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SMALL DONATIONS Pence Supports

HELP TRUMP CUT Ryan, Showing
G.O.P. Turmoil
FUND-RAISING GAP
He Zigs, Trump Zags,

and Party Frets
MAJOR CAMPAIGN SHIFT
Joint Effort With Party
Ends in $74 Million
in Cash on Hand
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
and NICK CORASANITI
Donald J. Trump all but erased

his enormous fund-raising disadvantage against Hillary Clinton in
the span of just two months, according to figures released by his
campaign on Wednesday, converting the passion of his core followers into a flood of small donations on a scale rarely seen in national politics.
Mr. Trump and the Republican
National Committee raised $64
million through a joint digital and
mail effort in July, according to his
campaign, the bulk of it from small
donations. All told, Mr. Trump and
his party brought in $82 million
last month, only slightly behind
Mrs. Clintons $90 million, and
ended with $74 million on hand,
suggesting he might now have the
resources to compete with Mrs.
Clinton in the closing stretch of
the campaign.
Shes been doing this for 20
years, said Steven Mnuchin, a
New York investor who is Mr.
Trumps
finance
chairman.
Weve been doing it for two
months. More than two-thirds of
the $64 million had come online,
Mr. Mnuchin said.
The new figures indicate a major shift in Mr. Trumps campaign,
which until recent months was
largely funded by hat and T-shirt
sales and by Mr. Trumps wallet.
And they suggest that Mr. Trump
has the potential to be the first ReContinued on Page A12
This article is by Ashley Parker,

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan
Martin.
Gov. Mike Pence, aligning himself with the Republican establishment rather than his running
mate, broke with Donald J. Trump
on Wednesday by endorsing
Speaker Paul D. Ryans re-election bid, a day after Mr. Trump
roiled the party by declaring that
he was not yet ready to support
the speaker.
I strongly endorse his re-election, Mr. Pence, of Indiana, said in
an interview with Fox News.
Hes a longtime friend, hes a
strong conservative leader.
The split between the two members of the Republican ticket over
whether to endorse the speaker of
the House in his own primary illustrated the partys glaring divisions. Republican officials are
nearing a state of panic as Mr.
Trumps near-daily provocations
divert attention from the perceived vulnerabilities of Hillary
Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
If he makes himself the issue,
were going to lose, said Henry
Barbour, a Republican National
Committee member from Mississippi and a top lieutenant to
Reince Priebus, the chairman of
the Republican National Committee. Theres only one guy who
can fix this, and thats Donald
Trump. I hope hes willing.
While running mates have differed on policy issues in the past,
it is unheard-of for them to part
ways on such traditionally uncontroversial matters as whether to
support the re-election campaigns
of other party leaders.
But Mr. Trump, as he has
demonstrated time and again, has
Continued on Page A12
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ELECTION
TOUGH SPOT Behind congressional Republicans tolerance of Donald J.
Trump are complex political, policy and personal calculations. PAGE A12
A LARGER GOAL Some Democrats have become hopeful enough to look
beyond just winning to squashing the Trump movement. PAGE A13
GORDON WELTERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Harry Sarfo left Germany to join ISIS in Syria. In a jailhouse interview, he spoke of the groups machinery for spreading violence.
A Global Network of Killers, Built by a Secretive Branch of ISIS

Inside an Islamic State Unit
Dedicated to Exporting
Its Terrorism
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
BREMEN, Germany Believing he was

answering a holy call, Harry Sarfo left his
home in the working-class city of Bremen last
year and drove for four straight days to reach
the territory controlled by the Islamic State in
Syria.
He barely had time to settle in before members of the Islamic States secret service,
wearing masks over their faces, came to inform him and his German friend that they no
longer wanted Europeans to come to Syria.
Where they were really needed was back
home, to help carry out the groups plan of
waging terrorism across the globe.
He was speaking openly about the situation, saying that they have loads of people living in European countries and waiting for
commands to attack the European people,
Mr. Sarfo recounted on Monday, in an interview with The New York Times conducted in
English inside the maximum-security prison
near Bremen. And that was before the Brussels attacks, before the Paris attacks.
The masked man explained that, although
the group was well set up in some European
countries, it needed more attackers in Germany and Britain, in particular. They said,
Would you mind to go back to Germany, because thats what we need at the moment,
Mr. Sarfo recalled. And they always said they
wanted to have something that is occurring in
the same time: They want to have loads of attacks at the same time in England and Germany and France.
The operatives belonged to an intelligence
unit of the Islamic State known in Arabic as
the Emni, which has become a combination of

an internal police force and an external operations branch, dedicated to exporting terror
abroad, according to thousands of pages of
French, Belgian, German and Austrian intelligence and interrogation documents obtained
by The Times.
The Islamic States attacks in Paris on Nov.
13 brought global attention to the groups external terrorism network, which began sending fighters abroad two years ago. Now, Mr.
Sarfos account, along with those of other captured recruits, has further pulled back the curtain on the groups machinery for projecting
violence beyond its borders.
What they describe is a multilevel secret
service under the overall command of the Islamic States most senior Syrian operative,
spokesman and propaganda chief, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. Below him is a tier of
lieutenants empowered to plan attacks in different regions of the world, including a secret
Want to Relax at Park or Pool Why Farm Dust

In New York? Join the Crowd May Help Block
Youths Asthma
By WINNIE HU
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India has been hampered by an array of state-by-state tax codes. Above, a market in New Delhi.
Tax Shift to Reshape How India Does Business

By ELLEN BARRY
and HARI KUMAR
BANGALORE, India Lawmakers cleared the way on

Wednesday for India to forge a
single economic zone from its
thicket of overlapping federal and
state taxes, the most important
economic measure since India
opened its markets in 1991.
Potentially one of the most dynamic economies in the develop-
ing world, India is hampered by a

bewildering array of state-bystate tax codes that discourage
doing business across state borders.
The Goods and Services Tax is
widely viewed as a breakthrough
that will allow the authorities to
confront the problem, eventually
creating a more unified economy
that will allow businesses to expand nationwide far more easily.
This is long overdue but
hugely consequential for the ease
of doing business, and for demonstrating to the outside world that

India is dragging its economy into
the 21st century, said Milan
Vaishnav, a senior associate in the
South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Economists forecast that the
new tax scheme, which replaces 15
existing state and federal taxes,
could increase the countrys economic growth rate by between 0.5
Staircases were barred. People

could barely move. Workers implored everyone to quit stepping
on the flowers.
Theres seriously an insane
amount of people here, exclaimed Brian Ciccotelli, a sales
training manager, who posted a
video on YouTube.
This mass of humanity was not
rushing toward commuter buses
or trains, but descending on the
High Line in fact, so many people tried to squeeze in that the
park had to close.
Across New York City, outdoor
time used to be the perfect antidote to the bustle and frustration
of urban life.
Not anymore. Today, it can just
add to the stress.
More people than ever are jamming into the citys public parks,
pools and beaches, filling the most
popular ones to bursting, creating
noise and trash problems and
making the experience altogether
less enjoyable for those looking
for a bit of serenity.
Central Park alone will see a
record 42 million visits from
residents and tourists this year, up
from 35 million in 2011, according
to estimates by the Central Park
Conservancy, which has rolled out
a campaign to raise money to repair the wear and tear on the infrastructure.
By GINA KOLATA
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The pool at McCarren Park in

Brooklyn quickly filled to capacity on a recent Saturday.
Just south of there, Bryant
Park, a six-acre shaded oasis
among Midtown Manhattan highrises, now packs in huge lunch
crowds year round. Over 3,000
people came at peak lunch hours
on each of 112 separate days in
2015, compared with 74 days in
2010. Restroom lines have grown
as well in that period, increasing
to 62,000 users in a single month
(August) from 56,000 users.
Across the East River, Brooklyn
Bridge Park has become a wildly
popular destination for a surging
number of parkgoers. Opened in
phases since 2010, it has seen its
weekend attendance more than
double, to 127,307 last year from
63,408 in 2011.
Of course, the citys prime
NATIONAL A9-14
INTERNATIONAL A4-8
SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-13
Transgender Restroom Ruling
U.S. Troops Contract Zika
Swimmings Cause Clbre
The Supreme Court temporarily

blocked a court order allowing a transgender boy to use the boys bathroom in
PAGE A9
a Virginia high school.
The Pentagon says 33 members of the

American military have been infected
with the Zika virus abroad, including a
PAGE A4
pregnant woman.
With her husband, Shane Tusup, as her

coach, Katinka Hosszu of Hungary has
had success. But their sometimes contentious relationship has raised concerns in the swimming world. PAGE B9
Texas to Soften Voter ID Law

Residents could vote in November even
without any of seven identifying docuPAGE A9
ments that are recognized.
BUSINESS DAY B1-8
NEW YORK A18-21, 24
A Bridge Takes Shape

The building of the Tappan Zee, the first
major new bridge in the New York area
in 50 years, is halfway done. PAGE A18
Migrant Abuse as Deterrent

Rights workers say Australia is deliberately treating asylum seekers harshly
PAGE A4
to deter others.
ARTS C1-7
Winning Over Advertisers
Police Leaders Tightrope Walk
Kate McKinnon in Spotlight
How Snapchat fixed its ad business is a

case study of a popular start-up overPAGE B1
coming growing pains.
Chief James P. ONeill, New Yorks next

commissioner, will face pressure from
PAGE A24
officers and power brokers.
The S.N.L. and Ghostbusters star

talks about the lines she draws between
PAGE C1
her characters and herself.
The Attractive Repellent

With the Olympics about to begin in Rio
de Janeiro, mosquitoes are a worry.
There is hope: Repelente Gel, produced
by the Brazilian Army. But acquiring
PAGE B9
some is not so easy.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Nicholas Kristof
PAGE A23
Scientists say they may have

found a sort of magic ingredient to
prevent asthma in children: microbes from farm animals, carried
into the home in dust.
The results of their research,
published on Wednesday in The
New England Journal of Medicine, were so convincing that they
raised the possibility of developing a spray to do the same thing
for children who do not have regular contact with cows and horses.
It is a pressing problem because
as many as 10.6 percent of gradeschool children have asthma, according to data from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. And there is no cure for this
chronic and frightening disease.
The discovery originated with
an idea that been around for
years: that a growing number of
children were developing asthma
because their daily environments
were simply too clean.
If children are exposed to microbes that stimulate their immune systems in the first few
years of life, they will be protected
against asthma, the hypothesis
says. As asthma rates climbed, researchers published study after
study supporting what has become known as the hygiene hypothesis.
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company hopes to reach those who may
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Sending Robots to the Moon

Moon Express, a start-up in Cape Canaveral, Fla., has gotten federal approval to do something NASA has not done in
decades: land on the moon (and, perhaps, win $20 million). Above, a rendering of the robotic lander. National, Page A10.
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NATIONAL
BUSINESS
$400 Million Cash Payment

To Iran Fuels Campaign Spat
Voters Turn From Governor

In Kansas Primary Upheaval
Fox Harassment Inquiry

Looks at What Others Knew
A cash payment of $400 million

delivered to Iran in January became
part of the presidential campaign,
as Donald J. Trump seized on the
money transfer as a sign of what he
called the administrations failed
foreign policy prompting a forceful White House rejection. PAGE A5
Republican voters in Kansas rebelled against the policies of Gov.

Sam Brownback, ousting his fellow
conservatives in at least 11 state
legislative primary races amid
widespread angst about Kansas
financial situation. PAGE A9
Investigators looking into sexual

harassment accusations against
Roger Ailes, the former Fox News
chairman, are also examining
whether other executives knew of
improper behavior by Mr. Ailes and
failed to act on it. PAGE B1
Flocking to Pariss Suburbs

Though most major European cities
have lively urban party scenes,
Paris has witnessed much of its
night life decamp to the socially and
historically estranged suburbs.
Montreuil Journal. PAGE A4
WHICH WATCH REVELS

IN LEISURE TIME?
TOURNEAU KNOWS.
Officer Accused of ISIS Tie

A police officer with the Washington
transit system has become the first
American law enforcement officer
to be charged with supporting the
Islamic State. PAGE A10
Boko Harams New Leader

A newly released Islamic State
publication mentions an apparent
new title for a key member of Boko
Haram, raising questions about its
leadership and future after a major
Nigerian military offensive.
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One person was killed and at least

five others were injured in a knife
attack in Russell Square, a park in
London. The police said in a statement that terrorism is one possibility being explored at this stage.
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More than two dozen former students of St. Georges School, an elite
boarding school in Rhode Island,
have reached a settlement with the
school over accusations of sexual
abuse, much of it from decades ago.
London Knife Attack
PAGE A8
Calibre de Cartier Diver
School Settles Abuse Claims Tesla Reports a Big Loss
He was the founder of the Signature

Theater Company, one of Off Broadways essential nonprofit theaters
and the nations leading safe house
for playwrights. PAGE A17
Social Media and Violence

A police standoff in Randallstown,
Md., in which a woman with a
shotgun was killed after she was
encouraged by online followers to
defy officers orders has highlighted
the role of social media in violent
encounters. PAGE A14
NEW YORK
Last Atlantic City Casino

Linked to Trump to Close
The Trump Taj Mahal, the last of the
Atlantic City casinos once operated
by Donald J. Trump, is set to close
early next month amid a strike. It
will be the fifth casino in the city to
close in three years. PAGE A18
The electric-car makers secondquarter loss greatly exceeded forecasts, as the expenses of a new
model and a big new battery plant
took their toll. PAGE B3
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
My friend asked
them about France. And
they started laughing. But
really serious laughing,
with tears in their eyes.
They said, Dont worry
about France.
HARRY SARFO,
an ISIS recruit who said the
group sought volunteers for
attacks in Europe but told him,
in April 2015, that it had plenty
already for France. [A6]
Fed Fines Goldman Sachs

The Federal Reserve fined Goldman
Sachs $36.3 million, escalating a
long-running investigation into a
leak of confidential government
information. PAGE B5
SPORTS
Yankees Continue Call-Ups

From a Flush Farm System
The Yankees farm system has
suddenly become intriguing, with
an influx of talent that has given
them seven players on Baseball
Americas midseason list of the
games top 100 prospects. PAGE B10
THURSDAY STYLES
5,000 Crystals Later,

The Bedazzling of a Gymnast
So it begins: the flag-waving excitement, the teeth-grinding anticipation, the blinding sparkle. The
Olympics. How many crystals does
it take to make an Olympic gymnastics champion? PAGE D1
OP-ED
Gail Collins PAGE A23
ARTS
Plans Take Shape in Paris

For Pinault Museum
The billionaire Franois Pinault is
racing to meet a self-imposed deadline to open a private museum by
the end of 2018. PAGE C1
Crossword C3
Obituaries A16-17
TV Listings C7
Weather B14
Classified Ads B13
Commercial
Real Estate Marketplace B2
Corrections
FRONT PAGE
An article on Wednesday about

President Obamas calling on Republicans to withdraw support
from their presidential candidate,
Donald J. Trump, referred incorrectly to Dwight D. Eisenhowers
political status when President
Harry S. Truman said, in 1953, that
Mr. Eisenhower did not know any
more about politics than a pig
knows about Sunday. Mr. Eisenhower was the president-elect at
the time; he was no longer a candidate.
INTERNATIONAL
The What in the World article

on July 8, about the photorealistic
murals of residents paired with famous people painted on the walls
of a Bulgarian village, Staro
Zhelezare, misidentified a subject
of one of the murals. He is Patriarch Cyril of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, not Patriarch Kirill of
the Russian Orthodox Church.
And because of a translation error,
the article, and an accompanying
picture caption, misidentified the
animal that appears with an image of Stefana Gospodinova, a villager, in another mural. It is a donkey, not a mule.
An article on July 8 about the
defensive response by Tony Blair,
the former British prime minister,
to a damning report on how he led
Britain into the Iraq war in 2003
misspelled the surname of a Labour Party critic who said his reputation had bled to death in the
sands of Iraq. She is Diane Abbott, not Abbot.
NATIONAL
Because of an editing error, an

article last Thursday about a DNA
study of wolves described incorrectly the wolf population as estimated in 2015 by the Fish and
Wildlife Service. The agency estimated there were 5,505 wolves in
the lower 48 states, not in the continental United States. (There are
between 7,700 and 11,200 additional wolves in Alaska.)
Muslims in the military referred
incorrectly to Tayyib Rashid, who
posted a picture of his military ID
in response to a comment by Donald J. Trump that Muslims should
carry special identification cards.
Mr. Rashid, who served five years
in the Marine Corps, was in
avionics, not infantry.
BUSINESS DAY
An article on the DealBook page

on Wednesday about the status of
litigation over the future of Viacom referred incorrectly to a decision that would need to be made
on the mental competency of the
media magnate Sumner M. Redstone, who controls the company
through his National Amuse-
ments theater chain. Three doctors, not three judges, would decide.
A picture caption on June 27
with the Economic Scene column,
about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, misidentified the
location of the photograph showing delegates to the Democratic
National Convention protesting
the agreement. It was taken on the
floor of the convention hall, the
Wells Fargo Center not outside
the building.
SPORTS
Because of an editing error, an

article last Thursday about NBCs
request to change the order of the
Parade of Nations at the opening
ceremony at the Rio Olympics
misstated, in some copies, the
positions of the United States and
Russian teams in the expected order. The United States delegation
will enter long before the Russian
team not just ahead of Russia.
Because of an editing error, a report in the Sports Briefing column
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on Saturday about the Rogers Cup

tennis tournament misidentified,
in some editions, the player who
advanced to the semifinals of the
mens event along with Novak
Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka and Kei
Nishikori. He is Gal Monfils, not
Milos Raonic. Therefore, it is not
the case that the top four seeded
men advanced to the semifinals.
THE ARTS

the music of Brazil misidentified
the location in Manhattan of a
Tower Records store, where a
clerk used to play Maria Bethniathes song Mel when he
wanted sales to pick up. The store,
now closed, was in the East Village, not the West Village.
SCIENCE TIMES
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was published in error. Meb Keflezighi, shown winning the 2009
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T&CO. 2016
TIFFANY T
Why Useless Operations

Can Remain Popular
BORN IN NEW YORK
By GINA KOLATA
Before a drug can be marketed,

it has to go through rigorous testing to show it is safe and effective.
Surgery, though, is different. The
Food and Drug Administration
does not regulate surgical
procedures. So what happens
when an operation is subjected to
and fails the ultimate test a clinical trial in which patients are randomly assigned to have it or not?
The expectation is that medical
practice will change if an operation turns out not to help.
If only.
It looks as if the onus is on patients to ask what evidence, if any,
shows that surgery is better than
other options.
Take what happened with
spinal fusion, an operation that
welds together adjacent vertebrae to relieve back pain from
worn-out discs. Unlike most operations, it actually was tested in
four clinical trials. The conclusion: Surgery was no better than
alternative nonsurgical treatments, like supervised exercise
and therapy to help patients deal
with their fear of back pain. In
both groups, the pain usually diminished or went away.
The studies were completed by
the early 2000s and should have
been enough to greatly limit or
stop the surgery, says Dr. Richard
Deyo, professor of evidencebased medicine at the Oregon
Health and Sciences University.
But that did not happen, according to a recent report. Instead,
spinal fusion rates increased
the clinical trials had little effect.
Spinal fusion rates continued to
soar in the United States until
2012, shortly after Blue Cross of
North Carolina said it would no
longer pay and some other
insurers followed suit.
It may be that financial disincentives accomplished something
that scientific evidence alone didnt, Dr. Deyo said.
Other operations continue to be
reimbursed, despite clinical trials
that cast doubt on their effectiveness.
In 2009, the prestigious New
England Journal of Medicine published results of separate clinical
trials on a popular back operation,
vertebroplasty, comparing it to a
sham procedure. They found that
there was no benefit pain relief
was the same in both groups. Yet it
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Many operations save lives, but others as for

meniscus tears have not been proved to help.
and a similar operation, Kyphoplasty, in which doctors inject a
sort of cement into the spine to
shore it up, continue to be performed.
Dr. David Kallmes of the Mayo
Clinic, an author of the vertebroplasty paper, said he thought doctors continued to do the operations because insurers pay and
because doctors remember their
own patients who seemed better
afterward.
When you read a study, you reflect on whether it is representative of your patient population,
Dr. Kallmes said. It is easy to conclude that the answer is no. The
mean age in the study is different
or I do it differently.
I think there is a placebo effect
not only on patients but on doctors, Dr. Kallmes adds. The successful patient is burned into their
memories and the not-so-successful patient is not. Doctors can have
a selective memory that leads
them to conclude that, Darn it, it
works pretty well.
The latest controversy and
the operation that arguably has
been studied the most in randomized clinical trials is surgery for
a torn meniscus, a sliver of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber
in the knee. Its a condition that often afflicts middle-aged and older
people, simply as a consequence
of degeneration that can occur
with age and often accompanying
osteoarthritis. The result can be a
painful, swollen knee. Sometimes
the knee can feel as if it catches or
locks. So why not do an operation
to trim or repair the torn tissue?
About 400,000 middle-aged and

older Americans a year have meniscus surgery. And here is where
it gets interesting. Orthopedists
wondered if the operation made
sense because they realized there
was not even a clear relationship
between knee pain and meniscus
tears. When they did M.R.I. scans
on knees of middle-aged people,
they often saw meniscus tears in
people who had no pain. And those
who said their knee hurt tended to
have osteoarthritis, which could
be the real reason for their pain.
Added to that complication,
said Dr. Jeffrey N. Katz, a professor of medicine and orthopedic
surgery at Harvard Medical
School, is the fact that not everyone improves after the surgery. It
is not regarded as a slam-dunk,
he said. As a result, he said, many
doctors have been genuinely uncertain about which is better
exercise and physical therapy or
surgery. That, in fact, was what
led Dr. Katz and his colleagues to
conduct a clinical trial comparing
surgery with physical therapy in
middle-aged people with a torn
meniscus and knee pain.
The result: The surgery offered
little to most who had it. Other
studies came to the same conclusion, and so did a meta-analysis
published last year of nine clinical
trials testing the surgery. Patients
tended to report less pain but
patients reported less pain no
matter what the treatment, even
fake surgery.
Then came yet another study,
published on July 20 in The British
Medical Journal. It compared the
operation to exercise in patients

who did not have osteoarthritis
but had knee pain and meniscus
tears. Once again, the surgery offered no additional benefit.
An accompanying editorial
came to a scathing conclusion:
The surgery is a highly questionable practice without supporting
evidence of even moderate quality, adding, Good evidence has
been widely ignored.
So what should patients be
told? Should they even be offered
the surgery?
Patients should be told that
physical therapy is a good firstline therapy for pain relief, Dr.
Katz said, but that surgery also relieves pain. Pain relief can take
longer with physical therapy, he
says. With surgery, he said, patients have to recover from the operation but are likely to be back at
work within two weeks.
At the end of the day, he said,
patients ought to choose.
Of course, how they choose
might depend on how the choice is
presented.
Heres how Dr. Gordon H. Guyatt, a professor of medicine and
epidemiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who
wrote the editorial in The British
Medical Journal, would deal with
the clinical trial data:
I personally think the operation should not be mentioned, he
says, adding that in his opinion the
studies indicate the pain relief after surgery is a placebo effect. But
if a doctor says anything, Dr. Guyatt suggests saying this: We
have randomized clinical trials
that produce the highest quality of
evidence. They strongly suggest
that the procedure is next to useless. If there is any benefit, it is
very small and there are downsides, expense and potential complications.
Hearing that, he says, I cannot
imagine that anybody would say,
Go ahead. I will go for it.
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The Scale of Turkeys Purge Is Nearly Unprecedented

By JOSH KELLER, IARYNA MYKHYALYSHYN and SAFAK TIMUR
Only rarely in modern history has a leader detained and fired as many perceived adversaries as
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has since a failed coup attempt last month. Here is how
Mr. Erdogans vast purge would look if Americans were targeted at a similar scale.
Almost 9,000 police officers fired
2,745 members of the judiciary suspended
21,700 Ministry of Education officials fired
Like firing every police officer

in Philadelphia, Dallas,
Detroit, Boston and Baltimore.
Like suspending every state

judge in California, Texas,
New York and Georgia.
Like firing nearly every

third employee of the U.S.
Department of Education.
The Interior Ministry fired the police officers, some of whom government officials
said had supported the coup attempt. Turkish officials have acknowledged that the
number of people targeted in the purge is
probably much greater than the number of
conspirators.
The future has been uncertain for the judges

and judicial staff members suspected of being followers of Mr. Gulen including two
members of Turkeys highest court since
a board of judges and prosecutors suspended them a day after the coup attempt.
Government officials said they intended
to hire 5,000 new judges and prosecutors
by the end of August. Mr. Erdogan also announced a three-month state of emergency
that enables his ministers to pass decrees
that have the force of law with the approval
of Parliament.
The officials who were fired from the Education Ministry had responsibilities that
included appointing teachers and preparing
curriculum. The evidence against them is
unclear.
Ministry officials said the school year
would begin in September as planned, but a
variety of exams, including distance learning and public officer exams, have already
been delayed.
21,000 private school teachers suspended
Like revoking the licenses of

every third teacher in private
elementary and high schools
across the United States.
In addition to the teachers suspended, the
government intends to close more than 1,000
private schools it linked to Fethullah Gulen,
a cleric who the government said was the
mastermind of the coup attempt. (Mr. Gulen
has denied this, and his level of involvement
remains unclear.) Followers of Mr. Gulen
have sought to gain power within Turkey by
infiltrating state institutions, often successfully.
Education officials said they planned to
convert the schools into public schools and
hire 40,000 new teachers.
10,012 soldiers detained
Like taking nearly every

fourth officer in the U.S.
Army into custody.
The military, which has long been a unifying
force for the country, is now deeply divided,
diminished and discredited. A rebel faction
of the military initiated the coup attempt.
Since then, nearly half of the top generals
and admirals have been jailed or dismissed,
and more than 5,000 army officials have
been sent to pretrial detention.
1,500 university deans forced to resign

More than 100 media outlets shut down
Equivalent to President
Obamas issuing arrest
warrants for conservative
journalists, closing television
and radio stations and
censoring dozens of newsrelated websites.
More than 100 broadcast, newspaper, magazine and other media companies have been
shut down, and at least 28 journalists and
media workers were detained, according to
the Committee to Protect Journalists. Many
of them were pro-Gulen.
The scale of this rout of the media is staggering, Nina Ognianova, the committees
Europe and Central Asia Program coordinator, said in a statement.
Turkey has long been criticized for its
press restrictions. In the past, critical journalists have faced legal investigations and,
in some cases, long prison sentences.
Like forcing all American

university deans to resign.
Every university dean in Turkey was forced
to resign without an explanation of who
would replace them or whether they would
be allowed to reapply for their jobs.
Who is going to run the universities?
They will open in six or seven weeks, Steven A. Cook, a Turkey expert at the Council
on Foreign Relations, said in the week after
the coup attempt.
Some academics who signed a petition
this year protesting the governments war
against Kurdish militants were also suspended from their jobs.
1,500 Ministry of Finance officials suspended
Like suspending nearly

everybody at the U.S. Treasury
who regulates banks and
designs and prints money.
The government suspended more than 1,500
finance officials within the first two days after the attempted coup. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the episode would not have a
major effect on the countrys economy.
We have such a strong economy that we
overcome this coup with small scratches,
Mr. Yildirim said.
Sources: World Bank (U.S. and Turkish Armies), Eurostat (Turkeys police and judges), Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. police), Federal Judicial Center (U.S. judges),
U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of the Treasury, National Center for Education Statistics, Turkish Ministry of National Education, Turkish Ministry of Finance
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Australia Accused of Allowing Abuse to Deter Refugees

By MICHELLE INNIS
SYDNEY, Australia Asylum

seekers and refugees being held
on Nauru under Australias harsh
immigration laws are being deliberately subjected to suffering to
deter others from trying to reach
Australia, human rights researchers said after visiting the
tiny island nation.
The Australian government is
commissioning the abuse of these
people, Anna Neistat, a senior director for research at Amnesty
International who spent five days
on Nauru in July, said by telephone from Paris on Wednesday.
It pays for the companies that
detain the refugees, it pays for the
guards, and it fails to provide adequate medical care. Australian
taxpayers are funding it. And the
world does not know this place
exists.
Michael Bochenek, senior
counsel for Human Rights Watch,
also visited Nauru, one of two offshore Pacific sites where Australia sends migrants who try to
reach its shores by sea, and the
groups issued a joint report on
Tuesday about their findings. It is
unusual for rights groups or news
organizations to gain access to
Nauru, whose government routinely denies them visas; Ms. Neistat and Mr. Bochenek did not
identify their employers in their
visa applications, according to the
report.
Between them, the report said,
the two spent 12 days interviewing 84 asylum seekers and
refugees, including children, and
spoke to service providers there.
They said that asylum seekers
were denied adequate medical
care, that they were often the victims of crime and that depression
and anxiety were rampant.
Australias policy of exiling
asylum seekers who arrive by
boat is cruel in the extreme, Ms.
Neistat said. Few other coun-
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Nauru, one of two offshore sites in the Pacific where Australia sends migrants who come by sea.
tries go to such lengths to deliberately inflict suffering on people
seeking safety and freedom.
Australias policy is that no asylum seekers who try to reach the
country by sea will ever be allowed to settle here, regardless of
whether they are granted refugee
status. The government says that
policy, which rights groups and
the United Nations have criticized, is meant to stop migrants
from trying the often dangerous
voyage in rickety boats, which
have sometimes ended in mass
drownings.
Migrants intercepted at sea are
instead sent to Nauru or to Manus
Island, a part of Papua New Guinea, where they are held indefinitely. A few refugees have been
resettled in third countries, including Cambodia, and many
have been returned to the countries they fled. In April, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guin-
ea ruled that the detention center

there was illegal.
More than 1,000 refugees and
asylum seekers, including around
50 children, are being held on Nauru. About 470 live on the grounds
of the Australian-funded processing camp, while the rest live elsewhere on the impoverished island.
According to the report, asylum
seekers who live outside the
camp reported that they were often the victims of violent crime,
that women were threatened with
sexual assault and that children
were bullied at school. Refugees
said they were anxious, depressed and unable to sleep. Children suffered from nightmares
and some wet their beds; one 9year-old boy, whose father had
been suddenly transferred off the
island for medical care, spoke
openly of wanting to end his life,
the report said.
Ms. Neistat described the

health care provided to asylum
seekers as atrocious. Newborns
had persistent infections, according to the report. One father said
his son had kidney problems but
had not been examined by a doctor. A man with diabetes lost 60
pounds and was told by medical
employees that the weight loss
was normal. One man whose wife
gave birth at a clinic on Nauru
told researchers that at one point
she was lying under a bed that
had no mattress, writhing in pain
and receiving no help from staff.
A spokeswoman for International Health and Medical
Services, a company that Australia pays to provide medical
services on Nauru, wrote in an
email that the company refutes
the claim that asylum seekers
and refugees on Nauru are denied
treatment by I.H.M.S. or receive
poor quality treatment.
Peter Young, a psychiatrist

who worked for the company
from 2011 to 2014 as the director of
mental health services, said the
report was consistent with his experiences on Nauru.
I dont doubt the veracity of
the allegations, Dr. Young said by
telephone. I know there are people there with significant mental
health issues. The government is
pursuing a policy that makes
these people human sacrifices to
stop more boats from coming.
This year, two asylum seekers
set fire to themselves on Nauru.
One, a 23-year old man, died, and
the other, a 21-year old woman,
had serious burns to more than 80
percent of her body.
Sarah
Hanson-Young,
an
Australian senator from the
Greens party, said on Wednesday
that she would introduce legislation that called for reporters and
rights advocates to be given free
access to Nauru.
Australias Department of Immigration and Border Protection
said in a statement that it refutes
many of the allegations in the report. Chris Gordon, corporate
and public affairs manager at
Broadspectrum, the company
that the Australian government
pays to provide services for asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru, said that it had zero tolerance
for abuse and that similar accusations had been raised in the
past but not substantiated.
Nauru, an island of eight
square miles, was ravaged by
decades of phosphate mining, and
its economy is buoyed by payments and aid from the
Australian government, which
spent $314 million on its operations there last year, Amnesty
said. The Refugee Action Coalition, based in Sydney, said the
government spends about $900
million a year on the centers on
Nauru and Manus Island.
At Least 33
In Military
Contracted
Zika Abroad
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON More than

30 active-duty American service
members including a pregnant
woman have contracted the
mosquito-borne Zika virus in
countries where the disease has
been identified, Pentagon officials
said on Wednesday.
Maj. Ben Sakrisson, a Pentagon
spokesman, said the Defense Department has been tracking Zika
in servicemen and women abroad
since January, and that the number had reached 33 this month.
Pentagon officials did not identify the countries where the service members had contracted the
virus, but said that they had all
been previously identified by the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention as places where mosquitoes with the disease are
present.
The Pentagon has informed
service members in affected areas
to take precautions, Major Sakrisson said, and pregnant women in
affected areas are being given the
option of relocating. Military personnel in affected areas are advised to use insect repellent and to
wear appropriate clothing.
The news was first reported on
Monday by Military Times.
As of July 26, the C.D.C. was reporting active Zika virus transmissions in most of Central and
South America with the exception
of Chile and Uruguay, as well as in
Papua New Guinea, Samoa,
Tonga, the Marshall Islands,
American Samoa and Fiji. The
C.D.C. was also reporting active
Zika transmissions in Cape Verde,
off the coast of Senegal.
The Army is working with outside scientists to develop a Zika
vaccine, military officials said.
Last month a Congressional
measure to help fund the Zika response died amid bickering between Democrats and Republicans and despite agreement that
the virus, which can cause serious
birth defects, is a public health
emergency. It failed after House
Republicans refused to accept a
A pregnant woman
is among those who
tested positive.
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A woman prepared to cast her ballot Wednesday in closely contested municipal elections that could deal a heavy blow to the African National Congress.
MONTREUIL JOURNAL
Paris Partygoers, Bored and Short on Cash, Look to Suburbs

By BENOT MORENNE
MONTREUIL, France In a
darkened makeshift theater in a
former movie studio, dozens of
20-somethings recently sipped
beer from plastic cups as they
watched a film about their
shared passion: the rise of suburban dance parties.
Even before the projector
stopped and the films soundtrack ended, a rising bass line of
techno music drove the crowd
toward an expansive dance floor,
where a full-fledged party broke
out at Espace Albatros, an arts
center in Montreuil, a suburb
east of Paris.
Though most major European
cities have lively urban party
scenes FriedrichshainKreuzberg in Berlin and Leidseplein in Amsterdam Paris has
witnessed much of its night life
decamp to the socially and
historically estranged suburbs,
like Montreuil.
There, a new generation of
partygoers have homed in on

local communities, establishing a
cheaper, more energetic alternative to the mainstream urban
dance clubs.
Theyve been bored with the
parties that used to be in Paris,
said Leny Decret, a 26-year-old
junior manager at a digital advertising agency. He is a cofounder of Tangible Utopia, a
music collective that produced
the documentary film shown at
Espace Albatros.
Mr. Decrets parents came to
watch the documentary and told
him the whole phenomenon had
a hippie vibe, he said.
Maybe its this thing about
coming together for real, sharing
a moment, he said.
The shift of the dance party
scene from the city to the outskirts started around 2009, when
a headline in Le Monde called
Paris the European capital of
boredom.
In an effort to revive the citys
after-dark appeal, Eric Labb, a
record-store owner turned

dance-club promoter, started an
online petition to urge city authorities to ease strict noise
ordinances and improve latenight public transportation. His
effort garnered 16,000 signatures, but it did little to loosen
public restrictions.
So young and mostly middleclass Parisians banded together
to establish informal collectives
of musicians and other artistic
types to perform regularly at
venues in suburbs, with immigrant and working-class histories.
Theres an adventurous side
to going beyond the priphrique to party, said Mr.
Labb, who manages public
relations for the Zig Zag club in
the Eighth Arrondissement of
Paris, referring to the ring road
that separates the French capital
from its suburbs.
Organizers of these suburban
dance-music festivals have created a more open, free-spirited
milieu than the exclusive and

expensive club scene in Paris.
Its different, Armand Poulhen, a 24-year-old graduate
student, said during a recent
daytime party in Montreuil.
People dont judge here, he
added.
The groovy beats, flashy lights
and abundance of balloons contribute to the block-party vibe.
The dance parties are held
mostly on weekends, and many
of the events during the spring
and summer months are held
outside and in the daytime.
Entrance fees are usually less
than the 20 euros, or about $22,
that clubs in Paris charge, and
some parties are free.
The events on the outskirts of
Paris draw young urbanites to
neighborhoods they would not
normally visit, and some
partygoers say the sense of
adventure is part of the appeal.
At Espace Albatros, the arts
center in Montreuil, Nicolas
Boivin, a 24-year-old who works
in advertising, said his curiosity

about places outside the city had
him on the lookout for parties in
the suburbs, away from the
Parisian standard.
The dance parties emerge as
iridescent bubbles of sound and
energy that burn bright on nondescript streets of otherwise
neglected neighborhoods outside
Paris.
One arts center and occasional
club, 6B, in a former industrial
building in St.-Denis, north of
Paris, draws well-heeled electronic music fans to a neighborhood where unemployment has
been nearly 20 percent, twice the
national rate.
Walking out of the 6B, thats
a slap in the face, said
Benedetta Bertella, 31, half of a
husband-and-wife D.J. team that
tours parties in the suburbs. She
describes homeless camps just
outside some of the clubs where
she plays, adding, You think,
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bipartisan compromise reached

in the Senate, and inserted
clauses that reignited old disputes
over government financing for
Planned Parenthood.
Last week Florida officials reported the first signs of local
transmission of Zika in the continental United States, in a Miami
neighborhood. By Monday, federal health officials were urging
pregnant women to stay away
from the neighborhood, in apparently the first time that the C.D.C.
has advised people not to travel to
a place in the continental United
States.
Officials said that the number of
Zika cases in Florida caused by local mosquitoes had risen to 14
from four announced last Friday:
12 men and two women. But they
maintained that they did not expect the number of cases there to
grow into anything like the epidemic that has raged across Latin
America in recent months.
The Pentagon did not give details about the status of the pregnant woman or her baby.
Zika has strained health resources throughout Latin America. The epidemic is now affecting
Puerto Rico, with two percent of
recent blood donors there reportedly infected, and hundreds of
pregnant women testing positive.
The disease has been linked to
birth defects like microcephaly. As
of July 27, 1,658 cases of Zika in the
continental United States and Hawaii have been reported to the
C.D.C., with the majority of them
contracted through exposure to
mosquitoes outside the United
States.
Representative Ileana RosLehtinen, Republican of Florida,
sent a letter to the C.D.C. on
Wednesday signed by the entire
Florida congressional delegation
saying that Florida needed more
funding to fight Zika.
The virus is finally here in our
community and half-steps and
half-measures from federal agencies with the power to do more are
of little comfort to families
throughout our state, Ms. RosLehtinen said in a statement,
which also called the $720,000 of
$16 million of new funding allocated to Florida paltry.
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Events like the Macki Music Festival at the Ourcq Canal outside Paris have lured young and mostly middle-class Parisians.
Bored With Paris, Partygoers Look to the Suburbs

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damn, were partying here.
Some who live in the communities that host these dance
parties view the Parisian
partygoers as intruders.
Several noise complaints were
filed in 2015 with local authorities, and a few residents of LleSt.-Denis, across the Seine from
6B, filed an online complaint to
the mayor and the owner of the
arts center.
On a blog hosted by residents,
a neighbor identified as Eric
complained about Parisian
partygoers who come ruining
our nights because people elsewhere dont want their parties.
But others, like Mady SengaRemou, 35, who lives near 6B,
said the changes were overwhelmingly perceived as having
a positive influence on the neighborhood. The space, she emphasized, acted as a community
center and encouraged activities.
Its like a hive, said Ms.
Senga-Remou, who added that
she and some of the neighbors
occasionally attended the parties.
Sofiane Meza, 37, who runs a

bar and tobacco shop in Lle-St.Denis, said the party scene
brought a bourgeois-bohemian
touch to the neighborhood.
Every time theres a party at
the 6B, I end up with empty
stocks of additive-free tobacco,
he said with a smile, adding, It
makes for a few more clients.
Mr. Meza said the noise did not
bother him.
Leaning on the bar, Rachid
Dendoume, a 48-year-old foreman living nearby, strongly
disagreed. Theres no respect,
he said. Its noise pollution.
There are too many noise issues
here already.
But Mr. Dendoume said that
the noise was the main issue and
that he did not mind having
Parisians partying in his neighborhood. It brings a different
population, he said.
Batrice Nhmie, a private
secretary to the mayor of St.Denis, said not all activities
offered by 6B attracted the same
audience, with locals taking part
in daily activities and workshops.
The music played at parties
may keep more locals from attending those events. Its quite
edgy, Ms. Nhmie said. It

targets a specific audience.
Some of the neighborhoods
that host parties have undergone
changes. In the last decades,
Parisians fleeing expensive rents
have moved to the suburbs,
resulting in cutting-edge galleries, microbreweries and arts
An adventurous push
beyond the city limits
to party.
centers opening far from Haussmannian avenues. How much
this has affected those living in
the suburbs is not clear, although
some sociologists have pointed to
growing gentrification in specific
neighborhoods, like in Montreuil.
In 2013, the French newspaper
Libration highlighted some of
the inhabitants concerns over
rising housing prices.
Parties may now be added to
the list. Though some residents
complain, local officials see opportunities to put a more attractive face on their towns and have
a diverse cultural agenda. A
recent weekend of events in
Bobigny, northwest of Paris, took
place on city-owned land.
In Nanterre, La Ferme du
Bonheur, or the Farm of Happiness, a wooden shack that has
hosted parties organized by La
Mamies, a collective, is featured
on the City Halls website, although it was built illegally on
public ground.
The City of Paris, which tries
to coordinate with adjacent municipalities, has tried to encourage the areas rise as a technomusic destination.
In central Paris, parks are
opening all night this summer.
A Night Council, where bar
and club owners meet with the
authorities twice a year, has been
started at City Hall.
Its night life counselor,
Frdric Hocquard, sees it as
part of his job to encourage the
city to loosen up and have a little
fun.
The City of Paris may not
have developed or promoted its
night life enough, he said.
WASHINGTON A cash payment of $400 million delivered to

Iran in January became part of the
presidential
campaign
on
Wednesday, as Donald J. Trump
seized on the money transfer as a
sign of what he called the administrations failed foreign policy
prompting a forceful White House
rejection.
Josh Earnest, the White House
press secretary, said the payment
to Iran was part of the resolution
of a longstanding financial dispute
between the two nations, and was
delivered in cash on pallets because the two nations do not have
a banking relationship.
Mr. Earnest also denounced the
assertions from some Republicans that the $400 million in foreign currency delivered to Iran
was a ransom for four Americans
released at the time. He compared
the statements from Republicans
to those of conservatives in Iran
who oppose the nuclear agreement.
The existence of the payment
was disclosed in January, and Mr.
Earnest dismissed a Wall Street
Journal article on Wednesday
about the details of the cash payment as a six-month-old news
story that is being pushed by opponents of the presidents nuclear
deal with Iran.
Its an indication of just how
badly opponents of the Iran deal
are struggling to justify their opposition to a successful deal, Mr.
Earnest said.
The report about the cash payments $400 million in euros,
Swiss francs and other currencies
flown to Tehran on a cargo plane
quickly drew condemnation
from opponents of Mr. Obamas
Iran negotiations, especially
among Republicans.
Mr. Trump posted Wednesday
on Twitter that the payments
amount to a scandal for Mr.
Obama and for Hillary Clinton,
the former secretary of state and
the Democratic nominee for president.
Our incompetent Secretary of
State, Hillary Clinton, was the one
who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal! Mr. Trump wrote.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida,
who has long been critical of the
Iran nuclear deal, argued that the
cash sent to Iran amounted to a
ransom payment to get the detained Americans home.
Obama administration sent
plane load of cash to #Iran as ransom as part of deal on hostages.

Just unreal, Mr. Rubio wrote on
Twitter.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said
in a statement that the cash payment shows that the Iran nuclear
deal is nothing but a series of
bribes and secret agreements that
will do nothing to prevent Iran
from reaching nuclear capability,
yet will provide funding for their
sponsorship of terrorism and encourage them to detain more of
our citizens.
Mr. Earnest angrily denounced
those allegations as a false claim
that this is somehow a ransom
payment and repeatedly said:
Let me be clear, the United States
does not pay ransom for hostages.
He accused people like Mr. Rubio and Mr. Trump of seizing on
the new details about the cash
transfer to continue trying to undermine the nuclear agreement.
They are once again in a position of making the same argument
as hard-liners in Iran in an attempt to undermine the nuclear
agreement, Mr. Earnest said.
The dispute over the payment
to Iran centers on a series of deals
that emerged from negotiations
between American diplomats and
Iranian officials that culminated
in announcements in January.
At the time, the United States
announced a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program, but it also
announced separate agreements
to release four Americans held in
Iran, and a third agreement to resolve a longstanding claim by Iran
over money held in United States
banks.
The financial dispute involved
money that Iran had sent to the
United States in 1979 to purchase
weapons. Those weapons were
not delivered after the shah of
Iran was overthrown, and the
money was never returned to
Iran, which had demanded in The
Hague that they were owed the
money, plus interest charges.
Mr. Obama has long argued
and Mr. Earnest repeated on
Wednesday that the agreements were separate, though they
were part of an effort by the
United States to capitalize on improving relations between the two
nations.
I understand the interest in details that make a more colorful
story, Mr. Earnest said. But he
added: Critics of the deal have
lost this argument.
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Tanks captured near Tel Tamer in northern Syria. Similar tanks, seized near Hasaka last year, had been
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service for European affairs, a secret
service for Asian affairs and a secret
service for Arab affairs, according to Mr.
Sarfo.
Reinforcing the idea that the Emni is a
core part of the Islamic States operations, the interviews and documents indicate that the unit has carte blanche to
recruit and reroute operatives from all
parts of the organization from new
arrivals to seasoned battlefield fighters,
and from the groups special forces and
its elite commando units. Taken together,
the interrogation records show that operatives are selected by nationality and
grouped by language into small, discrete
units whose members sometimes only
meet one another on the eve of their departure abroad.
And through the coordinating role
played by Mr. Adnani, terror planning
has gone hand-in-hand with the groups
extensive propaganda operations including, Mr. Sarfo claimed, monthly
meetings in which Mr. Adnani chose
which grisly videos to promote based on
battlefield events.
Based on the accounts of operatives
arrested so far, the Emni has become the
crucial cog in the groups terrorism machinery, and its trainees led the Paris attacks and built the suitcase bombs used
in a Brussels airport terminal and subway station. Investigation records show
that its foot soldiers have also been sent
to Austria, Germany, Spain, Lebanon,
Tunisia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
With European officials stretched by a
string of assaults by seemingly unconnected attackers who pledged allegiance
to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS
or ISIL, Mr. Sarfo suggested that there
may be more of a link than the authorities yet know. He said he was told that
undercover operatives in Europe used
new converts as go-betweens, or clean
men, who help link up people interested
in carrying out attacks with operatives
who can pass on instructions on everything from how to make a suicide vest to
how to credit their violence to the Islamic
State.
The group has sent hundreds of operatives back to the European Union, with
hundreds more in Turkey alone, according to a senior United States intelligence official and a senior American defense official, both of whom spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.
Mr. Sarfo, who was recently moved out
of solitary confinement at his German
prison because he is no longer considered violent, agrees with that assessment. Many of them have returned, he
said. Hundreds, definitely.
Vetting Recruits
The first port of call for new arrivals to
the Islamic State is a network of dormitories in Syria, just across the border from
Turkey. There, recruits are interviewed
and inventoried.
Mr. Sarfo was fingerprinted, and a doctor came to draw a blood sample and perform a physical examination. A man with
a laptop conducted an intake interview.
He was asking normal questions like:
Whats your name? Whats your second
name? Whos your mom? Wheres your
mom originally from? What did you
study? What degree do you have?
Whats your ambition? What do you
want to become? Mr. Sarfo said.
His background was also of interest.
He was a regular at a radical mosque in
Bremen that had already sent about 20
members to Syria, at least four of whom
were killed in battle, according to Daniel
Heinke, the German Interior Ministrys
counterterrorism coordinator for the
area. And he had served a one-year prison sentence for breaking into a supermarket safe and stealing 23,000 euros.
Even though the punishment for theft in
Reporting was contributed by Eric
Schmitt from Washington; Franziska
Reymann from Bremen; Yousur Al-Hlou
from New York; and Maher Samaan from
Paris.
areas under Islamic State control is amputation, a criminal past can be a valued
asset, Mr. Sarfo said, especially if they
know you have ties to organized crime
and they know you can get fake IDs, or
they know you have contact men in Europe who can smuggle you into the European Union.
The bureaucratic nature of the intake
procedure was recently confirmed by
American officials after USB drives were
recovered in the recently liberated
Syrian city of Manbij, one of the hubs for
processing foreign fighters.
Mr. Sarfo checked all the necessary
boxes, and on the third day after his arrival, the members of the Emni came to
ask for him. He wanted to fight in Syria
and Iraq, but the masked operatives explained that they had a vexing problem.
They told me that there arent many
people in Germany who are willing to do
the job, Mr. Sarfo said soon after his arrest last year, according to the transcript
of his interrogation by German officials,
which runs more than 500 pages. They
said they had some in the beginning. But
one after another, you could say, they
chickened out, because they got scared
cold feet. Same in England.
By contrast, the group had more than
enough volunteers for France. My
friend asked them about France, Mr.
Sarfo said. And they started laughing.
But really serious laughing, with tears in
their eyes. They said, Dont worry about
France. Mafi mushkilah in Arabic, it
means no problem. That conversation
took place in April 2015, seven months
before the coordinated killings in Paris in
November, the worst terrorist attack in
Europe in over a decade.
Abu Muhammed al-Adnani, a

Syrian said to be the head of a
unit of ISIS that is a combined
internal police force and external operations branch.
While some details of Mr. Sarfos account cannot be verified, his statements
track with what other recruits related in
their interrogations. And both prison officials and the German intelligence
agents who debriefed Mr. Sarfo after his
arrest said they found him credible.
Since the rise of the Islamic State over
two years ago, intelligence agencies
have been collecting nuggets on the
Emni. Originally, the unit was tasked
with policing the Islamic States members, including conducting interrogations and ferreting out spies, according
to interrogation records and analysts.
But French members arrested in 2014
and 2015 explained that the Emni had
taken on a new portfolio: projecting terror abroad.
Its the Emni that ensures the internal security inside Dawla the Arabic
word for state and oversees external
security by sending abroad people they
recruited, or else sending individuals to
carry out violent acts, like what happened in Tunisia inside the museum in
Tunis, or else the aborted plot in Belgium, said Nicolas Moreau, 32, a French
citizen who was arrested last year after
leaving the Islamic State in Syria, according to his statement to Frances domestic intelligence agency.
Mr. Moreau explained that he had run
a restaurant in Raqqa, Syria, the de facto
capital of the groups territory, where he
had served meals to key members of the
Emni including Abdelhamid Abaaoud,

the on-the-ground commander of the
Paris attacks, who was killed in a standoff with the police days later.
Other interrogations, as well as Mr.
Sarfos account, have led investigators to
conclude that the Emni also trained and
dispatched the gunman who opened fire
on a beach in Sousse, Tunisia, in June,
and the man who prepared the Brussels
airport bombs.
Records from French, Austrian and
Belgian intelligence agencies show that
at least 28 operatives recruited by the
Emni succeeded in deploying to countries outside of the Islamic States core
territory, mounting both successful attacks and plots that were foiled. Officials
say that dozens of other operatives have
slipped through and formed sleeper
cells.
In his own interactions with the Emni,
Mr. Sarfo realized that they were preparing a global portfolio of terrorists and
looking to fill holes in their international
network, he said.
He described what he had been told
about the groups work to build an infrastructure in Bangladesh. There, a siege
by a team of Islamic State gunmen left at
least 20 hostages dead at a cafe last
month, almost all of them foreigners.
Mr. Sarfo said that for Asian recruits,
the group was looking specifically for
militants who had emerged from Al
Qaedas network in the region. People
especially from Bangladesh, Malaysia
and Indonesia they have people who
used to work for Al Qaeda, and once they
joined the Islamic State, they are asking
them questions about their experiences
and if they have contacts, he said.
In his briefings with the German authorities, and again in the interview this
week, Mr. Sarfo raised the possibility
that some of the recent attackers in Europe who pledged allegiance to the Islamic States leader during their assaults
might have a more direct link to the
group than officials believe.
Mr. Sarfo explained that the Emni
keeps many of its operatives underground in Europe. They act as nodes that
can remotely activate potential suicide
attackers who have been drawn in by
propaganda. Linking them are what Mr.
Sarfo called clean men, new converts
to Islam with no established ties to radical groups.
These people are not in direct contact
with these guys who are doing the attacks, because they know if these people
start talking, they will get caught, he
said of the underground operatives.
They mostly use people who are new
Muslims, who are converts, he said.
Those clean converts get in contact
with the people, and they give them the
message. And in the case of some
videotaped pledges of allegiance, the gobetween can then send the video on to
the handler in Europe, who uploads it for
use by the Islamic States propaganda
channels.
The intelligence documents and Mr.
Sarfo agree that the Islamic State has
made the most of its recruits nationalities by sending them back to plot attacks
at home. Yet one important region where
the Emni is not thought to have succeeded in sending trained attackers is
North America, Mr. Sarfo said, recalling
what the members of the branch told
him.
Though dozens of Americans have become members of the Islamic State, and
some have been recruited into the external operations wing, they know its hard
for them to get Americans into America
once they have traveled to Syria, he said.
For America and Canada, its much
easier for them to get them over the social network, because they say the Americans are dumb they have open gun
policies, he said. They say we can radicalize them easily, and if they have no
prior record, they can buy guns, so we
dont need to have no contact man who
has to provide guns for them.
Training Days
Since late 2014, the Islamic State has
instructed foreigners joining the group
to make their trip look like a holiday in
southern Turkey, including booking a re-
turn flight and paying for an all-inclusive

vacation at a beach resort, from which
smugglers arrange their transport into
Syria, according to intelligence documents and Mr. Sarfos account.
That cover story creates pressure to
keep things moving quickly during the
recruits training in Syria, and most get a
bare minimum just a few days of basic
weapons practice, in some instances.
When they go back to France or in
Germany, they can say, I was only on
holidays in Turkey, Mr. Sarfo said. The
longer they stay in the Islamic State, the
more suspicious the secret service in the
West gets, and thats why they try to do
the training as quickly as possible.
Mr. Sarfos facility in both German and
English he studied construction at
Newham College in East London
made him attractive as a potential attacker. Though the Emni approached
him several times to ask him to return to
Germany, he demurred, he said.
Eventually, Mr. Sarfo, perhaps because of his burly build 6-foot-1 and
around 286 pounds when he arrived in
Syria, though he has lost weight since
then was drafted into the Islamic
States quwat khas, Arabic for special
forces.
The unit only admitted single men who
agreed not to marry during the duration
of their training. In addition to providing
the offensive force to infiltrate cities during battles, it was one of several elite
units that became recruiting pools for
the external operations branch, Mr.
Sarfo said.
Along with his German friend, he was
driven to the desert outside Raqqa.
They dropped us off in the middle of
nowhere and told us, We are here, he
said, according to the transcript of one of
his interrogation sessions. So were
standing in the desert and thought to
ourselves, Whats going on? When the
two Germans looked more closely, they
realized there were cavelike dwellings
around them. Everything above ground
was painted with mud so as to be invisible to drones.
Showering was prohibited. Eating
was prohibited, too, unless they gave it to
you, Mr. Sarfo said, adding that he had
shared a cave with five or six others.
Even drinking water was harshly rationed. Each dwelling received two
cups of water a day, put on the doorstep,
he said. And the purpose of this was to
test us, see who really wants it, whos
firm.
The grueling training began: hours of
running, jumping, push-ups, parallel
bars, crawling. The recruits began fainting.
By the second week, they were each
given a Kalashnikov assault rifle and told
to sleep with it between their legs until it
became like a third arm, he said, according to his interrogation transcript.

The punishment for failing to keep up
was harsh. There was one boy who refused to get up, because he was just too
exhausted, Mr. Sarfo told the authorities. So they tied him to a pole with his
legs and his arms and left him there.
He learned that the special forces program involved 10 levels of training. After
he graduated to Level 2, he was moved to
an island on a river in Tabqa, Syria. The
recruits sleeping spots now consisted of
holes in the ground, covered by sticks
and twigs. They practiced swimming,
scuba diving and navigating by the stars.
Throughout his training, Mr. Sarfo
rubbed shoulders with an international
cadre of recruits. When he first arrived at
the desert campus, he ran laps alongside
Moroccans, Egyptians, at least one
Indonesian, a Canadian and a Belgian.
And out on the island, he learned of similar special units, including one called
Jaysh al-Khalifa, or the Army of the Caliphate.
A12-page criminal complaint indicates
that the Islamic State tried to recruit at
least one American into that unit, but he
declined to enroll.
The man, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, a
26-year-old from Alexandria, Va.,
traveled to Syria in December, only to be
captured by Kurdish troops in Iraq in
March. In his debriefing with the F.B.I.,
he explained that early on, he was approached by members of the unit. During his stay at this safe house,
representatives from Jaysh Khalifa, a
group described by the defendant as an
offensive group, visited the new ISIL recruits, the complaint says. The
representatives explained that their
group was responsible for accepting volunteers from foreign countries who
would be trained and sent back to their
countries to conduct operations and execute attacks on behalf of ISIL. The
groups requirements, among other
things, were that recruits had to be single, would train in remote locations, must
be free of any injuries and had to stay reclusive when returning to their home
countries.
The Big Man

As he progressed through the special
forces training, Mr. Sarfo became closer
with the emir of the camp, a Moroccan,
who began to divulge details about how
the Islamic States external operations
effort was structured, he said. Mr. Sarfo
learned that there was one outsize figure
behind the groups strategies and ambitions. The big man behind everything is
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, he said.
He is the head of the Emni, and he is
the head of the special forces as well, Mr.
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Sarfo added. Everything goes back to

him.
Born in the town of Binnish in northern Syria, Mr. Adnani is said to be 39, and
is the subject of a $5 million bounty from
the State Departments Rewards for Justice program. But details about his life remain a mystery. There are very few
available photos of him, and the one used
on the State Departments website is
years old.
Mr. Sarfo explained that when recruits
to the special forces finished all 10 levels
of training, they were blindfolded and
driven to meet Mr. Adnani, where they
pledged allegiance to him directly. Mr.
Sarfo was told that the blindfolds stayed
on the whole time, so that even Mr. Adnanis best-trained fighters never know
what he looks like.
To the world, Mr. Adnani is better
known as the official spokesman of the
Islamic State, and the man who put out a
global call this year for Muslims to attack
unbelievers wherever they were, however they could.
Adnani is much more than just the
mouthpiece of this group, said Thomas
Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington who tracks the groups leadership. He is heavily involved in external
operations. He is sort of the administrative yea or nay at the top of the pyramid, who signs off on attack plans, the
details of which are handled by his subordinates.
During his time in Syria, Mr. Sarfo was
contacted by other German fighters who
wanted him to be an actor in a propaganda film aimed at German speakers. They
drove to Palmyra, and Mr. Sarfo was told

to hold the groups black flag and to walk
again and again in front of the camera as
they filmed repeated takes. Syrian captives were forced to kneel, and the other
German fighters shot them, showing an
interest only in the cinematic effect.
One turned to Mr. Sarfo immediately
after killing a victim and asked: How
did I look like? Did I look good, the way I
executed?
Mr. Sarfo said he had learned that
videos like the one he acted in were vetted by Mr. Adnani himself in a monthly
meeting of senior operatives.
Theres a vetting procedure, he said.
Once a month they have a shura
which is a sitting, a meeting where all
the videos and everything that is important, they start speaking about it. And
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is the head of
the shura.
Mr. Sarfo said he had started doubting
his allegiance to ISIS during his training,
after seeing how cruelly they treated
those who could not keep up. Making the
propaganda video provided his final disillusionment when he saw how many
times they recorded each scene in the
five-minute film. Back in Germany, when
he had been inspired by similar videos,
he had always assumed they were real,
not staged.
He began plotting his escape, which
took weeks and involved sprinting and
crawling in a field of mud before crossing
into Turkey. He was arrested at Bremen
Airport, where he landed on July 20, 2015,
and he voluntarily confessed. He is now
serving a three-year term on terrorism
charges.
The Lieutenants
Among the Islamic States innovations
is the role of foreigners, especially Europeans, in the planning of attacks.
Mr. Sarfos account agrees with investigation documents and the assessments
of terrorism experts, who say that
French and Belgian citizens like Mr.
Abaaoud are more than just operatives
and have been given managing roles.
Its a creative and interesting operational road map, to be able to lean on
someone like Abaaoud, who has his own
network abroad, said Jean-Charles
Brisard, chairman of the Center for the
Analysis of Terrorism in Paris. They
gave him the autonomy regarding tactics
and strategy, even if the operation as a
whole still needs a green light from the
Islamic States leadership.
Looking at the current leaders of the
Emni, investigators have homed in on
two in particular. They go by the aliases
Abu Souleymane, a French citizen, and
Abu Ahmad, described as Syrian. Both
are considered top lieutenants of Mr. Adnani, according to the senior American
defense official and senior intelligence
official.
The two men play a direct role in identifying fighters to be sent overseas, in
choosing targets and in organizing logistics for operatives, including paying for
smugglers to get them to Europe and, in
at least one case, sending Western Union
transfers, according to European intelligence documents.
A glimpse into the possible role of Abu
Souleymane came from one of the hostages held by suicide bombers inside the
Bataclan concert hall in Paris in Novem-
Exporting Islamic State Terror

At least 10 deadly attacks against Westerners have been directed or coordinated by a special unit of the Islamic State
dedicated to exporting terror abroad. In addition, more than 30 people working for this group were arrested before they
could carry out attacks.
Jan. 2014
July
Jan. 2015
July
Jan. 2016
July
Attacks
Jewish Museum
Brussels
Supermarket
Paris
Beach resort
Tunisia
Lebanon
Suspects
arrested
before
attacks
Source: Interrogation records of ISIS operatives
Brussels
Paris
130 killed
Two people were found with

materials for an attack.
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Harry Sarfo, a former Islamic

State fighter from Germany,
inside the maximum-security
prison in Bremen where he is
serving a three-year sentence
on terrorism charges.
ber.
After gunning down dozens of
concertgoers, two of the suicide bombers
retreated into a hallway with a group of
hostages, forcing them to sit against the
windows as human shields, said the
hostage, David Fritz-Goeppinger, 24. In
the two-and-a-half-hour standoff that ensued, Mr. Fritz heard one of the bombers
ask the other, Should we call Souleymane?
The second operative appeared annoyed that the first had asked the question in French, and ordered him to switch
to Arabic.
I immediately understood that, yes,
this was the individual, maybe not the individual who had organized the attack,
but who held a place in the hierarchy
above them, Mr. Fritz said in a telephone interview. His testimony is also included in a detailed, 51-page report by
Frances antiterrorism police. They
were absolutely, like soldiers, awaiting
orders, he said.
Souleymane, whose full nom de guerre
is Abu Souleymane al-Faransi, or Abu
Souleymane the Frenchman, is believed
to be a French national in his 30s who is
of either Moroccan or Tunisian ancestry,
according to Ludovico Carlino, a senior
analyst with IHS Conflict Monitor in
London. Mr. Carlino says he believes that
Souleymane was promoted to be the top
terrorism planner for Europe after Mr.
Abaaouds death.
A snapshot of the other senior leader,
Abu Ahmad, appears in the account of a
man who investigators have concluded
was supposed to be part of the team of
Paris attackers: an Algerian named Adel
Haddadi. Mr. Haddadi said he and another member of the team, a former
Lashkar-e-Taiba member from Pakistan
named Muhammad Usman, were separated from two other attackers after they
reached Greece by boat.
Mr. Haddadi, 28, and Mr. Usman, 22,
were eventually arrested in a migrant
camp in Salzburg, Austria. The two men
sent alongside them became the first suicide bombers to detonate their vests outside the Stade de France during the November attacks.
After arriving in Syria and being
routed to the international dormitory
there in February 2015, Mr. Haddadi
worked as a cook in Raqqa for months
before a member of the Emni came to see
him, according to French and Austrian

investigation documents.
One day, a Syrian came into the
kitchen to see me and said that someone
called Abu Ahmad wanted to see me,
Mr. Haddadi was quoted as saying in the
Austrian record of his interrogation. He
was driven to a five-story building,
where another Syrian holding a walkie
talkie radioed Abu Ahmad. They waited
for hours before the Syrian got orders to
drive the recruit to the next location. In
the street, a Saudi man wearing all white
was waiting, and asked Mr. Haddadi to
go on a walk.
After 300 yards, they reached an
empty apartment building and sat down.
I was scared, I wanted to leave, but he
talked the whole time, Mr. Haddadi told
the authorities.
He said only positive things about
me, that Daesh trusted me and that I now
needed to prove myself worthy of that
trust. He said that Daesh was going to
send me to France, Mr. Haddadi added,
using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic
State. The details, he said, I would get
them once I arrived in France.
Sometime after that, Abu Ahmad arrived. Mr. Haddadi described him as a
Syrian man between 38 and 42 years old,
slim with a long, black beard, and
dressed all in black. He was, Mr. Haddadi
said, the giver of orders.
Abu Ahmad brought Mr. Haddadi together with three other potential attackers, with the last man, Mr. Usman, being
introduced just a day before they all set
out for Europe. Mr. Haddadi and two of
the other men were native Arabic speakers, and Mr. Usman spoke enough Arabic
to communicate with them, the interrogation documents said.
The day of their departure, Abu Ahmad came and gave them his Turkish
cellphone number, instructing them to
store it in their phone as FF, to avoid
registering a name. He gave Mr. Haddadi
$2,000 in $100 bills, and they were driven
to the Turkish border. A man met them in
Turkey to take their photographs, and returned with Syrian passports. Another
smuggler arranged their Oct. 3 boat trip
to Leros, Greece.
All of these logistical steps, as well as
Western Union money transfers, were
organized by Abu Ahmad, one of the senior lieutenants running the Islamic
States efforts to export terror. Until his
arrest in December, Mr. Haddadi remained in touch with Abu Ahmad
through messages on Telegram and via
text messages to his Turkish number, according to the investigation record.
Abu Ahmads Turkish number was
found somewhere else, too: written on a
slip of paper in the pants pocket of the
severed leg of one of the suicide bombers
at the Stade de France.
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A vendor in New Delhi. Lawmakers reached a breakthrough Wednesday in a long battle over a constitutional amendment to introduce a single national tax.
Tax Overhaul to Reshape the Way India Does Business

From Page A1
and two percentage points.
The tax patchwork dates back
to 1991, when the government embraced free-market policies and
devolved power to the states, including authority over taxes. For
more than a decade, as it became
increasingly clear that the overlapping tax codes hampered
growth, Indian leaders have
pushed for a radical simplification,
only to be halted by political opposition. That hurdle now seems to
have been cleared.
Though a long series of legislative steps must be taken before the
new tax system goes into effect,
Wednesdays approval of a constitutional amendment by the upper
house of Parliament, which Mr.
Modis party does not control, was
seen as the most daunting obstacle.
The move, described by one executive as Indias reverse Brexit
moment, is a significant victory
for Prime Minister Narendra
Modi. Elected in 2014 with a promise of bold economic transformation, he had been unable to marshal parliamentary support to
pursue several of his central initiatives, such as overhauling land
and labor laws.
Its important for Modi, Mr.
Vaishnav added, who has been
reeling under this criticism that he
hasnt done enough in terms of
big-bang reform. It completely reshapes how business is going to be
done.
The benefits of the new tax regime are likely to emerge gradually, and may not be evident before
Mr. Modis party seeks re-election
in 2019.
It is likely to lead to an inflationary bump. And the governments
chief economic adviser, Arvind
Subramanian, warned that the
single tax will be fiendishly,
mind-bogglingly complex to administer.
Over the long term, though, it is
Ellen Barry reported from Bangalore, and Hari Kumar from New
Delhi.
expected to attract foreign investment and bring down the cost of

capital goods, lift manufacturing
and exports, increase tax collections and perhaps most important, in a country where one
million young people enter the
work force each month create
jobs.
This will be the mother of all
economic reforms in India so far,
said Sachin Menon, who oversees
indirect taxes at KPMG India, an
accounting and consulting firm.
Business leaders said the
change would have a profound effect on their daily lives. Praveen
Khandelwal, a senior leader of the
Confederation
of
All-India
Traders, said businesses currently were harassed and victimized by the cascading demands of
multiple tax authorities.
Most of the time we are busy in
complying with those taxation formalities, collecting taxes, depositing taxes, submission of forms,
our money stuck in the system,
and other issues, he said. We
dont find time to do business.

Sachin Bansal, the co-founder of
an e-commerce site, Flipkart, described the idiosyncratic tax
codes that his business must work
around: double taxation in Karnataka warehouses; a $75 limit on
shipments to Uttar Pradesh; confiscation of goods and cash in Kerala.
In a recent editorial, he described the vote as Indias reverse
Brexit moment. Because of geographical constraints and artificial restrictions placed by the current tax regime, quality products
are expensive and affordable
products suffer from poor quality,
he wrote in The Economic Times.
The drawbacks of state-dictated
tax policies have long been recognized, but lawmakers were
stymied. Simplifying the system
required the political muscle to
persuade states, especially large,
wealthy ones like Mr. Modis home
state of Gujarat, to surrender control over tax revenues.
A Goods and Services Tax bill
was first introduced by the Indian

National Congress party in 2011,
but has since been blocked by
whichever of the two main parties
was not in control of Parliament.
Before 2014, it was Mr. Modis
Bharatiya Janata Party, commonly called the B.J.P., that disapproved of the measure. The Congress Party has opposed it since
then.
Resistance to the plan had
eased in recent months, as the
B.J.P. put greater effort into winning over the smaller regional
parties that had opposed the bill.
Meanwhile, the Congress Partys
share of seats in the Parliaments
upper house, the Rajya Sabha, has
been shrinking.
I think the logjam broke now
because the Congress found it was
largely isolated, said Mihir
Sharma, a columnist and senior
fellow at the Observer Research
Foundation.
Introducing the new system will
not be quick or easy, and the government will be hard pressed to
Shopping in New Delhi. The new policy is expected to create jobs and eventually lower prices.
put it in place by the current deadline of April 1, 2017.

Technically, the parliamentary
vote on Wednesday approved only
a constitutional amendment on
the new tax system, the first of
many steps needed to enact the
tax measure, usually referred to
by its initials, G.S.T. The constitutional amendment must also be
approved by a majority of Indias
state legislatures and by the president. Once it is approved, which is
expected, Parliament must enact
legislation to create the new tax
system, and individual states
must pass their own laws.
Still to be settled is the thorny issue of tax rates. States will want
high rates, to maximize revenue,
and the central government will
push for lower rates to avoid
sparking inflation, said Pranjul
Bhandari, the chief India economist at HSBC bank in Mumbai.
You have to tread the very thin
line between making political parties happy and making the state
governments happy, she said.
Indias economy is growing at a
robust 7.6 percent while enjoying
the lowest inflation in decades.
But job growth has been sluggish,
and the corporate sector remains
starved of cash.
Tension over the economys performance came to a head this summer, when Indias respected Central Bank governor, Raghuram Rajan, who had resisted pressure
from right-wing leaders to make
deep cuts to interest rates to spur
growth, decided to return to academia after his term ended in September. Mr. Modis government
followed up, almost immediately,
by throwing open new sectors to
foreign investment.
Surjit Bhalla, a macroeconomic
adviser on India to the Observatory Group, a consultancy in New
York, compared the new tax regime to the industrial deregulation of 1991 and said it should put to
rest any doubts about Mr. Modis
credentials as an economic modernizer. Its a mega-reform, and it
comes under his leadership, which
is why he and the B.J.P. were very
keen to get it passed, he said.
Boko Haram May Have a New Leader, ISIS Magazine Suggests

By DIONNE SEARCEY
and ERIC SCHMITT
DAKAR, Senegal A reference in a newly released Islamic

State publication mentions an apparent new title for a key member
of Boko Haram, raising questions
about its leadership and future after a major Nigerian military offensive.
The report in the 41st edition of
the Islamic States Al-Naba magazine, published Tuesday, carried
an interview with a man it called
Boko Harams governor for
West Africa, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors
militant jihadist media.
The reference appears to indicate a promotion for Mr. al-Barnawi, who had been cited in a January 2015 video as a Boko Haram
spokesman. The report made no
mention of the status of Abubakar
Shekau, who had been thought to
be the leader of Boko Haram. It
said Mr. al-Barnawi did not condone attacks on mosques and
markets frequented by Muslims
a hallmark tactic of the organization.
The report from the Islamic
State led to a new round of speculation about the hierarchy and status of Boko Haram, which for the
past year has been on the run from

intensive strikes by the Nigerian
military.
Boko Haram pledged allegiance
to the Islamic State last spring,
about the same time the military
ramped up its push. While it is unclear what kind of support the Islamic State has been giving Boko
Haram, American military officials have said the two groups
have started collaborating more
closely.
Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group operating largely in
northeast Nigeria, has killed thousands of people, sometimes deploying young boys and girls as
suicide bombers to attack markets, mosques and even camps for
those seeking protection from the
groups fighters. Boko Haram began about 14 years ago as part of a
movement against Western education that quickly spiraled into a
yearslong murderous rampage
that has spread across the nations
borders.
The military offensive against
Boko Haram has been largely successful, driving fighters deep into
the forest and securing villages
that Boko Haram once held. In recent months fighters have been
stealing cattle and food, an indication that they are scrambling for
basics to survive. Military offi-
cials say many captured militants

are scrawny and malnourished.
Some analysts say the report
published on Tuesday might indicate that Boko Haram, under
pressure for resources, is turning
to the Islamic State for more help.
Has this resource pressure
created more of an opening for the
Islamic State to a gain stronger
An interview implies a
former spokesman
has been promoted.
foothold and influence? asked
Elizabeth Donnelly, deputy head
of the Africa Program at Chatham
House, a research institute in London. That is a very, very open
question. If anything, what this
opens up is questions about the
next stage of Boko Harams evolution.
Despite the Nigerian militarys
victories, Boko Haram elements
have continued to launch numerous suicide bombings and in some
areas have retaken villages
liberated by soldiers. Recent attacks have become increasingly
brazen. Last week, fighters ambushed a United Nations convoy

injuring workers on their way
from distributing aid outside the
northeastern city of Maiduguri. In
June fighters attacked a military
unit in Niger, Nigerias northern
neighbor, killing 32 soldiers.
The report on Tuesday from the
Islamic State publication also
raised questions about the fate of
Mr. Shekau, known as Boko
Harams leader since the 2009
death of the militant groups
founder, Mohammed Yusuf. Some
analysts have speculated that Mr.
Shekau may be dead. Others think
he has been marginalized, or is
perhaps leading a core group of
fighters while others have split off.
Abu Musab al-Barnawi is now
the wali, or leader, and Shekau is
not, said Jacob Zenn, an African
affairs fellow at the Jamestown
Foundation, a Washington-based
research
organization.
But
Shekau likely would not accept a
demotion, so I imagine in order to
get him demoted they had to eliminate him.
In June, Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, the head of the Pentagons
Africa Command, told the Senate
at his confirmation hearing that
the Islamic State had disavowed
Mr. Shekau because of his tactics,
which are extreme even by the Is-
lamic States standards.

For example, he uses children
as suicide bombers, he attacks
other Muslims, and hes been told
by ISIL to stop doing that, but he
has not done so, General Waldhauser said, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State.
He told the committee that half
of Boko Harams members had
broken off because they were not
happy with the amount of buy-in,
if you will, from Boko Haram into
the ISIL brand.
During the hearing, the general
indicated that the Islamic State
was trying to reconcile the two
groups but that Mr. Shekau had
not really fallen into line with
what ISIL would like him to do.
Some security analysts think
Mr. al-Barnawi is the leader of the
group of Boko Haram fighters
who have split from Mr. Shekau
over disputes about attacking
mosques.
The report from the Islamic
State publication quoted Mr. alBarnawi as saying Boko Haram
does not endorse indiscriminate
attacks on marketplaces and
mosques.
Such restraint aligns with
Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter
group that was active about four
years ago but has been largely
quiet in recent years.
One person was killed and at

least five others were injured on
Wednesday night in a knife attack
in London, the Metropolitan Police said.
The police said they were called
around 10:30 p.m. about a man
with a knife who was attacking
people in Russell Square, a park in
London. A woman in her 60s was
treated at the scene but was pronounced dead a short time later,
the police said.
Five other people were injured,
but details about their conditions
and injuries were not immediately
available.
A 19-year-old man was arrested
shortly after officers arrived at
the scene, the police said. A stun
gun was used by one of the arresting officers.
The police said in an initial
statement that terrorism is one
possibility being explored at this
stage. A Metropolitan Police official, Assistant Commissioner
Mark Rowley, later said, Early indications suggest that mental
health is a significant factor in this
case, Reuters reported.
The episode occurred just hours
after officials announced the start
of Operation Hercules, an initiative that included the addition of
600 armed officers to better protect the city against an attack.
The threat level here in London has not changed, but it does
remain at severe and especially in
light of recent deadly attacks in
Europe it is important we are prepared should the unthinkable happen, Mayor Sadiq Khan of London said in a statement.
We will see more armed officers on our streets, but there is no
reason to be alarmed.
Most London police officers do
not carry firearms in a country
where gun control laws remain far
stricter than those in the United
States.
Residents in the area said the
police responded quickly. Thank
you so much @metpoliceuk for
being so fast, caring and efficient
tonight in #russellsquare, Susanna Cappellaro wrote on Twitter. I am a resident and I really
thank you.
The police have been on heightened alert in the wake of a series
of terrorist attacks in Europe.
Anyone whos been following
events in Europe over the past few
weeks will understand why we
want to show our determination to
protect the public, said the Metropolitan Police commissioner,
Bernard Hogan-Howe.
Dan Bilefsky and Niraj Chokshi
contributed reporting.
WHAT IN THE WORLD
Citizenship
Stops Here
With Mother
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Good enough to bear them,

feed them, bathe them, and raise
them but in 27 countries
around the world, by law, mothers cannot pass their citizenship
on to their children, as fathers
can.
The laws vary, but in the most
restrictive countries, like Iran
and Qatar, women cannot pass
on their citizenship even if that
means their children are left
stateless, according to a tally by
the United Nations. In some
others, like Nepal or the United
Arab Emirates, exceptions can
be made if the father is unknown
or stateless himself. (Many
Palestinians are.)
The laws are not just a measure of the unequal treatment of
women. They can also have
grievous consequences for the
children who, as citizens of nowhere, may be kept from being
able to go to school. Syrian
refugees born in Lebanon, for
instance, may be in especially
dire straits because so many of
their fathers are dead or missing; Lebanon and Syria are
among the 27 countries, and
Lebanon is among the most
restrictive.
A handful of countries will let a
woman pass on citizenship if she
is unmarried, but not if she is
married a rule that the advocacy group Equality Now says
perpetuates the old notion that
a woman, once married, loses
her independent identity.
Things have improved in a few
countries in recent years.
Suriname amended its nationality law in 2014 to allow women to
pass citizenship to their children.
A 2011 royal decree in the
Emirates opened the door ever
so slightly, giving the children of
Emirati women married to foreigners the right to apply for
citizenship when they turn 18.
A9
Kansas Voters Reject Governors Conservative Allies in Republican Primary

By MITCH SMITH
Republican voters in Kansas rebelled

against the policies of Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday, ousting his fellow conservatives in at least 11 state legislative
primary races amid widespread angst
about Kansass financial situation.
With some races still undetermined on
Wednesday, but also leaning toward
moderates, the primary was a tangible
sign of the grumblings that have been going on under the surface in heavily Republican Kansas, as deep cuts to taxes, a
centerpiece of the Brownback agenda,
have left the state short on revenue and
led to cuts to government services.
People, they were frustrated, said
Dinah Sykes, a moderate Republican
from the Kansas City suburbs who defeated the conservative incumbent in her
State Senate district. They were ready
for people to listen to them and be accountable to them.
The results promised to reshape the
dynamics in the Legislature, which has
been dominated in recent years by conservatives friendly to Mr. Brownback,
and perhaps add pressure for the governor to reconsider some of his tax policies,
which were predicated on a supply-side
theory of economics and championed by
conservatives nationally. Kansas has repeatedly missed revenue collection targets, has seen its credit rating slashed
and has cut funding for some government services during Mr. Brownbacks
tenure.
It was schools, it was roads, it was the
fact that some communities were hoping
for job growth that didnt happen, said
Chapman Rackaway, a political science
professor at Fort Hays State University
who called Tuesdays results a repudiation of Mr. Brownbacks policies.
Kansas remains an overwhelmingly
Republican state, and the party will almost certainly retain large legislative
majorities after the general election in
November. And Mr. Brownback himself
was elected to a second four-year term in
2014.
But Tuesdays vote highlighted a longstanding split in the state party between
conservatives and a moderate bloc that
sometimes aligns with Democrats. Patrick R. Miller, a political scientist at the
University of Kansas, said Tuesdays results came from Brownbacks unpopularity laid on top of that traditional divide.
At least six conservative senators lost
their primaries, political scientists and
Dinah Sykes, a moderate Republican from the Kansas City suburbs,

defeated the conservative state senator in her district on Tuesday.
CHRISTOPHER SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
local news media said, along with five

conservative House members. Three
more conservative House members
were trailing moderates in close races.
Other moderate candidates won primaries in districts where the conservative
incumbent did not seek another term.
In addition, Republicans in one congressional district voted out Representative Tim Huelskamp, a farmer who had
become a Tea Party favorite in Washington but had annoyed party stalwarts and
been removed from the Agriculture
Committee.
His opponent, Roger Marshall, had

support from major farm groups in the
state.
State Senator Greg Smith, who lost to
Ms. Sykes, said discontent with the governor and a lack of nuance in local news
coverage contributed to the conservative losses. He said there seemed to be a
schism in the Republican Party between conservatives who support the
party platform and folks who register
as Republicans because they know thats
the only way they can win the office, but
who in fact have more in common with
Democrats.
On Wednesday, Mr. Brownbacks office sought to frame the vote as part of a
broader disenchantment with current
officeholders.
Kansas is not immune from the widespread anti-incumbency sentiment we
have seen across the nation this election
season, Eileen Hawley, a spokeswoman
for the governor, said in a statement.
KENT PORTER/THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wildfires Bearing Down on Western States
As campers bedded down on Tuesday night, a wildfire burned slowly downhill near Lake Berryessa, Calif., near Solano and Napa Counties north of San Francisco. On Wednesday, the campground
was evacuated after the fire, which has burned more than six square miles and more than doubled in size. Federal officials say that there are at least 27 large fires burning in the West.
Justices Block Transgender Restroom Court Order

By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON The Supreme

Court on Wednesday temporarily
blocked a court order that had allowed a
transgender boy to use the boys bathroom in a Virginia high school.
The vote was 5 to 3, with Justice
Stephen G. Breyer joining the courts
more conservative members as a courtesy. He said that this would preserve
the status quo until the court decided
whether to hear the case. Justices Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and
Elena Kagan dissented.
The courts order has no effect on any
other case.
The move came amid a national debate over transgender rights. A North
Carolina law that requires transgender
people to use bathrooms in government
buildings that correspond with the gender listed on their birth certificates has
drawn protests, boycotts and lawsuits. A
directive from the Obama administration threatening schools with the loss of
federal money for discrimination based
on gender identity has been challenged
in court by more than 20 states.
The case in the Supreme Court concerns Gavin Grimm, who was born female but identifies as a male and will
soon start his senior year at Gloucester
High School in southeastern Virginia.
For a time, school administrators allowed Mr. Grimm to use the boys bathroom, but the local school board adopted
a policy that required students to use the
bathrooms and locker rooms for their
corresponding biological genders. The
board added that students with gender
identity issues would be allowed to use
private bathrooms.
Mr. Grimm sued, and a divided panel
of the United States Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va.,
ruled the policy unlawful. A trial judge
then ordered school officials to let Mr.
Grimm use the boys bathroom.
The school board has said that it will
file a petition in late August asking the
Supreme Court to hear its appeal. In the
meantime, the board submitted an emer-
gency application that asked the justices

to let school officials continue to bar Mr.
Grimm from the boys bathroom.
The alternative, the boards lawyers
said, was harm to the basic expectations of bodily privacy and severe disruption to the school in the upcoming
school year. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Mr. Grimm,
responded that the trial courts order did
not amount to the kind of irreparable
harm that warrants a stay from the Supreme Court, as it concerned a single student in a single high school which has
taken steps to increase privacy in
restrooms for all students.
The legal question in the case, Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., No.
16A52, is whether the Obama administration was entitled to interpret a regulation
under Title IX, a 1972 law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in
schools that receive federal money, to
ban discrimination based on gender
identity. The regulation, adopted in 1975,
allowed schools to provide separate toilet, locker rooms and shower facilities on
the basis of sex.
Last year, the federal Department of
Education weighed in on the Gloucester
School Boards policy, saying schools
generally must treat transgender students consistent with their gender identity. In May, the department issued a
more general directive that said schools
may lose federal money if they discriminate against transgender students.
The Fourth Circuit said the 1975 regulation was ambiguous and that the departments interpretation of it was entitled to controlling weight.
Under a 1997 Supreme Court decision,
Auer v. Robbins, agencies interpretations of their own regulations are generally entitled to deference. The Auer decision has been the subject of much criticism, and several justices have urged the
Supreme Court to revisit the ruling. In a
dissent in May, Justice Clarence Thomas
said it was on its last gasp.
DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gavin Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, is suing the
Gloucester County School Board in Virginia to use the boys bathroom.
Texas Agrees to Loosen Rules

On IDs for November Election
By MICHAEL WINES
An agreement reached Wednesday

would weaken Texas strict voter identification law and allow residents to
cast ballots in Novembers election
even if they have none of the seven
identifying documents that the law recognizes.
The accord, filed with the Federal
District Court in Corpus Christi, followed a July 20 ruling by the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit that the Texas law violated the
1965 Voting Rights Act. The appeals
court ordered the law weakened to end
its discriminatory effect on black and
Hispanic voters.
A district court judge must still endorse the agreement, which was
reached by lawyers for the state, civil
rights groups and the Justice Department, but the approval is likely to be a
formality.
Civil rights advocates sued to block
the law after the Texas Legislature enacted it in 2011, and federal courts
struck down the law three times. Until
the appeals court ruling last month,
though, it had been in effect since 2013.
Wednesdays agreement is the latest
in a series of legal moves that have
weakened or struck down voter ID
laws, sometimes in battleground states
where turnout in the presidential election could be crucial.
On Friday, a federal appeals court
panel nullified North Carolinas identification law and rolled back a host of
other restrictions enacted by the
states Republican Legislature, saying
the rules had targeted African-American voters with almost surgical precision. The same day, a Federal District
Court ordered Wisconsin to expand its
list of valid ID cards and do away with
other constraints on voting.
The 2011 Texas law required voters to
produce one of seven photo IDs, such
as a drivers license, military ID or

passport, before casting ballots. Civil
rights advocates said the requirement
disenfranchised
Hispanics
and
African-Americans, who often lacked
the money or means to obtain the
cards. Evidence filed in the lawsuit indicated that as many as 600,000 eligible Texas voters had none of the acceptable IDs.
Under the proposed settlement,
Texas voters with one of the valid ID
cards would still be required to show it
before casting ballots. But those without any of the IDs could still vote if they
had a voter registration certificate, a
birth certificate, a utility bill or bank
statement, a government check, or any
other government document with their
name and address.
Those voters would also have to sign
an affidavit stating that they were unable to easily procure any of the IDs.
Under the law, voters lacking a valid
identification were allowed to cast provisional ballots, but their votes were
counted only if they obtained a valid
card and delivered it to a county voting
registrar within six days.
Many provisional voters never
produced the needed documents, and
their ballots were discarded.
For citizens without valid identification documents, Wednesdays agreement would essentially return the requirements for voting to the conditions
that existed before the ID law took effect, said Jose Garza, a lawyer for the
Mexican American Legislative Caucus, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
The litigation is not completely settled, but Mr. Garza said the plaintiffs
were pleased with the agreement.
It expands the franchise, he said.
It opens the door to voting for those
people who do not have these documents. It allows them to cast a regular
ballot. And those ballots are going to be
counted.
A10
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016
Florida Company Gets Approval to Land Robot on Moon Ex-Students and a School
Settle Over Sexual Abuse
By KENNETH CHANG
A small start-up has received

the green light from the federal
government to do something that
NASA has not done for more than
four decades: land on the moon.
Moon Express, based in Cape
Canaveral,
Fla.,
announced
Wednesday that it had received
approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to set a robotic lander on the moon.
That feat would win the Google
Lunar X Prize competition for the
first private organization to reach
the moon and an accompanying
$20 million reward.
But more than the prize, company officials say that it will be the
opening of a profitable frontier for
entrepreneurs. Rephrasing John
F. Kennedy, we choose to go to the
moon not because its easy, but because its a good business, said
Naveen Jain, the Moon Express
chairman. Everything we fight
over whether its land or its
fresh water, whether it is energy
is in abundance in space.
Moon Express has a ways to go
before it can reach the lunar surface, which it hopes to do next
year. It still has to assemble the
lander. The rocket that it plans to
launch on has yet to fly even once.
And one of its competitors could
beat it to the moon, and the $20
million.
The approval reflects an effort
to encourage 21st-century commercial space endeavors while
staying within an international
space treaty written 49 years ago
when outer space was a rivalry
between the United States and the
Soviet Union, and the idea of a
start-up going to the moon an unlikely fantasy.
There are a lot of things in the
treaties were testing the limits of
right now, said Henry R.
Hertzfeld, a professor of space
policy and international affairs at
George Washington University.
Were trying to define them in
ways that will encourage private
investment and private opportunities but not violate any international agreements.
At present, commercial ventures have gone as far out as
geosynchronous orbit, the telecommunication satellites that fly
22,236 miles above the Earth.
Moon Express wants to go 10
times as far, to the moon, a place
where three nations have landed:
the United States, the Soviet Union and, more recently, China.
The X Prizes, started by Peter
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
MOON EXPRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
An artists conception of Moon Expresss lander on the moon. A landing would bring $20 million.
H. Diamandis, an entrepreneur,
seek to recreate the barnstorming
prizes of the early 20th century
that spurred aviation advances
like Charles Lindberghs flight
across the Atlantic. The first X
Prize, for the first private piloted
vehicle to reach space, led to the
development of SpaceShipOne, a
rocket-powered plane that made
two flights in two weeks in 2004 to
win the $10 million prize.
In the bubbly optimism that followed, the X Prize Foundation enlisted Google to finance reaching
the loftier target of the moon. The
Google Lunar X Prize, announced
in 2007, called for putting a spacecraft on the moon that would be
able to send back video and images and also move more than 500
meters. The first team to achieve
that would claim $20 million; second place would be rewarded with
$5 million.
More than 30 teams signed up,
including Moon Express, founded
in 2010 by Mr. Jain, who made a
fortune creating the website InfoSpace and then lost most of it in
the internet bust of 2000; Robert
D. Richards, a space entrepreneur; and Barney Pell, a former
NASA computer scientist.
The original deadline, at the end
of 2012, was extended several
times; now the remaining 16
teams have until Dec. 31, 2017, to
claim the prize. Two teams, Moon
Express and SpaceIL, an Israeli

nonprofit, have secured launch
contracts for their spacecraft.
As Moon Express worked on its
MX-1 lander, company officials realized that they had other hurdles: paperwork and international treaties.
The Outer Space Treaty prohibits nations from claiming
sovereignty over the moon or
other parts of the solar system. It
also states: The activities of
nongovernmental entities in outer
space, including the moon and
other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate state party to the treaty.
The United States fought to include that clause, rejecting the Soviet view that space exploration
should be limited to governments,
said Matthew Schaefer, the director of the space, cyber and
telecommunications law program
at the University of Nebraska.
While the American negotiators
did not necessarily foresee a company like Moon Express, the U.S.
government wanted to keep that
option open, Professor Schaefer
said.
Nonetheless, that would have
been a roadblock, said Dr.
Richards, Moon Expresss chief
executive, because the United
States did not have procedures for
authorizing and supervising what

companies like Moon Express
want to do.
Any application to the U.S. government would have been vetoed
by the State Department, due to
the lack of regulatory frameworks
that would allow the U.S. government to remain in compliance
with the Outer Space Treaty, he
said.
Instead, the process for approval was routed through the F.A.A.,
which regulates commercial
rocket launches and payloads
headed to space. In 2013, Bigelow
Aerospace, a company that builds
inflatable structures that could
one day be used as lunar habitats,
suggested that the F.A.A. use this
process to coordinate competing
commercial efforts, at least
among American companies.
Moon Express has now employed this payload review
process for its lunar trip. The
F.A.A. sent its approval on July 20,
the 47th anniversary of the Apollo
11 landing on the moon.
At present, there is little worry
that the moonscape is about to be
scarred by a commercial onslaught. The MX-1 is about the size
of a coffee table, and NASA has left
far more litter on the moon.
Of more concern is the preservation of earlier artifacts like the
Apollo landing sites, especially as
the Lunar X Prize offers a $4 million bonus for broadcasting video
from one of those sites.
Moon Express said that it had
not yet decided on a landing site,
but that it would defer to NASAs
wishes and stay away from the
Apollo sites.
Mr. Jain said the greatest opportunities were the ones not yet
imagined, just as Apple, when it
created the iPhone, did not foresee the explosion of apps that
would run on the device.
More importantly, Mr. Jain
said, we dont know what the
Pokmon Go of the moon is going
to be.
BOSTON More than two dozen former students of St. Georges

School, an elite boarding school in
Rhode Island, have reached a financial settlement with the school
over accusations of sexual abuse,
much of it from decades ago.
In a joint statement released
Wednesday, representatives of
the former students and the
school said they had reached the
agreement, but they did not disclose the terms or the amount of
money involved. So far, 28 former
students have confirmed that they
will participate, their lawyers
said. Most of the cases took place
in the 1970s and 80s.
St. Georges has done something meaningful and important
for survivors, Anne Scott, an
alumna who was raped at 15 in the
1970s by an athletic trainer at St.
Georges, said in a statement. Her
decision to tell her story publicly
to The Boston Globe in December
led to Wednesdays announcement.
Its hard to put into words what
it feels like to receive this kind of
validation and support, after all
these years, Ms. Scott said.
Leslie B. Heaney, the head of
the St. Georges board, said in a
statement that while the settlement was a significant step, it
could never express adequately
our regret and sorrow that some
in our St. Georges family were
harmed in the past by the very
people who were supposed to nurture and protect them.
The settlement may help bring
the curtain down on a tumultuous
period for the prestigious boarding school at a time when accusations of sexual abuse, much of it
from decades ago, have rocked
several of the nations most elite
and moneyed educational institutions. They include the Horace
Mann School in the Bronx; the
Fessenden School in Newton,
Mass.; and, most recently, Phillips
Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
The St. Georges settlement appears to be one of the largest in the
recent spate of sexual abuse
cases. Another of this size was at
Horace Mann, where 32 students
initially settled. Perhaps the biggest in terms of dollars has been
the $92 million in settlement costs
related to Jerry Sandusky, an assistant football coach at Penn
State who was convicted of abusing 10 boys over 15 years.
The St. Georges settlement was
reached through the mediation efforts of Paul Finn, a Boston-based
lawyer and arbitrator with extensive experience in settling such
cases. In 2003, he helped reach a
settlement of $85 million for 552
victims in the clergy sexual-abuse
scandal in the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Boston.
Mr. Finn is to hear from the St.
Georges victims about their experiences and will determine the
amount of financial awards for
each, based on the nature and degree of harm suffered, Ms.
Heaney said in a letter to the
school. If the archdiocese case is

any guide, the largest individual
payments will go to people who
were raped or sodomized, with
lesser amounts going to those who
were molested or groped.
The accusations at St. Georges
have kept the schools campus, in
Middletown, R.I., in considerable
turmoil over the last several
months. They have led to a flurry
of investigations and to the departure, as of next year, of the head of
school, Eric F. Peterson, who announced in June that he would not
seek to renew his contract, which
expires June 30, 2017.
The charges first surfaced publicly in December, when Ms. Scott
went public with her accusations
of being raped and molested by Al
Gibbs, an athletic trainer at St.
Georges. Her story prompted
other alumni to come forward and
led to an investigation by the
school that found that six
employees had sexually abused
26 students, mostly in the 1970s
and 80s. Most of the employees
were fired, but the school did not
report the abuse.
At the same time, lawyers for an
expanding group of accusers said
St. Georges is one

of several elite
institutions in turmoil.
they had received at least 40 credible reports of sexual abuse, including rape, that took place from
1974 to 2004.
The former students charged
that the schools investigation was
not independent, and both sides
subsequently agreed to a second
investigation, to be conducted by
Martin F. Murphy, a Boston lawyer. His report is expected this
month.
An investigation by the Rhode
Island State Police into some of
the accusations, including failure
to report abuse, ended in June
without any criminal charges being filed. Some of the accusations
involved abuse that had taken
place before 1979, when failure to
report abuse was not defined as a
crime. In other cases, the threeyear statute of limitations had expired.
Eric MacLeish, a lawyer for the
former students, called the settlement negotiations a model of their
kind. He said Ms. Scott had been
in the room and played a central
role in reaching a resolution. Her
experience and temperament and
wisdom made it so she was essential to the process, he said.
Still, he said, the settlement did
not necessarily end the trauma for
many of the victims.
You dont suffer for decades
and reverse that in a matter of
months, he said. But the process
has been incredibly helpful. He
said that victims were helping the
school search for a new head and
that many were in therapy thanks
to a fund set up by the school.
Police Officer Is Charged With Aiding ISIS

By RICHARD PREZ-PEA
A police officer with the Washington transit system has become

the first American law enforcement officer to be charged with
supporting the Islamic State, accused of trying to send financial
help to the group after advising a
friend on how to travel to Syria to
join it.
In court papers filed on Tuesday
and made public on Wednesday,
federal law enforcement officials
charged the officer, Nicholas
Young, with attempting to provide
material support to a terrorist organization.
The charge is based on the allegation that Mr. Young bought gift
cards worth $245 and sent their
code numbers to someone he believed had joined ISIS in Syria, to
help the group pay for mobile
phone messaging with its
supporters in the West.
The documents state that
agents had been shadowing Mr.
Young for almost six years, that he
went to Libya twice in 2011 to aid a
rebel group fighting Muammar elQaddafi, and that he had
associated with two people convicted in 2012 on terrorism
charges: Amine El Khalifi, who
pleaded guilty to plotting a suicide
bombing at the United States Capitol; and Zachary A. Chesser, who
admitted to trying to join the
Shabab, a Somalia-based Islamist
terror group, and to threatening
violence against the creators of
the television show South Park.
Mr. Young, a United States citizen who lives in Fairfax, Va.,
joined the Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys
police force in 2003. The authority,
which said he was dismissed after
his arrest on Wednesday, would
not say where he was assigned or
what kind of work he did.
An undercover law enforcement officer who befriended and
monitored him in 2011 and 2012 reported that Mr. Young had spoken
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A law enforcement officer outside the home of Nicholas Young,

a Washington transit officer, in Fairfax, Va., on Wednesday.
of committing violence against
the F.B.I., including using gasoline
to set agents cars on fire and kidnapping and torturing an agent
who had interviewed his family
members and co-workers, according to an affidavit by an F.B.I.
agent, David Martinez.
The affidavit says that Mr.
Young knew he was probably un-
The first action of its

kind against U.S. law
enforcement.
der surveillance and that he took
steps to evade it, like using disposable phones. But it said he did talk
to the undercover officer about
sneaking weapons into a federal
courthouse,
and
stockpiling
weapons.
Mr. Young came under F.B.I.
scrutiny in 2010 because of his acquaintance with Mr. Chesser, and

then he and the undercover officer
met several times in 2011 with Mr.
Khalifi and discussed violent jihad, the affidavit says.
In 2014, an F.B.I. informant posing as an American military veteran who supported ISIS met 20
times with Mr. Young, Agent Martinez wrote. Mr. Young advised
him on how to set up anonymous
email and text messaging accounts, how to travel to Syria to
join ISIS without being caught,
and even what gear he should
take, the agent said.
Mr. Young believed the other
man went to Syria and kept in
touch with him electronically, but
in fact, he was communicating
with F.B.I. agents posing as his
friend, according to the affidavit.
When Mr. Young asked how he
could send money to ISIS without
being detected, the agents requested the gift cards, and he
bought them and sent the serial
numbers last week, it says.
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Voters Send a Message in Tossing a Tea Party Firebrand From the House
WASHINGTON Frustrated
voters in a sprawling Kansas
congressional district sent a
blunt message on Tuesday that
might yet break through the din
of this election: At some point
the government
needs to do something for them.
That sentiment
was delivered in
ON
the
harshest possiWASHINGTON
ble terms to Representative Tim Huelskamp, a
firebrand Tea Party conservative
who lost in a primary landslide
after spending most of his six
years in Washington feuding
with his own leaders. He was so
difficult to work with and troublesome that he was kicked off
the Agriculture Committee.
The loss of that crucial legislative post, and his vote against a
long-term farm bill, did not endear him to the powerful farming
interests in a state that likes its
federal agricultural aid.
Farm groups joined the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and
another deep-pocketed advocacy
group to get behind Roger Marshall, a political novice who
promised to work on behalf of
Kansas rather than rabble rouse.
Mr. Huelskamp (pronounced
HYULES-camp) had the backing
of the Koch brothers political
network as well as the conservative group Club for Growth, but it
was not enough.
Mr. Huelskamps loss to Mr.
Marshall, an obstetrician, is not a
sign of a run on congressional
incumbents or hard-right conservatives. The vast majority of
them will return next year.
But it did show that even
CARL
HULSE
residents of one of the nations

most conservative states favored
the idea of action in Washington
rather than the paralysis that
has set in.
Brian Baker, president of Ending Spending, a super PAC that
dropped $1.2 million on ads and
voter outreach against Mr.
Huelskamp, said the results
demonstrated that voters are
demanding that Republicans in
Congress work together to advance a fiscally conservative
agenda to actually end out-ofcontrol spending not just
grandstand.
Clearly, Mr. Bakers group and
other Republican-leaning interests that lined up behind Mr.
Marshall do not see Mr.
Huelskamps defeat as an invitation to open the spending
spigots.
But they do want to see a more
constructive atmosphere than
the current one, where the fundamental budget and appropriations processes are in such a
shambles that it is questionable
each year whether the government is going to be funded or
not. They want lawmakers to put
governance over obstruction.
Scott Reed, a senior political
strategist for the U.S. Chamber,
said the business group invested
nearly a year in developing a
strategy to pick off Mr. Huelskamp in a primary for the First
District seat once held by Bob
Dole, a Republican who saw
government as a positive force.
The goal, Mr. Reed said, was to
identify and support someone
who has the courage to run for
office, and once elected to come
to Washington and take their job
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Representative Tim Huelskamp at a protest last year. He lost on Tuesday in the Kansas primary.
seriously, work with leadership
and help move their district,
state and country forward, not
come here to shut down the
government.
The fight was the latest manifestation in a continuing power
struggle between more traditional business-oriented Republicans and movement conservatives who want to drastically
shrink the size of the federal
government and limit its role in
daily life. The small-government
faction credited the establish-
ment with a win but said the

fight goes on.
Republican establishment
types are taking a victory lap
today, which is a pretty good
indication they still perceive
small-government conservatives
as a threat to their governing
agenda, said Dan Holler, a
spokesman for Heritage Action
for America. He said that a
G.O.P. that embraces amnesty
and promises massive food
stamp spending in an effort to
appease the farm lobby is one
that seems destined to fail time

and time again.
Frustration with Washington
has permeated the presidential
campaigns of both parties this
year, with Hillary Clinton and
Donald J. Trump claiming to be
the candidate who could restore
some functionality. Mr. Trump
just this week pledged to outspend Mrs. Clinton on new infrastructure projects, the type of
public works spending that lawmakers used to showcase as
evidence they were delivering
for the folks back home.

But the elimination of earmarks pet spending projects
and the collapse of any kind of
predictable spending process
have deprived lawmakers of the
traditional opportunities to steer
federal money to their states.
That outcome was just fine with
Mr. Huelskamp and his allies
though evidently not with his
constituents.
Mr. Huelskamp was a leader of
an uncompromising group of
House Republicans who have
made it their job to tie up spending measures, industry subsidies
and other business-friendly
measures as well as immigration
legislation. They have perfected
the art of saying no.
He and his colleagues in the
Freedom Caucus were also a
major thorn in the side of
Speaker John A. Boehner, whom
they accused of surrendering on
spending and debt issues before
ultimately engineering his ouster
last year.
Mr. Boehner was pleased
enough with Mr. Huelskamps
defeat Tuesday night that a former aide sent me a photo of him
cheerfully toasting the outcome,
leading to it being widely distributed via Twitter and other news
coverage of the Kansas race.
A veteran Republican House
member told me years ago that
the safest vote was always no,
that it was hard to get in trouble
by opposing things. Mr.
Huelskamps defeat may be a
sign that lawmakers need to
again begin saying yes once in
a while.
Kansas Republicans Turn Away From Allies of Governor

From Page A9
That position was partly echoed
by Kelly Arnold, the chairman of
the Kansas Republican Party, who
said Tuesdays results probably
indicated some level of disapproval of current leadership in the
state, but also frustration with the
status quo at all levels of government.
I think you saw a lot of people
just kind of fed up with whats going on, the current incumbency,
and thats on the federal level and
state level, Mr. Arnold said.
In legislative races from suburbs to the states vast country-
side, concerns about finances and

tax policy repeatedly rose to the
forefront. In central Kansas, Ed
Berger, a former community
college president, defeated the
State Senate majority leader,
Terry Bruce, a major ally of Mr.
Brownback.
On his campaign website, Mr.
Berger warned that our state is
on the wrong track and our districts current senator, in lock step
with the governor, is the one leading it in the wrong direction.
Voters had concerns about the
fiscal viability of the state, I heard
that quite frequently, Mr. Berger
said in an interview on Wednes-
Moderates prevail in
at least 11 state
legislative races.
day. They know that the state
cant continue on the course that
were on.
Many of Tuesdays winners will
still face general election opponents, but no matter who is
elected in November, some have
suggested that moderate Republicans and Democrats, if they band
together, might be able to muster

enough votes to block parts of Mr.
Brownbacks agenda from becoming law.
Kerry Gooch, the executive director of the Kansas Democratic
Party, said the results in the Republican primary showed widespread discontent and frustration
among voters, and a desire for
things to change.
I definitely think it shows that
Kansans are paying attention,
Mr. Gooch said, that Kansans are
not happy with what Governor
Brownback and extreme Republican legislators have been doing to
our state for the last six years.
CHRIS NEAL/THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. Sam Brownback faces challenges to his legislative agenda

with the ouster of some conservatives in Tuesdays primary.
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Small Donations Help

Trump Narrow the Gap
From Page A1
publican nominee whose campaign could be financed chiefly by
grass-roots supporters pitching in
$10 or $25 apiece, echoing the success of Senator Bernie Sanders of
Vermont during the Democratic
primary.
The numbers released by the
Trump campaign Wednesday are
preliminary; official figures including money spent on direct
mail, which is typically expensive,
and a precise breakdown of total
cash raised in small increments
will become available when Mr.
Trump and Mrs. Clinton file formal reports with the Federal Election Commission this month.
Moreover, Mr. Trumps surge is
coming very late in the campaign,
at a point where advertising rates
climb and the chance to invest in a
long-term digital and campaign
infrastructure is long past.
And Mrs. Clintons own fundraising operation is rapidly expanding as well. In a Twitter post
on Wednesday, a spokesman for
Mrs. Clinton said that her campaign and a joint fund-raising operation with the Democratic National Committee had $102 million
on hand, not including cash held
directly by the party.
But Mr. Trumps announcement
suggests that after months of
dithering and false starts, he has
begun to exploit an opportunity:
marrying his powerful credibility
among grass-roots Republicans
with targeted small-donor fundraising, particularly online, where
Mr. Trumps website features buttons soliciting $50, $25 and even
$10 contributions.
At the end of May, Mr. Trump reported barely more than $1.3 mil-
lion in cash, alarming Republicans, who feared a financial rout

by Mrs. Clinton.
Mitt Romney, the partys 2012
nominee and a wealthy man in his
own right, was never able to stoke
intense enthusiasm among small
donors and relied disproportionately on big ones. During July of
that year, for example, Mr. Romney and the Republican National
Committee reported raising a total of just $19 million from contributions of less than $200.
Mr. Trump was able to ramp up
quickly in part through a digital
operation set up by the R.N.C.
since that campaign. Even before
Mr. Trump was the nominee, the
party built out its email list and
tested ways of targeting small
donors.
With that in place, party officials unleashed a pent-up desire
by rank-and-file Republicans to
donate to a candidate who has
bluntly attacked lobbyists and big
donors. While Mr. Trump accepted online donations during
the primary season, he did not
send out an email solicitation until
late June which brought in $3
million alone, an indication of the
well of money available to him.
The campaign has also raised
money by promising to match
small donations out of Mr.
Trumps pocket, a tactic available
only to wealthy candidates.
There was always that potential, but you didnt have candidates who were as uniquely positioned in the same way that
Trump is, said Patrick Ruffini, a
Republican strategist who ran
digital fund-raising at the Republican National Committee under
President George W. Bush.
But Mr. Trumps surge also em-
MARK MAKELA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Donald J. Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Monday. His website features buttons soliciting $50, $25 and even $10 contributions.
phasizes the complication for Republicans in having him at the
head of their party. He is relying
more on small-donor fund-raising
in part because he has faced opposition from some of the partys biggest patrons, such as Meg Whitman, a California business executive, who said Monday that she
was so disgusted with Mr. Trump
that she would vote for Mrs. Clinton.
To bolster his low-dollar fundraising, Mr. Trump and his team
are now working to assuage the

broader pool of affluent Republican donors and fund-raisers. In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has laid off
his criticisms of the partys donor
class and scheduled an array of
formal fund-raising events for Republican donors in money centers
like Florida and New York.
Moreover, even as his name and
followers are helping fund Republican get-out-the-vote efforts
around the country, Mr. Trump is
feuding with the partys senior
leadership, pointedly refusing to

endorse prominent Republicans
facing Trump-inspired primary
opponents, such as the one challenging Representative Paul D.
Ryan of Wisconsin, the House
speaker.
And it is the Republican National Committee that is providing
much of the technical expertise
that has allowed Mr. Trump to
quickly increase his low-dollar
fund-raising, some Republican officials said.
Even as relations fray between

Mr. Trump and some fellow Republicans, the party and Mr.
Trump each needs the other. And
Mr. Trump, as the nominee and
the fund-raising tent pole for the
party, may have the upper hand.
Under normal circumstances,
the party would have money as
leverage, Mr. Ruffini said. They
could cut off fund-raising to a candidate who misbehaves. And that
leverage has been taken completely away.
Trumps Missteps and Obamas Policies Have Some Republicans Toeing a Thin Line
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
WASHINGTON When Donald J. Trump goes low, congressional Republicans go quiet.

Their tolerance of Mr. Trump,
even at the risk of humiliation,
stems from a complex brew of political, policy and personal calculations that differ somewhat between party leaders and officials
up for re-election.
But on one point, all sides
agree: They have never seen a
comparable situation, with a presidential nominee in open warfare
with party leaders after a nominating convention. And Mr.
Trumps provocations are making
the Republicans control of the
Senate, perhaps even the House,
more tenuous.
Many Republicans, even those
whose contempt for Mr. Trump
matches their ill will for President
Obama, still view the choice between Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton as a binary one, with longterm implications for every policy
area they care about, from judicial
appointments to the economy to
immigration. They believe that
Mr. Trump, guided by a Republican-controlled Congress, would
break their way more than Mrs.
Clinton ever would.
For others, the vacancy on the
Supreme Court and its potential
to reshape the high courts rulings
for years overshadows almost
everything else, even their nominees increasingly erratic statements and grasp of basic facts.
The Supreme Court is probably the choice that will have the
single most long-term effect on
the nation, said Representative

Jason Chaffetz, Republican of
Utah, where Mr. Trump is struggling to win over an overwhelmingly Republican state.
Congressional
Republicans
who are up for re-election especially the handful like Senators
John McCain of Arizona and Kelly
Ayotte of New Hampshire who
still face primaries have made a
basic calculation. They have criticized Mr. Trump, but not withdrawn their endorsements. And
party leaders have decided the
more distance they put between
themselves and Mr. Trump, the
more likely they are to lose their
congressional majorities.
Alienating
Mr.
Trumps
supporters would cost them just
enough votes to lose their seats.
Their fears at this point appear
justified. A poll conducted the last
week of July by CBS News found
that support for Mr. Trump among
Republican voters rose to 81 percent from 79 percent.
So the leaders largely responded to Mr. Trumps attacks
with feigned indifference.
Republican elected officials
are in a tough spot, said Nathan
L. Gonzales, the editor of The
Rothenberg & Gonzales Political
Report, a nonpartisan newsletter.
They are criticized for not listening to the grass roots and criticized for not denouncing the
nominee chosen by the grass
roots. Some Republicans are reluctant to attack Donald Trump
because theyd risk alienating 35
to 40 percent of the party who supported him in the primaries.
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire is among a handful of

Republican incumbents who are seen as vulnerable this fall.
Mr. Trump pointedly declined
on Tuesday to endorse Speaker
Paul D. Ryan, the nations highestranking elected Republican, and
verged on outright opposition to
Mr. McCain and Ms. Ayotte, just
hours after Mr. Obama challenged
Republicans to denounce their
nominee.
Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump
have put Republicans into an untenable position: Criticizing their
nominee could be seen as taking
the advice of a president whom
their core voters strongly dislike,
potentially alienating the very
people they need for re-election
but sitting idly as Mr. Trump attacks them and makes inflammatory comments might alienate
more moderate voters.
If you are repeatedly having to

say, in very strong terms, that
what he has said is unacceptable,
why are you still endorsing him?
Mr. Obama asked during a news
conference on Tuesday.
Mr. Ryans spokesman tersely
responded that the speaker had
never sought Mr. Trumps endorsement, and Ms. Ayotte more
or less brushed off the matter, saying, I call it like I see it, in reference to her defense of a fallen
Army captain whose family Mr.
Trump had derided. While many
Republicans are hoping for ticket
splitters those who might vote
Democrat for president but Republican on the rest of the ticket
the parsing is all the more difficult.
Many experts are skeptical that

the approach can work. In 2008
and 2010, voters did not draw distinctions, said Fergus Cullen, a
former chairman of the New
Hampshire Republican Party. It
was not like Passover, where the
door was marked, This one
should be spared. No, the Angel of
Death came in and said, No, lets
kill them all.
It is not just a question of individual desires to win re-election
although that certainly drives
many of the statements about Mr.
Trump that come short of rescinding an endorsement. Republicans
believe they need to maintain the
House and the Senate, through a
hoped-for blend of votes from
their base and anti-Trump split
tickets, to pursue a policy agenda.
The speakers goal, one that
you set collectively with members
of your conference, is to promote
ideas and enact policies that make
a difference, said Kevin Madden,
a Republican operative who once
worked for former Speaker John
A. Boehner. The political reality,
though, is that this goal can only
be reached if members are not put
at risk because the top of the national ticket underperforms.
Republican leaders also know
that in an anti-Washington election cycle, the core of the party
would most likely be disposed to
reject candidates who embody the
Washington establishment.
This was the lesson Senator Ted
Cruz of Texas learned when he
was booed from the stage at the
Republican convention last month
for declining to get behind Mr.
Trump, and accounts for some of

the heat that Senator Ben Sasse of
Nebraska, a founder of the Never
Trump movement, has taken from
his party back home this year.
Then, there is the vehement opposition to Mrs. Clinton, especially how they view her role in the
Benghazi attacks, that has dominated the airwaves for years
among Republicans.
I happen to think that lying to
the American people is a step way
above and beyond some of the disappointing rhetoric of Donald
Trump, said Mr. Chaffetz, the
chairman of the House Oversight
Committee. He added: Nothing
united Republicans more than Hillary Clinton.
Some still may pull away. On
Tuesday, Representative Richard
Hanna, Republican of New York,
said he would endorse Mrs. Clinton for president, calling Mr.
Trump unfit to serve.
But Mr. Hanna is not representative of the broader Republican
conference. He came to Congress
as an outsider and never fit neatly
into the typical boxes, Mr. Gonzales said. He would have had another serious primary challenge
this year, if he had decided to seek
re-election. But since hes retiring,
he apparently feels even more
freedom to say whats on his
mind.
But if Mr. Trump falls in the
polls and Republicans running for
re-election start to realize they
would do better separating from
him and digging deeper for ticketsplitting voters, Mr. Hanna might
not be alone.
Pence Splits With Trump Over Endorsing House Speaker

From Page A1
little regard for the conventions of
politics. And he is plainly angry
that Mr. Ryan continues to criticize him for his inflammatory remarks. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump
said Im just not quite there yet
when asked in an interview with
The Washington Post if he was
supporting Mr. Ryans re-election.
Mr. Trumps choice of words
sounded familiar: In May, Mr.
Ryan said he was not ready to
endorse Mr. Trump for president
(the speaker subsequently did.)
In a phone conversation between Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump
on Wednesday morning, according to someone with knowledge of
the call, Mr. Trump brought up his
Washington Post interview. Mr.
Pence, who served in the House
with Mr. Ryan, said that while he
understood where Mr. Trump was
coming from, he personally was
inclined to support Mr. Ryan. Mr.
Trump agreed that he should.
But it was not just Mr. Trumps
rebuff of Mr. Ryan that was causing difficulties for Mr. Pence: The
Republican
vice-presidential
nominee also happened to be
meeting in Arizona on Tuesday
night with Senator John McCain,
just hours after Mr. Trump said in
the same Washington Post interview that he also was not ready to
Patrick Healy and Noah Remnick
contributed reporting.
endorse Mr. McCains campaign.

Mr. McCain was cordial but direct with Mr. Pence, according to a
Republican briefed on the meeting, making clear that he hoped
the Indiana governor could help
rein in Mr. Trump. After their conversation, Mr. Pence offered effusive praise for Mr. McCain in an interview with an Arizona TV station.
But it was Mr. Trumps slight of
Mr. Ryan that exasperated party
officials most.
The speaker is facing a primary
challenge in Wisconsin on Tuesday from a businessman, Paul
Nehlen, who is running on a populist platform similar to Mr.
Trumps. Mr. Nehlen came to Mr.
Trumps defense this week after
Mr. Ryan implicitly criticized the
Republican nominee for ridiculing
the Muslim parents of an American soldier, Capt. Humayun Khan,
who was killed in Iraq. That
prompted Mr. Trump to thank Mr.
Nehlen on Twitter. And on Tuesday, Mr. Trump told the Washington Post that Mr. Nehlen was running a very good campaign.
This flirtation with Mr. Ryans
challenger has infuriated Wisconsins leading Republicans. Gov.
Scott Walker, who ran for president himself, and Senator Ron
Johnson indicated that they would
not join Mr. Trump for a scheduled
appearance in Green Bay this
week. And Mr. Walker on Wednesday posted a photograph of him-
self with Mr. Ryan on Twitter, saying,We stand with Paul Ryan!
Mr. Walker did not respond to a
question about Mr. Trump but said
in an email that Paul Ryan will
win because he is totally in touch
with his district.
Mr. Priebus, a Wisconsin native, is also said to be livid over Mr.
Trumps remarks about Mr. Ryan
and debating the best way to demonstrate his solidarity with Mr.
Ryan, from a formal endorsement
to an email publicly stating his
support, said three people with
A party worries
about consequences
down the ballot.
knowledge of Mr. Priebuss internal discussions.
Mr. Priebus has not had a direct
conversation with Mr. Trump over
the Ryan matter, according to people close to him. But he has been in
contact with some of Mr. Trumps
children.
Since endorsing Mr. Trump, Mr.
Ryan has continued to distance
himself from the Republican
nominee on several matters, from
Mr. Trumps proposed ban on
Muslims entering the country to
his comments criticizing Khizr
and Ghazala Khan, Captain
Khans parents.
Mr. Priebus has made a point of
staying neutral in all aspects of
Republican primaries, including
when asked to speak out against
Mr. Trump. Deciding to publicly
back Mr. Ryan in his primary
would be a step away from that.
For Mr. Priebus, Mr. Trumps
comments about Mr. Ryan were
just the latest indignity in a week
full of them. Earlier, Mr. Trump
had criticized the Khan family for
their speech at the Democratic
National Convention and implied
that Ms. Khan had not spoken because of her religion. Ms. Khan
said she did not speak because she
was worried she would be overcome with grief.
Mr. Trumps missteps in the
weeks since the Republican convention have spurred a degree of
open criticism among otherwise
supportive party officials rarely
seen since he secured enough delegates for the nomination in May.
On Wednesday, two Republican
congressman who had expressed
misgivings about Mr. Trump,
Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and
Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania,
said definitively that they could
not support him. The day before,
another Republican congressman, Richard Hanna of New York,
endorsed Mrs. Clinton. In the Senate, Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, has been outspoken in
opposing Mr. Trump.
Party officials are hamstrung
SCOTT M cINTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Donald J. Trump on Wednesday in Jacksonville, Fla. At an earlier rally, he cited national security in criticizing Hillary Clinton.
there is no mechanism for removing Mr. Trump as the partys candidate; he would have to step
down himself. Nonetheless, party
leaders are said to be furious at
the controversies involving him.
There are now active discussions among high-ranking Republican officials about how much
longer the party can wait before
recasting their focus away from
Mr. Trump and toward down-ballot candidates. One adviser to Mr.
Priebus indicated that, much as
the party did when Bob Doles
presidential campaign was flagging in 1996, officials may have to
turn their attention to congressional and governors races as
early as next month.
Some Republican strategists,
however, have little sympathy for
the party committee, noting that it
smoothed the way for Mr. Trumps
nomination
by
aggressively
putting down efforts to let delegates vote their conscience.
And, many in the party note, Mr.
Priebus can hardly act surprised
about Mr. Trumps erratic behavior, given his string of inflammatory comments since entering the
race. You would have to have had
your eyes wide shut for the last
year to think he would act differently in the general than he did in
the primary, said Josh Holmes, a
top adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority
leader.
At a campaign event in Daytona
Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, Mr.
Trump seized on national security
and terrorism to lash into Mrs.
Clinton, suggesting that if he had
been president, the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks would not have happened.
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In Colorado, Clinton Leads Trump in the Polls and in Presence

By TRIP GABRIEL
and NOAH REMNICK
COMMERCE CITY, Colo.

With polls showing Colorado slipping from the grasp of Donald J.
Trump, Hillary Clinton sought to
close and bolt the door on him
Wednesday, campaigning in a
heavily Hispanic community,
while the Trump campaign dispatched Mike Pence to rally the
states bloc of social conservatives.
In a sign of growing confidence
in what it calls its Sun Belt
states electoral path, the Clinton
campaign pulled its television ads
in Colorado last week, shifting resources elsewhere, as polls show
Mrs. Clinton running stronger in
the diverse Rocky Mountain battleground than President Obama
did in his 2012 re-election race.
Mrs. Clintons visit to Commerce City, a blue-collar community outside Denver whose population is nearly 50 percent Hispanic, was strategically chosen. It
is in a vulnerable Republican congressional district, whose incumbent, Representative Mike Coffman, has gone out of his way to
distance himself from Mr. Trump.
Mr. Coffmans efforts to reach
out to Hispanics including
learning Spanish as an adult and
participating in a Spanish-language debate contrast with Mr.
Trumps pledge of a deportation
force targeting illegal immigrants.
Trumps a walking get-out-thevote billboard for Hispanics who
oppose him, said David Flaherty, a
Republican pollster and strategist
in Colorado. He predicted the Hispanic vote could be as high as 18
percent of the states voters, surpassing the turnout in 2012.
A relaxed Mrs. Clinton was regularly drowned out by nearly delirious supporters as she checked
off her priorities in a high school
gym, with a heavy emphasis on
spending for education and infrastructure, including a modern
electric grid.
She also received a huge applause for praising Denvers transit system, not the usual campaign red meat.
Trump supporters still see a
Trip Gabriel reported from Commerce City, and Noah Remnick
from Denver.
U.S. Seeking
Ways to Keep
Hackers Out
Of Ballot Box
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
BRENNAN LINSLEY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, spoke at a campaign rally in Denver on Wednesday.
path for him here, because of wide
desire for change in Washington
and because many Coloradans tell
pollsters that they are undecided.
If you can bring 100,000 voters
in Colorado who feel disaffected
by both political parties, a candidate like Trump who promises to
pull down the pillars might really
resonate, said Ryan Call, a former chairman of the state Republican Party.
Mr. Pence, Mr. Trumps running
mate, spoke in Denver, where he
mocked the rush by Democrats
and the news media to declare Mr.
Trump down for the count after
each days gaffe.
The party in power seems
helpless to figure our nominee
out, he said, clarifying that he
meant Democrats and the news
media. They keep saying that,
you know, now we got him. They
think the usual methods are going

to work against him.
Then you get up the next
morning, and Donald Trump is
still standing tall and fighting for
the American people, he added.
Mrs. Clinton got her own licks in
at her opponent. She announced a
new website that lists American
companies where Mr. Trump
could have manufactured his
branded ties, suits and barware
rather than outsourcing the work.
Mrs. Clinton pulled ahead of Mr.
Trump in polls of Colorado in July.
A recent NBC News survey gave
her a lead of eight percentage
points, but 21 percent of registered
voters said they were undecided
or would not support either major
party candidate.
Demographically, Mr. Trump is
bucking the tide of younger voters
who first registered to support Mr.

Obama during his two campaigns.
Since 2004, Republicans have had
a drop of almost 10 points among
registered voters under 45.
Mr. Call, who is advising a proTrump super PAC, worried that
the Trump campaign is being
badly outhustled by Democrats in
grass-roots organizing. The Clinton campaign and the state
Democratic Party are opening
their 14th field office in Colorado
this week. Mr. Trump is almost
completely reliant on the local Republican Party for a ground game,
and races like Mr. Coffmans will
receive more priority.
At one point, Mrs. Clinton announced that the campaign was
still hiring organizers in the state.
She can afford to. On Tuesday
night, she attended a fund-raising
dinner in Aspen, where about 65
guests contributed $10,000 each,

according to a campaign aide.
Colorados most crucial swing
voters are independent women 45
and older. Those ladies decide
our elections, Mr. Flaherty said.
Theyre reluctant right now to
support
Hillary,
but
the
Democratic convention was a step
in the right direction.
Jenny Howard, 44, an accountant in the Denver suburb of Englewood,
is
one
of
those
independents. She called herself
a Republican at heart, but is
frightened of Mr. Trumps temper
and shoot-from-the-hip outbursts.
He spreads more fear than
hope, she said. I will probably be
voting for Hillary. It will be under
duress and not something I will be
proud of, but I feel a vote for
Trump will definitely further divide our country.
Hopeful of Victory, Democrats Want More: End of Trump Movement

By AMY CHOZICK
Democrats had hoped the partys convention last week in Philadelphia would win over skeptical
voters and ease concerns about
Hillary Clintons trustworthiness,
giving her a slight advantage in an
unpredictable election year.
But after Donald J. Trump criticized the parents of a slain Muslim-American soldier, that cautious optimism morphed into a
widespread belief that the race
had fundamentally shifted in Mrs.
Clintons favor.
Its a more permanent turning
point, said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.
Allies remain skittish and say
that by many measures, Mrs. Clinton is a weak candidate with a
muddled message who faces an
electorate in which a majority of
voters do not trust or like her.
But Mr. Trumps inability to
seize on his own partys convention and emerge a more disciplined candidate has eased early
concerns that he could appeal to a
broader electorate in the fall.
People are waking up to how
unsound Donald Trump is, said
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut. He specifically pointed to Mr.
Trumps criticism of Khizr and
Ghazala Khan, the parents of the
slain soldier, Capt. Humayun
Khan, who was killed by a suicide
bomber in Iraq.
He couldnt have done a better
job of reminding people who were
on the fence why they cant vote
for him, Mr. Malloy said.
Democrats, prompted by Mr.
Trumps latest antics and the
string of Republicans who have
spoken out against him, have, perhaps prematurely, started discussing a loftier goal than just
winning in November: a wide
margin of victory, driven by a
record turnout among black,
Latino and young voters, that
could help squash Mr. Trumps
movement.
David Plouffe, President Obamas former campaign manager,
proposed the idea in June. It is
not enough to simply beat Trump,
he wrote on Twitter. He must be
destroyed thoroughly. His kind
must not rise again.
The proposition seemed farfetched at the time, given the realities of the electoral map and
Mrs. Clintons weaknesses. But in
recent days, Democrats and
advisers have, delicately, embraced the idea.
The first order of business is
winning, said Geoff Garin, a
strategist for Mrs. Clintons 2008
campaign who now advises Priorities USA Action, a pro-Clinton
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Hillary Clinton at the Knotty Tie Company, where many refugees work, on Wednesday in Denver.
super PAC. But the larger
stakes of the election are putting
the country on a path where
Trumps views of the world are far
in our rearview mirror.
Senator Barbara Boxer of California said that a Democratic win
in November was far from guaranteed, but that she hoped for a
complete revulsion of the Trump
wing that would lead to a realignment of the Republican
Party.
Mr. Obama, who is known to be
competitive, has also prioritized
making sure the voters who
backed him in 2008 and 2012 turn
Seeking a decisive win

driven by a big turnout
of minority voters.
out in equal numbers for Mrs.
Clinton. He wants them to not
just vote for him but to vote for the
issues he cares about, said Dan
Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to
Mr. Obama.
Mr. Plouffe, elaborating on his
earlier Twitter post, said in an
email, This could still be a relatively close race, but its more
likely to be a blowout than a
Trump win.
Trying to seize on her postconvention edge, Mrs. Clinton has
campaigned in Republican areas
of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and

held a rally in deep-red Nebraska
on Monday. She is asking voters to
put country over party as she
scorns Mr. Trump over his hiring
of foreign workers at his country
clubs. Shame on you, Donald
Trump, Mrs. Clinton said on Sunday.
In the days since the convention, Mrs. Clinton has improved
her polling lead against Mr.
Trump by seven percentage
points, with 52 percent of Americans saying they would vote for
her, compared with 43 percent for
Mr. Trump, according to a CNN/
ORC poll released on Monday.
Other polls have echoed those results.
For the first time, Mrs. Clinton
holds a lead against Mr. Trump
among voters regarding the economy, with 50 percent saying they
trust her compared with 48 percent for Mr. Trump, who led on the
issue by 11 percentage points in
July.
Donald Trump did not do anything to expand his appeal beyond
his core supporters, said Brian
Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign. Mrs. Clinton, he
added, has made inroads with
voters who might not have supported her previously.
Even so, todays extreme partisan divisions make blowouts like
Lyndon B. Johnsons 1964 defeat of
Barry Goldwater and Richard
Nixons 1972 victory over George
McGovern unimaginable, presidential historians said.
Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who hold extreme conservative or liberal
views has doubled to 21 percent in
2014 from 10 percent in 1994, according to the Pew Research Center. And the middle has shrunk.
Its closer than anyone of us
would want it to be, said John L.
Burton, the chairman of the California Democratic Party. Those
who say, Lets have the Nixon
sweep against McGovern, are
talking through their hat.
Even with a newfound spring in
their step, Mrs. Clintons aides say
she will not have anything resembling an easy or predictable ride
to Election Day.
They pointed to a range of
variables that could reverse Mrs.
Clintons fortunes, including potential revelations in another
trove of hacked emails. Julian Assange, the founder of the group
WikiLeaks, which released 20,000
emails from the Democratic National Committees server, has
pledged to release additional
emails to weaken Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton has only recently
emerged from an F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private server at the State Department, and although there were no indictments,
questions persist about her judgment and trustworthiness in handling her emails.
In the past two months, Mr.
Trump and the Republican National Committee saw a flood of
online donations to help him almost bridge the financial divide
with Mrs. Clinton, another sign

that the race could be closer than
expected.
Matthew Dowd, an independent political consultant and former strategist for George W.
Bush, pointed out that no candidate has come out of a convention
with unfavorable ratings as high
as Mrs. Clintons and gone on to
win the White House. But unlike
most candidates, Mrs. Clinton
faces a fall contest against an opponent who is even more disliked.
Its like two villains from a Batman movie are running against
each other and voters say, Im going to go with the one who isnt the
crazy Joker, Mr. Dowd said.
But in the past few days, even
skittish
Democrats
have
demonstrated confidence that Mr.
Trump has made the conversation
about himself and the swirl of controversy over his words in his own
party, rather than attacking Mrs.
Clinton.
In interviews, several of Mrs.
Clintons allies pointed to a threemonth sprint to Election Day in
which they predicted that Mr.
Trump would continue to distract
from his message and that Mrs.
Clintons campaign could quietly
work to build up her support and
register voters in critical battlegrounds.
These Democrats pointed to Mr.
Trumps presumably laying the
groundwork for a prolonged postLabor Day fight over whether he
will participate in the presidential
debates. He expressed complaints
this week that the bipartisan commission that arranges the events
had scheduled two of the three to
take place during professional
football games.
I dont think theres any question hell drive the next 11 weeks,
said William M. Daley, Mr. Obamas former White House chief of
staff. Shes out there with a message, whether its moving anything, great. But hes embroiled.
Mrs. Clintons reliance on Mr.
Trumps misfires, rather than the
strength or resonance of her own
message, is an inherently risky
strategy, Mr. Dowd said. What if
for the next 90 days he stops
shooting himself in the foot? he
asked.
But Democrats said the period
of wondering whether Mr. Trump
could become a more disciplined
candidate had ended with his attacks on the Khans.
Its like saying if I became
eight feet tall, Id be a great starter
for the Cleveland Cavaliers, said
Guy Cecil, chief strategist at Priorities USA Action. Its never going to happen.
WASHINGTON The Obama

administration is weighing new
steps to bolster the security of the
United States voting process
against cyberthreats, including
whether to designate the electronic ballot-casting system for
Novembers elections as critical
infrastructure, Jeh Johnson, the
secretary of Homeland Security,
said on Wednesday.
In the wake of hacks that infiltrated Democratic campaign computer systems, Mr. Johnson said
he was conducting high-level discussions about election cybersecurity, a vastly complex effort
given that there are 9,000 jurisdictions in the United States that
have a hand in carrying out the
balloting, many of them with different ways of collecting, tallying
and reporting votes.
We should carefully consider
whether our election system, our
election process is critical infrastructure, like the financial sector,
like the power grid, Mr. Johnson
told reporters in Washington.
Theres a vital national interest
in our electoral process.
A national commission created
as part of a voting overhaul enacted in 2002 in response to the
controversy surrounding the 2000
presidential election raised the
bar on security, Mr. Johnson said.
But there is more to do, he added. The nature of cyberthreats
has evolved.
Mr. Johnson said he was considering communicating with state
and local election officials across
Differences in voting
practices nationally
present a challenge.
the country to inform them about
best practices to guard against
cyberintrusions, and that longerterm investments would probably
have to be made to secure the voting process.
There are various different
points in the process that we have
to be concerned about, so this is
something that we are very focused on right at the moment, Mr.
Johnson said.
His comments were the latest
evidence that recent cyberintrusions have caused alarm in the administration about the potential
for hacking to disrupt the election,
and how to respond.
The administration on Wednesday played down the dangers,
saying voters should not worry
about cyberattacks wreaking havoc with the election.
There are risks out there, said
Josh Earnest, the press secretary.
But I think the American people
can have quite a bit of confidence
in our ability to mitigate those
risks.
Mr. Earnest said the administration was committed to offering
support to state and local governments so they could protect the integrity of the voting process, but
that given the varied practices
and software used in different jurisdictions, there could be no single method for doing so.
That varied infrastructure and
those different systems also pose
a difficult challenge to potential
hackers, Mr. Earnest added. Its
difficult to identify a common vulnerability.
The F.B.I. is investigating the
hack of the Democratic National
Committee, and Mr. Johnson said
officials had yet to attribute it to a
particular actor or actors. But private investigators have identified
the suspects, and United States intelligence agencies have told the
White House that they have high
confidence that the Russian government was responsible.
Without
commenting
specifically on that breach, Mr.
Johnson said it was vital for
employers to emphasize to their
employees the importance of not
falling prey to spear phishing, in
which a hacker, posing as a
trusted source, sends a fake email
in an attempt to compromise the
security of a computer network.
The most devastating, intrusive attacks by the most sophisticated actors often originate
with a simple act of spear phishing, Mr. Johnson said.
Even some of his own
employees have been caught by
such gimmicks, Mr. Johnson added. He said the Department of
Homeland Security had run exercises in which employees receive
an email offering free tickets to
Washington Redskins football
games if they click a link.
Theyre told to report at a certain time and place to pick up their
free Redskins tickets, Mr. Johnson said. They get a cybersecurity lecture instead.
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Instagram Posts May Have Escalated Fatal Standoff in Maryland, Police Say
By DANIEL VICTOR
A police standoff in Randallstown, Md., on Monday in which a

23-year-old woman with a shotgun was killed after the police say
she had been encouraged by her
online followers to defy their orders has highlighted an unexpected role of social media in violent
encounters.
During the standoff, which
lasted several hours, videos from
inside the apartment were posted
to the Instagram account of the
woman, Korryn Gaines, 23, whose
5-year-old son was also in the
home, according to the Baltimore
County Police Department.
The police said Ms. Gaines had
repeatedly pointed her shotgun at
officers, at least once while her
son was in her arms. At one point,
she said she would kill the officers
if they did not leave, the police
said. An officer fired once at Ms.

Gaines, and she fired back, the police said. Then officers fired three
shots, killing Ms. Gaines. Her son
also sustained injuries, though
they are not considered lifethreatening.
Critics of the police have welcomed social media especially
live video as a way to document
interactions with officers, hoping
it would lead to better police behavior or eliminate conflicting
stories. In July, a Facebook video
broadcast by the girlfriend of Philando Castile after an officer shot
him during a traffic stop in Minnesota drew wide attention.
But in the case of Ms. Gaines,
according to the police, it may
have escalated the encounter.
While the standoff continued,
the police in Baltimore County
submitted a request to Facebook
which owns Instagram to deactivate but not delete her accounts. Facebook cooperated,
temporarily making her Facebook
and Instagram posts inaccessible.
Its key for these trained
negotiators to be able to interact
with the subject without distraction, without interference from
the outside, said Elise Armacost,
a Baltimore County police spokeswoman.
The episode highlights Facebooks increasingly complicated
role in documenting violence, and
in some cases, its active place in
the middle of it.
Before the shots were fired, the
Instagram posts caught the polices attention. In one of the
videos, Ms. Gaines asked her son:
Whats happening outside right
now? Whos outside?
The police, the boy said.
Some online followers

encouraged a woman
to defy orders.
And what are they trying to
do? she asked.
They trying to kill us, he said.
The police said some of the comments people left on the posts encouraged her to defy orders to surrender peacefully.
Facebook has been forced to
wrestle with how it handles violent content, especially because
several shootings have been captured using Facebooks live video
after the feature rolled out to all
users in April.
Facebook moderators decide
what violent content can remain,

though the company will take it
down if it appears to glorify violence. Though the videos on Ms.
Gainess account were not live,
one of them was taken down for violating Facebooks community
standards related to threats of
physical harm, the company said.
Law enforcement officials can
submit emergency requests to
Facebook when someones safety
is at risk. Moderators at Facebook, including members of its legal team, review those requests,
the company said.
In the last half of 2015 the
most recent figures made available Facebook received 855 requests from the government for
emergency disclosures, when
disclosure without delay is required due to a risk of serious
physical harm or death to any per-
son. The company provided data

in 73.45 percent of the requests.
The police were trying to serve
Ms. Gaines with an arrest warrant
after she failed to appear in court
for charges related a traffic stop in
March, the police said. After she
refused to allow the police to enter,
an officer obtained a key; Ms.
Gaines was on the floor holding a
shotgun and her son, the police
said. They called for backup, and
the standoff began.
At a news conference on Tuesday, the police chief, James Johnson, said officers showed restraint
throughout the standoff despite
officers being in danger.
The entire time, throughout
the afternoon, she would repeatedly point the weapon at our personnel, and they maintained
firearms discipline throughout,
he said.
An $82 Billion Industry

Braces for the Zika Virus
Travel Warning for Pregnant Women
Could Dampen Tourism in Florida
By KAREN SCHWARTZ
After enduring the years of ups

and downs that came with being a
part of Wynwoods transformation from a struggling warehouse
district into Miamis hot new
neighborhood, the restaurateur
Ivette Naranjo thought the worst
was behind her.
Her Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
hosted large events for HBO, Absolut and Audi, where up to 600
hipsters could drink and dance to
a DJ spinning vinyl in the garden.
On weekends, an even mix of locals and tourists sipped cocktails
with names like Hot Passion and
critiqued the art in the adjacent
gallery.
Then came Zika.
After Fridays announcement
that mosquitoes carrying the virus had been found in a square
mile of Wynwood, this past Saturday was her worst night ever.
Usually we have from 250 to
350 people a night in the summer,
and we had about 40 people come
in, Ms. Naranjo said.
The news grew worse on Monday, when the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention issued the
first Zika travel advisory in the
United States, cautioning pregnant women to avoid Wynwood.
Though the warning comes in
August, traditionally a slow season for tourism in Miami, it does
coincide with the time that many
travelers are looking to make
their plans for winter vacations. It
has left hoteliers and others in the
travel industry nervous that the
warning will dampen Floridas
$82 billion tourism industry.
Hotel chains declined to release
figures for the week, but travel
agents said they received many
inquiries, but that only a few people changed plans.
Mondays initial rush of 30 canceled reservations with Ovation
Vacations in New York, decreased
to eight on Tuesday and none on
Wednesday, said its president,
Jack Ezon.
Most were families or young
Shivani Vora contributed reporting.
couples, he said, echoing the experience of Kristen Korey Pike, the

founder of KK Travels Worldwide
in Atlanta, who said the handful of
cancellations her agency received
mostly came from pregnant women and young couples.
If travelers reactions to the virus in Florida mirrors their attitude to the much larger outbreak
of Zika in the Caribbean, the immediate effect may be pronounced, followed by a slight rebound in interest among prospective visitors. Business travel, however, may decline.
When the Zika virus began
spreading throughout the Caribbean in January, the C.D.C.
warned pregnant women and
those planning to become pregnant against traveling to affected
areas, including destinations like
Puerto Rico and Barbados, as well
as Mexico, Brazil and Panama.
The effect was almost immediate.
Many airlines, cruise lines and hotels implemented refund policies
for travelers who wanted to
change their plans.
Throughout the year, the number of people searching for flights
to Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Barbados and
Jamaica would drop after each
new report from the C.D.C., but
would eventually bounce back. By
early July, searches for those
countries were at their highest
level for the year, said Spencer
MacDonald, a spokesman for the
internet travel site lilgo.com.
Still, looking is not the same as
buying, and an 11 percent increase
in hotel bookings in Puerto Rico in
January was followed by declines
of 3 percent in February, 5 percent
in March, and 4 percent in April,
the most recent month for figures,
according to Ingrid I. Rivera-Rocafort, the executive director of
the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.
Hotels in the Caribbean took a
hit in the first four months of 2016
partly because of the Zika virus,
according to the consulting and
analytics division at STR, a data
company specializing in hotels.
ALAN DIAZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A county mosquito control worker spraying a home in the Wynwood area of Miami, where there is a square-mile travel advisory.
Occupancy decreased 3 percent to
72.9 percent compared with the
same period in 2015.
Looking ahead, Ms. Rivera-Rocafort of the Puerto Rico agency
said that 41,000 room nights were
canceled over the next two years,
for a loss of $28 million.
Not included in those figures is
a conference for 600 people by the
American Lighting Association,
which in June called off its annual
conference, scheduled for the El
Conquistador in Puerto Rico in
September.
Bottom line: We didnt want to
put any one person at risk, said
Eric Jacobson, the president of the
trade group. Its 2017 conference is
in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Other warm-weather destinations are also likely to host fewer
conferences in coming years.
The Bahamas had 23 medical
conferences scheduled for 2016,
and has only eight thus far for
next year. Costa Rica had 29 this
year and has 10 for next year, the
Dominican Republic had five for
this year and none for next, and
Florida has 1,404 for this year, and

only 455 scheduled so far for next,
according to figures provided by
Priya Korrapti, founder of eMedEvents, which lists more than
50,000
medical
conferences
worldwide on its website.
Even though events can be added, most are announced at least
six months in advance.
We do see a reduction in the
number of conferences being announced in places affected by Zika
for the year 2017, Ms. Korrapti
said from her office in Colorado.
Among leisure travelers, some
trips are being postponed until
couples are done having children.
Aiyana Spahr, 33, and her husband, Erik, canceled their planned
getaway from the cold of Hollis,
N.H., to St. John in the U.S. Virgin
Islands in February after learning
she was pregnant with their second, and final, child.
We thought about traveling to
different places when we canceled
our St. John trip, but I didnt even
want to risk going to Florida, so
we just decided to put it off, she
said. The baby is due at the end of

the month, so we are hoping to basically do the trip to St. John some
time in December or February.
Jim Bendt, the chief executive
of Pique Travel Design in Minneapolis, said he too was finding that
families were reassured once they
learned that the C.D.C. guidelines
apply only to those who are pregnant or plan to start a family.
While he did have a cancellation
this week from a couple scheduled
to go on their honeymoon in Miami, others are continuing to plan
trips to areas with Zika.
Jet Blue said it would issue refunds or rebook the flights of passengers traveling to any Zika-affected areas, including Miami.
But, some airlines are not issuing refunds for Miami flights,
even to pregnant women. The
C.D.C. is not telling people not to
travel to Miami they are saying
that pregnant women should
avoid the Wynwood area of Miami
so we dont see the need to offer
refunds, said an American Airlines spokesman, Ross Feinstein.
Why Farm Dust May Help

Block Asthma in Children
From Page A1
The most consistent findings
were from studies that compared
children who grew up on farms
less asthma with children who
grew up in other environments.
But in every case, there were
many other differences between
the children who had less asthma
and those who had more. So it was
not clear what exactly might have
led to different asthma rates.
What was missing was evidence that one essential factor in
the environment was protecting
children. And what was needed
was a reason it had exerted its effect. The new study provides this,
asthma researchers say, which is
what makes its results so spectacular.
It is still early. The study was
small, and even though its results
were striking, more work needs to
be done. But, said Dr. Brian
Christman, an immunologist at
Vanderbilt University and a volunteer spokesman for the American Lung Association, They really nailed it.
The new work began when a
group of investigators noticed
that something peculiar was happening with children from two insular farming groups: the Amish
of Indiana and the Hutterites of
North Dakota. Asthma is rare
among the Amish, affecting 2 to 4
percent of the population, but
common among the Hutterites,
with 15 to 20 percent affected.
Yet the Amish and the
Hutterites have similar genetic

backgrounds.
The
Amish
originated in Switzerland, the
Hutterites in Austria. Members of
both groups have large families
and a very simple lifestyle. Their
diets are similar, children in both
groups have little exposure to tobacco smoke or polluted air, and
both groups forbid indoor pets.
Both groups also have meticulously clean homes.
There was one difference,
though: farming methods. The
Amish live on single-family dairy
farms. They do not use electricity,
and use horses to pull their plows
and for transportation. Their
barns are close to their homes,
and their children play in them.
The Hutterites have no objection
to electricity and live on large, industrialized communal farms.
Their cows are housed in huge
barns, more like hangars, away
from their homes. Children do not
generally play in Hutterite barns.
The researchers decided to
start with a small study. They
looked at 30 Amish children and
30 Hutterite children and asked
what sort of immune cells were in
their blood.
We never thought we would
see a difference, said Carole Ober,
an author of the study and the
chairwoman of the department of
human genetics at the University
of Chicago. To the researchers astonishment, she said,we saw
whopping differences with very,
very different cell types and cell
numbers.
None of the Amish children had
Mr. Ezon said he believed that

there would be opportunities for
travelers unconcerned about the
virus, but not until after the peak,
Christmas-New Year period.
During the holiday, They may
relax minimum night stays, but I
dont think they are going to reduce price, he said.
In the longer term, the travel industry in Florida will start to look
at ways to attract baby boomers,
and gay couples who dont want
children, Mr. Ezon said.
Ms. Naranjo, whose sevenyear-old lounge won the 2016 Best
Party Venue from the newspaper
Miami New Times, is looking at
ways to hold onto business.
She is moving guests from the
garden to the indoor lounge, and
hopes that things calm down
when corporate events resume in
October after the summer lull.
And she is quick to note that
Wynwood is getting the bulk of the
mosquito eradication attention.
We should be the safest neighborhood in all of Miami in a week,
she said.
An Amish boy in 2010 playing

with a miniature horse on his
familys farm in Lancaster
County, Pa. Just 2 to 4 percent
of the Amish have asthma.
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
asthma. And they all had a large

proportion of neutrophils white
blood cells that are the immune
systems paramedics and are part
of what is known as the innate immune system. These childrens
neutrophils were newly emerged
from their bone marrow, evidence
of a continual low-grade reaction
to microbial invaders.
All 30 of the Amish kids had
this, said Anne I. Sperling, another author of the study and an
associate professor of immunology and medicine at the University
of Chicago.
By contrast, six of the 30 Hutterite children had asthma, and all
of them had far fewer neutrophils
in their blood. The neutrophils
that they did have were older
ones, not cells that had just

emerged. Instead, their blood was
swarming with another type of
immune cell, eosinophils, which
provoke allergic reactions. It was
as if they were primed for an
asthma attack as soon as they
breathed something to set it off.
With the Amish children, Dr.
Sperling said, it would clearly take
a lot more provocation to set off an
allergic response.
The researchers decided that
the differences between the
Amish and the Hutterite children
were so great that they should
forge ahead with additional research to try to figure out what
was stimulating the Amish innate
immune system.
They analyzed dust from the
Amish and the Hutterite homes.

The Amish dust was loaded with
debris from bacteria; the Hutterite dust was not. The researchers
sent the dust to Dr. Donata Vercelli, an associate director of the
asthma and airway research center at the University of Arizona,
who would test the dust in mice.
She put dust Amish or Hutterite into the airways of mice 14
times over a month and then exposed the animals to allergens.
She measured how the airways responded: Did they constrict and
twitch? Were they inflamed?
We found exactly what we
found in the children, Dr. Vercelli
said. If we give the Amish dust,
we protect the mice. If we give the
Hutterite dust, we do not protect
them.
Dr. Ober and her colleagues
heard the results in a conference
call with Dr. Sperling.
Our jaws were hanging open,
Dr. Ober said. We could not believe it.
Dr. Vercelli repeated the test
and added another control. She
gave the Amish dust to mice that
were missing genes needed for
the innate immune response. This
time, the dust did not protect
them.
It was incredibly exciting, Dr.
Sperling said. Now we have a
model that allows us to do these
studies like never before. We can
zoom in on microbial products.
The work is scientifically sound,
said Dr. William Busse, a professor of allergy, pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Wisconsin. It is an extremely positive march forward,
he said. This is an exciting paper.
Now, said Dr. Talal Chatila, an
immunologist at Harvard Medical
School, it is not far-fetched to
start thinking of how one could
harness those bacteria for a therapeutic intervention.
Dr. Chatila, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper,
hastened to add that he was not
suggesting that people start packaging Amish dust and selling it in
pharmacies to protect children
from asthma. But, he said, I
wouldnt be surprised if inactive
forms of the bacteria could be
used.
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OBITUARIES
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Is Dead at 87

By CORINNA
da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
Throughout most of his life, the

Finnish composer Einojuhani
Rautavaara wrestled with two
shadow presences.
One was the memory of an angel-like creature that appeared to
him in a childhood nightmare and
enveloped him in a suffocating
embrace; in later years, during
his fertile music-making career,
angels began to crowd the titles of
his works: Angel of Light, Angels and Visitations, Angel of
Dusk, Playground for Angels.
These angels, he told friends
and students, were close relatives
of the frightening apparitions
from Rainer Maria Rilkes poems
whose very beauty announces the
arrival of something terrible.
The other shadow was that of
his countryman, the composer
Sibelius. The comparisons never
ceased. Mr. Rautavaaras adoption first of neo-Classical and then
of 12-tone techniques was seen as
a reaction to the late Romanticism
of Sibelius, who died in 1957 at 91.
Beginning in the 1980s, as interest in contemplative music surged
and sales of recordings of Mr.
Rautavaaras increasingly tonal
and luscious music climbed into
the hundreds of thousands, many
thought they heard echoes of the
brooding Nordic soundscapes of
Sibelius in Mr. Rautavaaras symphonies.
When he died on July 27 in Helsinki, Finland, at 87, one epitaph
quickly gained currency: The
greatest Finnish composer since
Sibelius. His death, from complications of hip surgery, was confirmed by Reijo Kiilunen, founder
of the Finnish record label Ondine
and a close family friend.
Einojuhani Rautavaara (pronounced AY-no-yu-hah-ni row-taVAH-ra) was born in Helsinki on
Oct. 9, 1928. His father, Eino, was
an opera singer and cantor; his
mother, Elsa, was a doctor.
He took up the piano at the unusually late age of 17. By that point,
his parents had died, and he had
been entrusted to the care of an
aunt.
After studying musicology at
the University of Helsinki and
pursuing degrees in composition
and piano at the Sibelius Academy
there, Mr. Rautavaara caught the
eye of Sibelius himself. For his
90th birthday, in 1955, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation had established a scholarship in Sibeliuss honor, and he used it to enable Mr. Rautavaara to attend the
Juilliard School (taking composition lessons from Vincent Persichetti) and spend two summers
at Tanglewood under the tutelage
of Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland.
Back
in
Finland,
Mr.
MIKKO STIG/LEHTIKUVA, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Einojuhani Rautavaara, known as one of Finlands greatest composers, at his home in 2008.
Rautavaara divided his time between teaching and composing.
Among his students were composers who would become international stars: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Kaija
Saariaho. His own output included nine operas, eight symphonies
and 12 instrumental concertos, as
well as chamber music and choral
works.
His first marriage, to the soprano Mariaheidi Suovanen,
ended in divorce. In 1984, he married Sinikka Koivisto, a singer 27
years his junior. She survives him,
as do his children from his first
marriage, Yrja, Markojuhani and
Olof; four grandchildren; and one
great-grandchild.
Mr. Rautavaaras second marriage ushered in a period of
heightened
creativity
and
coincided with a transition to a
neo-Romantic, deeply expressive
musical language. Hallmarks of
this style were a rich and pliable
string sound and long, arching
melodies that seem to reflect the
expansive vistas of the Nordic
countryside. In fact, his fascination with horizons was born in
New England in 1955, when he
visited the Atlantic coast.
In a phone interview, Pekka
Hako, a writer, documentarian
and friend, said that for Mr.
Rautavaara a horizon did not represent the edge of the visible
world so much as the threshold to
eternity. He was not religious,
Mr. Hako said, but he was interested in the ability of music to
open a window to the other world.
Although raised in the Lutheran
Church, Mr. Rautavaara felt more
drawn to the sounds and ancient

rituals of the Eastern Orthodox
Church. A childhood visit to the island monastery of Valamo on
Lake Ladoga left a deep impression. Beginning in 1971 he wrote
what was perhaps his choral masterpiece, Vigilia, an a cappella
setting of the Orthodox vigil of St.
John the Baptist that features
otherworldly swooping and sliding gestures.
Nature inspired another of Mr.
Rautavaaras most popular works,
the Cantus Arcticus of 1972. Also
known as Concerto for Birds and
Orchestra, it features bird calls
he recorded in a bog near the Arc-
A symphonist whose
lush and deeply
expressive music
found wide appeal.
tic Circle. In the piece, nature is
cajoled to imitate art, with the
tape-recorded (and subtly manipulated) bird calls entering only after an expansive, looping flute introduction.
Mr. Kiilunen, whose Ondine label released more than 40
recordings of Mr. Rautavaaras
music, recalled him in a phone interview as a man whose gentle
manners and easy humor belied a
strong sense of self.
Gustav Mahler said that a
symphony has to include the
whole world, Mr. Kiilunen said.
Rautavaara once said to me, Its

enough if the symphony includes
the whole of myself.
It took confidence, too, to write
tonal and disarmingly tuneful music in the latter half of the 20th
century, when Modernism was
the prevailing dogma. Mr. Salonen, a noted conductor as well as a
composer, said in an interview
that to a young student fervently
committed to the Modernist
cause, Mr. Rautavaaras return to
traditional harmony could feel like
a sellout. He recalled conducting
Mr. Rautavaaras Symphony No.
5, which opens with a series of
chords in radiant C major.
That kind of signal at that moment in history was like a huge exclamation mark: Im starting a
piece that is called symphony
which is already outrageous
and Im starting it in C major, Mr.
Salonen said, laughing. When I
conducted the first rehearsal of
that piece, I felt as if my grandfather had spotted me buying a porn
magazine. It was an outrageous
thing to conduct a new piece that
started in C major.
Mr. Rautavaara had great patience for such feelings, Mr. Salonen said.
He was very gentle about
these tendencies I had, he said.
He understood that a young person needed some kind of a tribal
identity, to be against somebody
and for something. He said when
you get older you will learn that
truth is more elusive than you
think and that maybe its not
even the point. Maybe we are trying to achieve something different.
Mary Ann Madden, 83, Creator of Wordplay Contests

By SAM ROBERTS
Mary Ann Madden, who for

three decades challenged New
York magazine readers to compose double dactyls, literary limericks, godawful puns and dexterous spoonerisms in a weekly competition that foreshadowed hashtag games on Twitter, died on July
26 at her home in Manhattan. She
was 83.
The cause was a stroke, said
Steven Clar, her executor.
Ms. Madden, a gifted wordsmith, was recruited by her friend
Stephen Sondheim, the composer
and lyricist, to create the New
York Magazine Competition,
which made its debut in 1969. At
the time, he held a part-time job
there devising cryptic crossword
puzzles for the back pages every
week but had found it becoming
too time-consuming.
When he shifted to once every
three weeks for about a year (succeeded by Richard Maltby Jr.),
Ms. Madden took over the page
the rest of the time. At her retirement in 2000, she had edited 973
wordplay competitions.
If the weeks collection of entries looked a little lame to her after she turned it in, Christopher
Bonanos, a senior editor, wrote
last week on the magazines website, shed get off the phone, and
15 minutes later, a couple of extras
would arrive in my inbox, all of
them better than the ones wed received.
Those late entries often came
from a Grace Katz, N.Y.C., and
they frequently won an honorable
mention. Ms. Madden owned a cat
named Grace.
Her witty wordplay competi-
Mary Ann Madden around 1980. She created the New York
Magazine Competition, a wordplay game that debuted in 1969.
tions attracted a weekly average
of 1,500 readers, who would read
the magazine from the back. They
would also send in postcards and
letters with inspired entries that
ranged from the esoteric to the
painfully sophomoric.
One contest a hypothetical
newlywed game generated
9,000 responses. (One read: If
Tippi Hedren married Albert Camus and Taylor Caldwell married
General Thieu, they would be
Tippi Camus and Taylor Thieu.)
Ms. Maddens celebrity friends
were among the competitors. David Halberstam, the author, once
said he had earnestly submitted
137 entries without even an honorable mention. David Mamet, the
playwright, fared better, winning
the competition for the Worlds
Perfect Theatrical Review with
this entry: I never understood
the theater until last night. Please

forgive everything Ive ever written. When you read this Ill be
dead.
One contest asked for an advertisement with a self-fulfilling
Witty competitions
that attracted 1,500
readers a week.
prophecy. (Depressed? Alone?
Join our new Lonelyhearts Club!
Simply send us your name and address. No one will call.)
Other competitions solicited the
opening line of a conversation between Martians and Earthlings
(Hi! We met in Roswell);
Olympic events of the future

(opinion poll vault); fanciful definitions for words beginning with
K (Kleig light: low-calorie version
of famous German beer); sequels
(The King and II) and prequels
(Two Dalmatians).
Mary Ann Dolby was born in
Manhattan on Oct. 8, 1932, the
daughter of Joseph G. Dolby, who
owned Hotel 70 Park at East 38th
Street, and of the former Helen
Fallon.
She attended the Convent of the
Sacred Heart in Greenwich,
Conn., was presented at the
Gotham Ball and graduated from
Marymount Manhattan College,
where she majored in English. She
and her husband, Henry N. Madden Jr., were separated. No immediate family members survive.
One of her mentors was Mike
Nichols, who hired her as an assistant when he and Elaine May
were a successful comedy team.
She couldnt type, but he respected her intellect and enjoyed
playing cribbage with her during
work breaks. Her machine-gun
delivery also inspired Mr. Sondheims staccato lyrics to Buddys
Blues from Follies.
The best of the more than a million competition entries were collected in three anthologies. The
contest endured to inspire the
Washington Post Invitational and
recent viral hashtag games on
Twitter, like #AddaWordRuinaMovie and #DeBlasiosNewYork.
The original New York Magazine Competition ended when Ms.
Madden quit. She was asked at the
time why was she leaving.
You take your 973 best shots,
she replied, and then its time to
stop.
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016
Deaths
Deaths
AUERBACHGeorge F.
The New York Financial
Writers' Association mourns
the passing of our beloved
longtime member George F.
Auerbach. He was one in
a million.
BANATGabriel.
The New York Philharmonic
mourns the passing, on July
23, of Gabriel Banat, a violinist championed by Bartok,
Enesco, and Milstein who
served in the Orchestra,
1970-93, and was known for
his deep friendships with colleagues, prolific writing, and
love of chamber music. We
extend deepest condolences
to his wife, Diana, children,
grandchildren,
and
stepchildren.
SUSAN JOHANN
James Houghton, center, with the playwright Edward Albee in an undated photograph.
James Houghton, 57, Who Founded

Signature Theater Company, Is Dead
By BRUCE WEBER
James Houghton, the founder

and, until recently, the artistic director of the Signature Theater
Company, one of Off Broadways
essential nonprofit theaters and
perhaps the nations leading safe
house for playwrights, died on
Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 57.
The cause was stomach cancer,
said his brother, Scott.
A former actor, Mr. Houghton
(pronounced HOW-ton) was in his
early 30s when he started Signature in 1991 with the idea of presenting annual season-long programs featuring the work of just
one playwright. The initial season
was devoted to Romulus Linney, a
prolific and daring but largely unsung dramatist whose play Heathen Valley Mr. Houghton had
appeared in a few years earlier.
In an 85-seat space, Mr. Houghton produced six plays by Mr. Linney, who died in 2011, for a total of
$35,000.
Over the next quarter-century,
playwrights as formidable and famous as Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, August Wilson
and John Guare, and others as formidable and not so famous as Lee
Blessing, Adrienne Kennedy and
Mara Irene Forns, had the spectrum of their careers often including new works showcased
in multiple productions.
During the 1994-95 season, devoted to Horton Foote, Signature
presented the world premiere of
Mr. Foote's play The Young Man
From Atlanta, which later transferred to Broadway and won a
Pulitzer Prize.
As the theater grew in artistic
power, it gained in financial muscle as well. It moved to bigger
spaces, most recently to the Pershing Square Signature Center on
West 42nd Street, a three-theater,
75,000-square-foot compound designed by Frank Gehry Architects, for which the theater raised
$70 million.
Signatures annual budget now
hovers around $13 million, which
underwrites an expanded mission: The company sponsors
three separate programs that support the residency of 10 playwrights, including rising talents
like Annie Baker and Katori Hall,
midcareer artists like Kenneth
Lonergan and Regina Taylor, and
at least one minence grise, Athol
Fugard.
A year ago, after learning of his
cancer, Mr. Houghton announced
that he would step down at Signa-
ture after the 2015-16 season.

Paige Evans, formerly the artistic
director of LCT3, the new-play development program at Lincoln
Center Theater, succeeded him.
A few weeks ago, interviewed
as he was moving out of his office,
Mr. Houghton told Ben Brantley of
The New York Times that it was
working with Mr. Linney as an actor that had spurred the idea for a
playwrights theater.
I just fell in love with this
process with Romulus, he said.
There was just something so
spontaneous anything could
happen in the room. New lines
would come, a cut would come,
just because of something you either inhabited the script with, or
because you asked a question.
At the same time, Romulus, at
age 60, was folding his own pro-
JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Houghton, photographed

in June, stepped down as artistic director of the Signature
Theater Company this year.
An ex-actor who gave

playwrights an Off
Broadway showcase.
grams and hanging his own lights,
and it just felt like it wasnt right
that he was still pushing so hard,
pushing a boulder up the mountain. Anyway, that planted seeds.
James Joseph Houghton was
born in San Francisco on Sept. 4,
1958, and grew up in the Bay Area.
His mother, the former Joan
Heaney, worked as a dental assistant and a preschool teacher. His
father, Sherrill, was a school administrator.
James fell in love with the theater at St. Ignatius College
Preparatory, a Jesuit school in San
Francisco, and with friends he
started a theater company,
Overeasy Productions, when he
was 18. He earned a B.F.A. at Santa

Clara University and an M.F.A.
from the Meadows School of the
Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
In 1986, he won a place in the
Acting Company, the touring classical-theater troupe whose cofounder, John Houseman, became
a mentor. The companys other
alumni include Kevin Kline, Patti
LuPone, David Ogden Stiers,
Frances Conroy, Jeffrey Wright,
Harriet Harris, Hamish Linklater
and Keith David.
That same year he married
Joyce OConnor, who survives
him. In addition to her and his
brother, he is survived by his parents; three sisters, Susan Devine,
Lynne Houghton and Trish Line;
a son, Henry; and a daughter, Lily.
From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Houghton was also the artistic director of
the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn.,
developing new plays by Kia
Corthron, Gina Gionfriddo, David
Lindsay-Abaire, Adam Rapp and
many others.
From 2006 until his death, he
was director of the drama division
at the Juilliard School, which was
founded in 1968, also by John
Houseman. Like Professor Kingsfield, the Harvard law scholar famously played by Houseman in
the 1973 film The Paper Chase,
the drama division was long
known for its emphasis on discipline and for upholding rigorous
standards that kept the pressure
on the small number of students
who were admitted after auditions. (In 2016, there were 2,000
applicants for 18 spots.)
Mr. Houghton altered the Juilliard audition process and is
credited with relaxing the atmosphere of the program. During his
tenure, Juilliard added a Master of
Fine Arts degree program in
drama for the first time and created a partnership with Signature to
enable students to work in a professional theater setting.
I dont think there was anyone
in the theater community more
beloved than Jim, the playwright
Tony Kushner, whose work was
featured in Signatures 2010-11 season, wrote in an email. He had a
great soul and a grand capacity
for friendship and love. He was
smart and passionate. He built his
singular legacy, founded on his devotion to playwrights work and to
playwrights themselves, with a
uniquely sweet, generous spirit;
with unflagging optimism; and
with grace.
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Peter Falk and Kris Carr in Arthur Millers Mr. Peters Connections, at Signature in 1998.
CARSWELLRobert.
The Board of Directors of
Private
Export
Funding
Corporation
(PEFCO)
mourns the passing of Robert
Carswell, former Chairman
and longtime Director of
PEFCO. As PEFCO's legal
advisor, Bob was instrumental in PEFCO's formation in
1970. He later served on the
Board of Directors from 1972
through 1976, and again from
1981 to 1992, after returning
from the US Treasury. He
also served, with distinction,
as PEFCO's Chairman from
1993 to 1996. His service and
sound counsel contributed
greatly to PEFCO's success
over the years. We send our
deepest sympathies to his
family.
The Board of Directors of
Private Export Funding
Corporation (PEFCO)
CORCORANE. Peter.
E. Peter Corcoran, 88, died

peacefully at his home in Jupiter, Florida on July 24, 2016,
surrounded by loving family.
Born in Forest Hills, New
York, Peter was the fourth of
five children. His father, Edward Corcoran, a lawyer and
politician, died when he was a
child and his mother, Margaret Corcoran, raised him. He
attended Our Lady Queen of
Martyrs grade school, Xavier
High School, class of 1946 and
Yale University, Class of 1950.
After service in the Air Force,
he had a distinguished career
as an investment banker, beginning at J.P. Morgan, First
National City Bank, and then
as a general partner of Lazard Freres & Co from 1968
until his retirement in 1994.
Peter and his wife Faith
raised their six children in
Plandome, New York and at
their beloved summer home
in Point O'Woods, Fire Island.
He is survived by his loving
wife of 62 years, Faith Corcoran, and his children Carole,
Kathleen,
Elisabeth,
Alexander, and Christopher
Corcoran, sister Margaret Re,
daughters - in - law, Shannon
and Stella Corcoran, son-inlaw, Matthew Simmons and
cherished
grandchildren,
Dawn and Ben Chatag, Clara
Simmons, and Annabelle,
Lexie, Michelle, Caroline, Daniel, and Emery Corcoran.
His son, David Corcoran, predeceased him. Private services were held this weekend.
His family and friends will
miss his devotion to family,
faith, loyalty, discipline, intellect, enthusiasm for everything life had to offer, honesty, judgment and love of nature. Donations in his memory may be made to Xavier
High School, New York City.
HELFMANJerry,
88 years young, passed away
on August 2, 2016. Beloved
husband of Lenore. Devoted
father of Dennis and Jane
Helfman and the late Donald
Helfman. Cherished grandfather of Lauren, Lindsey,
Brian and Dani. Proud and
loving great-grandfather of
Julia and Lyla. He was always proud to be a Marine.
Services Thursday, 11:30am,
at Riverside Nassau North
Chapels, 55 North Station
Plaza (opposite LIRR), Great
Neck, NY.
HOFFMANElliot.
Our friend, colleague and
protector Elliot's legal expertise protected the intellectual
properties of the Newport
Jazz Festival and Newport
Folk Festival for over 50
years. His contributions were
essential to the survival of
these events. His love for jazz
was only surpassed by his
love for his wife Nancy and
their love of great food. He
will be missed by all who
knew him.
George Wein
Darlene Chan
Quint Davis
Robert Jones
HOUGHTONJames.
The
Juilliard
community
deeply mourns the untimely
passing of James Houghton,
the Richard Rodgers Director
of the Drama Division and a
beloved leader within our
School. Beginning in 2006,
Jim's visionary leadership
animated the drama division
with a spirit of community,
generosity, rigor, and humanity. He profoundly changed
the culture of the Division
and the lives of all the young
artists and colleagues who
had the privilege of working
with him. This was achieved
through a remarkable ability
to translate personal vision
into action and faith in the
possibility of change. Our
heartfelt condolences go to
Jim's cherished wife Joyce,
their children Lily and Henry,
and all his friends and colleagues at Juilliard and in the
profession. His legacy at the
Signature Theatre and at Juilliard have set a high standard
reflecting a life dedicated to
the growth of theater and its
power to communicate the
human condition. He will be
profoundly missed by us all.
Bruce Kovner,
Chairman of the Board
Joseph W. Polisi, President
Ara Guzelimian,
Provost and Dean
Richard Feldman, Associate
Director, Drama Division
Kathy Hood, Administrative
Director, Drama Division
The Juilliard School
KLEINNorma,
92, died July 27, 2016. Enthusiastic
traveler,
mother,
friend, photographer, New
Yorker. She is survived by
her son, Ted Klein, and her
daughter, Madeline Klein.
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Deaths
Auerbach, George
Hoffman, Elliot
Raychel, A.M.
Banat, Gabriel
Houghton, James
Rosencrans, Robert
Carswell, Robert
Klein, Norma
Wilf, Joseph
Corcoran, E. Peter
Mills, James
Helfman, Jerry
Naude, Klaus
MILLSJames T.
Mr. James Thoburn Mills, 92,

of Montclair, NJ and Landgrove, VT died peacefully,
July 17, 2016 after a brief illness. Known as Jim, he was
born in Baltimore, MD on November 30, 1923. He graduated from Montclair High
School and Princeton University from the School of Public
and International Affairs. His
college years were interrupted while he served in the
United States Army's Tenth
Mountain Division as a First
Lieutenant on the Italian
Front. After the war, he graduated
from
Yale
Law
School (1950) and practiced
law in NYC concentrating on
securities and mergers. In
1956, Mr. Mills joined the
Sperry and Hutchinson Company as Assistant General
Counsel holding many positions as the company grew
and diversified. In 1980 he was
elected Chairman and CEO of
S&H. In 1981 Mr. Mills became President and CEO of
The Conference Board, an international business organization, until his retirement in
1988. He believed in devoting
time, talent, and support to
non-profit organizations. As
President of the Board of
Trustees of The Kimberley
School, he supported the
merger to form Montclair
Kimberley Academy in 1974.
From 1990 to 1995 he served
as President of the Montclair
Art Museum. For 10 years he
was President of his Princeton Class of 1945, culminating
in its 50th Reunion. From his
vacation home in Vermont,
Jim enjoyed skiing, golf, and
fly-fishing. He was actively
involved in the community including the worship services
at the Landgrove Meeting
House. His loving family,
friends, and the natural
beauty of Vermont were of
prime importance throughout his long life. He is
survived by his wife Frances
(Keller) of 65 years and
four daughters and their
husbands: Elizabeth Durkee
(Scott),
Hilary
Lambert
(Brian), Frances Wonnell
(Jonathan), and Margaret
Kaplan (Andrew), and 10
grandchildren. Services will
be held in Montclair, NJ and
Landgrove, VT at a later
date. Donations may be
made in his name to the Londonderry Rescue Squad, or
the Landgrove Cemetery
Fund.
NAUDEKlaus,
of Lafayette Hill, PA died on
August 1, 2016. Born in Berlin
in 1934, he came to the United
States in 1957 as a John F.
Boyer Scholar of the First
Troop
Philadelphia
City
Cavalry. His career was in
international banking. He is
survived by his wife of 55
years, Virginia Norton Naude;
his children Alice Naude
(Stephen Saxl) and Philip
Naude (Laura Williams) and
by his beloved granddaughters Emily and Sophie Saxl.
RAYCHELA.M.,
on July 30, 2016, aged 84
years.
New
York
City
Producer/Director. Theater
maverick and innovator of
the
only
known
self sustaining NYC theater: The
Theatre-Studio, Inc. Visitation
Sunday 2-4pm at Krtil Funeral Home, Inc., 1297 1st Ave.,
(70th St.). A Funeral Mass to
celebrate her life will be held
on Monday 10am at St. Malachy's, The Actor's Chapel,
239 W. 49th Street. Interment
private. In lieu of flowers, donations preferred to Theater
4NE1 at gofundme.com.
ROSENCRANSRobert.
The Board of Directors and
the members of Quaker
Ridge Golf Club are saddened
by the passing of our beloved
friend and esteemed member of more than 30 years,
Robert Rosencrans. We extend our heartfelt sympathy
to his wife, Marjorie and family in their time of sorrow.
Marc Friedman, President
WILFJoseph.
Yeshiva University is deeply
saddened by the passing of
Joseph Wilf zl, friend, YU
Trustee and YU Benefactor.
He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Wilf, a member of the
Stern College for Women
Board of Overseers; sons
Zygmunt (married to Audrey) and Mark (married to
Jane), who are members of
the YU Board of Trustees and
YU Benefactors; and grandchildren. The life of Joseph
Wilf, who, as a Holocaust survivor and a leading advocate
of Holocaust awareness education, testifies to the power
of the Jewish faith to sustain
life in the face of determined
efforts to eliminate it. Born in
Jaroslaw, Poland, he and his
family were deported to a
Siberian labor camp in 1940
and were only able to return
to Jaroslaw at the end of the
war. But when anti-Jewish
pogroms erupted in Poland in
1946, Mr. Wilf and his family
escaped
to
American occupied Germany, where he
met Elizabeth Fisch, who
spent the war years hiding in
the Lwow Ghetto. They married in I949, and in 1950, they
immigrated to the United
States. The Wilf family has
been among the most generous philanthropists at YU. In
1990, Mr. Wilf and his brother,
the late Harry Wilf, a YU Benefactor, endowed a major
need-based scholarship fund
for students at Yeshiva College and Stern College for
Women. He, his sons and his
nephew, Leonard A. Wilf, a
YU Benefactor, subsequently
endowed a second major
scholarship fund for distinguished undergraduate scholars. In 2002, YU recognized
the leadership support of the
Wilf family by renaming the
University's main campus in
the Washington Heights section of Manhattan the Wilf
Campus. The family also
created a new cardiovascular
research center at YUaffiliated Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The Wilf
Family Foundation supports
numerous charities, foremost
among them Yad Vashem
and various Jewish Federations. For his philanthropic
and humanitarian endeavors,
Mr. Wilf was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of
Humane Letters in 1990. In
that same year, he was appointed to the Board of Sy
Syms School of Business. In
1993, he was appointed a trustee of the University, and in
2004, he became the Board's
vice chairman. May his entire
family be comforted among
all who mourn for Zion and
Jerusalem.
Yeshiva University
Richard M. Joel,
President
Norman Lamm,
President Emeritus
WILFJoseph.
The Officers, Board members, and global staff of The
American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee
(JDC)
mourn the passing of our devoted friend, Joseph Joe
Wilf, a member of our Board
for over two decades and the
father of Board member
Mark Wilf. Deported from
Poland to a Siberian labor
camp at the start of World
War II, Joseph and his family
devoted a good part of the
lives they rebuilt here in the
U.S. to honoring the memory
of those who perished in the
Holocaust and aiding those
who suffered and survived.
Paralleling his success as the
co-founder
of
Garden
Homes, Inc., a New Jersey
real
estate
development
company, Joseph was the
founder and Vice Chair of the
American Society for Yad
Vashem, a founding member
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Chairman of the
March of the Living, a Vice
President of the Claims Conference, and an Executive
Committee member of the
Jewish Federation of Central
New Jersey. Active in numerous other educational and
social endeavors, he and his
beloved wife, Elizabeth (Suzie), have imbued their children and grandchildren with
their passionate devotion to
the welfare of Israel and the
Jewish people worldwide. We
extend our heartfelt condolences to Elizabeth, to
Mark, and to the entire Wilf
family. May his memory be
for a blessing to all those
whose lives he touched.
Stanley A. Rabin,
President
Penny Blumenstein,
Chairman of the Board
Alan H. Gill,
Chief Executive Officer
WILFJoseph.
The American Society for
Yad Vashem mourns the
passing of our dear friend
Joseph Wilf, founder and former Vice Chairman of the
American Society. Joseph, a
Holocaust survivor from Jaroslaw, Poland, immigrated
to the United States in 1950
and raised a beautiful and
loving family with Elizabeth,
his wife of 67 years. Together
with his brother Harry, zl,
Joseph established Garden
Homes, a thriving real estate
development company in
New Jersey. Joseph dedicated his life to serving the Jewish people. He was instrumental in the establishment of Yad Vashem and
chaired the Yad Vashem 2001
Campaign to build the new
museum complex in Jerusalem. Together with Elizabeth,
he was a benefactor of Yad
Vashem and the Valley of the
Communities. As a leader in
the
Jewish
community,
Joseph imparted the values
of generosity and Klal Yisrael and advocated the importance of education not
only to his children and
grandchildren, but to all who
knew him. We extend our
heartfelt condolences to his
beloved wife Elizabeth, his
children Zygi and Audrey,
Mark and Jane, his grandchildren Jeffrey, Jason and
Cori, Jonathan and Rachel,
Elana and Brett, Stephanie,
Steven, Daniel, Rachel, Andrew, and his five greatgrandchildren. May they be
comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Leonard Wilf, Chairman;
Ron B. Meier,
Executive Director
WILFJoseph.
Born in Jaroslaw, Poland, beloved husband, father, grandfather,
great - grandfather,
uncle, and friend, Joseph Wilf
overcame the cruelty of the
labor camps, survived the
Holocaust, and found a new
home in the United States
with his family. After successfully establishing the real
estate development company, Garden Homes, in 1954
with his brother, and my dear
father, Harry, zl, Joe dedicated his life to the Jewish
people. Joe was a founder of
the American Society for
Yad Vashem, preeminent
builder of Yad Vashem and
Jerusalem, and leader of dozens of other Jewish organizations. His generosity and altruism knew no bounds. He
served as an inspiration to us
all and we will continue his legacy well into the future. He
will be profoundly missed by
all. Our heartfelt condolences
go out to his wife and our beloved aunt, Elizabeth, and our
cousins Zygi and Audrey and
Mark and Jane, their children
and grandchildren.
Leonard and Beth Wilf,
Orin, Halle, Jenna,
and Harrison Wilf
WILFJoseph.
The entire Montefiore and
Einstein family is profoundly
saddened by the passing of
Joseph Wilf, beloved father
of our dear friend and esteemed
trustee
Zygmunt
(Zygi) Wilf. Through their vision for excellence in academic medicine, Joseph and his
distinguished family have generously supported our cardiovascular research institute,
which proudly bears the Wilf
name. We are grateful for the
Wilfs' years of service and
commitment to the Montefiore/Einstein community. To
Elizabeth, Mark, Zygi, and the
entire Wilf family, we extend
our heartfelt condolences.
Steven M. Safyer, M.D.,
President and CEO
David A. Tanner,
Chair, Board of Trustees
Montefiore Medicine
Roger W. Einiger,
Chair, Board of Trustees
Allen M. Spiegel, M.D.,
The Marilyn and
Stanley M. Katz Dean
Albert Einstein College
of Medicine
WILFJoseph.
Park
East
Synagogue
mourns the death of our beloved and esteemed Vice
President, Joseph Wilf, who
emerged from the Holocaust
to help rebuild the Jewish
people and Israel and inspired
his family to be Patrons of
Education and guardians of
our Jewish heritage. He
served as Co-chairman of the
Building Committee of our
historic Synagogue (1990),
and he and Suzie were recipients of the Community
Leadership Award at our Annual Dinner (1998). To his beloved wife Suzie, sons Trustee Zygi (Audrey), devoted
members
Mark
(Jane),
grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, nephew Lenny (Beth) devoted members,
our deepest sympathy. May
the family find comfort
among the mourners of Zion
and Jerusalem.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Herman Hochberg, President
WILFJoseph.
Appeal of Conscience Foundation mourns Joseph Wilf,
Holocaust survivor, grateful
to our Land of Freedom and
Opportunity
who
deeply
cared about religious freedom and human rights. Our
deepest sympathy to his beloved wife Suzie, sons Zygi
(Audrey) and Mark (Jane),
grandchildren, great-grandchildren and nephew Lenny
(Beth) who have carried out
his legacy of philanthropy.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier,
President;
Cardinal Theodore E.
McCarrick;
Archbishop Khajag
Barsamian;
Vice Presidents
WILFJoseph.
With profound sadness, we
mourn the passing of our
dear friend, Joseph Wilf. To
his wife, Suzie, children Zygi
(Audrey) and Mark (Jane),
grandchildren Jason (Cori),
Jonathan (Rachel), Jeffrey,
Elana
(Brett),
Steven,
Stephanie, Daniel, Rachel
and Andrew and greatgrandchildren, we offer our
condolences and sympathies.
May the entire Wilf family be
comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Cecile and Edward Mosberg,
Beatrice Mosberg,
Louise and Stuart Levine,
Caroline and Darren Karger
and Families
WILFJoseph.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park
East Day School mourns the
passing of our dedicated Vice
President and Patron of Education Joseph Wilf, Founder
of the Minskoff Cultural Center and the Rabbi Arthur
Schneier Park East Day
School, who with his beloved
wife Suzie, dedicated the Melamed Wilf Gymnasium and
established the Joseph and
Suzie Wilf Scholarship Fund.
To his beloved wife Suzie,
sons, Trustee Zygi (Audrey),
devoted
members
Mark
(Jane), grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, nephew
Lenny (Beth), devoted members, our deepest sympathy.
WILFJoseph.
The Trustees and staff of the
Jewish Museum were saddened to learn of Joseph
Wilf's passing, and we extend
our heartfelt condolences to
his wife Elizabeth, sons Zygmund and Mark, and the entire Wilf family. We are grateful to Joe for his 16 years of
service as a Trustee and are
proud that the Wilf family's
affiliation with the Jewish
Museum continues through
the service of Joe's daughters-in-law, Audrey and Jane
Wilf.
Robert Pruzan, Chairman
David Resnick, President
Claudia Gould, Director
WILFJoseph.
I have known Joe for 33
years. With his life he made
my own so much more meaningful. He was a wonderful
person, devoted to his family,
to the Jewish world. And with
all this, he was so much
morehe knew and profoundly
appreciated
the
beauty and richness of art
and cultural lifewhat it
gave to him. I am indeed a
fortunate person that I knew
him and shared this art and
culture with him, with his wife
Suzy, and his family. I will
miss him terribly. He is deep
and dear in my heart.
Talma Zakai Kanner
In Memoriam
BARROWBernie.
Gone 23 long years, always in
our hearts.
Love, Joan and the children
LYONHerbert E. On your
birthday, 50 years gone, in
our hearts forever.
Bobbie, Susie, Cindy & David
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FRED R. CONRAD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A cable-stayed bridge like the Tappan Zee has its cables anchored to tall towers, which bear the load. If all goes according to plan, the bridges first section should open toward the end of next year.
The New Tappan Zee Bridge Achieves a Milestone: Its Halfway Finished
By JOSEPH BERGER
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. The building of

the twin-span Tappan Zee Bridge, the
first major new bridge in the New York
area in half a century, has reached the
halfway point.
Already, more than a mile of concrete
road deck has been laid, stretching from
the bridges South Nyack end over the
waters of the Hudson River. Thirty-five
of the 43 pairs of piers that will hold up
the 3.1-mile bridge are finished, with a
framework of cornflower blue steel
beams between many of them, so that
more than half of the horizontal silhouette of the bridge is in place.
Almost the entire steel skeleton should
be completed by October, said Neil Napolitano, who manages work on the long
approaches from both the Rockland and
Westchester County shores.
The toppling of a 256-foot crane on
July 19 onto the roadway of the existing
bridge, an accident that shut down traffic
in both directions for five hours but remarkably caused no serious injuries,
seems to have been a minor problem in
the progress.
In late July, workers began laying the
bridges signature feature the thick cables that will attach the main decks at
midriver to eight 40-story towers and
help firmly brace them like suspenders
holding up a pair of trousers. The first of
192 cables, a 140-foot-long cord made up
of strands of braided steel, was stretched
from the eastern tower of the Rocklandbound span and a projecting section of
road deck, locking into anchors built into
the deck. By Aug. 1, four cables were
strung, in whole or in part.
In all, the length of cable used will total
roughly 14 miles. To passing travelers,
the cables, sheathed in white plastic,
might look like strings on a set of eight
giant harps.
A cable-stayed bridge is a perfect mix
of form and function, said Sky Lee, the
Oklahoma-born engineer supervising
the construction of the main spans. We
21ST-CENTURY SPAN
Rising Over the River
are using cables to build the bridge, and

ultimately its what everyone sees: the
icon for the bridge.
If everything goes according to plan,
said Jamey Barbas, the engineer orchestrating the entire project for the New
York State Thruway Authority, the first
section should open to eight lanes of twoway traffic toward the end of next year.
Demolition will then begin on the present
Tappan Zee Bridge, which opened in December 1955, built cheaply during Korean War austerity for just $60 million
($531.5 million in todays dollars). Its replacement is expected to cost just
under $4 billion.
Sometime
in
2018, seven years
after work began,
the second section
should be finished,
carrying four lanes
of traffic heading
westbound toward
Rockland on the
Alessandra
northern
stretch
Rosso, who is a and four lanes
field engineer on heading east tothe project.
ward Westchester
on the southern
stretch. Bicyclists and pedestrians will
have their own scenic lane, whose terminus, after some controversy, has been
shifted from a residential neighborhood
to a traffic circle in South Nyack.
The bridge is not progressing as fast
as the first optimistic schedule had it (the
Thruway Authority once said the first
span would be ready early next year),
but a key to the relatively timely
progress has been the strategic decision
to prefabricate pieces of the replacement
bridge on land, saving months of perilous work above the river. The large
NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY
Under the bridge. Right, workers anchoring the first of the projects 192 cables, a 140-foot-long cord made up of
strands of braided steel, to one of the bridges concrete towers. The length of cable used will total roughly 14 miles.
steel girders 30 miles long in total
and 6,000 concrete roadway panels are
assembled 14 miles upriver at Tomkins
Cove near Bear Mountain or at Port of
Coeymans, 10 miles south of Albany.
They are then shipped to the Tappan Zee
site by barge, where cranes lift them up
and, guided by workers, swing them
slowly into place.
Much of the concrete needed for piers,

foundations, platforms and towers has
been poured from floating plants on the
river, requiring far fewer trips by truck
through residential neighborhoods
30,000 fewer, Ms. Barbas said.
On a boat tour the other day, a reporter
and photographer could see three barges
lined up to deliver steel beams and other
modular pieces to crane operators. A

team of schedulers synchronize delivery
of beams, concrete deck panels, nuts and
bolts and other supplies as they are
needed.
Mr. Lee, a civil engineer, said one challenge of the Tappan Zees parallel main
spans was that they were so isolated on
Last Atlantic City Casino Linked to Trump Will Close as Workers Strike Continues
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
The last of the Atlantic City casinos

once operated by Donald J. Trump is set
to close early next month.
The Trump Taj Mahal, which has been
picketed since July 1 by hundreds of
striking employees, will shut its doors for
good after Labor Day, the casinos management announced on Wednesday. The
Taj, which Mr. Trump heralded as the
eighth wonder of the world when it
opened in 1990, would be the fifth casino
in the city to close in less than three
years.
The company that manages the Taj
blamed the striking workers for blocking
the casinos path to profitability. But
the president of their union, Bob McDevitt of Unite Here Local 54, said the
casinos owner, Carl C. Icahn, was willing
to burn the Trump Taj Mahal down to
punish the strikers.
Mr. Icahn acquired the Taj last year after its parent company, Trump Entertainment Resorts, filed for bankruptcy
protection. Mr. Trump, who is now the
Republican nominee for president, has
not had a stake in the Taj since its parent
company emerged from the bankruptcy
Nearly 3,000 jobs will be lost when the Trump Taj Mahal shuts down in
early September, the latest blow to the Atlantic City gambling industry.
proceedings. Tropicana Entertainment
has been managing the Taj, as well as the
Tropicana, another of the eight remain-
ing casinos in Atlantic City.

Tony Rodio, the chief executive of
Tropicana Entertainment, said in a state-
ment that Icahn Enterprises had lost almost $100 million trying to save the Taj.
Currently, the Taj is losing multimillions
a month, and now with this strike, we see
no path to profitability, he said.
Mr. Rodio said the company planned to
send the casinos employees official notices this week about its intention to
close after the Labor Day weekend.
In an angry response, Mr. McDevitt
said Mr. Icahn had refused to negotiate
with the workers, who were demanding
health insurance and other benefits similar to what other casinos in Atlantic City
have promised the unions members. Local 54 had authorized strikes at five
casinos this summer, but the union
reached agreements with the others.
Two weeks ago, union leaders rejected
the latest offer from Mr. Icahn, and about
1,000 Taj workers remained on strike. Before the strike, Mr. Icahn had promised to
invest $100 million to renovate the Taj,
which has lost much of the luster it had
when it was Mr. Trumps crown jewel.
For a few million bucks, he could have
had labor peace and a content work
force, Mr. McDevitt said of Mr. Icahn in a
statement, but instead hed rather slam
the door shut on these long-term work-
ers just to punish them and attempt to

break their strike. In the end, hell have
to live with what hes done to working
people in Atlantic City.
The workers on strike include cooks,
bartenders and room cleaners. The Taj
has remained open through the strike because its managers and the dealers on
the casino floor are not members of Unite
Here. All told, a shutdown would eliminate nearly 3,000 jobs.
Already, the seaside resort has lost
about 8,000 jobs as casinos in neighboring states lured gamblers away. The industrys annual revenue has been cut in
half a drop of more than $2.5 billion
in the past nine years. In 2014, four
casinos the Atlantic Club, Revel,
Showboat and Trump Plaza shut their
doors.
With the loss of so much tax revenue,
the citys government has been struggling to avert its own bankruptcy. In late
May, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a
Republican, and legislative leaders in
Trenton negotiated a bailout package intended to keep the city afloat for five
months while local leaders try to balance
the municipal budget. That package included a $74 million loan from the state.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016
Body of Missing Runner

Found in Queens Marsh
By RICK ROJAS
and NATE SCHWEBER
It was part of Karina Vetranos

routine to leave her home in Howard Beach, Queens, and go for a
run along an expanse of undeveloped wetlands on the northern
end of Jamaica Bay. She usually
ran with her father, a retired firefighter, who had recently injured
his back.
On Tuesday evening, Ms. Vetrano, 30, left by herself, the authorities said, even though her father did not want her to go alone.
She exchanged text messages
with a friend along the way, but
suddenly stopped, the authorities
said. Her father repeatedly called
her cellphone, but she did not pick
up. Almost two hours went by, and
she did not return.
Thats when he got worried,
Robert K. Boyce, the New York
Police Departments chief of detectives, said of her father, Philip
Vetrano.
Mr. Vetrano reached a neighbor
who is an official in the Police Department. Officers arrived shortly
before 7 p.m. and began searching
for her in the marshland just
blocks from her home, her father
also joining them.
Several hours later, the police
and Mr. Vetrano found her body
face down. She was about 15 feet
from a trail in a marsh, off the intersection of 161st Avenue and
78th Street, the authorities said.
Investigators were waiting the results of an autopsy, but there were
Christopher Cusack contributed
reporting.
signs, police officials said, that

Ms. Vetrano may have been strangled and sexually assaulted.
Imagine if your own daughter
turned up in this kind of situation,
Bob Parisi, her uncle, said, distraught outside the familys home.
Mr. Parisi said some of his nieces
clothing might have been missing.
At a news conference near the
scene, Chief Boyce told reporters
that investigators were reviewing
surveillance
camera footage
as well as the
text messages
Ms.
Vetrano
sent to a friend
while jogging
since her phone
was recovered
in the park. He
said investigaKarina
tors did not
Vetrano
have any leads
on suspects or a
motive for the attack.
We have surveillance of her
running past a home at 5:46 p.m.,
Chief Boyce said. We have a lot of
forensic evidence as well.
Ms. Vetrano was a prolific photographer on Instagram, with several thousand followers, sharing
pictures from her recent travels to
France and Monaco, lounging
poolside on Long Island and embracing a bride and groom at a
wedding. She also worked for Central, a nightspot in Astoria,
Queens.
Last night, we lost a dear
friend, the bar and lounge posted
on its Instagram account. Karina
was an amazing person; she will
DAVE SANDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Officers on Wednesday investigating near 161st Avenue and 78th Street in Queens, where Ms. Vetranos body was discovered.
forever be in our hearts.
Sammy Celun, who was kayaking along the shore on Wednesday, described Ms. Vetrano as a
popular, sweet girl, adding that
everybody knew her.
The area where Ms. Vetrano
was found is a sprawling stretch of
local and federal park space with
mostly marshes, hemmed in by
roadways and houses.
The edges of the park still
teemed with joggers, cyclists and
dog walkers on Wednesday afternoon. Inside, striped bass fisherman stood in the surf up to their
armpits, and on the sandy

beaches, volunteers cleaned up
debris left behind from religious
ceremonies, including dozens of
coconuts, chicken carcasses and
the head of a goat. The park
mostly serves as a gathering
place for different types of birds,
like egrets, red-winged blackbirds
and a bald eagle.
Not too many people in there,
said Don Riepe, a retired park
ranger who now leads the cleanup
crew as director at the American
Littoral Societys Northeast chapter.
But Stavroula Kokkoros, who

has lived in the neighborhood for
over 20 years, said that Hurricane
Sandy in 2012 knocked down a
chain-link perimeter fence, and
that since then there had been an
influx of people going into the
park. Maybe now something will
happen, she said. This is not
supposed to happen.
Linda Catapano has lived for 15
years in a house across the street
from what some in the neighborhood call the weeds. She said
she would occasionally see Ms.
Vetrano run by, reminding her of
her own daughter, who likes to jog

at dawn or dusk.
Ms. Catapano said that on Tuesday evening she saw a man, who
she believed was Mr. Vetrano,
with the police heading into the
marsh. She was surprised when
she found out what had happened
since she had been home all
evening and did not hear anything
happening outside.
You think dogs should have
been barking. Everybody jogs.
Everybody walks their dogs, she
said. We like to think were in a
safe world.
New Jersey Board Ties Graduation to Tests Aligned With Common Core Standards
By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
The New Jersey Board of Education voted on Wednesday to require high school students to pass
tests aligned with contentious
standards, even as other states
have moved away from these assessments.
Beginning in 2021, in order to
graduate, students will have to
pass the Algebra 1 exam and the
10th-grade English exam given as
part of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and
Careers, or Parcc, tests. This year,
just 44 percent of students statewide passed that English exam
and 41 percent passed Algebra 1.

Under the new rules, those who
do not pass can still graduate if a
portfolio review of other work is
approved.
The Parcc test was one of two
main assessments designed to
align with the Common Core
standards, a group of learning
goals for students devised to ensure they were being adequately
prepared for college. The
standards were adopted across
the country starting in 2010, encouraged by money from the
Obama administration, but they
have faced a strong backlash.
Many states have stepped away

from the tests, or from the
standards altogether.
New Jersey is moving in the opposite direction.
We believe Parcc is the best
test out there and that it is aligned
in the best way to the New Jersey
Student Learning Standards in
math and language arts, said
Mark W. Biedron, president of the
board. It gives you a great measure of college and career readiness.
Students in New Jersey have
taken some form of standardized
test in order to graduate for more
than 30 years, according to the

State Education Department. Students can currently use a passing
grade on close to a dozen tests in
math and English to get a diploma; Parcc would replace them.
There has been resistance to
the Parcc graduation requirements, according to The Record, a
North Jersey newspaper, from educators, parents and activists who
are concerned that schools are focusing too much on the tests, or
that more students may end up
dropping out.
Last year, the state saw a rebellion against Parcc, as tens of thou-
sands of students refused to take

the test. But this year, the tests
were 90 minutes shorter, with
fewer testing sessions, and the
number of families refusing to
have their children take them appears to have fallen significantly.
The State Education Department
said 66,000 more students took
the math Parcc tests this year and
57,000 more sat for the English assessments than in 2015.
In New York, by contrast, the
movement to refuse has not been
diluted by a shortening of the
Common Core aligned exams
students in New York do not take
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Parcc. About 20 percent of eligible

students in New York opted out of
the exams this year for third
through eighth graders, a figure
roughly unchanged from last year.
In New Jersey, the Parcc is generally given to students in third
through 11th grade.
The New Jersey Board of Education also voted to give more local control back to the City of Newark, whose schools have been controlled by the state since 1995. The
state has been returning control to
the city in phases, and on Wednesday gave the city more power to
make personnel decisions.
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recreational areas have long been
crowded, especially the beaches
that have been a release for generations of apartment dwellers.
Look no further than the photographer Weegees classic 1940
black-and-white shot of the beach
in Coney Island with bathers covering nearly every speck of sand.
But at a time when tourism is
soaring and the citys population,
8.5 million, is larger than ever, the
sprawling public park system
2,000 parks, 55 outdoor pools and
eight beaches has never been
busier, according to park officials,
volunteers and conservancy
groups.
The beaches drew a record 22.8
million visitors last year, up from
18.1 million the year before, in part
as the city has completed rebuilding areas damaged by Hurricane
Sandy. In the Rockaways area of
Queens, construction has brought
a boardwalk, bathrooms, restaurants and more people 7.7 million visitors last year, up from 4.2
million the year before.
On a recent Saturday afternoon,
the elbows were out as dozens of
beachgoers crammed into a
stretch of the Rockaways shoreline near 90th Street. It was gridlock on the sand so many bodies
on blankets or under umbrellas
that moving without bumping
someone was a challenge. A
young woman tried to make her
escape to the waves only to be
whacked on the shoulder by a
Frisbee. She rolled her eyes, then
kept walking.
Even the surfers felt crowded.
Switchaya Yingseree, an interior
architect, said experts and beginners all jostled for room. I think
surfing here is like getting a yellow cab in the city, she said.
Theres a board everywhere you
turn.
The pools are often no better. At
McCarren Park in Brooklyn, pool
attendance climbed to 150,149 last
year, from 129,732 in 2014. One
visitor, Ida Herrington, said that
after standing in line for an hour
some days, there was hardly a
sliver of water to swim in. The
best she can do is find a spot to
cool off.
If its really a hot day, dont expect to swim, Ms. Herrington
warned. Its an outdoor bath tub.
With more people also comes
more trash and noise. The throngs
at the nearly 60-acre Astoria Park
leave behind so much garbage
pizza boxes, soda cans, chip bags,
wrappers that the Astoria Park
Alliance, a group of volunteers,
has increased its cleanups, bought
additional trash cans for the park
and handed out plastic bags to visitors.
At the southern tip of Manhattan, seven million visitors annually compared with one million more than a decade ago descend on the 25-acre Battery, a
park that in the 1990s was mostly a
walkway for commuters heading
to ferries. In the last two years, as
newly planted lawns and gardens
have opened, the Battery Conservancy has raised $150,000 to pay
for seasonal workers to pick up
trash and clean bathrooms and
wants to add more next year, said
Hope Cohen, the chief operating
officer.
Adrian Benepe, a senior vice
president for the Trust for Public
Land who served as the citys
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Gridlock on the sand at Rockaway Beach, Queens, last month. Eight New York City beaches drew 22.8 million visitors last year, up from 18.1 million the year before.
parks commissioner from 2002 to
2012, said crowded parks were becoming a problem in many neighborhoods.
Though his office is just blocks
from Washington Square Park,
Mr. Benepe said he rarely went
there just to relax. Too many people.
There are some parks that are
crowded from morning to night,
he said. In some cases, its no
longer an oasis.
On a single weekday in May last
year, 54,000 people more than

enough to fill Yankee Stadium
visited Washington Square Park.
Workers have to hustle to keep up
lawns and flower beds that were
redone just a few years ago and
empty trash cans before they
overflow. The two dog runs can
get so packed on weekends that
some regulars stay away.
The day after the High Line was
overwhelmed by the turnout for
its event, Gonzalo Casals, a vice
president of Friends of the High
Line, a nonprofit that oversees the

park, sent a mass email in apology, acknowledging that our
preparations for the event were
not what they should have been.
Attendance at the High Line
more than tripled to 7.6 million
visitors last year from two million
in 2010. Cub Barrett, a spokesman
for the High Line group, said
crowd control had been enforced
only a few times, during the parks
initial opening in 2009 and again
when it added new sections in 2011
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The citys park system, which includes 2,000 parks, has never been busier, according to officials and conservancy groups.
Grand Opening
and 2014.
This year, New York City park
officials have spent $6 million to
hire 500 additional seasonal workers to clean and maintain heavily
used neighborhood parks and
playgrounds. They are extending
the beach and pool season past
Labor Day and expanding free
programs such as outdoor movie
nights, swim lessons and yoga
classes.
The city has also refurbished
existing parks and recreation areas to maximize their use, including transforming an underused
asphalt strip at City Line Park in
Brooklyn. A $285 million program
started in 2014 directs improvements to historically underfinanced parks. The city has also
sought to create parks in highdensity neighborhoods, acquiring
261 acres of new parkland in the
past five years. In total, there are
500 projects at new and existing
parks in the works.
Liam Kavanagh, the first deputy parks commissioner, a 35-year
veteran of the parks department,
attributed the increasing park use
to lower crime, improving park
conditions and a growing city.
There are absolutely more people using parks, Mr. Kavanagh
said. When I started, there were
a million less people in the city.
And here they are, and they want
to use the parks, too.
Not everyone minds the
crowds. Tobi Bergman, the chairman of the local community board
that oversees Washington Square
Park, said people loved going to
public parks because they were
the citys democratic places
serving as a common ground for
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used.
For others, going outdoors is
not what it used to be.
Sharon Ascher, a visual artist
Record numbers
of visitors to public
spaces as the citys
population grows.
and designer in Greenpoint,
Brooklyn, said that when she first
started going to watch sunsets
along her neighborhood waterfront, she had to pick her way
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Bipartisan Attacks on Donald Trump

TO THE EDITOR:
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher, Chairman

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Turkeys New Anti-Americanism

Shaken by a failed coup attempt, Turkeys government and many of its citizens are desperate for someone
to blame. Instead of undertaking a thorough investigation
of the facts, though, they have accused the United States
of complicity in the insurrection. This has ignited a new
wave of anti-Americanism that, combined with a sweeping
government crackdown against enemies real and imagined, poses a serious risk to NATO, relations with the
United States and Turkeys long-term stability.
The main culprit behind the July 15 coup, according to
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other Turkish leaders, is Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who has lived in
self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 and has denied any involvement in the attempted overthrow. But the
pro-government press, political leaders and ordinary citizens across all segments of society are also pointing fingers at Washington, which has denied any involvement.
When Gen. Joseph Votel, the top American commander in the Middle East, told a security conference last week
of his concerns about the effect of the purge on Turkish officers, including some who worked with the Americans
and are now jailed, Mr. Erdogan faulted him for taking
the side of the coup plotters. On Tuesday, Mr. Erdogan
kept at it, giving a speech in which he said that in standing
by the putschists, the West supported terrorism.
Meanwhile, the pro-government newspaper Yeni
Safak accused the C.I.A.; Gen. John Campbell of the Army,
formerly a NATO commander in Afghanistan; and Henri
Barkey, who runs the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, of being behind the insurrection. The
evidence against Mr. Barkey? When the coup erupted, he
was on an island near Istanbul holding a workshop for
academics. The paper called it a secret meeting and said
he made several telephone calls, hardly a suspicious activity. It also ran a headline claiming the United States had
tried to assassinate Mr. Erdogan that night.
It makes no sense that the United States would seek
to destabilize a NATO ally whose cooperation is crucial to
alliance security as well as to the fight against the Islamic
State, especially when much of the region is in chaos.
While it is understandable that the Turks are rattled
by the coup attempt, in which Mr. Erdogan said 237 people
died, they are playing a duplicitous and cynical game. Mr.
Erdogan has faulted Western nations for not condemning
the coup firmly enough, but his real beef seems to be that
they have expressed alarm over his use of the crisis to
purge some 66,000 people from the military, government
ministries, schools and universities. That is far more than
could possibly be justified, and so sweeping as to radically
upend the character and competency of those institutions.
American officials assume, with good reason, that Mr.
Erdogan is ratcheting up his criticism to press Washington
to comply with his demand that Mr. Gulen, a former ally
who broke with him a few years ago, be extradited to Turkey. Turkey has given the administration documents but
no formal legal request for extradition, and so far the
Americans see no evidence that Mr. Gulen was culpable.
The Turks need to be reminded that Mr. Gulen has a

legal right to be in the United States, and that the Justice
Department would have to go through a rigorous process
before deciding whether he could be handed over, especially to a country where due process is increasingly unlikely and torture is reportedly used against detainees.
Turkeys real job is to get to the bottom of who orchestrated the coup and why. But that requires setting aside
conspiracy theories in favor of unbiased fact-gathering.
The expectation in Washington is that tensions over
Mr. Gulen will worsen, and could draw Turkey closer to
Russia. Still, American officials say the Turks have given
private assurances, including to Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr.,
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when he visited
Ankara on Monday, that they will continue to cooperate in
the fight against ISIS. So far the assurances are holding.
Over the long term, the United States and NATO have
a more profound problem on their hands: What to do with
a vital ally that is veering far from democratic norms?
American officials say they have begun to study options,
including whether NATO might one day have to decide on
some kind of consequences, so far unspecified, for antidemocratic behavior.
Even the mention of possible action by NATO would
be likely to infuriate Mr. Erdogan. But it is hard to see how
Turkey can be a trusted ally if it embraces principles and
practices so at odds with the West, or how the country can
ensure its own continued development and security without NATO as an anchor.
I agree with President Obamas view

that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Nevertheless, I am constrained to
conclude that the president went too far.
He can denounce what Mr. Trump says,
he can urge Republicans not to support
him, he can encourage them to support
Hillary Clinton instead. But what if Mr.
Trump wins? It would undermine the legitimacy of the countrys democratically
elected leader, and therefore harm the interests of the United States, if his predecessor has described him as unfit for
the office.
KENNETH A. MARGOLIS
Chappaqua, N.Y.
TO THE EDITOR:
Re Putting Food Issues on Politicians

Plates (Food section, July 27):
Our nations food system and federal
food policies have profound impacts on
critical issues of our day, but are largely
absent in political discourse. It has been
estimated that we could save 70 percent
on health care costs, amounting to trillions of dollars each year, by eating better. But, ironically, our food system is
subsidized to promote unhealthy foods,
like fat-laden cheese.
Politicians should be aware of the fact
Lethal Force by the Police

TO THE EDITOR:
MICHAEL GEORGE HADDAD
deep sense of grievance by withholding the video from the

public for 13 months while the police circulated a false
account of the episode. Only after the court ordered the
video released did the states attorney, Anita Alvarez,
charge Officer Van Dyke with murder.
The video, recorded on Oct 20, 2014, and doubtless
available to officials within hours, clearly shows the teenager moving away from the police when an officer shoots
him 16 times, mostly while he is lying on the ground. Police
officers at the scene later claimed that Mr. McDonald was
lunging at the officers.
The lawyers who petitioned the court for a special
prosecutor charged that in the course of what they described as a massive cover-up, officers had intimidated
witnesses, manufactured witness statements, destroyed
evidence, prepared false police reports and may have provided false grand jury testimony as part of an effort to
portray the shooting as a heroic act of self-defense by a police officer in danger.
The lawyers asserted further that the Cook County
states attorneys office, run by Ms. Alvarez, was too close
to the Police Department to be trusted in this case. Ms. Alvarez initially opposed the petition but withdrew from the
case after the Democratic primary, when voters who were
angry at her handling of the McDonald killing declined to
return her to office.
To restore the public trust, Ms. Holmes needs to get to
the bottom of what was clearly a cover-up and charge everyone who was complicit in it.
Another Defeat for G.O.P Voting Schemes

The scurrilous campaign by Republican lawmakers in
a number of states to disenfranchise qualified voters suffered another setback this week, when a federal judge ordered North Dakota to halt voter identification restrictions
he said were blocking thousands of Native Americans
from exercising their right to vote.
In blocking the 2013 law, a United States District
Court judge, Daniel Hovland, noted that voter fraud Republican politicians widely disproven rationale for
tougher ID requirements was virtually nonexistent in
the state. He ordered the state to return to safety net
protections used effectively for years at the polls, including a voters signed affidavit of eligibility, and far less restrictive documentation than the narrow ID requirements
of the law.
The ruling was the sixth time in recent months that
federal courts rejected unfair voter restrictions enacted by
Republican-controlled legislatures in thinly veiled attempts at voter suppression timed for the presidential
election.
Last Friday, a federal appeals court struck down the
heart of a new North Carolina voting law found to block
African-American voters with what it called almost surgical precision just as the black vote has been growing in
power in that important swing state. In Texas, a federal
TO THE EDITOR:
TO THE EDITOR:
Re A Top Republican Donor Says

Shell Vote and Raise Money for Clinton
(news article, Aug. 3):
For just over a year, friends and I have
watched in frustration as Donald Trump
has repeatedly made outlandish and offensive remarks and continued to gain
support regardless.
At last, however, the tide is turning and
things are starting to stick to Teflon
Trump.
His criticism of the Khans, the parents
of an American Muslim soldier who died
in Iraq, may have proved a step too far,
and I hope that Meg Whitman will be the
first of many not only to withdraw support, but also to actively back Hillary Clinton.
Its time for Mr. Trump to experience
what its like to be a real politician, and
learn what most of us learn at 5 years old:
that actions do indeed have consequences.
ROB HINDHAUGH
London
TO THE EDITOR:
It might be informative to survey committed Donald Trump supporters as to

just what it would take for them to question their allegiance to him. His daily
gaffes have become increasingly unsettling to Republican leaders. Even Gov.
Chris Christie cannot rationalize Mr.
Trumps unrelenting attack on Gold Star
Pakistani-American parents. Yet many of
the experts still see the election as too
close to call.
Your reporters might ask the Trump
base what, if anything, could possibly
change their minds. The same could be
asked of those lock her up Hillary Clinton haters. Negative bias may be even
harder to overcome.
HARVEY H. BARTEN
Scarsdale, N.Y.
A Neglected Issue: The Politics of the Food We Eat
Uncover the Chicago Police Cover-Up

The police scandal that has roiled Chicago for months
entered a new phase last week when a Cook County judge
appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the cover-up
that followed the police execution of a black teenager two
years ago. The lawyers who petitioned the court for an
outside prosecutor argued persuasively that the states attorneys office, which would ordinarily handle such a case,
had been effectively captured by the Police Department
and was incapable of handling the matter objectively.
The special prosecutor, Patricia Brown Holmes, is a
former judge and federal prosecutor, and clearly qualified
for the post. But she will need steely perseverance to pry
the truth from a Police Department that is well practiced
in the art of concealing misconduct, brutality and even torture. This grim legacy dates back to the departments infamous midnight crew, an outfit that battered and tortured
black men from the 1970s into the 1990s.
This spring, a task force appointed by Mayor Rahm
Emanuel found that the department was plagued by systemic racism and still operated with contempt for the lives
of black citizens. The task force made many recommendations and proposed scrapping the current police oversight
system in favor of a new investigative agency that would
be under civilian control.
Mr. Emanuel created the task force shortly after the
city was forced to release a police video of a white police
officer, Jason Van Dyke, firing away at a black teenager
named Laquan McDonald on a busy Chicago street. The
city added to the African-American communitys already
Re Obama Urges G.O.P. Leaders to

Snub Trump (front page, Aug. 3):
I and other moderate Democrats rely
on the Republican Party to select a qualified presidential candidate so that if the
election is close and the winner will not be
known until morning, we can sleep
soundly knowing that, if the other party
wins, despite our disappointment, our
country will be in capable hands.
Had John McCain, a war hero and longserving senator, or Mitt Romney, an accomplished businessman who governed
Massachusetts ably, defeated President
Obama, such would have been the case.
But now, from a crowded Republican field
that included well-qualified candidates,
there has emerged an aberration, not
worthy of that party and abysmally unfit
to serve as our president.
It is time for responsible Republicans to
abandon the sinking ship into which Donald Trump is poking holes and set about
fine-tuning their primary system to prevent this travesty from happening again.
Donald Trump? The Party of Lincoln is
better than that.
BARRY S. GEDAN
Larchmont, N.Y.
court struck down elaborate ID requirements as unconstitutional, freeing more than 600,000 Latinos and blacks to
vote this November. Other rulings have ordered retreats
from blatantly unfair restrictions in Wisconsin, Kansas
and Ohio. More lawsuits are in the courts, brought by minorities and voting rights defenders complaining that the
laws interfere with voters who are thought to favor
Democrats.
As the courts remove these crude hurdles one after
another, Donald Trump has begun complaining that his
presidential campaign may be facing a rigged outcome.
Studies have established that fraud is a minuscule factor
in American elections. But Mr. Trump told The Washington Post this week, If you dont have voter ID, you can
just keep voting and voting and voting.
In truth, the recent court decisions help un-rig the
election by rejecting shamefully partisan strictures. In the
North Dakota ruling, the judge found that more than 3,800
Native Americans could have been denied the vote in November in part because the Legislatures new restrictions
required specific residential addresses on ID documents
an obvious rebuff to the Indian reservation culture of
using postal boxes for mail. This is the level of malicious
voter suppression to which Republican statehouses have
been stooping.
Re Is Fatal Shooting by Police a

Crime? It Depends on the Officers Point
of View (news article, July 29):
The international standard for the use
of lethal force by law enforcement is
clear enough: Lethal force should be
used only as a last resort in the face of
imminent death or serious injury. And
yet according to a study we at Amnesty
International did last year, not one state
in the United States has laws that meet
this simple criterion.
The patchwork of laws allows for officers to use deadly force even in the absence of any physical threat, like stopping a fleeing burglar, killing a nonviolent offender escaping from prison, or firing at protesters.
This, combined with the lack of official
data of killings by the police, all but ensures that convictions, or even indictments, will remain elusive. All United
States laws must be brought in line with
international standards if the police are
to be held accountable for their actions.
MARGARET L. HUANG
Interim Executive Director
Amnesty International USA
New York
that animal agriculture is a major contributor to climate change and our

planets most significant environmental
problems. But rather than requiring factory farms to act more responsibly, they
are relying on taxpayers to help clean up
the mess.
What we eat is one of our most important decisions every day. Our food can either promote health, or it can make us
sick. Agriculture can contribute to vibrant, healthy communities, or it can undermine them. Farmers can use scarce
natural resources responsibly, or they
can squander and deplete them.
Unfortunately, American farm policies
have enabled a harmful system to take
root. It doesnt have to be this way. As
consumers become more concerned
about our broken food system, they are
voting with their dollars. There is growing demand for organic produce, and
farmers markets are spreading along
with community gardens.
Consumers want nourishing food, and
they are interested in supporting a more
responsible and sustainable food system. Its time for political leaders to step
up to the plate and do their part.
GENE BAUR
President and Co-founder
Farm Sanctuary
Arlington, Va.
Aid to Central America

TO THE EDITOR:
Thanks to Nicholas Kristof for reminding us that When Women Win, Men
Win, Too (column, July 31). He didnt
mention some of the critical gains, however, from the changes women are fighting for.
Every male household member reaps
the benefits when women stop losing pay
based on discrimination. Revaluing
womens work makes those jobs more
appealing for men, too.
Men celebrate the joys of full parenting and of caring for parents and partners and other loved ones when we
win paid sick days and paid family and
medical leave. As more men share child
rearing, quality and affordable child care
will be a boon for them.
Above all, everyone benefits from an
end to gender stereotypes and violence,
and from greater respect and equality in
relationships.
ELLEN BRAVO
Milwaukee
The writer directs Family Values@Work,
a network of state coalitions working for
family-friendly policies.
Re Central America Child Refugee

Program Is Expanded to Include Entire
Families (news article, July 27):
The Obama administrations decision
to admit the families of unaccompanied
minors from Central America is a gesture both compassionate and pragmatic.
The same could be said about the
United States governments ambitious
$750 million aid initiative supporting efforts in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to reduce violence and spur economic development. Congress conditioned these funds on the three governments taking steps on migration, rule of
law and transparency.
This comes at a critical moment when
citizen groups and advocates for good
government are demanding change in all
three countries and are starting to see results.
While much of this assistance is understandably focused on urban areas, where
violence is most apparent, this United
States government aid also needs to provide significant support to struggling rural communities, where the lack of opportunity is spurring young people to
leave in droves, either for the city or the
United States.
The best way to curb immigration
from Central America is to address the
factors that are pushing people to leave
their homes to embark on a perilous
northward journey.
DANIEL SPECKHARD
Chief Executive, Lutheran World Relief
Baltimore
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GAIL COLLINS
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Intervening
Donald
Trump
Meets
The C.I.A.
Do you think its true that the Republicans are trying to get Rudy Giuliani and
Newt Gingrich to do an intervention with
an out-of-control Donald Trump?
This is the best rumor of the summer,
so lets hope so. If they televised it, no one
in the world would be watching the
Olympics.
And it does tell you something that
Giuliani and Gingrich are supposed to
be the voices of moderation and selfcontrol in the campaign. The former
mayor who told a press conference that
he was going to end his marriage before
he told his wife. And the former House
speaker who once presided over a government shutdown, which he seemed to
attribute to the bad seat he got on Air
Force One.
The campaign is doing really well.
Its never been so well united, Trump
himself fibbed at a rally in Florida on
Wednesday.
He was introduced by a retired general who announced that the rally was
an intervention of the people of this
country. This was the same retired general who recently got in trouble for retweeting an anti-Semitic message.
As usual, Trump spent a good chunk
of his speech explaining how unjust his
critics are. He was outraged, for instance, that he could have been charged
with being unsympathetic to people
with disabilities when hes spent millions of dollars on ramps for his buildings.
He also took the opportunity of the
Florida visit to brag about having been
endorsed by the great Brian France,
the head of Nascar. Who got the top job
upon the retirement of the previous
C.E.O., who happened to be Brian
Frances father.
Wouldnt you think Trump would be a
little bit embarrassed to preen over the
In case
youre
wondering ...
backing of another . . . heir? But hes
never met a sports celebrity he doesnt
like. This was a guy who boasted that
hed been endorsed by Mike Tyson, convicted rapist. Who really, really wanted
to put Don King, the boxing promoter,
on the convention speakers list. It apparently took quite a bit of persuasion to
convince the candidate that it was not a
good idea to publicize his friendship
with a man who was once convicted of
manslaughter for stomping someone to
death.
You cant deny that Trump has kept
his promise to run a whole new kind of
campaign. Just a week into the general
election race and hes already gotten
into an ongoing fight with the parents of
a slain war hero, arguing that he had
made a lot of sacrifices himself. Plus
refused to endorse the speaker of the
House in a meaningless primary. Plus
humiliated a woman with a crying baby.
Things are getting exhausting, arent
they? Im prepared to take a couple of
questions.
During the fight with the parents of
the slain war hero, remind me exactly
what Trump claimed his sacrifices for
the country were?
Oh, you know, building . . . buildings.
And raising massive amounts of money
for veterans. Only the first of which is
entirely true.
And what about the crying baby?
Yeah, there was a baby crying at one
of the rallies. Trump took the trouble to
point it out to the hundreds of people in
his audience. Dont worry about that
baby, he told the mother. I love babies. Wouldnt you presume he was serious? The worst politician in the country would not be sarcastic about a baby.
Rudy Giuliani would not be sarcastic
about a baby. Bada-bing: Actually, I
was only kidding. You can get the baby
out of here. And then he made fun of
the mother for believing him.
Now that hes been criticized, hell
probably start pointing out that Mar-aLago doesnt discriminate against pregnant women.
I live in California and all I can think
about is this election. But the only
voters who count seem to be in Ohio,
Florida and Pennsylvania! How can that
be fair?
Look, normally Id be sympathetic,
what with living in New York and all.
But weve got a presidential nominee
here who apparently didnt know the
Russians had invaded Ukraine until
George Stephanopoulos broke the news
to him on national television. There are
problems larger than the value of your
itty-bitty ballot.
Trump keeps saying the election is
going to be rigged. Do you think hes
looking for an excuse to drop out?
No, Im just worried that hes preparing his excuse for when he loses. You do
not want this to end with Donald Trump
telling his supporters many of whom
appear to have a minimum of 20 guns in
the basement that he was robbed. In
the Florida speech he did warn the audience to beware of people voting 10
times.
O.K., thats scaring me.
Lets have some faith in the electorate. I believe most Americans, when
given the choice between explaining the
outcome with election fraud or kept
making fun of mothers, will know
which way to go.
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The government is arranging classified

intelligence briefings for Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump to prepare them for
the White House. This longstanding practice of briefing nominees is controversial
this year: Senator Harry Reid has urged
the C.I.A. to give Trump a fake briefing,
while House Speaker Paul Ryan has said
Clinton cant handle classified material.
But what would a Trump briefing look
like, anyway?
EMILIANO PONZI
Health Secrets of the Amish

By Moises Velasquez-Manoff
N recent decades, the prevalence of

asthma and allergies has increased
between two- and threefold in the
United States. These days, one in 12
kids has asthma. More are allergic.
The first hint of a population-wide affliction the sneezing masses came in the
late 19th century, among the American
and British upper classes. Hay fever so
closely hewed to class lines that a runny
nose was seen as a mark of refinement.
Observers noted that farmers the people who most often came in contact with
pollens and animal dander were the
ones least likely to sneeze and wheeze.
This phenomenon was rediscovered in
the 1990s in Switzerland. Children who
grew up on small farms were between
one-half and one-third less likely to have
hay fever and asthma, compared with
non-farming children in the same rural areas. Scientists identified livestock, particularly dairy cows, fermented feed and raw
milk consumption as protective in what
they eventually called the farm effect.
Many argued that the microbes of the
cowshed stimulated childrens immune
systems in a way that prevented allergies.
Then, a few years ago, researchers
found an American example of the phenomenon: the Amish. Children from an
Amish community in Indiana had an even
lower prevalence of allergies than European farmers, making them among the
least allergic subgroup ever measured in
the developed world.
Now a study released on Wednesday in
The New England Journal of Medicine advances the research. The authors found a
suitable comparison group for the Amish
in another farming community, the
Hutterites. The two groups share genetic
ancestry; both descend from Germanspeaking stock. But unlike the Amish, the
Hutterites, who live in the upper Midwest,
are as allergic as your average American.
Why doesnt farming protect them?
Moises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An
Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune
Disease, is a contributing opinion writer.
A likely reason is that while the Amish

have small farms, with cowsheds located
right next to their homes, the communalliving Hutterites house their livestock
miles away. The Amish probably bring
more microbes into their homes and
some may waft in directly resulting in a
microbial load nearly six times higher
than that found in Hutterite houses, the
scientists discovered.
In addition, it is primarily adult men
who work with the cows in Hutterite communities, while Amish children play in the
cowsheds, and Amish women, including
pregnant ones, presumably have frequent
contact with the cowshed microbes. In Europe, pregnant women exposed to these
microbes have been found to have the
least allergic kids of all. Microbial stimulation of the maternal immune system may
preprogram the unborn child against allergy an effect thats reproducible in ro-
To prevent asthma and

allergies, farm like this.
dents. So while both communities farm,
the Hutterites seem to lack the right exposures at the right time.
About 5 percent of the Amish children in
the study had asthma, while 21 percent of
the Hutterites did. The immune systems
of these two genetically similar communities look remarkably different. Hutterite
children have more white blood cells involved in allergy, while a cell type that specializes in repelling microbes predominates in Amish kids. Amish white blood
cells also have a different profile of gene
expression than Hutterite, one that signals restraint. This ability to not overreact
to pollens is, scientists think, important
for avoiding asthma and allergies.
The scientists also sought to reproduce
these immunological profiles in animals
by treating mice with microbe-laden dust
from Amish and Hutterite homes. The two
dusts had drastically different effects
when the mice inhaled them through their
noses every few days for over a month.
Amish dust prevented symptoms of

asthma; Hutterite dust encouraged them.
Broadly speaking, the immune system
has two arms: the adaptive immune system, which learns and remembers; and
the innate immune system, which recognizes ancient patterns in the microbial
world. When the scientists genetically
hobbled the animals innate immune systems, the Amish dust lost its protective effect, and the animals began to have trouble breathing. The implication is that stimulation of the innate immune system is
critical to preventing asthma.
The study has some shortcomings. Its
small just 60 children. The scientists
didnt identify the specific microbes that
might be important. Nor do they know if
those microbes take up residence in the
gut microbiome or elsewhere in the body.
Martin Blaser, director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University, also points out that the scientists didnt control for antibiotic use or C-section
rate, both of which may, by disturbing the
gut microbiota, alter asthma risk.
But the fact that they could so faithfully
reproduce in mice what they saw in people
using only dust suggests that theyve
identified an important component of the
farm effect. And the simplicity of the
mechanism microbes that stimulate the
innate immune system is heartening.
That is precisely why were so excited,
Donata Vercelli, a researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson and a senior
author on the study, told me. This seems
to be a manageable situation, she said,
one that could lead to a preventive medication based on Amish microbes.
The findings also reiterate that genes
arent destiny. Disease emerges from the
dance between genes and environment.
The asthma epidemic may stem in part
from the decline of what the immunologist
Graham Rook once called our old
friends the organisms our immune
systems expect to be present in the environment. The sneezing upper classes in
the 19th century may have been the first to
find themselves without these old friends.
Now most of the developed world has lost
them. The task at hand is to figure out how
to get them back. One answer may come
from the Amish cowshed.
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Why the G.O.P. Cant Win Black Votes

By Leah Wright Rigueur
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
ITH every news cycle

focused on Donald J.
Trumps latest misstep,
its easy to overlook the
fact that his campaign
has drawn record low support from
African-Americans and that this
achievement, as it were, illuminates
something worrisome within the Republican Party itself.
As usual, this years convention featured African-Americans playing highly
specific public roles: as speakers, surrogates, attendees and delegation leaders;
they delivered sermons in praise of God
and Mr. Trump; spoke of black poverty,
unemployment and jobs; and berated the
Black Lives Matter movement, offering
stringent promises of a swift return to
law and order.
This black hyper-visibility was intentional, a symbolic corrective for the conventions astonishing lack of diversity: Of
the 2,472 delegates, only 18 were black. It
is the lowest percentage on record, lower
even than 1964, the year the party selected
Barry Goldwater as its presidential
nominee.
Since that disastrous campaign, the Republicans have at least talked about reconnecting with African-Americans. In
2013, the Republican National Committee
rolled out its Growth and Opportunity
Project, a critical self-assessment intended to prevent the partys share of minority votes from slipping further.
The rise of Mr. Trump and his brand of
racial populism has undermined nearly all
the reports recommendations on minority outreach. Among black voters, 90 to 94
percent hold unfavorable views of the
nominee. By current polling accounts, he
Leah Wright Rigueur, an assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is the author
of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit
of Power.
is winning between 4 to 9 percent of the

black vote. Sally Bradshaw, one of Jeb
Bushs top advisers and a co-author of the
2013 report, recently announced that she
was leaving the party, citing Republicans
decision to nominate a bigot.
And yet, when you look beyond such
glossy items like that 2013 report, the damage done by Mr. Trump feels of a piece
with the partys history, however much
people like Ms. Bradshaw protest. Set
aside the instances of racial demagogy;
even at its best moments, for decades the
party has been unable to move beyond
broad assessments and platitudes to advocate substantive change.
The party has had no shortage of analyses devoted to fixing its race problem. In
1939, the future Nobel Prize winner Ralph
Its not just Trump. The

party has been breaking
promises for decades.
Bunche created a blueprint for winning
over black voters. Dozens of reports followed, usually in the aftermath of a disastrous presidential loss. After the 1964 presidential election, when the Republicans
garnered only 6 percent of the black vote,
a group of former Goldwater supporters
concluded that the party could no longer
rely on racist appeals, overt or covert.
But as with the past four years, whenever the party begins to make incremental
gains in its relationship with AfricanAmericans, it finds itself pulled to the
right, often at the expense of black needs
and interests. In 1960, Richard M. Nixon
won 32 percent of the black vote; in 1962,
he told Ebony that it would be foolish and a
violation of G.O.P. principles to give up
on black voters. By 1968, as the Republican
presidential nominee, he had alienated
African-Americans with his racially
charged language of law and order.
When paired with his back-room dealings with South Carolina Senator Strom
Thurmond, Nixons law and order
stance ultimately destabilized the R.N.C.s
initiatives to support black communities.
Jackie Robinson, who had campaigned
tirelessly for Nixon eight years earlier,
quit the G.O.P. in 1968 for exactly this reason. Two years later, black R.N.C. officials
would follow Robinsons lead, pointing the
finger at Nixons lack of moral leadership on race. We dont want the black
vote, one former staffer lamented.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and
well into the 1990s and 2000s, the story remains the same. Black Republicans regularly sued the G.O.P. for racial discrimination, formed protest organizations and accused party leaders of sabotaging black
outreach efforts and pitting the interests
of white voters against those of black
voters. Frustrated black Republicans,
from Clarence Thomas to Colin Powell,
have all at some point or another called for
the G.O.P. to address its race problem.
And like clockwork, Republican leaders
and officials produced reports designed to
broaden the racial demographics of the
party tent.
There have been moments of success.
Jack Kemp comes to mind; in 1986, he
seemed to have won a consensus among
Republicans with his plan to turn it into
the party of civil rights and of human
rights and voting rights and legal rights
and economic opportunities. In 2016, moments such as these have all but disappeared. The occasional glimpse of substantive Republican political and policy
considerations of African-Americans is almost immediately undercut by the alienating behavior and rhetoric of Mr. Trump.
As we move into the final months of the
campaign cycle, the Republican Party will
once again find itself at a racial crossroads. If the presidential nominee loses in
the general election, leaders will once
again engage in a measure of soul searching on matters of race and inclusion. And
perhaps this time, instead of saying
farewell to African-Americans, the
G.O.P. will say welcome and actually
mean it.
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Mr. Trump, Im Gene Smith from the

C.I.A.
Smith, huh? Is that your code name?
You know, I know a huge amount about
the C.I.A., more than most C.I.A. directors. A terrific, beautiful, very good organization.
Actually, Smith is my real name. Anyway, lets get started with China and our
assessment that Xi is much more aggressive than Hu.
She is more aggressive than who?
Exactly.
Well, Id like to meet her. I like aggressive women. She sounds like a 10.
Who?
I dont know. That aggressive woman.
Im not sure I understand. Anyway, in
China we assess with high confidence
that Xi will continue this aggressive nationalistic
She sounds hot. No, Im just joking.
But, seriously, women love me.
Mr. Trump, Xi is a man, president of
China.
She is a man? Chinas president is
trans? Boy, theyre more modern than I
realized I mean, I knew that. I know so
much about China. You should see me
use chopsticks! Did I ever tell you about
Be a fly on the wall at

his intelligence briefing.
this hot Chinese girl I once dated? She
was so modern, and built like
Mr. Trump! We expect China will
maintain its nationalistic claims in the
South China Sea
Oh, dont worry. I have lots of Chinese
friends. I love Chinese food. Best pad
Thai in the world at Trump Tower. So
whats your take, what do the Chinese
think of me?
We assess with high confidence that
the Chinese leadership wants you to win
the election.
Im not surprised. There are very,
very bad reporters at completely and totally failing newspapers that nobody
reads who say I might start a trade war.
But China wants me to win the election!
Amazing! So why does she want me to
win, that transsexual president of
theirs?
Xi is not trans! Xi would like you to
win because alliance management is not
your priority, and your presidency could
lead to an unprecedented decline in U.S.
influence.
Unprecedented! Amazing! So the
Chinese think that Id be unprecedented? Who else likes me?
Well, North Korea has already officially endorsed you, Mr. Trump. It called
you prescient and wise.
Present and wise! They love me!
And Russia loves me, too. Putin and I go
way back. Were like this Trump knits
his fingers together and after Im
elected I hope to finally meet him.
Yes, we believe that President Putin
is backing you.
Putin the Pro. Not like Little Ukraine.
Sad!
Well, Putin believes that NATO might
collapse in your presidency and that he
would have a freer hand in Ukraine and
the Baltics.
The Baltics, I know them better than
anybody! Melania is from Slovenia.
Some people say I leaked those amazing
pictures of her to The New York Post.
Why would I do that? Did you see them?
Here
Mr. Trump! And you mean the Balkans, even though Slovenia isnt
Balkans, Baltics I dont get bogged
down in details. Im a strategy guy. Now
what about ISIS? I know more about
ISIS than the generals do. But Id like to
hear your take. Are they supporters?
We assess that they are supporting
you in the belief that you help recruitment. Indeed, we fear that they may conduct a terror strike in hopes of helping
you get elected.
Everybodys supporting me! What
about the Middle East? Ill probably do a
peace deal Im a terrific deal maker,
you know that? Ill probably get a Nobel
Peace Prize to go with my new Purple
Heart.
Well, sir, the Middle East is complicated
The Middle East is a complete and total disaster. They dont respect us. What
about nuclear weapons? If we have
nukes, why not use em?
Sir, we only offer intel, not policy advice. But
Shouldnt we just drop a few nukes on
those Kurds?
The Kurds? In Syria, theyre our only
effective ally.
Theyre doing bad things. Very bad
things. I saw it on a Sunday show.
Oh, you mean . . . the Quds Force?
Kurds, Quds, whats the difference? If
I give the order to bomb em, you guys
can sweat the details. Call Mike Pence.
But youre running to be
Anyway, tell me about internet security. Im a little bored. How about we hack
into the phone of Miss Sweden and check
out her selfies? When Im elected Im going to have a whole team on that. . . . 0
A24
Tightrope Walk Awaits Official Defends Effort That Has Created Only 408 Jobs
Citys New Police Leader
By JESSE McKINLEY
ONeills Many Challenges Extend to Mayor

By J. DAVID GOODMAN
and AL BAKER
In the hours before midnight on

Tuesday, at Deninos Pizzeria on
Staten Island, voices boomed with
laughter from a private table in
the front, strewed with paper
plates, glasses and pizza crusts.
It would have been a typical
late-night New York City gathering
but
for
the
smiling
participants: Mayor Bill de Blasio; the outgoing police commissioner, William J. Bratton; the
man just named to replace him,
Chief James P. ONeill; and a coterie of senior police officials.
But while the meal had a celebratory tone, especially for Mr.
Bratton, it belied the coming
crosscurrents to be faced by Mr.
de Blasio and Chief ONeill, a man
who three years ago was languishing in the middle ranks of the
Police Department hierarchy.
Throughout Mr. de Blasios tenure as mayor, he has sought shelter and support from Mr. Bratton,
a law enforcement leader with na-
DAVE SANDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
James P. ONeill will become

commissioner in September.
Facing pressure from

36,000 officers as
well as power brokers
inside City Hall.
tional stature and international
renown.
But on July 11, after a news conference on crime statistics, Mr.
Bratton told the mayor that he
would be out the door come Sept.
16, city officials said. He is bound
for a high-paying job at Teneo, a
private advisory firm.
Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, conducted no replacement search,
and during four weeks of behindthe-scenes planning for succession, the mayor strongly considered only two candidates to lead
the force, the nations largest: Mr.
ONeill and the first deputy, Benjamin B. Tucker.
It was clear to us that we didnt
have to go outside, Anthony E.
Shorris, the first deputy mayor,
said.
The mayor met with them outside of city buildings so as not to
arouse suspicion, Mr. Shorris said.
A second and final interview for
both men took place on Saturday
at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral
residence, Eric F. Phillips, the
mayors press secretary, said. Mr.
de Blasios wife, Chirlane McCray,
attended those sessions. Mr.
ONeill was offered the job 16
hours before it was publicly announced on Tuesday.
I dont think theres a bettertested guy for this job, Mr.
Shorris said. I can tell you over
the last two and a half years, this
has been the absolute go-to guy
for us when it came to some of the
toughest issues we had.
In his new job, Chief ONeill, a
born-and-bred New Yorker who
became an officer in 1983, will
have to walk a tightrope between
36,000 armed officers and the
power brokers inside City Hall at a
time when a single instance of potential police misconduct can
mushroom into a national controversy.
The challenges for the police
are myriad and unfinished: terrorism; the internal discipline of
officers, including those involved
in the death of Eric Garner; the
enduring mistrust of officers in
minority communities; calls for
reform from legislative leaders;
bitter union contract battles; and
a federal corruption investigation
that has ensnared top police officials and coincided with the suicide of Inspector Michael Ameri, a
close friend of Chief ONeills.
Im sorry I couldnt do more for
you, Chief ONeill said in his eulogy in May, racked by tears. Im so
sorry I couldnt stop the pain.
But the challenges for the police
extend to Mr. de Blasio. Soon to be
without his most powerful defender on criminal justice matters, the
mayor may become newly vulnerable to challenge from advocates
of reform and from police union
leaders skeptical of his leadership. Both the mayor and Chief
ONeill are likely to be tested from
inside and outside the depart-
ment, from the political right and

the left, and by those who found
Mr. Bratton too formidable a rival.
The dynamics of that relationship were already on display on
Tuesday: Hours before Chief
ONeills appointment was announced, dozens of officers from
the Policemens Benevolent Association staged a protest of the
mayor outside his Park Slope
gym. A day after, two city councilmen said they would press for the
passage of policing legislation
that had appeared to have been
obviated last month by Mr. Brattons promise to enact changes
himself.
But the timing of the transition
from Mr. Bratton to Chief ONeill
could yet help Mr. de Blasio, who
is facing a raft of state and federal
investigations, poor approval
numbers in polls and a re-election
fight next year. Should crime rise,
or Chief ONeill prove unable to
navigate the citys media and political landscape, the mayor could
name a replacement before the
election, though such a move
would present its own risks.
Mr. de Blasio appeared to decide that despite a national clamor
for broad-based criminal justice
reform, the Police Department
needed stability and a continuation of the Bratton approach.
Crime remains a concern for New
Yorkers, who fear backsliding
even as the statistics in most categories continue their decline.
When crime jumps up, you
dont get to your social justice
agenda,
Bruce
Gyory,
a
Democratic political consultant,
said.
Had Mr. de Blasio brought in an
out-of-towner to lead the department, he could have been vulnerable to accusations of having deviated from a successful strategy,
including by those in Mr. Brattons
orbit who remain at the department for now but may not for long.
The ascension of Chief ONeill, a
relative unknown, capped a meteoric rise under Mr. Bratton that
began in early 2014, when he was a
one-star deputy chief. By the end
of that year, he was chief of department, with a seat next to Mr. Bratton at the City Hall briefings with
the mayor.
From there, he became close
with Mr. de Blasio, who grew to
trust him and rely upon him for
policing advice, particularly as
the mayor embraced the Police
Departments move toward a new
version of community policing.
Chief ONeill played a central role
in convincing the mayor last year
to back an expansion of the department by 1,300 officers to support that effort, according to a city
official said who requested anonymity to discuss the details of
closed-door meetings.
Ultimately, the succession plan
mirrored one that occurred years
earlier in Los Angeles when Mr.
Bratton groomed Charlie Beck to
take over for him in 2009, said
Chuck Wexler, the head of the Police Executive Research Forum,
who has known Mr. Bratton since
the 1970s. This same could be
said of Jimmy ONeill, Mr. Wexler
said. Both had embraced the
Bratton philosophies but had the
advantage of coming from the inside.
Despite describing himself as
not always in lock step with Mr.
de Blasio, Chief ONeill has not
challenged the mayor in the regular meetings between City Hall
and the department, according to
a person who attended them and
spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversations. Often at those meetings, it would be the mayor who introduced an idea or asked for Mr.
ONeills thoughts or advice,
rather than the other way around,
the person said.
Hes not an ideas guy, but Bratton, in his own way, is not an ideas
guy he surrounded himself with
people with ideas and made them
his own, said one senior police official who requested anonymity to
describe personal interactions
with the two men. Jimmy has not
had that same experience. Hes a
very operational, very tactical
guy.
But, the official added, Chief
ONeill will be open to ideas and
recognizes that its important to
the department for them to come
in.
Around the pizzeria table late
on Tuesday, after a five-borough
tour of police precincts on National Night Out, men with close
ties to Mr. Bratton his deputy
commissioner of counterterrorism, John J. Miller, and his top
spokesman, Stephen P. Davis
told jokes and shared observations about how his departure was
playing in the news feeds on their
smartphones.
Mr. Bratton like the mayor famously did early in his tenure
ate his slice with a knife and a fork.
I said, Hey look, the P.C. is using a knife and fork, Mr. Miller
recalled. And the mayor said,
Yeah, just for the first two bites
because its too hot.
Chief ONeill used his hands.
ALBANY New Yorks chief

economic development official
faced sharp questioning on
Wednesday from lawmakers who
questioned the wisdom and effectiveness of one of Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomos signature initiatives.
The official, Howard Zemsky,
the chief executive of Empire
State Development, repeatedly
defended the program, Start-Up
New York, despite its lackluster
performance.
Indeed, last month, Mr. Zemskys agency reported that StartUp New York which offers a
decade of no taxes to companies in
exchange for transferring, expanding or starting new businesses in the state had created
just 408 jobs since its start in 2013,
despite an initial advertising push
for the program that cost the state
some $50 million.
But on Wednesday, Mr. Zemsky
said the governors efforts and
taxpayer dollars were paying
dividends to New Yorkers in more
intangible ways, including reversing what he called the states
decades-old reputation as a place
unfriendly to businesses.
We dramatically changed the
perception of New York State, Mr.
Zemsky said. The world thought
that New York State was not open
for business.
But now, he added, The world
thinks New York State is open for
business.
Mr. Zemsky made his remarks
during an off-session hearing of
the Assembly Committee on Eco-
nomic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry,

and on the heels of troubling news
for two other state economic development programs.
Mr. Cuomos so-called Buffalo
Billion plan, a billion-dollar investment project aiming to revitalize
Buffalo and western New York,
has come under federal investigation. And last month, the states
Excelsior Jobs Program which
slightly predates the administration of Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat
was also the subject of an unflattering audit by Thomas P. DiNapoli, the state comptroller, who
criticized
the
development
agency for adjusting job creation
requirements for tax breaks given
to companies that had not hired as
many as they had promised.
Empire State disputed those
findings, and Mr. Zemsky said on
Wednesday his office was cooperating with the federal investigation of the Buffalo Billion program, which is being led by Preet
Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of
New York.
While Mr. Zemsky faced questions about both the Excelsior and
Buffalo Billion programs, the vast
majority of his time was spent defending Start-Up, which uses
space on or adjacent to college
campuses statewide. Again and
again, Mr. Zemsky argued the program needed time, saying its approved companies would invest
$230 million and eventually
produce some 4,100 jobs over the
next four to five years.
But lawmakers on both sides of

the aisle seemed unimpressed by
such promises, in light of the meager job creation so far.
You said you want to look
through the front windshield of
whats coming, not in the rearview
mirror, said Assemblyman Raymond Walter, a Republican from
the Buffalo area. But sometimes,
if we dont look through the
rearview mirror we wont see the
wreckage behind us.
Mr. Zemsky shot back that the
Lawmakers question
the effectiveness of
one of the governors
signature initiatives.
State University of New York at
Buffalo, which is in Mr. Walters
district, had actually been among
the biggest beneficiaries of the
program.
Are you interested in pulling
the rug out from under them? Mr.
Zemsky, a successful real estate
developer in Buffalo, said.
But criticism did not come just
from Republicans or those from
western New York. Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell, a Democrat from a district on the Canadian border, argued there should be
a serious rethinking of Start-Up
New York.
At this point, were not seeing a

whole lot of return on investment, Ms. Russell said, adding:
I know the perception has
changed markedly. But folks in
my area are looking for jobs, not
perception.
And noting the $50 million in
promotion, she said, Wed like
there to be some substance to the
program, beyond just advertising.
Empire State officials counter
that the programs participants
have already paid some $32 million in wages and $13 million in investment. Still, on several occasions, Mr. Zemsky seemed frustrated by the focus on Start-Up
New York, calling it a very small
piece of the puzzle of how to spur
economic activity upstate.
Its one tool in the toolbox, he
said. Its not the entirety of New
York States economic development efforts, by any stretch of the
imagination. On the other hand, it
gets all of the attention.
At other moments, Mr. Zemsky
seemed amused by some of the
complaints, including the fact that
the 408-job number had appeared
in a small-type footnote in the July
1 report.
I will assure you that we will
make all the print the same size
next time, he said.
And if it would help to exorcise
all of the emotion around the
Start-Up New York program, he
added, I would be willing to subject myself to any types of medieval torture, any other things that
could make all the anger go away.
A key to the relatively timely progress of the construction has been the decision to prefabricate pieces of the bridge on land.
Milestone for New Tappan Zee: Its Halfway Finished

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the river. Other bridges he has
worked on, like the replacements
of Gulf Coast bridges destroyed by
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, had far
more land access, while the central spans of the new Tappan Zee
are in the middle of a three-milewide stretch of river. Work requires regular commutes by small
boats from Tarrytown and deliveries by barge.
Were in the middle of the Hudson River, so everything is multiplied by two, he said.
Because the work will take several years, his wife and highschool-aged sons moved with him
to Westchester from the New Orleans area.
A classic suspension bridge like
the George Washington has cables that are anchored to the
shore. A cable-stayed bridge like
the new Tappan Zee has its cables
anchored to tall towers, which
bear the load.
The construction of the four
21st-Century Span
Articles in this series are chronicling the construction of the new
double-spanned Tappan Zee
Bridge and the people building it.
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pairs of towers massive wingshaped concrete structures each

40 stories tall and leaning outward
about 5 degrees use an inventive engineering process that relies on what are called jump
forms. The blue steel and wood
forms boxlike work rooms without a ceiling allow carpenters
and ironworkers to construct the
successive concrete segments of
each tower, one huge block of steel
rebar encased in concrete piled
atop another. Then after the concrete block is cured, or hardened,
the forms can be elevated on vertical rails attached to the block, so
the next block of concrete can be
built atop the previous one within
a safe enclosed space.
The size of each block varies
from 12 to 18 feet tall, with those at
the top narrower than those at the
bottom; it takes 26 lifts of a jump
form to stack all the blocks for a
tower that tops off at 419 feet tall.
Though the towers are only twothirds complete, crossbeams have
already been extended from one
tower to its sidekick to hold up the
decks of the main spans. The cables, once pulled taut, will
strengthen the grip.
Seen from some angles, the towers look like four slender people
doing an open-armed yoga exercise. Several holes in which the cables will be anchored are already
visible. There will eventually be 12
holes each on flip sides of a tower,
which means that 192 cables
some 11 inches in diameter, others
two feet thick, with the longest

segments reaching almost 800
feet will be supporting the main
deck.
Depending on where it is placed
and the weight it must support, a
cable can be made up of 30 or 60 or
80 strands of wire, each strand
three-fourths of an inch thick itself made up of seven slim wires
A replacement
structure that is a
perfect mix of form
and function.
braided together. The cables are
so heavy and stiff that they need
to be threaded through the holes
not by human hands but by a
cranklike winch.
Supervising much of the work
on the jump forms and cables are
field engineers like Alessandra
Rosso of the Bronx and John McCullough of Piermont, N.Y. Two or
three times each day, they climb
metal staircases to reach work areas in the towers that are 15
stories now and keep getting
higher.
If youre not in shape you get in
shape pretty quickly, Ms. Rosso
said.
Still, 90 percent of her job is co-
ordinating the ordering and delivery of materials, finding ways to

get tools to where they are
needed, talking to crane operators
who must be nearby to hoist the
materials to where they are
needed but who must not be left to
idle long. Crane time is like gold
around here, she said.
At times the bridge has had two
dozen cranes doing various jobs.
The one that collapsed, which was
using a vibrating hammer to force
cylindrical support piles into the
river bottom, was quickly replaced.
Its not going to impact our
work, Ms. Barbas said of the toppled crane.
This is Ms. Rossos first bridge.
She previously worked on the
East Side Access project that will
connect Long Island Rail Road
trains to Grand Central Terminal
in Midtown Manhattan. So she
has had to adjust to working at
daunting heights in all kinds of
weather.
The first time its definitely
scary, but then its just work, she
said. I think about the task, not
the heights.
Mr. McCullough, who last
worked on renovating the Pulaski
Skyway in New Jersey, seems
simply awed by the scale of the
job.
This is 400 times bigger, everything is much bigger, he said.
You have to have a Plan B if Plan
A doesnt work and a Plan C if Plan
B doesnt work.
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Fox News Harassment Inquiry Is Said to Look at What Others Knew

By JIM RUTENBERG
and BEN PROTESS
Investigators looking into sexual harassment accusations against the former Fox News chairman
Roger Ailes are also examining whether other executives knew of alleged improper behavior by Mr.
Ailes and failed to act on it, people briefed on the
inquiry said on Wednesday.
The investigation, focused on accusations
against Mr. Ailes, has not broadened into a comprehensive look at the workplace culture at Fox News,
these people said. But investigators will pursue in-
formation presented in interviews about others at

the company who might have effectively enabled
Mr. Ailess reported behavior.
The inquiry is continuing, these people said, with
more current and former Fox News employees
scheduled for interviews. As of last week, nearly 20
women had reported inappropriate behavior by Mr.
Ailes, according to one of the people. The accounts,
though unverified, led the leadership of 21st Century Fox, Fox Newss parent, to determine that Mr.
Ailes could not stay on, this person said.
The investigation by the law firm Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison began on July 6, the

day that Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Mr.
Ailes. Mr. Ailes, who denied the allegations,
stepped down 14 days ago.
A 21st Century Fox spokeswoman declined to
comment, but on Tuesday said in a statement that
the law firm remains counsel to us and is dealing
with any and all issues as they arise.
Scrutiny of Mr. Ailess behavior and Foxs operations increased on Friday with an article in New
York magazine about the experiences of a former
booker, Laurie Luhn, who said that Mr. Ailes had

harassed her and subjected her to psychological
torture. In the article, she tells of Mr. Ailes using
company resources and staff members, including
Bill Shine, Mr. Ailess deputy, to facilitate the relationship. Mr. Shine, who is now part of the interim
management team at Fox News, has told
associates that he did not know Mr. Ailes was having a relationship with Ms. Luhn.
The New York Times spoke to more than a dozen
women for an article published last month, who told
Continued on Page 2
Ad Buyers
Get Over
Their Fear
Of a Ghost
Snapchat is persuading brands to
bet their money on untested and
playful ways to reach consumers.
By KATIE BENNER
and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
SAN FRANCISCO When Snapchats chief executive, Evan Spiegel, took the stage in June 2015 at a
marketing conference in Cannes, France, to champion
advertising on the ephemeral messaging service, advertisers were wary.
Yet by this June, when the conference was held
again in Cannes, Snapchat had become one of the
most buzzed-about marketing platforms. It is convincing companies that its ads which let users
adorn pictures and videos with all manner of images
and branding create a more interactive experience
than Facebook and YouTube ads, which most users
watch passively.
Advertisers want to be associated with the trendiest, newest thing, and this year, thats Snapchat, said
Chad Stoller, executive vice president and global innovation director of IPG Mediabrands.
How Snapchat got its ad business on track is a case
study of a fast-growing start-up overcoming growing
pains and persuading companies to try untested ways
to reach consumers.
When Snapchat opened itself up to advertisers
more than a year ago, many initially griped that the
company needed to lower its ad prices. Some were
mystified about how to reach the right audience with
the ads, since Snapchat did not provide traditional adtargeting tools. Most of all, brands wondered how
Snapchat could be effective when the ads like
Snapchat messages disappeared.
In the last 15 months, Snapchat has moved to respond. It introduced new ad formats. It dangled its attractive user base the service now claims 150 million daily users, including nearly half the countrys
population from ages 18 to 34 to lure advertisers.
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Valuable Byproduct of a Meal Kit: The Box

By STEPHANIE STROM
FreshRealm got its start as a

meal kit business, sending
customers all the fixings to make,
say, chicken quinoa salad with
arugula and pistachios, or lemonDijon salmon with potatoes and
green beans.
Along the way, it has stumbled
upon a different booming business: the packaging system
FreshRealm pioneered, a sort of
reusable puzzle box for meal kits.
Dozens of meal kit companies
have popped up over the last five
years, delivering precisely cut
and measured ingredients and a
set of instructions to help even the
most reluctant cook put a fresh
meal on the table.
But the kits leave behind piles of
boxes, plastic bags and cold
packs. Pressured by consumers to
reduce such packaging waste,
some companies have tried to cut
down on the garbage they create,
including turning to a competitor,
FreshRealm, for its shipping
crates.
The State of the Art column, by
Farhad Manjoo, which normally
appears on this page, was published on Tuesday.
When we were creating it, I

think people werent necessarily
thinking about packaging waste
or preparation time or the cold
chain needed to preserve fresh
foods, said Michael Lippold, chief
executive of FreshRealm, a subsidiary of Calavo Growers, which
markets fresh produce and a variety of fresh prepared foods. Now
that consumer concerns about
packaging are coming up, theres
definitely a lot of interest in our
box.
Packaging is perhaps the most
critical element of the meal kit
business, which must ensure that
raw meats and vegetables get to
the consumer without being contaminated or looking as if someone played soccer with them. So
any tweak to reduce the insulation
needed to maintain proper temperatures or the plastic that protects precut food from discoloration and contamination requires judiciousness and a good
bit of innovation.
Some companies have stopped
using plastic foam insulation. Others try to encourage recycling, or
give people the option of sending
the packaging back.
Continued on Page 4
Investors Are Unfazed

By Instability in Turkey
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
TROY HARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Michael Lippold, chief of FreshRealm, which has a

booming side business: selling packaging to its rivals.
On the face of it, this might not

seem the right time to be investing in Turkey.
Terrorists attacked the main
airport in Istanbul, a foiled coup
raised questions about political
stability, and the countrys debt is
being downgraded by rating
agencies all of this happening
within a span of two weeks.
So what were the best-performing investments in the global
economy last week?
You guessed it: Turkish stocks
and bonds up 6.6 and 3.8 percent in dollar terms, according to
Merrill Lynch.
Emerging markets are known
for their wild, discordant swings,
but this mini-rally in Turkey, brief
as it may be, highlights just how
much risk yield-starved investors
are willing to take on when $11 trillion worth of bonds of governments around the world are offering up negative returns.
That is why a Turkish 10-year
bond that offers a 9 percent reward can be tempting, even if that
countrys inflation rate is 8.7 percent and rising and its currency is
heading south.
Stocks and bonds in developing
markets have been on a tear since
early last year, with once-scorned
countries like Brazil (stock market up 54 percent in dollar terms
for the year) and South Africa (up
24 percent during the same period) leading the way.
The surge has been driven in
part by a shift in mood by
investors choosing to scoop up
beaten-down assets in these countries. Emerging-market stocks as
a whole are trading at steep discounts to their counterparts in the
United States and Europe.
A partial recovery in oil prices,
political calm in Brazil and a growing sense that Chinese authorities
will not allow the renminbi to collapse have also had their effect.
At the root of this sudden rush
of money into high-risk assets is
the pressure that many institutions, from large pension funds
and insurance companies to some
hedge funds, are facing to find reContinued on Page 7
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016
Time Warner Buys 10% Stake in Hulu and Will Bring Networks Along
By EMILY STEEL
Time Warner announced on

Wednesday that it had joined
forces with several rival media
companies to chart a new future
for the streaming television service Hulu, acquiring a 10 percent
stake in it and committing programming for its new live TV offering.
Time Warner paid $583 million
in cash for the stake, valuing Hulu
at $5.8 billion, an executive said
during a conference call on
Wednesday. Hulus other corporate owners are 21st Century Fox,
Comcast and the Walt Disney
Company.
The development makes Time
Warner an official member of the
cool kids club, Todd Juenger, an
analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein,
said in a research note.
It comes as Hulu, which got its
start primarily as a rerun service
for broadcast shows, prepares a
new offering of both live and recorded programming from a
streamlined bundle of broadcast

and cable channels. The initiative
is expected to start early next
year and is part of a broader evolution at Hulu. Over the last year,
the service introduced an advertising-free option and also continued to invest in original programming and secure exclusive
streaming rights.
The new Hulu service is an attempt by its traditional entertainment company owners to secure
their footing in televisions digital
future, where streaming has become the norm and competition
from deep-pocketed rivals like
Netflix and Amazon has intensified. Hulu has more than 10 million
subscribers, compared with Netflixs 46 million paid subscribers
in the United States.
This investment from Time
Warner marks a major step for
Hulu as we continue to redefine
television for both consumers and
advertisers, Mike Hopkins, Hulus chief executive, said in a statement.
It is a crucial time for Hulu. The

service was facing rapidly
mounting losses approaching
$500 million a year, according to
Richard Greenfield, an analyst
with BTIG Research. The Time
Warner investment reduces the
amount of funding needed from its
existing owners, he added.
Hulu is locked in a fierce battle
for content with far larger Netflix
and a far better funded Amazon,
with Hulus subbase not scaling as
rapidly as we would expect based
on its content investments, Mr.
Greenfield said in a research note.
In turn, the Hulu partnership is
eager to find additional partner(s)
to enter the joint venture to help
fund the losses, which are likely to
increase meaningfully with the
start of the new live service.
Time Warner said that its TNT,
TBS, CNN and other Turner cable
networks would be available live
and on demand on Hulus new
live-streaming service.
Jeffrey L. Bewkes, chief executive of Time Warner, said the Hulu
deal was part of the companys

broader commitment to allowing
viewers to watch the programming they wanted to watch, where
and how they wanted to watch it.
Time Warner has made its offerings available across a range of
new streaming services, including those operated by Dish, Sony
Offering TNT, TBS,

CNN and others to a
new service for live
streaming.
and Verizon. It also operates
stand-alone streaming services
for some of its networks, including
HBO.
Our investment in Hulu underscores Time Warners commitment to supporting and develop-
ing new platforms for the delivery

of high-quality content and great
consumer experiences to audiences around the globe, Mr.
Bewkes said.
The transaction includes no
representation on the board of
Hulu, which gives Time Warner
less say in dictating Hulus destiny
but also reduces the complicated
ownership structure of the venture. Time Warner previously was
in discussions about coming in as
an equal partner in the venture,
according to a person briefed on
the discussions.
We dont have an active role,
and coming in as the 10 percent investor without a board seat, we
think it reduces complications
around governance, Mr. Bewkes
said during a conference call.
He added that the transaction
would infuse Hulu with more resources to foster competition and
innovation among streaming
services as well as traditional cable and satellite distributors.
One big concern about the new
streamlined bundle from Hulu is

that traditional cable and satellite
distributors view it as a threat.
That could put at risk the billions
of dollars that the TV networks receive each year from those traditional distributors.
Both Hulu and its corporate
owners have played down those
concerns, stating that it is designed for people who dont subscribe to a traditional pay television service.
The Hulu announcement was
included as part of Time Warners
second-quarter earnings release.
The company reported net income of $951 million for the three
months ended June 30, down 2
percent from the same period last
year. Adjusted earnings per share
were $1.29, beating Wall Streets
profit estimates of $1.16.
Total revenue was down 5 percent in the quarter to $7 billion,
with a decline at the companys
Warner Bros. film and television
studios offset by growth at its
Turner and HBO units.
Inquiry Into Fox News

Asks What Others Knew
From First Business Page
of being harassed by Mr. Ailes or
other managers and suggested
there was a broader culture of harassment and intimidation in the
workplace.
Later on Wednesday, 21st Century Fox reported its quarterly
earnings, and Lachlan Murdoch,
the executive chairman, began a
conference call with analysts by
addressing the situation at Fox
News.
Throughout this process we
have moved quickly and decisively to protect the business, to
protect its employees and to protect the unique and important
voice Fox News broadcasts, he
said.
Noting that his father, Rupert
Murdoch, had taken over the daily
management of Fox News, he
added, There is no one more dedicated or more able to transition
Fox News to new leadership.
Lachlan Murdoch called the team
left behind by Mr. Ailes extraordinarily strong and equally devoted to its success.
From there, 21st Century Fox
executives, including James Murdoch, the chief executive and
Lachlan Murdochs brother, focused attention on the companys
broader operations, including the
Brooks Barnes contributed reporting.
Hulu streaming service and coming movie releases. Only one analyst asked for greater color
about the situation at Fox News,
which contributes roughly 20 percent of the companys total annual
profit.
Lachlan Murdoch replied that
he expected Fox News to remain
strong.
For its fiscal fourth quarter, 21st
Century Fox had a profit of $567
million, or 30 cents a share, compared with $87 million, or 4 cents a
share, a year earlier. Adjusting for
one-time items in both quarters,
including a recent tax benefit, the
company had earnings of 45 cents
in the most recent quarter, compared with 39 cents a year ago.
Revenue totaled $6.65 billion, a
7 percent increase from a year
earlier. Analysts had expected 37
cents in per-share earnings and
$6.68 billion in revenue.
Domestic advertising was a
bright spot in the quarter. Ad revenue increased 13 percent at the
companys domestic cable networks, reflecting higher ratings
and pricing at channels like Fox
News and Fox Sports 1. Revenue
from domestic affiliate fees increased 6 percent, with FX and
Fox News leading the way.
But a 15 percent rise in total programming
costs
essentially
washed away those increases. For
the fourth quarter, 21st Century
Foxs cable television division had
an operating income of $1.2 billion,
ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Investigators are looking into information about others at Fox News who may have enabled Roger Ailess alleged behavior.
flat from a year earlier. Fox News
had higher expenses related to the
presidential campaign; the company also had to pay more for
sports rights.
The companys movie studio
also struggled with costs. During

the quarter, 20th Century Fox
spent heavily to market movies
like X-Men: Apocalypse, Independence Day: Resurgence and
Ice Age: Collision Course. Only
Apologizing, Publicis Executive Is Set to Resign

By SYDNEY EMBER
Kevin Roberts, the executive at

the advertising company Publicis
Groupe who was recently put on
leave over dismissive comments
he made about gender diversity in
the ad industry, said that he would
leave the company on Sept. 1 so
that we can all move forward.
In a statement provided to The
New York Times, Mr. Roberts
apologized for his remarks, which
he made in an interview with
Business Insider that was published on Friday, and said he had
failed exceptionally fast.
My miscommunication on a
number of points has caused upset and offense, he said in the
statement, his first public comments since the interview was
published. For this I am sorry.
He did not specifically address
any of the statements he had
made in the interview.
Mr. Roberts, 66, had agreed
through a public relations agency
on Monday to speak with a reporter for The New York Times, but
the agency said on Tuesday that
he had decided against the inter-
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In the interview with Business
Insider, Mr. Roberts, chairman of
the Saatchi & Saatchi agency and
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parent company, said that the debate about gender diversity in the
advertising industry was all
over. He also said he did not
spend any time on gender issues at his agencies and suggested that women were happier
in nonleadership roles.
His comments immediately
prompted criticism on Madison
Avenue, which has been struggling to publicly redefine its culture after a lawsuit filed several
months ago raised questions
about whether the industry was
still stuck in the Mad Men era.
Women make up almost 50 percent of the advertising industry,
but only 11 percent of creative directors, according to a survey by
the 3% Conference. Twenty-five
percent of women in advertising
said they had personally experienced gender discrimination, according to the survey.
Publicis executives quickly condemned Mr. Robertss statements
and placed him on leave. In an internal memo on Saturday, Maurice Lvy, the chief executive of
Publicis, who himself has made
dismissive comments about gender diversity in the industry,
called Mr. Robertss remarks extremely disappointing, shocking,
uninformed and counter to the
spirit of Publicis Groupe.
By BROOKS BARNES
LOS ANGELES Having taken aggressive steps to change its

membership roster, the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has opted to keep its leadership the same: Cheryl Boone
Isaacs was elected on Tuesday
night to a fourth consecutive oneyear term as the groups presi-
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Tronc, formerly known as Tribune Publishing, raised its guidance for the year on Wednesday, a
move that implied confidence in
the companys stand-alone strategy as it fends off a takeover attempt from the Gannett Company.
After its first full quarter since
Gannett announced its initial
takeover bid in April, the company, whose newspapers include
The Chicago Tribune and The Los
Angeles Times, said it was raising
its full-year revenue guidance into
the range of $1.61billion to $1.63 billion. The company reported second-quarter revenue that was
down 2 percent compared with
the same quarter last year. The
companys ad revenue was down
4 percent.
This was also Troncs first full
quarter under Michael W. Ferro
Jr., a Chicago entrepreneur who
became its chairman after taking
a $44 million stake in February.
Since then, he has replaced the
chief executive with a close business associate and installed a new
board.
Mr. Ferro has pushed an approach to journalism at the company that involves concepts like
artificial intelligence and machine
learning. The company anMARTIN MIRANDA
Comments by Kevin Roberts, the chairman of Saatchi &

Saatchi, immediately prompted criticism on Madison Avenue.
Other points of view

on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
The New York Times
dent.
Four is the maximum number
of successive years a president
can serve, according to academy
bylaws. (A fifth term is possible, if
unlikely. Ms. Isaacs, 66, would
have to step aside for at least a
year.)
Ms. Isaacs, a former Paramount
Pictures publicity executive, has
worked in recent years with Dawn
Hudson, the academys chief executive, to maintain the organizations insular culture while also
contending with intense pressure
to make its membership less
white and male.
Lachlan Murdoch noted that a

studio regime change was put into
motion in the quarter. Ultimately,
its about having a higher standard for storytelling and making
better movies, he said.
Tronc Raises Guidance

Despite Quarterly Drop
Leslie Picker contributed reporting.
After Diversifying, Film Academy Keeps Leadership
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Miscellaneous
one, X-Men: Apocalypse, was

fully released in the quarter, and
worldwide box-office results were
poor, falling 29 percent behind the
grosses generated by the previous X-Men effort.
Last month, the academy invited 683 people to become members

more than twice last years
number after pledging to double its female and minority membership by 2020, an almost impossible goal.
The groups annual Academy
Awards are granted by its roughly
7,000 voting members. The next
Oscar ceremony will be held on
Feb. 26, with nominations scheduled to be announced on Jan. 24.
The academys acting branch put
forward all white nominees in the
last two Oscar cycles, resulting in
blistering criticism.
Ms. Isaacs and Ms. Hudson,
whose working relationship has at

times been fraught, will have to
contend with more than diversity
initiatives over the coming year.
The academys $388 million movie
museum, for instance, is lurching
toward a planned 2018 opening but
still faces funding and operational
obstacles.
Ms. Isaacs was re-elected by
the 54-member board as part of a
slate that includes Jeffrey Kurland as first vice president; John
Bailey, Kathleen Kennedy and
Nancy Utley as vice presidents;
Jim Gianopulos as treasurer; and
David Rubin as secretary.
nounced in June that it was changing its name to Tronc, which

stands for Tribune online content.
It also switched to the Nasdaq exchange.
During Wednesdays earnings
call, there was no mention of Gannett, the owner of USA Today. Instead, Justin C. Dearborn, Troncs
chief executive, was optimistic
about its future. We are in the
midst of an ongoing process to reorient the company with a more
digital focus, he said.
We are confident that we have
the right strategy in place and are
taking the necessary steps to
transform our business, he said.
He highlighted a focus on video,
a strategy that many others are
adopting. Not only does our audience increasingly prefer video,
but the monetization opportunity
for a story with video is also significantly higher, he said.
In April, seeing an opportunity
to gain publications in Los Angeles, Chicago and other markets including Baltimore, Hartford, and
Orlando, Fla., Gannett went public
with its first offer of $12.25 a share,
which was rejected. Gannett increased its bid in May to $15 a
share, representing a 99 percent
premium to the closing price on
the last day of trading before Gannetts initial bid was made public.
The two companies engaged in
a heated exchange of letters and
statements. After a fight over Mr.
Ferros nominees to Troncs
board, Gannett said on June 7 that
it would keep its offer in place
while it evaluated developments,
including Troncs earnings. What
Gannett decides will help determine the fate of some of the most
iconic newspapers in the country,
which like other publications have
faced declining advertising dollars and falling circulation.
Gannett is standing by its June
7 statement, a Gannett spokesman said.
For the second quarter, Tronc
reported net income of $4 million,
$1 million more than the same
quarter last year. Advertising revenue for the publishing businesses was $170 million, down 7
percent. Advertising revenue for
the companys digital divisions
was $52 million, up 7 percent compared with the same quarter last
year.
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Tesla Losses Deepen, Raising Pressure to Step Up Production HSBC Profit

By BILL VLASIC
Tesla Motors said on Wednesday that its losses deepened in the

second quarter, but the electriccar maker pledged to expand production and improve the profitability of its vehicles.
The company said it lost $293.2
million in the quarter, on revenue
of $1.27 billion.
The loss was only slightly more
than in the first quarter, but it
greatly exceeded analyst forecasts and raised the pressure on
Tesla to improve its factory output.
Teslas chief executive, Elon
Musk, said the automaker was on
track to build 50,000 vehicles in
the second half of the year despite missing its production targets in the first six months.
I think our core business is actually doing quite well, Mr. Musk
said in a conference call with analysts.
We see demand being very
strong for an average of 2,000 vehicles a week, and we are able to
maintain production at that level,
he said.
But Teslas chief financial officer, Jason Wheeler, admitted that
production volumes in the first
half of the year fell short of the
companys stated targets. Were
deeply disappointed at our delivery numbers, Mr. Wheeler said.
No one expects Tesla to turn a
profit anytime soon, given the
scope of its ambitious expansion
plans in the production of electric
cars as well as the batteries that
power them. That may be why the
companys stock barely ticked
down in after-hours trading after
the financial results were an-
nounced.
What worries investors and
shareholders is that Tesla so far
has been unable to consistently
keep pace with its growth plans.
And with Tesla proposing a
merger with the solar panel company SolarCity, analysts are increasingly wondering when its
automotive business will become
profitable.
The company delivered about
14,000 vehicles in the second quarter, missing its target of 17,000.
Concerns about production are
pressing because next year Tesla
must begin filling orders for its
coming, less expensive Model 3
sedan, which will be priced
around $35,000.
The success of the companys
first two vehicles, the Model S and
X vehicles that sell for $70,000
or more remains the linchpin of
Mr. Musks grand vision for transforming Tesla into a sustainableenergy conglomerate.
Steady growth in the car business has made it possible for Mr.
Musk to broaden his reach into related industries.
Earlier this week, Tesla said its
independent board members had
approved the idea of the companys acquiring SolarCity, in which
Mr. Musk is a major investor.
Tesla also is nearing completion of
a new factory in Nevada that will
produce batteries not only for its
cars, but eventually for the storage of solar and wind energy for
household use.
In addition, Mr. Musk recently
revealed plans to expand Teslas
product lineup in the future to include electric trucks and buses.
But the expansion plans cannot
mask the challenges Tesla faces
Falls 40%
In Difficult
Conditions
By CHAD BRAY
JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tesla vehicles at a new battery factory in Nevada. The company missed its latest delivery target.
on the assembly lines at its auto
plant in California.
While innovation and entrepreneurship are stronger than
ever at Tesla, said Clement
Thibault, an analyst with Investing.com, the companys ability to
smoothly and successfully translate these ambitions into mass
produce and more significantly
serious revenues remains unproven.
In May, Tesla raised about $1.7
billion in a public stock offering
designed to finance its growth
plans. How that money is spent is
critical to Mr. Musk meeting his
production targets, and satisfying

the more than 300,000 preorders
for the Model 3.
The company is also facing a
new level of scrutiny beyond its financial condition and long-term
ambitions. In June, federal auto
safety regulators opened an investigation into the safety of Teslas Autopilot assisted-driving
systems.
The inquiry by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration is focusing on a May 7 fatal
accident in Florida of a Model S
sedan with its Autopilot system
engaged. Another agency, the Na-
tional Transportation Safety

Board, is also investigating the
role of self-driving technology in
the crash.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission is also looking into
whether Tesla possibly violated
securities laws by failing to disclose the fatal crash in documents
related to its public stock offering
on May 18.
Mr. Musk and Tesla have said
Autopilot is a lifesaving technology and have resisted calls by critics, including the magazine Consumer Reports, to disable the system.
LONDON HSBC said on

Wednesday that its profit fell 40
percent in the second quarter as
the bank navigated the tumult
surrounding Britains vote to
leave the European Union in June.
The lender, which is based in
Britain but generates much of its
earnings in Asia, also said it would
buy back $2.5 billion in shares in
the second half of the year after
having completed the sale of the
bulk of its Brazilian business in
July.
HSBC is significantly reshaping
its business. It announced plans
last year to shed tens of thousands
of jobs, to sell underperforming
businesses and to shrink its global
investment banking business.
The quarterly results included a
gain of $584 million on the sale of
its holdings in Visa Europe, as
well as charges of $677 million related to its overhaul, an $800 million
good-will
write-down
associated with its private bank
and $723 million in provisions for
potential settlements and other legal matters.
For the three months that
ended June 30, HSBC reported a
profit of $2.61 billion, compared
with a profit of $4.36 billion in the
second quarter of 2015. The 2015
results included a gain of $1 billion
on a partial sale of its holdings in
Industrial Bank of China.
HSBC reported a pretax profit
of $3.61 billion in the second quarter, which was below analysts expectations.
Following the outcome of the
referendum on the U.K.s membership of the European Union, there
Warning of extended
volatility after
Britains vote to exit
the European Union.
COLE WILSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Jet.com warehouse in Swedesboro, N.J. The online retailer, which aimed to take on Amazon with a similar selection of goods, gained a valuation of $1 billion.
Walmart and Jet.com, an Amazon Rival, Are Said to Be in Talks

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
and MIKE ISAAC
Jet.com was born out of a dream

of taking on Amazon and its grip
on the world of e-commerce. But
the online discount retailer may
instead be poised for a humbling
sale to the biggest traditional
store chain around.
Jet.com is in talks to sell itself to
Walmart, two people briefed on
the matter said on Wednesday.
The talks are continuing and may
not lead to a deal.
A Walmart representative declined to comment on the talks,
which were reported earlier by
The Wall Street Journal. A Jet.com representative also declined
to comment.
The discussions are an acknowledgment of the tough reality of Americas $350 billion e-commerce market, which has for
years been dominated by Amazon. While plenty of competitors
including physical retailers and
online start-ups have tried to
take on Amazon with strategies
like focusing only on specific
niches of the market or having
flash sales, none have succeeded.
Of all that have tried, few have
been seen as anti-Amazon as
Marc Lore, Jet.coms founder, has.
Reporting was contributed by David Streitfeld, Rachel Abrams,
Leslie Picker and Katie Benner.
An entrepreneur who previously

founded the parent company of
Diapers.com and later sold it to
Amazon for $550 million, Mr. Lore
and Jet.com were featured on the
cover of Bloomberg Businessweek in January 2015 before
Jet.com had made a single sale
with the headline Amazon
Bought Marc Lores Company.
Now Hes Coming for Them.
From offices in Hoboken, N.J.,
Jet.com tried to chart a different
course in the e-commerce market.
It attacked Amazon directly, seeking to build a national network of
warehouses while offering a similarly broad selection of goods. But
it also sought to undercut Amazon
on price, using complex formulas
that adjust the cost of items based
on factors like the quantity of
products bought at once. For an
annual membership fee of $50,
Jet.com consumers could get access to goods priced 10 to 15 percent less than anywhere else on
the web.
Mr. Lore also tried to make Jet.com different from other startups at the workplace. Most startups try to bend a reluctant universe to their will, which means
employees sweat 12-hour days
and seven-day weeks. Private
lives go by the wayside. But Jet
promoted itself as a start-up with
a difference: one focused on employee well-being.
Im constantly asking people

at Jet if theyre happy, Mr. Lore
said in an interview last fall. Its
really important for me to know
that they love working here and
think this is the best place theyve
ever worked.
His approach in e-commerce
and the workplace may have
seemed quixotic, but Mr. Lore succeeded in raising more than $500
An e-commerce
start-up that has tried
to take on a giant by
undercutting prices.
million from many investors, including venture capital firms like
New Enterprise Associates and
the mutual fund company Fidelity.
Jet.com quickly gained a valuation of roughly $1 billion.
Along the way, it was hailed as a
particularly ambitious unicorn,
the once-ballyhooed class of Silicon Valley start-ups valued at $1
billion or more.
But Jet.com has struggled. In
an interview in mid-2015, Mr. Lore
predicted that the company would
take five years to reach a point
where it was not losing money on
every shipment. In the meantime,

it was spending the cash it raised
from investors as it expanded its
staff and spent millions on marketing.
Last October, Jet.com dropped
its membership fee. Mr. Lore said
in a blog post at the time that he
was enabling even more people
to embrace this new way of shopping by removing the fee.
A month later, after Jet.com had
finished a fund-raising round, Mr.
Lore said: It was challenging.
The market conditions have
turned, and there is a lot of negative press around private company financing. The fact that we
got it done was on the back of the
companys performance.
For Walmart, pursuing Jet.com
in what would be one of its biggest
takeovers, a deal would help the
retailer reproduce its off-line dominance in the online world. The
Bentonville, Ark., company has
pumped millions of dollars into efforts to expand its e-commerce
business, such as offering more
items online and expanding locations for its grocery pickup service.
At the end of 2015, Walmart had
about eight million items available at Walmart.com. Thats now
up to 10 million. Four years ago, it
was under two million, Walmart
has said. The retailer does not
break out a quarterly figure for
online sales, but it said its e-com-
merce business had grown 7 percent in the last quarter.

Still, Doug McMillon, WalMarts president and chief executive, said in May that progress had
been too slow. Shoppers continue to shop overwhelmingly at Amazon, which accounts for more
than half of all dollars spent online.
Walmart recently announced a
two-day subscription shipping
service for $49, its version of
Amazons $99 annual Prime membership. Walmart is also trying to
take advantage of its position as
the nations largest grocer, nearly
tripling the number of markets
where customers can order groceries and pick up curbside.
Jets model of encouraging bulk
buying would complement Walmart in areas where the retailer
has lagged, according to Neil
Saunders, a retail analyst with
Conlumino, a research and consulting firm.
A decade ago, consumers might
have been more inclined to stop at
Walmart for household items like
toilet paper and laundry detergent in fairly reasonable quantities and pick up other items while
they were there, Mr. Saunders
said.
Whats happened, though,
with these online sites is that people first of all are much more likely
to buy in bulk because they can
get better deals, he said.
has been a period of volatility and

uncertainty, which is likely to continue for some time, Stuart T. Gulliver, the HSBC chief executive,
said in a news release. We are actively monitoring our portfolio to
quickly identify any areas of
stress; however, it is still too early
to tell which parts may be impacted and to what extent.
Mr. Gulliver said that the economic environment remains difficult, but he believed that actions
taken by HSBC to reshape its business will put the bank in a far better position when normal conditions return.
Operating income declined 18
percent to $13.3 billion in the second quarter, from $16.2 billion in
the period in 2015.
Net interest income, the measure of what a bank earns on its
lending after deducting what it
pays out on deposits and other liabilities, was down 4 percent to
$7.85 billion in the quarter, from
$8.17 billion in the second quarter
of 2015.
Operating
expenses
rose
slightly, to $10.4 billion, in the second quarter.
HSBC set aside $1.21 billion for
bad and underperforming loans in
the second quarter, up from $869
million in the prior-year period.
It is evident that we are entering a period of heightened uncertainty where economics risks being overshadowed by political and
geopolitical events, Douglas
Flint, the HSBC chairman, said in
a news release. We are entering
this environment strongly capitalized and highly liquid.
Mr. Flint said that repositioning
the HSBCs European business
once there is a decision on
whether banks will be able to continue to serve clients in the European Union out of London, a concept known as passporting, will
add to the very heavy workload
already in place to address the
regulatory and technological
changes that are reshaping our industry.
Pretax profit at HSBCs investment bank, known as global banking and markets, increased 11 percent to $1.89 billion in the quarter,
from $1.71 billion in the second
quarter of 2015.
The retail banking and wealth
management business reported a
pretax profit of $1.25 billion in the
second quarter, down from $1.75
billion in the period a year earlier.
HSBC said that pretax profit
rose slightly in its commercial
banking business, to $2.25 billion,
in the quarter, from $2.23 billion in
the second quarter of 2015.
In Asia, the bank reported a pretax profit of $3.63 billion in the second quarter. The bank reported
pretax losses in its European, Latin American and North American
businesses in the quarter.
B4
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Start-Ups Take Aim at Americas Biggest Market: Baby Boomers

By CONSTANCE GUSTKE
Boris Mordkovich, a 30-yearold serial entrepreneur, had never

considered developing products
for the aging baby boomer market. One day, however, he saw that
his parents had started using an
electric bike that his brother Yevgeniy had modified for his wife
and himself.
Electric bikes are an equalizer, said Mr. Mordkovich, who
has also owned a software company and a small-business magazine. They let the rider decide
how much or how little they will
pedal.
This year, he said, Evelo, the
electric bike company that he
founded with his brother, will double its revenue to $4 million, and it
is profitable. Theres no shortage
of potential customers, he added.
The company is just one of
many that are plugging into a
wealthy slice of the over-50 demographic called the longevity market, whose annual economic activity currently amounts to $7.6 trillion, according to AARP.
With an estimated 74.9 million
baby boomers, according to Pew
Research Center, the biggest market opportunity for start-ups is
older Americans rather than hip
millennials. As members of the
generation that defined rock n
roll grow older, they are adding a
wide range of goods and services
to their lifestyles.
The staggering size of the total
longevity economy bigger even
than Japans has been attracting more entrepreneurs, deeppocketed financiers and places to
pitch new ideas in the past few
years.
Every dissonance of age is a
marketing opportunity, said
Mary Furlong, a marketing and
strategy consultant for the 50plus market and author of Turning Silver Into Gold.
New business ideas that cater
to boomers are nearly endless,
she said, and include chefs, online
dating sites and yoga instructors
for people with health issues.
Theres more talent coming
into the market, she said.
The Mordkovich brothers initially financed Evelo with $100,000
that came from selling their previous businesses. Now they are
planning to raise $1.5 million from
investors through Fundable, a
crowdfunding site. Their objectives are to add more electric
bikes, including one that folds; ex-
KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Boris Mordkovich, one of the founders and the chief executive of Evelo, with an Aurora model electric bicycle in Cambridge, Mass.
No shortage of
potential customers
in the so-called
longevity market.
pand internationally; and offer
more bike features, like theft protection.
One of their biggest challenges
was finding good manufacturing
plants in Asia. We had come from
e-commerce and virtual goods,
Mr. Mordkovich said. With the
help of referrals from the Light
Electric Vehicle Association, they
found factories in Taiwan and
southern China.
Much-needed tools for the
elderly, like the gunmetal gray
walkers that date to the 1950s,
badly need a makeover, experts
added. But simply applying hightechnology solutions to existing
products does not always work,
they cautioned. For instance,
wearable devices have been popu-
lar with millennials for monitoring and tracking health, but they
are not necessarily going to be a
hit with older users.
People lose interest in wearables very quickly, said Jody
Holtzman, senior vice president
for market innovation at AARP.
They can see the potential, but
design is problematic. According
to AARP studies, he added, users
had difficulty with syncing wearable
products
with
their
computers or even finding directions that explain how to use
them.
There are no clear market
leaders, said Lori Bitter, who
heads The Business of Aging, a
consulting firm based in Napa,
Calif. And how do we get the technology into peoples homes?
Certain services, though, are
finding their target audience.
They include companies that offer
home downsizing, gyms for the
55-and-older set and meal kits for
people with diabetes or heart conditions.
Theres quite a lot of funding

available, too, Mr. Holtzman said.
A few years ago, when we
showed up at a V.C. event, people
wondered what we were doing
there. That doesnt happen anymore, he added.
Now, AARP holds yearly pitch
events and even has its own incubator,
The
Hatchery.
Entrepreneurs are also showing up
at other events like the Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit,
which Ms. Furlong produces, and
those held by Aging 2.0, a San
Francisco innovation accelerator.
At AARPs first health innovations pitch event in 2012, 80 companies applied, Mr. Holtzman
said. This years event in April,
which focused on caregiving, had
200 applicants. This segment has
already attracted many wellfunded start-ups, like Honor,
HomeHero and CareLinx.
According to a 2014 survey done
for AARP, 34.2 million Americans
served as unpaid caregivers to a
loved one 50 years old or older in
the previous 12 months. In a mobile society, though, fewer family

members are available as caregivers.
People are looking at how to finance longevity, Ms. Furlong
said. And their first concern is the
cost of health care.
An online family concierge
service called Envoy is among
those that have found backers to
serve this area. The company, now
four years old, has pulled in $4.2
million from notable early-stage
investors like SoftTech VC, which
financed Fitbit and Mint.com, and
Lowercase Capital, which has
backed start-ups like Uber, Instagram and Kickstarter.
Envoy sets itself apart by hiring
stay-at-home mothers with flexible schedules. They do light
chores, like walking a dog, washing dishes or grocery shopping.
The service is now in 22 metropolitan areas with significant aging
populations like Phoenix, Miami
and Las Vegas. Justin Lin, who
founded Envoy, eventually wants
to expand to 100 areas.

My own mom passed away
from cancer, said Mr. Lin, who
has started three other businesses. My dad would need help
soon. But there werent a lot of
caregiving options. That realization, he said, led to his starting Envoy.
After testing Envoy with
friends and family for a few years,
he discovered that caregiving was
a much-needed service. I was
building a service thats potentially powerful, said Mr. Lin. The
company is not yet profitable.
Many start-ups are trying new
ways to reach their target audiences. Evelo, the bicycle company,
uses a network of about 300 socalled brand ambassadors to market to potential customers. They
have bought a bike, registered on
the site to be ambassadors and
can opt to take prospective buyers
on test rides. After a bike purchase, the ambassador gets a
$200 check.
Even businesses with decidedly
mundane products are finding
ways to capture the longevity
niche. Foot care, for example, is a
huge market, and finding shoes
that are attractive and feel good is
a huge deal, Ms. Bitter said.
One of the founders of the Rockport Company, Bruce R. Katz, reinvented himself in 2013 by starting the Samuel Hubbard Shoe
Company to sell comfortable
footwear to baby boomer men. He
markets his collection as unsneakers that have three-part insoles and are lightweight.
As people get older, walking is
one of the most important exercises, said Mr. Katz, a third-generation shoemaker. And theres
more problems with the feet. To
add the cool factor, a limited edition collection is available in sky
blue, plum and lime green.
The company, which sells its
footwear online and through retailers, now offers 18 styles of
mens shoes and will soon begin
offering womens shoes. It logged
$2 million in revenue last year
selling
primarily
to
baby
boomers. Mr. Katz expects sales
to reach $12 million this year and
estimates that the company will
be profitable next year.
In a validation of the brands appeal to baby boomers, former
President Bill Clinton, who turns
70 this month, was even photographed walking a dog, wearing
Samuel Hubbards sky blue shoes.
Big Sales, but Cursed Child Is Less Than Magical to Some Potter Fans
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Scholastic had high expectations for Harry Potter and the

Cursed Child, which arrived on
July 31 with an enormous first
printing of 4.5 million copies.
The publishers optimism was
well warranted, it seems. The play
has become an overnight blockbuster, selling more than two million hardcover copies in the first
48 hours, Scholastic said on
Wednesday, calling the sales unprecedented for a script book.
More than 5,000 bookstores and
libraries around the country celebrated the publication of Cursed
Child with release parties over
the weekend.
The play, which is being billed
as the eighth book in the Harry
Potter series, is a continuation of
the story, but also with a stark departure in style and form. It was
written by the playwright Jack
Thorne, with input from the creator of the series, J. K. Rowling,
and the plays director, John
Tiffany. The plot unfolds 19 years
after the Battle of Hogwarts, when
an adult Harry Potter, now a father and a civil servant working at
the Ministry of Magic, sees his
own children off to Hogwarts.
In a review in The New York
Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote
that the story translated well to
the page, arguing that even
though it lacks the plays much-
talked-about special effects, it

turns out to be a compelling, stayup-all-night read.
The publication coincided with
the opening of the play in London,
which drew rapturous reviews
from theater critics and fans.
But the book, which arrives
nearly a decade after Ms. Rowling
officially ended the series, has already caused a minor schism
among devoted Potterheads.
While many readers were ecstatic
about the chance to have more
material on Harry and his friends,
others have faulted Ms. Rowling
for licensing out her story and
characters. Some fans have
lashed out online, saying they feel
they were duped and misled by
the prominence of Ms. Rowlings
name on the cover.
This is NOT a Harry Potter
book I frankly feel disgusted even
adding it to the collection, one
disappointed fan wrote on Amazon. It reads like a poorly written
fan fiction.
For Scholastic, the Harry Potter
books have been a reliable cash
cow, with more than 160 million
copies sold in the United States
and more than 450 million copies
sold worldwide. In the fiscal quarter that ended May 31, Scholastics
childrens trade sales rose 12 percent in the fourth quarter and 14
percent for the year over all,
largely due to strength in core
Far from a record, but

more than two million
copies of a script were
sold in 48 hours.
ROB STOTHARD/GETTY IMAGES
Copies of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child were selling fast early Sunday in London.
publishing, both frontlist and

backlist, and its Harry Potter franchise, the company said.
The sales of Cursed Child are
a testament to the longevity of the
franchise, though they fell far
short of the sales record set in
2007 by Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows, the seventh
book in the series. Deathly Hallows sold 8.3 million copies in the
United States during its first 24
hours on sale.
Some fans hoped that Ms. Rowling, who has moved on to publishing fiction for adults, might bring
Harry out of retirement and write
more novels. But Ms. Rowling
quickly put an end to those hopes
over the weekend.
He goes on a very big journey
during these two plays and then,
yeah, I think were done, Ms.
Rowling said in an interview with
Reuters at the plays opening.
Im thrilled to see it realized so
beautifully, but, no, Harry is done
now.
Company That Sells Meal Kits Also Markets a Valuable Byproduct: The Box
FreshRealm has made its box a
central selling point of its delivery
service. But it has also started
providing its box system to competitors as part of a bundle of
services that includes prepped ingredients supplied by a sister
company, the Renaissance Food
Group.
The meal kit business Terras
Kitchen, for instance, uses
FreshRealms system. Mike McDevitt, its founder and chief executive, started the company after
becoming a father and deciding
that he wanted his child to have a
dinner table experience like the
one he had growing up.
The Times Book Review,

every Sunday
But when he tried one of the major meal delivery services, there
were two things about it he didnt
like: the amount of time it took to
prepare the meals, and the packaging.
Every Tuesday, as I was going
out to the recycling bin, I had at
least 12 to 15 little plastic bags, ice
packs and another cardboard box,
and that just felt like it wasnt sustainable, he said.
So Terra uses FreshRealms
shipping vessels, reusable
boxes tailored to the prepared
foods that it sends to customers.
The boxes are 17-inch-square
cubes made of polyurethane. Inside, five drawers house metal
plates that help maintain the desired temperature. The drawers
can hold up to four grab-and-go
meals or the ingredients for two
meal kits, Mr. Lippold said.
The boxes are delivered by

FedEx. Once the food is removed
from the box, the customer just
puts the container back together
and slaps on a return label. FedEx
picks it up and returns it to
FreshRealm. The company then
sanitizes the box and puts it to use
again.
If youre a meal kit company
with a national program that delivers perishables to the door, you
have to build your own infrastructure of refrigerated trucks and
thats a big challenge, Mr. Lippold
said. Our boxes are able to ship
everything from a heat-and-eat lasagna to a grab-and-go salad and
fresh-cut watermelon at 32 to 41
degrees Fahrenheit its a massive competitive advantage.
Other meal kit companies argue
that their services produce less
waste than a trip to the grocery
store to buy the ingredients for the

same meals. They say that sending
customers
precisely
measured ingredients cuts down
on food waste, and that grocery
stores also produce a lot of packaging waste.
But Adam Gendell, associate director of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, an environmental
group, says this is the same sort of
argument that Keurig made about
its single-serve coffee pods when
they were introduced. We all
know, though, that coffee pods
have become an environmental issue, he said.
So far, environmental groups
have not expressed much concern
about packaging waste generated
by the meal kit industry, in part
because the business is still so
nascent. A recent report on the
business from the NPD Group, a
consumer research firm, found

that only 3 percent of people 18
and older had tried a meal kit in
the last year.
Still, the meal kit industry
knows that packaging is an
Achilles heel, so companies continue to work to reduce it.
Matt Salzberg, a founder of Blue
Apron, one of the first meal kit
companies, said the company
worked constantly to reduce the
packaging waste that its kits create.
Mr. Salzberg said Blue Apron
was trying to make sure everything in its kits was recyclable. It
also was one of the first meal kit
businesses to give consumers the
option of returning Blue Apron
packaging to the company.
Weve routinely redesigned
our packaging to take out lots of
packaging, he said. Weve prob-
ably cut out packaging by 50 percent just through better packaging design.
Freshly, a prepared meals company, made a change to its packaging after hearing complaints
from customers concerned about
the Styrofoam it was using to insulate its boxes. So it did some research and came up with a substitute made from recycled denim,
which has been used for insulation
in housing.
Because millions of people are
getting meal kits in boxes, as an
industry were gaining the purchasing power to go to major
packaging concerns and say we
want better solutions, said Michael Wystrach, a founder and the
chief executive of Freshly.
Styrofoam, he said, is no
longer the best or even the most
economic choice.
B5
Federal Reserve Fines Goldman Sachs $36 Million in Document Leak

By BEN PROTESS
The Federal Reserve took action on Wednesday against Goldman Sachs and one of its former
executives, escalating a long-running investigation into a leak of
confidential government information.
The action, which forced Goldman to pay a $36.3 million penalty,
stemmed from an incident in 2014,
when a junior Goldman banker
took confidential information
from the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York. The junior banker,
whom Goldman promptly fired,
received the information from a
New York Fed employee.
Both men pleaded guilty to
stealing government property,
and Goldman paid a $50 million
penalty to New York State regulators because its management
failed to effectively supervise the
banker.
The Fed did not act against
Goldman at the time, making its
decision to pursue Goldman now a
somewhat unusual move. The action, which cites Goldman for an
unauthorized use and disclosure
of confidential supervisory information, is also an awkward one
for the Fed.
The leak, after all, originated at
the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York with one of its own
employees. And the junior Goldman banker who received the confidential information was a former
New York Fed employee himself.
Goldman, not the New York Fed,
was the one to uncover the leak.
Yet the Feds board in Washington, a unit that operates separately from the New York Fed, is
the one penalizing Goldman.
And the Feds action goes further than Goldmans settlement
with New York State last year,
reaching back several years to
highlight how the bank failed
since 2012 to have sufficient policies and employee training to prevent a leak like this one.
The case reflects a broader effort at the Fed to adopt a tougher
stance against Wall Street misconduct and to crack down on individual bankers. In 2015, the Fed
chose to bar six bankers from the
industry, twice the number in 2014.
The year before that, the Fed did
not take any such actions.
The Feds case against Goldman, the details of which were reported last week by The New York
Times, centers on what could have
been a regulatory gold mine. The
confidential information, the Fed
said, included reports of bank
examinations and other confidential reports prepared by banking regulators.
The documents effectively pro-
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Goldman Sachss building in Lower Manhattan. The fine stems from a 2014 incident in which a Goldman banker received data from a New York Fed employee.
vided Goldman with a window
into the Feds private insights
about regulatory matters. And the
bank, the Fed said, used the information in presentations to current
and prospective clients in an effort to solicit business.
The board expects all firms, including Goldman Sachs, to comply with all U.S. laws, rules and
regulations, the Fed said in a
statement, noting that it is illegal
to use or disclose confidential supervisory information without
prior approval.
In its own statement, Goldman
said it was pleased to have resolved this matter. The bank emphasized that it had fired the former junior banker, Rohit Bansal,
and that it had immediately notified the Fed after discovering that
he had improperly obtained in-
formation from his former employer, the Federal Reserve Bank

of New York.
Goldman also fired Joseph Jiampietro, an executive who
helped oversee Mr. Bansal.
Goldmans investigators found
leaked New York Fed documents
on Mr. Jiampietros desk, though
the company never concluded
that he knew about the leak. Instead, it reported to regulators
that he had failed to properly escalate the problem.
But now the Fed, unlike New
York State, has taken aim at Mr. Jiampietro, previously a senior adviser to Sheila C. Bair when she
was chairwoman of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation.
In announcing an action against
Mr. Jiampietro, the Fed said it was
seeking to impose a fine and to
permanently bar him from the

banking industry stemming from
his and his subordinates unauthorized use of confidential information.
Unlike Goldman, Mr. Jiampietros lawyers are fighting the case
through the Feds civil disciplinary proceedings, disputing
that Mr. Jiampietro had anything
to do with the leak. They note that
Mr. Bansal, who accepted a misdemeanor plea deal with federal
prosecutors in Manhattan, did not
explicitly accuse Mr. Jiampietro of
instructing him to obtain the documents.
In a previous statement, a lawyer for Mr. Jiampietro accused the
Fed of appearing to use his client
as an industry scapegoat.
The lawyer, Adam Ford of the
law firm Ford OBrien, added on
Wednesday that the allegations

filed against Mr. Jiampietro are
demonstrably false. Mr. Jiampietro, he said, never requested
confidential supervisory information from anyone and never used
it for his or anyones benefit.
The Fed has the law wrong and
the facts wrong, Mr. Ford said.
Mr. Jiampietro intends on fighting these allegations and looks
forward to full vindication.
The Feds actions on Wednesday were not its first to stem from
the leak.
The New York Fed fired its employee and notified law enforcement agencies, saying at the time
that it was resolute to learn from
our experiences. The Fed board
in Washington also permanently
barred Mr. Bansal from the industry.
Goldman, which under the

terms of its settlement with the
Fed must enhance its program for
preventing its employees from soliciting or accepting leaked regulatory information, said in its
statement: We previously reviewed and strengthened our policies and procedures after Bansal
was terminated. We have no tolerance for the improper handling of
confidential supervisory information.
Mr. Bansal, who received probation for his role in the leak,
looks forward to putting this behind him and moving on with his
life, his lawyer, E. Scott Morvillo,
said at the time of his sentencing.
And yet the case will linger for
Mr. Bansal. The Fed is likely to call
him as a witness against Mr. Jiampietro.
Ackman, Having a Rough Year, Sells $1.5 Billion Stake in Canadian Pacific
This article is by Matthew Goldstein, Alexandra Stevenson and
Leslie Picker.
William A. Ackman, the billionaire investor, is once again shaking up his underperforming hedge
funds portfolio by selling off a big
equity stake in the railway company Canadian Pacific.
Mr. Ackmans Pershing Square
Capital Management on Wednesday sold its entire stake of 9.8 million shares in Canadian Pacific
Railway in a series of trades arranged by Bank of America, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase.
The shares were valued at about
$1.5 billion based on Tuesdays
closing price. Canadian Pacific
shares closed on Wednesday at
$147.28.
The banks announced the deal
after the stock market closed. In
its own statement, Pershing said
Mr. Ackman would remain on Canadian Pacifics board until the
next annual meeting, adding that
the hedge fund intended to use the
proceeds of the sale to make one

or more new investments.
The move comes during another rough year for the wellknown activist investor and his
$11.9 billion firm.
As of the end of July, Pershing
Square Holdings, a publicly
traded fund, was down 19 percent
for the year. Last year, it shed 20.5
percent.
Mr. Ackman runs a highly concentrated portfolio that places big
bets on a small number of companies, often accompanied by the
managers demands for corporate
changes. As such, Pershing
Square is particularly vulnerable
to significant declines in the
prices of just a few stocks.
The hedge fund has investments in about a dozen stocks,
and it has been selling off big
stakes in several of its better-performing positions throughout the
year. Hedge funds sell stakes in
their portfolio companies to meet
investor redemptions or to put
money into new investments. In

recent weeks, Pershing Square officials in meetings with investors
have referred to the proceeds
from stock sales as dry powder
that could be used for a future
stock purchase.
In a recent conference call, Mr.
Ackman said investor requests to
redeem money from the firm were
running below average this year
despite the firms disappointing
performance.
Earlier this year, Pershing reduced its stake in the food and
beverage company Mondelez International, selling 20 million
shares. It also sold more than 16
million shares in Zoetis, the former animal health arm of Pfizer.
In April, the firm sold 4.1 million
of the shares it had in Canadian
Pacific, which at the time reduced
its overall stake by 30 percent.
Pershing Square has suffered
outsize losses on several stocks in
its portfolio most notably
Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The
troubled drug companys shares

have fallen 78 percent this year as
it has come under pressure for its
pricing strategies and for some of
its sales distribution practices.
Mr. Ackman is now a member of
Valeants board and has told
investors that he intends to take a
hands-on approach to overseeing
the companys turnaround.
The hedge funds big bearish
bet on Herbalife, the nutritional
food
supplement
company,
worked against it once again this
year. Shares of Herbalife are up 24
percent this year even after the
company paid $200 million to the
Federal Trade Commission to settle an investigation into its business practices.
The settlement with the F.T.C.,
however, was something of a moral victory for Mr. Ackman, who
has waged a high-octane campaign against Herbalife, claiming
it is an unlawful pyramid scheme
that takes advantage of its customers many of whom are either poor or of modest means. The
F.T.C. stopped short of calling

Herbalife a pyramid scheme and
ordering it to shut down. But the
regulatory agency did charge the
company with deceiving hundreds of thousands of hopeful people, and directed it to make substantial changes to its sales practices and hire an outside monitor
to oversee its activities.
Mr. Ackman has said his firm is
maintaining its short bet, which
will prove profitable if Herbalifes
stock price collapses. Mr. Ackman
has said Herbalifes revenue and
profit will tumble if it changes its
business practices as the F.T.C.
has ordered.
Canadian Pacific has been one
of Pershing Squares better-performing investments. The firm began buying shares and establishing a big stake in the company in
2011, when the stock was selling
for just under $50. Pershing
Square would go on to win a proxy
contest to install new board members and ultimately E. Hunter
Harrison as chief executive.

With his appointees, Mr. Ackman sought to turn the railroad
around with a focus on increasing
efficiency and profit margins.
Last year, Mr. Ackman backed a
plan by Canadian Pacific to make
an unsolicited takeover offer for
Norfolk Southern worth almost
$30 billion at the time. After three
rejected proposals related to regulatory risk and price, Canadian
Pacific dropped the idea of a combination in April. With the turnaround underway and no deal in
sight, Pershing Square pared
down its stake, selling in April and
again on Wednesday.
Canadian Pacific has completed an incredible transformation since our initial investment in
2011, Mr. Ackman said in a statement on Wednesday. Hunter
Harrison and Keith Creel the
railroads chief operating officer
have restored to greatness one
of North Americas top railroads
and have set the company on the
path to continued success.
Bitcoin Dives After Exchange Is Hacked

By AMIE TSANG
PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GETTY IMAGES
A shop in Hong Kong that takes Bitcoin. Bitfinex, a Bitcoin exchange in the city, was breached.
HONG KONG The digital

currency Bitcoin plunged on
Wednesday after Bitfinex, an exchange based in Hong Kong, said
it had been hacked and funds stolen.
The exchange said it had halted
trading, deposits and withdrawals
while it investigated which users
had been affected. Bitcoins trading value fell about 20 percent
early on Wednesday, local time in
Hong Kong, but had recovered
about half the loss by early afternoon.
Zane Tackett, Bitfinexs director of community and product development, did not immediately
respond to requests for comment.
But he said in a posting on Reddit
that 119,756 Bitcoins had been stolen.
Before the hacking was made
public, that number of Bitcoins
would have been worth about $72
million. Now that the currency
has slumped, the figure is closer to
$65 million. The exchange, one of
the worlds largest, said in a blog

post that any outstanding settlements would be made at the price
before the hacking. As we account for individualized customer
losses, we may need to settle open
margin positions, associated financing, and/or collateral affected by the breach, Bitfinex
said in the post. It added that
customers losses would be addressed later.
Security breaches of this type
have raised questions about the
viability of Bitcoin. The most notable episode was the collapse in
2014 of Mt. Gox, an exchange
based in Tokyo, in which hundreds
of thousands of Bitcoins were stolen in a heist that experts and law
enforcement officials are still trying to unravel. This past June, a
hacker stole more than $50 million
worth of Ether, another digital
currency, from an experimental
virtual currency project called the
Decentralized Autonomous Organization.
Jack Liu, chief strategy officer
at OKCoin, a large digital cur-
rency exchange, said he was not

concerned about the security of
his company because it uses a different system. But he noted that
there should be more discussion
between exchanges over best
practices.
We care about the health of the
ecosystem, he said, although he
emphasized that nobody should
be dictating how Bitcoins are secured. Hackers are only getting
better, and so adoption of the same
solution may not be the safest for
the industry.
Although some view Bitcoin as
the future of finance, allowing for
faster and cheaper transactions,
the Bitcoin community has been
rived with infighting over the development of the technology. The
blockchain ledger, part of the coding that underlies the currency,
has also gained more mainstream
traction, as banks see an opportunity to use the technology to speed
up trades.
Bitfinex said the theft had been
reported to law enforcement.
B6
PERSONAL TECH
Immersed in Gotham, Not Just Battling Through It

By LAURA HUDSON
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. In one scene

of the new video game Batman: The
Telltale Series, a sharply dressed Bruce
Wayne is hosting a party for a friend
when an underworld kingpin approaches and extends his hand.
Thats when the game offers players
a choice: to publicly shake the hand of
the crime lord, or refuse and risk
making an enemy of one of Gothams
most dangerous men.
In a medium known for violence and
action, most video games would have
Batman primarily punching his way
through the city. But that choose-yourown-adventure moment is a hallmark
of Telltale Games, the independent
developer behind the Batman game
and the company that has breathed
new life into the industrys genre of
story-focused games that let players
decide how a plot unfolds.
Since its founding in 2004, Telltale
has focused on storytelling rather than
pure action in its games, using emotional plotlines and presenting players
with tough choices rooted in moral
dilemmas. The strategy has paid off
Telltale has sold more than 85 million
copies of its games to date and other
studios, including Dontnod Entertainment and Supermassive Games, have
incorporated similar storytelling elements into their titles. The approach
has also made Telltale a go-to developer
for Hollywood to translate properties
like HBOs Game of Thrones and
AMCs Walking Dead into storydriven games.
ABOVE, JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW, PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELLTALE GAMES
Kevin Bruner, right, the chief of Telltale Games, and Dan Connors, the
former chief, at their office in San
Rafael, Calif. Telltales games include Batman: The Telltale Series,
far left, and Game of Thrones. Since
its founding in 2004, the video
game studio has focused on storytelling over pure action.
We make games, but we dont make

games, said Kevin Bruner, chief executive and co-founder of Telltale. The
company makes playable storybooks,
he said.
Yet Telltale risks boxing itself in
creatively by relying too heavily on a
single formula. This is an issue confronting all game studios: how to keep
what they do fresh year after year.
Though the subject matter of Telltales
games runs the gamut from familyfriendly fantasy tales to brutal survival
horror, the mechanics of its stories have
remained relatively static over time.
Theyre doing the same thing over
and over again, said Michael Pachter, a
games industry analyst at Wedbush
Securities.
Telltale said it was open to new
things. Were super interested in the
mobile space and long-form games as
well, Mr. Bruner said, noting that the
studio had a pilot program designed to
foster new ideas about gameplay and
storytelling. Its our little R&D program.
Telltales storytelling style is rooted
in its founders, Mr. Bruner, Dan Connors and Troy Molander. (Mr. Molander
has since left the company.) The trio all
worked at one time for LucasArts, the
video game arm of Lucasfilm, which
was known for story-rich games like
Grim Fandango and The Secret of
Monkey Island.
Although narrative-focused adventure games, which LucasArts helped
pioneer, were popular in the late 1980s
and early 1990s, their sales tanked
before the turn of the century as 3D
graphics and first-person-shooter
games became popular. When LucasArts and others began retreating
from adventure games, the genre
seemed dead.
So when Mr. Bruner and his cofounders left LucasArts in 2004 to set
up Telltale, where they wanted to make
licensed games driven by characters
instead of combat, they faced long odds.
For years the small company, now
based in San Rafael, Calif., struggled in
a small office opposite San Quentin
State Prison and a dump.
Nobody thought there was an opportunity there, Mr. Connors said.
Still, venture capital firms like Granite Ventures bet on the company, and
Telltale raised $6 million in its early
years. In 2012, the developer found
success with The Walking Dead, a
game that was set in the same postapocalyptic zombie universe as the
comic books and the AMC television
series, but that focused on an original
story about a man trying to protect a
young girl as the world fell apart.
Like most of Telltales games, it was
sold primarily as a digital download
and released as a series of episodes
that came out over time, rather than as
a single experience. The series received
critical acclaim, earning dozens of
industry awards. The first episode sold
more than a million copies in 20 days,
an unusually high number for a midsize
game publisher.
They stumbled upon their formula
with The Walking Dead: taking a recognizable property, actually making a
great game and then releasing it in
installments, Mr. Pachter said.
Telltale has since repeated this strategy with other brands, making its
games a comfortable home for narratives that originated in television, film,

comics and even other video games. In
Minecraft: Story Mode, the studio put a
narrative spin on the well-known building game. Telltale also created a zany
sci-fi comedy game series called Tales
from the Borderlands, based on a shooting game by Gearbox Software.
They start with characters and they
end with characters, Mikey Neumann,
Gearboxs creative chief, said of Telltale.
Hollywood has been won over. While
there have been many Batman video
games, Ames Kirshen, vice president
for production and creative at the DC
Comics franchise at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, said his company
wanted to work with Telltale on the new
one because the developer pitched a
very personal Batman story where the
focus was going to be on the dichotomy
between Bruce Wayne and Batman.
Last year Lionsgate, which produced
the Hunger Games movies, said it
had made a significant investment in
Telltale but did not disclose exact figures. In total, Telltale has raised about
$54 million. The company, which has

about than 350 employees, declined to
comment on its revenue and profit.
Other studios have introduced adventure games that innovated in the
choose-your-path storytelling style that
Telltale popularized. Last year, Supermassive Games released Until Dawn, a
survival horror game in which the
players choices determine who lives
and who dies. Life Is Strange, a choicebased game from Dontnod Entertainment, has a similar episodic format,
with a protagonist whose supernatural
powers allow her to rewind time to test
out different story options.
Telltale continues to use a one-sizefits-all approach, said Nathan Grayson,
a video game critic at the Gawkerowned website Kotaku, who has reviewed many Telltale games, mostly
positively. As a result, Im not particularly excited to play their games anymore.
Mr. Bruner said Telltale was not
slowing down. Its current slate includes
more episodes for Batman and the next
season of The Walking Dead, as well
as a highly anticipated Marvel Entertainment game due out next year. It is
also working with Lionsgate to explore
creating its first original property, part
video game and part television show.
There is still space for all this great
experimental, nontraditional gameplay, Mr. Bruner said.
APP SMART
Adding an Artistic Touch to Phone Snapshots
By KIT EATON
TEP aside, Instagram. Theres a

newer, smarter photo app taking
social media by storm: PRISMA.
Most mobile photo-editing
apps let you touch up photos with a
built-in filter to add a nostalgic sepia
tone, a touch of contrast or a darkening
vignette.
Prisma does something different. The
app takes an image, breaks it down and
turns it into something new. The end
result looks like something created by
an artist with a paintbrush on canvas
instead of a photo.
With the help of artificial intelligence,
the app repaints an original picture
from scratch. We dont use filters,
which are applied on top of the picture,
said Alexey Moiseenkov, chief executive of Prisma Labs, the apps maker.
The trick is that Prismas so-called
neural networks have been trained to
emulate many different art styles, and
can transform your landscape photos,
selfies or even snapshots of your cat
into something much more interesting.
The app, which was released in June
on iOS and last month on Android, is
quickly gaining traction. Prisma has
been downloaded more than 15 million
times on each platform, according to
Prisma Labs, which is based in Moscow. That compares with more than 75
million downloads for Pokmon Go
Other points of view

on the Op-Ed page
seven days a week.
The New York Times
With millions of
downloads, Prisma is
becoming trendy purely
by word of mouth.
gram or Facebook directly from
Prisma, or download it to share via
messaging or email. Images include a
Prisma-branded watermark, but users
can choose to remove this in the settings.
The Prisma app is free so how will
the company make money? Mr. Moiseenkov said it would let large brands
sponsor a few effects each month,
which will be its main path to revenue.
Prisma is free of advertisements.
Though the app is already popular,
there are several improvements on the
way, including the ability to apply the
same effects to video clips.
Prisma, which is free on iOS and Android devices, is simple to use and impressive. Its artistic effects on photographs
are often eye-popping, and with its many filters, it encourages experimentation until users find a favorite.
after its release a few weeks ago. But
unlike Pokmon, which has the marketing might of Nintendo behind it, Prisma
is becoming trendy purely by word of
mouth.
It went viral in a flash, Mr. Moiseenkov said.
The app is simple to use and impressive the effects are often eye-popping, and you will find yourself using
many filters on an image before settling
on the one you like best.

To use Prisma, you either snap a
photo using the built-in camera controls
or choose an image from your archive.
Then you dial through the available
special effects, which include blobby
impressionism, Picassoesque abstraction, mangalike cartoons and even
classic Japanese pen and ink paintings,
and select one with a tap.
Prismas A.I. algorithms are based on
open-source code that the companys

team has improved upon so that it
works much faster. The app sends your
photo to the companys servers, where
your image is reworked in a few seconds and then sent back to the app,
where you can see the results.
Photos are temporarily stored before
being deleted the next day, Mr. Moiseenkov said.
You can publish your image to Insta-
Quick Call
The makers of the popular thirdparty keyboard app SwiftKey have
turned their attention to another communication medium: emoji.
The new SWIFTMOJI app makes it
easier to find just the right emoji to add
an emotional twist to messages you
send online, intelligently suggesting
emoji you might use based on the
words you have just typed. Its clever
and useful, especially if you find the
whole emoji phenomenon confusing.
Swiftmoji is free on iOS and Android.
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PERSONAL TECH
How Snapchat Helped Advertisers Get Over Their Fear of a Ghost

Most important, Snapchat has persuaded brands like Tiffany & Company,
Kraft Foods and Burger King that its ads
let them interact playfully with this
young audience.
When Snapchat entered the ad business, it didnt quite have the infrastructure, and the market didnt understand
it, said Sarah Hofstetter, chief executive
of the ad agency 360i. It was a bumpy
beginning.
Now Snapchat faces the challenge of
keeping up its nascent ad business as its
early success raises the competitive
hackles of rivals. On Tuesday, Instagram,
the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, introduced a near carbon copy of a
Snapchat photo and video service known
as Stories.
A lot is riding on Snapchats building
up its ad business. The company, which
Mr. Spiegel helped found in 2011 and is
now based in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles, needs to justify a
valuation of about $19 billion that its
investors have placed on it. The company also faces sky-high revenue expectations; the investment bank Jefferies
recently projected that Snapchats revenue would grow to $1 billion next year
from more than $350 million this year.
In an interview, Imran Khan,
Snapchats chief strategy officer, said the
companys ad formats gave brands a
creative platform that made ads a
natural experience. Snapchat declined
to comment on its revenue.
While Snapchats best-known figure,
aside from its ghostly logo, is the youthful Mr. Spiegel who in the last year has
been photographed for the Italian magazine LUomo Vogue as well as frolicking
with his supermodel fiance at beaches
it is Mr. Khan, a former investment
banker, who has been overseeing the
companys advertising efforts. Mr. Khan
joined Snapchat in late 2014.
At the time, Snapchat had just run its
first ad, a short trailer for the teenage
horror movie Ouija. Advertisers say
those early video ad campaigns cost as
much as the most expensive ads on
YouTube, which run in the hundreds of
From left: Snapchat ads for bareMinerals makeup, Trolli gummy candy and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Half of 18- to 34-year-old Americans use Snapchat.
thousands of dollars.
At that price, it was too hard to test
the waters and learn in a new environment, said Ms. Hofstetter of 360i.
Mr. Khan set about trying to respond
to concerns while building out an ad
team. He recently recruited Viacoms advertising sales chief, Jeff Lucas, to be his
new vice president for ad sales. He
opened new ad sales offices in cities such
as London and Sydney, Australia, to provide more support to those making ads
for Snapchat.
Snapchat also began introducing less
expensive ad products, some of which
start at just $5. This summer, the company let third parties sell ad space on
Snapchat, which makes it easier to get
more ads onto the app.
Mr. Khans biggest job was to explain
why Snapchats unusual platform was
better for advertisers. The task was
thorny because Snapchat is a messaging, sharing and broadcast service
where most content disappears. Companies had few comparable apps to judge
Snapchat against.
The potential became clearer after
brands started experimenting with
Snapchats geofilters, a tool that adds
custom stickers, a type of colorful icon, to
the app when people enter a certain geographic area, and lenses, which are
whimsical images that transform someones face in the app.
At this years Super Bowl, for instance,
Gatorade bought a Snapchat lens that let
people pour a virtual cooler of the sports
drink on themselves in the app. That lens
was viewed about 165 million times in a
single day. In contrast, the most-watched
ad on YouTube last year, Clash of Clans:
Revenge, was seen 82 million times, according to AdWeek.
Brands that had become too focused
on metrics suddenly saw in Snapchat a
playful way to deepen customer loyalty
and affinity, said Constance DeCherney,
director of strategy at the ad agency

TDA Boulder.
In May, for Cinco de Mayo, the fastfood chain Taco Bell designed a Snapchat
lens that allowed people to turn their
heads into a taco in the app, with the
chains logo sitting prominently on the
screen. Such holiday-related lens ads reportedly cost as much as $750,000. The
ad received about 224 million views in
one day and is the most-viewed ad
ever on Snapchat.
It was all taco, taco, taco, said Ryan
Rimsnider, senior manager of Taco Bells
social media team. It was a little surreal.
Taco Bell, a major advertiser, was an
early supporter of using Snapchat as a
branding tool. Snapchat executives recently attended Taco Bells three-year
Snapiversary, which included a custom
geofilter for the event. Taco Bell later
sent a taco truck to Snapchats headquarters.
Since those early ad experiments,

other brands have started campaigns on
the messaging service. Last week,
Tiffany & Company began its first
Snapchat campaign with a lens of the
Tiffany logo and flying hearts in Tiffany
blue that people could use to decorate
their selfies and videos.
Snapchat said millions of consumers
in the United States, Australia and Italy
played with the lens for about the same
amount of time as it takes to watch a normal video ad. They then shared their pictures and videos, spreading Tiffanys
brand. The lens is now gone, replaced by
a geofilter that adds Tiffany-branded
stickers to photos when you enter a
Tiffany store.
Consumers want something more
than a passive experience, said Diana
Hong-Elsey, Tiffanys vice president for
global digital marketing. When you
know content will disappear, you want to
interact with it in that moment.
text-messaging system built into the

web-based Gmail service and the
Google Plus social network. Fairly unobtrusive and simple to use, the chat feature has its fans because it makes it
easy to send messages quickly to people. Chats between Gmail users can also
be archived and searched. With the
proper hardware and plug-in software
installed, Chat users can make voice and
video calls between computers.
Google Hangouts is a newer communications tool that can send and receive
text messages from the Gmail window
and more. When everyone involved is
using Hangouts, users can make voice
and video calls with up to nine
participants, exchange videos and photos, make telephone calls or even share
a computer screen.
Hangouts is Gmails default chat
application, but if you prefer the older
Chat service, you can switch back at
least until Google retires Chat for good.
To change from Hangouts to Chat, log

into your Gmail account and click the
Hangouts icon on the left side of the
screen if you do not see your list of
acquaintances showing.
In the Hangouts column, click the
menu arrow next to your name. In the
window showing your status and notifications options, click the Revert to old
chat button at the bottom. In the alert
box that appears, confirm your decision
to change back to Chat. If you ever want
to return to Hangouts, click the menu
arrow next to your name again and
choose Try the new Hangouts.
Google Hangouts also has a mobile
app for Android and iOS. The company
announced two more messaging apps
last spring, Allo (a smart instant messenger that makes use of the companys
predictive Google Assistant technology)
and Duo (a video-calling program).
TECH TIP
Making Live Video

On Facebook
Q. How do you make a Facebook Live
video? Can anybody on Facebook see it?
A. Facebook Live, the companys real-
time video-broadcasting feature, is

available in the Android and iOS versions of the Facebook app. As with status updates and photos on the site, you
can choose the audience for your live
video post. This means you can restrict
viewership to just your Facebook
friends, or you can make the video public for anybody to see. If you choose a
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Investors Unfazed by Turkeys Instability
STOCKS & BONDS
Wall St. Gains After Hiring Report

By The Associated Press
United States stocks edged

higher on Wednesday as energy
companies and banks climbed
with the price of oil. A survey
showed that hiring by private
companies continued at a solid
but uninspiring clip in July.
Stocks opened lower but gradually recovered to finish at their
highest levels of the day. A survey
showed that private business payrolls in the United States grew by
179,000 in July as retailers and
shipping firms hired more workers. That suggested hiring was
still healthy, but it was not enough
to excite investors.
Much of this economic recovery
could be correctly categorized as
slow but steady, said Mike Baele,
a senior portfolio manager with
U.S. Banks private client reserve.
Its all better than last year for
the most part, but its also all below expectations.
The Dow Jones industrial average broke a seven-day losing
streak and added 41.23 points, or
0.2 percent, to 18,355. The Standard & Poors 500-stock index
gained 6.76 points, or 0.3 percent,
to 2,163.79. The Nasdaq composite
index rose 22 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,159.74.
The employment survey, by the
payroll processor ADP, suggested
that employers continued to hire
and at a faster pace than they did
this spring, when hiring slowed
sharply. Still, growth has been
sluggish this year. The Labor Department will release a report on
Friday that counts July hiring by
government as well as private
companies. Experts predict it will
show a gain of about 175,000 jobs.
The price of crude oil jumped after the government said stockpiles of gasoline shrank by more
than 3 million barrels last week.
The Dow Minute by Minute

Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Wednesday.
18,360
18,340
18,320
18,300
Previous close
18,313.77
10 a.m.
Noon
Source: Reuters
Benchmark crude added $1.32, or

3.3 percent, to $40.83 a barrel in
New York. Brent crude, which is
used to price international oils,
rose $1.30, or 3 percent, to $43.10 a
barrel in London.
That translated into big gains
for energy companies. Williams
Companies rose $1.71, or 7.1 percent, to $25.67. Devon Energy
gained $1.88, or 5.2 percent, to $38.
Financial stocks also traded
higher. The insurance company
American International Group
jumped after a strong secondquarter report. A.I.G. stock rose
$3.94, or 7.3 percent, to $58.10. Intercontinental Exchange, the
owner of the New York Stock Exchange and other stock markets,
said it would split its stock 5-for-1
and buy back $1 billion in shares.
Its stock rose $14.09, or 5.3 percent, to $278.02.
Earnings reports continued to
stream in. Kate Spade, the luxury
clothing and accessories company, skidded 18.2 percent after it
disclosed weak results and lowered its estimates for the year.
Crocs plunged after its second-
18,280
2 p.m.
J. D. BIERSDORFER
4 p.m.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
quarter sales fell $25 million short

of analyst estimates. Its stock
gave up 23.3 percent. And Fitbit
rebounded after its quarterly results came in stronger than expected. The stock rose 13.5 percent.
The price of gold fell $8.30, to
$1,356.10 an ounce. Silver fell 23
cents, or 1.1 percent, to $20.47 an
ounce. Copper lost 1 cent, to $2.20
a pound.
In France, the CAC 40 dipped
0.2 percent, as did the FTSE 100 in
Britain. The DAX in Germany
picked up 0.3 percent. In Japan,
the benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped
1.9 percent, and the South Korean
Kospi lost 1.2 percent. The Hang
Seng in Hong Kong dipped 1.8 percent. Japanese stocks have been
slipping because the countrys recently announced stimulus package, worth around $274 billion, fell
short of expectations.
Bond prices inched higher, and
the yield on the 10-year Treasury
note remained unchanged at 1.55
percent. The dollar rose to 101.16
yen from 100.85 yen. The euro fell
to $1.1146 from $1.1219.
turns in a world of zero to negative

interest rates.
These pressures have increased since the market shock of
the British vote to leave Europe.
Bond yields have continued to
shrink and stock markets have hit
record highs, giving investors further pause about their overweight
positions in developed market
stocks and bonds.
In places like Europe, the U.K.
and the U.S., you have lots of risks
but no reward, said Gavin Serkin,
an emerging-markets expert at
Frontier Funds, a consulting firm
based in London. In the developing world, you have risks, but at
least you are getting paid for it.
And that even includes Mongolia, where a new government and
a view that commodity markets
have bottomed have prompted a
stampede into Mongolian government bonds.
These bonds issued in the
middle of a slump in raw materials
were not that long ago held out
as an emblem of emerging-market excess. Their prices have
since surged, halving their yields
to 8 percent from 16 percent in
March.
Other unlikely markets that are
now in demand include Russia,
where stocks year to date are up
over 20 percent in dollar terms. A
big factor driving these rallies,
traders say, is the sense the currencies of these countries that
have suffered from a strong dollar
in recent years are now in recovery mode.
And while there is still potential
for the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates, there is less
fear than there was a year ago
that rates will push persistently
upward and lure money out of
emerging economies.
Investors are also finding bar-
gains among established companies in emerging markets that

have improved their profitability
in recent years but still trade at 30
percent discounts to their developed-market peers.
We are seeing a real shift in
sentiment, said Nick Robinson, a
portfolio manager at Aberdeen Investment Management which
oversees $420 billion, a large
chunk of which is in developing
markets. And you really dont
have to look too hard to find good
stories with cheap valuations.
According to the Institute of International Finance, a bank lobby
A coup, terrorists and

inflation are not
deterrents for those
seeking yield.
that tracks global capital flows,
about $25 billion poured into
emerging markets last month.
Asia and Latin America absorbed
most of these funds.
Combined with the $13 billion
that swept into these markets in
June, the last two months reflect a
sharp shift in sentiment after one
of the worst periods ever for
emerging-market capital flows.
According to the institutes calculations, $81 billion exited these
markets in the months after the
Chinese devaluation scare last
August an amount that approached that $96 billion that fled
during the financial crisis.
Economists at Institute of International Finance say that the
flows surged in the weeks after
Britains surprise vote to leave the
European Union when investors
doubled down on their safe-haven
bets by buying Japanese, European and United States government bonds.

As the yields on these securities
vanished late last month, government bonds in Brazil, South Africa
and Turkey that yielded around 10
percent began to look attractive.
That was especially so when
compared with Italy, where comparable securities offered a 1 percent return even with concerns
mounting that the countrys banking crisis might force it to leave
the euro.
Or Japan, where investors in
July took the extraordinary step
of paying to borrow money for 20
years from a government with the
highest debt burden among developed nations.
Such minuscule returns are the
result of an unprecedented era of
monetary policy activism. The
worlds central banks have bought
up 15 percent of global corporate
and sovereign bonds in an effort to
stimulate economic recovery.
But, as Jan Dehn, the head of research at Ashmore in London,
which oversees $51 billion in
emerging market assets, points
out, these securities do not hail
from emerging markets.
And that is why, he says, there is
such a contrast between bond
yields in the developed as opposed to the developing world as
investors worldwide have, for the
most part, ignored emerging markets in favor of following in the
path of central banks.
The Q.E. trade is over, said Mr.
Dehn, referring to the central
bank policy of quantitative easing.
And people are now looking to
the non-Q.E. world, where the
bonds in countries representing
58 percent of G.D.P. had an average yield of 5.6 percent which is
higher than when the Fed had
rates at 5 percent before the crisis.
That is pretty extraordinary.
B8
MARKET GAUGES
S.& P.
U
500
DOW
U
INDUSTRIALS
2,163.79
+6.76
NASDAQ
U
COMPOSITE
18,355.00
+41.23
Standard & Poors 500-Stock Index
10-YEAR
TREASURY YIELD
5,159.74
+22.01
Nasdaq Composite Index
3-MONTH TREND
CRUDE
OIL U
1.55%
UNCH.
GOLD
D
(N.Y.)
$40.83
+$1.32
THE
D
EURO
$1,356.10
$8.30
Dow Jones Industrial Average
3-MONTH TREND
$1.1146
$0.0073
3-MONTH TREND
2,300
+10%
+10%
5,200
+10%
19,000
2,200
5,000
+ 5%
2,100
+ 5%
+ 5%
18,000
4,800
0%
0%
2,000
0%
4,600
5%
May
June
17,000
5%
July
May
June
July
5%
May
June
July
When the index follows a white line, it is changing at a constant pace; when it moves into a lighter band, the rate of change is faster.
STOCK MARKET INDEXES

Index
Close
MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS

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Chg
Chg
52-Wk
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YTD
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Index
DOW JONES
Close
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Chg
52-Wk
% Chg
YTD
% Chg
Stock (TICKER)
18355.00
7711.36
702.67
6411.81
+ 41.23 + 0.23 +
+ 62.92 + 0.82
4.03 0.57 +
+ 14.94 + 0.23 +
4.30
8.38
19.55
3.02
+
+
+
+
5.34
2.70
21.61
7.25
Nasdaq 100
Composite
Industrials
Banks
Insurance
Other Finance
Telecommunications
Computer
STANDARD AND POORS
100 Stocks
500 Stocks
Mid-Cap 400
Small-Cap 600
958.83
2163.79
1546.64
736.52
+
+
+
+
1.71
6.76
9.35
4.02
+
+
+
+
0.18
0.31
0.61
0.55
+
+
+
+
3.26
3.13
3.21
3.98
+
+
+
+
5.20
5.86
10.59
9.64
NYSE Comp.
Tech/Media/Telecom
Energy
Financial
Healthcare
10695.14
7801.82
10326.00
6107.07
13060.29
+
+
+
+
34.01
21.81
143.12
49.95
70.90
+
+
+
+
0.32
0.28
1.41
0.82
0.54
1.35
1.52
3.27
10.40
3.94
+
+
+
5.44
8.84
10.51
3.15
5.45
4734.33
5159.74
4320.16
2827.69
7624.91
5881.24
281.72
2744.35
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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22.01
8.47
29.21
39.17
18.96
1.45
12.05
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+
0.32
0.43
0.20
1.04
0.52
0.32
0.52
0.44
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+
+
+
+
3.36
0.87
2.30
2.01
5.43
1.02
4.71
8.80
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
3.07
3.04
5.34
0.89
5.55
5.35
12.25
5.31
Volume
(100)
Stock (TICKER)
2391.59
22430.37
4863.86
1212.73
111.93
756.53
67.89
158.45
+
+
+
+
+
+
12.82
90.59
34.85
10.38
0.93
0.80
0.99
2.57
+
+
+
+
+
+
0.53
0.41
0.72
0.86
0.82
0.11
1.48
1.65
+ 0.13 + 11.28
+ 1.46 + 5.96
+ 4.62 + 11.59
1.55 + 6.76
+ 145.78 +147.09
+ 17.41 + 14.02
13.16 7.10
10.11 + 0.46
Close
%
Chg
Chg
Volume
(100)
Stock (TICKER)
20 TOP GAINERS
14.48
17.61
5.29
12.13
35.29
7.29
14.93
105.79
25.67
16.47
12.39
22.20
6.30
5.33
56.97
9.13
31.13
122.51
34.25
11.67
Bank of Ameri (BAC)

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NASDAQ
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Composite
Close
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%
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Chg
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(100)
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5.42
9.07
9.45
14.01
12.36
14.35
17.85
41.98
17.37
30.03
5.00
29.90
27.02
14.93
19.99
11.30
11.31
61.16
5.19
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Cesca (KOOL)
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RPX (RPXC)
LivaNova (LIVN)
Mirati (MRTX)
637374
554276
495831
472473
425651
380564
374859
289868
269509
262970
249339
242850
237848
221338
220632
204861
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9.20
21.81
11.42
5.15
14.69
8.44
16.47
34.74
17.58
5.25
11.99
9.74
21.79
17.02
5.01
55.12
5.48
24.62
13.57
7.29
Rubicon Proj (RUBI)

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Chefs (CHEF)
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USA Truck (USAK)
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MGP Ingredie (MGPI)
Fedtd Ntnl H (FNHC)
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Endologix (ELGX)
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Caesars (CZR)
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70741
69312
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10249
111384
20928
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14383
1919
60109
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9.47
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1.70
4.54
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3.32
0.95
1.77
1.38
2.93
2.06
0.59
6.33
0.60
2.64
1.23
0.65
32.7
30.3
29.3
24.8
23.6
23.3
18.2
18.2
15.9
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12.8
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11.9
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Stock (TICKER)
52-Week Price Range

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Stock (TICKER)
52-Week Price Range

1-Day
1-Yr
YTD
Stock (TICKER)
52-Week Price Range

1-Day
1-Yr
YTD
3M (MMM)
Abbott (ABT)
AbbVie (ABBV)
Accenture (ACN)
AIG (AIG)
Allergan (AGN)
Allstate (ALL)
Alphabet (GOOGL)
Alphabet (GOOG)
Altria Gro (MO)
Amazon.com (AMZN)
American E (AXP)
Amgen (AMGN)
Anadarko P (APC)
Apple (AAPL)
AT&T (T)
Bank of Am (BAC)
Berkshire (BRKb)
Biogen (BIIB)
BlackRock (BLK)
Boeing (BA)
BONY Mello (BK)
Bristol-My (BMY)
Capital On (COF)
Caterpilla (CAT)
Celgene (CELG)
134.00
36.00
45.45
88.43
48.41
195.50
54.12
593.09
565.05
47.41
451.00
50.27
130.09
28.16
89.47
30.97
10.99
123.55
223.02
275.00
102.10
32.20
51.82
58.03
56.36
92.98
178.38
44.95
66.57
113.61
58.10
252.53
68.63
798.92
773.18
66.37
754.64
63.83
173.43
52.68
105.79
43.14
14.48
143.63
321.34
368.16
131.87
39.22
74.80
66.55
82.03
116.14
Chevron (CVX)
Cisco Syst (CSCO)
Citigroup (C)
Coca- Cola (KO)
Colgate (CL)
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ConocoPhil (COP)
Costco Who (COST)
CVS Health (CVS)
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22.46
34.52
36.56
50.84
50.01
31.05
117.03
81.37
18.07
35.11
47.11
67.88
22.66
41.25
25.09
66.55
72.00
119.71
10.44
19.37
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77.92
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27.64
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30.72
43.89
43.64
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66.84
40.31
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122.51
160.61
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116.90
24.87
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50.07
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45.69
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39.72
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21.16
47.25
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33.13
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182.27
51.17
70.78
120.78
64.71
339.00
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770.50
81.66
177.52
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123.82
43.89
18.09
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369.33
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
18.4
0.1
12.4
8.7
6.2
19.2
10.5
2.7
N.A.
14.0
11.7
8.2
6.8
8.4
0.5
25.4
14.0
8.8
4.9
8.1
8.8
4.9
8.7
7.8
20.7
3.0
107.58
31.15
59.25
47.13
75.33
68.36
57.24
169.73
111.75
51.68
57.10
75.72
92.85
28.77
56.82
37.70
95.55
128.33
173.00
15.84
33.00
153.76
120.37
36.88
207.78
46.69
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
1.50
0.01
0.47
0.19
1.03
0.70
0.52
0.38
3.94
1.88
0.22
0.44
0.60
0.16
2.87
0.21
0.45
0.58
1.05
0.35
0.02
1.28
0.37
0.31
2.28
0.88
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
18.07
9.60
24.94
4.28
8.22
6.53
19.17
14.69
11.40
22.04
14.44
26.12
1.58
8.42
6.59
15.18
13.37
30.25
5.57
18.65
20.19
0.67
32.62
4.06
22.82
8.43
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
11.8
13.1
15.2
1.6
11.2
18.5
13.7
2.9
0.4
18.8
3.8
3.5
1.8
9.8
10.6
31.7
12.2
17.1
7.8
13.9
0.1
7.6
20.9
11.1
12.2
26.2
137.06
116.01
160.67
34.25
123.90
64.66
20.13
256.85
82.02
95.08
117.52
86.67
57.65
43.70
56.97
43.10
104.36
28.42
54.75
88.33
74.38
40.71
36.58
108.04
35.29
99.03
139.00
120.02
163.60
35.93
126.07
69.42
34.81
263.37
83.65
101.76
131.96
89.27
60.07
56.57
57.29
48.58
114.26
39.35
68.19
98.75
78.31
42.00
41.75
110.94
37.39
104.20
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
0.16
0.56
0.78
0.31
0.95
0.86
0.34
2.01
0.05
0.17
0.49
1.39
1.01
1.49
0.39
0.38
1.44
0.08
0.66
0.22
1.26
0.00
0.04
0.89
1.10
0.94
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
16.62
10.89
1.95
17.58
24.15
5.55
40.20
22.58
18.25
2.28
18.54
11.44
1.79
21.87
19.84
5.48
1.93
26.98
5.42
6.19
7.80
2.65
6.08
10.46
2.27
15.38
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
3.6
12.0
16.8
0.6
20.6
2.1
34.9
18.3
7.9
2.3
0.5
12.7
9.1
9.4
2.7
3.9
5.9
10.7
12.4
4.4
10.1
11.4
1.1
8.1
9.3
12.7
Stock (TICKER)
52-Week Price Range

1-Day
1-Yr
YTD
Priceline (PCLN)
Procter Ga (PG)
Qualcomm (QCOM)
Raytheon (RTN)
Schlumberg (SLB)
Simon Prop (SPG)
Southern C (SO)
Starbucks (SBUX)
Synchrony (SYF)
Target (TGT)
Texas Inst (TXN)
Time Warne (TWX)
Twenty-Fir (FOX)
Twenty-Fir (FOXA)
Union Paci (UNP)
United Par (UPS)
UnitedHeal (UNH)
US Bancorp (USB)
UTC (UTX)
Verizon (VZ)
Visa (V)
WalMart (WMT)
Walgreens (WBA)
Walt Disne (DIS)
Wells Farg (WFC)
954
65.02
42.24
96.68
59.60
173.09
41.81
42.05
23.25
65.50
43.49
55.53
22.65
22.66
67.06
87.30
95.00
37.07
83.39
38.06
60.00
56.30
71.50
86.25
44.50
1477
87.15
64.82
142.15
85.12
229.10
54.64
64.00
35.50
84.62
72.58
88.14
33.65
34.70
98.28
111.83
144.48
46.02
108.49
56.95
81.73
74.35
97.30
122.08
58.16
1371
85.97
61.01
140.68
79.62
222.31
53.04
55.94
27.87
74.10
68.88
77.83
27.42
27.04
92.87
108.29
142.88
42.13
106.29
53.90
78.71
72.94
79.60
96.09
47.57
+ 25.76
0.79
+ 0.41
+ 0.44
+ 0.73
5.29
0.61
0.79
+ 0.52
+ 0.21
1.00
+ 1.09
+ 0.28
+ 0.42
0.19
+ 0.28
0.63
+ 0.70
+ 0.02
0.60
+ 0.45
0.84
+ 0.33
+ 1.08
0.24
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
6.79
13.25
3.85
29.25
3.22
17.91
19.41
4.70
19.01
7.43
38.20
11.20
17.90
21.24
2.98
5.50
18.24
6.83
7.33
15.49
4.57
0.96
16.80
21.04
17.73
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
7.5
8.3
22.1
13.0
14.2
14.3
13.4
6.8
8.4
2.1
25.7
20.4
0.7
0.4
18.8
12.5
21.5
1.3
10.6
16.6
1.5
19.0
6.5
8.6
12.5
indicates stocks
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. +
or
that reached a new 52-week high or low. Change Difference between last trade and previous days 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.
GOVERNMENT BONDS
FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA

Yields
52-Week Total Returns
FINRA-BLOOMBERG
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES
FINRA-BLOOMBERG
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES
10%
+10%
high yield +6.65%
invest. gr. +6.30%
10
2
0
2015
invest. grade +3.34%

2016
20
high yield +5.30%

2016
2015
Yest.
All
Investment High
Issues
Grade
Yield
8
6
Yield Curve
Market Breadth
Total Issues Traded

Advances
Declines
Unchanged
52 Week High
52 Week Low
Dollar Volume*
7,285
3,398
3,428
155
351
90
27,689
4,992
2,307
2,475
44
190
60
17,712
Conv
2,071
987
851
103
140
29
8,921
222
104
102
8
21
1
1,055
End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE.

Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most
active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
Investment grade or high-yield is determined using
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. C Yield is
unavailable because of issues call criteria.
*Par value in millions.
Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moodys,
Standard & Poors and Fitch.
Most Recent Issues
Key Rates
1-mo. ago
1-yr. ago
4%
10-year Treas.
2-year Treas.
4%
Prime Rate
Fed Funds
Mat.
1
Maturity
0
3
5 10
Months
Date
BONDS & NOTES

2-yr. Jul 18
5-yr. Jul 21
10-yr. May 26
30-yr. May 46
2015
2016
Years
Issuer Name (SYMBOL)
Credit Rating
Moodys S&P
Coupon%
Maturity
Fitch
3.700
1.998
3.950
2.400
4.950
2.000
3.450
1.100
3.875
5.200
Aug46
Aug26
Aug56
Aug26
Mar26
Aug23
Aug36
Aug19
Feb22
May26
NR
NR
NR
NR
Baa2
NR
NR
NR
Aa2
Baa3
AAA
AA
AAA
AAA
A
AAA
AAA
AAA
A+
BB+
AA+
AA+
A
AA+
AA+
AA+
NR
A
5.750
15.000
6.875
8.375
7.250
5.750
8.000
8.750
11.000
7.750
Jul20
Apr21
Feb22
May21
Apr19
Aug23
Nov19
May26
Sep25
Jun21
B3
NR
Caa1
B3
Caa2
NR
Caa1
B3
Ba3
Ca
B+
NR
B
B+
CCC
NR
NR
B+
BB
NR
B
B+
BB
CC
B+
BB
BB
NR
0.250
4.750
3.250
0.500
2.500
1.000
2.625
1.000
1.250
2.000
Jun18
Jul22
Jul23
Nov19
Dec27
Dec18
Dec19
Mar18
Oct18
Feb20
NR
NR
NR
Price
High
Low
Last
Chg
Yld%
100.634
99.648
99.845
101.924
113.100
101.292
101.730
100.225
108.990
104.950
99.389
97.720
96.733
99.568
110.531
99.535
99.115
99.879
108.460
102.804
100.634
98.150
97.601
100.017
111.532
99.701
100.034
99.932
108.990
103.521
0.976
0.188
0.767
1.921
0.063
0.102
0.877
0.046
0.018
0.600
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
3.494
N.A.
N.A.
N.A.
2.134
4.744
103.180
6.500
86.500
107.077
77.000
104.250
95.750
106.000
109.140
26.000
103.050
6.438
82.000
104.400
75.000
101.375
92.750
103.600
106.000
24.500
103.150
6.500
82.250
105.750
76.500
103.950
93.000
104.650
107.625
26.000
0.070
0.000
0.250
0.250
1.000
103.950
0.250
0.650
0.875
0.250
3.834
N.A.
11.307
6.940
18.924
N.A.
10.579
8.051
9.696
48.892
109.479
136.032
113.500
99.140
99.125
278.123
38.625
150.250
124.143
106.500
108.880
131.125
112.927
99.100
97.700
275.080
36.988
148.550
123.900
104.180
109.324
133.950
113.384
99.100
97.706
277.561
38.625
149.347
123.900
105.996
0.074
4.950
1.241
0.000
1.419
0.328
2.625
3.147
0.890
6.015
4.618
0.851
1.221
0.783
2.736
39.031
35.599
22.748
8.468
0.287
INVESTMENT GRADE
Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

Alphabet Inc (GOOG)
Conocophillips Co (COP)
Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-boerenl (RABO)
Barclays Plc (BCS)
AA+
HIGH YIELD
Sba Telecommunications Llc (SBAC)

Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Comp (TXU)
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH)
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR)
Intelsat Jackson Hldgs S A (I)
Mgic Invt Corp Wis (MTG)
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH)
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR)
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR)
Intelsat Luxembourg S A (I)
Netsuite Inc (N)

Allegheny Technologies Inc (ATI)
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc (ICPT)
Linkedin Corp (LNKD)
Seacor Smit Inc (CKH)
Nvidia Corp (NVDA)
Cobalt Intl Energy Inc (CIE)
Priceline Group Inc (PCLN)
Ctrip Com Intl Ltd (CTRP)
Wright Med Group Inc (WMGI)
CONSUMER RATES
Yesterday
Year
Wednesday
Friday
Ago
0.40%
3.50
2.66
3.31
3.39
3.82
2.85
2.91
2.82
Foreign Currency
in Dollars
AMERICAS
Argentina (Peso)
Bolivia (Boliviano)
Brazil (Real)
Canada (Dollar)
Chile (Peso)
Colombia (Peso)
Dom. Rep. (Peso)
El Salvador (Colon)
Guatemala (Quetzal)
Honduras (Lempira)
Mexico (Peso)
Nicaragua (Cordoba)
Paraguay (Guarani)
Peru (New Sol)
Uruguay (New Peso)
Venezuela (Bolivar)
EUROPE
Britain (Pound)
Czech Rep (Koruna)
Denmark (Krone)
Europe (Euro)
Hungary (Forint)
Change from last week

Up
Flat
Down
0.25%
0.24
0.33
0.57
0.75
1.41
9 10
5-YEAR HISTORY
+40%
Change from
previous year
June 16
May 16
.0672
.1458
.3090
.7654
.0015
.0003
.0218
.1146
.1325
.0438
.0530
.0351
.0002
.2987
.0339
.1003
1.3326
.0413
.1499
1.1146
.0036
Dollars in
Foreign Currency
14.8700
6.8600
3.2367
1.3065
656.30
3093.0
45.7700
8.7222
7.5500
22.8200
18.8715
28.4500
5542.5
3.3480
29.5300
9.9750
.7504
24.2390
6.6707
.8972
278.27
6.4%
+2.4
Future
Corn
Soybeans
Wheat
Live Cattle
Hogs-Lean
Cocoa
Coffee
Sugar-World
Monetary
units per
Exchange quantity
CBT
CBT
CBT
Foreign Currency
in Dollars
0.28
0.41
0.27
0.39
0.01
+0.01
0.29
0.40
100.16
100.25
100.72
104.34
100.16
100.27
100.73
104.38
+0.02
+0.06
+0.08
+0.19
0.68
1.09
1.55
2.31
101.77
+0.23 -0.18
100.50
+0.30
0.12
126.27
+0.41
0.39
108.74
+0.77
0.71
Source: Thomson Reuters
One Dollar in Euros

1.00 euros
$1 = 0.8972
0.95
0.90
0.85
0.80
2015
2016
Norway (Krone)
Poland (Zloty)
Russia (Ruble)
Sweden (Krona)
Switzerland (Franc)
Turkey (Lira)
.1183
.2606
.0151
.1170
1.0281
.3320
8.4525
3.8369
66.3730
8.5444
.9727
3.0118
Dollars in
Foreign Currency
ASIA/PACIFIC
Australia (Dollar)
China (Yuan)
Hong Kong (Dollar)
India (Rupee)
Japan (Yen)
Malaysia (Ringgit)
New Zealand (Dollar)
Pakistan (Rupee)
Philippines (Peso)
Singapore (Dollar)
So. Korea (Won)
Taiwan (Dollar)
Thailand (Baht)
Vietnam (Dong)
.7588
.1508
.1289
.0150
.0099
.2465
.7157
.0096
.0213
.7458
.0009
.0316
.0286
.00004
1.3179
6.6320
7.7586
66.7572
101.22
4.0560
1.3972
104.40
47.0170
1.3409
1116.0
31.6790
35.0100
22234
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Bahrain (Dinar)
Egypt (Pound)
Iran (Rial)
Israel (Shekel)
Jordan (Dinar)
Kenya (Shilling)
Kuwait (Dinar)
2.6567
.1126
.00003
.2618
1.4128
.0099
3.3167
.3764
8.8799
30063
3.8200
.7078
101.30
.3015
CME
CME
NYBOT
NYBOT
NYBOT
COMX
COMX
COMX
NYMX
NYMX
NYMX
Lifetime
High
Low
Date
Open
Settle
Change
Open
Interest
/bushel
/bushel
/bushel
/lb
/lb
$/ton
/lb
/lb
490.50 319.50
1205.00 861.25
631.25 399.25
145.80 107.10
90.43
68.30
3392.00 2640.00
231.75 117.15
21.22
11.54
Sep
Aug
Sep
Aug
Aug
Sep
Sep
Sep
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
323.75 328.75 322.25 325.00

987.00 1000.50 985.75 990.50
402.00 415.00 401.00 410.25
116.20 117.18 115.93 116.75
68.88
69.10
68.30
68.35
2885.00 2999.00 2874.00 2993.00
141.25 142.10 139.85 140.40
19.05
19.28
18.86
19.04
+ 0.75
+ 5.25
+ 9.00
+ 0.53
0.57
+ 97.00
0.85
0.01
447,789
6,257
244,604
31,876
22,211
83,395
80,874
435,247
$/oz
$/oz
$/lb
$/bbl
$/gal
$/mil.btu
1377.50 1049.40
21.13
15.98
2.71
1.98
89.69
32.85
2.78
0.99
7.53
2.01
Aug
Aug
Aug
Sep
Aug
Aug
16
16
16
16
16
16
1362.40 1364.70 1353.30 1356.10

20.63
20.65
20.41
20.44
2.20
2.20
2.17
2.20
39.70
41.20
39.19
40.83
1.27
1.30
1.26
1.29
2.73
2.87
2.72
2.84
+
+
+
4,154
303
1,385
535,407
106,587
263,034
9 10
May 16
Apr. 16
+6.3%
+6.3
% Total Returns
+10%
11
16
Producer Prices
+10%
Change from
previous year
June 16
May 16
2
2.0%
2.3
11
16
9 10
Real Hourly Earnings
3.29%
3.13
+1%
Change from
previous year
0% 1
9 10
0.26%
0.28
0.39
0.63
0.83
1.46
*Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850.
June 16
May 16
0.3%
0.3
16
Source: Bankrate.com
110
100
90
2015
2016
Lebanon (Pound)
Saudi Arabia (Riyal)
So. Africa (Rand)
U.A.E (Dirham)
.0007
.2667
.0719
.2723
1505.7
3.7501
13.9023
3.6726
Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.

Low
8.30
0.23
0.01
1.32
0.03
0.11
Crude Oil
$60
$40.83 a barrel
50
40
30
20
2015
2016
11
16
Type
YTD
1 Yr
American Funds Income Fund of Amer A(AMECX)

Vanguard Wellington Admiral(VWENX)
American Funds American Balanced A(ABALX)
Franklin Income A(FKINX)
Vanguard Wellesley Income Admiral(VWIAX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Inv(VTTVX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Inv(VTWNX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Inv(VTHRX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Inv(VTTHX)
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation(PRWCX)
Fidelity Balanced(FBALX)
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020(TRRBX)
Fidelity Puritan(FPURX)
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030(TRRCX)
Vanguard STAR Inv(VGSTX)
Vanguard Balanced Index Adm(VBIAX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2015 Inv(VTXVX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Inv(VFORX)
Fidelity Freedom K 2020(FFKDX)
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2025(TRRHX)
FPA Crescent(FPACX)
Fidelity Freedom K 2030(FFKEX)
Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Inv(VTIVX)
% Total Returns
Exp. Assets
5 Yr* Ratio
(mil.$)
Fund Name (TICKER)
Type
YTD
1 Yr
Exp. Assets
5 Yr* Ratio
(mil.$)
LEADERS
AL
MA
MA
CA
CA
TG
TE
TH
TI
MA
MA
TE
MA
TH
MA
MA
TD
TJ
TE
TG
MA
TH
TK
+8.1
+7.0
+6.1
+9.3
+8.4
+5.9
+5.9
+5.8
+5.7
+7.4
+4.9
+5.9
+3.8
+5.5
+5.2
+6.9
+5.6
+5.7
+5.4
+5.7
+3.1
+5.2
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The Couple Who Turns Heads at the Pool
TOP, A J MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; ABOVE, TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Shane Tusup,
top and above
right, coaches
his wife, Katinka
Hosszu, above
left and at left,
who will swim
for Hungary in
Rio. Hosszu said
the spousecoach act was
rewarding. Still,
Tusups poolside
eruptions have
elicited stares
and complaints.
By KAREN CROUSE
In the fall of 2012, Shane Tusup was asked to

become more involved in Katinka Hosszus
swimming career. That request came from his
girlfriend, Katinka Hosszu, who suggested that
he coach her. Deep down, he said, he knew it
could work, but he also knew that
someday they might come to regret
it.
With no blueprint to follow, they
married and forged a professional
coupling that has produced six world championship medals, including four golds; two female
swimmer of the year awards; and a world
record. Along the way, their relationship has become a cause clbre on the pool deck.
Many sports, most prominently tennis, have
featured contentious relationships between
coaches and athletes. Those typically involved
fathers overseeing the careers of their children.
Less often is the volatile coach the athletes husband.
Jessica Hardy, an Olympic medalist who used
to train with Hosszu in Los Angeles and wrote
about being subjected to verbal and emotional
abuse as a child, said, Ive seen a lot of inappropriate and not-O.K. behavior in Shane.
She added: Ive seen coaches exhibit that
kind of behavior in training, but this is another
level. Its scary.
Hosszu and Tusup acknowledge that their arrangement is complicated but insist it is not unhealthy. They say they are able to separate their
A J MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
relationship as athlete and coach from that of

wife and husband.
Hosszu, 27, is scheduled to race in five individual events at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, more than Michael Phelps. She is competing
in her fourth Olympics, the same as Ryan
Lochte. She is ranked No. 1 this year in two
Olympic events, as many as Katie Ledecky.
Unlike Phelps, Lochte or Ledecky, Hosszu has
Most Sought-After Prize

In Rio Comes in a Tube
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
As tens of thousands of people arrive

in Rio de Janeiro for the Summer
Olympics this week, millions of mosquitoes, some perhaps carrying the Zika virus, await them.
But what may be the best repellent
around is also the hardest to get.
It comes in a greenish-gray tube. It is a
sticky gel, but it has a mild, pleasant
odor, which is kind of floral. It is simply
called Repelente Gel, and it is produced
by and for the Brazilian Army.
A military lab makes it, so good luck
getting your hands on it.
The occasional civilian who has managed to find it has often ended up swearing by it. I know. I am one of them. I encountered this repellent in Haiti while on
assignment for The New York Times in
2010, covering the cholera epidemic and
a presidential election.
Brazilian soldiers were a large part of
the United Nations peacekeeping force

helping to police Haiti. One afternoon, I
rode along with them on a patrol. As I got
on a truck, a smiling soldier handed me a
tube of his repellent and in English said,
For you, for the mosquitoes.
I was intrigued at what a soldier from
an Amazonian country would use. The
stuff I had always picked up at the drugstore had never seemed to be quite
enough.
So I slathered it on. No allergic reaction, good. Better yet, even hours later,
no mosquitoes at least noticeably
fewer. No buzzing in my ears. No patchwork of bites.
I strained to conserve this miracle gel
for the remaining days of that trip and
subsequent ones, despairing when it ran
out. (Hey, guys, how about another ridealong?)
I was not alone. Simon Romero, my
Continued on Page B13
never won an Olympic medal. Four years ago,

the pressure to produce her first podium finish
for her native Hungary, whose obsession with
water crests every Olympic summer, crushed
Hosszu. She finished fourth in the 400-meter individual medley, the event she had expected to
win, as well as eighth in the 200-meter individual
A Win Not Just for Fantasy Sports

Daily fantasy sports returned to New York on
Wednesday when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed into
law a bill that said it did not matter that the popular
pastime walks, talks and smells like good old-fashioned sports betting: It really is a game of skill (wink)
and merely a form of entertainment, to
boot (wink, wink).
It was hardly an upset that the governor and the State Legislature found a
way around the opinion of the state attorON FANTASY
ney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, that
SPORTS
creating imaginary teams using real
players and their statistics was a game of chance and
illegal under New York law. Instead, they opted for a
piece of the action from a bloc of voters who love
nothing better than living and dying from one football
play to another in the hopes of making a few dollars.
Governor Cuomo, who signed off on the bill in
plenty of time before the lucrative N.F.L. season opens
in September, acknowledged as much.
Daily fantasy sports have proven to be popular in
New York but until now have operated with no supervision and no protections for players, he said in a
statement. This legislation strikes the right balance
JOE
DRAPE
A New York victory for one type of

business opens the door further for
legalized gambling of all kinds.
that allows this activity to continue with oversight
from state regulators, new consumer protections and
more funding for education.
Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow was even more to
the point. Fantasy sports are more than online games
they have the potential to generate millions of dollars in revenue for New York State, he said.
So New York scored, and so did daily fantasy
players, who, in a matter of days, will be able to fill out
their lineups for the first time since March. DraftKings
and FanDuel the two companies that dominate the
business and got a lifeline that by their own admission
they desperately needed will return to one of the
industrys largest and most lucrative markets.
B10
THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2016
BASEBALL
Yankees Continue Call-Ups From a Newly Flush Farm System

By BILLY WITZ
ALLENTOWN, Pa. Just as Al

Pedrique was telling a few
reporters late Tuesday night that
he had not heard whether the Yankees were calling up catcher Gary
Sanchez, his phone rang.
It was Gary Denbo, the Yankees vice president for player development.
Pedrique, the manager at Class
AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, excused himself and stepped into
the hallway outside his windowless office. A moment later, he returned.
Hes going to the big leagues,
Pedrique said of Sanchez.
Coming after the Yankees
trades of Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Carlos Beltran and
Ivan
Nova
for
prospects,
Sanchezs call-up is the latest example of a franchise in flux, one
whose gaze is on the future.
Sanchez was the Yankees designated hitter in their 9-5 victory
over the Mets on Wednesday
night, going 1 for 4 and scoring a
run as the Subway Series shifted
to Yankee Stadium. Pitching was
Chad Green, a right-hander who
has replaced Nova in the rotation.
He allowed three runs and eight
hits in three and two-thirds innings.
Outfielder Ben Gamel was recalled from Scranton/WilkesBarre on Monday and then optioned back. Luis Severino, who
had replaced Chapman in the
bullpen a week earlier, pitched
four and a third innings in relief to
earn the win on Wednesday, allowing one unearned run and one
hit while striking out five.
Outfielders Aaron Judge and
Tyler Austin could be on their way
soon, Yankees General Manager
Brian Cashman said. Others will
surely be promoted when rosters
expand in September.
The only way to find out is to
throw the kids to the fire and let
them play and see what they can
do at that level, Pedrique said.
The Yankees farm system, barren for a decade, has suddenly become intriguing with an influx of
talent that has given them seven
players on Baseball Americas
midseason list of the games top
100 prospects. One of them, outfielder Clint Frazier, arrived here
in the trade that sent Miller to the
Cleveland Indians, as did reliever
Ben Heller, who could be up with
the Yankees this season.
Frazier is distinguishable by his
bushy, shoulder-length red hair
he had three inches cut from it before joining the Yankees as well
as his bat speed and his hardcharging style of play.
Im not going to be afraid to
run into a wall to catch a ball, Frazier said. Im going to dive for a
ball; Im going to try to make a
play at all times. Same at the plate.
Im swinging hard, and Im trying
to do damage every single time. I
play like its the last time Im going
to be on that field.
That will probably make Frazier, 21, a fan favorite at Yankee
Stadium, but those days may not
be imminent. Tuesdays game was
only his sixth at the Class AAA level, and it gave fans a hint of the
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTIAGO MEJIA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Scranton/Wilkes-Barres Clint Frazier before Tuesdays game, only his sixth in Class AAA. The Yankees acquired Frazier, a top prospect, in the Andrew Miller trade.
work that needs to be done: Frazier struck out in three of his four
at-bats.
One player who appears ready
is Sanchez, 23. He was called up in
mid-September last year for the
experience of being with major
leaguers in a pennant race, getting two at-bats with the Yankees
on the final weekend of the season. He flopped in spring training
with a chance to win the Yankees
backup catcher job, going 2 for 21,
and faced with a formidable task,
he was not able to do much in May,
going 0 for 4 against the Chicago
White Sox ace, Chris Sale, before
being sent down the next day.
Sanchez, who is 6 feet 2 inches
and weighs 230 pounds, was hitting .282 for Scranton/WilkesBarre with 10 home runs and 50
R.B.I.
Im hoping that this time Ill
get more playing time, Sanchez,
who is from the Dominican Republic, said in Spanish, his comments translated by Pedrique.
Im coming in with the attitude
that Ill be ready no matter what.
If Im in the lineup, Im going to do
my best. If not, Ill stay ready in
case they need me late in the
game. But Im hoping that this will
be the chance to prove that Im
ready to play in the big leagues.
Sanchez has had some proving
to do. His bat and his arm have
never been questioned. But since
Aaron Judge, left, watched his fellow outfielder Tyler Austin in

batting practice. Both could soon be joining the Yankees.
being given a $3 million signing
bonus as a 16-year-old the Yankees largest at the time for a position player Sanchez has twice
been suspended by the organization. The Yankees have paired him
with veteran catchers in the last
two seasons, Eddy Rodriguez and
Austin Romine, to foster a better
work ethic on the field and better
behavior off it.
He needed to improve his
blocking, which hes done, Rodriguez said. He needed to improve
his receiving, which hes done. His
pitch calling hes way more
knowledgeable about hitters than

hes given credit. Hes got a way of
going about it thats a little bit different than other guys, but it doesnt mean hes wrong. Theres a
couple different ways to skin a
cat.
Rodriguez said Sanchez was
less likely to rely on scouting reports than on reading hitters.
The fact is, once he catches a
game against a team, hes dialed
in, Rodriguez said. It will hurt
him in that first game because
youve got to be locked in, but
thats going to come with time.
At Trade Deadline,
Players Sort Out
Reality vs. Rumors
By JAMES WAGNER
Brandon Nimmo, a Mets outfield prospect, did his best not to

check his cellphone as Mondays
nonwaiver trading deadline drew
near, but the stream of updates
was unavoidable.
Although he has a Twitter account, he did not have the application on his cellphone set up to alert
him of trade news, he said. Still,
Nimmo received three text messages from friends around noon
on Monday congratulating him on
his trade to the Cincinnati Reds.
One text message read, Youre
going to be missed. Even Nimmos agent, Mark Pieper, called
around 2 p.m. asking whether he
knew if a trade had been completed.
I tried to keep my phone off to
the side and checked it every now
and then to see if I got a phone call
or if someone was going to come
tell me something, Nimmo said.
Nimmo was supposed to have
been a piece of the Reds return for
the veteran outfielder Jay Bruce
until a medical problem with an
unspecified player involved in the
trade changed the deal. The Mets
acquired Bruce, but for Dilson
Herrera, an infield prospect, and
Max Wotell, a minor league
pitcher.
Nimmo remained with the Mets
and was sent to Class AAA Las Vegas on Tuesday after Bruce had
arrived. However, after Wednesdays game, the Mets announced
that Nimmo would be called up
again on Thursday to take the
place of Yoenis Cespedes, who
was headed to the disabled list
with a quadriceps strain that has

been hindering him.
Getting Bruce is awesome for
our team, Nimmo, 23, said. However I can help the team, thats
what I want to do. And right now,
thats me going down and working
on my craft at Triple-A. Ill continue to get better. Im still young and
still have a lot to work on.
Travis dArnaud, the Mets
starting catcher, was in a similar
situation. He was not part of an
agreed-upon deal that changed;
he was simply dangled in the
Mets trade offer for Jonathan Lucroy, the Milwaukee Brewers AllStar catcher, who ended up with
the Texas Rangers after vetoing a
trade to the Cleveland Indians.
The developments at the deadline have raised a question: How
do Nimmo and dArnaud move on
from such public moments, when
ELSA/GETTY IMAGES
Brandon Nimmo last month after his first major league home
run. Nimmos name was included in trade rumors on Monday.
their lives nearly changed?
I thought this was home for me
the whole time, dArnaud said.
This was out of my control, so I
didnt really think about it too
much. But I guess Im glad to still
be here. Im looking forward to
still being here.
In the age of social media, roster transactions occur in real time.
Some of Nimmos friends, family
members and teammates knew of

his near trade to Cincinnati even
before he did. DArnaud, who was
traded twice while he was in the
minor leagues, said that he had
tried to stay away from the news,
too, but that it was inescapable.
It was something that was out
of my control, he said. I figured if
I thought about it, it would probably tear me up a little bit.
Sanchez is not the only player

whose rise to New York has not
had a steady trajectory.
Judge, 24, who returned to the
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
lineup
Tuesday after missing nearly four
weeks with a knee sprain, has adjusted his setup, increasing his leg
kick and slightly lowering his
hands, as a means of improving
his timing and balance. That is a
delicate step for a hitter of his size
(6-7, 280 pounds).
He struggled in spring training
his one hit in 19 at-bats was a
home run and went through an
0-for-24 stretch earlier in the season. But things began to click for
him in June, when he hit nine
home runs in a 15-game stretch.
On Tuesday, he ripped a fastball
that tailed up and in the type of
pitch that could easily tie up a
long-armed hitter for a double.
The leg kick helps him stay
back, Pedrique said. Big guys
have a tendency to get out front.
Beltrans exit has created an opportunity for Judge in right field,
and first baseman Mark Teixeiras
seemingly imminent departure as
a free agent and Alex Rodriguezs
struggles have opened a spot for a
right-handed hitter who can play
first base.
Austin, 24, was the Yankees minor leaguer of the year in 2012, but
he was demoted to Class AA Tren-
ton last year and was dropped

from the 40-man roster in September. He began this season in Trenton, earned a promotion in June
and was hitting .311 with 13 home
runs, 45 R.B.I. and a 1.050 on-base
plus slugging percentage in 50
games for the RailRiders.
He called last season a crossroads.
There was a lot of soul-searching about what kind of player I
was going to be when I got sent
down to Double-A, Austin said.
It made me grow up, and it made
me a better person and a better
baseball player, so Im thankful
for it.
When Austin returned to the
team hotel after his game Monday
night, he gathered around a television with his teammates Mason
Williams and Cito Culver, watching the Yankees and the Mets go
into extra innings.
Rodriguez was in the on-deck
circle to pinch-hit, but he was
called back to the dugout. In his
place, Gamel, who had been with
the RailRiders earlier that day,
was sent up to bunt.
Its funny, Austin said. We
see that, and were, Oh, yeah! Its
fun to be part of something like
that.
For Austin and perhaps others,
the thrill will soon not be vicarious.
Knowledge of deals that do not

come to fruition can create some
awkwardness for team officials.
Sandy Alderson, the Mets general manager, said he had not spoken with either nearly traded
player since the deadline. Nimmo
had left for Las Vegas before Alderson could see him, and Alderson said he had heard that
dArnaud had handled the situation gracefully.
The deadline itself clears
things up, Alderson said.
As dArnauds name surfaced in
trade rumors for a week leading
up to the deadline, it was inevitable that Alderson would run into
him at Citi Field, Alderson said.
In the clubhouse, Im passing
him in the hallways, and hes looking one way, and Im looking the
other for five or six days, Alderson said with a chuckle.
Thats the nature of things.
Trades are a fact of life in baseball. Seven of the nine Mets in
Wednesdays starting lineup had
been traded at one point in their
careers. Wilmer Flores was
nearly dealt at last years deadline
to the Brewers, along with pitcher
Zack Wheeler, but the deal fell
through because of medical con-
cerns about the player the Mets

wanted, Carlos Gomez.
After he had heard about the
trade, Flores was seen crying on
the field during the game. But he
remained with the Mets, played a
key role during the teams lateseason surge into the playoffs, and
has been one of the teams best hitters this season.
His was a little different situation, said dArnaud, 27, who
joined the Mets, along with Noah
Syndergaard, in a trade with the
Toronto Blue Jays in 2012. But to
be able to experience that with
him gave me some experience to
whats going on right now.
Nimmo and dArnaud had other
help inside the clubhouse. Nimmo
said that David Wright, the teams
injured captain, had pulled him
aside on Monday afternoon to offer his support.
The Mets are the only organization that Nimmo has known. He
was their first-round draft pick in
2011 and made his major league
debut in June.
He was pointing out the pros to
both sides, Nimmo said of his
conversation with Wright. He
was just trying to be a team guy
and a leader and a mentor and
make sure that I was O.K.
DArnaud, who is hitting .245,
said he was confident that he
could improve on his performance
over the rest of this season. He
said that Wright, in addition to his
veteran
teammates
Curtis
Granderson and Jerry Blevins
both of whom have been traded in
their careers had spoken to
him.
Speaking of dArnaud, Blevins
said: Hes got a good head on his
shoulders, and I just reminded
him that there are certain things
in this game that you can control
and certain things you cant. So
just remember to focus on the
things you can control. You can
tell he battled through it, and Im
glad hes still here.
Cespedes Heads to D.L. With a Lingering Quadriceps Injury

By JAMES WAGNER
After weeks of trying to play

through a right quadriceps injury, Yoenis Cespedes is headed
for the 15-day disabled list.
Until it heals completely, I
wont be at 100 percent, Cespedes said Wednesday after the
Mets 9-5 loss to the Yankees at
Yankee Stadium.
When Cespedes first sustained the injury on July 8, he
rested for nine days that overlapped with the All-Star break.
Although the injury was only
about 90 percent healed, he returned on July 17, and the Mets

moved him from center field to
left to limit his running.
Cespedes did not think he
would need to be placed on the
disabled list, and the Mets
struggling offense needed his
bat. But the injury flared up over
the weekend. Cespedes missed
three games, and it still affected
him when he was running.
Cespedes, the teams best hitter, returned to the starting lineup on Wednesday as the desig-
nated hitter, and the Mets had

hoped to keep him there until
early next week, when they will
play in American League ballparks. Cespedes, however, said
he felt discomfort in his leg on a
swing in his final at-bat on
Wednesday.
Manager Terry Collins noticed, and General Manager
Sandy Alderson spoke to Cespedes after the game. Brandon
Nimmo was expected to be
called up Thursday to take Cespedess spot on the roster.
Cespedes, an avid golfer,

played golf with the former major leaguer Kevin Millar on
Wednesday morning, but team
officials said they had no problem with it because running is
not involved in golf.
Its a little frustrating, Cespedes said in Spanish. Ive
missed games and lost my timing trying to get back on the field
to help the team, and I cant.
Cespedes has gone 10 for 44
since he first sustained the injury.
0N
B11
S C O R E B OA R D
BASEBALL
TENNIS
A.L. STANDINGS
East
ATLANTA OPEN
Pct
GB
Baltimore
61
45 .575
Toronto
61
47 .565
Boston
58
47 .552
2{
7{
Yankees
54
53 .505
Tampa Bay
43
63 .406
Central
18
Pct
GB
Cleveland
60
45 .571
Detroit
59
48 .551
Kansas City
51
56 .477
10
Chicago
51
56 .477
10
Minnesota
43
64 .402
West
Pct
18
GB
Texas
62
46 .574
Houston
56
51 .523
5{
Seattle
53
52 .505
7{
Los Angeles
48
58 .453
13
Oakland
47
59 .443
14
WEDNESDAY
Yankees 9, Mets 5
Baltimore 3, Texas 2
Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1
Tampa Bay 12, Kansas City 0
Minnesota 13, Cleveland 5
Toronto 3, Houston 1
Oakland at L.A. Angels
Boston at Seattle
THURSDAY
BRAD PENNER/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS
Mark Teixeira shouted at Mets starter Steven Matz after being hit on the leg with a pitch during the fifth inning on Wednesday night.
Teixeira Sends One Long, Then Flies Off the Handle

By BILLY WITZ
With a parade of veterans leaving, a conga line of prospects arriving and Alex Rodriguez anchored
to the bench, it is
YANKEES
9
a head-spinning
time
in
the
METS
5
Bronx.
Amid that uncertainty, Mark Teixeira took it upon himself on
Wednesday to serve a reminder of
Yankee traditions: beating opponents with a swing of the bat while
engaging in a certain amount of
old-school payback.
Teixeira brought those elements
to the Yankees 9-5 win over the
Mets, belting a tiebreaking, threerun homer in the second inning and
adding some bite to the atmosphere at a sold-out Yankee Stadium
as a central figure in two incidents
between the teams.
In the fifth inning, Teixeira reacted angrily to being hit by Steven
Matz, the Mets starting pitcher,
who clipped him in the leg on the
first pitch he saw after hitting the
home run. In the seventh, after Teixeira drew a walk, Mets reliever
Hansel Robles confronted him
while he was at second base and accused him of stealing signs.
It provided a little excitement,
Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said.
It was a busy night from start to
finish for Teixeira, who raced home
James Wagner contributed reporting.
from first base in the bottom of the

first on a knee that will need
surgery, and later contorted his
body at first in a vain attempt to
catch a ball that had taken a bad
hop.
Asked to explain what had happened, Teixeira responded with a
laugh and said, Which one?
Matzs pitch to him in the fifth inning sent Teixeira pinwheeling to
the ground, but he sprang to his feet
and shouted at Matz as Mets
catcher Rene Rivera and Yankees
third baseman Chase Headley, who
was in the on-deck circle, rushed
out to try to quell the confrontation.
Teixeira removed his shin guard
and threw it in the air in disgust as
both dugouts and bullpens emptied,
but the incident did not escalate.
I know Matz is a good kid, but
when you hit a home run and the
next pitch is not even close to the
plate and hits you, it just looks bad,
said Teixeira, who after being hit
slid hard into second base in a futile
effort to break up a double play. So
I just told him I didnt appreciate it.
If it was on purpose, it was uncalled
for. If it wasnt, it just looked really
bad.
For his part, Matz said the pitch
had gotten away from him. That
was the only time he allowed a base
runner after the home run, and he
retired 12 of the final 13 batters he
faced. He acknowledged that the
pitch had not looked good.
Matz said that Teixeiras reaction
did catch me off guard.

When Teixeira walked and
reached second in the seventh, Rivera went to the mound twice to
confer with Robles, who then
turned and accused Teixeira of trying to steal signs.
That was funny, Teixeira said.
After three or four pitches, he was
staring at me and thinks I have his
signs. So I just started having fun
with him. I didnt have his signs. I
was breathing.
He added: Ive never gotten inside someones head just standing
there. Its a talent, I guess. Listen, if
you think I have your signs, just
change them. Dont try to challenge
me to a duel.
Robles, who gave up three hits
and two walks in two-thirds of an
inning, said in Spanish: Baseball
isnt played like that. Baseball has
to be played the way its supposed
to, like men.
Teixeira, the Yankees first baseman, has endured a season filled
with injury and disappointment as
his eight-year, $180 million contract
comes to an end. Games like
Wednesdays when he reached
base four times, scored three runs
and was a central figure in an offensive outburst have been exceedingly rare.
The game also marked a renaissance moment for pitcher Luis Severino, whose scintillating major
league debut over the final two
months of last season gave way to a
demotion to the minor leagues this

May. Severino looked much like he
did a year ago, allowing one hit a
bunt single by Neil Walker and
striking out five in four and a third
innings. He was rewarded with his
first win of the season.
Severino relieved Chad Green in
the fourth and struck out Yoenis
Cespedes with two runners aboard
to end the inning. A walk, a bunt
and an error loaded the bases in the
seventh, and Severino struck out
Michael Conforto after allowing
only one run, keeping the lead at
6-4.
It was not the only contribution
from the Yankees suddenly youthladen roster. Rob Refsnyder, playing in right field, singled twice and
drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
Gary Sanchez, called up Tuesday
night, had his first major-league
hit.
INSIDE PITCH
Mets first baseman LUCAS DUDA
is unlikely to return during the regular season after the team said doctors had advised Duda not to engage in any baseball activities for
30 days as he tries to recover from a
stress fracture in his back. . . . Mets
pitcher ZACK WHEELER, who is recovering from Tommy John
surgery, is expected to pitch in minor league games beginning Saturday. . . . JACOB LINDGREN, a minorleague reliever in the Yankees system, will have Tommy John
surgery.
A Win That Goes Beyond Daily Fantasy Sports

From First Sports Page
With the future of fantasy
sports affirmed in New York, we
expect our legislative momentum
will only accelerate as more states
address the issue, FanDuels chief
executive, Nigel Eccles, said.
Fantasy sports fans: Take comfort; FanDuels future is bright.
The biggest winner, however, is
anyone who has ever bet on
sports games in office pools or
with offshore sites or neighborhood bookies and wants to do it
legally. That is now a step closer.
The fight over daily fantasy
sports put betting on games into
the national conversation. With
Americans betting $150 billion
annually, illegally, legalization
offers new revenue for states
facing huge budget deficits.
D.F.S. is the gift that keeps on
giving its mainstreamed our
business, Sara Rayme, a vice
president with the American
Gaming Association, said at a
recent gambling symposium.

In fact, DraftKings and FanDuel
are in danger of becoming roadkill
as the momentum for legalized
sports betting continues to build.
Legislators in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California have
already pushed bills to legalize
sports betting in order to increase
revenue, and American professional sports leagues, once among
the fiercest opponents, are bracing for an era in which betting is
legal. N.B.A. Commissioner Adam
Silver has said that it is time for
legalized gambling and that the
league is prepared for it. The
N.H.L. just awarded its 31st franchise to Las Vegas, and the N.F.L.
is considering allowing the Oakland Raiders to move there.
Last year, at the beginning of
the N.F.L. season, DraftKings and
FanDuel blitzed sports broadcasts
with hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. Daily fantasy
sports appeared to be a virtual
cash machine. The companies
were valued at more than $1 billion each. Their investors included

Major League Baseball, the
N.B.A., and the N.F.L.; the Dallas
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and
the New England Patriots owner
Robert K. Kraft; and major media
companies like NBC.
Lobbying and legal costs, however, have shredded their bottom
lines and will continue to do so.
New York is only the eighth state
to declare daily fantasy sports
legal, and the companies are
facing expensive efforts to have
their games legalized in the big
markets of Illinois and Texas.
In addition, Schneiderman said
Wednesday that his office would
continue to pursue false advertising and consumer fraud claims for
past misconduct against DraftKings and FanDuel, both of which
are also facing scores of classaction lawsuits across the country.
The auditors for the New Yorkbased FanDuel have expressed
significant doubt about the
companys future if more states do

not decide fantasy sports betting
is legal and find ways to tax and
regulate it. DraftKings, which is
based in Boston, may be in worse
shape. This year, Rupert Murdochs 21st Century Fox revealed
in a regulatory filing that it had
marked down its $160 million
investment in DraftKings by more
than 60 percent.
Do not expect to be bombarded
with ads or seduced by the lure of
easy money when the N.F.L season kicks off. Both DraftKings and
FanDuel say they will significantly scale back their marketing.
Instead of testimonies from
young men wearing backward
baseball caps and promises of
winning shiploads of money,
look for FanDuel to introduce the
term sports rich and DraftKings
to emphasize the good clean fun of
hanging with your buddies.
You know, because daily fantasy
sports is not gambling.
Wink. Wink.
B ASEB ALL
Cubs Complete Sweep With Three-Run Rally in the Ninth

national appeal. The city that earns the right to
host the Summer Games in 2024 will be able to
propose sports of its own, which could replace
some or all of the new sports set for Tokyo.
Baseball was added to the Olympic menu in
1992, with softball following in 1996. Baseball suffered because the games best players, in the
major leagues, did not participate. The sport
was dropped after 2008. Although the worlds
top players did participate in the softball tournament, the sport left the Olympic program at the
same time.
VICTOR MATHER
The Chicago Cubs rallied for three runs in

the bottom of the ninth inning with a basesloaded walk tying the score and a wild pitch
sending home the winning run for a 5-4 victory over the visiting Miami Marlins on Wednesday, sweeping their three-game series.
Ben Zobrist drew the critical walk. With
Willson Contreras at the plate, Marlins closer
A. J. Ramos (1-1) threw a wild pitch to allow Matt
Szczur to score the winning run from third base.
Jeff Mathis hit a two-run homer, Christian
Yelich homered and drove in two runs, and Tom
Koehler tossed six strong innings to give the
Marlins a 4-1 lead heading into the bottom of the
eighth.
SPO RTS BUSIN ESS
AROUND THE MAJORS Max Scherzer struck out 11 in
O LY MPI C S
For Stewart, a Throwback Charm
Baseball Returning at 2020 Games
Tony Stewart said his cars paint scheme for

the Southern 500 on Sept. 4 would mirror that of
Bobby Allisons when he won at Darlington
Raceway in South Carolina in 1971 and 1972.
Stewart has won 49 races on Nascars top series but none at Darlington. He said he was hoping that replicating Allisons paint scheme on his
No. 14 Coca-Cola Chevrolet would change that.
This is one race that it is a crown jewel that
I havent got yet, Stewart said.
Stewarts throwback look will feature CocaColas The Real Thing tagline from the 1970s.
eight innings and had a two-run single in Washingtons 8-3 victory over host Arizona. Edwin
Jackson pitched seven scoreless innings and
had a run-scoring double, and Jabari Blash hit
his first major league home run, helping the
Padres rout the Milwaukee Brewers, 12-3, in San
Diego. Kevin Gausman outpitched Cole
Hamels, and the host Baltimore Orioles rode a
three-run first inning to a 3-2 victory over the
Texas Rangers.
All news by The Associated Press unless noted.
Nike Ends Line of Golf Equipment

Nike is dropping its golf equipment business
to focus on shoes and apparel. The company said
it would no longer make clubs, balls or bags.
Were committed to being the undisputed
leader in golf footwear and apparel, Trevor Edwards, the Nike brand president, said in a statement.
Nike said it would work with more of the
worlds best golfers. Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy
and Michelle Wie have deals with the company.
Baseball and softball will return to the

Olympics in Tokyo in 2020, but there is no guarantee that the sports will remain beyond that
year. Four other sports karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing will also be a
part of the program in Tokyo after the International Olympic Committee formally approved
the additions.
Beginning with the 2020 Games, each
Olympic host can propose adding sports with
Mets (Colon 9-6) at Yankees (Eovaldi 9-7), 7:05

Kansas City (Kennedy 6-9) at Tampa
Bay (Smyly 3-11), 12:10
Minnesota (Santiago 10-4) at Cleveland (Clevinger 0-1), 12:10
Chicago White Sox (Quintana 8-8) at
Detroit (Zimmermann 9-4), 1:10
Oakland (Hahn 2-4) at L.A. Angels
(Nolasco 4-8), 7:05
Texas (Griffin 4-1) at Baltimore
(Miley 7-8), 7:05
Toronto (Happ 14-3) at Houston
(Fiers 7-4), 8:10
Boston (Pomeranz 8-9) at Seattle
(Miranda 0-0), 10:10
FRIDAY
Cleveland at Yankees, 7:05

Mets at Detroit, 7:10
Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 7:10
Baltimore at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Texas at Houston, 8:10
Toronto at Kansas City, 8:15
Chicago Cubs at Oakland, 10:05
Boston at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10
Pct
GB
Washington
64
44 .593
Miami
57
51 .528
7
8{
Mets
55
52 .514
Philadelphia
50
59 .459 14{
Atlanta
38
69 .355 25{
Central
Pct
GB
Chicago
66
41 .617
St. Louis
57
50 .533
Pittsburgh
53
52 .505
12
Milwaukee
48
58 .453 17{
Cincinnati
43
63 .406 22{
West
Federacao Catarinense de Tenis

FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL
Singles
Quarterfinals
Timea Babos (6), Hungary, d. Jelena
Ostapenko (4), Latvia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Ana
Bogdan, Romania, d. Lyudmyla Kichenok,
Ukraine, 6-3, 6-3. Irina-Camelia Begu (2),
Romania, d. Nao Hibino (7), Japan, 6-2, 6-4.
Monica Puig (3), Puerto Rico, d. Naomi
Osaka (8), Japan, 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles
Semifinals
Timea Babos and Reka-Luca Jani
(3), Hungary, d. Montserrat Gonzalez,
Paraguay, and Ana Sofia Sanchez, Mexico,
6-2, 6-1. Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok
(1), Ukraine, d. Alize Lim, France, and
Valeriya Solovyeva, Russia, 6-0, 7-5.
PRO FOOTBALL
N.F.L. PRESEASON SCHEDULE
All Times EDT
Sunday, Aug. 7
Green Bay vs. Indianapolis at Canton,
Ohio, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Aug. 11
Jacksonville at New York Jets, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Carolina at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
New Orleans at New England, 7:30 p.m.
Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 12
Miami at New York Giants, 7 p.m.
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
Oakland at Arizona, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 13
Seattle at Kansas City, 4:30 p.m.
Indianapolis at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Los Angeles, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
San Diego at Tennessee, 8 p.m.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Wednesday
United States 2, New Zealand 0
Sweden 1, South Africa 0
Canada 2, Australia 0
Brazil 3, China 0
Germany 6, Zimbabwe 1
France 4, Colombia 0
U.S. 2, NEW ZEALAND 0

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 12
New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 00
First Half1, United States, Carli Lloyd, 9.
Second Half2, United States, Alex
Morgan, 46.
Yellow
CardsBetsy
Hassett,
New
Zealand, 18. Ali Riley, New Zealand, 30. Ria
Percival, New Zealand, 64.
Red CardsNone.
RefereeKateryna
Monzul,
Ukraine.
Assistant RefereesNatalia Rachynska,
Ukraine. Fourth OfficialMaria Carvajal,
Chile.
Pct
GB
San Francisco
61
46 .570
Los Angeles
59
48 .551
Colorado
54
53 .505
San Diego
47
61 .435 14{
M.L.B.
Arizona
43
65 .398 18{
American League
CHICAGO WHITE SOX Placed OF
Charlie Tilson on the 15-day DL. Recalled
OF J.B. Shuck from Charlotte (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS Recalled RHP
Shawn
Armstrong
from
Columbus
(IL). Optioned RHP Austin Adams to
Columbus.
DETROIT TIGERS Placed RHP Mike
Pelfrey on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
Monday. Reinstated OF J.D. Martinez and
LHP Daniel Norris from the 15-day DL
and optioned Norris to Toledo (IL).
HOUSTON ASTROS Placed RHP
Doug Fister on paternity leave. Placed
RHP Lance McCullers on the 15-day DL.
Recalled RHP Brad Peacock from Fresno
(PCL). Selected the contract of RHP
James Hoyt from Fresno.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS Optioned
RHP Brooks Pounders to Omaha (PCL).
Recalled OF Billy Burns from Omaha.
NEWYORK YANKEES Recalled C Gary
Sanchez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
Optioned OF Ben Gamel to Scranton/
Wilkes-Barre.
TEXAS RANGERS Optioned 3B Joey
Gallo and INF Hanser Alberto to Round
Rock (PCL).
TORONTO BLUE JAYS Released RHP
Blake McFarland. Optioned RHP Bo
Schultz and 2B Ryan Goins to Buffalo
(IL). Recalled RHPs Mike Bolsinger and
Danny Barnes from Buffalo.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES Placed RHP Julio
Teheran on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
Sunday.
CHICAGO CUBS Placed RHP Jason
Hammel on the bereavement list. Recalled
RHP Jason Grimm from Iowa (PCL).
LOS ANGELES DODGERS Optioned
RHP Josh Fields to Oklahoma City
(PCL). Placed LHP Rich Hill on the 15day DL, retroactive to July 18. Recalled
RHP Brock Stewart, LHP Julio Urias and
RHP Josh Fields from Oklahoma City.
Reinstated RHP Josh Ravin from the
restricted list and optioned to Oklahoma
City. Transferred LHP Clayton Kershaw to
the 60-day DL. Extended their affiliation
agreements with Oklahoma City, Tulsa
(TL) and Great Lakes (MWL) through the
2018 season.
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES Placed RHP
Aaron Nola in the 15-day DL.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Placed LHP
Tyler Lyons on the 15-day DL, retroactive
to Sunday. Recalled LHP Dean Kiekhefer
from Memphis (PCL).
WEDNESDAY
Yankees 9, Mets 5
Chicago Cubs 5, Miami 4
San Diego 12, Milwaukee 3
Washington 8, Arizona 3
Philadelphia 5, San Francisco 4, 12 inn.
Atlanta 8, Pittsburgh 4
St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4
Colorado 12, L.A. Dodgers 2
THURSDAY
Mets (Colon 9-6) at Yankees (Eovaldi 9-7), 7:05

St. Louis (Leake 8-8) at Cincinnati
(Finnegan 6-8), 12:35
San Francisco (Moore 7-7) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 8-3), 1:05
Pittsburgh (Vogelsong 1-1) at Atlanta
(Jenkins 1-2), 7:10
L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 9-7) at Colorado (Chatwood 10-6), 8:40
FRIDAY
Mets at Detroit, 7:10

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05
San Francisco at Washington, 7:05
Atlanta at St. Louis, 8:15
Miami at Colorado, 8:40
Milwaukee at Arizona, 9:40
Chicago Cubs at Oakland, 10:05
Boston at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
Philadelphia at San Diego, 10:40
YANKEES 9, METS 5
New York (N)
Granderson cf
Walker 2b
Cespedes dh
Bruce rf
Loney 1b
Conforto lf
Flores ss
Johnson 3b
Rivera c
Totals
New York (A)
Ellsbury cf
Refsnyder rf
Teixeira 1b
Headley 3b
Castro 2b
Gregorius ss
Romine c
Sanchez dh
Hicks lf
Totals
New York (N)
New York (A)
ab
2
5
5
4
4
3
4
4
4
35
ab
5
4
1
3
4
3
4
4
4
32
210
330
r h bi bb so avg.
2 1 1 3 0 .235
2 4 1 0 0 .263
0 1 0 0 2 .292
0 0 0 1 1 .000
0 2 2 0 0 .289
0 0 0 1 2 .225
0 0 0 0 2 .253
1 1 0 0 0 .284
0 1 1 0 1 .225
5 10 5 5 8
r h bi bb so avg.
1 1 0 0 3 .266
2 2 1 0 1 .257
3 1 3 2 0 .198
1 1 2 1 0 .253
0 1 1 0 2 .255
0 1 2 1 0 .290
0 0 0 0 0 .250
1 1 0 0 2 .125
1 1 0 0 0 .188
9 9 9 4 8
000 1015 10 1
000 30x9 9 2
EFlores (8), Ellsbury (3), Headley (7).

LOBNew York (N) 8, New York (A) 5.
2BJohnson (5), Headley (11), Gregorius
(22), Hicks (11). HRGranderson (17), off
Green; Walker (18), off Clippard; Teixeira
(10), off Matz. RBIsGranderson (30),
Walker (47), Loney 2 (23), Rivera (18),
Refsnyder (11), Teixeira 3 (27), Headley 2
(36), Castro (42), Gregorius 2 (48). SF
Refsnyder. DPNew York; New York
New York (N) ip h r er bb so np era
Matz L8-8
6 6 6 6 1 6 92 3.63
/ 3 3 3 2 1 28 2.96
Robles
Edgin
0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0.00
Goeddel
1/ 0 0 0 0 1 19 3.43
New York (A) ip h r er bb so np era
Green
3/ 8 3 3 4 2 86 4.94
Severino W1-6 4/ 1 1 0 1 5 60 6.02
Clippard
1 1 1 1 0 1 16 4.50
T3:02. A48,339 (49,642).
N.L. TEAM PITCHING

AUTO RACIN G
BRASIL CUP
OLYMPICS
N.L. STANDINGS
East
At Atlantic Station
ATLANTA
Singles
Second Round
Reilly Opelka, United States, d. Kevin
Anderson (3), South Africa, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5.
Donald Young (7), United States, d. Tim
Smyczek, United States, 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3.
John Isner (1), United States, d. Adrian
Mannarino, France, 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles
First Round
Andres Molteni and Horacio Zeballos,
Argentina, d. Robert Lindstedt, Sweden,
and Mate Pavic (2), Croatia, 6-3, 6-4. Johan
Brunstrom and Andreas Siljestrom,
Sweden, d. Dean O'Brien and Ruan
Roelofse, South Africa, 4-6, 6-3, 10-4. Purav
Raja and Divij Sharan, India, d. Jonathan
Erlich, Israel, and Mariusz Fyrstenberg (4),
Poland, 6-3, 7-6 (5). Jonathan Marray,
Britain, and Adil Shamasdin, Canada,
d. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Aisam-ul-Haq
Qureshi (1), Pakistan, 6-3, 6-1. Nicholas
Monroe, United States, and Artem Sitak,
New Zealand, d. Daniel Evans and Ken
Skupski, Britain, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 10-6.
ERA H
Chicago Cubs 3.20 748
Washington . 3.24 828
N.Y. Mets . . 3.35 887
L.A. Dodgers 3.54 787
San Francisco.3.79 895
Miami . . . . . 3.90 877
St. Louis . . . 3.93 907
Milwaukee . . 4.19 943
Pittsburgh . . 4.27 955
Philadelphia . 4.34 963
Atlanta . . . . 4.39 923
San Diego. . 4.51 945
Colorado . . . 4.76 985
Arizona . . . . 5.04 1037
Cincinnati . . 5.16 963
ER
340
350
351
377
401
413
415
432
445
460
467
479
495
537
540
BB SO Sh Sv
330 935 9 21
307 999 7 28
273 905 9 38
291 1003 9 31
275 830 6 30
374 925 7 37
296 816 6 22
363 774 4 33
359 776 4 35
294 883 11 30
367 806 7 21
393 858 6 23
335 763 5 29
394 862 5 23
434 789 3 18
M.L.B. CALENDAR
Aug. 16-18 Owners' meetings, Houston.
Sept. 1 Active rosters expand to 40
players.
October TBA World Series starts, city
of AL champion.
TRANSACTIONS
N.B.A.
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS Re-signed G/F
James Jones.
N.F.L.
CINCINNATI BENGALS Placed WR Ryan
Spadola on injured reserve. Removed S
Don Carey from the active/non-football
injury list. Signed CB Corey Tindal.
MIAMI DOLPHINS Signed LB Danny
Lansanah. Waived-injured WR Tylet Murphy.
NEW YORK JETS Waived-injured DB
Kendall James. Signed RB Terry Williams.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS Waived
QB Dan LeFevour. Signed OL Caylin
Hauptmann.
WASHINGTON REDSKINS Signed OT
Isaiah Williams.
SOCCER
M.L.S. STANDINGS
EAST
W L
New York City FC 10 7
Toronto FC
9 7
Red Bulls
9 9
Philadelphia
8 8
Montreal
7 5
New England
6 8
Orlando City
5 5
D.C. United
5 8
Columbus
3 8
Chicago
4 10
T Pts GF GA
6 36 40 40
6 33 29 23
5 32 38 30
6 30 36 35
9 30 36 31
8 26 28 36
11 26 35 36
8 23 20 26
10 19 26 35
6 18 19 27
WEST
W L
T Pts GF GA
FC Dallas
13 6
5 44 37 31
Colorado
10 3
8 38 24 19
Los Angeles
9 3
9 36 35 20
Kansas City
10 10
4 34 28 25
Real Salt Lake 9 7
7 34 32 33
Vancouver
8 9
6 30 33 37
Portland
7 8
8 29 33 34
San Jose
6 6
9 27 23 24
Seattle
6 12
3 21 21 28
Houston
4 9
8 20 24 27
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
for tie.
Wednesday's Game
Toronto FC 1, Real Salt Lake 0
Friday's Game
New York City FC at San Jose, 11 p.m.
B12
A Swimmer-Coach Couple Turns Heads on the Pool Deck

medley and ninth in the 200-meter
butterfly.
In London, I was so scared of
whats going to happen if I lose,
Hosszu said. It was awful, really.
I just felt like: This is my time; I
need to show it. Its now or never. I
put this pressure on myself.
The Iron Lady

After the London Games, she
retreated to Hungary before returning briefly to the University of
Southern California, where she
had trained in the leadup to the
Olympics. Over the next several
months, she buried her old self
and hatched the competitor who
became known as the Iron Lady.
With input from the United Statesborn Tusup, Hosszu increased the
degree of difficulty of her competitive programs.
Her reasoning was that the
more events she swam in a day,
the less pressure she would put on
herself to be the best in any of
them. Tusups logic was that
Hosszu, a newly minted professional, could double or triple her
earning power by stacking her
competitive program. His idea,
which defied convention, was to
train less and race more.
Three months after the London
Olympics, Hosszu unveiled her
eight-event program at a two-day
World Cup meet, held in a 25-meter course in Beijing. She entered
the 100-, 200- and 400-meter individual medleys; the 200 backstroke; the 200 butterfly; and the
200, 400 and 800 freestyles. She
graced the podium five times,
prompting members of the Chinese news media to ask her if she
were made of iron.
The Iron Lady became a
headline, Hosszus nickname and,
in time, her alter ego.
When the diffident Hosszu dons
her swimsuit and stuffs her
schoolteachers hair bun into a latex racing cap, she turns into a superhero with reserves of stamina
and confidence. The swimmer
who felt overwhelmed by the
pressure to succeed in London has
since become the first athlete to
surpass $1 million in Word Cup series prize money for individual
races and overall finishes and averaged more than 100 races a year.
She has accomplished all of this
with her husband overseeing all
the aspects of her preparation, to
the unease of some in the tightknit
swimming community. Tusup is
more
temperamental
than
Hosszu, and his eruptions on the
pool deck have elicited stares,
complaints and calls for his removal.
I always say if you find a coach
who can make you a step or two
better, or if what were doing is not
working and you think theres
something you need to change,
you need to tell me because then
Ill step back, that coach will step
in, and well be happy, Tusup said,
adding, She has that offer to this
day.
A world-champion swimmer
going into the Olympics with a
spouse as a coach is rare. At the
1996 Atlanta Games, Michelle
Smith of Ireland won three gold
medals while coached by her husband, a former discus thrower.
But she had ascended to the top of
international competition at a relatively late age and after a mediocre career. Two years later, she
was barred from swimming when
it was determined she had manipulated a drug test by spiking her
urine sample with alcohol.
Hosszu was already a world
champion when Tusup, a nationalcaliber backstroker at his peak,
took over her training. Under his
tutelage she has become, in her
words, a 24-hour athlete.
Stronger Together
Tusup and Hosszu are like pool
water and chlorine: You are not
likely to find one without the other.
Over a 15-hour period in late November in Budapest, the only time
they were apart was to change
clothes or use the bathroom. They
never exchanged a cross word,
and they never appeared to wilt,
perhaps because of the four
espresso shots over ice that serve
as their daily pick-me-up.
Hosszu described the spousecoach act as definitely difficult
but also rewarding.
Hes pretty hard as a coach,
she said, but at home hes supersweet and loving and really funny.
So we can laugh a lot.
They met as freshmen at U.S.C.,
where Tusup majored in human
performance and competed for
the mens swim team. Hosszu was
a psychology major who struggled with English when she arrived but had been a womens
swim team captain by the time
she left, degree in hand.
Asked what attracted them to
each other, Hosszu said with a
laugh: Were weird; were different; were not normal. Were ourselves.
Tusup, 28, has a weekend
bodybuilders physique and several tattoos, including one of his
wifes world-record time. His
manner can be brusque. His emotions are on a tripwire, causing
TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Shane Tusup with Katinka

Hosszu before a competition,
above, and after a race, left.
Hosszu, known as the Iron
Lady, will compete in five
individual events in Rio.
A J MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
some people to keep their distance.

Hosszu described him as impatient and said that when he made
refinements in her strokes, especially her backstroke, he expects
me to get it perfect right away.
She added, Thats why Ive improved so much.
Adopting a faster stroke tempo,
Hosszu has dropped her backstroke times significantly. In 2012,
she was not among the top-ranked
swimmers in the 100 or the 200.
Four years later, she is an Olympic
medal contender in both events.
Shane helped me find my technique, Hosszu said, adding: He
told me Im really so good at backstroke. At the time I didnt think
it.
Until recently, her self-belief
lagged behind her talent. She has
a self-deprecating nature and a
personality wired to connect with
others. Her long day in November
ended with a book signing in a Budapest mall that ran well over
schedule because she spent three,
four and, in a few cases, five minutes in conversation with the people in line, some of whom had
waited two hours to meet her.
When Hosszu and Tusup married in 2013, it was as if their
strengths became one.
Hosszu had a herculean work
ethic but no grandiose goals.
Tusup is a big thinker who has
schooled Hosszu in the A B Cs of
the American dream: Ambition,
Branding, Confidence.
Since I started working with
Shane, I have a lot more confidence, Hosszu said. Its crazy to
think I still need Shane telling me:
Yes, you are great. Yes, you can
do that.
Dreaming Bigger
Hosszu is trying to pass on what
she has learned from Tusup to her
fellow Hungarians. During that
November visit, Hosszu competed in every womens event at
the Hungarian nationals. Behind
the scenes, she was pushing for
improved training conditions,
traveling opportunities and support staff for other national team
members in a sport that has sup-
plied Hungary with 66 Olympic

medals, its third-highest total, behind fencing and canoeing.
The disagreement bubbled to
the surface, making headlines in
Hungary three months later when
Hosszu rejected the federations
training stipend, which amounted
to roughly $40,000. Hosszu said
she did not need the money and
would rather see it funneled to her
compatriots struggling to cover
their costs.
The fraying of Hosszus bonds
with her national federation
strengthened her alliance with
Tusup, who has passed his tendency for derring-do on to his wife.
Dorina Szekeres, a 2012 Hungarian Olympian who is employed
by the couples management
agency, sat in the bleachers
watching Hosszu train in Budapest as Tusup paced up and down
the pool deck, observing her
strokes and offering refinements
in her technique. Szekeres, who
swam at Indiana University, said
swimmers from the United States
had a different mind-set from the
Hungarians: The Americans are
encouraged to chase rainbows
while in Hungary, where expectations are carefully managed,
dreams are contained to black and
white.
We have the drive, but we didnt have the confidence, Szekeres
said. Thats what we learned in
the U.S., that anything is possible.
If youre not in an environment
telling you youre good, how will
you know how good you can be?
Katinka never saw the potential
she has. My old coach is asking me
how she is training, what shes doing in the weight room. Its no
magic. Shes getting the work
done. Shes pushing herself every
day.
Tending tidy gardens of pruned
dreams was a lament of Hosszus
father, Istvan, a professional basketball player who said he had
earned the nickname Sniper because of his long-range shooting
prowess. In a conversation over
coffee during his daughters book
signing, he said he realized toward the end of his career that he
could have achieved more if he
had set loftier goals.
The dream was not big

enough, he said in Hungarian,
with Szekeres translating.
Hosszu often posts photos of
herself posing with weights to her
social media accounts, including
one shot of her kneeling on one leg
on the bottom of a pool while executing a biceps curl with a dumbbell. Sometimes she will drive
home her point by including her
mantra, Hard work always pays
off.
She credits her embrace of
weight training, coupled with the
elimination of fast food and
sugary products from her diet, for
her leaner, more sculpted
physique in the years since London.
Each time Im pushing myself
more and more and pushing the
limits, Hosszu said.
Dave Salo, who coached Hosszu
at U.S.C. until shortly after the
2012 Olympics, said she was one of
the hardest workers he had ever
seen. The exception was in the
weight room, where he described
her as soft. Since she started
working with her husband, that
has changed.
On the Monday after the Hungarian nationals, Hosszu spent
nearly 90 minutes at a health club
going through her paces in a circuit workout alongside mothers
and retirees toiling on treadmills,
elliptical machines and stationary
bikes. Tusup and Szekeres were
also there, engrossed in their own
workouts. Wearing an oxygen-restricting device that resembled a
gas mask, Hosszu completed multiple sets of a variety of exercises,
including jumping rope, abdominal crunches while holding aloft a
weight, leg and arm presses, and
pull-ups.
Hardy, a 2012 United States
Olympian who trained with
Hosszu at U.S.C. in the leadup to
the London Games, marveled at
her transformation.
The first practice after the
London Olympics, less than three
weeks after the Olympics, she
came back, and she had been
training with Shane already, and I
saw a different Katinka, Hardy
said. More fit and more in shape.
Hardy added, She worked hard
before, but she wasnt as motivated as she is now.

Tusup was the catalyst. He saw
Hosszu as the Iron Lady before
she did.
She was insecure about the
nickname, Tusup said. She was
saying: Am I really the Iron
Lady? Am I really going to be able
to live up to that image?
Always Pushing
If Hosszu entertained doubt,
Tusup envisioned dollar signs.
There is money to be made for
professional swimmers in the
World Cup series of meets in Europe and Asia and the Grand Prix
series in the United States. The
events offer cash prizes for the top
three finishers in each event and
bonuses, totaling more than
$100,000, to the top finishers over
all. Tusup saw an opportunity for
them to travel the world, as they
desired,
while
maximizing
Hosszus earning potential.
She has demonstrated that it is
possible to race ones way to fitness rather than train months on
end between meets. Salo said he
was happy to see a leaner and
meaner Hosszu swimming the
way people always thought she
was capable.
Still, he worries.
I think the biggest issue with
her is her husband, he said. I
think you have to look at her motivation. Is it fear or confidence that
is driving her?
At Decembers Duel in the Pool,
a two-day meet in Indianapolis between swimmers from the United
States and Europe, the American
Josh Prenot posted to his Twitter
account an eight-second video of
Tusup throwing an object to the
ground and kicking the banner
board that ran the length of the
pool after Hosszus loss to Missy
Franklin in the 200 freestyle.
In Arizona in April, at a Grand
Prix meet held by her swimwear
sponsor, Arena, Hosszu had a rare
bad day at the office, finishing fifth
in the 200 individual medley and
the 200 backstroke (both won by
the American Maya DiRado,
whom she will face in Rio).
After the backstroke, Hosszu
avoided making eye contact with

Tusup, who upbraided her while
swimmers from other teams
stared. Tusup continued his critique in the warm-down area,
where two people said they overheard him suggesting to Hosszu
that she stay in the water and
drown. The night ended with
Tusup kissing Hosszu on the forehead and pulling her close in a
long embrace on the deck.
Hardy, who also raced in Arizona, said she had not talked with
Hosszu since a 2013 meet at which
Tusup told Hardy not to speak to
Hosszu.
He said I was distracting her,
Hardy, who was once a close
friend of Hosszus, said, adding:
She seems happy with the dynamic. I have empathy, but I dont
think she needs or wants anybodys assistance.
Hosszu described her relationship with Tusup as pretty complicated.
Im definitely more the one
whos laid-back, she said. Because hes so emotional and he really wants us to get the goals we
set for ourselves, thats probably
why hes able to be that way.
Hosszu added: We always try
to push each other, I think, and we
really try to Im trying to think
how to say this ignore everything else for the goals. So if we
get in a fight, we know why or try
to figure out why, so if he says
something during practice and I
know hes speaking as a coach, I
wont be offended. I probably
would be offended if he would talk
to me like that as a husband.
Tusup defended his behavior,
saying he was not a bully.
Thats what it appears a lot of
times, he said. I get a bad rep in
the U.S. because these parents in
the stands, theyre going, Hes
such a jerk; he yells at her when
she doesnt swim fast. No, the
hard part of swimming is that
theres a lot of times you just settle
for O.K., and we agreed that the
goal was never to settle for O.K.,
that were going to keep pushing,
even if we dont get it, to be great,
to be amazing, to be legendary.
Yes, Tusup is tough, Hosszus father said, but so was her first
coach, her grandfather, under
whom she swam until she was 13.
He once hurled one of his sandals
in his granddaughters direction
during a workout, Istvan Hosszu
said. He added that he would
speed through the streets to deliver her to practice on time if they
were running late so as not to become the target of her coachs
wrath.
She was his only athlete, he
said, adding, He was the grandparent, but not at the pool.
So it is with Tusup. He is the
husband, but not at the pool.
Theyre in love; its working;
why not? her father said.
As in 2012, Hosszu arrives at the
Games expecting to win a gold
medal. If that does not happen,
she will be fine, she insists.
Shane is always reminding me,
You lost the one that you thought
you could not survive without, and
youre thriving, Hosszu said, referring to the 400 individual medley in London. Why would you
ever worry about anything?
B13
0N
To His Surprise, Phelps Is Picked to Carry U.S. Flag at Opening Ceremony

By KAREN CROUSE
RIO DE JANEIRO Nathan

Adrian was stressed, but for reasons unrelated to having to defend
his Olympic 100-meter freestyle
crown.
Adrian, a captain for the United
States mens swimming team, was
assigned to speak in front of
American representatives from
other sports and make a case for
his teammate Michael Phelps to
be the United States flag-bearer
at the Rio Games opening ceremony on Friday. Phelps is the
most-decorated Olympian, with
22 medals, including 18 golds.
I thought that he deserved it,
Adrian said, and if he didnt get it,
it was going to be on my shoulders.
To Adrians great relief, and to
Phelpss apparent disbelief, that
argument carried the day. Phelps,
the first American male swimmer
to qualify for five Olympic teams,
became the second swimmer, after Gary Hall Sr. in 1976, to receive
the honor of leading the United
States delegation into the stadium
for the opening ceremony of a
Summer Games.
Hall, who was appearing in his
third Olympics, was a new father
in 1976, as is Phelps, who has a 3month-old son with his fiance,
Nicole Johnson.
Phelps was informed of the honor Tuesday night, and the announcement was made Wednesday morning.
I honestly never thought a

swimmer would get it again, said
Phelps, 31, who had other reasons
to believe that he would not be the
one to end the drought.
Along with his 22 Olympic
medals, Phelps has had two arrests on charges of driving under
the influence. The more recent
one came in September 2014 and
prompted his removal from the
United States team that competed
at last summers world championships.
Chuck Wielgus, U.S.A.s Swimming executive director, who
oversaw Phelpss removal from
the 2015 squad, said in a statement
that there was no better person
than Phelps to lead the American
team into the Olympics and that I
cant wait to see him parade in our
delegation.
After his second arrest, Phelps
spent six weeks at a treatment
center in Arizona and emerged, he
said, with a sense of self that was
not just predicated on his swimming success. He has been open
about his past struggles and the
coping mechanisms he has since
acquired.
When they first told us in the
team meeting that he was being
nominated, everybody got so excited because it feels so right to
have the most decorated Olympian of all time being our flag-bearer
and leading us, said Missy Franklin, a two-time Olympian. And
outside of the pool, having someone who has overcome so much
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Michael Phelps, historys most decorated Olympian, with 22 medals, will carry the American flag
on Friday during the Rio Games opening ceremony. He is participating in his fifth Olympics.
internally, externally, and shared
that with everyone and just shown
people what an inspiration he is.
Phelps has never walked with
the United States team in the
opening ceremony. In his last
three Olympic appearances, he
competed in the 400-meter indi-
vidual medley, which he described

as the decathlon of the sport.
The event is held in the first two
sessions of swimming, which start
the day after the opening ceremony, precluding him from spending
hours on his feet the night before.
However, Phelpss first individ-
Most Sought-After Prize

In Rio Comes in a Tube
Crowd Jeers Goalkeeper as Americans Win Opener

By JAY SCHREIBER
Just nine minutes into the

United States womens soccer
teams Olympic opener Wednesday night, Carli Lloyd headed in
an
arcing
shot
that
UNITED STATES 2
eluded the
NEW ZEALAND 0
New
Zealand
goalGroup G
keeper and
gave the United States a 1-0 lead.
It was an immediate echo from
last years World Cup final, in
which Lloyd scored in the third,
fifth and 16th minutes as part of a
four-goal onslaught that helped
produce a 5-2 victory over Japan,
as well as national acclaim and a
ticker-tape parade in Manhattan.
But on Wednesday, not much
happened after Lloyd scored. Although the Americans dominated
play, they had trouble creating
much offense, except for a nice
passing sequence that set up Alex
Morgan for the second and final
goal of the game, early in the second half.
What was most notable about
the 2-0 victory in Group G was the
vociferous jeering that the American keeper Hope Solo received
each time she handled or kicked
the ball. Solo was apparently paying the price for public comments
and Twitter posts she had made
about the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has plagued Brazil.
Earlier this year, Solo said she
might not even take part in the
Olympics because of the virus.
She ultimately decided that she
would but more recently made a
couple of Twitter posts that
seemed to take a flippant attitude
toward the problem. One post
showed a picture of Solo in what
looked like a beekeepers mask.
Another post showed an assortment of repellents spread out on a
bed.
And while Solo took a different
tone before Wednesdays game,
expressing sympathy for the people of Brazil, the modest-size
crowd in the Mineiro stadium in
Belo Horizonte let her have it anyway, yelling, Zika! when she
would kick the ball downfield.
Afterward, Solo, who has had
more than her share of controversy in her long career, tried to
shrug off the treatment she had
just received.
Theyre having fun, she said.
At least its loud in the stadium.
Id rather have that than hear a
needle drop.
Solo did not have all that much
to do in the game; New Zealand
ual event of these Games is on

Monday. He is also in the mix for a
berth in the 4x100-meter freestyle
relay on Sunday.
Before the United States trials
in June, Phelps said he doubted he
would take part in the opening
ceremony.
PEDRO VILELA/GETTY IMAGES
Carli Lloyd (10) and Allie Long of the United States after Lloyd scored just nine minutes into a
group-play game against New Zealand. Next up for the United States, on Saturday, is France.
had some corner kicks but never a
dangerous shot on net.
The majority of the American
players who took the field were familiar faces from last years World
Cup, but there were some new
players, too: midfielder Allie Long
and forward Mallory Pugh, who is
all of 18 years old.
Pugh seemed to have trouble
generating scoring threats and
early in the second half was replaced up front by another newcomer, Crystal Dunn, who is six
years older. Dunn had a more significant effect on the game, controlling the ball at times and
clearly playing with confidence.
The veteran Megan Rapinoe,
who ripped up her right knee in
December, did not play. Rapinoe is
considered the most creative
playmaker on the American team,
and her absence seemed to be felt
in those extended moments when
the United States had trouble
mounting a coherent attack.
Coach Jill Ellis is hoping to put
in Rapinoe as the United States
moves deeper into the tournament and the games become more
consequential.
Next up for the United States is
a game on Saturday against
France, a tough opponent the
Hope Solos comments

about the Zika virus
stir anger.
Americans were able to sidestep
in last years World Cup. Then
comes the teams final game of the
first round, on Aug. 9 in the Amazon city of Manaus, against Colombia.
OTHER GROUPS In Rio de Janeiros
Olympic Stadium, the Brazilian

womens team eased to a 3-0 victory over China. Headers from
Monica and Cristiane on each side
of a 59th-minute strike by Andressa
Alves
secured
the
Brazilians win.
Earlier, Sweden edged South
Africa, 1-0, in another Group E
game, but most of the seats did not

appear to be filled. Nilla Fischer
scored the only goal of that game.
In a Group F game at Arena Corinthians in So Paulo, Janine
Beckie of Canada took only 20 seconds to make a mark on her third
Summer Games, scoring the fastest goal ever at the Olympics in a
2-0 victory over Australia. It was
nine seconds faster than Oribe
Peraltas strike for Mexico in the
mens gold medal match against
Brazil four years ago in London.
Canada had to play with only 10
women after Shelina Zadorsky
was sent off in the 19th minute for
dragging down Michelle Heyman
as Heyman was headed toward
the goal.
In a later Group F match, Melanie Behringer scored twice as the
three-time bronze medalist Germany routed Zimbabwe, 6-1. (AP)
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zon, Pantanal, Angola and Haiti.

There is no plan for external
commercialization, the statement said.
Word is getting around, though,
about how good it is.
The Brazilian Health Ministry
wanted the gel, too. In December,
the ministry asked the army for it,
to give to pregnant women as part
of anti-Zika measures, but negotiations apparently stalled. The
army had expressed concern, according to news reports, that its
lab could not produce the repel-
Word is getting
around about how
good a repellent is.
lent on the scale that the health
ministry wanted.
The army and all the countrys
laboratories which we have consulted are not prepared to
produce the volume of repellent
we need immediately, the health
minister, Marcelo Castro, said in
January.
There is some hope for Olympic
visitors.
To protect the Games, Brazilian
officials have said, they have deployed more than 85,000 soldiers
and police officers to Rio de Janeiro. You never know what a
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colleague in The Timess Rio de

Janeiro bureau, swears by the
stuff, too, having used it on trips
with the military into the Amazon
jungle.
So whats the secret? And more
important, where can you get it?
Well, the Brazilian Army
prefers to keep its product for soldiers and is circumspect about
saying exactly what makes it so
effective.
The main ingredient listed is diethyltoluamide, commonly known
as DEET, which scientists say is
among the most effective chemicals against mosquitoes.
It is found in mosquito repellents available the world over, but
the armys public relations office
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how much DEET was in it (other
than to say the amount was similar to that found in commercially
available products) or whether it
contained other antimosquito ingredients. (It did say the repellent
worked on a broad spectrum of
insects.)
The office said the repellent had
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20 years and was tested in the
laboratory and the field by the
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Its a lot of standing on your

feet, six hours, seven hours on
your feet, he said. Getting older
now, so I dont know if I can handle
that.
When Phelps realized he was a
flag-bearer candidate, he sought
the advice of his longtime coach,
Bob Bowman. On a scale of 1 to 10,
he asked Bowman, how strongly
did Bowman feel that he should
lead his American teammates in
the parade? If Bowman said 8 or
above, Phelps said, there was no
question Im doing it.
And what did Bowman say?
He said 7.8, Phelps said with a
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Phelps has never been one to ignore Bowmans instructions at
major meets, but this time he
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Its a no-brainer, he said. I
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to wear bejeweled grills on his
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jacket, Lochte said with an impish grin.
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MARSHAL EXECUTION SALE

PUBLIC AUCTION
Re: Parking Violations VS Various
Judgment Debtors. I Will Sell at Public
Auction for City Marshal Jeffrey Rose
By Arthur Vigar Auctioneer DCA
#0767619 On Saturday, August 6, 2016 At
9:30AM. At KenBen Ind.,
364 Maspeth Ave, Brooklyn , New York
All R/T/I in &to theFollowing Vehicles:
01 HONDA
2HKRL18601H585969
Following Vehicles Sold With Liens
06 HYUNDAI
5NPET46C46H104864
Following Vehicles Sold As Salvage
00 HONDA
2HKRL1854YH513111
99 FORD
1FDRE1429XHB13950
CASH ONLY inspect1/2 Hr. Prior to Sale
City Marshal Jeffrey Rose
Badge #67
Phone (718) 645-2100
MARSHAL'S EXECUTION SALE

RE NYC Parking Violations bureau
vs. Various Judgement Debtors.
Arthur Vigar, Auct'r #767619 Sells
For City Marshal Howard J. Schain,
Sat 08/06/2016, 9:30am Ken Ben Inc,
364 Maspeth Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
98 NISSAN
JN1CA21A5WT301709
00 HONDA
2HGEJ6676YH532369
95 NISSAN
JN1CA21D8ST653154
07 FORD
1FAFP34N87W139593
00 DODGE
1B3ES46C1YD806413
SALVAGE
02 DODGE
1B4GP25322B531326
02 HONDA
1HGCG16532A004012
01 NISSAN
JN1CA31D01T632237
00 HONDA
2HKRL1859YH594963
04 HONDA
1HGCM56314A065408
LIEN
99 AUDI
WAUDA34B6XN094472
00 MERC BENZ 4JGAB54E5YA169630
Right, Title, & Interest In & To
Inspect Hour Prior to Sale.
For Cash Only. Howard J. Schain,
City Marshal Badge #83
Tel: (718) 330-0242
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Cities
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p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
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85/ 68 PC
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sky. The high will be 86. Monday will be
seasonable and mostly sunny, with a high
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Low 68. High pressure along the New
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seasonable temperatures.
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control, resulting in another dry day with a
good deal of sunshine. Temperatures will
be seasonable, and the humidity will
continue to be rather low.
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Metropolitan Almanac
Much of the Northeast can expect

sunshine and dry conditions today. Heavy
showers and thunderstorms will affect the
Southeast. Slow-moving downpours may
cause flash flooding in some spots. Most
areas from the lower Mississippi Valley to
Texas can expect a dry and hot day.
As a potent storm system swings across
southern Canada, severe thunderstorms
will extend from parts of the central Plains
to the upper Great Lakes. The storms
may bring damaging winds, large hail and
flash flooding to some spots.
Another round of heavy storms will
affect Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and
Utah, with possible flash flooding. There
may be a few storms in southern Nevada.
Much of the rest of the West will be dry.
In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature
Record
high 97
(2005)
90
Tomorrow
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99/ 78 S
63/ 49 S
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65/ 37 S
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72/ 54 0.06
66/ 62 0.62
80/ 60 0
66/ 57 0.41
64/ 58 0.14
66/ 55 0.79
74/ 62 0.37
88/ 57 0
70/ 55 0.18
86/ 76 0
79/ 61 0
79/ 64 0
75/ 62 0.21
100/ 67 0
69/ 63 0.42
81/ 71 0
67/ 53 0
79/ 63 0.06
72/ 57 0.08
86/ 69 0
70/ 57 0
70/ 53 0
82/ 64 0
75/ 58 0.08
Today
69/ 60 PC
92/ 78 S
75/ 59 T
70/ 55 PC
86/ 64 PC
70/ 59 T
67/ 52 Sh
65/ 50 Sh
74/ 59 T
84/ 56 T
68/ 61 T
89/ 78 PC
82/ 61 PC
81/ 63 S
71/ 55 PC
98/ 69 S
75/ 58 C
82/ 73 T
68/ 58 T
71/ 56 PC
85/ 60 PC
88/ 69 S
73/ 61 PC
71/ 56 T
88/ 68 PC
83/ 65 T
Tomorrow
69/ 58 PC
93/ 76 S
68/ 56 R
70/ 55 PC
89/ 63 S
70/ 58 T
67/ 55 Sh
65/ 50 Sh
73/ 55 PC
71/ 54 R
72/ 58 T
90/ 77 S
85/ 61 S
87/ 69 S
73/ 57 PC
95/ 66 S
79/ 63 PC
85/ 71 Sh
67/ 57 T
74/ 56 PC
65/ 54 R
84/ 66 S
74/ 62 C
72/ 56 T
80/ 61 T
89/ 59 T
North America
Acapulco
Bermuda
Edmonton
Guadalajara
Havana
Kingston
Martinique
Mexico City
Monterrey
Montreal
Nassau
Panama City
Quebec City
Santo Domingo
Toronto
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Yesterday
92/ 79 0.05
88/ 80 0.12
68/ 52 0.22
80/ 62 0
90/ 74 0.09
91/ 80 0.04
90/ 78 0.09
73/ 55 0.05
93/ 73 0
85/ 64 0
92/ 80 0.01
83/ 76 0.37
83/ 56 0
88/ 73 0
84/ 67 0
66/ 57 0
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90/ 77 T
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84/ 63 T
93/ 73 PC
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78/ 54 T
99/ 75 S
88/ 69 PC
92/ 79 PC
87/ 75 T
81/ 62 Sh
90/ 74 PC
89/ 70 S
72/ 56 S
70/ 54 W
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88/ 76 T
87/ 80 PC
76/ 53 PC
83/ 61 T
91/ 72 PC
91/ 79 PC
87/ 76 Sh
72/ 59 T
99/ 73 S
89/ 66 T
92/ 80 PC
87/ 75 T
88/ 63 C
89/ 75 T
88/ 64 T
72/ 54 S
72/ 50 PC
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Caracas
Lima
Quito
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Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
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55/ 43 0
86/ 77 0.18
67/ 60 0
69/ 52 0.03
82/ 74 0.16
73/ 70 0.09
63/ 36 0
Today
63/ 51 S
88/ 76 PC
71/ 60 PC
77/ 53 C
83/ 72 PC
77/ 66 PC
63/ 37 PC
Tomorrow
63/ 42 PC
87/ 76 PC
71/ 61 PC
78/ 53 R
83/ 73 Sh
81/ 68 S
61/ 37 S
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lows
Low
Precipitation (in inches)
YESTERDAY
TUE.
Normal
high 84
79
3 p.m.
Yesterday ............... 0.00

Record .................... 2.44
For the last 30 days
Actual ..................... 5.70
Normal .................... 4.59
For the last 365 days
Actual ................... 40.79
Normal .................. 49.90
LAST 30 DAYS
80
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low 69
70
Air pressure
Humidity
High ......... 30.21 11 a.m.

Low ............ 30.15 5 a.m.
High ............. 83% 5 a.m.

Low ................ 53% noon
Cooling Degree Days

An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the days mean temperature rose above 65
66
6 a.m.
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low 55
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from normal
this month .............. 3.0
6
a.m.
12
4
p.m. p.m.
Avg. daily departure

from normal
this year ................ +2.0
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday ..................................................................... 8
So far this month ........................................................ 27
So far this season (since January 1)........................ 810
Normal to date for the season ................................. 673
Trends
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30 days
90 days
365 days
Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation

trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Yesterday ............... 86%

Est. normal ............. 87%
Recreational Forecast
Sun, Moon and Planets
First Quarter
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8:08 p.m.
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7:43 a.m.
9:09 p.m.
8:44 a.m.
12:29 a.m.
3:16 p.m.
7:17 a.m.
8:57 p.m.
Boating
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
York Harbor.
Wind will be from the southeast at 5-10 knots. Waves
will be 2-4 feet on the ocean and 2 feet or less on
Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility
will largely be clear to the horizon.
High Tides
Atlantic City ................... 9:18 a.m. .............. 9:30 p.m.
Barnegat Inlet ................ 9:29 a.m. .............. 9:43 p.m.
The Battery .................. 10:11 a.m. ............ 10:21 p.m.
Beach Haven ............... 10:57 a.m. ............ 11:08 p.m.
Bridgeport ................... 12:37 a.m. .............. 1:05 p.m.
City Island ...................... 1:05 a.m. .............. 1:34 p.m.
Fire Island Lt. ............... 10:25 a.m. ............ 10:36 p.m.
Montauk Point .............. 10:38 a.m. ............ 10:59 p.m.
Northport ..................... 12:51 a.m. .............. 1:19 p.m.
Port Washington ............ 1:14 a.m. .............. 1:43 p.m.
Sandy Hook ................... 9:39 a.m. .............. 9:50 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet ............ 9:15 a.m. .............. 9:33 p.m.
Stamford ...................... 12:40 a.m. .............. 1:08 p.m.
Tarrytown .................... 12:00 p.m. .......................... --Willets Point ................... 1:01 a.m. .............. 1:31 p.m.
Kennebunkport
80/64 Partly sunny
Cape Cod
78/61 Mostly sunny
60s
L.I. North Shore

81/62 Mostly sunny
L.I. South Shore
80/68 Plenty of sunshine
N.J. Shore
80/67 Partly sunny
70s
Eastern Shore
84/66 Clouds and sun
Ocean City Md.
80/68 Some sunshine
Virginia Beach
83/75 Partly sunny
80s
Color bands
indicate water
temperature.
High pressure along the New England

coast will provide a dry day across the
beaches, with a partly to mostly sunny
sky. The humidity will be fairly low for the
New England beaches as well as the
Jersey Shore. Highs will range from the
mid-70s to the low 80s.
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JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Kate McKinnon, who stars in the reboot of Ghostbusters and on Saturday Night Live, sampling the menu at Wu Liang Ye restaurant in Manhattan with Shao Chan, the executive chef.
A WORD WITH: KATE McKINNON
Shed Like to Try a Bit of Everything

By DAVE ITZKOFF
Since its release last month,

Ghostbusters, the reboot of the 1984
action comedy updated with a cast of
female leads, has conjured up a series
of heated debates about how women
are depicted in movies and how they
are treated online and in social media.
The film has also shined a spotlight
on Kate McKinnon, the comic actress
who plays the Ghostbusters team

member Dr. Jillian Holtzmann, a wildhaired scientist and technology whiz
who hides a mischievous sense of humor behind a pair of goggle glasses, a
trench coat and a deadpan delivery.
Playing off celebrated co-stars like
Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig,
she is able to steal even the scenes in
which she has no dialogue with just a
gaudy grimace or a roll of her eyes.

As Manohla Dargis wrote in her
review of Ghostbusters for The New
York Times, Ms. McKinnon makes for
a sublime nerd goddess, bringing a
dash of the young Jerry Lewis to the
role with a glint of Amy Poehler.
Like her cinematic counterpart, Ms.
McKinnon, 32, seems to have been
hiding in plain sight. A Long Island
native and Columbia University graduate, she has become an integral cast
member at Saturday Night Live,
where, over five seasons, she has delivered reliably eccentric impersonations
of Hillary Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and Angela Merkel, as well as a roster
of oddball celebrities, foreigners and
barflies. She received her fourth Emmy
nomination in July and is poised for the
kind of career breakout enjoyed by her

S.N.L. predecessors and personal
heroes like Tina Fey, Ms. Poehler and
Ms. Wiig.
Not that Ms. McKinnon thinks of
herself this way. I pride myself on
being tragically uncool, she explained
in an interview on Tuesday.
Im wearing cat socks right now,
Continued on Page 5
Plans Take Shape for Pinault Museum in Paris

By DOREEN CARVAJAL
SUNNY SHOKRAE FOR

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Colson Whitehead
The Book
He Feared
To Write
PARIS The 18th-century bourse in

the pulsing heart of this city has long
been something of a landmark, its central location a boon to its former use as a
wheat and corn exchange, its iron cupola
so distinctive that Victor Hugo said it resembled an English jockey cap. Now
the luxury goods billionaire Franois Pinault is racing to meet a self-imposed
deadline to turn the building into a private museum by the end of 2018, spurred
by the hope, he says, that art can offer
solace to a nation scarred by terror attacks.
Last month, the Paris City Council approved the project, which calls for trans-
The Bourse de
Commerce,
center, in Paris.
The City Council
has approved a
project to
transform the
18th-century
building into
The Pinault
Collection,
Bourse de
Commerce.
forming the building into The Pinault

Collection, Bourse de Commerce and
filling it with art from Mr. Pinaults collection of more than 3,000 works by contemporary artists like Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons,
Cindy Sherman, Agnes Martin and Cy
Twombly. The interior is to get a makeover by the Japanese architect Tadao
Ando.
In the face of this barbarism, the only
possible reaction is to move forward,
Mr. Pinault, 79, said in an interview, conducted in person and through email exchanges. As Andr Malraux said, Art is
the shortest path from man to man. That
Continued on Page 4
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A Pentagon
Field Guide
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
Colson Whitehead has long had

a thing for the metaphoric possibilities of mechanized modes of
transport, the more old-fashioned
the better.
His first novel, The Intuitionist, was set in the world of
mid-20th-century Manhattan elevator repair. His sophomore effort, John Henry Days, geeked
out on the tunnels dug by that
mythic steel-driving man.
But in his new novel, Mr. Whitehead grabs onto the most richly
metaphoric conveyance of all: the
Underground Railroad.
That book, called simply The
Underground Railroad, follows a
15-year-old slave named Cora as
she escapes north via a literal network of underground tracks and
trains. The novel had generated
the biggest buzz of Mr. Whiteheads career, even before Oprah
Winfrey revealed on Tuesday that
she had made it her latest book
club pick.
Mr. Whitehead, 46, may be used
to great reviews and enviable
prizes, like the MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called genius grant,
which he received in 2002. But a
few days before Ms. Winfreys announcement, he seemed a bit
Continued on Page 6
In 2009, Rosa Brooks, a newly appointed civilian adviser at the Pentagon, had a dispiriting conversation with
Samantha Power, then on the National
Security staff. Ms.
Brooks had solemn
doubts about the
prisoners living in indefinite detention at GuantBOOKS
namo Bay. This was her
OF THE TIMES
field of expertise human rights, international law. Yet her
new colleagues wouldnt give her a
proper hearing.
Ms. Power replied that she was having the same experience at the White
House. I cant even get in to see the
president about this, she tells Ms.
Brooks in How Everything Became
War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon.
Literally. Before the election, this guy
Barack Obama, she
meant was my
friend, but right now I
cant even get 10 minutes with him without
going through six
layers of self-important jerks.
At its finest, How
Continued on Page 6
JENNIFER
SENIOR
CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Same Apartment, Different Address

When The Humans reopens at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on Tuesday,
the Tony-winning play will have resided in three Midtown theaters since
October. How do you handle a move on Broadway? Very carefully. Page 4
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A WORD WITH: JOE DANTE
Honoring the Director Who Brought Gremlins to Life

takes, in the voice of Katharine
Hepburn, which was hard to
resist.
By GLENN KENNY
For Joe Dante at the Movies,

a retrospective at BAMcinmatek
running Friday through Aug. 24,
the programmers let that director
pair his movies, including Gremlins, Innerspace, The Burbs
and Gremlins 2: The New
Batch, with gems and oddities
ranging across cinemas past,
including The Black Cat, Dial
M for Murder and the W. C.
Fields comedy Its a Gift.
Mr. Dante began his film career in the early 70s cutting
trailers for Roger Corman, and
went on to create low-budget
pictures that paid clever homage
to B-movies of the past while
making sly, sardonic commentaries on contemporary mores.
Mr. Dantes freewheeling comedic sense avoided the self-seriousness that afflicted many of his
peers. He has worked frequently
in episodic television, most recently directing for Hawaii
Five-O, and he is raising money
to make a feature film about Mr.
Corman, The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes.
But Mr. Dante is trenchantly
realistic: Movies are a 20thcentury art form, and the 20th
century is over, he said during
an interview in which he discussed fighting to keep the
grimmest of Christmas tales in
Gremlins, working with a
young Ethan Hawke and River
Phoenix on their first movie and
creating a Gremlins 2 character, who resembles a certain
Republican presidential nominee.
Carrie Fisher is one of the funniest

people in Hollywood, but her
comedic talents are rarely used,
which is why shes an outstanding
feature of 1989s The Burbs
with Tom Hanks.
One of the brightest people

Ive ever met. We hit it off when
we worked on the parody anthology movie Amazon Women on
the Moon. There was a tremendous amount of ad-libbing on
[The Burbs], partly because of
the writers strike. The movie got
terrible reviews. I can still remember, your own Vincent
Canby said it was as empty as a
movie can be without creating a
vacuum. [Very close! The actual
sentence reads: The movie is as
empty as something can be
without creating a vacuum.] Its
nice to learn its become a cult
movie since.
Im also a fan of Looney Tunes:
Back in Action (2003), but I hear
youre not.
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It was not a popular feature of

the movie with the studio, or
almost anyone. The studio took
umbrage at it, and after our
successful preview the only note
they had was to get rid of that
scene. I suppose I could have
taken it out. In Chris Columbuss
original script, it had been a
These are edited excerpts from

the conversation.
In 1984s Gremlins, one of the
movies signature moments, the
Why I hate Christmas anecdote
related by Phoebe Catess character, almost didnt make it in. How
did you get to keep it?
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throwaway. Phoebe really liked

it because up until she tells that
story, her character had been a
pretty generic girlfriend this
gave her a secret. Because
Steven Spielberg was the executive producer, I was able to get
him to back me on keeping it in.
Explorers (1985) is a movie you
feel didnt quite work out, but it
did introduce some terrific thenchild actors, including Ethan
Hawke and River Phoenix. What
were they and the others like to
work with?
They were wonderful, very
giving and open. I do love working with kids. It was like being a
dad for a summer. Ethan wasnt
even officially auditioning, he
was with another actor who was
auditioning and we really liked
him. When we had Ethan, River
and Bobby Fite trapped up in the
blue-screen spaceship, they
were miked up, so we overheard
their conversations, and it was
remarkably reassuring that they
were saying the same things Id
said with my friends when I was
13.
The 1987 science-fiction comedy
Innerspace has a miniaturized
Dennis Quaid piloting through the
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Gizmo, top, in a scene from

Gremlins 2: The New Batch,
the 1990 comedy-horror film
directed by Joe Dante, above.
body of Martin Short two very
different types. How did you get
them to interact in the illusion of a
shared space?
Thats not quite how it worked,

the idea of shooting one half of
their performance. Wherever we
were, whenever we were shooting, Dennis would be on the set
in a booth, so the interaction was
really happening. Dennis would
hew to the script a little more
than Marty. After you got a scene
in the can, hed beg for more
I took that on because my

friend Chuck Jones had recently
passed away and I felt I owed it
to him to present the characters
as accurately as possible, which
hadnt been the case with Space
Jam. It was very frustrating to
make: We got so much input
from people who were never
going to see the movie. I learned
here that its not a good idea to
go to work angry, although it
might have helped with the Daffy
Duck segments. When I saw its
final cut, I thought it was a noisy,
annoying movie of the sort that
other people make. I do feel it
does represent the characters
accurately. I came out feeling
exhausted. But thats the norm
these days.
Among other outrageous characters, Gremlins 2: The New Batch
features a media mogul-real estate tycoon named Daniel Clamp,
author of I Took Manhattan,
played by John Glover. Do you find
his real-life model as funny as he
was back in 1990?
Had I but known! Hes definitely not as funny as he used to

be. Because the movie treats the
character with some skewed
affection, I now like to think
Clamp is more Ted Turner than
Donald Trump.
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ERIN BAIANO/VAIL INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
Dorrance Dance This company in SOUNDspace, at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, Colo.
Hot Feet Sharing Space

With Cool Upper Bodies
VAIL, Colo. The path to the
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
here in this Rocky Mountain
resort town primes the ear with
sounds of nature.
But on Tuesday, it
was the sound of
shoes on wooden
platforms that kept
DANCE
the audience rapt
REVIEW
for nearly threequarters of an hour.
That was just the first half of a
program by Dorrance Dance,
making its triumphant debut at
the Vail International Dance
Festival. For the second half, this
terrific company of tap dancers
was joined by an excellent band
of musicians on guitar, piano and
vocals, who accompanied them
in excerpts from recent works.
The gamut of musical genres,
some not usually associated with
tap, was impressive. Yet more
remarkable was the initial feat,
in which the performers, in
leather shoes with and without
metal taps, sustained their own
absorbing musical composition
all by themselves dancing to
the sound made by their dancing.
This was an excerpt from
SOUNDspace, a 2013 piece that
establishes why, and how, Mi-
BRIAN
SEIBERT
Dorrance Dance will perform

from Wednesday through Aug. 14
at the Jacobs Pillow Dance
Festival; jacobspillow.org.
chelle Dorrance, this groups

choreographer and director, has
become the most exciting and
original choreographer in tap
today. She starts simply, sparely,
but she and her dancers exaggerate each motion, using the
eye to direct the ear to tonal
distinctions. The aural difference
between the ball of a foot and the
tip of a toe is visually magnified
by an entire swiveling leg; the
bassy boom of a dropped heel is
Jazz tap with a

virtuosic, more
physical thrust.
emphasized by deep-bending
knees, the whole sinking body
seeming to sustain the sound as
it decays.
Once Ms. Dorrance has
warmed up the connections
between viewers eyes and ears,
she can guide them into complexity, simultaneously increasing speed and subtlety of timbre.
Her solos on Tuesday were as
virtuosic and musically cogent as
any lover of the jazz tap tradition
could desire.
Ms. Dorrance is a part of that
tradition, but she has patently

made it her own. In the jazz tap
lineage, and in the African-American aesthetic at its root, hot feet
are contrasted with a cool upper
body, masking difficulty with
regal ease. With Ms. Dorrance,
the counterbalance is between
footwork of extreme rhythmic
precision and a wild, unkempt
physicality that dramatizes the
sound production. Her low squat
would be appropriate for skiing
down the mountain behind the
Vail stage. The stance goes way
beyond the flexible knees that
tap requires. Its an intensification.
And the intensification is in the
direction of idiosyncrasy, which
the gawky Ms. Dorrance both
embodies and encourages in her
dancers, especially in solos that
help offset a machine-dance
quality that hardens some of the
ensemble sections. This is a
matter of cultural range and
relevance. If Savion Glover
linked tap to hip-hop in the 1990s,
it is Ms. Dorrance who has discovered how to tap not just to
jazz and the blues (as she did
smokingly on Tuesday), but also
to the melancholy of Radiohead;
how to turn a cover of Adeles
First Love into a dance of
frustrated communication between two young men. With each
performance of Dorrance Dance,
tap expands.
Scholastic had high expectations for Harry Potter and the

Cursed Child, which arrived on
Sunday with an enormous first
printing of 4.5 million copies.
The publishers optimism was
well warranted, it seems. The
plays script sold more than two
million hardcover copies in the
first 48 hours in North America,
Scholastic said on Wednesday,
calling the sales unprecedented
for a script book.
More than 5,000 bookstores
and libraries around the country
celebrated the publication with
release parties over the weekend. (A mother and daughter in
Hong Kong, right, also dressed
up and were among those taking
part in book-release festivities.)
The play, showing in London,
has drawn rave reviews.
The sales are a testament to
the longevity of the franchise,
though they fell far short of the
record set in 2007 by Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in the
series: That book sold 8.3 million copies in the United States
during its first 24 hours on
sale.co
ALEXANDRA ALTER
Motion Picture Academy

Re-elects Its President
Having taken aggressive
steps to change its membership
roster, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences has
opted to keep its leadership the
same: Cheryl Boone Isaacs was
elected on Tuesday night to a
fourth consecutive one-year
term as the groups president.
Ms. Isaacs has worked in
recent years with Dawn Hudson, the academys chief executive, to maintain its insular
culture while also contending
with intense pressure to make
its membership less white and
male. Last month, the academy
invited 683 people to become
members more than twice
last years number after
pledging to double its female
and minority membership by
2020.
Ms. Isaacs and Ms. Hudson,
whose working relationship has
at times been fraught, will have
to deal with more than diversity
initiatives over the coming year.
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The academys $388 million

movie museum, for instance, is
lurching toward a planned 2018
opening but still faces obstacles.
Corella has now brought on 29

of the 43 dancers on the roster.
BROOKS BARNES
Third Man Records

Sends Album Into Space
Pennsylvania Ballet
Hires 17 New Dancers
The remaking of Pennsylvania Ballet is continuing. With the
appointment of 17 new dancers
on Wednesday including
Sterling Baca and Sara Michelle
Murawski, as principal dancers
its artistic director, ngel
Corella, below, has now overseen the departure and replacement of more than half of its
dancers since his arrival in 2014.

And the reign of Mr. Corella, a
former American Ballet Theater
star, has been lengthened: The
company said that his contract
had been extended through the
2021-22 season.
Since Mr. Corellas arrival, 22
dancers have left the company,
with some retiring, some joining
other troupes, and others simply
not being re-engaged. With
Wednesdays appointments, Mr.
MICHAEL COOPER
Third Man Records, the label

in Nashville that was founded
by Jack White, celebrated its
seventh anniversary last month
by launching a record into
space. A gold-plated vinyl copy
of Carl Sagans A Glorious
Dawn spun on a turntable
attached to a high-altitude balloon, reaching 94,000 feet above
the Earth.
The aerial project was developed over four years and
continues Mr. Whites efforts to
champion the vinyl industry.
The idea arose when Kevin
Carrico, the special-projects
engineer for Third Man, came
across an online video of a camera being sent into near-space
on a balloon. I sent that to Jack,
and like three seconds later, he
came back with, Why didnt we
think of this? Mr. Carrico said
in an interview.
Over several years, Mr. Carrico designed a turntable that
would keep spinning amid turbulence and drastic temperature
changes. The 25-pound vessel,
named the Icarus Craft, was
launched outside of Marsing,
Idaho, on July 2 and ascended
for an hour and 20 minutes until
the balloon burst. When the
team found the craft on the
ground, the record playing an
arrangement of Mr. Sagans
words from his Cosmos series,
with music by the composer
John Boswell was still spinning.
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The Humans, with its shabby duplex apartment

set, during its run at the Helen Hayes Theater.
The Humans
Goes on Tour
(In Midtown)
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By MICHAEL PAULSON
There goes the neighborhood.

The shabby, no-light, duplex apartment
that is home to the The Humans, this
years Tony winner for best new play, is
moving uptown.
Well, one block up.
Its been an unexpected tour of Midtown
for the deceptively simple set which,
with its cleft walls, raked floors and embedded speakers emitting anxiety-provoking sounds, won this years Tony Award for
best scenic design.
David Zinn designed it for the 420-seat
Laura Pels Theater, an Off Broadway venue run by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company on West 46th Street. It then
moved to the 576-seat Helen Hayes Theater, a Broadway house owned by the nonprofit Second Stage Theater company on
West 44th Street, and now to the 1,031-seat
Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, owned by the
Shubert Organization on West 45th Street.
Such moves were once common on
Broadway, as changing fortunes of shows
or theater owners forced relocations midrun. But they have become less common,
especially for plays, which these days
rarely run long enough to justify the cost of
the move.
The Humans, a small, dark, and funny
drama, by Stephen Karam, in which a family struggling with job loss, illness and
heartbreak gathers for Thanksgiving dinner in a Chinatown apartment, is an exception. The Roundabout production received
enthusiastic reviews, and a commercial
Clockwise from top: Crew members working on the

lighting for the play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater;
prop doors outside the theater; unloading the set.
producer, Scott Rudin, moved it to Broadway in February. But the show had to be
out of the Helen Hayes this summer so Second Stage could begin a lengthy renovation of the building.
So on July 24, the show ended its run at
the Hayes, and the stage hands were given
two weeks to move the set one block north,
to the Schoenfeld, in anticipation of Tuesdays reopening. In theory, they could have
walked it, through Shubert Alley, to the
new home, but logistics (and Times

Square) being what they are, the set was
broken down into about 200 carefully labeled, numbered and mapped pieces,
packed into three tractor-trailers, parked
out of town for a few days, and then loaded
into the Schoenfeld for reassembly.
The set with visible pipes and studs
and lath and rafters seeks, in Mr. Zinns
words, to suggest the nervous system under the skin of the architecture. Each time
it moves, the apartment remains the same,

but Mr. Zinn has created a new frame for
the apartment to account for the everwider stages. He has spent his time worrying about sightlines can people in the orchestra see action on the second floor? Can
people on the sides see into the corners of
the rooms? Keeping it as open to the audience as possible, while still creating a
claustrophobic duplex space has been our
challenge, he said.
Plans Take Shape for Franois Pinaults Art Museum in the Heart of Paris
From First Arts Page
is what prompted me to accelerate
the completion of my project in
Paris.
The bourse looms over the
newly revamped Les Halles shopping mall and transit point, where
more than 750,000 people pass
daily. It is one of a growing number of private museums around
the world that match star architects and dramatic designs with
ambitious billionaires alliances
that have sometimes brought
questions about whether such
pharaonic projects are a good use
of public space, among other issues.
In this case, Mr. Pinault has
struck a 50-year lease on the
building with the City of Paris, and
he is financing both the anticipated 50 million euro, or $55 million,
makeover and future operating

costs.
My design is exactly the opposite of a pyramid, said Mr. Pinault, a high-school dropout who
built a lumber business into the
luxury-goods conglomerate Kering, which includes the brands
Gucci, Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney and Balenciaga. Now he
is also a power in the art world, not
only as a collector but also as the
owner of Christies, the auction
house.
His first attempt to build a museum in Paris, on an island in the
Seine 11 years ago, was frustrated
by bureaucratic hurdles and he
abandoned his plans. Instead, he
opened a contemporary art center
in two historic palazzos in Venice,
also renovated by Mr. Ando.
For the new project, Mr. Pinault
who with his probing blue eyes
appears younger than his years
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not a monument frozen for all
eternity, Mr. Pinault said.
This is not my mausoleum, he
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one more museum devoted to contemporary art?

Danielle Simonnet, a far-left
member of the Paris City Council,
suggested that Mr. Pinault should
have just donated his collection to
the state, noting the existence of
another for contemporary art
newcomer, the Louis Vuitton
Foundation.
The $143 million foundation
building opened two years ago on
the edge of Paris, a study in billowing sails designed by Frank Gehry
and commissioned by Bernard
Arnault, the chairman of LVMH,
like Mr. Pinault a French luxury
goods magnate and a longtime
collector of contemporary art.
The rivalry between the two
French billionaires dates to the socalled handbag wars, when they
vied for control of the Italian luxury group Gucci. (Mr. Pinault
emerged victorious in 2001.) They
have since bought works by some
of the same artists, including Mr.
Hirst and Richard Serra.
In May, the Louis Vuitton Foundation tapped the conceptual artist Daniel Buren, a favorite of Mr.
Pinaults, to cover the building
with a temporary rainbow of filters on thousands of panes. A
spokeswoman for the foundation
said it was too early to discuss
whether the two institutions could
cooperate something that Mr.
Pinault clearly wants to do with
other large Paris museums.
Asked about any competition,
Mr. Pinault demurred. In the
field of art, we dont speak of competition, he said. The more
places to present works, the better. Each collection is the history
of a singular view.
Still, the Louis Vuitton Foundation has set a high bar; it drew
more than 1.2 million visitors last
year.
Harald Falckenberg, a German
industrialist and collector with a
private contemporary art museum of his own outside Hamburg, Germany, said that in the
rarefied universe of billionaires it
did not really matter whether
there was a demand for a new contemporary art institution in Paris.
A museum is absolutely a must
for a good collector, Mr. Falckenberg said, noting that public museums could not highlight new
artists in the same way as private
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Franois Pinault is racing to meet a self-imposed deadline to

turn the bourse into a private museum by the end of 2018.
museums because they need to
appeal to visitors with mainstream, well-known art.
Private collectors can take
more risks because they are so
rich, he said. If only 2,000 visitors come, they say its wonderful
because they can look better at the
works.
In general, for such largess, the
French state also offers generous
tax deductions. Individuals can
Another art-world
pairing of star
architect and
dramatic design.
deduct 66 percent of the value of
financial contributions toward art
acquisitions or restoration, up to
20 percent of their income.
Mr. Pinault, the son of a farmer
in Brittany, did not visit his first
museum until after he was 30.
Since buying a Mondrian for $8.8
million in 1991, he has intensified
his collecting and now said he was
building on his works from Sigmar
Polke and Charles Ray while
searching for new art forms from
what he calls the post-internet
generation.
He tends to shun big art fairs, he
said, preferring to visit artists in
their studios sometimes singlehandedly reviving interest in a

forgotten painter such as Martial
Raysse, or drawing attention to
young artists such as the Danish
artist Danh Vo or the French
painter Claire Tabouret. Two
years ago, Mr. Pinault restored a
historic rectory in Lens, in the
north of France, to create an annual residency program for emerging artists.
Mr. Pinault has this appetite
for risk. He doesnt stay in his
comfort zone, regarding the
works he collects, said Ms. Tabouret, who added that she was
shocked when he came to her
Paris gallery opening in 2013.
That compares to some people in
the art world who are looking to be
reassured by seeing the same
look-alike works.
Now, Mr. Pinaults biggest challenge is what he can accomplish
with a museum, which he insists is
not just for the elite. Another of his
advisers, Martin Bethenod, said
the new art center was determined to reach beyond the core of
the French capital to the banlieues, the suburbs that are concentrations of poverty and social
isolation.
What does Mr. Pinault want to
leave as his legacy? By creating
a museum in Paris, I do not seek to
impose a trace, but to make my
contribution to history, he said.
The works of art will always have
the last word.
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From left, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Leslie Jones in the reboot of Ghostbusters. Ms. McKinnon plays Dr. Jillian Holtzmann, a wild-haired scientist and tech whiz.
A WORD WITH: KATE McKINNON
Shed Like to Try a Bit of Everything

she said in her dry, Hepburnesque drawl. But Im wearing
them just for the utilitarian
purpose of wearing socks.
Over lunch at a vegan restaurant in Manhattan, she spoke
about her Ghostbusters experience and the distinctions she
draws between her characters
and herself. These are edited
excerpts from the conversation.
You made such specific choices in
your portrayal of Holtzmann. How
did you approach the role?
I just wanted to make a character who was very alien but so
joyful and earnest and fascinated by the world that you
would relate to her anyway. In
the script, there were these
moments where she would be
talking so lackadaisically about
an extraordinarily lethal piece of
equipment. I thought, what sort
of a person could let that terror
slide off her shoulders? But I
noticed that I underreact in a
similar way, in a lot of situations.
How so?
In most combat scenarios, I
find that Im pretty steady.
[laughs] No, seriously. S.N.L.
can be a stressful environment,
and I am panicking constantly,
but I guess I keep it pretty internal. Because Ive been told that
I seem calm-ish.
Did you consult with any real-life
scientists?
Ive been a big astrophysics
nut since I was 12. I have always
had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum
mechanics. But I gave up on
being a scientist in high school
Im just not that good at
math. So that ticks me off, that
Ive limited myself and my life
choices in that way. I will never

be a theoretical physicist.
come to being involved in something thats as important as

politics or science. Comedy has
become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still aint
Washington.
Who devised her wardrobe and

hairstyle?
The costume designer, Jeffrey

Kurland, had gotten all these
wacky things, and when I saw
them initially, I thought, this is
way too cool. I wanted to be the
plainest of the plain. But then I
rationalized it by saying that, to
her, its not even cool. She just
has these objects and throws
them on. The hair was a collaboration between me and Brenda
McNally, my hairstylist. I was
like, what hair would a person
who doesnt care about an exploding nuclear reactor have?
Probably Tilda Swintons hair.
Will you go back to S.N.L. with

more visibility because of all the
praise youve received this summer?
Some people who have seen the

movie believe that Holtzmann is
gay. Do you have any thoughts on
her sexuality?
No. Im so sorry.
Do you think its significant that
moviegoers who dont see themselves represented onscreen are
identifying with her?
I wanted Holtzmann to be a
general champion for the disenfranchised and the other. And I
hope that she appeals to anyone
who feels like that.
Leslie Jones, your Ghostbusters
and S.N.L. co-star, nearly quit
Twitter after she became the
target of intense online abuse.
Did you speak to her during this
period?
She did text, and she was

deeply, deeply disturbed and
upset. As anyone would be. I
said that I love her and shes
gorgeous. And she should get off
Twitter. [chuckles] But thats
not a solution. Just dont read
it is not a solution.
DANA EDELSON/NBC
Ms. McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, left, in a sketch with Mrs. Clinton on Saturday Night Live.
You dont have a social media
presence I imagine that didnt
change your mind?
Even when Facebook came

out and I was in college, I found
myself never putting anything
on it. It just feels unnatural to
me to broadcast anything other
than the character Ive created.
Youre very modest in person, yet
you play many over-the-top characters. Where do they come from,
I wonder?
You and my therapist.

[laughs] There must be some
exhibitionist tendency that I
funnel into these other people. I
think it comes from wanting to
share and to connect, to offer up
for display something that I find
delightful and fascinating. I
hope that if other people feel the
same way then weve made a
connection. Thats the way I feel

most comfortable connecting.
and have spent my life crusading for the middle class.
Are you paying close attention to

the presidential election to gather
more material on Hillary Clinton?
Have you ever met Justice Ginsburg?
Im following it because were

at a real moment right now. But
also because I feel very connected to her, in a strange way. I
spend so many hours studying
her and imagining her inner life
that I feel like were very close.
Even though I dont have her
phone number.
Did you feel that when you appeared in an S.N.L. sketch with
her last season?
She was very warm and

charming and sincere. And I
liked being around her, and I felt
a similarity to her, in that I am a
very accomplished legal scholar
No, ay yi yi. What I wouldnt

do. Id crawl in that robe and
never leave.
Are you already thinking about
S.N.L. starting up in the fall?
Yes, I think its a good time to

be a comedian. Some people
look at movies and think, oh my
gosh, thats so amazing. But to
me, I look at a politician or a
scientist and think, theyre
creating the content of humanity. I cant believe I get to even
comment on this in some small
way. This whole year, with Larry
[David] as Bernie [Sanders]
and me getting to play Hillary
was, like, the closest Ill ever
That would be hellish. What

makes this current cast so strong
is that theres fairly equitable
distribution of real estate within
the show, and everyone has such
a different voice and really gets
to use that. It feels like a real
ensemble. Before getting hired
there, I did mostly one-woman
shows, and I liked being the only
weird one onstage. But that gets
old real fast, not just for me but
for people watching.
Has there been any talk of a
Ghostbusters sequel?
I havent heard. I havent been

doing that much. I literally dont
know what I did the last two
weeks. I know that I had a consultation about window dressings with a lady who was very
knowledgeable. That took up a
big part of my psychic energy.
What would be your dream role to
play?
My manager asks me this

every day, and I dont quite have
the answer. What I want is to
play as many as possible. I really
like collections of things. I love
antique botanical prints with a
bunch of different weeds and
seeds. I love the produce section
at the grocery story. A panoply of
gorgeous, fascinating distinct
objects with a common theme, is
what I would love to build for the
rest of my career, as long as
theyll have me.
A Country Songbird Specializing in Gentle Rue and Roads Untaken

Halfway hidden in the hit
factories of country music are
songwriters like Lori McKenna,
who quietly maintains her own
recording career
while others put her
songs on the charts.
The Bird & the Rifle
is her 10th studio
ALBUM album in 17 years, and
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her most finely focused. It includes her own,
scaled-down version of Humble
& Kind, a No. 1 country hit earlier this year for Tim McGraw,
which was also the first country
No. 1 since 2012 credited to a lone
songwriter, not a committee.
Songwriters like Ms. McKenna
are seasoned, skillful navigators
of the intersections between the
personal and the generalized,
the heartfelt and the crafty, the
everyday and the idealized.
Recently, Ms. McKenna shared a
best country song Grammy
Award for Girl Crush, a hit for
Little Big Town; her songs have
also been recorded by Faith Hill,
Sara Evans, Hunter Hayes and
Keith Urban, among others. Her
own voice is a taut, lived-in
soprano that can take on a flutter or a rasp. Its closer to the
country of earlier generations
JON
PARELES
than to arena-country belting.

Ms. McKennas calling card is
the mundane yet illuminating
detail gleaned, perhaps, from
her life as the married mother of
five children in Stoughton,
Mass., where she lives when
shes not on tour or visiting
Nashville for songwriting sessions. I keep my change in the
car ashtray/I havent smoked in
years and years/But lately Ive
been craving, she sings in
Wreck You, a song about a
couple growing estranged for
reasons no one can pin down.
Ms. McKenna can also string
her details into garlands of
metaphors, like the ones she
reels off in All These Things, a
hopeful love song: You could be
the streetlight on a crooked
road/I could be the easy way
home. Its vigorous folk-rock
and a rare optimistic song
though its only could be on
an album full of disenchantment.
For The Bird & the Rifle, Ms.
McKenna found a naturalistic
approach with Dave Cobb, who
produced Traveller, the Chris
Stapleton album that dominated
the 2015 Country Music Association Awards, and who has also
worked with Sturgill Simpson
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and Jason Isbell. Ms. McKenna

has said her album was recorded
live in the studio. The songs are
ballads and waltzes that rely on
a small band, often with unassuming drums, a quietly
strummed acoustic guitar, supportive keyboards and electricguitar parts glimmering like
blond highlights akin to the
atmosphere of Bruce Springsteens Tunnel of Love or My
Hometown.
Like Mr. Springsteen, Ms.
McKenna often writes about
faded illusions. (She tries a

variation on Mr. Springsteens
theme with Giving Up on Your
Hometown.) Immediately after
Wreck You, the title song of
The Bird & the Rifle looks at
another couple feeling constrained and growing apart,
weighing familiarity against
freedom: Something bout the
bird in her spreadin those
wings/Always brings the rifle
out in him. In We Were Cool,
she reminisces about a teenage
romance set to Duran Duran and
clichs on her 10th studio album,

The Bird & the Rifle.
Nirvana, fond memories that
gave way to obligations: We
had a baby on the way the year
our friends started school.
Ms. McKenna becomes a voice
of experience in Halfway
Home, the albums most telling
song. Moving from solace to
barely suppressed anger, the
singer tries to reassure a girl
whos driving home alone at 4
a.m. after a disappointing tryst
and realizing she aint so sure
hes the one. The singer tells
her, Deep down you know that
youre worth more than this/Or

the cost of that dinner last
night.
In Old Men Young Women,
Ms. McKenna veers between
tartness and sympathy, warning
someones third wife that it wont
be long until Hell be downtown
trying to find someone to make
the mirror stop telling the truth.
And in the subdued waltz Always Want You, what sounds at
first like an affirmation turns
into something more troubled
and skeptical, a half-realization
that a romantic fixation can be a
willful self-delusion: I think Ill
always want you.
A majority of the songs on
The Bird & the Rifle are
collaborations with fellow country hitmakers, among them Liz
Rose and Barry Dean. They are
neatly constructed and smoothly
burnished by Mr. Cobbs production; there are no loose ends.
But the songs Ms. McKenna
chose for her own album dont
usually go for sassy zingers,
larger-than-life buildups, easy
resolutions or singalongs from
the upper tiers the way hitseekers do. The scale is human:
fragile, unglamorous, bruised
and still holding on.
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I had the thought, What if the Underground Railroad were a real train?
COLSON WHITEHEAD, author of The Underground Railroad
Writing the Book That Really Scared Him

dazed by his impending ride into a bigger
spotlight.
Im having a hard time wrapping my
head around how people are responding
to the book, he said during an interview
in his home office in Greenwich Village.
Im someone who just likes being in my
cave and thinking up weird stuff.
The Underground Railroad published by Doubleday, with a first print run
of 200,000 copies is written in a more
straightforwardly realist mode than
many of Mr. Whiteheads books, which
have tended toward high-concept
premises, extended set pieces and jokey
riffs. It begins with a harrowing depiction
of life on a Georgia plantation around
1850, before taking off on a suspenseful
journey through several different states
with social systems that mash up racial
terrors from decades far into the future.
There is Whiteheadian weirdness
hints of strange eugenics experiments;
Friday night lynchings staged like
vaudeville shows; a kitschy living history museum, where Cora re-enacts a
sugarcoated version of plantation life.
But it creeps in slowly, with a subtlety
that may send some readers to Google to
check their memories of high school history.
I went back and reread 100 Years of
Solitude, and it made me think about
what it would be like if I didnt turn the
dial up to 10, but kept the fantasy much
more matter-of-fact, he said. I wanted it
to be like the slave narratives I read,
where you get a very matter-of-fact contemplation of all these weird and horrible
things that keep happening.
The idea for the book came to Mr.
Whitehead around 2000, when he had
just finished John Henry Days.
I had the thought, What if the Underground Railroad were a real train? he
said. I sat on the couch, thinking about
it, but it seemed like it would require a lot
of real research, and I just wasnt up to it.
Instead, he wrote a string of very different books, including a nostalgic coming-of-age novel (Sag Harbor), a slowmotion zombie thriller (Zone One) and
a first-person account of competing in
the World Series of poker (The Noble
Hustle).
In the poker book, Mr. Whitehead, who
had recently gone through a divorce,
styled himself as a hyperactively wisecracking depressive who had a good
poker face because, as he put it in the first
line, I am half dead inside. In person, he
comes off as friendly but guarded, and
wary of the expectations put on an
African-American writer who publishes
a big book about race and freedom in the
era of Black Lives Matter.
He mentioned a bookstore owner from
the South who invited him to come down
for a frank talk about race.
Im honored by the response to the
novel, but I was like, Can we just talk
about the book? he said. Im not a representative of blackness, and Im not a
healer.
Still, he describes The Underground
Railroad, which he began in earnest in
the spring of 2014, as responding to a kind
of inner pull. He was about to start another book with another existential
black dude narrator, as he put it, but the
Underground Railroad idea kept coming
to mind.
I thought, why not write the book that
really scares you? he said.
An excerpt from The Underground
Railroad will be published as a special
broadsheet section in print on Sunday;
there will be no digital version.
SUNNY SHOKRAE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Whitehead at home in Manhattan. Im having a hard time wrapping my head around how
people are responding to the book, he said of his new novel, the latest Oprah Winfrey book club
pick. Im someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
Mr. Whitehead dived into the subject,

reading classic 19th-century slave narratives like Harriet Jacobss Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl and oral histories
of former slaves gathered by the Works
Progress Administration in the 1930s.
Above his desk, next to an old-fashioned menu board with snap-on letters
reading Next The Underground Railroad, is a mini-research library with
scholarly works by Eric Foner and Edward Baptist, Toni Morrisons Beloved,
a historical dictionary of African-American slang and Michelle Alexanders The
New Jim Crow.
After hed written 100 or so pages of the
novel, he let himself watch the movie 12
Years a Slave, but turned it off in the middle. Seeing the movie really devastated
me, he said. I could read about slave
atrocities for days and days, but watching
actors go through it was almost too much.
I felt really messed up about what I was
writing.
Where books like John Henry Days,
which centers on a cheesy festival celebrating a new John Henry postage stamp,
have looked at the past through a distancing ironic lens, The Underground Railroad goes right into the heart of the
African-American historical experience.
Reading the book, I thought, hes written his Beloved, said the poet and critic
Kevin Young, who has been close with Mr.
Whitehead since their undergraduate
days at Harvard. He really conjures up
the ghost of slavery and embodies it in a
way that is deeply historically accurate.
But the book also has these amazing leaps
of imagination that help us think about
slavery not just in the past, but in the
present.
Mr. Whitehead, who is married to Julie
Barer, a literary agent, grew up in Manhattan, where his parents ran an executive recruiting firm. He went to mostly
white private schools, but spent summers
in an African-American beach enclave in
Sag Harbor, N.Y. (the inspiration for the
novel), where his maternal grandfather,
who owned a chain of funeral homes in
New Jersey, built a house from materials
he hauled out each weekend in his car.
Mr. Colson said he knew little about his
own ancestors experiences in slavery.
His mothers family, he said, had included
free black tavern owners in Virginia. His
fathers family was in Florida by the early
20th century, but how it got there was
largely lost in the mists of time.
Having children of his own his
daughter is 11, his son almost 3 made
slavery more viscerally, and sometimes
terrifyingly, real.
Thinking about the loss of a child,
about how my own children would feel if
they saw me beaten to death in front of
them, made writing this book very different than it would have been if I had tried it
when I was 30, he said.
Mr. Whitehead has generally not been
one for full-throated celebration of
African-American heroes. He and a friend
once played around with a satirical website called Nat Turner Overdrive. The day
after Barack Obamas election in 2008, he
published a riff of an Op-Ed in The New
York Times hailing it as a historic victory
for Skinny Black Guys like Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Jackson and himself.
In The Underground Railroad, he
talks about racial progress, and its limits,
in a more direct, even prophetic way.
Near the end, a character is seen heading
for St. Louis or, perhaps, Ferguson,
Mo., present-minded readers might find
themselves thinking.
Mr. Whitehead said he saw his closing
pages as optimistic, but also realistic.
I find the last pages very hopeful, he
said. But still, wherever we go, were still
in America, which is an imperfect place.
Thats the reality of things.
A Field Guide to the Incredible Expanding Pentagon

Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything is a dynamic
work of reportage, punctuated by savory details like this one. But Ms.
Brooks has a larger ambition: She
wants to explore exactly what happens
to a society when the customary distinctions between war and peace melt
away. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United
States has been fighting shapeless,
stateless enemies, all with no discernible end in sight. How, Ms. Brooks
would like to know, do our institutions
and legal systems adapt?
As the boundaries around war and
the military grow ever more blurry,
she writes, will we all pay a price?
This is hardly a new question. But
Ms. Brooks, a professor at Georgetown
University Law Center and a columnist
for Foreign Policy magazine, is in a
decent position to answer it. During
her time as counselor to Michle
Flournoy, an under secretary of defense, Ms. Brooks was in the room
where it happens. Or the adjoining
room, at any rate.
When Ms. Brookss book lives up to
its subtitle Tales From the Pentagon it delights. The author is a
chipper field guide and canny ethnographer, writing with refreshing honesty
about the folk ways of the Defense
Department, which often confound
outsiders.
Her observations about the culture
gap between government civilians and
the military are especially revealing.
She recounts once receiving a phone
call from a member of the White House
national security staff, asking the Pentagon to make a drone available for
monitoring a human rights crisis in
Kyrgyzstan. She replied that the military tends to make these decisions
slowly, cautiously, and that shed need
more information: Where would the
drone come from? Which pot of money
would pay for it? Whose airspace
would it use?
The caller from the White House was
incredulous. Were talking about, like,
one drone, he told her. Youre telling
me you cant just call some colonel at
CentCom and make this happen?
She explained that the chain of command in the military didnt work that
way.
Equally illuminating is her examination of the resentment that the military
has generated by expanding its role,
assuming responsibility for all manner
of unlikely projects. In its efforts to
stamp out future generations of terrorists, the Pentagon has sponsored peace
concerts in Africa, distributed soccer
balls with anti-extremist slogans in
Iraq, trained judges in Afghanistan
anything to shore up stability in volatile nations. It drives State Department
personnel and aid workers the people who would ordinarily be charged
with such efforts nuts.
Youve got these kids, one Agency
for International Development worker
told her, these 30-year-old captains
whove spent their lives learning to
drive tanks and shoot people, and they
think they know how to end poverty in
Afghanistan, in six months.
Strangely, its when Ms. Brooks dives
into her own area of expertise that her
book loses some sizzle. After her lively
investigation of the way we fight now,
she pivots and takes a historical look at
how weve attempted to define and
regulate war, and how the modern
notions of human rights and interna-
tional law came about. She then examines the moral conundrums of the
so-called war on terror, which test the
limits of these ideas.
Is detaining a suspected terrorist
lawful or a violation of habeas corpus?
Is enhanced surveillance essential to
our national security or an infringement of our privacy? Are drone strikes,
conducted in secret and according to
secret criteria, acts of murder or justifiable acts of war? Have we spent the
last 15 years setting dangerous international precedents?
Her discussion here is energetic, her
case histories are well selected and her
thought experiments clarifying. But
theyre explainers rather than paradigm changers. The questions she asks
dont dramatically reframe the conversation.
Ms. Brookss writing possesses a few
grating tics. Officials often sigh as
they express their frustrations. She
repeats herself a lot. Her tone can get
jokey, with over-cute chapter subheadings Ahoy, Matey!, Hiya, Senator
and she invokes literary clichs to
explain her ideas. (Tolstoys unhappy
families, Hemingways wisecrack about
the rich having more money, etc.)
I also sometimes wondered who Ms.
Brooks was writing for. When she
protests that many military personnel
dont see killing as central to their
jobs, it seems embarrassingly obvious.
At some point, she refers to Senator
Lindsey Graham as the scourge of the
Democratic Party, which I originally
thought was a misprint: If youve spent
10 minutes in the Senate, you know that
Senator Graham, for better or for
worse, is one of the more bipartisan
Republican lawmakers on the Hill.
Yet Ms. Brooks generally has more
JODY McKITRICK
Rosa Brooks
How Everything Became War and the

Military Became Everything
Tales from the Pentagon
By Rosa Brooks
437 pages. Simon & Schuster. $29.95.
complicated sensibilities than that of a

traditional liberal. True, she comes
from a leftist, staunchly antiwar household shes the daughter of Barbara
Ehrenreich, poet laureate of the proletariat, and John Ehrenreich, a psychologist and academic who has written a
great deal about humanitarian issues.

But she also worked at the Pentagon
and married a lieutenant colonel in the
Army. Much of what animates this
book is the tension between these two
important aspects of her life, and it
may explain the divided nature of the
solutions she proposes to suit the vagaries of modern war.
One would doubtless please her
parents: She says the United States
will have to relinquish some of its
sovereignty in exchange for more just
and effective mechanisms for solving
collective global problems. Structures
of international governance would
have to be reformed and rebuilt; here
at home, we would have to insist on
more transparency and better oversight to enforce the rule of law.
It all seems wildly romantic, especially at a moment when Trump and
Brexit voters are ascendant.
Another proposal is radical in a very
different way. Rather than shrinking
the defense budget and redistributing
funding to civilian institutions an
impracticable solution, given Congresss abiding commitment to the
Pentagon and the militarys alreadygalactic scale she proposes making
it even bigger, recruiting those with
talents useful for 21st-century conflict.
And then, she boldly suggests, we
should make service compulsory for
everyone.
Some might choose to carry the
traditional weapons of a soldier; some
might teach or build roads; some might
write computer code to protect vulnerable systems, she writes.
Again, its a political nonstarter in
2016. But she may be onto something.
Expanding the Army worked for F.D.R.
(and the world). Why not again?
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Happens: Live Contrary. (14)
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Sports Spectacular From Cancun, Mexico.
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Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Tombstone (1993). Kurt Russell. Earp and Holliday, yes again. Overloaded with psychological baggage. (R)
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The Profit The Lano Company.
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Shark Tank A fragrance that smells
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American Dad American Dad

American Greed The Bad Neighbors. (N)
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N)
David Horowitz-Progressive
Marisa Abrajano Discusses
Steve Austin
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Return of Sentimental
Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman (1981). Ti Lung.
The Sentimental Swordsman (1977). Lung Ti, Fei Ai.
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SportsCenter Special
N.F.L.s Greatest Games From Jan. 8, 1994.
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CFL Football BC Lions vs. Montreal Alouettes.
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Super Bowl
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College Football From Oct. 14, 1995.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore. (PG)
The 700 Club (G)
Kim Possible (Y)
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Hates Chris
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Good Hair (2009). Documentary. (PG-13)
House Party: Tonights the Night (2013). Gary Anthony Williams. (R) Good Hair (2009).
The Avengers
21 Jump Street (2012). Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum. Cops go under cover as high-school Sex&Drugs&
Sex&Drugs&
Sex&Drugs&
About Last Night (2014). Kevin
(2012). (4:30)
students. Playfully formulaic. (R)
Rock&Roll (N) Rock&Roll
Rock&Roll
Hart, Michael Ealy. (R) (11:38)
Tron: Legacy (2010). Son enters fa- World War Z (2013). Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos. Family man battles global zombie pandemic. World War Z (2013). Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos. Family man battles global
thers cyberworld. Game over. (5:30) Refreshing. (PG-13)
zombie pandemic. Refreshing. (PG-13) (10:17)
Elysium (2013). (R) (5:30)
The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Archer (MA)
FYI
Man vs. Child: Chef Showdown
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Family Feud
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Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Last Man Standing The Middle (PG) The Middle (PG) The Middle (PG) The Middle (PG) Golden Girls
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Mountain Men Killer Instinct. Rich
hunts a dog killer. (PG)
Dr. Drew (N)
48 Hours on ID Double Jeopardy.
Photos emerge after an acquittal. (14)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of
Police Squad! (1988). (PG-13) (6)
The Rap Game The Final Battle.
The artists go head-to-head. (PG)
Double Daddy (2015, TVF). Two
teen moms, one teen daddy. (6)
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MSGPL
World Team Tennis Washington Kastles vs. New York Empire. (6:30)
Hahn & Humpty
MSNBC Hardball With Chris Matthews (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N)
Halls of Fame
Speak for Your
Man vs. Child
Tennis
The Last Word
Rachel Maddow
Wild n Out
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Rio Olympics Mens Soccer: Fiji vs. South Korea.
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Live Free or Die Call of The Wild. Live Free or Die The Hunt Is On. No Man Left Behind (14)
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Wild n Out
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All In With Chris Hayes

Joking Off (N)
Rio Olympics Mens Soccer: Nigeria vs. Japan.

No Man Left Behind (14)
The Parent Trap (1998). Lindsay Lohan. Separated twins plot to reunite divorced parents. Super-cute. (PG)
New York Tonight
30 for 30
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Wild n Out
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. Erin Brockovich (2000). Julia Roberts, Albert Finney. (R)
20/20 on OWN Hidden Identity.
Kingin Tyga
Premier League Download
Sports on 1 The Last Word. (11:35)
Beaches (1988). Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey. (PG-13)

20/20 on OWN
Sister Act (1992). Lounge singer hides out in convent. Cute but the uplift is synthetic. (10:10)
SCIENCE Unearthed Summit of the Gods.
Unearthed (PG)
Unearthed (PG) (9:01)
Unearthed (PG)
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Mighty Cruise Ships (G)
True Story of the Mary Celeste
Hell Below (PG)
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Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Lip Sync Battle Clash of the Titans (2010). Sam Worthington. (PG-13)
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. Mouse Hunt (1997). Nathan Lane, Lee Evans. (PG) (6:51) Surfs Up (2007). Voice of Shia LaBeouf. (PG)
SportsNite
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Multiplicity (1996). Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell. (PG-13) (9:56)

Against the Wild
Law & Order Kiss the Girls and
Law & Order Guardian. Socialites Law & Order Progeny. Doctor who Law & Order Rage. A Wall Street Law & Order Seed. Fertility doctor Law & Order
Make Them Die. (PG)
estranged daughter dies. (PG)
performs abortions is shot. (14)
executives murder. (PG)
tied to murder attempt. (PG)
Wannabe. (PG)
Starship Troopers (1997). Casper John Carter (2012). Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins. Confederate veteran joins war on Mars. Chaotic and kind of John Carter (2012). Taylor Kitsch. Confederate veterVan Dien. (R) (5)
fun. (PG-13)
an joins war on Mars. Chaotic and kind of fun. (PG-13)
Seinfeld The
Seinfeld The
2 Broke Girls
2 Broke Girls
The Big Bang
The Big Bang
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Conan Will Smith and Margot Rob- 2 Broke Girls
Dog. (PG)
Library. (PG)
(14)
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Theory (PG)
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It Happened in Hollywood (1937). The Wedding March (1928). Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray. Silent. A tale King Kong (1933). Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot. Big ape in the big city. The Thunderbolt (1929).
Richard Dix, Fay Wray. (6:45)
of a romance between a prince and a harpist.
one and only.
George Bancroft.
My 600-Lb. Life Paulas Story.
My 600-Lb. Life Susans Story.
My 600-Lb. Life Nikkis Story.
Skin Tight: Transformed (N) (14) My Big Fat Fabulous Life (PG)
Skin Tight
Castle Dressed to Kill. A magazine Tyler Perrys Madeas Big Happy Family (2011). Madeas family gath- Tyler Perrys Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010). Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal. Struggles of
employee is found dead. (PG)
ers when one gets cancer diagnosis. More suds than laughs. (PG-13)
four married couples. Something for everyone, if you dont expect much. (PG-13) (10:15)
Mysteries at the Museum (PG)
Mysteries at
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Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (14)
Braxton Family Values Whats the
T With You and B? (PG)
Cops (PG)
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Andy Griffith
Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Queen of the South El Hombre
Holdens Manifesto. (14)
Pornstars Requiem. (14)
Pjaro. (N) (14)
Selena (1997). Jennifer Lopez. Rise and sudden death of queen of Tejano music. Bland, upbeat idol worship. (PG)
Braxton Family Values This Is Not Braxton Family Values Trick Thy Cutting It: In the ATL Rest in
About ReKindlerization.or Is It?
Sister. (N) (PG)
Weaves. (N) (14)
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Donald Sutherland, left, and Billy Crudup.

WITHOUT LIMITS (1998) on Amazon and
iTunes. Billy Crudup plays Steve Prefontaine,
the mercurial track star who, while preparing
for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, died in a car
crash in 1975 at 24. Donald Sutherland is Bill
Bowerman, the renowned University of Oregon
coach and a co-founder of Nike. Writing in The
Times, Janet Maslin called this drama directed
by Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning
screenwriter of Chinatown, proudly
unconventional.
WHATS ON TV
12:00
. Aliens (1986).
Fast, dazzling sci-fi.
Quick Pitch
NY Giants Train NY Giants Train Cycling Tour of Utah, Stage 4.
NBCS
Nick Cannon: Wild n Out
11:30
M.L.B. Tonight
MTV
SYFY
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS: GOLD WITHIN

(2016) on NBC Olympics. The beach volleyball
superstar Ms. Walsh Jennings, now a
37-year-old mother of three, chronicles her
journey to Rio her fifth Olympics, this time
on the heels of shoulder surgery and with a new
partner, April Ross.
Flip or Flop (G) Flip or Flop (G) Flip or Flop (G) Flip or Flop (G) House Hunters Hunters Intl
House Hunters Hunters Intl
Flip or Flop (G)
Mountain Men Crash and Burn. Mountain Men Concussion. Eustace Ice Road Truckers Against All
Ice Road Truckers Against All
Mountain Men
Tom takes on the Snake. (PG)
must accept his injuries. (N) (PG)
Odds. (Season Premiere) (N) (10:03) Odds. (PG) (11:03)
(PG) (12:03)
Nancy Grace (N)
Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files
48 Hours on ID Death After Mid- Unraveled Driven to Perfection.
Deadly Sins Rocky Mountain Mur- 48 Hours on ID Death After Mid- Unraveled A wife
night. (14)
(Season Premiere) (N) (14)
der. (N) (14)
night. (14)
seeks revenge.
. The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991). Leslie Nielsen, Pris- . Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). Terror- The Naked Gun: From the Files of
cilla Presley. Deliriously funny sequel to Police Squad spinoff. (PG-13) ist at the Oscars. Wickedly funny spoof. (PG-13)
Police Squad! (1988). (11:45)
The Rap Game Whos Hungry.
The Rap Game Rep Your City.
Bring It! Team Kayla vs. Team
Bring It! The Return of Neva the The Rap Game
Seven new artists compete. (PG)
(PG)
Dianna. (PG) (10:02)
Diva. (PG) (11:02)
(PG) (12:02)
Sugar Babies (2015, TVF). Alyson Stoner, Tiera Skovbye. Older man
You May Now Kill the Bride (2016). Tammin Sursok, Ashley NewSugar Babies
pays college students company.
brough. Stepsister will do anything to get the groom.
(2015, TVF).
. Aliens (1986). Sigourney Weaver, Paul Reiser. Fast, dazzling sci-fi. (R)
SUN
CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981) on iTunes and Starz.

Who can forget Vangeliss theme song of
pulsing synthesizer and melodic piano? Or the
glorious opening scene of young men racing in
the waves along a beach? Two British runners
Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a Jewish
student at Cambridge, and Eric Liddell (Ian
Charleson), a Church of Scotland preacher
help achieve glory for God, king and country at
the 1924 Olympics in Hugh Hudsons Oscar
winner for best picture, screenplay, original
score and costume design. Writing in The
Times, Vincent Canby called it an exceptional
film, about some exceptional people.
P.G.A. Tour Golf Travelers Championship, first round. From Cromwell, Conn.
Winsanity (N)
. Alien (1979). Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver. Spacecraft intruder.

Fast-paced with dazzling effects. And some jolts. (R) (6)
M.L.B. Regional Coverage.
Day in the Life
RACE (2016) on Amazon and iTunes. Stephan

James portrays the track-and-field legend Jesse
Owens, an impoverished black youth from
Depression-era Cleveland who became the star
of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, undercutting
Hitlers racist agenda. Yet President Franklin D.
Roosevelt never invited him to the White
House. William Hurt plays Jeremiah Mahoney,
the president of the Amateur Athletic Union,
who urged an American boycott of the summer
games; Jason Sudeikis is Larry Snyder,
Owenss coach. Race reminds us that long
before television elevated black sports heroes
into gods, there were athletes like Jesse Owens
who paved the way, Stephen Holden wrote in
The New York Times.
E! News (N) (PG)
FOXNEWS On the Record With Greta Van
FX
THIBAULT GRABHERR/FOCUS FEATURES
Stephan James
Classic Arts
Girl Meets World
(G)
Tiny Luxury (G)
CFL Football Saskatchewan Roughriders vs. Calgary Stampeders.
ESPNCL College Football From Oct. 15, 2005.

ESQTV
WHATS STREAMING
Book Discussion on White Rage
E!
DIS
With just a day to go until Rio, run to the nearest

screen for pulse-quickening films about the
American Olympians Jesse Owens, Kerri Walsh
Jennings and Steve Prefontaine, as well as a
surefire winner, Chariots of Fire.
Capitol Hill
Book Discussion on White Rage
News (6:30)
Focus Europe La Grande Librairie
Inside the IOC Treasure World Nueva York
21st Century
K.C. Undercover Runaway Robot. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011).
K.C. Undercover Bizaardvark Su- K.C. Undercover
The Cooper family robot runs away. Jessica Alba, Alexa Vega. (PG)
(Y7) (9:35)
perfan. (G)
(Y7)
Tiny Luxury (G) Tiny Luxury (G) Tiny Luxury (G) Tiny Luxury (G) Tiny Luxury (G) Tiny Luxury (G) Tiny House
Tiny House
Naked and Afraid XL Human
Naked and Afraid Pop-Up Edition O Killing the Colorado Inside the slow, man-made demise of the ColoPrey. (14)
XL South Africa Part 4. (N) (14)
rado River, a river that sustains 40 million people. (N)
E! News (N) (PG)
Keeping Up With the Kardashians Botched By Nature (14)
Botched (14)
CUNY
WHATS ON THURSDAY
92Y-N.Y.C.Life
Blue Bloods Privilege. (14)
Skin Care
C7
18 Holes With Jimmy Hanlin
Swing Clinic
Extra Innings
Inside Jokes
Inside Jokes
Imp. Jokers
King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order:
Honor. (14)
SVU
Our Family Wedding (2010). America Ferrera. (PG-13)
Braxton Family Values Trick Thy Cutting It: In the
Sister. Gabe comes clean to Trina. ATL (14)
Cops (PG)
Cops (PG)
Cops (PG)
DAVID GOLDMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kerri Walsh Jennings

RIO OLYMPICS PREVIEW SPECIAL 8 p.m. on
NBC. Bob Costas interviews the Olympians
Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, Kerri Walsh
Jennings and Usain Bolt. Mr. Costas also
addresses the concerns surrounding the first
Olympic Games held in South America.
KILLING THE COLORADO 9 p.m. on Discovery.
In collaboration with Pro Publica, directors
including Barbara Kopple, Jesse Moss, and Alan
and Susan Raymond examine the looming
water crisis in the American West and who, in
particular, owns the water from the Colorado
River as urban populations and farmers
compete for access. The program, alas, is a
thought examination, when a loud wake-up call
is whats needed, Neil Genzlinger wrote in The
Times.
KATHRYN SHATTUCK
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3 ON SECOND THOUGHT . . .
5 SCENE CITY
Rewriting regrettable
tattoos. BY HAYLEY KRISCHER
For Cats, its now on to life

No. 2. BY JACOB BERNSTEIN
2 REDESIGNING HIS CAREER
4 ON THE RUNWAY
An actor abandons
architecture. BY JOHN ORTVED
Ralph Laurens flashy

uniforms. BY GUY TREBAY
FASHION
BEAUTY
NIGHTLIFE
D1
The Bedazzled Gymnast
BEN STANSALL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE GETTY IMAGES
How many crystals does it take to make a gold medalist? A look at the many
facets of competitive thinking that go into the design of an Olympic leotard.
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
So it begins: the flag-waving excitement,

the teeth-grinding anticipation, the blinding
sparkle. The Olympics.
Wait . . . hang on. The sparkle?
Indeed. Because if Simone Biles the 19year-old American who is often called by
sports pundits the best female gymnast
ever, and whose performance in Rio de Janeiro will be among the most watched of
these Olympics does what most everyone

seems to expect and makes off with multiple gold medals, it is very likely that when
she climbs the podium, the shininess of the
discs around her neck will pale in comparison to the shininess of something else.
Her leotard.
In 2008, when Nastia Liukin won the gold
medal in the individual all-around competition at the Olympics in Beijing, her leotard
had 184 crystals on it.
In 2012, when Gabby Douglas won the

same event in London, her leotard had 1,188.
This year, many of the Team USA leotards
will have close to 5,000 Swarovski crystals
each.
Its difficult for me to imagine how we
could get more crystals on, said Kelly McKeown, executive vice president for design
and corporate relations at GK Elite, the official outfitter of the American national gymnastics team. This Olympics, we may have
The United States womens

gymnastics team celebrates its
gold medal in the team event
final last year at the world
championships in Glasgow.
Expect each leotard to have
close to 5,000 crystals in Rio de
Janeiro this month.
hit peak crystal.

Along with the difficulty of each routine,
which caused the international gymnastics
federation to change the assessment system in 2006 from one based on a scale of 1 to
10 to one with no ceiling, the amount of crystals on the American leotards has also been
growing exponentially. This is not a coincidence.
It has to do partly with one woman:
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Needle, Thread, Instagram

Via social media, a pattern
company reaches out to those
who never learned to sew.
By STEVEN KURUTZ
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A spread from the 1958-59 Vogue Pattern Book, published by the McCall Pattern Company.
The internet did little to disrupt it. Globalization could not shut it down. But while the
McCall Pattern Company, the home-sewing
brand founded in 1863, may seem like a business that time forgot, it finds itself newly
fashionable.
Its headquarters have the look of a corporate environment before digital culture banished clutter. There on the 34th floor of the
Equitable Building, a 1915 skyscraper in the
financial district, are rooms filled with buttons and zippers, bolts of fabric on work tables and metal file drawers stuffed with paper pattern packets.
There is a patternmaking room, where
muslin is fitted to dress forms; a dressmaking room, where women at sewing maCONTINUED ON PAGE D6
TAMARA YUROVSKY (@OLIVER_THEWIREFOX)
Web Portals
Learn why photos of doors from all over are turning

up on Instagram. By Laura M. Holson, Page 7
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Trading a T Square for Showbiz
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSICA LEHRMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, above (center) and below, on the set of Baz Luhrmanns new Netflix show, The Get Down.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who

studied architecture, is coming
to Netflix as a disco prince.
By JOHN ORTVED
A few years ago, things werent going so

well for Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Even with
an architecture degree from the University
of California, Berkeley, he found himself laid
off and out of luck. Rather than look for another job in the fields of housing or public
policy, where he had planned a career, he
decided to take a risk.
Acting was always in the back of my
head, Mr. Abdul-Mateen said.
So he left the Bay Area for Los Angeles
with the notion that if he could somehow get
cast in a McDonalds commercial, he might
end up with a bit part in a soap opera, which
could lead to a role on a bigger network
show. I made a plan: If I hadnt done anything in three years, I was going to say,
O.K., back to a job in an architecture firm or
public policy, he said.
In Los Angeles, he auditioned for an educational theater group, only to be told he
was too old. But the instructors husband
was casting a small production of Twelfth
Night, and soon Mr. Abdul-Mateen found
himself playing Antonio.
Someone in the cast was applying to
graduate drama school, and I said, You can
do that? he said. I Googled the top programs in the country. I prepped for about
seven months, doing auditions in my living
room, talking to the wall.
He ended up at the Yale School of Drama,
an incubator for stars like Meryl Streep and
Lupita Nyongo. In the summers, he got
more stage time at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Williamstown, Mass., and
with Shakespeare in the Park in New York
City.
Now, at 29, Mr. Abdul-Mateen has a key

role in a big-budget Netflix production,
The Get Down, from the over-the-top
Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann. The
show is set in the 1970s music scene of New
York. Mr. Abdul-Mateen plays an underworld figure named Cadillac, whom he described as a disco prince.
With its focus on nascent hip-hop, punk
and disco, The Get Down, which starts
streaming Aug. 12, may strike viewers and
critics as a corrective, of sorts, to another

show set in 1970s New York, HBOs recently
canceled Vinyl, which accounted for the
birth of hip-hop but leaned more toward
rock n roll.
To prepare for his role, Mr. Abdul-Mateen
worked on his moves four to seven hours a
day. Before this, I was not a dancer, he
said. I knew when the music comes on, you
move to it. Im from New Orleans, so I like
second line. But I thought I was more
coordinated than I turned out to be.
LIST OF FIVE
After spending his early childhood in the

Magnolia housing projects, he moved to
Oakland. But New Orleans is one of those
places that doesnt leave the house, he said.
The choreographers Rich and Tone Talauega, brothers who have worked with Madonna, Michael Jackson, Usher and Justin
Timberlake, oversaw Mr. Abdul-Mateens
development into a credible 70s-style dancer.
Theyre from the Bay Area, Mr. AbdulMateen said. I heard one of them say a
phrase that was specific to there
Yadadamean and we hit it off really
quickly. (The word is slang for Do you
know what I mean?)
A sense of authenticity will be crucial to
the shows success. Those familiar with its
setting are likely to watch closely, given that
its Australian creators background is so
different from those of the characters on
screen. Mr. Luhrmann brought aboard
Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow to
school the cast members and keep the look
and atmosphere correct.
He doesnt claim to be an expert, Mr.
Abdul-Mateen said of Mr. Luhrmann.
The actor has come to appreciate his
characters vintage style. You notice how
much self-expression is really embedded in
the fashion, he said. Men wearing their
shirts down with their chests open. You got
black people wearing huge Afros, wearing
gold, walking tall and strutting and saying,
How you doing, Brother? It was a time to
be proud of who you were.
A typical workday in the dance studio began with hamstring stretches, many of
them the same as the ones Mr. Abdul-Mateen did when he ran track at Berkeley. The
key for era-appropriate dancing, he
learned, is the hips.
Very important, he said. Men in the
70s communicated with their hips much
more than they do now.
B. J. BRIT T
He Lets His Ankles Do the Talking
Here to steal your heart.
B. J. Britt, 34, stars in the

second season of UnREAL, a
critics favorite on Lifetime, in
which he plays a National
Football League quarterback
who signs on to be the star of a
reality-TV courtship show. The
native of Wilson, N.C.,
discusses how his style has
evolved since relocating to Los
Angeles, and one accessory he
is very particular about.
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B. J. Britt in his AllSaints T-shirt, black jeans, Stan Smith sneakers and Happy Socks hosiery.
Jeans I like my jeans slim-fit and

ripped. Ive found good ones from Rag
& Bone and Diesel. Ive had
stonewashed and dark blue, but Im going
through a black phase right now. Sometimes Ill throw in a gray or gray fade color.
If I love the jeans enough and they dont
come ripped, Ill put a pair of scissors to
them.
Suits Im a fan of the Kooples and Ted

Baker suits. I like the color scheme
for Ted Bakers summer line. Its so
on point right now. They are both definitely
slimmer fits. Funny story: The first time I
went to meet my agent, I was wearing a
full-on suit with a brown leather jacket. It
was so hot when I got to the office, but I
thought I had to come in looking really
nice. My agent still picks on me about that
to this day. I didnt come into style until
maybe five or six years ago. It definitely
was not from growing up in North Carolina.
Shirts I love the whole European long

T-shirt look. AllSaints has some
really good ones. They come to
around my thigh.
Shoes I always have to have brandnew Stan Smiths at all times. You
can dress them up and dress them
down. You can even wear it with a nice suit.
I wore a pair to a premiere yesterday. I can
have a pair that Ive worn twice, and if I
have a big event coming up, Ill say to
myself: I have a little mark right there. I
have to get a new pair.
Accessories Socks make the outfit.

Socks make the man. My sock game
is ridiculous right now. If we ever
meet, dont even say Hi. Just pull up my
pant leg. If I put on a pair of Happy Socks,
Ill feel right. They have to have some kind
of design no solids. Even when I go to
the gym, I dont work out in white socks. I
have a pair with ostriches. I have some
with cartoons on them. For my characters
wardrobe on UnREAL, the first day of
shooting, they brought in some clothes and
regular socks. I called wardrobe and said:
No! He needs funky socks for his character.
CORRECTION
A picture caption last Thursday with an article

about the socialite Betsy Bloomingdale referred incorrectly to one of the two men shown
with her at a dinner party in 1959. The man at
the right was not her husband, Alfred S. Bloomingdale. (His identity could not be determined.)
D3
SKIN DEEP
Taking Care of Summer Skin

Summer sun can be glorious with its bronzing rays and natural dose of vitamin D. But along with it comes the dark spots, the photo-aging and the clogged pores.
Here, three facialists who have been heating up the beauty scene with their deft skills (and celebrity clientele) suggest the best skin care remedies for the season.
BEE SHAPIRO
Shani Darden
West Hollywood, Calif. Ms. Darden has an office behind her house where
she conducts her sessions. To schedule a
custom facial ($300), call 310-745-3150.
LOCATION
Chrissy Teigen, Rosie

Huntington-Whiteley and Jessica Alba. Ms.
Alba, in fact, was her first celebrity client
when Ms. Darden was still working at the
Kinara Skin Care Clinic & Spa in West
Hollywood.
FAMOUS CLIENTELE
A native of upstate New York,

Ms. Darden first headed to Los Angeles as
a model. Its pretty embarrassing, she
said. I mostly was cast in music videos.
(Some highlights include clips in LL Cool
Js Phenomenon and Destinys Child No,
No, No.) She later apprenticed at dermatologist offices and spas and has been
practicing as an aesthetician for the last 11
years.
BACKGROUND
STEPHANIE NORITZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The British facialist Georgia Louise recommends deep cleansing to relieve pores in the summer.
Georgia Louise
Upper East Side (114 East 71st
Street; 212-472-1400). Custom facials with
Ms. Louise are $500, or try one of her
associates, whose fees start at $300.
LOCATION
The influential fashion

set, including Alexander Wang, Linda
Evangelista, the makeup artist Gucci Westman and the photographer Mario Testino.
FAMOUS CLIENTELE
A British expat who had an

established atelier in London for years, Ms.
Louise moved to New York to be with her
American husband six years ago and set up
shop shortly after.
BACKGROUND
Ms. Louise said shes known for

her mixture of holistic (e.g. reiki, crystals
and even Tibetan sound bowls) and aesthetic (read: with machines) options and
will tailor the balance to the clients preferences. New Yorkers are more highly
strung, and they want a quick fix, she said.
When I say the appointment will take an
hour and a half, Ill often get: What are
you going to do in an hour and a half? I
SIGNATURE
need to be in and out in 60 minutes. In

Europe, women take more time looking
after their skin and with more alternative
therapies. Here its, Im going to a dermatologist for an injection.
Im someone who can tackle a

problem, Ms. Darden said, adding that she
favors simplifying routines rather than
adding more product. I get a lot of referrals from makeup artists who will send me
SIGNATURE
someone with acne. I get their skin back on

track.
The problem I see the most of is people using the
wrong products, such as using La Mer,
which is for dry skin, when its really oily
skin they have, Ms. Darden said.
For the warmer months, she suggests a
lighter hand all around. Avoid strong chemical peels, which can cause hyperpigmentation, she said, noting that a lactic acid peel
is a mild choice. I make sure everyone is
wearing sunscreen of course, she added.
Also switch to lighter moisturizers
maybe gel formulas.
Ms. Darden is partial to a small line from
California called Control Corrective. She
recommends the Aroma Matte sunscreen,
Oil Free Healing Lotion and Hydrant Stabilizer (a gel formula). If its acne thats
become your summer foe, she suggests
heading to a trusted facialist for a session
of LED lights. I use infrared, blue and red
lights, she said. Blue, I use especially for
acne it kills bacteria.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUMMER
Im deepcleansing more because people are clogging their skin with sunblock and just
sweating more, Ms. Louise said. Your
skin needs to breathe. That includes extractions, masks tailored to skin type, and
blasts of saline water dispensed from a
high-speed machine to clear away the
gunk.
For at-home care, Ms. Louise suggests
layering multiple water-based serums and
toners (she particularly likes the Srum
Colostrum from Biologique Recherche, the
Rehydrating Ginseng toner from Elemis
and the oil-free Hydra Repair Elixir from
her own line). Your skin is seasonal it
changes, she said. You do need to change
your skin care.
EMILY BERL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
In the warmer months, Shani Darden suggests light or gel moisturizers for her California clients.
Aida Bicaj
Upper East Side (30 East 67th
Street, fifth floor; 212-861-1007). The starting price for a signature facial with Ms.
Bicaj is $595, although associates in her
office will perform similar services for
$450.
LOCATION
The whos who of the

fashion set (Jenna Lyons, Mary-Kate and
Ashley Olsen), with a few actresses (Jennifer Connelly) for good measure.
FAMOUS CLIENTELE
Originally from Kosovo, Ms.

Bicaj moved to New York in 1992. She has
been working as an aesthetician for more
than 20 years.
BACKGROUND
If you have good skin and good

hair, you can wear anything and look like a
million dollars, Ms. Bicaj said. I exercise
skin with my hands. I believe in constant
stimulation of blood circulation. If you
stimulate your skins circulation every day,
you can erase lines.
SIGNATURE
STEPHANIE NORITZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Upper East Sides Aida Bicaj stands by stimulating skin and using balancing products in the summer.
Ms. Bicaj
focuses on calming and hydrating skin. Its
a very strong sun out there, even if youre
just walking in the street, she said. She
may start with a gentle powder-based
exfoliation before using her Manual Lift
face massage techniques. She
finishes the service with hydrating and oxygenating
products (she prefers the
I F YO U H AV E
Biologique Recherche line
GO O D S K I N A N D
and also the Beauty Drops
GO O D H A I R , YO U
and Crme Extreme from
CA N W E A R
Future, an Israeli skin care
A NY TH I NG .
company) depending on the
skins needs.
To stock your own vanity, Ms.
Bicaj suggests looking for balancing products. Purifying products tend to dry out
skin, she said. But balancing products can
handle both the suns drying effects and the
humidity.
Let Me Rephrase That

Unhappy with the tattoos of
their youth, some people have
old designs covered up.
Clients seeking reimagined designs are

giving tattoo artists new avenues for creativity. When a client came to Sarah Gaugler, the owner of Snow Tattoo in New York,
seeking help with a faded tribal armband
tattoo, Ms. Gaugler designed a Victorianesque woman, using the old tribal design to appear as if it were a lace collar
around the womans neck.
You get something when youre younger
By HAYLEY KRISCHER
Jo Galvis was 15 years old when she got a

tattoo on the center of her lower back. She
had been fighting with her family and living
at a friends house. What better way to infuriate her parents?
Ms. Galvis, who is now 29 and lives in
Queens, grew up in Colombia, where she
just walked into a tattoo parlor in Bogot
and glanced at a sheet of paper crammed
with popular design choices that hung on
the wall.
She liked one design of a Japanese character (the meaning of which she did not
know) and a tribal tattoo with a black curvy
design (the cultural meaning of which she
did not know). She chose the tribal tattoo. I
didnt think very much about what I was
getting, Ms. Galvis said.
Fifteen years later, Ms. Galvis is the exhibitions and administrative assistant at
the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and
Lesbian Art in SoHo. She is no longer a rebellious teenager.
She now finds herself embarrassed by
the original tattoo, in part because she doesnt want to be a party to the cultural appropriation of an aborigine symbol and because lower-back tattoos have come to take
on a derogatory name: the tramp stamp.
In the past year, it really bothered me,
Ms. Galvis said. She considered removing
the tattoo, but she had heard that removal
was painful and expensive. Through a
friend, she met Henric Nielsen, a traveling
tattoo artist currently working at Allied Tattoo in Brooklyn.
New designs can be

better thought out than
what lies beneath.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE ETHEREDGE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Nielsen and Ms. Galvis discussed a

new, larger design an oversize, intricately drawn rose that would change the
entire scope of the tattoo. I feel really
happy about it, she said of her cover-up tattoo, which she had done last month for $900.
Some people in their 30s and 40s are having their out-of-favor tattoos refreshed
(through a process referred to as blasting
over) or reimagined altogether. The new design tends to be better thought out and researched than that which lies beneath it.
Melissa Haims, 44, a sculptor who lives in
Philadelphia, had not realized until she
glimpsed a photograph of herself in a bikini
how pregnancy had changed the shape of a
Jo Galvis had an elaborate rose

tattoo (left) applied to conceal
an old tattoo. The previous
design, a tribal tattoo with
curved lines, can be seen in the
photo at right, beneath the
leaves of the rose.
star tattooed on the small of her back when

she was 21.
With the expansion and contraction of
my skin throughout my pregnancy and life,
the tattoo really looked horrible, she said.
So last year, Ms. Haims decided on a lotus to
cover up the original tattoo.
Her tattoo artist, Eric Eaton of the Electric Temple in Philadelphia, designed a
blastover so that a purple heart covered
most of the original brittle star; the lotus
petals rise up from the base of the heart. Ms.
Haims liked the symbolism. A lotus grows
in the mud, and so you have something
beautiful that grows out of something generally ugly, she said.
and it means something to you then, she

said. But then you cant relate to it anymore.
Ms. Gauglers feminine tattooing style
and skill at covering up were why Kate Horgan, 52, who lives in Dublin, went to her studio while on vacation in New York last
month. Ms. Horgan had picked a tiny flower
tattoo from a flash sheet some 30 years ago.
Over the years, it became smudged and distorted. People would ask me what it was,
and it became really annoying, she said.
After a lengthy conversation with Ms.
Gaugler, Ms. Horgan chose a black-inked
sunflower cover-up with three small waves
trailing behind it. The three waves represent three very personal things to me, Ms.
Horgan said.
Amanda Wachob, a tattoo artist in Brooklyn who has been in the business for more
than a decade, attributes the rise in tattoo
refreshers to a higher quality of artwork.
When tattooing evolves in the way that it
has, she said, it opens up the possibility
for people to sort of get more creative than
what was available in tattoo trends five or 10
years ago.
D4
Bedazzling the American Gymnast

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
Martha Karolyi, coordinator for the United

States womens team since 2001, who, along
with her husband, Bela, has been a formative influence on American gymnastics.
But as with any grueling athletic contest
that involves seemingly unimaginable
physical feats accomplished by barely
grown teenagers, it also has to do with competitive psychology, adolescent aesthetics,
sacrifices made by elite athletes and technology.
And it matters because womens gymnastics is one of the most widely viewed
Olympic sports. (When the womens team
won gold in London, the broadcast was the
most watched of any Tuesday night network broadcast since 2002, which, not incidentally, was of the Salt Lake Olympics.) It
is also one of the most commercially influential.
There may not be a lot of young javelin
throwers on neighborhood fields whispering about their favorite Olympians. But in
local gyms all over the country and the
world, girls who may never come anywhere
close to an Olympic stadium can nevertheless dress like their bedazzled heroes. And
they want to.
Which is to say: in sparkles. More
sparkles than Times Square on New Years
Eve.
How did we get here?
LEFT, GREGORY BULL/ASSOCIATED PRESS; ABOVE AND BELOW, CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
In the Beginning
Once upon a time, leotards were simple.
Originally called maillots and popularized
by the acrobat Jules Lotard (a pioneer of
the flying trapeze) in the late 1800s, leotards
as we know them literally took shape in the
mid-20th century, albeit in a much baggier,
utilitarian kind of way.
Donna Strauss, a coach at Parkettes in Allentown, Pa., who has been working with
national gymnasts since 1968, remembers
early leotards as simply black shortsleeved one-pieces. In 1976, when Nadia Comaneci won a gold medal on the uneven
bars with a perfect 10, she did so in a plain
white leotard with three stripes down the
side.
When I started in the 1970s, my leo was
polyester with a zipper down the front, said
Michelle Dusserre Farrell, who at 15 became the youngest member of the 1984
United States gymnastics team. (Among
gymnasts, leotards are generally leos. )
It wasnt until the early 1980s, when they
were made with Lycra, that the leos finally
stopped bagging.
And it wasnt until 1984 and the explosion
of Mary Lou Retton, who won a gold in the
individual all-around (as well as four more
medals) in a stars and stripes leotard,
that bold graphics became a thing. At the
time, Ms. Farrell said: It got pretty mixed
reviews. It wasnt subtle.
When the Karolyis took over in 1988,
things really began to change. We went
from being very patriotic to being much
fancier, said Ms. McKeown of GK Elite.
In the early 1990s, the U.S. team always
wore white, because Martha wanted to
show off their six-packs, Ms. McKeown
said (referring to abs, not beer). Not long
after, the coach began to lean toward purple
and pink and red. Then came the sparkles.
The bedazzling of the leotard began
around the turn of the millennium, with a
few crystals around the neckline or sprinkled over the garment. The crystals made
the gymnast a small girl in a giant arena
stand out in the field of play, highlighting
her often-astonishing movements.
Combined with a fabric called Mystique,
which overlays foil and hologram atop the
spandex to create even more shine, the leotards gymnasts wore became ever glossier,
especially as the crystals crept down the
sleeves and over the body of the garment.
Its always Swarovski: They have the most
shine and sparkle, Ms. McKeown said.
Martha always wants more sparkle, more
sparkle.
Though television brings all the athletes
up close, they can get lost amid the actual
competition on the floor, and shine helps
highlight and distinguish each one. When
the judges are there, every little thing
counts, said Samantha Peszek, a member
of the 2008 Olympic team who is working
for NBCs digital and social content team for
this summers games.
The crystals also serve to emphasize the
aesthetic aspect of a sport that has become
ever more focused on athleticism and tricks
the team competition, the gymnasts have

input and are free to choose their own leotard for the individual events.
During the 2012 London Games, for example, the team voted together to wear the
red Mystique style with a stylized crystal
pattern across the body during the team
competition. It was like a ball gown, Ms.
Liukin said.
Though it may seem as if so many stones
could inhibit performance, Ms. McKeown
said that the additional weight is incidental.
GK also makes couture leotards that have
15,000 crystals each, she said: You wouldnt compete in those. The company has a
fleet of state-of-the-art machines that cost
over $50,000 each and use lasers and robotic technology to apply the stones to the
fabric.
Meanwhile, Swarovski has been working
to change the makeup and cut of its crystals
so that they will be ever lighter to accommodate demand. According to Alexander Wellhoefer, senior vice president for North
America of Swarovski Professional, they
have adapted machinery from the computer-chip industry to develop new techniques
for stone application in ever more complex
and precise patterns.
This autumn, Mr. Wellhoefer said,
Swarovski will introduce a new crystal
product, called a Concise Crystal, that is 50
percent lighter than previous stones, allowing for even more encrustation and refractory gleam.
Were in a crystal arms race, Mr. Wellhoefer said.
The question now is whether we have
reached the crystal saturation point when it
comes to competition, or whether there is
even further to go. I ask myself that every
tournament, Ms. McKeown said. We were
doing a fitting with the girls the other day,
and we all said, Can you imagine what the
leos are going to look like in four years if we
keep going in this direction?
It may seem, given Ms. Karolyis coming
retirement, that we are at a natural turning
point in the sparkle situation. But if Ms.
Biles and her teammates, all known crystalphiles, perform as expected while in full
sparkle mode, chances are good that the
millions of young fans who are watching
will internalize the connection without ever
entirely realizing why.
After all, when asked if there was ever a
gymnast who tended, say, more to the minimalist Helmut Lang school of leotards than
to the fairy princess Marchesa look, Jordyn
Wieber, a member of the gold medal 2012
team who is now a student at U.C.L.A. and
manager of the gymnastics team (which is
known for the creative backs of their leotards), hemmed and hawed and thought for
a while.
Well, I guess some girls like more
sparkle than others, she offered, her voice
trailing off. But, she added more decisively,
I have never met a gymnast who doesnt
love rhinestones.
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to its detriment, some argue. In a way, the

fanciness and drama of the leotards can be
seen as an attempt to correct a perceived
imbalance between artistic power and
physical power: telegraphing the idea that
while our skill level says one thing, our
dress style says another.
The Olympic stadium is the biggest
stage of our lives, Ms. Liukin, the 2008
Olympic gymnast and current NBC
Olympic commentator, said. Note the emphasis on stage. It may seem reductive to
compare Olympic gymnastics to, say, a Vegas arena, but the sartorial theory behind
both is effectively the same: Use the bling to
stand out.
Though other national teams have also
begun to bedazzle, none have reached the
extent of the Americans, who have made it
their signature.
ALLSPORT
Above, Mary Lou Retton, left,

and Nadia Comaneci, right, in
the pre-glitter days. Then came
the crystals: Simone Biles, top
left, at the Olympic trials last
month, and Gabby Douglas, top
right, at the London Games in
2012. Middle, Nastia Liukin at
the Beijing Games in 2008.
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle

One of the odder things about interviewing
an elite female gymnast is how quickly a
conversation about the sacrifices and difficulties of her sport can suddenly become all
ON THE RUNWAY
about sparkle. It is a word that comes up

again and again.
Obviously, sparkles are not an element
in the scoring, Ms. Peszek said. But its
part of the look good, feel good, do good aspect. Its a very important part of the sport.
It may sound trivial, but what you wear really matters. For some girls, its why they
got into the sport.
As the athletes and their coaches point
out, elite gymnasts who start training seriously at a very young age often dont get to
go to prom or other typical adolescent parties because they are always in the gym; it
has become a clich of the sport to refer to
the Olympic competition leotard as the
gymnasts prom dress.
Gymnasts cannot wear jewelry during
competition save for a pair of stud earrings,
so the crystals also act as a stand-in for
other more traditional adornment. Were
hard-core athletes, but we all love fashion,
too, Ms. Liukin said.
Aly Raisman, the captain of the United
States team in Rio and London, is famous
among her peers for her interest in style, especially evening wear.
Each Olympian now receives a package
with eight competition leotards and 12 training leotards. Each is custom-fit to her body,
and on the open retail market, the heavily
crystal-studded competition leotards would
cost an average of $1,200 (more than many
prom dresses).
Though Ms. Karolyi has the final word on
GUY TREBAY
Ralph Lauren Gets Ready to Light Up Rio

Combine the red, white and
blue and wearable technology,
and what do you get?
OF ALL THE marathons leading to the 2016
Olympic Games, the least known is happening now at a Ralph Lauren processing center in Texas. Over four days, a team of fitters
and tailors is racing to outfit 600 athletes
and about 200 coaches with customized uniforms in time for the parade of nations during the opening ceremony on Friday at Maracan Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Its a challenge unlike any other, said David Lauren, executive vice president for
global advertising, marketing and corporate communications for Polo Ralph Lauren. The Rio Games are the fifth time the
brand has clothed the United States
Olympics and Paralympic teams.
Its almost a herculean effort, Mr. Lauren said at the companys Midtown headquarters during a preview of the Olympics
designs. You have this minute gymnast
whos maybe 4-foot-8, and then you have a
basketball player the size of LeBron
James.
RALPH LAUREN
Unsurprisingly, given the occasion and

the fact that the Ralph Lauren brand was
built on a foundation of preppy sportswear,
the uniform is jaunty, conservative and expensive, at nearly $1,500. It comprises a
gold-buttoned navy blazer; striped T-shirt;
slim-cut white selvedge jeans; red, white
and blue boat shoes; navy grosgrain belt,
and striped cotton bracelets.
The American outfits for the

opening ceremony, above. With
the blazers buttoned and the
top three stripes of the shirt
showing, the order of the
colored bars white, blue and
red is identical to that of the
Russian flag, right.
Everything is made in America, Mr.

Lauren said. America should have a moment right now.
There was a slight problem with that
American moment, as social media wags
were quick to note after promotional images of Team USA athletes clad in the outfits were released by the company. With the
blazers buttoned and the top three stripes of
the T-shirt showing, the order of the colored
bars white, blue and red is identical to
the Russian flag. Another Russian hacking
job? Paul Lukas, a writer specializing in
sports fashion, wrote on Twitter.
This was not the first time Ralph Laurens
Olympics uniforms generated controversy.
The company was criticized during the 2012
Games when it was learned that its uniforms had been manufactured in China.
This time around, the uniforms are 100 percent made in the U.S.A., Mr. Lauren said. A
label inside each garment underscores the
point.
(The company had another all-American
moment recently when Hillary Clinton
wore a white Ralph Lauren pantsuit to deliver her acceptance speech at the
Democratic National Convention.)
In casting about for ways to ramp up the
effect of the Team USA uniform without falling afoul of strict International Olympic
Committee guidelines, the Polo Ralph Lauren team seized on the ubiquitous notion of
incorporating wearable technology devised
by Silicon Valley into its designs.
Thus, both the patch affixed to the breast
pocket and the letters U.S.A. on the blazers
yoke have electroluminescent panels powered by an interior battery pack. An initial
plan to light up the entire team for the parade of nations was scrapped, and only the
flag bearer will light the way during the parade Friday. Until then, the tailors are hard
at work.
Theyre literally sewing right down to
the wire, Mr. Lauren said.
D5
SCENE CITY
A Comeback Even a Dog Person Could Love

Cats lands on its feet,
34 years after making its
Broadway debut.
Tituss Burgess, left, and

Tommy Tune, below, at the
premiere of Cats, which
returned to Broadway 34 years
and 7,485 performances after
its original Broadway debut.
By JACOB BERNSTEIN
Thirty-four years and 7,485 performances

after its original Broadway debut, Cats reopened Sunday afternoon at the Neil Simon
Theater on West 52nd Street, where the red
carpet filled with Broadway types and TV
personalities.
Tituss Burgess from Unbreakable
Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix struck a few
poses.
Tommy Tune wore a light summer jacket
and dark glasses, smiling even as he admitted that he never quite understood why
Cats became the phenomenon it did. Im
a dog person, he said. Ill leave it with you
there.
Rosie ODonnell, who appeared a few
minutes later, said: Thats the thing with
this show. Youre either on the cat ship or
youre not. Nearby, a makeup artist
painted whiskers onto the faces of impressionable 7-year-olds.
The shows principal architect, Andrew
Lloyd Webber, is aware of its detractors.
When Cats had its debut on the West End,
he said that American investors expressed
concern. I remember saying, You have to
understand that Cats plays to 50 percent of
the world, and 50 percent of the world will
do pretty well for everyone, he said.
And of course, he was right.
This night, wearing a maroon shirt, he
talked with Cindy Adams about plans for a
movie version of Cats with Tom Hooper,
the director of The Kings Speech. But he
was unsure it was going to work. It depends on whether they can do what we need
with CGI, he said.
Around 5 p.m., a publicist for the show
rounded up Mr. Lloyd Webber and his wife,
Madeleine Gurdon, and took them backstage for more photos.
Alex Brightman, who plays the lead in
Mr. Lloyd Webbers adaptation of School of
Rock, was there, wearing his AC/DC-inspired costume. A few feet away was a
masked and caped James Barbour, whos
starring in The Phantom of the Opera.
In walked Leona Lewis, who was making
her Cats debut as Grizabella. She wore a
pile of cat makeup and a stringy faux fur
coat reminiscent of Cyndi Lauper in her
Screaming Mimis days.
This is madness, Mr. Brightman said as
the group got into formation with Mr. Lloyd
Webber and photographers began snapping away. Were like a fruit salad of Andrew Lloyd Webber productions.
The lights in the front of the house
dimmed, and the performance began.
There were thin cats and fat cats, cats in
Lycra and cats in fake fur. There were cats
played by white actors and cats played by
black actors. If theres any show with no
casting barriers, its Cats, Mr. Lloyd
Webber said two hours later as guests
headed into Gotham Hall for the after-party.
The theme was the Jellicle Ball. The D.J.s
AndrewAndrew played vintage David Bowie, and food stations served pasta and
grilled salmon. Members of the cast took to
the dance floor, where they struck cat poses.
Milling about on the side was the musician Jack Antonoff, walking around with his
sister, Rachel Antonoff. He understands
why people have issues with the show
(Youre not crazy not to like Cats, he
said), but nevertheless counts himself
among its faithful.
To me, Cats and Pink Flamingos touch
the same nerve, he said. And the music is
unbelievable.
Right, from left, Alex

Brightman, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, James Barbour (in
Phantom mask) and Leona
Lewis, who is making her
Broadway debut as Grizabella;
below, the after-party at
Gotham Hall; bottom, the cast
members, from left, Callan
Bergmann, Giuseppe Bausilio,
Francesca Granell,
Christopher Gurr, Jess Le
Protto, Claire Camp, Kolton
Krause, Jessica Hendy and
Ahmad Simmons.
Above, Mr. Lloyd Webber, the

shows principal architect; left,
Jack Antonoff and his sister
Rachel Antonoff (pink hair);
below, cast members at the
after-party, where the theme
was the Jellicle Ball.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY REBECCA SMEYNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Over (Organic) Dinner, Fitness Mavens Work It Out

Three studio owners dish on
health, beauty and why New
Yorkers are in the best shape.
By MARISA MELTZER
When Vanessa Packer, the founder of the fitness studio modelFIT, gets together for a
monthly dinner with her fellow fitness-studio-owning friends Alexandra Bonetti
Prez (of the cardio-dance Bari studio) and
Sarah Larson-Levey (of the yoga chain Y7),
they indulge.
Who wants some ros? asked Ms.
Packer, 32, as she finished preparations on
the kale salad with grilled halloumi cheese,
zucchini carpaccio with fresh herbs and
toasted pistachios, and the warm farro with
radish and yams that is a riff on a salad at
the restaurant Charlie Bird.
The three women have a monthly supper
club that rotates menu and locations. I
emailed them one day and was like, Lets
all meet up, said Ms. Bonetti Prez, who is
30 and a management consultant.
Her peers saw the benefits. Camaraderie is important, Ms. Packer said. We all
want to do something different within
health and wellness, so why not join as a
united front instead of being catty and
judgey?
On this evening, they gathered in Ms.
Packers SoHo loft. On the walls were vintage posters from France, African masks
and a drawing of a beer bottle and a flower
by the artist Aurel Schmidt. There were collections of crystals on a windowsill, bowls of
sage to burn and pieces of orange Le
Creuset cookware in the kitchen. Jazz from
her collection of vinyl records played softly
in the background.
Everything is local and organic and delicious and amazing, Ms. Packer, a certified
holistic nutritionist from the Institute for In-
NINA WESTERVELT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tegrative Nutrition, said of the meal. Running a business, having a social life, cooking
for an army, you know just a normal day.
The women talked about the scene in
New York City versus that of Los Angeles.
New York was late to the wellness game,
but we overpowered everything, Ms.
Packer said. Its in our DNA to make things
more intense. Im working on a space in
L.A., but its fickle, and you need parking.
People dont like to work out as hard in
L.A., Ms. Bonetti Prez said.
Well, people are going hiking, Ms.
Packer said.
They like to be seen, said Ms. LarsonLevey, 29. She has been spending time in
From left, the fitness

entrepreneurs Alexandra
Bonetti Prez, Vanessa Packer
and Sarah Larson-Levey at
their monthly supper club.
Los Angeles since opening a Y7 studio on

Melrose Avenue this year. After I spend
time in L.A., theres nowhere Id rather be
than New York, she added.
All three women were dressed in black
Ms. Packer in a slinky dress, Ms. LarsonLevey in a tank and faded jeans and Ms.
Bonetti Prez in a jumpsuit with cutouts.
They recognize the connection among fitness, beauty and fashion. People invest in
their workout wardrobe more than their
dinner wardrobe now, Ms. Packer said. I
still wear my old concert tees but with cool
leggings and rad sneakers.
Ms. Bonetti Prez, who is from Venezuela, said: In South America, we make fun of
how Americans are all in their sweatpants.

Now you see South Americans come into
New York to shop for leggings.
She said she is a product junkie.
Im into weird stuff: I use snail cream,
said Ms. Bonetti Prez, who is pregnant
with her first child. Im terrified of stretch
marks.
I like to do dry-brushing every day, Ms.
Packer said, referring to a type of exfoliating. I do oil-pulling sometimes twice a day.
I do reiki and acupuncture, too. For facials, I
go to Sophie at Aida Bicaj. Im really big into
face masks. I do them while I do other
things. Like, Ill cook dinner, Ill do emails,
and then sometimes I forget and the FedEx
guy is there, and Im wearing a mask.
Ms. Larson-Levey recommended Kalisa
Augustine, a crystal healer in the city. I
started going to her a little over a year ago,
she said. She reads your energy. Its a good
way to connect with your body.
This was the evenings sole moment of
contention. Im against them, Ms. Bonetti
Prez said of crystals. I wish people wouldnt take them from where they grow.
Over dessert of medjool dates, vegan
salted caramel ice cream and vanilla ice
cream made from goats milk, Ms. Packer
pulled out a copy of Life magazine that she
had found at her mothers apartment. It was
an issue from November 1978.
They paused to look at an article on running. Those shoes have no support whatsoever, Ms. Packer pointed out, and then
began to read aloud from an article about
music: The beat is literally a gallop. She
paused to giggle. The name of this latest
epidemic of the dancing sickness is disco.
Elsewhere in the magazine, there was a
long article about pandas, and an ad for Le
Car (built by Renault) and many cigarette
advertisements.
Life was so wholesome then, she said.
Everyone laughed.
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Needle, Thread and Instagram

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
chines make sample garments; and a photo

studio, where models pose for simple shoots
that emphasize the clothes, rather than sex
or sizzle.
For the 80 or so employees, home sewing
is not so much a retro thing as it is a timeless
pursuit.
Ive done this long enough to know that
people have it in their hearts, said Carolyne
Cafaro, the creative director. There could
be one pattern company left in the world,
but I do think people will always sew.
Ms. Cafaros brief is to oversee the creation of some 700 patterns each year for the
four lines that fall under the McCall Pattern
Company banner. Each of the lines McCalls, Butterick, Kwik Sew and Vogue Patterns (its name licensed from Cond Nast)
has its own catalog, which sewing enthusiasts find at fabric shops.
Meg McDonald, who two years ago became the companys first social media manager, said she was troubled recently when
she came across a photo of one of McCalls
distinctively illustrated envelopes in a nostalgic Do You Remember? post on Facebook. There it was, a representation of the
company she works for, alongside rotary
phones and carousel slide projectors taken
from the collective cultural attic.
So heres a perfect example of the Huh,
you guys are still in business? thing that
happens to us all the time, Ms. McDonald
wrote in an email.
But if there is a sense in the broader culture that the McCall Pattern Company belongs to the Betty Draper past, the opposite
view is held among 21st-century sewers.
The patterns created here are blueprints,
essential enablers for do-it-yourselfminded women and men who want to look
stylish without plunking down thousands at
a department store or the latest pop-up
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
shop.
Gretchen Hirsch, a blogger, author and
pattern designer who began sewing seriously 10 years ago when she was in her 20s,
said the process of picking out a McCall pattern has not changed from when she visited
fabric stores with her mother as a girl in the
1980s.
Going to a Jo-Anns and seeing those
same old metal filing cabinets with the McCalls and Butterick patterns inside you
know, the tissue, the instructions and the little envelope I found it enormously comforting, Ms. Hirsch said.
Considerable emotion is attached to the
process of making a garment from scratch.
In an essay published last year on Lena
Dunhams online newsletter, Lenny, Jenna
Lyons, the creative director of J. Crew,
wrote lovingly of a watermelon skirt she
made in seventh grade using a Butterick
pattern. It was a creative act that boosted
her self-esteem, increased her social status
among her classmates and set her on her
career path, she wrote.
A new appreciation for artisanal crafts
has led the Etsy generation to embrace
sewing. Once done mainly out of economic
necessity, making clothes at home is back in
fashion, relatively speaking.
Places like Brooklyn Stitchery teach
newbies, and a four-day sewing retreat
called Camp Workroom Social is held each
year in the Catskills. Vintage McCall patterns licensed from designers like Diane
von Furstenberg or Dior command hundreds of dollars on eBay.
The New York designer Rachel Comey
has licensed her patterns to McCall since
2010, where they appear under the Vogue
Patterns brand. She didnt do it for the
money. I just like the tradition of it, Ms.
Comey said. Sewing is a great craft. Its exciting and confidence building. I wanted to
support it.
Going Social
Lately, McCall has been mining its past to
build a bridge to the future, posting images
from its impressive archive to social media
sites like Instagram and Pinterest. One of
the publications showing its wares, Vogue
Patterns, is a fashion treasure trove, and
looking through old issues underscores the
historical ties between the pattern companies, high fashion and Hollywood.
Famous faces jump out on almost every
page. Theres Iman and Christie Brinkley
modeling sportswear at the dawn of their
careers in October 1977. Theres Alexander
Liberman, the legendary Cond Nast art director, on the masthead in an issue in 1958.
And isnt that a baby-faced Marc Jacobs
posed beside a girl wearing the striped
jacket and pants he designed for Perry Ellis
in 1990?
Vogue Patterns was always the highfashion bible for the advanced sewer, and
the work from the star designers that appeared in its pages, including Givenchy,
Christian Dior and Valentino, dispelled the
Behnaz Livian, top center, the

director of patternmaking at
the McCall Pattern Company in
Manhattan, discusses the cut of
a dress with Jacqueline
Polikoff, a designer. Above,
from left: Penny Payne
overesees the fabric library; in
a 1980s catalog from the
companys archive, Brooke
Shields models a dress from her
collection; in a 1990 issue of
Vogue Patterns, Marc Jacobs
poses with a model wearing an
ensemble he designed for Perry
Ellis. Below, the 1969-70 Vogue
Pattern Book featured haute
couture styles for the
accomplished home sewing
enthusiast.
To liven up its product,

McCall has struck deals
with popular sewing
bloggers and turned
them into designers.
notion that homemade clothing was frumpy

or for the members of religious cults.
For those who love the substance of fashion more than the hoopla that surrounds it,
working for Vogue Patterns was and is
the ultimate.
This is going to sound corny, but Vogue
Patterns was my dream job, Ms. Cafaro
said. My mother and grandmother sewed
and taught me to sew when I was young. I
really loved it.
But the energetic Ms. Cafaro may be better suited to the more wide-ranging job of
creative director. I have the attention span
of a gnat, she said.
She started in the industry in the late
1970s, selling Vogue Patterns in Bloomingdales, and she remembers with fondness
the luxe days, when she and her colleagues
traveled to Europe to meet with designers.
We would take 10- to 12-day trips to Paris,
London, Milan, she said. Life was good.
Part of the goal of posting the archive images, said Ms. McDonald, is to spark curiosity among young people, many of whom
were not taught sewing in school. To liven
up its product, McCall has struck deals with
popular sewing bloggers and turned them
into designers.
Ms. Hirsch, who blogs under the name
Gertie and dresses in a retro rockabilly way,
has appeared on the cover of the Butterick
catalog and releases Patterns by Gertie.
Another blogger turned designer, who
works for the McCalls line, is Nikki BrooksRevis, 36. She began sewing only four years
ago, she said, after amending her long-held
view: My thought was old people sew.
Young, hip people did not sew.
Ms. Brooks-Revis started a personal
fashion blog and discovered sewing as a
way to produce an ever-changing wardrobe
on a budget. She loved the way she could alter a pattern and customize a garment.
Sewing patterns were, in a sense, the
original fast fashion: a quick, affordable,
stylish option before the advent of the $20
H & M dress. One of the companys greatest
hits is the Walkaway dress, a Butterick pat-
tern from 1952.

It was called the Walkaway dress because you could sit down at a sewing machine in the morning and walk away wearing it to lunch, Ms. Cafaro said. The pattern
is still available in the Butterick catalog,
reissued for a new generation.
A Family Atmosphere
Many McCall employees exhibit the same
constancy as the patterns: They have been
with the company for decades. Theres a
family atmosphere among the staff and an
awareness that they occupy a unique place
in the industry, far from the hype of Times
Square billboards and runways teeming
with pouty fashion bots.
Behnaz Livian, an Iranian immigrant and
director of the patternmaking department,
has worked at McCall for 26 years. Gwenn
Wright, a dressmaker, has been there 33
years. Frank Rizzo, the chief executive,
used to work with Ms. Cafaro at Simplicity
patterns, a rival company. After all these
years he cant operate a sewing machine.
Dont bring it up, he said. They
threatened to make me learn to sew.
Penny Payne, who oversees the fabric library, went to work for Vogue-Butterick in
1987 after a modeling career. One recent afternoon, wearing a blue Donna Karan dress,
a Vogue Patterns design she picked up at
the office sample sale, Ms. Payne sat at a
work table.
A bright space filled with large flip boards
affixed with the latest swatches, buttons,
zippers and other notions, the library is the
hub of the McCall office, a crucial resource
for the designers, fashion editors and patternmakers, who must know whats available on the market for home sewers.
The pattern business is a dynamic crossroads of several industries, Ms. Payne said.
The timing and the schedules feel like publishing, she said. Its trend and fashion, so
its like a magazine. But we actually
produce something.
Behind her were color-trend boards from
a presentation she gave the day before to
representatives from the crafts chain
Hobby Lobby. My skill set has so many different layers, and all of it would not be used
at another company, Ms. Payne said. I feel
blessed to be a part of it.
The four staff designers expressed a similar satisfaction, despite the workload: At
any time they may be focused on 20 to 30
pattern styles, each with three or four
variations.
Jacqueline Polikoff, who designs for the
McCalls brand, joined the company five
years ago after working for a junior contemporary line in mass manufacturing. Although she no longer sees her designs in
stores, she said it was surprisingly rewarding to see how home sewers interpret her
patterns.
At the end of the day, theyre the designer, said Ms. Polikoff, who notices when
sewers post their outfits to social media.
Carlos Correa, who has been at the com-
pany 25 years and now designs for the

Vogue Patterns line, once worked at Elie
Tahari and as Geoffrey Beenes assistant.
But he became disillusioned. The things
the magazines would go crazy about would
end up living in the archives, he said. Nobody actually bought them.
Mr. Correa still deals with Seventh Avenue; about half the styles for Vogue Patterns are licensed from well-known companies like Badgley Mischka, Tracy Reese and
Rachel Comey. But, he said: You get to see
people making these things and wearing
them in real life. And creatively, its very fulfilling.
For Keeps
The pattern industry isnt wholly immune
to modern realities. McCall and its competitors have introduced downloadable patterns as a nod to changing times.
They have also faced business challenges
due to changes in how people shop. Last
February, the chain Hancock Fabrics filed
for bankruptcy, closing 185 stores. The
cause, in part, was the consumers shift to
buying online.
Smaller independent fabric stores have
also closed, leaving McCall ever more reliant on the big craft chains like Jo-Ann and
Hobby Lobby. Budget and staff cuts have
caused its employees to take on more roles.
The trips to the fashion capitals of Europe
are a thing of the past.
Five months after the Hancock bankruptcy, McCall employees were still digesting the fact that one of their largest retail
partners was kaput. Nevertheless, they had
to get on with the work of turning out those
700 patterns.
Ms. Cafaro met in her office with a merchandising manager, Leslie Sondy, and a
veteran designer, Doree Epstein, to choose
the spring 2017 patterns for the Butterick
line, which, Ms. Cafaro noted, is retro in
style.
Pinned to a large board were printouts of
some 35 looks, from prom gown to athleisure top. Except for the cut of the clothes
and a computer program that aids in patternmaking, little about the process was different from the days when the Walkaway
was first produced.
When the final 25 styles were selected,
Ms. Cafaro and her team would work with
the patternmaking and dressmaking departments to produce sample garments.
Then the patterns would be sent to the McCall facility in Manhattan, Kan., where they
would be printed on tissue paper.
By now the McCall Pattern Company has
outlasted the mainstream womens magazine that it spawned in 1873 (and which was
finally shuttered, after changes in ownership, in 2002). Never has Ms. Cafaro
thought her industry would be made obsolete.
Whatever changes may come, she has no
plans to look for other work. Once youre in
this for this many years, youre in this to
stay, she said.
D7
The Doortrait Artists
JULIETA SEBA (@WNDFRAMES)
Groznjan, Croatia
SORAYA BEN HADJ (@DOORSEVERYWHERE)
Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
ABDULLAH ALRIYAMI (@ALRIYAMIABDULLAH)
Al Manzfah, Oman
CHARLES SAGINAW (@CSAGINAW)
Safed, Israel
SORAYA BEN HADJ (@DOORSEVERYWHERE)
La Marsa, Tunisia
SOPHIA GOLDBERG (@SOPHIA.GB)
TAMARA YUROVSKY (@OLIVER_THEWIREFOX)
Instagram users around the

world find that doors are
windows to a places soul.
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Every morning Tamara Yurovsky takes her

wire fox terrier, Oliver, for a walk in Vinegar
Hill, an enclave of Greek Revival homes
built in the 1830s along the Brooklyn waterfront. Along the way he preens for photographs posted by Ms. Yurovsky on the Instagram account @oliver_thewirefox.
He totally owns it, Ms. Yurovsky said,
adding, If Oliver feels like directing, then
you have to go with the flow.
Oliver is certainly a cute little guy, but the
real stars of many of Ms. Yurovskys photographs are the neighborhoods doors, windows and facades.
Doors say a lot about a place, she said.
But they also conceal many possible realities.
Such photographs belong to a genre all
their own (doortraits, as they are called
on Instagram), and they are surging in popularity.
While much of the internet these days
seems like a dysfunctional family split
along social and political lines, the doorcrazed Instagram users belong to a harmonious community.
You can find accounts focused on doors
from Iran, Italy, Nicaragua, Stockholm and
Stockton, Calif.
Martha Reyes, who lives in Florida, and
Katie Smith, from London, teamed up recently to start @ihaveathingforwalls, an account that brings together photos of mostly
doors and windows from Instagram accounts around the world.
MARTHA REYES (CURATOR OF @IHAVEATHINGFORWALLS)
General Villamil Playas, Ecuador
London
Seattle
AUSTIN HODGES (@AUSTINXC04)
Philadelphia
AUSTIN HODGES (@AUSTINXC04)
Philadelphia
JULIE GEBHARDT (@JULIEGEB)
San Francisco
The two women have never met in person, but after seeing each others photographs, they decided to collaborate. They
communicate mostly using WhatsApp and
split weekly oversight of the Instagram account, which has roughly 40,000 followers.
For Ms. Reyes, who said that she suffers
from kidney disease, Instagram is a welcome distraction. I was getting depressed
and the only thing to take me out of that was
a picture, she said. It took my thoughts
away from the pain.
Present-day doortraits are rooted in
paintings past. Seventeenth-century Dutch
painters portrayed doors and windows as a
bridge between worlds: home and street
life, worldliness and spirituality. In the
1800s, the first photographers harkened
back to those themes, among them the
British inventor William Henry Fox Talbot,
whose The Open Door, was a conscious
mirroring of the Dutch masters.
It evokes a kind of voyeurism, wondering what is going on behind a door or window, said Erin Barnett, the director of exhibitions and collections for the International Center of Photography in Downtown
Manhattan.
In the mid-1970s, the photographer Roy
Colmer captured more than 3,000 doors in
Manhattan, and the pictures are now part of
the collection at the New York Public Library. Mr. Colmers inspiration, according
to Elizabeth Cronin, the librarys assistant
curator of photography, was Aldous Huxleys Doors of Perception.
Ms. Cronin said that Mr. Colmer was interested in street life, and photographing
doors gave him a certain cover. No one was
noticing these doors, and it gave him a
sense of freedom, she said.
SOPHIA GOLDBERG (@SOPHIA.GB)
London
Above, images of doors on

Instagram, a documentation of
neighborhoods and local
culture that make each place
stand out. The photographs,
called doortraits on
Instagram, are rooted in
paintings past.
Andrew Howell, a graphic designer who

lives in suburban London, said attending
church services as a young boy sparked his
interest in urban portals; for one, he wondered what mystery lurked behind the
church towers closed door. (Bells, he later
found out.)
Now he can be found, camera in hand,
wandering
East
London
for
his
@doors_of_england Instagram account,
which has more than 5,800 followers.
You could be in 18th-century London, he
said of the neighborhood he is chronicling.
I want to document it while it is still there.
Julie Gebhardt, a hairdresser who works
in San Francisco and has 47,000 Instagram
followers for her door-centric account, has
started leading a neighborhood door tour
for her new Instagram friends. We go into
a neighborhood they normally wouldnt go
to, she said. There is beauty in the ordinary. Maybe it is not super picturesque. But
you can show the beauty of decay.
Some of the doortrait takers find their
friends and family puzzled by their obsession with something so far from the usual
Instagram fare of rainbows, cute animals
and Sunday brunch.
Soraya Ben Hadj, a digital marketing consultant who grew up in Tunisia but now lives
in Paris, said a friend chided her once because of the subject matter of her Instagram account, @doorseverywhere.
He said: Look, you are taking pictures
of closed doors. That means you are not
open-minded, she said. For some people,
that is something negative. For me, its not
at all negative. I use my imagination. I confess, sometimes I see someone going in.
That gives humanity to the place. A door is a
path to somewhere else.
Abdullah Alriyami, a writer from Oman

who lives in Rabat, Morocco, began taking
doortraits in Morocco and Oman a few
years ago when he got his first smartphone.
He is concerned that globalization will
obliterate local culture and with it, the doors
and windows that make each place unique.
In Morocco, for instance, many of the wooden doors he photographs are hand-carved
with elaborate decorations. Others are
brightly painted or forged in metal and
hammered into shape.
Mr. Alriyami was interviewed by email,
with translations by his daughter, Maryam
Al Tubi, a student at the University of South
Carolina. Doors and windows in architecture are just like the eyes in people, Mr. Alriyami wrote. It is through your eyes that I
know about you and we communicate better. A door is not just a tool for security and
protection, it is a cultural symbol of a human being.
The one thing that distinguishes one door
from another is the person behind it. Oliver,
Ms. Yurovskys terrier, has more than 11,400
followers and a canine buddy in Scotland
with whom he swaps scarves. Ms. Yurovsky
too helped create a hashtag for dog owners
to share photos of dogs and doors; it already has nearly 1,000 posts.
A worry shared by many of those who
take part in this Instagram genre is that the
people on the other side of the doors may
not appreciate the intrusion of a stranger
with a camera. I do get worried in certain
neighborhoods that people might get upset, said Ms. Yurovsky, who photographs
her terrier in Brooklyn. Luckily, her dog is a
polite New Yorker.
For the record, she said, Oliver has
never gone to the bathroom on anyones
door.
D8
Convention Style
THEY LET THEIR OUTFITS DO THE TALKING
At the Republican National

Convention in Cleveland,
clockwise from above: Texas
delegates in cowboy hats; a
Montana delegate in a denim
vest; the high-heeled shoes of a
Texas delegate; the New
Mexico delegates, from left,
Andrea Moore, Susan
Throckmorton and Nemesia
Padilla in bedazzled caps; a
Tennessee delegate, Bruce
Griffey, wearing a Davy
Crockett-style hat.
Along with adding their voices to a contentious political discourse, the delegates and volunteers at the recent
conventions in Philadelphia and Cleveland made some bold fashion statements.
At the Democratic
National Convention in
Philadelphia, clockwise
from top left: Edgar
Baker Phillips, a
rooster-headed delegate
from the United States
Virgin Islands; Bill Cole,
a Pennsylvania delegate,
in a straw boater; Liz
Cohen, left, Gretchen
Davidson, center, and
Doreen Hermlin,
delegates from Michigan,
in blue bandannas; Anna
Promey-Fallot, a
volunteer, in a Hillary
skirt she made herself; a
Bernie Sanders
supporter with a tiara.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTIAN HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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