GLOBAL SHOCKS AFTER UPHEAVAL IN BRITAIN

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GLOBAL SHOCKS AFTER UPHEAVAL IN BRITAIN
Cameron to Quit
as E.U. Aims
for Rebirth
Investors Gripped
by a Panic Last
Seen in ’08
By PETER S. GOODMAN
By STEVEN ERLANGER
LONDON — First came the
shock. Then fear seized world
markets. As frenzied selling accelerated in Tokyo, Hong Kong and
London, unfathomable amounts
of wealth vanished in a matter of
hours.
In crudest outlines, the panic
that followed Britain’s vote to quit
the European Union traced the
2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event that turned an unfolding financial crisis into the
bleakest economic downturn
since the Great Depression. The
similarities hung uneasily over
markets on Friday, presenting a
grim question: How ugly might
things get?
As economists pored over the
rout like accident investigators
dispatched to the scene of a crash,
most offered assurances that a
Lehman-style financial panic was
not unfolding. In that debacle,
investors indiscriminately fled all
assets connected to the disastrous
American housing bubble. Mortgages had been carved into exotic
investments and peddled around
the globe, meaning they lurked
everywhere. Distrust spread like
a virus.
This time, the source of the trouble is both identifiable and relatively confined. Britain and the 27
remaining members of the European Union face significant uncertainty in their economic and financial dealings as they embark on
complex divorce proceedings.
Fears that drawn-out negotiations
could
disrupt
trade
prompted investors to push their
money toward safety. As night fell
in London, the British pound was
down more than 7 percent. Stock
markets plummeted around the
globe; the Standard & Poor’s 500stock index closed down 3.6 percent in New York. London closed
down a similar margin, and Tokyo
surrendered more than 4 percent.
Continued on Page B2
LONDON — Britain’s startling
decision to pull out of the European Union set off a cascade of aftershocks on Friday, costing
Prime Minister David Cameron
his job, plunging the financial
markets into turmoil and leaving
the country’s future in doubt.
The decisive win by the “Leave”
campaign exposed deep divides:
young versus old, urban versus
rural, Scotland versus England.
The recriminations flew fast, not
least at Mr. Cameron, who had
made the decision to call the referendum on membership in the bloc
to manage a rebellion in his own
Conservative Party, only to have it
destroy his government and tarnish his legacy.
The result of the so-called
Brexit vote presented another
stiff challenge to the leaders of the
other leading European powers as
they confront spreading populist
anger. It was seized on by far-right
and anti-Brussels parties across
Europe, with Marine Le Pen of the
National Front in France calling
for a “Frexit” referendum and
Geert Wilders of the Party for
Freedom in the Netherlands calling for a “Nexit.”
European officials met in Brussels to begin discussing a response and to emphasize their
commitment to strengthening
and improving the bloc, which will
have 27 members after Britain’s
departure.
“At stake is the breakup, pure
and simple, of the union,” Prime
Minister Manuel Valls of France
said, adding, “Now is the time to
invent another Europe.”
Germany urged calm. “Today
marks a turning point for Europe,”
Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
“It is a turning point for the European unification process.”
Financial markets swooned as
it became apparent that the Leave
forces would prevail, with the
Continued on Page A8
HANNAH M cKAY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
A taxi driver in London on Friday, a day after Britons voted to leave the European Union. The withdrawal process may take years.
Strength of Populist Revolt Is Felt on Both Sides of the Atlantic
By JIM YARDLEY
LONDON — From Brussels to
Berlin to Washington, leaders of
the Western democratic world
awoke Friday morning to a blunt,
once-unthinkable rebuke delivered by the flinty citizens of a
small island nation in the North
Atlantic. Populist anger against
the established political order had
finally boiled over.
The British had rebelled.
Their stunning vote to leave the
European Union presents a political, economic and existential
crisis for a bloc already reeling
from entrenched problems. But
the thumb-in-your-eye message is
hardly limited to Britain. The
same yawning gap between the
elite and mass opinion is fueling a
populist backlash in Austria,
France, Germany and elsewhere
on the Continent — as well as in
the United States.
The symbolism of trans-Atlantic insurrection was rich on Friday: Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee and embodiment of
American fury, happened to be
visiting Britain.
“Basically, they took back their
country,” Mr. Trump said Friday
morning from Scotland, where he
was promoting his golf courses.
Rebellious Voters Lash
Out Against Elites
“That’s a good thing.”
Asked where public anger was
greatest, Mr. Trump said: “U.K.
U.S. There’s plenty of other places.
This will not be the last.”
Even as the European Union
began to grapple with a new and
potentially destabilizing period of
political uncertainty, the British
vote will also inevitably be seized
upon as further evidence of
deepening public unease with the
global economic order. Globalization and economic liberalization
have produced winners and losers
— and the big “Leave” vote in economically stagnant regions of
Britain suggests that many of
those who have lost out are fed up.
Time and again, the European
Union has navigated political crises during the past decade with a
Whac-a-Mole response that has
maintained the status quo and the
bloc’s lumbering forward momentum toward greater integration —
without directly confronting the
roiling public discontent beneath
the surface.
Will Pullout Echo in U.S. Election? Not So Fast Young Britons Feel Left Out as Generations Split
By JONATHAN MARTIN
and ALEXANDER BURNS
WASHINGTON — Britain’s
vote to withdraw from the European Union sent a shudder
through the capital on Friday as
the forces of economic nationalism and working-class fury forced
American political leaders to wonder: Could it happen here?
Driving the “Brexit” vote were
many of the same impulses that
have animated American politics
in this turbulent election year: anger at distant elites, anxiety about
a perceived loss of national
sovereignty and, perhaps most of
all, resentment toward migrants
and refugees.
CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS
Donald J. Trump said Britain’s
vote would help his golf resort.
These are the themes that Donald J. Trump harnessed during the
Republican presidential primaries to explosive effect, and that
he aims to wield to his advantage
again in his race against Hillary
Clinton. Mr. Trump endorsed
Britain’s abandonment of the European Union and hailed the vote
during a stop in Scotland on Friday.
Veteran
Republican
and
Democratic strategists say that
Mr. Trump, and to a lesser extent,
Senator Bernie Sanders in the
Democratic contest, represent an
American echo of the inward-looking politics that have swept across
Europe in recent years.
“There’s a fundamental issue
that all developed economies have
to confront, which is that globalization and technological changes
have meant millions of people
have seen their jobs marginalized
By CLAIRE BARTHELEMY
and KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA
LONDON — As the bands
played on at the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, England,
Lewis Phillips and his friends
drowned their sorrows in song
and alcohol.
“We’re the ones who’ve got to
live with it for a long time, but a
group of pensioners have managed to make a decision for us,”
Mr. Phillips, 27, said on Friday of
Britain’s decision to withdraw
from the European Union. He said
he was now “terrified” about the
country’s economic prospects.
Louise Driscoll, a 21-year-old
barista in London, spent most of
ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Watching results at a pub in
north London on Thursday.
the day crying. “I had a bad feeling in my gut,” she said of Britain’s
referendum on Europe. “What do
we do now? I’m very scared.” Her
parents both voted to leave the
bloc, she said, and “will probably
be gloating.”
The vote to leave the European
Union exposed tensions and fault
lines in British society, but perhaps none more gaping than its
generational divisions.
According to pre-election surveys by the polling organization
Survation, 57 percent of Britons
between the ages of 18 and 34 who
intended to take part in Thursday’s referendum supported remaining in the bloc, while an identical proportion — 57 percent — of
Britons over 55 supported the opposite: leaving Europe behind.
For those under 25, the desire to
remain in the union was especially
high:
Three-quarters
Low-Priority Immigrants, Still Swept Up in U.S. Deportation Net
By JULIA PRESTON
JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
The government says its top priorities for deportation include
foreigners who pose a threat to national security or public safety.
WASHINGTON
—
Three
agents knocked on the door of a
modest duplex in a Wisconsin
town just after dawn. The Mexican immigrant living on the
ground floor stuck his head out.
They asked his name and he
gave it. Within minutes José Cervantes Amaral was in handcuffs
as his wife, also from Mexico, silently watched. After 18 years
working and living quietly in the
United States, Mr. Cervantes, who
did not have legal papers, rode
away in the back seat, heading for
deportation.
It is a routine that continues
daily. The Supreme Court on
Thursday effectively ended initiatives by President Obama that
would have given protection from
deportation to more than four million immigrants in the country illegally, most of them parents of
American citizens. Mr. Obama
showed his frustration with the
decision, saying his goal was to
help immigrants who had raised
families here and helped the country with their work. The president
said immigrants who might have
qualified for the programs would
still be safe from deportation.
Still, deportations continue,
thousands every week.
In November 2014 when Mr.
Obama first announced the protection programs, he also set new
priorities for enforcement. Since
then, immigration authorities say,
their focus is on removing convicted criminals and foreigners
who pose national security
threats. But the administration’s
priorities also include deporting
migrants from Central America,
including children, who came in
an influx since 2014. And immigrants who committed minor offenses — or none at all — are often
swept up in the operations.
After Thursday’s Supreme
Court decision, the president’s
protections are gone, but the enforcement plan remains in effect.
It is part of a particularly edgy
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torture treaty itself.
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a meeting with President Obama
during his recent visit to Hanoi referred incorrectly to one of those
barred, a prominent blogger and
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By ERIK ECKHOLM
The federal government is placing unaccompanied immigrant
minors caught crossing the Southern border, including teenage girls
who were raped on the journey
north, in the care of religion-based
agencies that refuse to provide legally required access to contraception and abortion, according to
a lawsuit filed on Friday.
Like the dispute over the requirement that health plans cover
contraception,
the
lawsuit,
brought by the American Civil
Liberties Union against the Department of Health and Human
Services, highlights a clash between federal rules and the beliefs
of Roman Catholic and other
groups that say they are exempt
from the requirements on
grounds of religious freedom.
But the lawsuit, filed in federal
court in San Francisco, asserts
that the social agencies get federal money to offer a full range of
health services, including contraception and abortion. And by allowing the agencies to deny any of
those services on religious
grounds, it argues, the federal
government is violating the First
Amendment prohibition on establishment of religion.
Mark Weber, a spokesman for
the Department of Health and Human Services, said the agency
would not comment on pending
litigation.
Tens of thousands of unaccompanied, undocumented migrants
under 18, mainly from Central
America, are apprehended at the
border each year. Many have suffered sexual and other abuses at
home or during their journey, according to refugee experts. They
are put in the temporary custody
of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them
with private agencies — a significant share of them run by the
Catholic Church — for months or
more as they await placement
with a sponsor or deportation.
The refusal of some major con-
tractors to provide access to contraception or abortion, even in
rape cases, has put federal officials in a bind. Catholic agencies,
many of them working under the
umbrella of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, have
a long history of providing highquality care to immigrant and
refugee children.
And federal immigrant programs have been stretched as the
number of unaccompanied migrant children captured at the border soared in the 2014 fiscal year to
57,496, more than double the previous year. It fell to 33,726 in 2015,
A challenge to
restrictions on access
to abortions and
contraception.
but has recently surged again, according to Border Patrol data.
About one-third of the children are
girls.
The number of migrant girls
who arrive pregnant, or become
so while in federal custody — and
how many of those go into the care
of Catholic or evangelical Christian groups that oppose abortion
— is not publicly known. Federal
officials have not responded to requests for such information.
In 2016, the government
awarded grants to care for undocumented minors to over 30 private agencies, according to congressional testimony. Of these, at
least 11 were affiliated with the
Conference of Catholic Bishops or
are otherwise known to oppose
contraception and abortion, according to the A.C.L.U.
Drawing on thousands of internal documents and emails, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the A.C.L.U. complaint provides sketchy details of
about two dozen cases over the
last five years in which pregnant
girls, many of whom said they had
been raped, requested abortions.
In several cases, according to the
complaint, the girls had to be
transferred to a different caregiver, eventually obtaining abortions.
A 17-year-old said she had been
raped by a guide in Mexico and
threatened to commit suicide, the
suit says. She was ejected from
the Catholic-affiliated shelter
where she had initially been
placed and was refused by a second one before officials located an
amenable agency — “away from
the social workers and other shelter support staff who constituted
her only support system in this
country,” according to the complaint.
Another girl, 14, was discovered
to be pregnant after her capture at
the border, the documents said,
and requested an abortion. Officials wanted to send her to an
agency in Florida near family
members who could offer support
and an eventual home. But an
email from a federal official said
that “both of the shelters in
Florida are faith-based and will
not take the child to have this procedure.”
Placement decisions “should be
based on what is in the best interests of the child,” said Brigitte
Amiri, a lawyer with the A.C.L.U.
“We think it’s impermissible to allow the religious beliefs of the care
providers to determine where the
children are placed.”
Some pregnancies and requests
for abortion, especially if they do
not involve claims of rape, may
never be reported to federal officials, immigration experts said.
Caregiving agencies may apply to
the federal office for payment for
an abortion only if pregnancy results from rape or incest. Otherwise, it is illegal to use federal
money for the procedure, though
agencies can use private funds.
The legal obligation of contracted agencies to provide a full
range of reproductive health
services stems from a 1997 court
settlement and from later federal
regulations, the lawsuit contends.
The 1997 settlement requires the
government to provide young immigrants with medical care including “family planning services
and emergency health care
services.”
In the more recent regulations,
unaccompanied minors who have
been sexually abused in federal
custody must have “unimpeded
access to emergency medical
treatment.” They must also be offered a pregnancy test and receive “timely and comprehensive
information about all lawful pregnancy-related medical services.”
But the bishops’ conference and
allied groups, in a statement last
year, said they could not help people gain access to care that is contrary to their religious beliefs.
They also objected to accommodations offered by the federal authorities — that they team up with
agencies that do not share the religious constraints, or notify officials when a young migrant wants
forbidden services so the client
can be transferred — “a referral
which would in itself be objectionable,” the statement said.
Douglas Laycock, an expert on
religion and law at the University
of Virginia, agreed that the constitutional argument, if it is upheld,
would override the claim for a religious exemption. But in his view,
the constitutional argument,
based on the A.C.L.U.’s claim that
taxpayer dollars are being spent
illegally, is weak, in part because
there are precedents in which federal agencies granted exemptions
in spending programs.
But in 2012, a Federal District
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Low-Priority Immigrants, Swept Up in Deportation Net
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moment for immigrants and their
supporters framed by the Supreme Court ruling, Donald J.
Trump’s presidential campaign
and Britain’s surprise vote, influenced in part by anti-immigrant
sentiments, to leave the European
Union.
Last year, immigration authorities deported 235,413 people, according to official figures. Of
those, 59 percent were convicted
criminals, and 98 percent fit
within the administration’s priorities, Department of Homeland Security officials said. The top priority includes foreigners who
pose a threat to national or border
security or to public safety. Other
priorities are for people with serious criminal records, but they also
include any migrant caught entering the country illegally after
Jan. 1, 2014.
Homeland Security officials
said Friday that the Supreme
Court decision would have no effect on the pace or strategy of enforcement.
“Our limited enforcement resources will not be focused on the
removal of those who have committed no serious crimes, have
been in this country for years and
have families here,” said Marsha
Catron, a spokeswoman for the
department. “Under this policy,
these people are not priorities for
removal, nor should they be.”
Mr. Obama has carried out
many more deportations than previous presidents, setting a record
of more than 2.4 million formal removals.
But Republican lawmakers
point to a sharp decrease in depor-
tations — down 43 percent in 2015
from 409,849 in 2012 — to say that
Mr. Obama has all but stopped enforcing immigration law. “When
will the Obama administration
end its reckless policies that
wreak havoc on our communities?” asked Representative
Robert W. Goodlatte, the Virginia
Republican who is chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee.
But what is not enough enforcement for some is too much for others. This week, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, which is
known as ICE, said it had arrested
331 immigrants in May and June
in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri.
The operations were its “latest effort to arrest and remove convicted criminal aliens,” said Ricardo Wong, the director of the agency’s office in Chicago.
“By focusing our resources on
the most egregious offenders,” Mr.
Wong said, “we ensure the very
best use of our resources while immediately
improving
public
safety.”
One of those arrested was Mr.
Cervantes.
In 2006, Mr. Cervantes said in
an interview by telephone on Friday, he was caught up in an immigration raid at a factory near his
workplace. Local police who assisted in the raid arrested him,
finding — mistakenly, he says —
that he was working with documents under a false name.
Mr. Cervantes, a construction
worker, pleaded guilty to a minor
identity theft offense. A decade
later, after he and his wife raised
two daughters in Genoa City, Wis.,
immigration agents came to his
door to deport him.
“The shock for my wife was
very strong,” Mr. Cervantes said.
She has been in treatment at local
hospitals for kidney cancer, he
said. “If we have to go back to
Mexico, I won’t have her for long.”
He has been released while he
fights his immigration case.
“The administration is continuing to deport people who should
not be a priority,” said Christine
Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera, an organization that assisted Mr. Cer-
What is not enough
enforcement for some
is too much for others.
vantes. Mr. Obama, she said, “can
do much more to prevent the unnecessary breakup of families.”
Some clearly are in the priority
group. On Friday, Immigration
and Customs Enforcement said it
had arrested 45 foreigners who
had been listed by Interpol as
wanted for serious crimes, including three men from El Salvador
sought in connection with gang
killings. Immigration agents have
conducted many roundups of
drug traffickers and human smugglers.
At the same time, a 19-year-old
migrant from Honduras, Wildin
Acosta, was still being held in an
immigration detention center in
Lumpkin, Ga., five months after
he was arrested when he was
heading to high school in Durham,
N.C.
In 2014, Mr. Acosta crossed the
border illegally and turned himself in to border agents, asking for
asylum. Since he was 17 at the time
and traveling without his parents,
he was held under special protections for unaccompanied minors.
He was sent to live with his parents, who had settled years before
in Durham.
He started going to high school,
made friends who helped him
learn English and joined a local
soccer league. He presented a formal request for asylum in the
United States, saying in legal papers that he fled Honduras after
two close relatives were murdered.
But he missed a date in immigration court and a judge ordered
him deported. Mr. Acosta also
turned 19, making him too old, immigration officials said, to be given deference as a minor.
Mr. Acosta was among dozens
of teenagers as well as mothers
and smaller children from Central
America who were arrested in an
operation by immigration agents
over one weekend in late January.
Homeland Security Department
officials said that because of his
recent border crossing, Mr.
Acosta was among the highest priorities for deportation.
The arrests caused panic in immigrant communities in Durham.
Teachers, lawmakers and community leaders mobilized to protest. Mr. Acosta’s lawyer, Evelyn
Smallwood, has forestalled his deportation but has not secured his
release.
“He is a good kid, and he is doing everything he can to keep his
sanity,” she said. “The administration has said it is as important to
remove Wildin as it is to remove a
drug trafficker or a terrorist.”
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SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016
Francis, on Visit to Armenia, Says Killings by Turks Were ‘Genocide’
Blunt Talk From Pope
On Century-Old Topic
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
ROME — Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again on
Friday during his first visit to Armenia
when he made an unscripted remark referring to the World War I-era massacre
of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by
Ottoman Turks as a genocide.
The prepared text of his speech did not
include the politically contentious word,
which generally draws furious reactions
from Turkey. Instead, the text opted for
the more veiled Armenian expression
“metz yeghern,” which translates as the
“great evil.”
But in keeping with his penchant for
blunt talk, the pontiff said Friday that
“that tragedy” had been “a genocide” and
was “the first of the deplorable series of
catastrophes of the past century, made
possible by twisted racial, ideological or
religious aims that darkened the minds of
the tormentors even to the point of planning the annihilation of entire peoples.”
Francis’ words were met with a standing ovation by President Serzh Sargsyan
of Armenia and other officials and diplomats who gathered at the presidential
palace in Yerevan, the nation’s capital, to
hear the pope.
There was no immediate reaction from
Turkish leaders. Turkey has disputed the
genocide designation, arguing that it was
wartime and that many Turks were killed
as well. And it has insisted that there was
never a systematic plan to execute Armenians.
The last time Francis used the term in
reference to the mass deaths of Armenians, in Rome in April 2015, Turkey reacted
angrily, recalling its ambassador to the
Vatican and not returning the envoy for 10
months.
The suffering and resilience of the Armenian people was the main theme of the
first day of the pope’s three-day trip to the
Caucasus region. His speeches also underscored the importance of dialogue and
cooperation to overcome conflict — a tacit
acknowledgment of Armenia’s continuing frictions with its neighbors Turkey
and Azerbaijan.
“May all join in striving to ensure that
whenever conflicts emerge between nations, dialogue, the enduring and authentic quest of peace, cooperation between
states and the constant commitment of international organizations will always prevail,” the pope said.
Armenia has no diplomatic relations
with Turkey. It has also locked horns with
POOL PHOTO BY ANDREW MEDICHINI
Pope Francis in Armenia on Friday. He said the massacre of about 1.5 million Armenians was “made possible by twisted racial, ideological or religious aims.”
Azerbaijan over the disputed province of
Nagorno-Karabakh since they both broke
free from the Soviet Union.
The choice to begin the journey with
Armenia is in line with the pope’s “different geopolitical map of the world,” said Alberto Melloni, a historian of the Vatican.
Mr. Melloni noted that the pope has
tended to “start with small countries, before approaching larger powers,” and that
his visits to the Caucasus could be seen as
a preliminary approach to Russia, “which
is the Vatican’s real issue — what to do
with Russia and China, the great
superpowers of the century.”
Originally, the pope had planned to include Georgia and Azerbaijan in his trip,
but visits to those countries have been
postponed until autumn.
As the leader of one billion Roman
Catholics, Francis also spoke Friday
about the plight of Christians in the Middle East, where he said they suffer persecution and discrimination “perhaps even
more than at the time of the first martyrs.”
“It is vitally important that all those
who declare their faith in God join forces
to isolate those who use religion to promote war, oppression and violent persecution, exploiting and manipulating the
holy name of God,” he said.
Before leaving Rome, Francis said he
would go to Armenia as a pilgrim “to the
first Christian country.” Armenia adopted
the faith in 301, and the Armenian Apostolic Church, which broke with other
Christian churches in the fifth century
over a theological dispute, counts about
93 percent of Armenia’s population of
three million as adherents. By contrast,
the country has only about 280,000 Roman Catholics.
Msgr. Gabriel Quicke, a Vatican official
who works to promote unity with other
Christian churches, said relations with
the Armenian Apostolic Church have
been strong since the Second Vatican
Council 50 years ago.
While in Armenia, the pope plans to visit the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, the country’s main monument to the
Armenian genocide in Yerevan. He is expected to lay a wreath there and meet
with descendants of Armenian orphans
who were given refuge at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy,
during the years of the killings, from 1915
to 1923. He also plans to visit a monastery
near Mount Ararat, where the Bible says
Noah’s ark landed after the Great Flood.
The pontiff’s recognition of the Armenian genocide has drawn praise from Armenians and Armenian Americans.
Karekin II, the patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, told the pope on
Friday that people remembered, “with
gratitude,” Francis’ “historic sermon condemning the genocide” at St. Peter’s Basilica last year. And Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National
Committee of America, issued a statement saying “the pope is both
strengthening Christian solidarity with
Armenia and taking a courageous stand
for truth and justice.”
THE SATURDAY PROFILE
Finding Peaks and Valleys of Argentine Life, on the Soccer Field
By JONATHAN GILBERT
CASTELAR, Argentina
T was with low expectations a couple
of decades ago that a young Argentine history teacher dropped off a
selection of his short stories on soccer
with the host of a weekly soccerthemed radio show. He knew that the
host, Alejandro Apo, frequently read
stories about the sport on the air, but
usually the work of famous authors in
the popular local genre.
Hope faded further when the
teacher, Eduardo Sacheri, tuned his
portable radio to the Saturday program
and heard nothing from Mr. Apo about
him or his stories. The next Saturday,
Mr. Sacheri tuned in again, but this
time he got a thrill. Mr. Apo was reading “You’ll Have to Forgive Me,” Mr.
Sacheri’s tribute to Diego Maradona,
the star player who guided Argentina
to the 1986 World Cup.
As it turns out, Mr. Apo was touched
by the innocent tone of a letter that Mr.
Sacheri had sent along with the stories
and decided to read the piece without
even reviewing it beforehand. “I took a
huge risk,” Mr. Apo said. “It could have
flopped.”
Instead, it was the first step in a
distinguished career that has led Mr.
Sacheri to be ranked with renowned
20th-century Argentine authors like
Osvaldo Soriano and Roberto Fontanarrosa, who wrote short, emotive
soccer stories.
Despite his modest start, Mr.
Sacheri, now 48, has emerged in recent
years as one of Argentina’s most prominent authors and scriptwriters. Besides his work on a movie that won an
Oscar for best foreign-language film in
2010, he has revived the soccer story as
a respectable literary genre with compelling tales that use the sport as a
prism to explore his nation’s idiosyncrasies.
He often finds himself wondering
how it all happened.
“It’s like a chain of surprises,” Mr.
Sacheri, who has thick eyebrows and
graying stubble, said in an interview in
a cafe here in Castelar, the anonymous
Buenos Aires suburb where he grew up
and still lives. “My literary goals were
always very modest: I just wanted to
hear my name on the radio.”
When he did, that Saturday in October 1996, he rushed to preserve the
memory. “I go to find a pay phone,” he
recalled, “I ring my wife. I tell her to
switch on the radio and to record it, so
we could save it on a cassette.”
In the years since, Mr. Sacheri has
found critical and commercial success.
selves through soccer here,” he said,
“the feeling that in this world crumbling around me, the only thing that is
solid and permanent is Gallo.”
Mr. Sacheri’s own struggles to make
a living as a young man have helped
him to understand the hardships endured by Argentines. He graduated
from a university near Castelar, and he
soon sought a second degree with the
idea of becoming an academic historian.
To make ends meet, Mr. Sacheri
worked as a clerk in a criminal court in
the late 1980s, an experience that ultimately produced “The Secret in Their
Eyes,” his 2005 novel about a botched
investigation into a decades-old murder that he adapted with Juan José
Campanella, an Argentine filmmaker,
into the Oscar-winning film.
Mr. Sacheri also had jobs in a video
rental business and a convenience
store that sat right in the projects. He
remembers the dread of carrying the
day’s receipts through the crime-ridden apartment blocks to the bank.
“I thought, ‘It can’t get worse than
this,’” he said. In desperation, “I decided to start teaching in secondary
schools.”
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continues to teach a history
class one morning a week at a
nearby secondary school. But
he kept on writing until fame and financial security found him.
Still, Mr. Sacheri resists the temptations that come with success, so as not
to distance himself from the tribulations of the ordinary Argentines who
drive his narratives, Ms. Mucci said.
For example, in “Papers in the Wind,”
his 2011 book about friendship that has a
soccer-based plot, much of the story
happens in Castelar. “Years later,” Mr.
Sacheri said, “I realized that the book
was about throwing the anchor down so
I didn’t lose touch.”
When Mr. Sacheri described the
Oscar triumph in 2010 — a pivotal moment of his career — he carved out a
comparison to a soccer match.
As Quentin Tarantino and Pedro
Almodóvar took the stage to announce
the award, Mr. Sacheri could not bear to
watch, stepping out of the conference
room at the Mondrian hotel in West
Hollywood, where he and a score of
colleagues had gathered. “Like those
people who when there’s a penalty
shootout turn their backs or leave,” he
said. “If I hear the shouts, I know we’ve
won.”
When the roar eventually came, Mr.
Sacheri sprinted back in and flung
himself toward the celebratory huddle.
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ANIBAL ADRIAN GRECO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“My literary goals were always very modest: I just wanted
to hear my name on the radio.”
EDUARDO SACHERI
“Sacheri took the baton from Soriano
and Fontanarrosa,” said Cristina Mucci,
a prominent cultural commentator and
book critic. “He adopted a popular
subject, then added his own reflections
and anecdotes that clearly resonate
with a mass public.”
O
the past few years, Mr.
Sacheri, who writes from a room
overlooking the garden of his
home, has also vaulted to international
fame, giving Argentine fiction a new
audience.
Mr. Sacheri followed up the Oscar in
2010 with the prestigious Alfaguara
Prize, announced in Madrid in April, for
“The Night at the Power Station,” set
amid the economic and social upheaval
in Argentina in 2001-2.
It is all a long way from his beginnings as a writer, when he mulled over
stories through the night seated at his
olive-green Remington typewriter,
muffling the clank of the keys with a
VER
blanket so as not to wake his wife.
The writing was therapy of sorts, Mr.
Sacheri said, helping him cope with the
loss of his father to cancer when he was
just 10.
“Life is full of tragedy,” Mr. Sacheri
said, “and the death of my father made
me face up to tragedy very early on. I
saw my friends enjoying the security of
childhood, when you think everything
is eternal. But I was living with sadness, with the knowledge of transience,
which makes you halt and observe. And
that’s what a writer does.”
And for Mr. Sacheri, as for so many
Argentines, soccer has been a touchstone, a connection to family, community and nation. He plays twice a week
with friends. And he regularly attends
the matches of Club Atlético Independiente with his son, Francisco, 19.
Mr. Sacheri’s first book, “Waiting for
Tito,” is a collection of stories that tap
into how soccer often permeates the
ruts and peaks of Argentine life, from
boyhood to family traditions, and even
death.
“In Argentina we are made out of
soccer,” said Mr. Apo, 61, “so it becomes
a vehicle to transmit other ideas.”
When Argentines experience instability and hardship, as they did during the
economic crisis of 2001-2 that plunged
millions into poverty, many coalesce
around soccer, Mr. Sacheri said.
He recalled once seeing a graffitied
wall close to the stadium of a minorleague soccer team in Castelar nicknamed Gallo, or Rooster. Borrowing a
line from an Argentine rock song, the
graffiti read, “Gallo, my only hero in
this chaos.”
In “The Keys to the Kingdom,” a
compilation of short soccer stories
published last year that he had written
for El Gráfico, a sports magazine, Mr.
Sacheri evoked that graffiti. “I saw it as
a synthesis of how we identify our-
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BRITAIN'S CHOICE
EUROPE
Populist Insurrection Claims Political Victories on Both Sides of the Atlantic
From Page A1
But now the question is whether
the dam has broken: Before
breakfast on Friday, anti-Europe
leaders in France and the Netherlands were rejoicing and demanding similar referendums on European Union membership.
“Victory for liberty!” declared
the far-right French leader
Marine Le Pen, writing on Twitter,
who changed her profile picture to
an image of the Union Jack.
From its outset, the European
Union was a project of elites, one
that, at times, moved forward
without a clear popular mandate
from the masses. Adopting the
common currency was deeply
controversial in some places, including Germany. The issue of
democratic legitimacy has always
hung over the unification project,
since many significant steps were
achieved through treaties that
stirred considerable resistance in
some countries.
European unity remained popular, particularly as the bloc delivered undeniable economic and social progress. But the class frictions
beneath
the
project
worsened in the past decade, as
the European economy has been
battered by recession and an uneven recovery.
It is not clear whether the message is getting through to more establishment leaders on both sides
of the Atlantic, or what lessons
they are taking from the shock of
the British exit.
Perhaps the liberal Democrats
in the House who staged a
clamorous sit-in Wednesday night
in Washington, while part of the
system themselves, were channeling the populist anger of the
American left in their willingness
to break the rules to make a point
about the need for gun control. In
Brussels, many member governments appear divided between an
instinct to respond to the British
referendum vote by driving for
greater integration among Germany, France and other core
members of the bloc and a willingness to moderate their ambitions
in recognition of public opposition.
European leaders were under
pressure to reassure the European public, and the world, that
the bloc was not at risk of unraveling. For decades, the European Union had moved forward,
always expanding in size and influence. Britain has now reversed
that trend.
“We’re completely in uncharted
territory,” said Hans Kundnani, a
Berlin-based expert in European
politics at the German Marshall
Fund of the United States.
Mr. Kundnani said the British
vote exposed a contradiction at
the core of the European project.
Ashley Parker contributed reporting from Turnberry, Scotland;
Gaia Pianigiani from Rome; and
Milan Schreuer from Paris.
A European Union flag outside the House of Parliament in London on Friday. “We’re completely in uncharted territory,” said one expert on European politics.
European leaders define success
as steering member states toward
greater political and economic integration. And many of the bloc’s
inefficiencies and dysfunctions
can be traced to the unfinished
work of strengthening European
institutions and achieving greater
integration between member
states in areas such as banking, finance, security and defense.
But public opinion is deeply
skeptical of this “more Europe”
agenda. Far-right populist leaders
have stoked public anxieties and
resurgent nationalism by lashing
out against immigrants, while
portraying the European capital,
Brussels, as a bastion of political
elites out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people. Far-left
populists have demanded a re-examination of the neoliberal economics of free trade and limited
regulation, while resisting efforts
to
deconstruct
the
social
democratic welfare state.
“The E.U. robs us of our money,
our identity, our democracy, our
sovereignty,” said Geert Wilders,
the leader of the Dutch far-right
Party for Freedom. “The elites
want more E.U. They think they
know better than the people. They
look down on the people and want
to decide in their place. They want
us to be ruled by undemocratic,
unaccountable bureaucrats in a
faraway place like Brussels.”
And permeating everything is
the weak Continental economy
and the crippling debt burden
across Southern Europe.
“The E.U. is kind of trapped,”
Mr. Kundnani said. “On the one
hand, the instinct will be to move
ahead with further integration
and reassure the rest of the world
that the European Union is not unraveling. But that is very difficult
because of the fault lines that exist.”
He added: “They are trapped
because moving ahead is very difficult. Moving backwards is the
last thing they want to do. And the
status quo is unsustainable.”
Britain has always been a skeptical member of the European
household. During the 1990s, Britain chose to keep the pound and
not to join the countries sharing a
common European currency, the
euro. Many of the British concerns about the euro proved true,
undermining the bloc’s credibility,
even as Britain has remained
mostly insulated against the Continent’s still unresolved euro crisis.
Before the referendum, some
European officials portrayed Britain as an idiosyncratic case that
should not be seen as a bellwether
for the Continent. But that is a
hard argument to make. In
France, Ms. Le Pen’s far-right National Front party is experiencing
steadily rising popularity as the
country prepares for national
elections next year. In Germany,
the anti-immigrant Alternative
for Germany polled strongly in recent state elections.
Right-wing leaders in Hungary
and Poland are hostile to immigrants, while critics say the governments of those countries are
also rewriting national laws to undermine democratic checks and
balances. In Italy, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement
scored major victories last Sunday by winning mayoral elections
in Turin and, more important, in
the capital, Rome.
Donald Tusk, one of the European Union’s top leaders, has
started to talk about the risks fac-
ing the political establishment. At
a speech last month before Europe’s coalition of center-right political parties, Mr. Tusk cautioned
his fellow political elites.
“Obsessed with the idea of instant and total integration, we
failed to notice that ordinary people, the citizens of Europe, do not
share our euro-enthusiasm,” said
Mr. Tusk, the president of the European Council, which comprises
the heads of state of all the 28
member states in the bloc. “Disillusioned with great visions of the
future, they demand that we cope
with the present reality better
than we have been doing until
now.”
Yet taking action may be difficult, since most analysts say the
European Union is paralyzed by
the coming national elections in
2017 in France and Germany, the
two most powerful countries in
the bloc. Neither the French nor
the German government is eager
to endorse sweeping initiatives
for more European integration before the elections out of fear of a
populist whipping at the polls.
“Europe is very divided and the
main European country, Ger-
many, has no will or skills to lead
the union — and is approaching
important national elections,”
said Lucio Caracciolo, the editor of
the Italian geopolitical magazine
Limes. “France is a country in crisis, while Italy has its own problems. I can’t see who would assume a European leadership capable of producing a deeper integration process.”
He added: “There is a very
widespread rejection of politics
everywhere. There is a similar
mood in the United States, an antipolitical sentiment.”
Few industries in Britain are
likely to be more directly hit than
the financial services industry in
London. Damon Hoff, a hedge
fund manager, said that he had
voted to stay in the European Union, but that he understood the
sentiments of those who had
voted to leave.
“Europeans don’t feel more
prosperous,” he said. “Europeans
don’t feel more empowered. And
certainly the British don’t.”
He added: “You want to be part
of something that continuously
evolves. Does the European Union feel like it is evolving? No.”
THE PARTY
Conservative Leadership in Limbo
As Prime Minister’s Luck Runs Out
By STEPHEN CASTLE
LONDON — The referendum
initiated by Prime Minister David
Cameron on Britain’s membership in the European Union was a
gamble too far, even for a leader
renowned for his luck. His stunning defeat on Friday not only cost
him his job and sent shock waves
through Britain, Europe and the
world, but also failed at the very
thing he risked so much for: to end
the fight for the soul of his Conservative Party.
Mr. Cameron will stand down in
the fall after a contest for his job in
which the early favorite is Boris
Johnson, the former mayor of
London. A longstanding rival of
the prime minister, Mr. Johnson
has probably done more than anyone else to bring about Mr.
Cameron’s downfall by playing
frontman in the campaign against
European Union membership.
“Even lucky generals run out of
luck eventually,” said David Mellor, a former Conservative cabinet
minister, who added that Mr. Cameron had overreached by promising a plebiscite on Britain’s place
in Europe, an issue that has divided the Conservatives for a quarter
of a century.
“It was like going to a critically
ill patient and ripping the
bandages off their wound,” Mr.
Mellor added. The referendum,
far from settling matters, was “going to destabilize the country and
the Conservative Party,” he said.
In May of last year, Mr. Cameron was celebrating a surprise
election victory that made him the
first Conservative prime minister
to win a majority since 1992. But as
it turns out, he had already sown
the seeds of his destruction in 2013
when, under pressure from the
right-wing populist U.K. Inde-
pendence Party, Mr. Cameron
promised the referendum on withdrawal from the European Union,
known as “Brexit.”
He is not the first Conservative
prime minister to be undone by
Europe. Margaret Thatcher was
forced from office in 1990, partly
because of her European policy,
while her successor, John Major,
was tormented by euroskeptic
Conservative backbenchers.
Early in his leadership, Mr.
Cameron appealed to his party to
stop “banging on” about Europe,
though by then, he had already appeased the euroskeptic right by
promising to remove the Conservatives from a center-right alliance in the European Parliament
that they considered too federalist.
The vote underlines the final
victory of anti-Europeans within
the Conservative Party, which had
led Britain into what was then the
European Economic Community
in 1973 when it was a pro-European force.
The task of putting the party
back on an even keel will not be
quick. Under party procedures,
Conservative lawmakers will select two candidates from their
ranks, with those two names going to about 150,000 party members, who will make the final
choice.
Until recently, the favorite
would have been George Osborne,
the chancellor of the Exchequer,
but his aggressive warnings about
the risks of the withdrawal have
put him on the wrong side of the
Conservative Party electorate,
wrecking his prospects.
Other potential candidates include Michael Gove, the justice
secretary, who appears reluctant
to put himself forward but who
campaigned for Brexit, and Theresa May, the home secretary, who
did not.
Ms. May is regarded as “fantastically competent, well respected
and has cultivated party members
in a methodical way,” said Charles
Lewington, a former director of
communications for the Conservative Party. Though she did not
support the withdrawal, she did
not campaign against it, and is still
thought to be a significant contender.
On Friday, the Northern Ireland
secretary, Theresa Villiers, said
that the job need not necessarily
go to a supporter of the withdrawal but that, if a choice were to be
made in September, the process
would have to start soon.
Of those who were in favor of remaining in the European Union,
the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, had the
most
impressive
campaign,
though the education secretary,
Nicky Morgan, or the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, are more
likely to stand.
But, given the outcome of the
referendum, the more logical
choice would be a leader who believes in the policy going forward.
In those ranks are Andrea
Leadsom, a former energy minister; Liam Fox, the former defense secretary; Priti Patel, an
employment
minister;
and
Dominic Raab, a justice minister.
Yet none have the buccaneering
charm or rhetorical powers of Mr.
Johnson. “You only have to say
their names to realize how unlikely they are to beat BoJo,” said
Tim Bale, a professor of politics at
Queen Mary University of London, using one of Mr. Johnson’s
nicknames.
Nevertheless, some critics
STEFAN ROUSSEAU/REUTERS
Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and former Mayor Boris Johnson of London are longstanding rivals. Mr. Johnson is considered a favorite to succeed Mr. Cameron as prime minister.
question whether Mr. Johnson has
the substance to be prime minister. Mr. Lewington argued that
he might have “the popular vote
and has proved he is box office,
but there hasn’t been a commensurate rise in attitudes toward him
among Conservative backbench
members of Parliament.”
During a TV debate on the referendum, one opponent, the
cabinet minister Amber Rudd, described Mr. Johnson as “the life
and soul of the party, but he’s not
the man you want driving you
home at the end of the evening.”
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Cameron
are rivals from their days at
Britain’s most exclusive school,
Eton College. Mr. Johnson first
made a name for himself as a journalist in Brussels for The Daily
Telegraph, where he specialized
in scathing stories about the supposed waste and inefficiency of
the European Union bureaucracy.
Veterans there, many of whom ac-
cused him of overstating his case,
say he once arrived at a news conference and asked, “So what is going on and why is it bad for Britain?”
When the referendum forced
him to choose, Mr. Johnson initially dithered. He reportedly
wrote drafts of his column in The
Daily Telegraph, setting out both
cases — before opting for the
Brexit version. He also floated the
idea of having another negotiation
with the European Union after a
referendum to reject membership
as a way of securing more concessions.
That idea was eventually
dropped, though it suggests that
Mr. Johnson might not relish negotiating a British exit. Some suspect that he probably expected
the referendum to be won by the
other side, but saw it as an opportunity to raise his profile.
“It may be that he would have
liked to get this in different cir-
cumstances,” said Mr. Bale, “but
he’s going to seize the prize.”
While Mr. Cameron failed to end
the strife in his party, Mr. Bale and
others said there was a good
chance that his successor might.
Mr. Bale said that it was hard to
see Mr. Johnson’s failing to get on
the short list of two candidates
chosen by lawmakers, and even
harder to imagine his then being
spurned by party members, the
majority of whom are thought to
have supported the withdrawal.
But more than a quarter of a
century after the fall of Mrs.
Thatcher, the new leader of the
Conservative Party may be able to
unite it for the first time over its
European policy by turning its
back on the bloc.
“This is, in some ways, is the
best referendum outcome for the
Conservative Party,” said Mr.
Bale, “though maybe not for the
country.”
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RUMBLINGS
Scotland Says New Vote on Independence Is Likely
By KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA
EDINBURGH — Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister,
said Friday that a new referendum on independence in Scotland
was “highly likely” now that Britain had voted to leave the European Union.
Voters rejected an effort to
break free from the United Kingdom in a 2014 referendum, but Ms.
Sturgeon said Scotland would
take measures to protect its place
in Europe and maintain access to
the single market.
Ms. Sturgeon cited her party’s
election manifesto, which calls for
another ballot if there is a “significant and material change in circumstances” from the 2014 vote,
such as Scotland’s being taken out
of the European Union against its
will.
The Scottish National Party,
which Ms. Sturgeon leads, had
promised after the referendum to
deliver a more vibrant economy if
the region were unshackled from
the rest of the country.
But given the fall in oil prices
and worries that Scotland will be
unable to fund itself, Scottish leaders are now cautious about rushing into a new referendum. They
are also calculating that it would
be better off financially as part of
the European Union than as part
of an independent Britain.
Scotland will push for negotiations to leave the country inside
the single European market, and
Ms. Sturgeon can use the threat of
the referendum as leverage in
dealing with the British leadership.
Ms. Sturgeon sent a clear message by speaking to the Scottish
people while standing in front of
Scottish and European Union
flags.
In sharp contrast to England
and Wales, Scotland voted for
Britain to remain in the bloc by 62
percent to 38 percent, with all of
its 32 council areas in favor. Northern Ireland also voted overwhelmingly to stay.
“It is a significant and material
change in circumstances,” Ms.
Sturgeon said, speaking to
reporters just hours after the referendum results were officially
announced. “It’s therefore a statement of the obvious that the option of a second referendum must
be on the table, and it is on the table.”
A referendum should be held
within the two-year time frame of
Britain’s exit from the European
Union, she added, which will be
enacted when the government in
Confused by ‘Brexit’?
Here Are the Basics
This article is by Niraj Chokshi,
Daniel Victor and Sewell Chan.
Britain voted on Thursday to
leave the European Union, a decision known as “Brexit” that will
have global consequences for
years to come. It would be the first
time any country has left the bloc.
Here’s a brief guide to the referendum and what it means.
What happened?
More than 17.4 million Britons
voted to sever ties with the European Union, whose seat of power
lies in Brussels, compared with
16.1 million who voted to remain.
The stunning vote, 52 percent to
48 percent, plunged world financial markets into turmoil, the political consequences for the prime
minister of Britain were swift, and
people around the globe reacted
with shock and confusion.
Why did this occur?
Fear of being overrun by immigrants was a driving concern for
“Leave” voters. But globalization
concerns and a desire to wrest
Britain from under Brussels’
thumb were also key factors.
The referendum came about as
a result of a promise made in 2013
by Prime Minister David Cameron to appease an increasingly vocal anti-European Union wing of
his Conservative Party.
The immediate fallout
■ Prime Minister Cameron, who
led the “Remain” campaign, announced on Friday that he would
step down. He offered no “precise
timetable” but said he believed his
successor — who will manage the
process of leaving the union —
should be in place by October.
Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London who backed leaving
the bloc, is considered a front-runner to succeed Mr. Cameron.
■ Global markets plunged. The
British pound plummeted to its
lowest level since 1985. Investors
fled to the American dollar and
the yen.
Equity markets in the United
States were down more than 3
percent at the close on Friday,
with the Dow shedding over 600
points, after sell-offs overnight in
Japan and Hong Kong. The financial damage was more severe on
the Continent than in Britain and
the United States.
Is it a done deal?
■ The referendum is not legally
binding, though it is difficult to
imagine that the British government would ignore the will of the
voters.
The process of leaving begins
only after the British government
invokes a provision of the European Union’s governing treaty
known as Article 50 — an action
Mr. Cameron said he would leave
to his successor.
Once Article 50 is invoked,
though, Britain could not change
its mind and stay in the union unless the 27 other members all
agreed.
The broader impact
■ Britain would leave the world’s
largest common market, with 508
million residents, including 65
million Britons. That would free
them from the bloc’s commitment
to the free movement of labor, capital, goods and services. But it
would also bring complications.
■ Little will change for at least two
years, but the vote sets off a series
of negotiations as the country separates from the union’s remaining
27 members.
Britain, which has the bloc’s
second-largest economy after
Germany, would have to come up
with new trading agreements. Almost half its exports are sold on
Europe’s common market.
■ London’s role as a financial center could be imperiled, particularly if the trade in euro-denominated securities moves to rival cities like Paris and Frankfurt.
■ The immediate effect on travel
will be limited, especially as Britain was not a member of the passport-free Schengen zone, which
came under heavy pressure last
year from the refugee crisis.
■ There will also be limited impact
on Britain’s security: It remains a
nuclear power, a permanent member of the United Nations Security
Council and a leader of NATO.
■ Scotland and Northern Ireland
could go their own way. Both
voted overwhelmingly to stay in
the European Union. But prominent political leaders in Scotland
and Northern Ireland called on
Friday for new moves toward separating from Britain.
Scotland, which voted in 2014 to
remain in the United Kingdom,
may revisit that referendum.
Northern Ireland has an open border with the Republic of Ireland, a
member of the bloc. Border crossings could now be tightened, and
pressure could increase for unification, prompting instability in
both places.
In the most ominous scenario,
there could be a revival of sectarian violence that plagued Northern Ireland for three decades until
a power-sharing agreement was
reached in 1998.
The reaction
■ President Obama said in a statement: “The people of the United
Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision.” He pledged
that Britain and the European Union would remain “indispensable
partners of the United States” and
that Britain’s “special relationship” with the United States
would endure.
■ Hillary Clinton: “We respect the
choice the people of the United
Kingdom have made. Our first
task has to be to make sure that
the economic uncertainty created
by these events does not hurt
working families here in America.”
■ Donald J. Trump: “I said this
was going to happen, and I think
that it’s a great thing.”
The British people “have declared their independence from
the European Union, and have
voted to reassert control over
their own politics, borders and
economy,” Mr. Trump said. “A
Trump administration pledges to
strengthen our ties with a free and
independent Britain.”
■ Chancellor Angela Merkel of
Germany expressed disappointment with the vote and called for
European unity. “Our goal should
be to create a future relationship
between Great Britain and the European Union that is close and
partner-like.”
■ Moscow maintained its stance
that the British referendum was of
little direct concern. President
Vladimir V. Putin said, “This will
certainly have consequences for
Britain, for Europe and for us. The
consequences will be global, they
are inevitable; they will be both
positive and negative.”
■ The French far-right cheered
the vote, with Marine Le Pen, the
leader of the National Front party,
vowing to push for a similar referendum there.
London invokes Article 50 of the
bloc’s governing treaty.
“If Parliament judges that a second referendum is the best or only
way to protect our place in Europe, it must have the option to
hold one in that time scale,” Ms.
Sturgeon said. “I can confirm today that in order to protect that
position we will begin to prepare
the legislation that would be required to enable a new independence referendum to take place if
and when Parliament so decides.”
The Scottish cabinet will meet
on Saturday to discuss further
measures, she said, and the government plans to hold urgent talks
with the European Commission
and members of the European Union to make clear Scotland wants
to remain in the bloc.
While making clear that Scotland is taking a second hard look
at independence, Ms. Sturgeon
acknowledged the voters who
voted against it two years ago,
saying they were now more in favor.
“I know that they would not
want me to simply assume their
support or hear me talk about the
challenges we face as if they are
straightforward,” she said. “They
would want me to be straight and
honest with them.”
Across Scotland, people were
stunned by the results of the referendum, but there were mixed reactions over the possibility of a
second bid for independence.
(The first one was described at
the time as a “once in a generation
opportunity.”)
J. K. Rowling, the author of the
“Harry Potter” series, posted on
Twitter that Scotland would now
seek independence and that
Prime Minister David Cameron’s
legacy would have been that of
“breaking up two unions.” She
added, “Neither needed to hap-
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT, VIA REUTERS
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said Friday that she
would take measures to protect the country’s place in Europe.
pen.”
David Grey, 58, who voted for
Scotland to remain in the United
Kingdom in 2014 and in the European Union because of economic
security, said he would “vote for
independence tomorrow if I
could.” England and Scotland
“have now diverged significantly,”
he said.
Steven Murchie, 29, who works
in a whisky shop, said he thought
differently. He voted for Britain to
leave and said he was not concerned with the economic downturn that Britain potentially faces.
“Britain has the financial stability that will allow it to function outside the E.U.,” he said, as he lifted
bottles from a crate in the shop.
“Britain will be fine without the
E.U., and Scotland, too.”
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THE AFTERMATH
Cameron Announces Resignation After Defeat as E.U. Aims for Rebirth
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British pound and global stock
prices plummeting in value as the
vote tally showed the Remain
camp falling further behind.
With all votes counted, Leave
was ahead by 52 percent to 48 percent, an enormous snub to
Britain’s elite.
The process of withdrawal is
likely to play out slowly, perhaps
taking years. It will mean pulling
out of the world’s largest trading
zone, with 508 million residents,
including the 65 million people of
Britain, and abandoning a commitment to the free movement of
labor, capital, goods and services.
It has profound implications for
Britain’s legal system, which incorporates a large body of regulations that cover everything from
product safety to digital privacy,
and for Britain’s economy.
The main ways in which the
change will be felt are on trade —
Britain will lose automatic access
to the European single market —
and on immigration, with Britain
no longer bound to allow any European Union citizen to live and
work in the country. Britain will
have to try to negotiate new deals
covering those issues.
To those in Britain who supported remaining in Europe, the
result of Thursday’s in-or-out referendum was a painful rejection,
leaving the country exposed to a
possible economic downturn and
signaling a step away from the
multiculturalism that they say has
made Britain among Europe’s
most vibrant societies.
To backers of leaving, the outcome was vindication of their belief that Britain could pursue an
independent course in the world,
free of the Brussels bureaucracy
and able to control the flow of immigrants into the country.
“Dare to dream that the dawn is
breaking on an independent
United Kingdom,” Nigel Farage,
the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, one of the primary
forces behind the push for a referendum on leaving the European
Union, told cheering supporters
just after 4 a.m.
For Mr. Cameron, the results
were a humiliating disaster, forcing him to announce his departure
only 13 months after he won reelection behind a surprisingly
large Conservative majority in national elections. Critics said that
he had led Britain out of Europe
for no good reason and that the
unity of the United Kingdom itself
was threatened, with Scotland
now more likely to try again to
bolt.
Speaking in front of 10 Downing
Street early Friday, with his wife,
Samantha, standing nearby, Mr.
Cameron said he would resign
once a new leader had been chosen by his party, a decision he expected by October. He will stay
now to provide stability, but a new
prime minister, he said, should
formally begin Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union
and negotiate the terms of that divorce.
“I held nothing back,” Mr. Cameron said. His voice breaking, he
said, “I love this country and I feel
honored to have served it.”
His statement created an immediate churn in the political waters, with speculation that the two
Conservatives most likely to succeed him are Boris Johnson, the
flamboyant former mayor of London who helped lead the Leave
agreement with Britain could be
negotiated, as Ms. Merkel suggested on Friday, though the price
could be high.
The economy aside, the United
Kingdom itself now faces a threat
to its survival. Scotland voted by
62 percent to 38 percent to remain
in the European Union, and the
Scottish first minister, Nicola
Sturgeon, said Friday that it was
“democratically
unacceptable”
for Scotland to be dragged out of it
against its will. Another independence referendum, she said, “is
now highly likely.”
Appearing before reporters in
front of the flags of Scotland and
the European Union, Ms. Sturgeon, who leads the dominant
Scottish National Party, said, “It is
a statement of the obvious that the
option of a second referendum
must be on the table, and it is on
the table.”
The threat is real, but any new
vote will not come soon, because it
is only two years since the last
one, which the Scottish nationalists lost, and the price of oil, on
which the Scottish economy largely depends, has dropped.
Northern Ireland, too, voted for
Remain, although Protestants
and Roman Catholics, as usual,
were split. But the prospect of an
open border with Ireland now becoming a hard border between the
European Union and the United
Kingdom will change matters and
require checks of passports and
goods, putting strain on the Good
Friday peace agreement.
In England, which voted for
Dismay in Scotland,
and a call for another
independence vote.
ADAM FERGUSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, top, with his wife, Samantha, said Friday that he would resign once his party had chosen
a new leader. “I held nothing back,” he said. Nigel Farage, above, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, celebrated in London.
campaign, and Theresa May, the
Home secretary, who supported
Mr. Cameron and Remain, but
concentrated on doing her job
rather than campaigning.
Mr. Johnson was booed Friday
morning as he left his home in
London, which voted overwhelmingly for Remain. In a brief statement later, Mr. Johnson praised
Mr. Cameron, an old friend and rival from school days, as “an extraordinary politician” and said he
was sad to see him go.
Mr. Johnson refused to answer
questions about his own future
but praised the result. “We can
find our voice in the world again, a
voice that is commensurate with
the fifth-biggest economy on
earth,” he said.
But if Britain’s Treasury and
Central Bank are to be believed,
the economic hit the country will
take from leaving the single market of the European Union will be
considerable, with permanent
loss of economic growth, higher
unemployment and lower tax receipts.
The immediate market reaction
was an effort to find a floor in the
midst of so much uncertainty, said
Barrington Pitt Miller, an equity
research analyst at Janus Capital.
But he said he expected British
economic growth to be zero or
negative in the short and medium
term, with a secondary impact
over time as London’s financial
services sector, which makes up
about 10 percent of the economy,
begins to move staff members and
headquarters to Frankfurt, Paris
or Dublin.
A lot will depend on how the European Union chooses in the end
to respond — whether it is “vindic-
tive, friendly or frightened,” he
said.
Mr. Johnson and some in the
Leave campaign argued that the
other European nations valued
trade with Britain so much that
they would negotiate a special
deal after Britain’s withdrawal to
let Britain remain in the single
market without having to guarantee freedom of movement and labor. That seems highly unlikely
because it would only encourage
other nations to pressure Brussels. But it may be that as the dust
settles, some sort of association
Leave, there are obvious strains,
too.
They can be found between the
young who voted in large numbers for Remain and those over 45,
who voted for Leave; between the
cities and the countryside; between richer and poorer; and between better educated and less
educated.
London itself, the glittering, expensive, multicultural and multinational global capital, with its
many immigrants and liberal
values, was isolated in a sea of
those favoring Leave; in some
sense, the vote was against the
wealthy elites who live in London
and rule everyone else from there.
Last, there is the chasm between political leaders, nearly all
of whom backed Remain, and
many of their voters, who rebuffed them.
Bronwen Maddox, former editor of Prospect Magazine and the
new director of the Institute for
Government, a research institution, said in an email that “there is
a growing intolerance for representative government, which is
likely to have consequences for
the ability of any government to
run the country.”
The referendum, she suggested, might have been about
Brussels, but it revealed and unleashed many other forces. Those
forces, she said, “have ejected the
U.K. from the European Union;
they may now wreak similar turmoil on the old political parties
themselves.”
THE CAMPAIGN
Will Pullout Echo in U.S. Election? Amid Similarities, Many More Differences
From Page A1
and wages decline,” said David
Axelrod, a former strategist for
President Obama and an adviser
to Britain’s Labour Party in last
year’s general election.
“And so lots of folks want to turn
the clock back and make America,
or their country, great again.”
Although Mr. Trump may struggle to convert a message of national retrenchment into victory
here, some of the stark divisions
on display in Britain do mirror political trends in this country.
The highly educated, younger
voters around London who voted
to remain in the European Union,
for example, share some commonalities with the American urbanites who were the pillars of Mr.
Obama’s coalition. And Mr. Trump
has triumphed with the American
counterparts of the British
“Leave” voters: older whites who
lack university degrees and live in
less prosperous regions of the
English countryside.
But beneath those generalities,
there are crucial distinctions between the Brexit vote and the 2016
presidential election.
In the United States, there is no
recent history of electing nationalist presidents hostile to immigration, and even recent Republican
presidents have celebrated new
arrivals as integral to American
prosperity and identity.
American presidential elections are largely decided by a diverse and upscale electorate, anchored in America’s cities and
suburbs. These communities
more closely resemble London
than Lincolnshire. Minorities
made up more than a quarter of
the electorate in the last presidential campaign.
And while Britain decided to
leave the European Union
through a popular vote, the White
House race will be determined by
the Electoral College, which is
tilted toward the Democrats.
Some large states with significant
nonwhite populations have been
out of reach for Republican candidates for much of the last three
decades; California, New York,
New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania have voted for every
Democratic nominee since 1992.
Mr. Obama also won Florida
twice, and Mrs. Clinton has a lead
there now in part because Mr.
Trump is unpopular with Hispanics.
Together those six states offer
166 of the 270 electoral votes
needed to win the presidency.
Mr. Trump is at an even greater
disadvantage than other recent
Republican presidential nominees
because of his dismal standing
with nonwhite, college-educated
and female voters. Unless he can
reverse the deeply negative views
such voters have of him, he is unlikely to capture the voter-rich
communities around Philadelphia, Denver, Miami and Washington that are crucial to winning
the White House.
Joe Trippi, a Democratic political strategist who was a consultant for former Prime Minister
Tony Blair of Britain, said he expected the Brexit vote to embolden American conservatives. But
their excitement, Mr. Trippi said,
would be largely “a false read” of
the results.
“There are some very similar
things — a polarized electorate,
nativism,
nationalism
were
clearly big factors, and Trump exemplifies them here,” Mr. Trippi
said.
“But there is a difference in the
multiculturalism and diversity of
the United States, versus nowhere
near the same factors in the U.K.”
Despite high levels of concern
about immigration and foreign
trade, polls show that most Americans have so far recoiled from Mr.
Trump’s specific policy proposals,
such as deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants.
A survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute
and the Brookings Institution on
Thursday found that while Americans were closely split on the
benefits of immigration and
mostly said global trade was
harmful, strong majorities rejected Mr. Trump’s promises to
build a wall on the Mexican border
and ban Muslim immigration.
Fundamental
distinctions in
traditions and among
the electorate.
Further, the vote in Britain was
a referendum on a European entity that was easy to rally against,
while the presidential vote here is
increasingly becoming a referendum on a polarizing individual.
“Americans will be asked to
vote for or against a person:
Trump,” said Tony Fratto, a former press secretary for George W.
Bush.
“And that’s a higher hurdle. If
you want to express yourself with
a protest vote, you’ll have to vote
for Trump, and he is singularly un-
attractive and even offensive to a
large majority of Americans.”
If the moment seemed to invite
a triumphant, thematic victory
speech by Mr. Trump on Friday,
the candidate himself had other
ideas.
Appearing at a golf resort he
owns in Turnberry, Scotland, Mr.
Trump applauded the vote as an
expression of national anger. But
in the course of a meandering
news conference, Mr. Trump
dwelled on the virtues of his property there, and compared the difficulties of the American presidency to the task of refurbishing a golf
course.
Mr. Trump was dismissive of
the economic ramifications of the
referendum, and predicted that a
downturn for the British pound
would benefit his business. “When
the pound goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry,
frankly,” Mr. Trump said.
Mrs. Clinton responded with restraint, issuing a statement offering “respect” for the decision
made by a close ally and offering
assurances about “America’s
steadfast commitment to the special relationship with Britain.”
The larger impact of the vote
may not play out in this fall’s election between Mrs. Clinton and Mr.
Trump. But it will almost certainly
divide the Republican Party in the
years ahead, deepening the internal rift caused by the rise of Mr.
Trump and his coalition.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas,
both widely thought to be considering presidential bids in 2020,
quickly released statements that
seized on the “Leave” vote as an
illustration of the disconnect between the voters and internationalist leaders in Washington, London and Brussels.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who
are both more supportive of free
trade and may also be eyeing the
White House, issued statements
that notably did not target technocratic elites.
Laura Ingraham, an influential
conservative radio host who supports Mr. Trump, said both the Republican Party in America and
Britain’s Conservative Party had
been torn apart by “fights over
globalism.” In both cases, she
said, “working-class nationalists
are seeking a major change” — so
far, with some success.
“The G.O.P. is becoming more
nationalistic, and this trend will
probably continue whatever happens with Trump,” Ms. Ingraham
wrote in an email before the referendum result was announced.
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BRITAIN'S CHOICE
How Britain Voted in
the E.U. Referendum
Scotland
Britons voted on Thursday to leave the European
Union. The Leave side led with 17.4 million votes, or
52 percent, versus the Remain side’s 16.1 million, or
48 percent, with a turnout of around 72 percent.
The Scottish first minister has said that a
leave vote could trigger a referendum vote in
Scotland to leave Britain. Scots rejected
independence in a referendum in September
2014 by 55 percent to 45 percent.
Should Britain remain
in the European Union?
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8.5
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porous border with Ireland, which is in
the European Union. Trade issues could
arise between the two.
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also opted for Brexit, demonstrating that this was not
a trend restricted England’s north and the Midlands.
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toward remaining. But the voters’ choice to leave has
severely undermined the confidence of investors.
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BBC forecasts that Britain has voted
to leave the E.U., sending Asian
stocks tumbling.
Markets in England and Germany
open down sharply before paring
back some losses.
The S&P 500 fell 3.6 percent, its
largest drop since August.
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BRITAIN'S CHOICE
NEWS ANALYSIS
Upheaval Sends a Nation With a Storied History Into Uncharted Territory
By STEVEN ERLANGER
LONDON — Asked to vote in
or out, Britain has chosen decisively to cast off its 43-year-old
membership in the European
Union, leaving it to face a more
complex question: What kind of
nation will it be now?
Will Britain be the outwardlooking, entrepreneurial, confident country that makes its
independent way in the world, as
the leaders of the “Leave” campaign insisted it could be?
Or will it retreat to become a
Little England, nationalist and a
touch xenophobic, responding to
the voters that drove it to quit
the European Union?
Even more important: Will it
even hold together? With Scotland deeply pro-Europe, pressure
will increase for another independence referendum that could
bring an end to the United Kingdom.
Britain, a nation whose storied
history has encompassed the
birth of constitutional government, global empire, royal
pageantry and heroic defense
against fascism, is entering
unknown territory.
The questions about its new
path could remain unresolved for
years. On Friday morning, at
least, Britain remained a member of the European Union in full
standing, just as it was 24 hours
earlier.
But the impact of this plebiscite is likely to be profound and
long-lasting, well beyond the
immediate tumult in the financial
markets, and the questions about
Britain’s future will be answered
against the backdrop of potential
political, legal and economic
upheaval.
A Conservative government
with its first majority since 1992
has ripped itself apart on a global
stage and is badly damaged.
promptly announced that he
would step aside once his party
settled on a successor, setting up
a potentially bare-knuckle leadership battle. An early general
election is not out of the question.
Once Britain begins the formal
process of withdrawing from the
European Union by exercising
Article 50 of the treaty that governs membership in the bloc — a
step Mr. Cameron said he would
leave to the next prime minister
— it will set off a two-year clock
on negotiations, a period in
which Britain (including millions
of European citizens living in
Britain and British citizens living
in the European Union) will be in
limbo.
And if the British Treasury, the
Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the
Institute for Fiscal Studies are to
be believed, the British economy
is in for a severe shock. The
Treasury estimates that the
British gross domestic product,
representing the size of the economy, will fall by 3.5 percent,
Supporters of the Leave campaign in London on Friday. The impact of the referendum to exit the European Union is likely to be profound and long-lasting.
clobbering tax receipts; that half
a million people will lose their
jobs; and that housing prices
(and thus personal wealth of
homeowners) will fall by 10 percent.
Those estimates were criticized by the Leave campaign,
including senior members of
government, as unfounded fear
mongering. Now Britain will find
out how accurate they are.
This vote was a severe shock
to Britain’s political class from
voters who are angry, confused
and deeply distrustful of elites.
The Labour Party joined Mr.
Cameron in campaigning to stay
in Europe, as did nearly all the
other parties represented in
Parliament, with the exception of
the Democratic Unionists and
the U.K. Independence Party,
which was founded on a platform
of leaving the European Union.
Yet despite that solid wall of
establishment voices — or perhaps because of them — Britain
voted for a fundamental change
in direction.
“The British political class
should pay attention,” said Tony
Travers, professor of government
at the London School of Econom-
ics.
“There is a lot of disaffection
with both main parties,” he said.
In 1955, the Conservatives and
Labour won 97.5 percent of the
vote, but in last two elections, the
two won only about 66 percent of
the vote, he said.
“Into that vacuum something
else has to move, but what?” Mr.
Travers asked. “The political
class has to wonder how to appeal to those who increasingly
feel left out of the system, how to
stop large numbers of voters
feeling cut out of economic
change and success.”
The Conservative Party is
already split between traditional
establishment figures like Mr.
Cameron and others who embraced the anti-elite, anti-immigration posture of the Leave
campaign, most prominently the
former mayor of London, Boris
Johnson, and one of Mr.
Cameron’s senior cabinet members, Michael Gove.
Mr. Cameron also had more
centrist views than many in his
party’s grass roots, having
pushed the Conservatives to
back social issues like same-sex
marriage and adopt unifying
themes like “one-nation Con-
servatism.”
He is likely to be replaced by
someone more to the right and
more anti-European, like Theresa May, the home secretary, or
Mr. Johnson, who also thinks of
himself as a “one-nation Tory,”
but in the Churchillian mode, and
has made no secret of his ambition.
And the Labour Party must
find a way to embrace those
working-class voters who are
clearly unhappy about the effects
of globalization and immigration
on their lives and found themselves swayed by the Leave
campaign. The Labour leader,
Jeremy Corbyn, was somewhat
halfhearted in his support for the
“Remain” camp, reflecting his
ambivalence about whether
staying in Europe would be the
right focus when it comes to
helping working people.
This referendum has also
displayed a major fissure between Britain’s metropolitan elite
and the rest of the country, essentially pitting rich versus poor
across the normal party divide.
“Two nations, in short, are
staring at each other across a
political chasm,” wrote John
Harris in the left-leaning Guardian, which supported Remain,
but James Bartholomew made
the same point in the Spectator
magazine, which supported
Leave.
Those with a university degree
supported Remain in large numbers, according to pre-referendum polls; those with little
higher education supported
Leave in equally large numbers.
Major cities, multicultural and
replete with immigrants, tended
to support Remain, while the
countryside and poorer areas
along the eastern coast were
strongly for Leave.
People over 45, and especially
retirees, strongly supported
Leave, while younger Britons
strongly supported Remain.
Those with cosmopolitan lives
and money were afraid to lose it;
those whose lives are bounded
by England and are struggling
with the pressures of globalization and immigration looked for a
return to a calmer, more homogeneous past.
So the divisions are just as
much cultural as economic, and
they raise serious questions
about Britain’s political coher-
ence and unity, and about how
long it may take to heal the
wounds made or reopened in this
noisy, often vicious campaign.
The referendum also sharply
exacerbated tensions within the
four countries of the United
Kingdom and gave a jolt to English nationalism, already on the
rise since the Scottish independence referendum failed in 2014.
In addition to intensifying
demands for another referendum
on independence for Scotland,
the outcome of the European
Union vote may also increase
demands in England, which
makes up 85 percent of the
British population, for its own
devolved Parliament to vote on
laws concerning only England,
just as Parliaments in Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland do
now for their regions.
Amid the overwhelming confusion about the next few years, it
will take more than a few reassuring words about a festival
of democracy to begin to bring
Britain back together.
As Mr. Harris warned, “We are
in a terrible mess, and it is probably going to take decades to
even begin to put things right.”
‘A GREAT THING’
Trump, Visiting His Scottish Golf Courses, Praises the Result as Good for Business
By ASHLEY PARKER
AYRSHIRE, Scotland — Donald J. Trump arrived in Scotland
just as Britain was deciding to
leave the European Union and
proclaimed the momentous departure “a great thing” and the
subsequent decline of the British
pound good for local companies —
including his own Turnberry golf
course.
Touching down in Scotland on
Friday morning to visit his luxury
resort and golf course, Mr. Trump,
who before the vote had suggested that Britain leave the European Union, took a victory lap of
sorts, landing in his “G-TRMP”
helicopter and proclaiming, “I
said this was going to happen, and
I think that it’s a great thing.”
“Basically they took back their
country,” Mr. Trump said.
And amid global jitters over
Britain’s divorce from the European Union, Mr. Trump reacted
with celebration and self-interest,
predicting that it would benefit his
business and declaring that President Obama contributed to the
outcome.
“Look, if the pound goes down,
they’re going to do more business,” Mr. Trump said, when
asked during a news conference
about the referendum’s market
ramifications. “When the pound
goes down, more people are coming to Turnberry, frankly.”
Mr. Trump also said he saw “a
big parallel” between the vote in
Britain and the broader populist,
anti-establishment sentiment that
helped fuel his rise to the status of
presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
“People want to take their country back, they want to have independence in a sense, and you see it
with Europe, all over Europe, and
you’re going to have more than
just, in my opinion, more than just
what happened last night,” Mr.
JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
A bagpiper serenaded Donald J. Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump on Friday as they arrived
at his Trump Turnberry resort. He said of the “Brexit” vote, “I said this was going to happen.”
Trump said. “You’re going to have
many other cases where people
want to take their borders back,
they want to take their monetary
back, they want to take a lot of
things back, they want to be able
to have a country again.”
His message in favor of
“Brexit” was not necessarily welcome here in Scotland, whose citizens had overwhelmingly voted to
remain part of Europe and were
already discussing the possibility
of breaking from England as a result of Thursday’s vote.
Early in June, Mr. Trump did
not even know what Brexit referred to, and as recently as
Wednesday, he said that his opinion on the referendum was insig-
nificant because he had not been
following the issue closely.
But hours after Prime Minister
David Cameron of Britain announced that he was going to resign as a result of the vote, Mr.
Trump offered his own political
analysis, saying frustration with
the status quo had helped influence the result.
“People are angry, all over the
world people, they’re angry,” he
said. “They’re angry over borders, they’re angry over people
coming into the country and
taking over, nobody even knows
who they are. They’re angry
about many, many things.”
Mr. Trump’s trip came at an unusual moment — just a month be-
fore the Republican National Convention, and as many of his aides
privately fretted about the timing
of the visit as he seeks to unite the
party behind him. He arrived after
a tough week in the United States
— the firing of his campaign manager and the revelation that his
campaign has stunningly little
cash on hand — and the bucolic
backdrop belied the turmoil roiling Europe, the markets and even
his own political operation.
At the news conference, he was
pressed repeatedly on the British
referendum, and at several points
he blamed Mr. Obama, who had
urged Britain not to split from the
European Union. “It’s not his
country, it’s not his part of the
world, he shouldn’t have done it,
and I actually think that his recommendation perhaps caused it
to fail,” Mr. Trump said.
He also attacked Hillary Clinton, saying she had “misread” the
mood of the country — violating a
tacit rule of decorum that politics
stop at the water’s edge.
Still, Mr. Trump’s visit at times
had the feel of an American
abroad promoting his moneyed
golf links, rather than his own candidacy for president. He was
greeted, much like the queen of
England would be met, by staff
members of Trump Turnberry —
all clad in red “Make Turnberry
Great Again” hats — as well as
bagpipers who, along with Secret
Service agents, preceded him up
the sloping steps to his property.
And he waxed proud about his golf
resort for more than 15 minutes,
before finally taking questions on
the seismic news of the day.
At one point, Mr. Trump even
compared his renovation of
Trump Turnberry to how he is
hoping to overhaul the United
States. When a reporter pointed
out — correctly — that a country is
hardly a golf course, Mr. Trump
replied: “No it’s not, but you’ll be
amazed how similar it is. It’s a
place that has to be fixed.”
Other candidates have made
such trips abroad to burnish their
foreign policy credentials and elevate themselves as a statesman in
the eyes of voters back home, jamming their days with high-level
meetings with dignitaries.
But not Mr. Trump, whose business interests have long prescribed his political ones. Despite
landing the day after the referendum, his itinerary consisted simply of 48 hours spread across two
of his golf courses — one on Scotland’s southwest coast on Friday,
the other in Balmedie on Saturday, overlooking the chilly North
Sea. (Asked if he had huddled with
his foreign policy advisers about
“Brexit,” he replied, “I’ve been in
touch with them but there’s nothing to talk about.”)
Yet even across the ocean, Mr.
Trump was unable to escape the
news of the campaign trail. A
group of Scottish communities
and leaders organized a phone call
Friday to discuss their opposition
to Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
Mr. Trump, who nonetheless received a fairly warm welcome in
Scotland, where locals say they
appreciate the money he has
poured into the village economy
since buying the golf course in
2014, is unlikely to be greeted as
cheerfully when he visits Balmedie, north of Aberdeen.
There, his course, Trump International Golf Links, has been
rived with controversy, with Mr.
Trump trying to push locals out of
their homes, promising jobs that
never materialized, fighting over
an offshore wind farm and even
suing the Scottish government.
Mr. Trump, whose comments
about Mexicans and Hispanics
have enraged many, including
members of his own party, is expected to be met with a giant Mexican flag flying in view of his clubhouse — an act of protest by two
local men.
Frank Cruickshanks, 52, who is
a caddy at Mr. Trump’s property,
including for Mr. Trump’s son
Eric, said he appreciated the work
Mr. Trump had put into overhauling the golf course.
“Having caddied for the last
three weeks, mostly for Americans, I have yet to meet one who’s
voting for Hillary Clinton,” Mr.
Cruickshanks said.
Asked if those American
tourists were voting, then, for Mr.
Trump, Mr. Cruickshanks paused.
“No, I didn’t say that,” he said,
with a mischievous grin.
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BRITAIN'S CHOICE
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
For a Notion of Strength in Connectedness, Defeat Comes Hard
By RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — When the Berlin
Wall fell, I was in high school.
When the planes hit the Twin
Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, I was a
rookie reporter in New York.
When Britain voted to leave the
European Union, I woke up to
the news at home in Paris and
was stunned, but not entirely
surprised. I’ve covered Europe
for The New York Times for the
past eight years, and I’ve learned
that voter anger, or voter apathy,
is always a clearer gauge than
politicians and pundits.
Still, the news stung. For me
and others of my generation, this
vote was about more than
Britain’s relationship with Europe. It signaled the definitive
end of the era of transnational
optimism in which I came of age:
the ’90s. Back then, we believed
that interconnectedness was a
strength. People wanted to study
human rights law. Nationalism
was out of fashion — at least in
Western Europe — and weaponized Twitter didn’t yet exist to
galvanize political change. (Or
rather, to take down institutions,
not build them.)
In June 2011 I was on assignment in Athens when the government of Prime Minister George
Papandreou collapsed. A year
earlier, Mr. Papandreou had
asked for a foreign bailout. The
country’s lenders agreed, but
only if Greece met terms that
would soon prove politically
toxic. Mr. Papandreou resigned
that November, and his oncepowerful Socialist Party imploded.
For years to come, I covered
countless middle-of-the-night
votes in which the Greek Parliament pushed through packages
of austerity measures at the 11th
hour. There were lots of riots and
billows of tear gas. Before each
vote, there were many political
messages from Europe warning
that if Greece didn’t pass this or
that measure, it would be kicked
out of the eurozone, and everything would fall apart.
Regular people didn’t understand what was going on, and
neither did many European
leaders, cocooned in their provincialisms. Sometimes there was
chatter that no, Greece wouldn’t
get kicked out of the euro, but
that maybe one day Germany,
Europe’s largest economy, would
leave. Never mind how Germany
had grown rich because its banks
had lent Southern Europe money
to buy German goods, a fact that
didn’t fit into the “lazy Greeks”
Nationalism, out of
fashion once, is now
back in.
narrative of the German tabloid
news media.
This week, it wasn’t Greece
that was kicked out. It was Britain that voted to leave, after a
campaign of open xenophobia.
Leaving the euro isn’t the same
as leaving the European Union,
but the differences are too technical for many people to parse.
That’s the problem.
The European Union hasn’t
done a good job of explaining its
purpose — it’s too opaque, too
bureaucratic, too confusing —
and its slow handling of the debt
crisis, especially in Greece,
where it acted fast so French and
German banks could cut their
losses, but left Greece asphyxiated, had devastating consequences for all. Decisions
made for short-term financial
stability have led to long-term
political instability.
I’m struck by how the critiques
of Europe from the right and left
wind up converging. The Democracy in Europe movement, begun
this year by the leftist Yanis
Varoufakis, a polarizing former
Greek finance minister, hits some
of the same notes as Nigel
Farage’s right-wing U.K. Independence Party, criticizing Europe as antidemocratic and less
than transparent.
Still, the right appeals to nationalism and the left does not.
The right sells a nostalgic version of national identity that
resonates viscerally but doesn’t
reflect reality, especially not for
young people born into a Europe
of Erasmus scholarships that let
them study across borders, and
EasyJet, which lets them travel
around on the cheap.
These critiques of Europe from
the left and right aren’t really
ideological in the way that the
20th-century battles between
communists and fascists were.
Instead, voters have the sense
that abstract economic forces are
determining their fates, that
their countries have given up
part of their economic
sovereignty to Europe — but that
Europe, a vague construct, has
not assumed that power and
can’t act on it. Europe hovers in a
kind of purgatory of
semisovereignty. In this confusion, nationalists thrive.
It’s all terribly confusing: The
idea of a united Europe was to
allow citizens to prosper. When
the economy was booming, countries wanted immigration. In
recent years, the economic crisis
hasn’t allowed citizens in many
parts of Europe to prosper. Does
this mean that a united Europe is
to blame, or that global economic
factors are? Or does the fault lie
with entrenched local economic
realities, like national labor contracts, which exist for older
CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES
A European Union flag with a hole cut in the middle, spotted Friday in Knutsford, England.
workers but are often an impossible dream for younger ones?
Was the promise of growth
overly wishful?
This week I reread one of the
most prescient texts on the European Union: the historian Tony
Judt’s 1996 essay “A Grand Illusion?” In it, he maps out everything we are witnessing today,
from the slow erosion of the
welfare state to the return of
nationalisms to the realization
that the idea “that social and
political institutions and affinities
naturally and necessarily follow
economic ones” is a “reductivist
fallacy.”
“Just as an obsession with
‘growth’ has left a moral vacuum
at the heart of some modern
nations, so the abstract, ma-
terialist quality of the idea of
Europe is proving insufficient to
legitimate its own institutions
and retain popular confidence,”
wrote Mr. Judt, who died in 2010.
“Since 1989 there has been a
return of memory and with it,
and benefiting from it, a revival
of the national units that framed
and shaped that memory and
gave meaning to the collective
past,” he wrote.
When I was on assignment in
Russia last year, where the government of President Vladimir V.
Putin has been playing up the
country’s past military glory in
television programs, films and
history exhibitions, a film
producer told me a sardonic and
painfully accurate commonplace:
that in Russia, “the future has
become unpredictable — and so
has the past.”
This seems accurate for Russia
and for Eastern Europe, where
governing parties play the nationalist card because it’s one of
the few cards they can play —
since they certainly can’t play
the economic card, the brightfuture card. The vote in Britain
on Thursday was also a vote for
revisionist history, for a vision of
Britain for the British — of England for the English, really —
that hasn’t existed in a long time.
Who inherits England? It’s a
question that has obsessed
British novelists for decades.
And who inherits Europe? Today
in Europe the past is equally
unpredictable, and the path
ahead looks very uncertain.
THE PRESIDENT
Obama Acknowledges Loss but Says ‘Special Relationship’ Will Continue
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
and MARK LANDLER
PALO ALTO, Calif. — President
Obama on Friday sought to assure
Britain and the European Union
that the United States would not
pick sides once the two are divorced. But he acknowledged,
somewhat ruefully, that Britain’s
vote to leave the union, which he
had publicly opposed, spoke “to
the ongoing changes and challenges raised by globalization.”
Mr. Obama’s first public reaction to the news from Britain came
in a rather incongruous setting:
the Global Entrepreneurship
Summit at sunny Stanford University, 5,300 miles from London,
where the president addressed a
young, multicultural, tech-savvy
audience that seemed worlds
away from an older generation of
Britons whose nationalist passions largely drove the vote.
“The world has shrunk,” he told
the entrepreneurs, adding that
they embodied this trend. “It
promises to bring extraordinary
benefits, but it also has challenges, and it also evokes concerns and fears.”
Rather than dwell on the
wrenching change to come, Mr.
Obama emphasized continuity.
“One thing that will not change is
the special relationship that exists
between our two nations,” he said.
“That will endure.” And, he added,
“The E.U. will remain one of our
Indispensable partners.”
The president said he had spoken with Prime Minister David
Cameron, who told him Britain’s
departure would be orderly, and
with Chancellor Angela Merkel of
Germany, who will loom even
larger as a partner for the United
States in a European club that no
longer has a Britain as a member.
But Mr. Obama’s soothing
words did not disguise how personal a setback the vote was for
him. In April, while visiting Mr.
Cameron in London and celebrating the 90th birthday of Queen
Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, he
implored Britons not to vote in favor of leaving. Britain, he warned,
risked going “to the back of the
queue” in negotiating trade deals
with the United States.
The “Brexit” vote runs counter
to Mr. Obama’s vision of open, interconnected societies, and it illustrates the frustrating cycle of
his engagement with the world:
“America’s first Pacific president,”
as Mr. Obama has called himself,
who tried to pull the United States
out of the Middle East, now finds
himself, near the end of his presidency, confronting a crisis in Europe fueled in part by the refugees
attempting to flee the Middle
East.
As a practical matter, the terms
of the divorce vote will consume
Julie Hirschfeld Davis reported
from Palo Alto, Calif., and Mark
Landler from Washington.
ZACH GIBSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
President Obama, at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University on Friday, spoke about the “changes and challenges raised by globalization.”
Britain and Europe for at least two
years, making both less valuable
as trading partners and less reliable as allies in dealing with a dangerous world. It will also deal a
blow to Mr. Obama’s ambitious
European trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which was already losing
momentum on both sides because
of growing anti-trade sentiment.
“From the start of the administration, we’ve wanted to work
with them on all the big global
challenges,” said Philip H. Gordon, a former assistant secretary
of European and Eurasian affairs.
“If it’s in the interest of the U.S. to
work with the E.U. on Iran sanctions, on Russia sanctions, and on
military interventions in the Middle East, then it’s a major setback.”
At the same time, Mr. Obama
has had an ambivalent relationship with Europe during his presidency. His heavy emphasis on
Asia — a policy dubbed the pivot
— stoked suspicions in Europe
that he was moving away from the
continent to the faster-growing
markets of the East. In his first
term, the centerpiece of his Europe policy was an effort to “reset” relations with Russia.
Critics said the tendency to take
Europe for granted predated Mr.
Obama. “Since 2000, both the
Bush and Obama administrations
have acted as if Europe as a task
had been solved and that we no
longer needed to ‘tend the garden’
as George P. Shultz used to say,”
said John C. Kornblum, a former
American ambassador to Germany, referring to Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state. “The Europeans played their part by
acting as if they didn’t need us.”
Even after Mr. Obama worked
closely with Europeans on difficult issues like the NATO air campaign in Libya, there was a sense
that he looked on the trans-Atlantic alliance with a gimlet eye. In
April, he struck a nerve by suggesting that Britain and France
had been “free riders” in that operation, leaving the United States
to bear most of the military burden.
Some critics suggest Mr. Oba-
ma’s reluctance to be more militarily involved in Syria had an indirect effect on the British vote because of the flood of refugees the
civil war has sent to Europe, destabilizing the continent and firing up nativist sentiment. Syrian
refugees, however, account for far
less of Britain’s immigrant popu-
A vote that jars with
the president’s vision
of open societies.
lation than they do in Germany,
for example.
Mr. Obama has a chance to
demonstrate his support for Europe at a NATO summit in Warsaw next month. But there again,
the loss of Britain as a member of
the European Union will be felt.
Britain has historically been one
of NATO’s strongest boosters. It
has resisted initiatives like a joint
European military headquarters
because it could compete with
NATO. European officials said
Germany and France might revive the proposal as a way to reinforce Europe’s unity in the wake
of the British vote.
Britain’s decision to leave Europe just as Mr. Obama was
putting on an extravagant celebration of entrepreneurship and
engagement in Silicon Valley undercut his message that innovation, open borders and free trade
can improve people’s lives. It is
the same assertion that has also
underpinned his efforts to forge a
new dynamic in the Middle East.
In his Cairo speech in 2009
promising a “new beginning” in
the Middle East, Mr. Obama first
proposed to host entrepreneurship summits to explore ways to
strengthen relationships between
the United States and the Muslim
world. The annual conferences
proceeded as he envisioned, but
the broader strategy has not been
as simple to implement.
Mr. Obama acknowledged that
much of the upheaval gripping
American voters — an angst that
is propelling the campaign of Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee —
is driven by fear of technologydriven globalization and anger at
job losses prompted by automation. Mr. Trump has exploited
such fears, Mr. Obama told National Public Radio in December,
calling them “justified, but just
misdirected.”
On Friday, even as he held a
Google-sponsored virtual conference with entrepreneurs in Britain, Iraq, South Korea and Mexico,
the president conceded that interconnectivity still makes many
people uncomfortable.
“We are better off in a world in
which we are trading, and networking, and communicating and
sharing ideas,” Mr. Obama said
before a panel discussion with
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook
founder, on Friday.
“But that also means that cultures are colliding,” he added,
“and sometimes it’s disruptive,
and people get worried.”
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wanted Britain to stay in Europe.
Many young people in Britain
have grown up thinking of European integration as a given, not a
political experiment that would be
rolled back before they could fully
take part in it.
They are often more comfortable living in a multicultural society than their elders are, particularly in cities like London and Edinburgh, which are flooded by people from across the Continent to
study and work.
Many young Britons expressed
astonishment, anger or despair
that their parents and grandparents would seek to limit the travel,
exposure to other cultures and opportunities to work and study
abroad that being part of the European Union has afforded them.
“Truly gutted that our grandparents have effectively decided
that they hate foreigners more
than they love us and our futures,”
one young Briton, Dan Boden,
wrote on Twitter.
The referendum hinged in part
on youth turnout, and the government even tried to lower the voting age for the referendum to 16
from 18.
It failed, but the Remain campaign still pushed to register
young voters, with some success:
The deadline to register was extended by two days after a voterregistration website crashed because it was overwhelmed by visitors.
turned to Tinder, the dating app,
and TheLADbible, a website popular among young men, to tout the
benefits of staying in the European Union. The opposition Labour Party, which supported remaining in the bloc, also reached
out to young voters.
More than one million people
between 18 and 34 registered in recent months, the most ever for a
British election, according to Bite
the Ballot and HOPE Not Hate,
which encourage young people to
vote. Turnout for the referendum,
at around 72 percent, was the
highest for any national election
in Britain since 1992.
But it was not enough.
“Waking up to the #EURefResults and realizing the older generation have just ruined our future,” one young Briton, Toby
Pickard, wrote on Twitter.
Another, Sarah Hartley, wrote
that “our economy is in tatters”
Claire Barthelemy reported from
London, and Kimiko de FreytasTamura from Edinburgh. Iliana
Magra and Hannah Olivennes contributed reporting from London.
because “our grandparents cared
more about their comfort than our
future.”
In Edinburgh, a university city
with a strongly pro-European
bent, Robert Jack, a 21-year-old
student at the University of Glasgow, was reeling from the decision. He worried that his plans to
study in Romania on the European Union’s student-exchange
program, Erasmus, were in jeopardy.
The vote “is very damaging,”
Mr. Jack said, adding that he now
welcomed a second referendum
on whether Scotland should leave
the United Kingdom, because “it’s
better being inside the European
Union.”
Of course, many young people
supported the push to rid themselves of Europe. Ben Kew, 21, said
he spent 30 hours at the Leave
headquarters, watching the results come in.
“I was surprised; I didn’t think
we’d go through with it, but I’m
pleased that the establishment
has been given a kick,” he said,
adding that the vote was a moment when Britons expressed a
desire for real change.
But many young voters wondered what would happen to European Union funding for research
and sciences. British universities
currently receive about 16 percent
of their research money and staff
members from the European Union.
James Calderbank, 21, a student
at Falmouth University in Cornwall, England, wrote in an email:
“Since the early hours of this
morning my Facebook newsfeed
has been filled with my friends’
disappointment that we are leaving the E.U.”
He added: “Our campus was
part-funded by the E.U., so things
are really not looking good for my
university and its source of
funds.” Cornwall, as a fairly rural
and less-developed part of southwest England, was also a beneficiary of economic aid from Brussels, he noted.
Some high-school students expressed dismay as well. “There is
a very clear rift between how us
young people feel and how the oldest age groups feel,” Elliot Shirnia,
18, a student at the Marling School
in Gloucestershire, England,
wrote in an email, adding that as
the son of a refugee from Iran he
felt the Leave campaign was divisive.
Anxiety about the economy and
immigration drove the Leave
campaign’s victory. But many
young people said they thought
the decision would only set back
their prospects.
“I’m already part of a genera-
Britons who voted to remain in the E.U. discussed the vote in London on Friday. The referendum exposed a generational divide.
Patrons watched results at a pub on Thursday. Pre-election surveys showed that 57 percent of
Britons between the ages of 18 and 34 who intended to vote supported remaining in the bloc.
tion stuck in rented property unable to buy my own house,” Hannah Shaw, 25, who works at a National Health Service hospital and
lives with her parents, wrote in an
email. “The older generation
seem so happy with the result, almost smug like it’s some sort of
victory completely unaware of the
chaos they’ve caused for my generation. I’m dreading what will
happen to employment, workers’
China’s Role
In World
Is Debated
After Death
about European Union membership. “A lot of the older generation
rely on newspapers for all their
facts and don’t actually do any of
their own research unlike my generation.”
Jenna Ives-Moody, 19, a journalism student at the University of
Huddersfield in northern England, wrote in an email that “serious fact-based journalism within
the U.K. is not valued by the ma-
ISIS Is Blamed in Mass Abductions in Syria
By JANE PERLEZ
and YUFAN HUANG
BEIJING — From his start as
an aspiring diplomat in China’s
Foreign Ministry in 1959 to his
days as an ambassador in Paris
and Geneva, Wu Jianmin represented the best of his country’s diplomacy: firm but reasonable,
gracious but not unctuous.
In retirement, he became an unusually outspoken advocate for
China’s remaining open to the outside world, warning that the nationalism that had grown under
President Xi Jinping should be
kept in check.
Mr. Wu, 77, was killed in a car accident last weekend, and his death
has reignited a debate over how
China should conduct itself
abroad.
At his funeral in Beijing on Friday, a delegation of more than 20
officials from the Foreign Ministry, led by the executive vice foreign minister, Zhang Yesui, paid
their respects. The foreign minister, Wang Yi, would have been
there had he been in the country, a
ministry spokeswoman, Hua
Chunying, said.
“I have never seen a public figure whose death made so many
people sad and made so many
people euphoric,” said Liu Yawei,
the director of the China program
at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Mr. Liu said Mr. Wu could stand up
to “the accusations that he was a
coward because he advocated
peace.”
Mr. Liu was at a conference at
Peking University about China’s
news media and its relations with
the world when participants were
told that Mr. Wu had been killed in
a crash after his driver struck a
median strip in Wuhan, in Hubei
Province, last Saturday.
The sponsor of the conference
was Global Times, the state-run
rights, the environment and our
economy.”
She added that she had friends
from countries like Slovakia, Poland, Spain and Romania.
“It’s hard to see it affect them
and think of the amazing people
I’ll never meet after we leave the
E.U.,” she said. “The U.K. suddenly feels very small.”
Ms. Shaw blamed the news media for spreading misinformation
jority of the English population.”
She said the Leave campaign
was driven by “a misplaced ideal
of reclaiming former glories
within Britain,” which she said
was not common among young
people “who embrace all aspects
of being European.”
Fear was palpable among the
young people in London who have
thronged the capital from elsewhere in Europe.
Francisco Vicedo, a 22-year-old
Spaniard who works at a branch of
the fast-food chain Pret a Manger,
is studying for a master’s program
on organized crime and terrorism
at University College London.
“We’ve already sent money to
our countries because we know
that in the following days the value of the pound is going to be
down,” he said. “Everyone is sending money already.”
He said he hoped to stay in London, where job opportunities are
more plentiful than in Spain, but
was unsure of his prospects.
Dara Canavan, 23, who works at
a
management
consultancy,
comes from an Irish town just
across the border from Northern
Ireland, and expressed fear about
the possible reimposition of border controls.
“There is a lot of worry about
whether free control between Ireland and Northern Ireland will be
affected,” said Mr. Canavan.
Mr. Canavan wasn’t sure he
would stay in Britain. “I was
thinking of going back in the future, but this could speed up the
process,” he said.
IMAGINECHINA, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wu Jianmin, a longtime diplomat who warned against rising
nationalism in China, in 2008. He died in a car crash last week.
newspaper that Mr. Wu had criticized for its stridently nationalistic views. Murmurs of shock rippled through the audience at the
news of his death.
Mr. Wu had been candid about
his distaste for the publication,
saying editorials that urged the
military to show more spine and
take more action in the South
China Sea, where Beijing is embroiled in territorial disputes with
its neighbors, were wrongheaded.
Mr. Wu had taken on the newspaper’s editor in chief, Hu Xijin,
accusing him in a speech in March
of making a “mess talking about
the world” and of not understanding how the world worked. In return, Mr. Hu called Mr. Wu a
dovish diplomat who did not know
what was good for China.
Soon after Mr. Wu’s death,
hawks in the debate flooded
Weibo, China’s Twitter equivalent.
An Air Force senior colonel, Dai
Xu, wrote that the former ambassador was “ignorant, arrogant,
bad mannered and grumpy.” Colonel Dai, who teaches at the National Defense University, also
criticized Mr. Wu for being “like a
pet dog to foreigners” but “like a
wolf dog’’ when dealing with Chinese. Mr. Wu was a familiar figure
to Americans involved in China
policy.
In 1971, after serving as an interpreter in French for Mao Zedong
and Zhou Enlai, Mr. Wu arrived in
New York in the first batch of Chi-
nese diplomats assigned to the
United Nations when China took
the seat previously held by Taiwan.
“He is the epitome of an excellent public intellectual: deeply
committed to his country, yet extremely thoughtful and nuanced
in his analysis of it,” said Jan
Berris, vice president of the National Committee on United
States-China Relations, who knew
Mr. Wu from those early days.
Mr. Wu gradually moved up
through the ranks of the Foreign
Ministry and after several ambassadorships became president of
the Foreign Affairs University in
Beijing, retiring in 2008.
Then, unrestricted by the confines of government and academia, he spoke out, a rare act in a
time of decreasing tolerance for
those who dissent, colleagues
said. “He had the moral courage to
speak out,” said Shi Yinhong, a
professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.
At Mr. Wu’s funeral, a reporter
for Phoenix Television who was
streaming from outside the hall interviewed a man in civilian
clothes who said he was in the military. The man praised Mr. Wu for
understanding that China was in
danger of retreating to the closed
mind-set of the Qing dynasty and
that it needed the outside world.
He added: “Don’t put that on
the record.’’
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Islamic State militants have abducted about 900 Kurdish
civilians in the northern Syrian
province of Aleppo over the past
three weeks, amid fierce fighting
for control of a nearby militant
stronghold, a Kurdish official and
Syrian activists said Friday.
The abductions began shortly
after the Syria Democratic
Forces, a Kurdish-dominated coalition of Syrians fighting the Islamic State and backed by the
United States, began an offensive
on May 31 to capture the town of
Manbij from the militants.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
that 900 Kurdish civilians had
been detained near Al Bab, a town
held by the Islamic State.
A spokesman for the Syrian Defense Forces, Sherfan Darwish,
told The Associated Press that the
abductions were in retaliation for
the offensive on Manbij. “Whenever Daesh is defeated, they retaliate against civilians,” Mr. Darwish said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, which is
About 900 Kurdish
civilians have been
detained amid fierce
fighting.
also known as ISIS and ISIL. He
said whole families were among
those abducted.
The Observatory and Mr. Darwish said that some of those taken
captive had been forced to dig
trenches in Islamic State-held areas, while others were imprisoned
in detention centers. Mr. Darwish
said that all captured men and
boys older than 12 were sent
against their will to the front lines
to help fortify the militants’
positions.
The Observatory said Islamic
State fighters had stormed homes
in several villages they control
near Al Bab, including Arab,
Qabaseen and Nairabiyeh, and
took with them mostly men.
In 2014, fighters abducted
nearly 200 Kurdish students near
Manbij as they were traveling
from the Kurdish border town of
Kobani to Aleppo, the provincial
capital, to take their exams. Most
were released.
In February 2015, the group kidnapped more than 200 Christians
from northeastern Syria. The
Christians were released over a
period of a year, after the Islamic
State collected millions of dollars
in ransom.
Opposition activists reported
clashes inside Manbij on Friday
and airstrikes by a United Statesled coalition.
Since the offensive to take Manbij began last month, Kurdish
fighters and their allies have captured dozens of villages and farms
near the town, which Kurdish officials said was now surrounded
from all sides.
The battle for Manbij has so far
claimed the lives of 81 Syrian Defense Force fighters and 463 Islamic State fighters, according to
the Observatory.
Russia Moves to Tighten Counterterror Law
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO
MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers adopted on Friday a set of
measures that proponents said
were aimed at combating terrorism, but that human rights
activists condemned as an assault
on freedoms of speech, privacy
and conscience.
The measures, passed on Friday by the State Duma, Russia’s
lower house of Parliament, introduced a prison sentence of up to
one year for failure to report a terrorist act or armed mutiny in the
planning stages. The lawmakers
also forced cellular and internet
providers to store all communications data for six months and to
help security services decipher all
messaging applications.
The bill, which must be approved by the upper chamber and
signed by President Vladimir V.
Rights activists see a
threat to freedoms of
speech and privacy.
Putin, also banned proselytizing,
preaching and praying outside officially recognized religious institutions, among other measures.
The measures, called the
Yarovaya Law after their main
proponent, Irina A. Yarovaya,
were putatively put forward as a
reaction to the October bombing
of a Russian passenger jet over
the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt,
which killed all 224 people aboard.
But leading Russian human
rights activists said the authorities were using the air disaster as
a pretext for an assault on basic
freedoms. Tanya Lokshina, the
Russia program director for Human Rights Watch, called the bill
“a set of legislative amendments
that severely undermine freedom
of expression, freedom of conscience and the right to privacy.”
Russian communications companies complained that the new
legislation would force them
spend billions of dollars to build
the infrastructure to store the
messages, while religious organizations said the amendments
could bar them from conducting
services and other events outside
their religious buildings.
In its initial form, the legislation
was even harsher, allowing the
government to strip Russians of
their citizenship if convicted of
committing a terrorist act, serving in a foreign army or working
for a foreign security service or
court.
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Ron Scott, right, went through the remnants of his home Friday in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. A state of emergency was declared in 44 West Virginia counties.
23 Deaths and Vast Wreckage in West Virginia Floods
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Record flooding in West Virginia killed at
least 23 people, stranded thousands, left thousands more without utilities, and washed away
houses, roads and vehicles after a band of thunderstorms battered the region on Thursday.
With boats, helicopters and ropes, firefighters, law enforcement officers and National
Guard troops rescued people from roofs of
flooded houses, cars and trucks, and from
mounds that had become temporary islands.
Freight barges on the Kanawha River broke
loose and slammed into bridges just west of
Charleston, forcing them to close until inspectors determined that they were undamaged.
More than 500 people were stranded and
spent the night at the Elkview Crossings Mall,
northeast of Charleston, because the roads
leading there were among more than 60
washed out around the state. Gov. Earl Ray
Tomblin ordered emergency construction of a
temporary road to reach the site. In White Sulphur Springs, a house caught fire as it was
ripped from its moorings, and it drifted like a
floating torch down a creek.
At least 23 people were killed, the State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency
Management said. In addition, 100 homes were
known to be badly damaged or destroyed, Mr.
Tomblin said Friday after declaring a state of
emergency in 44 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
The victims included an 8-year-old boy and a 4year-old boy, both carried off by fast-moving
torrents where there would usually be shallow
creeks.
“It’s been a long 24 hours, and the next 24
hours may not be easier,” Mr. Tomblin said.
“There will be an enormous amount of recovery
work.”
In Virginia, Gov. Terry McAuliffe made an
emergency declaration for Alleghany County
and the city of Covington.
With roads impassable and rivers still near
record highs in West Virginia, local officials said
they did not know what the toll in death and destruction would ultimately be.
“I’m afraid that will go higher; some of the
hardest-hit areas are areas that we can’t get
into,” said Kent Carper, the president of the Kanawha County Commission. “How many homes
have been destroyed, nobody knows. We have
not even started the property assessment.”
“I have seen bad flooding in West Virginia,
A record-setting
deluge destroys
homes, leaves
thousands of
people stranded
and cuts power
to many others.
but not like this,” he said. “It’s devastation, just
devastation.”
Most of West Virginia and parts of western
Virginia received 1 to 3 inches of rain in a few
hours on Thursday afternoon and evening, but
the downpour was far more intense in some
places. Parts of Greenbrier County, a sparsely
populated area bordering Virginia, got 8 to 10
inches of rain, the National Weather Service reported.
The mountainous terrain funneled that water
into rivers that quickly overflowed their banks.
The Elk River at Queen Shoals crested Friday
morning more than 14 feet above flood stage,
the highest ever recorded. The Greenbrier
River at Hilldale crested more than 19 feet
above flood stage, the highest since the 19th
century.
The Greenbrier Sporting Club is scheduled to
host its annual PGA Tour event starting July 7,
but much of the famed golf course was underwater Thursday and Friday. Calls to the club
were not answered.
As of Friday afternoon, Mr. Tomblin said,
66,000 customers in West Virginia were without
electricity, and thousands had no gas, water or
phone service.
Judge in Baltimore Sets
High Bar for Prosecution
In Police Misconduct Trials
By JESS BIDGOOD
AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Commuters in Washington. The city’s Metro serves the second-largest number of passengers in the nation.
Washington Workers Stall on Rail and Road
By JASMINE AGUILERA
WASHINGTON — Commuters here
who rely on the Metro are facing delays, early closings, single-tracking
and station shutdowns during the second phase of a yearlong repair project.
But that is not the only impact of the
repairs: increased traffic from those
who are suddenly forced to drive has
clogged downtown streets and traffic
in nearby Virginia and Maryland, aggravating drivers who have to endure
far longer commutes.
“It doesn’t take a large mathematical
increase in drivers to tip the scales,”
said Dave Dildine, a traffic reporter at
the radio station WTOP, who has seen
an increase in road congestion since
renovations on the Metro began on
June 4.
Rich Hershman, 46, who drives
downtown every day from Alexandria,
Va., said recently that his commute
sometimes took up to an hour longer,
depending on the day. “Every Metro
surge has made traffic awful,” he said,
referring to repairs. “It’s always hit or
miss, and afternoons have been a lot
worse.”
Downtown parking garages are also
noticing. At Colonial Parking near the
White House, Ronnie Walker, a valet,
said that he would have to start turning
away people soon and that he expected
traffic to get worse as the repairs
continued.
“We only have so much room,” he
said.
That is not what drivers, who can
take a half-hour to crawl three blocks
during rush hours, want to hear. Summer traffic is usually easier to navigate
as schools have closed and workers
BALTIMORE — Barry G. Williams
knows how to make a strong case
against a police officer. He spent eight
years working for the civil rights division of the Justice Department, where
he investigated, tried and convicted
officers accused of brutality and civil
rights violations.
Legal experts say that left him
uniquely qualified to find himself at
the center of the sprawling prosecution of the six officers charged in the
fatal arrest of Freddie Gray — but perhaps not in the way some might have
expected.
On the one hand, his background reflects an unquestioned sensitivity to
the issues of police behavior and the
rights of individuals who come in contact with them, like Mr. Gray, the 25year-old black man whose death from
a spinal cord injury that occurred
while in police custody caused riots
and chaos a year ago. But experts say
it has also made Judge Williams a meticulous evaluator of a prosecution
case that was in trouble even before
his Thursday ruling acquitting Officer
Caesar R. Goodson Jr. of seven
charges, including second-degree
murder, because he knows the burden
of proof all too well.
“He has an understanding of what
police can and cannot do,” said Barry
Kowalski, who prosecuted the Los Angeles officers accused of beating Rodney King and worked with Judge
Williams at the Justice Department.
“And at the same time, he has an understanding that the government
must have evidence that proves guilt
beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Judge Williams’s ruling and an ear-
lier acquittal from the bench of Officer
Edward M. Nero have made it clear
that a man who has put together winning prosecutions against police officers has not seen a convincing case
against those two officers.
“As a trier of fact,” Judge Williams
wrote, in his ruling Thursday, “the
Court cannot simply let things speak
for themselves.”
Judge Williams, who is AfricanAmerican, has to an unusual degree
become the nucleus of the proceedings. He is both presiding over the
cases and has ruled from the bench in
two of the three tried so far. (A jury
deadlocked in the first case of Officer
William G. Porter.)
That has made the judge both the
sole fact finder and the person whose
rulings have shaped the case both for
the world and for the lawyers arguing
the case.
A graduate of the University of
Maryland School of Law, where he is
remembered as being well prepared
to answer professors’ questions,
Judge Williams spent eight years as
an assistant state’s attorney in Baltimore before he joined the Department
of Justice, where he prosecuted cases
against police officers and prison
guards accused of brutality.
“He dedicated himself to making
sure that people in power did not victimize those who did not have power,
and that was something very important to him,” Mr. Kowalski said.
In the federal system, it takes
months, if not years to build a case —
far longer than the 12 days after Mr.
Gray’s death that it took prosecutors
here to announce charges against the
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six police officers involved in Mr.
Gray’s arrest — and Judge
Williams knew when not to bring
one.
“I remember conversations
where I detected that he was eager to try to bring a prosecution,
but ultimately, in the course of our
discussion, we both recognized
the evidence was just not sufficient to make the wrong that we
perceived into a criminal act,” Mr.
Kowalski said. “And we both
went, ‘Doggone it.’ ”
Still, Judge Williams tried and
won cases like one, in Florida, involving a police officer accused of
pistol-whipping a drug dealer
who was already on the ground.
“He worked in, I would say, a
methodical but effective style,”
said Douglas Molloy, a former
federal prosecutor who worked
with Judge Williams on that case.
“Instead of focusing on the more
dramatic aspects of cases, he concentrated on the elements of the
crime.”
That could explain the tenor of
Judge Williams’s rulings — which
deliberately lay out the charges
and the evidence — and his
brusque questioning of the
prosecutors who alleged Mr. Gray
had a “rough ride,” a dramatic
term that he would find they did
not substantiate in court.
“The state said to the world, it
was a rough ride,” said Judge
Williams,
interrupting
a
prosecutor’s rebuttal statement
at the end of the trial, before unleashing a torrent of questions
about the prosecution’s allegations. “Where’s your evidence?”
Judge Williams asked.
But some here have wondered
if Judge Williams’s experience investigating police officers at the
federal level has made it harder to
convince him of a strong case
here.
“When you work for D.O.J.,
your standards of prosecution are
exceedingly high,” said Douglas
Colbert, a professor of law at the
University of Maryland who is
supportive of the prosecution. As
Sheryl Gay Stolberg contributed
reporting from Washington. Alain
Delaquérière contributed research from New York.
Filmmaker
Drops Plans
For Museum
In Chicago
By JULIE BOSMAN
GABRIELLA DEMCZUK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Baltimore police officer on Thursday answered city residents’ questions about the acquittal by
Judge Barry G. Williams, below, of Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. in the death of Freddie Gray.
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a result, Mr. Colbert said, the
judge could be looking for something more persuasive “to meet
the burden of proof than is ordinarily
required
in
state
prosecutions.”
Judge Williams, 54, was appointed to the city’s Circuit Court
in 2005 and now holds an elected
position.
Most mornings, he appears on
the bench 15 minutes or so after he
scheduled proceedings to begin,
fortified by a giant mug of tea.
Sharp-witted and acerbic, Judge
Williams can be as quick to crack
jokes from the bench as he can be
to admonish the individuals in
front of him for acting outside the
neatly drawn lines of his expectations.
There was the moment when
he eviscerated prosecutors for
failing to disclose a piece of “classic exculpatory information” to
defense lawyers before Officer
Goodson’s trial. “If your office
doesn’t get that, I don’t know
where we are at this point, counsel,” Judge Williams said.
A few days later, he rebuked a
witness, Dr. Morris Marc Soriano,
calling him “sarcastic” under
questioning from a defense lawyer.
“Sir, don’t say anything right
now,” Judge Williams snapped.
He
has
taken
unusual
measures to limit the flow of information from the courtroom, ostensibly to prevent the proceedings in one of the six cases from
tainting a jury pool for another,
like conducting the questioning of
potential jurors out of earshot of
the public, and by speaking
quietly with lawyers at the bench,
instead of in open court, even
when there was no jury.
There has been some specula-
tion as to whether Judge
Williams’ familiarity with the
case could prompt either
prosecutors or defense lawyers to
doubt his ability to continue considering the cases independently
— a must for judges — and seek
his recusal from future trials, although legal experts said it was
unlikely to happen without signs
of obvious bias.
Still, Judge Williams nodded to
that possibility himself last
month, during closing arguments
in the trial of Officer Nero, when a
prosecutor made a reference to a
future trial in the proceedings.
He answered with a quick
aside, which elicited laughter in
the court but could have been
wishful thinking: “I probably
won’t be involved,” he said.
CHICAGO — The filmmaker
George Lucas has scrapped his
plan to bring a museum of narrative art to Chicago’s lakefront,
stymied by a lawsuit from a small
but determined local preservation group.
The group, Friends of the
Parks, argued that the parcel Mr.
Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, a businesswoman and Chicago native, had chosen for the
museum should be parkland instead. It is now a parking lot adjacent to Soldier Field.
“No one benefits from continuing their seemingly unending litigation to protect a parking lot,”
Mr. Lucas said in a statement on
Friday. He said that the museum
would instead be built in California.
The announcement ends years
of court battles and public discord
over the museum, which renewed
arguments over what structures
belonged on Chicago’s prized
land along Lake Michigan — and
whether Mr. Lucas’s museum
was a giant contribution to the
city or a mere vanity project.
For Mayor Rahm Emanuel,
who supported the museum coming to Chicago, Mr. Lucas taking
the project elsewhere was a political blow. He said in a statement
that the project would have
brought jobs and economic gains
to the city. “Chicago’s loss will be
another city’s gain,” he said.
“It is unfortunate that the Lucas Museum has made the decision to leave Chicago rather than
locate the museum on one of the
several alternative sites that are
not on Chicago’s lakefront,” Juanita Irizarry, the executive director of Friends of the Parks, and
Lauren Moltz, the chairwoman of
the group’s board, said in a joint
statement. “That would have
been the true win-win.”
Pentagon Set to Lift Barrier to Transgender People Openly Serving in the Military
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon next month will announce the
repeal of a policy banning transgender people from serving
openly in the military, Defense
Department officials said on Friday, moving to end what has
widely been seen as one of the last
barriers to service.
Defense Secretary Ashton B.
Carter has called the regulation
outdated and harmful to the military. A year ago, he directed officials from all the military
branches to determine what
changes would be needed to lift
the ban, in a tacit recognition that
thousands of transgender people
were already in uniform.
Under the Pentagon’s plan, first
reported by USA Today, each
branch will put in place policies
covering recruiting, housing and
uniforms for transgender troops.
Military officials have been
“making great progress, holding
multiple meetings and working
hard to come up with a policy that
balances the needs of soldiers
with mission readiness,” said Eric
Pahon, a Defense Department
spokesman. “They’re trying to
come up with something that fits
the needs of all of the different
services.”
Ashley Broadway-Mack, the
president of the American Military Partner Association, a support network for partners and
spouses of lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender troops and veterans, said in a statement that
“our transgender service members and their families are breathing a huge sigh of relief.”
Estimates of the number of
transgender people in the 1.2 mil-
lion-member military range from
2,000 to more than 15,000. As with
the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
that applied to gay men, lesbians
and bisexuals until it was lifted in
2011, current rules have done little
to keep transgender people out of
the military. Instead, they have
forced many to lie about their status and keep it a secret.
Since taking the defense secretary post in February 2015, Mr.
Carter has set about dismantling
discriminatory rules in the
services, including opening all
combat positions to women.
This week, Eric K. Fanning formally took over as Army secretary, becoming the first openly
gay leader of a military service
branch.
A study commissioned by Mr.
Carter and completed in March
found that letting transgender
members openly serve would
cost little and would have no significant effect on unit readiness.
The study, by the RAND Corporation, estimated that 2,450 activeduty members of the military
were transgender, and that every
year about 65 service members
would seek to make a gender
transition.
The study said that if the Pentagon did not cover medical
procedures like hormone therapy
and surgery, service members
would most likely not seek medical care and have higher rates of
substance abuse and suicide.
The procedures would cost the
Pentagon $2.9 million to $4.2 million a year, the report said. Each
year, the military spends $6 billion of its $610 billion budget on
medical costs for active-duty
service members.
A Lawyer Finds a Niche, and Few Peers, as an Agent for Rabbis
CREVE COEUR, Mo. — When
the world’s Conservative rabbis
gathered for their annual convention in 2011, Abby Kelman
took up her position in a Las Vegas
hotel corridor
clotted with vendors selling the
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Jewish books,
tours, jewelry, crafts. Passing
out business cards and stationery, Ms. Kelman was offering something different: legal
representation.
At times, she felt a little bit
like Lucy in the “Peanuts” comic
strip with her booth advertising
“Psychiatric Help 5¢.” Yet she
could cite both a decades-long
career in litigation and a lengthy
family heritage in the rabbinate,
the kind of pedigree known in
Yiddish as “yichus.”
By the time the Rabbinical
Assembly wrapped up its meeting, Ms. Kelman had begun
establishing her professional
niche. Now, five years later, she
has built a practice from her
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rabbis and cantors — 125 so far.
She has few, if any, peers in the
field.
Into the business relationship
between Jewish clergy and the
synagogue boards that hire or
fire them — traditionally the
realm of handshake deals, promises of mutual loyalty and
testimonials to “kvod harav,” the
Hebrew phrase for “respect for
the rabbi” — Ms. Kelman has
brought the pragmatic tool kit of
the agent.
While other lawyers periodically represent rabbis, the
concept of an agent for religious
leaders is even rarer in the
Christian and Muslim parts of
the American theological landscape, according to clergy members, scholars and seminary
officials. The exception is with
the celebrity pastors of evangelical megachurches.
“I feel like this is a covenant,”
said Ms. Kelman, 59. “You’re
talking about someone who’s
doing holy work. And I like
everyone to think that way when
we negotiate. But often what my
clients worry about is, ‘I’m
bringing in a lawyer. They’ll
think I’m trying to make this
adversarial.’
“But the clergy I advocate for
don’t know how to advocate for
themselves,” she continued.
“How can they advocate for
themselves when they might be
doing the funeral for the synagogue president’s mother tomorrow? And in the middle of that,
you’re going to ask the 10th time
for a raise? I’ll say to my clients,
‘You’ll agree too fast.’ I won’t.”
Ms. Kelman has won praise
even from synagogue leaders
who bargained against her. The
major congregational and rabbinical organizations in Reform
and Conservative Judaism, for
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their part, do recommend formal, professionally negotiated
contracts between boards and
clergy members. Even so, the
arrival of an agent can be rattling.
“A lot of the difficult situations
I’ve heard about have involved a
third party,” said Barak D. Richman, a law professor at Duke
University and former president
of a Conservative synagogue in
Durham, N.C. “There can be a
power imbalance. The phrase I
hear from lay leaders around the
country is, ‘Our rabbi came in all
lawyered up.’ To some degree,
the difficulties are generic; it’s
always hard to talk about
money. But there’s also something structural; congregations
are under real financial strain.”
Ms. Kelman’s life prepared her
for this role. She grew up in
Manhattan as the daughter of
Wolfe Kelman, a prominent
rabbi in the Conservative movement. She eavesdropped as he
gave younger rabbis advice on
their contract negotiations. Ms.
Kelman’s brother, Levi, went
into the rabbinate and leads a
Reform congregation in Jerusalem. Her sister, Naamah, also a
rabbi, serves as dean of the
Jerusalem branch of the Reform
movement’s seminary.
Even as she was immersed in
all things rabbinical, Abby Kelman felt more strongly drawn to
law, the profession of her maternal grandmother. She had a
formidable career, ranging from
the New York district attorney’s
office to the Anti-Defamation
League to commercial litigation
to teaching at a law school.
“And then I said to myself, ‘I
always wanted to have my own
firm,’” she recalled. “What do I
know? I know a lot about law.
And I know a lot about rabbis.”
After her debut at the Rabbinical Assembly convention,
Ms. Kelman began receiving
referrals. These days, she
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Abby Kelman has spent the past five years building a practice in
suburban St. Louis negotiating contracts for clergy members.
charges $350 per hour or a flat
rate based on her estimate of
how much time a negotiation
will require.
At the most basic level, she
bargains with synagogue boards
for a client’s salary, which for a
Pairing a long law
career with her
family heritage.
rabbi, generally ranges from
$90,000 to $150,000 annually,
depending on experience, geography and congregation size.
But the intricacy of her work
involves the myriad fringe benefits. Some, like pension and
health insurance, would be true
of almost any professional. Others, like religious-school tuition
for children, apply particularly
to rabbis and cantors.
In her home office one morning last month, Ms. Kelman
texted a young rabbi on the East
Coast, hired fresh out of seminary, who was being asked to
sign a contract allowing termination without cause. Ms. Kelman had drafted a counteroffer,
but the congregation refused to
budge. Now the rabbi was being
told she had to sign by the end
of the day.
When the rabbi called in response to Ms. Kelman’s text,
they went over the proposed
contract line by line, with Ms.
Kelman supplying a lot of backbone. “What are they going to do
if you don’t sign? Stop paying
you?” she said at one point.
Next, Ms. Kelman dealt with a
cantor who had been fired after
five months and was seeking the
balance of her annual contract
— $15,000. The cantor had sent
Ms. Kelman a 19-page letter of
grievances, which seemed certain to worsen the rancor, so the
lawyer began paring it down to a
more civil two pages.
Her clients may all be clergy
members, but they are not all
saints. One rabbi whom Ms.
Kelman represented in a separation agreement had “borrowed”
money from his discretionary
fund to pay his mortgage. Others
are more combative than even
Ms. Kelman, she of the selfdescribed “potty mouth.” She
will tell them, “Do you want to
be in arbitration forever with a
congregation that doesn’t want
you, or do you want to get the
best deal and go on with your
career?”
The approach has succeeded
for people on both sides of the
negotiating table. Rabbi Jack
Moline sought out Ms. Kelman in
2013, when he wanted to leave
his longtime congregation in
suburban Washington to take a
job in political organizing.
“I know there were hurt feelings in the congregation and I
would’ve had a hard time dealing with my own expectations
and frustrations,” he said. “Abby
was the grown-up in the room,
because she wasn’t dealing with
any of the emotions.”
As a lay leader in a Reform
congregation in the St. Louis
area, Joe Pereles has parried
with Ms. Kelman in negotiating
three clergy contracts. “She sees
the big picture,” he said. “She
does a great job of representing
her client, but she also understands the issues the congregation faces and can be very practical in coming up with a win-win
solution.”
Ms. Kelman and Mr. Pereles
will present a joint session on
contract negotiations for students at Hebrew Union College
in Cincinnati next January.
That appearance answers a
rhetorical question one of Ms.
Kelman’s young clients posed a
few weeks back: Where were
you during my last year in seminary? “The people I’m dealing
with — clergy and congregations
— are babes in the woods,” Ms.
Kelman put it. “I feel like I’m the
shock absorber, I’m the explainer, I’m the conduit. Or, like
my husband likes to say, I try to
bludgeon them with logic.”
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Sanders Campaign Showed How to Turn Viral Moments Into Money
By NICK CORASANITI
WASHINGTON — It was a serendipitous moment during an
otherwise uneventful Bernie
Sanders campaign rally in Portland, Ore.: A small bird landed on
Mr. Sanders’s lectern mid-speech
and locked eyes with him before
flying away to applause from an
appreciative crowd.
As Mr. Sanders’s supporters
posted photos and videos of the
amusing interruption to their social networks, his small digital
team sprang into action. They
edited the video and pushed it out
on Twitter to more than two million followers. They created animated graphics of Mr. Sanders
and his new friend, “Birdie,” depicted with a scraggly white coif
of hair to match the candidate’s.
They sent emails and created
Facebook ads asking supporters
to donate in exchange for stickers
and images of “Birdie.”
In doing so, they turned a viral
moment into a small-dollar fundraising windfall: The Sanders
campaign raised $3.6 million in
just a few days, all of it from online
donations. It was illustrative of
the approach the campaign took
throughout the Democratic presidential primary, during which it
raised roughly $216 million of its
nearly $230 million total online.
Like most modern campaigns,
Mr. Sanders and his team relied
on widely used digital fund-raising tactics, like sending email solicitations and advertising online.
They raised more than $61 million
and acquired more than three million email addresses directly from
digital ads, according to Revolution Messaging, the company behind the campaign’s efforts.
But the campaign was also able
to harness social media networks
— which, until recently, most candidates had used primarily for
messaging purposes — and turn
them into fund-raising engines,
allowing Mr. Sanders’s team to
raise money almost exclusively
online.
“In those early days, when he
had just launched and he was still
a novel concept, we were bombarding liberals on social media,
people who we thought would like
his message, and it was just going
gangbusters,” said Keegan Goudiss, the campaign’s director of
digital advertising and a partner
at Revolution Messaging.
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A bird landed on Senator Bernie Sanders’s lectern in Portland, Ore., in March. The campaign used the moment to spur donations.
Mr. Goudiss said that early on,
more than 40 percent of the
money being raised was driven
by digital ads. And unlike most
campaigns he had worked on,
where converting supporters into
donors was a prolonged process,
he said, “with Bernie, especially
early on, people were signing the
petition and giving right away.”
The initial success allowed the
Sanders campaign to invest much
more heavily in its online fundraising operation and eschew traditional donor events. His team
held just nine in-person fund-raisers during the entire campaign
and did not have a single staff
member dedicated to in-person
fund-raising.
Though digital advertising
costs much less than broadcast, it
still requires a significant invest-
ment. The campaign spent $15
million on these efforts and had a
digital budget of more than $30
million.
“Their campaign spent substantially more building and
maintaining a community of online donors,” said Matt Lira, a
digital strategist who has worked
with Republican candidates. “As
with both Obama and Romney in
2012, this community will echo
long past their campaign, creating an advantage for candidates
they support.”
The decision to invest heavily,
and eventually almost exclusively, in digital advertising was
made very early in the campaign.
In the 24 hours after Mr.
Sanders declared his candidacy
in the dewy grass outside the
Capitol, his campaign raised $1
million online. Almost immediately, his digital team wanted that
reinvested in more spending.
“The room was silent,” Mr.
Raising $216 million
through email, digital
ads and social media.
Goudiss recalled, but Mr. Sanders
and his closest advisers recognized the immediate impact. “We
left that meeting with a commitment of $250,000 and a promise
for more if we could prove the value of the ads we were placing,”
Mr. Goudiss said.
They would not have to wait
long: Millions of dollars began to
flow steadily through the apparatus of the fledgling campaign, propelling Mr. Sanders from a fringe
candidate to a cash-rich populist
powerhouse who would win 22
primaries and caucuses.
The campaign learned early on
that digital platforms and social
networks were where his
supporters could be reached. Mr.
Sanders’s digital team made ads
for Snapchat, the video messaging service, and tailored their
emails and donation pages to a
mobile-first audience, efforts that
paid off: 43 percent of donations
were made from mobile devices.
The reach of Mr. Sanders’s online ads also allowed his team to
wait before releasing more expensive broadcast ads. In July
Battle for Gun Control Bill
In Congress Isn’t Over Yet,
But Prospects Look Bleak
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — Senator Angus King, independent of Maine,
was crowing a bit on the chamber
floor Thursday when he began
reading a staff member’s email
about a planning and development meeting the previous night
in the town of Sanford, Me.
“Every single person I spoke
with either wanted me to convey
their thanks to Senator King for
his stand on ‘doing something on
gun control’ to asking me that he
stand firm and do more. People
who own guns (and said so) and
those who don’t. Every single person expressed dismay that Congress has not acted on this.”
Within hours, however, the Senate had again voted not to act —
effectively condemning to legislative purgatory a measure that Mr.
King had praised as providing
just the sort of common-sense legislation his constituents were demanding after mass shootings
like the one this month in Orlando, Fla.
The bipartisan proposal written by Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, was aimed at
stopping terrorist suspects on the
government’s no-fly list from buy-
ing guns. It survived a motion to
table that would have killed the
measure outright, but fell short of
the 60 votes needed to advance it.
The vote was 52 to 46.
In the end, Ms. Collins was able
to persuade just seven of her fellow Republicans to join 45 Democrats and Mr. King, who caucuses
with Democrats, in favor. Ms.
Collins later expressed confidence that the two Democratic
senators who were absent, Dianne Feinstein of California and
Bernie Sanders of Vermont, also
would have voted in favor, leaving
her short six votes.
Still, the path forward is murky
at best.
“We’ll keep working on it, and
it’s really up to the leaders where
we go from here,” Ms. Collins said,
adding, “I never give up.”
In the short term, there is almost no chance the measure will
resurface. Even the underlying
bill that it would be attached to as
an amendment, the annual Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, is about to be set aside
so that the Senate can return to a
more urgent fight over financing
to combat the mosquito-borne
Zika virus.
Republican senators who voted
2015, for example, a promoted ad
on Facebook that focused on
health care quickly received
46,000 likes, significantly higher
than the normal reach of a post.
Ads like this kept the campaign
afloat and climbing in the polls for
the first six months, and Mr.
Sanders did not run a television
ad until November.
Though the campaign put significant resources behind its online advertising and social media
outreach, its email program was
still the king in terms of fund-raising, accounting for more than $114
million in donations.
The effort was not all about serendipitous moments, however.
For the first Democratic debate,
staff members had planned to
send three fund-raising emails:
one before the debate, one during
and one after. They waited for the
right moment and began sending
the messages. Then Mr. Sanders
told Hillary Clinton, “The American people are sick and tired of
hearing about your damn emails,”
and the team pulled the equivalent of a “stop the presses.”
“We scrapped the draft we had,
even though there were 200,000
that already got the initial email
mid-debate,” said Michael Whitney, a senior strategist at Revolution Messaging who serves as
digital fund-raising manager for
the Sanders campaign. “We were
out with a new email within 15 to
20 minutes.” The campaign raised
$2.5 million in the 24 hours after
that debate.
The Sanders team was not
alone in its ability to capture moments and turn them into money;
the Clinton campaign turned
Donald J. Trump’s accusation that
Mrs. Clinton was playing the
“woman card” into millions of dollars, for example.
The online successes point to a
new reality for digital campaigning, one that future candidates
can expect to build on.
“The bird thing, it’s like, you
have this envy of the technology
available and their prowess and
the moment,” said Joe Trippi, a
Democratic strategist who ran
Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign.
“If that had happened in 2004,
there is not a damn thing we could
have done. Now, you have the
prowess to take advantage of it
and the network that they built
on, and you can do amazing
things with it.”
Senator Angus King, independent of Maine, said at a
news conference on Tuesday
that his constituents were
unhappy that Congress had
not enacted a gun control bill.
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against the Collins proposal cited
concern about due process, saying they objected to the government being able to block the sale
of a weapon without first demonstrating probable cause to a judge
that the person trying to buy the
gun was a terrorist.
Senator John Cornyn of Texas,
the No. 2 Republican, put forward
a proposal that would block a gun
sale to a suspected terrorist for
three days to give federal
prosecutors time to make the
case. Democrats have said that
standard is so high that it is unworkable.
In an interview, Ms. Collins
noted that if federal prosecutors
could demonstrate such probable
cause, the prospective gun buyer
should probably be under arrest.
Mr. Cornyn’s proposal, which
also failed to advance, received 53
votes on Monday, but was supported by just two Democrats,
Senators Joe Manchin III of West
Virginia and Joe Donnelly of
Indiana. A similar but more
broadly worded proposal by Mr.
Cornyn received 55 votes in December, but at that point also had
just the same two Democrats in
favor.
With the frustration over the
failure to tighten the nation’s gun
control laws boiling over, House
Democrats staged a sit-in for
more than 25 hours to demand
votes on two measures — both of
which had failed in the Senate on
Monday.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, who seized command
over the House, pushed through a
bill and adjourned for the Fourth
of July recess, derided the
Democrats’ effort as a “publicity
stunt” that risked undermining
the House as an institution.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who
supported the Collins measure,
said on Thursday that it might
take another terrorist attack to
jolt his Republican colleagues into
action.
And yet in a sign that Ms.
Collins may yet have found a narrow path forward, Representative
Carlos Curbelo, a freshman Republican from Miami, said Friday
morning that he was introducing
a companion version of the
Collins measure in the House.
“I was very pleased when Congressman Curbelo called me yesterday and said there was considerable interest in our bipartisan
bill,” Ms. Collins said. “To have a
companion bill in the House is
also a very good sign of progress
and the fact that people are eager
to come up with a bipartisan approach to a real problem that does
not compromise Second Amendment rights. And I believe that is
exactly what we have done.”
Washington’s Commuters Stall on Rail and Road as Metro Undergoes Repairs
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take vacations.
The scheduled maintenance is
part of a plan by the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to repair decades’ worth of
infrastructure deterioration on a
system that serves the secondlargest number of passengers in
the nation.
A train crash in 2009 killed nine
people, and commuters have
dealt with water seepage, broken
escalators and frequent fires, including one in 2015 that resulted
in the death of a passenger. On
Tuesday evening, the Cleveland
Park stop in Northwest Washington was shut down after a flash
flood poured inches of rain into
the station and caused escalators
to fail.
On the first day of the maintenance project, morning commuters took four times longer to
drive into Washington on I-66 in
Virginia, according to research
from the Center for Advanced
Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland. It took almost five times
longer the next morning.
Taran Hutchinson, a facilitator
at the Metropolitan Area Transportation Operations Coordination Program at the University of
Maryland, said he expected roads
to be highly congested for the first
few days of every phase of repairs.
“And as the week unfolds, more
people will find alternative routes
— other roads, other ways to their
offices — and we’ll see everyone
find a new normal,” Mr. Hutchinson said.
The plan is to accelerate three
years’ worth of repairs into a sin-
A plan to complete
three years’ worth of
maintenance in one.
gle year and modernize the system to a point where it can handle
routine maintenance.
The first phase lasted 13 days
and affected the Metro system in
Arlington, Va., west of Washington. The next phase, which began
on Saturday and is to last 16 days,
shut down tracks and stations in
Southeast Washington that serve
as entryways for commuters from
Maryland. Future work will affect
lines in other parts of the region.
Saureena Townsend, 22, said
she would have to leave her home
near the Largo Town Center station in Maryland two hours early
to get to her job in Virginia. Ms.
Townsend has been using Metro
for five years and is used to regular delays and station shutdowns.
“A lot of people are numb to it by
now,” she said. “I have been seeing that a lot more people are frustrated lately. For me, I just prepare and try not to stress out over
something that is out of our control.”
Employees of the transit authority, in fluorescent yellow or
purple vests, have been assigned
to herd crowds of commuters to
the proper track or shuttle. Some
hand out pamphlets about the
scheduled repairs.
Sarah Muir, 33, has the schedule pinned to her wall at home.
She said that she and her husband
have warned their employers that
the Metro might make them late.
Others have sought to profit
from the chaos. At a shuttle stop
near the closed Benning Road station on Monday, a small white bus
pulled up to a crowd of about 30
people huddled under the shade
of a tree waiting for a ride. As
transportation employees tried to
answer questions and clear up
confusion, a man walked out of
the bus with a sign made of drywall and spray paint that read
“L’Enfant Plaza.”
“No stops, straight there,” he
said. “Five dollars.”
A worker for the transit authority called the man crazy, but three
commuters took him up on the offer.
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Stonewall Inn Named U.S. Monument, a First for Gay Rights Movement
By ELI ROSENBERG
The Stonewall Inn has been called the
symbolic heart of New York City’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community for decades, since the police raid
and ensuing protests there in 1969 helped
galvanize a national struggle for gay
rights.
On Friday, President Obama formally
recognized that history, declaring the
Greenwich Village bar and its surrounding area the Stonewall National Monument, and creating the first National
Park Service unit dedicated to the gay
rights movement.
According to the White House, the
monument designation will consist of 7.7
acres, protecting the tavern, Christopher
Park across the street, and several other
streets and sidewalks where spontaneous protests were held for equal rights
in 1969.
“The Stonewall Uprising is considered
by many to be the catalyst that launched
the modern L.G.B.T. civil rights movement,” President Obama wrote in a proclamation announcing the monument’s
establishment. “From this place and
time, building on the work of many before, the nation started the march — not
yet finished — toward securing equality
and respect for L.G.B.T. people.”
Officials are now seeking to raise
money for National Park Service personnel, a temporary ranger station, a visitor
center and exhibits.
In the wake of the mass shooting at a
gay bar in Orlando, Fla., this month, the
designation comes at a momentous and
A designation covers 7.7
acres and protects a bar
and Christopher Park.
emotional moment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups in New
York City and nationwide.
Advocates and activists describe the
Stonewall as a regular meeting place
that people gravitate toward in times of
strife, pain or celebration for the gay
community. After the Orlando tragedy,
emotional vigils were held outside to
honor the victims. Almost a year ago, the
area erupted in joy when the Supreme
Court ruled to legalize same-sex marriage.
Thousands are expected to flock to the
neighborhood in celebration this weekend, in the gay pride march. The annual
parade on Sunday will travel down Christopher Street and past the bar.
Advocates have worked to create a national park near the Stonewall Inn for
years. In May, dozens of people testified
at a hearing in the West Village in support of the proposal, many speaking
personally about the importance of the
location.
Nance Lomax went to the Stonewall
Inn as a transgender teenager hoping to
find community.
“Stonewall meant the world to me,”
Ms. Lomax said at the time. “It taught
me I could be or do anything.”
Others spoke about their arrests during the protest that followed a raid on
June 28, 1969. The Police Department
was trying to enforce a prohibition
against selling alcoholic drinks to “homosexuals,” a news release from the
White House said. It was part of a tumultuous history between the police and gay
New Yorkers that, though much improved, still lingers in memories today.
BRYAN R. SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reflected in the window of the Stonewall Inn, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
speaking in 2015 about granting the Manhattan bar a national designation.
New York City designated the tavern a
landmark last June. It has been on the
National Register of Historic Places
since 1999.
On Friday, a cadre of New York’s
elected officials, including Gov. Andrew
M. Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck
Schumer, praised the designation after it
was announced.
Espaillat Finds
Familiar Foe
In House Race
For Rangel Seat
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
In Immigration Fight, Asians Work to Be Heard
Community Pressure Keeps
Many From Public Protests
By LIZ ROBBINS
As immigration activists gathered in Lower
Manhattan on Friday afternoon, chanting in
Spanish to denounce the Supreme Court deadlock that effectively shut down President Obama’s program of deportation relief, a group of
eight advocates stood quietly in the back.
They held hand-painted signs of protest.
“We’re all immigrants,” one sign said in Chinese. “We want to see comprehensive immigration reform,” another said in Korean. Not so
pithy, but present.
Asian immigrants and their advocates say
they are used to being a minority within a minority at rallies such as these, and Friday’s gathering, organized by the immigration rights
group Make the Road New York was no different. The small band from the MinKwon Center
for Community Action, a predominately Korean
advocacy group that also serves the Chinese
community in Flushing, Queens, was but a fraction of the 100 protesters.
“We have to take baby steps when it comes to
voicing our own opinions,” said James Jeong, 21,
who moved to Flushing from South Korea when
he was 3. “For Asians, it’s very stigmatized to
speak out at these rallies.”
He added: “I feel like our biggest enemies are
not the system itself, but our own communities
that ostracize our own members — you kind of
do your own thing, stay under the shadows.”
Under the glaring noon sun in Foley Square
on Friday, undocumented Hispanic families
with small children in baby carriages joined union members with megaphones and longtime
leaders from advocacy groups; many came in
defiance of their lack of legal status.
In New York City, more than 220,000 immigrants would have been eligible for temporary
protection from deportation under the president’s executive actions, which included a protection for parents with children who are American citizens or permanent residents. According
to the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs,
about 11 percent of those eligible were born in
Korea or China.
“That brings up the question, why aren’t they
all here?” Mr. Jeong said.
For Korean parents, being undocumented
was a mark of shame, Mr. Jeong and the fellow
Samantha Schmidt contributed reporting.
For the last four years, Adriano Espaillat has struggled in the political shadow
of Representative Charles B. Rangel, unable to topple him in two consecutive
Democratic primaries.
Now, Mr. Rangel is taking his raspy
voice and his deep reservoir of voter
loyalty into retirement, seemingly clearing a path for Mr. Espaillat, a state senator, to realize his ambition of becoming
the first politician born in the Dominican
Republic to be elected to the House of
Representatives.
His campaign chant is “Es pa’llá que
vamos” (“That’s where we’re going”).
But among the nine candidates in
Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the
13th Congressional District in Upper
Manhattan, there is a new obstacle, in
the form of an old nemesis: Guillermo Linares, another pioneering Dominicanborn politician who threatens to split the
vote among their immigrant countrymen.
“They will cancel each other out,” said
Nestor Montilla, the chairman of the Dominican American National Roundtable,
a nonpartisan group. “They should have
sat down and come to an agreement.” He
added, “It’s a matter of math, right?”
But agreement has been elusive for
Mr. Espaillat, 61, and Mr. Linares, 65, for
most of the last quarter-century. They
are rivals whose political lives have been
intertwined since they emerged on the
electoral stage and each has vied for
firsts. Mr. Linares became the first Dominican immigrant elected to the City
Council (and, he says, the first elected to
any public office in the United States);
Mr. Espaillat claimed the title of the first
person born in the Dominican Republic
elected to the State Legislature in New
York — or perhaps in any state.
“They’re like two male crabs in a hole,”
said Luis M. Rodriguez, a Dominican activist who has watched Mr. Espaillat and
Two Dominican-born
political rivals are facing
off against seven others.
Sangmin Na, 26, above, center, was among the few Asians at a rally in Manhattan on
Friday, top, protesting the Supreme Court’s ruling on the president’s immigration plan.
MinKwon members explained.
“I grew up in that environment where you
don’t tell other people your status, or something
bad will happen to you,” Sangmin Na, 26, said.
Mr. Na, a graduate of Hunter College, was a
beneficiary of the 2012 program Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals, which protected certain
undocumented children who were brought to
the United States by their parents; it remained
unaffected by the Supreme Court’s decision this
week. Mr. Jeong was also covered by the deferred action program, enabling him to graduate from City College of New York and land an
engineering job that starts next week.
They came to the rally to show solidarity.
“It’s not just Latino struggles, it’s everybody’s struggles,” said Jung Rae Jang, 26, a
community organizing fellow at MinKwon who
came from South Korea at 15. One of the designated speakers at the rally, he urged his fellow
immigrants to keep fighting for reform and to
encourage others to vote.
Mr. Jang said that he would like to organize
more events in collaboration with the Hispanic
community, but “language barriers are a problem,” he said.
But he also said that Asians did not seem to
have been as affected by deportations as the
Hispanic community, adding, “so it’s hard to re-
late in that aspect.”
Ester Rim, an intern at MinKwon, could, however, relate to the disappointment in the Supreme Court. Born in Brazil to Korean parents,
she moved with her family to Queens when she
was 4. Her parents, she said, would have been
eligible to apply for administrative relief because her sister had become a permanent resident.
Ms. Rim, attending Macaulay Honors College
at the City University of New York on a
scholarship, did not even tell her parents about
the possibility that they could have qualified. “I
can’t even imagine how much heartbreak they
would’ve gone through,” she said.
On Friday, the activists who came to the rally
proclaimed that they would continue to work for
immigration reform. “A people united will never
be defeated,” they shouted in Spanish, followed
by the chant “Sí se puede” — Yes we can.
At the end, there was a spontaneous eruption
of “Olé, olé, olé, olé!”
Mr. Jang said at the last rally he tried to coin a
Korean cheer, a clunky chant that translated to:
“Immigration Reform! Pass It!”
“I couldn’t really say it,” Mr. Na said of the Korean words.
“We just say ‘Olé,’ ” Namhee Kim, 20, said,
laughing. “It’s the soccer cheer.”
Mr. Linares claw and poke for years as
they vied for ascendance in the small but
growing Dominican community of Upper Manhattan.
Mr. Espaillat is one of the front-runners in the nine-candidate race — he is
among the leaders in fund-raising and
has the experience of running in the last
two primaries. And he could emerge the
winner even with a split Dominican vote,
by pulling support from other constituencies in the district, including blacks,
whites and Puerto Ricans. Or Mr. Linares could score the upset he has predicted with a similar strategy.
Upper Manhattan’s congressional seat
has long been identified with Harlem and
black political power. The district was
created in the 1940s to make way for an
African-American to be elected to Congress from New York, and only two men
have represented it since then. The first
was Adam Clayton Powell Jr., an icon of
African-American politics in the last century. After him came Mr. Rangel, a man
with many accomplishments and a few
ethical scars, who will have completed 46
years in the House by the time he steps
down next year — one of the longest
tenures in the history of Congress.
But the area and the district have
changed from what was once a primarily
black and Puerto Rican stronghold. The
Dominican population has grown and
when the district’s boundaries were redrawn a few years ago to include part of
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Cuomo Moves to Expand Benefits for Low-Income City Residents With H.I.V.
By NIKITA STEWART
Thousands of New York City
residents who are H.I.V.-positive
will become eligible for public assistance for housing, transportation and food under a significant
expansion of a state program that
some activists had feared was being delayed.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Thursday that low-income city residents who are
H.I.V.-positive but asymptomatic
would get the same assistance as
low-income residents who show
symptoms. About 6,500 to 7,000
additional people are expected to
benefit from the expansion of the
program, known as the H.I.V./
AIDS Services Administration, or
HASA, which now helps about
32,000 people.
The announcement came after
what some advocates described
as a series of broken promises by
Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, to expand the program, fully adminis-
ter a plan meant to end H.I.V. and
AIDS in New York by 2020 and finance that plan. Jeremy Saunders, an executive director of VOCAL-NY, a nonprofit focused on
helping low-income people with
H.I.V. and AIDS, said activists had
been frustrated by Mr. Cuomo’s
failure to move forward on the expansion more quickly.
Advocates were preparing to
pressure Mr. Cuomo just before
New York City’s annual gay pride
parade and festival this weekend.
“We are thankful to the governor
that he has finally taken this step
forward after a hard-fought campaign,” Mr. Saunders said.
Alphonso David, the governor’s
counsel, said that Mr. Cuomo had
always been committed to expanding the HASA program’s
benefits, but that he had had to
find a way to act with the State
Legislature. To broaden the program, Mr. Cuomo is simply modifying a longstanding social
services policy that made a distinction between people who
showed symptoms and those who
did not, Mr. David said. “The governor took a very creative and important approach to provide
An action that some
activists feared was
being delayed.
services to all people who are living with H.I.V.,” he said.
The governor’s office said that
the new policy would take effect in
60 days. But city officials are still
awaiting the language, said
Steven Banks, the city’s Social
Services commissioner. “We added money to our budget a number
of months ago to extend HASA to
all clients with H.I.V., and we look
forward to seeing the details of
this new program so that we can
make sure that it covers all the
New York City residents with
H.I.V. we have identified in need,
and also provides the necessary
resources,” Mr. Banks said in an
interview.
Mr. Banks said the city had estimated that it would spend about
$52 million in the first year of the
program’s expansion and $89 million a year after that. Mr. David
said the state had estimated its
contribution would be about $31
million a year.
Under the program, the city’s
Human Resources Administration helps participants who spend
more than 30 percent of their income on housing by reimbursing
them the difference. They also get
money for transportation and
food.
Advocates say that housing assistance is an effective way to help
keep people with H.I.V. or AIDS
from becoming homeless and
from spreading the virus. “When
people have a home, they are
taking their medicine,” Mr. Saunders said.
Corey Johnson, a City Council
member who is H.I.V.-positive,
said that thousands of New Yorkers had not been getting help because “they weren’t sick enough.”
“This is going to help a lot of
poor people,” Mr. Johnson, a Manhattan Democrat, said. He added
that wealthy, white men often received better services than low-income, black women. “H.I.V. has
really become a disease about
poverty.”
Mr. Johnson praised Mr.
Cuomo, though he said there had
been disappointment when there
was little obvious action after the
governor announced his plans for
the expansion, among other initiatives, on November 30, in recognition of World AIDS Day. “My un-
derstanding is that there wasn’t
much appetite,” Mr. Johnson said,
referring to the State Legislature.
“The governor’s office was working hard.”
Kelsey Louie, chief executive of
the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, said
in a statement that his group was
looking forward to helping the
governor expand the HASA program. “The country and the world
are watching what we are doing in
New York,” he said, “and gratefully they see action on the part of
our executive when our legislature falls short.”
The governor is likely to continue to feel pressure as advocates
seek to bolster services outside
New York City. “Advocates are always going to push the governor,
but we view him as a friend,” said
Anthony Hayes, vice president of
public affairs and policy for the
Gay Men’s Health Crisis. “There
can always be more money and it
can always happen faster.”
Receiving Mercy, and a Long Prison Term, in a Murder City Failed to Test for Lead
At Day Cares, Audit Says
By MEGAN JULA
A deadly run of gang violence
that has brought heartbreak to
two Harlem families came to an
unlikely culmination in a Manhattan courtroom.
Taylonn Murphy, a 20-year-old
gang member, was given mercy,
not by the judge, who sentenced
him to 50 years to life for murder
and other charges, but by the father of Walter Sumter, the young
man Mr. Murphy had been convicted of killing.
“We also forgive you,” the father, also Walter Sumter, said,
leaning on a cane, in a packed
courtroom in State Supreme
Court. “We realize that our family
is not the only family suffering
from this act of violence.”
It was a striking coda in a case
that began with the killing of Mr.
Murphy’s sister, a star high school
basketball player whose death inspired their father to speak out
against such violence in the city.
Feuds between Mr. Murphy’s
gang, 3 Staccs, and the rival
Money Avenue and Make it Happen Boys gangs led to the murder
of his sister, Tayshana, 18, in September 2011 in a hallway in her
building.
Mr. Murphy fatally shot the
younger Mr. Sumter, 18, a rival
gang member, outside a party on
By ELI ROSENBERG
Taylonn Murphy, whose sister was killed in the midst of a feud between gangs, was sentenced in
a Manhattan court on Friday for fatally shooting a man who mocked her death in a rap video.
A dead teenager’s
father says he forgives
his son’s killer.
West 154th Street and Amsterdam
Avenue in December that year.
Mr. Sumter had mocked Ms. Murphy’s death and 3 Staccs in a rap
video two weeks before he died.
Mr. Murphy responded to the
video on Facebook message
threatening him: “Dead on sight
beef.” Even before Ms. Murphy’s
death, her brother had threatened
in posts on social media to kill Mr.
Sumter, according to evidence
presented during the trial.
Mr. Murphy was one of 103
young men from the Grant
Houses and neighboring Manhattanville Houses indicted on conspiracy charges after a police raid
Betty and Walter Sumter, the parents of the man whom Mr.
Murphy was convicted of killing, arriving at court.
in June 2014. The sweep was intended to dismantle the gangs in
the two public housing projects.
Mr. Murphy knew firsthand
how violence could escalate from
insults to murder, the lead prosecutor, Andrew Warshawer, said
at the sentencing on Friday.
“Having seen his sister killed in
exactly this pattern with an illegal
firearm, he continued this pattern,” Mr. Warshawer said.
In handing down the sentence,
the judge in the case, Justice Edward McLaughlin, excoriated the
young man.
“You are imposing, inflicting
and inducing those around you to
follow in your footsteps which is
the last thing society and these
communities want to happen,” the
judge said.
“You are not a victim,” he
continued. “You are not a celebrity, and you are not a hero.”
Mr. Murphy has maintained his
innocence, and he expressed his
condolences to the Sumter family.
“I may not know how it feels to
lose a son, but I know how it feels
to lose a sibling,” he said.
Mr. Murphy’s father, Taylonn
Murphy Sr., who has become an
activist against the allure of
gangs, addressed a crowd of family and friends outside the court
after the sentencing.
“What we are going through is
horrible,” he said. “We lost
Tayshana, and then it’s horrible
what we are going through here.”
“Let’s keep supporting Bam;
let’s keep the ‘free Bam’ campaign
going,” he said, using his son’s
nickname, short for the superstrong character in “The Flintstones.”
“And let’s start loving each
other,” he continued. “Because a
lot of this comes from us not loving
each other.”
New Haven Declares Health Emergency as Overdoses Surge
NEW HAVEN (AP) — Officials
in this city declared a public
health emergency on Friday after
nearly 20 people overdosed this
week on either tainted heroin or
cocaine, at least three of them fatally, here and in surrounding
towns.
Officials said there had been up
to 16 heroin or cocaine overdoses
in New Haven since Thursday and
several more nearby. Two people
died in New Haven and at least
one more died in a surrounding
town, officials said.
The numbers were expected to
rise, according to officials, who
urged drug users to be careful.
The police were trying to determine whether the powerful
painkiller fentanyl or another substance had played a role in the
overdoses. Patients who were
able to speak with city police said
they thought they had bought cocaine and not heroin, Officer David Hartman, a spokesman for the
New Haven Police Department,
said.
Officials said they were working to arrange for quick testing of
drugs that had been seized.
Most of the overdoses in New
Haven were in the city’s neighborhoods of Newhallville and
Dixwell. Cases had also been reported in the towns of West Haven
and Shelton, Officer Hartman
said.
State health officials said that
700 doses of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan were being sent
to New Haven, where officials
said there was a shortage of the
drug.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called the
situation dangerous.
“Everyone must recognize that
no region of the country, state, city
or town is immune — this affects
all of us and so many families
across our state and nation,” Mr.
Malloy, a Democrat, said in a
statement. “That’s why we have
been doing everything in our
power to stop this epidemic and
prevent tragedy.”
Connecticut’s Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner reported that
208 people had died from acciden-
tal drug overdoses in Connecticut
from January to March and that
the total by year’s end would be
around 832 — up from 729 last
year and more than double the total in 2012.
Senators Richard Blumenthal
and Chris Murphy, both of whom
are Democrats, called on Congress to do more to fight overdoses nationwide.
“Congress must reverse its laggard response to this national
public health crisis by providing
real resources,” said Mr. Blumenthal, adding that an increase in
“treatment services, law enforcement support, opioid over-prescription prevention and other
steps” was “urgent and critical.”
The New York City department
charged with overseeing day care
centers routinely failed to test the
centers’ water for lead — and for
years falsified reports that the
tests had been completed, in order
for the centers to receive operating permits — according to a
sharply worded audit released on
Friday by the city comptroller,
Scott M. Stringer.
The audit found that the city’s
Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene had not tested the water
from faucets and fountains in 70 of
119 day care centers — even
though the health code mandates
that drinking water at day care
centers be tested for lead and
fixed if the levels are unsatisfactory.
Of the 49 day care centers that
had been tested, five had “unacceptable” levels of lead, the audit
found, though the levels were later brought to acceptable levels.
The audit suggested that thousands of children were put at an
increased risk of lead exposure.
The audit also found that
records had been altered to indicate, incorrectly, that satisfactory
water test results were logged for
the 70 centers that had not been
tested.
“The fact that the department
of health directed its employees to
enter false information in an official database is a blatant violation
of public trust,” Mr. Stringer said
in a statement.
The comptroller’s office presented an email from 2011, in
which a manager at the Bureau of
Child Care, a division of the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene, instructed a group of
staff members to “enter Water
Lead Test Negative” in a computerized database “in order to issue permits” on an interim basis.
“By falsely recording that lead
tests were complete, the agency
was able [to] bypass its own system requirements to issue permits for day care centers,” a release from the comptroller’s office
said.
City Hall officials characterized
the findings as misleading and
said that no children had been
harmed. “It is a blatant mischaracterization to claim the agency
systematically falsified documents based on a single email
from 2011,” Aja Worthy-Davis, a
spokeswoman for the mayor’s office, said.
Ms. Worthy-Davis also pointed
to the audit’s relatively small sample size; the department oversees
about 2,300 day care facilities.
The specifications in the city’s
health code for testing water in
day care centers do not require
that the centers are tested before
they open. However, the health
department’s
database
was
changed in 2011, to prevent the issuing of permits to centers that
had not been tested for lead, Mr.
Stringer’s release said.
Health department officials described a practice of entering incorrect testing information as a
bureaucratic workaround that adhered to the city’s health code. The
intent was to give day care centers 60 days to submit lead test results, and not delay issuing permits for “programs that were in
good standing.”
The comptroller’s office said it
did not find evidence that anyone
had followed up to test the centers
where staff had falsely reported
that testing occurred.
The report comes amid heightened concerns about lead and
other pollutants in drinking water,
after national outrage over lead
contamination in Flint, Mich., and
a public health emergency in
Hoosick Falls, N.Y., after the disclosure that toxic chemicals were
found in the water supply there.
The outlook was better in New
York City, where water has not
been a major cause of lead poisoning, according to the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Out of the 840 children under the
age of 6 found with elevated lead
in their blood in 2014, none tested
positive from lead in water, according to the most recent
statistics from the department.
“We want to be clear: our kids
A suggestion that
some children were at
an increased risk for
lead exposure.
are not at risk,” a health department spokesman, Christopher
Miller, said in a statement.
Mr. Miller said the city has
amended the issues brought up in
the audit. All of the day care centers under the city’s purview, including the 70 identified in the audit, have now been tested for lead
in the water, he said. The city also
said it planned to start posting the
results of each location’s water
tests online.
Ms. Worthy-Davis said that the
lack of clarity in terms of leadtesting protocol for day care centers predated the de Blasio administration, and she noted that “a bureaucratic process made testing
standards vague beginning in
2011.”
This month, the health department proposed a change to the
health code that would require
lead testing at new centers within
30 days of their opening. They
would also be required to undergo
testing every five years.
But a spokesman from Mr.
Stringer’s office said the changes
only came about from the results
of the auditing process, which
were given to the city — and included a response from the health
department in the written report
— before they were released to the
public.
“It should not take an audit to
ensure that a city agency is doing
its job to protect our kids,” Mr.
Stringer said in a statement.
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OBITUARIES
Michael Herr Is Dead at 76;
Author of a Vietnam Classic
By BRUCE WEBER
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Adriano Espaillat visiting St. James Park in the Bronx, where residents had gathered to enjoy a weekend earlier this month.
Espaillat Finds Familiar Foe in Race for Rangel Seat
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ble that the district would
eventually send a Dominican, for
the first time, to Congress.
Mr. Espaillat emerged as the
main hopeful. He lost by just 1,086
votes to Mr. Rangel in the 2012 primary. In the 2014 primary he lost
by 2,258 votes.
“I ran twice against Charlie
Rangel, did very well, both nailbiters,” Mr. Espaillat said during a
recent day of campaigning. He
added that if he could receive as
many votes as he did in his previous races, “I win this hands
down.”
Mr. Espaillat said he wanted to
be an advocate for New York City
in Washington, describing how
the portion of the New York City
budget that comes from the federal government had plummeted
since the 1970s.
“It’s become fashionable for
Congress members to deny New
York City money,” he said. “I want
to go there and push back and
change that culture where denying New York City is a feather in
your cap.”
But as Mr. Espaillat made his
way around Washington Heights,
which is like a Dominican village
relocated to Manhattan Island —
merengue music blares from
stores, men wear baseball caps
with the logos of Dominican
teams, restaurants serve mofongo and mondongo, coconuts
are sold on street corners — several voters expressed concern
that a split vote could rob them of
the pride of electing one of their
own.
“What’s going on with you and
Linares?” said Leonildo Martinez,
83, as he enthusiastically embraced Mr. Espaillat during a
campaign stop at a senior center.
In a pale blue guayabera shirt and
a Yankees cap, Mr. Martinez said
that he planned to vote for Mr. Espaillat and that he wished the two
politicians would join forces. “The
votes are worth more if they’re together,” Mr. Martinez said.
In the 1980s, Mr. Espaillat and
Mr. Linares belonged to rival political groups with ties to parties
or political movements back
home. Eventually, Mr. Espaillat
became president of the 34th Police Precinct Community Council
in Washington Heights; Mr. Linares became a member of the local
school board. Both claim the accomplishments as firsts for Dominican immigrants.
In the late 1980s, a new City
Council district was created centering on Washington Heights,
making it likely that a Dominican
would be elected for the first time.
Both men ran in the Democratic
EDWIN J. TORRES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Guillermo Linares campaigning in Washington Heights. The Democratic primary is on Tuesday.
primary — their first electoral
face-off.
Mr. Linares won, and soon after
was elected to the City Council.
After that, Mr. Espaillat and Mr.
Linares seemed to be always
clashing, often backing or recruiting each other’s election opponents or dispatching surrogates
or loyalists to run against one another for party leadership posts
and other titles.
They reached an uneasy truce
A district long
identified with
Harlem and black
political power.
in 2010 when Mr. Espaillat, who
was then in the State Assembly,
ran for State Senate, and Mr. Linares ran to occupy the seat that Mr.
Espaillat was vacating. Both won.
But in 2012, Mr. Linares endorsed Mr. Rangel over Mr. Espaillat. Later that year, Mr. Linares challenged Mr. Espaillat for
his Senate seat in the Democratic
primary — and Mr. Espaillat’s
campaign circulated a flier calling
his rival a traitor to Latinos for his
Rangel endorsement. Mr. Espaillat beat Mr. Linares in the primary
by a wide margin.
Mr. Linares again endorsed Mr.
Rangel in 2014.
Now, in the Congressional pri-
mary, Mr. Espaillat is third in total
fund-raising among the nine candidates, having raised $444,118, according to the most recent reports
filed with the Federal Election
Commission on June 16.
The candidate who has raised
the most money is Keith L.T.
Wright, a member of the State Assembly from central Harlem who
was endorsed by Mr. Rangel. He
had
contributions
totaling
$742,927, according to his campaign’s latest report.
Mr. Linares, in contrast, had
raised only $62,450. A campaign
aide for Mr. Linares said last week
that they had not yet done any
mailings, in a district that had
been flooded by mailings from
other candidates.
Other candidates in the race include Adam Clayton Powell IV, a
former assemblyman and city
councilman who is the son of Mr.
Rangel’s predecessor in Congress,
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; Clyde
Williams, a former policy director
of the Democratic National Committee, who has raised $485,534;
and Suzan Johnson Cook, a member of the clergy who was appointed an ambassador at large
for international religious freedom by President Obama.
There is little to separate the
candidates on the issues, so those
who have served in elective office
have pointed to their experience;
there, too, the candidates have
generally spent long periods as
legislators, and voters may see little to differentiate them.
Mr. Espaillat said that he was
not worried about splitting the Dominican vote with Mr. Linares, arguing that there were more candidates to divide African-American
votes.
“Adam Powell hurts Wright
more than Linares hurts me,” he
said. “And then you have Clyde
Williams and the reverend. They
all pull from Keith’s base.”
Mr. Linares is close to Mr.
Rangel and Mr. Wright. But he
said that he was not in the race
merely to take votes away from
Mr. Espaillat, adding that he expected to win.
“This is not about the rivalry
that some people may see,” he
said. “This is not about personalities. For me it’s always been
about the needs and priorities of
New Yorkers.”
Milagros Ricourt, a professor of
Latino studies at Lehman College
in the Bronx, said that sending a
Dominican to Congress would be a
milestone.
“It’s something that is going to
be so good for us in terms of incorporation into American society,”
said Ms. Ricourt, who was born in
the Dominican Republic. But she
feared that with Mr. Espaillat and
Mr. Linares splitting the vote, the
Dominicans would be shut out
again.
“It’s not going to happen because of African-Americans, it’s
not going to happen because of
whites, it’s not going to happen because of Puerto Ricans,” she said.
“It’s going to happen because of
division within the Dominican
community.”
Michael Herr, who wrote “Dispatches,” a glaringly intense, personal account of being a correspondent in Vietnam that is
widely viewed as one of the most
visceral and persuasive depictions of the unearthly experience
of war, died on Thursday at a hospital near his home in Delaware
County, N.Y. He was 76.
His daughter Claudia confirmed the death, saying he had
been ill but not specifying the
cause.
The war in Vietnam and its dehumanizing
effect
on
its
participants figured widely in Mr.
Herr’s writing life. He contributed
the narration to “Apocalypse
Now,” Francis Ford Coppola’s epic
adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s
“Heart of Darkness,” and with the
director Stanley Kubrick and Gustav Hasford wrote the screenplay
for “Full Metal Jacket” (1987),
adapted from Mr. Hasford’s novel
(“The Short-Timers”).
But it was “Dispatches” that declared Mr. Herr’s unimpeachable
credentials as a witness to the
fearsome fury of combat and, perhaps more terrible, the crippling
apprehension that precedes it.
“You could be in the most protected space in Vietnam and still
know that your safety was provisional, that early death, blindness,
loss of legs, arms or balls, major
and lasting disfigurement — the
whole rotten deal — could come in
on the freaky-fluky as easily as in
the so-called expected ways,” he
wrote, “you heard so many of
these stories it was a wonder anyone was left alive to die in firefights and mortar-rocket attacks.”
He went on: “Fear and motion,
fear and standstill, no preferred
cut there. No way even to be clear
about which was really worse, the
wait or the delivery.”
Published in 1977, almost a decade after his yearlong sojourn in
Vietnam and after he had recovered from his own bout of depression brought on by his war experience, the book was a sensation, an
acutely observed, acutely felt,
wisely interpretative travelogue
of hell, deeply sympathetic to the
young American conscripts, and
deeply skeptical of the political
and military powers that kept
them there.
Written with the residual
rhythms of the 1960s counterculture, redolent of drugs and rock ’n’
roll, it was also partly fictionalized, though its authenticity was
received by critics — and ordinary
readers — as indisputable, and
they treated it as an exemplar of
the kind of fiction that is truer
than fact.
In a front-cover review in The
New York Times Book Review,
C .D. B. Bryan, the author of
“Friendly Fire,” the account of a
soldier’s death in Vietnam and its
aftermath, declared, “Quite simply, ‘Dispatches’ is the best book
to have been written about the
Vietnam War.” The novelist John
le Carré described it as “the best
book I have ever read on men and
war in our time.”
In an interview on Thursday,
the novelist Richard Ford, who
was a friend of Mr. Herr’s, said:
“‘Dispatches’ gave an emotional,
verbal and aural account of the
war for a whole generation — of
which I am a member — particularly for those who didn’t go. His
nose was right in the middle of it,
and he wrote exactly what it was
like to be in that place and to be
that young.”
Michael David Herr (pronounced hair) was born on April
13, 1940, in Lexington, Ky. He was
still an infant when his parents,
Donald Herr and the former
Muriel Jacobs, moved the family
to Syracuse, where the father ran
a series of businesses in the area.
After high school, Michael went
to Syracuse University but,
aspiring to Hemingwayesque adventures and literary achievements, he dropped out to travel in
Europe and write. He served in
the Army Reserve, reportedly to
avoid the draft, and wrote for
publications including The New
TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Dispatches” (1977) was Mr.
Herr’s account of his time as a
Vietnam War correspondent.
Leader and Holiday.
Late in 1967, he persuaded the
editor of Esquire, Harold Hayes,
to send him to Vietnam. It was
shortly before the siege of Khe
Sanh, one of the war’s bloodiest
battles, and the Tet offensive, a
widespread North Vietnamese
campaign against targets in the
South.
Writing for a monthly magazine, Mr. Herr was an oddity in the
press corps; one soldier asked if
he would be reporting about what
they were wearing, and the American commander, Gen. William C.
Westmoreland, wondered if his
assignment was to produce articles that were “humoristic.” But
the anomalous nature of the job
worked to his advantage.
Traveling without restrictions,
essentially embedded (as the
term later came to be understood)
with soldiers wherever he wanted
to go, he produced a handful of
Parlaying $500 and a
visa into an account
of the hell of war.
vivid pieces for Esquire in the
year or so he spent in country.
(Hayes apparently didn’t expect
even that. “I got him a visa and advanced him $500, then forgot
about him,” he recalled in a history
of the magazine, “It Wasn’t Pretty
Folks, But Didn’t We Have Fun?,”
by Carol Polsgrove). Then he
spent the next 18 months in New
York working on the book before
his experiences in Vietnam
caught up with him.
“I flipped out,” he recalled in an
interview with The Los Angeles
Times in 1990. “I experienced a
massive
physical
and
psychological collapse. I crashed.
I wasn’t high anymore. And when
that started to happen, other
things started to happen, too;
other dark things that I had been
either working too hard or playing
too hard to avoid just became unavoidable.”
In addition to his daughter
Claudia, who is an editor at Penguin Random House, Mr. Herr is
survived by his wife, the former
Valerie Elliott, whom he married
in 1977; another daughter, Catherine Herr; a brother, Steven; and a
sister, Judy Bleyer.
Mr. Herr lived for many years in
England, where he grew to know
Stanley Kubrick and eventually
wrote a book about their friendship and collaboration. His other
work includes a fictionalized biography of the gossip columnist Walter Winchell, a strange hybrid that
is part novel, part screenplay.
Though he was celebrated for
“Dispatches,” enjoyed his fame for
a time and was, Claudia Herr said,
extremely proud of the book, he
came to resent his celebrity, especially when reporters or television
producers wanted him to relive
his time in Vietnam.
Among other things, a retrospective light shining on him
struck him as disrespectful to the
men he wrote about. He gave few
interviews. In the last years of his
life, he became a serious devotee
of Buddhism and no longer wrote,
his daughter said.
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Michael Herr, who covered Vietnam for Esquire, in 1997.
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Bernie Worrell, 72, Master Keyboardist
Of Funk, Hip-Hop and Rock, Is Dead
By JON PARELES
Bernie Worrell, the keyboardist
whose anarchic solos and Moog
synthesizer bass lines with Parliament-Funkadelic
indelibly
changed the sound of funk and
hip-hop, died on Friday at his
home in Everson, Wash. He was
72.
His wife, Judie Worrell, confirmed his death. He was told in
January that he had late-stage
lung cancer.
Mr. Worrell was the kind of sideman who is as influential as some
bandleaders. A broadly grounded
musician, he grew up playing classical piano and was adept at jazz,
rock and R&B.
“I mix musics; I don’t stick to
one thing,” Mr. Worrell said in a
2013 interview at the Red Bull Music Academy Festival. “I can hear
the same scale or mode in a classical piece; you can find the same
mode in a gospel hymn. Same
mode in an Indian raga, same
mode in a Irish ditty, same mode in
a Scottish ditty, or whatever you
want to call it. Same mode in Latin
music, African. It’s all related. It’s
how you hear it.”
His stint in the 1970s as keyboardist and music director in
groups led by George Clinton —
Parliament, Funkadelic and their
eventual merged identity of Parliament-Funkadelic, or P-Funk —
taught generations of musicians
and listeners that synthetic
sounds could be earthy and untamed.
Mr. Worrell reached a new audi-
ence in the early 1980s as a member of the expanded Talking
Heads, whose 1983 tour was documented in Jonathan Demme’s film
“Stop Making Sense.” In the 1990s,
Mr. Worrell’s synthesizer lines for
P-Funk songs were widely recycled as hip-hop tracks, becoming
the foundation for the West Coast
rap — sometimes called G-Funk
— of Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr.
Dre.
Mr. Worrell was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Leaving indelible
signatures on
Parliament and
Funkadelic songs.
with Parliament-Funkadelic in
1997.
His inventory of sounds was
more like a rain forest than a library. His synthesizer lines whistled, gurgled, cackled, squished,
snickered and belched; their
pitches might wriggle, and their
tones could bristle and bite. There
was humor in them, along with ingenuity, defiance, raunch and joy.
Mr. Worrell’s best-known innovation was the bass line he played
on three connected Minimoog
synthesizers in the 1978 Parliament song “Flash Light.” It had a
descending and ascending chro-
matic line with a meaty tone and a
certain swagger, an approach that
would spread through funk, new
wave, electro, synth-pop and
countless other iterations. Many
Parliament recordings from the
1970s, like “Aqua Boogie,” another
song that would be widely sampled in hip-hop, revolve around
the multiple, constantly surprising keyboard parts Mr. Worrell devised.
He played, and played with,
whatever technology was available to him at the time: piano,
electric piano, clavinet, Hammond organ, as well as Moog,
ARP, Yamaha and Prophet synthesizers. What he brought to every piece of technology was a human element: quirks and syncopations, complex structures and
outbursts of anarchy. His oft-repeated advice to young musicians
was “hands on” — to keep the human touch in music rather than
depending on machines.
Mr. Worrell was born on April
19, 1944, in Long Branch, N.J., and
grew up in Plainfield, N.J. His father was a truck driver; his
mother sang in church choirs and
taught him his first scale on the piano. He started classical piano
lessons at 3, composed a piano
concerto when he was 8 and performed with the Washington Symphony Orchestra of Pennsylvania
when he was 10.
He graduated from the New
England Conservatory of Music in
Boston in 1967. (The conservatory
gave him an honorary doctorate in
May.) While in college, he played
Robert Cox, 78, an Ad Man Who Gave
Nancy Reagan a Comeback for Drug Use
By SAM ROBERTS
Robert Cox, a leading New York
advertising executive who helped
transform “Just Say No” into the
slogan of Nancy Reagan’s crusade
against illegal drugs, died on Saturday at his home in Sherman,
Conn. He was 78.
The cause was complications of
a heart attack, his son, Spencer,
said.
Mr. Cox, who was an executive
at several major ad agencies before starting his own firm, was
with the New York office of Needham, Harper & Steers/USA in the
early 1980s when it volunteered to
collaborate with the industry’s
charitable Advertising Council to
execute a radio, television and
print campaign directed at children for the National Institute on
Drug Abuse. Mr. Cox was Needham’s executive vice president
and executive creative director.
While Mrs. Reagan had expressed the gist of the war on
drugs’ battle cry before, the derivation of the specific three-word
catchphrase is murky.
She often explained that her
role in the campaign against drug
abuse, particularly cocaine and
marijuana, began in 1980, when
she visited Daytop Village, a treatment program in New York. Later,
she and President Ronald Reagan
would repeatedly recall that in
1982, when asked by a student at
an elementary school in Oakland,
Calif., what to do if someone offered drugs, she replied, “Just say
no.”
According to “The Yale Book of
Quotations,” however, the slogan,
though “closely identified with
Nancy Reagan,” was “originated
by the advertising agency Needham Harper & Steers.”
Carolyn Roughsedge, who was
the agency’s director of broadcast
production, recalled in a telephone interview on Wednesday
that the phrase was generated in
1983 by Mr. Cox and David Cantor,
a writer at Needham.
“They were going to talk to children, that was Nancy’s thing,” Ms.
Roughsedge said. “Bob and David
came up with ‘just say no’ because
that’s what a little kid would say.”
Mrs. Reagan visited the agency
that October to preview its campaign. “They presented it to
Nancy Reagan and she absolutely
loved it,” Ms. Roughsedge said.
In one print ad, a student
laments: “School is tough enough
without having to try to learn
through a mind softened with
drugs. So get the education you
deserve. And learn how to say no
to drugs.”
Statistically, marijuana use declined during the Reagan years.
But drug use was also increasingly stigmatized then, making
the subsidizing of treatment more
difficult politically, and the prison
population soared as harsher penalties were imposed for use, possession and sale of illegal drugs.
Dr. Herbert D. Kleber, emeritus
director of the Columbia University office on substance abuse,
said in a crime report published in
March by the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New York,
“My experience is ‘Just Say No’
wasn’t terribly effective, but it
was better than not doing it.”
During his career Mr. Cox oversaw teams that created other
memorable campaigns, including,
for Honda, “We Make It Simple,”
Reprinted from yesterday’s early
editions.
CLAYTON CALL/REDFERNS
Bernie Worrell performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2008.
organ in an Episcopal church,
backed a local group called
Chubby and the Turnpikes (the
vocal ensemble that would become the hit disco act Tavares),
and accompanied a Jewish men’s
chorus.
Mr. Worrell had been the musical director for the R&B singer
Maxine Brown when he joined Mr.
Clinton, whose doo-wop group,
the Parliaments, was originally
from Plainfield. The Parliaments
had moved to Detroit and were becoming two intertwined acts, Parliament and Funkadelic, recording for different labels.
Mr. Clinton brought in Mr. Worrell as the keyboardist, bandleader and arranger, starting with the
debut albums both Funkadelic
and Parliament released in 1970.
Parliament-Funkadelic and many
spinoffs made dozens of albums in
the ’70s. Mr. Worrell and Mr. Clinton collaborated on Funkadelic
songs, including “Cosmic Slop”
and “Lunchmeataphobia (Think!
It Ain’t Illegal Yet!),” as well as
Parliament songs, including “Do
That Stuff” and “Up for the Down
Stroke.”
With Mr. Clinton’s high-concept
wordplay, the rhythm section’s
deep grooves and Mr. Worrell’s
sonic zingers, P-Funk brought
Afro-Futurism to dance floors.
While living in Detroit, Mr. Worrell also did studio work with PFunk’s rivals. He played keyboard
on hits like Freda Payne’s “Band
of Gold” and Johnnie Taylor’s
“Disco Lady.” He also made his
first solo album, “All the Woo in
the World,” in 1978.
Business disputes led Mr. Worrell
to
leave
ParliamentFunkadelic as the 1970s ended,
though in later years he collaborated with various P-Funk
associates, including Mr. Clinton’s
P-Funk All-Stars.
He and his wife, Judie Worrell,
had long contended that he did not
receive what he had earned for the
songs he wrote in ParliamentFunkadelic and for their later use
as samples in hip-hop songs. The
publishing rights have been under
legal dispute for many years. Besides her, his survivors also include a son, Bassl.
Mr. Worrell had not heard of the
Talking Heads when the band’s
guitarist and keyboardist, Jerry
Harrison, contacted him. But jamming with the Talking Heads convinced him that they made music
the way P-Funk had, and he
started touring with the band in
1980, appearing on the live album
“The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads” and the 1983 studio album “Speaking in Tongues” as
well as the concert film and live album “Stop Making Sense.”
After working with P-Funk and
the Talking Heads, Mr. Worrell
was in demand across the musical
spectrum. He worked with the
producer Bill Laswell on funk,
jazz, African and avant-garde music, and with the bassist and songwriter Jack Bruce of Cream. He
sat in with jam bands like Gov’t
Deaths
Deaths
DOUG MILLS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nancy Reagan with the Washington Redskins’ Doug
Williams in 1988. Robert Cox,
left, volunteered to help create
the “Just Say No” campaign.
which promoted that automaker’s
small cars as a reliable, economical alternative to gas guzzlers.
John Ferrell, the chief creative
officer of Hill, Holliday, Connors,
Cosmopulos/New York, credited
Mr. Cox’s art direction with transforming automobile advertising
by showing a car in profile.
“Before, it had always been a
front three-quarters view, or a
back seven-eighths,” he told The
New York Times in 1989. “That
A sloganeer, too, for
his own agency, where
‘professionals are
standing by.’
work showed a fine sense of design and a real reduction of elements to their ultimate simplicity.”
On other advertising accounts,
Mr. Cox helped Xerox expand its
image from that of the maker of a
single product, the copier, to the
multifaceted “Team Xerox,” which
would furnish “the office of tomorrow.” He was responsible for campaigns
for
Amtrak
(“All
aboard!”), Ford (“Quality is Job
1”) and Franco-American food
products.
He worked at Cox Landey &
Partners; Wells, Rich, Greene;
Ogilvy & Mather; Young & Rubicam; and Hal Riney & Partners,
before starting his own agency,
The Cox Group, which he promoted on Midtown Manhattan
telephone kiosks. His own advertisements promoted his firm’s experience on Madison Avenue, portraying young hotshots at other
agencies as being unfamiliar with
a client’s potential customers and
even its products.
“Susan will be writing your $4
million cosmetics campaign and
she doesn’t use lipstick,” one ad
said. Another warned: “Jack’s
never owned a car and you’re
trusting him to create your $10
million automotive ad campaign.”
At the bottom of the poster was
the telephone number of Mr. Cox’s
agency and the tagline “Professionals are standing by.”
Robert Bartley Cox was born in
Manhattan on Nov. 25, 1937. His father, also named Robert, was an
advertising art director. His
mother was the former Dessie
Mae Skinner. He attended Brown
University and the Rhode Island
School of Design and began his career as an apprentice graphic designer. He later ran advertising
and promotion for Metromedia.
His marriage to Maria Polich
ended in divorce. In addition to
their son, Spencer, he is survived
by a daughter, Jennifer; three
grandchildren; a sister, Virginia
Binford; and his wife, the former
Loretta DeCecco.
At Wells, Rich, Greene in 1974,
Mr. Cox and Peter Murphy recruited the Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí to dramatize the palliative power of Alka-Seltzer. In the
ad, in a darkened studio, Dalí
drew a diagram on a female model
wearing a white leotard, sprayed
on yellow and red paint to symbolize “excess acid,” then splashed on
blue paint to signify relief, outlining it in shaving cream with his
thumb. (“Alka-Seltzer is a work of
art,” a narrator says in Spanishaccented English. “Truly one of a
kind. Like a Dalí.”)
“As we were preparing a second
leotard for Take 2,” Mr. Cox told
Adweek in 2007, “he announced
that he was late for lunch at La
Grenouille and had to be going.
One take was all we got.”
The commercial was cut to 30
seconds and was a critical success. But a week after it was first
broadcast, an Ohio woman objected that Dalí’s rushing toward
the model with an upraised
marker and appearing to stab her,
to suggest heartburn, was too violent.
“Even though we were able to
re-cut the spot to remove the
scene, cooler heads prevailed and
it was pulled,” Mr. Cox recalled.
“The commercial was never to be
seen again.”
Barnett, Lois
Haffner, Norman
Okoronkwo, Sylvia
Birnbaum, Gerald
Jacobson, David
Rudyk, Andrew
Daniel, Dan
Katz, Terry
Schaffir, Walter
Einbender, Alvin
Lutfy, Isabel
Serban, George
Frankel, Andrew
Migliuolo, Dagmar
Yablon, Leonard
Haffner, Alden
Nuzum, John
BARNETT—Lois.
Born May 20, 1933, Died June
17, 2016. Daughter of Ernest
and Jayne Deutsch Barnett.
Beloved mom of Marshall
(Brenda), Julie (David), sister
of Gene (Enid), and aunt of
Lynn, Mike (Angie), and Larry (Barbara). Mutual adoration with grandchildren Isabel
and Raphael. Teacher, educator, and friend, Lois explored many paths over the
course of her life, and supported others in following
their hearts. Services at Sharon Gardens, Valhalla, NY,
1pm, Sunday, June 26, 2016. In
lieu of flowers, contributions
in her memory to:
mskcc.convio.net/
goto/loisbarnett.
BIRNBAUM—Gerald, 87, of
Flushing, NY, passed away
June 16, 2016. Beloved husband of 57 years to Mary
(Aronson). Devoted father
of Debbie Weiss (Hal) and
Rhona Seymour (Michael).
Adored poppy to Alexa, Jordana, Zachary and Dylan.
Contributions in his memory
may be made to the Merrick
Jewish Center or the Hospital
for Special Surgery.
Mule, and, with Les Claypool of
Primus and the guitarist Buckethead, formed the group Colonel
Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie
Brains.
Mike Gordon of Phish and Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule appeared on Mr. Worrell’s 2007 solo
album, “Improviscario.” Mr. Worrell played on Keith Richards’s
first solo album, “Talk Is Cheap,”
and toured with the Pretenders.
He also joined the rapper Mos
Def’s rock band, Black Jack Johnson.
He led his own groups, including the Woo Warriors, the Bernie
Worrell Orchestra and Icons of
Funk (with Fred Wesley from
James Brown’s J.B.’s and Leo Nocentelli from the Meters). He
wrote music for film and television and appeared onscreen as the
keyboard player in Meryl Streep’s
band in Mr. Demme’s 2015 movie
“Ricki and the Flash.”
When “Late Show With David
Letterman” began its run on CBS,
Mr. Worrell was a member of the
house band, the CBS Orchestra
with Paul Shaffer.
His last solo album, “Retrospectives,” released in 2016, revisited his favorite P-Funk compositions as instrumentals.
After Mr. Worrell learned he
had cancer, a benefit and tribute
concert was held on April 4 featuring admirers and collaborators
from throughout Mr. Worrell’s career. It ran overtime with a PFunk reunion.
JACOBSON—David Burton,
(90) passed away on June 23,
2016. Born on February 28,
1926 in Worcester, MA, he
was the son of Nathan and
Frieda Jacobson. David is
survived by his children
Michael (Sharon), Neil, and
Jodi Anatole (Mark), and his
grandchildren Emily and Carter Anatole. He was predeceased by Barbara, his loving
wife of 32 years, his parents,
brother Arthur and sisters
Ruth and Deena. A funeral
service will be held at Westchester
Reform
Temple,
Scarsdale, NY on Sunday
June 26, 2016 at 12:00pm. Dad
will always be loved and
missed. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Arthur B. & David B. Jacobson Judaic Studies Fund,
Brown University, P.O Box
1877, Providence, RI 02912
or
Westchester
Reform
Temple, 255 Mamaroneck
Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583.
KATZ—Terry, died peacefully
at her home in Boca Raton,
FL, on June 21. Beloved wife
of Irwin Katz. Beloved mother to Toni Ponnel and Tracy
Katz and grandmother of
Craig and Lauren Ponnel. In
DANIEL—Dan, “Dandy Dan”, addition, she leaves her
of Larchmont, passed away
brother and sister-in-law Joel
June 21, 2016, age 82. Memorand Sandy Busel.
ial Mass Monday 10am Sts.
John & Paul RC Church LUTFY—Isabel, passed away
Larchmont. For more inforpeacefully early on June 23rd
mation or to place conat age 92. Devoted wife of the
dolence,
late Edmund R. Lutfy, bewww.coxeandgraziano.com
loved mother of James,
Jeanne and Carol. Proud
EINBENDER—Alvin H.,
grandmother
of
Michael,
passed away peacefully on
Christopher, Stephen, Daniel,
June 22, 2016. He was surMick and Ketsara. Loving
rounded by his loving family: mother-in-law to Pat, Henkhis wife, Joan R. Einbender, Jan and Andy. Daughter of
their four children, Alison, Richard and Wadia Haboush,
Jay, Gail and Karen; his sonIsabel was born in Brooklyn
in-laws Paul Jacobson and
Heights and grew up in Bay
Rink Smith; and his ten
Ridge. As the family magrandchildren, Erin, Bennett, triarch, Isabel presided over
Kirsten, Kim, Dana, Eli, Jake, family events and holiday
Graham, Brooke and Halie. A
meals for decades, her Lebaservice in celebration of Alnese cooking renown. Isabel
vin's life will be held on Sunwas a voracious reader,
day, June 26, 2016 at 2pm at
masterful bridge player, and
Frank E. Campbell Funeral
avid politico, who was pasHome, 1076 Madison Avenue,
sionate
about
everything
New York, NY. Contributions New York. She also loved to
may be made in his honor to
dance, especially in Cape
the UJA Federation of New
May, NJ where she spent
York.
summers for most of her life.
Isabel was beloved by her
EINBENDER—Alvin.
children, siblings, nieces, nepDear friend Alvin, such a
hews, grandchildren and a
wonderful life lived to the fullest with love, wit and charm. host of dear friends. She will
be greatly missed. A funeral
You had such great taste. For
service will be held at Church
40 years we shared so much
of the Virgin Mary in Park
and talked so often about life.
Slope on Saturday, June 25th
I will miss you so.
at 10:00am. Donations can be
Elliot
made to Church of the Virgin
Mary, 216 8th Avenue, BrookEINBENDER—Alvin H.
lyn, NY 11215.
The Harmonie Club notes
with sorrow the passing of
MIGLIUOLO—Dagmar,
our honored member Alvin
(nee Zlatohlavkova) (10 April
H. Einbender. We extend our
1927 - 8 May 2016) wife of Gioheartfelt condolences to the
vanni Migliuolo (1927-1989)
entire family.
former Ambassador of Italy
to the United Nations, Egypt
FRANKEL—Andrew.
and the USSR. Longtime resThe Board of Governors and
ident of New York, she
members of Fairview Counpeacefully passed into grace
try Club note with profound
in Turin, Italy. She leaves her
sorrow the passing of our
children and their spouses
beloved longtime member
Andrew “Pete” Frankel. The (Andrea and Laura, Anna
and Marialaura, Michele and
Frankels were members at
Gina, Stefano and Sarah),
the club for sixty years; Pete
grandchildren (Adriana, Alesserved as President from
1996-1998. On behalf of all our sandro, Giancarlo, Sebastian
and Vittorio). Tenacious armembers we express our
chaeologist, traveler, voracideepest sympathy to his wife
Anita, their children Donna, ous reader and fluent in multiple languages, she dedicatLiz and David, their three
grandchildren, and the entire ed herself to service in the
Memorial Sloan Kettering
family.
Fredric C. Apter, President; Cancer Center. Her friends
are invited to join in the celeLinda Wiltsek, Secretary
bration of her life at the
Church of St. Ignatius of LoyHAFFNER—Alden N. Orchesola (Park Ave and 84th St.,
tra of St. Luke's mourns the
loss of Board member Dr. Al- New York City) at 10am on 29
den N. Haffner. His passion June 2016. Burial will follow at
the Gate of Heaven Cemetefor music and generosity of
spirit will be sorely missed. ry (Hawthorne, NY), where
We extend our deepest symDagmar (Zlatohlavkova) Migliuolo will be laid to rest with
pathy to friends and family.
Board, Musicians, and Staff her husband in this world and
of Orchestra of St. Luke's
the next.
NUZUM—John Martin, Jr.,
76, beloved father, grandfather, friend, and neighbor, died
on June 21, 2016, after a brief
but difficult illness. Born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, John
left the Midwest for Princeton University, which he
loved and where he was
“Nuz” to his many treasured
friends from the Class of '62.
After graduating from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, John
had a long and distinguished
career in credit risk management at Chase Manhattan
Bank, where he worked until
he retired from his Senior
Vice President role in 2003.
John settled in Park Slope,
Brooklyn, which he happily
called home for 45 years. As
often as he could, however,
John escaped the city for the
peace and beauty of the Adirondacks, where his home
away from home, Big Shanty,
is located near the top of Garnet Hill. Wherever he was,
John was a devoted father
and
the
much
loved
“Gramps” to his grandchildren. Beyond career and family, John enjoyed cheering on
his beloved Princeton Tigers
basketball
and
football
teams, listening to classical
and jazz music, solving the
NYTimes crossword puzzles
every day, and reading for his
book club. He also valued his
role as a member of both the
NYU Lutheran Medical Center Board of Trustees and
the Adirondack Architectural
Heritage Board of Directors.
John is survived by his four
children, Kimberly Nuzum,
Courtney Jimenez, Leah Ervi, and Jonathan Nuzum, and
seven grandchildren, Ruby
and Jake Lippert, Isa and Carlos Jimenez, Stella and Milo
Ervi, and Illianna Hye Seul
Lee Nuzum. He is also survived by his cherished sonsin-law, Aaron Lippert, Alexander Jimenez, and Tomi Ervi, and daughter - in - law,
Kyoung Sook Suh. He was
predeceased by his older sister, Constance Hall. A memorial service will be held at
Grace Church in Brooklyn
Heights on September 10,
2016 at 1:00, with a reception
to celebrate his life at the
Montauk Club in Park Slope.
In lieu of flowers, donations in
John's memory can be made
to the Lutheran Medical Center or the Adirondack Architectural Heritage.
OKORONKWO—Sylvia.
A woman of valor. A lady,
who was an inspiration to all
fortunate enough to be a part
of her life. A remarkable
mother of three marvelous
children, and a most devoted
and beloved grandmother of
eight. We send our condolences and much love to the
family.
Gail, Marc, Allie and Jess
RUDYK—Andrew,
69, died suddenly on May 17,
2016. The family will be receiving friends at Preston
Funeral Home, 153 South Orange Ave, South Orange, NJ
on Sunday, June 26th from
2:00-2:45pm followed by a Memorial Service. Born in Koblenz, Germany he has lived in
Maplewood, NJ for many
years. He served in the United
States
Army,
from
1971-1973. He graduated from
City College and New York
Law School. He was a college
professor at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice in New
York City for many years. He
is survived by his beloved
wife of Irene Winicov.
Deaths
SCHAFFIR—Walter. Management
consultant,
painter,
sculptor drummer, pianist,
world traveler, essayist, gastronome and all-around bon
vivant passed away at 94 surrounded by his family. He
adored and indulged his wife
Judy, his daughter Nancy, his
brother Kurt, and his Praetorian Guard of grandsons. Who
will
make
our
chestnut
mousse now? And so it goes.
SERBAN—Dr. George, passed
away on June 16, 2016 at the
age of 89. A graduate of Carol
Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, he emigrated to the United States in
1956, and became a Board
Certified psychiatrist and Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.
For many years, he was Principal Research Investigator
on schizophrenia at NYUBellevue Medical Center, and
in the 1970s he served as Medical Director of the Kittay
Scientific Foundation, under
whose auspices he organized
successful international medical symposiums. He also
built a flourishing private
practice and was a consultant
to business corporations as
well as an author and editor
of numerous books and articles in the fields of psychiatry, social psychology and sociology. Dr. Serban is survived by his wife, Dr. Theodora Serban, and son, Andrew
Serban, and will be greatly
missed.
YABLON—Len.
The Board of Governors and
members of Beach Point
Club note with deep sorrow
the passing of our fellow
member, Len Yablon, and
extend sincere condolences
to his family.
James Dreyfus, President
YABLON—Leonard.
We note with sorrow the
passing of our member
Leonard Yablon and extend
sincerest condolences to his
bereaved family.
Rabbi Angela W. Buchdahl,
President Abigail Pogrebin,
Central Synagogue
of New York City
In Memoriam
HAFFNER—Norman.
With great sadness, ICL remembers Dr. Norman Haffner. For eight years, Norman
served on ICL's Board. He will
always be remembered for
his penetrating questions as
well as his high regard for ICL
and our responsibilities to the
people we serve. His iconic
humor will remain in our
hearts and memories.
O'BRIEN—Lois.
Dearest Lois, it has been
twenty years since you are
gone. Every day I miss your
wit and common sense. Time
has not, nor ever will, diminish my love for you.
Jack
RIPPS—David. June 25, 1967.
Remembered on his birthday
and every day with love.
Mom, Dad, Van,
Leah and Emily
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Shock Waves After the British Exit
TO THE EDITOR:
ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER JR., Publisher, Chairman
Founded in 1851
ADOLPH S. OCHS
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER
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ARTHUR OCHS SULZBERGER
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A Cry of Anger and Frustration
What is so shocking about Britain’s vote to leave the
European Union is not so much the potential economic
consequences, however grave the crash of the pound and
the tumble of the markets, as the sense that a fundamental
tenet of postwar Europe has been irreversibly changed,
and perhaps even lost.
When the vote was announced on Friday morning, it
was clear that decades of efforts to bring Europe closer together, with all the talk of shared values, shared aspirations, common foreign and defense policies, had never really overcome old habits of nationalism and suspicion.
That it happened in Britain was especially stunning:
For all its traditions of insularity and euroskepticism, Britain has been a leader of the Western world. The political
classes in Britain and Europe seemed certain that when
the time came Britons would revert to form and remain in
their proper place in the front ranks of Europe.
Now all that has changed. Defying appeals from every major economic and political institution in Britain, Europe and the United States, a majority of voters, many of
them older workers, concluded that a gamble on a dangerous unknown was better than staying with a present over
which they felt they had lost control. It was a cry of anger
and frustration from a class that felt alienated from those
who wield power, wealth and privilege, both in their own
government and in Brussels, and against global forces in a
world they felt was leaving them out.
The consequences of their action were seen immediately, as the pound sank to its lowest level since 1985 and
the value of big banks sank. Stock markets dropped
sharply around the world; the Dow Jones industrial average sank 611 points, its biggest drop since August.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who had called the
referendum in the naïve expectation that it would end talk
of a British exit in his Conservative Party, announced he
would leave office in October. That added another unknown to the many that swept through social media.
Though the European Union has procedures for countries that choose to leave, these have never been used.
Britain and the E.U. will confront the prospect of long,
complex negotiations, all requiring consensus among the
27 remaining member states. Germany and France are not
likely to be generous, if only to dissuade euroskeptics on
the Continent from following Britain’s lead.
The British government also faces the task of revising
a host of internal regulations based on E.U. rules. And it
will have its own problems of unity, as Scotland and Northern Ireland assess the advantages of staying in the United
Kingdom against the disadvantages of losing membership
in the European Union.
These immediate problems, however, though important, seemed of lesser moment than the question of
whether there will be fundamental changes in the way
Britain, Europe and the West have perceived their common role and future. Europe’s unity and institutions have
already been tested to the limit by economic crisis, Greek
debt, Russian aggression, and the tide of refugees from the
Middle East and North Africa. Nationalist parties have
cropped up across the Continent, spewing sentiments very
similar to those heard in Britain.
Though Britain has always stood apart from the Continent, eschewing the common currency and open borders, it has been a bastion of democratic values, economic
leadership and military reliability. That this Britain proved
vulnerable to nationalist, anti-globalization and anti-immigrant sentiments is certain to embolden other xenophobic
movements, further weakening the union.
Donald Trump, arriving in Scotland on Friday,
promptly tweeted, “They took their country back, just like
we will take America back. No games!” He seemed utterly
oblivious of the fact that his Scottish hosts had voted
strongly to remain in the E.U.
It will be some time before the full consequences of
the British vote become evident. Many questions will demand urgent attention from European and American leaders. Still, however frightening Brexit may appear on the
day after, the political, economic and security institutions
of the West are solid and flexible, and with time they will
adjust to the new reality. But there should be no illusion: It
will be a very different reality.
ERIK CARTER
American Anxieties, Mirrored in Britain
Many of the same economic grievances and anxieties
that have surfaced in the American electorate this year
appear to have played an important role in Britain’s decision on Thursday to leave the European Union.
In large numbers, the “leave” supporters were expressing anger at never having reaped the promised rewards of globalization, even as those at the top have prospered. The divide between losers and winners was underscored by the fact that voters in economically stressed
parts of the country voted to leave, while those in London,
the racing heart of global capitalism, voted to remain.
Similar sentiments have dominated the presidential
race in the United States. Bernie Sanders has campaigned
against income inequality and a financial system that
drains rather than fosters a middle class. Hillary Clinton
prefaces her policy agenda with the assertion that the
deck has been stacked against ordinary Americans. Donald Trump’s supporters are aggrieved over low pay and
the demise of manufacturing, which Mr. Trump is only too
happy to link to trade and immigration.
But overplaying the similarities between public opinion in the two countries risks drawing the wrong lessons
from the British vote. One of the most striking features of
Brexit is that young people voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union. Among voters age 24 and
younger, 75 percent voted to stay, according to a YouGov
poll; among those ages 25 to 49, 56 percent voted to stay.
Theirs was a vote not for revolution, but for the status
quo; not for reversing the commitment to the free flow of
goods, capital and labor, but for harnessing it to a better
future. While it is safe to assume that many were acutely
aware of the shortcomings of global capitalism, their vote
was an affirmation that the hallmarks of union — integration, mobility and diversity — are worth saving and that
economic dislocations are problems to be fixed.
As for older pensioners, they have less to lose from
globalization and yet most of them voted to leave, as did
the working class, which has been harmed by outsourcing
and factory relocations, but whose problems cannot be
solved by leaving the union. That suggests that among
many “leave” voters, fear and resentment of immigration
outweighed economic anxiety as a decisive factor. This
also seems true among many of Mr. Trump’s supporters.
The lesson for American voters is to see their economic problems clearly, lest they be manipulated into voting against their own and their nation’s interests.
Re “British Stun World With Vote to
Leave E.U.” (front page, June 24):
As a British citizen living in New York
City, I see the future as uncertain at best,
and bleak at worst. It has been hard
through the first half of this year — coddled as I am by my Democratic-leaning
surroundings and Labour-leaning Facebook feed — to believe that either of two
things could happen: Donald Trump winning the presidency, or Britain leaving the
European Union. I was proved wrong in
Thursday’s referendum, and my confidence that America would not, in the end,
elect Mr. Trump has been shaken.
A vote for Leave was a vote for increased sovereignty, certainly, but also
for a nationalism that we can ill afford in a
time of increasing polarization, and that
legitimizes and encourages the same
elsewhere.
Being part of the European Union has
brought Britain closer to the other nations of Europe, and also to the rest of the
world. It has widened our focus and our
expectations, encouraging — and sometimes compelling — us to meet and accustom ourselves to difference to a degree
that is not possible in Britain alone.
Leaving will mean a contraction of ambition and empathy. Perhaps it reflects a
desire for just that. But it’s a loss that I feel
deeply, and that I think leaves our world
worse off than before, both in the decision
itself and the precedent it sets.
FERGUS McINTOSH
Brooklyn
TO THE EDITOR:
While polling showed a close race in recent weeks, the news that Britain has
voted to exit the European Union still
comes as a shock and surprise. Alas, I
can’t help feeling that the vote was based
on bigotry toward immigrants.
David Cameron has announced that he
plans to step down by the fall, which
opens the door perhaps for Boris Johnson
to be the prime minister. The future is unknown and unsettled, but those of us who
are Anglophiles and love the United Kingdom will hope for the best — especially as
the British people’s decision could affect
the rest of the world.
JENNIFER DORN
New York
It’s America’s Future, and They Want In
It’s a rainy Thursday morning, a little
after 8, on the sidewalk below the
United States Supreme Court. A group
of immigrant activists and organizers,
mostly young, mostly Latino, stands in
a circle, playing a pass-the-hot-potato
game. It’s a little bonding exercise to
pass the hours. It’s sticky hot and people are soaked, laughing and, without
saying it, feeling unbearably tense.
They are waiting for 10 a.m., when
they think the court might announce
the fate of President Obama’s stalled
immigration program, which would allow four million to five million immigrants to live and work without fear of
deportation. The group knows that the
law is on their side, that the case is so
political, so absurd — a Texas judge
shutting down the hopes of millions nationwide, out of spite for Mr. Obama —
that the justices must understand that.
How can they lose?
But of course they can lose, and so
they wait, and worry, and chant their
aspirations, in Spanish and English.
The people, united, will never be divided.
Today we march, tomorrow we vote. Yes,
we can! As the hour nears, the mood
grows so intense, so exhilarating, that
some crass young protesters, there for
a completely unrelated abortion case,
crash the immigrants’ circle, waving
their own signs, stealing some joy for
themselves.
About 10:30, a one-line announcement pops up on phones and laptops: a
4-4 tie. The Obama program is still
blocked, which means dead for now.
The crowd is informed, and falls silent. It’s not deflated, it’s crushed. At
the microphone, Rosario Reyes, a
mother from El Salvador who is with
the immigrant-rights group Casa de
Maryland, gives voice to the anguish.
Nearly shouting, through tears, she
says a battle may be lost, but the war
continues.
You could look at this result, and
other news of this week and year —
Still determined,
despite a big setback.
Britain’s plunge into isolation, the rise
of Donald Trump and the politics of fear
and hate — and think our tolerant, multihued democracy is doomed. And if
that didn’t make you feel desolate
enough, you could have gone down
from Capitol Hill to a gathering of rightwing radio hosts at a hotel near Union
Station.
It was the 10th year of an annual
event called “Hold Their Feet to the
Fire.” These broadcasters are the
megaphones, the gong-bangers, who
for years have helped kill immigration
reform, and have lately been spreading
a message that conflates immigrants,
refugees and terrorists into one toxic
brown tide, lapping at our shores.
Over two days in the hotel, they told
one another and whoever was listening
scary stories about violence and chaos
beyond and within our borders, while a
staff composed largely of immigrants
cooked and served their meals, picked
up their dirty towels, made their beds,
called their cabs.
If only the radio gang could have
walked a few blocks, and introduced
themselves to the young organizers
and dreamers of Casa de Maryland,
United We Dream, FWD.us. The
nativists could have told the demonstrators of their love of country, their
respect for laws, faith, family, free enterprise and education.
The response from the newcomers,
and their citizen children, would have
been: “You too? Join the club. Join our
circle.”
The fate of immigration reform is
murky, but it’s clear who owns the future. It’s the young people, with their Tshirts and cardboard signs, telling the
country: We want to belong, to stay and
contribute. Is the country worthy of
them? It doesn’t seem so, now. But the
immigrants and their families and
friends are determined to help make it
so, as soon as November.
TO THE EDITOR:
It is perhaps not surprising that England, the birthplace of the Luddite movement, the group attempting to negate the
social and economic disruption of the Industrial Revolution, voted to leave the European Union. After all, the emotions animating “Brexit” are very similar to those
of their brethren two centuries ago: fear
of rapid technological change, an uncertain future and, of course, the foreign
“other.”
But history has shown how unwise and
wrong that view was. Nevertheless, we
should not ignore the desperation and anguish of those who fear for their way of life
and a threatened future. I hope that imprudent and isolationist sentiments do
not have similar disastrous effects here in
America.
PHILIP M. ROSOFF
Durham, N.C.
TO THE EDITOR:
I think Thomas Jefferson would be very
proud of the people of Great Britain, for as
he said, “A little rebellion now and then is
a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
And with 72 percent of the British electorate voting, I feel that Jefferson would be
doubly happy knowing that the citizens of
Great Britain took their civic duties seriously.
Whether or not this is the right decision, only time will tell. But this historic
vote demonstrated to the world that democracy does work — that through civil
public discourse the body politic at large
can make a well-informed collective decision that all parties can recognize as fair
and just.
NEIL J. BLUM
Glenview, Ill.
TO THE EDITOR:
TO THE EDITOR:
Could I thank President Obama for
coming to Britain and telling us to vote
Remain? His exhortations, along with
those of other foreign politicians, multimillionaire businessmen and bankers,
helped persuade the British people that
the wealthy Davos elite was interested in
keeping Britain in the European Union for
its own political and commercial reasons
rather than for the good of the Brits.
No American would tolerate being governed by a group of unelected bureaucrats with laws imposed on them by politicians of other countries. That is why we
voted for Leave. The United Kingdom has
now become a free, independent nation
once again, and we will continue to work
Dear Brits: We Americans want to congratulate you on your vote to exit the
modern world. Now that your prime minister is resigning, you need a brave new
leader who can Make Britain Great Again
(ca. 1775?).
We have just the man for you: He will
round up all those pesky immigrants, he’ll
negotiate unbelievably good deals with
those trading partners you just shoved
off, and in a pinch he’ll rebuild Hadrian’s
Wall.
Quite frankly, we would appreciate if
you could take him off our hands. You’re
welcome to Donald Trump!
SEBASTIAN KUHN
Norfolk, Va.
Court Rulings on Immigration and Affirmative Action
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “Split Court Stifles Obama on Immigration” (front page, June 24):
By voting to affirm the 2-to-1 decision of
the lower appellate court, the four conservative members of the Supreme Court
have created a deadlock that has the effect of blocking President Obama’s attempt to assure stability to millions of immigrants who are the parents of American-born or resident children and effectively prevents them from getting work
permits and drivers’ licenses.
To reach that impasse, the conservatives accepted the outlandish notion that
the State of Texas had standing because it
would incur some costs associated with
the issuance of drivers’ licenses, a cost it
has visited upon itself, and, further,
bought the state’s tenuous argument that
the president’s unquestioned right to establish priorities for deportation is, somehow, lost when he exercises that right on a
Hunger in Venezuela
TO THE EDITOR:
EDITORIAL OBSERVER LAWRENCE DOWNES
and trade with the whole world.
We are pleased that, after the Brexit
victory, President Obama said, “The
United Kingdom and the European Union
will remain indispensable partners of the
United States,” which is a welcome
change from his comments when he
visited here that if we voted to leave, then
we would be at the end of the queue to get
a trade deal.
DAVID BLENCATHRA
London
The writer, a former member of Parliament, is now a Conservative member of
the House of Lords.
Re “Pillaging by Venezuelans Reveals
Depth of Hunger” (front page, June 20):
The food crisis in Venezuela is a result
not simply of the collapse in oil prices,
but also of that country’s overreliance for
the last 30 years on oil exports as the single mainstay of the economy.
The Hugo Chávez regime did little to
foster self-sufficiency in agriculture or
industry: Why should Venezuelans
bother to grow or make things when they
could much more easily buy them?
Thus, Venezuela, a fertile country with
adequate rainfall, cannot feed itself or
supply its own needs. As the planet shifts
to non-fossil-fuel energy — as it must! —
similar crises may occur in other countries that rely excessively on oil exports.
MICHAEL JORRIN
Ridgefield, Conn.
broad scale.
This result condemns millions to life in
the shadows, insures family disruption
and highlights the need to fill the vacant
Supreme Court seat, hopefully with someone more inclined to respect human
rights and executive privilege.
GERALD HARRIS
New York
The writer is a retired New York City
Criminal Court judge.
TO THE EDITOR:
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority
opinion on affirmative action (“Justices
Uphold Race-Aware Admissions,” front
page, June 24) provides a healthy reminder. While I applaud what I consider the
wisdom of his call, I’m even more grateful
for what it illustrates: the crucial value of
a justice who takes a less ideological approach to each case, whose decisions can
actually be “unexpected.”
Justice Kennedy is often the swing
vote, sometimes siding with the more
liberal members of the court and sometimes with the conservatives. My instinctive liberal side wishes he would more
consistently swing that way, but my dispassionate, citizen side appreciates his
willingness to consider each case on its
own merits.
Disinterested judgment, employed or
arrived at in spite of one’s political or moral inclinations, is a behavior to be
treasured. Our next president could do
worse than heed that lesson when he or
she nominates a new justice.
JAMIE SPENCER
St. Louis
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Europe’s
Angry
Old Men
By Jochen Bittner
I
HAMBURG, GERMANY
WAS born in 1973, the year Britain
entered the European Economic
Community. And like Britain, I have
always been skeptical about the
quasi-religious, ever-closer-union
ideology that gripped so many proponents of the European Union, especially
the anxious old men of my parents’ generation, who swore that the only alternative to unification was a relapse into nationalism.
And now this. Just as Europeans of my
generation were being relieved of those
anxious old men, another type stepped
onstage: the angry old men.
These politicians — men and women,
to be sure — are young enough not to
have experienced world war, but they
are old enough to idealize the pre-1989
Blame Brexit on
politicians too timid to
deal with reality.
era and a simpler, pre-globalization
world. At the same time, they are too
sclerotic to imagine how democratic institutions can adjust to the new realities.
With their aggressive posturing, these
Nigel Farages, Marine Le Pens, Geert
Wilderses and Donald J. Trumps are
driving the debate — and possibly driving the West off a cliff.
“It’s a victory for ordinary, decent people who have taken on the establishment,” declared Mr. Farage, the head of
the U.K. Independence Party. Rubbish. It
was a victory for people who have neither the guts nor the imagination to take
on the downsides of globalization. Yes,
globalization and Europeanization have
taken their tolls, both on traditional
forms of democracy and on traditional
job security. But instead of tackling these
problems, the Farages of the world have
started the next ideological war.
There was a time when I thought the
pro-European ideologues were the ones
who were out of touch. I remember
watching one of them in full flight. It was
Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, giving a speech at a
German university. He started by asking
the students to imagine how many of
them would be sitting there if this were
the year 1945. About half of you would be
dead, Mr. Schulz said, and many others
would be crippled and wounded. Wow, I
thought, what a splendid opening for a
debate on the shortcomings of the European Union.
Even though Europeans of my age do
believe in Europe, the righteous theatrics of the integrationists were hard to
endure. But now our future is in danger
of being taken away by the other extreme, by the maniacs of disintegration.
A YouGov poll conducted in the run-up
to the British referendum showed that
the vote for Brexit was very much one of
the old against the young. Some 64 percent of the age group from 18 to 24 said
they would vote for Remain; just 35 percent of those between 50 and 64 wanted
to stay.
We — the young, optimistic millions
across Europe — cannot lose the West to
demagogues who have much more in
common with the scapegoating culture
of the Arab world they so despise than
with the enlightened, rational tradition of
Europe.
We can still repair the damage done to
democracy in our rush to move beyond
national borders by admitting to the
problems. If, for instance, European internal migrants really have lowered the
wages in Britain, this is a serious problem. But it can be dealt with through, say,
stricter control of the labor market — not
abandonment of the entire framework
for European cooperation.
Predictably, the German chancellor
Angela Merkel’s welcome-mat policy to
refugees, and her insistence that Europe
follow her lead, will be blamed for much
of the momentum behind the Leave vote.
And that’s fair. As principally right as her
message was, the chancellor did little to
correct the impression that Europe was
suddenly welcoming everyone, and that
elites like her didn’t understand the consequences of their actions.
Yet it is dangerously foolish to believe
that, with or without Ms. Merkel’s policies, Europe can somehow shut its doors
and ignore the pressing weight of the developing world on its borders — or that
European countries are better positioned to respond individually, rather
than as a unified whole.
We will most likely look back at the
Brexit vote as merely the first in a series
of fights for the soul of Europe. The outpouring of anger and anti-establishment
aggression in Europe has only begun.
The next countries where the political
bulldozers see their chances to act out
their long-kept lust for demolition are the
Netherlands and France.
We can no longer think of reconciliation between the opposing views of destruction and progress. The angry old
men will not be mollified, their xenophobia cannot be controlled or channeled
into constructive cooperation. We, the
young, the future of Europe, must push
back. Too much time has been lost already.
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GAIL COLLINS
Britain’s Leap in the Dark
Tax Dodging
On the
High Seas
LONDON
The British have given the world’s political, financial and business establishment a massive kick in the teeth by voting to leave the European Union, a historic decision that will plunge Britain
into uncertainty for years to come and
that reverses the integration on which
the Continent’s stability has been based.
Warnings by President Obama,
Britain’s political leaders and the International Monetary Fund about the dire
consequences of a British exit proved
useless. If anything, they goaded a mood
of defiant anger against these very elites.
The resentment has its roots in many
things but may be summed up as a revolt
against global capitalism. To heck with
the experts and political correctness was
the predominant mood. A majority of
Britons had no time for the politicians
that brought the world a disastrous war
in Iraq, the 2008 financial meltdown, European austerity, stagnant workingclass wages, high immigration and tax
havens for the superrich.
That some of these issues have no direct link to the European Union did not
matter. It was a convenient target in this
restive moment that has also made Donald Trump the presumptive Republican
presidential nominee — and may now
take him further still on a similar wave of
nativism and anti-establishment rage.
David Cameron, the British prime
minister prodded into holding the referendum by the right of his Conservative
Party, said he would resign, staying on in
a caretaker capacity for a few months.
This was the right call. He has led the
country into a debacle.
The pound duly plunged some 10 percent to its lowest level since 1985. Mainstream European politicians lamented a
sad day for Europe and Britain; rightists
like Marine Le Pen in France exulted.
The world has entered a period of great
volatility.
Ever-greater unity was a foundation
stone since the 1950s not only of peace in
Europe but also of the global political order. Now all bets are off. A process of European unraveling may have begun.
Geert Wilders, the right-wing anti-immigrant Dutch politician, promptly
tweeted: “Hurrah for the British! Now it
is our turn. Time for a Dutch referendum!” The European Union is more vulnerable than at any point since its inception. The sacred images of old — like
President François Mitterrand of France
and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany
hand-in-hand at Verdun — have lost their
resonance. The travails of the euro, the
tide of immigration (both within the European Union from poorer to richer
members and from outside) and high unemployment have led to an eerie collective loss of patience, prudence and
memory. Irrationality is in the air.
The colossal leap in the dark that a traditionally cautious people — the British
— took suggests that other such leaps
could occur elsewhere. A Trump victory
in November is more plausible now because it has an immediate precedent in a
developed democracy ready to trash the
status quo for the high-risk unknown.
Fifty-two percent of the British population was ready to face higher unemployment, a weaker currency, possible
recession, political turbulence, the loss of
access to a market of a half-billion people, a messy divorce that may take as
long as two years to complete, a very
long subsequent negotiation of Britain’s
relationship with Europe, and the tortuous redrafting of laws and trade treaties
and environmental regulations — all for
what the right-wing leader Nigel Farage
daftly called “Independence Day.” Britain was a sovereign nation before this
vote in every significant sense. It remains so. Estrangement Day would be
more apt.
The English were also prepared to risk
NEASDEN CONTROL CENTRE
The dawn of an era
of great volatility
for the world.
something else: the breakup of the
United Kingdom. Scotland voted to remain in the European Union by a majority of 62 percent to 38 percent. Northern
Ireland voted to remain by 56 percent to
44 percent. The Scots will now likely seek
a second referendum on independence.
Divisions were not only national. London voted overwhelmingly to remain.
But the countryside, small towns and
hard-hit provincial industrial centers
voted to leave and carried the day.
Europe’s failings are simply not sufficient to explain what Britain has done to
itself. This was a vote against the global
economic and social order that the first 16
years of the 21st century have produced.
Britain will remain an important power.
But it will punch beneath its weight. It
faces serious, long-term political and
economic risk.
Anger was most focused on the hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming into Britain each year, most from
other European Union nations like Poland. Farage’s U.K. Independence Party,
abetted by much of the press, was able to
whip up a storm that conflated E.U. immigration with the trickle from the Middle East. Wild myths, like imminent
Turkish membership of the European
Union, were cultivated. Violence entered
the campaign on a wave of xenophobic
rhetoric.
Trump supporters were delighted.
Sarah Palin welcomed the “good news.”
Trump arrived in Britain on Friday. He
said the vote to quit the E.U. was “a great
thing” and the British “took back their
country.” He did not say from whom, but
the specter of our times is a dark, controlling global force stealing national identity.
It is quite likely that Cameron’s successor will be Boris Johnson, the bombastic,
mercurial and fact-lite former London
mayor with his trademark mop of blond
hair. Johnson was a leader of the campaign for “Brexit”; he may now reap his
political reward. The Era of the Hair
looms.
Timothy Garton Ash, the historian,
paraphrasing Churchill on democracy,
wrote before the referendum: “The Europe we have today is the worst possible
Europe, apart from all the other Europes
that have been tried from time to time.”
It was a wise call to prudence in the imperfect real world. Now, driven by myths
about sovereignty and invading hordes,
Britain has ushered in another time of
treacherous trial for the European Continent and for itself.
My nephew wrote on Facebook that he
had never been less proud of his country.
I feel the same way about the country I
grew up in and left.
CORRECTION: In a recent column about
the Orlando nightclub killings, I included
an Israeli journalist’s tweet about Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador
to the United States, that misquoted him
as saying: “If I were Trump, I’d emphasize the Muslim name, Omar Saddiqui
Mateen. This changes race.” In fact, this
was a paraphrase of Mr. Oren’s comment. Translated from Hebrew, the comment was: “If I were Donald Trump I’d
come out the minute the F.B.I. decided to
start leaking this morning that we are
talking about a man who acted out of Islamic motives, with connections. First of
all the name itself, Omar Siddiqui Mateen, a Muslim name, the son of immigrants from Afghanistan, who apparently was somehow in touch with
extremist Islamic organizations. This already has a significant influence on the
race for the presidency.”
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Affirming Affirmative Action
By Lee C. Bollinger
T
HE Supreme Court’s decision
this week in Fisher v. University of Texas is a profound relief, and a cause for celebration
among those of us in higher education who have long insisted that affirmative action is vital to our schools’
missions and to society as a whole.
The ruling means we can continue to assemble diverse student bodies and it has
validated college administrators’ judgment about the qualities needed to
achieve educational goals. More important, the opinion greatly strengthens earlier precedent, set in Grutter v. Bollinger in
2003, that race-conscious admissions policies are constitutional.
Yet it’s worth remembering the limits of
today’s affirmative action landscape, even
after Fisher. The court’s landmark 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke outlawed quotas but permitted the consideration of race to achieve
a diverse student body; in doing so, it stifled deeper conversations in courtrooms
and classrooms about why we need affirmative action and what it can achieve.
And by severing the connection between
affirmative action and our past, the court
forfeited the opportunity to inform America’s conversation about racial discrimination with the awareness that comes only
from understanding history.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s majority
opinion in Fisher slightly opens the door
to a broader discussion. He acknowledged
that the University of Texas’ admissions
program, which automatically admits a
percentage of the top students at all public
high school students in Texas, yields di-
Lee C. Bollinger is the president of Columbia University.
versity primarily because of the stunning
level of segregation in the Texas public
school system.
There may be future Supreme Court
challenges to affirmative action, as signaled by the passionate dissent Justice
Samuel A. Alito Jr. read from the bench,
and the strong opposition to affirmative
action that remains. If so, the court should
acknowledge in those cases the past and
present realities of race in America.
The Supreme Court is at its best when it
locates a specific controversy within a
larger framework that explains our nation’s fundamental values and ideals. This
can be seen most powerfully by the Earl
Warren court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which went beyond the re-
This is not just a
legal issue. It’s a
historical one.
jection of “separate but equal” public
schools and explained that the promise of
equality requires a collective effort to
achieve integration. Sadly, despite the fact
that Brown is the foundation on which affirmative action is justified, a reference to
the case is nowhere to be found in the
Fisher opinion.
For now, universities must operate under the Fisher decision, which gives us
greater stability. But it also reminds us
that colleges have serious legal duties.
A university cannot justify its admissions policies with broad generalizations.
Instead, administrators must articulate
concrete reasons for pursuing diversity —
for example, to prepare students for a di-
Let’s criticize cruise ships.
I know, I know. Things are bad enough
without going negative about your summer vacation. But we’ve got some problems here. Plus, I promise there will be a
penguin.
The cruise industry seems to be exploding — the newest generation of ships can
carry more than 5,000 passengers. They
make a great deal of profit from the sale of
alcohol, so imagine the equivalent of a
small city whose inhabitants are
perpetually drunk.
Really, these things are so huge, it’s
amazing they can stay afloat without toppling over. And when one is parked outside, say, Venice, the effect is like one of
those alien-invasion movies, when people
wake up and find that a spaceship the size
of Toledo has landed downtown. (Venetians also claim the ships are causing
waves in their canals.) Environmentalists
wring their hands over the air pollution
and sewage — a 3,000-passenger ship,
which today would rank as medium-size,
produces 21,000 gallons of sewage a day,
sometimes treated and sometimes not so
much. But always pumped into the sea.
And, as long as we’re complaining, let’s
point out that noise from the ships is messing with the whales. Michael Jasny of the
Natural Resources Defense Council says
cruises en route to Alaska “routinely
drown out the calls of the endangered orcas” trying to communicate. The NRDC
has a new film, “Sonic Sea,” that features
audio of a whale conversation being obliterated by an approaching cruise ship. The
effect is sort of like what you’d experience
if you were having a meaningful chat with
friends on the patio and a trailer-tractor
full of disco dancers suddenly drove into
the back yard.
Thanks to global warming, cruise lines
will soon be able to sail the Northwest Passage, so the Arctic will have both more
melting ice and more 13-deck ships.
Antarctica hosted 30,000 visitors last year.
Doesn’t that seem like a lot for such a fragile place? Also, an opera singer who was
entertaining passengers on one cruise
went ashore to sing “O Sole Mio” and
caused a penguin stampede. This is not really a problem you need to worry about,
but it was a pretty interesting moment.
While many of the biggest cruise lines
appear to be headquartered in Florida,
they are, for tax purposes, actually proud
residents of . . . elsewhere. “Carnival is a
Panamanian corporation; Royal Caribbean is Liberian,” said Ross Klein, who
tracks the industry through his Cruise
Junkie website.
Although, of course, if one of the ships
needs help, it will often be the American
taxpayer-funded Coast Guard that comes
to the rescue. The Coast Guard doesn’t
verse society or promote cross-racial understanding on campus. Colleges can establish panels to study whether and why
those issues are important to fulfilling
their educational goals, as Texas did.
Universities should assess whether
these interests can be accomplished
through race-neutral means. Schools
could analyze what their student bodies
would look like if they stopped considering race and instead pursued other initiatives, like increasing financial aid or focusing on socio-economic status. These analyses will position universities to better understand how race-neutral admissions
practices would affect their student bodies and to determine whether the changes
would be consistent with their mission.
Even if colleges conclude that race-consciousness is necessary at a given time,
they cannot assume that it will always be
so. They should periodically reassess
whether their admissions plans remain legal and effective, and also re-examine every few years whether the conclusions of
previous studies remain valid.
But the most important task for universities in the months and years ahead is one
that we are uniquely well suited to perform: to help society at large — not only
our own campus communities — better
understand the painful and still-unresolved historical context within which the
need for affirmative action exists. This
context includes a public education system that remains nearly as segregated
and unequal today as it was at the time of
Brown more than six decades ago.
Just as universities are capable of seeing whether race-neutral alternatives to
affirmative action are available, they can
also provide a broader understanding for
Thursday’s ruling grounded in law, history and social science. We must shoulder
both of these responsibilities.
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It’s their party,
and they’ll pollute
if they want to.
charge for its services, a spokesman said,
because “we don’t want people to hesitate” to summon help when passengers
are in danger. This attitude is commendable. But the no-taxes part is not.
“Cruise lines do pay taxes,” protested a
spokesman for the industry, counting off a
number of levies for things like customs,
and examination of animals and plants being brought into the country. Not the same
thing.
We’re constantly hearing complaints in
Congress about American companies that
relocate their headquarters overseas for
tax avoidance. But when do you hear anybody mentioning the cruise industry’s
Panamanian connection? The cruise companies may not really live here, but they
certainly can lobby here.
“Powerful is an understatement,” said
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. He’s the sponsor of a bill that would
increase consumer protection for cruise
passengers. The bill, which can’t even get
a committee hearing, would also require
the ships to have up-to-date technology
that detects when passengers fall overboard. Now this would seem like something you’d expect them to have around.
An average of about 20 people fall off
cruise ships every year, which the industry points out is only about one in a million
travelers. But still, I suspect that passengers work under the assumption that if
they do somehow wind up in the water,
someone will notice. This spring, a 33year-old American woman disappeared
during a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. No
one realized she was gone for 10 hours,
and by the time searchers could start looking for her, the area they needed to cover
was more than 4,000 square miles. While
it’s the least thing anyone worries about
when a person is missing at sea, let us
point out once again that it was the taxpayer-funded Coast Guard doing the
searching.
The cruise industry says the overboard
technology hasn’t been perfected. Blumenthal says it’s been well tested. Seems
like the sort of disagreement that would be
easy to resolve with . . . a committee hearing.
Most cruise vacationers seem to enjoy
their experience — the industry says
nearly 90 percent declare themselves satisfied. It’s not our business to get in between anybody and an ocean breeze. Our
requests are modest, really: Make the
cruise ship companies that are, for all
practical purposes, American pay American taxes. Leave the whales alone. Give
that bill a committee hearing. And stop
scaring the penguins.
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POINTS OF DEPARTURE
Companies Ponder: As Britain
Exits E.U., Will They Exit Britain?
By JACK EWING
FRANKFURT — Only hours after Britain decided to leave the European Union, Emmanuel
Lumineau cast his own “remain” vote — with
his feet. Mr. Lumineau said he would move to
Paris from London and take about 10 employees
at his financial start-up with him.
The looming question on Friday was how
many other executives might reach the same
conclusion, undermining Britain’s status as the
No. 1 destination in Europe for foreign investment.
Mr. Lumineau’s reasoning was simple. His
customers operate under European rules and
so must he. “We need to be inside,” said Mr. Lumineau, the French chief executive of BrickVest, a company that allows customers to invest small sums in real estate online.
The long-term business consequences of
Brexit will take years to fully emerge, largely
because no one knows what kind of new trade
barriers and regulations will emerge from negotiations with the European Union. But already there were worrisome signs that the “remain” camp’s warnings of economic tumult
could come true.
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan
Chase, warned his staff in a memo on Friday
that in months to come “we may need to make
changes to our European legal entity structure
and the location of some roles.” Mr. Dimon had
said before the vote that up to a quarter of JPMorgan’s 16,000 employees in Britain might
need to relocate.
Shares of British property companies
plunged Friday on fears that the Brexit vote will
cause a recession and deflate London’s real estate boom.
Jürgen Maier, the top executive in Britain of
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Energy Transfer Wins Ruling
On Escaping Williams Deal
By LESLIE PICKER
A Delaware judge ruled on Friday
that the Dallas pipeline operator Energy Transfer Equity is entitled to
terminate its $38 billion merger with
the Williams Companies, culminating one of the most contentious cases
of buyer’s remorse in recent memory.
The ruling is a victory for Energy
Transfer, which for months has been
seeking to kill the deal. As the energy
markets plummeted late last year,
the cash-and-stock transaction it had
to talk Williams into doing became
nearly untenable.
By March, with just months left to
consummate the transaction, Energy Transfer and its outside counsel
discovered a problem with the
merger — that it may not ultimately
be deemed tax-free, which was a condition for the deal to close.
Williams did not convince the Delaware court that this discovery was
influenced by Energy Transfer’s desire to get out of the deal, according
to the ruling.
“Just as motive alone cannot es-
tablish criminal guilt, however, motive to avoid a deal does not demonstrate lack of a contractual right to do
so,” Sam Glasscock III, the vice chancellor of the Court of Chancery, wrote
in his ruling on Friday.
In a statement on the ruling,
Williams said, “While we appreciate
the court’s consideration of this matter, Williams does not believe E.T.E.
has a right to terminate the merger
agreement because E.T.E. has
breached the merger agreement by
failing to cooperate and use necessary efforts to satisfy the conditions
to closing.”
It added that it would “take appropriate actions” to enforce its rights
under the merger agreement.
While Williams’s options have
dwindled, all is not lost.
Williams has a special meeting on
Monday, at which shareholders were
expected to vote on the deal. Regardless of the outcome of that vote, Energy Transfer is expected to terminate
the merger. After that, Williams will
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Currencies Plummet
The pound and the euro dropped on concerns
that the region’s already fragile economies
could be further undermined by the Brexit.
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By NEIL IRWIN
Things fall apart. And now, “things” includes
the European Union.
British voters delivered a well-aimed kick at
the global elites who prefer a Britain that is
deeply intertwined, economically and diplomatically, with Europe.
So now that they did it, what does
it mean for the British economy and
the rest of the world?
With the caveat that nothing is
really clear in the immediate aftermath of a seismic event like the one that happened Thursday, here’s how to think about the
economic forces that have been unleashed and
how we can expect them to play out in the
weeks and months and years ahead.
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If you run a British company that exports a
lot to Europe, or manage a European bank
with thousands of employees in London, nothing much changed with the results Thursday.
Britain is a member of the European Union
today, and will be one tomorrow. Your products
can still be shipped to Düsseldorf without any
hint of a tariff. Your employees can work legally whether their passport is from Sweden or
Spain.
The immediate effects of “Brexit” will flow
almost entirely through financial markets.
Markets may be flawed, but they really do
amount to a real-time verdict by millions of
people with vast sums of money at stake on
what something will be worth over the indefinite future. Economic shifts happen slowly;
financial shifts happen overnight (literally, in
this case).
The truth is that the stock market declines
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left, Scotch whiskey
could face customs
duties; Siemens is
rethinking investment in Britain; a
weaker pound could
help tourism; and
energy companies
are wary of a welter
of regulations.
Some Hard-Won Insights
From Family Money Letters
When Joe Olivier asked what his
niece wanted as a high school graduation present this year, she asked for
a couple of thousand dollars in gift
cards. She got a letter instead.
In that was a to-do list
from her doting uncle: Read
two books about personal
finance that he had sent her,
and write a one-page report
YOUR
MONEY on each. Then, take an
online accounting course
and pass its test. Once those tasks
were done, only then would he open
a checking account in her name and
deposit some money.
Last week, I wrote about the value
of preparing and passing along the
money letter, in which a parent or
other relative lays out some hardwon financial wisdom. I also asked
readers to send in ones they’d written or read.
I found the submissions insightful,
hilarious and touching. The letters
that arrived contained several illuminating one-liners about money’s
relationship to everything from sex
RON
LIEBER
to gambling that you may find useful
as you try to impart insight to your
own loved ones.
But like Mr. Olivier, other letter
writers also asked something of their
recipients: To recognize and own the
strong feelings we all have about
money. To be patient, careful, fair
and generous. To want more but not
be greedy. To revel in doing things
and care less about having things.
Feel free to borrow liberally from
the following writers when it comes
time to write your own letter:
EMOTIONS Mr. Olivier turned to a
letter because he worried that a big
money talk would go in one ear and
out the other. “The problem is that
kids these days, you sit them down
and start being a raconteur, and
their eyes glaze over because their
attention spans are that of a gnat,”
he said.
Mr. Olivier, 55, acknowledged that
he did get serious rather quickly
when writing to his niece, who will
attend the University of Louisiana at
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Left, a broker at the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi on Friday. Right, a South Korean dealer at the KEB Hana Bank in Seoul. Both markets tumbled upon learning of the Brexit vote results.
Investors Worldwide Are Gripped by a Panic Last Seen in 2008
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Investors poured money into government bonds, seeking refuge.
“As of now, this doesn’t look like
an end-of-the-world event,” said
Ian Shepherdson, chief economist
at Pantheon Macroeconomics, an
independent research organization. “It looks bad, but it’s not a
cataclysmic game-changer similar to Lehman.” Then he paused.
“Yet.”
In the best case, the plunge in
markets represents an abrupt adjustment to the changing geography of global commerce. Britain
has been diminished as a place for
banking and business, and so the
pound has lost some luster.
In the worst case, investors
have begun a fearful march away
from risk, potentially starving
emerging markets and stripping
European countries of needed
capital. It could last as long as the
uncertainties dogging Europe —
perhaps years.
If recent traumas have clarified
anything, it is the tendency for
trouble to emerge unexpectedly.
The global financial system is so
intertwined that links can remain
opaque.
One key factor undergirds confidence that the so-called Brexit
will not deliver Lehman-like troubles. In 2008, central banks on
both sides of the Atlantic failed to
recognize the mounting disaster.
They failed to prepare adequate
relief. While people may argue
over the degree to which regulators have tamed the speculative
excesses of finance, few dispute
that improvements have been delivered.
“The financial systems in the
U.S. and Europe, including the
U.K., are far more capitalized and
less leveraged than they were in
2008,” said Adam S. Posen, a former member of the rate-setting
committee at the Bank of England
and now president of the Peterson
Institute for International Economics in Washington. “The proclivity to panic in ways that create
financial instability are much
more limited.”
The Bank of England and the
European Central Bank have tools
they can wield to defuse threats to
banks. They can simply print
money and lend it out as needed.
Less than an hour after markets
opened in London on Friday,
Britain’s central bank governor,
Mark J. Carney, stood before television cameras and struck a resolute pose as he promised to do
A complicated divorce
full of challenges for
the global economy.
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Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Friday.
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what it took to stabilize markets.
He announced that he was prepared to unleash another £250 billion (about $370 billion) in pursuit
of financial tranquillity.
“We expect institutions to draw
on this funding if and when appropriate,” Mr. Carney said. “The
bank will assess economic condi-
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tions and will consider any additional policy responses.”
Those words appeared to assuage fears, as the pound and
stock prices both pared their
losses.
In recent years, the Federal Reserve in the United States, the
Bank of England and the Euro-
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Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union.
pean Central Bank have subjected
financial institutions to so-called
stress tests. They regularly scrutinize banks’ portfolios and the
money they hold in reserve to
make sure they can hold up in various outbreaks of trouble.
These tests have been welcomed by economists as a helpful
addition to the warning system.
Just this week, major American
banks all gained passing grades.
Yet, these are academic exercises.
“This is the real stress test,”
said Simon Johnson, a former
chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of
Management.
The immediate run on stocks
and currencies might yet grow
into something worse, shaking
consumer
confidence
and
prompting households to limit
their spending. As businesses lose
profit opportunities, they are
likely to put off investing and hiring.
If that happens, it could create a
spiral ending in recession, both in
Britain and across Europe, adding
to pressure on banks. The markets seemed to be warning of this
possibility as they savaged the
value of banking stocks on Friday.
The triumph of the Brexit campaign has also invigorated separatist inclinations elsewhere, in
Scotland, the Netherlands and beyond.
The greater the odds that the
European Union will splinter, the
more investors are likely to demand extra payouts for fresh
loans to debt-saturated countries
like Greece, Italy and Portugal.
That could squeeze businesses
there, making it harder for them
to borrow, further crimping their
economies.
“That could then spread to the
banks and go global, and that
could smell like a Lehman,” said
Markus Schomer, chief economist
for PineBridge Investments, a
global asset management firm.
He put very low odds on this “referendum contagion” case.
If history is a guide, hedge
funds, private equity and other
realms of finance will also suffer.
There, aggressive players borrow
enormous sums of money to place
outsize bets. Crises have previously revealed those taking on
outsize risk. Long Term Capital
Management, which borrowed
heavily, appeared robust before
losses in the Asian financial crisis
of the late 1990s brought it to the
verge of a collapse that
threatened the broader financial
system and required a private
bailout.
As the prominent investor Warren E. Buffett once put it, “Only
when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
Those who had been paying attention to the American housing
crisis were hardly surprised when
Lehman’s afflictions burst into
public view. Lenders had been
writing mortgages to seemingly
anyone in possession of a signature. Lehman had been repackaging these loans and selling
them for vast profits.
The surprise was that Lehman
actually went bankrupt, exposing
its trading partners to losses. By
contrast, polls had suggested that
Britain might really walk. This is a
source of hope, given that central
banks,
governments
and
investors had more time to prepare.
“Lehman came out of the blue,”
said John Van Reenen, director of
the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. “This is like a train wreck
where you can see the trains coming together for a long distance
and you’re hoping the trains will
swerve away.”
But any comfort in that is
sapped by the fact that Britain,
one of the oldest democracies on
earth, put itself in this spot
through an exercise of free will.
Now, the world waits to see how
far the pain spreads.
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The assembly line at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen, Germany. German brands like Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen account for half the cars sold in Britain.
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From First Business Page
ing giant, said it might need to rethink its investment plans. He predicted others would do the same,
at least until they can judge the
impact of Brexit.
“All companies will be holding
fire to see what happens,” said Mr.
Maier, Siemens’s chief executive
for Britain.
For decades, big multinational
companies have used Britain as
their business-friendly, Englishspeaking beachhead to Europe.
As a member of the European Union, Britain offered frictionless access to the mainland, while the
legacy of Margaret Thatcher
meant there was far less regulation than in France or Germany.
Now that the English Channel
suddenly seems a lot wider, businesses are waiting nervously to
see what kind of new Europe will
take shape. Negotiations on a
post-Brexit trade relationship are
likely to be messy and take years.
And in the meantime, Europe
could be in for serious political instability as right-wing parties in
France, Finland and other countries try to ride Britain’s coattails
out of the union.
It is not all bad for business. The
plunging pound will help the tourism industry by making Britain
cheaper to visit. BMW Mini automobiles and other products manufactured in Britain will be less expensive for people paying in euros
and other foreign currencies. That
could be good for exports.
Britain could also be free to follow its free market instincts without interference from Brussels. If
the “leave” forces are correct, that
would make the country a magnet
for companies seeking to escape
the regulatory corset of mainland
Europe.
But any advantages are likely to
be outweighed by the enormous
uncertainties ahead. With no road
map, executive decision-making
could be paralyzed and investment could come to a standstill.
Britain’s financial services industry, which employs 1.2 million
people, is especially vulnerable.
New stock listings in London are
likely to all but cease while companies take stock of the damage.
Foreign banks may face the
costs of moving thousands of
employees out of London to the
Continent so they can satisfy regulations governing trading and investment advice on behalf of European clients. London had provided a convenient hub to serve
Europe.
James P. Gorman, the Morgan
Stanley chief executive, and Colm
Kelleher, the president, said Friday that they had no plans to relocate staff from London. But in a
memo to employees — many of
whom worked through the night
to handle a huge trading volume
— they said they might “consider
adjustments to our operating
model.”
Even Deutsche Bank, the symbol of German banking nominally
based in Frankfurt, uses London
as a base for investment banking
and trading. It has often made
most of its profit there.
“I’m afraid that this is not such a
good day for Europe,” said John
Cryan, the Deutsche Bank chief,
who happens to be British. “At this
stage, we cannot fully foresee the
consequences, but there’s no
doubt that they will be negative on
all sides.”
Perhaps no company embodies
the European project more than
Airbus, a politically driven consortium that allowed Europe to remain a player in the aircraft indus-
try after smaller national
manufacturers could no longer
compete. Airbus produces wings
in Broughton and employs 15,000
people in Britain plus tens of thousands more at suppliers.
Outside the union, Britain may
no longer have as strong a claim
on those jobs. “This is a lose-lose
result for both Britain and Europe,” said Thomas Enders, the
Airbus chief executive. “We will
review our U.K. investment strategy, like everybody else will.”
Other sectors as different as
petrochemicals and Scottish
whisky could be damaged by increases in customs duties, diverg-
Concern for Britain’s
status as Europe’s
top location for
foreign investment.
ing legal requirements and slumping growth. Energy companies
like BP or Royal Dutch Shell are
worried about having to deal with
an unwieldy snarl of differing regulations once the European Union
umbrella is gone. “Uncertainty is
never helpful for a business such
as ours,” BP said in a statement
Friday.
United States technology companies like Google and Facebook
have sizable operations in Britain,
though their headquarters are
technically in low-tax countries
like Ireland and the Netherlands.
Google employs roughly 1,000 engineers across Britain, working
on global products like its search
engine and Android mobile oper-
ating system. Technology companies could be under pressure to
move sales and marketing jobs
from Britain, so these employees
can still have access to Europe’s
common marketplace.
The ties are especially close between Britain and Germany,
where the dismay was particularly pronounced. Britain imports
more products from Germany
than anywhere else. Britain is
Germany’s
third-largest
customer for exports, after the
United States and France.
German brands like BMW,
Mercedes and Volkswagen account for half the cars sold in Britain, according to the German Association of the Automobile Industry. Sales could suffer if Britain
raises tariffs on imported vehicles. Shares of BMW, Daimler and
Volkswagen plunged Friday.
German
companies
have
helped keep alive manufacturing
in Britain. Mini and Rolls-Royce
are considered iconic British car
brands, but both are owned by
BMW. Bentley belongs to Volkswagen.
Probably the most important
company in the renaissance of
British car manufacturing has
been Nissan, which has pumped
close to 4 billion pounds since the
mid-1980s into a world-class factory in Sunderland in northeast
England. Last year the company
produced about 475,000 vehicles,
about a third of Britain’s total, exporting about 55 percent of them
to the European Union.
Yet despite the European
Union’s importance to local jobs,
voters in Sunderland voted overwhelmingly to leave. The Brexit
camp won 61 percent of the vote
compared with 39 percent for remain. Stuart Boyd, a Nissan
spokesman, said on Friday that
the company was not ready to
comment on how it might respond.
Perhaps workers believed that
Nissan sales would increase because of a weaker pound. But any
stimulus to British exports from a
devalued currency is likely to be
offset by higher prices for imported goods. Britain has a trade
deficit, so a weaker pound is on
balance negative.
Another huge foreign manufacturer is Siemens, based in Munich,
which has 13 factories and 14,000
workers in Britain making products like electric motors, gas turbines and trains. Siemens is not
about to pull up stakes. But Mr.
Maier, the Siemens chief for Britain, said the Brexit vote could
force the company to recalculate
some investment decisions.
For example, European Union
grants help finance Siemens research and development projects
in Britain in areas like self-driving
cars. That financial support will
disappear once Britain is out.
“The question is more about future investment, future research
and development,” Mr. Maier said.
“That’s hanging in the balance.”
He embodies the strong ties between Britain and the mainland.
Born in Germany, Mr. Maier has
lived in Britain since he was 10,
studied there, and speaks with a
British accent. He said that there
was a palpable sense of anxiety
Friday morning when he visited a
company office in Manchester
that is used by engineers and
customer
service
representatives.
“It’s usually a really buzzing office,” Mr. Maier said. “This morning it was definitely quiet.
Customers weren’t calling. That’s
not a good sign. The country is just
taking all of this in.”
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that took place worldwide Friday
are nothing to be too concerned
about. The British stock market,
as measured by the FTSE 100
index, was down 3.2 percent
Friday in Britain, above its levels
of mid-June. That suggests that
investors do not envision the
Brexit hit to hammer corporate
profits in the near future.
But what is happening in the
bond and currency markets
suggests bigger problems. The
7.6 percent drop in the British
pound against the dollar is indeed a seismic move — major
currency pairs just don’t do that.
Since 2012, the average daily
move in the pound-dollar exchange rate is 0.35 percent. This
move is 21 times that.
Combined with a rally in
British government bonds (and
consequently lower interest
rates), the currency shift will
mean a burst of inflation for
British consumers as imported
goods become sharply more
expensive. It will also make the
nation’s export industries more
competitive (for now, at least).
In the Medium Run. . .
As the months pass, the economic consequences of Brexit
become less about financial
market disruptions and more
about real economic activity.
Within Britain, a pall of uncer-
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tainty is likely to be cast over
every business’s decisions on
whether to hire people or make
capital investments — and that’s
true of both British-owned businesses and the many affiliates of
global companies in Britain.
If you’re an American company that has its European headquarters in London, do you keep
calm and carry on? Or do you
start checking out real estate in
Frankfurt or Dublin or some
other place where the relationship with the E.U. is more settled? If you run a British company thinking of building a new
factory, do you start to entertain
the same question?
Even if the ultimate answer for
these companies is “remain,” it is
easy to see how the desire to
wait for clarity could hold back
economic activity for many
months to come — and perhaps
beyond British borders.
And the decision comes at an
uncomfortable time. The world’s
central banks, normally the first
responders in times of economic
distress, are poorly positioned to
help. Those banks have signaled
that they are ready to act. State-
ments were promptly dispatched
Friday morning from the Bank of
England, the European Central
Bank and the Federal Reserve.
Futures markets priced in a 50
percent chance of a Fed interest
rate increase on Thursday, but
that fell to 14 percent Friday,
along with a 12 percent chance of
an interest rate cut this year.
But both the Fed and the
E.C.B. are already tilted toward
cheap money — indeed, the
E.C.B. already has negative
interest rates. And the Bank of
England faces an extraordinarily
knotty situation. It simultaneously must plan for a
possible recession caused by
Brexit uncertainty and for higher
inflation because of the drop in
the currency and outflow of
capital. It can fight one problem,
but not both at once.
So a decline in business confidence and a rise in uncertainty,
paired with limited responses by
central banks, makes a recession
a major risk in Britain and something of a risk in the rest of Europe and the United States.
In the Long Run . . .
Things like business confidence, market swings and central bank responses shape the
economy in the short and medium run, but over time bigger
forces prevail.
And this is where there is the
most uncertainty of all. What will
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Central bankers, like Europe’s Mario Draghi, say they are ready
to help, but it remains to be seen what they will be able to do.
a post-E.U. Britain look like?
The exact process by which
the nation will remove itself from
the union is murky; it will presumably invoke Article 50 of the
Lisbon Treaty, which is a mere
261 words. It isn’t exactly a detailed road map for extricating a
country from a complex set of
interconnections affecting every
facet of economic life. It will take
years of arduous negotiations.
One possibility — the benign
option, if you want Britain to
remain well integrated with
Europe — is to model itself on
Norway or perhaps Switzerland,
two countries that are not part of
the E.U. but maintain free trade
within the bloc.
The only problem with that:
The price of maintaining free
access to the rest of the European marketplace for those
countries is allowing free migration from E.U. member states
and accepting E.U. regulations
on businesses. To the degree that
pro-Brexit sentiment was driven
by British opposition to immigration and regulation, this solution
wouldn’t really solve anything.
Britain will get through the
immediate financial turbulence
and a possible recession just fine.
The question for its future is
which of two options British
leaders now choose. They can
maintain the status quo and
remain a major international
business center (while ignoring
the impulse that led voters to
choose “leave” in the first place).
Or they can become a smaller,
more isolated island that is a less
important cog in the global economy — but at least one that
honors its voters’ wishes.
Anyone trying to explain
Britain’s decision to exit the European Union must consider the
country’s economy, its citizens’ attitudes toward immigration, its
generational divides and the coverage of the debate in the news
media.
But there is another force to
consider, too: the role of the
world’s most influential social media platforms — Facebook, in particular. More than 33 million people in Britain use Facebook each
month, according to estimates by
eMarketer, a research company.
A few data points about the vast
online conversation before the
vote suggest that the people supporting the “leave” campaign
were far more engaged on the issue than their opponents on social
media.
Using data pulled from CrowdTangle, a social media analytics
firm that has a partnership with
Facebook, The New York Times
ranked Facebook pages that had
the most engagement — how
many people liked, shared and
commented on posts — around
the term “European Union” over
the last 30 days.
Seven of the top 20 pages with
the most engagement around
“European Union,” including the
top two, were explicitly pro-exit.
Together, these seven pages
produced more than 1.3 million interactions — including the page
for Nigel Farage, a leading proponent of the “leave” campaign, at
No. 6.
Only two pages — those of the
group Britain Stronger in Europe,
No. 8, and the British Prime Minister David Cameron, No. 18 —
were clearly associated with “remain” campaigns, and together,
they accounted for just under
150,000 interactions.
A search for “Brexit,” the widely
used shorthand for the vote,
produced a similar ranking. Other
top pages included British and
American news organizations
that had broad news coverage, as
well as pro-leave and pro-remain
opinion columns.
An analysis of two opposing
campaign pages underscores the
wide gap in reader activity. By Friday, a primary page for the “remain” campaign, Britain Stronger
in Europe, had passed 558,000 followers. Its close counterpart —
Leave. EU — led in followers, at
just over 767,000. But the pages’
total engagement figures, which
approximate total conversations
around all their posts, were far
more disparate.
Over the last six months, posts
on “remain” pages resulted in
more than 3.3 million interactions
— that is likes, shares and comments — averaging about 475,000
a month. The “leave” page
produced more than 11 million, or
about three times as many.
Between these groups, the official “leave” message, in other
words, landed harder and most
likely spread further on Facebook
by a large margin.
This month, Vyacheslav Polonski, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, published a study
of Brexit campaigns’ activity on
Instagram. Mr. Polonski analyzed
the activities of over 15,000 users
who engaged in the referendum
debate.
“We’ve noted that E.U. skeptics
and Brexit supporters dominate
the debate and are more effective
in their use of Instagram for activating and mobilizing people
across the country,” he wrote.
“They also tend to be more passionate, active and outspoken in
their
online
behavior,”
he
continued, noting that they generated “almost five times” as many
posts as their opponents.
As for Twitter, the analytics firm
Talkwalker noted a substantial
lead in leave-related hashtags
over remain-related hashtags in
May, suggesting there was more
discussion on the “leave” side. In
the last few weeks, though, the
sides’ hashtags were nearly even,
and in the final days before the
vote, Twitter’s hashtags tilted toward “remain.”
Social media, by nature, is both
a catalyst and a place for conversation. As such, the apparent
dominance of pro-leave posts on
Facebook and Instagram is neither a pure reflection of popular
will nor a product of the services,
but more likely something in between.
A full picture of voter sentiment
on social media is visible only to
the social media companies themselves. And the rate at which sharing and engaging on a social media platform translates into action
is difficult to quantify.
Leave. EU left little up to
chance. “SHARE IF YOU CARE,”
it wrote in a post published two
hours before the polls closed
across Britain. “Make sure you
vote NOW before it’s too late,”
read a post an hour later.
B4
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PERSONAL BUSINESS
RETIRING
Nonprofit Work Lets Retirees Pursue Passions and Pay
By CHRISTOPHER FARRELL
A
RCHIE ELAM is on his
third career transition.
Now 61 and living in
Stamford, Conn., Mr.
Elam is a 1976 graduate of West
Point. His two-decade Army
career included acting as head of
operations for the 18th Airborne
Corps 24th Infantry Division in
the first war against Iraq.
The Army sent him to get an
M.B.A. at Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business, a
degree that started his private
sector career in 1996. He was a
manager at General Electric,
United Technologies, Accenture
and elsewhere, mostly focused
on Six Sigma, a collaborative
program for improving company
performance by cutting out
waste, and running customer
relations management systems
and overseeing other large-scale
operations.
His next act? Working at a
nonprofit organization. Mr. Elam
recently graduated from Encore!Hartford, a four-month training
program for corporate professionals over age 50 looking for a
career in the nonprofit sector,
public agencies and government.
“The stuff you volunteer for,
you care about, you do for free,
and then one day you realize you
can get paid to do something you
care about,” he said. “How cool is
that!”
Baby boomers closing in on
the traditional retirement years
often seek purpose and a paycheck in a second career, also
known as an encore experience,
next chapter or unretirement.
Whatever the term, nonprofit
work — focused on addressing
society’s pressing needs and
promoting arts and culture —
has a particular allure for many
in this group.
“People want to give back;
they want that social impact in
the next phase of their life,” said
Kate Schaefers, a career and
leadership coach in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. “They also
turn the three-legged retirement
stool — Social Security, personal
savings and retirement savings
— into a four-legged stool by
adding paid work.”
The timing is auspicious. The
nonprofit sector has been vibrant
in recent years. From 2007 to
2012, nonprofit employment
increased every year, from 10.5
million jobs to 11.4 million jobs,
for a gain of about 8.5 percent,
according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. By contrast, total
private sector employment
dropped by 3 percent in that
period.
LISA WILTSE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
After successful careers in the Army and in corporate management, Archie Elam has decided to work in the nonprofit sector.
This year, 57 percent of nonprofit groups surveyed said they
expected to create new positions,
an increase of 7 percentage
points from last year, according
to the 2016 Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey by Nonprofit HR, a the human resources
firm. By comparison, the firm
notes that only 36 percent of
private companies surveyed said
they intended to increase staff
size, the same percentage as in
2015.
Catherine Foley, 62, is among
those who have shifted from the
corporate world to the nonprofit
sector. She worked for 25 years
at Salt River Project in Arizona,
among the nation’s largest public
utilities. For 17 of those years she
was manager of corporate affairs
with responsibility for advertising communications, philanthropy and community outreach.
In 2008, Ms. Foley, known as
Rusty, took advantage of an early
retirement opportunity. In the
middle of the worst recession in
decades, the timing was “scary,”
she said. But she knew that
“there were other things I
wanted to do with my life.”
For the next two years, she sat
on a number of community
boards, including that of the
Arizona Citizens for the Arts. In
2010 she became its interim
executive director, and a year
later she took on the job permanently, overseeing its two
employees, many volunteers and
For older workers, a
chance to earn
money and find
meaning.
$350,000 budget.
“It’s an opportunity to use the
professional skills I had accumulated over the years for something I had a personal passion
for,” she said. “It’s energizing.”
The transition for experienced
baby boomers from corporate
America to nonprofit America is
probably easier than ever. The
management guru Peter F.
Drucker wrote in The Harvard
Business Review in 1989 that
“management was a dirty word
for those involved in nonprofit
organizations.” The word suggested a hardhearted focus on
the bottom line instead of pursuing a social mission.
Mr. Drucker noted, however,
that nonprofit boards and donors
had come to realize that good
management was critical to
fulfilling their mission. “The
nonprofits are, of course, still
dedicated to ‘doing good,’” he
argued. “But they also realize
that good intentions are no substitute for organization and leadership, for accountability, performance and results.”
The gap has narrowed considerably further since the Drucker
article 27 years ago. On the corporate side, many businesses
explicitly embrace social responsibility as an important goal,
while others embrace ventures
that seek to blend purpose and
profit. At the same time, nonprofit organizations have moved
from society’s tributaries into the
mainstream.
“There is a greater flow of
ideas between the two sectors,”
said Thomas J. Tierney, cofounder of the Bridgespan
Group, which has headquarters
in Boston and helps nonprofit
organizations and foundations
increase their social impact.
“There is a greater flow of talent
between the sectors.”
That said, the transition remains personally challenging.
Fund-raising, writing grants and
dealing with donors are unfamiliar tasks to those who forged
their careers in profit-making
companies. Those who worked
for big corporations are used to
much more support. Ms. Foley,
only half-jokingly, said that what
she really missed was an information technology department.
And the pay is almost always
lower, with more modest benefit
packages.
“If it isn’t a mission personal to
you, you will not get through the
tough times,” said Nora Hannah,
executive director of Experience
Matters in Phoenix, an organization that works with private
sector workers who want to shift
into community-based nonprofit
groups.
The transition from a corporate environment to a nonprofit
is largely a Do-It-Yourself effort.
But programs like Encore!Hartford, Experience Matters, Social
Venture Partners and Encore
Fellowships offer valuable educational and matchmaking services
for those seeking a second-act
career.
“I can’t tell you how many
times we have been approached
by people in the for-profit sector
wanting to make the transition to
nonprofits and they struggled
with it,” said Marc Freedman,
founder and chief executive of
Encore.org, which is based in
San Francisco and promotes
second careers for social good.
“There needs to be something
more like a Match.com.”
The techniques that work well
in any job search apply here.
Think about your passions. Understand the underlying skills
accumulated over a lifetime of
work rather than job titles. Network, network and network.
That is what Catherine
Bergstrom, 56, a former first
selectman in Burlington, Conn.,
did. She completed the Encore!Hartford program in 2013. The
program encourages its students
to set up informational interviews with nonprofit organizations, and she said she found
them invaluable for figuring out
what she wanted to do next. “I
would call people up and everyone said, ‘yes,’” she said. “I
would talk to the executive directors.”
She ended up becoming director of community engagement
for Jewish Family Services in
Hartford, one of the organizations where she had an informational interview.
The nonprofit job seeker has
an additional option for learning
about a particular organization:
volunteering. The sector is incredibly diverse and complicated, ranging from small grassroots groups mostly dependent
on the passions of a handful of
volunteers and donors to professional multimillion- and multibillion-dollar social service organizations. The advantage of
volunteering is that it is like
dating, a way of figuring out
whether an organization is a
good match without making a
long-term commitment.
Here is a safe bet: The baby
boomers making the transition
from business into nonprofit
careers are carving a work path
that will become ever easier for
those behind them to follow.
Some Hard-Won Insights From Family Money Letters
Lafayette. “Money and finances
typically are wrapped up in a lot
of emotions for everyone, and
your views on these subjects
have been shaped since you were
born,” he wrote.
Why start there? Because one
of the most common conflicts
around money in families is
scarcity. “Typically there is never
enough,” he said in an interview
this week. “The kids key in on
that.”
And they do so long before
they have much technical knowledge of how to manage money
responsibly. Schooled in feelings
before finance, is it any wonder
they sometimes make emotional
decisions about how much to
borrow for college or what to
spend once they get there and
get out?
Mr. Olivier suggested that
wizened grown-ups need to make
the whole subject much more
bloodless, long before writing
any letters. “Try to be upfront
with your kids about budgets and
the financial situation in the
family,” he said.
SEX When his two sons left home
for college, George Bohmfalk
gave each of them a letter with
some words of advice. Among
them, were these: “Along with
sex, money seems to get more
people into trouble than everything else combined,” he wrote.
“And both are great when handled properly.”
So what links these two powerful forces, exactly? “Maybe
because, like having sex, money
represents success to a whole lot
of people,” Mr. Bohmfalk, who is
now 68, said in an interview.
“And money has become a medium of measuring one’s worth,
like sex appeal.”
Roughly two decades later,
both of his sons have had no
problems that he knows of with
sex or money, and they never
had to move back home.
Mr. Bohmfalk also mentioned
some related words to live by
that a physician friend passed on
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CHRISTOPHER LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Berman family, above. Greg Berman wrote to his daughters about risk but urged them to be
ambitious. At right, George Bohmfalk, with his son Christian, wrote warnings on money and sex.
to him many years ago: One
spouse, one house. “So many of
our friends had a beach house or
a lake house or an airplane and a
divorce or two,” he said. “Suddenly, they were having to work
until they dropped.”
Mr. Bohmfalk, a former neurosurgeon who lives in Charlotte,
N.C., retired from the practice of
medicine on his 50th birthday.
RISK One other thing that sex
and money have in common is
that both tend to involve a certain amount of risk. Not that
there is anything wrong with
careful, considered financial bets.
In most instances, in fact, risk is
necessary.
“Investing always involves
risk,” Greg Berman of Brooklyn
wrote a few years ago to his two
daughters, now 17 and 13. “It is
basically a form of gambling. But
it is also the only means of accumulating wealth other than by
the sweat of your own labor.”
His family has successfully
taken on real estate risk over the
years, whether it was his relatives who were developers outside of Washington or the bet he
and his wife made on a Manhattan apartment and then a Brooklyn house.
They’ve also bet on stocks. But
they prefer the index funds that
feel less like a spin of a roulette
wheel than individual stocks do.
Hannah Berman, Mr. Berman’s
elder daughter, says he’s fond of
telling a story about buying stock
in Marvel, the comics company,
as a young man. “He immediately lost everything,” she said.
ENVY (AND GENDER) Envy is a
problem, and Mr. Berman, who is
49 and runs a nonprofit, is clear
on that in his letter. But he doesn’t default to the presumption
that so many parents of
teenagers do: That wanting
things is itself somehow bad. “It
is O.K. to want more,” he wrote.
“Indeed, this impulse can be a
spur to action and invention and
success.”
Why put it that way? In an
interview, he talked about all of
the books and movies his daughters take in that make the case
that money doesn’t matter.
Money is the root of all evil!
Marry for love! Chase your
dreams!
But then much of the rest of
the culture sends the exact opposite message. “I was trying to
find the sweet spot that acknowledges the wisdom of both of
those perspectives,” he said.
On a related note, his letter
mentions his experience witnessing men aggressively negotiating
raises over the years when women often did not. “It is O.K. to ask
for a raise,” he wrote. “It is also
O.K. to bargain over the price of
many products.”
Wanting a bit more prestige or
a bigger office has been a positive in many situations he had
witnessed. “We want our kids to
be ambitious and do stuff,” he
told me.
LOGAN R. CYRUS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ADVENTURES Early in her career,
Robin Hubbard, 59, made more
money per month than her father
ever had. She’s worked at a
Fortune 500 company. But a
series of health setbacks and the
death of her husband have led to
her living on — and with — much
less.
When she saw last week’s
column, she wrote the following
to her 19-year-old daughter: “I
encourage you to be a collector
of adventures and making other
people smile. I have found after
the hardship of health problems,
I do not want anything but the
next great conversation or interesting experience.”
She turned to the letter format
for a couple of reasons. When
she was younger, no one talked
to her much about money or
wrote anything down, so she
wanted to do better as a mother.
Plus, the personal budgeting
talks with her daughter, who
lives with her in Bethalto, Ill.,
have not quite hit home yet.
A written letter, however, has a
chance of lasting. That is something that she values after her
health scares over the years.
“I will probably frame it, because I want her to know that it
is a keepsake,” she said. “And I’m
probably not going to be there
when she has kids of her own.”
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B5
PERSONAL BUSINESS
WEALTH MATTERS
Investing in an Emotional Trust Fund for Your Children
P
By PAUL SULLIVAN
ARENTS think a lot about
what their money might
one day do for their children. Will it give them
options in life to accomplish
something meaningful, or rob
them of ambition? Or will a lack
of family money leave them at a
disadvantage?
Of course, there are a lot of
other outcomes. But fear about
the bad things that money can do
to children sends some well-to-do
parents to lawyers and advisers
to create trust documents with
rules stating what children need
to do to obtain the money. Even
parents of modest means are
encouraged to own life insurance
policies in trusts to inhibit their
children from getting all the cash
at once should the parents die.
These are necessary in certain
cases. But long before children
are aware of what they might
inherit, there are more foundational conversations that parents
should have. What if parents
thought about the capital — yes,
financial, but also emotional and
intellectual — that they were
spending on their young children
as assets in an “emotional trust
fund” with trustee duties inherent in it?
That’s the concept being advanced by Jacalyn S. Burke, a
former nanny, a commentator on
parenthood issues, and the author of “The Nanny Time Bomb:
Navigating the Crisis in Child
Care” (Praeger, 2015). She argues
that thinking in financial terms
when it comes to parental
choices could make a difference
in shaping children who grow up
to live meaningful lives — regardless of whether any money
comes to them.
The essential components of
an emotional trust fund are analogous to those of a conventional
one — cash, stocks, bonds and
property as the holdings, with
trustees directing the investments in each, with an eye toward the recipient’s best interest.
How investments in those assets
are divided up, though, is what
matters.
“That same structure we use
for our financial lives could be
applied to how we raise our
children,” Ms. Burke said. “The
different components could relate to a child’s life. A nanny
comes in as a massive part of
that portfolio, particularly if they
work with them 9 to 5 and sometimes longer.”
Nannies and child care workers more broadly are the stocks
in the emotional trust fund. Their
influence on children is a bet on
the future, and just like stocks,
no one makes a selection thinking it will underperform.
Like stocks, some nannies do
well from the start. Others pay
dividends over time. And then
there are the ones that seem like
high-flyers but prove to be disappointments.
Ms. Burke said this is where
ANDRE D. WAGNER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jacalyn S. Burke, an author, says nannies and other child care workers are the stocks in an emotional trust fund, just as equities are in a financial portfolio.
her thinking started, largely
because she found parents not
putting enough time into selecting someone — or enough money
into paying such a crucial person
in their children’s development.
Cutting corners and hiring a
disengaged nanny early on, she
said, could hurt a child’s ability to
form relationships over the long
run.
To choose well, she said, parents need to do their due diligence. “For someone who you’re
employing for the majority of the
time when you’re out of the
home, you should go back and
see how that stock has performed in the past,” she said.
“Did it perform well for six
months or for 10 years? A reliable performer is someone with
various credentials who shows
up each week — that’s a solid
stock that’s not going to wobble.”
Karen Kaufman, a clinical
psychologist in Manhattan, who
also wrote the preface to Ms.
Burke’s book, said distracted
nannies can inflict lasting damage on children. (The same goes
for parents.)
“Just about every nanny I see
is on the phone,” Dr. Kaufman
said. “They’re distracted. It’s all
these little tiny disruptions that
make kids question if they’re
enough.”
Separating good from bad
nannies is as difficult as trying to
select a stock. Ms. Burke recommends detailed background
checks but also visiting the
nanny at home or where she was
last working, to gauge her interaction with that family. This also
serves to make sure the nanny is
telling the truth.
“I was routinely asked by
other nannies to pretend I was a
parent and be a reference,” she
said.
For people who have consistently chosen nannies who didn’t
work out, Ms. Burke suggested
finding a consultant to work with
the family on finding the right fit,
much as one would go to an
adviser to help with selecting
securities.
And as with stocks, trustees
need to be dutiful managers — in
terms of nannies’ work but also
their happiness in their jobs.
“When nannies got together and
complained, you’d think the No. 1
complaint would be the awful
wages they got paid,” Ms. Burke
said. “It wasn’t. It was the lack of
respect.”
Of course, it may take time
before parents can judge how
well their child care money was
spent — or they may have an
anchoring bias that keeps them
with a mediocre nanny for fear
that others will be worse. Enrichment activities are different.
They’re the bonds in the portfolio.
Just as analysts following the
declining prices of municipal
bonds knew Detroit and Puerto
Rico were headed into trouble
long before a crisis hit, parents
can measure their children’s
responses to enrichment fairly
quickly. Ms. Burke said she is not
focused on the number or kind of
activities for a child, but on how
those activities are inspiring or
hurting a child.
“There is so much value in
doing something outside their
school curriculum,” she said.
“There’s a consummate value in
enriching your children but not
overextending them.”
Community, broadly defined, is
the property component of the
emotional trust fund. “A cloistered sense of the world does not
do them well,” Ms. Burke said.
“At the weekends, walk the dog
around the neighborhood, have
pancakes, play ball in your
neighborhood, get involved in
your church or synagogue. It
gives your kid a great grounding
in life.”
How parents spend time with
their children is the cash in the
emotional trust fund. It can be
spent wisely to maximum benefits or it can be squandered on
things that don’t matter or could
do harm.
In some ways, spending that
cash carelessly dovetails with too
much enrichment — activities
scheduled throughout the weekend keep families apart. Instead,
Ms. Burke calls for parents to
spend their emotional cash on
experiences — sitting, playing,
baking, talking — and not on
more things.
“Cash is switching your phone
off and doing things with your
children,” she said. “What I hear
from children is they just want
down time with their parents. I
can’t tell you how many extremely wealthy children say ‘I
just want to play ball with Dad.’ ”
Like any trust fund, an emotional one needs a balance between what the trustees — the
parents — are doing and how
those actions are received by
children — the beneficiaries.
“The nannies can provide a
tremendous amount of education,” Dr. Kaufman said. “But the
main theme is no one is as important as the parents. It’s encouraging parents to be more
physically present, not to be on
their devices, to make eye contact.”
None of this is to say that
parents can substitute an emotional trust fund for talking to
their children as they grow up
about wealth and the responsibilities that come with it.
“Financial wealth is not a free
ride — it’s a powerful tool,” said
Kristen Armstrong, a wealth
dynamics coach with U.S. Bank’s
Ascent Private Capital Management. “In high school, having
some conversations about being
a family with significant wealth
and being a family who has some
opportunities is important.”
Given the amount of time and
money parents spend on their
children today, the emotional
trust fund is an interesting concept. If nothing else, thinking in
these terms might reframe how
people spend time and money in
their family.
YOUR MONEY ADVISER
Rates on Federal Student Loans Are Falling for This Year
By ANN CARRNS
OLLEGE students will get
a bit of a break for the
coming academic year:
Interest rates on new federal
student loans they take out are
dropping.
As of next Friday, the rate on
direct loans for undergraduates
will be 3.76 percent. That will
apply whether the loan is based
on financial need — “subsidized,”
in federal loan lingo — or not.
That rate is down from 4.29
percent for loans that were taken
out during the borrowing year
that concludes on June 30.
(Rates are set annually for new
loans, but the rates remain fixed
for the life of the loan.)
The rate on direct loans made
to graduate students will be 5.31
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percent, down from 5.84 percent.
The rate for Plus loans, made to
the parents of undergraduates,
or to graduate students, is 6.31
percent, down from 6.84 percent.
“For people borrowing for this
coming school year, rates will be
lower than they were a year
ago,” said Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for College
Access & Success. That may
change in coming years, she
said, depending on economic
conditions, but it is a positive
shift.
For borrowers, any bit of good
news, even if temporary, is welcome. The burden of student
debt has ballooned to more than
$1 trillion nationally. College
graduates in 2014 had an average
of $29,000 in student loans, according to the Project on Student
Debt, an arm of Ms. Asher’s
organization.
Fidelity Investments said a
survey of participants in its
workplace retirement plans
found that one in three carried
student debt; of those, 80 percent said student loans affected
their ability to save for retirement.
So Fidelity’s research and
development arm, Fidelity Labs,
is testing an online student debt
tool that aims to help borrowers
understand their loans and repayment options. The tool, still in
development, lets borrowers
manage their loans in an online
hub and offers graphic displays
to help them visualize the financial impact of, say, making extra
payments. (Borrowers don’t
have to be Fidelity clients to join
the pilot.)
Bianka Recinos, a 31-year-old
family planning counselor in
Boston, graduated from college
in 2008 and has $65,000 in student debt. She said she had
tested Fidelity’s tool and liked
that it displayed all her loans in
one place and showed the total
amount she owed.
She also said the tool had
informed her about government
repayment programs, like one
that can potentially lead to forgiveness of student debt, based
on work in certain public service
jobs. “I had never heard of
them,” she said. Her job may
qualify, she said, so she is following up with her employer.
The site also provides information about refinancing student
debt through private lenders.
(Fidelity says there is no fee paid
to Fidelity if someone refinances
with one of the lenders).
Ms. Asher said she had not
seen Fidelity’s new tool, but she
noted that, in general, borrowers
should be cautious about refinancing federal loans into private loans. While some financially secure borrowers with
top-notch credit may benefit,
private loans are riskier because
they don’t carry important consumer protections that federal
loans do, such as the ability to tie
payments to your income or
have payments postponed if you
run into financial trouble.
More information about repayment options is available from
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is developing
a student loan “payback playbook.”
Here are some questions and
answers about student loans:
How are the rates on federal student loans determined?
Under rules set by Congress in
2013, fixed rates for new loans
are set each summer, based on
spring rates for the 10-year
Treasury note (1.71 percent for
the 2016-17 school year), and a
fixed extra rate depending on the
type of the loan.
Can I have the interest rate on my
student loan lowered by paying
automatically?
Yes. If you sign up for automatic debit, you can have your
interest rate reduced by 0.25
percent.
Are there other fees for borrowing
federal student loans?
Most federal loans have origination fees that vary depending
on the type of loan. Fees range
from 1 to 4 percent, approximately, of the loan amount.
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Risks Found Higher for Front-Seat Passengers in Some S.U.V. Crashes
By CHERYL JENSEN
Front-seat passengers in some
small sport utility vehicles may
not be as well protected as drivers
in certain types of crashes, according to recent tests of seven
vehicles by the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The tests, known as small overlap frontal tests, were similar to
the kind that the institute conducts by directing the front-end
impact to the driver’s side of the
vehicle. But in these latest tests,
whose results were released on
Thursday, the impact was on the
S.U.V.s’ front passenger side.
All seven vehicles had received
the highest rating — “good” — for
protecting drivers in earlier, similar crash tests. But sitting next to
the driver can be a riskier
proposition.
Among the small S.U.V.s tested,
a 2015 Toyota RAV4 received a rating of “poor” on its passenger-side
results. A 2014 Nissan Rogue and
2014 Subaru Forester received
“marginal” safety ratings for
front-seat passengers.
Of the seven, only a 2016
Hyundai Tucson earned a “good’’
rating on the passenger-side test.
The remaining three — a 2015
Buick Encore, a 2015 Honda CR-V
and a 2015 Mazda CX-5 — were
rated “acceptable.’’ (The different
models reflect the first year in
each case when modifications
were made that enabled the vehicles to earn their “good” ratings
for the driver-side tests.)
The findings matter because
more than 1,600 passengers in the
right front seats of vehicles of all
types died in frontal crashes in
2014, according to the federal government’s fatality data.
The Report Card
Here are the full results of
the side-by-side tests:
2016 HYUNDAI TUCSON
Driver side: good;
passenger side: good.
2015 BUICK ENCORE
Driver side: good;
passenger side: acceptable.
2015 HONDA CR-V
Driver side: good;
2015 MAZDA CX-5
Driver side: good;
2014 NISSAN ROGUE
Driver side: good;
passenger side: marginal.
2014 SUBARU FORESTER
Driver side: good;
passenger side: marginal.
2015 TOYOTA RAV4
Driver side: good;
passenger side: poor.
It is not known how many of
those crashes were of the sort replicated by the insurance institute’s
tests, which involve 25 percent of
the front end of a vehicle striking a
rigid barrier at 40 miles an hour.
The test, which uses dummies,
aims to show what happens when
a vehicle runs off the road and
strikes an object like a tree or utility pole.
The insurance institute, which
has been conducting this test for
four years, was aware that automakers were focusing their initial safety improvement efforts on
the driver’s side of vehicles — given that there is always a driver in
the car, but not necessarily a frontseat passenger.
“Some manufacturers told us
that in the short term they could
make more driver’s-side modifications to more vehicle models to
improve safety rather than
making improvements to both
sides,’’ said Becky Mueller, a senior research engineer at the insurance institute and the lead author
of the report on the latest tests.
But the expectation was that
automakers would start to make
modifications to the passenger
side as well.
“We are now four years into the
testing and we want to remind
manufacturers that the short term
doesn’t last forever,” Mrs. Mueller
said. “Consumers are going to
want the same level of protection
for drivers and right-front passengers.”
The small overlap frontal test is
the newest of the insurance institute’s crash tests. It began in 2012
as the institute, which is funded by
the insurance industry, was trying
to determine why people were still
being seriously injured or killed in
frontal crashes, despite seatbelts,
airbags and “good” frontal crash
test ratings.
One of its studies of newer vehicles found that small overlap
frontal crashes accounted for
about 20 to 25 percent of those injuries and deaths.
Automakers began redesigning
their vehicles to get better scores
on the new test and provide better
protection. The insurance institute said that since the test’s introduction, 13 automakers have made
structural changes to 97 vehicles.
Because crash forces in the
small frontal overlap test are concentrated on the front wheel, suspension and firewall, the passenger’s survival space can be seriously compromised by intruding
structures. The front wheel can be
forced back into the footwell, resulting in serious and debilitating
leg and foot injuries on the driver’s side as the test dummy’s feet
and legs get caught up in the metal
pedals.
It is also easy for drivers and
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE INSURANCE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY
Frontal crash protection in a 2016 Hyundai Tucson was rated good for both the driver’s side, left, and the passenger side, right.
In the same test on a 2015 Toyota RAV4, protection for the driver was rated good, left, but passenger protection was rated poor.
passengers to hit their heads and
chests against metal structures,
like the instrument panel, protruding into the vehicle. “If the
structure is so badly intruded, the
airbag can’t do its job effectively,”
Mrs. Mueller said.
In the Toyota RAV4 test, the intrusion into the interior of the vehicle on the passenger’s side was
13 inches deeper than on the driver’s side. And the RAV4’s passenger-side door popped open,
which in a crash would put the occupant at risk of being ejected.
In 2013, when the RAV4 was
tested for the first time, it got a
“poor” small overlap rating. The
2015 model received a good rating,
but Toyota did not make the same
safety improvements to the passenger side.
In a written statement responding to the new test results, Toyota
said, in part: “The I.I.H.S. small
overlap test is severe, specialized
and goes beyond federal vehicle
safety requirements.
“Rather than waiting to re-engineer both driver’s and passenger’s sides,’’ Toyota added,
“we took immediate steps to enhance performance on the driver’s side.”
Toyota said that it had incorporated safety enhancements on
both the driver’s and passenger’s
sides for vehicles built on its new
platforms, beginning with the 2016
Prius.
With the Nissan Rogue, maximum intrusion on the passenger
side was 10 inches more than on
the driver’s side, and the door
hinge pillar, which is at the bottom
of the passenger compartment
where the rocker panel meets the
A pillar — a front roof support —
was torn off completely, although
the door remained closed.
In a written statement, Nissan
said: “Nissan is committed to the
safety and security of our
customers and their passengers.
We are aware of the I.I.H.S. testing and we are currently reviewing the details to assess opportunities for improved performance.’’
Hyundai, meantime, was happy
to promote its results.
“Our 2016 Tucson’s good rating
for both driver and passenger in
the demanding I.I.H.S. small overlap crash test reflects our commitment to passenger safety at every
level,’’ Mike O’Brien, a vice president for Hyundai Motor America,
said in a statement.
Energy Transfer Wins Ruling to Kill Williams Deal South Korea Court Orders
most likely choose to appeal the
court’s decision, meaning it will go
to the Delaware Supreme Court.
On Friday, Williams said it
continued to recommend that
shareholders vote for the merger.
Williams also said previously
that it reserved the right to seek
damages from Energy Transfer. It
is unclear how much Williams
might request.
Either way, this decision could
leave significant “litigation overhang” on Energy Transfer, according to a note by analysts at
Evercore ISI. Because of that, Energy Transfer may choose to settle
with a one-time payment to
Williams, the analysts wrote.
The pipeline companies’ path to
court was a long, winding one. The
deal became serious about a year
ago, when Energy Transfer made
an unsolicited, all-equity offer, and
Williams rejected it. As an enticement, Energy Transfer threw in
$6 billion worth of cash in another
proposal — a decision that came
back to haunt it.
Williams’s board was divided,
with a majority of directors rejecting the newer offer after several
rounds of votes. Ultimately, two
directors swung the other way,
and a $38 billion cash-and-stock
transaction was announced on
Sept. 28.
Shortly afterward, the planned
combination descended into utter
chaos. Shares of both companies
were dragged down with the
slump in commodity prices last
fall. While pipeline companies
transport oil and gas — rather
than dig it out of the ground —
their plight worsened as their
customers teetered on bankruptcy.
By Christmas, Kelcy Warren,
the chairman of Energy Transfer,
was stewing. He fretted that the
debt Energy Transfer would
shoulder to pay for the $6 billion
cash component of the deal would
prompt the ratings agencies to
downgrade his company to “junk
status.”
But there was no easy way out.
Energy Transfer slashed its estimates for the revenue bump it
could get by combining with
Williams, based in Tulsa, Okla.,
and threatened to lay off thousands of Williams’s employees.
Friday’s decision, however, concerned two other actions. Energy
Transfer created a special class of
stock that gave certain insiders,
including Mr. Warren, priority if
the company’s distributions (or
tax-free payouts to shareholders)
were cut. Williams saw that as a
breach of their agreement and
sought the court’s help in unwinding the private offering.
Perhaps more concerning to
Williams, though, was the decision by Energy Transfer’s outside
counsel, Latham & Watkins, not to
render a certain tax opinion that
was a necessary condition to close
the deal. Latham said that it could
not give such an opinion (which
Arrest of a VW Executive
ANDY JACOBSOHN/THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, LEFT; WILLIAMS, RIGHT
Kelcy Warren, left, chairman of Energy Transfer, and Alan S.
Armstrong, president and chief of Williams Companies.
was supposed to conclude with
reasonable certainty that the
transfer of assets into the partnership would be tax-free) because of
the substantial decline in Energy
Transfer’s stock price.
Williams sued again, seeking to
prove that Latham was acting under the influence of its client to
break up the deal, rather than engaging in its best efforts to close
the transaction.
Energy Transfer countersued,
arguing that it was, in fact,
Williams that was trying to derail
the deal.
All of these issues came together in the courtroom in Georgetown, Del., earlier this week. Ener-
gy Transfer and Latham witnesses focused on how they made
an error in not spotting potential
problems with the tax opinion
when the deal was signed.
Representatives of Williams
pointed out how the issue with the
tax opinion was something Energy Transfer discovered in March
— conveniently at the same time
that Mr. Warren wanted to get out
of the deal.
The judge hinted at his likely
decision on Tuesday, when he said
that he did not care if Latham was
right or wrong in refusing to issue
its tax opinion. He just needed to
know whether it was acting in
“good faith.”
SEOUL,
South
Korea
(Reuters) — A South Korean
court issued an arrest warrant on
Friday for a Volkswagen executive in connection with the company’s cheating on vehicle emissions
tests, in another blow to the German automaker’s efforts to move
on from the scandal.
The warrant is the first to be
leveled against a Volkswagen executive after the company in September admitted using software
to falsify pollution test results on
some diesel cars, spurring legal
action in the United States, Germany, South Korea and elsewhere.
Volkswagen has admitted that
11 million of its vehicles worldwide
were equipped with software designed to cheat on emissions tests.
The automaker said in April that it
would set aside $18 billion to cover
costs from the scandal.
The South Korean prosecutor’s
office said that the investigation
was continuing and that it would
cooperate with counterparts in
Germany and the United States.
The Volkswagen Korea execu-
tive, identified by his last name,
Yun, faces five accusations, including fabrication of documents
and violation of the Air Quality
Preservation Law, Shin Jae-hwan,
a spokesman for the Seoul Central
District Court, said.
A Volkswagen Korea spokeswoman declined to comment.
South Korea has taken a particularly hard line against the automaker, filing a criminal complaint against two other executives, fining it 14.1 billion won, or
$11.97 million, and ordering it to recall 125,522 vehicles.
About 4,400 Korean consumers
have filed a class-action lawsuit
against Volkswagen and its Audi
brand, demanding compensation
over the false emissions claims.
The arrest warrant comes after
German prosecutors said on Monday that they were investigating
Volkswagen’s former chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, and another executive over whether
they effectively manipulated markets by delaying the release of information about the cheating.
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+
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+
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◊
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+
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◊
8.47
23.15
14.27
12.03
18.76
26.99
1.89
22.81
N.A.
36.33
58.82
24.81
7.75
34.56
26.75
14.76
25.16
0.19
44.32
5.30
11.18
11.34
5.64
30.35
15.79
18.95
+
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+
+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
◊
+
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◊
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◊
+
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+
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12.3
15.6
1.1
6.7
18.2
27.8
6.7
11.9
N.A.
15.1
3.4
13.6
9.8
8.8
11.3
20.7
22.8
5.8
25.2
2.4
12.5
7.8
2.7
14.3
7.5
19.6
104.45
29.49
60.95
47.13
72.73
64.99
63.17
169.73
113.65
61.35
57.10
75.72
92.85
28.77
57.52
35.95
92.07
121.08
174.11
15.84
32.05
153.76
122.61
36.88
215.80
46.69
◊ 2.54
◊ 1.47
◊ 4.16
◊ 1.15
◊ 2.09
◊ 1.30
◊ 2.46
◊ 1.47
◊ 0.48
◊ 2.95
◊ 2.11
◊ 3.21
+ 0.39
◊ 0.57
◊ 2.84
◊ 0.56
◊ 2.41
◊ 3.00
◊ 7.32
◊ 0.88
◊ 1.37
◊ 3.64
◊ 2.90
◊ 1.47
◊ 10.80
◊ 1.92
+
◊
◊
+
+
+
◊
+
◊
◊
◊
+
◊
+
◊
+
+
+
◊
◊
+
◊
◊
◊
◊
+
3.62
2.29
28.28
9.77
6.20
1.26
30.62
13.18
10.92
40.63
3.10
5.03
12.35
0.92
10.23
7.37
6.51
27.39
12.86
18.91
10.28
5.54
33.07
18.30
33.34
0.97
+
+
◊
+
+
+
◊
◊
◊
+
+
◊
◊
+
+
+
+
+
+
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
+
13.3
2.2
22.1
2.3
5.9
9.3
7.5
3.7
4.3
12.0
0.2
0.9
11.8
6.3
6.3
23.8
14.7
7.1
1.1
11.1
4.3
0.9
20.5
16.6
21.3
29.0
126.40
112.98
146.59
31.55
115.63
59.60
17.99
239.70
77.06
91.47
119.44
83.26
55.88
39.44
49.83
42.27
104.07
24.52
52.59
82.64
75.27
39.23
35.08
101.98
33.97
97.71
137.82
118.53
173.78
35.59
117.74
70.61
39.60
245.37
80.76
101.76
131.96
86.31
60.07
58.13
56.85
48.58
114.26
41.04
68.19
98.75
79.33
42.00
42.55
106.94
36.46
102.55
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
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◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
◊
1.89
4.34
8.76
1.44
1.75
4.45
0.91
0.30
1.51
4.24
1.77
2.51
1.80
4.73
2.08
2.58
5.08
2.77
1.53
4.36
3.04
1.60
1.58
2.46
0.62
4.19
+
+
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◊
+
◊
◊
+
+
◊
+
+
◊
◊
+
+
◊
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◊
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12.62
9.31
11.74
1.38
16.66
13.18
53.85
26.16
10.62
3.17
24.69
10.31
3.49
30.64
9.16
2.90
3.01
37.48
0.04
6.89
4.11
4.46
N.A.
+ 7.54
◊ 0.15
+ 20.18
◊
+
+
◊
+
◊
+
+
+
◊
+
+
+
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◊
◊
+
◊
◊
◊
+
+
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+
+
+
4.4
9.1
6.5
8.4
12.6
9.7
20.6
10.4
1.3
6.1
1.1
8.2
5.8
18.2
10.2
5.7
5.6
22.9
15.9
2.3
11.4
7.4
3.1
2.1
5.2
11.2
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
95.32
59.60
170.99
41.40
42.05
23.74
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
84.21
66.05
137.34
87.72
214.80
51.79
64.00
36.40
85.31
63.31
91.34
33.66
34.70
99.71
107.58
140.89
46.26
114.65
55.22
81.73
74.14
97.30
122.08
58.77
1232
82.26
52.12
135.75
76.66
206.50
51.19
54.68
24.64
69.35
60.54
70.72
26.76
26.94
85.25
104.41
137.29
39.86
98.89
54.43
75.05
71.96
81.78
95.72
45.71
◊158.06
◊ 1.95
◊ 3.43
+ 0.92
◊ 2.93
◊ 2.59
+ 0.13
◊ 1.45
◊ 1.36
◊ 0.43
◊ 2.76
◊ 2.33
◊ 2.22
◊ 2.26
◊ 3.29
◊ 2.81
◊ 1.90
◊ 2.37
◊ 3.44
◊ 0.24
◊ 3.18
◊ 0.14
◊ 3.28
◊ 3.30
◊ 2.20
+
+
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+
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+
+
+
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+
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+
+
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+
+
+
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7.22
3.62
20.13
38.18
11.55
19.81
23.02
1.13
24.90
17.93
12.54
19.82
17.94
18.26
12.09
5.53
12.23
10.55
12.72
14.73
9.37
0.14
5.30
16.37
20.05
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+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+
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+
+
◊
+
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3.4
3.6
4.3
9.0
9.9
6.2
9.4
8.9
19.0
4.5
10.5
9.4
1.7
0.8
9.0
8.5
16.7
6.6
2.9
17.8
3.2
17.4
4.0
8.9
15.9
– 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 day’s price in regular trading. „ or ‰ indicates stocks that rose or fell at least 4 percent. ” indicates stocks that traded 1 percent or more of their outstanding shares. n Stock was a new issue in the last year.
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 +7.18%
invest. gr. +5.46%
0
4
–10
2
0
2015
invest. grade +3.49%
2016
–20
high yield +0.25%
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*
5,753
2,656
2,824
71
338
94
17,353
3,853
2,164
1,558
25
285
44
8,855
Conv
1,746
437
1,174
42
50
44
7,985
154
55
92
4
3
6
512
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 issue’s call criteria.
*Par value in millions.
Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s,
Standard & Poor’s and Fitch.
Most Recent Issues
Key Rates
1-mo. ago
1-yr. ago
4%
10-year Treas.
2-year Treas.
4%
3
Prime Rate
Fed Funds
Mat.
3
2
2
1
1
Maturity
0
3
6
2
5 10
Months
Date
BONDS & NOTES
2-yr. Jun 18
5-yr. Jun 21
10-yr. May 26
30-yr. May 46
2015
2016
Years
Issuer Name (SYMBOL)
Coupon%
Credit Rating
Moody’s S&P
Maturity
Fitch
Price
High
Low
Last
Chg
Yld%
INVESTMENT GRADE
Anheuser-busch Inbev Fin Inc (BUD)
Barclays Plc (BCS)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS)
Synchrony Finl (GE)
Johnson Ctls Inc (JCI.GD)
Wells Fargo & Co New Medium Term Sr Nts (WFC)
Bank Amer Corp (BAC)
Conocophillips Co (COP)
Pfizer Inc (PFE)
Vale Overseas Ltd (VALE)
3.650
4.375
3.750
4.500
7.125
4.400
4.450
4.950
2.750
5.875
Feb’26
Jan’26
Feb’26
Jul’25
Jul’17
Jun’46
Mar’26
Mar’26
Jun’26
Jun’21
A3
Baa3
A3
NR
Baa2
A3
Baa3
Baa2
A1
Ba3
A–
BBB
BBB+
BBB–
BBB+
A–
BBB
A–
AA
BBB–
BBB+
A
A
BBB–
NR
A+
A–
A–
A+
BBB
107.820
102.800
104.602
106.823
106.030
102.142
105.187
113.479
103.860
101.500
105.093
100.500
103.680
102.982
105.674
98.767
101.145
112.583
102.034
97.970
105.863
101.756
103.680
103.183
105.674
99.224
103.475
112.646
102.627
98.220
0.133
–1.240
–0.180
0.380
–0.242
–0.062
–1.067
0.117
1.200
–3.788
2.928
4.150
3.292
4.067
1.623
4.447
4.013
3.377
2.450
6.298
3.550
8.375
5.750
5.125
8.750
7.875
7.250
7.250
11.000
11.000
Mar’22
May’21
Jan’20
May’24
May’26
Sep’23
Jun’21
Sep’21
Jul’21
Sep’25
B1
NR
B3
Ba2
NR
Caa1
Ba3
Caa1
NR
Ba3
BB
B+
B+
BB
B+
B
B+
B
NR
BB–
BBB–
BB
BB
BBB
BB
B+
NR
B+
NR
BB
87.750
105.000
96.500
99.160
101.850
82.450
103.815
86.200
2.920
103.700
84.000
102.000
93.200
97.420
98.625
77.992
103.800
83.675
2.800
101.000
86.000
102.723
95.500
98.167
100.100
78.000
103.800
84.350
2.920
101.800
–3.000
–2.627
–1.150
–1.743
–2.900
–4.750
–0.020
–2.650
0.420
–2.200
6.543
7.694
7.204
5.412
8.732
12.602
5.554
11.299
N.A.
10.679
1.000
1.250
0.500
0.250
3.000
1.375
0.250
3.125
2.750
3.750
Dec’18
Apr’20
Nov’19
Mar’19
Nov’43
Oct’23
Oct’19
May’32
Dec’44
May’21
NR
BB+
B
BB+
B–
BB
NR
BBB
BB
NR
BBB–
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
BBB–
230.797
83.600
98.900
87.270
75.500
98.750
124.750
151.376
79.875
110.240
226.255
81.250
98.900
86.125
73.605
97.274
117.994
150.522
76.655
109.683
227.290
81.306
98.900
87.223
75.500
98.103
123.600
150.633
76.655
109.688
–11.462
–2.694
2.900
–1.481
–1.269
0.603
–1.100
–3.796
–4.470
1.168
–30.554
6.995
0.835
5.453
4.579
1.652
–6.182
–5.775
4.156
1.673
HIGH YIELD
Freeport-mcmoran Inc (FCX)
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR)
Petrobras Intl Fin Co (PTRB)
Royal Bk Scotland Group Plc (BNPQF)
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR)
Sprint Corp (SFTBF)
Corelogic Inc (CLGX)
Sprint Corp (SFTBF)
Quicksilver Res Inc (KWK)
Frontier Communications Corp (FTR)
Nvidia Corp (NVDA)
Whiting Pete Corp (WLL)
Linkedin Corp (LNKD)
Tesla Mtrs Inc (TSLA)
Micron Technology Inc (MU)
Liberty Media Corp Del (LMCA)
Red Hat Inc (RHAT)
Micron Technology Inc (MU)
Amtrust Finl Svcs Inc (AFSI)
Spirit Rlty Cap Inc New (SRC)
CONSUMER RATES
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
NR
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Yesterday
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)
Yield
0.26
0.37
0.24
0.36
–0.03
–0.06
0.29
0.43
◊ 99.98
◊ 100.25
◊ 100.58
◊ 101.88
99.98
100.26
100.61
101.91
+0.29
+0.90
+1.66
+3.00
0.78
1.26
1.74
2.55
◊ ◊
◊ ◊
|
1[
1|
2ø
102.17
+0.34 -0.24
105.00
+0.90
0.21
126.41
+1.32
0.46
105.55
+2.09
0.88
Source: Thomson Reuters
.0671
.1468
.2965
.7692
.0015
.0003
.0219
.1146
.1310
.0442
.0529
.0357
.0002
.3023
.0326
.1003
1.3678
.0411
.1494
1.1086
.0035
Dollars in
Foreign Currency
14.9120
6.8100
3.3725
1.3001
678.61
2968.0
45.7500
8.7222
7.6350
22.6200
18.9210
28.0500
5635.0
3.3077
30.6900
9.9750
.7311
24.3100
6.6928
.9020
284.85
Foreign Currency
in Dollars
One Dollar in Euros
1.00 euros
$1 = 0.9020
0.95
0.90
0.85
0.80
2016
2015
Norway (Krone)
Poland (Zloty)
Russia (Ruble)
Sweden (Krona)
Switzerland (Franc)
Turkey (Lira)
.1191
.2495
.0154
.1182
1.0276
.3417
8.3972
4.0078
64.7382
8.4615
.9731
2.9265
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)
.7458
.1512
.1289
.0147
.0098
.2445
.7130
.0096
.0213
.7398
.0009
.0308
.0283
.00004
1.3408
6.6150
7.7605
67.8748
102.19
4.0900
1.4025
104.69
46.9750
1.3517
1170.9
32.4500
35.2900
22288
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Bahrain (Dinar)
Egypt (Pound)
Iran (Rial)
Israel (Shekel)
Jordan (Dinar)
Kenya (Shilling)
Kuwait (Dinar)
2.6565
.1126
.00003
.2581
1.4130
.0099
3.3146
.3764
8.8799
30108
3.8744
.7077
101.00
.3017
Change from last week
Up
Flat
Down
Friday
Year
Ago
Federal funds
Prime rate
15-yr fixed
15-yr fixed jumbo
30-yr fixed
30-yr fixed jumbo
5/1 adj. rate
5/1 adj. rate jumbo
1-year adj. rate
0.39%
3.50
2.76
3.91
3.56
4.33
2.94
3.26
2.82
0.13%
3.25
3.24
3.84
4.27
4.42
3.33
3.38
2.64
0% 1
5
6
7
8
9 10
Apr. ’16
+4.5%
March ’16 +9.7
Future
Corn
Soybeans
Wheat
Live Cattle
Hogs-Lean
Cocoa
Coffee
Sugar-World
+15%
Monetary
units per
Exchange quantity
CBT
CBT
CBT
CME
CME
NYBOT
NYBOT
NYBOT
COMX
COMX
COMX
NYMX
NYMX
NYMX
Lifetime
High
Low
Date
Settle
Change
Open
Interest
582.75 351.25
1216.00 859.50
732.00 449.50
151.50 113.73
88.90
71.08
3406.00 2645.00
231.20 115.35
20.15
11.37
Jul
Jul
Jul
Jun
Jul
Jul
Jul
Jun
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
387.50 390.00 373.50 384.50
1124.75 1132.00 1099.25 1103.00
454.50 456.00 441.75 454.75
115.20 116.45 114.10 114.70
83.98
84.48
83.68
84.05
3152.00 3152.00 3059.00 3070.00
138.50 138.50 133.50 134.35
18.58
19.12
18.41
19.00
◊ 2.75
◊ 21.50
+ 0.50
◊ 2.05
◊ 0.23
◊ 165.00
◊ 4.90
◊ 0.04
171,291
105,110
50,899
4,488
26,973
172
427
66,974
$/oz
$/oz
$/lb
$/bbl
$/gal
$/mil.btu
1977.30 1047.20
18.05
14.81
2.93
1.95
90.58
32.22
2.77
0.94
7.30
1.94
Jun
Jun
Jun
Aug
Jun
Jun
16
16
16
16
16
16
1253.70 1355.60 1253.70 1320.00
17.22
17.83
17.22
17.79
2.11
2.12
2.11
2.11
50.30
50.45
46.70
47.64
1.53
1.53
1.44
1.46
2.70
2.70
2.63
2.66
+ 58.80
+ 0.44
◊ 0.05
◊ 2.47
◊ 0.07
◊ 0.04
291
94
534
451,092
36,209
28,572
Apr. ’16
+5.4%
March ’16 +5.9
4
5
6
7
8
9 10
% Total Returns
+15%
0
’11
’16
60
ISM; over 50 indicates
expansion; seasonally adjusted
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
51.3
50.8
46
’11
’16
9 10
Balance of Trade
–30
In billions of dollars
Seasonally adjusted
0% 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10
0.32%
0.29
0.36
0.60
0.80
1.45
*Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850.
Apr. ’16 –37.4
March ’16 –35.5
100
90
2016
Lebanon (Pound)
Saudi Arabia (Riyal)
So. Africa (Rand)
U.A.E (Dirham)
.0007
.2667
.0664
.2723
–55
’11
’16
Housing Supply
Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Open
High
Low
Crude Oil
$70
$47.64 a barrel
60
50
40
30
2015
2016
10
Type
YTD
1 Yr
Vanguard 500 Index Admiral(VFIAX)
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Adm(VTSAX)
Vanguard Institutional Index I(VINIX)
Fidelity Contrafund(FCNTX)
American Funds Growth Fund of Amer A(AGTHX)
American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A(AIVSX)
Dodge & Cox Stock(DODGX)
Fidelity 500 Index Premium(FUSVX)
American Funds Washington Mutual A(AWSHX)
American Funds Fundamental Invs A(ANCFX)
Vanguard Instl Ttl Stk Mkt Idx InstlPl(VITPX)
Vanguard PRIMECAP Adm(VPMAX)
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock(PRGFX)
Vanguard Windsor II Admiral(VWNAX)
Vanguard Dividend Growth Inv(VDIGX)
American Funds AMCAP A(AMCPX)
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth(TRBCX)
T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500(PREIX)
Harbor Capital Appreciation Instl(HACAX)
American Funds American Mutual A(AMRMX)
Schwab S&P 500 Index(SWPPX)
Fidelity Growth Company(FDGRX)
T. Rowe Price Value(TRVLX)
Average performance for all such funds
Number of funds for period
% Total Returns
Exp. Assets
5 Yr* Ratio
(mil.$)
LARGEST FUNDS
Fund Name (TICKER)
Type
YTD
1 Yr
Exp. Assets
5 Yr* Ratio
Source: Bankrate.com
4.7
4.7
2
’11
’16
(mil.$)
LEADERS
LB
LB
LB
LG
LG
LB
LV
LB
LV
LB
LB
LG
LG
LV
LB
LG
LG
LB
LG
LV
LB
LG
LV
+0.7
+0.7
+0.7
◊3.7
◊2.1
+4.0
◊1.8
+0.7
+2.5
+0.9
+0.7
◊4.8
◊8.1
+0.1
+2.1
+0.3
◊8.0
+0.6
◊9.0
+5.4
+0.7
◊7.4
◊1.0
◊1.2
◊2.9
◊1.2
◊4.4
◊3.8
◊0.8
◊9.5
◊1.3
+1.3
◊0.9
◊2.8
◊5.4
◊7.0
◊6.1
+3.3
◊5.2
◊6.2
◊1.5
◊9.1
+1.3
◊1.3
◊8.1
◊6.4
+12.3
+11.8
+12.3
+11.8
+11.5
+11.6
+10.9
+12.3
+11.6
+11.0
+11.9
+12.7
+12.7
+10.5
+12.3
+12.0
+13.5
+12.0
+11.5
+11.0
+12.2
+12.3
+11.8
◊1.6
1132
◊5.4
1132
+10.5
1094
0.05 162,119
0.05 134,864
0.04 110,189
0.70 76,886
0.65 73,403
0.58 56,851
0.52 55,614
0.05 55,064
0.57 50,823
0.60 45,863
0.02 39,400
0.32 38,499
0.67 37,262
0.26 31,315
0.33 29,620
0.67 25,997
0.71 25,974
0.27 25,649
0.64 22,979
0.58 22,966
0.09 22,292
0.87 22,155
0.81 21,449
City National Rochdale Div & Inc N(RIMHX)
Federated Strategic Value Dividend Ins(SVAIX)
American Century Equity Income R6(AEUDX)
Invesco Dividend Income A(IAUTX)
Hennessy Total Return Investor(HDOGX)
USA Mutuals Barrier Investor(VICEX)
Jensen Quality Growth I(JENIX)
Lord Abbett Calibrated Dividend Gr A(LAMAX)
ClearBridge Dividend Strategy I(SOPYX)
Cullen High Dividend Equity I(CHDVX)
Commerce Value(CFVLX)
Commerce Growth(CFGRX)
LV
LV
LV
LV
LV
LB
LG
LB
LB
LV
LV
LG
+11.2
+10.3
+9.5
+8.2
+6.5
+4.5
+5.2
+8.0
+8.5
+3.6
+6.7
+2.6
+13.7
+12.3
+10.2
+10.1
+6.6
+5.6
+5.6
+5.5
+5.1
+4.8
+4.6
+4.5
+11.0
+12.5
NA
+11.8
+8.9
+11.6
+11.9
+10.7
+12.0
+10.9
+12.7
+12.7
1.11
0.80
0.59
1.13
1.28
1.48
0.63
0.85
0.82
0.75
0.70
1.04
215
7,995
272
958
74
191
2,797
1,571
897
1,467
221
75
LAGGARDS
Sequoia(SEQUX)
CGM Focus(CGMFX)
Deutsche Large Cap Value A(KDCAX)
Muhlenkamp(MUHLX)
Putnam Voyager C(PVFCX)
Fidelity Independence(FDFFX)
Diamond Hill Select I(DHLTX)
Franklin Focused Core Equity A(FCEQX)
Delaware Select Growth C(DVECX)
Oppenheimer Equity Income B(OBEIX)
Alger Large Cap Growth I-2(AAGOX)
MassMutual Select Focused Value A(MFVAX)
LG
LB
LV
LB
LG
LG
LB
LB
LG
LV
LG
LB
◊14.7
◊15.2
◊10.7
◊9.9
◊7.6
◊10.6
◊8.5
◊7.5
◊10.0
◊3.2
◊8.6
◊4.7
◊29.5
◊24.4
◊21.0
◊19.1
◊18.3
◊17.2
◊17.1
◊16.8
◊16.6
◊16.1
◊15.9
◊15.4
+6.8
+1.9
+4.7
+4.1
+5.7
+8.3
+9.3
+8.3
+7.0
+5.9
+8.5
+9.8
1.00
1.13
0.98
1.21
0.87
0.86
0.92
1.24
2.00
1.76
0.86
1.28
5,095
893
197
284
113
3,428
99
98
67
80
253
170
*Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: LB-Large Blend. LG-Large Growth.
LV-Large Value. NA-Not Available. YTD-Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis.
Source: Morningstar
In months
May ’16
Apr. ’16
1504.0
3.7501
15.0600
3.6726
MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: LARGE CAPITALIZATION STOCK FUNDS
Manufacturing Index
May ’16
Apr. ’16
110
Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
’16
Percent of
disposable income
3
120
–5
’11
Personal Savings Rate
2
$1 = 102.19
2015
¢/bushel
¢/bushel
¢/bushel
¢/lb
¢/lb
$/ton
¢/lb
¢/lb
Fund Name (TICKER)
3.29%
3.21
CD’s and Money Market Rates
5-YEAR HISTORY
Change from
previous year
0% 1
0.25%
0.24
0.33
0.55
0.73
1.42
4
4.01%
3.94
4.56
4.56
Auto Loan Rates
3.26%
3.24
3
Construction Spending
0% 1
4.39%
4.33
4.13
4.11
2
One Dollar in Yen
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Weather Report
70s
70s
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Va
ancouver
60s
60
60s
60s
Seattle
attle
Quebec
c
Spokane
S
poka
Helena
Eugen
ene
ne
Bismarck
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60
60s
80s
Min
nn
neapolis
Reno
Cleveland
Chicago
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o
Topeka
Colorado
olorado
ora
S ring
Springs
La
Las
Vegas
Kansas
Springfield
i d
City
St. Louis
60s
Louisville
High 87. A mostly sunny day and a very
warm afternoon because of high pressure
centered along the New England coast.
Ch
Charlotte
ha
arlotte
arlo
tte
Memphis
Little Rock
Albuquerque
MONDAY ..........More clouds than sunshine
High pressure will slide off to the east as a
front approaches from the west, resulting
in a mostly cloudy day and the possibility
of a thunderstorm at night.
Columb
bia
90s
s
Birmingham
m
Lubbock
100+
TOMORROW ............................Mostly sunny
Richm
chmond
m
Charleston
e
Norfolk
k 70s
7
70
Nashville
e
Oklahoma City
Phoenix
Phi
Philadelphia
Wash
Washington
ash
Raleigh
gh
Santa Fe
Los
Lo
os Angeles
eles
Sa
Sa
an
n Diego
o
Pittsburgh
Wichita
Atlanta
Tucson
cson
Dallas
El Paso
70
0s
Ft. Worth
Jackson
n
J
Jacksonville
80s
0
80s
Honolulu
olulu
u
70s
0s
Tampa
a
H
Corpus Christi
C
Miami
80s
60s
60
0s
Nassau
Monter
er
errey
Weather patterns shown as expected at noon today, Eastern time.
70s
TODAY’S HIGHS
80s
Fairban
Fa
an
anks
<0
0s
10s
Anchorage
50s
50
20s
H
Juneau
eau
60s
6
0s
COLD
WARM
STATIONARY COMPLEX
COLD
FRONTS
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100+
Tuesday will be partly sunny and humid
with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm. The high will be 85. Wednesday
will have clouds and sunshine with a few
showers and a thunderstorm. The high
will be 82.
L
HIGH LOW
PRESSURE
70°
Normal
lows
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY ...............A few thunderstorms
O
Orlando
New
Orleans
Hou
ouston
70s
80s
80
90s
9
0s
50s
50
0s
s
San Antonio
Hilo
Normal
highs
80°
Mo
Mobile
Baton
o Rouge
100+
00+
TODAY
90° M T W T F S S M T W
Low 65. The area of high pressure will
control the weather across the region.
This will provide a clear and dry night with
seasonably mild air.
New York
N
Des Moines
Denver
TONIGHT ..............................................Clear
Bos
Boston
7
70s
Har
Hartford
a
Indianapolis
i
Sa
an
n Francisco
co
M
Ma
Manchester
Albany
Buffalo
Om
Om
maha
Salt Lake
City
Fresn
Fresno
Burlington
n on
Detroit
Siiioux
o Falls
Cheyen
C
nne
nn
H
Toronto
To
St. Paul
S
Milwaukkee
Ca
asper
70s Cas
P
Por
Portland
Ottawa
Fargo
Billin
Billi
Billings
Pierre
90s
70s
Boiss
se
H
70s
s
Montreal
70
7
0s
s
Record
highs
High 86. High pressure will remain anchored over the Northeast, providing a
mostly sunny start to the weekend and a
warmer afternoon throughout the region.
H
Halifax
60s
Portla
and
Metropolitan Forecast
TODAY .....................................Mostly sunny
Regina
Winnipeg
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Meteorology by AccuWeather
MOSTLY
CLOUDY
SHOWERS T-STORMS
RAIN
FLURRIES
SNOW
60°
Actual
High
50°
ICE
Low
PRECIPITATION
Highlight: Gusty Sunday Afternoon Thunderstorms
National Forecast
Metropolitan Almanac
The leading edge of
slightly cooler and less
humid air will cause a line
of strong to severe
thunderstorms over the
Midwest on Sunday
afternoon and evening.
The most widespread
and strongest thunderstorms will affect
Michigan. Severe
thunderstorms will be
capable of producing
gusts over 50 miles per
hour, small hail and
torrential downpours.
Much of the Northeast can expect
sunshine today. Showers and thunderstorms will linger over the Carolinas,
southern Virginia and parts of Georgia
and the Florida Peninsula. A few areas
may be hit with flash flooding.
Hot and humid air will hold over the
South Central states and build in the
Midwest. The risk of severe storms will
increase over the Upper Midwest with
more scattered but heavy, gusty storms
farther south. Dry air and gusty winds will
spread east over the northern Rockies
and High Plains.
While a few stray storms will erupt over
the southern Rockies, much of the balance of the West has a sunny day in
store. The Southwest will be hot with an
ongoing risk of wildfires.
In Central Park for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Temperature
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in
inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
C ....................... Clouds
F ............................ Fog
H .......................... Haze
I............................... Ice
PC........... Partly cloudy
R ........................... Rain
Sh ................... Showers
N.Y.C. region
New York City
Bridgeport
Caldwell
Danbury
Islip
Newark
Trenton
White Plains
United States
Albany
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Burlington
Casper
Charlotte
Chattanooga
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Columbus
Concord, N.H.
Dallas-Ft. Worth
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fargo
Hartford
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jackson
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Key West
Las Vegas
Lexington
Yesterday
83/ 69 0
80/ 64 0
83/ 61 0
82/ 55 0
83/ 61 0
83/ 65 0
82/ 63 0
83/ 61 0
S ............................. Sun
Sn ....................... Snow
SS......... Snow showers
T .......... Thunderstorms
Tr ........................ Trace
W ....................... Windy
–.............. Not available
Today
86/ 65 S
82/ 63 S
86/ 60 S
85/ 55 S
83/ 59 S
85/ 65 S
87/ 60 S
84/ 60 S
Yesterday
Today
83/ 58 0
88/ 61 S
93/ 69 0
93/ 69 T
66/ 55 0.07 68/ 56 C
95/ 78 0
96/ 75 T
73/ 66 0.60 76/ 62 S
92/ 76 0
93/ 76 T
81/ 64 0.40 84/ 61 S
92/ 74 0
93/ 76 PC
93/ 77 0
96/ 75 T
74/ 48 0
81/ 54 S
72/ 59 0
75/ 60 S
83/ 59 0
87/ 67 S
80/ 57 0
87/ 63 S
93/ 45 0
81/ 40 S
91/ 71 0.30 89/ 69 PC
93/ 74 0
97/ 74 S
82/ 63 0
89/ 72 PC
85/ 62 0
88/ 66 S
80/ 62 0
87/ 70 S
89/ 61 0
84/ 56 S
84/ 60 0
88/ 67 S
83/ 51 0
87/ 51 S
95/ 78 0
96/ 79 PC
92/ 61 0.05 83/ 56 S
89/ 73 0
93/ 70 PC
85/ 60 0
87/ 66 S
101/ 75 0
98/ 74 T
88/ 73 0
85/ 62 T
86/ 56 0
89/ 57 S
84/ 73 0.02 85/ 73 C
92/ 77 0
91/ 76 T
85/ 64 0
88/ 70 S
96/ 74 0
96/ 75 PC
96/ 73 0
98/ 74 PC
89/ 74 0.04 93/ 70 T
90/ 81 0.04 88/ 81 T
108/ 82 0
107/ 83 S
85/ 66 0.02 90/ 68 S
Tomorrow
87/ 67 S
85/ 65 S
89/ 63 S
89/ 59 S
82/ 63 S
87/ 67 S
88/ 63 S
87/ 62 S
Tomorrow
93/ 65 S
89/ 68 T
67/ 55 C
90/ 75 T
76/ 64 S
94/ 74 T
86/ 64 S
95/ 77 PC
92/ 75 PC
94/ 61 S
79/ 62 S
90/ 69 PC
91/ 71 S
85/ 46 S
88/ 68 PC
95/ 75 T
89/ 68 T
92/ 70 T
93/ 72 PC
83/ 57 T
90/ 71 PC
90/ 57 S
97/ 80 T
87/ 58 S
93/ 68 S
90/ 68 T
95/ 74 T
80/ 53 W
92/ 61 S
84/ 73 PC
93/ 74 T
89/ 68 T
97/ 75 PC
93/ 73 T
88/ 68 T
89/ 81 T
110/ 87 S
94/ 70 PC
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Mpls.-St. Paul
Nashville
New Orleans
Norfolk
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, Me.
Portland, Ore.
Providence
Raleigh
Reno
Richmond
Rochester
Sacramento
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
San Juan
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
St. Louis
St. Thomas
Syracuse
Tampa
Toledo
Tucson
Tulsa
Virginia Beach
Washington
Wichita
Wilmington, Del.
Africa
Algiers
Cairo
Cape Town
Dakar
Johannesburg
Nairobi
Tunis
Asia/Pacific
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Damascus
Hong Kong
Jakarta
Jerusalem
Karachi
Manila
Mumbai
97/
79/
87/
98/
91/
77/
82/
95/
94/
85/
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96/
82/
111/
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78
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64
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65
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74
47
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81
55
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63
0
97/ 77 PC
0
85/ 61 PC
0
92/ 72 S
0
98/ 79 PC
0
90/ 78 PC
0
83/ 70 PC
0
85/ 65 T
0.20 97/ 74 S
0
95/ 78 PC
0.32 78/ 67 S
0
94/ 74 PC
0
92/ 67 T
0
95/ 77 T
0.01 87/ 64 S
0
109/ 86 C
0.12 85/ 67 S
0
78/ 53 S
0.01 78/ 58 S
0
83/ 57 S
0.30 83/ 65 PC
0
93/ 59 S
Tr
81/ 61 PC
0
86/ 63 S
0
99/ 60 S
0
82/ 57 S
0
91/ 77 T
0
75/ 66 PC
0
73/ 54 PC
0
87/ 58 S
0.04 89/ 76 PC
0.08 73/ 55 PC
0
84/ 59 T
0.08 74/ 52 S
0.04 95/ 79 PC
0.03 91/ 81 PC
0
85/ 60 S
0
92/ 78 T
0
87/ 62 S
0
99/ 77 C
0
94/ 79 PC
0.30 78/ 68 S
0
84/ 66 S
0.22 95/ 74 T
0.70 84/ 61 S
Yesterday
85/ 60 0
99/ 77 0
63/ 48 0
82/ 74 0
62/ 39 0
66/ 54 0
91/ 69 0
97/
86/
95/
98/
91/
88/
84/
95/
95/
77/
93/
92/
92/
88/
111/
90/
79/
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95/
77/
85/
93/
84/
78
62
75
80
77
66
64
74
78
65
72
68
76
67
89
70
58
61
60
64
61
62
68
62
67
75
69
57
61
77
57
61
58
77
80
64
77
65
81
77
67
67
72
62
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PC
T
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PC
S
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PC
S
S
T
S
S
S
Sh
S
S
S
PC
PC
S
T
T
S
T
S
S
T
S
Today
93/ 64 S
102/ 78 S
63/ 48 PC
83/ 76 C
63/ 35 S
69/ 53 C
92/ 69 S
Tomorrow
87/ 68 PC
102/ 78 S
64/ 52 C
84/ 77 PC
64/ 37 S
70/ 54 PC
93/ 70 C
Yesterday
Today
116/ 82 0
118/ 86 S
90/ 78 0.13 90/ 79 T
91/ 69 0
98/ 71 S
106/ 68 0
107/ 66 S
94/ 82 0.10 93/ 84 PC
90/ 79 0.24 90/ 74 T
91/ 70 0
89/ 71 S
97/ 82 0
97/ 83 PC
93/ 79 0.04 92/ 78 PC
85/ 79 1.70 88/ 79 Sh
Tomorrow
116/ 86 S
88/ 78 T
99/ 74 PC
105/ 65 S
93/ 84 T
89/ 75 C
89/ 70 S
96/ 84 PC
93/ 79 T
86/ 79 R
New Delhi
Riyadh
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Sydney
Taipei
Tehran
Tokyo
103/
109/
79/
86/
84/
61/
96/
97/
77/
84
83
70
75
73
48
82
70
70
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105/ 85 PC
0
111/ 89 S
0.21 79/ 64 S
0.38 74/ 66 Sh
0.54 88/ 80 T
0
61/ 44 S
0
94/ 81 T
0
96/ 73 S
0.19 81/ 71 Sh
100/
111/
83/
77/
88/
61/
92/
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80/
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86
66
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79
48
81
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70
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Europe
Amsterdam
Athens
Berlin
Brussels
Budapest
Copenhagen
Dublin
Edinburgh
Frankfurt
Geneva
Helsinki
Istanbul
Kiev
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Moscow
Nice
Oslo
Paris
Prague
Rome
St. Petersburg
Stockholm
Vienna
Warsaw
Yesterday
70/ 61 0.30
95/ 78 0
93/ 66 0
73/ 65 0.34
93/ 67 0.03
77/ 65 0.14
61/ 51 0.35
63/ 51 0.33
86/ 68 0
90/ 64 0.05
65/ 54 0.17
93/ 75 0
84/ 63 0
74/ 62 0
70/ 57 0.12
95/ 63 0
79/ 59 0
81/ 72 0.05
67/ 56 0.35
77/ 64 0
88/ 60 0
89/ 67 0
74/ 59 0.08
69/ 59 0.19
90/ 65 0
91/ 63 0
Today
67/ 54 Sh
90/ 71 T
88/ 62 T
66/ 52 Sh
94/ 68 PC
75/ 60 T
64/ 50 PC
62/ 50 Sh
76/ 57 T
74/ 55 T
77/ 58 PC
86/ 75 S
84/ 63 S
78/ 63 S
65/ 54 T
93/ 62 S
81/ 65 PC
80/ 69 T
74/ 63 PC
69/ 52 Sh
87/ 60 T
88/ 66 PC
78/ 61 PC
80/ 61 PC
91/ 67 T
94/ 70 S
Tomorrow
65/ 57 T
83/ 71 PC
75/ 55 C
66/ 55 T
89/ 64 T
71/ 57 T
65/ 51 Sh
63/ 50 Sh
71/ 53 PC
72/ 54 T
78/ 61 Sh
87/ 74 PC
86/ 65 S
87/ 67 S
68/ 57 PC
92/ 64 PC
86/ 67 PC
78/ 68 PC
69/ 54 R
70/ 56 PC
73/ 55 T
85/ 64 S
83/ 62 S
72/ 57 R
78/ 62 T
91/ 60 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
82/ 75 0.01
69/ 53 0.04
81/ 60 0
90/ 74 0.12
90/ 78 0.05
86/ 76 0.15
72/ 53 0.06
91/ 73 0
78/ 53 0
91/ 76 0
90/ 75 0.14
73/ 42 0
88/ 71 0.05
82/ 55 0
60/ 55 0.09
80/ 59 0
Today
91/ 80 T
81/ 75 PC
70/ 51 C
84/ 65 T
92/ 71 PC
91/ 80 T
87/ 79 PC
73/ 58 T
95/ 72 PC
87/ 64 S
91/ 79 PC
85/ 73 T
85/ 57 S
90/ 72 T
85/ 64 S
69/ 55 PC
80/ 53 T
Tomorrow
91/ 78 T
80/ 75 PC
74/ 51 PC
81/ 63 T
89/ 72 T
90/ 78 T
88/ 76 Sh
71/ 56 T
94/ 70 T
88/ 70 PC
91/ 76 PC
88/ 75 T
88/ 66 PC
87/ 72 T
88/ 68 PC
72/ 59 S
70/ 48 Sh
South America
Buenos Aires
Caracas
Lima
Quito
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
Yesterday
61/ 46 0
88/ 76 0.12
69/ 60 0
63/ 52 0.40
82/ 73 0.11
73/ 64 0.01
50/ 36 0
Today
59/ 45 C
88/ 77 PC
70/ 59 C
73/ 51 C
83/ 74 PC
74/ 60 PC
61/ 34 PC
Tomorrow
59/ 50 R
88/ 78 PC
71/ 60 PC
75/ 52 R
84/ 73 PC
74/ 63 PC
61/ 35 PC
Record
lows
Low
Precipitation (in inches)
90°
Record
high 96°
(1888)
Yesterday ............... 0.00
Record .................... 1.46
Normal
high 82°
For the last 365 days
Actual ................... 39.05
Normal .................. 49.92
83°
3 p.m.
80°
For the last 30 days
Actual ..................... 3.67
Normal .................... 4.53
LAST 30 DAYS
70°
Normal
low 66°
69°
5 a.m.
60°
THU.
12
a.m.
Avg. daily departure
from normal
this month ............. +0.9°
Humidity
High ........... 30.09 4 p.m.
Low ............ 29.91 1 a.m.
High ............. 81% 3 a.m.
Low.............. 36% 2 p.m.
Cooling Degree Days
Record
low 52°
(1932)
4
p.m.
Air pressure
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
YESTERDAY
50°
Cities
Forecast
range
High
6
a.m.
12
4
p.m. p.m.
Avg. daily departure
from normal
this year ................ +2.1°
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday ................................................................... 11
So far this month ...................................................... 172
So far this season (since January 1)........................ 291
Normal to date for the season ................................. 221
Trends
Last
Temperature
Average
Below
Above
Precipitation
Average
Below
Above
10 days
30 days
90 days
365 days
Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Yesterday ............... 94%
Est. normal ............. 96%
Recreational Forecast
Sun, Moon and Planets
Last Quarter
New
Beach and Ocean Temperatures
First Quarter
Full
Today’s forecast
June 27
Sun
RISE
SET
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7:02 a.m.
5:26 a.m.
8:31 p.m.
5:26 a.m.
11:24 a.m.
12:16 a.m.
4:11 a.m.
6:35 p.m.
July 11
July 19
6:58 p.m.
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S
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10:43 a.m.
12:01 a.m.
11:49 a.m.
2:48 a.m.
5:16 p.m.
5:48 a.m.
8:55 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 northeast, then east at 7-14
knots. Waves will be 3-5 feet on the ocean and 1-2
feet on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor.
Visibility will generally be clear to the horizon.
High Tides
Atlantic City ................. 11:46 a.m. ............ 11:59 p.m.
Barnegat Inlet ............. 12:07 p.m. .......................... --The Battery ................. 12:44 p.m. .......................... --Beach Haven ............... 12:55 a.m. .............. 1:36 p.m.
Bridgeport ..................... 3:13 a.m. .............. 3:48 p.m.
City Island ...................... 2:52 a.m. .............. 3:24 p.m.
Fire Island Lt. ............... 12:23 a.m. .............. 1:04 p.m.
Montauk Point .............. 12:54 a.m. .............. 1:37 p.m.
Northport ....................... 3:15 a.m. .............. 3:48 p.m.
Port Washington ............ 3:00 a.m. .............. 3:33 p.m.
Sandy Hook ................ 12:18 p.m. .......................... --Shinnecock Inlet ......... 12:05 p.m. .......................... --Stamford ........................ 3:16 a.m. .............. 3:51 p.m.
Tarrytown ....................... 1:44 a.m. .............. 2:33 p.m.
Willets Point ................... 2:53 a.m. .............. 3:26 p.m.
Kennebunkport
74/53 Mostly sunny
Cape Cod
75/55 Mostly sunny
L.I. North Shore
84/61 Mostly sunny
L.I. South Shore
79/65 Mostly sunny
N.J. Shore
76/62 Mostly sunny
Eastern Shore
81/58 Sunshine
60s
70s
Ocean City Md.
74/63 Mostly sunny
Virginia Beach
78/68 Mostly sunny
Color bands
indicate water
temperature.
High pressure will provide a mostly sunny
sky across the region. However, a few
more clouds and a passing morning
shower cannot be completely ruled out
around Virginia Beach. High temperatures
will range from the middle and upper 60s
across some of the northern New England
beaches to the upper 70s in the south.
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Pardon Me, Could You Point Me to the Cos Cob Train?
Grand Central Terminal (that’s a set) communed with Radio City Music Hall (the real thing), including a healthy dose of actors and kicky Rockettes, on Thursday night as “New York Spectacular”
opened. The show follows an out-of-town teenage girl and her little brother who are lost in New York and trying to reunite with their parents. A review by Laura Collins-Hughes, Page 6.
A Juliet Grown Older,
Yet Still Ardently Young
Alessandra Ferri, returning to
the role of Juliet at 53, on Thursday, was recognizably the same
dancer she was 10, 20, 30 years ago
— and unmistakably different. The
performance was of
Kenneth MacMillan’s
“Romeo and Juliet,” at
the Metropolitan
Opera House; the
DANCE
company was AmeriREVIEW
can Ballet Theater,
with which Ms. Ferri, for over 20
years (1986-2007), enjoyed her
greatest triumphs. Though she is
an Italian who began her career in
London, it’s here in New York that
she has been most loved.
The plasticity, liquidity and
effortless eloquence of her movement seem unchanged. Her stage
persona remains vivid, ardent,
rapturous, impulsive and compelling. And in the miraculous Herman Cornejo, she finds a Romeo
who shares those virtues. Both
ALASTAIR
MACAULAY
have charm; neither cultivates it.
The youthful intensity they share
in this ballet has nothing sweet
about it; it does have tremendous
pathos.
Her vividly particular acting on
Thursday, more than in any of the
Juliets I have seen her dance —
from her 1984 debut in the role with
the Royal Ballet, to her 2007 Ballet
Theater farewell performance —
keenly brought lines from Shakespeare’s play to mind. The dilemma of “My only love born from my
only hate,” when the Nurse explains to her who Romeo is; the
passionate declaration of “My
bounty is boundless as the sea/My
love as deep” in the balcony love
scene; and the anguish of “Then,
window, let day in and let life out,”
as she sends Romeo from her
bedroom into exile: Ms. Ferri
piercingly evoked those moments.
The movement of her thought was
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Romeo and Juliet Alessandra Ferri
and Herman Cornejo performing in
Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Space Aliens
Playing
With Fire
If you’ve seen one movie apocalypse, you have seen them all, at
least if it was directed by Roland
Emmerich. For the last two
decades, Mr. Emmerich has carved
out his own perverse
subgenre with megamovies about megacalamities in which a
happy few fight, joke
FILM
and triumph despite
REVIEW
alien invasion, a radioactive lizard, the Mayan calendar,
melting polar ice and scene after
scene of computer-generated mayhem. Even when he scales down,
narrowing his cinematic gun sights
on smaller stories (“White House
Down”), Mr. Emmerich goes big
MANOHLA
DARGIS
BARRIE WENTZELL
Jimi Hendrix in 1969 in the apartment he shared with Kathy Etchingham in
the Mayfair section of London, now part of the Handel & Hendrix museum.
Cheek by Jowl,
Hendrix and Handel
By FARAH NAYERI
LONDON — In the summer of 1968,
fresh from a year of touring and recording, Jimi Hendrix rented a small apartment in London with his British girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, and decorated
it himself in a style that might be described today as hippie chic.
Hendrix pinned shawls to a wall, piled
rugs on the floor and decked the mantel
with ostrich feathers. The couple spent
lazy afternoons in the apartment, at 23
Brook Street in Mayfair, playing board
games, listening to records and watching
episodes of the television saga “Coronation Street.”
The apartment was next door to the former home of a German-born composer as
famous in his day as Hendrix was in the
late 1960s: Georg Frideric Handel. Handel
lived in the Georgian house at 25 Brook
Street for 36 years, from 1723 until his
death, and since 2001, it has operated as a
museum. The trust behind the museum
also holds the lease on the upper floors of
No. 23, and in February, Hendrix’s apartment, recreated with period artifacts and
reproductions, opened to the public in an
unlikely coupling of the Baroque and the
psychedelic.
Ms. Etchingham, now 70, acted as a
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Opened on Friday
and then bigger.
So, here he is again, going once
more unto the blockbuster breach
with “Independence Day: Resurgence,” a sequel to “Independence Day,” his amusing 1996 boxoffice behemoth. The earlier movie
is best remembered for its shocker
of a sales pitch: a shot of the White
House being blown up by a shaft of
alien light, an image that was as
giddily funny as it was horrific to
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INSIDE
‘Shuffle Along’ Heartbreak
Debate abounds after the show
says it can’t go on without
Audra McDonald, PAGE 3.
Building Each Night’s Stairway to Heaven
In “Almost Famous,” Cameron Crowe’s
honey-hued, semiautobiographical film
about a teenage music
reporter among rock’s
golden gods, the music
critic Lester Bangs (Philip
Seymour Hoffman) gives
TELEVISION
young William (Patrick
REVIEW
Fugit) perhaps the best
arts-journalism advice ever committed
to screen.
“You cannot make friends with the
rock stars,” Bangs says, nor with folks in
JAMES
PONIEWOZIK
ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Roadies
Sunday on Showtime
the music business: “These people are
not your friends. These are people who
want you to write sanctimonious stories
about the genius of rock stars, and they
will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it. They’re trying
to buy respectability for a form that is
gloriously and righteously dumb.”
How did the same man who wrote and
directed this unforgettable scene create
“Roadies”? Mr. Crowe’s new series,
beginning Sunday on Showtime, comes
from the same place: love for the art.
But this time, Mr. Crowe loves his subject too well and too blindly, producing a
lecture in Rockology 101 that is dramatically flaccid, burdened by respect — and,
yes, sanctimonious.
“Roadies,” per the title, is not about
the people who make the music. It’s
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Hendrix and Handel,
United in a Museum
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consultant on the project, which
cost about 2.4 million pounds, or
about $3.5 million. The museum —
now called Handel & Hendrix in
London — expects to welcome
about 50,000 visitors in its first
year, up from 20,000 annually
when it was just Handel’s house.
The opening of the Hendrix
wing has allowed the museum to
reach younger audiences and “become a house that celebrates music,” said Michelle Aland, the director and chief executive of Handel & Hendrix, which has also added a 40-seat studio for teaching
and performing music.
“We’ve moved from just Baroque and Handel to rock ’n’ roll to
music in general,” Ms. Aland said.
It was Ms. Etchingham, who
now lives in Melbourne, Australia,
who found the £30-a-week apartment through a newspaper ad in
June 1968. The immediate neighbors were shops and businesses,
so the landlord had no objections
renting to a rock musician, she
said in a telephone interview.
The couple had met in September 1966 at Scotch of St. James, a
nightclub where Ms. Etchingham,
then a hairdresser and D.J., previously worked. A no-nonsense 20year-old, she was a habitué of the
music scene: She knew members
of the Beatles and the Rolling
Stones and had once danced with
David Bowie.
Yet she was mesmerized by
Hendrix, who was building his
reputation with blistering live
shows in the city’s clubs.
“I’d never seen anybody like
him before, and neither had anyone else,” Ms. Etchingham recalled. “He was very, very funny,
and amusing, and good company.”
His flamboyant performances, in
which he occasionally lit his guitar
on fire, were “all an act,” she said:
“What he did on the stage, he didn’t do privately.”
The centerpiece of the museum’s Hendrix wing is his colorful
living room, which contains an
oval wood-framed mirror in which
he combed his hair (a loan from
Ms. Etchingham). Everything
else — the furniture and fabrics,
the floral lampshade, the Bakelite
phones, the refrigerator-size
speakers — has either been reproduced or sourced at auctions of
1960s memorabilia.
Hendrix picked thick turquoise
velvet curtains (designed to keep
the light out, given how late the
couple slept); these have now
been made to match in more or
less the same shade. His flamered carpeting has been replicated
from a tuft of the original that was
found stuck on a nail. The pink-
Baroque meets
psychedelic.
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Kathy Etchingham, 70, in the restored bedroom she once shared with Jimi Hendrix in London.
and-orange striped bedspread is
also exactly as it was, Ms. Etchingham said; it was rewoven
based on the original, owned by
the Hard Rock Cafe.
A vintage match has even been
found for a British Overseas Airways Corporation travel bag containing his guitar-repair kit. (The
original sold at auction in 2014 for
£10,625, or about $15,740.)
The museum also has a room
with wall-to-wall album covers
representing Hendrix’s record
collection, and a central foyer
(once part of Handel’s attic) with
explanatory texts and photographs, as well as videos that include a fuzzy color clip in which
Hendrix plays “Hound Dog” while
Ms. Etchingham and others wiggle to the beat. An Epiphone FT79
guitar that he plays in the clip is
displayed in the foyer, on loan
from its owner.
Hendrix was tidy, Ms. Etchingham recalled: He always made
the bed, and “didn’t have a situation where he had socks all over
the place or anything like that.”
When Hendrix wasn’t in the
United States recording or touring, the couple would often spend
afternoons in a record store,
where he would choose albums
because of a particular riff or set
of chords and sometimes listen to
them only once or twice. He
bought the Bee Gees’ first album
because of the harmonies, Ms.
Etchingham said, and Handel’s
“Messiah” when he learned of the
Brook Street connection.
Otherwise, the couple played
Monopoly, watched TV and ordered hamburgers and bottles of
Mateus rosé from the downstairs
restaurant. Ms. Etchingham also
poured Hendrix cups of tea, a beverage he sneered at initially. At
night, musicians and performers
swarmed the apartment to watch
Hendrix play, and braver ones —
like the jazz musician Rahsaan
Roland Kirk — would join in. Some
guests would stay the night, Ms.
Etchingham said; George Harri-
son once slept in the upstairs
room.
“There were no wild parties —
no, never,” she said, emphasizing
that the only drug in the house
was marijuana. “There were
friends coming around, people
playing music, bringing their instruments, doing a bit of jamming.”
Ms. Etchingham and Hendrix
stayed together for nearly three
years; she is cited as the inspiration for songs including “The
Wind Cries Mary.” (Mary is her
middle name.)
After Hendrix started taking
heavier drugs, the couple split up.
“Somewhere along the line, I realized that this is not going to be
anything that I’d want long term,”
she said.
Ms. Etchingham has played a
role in Hendrix’s legacy since his
death in 1970 in London. She campaigned to have English Heritage,
a charity that oversees historic
sites in England, install a plaque
on the building in 1997, paving the
way for the museum. In 1998 she
published a memoir recounting
their relationship, “Through
Gypsy Eyes.”
Did Ms. Etchingham ever have
a sense that she was living with a
genius? “No,” she said. “I couldn’t
have foreseen that nobody else
would have come along as good.”
On ‘Roadies,’ They’re Building Each Night’s Stairway to Heaven
about the people who make the
music happen: the managers
and crew of the fictional StatonHouse Band. We rarely see the
band members and barely hear
their music (from the descriptions, it’s somewhere on the
guitar-based dad-rock spectrum). They exist at the edges,
like deities in a Greek drama.
We spend our time with their
acolytes. The tour manager, Bill
(Luke Wilson), loves the road
but is feeling the pull of middleage loneliness. The production
manager, Shelli (Carla Gugino),
holds down a long-distance
marriage with a husband who’s
also in the business. And the
electrician, Kelly Ann (Imogen
Poots), a millennial with a classic-rock soul, is thinking about
packing it all in for film school.
Around the agreeable leads is
an ersatz family of misfits and
music obsessives who trade
banter and Replacements
bootlegs. (You feel the touch
here of Mr. Crowe, who has
always endearingly made his
movies like mixtapes.)
The show’s hangout moments
are its most enjoyable. At heart,
it’s a mash note to people who
love their jobs, like the series of
Aaron Sorkin. Think of it as “The
Bluesroom.”
But like Mr. Sorkin’s TV work,
“Roadies” cranks its characters’
righteous passion up to 11. In the
first episode, the gruff road
manager, Phil (Ron White),
holds forth to the young crew
members about the venerable
history they are privileged to
step into. He shows them a necklace as if it were a piece of the
True Cross, saying it was given
him by Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie
Van Zant in 1976. Asks one
roadie: “Who’s Robbie Van
Zant?”
If you don’t know Ronnie Van
Zant, “Roadies” will thank you to
get off its damn tour bus. It
fetishizes guitar-guy authenticity like a vinyl hipster does firstpressing LPs. There are repeated digs at Taylor Swift, on
whose crew, apparently, a man
might double his salary but lose
his very soul.
But at least that’s a point of
view; ultimately, “Roadies,” in
the three episodes screened,
suffers from a lack of story. It
KATIE YU/SHOWTIME
Carla Gugino, left, and Richard Colson Baker, a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly, in “Roadies,” a series about the people behind the scenes who make the music happen.
relies on hoary life-on-the-road
plots, including an excruciating
one about an unhinged groupie
(Jacqueline Byers).
The chief conflict comes from
Reg (Rafe Spall), the band’s
British cost-cutting financial
adviser. He might have been an
interesting foil, but he’s written
as a twit and poseur who refers
to the music of “Mr. Pink Floyd,”
a version of a joke the band Pink
Floyd made on “Have a Cigar” in
1975. (“Oh by the way, which
one’s Pink?”)
TV series about rock lately
have an only marginally better
track record than drummers for
Spinal Tap. The bombastic “Vinyl,” which breathed the musky
fumes of the 1970s scene in between toots of cocaine, was just
canceled by HBO. FX’s comedy
“Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,” with
Denis Leary, returns Thursday
still suffering from dated gags
about rock dinosaurs measuring
their microphones.
“Roadies” could be better than
these. Mr. Crowe’s strength is
rendering earnest, uncynical
love visual. But here it’s a flaw.
He loves his passionate underdogs too much to challenge them
in the sustained way that serial
TV requires. It’s simply their
dogged dedication against
haters, bean counters and cynics
who are repeatedly, easily, shown
wrong.
The best version of this show,
one I could imagine working, is a
bittersweet workplace dramedy
about people dedicated to a
business squeezed by financial
change. (I’m a newspaper journalist. I could relate.) It peeks
out occasionally in the first two
episodes, especially the second,
written by the executive
producer Winnie Holzman (“My
So-Called Life”).
But it’s crushed in the awful,
smarmy third episode, in which
Rainn Wilson plays an arrogant,
phony live-action Grinch of a
music blogger who trashes a
Staton-House show he never
attended. The episode stuffs his
hissable character with hubris
like a piñata, then passes around
a stick.
But then, I’m a television
critic; don’t listen to me. Listen
to Lester Bangs, who reminded
us, through Mr. Crowe, that it is
possible and necessary to love a
thing yet see it clearly, that an
excess of reverence is not rock’s
friend.
A Juliet Who Has Grown Older, Yet Still Young in Ardor and Grace
evident in every movement of
her body.
The famous arches of her feet,
however, have grown yet more
strangely pronounced. Though
they were part of her beauty,
they are now part of her frailty.
She has lost both security and
speed. Yet I was reminded of
what the opera critic Michael
Scott wrote of the great soprano
Lotte Lehmann: “And her faults,
what of them?” He added, “One
may as well complain that the
Venus de Milo has no arms.” Ms.
Ferri today, though physically
more vulnerable than before, is
so complete an artist that this
becomes part of her whole stage
persona. When she was young,
she was inspiringly reckless; but
American Ballet Theater’s “Romeo and Juliet” ends Saturday.
Its season at the Metropolitan
Opera House ends July 2; abt.org.
today she is more touching.
Mr. Cornejo — now in his
prime, an artist yet more versatile, resourceful and bewildering
than she — devoted himself
selflessly to her. Though his
technique is exciting, it’s all
subordinated to expression. His
jumps’ height and his turns’
speed matter less than their
windblown, tilting ecstasy and
shining, boyish fervor. How can
this paragon of adolescent lyricism also be the mature prince
or witty imp we see in other
ballets? We do and we don’t
know him; he dissolves his
immense energy and skill differently into each role.
Ms. Ferri and he interacted
brilliantly. Familiar moments —
the way they, motionless, as if
transfixed, gazed at each other
across the space at the start of
the balcony scene — seemed
newly potent. Other moments —
the suggestion of a fleeting
disagreement in the bedroom
scene — seemed their own in-
vention, superbly judged.
Ms. Ferri’s new quality of
pathos is matched by another
new gift for expressive stillness.
MacMillan’s choreography has
always been punctuated by
moments of immobility, but only
now did those all seem to point
the way to the final great stasis
of death.
Earlier in the week, I caught
two other Ballet Theater casts.
Diana Vishneva’s Juliet, ravishing in the past and still
superficially exquisite, on Tuesday tipped over into a study in
narcissism. Sadder yet is a loss
of freshness in her Romeo,
Marcelo Gomes. Conscious
charm rather than poignancy
pervaded all their scenes.
The partnership of Isabella
Boylston’s Juliet and James
Whiteside’s Romeo (Wednesday
afternoon) was entirely dewy,
affecting, spontaneous. Few
dancers anywhere have the
springing ease of Ms. Boylston’s
feet; they, like everything about
Herman Cornejo of American Ballet Theater as Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet,” at the Metropolitan Opera House.
her, caught the impetuousness
essential to MacMillan’s conception of Juliet. Mr. Whiteside
sometimes lacks dance polish,
but he and she share the same
focus and immediacy.
MacMillan (1929-92), having
made this “Romeo” for the Royal
Ballet in 1965, made several
adjustments when he staged it
for Ballet Theater in 1985 —
principally, giving the mandolin
dance lead role to Mercutio, for
whom it becomes here the high,
soon before the crash of his
death scene. One or two misguided adjustments have arrived
in recent years, however: notably, the unnecessary, even coy,
moment when Juliet kneels
beside Romeo during the balcony pas de deux. Here my
memories stretch back. This
“Romeo” in the years 1974-76
was part of my own conversion
to dance.
As for Ms. Ferri, I realize —
having watched her dance with
the Royal Ballet School in 1980
and having seen the world premieres of one-act ballets
MacMillan made for her in 1983
and 1984 — that there is no artist
I have watched longer or
through so many stages. And yet
greedily, I ask for more. May she
return as Juliet and in other
roles.
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Sudden Decision to Close ‘Shuffle Along’ Is Debated Along Broadway
By MICHAEL PAULSON
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Brandon Victor Dixon and Audra McDonald in “Shuffle
Along,” which has announced a closing date of July 24.
On Tuesday afternoon, more
than a dozen members of the ensemble of “Shuffle Along” gathered at the Midtown Manhattan
headquarters of Actors’ Equity,
cradling trophies in the shape of
gold stars as they were honored as
the best chorus on Broadway.
Two days later, the cast was
again summoned to a gathering,
this time at the Music Box Theater, just before curtain for the
Thursday evening show. And this
time, the news was bad: The musical, while still selling nearly a
million dollars in tickets a week,
would close July 24.
The turnabout in fortunes had a
simple explanation, according to
the producers: That was the date
that the show’s best-known star,
Audra McDonald, was beginning
a maternity leave, and the show’s
sales had dropped precipitously in
anticipation of her departure.
The performer who was to succeed Ms. McDonald, the musician
Rhiannon Giddens, was despondent. “My heart is broken,” she said
on Twitter. “Completely and utterly. Now to pick up the pieces.”
Others were unhappy too. Adrienne Warren, nominated for a
Tony for her performance,
tweeted an emoji of a broken
heart. Ms. McDonald jumped into
the social media conversation, describing herself as “devastated.”
The show’s lead producer, Scott
Rudin, said in a statement Thursday that ticket sales were to
blame: “The need for Audra to
take a prolonged and unexpected
hiatus from the show has determined the unfortunate inevitability of our running at a loss for significantly longer than the show
can responsibly absorb.” He declined to talk further on Friday,
and other producers of the show
did not respond to requests for
A producer’s call
leaves some puzzled.
comment; Ms. McDonald also declined to be interviewed.
But the closing was the talk of
Broadway, because the show, with
a full title of “Shuffle Along, or the
Making of the Musical Sensation
of 1921 and All That Followed,” involved a large number of celebrated artists, including a Tony-winning director and book writer,
George C. Wolfe, and the
choreographer Savion Glover, as
well as the performers Brian
Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter and
Brandon Victor Dixon. The show,
about the development and aftermath of an early all-black musical
on Broadway, was nominated for
10 Tony awards, but won none.
“I’m quite surprised, given the
pretty favorable reviews, and the
rest of the cast — I wasn’t sure it
was a hit in the sense of whether it
would recoup, but I did not think
Audra’s departure would result in
such a falloff,” said John Breglio,
an entertainment lawyer and author of “I Wanna Be a Producer.”
Mr. Rudin has made tough decisions before. This month, he left a
British musical adaptation of
“Groundhog Day,” which he
planned to help bring to Broadway, citing unhappiness with the
way his role in the project had
evolved. In 2013, he announced he
would close “The Testament of
Mary” on the same day it was
nominated for a best play Tony
award, citing poor ticket sales.
The “Shuffle” announcement
comes during a tough period for
many Broadway producers. Of the
11 new musicals that opened during the theatrical season that just
ended, only four — “Hamilton,”
“On Your Feet!,” “School of Rock”
and “Waitress” — survive.
Ms. McDonald, who with six
Tony awards is one of Broadway’s
biggest stars, had always planned
to take time away from “Shuffle”
this summer — before she became
pregnant, she had been scheduled
to spend three months in London
reprising her role in “Lady Day at
Emerson’s Bar & Grill.”
But her London leave was
scheduled to begin in June, so she
would have been gone primarily
during the summer, when Broad-
Chasing After Wildness,
Sometimes Catching It
SIOBHAN
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Some of a Thousand Words Wendy
Whelan and Brian Brooks in this
suite of dances at the Shubert
Theater in New Haven.
Two performers create
a study in contrasts.
stage are Ms. Whelan, Mr.
Brooks and, supplying the lush
musical landscape, the members
of the string quartet Brooklyn
Rider. The work’s five sections —
to music by Tyondai Braxton,
John Luther Adams, Philip Glass
and Brooklyn Rider’s Colin Jacobsen — culminate in “First
Fall,” which has grown more
daring and more refined since its
“Restless” days, a thrilling finale.
It’s the best thing about this
project, too.
The preceding sections could
be studies in choreographic
components of “First Fall” — the
lifts and falls and other exchanges of weight; the ethereal
entangling of limbs — as if Mr.
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Brooks were teasing out, or
zooming in on, existing material.
After an opening solo for Ms.
Whelan, her legs all slicing arcs
and shooting vectors, Mr. Brooks
joins her, and they explore simply swinging their arms atop
various walking patterns, imbu-
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ing the exercise with Trisha
Brownian ease. Their contrasting
qualities of movement — Ms.
Whelan’s angular alertness, Mr.
Brooks’s rounder softness —
keep it interesting.
Here and elsewhere, you can
sense their minds at work, as if
the choreography were still
filtering from brain to body. In a
section with two chairs, they play
with chasing, catching, propelling and restraining each other,
reflecting both the fragmentation
and the flow of the music. Yet the
score achieves a wildness they
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they really dive in. The signature
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her toes and falling back, one
razor-sharp line, onto Mr.
Brooks’s crouched body. Crawling under her weight — and it’s
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and resistance here that, with
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rest of the work.
PHOTO BY SAM EMERSON
NEW HAVEN — When Wendy
Whelan, the former New York
City Ballet principal, unveiled
“Restless Creature” in 2013, the
best thing about it was her duet
with Brian Brooks.
The project included
four duets by and with
four contemporary
choreographers who
DANCE nudged Ms. Whelan in
REVIEW new directions after
her nearly 30 years as a ballerina. Mr. Brooks, compact beside
Ms. Whelan’s sinewy length,
drew out a dancer we hadn’t
seen, while not obscuring her
cool, crystalline allure. (Perhaps
not coincidentally, his work has
become increasingly in demand.)
That duet, “First Fall,” has
given rise to a new suite, “Some
of a Thousand Words,” which had
its premiere on Thursday at the
Shubert Theater here as part of
the International Festival of Arts
and Ideas. The only people on-
way is flush with tourists; her maternity leave was scheduled to begin a month later, and to last twice
as long, meaning the show would
have to survive without her
through the fall and winter.
Some fans of the show were angry about the closing, suggesting
that the producers should have
been better prepared, or should
have supported it for longer given
its significance to African-American theatrical history. Others
were unhappy with the focus on
Ms. McDonald’s pregnancy.
“It was just mishandled all
around,” said Andrew Shade, the
founder and editorial director of
BroadwayBlack, a website that
champions black performers and
creators in theater. “We knew she
was leaving to go do ‘Lady Day,’
and maybe now she’s going to be
gone a little longer, but the show
was very well done, and it bothers
me that we’re losing a great gem.”
But others saw the decision as
smart producing. The $12 million
show will close at a loss, but by
closing next month, it is likely to
be able to return some portion of
that money to investors, because
thus far it has been making an operating profit each week.
“As a commercial producer,
you’re responsible to your
investors, and this is probably a
better decision than losing all that
money,” said Steven Chaikelson, a
professor of theater management
at Columbia University.
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A Superhero Who Defies Gravity, Despite a Heavy Burden
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
Chalice is a new superhero who
can manipulate gravity so that she
can fly. Chalice is also Charlie
Young, a male college student,
who, unbeknown to his family, is
beginning to transition to female.
Unlike most superheroes, who
have to maintain one secret identity, Chalice has two.
And so begins Alters, a series
from AfterShock Comics, coming
in September, that will introduce
Chalice in a central role.
The series was created by the
writer Paul Jenkins, a comics veteran whose credits include Origin,
which detailed the early days of
Wolverine. Mr. Jenkins has pursued the project since 2005. He
gives a lot of credit to his mother, a
gay single mom who raised him
and his brother in Dorset, England. “If we ever get to a point
where issues such as race, sexuality and gender identity are a
nonissue, we will have arrived,”
he said. “That’s my Mum talking
A forthcoming series
introduces Chalice, a
protagonist who hides
two identities.
right there.”
With the Alters — the comic’s
term for people with some kind of
empowering anomaly — Mr. Jenkins, 50, is set to explore characters
who have special abilities and
physical, chemical or mental challenges. One story will focus on an
unattractive heroine. “The TMZ
report would be ‘Ugly Chick Saves
World,’ ” he said. Another will focus on a shape-shifter who becomes quadriplegic and faces a
choice: remain that way and live
or opt for a final change that will
grant mobility but prove fatal after a month.
Mr. Jenkins said that he had al-
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A character sketch of Chalice
by Brian Stelfreeze.
ways planned for a transgender
superhero in the series, but Chalice didn’t fully take shape until he
met a fan, Liz Luu, in 2014, at a convention panel about creating characters. Ms. Luu had an appealing
idea: a transgender hero who hadn’t transitioned yet and could
present as a female only when in
costume.
“She can only be herself when
she’s not herself” is how Mr. Jenkins summarized her. In exchange
for mentoring Ms. Luu, who is
now an executive assistant at the
Cartoon Network, Mr. Jenkins incorporated that idea into Chalice’s
back story.
In some ways, Alters harks
back to Mr. Jenkins’s work for
Marvel Comics, where he created
the Sentry, a Superman-like hero
with schizophrenia.
Mr. Jenkins said that he firmly
believed that Alters would not
turn into a series of moral lessons
in which everyone learns about
tolerance and grows as a person.
“The most important thing in approaching this book is for me to
concentrate on these characters
as heroes and villains, and to let
these things come out during the
process,” he said.
A transgender superhero is
rare, but not unusual in the current world of comics, where the industry has made efforts to be
more reflective of the real world.
Recent superheroes have been
lesbian, Muslim, plus-sized and
more. Next month will introduce
Kim & Kim, a sci-fi adventure
from Black Mask Studios, about
two bounty hunters — one a trans
woman, the other bisexual — who
are best friends. There is also
TransCat, an independently published humor comic about a transgender heroine.
“The big news about diversity
in comics is that we now have diversity in comics — in the people
who actually create the material
and also in the characters depicted,” Mark Evanier, a comic
book historian, said. “When I was
growing up, every hero might just
as well have been the same welltoned male in a different costume.”
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Opera fans live for the moments when a big-voiced singer
fills a soaring melody with raw
emotion and thrilling sound. But
there’s a limit: Daniel Catán’s
opera “Florencia
en el Amazonas”
(“Florencia in the
Amazon”) is made
up almost entirely
OPERA
of effusive melodic
REVIEW
lines.
That’s certainly the way it
came across on Wednesday at
the Rose Theater at Jazz at
Lincoln Center, where New York
City Opera presented the New
York premiere of “Florencia,”
first heard in 1996 at the Houston
Grand Opera. The overwrought
lyricism and lack of musical
subtlety kept turning the opera
melodramatic, even maudlin.
This current production, directed by John Hoomes, was
originally presented at the Nashville Opera last year and is the
latest offering from the resuscitated version of City Opera,
which had gone under in 2013.
The characters in “Florencia,”
with a Spanish libretto by
Marcelo Fuentes-Berain, are
inspired by the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, though
the opera is not based on any
specific work of his. The story
follows a group of South Americans on a steamboat journey
down the Amazon to Manaus,
the jungle city, where they believe Florencia Grimaldi, a
world-famous, reclusive soprano,
has agreed to sing. Among the
group, it turns out, is Florencia,
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New York City Opera Elizabeth Caballero stars as a famous singer traveling incognito in “Florencia en el Amazonas,” at the Rose Theater.
who is searching for a former
lover, a butterfly hunter who
shaped her young life 20 years
earlier.
The opera touches on potentially rich themes: that love can
unleash creativity; that mutual
devotion and personal freedom
are not incompatible. The Mexican-born Mr. Catán, who died in
2011 at 62, brought sure skills as
an orchestrator and colorist to
his music. Here and there, passages of gritty harmonic intensity, brief eruptions of skittish
instrumental lines, and other
restless touches remind you that
he earned a doctorate at Princeton under the serialist Milton
Babbitt.
Overall, though, his musical
language is unabashedly neoRomantic. In scene after scene,
the characters break into seemingly inevitable, luxurious lyrical
flights. Puccini is the model,
though he was a more savvy
dramatist who saved soaring
melodies for crucial moments.
The sounds of nature, from
chirping jungle birds to the
surging currents of the river, are
effectively captured in Mr.
Catán’s orchestral writing, evocative of Debussy and Stravinsky.
But the orchestra also swells
with hokey cinematic outbursts.
The story becomes sunk in
heavy-handed symbolism when
a storm sets the boat adrift and
sets off a night of soul-searching
for the characters.
The conductor Dean
Williamson drew colorful, shimmering playing from the City
Opera orchestra. The cast was
excellent, starting with the
plush-toned, expressive soprano
Elizabeth Caballero as Florencia.
The soprano Sarah BeckhamTurner brought a warm voice
and earnestness to Rosalba, a
young journalist working on a
biography of Grimaldi. Rosalba
at first resists, but finally accepts, the love of Arcadio, the
captain’s nephew, here the ardent tenor Won Whi Choi. Lisa
Chaves and Luis Ledesma threw
themselves into several scenes
as a long-married, frequently
quarreling couple who rekindle
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CHICAGO
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TONY YAZBECK
FINDING NEVERLAND
Directed by Tony Winner Diane Paulus
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“INSPIRATIONAL AND HIGH-SPIRITED.”
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KINKY BOOTS
Groups (10+): 1-800-BROADWAY
Tu & Th 7; We & Sa 2 & 8; Fr 8; Su 3
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Al Hirschfeld Theatre (+), 302 W. 45th St.
TODAY AT 2 & 8, TOMORROW AT 3
Lincoln Center Theater Presents
OSLO
A New Play by J.T. Rogers
Directed by Bartlett Sher
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OFF−BROADWAY
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FINAL WEEKS! THRU 9/4 ONLY
Winner! Best Play - 2015 Tony Award
TODAY at 2 & 8; TOMORROW at 3
Starring “Jane the Virgin's” Jaime Camil
Now through July 31
Today at 2:30 & 8, Tomorrow at 2:30 & 7
‘Home Land Security,’
A Show at Presidio
The nonprofit group For-Site,
which took Ai Weiwei’s artwork
to Alcatraz, is planning its next
hot-potato exhibition: “Home
Land Security.” This group show,
about the human costs of war
and nationalism, will take place
Sept. 10 through Dec. 18 in
deactivated military structures
in the Presidio of San Francisco.
The show will use buildings in
Fort Winfield Scott that were
active in the 20th century: a set
of coastal defense batteries, a
Nike missile program administration building and a chapel.
Cheryl Haines, For-Site’s
founder, said she was most intrigued by the batteries: concrete buildings designed for
rapid-fire weaponry. “I’m hoping
these artworks ask questions
like: What is home, what is
safety, what is security, and how
do we erect barriers between one
another individually and nationally?” Ms. Haines said.
The Chicago duo Díaz Lewis
will lead pillow-making workshops in the Nike missile building. Their goal is to create 34,000
pillows — representing the number of beds filled each day with
detained immigrants. Fifteen
other participants have been
confirmed, including the Vietnamese collaborative the Propeller Group; the Syrian artist
Tammam Azzam; the Iranian
artist Shahpour Pouyan; and the
American artist Bill Viola.
The National Park Service, the
Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy and the Presidio
Trust are partners in the project.
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Music, Lyrics & Story by Edie Brickell
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Compiled by Joshua Barone
JORI FINKEL
ridden trip. Kevin Thompson
made a sturdy captain.
The production incorporates
videos behind the action to convey the passing shore and flowing river. In a bold choice, the
currents (and creatures) of the
Amazon are suggested by a
dozen dancers from Ballet
Hispanico’s BHdos company,
wearing full white body suits
and writhing on the floor at the
front of the stage. One lame
touch came when the strong
bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos,
playing Riolobo, the captain’s
mysterious helper, appeared in a
mystical butterfly suit to calm
the storm. If the idea was to
conjure a magical realm, he just
looked silly.
Laughs Inside the Beltway
LAST CHANCE!
FINAL PERFORMANCE TOMORROW
Arts, Briefly
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT
OF THE DOG
IN THE NIGHT-TIME
A New Play by SIMON STEPHENS
Based on the novel by MARK HADDON
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Barrymore Theatre (+), 243 W. 47 St.
SHEAR MADNESS
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Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Book by Jessie Nelson
Directed by Diane Paulus
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th St.
Here I Sit Brokenhearted:
A Bathroom Odyssey
A Seth Panitch Comedy
June 22 - July 9
Wed.-Sat. @ 8, Sun. @ 3
Beckett Theatre
at Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
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Today at 2pm & 8pm!
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HIMSELF AND NORA
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Book, Music, Lyrics by Jonathan Brielle
Tu 7, We 2 & 8, Th-Fr 8, Sa 2 & 8, Su 3
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WASHINGTON — The comedian Bob Saget, best known for “Full
House” and “America’s Funniest
Home Videos,” began his stand-up
set on Thursday by cautioning the
parents with children in the room
to get them out of there immediately. The night’s show would be
crude and rude, he said, and “everything will be offensive.” But he
wasn’t at a dimly lit comedy club
or even a place that checks IDs at
the door. He was onstage in the
grand Concert Hall of the John F.
Kennedy Center — home to some
of the nation’s premier artistic
performances, and, now, a noholds-barred comedy series, the
District of Comedy Festival.
“Some of you may say, ‘Well, is it
appropriate to have a roast in the
Kennedy Center?’” David M. Rubenstein, the center’s chairman,
said before introducing Mr. Saget,
who led a roast of the Democratic
strategist James Carville. “Well,
the answer is, President Kennedy
pretty much invented humor —
self-deprecating humor. Tonight
you won’t hear any self-deprecating humor; you’ll hear a lot of deprecating humor.”
The roast, which also included
the comedians Jeff Ross, Jim Norton and Hari Kondabolu as well as
Mr. Carville’s wife, Mary Matalin,
was one of this inaugural festival’s
headlining events. The roasters
knocked back glasses of Maker’s
Mark on brown leather sofas in
front of a roaring audience, tossing insults, good-natured middle
fingers and embarrassing personThe District of Comedy Festival
runs through Saturday at the
Kennedy Center in Washington;
kennedy-center.org.
al stories Mr. Carville’s way.
The former co-host of CNN’s
“Crossfire,” Mr. Carville is known
for his relationship with the Clintons — a point that earned him
playful scorn throughout the
evening.
“James, come on, don’t you miss
the action of working on a Clinton
campaign?” Triumph the Insult
Comic Dog, who routinely mocks
politicians, asked. “Don’t you just
want to roll up your sleeves and
get in there and delete some
emails yourself?”
The roast and the other headlining event, a tribute to Joan Rivers,
exemplify the Kennedy Center’s
goal of expanding its portfolio to
include art forms it hasn’t
typically showcased. This year
the rapper Q-Tip was installed as
its first hip-hop director, and the
naming this week of Mavis Staples as a Kennedy Center honoree
makes her only the second gospel
artist to receive that distinction,
after Marion Williams in 1993.
Though the four-day festival
concludes Saturday, the center
will feature other comedy acts as
part of its current season.
At the Rivers tribute on
Wednesday night, which included
Aubrey Plaza of “Parks and Recreation,” Gilbert Gottfried, Dick
Cavett and RuPaul, Kelly Osbourne asked the audience to recite Ms. Rivers’s favorite word
while making a V-shape with their
arms. “Vagina!” the audience
cheered back.
The festival also features Jane
Lynch of “Glee”; a jazz and comedy mash-up with Dick Gregory;
stand-up shows by Judd Apatow,
Jay Pharoah and “The Daily
Show”
writers;
and
live
recordings of popular comedy
podcasts.
Some interesting opera may be
ahead for New York. Pierre Audi,
below, who recently became the
Park Avenue Armory’s artistic
director, has been named the
next director of the Aix-enProvence Festival, it was announced on Friday. Mr. Audi, a
stage director and impresario
known for fostering contemporary work, has led the Dutch
National Opera for three
decades. But he’ll give up Amsterdam for Aix in 2018.
In a telephone interview, he
suggested that his taste for collaboration might facilitate crossAtlantic cooperation. “They’re
two sides of
me,” he said of
his positions in
Aix (where the
2019 festival
will be the first
wholly planned
by him) and in
New York. “But
I don’t exclude
that there will be connections.”
Any sharing would be tantalizing: Aix is one of the world’s best
opera immersions. The last time
I was there, in 2012, an enigmatic
multimedia rumination on Huey
Newton and the Black Panthers
sprawled through a park in a
public housing complex. This
year brings a new production of
Debussy’s “Pelléas et
Mélisande,” new takes on “Così
Fan Tutte” and Handel’s “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno,” and the premiere of
“Kalila wa Dimna,” in French and
Arabic. ZACHARY WOOLFE
Souls Grown Deep
Announces a Leader
Maxwell L. Anderson, a museum leader who left the Dallas
Museum of Art last year after
four years as its director, will
become the president of the
Souls Grown Deep Foundation in
Atlanta, which preserves and
promotes works by self-taught
African-American artists, primarily in the South.
The foundation, which presented a major gift of works to
the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in 2014,
grew out of the
collecting of
William S.
Arnett and has
been run by
members of his
family. The
partial handing of the reins to
Mr. Anderson, above, signals the
group’s momentum in working to
place its holdings in important
public collections. (His is a newly
created position.) The foundation’s collection holds important
pieces by artists like Thornton
Dial, Lonnie Holley, Nellie Mae
Rowe and the quilt makers of
Gee’s Bend in Alabama.
Mr. Anderson will direct the
foundation’s operations, along
with his current post of executive
director of the New Cities Foundation. Harry Arnett, one of Mr.
Arnett’s four sons, will become
chairman of the board, succeeding his brother Paul, who will
continue as a trustee.
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American Ballet Company, as Bella Parker
(Nicole Muñoz) gyrates across the stage. That
about sums up this franchise’s third installment,
which finds the troupe dealing with its money
woes by bringing modern dancers. But first —
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THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE on Starz
Play and Starz On Demand. A Chicago law
student and intern (Riley Keough, Elvis
Presley’s granddaughter) works as a prostitute
for money, control and, not incidentally, sex
without attachment in this loose remake of
Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film. This isn’t to say
that relationships, or an approximation thereof,
don’t develop. But her power lies as much in her
intellectualism and transactional savvy as it
does in sexual acrobatics. The 13 episodes,
viewable in one lazy day, “are slight, but the
cumulative effect is dreamlike,” James
Poniewozik wrote in The Times. Alas, “it’s
admirable, ambitious and hard to love. But then,
love is not what ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ is
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Colors and Disciplines
That Don’t Quite Match
Color, Josef Albers wrote in the
introduction to his 1963 book,
“Interaction of Color,” is “the
most relative medium in art.” No
one, in other words, sees the
same hue the same
way.
For “Chromatic,”
the choreographer
Susan Marshall, the
DANCE
composer Jason
REVIEW
Treuting and the
visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra
have joined forces to show how
colors are susceptible to change,
how they affect emotions and
how they evoke different sounds.
One big issue — beyond do
colors have sounds? — has to do
with the difference between
reality and perception when
GIA
KOURLAS
“Chromatic” runs through Saturday at the Kitchen, 512 West 19th
Street, Manhattan; 212-255-5793,
Ext. 11, americandance.org.
sensing color.
In “Chromatic,” part of American Dance Institute’s festival of
works at the Kitchen, there are
piles of colored paper and heaps
of fabric. But perhaps what this
color study really proves is how
challenging it is to make an
inspiring work about an inspiring book. “Chromatic,” which
opened on Thursday, is more of
an art history class than a performance piece. It could use a
firmer directorial hand, but,
more than that, it needs a point
of view.
“Chromatic” begins as Ms.
Marshall and Mr. Treuting sit
impassively behind a table,
holding up pieces of colored
paper (in the yellow family)
while silently commenting on
each one with nearly imperceptible sighs and smiles. As they
continue, they hold smaller
squares on larger ones to show
Chromatic with, from left, Susan
Marshall, Jason Treuting
(standing) and Suzanne
Bocanegra, at the Kitchen.
pleasing (or not) color contrasts
and eventually — you probably
had a hunch it was coming —
toss the pieces into the air until
the stage is aflutter with paper in
shades of lemon and mango.
While Ms. Bocanegra discusses Albers — and also Hans
Richter, Isaac Newton and Ra-
jneesh, an Indian guru whose
disciples on an Oregon commune
wore shades of red — Ms. Marshall and Mr. Treuting illustrate
the experiential side of color.
(Eric Southern’s lighting design
experiments with altering the
shades of primary colors.)
In one scene, Mr. Treuting calls
out numbers that relate to upper
and lower body poses; with her
usual steely precision, Ms. Marshall layers movements, as if to
show the way colors are transformed by pigment and light. But
too much of “Chromatic” is
adrift, landing on the juvenile
side of playful.
Even with the amiable Ms.
Bocanegra as a guide, this presentation of research — and
many slides, which awkwardly,
didn’t always appear as planned
on Thursday — is theatrically
lethargic. A show of light and
color at the end comes too late:
Our eyes never slip into a new
reality.
New York Spectacular The Rockettes performing on Thursday, the opening night of this glittery show, which was directed and choreographed by Mia Michaels, with a new script by Douglas Carter Beane.
Get No Kick From the Rockettes
Parents visiting Manhattan
with their families, I implore
you: Before arrival, formulate a
plan of action in case you and the
kids accidentally lose one another amid the dizzying urban whirl.
If the shiny and
dispiriting new Rockettes extravaganza,
“New York Spectacular,” is any indication,
THEATER
REVIEW failure to do so may
result in your children
crisscrossing the island in search
of you, tracing a convoluted path
that makes no sense logically or
dramatically. On the plus side,
they may come across an impressive kick line or two.
All glamorous athleticism and
martial precision, the Rockettes
are the stars of this sensoryoverload summer show at Radio
LAURA
COLLINSHUGHES
City Music Hall, but the story
woven through it like an excuse
is about a teenage girl and her
little brother lost on the town,
encountering one famous landmark after another: Grand Central Terminal, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Wall Street,
Central Park, and on and on.
A reworking of last year’s
“New York Spring Spectacular,”
this version has the director and
choreographer Mia Michaels (of
TV’s “So You Think You Can
Dance”) at the helm and a new
script by Douglas Carter Beane.
But everything about this
ungainly show feels as if the
creative team was engaged by
Madison Square Garden Entertainment, which presents the
“Spectacular,” to tinker with a
template, fitting their contributions to a fixed idea — which
seems to be, mainly, selling tickets to people who would rather
sit back and watch a sanitized
simulation of the city than engage with the real, messy thing.
Hey, eyes are eyes, right? In
the Times Square scene, the
stage and the auditorium’s
arched ceiling are plastered with
the brightly lit logos of companies that have ads in the program. It’s a brazen and lifeless
display of commercial synergy
and a rare instance of imaginative failure in both set design
(Patrick Fahey) and the otherwise striking video and projection design (Moment Factory).
The show does have its rewards, most of them involving
the Rockettes, majestic from the
minute they stride powerfully
out of a wall of fog in the opening
number, the Taylor Swift song
New York Spectacular
By Douglas Carter Beane; directed and choreographed by Mia Michaels; produced by
Colin Ingram; music produced and arranged by Billy Jay Stein; music and lyrics by
AnnMarie Milazzo and Mr. Stein; vocal design by Ms. Milazzo; sets by Patrick Fahey;
costumes by Esosa; lighting by Alain Lortie; sound by SCK Sound Design; video and
projections by Moment Factory; associate choreographer, Karen Keeler; statue
designer/director, Matt Acheson; action coordinators, Sordelet Ink; music supervisor/
lead conductor, David Kolcenberg; orchestrations by Christopher Jehnke; music
consultant, David Chase; technical director, Larry Morley; production stage manager,
Nancy Pittelman; music contractor, Howard Joines; artistic executive producer,
Laurence Cooper; line producer, Jill DeForte; supervising producers, Larry Sedwick
and Todd Lacy. Presented by Madison Square Garden Entertainment. Through Aug. 7
at Radio City Music Hall; 866-858-0008, rockettes.com. Running time: 1 hour 30
minutes.
WITH: Jenna Ortega and Lilla Crawford (Emily), Euan Morton (Mercury), Vincent
Crocilla (Jacob), Kacie Sheik (Mom/Alice), Danny Gardner (Dad/George M. Cohan),
Kecia Lewis (Lead Female Busker), Jacob ben Widmar (Mad Hatter/Busker), Blaine
Alden Krauss (Lead Male Busker) and the Radio City Rockettes.
“Welcome to New York.” The
high point is their delightfully
splashy tap version of “Singin’ in
the Rain,” performed in a downpour in eye-poppingly yellow
skirted slickers with highly
twirlable flower-blossom
umbrellas (by Esosa).
Patience and Fortitude, the
lions who flank the entrance to
the New York Public Library’s
flagship building on Fifth Avenue, have a quieter charm when
they deliver a rap (written by
AnnMarie Milazzo and Billy Jay
Stein). With big blinking eyes,
swatting tails and expressive
paws, these giant puppets (designed by the Paragon Innovation Group) are two of several
Aliens Playing With Fire
contemplate. Needless to say,
thinking deeply if at all has never
been something that Mr. Emmerich encourages. For the most
part, his movies are engineered
to generate autonomic responses, with frenetic visuals and
booming noises that activate the
fight-or-flight response, which in
turn produces arousal.
That’s the hope, although
“Resurgence” is likely to spur
more eye-drooping than popping.
All you really need to know
about the story is that it took
multiple men to cook up this
pottage, which hinges on another
extraterrestrial invasion and
humanity battling aliens as other
familiar struggles erupt:
technological determinism versus technophobia, secular universalism versus heroic individu-
alism. Five writers actually put
their names on the script, including Mr. Emmerich and his longtime collaborator Dean Devlin,
and the results are predictably
predictable if rarely entertainingly risible, with swaths of
exposition and dialogue that
sounds like ads (“one people, one
world”).
The lackluster, at times
abysmal writing wouldn’t much
matter if “Resurgence” popped
visually or featured a charismatic star who could lift a
movie as effortlessly as Will
Smith did in the first feature. Mr.
Smith, unfortunately, declined to
appear in the sequel, leaving his
two co-stars from “Independence
Day,” Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, to give it that old school
try alongside veterans like Judd
Hirsch and Brent Spiner, far and
away the movie’s most valuable
statues that come to life here.
The Broadway actor Euan
Morton (“Taboo”) makes a
kindly Mercury at Grand Central, while Danny Gardner
(“Dames at Sea”), as George M.
Cohan, hoofs nimbly with the
Rockettes in Times Square.
But the whole enterprise is
misshapen, its disconnected
episodes strung together by a
story that has no real reason for
being and whose human scale
feels utterly dwarfed on the
gigantic Radio City stage. Mr.
Beane is not to blame for that —
even if only one line in the show,
delivered by a giant sarcophagus
at the Met, contains anything of
his customary puckishness.
“New York Spectacular” isn’t a
musical in need of a great book;
it’s a glittery pageant, where
music, dance and design need to
be paramount. Put those at the
center, replace cynicism with
celebration, and you might have
entertainment worth watching.
A scene from “Independence
Day: Resurgence,” directed by
Roland Emmerich.
character using his wipers to
clean alien goo off a windshield.
But too often, he seems to be
trying to summon up energy and
dredge up feeling in this movie
by glancing back at the first
“Independence Day,” as when
Liam Hemsworth (as a flyboy)
punches an alien, an echo of Mr.
Smith’s “welcome to Earth”
triumphalism. Except that Mr.
Hemsworth, a stolid, pleasant
actor, isn’t Mr. Smith, and this
isn’t “Independence Day.” Somehow selling screen death by the
millions with a quip and a
teardrop just doesn’t cut it.
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player. All deliver professional,
winking performances, but
they’re also stranded in an
overly crowded cast that gives
too much time to younger performers who, for the most part,
slide right off the screen.
Mr. Emmerich does manage to
personalize this industrial production here and there, largely in
funny little asides that sprinkle
the action, like the cutaway to a
“Independence Day: Resurgence” is rated PG-13 (Parents
strongly cautioned). Bloodless
apocalyptic death. Running time:
1 hour 59 minutes.
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Derrick Rose, a new Knick,
says thanks to the Bulls.
Tanaka picks up a
win for the Yankees,
who need to make
room for Teixeira.
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The Mets win and ponder
a reunion with Jose Reyes.
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Rio Doping Lab Suspended as Games Near
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
Six weeks before the Summer
Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro, the laboratory that was set to handle drug testing at the Games has been suspended by
the World Anti-Doping Agency in a new
escalation of the doping crisis in international sports.
WADA — the global regulator of doping in sports that oversees three dozen
testing labs around the world — confirmed the suspension Friday, citing the
Rio lab’s “nonconformity” with interna-
tional standards.
The lab has a prior disciplinary record
and is one of a handful of labs that have
had their certification to conduct drug
testing revoked in WADA’s 17-year history. Among those is Moscow’s antidoping lab, which was disciplined last fall following accusations of a government-run
doping program in Russia.
Those allegations have prompted
global sports officials to bar Russian
track and field competitors from the Rio
Games. At the urging of Olympic offi-
A global watchdog agency
revokes a site’s authority
to conduct Olympic tests.
cials, 27 other Summer Olympics sports
organizations are scrutinizing athletes
from Russia and Kenya, another country
facing accusations of widespread doping, ahead of the Games.
The Rio suspension not only presents
new logistical hurdles to testing at the
Games but also highlights growing concern over an antidoping system in disarray that extends to how WADA itself operates.
WADA has come under scrutiny for
taking years to act on whistle-blower tips
about doping in Russia and for approving Russia’s antidoping lab to lead testing at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 even
amid questions about that lab’s integrity.
On Friday, WADA did not specify the
issues with the Rio facility that had
prompted the suspension. A person familiar with the lab’s operations, who was
not authorized to speak publicly, said the
investigation centered on a specific case.
The Rio lab was previously suspended
in 2013 — the year before Brazil hosted
soccer’s World Cup — and was reinstated
by WADA last year.
To win back its certification, the lab
had spent roughly 200 million Brazilian
reais ($60 million) to train more than 90
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Infrastructure projects like this rail line have been delayed in Rio de Janeiro, which hosts the Summer Olympics in August.
Optimism Shaken
By Brazil’s Tumult
In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won the right
to host the 2016 Olympic Games — beating out
Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago — Brazil was
flying high. Although it had not escaped the
consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, it
had suffered less economic
damage, and come back more
quickly, than other countries,
including the United States.
With the economy booming, the
SPORTS
federal government felt so flush
BUSINESS
that its popular president, Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva, had instituted a series of
expensive social programs that helped push
millions of poor Brazilians toward a better life.
The Economist magazine predicted that Brazil
would soon be the world’s fifth-largest econ-
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omy, leapfrogging Britain and France.
“I’ve never felt more pride in Brazil,” Lula
(as everyone in Brazil calls him) said after
Rio’s bid victory was announced. “Now, we
are going to show the world we can be a great
country.” He wasn’t the only one who felt that
way. On Copacabana Beach in Rio, a huge
party broke out.
The Games begin in six weeks, but nobody
is partying anymore. The economic — and
social, and political — conditions facing Brazil
and Rio have changed drastically. A huge
corruption scandal that began at the country’s
giant oil company, Petrobras, resulted in exposés and investigations into dozens, if not
hundreds, of high-ranking politicians and
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A health worker spraying insecticide to kill mosquitoes, which
spread the Zika virus that scared away some Olympic athletes.
The Ride When ‘Time Stood Still’
By WAYNE EPPS Jr.
ADREES LATIF/REUTERS
Mourners in Louisville, Ky., tossed roses onto the hearse that carried
Muhammad Ali’s body through his hometown to Cave Hill Cemetery.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The first rose
landed on the windshield of the hearse not
long after the procession began on Bardstown Road.
“Aw, man,” the driver, Chase Porter,
thought.
He turned on the windshield wipers. The
flower smeared.
“Windshield wipers aren’t to remove
flowers,” he observed.
Then there was the second flower, and
the third, the fourth, and soon a cascade.
Through it all, he focused on making sure
the man lying in back — about two feet behind him over his right shoulder, slid into
the chamber headfirst — was given a properly respectful final ride.
Man Who Drove
Ali’s Hearse Recalls
A Hometown’s Farewell
Porter was driving Muhammad Ali.
“Just touch it, just touch it,” spectators
were saying as they reached for his vehicle,
a 2016 Cadillac XTS that had been modified
at a shop in Ohio to accommodate the dead.
It was Hearse No. 5, part of a fleet shared by
several funeral homes.
The windows were down and Porter
could hear the people outside clearly. His
palms sweated as he gripped the wheel. He
did not want to mess this up.
But there was no holding back the tide.
Soon the roses were landing inside the car,
too.
“Aw, man, nothing’s going to top this,” he
said at one point in the swirl of people and
petals. He rolled the windows back up. And
then he rolled them back down. He wanted
to hear the chants: “Ali, bomaye” (“Ali, kill
him”), “The greatest,” “Louisville’s
champ,” and simply, “Ali, Ali.”
“People had so many different ways of
expressing their joy and happiness, or just
sadness at the loss of the champ,” Porter
later said. “And at the same time it was a
celebration.”
Porter is 33, a son of Louisville, born and
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raised.
His family owns A. D. Porter &
Sons, the funeral parlor that prepared Ali’s body and handled the
final arrangements, working
closely with the Ali family. The funeral home had buried Ali’s
mother and father, too, and the
parents of Ali’s wife, Lonnie.
This was, of course, their biggest job, with many of the arrangements having been specified by Ali before he died.
Ultimately it fell to Porter, accompanied by Ron Price, another
funeral home employee, riding in
the passenger seat, to perform a
duty prosaic and profound.
From the time he started driving, Porter has helped in the family business, even while working
for several years as a middleschool English and history
teacher. He has worked full time at
the funeral home since last year,
after a sister died, while also helping coach football at a local high
school.
On the day of the funeral, June
10, he rose at 5 a.m. and put on a
black suit and red tie, an ensemble
he had coordinated with Price.
Hands reach to touch
the car that bears a
champion to rest.
The hearse had been washed and
waxed Thursday, after a Muslim
prayer service for Ali.
By 7:45 a.m., Porter was ready
to go, waiting for the procession to
begin.
Nearly three hours later, Ali’s
mahogany coffin was placed in the
back on what they call the table,
an acrylic platform, and the procession finally pulled out of the funeral home. “Once everything
was going,” Porter said, “it was
like time stood still.”
It stood still for a long time. For
two hours, the procession rolled
along a course the Ali family and
the police had laid out. An S.U.V.
with cameramen in back drove in
front of the hearse, delivering a
live video stream around the
world.
Friends of Porter’s and Price’s
began calling. They wanted to
know where the hearse was going.
Porter’s palms kept sweating.
Porter never met Ali and is too
young to have seen him fight live.
But he has watched internet
videos of the bouts and admires
how Ali never forgot his hometown, where signs and banners
proclaiming him the Greatest
were still hanging nearly two
weeks after they were put up for
the funeral.
Now, Porter was seeing Louisville the way Ali wanted the
world to see it.
At the first turn out of the funeral home parking lot came the
first swarm of people, and the
roses.
“I kept thinking, I hope that I
don’t have to stop and back up to
negotiate a turn in the hearse,” he
said.
A brief respite came on an ex-
pressway, and then later on Grand
Avenue, in Ali’s neighborhood,
where his boyhood home, a pink
clapboard house, stands at No.
3302.
Along the way, Porter noticed
that vacant lots had been mowed.
Despite all the jostling in the big
crowds,
everything
seemed
peaceful. Porter knows Louisville
as a college sports town, torn between the Louisville Cardinals
and the Kentucky Wildcats. “You
bleed blue or you bleed red,” he
said.
“So it was interesting to see, for
a situation like Muhammad Ali’s
funeral procession, where everybody was just together,” he said.
“You didn’t see any division.”
Ali’s neighborhood sparkled.
The Ali family lived on the block
from 1947 to 1961, and his former
home is now a museum. Some in
the neighborhood still remember
what it was like when Ali was
growing up here.
“We used to go down there, we
was little, and he would tell you
scary stories,” said Linda Calloway, now 63, at a house a few
doors down. “Because, you know,
he loved kids.”
At a house at the end of the
block, Sharon Hill, now 63, recalled Ali’s visits back to the
neighborhood.
“He would stop and hug everybody and give them a kiss,” Hill
said. “Yes, he never forgot Louisville and he never forgot his
neighborhood. Never.”
Some of the surrounding blocks
have declined, but Ali’s block remains well kempt and quiet.
It was anything but quiet, however, as the procession passed. By
that stage of the route, the crowds
were so thick that police officers
walked alongside the hearse, escorting it.
“At any moment that could’ve
went bad,” Porter said. “And I
think that people showed a lot of
self-respect and love for the
champ and general love for our
city to put on a good representation of who Louisville is and what
Muhammad Ali means to everyone here.”
Downtown, more crowds lined
Broadway, a street that again put
Ali on center stage.
“I mean, it’s called Broadway
for a reason,” said Maj. Kelly
Jones of the Louisville Metro Police Department, who worked
with the family on the route.
Eventually, the procession
reached its end at Louisville’s
Cave Hill Cemetery, where a private funeral service was held.
Rose petals lined the path in front
of the cemetery’s gates as Porter
guided the hearse through. A public memorial followed at a multipurpose arena later that afternoon.
When the procession ended,
Porter took Price home and drove
the hearse to A. D. Porter & Sons’
downtown location. Its day was
done. Porter arrived back home at
about 6 p.m.
The next morning he rose
again, donned a different suit and
left to work another funeral.
Nobody threw flowers, nobody
thronged the service. She was a
68-year-old woman who had died
on June 5, two days after Ali. But
Porter did his best.
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Derrick Rose, traded to the Knicks by the Chicago Bulls, expressed thanks at a news conference Friday at Madison Square Garden.
Rose Expects to Be Appreciated More as a Knick
By ANDREW KEH
Derrick Rose was halfway
through a news conference Friday
afternoon at Madison Square Garden when he was asked if he could
guess why the Chicago Bulls — his
hometown team, the franchise
that picked him first over all eight
years ago — had been so willing to
trade him to the Knicks.
“No, I don’t know why I was
traded,” Rose said, a smirk flickering across his face. “But I would
like to tell them thank you — for
real.”
The eclectic assemblage in the
room (Spike Lee, wearing full
team regalia, had claimed a frontrow seat) tittered. Forgoing etiquette by not using a microphone
to ask the next question, multiple
reporters called out, asking Rose
to elaborate, and he seemed
happy to oblige.
He said he was thankful to have
“another start.” He was happy
that it was New York — no offense
to other cities in the league, he
said — a city and team with a big
fan base and proud history. He
was anticipating a positive reception.
“I’m just grateful,” Rose said. “I
feel like they’re going to appreciate me a little bit more.”
So commenced what will be a
honeymoon period for Rose and
the Knicks. He smiled for cameras
holding a white uniform top. He
projected confidence, saying he
ached to reach the playoffs. He
told funny stories and made the
crowd laugh comparing Chicago
with New York. He was quietly defiant, thanking his old team for
trading him.
But even Rose conceded that
the present had taken on a dreamlike quality, that reality would set
in a few months from now when
the 2016-17 season begins.
“It still don’t feel real,” said
Rose, who marveled about seeing
An oft-injured former
M.V.P. says he feels
great. Yoga helps.
his likeness on the massive digital
screen on Seventh Avenue outside
the Garden. “It kind of blew me
away a little bit. It probably really
won’t hit me until I step on the
floor and actually have a jersey
on.”
Only then will the Knicks and
their fans be able to evaluate the
deal completed Wednesday, when
the Knicks acquired Rose, guard
Justin Holiday and a 2017 secondround draft pick for Robin Lopez,
Jose Calderon and Jerian Grant.
Rose, who will be 28 when the
season begins, has won rookie of
the year and most valuable player
honors. He has made three AllStar teams. But, more relevant to
many observers, he has also had
three knee surgeries, which have
zapped his old verve and kept him
on the sidelines.
He appeared in only 100 games
from the 2011-12 season to the 201415 season. Last season, he played
in 66 games, with varying levels of
success.
Rose, who is entering the final
year of his contract, has been
working out this summer in Los
Angeles, maintaining a rigorous
training schedule: He lifts
weights and runs Monday
through Thursday. He plays basketball on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday. He does
yoga on Wednesday and Saturday.
He rests on Sunday.
Rose said his body felt great,
healthy. All he needed now was to
play basketball for a prolonged
period.
“This summer is all about conditioning and catching that
rhythm again,” Rose said.
Rose, who was wearing a blue
Knicks collared shirt, was only beginning to get acclimated to New
York, but he was bullish about his
new team, a 32-win group last season. He complimented Carmelo
Anthony, calling him “a dog, just
like I am.” He laughed when asked
about the young, talented forward
Kristaps Porzingis. “It was hard
playing against him last year be-
cause, man, he’s so good, man,”
Rose said.
He said he hoped to have a
chance to play again with center
Joakim Noah, his teammate in
Chicago, who is a free agent. Both
the Bulls and the Knicks missed
the playoffs last season, and he
said it was his goal to make it back.
Despite his subtle jab at his old
team, Rose repeatedly said Chicago was important to him. His
rued that he would need to be
apart from his young son. He
picked the uniform No. 25, which
carries significance around Chicago: It was the number worn by
Ben Wilson, a star player at Simeon High School, the high school
Rose attended, who was shot in
1984 before his senior season.
“Chicago grew me into the man
I am right now,” Rose said.
For now, he has embraced his
new home. “With all of the attention and all of the congratulations
I’ve got here, I hope I’ll be able to
play the rest of my career here,”
Rose said.
It was a fine sentiment to punctuate an agreeable introductory
news conference. But, he acknowledged, words mean little.
He will have to prove on the court
that he could play like his old self.
“I feel like I’m close, but me sitting up here and saying it, that’s
not going to do anything,” he said.
“Next year, I want to let my game
speak for itself.”
Nets Shake Things Up, but Vision Is Far From Settled
By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN
The Nets will be long on cap
space heading into free agency,
but they will be short on familiar
faces after reports that a deal was
struck on draft day in which the
team sent Thaddeus Young to the
Indiana Pacers for the draft rights
to Caris LeVert, a shooting guard
from Michigan.
While the deal — the first big
trade by the team’s new general
manager, Sean Marks — has not
been confirmed by the teams,
LeVert discussed it at the draft
and Young confirmed it on Twitter
when he thanked the Nets for
their support and expressed his
excitement at joining the Pacers.
Beyond Young’s goodbye, most
of the Nets remained quiet about
the trade on Twitter (possibly because it was not yet confirmed),
but the Nets’ Chris McCullough
posted some encouraging words
for the soon-to-be rookie. McCullough wrote in the post, “Welcome
to my city @CarisLeVert & our organization.”
In the middle of a long rebuilding process, the Nets are now expected to enter the free-agency
period with about $50 million to
spend, though they may not be a
marquee destination considering
the state of the roster and the
team’s poor record last season.
Brooklyn’s core consists of
Brook Lopez, a legitimate force at
center, and a series of players like
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Bojan
Bogdanovic and Sean Kilpatrick.
The group is young and each of
the players seems to have the potential to be good, but they hardly
qualify as stars on the level of
Brooklyn’s failed experiment to
win with Deron Williams, Kevin
Garnett, Paul Pierce, Joe Johnson
and Lopez.
How LeVert will fit in is not
known. After being projected as a
mid-second-round pick, he was selected by Indiana (apparently at
the behest of the Nets) at No. 20.
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Caris LeVert shook hands with N.B.A. Commissioner Adam
Silver after he was selected with the 20th pick by the Pacers on
Thursday night. LeVert, a versatile shooting guard from Michigan, was said to have been acquired by the Nets in a trade.
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LeVert is a sweet-shooting, 6foot-7 combo guard, but he is
working his way back from a foot
stress fracture. He confirmed at
the draft that his recovery would
most likely prevent him from
playing in a summer league, but
talked optimistically about being
able to play next season.
LeVert seemed happy for a
chance to play in Brooklyn and
was not worried about his recovery or the state of the Nets’ roster.
“I’m a long-term thinker, a longterm type of guy, always have
been,” LeVert said. “I’m just excited.”
To get LeVert, and free up cap
space, the team gave up Young,
who was their second best player
this past season. While he averaged 15.1 points and 9 rebounds,
Young has been a mixed bag of
production, with strengths and
weaknesses on both ends of the
court. He was owed a guaranteed
$25 million over the next two seasons and had a $13.8 million player-option for 2018-19.
Beyond player and team options, the Nets now have no financial commitments beyond the
2017-18 season, which is a stark
contrast to the way things were
run under Marks’s predecessor,
Billy King, who presided over a
team that seemed to perpetually
be in financial crisis but underachieved relative to payroll each
season.
Now the question is which free
agents might be willing to take the
large sums the Nets can spend.
The list of top-tier free agents is
likely to include stars like Kevin
Durant, Andre Drummond, Bradley Beal, DeMar DeRozan and
even Dwight Howard, the frequent rumored trade target for
the Nets. But any of those players
would have to be considered a
long shot to sign with a team that
won 21 games last season.
REBOUNDS
In a separate trade with the
Utah Jazz, the Nets acquired the
draft rights to ISAIAH WHITEHEAD,
the No. 42 pick in this year’s draft,
in exchange for the draft rights to
MARCUS PAIGE, the No. 55 pick,
and cash. Whitehead, a Brooklyn
native, averaged 18.2 points and
5.1 assists last season for Seton
Hall.
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First baseman James Loney hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning off Aaron Blair in Friday’s game, giving the Mets a 8-0 lead.
Mets End Skid and Ponder Reunion With Reyes
By JAMES WAGNER
ATLANTA — A day before Jose
Reyes was expected to become a
free agent, Mets Manager Terry
Collins could
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not help himself.
Asked
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about Reyes, an
All-Star shortstop when he was
with the Mets, Collins admitted
that there had been discussions
about how to use him should he resign with the team.
“We have nothing etched in
stone because he’s not here,”
Collins said before Friday’s 8-6
win over the Atlanta Braves.
“Even though they’re not here,
you’ve got to have some type of a
plan in mind when he does get
here.”
If Reyes is not claimed on
waivers, he will be free to sign
with any team starting at 1 p.m.
Saturday. The Mets are interested
in re-signing Reyes, 33, who the
team believes could learn to play
third base, bounce around the infield or even try left field. Indications were that the two sides were
headed toward a reunion — and
Collins was already talking that
way.
“You have to discuss it,” Collins
said. “It’s the old where there’s
smoke there’s fire. We’ve talked as
a staff, if he happens to come here,
where would he play? Where
would he fit?”
Before reaching that point, the
Mets ended a four-game losing
streak to the Braves. The offense
of Neil Walker (three hits) and
James Loney (three-run home
run) lifted the Mets to an 8-0 lead.
But Steven Matz, who dealt with
elbow stiffness in his last start,
coughed up six runs and notched
only one out in the fifth inning.
Matz, who struck out none for
the first time in his career, said
that his elbow has been tight but
that it did not affect his pitching.
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A domestic violence arrest led to the end of Jose Reyes’s tenure
with the Rockies. He was a four-time All-Star with the Mets.
“I was able to throw the ball fine
the first four innings and then it
got away from me,” he said.
Hansel Robles cleaned up
Matz’s mess and tossed two and
two-thirds scoreless innings.
Jeurys Familia got the final four
outs to become the first Met to
open a season with 25 straight
saves. He escaped the ninth
thanks to a bad bunt by the
Braves, a double play and Loney’s
glove.
The Mets also survived yet another injury scare: Yoenis Cespedes twisted his left ankle at first
base during a seventh-inning
pickoff but he stayed in the game.
Cespedes has been one of the
few bright spots for an inconsistent Mets offense. With the trade
deadline more than a month away,
Reyes may be its best chance for
help. And the Mets are one of the
few places that can offer him a
second chance after domestic
abuse allegations ended his brief
stay with the Colorado Rockies.
Reyes was arrested Oct. 31 after
his wife told the police that he had
grabbed her throat and shoved
her into a sliding-glass door at a
Hawaiian resort. But she did not
cooperate with prosecutors, and
the charges were dropped.
Major League Baseball, however, suspended Reyes 51 games
without pay. Reyes returned to action in the minor leagues for the
Rockies, but they designated him
for assignment last week.
The Mets considered Reyes a
part of their family for 12 years.
They signed him out of the Dominican Republic in 1999 for
$22,000. He ranks third in Mets
history with 1,300 hits and first
with 370 stolen bases in nine seasons with the club.
After Reyes won the 2011 National League batting title, the
Mets did not make a formal bid,
and he signed with the Miami
Marlins for $106 million over six
years. But the Marlins shockingly
dismantled their team within
months and traded Reyes to the
Toronto Blue Jays. Reyes’s pro-
duction, particularly on defense,
slipped with age and injuries during his two and a half years with
Toronto.
If Reyes is remorseful the Mets
could see re-signing him as an opportunity to help a former family
member, much as they did with
Wally Backman, whom they offered a path back into baseball as
a manager in 2009.
Because the Rockies found no
suitor willing to trade for Reyes,
they placed him Thursday on release waivers, which lasts 48
hours. Teams are allowed to contact the representatives of a player on release waivers but cannot
discuss terms. Reyes must decide
which team offers him the best opportunity.
Reyes, who still maintains a
home on Long Island, offers speed
on the bases and an ability to
reach base that the Mets lack.
Curtis Granderson has been the
Mets’ leadoff hitter this season
but was hitting .222 with a .314 onbase percentage going into Friday’s game. The Mets have 13 stolen bases this season.
Reyes hit .274 with a .310 onbase percentage and 24 stolen
bases in 116 games last season. If
signed, Reyes may need time in
the minor leagues to get at-bats
and learn third base.
Reyes would most likely be a
bargain. The Rockies, who traded
for Reyes last July, are responsible for the nearly $41 million owed
to him through next season. The
Mets could simply sign Reyes to
the prorated minimum, which
would be under $300,000 for 2016.
Collins, who managed Reyes
with the Mets in 2011, said he was a
great player then. But what
Collins liked most was Reyes’s
love of playing in New York.
“In my time around him, he was
a joy to be around,” Collins said. “I
just hope that, if it works out, he’s
that same guy.”
Rob Refsnyder has been using
Dustin Ackley’s first baseman’s
glove for the past few weeks while
he breaks in
YANKEES
5
one of his own.
Despite
TWINS
3
driving in the
go-ahead run in the Yankees’ 5-3
win over the Minnesota Twins on
Friday night at Yankee Stadium,
Refsnyder’s opportunities to loosen up his leather may be waning.
On Saturday, Mark Teixeira will
be activated from the disabled list,
according to Manager Joe Girardi,
and first base will finally become
his domain. Whether that is the
best outcome for the Yankees,
who have had Sisyphean difficulty
climbing above .500, is debatable.
Refsnyder has manned the position for the majority of Teixeira’s
recovery from torn cartilage in his
right knee. This month, Refsnyder, who had never played first
base at the major league level before Teixeira was injured on June
3, has hit .286.
Come Saturday though, Refsnyder could be back on his way to
Class AAA Scranton/WilkesBarre.
“To have that bat, a switch-hitter, both sides, his Gold Glove defense, we need Tex back,” Refsnyder said.
In a corner of the Yankees’ clubhouse reside the lockers of a cadre
of first basemen: Teixeira, Ike Davis, Chris Parmelee and Refsnyder are crammed next to each
other, akin to a freshman college
dorm room.
This was not by design.
Friday marked the 24th game
Teixeira has missed this year, onethird of a season in which the Yankees have floated near but not far
above the .500 mark, though the
win got them to 36-36. In
Teixeira’s extended absence, the
Yankees have also tried Parmelee,
who strained his right hamstring
in his second start with the club,
and Davis, who was not even on
the roster two weeks ago.
Ackley, who had one of the first
cracks at the position when Teixeira had neck spasms earlier this
year, dislocated his right shoulder
in May.
Davis is the best defensive option behind Teixeira, while Refsnyder is proving to be a capable
major league hitter. After Refsnyder’s sixth inning at-bat Friday, a
flyout, Girardi brought in Davis as
a defensive replacement.
Before the game, Girardi would
not provide a hint about whom the
Yankees might keep to back up
Teixeira, who declined to have
surgery on his knee and reasoned
that a combination of rest, treatment and cortisone injections
would allow it to recover and hold
up for the rest of the season.
Teixeira’s ardent desire to return may be admirable, but it is
one that could be emanating from
other factors. Teixeira, 36, will be
a free agent after this season, and
he would be better served trying
to sell his services without the red
flag of coming off season-ending
surgery.
It could help that Teixeira will
come back against the Twins, who
have the worst record in baseball.
The Twins committed three errors
in the third and fourth innings,
during which the Yankees scored
four runs.
In the fourth, Refsnyder tagged
a single to left field to bring in Didi
Gregorius and put the Yankees
ahead, 4-3. Twins starter Tommy
Milone had been pitching Refsnyder away, but then challenged him
inside with a fastball, which Refsnyder was able to turn on.
Refsnyder, who had recently
been applying a more compact
swing, has nine hits in his last 23
at-bats over the last seven games,
which could leave Girardi with a
tough decision to sleep on.
“I think it tells you a lot about
the young man, to be able to say,
‘Hey, you’re playing first base,’
when he had never done it before,
and to continue to be productive at
the plate,” Girardi said.
Aside from Refsnyder, four
other Yankees collected R.B.I., including Aaron Hicks, who hit a
solo home run in the eighth inning
against his former team.
Masahiro Tanaka struck out
seven, but he also allowed three
runs on seven hits. Tanaka departed after six innings and was
followed by Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman, who combined for three perfect innings. Chapman struck out
the side in the ninth.
The Yankees are 11-0 when all
three pitchers appear in a game.
FRANK FRANKLIN II/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carlos Beltran hit a run-scoring double in the third inning on
Friday that got the Yankees on the board against the Twins.
SWIMMING
As a Swimming Spectacle Grows, So Does the Opportunity
OMAHA — Ask Caeleb Dressel what he remembers about the
2012 United States Olympic
swimming trials,
and he’ll talk about
the spectacle: the
tongues of fire on
both sides of the
ON
SWIMMING pool and the rainbow waterfall from
which each new Olympian rose
on a platform like a red-whiteand-blue apparition. He prefers
to forget his performance in the
pool: a tie for 145th, out of 167
finishers, in the 50-meter freestyle.
Four years later, Dressel, 19, is
seeded second in the 50-meter
freestyle behind the four-time
Olympic medalist Nathan Adrian. Dressel, a multiple N.C.A.A.
champion from the University of
Florida, looks back at his experience competing at the 2012 trials
— the sheer number of entrants,
the sights, sounds and grandeur
of the event — as the nudge he
needed to become an Olympic
contender.
“It makes you hungry when
you see people making the team,
and you’re just sitting in the
stands thinking, Maybe four
years from now I can be doing
that,” he said.
The trials get underway Sunday at CenturyLink Center,
where over 1,700 entrants will
compete for fewer than 60 berths
on the United States squad that
will compete at the Rio Games in
August.
KAREN
CROUSE
Why are so many competing
for so few spots?
Inclusiveness was not always
part of the meet’s DNA. Twenty
years ago, the event welcomed
fewer swimmers than competed
at the Atlanta Olympics. In 1996,
there were, on average, 35 entrants in the women’s events and
27 in the men’s. The thinking
then was that if only eight would
race in the final for Olympic
spots, no more than four heats
were required to separate the
best from the rest. In 1996, an
up-and-coming teenager like
Dressel would have experienced
the trials from his couch at home.
The conscious decision to hold
a fan-friendly, made-for-television spectacle during which a
swim meet breaks out has
reached full bloom this year, with
the women’s events averaging
130 entries and the men’s events
124.
Backstroke, in particular, is not
the best bet for getting ahead;
there are 168 entries in the
women’s 100 and 192 in the men’s.
It is not just the event fields
that are supersized. Larger-thanlife likenesses of the top Americans, including the freestyler
Katie Ledecky, adorn the outside
of the arena. Ledecky took one
look at herself on the building,
whipped out her smartphone and
snapped a selfie.
“It’s cool; it’s different,”
Ledecky said, adding, “It’s just
amazing how U.S.A. Swimming
does a great job of making things
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
A morning practice during the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials. Practices are becoming crowded as the trials morph into a spectacle.
bigger and better than the last
time, and I’m happy to be a part
of it.”
The morphing of the trials
from a lean, mean qualifying
machine to a quadrennial celebration has drawn mixed reviews. There are people, led by
coaches of elite swimmers, who
bemoan the crowded lanes each
morning during warm-ups and
the long preliminary sessions,
which threaten to bleed into the
evening. And then there are
those who love the idea that,
once every four years, swimming
has a “Super Bowl week,” as
Chuck Wielgus, U.S.A. Swimming’s executive director, de-
scribed it.
“There are eight people trying
to make the Olympic team in
every event,” Bob Bowman, the
head United States Olympic
men’s coach, said, referring to
the finalists. “But it’s much more
meaningful to everybody else
now than it used to be.”
The 14,000-seat arena, in which
two temporary 50-meter pools
have been erected, is sold out
every day, morning and evening,
for the first time since the trials
moved here in 2008. More than
140 all-session poolside “Victory
Row” seats, priced at $1,150
apiece, were made available, and
they also sold out.
“Hearing the seats are sold out
is amazing,” said the 11-time
Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte,
who will try to make his fourth
Olympic team. “It’s going to be
loud. It’s going to be crazy. The
last couple Olympic trials, we
had fireworks; we had fire. It’s
unbelievable.”
Rowdy Gaines, who won three
gold medals at the Los Angeles
Olympics and is part of NBC’s
television coverage at the current trials, beat out 49 swimmers
to win the 100-meter freestyle at
the 1984 trials. He likes that
about twice as many competitors
(98) are in the event in 2016.
“It’s a good way to build exposure for the sport,” Gaines said.
“Those swimmers in the early
heats, they are going to go back
home and tell their friends they
swam at the Olympic trials.”
He added, “I can’t tell you how
many people come up to me on
my travels and tell me someone
from their club has a shot at
making the Olympics because
he’s going to the trials.”
According to statistics provided by U.S.A. Swimming, the
number of year-round athlete
members from Midwestern
Swimming, the sport’s regional
governing body, has increased by
nearly 50 percent since the trials
were held in Omaha for the first
time in 2008.
Conor Dwyer was 19 years old
and had little experience on the
national stage when he competed
in the 100 and 200 freestyles at
A chance at an
Olympic berth for
over 1,700 athletes.
the 2008 trials. He was hooked
from the opening night, where he
had a front-row seat for the 400
individual medley duel between
Michael Phelps and Lochte.
“It opened my eyes to how big
a swimming competition can be,”
Dwyer said.
In 2012, Dwyer qualified for the
4x800 freestyle relay along with
Phelps, Lochte and Ricky
Berens. The relay team won the
gold at the London Games,
where Dwyer also finished fifth
in the 400 freestyle.
“If I wasn’t there in 2008,
maybe I wouldn’t have had that
goal to come back four years
later and race those guys,”
Dwyer said. “It does help people
that you might not think have a
shot right now, but four years
down the road, you never know.”
Four years ago, Dressel said,
he chose to sit by himself in the
stands, away from his parents
and coach, and observe how
some of the best swimmers in
the world went about their business. “I was in awe of everything,” he said. “That week,
making the team one day became a goal of mine.”
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0
N
S C O R E B OA R D
Prospects Have N.H.L. in DNA
By MATT HIGGINS
BUFFALO — Matthew Tkachuk
stepped off the ice at HarborCenter,
where he and other top N.H.L.
prospects were conducting a skills
clinic for squirt-age players, and recalled his own youth hockey days.
While growing up in St. Louis,
hockey was a family business for
Tkachuk. His father, Keith, played left
wing for the Blues during the second
half of an 18-year N.H.L. career, and
some of his youngest teammates
boarded at the Tkachuk house.
Matthew Tkachuk remembered sessions of mini sticks and video games
with Lee Stempniak, David Backes
and Philip McRae.
He also recalled skating at practice
with Erik Johnson, a defenseman
drafted No. 1 over all by St. Louis in
2006. “I thought that was the coolest
thing ever,” he said.
On the eve of Friday’s draft at First
Niagara Center, Tkachuk, a 6-foot-1,
200-pound power forward, said that
the most lasting impression of those
days was observing the comportment
of successful pros.
“It was all about their habits and all
about how they worked,” he said, “and
all about how they took care of themselves in the weight room, with
stretching, recovery, rehab. You know
how talented they are on the ice, but
seeing what they do away from it,
that’s what is really the difference between guys that make it and guys that
are very close and very skilled that
don’t make it.”
Tkachuk now has the chance to
make it after being selected by the Calgary Flames with the No. 6 pick. He
was the first among several sons of former N.H.L. players who were drafted
in the first round. The others included
Alexander Nylander (No. 8, Buffalo
Sabres); Logan Brown (No. 11, Ottawa
Senators); Jakob Chychrun (No. 16,
Arizona Coyotes); Kieffer Bellows
(No. 19, Islanders); Max Jones (No. 24,
Anaheim Ducks); and Tage Thompson
(No. 26, Blues).
With the No. 1 overall pick, the Toronto Maple Leafs selected Auston
Matthews, a 6-foot-2, 210-pound center
from Scottsdale, Ariz., who played for
the Zurich Lions of the Swiss League
last season. Matthews is the first
American-born player to be selected
first over all since the Chicago Blackhawks drafted Patrick Kane in 2007.
“The last three-plus years, there’s
been a lot of long-term N.H.L. players’
BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES
The Toronto Maple Leafs used the
N.H.L. draft’s first pick on Auston
Matthews. The fathers of many
prospects played in the league.
sons coming up in the draft scene,”
said Dan Marr, the director of N.H.L.
Central Scouting. “Some of them are
standouts, some are solid prospects. I
think the advantage of these kids is
that they grew up around the game, so
they’ve seen the discipline you have to
have as far as eating, sleeping, training.’’
Cliff Ronning was a 5-foot-8 shifty
center who played 17 seasons in the
N.H.L., setting an example for his son
Ty, a 5-9 forward for the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League
last season. Ty vividly remembered
being awakened in the middle of the
night by banging below his bedroom.
“I would come downstairs and my
dad was there in the gym, full sweat,
flexing in the mirror,” he said. “He was
working his butt off early, and he had a
game the next day.”
Ronning noted the discipline his father had imposed on his own life and
tried to emulate it. “My dad didn’t
drink till he was 37 years old,” he said.
Jeff Chychrun’s eight-year N.H.L.
career as a punishing defenseman was
over by the time his son, Jakob, was
born in 1998 in Boca Raton, Fla. Still,
the elder Chychrun coached Jakob’s
youth hockey teams for the Florida Junior Panthers and gave him a glimpse
into the N.H.L. life.
The Chychruns had season tickets
for the Panthers, and through his connections, Jeff introduced Jakob to
some of his hockey idols after games.
“I was the biggest Sidney Crosby fan
growing up, and I met him a few times
at a young age,” said Jakob, a 6-2, 220pound defenseman for the Sarnia
Sting of the Ontario Hockey League.
“That was really cool for me, looking
up to guys like that and being able to
meet them, and ultimately to be where
they are one day. It made me work that
much harder.”
Some N.H.L. fathers maintained a
more active role in their sons’ hockey
development. Alexander Nylander is
the son of Michael Nylander, who
played 15 seasons. Alexander’s brother
William was a first-round pick of the
Maple Leafs in 2014. Last season, Alexander Nylander was a high-scoring
wing for the Mississauga Steelheads of
the O.H.L. His father was an assistant.
“Because he was my assistant
coach, he was always on the bench, always seeing me, my habits and stuff
like that,” Nylander said. “It was good,
since he was hard on everybody to
give 100 percent in practice, which we
all did. And to prepare for the playoffs,
since he’s been through it before.”
Brian Bellows scored 1,022 points
during a 17-year career and won a
Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. His son Kieffer is a sharpshooting left wing who has committed
to play for Boston University next season. Kieffer Bellows was sensitive to
suggestions that his family name had
advanced his hockey career.
“It’s always been my skill set and
hard work that’s opened the doors to
the N.H.L. draft for me,” he said.
If anything, Bellows said, there can
be pressure associated with living up
to a famous father’s hockey legacy.
“You see Matthew Tkachuk, he’s got a
lot of pressure with his dad being such
a great player,” he said.
Keith Tkachuk, who scored 538 career goals, the third most by an American, comes from a hockey family tree.
He is a cousin of the Hayes brothers,
Kevin, a forward for the Rangers, and
Jimmy, a right wing for the Boston
Bruins. Another cousin is Tom Fitzgerald, a right wing who played in more
than 1,000 N.H.L. games and is now an
assistant general manager for the
Devils. Fitzgerald’s son Ryan was a
fourth-round pick of the Bruins in 2013.
Another son, Casey, a defenseman for
Boston College, is eligible for the draft.
BASEBALL
TENNIS
A.L. STANDINGS
East
W
METS 8, BRAVES 6
Pct
GB
Baltimore
42
30 .583
—
Boston
40
32 .556
2
Toronto
40
34 .541
3
Yankees
36
36 .500
6
Tampa Bay
31
40 .437 10{
Central
L
Pct
GB
Cleveland
42
W
30 .583
—
Kansas City
38
34 .528
4
Detroit
38
36 .514
5
Chicago
36
37 .493
6{
Minnesota
23
50 .315 19{
West
L
W
L
Pct
GB
Texas
47
26 .644
—
Houston
38
36 .514
9{
Seattle
36
37 .493
11
Los Angeles
31
42 .425
16
Oakland
30
42 .417 16{
FRIDAY
Yankees 5, Minnesota 3
Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 3
Cleveland 7, Detroit 4
Houston 13, Kansas City 4
Boston at Texas
Toronto at Chicago White Sox
Oakland at L.A. Angels
St. Louis at Seattle
SATURDAY
Minnesota (Santana 2-7) at Yankees
(Pineda 3-7), 1:05
Tampa Bay (Andriese 6-0) at Baltimore (Gausman 0-5), 1:05, 1st game
Toronto (Dickey 4-8) at Chicago
White Sox (Gonzalez 1-2), 2:10
Cleveland (Carrasco 2-2) at Detroit
(Sanchez 4-7), 4:10
Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 3-3) at Baltimore
(Tillman 10-1), 7:05, 2nd game
Houston (Fiers 5-3) at Kansas City
(Young 2-6), 7:15
Boston (Wright 8-4) at Texas (Griffin
3-0), 9:20
Oakland (Overton 0-0) at L.A. Angels
(Chacin 3-5), 10:05
St. Louis (Leake 5-4) at Seattle
(Karns 5-2), 10:10
N.L. STANDINGS
East
Pct
GB
Washington
43
W
31 .581
L
—
Mets
39
33 .542
3
Miami
39
35 .527
4
Philadelphia
31
43 .419
12
48 .342 17{
Atlanta
25
Central
W
Chicago
48
24 .667
—
St. Louis
38
33 .535
9{
Pittsburgh
35
39 .473
14
Milwaukee
33
40 .452 15{
Cincinnati
28
46 .378
West
W
L
L
Pct
Pct
GB
21
GB
San Francisco
47
27 .635
—
Los Angeles
41
34 .547
6{
Colorado
34
38 .472
12
Arizona
35
40 .467 12{
San Diego
32
43 .427 15{
Wimbledon Serves Curveball to Familiar Foes
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer have met in the
past two Wimbledon finals, but if Federer is to stop the
dominant run that Djokovic is on, he will have to do it in the
semifinals.
Federer, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, is seeded
third here after missing the French Open with a back injury,
and on Friday, he was placed in Djokovic’s half of the draw,
which will begin play Monday.
Friday’s draw laid out the possible obstacles to a historic summer for the top-ranked Djokovic, who currently
holds all four Grand Slam titles.
Djokovic has won Wimbledon the past two years, and
another victory at the All England Club would set up an
attempt at the first men’s singles Grand Slam since Rod Laver in 1969 at the United States Open.
Arizona (Miller 2-6) at Colorado (De
La Rosa 4-4), 4:10
Chicago Cubs (Lackey 7-3) at Miami
(Clemens 0-0), 4:10
San Diego (Pomeranz 6-7) at Cincinnati (Finnegan 3-5), 4:10
Washington (Gonzalez 3-6) at
Milwaukee (Garza 0-0), 4:10
L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 6-4) at Pittsburgh (Locke 6-5), 7:15
Mets (deGrom 3-4) at Atlanta (Teheran 3-7), 7:15
Philadelphia (Hellickson 4-6) at San
Francisco (Bumgarner 8-3), 10:05
St. Louis (Leake 5-4) at Seattle
(Karns 5-2), 10:10
SLOVAK ADVANCES TO FINAL IN ENGLAND Dominika Cibulkova of
YANKEES 5, TWINS 3
Slovakia reached the Eastbourne International final in
England after defeating the Puerto Rican qualifier Monica
Puig, 6-2, 6-1. Cibulkova will play Karolina Pliskova of the
Czech Republic for the title after Pliskova beat Britain’s Johanna Konta, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3.
P RO FOOT B AL L
Lawyer Suggests in Accidental Message
That Manziel Will Seek a Plea Deal
A lawyer handling Johnny Manziel’s domestic violence
case expressed doubts about the Heisman Trophy-winning
quarterback’s ability to stay clean and said he was given a
receipt that indicated Manziel may have spent more than
$1,000 at a Dallas drug paraphernalia store just 15 hours
after he was involved in a hit-and-run crash, according to a
lengthy text message accidentally sent to The Associated
Press.
The text from the defense lawyer Bob Hinton indicated
Manziel’s legal team was seeking a plea deal with
prosecutors but suggested that could be tricky.
“Heaven help us if one of the conditions is to pee in a
bottle,” the lawyer wrote.
GERRY PENNY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova, above, will meet the
Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova in the championship match at England’s Eastbourne International.
game and set a team record with his Division I-leading 14th
win, and Coastal Carolina stayed alive at the College World
Series with a 4-1 victory over Texas Christian in Omaha.
The Chanticleers, in the C.W.S. for the first time, forced
a rematch Saturday night against a T.C.U. team that is in
the tournament for the third straight year. The winner will
make its first appearance in the best-of-three finals beginning Monday.
In the early game, Nathan Bannister and two relievers
pitched a four-hitter, Arizona had 14 hits against what had
been the best pitching staff in the tournament, and the
Wildcats beat Oklahoma State, 9-3, also forcing a Saturday
rematch, with the winner advancing to the title series.
B ASEB ALL
Indians Improve to 7-0 Against Tigers
Jason Kipnis hit two of Cleveland’s four triples, and the
visiting Indians continued their season-long dominance of
the Detroit Tigers with a 7-4 victory.
The Indians are now 7-0 against the Tigers this season.
Detroit had won 16 of 20 at home and was coming off a fourgame sweep of the Seattle Mariners.
Cleveland starter Danny Salazar (9-3) struggled with
his command, walking five in five and two-thirds innings,
but he held the Tigers to three runs and four hits.
PIRATES’ MANAGER EARNS 1,000TH WIN Matt Joyce homered
and doubled among his three hits as Pittsburgh beat the
Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-6, ending the Dodgers’ six-game
winning streak and giving Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle
his 1,000th career victory.
PADRES RAIN ON REDS’ CELEBRATION Wil Myers drove in five
runs and Melvin Upton Jr. had two two-run homers as San
Diego scored in each of the first eight innings of a 13-4 victory that spoiled the beginning of Cincinnati’s weekend celebrating the Big Red Machine’s victory in the 1976 World
Series.
COLLEGES
Coastal Carolina and Arizona Survive
Andrew Beckwith pitched his second straight complete
All news by The Associated Press unless noted.
Mets 8, Atlanta 6
Pittsburgh 8, L.A. Dodgers 6
Chicago Cubs 5, Miami 4
San Diego 13, Cincinnati 4
Milwaukee 5, Washington 3
Arizona at Colorado
St. Louis at Seattle
Philadelphia at San Francisco
SATURDAY
NAILA-JEAN MEYERS
GOLF
Tie Atop Leaderboard in Maryland
Jon Rahm and Billy Hurley III shared the lead at the
Quicken Loans National in Bethesda, Md., three strokes
ahead of Vijay Singh going into the weekend.
Playing together, Rahm and Hurley went shot for shot
to reach 11 under par. Hurley shot a six-under 65, and Rahm
bogeyed the 18th hole for a 67 in his second round as a professional. Rahm led Thursday after a 64.
Rahm and Hurley will play in the final group Saturday,
behind Singh, who was alone at eight under par after a 66.
JAPANESE MATCHES COURSE RECORD Ayako Uehara of Japan
matched the course record with a nine-under 62 to take the
first-round lead in the L.P.G.A. Tour’s NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers.
BOX IN G
Injury Delays Heavyweight Title Rematch
The world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury postponed his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko after hurting
his left ankle during training.
Fury, who stunned the boxing world in November by
ending Klitschko’s decade-long reign as heavyweight
champion, said in a video posted on his Instagram account
that he sprained the ankle while running 10 days ago. Doctors told Fury he needed to rest it for six to seven weeks.
The rematch was scheduled for July 9 in Manchester,
England.
Minnesota
ab
Nunez 3b
4
Grossman lf
4
Mauer 1b
3
Dozier 2b
4
Kepler rf
4
Escobar ss
4
Park dh
3
Suzuki c
4
Buxton cf
3
Totals
33
New York
ab
Gardner lf
5
Refsnyder 1b
4
Davis 1b
0
Beltran rf
3
Ellsbury cf
0
Rodriguez dh
4
Castro 2b
4
Headley 3b
3
Gregorius ss
4
Hicks cf-rf
3
Romine c
3
Totals
33
Minnesota
002
New York
002
ab
3
4
5
4
3
2
2
0
1
0
0
4
1
2
0
31
ab
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
36
020
000
r h
0 0
1 0
0 1
3 3
3 2
0 1
1 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
8 8
r h
1 1
0 2
0 1
1 1
1 2
1 1
0 2
1 0
0 0
0 0
1 1
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
6 11
330
060
bi bb so avg.
0 2 0 .219
0 1 0 .264
0 0 1 .288
0 0 0 .271
3 0 0 .305
1 2 0 .231
0 1 2 .222
0 0 0 .000
0 0 1 .267
0 0 0
--0 0 0 .286
3 0 1 .175
1 0 0 .208
0 0 1 .176
0 0 0
--8 6 6
bi bb so avg.
0 0 1 .256
0 0 0 .236
1 0 1 .275
0 0 0 .268
0 0 1 .251
2 0 0 .258
0 0 1 .245
0 0 0 .212
0 0 0 .067
0 0 0
--3 0 0 .286
0 0 0 .000
0 0 0
--0 0 0 .286
0 0 0
--0 0 0 .285
6 0 4
000—8 8 0
000—6 11 0
LOB—New York 4, Atlanta 4. 2B—Loney
(5), Flores (7), Francoeur (9), Markakis 2
(20), Garcia (5). HR—Loney (2), off Blair;
Snyder (2), off Matz. RBIs—Loney 3 (8),
Flores (11), T.d’Arnaud 3 (4), Matz (2),
Freeman (27), Garcia 2 (18), Snyder 3 (4).
SB—C.d’Arnaud (5). SF—Matz. DP—New
York 2; Atlanta 2
New York
ip h r er bb so np era
Matz
4Í/¯ 9 6 6 0 0 78 3.29
Robles W2-3 2Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 2 21 2.97
Bastardo H6 Î/¯ 1 0 0 0 1 15 4.55
Familia S25-25 1Í/¯ 1 0 0 0 1 15 2.97
Atlanta
Blair L0-5
4Í/¯ 7 8 8 2 2 72 7.99
Î/¯ 0 0 0 0 1
7 3.45
Ogando
Krol
1 0 0 0 1 1 12 2.50
Withrow
1 1 0 0 0 0 13 4.26
Cervenka
2 0 0 0 2 2 26 2.70
N.L. LEADERS
BATTING—Murphy, Washington, .347;
Ramos,
Washington,
.330;
Marte,
Pittsburgh, .328; LeMahieu, Colorado, .324;
Ozuna, Miami, .322; Braun, Milwaukee,
.320; Prado, Miami, .315; Yelich, Miami,
.311; Diaz, St. Louis, .310; Gonzalez,
Colorado, .310.
RUNS—Bryant, Chicago, 52; Arenado,
Colorado, 51; Gonzalez, Colorado, 48;
Carpenter, St. Louis, 48; Zobrist, Chicago,
48; Seager, Los Angeles, 47; Myers, San
Diego, 47; Polanco, Pittsburgh, 47; Diaz,
St. Louis, 47; Ozuna, Miami, 46.
RBI—Arenado, Colorado, 61; Bruce,
Cincinnati, 55; Rizzo, Chicago, 54; Kemp,
San Diego, 52; Duvall, Cincinnati, 51;
Bryant, Chicago, 49; Story, Colorado, 48;
Lamb, Arizona, 47; Murphy, Washington,
46; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 46.
HITS—Murphy, Washington, 93; Segura,
Arizona, 89; Ozuna, Miami, 87; Gonzalez,
Colorado, 86; Prado, Miami, 85; Marte,
Pittsburgh, 83; Seager, Los Angeles, 83;
Arenado, Colorado, 81; Jay, San Diego, 80;
Myers, San Diego, 80; LeMahieu, Colorado,
80; Herrera, Philadelphia, 80.
DOUBLES—Jay, San Diego, 24; Polanco,
Pittsburgh, 23; Carpenter, St. Louis, 22;
Parra, Colorado, 20; Yelich, Miami, 19;
Murphy, Washington, 19; Fowler, Chicago,
19; Belt, San Francisco, 19; Cozart,
Cincinnati, 19; LeMahieu, Colorado, 18;
Markakis, Atlanta, 18; Piscotty, St. Louis,
18; Marte, Pittsburgh, 18.
TRIPLES—Bruce, Cincinnati, 6; Panik,
San Francisco, 5; LeMahieu, Colorado, 5;
Hernandez, Philadelphia, 5; Ozuna, Miami,
5; Story, Colorado, 4; Owings, Arizona, 4;
Peralta, Arizona, 4; Harrison, Pittsburgh, 4;
Segura, Arizona, 4; Blanco, San Francisco,
4; Smith, Atlanta, 4; Carpenter, St. Louis, 4;
Granderson, New York, 4.
PRO HOCKEY
N.H.L. DRAFT SELECTIONS
FRIDAY
T ENNIS
New York
Granderson rf
Cabrera ss
Cespedes cf
Walker 2b
Loney 1b
Flores 3b
Conforto lf
Robles p
Reynolds ph
Bastardo p
Johnson lf
T.d’Arnaud c
Matz p
De Aza lf
Familia p
Totals
Atlanta
Peterson 2b
Inciarte cf
Freeman 1b
Francoeur lf
Markakis rf
Garcia 3b
Flowers c
Aybar ss
Blair p
Ogando p
Snyder ph
Krol p
Withrow p
Bonifacio ph
Cervenka p
C.d’Arnaud ph
Totals
New York
Atlanta
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
3
r
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
5
h
1
0
0
2
0
1
0
2
1
7
h
0
1
0
1
0
2
1
1
1
1
0
8
100
200
bi bb so avg.
2 0 0 .315
0 0 2 .283
0 1 1 .274
0 0 2 .248
0 0 2 .247
0 0 1 .280
0 1 3 .197
0 0 1 .272
1 0 0 .198
3 2 12
bi bb so avg.
0 0 1 .253
1 0 1 .286
0 0 0 .214
1 1 0 .287
0 0 0 .278
1 0 1 .222
0 0 0 .257
0 1 2 .252
0 0 0 .286
1 1 0 .217
1 0 1 .262
5 3 6
000—3 7 3
01x—5 8 0
E—Grossman (2), Mauer (1), Escobar (6).
LOB—Minnesota 5, New York 8. 2B—
Dozier (15), Suzuki (9), Buxton (8), Beltran
(15). HR—Hicks (3), off Boshers. RBIs—
Nunez 2 (28), Buxton (9), Refsnyder (8),
Beltran (52), Rodriguez (26), Hicks (14),
Romine (14). SF—Romine. DP—New York
1
Minnesota
Milone L0-2 3Î/¯ 6 4 1 2 1 77 5.33
Ramirez
2Í/¯ 1 0 0 1 2 38 2.57
Pressly
1 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.89
Boshers
1 1 1 1 0 2 19 1.64
New York
Tanaka W5-2
6 7 3 3 2 7 95 3.01
Betances H18 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 3.06
Miller H11
1 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.14
Chapman S14-151 0 0 0 0 3 11 2.84
A.L. LEADERS
BATTING—Bogaerts,
Boston,
.351;
Altuve, Houston, .343; Ortiz, Boston,
.340; Martinez, Detroit, .327; Machado,
Baltimore, .317; Nunez, Minnesota,
.316; Desmond, Texas, .316; Escobar,
Anaheim, .310; Hosmer, Kansas City,
.309; Pedroia, Boston, .309.
RUNS—Betts, Boston, 64; Donaldson,
Toronto, 61; Kinsler, Detroit, 58; Bogaerts,
Boston, 56; Cano, Seattle, 52; Desmond,
Texas, 52; Altuve, Houston, 51; Davis,
Baltimore, 51; Machado, Baltimore, 50;
Springer, Houston, 49.
RBI—Encarnacion, Toronto, 62; Ortiz,
Boston, 60; Cano, Seattle, 53; Trumbo,
Baltimore, 52; Beltran, New York, 51; Betts,
Boston, 51; Bogaerts, Boston, 50; Napoli,
Cleveland, 49; Trout, Anaheim, 48; Cruz,
Seattle, 48; Seager, Seattle, 48; Frazier,
Chicago, 48.
HITS—Bogaerts, Boston, 106; Altuve,
Houston, 97; Betts, Boston, 92; Cano,
Seattle, 89; Pedroia, Boston, 89; Desmond,
Texas, 89; Kinsler, Detroit, 88; Machado,
Baltimore, 86; Escobar, Anaheim, 85;
Cabrera, Detroit, 84.
DOUBLES—Ortiz, Boston, 30; Machado,
Baltimore, 27; Bogaerts, Boston, 21;
Shaw, Boston, 21; Altuve, Houston, 21;
Pedroia, Boston, 20; Desmond, Texas, 19;
Martinez, Detroit, 19; Lawrie, Chicago, 19;
Donaldson, Toronto, 18; Cano, Seattle, 18;
Escobar, Anaheim, 18; Saunders, Toronto,
18; Pillar, Toronto, 18; Longoria, Tampa
Bay, 18.
TRIPLES—Eaton, Chicago, 7; Bradley
Jr., Boston, 6; Ellsbury, New York, 5;
Betts, Boston, 4; Miller, Tampa Bay, 4;
Burns, Oakland, 4; Donaldson, Toronto,
4; Cabrera, Chicago, 3; Andrus, Texas,
3; Naquin, Cleveland, 3; Aoki, Seattle, 3;
Correa, Houston, 3; Buxton, Minnesota, 3;
Swihart, Boston, 3.
June 24-25
At First Niagara Center
Buffalo, N.Y.
Friday
First Round
1. Toronto, Auston Matthews, C, Zurich
(SUI).
2. Winnipeg, Patrik Laine, RW, Tappara
(FIN).
3. Columbus, Pierre-Luc Dubois, LW, Cape
Breton (QMJHL).
4. Edmonton, Jesse Puljujarvi, RW, Karpat
(FIN).
5. Vancouver, Olli Juolevi, D, London (OHL).
6. Calgary, Matthew Tkachuk, LW, London
(OHL).
7. Arizona, Clayton Keller, C, USA Under-18
(NTDP).
8. Buffalo, Alexander Nylander, LW,
Mississauga (OHL).
9. Montreal, Mikhail Sergachyov, D,
Windsor (OHL).
10. Colorado, Tyson Jost, C, Penticton
(BCJHL).
11. Ottawa (from New Jersey), Logan
Brown, C, Windsor (OHL).
12. New Jersey (from Ottawa), Michael
McLeod, C, Mississauga (OHL).
13. Carolina, Jake Bean, D, Calgary (WHL).
14. Boston, Charlie McAvoy, D, Boston
University (HEast).
15. Minnesota, Luke Kunin, C, Wisconsin
(Big Ten).
16. Arizona (from Detroit), Jakob Chychrun,
D, Sarnia (OHL).
17. Nashville, Dante Fabbro, D, Penticton
(BCHL).
18. Winnipeg (from Philadelphia), Logan
Stanley, D, Windsor (OHL).
19. N.Y. Islanders, Kieffer Bellows, LW, USA
Under-18 (NTDP).
20. Detroit (from Arizona via N.Y. Rangers),
Dennis Cholowski, D, Chilliwack (BCHL).
21. Carolina (from Los Angeles), Julien
Gauthier, RW, Val-d’Or (QMJHL).
22. Philadelphia (from Winnipeg via
Chicago), German Rubtsov, C, Team
Russia U18 (Russia-Jr.).
23. Florida, Henrik Borgstrom, C, HIFK Jr.
(FIN-Jr.)
24. Anaheim, Max Jones, LW, London
(OHL).
25. Dallas, Riley Tufte, LW, Blaine HS
(Minn.).
26. St. Louis (from Washington), Tage
Thompson, C, UConn (HEast)
27. Tampa Bay, Brett Howden, C, Moose
Jaw (WHL).
28. Washington (from St. Louis), Lucas
Johansen, D, Kelowna (WHL).
29. Boston (from San Jose), Trent Frederic,
C, USA Under-18 (NTDP).
30. Anaheim (from Pittsburgh via Toronto),
Sam Steel, C, Regina (WHL).
PRO BASKETBALL
W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Liberty
10
4
Atlanta
8
5
Washington
7
8
Chicago
6
8
Indiana
5
9
Connecticut
3
10
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L
Minnesota
13
1
Los Angeles
12
1
Dallas
7
7
Phoenix
5
9
Seattle
4
9
San Antonio
2
11
Thursday’s Games
Dallas 97, San Antonio 90, OT
Pct
.714
.615
.467
.429
.357
.231
GB
—
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3{
4
5
6{
Pct
.929
.923
.500
.357
.308
.154
GB
—
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6
8
8{
10{
Friday’s Games
Liberty 80, Chicago 79
Phoenix 91, Washington 79
Los Angeles 94, Minnesota 76
Connecticut at Seattle
Saturday’s Games
Atlanta at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Indiana at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS
N.F.L.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed LB Joe
Schobert.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released
PK Shaun Suisham. Signed RB Brandon
Johnson.
N.H.L.
DALLAS STARS — Signed D Jordie Benn
to a three-year contract.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Re-signed D
Luke Witkowski to a one-year, two-way
contract.
M.L.S.
FC DALLAS — Reached agreement to
transfer M Alejandro Zendejas to Chivas
Guadalajara (Liga MX-Mexico).
NEW YORK RED BULLS — Loaned D Karl
Ouimette to Jacksonville (NASL).
KANSAS CITY — Signed D Ever Alvarado.
W.T.A. AEGON
INTERNATIONAL
Friday
At Devonshire Park
Eastbourne, England
Singles
Quarterfinals
Dominika Cibulkova (12), Slovakia,
d. Agnieszka Radwanska (1), Poland,
4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3. Karolina Pliskova (10),
Czech Republic, d. Elena Vesnina, Russia,
6-1, 6-3. Johanna Konta (11), Britain, d.
Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Semifinals
Dominika Cibulkova (12), Slovakia,
d. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 6-2, 6-1.
Karolina Pliskova (10), Czech Republic, d.
Johanna Konta (11), Britain, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3.
WIMBLEDON SEEDS
At The All England Lawn Tennis &
Croquet Club
London
June 27-July 10
(Ranking in parentheses)
Men
1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia (1)
2. Andy Murray, Britain (2)
3. Roger Federer, Switzerland (3)
4. Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland (5)
5. Kei Nishikori, Japan (6)
6. Milos Raonic, Canada (7)
7. Richard Gasquet, France (10)
8. Dominic Thiem, Austria (8)
9. Marin Cilic, Croatia (13)
10. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic (9)
11. David Goffin, Belgium (11)
12. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France (12)
13. David Ferrer, Spain (14)
14. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain (15)
15. Nick Kyrgios, Australia (18)
16. Gilles Simon, France (20)
17. Gael Monfils, France (16)
18. John Isner, United States (17)
19. Bernard Tomic, Australia (19)
20. Kevin Anderson, South Africa (24)
21. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany (22)
22. Feliciano Lopez, Spain (21)
23. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia (31)
24. Alexander Zverev, Germany (28)
25. Viktor Troicki, Serbia (27)
26. Benoit Paire, France (23)
27. Jack Sock, United States (26)
28. Sam Querrey, United States (33)
29. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay (25)
30. Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine (32)
31. Joao Sousa, Portugal (30)
32. Lucas Pouille, France (29)
Women
1. Serena Williams, United States (1)
2. Garbine Muguruza, Spain (2)
3. Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland (3)
4. Angelique Kerber, Germany (4)
5. Simona Halep, Romania (5)
x-6. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus (6)
6. Roberta Vinci, Italy (7)
7. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland (8)
8. Venus Williams, United States (9)
9. Madison Keys, United States (10)
10. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic (11)
11. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland (12)
12. Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain (13)
13. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia (14)
14. Sam Stosur, Australia (16)
15. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic (17)
16. Johanna Konta, Britain (18)
17. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine (19)
18. Sloane Stephens, United States (20)
19. Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakia (21)
20. Sara Errani, Italy (22)
21. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia (23)
22. Jelena Jankovic, Serbia (24)
23. Ana Ivanovic, Serbia (25)
24. Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic (26)
25. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania (27)
26. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands (28)
27. CoCo Vandeweghe, United States (29)
28. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic (30)
29. Daria Kasatkina, Russia (31)
30. Caroline Garcia, France (32)
31. Kristina Mladenovic, France (33)
32. Andrea Petkovic, Germany (34)
x-withdrew
SOCCER
M.L.S. STANDINGS
EAST
W
Philadelphia
7
New York
7
New York City FC5
Montreal
5
Toronto FC
5
New England
4
D.C. United
4
Orlando City
3
Columbus
3
Chicago
2
L
4
8
5
4
5
4
6
3
5
7
T Pts GF GA
5 26 27 22
1 22 27 22
6 21 25 31
5 20 22 20
4 19 15 15
7 19 21 26
5 17 14 16
8 17 25 23
6 15 18 21
5 11 14 20
WEST
W L
T Pts GF GA
Colorado
9 2
5 32 19 11
FC Dallas
8 5
4 28 24 24
Real Salt Lake 8 4
3 27 27 24
Los Angeles
5 3
7 22 27 17
Kansas City
6 8
3 21 16 18
Vancouver
6 7
3 21 24 27
San Jose
5 4
6 21 18 18
Portland
5 6
5 20 25 27
Seattle
5 8
1 16 13 17
Houston
3 7
5 14 20 22
NOTE: Three points for victory, one point
for tie.
Wednesday’s Games
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 3
Real Salt Lake 2, New York 1
Colorado 0, Los Angeles 0, tie
Saturday, June 25
New York City FC at Seattle, 5 p.m.
New England at D.C. United, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
New York at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
Sporting Kansas City at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.
Toronto FC at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m.
Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at San Jose, 10 p.m.
COPA AMÉRICA
All Times EDT
SEMIFINALS
Tuesday
At Houston
Argentina 4, United States 0
Wednesday
At Chicago
Chile 2, Colombia 0
THIRD PLACE
Saturday, June 25
At Glendale, Ariz.
United States vs. Colombia, 8 p.m.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday, June 26
At East Rutherford, N.J.
Argentina vs. Chile, 8 p.m.
GOLF
QUICKEN LOANS NATIONAL
Friday
At Congressional Country
Bethesda, Md.
Purse: $6.9 million
Yardage: 7,569; Par 71
Second Round
Billy Hurley III . . . . . . . . . .
Jon Rahm . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vijay Singh . . . . . . . . . . .
Webb Simpson. . . . . . . . .
Bill Haas . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ernie Els . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Harold Varner III . . . . . . . .
Robert Garrigus . . . . . . . .
Mark Hubbard . . . . . . . . .
Rickie Fowler . . . . . . . . . .
Byeong Hun An . . . . . . . .
John Senden . . . . . . . . . .
David Hearn . . . . . . . . . .
Kyle Reifers . . . . . . . . . . .
Sam Saunders . . . . . . . . .
Marc Leishman. . . . . . . . .
Patrick Reed . . . . . . . . . .
Justin Thomas . . . . . . . . .
Erik Compton. . . . . . . . . .
Jason Kokrak . . . . . . . . . .
Gary Woodland . . . . . . . .
Michael Kim. . . . . . . . . . .
Camilo Villegas . . . . . . . .
Keegan Bradley . . . . . . . .
Tyrone Van Aswegen . . . .
Patrick Rodgers . . . . . . . .
Hudson Swafford . . . . . . .
Nick Taylor . . . . . . . . . . .
Robert Streb . . . . . . . . . .
Kevin Streelman . . . . . . . .
Daniel Summerhays . . . . .
Will MacKenzie . . . . . . . . .
Lucas Glover . . . . . . . . . .
Kevin Chappell . . . . . . . . .
Charley Hoffman. . . . . . . .
Charles Howell III . . . . . . .
Arjun Atwal . . . . . . . . . . .
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68-66—134
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66-69—135
66-69—135
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67-69—136
67-69—136
68-68—136
69-68—137
67-70—137
70-67—137
66-71—137
67-70—137
67-71—138
68-70—138
69-69—138
68-70—138
69-69—138
69-69—138
68-70—138
66-72—138
70-68—138
69-70—139
70-69—139
70-69—139
69-70—139
69-70—139
71-68—139
70-69—139
68-71—139
68-71—139
70-69—139
67-72—139
74-66—140
70-70—140
BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN
Friday
At Golf Club Gut Laerchenhof
Pulheim, Germany
Purse: $2.27 million
Yardage: 7,229; Par: 72
Second Round
Raphael Jacquelin, France . . . 65-68—133
Henrik Stenson, Sweden . . . . 68-65—133
Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand 69-64—133
Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark . . 67-67—134
Zander Lombard, South Africa 67-68—135
Darren Fichardt, South Africa . 68-69—137
Pablo Larrazabal, Spain . . . . . 68-69—137
Joost Luiten, Netherlands . . . . 70-67—137
Felipe Aguilar, Chile . . . . . . . 67-70—137
Johan Carlsson, Sweden . . . . 70-68—138
Anders Hansen, Denmark . . . . 70-68—138
Mike Lorenzo-Vera, France . . . 69-69—138
Bernd Wiesberger, Austria . . . 68-70—138
Richard Bland, England . . . . . 71-68—139
Craig Lee, Scotland . . . . . . . 70-69—139
Matteo Manassero, Italy . . . . . 72-67—139
Sergio Garcia, Spain . . . . . . . 71-68—139
Jaco van Zyl, South Africa . . . 71-68—139
Graeme Storm, England . . . . . 69-70—139
Anthony Wall, England . . . . . . 70-69—139
Jeff Winther, Denmark . . . . . . 68-71—139
D5
N
TENNIS
Majors Cling
To Best-of-5.
Here’s Why.
By SIMON CAMBERS
When Wimbledon begins on
Monday, it will be notable for the
absence of the 14-time Grand Slam
champion Rafael Nadal and for
the presence of the 17-time major
winner Roger Federer, who is still
trying to recover from a back injury that caused him to miss the
French Open.
Had a 1970s experiment with a
shorter format in the early rounds
of Grand Slam events not been
discarded, it is possible that things
might have been different.
The bruising nature of the
men’s tour, with players bigger
than ever, a predominating baseline style that leads to long rallies,
the homogenization of court surfaces and the increasing emphasis
on physicality, has caused many
top players to take time off for injuries in recent years.
At Grand Slam events, players
have wilted as matches stretch
past three hours, particularly in
the heat of Melbourne, Australia,
and Flushing Meadows, Queens.
Top male players like
a format in which
upsets are rarer.
At last year’s United States Open,
10 men retired from their firstround matches. Watching Andy
Murray visibly tire in the final of
the French Open this month, it
was easy to wonder what might
have been had he not had to play
five sets in each of his first two
rounds.
Then again, if the French Open
had used a best-of-three format in
the first two rounds, as it did from
1973 to 1975 (and had this year’s
matches in Paris played out the
same way), Murray would have
been eliminated long before the final.
Still, concerns about extending
players’ careers have led to questions about the best-of-five format
for men’s singles at Grand Slam
events.
Men play best-of-five matches
only at majors and in Davis Cup
matches. Other ATP Tour events
and all WTA tournaments have a
best-of-three-set format. (That
men play best-of-five at the Grand
Slam events and women do not is
an argument used by many critics
of equal prize money.)
Most male players, past and
present, say the best-of-five-set
format represents the truest test,
physically and mentally. To
change it, they say, would affect
how Grand Slam champions are
compared with those of the past.
But in the 1970s, the decade in
which television helped increase
prize money and transform tennis
into a truly global sport, three of
the four Grand Slam events tested
a best-of-three-set format in the
men’s events.
The Australian Open started
the ball rolling in the 1973 and 1974
tournaments, in which only the
first-round matches were best-ofthree. The French Open was bestof-three in the first two rounds in
1973, 1974 and 1975; and the United
States Open tried it in the first
three rounds in 1975, 1976 and 1978
and through the fourth round in
1977.
According to an article in The
New York Times on June 17, 1975,
the change in format at the United
States Open was made to accompany a switch from grass courts to
clay.
“The reason for the change was
that the matches on clay were expected to last longer than on grass
because of more extended rallies,”
the article said.
In the three United States
Opens leading up to the change,
first-round matches were often
one-sided. From 1972 to 1974, 104 of
the 192 first-round matches were
won in straight sets, including retirements. Only 26 matches went
five sets, and only 15 would have
had different results had they
been played best-of-three.
In 1979, a year after the tournament moved to the National Tennis Center from the West Side Tennis Club and switched to hardcourts, the tournament returned
to a best-of-five format. There
were 37 straight-sets wins in the
first round and 14 five-set
matches, and six matches would
have had different outcomes over
the shorter format.
Forty-odd years on, the memory of those involved is understandably hazy, but John McEnroe, who first played at the United
States Open in 1977, said the top
players believed that the longer
format favored them because of
their superior fitness.
“I did lose in the round of 16 in
the U.S. Open in 1977, my first
Open, 6-2, 6-3, and it seemed like it
happened too fast,” McEnroe said
in a conference call Tuesday.
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Above, Andy Murray during his four-set victory over Richard
Gasquet in a quarterfinal at the French Open on June 1. Far left,
John McEnroe with Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon on June 30,
1977, when Connors won their semifinal in four sets.
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Manolo Santana, who won three
Grand Slam singles titles in the
1960s, remembered that players
were unhappy about the best-ofthree format.
“I think it was done because
some of the early matches were
very quick, and then the television
people wanted it,” he said at the
French Open last month.
Frew McMillan, a South African
who won 10 Grand Slam titles in
men’s and mixed doubles, said the
players were pleased when the experiment ended.
“I think any player with any history of the game, not only through
their own experience but looking
back over the years, all the majors
stood out and were played over
five sets,” said McMillan, who is
now a commentator for the Eurosport television network. “It
was very much a routine for us,
and so to reduce events in the majors to three sets in some ways reduced the value in our eyes.”
The 1975 World of Tennis yearbook includes one withering paragraph about the 1974 French Open.
“A distasteful feature of the
men’s singles was the decision
once again to play two rounds
over the best of three sets and the
rest over the best of five,” it read.
“This broke the rhythm of the
tournament and asked players to
transform
themselves
from
sprinters into stayers.”
The 1976 book refers to the format in a more positive way, saying
that
“abbreviated
matches”
helped raw youngsters “take the
strain” of a packed schedule.
Wimbledon is the only one of
the four Grand Slam tournaments
not to have tried the shortened
format. The oldest and most famous of the four majors, it prides
itself on tradition, upholding, as it
often says, everything that is
great about tennis while being
open to innovation.
An email statement from Wimbledon said that officials there
were not aware of any discussion
in the past about a possible
change of format.
“We consider five sets to be the
ultimate test for a tennis player in
the men’s game and there are no
plans to change the format at the
Championships,” the statement
said.
McEnroe said tennis should always think of ways to improve itself.
“I don’t think the door should be
closed on saying that women
would never play best-of-five or
guys will never play best-ofthree,” he said. “I think it’s something that’s an ongoing discussion.”
Eric Butorac, the president of
the ATP Player Council, said in an
email, “In all my discussions in
previous years, most players were
in favor of staying with the bestof-five format despite the congestion.”
Murray was open to ideas.
“I’m not against change or trying something, trying something
new,” he said last week. “It could
make it better, for sure. That’s possible. It could make it more interesting, more entertaining, but it
could also go the other way as
well.”
He added: “I don’t mind the
best-of-five. I think it makes it a little bit different to the rest of the
tour. It makes all the hard work
kind of worthwhile. Best-of-three
matches physically don’t often
take too much out of you. We’ve
played best-of-three since we
were kids in all competitions, so in
the best-of-five, the extra training
and extra effort helps in those scenarios. So I like a five-set format,
but I’m not against change, either.”
For Players Who Earn Little to Begin With, Fall of the Pound Leaves a Big Hole
By BEN ROTHENBERG
ROEHAMPTON, England —
First, the rain fell. Hard. Then, the
British pound fell. Harder.
Those successive events on
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clouds and then Britain’s voting to
leave the European Union,
washed away a chunk of the earn-
ings of players who lost in the final
round of Wimbledon qualifying.
Play had been scheduled to finish
Thursday, but it was postponed to
Friday because of persistent rain.
Had the rain held off, allowing
matches to finish as scheduled at
the Bank of England Sports
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been transferred into players’ foreign checking accounts at significantly higher rates. The one-day
delay saw the pound fall from a
Thursday average of around $1.49
to $1.37 on Friday (bottoming out
at $1.32 early Friday morning).
The plunge, which pushed the
pound to its lowest value in 31
years, devalued a prize of 15,000
pounds for the losers that, when
converted into American dollars,
fell from $22,350 to $20,550. For
players transferring from the
pound to the also-crashing euro,
the fall was from about 1.31 euros
to 1.24, but still enough to result in
an overnight loss of €1,050.
Once a player is eliminated
from a tournament, he or she
visits the prize money desk,
where the money is wired to a
bank account. A paper check is
also an option, but rarely chosen
by players.
Gerald Melzer, an Austrian
whose match began Thursday but
did not end until Friday, had followed the referendum and the
pound’s ensuing drop, and had already done the math for himself.
“A thousand more,” Melzer,
ranked 107th, said of the euros he
would have earned by losing more
quickly. “Yeah, I knew that, I did.
A thousand euros is a thousand
euros, it’s not like losing €2. So
yeah, it hurts.”
Yannick Mertens of Belgium,
another player who lost on Friday,
expressed a sense of helplessness.
“We lose money in one day
without doing anything,” the
220th-ranked Mertens said. “For
us, it’s a bad decision, but there’s
nothing we can do about it. For
sure it’s not positive for us.”
While the pound’s drop will be
felt by players in the main draw of
Wimbledon as well, the lowerearning players in the qualifying
draw are most sensitive to devaluations. The American Austin Krajicek, who like Melzer would have
cut his losses by losing on Thursday, said he believed players at his
level of the sport, who rely on the
major tournaments to provide
CHRISTOPHER LEVY
Gerald Melzer said he would have made €1,000 more had his match not been delayed a day.
larger percentages of their annual
earnings, were more sensitive to
exchange-rate changes. For him,
the swift change meant a loss of
$1,800.
“It’s huge; every penny counts
at this level,” the 131st-ranked Krajicek said. “The qualies guys,
we’re not making big money like
the top guys, so every dollar
counts.”
Krajicek said he also noticed a
less sudden drop-off when he
played in January in Australia,
where the Australian dollar has
weakened in comparison to the
American dollar.
“Especially for us, eating dinners and staying at hotels, and
with everything that we buy, it
makes a big difference for us,” he
said. “England is usually pretty
expensive with the pound, but
yeah, that’s tough with the prize
money today.”
Mohamed Safwat of Egypt, who
has struggled because of his country’s declining currency in recent
years, now trains in Austria,
which means he has to pay his expenses in euros. The loss of €1,050,
in his eyes, damaged his tennis
more than his wallet, because it
might prevent him from being
able to pay for the best coaches.
“The more I win in the tournament with the prize money and
the money from a sponsor, the
After a referendum
and a currency’s
ensuing drop, prize
money is devalued.
more I’m investing in myself,”
said Safwat, who is ranked 219th.
“I don’t keep a cent for just me. Everything, I put it into tennis.”
Safwat’s winnings of £15,000,
despite its devaluation, is his best
at one event on tour. Safwat said
despite his often precarious finances he was not tempted to give
up competing.
“If I quit tennis, if I stop, I can
make lots of money coaching, I
can be a millionaire,” he said. “I’m
getting offers to coach kids for
€150 an hour. I don’t want to do
that, that’s not me. I have a dream,
I have a target, I have a lot of people supporting me. Later on, yes, I
can help the kids, but it’s not about
making money, money, money.”
Jana Cepelova of Slovakia,
ranked 127th, won her qualifying
match to reach the main draw,
doubling her prize money to
£30,000. She said she hoped to last
long enough at Wimbledon to be
able to cash out a brighter future.
“I think it’s not good for Britain
that they will not be in the European Union anymore, and for us
it’s a little bit bad with prize
money,” she said. “But if we win,
we can stay — and maybe the
pound will go up?”
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Six Weeks Before the Games Begin, Rio’s Antidoping Lab Is Suspended
technicians and retrofit three floors of facilities at a federal university in Rio. That
project necessitated a substantial commitment of government money in the
face of a serious recession.
In an interview last spring, Francisco
Radler de Aquino Neto, a chemical scientist and the director of the Rio facility,
credited firm support from the federal
government for improvements.
Dilma Rousseff, who was removed as
Brazil’s president this year amid a
sweeping graft scandal, signed a measure in March to ensure that the lab’s policies were changed to conform with
global standards so that its certification
to run Olympic testing was not revoked.
The new suspension took effect on
Wednesday, according to WADA. The lab
has the option of filing an appeal to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland within 21 days.
While under suspension, the lab is
barred from conducting any antidoping
analysis on urine and blood samples. It
was unclear Friday if the issue would be
resolved — and the suspension lifted —
in time for the Olympics, though officials
expressed skepticism that such a reversal could happen so quickly.
In the meantime, WADA said that it
would transfer any samples at the lab to
a facility outside Brazil for testing.
“WADA will work closely with the Rio
laboratory to resolve the identified issue,” Olivier Niggli, WADA’s incoming
director general, said in the organization’s statement. “Athletes can have confidence that the suspension will only be
lifted by WADA when the laboratory is
operating optimally.”
The lab’s previous suspension
coincided with the 2014 World Cup, forc-
A testing site’s suspension
is the latest problem in a
fight to keep sports clean.
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The Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympics will begin on
Aug. 5. The Rio drug-testing lab has 21 days to appeal its suspension.
ing organizers to send athletes’ doping
samples to Switzerland for testing.
FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, bore the cost.
If the Rio lab is not recertified in time
for the Olympics, the International
Olympic Committee would be responsible for arranging to have doping samples
taken to another WADA-approved lab.
Earlier this month, WADA’s president,
Craig Reedie, stressed the necessity of a
local testing lab at the Olympics. Compared to the World Cup, he said, the pace
of Olympic testing and competition is far
more intense.
“You’re in the first round of the 100 meters at 10 o’clock in the morning and the
second round at 2 o’clock in the afternoon,” Mr. Reedie said. “We need a lab-
oratory on site at the Olympic Games.”
Just two years ago, facing enormous
pressure to have an on-site laboratory at
Sochi, Mr. Reedie permitted the Russian
lab to conduct testing for the Games despite suspicious test results that had
prompted a WADA investigation.
The longtime director of Russia’s lab,
Grigory Rodchenkov, told The New York
Times that after he was cleared to run
the Sochi lab, he had tampered with
roughly 100 of the 1,917 urine samples the
facility tested. He said he had substituted
out the steroid-laced urine of dozens of
Russian athletes, at least 15 of whom won
medals at Sochi — where Russia placed
first in the overall medal count.
Mr. Reedie, who signed a certificate in
January 2014 that allowed Dr. Rod-
chenkov to direct testing at Sochi, has defended that decision.
“The suspension was suspended provided they met certain tests over a short
period, which they did,” Mr. Reedie said
in an interview in Switzerland this
month. “Hindsight is an exact science.”
In 2014, WADA’s independent observation team called the Sochi lab “a milestone in the evolution of the Olympic
Games antidoping program.” But in recent months — as attention has focused
on the global regulator, and after new
rules took effect in 2015 — WADA has announced an unusual flurry of new disciplinary actions.
About a quarter of the lab suspensions
published on WADA’s website have taken place in 2016. In the last three months
alone, WADA announced more suspensions than it had in the preceding three
years combined. Those suspensions — of
antidoping labs in Beijing; Lisbon; Madrid; Bloemfontein, South Africa; and
now Rio — affect more than 10 percent of
WADA’s testing facilities.
The agency, which oversees individual
countries’ antidoping programs as well,
has also disciplined national antidoping
agencies at significantly higher rates
since last fall.
“We’re seeing a whole lot more scrutiny now,” said Joseph de Pencier, the
founding chief executive of the Institute
of National Anti-Doping Organizations, a
trade group that has been funded by
WADA. “WADA is realizing it should
function like a financial regulator.”
At a November meeting in Colorado —
days after WADA had published an explosive report on Russia — WADA’s
board resolved to be stricter, and Mr.
Reedie said in a statement that the organization would have a “greater focus” on
ensuring countries played by the rules.
Since then, the antidoping agencies of
countries including Kenya and Russia
have been sanctioned, either because the
countries’ policies were out of line with
global standards or because the agencies
made technical mistakes such as sending doping samples to an unapproved
lab.
For a national antidoping agency to be
disciplined by WADA means little in itself, but depriving a country of WADA’s
endorsement is a powerful signal.
Still, in an interview in Los Angeles
last month, Dr. Rodchenkov minimized
the rigor of WADA’s scientific vetting
process during the 10 years he headed
Russia’s lab.
“WADA is a kindergarten,” Dr. Rodchenkov said. But he called WADA’s seal
of approval crucial to delivering on the
cheating scheme he said he had carried
out on orders from the Russian government. “You cannot do state-sponsored
doping without access to top-level accredited laboratory,” he said.
Though WADA revoked the accreditation of Russia’s lab in the wake of
the accusations, the agency cleared the
facility last month to resume testing on
blood samples.
Mr. de Pencier, the head of the consortium of antidoping agencies, said the antidoping authorities had begun to appreciate the need for more robust regulation.
“The antidoping community as a
whole is still a work in progress,” he said.
“We’re still developing.”
Olympic Optimism Shaken by Brazil’s Tumult
members of the business elite. Lula’s
handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff,
is being impeached for covering gaps in
the government’s budget in ways that
were allegedly illegal. (She has never
been connected to the larger scandal,
however, despite having once been the
chairwoman of Petrobras.) Lula himself
is under investigation.
The country’s economy has also
fallen off a cliff, its gross domestic
product dropping by 3.8 percent last
year alone. Both the state of Rio de
Janeiro and the city are broke — and
the federal government is not in great
shape, either. Teachers and the police
have had their paychecks delayed.
Those much-praised social programs
have been cut back. Inflation is on the
rise. So is crime. The state security
budget has been cut. Just days ago,
armed men attacked Rio’s largest public hospital, successfully freeing a drug
kingpin. Plus there’s the Zika virus,
which has hit Brazil hard. According to
the International Monetary Fund,
Brazil’s economy has slipped to ninth in
the world, behind not only Britain and
France, but also India and Italy.
Are the Olympics responsible for
those problems? Of course not. But
they’ve highlighted them. Whereas
winning the Olympics in 2009 seemed
to symbolize Brazil’s new place on the
world stage, the Olympics have since
come to represent something else: “the
hubris that existed during the boom
years under Lula,” said Alex Cuadros,
the author of “Brazillionaires,” a book
about Brazil due out in July. And at this
point, Rio’s problems and the Olympics’
problems seem intertwined.
In April, a top state official, Leonardo
Espindola, publicly acknowledged that
Brazil’s problems could affect the
Olympics and damage the country’s
image. “We are nearing a social collapse in our state,” he said.
Cities that hold Olympics rarely, if
ever, break even on the Games. In Rio’s
case, it won’t even be close. Brazil
originally budgeted more than $14
billion to hold the Olympics, money that
would be spent on infrastructure —
stadiums, transportation improvements, the Olympic Village and so on —
as well as on security and other logistical requirements.
That number is now estimated at
about $20 billion. But Rio is only likely
to reap, at most, $4.5 billion in revenue,
said Andrew Zimbalist, a sports economist at Smith College whose recent
book, “Circus Maximus,” examines the
economic consequences of the
Olympics and the World Cup.
Instead, what cities promote when
they bid for the Olympics are two
things. The first is tourism: The
Olympic Games, carried on television
all over the world, offer a city publicity
like almost nothing else. Barcelona and
Sydney are great examples of cities
that became much more prominent as
tourist destinations after they held the
Summer Games, in 1992 and 2000.
Second, cities claim that the infrastructure and improvements that are
made to accommodate the Games will
improve residents’ lives long after the
athletes have left. As part of its bid,
Brazilian officials promised to clean up
the notoriously polluted Guanabara
Bay in central Rio, where the sailing
competition will be held. They would
build stadiums, yes, but also infrastructure that would ease Rio’s congested
traffic. Officials also said that the
Olympics would improve tax revenue
and economic growth — not only in the
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Supporters of Brazil’s suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, protesting at a Rio de Janeiro rally against Michel Temer, the interim president.
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years before the Games, but for years
afterward.
It may turn out that the Rio Olympics
will increase tourism, but the bad publicity surrounding Rio’s preparation for
the Games makes that a dubious
proposition. As has been widely reported, the bay remains polluted, with
the government having essentially
given up on cleaning it up; it simply
doesn’t have the money. Thousands of
people who live in favelas — Rio’s notorious slums — have been ousted from
their homes, often relocated hours from
their schools and jobs, to make way for
the needs of the Olympics. But all that
Olympic construction has not been
enough to stem the decline of Rio’s
economy.
Perhaps the best example of the
problem with Rio’s Olympic-mandated
infrastructure is a new 10-mile rail line
that will connect the hotels of Ipanema
and Copacabana to the western suburb
of Barra da Tijuca, where the Olympic
Park has been built. It will cut the travel time from over an hour by car — on a
good day — to less than 30 minutes.
But after many delays, the rail line is
now expected to open just four days
before the opening ceremony. The cost
has risen to $2.8 billion after an initial
estimate of $1.6 billion. There are serious questions about whether there will
be enough time to properly test the new
line before putting it into use.
There is also a question about how
useful this new line will be after the
Games. Barra da Tijuca is a relatively
wealthy area, and the most urgent
transportation needs are in poorer
areas of Rio. “The building of the new
subway line is problematic,” said Christopher Gaffney, a professor at the University of Zurich who studies largescale sports events like the Olympics.
“Extending that line meant they couldn’t afford to extend any other line
where it was really needed. It is a
poorly conceived, poorly executed
project.”
At this point, virtually all the problems troubling the country seem to be
reflected in Rio’s Olympic preparation.
Corruption? Prosecutors are investigating a number of construction companies building the Olympic sites, starting
with Odebrecht, which is involved in
over half the Olympic projects. Zika?
The virus has caused some public
health officials to call for the Games to
be canceled, and a handful of athletes
— the golfer Rory McIlroy, most re-
cently — have declined to participate.
Zika is the ultimate in bad publicity.
Lack of money? The Brazilian
organizers have had to cut about $500
million from the Olympic budget —
affecting aspects of the Games including the opening and closing ceremonies
(they’re being pared back) to the athletes’ dorm rooms, which won’t have
televisions (the organizers were going
to charge the athletes for air-conditioning but backed down).
There have been other miscues, too.
In April, a bike path that had been built
next to the ocean as part of the Games’
infrastructure improvements collapsed,
killing two people on the same day the
Olympic torch was lit in Greece. (More
bad news came Friday, when the World
Anti-Doping Agency suspended the
accreditation of a Rio lab that had been
renovated, at great expense, to handle
drug testing for the Games.)
Last week, the governor of the state
of Rio de Janeiro declared a state of
“public calamity” — a declaration
usually associated with a natural disaster — essentially acknowledging that
the state was bankrupt and would be
unable to honor its commitment to the
Olympics without help. The federal
government stepped in with an emergency $850 million loan, some of which
will be used to complete the new rail
line.
The Games will go on, of course, and
for those of us watching on television, it
will be a splendid spectacle. Most of the
Olympics will take place in a kind of
bubble, divorced from the city’s problems. But after the Games end on Aug.
21, almost three weeks after they begin,
most of us will move on. The people of
Rio will be left to pick up the pieces.

GLOBAL SHOCKS AFTER UPHEAVAL IN BRITAIN

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