earnings
cusing them of conflicts of interest in January was the brightest spot
and bungling a key trial against in a generally positive Labor De-
G.M. The three lawyers have fired partment report on Friday, which
back, claiming that the charges showed job creation slowing from
are false and that their accuser the white-hot pace of late 2015
has ignored the case. even as the unemployment rate
The plaintiffs’ lawyers suffered fell to an eight-year low of 4.9 per-
an embarrassing setback last cent.
month in the first federal case The last six months were the
brought against G.M., a trial best extended period for employ-
meant to determine the strength GREG BAKER/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES ee paychecks since the recovery
began six-and-a-half years ago.

Feeling Twice Victimized

of their claims and G.M.’s poten-
tial financial liability. The plaintiff
in the case agreed to dismiss his
lawsuit midtrial after lawyers for
the carmaker showed that he
might have given misleading tes-
timony.
Last week, Lance Cooper, a
Government Backing
plaintiffs’ lawyer in Marietta, Ga.,
who helped undercover the switch
For Fraudulent Lender
problem, filed a motion that
sharply criticized the three
lawyers appointed to lead the mul-
tidistrict litigation against G.M., a
collection of hundreds of cases
consolidated in Federal District
Court in Manhattan.
“If there had been adequate
preparation, this case would
never have been tried,” Mr. Coo-
per said in a telephone interview
this week. “It was a disaster.”
The three lawyers — Robert
Hilliard of Corpus Christi, Tex.;
Steve W. Berman of Seattle; and
Elizabeth J. Cabraser of San Fran-
cisco — disputed Mr. Cooper’s ac-
cusations in a court filing on Mon-
day and said he had not taken part
in the case’s management for
months.
“He has been missing in action,”
the filing said.
Separately on Monday, G.M.
asked Jesse M. Furman, the fed-
eral judge presiding over the liti-
gation, to reject a separate re-
quest from Mr. Cooper to undo a
$275 million settlement struck last
fall between G.M. and Mr. Hilliard.
Continued on Page 7
By NEIL GOUGH
HONG KONG — At every turn in his im-
probably rapid rise, Ding Ning, 34, went to
great efforts to convey the image of strong gov-
ernment backing for his Internet financing
business.
There was his company’s lavish annual
meeting and banquet last year in Beijing’s
Great Hall of the People, where China’s legisla-
ture meets and where top government leaders
host official functions. Adding a splash of ce-
lebrity to the event were Zhou Tao, a nationally
famous actress and host on the government’s
main television broadcaster, and several mid-
ranking officials, bureaucrats and lawmakers.
There were the positive profiles in state-con-
trolled media, as well as the company’s adver-
tising on official TV. There was the section of
his company’s website devoted to building
Communist Party spirit.
But it all came crashing down in dramatic
fashion for Mr. Ding this week, when the police
alleged that his financing business, Ezubao,
was a $7.6 billion Ponzi scheme and announced
21 arrests, including of Mr. Ding. The company
was shut down.
The charges were conveyed by the same of-
ficial outlets whose favor Mr. Ding once cur-
ried — CCTV, the official TV broadcaster, and
Xinhua, the main government news agency.
And for some investors and employees, that
CCTV VIA AP VIDEO, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
apparent reversal smacked of hypocrisy.
“One day, you praise the company, another
day, you criticize it. Exactly what’s going on?”
asked Yang Fan, 29, a Beijing resident who
worked at Ezubao until December.
“It’s hard for it to be this big without govern-
ment support,” he said, adding that like many
employees he is still owed money by the com-
pany. “We really want an answer. We all are
victims.”
The demise of Ezubao highlights a precari-
ous challenge for the Chinese government.
Continued on Page 7
“That gain in average hourly
earnings is significant,” said Di-
ane Swonk, an independent econ-
omist in Chicago. Sustained in-
creases are still needed to make
up for years of stagnation, she
added, “but it’s a move in the right
direction, and that’s reassuring.”
Economists also said that the
new figures suggested that the
CONFLICTING DATA
Signs of economic weakness
abound even as the labor market
strengthens, complicating the
Fed’s job. Page 6.
American economy was holding
up well despite a slowdown in
China, growing risks in emerging
markets and turmoil in the stock
market.
“The financial markets are
leery,” said Michael Hanson, a
senior economist at Bank of
America Merrill Lynch, “but the
Investors, top, protest labor market still looks like it’s
losses from the fi- continuing to grow.”
nancing business op- President Obama, who ex-
erated by Ding Ning, pressed frustration that he has not
received the credit he feels he de-
above center.
serves for the country’s improv-
ing economy, said the jobs num-
bers were further signs of
progress.
“After reaching 10 percent in
2009, the unemployment rate has
now fallen to 4.9 percent even as
more Americans joined the job
market last month,” he told
reporters at a White House brief-
ing in Washington. “Americans
are working.”

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ples that belong to the design firm
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boiler room operation that would
make Robin Hood proud. All day long,
employees in headsets peel $100 bills
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to consumers. ethics even remotely defensible?
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in their most recent cable bill, say, and Federal Trade Commission, the Fed-
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BUSINESS BRIEFING

LinkedIn Stock Sinks After Revenue Falls Short

LinkedIn’s shares plunged 43.6 percent on Friday, wiping out nearly $11
billion of market value, after the social network released a revenue
forecast that fell far short of expectations. The stock sank to a three-
year low of $108.38, registering its sharpest decline since the compa-
ny’s well-publicized public listing in 2011. LinkedIn’s full-year revenue
forecast of $3.60 billion to $3.65 billion was below the average analyst
estimate of $3.91 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. “It’s not a
great day to have reported tough guidance,” said Randle Reece, an
analyst with Avondale Partners. “The mediocre employment report
from the Labor Department just amplified the reaction of anything
employment-sensitive today.” (REUTERS)

Traffic Deaths Rise as More Travelers Take to Road

Traffic deaths in the United States rose 9.3 percent in the first nine
months of 2015 compared with a year earlier as low gasoline prices
increased road travel, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
tion said on Friday. The increase meant a total of 26,000 deaths, the
highest level for a comparable period since 2008. (REUTERS)

U.S. Export Sales Fell 4.8% in 2015

The United States trade deficit rose in December as American exports
fell for a third consecutive month, reflecting the pressures of a stronger
dollar and spreading global economic weakness. Those factors contrib-
uted to the first annual drop in United States export sales since the
Great Recession shrank global trade six years ago. The December
deficit increased 2.7 percent to $43.4 billion, the Commerce Department
said on Friday. Exports fell 0.3 percent. Imports increased 0.3 percent
as Americans bought more foreign-made cars and petroleum. In 2015,
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the deficit rose 4.6 percent to $531.5 billion. Exports fell 4.8 percent, the
Burberry in London in June. The brand says it will abandon seasonal designations, calling its collections September and February. first setback since 2009. Imports dropped 3.1 percent. (AP)

Burberry Moving to See-Now/Buy-Now System TRAFFIC REPORT

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
In perhaps the biggest shake-
up of the fashion show system
since ready-to-wear took to the
catwalk, Burberry announced on
Friday that after the women’s
wear season that begins in New
York next week, it would move to a
see-now/buy-now collection mod-
el.
It will no longer unveil clothes
six months before they are avail-
able in stores.
It will no longer separate its
men’s wear and women’s wear
shows.
And it will no longer bother with
traditional seasonal denomina-
tions; twice-yearly collections
will be called, rather, September
and February, “reflecting the time
they are in-store/online,” in the
words of an email from Christo-
pher Bailey, the brand’s chief ex-
ecutive and chief creative officer.
In addition, the ad campaigns
will reflect the runway offering
immediately.
In a statement, Mr. Bailey said:
“The changes we are making will
allow us to build a closer connec-
tion between the experience that
we create with our runway shows
and the moment when people can
physically explore the collections
for themselves. Our shows have
been evolving to close this gap for
some time. From livestreams to
ordering straight from the run-
way to live social media cam-
paigns, this is the latest step in a
creative process that will continue
to evolve.”
In other words: The show will
become a big marketing and sell-
ing tool, not for department stores
or glossy magazines, but for direct
communication between the
brand and the men and women
who want to buy it.
It is the second major con-
sumer-facing move by Mr. Bailey
as chief executive, after his deci-
sion last November to fold
Burberry’s three separate lines —
the high-end Prorsum, Burberry
Brit and Burberry London — into
a single offering. Then, as now, Mr.
Bailey said the decision was made
to be more responsive to
customers.
As an acknowledgment of the
consumer demand for immediate
gratification, the change is bound
to send seismic shudders through
the rest of the fashion world,
which has been under increasing
pressure to be more responsive to
buyers’ desires, and flexible in its
scheduling.
Other brands have been testing
the idea with small capsule col-
lections: Moschino also offers se-
lect pieces to buy straight from the
runway, as does Versace. This sea-
son, Rebecca Minkoff is showing
her spring line on the New York
catwalk, as opposed to fall, which
goes into stores in July and Au-
gust, and which she will reveal by
appointment only separately.
But Burberry’s global presence
and reach — its more than 200
fully owned retail stores and simi-
lar number of department store
concessions, its 5.9 million Insta-
gram followers and over 17 million
Facebook likes, its position as the
only high-fashion member of Lon-
don’s FTSE 100 — have the power
to transform consumer expecta-
tions, creating a knock-on impera-
tive for other brands.
According to Caroline Rush,
chief executive of the British
Fashion Council, which instituted
a consumer-facing London Fash-
ion Weekend of shows after the
regular round of shows: “The
B.F.C. board has been talking for
some time about fashion shows
better connecting to consumers
and being a direct driver for sales.
Burberry are true innovators, and
this strategic move shows bril-
The brand is trying an
upscale version of fast
fashion.
liant leadership from Christopher
Bailey and his team in driving this
agenda forward.”
Indeed, hours after Burberry’s
announcement, Tom Ford, who
had been planning to hold a series
of small presentations during
New York Fashion Week, said all
appointments were canceled, and
he would now show both his men’s
and women’s Fall collections to-
gether next September, at the
same time as the clothes were
available to buy.
“Showing the collection as it ar-
rives in stores will allow the ex-
citement that is created by a show
or event to drive sales and satisfy
our customers’ increasing desire
to have their clothes as they are
ready to wear them,” Mr. Ford
said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Vetements, the
buzziest new brand in Paris, told
American Vogue that they were
planning to move their show next
year from the February col-
lections to January, and would de-
liver the clothes on the catwalk
the following month.
Still, the move may not be so
easy for every fashion house, es-
pecially in London.
Though Burberry has the finan-
cial muscle and vertical integra-
tion to make this kind of switch (it
owns many of its factories, and 70
percent of sales comes from its
own retail network), smaller inde-
pendent designers are dependent
on wholesale partners for distri-
bution, and need a six-month lead
time between showing, placing or-
ders and production.
Even Burberry does not appear
to know exactly how it will solve
all the issues created by being the
sharp end of the spear of show
change. If the company wants to
be part of glossy magazine
spreads featuring spring clothes,
for example, but it doesn’t show
the spring clothes until the maga-
zine is on newsstands, what hap-
pens then?
Executives are banking on a
buy-in from multiple stakeholders
that will have a domino effect on
the industry. The risk is they end
up the odd man out in a system
that is simply too entrenched to
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Diversifying Academy
Likely to Be a Tall Order
From Page A1
by 2020. Yet, as it tries to remake
itself by recruiting younger and
more diverse members and jetti-
soning those no longer active in
the business, it is confronting new
challenges. There are protests
that it is being unfair to older ac-
tors, worries that it could simply
be creating different diversity is-
sues in the future and criticism
from those within its ranks who do
not want to use categories like
race, age or gender as any kind of
organizing principle.
Over the next five years, the
academy would have to annually
add about 14 black actors and at
least nine actors who were either
Asian or Hispanic to double the
number of acting branch mem-
bers in those ethnic groups. That
Ending some
imbalances may
that of Abe Vigoda.
Speaking by telephone this
week, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the
academy’s president, said the
more granular decisions about
carrying out new diversity goals
can be made only as various inter-
nal committees meet after the
Feb. 28 Oscar ceremony.
“There will be a much more ac-
tionable process this year,” Ms.
Isaacs said of an annual self-as-
sessment that in recent years has
increasingly focused on
broadening the membership.
The academy is trimming its
rolls, largely to limit voting rights
to those who are active in the busi-
ness. Last month, the academy
said it would begin a year-round
membership recruiting effort
aimed at diversity, while also
culling members who have not
worked on a film for 10 years and
have not been active during three
separate decades since joining the JOHN M. HELLER/GETTY IMAGES, ROB KIM/GETTY IMAGES, NOEL WEST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES, JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES, BENNETT RAGLIN/GETTY IMAGES,
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academy. Anyone who has won or
been nominated for an Oscar is ex- More male than female, and mostly white, the members of the actors branch of the academy are a varied lot. From left, Sonny Sky-
cluded from those requirements.
The overall goal, said Ms.
hawk, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Richard Roundtree, Charlie Sheen, Gabourey Sidibe and Russell Brand.

simply create others.
would account for almost all of the
slots if it invited 25 actors, which is
how many were offered member-
ship last year.
To attain gender parity among
actors in five years, the academy
Isaacs, is not to change voting pat-
terns — those, she said, remain
personal. Rather, it is to “repre-
sent more of the working commu-
nity, and also to become closer to
the audience in general.”
Already, however, there has
been negative reaction.
“This is not the way to go about
car winners as famous as Meryl
Streep and Tom Hanks; actors
like Richard Roundtree, perhaps
best known for his role as the titu-
lar character in 1971’s “Shaft”; and
the comedian Russell Brand, who
has appeared in movies like “For-
getting Sarah Marshall.”
While the percentage of black
It also appears that a reduction
in the current voting members
could result in more women losing
their voting privileges than men,
at least in the actors branch.
Based on credits on the
IMDbpro.com database, which
tracks both previous work and
films in process — but is not fully
port for the academy’s stated
changes. “I believe these new
membership guidelines are
taking us in the right direction,”
Margaret Avery, a black academy
member and an Oscar nominee
for her role in “The Color Purple,”
wrote in The Hollywood Reporter.
However, the academy’s new di-
difficult time finding meaningful
roles in the youth-focused enter-
tainment industry. The number of
studio releases has also dropped
by about a third since 2006, fur-
ther limiting opportunities.
“What’s important is to find more
employment,” Ms. Dickinson
wrote. “If Mr. Spielberg should
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could more than triple the number
of annual admissions, to 80, while
adding three women for every
man. Assuming a typical annual
attrition rate of about 26 people
(largely because of death), the
branch membership would be
tress who may be losing her vote
under the new rules, said in an
email. Ms. Dickinson, 84, whose
career includes movies like the
original “Ocean’s 11” in 1960, added
that she had sent an angry mis-
sive to the academy.
actors among last year’s invitees
— three were invited, or roughly
12 percent — approached their
share of the United States popula-
tion, the percentage of women in-
vited was much lower. Seven were
invited, or 28 percent of the total,
while women make up 51 percent
complete or without error — more
women, about 150, than men,
about 135, on the academy mem-
bership list examined by The
Times appeared to be in a position
where their active status might be
examined by the academy. The
spokeswoman for the academy
versity program has been criti-
cized for unfairly penalizing vet-
eran actors. More than 65 percent
of the acting members appear to
have been born in 1955 or earlier,
meaning they are at least 60 years
old. Almost all of those who could
potentially lose their voting status
call, I’m ready to roll.”
Some older members have sug-
gested that the academy give
credit for service, including judg-
ing academy contests and sitting
on academy panels. But the offi-
cial guidelines disclosed by the
academy last month made no
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about 51 percent women by 2020,
but women would then far out-
number men among the younger
members.
There were 6,261 academy
members throughout its various
branches according to an annual
tabulation it released on Dec. 14.
Its official actors count — 1,138
voters, plus 126 academy retirees,
who do not vote — may have been
trimmed by recent deaths like
“My message to the academy
was just this: I, Angie, voter,
wrote them: I VOTE FOR PER-
FORMANCE . . . . NOT RACE.”
Academy members have long
prided themselves on a member-
ship process and voting choices
based on excellence, a point that
Ms. Isaacs stressed in her inter-
view. Also, the group’s acting
branch, whatever its ethnic make-
up, is highly varied, including Os-
of the population. The year before,
six women were among the 20 ac-
tors invited, or 30 percent of the
total. In some recent years, none
of the invitees were Asian or His-
panic.
“Constant efforts have been
and will continue to be made to
seek out all qualified candidates,”
the academy spokeswoman said
when asked about the number of
actresses invited to join.
disputed those numbers, saying
they were “substantially higher”
than the group’s own preliminary
assessment of members in jeop-
ardy of losing their privileges. But
even if the same number of men
lost their active status as women,
the female membership would be
more affected because they al-
ready represent a smaller per-
centage of the academy.
There has also been public sup-
because of “inactivity” are in that
group.
“I know they will affect my vot-
ing status,” said Robert Hooks, 78,
who is black and has acted in films
like “Passenger 57” and “Star
Trek III: The Search for Spock,”
though he is now effectively re-
tired from acting. “You spend a life
looking to work, then you get old-
er, and it’s not there.”
Older actresses have long had a
mention of anything similar to
that.
Ms. Isaacs declined to discuss
the status of any individual mem-
ber.
In the meantime, actors like Mr.
Hooks are hoping further action
will protect their academy status.
“I’ve been a voter,” Mr. Hooks
said, “and I don’t plan to be any-
thing but.”

After Lengthy Battle, Argentina Reaches Debt Deal With 2 Hedge Funds
By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
and JONATHAN GILBERT
Argentina has offered to pay
$6.5 billion to a group of hedge
funds holding bonds it defaulted
on 14 years ago in a historic effort
by the nation to put a bitter legal
battle behind it.
Montreux Partners and Dart
Management, two of the hedge
funds, have accepted the pro-
posal, which would pay three-
quarters of a $9 billion claim on
defaulted bonds, according to
emailed statements from Daniel
A. Pollack, a court-appointed arbi-
ter, and Argentina’s finance min-
istry.
The news comes after a week of
high-profile talks between senior
Argentine government officials
and principals at a group of hold-
out hedge funds, so named for
their refusal to partake in Argenti-
na’s debt restructurings after its
2001 default and who have sought
billions in bond repayments, ac-
cording to a statement from Mr.
Pollack.
Noticeably absent from the deal
on Friday was NML Capital, a
hedge fund owned by the billion-
aire Paul E. Singer, which has led
the holdouts in years of litigation.
Tallying Scandal’s Cost,
VW Will Delay Earnings
By JACK EWING
FRANKFURT — Volkswagen
said on Friday that it would delay
reporting its annual earnings and
move back the date of its annual
shareholders’ meeting because of
uncertainty about the cost of its
diesel emissions scandal.
The delays reflect the compa-
ny’s problems from the fallout of
its admission in September that it
had equipped 11 million diesel ve-
hicles with software that could en-
able them to cheat on emissions
tests.
The postponements announced
on Friday also highlighted how
difficult it was for Volkswagen to
calculate the cost of the scandal
and prepare credible financial
statements. The company, based
Postponing a March
report and an annual
shareholder meeting
set for April.
in Wolfsburg, Germany, faces offi-
cial investigations in the United
States and other countries and
lawsuits by thousands of ag-
grieved car owners.
A news conference to present
the annual earnings report had
been scheduled for March 10, and
the annual meeting for April 21.
The decision to delay the meeting
will also put off a reckoning with
fund managers and shareholders,
who might have been expected to
use the forum to criticize top
Volkswagen managers like Hans
Dieter Pötsch, the chairman of the
supervisory board, and Matthias
Puerto Rico Asks Congress for Law to Allow It to Restructure $49 Billion in Debt
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico
and its top advisers made their
case in Washington on Friday for
a law that would allow broad re-
structuring of the island’s multi-
billion-dollar debt, saying that if
Congress did not act soon, major
defaults were likely this spring.
The officials also said they
knew that any legislative help
would come at a stiff price: Puerto
Rico would have to submit to a fed-
eral control board, something
viewed by some on the island as
colonialist-style interference.
“I think everybody has ac-
knowledged that a control board is
an essential feature,” Jim Mill-
stein, a financial adviser to the
Puerto Rican government, said in
a briefing for staff members of the
House of Representatives, which
is considering some form of legal
help.
For the last week, Puerto Rico
has been meeting with creditor
groups over the government’s
proposal to restructure about $49
billion of its $72 billion total debt.
Time is short, officials said, be-
cause Puerto Rico cannot pay the
big principal and interest pay-
ments that are due in May and
June.
The island has already de-
faulted on smaller amounts and is
being sued by the affected
creditors.
Mr. Millstein and the other offi-
cials said they doubted they could
get enough creditors to agree to
the $49 billion restructuring with-
out the kind of leverage that only
an act of Congress could provide.
Negotiating debt relief “is a dif-
ficult endeavor in any circum-
Without the agreement of all six
hedge funds, Argentina will con-
tinue to be locked out of interna-
tional markets and foreign invest-
ment.
“The negotiations were intense,
but civil, and I am pleased to re-
port that enormous progress has
been made,” Mr. Pollack said.
The legal fight has pitted a
larger group of hedge funds
against Argentina, a nation of
about 43 million people. They
have sought Argentina’s assets
around the world, at one point
seizing a navy ship in Ghana as
collateral. At a low point of the
standoff, neither side would talk to
the other.
Earlier this week, Argentina
struck a deal to pay $1.35 billion to
another group of holdouts — Ital-
ian investors who had held onto
defaulted bonds, paving the way
for an agreement with some of the
hedge funds. The fact that Ar-
gentina has been able to settle
with some of the holdout hedge
funds could apply pressure on the
remaining hedge funds to resolve
the dispute.
The legal battle harks back to
2001, when Argentina defaulted on
billions of dollars in debt.
Bondholders were given two
Müller, the chief executive.
“It shows that VW is very un-
certain where to go from here,”
said Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, a
professor at the University of
Duisburg-Essen. “They don’t
know what to say to their
shareholders.”
Eric Felber, a Volkswagen
spokesman, said the decision to
postpone the report and the annu-
al meeting did not reflect any new
information. The company simply
decided it needed more time to
reach conclusions about the costs
it faces, he said.
Volkswagen might be finding it
difficult to arrive at figures that
would be approved by outside au-
ditors. The accounting firm Price-
waterhouseCoopers already ex-
pressed reservations in its review
of Volkswagen’s report on third-
quarter earnings in October. The
firm said that, because investiga-
tions of the scandal were not com-
pleted, it had not been able to de-
termine whether the amount of
money that Volkswagen had set
aside was appropriate.
The company has set aside 6.7
billion euros, or about $7.27 billion,
to cover the cost of making the
faulty diesel engines compliant
with air quality regulations. In ad-
dition, Volkswagen will probably
be required to pay billions of dol-
lars, if not tens of billions, in fines
and legal settlements. Analysts
say the exact cost is impossible to
predict.
Despite the unexpected delay in
financial reporting, Volkswagen
shares rose 3 percent in late after-
noon trading in Frankfurt after
the company said that operating
profit in 2015 would be about the
same as in 2014, in line with earlier
forecasts.
It is not unusual for companies
to delay earnings. But it is often a
harbinger of bad news, according
Jim Millstein, right, an adviser to Puerto Rico, in a briefing on
the island’s fiscal and economic crisis on Friday in Washington.
stance,” said Richard J. Cooper, a
partner with Cleary Gottlieb
Steen & Hamilton, who is repre-
senting Puerto Rico in the talks.
“But in the Puerto Rican circum-
stance, the challenge is quite
enormous. That’s why we’ve
asked for a restructuring author-
ity.”
The $49 billion debt that Puerto
Rico hopes to restructure, most of
it in the form of municipal bonds,
was issued by 11 separate
branches of the Puerto Rican gov-
ernment. It is held by a wide range
of investors with diverse and com-
peting interests. They are not only
at odds with Puerto Rico, but also
with one another, over whose
bonds have priority.
Some of the creditors have rea-
son to give concessions, by ac-
cepting lower payments, for in-
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chances to exchange the de-
faulted bonds for new, cheaper
ones over the years, but some re-
jected the restructurings.
“This litigation has gone on for
nearly 15 years, since the original
Argentine default of 2001, and the
proposal by Argentina is a historic
breakthrough, which, if the condi-
tions mentioned above are met,
Litigation has gone on
since 2001, when the
nation defaulted on
billions in debt.
will allow Argentina to return to
the global financial markets to
raise much-needed capital,” Mr.
Pollack said. He added that he
hoped the other hedge funds and
Argentina would be able to “re-
solve their differences” and also
reach an agreement.
Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s
newly elected president, has
pledged to resolve the dispute
with the hedge funds as part of a
A carnival parade float this week in Mainz, Germany, was called “Pollution Car,” poking fun at VW’s scandal.
to a 2014 study by Eric So, an asso-
ciate professor at the M.I.T. Sloan
School of Management.
Volkswagen acknowledged in
September that it had installed so-
called defeat devices in cars with
diesel engines, including about
600,000 in the United States, to get
around limits on nitrogen oxide
pollutants linked to lung ailments.
Volkswagen’s attempts to put
the scandal behind it have been
bumpy. In the United States, the
Environmental Protection
Agency and the California Air Re-
sources Board have rejected the
company’s proposals to fix Volks-
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stance, but others want to hold out
for payment in full. Although the
bankruptcy code has tools for get-
ting reluctant creditors to go
along when a majority agrees to a
settlement, Puerto Rico does not
have access to bankruptcy.
“Puerto Rico will be thrust into
litigation battles, or into a place
where you can’t predict what the
future is,” Mr. Cooper said.
Mr. Millstein said he envisioned
11 different lawsuits by creditors of
the 11 different branches of gov-
ernment, all moving at cross pur-
poses through the courts and get-
ting conflicting rulings by their re-
spective judges. The process
could easily drag on for five years,
he said.
“The impact of five years of liti-
gation on the economy of Puerto
Rico is obvious,” he said. “It would
broader plan to reform his nation’s
economy.
It is unclear how soon Ar-
gentina would complete the offer,
which requires congressional ap-
proval. Argentina’s Congress does
not reconvene from a summer re-
cess until March 1, although Mr.
Macri has called special sessions
in the Senate for Feb. 11 to expedite
his appointment of Supreme
Court judges and other officials.
If there is significant progress
between the government and
creditors over the proposal in the
coming days, there is a chance the
offer may also be debated during
these special sessions, said Juan
Cruz Díaz, a director at the Cefei-
das Group, a political risk analysis
firm in Buenos Aires.
Mr. Macri does not have a ma-
jority in either the Senate or the
lower house, but he was bolstered
this week when a group of law-
makers once loyal to former Presi-
dent Cristina Fernández de Kirch-
ner, a political opponent of Mr.
Macri, defected from her bloc in
the lower house. They have
promised to be collaborative,
making Mr. Macri’s negotiations
to pass pivotal legislation an easi-
er task. Mr. Macri has also been
maneuvering to gather cross-
wagen brand diesels, as well as
some diesel vehicles produced by
its other brands, Audi and
Porsche, so they no longer exceed
limits on tailpipe emissions.
Mr. Müller caused a furor in the
United States last month when he
said during an interview with the
radio broadcaster NPR that, “We
didn’t lie.” He later apologized and
said, “We fully accept the vio-
lation.”
Volkswagen sales have also suf-
fered. In January, the company
said sales of Volkswagen brand
cars in the United States fell 15
percent compared with a year ear-
be a bad result. It would make the
creditor recoveries even lower.”
As Mr. Millstein spoke, a Treas-
ury official, Antonio Weiss, made
a similar argument at the Biparti-
san Policy Center, which hosted a
panel discussion on a legal frame-
work for resolving Puerto Rico’s
crisis.
“Without the backstop of a re-
structuring authority, our biggest
concern is that a decade of reces-
sion could become another lost
decade,” Mr. Weiss said.
The officials said it was not es-
sential to grant Puerto Rico ac-
cess to Chapter 9 bankruptcy, an
approach that was considered last
year but now appears to have
been discarded. Instead, they said
Congress could enact other
measures to help Puerto Rico re-
structure its debts under the Ter-
ritorial Clause of the United States
Constitution.
The most important element
would be a mechanism to bind
holdouts to agreements by other
creditors, they said.
The restructuring plan would
cover the $49 billion of debt
backed by various types of taxes.
Debts backed by user fees and
rates, such as revenue bonds is-
sued by Puerto Rico’s Electric
Power Authority, would be han-
dled separately.
To determine how much of the
$49 billion Puerto Rico’s
taxpayers could reasonably be ex-
pected to repay, the officials re-
viewed the debt burdens of
taxpayers in states. They said that
the typical state was spending
about 5 percent of its tax revenue
on payments of interest and prin-
cipal to bondholders.
party support in the Senate.
Senators respond largely to the
interests of state governors.
Across the political spectrum,
these governors are keen to in-
crease funding by issuing their
own debt in international mar-
kets, Mr. Díaz said. “I believe
Macri is very close to securing
congressional support for the of-
fer,” he added.
Twelve years ago, NML Capital
sued Argentina seeking full re-
payment — principal and interest.
In 2011, a federal judge in Manhat-
tan ruled that whenever Ar-
gentina paid one group of
bondholders, it would also have to
pay the holdouts.
The deal with New York
creditors hit rock bottom under
Ms. Kirchner, after the country de-
faulted on its debt again in 2014, af-
ter it failed to make a $539 million
interest payment on newer dis-
counted bonds.
“Default is not a mere technical
condition, but rather a real and
painful event that will hurt real
people,” Mr. Pollack said at the
time, after failed attempts to get
NML Capital and the administra-
tion of Ms. Kirchner to sit down to-
gether.
FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
lier, to about 20,000 vehicles. Sales
of the Passat, a sedan made in
Chattanooga, Tenn., that was sup-
posed to lead a Volkswagen re-
surgence in the United States, fell
43 percent in January to about
3,600 vehicles.
Perhaps more alarming for
Volkswagen, sales have also been
falling in Europe, where the com-
pany is by far the largest car-
maker. Even in Germany, where
Volkswagen is one of the largest
employers, sales of VW brand
cars fell 9 percent in January.
In the European Union as a
whole, the Volkswagen brand’s
But in Puerto Rico, they said,
payments on this type of debt
were now consuming an unsus-
tainable 36 percent of the island’s
tax revenues.
Next, they looked for a state
with a financial profile roughly
similar to Puerto Rico’s, and de-
cided that Hawaii came closest. In
Hawaii, they said, debt payments
consume 13 percent of annual tax
revenue.
“We thought, ‘We’ve got to be
An acknowledgment
that the island would
have to submit to a
federal control board.
closer to Hawaii,’ ” Mr. Millstein
said. “We aimed at 15 percent.
That would mean we can’t have
debt service in excess of $1.7 bil-
lion a year. That’s our upper
boundary.”
By spreading $1.7 billion of an-
nual debt-service payments over
30 years and discounting the total
at a rate of 5 percent, they came to
the conclusion that the taxpayers
of Puerto Rico could carry $26.7
billion of debt instead of the cur-
rent $49 billion.
“That involves, therefore, a $22
billion haircut on the debt, which
is huge,” Mr. Millstein said.
“There is no way to discount that.”
To give the bondholders some
hope of a better recovery, the re-
structuring proposal would re-
N B3
The move left Argentina largely
cut off from the international mar-
kets. Mr. Macri’s pledge helped
usher in new talks and raised
hopes for an agreement.
In addition to senior govern-
ment officials, Luis Caputo, Ar-
gentina’s finance secretary,
traveled to Manhattan this week
for the talks. It was not always ap-
parent that a deal would emerge.
To start, Mr. Macri promised to
publicly announce a proposal for
the hedge funds this week. But
those holdouts had requested that
Argentina sign a nondisclosure
agreement to not to reveal the de-
tails of the negotiations publicly.
Another sticking point for both
sides has been just how much in-
terest Argentina would be willing
to pay the hedge funds.
Earlier this year, Argentina’s
economic minister, Alfonso Prat-
Gay, foreshadowed potential fric-
tion between the two parties.
Speaking at a news conference
with reporters in Buenos Aires, he
estimated that the debt owed to
holdout bondholders — including
NML Capital and the Italian
bondholders — totaled $20 billion,
adding that 60 percent of that
amount fell under New York juris-
diction.
market share slipped to 11.5 per-
cent in December from 12.6 per-
cent in December 2014, according
to the European Automobile
Manufacturers Association,
which has not yet published fig-
ures for January. Rivals like Peu-
geot, Renault and Ford of Europe
gained share.
Volkswagen said on Friday that
it would stick with plans to
present an internal report in late
April on who was responsible for
the deception.
The company said it would an-
nounce new dates for the report
and for the meeting soon.
place investors’ current bonds
with two new bonds. One of them
would have a fixed interest rate
and a total par value of $26.7 bil-
lion. The other would make pay-
ments only to the extent that
Puerto Rico recovers.
The officials also sought to de-
fuse a controversy over Puerto Ri-
co’s failure so far to produce au-
dited financial statements for 2014
and 2015. Some members of Con-
gress, especially Republicans,
have warned they will be hard-
pressed to assist Puerto Rico if it
cannot present basic public
records.
Melba Acosta Febo, president
of Puerto Rico’s Government De-
velopment Bank, said at the Fri-
day briefing that the financial
statements were undergoing fre-
quent revision as the island strug-
gled to meet its various
obligations.
“We don’t want people to think
we’re hiding something, because
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we’re not hiding anything,” she
said. “You have to understand
what we’re living with right now.”
Even without the reports for
2014 and 2015, Ms. Acosta said
anyone who wanted to under-
stand Puerto Rico’s finances could
look at 15 prior years’ worth of fi-
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
nancial statements and they
would see “deficit after deficit.”
“Trust me, 2014’s going to be the
same,” she said. “The situation is
just as bad as ever.”
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B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
A Philanthropist Drills Down to Discover Why Programs Work
By PAUL SULLIVAN
P
HILANTHROPISTS have
poured millions of dollars
into improving education
in the United States —
paying for new buildings, buying
new computers and even creat-
ing new charter schools.
Susan Crown, a member of the
billionaire Crown family of Chi-
cago, is trying something differ-
ent. Two years ago, she began
working with organizations that
seek to foster character traits
like grit, empathy and persever-
ance, which studies show can be
determinants of future success.
But financing organizations
that focus on social and emo-
tional learning programs for
disadvantaged children was just
part of the effort. Ms. Crown said
she also wanted to go deeper into
understanding why some organi-
zations succeeded so well.
“This is my second chapter of
foundation life,” Ms. Crown said.
“It’s the exact opposite of my
first chapter, which was wide-
spread, very regional, not terri-
bly strategic. There were a mil-
lion moving pieces. This is a very
focused, intentional, high-risk
program.”
After examining hundreds of
applications, she picked eight
organizations to support and
study as part of what she called
the Susan Crown Exchange.
The organizations each re-
ceived $100,000. In return, she
asked them to gather three times
over the two-year period of the
grant to dissect what they were
doing and why it had proved
successful. Her goal was to find
the secret sauce and reveal it to
other organizations trying to do
similar work.
The organizations selected for
the program do not offer typical
after-school programs. One
brings teenagers together to
create, write, produce and act in
musicals with themes like sexual
abuse, bullying and urban vio-
lence. Another teaches inner-city
students how to build wooden
boats.
Yet these programs seemed to
be improving the lives of the
small number of participants
they served. How were they
doing it, and could it be rep-
licated?
Yamir Jackson-Adens, 18,
began going to the Philadelphia
Wooden Boat Factory in eighth
grade. Living in a poor section in
the northeast part of the city, he
said he had been bullied in ele-
mentary school, and he was still
shy. The boat program intrigued
him, even though he knew no one
who owned a boat.
“In boat building, you learn
stuff,” Mr. Jackson-Adens said.
W
HEN I went to work
on Wall Street in
1972, it was an arti-
cle of faith that older
investors should own less com-
mon stock than young ones. One
rule of thumb suggested that
your equity exposure should
equal 100 percent minus your
age: 70 percent for a 30-year-old,
for example, but just 35 percent
for someone who is 65.
Since then, investment prac-
tices have evolved considerably,
but on the question of how much
common stock to own — the
single most important question
governing investment returns —
not much has changed.
Typical recommendations
nowadays propose greater equity
exposure than they did 40 years
ago, but it is still the overwhelm-
ing view among investment
counselors that people should
reduce their holdings of common
stock and beef up their owner-
ship of bonds as they grow older.
Problem is, it wasn’t very good
advice back then, and it’s still
poor advice today.
I know this opinion puts me in
the minority, but if you are a
retiree or nearing retirement,
you should hear me out.
Let’s begin with the standard
view today.
Customer representatives at
Vanguard, one of the largest
investment managers in the
world, generally refrain from
offering unsolicited financial
advice. Still, when you log in to
your account at Vanguard, you
will see two pie charts. One
shows your current asset alloca-
tion and one shows what Van-
guard’s algorithm (based solely
on your age) thinks that alloca-
tion should be. Something similar
David A. Levine is a former chief
economist at Sanford C. Bernstein
& Company, now a unit of Alli-
anceBernstein, who also founded
and ran the firm’s fixed-income
department.
“You’re free to move. You don’t
have a whole lot of restrictions.
It’s more of a trial-and-error kind
of thing. You learn from those
mistakes. In school, if you fail,
you’ve failed.”
Brett Hart, executive director
of the Philadelphia Wooden Boat
Factory, grew up in the same
neighborhood and has seen the
decline in the education and
opportunity there firsthand.
“We are at the front lines of
educational inequity,” Mr. Hart
said. “Our national response has
been to double down on items
like Common Core.” But, he said,
skills like “the ability to be adap-
tive, collaborative, resourceful
are the tools we need to thrive.”
He said the funding from the
Susan Crown Exchange allowed
the organization to bring on a
social worker to deepen the work
it was doing in helping high
school students regulate their
emotions and focus on the pos-
itive and constructive aspects of
their lives. But the meetings with
the other organizations and the
experts Ms. Crown brought in
gave Mr. Hart the perspective to
incorporate more academic
research into what his organiza-
tion had been doing intuitively,
he said.
The Real Meaning of ‘Investment Horizon’
is suggested by most other in-
vestment firms and financial
advisers.
If you happen to be like my
daughter or son — both in their
mid-30s — Vanguard will pro-
pose a target asset allocation
that is 90 percent stocks and 10
percent bonds. For a 69-year-old
like me, however, the default
suggestion is 45 percent stocks
and 55 percent bonds. Vanguard
offers a disclaimer noting that it
has not taken “personal circum-
stances” into consideration.
Assuming all of us followed the
preferred allocation, our family’s
financial assets would col-
lectively be less than 50 percent
equities because my wife and I
have a lot more money than our
children. But if we died in a plane
crash tomorrow, and the children
inherited our money, the recom-
mendation for how to allocate
those same assets would shoot
up to 90 percent stocks.
PERSONAL BUSINESS
WEALTH MATTERS
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Similarly, Jennifer Freed,
executive director of AHA in
Santa Barbara, Calif., was proud
of the success the organization
had in helping local teenagers,
with programs reaching nearly
3,000 people a year. The group’s
name stands for Attitude, Har-
mony, Achievement.
But the analysis of what AHA
was doing helped Ms. Freed
Finding the secret
sauce to success in
social initiatives.
envision it as something bigger.
“The thing I learned the most
about is how to track the devel-
opment of social and emotional
skills through a yearlong
process,” she said. “I really
learned how to work with other
agencies nationwide and imagine
AHA as a nationwide program.”
One criticism of these pro-
grams is that they need many
well-trained counselors and
mentors to work in small groups
with students, and that makes
RETIRING
GORKA SAMPEDRO
Isn’t that a little strange?
I’m not picking on Vanguard; I
hold most of my investments in
Vanguard index funds and their
recommendations mirror what
the rest of the industry preaches.
Indeed, the “target-date funds”
of Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock
and the Capital Group all allocate
84 to 97 percent stocks for people
who plan to retire in 2045 versus
52 to 61 percent for those plan-
ning to retire in 2020.
I asked Maria Bruno, a senior
analyst specializing in retire-
ment-related strategies for Van-
guard, to explain the reasoning
behind those allocations. “As you
age and your time horizon
shortens, you need to diversify
by increasing your exposure to
bonds,” she said. “This will help
mitigate the short-term volatility
of your portfolio that derives
mainly from the equity compo-
nent.”
This consensus view, though,
them expensive to run and
replicate. At AHA, there is a
six-to-one student-to-mentor
ratio. The Philadelphia Wooden
Boat Factory program is limited
to 36 students a year.
Bringing the ideas behind
these programs to more people
was one reason Ms. Crown
wanted to create what is essen-
tially a how-to guide for other
groups.
Titled “Preparing Youth to
Thrive: Promising Practices in
Social and Emotional Learning,”
the guide was produced with the
David P. Weikart Center for
Youth Program Quality, which
has a system to measure the
effectiveness of youth programs.
“We came up with a set of
S.E.L. skills that we found could
be built up,” Ms. Crown said,
referring to social and emotional
learning.
The major skills that needed to
be developed, she said, were
emotion management, empathy,
teamwork, responsibility, initia-
tive and problem solving. If there
was one superskill, she said, it
was “agency,” another way of
saying drive.
For many philanthropists,
undertaking an initiative like
Investing Forever
Most financial advisers recommend that investors gradually reduce their
stock holdings as they age to limit the volatility of their portfolio.
Vanguard’s target-date funds reflect the consensus view, but Vanguard’s
own customers seem to favor not dropping their equity exposure so much.
100% Percentage of a portfolio invested in stocks
80
60
40
20
0
20 30 40
Age of investor
Source: Vanguard
rests on a fallacy: the belief that
as people grow older, their in-
vestment horizon shortens and,
therefore, their ability to with-
stand volatility diminishes con-
siderably.
I would argue, instead, that
there is an insufficient apprecia-
Why your portfolio
needs plenty of
stocks, whatever
your age.
tion of just how apt the metaphor
of the “investment horizon” is.
Just as a sailor sees but never
reaches the horizon, the same is
true for nearly all investors.
A just-retired 66-year-old
might expect that her assets will
need to support her for a further
this, in which success is hard to
quantify in the short term and
endless amounts of money could
be spent over time, could be too
daunting. After all, a building is
built and computers are bought
— or not. (Ms. Crown said she
thought the program was costing
her about $1 million a year.)
“Most philanthropy is big idea,
but the big idea that no one else
is doing is more difficult,” said
Bill Woodson, head of the North
America family office group at
Citi Private Bank. “Some philan-
thropists are held back because
they may lack the resources. Or
it may be a time commitment.
Some are just pragmatic, and
they want to invest in immediate,
tangible results.”
But, Mr. Woodson added, “I’d
hate philanthropists to be limited
in what they’re doing because of
measurability requirements.”
Ms. Crown said assessing
success and failure was always
on her mind. “Success is getting
this through a major youth sys-
tem and to be able to do pre- and
post-measurement,” she said.
“Failure would be if this did not
resonate. But I don’t think that’s
the case.”
Yet success can also radiate
Vanguard’s:
Roth IRAs
Traditional IRAs
Target-date
retirement funds
50 60 70 80 90
65
THE NEW YORK TIMES
life expectancy of only 20 to 21
years. But what happens if she
treats that actuarial expectation
as a certainty, spends too much
each year, and ends up healthy
and vigorous at age 87 with no
assets left?
At 87, the average woman can
expect to live another six to
seven years — a healthy woman,
even longer. And she might get
“unlucky” and live to be 100, in
which case her assets will need
to support a retirement of 34
years.
The prudent course for any
retiree is to plan on a longer-
than-normal life. Retirees
typically liquidate only a small
portion of their assets every
year. Accordingly, the mere act of
retiring should not prompt any
change in your exposure to the
financial asset — common stock
— that is almost certain to
produce the highest returns over
the long run.
But what if there’s a bear
Susan Crown, above, says her
donations are more strategic
than they once were. At left,
the Philadelphia Wooden
Boat Factory teaches inner-
city students.
down to the individual groups.
Paul Griffin, founder and presi-
dent of the Possibility Project,
which teaches high school stu-
dents in New York how to create
and perform in a musical based
on difficulties in their lives, said
he hoped that participating in the
Susan Crown Exchange would
help other philanthropists see
how to support organizations like
his.
“In our field, social and emo-
tional learning has been very
vague,” he said. “As a conse-
quence, of course, for funders
and other folks, there wasn’t
really anything to talk about.
People knew S.E.L. was impor-
tant, but what they didn’t know
was how do you do it.”
Ms. Crown said she was
pleased with how the first group
fared and the field guide turned
out but added that the Susan
Crown Exchange still had a long
way to go: “We have the luxury
of time to study something and
the attitude of a growth mind-set
and the capital to actually do
something.”
“We knew that we’re not going
to get a perfect calculus equa-
tion,” she said. “There are certain
things we can measure and
certain things we can’t.”
And this is where these pro-
grams can succeed on a smaller
scale. Next fall, Mr. Jackson-
Adens will be attending Colorado
State University to begin studies
that he hopes will lead to becom-
ing a veterinarian.
“Boat got me into thinking
outside the box,” he said. “It
helped me adjust to different
situations.”
That is a life skill anyone could
use.
market? “No big deal,” I say. As
long as you don’t panic and sell
most of your holdings at the
worst times, your annual
withdrawals are limited. As a
result, you should not really
worry about fluctuations in the
stock market.
Not worry about the volatility
of the market? True enough,
sometimes you’ll be selling when
the stock market is depressed,
but at other times you’ll be sell-
ing when the stock market is
elevated.
On average, you’ll be liquidat-
ing your positions at average
prices and, over time, you will
earn the average performance of
the stock market. And the long-
established truth is that a diver-
sified collection of stocks, over
most any reasonable time period,
will outperform the average
performance of bonds.
But what happens when our
healthy, vigorous retiree gets to
be 99? Surely there is not much
time left. That is true: She is fast
approaching her personal hori-
zon. But her assets have not
reached their horizon. They will
be bequeathed to her children, or
other relatives and friends, per-
haps a few favorite charities —
extending the horizon anew.
I can count on one hand the
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number of people who have said
to me that they don’t care about
any relatives, friends or charities
and that it is their intention to
spend all of their money — ideal-
ly running the balance down to
zero — on the day they die.
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
It is the realization that the
investment horizon is long and
that it is continuously receding
that leads us in the direction of a
correct asset allocation. And that
means we should not reduce
exposure to the stock market as
we age.
But what is the correct alloca-
tion between stocks and bonds?
My answer to that question will
come next week.

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ANKS must do more to
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unnecessarily thwarting
customers who want to
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The agency, the Consumer
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the nation’s retail banks and
credit unions that they must act
to provide accurate information
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nances.
Shares of the company, the
world’s biggest steel maker, fell
more than 5 percent on Friday in
Amsterdam. The company is
among the many big producers of
commodities that has been hit by
lower demand from the slowing
global economy. But ArcelorMit-
tal is taking pains to lay blame on
China.
ArcelorMittal said its loss — in-
cluding a $6.7 billion retreat in the
fourth quarter last year — was
mainly down to falling steel prices
that were depressed by a surge of
Chinese exports, and to write-offs
in the company’s large mining
business. In the fourth quarter of
2014, ArcelorMittal lost $955 mil-
lion.
China’s economic slowdown is
Brothers Julian Kurland, left, and Ben Kurland are the founders of BillFixers. The company claims a 94.9 percent success rate.
ple skim, says that “to save you
hassle, we’ll just call using your
name, but if you prefer a little
hassle, you can call your
provider and add us as official
authorized users.”
Would everyone who reads
this realize that the company
intends to impersonate them?
Probably not. The Kurland broth-
ers note that no customer who
has learned about their tactics
has found them upsetting.
Besides, they argue, they are
on the side of the angels here. “I
don’t feel an ethical responsibil-
ity to the companies,” Ben Kur-
land said. “I feel a responsibility
to our clients. If the companies
would let us negotiate upfront,
we would, but they’ve gone out of
their way to make that difficult.”
Still, at least one other similar
company, BillCutterz, engages in
three-way calls with its
barriers to mainstream checking
accounts for many consumers,
according to a report from the
National Consumer Law Center
and the Cities for Financial Em-
powerment Fund.
The consumer finance bureau
also sent a letter to 25 large retail
banks, urging them to offer “low
risk” accounts that do not allow
consumers to spend more money
than they have.
The bureau said some banks
offered such “no overdraft” ac-
counts, but they tended not to
promote them widely to
customers — or they may offer
the accounts only after a
customer has been rejected for a
traditional checking account. In
its letter, the bureau pressed
banks to make these accounts
broadly available and to feature
them online and in branches.
“By simply offering consumers
a bit more choice, banks and
credit unions could help more
people enjoy the many benefits
of a banking relationship,” the
bureau’s director, Richard Cor-
dray, said in remarks prepared
for a public hearing this week in
Louisville, Ky., on checking ac-
upsetting the calculus of just
about all commodity producers,
including steel makers, but with a
twist.
Rather than importing steel,
China has ramped up its own ca-
pacity, which now accounts for
about half of all global production
of raw steel. With the Chinese
On top of a big
write-down, a surge of
exports from China
depressed steel prices.
economy slowing and domestic
producers reluctant to cut produc-
tion, the remedy so far has been to
unleash exports that undercut ri-
vals around the world.
In a conference call with
reporters on Friday, Lakshmi N.
Mittal, the company’s chairman
and chief executive, called the re-
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PERSONAL BUSINESS
YOUR MONEY
customers and their service
providers. BillCutterz will also
sometimes become an autho-
rized user on customers’ ac-
counts, according to its founder,
Barry Gross, or it uses other
measures that do not involve
impersonation. Can it still make
money? “Absolutely,” Mr. Gross
said. “I’ve had friends get a lot
richer than me by walking the
gray line or into the dark, and
that’s not my style.”
Whatever your feelings about
BillFixers’ ethics, let me be clear
about my own thoughts about
the company, which I first read
about on the website of the tech
and consumer journalist Bob
Sullivan. I do not endorse the
way the company conducts itself
when initiating calls. Its negotiat-
ing tactics, however, are clever.
Here’s what I picked up by
listening in:
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count access.
While almost 90 percent of
American households have at
least one checking account,
about 10 million households have
no checking or savings account,
Mr. Cordray said.
In a prepared statement, Vir-
ginia O’Neill, senior vice presi-
dent of the American Bankers
Association’s center for regula-
tory compliance, said that banks
“remain dedicated to featuring a
full range of product choices that
can accommodate a number of
diverse consumer preferences.”
Consumer advocates cited
Chase’s Liquid prepaid debit
card, and Bank of America’s Safe
Balance account, as examples of
“checkless” accounts that help
customers avoid exceeding their
balances and incurring fees as a
result. The accounts simply
decline spending if the account
balance will not cover it and do
not charge a fee. They do charge
monthly service fees, however,
which may be burdensome to
lower-income users.
Having a checking account
closed for repeated overdrafts
can have a lasting effect, said
sults “rather sobering” and “dis-
appointing.”
In an indication of continuing
difficult conditions, Mr. Mittal also
forecast that his company’s earn-
ings before interest, taxes, depre-
ciation and amortization, a widely
cited financial metric, would be
“in excess” of $4.5 billion in 2016,
compared with $5.2 billion in 2015.
With a steady decline in the
company’s share price lately,
ArcelorMittal’s stock market val-
ue is now about 6.3 billion, or $6.8
billion — less than one-quarter of
the nearly €27 billion that Mittal
Steel agreed to pay for Arcelor af-
ter a bruising takeover battle in
2006.
During a call with reporters on
Friday, Aditya Mittal, the compa-
ny’s chief financial officer, said
that the Chinese makers had been
“exporting at aggressive levels in
2015; this has caused prices to
drop in all of our key markets.”
Prices of one important type of
steel exported by the Chinese,
hot-rolled coil, which is used in au-
tomobiles and other manufactur-
■ Start with the “Cancel My
Service” option on your service
provider’s phone tree. The
representatives themselves echo
this, saying things like “If you
have trouble, just come to reten-
tion,” and “Seriously, call us back
before your 12-month discount is
up!” It’s a game, and they want
you to come out and play.
■ But play nice. “The main
thing is to be superfriendly,” Ben
Kurland said. “The reps get
yelled at all day, every day, and
they hold a lot of power.” Also,
his brother, Julian, noted that if
you aren’t courteous, you never
know when, say, your DVR might
accidentally disappear from your
service.
■ Come to the call prepared,
since the representatives may
want to know what prices you
are seeing elsewhere. If you’re
getting solicitations from com-
Susan Weinstock, director of the
consumer banking initiative at
the Pew Charitable Trusts, be-
cause the information remains
on file for up to seven years. That
means consumers are effectively
“blacklisted” and cannot open
another checking account, leav-
ing them out of the financial
mainstream.
What is really needed, she
said, is an update of bank over-
draft rules, which the consumer
agency is planning.
Excessive overdraft fees have
been a concern for years, partic-
ularly because some banks had
been found to reorder transac-
tions to maximize the fees they
charged account holders. A Pew
report in 2014 found that some
big banks had stopped such
reordering practices, but many
others had not.
Current regulations require
banks to obtain customers’ per-
mission before allowing them to
overspend their accounts using
their debit cards in exchange for
a fee, typically $35. If customers
choose not to accept this “over-
draft protection,” purchases or
withdrawals that exceed the
ing, fell by about 40 percent in
2015.
Aditya Mittal, who is Lakshmi
Mittal’s son, said the industry was
pursuing trade actions against
Chinese exports in both the
United States and in Europe, al-
though he said that Europe was
less effective in protecting its
producers from dumping.
“Clearly the trade defense in-
struments that have been devel-
oped in the U.S. are better,’’ he
STACY KRANITZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
petitors, keep them. If not, look
up offers online.
■ If you have a television
subscription of some sort, the
companies will often offer HBO
or other premium channels free
for some period of time. Don’t
like television? Ask for some-
thing else instead. When
customers are thinking about
canceling, companies are often
willing to offer faster Internet
speeds or other upgrades.
■ Ask for a new-customer
discount if all else fails. Time
Warner Cable gave one to a
long-tenured customer on one
call I listened to. Mr. Amirshahi,
the company spokesman, said
that calling an old customer
“new” is not a lie since the serv-
ice packages change constantly.
■ Customer service profession-
als often have the ability to hand
out a one-time credit to ag-
account balance are declined,
usually without a fee.
(Those rules, however, apply
to overspending via debit card.
Even if customers decline over-
draft protection, they may still
incur fees for bounced checks
and overspending because of
recurring electronic payments.)
Consumers consistently say
they find the overdraft option
confusing, Ms. Weinstock said.
“We know the system right now
with ‘opt in’ isn’t working,” she
said. Pew’s research has found
that more than half of people
who have been charged a penalty
fee do not recall opting in to
overdraft coverage.
Here are some questions and
answers about checking ac-
counts:
■ How can I see if my checking
account history report is accu-
rate?
National checking-account
reporting companies must give
you one free copy of your report
each year. Two of the largest are
ChexSystems and Early Warning
Services. You can find contact
information for those companies
and others online.
THYSSENKRUPP STEEL USA, VIA REUTERS
said, “They insure a fairer, level
playing field.”
In addition, Aditya Mittal
painted a picture of relatively
weak demand for steel this year,
with only the market in the United
States showing growth. He said
that growth in European demand
would be weaker this year than
last, and that Brazil, a major mar-
ket for ArcelorMittal, and China
would continue to show declines.
He added, however, that there
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grieved customers or just ones
who are down on their luck. So
ask for one, even if it’s on top of a
newly lowered monthly bill. Hats
off to AT&T Wireless, which gave
$100 to a BillFixers customer
after Peter Zimbicki, a senior
associate at BillFixers who was
pretending to be the customer,
claimed that he’d had a lot of
unexpected bills recently.
■ Be patient. One of Mr. Zim-
bicki’s go-to lines when
representatives ask permission
to put him on hold is this: “I have
plenty of time.” This encourages
cable or wireless employees to
spend a few more minutes scrap-
ing together whatever discounts
they can.
■ Ask whether any lower price
requires a contract, commitment
or any other word that sounds
similar. BillFixers avoids new
contracts; best not to be locked
in, so you can negotiate again
next year.
■ Once you have a firm offer,
write down the details and call
back. It isn’t real until you can
get another representative to
repeat the new price. BillFixers
found this out the hard way in its
early days when it billed its
customers for its negotiating
service, only to find that when
the bills came, the discount was
not as much as the company
originally negotiated.
■ After a year, do all of this
again and repeat ad nauseam.
The absurdity of this is not lost
on the Kurland brothers. They
haven’t figured out how to get a
robot to make these calls, so if
their business gets much bigger,
they will be creating one call
center to call another call center
all day long. “We’ve stumbled
into a surreal corner of capital-
ism,” Ben Kurland said. “But it’s
a deeply pleasant thing to be
taking money from Comcast and
their ilk and being able to pro-
vide jobs while doing it.”
When he puts it that way, it’s
hard not to root for him just a
little. But our financial lives
would be so much easier — and
way fewer people would be
tempted to misrepresent them-
selves in pursuit of savings — if
companies could simply offer the
best deal to every customer all of
the time.
If a bank turns you down for a
checking account because of a
negative report, the bank must
give you a notice with the name
of the screening company that
provided the information. You
may request a copy of your re-
port to check it for accuracy.
■ How can I dispute a report I
believe is incorrect?
The Consumer Financial Pro-
tection Bureau recommends
filing a dispute with the report-
ing company and with the bank
that provided the information,
and offers instructions and sam-
ple letters.
■ How can I avoid overdraft
fees?
If you do not want to worry
about overdraft fees, decline the
bank’s offer of overdraft protec-
tion. (If you overspend, however,
the transaction will be rejected.)
Alternatively, you may link your
checking account to another
source of money, like a savings
account, and have money trans-
ferred automatically to cover any
shortfalls. You will still be
charged a transfer fee, but it is
usually much less than an over-
draft fee.
A blast furnace at an Arcelor-
Mittal steel plant in northern
France. The company lost
$6.7 billion in the fourth quar-
ter of last year.
were still pockets of strength for
the company’s products, includ-
ing in the automobile industry.
The combination of reduced
prices and a weakening world
economy played havoc with
ArcelorMittal’s annual and quar-
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terly results on Friday. The com-
pany said it lost $7.9 billion in 2015,
compared with a $1.1 billion loss in
2014. Revenue fell about 20 per-
cent last year to about $64 billion.
The company is also being hurt
by previous investments it has
made in mining. Those ventures
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
are turning sour because of de-
clining prices for iron ore and coal,
both tied to falling demand in
China. ArcelorMittal’s mining unit
reported a $3.5 billion operating
loss for 2015, compared with a
$565 million profit a year earlier.
The company also wrote off $3.4
billion on mines, primarily in
Liberia and the United States, as
lower prices resulted in a revision
of its commercial forecasts.
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NEWS ANALYSIS

Conflicting Economic Indicators Challenge Fed’s Policy Makers

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
WASHINGTON — The con-
trast between the improving
health of the labor market and
the weakness of other economic
indicators poses a challenging
quandary for the Federal Re-
serve.
Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s
chairwoman, and other officials
have said the Fed must raise its
benchmark interest rate as job
growth continues to prevent
higher inflation down the road.
The strength of the January jobs
report — including faster wage
growth — suggests the Fed’s
policy-making committee still
could raise rates as soon at its
next meeting in March.
But the Fed would be betting
on a theory. Inflation remains
low, growth has slowed and the
impact of global economic prob-
lems and financial market vola-
tility is unclear. If the Fed
presses ahead, it could under-
mine the economy just as things
are getting good for the vast
majority of Americans.
“My message to the Fed re-
garding this recent, long-awaited
acceleration in wages is ‘Love it
and leave it alone,’” said Jared
Bernstein, an economist at the
Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities who previously served
as the chief economic adviser to
Vice President Joseph R. Biden
Jr. “If we want working people to
benefit from the expansion, the
last thing you’d want to do is tap
the brakes — especially given
the absence of inflationary pres-
sures.”
The Fed raised its benchmark
rate in December for the first
time since the financial crisis. It
had held rates near zero for
seven years to encourage bor-
rowing and risk-taking. Ms.
Yellen, speaking after the an-
nouncement, said the Fed
planned to raise rates gradually,
reducing those incentives be-
cause the economy no longer
needed quite as much help.
She will speak publicly for the
first time since then on Wednes-
day when she testifies before the
House Financial Services Com-
mittee. In the intervening two
months, the economic outlook
has deteriorated. Financial con-
ditions have tightened and the
dollar has gained strength,
weighing on American exporters
and delaying any rebound in
inflation.
The January jobs report, how-
ever, reflects considerable
strength in other parts of the
economy. Stronger wage growth
is particularly likely to grab the
Fed’s attention, suggesting that
employers are finally being
forced to compete for workers by
raising pay. In a high-profile
example, Walmart, the nation’s
largest private employer, has
said that it plans to increase
hourly pay rates for most of its
employees later this month.
The Fed is less likely to worry
about the slower pace of job
creation in January, as officials
have predicted that slower popu-
lation growth would weigh on job
creation. In keeping with those
expectations, the unemployment
rate still fell to 4.9 percent.
One reason the Fed is focused
on job growth is that it may be a
more accurate reflection of the
strength of the underlying econ-
omy. In the fourth quarter of
2015, for example, the govern-
ment estimated the economy
added 279,000 jobs a month, but
that output increased at a rate of
just 0.7 percent.
Jason Furman, chairman of the
president’s Council of Economic
Advisers, wrote in an analysis on
Friday that the output figures
probably reflected some meas-
urement error. “This illustrates
the importance of focusing on a
wide range of indicators — espe-
cially labor market data, which
tend to be less noisy — in assess-
ing the health of the economy,”
he said.
One wing of the Fed sees an
undiminished case for raising
rates.
Esther L. George, president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City and one of the 10 Fed
officials voting on the direction of
policy this year, said this week
that the Fed “should continue the
gradual adjustment of moving
rates higher to keep them
aligned with economic activity
and inflation.”
She also played down concerns
about the economic impact of
Increasing interest
rates could weaken
the economy.
recent market volatility. “While
taking a signal from such volatili-
ty is warranted,” she said, “mon-
etary policy cannot respond to
every blip in financial markets.”
Loretta J. Mester, president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Cleveland and another voter, said
on Thursday in New York that it
was “premature” to change her
economic outlook.
“At this point, solid labor mar-
ket indicators, including strong
payroll growth, and healthy
growth in real disposable in-
come, suggest that underlying
U.S. economic fundamentals
remain sound,” Ms. Mester said.
“Until we see further evidence to
the contrary, my expectation is
that the U.S. economy will work
through the latest episode of
market turbulence and soft patch
to regain its footing for moderate
growth.”
Other Fed officials, however,
say the volatility has given them
pause.
William C. Dudley, president of
the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York and a close adviser to
Ms. Yellen, said in an interview
with Market News International
this week that he was worried
about the economic impact of
jittery markets.
“If those financial conditions
were to remain in place by the
time we get to the March meet-
ing, we would have to take that
into consideration in terms of
that monetary policy decision,”
Mr. Dudley said.
And Lael Brainard, a Fed
governor who has been particu-
larly outspoken in warning that
global pressures will weigh on
domestic growth, told The Wall
Street Journal this week that
“recent developments reinforce
the case for watchful waiting.”
Investors, oddly, have walked
away from this debate feeling
confident that the Fed will not
raise rates in March. Indeed,
asset prices tied to expectations
about the future level of short-
term interest imply only about a
50 percent chance of any rate
increase this year.
That contrasts sharply with
the Fed’s own prediction in De-
cember that it planned to raise
rates by about one percentage
point in 2016, most likely in four
discrete steps.
Many analysts have taken a
more measured position, predict-
ing that the Fed is less likely to
move in March, but that it will
still raise rates two or three
times this year.
Michael Gapen, chief United
States economist at Barclays,
said on Friday he now expected
the Fed to raise rates twice,
instead of three times, and to
start in June, instead of March.
Michael Feroli, chief United
States economist at JPMorgan
Chase, said the continuation of
low inflation probably meant Fed
policy makers would hesitate at
their next session.
“Were the meeting held tomor-
row, we still think the Fed would
stay on hold — primarily because
of concerns about inflation and
inflation expectations,” he said.
“But it would be an uncomfort-
able hold.”

The Labor Picture in January

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SHARE OF
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
POPULATION
6.0% JAN. CHANGE CHANGE

Employed 59.6 % + 0.1 pts. + 0.3 pts.

5.5 Labor force (workers 62.7 + 0.1 – 0.2
and unemployed)
4.9%
5.0
‘HIDDEN’ UNEMPLOYMENT
In millions 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
JAN. CHANGE CHANGE
4.5
Working part time, but 6.0 – 0.6 % – 11.7%
F M A M J J A S O N D J want full-time work
People who currently 6.2 † + 8.1 – 4.7
UNEMPLOYMENT DEMOGRAPHICS 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
CHANGE CHANGE
want a job§
JAN.
White 4.3 % – 0.2 pts. – 0.6 pts. UNEMPLOYMENT BY
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
Black 8.8 + 0.5 – 1.5 EDUCATION LEVEL
JAN. CHANGE CHANGE
Hispanic* 5.9 – 0.4 – 0.8 Less than high 7.4 % + 0.7 pts. – 1.2 pts.
Asian 3.7 † – 0.3 – 0.4 † school
Teenagers 16.0 – 0.1 – 2.9 High school 5.3 – 0.3 – 0.1
(16-19) Some college 4.2 + 0.1 – 1.0
Bachelor’s or higher 2.5 Unch. – 0.3
DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT
In weeks 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
MIKE GROLL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHANGE CHANGE TYPE OF WORK
JAN.
1-MONTH 1-YEAR
Workers starting construction on a casino in Schenectady, N.Y. The construction industry, a Average 28.9 + 4.7 % – 9.7 %
In millions
JAN. CHANGE CHANGE
source of better-paying income for blue-collar workers, added 18,000 jobs in January.
Median 10.9 + 3.8 – 18.7 Nonfarm 143.3 + 0.1% + 1.9%
Goods 19.7 + 0.2 + 0.9

Wages Up and Jobless Rate Falls EMPLOYMENT

+3%
Nonfarm payroll, 12-month change Services
Agriculture
123.6
2.4
+ 0.1
– 1.1
+ 2.1
– 1.3

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up people looking for work if it
continues in the months ahead,
but a big step down from Decem-
ber’s revised increase of 262,000.
The combination of rising pay
with a slower pace of hiring and
downward pressure on prices
from a stronger dollar compli-
cates the picture for the Federal
Reserve as it contemplates its
next interest rate increase.
Wages have shown month-to-
month strength during the recov-
ery, only to lapse back into a funk.
But a slight increase in the length
of the typical workweek in Janu-
ary also bodes well for future sala-
ry increases, as do private reports
showing the same pattern.
An increase in the minimum
wage in more than a dozen states
at the beginning of 2016 may also
be giving hourly earnings an ex-
tra tailwind.
A December survey by PwC,
the accounting and consulting
firm, showed companies
budgeting for salary raises of
nearly 3 percent in 2016, the big-
gest annual increase since the re-
covery began. More than a third of
executives said they were worried
that labor costs could eat into cor-
porate profit margins, nearly
twice the number who cited that
fear a year ago.
“No doubt about it, I’m hearing
that executives are seeing wage
pressures and not just in a few
pockets of the country,” said Ken
Esch, a partner at PwC. “It’s
pretty broad-based.”
Managers like Dave Rozen-
boom, president of First Premier
Bank in Sioux Falls, S.D., have had
to hand out raises for both exist-
ing employees and new hires.
January data suggests
the economy is not in
danger of a recession,
experts say.
Starting salaries for workers
who handle credit card customer
service and collections recently
rose to $13 an hour from $11.75, Mr.
Rozenboom said. Hospitals and
construction firms in Sioux Falls,
where the unemployment rate is
2.6 percent, are also hiring.
“The economy is as strong as it
has ever been here,” Mr. Rozen-
boom said “It’s a very tight labor
market, and we continue to hire.”
Sioux Falls’s situation may be
unusually robust, but the upward
trajectory in employment across
the country suggests to some ana-
lysts that Main Street business
leaders like Mr. Rozenboom know
something that the Wall Street
pessimists don’t.
“The January employment re-
port provides yet one more piece
of evidence that the chance of re-
cession this year is truly remote,”
said Bernard Baumohl, chief
global economist for the Eco-
nomic Outlook Group in Prince-
ton, N.J. “Economic activity
should accelerate this year as ris-
ing employment, income, home
values and confidence drive more
spending.”
Of course, markets are mercuri-
al, foreseeing some recessions
that never come to pass, while
economists often fail to see that
the good times are coming to an
end right up until the music stops.
There certainly have been rea-
sons for investors to feel edgy
lately, including weakness in
China, plunging oil prices and dis-
appointing retail sales figures.
Those industries closely tied to
commodity markets where prices
are dropping showed real weak-
+2
+1
0
F M A M J J
Source: Bureau of Labor Statisics
ness last month. Stripping out sea-
sonal adjustments, oil and gas
drillers laid off more than 2,000
workers in January, wiping out
four years of employment gains.
The overall mining industry,
which includes the oil sector, has
shed 146,000 jobs since September
2014.
But jobs in manufacturing, in a
reversal from its weakness in the
second half of 2015, surged last
month, rising by 29,000. The
strong dollar and weak export
markets in Asia and Europe have
hurt factory employment, but
some experts suggested that the
worst might now be over.
“It’s a sign the manufacturing
sector may be stabilizing,” said
Scott Anderson, chief economist
AVERAGE WEEKLY EARNINGS
Rank-and-file 1-MONTH 1-YEAR
workers JAN. CHANGE CHANGE
$878.49 +0.8% + 2.5 %
Figures are seasonally adjusted, except where noted.
*Hispanics can be of any race. †Not seasonally adjusted.
§People not working who say they would like to be.
A S O N D J Includes discouraged workers and those who cannot work
for reasons including ill health.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
at Bank of the West in San Fran- which has been stuck at lows not
cisco. While the factory sector in seen since the late 1970s, ticked up
the United States is not nearly the slightly in January.
size it once was, it plays an impor- As has been the case since the
tant role in the ups and downs of current recovery began in
the business cycle and is a source
of better-paying jobs for blue-col-
mid-2009, the most educated
workers are doing the best in to-
lar workers who have fared poorly day’s job market: The unemploy-
in recent decades. ment rate for college graduates
The construction industry, an- was unchanged in January at 2.5
other source of higher-paying percent, while joblessness rose to
working-class jobs, also held up 7.4 percent for people without a
well, adding 18,000 jobs despite high school diploma.
the colder weather in the eastern “We do think the unemploy-
half of the country. ment rate will continue to drift
The overall figures for job cre- lower and that will support wage
ation, as well as the sector-by-sec- growth,” said Michael Gapen,
tor data, are likely to be revised in chief United States economist at
future months as more data Barclays. “We don’t think the
comes in. The proportion of Amer- economy is sliding into a reces-
icans who are in the labor force, sion.”

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declines after a report showing
that job creation in the United
throughout day, but losses accel-
erated near the end of trading.
With Friday’s losses, the Dow was
down 1.6 percent for the week, the
S.&P. 500 fell 3.1 percent and Nas-
daq lost 5.4 percent.
cent, the lowest level since Febru-
ary 2008. Average wages jumped
2.5 percent over the last year to
$25.39 an hour, evidence that the
past years of job growth are help-
ing to generate larger pay raises.
percent from 1.85 percent.
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States slowed last month.
Technology stocks fell espe-
cially hard, and shares of LinkedIn
had their worst day.
Energy and consumer discre-
tionary stocks fell as oil prices de-
clined and investors continued to
worry that the risk of the economy
The jobs report showed that “We’re not falling off the cliff, and shares fell more than 40 per-
but it clearly shows the U.S. econ- cent. 4,400
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slowdown,” said Russ Koesterich, LinkedIn had a track record of is-
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5.4 percent. showed that the economy was
growing, albeit slowly. It caused
company’s financial guidance.
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The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age fell 211.61 points, or 1.3 percent,
to 16,204.97. The Standard & Poor’s
500-stock index lost 35.40 points,
or 1.9 percent, to 1,880.05, and the
Nasdaq composite index dropped
146.42 points, or 3.3 percent, to
4,363.14.
Stocks were mostly lower
employers in the United States
added 151,000 jobs last month, a
sharp deceleration from recent
months.
The report included some pos-
itive signs. The unemployment
rate fell to 4.9 percent from 5 per-
the dollar to strengthen against
other currencies. The dollar rose
to 116.89 yen from 116.71 yen. The
euro fell to $1.1164 from $1.1214,
inching back from its highest level
in more than three months.
Prices for United States gov-
ernment bonds were mostly un-
changed. The yield on the 10-year
Treasury note edged down to 1.84
after its worst slide since Linked-
In went public in 2011.
The company’s forecast implies
the once fast-growing business
expects sales to increase in the
low 20 percent range this year,
falling into the teens in 2017, ac-
cording to a report by analyst Neil
Doshi of Mizuho Securities. He
had been expecting 30 percent
sales growth for 2016, and mid-20
percent growth for 2017.
“Clearly, we were wrong,” Mr.
Doshi said.
In the energy markets, United
States crude fell 83 cents to $30.89
a barrel on the New York Mercan-
tile Exchange. Brent crude fell 40
cents to $34.06 a barrel in London.
Heating oil fell 2 cents to $1.059
a gallon, wholesale gasoline fell
3.6 cents to 99.27 cents and
natural gas rose 9 cents to $2.063
per thousand cubic feet.
Gold edged up 20 cents to
$1,157.80 an ounce, silver fell 7
cents to $14.78 an ounce and cop-
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Twitter Is More Aggressively Scrubbing Accounts With Ties to Extremists
From First Business Page
tion, said at a news conference in
New York in December.
Twitter appears to be heavily
used by ISIS — so much so that
some Twitter accounts linked to
the group half-jokingly put the lo-
cation on their profile as “Wilayat
Twitter,” or “the province of Twit-
ter.” When recruiting new mem-
bers begins to get more serious,
ISIS members tend to shift to en-
crypted messaging services like
Telegram, Signal and Surespot,
which are less susceptible to be-
ing intercepted by intelligence
agencies like the F.B.I.
The number of suspended Twit-
ter accounts related to extremists
is a small fraction of the total num-
ber of accounts on the service,
which has 320 million monthly ac-
tive users.
Still, the 125,000 suspensions
stemming from concerns about
terrorist activity is significantly
higher than previous studies have
suggested — one study released
by the Brookings Institution last
year estimated that between Sep-
tember and December 2014, at
least 46,000 Twitter accounts
were used by ISIS supporters.
The 125,000 suspensions could in-
clude users who have continued
creating new accounts after previ-
ous ones are suspended, a com-
mon practice among ISIS
supporters, experts said.
In a blog post on Friday, Twitter
said violent threats and the pro-
motion of terrorism had long been
against its terms of service. For al-
most three years, Twitter has
worked closely with groups that
are trying to counter extremist re-
cruitment tactics through positive
messaging, the company said.
Twitter said it decided to intensify
its push against extremist posts
on its own.
The move drew a supportive re-
sponse from American officials.
Brett H. McGurk, who is Presi-
Rukmini Callimachi and Gardiner
Harris contributed reporting.
Defrauded Investors Feel
They Were Victims Twice
From First Business Page
Beijing has actively promoted In-
ternet finance as a way to make af-
fordable credit available to more
businesses and consumers, poten-
tially helping to cushion the blow
of the country’s slowing economic
growth. Investors have embraced
the model with gusto, helping
China surge past the United
States last year to become the big-
gest global market for such lend-
ing, according to estimates by
Morgan Stanley.
But regulation of the sector has
failed to keep pace with its explo-
sive expansion, and that has left it
ripe for abuse, putting ordinary
Beijing encouraged
Internet lending, but
lightly regulated it.
investors at risk. The prospect of
angry investors and former
employees taking to the streets in
protest is anathema to China’s
leadership, which may explain the
prompt and high-profile action
seen so far in the Ezubao case.
Ezubao sold itself as a peer-to-
peer lender, which matches
investors with potential borrow-
ers online. Ezubao also said it spe-
Owen Guo and Cao Li contributed
research from Beijing.
Lawyers Suing G.M. Over a Deadly Defect Are Now Fighting Each Other
From First Business Page
The deal covered about 1,400 law-
suits, or about 60 percent of those
pending against the carmaker.
In that filing, G.M. accused Mr.
Cooper of manufacturing unsub-
stantiated “claims of secrecy and
concealment” to try to upend the
agreement.
To help streamline mass law-
suits involving cars, drugs and
other products, such cases are of-
ten consolidated into a so-called
multidistrict litigation, and as-
signed to a single federal court
where a judge will select a small
group of lawyers to steer the liti-
gation. Several legal scholars
have been critical of the process,
saying that a cadre of plaintiffs’
lawyers dominate it and, at times,
put their own interests ahead of
other lawyers involved in a case.
Elizabeth Burch, a professor at
the University of Georgia School
of Law, said while lawyers might
fight about fee allocations once a
case was over, it was unusual to
see such public recriminations
and finger-pointing while litiga-
tion is underway.
“I haven’t seen it happen mid-
stream,” Ms. Burch said.
G.M.’s is not the only prominent
dent Obama’s special envoy to the
global coalition fighting the Is-
lamic State, tweeted that he wel-
comed Twitter’s action. Repre-
sentative Adam B. Schiff, Demo-
crat of California and a member of
the House’s Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, said
the company’s announcement
was “a very positive develop-
ment” given that “ISIS has
eclipsed Al Qaeda as the foremost
terror threat we face.”
A senior Obama administration
official said Friday that the White
House supported Twitter’s efforts
against extremism. “The adminis-
tration is committed to taking ev-
cialized in helping companies
raise funds for equipment leasing.
Set up by Mr. Ding’s main hold-
ing company, Yucheng, in July
2014, Ezubao grew quickly. It drew
in funds from nearly one million
investors by promising annual re-
turns as high as 15 percent, much
higher than bank deposits or
many other peer-to-peer lenders.
But more than 95 percent of the
investment products Ezubao mar-
keted on its platform were fake,
Xinhua said this week, citing local
officials. Instead, investors’ funds
were used to enrich Mr. Ding, his
family members and other top ex-
ecutives, including attractive
women whom he put on payroll
and lavished with expensive gifts,
Xinhua said. Those included real
estate, cars and luxury goods, like
a villa in Singapore valued at 130
million renminbi, or $20 million,
according to the Xinhua report
and a confession made by Mr.
Ding that was televised by CCTV
this week.
Executives went to great efforts
to conceal their ruse, according to
the Xinhua report. Those efforts
included literally burying the evi-
dence: Police in China’s Anhui
Province, where Ezubao is based,
deployed two excavators that
worked for 20 hours to dig up
some 1,200 documents that were
buried nearly 20 feet under-
ground at a site on the outskirts of
Hefei, the provincial capital.
In interviews, former staff and
investors described the signals of
strong state support as one of the
keys to Ezubao’s rapid rise.
TAMI CHAPPELL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Lance Cooper, left, who helped uncover the switch problem,
and Robert Hilliard, one of the lead plaintiffs’ lawyers.
multidistrict litigation involving
an automaker. In December, hun-
dreds of lawsuits against Volks-
wagen related to cheating on
emissions tests were consolidated
in a federal court in San Fran-
cisco; Ms. Cabraser was selected
to head the plaintiffs’ lawyers pan-
el in that case, too.
In the G.M. case, the automaker
has recalled 2.6 million Chevrolet
Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other
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ery action possible to confront and
interdict terrorist activities wher-
ever they may occur, including in
cyberspace, and we welcome con-
structive steps from our private
sector partners,” the official said.
Still, some lawmakers and
technologists have perceived
some of Twitter’s efforts to clamp
down on terrorist-related posts as
toothless. In December, The New
York Times wrote about the 335th
Twitter account of a pro-Islamic
State group that calls itself Asaw-
itri Media, which Twitter repeat-
edly tried to shut down but that
popped back up, often with a simi-
lar account name.
“Many people joined Ezubao
because they saw the support
from the government and from
some government officials,” said
Feng Zhe, 36, a Beijing resident
who worked as a salesman at the
company from June of last year
until December.
Mr. Feng said a number of his
friends and family members in-
vested in Ezubao’s products and
suffered losses. “Many people
bought their products because the
government has lent the company
credibility,” he added.
Luo Kaichen, 30, said he de-
cided last July to invest 1 million
renminbi in Ezubao, at an interest
rate of 14.6 percent.
Mr. Luo, a former banker who
now works at an e-commerce
company in Beijing, said he had
HILLIARD MUNOZ GONZALES, VIA PR NEWSWIRE
small cars since early 2014 be-
cause of a defect that allowed a ve-
hicle’s ignition switch to shut off if
jostled, cutting off engine power
and steering and disabling
airbags. For more than a decade,
the carmaker failed to report the
flaw to regulators. Through a com-
pensation program, the company
has acknowledged the defect’s
likely role in at least 124 deaths.
In their joint motion on Monday,
“Twitter has ramped up its re-
sponse significantly since June
2014, and again since the Paris at-
tacks, but ISIS has still main-
tained a notable presence on the
platform,” said J. M. Berger, a fel-
low with George Washington Uni-
versity’s Program on Extremism
and author of books on extremist
issues. He added that Facebook,
the biggest social network, has
also “been very aggressive on this
issue, about as much as anyone
could reasonably expect, but we
still see some ISIS activity.”
Twitter’s disclosure of the num-
ber of terrorist account suspen-
sions sets it apart from its social
not previously invested in online
financing products. But friends
were recommending Ezubao, and
after he did some research, he was
impressed.
Ezubao had received positive
reviews and coverage in articles
posted on a number of central gov-
ernment websites. “Not every
company will receive complimen-
tary articles on government web-
sites,” he said.
The company also placed ad-
vertisements on CCTV, the state
broadcaster, which Mr. Luo took to
mean it had passed some level of
official scrutiny.
“Those advertisements usually
would require strict vetting,” he
said. “After all, CCTV is a media
organization, but also part of the
state.”
the three lawyers leading the case
argued that Mr. Cooper was the
only lawyer involved in the litiga-
tion to complain about them.
Mr. Cooper is hardly a new-
comer to the G.M. ignition issue,
having spent years uncovering
the defect. He is especially upset
over the case that ended abruptly
when G.M. challenged the plain-
tiff, Robert Scheuer. In filings and
an interview, Mr. Cooper charged
that Mr. Hilliard chose the case —
the first of six cases scheduled to
go to trial — because Mr. Scheuer
was one of his clients and added
that Mr. Berman and Ms.
Cabraser failed to properly vet Mr.
Scheuer to uncover the inconsis-
tencies in his story that came out
at trial.
Mr. Hilliard said he had thor-
oughly investigated Mr. Scheuer.
But Mr. Cooper said he had
warned Mr. Hilliard and others
not to use the case as a bellwether
because of Mr. Scheuer’s medical
history and past use of painkilling
drugs.
“If that kind of case came in my
door, I’d tell the person, ‘I’m sorry
about your injuries, but I can’t
help you,’” Mr. Cooper said.
The dispute has also brought to
light an earlier episode of lawyer
infighting over which case to try
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media peers. Facebook regularly
discloses the number of govern-
ment requests it has received for
content takedowns on its service,
but the company does not break
out the removal of terror-related
content. YouTube has given more
than 200 outside organizations the
ability to flag potentially harmful
content, which YouTube can then
review and remove from the serv-
ice if it deems the content inappro-
priate.
Because Twitter, Facebook and
YouTube have enormous amounts
of user-generated content flowing
through their platforms on a
minute-by-minute basis, the com-
ANDY WONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
CCTV declined to comment. A
person in the office of the station’s
chief editor who answered the
phone on Friday said, “We have no
knowledge of the situation.”
In addition to Ms. Zhou, other
luminaries who appeared in pub-
lic on behalf of Ezubao included
Guan Tong, another CCTV anchor.
Neither could be reached Friday
for comment. Officials from the
National People’s Congress; a re-
search institute under the State
Council, or China’s cabinet; and
even some of China’s lesser-
known political parties have also
showed up at promotional events
for Ezubao.
While the investigation into
Ezubao continues, the circum-
stances of the case have prompted
calls for a thorough exploration of
first.
Mr. Cooper charged in his filing
that the lead plaintiffs’ lawyers
had wanted to try a potentially
stronger lawsuit first, but
changed course after Mr. Hilliard
sought to play a bigger role in it
and was rebuffed.
That lawsuit involved the death
of James E. Yingling III, who was
killed in the crash of a Chevy Ion.
His family’s lawyer, Victor Prib-
anic of Pittsburgh, said in an inter-
view that Mr. Hilliard contacted
him last summer and suggested
they try the case together.
After he rejected the proposal,
Mr. Pribanic said the case’s lead
plaintiffs’ lawyers notified him
that they had dropped his lawsuit
back to the fifth of six bellwether
trials. (In the G.M. litigation,
plaintiffs’ and defense lawyers
each got to choose three of the six
test cases, and the trials alter-
nate.)
Mr. Pribanic drafted a motion to
Judge Furman protesting the
move and sent it to Mr. Hilliard
and his colleagues. They then
agreed to make his case the next
lawsuit selected by plaintiffs for
trial, he said.
He said the lead lawyers ex-
plained that they had moved his
case back because they believed
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Launching a Twitter tablet
app. The company is cracking
down on posts by extremists,
saying it has suspended
125,000 accounts since 2015.
panies rely primarily on users to
report objectionable material. On
Twitter, people can flag and report
posts to Twitter staff members
around the world, who review the
material and determine whether
or not it should remain on the site.
But these companies must walk
a fine line between bearing re-
sponsibility for their platforms
and avoiding becoming the arbi-
ter of what constitutes free
speech. Experts said that content
related to extremism, in particu-
lar, was difficult to parse outside of
acts of extreme violence.
“It’s one thing to say you won’t
accept a beheading video on a
site,” said Faiza Patel, co-director
of the Liberty and National Secu-
rity Program at New York Univer-
sity’s Brennan Center for Justice.
“But once you get beyond some-
thing that clear, how do you define
terrorist content?”
Ms. Patel noted that these ac-
counts, left untouched, may be of
value to law enforcement officials
and scholars trying to study
extremist online recruitment
methodologies. The question of
whether or not to suspend every
extremist account immediately,
she said, is not so cut and dried.
Twitter acknowledged that the
issue remained tricky.
“As an open platform for ex-
pression, we have always sought
to strike a balance between the en-
forcement of our own Twitter
rules covering prohibited behav-
iors, the legitimate needs of law
enforcement and the ability of us-
ers to share their views freely,” the
company said. “There is no magic
algorithm for identifying terrorist
content on the Internet, so global
online platforms are forced to
make challenging judgment calls
based on very limited information
and guidance.”
Depositors lined up outside
the State Bureau for Petition
in Beijing to file complaints
against Ezubao.
who was involved in carrying out
the alleged fraud and whether cor-
ruption of government officials or
regulators came into play.
“We advise government to in-
vestigate this clearly to identify
criminal intent and motive,” the
Beijing Lawyers Association said
in a statement this week after be-
ing asked by the city’s justice bu-
reau to give advice on the case.
“Any corruption or crimes involv-
ing government and supervision
departments should be punished,”
it added.
But for investors who lost their
funds, it remains to be seen
whether there is any hope of get-
ting their money back.
Zhang Wenru, 24, works at a
steel company in Baotou, a city in
Inner Mongolia. He saw an ad for
Ezubao in October on CCTV and
decided to invest 20,000 renminbi,
at an attractive interest rate of 14.6
percent annually.
“I thought to myself, now that
it’s on CCTV, there should be a lot
of credibility,” Mr. Zhang said. “So
I thought why not give it a try?”
Once reports started surfacing
in December that Ezubao was un-
der investigation, Mr. Zhang be-
came concerned. He attempted to
withdraw his funds, but there was
a problem with Ezubao’s text-
message authentication system.
Angered, he decided to report
the matter to the police.
“Of course I want my money
back, but overall I am quite at ease
with myself,” he added of his cur-
rent situation. “If I can get back
the money, great. If not, let it be.
It’s just my salary for half a year.”
that Judge Furman would most
likely insist that one of them play a
role in the first trial. Mr. Hilliard
said on Monday, however, that he
was concerned that Mr. Pribanic
would find it hard to prevail
against G.M. on his own.
“Regardless of the quality of
that gentleman, I thought it was
unlikely he could do it,” Mr.
Hilliard said.
Mr. Hilliard also insisted that
while Mr. Scheuer’s case had been
rejected by G.M.’s out-of-court
compensation program for pay-
ment, so had a claim filed on be-
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Mr. Pribanic said he never made
such a filing.
In a separate motion, Mr. Coo-
per asked Judge Furman to reject
the settlement reached last year
between Mr. Hilliard and G.M.,
saying that Mr. Hilliard had put
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
other lawyers at a disadvantage
because he did not notify them
that talks were underway.
Mr. Hilliard noted that he issued
a news release when the agree-
ment was reached, adding that
nothing about his agreement pre-
vented other lawyers from strik-
ing deals with G.M. Judge Fur-
man is expected to rule on Mr.
Cooper’s motions or order a hear-
ing on the issues this month.
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Transportation 6942.82 ◊ 108.43 ◊ 1.54 ◊ 22.57 ◊ 7.54 Composite 4363.14 ◊ 146.42 ◊ 3.25 ◊ 8.44 ◊ 12.87 Facebook (FB) 104.07 ◊6.42 ◊5.8 767911 TTM Technolo (TTMI) 6.55 +1.21 +22.7 19819 LnkIn Corp (LNKD) 108.38 ◊83.90 ◊43.6 440200
Utilities 624.62 + 2.55 + 0.41 ◊ 2.30 + 8.10 Industrials 3600.60 ◊ 118.42 ◊ 3.18 ◊ 6.31 ◊ 12.21 FCX (FCX) 5.68 ◊0.04 ◊0.7 717529 Control4 (CTRL) 8.08 +1.48 +22.4 12882 UDF IV (UDF) 7.08 ◊3.12 ◊30.6 13430
Banks 2479.51 ◊ 41.20 ◊ 1.63 ◊ 3.71 ◊ 13.10 Microsoft (MSFT) 50.16 ◊1.84 ◊3.5 612607 Supernus Pha (SUPN) 12.13 +2.00 +19.7 46732 YRC Worldwid (YRCW) 7.47 ◊3.25 ◊30.3 42524
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Apple (AAPL) 94.02 ◊2.58 ◊2.7 463100 LSB Industrie (LXU) 6.24 +0.88 +16.4 8252 Quotient (QTNT) ◊2.82 ◊27.4 28827
STANDARD AND POOR’S Other Finance 4915.67 ◊ 80.92 ◊ 1.62 ◊ 14.37 ◊ 11.95 ConocoPhillip (COP) 32.90 ◊2.42 ◊6.9 461703 Allianc One I (AOI) 11.54 +1.54 +15.4 557 Lions Gate En (LGF) 18.53 ◊6.92 ◊27.2 229902
100 Stocks 839.77 ◊ 15.14 ◊ 1.77 ◊ 7.31 ◊ 7.86 Telecommunications 219.84 ◊ 7.13 ◊ 3.14 ◊ 18.48 ◊ 12.40 LnkIn Corp (LNKD) 108.38 ◊83.90 ◊43.6 440200 1st Century (FCTY) 8.90 +1.15 +14.8 250 Elizabeth Ar (RDEN) 5.95 ◊2.07 ◊25.8 4952
500 Stocks 1880.05 ◊ 35.40 ◊ 1.85 ◊ 8.85 ◊ 8.02 Computer 2326.64 ◊ 90.98 ◊ 3.76 ◊ 4.60 ◊ 10.72 Alcoa (AA) 8.12 ◊0.19 ◊2.3 428666 Saia (SAIA) 25.46 +2.93 +13.0 12557 Sierra Wirel (SWIR) 10.93 ◊3.76 ◊25.6 23350
Mid-Cap 400 1279.32 ◊ 27.66 ◊ 2.12 ◊ 13.68 ◊ 8.53 Hess (HES) 38.02 ◊5.45 ◊12.5 401934 POST (POST) 63.83 +6.40 +11.1 22608 Splunk (SPLK) 36.23 ◊10.86 ◊23.1 121598
Small-Cap 600 605.16 ◊ 14.62 ◊ 2.36 ◊ 13.30 ◊ 9.91 OTHER INDEXES Pfizer (PFE) 29.03 +0.03 +0.1 389161 Silver Stand (SSRI) 5.41 +0.52 +10.6 19766 Beazer Homes (BZH) 6.62 ◊1.98 ◊23.0 38896
American Exch 2046.29 ◊ 29.25 ◊ 1.41 ◊ 17.76 ◊ 4.79 AT&T (T) 36.88 +0.35 +1.0 346551 USG (USG) 21.04 +1.93 +10.1 85741 New Relic (NEWR) 23.24 ◊6.66 ◊22.3 34026
NEW YORK Wilshire 5000 19244.94 ◊ 410.48 ◊ 2.09 ◊ 11.62 ◊ 9.08 Ford Motor (F) 11.45 ◊0.08 ◊0.7 332792 Tyson Foods (TSN) 57.10 +5.15 +9.9 161644 Strz (STRZA) 24.30 ◊6.93 ◊22.2 57124
Cisco System (CSCO) 22.89 ◊0.65 ◊2.8 326131 Pan Amer Sil (PAAS) 8.44 +0.74 +9.6 40019 HubSpot (HUBS) 32.01 ◊7.93 ◊19.9 8652
STOCK EXCHANGE Value Line Arith 3959.67 ◊ 90.13 ◊ 2.23 ◊ 16.22 ◊ 9.15
Mondelez Int (MDLZ) 37.70 ◊0.32 ◊0.8 305604 A-Mark Preci (AMRK) 17.26 +1.46 +9.2 604 IRadimed (IRMD) 14.59 ◊3.59 ◊19.7 4899
NYSE Comp. 9390.33 ◊ 143.97 ◊ 1.51 ◊ 13.82 ◊ 7.42 Russell 2000 985.62 ◊ 29.17 ◊ 2.87 ◊ 18.46 ◊ 13.23 Marathn Oil (MRO) 8.46 ◊0.73 ◊7.9 295597 Royal Gold (RGLD) 39.22 +3.28 +9.1 23924 Zendesk (ZEN) 16.98 ◊4.07 ◊19.3 40554
Tech/Media/Telecom 6898.08 ◊ 136.08 ◊ 1.93 ◊ 10.80 ◊ 3.77 Phila Gold & Silver 55.30 + 2.68 + 5.09 ◊ 31.75 + 22.08 Intel (INTC) 29.04 ◊0.73 ◊2.5 278860 Acxiom (ACXM) 19.83 +1.63 +9.0 16934 Kemper (KMPR) 26.12 ◊6.21 ◊19.2 4335
Energy 8765.97 ◊ 148.39 ◊ 1.66 ◊ 30.95 ◊ 6.18 Phila Semiconductor 586.25 ◊ 21.47 ◊ 3.53 ◊ 13.24 ◊ 11.64 Weatherfor (WFT) 6.94 ◊0.45 ◊6.1 277757 Sunedison Se (SEMI) 5.20 +0.42 +8.8 2399 Five9 (FIVN) 7.06 ◊1.65 ◊18.9 10499
Financial 5522.62 ◊ 84.12 ◊ 1.50 ◊ 15.62 ◊ 12.42 KBW Bank 61.38 ◊ 0.79 ◊ 1.27 ◊ 12.39 ◊ 16.01 Exxon Mobil (XOM) 80.08 +0.25 +0.3 267174 Synchronoss (SNCR) 24.28 +1.94 +8.7 21408 Q2 Holdings (QTWO) 17.94 ◊3.92 ◊17.9 6336
Healthcare 11331.14 ◊ 189.84 ◊ 1.65 ◊ 8.19 ◊ 8.51 Phila Oil Service 141.80 ◊ 2.25 ◊ 1.56 ◊ 29.84 ◊ 10.10 Netflix (NFLX) 82.79 ◊6.92 ◊7.7 258984 Kirklands (KIRK) 12.84 +0.98 +8.3 3987 Outerwall (OUTR) 27.04 ◊5.65 ◊17.3 44953

S&P 100 STOCKS

52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD
Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg
3M (MMM) 134.00 170.50 153.47 + 0.03 ◊ 7.85 + 1.9 Chevron (CVX) 69.58 112.93 82.88 ◊ 1.91 ◊ 24.18 ◊ 7.9 Home Depot (HD) 92.17 135.47 116.43 ◊ 4.68 + 6.83 ◊ 12.0 Priceline (PCLN) 1007 1477 1016 ◊ 53.55 ◊ 2.78 ◊ 20.4
Abbott (ABT) 36.00 51.74 37.41 ◊ 0.60 ◊ 18.05 ◊ 16.7 Cisco Syst (CSCO) 22.47 30.31 22.89 ◊ 0.65 ◊ 16.03 ◊ 15.7 Honeywell (HON) 87.00 107.41 102.13 ◊ 0.42 ◊ 0.21 ◊ 1.4 Procter Ga (PG) 65.02 86.78 81.20 + 0.50 ◊ 6.34 + 2.3
AbbVie (ABBV) 45.45 71.60 53.12 ◊ 3.64 ◊ 8.40 ◊ 10.3 Citigroup (C) 38.04 60.95 39.86 ◊ 0.93 ◊ 17.88 ◊ 23.0 IBM (IBM) 118.00 176.30 128.57 + 0.92 ◊ 18.58 ◊ 6.6 Qualcomm (QCOM) 42.88 74.09 44.02 ◊ 1.64 ◊ 35.22 ◊ 11.9
Accenture (ACN) 86.40 109.86 98.97 ◊ 3.76 + 11.87 ◊ 5.3 Coca- Cola (KO) 36.56 43.91 42.44 ◊ 0.09 + 1.56 ◊ 1.2 Intel (INTC) 24.87 35.59 29.04 ◊ 0.73 ◊ 14.44 ◊ 15.7 Raytheon (RTN) 95.32 129.99 126.65 + 0.23 + 18.58 + 1.7
AIG (AIG) 51.15 64.93 53.37 ◊ 0.65 + 3.39 ◊ 13.9 Colgate (CL) 50.84 71.56 66.19 + 0.20 ◊ 5.16 ◊ 0.7 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 81.79 105.49 100.54 ◊ 3.36 ◊ 1.87 ◊ 2.1 Schlumberg (SLB) 59.60 95.13 68.81 ◊ 1.73 ◊ 19.91 ◊ 1.4
Allergan (AGN) 237.50 340.34 273.80 + 1.35 ◊ 0.32 ◊ 12.4 Comcast (CMCSA) 50.01 64.99 59.41 + 1.20 + 4.28 + 5.3 JPMorgan (JPM) 50.07 70.61 57.75 ◊ 0.65 + 1.73 ◊ 12.5 Simon Prop (SPG) 170.99 208.14 183.98 ◊ 3.60 ◊ 9.47 ◊ 5.4
Allstate (ALL) 54.12 72.52 63.37 + 1.32 ◊ 12.35 + 2.1 ConocoPhil (COP) 31.59 70.11 32.90 ◊ 2.42 ◊ 51.31 ◊ 29.5 Kinder Mor (KMI) 11.20 44.71 15.66 0.00 ◊ 62.26 + 5.0 Southern C (SO) 41.40 50.24 48.22 ◊ 0.20 ◊ 3.00 + 3.1
Alphabet (GOOGL) 525.64 810.35 703.76 ◊ 26.27 + 32.83 ◊ 9.5 Costco Who (COST) 117.03 169.73 143.99 + 0.71 ◊ 3.42 ◊ 10.8 Lockheed (LMT) 181.91 227.91 211.94 + 1.73 + 9.21 ◊ 2.4 Starbucks (SBUX) 42.05 99.20 54.49 ◊ 3.80 + 21.58 ◊ 9.2
Alphabet (GOOG) 515.18 789.87 683.57 ◊ 24.44 N.A. N.A. CVS Health (CVS) 81.37 113.65 93.10 ◊ 1.53 ◊ 7.60 ◊ 4.8 Lowes (LOW) 64.22 78.13 65.84 ◊ 2.12 ◊ 7.88 ◊ 13.4 Synchrony (SYF) 25.00 36.40 25.23 ◊ 1.08 ◊ 21.16 ◊ 17.0
Altria Gro (MO) 47.31 61.74 59.80 + 0.32 + 11.42 + 2.7 Devon Ener (DVN) 19.69 70.48 24.85 ◊ 1.71 ◊ 61.77 ◊ 22.3 MasterCard (MA) 74.61 101.76 82.76 ◊ 3.57 ◊ 3.57 ◊ 15.0 Target (TGT) 66.46 85.81 69.56 ◊ 0.48 ◊ 8.41 ◊ 4.2
Amazon.com (AMZN) 365.65 696.44 502.13 ◊ 34.13 + 34.30 ◊ 25.7 Dow (DOW) 35.11 57.10 46.69 ◊ 0.70 ◊ 2.32 ◊ 9.3 McDonalds (MCD) 87.50 124.83 115.40 ◊ 5.26 + 22.32 ◊ 2.3 Texas Inst (TXN) 43.49 59.99 49.88 ◊ 1.38 ◊ 9.82 ◊ 9.0
American E (AXP) 52.15 86.18 53.98 ◊ 0.40 ◊ 36.29 ◊ 22.4 Du Pont (DD) 47.11 80.65 58.89 ◊ 0.21 ◊ 18.43 ◊ 11.6 Medtronic (MDT) 55.54 79.50 74.46 ◊ 1.74 ◊ 1.14 ◊ 3.2 Time Warne (TWX) 62.94 91.34 69.16 ◊ 2.68 ◊ 13.53 + 6.9
Amgen (AMGN) 130.09 181.81 145.04 ◊ 4.87 ◊ 5.43 ◊ 10.7 Eli Lilly (LLY) 68.31 92.85 74.32 + 0.04 + 4.08 ◊ 11.8 Merck & Co (MRK) 45.69 61.70 49.38 + 0.79 ◊ 16.55 ◊ 6.5 Twenty-Fir (FOX) 22.85 34.81 25.04 ◊ 1.19 ◊ 21.21 ◊ 8.0
Anadarko P (APC) 28.16 95.94 40.77 ◊ 0.59 ◊ 51.28 ◊ 16.1 EMC US (EMC) 22.66 29.24 24.55 ◊ 0.20 ◊ 9.34 ◊ 4.4 MetLife (MET) 38.60 58.23 38.81 ◊ 0.94 ◊ 20.76 ◊ 19.5 Twenty-Fir (FOXA) 22.81 35.85 25.07 ◊ 1.00 ◊ 23.57 ◊ 7.7
Apple (AAPL) 92.00 134.54 94.02 ◊ 2.58 ◊ 21.61 ◊ 10.7 Emerson El (EMR) 41.25 62.75 46.91 + 0.04 ◊ 17.92 ◊ 1.9 Microsoft (MSFT) 39.72 56.85 50.16 ◊ 1.84 + 18.16 ◊ 9.6 Union Paci (UNP) 67.06 124.52 75.03 ◊ 0.49 ◊ 38.93 ◊ 4.1
AT&T (T) 30.97 37.04 36.88 + 0.35 + 6.77 + 7.2 Exelon (EXC) 25.09 36.92 32.90 + 0.65 ◊ 10.11 + 18.5 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 33.97 48.58 37.70 ◊ 0.32 + 3.99 ◊ 15.9 United Par (UPS) 87.30 107.32 95.37 ◊ 0.88 ◊ 6.00 ◊ 0.9
Bank of Am (BAC) 12.52 18.48 12.95 ◊ 0.30 ◊ 18.91 ◊ 23.1 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 66.55 93.45 80.08 + 0.25 ◊ 13.30 + 2.7 Monsanto (MON) 81.22 126.00 94.58 ◊ 0.74 ◊ 21.74 ◊ 4.0 UnitedHeal (UNH) 95.00 126.21 111.72 ◊ 2.48 + 2.66 ◊ 5.0
Berkshire (BRKb) 123.55 151.63 126.56 ◊ 0.88 ◊ 15.44 ◊ 4.2 Facebook (FB) 72.00 117.59 104.07 ◊ 6.42 + 37.63 ◊ 0.6 Morgan Sta (MS) 23.29 41.04 24.35 ◊ 0.66 ◊ 30.29 ◊ 23.5 US Bancorp (USB) 37.97 46.26 40.09 ◊ 0.02 ◊ 8.89 ◊ 6.1
Biogen (BIIB) 254.00 480.18 263.86 ◊ 9.41 ◊ 34.33 ◊ 13.9 FedEx (FDX) 119.71 185.19 131.91 ◊ 2.30 ◊ 23.91 ◊ 11.5 Nike (NKE) 45.35 68.19 57.17 ◊ 3.00 + 22.50 ◊ 8.5 UTC (UTX) 83.39 124.45 87.84 ◊ 0.28 ◊ 26.87 ◊ 8.6
BlackRock (BLK) 275.00 382.84 307.75 ◊ 5.95 ◊ 14.23 ◊ 9.6 Ford Motor (F) 10.44 16.74 11.45 ◊ 0.08 ◊ 27.76 ◊ 18.7 Norfolk So (NSC) 64.51 112.05 70.14 + 0.77 ◊ 34.97 ◊ 17.1 Verizon (VZ) 38.06 51.20 50.97 + 0.54 + 6.50 + 10.3
Boeing (BA) 115.02 158.83 122.56 ◊ 1.05 ◊ 17.52 ◊ 15.2 GE (GE) 19.37 31.49 28.54 ◊ 0.64 + 16.49 ◊ 8.4 Occidental (OXY) 58.24 83.74 65.47 ◊ 1.51 ◊ 20.28 ◊ 3.2 Visa (V) 60.00 278.65 71.54 ◊ 2.14 + 5.28 ◊ 7.8
BONY Mello (BK) 33.16 45.45 34.46 ◊ 0.49 ◊ 8.67 ◊ 16.4 General Dy (GD) 121.61 153.76 134.20 ◊ 1.15 ◊ 3.24 ◊ 2.3 Oracle (ORCL) 33.13 45.24 35.70 ◊ 0.75 ◊ 17.28 ◊ 2.3 Wal Mart (WMT) 56.30 88.00 67.00 + 0.58 ◊ 23.24 + 9.3
Bristol-My (BMY) 51.82 70.87 59.63 ◊ 0.07 ◊ 1.00 ◊ 13.3 Gilead Sci (GILD) 81.89 123.37 85.14 ◊ 1.54 ◊ 14.77 ◊ 15.9 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 30.00 42.55 35.07 ◊ 2.10 N.A. ◊ 3.1 Walgreens (WBA) 74.43 97.30 75.20 ◊ 1.99 + 0.55 ◊ 11.7
Capital On (COF) 58.49 92.10 63.36 ◊ 0.37 ◊ 16.39 ◊ 12.2 GM (GM) 24.62 38.99 28.54 ◊ 0.10 ◊ 21.27 ◊ 16.1 PepsiCo (PEP) 76.48 103.44 97.32 ◊ 0.07 + 0.73 ◊ 2.6 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.00 122.08 93.90 ◊ 1.53 ◊ 8.52 ◊ 10.6
Caterpilla (CAT) 56.36 89.62 66.12 + 0.16 ◊ 20.88 ◊ 2.7 Goldman Sa (GS) 147.01 218.77 156.47 ◊ 0.02 ◊ 13.44 ◊ 13.2 Pfizer (PFE) 28.47 36.46 29.03 + 0.03 ◊ 12.00 ◊ 10.1 Wells Farg (WFC) 46.51 58.77 47.86 ◊ 0.39 ◊ 10.83 ◊ 12.0
Celgene (CELG) 92.98 140.72 97.89 ◊ 4.04 ◊ 18.44 ◊ 18.3 Halliburto (HAL) 27.64 50.20 31.35 ◊ 1.08 ◊ 27.68 ◊ 7.9 PMI (PM) 75.27 90.35 89.55 + 0.45 + 8.45 + 1.9

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

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA GOVERNMENT BONDS

Yields 52-Week Total Returns Market Breadth Yield Curve Key Rates Most Recent Issues
FINRA-BLOOMBERG FINRA-BLOOMBERG All Investment High Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago 10-year Treas. Prime Rate
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES CORPORATE BOND INDEXES Issues Grade Yield Conv 2-year Treas. Fed Funds Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield
4% 4%
10% high yield +8.84% + 5% invest. gr. –2.35% Total Issues Traded 6,738 4,598 1,939 201 T-BILLS
Advances 2,996 2,225 708 63 3-mo. May 16 ◊ ◊ 0.29 0.28 –.00 0.30
Declines 3,368 2,207 1,034 127 3 3 6-mo. Aug 16 ◊ ◊ 0.44 0.43 +0.01 0.43
8 0 Unchanged 133 49 80 4
52 Week High 90 62 28 0 BONDS & NOTES
52 Week Low 503 222 250 31 2 2 2-yr. Jan 18 } ◊ 100.04 100.05 –0.05 0.71
Dollar Volume* 23,043 14,728 6,977 1,337 5-yr. Jan 21 1] ◊ 100.62 100.63 –0.06 1.23
6 – 5 10-yr. Nov 25 2ü ◊ 103.63 103.64 +0.03 1.85
End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. 30-yr. Nov 45 3.000 ◊ 106.69 106.72 +0.13 2.68
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
4 –10 publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 20 [ ◊ 100.08 100.18 –0.30 0.03
Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jan 26 | ◊ 100.99 101.13 –0.30 0.49
2 –15 credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
20-yr. Jan 29 2ø ◊ 121.33 121.60 –0.30 0.74
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 3 6 2 5 10 30 2015 30-yr. Feb 45 } ◊ 90.90 91.22 –0.59 1.09
*Par value in millions.
0 invest. grade +4.15% –20 high yield –11.87% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s,
Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
2015 2015 Standard & Poor’s and Fitch.

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

AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0696 14.3580 One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7071 1.4142
One Dollar in Yen
Anadarko Pete Corp (APC.HM) 6.375 Sep’17 Baa2 BBB BBB 101.454 99.750 100.375 –0.283 6.120 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1458 6.8600 1.00 euros $1 = 0.8968 China (Yuan) .1522 6.5710 126 yen $1 = 116.96
At&t Inc (T) 4.125 Feb’26 Baa1 BBB+ A– 103.226 101.053 101.385 0.024 N.A. Brazil (Real) .2563 3.9020 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1284 7.7891
Home Depot Inc (HD) 3.000 Apr’26 A2 A 101.360 100.262 101.016 0.404 N.A. Canada (Dollar) .7190 1.3909 India (Rupee) .0147 67.7998
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD) 4.900 Feb’46 NR A– 105.666 104.568 105.629 0.267 4.551 Chile (Peso) .0014 706.07 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0085 116.96
124
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD) 3.650 Feb’26 NR A– 104.017 101.291 102.038 –0.844 3.402 Colombia (Peso) .0003 3331.6 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2407 4.1550
Visa Inc (V) 3.150 Dec’25 A1 A+ 104.621 102.064 102.494 –0.153 2.851 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0220 45.5400 122
New Zealand (Dollar) .6632 1.5078
Jpmorgan Chase & Co (JPM) 1.625 May’18 A3 A– A+ 99.743 98.754 99.120 –0.520 2.024
Freeport-mcmoran Inc (FCX) 5.450 Mar’43 B1 BBB– BBB– 47.000 43.459 45.125 0.125 12.649
El Salvador (Colon) .1147 8.7220 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0096 104.70
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1308 7.6470 Philippines (Peso) .0209 47.7600 120
Home Depot Inc (HD) 2.000 Apr’21 A2 A 100.032 99.707 100.032 –0.005 N.A.
Honduras (Lempira) .0444 22.5200 Singapore (Dollar) .7110 1.4065
At&t Inc (T) 3.600 Feb’23 Baa1 BBB+ A– 102.450 100.358 100.884 0.253 N.A.
Mexico (Peso) .0542 18.4620 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0008 1204.9
118
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0360 27.7700 Taiwan (Dollar) .0300 33.3050
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5854.0 Thailand (Baht) .0282 35.5200
Arcelormittal Sa Luxembourg (MT.AE) 6.125 Jun’18 Ba2 BB BB+ 97.875 94.250 96.683 1.683 7.715 Peru (New Sol) .2874 3.4800 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22236 116
Linn Energy, Llc (LINE) 6.500 May’19 Caa3 CC NR 5.063 1.100 1.900 –10.600 314.452 Uruguay (New Peso) .0321 31.1500
Immucor Inc (BLUD.AB) 11.125 Aug’19 Caa2 CCC+ NR 71.017 70.000 71.017 –3.983 23.737 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1591 6.2842 2015 2015
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Linn Energy, Llc (LINE) 6.250 Nov’19 Caa3 CC NR 14.000 1.500 4.100 –6.400 178.151 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6525 .3770
Linn Energy, Llc (LINE) 6.500 Sep’21 Caa3 CC NR 6.200 1.500 1.750 –9.850 322.891 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1505.5
Norway (Krone) .1165 8.5827 Egypt (Pound) .1277 7.8300
California Res Corp (OXY) 6.000 Nov’24 Caa3 CCC+ NR 16.377 13.500 13.750 –3.000 49.802 Britain (Pound) 1.4498 .6898 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7490
Poland (Zloty) .2531 3.9517 Iran (Rial) .00003 30178
Fts Intl Inc (TLFO) 6.250 May’22 Caa2 CCC+ NR 15.500 15.000 15.000 –3.000 56.451 So. Africa (Rand) .0626 15.9800
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0412 24.2560 Russia (Ruble) .0129 77.5078 Israel (Shekel) .2578 3.8786
Linn Energy, Llc (LINE) 8.625 Apr’20 Caa3 CC NR 13.600 1.000 2.125 –12.625 332.086 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6729
Denmark (Krone) .1494 6.6919 Sweden (Krona) .1181 8.4644 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4130 .7077
Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc (CRZO) 7.500 Sep’20 B2 B NR 77.668 76.250 76.500 –1.000 14.705
Europe (Euro) 1.1151 .8968 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0081 .9920 Kenya (Shilling) .0098 102.10
Acadia Healthcare Co Inc (ACDA) 5.625 Feb’23 B3 B NR 97.000 96.125 96.250 –0.750 6.294 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0036 277.05 Turkey (Lira) .3426 2.9186 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.3361 .2998
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Linkedin Corp (LNKD) 0.500 Nov’19 BB+ NR 93.000 90.370 90.370 –2.979 3.267
Nvidia Corp (NVDA) 1.000 Dec’18 NR BB+ NR 145.322 139.850 139.850 –9.123 –10.769
Proofpoint Inc (PFPT)
Mgic Invt Corp Wis (MTG.GF)
1.250
5.000
Dec’18
May’17
NR
NR
NR
B+
NR
NR
125.161
103.725
121.159
103.625
121.514
103.625
–8.736
–0.125
–5.612
1.857
FUTURES
Newmont Mng Corp (NEM.GP) 1.625 Jul’17 NR BBB NR 101.050 100.250 100.740 –0.260 1.102 Monetary
Workday Inc (WDAY) 0.750 Jul’18 NR NR NR 103.181 99.259 99.271 –6.488 1.054 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $70 $30.89 a barrel
Workday Inc (WDAY) 1.500 Jul’20 NR NR NR 103.262 100.304 100.486 –7.316 1.386
Netsuite Inc (N) 0.250 Jun’18 NR NR NR 93.222 92.528 92.699 –1.525 3.573 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 512.00 348.50 Mar 16 369.00 369.50 365.50 365.75 ◊ 2.75 571,053
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP) 1.250 Oct’18 NR NR NR 120.549 119.947 120.489 –2.930 –5.713 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1210.75 847.00 Mar 16 875.75 879.00 867.25 867.50 ◊ 7.00 282,141
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This Game
Will Break
Your Heart
By CHRIS SUELLENTROP
The “extra life” was a fixture of early vid-
eo games, a reward for skilled players that
was imbued with the language of reincarna-
tion. Players would not say they earned ad-
ditional time to play, or a bonus turn, upon
reaching a certain score. They were be-
stowed an extra life, a new chance at exist-
ence.
Death is not so frivolous in “That Dragon,
Cancer,” a video game about Joel Green, a
terminally ill 5-year-old, and his parents,
Ryan and Amy. It is a game about a single
life — one that ends and then is gone for-
ever.
The Greens, who live in Colorado, spent
the past three years making the game with
a small team of artists and designers. Ryan
Green, who is a programmer, quit his job to
work on the project. It is based on their own
lives and that of Joel, who died while the
game was in development.
“That Dragon, Cancer” is not the first
memoir to arrive in the form of a video
game, but it is probably the most ambitious.
“I feel like ‘That Dragon, Cancer’ is one of
those breakthrough moments,” said John
Sharp, a professor of games at the New
School and the author of “Works of Game,” a
book about the intersection of games and
art. “I think we may look back at this game
and see this as a touch point, a moment of
rethinking what people can do with interac-
Continued on Page 5
Kingly Feasts
Of Show Tunes
And Sonnets
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Broadway & the Bard Len Cariou in his
one-man show at the Lion Theater.
Shakespeare and Broadway have had a
relationship quite a bit more intimate than
a handshake over the years, but the two
have perhaps never met with quite the
coziness that they do in “Broadway & the
Bard,” an odd but enjoyable
solo show, starring the stage
CHARLES veteran Len Cariou, that
ISHERWOOD juxtaposes monologues and
sonnets with songs from
THEATER musicals.
REVIEW Longtime musical-
theatergoers know Mr. Cariou best from
his appearances in “Applause,” “A Little
Night Music” and of course “Sweeney
Todd,” in which he created the title role.
But as he notes at the top of this 80-
minute show at the Lion Theater, six
months before appearing in “Applause,” he
made his Broadway debut in 1969 in the
title role of “Henry V.” His
Continued on Page 4
Traveling Countless Paths, Sometimes Several at Once
Maurice White, the boundless funk
voyager and smooth-soul maestro who
died this week at 74, was one of music’s
most gifted alchemists of style. The
floor-shaking hits he created with
Earth, Wind & Fire were
NATE more than marvels of pop
fusion — though with their
CHINEN precision blend of urbane
jazz, Afrofuturist R&B and
AN fluorescent disco, they
APPRAISAL
were surely that. Mr.
White, who had formative experience in
the vanguard of African-American art
music, brought the full spectrum of
those interests to the table as a tune-
smith, bandleader, producer and singer.
His music was populist and positivist
even as it arced toward a stratospheric
level of harmonic and rhythmic so-
phistication.
Mr. White was born and raised in one
heavily musical city, Memphis, and
elected to move to another, Chicago.
There, as a session drummer for Chess
Records, he played on hit tunes like
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
Annie Lopez’s
“Medical Conditions”
(2013), a cyanotype-
printed dress.
Photography’s
Stepchild
Snaps Back TEXTILES BY ANNIE LOPEZ
By TED LOOS Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Mass., through April 24. It fea-
The Phoenix artist Annie Lopez wanted to stand out among her con- tures 78 works by some 40 artists, including eminent figures like Ed-
temporary peers. Instead of trying to invent something utterly new, she ward Steichen and F. Holland Day, alongside contemporary artists like
has been turning to a 174-year-old photographic printing process — cya- Christian Marclay and Ms. Lopez.
notypes, once used for copying architectural drawings — and giving it “It’s such a great process, and it’s pretty easy,” Ms. Lopez said, noting
her own distinctive twist. that she even teaches it to high school students.
Ms. Lopez created a dress pattern cut from tamale wrapping paper Making a cyanotype involves placing a negative image — which
and printed all over with cyanotypes, which have a distinctly cyan-blue could be a photographic negative, or an object, as in a photogram — on
color. She printed the cyanotypes herself, in a process that took about treated paper or fabric. (Ms. Lopez took from her own life and her fa-
25 minutes per sheet of images. No darkroom was needed. ther’s battle with Alzheimer’s, using photocopies of medical books as
That ease has brought cyanotypes roaring back to relevance, attract- well as comments made by family members.) After an iron-based solu-
ing a surprising number of true-blue adherents showing their work in tion is brushed on, the paper is placed under ultraviolet light, or in di-
galleries. The images are just now getting their first full-blown museum rect sun, to develop.
exhibition, “Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period,” on view at the Continued on Page 2
A Bronx Band Sighs Goodbye, and Women Squeal
A high-voiced heartthrob and songwriter leads
his band to Top 10 albums and arenas, goes solo
Romeo Santos and Henry Santos, Aventura’s
singers, are cousins; Lenny Santos and Max San-
touches in the music, Aventura and Mr. Santos, on
his solo albums in 2012 and 2014, became the best-
and headlines his own stadium shows. Then he tos, the guitarist and bassist, are brothers but not selling acts in 21st-century Latin pop.
rejoins his former bandmates for a final related to the singers. Instead of touring world- Aventura didn’t change bachata beyond recogni-
JON set of performances together. It’s the
story of Michael Jackson and the Jack-
wide, Aventura is playing 20 farewell shows this tion, but it added considerable New York City
outreach. Its arrangements punched up the bass —
month at the 3,300-seat United Palace Theater in
PARELES sons. It’s also the story of Romeo Santos Washington Heights, the Dominican-American sometimes with funky thumb-popping — and gave
and Aventura, a band formed in the neighborhood that was an early Aventura strong- Romeo Santos space to use the vocal quavers and
MUSIC Bronx in the 1990s that brought turns of current R&B.
REVIEW hold. The run started on Thursday night and
bachata, music from the Dominican continues through Feb. 29. Now and then, and in a segment of Thursday’s
Republic, to listeners worldwide. Aventura’s music drew on a longtime tradition. concert, Aventura switched from the lilt of bachata
The group disbanded amicably in 2011; Mr. San- Bachata is a rural Dominican style centered on to keyboard-centered pop-R&B ballads; it also
tos regrouped Aventura during one of his consecu- staccato guitar syncopations and tales of woe. dipped into Puerto Rican reggaetón and the
tive sold-out concerts at Yankee Stadium in 2014. Using boy-band charm as well as crossover Continued on Page 2
“Rescue Me,” by Fontella Bass. He also making it a kind of talisman for the
formed a close rapport with Charles band.
Stepney, a classically trained arranger But first he spent several years in the
who introduced him to the mathemati- Ramsey Lewis Trio, led by one of the
cal rigors of the music theorist Joseph savviest jazz pianists of the era. You
Schillinger, who also advised George can hear Mr. White playing kalimba on
Gershwin and Léon Theremin. The
systematic slant of that approach prob-
“Uhuru,” a track from Mr. Lewis’s 1969
album “Another Voyage.” It was one of
ably appealed to Mr. White, who found a string of Ramsey Lewis albums
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deep resonance in astrology (he named produced by Mr. Stepney, whom Mr.
Earth, Wind & Fire after the elements White also enlisted as a co-producer for
in his natal chart). Earth, Wind & Fire.
He was also exposed to African- Making those connections was one of
American experimentalism at a pivotal Mr. White’s special skills, and he
place and time. At the Affro-Arts The- continued to bring together artists and
ater, a cultural hub for the late-1960s ideas that crossed format and genre
lines. In 1974, well into the popular
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
black consciousness movement in
Chicago, he gravitated to Phil Cohran, a ascent of Earth, Wind & Fire, he gave
former trumpeter in the Sun Ra Mr. Lewis a crossover hit with “Sun
Arkestra and a founding member of the Goddess,” a simmering R&B track
Association for the Advancement of stamped by one of his trademarks: an
Creative Musicians. Mr. Cohran played ethereally funky vocal hook bobbing
the “Frankiphone” — an amplified through extended jazz harmonies.
ED PERLSTEIN/REDFERNS, VIA GETTY IMAGES
kalimba, or African thumb piano, which Some of Earth, Wind & Fire’s most
Maurice White, left, performing with Earth, Wind & Fire at the Oakland Mr. White later brought into main- undeniable hits feature similar flashes
Coliseum in 1979. The band was named after the elements in his natal chart. stream use with Earth, Wind & Fire, Continued on Page 5
C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
Cyanotype,
An Art’s
Stepchild,
Snaps Back
From First Arts Page
“One of the best-selling points
of this exhibition is that cya-
notypes are both underrepresent-
ed and trendy at the same time,”
said Nancy Burns, who organized
the Worcester show with Kristina
Wilson of Clark University. “It’s
very hip in contemporary art,
when you start looking for it.”
The cyanotype process — from
the Greek cyan, or “dark-blue im-
pression” — was invented around
1842 by the British astronomer
and chemist John Frederick Her-
schel (1792–1871). The benefits of
the format were evident from the
start.
Anna Atkins, considered by
many to be the first female pho-
tographer and the first person to
create a book of photo-based im-
ages, blended science and art in
botanical cyanotypes, starting in
the 1840s. Atkins’s “Honey Locust
Leaf and Pod” (circa 1854) is fea-
tured in the Worcester show.
The fine-art application was
scarce for more than a century af-
ter Atkins’s day — rare enough
that Steichen once called his use
of cyanotypes a “secret” in a let-
ter to his friend and mentor Alfred
Stieglitz. For fine artists, it was of-
ten considered an “ugly
stepchild” of the larger medium,
Ms. Burns said, “because it was
too easy.”
Amateurs embraced cya-
notypes more easily. “In terms of
popular usage they were big until
the turn of the 19th and 20th cen-
turies, and women’s periodicals
were giving people instructions
on how to make them,” Ms. Burns
said. “But then they fell off the
map of photography.”
Well into the 20th century, the
long-dormant medium
awakened by artists looking for
was
something different.
“As of the 1960s, people started
to be interested in reviving old
photo processes,” said Dusan Stu-
lik, a former senior scientist at the
Getty Conservation Institute who
has studied cyanotypes for
decades. “Cyanotypes handle
subtle light well, and they are
fairly sturdy.”
On a gut level, cyanotypes
produce a result that is universal.
“The color blue strikes some
chord in us that goes beyond
words,” said the San Francisco
photography dealer Jeffrey
Romeo Santos, above, and Aventura are playing 20 farewell shows this month at United Palace Theater in Washington Heights.
A Bronx Band Sighs Goodbye, and Women Squeal
From First Arts Page
speedy merengue that domi-
nated Dominican music in the
1990s. It’s an American band,
rooted in immigrant music yet
approachable from many direc-
tions. When Romeo Santos ban-
tered with the United Palace
audience, he switched frequently
between English and Spanish.
Playing the farewell shows in
a theater — not an arena or
stadium — honors the intimacy
of Aventura’s music, with Romeo
Santos’s sweetly imploring voice
Aventura continues through Feb.
29 at the United Palace Theater,
4140 Broadway, Manhattan;
212-568-6700, unitedpalace.org.
Eugene de Salignac’s “Manhattan Bridge” (1922), part of the show “Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period,” at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts.
Fraenkel. “It’s that simple.”
Mr. Marclay, the artist who
gained a worldwide following for
his 24-hour-long film montage
“The Clock,” spent five years
working with the medium, and his
cyanotype “Unwound Cassette
Tape” (2012) is featured in the
Worcester show. His experiments
largely took place in Tampa, Fla.,
because of his relationship with
the graphics studio at the Univer-
sity of South Florida there. But the
climate helped, since Mr. Marclay
used the age-old method of expos-
ing them in the sun.
For “Unwound Cassette Tape,”
Mr. Marclay unspooled a tape on
treated paper in stages. Parts of
the image are darker, depending
on how much light the tape was
at its center. The concert’s flashi-
est moments had Lenny and
Max Santos stepping forward,
notching up the volume and
speeding up just a bit, revealing
the intricacy of their parts. Yet
for all its popularity, Aventura
never takes on arena bombast;
its bachata keeps a gentle touch.
In many Aventura songs —
including its career-making 2002
hit and concert finale, “Ob-
sesión” — the singer is a man in
love with a woman he doesn’t
have. He’s lost her; she can’t
stay with him; she’s attached to
someone else; she’s marrying
someone else. And in his suavely
tender falsetto, Romeo Santos
tells her how desirable she is,
how jealous he is and how he
can’t live without her.
A medium that was
popular until the
turn of the 19th and
20th centuries.
exposed to and how tightly it was
pressed to the paper, yielding an
array of hues in the final image. “I
love the direct aspect of it,” Mr.
Marclay said. “It’s a trace. And a
cassette is already a trace.”
The inherent nostalgia in the
blue tint of cyanotypes dovetails
with Mr. Marclay’s longstanding
interest in materials that are on
the brink of extinction. “Cassettes
are obsolete, captured by an obso-
On Thursday night, very few
songs glanced at tough circum-
stances beyond romance — “No
Aventura took rural
Dominican bachata
and customized it,
New York style.
Lo Perdona Dios,” a post-abor-
tion recrimination, and “Amor de
Madre,” about a single mother’s
sacrifices for her criminal son —
but love songs filled nearly the
entire concert.
Despite the humble importun-
lete photo technique,” he said.
“Two dying technologies.”
Something about the
monochromatic result appears to
encourage conceptual thinking.
“The simplicity of them means
you give up control, but the
limitations are interesting,” said
the German-born artist Marco
Breuer, who lives in the upstate
New York town of Oxford and who
has made hundreds of cya-
notypes over the years, including
an abstract-looking work in the
Worcester show, “Untitled
(E-33)” (2005).
Instead of exposing the paper
right away, Mr. Breuer coated it
again and again with the iron so-
lution, so the emulsion would
build up layers, creating a moody
CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ing of his lyrics, Romeo Santos
was all smiling confidence and
easy flirtation, rolling his hips to
waves of squeals; Henry Santos,
who took over for brief stretches
during Romeo’s wardrobe
changes, was just as suave.
Joining them, from start to fin-
ish, were the high voices of the
women in the audience who
knew every word and savored
every endearment.
Romeo Santos mischievously
polled the audience. “Where are
the men tonight?” he asked in
Spanish, and got a brief group
shout in return. “Where are the
women tonight?” he continued,
and got a sustained scream that
was twice as loud. “They always
gonna win,” he counseled. “Don’t
go against them. Join them.”
image.
As for Ms. Lopez — who has
been taking photographs since
she was 13 — the process was
more literal. “Medical Condi-
tions,” the work on view in the
show, tackles her father’s battle
with Alzheimer’s disease as well
as her own tomboy past. The
dress, one of 14 she made in the se-
ries, is covered with graphic X-
rays, medical texts about demen-
tia, and a quotation that a family
member said to her: “You should
help your mother more.”
Ms. Lopez treated the paper
with two chemicals and then put
her negative — in most cases, a
simple piece of acetate with re-
versed text on it, printed out on a
copy machine — under
A Marriage That Goes
Through the Spin Cycle
Sonya and Michael weren’t
planning on a wedding when they
got that Groupon deal for a trip to
Las Vegas. But at the hotel, she
asked for the honeymoon suite,
and he took it as a
LAURA hint. Now they’re back
in New York, married,
COLLINS- and he’s moving into
HUGHES her studio on the
Upper East Side.
THEATER Or is he? The main
REVIEW obstacle to wedded
bliss in Nandita Shenoy’s
“Washer/Dryer,” a would-be
wacky comedy, is a little detail
that Sonya (Ms. Shenoy) ne-
glected to mention to Michael
(Johnny Wu) before they said, “I
do.” Her co-op apartment (the set
is by Anshuman Bhatia) is single-
occupancy, so he can’t legally live
there, but she refuses to give it
up because of the washer and
dryer that came with the place.
“That is the holy grail of New
York City real estate,” she tells
him.
It would be easier to root for
their happiness if they weren’t
one of those couples with creepy
nicknames for each other. She
calls him Puppy. He calls her
Kitten. Eew.
Presented by Ma-Yi Theater
“Washer/Dryer” runs though
Feb. 21 at the Beckett Theater at
Theater Row, 410 West 42nd
Street, Manhattan, 212-239-6200,
theatrerow.org. Running time: 1
hour 30 minutes.
Washer/Dryer Nandita Shenoy and Johnny Wu in this play about love
and New York real estate at the Beckett Theater at Theater Row.
EUGENE DE SALIGNAC
plexiglass. Then she exposed it in
direct sun.
“I wanted to sew my troubles
into a dress,” she said — but that
required the right material. “I’m
always exploring what to print
on,” Ms. Lopez added. “My family
always made tamales every
Christmas.”
Then she started ex-
perimenting. “I printed on it, and
it held,” she said. “I was shocked.
A year later, I thought, Let’s see if
this sews together. It held, and I
was happy again.”
As for the seed of the whole
idea, Ms. Lopez said it was a bolt
of inspiration that might be famil-
iar to other makers of cya-
notypes: “It came to me out of the
blue.”
Company at the Beckett Theater
at Theater Row, “Washer/Dryer”
is only partly in keeping with
Ma-Yi’s mission of producing
“new and innovative” work by
Asian-American playwrights.
New though it is, the play
resembles nothing so much as a
stale 1970s sitcom, but with
Asian-Americans in the main
roles. When the tyrannical co-op
board president, Wendee (Annie
McNamara), starts sniffing
around, Sonya denies being
married, saying Michael is her
“best gay boyfriend.” Jack Trip-
per, anyone?
This lie will, of course, sow
much confusion when it reaches
Michael’s imperious mother, Dr.
Lee (Jade Wu).
Sonya’s actual gay best friend
— a stock character of more
recent vintage — is Sam, her
downstairs neighbor, played with
terrific élan by Jamyl Dobson.
Wry, skeptical and possessed of a
dancer’s grace, Mr. Dobson
brings hilarity to a play that
badly needs it. In a small mir-
acle, he also makes a fully hu-
man being out of a role written
as a comic stereotype. The other
actors fare less well.
Directed by Benjamin Kamine,
“Washer/Dryer” never really
pops into three dimensions, not
even when the smell of sizzling
garlic wafts into the audience
from a wok in Sonya’s kitchen. If
not for that scent, we might as
well be watching TV.
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Schubert
Song Cycle
And Moods
It Inspired
Schubert already knew he was
dying when, during his final
three months of life, in 1828, he
composed three piano sonatas,
the “Shepherd on the Rock”
string quintet and
VIVIEN 14 songs that were
later published
SCHWEITZER together under the
heading “Schwa-
MUSIC
REVIEW nengesang”
(“Swan Song”).
Unlike his other song cycles, like
“Winterreise,” there isn’t a dra-
matic or narrative thread to
“Schwanengesang,” though one
was provided on Thursday in a
thoughtfully conceived program
by the baritone Roderick
Williams, the pianist Susie Allan
and the actress Jenny Agutter.
With its dark paneling and
imposing portraits of 19th-cen-
tury gentlemen in military re-
galia, the Board of Officers room
at the Park Avenue Armory was
an alluring space to hear these
songs of loss and wandering.
And given the significance to
Schubert of the texts, by Hein-
rich Heine and Ludwig Rellstab,
it seemed natural to intersperse
the songs with readings of poetry
and prose by 19th- and 20th-
century, as well as contemporary,
poets.
Mr. Williams proved a natural
and expressive communicator,
conveying the drama and an-
guish of these miniatures without
ever resorting to excessive vocal
or theatrical gestures. A handful
of balance issues with the pianist
were resolved after the first few
Jim: The James Foley Story Mr. Foley, the subject of an HBO film on Saturday, was murdered by ISIS.
Jeanine Tesori to Leave
Encores! Off-Center
Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-win-
ning composer of “Fun Home,”
has decided that this summer
will be her last overseeing the
Encores! Off-Center program at
City Center.
Ms. Tesori, below, is the first
artistic director of the program,
which presents rarely revived
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Off Broadway musicals. The
program is a companion to the
Encores! series, which offers
semi-staged concert
performances of rarely revived
Broadway shows.
For her fourth and final sum-
mer, Ms. Tesori will present two
shows from the late 1970s, “Kurt
Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr.
Rosewater,” as well as the previ-
ously announced “Runaways.”
“Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless
You, Mr. Rosewater,” from 1979,
was written by Howard Ashman
and Alan Menken, who later
collaborated on “Little Shop of
Horrors.” The City Center pro-
duction, from July 27 through
July 30, will star Santino Fontana
and Skylar Astin and will be
directed by Michael Mayer.
MICHAEL PAULSON
Roderick Williams The baritone, accompanied by the pianist Susie Allan and the actress Jenny Agutter, performed Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” cycle at the Park Avenue Armory.
songs, with Ms. Allan’s warm
touch and elegant playing an
ideal foil for Mr. Williams’s elo-
quent delivery. He imbued each
song with myriad colorful nu-
ances, his rich, burnished bari-
tone lovely throughout the
evening. The contrast when his
voice soared on a particular
Arts, Briefly
Louis C. K. Says More
About His New Series
Louis C. K. rolled out his new
drama, “Horace and Pete,” last
Saturday with no warning, via
his website, and on Thursday he
sent a message to his email list
elaborating on his motivations
and plans for the series which,
based on the first episode, is a
poignant but acerbic story about
an argumentative family that
owns a Brooklyn bar. He writes,
directs and stars in the show, and
the cast includes actors like Alan
Alda, Jessica Lange, Edie Falco
and Steve Buscemi. (Mr. Busce-
mi, below left, with Louis C. K.)
The distribution on the
comedian’s site — the next in-
stallment is due Saturday —
allows episodes to debut very
soon after they are shot, he
wrote.
The online release also allows
viewers to watch the show with-
out expectations. As “a TV
watcher I’m always delighted
when I can see a thing without
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phrase, such as “I have lost you”
in “Ihr Bild” (“Her Portrait”),
proved particularly compelling
when following moments of
poignant intimacy.
Ms. Agutter read the chosen
texts with charismatic flair,
seeming an integral part of the
proceedings. Frances Cornford’s
VIA HBO
knowing anything about it be-
cause of the promotion,” he
wrote. “So making this show and
just posting it out of the blue
gave me the rare opportunity to
give you that experience of dis-
covery.” JEREMY EGNER
$100,000 Prize Goes
To Theater Co-Founder
Blanka Zizka, below, a Czech
émigré and a co-founder of the
Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in
the 1980s, has received this
year’s Vilcek
Prize for immi-
grant artists —
an honor that
comes with
$100,000.
The Vilcek
Foundation,
founded in 2000
by the Czech
immigrants Jan and Marica
Vilcek, awards biomedical scien-
tists and artists from specific
disciplines each year. Theater
was chosen for its 2016 arts
“For M. S. Singing Frühlings-
glaube in 1945” — the opening
line of which reads, “Here are the
Schubert Lieder. Now begin” —
was an apt way to start. Evoca-
tive writings by the contempo-
rary British poet John Greening
were interspersed throughout,
including “After Ständchen,”
Reclaiming the Man, Not the Victim
If some Americans had not
registered just how brutal the
Islamic State was before August
2014, the group’s videotaped
beheading of James Foley that
month certainly
NEIL drove the point
home. Mr. Foley,
GENZLINGER 40, a freelance
American journal-
TELEVISION
REVIEW ist, became a
symbol of sorts,
evidence that the Islamic State,
also known as ISIS or ISIL, was
an unscrupulous enemy that
could not be ignored.
“Jim: The James Foley Story,”
a documentary airing Saturday
night on HBO, seeks to reclaim
the person at the center of this
awful story, with friends, family
members and fellow journalists
speaking admiringly of Mr. Foley
and leaving even those who
never knew him with a sense of
loss. The film is by Brian Oakes,
a longtime friend of Mr. Foley’s,
so there’s never much doubt
about its intent, and it certainly
paints Mr. Foley as a likable,
intrepid fellow. But the film isn’t
award, designed to recognize
lifetime achievement.
Ms. Zizka moved to the United
States in 1977 and in 1981 founded
the Wilma Theater with her
husband, Jiri, who died in 2013.
(Before the Zizkas arrived, the
Wilma existed in a smaller form
as the Wilma Project.) She has
collaborated with artists like the
Czech playwright and former
president Vaclav Havel, as well
as Tom Stoppard and Paula
Vogel. She remains the Wilma’s
artistic director and recently
directed Mr. Stoppard’s “The
Hard Problem,” which runs
through Saturday.
JOSHUA BARONE
Chamber Music Society
Looks to Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn will be the guid-
ing spirit next season at the
Chamber Music Society of Lin-
coln Center, anchoring its open-
ing night concert; a midwinter
festival; and a series of pro-
grams throughout the year, in-
spired by his grand tour of Eu-
rope, that will mix his music with
that of cities he visited.
The season, announced by
David Finckel and Wu Han, the
society’s artistic directors, will
run from Oct. 18 through May 21.
It opens with a concert called
“Travels with Mendelssohn” that
will feature music by Haydn,
Schubert, Palestrina and Ravel,
as well as a selection of
Mendelssohn songs performed
by the soprano Lisette Oropesa.
The Emerson String Quartet
will celebrate its 40th anniversa-
ry next season with a pair of
concerts featuring works by
Beethoven, Bartok,
Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and
Schubert, as well as the New
York premiere of a piece by
Mark-Anthony Turnage that is a
co-commission of the Chamber
Music Society. MICHAEL COOPER
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which followed Schubert’s an Apple store in one poem by
“Ständchen”; and “The World Mr. Greening was mildly jarring,
Replies,” which followed the but on the whole, songs and
turbulent song “Der Atlas.” readings worked naturally to-
Other selections included Lord gether and with the luxurious
Byron’s “For Music,” W. H. Au- surroundings. Emily Dickinson’s
den’s “The Composer” and texts “The Fascinating Chill That
by Ivor Gurney, Florence Earle Music Leaves” was a fitting
Coates and Goethe. A mention of conclusion.
interested in going much further, many factors, including things
into lingering questions about like policies on paying ransom.)
the United States government’s It also skirts the difficult subject
handling of hostage situations or of whether his efforts were worth
the wisdom of the type of jour- the cost or are the best way, in
nalism Mr. Foley practiced. the age of citizen journalism and
Mr. Foley was unusual in that cellphone cameras, to learn what
he was taken prisoner once is going on in lawless parts of the
before, in Libya in 2011, and after world.
his release soon went back into We see only brief glimpses of
harm’s way. He was kidnapped in Mr. Foley’s actual reports and
Syria in November 2012 and are given no sense of whether, in
ended up being held with a num- the grand scheme of things, they
ber of other prisoners, some of were indispensable. Mr. Foley (in
whom are interviewed in this film clips) and colleagues he
film. Their descriptions of how traveled with speak about the
they helped one another endure addictive adrenaline rush of
the long months of imprisonment going into danger zones and
— a game they made up, conver- about how the people they re-
sations they had — are the film’s ported on affected them
most compelling moments. personally. Yet there is no explo-
“We invented a life during ration of whether the old model
these months in captivity,” says of the fearless journalist chasing
Nicolas Hénin, a French journal- the story at any cost needs to be
ist who was held for 10 months. re-examined when groups like
“And when you invent a life, you ISIS use captives as pawns.
have to invent also a family.” So expect to shed a tear for Mr.
The film, though, doesn’t poke Foley and his family by the time
too deeply into why these former this film is over. But also expect a
hostages are alive to tell the tale lot of questions raised by his
and Mr. Foley isn’t. (There are story to remain.
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Memory Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be Regression Emma Watson and

Ethan Hawke star in the film.

In the late 1990s and early ject matter, the movie is ulti- fancies himself a pioneer in abuse allegations were made in
2000s Alejandro Amenábar di- mately a tepid and frustrating regressive memory therapy, the early 1980s, is invoked in the
rected two of the most striking experience. outlandish but seemingly in- movie — and as such finds him-
and dynamic genre movies of the Set in 1990 in the fictional town escapable scenarios of satanic self ethically compelled to finally
time, 1997’s knotty and terrifying of Hoyer, Minn., “Regression” ritual abuse emerge, driving debunk the thing he’s relying on
virtual-reality/time begins with Mr. Hawke’s dogged Kenner himself into a panic that for cinematic scares in the first
GLENN travel tale “Abre los police detective, Bruce Kenner, appears paranoid. place. That’s not an entirely
Ojos” (“Open Your sinking his teeth into what he at “Or is it?” is the question that uncommon genre strategy. But
KENNY Eyes”) and 2001’s first believes is an unfortunate horror movies have been asking here it feels pretty dicey and
innovative but in many but routine child abuse case. But since well before Bela Lugosi results in a handsomely realized
FILM
REVIEW respects gratifyingly the testimony of both the ac- intoned the immortal line: “Su- but unsatisfying, and in one
old-fashioned ghost cused abuser John Gray (David pernatural, perhaps . . . baloney, crucial respect, trite, narrative.
story “The Others.” Dencik) and the victim, his perhaps not” in 1934’s “The
His return to horror with the daughter, Angela (Emma Wat- Black Cat.” Here Mr. Amenábar “Regression” is rated R (Under
Ethan Hawke-starring “Re- son), lead him to believe there’s is concocting a story “inspired 17 requires accompanying parent
gression” would understandably something else afoot. Soon, by real events” — the decidedly or adult guardian). Violence,
be cause for anticipatory celebra- aided by the psychiatrist Dr. nonfictional town of Jordan, language, baloney. Running time:
tion. Alas, tripped up by its sub- Raines (David Thewlis), who Minn., where satanic ritual JAN THIJS/TWC DIMENSION 1 hour 46 minutes.

A Kingly Feast of Show Tunes and Sonnets, With a Full Menu of Pairings
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Shakespearean bona fides also
include many seasons at the
Guthrie Theater and at the Strat-
ford Shakespeare Festival. (Mr.
Cariou was born in Canada.)
This bit of history explains one
of the unlikelier transitions in the
show, conceived by Mr. Cariou in
collaboration with the director,
Barry Kleinbort, and the music
director, Mark Janas. Henry’s
rousing speech at Harfleur
(“Once more unto the breach”) is
followed immediately by the title
tune from “Applause.” There’s
more sentiment than logic in this
pairing, but most of the other
segments are more cleanly
aligned.
Orsino’s opening soliloquy from
“Twelfth Night” (“If music be the
food of love, play on”) is followed
by two diverse love songs, “Love,
I Hear,” from “A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the
Forum,” and Rodgers and Hart’s
“Falling in Love With Love.” The
king’s celebrated speech from
“Richard II” (you remember:
“For God’s sake, let us sit upon
the ground/And tell sad stories of
the deaths of kings”) leads into a
Broadway rarity, the wistful and
lovely “If I Ruled the World,”
from the musical “Pickwick.”
Mr. Cariou’s singing voice has
naturally lost some — well,
frankly, much — of its power and
agility since his heyday. It has
acquired a distinct wobble and
can grow thin at both ends of his
range. But his phrasing is intelli-
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hope of playing Macbeth, sched-
uled to take place after he fin-
ished a yearlong run in the musi-
cal, was dashed when Mr. Lang-
ham briskly informed him: “No
Scottish play for you, dear boy.
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Mr. Cariou makes for jovial
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ence into a comfortable intimacy
with little effort. He notes that
several composers — from Cole
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES Porter to Richard Adler to Jean-
ine Tesori and Mr. Sondheim —
have set Shakespearean words to
ment throughout — even a bit of has a nice subtly seething qual- Antony’s subversive eulogy for music. So while we do not get a
Bach — and provides Mr. Cariou ity; his Petruchio a swagger, Julius Caesar with a grab bag of taste of Mr. Cariou’s Sweeney
with a few introductory cues humor and a smidgen of sensitiv- bits from “Something Wonder- Todd, he does sing Mr. Sond-
before some of his monologues.) ity; his Benedick a bruised brag- ful,” “Sometimes a Day Goes By” heim’s setting of the song “Fear
Mr. Cariou’s delivery of his gadocio. The songs that follow (from Kander and Ebb’s “Woman No More the Heat o’ the Sun,”
Shakespearean set pieces is the verse are sometimes chosen of the Year”) and “There’s Al- which was written for his adapta-
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of emotional territory. His Iago words, sometimes to offer a kind “Dance a Little Closer.” Frogs.” This and a beautifully
of riposte. Sentiment possibly plays a role elegiac selection from “Septem-
And so Benedick’s angry here, too: Mr. Cariou notes that ber Song” were among the
avowal of distaste for Beatrice is he sang the last of these briefly performance’s musical high-
followed, amusingly if incongru- on Broadway, since the show lights.
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From left, Ralph Johnson, Maurice White and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire. In addition to his work with the band, Mr. White wrote songs for other musicians and groups, and was a producer.
A Voyager Traveled Countless Paths, Sometimes Several at Once
From First Arts Page
of formal invention, woven so
ingeniously into the fabric of the
songs that they feel functional,
even essential. Mr. White was
often the architect of these mo-
ments, applying his galactic
musical insight to the airtight
design of unbeatable pop songs.
His genius has always been
there in plain sight — by no
means hiding, yet somehow
expertly hidden.
‘Shining Star’
Earth, Wind & Fire’s No. 1 hit,
This New Video Game
Will Break Your Heart
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tivity.”
“That Dragon, Cancer” mixes
animation and magical realism to
convey the Greens’ emotional
state during Joel’s illness. There is
one dragon, but much of the game
consists of re-enactments of mun-
danities like phone messages and
hospital visits. Water fills a room
as a doctor says there are no more
treatments for Joel’s cancer.
The game also uses documenta-
ry audio — taken from home
movies as well as from “Thank
You for Playing,” a film about the
Greens that had its premiere last
year at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Players hear Joel’s laughter, and
they listen to the prayers that his
parents, who are Christians,
shouted on the last night of Joel’s
life.
The interactions offered to the
players of “That Dragon, Cancer”
An entertainment
outlet evolves as a
medium for memoir.
are relatively limited. Players
mostly click to decide which part
of a vignette — feeding ducks at a
pond or escorting Joel through a
playground — will unfold, and
when to move on to the next part
of the Greens’ story.
The restricted controls are in-
tentional. A go-kart race through a
hospital frustrated some critics,
Mr. Green said, because the unwa-
vering speed of the go-kart is dic-
tated by the game. “That’s the
point,” he said. “All you can do is
steer, hopefully.”
Withholding some control from
the player was an attempt to con-
vey feelings of helplessness and
despair. “One of the great
strengths of video games is that
automatically a player goes into a
game expecting to have some
agency,” Mrs. Green said. “And it
felt like the perfect way to talk
about cancer, because all a parent
wants is to have some agency.”
Mr. Sharp, the New School pro-
from 1975, plugs into the same
uplifting funk frequency as Sly
and the Family Stone, but with
its own neat filigree: Notice the
way the band sets up every
wallop by the horns, especially
after a guitar-and-keyboard
interlude that follows the first
chorus.
‘That’s the Way
Of the World’
Listen to the bass line. It’s
always good advice with this
band, but especially so here, on a
ballad that Mr. White wrote for a
Sig Shore film of the same name
fessor, pointed to “The Marriage,”
a 2006 game by Rod Humble, as a
forerunner of the video game
memoir. Yet “The Marriage” is an
abstract, minimalist experience in
which the ebb and flow of geomet-
ric shapes stand in for Mr. Hum-
ble’s relationship with his wife.
A closer antecedent may be Ja-
son Rohrer’s “Gravitation,” re-
leased in 2008. The pixel art in
“Gravitation” is playfully retro,
but the representation is real. The
player controls an avatar meant to
resemble Mr. Rohrer, who can
play catch with his son or — dur-
ing bouts of creative mania —
abandon him.
“Instead of just showing a char-
acter grappling with a difficult sit-
uation and seeing the choices a
character makes, you can give the
player a difficult situation and let
them grapple with it themselves,”
Mr. Rohrer said of his game, which
takes eight minutes to complete.
It will be included in an exhibition
of Mr. Rohrer’s work that opens
this month at the Davis Museum
at Wellesley College in Massachu-
setts.
Mr. Rohrer and Mr. Sharp each
mentioned “dys4ia,” a 2012 web
browser game, as a landmark
among video game memoirs. It is
by Anna Anthropy and is about
her decision to begin taking estro-
gen for hormone replacement
therapy.
Like “That Dragon, Cancer” —
and unlike “The Marriage” and
“Gravitation” — “dys4ia” feels
like an interactive diary by its de-
signer rather than a gamelike
metaphor. It uses familiar tropes
from video games, like shooting
targets, negotiating mazes and
moving blocks, to express Ms. An-
thropy’s state of mind.
More video game memoirs
have come since, including Nina
Freeman’s “Freshman Year,”
about sexual harassment at a
college bar, and a flood of interac-
tive fiction written using the soft-
ware Twine.
Other games may allude to, or
allegorize, the designer’s life
story. “The Legend of Zelda,” the
1986 Nintendo game, is said to
have been inspired by Shigeru
Miyamoto’s youthful exploration
of a cave northwest of Kyoto, Ja-
pan. “Adr1ft,” which will be re-
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AN APPRAISAL
(starring Harvey Keitel). The
bassist Verdine White, Mr.
White’s younger brother, starts
out by sitting on the melodic root
of the tune but then starts antici-
pating the changes, leaning on
the passing tones. Whether this
was orchestrated or just encour-
aged, it reflects well on both
brothers, as a team.
‘September’
An especially deft contraption
from 1978, “September” — the
Earth, Wind & Fire song you
have most likely heard at a wed-
ding reception — has a chord
progression like a Möbius strip,
leased next month for the Oculus
Rift, Facebook’s virtual-reality
headset, is an outer-space adven-
ture inspired by its designer’s
public shaming on Twitter. Unlike
these games, a true video game
memoir presents itself as nonfic-
tion, even when it departs from
the literal.
Four years after the release of
“dys4ia,” Ms. Anthropy said she
rolling endlessly forward. The
band’s guitarist, Al McKay, de-
vised that harmonic sequence,
but Mr. White and Allee Willis
created the song’s framework,
including the “Ba-dee-ya” scat
syllabics in the chorus.
‘Boogie Wonderland’
Ms. Willis also helped write
this disco smash for the Emo-
tions, an R&B sister act in Chi-
cago. Mr. White and Mr. McKay
produced the track, which has a
strong four-on-the-floor beat and,
during the verses, a vocal melo-
dy phrased almost entirely on
the upbeat. That contrary synco-
feels that it has been interpreted
simplistically as an “empathy
game” that can give players the
momentary sensation of what it’s
like to be a transgender woman.
“I’m wary of positioning these
games as educational tools, in-
stead of just as games that are
working within this form to com-
municate something,” she said.
“This idea that they have a pur-
pation underlines the song’s
propulsive drive and sets apart
its shiny jingle of a chorus.
‘Can’t Hide Love’
This satiny ballad was com-
posed by Skip Scarborough, but
consult the original recording, by
Creative Source, and you realize
just how inspired an arranger
Mr. White was. The opening
bars, featuring an upward-zip-
ping electric bass flourish, fore-
shadow the song’s wordless coda
— one of Mr. White’s signature
triumphs, a waft of ahhhs that
can only be described as the
most perversely chromatic
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pose, they have a message and
there’s a takeaway, some neat lit-
tle idea that you can walk away
with, seems reductionist.”
Mr. Sharp of the New School
compared the cultural status of
games in the early 21st century to
that of painting during the Italian
Renaissance, when it began to
shift from being a functional tool
to a purely aesthetic form.
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crowd-pleasing singalong in
popular music history.
‘Let’s Groove’
Disco was done by 1981, when
Earth, Wind & Fire released
“Let’s Groove.” Didn’t matter. Mr.
White made this into a power-
house single, starting with a
vocoder bass vamp and building
layer by layer. It all feels both
effortlessly catchy and like an
intricate puzzle, with Mr. White’s
voice — a fine subject for an-
other discussion — slipping in
and out of falsetto with the same
mobility he expressed in other
areas of his work with the band.
Images from “That Dragon,
Cancer,” a video game that
tells the story of a family’s
profound loss.
“It took hundreds of years to
make this transition for painting,”
he said. “So, looking at it through
my art-historian goggles, it’s not
really a surprise that there are
folks who are outside the epicen-
ter of the games community who
make the assumption that if
games aren’t escapist, they must
be educational or therapeutic.”
Outsiders are not the only skep-
tics. Many of the most devoted
video game players have resisted
the expansion of the medium into
new forms like memoir, said Van-
der Caballero, the designer of
“Papo & Yo,” a 2012 PlayStation
game about his relationship with
his alcoholic father.
In “Papo & Yo,” Mr. Caballero’s
father is represented as a monster
who becomes violent when he
eats frogs. Rather than defeating
or curing the monster, players
learn to live without him.
“We have proved that we can
tell these stories through game
design,” Mr. Caballero said. “But
we haven’t proved that you can be
profitable.”
Despite all the attention paid to
“That Dragon, Cancer” — pod-
casts, magazine articles, a docu-
mentary film, millions of YouTube
views of people playing it — the
game’s sales in its first month
have been modest, the Greens
said.
About 10,000 people have
bought it, according to the website
SteamSpy. That’s a nice number
for a work of creative nonfiction
that arrives inside a dust jacket,
but not for a three-year software
project with eight people working
on it.
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“Gravitation,” which is free, has
been downloaded nearly 80,000
times since 2008, Mr. Rohrer said.
The page that hosted Ms. An-
thropy’s “dys4ia” when it was free
has been viewed more than
600,000 times. Since she started
asking $5 for it a little more than a
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
year ago, more than 500 people
have bought it.
By comparison, almost four mil-
lion people own “Grand Theft
Auto V” on Steam, the primary
digital storefront for PC games,
according to SteamSpy.
“I always tell people, ‘You know
those indie, artsy films that Ryan
likes and no one else likes?’ ” Mrs.
Green said. “‘There are video
games like that.’ ”
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2 SPORTS OF THE TIMES
Warren Moon helped blaze
a path for Cam Newton.
2 PRO FOOTBALL
Roger Goodell defends the
N.F.L.’s safety record.
SCORES ANALYSIS COMMENTARY
50SUPER BOWL DENVER vs. CAROLINA 6:30 p.m. Sunday TV: CBS
Where
San Francisco’s
Dead Live
Colma, a town outside San Francisco, has 17 cemeteries. “All the cemeteries you go through here, they’re a history
of San Francisco and of California,” said Richard Rochetta, a Colma Historical Society board member.
The road to Super Bowl 50 passes
through Colma, a small town that
has about 1,600 living residents
and 1.5 million dead ones.
By JOHN BRANCH
COLMA, Calif. — While the Su-
per Bowl will be played at Levi’s
Stadium, and thousands of news
media members who descended on
the Bay Area this week were based
at the Moscone Center, Levi
Strauss lay inside a marble crypt in
one of this tiny town’s 17 cemeter-
ies, and George Moscone lay under
the grass in another.
In a broad valley devoted largely
to the dead, the history museum in
Colma — nicknamed the City of
Souls — sells T-shirts that read,
“It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma!”
It is a town of 1,600 living resi-
dents and about 1.5 million dead
ones — many of whom, like the
49ers, uprooted and left San Fran-
cisco for greener pastures to the
south.
The road to Sunday’s Super Bowl
stretches about 50 miles, from San
Francisco, the epicenter of festiv-
ities this week, to Santa Clara, site
of the actual game. The corridor,
mostly along Highway 101, is a time
capsule of the Bay Area’s history
and its quirks — and a modern-day
testament to its traffic problems.
It includes San Francisco Inter-
national Airport and the Google-
plex, Google’s headquarters in
Mountain View. It includes the Cow
Palace and Stanford University.
And it includes the Hewlett-Pack-
ard Garage in Palo Alto and the
Burlingame Museum of PEZ Mem-
orabilia.
But nowhere along the way may
be quirkier, or filled with more his-
tory, than Colma, a quiet town of
roughly two square miles covered
Continued on Page D3
3 SPORTS OF THE TIMES
The past is a friend
and a foe for Eddie
DeBartolo Jr., a Hall
of Fame candidate.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016 D1
N
Soccer
A Center
Of Fear
On Zika
The biggest challenge for Olympic
and health officials in combating the
Zika virus before the Rio Games may be
the popular and far-flung sport of soc-
cer, which will be played across Brazil.
While many events will
JERÉ be contested in Rio de Ja-
neiro, the soccer competi-
LONGMAN tion is to be contested in
five additional cities.
ON They include Manaus, the
OLYMPICS
sprawling and isolated
gateway to the Amazon, where canals
laden with garbage and sewage were
evident in places during the 2014 men’s
World Cup.
Soccer also helps illustrate the con-
flicted and awkward position in which
female athletes can be placed as they
consider whether to travel to Brazil and
risk possible complications with preg-
nancy that may be caused by the virus,
which is mosquito-borne.
Writing on Forbes.com, the medical
ethicist Arthur L. Caplan and his New
York University colleague Lee H. Igel
said: “It is beginning to look like the
time has come to call off the 2016 Olym-
pic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The reason
is simple: Young women cannot travel
there safely.”
History suggests that moving, post-
poning or canceling the Rio Games is
unlikely at the moment. Still, the Inter-
national Olympic Committee, the United
States Olympic Committee and U.S. Soc-
cer, along with other sports federations,
have reacted in an unhurried way that
critics have viewed as tone deaf.
No officials have spoken with particu-
lar forcefulness to reassure women that
the health risk will be minimized and
that they will not be forced to choose be-
tween sport and reproductive health.
For months, the I.O.C.’s level of con-
cern for the well-being of athletes in Rio
has been widely criticized, given the
Continued on Page D6
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fantasy Sites
Are Dealt
New Rebuff
By Citigroup
This article is by Walt Bogdanich,
James Glanz and Jacqueline Williams.
Already under a growing legal and
legislative assault, the daily fantasy
sports industry was dealt a new blow
Friday when Citigroup said it would be-
gin blocking New Yorkers’ debit and
credit card payments at the two largest
sites, FanDuel and DraftKings.
The decision by Citigroup came just a
week after a major payment processor
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Choking Off the Money
for fantasy sites said it was withdraw-
ing from the market, citing legal uncer-
tainties. In a statement, Citigroup said it
would block the payments until the New
York courts ruled on the legality of daily
fantasy sports.
Together, the actions, coming amid
the New York attorney general’s efforts
to have FanDuel and DraftKings shut
down as illegal gambling sites, threaten
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tified the company that it reserves the
right to terminate its exclusive market-
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courts find daily fantasy to be in vio-
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A Black Quarterback Recalls His Not-So-Recent Struggles
SAN FRANCISCO
Warren Moon sits there in the hotel
lobby with his black beret and black
shirt, recounting, at my request, tales of
his days as one of the great and domi-
nant quarterbacks of his time.
In his Hall of Fame career, he set so
many records, piled up so
MICHAEL many yards, that his
place in the history of this
POWELL game is assured. And yet
there is that gap, like a rib
SPORTS ripped from his hand-
OF THE TIMES
some frame.
After Moon left college in 1978, a Rose
Bowl champion and Pacific-8 player of
the year, he headed not to stardom in
the N.F.L. but to Edmonton, on the cold
western prairies of Canada. His north-
ern-lights exile would stretch six years.
Why?
He is black. And he wanted to play
quarterback. And for most great black
athletes in the 1970s and ’80s, that was
an N.F.L. impossibility.
“Reading defenses, understanding
schemes, being the face of a franchise:
There were just a lot of people in pro
football who didn’t think we could do
that,” Moon says.
Moon is a personable man who punc-
tuates such thoughts with a soft chuck-
le, where I, a white guy, might be more
inclined to curse. The racial strictures
and mysteries of the N.F.L. were con-
founding and long-lasting, and not just
reserved for the quarterback position.
The center on offense, the middle line-
backer on defense: These, too, were
largely apartheid positions into the
1980s. Moon leans forward and puts his
index fingers to his temples.
“These were the ‘thinking positions,’”
he says, and offers that chuckle again.
“We were good for the athletic, reaction
positions: run, jump, block.”
Cam Newton, that marvelously
shrewd and gifted Carolina Panthers
quarterback, will take snaps Sunday in
the Super Bowl, the fourth in a row to
feature at least one African-American
quarterback, and so we might desire to
process tales like Moon’s as ancient his-
tory, an archaeological dig. Except that
this dishonorable period stretches into
very living memory.
“Football has done an immaculate job
in surpassing baseball as the pastime,
cutting across all demographics,” noted
Charles K. Ross, a history professor at
the University of Mississippi and the
author of “Outside the Lines: African-
Americans and the Integration of the
National Football League.” “Business
was enmeshed in it: Who was going to
be the face of your franchise and your
product? A white man.
“Football was not ready to move into
the 21st century.”
Pro football’s Jim Crow-like era was
striking for the depth and persistence of
its resistance to change. By the 1970s,
pro basketball had great black point
guards: Lenny Wilkens, Walt Frazier,
Nate Archibald. Baseball had dominant
black pitchers like Bob Gibson, Vida
Blue and Ferguson Jenkins.
Not football, not at its marquee posi-
tion.
“I choose to think it’s more people be-
ing captive to stereotype than racism,”
Moon says.
Moon grew up in Los Angeles, a top
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Super Bowl I Recording Linked Goodell Insists Sport Is Safe: ‘There’s Risk in Life’
To Job Repairing Tape Machines
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
On Jan. 15, 1967, Martin Haupt went to
work and tape-recorded Super Bowl I —
a decision that he, alone, in the United
States might have made.
It was a decision that continues to
resonate because CBS and NBC did not
preserve copies of the game, leaving
Haupt’s as the only known recording of
the historic broadcast.
But why and where Haupt recorded
the game remained a mystery even af-
ter an article in The New York Times on
Tuesday revealed his role in the taping
and his son’s dispute with the N.F.L.
over the potential sale of the tapes. In
the article, Haupt’s son, Troy, and ex-
wife, Beth, said they did not know what
he did for a living at the time of the first
Super Bowl.
One clue — that he made the record-
ing on a commercial, two-inch Quadru-
plex tape recorder — suggested that he
worked at a TV station or production
house. Neither was the truth.
But the circumstances remain very
clear to Violet Haupt, who married
Haupt three years after he and Beth di-
vorced.
Haupt and Violet met in the 1960s at
Forgflo, a company in Sunbury, Pa., that
rebuilt commercial tape recorders for
RCA. He was an electronics technician,
and she worked on the assembly line.
“We met as friends and co-workers,” Vi-
olet Haupt said. “He became my best
buddy after my son was killed and I got
divorced. And as time moved on, that
friendship turned into soul mates.”
She said that taping the Super Bowl
would have been a routine part of Mar-
tin Haupt’s job. He needed tapes to test
whether the refurbished taping ma-
chines were working properly.
“He worked out in what we called the
studio, and he taped many things,” Vio-
let Haupt said. “A lot of Soupy Sales.
And a lot of sports, I’d imagine. He
taped everything possible, good, bad,
dirty and in between.”
She added: “Marty was a brain. Very
athlete in a city of great athletes. His fa-
ther, a laborer, died when Moon was 7,
so he worked from an early age. He had
time for a single sport: He chose foot-
ball. He could throw a ball 80 yards and
put it on the numbers. He could run a
bit, throw a lot. He studied the game,
this offense and that one. And at every
pass, coaches tried to get him to play a
different position — running back, wide
receiver.
“When I was coming out of high
school, I was all-city and all-state, and
they wanted me to switch to receiver,”
he says. (His friend James Lofton also
was a talented all-city quarterback in
Los Angeles. At Stanford University,
coaches switched him to wide receiver,
and he went on to the Pro Football Hall
of Fame.)
Moon refused and went to junior col-
lege instead, where he dominated. He
became an entrepreneur of his own ca-
reer. He read Jackie Robinson’s biogra-
phy, worked in the film library and
sneaked out films, shipping montages to
major colleges. The University of Wash-
ington came calling. The offense there
was unimaginative, but no matter.
After his senior season, 1977, Moon
led his team to a Rose Bowl victory,
throwing a 28-yard touchdown strike
and running for two more scores.
He was ready for the N.F.L. It was not
ready for him. A scout told him to con-
sider trying receiver. He didn’t have the
speed for that.
“I refused; I will go to Siberia to play
quarterback, but I will not switch posi-
electronically inclined. Very methodical
and thorough.”
For unexplained reasons, Haupt did
not record halftime and the third quar-
ter of Super Bowl I, and he stopped the
machine numerous times to eliminate
most of the commercial breaks.
Violet Haupt was unaware which
football team her future husband rooted
for at the time of Super Bowl I, which
the Green Bay Packers won, 35-10, over
the Kansas City Chiefs.
But after they moved to Chicago, she
said, he became a devoted Bears fan.
Haupt, who was 26 at the time of Su-
per Bowl I, graduated in 1958 from Sha-
mokin Area High School, about 16 miles
east of Sunbury. A description next to
his yearbook photograph says, “Marty,
known to his friends for his happy-go-
lucky personality and humorous per-
sonality, plans a Navy career.” His nick-
name, at the time, was Bud.
“Didn’t he look like a dork?” Violet
Haupt said with a laugh, recalling the
yearbook picture. She said that his ap-
pearance had changed for the better
when he grew a Van Dyke beard.
But after her husband sustained
crushed vertebrae in an accident in the
Navy, she said, the couple moved back
to Pennsylvania. Martin Haupt died in
1977. His ex-wife, Beth, and his son said
he had died of lung cancer, and shortly
before his death, he gave Beth the tapes
of Super Bowl I, which she kept in the
attic of her house in Shamokin for many
years.
Violet Haupt said she remains faithful
to his memory and the joy of their brief
marriage.
“He gave me more — not financial —
than my first husband of 20 years, and I
miss him today,” she said Thursday, 39
years to the day of his death. “I’d do
anything to have him back.”
Through his lawyer, Troy Haupt de-
clined to comment.
And, as of Friday, the lawyer, Steve
Harwood, said he had not heard from
the N.F.L. to discuss a purchase of the
tapes of Super Bowl I.
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tions,” he says.
The best quarterback in one of the
best conferences in college football did
not get invited to the N.F.L.’s draft com-
bine. He signed with the Edmonton Es-
kimos of the Canadian Football League.
“Nobody had given me a private
workout,” Moon says. “I was bitter. My
own country did not want me, but an-
other country did.”
He dominated Canadian football,
helping the Eskimos win five consecu-
tive Grey Cups, and became the first
professional quarterback to pass for
5,000 yards in a season by reaching ex-
actly that mark in 1982. (He passed for
By KEN BELSON
It was disclosed this week that two
football greats, quarterbacks Ken Sta-
bler and Earl Morrall, were the latest of
dozens of players found to have had a
degenerative brain disease linked to re-
peated head hits.
Yet N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goo-
dell, when peppered with questions
about player safety on Friday, gave one
of his most earnest endorsements of the
safety of the game.
Most of his comments echoed previ-
ous statements: that the league is
changing its rules to reduce risks, has
adopted new equipment and technol-
ogy, and is spending millions of dollars
on research.
But near the end of a 45-minute ques-
tion-and-answer session with reporters,
Goodell seemed exasperated. When
asked whether it was safe for young
people to play football, Goodell said that
he was glad he was able to play tackle
football for nine years before college.
“If I had a son, I’d love to have him
play the game of football,” Goodell, a fa-
ther of two daughters, added. “There’s
risk in life. There’s risk in sitting on the
couch.”
Goodell’s comments came amid a re-
newed focus on whether football was
too dangerous. By the N.F.L.’s own ac-
count, the number of diagnosed concus-
sions rose by 31.6 percent this season
over last season. Several former players
have posthumously been found to have
had the degenerative brain disease
chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or
C.T.E., including Stabler, Morrall and
Tyler Sash, a former Giant who died at
27. At least seven high school football
players died last year.
When asked about these statistics,
Goodell often focuses on what the N.F.L.
is doing to make the game safer. He
bristled at the suggestion that more
N.F.L. players were retiring because
they were worried that extending their
careers could increase their risks of
brain damage.
“I think each individual player makes
his own individual decision about how
long they play the game, who they play
for, under what conditions they play,” he
Warren Moon took a meandering path to leading an N.F.L. team because of
continual efforts by coaches to change his position. Moon counsels young
black quarterbacks like Cam Newton, at left with Moon on Thursday.
5,648 yards the next year.)
Moon finally slipped south of the bor-
der in 1984 and became the well-paid
quarterback of the Houston Oilers. To
join a Southern, struggling team at that
time — the Oilers went 3-13 in his first
year — was not ideal. The fans grew so
abusive that Moon’s young son would
appear in tears at his locker after
games.
By 1987, the Oilers were 9-6 and em-
barking on the path of regular playoff
contention. But even as the team’s for-
tune turned around, Moon’s path was
not easy.
“There was a game that year, I was
playing really well, and these were the
positive comments I’d get: ‘Warren,
man, you were chucking that ball like
you chuck a watermelon,’” he says.
“I didn’t know whether to thank the
guy or turn around and punch him.”
He offers that chuckle again.
I inquire about the unseen toll. Moon
smiles softly. He’s a television broad-
caster, a wealthy man, a monument to
hard work. Over so many years, the
mask does not fall away quickly.
“I never wanted anyone to think this
stuff bothered me,” he says. “Everyone
in the freaking place is booing you, and
you got 10 guys in the huddle who are
watching your eyes to see if it’s bother-
ing you. So you do your best De Niro,
N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell at a news conference in San Francisco.
“If I had a son, I’d love to have him play the game of football,” he said.
said in response to a question about
players leaving the game at a young
age. “These guys love this game,
they’re passionate about this game, and
if you lose that passion, maybe it is time
to move on. That happens in life.”
He said that the reduction in the num-
ber of full-contact practices had not af-
fected the quality of play in games,
though the changes were disliked by
some players.
“Players like to play,” he said. “So
limitations on that are not necessarily
popular. I get it. But I think the changes
that we’ve made with the players’ asso-
ciation now five years ago have been
very healthy for the game.”
While Goodell said that player safety
was his top priority, he dismissed the
possibility of changing the league’s sub-
stance abuse policy to allow players to
smoke medical marijuana.
The league, however, is working with
Major League Baseball and antidoping
watchdogs to investigate allegations
made in an Al Jazeera report that Den-
ver Broncos quarterback Peyton Man-
ning had used human growth hormone.
“We will work with law enforcement
if they’re involved, but we will also con-
tinue our own investigations and work-
JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
even if inside it’s killing you.
“I internalized a lot of stuff I had to
deal with in therapy later in my career.”
Even today, change is slow coming.
Perhaps all those years of discouraging
blacks from playing quarterback has
taken a toll. Just six of 32 teams regular-
ly started an African-American quarter-
back this season.
The game is nearly 70 percent black,
but African-Americans remain striking-
ly underrepresented in the coaching
ranks.
After he finished playing, Moon and
other former black quarterbacks
formed a General’s Club, to counsel and
offer an ear to young black quarter-
backs. When he retired, even with those
missing Canadian years, he ranked in
the top five in passing yards and touch-
downs. He played in nine Pro Bowls.
But he speaks of his regret that he did
not revel in the fun of it more.
“I felt like I was going out there half
the time representing my race as op-
posed to representing my team and
teammates,” Moon says. “I wonder how
much better I might have been if I’d had
more fun.
“Cam Newton heard me say that. He
said that wasn’t going to happen to
him.”
Moon smiles, gets up to shake my
hand and says, “That makes me happy.”
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ing proactively with everyone to make
sure we’re taking this seriously, that we
find out the conclusions,” Goodell said.
Goodell suggested that the league’s
hard-nosed approach to player disci-
pline led to a 40 percent decline in the
number of players arrested in 2015.
Goodell said he favored tightening
discipline on the field as well. He said he
would like to see players ejected from a
game if they commit two personal fouls,
something akin to soccer, in which play-
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ers who receive two yellow cards must
leave the field.
Several of the owners in attendance
were circumspect, saying that what
constituted a personal foul would have
to be clarified.
Goodell did clarify one longstanding
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
question: when the N.F.L. would return
to Mexico. He said on Friday that the
Oakland Raiders and the Houston Tex-
ans would play a “Monday Night Foot-
ball” game on Nov. 21 in Mexico City,
the first game there since 2005.
Goodell said he envisioned a fourth
game being played in London at some
point, up from three per season now.
And he said he favored keeping the
Raiders and the San Diego Chargers in
their home markets.

SAN FRANCISCO
Eddie DeBartolo Jr. is nervous.
So nervous that he often can’t
sleep past 2:45 a.m. His mind is
racing as he wonders how this
JULIET
Super Bowl week-
end will turn out.
He is not think-
MACUR ing about the
game. No, DeBar-
SPORTS
OF THE TIMES tolo, known to fans
around here as Ed-
die D, the former owner of the
San Francisco 49ers, is worried
about something bigger than
that: the Pro Football Hall of
Fame vote, which takes place on
Saturday.
Eddie D is one of the candi-
dates who could enter the Hall
this year. Three times before, the
voters have passed on him. Now,
so many years after he built one
of the N.F.L.’s greatest dynasties,
will they finally let him in?
DeBartolo, 69, wants it so much
that it makes him ache. On a re-
cent teleconference, he said,
“The people that are in the Hall
of Fame, those men are immor-
tals.” He is actively trying to min-
imize his expectations.
“That’s it, I’m cooked, it’s
over,” he told Carmen Policy, the
former 49ers president and chief
executive, who remains close to
DeBartolo. “I just know I’m not
getting in. This is it for me. I’m
done.”
Policy told me Thursday that
he and DeBartolo had been talk-
ing a lot about DeBartolo’s Hall
chances. DeBartolo is, after all,
the only owner who presided
over a team that won five Super
Bowls. “Without Eddie, those five
Super Bowl wins wouldn’t have
happened,” Policy said. “He’s the
one that held the team together.
He’s the one who created that
culture of winning and the cul-
ture of treating players like fam-
ily. The team really responded to
him.”
DeBartolo ensured that his
teams always traveled in style
and in comfort, on large, wide-
body planes, and each player had
his own hotel room, when that
mentality of luxury hadn’t yet set
in leaguewide. He instituted a mi-
nority coaches fellowship pro-
gram, back when that sort of
thing did not exist. He acknowl-
edged the players’ effort by
handing out towels at the locker
room door.
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Road to Super Bowl Goes Through Town Where the Dead Live
From First Sports Page
mostly in graves. More necropo-
lis than metropolis, the town’s
worst traffic jams are caused by
funeral processions; Colma resi-
dents receive warnings, by auto-
mated phone blast, whenever a
big procession is expected,
whether for San Francisco fire-
fighters or an area Hell’s Angel.
Colma exists mostly because
the deceased, like so many
present-day workers in San Fran-
cisco, could no longer afford to
live in the city.
San Francisco banned burials
in the city in 1900 because the
cemeteries were out of room,
considered a health hazard and
— more than anything — sat on
prime real estate. In 1912, San
Francisco announced that it
would do more than ban burials.
It would kick out the dead.
In the end, more than 150,000
bodies were moved from San
Francisco to Colma, where farm-
land was turned to graveyards,
the fertile soil now mostly cov-
ered in green, carpetlike grass.
The number of people who die in
San Francisco and spend eternity
in Colma grows every day.
“All the cemeteries you go
through here, they’re a history of
San Francisco and of California,”
said Richard Rochetta, a Colma
Historical Society board member
whose father emigrated from Ita-
ly and spent 30 years as a care-
taker at Olivet Memorial Park.
In Colma, there are governors,
mayors and senators. There are
tycoons, archbishops and Civil
War generals. There are archi-
tects, activists and artists. There
are men once known as the Rice
King, the Cattle King, the Fish
King, the Beef King and the Pota-
to King. There are Alcatraz in-
mates, city socialites and Phineas
Gage, who was cutting a railroad
bed in 1848 and somehow sur-
vived when explosive powder
detonated and a 43-inch tamping
iron was sent through his cheek,
brain and skull before landing
dozens of feet away. (His body is
in Colma; his head and tamping
iron are at Harvard Medical
School.)
Levi Strauss is at Home of
Peace, next to Hills of Eternity,
where Wyatt Earp can be found.
Joe DiMaggio is at Holy Cross,
where his dark marble headstone
this week propped up a couple of
bats and two baseballs left there
by fans.
A few feet behind DiMaggio is
a crypt for Michael Henry de
Young, founder of The San Fran-
cisco Chronicle, whose family
name adorns the city’s major art
A Gifted but Flawed Human Being
Seeks a Spot Among the Immortals
Jerry Rice, left, during a 2009 ceremony for Eddie DeBartolo Jr., center, a former 49ers owner.
Rice, a Hall of Fame receiver who played for DeBartolo, would like to see him elected to the Hall.
“Players don’t trust people in
suits and can smell a phony in
seconds, but they accepted Eddie
right away because they knew he
was genuine,” Policy said.
But Policy and his old friend
both know that DeBartolo’s foot-
ball résumé is not what has kept
him out for all these years. The
wee problem with DeBartolo’s
candidacy is that, well, he is a fel-
on.
Don’t be so fast to judge him, at
least according to the low bar
that football sometimes sets for
behavior. DeBartolo didn’t physi-
cally harm anyone, or gamble on
his team’s games. He was indict-
museum.
Near the entrance to Holy
Cross is a slate-black rectangular
stone for Edmund G. Brown, the
former California governor and
father of the current one. Near
the back is a small pink stone
nestled in the grass for Moscone
(“We love you Dad”), the San
Francisco mayor assassinated
along with the gay-rights activist
Harvey Milk in 1978.
Next door, at Cypress Lawn, is
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ed for failing to report an extor-
tion attempt by the former Loui-
siana governor Edwin Edwards.
In trying to secure a riverboat
gambling license, DeBartolo had
agreed to pay Edwards $400,000,
in crisp $100 bills. In Louisiana,
some might say that was busi-
ness as usual back then.
DeBartolo avoided prison, but
he was fined $1 million and sus-
pended for a year by the N.F.L.
That was the beginning of the
end for Eddie D. He never did re-
turn to his beloved 49ers; to con-
clude a bitter intrafamily legal
battle, he handed the franchise to
his sister, Denise DeBartolo
a Greek-inspired marble tomb
surrounded by 16 Ionic columns.
It has no name on it but houses
William Randolph Hearst, his
parents (who built it) and other
family members.
Not far away, past the angel of
grief embracing the grave for
Jennie Roosevelt Pool (a cousin
of Theodore Roosevelt), is the
baseball player and manager Lef-
ty O’Doul. His marker lists his
batting average and says, “He
BEN MARGOT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
York, and took over the real es- come into play. So, considering
tate part of the family’s business. Lawrence Taylor made it to the
These days, DeBartolo’s nephew Hall of Fame even though he had
Jed York runs the team. been suspended for drug use,
On Thursday, York posted a there is no reason DeBartolo
photo on Twitter of DeBartolo should not be in, too.
standing in front of the 49ers’ five This isn’t baseball, which self-
Lombardi Trophies. “Great pic- importantly considers its Hall of
ture,” he wrote. “Would go well Fame sacred and its members
with a Gold Jacket.” nothing short of noble. That sport
Some Hall of Fame voters goes out of its way to ensure that
might not support DeBartolo’s the people entering it aren’t dop-
candidacy because of his criminal ers like Barry Bonds or gamblers
record. But according to the se- like Pete Rose (though it is happy
lection rules, they are not sup- to include accused racists and
posed to consider anything but a noted cheapskates).
candidate’s contributions to the But remember, DeBartolo’s
game. Nothing off the field can sport is football, which already
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Grave markers, above, and buttons, left, can be purchased in
Colma. “We are the city of souls, but we are really protecting
the cemeteries,” said Helen Fisicaro, Colma’s vice mayor.
was here at a good time and had Golden Gate National Cemetery
a good time while he was here.” for veterans at the Presidio and a
Steve Silver, creator of the small one at Mission Dolores.)
long-running San Francisco mu- “The cemeteries had all fallen
sical revue “Beach Blanket Baby- into disrepair, essentially be-
lon” — the media center at the cause they relied on new plots to
Moscone Center has a large dis- make money for their upkeep,”
play of it this week — lies nearby. said Maureen O’Connor, presi-
History, though, rests largely dent of the Colma Historical As-
with thousands of the earliest sociation.
San Francisco residents, buried San Francisco cemeteries
in unmarked graves. When San bought land south of the city and
Francisco flourished following established new ones. From
the arrival of the 49ers (the gold- about 1920 to 1941, the big four
seekers of the 1800s, not the foot- cemeteries moved roughly
ball team), the city had four ma- 150,000 bodies. Graves and mark-
jor cemeteries near what is now ers of the deceased whose fam-
the University of San Francisco. ilies paid to have them moved
Those four cemeteries — Cal- (generally $10) were replanted 15
vary, Laurel Hill, Masonic and miles south, sometimes after a
Odd Fellows — were a mess by solemn procession.
the late 1800s, untended and But most of the dead were dug
scavenged. They were also full, up, moved and reburied in mass
and the city was still growing. graves. Many grave markers,
The land was too valuable for the with etched names and dates,
dead. never left San Francisco. They
(There are two cemeteries re- were used to build drain gutters
maining in San Francisco: the at Buena Vista Park and to bol-
N D3
has a dark shadow over it. And
I’m not just talking about foot-
ball’s concussion problem or its
problem with domestic violence.
I’m also talking about the fact
that the game was founded by
gamblers and high rollers, and
has been — and continues to be
— overseen by owners with con-
nections with gambling. It has a
past that is not so noble.
Tim Mara, the bookie who
founded the Giants, and Art Roo-
ney, who founded the Pittsburgh
Steelers, were proud gamblers.
Charles Bidwell, whose family
now owns the Arizona Cardinals,
was a gambler and a racetrack
owner.
These days, the New England
Patriots’ owner, Robert K. Kraft,
and the Dallas Cowboys’ owner,
Jerry Jones, have invested in
companies that run Internet fan-
tasy football games, businesses
that several states now deem ille-
gal gambling. Does that mean
voters will have to think extra
hard when deciding if Kraft and
Jones should be in the Hall of
Fame one day? Maybe. Will
they? Probably not.
That is why it’s past time for
DeBartolo to slip on one of the
Hall of Fame’s gold jackets, espe-
cially now that there is an entire-
ly separate category for contribu-
tors to the game. The good news
is that his chances are good; the
vote on Saturday will be held in
the region that he put on the Su-
per Bowl map, and he is the sole
contributor candidate this year.
“He was an important figure
who really revolutionized what a
franchise could mean in terms of
connectivity to a city and a place
and made it more relevant on a
national scale,” said Robert A.
Boland, a sports law expert who
teaches a professional sports
franchises class at Ohio Universi-
ty. “He did all the things that
made the franchise the paradigm
of what a good franchise should
be. I think the N.F.L. would have
been far richer if he were allowed
to remain in the game.”
Policy, of course, is pushing for
DeBartolo to be elected. “He de-
serves it,” he said.
Many former 49ers also are
pushing for their old friend. Joe
Montana. Ronnie Lott. Jerry
Rice. They want DeBartolo in the
Hall alongside them.
“It’s time,” Rice said.
He’s right.
Colma has the Rice
King, the Fish King
and the Beef King.
ster the breakwater near St.
Francis Yacht Club. Some are oc-
casionally spotted at low tide in
the sand along Ocean Beach.
A monument at Holy Cross in
Colma today reads: “Interred
here are the remains of 39,307
Catholics moved from Mt. Calva-
ry Cemetery in 1940 and 1941 by
order of the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors. Rest in God’s
Loving Care.”
A similar mass grave marked
by an obelisk at Cypress Lawn,
with the remains of an estimated
35,000 former San Franciscans, is
said to include the headless body
of Gage; Senator David Broder-
ick, killed in an 1859 duel with
Chief Justice David S. Terry of
the California Supreme Court;
and Andrew Smith Hallidie, con-
sidered the inventor of the San
Francisco cable-car system.
By 1924, Colma was incorporat-
ed (first as Lawndale, reverting
to Colma in 1941), and it has nev-
er had more living residents than
dead ones.
Always a place friendly to flo-
rists and monument makers, and
a bar called Molloy’s that dates to
1883, Colma began attracting car
dealerships and strip malls on its
western edge, near Interstate
280, in the 1970s. The train line
that once carried dead bodies to
Colma is now the BART line that
carries living residents to neigh-
boring cities on the Peninsula.
Supported by a commercial
sales tax (but not from the ceme-
teries, which are nonprofit), Col-
ma is a neat and tidy town, with
three small neighborhoods and 17
sprawling, manicured cemeter-
ies, including one for pets. Resi-
dents know that it is the dead
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that set Colma apart from its sub-
urban neighbors.
“We are the city of souls, but
we are really protecting the cem-
eteries,” said Helen Fisicaro, Col-
ma’s vice mayor. “There is an
emotional attachment to them.”
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m
There are no famous football
players known to be interred in
Colma. But there is Burl Toler,
the N.F.L.’s first black on-field of-
ficial, who worked Super Bowl
XIV. And despite famous resi-
dents such as Strauss and Mos-
cone, Colma really has little to do
with Sunday’s Super Bowl.
But it is on the road to it, for
those able to pass through with-
out stopping forever.
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SPORTS GAMBLING

Citigroup to Block Cardholders’ Payments in New Rebuff to Fantasy Sites

From First Sports Page
criminal investigation and the
F.B.I. are examining how fantasy
games affect problem gamblers,
according to a gambling addict
who was interviewed.
These developments under-
score the rapidly sinking fortunes
of an industry that just four
months ago seemed to be a sure
bet.
With no government oversight,
the companies recruited players
by the millions, many of them
young, lured by an ever-expand-
ing buffet of online contests as
well as an expensive, inescapable SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES

advertising campaign that made
winning big seem easy.
Then the tide began to turn.
The commercials all but van-
ished. States began investigating.
In recent weeks, three states
have joined New York and Texas
in calling the games gambling.
The situation is deteriorating
to the point that some experts
wonder about the survival of the
industry as it exists — whether it
can outlast the very lack of reg-
ulation that allowed its untram-
meled growth.
“We are shocked at how quick-
ly this has cascaded with the on-
going viability of this industry
now in question,” Eilers Re-
search, an independent firm that
studies online gambling, wrote in
November.
The daily fantasy sites had
staked their future on the prem-
ise that their games were not
gambling because they involved
more skill than luck, obviating
the need for government regula-
tion. This distinction was laid out
in now-contentious federal legis-
lation in 2006.
In this environment, some new
companies began marketing
games with most of the skill re-
moved. One site offered to pick
fantasy teams for its customers.
Another allowed customers to
bet on whether a professional
basketball player would make his
next shot.
“Without a doubt, I have not
heard or seen any attorneys gen-
eral or federal prosecutors advo-
cate that this isn’t gambling,”
said Mark Brnovich, Arizona’s at-
Frank Koughan and Megan Rob-
ertson contributed reporting.
torney general and a co-chair-
man of the gaming committee at
the National Association of At-
torneys General.
The daily fantasy industry’s
troubles began shortly after
DraftKings and FanDuel blan-
keted the nation with a huge ad-
vertising campaign that coincid-
ed roughly with the beginning of
the N.F.L. season last year. At its
peak, the companies spent a
quarter of a billion dollars com-
bined, airing almost as many ads
as there were minutes in the day,
according to iSpot.tv, which
tracks national television adver-
tising.
“As the fantasy sports industry
became more ubiquitous, the
questions were inevitable: Is this
something that is legal? Is this
something that should be reg-
ulated?” said Daniel L. Wallach,
a lawyer and a gambling consult-
ant. “What the advertising spend
at the beginning of the N.F.L. sea-
son really did was create not only
a lack of sympathy but a vul-
nerability that didn’t exist a year
ago.”
DraftKings and its chief rival,
FanDuel, are fighting back on dif-
ferent fronts. They are waging a
costly legal battle in New York,
where the state’s attorney gen-
eral, Eric T. Schneiderman, had
called their daily fantasy games
illegal gambling and ordered
them shut down.
Until the legal dispute is re-
solved, the sites remain open.
FanDuel issued a statement Fri-
day about Citigroup’s action, say-
ing, “We are grateful that there
are various payment options and
companies that allow their cus-
tomers to make their own deci-
sion about what fantasy sports
they can play.” DraftKings had no
comment.
The industry received a lift on
Thursday when Rhode Island’s
attorney general, Peter F. Kil-
martin, ruled that daily fantasy
sports was not a game of chance.
But he added that at a minimum,
“a high level of regulation should
be established to ensure criminal
elements do not infiltrate the
game, youth participation is
barred, addiction issues ad-
dressed.”
Where FanDuel once said reg-
ulation was not needed, it now
says that the industry should “be
regulated with smart but tough
consumer protections so our fans
can feel confident they are pro-
tected.” The company also said
that when customers indicate
that they have a problem, “we re-
BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES
move them immediately from our
site and prohibit them from play-
ing.” This year, it said in a state-
ment, at least 21 states are ex-
pected to introduce fantasy
sports regulation.
DraftKings said it had made
changes “that allow players
greater control in order to en-
hance user experience and pro-
mote responsible engagement.”
The company cited features that
allow players to set limits on de-
posits and frequency of play.
David Boies, counsel to Draft-
Kings, said his client was work-
ing with legislatures and attor-
neys general across the country
to ensure that “thoughtful con-
sumer protections” were in place.
“DraftKings is one of the leaders
in the industry in adopting con-
sumer protection,” Mr. Boies
said.
The industry has by no means
won over many critics, even with
its avowed openness to regula-
tion. Keith Whyte, executive di-
rector of the National Council on
Problem Gambling, said the in-
dustry could have avoided many
of its problems by acting more re-
sponsibly.
“I can’t speak for the fantasy
sports industry, I can only say
that when we’ve engaged with
The fantasy sports industry has advertised heavily, including at
sporting events, left. But the industry is in trouble because offi-
cials like Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York,
above, have attacked daily fantasy as illegal gambling.
them, they have recognized that
there are customers of theirs
with problems,” Mr. Whyte said.
“We have offered our help, and to
date they have not embraced it
fully.”
Federal agents are examining
the impact of fantasy games on
problem gamblers. Agents from
the I.R.S. and the F.B.I. in Florida
interviewed Josh Adams, a gam-
bling addict in Alabama, after
The New York Times in Novem-
ber profiled his problems with
fantasy sports. According to Mr.
Adams, the agents questioned
him about the nature of his ad-
diction and how fantasy sports
ads had affected him. “They were
trying to get evidence from a per-
son who experienced some harm
by playing daily fantasy sports,”
Mr. Adams said.
Mr. Schneiderman, the New
York attorney general, cited Mr.
Adams as part of the effort to
shut down the sites. “You can’t
have unregulated gambling with-
out running into problems,” he
said.
Paul, a gambling addict who
asked that his last name not be
used, said he almost cried when
he read Mr. Adams’s account be-
cause it was so similar to his. He
said he had finally managed to
stop gambling on poker and
blackjack when a friend intro-
duced him to fantasy sports.
“One of my friends was playing
online fantasy, and he sent me a
link, and the deal was he gets a
free entry and I get a free entry.”
That reignited his interest in
betting, he said, and soon he
found himself borrowing thou-
sands of dollars on credit cards.
“If you look at my transaction
history, there’s one day where I
deposited $5,300 — lost — then
deposited again a few hours lat-
er.” He said he later deposited
$10,000. “If that’s not an indica-
tion of problem gambling, I don’t
know what is.”
Asked why he played that first
fantasy game when he knew he
was a gambling addict, Paul said,
“I didn’t think it was gambling.”
Like Josh, he said he no longer
played fantasy games.
“The Achilles’ heel for the in-
dustry is clearly problem gam-
bling,” said Mr. Wallach, the gam-
bling consultant. “You are talking
about people who may have be-
come problem gamblers and lose
their life’s savings — that’s the
dark side of gambling.”
DraftKings and FanDuel insist
that fantasy sports contests are
not addictive and that adequate
controls are in place. Matt King,
FanDuel’s chief financial officer,
said in an interview several
months ago that he was not
aware of any young people who
had developed gambling prob-
lems playing fantasy sports.
Even so, he said, “we are clearly
very focused on making sure that
everybody in the industry oper-
ates with the highest degree of
integrity.”

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The Grizzlies’ Matt Barnes being defended by Sasha Vujacic in the first half. The Knicks, who shot 37.5 percent from the field, fell to their eighth loss in nine games.
Without Anthony, Knicks Put Up a Valiant Fight, Then Fade
By ANDREW KEH
Carmelo Anthony was hunched
over on the end of the Knicks’
bench wearing a gray jacket and
dark tie as he watched the tense
final moments against the Mem-
phis Grizzlies on Friday.
Aaron Affla-
GRIZZLIES 91 lo had hit a
3-pointer with
KNICKS 85
37.6 seconds
left to cut the Knicks’ deficit to 2,
and Anthony rose to his feet
when the Knicks forced a Mem-
phis miss and swept to the other
end as the clock ticked down.
The Knicks elected not to use
their final timeout, and Afflalo
spun into space and found him-
self a good look at the basket
from midrange with 8.9 seconds
left that would have tied the
score.
But the ball rattled out, and the
Knicks tumbled to their eighth
loss in nine games, 91-85.
The Knicks’ plucky display
without Anthony was encourag-
ing. But the close finish also
masked the fecklessness of the
offense in his absence. The
Knicks shot 37.5 percent from the
field. They were led by the vet-
Yale Wears Down Columbia in a Battle of Unlikely Ivy League Leaders
By ZACH SCHONBRUN
NEW HAVEN — The mood in-
side the John J. Lee Amphithe-
ater on Friday evening felt most-
ly like impatience. Fans filled
rickety wooden bleachers that
have ached
YALE 86 for success.
COLUMBIA 72 Basketball
dominance in
the Ivy League has been cyclical
for the past 40 years or so. The
cycles always seemed to miss Co-
lumbia and Yale.
The sight of both teams shar-
ing firm command of the Ivy
League this season seemed cause
for celebration, even in early Feb-
ruary. Without a postseason tour-
nament, there was also a sense
that the game between them
could provide the slim buffer
needed for either one to earn
what has eluded them for dec-
ades: an automatic N.C.A.A.
tournament bid.
In front of a robust crowd, Yale
looked shaky at the start. But the
Bulldogs calmed their nerves and
settled into their typical, pound-
ing formula, shooting 61.5 percent
from the field while wearing
down Columbia, 86-72.
“Turning the ball over 17 times
and still getting a win,” Coach
James Jones said, “it shows you
how good you can be.”
The win inched the Bulldogs
(14-5, 5-0) closer to their first
As Scandal Swirls, Louisville Decides to Skip Postseason Tournaments
By MARC TRACY
Louisville is voluntarily with-
holding its men’s basketball team
from this season’s Atlantic Coast
Conference and N.C.A.A. tourna-
ments, as the N.C.A.A. investi-
gates a scandal in which a former
basketball employee is accused
of having purchased strippers
and prostitutes for some recruits
and their fathers from 2010 to
2014.
eran point guard Jose Calderon,
who uncharacteristically loaded
the stat sheet with 18 points, 8 re-
bounds and 5 assists.
“Without Melo, everyone had
to be more aggressive,” Calderon
said.
The sight of Anthony in street
clothes was concerning for the
Knicks. It was the third time in
seven games that he sat out be-
cause of soreness in his left knee,
the same one that required sur-
gery last year. The Knicks will
play next on Sunday afternoon
against the Denver Nuggets, and
Anthony’s condition will be re-
evaluated then.
“Right now, he’s just day to
day,” Coach Derek Fisher said.
“If it needs to change, we’ll make
the change.”
Anthony, 31, remains the
Knicks’ best player, averaging
21.1 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.2
assists per game. The team has
struggled whenever he has sat
out, losing seven straight games
that he has missed.
Fisher said Anthony had un-
dergone a magnetic resonance
imaging test that showed no
structural damage inside the
knee.
CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZIELLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Yale’s Brandon Sherrod set an N.C.A.A. record for consecutive
field goals made, reaching 30 in a row over a three-week span.
N.C.A.A. tournament berth since
1962. Columbia (15-7, 4-1) has not
earned a bid since 1968. Since
then, the league has been so
heavily dominated by four teams
— Harvard, Cornell, Penn and
Princeton — that only once has
another program sneaked to an
outright title (Brown in 1986). But
this season, the league appears
bound for a shake-up.
Yale and Harvard finished as
co-champions last season, but
Harvard won the one-game play-
off for the automatic bid to the
tournament. Although the Bull-
dogs graduated four players, one
key contributor came back: Jus-
James R. Ramsey, the universi-
ty president, announced the deci-
sion, which he said he made in
consultation with Athletic Direc-
tor Tom Jurich, at a news confer-
ence Friday afternoon as Coach
Rick Pitino, a two-time national
championship winner, looked on.
After hearing from N.C.A.A.
staff, Ramsey said, he “deter-
mined it was reasonable to con-
clude that violations had oc-
curred in the men’s basketball
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016
PRO BASKETBALL
“It’s just inflammation,” Fisher
said.
Anthony also missed two
games last month with a
sprained right ankle, and Fisher
noted that Anthony had carried a
big load since making his return.
Fisher said he noticed Anthony
was below his optimal physical
condition on Thursday night,
when he shot 4 for 18 in the
Knicks’ loss to Detroit. Anthony
has shot 31.8 percent in the four
games he played after sitting out
two consecutive contests.
The Knicks have two more
games before the All-Star break.
Anthony was voted into the East-
ern Conference lineup for the
game on Feb. 14 in Toronto, and
Fisher did not speculate on
whether Anthony might miss it.
“That’s not for me or us to jug-
gle if he physically shouldn’t
play; that’s a decision he should
make,” Fisher said when asked
whether the Knicks would try to
manage his condition with the
All-Star Game in mind. “If he’s
able to play in the games with us,
if we feel like it’s not endangering
him long term, that’s the decision
that includes and involves us. We
won’t necessarily be able to keep
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
tin Sears, the reigning Ivy
League player of the year, who
scored a game-high 27 points.
But Yale also regained one of
last season’s noncontributors.
Forward Brandon Sherrod had
sat out last season to travel the
globe as a tenor in Yale’s dis-
tinguished all-male a cappella
group, the Whiffenpoofs. He
came back better than ever. His
25 points, a career high, and 8 re-
bounds bolstered the Bulldogs.
“I don’t know where we’d be
without him,” Jones said.
“When Brandon and Justin are
playing at that level, it’s very dif-
ficult to lose a game,” he added.
program in the past.”
Pitino reiterated previous
statements that he had been un-
aware of the alleged violations.
The accusations were first made
in a book published late last year
by a woman who said that Andre
McGee, Louisville’s former direc-
tor of basketball operations,
hired her to provide strippers
and prostitutes at 22 parties at
the university’s residential hall
for basketball players.
him from playing if he wants to
play.”
It might have felt a bit familiar
to anyone who followed the
Knicks last season. For weeks,
Anthony was in and out of the
lineup with an injury that the
Knicks also described simply as
“soreness.”
Anthony underwent surgery —
which the team said included
“left knee patella tendon debride-
ment and repair” — immediately
after the All-Star Game. He was
subjected to questions then about
why he did not have the pro-
cedure earlier.
The Knicks have maintained
that the current soreness has
been unrelated to the operation.
Lance Thomas also missed the
game on Friday after a concus-
sion was diagnosed in the morn-
ing. The soonest Thomas can re-
turn to play, based on the
league’s concussion protocols,
will be Tuesday night against the
Washington Wizards.
The first boos were audible 90
seconds into the game, as the
Knicks fell to a 7-0 deficit. The
Grizzlies scored 10 before the
Knicks notched their first basket.
Kristaps Porzingis might have
“They just dominate inside by
the basket.”
Sherrod had gone 15 for 15 from
the field for 38 points in two
games last weekend. Entering
Friday, he had not missed a shot
since Jan. 16 — a string of 25 con-
secutive made field goals, one
shy of the N.C.A.A. record. It did
not take him long to break it.
With a layup six minutes in, Sher-
rod claimed the record with his
27th in a row.
He started 5 for 5, bringing his
total to 30, before finally missing
a short contested shot with 4 min-
utes 45 seconds left in the half.
“I was kind of bummed I
missed it,” Sherrod said, smiling.
“But it had to come to an end
eventually.”
Columbia’s 4-0 start in league
play was a first for the program
since 1994. Led by three seniors
— Maodo Lo, Alex Rosenberg
and Grant Mullins — the Lions
were picked just behind Yale in
the preseason projections. After
the Lions lost five of their first
nine games, there was concern
that the team was not performing
as it should. But Columbia rallied
to win 12 of its next 13.
“We’ve been defending,” Co-
lumbia Coach Kyle Smith said. “I
still feel great about our defen-
sive effort.”
Indeed, Columbia swiped at
dribbles and knifed into passing
lanes. The team gathered 11
Colleges frequently self-im-
pose postseason bans if it be-
comes clear the N.C.A.A. is likely
to do so in the future. Last year,
Syracuse announced that it
would withhold its men’s basket-
ball team from the postseason
about a month before the
N.C.A.A. Committee on Infrac-
tions found violations related to
players’ academics.
Critics say that such bans deal
the harshest punishment to cur-
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been expected to shoulder the of-
fensive load without Anthony, but
he did not get going until the
fourth quarter. He finished with
17 points, 10 rebounds and 6
blocks.
“Maybe at the end, you need a
guy like Melo; you give him the
ball and he will score,” Porzingis
said. “Maybe that’s what we’re
missing.”
Jeff Green led the Grizzlies
with 16 points.
Less than a minute into the
fourth quarter, Mario Chalmers
was ejected from the game for el-
bowing Sasha Vujacic in the face
after the two became entangled
on the court. Vujacic appeared to
hook Chalmers’s arm and say
something to him on the floor, but
Chalmers’s reaction brought his
night to an early end.
Memphis nevertheless pulled
out the victory, extending the
Knicks’ recent malaise.
Several minutes after the game
ended, Afflalo sat at his locker in
full uniform staring into space, ic-
ing his knees.
“I thought it was in,” Afflalo
said, “but it is unfortunate that
we were in that situation and had
to rely on that shot.”
steals, seven by Lo alone, tying a
Columbia record.
In fact, Yale turned the ball
over four times in its first five
possessions, allowing Columbia
to quickly jump ahead, 10-5. But
the Bulldogs regrouped to shoot
71.4 percent in the first half, in-
cluding 7 of 10 from 3-point range,
and led by 9 with just over two
minutes remaining.
“There were certain posses-
sions where I felt like we played
good defense,” Lo said. “They
just hit tough shots.”
A fall-away 3-pointer by Blake
Reynolds with 2.8 seconds in the
half gave the Bulldogs a 41-33
lead. The Lions crawled back to
trail by 3, after Lo banked a
3-pointer off the glass with just
over eight minutes remaining,
make it 60-57. The score was 64-
58 when Sears stepped out to drill
a 3-pointer with 5:47 left, prompt-
ing a timeout from Smith.
The Bulldogs looked mature in
the final minutes, preventing the
Lions from sneaking back in.
They put Columbia in the bonus
and bled the game out from the
free-throw line. The Lions, aver-
aging 76.5 points entering the
game, were held to 44.1 percent
shooting and just 9 of 31 from
3-point range.
“Threes were the separation,”
Smith said. “We didn’t make
ours, and they hit theirs.”
rent players — many of whom
might not have borne responsibil-
ity for the alleged violations or
even been on the team when they
are said to have happened — and
not to administrators and coach-
es.
Louisville, ranked 19th, was
coming off an upset victory over
No. 2 North Carolina when the
announcement was made. The
Cardinals won the 2013 national
championship.
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N.B.A. ROUNDUP
Nets Unleash
18 3-Pointers
In Home Win
By The Associated Press
Joe Johnson had season highs
with 27 points and 11 assists, and
the Nets had their best offensive
performance of the season on Fri-
day, beating the Sacramento
Kings, 128-119, at Barclays Center.
The Nets set season bests for
points and 3-pointers while end-
ing a five-game losing streak.
Bojan Bogdanovic, a reserve,
made seven of the team’s 18
3-pointers, while Johnson added
five and Donald Sloan made four.
The Nets were 18 for 28 (64.3
percent) from behind the arc and
shot 55.8 percent over all.
Brook Lopez added 26 points
and 12 rebounds for the Nets.
CELTICS 104, CAVALIERS 103
Avery Bradley made a corner
jumper at the horn to give Boston
a stunning win over host Cleve-
land. Bradley’s shot just in front
of Boston’s bench dropped as the
final second ticked off the clock.
HEAT 98, HORNETS 95 Hassan
Whiteside had 10 points, 10 re-
bounds and 10 blocked shots, and
visiting Miami came up with two
key steals in the closing seconds
for a victory over Charlotte.
RODEO
Judge Deals
New Circuit
A Setback;
Suit Goes On
By JOHN BRANCH
A federal district judge ruled
Thursday that new bylaws meant
to protect the long-established
Professional Rodeo Cowboys As-
sociation from competing rodeo
circuits are enforceable, a blow to
a group of top rodeo athletes
planning a satellite circuit this
year.
But the judge, Barbara Lynn of
United States District Court in
Dallas, denied the association’s
motion to dismiss a broader anti-
trust lawsuit filed by Elite Rodeo
Athletes, whose nine-city tour is
scheduled to stretch from March
to November.
E.R.A. was founded by some of
rodeo’s biggest stars, including
Trevor Brazile, Bobby Mote and
Ryan Motes, all of whom are
named plaintiffs in the class-ac-
tion suit filed in November. The
suit came after the P.R.C.A. re-
wrote bylaws, including one that
said that anyone with a financial
interest in a competing circuit
would not be eligible to compete
in any of the hundreds of
P.R.C.A.-sanctioned rodeos held
each year.
E.R.A. followed its lawsuit with
a request for a preliminary in-
junction to prevent those bylaws
from taking effect. The decisions
by Judge Lynn mean that the
P.R.C.A. can enforce those by-
laws and that rodeo competitors
must choose — P.R.C.A. or E.R.A.
— as the court battle continues.
“The P.R.C.A. bylaws at issue
will be immediately enforced,”
the association said in a state-
ment.
In a statement of its own,
E.R.A. said that its roster of 87
athletes remained committed to
the new circuit and that more
than 85 percent “will retain their
ownership in E.R.A. and not at-
tend P.R.C.A. rodeos in 2016.” 
With a model similar to that of
the Professional Bull Riders,
E.R.A. hopes to build a circuit for
the top echelon of rodeo athletes,
from calf ropers to bronc riders,
allowing them to compete for big-
ger prizes at fewer rodeos.
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O LY M P I C S SCOREBOARD

PRO BASKETBALL PRO HOCKEY GOLF

N.B.A. STANDINGS N.H.L. STANDINGS PHOENIX OPEN

Friday
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE At TPC Scottsdale, Stadium Course
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Atlantic W L Pct GB Atlantic W L OT Pts GF GA Purse: $6.5 million
Yardage: 7,266; Par: 71 (35-36)
Toronto 34 16 .680 — Florida 31 15 5 67 146 113 First Round
Rickie Fowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-32—65
Boston 30 22 .577 5 Tampa 29 18 4 62 139 121 Shane Lowry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-31—65
Knicks 23 30 .434 12{ Hideki Matsuyama . . . . . . . . . 33-32—65
Boston 27 18 6 60 153 137 Anirban Lahiri. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-32—66
Nets 13 38 .255 21{ Danny Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-33—67
Detroit 25 18 8 58 126 133 James Hahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-33—67
Philadelphia 7 43 .140 27 Montreal 24 24 4 52 140 142 Greg Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-35—67
Brooks Koepka. . . . . . . . . . . . 34-33—67
Southeast W L Pct GB Ottawa 23 23 6 52 146 168 Brandt Snedeker . . . . . . . . . . 32-35—67
Bryce Molder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-33—67
Atlanta 30 22 .577 — Toronto 19 22 9 47 121 139 Gary Woodland . . . . . . . . . . . 33-34—67
Tyrone Van Aswegen . . . . . . . 33-35—68
Miami 29 22 .569 { Buffalo 21 26 5 47 120 141 Blayne Barber . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-35—68
Daniel Berger. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-33—68
Charlotte 24 26 .480 5 Metropolitan W L OT Pts GF GA Ryan Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-35—68
Washington 22 26 .458 6 Webb Simpson. . . . . . . . . . . . 34-34—68
Wash. 36 9 4 76 163 111 Keegan Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . 33-35—68
Orlando 21 28 .429 7{ Ben Crane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-34—68
Rangers 28 18 5 61 148 134 Harris English . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-34—68
Central W L Pct GB Will Wilcox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-33—68
Islanders 26 17 6 58 137 124 Daniel Summerhays . . . . . . . . 35-33—68
Cleveland 35 14 .714 — Kevin Na . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33-35—68
Devils 26 20 6 58 119 123 Chad Campbell . . . . . . . . . . . 36-32—68
Chicago 27 22 .551 8 Bo Van Pelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-34—68
Pittsburgh 25 18 7 57 130 131 Kevin Chappell . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-34—68
Detroit 27 24 .529 9 Brett Stegmaier . . . . . . . . . . . 33-35—68
Carolina 24 21 8 56 129 142
Indiana 26 24 .520 9{
Phila. 23 18 8 54 119 132 DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC
Milwaukee 20 32 .385 16{
Columbus 21 28 5 47 138 170 Friday
At Emirates Golf Club (Majlis Course)
WESTERN CONFERENCE Dubai, United Arab Emirates
WESTERN CONFERENCE Purse: $2.65 million
Yardage: 7,327; Par: 72
Southwest W L Pct GB Second Round
Central W L OT Pts GF GA a-amateur
San Antonio 41 8 .837 —
Chicago 35 16 4 74 154 127 Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Spain 67-67—134
Memphis 30 20 .600 11{ Ernie Els, South Africa . . . . . . 68-67—135
Dallas 33 14 5 71 171 139 Danny Willett, England . . . . . . 70-65—135
FELIPE DANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS Dallas 28 24 .538 14{ Trevor Fisher Jnr, South Africa 67-68—135
St. Louis 29 17 8 66 131 131 Chris Wood, England . . . . . . . 68-68—136
A municipal health worker spraying insecticide this week in an open area of a sports center in Recife, Brazil, to Houston 27 25 .519 15{ Joost Luiten, Netherlands . . . . 69-67—136
Colorado 27 23 4 58 147 148 Andy Sullinan, England . . . . . 70-66—136
combat mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus. Olympic soccer matches will be played in several cities. New Orleans 18 31 .367 23 Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark . . 72-64—136
Nashville 24 20 8 56 132 138 Alvaro Quiros, Spain . . . . . . . 68-69—137
Northwest W L Pct GB Brett Rumford, Australia . . . . . 67-70—137

Soccer Is a Center of Fear

Minnesota 23 19 9 55 126 124 Henrik Stenson, Sweden . . . . 69-68—137
Oklahoma City 38 13 .745 — Haydn Porteous, South Africa . 72-66—138
Winnipeg 22 26 3 47 132 150 Gary Stal, France . . . . . . . . . 70-68—138
Utah 24 25 .490 13
Byeong-An Hun, South Korea . 71-67—138
Portland 24 27 .471 14 Pacific W L OT Pts GF GA Graeme Storm, England . . . . . 68-70—138

On Zika at the Brazil Games

From First Sports Page
highly contaminated water at venues
for rowing, canoeing, sailing and dis-
tance swimming events. And now
comes the Zika virus, which, scientists
say, can be transmitted sexually and
may cause babies to be born with ab-
normally small heads, a condition
known as microcephaly.
“I think our sports leaders have
been remiss on both counts, to be more
protective of not only our athletes, but
the international community of ath-
letes,” said Richard Lapchick, the di-
rector of the Institute for Diversity and
Ethics in Sport at the University of
Central Florida.
Among the most visible women at
the Rio Games should be members of
the United States soccer team, win-
ners of three consecutive Olympic gold
medals and, most recently, the 2015
World Cup.
play in the Olympics because of con-
cerns over the Zika virus, she would
not be blackballed from future inclu-
sion.
“Can you imagine the backlash if a
player was cut because she was asking
her federation to find out more about
this?” said Julie Foudy, a retired cap-
tain of the American team.
Even so, players may be reluctant to
speak up, in fear of losing their spot in
the lineup, just as players in various
sports are often afraid to admit to con-
cussions, Lapchick said.
Some women may worry about
“having the coach look back and won-
der if they’re really committed,” he
said, adding, “If they spoke up as a
team, obviously they’d be in a more
powerful position.”
Players displayed unity by protest-
ing against artificial turf used at last
summer’s Women’s World Cup in Can-
ada. In December, the American wom-
Denver 20 31 .392
Minnesota 15 36 .294
Pacific W L Pct
Golden State 45 4 .918
winter.
That is true, but it rained sufficiently L.A. Clippers 33 17 .660 12{
at the Pan American Games in Rio in Sacramento 21 29 .420 24{
July 2007 to wash out the bronze medal Phoenix 14 37 .275
game in baseball. Impeccable weather L.A. Lakers 11 41 .212 35{
is not a guarantee.
FRIDAY
So far, the American women seem Nets 128, Sacramento 119
single-minded in their purpose. “Rio Memphis 91, Knicks 85
we got our eyes set on you!” forward
L.A. Clippers 107, Orlando 93
Alex Morgan wrote on Twitter. Washington 106, Philadelphia 94
Two players from the World Cup Miami 98, Charlotte 95
Atlanta 102, Indiana 96
team, Sydney Leroux and Amy Rodri-
Boston 104, Cleveland 103
guez, are pregnant and will miss the
Utah 84, Milwaukee 81
Olympics, but those decisions had Denver 115, Chicago 110
nothing to do with the Zika virus, team San Antonio at Dallas
officials said. SATURDAY
Jill Ellis, the coach of the American
Portland at Houston, 5
women, told The Dallas Morning Detroit at Indiana, 7
News, “I have confidence in people Washington at Charlotte, 7
that will make decisions much higher New Orleans at Cleveland, 7:30
Nets at Philadelphia, 7:30
up than I in terms of safety and protec-
Chicago at Minnesota, 8
tion for not just our players but the Dallas at Memphis, 8
community in general.” L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 8:30
Referring to concerns about smog Oklahoma City at Golden State, 9
Johan Carlsson, Sweden . . . . 71-67—138
18 L.A. 31 17 3 65 137 119
23 San Jose 27 19 4 58 147 133 COATES CHAMPIONSHIP
Friday
GB Anaheim 24 18 7 55 108 115
At Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club
— Arizona 24 21 6 54 137 157 Ocala, Fla.
Purse: $1.5 million
Vancou. 20 19 12 52 123 141 Yardage: 6,541; Par 72
Second Round
Calgary 22 25 3 47 131 149 Note: Third round was suspended with
no one completing the round
32 Edmonton 21 26 5 47 134 152 Ha Na Jang . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65-72—137
NOTE: Two points for a win, one Lydia Ko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-69—138
Haru Nomura . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-66—138
point for overtime loss. Sei Young Kim . . . . . . . . . . . 68-71—139
FRIDAY Lexi Thompson. . . . . . . . . . . 69-70—139
Jessica Korda . . . . . . . . . . . 71-68—139
Tampa Bay 6, Pittsburgh 3 Lizette Salas . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-70—139
Carolina 5, Winnipeg 3 Xi Yu Lin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-68—139
Columbus 2, Calgary 1 In Gee Chun . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-72—140
Arizona at Anaheim
Brooke M. Henderson . . . . . . 70-70—140
Suzann Pettersen . . . . . . . . . 73-67—140
Cristie Kerr . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-71—140
SATURDAY
Washington at Devils, 1
Sakura Yokomine . . . . . . . . . 70-70—140
Kim Kaufman . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-73—141
Rangers at Philadelphia, 1 Candie Kung . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-73—141
Amy Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71—141
Edmonton at Montreal, 2 Mo Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-72—141
Islanders at Detroit, 2 Paula Reto . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-69—141
Michelle Wie . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71—141
Buffalo at Boston, 7
Kelly Tan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-73—141
Toronto at Ottawa, 7
Simin Feng . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-71—141
Julie Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-70—141
Pittsburgh at Florida, 7
Austin Ernst . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73-68—141
Minnesota at St. Louis, 8
San Jose at Nashville, 8
Hyo Joo Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-70—141
Na Yeon Choi . . . . . . . . . . . 72-70—142
Chicago at Dallas, 8 Morgan Pressel . . . . . . . . . . 72-70—142
Brianna Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-72—142
Winnipeg at Colorado, 10 Karine Icher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-74—143
Calgary at Vancouver, 10 Danielle Kang . . . . . . . . . . . 72-71—143
Carlota Ciganda . . . . . . . . . . 74-69—143
SUNDAY Caroline Masson . . . . . . . . . . 70-73—143
Philadelphia at Washington, 12 Charley Hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70-73—143

The team is training in Texas for the en refused to play an exhibition in Ha- ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Utah at Phoenix, 9 Carolina at Montreal, 2:30
Edmonton at Islanders, 2:30 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
regional Olympic qualifying tourna- waii, saying the turf was unsafe. And and terrorism before the 2012 London NETS 128, KINGS 119
ment, which begins there on Wednes- they are challenging the federation Olympics, the star midfielder Carli PRO FOOTBALL WOMEN'S SCORES
FG FT Reb
day. The competition will include over collective bargaining. Lloyd told the Dallas newspaper, “Ev- SACRAMENTO Min M-A M-A O-T A EAST
But to threaten to boycott the Olym- ery time we get there, it’s perfectly PTS
teams from Zika-affected places like Gay 3 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 2 N.F.L. PLAYOFFS DePaul 75 . . . .
Fairfield 61 . . .
.
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
. . . . Villanova
. . . . . Niagara
47
43
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexi- pics over the Zika virus is “not the fine.” Cousins 39 9-18 2-3 0-10 10 24 All Times EST Iona 68 . . . . . . . . . . . Monmouth (NJ) 56
Cauley-Stein28 7-8 2-2 2-6 0 16 Marist 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . St. Peter's 55
co and Puerto Rico. kind of thing you bluff, and the I.O.C. Ultimately, the decision about Rondo 34 7-15 0-0 0-1 15 15
Pro Bowl
Penn 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvard 48
Sunday, Jan. 31
“The safety of our athletes and staff knows it,” said Mary Jo Kane, the di- whether to play in Rio should rest with Belinelli 34 5-12 3-3 0-0 1 13 At Honolulu Princeton 85 . . . . . . . . . . Dartmouth 48
Casspi 27 3-10 0-0 0-4 0 7 Quinnipiac 69. . . . . . . . . . . . . Siena 59
is always the highest priority, and we rector of the Tucker Center for Re- the players, Foudy and others said. Koufos 12 2-3 0-0 2-3 0 4
Team Irvin 49, Team Rice 27
Super Bowl SOUTH
are taking all necessary precautions in search on Girls and Women in Sport at They have trained for years for these McLemore 11
Collison 25
0-4
7-9
5-5 0-0 2
9-9 1-3 1 25
5 Sunday Northeastern 52 . . . Coll. of Charleston 49
At Santa Clara, Calif. MIDWEST
regard to the Zika virus,” Dr. George T. the University of Minnesota. Games, and some may have no desire Acy 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Denver vs. Carolina, 6:30 p.m. (CBS) Creighton 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Butler 42
to bear children. Still, Foudy added, it Anderson 15 4-8 0-0 0-3 0 8
Chiampas, the chief medical officer of Thomas Bach, the president of the
was up to the soccer federation to “do
Totals 240 45-89 21-22 5-31 30 119 SUPER BOWL DEPTH MEN'S SCORES
U.S. Soccer, said Thursday in a state- I.O.C., told reporters this week that he Percentages: FG .506, FT .955. 3-Point CHARTS EAST
ment. was “very confident” that athletes and a better job” of educating the players Goals: 8-26, .308 (Cousins 4-4, Collison 2-3,
Brown 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornell 80
Rondo 1-4, Casspi 1-7, Gay 0-1, McLemore (Subject to change)
Team officials are gathering medical spectators would be safe in Rio. He about the Zika virus. 0-1, Anderson 0-2, Belinelli 0-4). Team Carolina Panthers Iona 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Canisius 66
Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 11 (12 PTS). Lehman 88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baruch 81
information and will speak to the play- noted that there was no travel ban to “You want every federation to at Blocked Shots: 3 (Acy, Anderson, Cauley-
Offense
Monmouth (NJ) 91 . . . . . . . . Fairfield 67
WR — 19 Ted Ginn, Jr.; 17 Devin Funchess;
ers in coming days, another American Brazil and that the Games would take least educate and have that conversa- Stein). Turnovers: 11 (Cousins 3, Cauley- 81 Kevin Norwood Penn 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dartmouth 64
Stein 2, Collison 2, Rondo 2, Anderson, Princeton 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . Harvard 62
soccer official said Thursday. The offi- place in the normally cooler, drier con- tion and have a plan in place,” Foudy Gay). Steals: 15 (Casspi 3, Rondo 3,
LT — 73 Michael Oher ; 60 Daryl Williams
Rider 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niagara 60
LG — 68 Andrew Norwell; 79 Chris Scott
cial said that if any player declined to ditions in the Southern Hemisphere said. Belinelli 2, Collison 2, Cousins 2, Cauley- C — 67 Ryan Kalil; 61 Fernando Velasco Yale 86 . . . . . . . .
SOUTH
. . . . . . . Columbia 72
Stein, Koufos, McLemore). Technical Fouls: RG — 70 Trai Turner; 79 Chris Scott; 61
Acy, 10:10 second. Fernando Velasco Kentucky Christian 80 . . . . . . . Welch 73
FG FT Reb RT — 74 Mike Remmers; 60 Daryl Williams
PRO FOOTBALL NETS Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS
Johnson 36 11-16 0-0 1-6 11 27
TE — 88 Greg Olsen; 84 Ed Dickson; 80
Scott Simonson
WR — 10 Philly Brown; 82 Jerricho
COLLEGE HOCKEY
Young 38 6-10 2-2 1-14 7 14
Lopez 40 11-21 4-4 7-12 3 26 Cotchery; 11 Brenton Bersin SCORES
Sloan 30 6-10 1-1 0-4 1 17 QB — 1 Cam Newton; 3 Derek Anderson;

Manziel Faces Police Inquiry in Domestic Dispute

14 Joe Webb EAST
Ellington 26 2-10 5-5 0-2 3 10 St. Lawrence 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . RPI 0
Bogdanovic27 8-10 0-0 1-4 1 23 FB — 35 Mike Tolbert
RB — 28 Jonathan Stewart; 43 Fozzy Cornell 2 . . . . . . . . . . . Quinnipiac 2, OT
Larkin 17 1-3 0-0 0-1 2 3 Yale 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dartmouth 1
Bargnani 10 2-5 0-0 1-1 0 4 Whittaker; 34 Cameron Artis-Payne; 32
Brandon Wegher Colgate 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Princeton 4
Robinson 6 0-0 1-2 0-2 0 1 Clarkson 4 . . . . . . . . . . . Union (N.Y.) 1
CLEVELAND (AP) — Johnny Man- after two tumultuous seasons as a past week to get the younger Manziel Brown 5 1-1 1-1 0-0 1 3 Defense
Harvard 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brown 2
Totals 240 48-86 14-15 11-46 29 128 LDE — 95 Charles Johnson; 94 Kony Ealy;
ziel is facing a criminal investigation backup and starting quarterback. into rehabilitation clinics. 97 Mario Addison Boston College 4 . . . . New Hampshire 3
Percentages: FG .558, FT .933. 3-Point Goals: LDT — 98 Star Lotulelei; 93 Kyle Love Boston U. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UMass 3
after allegations that he hit his former Manziel’s father, Paul, told The Dal- Crowley told the police that Johnny 18-28, .643 (Bogdanovic 7-9, Johnson 5-7, RDT — 99 Kawann Short; 92 Dwan Niagara 2 . . . . . American International 0
girlfriend Colleen Crowley last week- las Morning News that he feared for Manziel had struck her at a Dallas ho- Sloan 4-5, Larkin 1-1, Ellington 1-6). Team Edwards Robert Morris 2 . . . . . . . Sacred Heart 1
Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 22 (26 PTS). RDE — 69 Jared Allen; 91 Ryan Delaire Bentley 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . Mercyhurst 1
end. his son’s safety. tel and again as they drove to her Blocked Shots: 4 (Bargnani, Johnson, Lopez, SLB — 54 Shaq Thompson; 56 A.J. Klein Holy Cross 2 . . . . . . . . . . . Army 2, OT
Manziel, who was ordered this week “I truly believe if they can’t get him apartment in Fort Worth. Robinson). Turnovers: 21 (Johnson 6, Larkin MLB — 59 Luke Kuechly; 53 Ben Jacobs; Notre Dame 2 . .
Northeastern 2 . .
. . . . . . . . . Vermont 1
. . . UMass-Lowell 2, OT
3, Lopez 3, Sloan 3, Young 3, Bogdanovic 55 David Mayo
to stay away from Crowley for two help, he won’t live to see his 24th birth- The police in both cities said Thurs- 2, Brown). Steals: 5 (Johnson 2, Young 2, WLB — 58 Thomas Davis; 56 A.J. Klein MIDWEST
Larkin). Technical Fouls: None. N. Michigan 3 . . . . . Alaska Anchorage 2
years, was dropped by his agent on day,” Paul Manziel said. day that their investigations were LCB — 27 Robert McClain; 26 Cortland
Finnegan; 22 Lou Young
Sacramento . . . . 25 36 24 34—119
Friday. He is expected to be released He also said that the family had closed. A new investigation was an- Nets . . . . . . . . . 33 32 38 25—128 RCB — 24 Josh Norman; 21 Teddy Williams TENNIS
by the Cleveland Browns next month made two unsuccessful attempts in the nounced Friday by the Dallas police. SS — 41 Roman Harper; 29 Dean Marlowe
A—14,432 (17,732). T—2:14. Officials— FS — 20 Kurt Coleman; 33 Tre Boston; 42
Sean Wright, Brent Barnaky, Haywoode Colin Jones SUD DE FRANCE
Workman. Special Teams
K — 9 Graham Gano Friday
SPORTS BRIEFING GRIZZLIES 91, KNICKS 85
FG FT Reb
P — 8 Brad Nortman
H — 8 Brad Nortman
At Park & Suites Arena
Montpellier, France
PR — 19 Ted Ginn, Jr.; 27 Robert McClain Singles
MEMPHISMin M-A M-A O-T A PTS KR — 43 Fozzy Whittaker; 14 Joe Webb Quarterfinals
Allen 18 2-4 2-4 0-3 0 7 LS — 44 J.J. Jansen Alexander Zverev, Germany, d. Michael
COLLEGE FOOTBALL U.C.L.A. (16-6, 8-3) by 65-61. (AP) Jersey $56,000 in back taxes and resti- Randolph 28 5-10 0-0 1-4 1 10 ——— Berrer, Germany, 6-7 (2), 6-2, 7-5. Paul-
Æ The junior guard Daquan Cook was tution. Burress, who received five Gasol 31 5-11 0-0 0-7 1 10 Denver Broncos Henri Mathieu, France, d. John Millman,
Conley 31 2-9 4-4 0-2 9 8 Offense Australia, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-3. Richard
dismissed from the Nevada-Las Vegas years’ probation in state court, faces a Lee 22 1-6 0-0 0-0 2 3
U.S.C.’s Haden to Step Down men’s team, the interim coach Todd Si- Chalmers 16 3-6 2-2 0-3 0 8
WR — 88 Demaryius Thomas; 12 Andre
Caldwell; 16 Bennie Fowler
Gasquet (1), France, d. Marcos Baghdatis
(8), Cyprus, 6-4, 6-4. Dustin Brown,
364-day prison sentence if he fails to JeGreen 29 5-11 6-6 1-5 2 16 LT — 68 Ryan Harris; 76 Tyler Polumbus Germany, d. Ruben Bemelmans, Belgium,
Pat Haden, who won two national mon said, without giving a reason. Barnes 21 4-9 2-2 0-7 1 12 LG — 69 Evan Mathis; 73 Max Garcia 6-3, 6-3.
make the payments in time. (AP) Hollins 16 2-2 4-4 1-2 1 8 Doubles
championships as a quarterback at (AP) Carter 23 4-8 1-2 1-4 0 9
C — 61 Matt Paradis; 53 James Ferentz;
67 Sam Brenner Quarterfinals
Southern California before returning Totals 240 33-76 21-24 4-37 17 91 RG — 65 Louis Vasquez Mahesh Bhupathi, India, and Jonathan
RT — 79 Michael Schofield; 76 Tyler Marray, Britain, d. Lukasz Kubot and
nearly four decades later to preside BASEBALL Percentages: FG .434, FT .875. 3-Point
Polumbus Marcin Matkowski (1), Poland, 7-6 (2), 6-2.
over an athletic department mired in SOCCER Goals: 4-18, .222 (Barnes 2-5, Allen 1-1,
Lee 1-3, Chalmers 0-1, Je.Green 0-1, TE — 81 Owen Daniels; 80 Vernon Davis; Semifinals
Randolph 0-1, Carter 0-3, Conley 0-3). 85 Virgil Green Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Michael Venus
pay-for-play-related sanctions, will step Reds Prospect Is Suspended Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 9 WR — 10 Emmanuel Sanders; 14 Cody (2), New Zealand, d. Andrea Arnaboldi, Italy,
down as the Trojans’ athletic director in Endorsement on FIFA Leader (4 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Allen, Barnes, Latimer; 11 Jordan Norwood
RB — 23 Ronnie Hillman; 22 C.J. Anderson;
and Marc Lopez, Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 10-6.
Juan Duran, an outfield prospect for the Chalmers, Gasol, Hollins). Turnovers:
June, the university president, C. L. The bid by Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim 9 (Gasol 3, Barnes 2, Carter, Conley, 40 Juwan Thompson
Cincinnati Reds, has been suspended Hollins, Randolph). Steals: 8 (Chalmers 2, QB — 18 Peyton Manning; 17 Brock SOCCER
Max Nikias, announced on Friday. al-Khalifa of Bahrain to succeed Sepp Barnes, Carter, Conley, Gasol, Je.Green, Osweiler; 13 Trevor Siemian
for the first 80 games of the season af- Randolph). Technical Fouls: None. Flagrant FB — 85 Virgil Green; 40 Juwan Thompson ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
MARC TRACY Blatter as the president of FIFA re- Fouls: Chalmers, 11:04 fourth. Ejections: Defense
ter testing positive for three perform- DE — 95 Derek Wolfe; 96 Vance Walker
ceived a big lift when the Confederation Chalmers, 11:04 fourth. GP W D L GF GA Pts
ance-enhancing substances. (AP) NT — 92 Sylvester Williams; 98 Darius Leicester City 24 14 8 2 44 26 50
of African Football, meeting in Kigali, FG FT Reb Kilgo
HOCKEY Æ Reliever J. J. Hoover won his salary KNICKS Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS DE — 97 Malik Jackson; 90 Antonio Smith
Man. City
Tottenham
24 14 5 5 46 23 47
24 12 9 3 44 19 45
Rwanda, urged its 54 member countries Galloway 33 2-10 0-0 1-3 3 4 SLB — Von Miller 58; 48 Shaquil Barrett; 55 Arsenal 24 13 6 5 37 22 45
arbitration case against the Reds. Hoo- Porzingis 38 6-12 2-2 3-10 0 17 Lerentee McCray
to vote for him. (AP) Man. United 24 11 7 6 31 21 40
Lightning Dominate Penguins ver was given a raise to $1.4 million, Lopez 30
Calderon 35 7-14
4-7 1-2 5-10 0
1-1 0-8 5 18
9 WLB — 94 DeMarcus Ware; 56 Shane Ray
ILB — 54 Brandon Marshall; 51 Todd Davis
West Ham 24 10 9 5 38 28 39
Southampton 24 9 7 8 32 24 34
Ondrej Palat and Anton Stralman both from $535,000. The team had argued for Afflalo 41 4-15 4-4 0-5 2 14 ILB — 59 Danny Trevathan; 52 Corey Liverpool 24 9 7 8 30 34 34
O'Quinn 9 2-6 0-0 1-3 0 4
scored twice, Tyler Johnson had a goal TENNIS $1,225,000. (AP) Williams 15 1-4 0-0 1-2 0 2
Nelson
LCB — 21 Aqib Talib; 36 Kayvon Webster;
Watford
Stoke
24 9 6 9 27 26 33
24 9 6 9 24 28 33
and two assists, and the Tampa Bay Æ Orioles closer Zach Britton agreed to Grant 17 1-4 3-4 1-1 4 5 37 Lorenzo Doss Everton 24 7 11 6 43 34 32
Seraphin 2 1-3 0-0 1-1 0 2 RCB — 25 Chris Harris Jr.; 29 Bradley Crystal Palace 24 9 4 11 25 29 31
Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Pen- Gasquet Reaches Semifinals terms on a $6.75 million contract for Vujacic
Totals
15 2-5 4-4 1-4 1 10
240 30-80 15-17 14-47 15 85
Roby; 39 Taurean Nixon
SS — 43 T.J. Ward; 20 Josh Bush
Chelsea 24 7 8 9 32 34 29
West Brom 24 7 8 9 23 31 29
guins, 6-3, for their eighth consecutive Richard Gasquet of France, the de- 2016, avoiding arbitration. (AP) FS — 26 Darian Stewart; 33 Shiloh Keo Bournemouth 24 7 7 20 29 39 28
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Goals: 10-29, .345 (Porzingis 3-5, Calderon Special Teams Swansea 24 6 8 10 23 32 26

home win.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Maryland Wins Ninth Straight
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough had 30
(AP) fending champion, defeated Marcos 3-7, Vujacic 2-5, Afflalo 2-7, O'Quinn 0-1, K — 8 Brandon McManus Norwich 24 6 5 13 28 46 23
P — 4 Britton Colquitt Newcastle 24 5 6 13 25 44 21
Baghdatis of Cyprus, 6-4, 6-4, to reach BOXING Galloway 0-2, Grant 0-2). Team Rebounds:
H — 4 Britton Colquitt Sunderland 24 5 4 15 28 47 19
7. Team Turnovers: 15 (8 PTS). Blocked
the semifinals of the Open Sud de Shots: 6 (Porzingis 6). Turnovers: 14 PR — 11 Jordan Norwood; 10 Emmanuel Aston Villa 24 2 7 15 18 40 13
(Calderon 4, Lopez 3, Porzingis 3, Sanders All Times EST
France in Montpellier. (AP) Shooting at Dublin Weigh-In Afflalo, Grant, Seraphin, Vujacic). Steals: KR — 33 Shiloh Keo; 12 Andre Caldwell Tuesday, Feb. 2
LS — 46 Aaron Brewer Arsenal 0, Southampton 0
Æ Top-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 2 (Calderon, Grant). Technical Fouls:
advanced to the semifinals of the Sofia Gunmen disguised as police officers Defensive three second, 4:40 fourth.
SUPER BOWL FACTS
Leicester City 2, Liverpool 0
Norwich 0, Tottenham 3
Memphis . . . . . . 24 26 19 22—91 Sunderland 0, Manchester City 1
Open in Bulgaria, beating eighth-seed- opened fire on fans at a boxing weigh-in Knicks. . . . . . . . 18 22 22 23—85 AT STAKE — National Football League West Ham 2, Aston Villa 0
P r e s s R e a d e r. c o m

points, Brionna Jones had 17 points and
17 rebounds, and the No. 5 Maryland
women (21-2, 10-1 Big Ten) won at home
against No. 17 Michigan State (17-5,
8-3), 85-76, for their ninth straight vic-
tory. (AP)
Æ Katie Hempen became the career
3-point leader for No. 8 Arizona State,
and her 20 points helped the host Sun
Devils (19-4, 10-1 Pacific-12) recover af-
ter blowing a big lead to beat No. 14
ed Adrian Mannarino, 6-4, 6-3. Second
seed Viktor Troicki of Serbia also ad-
vanced, defeating Philipp Kohlschreib-
er of Germany, 6-3, 6-4. (AP)
PRO FOOTBALL
Burress to Pay or Face Prison
The former Giants and Jets star Plaxico
Burress has five years to repay New
at a hotel in Dublin, killing one man and
wounding two others.
Detectives said it was too early to
specify a motive, but Prime Minister
Enda Kenny said the attack was be-
lieved to be the work of criminal gangs.
Suspicion focused on a feud involving
the family of Jamie Kavanagh, the box-
er headlining Saturday’s fight, which
was canceled. Kavanagh was appar-
ently not a target. (AP)
A—19,812 (19,763). T—2:18. Officials—Bill
Kennedy, Nick Buchert, Kane Fitzgerald.
TRANSACTIONS
N.H.L.
DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled C
Andreas Athanasiou from Grand Rapids
(AHL).
NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F
Jayson Megna to Hartford (AHL).
WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled F
Paul Carey and D Connor Carrick from
Hershey (AHL), Reassigned F Zach Sill and
D Aaron Ness to Hershey.
Championship for the Vince Lombardi
Trophy.
PARTICIPANTS — Carolina Panthers
(NFC) and Denver Broncos (AFC). This
the second appearance for the Panthers
(0-1) and the eighth appearance for the
Broncos (2-5).
SITE — Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif.
SEATING CAPACITY — 75,000.
DATE — Feb. 7, 2016.
KICKOFF — 6:30 p.m. EST.
NETWORK COVERAGE — By CBS-TV to
more than 200 stations throughout the
United States.
Westwood One Radio to 600 stations within
the United States. The Armed Forces
Television will also provide broadcast to
175 countries throughout the world.
Crystal Palace 1, Bournemouth 2
Manchester United 3, Stoke 0
West Brom 1, Swansea 1
Wednesday, Feb. 3
Everton 3, Newcastle 0
Watford 0, Chelsea 0
Saturday
Man. City vs. Leicester City, 7:45 AM
Aston Villa vs. Norwich, 10 AM
Liverpool vs. Sunderland, 10 AM
Newcastle vs. West Brom, 10 AM
Stoke vs. Everton, 10 AM
Swansea vs. Crystal Palace, 10 AM
Tottenham vs. Watford, 10 AM
Southampton vs. West Ham, 12:30
Sunday
Bournemouth vs. Arsenal, 8:30 AM
Chelsea vs. Manchester United, 1