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PRAISING ISIS, GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB,
LEAVING 50 DEAD IN WORST SHOOTING ON U.S. SOIL
‘We Will Not Give In to Fear,’
Obama Says as Florida Aches
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
STEVE NESIUS/REUTERS
Friends and relatives of shooting victims consoled one another on Sunday outside the Police Headquarters in Orlando, Fla.
Last Call, and Shots Ring Out:
In the Bathroom, ‘He Has Us’
ORLANDO POLICE DEPARTMENT
A Kevlar helmet, with a bullet
hole, saved an officer’s life.
erybody trying to get out.”
A man, identified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, had come to the club to kill.
And over the course of the next
three hours, until he was shot and
killed himself, he executed dozens
of people.
By the time the shooting ended,
it would rank as the deadliest
mass shooting in American history. Inside the club, there were 39
dead people along with the gunman, who was killed around 5 a.m.
after a shootout with the police.
Nine more people died either at
hospitals or on their way to them.
Another two bodies were discovered on the street just outside the
club, according to Mayor Buddy
Dyer of Orlando. Fifty-three people were wounded.
Even in a post-Columbine
world, where mass shootings
have become so frighteningly
common that the phrase itself is
now a part of the lexicon, the
bloody rampage at a small nightclub in Central Florida was shocking not only in its brutality but for
the seemingly methodical fashion
in which it was carried out.
One out of every three people in
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
DOUG CLIFFORD/TAMPA BAY TIMES, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Investigators from the office of the medical examiner at the
Pulse nightclub, where a gunman opened fire early Sunday.
Deadliest Mass Shootings in American History
2012
27 killed
Newtown, Conn.
1984
2007
21 killed
San Ysidro, Calif.
32 killed
Virginia Tech
2016
50 killed
Orlando, Fla.
1991
23 killed
Killeen, Tex.
Note: Numbers do not include shooter deaths.
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For Gays Across America, a Massacre Punctuates Fitful Gains
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
At 3 o’clock in the morning on
Sunday, Benjamin Newbern, a
gay rights activist in northern
Alabama, arrived home from a
gay pride dance party he had organized, glanced at his cellphone
and spotted an unsettling social
media post: “Prayers for our
brothers and sisters at the Pulse
nightclub in Orlando.”
Mr. Newbern flipped on the television to news, he said, that “just
kind of took my breath away.” And
instantly, he knew that his life, as
an activist and a gay person in
America, had changed.
By Sunday afternoon, Mr. Newbern, 38 — who has spent two
years working to build a gay
rights community in his home city,
Florence, in part by persuading
people that it is safe to come out of
the closet — was struggling, as
were gay people nationwide, to
make sense of the worst mass
shooting in American history,
committed on a Latin-themed
night in a gay nightclub by a Muslim gunman.
What did it mean that it hap-
pened in June, Gay Pride Month?
Was it a hate crime against gay
people or simply evidence that
gun violence is out of control — or
both? Gay rights have been advancing at a rapid clip. Has that
lessened homophobia? Or maybe
made it worse? And most of all:
Should gay people be afraid?
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Joel Figueroa and his friends
“were dancing by the hip-hop area
when I heard shots, bam, bam,
bam,” he said, adding, “Everybody was screaming and running
toward the front door.”
Pulse, which calls itself
“Orlando’s Latin Hotspot,” was
holding its weekly “Upscale Latin
Saturdays” party. The shooting
began around 2 a.m., and some patrons thought at first that the
booming reports they heard were
firecrackers or part of the loud,
thumping dance music.
Some people who were trapped
inside hid where they could, calling 911 or posting messages to social media, pleading for help. The
club posted a stark message on its
Facebook page: “Everyone get
out of pulse and keep running.”
Hundreds of people gathered in
the glare of flashing red lights on
the fringes of the law enforcement
cordon around the nightclub, and
later at area hospitals, hoping desperately for some word on the
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Uncertainty
Shooter Years
As a Strategy Before Attack
By MARC SANTORA
It was nearing last call.
The music was still pounding
but the night was drawing to a
close at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when shots rang out.
At first, the crack of gunfire did
not really register.
“I thought it was firecrackers,”
said Ray Rivera, 42, who was
working at the club as a D.J. He
lowered the reggae song he was
playing to get a better listen.
The gunfire did not let up. As
round after round was fired early
Sunday, people started dropping,
some in panic, some because they
were wounded, and others because they were dead.
“I saw bodies on the floor, people on the floor everywhere,” Mr.
Rivera said. “It was a chaos, ev-
ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who
called 911 to proclaim allegiance to
the Islamic State terrorist group,
and who had been investigated in
the past for possible terrorist ties,
stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morning, wielding an assault
rifle and a pistol, and carried out
the worst mass shooting in United
States history, leaving 50 people
dead and 53 wounded.
The attacker, identified by law
enforcement officials as Omar
Mateen, a 29-year-old who was
born in New York, turned what
had been a celebratory night of
dancing to salsa and merengue
music at the crowded Pulse nightclub into a panicked scene of unimaginable slaughter, the floors
slicked with blood, the dead and
the injured piled atop one another.
Terrified people poured onto the
darkened streets of the surrounding neighborhood, some carried
wounded victims to safety, and police vehicles were pressed into
service as makeshift ambulances
to rush people to hospitals.
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As the show began, the host, James
Corden, center, paid tribute to victims of
the shootings in Orlando, Fla. “Hate will
never win,” Mr. Corden said. “Tonight’s
show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle.”
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PARIS — The revelation that
the 29-year-old man who opened
fire on Sunday in a gay nightclub
had dedicated the killing to the Islamic State has prompted a nowfamiliar question: Was the killer
truly acting under orders from the
Islamic State, or just seeking publicity and the group’s approval for
a personal act of hate?
For the terror planners of the Islamic State, the difference is
mostly irrelevant.
Influencing distant attackers to
pledge allegiance to the Islamic
State and then carry out mass
murder has become a core part of
the group’s propaganda over the
past two years. It is a purposeful
blurring of the line between operations that are planned and carried out by the terror group’s core
fighters and those carried out by
its sympathizers.
The attacker, Omar Mateen,
told a 911 operator that he was
pledging allegiance to the Islamic
State. That pledge is a central part
of the ISIS protocol. The Orlando
killing was the third time the
loyalty pledge was known to be invoked in the United States.
This article is by Alan Blinder,
Jack Healy and Richard A. Oppel
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Omar
Mateen’s life seemed to be on a
successful trajectory a decade before he carried out one of the
worst cases of mass murder in
American history.
He earned an associate degree
in criminal justice technology
in 2006. A year
later, he was
hired by one of
the world’s premier private security companies, G4S. And
Omar Mateen then, in 2009, he
got
married
and bought a home.
Soon, though, signs of troubles
emerged. His wife, an immigrant
from Uzbekistan, divorced him in
2011, after he abused her.
Two years after that, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was
called in after reports from Mr.
Mateen’s co-workers that he, the
American-born son of Afghan immigrants, had suggested he may
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version of a weapon widely used
by the military and that has been
tied to other shootings, including
San Bernardino, Calif. PAGE A14
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By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Senator Bernie Sanders said on
Sunday that he would “take our
campaign for transforming the
Democratic Party into the convention,” refusing to concede the
presidential nomination to Hillary
Clinton though not explicitly saying he would challenge her for it.
Mrs. Clinton earned enough
delegates to clinch the nomination
last week, but Mr. Sanders has declined to end his campaign. He has
contended that he could persuade
enough superdelegates, the party
leaders who have overwhelmingly backed Mrs. Clinton, to
switch their support to him by arguing that he would be the stronger candidate against Donald J.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
That plan became more improbable last week as high-profile
Democrats supported Mrs. Clinton. President Obama endorsed
her on Thursday, calling her the
most qualified candidate ever to
seek the White House and imploring Democrats to unite behind her.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
and Senator Elizabeth Warren of
Massachusetts also endorsed
Mrs. Clinton. Senator Jeff
Merkley of Oregon, the only senator to endorse Mr. Sanders, told
CNN on Friday that he now supports Mrs. Clinton.
In recent days, Mr. Sanders appeared to acknowledge the odds
against him, and began speaking
less about beating Mrs. Clinton
and more about working to defeat
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive
Republican nominee.
On Sunday, he gathered with
about 20 key supporters and
advisers at his home in Burlington, Vt., to discuss how to proceed.
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Senator Bernie Sanders this month in San Francisco. Mr.
Sanders said he and Hillary Clinton plan to meet on Tuesday.
paign to the convention with the
full understanding that we are
very good at arithmetic and that
we know, you know, who has the
received the most votes up to
now,” Mr. Sanders said after the
meeting, standing on his front
lawn with his wife, Jane. Among
the dozen or so people who attended the gathering were Benjamin T. Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P.; Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona;
Nina Turner, a former Ohio state
senator; and Bill McKibben, the
environmentalist and author.
Notably, Mr. Sanders also said
he would take his “campaign for
transforming the Democratic
Party into the convention,” a sign
that his main goal may no longer
be to become the nominee.
Besides defeating Mr. Trump,
advisers say his focus is to get his
ideas, like universal health care
and free public college, reflected
in the party platform. Refusing to
concede and release his delegates
to vote for Mrs. Clinton could be a
negotiating tactic for winning concessions on the platform. If his
delegates tried to nominate Mr.
Sanders from the floor of the convention next month, the scene
could damage Mrs. Clinton at a
time she is trying to project
strength and party unity.
In recent days, it had been unclear whether Mr. Sanders intended to stay in the race, and
even on Sunday he did not rule out
the possibility that he would formally concede the nomination in
the coming days.
After he met with Mr. Obama on
Thursday he said he looked forward to exploring how he could
work with Mrs. Clinton “to defeat
Donald Trump and to create a government which represents all of
us and not just the 1 percent.” Then
he held a rally that night in Washington urging voters to cast ballots for him on Tuesday in the nation’s final primary.
When asked by Chuck Todd on
Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on
NBC whether he was an “active
candidate,” he responded that he
wanted to see Mr. Trump defeated.
Mr. Sanders said that he and
Mrs. Clinton planned to meet on
Tuesday and that he would ask
her “whether she will be vigorous
in standing up for working families in the middle class, moving
aggressively in climate change,
health care for all, making public
colleges and universities tuitionfree.”
“And after we have that kind of
discussion and after we can determine whether or not we are going
to have a strong and progressive
platform,” he said, “I will be able to
make other decisions.”
There have been signs that he
was winding down his run. While
Mrs. Clinton has been hiring campaign workers, Mr. Sanders
started laying off at least half of
his campaign staff members last
week. He has let go of a number of
advance staff members who help
with campaign logistics, as well as
field workers who have been canvassing for votes.
According to a person who attended the meeting at Mr.
Sanders’s home Sunday, and who
spoke on condition of anonymity
to describe a private gathering,
there was no talk from Mr.
Sanders about trying to win the
nomination. The group was
keenly interested in how the senator’s meeting with Mrs. Clinton on
Tuesday will turn out, and
whether he would get assurances
that she would fight for his ideas,
this person said.
While he is effectively no longer
a threat, Mrs. Clinton and the
Democrats are counting on Mr.
Sanders to eventually get behind
her candidacy. He has a loyal base
of more than 10 million voters and
an enormous donor list that Mrs.
Clinton will want to tap into. Some
of his supporters say they will not
vote for anyone but Mr. Sanders,
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Ukraine Police Shield Gay Rights Parade From Violence
By ALISA SOPOVA
KIEV, Ukraine — Gay rights
groups in Ukraine celebrated a
milestone on Sunday: holding a
parade without being chased or
attacked by right-wing opponents. But the march, in Kiev, was
guarded by police and security
forces who sealed off much of the
city center and warned participants not to linger afterward.
About 2,000 people turned out
for the parade, called KyivPride.
No violence was reported at the
event, but a participant was beaten in the downtown area an hour
or so afterward, organizers and
the police said.
The outcome was a striking
contrast to last year, when members of far-right organizations attacked the 300 or so marchers, injuring dozens. Similar violence
had appeared likely to unfold on
Sunday after right-wing paramilitaries, emboldened by their popularity for fighting in the war
against Russian-backed separatists in the east, vowed to shut
down the march.
“In short, it will be a bloody
mess on June 12 in Kiev,” Artem
Skoropadsky, the spokesman for
one group, the Right Sector, wrote
in a joint statement with another
group, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
That threat was too much even
for Ukraine, a society traumatized
by a war that has often sought
comfort in nationalist ideology,
and stirred resentment far beyond the gay community. So what
was initially planned as a gay
pride parade transformed into a
demonstration for equality and
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Gay rights activists marching in Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday. Participants last year were attacked.
against nationalists who want to
impose their own version of tradition.
“I stood up during two Maidans
because I didn’t want anybody to
tell me how I should live,” Daniel
Kovzhun, a participant in the prodemocracy protests in Maidan
Square in 2004 and 2014, wrote in
response to Mr. Skoropadsky’s
threat.
“I was at war to defend my family, my children, my home and my
freedom,” Mr. Kovzhun wrote.
“And my children will be free to
decide how they should live, with
whom to sleep and what to believe.” He posed with his wife and
young son for an advertising campaign in support of KyivPride.
Lt. Nadiya V. Savchenko, Ukraine’s first female combat pilot,
who was freed in a prisoner exchange with Russia last month,
also spoke in support of the parade. She said her country
“needed no more blood in the
streets.”
Ukraine’s national police force,
long notorious for brutality and
venality, has been undergoing
sweeping changes with the hiring
of thousands of young officers.
Some have pointed to that as a
sign that the country can change
for the better.
The head of the National Police,
Khatia Dekanoidze, promised to
prevent violence at the march.
She devised a security plan that
minimized the possibility of
clashes, at the cost of locking
down part of the capital.
The police sealed a 10-block
area in the city center, and entering the area was possible only after a thorough search. After the
march, which lasted no more than
half an hour, the police evacuated
participants by buses and through
a subway station that was open
only to them.
Ms. Dekanoidze later reported
that 57 people had been detained.
During the event, young men
could be seen loitering around the
blocked areas, and as the march
ended, the police blocked a
column of people in black ski
masks moving toward the parade.
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Neighborhood Caught in the Shadow
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WINDSOR, Ontario — It is a postapocalyptic streetscape that most
Canadians associate with American cities like Detroit: boarded-up houses,
burned-out roofs, a mess of scattered
shingles, peeling paint and crumbling
masonry. In some abandoned homes, the
only residents are skunks, raccoons, rats
and feral cats.
But this vision of urban blight is not in
an American city — it is in Canada, just
across the border from Detroit.
This corner of Windsor, a neighborhood called Sandwich, was settled in 1783
and was once a terminal for the Underground Railroad bringing American
slaves to freedom in Canada. Many of its
tree-lined streets boasted majestic 19thcentury houses. The area around Indian
Road, built largely in the last century,
was a thriving neighborhood favored by
professors from an adjacent university.
But now Indian Road runs through a
ghost neighborhood of over 100 boardedup houses and three abandoned apartment buildings punctuated by a few,
lonely occupied homes, a result of a long-
Houses Rot in Ontario Amid Competing
Plans for a New Border Crossing
running battle between an American
businessman and Canadian governments at various levels.
The businessman, Manuel Moroun,
owns the only private road bridge linking
Canada and the United States. For years,
he has battled to keep the Canadian government from building a competing
bridge, and has bought up houses in the
area to build his own second bridge next
to the current one.
The fight has raged on for more than 15
years. In April, one of the many legal battles it has spawned reached the Supreme
Court of Canada.
The result for the neighborhood
around Indian Road has been decay and
the steady depletion of people.
“It’s very, very quiet on this street,”
said Rita Montgomery, a factory worker.
Ms. Montgomery was standing on the
concrete veranda of the brick bungalow
she has rented for about 10 years. Across
the street, a chain-link fence surrounded
an entire block of boarded-up and decayed houses, and empty lots where others had burned down.
“They say he’ll fix the houses up,” she
said of Mr. Moroun. “But I don’t know.”
Mr. Moroun’s Canadian Transit Company operates the 87-year-old Ambassador Bridge, a hulking suspension bridge
that sits between, and looms above, Indian Road and the nearby University of
Windsor. At night, the bridge’s name
glows neon red from towers on the
shores it connects in Canada and the
United States.
Thanks to a constant flow of cars
newly assembled on each side of the border and trucks packed with the parts
used to make them, the bridge is the
busiest border crossing in North America, with 6.3 million trips last year, according to the Public Border Operators
Association.
But the location of the Ambassador
Bridge, which Mr. Moroun bought in
1979, is not where anyone would consider
putting a busy border crossing today. On
the Canadian side, there is no direct expressway connection, and a lack of space
means that the truck inspection for
customs and immigration is miles away.
It is an arrangement that suits neither
Windsor’s residents nor bridge users.
After years of political debate and a
string of unsuccessful and messy legal
challenges by Mr. Moroun (in one tussle
in 2012, the businessman, then 84, and
one of his executives were jailed
overnight in Detroit for contempt of
court), a solution is now emerging.
A recently opened expressway will
link to a new bridge that the Canadian
government will build in an industrial
area about three miles west of the Ambassador Bridge.
Mr. Moroun, however, is not yet ready
A Cartel Hit Man’s YouTube Fame Thrills and Angers Colombians
By CHRISTOPHER MELE
and SANDRA E. GARCIA
Imagine if the former Mafia boss John
Gotti, who went to prison for murder and
cultivated the public’s fascination with
his flamboyant New York lifestyle and
menacing charm, had a YouTube channel.
Imagine if he used that channel to become a video star by portraying himself
as a penitent hit man and regaling viewers with tales of violence while seeking
forgiveness for homicides past. For Colombians, the real-life equivalent of such
an unlikely YouTube sensation can be
found in John Jairo Velásquez.
He is a former enforcer for the
Medellín drug cartel who has boasted of
committing hundreds of murders on behalf of his boss, Pablo Escobar. Mr.
Velásquez spent more than 20 years in
prison for plotting the killing of a Colombian presidential candidate in 1989
and goes by the nickname Popeye.
Now, Mr. Velásquez, 54, is trying to rebrand himself as a sort of truth-telling
evangelist in a series of Spanish-language videos he began posting on
YouTube last year. The underlying message (there were 81 videos as of Sunday)
is one of forgiveness.
Now, he is known as Popeye Arrepentido, or Remorseful Popeye.
“It’s not about monetizing my life
story but about telling the stories, the
things that happened,” he said in an interview on Sunday. “I’ve been famous for
30 years. I only want to have an opinion
because I am an activist. I am against the
Venezuelan and Colombian government.
I am against Donald Trump because of
his hatred of Latinos. I just want my
opinion heard.”
His audience cannot seem to stop
watching. The videos have gained more
than 117,000 subscribers and 9.5 million
views. The comments are filled with
praise and admiration. One person
signed off with “Hugs.”
But not all people are enthralled by Mr.
Velásquez’s budding stardom — least of
all the victims touched by the cartel’s
acts of mayhem.
The son of one victim — a man who
was among 107 people killed by a bomb
planted by the cartel on a plane that exploded over Bogotá, Colombia, in 1989 —
said Mr. Velásquez’s popularity overshadowed the harm he had unleashed,
The Guardian reported. The son,
Gonzálo Rojas, said that the former hit
man had shown no real remorse and that
he was trafficking in a perverse sort of
celebrity because of his crimes.
Most hit men do not turn up on
YouTube seeking a second act by spilling
secrets about past misdeeds. (Mr. Gotti
died in 2002 while serving a life sentence.) But one expert described Mr.
Velásquez as “an astute self-promoter”
who had capitalized on his infamy by
claiming to have been reformed while
glorifying narco-culture.
Mr. Velásquez, however, said he felt reborn after being released on parole in
2014, according to a description of his
YouTube account. “I created this channel
with the intention to be able to talk day to
day about my process reintegrating into
society as well as my process with true
remorse,” he wrote.
“Being an assassin is not normal,” he
said in the interview. Now, he said, he
“respects life and society.”
“I was resocialized: When I changed
my way of thinking, I changed my way of
being,” he added.
In one video, he seeks forgiveness
from a relative of one of his victims.
When a viewer asked, “When can the victims of the drug war of the Medellín cartel meet you — the ones who lost brothers or fathers in the police force?” Mr.
Velásquez said he found the question
painful.
But he asserted: “It was the war that
killed your brother, but I am not going to
justify that. I am going to assume responsibility because your brother was defending a country, an institution, and we
were murderers paid by the cartels.”
If Mr. Velásquez, who uploads videos
out of his apartment in Medellín, is troubled that his stated contriteness is at
odds with the opening graphics of gunfire and bullet holes in his videos, he is
not showing it. And he revels in the limelight.
John Jairo
Velásquez,
above right, with
a tourist last
year near the
tomb of Pablo
Escobar in
Medellín, Colombia. Left, Mr.
Velásquez dedicated a book
about Mr. Escobar in 2015.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAUL ARBOLEDA/AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Some viewers have responded by welcoming him back to society. “Hello, Popeye,” one wrote. “I love all of your statements because they are full of honesty
and courage. Hugs.”
Others celebrate his flair and ability to
talk directly to the people: “You have the
personality to be able to tell the truth to
the Colombian society.”
Vincent T. Gawronski, a professor of
political science at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Ala., said in
an email: “In a twisted way, we celebrate
‘successful’ criminals, even stone-cold
killers in Hollywood movies, cable television shows and soap operas: ‘Scarface,’
‘Blow,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘The Sopranos,’
Netflix’s ‘Narcos.’”
Dr. Gawronski noted that nearly a dozen “narconovelas” had aired on Spanishlanguage television and that there were
many “narcocorridos,” or ballads, celebrating drug traffickers. “We mythologize those that challenge authority and
do whatever they want and get away
with it,” he said.
He added: “Of course, Velásquez’s
fame is directly tied to his relationship
with Pablo Escobar. The stories he can
tell will keep him popular, but they might
also get him killed.”
In an interview published in The Telegraph in 2014, Mr. Velásquez, who said he
had a wife and son living in the United
States, declared that he could take care
of himself if anyone came after him.
In a video, Mr. Velásquez recalled
where he was in 1993 when the authorities killed Mr. Escobar, the ruthless cocaine trafficker who ran the Medellín
cartel. When one viewer wanted to know
what Mr. Escobar had written in his
notepads, Mr. Velásquez said: “Those
notepads were simply to write the names
of the people who he wanted to kill. If he
wrote your name in those notepads, you
were a dead man.”
If the mobsters from Mr. Gotti’s day
had a strict code of silence about criminal
activity, Mr. Velásquez seems unconcerned about revealing the inner workings of the cartel.
In a video posted in October, he said he
would always be an assassin. He boasted
about his reputation on the streets, calling himself the living memory of the cartel. He said he would never speak ill of
Mr. Escobar.
“For me, Escobar was a terrorist, a
drug dealer, a kidnapper — but he was
also my friend; he treated me with kindness and respect,” he said. “He was the
kind of man that would look you in the
eyes and do what he says. Everyone
knows what he was, but with me he was
good.”
“I loved Pablo,” he said. “He never
owed me money for any of my hits.”
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“Take something out of the community, put
something back in. After that, we’re fine.”
“They say he’ll fix the houses up.
But I don’t know.”
“The family aspect of the community
is really being whittled down.”
JOHN ELLIOTT
RITA MONTGOMERY
MARY ANN CUDERMAN
Mr. Elliott, a city councilor, wants houses repaired, or some
other compensation offered by the developer.
Ms. Montgomery spoke from a home, in the Sandwich
neighborhood, that was surrounded by decaying houses.
Ms. Cuderman, a neighborhood activist, said there
had been an exodus of young families.
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to back down.
For 15 years or so, his Canadian
Transit Company gradually acquired houses around Indian
Road as part of a plan to build a
six-lane bridge beside the fourlane Ambassador and to expand
the customs and immigration
plaza on the Windsor side. In anticipation, an approach to the new
bridge stretches for a block behind Indian Road with unused
customs booths at one end and a
ramp to nowhere at the other.
But any new bridge needs approval from Canada’s transport
minister and the Province of Ontario, and Drew Dilkens, Windsor’s mayor, firmly opposes the
idea. In a statement, Transport
Canada, a federal department,
said it was reviewing Mr. Moroun’s application but offered no
timetable for its approval.
Because the company lacks
permission to build a new bridge,
the city has refused demolition
permits for its collection of houses
and apartments. City inspectors
have also ordered that the houses
be kept in good repair. But the
bridge company has ignored
those orders, saying an obscure
piece of federal law, the International Bridges and Tunnels Act,
puts it above local law.
“We wouldn’t be in this position
— the condition of the houses and
the nuisance there — we wouldn’t
be in this position if we’d been allowed to tear down those homes,”
said Stan Korosec, a former Ontario provincial police officer who
is now the director of Canadian
government relations and security for Mr. Moroun’s companies. “If
we’d been allowed to do what we
want to do, there would be green
space there.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHAN HALLBERG-CAMPBELL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Indian Road runs through a neighborhood of boarded-up houses and abandoned apartment buildings in Windsor, Ontario.
The city, which has declared
some of the homes to have heritage value, has resisted arguments that the houses should be
demolished just because their
owners let them become rundown. And the mayor, Mr. Dilkens,
is adamant that local laws apply to
Canadian Transit just like any
other property owner.
“I can’t figure them out and why
they decided to be a bad corporate
citizen,” said Mr. Dilkens, who has
been the target of unsuccessful litigation by Mr. Moroun’s companies, along with the previous mayor and all of the city’s councilors.
“Why would they choose a path
that beats up the neighborhood?”
In April, the two sides met in the
Supreme Court of Canada, which
is expected to rule on the city’s jurisdiction in the case this year.
In the interim, Sandwich waits.
Mary Ann Cuderman, a neighborhood activist who runs a bake
shop in her large 19th-century
house, said the growing desolation had set off an exodus of fam-
ilies with young children, resulting in the closing of schools, shops
and a bank.
“The family aspect of the community is really being whittled
down,” Ms. Cuderman said. “It’s a
complete loss of community.”
A block over from Indian Road
on Rosedale Avenue, a tree-lined
boulevard, there is no plywood on
the doors and windows of houses.
But as the neighborhood has been
hollowed out, most of the houses
have been sold to absentee landlords. The families that once dominated the street have been replaced by short-term tenants, often students, and many houses
are poorly kept.
David Fehrenbach, who has
lived on the avenue for 30 years,
said the bridge company’s actions
had affected the whole area.
“At Halloween time, people
from Detroit used to come over
here to these streets,” Mr. Fehrenbach said. Mr. Moroun set out “to
destroy the neighborhood in order
to take it over, so that’s what he’s
done,” he added. “If you allow him
to tear it down, he’s won.”
John Elliott, a city councilor
who is descended from American
slaves who escaped to Sandwich,
said that while he would like some
of the houses to be repaired and
restored, he was open to demolishing others in exchange for efforts by Mr. Moroun’s company to
do something for the community.
“Take something out of the
community, put something back
in,” he said. “After that, we’re fine.”
In her bake shop, where an old
promotional poster for the Ambassador Bridge (“The Fresh Air
and Sunshine Route”) is on display, Ms. Cuderman joked that her
best bet was a big lottery win. The
proceeds, she said, would go toward buying the house next to Mr.
Moroun’s home in an affluent Detroit suburb. “And then I’d board it
up.”
She added, laughing: “I bet it
wouldn’t stay boarded up for more
than two days. But I could say,
‘See how the neighborhoods
you’ve devastated have to live.’”
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SHANGHAI — An explosion in
the check-in area of Shanghai’s
Pudong International Airport injured at least four people on Sunday, according to the police and
airport authorities, who said the
blast was set off by a man carrying a homemade explosive.
The airport is one of China’s
busiest, and travelers described
fearful moments in the early afternoon when sharp cracking
sounds reverberated through the
Terminal 2 departure area and
plumes of smoke rose to the ceiling, according to local news media and video footage.
The police quickly cordoned off
the area of the explosion, but the
airport remained open, suggesting that officials were confident
the episode was not part of a
wider attack.
The police said in a written
statement that a man with a
homemade explosive had removed it from his backpack and
dropped it in front of a check-in
counter. The statement indicated
that the explosive was contained
in a beer bottle or bottles.
After the blast, “the man also
took a knife from the backpack
and slashed his own throat and
fell to the ground,” the police said.
The man survived but was said to
be in grave condition.
In addition, a nearby hospital
took in four casualties of the explosion
who
were
lightly
wounded by bottle fragments, the
police said. One was a citizen of
the Philippines.
By late Sunday afternoon, the
airport was calm. Twelve of the
next 18 flights scheduled to land
were listed as delayed for as long
as four hours. The cavernous departure hall of Terminal 2 was operating across two-thirds of its
length, but Aisle C, where the explosion occurred, was roped off,
and uniformed security personnel with black assault rifles slung
over their shoulders stood guard,
making it difficult to see any damage.
China’s Communist Party leadership prides itself on maintaining absolute control, and even relatively minor disruptions of that
control can prompt an intense response. Hangzhou, a city near
Shanghai, is scheduled to host a
summit meeting of the Group of
20 leading economies in September.
None of the reports gave any
details about the suspect or his
motives.
The episode was not the first
apparent breach of security of its
kind at a Chinese airport. In 2013,
a man set off a homemade explosive at Beijing International Airport to protest what he said was
lack of redress after security
guards in southern China beat
him in 2005, leaving him paralyzed and using a wheelchair. The
man, Ji Zhongxing, was sentenced to six years in prison.
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LONDON JOURNAL
A Subway Experiment: Please Don’t Walk Up the Escalator
By STEVEN ERLANGER
LONDON — Perhaps it is all
the tourists — 18.6 million international visitors to London last
year, a record. Perhaps it is the
gradual “Europeanization” of
Britain. And perhaps it is just
something to do with the
blocked traffic on these ancient
streets and all the diesel fumes
in the air.
Cars still drive on the left, and
signs still instruct you to walk
on the left. But these days, on
the sidewalks, staircases and
escalators, chaos reigns. Walking anywhere in London or
navigating the subway during
rush hour means having to
make a mad, dodging, aggressive dance against an oncoming tide of people, many of
whom seem oblivious to
Britain’s long tradition of walking on the left. And that is not
counting those engrossed in
their smartphones or blocking
the exits while consulting
Google Maps.
The answer to traffic, of
course, should be the subway, or
the Underground. But the system is chronically overcrowded,
and annual ridership, already at
1.34 billion, has been increasing
nearly 4 percent a year.
It has been rising so much
that at Holborn Station, one of
London’s busiest and deepest,
with more than 56 million passengers a year and escalators
23.4 meters, or 77 feet, tall, there
is an experiment to encourage
people at rush hour to stand
side by side on the escalators
going up and merely ride them.
The science is simple: Fill the
available space on the escalators with people, rather than
leaving the left side of each step
largely empty, except for the few
who choose to march up the
metal mountain.
The London Underground has
concluded that in stations with
escalators more than 18.5 meters, or about 61 feet, tall, much
of the left side of the escalators
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Holborn Station in London at rush hour. The station is asking riders to stand side by side instead of leaving the left lane open.
goes unused, causing blockages
and lines (“queues”) at the
bottom.
A three-week trial at Holborn
last year found that standing on
both sides of the escalator reduced congestion about 30 percent. During rush hour, about
16,220 people could travel on the
escalators, compared with 12,745
in normal conditions.
So a six-month trial began at
Holborn in April. “It seems to be
working better,” said Kieron
Racher, a member of the Special
Requirements Team for the
London Underground. “We’re
slowly changing people’s
minds.”
Mark Evers, the customer
strategy director for the London
Underground, said results had
been mixed, “as we expected at
this stage.” With customer use
increasing so fast, and given the
depth of Holborn, it made sense
to try the experiment during the
morning and evening rush
hours, he said, when the station
is particularly hellish.
Holborn Station, opened in
1906, serves a busy commercial
and academic part of London,
near the British Museum, the
London School of Economics
and Bloomsbury Square, and
two major lines, the Piccadilly
and the Central, pass through it.
During many evening rush
hours, staff members limit the
number of people who can enter
the station, or they shut it entirely for up to 10 minutes at a
time because the escalators and
platforms are packed.
Peter McNaught, the operations director for the London
Underground, expressed optimism about the escalator
A cramped station
finds that it can
reduce congestion
by almost a third.
experiment. “We hope this can
lead to improving congestion at
Holborn, making journeys easier for all our customers,” he
said.
Of course, not everyone is
happy. Some, like Andrew Hossack, are in a hurry to get to
work. “A lot of people walk,” he
said. “It’s about time, isn’t it?”
Some, like Beth Forrester, like
climbing for the exercise. “I
always walk,” she said. “I always get my steps in!”
Andrew Brenner said he had
stood that day, “but normally I
walk, because it seems so stupid
just to stand there.”
Martin Dearden said he normally stood. “There are so many
people,” he said. “I suppose in
the end it does get more people
out faster.”
The behavioral science department at the London School
of Economics has developed
different messages to encourage
travelers to stand.
Screens at the bottom of the
escalators show a looped video
of a neatly uniformed woman
from the staff advising people to
stand on both sides. There are
signs on the floors; painted
footsteps on both sides of the
escalator stairs; electronic
versions of triangular “stand on
the right” signs; and, of course,
station announcements that are
difficult to hear through an
inadequate loudspeaker system.
But the Underground has
also, cleverly, left a third escalator — on the far left, of course —
for anyone to ride or climb as he
or she pleases, so in some sense
it is stepping heaven, without
any official hectoring.
If Holborn is a nightmare,
Victoria Station is arguably
worse, because it is undergoing
a long reconstruction project to
deal better with increased traffic
and work more efficiently with
the hugely busy railway and bus
station there.
Given the building work,
together with major construction projects nearby in an area
that is being quickly built up, the
walkways near the station are
temporary and narrow, with
uneven surfaces and lined with
painted plywood.
They are made narrower still
by pillars, homeless people and
puzzled tourists, since these
pathways do not typically show
up on smartphones and can be
disorienting.
So at normal times they are
difficult, and during rush hour
they are a terrible obstacle
course. Made much worse, of
course, by the breakdown of the
traditional British habit of walking on the left.
Instead, bodies fill all available space, especially as people
wait at crosswalks or peer
around to see if they can walk
against the light, and then come
at you like a Roman phalanx
with shoulder and shopping
bags instead of shields.
And of course, in this land of
Magna Carta, some think it is
their right as freeborn English
men and women to do whatever
they please, without Brussels or
the London Underground telling
them what to do.
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Court Records Fill In Details
Of Stanford Sexual Assault
By THOMAS FULLER
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Proud parents
converged at Stanford University’s commencement on Sunday to hear Ken
Burns, the documentary filmmaker, welcome the elite class of graduates into the
wider world.
But across the idyllic university
grounds, in the shade of a large tree, is a
quiet stretch of lawn that speaks to a persistent and darker side of campus life, at
Stanford and across the country.
It was here in January last year, an
hour past midnight on a Saturday night,
that a young woman lay on the ground,
unresponsive, her hair disheveled and
knotted, her body covered in dirt and
pine needles, and her dress hitched up
above her waist.
The assault of the 22-year-old woman
— she is described as Jane Doe in court
documents — has led to a firestorm of
outrage for what many saw as her
assailant’s light punishment, a sixmonth jail term with the possibility of
parole after just three months.
In March, a jury convicted the assail-
ant, Brock Turner, 20, a champion swimmer and Olympic hopeful who was a
freshman at the time, of intent to commit
rape of an intoxicated or unconscious
person and two related sections of the
law, all felonies.
The court papers, some of them released just last week, outline the complex and intense national debate over the
sentence, and over sexual assaults on
campus. Yet they also portray a case that
legal experts say was unusual.
The assault was not hidden in a dorm
room or clouded by the complex emotions of a college romance. Mr. Turner
and his victim had met only minutes before their encounter. The assault was
taking place beneath the tree when a pair
of Swedish students passed by on bicycles.
The men stopped, and Mr. Turner began to run away. They chased him down
and tackled him.
“It happened in full view,” said Shanlon Wu, a Washington-based lawyer who
is a specialist in campus rape cases. “You
had unimpeachable witnesses — someone was basically caught red-handed.”
Some Stanford students protested at
their graduation on Sunday in solidarity with the woman who was
assaulted on campus last year.
The court papers and police reports
depict an event that could be found
virtually any weekend at any college — a
fraternity party with free-flowing alcohol.
The woman, who was not a Stanford
student, was 22, working full time and
living with her parents in Palo Alto at the
time of the assault, according to court
documents. She described the decision
to go to a fraternity party on campus as a
last-minute lark and a way to spend more
time with her younger sister, who accompanied her.
After she had a meal at home and four
shots of whiskey, she told the police, her
mother drove her, her sister and two
other friends to the Stanford campus at 11
p.m. The women ended up at a party
hosted by a fraternity, Kappa Alpha,
which was also attended by Mr. Turner.
The woman’s sister told the police that
they met several men at the party, but
that “one of the guys was very aggressive and trying to kiss everyone,” according to a police report. She later identified that man as Mr. Turner and said
she had twice repelled kissing and advances by him.
The sister left the party to accompany
an intoxicated friend back to her room,
and soon after the victim and Mr. Turner
left the party, according to court documents.
Mr. Turner told the police that he and
the victim kissed and then walked away
from the fraternity house holding hands
and ended up on the ground kissing. He
removed the victim’s underwear and
penetrated her with his fingers. He said
he never took his own pants off.
The Swedish students who came upon
Mr. Turner and the woman said they
stopped to intervene because they saw
Mr. Turner on top of her, thrusting his
pelvis toward her, court papers and the
police reports say. They said she appeared motionless, her eyes closed and
her head tilted to the side.
One of the men yelled to Mr. Turner,
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM GRUBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
North Dakotans Reconsider a Core Value
Referendum Would Open Up Farming to Big Corporations
By JULIE BOSMAN
WING, N.D. — The Wagner family farmstead
in central North Dakota could have been lifted
from a Grant Wood painting: bales of hay rest on a
gently sloping hill, cattle graze near a bright blue
pond, green tendrils of durum and sunflowers
peek out of the dirt.
The Wagners fear that all of this could someday be under threat from big, impersonal corporations. It is a concern that is expected to drive them,
and other North Dakotans, to the polls on Tuesday
to vote on a referendum that would make it possible for companies to buy up farms like theirs.
Starting in 1932, North Dakota law barred nonfamily corporations from owning farmland or operating farms. But that changed in March of last
year when the state Legislature passed a bill that
would relax the corporate farming ban and Gov.
Jack Dalrymple signed it into law.
Citizens protested the new law, with the state’s
farmers union at the forefront, which led to the referendum that voters will face on Tuesday. The law
was set to take effect last August, but its fate rests
on the outcome of the referendum.
A vote for the measure would uphold the new
law, which allows domestic corporations and
limited liability companies to own and to operate
dairy farms and swine production facilities on land
that is no larger than 640 acres, or one square mile.
A vote against the measure would repeal the new
legislation and restore the law that had governed
farm and dairy operations in the state for more
than eight decades.
While the debate is very much focused on
maintaining the character of North Dakota, it also
taps into widespread fears about the disappearance of family farms throughout the United States
and the spread of big corporations and their farming methods into rural America.
People like the Wagners who support the earlier law — one of the strictest in the country — say
that it protects the environment and family farmers like them.
“With corporate farming, they just don’t have
the connections,” said Laurie Wagner, whose husband’s grandparents started the farm in the 1930s,
as she walked around the property on Thursday.
“They could buy up all the land, and it means nothing to them. They could make it impossible for peo-
Laurie Wagner, on the farm started by her husband’s grandparents in the 1930s, opposes the new law allowing corporations to own farms. Top, cattle on her farm.
ple like us to compete.”
The issue has sharply divided North Dakotans. On rural roads outside Bismarck, the capital, some fields and front yards are decorated with
bright green signs declaring, “No to Corporate
Farming.” Many people are suspicious of big business and eager to preserve the state’s long heritage of family-owned farms.
Agriculture remains North Dakota’s dominant
industry, with close to 30,000 family-operated
farms and ranches. In 2012, North Dakota became
the first state to enshrine the “right to farm” in its
Constitution.
“I think small towns and rural communities
are at stake,” said State Representative Kenton
Onstad, a Democrat and the minority leader. “I
think the values of North Dakota are going to be
given up and slowly erode.”
But those who support the ballot measure say
that opponents are acting out of nostalgia and
emotion. They argue that the farming and ranching business in North Dakota needs to evolve to
stay competitive: Dairies and hog farms have declined in recent years, prompting many people to
argue that the industries could use a boost.
“We have this picture in our head of the Hollywood farm, with the dairy cows, a couple of pigs, a
couple of chickens,” said Katie Heger, a family
farmer who favors allowing corporate farming.
“There are very few farms that are like that. Farming and ranching is a business. So if we’re looking
at sustaining agriculture in the state of North Dakota, we need to look at how we can build business.”
During last year’s debate, Governor Dalrymple, a Republican, said that he hoped changes to
the farming law would encourage economic
growth in the struggling dairy and swine industries. And he promised that the new legislation included safeguards to protect North Dakota’s family farms.
“The bill includes strict limits on the use of the
business structure and we do not consider it a
threat to the farm sector of North Dakota as we
know it,” he said at the time.
The North Dakota Farmers Union, which opposed the bill, responded by gathering more than
20,000 signatures to force the measure onto the
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Records Offer Insight
Into Stanford Assault
From Preceding Page
who “looked up, slowly got off of”
the victim “and began running
rapidly away from her,” according
to a case summary by the prosecutor. The Swedes chased him
and brought him to the ground.
After the assault, the woman
told a police officer that the last
thing she remembered was being
with her sister at the party. Her
next memory was waking up in
the hospital feeling groggy and
confused, she told the police.
The court and police documents
detail the level of drinking by everyone involved.
Both Mr. Turner and the woman
were heavily intoxicated, according to police reports. Mr. Turner
reported having seven beers and
a “couple of swigs” of whiskey. In
addition to the four shots of
whiskey she had at home, Jane
Doe reported having two shots of
vodka and “some beer” once she
had reached the Stanford campus.
She remained unconscious for
three hours after paramedics
reached her and began giving her
treatment, including an intravenous drip, police reports said.
The degree to which the inebriation of both Mr. Turner and the
woman should have been a factor
in sentencing was a central point
of contention.
Monica Lassettre, the probation officer who wrote sentencing
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recommendations, advised the
judge to be lenient partly on the
grounds that Mr. Turner was
drunk. “This case, when compared to other crimes of similar
nature, may be considered less serious due to the defendant’s level
of intoxication.”
She recommended four to six
months in a county jail, even
though Mr. Turner faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in state
prison. She also based her recommendation on what she said was
his “sincere remorse and empathy
for the victim,” and his lack of a
prior criminal record.
Alaleh Kianerci, the deputy district attorney who prosecuted the
case, saw the woman’s intoxication as a reason for a harsher sentence, and she urged the judge to
impose six years. The fact that the
victim was so intoxicated was an
“aggravating factor warranting a
prison sentence,” Ms. Kianerci
wrote.
“Ultimately, the fact that the defendant
preyed
upon
an
intoxicated stranger on a college
campus should not be viewed as a
less serious crime, than if he were
to assault a stranger in Downtown
Palo Alto,” Ms. Kianerci said.
In the woman’s courtroom
statement, which went viral when
it was released to the news media
a week ago, she described drinking too much and blacking out as
“an amateur mistake” — but not a
criminal act.
“Regretting drinking is not the
same as regretting sexual as-
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Michele Dauber, a Stanford
law professor, is calling for the
removal of Judge Aaron Persky after he sentenced a convicted sex offender to six
months in county jail.
sault,” she said. “We were both
drunk, the difference is I did not
take off your pants and underwear, touch you inappropriately,
and run away.”
The victim added in her statement that she remains deeply
traumatized by the assault.
In a widely circulated comment
in the courtroom when issuing his
sentence, Judge Aaron Persky of
the Santa Clara County Superior
Court, said there was “less moral
culpability” for a defendant who is
intoxicated. His sentence was
harsher than the probation officer
asked for, but a petition for his removal has now swelled beyond a
million signatures.
The court papers paint diamet-
rically opposed pictures of Mr.
Turner. Family members and
friends describe him in sentencing documents as gentle, polite
and, in the words of a former high
school teacher, “an individual of
true kindness, compassion and
promise.”
Adjusting to the social life at
Stanford was difficult, Mr. Turner
said in his own statement to the
court. “Coming from a small town
in Ohio, I had never really experienced celebrating or partying that
involved alcohol,” he wrote.
The prosecution’s sentencing
memo, however, described a man
who embraced numerous forms of
illicit drugs both at Stanford and in
high school.
The memo said the police concluded from photos and text messages found on Mr. Turner’s phone
that he was “engaging in excessive drinking and using drugs,” including LSD, ecstasy and an extract of cannabis. Mr. Turner had a
previous arrest for underage alcohol possession in November 2014,
the memo said.
The prosecution document also
said he aggressively flirted with
women. Detectives interviewed
two women who had “an encounter” with Mr. Turner the weekend
before the assault, the memo said.
He was “touchy” and put his
hands on one of the women’s upper thigh. Mr. Turner had
“creeped” her out because of his
persistence, the woman told the
police.
Ten days after his arrest, the
university reached an agreement
with Mr. Turner that he withdraw
from the university.
“That was a much more expedited process than if we had gone
through a formal expulsion
process,” Lisa Lapin, a Stanford
spokeswoman said. “It was the
harshest punishment that the university can have.”
The woman’s courtroom statement continued to reverberate
across the country and campus
this past week. Michele Dauber, a
Stanford law professor who has
helped create the university’s
policies for dealing with sexual assault complaints, called her a new
Rosa Parks.
“We are at a real watershed moment in public perception of campus sexual assaults,” said Ms.
Dauber, who is also leading the effort to have Judge Persky recalled.
In a letter submitted to the
court, Ms. Dauber said that a recent university survey found that
43 percent of senior female undergraduates said they had experienced nonconsensual sexual assault or misconduct.
Ms. Dauber is friends with the
victim and said she is helping her
to obtain a book contract.
Mr. Turner is banned from campus, and as part of his criminal
sentence, Mr. Turner will also be
registered a sex offender for life.
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will not be as strong as yesterday’s wind.
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FRIDAY ..............A late shower on Thursday
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The high will be 75. Friday will remain
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Highlight: East Bright and Dry Today
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Dry air will waft through
the East today, affording
sunny to partly cloudy
skies and near-normal
high temperature. Highs
will be mostly in the 70s
to lower 80s, but with 60s
across the north with
scattered showers. A
noticeable breeze will
linger, especially in New
England. Most of the
region will be dry on
Tuesday and about as
warm.
Cooler air will make for a pleasant day
across much of New England today,
although some lingering spotty showers
could keep parts of northern Maine
dreary and wet.
Muggy air will continue across the
Southeast, with widespread showers and
thunderstorms expected during the peak
heat of the afternoon. More spotty showers are possible across the Midwest, with
a warm front draped across the region.
Storms are expected across the Plains
and parts of the Great Lakes. Strong
storms may bring damaging wind, hail
and heavy rain to the central High Plains.
The West will remain hot and dry, with a
slight chance of an afternoon shower or
storm across the Wasatch Range.
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Temperature
Record
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83°
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Normal
low 63°
SAT.
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
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PC........... Partly cloudy
R ........................... Rain
Sh ................... Showers
S ............................. Sun
Sn ....................... Snow
SS......... Snow showers
T .......... Thunderstorms
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0.61 73/ 66 R
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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
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Vienna
Warsaw
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72/ 58 0.20
84/ 66 0
70/ 51 0.02
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70/ 57 0.24
64/ 51 0
70/ 53 0.32
57/ 51 0.45
68/ 57 0.25
66/ 54 0.35
63/ 44 0.04
82/ 66 0
68/ 47 0.05
81/ 62 0
68/ 57 0.78
90/ 58 0
55/ 47 0.35
73/ 64 0
68/ 47 0.01
65/ 57 0.43
68/ 53 0.05
77/ 64 0.07
52/ 48 0.30
63/ 39 0
71/ 58 0.64
70/ 42 0
Today
64/ 56 T
84/ 70 PC
66/ 53 T
64/ 54 T
73/ 55 T
64/ 56 R
62/ 52 R
57/ 49 Sh
66/ 55 T
66/ 53 T
68/ 45 PC
83/ 70 C
68/ 57 R
74/ 60 S
65/ 56 T
89/ 59 S
63/ 44 C
74/ 64 PC
69/ 47 PC
63/ 54 T
69/ 54 T
78/ 62 T
59/ 50 R
68/ 48 PC
73/ 58 T
74/ 54 PC
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65/ 54 T
83/ 70 S
72/ 54 T
65/ 53 T
77/ 57 T
64/ 58 R
60/ 50 Sh
58/ 50 R
66/ 53 T
63/ 51 T
70/ 47 S
79/ 68 T
76/ 60 T
73/ 60 PC
65/ 53 T
84/ 56 S
70/ 54 PC
76/ 64 S
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64/ 52 T
70/ 52 T
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67/ 47 S
67/ 50 S
74/ 57 T
74/ 55 R
North America
Acapulco
Bermuda
Edmonton
Guadalajara
Havana
Kingston
Martinique
Mexico City
Monterrey
Montreal
Nassau
Panama City
Quebec City
Santo Domingo
Toronto
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Yesterday
94/ 78 0.23
78/ 69 0
60/ 44 0.03
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90/ 71 0.09
90/ 80 0.05
88/ 76 0.08
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68/ 55 0
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69/ 51 C
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78/ 53 S
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79/ 73 PC
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83/ 63 T
91/ 73 PC
89/ 80 PC
89/ 78 S
75/ 55 T
99/ 69 PC
78/ 59 S
89/ 76 PC
85/ 75 T
74/ 50 C
88/ 75 PC
70/ 53 S
60/ 51 R
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South America
Buenos Aires
Caracas
Lima
Quito
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
Yesterday
59/ 32 0
90/ 76 0.25
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71/ 51 0
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57/ 38 PC
91/ 76 PC
73/ 62 PC
69/ 50 R
84/ 73 PC
70/ 61 S
63/ 45 Sh
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59/ 40 PC
90/ 78 PC
72/ 61 PC
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12
a.m.
6
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Avg. daily departure
from normal
this month ............. +1.5°
For the last 30 days
Actual ..................... 3.78
Normal .................... 4.46
For the last 365 days
Actual ................... 40.69
Normal .................. 49.90
Air pressure
Humidity
High ........... 29.75 1 a.m.
Low ............ 29.64 9 a.m.
High ............. 63% 7 a.m.
Low ............ 21% 11 a.m.
Cooling Degree Days
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
far the day’s mean temperature rose above 65
Record
low 48°
(1979)
4
p.m.
Yesterday ............... 0.00
Record .................... 2.18
LAST 30 DAYS
77°
4 p.m.
70°
50°
Cities
Low
Precipitation (in inches)
90°
60°
Record
lows
Forecast
range
High
12
4
p.m. p.m.
Avg. daily departure
from normal
this year ................ +2.2°
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday ................................................................... 15
So far this month ........................................................ 75
So far this season (since January 1)........................ 194
Normal to date for the season ................................. 128
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 ............... 97%
Est. normal ............. 97%
Recreational Forecast
Sun, Moon and Planets
Full
Last Quarter
Beach and Ocean Temperatures
New
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8:37 p.m.
Cape Cod
73/57 Partly sunny and breezy
50s
L.I. North Shore
77/59 Partly sunny and breezy
L.I. South Shore
76/63 Partly sunny, breezy
Boating
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New
York Harbor.
A small craft advisory remains in effect. Wind will be
northwest at 10-20 knots. Waves will be 3-5 feet on the
ocean, 1-3 feet on Long Island Sound and 1-2 feet on
New York Harbor.
High Tides
Atlantic City ................... 2:41 a.m. ..............
Barnegat Inlet ................ 2:53 a.m. ..............
The Battery .................... 3:31 a.m. ..............
Beach Haven ................. 4:13 a.m. ..............
Bridgeport ..................... 6:39 a.m. ..............
City Island ...................... 7:25 a.m. ..............
Fire Island Lt. ................. 3:41 a.m. ..............
Montauk Point ................ 4:28 a.m. ..............
Northport ....................... 6:53 a.m. ..............
Port Washington ............ 7:23 a.m. ..............
Sandy Hook ................... 2:55 a.m. ..............
Shinnecock Inlet ............ 2:43 a.m. ..............
Stamford ........................ 6:42 a.m. ..............
Tarrytown ....................... 5:20 a.m. ..............
Willets Point ................... 7:22 a.m. ..............
Kennebunkport
69/54 Some sun, breezy, shower
3:31 p.m.
3:40 p.m.
4:14 p.m.
4:56 p.m.
7:08 p.m.
7:52 p.m.
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7:52 p.m.
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3:22 p.m.
7:11 p.m.
6:03 p.m.
7:48 p.m.
N.J. Shore
75/63 Mostly sunny, not as warm
Eastern Shore
77/60 Mostly sunny, cooler
60s
70s
Ocean City Md.
Virginia Beach
Color bands
indicate water
temperature.
A gusty breeze will move in on the backside of a storm system over eastern Canada today. Any showers will be confined
to the Maine beaches, while the southern
beaches should be cooler and less humid. Sunshine will otherwise mix with
clouds. Highs will range from the 60s in
the north to the 70s in the south.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM GRUBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Heger family at their farm outside Underwood, N.D., on Saturday. Right, State Senator Terry M. Wanzek’s farm near Windsor, N.D. He sponsored the bill that eased the ban last year.
North Dakotans Reconsider Longstanding Corporate Farming Ban
From Page A8
statewide ballot.
The union has spent heavily on
mailers and television ads in recent weeks and recruited more
than 1,000 volunteers to make
phone calls and knock on doors to
drum up support.
Mark Watne, the group’s president, said he believed that if the
legislation went into effect, it
could open the door to consolidation and the possibility that
smaller farms could go out of business.
Family farmers, he said, have
an incentive to train the next generation, while corporations could
choose profits over longevity.
“We simply do not believe in our
communities that the ownership
of land in the hands of a corporate
structure is in the interest of longterm agricultural production,” Mr.
Watne said.
State Senator Terry M. Wanzek,
a farmer and rancher who sponsored the bill last year, said that
opponents are driven by unwarranted fears of big business.
“They think Monsanto or Wal-
mart is going to come in and own
everything,” Mr. Wanzek said. “I
don’t see this as some big bad bogeyman who’s going to come in
and take over the farm. If I felt in
any way that it was going to
threaten our heritage or our way
of life on the farm to any great extent, I never would have supported it.”
Some have argued that allowing family farmers to incorporate
could give them more access to
outside capital and investors for
expansion, like other businesses
in the state under corporate structure.
“The disadvantage with North
Dakota’s law is that you can’t have
any other partners once you’ve incorporated except for a very direct relative,” said State Senator
Joe Miller, the chairman of the agriculture committee and a sponsor of the bill. “You’re hamstringing neighbors to be able to come
together, or outside investment
partners, maybe a friend who
lives in California who wants to invest. There’s all kinds of different
opportunities that one could explore, and that’s completely off the
table right now.”
Pigs on the Hegers’ farm.
Katie Heger supports the new
law, and said agriculture
needs to evolve to survive.
“We need to look at how we
can build business,” she said.
The North Dakota Farm Bureau, a lobbying organization that
has farmer members, has adopted
an alternative tactic in case the
new law is defeated that takes aim
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at the 1932 law banning corporate
farming. Earlier this month, it
filed a federal lawsuit seeking to
overturn the law, arguing that it is
discriminatory and unconstitu-
tional.
“The laws of our state, as they
stand today, are forcing North
Dakota’s farm families to make
business management decisions
that other businesses are not being forced to make,” Daryl Lies,
the president of the Farm Bureau,
said in a statement.
David M. Saxowsky, a professor
of agriculture at North Dakota
State University, said that the debate speaks to a culture in North
Dakota that places a heavy value
on farmland.
“We’re very proud of our resources, we think that our land is
attractive to investors and we are
very proud of our desire to be the
business owner,” he said. “And for
those reasons, we want to provide
an environment in which smaller
businesses owned by families can
succeed.”
Governor Dalrymple declined
to be interviewed. In an emailed
statement, he said, “It’s good that
this will be decided by the people
of North Dakota.”
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TERROR IN ORLANDO
THE ATTACK
50 Killed at Gay Nightclub in the Worst Shooting on U.S. Soil
From Page A1
fates of their relatives and friends.
More than 12 hours after the attack, anguished relatives paced
between Orlando Regional Medical Center and a nearby hotel as
they waited for word. They were
told that so many were gunned
down that victims would be
tagged as anonymous until the
hospital was able to identify them.
“We are here suffering, knowing nothing,” said Baron Serrano,
whose brother, Juan Rivera, 36,
had been celebrating a friend’s
birthday with his husband and
was now unaccounted for. “I cannot understand why they can’t tell
me anything because my brother
is a very well-known person here
in Orlando. He is a hairstylist, and
everybody knows him.”
A tally of victims whose relatives had been notified began
slowly building on a city website;
by 6 p.m., it had six names. Among
them was Juan Ramon Guerrero,
a 22-year-old man of Dominican
descent who had gone to the club
with his boyfriend, Christopher
Leinonen, who goes by the name
Drew, because they wanted to listen to salsa. A friend, Brandon
Wolf, watched people carry Mr.
Guerrero outside, his body riddled
with gunshot wounds.
But no one knew what had become of Mr. Leinonen. His mother,
Christine, anxious because of
health problems, had woken at 3
a.m. to news of the shooting, and
learned from Mr. Wolf that her son
had been inside.
A three-hour standoff followed
the initial assault, with people inside effectively held hostage until
around 5 a.m., when law enforcement officials led by a SWAT team
raided the club, using an armored
vehicle and explosives designed
to disorient and distract. Over a
dozen police officers and sheriff’s
deputies engaged in a shootout
with Mr. Mateen, leaving him
dead and an officer wounded, his
life saved by a Kevlar helmet that
deflected a bullet.
At least 30 people inside were
rescued, and even the hardened
police veterans who took the
building and combed through it,
aiding the living and identifying
the dead, were shaken by what
they saw, said John Mina, the Orlando police chief. “Just to look
into the eyes of our officers told
the whole story,” he said.
It was the worst act of terrorism
on American soil since Sept. 11,
2001, and the deadliest attack on a
gay target in the nation’s history,
though officials said it was not
clear whether some victims had
been accidentally shot by law enReporting for these articles
was contributed by Lizette Alvarez, Frances Robles, Nick
Madigan, Les Neuhaus and
Wendy Thompson from Orlando; Steve Kenny, Michael
Barbaro, Jack Begg, Susan
Beachy, Michael M. Grynbaum, Mujib Mashal, William
Neuman, Sarah Maslin Nir,
William K. Rashbaum, Noah
Remnick, Rick Rojas, Liam
Stack, Daniel Victor and Karen Zraick from New York;
Kitty Bennett from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Ian Lovett from
Los Angeles; Rukmini Callimachi from Paris; Thomas
Fuller from San Francisco;
Eric Lichtblau, Eric Schmitt,
Jasmine Aguilera and Nicholas Fandos from Washington;
and Kate Taylor and Nate
Schweber in Edison, N.J.
What Happened
Inside the Nightclub
PHELAN M. EBENHACK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A body was loaded into a van outside the Pulse nightclub on Sunday. Of an estimated 320 people in the building early that morning, nearly one-third were shot.
forcement officers.
The toll of 50 dead is larger than
the number of murders in Orlando
over the previous three years. Of
an estimated 320 people in the
club, nearly one-third were shot.
The casualties far exceeded those
in the 2007 shooting at Virginia
Tech, where 32 people were killed,
and the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown,
Conn., where 26 people died.
“In the face of hate and violence, we will love one another,”
President Obama said in a special
address from the White House.
“We will not give in to fear or turn
against each other. Instead, we
will stand united as Americans to
protect our people and defend our
nation, and to take action against
those who threaten us.”
As he had done after several
previous mass shootings, the
president said the shooting
demonstrated the need for what
he called “common-sense” gun
measures.
“This massacre is therefore a
further reminder of how easy it is
for someone to get their hands on
a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or a house of worship or a movie theater or a nightclub,” Mr. Obama said. “We have
to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. To actively do
nothing is a decision as well.”
The shooting quickly made its
way into the presidential campaign. Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee,
who has accused Mr. Obama of
weakness on radical Islam and
has called for barring Muslim immigrants, suggested on Twitter
that the president should resign.
“Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism,” he wrote. “I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!”
ZACK WITTMAN/TAMPA BAY TIMES, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
People lined up to donate blood after the Orlando shooting, which left 53 people injured.
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, released a statement saying: “We
need to redouble our efforts to defend our country from threats at
home and abroad. That means defeating
international
terror
groups, working with allies and
partners to go after them wherever they are, countering their attempts to recruit people here and
everywhere, and hardening our
defenses at home.”
Fears of violence led to heightened security at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender events
and gathering places around the
country. Law enforcement officials in Santa Monica, Calif., confirmed the arrest on Sunday of a
heavily armed man who said he
was in the area for West Hollywood’s gay pride parade. The authorities, however, said they did
not know of any connection between the California arrest and
the Orlando shooting.
The F.B.I. investigated Mr. Mateen in 2013 when he made comments to co-workers suggesting
he had terrorist ties, and again the
next year, for possible connections to Moner Mohammad
Abusalha, an American who became a suicide bomber in Syria,
said Ronald Hopper, an assistant
agent in charge of the bureau’s
Tampa Division. But each time,
the F.B.I. found no solid evidence
that Mr. Mateen had any real connection to terrorism or had broken
any laws. Still, he is believed to be
on at least one watch list.
Mr. Mateen, who lived in Fort
Pierce, Fla., was able to continue
working as a security guard with
the security firm G4S, where he
had worked since 2007, and he
was able to buy guns. The federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives said Mr.
Mateen had legally bought a long
gun and a pistol in the past week
or two, though it was not clear
whether those were the weapons
used in the assault, which officials
described as a handgun and an
AR-15 type of assault rifle.
A former co-worker, Daniel
Gilroy, said Mr. Mateen had talked
often about killing people and had
voiced hatred of gays, blacks,
women and Jews.
Around the time of the massacre, Mr. Mateen called 911 and declared his allegiance to the Islamic
State, the brutal group that has
taken over parts of Syria, Iraq and
Libya, Agent Hopper said. Other
law enforcement officials said he
called after beginning his assault.
Hours later, the Islamic State,
also known as ISIS or ISIL,
claimed responsibility in a statement released over an encrypted
phone app used by the group. It
stated that the attack “was carried
out by an Islamic State fighter,”
according to a transcript provided
by the SITE Intelligence Group,
which tracks jihadist propaganda.
But officials cautioned that
even if Mr. Mateen, who court
records show was briefly married
and then divorced, was inspired
by the group, there was no indication that it had trained or instructed him, or had any direct
connection with him. Some other
terrorist attackers have been
“self-radicalized,” including the
pair who killed 14 people in December in San Bernardino, Calif.,
who also proclaimed allegiance to
the Islamic State, but apparently
had no contact with the group.
The Islamic State has encouraged “lone wolf” attacks in the
West, a point reinforced recently
by a group spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, in his annual
speech just before the holy month
of Ramadan. In past years, the Islamic State and Al Qaeda ramped
up attacks during Ramadan.
American Muslim groups condemned the shooting. “The Muslim community joins our fellow
Americans in repudiating anyone
or any group that would claim to
justify or excuse such an appalling act of violence,” said Rasha
Mubarak, the Orlando regional coordinator of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Atlantic
Ocean
Some patrons hid in a
restroom, calling the police
and texting friends and
family for help.
Orlando
The nightclub, which calls
itself “Orlando’s Latin
Hotspot,” was holding its
weekly “Upscale Latin
Saturdays” party with three
D.J.s and a midnight show.
Restrooms
Tampa
Fort Pierce
Pulse
DeAngelo Scott, 30, said
the club was packed. “Every
room I went into was full. I
had to squeeze through the
main room.”
Main dance floor
FLORIDA
Miami
Gulf of Mexico
Patio
50 Miles
Entrance
There was security posted at
the front entrance, but it’s
unclear how the gunman
entered the club.
Orlando
Ray Rivera, 42, a D.J. at the
club, was playing reggae
music on the patio when the
shooting started. “I thought
it was firecrackers,” Mr.
Rivera said. But the gunfire
did not let up.
Parking lot
Before 2 a.m. Omar Mateen, a
resident of Fort Pierce, a city about
120 miles away, parked his van
outside Pulse, a gay nightclub.
2:02 a.m. He entered the club
armed with an AR-15-style assault
rifle, a handgun and many rounds
of ammunition, and opened fire.
AN
S. OR
The gunman was outside the
club at some point after the initial
shots were fired, then returned
inside.
Sources: Orlando Police Department, Jeremy Williams, Watermark Online, Orlando Mayor's Office, photograph by Chris O'Meara/Associated Press
5 a.m. The police began an
operation to rescue the people
trapped inside. They detonated two
explosives to distract the gunman.
4
Pulse
Site of shooting
E.
GE AV
Eleven officers entered the club,
and shots were again exchanged.
Mr. Mateen was killed. At least 30
people were found alive.
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TERROR IN ORLANDO
THE SCENE
At Pulse Nightclub,
Last Call, and Then
The Shots Rang Out
From Page A1
killed. Some people had to hide for
hours, crouched in bathrooms or
in hidden corners inside the club,
sending frantic text messages to
the outside world begging for
help. For others, the only way to
get out alive was to scramble and
crawl over the bodies of the dead.
The mayhem was captured on
video taken outside the club moments after the shooting. One
group of men, some shirtless, carried a wounded man to a waiting
pickup truck to be rushed to the
hospital. Another group tried to
help a man lying on the pavement,
blood pouring from his wounds. A
woman, apparently shot, staggered out into the night.
The bloodshed ended only after
a daring rescue operation by the
police, in which they burst into a
room in the club and freed 15 to 25
people before confronting the
gunman and freeing another
group being held hostage.
As the investigation into the
shooting continues, witnesses, the
police and local politicians offered
a vivid and gruesome portrait of
how the carnage played out.
Saturday was Latin Night at the
club, which bills itself as
“Orlando’s Premier Gay Nightclub.”
Located at 1912 South Orange
Avenue, next to a Dunkin’ Donuts,
the club is housed in a relatively
small building on a street filled
with chain restaurants and shopping centers near downtown,
roughly 18 miles from Disney
World.
The club itself is divided into
three separate areas, each with its
own theme and music selection.
On Saturday, it was a mix of reggaeton, bachata, merengue and
salsa. A video taken inside the
club in the hours before the attack
captured the festive mood, with
patrons taking shots, slugging
back beers and dancing under
neon lights.
Lizbeth Alvarez, 31, who was in
the club with her girlfriend, Aixa
Soltren, 27, said people often are
packed in shoulder to shoulder.
The main dance floor is in a
room called “The Jewel Box,”
where scores of gays, lesbians,
transgender people and bisexuals
from across Central Florida flock
to party.
On Saturday, as on all nights,
there was a security guard posted
at the front entrance. It was unclear whether Mr. Mateen shot his
way into the club or smuggled in
his weapons — which included an
assault rifle, handgun and lots of
ammunition — and then opened
fire.
Joel Figueroa, 19, of Orlando,
was with his friend, Stanley, dancing when the first shots rang out.
“The only thing I could think of
was to duck,” he said soon after
the shooting, still obviously shaken.
The moments that followed
were a blur of panic and confusion. By the door, he saw his
friend.
“There was Stanley, on the
floor,” he said. He was shot three
times, but managed to stumble
outside, blood pouring from a
huge gash in his arm. His condition was unclear.
In those first few frantic minutes, scores of people ran out onto
the street, many wounded, as the
police rushed to the scene. Word
spread quickly, with the wounded
texting friends and family.
The club itself posted a message on Facebook shortly after
the shooting began.
“Everyone get out of pulse and
keep running.”
One man wrote a text to his
mother, saying he was shot and
thought he was dying.
Another
mother
showed
reporters the stream of her son’s
increasingly desperate text messages.
“in bathroom,” he wrote at 2:46
a.m. “he has us”
“call the police”
“call them mommy”
“I’m gonna die”
It was unclear whether her son
escaped.
Luis Burbano, who gave interviews to several television networks, said that after the initial
burst of gunfire, there was a momentary pause that he used to “jet
for the door.”
On his way out, he saw a bartender hiding in a fitting room,
“waiting for a miracle” along with
other patrons.
After he escaped, a man near
him collapsed, his arm badly
wounded. Mr. Burbano took off his
shirt and wrapped it around the
man’s arm.
He then saw another man with a
bullet lodged in his leg, and Mr.
Burbano used another piece of
clothing to try to stem his bleed-
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Above, the scene outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.,
after a gunman opened fire Sunday, leaving 50 people dead and
53 wounded. Left, Ray Rivera, 42, a D.J. at the nightclub, was
consoled by a friend outside the Orlando Police Department.
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ing.
With bodies littering the floor, at
least 30 people remained trapped
inside the club, according to the
police.
A group of 15 to 25 people were
huddled in a room “isolated” from
the gunman, Mr. Dyer told CNN.
Another five to eight people
were being held in a room with the
gunman.
The police, by now swarming
outside, had established communication with Mr. Mateen, but it
was unclear what they discussed.
Heavily armed members of the
SWAT team took positions around
the building while other emer-
gency medical workers rushed
the wounded to a hospital, which
was just a block away.
Finally, around 5 a.m., the authorities took action.
They breached the wall of the
isolated room with an armored
personnel carrier known as a
Bearcat.
“That is when the shooter
opened the door and started
shooting outside,” Mr. Dyer said.
One officer was shot in the head,
but was not seriously wounded
because the bullet struck his
Kevlar helmet.
More than a dozen law enforcement officers took aim at Mr. Mateen and he was shot and killed.
Next to his body was a battery
pack, and the police were concerned that he might have been
wearing an explosive device, so
they investigated the scene first
with a robot.
It would take another hour before they could start to assess the
extent of the damage. As they
made their way deeper into the
club, the toll grew higher.
It would take hours for all of the
bodies to be removed from the
site, even as worried friends and
relatives desperately sought information about people they
feared might have been inside the
club.
Brian Reagan, a manager at the
club who was there during the
shooting, took to Facebook to try
to convey just how overwhelming
it was to be caught in the center of
a nightmare.
“I am scared, nervous, and concerned for every single person
that was in that building,” he
wrote. “Please pray. This can not
be real.”
THE GUNMAN
F.B.I. Investigated Shooter’s Possible Ties to Terrorists Years Before Attack
From Page A1
have had terrorist ties. The F.B.I.
interviewed him twice, but after
surveillance, records checks and
witness interviews, agents were
unable to verify any terrorist links
and closed their investigation.
Then, in 2014, the F.B.I. discovered a possible tie between Mr.
Mateen and Moner Mohammad
Abusalha, who had grown up in
nearby Vero Beach and then became the first American suicide
bomber in Syria, where he fought
with the Nusra Front, an Al
Qaeda-aligned militant group.
Again, the F.B.I. closed its inquiry
after finding “minimal” contact
between the two men.
After the terrorist investigations cleared Mr. Mateen, he
maintained both his Florida security-officer license and his job. He
also kept his Florida firearms license, and within the last few days
he legally purchased a handgun
and a “long gun.”
The precise reason he walked
into a gay nightclub in Orlando
early Sunday morning with a
handgun and an assault rifle was
still under investigation, with law
enforcement officials fanning out
from the damaged nightclub in
Orlando to residences in at least
four states in search of clues.
Labeling the attack an act of domestic terrorism, law enforcement officials said Mr. Mateen had
called 911 once the attacks began
and swore allegiance over the
phone to the Islamic State.
But Mr. Mateen’s father suggested his son was motivated by a
different hate. His father, Seddique Mir Mateen, told NBC News
that his son had come across two
men kissing in Miami recently
and was infuriated that his threeyear-old son had seen it, too.
“They were kissing each other
and touching each other and he
said, ‘Look at that. In front of my
son, they are doing that,’ ” the elder Mr. Mateen said.
Mr. Mateen’s father said the
killing had nothing to do with religion, and he apologized for his
son. “We weren’t aware of any action he is taking,” he said. “We are
in shock like the whole country.”
Equally stunned by the day’s
events was Omar Mateen’s exwife, Sitora Yusufiy, who said that
he quickly became controlling,
abusive and erratic after they
were married.
In an interview at her home
near Boulder, Colo., Ms. Yusufiy
said that when she first met Mr.
Mateen online through Myspace
in 2008, he was a funny charmer
with a decent job and aspirations
to become a police officer.
But after they were married, he
made her hand over her paychecks from her day care job, prevented her from calling her parents and hit her, sometimes as she
slept, she said. He also kept a
handgun in the house.
“I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere except work,” she said.
Mr. Mateen was an observant
Muslim, but never expressed
sympathies for terrorist organizations or radical Islamists, she said.
He also made anti-gay comments when he was angry. “There
were definitely moments when
he’d express his intolerance towards homosexuals,” she said.
Ms. Yusify said she left Mr. Mateen in 2009 after her parents flew
down from New Jersey and rescued her from the marriage, and
had no contact with him since,
save for one time when he tried to
message her on Facebook.
“I thought I had closed the
chapter on this horrible mistake,”
said Ms. Yusufiy, who said she
learned of the tragedy from her
parents.
After the shooting, law enforcement officials swarmed a condominium complex in Fort Pierce,
Fla., where Mr. Mateen owned a
unit that property records show
he purchased in 2009. The complex, wedged between Interstate
95 and the shore, now sits among
some of Fort Pierce’s workingclass blocks.
The authorities also focused on
at least two other homes in the
area, both in nearby Port St. Lucie, and spent hours canvassing a
pair of properties connected to Mr.
Mateen’s family.
It appeared that Mr. Mateen
may have contacted another Orlando club in the days leading up
to the shooting.
Micah Bass, the owner of the M
Hotel and Revere, a large gay club
in the area, said that someone resembling Mr. Mateen requested to
add him as a friend this week on
Facebook. He said he looked at the
person’s picture and noticed that a
lot of his friends had Arabic writing on their pages. Mr. Bass said
he figured the request must have
been sent in error, so he deleted it.
After the attack this morning
Mr. Bass thought the name of the
man looked familiar. When he
searched the name on Google he
realized it was in fact the same
person who had contacted him.
At the Fort Pierce Islamic Center, the mosque Mr. Mateen attended as a child, the imam said
that Mr. Mateen would visit three
or four times a week, usually at
night. As Mr. Mateen grew, the
imam said, he became reclusive.
“He was really quiet,” the imam,
Syed Shafeeq Rahman, said. “He
would come the last minute, and
he would leave the first minute,
and he would not talk to anybody.”
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
Law enforcement officers checked for explosives on Sunday around the apartment where Omar Mateen is believed to have lived.
The imam firmly denied that
Mr. Mateen had heard any teachings at the mosque that would radicalize him.
Mr. Mateen’s father is an outspoken Afghan political activist,
but that played no part in the investigations of his son that the
F.B.I. carried out in 2013 and 2014,
a law enforcement official said.
His father, Sediqque, hosted a
talk show for a television channel
broadcasting to the Afghan diaspora.
Recently, the elder Mr. Mateen
has taken to posting videos on his
Facebook page where, dressed in
a military uniform in front of the
Afghan flag, he sharply criticizes
the Afghan president, Ashraf
Ghani.
Late on Sunday, Omar Mateen’s
employer, G4S, acknowledged
that it had learned in 2013 that he
had been questioned by the F.B.I.
“We were not made aware of any
alleged connections between Mateen and terrorist activities, and
were unaware of any further F.B.I.
investigations,” the company said.
The statement confirmed that
Mr. Mateen had worked for the
company since Sept. 10, 2007, and
expressed the company’s sadness
at Sunday’s attack. It also said Mr.
Mateen underwent screening and
background checks both when he
was recruited in 2007 as well as in
2013, and nothing of concern surfaced either time.
Yet the statement did not address whether company officials
had ever asked the F.B.I. why it
had investigated Mr. Mateen. The
company also did not respond to
questions about Mr. Mateen’s conduct raised by one of his former
co-workers.
The co-worker, Daniel Gilroy,
said in an interview on Sunday
that he had expressed concerns to
G4S about Mr. Mateen’s demeanor when they both worked as security guards assigned to the PGA
Village, a resort in Port St. Lucie.
“He talked about killing people
all the time,” said Mr. Gilroy, who
joined G4S after a career with the
Fort Pierce police and later left
the security firm. He said he could
not provide names of any other coworkers who could support his account of Mr. Mateen’s behavior.
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TERROR IN ORLANDO
THE GAY COMMUNITY
For Gays Across the United States, a Massacre Punctuates Fitful Gains
From Page A1
On Sunday, some muddled answers began to emerge. The police
said the gunman, Omar Mateen,
29, an American citizen whose
parents were from Afghanistan,
had twice been investigated on
suspicions of terrorism. As President Obama called the shooting
an “act of terror and an act of
hate,” Mr. Mateen’s father told
NBC News that his son had been
angry when he saw two men kissing. The East Orlando Post reported that Mr. Mateen had researched at least one other gay
club in Orlando before attacking
Pulse.
Almost a year after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex
marriage, gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender Americans, and
those working to advance their
rights, spent Sunday grappling
with the implications — at gay
pride celebrations, in their homes
and at candlelight vigils. Particularly awful was that the massacre
had transformed what was once
seen as a haven for gay people — a
gay bar — into a death chamber.
In Los Angeles, the fear took on
particular urgency when the police reported that they had arrested a man with weapons and
explosives who was headed to the
city’s gay pride parade.
In Florence, Ala., where Mr.
Newbern lives, he said the attacks
had compounded “all that anxiety
about being L.G.B.T. in the Deep
South.” In Washington, David
A haven for gay
people is abruptly
transformed into a
death chamber.
Thompson, 49, woke up to three
lengthy text messages from his
70-year-old mother. She did not
want him to attend Sunday’s gay
pride festival there.
“It is a horror, a total horror,”
said Mary L. Bonauto, the civil
rights lawyer who successfully argued last year’s Supreme Court
case on the constitutional right to
same-sex marriage. “I am profoundly sad.”
She was thinking ahead to Saturday, when she will be the grand
marshal of the gay pride parade in
Portland, Me., her home city.
“On the one hand, how can you
not help but feel nervous?” Ms.
Bonauto said. But on the other
hand, she expressed worry about
Islamophobia. “I was thinking,
‘Should I wear a T-shirt that says,
‘Don’t judge the many by the few’
— something to show some solidarity?” she said.
The gay rights movement, of
course, is no stranger to the fear of
violence. That includes the days
when gay people worried about
being branded “faggots” and beaten, whether in small towns or in
gay centers like New York; the
1973 arson attack on a gay bar in
New Orleans that left 32 people
dead; the 1998 murder of Matthew
Shepard. All are cultural touchstones for the community.
In 2015, the F.B.I. reported that
18.6 percent of the 5,462 so-called
single-bias hate crimes the previous year were attributable to sexual orientation; 47 percent were
attributable to race. But Jay
Brown, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, said that
A memorial to the Orlando victims in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, a center of the gay rights movement. The attack shook gay people and allies nationwide.
SARAH BETH GLICKSTEEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
MONICA ALMEIDA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Left, Chill Seay, 28, at a gathering Sunday at Ember Orlando. She was friends with Peter Gonzalez-Cruz, 22, who was among the dozens of people killed in the
shooting at the Pulse nightclub. Right, Los Angeles held its annual gay pride parade with increased police presence hours after the attack in Florida.
hate crimes against gay people
were underreported, and that
finding accurate statistics was
“extremely challenging.”
Movement leaders, speaking
anecdotally, said they sensed an
increase in violence against gay
people this year — perhaps, some
said, because of the divisive presidential campaign, or because of
high-profile policy fights like the
one over the Obama administration’s recent directive requiring
schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of
their choice.
“I sincerely believe that this is
following a trend, that we often
see an uptick during presidential
elections — particularly when the
vitriol increases about our community,” said Lorri L. Jean, who
runs the Los Angeles L.G.B.T.
Center, a nonprofit advocacy,
health and social services organization.
Officials at the Human Rights
Campaign said they had been
struck by a recent spate of highly
publicized assaults against gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender
people. In Atlanta, a gay couple
was doused with boiling water,
causing severe burns, in March.
The same month, in Iowa, a transgender teenager was murdered.
In Los Angeles, also in March, a
gay man was murdered by his father; amid debate over what role
the victim’s sexual orientation
played, Ms. Jean said, his sisters
asked the Los Angeles L.G.B.T.
Center for help “because they feel
that their father was really upset
that this kid was gay, and that this
was nothing but an anti-gay hate
crime.”
On Sunday, gay rights activists
around the country were trying to
figure out how to move forward. In
Jasper, Fla., about two and a half
hours north of Orlando, Art Smith,
a onetime personal chef to Oprah
Winfrey, said he hoped to host a
benefit for the victims’ families.
Mr. Smith and his husband recently adopted four children and
moved to Florida. As a parent, he
now worries for his children and
hurts for others: “Probably there
are children that are orphaned as
a result of last night,” he said.
As someone who regards himself as tolerant, he said, he wonders, “How must Muslim Americans feel?” But it is as a gay man
that he feels the most acute pain.
“This is particularly horrible for
us in the gay community because
this was a gay club,” he said.
Mr. Newbern is planning a memorial in Florence on Monday
night. The gay pride dance this
weekend was to be the first in a series of events, including a panel
discussion and an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church.
Now, the service will be a candlelight vigil to honor the dead.
“I don’t want to rush to judgment about what the motivation
was here — if it was extremism, if
it was specifically L.G.B.T. hate,”
he said. “It doesn’t change the fact
that those 50 souls, and now probably more, are gone.”
“I woke up, I turned on the television,” he said, “and I literally
said out loud to myself, ‘We have
got to do something.’ ”
THE WEAPON
Man Used Assault Rifle With Military Roots
By C. J. CHIVERS
A firearm that the authorities
said was used on Sunday in a
mass shooting at a nightclub in
Orlando, Fla., is a descendant of
one of the world’s most widely distributed and familiar infantry
weapons, and a type of rifle that
has been involved in previous
mass shootings in the United
States.
Chief John Mina of the Orlando
Police Department said the gunman’s weapons included a handgun and an “AR-15-type assault rifle.”
The first AR-15s were designed
in the 1950s by Eugene M. Stoner,
a Marine and inventor, who developed the weapon to military
standards for military service.
It was an atypical rifle for its
time, seemingly futuristic, and
made partly with lightweight
plastics and aluminum that traditionalists scorned. It fired a smallcaliber, high-velocity bullet — the
.223 — that was also considered
revolutionary. The rifle was capable, via a selector lever, of semiautomatic or automatic fire.
In the 1960s, under Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the
Pentagon bought vast quantities
of the rifle, calling it the M-16, for
American troops in Vietnam. The
M-16’s firepower and reputation
for lethality were necessary, in Mr.
McNamara’s view, to counter the
Kalashnikov assault rifles carried
by the North Vietnamese Army
and Vietcong.
In this way, the M-16 and the
Kalashnikov became a related
pair, the assault rifle of the West
springing into service as a response to the more widely distributed assault rifle of the East.
A half-century later, AR-15s and
M-16s are made in varied forms by
multiple manufacturers, and updated versions, including the M-4
Designed to compete
with Kalashnikovs
and used in Vietnam.
carbine, remain the standard
shoulder-fired weapon for most
American service members and
many allies.
Civilian versions have many
trade and model names, but are
generally referred to as AR-15s, although this name is a rough description and does not indicate
whether a particular specimen of
the rifle is capable of both semiautomatic fire and automatic fire, or
is semiautomatic only.
The police have not said
whether the weapon recovered in
Orlando was capable of automatic
fire. Such questions are politically
contentious, although depending
on a shooter’s skill and the situation, they can sometimes be moot,
as aimed semiautomatic fire from
a competent shooter can be far
more dangerous than automatic
fire, which is harder to control and
is often inaccurate.
AR-15s that fire only on semiautomatic are generally legal in the
United States, and are widely
owned by assault-rifle enthusiasts. They are also sometimes
used in crimes, and have been involved in some of the most deadly
mass shootings in American history, including the massacre in
December in San Bernardino,
Calif., which killed 14 people, and
the attack in 2012 at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown,
Conn., which killed 26 people, 20 of
them children. (That gunman also
killed his mother at home before
driving to the school.)
The AR-15’s once unfamiliar caliber — now called 5.56-millimeter
in military service rather than
.223 — also evolved into a military
standard. The rifle-and-cartridge
combination can cause serious
wounds, though the damage is determined partly by the bullet type.
AR-15-STYLE ASSAULT RIFLE
9MM HANDGUN
How Omar Mateen Got His Guns
The vast majority of guns used in recent mass
shootings, including those used in the Orlando attack,
were bought legally and with a federal background
check.
Fifty people were killed and 53 wounded when Omar Mateen
opened fire at a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. He used at
least two guns, an AR-15-style assault rifle and a 9mm handgun.
2013
A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING
JUNE 12, 2016
The F.B.I. learned that Mr. Mateen had
made comments to co-workers alleging
possible terrorist ties, an official said.
The next year, the F.B.I. investigated
him again for possible ties to an
American who went to Syria to fight for
an extremist group, but authorities
concluded that he “did not constitute a
substantive threat at that time.”
Mr. Mateen legally bought at least
two guns, a federal official said.
“He is not a prohibited person, so
he can legally walk into a gun
dealership and acquire and
purchase firearms,” said Trevor
Velinor, an agent at the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives.
50 people were killed
and 53 more were
wounded in the
crowded nightclub. Mr.
Mateen was killed by
the police inside the
club.
Note: The images were distributed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives as guns “similar to” those used in the Orlando shooting.
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TERROR IN ORLANDO
THE PRESIDENT
MILITANT INFLUENCE
After Another Hail of Bullets, Obama Offers a Familiar Lament Tie to ISIS?
Uncertainty
As Strategy
For Killings
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
WASHINGTON — The tableau
at the White House was chillingly
familiar: The somber president,
nearing the end of his eight-year
term, walked grim-faced to the podium to offer his condolences,
promised action in the wake of
suffering and pleaded for a new
resolve that just might prevent
more deaths in a hail of bullets.
The list of tragedies on President Obama’s watch seems countless by now. An elementary classroom. A church. A military base. A
movie theater. And, now, a gay
nightclub. Mr. Obama said Sunday’s massacre, by a gunman with
a handgun and an assault weapon,
is another brutal reminder of how
easy it is for someone to slaughter
dozens.
“We have to decide if that’s the
kind of country we want to be,” Mr.
Obama said on Sunday as he
mourned the nation’s deadliest
mass shooting. “And to actively do
nothing is a decision, as well.”
Mr. Obama vowed to respond
forcefully to what he called a devastating “act of terror and an act of
hate.” This time, it was a tragedy
that combined gun violence, a hatred of gays and ties to Islamist
terrorism.
In his remarks, Mr. Obama said
it was still unclear to the authorities whether there was a direct
link between the gunman and international terrorist groups. But
in the hours after he spoke, law enforcement officials said that the
gunman had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State, and
they acknowledged that he had
twice been investigated for terrorism connections.
It took only hours for questions
about those connections to become fodder in the presidential
campaign. Donald J. Trump, the
presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seized on the attacks as evidence of America’s
weakness in facing terrorism. He
demanded that Mr. Obama resign
because he refused to say the
words “radical Islam” in his remarks.
“If we do not get tough and
smart real fast, we are not going to
have a country anymore,” Mr.
Trump said in a statement. “Because our leaders are weak, I said
this was going to happen — and it
is only going to get worse. I am
trying to save lives and prevent
the next terrorist attack.”
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee, called the massacre in
Orlando, Fla., an “act of terror”
and an “act of hate” and called for
“hardening our defenses at home”
while “refusing to be intimidated
and staying true to our values” in
the United States.
From Page A1
PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
A flag flew at half-staff on Sunday at the White House after a
mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. President
Obama called the attack an “act of terror and an act of hate.”
Mr. Obama pleaded with Americans during his remarks not to
“give in to fear or turn against
each other,” a somewhat muted
reference to Mr. Trump’s previous
call for a ban on Muslims entering
the United States.
“In the face of hate and violence, we will love one another,”
Mr. Obama said. Rather than giving in to fear, the president said,
“we will stand united, as Americans, to protect our people, and
defend our nation, and to take action against those who threaten
us.”
Speaking to reporters, Mr.
Obama said the country had again
been traumatized by grievous violence, which shattered more than
100 lives during a three-hour
nightmare early Sunday, with 50
people killed and 53 wounded in
the attack.
During his presidency, Mr.
Obama has repeatedly mourned
victims of mass shootings, often
expressing anger and frustration
at what he has said is the country’s apparent willingness to let
them become a “normal” part of
life.
That anger has been compounded by Mr. Obama’s inability
to persuade lawmakers to impose
new restrictions on the availabil-
ity of firearms, especially the assault-style rifles like the one believed to have been used by the
gunman in Sunday morning’s attack in Orlando. A major push for a
ban on assault weapons after the
2012 massacre of schoolchildren in
Newtown, Conn., ended in failure.
“Can we say that we’re truly doing enough to give all the children
of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?” an
emotional Mr. Obama said after
the Newtown attack.
Mr. Obama on Sunday gave his
deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and he said
Americans should, in particular,
keep the country’s gay and lesbian community in mind as they offer their prayers. He called it an
“especially heartbreaking day”
for the gay community.
“The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together
to be with friends, to dance and to
sing, and to live,” Mr. Obama said.
“The place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub —
it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people have
come together to raise awareness,
to speak their minds and to advocate for their civil rights.”
Mr. Obama has often hailed the
progress on gay rights that has
been made during his presidency,
especially the decision by the
United States Supreme Court to
allow same-sex marriage. But
those legal protections have not
erased hatred in the country.
“This is a sobering reminder
that attacks on any American —
regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation — is an
attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and
dignity that define us as a country,” he said.
Mr. Obama took no questions
from reporters after delivering his
five-minute remarks. He turned
from the podium to walk back into
the West Wing, once again left to
monitor the investigation, prepare a likely eulogy for the dead
and wonder when he might have
to come into the briefing room
again.
Shortly after he spoke, Mr.
Obama ordered that flags at the
White House and other federal
sites around the world be lowered
to half-staff. Again.
THE CAMPAIGN
Trump Seizes on Massacre and Repeats Call for Ban on Muslim Migration
By JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON — Donald J.
Trump on Sunday sought to capitalize on the mass shooting at a
gay club in Orlando, reiterating
his controversial call for a temporary ban on Muslim migration to
the United States and criticizing
Hillary Clinton for what he
claimed was her desire to “dramatically increase admissions
from the Middle East.”
In a demonstration of his willingness to flout convention and
engage in a style of demagogic
politics rarely displayed by a presidential nominee, Mr. Trump
claimed he had warned of the sort
of terrorism that marked the
shooting, which killed 50 and was
the worst in the country’s history.
“I said this was going to happen
— and it is only going to get
worse,” Mr. Trump said in a statement, arguing that Mrs. Clinton’s
presidency would mean “hundreds of thousands” more Middle
East migrants.
“And we will have no way to
screen them, pay for them, or prevent the second generation from
radicalizing,” said Mr. Trump, the
presumptive Republican standard-bearer.
The suspected gunman, Omar
Mateen, was an American who declared allegiance to the Islamic
State and was the son of an immigrant from Afghanistan. Mr.
Trump extended his opprobrium
to that war-torn, heavily Muslim
country by noting the wide support there for Shariah law.
In a separate statement on
Twitter, Mr. Trump said that the
rampage in Orlando “is just the
beginning” and noted that he
“asked for the ban” on Muslim immigration to America. He has
made his hard line against Muslims central to his campaign, and,
even after becoming the presumptive nominee and turning to a
broader electorate, refused to
fully back off from his call to temporarily halt Muslims from
traveling to America.
Mr. Trump has faced widespread condemnation for this
stance from both Mrs. Clinton and
numerous Republicans, but, as he
did again Sunday, he has said such
CHET STRANGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
MONICA ALMEIDA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Donald J. Trump on Friday in Richmond, Va. He said Sunday that Hillary Clinton would allow “hundreds of thousands” more
Middle East migrants. Mrs. Clinton, shown in San Diego this month, said the United States needed to “redouble” security efforts.
vigilance was necessary and that
the country “can’t afford to be politically correct.” To this end, he
said Mrs. Clinton should quit the
presidential race if she proved unwilling to acknowledge that the attack in Orlando was the result of
“two words: radical Islam.”
Mrs. Clinton did not use that
phrase or respond directly to Mr.
Trump’s broadsides. Her campaign instead sought to use the
event to diminish their Republican rival. “This act of terror is the
largest mass shooting in American history and a tragedy that requires a serious response,” Jennifer Palmieri, Mrs. Clinton’s communications director said, adding
that: “Donald Trump put out political attacks, weak platitudes
and self-congratulations.”
Mrs. Clinton, the presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee,
initially responded with caution
Sunday morning after early reports about the assault, offering
her thoughts to those affected “as
we wait for more information.”
But after President Obama spoke
in the afternoon, and called the Orlando killings an “act of terror,”
she issued a longer statement
echoing the president. “This was
an act of terror,” Mrs. Clinton said.
In her statement, Mrs. Clinton
said “we need to redouble our efforts to defend our country from
threats at home and abroad,” fo-
cusing on the threat of terrorism.
Further down in her statement,
she called for more stringent restrictions on guns.
“Finally, we need to keep guns
like the ones used last night out of
the hands of terrorists or other violent criminals,” she said, taking
up the call many on the left made
in the hours after the attack. Mr.
Trump, who made no mention of
access to firearms in any of his
comments, said Mr. Obama
should resign for his own refusal
‘I said this was going to
happen, and it is only
going to get worse.’
to say “radical Islam.”
The White House declined to
comment on Mr. Trump’s demand
for the president’s resignation.
A tragedy in the middle of a
presidential race would typically
force restraint on candidates. But
this tradition has largely vanished
in the era of the superheated, social media news cycle, where
mass shootings immediately set
off debates about access to guns
and, if the perpetrator is Muslim,
Islamist terrorism. And if the Or-
lando massacre was a test of how
willing candidates and their
supporters are to pursue partisan
attacks in the aftermath of horrific
violence, Mr. Trump left little
doubt about his willingness to
push the boundaries of the country’s public discourse.
He had no public events Sunday
and, in a rarity, did not appear on
any of the weekly political talk
shows. But he made ample use of
his Twitter account, where he
said: “appreciate the congrats for
being right on radical Islamic terrorism.”
It was a vivid illustration of how
little heed Mr. Trump pays to traditional
political
standards,
whether it is on how campaigns
are waged or on the kinds of
positions he embraces. But there
were few Republicans criticizing
him for his Muslim ban proposal
on Sunday.
Mr. Trump had planned a
speech on Monday in New Hampshire focused on what he sees as
the Clintons’ ethical lapses. But he
indicated in his statement on Sunday that he would use the appearance to “further address this terrorist attack, immigration, and national security.”
If Mr. Trump was characteristically bellicose in his response,
Mrs. Clinton was typically restrained. She used her statement
to make clear she recognized that
the country had suffered yet another act of terrorism, but also
made sure to offer her solidarity
with the gay community and reiterate her support for gun control. She was also off the campaign
trail for the day, but avoided Twitter blasts and refrained from
making any extended public comment until after the president delivered his remarks in the White
House briefing room.
Mrs. Clinton was also planning
to give remarks Monday lacerating her rival. She had planned to
speak about what she deems as
Mr. Trump’s dangerous demagogy at an appearance in Ohio.
It is unclear whether Mrs. Clinton will use her speech to forcefully confront Mr. Trump. Mrs.
Palmieri, the campaign aide, said
Mrs. Clinton would discuss “steps
she would take to keep the country safe” in the coming days and
another aide said the candidate intended to refashion her address
Monday to focus on the terrorism
in Orlando.
What is clear is that the shooting will reorient the race for at
least the next week. Mrs. Clinton
was to have held a campaign rally
with Mr. Obama in Green Bay,
Wis., on Wednesday, her first joint
appearance with the president.
But she quickly postponed the
event on Sunday after the severity
of the shooting became clear.
In December, when a couple in
San Bernardino, Calif., left their
home armed with assault rifles,
they made sure to post their oath
of allegiance on Facebook, where
law enforcement agents later
found it. And just minutes before
he opened fire on a cartoon exhibit
featuring images of the Prophet
Muhammad in Texas in May 2015,
Elton Simpson sent out a series of
Twitter messages making clear
where his allegiances lay.
This public oath is about the
only requirement that the Islamic
State imposes on followers who
wish to carry out acts of terror in
its name. In an annual speech last
month, the terror group’s spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani,
incited its supporters to carry out
killings abroad during the holy
month of Ramadan.
No attack is too small, he advised, specifically naming the
United States as a target. “The
smallest action you do in the heart
of their land is dearer to us than
the largest action by us,” he said,
“and more effective and more
damaging to them.”
As early as September 2014, Mr.
Adnani made clear that anyone
and everyone could, and should,
carry out acts of terror in the
group’s name. “Do not ask for anyone’s permission,” he said, and
suggested that sympathizers who
could not buy weapons should instead use rocks, knives or even
cars to kill infidels.
Since then, the group has
worked hard to create a mechanism for inciting terror in situ. It
floods the internet with gory propaganda and employs an army of
keyboard jihadists to push the
Incitement designed
to protect a group in
an age of surveillance.
deadly message on Twitter, Facebook and other social media.
In this case, there was a stark
resonance between Islamic State
propaganda and the killer’s choice
of target. The jihadist group has
publicized its hatred of homosexuality, including releasing images
of fighters killing people suspected of being gay by throwing
them off tall buildings.
Once the recruit is caught, or
killed, law enforcement officials
struggle to put the pieces together. Yet the fact that there is often
no direct link back to the core is intended to protect the organization
in an age of surveillance.
“I think what the Islamic State
has done is very clever, and that is
create a situation where someone
can carry out an attack without
any direct link to the organization,” said Charlie Winter, senior
research associate at Georgia
State University’s Transcultural
Conflict and Violence Initiative.
“They can pledge allegiance to
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before or
during, and that catapults them
from being a self-starter jihadist
guy, or girl, to someone who can
be lionized as a soldier of the Islamic State and regarded as a warrior.”
On Sunday, after it was known
that Mr. Mateen had invoked ISIS,
the group’s official news agency
issued a bulletin quoting “a
source” confirming that Mr. Mateen was acting on the Islamic
State’s behalf.
Jihadists erupted in celebration
on the internet. They shared
screenshots of Mr. Adnani’s
speech calling for lone wolf attacks during Ramadan. And in an
act of tribute, several changed
their profile pictures on Twitter to
a photograph of the Orlando attacker.
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani,
the Islamic State spokesman,
called for killings abroad during the month of Ramadan.
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Late Nights and Last-Minute Deals Could Close Anemic Session in Albany
By JESSE McKINLEY
ALBANY — For skeptics of the chronically criticized members of the New York
State Legislature, the 2016 legislative
session has often seemed in danger of becoming what some Albany watchdogs
used to call a “Seinfeld session” — all
about nothing.
Bills on big issues like ethics, climate
change and the tax-break and development program known as 421-a have languished, while chronic wish-list entries
like the Dream Act, a tuition aid program
for undocumented immigrants popular
with Democrats and disliked by Republicans, have also foundered.
Of course, optimists — and Gov. An-
drew M. Cuomo’s administration — will
point to accomplishments announced at
the budget deadline in late March, which
included passing a multipronged $15
minimum wage law (or $12.50 by 2021 in
upstate areas); a paid family leave law;
and a middle-class tax cut for families
earning less than $300,000. And as is
usually the way in Albany, the looming
deadline of the end of session — on
Thursday, with just three days left on the
schedule — will likely result in a flurry of
long nights.
Here is a rundown of some of the possible last-minute additions to the inevitable end-of-session news release from the
governor’s office and legislative leaders.
HEROIN One of the few issues on which
the “three men in a room” — the governor, the speaker of the Assembly and the
Senate majority leader — can agree is a
pressing need for action on the rising
tide of drug-addicted New Yorkers, a crisis fed by prescription drugs and even
cheaper, easier-to-get heroin. After a
meeting in the executive chamber on
Thursday, John J. Flanagan, the Long Island Republican who leads that party’s
majority in the Senate, was expansive on
the issue, saying that “this is something
everybody cares deeply about, including
the gentleman we just left, the governor.”
Indeed, shortly after Mr. Flanagan
spoke, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, issued
the findings of a task force on the drug,
with more than two dozen recommendations — including changes to insurance
rules, limits on opiate prescriptions and
an increase in treatment beds — which
will most likely be reflected in legislation. Republicans note that their own
task force, which dates from 2014, has already advanced nearly a dozen bills on
opioids that have become law. “Clearly,”
the Republicans said on Thursday, “we
have been at the forefront.”
has pushed for more screening, and used
it as a final emotional anecdote during
his State of the State address in January.
Since then, he has repeatedly mentioned
it when questioned about his end-of-thesession priorities, and on Sunday announced a deal with Mr. Flanagan and
Carl E. Heastie, the Bronx Democrat
who leads the Assembly, to ease access
to mammograms and other means of detection.
BREAST CANCER The governor’s connec-
issue that seemingly exposed deeper political schisms in Albany, the control of
New York City’s schools is it. Mayor Bill
de Blasio, a Democrat, has repeatedly
tion to this issue is personal: His longtime girlfriend, Sandra Lee, was found to
have breast cancer and underwent a
double mastectomy last year. Mr. Cuomo
MAYORAL CONTROL If ever there was an
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A playground behind the building on West 77th Street in Manhattan that houses Public School 452, which a city plan calls for relocating as part of a shuffle of campuses and students in the area.
Game of Musical Chairs, Played With Schools, Divides Neighbors
By KATE TAYLOR
It started as a fairly simple proposition:
There were two schools on the Upper West
Side of Manhattan, one overcrowded, the other
underused. The city’s Education Department
proposed to redraw the schools’ attendance
zone so that some blocks assigned to the
crowded school would be shifted to the emptier
one.
But while most of the children at the
crowded school, Public School 199, are middle
class and white, most of the children at the
other school, P.S. 191, are poor, and black or Hispanic. P.S. 191 has much lower test scores, and
last year, the state labeled the school
A convoluted proposal
to move boundaries
pleases and perplexes
the Upper West Side.
persistently dangerous, though many of its
supporters argued that this was a mistake.
The proposal became complicated as families in the blocks that would be affected objected to the change. The department ulti-
mately dropped the idea.
Now, instead of a simple solution, the department is considering a convoluted one that
amounts to an educational game of musical
chairs: First, P.S. 191 would move a block west,
taking over a building under construction that
was originally intended for a new school. The
hope is that the move would provide a symbolic fresh start for P.S. 191 and that the gleaming campus would make it more appealing to
the families moved there. Then, another school
on the Upper West Side, P.S. 452, which shares
a building with two other schools, would move
into P.S. 191’s current home, giving it room to
grow. The school that had been envisioned for
the new building would not open.
The appeal to the Education Department is
clear: P.S. 452’s student population closely
mirrors P.S. 199’s, and its principal, David Scott
Parker, used to be an assistant principal there.
Families moved out of P.S. 199 might be more
open to P.S. 452 than to P.S. 191, and persuading
them to go to P.S. 452 could be easier than getting them to take a chance on a completely new
school.
“It’s always challenging to attract families
to a brand-new school, particularly in a community that has a variety of well-established
schools,” Elizabeth Rose, the department’s
Looking Back on a Crime With Hope, Not Fear
A detective called Tom Ligon last
month with the news. There had been
an arrest in his case, three years later.
Mr. Ligon, 75, was surprised. He had
heard the police had a suspect in custody back in 2013, but nothing more, and he let it go.
After all, the man who had
tried to break into his home
that day, Aug. 1, 2013, hadn’t
CRIME
even succeeded. In fleeing
SCENE
down the Manhattan street,
the intruder had lost a shoe that was
kept as evidence.
“A lady policeman went and put her
hat on top of the shoe, because it was
starting to rain,” Mr. Ligon recalled on
Thursday.
The police were able to extract DNA
from the shoe, and they matched it to a
man arrested on May 19 after what they
described as a crime spree.
Mr. Ligon thinks back on that day in
2013 with more nostalgia than fear or
outrage. It has been a long three years
— longer, actually, since his wife died in
2009, leaving him alone in the Waverly
Place apartment in Greenwich Village
that they had shared for decades.
Mr. Ligon is an actor whose past
roles include a bit part as a nephew on
MICHAEL
WILSON
Email: crimescene@nytimes.com
Twitter: @mwilsonnyt
an episode of “The Honeymooners” and
a longtime part as Lucas Lorenzo Prentiss on the soap opera “The Young and
the Restless.” But recent years have
found him working less and eating and
drinking more, and they have taken a
toll.
Walks in the neighborhood have
became difficult. He has to stop at
stoops or storefront benches once or
twice on every block to catch his
breath. He used to laugh at guys who
hit 300 pounds. His livelihood depended
on his looks, and he wondered how
someone could let that happen. Then
last month he stepped on a scale and
looked at the number: 292.
“I just let go of the reins a little too
much,” he said.
When the detective called last month,
it was a welcome distraction from the
visits to the doctors, the breathless
walks. The suspect was identified as
Kenneth Wiley, 34, with addresses
listed in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The
police, working backward, said Mr.
Wiley was linked to many more crimes
than the one at Mr. Ligon’s home.
On May 4, a woman on a downtown
subway train said she was approached
by a man who asked her: “How do I get
to the C train? I need to go to the hospital because of my stomach.” The woman saw that he was fondling himself,
and told him to get away, the police
said.
The police said the same man had
approached different women on different trains the same way, on March 28,
April 1 and, on April 29, twice, all in
Manhattan. The suspect in the
encounters was identified as Mr. Wiley,
the police said. He
was also linked to 16
burglaries, the most
recent on May 18.
The first: Aug. 1,
2013, at the apartment
on Waverly Place.
Kenneth
Mr. Ligon was
Wiley
napping that day
when he heard a
noise in the next room. Someone was
climbing through his window.
He sprang from the bed, crossed the
room in a flash, let out a piercing shriek
he learned from a Kendo master and
punched the intruder in the face.
Later, Mr. Ligon saw video of that
moment. “He ran down the block, and
you see me stick my head out,” he said,
recalling what a street surveillance
camera recorded. “‘I’m ready for my
close-up, Mr. DeMille.’”
The detective on the phone said the
police would like Mr. Ligon to consider
testifying at trial, if necessary.
Sure, he replied.
YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The actor Tom Ligon at home in Greenwich Village, where an intruder, identified by the police as Mr. Wiley, tried to crawl through a window in 2013.
Things are looking up now. Mr. Ligon
landed a voice-over job that would have
been impossible to imagine when he
was on “The Honeymooners.” It was for
a new podcast series called “Songonauts,” about a band that travels
through time.
He is working on losing weight. That
number on the scale scared him
straight, he said. He stopped drinking.
No carbs for a while. More walking, no
matter how many times he has to stop.
He thinks of the 100 pounds he wants to
shed as two bulging suitcases he carries everywhere.
“I need my luggage to get lost,” he
said.
He thinks back on that day at the
window, he said, and it makes him feel
good. About what he did and what he
hopes to be able to do again.
“It makes me not afraid,” he said.
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Clockwise from left: Sylvia Martinez at the 59th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City; a boy’s face was painted; and people waved Puerto Rican flags in a float.
Puerto Rican Pride Shines in Parade Despite Woes
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
and SAMANTHA SCHMIDT
Puerto Rico may be in an economic tailspin, but the 59th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade was a
moment to celebrate the island’s
joys.
Pint-size drum majorettes,
dancing girls dressed as rain-forest frogs and thumping reggaeton
music coursed through a canyon
of Puerto Rican flags along Fifth
Avenue in New York City on Sunday. In the wildly cheering crowd,
there was a sense that the parade
was in part a pep rally.
“It’s full of life,” said Miriam
Rodriguez, 63, a bookkeeper from
the Bronx. “We feel if we’re here,
present, we’re somehow supporting the island,” she said, a sentiment underscored by the harsh
realities of life there.
Two of her nephews left Puerto
Rico in the past year, she said, after finding it impossible to find
jobs. “It’s a sad situation,” Ms.
Rodriguez said from under her
white fedora. “The doctors are
leaving the island, the teachers
are leaving the island.”
Classic cars carried superstars
of Puerto Rican descent like
Carmelo Anthony of the New York
Knicks. Scantily clad women on
stilts draped in red, white and blue
passed by, followed by floats celebrating Goya products and prominent Puerto Rican achievements
like the Arecibo Observatory,
where one of the world’s largest
Celebrating the
island’s joys at a time
of uncertainty.
radio telescopes is.
William Alexis Bruno brought a
squad of 22 children who were
dancers from Manati, in the north
of Puerto Rico, each dressed elaborately as one of the island’s best
features. El Yunque, the rain forest (a young woman covered in
leaves), stood on 44th Street before the parade started, chatting
with the beaches (a girl clad head
to toe in shells and a skirt of ocean
water). In glittery eye makeup,
with a miniature representation of
a 16th-century tower atop her
head, the San Felipe del Morro
Castle, which is in San Juan,
gamely posed for pictures.
“We can show the people no
matter what is happening, we can
show the world that we are talented, we like art, so people don’t
see Puerto Rico just for its bad
economic status,” Mr. Bruno said.
The island has been struggling
with more than $70 billion in debt.
On Saturday, President Obama
pushed for passage in the Senate
of a rescue package that would
help ease the island’s debt, of
which it owes $2 billion to its
creditors next month.
As Santos Seda, the mayor of
Guánica, in southern Puerto Rico,
stood near floats getting ready to
stroll down Fifth Avenue, he said
he believed there was an answer
to the island’s economic woes: full
statehood. “It’s time for us to get
out of this ambiguity,” Mr. Seda
said in Spanish. “It’s time to define
ourselves.”
This year’s parade was the first
time that Puerto Rican gay pride
was officially a part of the celebration, with the honoring of Pedro
Julio Serrano, an advocate for human and gay rights. Puerto Rico
allowed gay people to marry this
year. News from Orlando, Fla., of a
mass shooting at a gay nightclub
in the early hours of the morning
that killed 50 people also shivered
along the parade route. The nightclub catered to Latin Americans,
and many of the victims were of
Latino heritage.
“That’s scary because that’s not
what America is supposed to be
like,” said Al Amaro, 70, an actor
from Manhattan, on a side street
as costumed performers mustered for the parade around him.
“Hatred does not give fruit to anything wonderful.”
And yet the parade was not
somber, unfurling under an unblemished sky, before a crowd
that cheered and shimmied for all
things Puerto Rican along the avenue. And the pride did not, it
seemed, depend upon whether the
revelers themselves were Puerto
Rican. Clarence White, 44, a delivery man from Laurelton, Queens,
cheered loudly for Puerto Rico —
in a thick Jamaican accent.
“I have many Puerto Rican female friends!” he said.
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‘Doctor, Heal Thyself!’ Dré’s Battle With Diabetes
By DAVID GONZALEZ
Andre Brown has always been
a tastemaker. Better known as
Doctor Dré — the Long Island
original, not the West Coast
producer and gangster rapper —
he has been sharing his musical
tastes since the 1980s as a D.J.
for the Beastie Boys, a member
of the hip-hop group Original
Concept and a co-host of “Yo!
MTV Raps.” He and his co-host,
Ed Lover, even beat Ice Cube to
the barbershop movie genre
when they starred in “Who’s the
Man?” in 1993.
Being at the forefront of hiphop then often meant working in
the studio all day and prowling
the clubs for talent at night.
Never a small man, he ate what
he could — and often — on the
run. “I had that lifestyle of being
out all the time,” said Mr. Brown,
52, near right. “You had to be,
doing what we were doing. You
had to be on the pulse. There was
no TMZ or Kim Kardashian. This
was the raw beginning. We had
to be everywhere.”
Ten years ago, that lifestyle
caught up with him. He developed Type 2 diabetes and has
faced a series of health challenges: losing a toe, injuring his
ankles and, three years ago,
going blind. Now he is planning
to have weight-loss surgery — a
move recently endorsed by many
in the medical community for
helping to reduce the symptoms
of Type 2 diabetes. And, like the
D.J. that he has remained at
heart, he wants to share that
experience, this time through a
proposed reality television show
that would chronicle his surgery
and recovery.
“My stubbornness put me
where I’m at. Now my energy is
going to change that,” Mr. Brown
said. “We got young people,
grown people, old, all having this.
We can prevent this. We can cure
this. I have an idea how to do it.”
Among the first people he
pitched the idea to was Bill Adler,
a former executive at Def Jam
Records who is a utility player in
the hip-hop game. Mr. Adler,
pictured with Mr. Brown, knows
people who have the money and
connections to back such a
project, including some who
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made a dollar or two off Mr.
Brown’s efforts over the years.
Mr. Adler thought it was a brave
move for a man who had remained upbeat despite the many
physical challenges of the past
decade.
“Dré is an arbiter,” Mr. Adler
said. “Now he has turned that
Chronicling a
surgery to promote
awareness.
skill to something crucial.
There’s a reason he has mostly
spent his life behind the
turntables or introducing other
talent to the world. He wants to
share his enthusiasm with other
folks.”
But first, Mr. Brown and Mr.
Adler will have to gain not only
the enthusiasm of people who
might know something about
reality television, but their support. You would think that would
not be too hard, since Mr. Brown
has been a presence in the culture going back to his days at
Adelphi University, where he met
members of what would become
Public Enemy at the college
radio station. Mr. Adler said it
was Mr. Brown who told executives at Def Jam about Chuck D,
and also the fast-talking hype
man Flavor Flav.
His connections with Public
Enemy came in handy when he
was at “Yo! MTV Raps” and Ice
Cube was ready to leave N.W.A.
and go solo. Mr. Brown introduced the gangster rapper to the
Bomb Squad, the production
team behind Public Enemy’s
sound that went on to produce
much of Ice Cube’s solo debut,
“AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted.”
Yet when the movie “Straight
Outta Compton” came out last
year, those moments were barely
mentioned.
“It’s funny, you see the movie
and you wonder, ‘How did Ice
Cube get there?’” Mr. Brown
said. “They might as well call it
‘Straight Outta Fiction.’ I’m not
bitter, I’m just truthful.”
The truth with which he is
more concerned now is the
alarming rate of diabetes in
black and Latino communities.
He thinks his story could offer
useful suggestions about how to
live and eat healthfully, and
challenge parts of the pharmaceutical industry that profit from
long-term treatment. He thinks
— and recent news supports him
— that weight-loss surgery might
have better results, including
remission, for some people.
“Doctor, heal thyself!” Mr.
Adler boomed during a recent
meeting with Mr. Brown. The
idea excited him, since he
thought the whole process could
be chronicled in a short-term
reality show. Yet his calls to some
high-profile hip-hop personalities
and entrepreneurs with television experience and a history
with Mr. Brown have gone unanswered.
“These are people I’ve known
for 30 years, and they haven’t
gotten back to me,” Mr. Adler
said. “Dré just wants to share his
enthusiasm with people. There
are plenty of other folks who star
in reality shows who are plainly
narcissists, who are convinced
every absurd thing out of their
mouth has to be captured by a
television camera. That is not
Dré.”
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The World Could End AIDS if It Tried
The world has made so much progress in reducing the
spread of AIDS and treating people with H.I.V. that the
epidemic has receded from the public spotlight. Yet by any
measure the disease remains a major threat — 1.1 million
people died last year from AIDS-related causes, and 2.1
million people were infected with the virus. And while
deaths are down over the last five years, the number of
new infections has essentially reached a plateau.
The United Nations announced a goal last week of
ending the spread of the disease by 2030. That’s a laudable
and ambitious goal, reachable only if individual nations
vigorously campaign to treat everyone who has the virus
and to limit new infections.
The medicines and know-how are there, but in many
countries the money and political will are not. Besides
shining a spotlight on the disease, it’s crucial that wealthy
nations like the United States continue to pony up generously to underwrite what must be a global effort. Donors
and low- and middle-income countries need to increase
spending to $26 billion a year by 2020, the United Nations
says, up from nearly $19.2 billion in 2014.
While still high, deaths attributable to AIDS are down
36 percent from 2010. That is largely because many more
people are receiving antiretroviral drugs — 17 million people in 2015, compared with 7.5 million five years earlier.
These medicines allow people to live near-normal lives
and greatly reduce the risk of transmission to others.
But while some countries like South Africa (once a
disaster zone) and Kenya have made tremendous
progress in increasing treatment, many people who need
the lifesaving therapy do not have access to it. Only 28 percent of those infected in Western and Central Africa were
being treated in 2015, according to a recent United Nations
report. The numbers were even lower in the Middle East
and North Africa (17 percent) and Eastern Europe and
Central Asia (21 percent). In some countries, people who
test positive are told to come back when they get sick because of budget constraints, says Sharonann Lynch, an
H.I.V. policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders. Many
never return.
In other places, it can be hard to even reach people
who need drugs because of war or the lack of a functional
public health system. And many who need help are unwilling to come forward because they fear being ostracized or
worse because they are gay, use drugs or are engaged in
sex work. Discriminatory laws and attitudes in countries
like Nigeria, Russia and Uganda have probably forced
tens of thousands of people who need help into hiding.
In some countries, infections have actually increased,
which helps explain why progress has plateaued over all.
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, for instance, 190,000
people became infected last year, up from 120,000 in 2010.
And while the number of deaths is way down, the number
of new infections was flat or down modestly over the same
five-year period. This was also true of the United States,
where an estimated 44,073 people were diagnosed in 2014,
the most recent year for which the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention have published data, down from
44,940 in 2010.
These numbers do not argue for complacency, but instead for more vigorous public health campaigns, increased access to condoms, clean needles for drug users
and prescriptions for pre-exposure drugs. There is still no
cure for AIDS. But there are many ways to minimize its
deadly consequences.
The mass shooting early Sunday
morning in Orlando and the high death
toll are devastating on so many levels. I
grieve for the scores of innocent people
who have fallen, and my sympathies go
out to their families. I also grieve for the
entire Orlando community and for our
country. Whether this was a hate crime
and/or a terrorist act committed by a
lone gunman, this incident has specific
and wide-ranging implications but, as
significantly, it also speaks to a global
TO THE EDITOR:
LINDA HUANG
tutional another Ohio law that cut back early voting opportunities for citizens. Furious statehouse Republicans have
denied any scheme to suppress Democratic voters, and
Ohio’s secretary of state, Jon Husted, arguing that the decisions will produce “chaos,” said the state will appeal.
But Judge Marbley saw an unmistakably clear and
politically motivated pattern of suppression. “The Republican-controlled General Assembly’s frenetic pace of introducing such legislation reflects questionable motives, given the wealth of other problems facing the state which actually needed solutions,” he declared.
The ruling noted that the Voting Rights Act
specifically forbids using paper errors and omissions to
bar an otherwise qualified voter from casting a ballot,
which is effectively a literacy test. Advocates for the
homeless and Democratic officials who brought the lawsuit estimated that thousands of otherwise qualified
voters had already been blocked and more would be in the
November election.
It is already clear that voter suppression engineered
in Republican-controlled statehouses will be a sorry part
of the election dynamic this year. Ordinary citizens deserve better than such cynical gamesmanship, particularly from professional politicians who should be the most
conscientious of all in protecting the right to vote. Ohio
voters should see these laws as an invitation to use this
fall’s ballot to reject lawmakers who so callously undermine democracy.
A Challenge to New York’s Broken Parole Board
In 1975, John MacKenzie shot and killed a police officer named Matthew Giglio after a burglary in West Hempstead, N.Y. He was convicted and sentenced to the maximum term available under the law, 25 years to life.
Mr. MacKenzie, now 70, has served more than 40
years in New York prisons. He has been eligible for parole
for the past 16 years. At every hearing, the State Parole
Board has refused to release him.
No one disputes that Mr. MacKenzie has been a model
prisoner with a perfect record. He has earned degrees in
business administration and the arts. He has counseled
other inmates nearing their own release dates, and, with
the help of a $10,000 grant, he established a program to
give victims an opportunity to speak directly to inmates
about the impact of their crimes. At his last parole hearing, he told the board, “I did that in memory of Matthew, to
show his family that this is the best I can do to make up for
it.” He said that while he was high on drugs during his
crime and did not remember shooting Mr. Giglio, the murder was “a hundred percent my fault.”
The board’s response? “Parole denied.” Because Mr.
MacKenzie’s crime showed “a serious disregard for the
law” and for “the sanctity of human life,” the board wrote
in its brief, boilerplate decision, his release would “undermine respect for the law.” The decision did not say Mr.
MacKenzie posed any risk to society, and it made only
glancing reference to the many letters supporting his release.
This response is, unfortunately, typical for the Parole
Board, which routinely ignores state laws and regulations
that require it to consider an inmate’s rehabilitation, and
to use a sophisticated risk-assessment tool to help determine whether it is safe to return that person to the community. But because the board members have broad dis-
TO THE EDITOR:
culture that is infected by senseless hatred and terror.
In the days that follow I have no doubt
that National Rifle Association advocates and certain politicians will use this
horrendous crime to claim that everyone
should be armed, and that opposing interests will argue with equal force for
more gun control. What should not be
lost is that our nation needs to engage in
a searching national dialogue freed from
political agendas that is driven by a real
desire to reach an objective understanding of the climate and social conditions
that allow something of this magnitude
to happen, and what we can do to change.
I also think of the shooting death of the
young performer Christina Grimmie at
her concert in Orlando on Friday night
(news article, June 12). Indeed, the loss
of only one life to a senseless act is one
life too many, and each death diminishes
us all.
RONALD JOHN WARFIELD
New York
TO THE EDITOR:
After yet another senseless tragedy
this time in Orlando, one must ask:
When is it enough in terms of gun violence, and time to start the push for sensible gun regulation? Not looking to take
away anyone’s arms, but it shouldn’t be
so easy to get an assault rifle like the one
used in the Orlando nightclub.
STEVEN M. CLAYTON
Ocean, N.J.
Issues Raised by the Lawsuits Against Gawker
Down and Out and Voteless in Ohio
The attempts by Republican lawmakers to suppress
the turnout of Democratic-leaning voters in the 2016 election have reached shameless levels in Ohio — a swing
state where it turns out that even homeless citizens have
been blocked from exercising their right to vote.
Thanks to a timely ruling last week from a federal district judge, Algenon Marbley, the obstacles to minorities at
the polling booth come November may be less formidable
than they might have been, though the state plans to appeal and problems remain. The judge struck down a 2014
Republican-sponsored state law that, among other things,
required that absentee ballots be thrown out for essentially trivial mistakes. This, the judge ruled, discriminated
against minority voters in violation of the Voting Rights
Act, including homeless people disqualified for not providing precise addresses.
Other changes in the 2014 law shortened the period
during which voters could correct such errors and barred
election clerks from helping someone confused by the
forms, unless the voter was physically disabled.
Judge Marbley said the law constituted a retreat from
improvements in voting procedures enacted in 2004 and
called it part of a disturbing “flurry” of voting rights
limitations enacted by the Republican Legislature and
Gov. John Kasich in recent years, “which sought to limit
the precious right to the franchise in some manner.”
Last month, a different federal judge ruled unconsti-
Regarding the mass killing at a gay
nightclub in Orlando, Fla. (nytimes.com,
June 12):
This horrific event is sadly unsurprising given our national obsession with
weapons and the inability of Congress to
grapple with this serious safety issue.
While we cannot legislate away hate,
we must expect government officials to
discuss serious issues, especially our
gun control problem, thoughtfully and
respectfully in order to help strengthen
our great nation.
As soon as we understand that our personal attributes — including race, religion, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation — are part of what help make this
country great, the sooner we will be even
stronger.
EDWIN ANDREWS
MARILYN ANDREWS
Malden, Mass.
cretion, it has been difficult to hold them accountable.
Judges across the state have long complained about
the board’s intransigence, and recently some have begun
to take action. Last month, Justice Maria Rosa of State Supreme Court in Dutchess County held the board in contempt for refusing to give any specific reason for denying
Mr. MacKenzie’s release beyond his original offense.
Justice Rosa had thrown out the board’s previous rejection of Mr. MacKenzie, in 2014, and ordered a new
parole hearing. The board’s decision after that hearing, in
December, was “virtually the same” as the earlier one,
which was “entirely unsupported by the factual record,”
the justice said. She imposed a $500 fine for every day that
the board remains in contempt.
This is the second time a state court has held the
board in contempt for refusing to follow the law. If the
courts of appeals uphold these rulings, it could help force
the board to use parole as intended: not to minimize the
seriousness of a crime, but to acknowledge that the person
who committed it can change and deserves a chance to rejoin society. Under the New York Parole Board’s kneejerk
approach, this is far too often an empty promise.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is also taking steps to increase
the board’s transparency and accountability. Among other
things, the administration is proposing new regulations to
require detailed explanations of parole denials, and it
plans to videotape hearings for the public to see.
The effectiveness of efforts like these will be determined by whether they result in releases for obviously
qualified people like John MacKenzie. As Justice Rosa
rightly asked at the end of her contempt ruling, “If parole
isn’t granted to this petitioner, when and under what circumstances would it be granted?”
Gawker Media is seeking bankruptcy
protection after the $140 million judgment
against it in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit (nytimes.com, June 10). This is the next step
in the legal process of individuals pursuing redress for harm caused by Gawker’s
destructive publications, including my
own $35 million suit for defamation. But
beyond the legal narrative, I hope we will
now see a repudiation of Gawker and its
ilk by large numbers of readers, and also
by anyone seeking a career in journalism.
The financial success of Gawker and its
affiliated sites did not depend on insight
or inspiration in the content. It depended
on the number of visitors to the sites and
other metrics, which translate into higher
ad revenues and increased valuation.
In order to get the maximum number of
visitors and click-throughs, a site like
Gawker can rely on a simple calculation.
First, what is the most sensationalist, defamatory, exploitative content we can
come up with? Let’s call that the upside.
The downside is the possibility that someone harmed by that content will sue the
website publisher. But there seemed to be
little or no worry about legal action, which
would be expensive and embarrassing for
the plaintiff.
But a funny thing happened in Gawker’s race to the bank. Some of the people
who were getting run over — like Hulk
Hogan and me — called in the law.
If any good has come from this situation, it’s the fact that the victims themselves initiated the counterattack against
Gawker, rather than an outside law enforcement or regulatory agency. It’s great
to hit a bully with my own hands, and to
hit him in the wallet, where it hurts the
most.
SHIVA AYYADURAI
Cambridge, Mass.
The writer, chief executive of CytoSolve,
has sued Gawker for calling him a “liar”
and a “fraud” for his claim to the invention of email.
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “I Stand With Gawker” (Op-Ed, May
31):
Stephen Marche writes of the Hulk Hogan sex tape: “No one could possibly object if that were the tape of a congressman.” I could. And to answer my objection
you would have to demonstrate to me the
relevance of the congressman’s sexual activity to his oath of office.
Mr. Marche’s underlying view — that
“Gawker predicted and took up arms
against” the “asymmetry of celebrity
power” — is a specious passing of the
buck. Celebrity is not a quality inherent to
a celebrity. It is conferred by the attention
of others, attention that is only enhanced
Reusable Shopping Bags
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “City’s Fee on Plastic Bags Faces
Scrutiny in Albany” (news article, June
8):
Instead of penalizing people for using
plastic bags, why don’t our lawmakers do
what some enlightened communities do
and require stores to issue a small credit
for each reusable shopping bag provided
by the shopper? It produces the desired
results, it is not burdensome for people
with limited incomes and the money
saved adds up over time.
IRENE BERNSTEIN-PECHMEZE
Whitestone, Queens
by every salacious Gawker post.
Mr. Marche writes of “the celebrity culture we all inhabit.” I do not. I watch no
reality television, have no Facebook page,
tweet no tweets. Reality TV has debased
our entertainment; social media have
made our interactions shallower; and
journalism’s abandonment of the editorial
function has made the truth that much
more elusive, and erased the distinction
between what is vital and what is trivial.
Gawker is no scapegoat — it is the enemy.
DAVID BERMAN
New York
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “PayPal Founder Is Said to Bankroll
Hulk Hogan Suit Against Gawker” (Business Day, May 25):
It has been hard recently to get away
from the stories about Peter Thiel’s funding of lawsuits against Gawker. The media coverage has focused almost exclusively on the threat that such lawsuits
pose to freedom of the press. This, though,
misses the much larger and more troubling story that deserves our full attention: that access to the legal system is so
dependent on money that even a man as
wealthy and famous as Terry Bollea
(Hulk Hogan) needs a billionaire sponsor
for a lawsuit.
The knowledge that money buys access to the law is by no means new, but
this case could serve to bring this systemic issue more to public attention. Perhaps, if the media would redirect its focus,
there is an opportunity in this presidential
election year to help to ensure equal access to the law for rich and poor alike.
MICHAEL SATLOW
Providence, R.I.
Music at Penn Station
TO THE EDITOR:
After arriving at Pennsylvania Station
from New Jersey, I read with incredulity
that the station provides classical music
to ease harried travelers (“Curating a
Polished Playlist for a Shabby Hub,”
June 6). How about adequate signs? Escalators and elevators that work?
I have found that on arriving, other
passengers and I often encounter an escalator that is not working or is going
down when we want to go up. Fortunately, the one small elevator between
the track level and the main lobby
usually works, but the other night my
newly disabled wife was unable to find a
working elevator to take us from the
lobby to the lower, or subway, level.
Signs to elevators, if they exist, were
invisible. Directed by two courteous
employees to an elevator, we pressed the
button, to no avail. We felt forced to take
an escalator. With some trepidation, I
carried her walker down the stairs while
she took the adjacent escalator. She
could not have done it on her own.
Spare us the music, and provide adequate mobility and signs for both the disabled and the harried traveler.
BILL MITCHELL
New York
TO THE EDITOR:
Beethoven in Penn Station? Really?
Much more suitable to the high-stress
reality of the station would be John
Williams’s theme song for “Jaws.”
STEVEN COHEN
New York
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THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016
Cuomo, B.D.S., and Free Speech
FRANK BRUNI
The Scope of
The Orlando
Carnage
These locations are never random.
These targets aren’t accidental. They’re
the very vocabulary in which assailants
like the Orlando gunman speak, and he
chose a place where there’s drinking.
And dancing. And where L.G.B.T. people
congregate, feeling a sense of welcome,
of belonging.
That last detail is already in the foreground of the deadliest mass shooting in
American history — and rightly so.
But let’s be clear: This was no more an
attack just on L.G.B.T. people than the
bloodshed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo
in Paris was an attack solely on satirists.
Both were attacks on freedom itself.
Both took aim at societies that, at their
best, integrate and celebrate diverse
points of view, diverse systems of belief,
diverse ways to love. And to speak of either massacre more narrowly than that
is to miss the greater message, the
more pervasive danger and the truest
stakes.
We don’t yet know all that much about
Omar Mateen, who pulled the trigger,
again and again, in a nightclub whose
name connotes life, not death: Pulse.
We’ll be learning more in the hours and
days to come, including just how potently homophobia in particular factored into his actions, how much
ideological influence the Islamic State
or other extremists had, how extensive
his planning was, how far back he began
plotting this, and how much he knew
about Pulse itself and the specific composition of its crowd on different nights
of the week.
But we can assume — no, we can be
sure — that he was lashing out at an
America at odds with his darker,
smaller, more oppressive mind-set. The
people inside Pulse were citizens of it.
More to the point, they were emblems of
it. In Pulse they found a refuge. In Pulse
they found joy. To him they deserved
neither. And he communicated that with
an assault rifle and bullets.
The Islamic State and its ilk are brutal
to gay people, whom they treat in unthinkable ways. They throw gay people
from rooftops. The footage is posted online. It’s bloodcurdling, but it’s not
unique. In countries throughout the
An attack on
freedom and on
every American.
world, to be gay is to be in mortal danger. To embrace love is to court death.
That’s crucial context for what happened in Orlando, and Orlando is an understandable prompt for questions
about our own degrees of inclusion and
fairness and whether we do all that we
should to keep L.G.B.T. people safe. We
don’t.
As Florida Gov. Rick Scott spoke publicly of his heartache on Sunday, I saw
complaints on social media about his
own lack of support for issues important
to L.G.B.T. people. Those complaints
have merit.
But this isn’t a moment for identity
politics, which could muddle the significance of the carnage. Yes, that carnage
exposed the special vulnerability of
L.G.B.T. Americans to violent extremists, recommending special levels
of security.
And there was a frightening coda to it
on the opposite coast, in the Los Angeles area, where a man with an arsenal of
weapons was arrested en route to gay
pride festivities.
But the threat isn’t only to L.G.B.T.
Americans, as past acts of terror have
shown and as everyone today must recognize. All Americans are under attack,
and not exclusively because of whom
we drink, dance or sleep with, but because of our bedrock belief that we
should not be subservient to any one
ideology or any one religion. That offends and inflames the zealots of the
world.
Often our politicians can’t find their
voices. Sometimes their words are
poignantly right.
President Obama, speaking about the
victims on Sunday afternoon, said: “The
place where they were attacked is more
than a nightclub. It is a place of solidarity and empowerment where people
have come together to raise awareness,
to speak their minds and to advocate for
their civil rights. So this is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American,
regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or
sexual orientation, is an attack on all of
us and on the fundamental values of
equality and dignity that define us as a
country.”
And this was Eric Garcetti, the Los
Angeles mayor, at a news conference:
“Today we know that we are targeted as
Americans, because this is a society
where we love broadly and openly, because we have Jews and Christians and
Muslims and atheists and Buddhists
marching together, because we are
white, black, brown, Asian, Native
American. The whole spectrum and every hue and every culture is here.”
It was a perfect description of the
country I love.
And it was an equally perfect description of what the Orlando gunman couldn’t bear.
0
N
By Daniel Sieradski
I
N 1985, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo proposed that New York State divest of
its billions of dollars in investments
in companies that did business with
South Africa “to demonstrate,” he
declared, “the abhorrence of our residents
to the pernicious system of apartheid.” An
opponent of Mr. Cuomo’s plan, the state
comptroller, Edward V. Regan, told The
New York Times, “We’re not in the foreign-policy business.”
State Republicans blocked Mr. Cuomo’s
efforts, and he ultimately settled for divesting personally from apartheid, withdrawing his personal funds from banks
with ties to South Africa.
How times have changed.
Last week, Mario Cuomo’s son, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, signed an executive order essentially creating a blacklist of entities that boycott or divest from Israel or
encourage others to do so, banning those
companies from receiving taxpayer funding.
The movement to boycott, divest from
and sanction Israel, known as B.D.S., is a
strategy intended to combat Israel’s
nearly 50-year occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza,
a situation that three former Israeli prime
ministers, as well as Secretary of State
John Kerry, have warned would become
akin to apartheid if allowed to continue.
I oppose Israel’s occupation and I want
the Palestinians to have equal rights and
self-determination. Still, I do not support a
boycott that targets Israel as a whole.
While I avoid buying products from companies that operate in Israeli settlements,
I do so out of commitment to the two-state
solution and my belief that the occupation
endangers Israel’s future as a Jewish and
democratic state.
But I also believe that economic boycott
is a legitimate form of political expression,
one that the government has no business
restricting by withholding state business.
Paradoxically, Mr. Cuomo has engaged
in a type of boycott himself, issuing three
executive orders banning nonessential
travel by state employees to Indiana, Mississippi and North Carolina for
discriminatory laws against L.G.B.T. people. Apparently, in Mr. Cuomo’s book, boycotts are acceptable against American
states with discriminatory laws, but not
against a foreign country that has systematically subjected millions of people to
decades of oppression.
Documents from statehouses where
anti-B.D.S. bills have passed, obtained
through Freedom of Information requests, show that there is a concerted effort by advocacy groups, like the Israeli
American Council, and even the ChabadLubavitch Hasidic sect, to promote antiB.D.S. legislation in statehouses and in
Congress.
While bills in other states have, for better or worse, gained legislators’ approval,
Mr. Cuomo’s executive order is the first to
be instituted without democratic ratification. After it became clear a bill with the
same purpose would not pass the State
Assembly, Mr. Cuomo decided he wanted
to take “immediate action,” as he put it at
the order’s signing, joking that the legislaDaniel Sieradski is the founder of Progressive Jews PAC, which advocates for
progressive Jewish issues, and the former
publisher of the web publication Jewschool.
ALEX NABAUM
The governor says he’s
supporting Israel. He’s
really restricting rights.
tive process was often “a tedious affair.”
Legal scholars on both sides of the issue
have raised flags. On Twitter, Katherine
Franke, a professor at Columbia Law
School who sits on the Academic Advisory
Council of the pro-boycott group Jewish
Voice for Peace, called the order “clearly
unconstitutional.”
Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at
Northwestern University’s Pritzker
School of Law, who has supported antiboycott legislation, has suggested that Mr.
Cuomo’s executive order could run up
against the First Amendment, and that its
language penalizing advocacy of boycott
or divestment — the measure is aimed at
those who participate in pro-boycott activity or “promote others to engage” in it —
was “a bridge too far.”
In analyzing a similar law passed in
South Carolina last month, The Harvard
Law Review wrote that the motivation behind such laws “could not be more
antithetical to the core values of the First
Amendment.”
Worse yet, the vagueness of Mr. Cuomo’s executive order raises more questions than it answers. For example, as the
owner of a small web-design business who
occasionally does freelance work for
CUNY schools and state agencies, will I be
denied contracts because I argued against
buying SodaStream home carbonation
systems while they were being manufactured in a settlement on the West Bank? If
a filmmaker declares support for boycotting Israel, will the state deny her production company access to shoot at the
new state-funded production center near
Syracuse? If a church’s national assembly
backs divestment from Israel, will it be denied state grants to operate homeless
shelters and soup kitchens in Brooklyn?
And what about companies working in
the West Bank that succumb to the economic pressure of boycotts or divestment
and move their operations? Will the State
of New York tell a private enterprise that
it must choose between losing money because of boycotters or losing contracts
with the state?
But this is also personal. As a Jew who
has lived in Israel and has many relatives
there, I feel that the government should
not to be dictating how I relate to the Jewish state and in what ways I voice my objection to its policies. Regardless of how
one feels about the Israeli occupation and
the B.D.S. movement, Mr. Cuomo’s decision should be an unsettling precedent. 0
Donald Trump’s Mormon Problem
I
By McKay Coppins
N the fight to fend off Donald J.
Trump’s conquest of the Republican
Party, there has been no fiercer faction this year than the Mormons.
Throughout the primaries, Mr.
Trump was pummeled in the Book of Mormon Belt. In Utah, he suffered one of his
worst defeats, finishing dead last with a
paltry 14 percent of the vote. Outside Utah,
he often underperformed in counties
where Mormons were more heavily concentrated.
On some level, this dynamic might
seem intuitive. Mormonism is a faith that
holds up chastity as a virtue and condemns pornography as a soul-rotting
vice; Mr. Trump is an unabashed adulterer who has posed for Playboy covers.
Mormons draw inspiration from their ancestors’ modest frontier frugality; Mr.
Trump travels the world in a tricked-out
Boeing 757 with his name stamped conspicuously across the fuselage.
Many conservative Christians were
willing to overlook these defects during
the primaries because they liked what Mr.
Trump had to say about issues like immigration. But Mormons are considerably
more conflicted about his mad-as-hell
message — and their ambivalence could
cost the candidate in Western swing
states.
Of all the iniquities committed in this
less-than-saintly campaign season, only
one has managed to elicit an official response from Mormon headquarters in
Salt Lake City: Mr. Trump’s call for a ban
on Muslims entering the United States.
“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints is neutral in regard to party politics
and election campaigns,” the church’s
statement read. “However, it is not neutral
in relation to religious freedom.”
It’s easy to see how Mormons might get
spooked by a presidential contender bashing a religious minority. Early Latter-day
McKay Coppins, a senior political writer
for BuzzFeed News, is the author of “The
Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican
Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic
Quest to Take Back the White House.”
Saints spent much of the mid-19th century
being chased into the desert by bigots and
demagogues. Elected officials tried to “exterminate” them. Propagandists painted
them as a nefarious foreign race (defined,
according to a report printed in multiple
medical journals, by their “yellow, sunken,
cadaverous visage” and “thick, protuberant lips”). In an eerie bit of foreshadowing,
the United States secretary of state
sought in 1879 to restrict the flow of Mormon immigrants from overseas, arguing
that America must be protected from
these “prospective lawbreakers.”
Mormon leaders have not forgotten this
history. As Elder Patrick Kearon said in
April while announcing a new churchwide
relief effort for refugees, “Their story is
our story, not that many years ago.”
There are other reasons for Mr. Trump’s
failure to rally Mormon voters. His hardline immigration stance clashes with the
It could cost the G.O.P.
in Western swing states.
more merciful views of the church, many
of whose members have served proselytizing missions in Latin America. (One recent study found that Mormons are more
than twice as likely as evangelicals to say
they welcome more immigration to the
United States.)
What’s more, Mr. Trump’s pitchfork
populism doesn’t hold the same visceral
appeal for a religious community with
above-average education levels, relatively stable families and comfortable
middle-class incomes. The urgency to
“Make America Great Again” may not be
quite so deeply felt.
With the primaries over, most antiTrump conservatives have abandoned
any righteous resistance and begun their
dutiful trudge toward supporting the party’s nominee. But there are signs that
Mormons — who represent the most reliably Republican religious group in the
country — may not fall in line so easily.
In Utah, a deep-red state that no Demo-
crat has won since Lyndon B. Johnson in
1964, a recent poll shows Mr. Trump and
Hillary Clinton running neck and neck,
with the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson — who has his campaign headquarters in Salt Lake City — picking up 16 percent, and nearly one-third of despairing
respondents opting for “other.” (For perspective, George W. Bush won the state
with 71 percent of the vote in 2004.)
Even if Utah ultimately submits to the
pull of partisanship as expected, it remains an open question whether Mormons at large will stay engaged in the
process. In an expansive Gallup report released last month, none of the 62 demographic groups surveyed were more ambivalent toward both presumptive nominees than Mormons were: Just 33 percent had a favorable view of Mr. Trump;
for Mrs. Clinton, it was 21 percent. Such
disillusionment could have consequences.
The Mountain West has emerged as a general-election battleground in recent years,
with explosive Latino growth and other
demographic trends turning states that
once leaned Republican, like Nevada and
Colorado, into November tossups. And in
the scrambled electoral map of 2016, Arizona looks increasingly as if it will be in
play.
While Mormons make up only about 3
percent to 6 percent of the population in
these states, the G.O.P. counts on them.
They have high turnout and a reputation
in campaign circles as top-notch canvassers unafraid of knocking on
strangers’ doors. Their tightly networked
communities constitute a reliable political
fund-raising apparatus, thanks to the
Romney campaign. In states like Colorado
— which President Obama won in 2012 by
fewer than 120,000 votes — the last thing
Republicans need is for Trump-averse
Mormons to sit this race out.
It’s entirely possible that, in the end,
conservative Mormons will dutifully show
up on Election Day and pull the lesser-oftwo-evils lever for Mr. Trump. But until
then, Mitt Romney has made clear he’ll
continue to speak out against his party’s
nominee — and many of his coreligionists
will be listening. As he told The Wall Street
Journal last month, “There are some people, though it’s a small number, who still
value my opinion.”
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PAUL KRUGMAN
A
Party
Agrift
This is not a column about Donald
Trump.
It’s not about the fraudulent scheme
that was Trump University. It’s not about
his history of failing to pay contractors,
leading to hundreds of legal actions. It’s
not about how he personally profited
while running his casinos into the
ground. It’s not even concerned with persistent questions about whether he is
nearly as rich as he claims to be, and
whether he’s ever done more than live off
capital gains on his inheritance.
No, my question, as Democrats gleefully tear into the Trump business
record, is why rival Republicans never
did the same. How did someone who
looks so much like a cheap con man bulldoze right through the G.O.P. nomination
process?
I mean, it’s not as if any of this dirt was
deeply hidden. The Trump U. story was
out there long before it became the big
deal it is today. It took some real reporting to flesh out the details of Mr. Trump’s
other business practices, but we’re talking about ordinary if skillful journalistic
legwork, not revelations from Deep
Throat.
So why didn’t any of Mr. Trump’s primary opponents manage to make an issue of his sleazy business career? Were
they just incompetent, or is there something structural about the modern Republican Party that makes it unable to
confront grifters?
The answer, I’d argue, is the latter.
Rick Perlstein, who has documented
the rise of modern conservatism in a series of eye-opening books, points out that
there has always been a close association between the movement and the operations of snake-oil salesmen — people
who use lists of campaign contributors,
right-wing websites and so on to sell getrich-quick schemes and miracle health
cures.
Sometimes the political link is direct:
dire warnings about the coming depression/hyperinflation, from which you can
only protect yourself by buying Ron
Paul’s DVDs (the “Ron Paul curriculum”) or gold shares hawked by Glenn
Beck. Sometimes it just seems to reflect
a judgment on the part of the grifters that
people who can be persuaded that President Obama is Muslim can also be persuaded that there are easy moneymaking opportunities the establishment
doesn’t want you to know about.
There’s also a notable pattern of conservative political stars engaging in
what is supposed to be activism, but
looks a lot like personal enrichment. For
example, Sarah Palin’s SarahPAC gives
only a few percent of what it raises on
candidates, while spending heavily on
consultants and Mrs. Palin’s travels.
Then there’s the issue of ideology. If
your fundamental premise is that the
profit motive is always good and government is the root of all evil, if you treat any
suggestion that, say, some bankers misbehaved in the run-up to the financial crisis as proof that the speaker is anti-busi-
Why scammers rule on
the right.
ness if not a full-blown socialist, how can
you condemn anyone’s business practices?
Consider this: Even as the newspapers are filled with stories of defrauded
students and stiffed contractors, Republicans in Congress are going all-out in efforts to repeal the so-called “fiduciary
rule” for retirement advisers, a new rule
requiring that they serve the interests of
their clients, and not receive kickbacks
for steering them into bad investments.
Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, has
even made repealing that rule part of his
“anti-poverty plan.” So the G.O.P. is in effect defending the right of the financial
industry to mislead its customers, which
makes it hard to attack the likes of Donald Trump.
Finally, the con job that lies at the
heart of so much Republican politics
makes it hard to go after other, more
commercial cons. It’s interesting to note
that Marco Rubio actually did try to
make Trump University an issue, but he
did it too late, after he had already made
himself a laughingstock with his brokenrecord routine. And here’s the thing: The
groove Mr. Rubio got stuck in — innuendo that the president is deliberately
weakening America — was a typical example of the political snake-oil the right
sells along with free money and threeminute cures for high blood pressure.
The point is that Mr. Rubio was just as
much a con artist as Mr. Trump – just not
as good at it, which is why, under pressure, he kept repeating the same memorized words. So he, like all the G.O.P.
contenders, didn’t have what it would
have taken to make Mr. Trump’s grifting
an issue. But at least so far it appears
that Hillary Clinton and her allies won’t
have the same problem.
In the months ahead Republicans will
claim that there are equivalent scandals
on the Democratic side, but nothing
they’ve managed to come up with rises
remotely to the level of even one of the
many Trump scams in the news. They’ll
also claim that Mr. Trump doesn’t reflect
their party’s values. But the truth is that
in a very deep sense he does. And that’s
why they couldn’t stop him.
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Charles M. Blow is off today.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016
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Late Nights and Last-Minute Deals Could Close Albany Session In 6 Hours,
4 Are Killed
In Shootings
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sought multiple-year deals from
lawmakers in Albany only to be
summarily rejected by Mr. Flanagan, who meted out a single year
last session and seems intent on
doing the same this year. Mr.
Flanagan’s reluctance to sign off
on a multiple-year deal comes despite the governor’s advocacy of a
three-year
deal
and
the
Democratic-led Assembly’s willingness to do the same.
By RICK ROJAS
FANTASY SPORTS Fans of hand-to-
hand combat got a big victory this
year when the Legislature and Mr.
Cuomo legalized mixed marital
arts. Now it seems that fans of
imaginary online head-to-head
battles may also prevail, as legislative leaders seem close to a deal
on making daily fantasy sports legal in the state, after New York’s
attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, effectively tackled the industry last fall. Mr. Cuomo, however, must still weigh in, though
the heavily advertised sites seem
likely to get back in business in
New York.
RIDE-HAILING APPS The start-ups
that revolutionized cab and livery
car service in New York City —
Uber and Lyft — have not yet been
able to spread their app-based
transportation across the state because of laws that prevent the
companies from buying group insurance for their drivers. There
are competing bills in the Senate
and the Assembly to allow such insurance, but details over the minimums required have been gumming up negotiations. As with
most issues, conversations between parties were continuing
over the weekend, though it is not
yet clear if there will be a deal that
the companies — which have
pushed hard to expand — can
NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
From left, Kelly Cummings, communications director for the New York State Senate Republicans; Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, the Independent Democratic Conference leader; and John J. Flanagan, the Republican Senate majority leader, in Albany on Thursday.
abide.
ETHICS Every year seems to be
“the year for real ethics reform” in
Albany. Until, of course, it is not.
That said, 2016 was not just any
year. It was closely preceded by
the federal corruption convictions
of two legislative leaders: the former Senate majority leader, Dean
G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican; and Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat and longtime
speaker of the Assembly. Both
men were sentenced to substantial prison terms even as the session dragged on, but even that
failed to produce a push for
sweeping ethics laws.
The lone point of agreement —
until a new push from the governor last week — seemed to be bills
to strip convicted lawmakers of
their pensions, though even that
has failed to pass both houses. The
governor’s idea for more disclosure on outside groups seems to
have some chance of becoming
law, and common ground on pensions might still be found, too.
But the bigger changes — such
as closing the so-called L.L.C.
loophole, which allows almost unchecked giving to political campaigns — will, like so many issues,
have to wait until next year. Or beyond.
A Game of Musical Chairs, Played With Schools, Divides Neighbors
From Page A16
deputy chancellor for operations,
said. Moving P.S. 452, she said,
“would allow an existing, strongly
community-supported school to
grow.” She said the department
was “in a very early stage of assessing this as one of the possible
options for moving forward.”
The proposal, to be discussed at
a zoning meeting at P.S. 452 on
Monday, has already been met
with a divided reaction.
The principal of P.S. 191, Lauren
Keville, supports the idea of moving to the new building.
“A new school building will
come with exciting new technology and expansive resources, so
we look forward to discussions
about this opportunity,” she said in
an email.
P.S. 452 would move 16 blocks,
from 77th Street to 61st Street.
While Mr. Parker, the principal,
and some parents support moving, since it would give the school
its own building, other parents
say that the longer commute
would deprive their children of the
benefits of attending a true neighborhood school, such as bumping
into classmates on the playground.
Brian Byrd said that his twins,
in first grade at P.S. 452, walked to
school with their friends, just as
he did growing up in New Jersey.
He said he was not sure whether
he would keep them in the school
if it relocated. He might move his
family to the Upper East Side.
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Public School 452 shares its building on the Upper West Side with two other schools. In a zoning
proposal by the city’s Education Department, it could get its own building, 16 blocks south.
“For us, it’s almost a 20-block
difference in an area that we have
no connection to, none whatsoever,” Mr. Byrd said.
Some believe that the opposition is about more than just the
commute. P.S. 191’s building is
across the street from a public
housing complex, where many of
its students live. If P.S. 452 moved
into that building, its new attendance zone would probably include
part of the complex.
Parents opposed to the move
have had to defend themselves
against the suggestion that they
oppose a change to the school’s
demographics.
“The thing is, I really do believe
in integration; I really do think ev-
ery child that goes to public school
deserves a good education and deserves to be safe and stable and all
of those things,” Sara Roucloux, a
member of the Parent-Teacher
Association at P.S. 452, said.
But she said she did not understand “why this little school on
77th Street” might be moved 16
blocks south.
Melissa Birnbaum, who has a
son and a daughter at the school,
said of those against the idea,
“They’re terrified what that would
look like if the school were to be in
that area abutting the projects.”
She said she supported the proposal.
But Scott Edelstein, who has
two sons at P.S. 452 and opposes
the relocation, said he did not
think that a high-performing
school could move into a poor area
and not change.
“My limited anecdotal understanding of American society is
that a school is ultimately and
eventually a reflection of its community,” he said.
“Who does a school belong to?”
Mr. Edelstein asked. “Does a
school belong to its principal?
Does it belong to its current faculty?”
“The only idea that makes any
sense to me personally is that a
school belongs to the neighborhood where it resides,” he said.
The meeting on Monday will be
held by the zoning committee for
the Community Education Council of District 3, which includes the
three schools. The council votes
on zone lines, but the building
moves would have to be approved
by the Panel for Educational Policy, a citywide body.
Mr. Parker, the principal of P.S.
452, said in an email: “While this
is only the beginning of the
process and no proposal was set
forth, we value that the D.O.E. is
evaluating ways that we can serve
the children of District 3.”
METROPOLITAN DIARY
D
EAR DIARY:
Dear Mrs. Sprat was
enormously fat,
Her hubby (the rat!) took a
powder.
She found some relief from her
gluttonous grief
In a bowl of Manhattan clam
chowder.
As it simmered and steamed,
she pondered and dreamed
Of the time when she might
become svelte.
“It’s unchic to be chubby, the
hell with my hubby,
And one day I just might wear
a belt.”
Oh, how firm, resolute, she
considered each glute,
“I’ll be pretty and lovely and
fair.”
So she went to the gym, took a
sauna, a swim,
And thus chiseled her huge
derrière.
She counted each carbo, was
losing her cargo,
She fasted, she cleansed and
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she juiced.
Getting slimmer and slimmer
and trimmer and trimmer,
Behold, Mrs. Sprat had
reduced!
But that was before a knock on
the door, Cousin Izzy was
there with a smile. “My,
you’re looking much thinner,
I’ll take you to dinner, How
’bout Katz’s, we’ll go kosher
style.”
The name made her blood flow,
that deli on Ludlow
Puts dieters into a coma.
It’s part the décor, and linoleum
floor,
And the punchy and pungent
aroma.
Her nostrils assaulted (how
could she be faulted?)
Pass up pastrami? Who’d risk
it?
The Kishke! The Kugel!
They’re still-lifes by
Brueghel.
Oh, the corned beef, the tongue
and the brisket!
She sweated and shivered, was
blintzed and chopped
livered,
Indulged every possible urge.
Enraptured, enthralled, egg
creamed, matzoh balled,
Such a sad and spontaneous
splurge.
For poor Mrs. Sprat once again
grew quite fat,
While swimming in dangerous
waters.
And oh my, Gott in himmel, the
great Yonah Schimmel,
She discovered as well Russ &
Daughters.
It isn’t ironic that restaurants
iconic,
Have fabulous treats here to
sell you.
When it comes to the fork,
there’s no place like New
York,
Just ask Mrs. Sprat and she’ll
tell you.
Lou Craft
Dear Diary:
I was in Chinatown on Sunday
shopping and saw for sale dried
bamboo leaves and balls of
string, and they reminded me,
“It’s springtime and time for
deung.”
Every Chinese person knows
about deung, mini-bricks of
sticky rice with meat or chicken,
Chinese sausage, egg yolk and
nuts wrapped in bamboo leaves,
tied with string and boiled. They
were good! Every spring, my
mom and her friends used to
make them in batches of more
than 100. They are a celebration
of spring and good harvest, made
by mothers’ caring hands with
love and given out to family and
friends to enjoy — like fruitcake
at Christmas, except deung are
actually eaten.
Sure enough, a little old lady is
on the sidewalk with a dozen
deung spread out in front of her
for sale. She says, “Buy them,
they taste very good.” I ask, How
much? She says $1.75, so I ask for
one.
“You can’t have just one,
they’re really good and very
pretty, you need two.” I agree to
two for $3.50 and pull out a $5
bill. She sees the bill and says,
“I’ll throw in another one —
three for $5 instead of $5.25.
O.K.?” and proceeds to put three
in a bag.
What could I say? I gave her
the $5 bill and took the three
deung. I am lucky she did not
talk me out of all the money in
my pockets.
With a little soy sauce, the
deung was good, but it did not
have the sausage or egg yolk of
Mom’s deung, and Mom’s had
more meat and tasted better. It
was not as good as Mom’s; it
seems nothing ever is. The old
lady was right. One was not
enough; I ate two. George Chung
Dear Diary:
Recently one morning, Shelley,
a co-worker, announced to me
the good news that she was
expecting. We exchanged the
usual congratulatory remarks
and questions.
Later that day in the elevator,
another co-worker asked if I had
heard Shelley’s “news.” I replied
that I did and that it was wonderful that she was pregnant.
My co-worker replied: “No,
not that. She’s seeing ‘Hamilton’
tonight.”
Rocco Staino
Dear Diary:
Setting: Bus stop; 57th and
First.
Cast: Small group waiting by
the curb.
Action: Car with a plumber’s
sign pulls a quick U-turn and
splashes through gutter water to
pull over by the bus stop. We all
jump back, but one woman doesn’t move fast enough, and her
leather pants are dripping.
She walks over to the car and
signals him to open the passenger window. The rest of us
watch, waiting for the explosion.
Instead, after an animated
conversation, a hand holding a
towel appears through the window, and she starts drying herself off.
A little more conversation, and
then she nods, opens the door
and gets in, apparently receiving
a chauffeured ride to work as an
apology.
I love this city.
Karen Raffensperger
Dear Diary:
On a summer day in 1984, my
wife was leaving the playground
in Central Park next to Tavern on
the Green with our 16-month-old
daughter. As she was about to
get into a taxi, the driver told her
that Muhammad Ali was standing, all alone, in front of the
restaurant. “I’ll watch the
stroller,” he said. “Go over to see
him.”
Ali’s face lit up when he saw
Emily; he took her in his arms
and gave her a kiss. My wife
asked if he would autograph a
note, and he wrote: “Dear Emily,
I hope to see you again someday
when you are all grown up and I
am an old man. Love, Muhammad Ali,” and a little smiley face.
Michael Zdyrko
Four people were killed in separate shootings across New York
City late Saturday and early Sunday, the police said.
The killings were a reminder of
the pockets of violence that exist
in the city, even as it has become
safer in recent years. Two of the
shootings, in the Bronx and in
East New York, Brooklyn, happened in police precincts that are
among the city’s deadliest.
No arrests had been made in
any of the killings as of Sunday
evening.
The first shooting was reported
shortly after 9:30 p.m. Saturday,
near the intersection of East 175th
Street and Monroe Avenue in the
Mount Hope section of the Bronx,
the police said. A man, identified
by the police as Marvin Harris,
was shot three times in the abdomen, and in an arm and a leg.
Mr. Harris, 32, was taken to
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center,
where he was pronounced dead,
the police said.
The police said that they had
suspects, and that it was unclear
what prompted the shooting. Police officials said Mr. Harris, who
lived about five miles away in the
Bronx, had an extensive arrest
history.
Less than an hour later, the police were called to the John Adams
Houses, a New York City Housing
Authority complex on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx, where
a 29-year-old woman was found
with a single gunshot wound to
the torso.
The police said the woman, Jessica White, was with a group of
about a dozen people in a courtyard behind one of the buildings
when a man wearing a black
sweatshirt and a ski mask approached them and opened fire.
Ms. White was taken to Lincoln
Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Later on Sunday,
the police released a photograph
from a surveillance camera of a
“person of interest” in the killing.
The shooting, which investigators believe was gang related, was
the ninth homicide recorded this
year in the 40th Precinct, an area
of the South Bronx where violence
has persisted.
Shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Sat-
As New York becomes
safer, a grim reminder
that pockets of
violence still exist.
urday, the police were called to
Rogers Place, near East 163rd
Street in the Bronx, where officers
found a 31-year-old man who had
been pushed from his wheelchair
and shot in the head during a dispute, the authorities said. The
man, Eric Oliver, was pronounced
dead at the scene.
Mr. Oliver had about 30 packets
of crack cocaine on him when he
was found, police officials said.
The police said he had a criminal
history. Mr. Oliver was paralyzed
in 2006 after he was shot in the
lower back.
On Sunday, around 3 a.m., the
police were called to Linwood
Street, near Hegeman Avenue, in
the East New York section of
Brooklyn, where they found two
men had been shot.
Those two and another man had
been sitting on a building’s front
stoop when gunshots were fired,
and they ran inside. A 22-year-old
was shot several times in the
lower body and a 32-year-old was
shot once in the left hand. Both
men were taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where the 22-year-old, whose
name has not been released, was
pronounced dead. The third man
was not injured.
The police said that the motivation for the killing was unclear and
that they did not have any information about suspects. Investigators found a “large quantity” of
marijuana and money inside the
home, a police spokesman said. At
least 10 other killings have been
recorded this year in the 75th
Precinct, which covers East New
York and is among the city’s most
violent, according to police
statistics.
Cereals to Cake Mixes
An Essay Contest
Using Compromised Computers
A Brand’s Archive
Win a Newspaper
Spying on Hackers
A reminder of how deeply
General Mills products are
ingrained in pop culture.
The longtime owner of a
small-town weekly in Vermont is
3
giving away the business.
The founders of a digital security
start-up are turning the tables on
5
attackers.
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Hedge Funds
Make Effort
To Retain
Investors
By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
Hedge fund titans once ran
their firms like elite private clubs,
picking who made it past the velvet rope and how much they
would pay for access to supercharged performance.
Years of poor performance have
now led a number of funds to consider something more like general
admission.
Some big-name investors —
MetLife, American International
Group and the New York City pension plan, among them — have recently begun to withdraw their
money from hedge funds in larger
numbers. And the investors who
stay are getting a chance to sit at
the negotiating table and dictate
lower fees and better terms for
sharing in the returns that managers make.
It’s an unusual position for
many hedge fund managers, who
as a group are not known for sharing well with others.
For decades, hedge funds operated on a “2 and 20” model:
Investors paid fees of 2 percent of
assets under management and 20
percent of any gain in any year.
When performance was good, the
founders of the biggest firms were
catapulted to the top of global
wealth rankings.
Now, in a bid to persuade
investors to stay, some managers
are sweetening the deal by lowering fees in return for locking up investor money for a longer period
of time and setting certain performance targets that if exceeded,
investors would pay a fee. For
newcomers, managers are even
offering the favorable terms once
exclusively offered to longtime
loyal clients.
“Managers are having to negotiate, and investors are demanding much more than they used to
in the absence of value,” said
Adam I. Taback, head of global alternative investments at Wells
Fargo
Investment
Institute.
“High fees are like an expensive
car,” he said. “It is fine as long as
Continued on Page 2
Cable Giants
Lobby Hard
To Forestall
F.C.C. Plans
By CECILIA KANG
WASHINGTON — In recent
weeks, staff members for Bobby
Rush, a Democratic congressman
from Illinois, have asked fellow
lawmakers to sign a letter opposing a Federal Communications
Commission proposal to limit how
broadband providers can share
users’ personal data.
Last month, 60 lawmakers
signed a separate letter voicing
their objections to an F.C.C. regulation that would open the market
for cable television set-top boxes.
What the actions have in common: the financial connections
and legwork of cable companies
like Comcast.
The National Cable and Telecommunications Association, an
industry lobbying group, said it
had edited the letter shared by Mr.
Rush’s staff. Cable industry lobbyists also helped gather the 60 signatures on the set-top-box letter;
nearly all of the lawmakers who
signed count cable and telecom
companies as top campaign donors, according to federal disclosures.
The behind-the-scenes activity
by cable companies and their industry groups is part of the biggest lobbying push by the $115 billion industry in Washington since
2009, when the government drew
up its net neutrality rules. These
days, the cable and telecom industries are hiring more lobbyists, issuing warnings that they may sue
federal agencies, and making
speeches and writing scathing
blog posts about policy makers.
The trigger? A string of proContinued on Page 5
Standing Up to Sports Inc., on Any Given Wednesday
LOS ANGELES — Corporate media
giants always want what’s cool and
edgy until what’s cool and edgy
threatens the status quo that keeps the
billions flooding in.
The comedian Bill
Maher was the textbook
case for the bygone era of
the 100-channel universe,
after ABC bought his hit
MEDIATOR
show, “Politically Incorrect,” away from Comedy Central.
Just after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Maher said that it was wrong
to refer to the hijackers as cowards, and
JIM
RUTENBERG
that the United States was more cowardly for its strategy of going after
enemies with cruise missiles from afar.
The White House denounced him,
advertisers and affiliates flipped out,
and a few months later ABC cut him
loose. HBO swept in to give him a commercial-free home where he continues
to joke, inform and offend to this day.
I headed west last week to investigate what looked to me like a modernday version of the Maher tale, involving
something more powerful than the
White House: the National Football
League.
In this case, our protagonist, Bill
Simmons, is not a bitingly funny comedian, but a bitingly influential
sportswriter and commentator, who for
14 years was one of ESPN’s biggest
stars.
ESPN, which spends some $1.9 billion
a year for N.F.L. rights, let Mr. Simmons go last year, after he repeatedly,
and colorfully, criticized Roger Goodell,
the N.F.L. commissioner, over his handling of two embarrassing scandals —
the New England Patriots’ alleged
cheating case, known as “Deflategate,”
and the league’s lackluster domestic
violence investigation of the Baltimore
Ravens running back Ray Rice.
Once again, HBO swept in, giving Mr.
Simmons a new talk show about sports
and pop culture called “Any Given
Wednesday” that makes its debut on
June 22. And this month Mr. Simmons
introduced his new multimedia company, The Ringer, whose main site is
inspired by the well-regarded sports
and pop culture hub he founded at
ESPN, Grantland, and features much of
its main editorial team.
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JESSE DITTMAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Gawker’s Top Lawyer Steps Up
President and General Counsel
Guides a Company in Turmoil
By SYDNEY EMBER
Heather Dietrick, Gawker Media’s
president and general counsel, has always been close to her 90-year-old
grandfather, a prisoner of war during
World War II who, she said, “has taught
me a lot about fielding a lot of situations.”
She still wears his vocational high
school class ring from 1943 as a reminder
that people can get through anything if
they are resilient.
It’s the kind of inspiration that has
helped Ms. Dietrick make it through the
last 11 months at Gawker. They have been
tumultuous, perhaps never more so than
last Friday at noon at the company’s
Manhattan offices.
Ms. Dietrick said in an interview over
the weekend that after taking a few moments to collect her thoughts, she joined
Nick Denton, Gawker’s founder and
chief executive, at a companywide meeting. There they told some 200 employees
that Gawker, facing a $140 million judgment from a lawsuit by the retired
wrestler Hulk Hogan, had filed for bank-
ruptcy and was putting itself up for sale.
As she stood beside Mr. Denton and
delivered the news, Ms. Dietrick said,
she looked at her audience. “I could tell
there was initial shock, seeing everyone
and looking them in the eyes.”
Ms. Dietrick and Mr. Denton spent
much of the 90-minute meeting answering questions and assuring the employees that the company planned to
continue its operations during its bankruptcy. As has recently become customary, Ms. Dietrick did most of the talking.
Since joining Gawker three years ago,
Ms. Dietrick, 35, has become the main
Continued on Page 4
Heather Dietrick
of Gawker Media, which said
on Friday it had
filed for bankruptcy and
would put itself
up for sale.
Walgreens Cuts Theranos Ties
With Plans to Close Test Centers
By REED ABELSON
and ANDREW POLLACK
Walgreens said on Sunday that it was
terminating its relationship with Theranos, dealing a severe blow to the embattled blood testing company. Walgreens
said it would immediately close all 40 of
the Theranos testing centers in its Arizona drugstores, the source of most of
Theranos’s customers.
The giant retailer, a part of the Walgreens Boots Alliance, played a critical
role in Theranos’s early success.
Founded by Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout, the company
promised to revolutionize the lab industry by being able to offer blood tests
through a simple finger prick at a fraction of the cost of conventional testing.
But Theranos has run into a relentless
barrage of negative publicity and regulatory scrutiny, and Walgreens has sought
to extricate itself from its relationship
with the Silicon Valley start-up. Federal
officials identified serious problems at
Theranos’s flagship lab in California,
causing Walgreens to halt testing done
there in January. Last month the company said it would void or correct tens of
thousands of test results from prior
years. The 40 Arizona locations remained open while Walgreens awaited
regulators’ final decision, which included
whether to ban Ms. Holmes from the industry for two years.
While regulators have not yet made a
final determination, Walgreens appears
to have lost patience.
“In light of the voiding of a number of
test results, and as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has rejected
Theranos’s plan of correction and considers sanctions, we have carefully considered our relationship with Theranos and
believe it is in our customers’ best interests to terminate our partnership,” Brad
Fluegel, senior vice president of Walgreens, said in a company statement.
Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for
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DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
New Chapter for Paris Bookstore: Books on Demand
Librairie des Puf, which shut about 10 years ago because of falling profits
and soaring rent, has a new location and business model: books printed before customers’ eyes in five minutes. “We’re completely revising the chain of
book production because we’re a bookseller, a publisher, a printer and also a
distributor,” said Alexandre Gaudefroy, Les Puf’s director. B3.
B2
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Hedge Funds Make Effort to Retain Investors
From First Business Page
you’re getting performance out of
it.”
In recent years, investor criticism of hedge fund underperformance against a roaring stock market was met with frustration by
managers who complained that
investors couldn’t have their cake
and eat it, too. A hedge fund manager’s job was to protect in down
years but not outperform in good
years, the industry argued. But
when markets began to fall last
summer, so did hedge fund returns, rendering the point moot
for many investors.
Over the last 18 months some of
the best-known managers — including William A. Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management and Larry Robbins of Glenview Capital Management — have
consistently lost money. Others
that made bets on macroeconomic
trends were caught off guard by
wrong-footed bets and had to
shutter their firms.
And many hedge fund managers found themselves crowded in
the same stock. That meant big returns as everyone piled in but
even bigger declines when everyone sold out.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, for example, was one of
the most popular stocks held by
hedge funds in 2015, and its stock
price soared to more than $260 a
share at one point. But when news
of a government investigation
came to light and issues with the
company’s pricing strategy became apparent, the stock came
crashing down. On Friday,
Valeant’s shares closed at a low of
$24.
Mr. Ackman, who has been
Valeant’s biggest cheerleader, has
lost billions of dollars so far on his
bet on the company. His Pershing
Square Holdings is down 17.5 percent so far this year through June
7, in large part because of the
Valeant position.
Other hedge fund titans including Paulson & Company and
Viking Global Investors have collectively lost billions of dollars on
the Valeant trade.
“I see the herd mentality among
hedge funds every day,” Roslyn
Zhang, a managing director at
China Investment Corporation,
China’s sovereign wealth fund,
said at the SkyBridge Alternatives, or SALT, hedge fund conference in Las Vegas last month. Describing how some funds spend
“two seconds” on one theme be-
THE WEEK AHEAD
Apple to Woo Developers
And Fed to Hold Meeting
TECHNOLOGY
Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco
Apple will hold its annual conference for software developers on
Monday, previewing new features that will be in the next version of
the operating systems powering its devices. Sales of Apple’s biggest
product, the iPhone, are slowing, and there has been little in recent
months to excite consumers. The company is likely to show off a new
version of Apple Music, its streaming music subscription service,
and new photo-editing features.
Apple is also trying to improve its sometimes testy relationship with
developers. One big announcement geared to that crowd:
Developers will be able to use Siri, the company’s voice-activated
digital assistant, within their apps. Developers are also expecting the
company to finally offer Apple Pay to online retailers as a checkout
method for their websites. The digital payment service is currently
restricted to physical stores and apps, where it has gotten a lukewarm response. But the ability to pay on the web with a thumbprint
would be more convenient, which could drive wider use. VINDU GOEL
BANKING INDUSTRY
Libyan Suit Against Goldman Opening in London
MICHAEL NAGLE/BLOOMBERG
Big-name investors like MetLife have recently begun to withdraw their money from hedge funds.
As funds continue to
falter, managers
negotiate to meet
investor demands.
fore deciding to put investor
money behind the idea, she added: “We pay 2 and 20 for treatment like this. I am reflecting that
maybe we are not making the
right decision.”
All of this has prompted some
self-reflection within the industry.
“We are in the first innings of a
washout in hedge funds,” Daniel S.
Loeb, the founder of the hedge
fund Third Point, wrote to
investors in a recent letter, describing a “catastrophic period”
for the industry.
But for some investors, acknowledgment of poor performance is not enough. In September
2014, the nation’s biggest pension
fund, the California Public
Employees’ Retirement System,
or Calpers, announced plans to
liquidate its $4 billion hedge fund
holdings on concerns that the investments were too expensive
and too complicated. In April this
year, the pension fund for New
York City civil employees voted to
exit its portfolio of $1.5 billion in
hedge fund investments.
Some insurance companies
have shown their displeasure, too.
“We had a very negative experience in hedge funds,” Peter D.
Hancock, the chief executive of
A.I.G., told investors earlier this
year. The insurance group plans to
pull about half of its $11 billion in
hedge fund holdings.
MetLife, another insurance giant that has roughly $1.8 billion invested in hedge funds, has been
sending out redemption requests
to those managers. Steven
Goulart, its chief investment officer, recently told shareholders
that the exit was prompted by inconsistent performance. The market environment will “continue to
be challenging for hedge funds,”
he added.
Investors pulled $15.1 billion
from the industry in the first quarter of the year. But these exits are
a drop in the ocean compared with
the $2.9 trillion the industry manages. Other institutional investors, meanwhile, continue to
pump money in.
Still, the pressure is mounting.
“Now the fact that people are
willing to cut, you’re going to see
pressure on managers who are
not at the top of the pyramid are
going to have to cut,” said Mark W.
Yusko, the chief investment officer of Morgan Creek Capital.
In a move that is largely unheard-of in the industry, Mr. Robbins recently apologized to investors in an attempt to stem the outflow of investor money from his
firm. He pledged to “right the ship
as quickly as possible” and even
offered investors the opportunity
to put more money into a new fund
that would waive fees.
Mr. Robbins has continued to
lose money this year. Investors in
his flagship fund have lost 6.5 percent as of the end of May. So Mr.
Robbins is now offering more favorable redemption terms, allowing existing investors that add
more money into the fund to step
into the shoes of investors that
have left, according to three people briefed on the firm’s plans who
were not authorized to speak publicly about them.
As long as performance continues to lag, hedge funds will be
scrutinized and hedge fund giants
will be at a disadvantage.
David Rubenstein, the billionaire co-founder of the private equity firm Carlyle Group, perhaps
summed up the sentiment best
when he told an audience of
money managers at the SALT conference in May, “Please don’t be
embarrassed about the industry.”
In case there was any hesitation, Mr. Rubenstein added: “We
shouldn’t be upset about what we
do. We should be proud.”
The Libyan Investment Authority, the country’s sovereign wealth
fund, is expected to face Goldman Sachs in a London court beginning
on Monday in a dispute over $1.2 billion in derivative transactions it
purchased in 2008. In its lawsuit, the Libyan fund claims that the
transactions were rendered worthless during the financial crisis, but
Goldman still earned $350 million in profit. CHAD BRAY
JAE C. HONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, opens Tuesday.
TECHNOLOGY
A Quieter Games Convention
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, video game convention
in Los Angeles is usually the most cacophonous of trade shows,
where lots of earsplitting new games debut. But the event that begins
on Tuesday will be a little less deafening than normal. Major game
publishers like Activision and Electronic Arts have decided not to
exhibit on the show floor this year; instead, Electronic Arts held its
own expo nearby on Sunday. Nintendo has already told fans not to
expect to see its next-generation game console, code-named NX, at
E3. Still, Sony and Microsoft will hold events on Monday showcasing
the games coming to their consoles. Analysts are also expecting the
companies to announce updated versions of their existing consoles,
the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. NICK WINGFIELD
RETAIL INDUSTRY
Treasury Auctions
Set for This Week
The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week includes Monday’s regular weekly auction of
new three- and six-month bills
and an auction of four-week bills
on Tuesday.
At the close of the New York
cash market on Friday, the rate on
the outstanding three-month bill
was 0.26 percent. The rate on the
six-month issue was 0.41 percent,
and the rate on the four-week issue was 0.19 percent.
The following tax-exempt fixedincome issues are scheduled for
pricing this week:
TUESDAY
Chesterfield County, Va., $90.1 million of
general obligation bonds. Competitive.
Memphis, $68 million of general obligation
bonds. Competitive.
Union County, N.J., $63 million of general
obligation bonds. Competitive.
WEDNESDAY
Frederick County, Md., $90 million of general
obligation bonds. Competitive.
THURSDAY
Chesterfield County Water and Sewer, Va., $56
million of revenue bonds. Competitive.
Illinois, $550 million of general obligation
bonds. Competitive.
Monroe, N.Y., $55.4 million of general obligation bonds. Competitive.
Orange County, Fla., $63.3 million of revenue
bonds. Competitive.
ONE DAY DURING THE WEEK
THE ETERNAL MOVEMENT
Ulysse Nardin, from the movement of the sea
to the perpetual innovation of Haute Horlogerie.
For over 170 years, the powerful movement of the
oVean has inþired Ulysse Nardin in its singular
quest: to push back the limits of mechanical
watchmaking, time and time again.
Marine Chronometer
60 hours power reserve
Felf winding manufaÿure
Silicium technology
ulysse-nardin.com
Alameda County, Calif., Peralta Community
College District, $155 million of general obligation
bonds. Citigroup Global Markets.
California Infrastructure and Economic
Development Bank, $138.4 million of revolving
fund revenue bonds. J. P. Morgan Securities.
California, Lancaster Successor Agency, $51.8
million of redevelopment project refinancing
bonds. Hilltop Securities.
California, Santa Cruz County Redevelopment,
$47.6 million of tax allocation refinancing bonds.
Stifel Nicolaus.
Connecticut, South Central Connecticut
Regional Water Authority, $123.5 million of water
system revenue bonds. Janney Montgomery Scott.
Cook County, Ill., $300 million of general
obligation refinancing bonds. Barclays Capital.
Dutchess County, N.Y., Local Development
Corporation, $378 million of health systems project
revenue refinancing bonds, Bank of America
Merrill Lynch.
Idaho Health Facilities Authority, $45 million
of revenue refinancing bonds. Piper Jaffray.
Idaho, Red River Educational Health Facilities, $74.7 million of revenue bonds. Piper Jaffray.
Indiana, Hobart Building Corporation, $67.2
million of mortgage refinancing bonds. City
Securities Corporation.
Maryland Economic Development Corporation, $333 million of light rail project revenue
bonds, J. P. Morgan Securities.
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority,
$375 million of system revenue refinancing bonds,
J. P. Morgan Securities.
New Jersey, Housing Authority of the City of
Newark, $57 million of police facility revenue
refinancing bonds. Morgan Stanley.
New York State Environmental Facilities
Corporation, $497.5 million of clean water and
drinking water revenue bonds. Goldman Sachs.
Oregon, Klamath Intercommunity Hospital
Authority, $50 million of revenue refinancing
bonds. Piper Jaffray.
Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, $42.3
million of airport revenue bonds. Raymond James
& Associates.
Snohomish County, Wash., Lake Stevens
School District, $70.5 million of general obligation
bonds. D. A. Davidson.
Spokane, Wash., Central Valley School
District, $40.5 million of unlimited tax general
obligation bonds.
Texas, Arlington Higher Education Finance
Corporation, $43.2 million of education revenue
bonds. Robert W. Baird.
Texas, Waco Independent School District, $48.5
million of unlimited tax refinancing bonds.
Oppenheimer.
Tucson, Ariz., $44 million of general obligation
bonds. Morgan Stanley.
Utah County, Utah, $57.3 million of hospital
revenue refinancing bonds. Wells Fargo Securities.
Utah, Jordan Valley Water Conservancy, $64.3
million of water revenue bonds. George K. Baum.
Consumer Spending Numbers for May
Retail sales data for the United States, due on Tuesday, is expected to
show a rise in consumer spending for May. Still, it probably will not
be as robust as in April, when spending rose to the highest levels in
more than a year. RACHEL ABRAMS
MARKETS
China Awaits Word on Inclusion in MSCI
Financial policy makers in China will be hoping their languid stock
markets get a vote of confidence on Wednesday (Tuesday evening in
New York), when a decision on whether to include domestic Chinese
shares in a major global stock index is to be announced. The MSCI
emerging markets index, a benchmark tracked by hundreds of billions of dollars in investment funds around the world, is set to announce the results of an annual review on whether to include stocks
listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen for the first time. Even though it is
the world’s second-biggest by market value, China’s domestic share
market remains only partly open to foreign investors, and values
have remained depressed since the government bungled a stock
bailout attempt last summer. NEIL GOUGH
ECONOMY
Fed Continues to Mull Raising Interest Rates
Federal Reserve officials drained much of the drama from their
scheduled meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday by making clear in
recent days they are once again postponing any increase in the Fed’s
benchmark interest rate. But there still will be substance: In addition to the post-meeting policy statement, the Fed will release a fresh
batch of economic projections, and the Fed’s chairwoman, Janet L.
Yellen, is scheduled to hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. The looming question is whether the Fed will raise rates this
summer. Fed officials are likely to debate whether the recent slowdown in job growth indicates that their mission of restoring the
health of the labor market is largely accomplished, or a more worrisome sign of fresh economic weakness. BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
May’s Industrial Production Data
On Wednesday, at 9:15 a.m., the Federal Reserve will report data for
industrial production in May. After industrial production rose 0.7 percent in April, economists are expecting to see a slight decline for last
month, with the sector facing headwinds from depressed mining and
drilling, lagging overseas demand for manufactured goods and adverse weather in parts of the United States. NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
Clothing on display last month at a store in Manhattan.
Labor Department to Report on Consumer Prices
On Thursday, at 8:30 a.m., the Labor Department will release data on
consumer prices in May. Economists are expecting to see a 0.3 percent increase in overall consumer prices, with a 0.2 percent rise in
the less volatile core Consumer Price Index. Inflation remains tame,
with a likely increase in May driven, in part, by higher gasoline
prices recently. NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
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B3
MEDIA
ADVERTISING
When the Lone Ranger and Gracie Allen Pitched Sponsors’ Products
By PAT BORZI
MINNEAPOLIS — On a recent episode of his late-night
show, Stephen Colbert poured
himself a bowl of Lucky Charms
cereal and then doused it in
Baileys Irish Cream, jokingly
referring to the concoction as an
Irish continental breakfast.
Then Mr. Colbert’s first guest,
Tom Hanks, demanded his own
bowl, sarcastically noting that it
was “not exactly the ‘breakfast
of champions,’ ” a reference to
the decades-old slogan for
Wheaties.
The sequence delighted officials and employees at General
Mills, which makes both Lucky
Charms and Wheaties, among
other products.
“It was organic,” said Bridget
Christenson, communications
manager for General Mills, noting that the company has no
commercial arrangement with
Mr. Colbert or his show.
The gag recalled mid-20thcentury radio and television
advertising, when companies like
General Mills owned or sponsored programs as vehicles to
pitch their products. Often, the
show’s stars did the pitching.
When Gracie Allen struggled to
bake a cake on “The George
Burns and Gracie Allen Show” in
the 1950s, an actress playing
Betty Crocker stopped by to help.
The Lone Ranger endorsed
Cheerios, which sponsored that
TV show from 1949 to 1957, and
children were encouraged to
send away for promotional products like toy guns and miniature
cowboys and Indians.
It also illustrated how deeply
many of General Mills’ products
— and even some of its marketing slogans — have become
ingrained in pop culture consciousness.
“To me, a great brand is a
story told well, and a lot of Gen-
eral Mills’ portfolio has done just
that,” said Dean Crutchfield, a
branding expert in New York.
“Their products have given a
lot of children joy,” he said.
“We’re engaged in the product,”
he added, and have “allowed
them to become part of our lives.
That’s been the tremendous
effect of General Mills, right
across its portfolio.”
By 1980, General Mills had
accumulated so much brand
memorabilia that the company
established an archive at its
headquarters, in Golden Valley,
Minn. The archive grew with the
2001 purchase of Pillsbury, a
Minneapolis milling rival with its
own rich marketing history.
Several years ago, General Mills
moved the archive to a former
Pillsbury building in Minneapolis
near the Mississippi River, not
far from the site of its first flour
mill.
The archive, which is closed to
the public, houses thousands of
artifacts in about 3,000 square
feet of temperature- and humidity-controlled space. In honor of
the company’s 150th anniversary,
General Mills made selected
items from the archive available
to members of the news media.
Among the photos, packaging
and promotional items are an
early rendering of the character
Betty Crocker, who was created
in 1921 to answer consumers’
baking questions; cookbooks
from the 1880s, when General
Mills was known as the Washburn Crosby Company; some of
the first clay animation models of
Poppin’ Fresh, the Pillsbury
Doughboy; and a box of
Cheerioats, the original name of
Cheerios. The name was
changed in 1945 to settle a trademark lawsuit.
“I’ve been here 20 months,”
said the corporate archivist,
Jessica Faucher. “It’s hard to
memorize 150 years of history.”
TIM GRUBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Betty Crocker, left, as painted by Norman Rockwell. Above, the
Pillsbury Doughboy. For its 150th anniversary, General Mills
highlighted its brands’ impact on pop culture.
Ms. Faucher said consumers
and longtime employees had
contributed some items to the
collection and archivists had
discovered others on eBay. Three
shelves contain two copies of
virtually every printing of the
Betty Crocker cookbook since
1950. The book is known as “big
red” for the original’s color and
thickness.
One item not in the collection:
the gold medal that Gold Medal
flour is named for, won at the
first Millers International Exhibition in 1880. Washburn
Crosby swept all three medals in
the contest, but the gold and
bronze ones disappeared in the
1890s. The silver medal remains
in the archive.
“The legend goes that a couple
of executives checked them out,
took them to an international
exhibition, and they never came
back,” said Thomas Forsythe,
chief communications officer for
General Mills, who also oversees
the archive. “I’m convinced the
gold medal is in someone’s attic
or someone’s jewelry box. Somebody is going to see it, say,
‘What’s that?’ and contact us.”
Many artifacts illustrate how
marketing and advertising have
evolved. Wheaties made its
debut as Washburn’s Gold Medal
Whole Wheat Flakes in 1922, only
to be renamed two years later in
a companywide contest.
Washburn Crosby hired a
quartet to sing an early commercial jingle, “Have You Tried
Wheaties?,” live on the company’s radio station, WCCO, in 1926.
Write an Essay, and You Can Own
My Newspaper, Vermont Man Says
By CHRISTOPHER MELE
The owner of a weekly newspaper in Vermont wanted someone
to take over the business that had
been his life’s passion for the last
30 years.
His wife, with whom he bought
the paper and who served as copublisher, died after a prolonged
fight with cancer in 2011. Their
only child, a son, pursued a career
in wildlife conservation. And efforts off and on over two years to
sell the paper, The Hardwick Gazette, were unsuccessful.
So the owner, Ross Connelly,
struck on an idea.
On Wednesday, he announced
an essay contest with a unique
prize: the newspaper itself.
Mr. Connelly, who began working in newspapers after a career
in social services and management, and his wife, Susan Jarzyna,
who had a background in graphic
arts, bought the broadsheet newspaper in 1986.
Mr. Connelly, who turned 71 on
Saturday, said he had the passion
but lacked the energy to keep up
with the 60-hour workweeks demanded by the newspaper, which
has a circulation of 2,200. As editor and publisher, he is the paper’s
jack-of-all-trades: He sells ads,
pays the bills, edits and assigns
articles, and empties the trash.
He spoke passionately of the
role The Gazette serves in delivering news and information to Hardwick, which is about 60 miles east
of Burlington, Vt., and nine other
towns in northeastern Vermont
that are mostly rural and agricultural, with pockets of poverty.
“Just because we’re not in the
mainstream and not covering the
national stories does not mean
what we’re doing is not important,” he said in an interview on
Wednesday. “I feel strongly that a
newspaper is a critical building
block for our democracy.”
The newspaper, which is 127
years old, features the traditional
coverage of birth announcements,
the police blotter, obituaries, high
school sports and community
news. But it has also included
hard-hitting articles about the embezzlement of public money and a
scandal that led to a seven-year
prison sentence for a bank’s chief
executive.
If the essay contest is success-
ful, it could become a model that
other aging newspaper owners
might emulate, Chad Stebbins, executive director of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, said in an email.
“The back roads of America are
full of newspaper publishers well
into their late 60s and early 70s,”
he said. “Often, they stay on the
job with little hope of finding a
suitable replacement.”
Andrew Leckey, the president
of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism in Phoenix, said on
Wednesday that the essay contest
was a unique sales approach,
which he described as: “Take my
newspaper. Please.”
That The Gazette was for sale
and yielded no firm offers shows
the financial pressures facing the
industry, which has been plagued
by advertising losses and circulation erosion, he said.
Mike Donoghue, the executive
director of the Vermont Press Association, said that years ago,
when newspapers were more financially flush, “more people
would have jumped” at the chance
to buy The Gazette.
(The call letters stand for Washburn Crosby Company.) So-called
Wheaties quartets were hired
later in other cities. In 1934, Lou
Gehrig was the first athlete
featured on a Wheaties box —
though he appeared on the back.
Through its sponsorship of
radio programs like the “Betty
Crocker Cooking School of the
Air” and one of the earliest soap
operas, “Betty and Bob,” General
Mills introduced its products
from coast to coast. Programs
often began on WCCO before
being syndicated nationally, Mr.
Forsythe said.
The Betty Crocker program
ran on the radio for 27 years
before moving to television,
where the actress Adelaide Hawley played Betty. (It was Ms.
Hawley who offered Ms. Allen a
hand in the kitchen.) General
Mills later sponsored cartoons,
notably “Rocky and His Friends”
and “The Bullwinkle Show” from
1959 to 1964. In a nod to the company’s roots, Rocky and Bullwinkle lived in the fictitious Frostbite Falls, Minn.
“You and I watch TV, and
every 15 minutes we’re assaulted
with commercials,” said Mary
Zalla, an executive at Landor
Associates, a branding and design firm in Cincinnati. “Do you
ever associate those brands with
the show you’re watching? You
don’t. It’s just an interruption.
Before, those brands were so
closely tied with the TV shows
and the talent surrounding them
that it gave those brands an
incredible start.”
Decades later, many still endure. Tacked to a bulletin board
near Ms. Faucher’s desk is a
testament to the lasting impact
of the most iconic General Mills
character. It is a life insurance
solicitation, addressed to Mrs. B.
Crocker.
A hot lead monotype machine
at The Hardwick Gazette, a
weekly broadsheet newspaper
in Hardwick, Vt.
THE HARDWICK GAZETTE
He said the paper, which is one
of four dozen nondaily newspapers in Vermont, was well regarded and had won numerous
journalism awards.
The newspaper, which has two
full-time employees, including Mr.
Connelly, three part-time workers
and a corps of correspondents,
grossed $240,000 last year. It is
free of liens or a mortgage. The
contest winner would receive the
newspaper’s building, its furniture and fixtures, and all the materials needed to run the business.
Among the things a winner
would not get: “Any guarantees
(this is the news business and it
changes every day),” the contest
rules said.
Mr. Connelly said his efforts
over two years to sell drew a number of “tire kickers” but no firm offers. He said inspiration for the
contest came from the owner of a
bed-and-breakfast in Maine, who
relied on such an approach in 2015
to unload her business. While
such contests have proved a headache for others, Mr. Connelly
hopes to avoid such pitfalls.
He had a lawyer vet the contest
rules and plans to have a panel of
seven or nine people, including
journalism professors and members of the community, review the
essays.
Mr. Connelly said he was seeking a minimum of 700 submissions; the maximum that will be
accepted is 1,889. The entry fee is
$175, meaning a potential to net at
least $122,500. The contest began
on Saturday and lasts until Aug. 11.
Under the rules, he can extend the
contest by two months.
Essays can be up to 400 words
and must describe “the entrant’s
skills and vision for owning a paid
weekly newspaper in the new millennium,” according to the contest
rules.
The newspaper does hew to
some old-fashioned ways of doing
things. For instance, The Gazette
has no website and contest submissions must be sent by mail. Mr.
Connelly said he would provide
guidance during the transition to
a new owner, but he was not sure if
he would remain in Vermont.
“People say, ‘What are you going to do?’ ” he said. “I can fantasize about what I want to do, but I
know what I need to do is focus on
getting next week’s paper out.”
Mr. Leckey said the search for a
new owner, the effort to keep the
newspaper thriving and the promotion of the value it has in the
community had all the hallmarks
of a Frank Capra movie.
“It’s a fairy tale that, hopefully,
may come true,” he said.
New Chapter for Classic Paris Bookstore: Books Printed on Demand in Minutes
By CIARA NUGENT
PARIS — Gauthier Charrier, a
graphic design student, stepped
inside one of Paris’s newest bookstores and wondered, “Where are
all the books?”
“I saw this empty, open space —
just a couple of stools — and I wondered, ‘Did someone mess up?’”
Mr. Charrier, 20, said.
No one messed up.
The pronounced stock shortage
inside the Librairie des Puf, run by
the publisher University Press of
France, or Les Puf for short, is not
the result of an ordering mistake,
but the heart of the shop’s business model.
There are books, but they are
not delivered in advance from
wholesalers. They are printed on
request, before the customer’s
very eyes, on an Espresso Book
Machine. On Demand Books, the
American company that manufactures the machine, chose the
name as a nod to an activity you
can complete in the five minutes it
takes to print a book: Have a quick
coffee.
Labeled, not so modestly, the
“Gutenberg press of the 21st century” by its creators, the machine
sits in a back corner of the shop,
humming as it turns PDFs into paperbacks. Customers use tablets
to select the titles for print — adding, if they want to, their own
handwritten inscriptions — while
sipping coffee in the light and airy
storefront in the Latin Quarter of
Paris. “The customers are all surprised,” said the shop’s director,
Alexandre Gaudefroy. “At first,
they’re a little uncomfortable with
the tablets. After all, you come to a
bookshop to look at books. But
thanks to the machine and the
tablets, the customer holds a
digital library in their hands.”
From a business standpoint, Mr.
Gaudefroy said, “I don’t have to
worry about space for the stock.
We’re in a space which measures
less than 80 meters squared, and I
can offer readers as many titles as
I want.” And that is a lot of titles.
All 5,000 books published by Les
Puf are available, as well as an additional three million books compiled by On Demand Books, including titles from 10 large American publishers and the public domain.
Les Puf’s prestige in the industry has helped it secure even more
titles — a group of French publishers are expected to hand over
PDFs of their titles in a few weeks.
“What’s really exciting is that,
thanks to the on-demand model,
we can revive old titles, which we
previously hadn’t bothered with
because they’d only sell five or 10
copies in a year,” Mr. Gaudefroy
said. “On-demand, it’s a new economy for us.”
About 2,000 out-of-print Puf titles will be made available to
customers in the coming months,
Mr. Gaudefroy said. “We’re completely revising the chain of book
Soaring rent and
falling profit closed
Librairie des Puf, but
the tide is shifting.
production because we’re a bookseller, a publisher, a printer and
also a distributor,” he said.
It is a radical reinvention of a
store that first opened its doors in
1921. The original Librairie des Puf
occupied a far larger, multilevel
space in the corner of Place de la
Sorbonne, and had packed window displays and a bustling intellectual crowd from nearby universities. It was long a cultural and
academic symbol, until it was
forced to close because of falling
profits and soaring rents. Then,
about 10 years ago, the site was
sold to a men’s-clothing chain,
much to the chagrin of locals.
But its closing was no exception. From 2000 to 2014, 28 percent
of Paris bookstores closed, according to a 2015 report from the
Paris Urban Planning Agency, a
body assembled by the City Council in 1967 to chart social and economic evolution in the French
capital. Crippling rent increases in
Paris’s densely populated center
were mostly to blame, as well as
growing competition from e-commerce sites that are able to offer
far more titles than a cramped city
bookstore. The decline in sales of
newspapers and magazines also
contributed, since these are often
sold alongside books in French
bookstores.
The Latin Quarter, which has
the highest concentration of bookshops in the city, was among the
worst-hit areas. In an effort to protect the neighborhood’s unique
character — and prevent so-called
blandification — the Paris City
Council in 2008 made it the center
of its Vital’Quartier program. The
program buys retail spaces across
Paris, renovates them and rents
them to small culturally significant enterprises at far below market rates. Les Puf was leased one
of these spaces on Rue Monsieurle-Prince, allowing it to reopen in
March just a few blocks from
where it closed.
“We’re already thinking about
opening in other big cities in
France — in university towns like
Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon,” Mr.
Gaudefroy said. “After a few
weeks of business, there’s a real
commercial motivation for doing
so because, well, we’re selling a lot
of books. A lot more than predicted. We thought we’d sell 10, 15
books in a day, but it’s been more
like 30 or 40.”
“It’s an investment, but if it’s
well managed, it can be very profitable,” Mr. Gaudefroy said. Along
with the low rent for its space and
the elimination of the cost of over-
producing books, Les Puf benefits
from an affordable two-year lease
on the Espresso Book Machine
from the French printing association Ireneo. And France’s fixedbook pricing law, which prohibits
anyone from selling books at a discount, means Les Puf can charge
the prices set by the publishers. “A
lot of publishers I know are interested in the idea, especially when
we tell them how little it costs us,”
Mr. Gaudefroy said.
So far, the store has relied on
foot traffic and the pull of the machine’s
novelty
to
draw
customers, but a social media and
leafleting campaign aimed at students — Les Puf’s original demographic — is planned.
Les Puf’s success is not an
anomaly. Times are still tough for
brick-and-mortar shops, but signs
of a recovery are widespread. In
the United States, sales in physical bookstores rose by 2.5 percent
last year, the first increase since
2007. In Britain, the largest chain
bookseller, Waterstones, announced a return to profitability at
the end of last year after the arrival of the indie book-selling success
story James Daunt as managing
director.
Mr. Daunt decentralized control
of the chain’s 275 stores, encouraging individual managers to
modify their stores’ layouts for the
local book-buying audience, thus
scrapping an ingrained industry
practice that had effectively al-
lowed publishers to dictate which
books appeared in best-seller sections.
Independent bookstores, too,
are beginning to carve a path out
of their business’s decade of decline.
“Bookshops are starting to do
lots of little innovative things and
getting people to come back into
them,” said Nick Brackenbury, a
founder of NearSt, a mobile application created in London that is
encouraging customers to return
to their local stores.
For many bookstores that have
the space, like Gogol & Company
in Milan, La Fugitiva in Madrid
and Java Bookshop in Amsterdam, remaking themselves as hybrid bookstore-coffee shops has
become a reliable way to attract
customers. Other shops are emphasizing something unavailable
online — the experience of visiting
a bookstore.
Mr. Brackenbury and his team
are allowing bookstores to innovate on a more fundamental level:
convenience. NearSt aims to help
local shops adapt to the needs of
the modern customers by making
local shop inventories “shoppable” from a smartphone, allowing customers to search for titles,
find local stores that sell them and
see routes there. “We just want local stores to be able to offer
customers something which is
just better than Amazon,” Mr.
Brackenbury said.
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Standing Up to Sports Inc., on Any Given Wednesday
Mr. Maher’s story was about
government’s potential to chill
free speech during war and the
redemptive power of television
when it is freed from advertising
pressures.
Mr. Simmons’s situation is a bit
more complicated, especially
when you take ESPN’s version of
it into account, which I’ll get to.
But it does raise questions
about how media conglomerates
that rely on the N.F.L. for ratings
and revenue handle criticism of
the league as it faces deepening
concerns about its culture and
the health of its players. Yet, Mr.
Simmons’s story also offers hope
that firebrands like him can find
ways to operate independently at
this opportune time in media.
When I visited Mr. Simmons in
his suite at the Sunset Gower
Studios last week, he was excited
for his fresh start, but still a little
raw about ESPN. He had just
issued a public apology to his old
colleagues there for his quote in
The Hollywood Reporter asking,
“Who would work there that you
respect right now?”
“I read it and I was like, ‘Oh, I
don’t feel that way, I wish I hadn’t said that,’” Mr. Simmons said.
The incident played into criticism from ESPN executives that
Mr. Simmons can be petulant and
disrespectful of rival colleagues.
Yet it was also in keeping with
the say-anything style that
ESPN hired him for.
Mr. Simmons, 46, came to
ESPN from AOL’s Boston
“Digital City” site, where he
wrote a column called “Boston’s
Sports Guy.” In that job, he could
not get press passes, he said,
because, “It was the internet.
They were like, ‘What? No.’” So
he set out to write about sports
the way he was watching them,
on the tube, and in the brutally
honest and sometimes off-color
language of the sports bar — as
an outsider.
It meant breaking from tradition with contemporary pop
culture references (if a scene
from “90210” came to mind, he’d
say so), praise for players he
loved, contempt for owners,
players and commissioners he
didn’t. ESPN first noticed him
after he eviscerated the company’s own sports awards program,
the ESPYs, which he called a
“TV holocaust.”
Over all, it was a fruitful relationship that earned him accolades and made him millions. He
starred on “NBA Countdown,”
helped to create the successful
ESPN documentary series “30
for 30” and founded Grantland,
which earned three national
magazine award nominations in
2015. His podcast, “The B.S.
Report,” was ESPN’s most popular.
Yet Mr. Simmons’s web-bred
feral side often broke glass inside
ESPN, which blanched at some
of his stunts — a porn star in his
fantasy basketball league? —
and twice banned him from using
Twitter after he wrote posts
criticizing colleagues.
Things started falling apart
after Mr. Simmons called Mr.
Goodell “a liar” for saying the
league had not known what was
contained in a damning video of
Mr. Rice punching his fiancée
unconscious when it initially
handed Mr. Rice a light, twogame suspension. (The tape had
been leaked to TMZ.) Mr. Simmons followed that by daring
ESPN to “Call me and say I’m in
trouble.” His three-week suspension followed.
Mr. Simmons says he now
regrets the dare. But, he said, he
was just fulfilling his role as a
“disrupter,” if an imperfect one.
That was what he planned to tell
Disney’s chief executive, Robert
A. Iger — a proponent of disruption — when he went to Mr.
Iger’s office several months after
his suspension.
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Bill Simmons, founder of Grantland, was let go by ESPN in May 2015.
Mr. Simmons did not get to
make his point. “He was like,
‘You know, when you go after
Roger, it’s really hard for us; we
want you to do it respectfully,’”
Mr. Simmons said of Mr. Iger’s
counsel. “And I was like, ‘I think
that’s fair. I can be relentless on
him but I’ve got to do it respectfully.”’
“Respectfully” is not what
came to mind when, a few weeks
later, Mr. Simmons questioned
Mr. Goodell’s “testicular fortitude” in his handling of Deflategate. The next day, ESPN’s president, John Skipper, announced
that Mr. Simmons’ contract
would not be renewed.
Mr. Simmons says he wonders
if something else was at play. A
few months after his ouster, Mr.
Iger emerged as a champion of a
proposed new stadium near Los
Angeles that would have been
shared by the San Diego Chargers and a relocated Oakland
Raiders team — with an option to
buy a stake in either team. “One
of my working theories was,
maybe this was driven by Iger
because he wants a team.”
Disney declined to comment.
But when I reached out to ESPN
for a response, Mr. Skipper sent
me this:
“Bill would rather spin conspiracy theories and be perceived as a martyr than take
responsibility for his own actions. Let me be unequivocal and
clear and take responsibility for
my actions: I alone made the
decision, and it had nothing to do
with his comments about the
commissioner. I severed our
relationship with Bill because of
his repeated lack of respect for
this company and, more importantly, the people who work
here.”
The network, which has beefed
up its investigative reporting
staff in recent years, also disputed any notion that it goes
easy on the N.F.L., sending me
citations for some 70 critical
items about the league. And the
“Outside the Lines” investigation
of the Rice case by Don Van
Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg, which influenced Mr. Simmons by describing “a pattern of
misinformation and misdirection” at the league, was as tough
as they come.
That work is definitely worth
noting. But so is ESPN’s decision
in 2013 to withdraw from a hardcharging documentary with
“Frontline” about the N.F.L.’s
“concussion crisis” under pressure from the league, as my
colleagues James Andrew Miller
and Ken Belson reported then.
(ESPN denied it was buckling to
the N.F.L.)
Surely, when a large part of
your business rests with the
most powerful sports league in
the country, you’re probably
going to watch your p’s and q’s.
Mr. Simmons said he came up
against this when he was seeking
new partners and met with
Showtime’s president, David
Nevins, and Mr. Nevins’s boss,
the CBS chairman Les Moonves.
“I really liked Moonves, and he
was totally honest,” Mr. Simmons
said. “He was just like, you know,
this is my biggest partner” —
meaning the N.F.L. “I can’t figure
out how we would make this
work.”
CBS had no comment. One
presumes neither Mr. Moonves
nor Mr. Iger would ask their
news divisions to stand down
from real N.F.L. reporting. And
ESPN says it keeps a “church
and state” wall between business
and journalism. But where’s the
line between being “respectful”
and being overly sparing with
necessary criticism?
The question is important,
given the current national discussion about football and concussions. That conversation is
taking place in a media environment in which the N.F.L. is
that rare content producer that
can deliver huge audiences for
live programming, where the
power of the 30-second ad endures.
Expelled from the monolith,
Mr. Simmons is undergoing
recovery in a media market
hungry for fresh programming.
“I’m a proven content maker at a
time when it’s great to be that,”
he said.
Mr. Simmons says he will
cover a range of topics, including
football, when he joins the same
program lineup as Mr. Maher on
HBO — a network with no commercials, no boundaries and no
slate of N.F.L. games.
Top Lawyer at Gawker Media Guides the Company at a Time of Turmoil
source of support during a chaotic
time for the company. Most general counsels work in obscurity,
but Ms. Dietrick, with the added
responsibilities of president, has
taken on more of a leadership role
at Gawker as Mr. Denton has
pulled back from the day-to-day
operations.
Throughout the Hulk Hogan
case, she has been the bridge between the newsroom and Gawker’s legal proceedings. She manages much of the company’s editorial operations and has a formal
role in editorial decision-making.
And though Mr. Denton is still arguably the public face of Gawker,
she has been called on repeatedly
to represent the company during
periods of turmoil.
“The place would not run without Heather,” Mr. Denton said in a
recent interview. “She’s the person that holds everything together.”
In the last year, Ms. Dietrick,
who has both a law degree and an
M.B.A. from the University of
Michigan, has had to try to steer
the company through one crisis
after another.
Last month, the Silicon Valley
billionaire Peter Thiel acknowledged in an interview with The
New York Times that he was financially supporting the Hogan
lawsuit and other legal cases
against the company. That put
Gawker at the center of a First
Amendment battle that has capti-
vated the media world while highlighting a deepening chasm between an ascendant technology
industry and a journalism business buffeted by financial challenges.
In the interview on Saturday,
Ms. Dietrick said that Gawker began seriously considering filing
for bankruptcy once Mr. Thiel’s involvement in the Hogan case became known.
The pivotal moment came on
Friday at around 11 a.m., after a
hearing in which a Florida judge
affirmed the $140 million judgment in the Hogan case and
granted Gawker’s request for a
stay, but under conditions that the
company found too onerous, Ms.
Dietrick said. The conditions included allowing Hulk Hogan,
whose real name is Terry G. Bollea, to get liens on the company’s
assets.
Gawker had considered the option of filing for bankruptcy within
a few days, Ms. Dietrick said. But
as its lawyers in Florida provided
updates on the hearing by phone,
she and Mr. Denton decided the
company could not wait any longer because they feared it would be
unable to continue to operate otherwise.
“The timeline was pushed forward a little more quickly than we
expected,” Ms. Dietrick said on
Saturday. “As of yesterday, it was
inevitable that we were going to
go through with the sale.” The
company still plans to appeal the
judgment.
Gawker has had its fair share of
detractors, and on Twitter and in
comments in news articles, some
cheered the company’s fate. Ms.
Dietrick said any suggestion that
Gawker got what it deserved was
“absurd.” She said that the company had certainly “overstepped
the line a couple of times” but that
it was proud of nearly all of the
stories it had done over the years.
Ms. Dietrick said she was committed to staying at Gawker but
acknowledged that its future was
uncertain.
The company said on Friday
that it would conduct a sale
through an auction and expected
to close a deal by the end of the
summer. Ziff Davis, a digital media company, has submitted an
opening bid in the range of $90
million to $100 million.
It was not clear whether a buyer would want all of Gawker’s
sites, and it is possible that Mr.
Denton might consider buying
back Gawker.com at some point.
Nearly everyone who works
with Ms. Dietrick, who was in
Hearst’s legal department before
coming to Gawker in May 2013, describes her as nice. But that belies
her steeliness in difficult situations. They also say she has
brought a sense of professionalism and diplomacy that helps balance Gawker’s notoriously freewheeling spirit.
She has built up a team of four
lawyers including herself who
handle vetting, contracts, licensing deals and most of the compa-
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Heather Dietrick, president and general counsel at Gawker Media, with Nick Denton, the founder and chief executive.
ny’s other legal matters. And she
has gained the trust of editorial
staff members, who view her
more as a partner than an adversary. Women at Gawker say they
see her as an advocate at a company that has been criticized in
the past for how it treats female
employees.
She often works on her laptop
on a couch in the lounge area near
the editorial team and goes out for
drinks with employees. On Friday
evening, she invited staff members to a rooftop gathering at her
apartment building in the West
Village, where she lives with her
husband. People ordered pizzas
and drank beer.
Ms. Dietrick firmly believes in
Gawker’s approach to news, current and former employees say.
She is a staunch defender of the
First Amendment and would
rather figure out a way to tell a
story than prevent it from running.
“She believes in what we do as
much, if not more, than I do,” said
John Cook, Gawker Media’s executive editor.
Last July, Gawker published an
article claiming that a married
male media executive had sought
to hire a gay escort. The article
drew a firestorm of criticism and
there was considerable debate at
the company about whether to remove the post. Mr. Denton ultimately decided to take it down after a vote that he said showed that
the company’s management, including Ms. Dietrick, was largely
in favor of doing so.
But Ms. Dietrick maintained
that she wanted to keep it online
and that her stance was misconstrued. “I knew the world was going to have a discussion about it,”
she said. “I think it’s hard to talk
about things once they’ve been
disappeared.”
Some colleagues suggest that
her numerous roles may have
stretched her too thin. “She actually has more jobs than one human should probably have,” said
Hamilton Nolan, a writer who has
worked at Gawker for eight years.
Some in the media legal community question whether it makes
sense for Ms. Dietrick to hold general counsel and president roles.
Acting as both executive and lawyer, they say, can complicate attorney-client privilege.
Ms. Dietrick said she did not
think her dual role was “that odd,”
but acknowledged that the last
year had been tough. “I feel like
my job has been removing roadblocks,” she said.
For all of the challenges, however, it is largely because of her roles
at Gawker that Ms. Dietrick is
now enjoying much more prominence than most general counsels
ever do.
“If I were her, I wouldn’t be unhappy being in her position,” said
Sandra S. Baron, a First Amendment media lawyer and a former
executive director of the Media
Law Resource Center. “There’s
nothing humdrum about what
she’s doing now.”
Walgreens Cuts Its Ties to Theranos
Theranos, said the company
would continue to do business using the stand-alone retail locations it is already running, apart
from the Walgreen stores. It has
five such locations in Arizona and
one in California, and further expansion is planned for Arizona,
she said.
“We are disappointed that Walgreens has chosen to terminate
our relationship and remain fully
committed to our mission to provide patients access to affordable
health information,” Theranos
said in a statement.
The statement went on: “Quality and safety are our top priorities and we are working closely
with government officials to ensure that we not only comply with
all federal regulations but exceed
them.”
Ms. Buchanan declined to comment further.
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While Theranos might struggle
along with its own retail units,
most of its customers came from
the testing centers in Walgreens.
Having easily accessible locations
in corner drugstores was part of
Theranos’s plan to upend the laboratory testing business, and it
had at one time said it eventually
envisioned being in Walgreens
drugstores nationwide.
The announcement of the deal
with Walgreens in September 2013
was also when Theranos made its
existence known to the world,
coming out of the “stealth mode” it
had been in since being founded
by Ms. Holmes in 2003.
Walgreens hoped to add lab
testing to its offering, drive traffic
to its stores and pick up some of
the cachet of being associated
with a cutting-edge Silicon Valley
start-up.
“This is the next step in Walgreens’ efforts to transform community pharmacy, giving our patients and customers convenient
access to the comprehensive care
they need right in their communities,” Kermit Crawford, who was
then Walgreens’ president for
pharmacy, health and wellness,
said at the time.
The endorsement of Walgreens
gave the unproven Theranos
some credibility that it could perform numerous medical tests on a
drop of blood rather than from
tubes of blood drawn from an arm.
Ms. Holmes became a celebrity
whose worth was estimated at
$4.5 billion, based on her half ownership of the company.
But it now appears that Walgreens did not adequately vet the
technology. Government inspectors and articles in The Wall Street
Journal have revealed that much
of the company’s testing was being done on standard machines
bought from laboratory equipment vendors — the same machines used by Theranos’s rivals.
Moreover, Theranos did not
even do those tests well, lacking
experience and qualified personnel in the laboratory business.
Federal inspectors have found numerous problems with operations
at the company’s flagship laboratory in Newark, Calif. They have
threatened sanctions, which could
include barring Ms. Holmes from
owning a laboratory company for
two years.
Theranos recently voided the
results from tens of thousand of
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A Walgreens store in Manhattan. Theranos lab services have been available in 40 Arizona stores.
tests and corrected the results of
other tests. Forbes magazine,
which compiles lists of the world’s
wealthiest people, recently adjusted Ms. Holmes’s estimated net
worth to zero.
When the testing problems first
came to light last fall, Walgreens
halted expansion of Theranos
testing sites beyond Arizona and
asked the company for more information. The action announced on
Sunday suggests the drugstore
chain was not satisfied with the
answers it received.
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To Head Off Digital Attacks, a Security Start-Up Is Spying on Hackers
By NICOLE PERLROTH
Standing before a crowded
room of entrepreneurs and
investors at a conference in San
Francisco last summer, former
Vice President Al Gore described
how climate change could be
contained, possibly even reversed.
Next to take the stage was
Kevin Mandia, the founder of
Mandiant, a security company
acquired by another security
company called FireEye, who
said nothing could be done to
stop hackers from conducting
digital attacks.
The juxtaposition did not sit
well with Oren Falkowitz, a former analyst at the National
Security Agency. “I thought,
‘Really? We can solve global
warming but we can’t stop
cyberattacks?’” Mr. Falkowitz
recalled. He didn’t buy it.
For the last two years, Mr.
Falkowitz’s start-up, Area 1 Security, has been trying to persuade
the owners and operators of
computer servers that have been
compromised by state spies,
criminals and hacktivists to
allow the company to tap into
those servers to monitor the
attackers’ activities.
Those servers have given the
Area 1 team a much clearer picture of who is being targeted and
what tools and websites attackers are using. And the security
company has started to block
attackers, heading them off days
or even months before they hit
their targets.
It’s a new tack in an industry
that in recent years has ap-
peared less confident that it can
block digital attacks. Most security start-ups seeking funding
today have resigned themselves
to the inevitability of a breach
and are focused more on identifying an attack as it plays out
and praying that they can respond before the perpetrator
makes off with something important.
It’s as if everyone in the cybersecurity industry forgot that
customers pay them to keep
from being hacked in the first
place.
Mr. Falkowitz and his cofounders, Blake Darché and Phil
Syme, think they have found a
new way to turn attackers’ tools
against them.
For as long as there have been
cyberattacks, hackers have relied on a vast network of compromised servers around the globe
to funnel their malicious code,
search out targets and steal data.
By watching what happens on
those compromised servers at
dentists’ offices, farms, welding
shops and tech companies, Area 1
believes it has secured a unique
vantage point for monitoring and
even blocking attacks.
Area 1’s technology addresses
one of the most pernicious digital
threats: so-called spear-phishing
attacks, which bait unsuspecting
workers into clicking on links in
emails and unknowingly giving
attackers a toehold in their
employers’ systems.
Phishing attacks have become
an epidemic. To date, more than
90 percent of breaches have
begun with a phishing attack,
according to Verizon.
to share any more data with the
government than they are compelled to by law.
Intelligence agencies say the
lack of information-sharing
works to attackers’ advantage.
“We are in a very complex
digital world that’s only going to
get more complex as innovation
presents challenges we haven’t
even anticipated,” said Daniel
Ennis, former director of the
Threat Operations Center at the
N.S.A. “People have incredible
expectations of the government
to keep them safe” online.
“My concern is that the bad
guys are going to out-innovate
us,” he added. “The only way
we’re going to out-innovate them
is a partnership between the
government, the private sector,
the victims and academia.”
Until that happens, Area 1 may
have found a way to circumnavigate the politics by recruiting the
owners of those compromised
servers around the globe.
“Cyber is perceived as this
‘Matrix’-like structure, but people forget that it’s also physical
in nature,” Mr. Falkowitz said.
“The players are not just the
attackers and the victim; there’s
an entire underbelly of the web
that has been subverted.”
Area 1 discovers, on average,
859 new targeting phishing sites
a day. Now it can use its unusual
vantage point to help its
customers stave off attacks.
It is still early days, but Area 1
aims to eventually end phishing
attacks altogether, Mr. Falkowitz
said. “We just went to Mars and
found water, and people are
saying we can’t solve this?”
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Oren Falkowitz, left, and Blake Darché of Area 1, at a welding shop with compromised servers.
Intelligence experts say that
phishing attacks are the preferred method of Chinese hackers who have managed to steal
things as varied as nuclear
propulsion technology and Silicon Valley’s most guarded software code.
“Oren does not take it as writ
law that we have to live that way,
and he wanted to do something
about it,” said Ted Schlein, a
venture capitalist at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, which
has invested in Area 1.
“If we could look every company in the eye and say, ‘We can
stop your phishing attacks,’” Mr.
Schlein said, “then Oren could
look Kevin Mandia in the eye and
say, ‘Thanks for the inspiration,
but you’re wrong.’”
One of the biggest challenges
in combating phishing attacks
has been a lack of informationsharing among victims, security
firms and law enforcement.
Victims are reluctant to publicize
security breaches, potentially
keeping competitors from heading off similar attacks.
And the role of the government in sharing threat data has
been constrained since the former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden leaked documents revealing the scale of
government monitoring. The
Obama administration has been
pushing to collect and share
more threat data with the private
sector. But few companies want
Software Security Company Blue Coat to Sell to Symantec, Abandoning I.P.O.
By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
SAN FRANCISCO — Blue Coat
Systems seemed poised to begin
life as a public company, after selling itself to a private equity firm
last year.
Now, the cybersecurity software company plans to sell itself
to Symantec instead.
Blue Coat said late on Sunday
that it would sell itself to Symantec for $4.65 billion. As part of the
deal, Blue Coat’s chief executive,
Greg Clark, will take over as the
chief executive of the combined
security software maker.
To help finance the transaction,
Blue Coat’s existing majority investor, Bain Capital, will invest an
additional $750 million in the deal.
The private equity firm Silver
Lake, which invested $500 million
in Symantec in February, will invest an additional $500 million.
The deal will create a big
provider of security products,
both the traditional antivirus kind
that has long been Symantec’s focus and the newer online protec-
tion services in which Blue Coat
has specialized. Executives see
little overlap between the two
businesses.
“With this transaction, we will
have the scale, portfolio and resources necessary to usher in a
new era of innovation designed to
help protect large customers and
individual consumers against insider threats and sophisticated
cybercriminals,” Dan Schulman,
Symantec’s chairman, said in a
statement.
In selling itself to Symantec,
Blue Coat will abandon its effort to
go public, after having filed plans
to do so earlier this month. Many
companies weighing an initial
public offering also run a private
sales process, choosing to sell
themselves if they receive an attractive enough offer. While Blue
Coat did not formally put itself up
for sale, it received interest from a
number of potential buyers, and
held talks primarily with Symantec.
“Once combined, we will offer
customers around the world —
from large enterprises and governments to individual consumers — unrivaled threat protection and unmatched cloud security,” Mr. Clark said in a statement.
Blue Coat has had a number of
private equity owners in recent
years, including both Bain Capital
and, before that, Thoma Bravo.
In its I.P.O. prospectus, Blue
Coat said that it lost $289 million
on top of $598 million in sales for
the 12 months that ended on April
30. That compares with a $271 million loss on top of nearly $569 million in sales for the same period a
year before.
But the company has sought to
grow itself under Bain Capital,
having made a number of acquisitions to bolster its capabilities.
“This represented a compelling
opportunity for us because we
could realize some gains for our
investors but also reinvest into the
combined company,” said David
Humphrey, a managing director
at Bain Capital. “We believe very
much in the industrial logic and
Cable Giants Lobby to Stop F.C.C. Plans
posed regulations by the F.C.C.
that has left cable companies feeling besieged.
So far this year, the agency has
proposed reforming rules on settop boxes so that people can pick
any television device to receive
cable and online video, which
could cut into the industry’s $19.5
billion in annual set-top-box rental
fees. The F.C.C. also unveiled
broadband privacy rules that
would make it harder to collect
and share data on users for targeted advertising. And the agency
also announced a plan to force cable and telecom companies to
lease bandwidth to competitors in
certain areas, with potential limits
on how much they can charge,
curbing revenue for such deals.
“The policy blows we are
weathering are not modest regulatory corrections,” Michael K.
Powell, president of the N.C.T.A.,
said in a speech last month. “They
have been thundering, tectonic
shifts.”
The cable companies’ frustration has been compounded by concerns that the F.C.C. proposals
punish them but reward tech companies like Google. The set-topbox proposal could give those
companies access to cable and
satellite television programming
for their devices and let them
track viewer habits for their ad
businesses. The broadband privacy rules apply only to cable and
telecom companies; tech companies are not included.
The F.C.C. has largely adopted
recommendations from Google on
set-top-box reforms, the cable and
telecom companies said. AT&T’s
senior vice president for external
affairs, Jim Cicconi, has called the
plan the “Google proposal.” The
cable companies also said the
F.C.C.’s broadband privacy proposal would be much stronger
than any restrictions placed on
web companies.
So the cable industry has harnessed its vast lobbying resources
in Washington to fight back.
In the first quarter, cable and
telecom companies spent $22 million on lobbying, ranking 11th by
industry, according to the
OpenSecrets website, run by the
Center for Responsive Politics.
While the spending did not increase from a year earlier, much of
the money has gone toward fighting F.C.C. proposals like the settop-box rules, with nearly $2 million paid just to outside lobbyists
in the first quarter to work against
the proposal, according to federal
disclosures.
AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and
the N.C.T.A. are also practicing
softer forms of lobbying — such as
sponsoring studies and consultants who write op-ed articles —
that cannot be easily traced, analysts and public interest groups
like Free Press, which supports
several broadband regulations,
say.
The industry’s focus has been
on helping members of Congress
write letters of opposition to the
F.C.C., including the critical letter
shown by Mr. Rush’s staff. The association said an employee contributed “minor suggestions” to
the letter from Mr. Rush. Mr.
Rush’s spokeswoman, Debra
Johnson, said the N.C.T.A. edits
“did not change the substance of
the letter” and added that the congressman had a history of standing up for consumer protection issues.
Some consultants for cable
companies have also criticized the
F.C.C. proposals. In March, Henry
Waxman, a former Democratic
congressman from California,
wrote a harsh op-ed in The Hill
slamming the set-top-box plan,
without disclosing that he was a
consultant for Comcast and had
business ties to the N.C.T.A.
Mr. Waxman and other lawmak-
ers who have been critical of the
set-top-box plan said they were
not financially motivated to weigh
in on the issue.
“I don’t represent clients on issues I don’t believe in,” Mr. Waxman said.
The cable industry has also responded with a new lobbying
group, the Future of TV Coalition,
which has been joined by media
and movie companies as well as
labor unions.
Comcast and AT&T declined to
comment on their lobbying activities. The N.C.T.A. declined to comment specifically on lobbying but
said the set-top-box reform was
widely unpopular and was also
opposed by networks geared toward minority audiences as well
as movie studios and labor unions.
The target of much of the cable
industry’s ire is Tom Wheeler,
chairman of the F.C.C. Mr.
Wheeler has also been joined by
President Obama, who endorsed
the set-top-box proposal in April.
“The White House is intervening in order to direct an outcome
that favors one company viewed
by many as its political ally,” Mr.
Cicconi of AT&T said in a blog post
at the time, in a not-so-veiled reference to Google. Google declined
to comment.
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strategic rationale of this transaction.”
Symantec, meanwhile, has
sought to turn around its fortunes
after years of declining sales. Earlier this year, it sold its Veritas
data storage unit to the Carlyle
Group for $7.4 billion after failing
to fully integrate that business
into its core offerings.
The acquisition of Blue Coat is
in some ways a move out of the
playbook of Silver Lake. The investment firm previously took a
stake in the publicly traded chip
maker Avago — and then supported that company through a
string of acquisitions, culminating
in a $37 billion takeover of Broadcom last year.
Roughly two months after Silver Lake came on board as an investor in Symantec, the software
maker’s chief executive at the
time, Michael Brown, stepped
down amid disappointing financial performances.
Symantec then hired Ajei
Gopal, a Silver Lake operating
partner, as interim president and
IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
In re:
) Chapter 11
DEX MEDIA, INC., et al.,1
) Case No. 16-11200 (KG)
Debtors.
) (Jointly Administered)
NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF PROOFS OF CLAIM
THE GENERAL BAR DATE IS JULY 7, 2016
THE GOVERNMENTAL BAR DATE IS NOVEMBER 14, 2016
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING:
Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim. On June 8, 2016, the
United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the
“Court”) entered an order [Docket No.152] (the “Bar Date Order”)
establishing certain deadlines for the filing of proofs of claim in the
chapter 11 cases of the following debtors and debtors in possession
(collectively, the “Debtors”). The Debtors and their Case Numbers are:
Dex Media, Inc., 16-11200 (KG); Dex Media East, Inc., 16-11201 (KG);
Dex Media Holdings, Inc., 16-11202 (KG); Dex Media Service LLC, 1611203 (KG); Dex Media West, Inc., 16-11204 (KG); Dex One Digital, Inc.,
16-11205 (KG); Dex One Service, Inc., 16-11206 (KG); R.H. Donnelley
APIL, Inc., 16-11207 (KG); R.H. Donnelley Corporation, 16-11208 (KG);
R.H. Donnelley Inc., 16-11209 (KG); SuperMedia Inc., 16-11210 (KG);
SuperMedia LLC, 16-11211 (KG); SuperMedia Sales Inc., 16-11212 (KG).
The Bar Dates. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all entities (except
governmental units), including individuals, partnerships, estates, and
trusts who have a claim or potential claim against the Debtors that arose
prior to May 16, 2016—and which are not enumerated in the list of entities
in paragraph 7 of the Bar Date Order that are not required to file a proof
of claim—no matter how remote or contingent such right to payment
or equitable remedy may be, MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before
July 7, 2016, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time (the “General
Bar Date”). Governmental entities who have a claim or potential claim
against the Debtors that arose prior to May 16, 2016, no matter how
remote or contingent such right to payment or equitable remedy may
be, MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before November 14, 2016, at
5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time (the “Governmental Bar Date”).
ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WHO FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM
ON OR BEFORE THE GENERAL BAR DATE OR GOVERNMENTAL
BAR DATE, AS APPLICABLE, SHALL NOT BE TREATED AS A
CREDITOR WITH RESPECT TO SUCH CLAIM FOR THE PURPOSES OF
DISTRIBUTION ON ANY CHAPTER 11 PLAN.
Filing a Proof of Claim. Each proof of claim must be filed,
including supporting documentation, by U.S. Mail or other hand
delivery system, so as to be actually received by the Debtors’ notice
and claims agent, Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions, LLC (“Epiq”) on or
before the General Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date (or, where
applicable, on or before any other bar date as set forth herein) at one
of the following addresses: If by First-Class Mail: Dex Media, Inc.,
Claims Processing Center, c/o Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions, LLC, P.O. Box
4419, Beaverton, OR 97076-4419. If by Hand Delivery or Overnight
Mail: Dex Media, Inc., Claims Processing Center, c/o Epiq Bankruptcy
Solutions, LLC, 10300 SW Allen Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005.
Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each proof of claim must (i) be
written in English; (ii) include a claim amount denominated in United
States dollars; (iii) clearly identify the Debtor against which the claim
is asserted (iv) conform substantially with the Proof of Claim Form
provided by the Debtors or Official Form 410; (v) be signed by the
claimant or by an authorized agent or legal representative of the
claimant; and (vi) include as attachments any and all supporting
documentation on which the claim is based. Please note that each
proof of claim must state a claim against only one Debtor and clearly
indicate the specific Debtor against which the claim is asserted. To the
extent more than one Debtor is listed on the proof of claim, a proof of
claim is treated as if filed only against the first-listed Debtor, or if a
proof of claim is otherwise filed without identifying a specific Debtor,
the proof of claim may be deemed as filed only against Dex Media, Inc.
Additional Information. If you have any questions regarding the
claims process and/or you wish to obtain a copy of the Bar Date Notice, a Proof
of Claim Form or related documents you may do so by: (i) calling the Debtors’
restructuring hotline at: 646-282-2400; (ii) visiting the Debtors’ restructuring
website at: http://dm.epiq11.com/DexMedia; and/or (iii) writing to Dex
Media, Inc. Claims Processing Center c/o Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions, LLC, P.O.
Box 4421, Beaverton, OR 97076-4421. Please note that Epiq cannot offer
legal advice or advise whether you should file a proof of claim.
Wilmington, Delaware Dated: June 13, 2016 /s/ Patrick A. Jackson,
Pauline K. Morgan (Bar No. 3650), Patrick A. Jackson (Bar No. 4976),
YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, LLP, Rodney Square, 1000
North King Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, Telephone: (302) 5716600, Facsimile: (302) 571-1253, Email: pmorgan@ycst.com, pjackson@
ycst.com - and - James H.M. Sprayregen, P.C. (admitted pro hac vice),
Marc Kieselstein, P.C. (admitted pro hac vice), Adam Paul (admitted pro
hac vice), Bradley Thomas Giordano (admitted pro hac vice), KIRKLAND
& ELLIS LLP, KIRKLAND & ELLIS INTERNATIONAL LLP, 300 North
LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois 60654, Telephone: (312) 862-2000, Facsimile:
(312) 862-2200, Email: james.sprayregen@kirkland.com, marc.
kieselstein@kirkland.com, adam.paul@kirkland.com, radley.giordano@
kirkland.com. Counsel for the Debtors and Debtors in Possession
1
The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of
each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, include: Dex Media, Inc.
(0040); Dex Media East, Inc. (5763); Dex Media Holdings, Inc. (9762);
Dex Media Service LLC (9647); Dex Media West, Inc. (7004); Dex One
Digital, Inc. (9750); Dex One Service, Inc. (0222); R.H. Donnelley APIL, Inc.
(6495); R.H. Donnelley Corporation (2490); R.H. Donnelley Inc. (7635);
SuperMedia Inc. (5175); SuperMedia LLC (6092); and SuperMedia Sales
Inc. (4411). The location of the Debtors’ service address is: 2200 West
Airfield Drive, P.O. Box 619810, DFW Airport, Texas 75261.
lieves
that
other,
smaller
acquisitions may be in the offing
for the security software provider
in the future.
“Silver Lake has had a history
of trying to invest in and catalyze
leaders in important categories in
technology,” Ken Hao, the Silver
Lake managing partner who sits
on Symantec’s board, said in an interview. “Symantec will become
the most valuable, profitable and
deepest, widest leader in cybersecurity.”
chief operating officer, as it embarked on a series of cost cuts.
The company had also begun to
look for a new chief executive, and
Mr. Clark of Blue Coat emerged as
a candidate.
Silver Lake’s investment in
Symantec back in February anticipated a transaction like the Blue
Coat deal, with the firm setting itself up to provide additional financing if Symantec were to pursue a deal that needed private equity help. And Silver Lake be-
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF TAX-EXEMPT MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
REVENUE BONDS BY THE NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, at the time and place set forth below, the New York State Housing Finance Agency (the “Agency”) will conduct a public hearing for the purpose of giving interested parties an opportunity to be heard
regarding the proposed issuance of tax-exempt and/or taxable multifamily housing revenue bonds (“Bonds”) for the
purpose of providing a portion of the funds for the financing, refinancing, acquisition, construction and/or rehabilitation
of the multifamily residential Projects (listed below), other costs related thereto, and/or to refund bonds of the Agency
to make available additional funds for the Projects. All Bonds may be issued in one or more series (one or more series
of which may have previously been issued). The Bonds will not constitute a debt or obligation of the State of New York.
Hearing Location:
Date and Time:
New York State Housing Finance Agency
641 Lexington Avenue, Fourth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10022
Thursday, June 30, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Project Name and Location
Owner
Approx #
Units
Estimated not-toexceed amount
of tax-exempt
Bonds
Chappaqua Commons
Building 200, Roaring Brook
Road, Town of New Castle, NY
(Westchester County)
WB Chappaqua LLC, or another
single purpose entity controlled by
Wilder Balter Partners, Inc. and/or
Housing Action Council, Inc.
64
$13,240,000
Marion Avenue Apartments
2681-2691 Marion Avenue
Bronx, NY (Bronx County)
PCMH Marion Avenue Housing
Development Fund Corporation
or another single purpose entity
controlled by Postgraduate Center
for Mental Health, Inc.
100
$25,850,000
111 East 172nd Street
111 East 172nd Street, Bronx NY
(Bronx County)
111 East 172nd Street Owners LLC
and 111 East 172nd Street Housing
Development Fund Corporation or a
single purpose entity controlled by
Community Access, Inc.
126
$29,900,000
Hearing Location:
Date and Time:
Department of Housing and Community Renewal, Hampton Plaza
38-40 State Street, Ballroom, Albany, N.Y. 12207
Thursday, June 30, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Project Name and Location
Pilgrim Village/ Campus Square
91 Nora Lane, Buffalo
NY (Erie County)
Owner
Pilgrim Village Associates III, L.P.
or another single purpose entity
controlled by Mark Trammell and
McGuire Development Company
Approx #
Units
Estimated not-toexceed amount
of tax-exempt
Bonds
210, of
which up to
a total of 61
units may be
market rate
$62,000,000
For the convenience of interested persons, descriptive material regarding the Projects will be available for inspection
by appointment during the hours between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. at the Agency, located at 641 Lexington Avenue,
New York, New York. Materials relating to the Projects will also be available for inspection one hour prior to the hearing
at the hearing location.
For further information, contact Charni Sochet, Press Secretary, New York State Housing Finance Agency, 641 Lexington
Avenue, New York, New York 10022 at (212) 872-0681. The Agency will accept written statements regarding the proposed issuance of Bonds for the Projects at the hearing or at the above address, if received no later than Wednesday,
June 29, 2016.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF NEW YORK
In the Matter of the General Assignment :
: Index No. 510002/2016
for the Benefit of Creditors of
HARRIS PUBLICATIONS, INC., Assignor, :
- to : Honorable Anil C. Singh
SANFORD P. ROSEN, Assignee.
:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT on April 28, 2016, Harris Publications, Inc.
(“Harris”) made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors to Sanford
P. Rosen, as assignee (the “Assignee”), pursuant to Art. 2 of the New York
Creditor and Debtor Law.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT the Assignee has entered
into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “APA”) with Athlon Sports
Communications, Inc. (“Athlon”), pursuant to which Athlon has agreed
to purchase all of the Assignee’s right, title, and interest in and to certain
assets of Harris, including, but not limited to, 69 magazine titles, 105 registered trademarks, and 115 website domains (collectively, the “Assets”). A
list of the magazine titles and website domains appears below.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT the Assignee filed a motion
(“Motion”) for the entry of an order approving of the sale (the “Sale”) of
the Assets to Athlon or such other party who shall make a higher and/or
better offer for the Assets (the“Prevailing Purchaser”).
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT on June 8, 2016, the Supreme Court
of the State of NY (the“Court”) entered an order approving certain bidding
procedures for the Sale (the“Bidding Procedures”);
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT the Assignee is soliciting offers
for the purchase of the Assets consistent with the Bidding Procedures. All
interested bidders should carefully read the Bidding Procedures.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT any person or entity wishing to participate in the sale and bidding process and be deemed a“Qualified Bidder”
must, among other things, deliver a written offer, so as to be received no
later than June 15, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. (EST) to the Assignee’s counsel,
Rosen & Associates, P.C., 747 Third Ave., NY, NY 10017.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT in the event that the Assignee
receives one or more Qualified Bids (other than Athlon’s), the Assignee
will conduct an auction (the “Auction”) of the Assets. The Auction will be
held at Rosen & Associates, P.C., 747 Third Ave., NY, NY on June 16, 2016
at 10:00 a.m. (EST).
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT a hearing to consider approval of
the Sale (the “Sale Hearing”) is scheduled for June 17, 2016 at 10:00
a.m. (EST) before the Hon. Anil C. Singh, Supreme Court of the State of NY,
County of NY, 60 Centre St., Rm. 218, NY, NY 10007. The Sale Hearing may
be adjourned without further notice to creditors or parties in interest by its
announcement in open court on June 17, 2016.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT objections to the Sale must be in
writing, set forth the basis for the objection, be filed with the Court, and
be served on the Assignee’s counsel so as to be actually received by
no later than 3 business days before the Sale Hearing (the “Sale
Objection Deadline”).
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT any person or entity that fails
to file an objection on or before the Sale Objection Deadline shall
be barred from objecting to the Sale.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT copies of the Motion, the APA, the
order approving the Bidding Procedures, the Bidding Procedures, and
any other related documents are available at www.omnimgt.com/harris
publications or by contacting Rosen & Associates, P.C., 747 Third Ave., NY, NY
10017, Nancy L.Kourland, Esq., nkourland@rosenpc.com, (212) 223-1100.
Rosen & Associates, P.C., Counsel to the Assignee, 747 Third Avenue, New
York, NY 10017
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THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016
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Morton White, Philosopher Known
For Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Morton White, a philosopher
and historian of ideas whose innovative theory of “holistic pragmatism” showed the way toward a
more socially engaged, interdisciplinary role for philosophy, died
on May 27 in Skillman, N.J. He
was 99.
His death was announced by
the Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton, N.J., where he had
taught from 1970 until his retirement in 1987.
Mr. White was best known to
generations of history and philosophy undergraduates as the editor of two standard classroom
texts. The first was “The Age of
Analysis” (1955), an anthology of
writings from key 20th-century
philosophers, for which he supplied an introduction and commentary.
The second, edited with his
wife, the sociologist Lucia White,
was “The Intellectual Versus the
City: From Thomas Jefferson to
Frank Lloyd Wright” (1962). It
surveyed the conflicted American
attitudes about the merits of rural
and urban life.
As a philosopher, Professor
White was identified with holistic
pragmatism, an effort to rescue
philosophy from what he saw as
the narrow preoccupations of the
dominant analytic movement,
with its parsings of statements
and the constituent parts of complex notions. “There are many
signs that the sleeping giant of
philosophy is arousing itself out of
its mathematical slumbers,” he
wrote in “Religion, Politics and the
Higher Learning” (1959).
Building on the work of Willard
Van Orman Quine and Nelson
Goodman, Professor White conceived of pragmatic analysis as an
all-embracing venture incorporating ethics, politics and the social
sciences.
“In my view, holistic pragmatism is a theory that may be applied to all disciplines that seek
truth,” he wrote in one of the essays in his collection “From a
Philosophical Point of View: Se-
A way to understand
how people test beliefs
against experience.
lected Studies” (2005).
Professor White explored his
ideas in strictly philosophical
works like “Toward Reunion in
Philosophy” (1956) and in sweeping intellectual histories, including “Social Thought in America:
The Revolt Against Formalism”
(1949), a study of John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thorstein
Veblen and other thinkers, and
“Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought From
Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey” (1972).
In an obituary on the website of
the Institute for Advanced Study,
Stanley N. Katz, a historian at the
Woodrow Wilson School at
Princeton, called Professor White
“philosophy’s ambassador to history and the humanities.”
He was born Morton Gabriel
Weisberger on April 29, 1917, in
Manhattan to Robert Weisberger
and the former Esther Levine and
grew up on the Lower East Side,
where his family owned a shoe
store.
Morton excelled in school, first
at P.S. 114 and later at Seward Park
High School (he graduated at 15),
but felt little in the way of intellectual stirrings.
“I was a child of the streets and
the store,” he wrote in his memoir,
“A Philosopher’s Story,” published
in 1999. “I was a lonely, unreligious
child who knew little about what is
sometimes called the spiritual life,
little about books, and much about
movies, sports, restaurants, prizefighters, baseball players and
politics.”
The shoe store went bankrupt
during the Depression, and he enrolled in City College, which was
tuition-free. He absorbed radical
politics and initially set his sights
on becoming a lawyer. He drifted
gradually toward philosophy after
taking an introductory survey
course and plunging into the
study of logic.
“I could solve the problems of
the world while I had fun and
learned how to earn a living,” he
wrote in his memoir.
After graduating in 1936 with a
bachelor’s degree in social science, he abandoned the idea of
Morton White in 1981 in his
office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
N.J., where he taught from
1970 to 1987. He edited two
standard classroom texts.
HERMAN LANDSHOFF, SHELBY WHITE AND LEON LEVY ARCHIVES CENTER,
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
studying law. Columbia University lent him the money to enroll in
its graduate school, where he
wrote a thesis on the pragmatist
and logician C. S. Peirce and
earned a master’s degree in 1938.
For his doctorate, which he received in 1942, he wrote about
Dewey’s
early
thought,
specifically his theory that ideas
are not a mirror of reality but a
plan of action. It was published in
1943 as “The Origins of Dewey’s
Instrumentalism.”
In 1949, he married Lucia Perry.
She died in 1996. His second wife,
the former Helen Starobin, died in
2012. He is survived by his sons,
George Voinovich, 79,
Two-Term Ohio Senator
By The Associated Press
George V. Voinovich, a former
two-term United States senator
and two-term governor of Ohio
who preached frugality in his personal and public life and occasionally bucked the Republican establishment, died on Sunday at his
home in Cleveland. He was 79.
His death was confirmed by his
wife, Janet, who did not give a
cause.
Mr. Voinovich had a pacemaker
installed in 2003 because his heart
rate had slowed down over several years as a result of a condition
called progressive sinus bradycardia, and he had experienced
other health problems in recent
years. But his death came as a surprise to friends.
He had spoken on Friday at a
Slovenian Independence Day
event in Cleveland. He was to be a
delegate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland
next month.
During his 12 years in the Senate, Mr. Voinovich occasionally
found himself at odds with his
more conservative fellow Republicans. A moderate who opposed
the size of President George W.
Bush’s tax cuts and later questioned Mr. Bush’s war strategy in
Iraq, he was also an early supporter of a proposed federal bailout for
the auto industry, which employs
thousands of people in Ohio, and
Dimon, Theodore
Callen, John
Friedman, Fred
Dimon, Themis
Green, Joseph
Miranda, Joseph
BOER—Mary Veronica
(nee Bradley), of New York
City, died on June 10, 2016.
Mary was a graduate from
the Mary Lewis Academy
and St. John's University. Her
education included a brief
stint at the British Embassy
School in Ankara, Turkey
where her father was on assignment. She joined Delta
Airlines in 1973 and retired as
Supervisor in 2004. Upon retirement, Mary and John
Boer, traveled extensively,
especially in Europe. In addition to her husband, John
Boer, she is survived by her
father, Francis J. Bradley,
three brothers, Christopher,
James and Kenneth and one
sister, Margaret Hart. Mary's
passing is grieved by many
nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends from
2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00
Monday, June 13th at Krtil
Funeral Home at 1297 First
Avenue in Manhattan. The
Mass of Christian Burial will
be celebrated at 10:00am on
Tuesday, June 14th at St. Monica's R.C. Church at 413 East
79th Street (off First Avenue).
A Republican who
sometimes bucked the
party establishment.
one of the few Republicans during
the Bush administration to suggest raising taxes to pay for the
war in Iraq and hurricane relief.
Mr. Voinovich cultivated an image as a proponent of fiscal discipline. He opposed President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package, saying it was
weighed down by too much spending that was not stimulative.
He also prided himself on his
own frugality. He shined his own
shoes, bought his clothes on sale
and as governor banned peanuts
and other snacks on state airplanes to save public money.
Mr. Voinovich announced in
2009 that he would not run for a
third term. He was succeeded by a
fellow Republican, Rob Portman.
In his farewell speech, Mr. Voinovich urged his colleagues to
tackle a fiscal situation he said
was “on life support.” He said he
did not agree with legislation to
prevent an income tax increase,
but he complimented President
Obama and legislative leaders for
working out a compromise.
In 2009, Mr. Voinovich was
among those who unsuccessfully
campaigned against an Ohio ballot issue that paved the way for
the building of casinos in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and
Toledo. In 2011, after leaving the
Senate, he lent his support to a bill
that would outlaw abortions at the
first detectable fetal heartbeat.
Deaths
Boer, Mary
CALLEN—John Holmes, Jr.,
83, of Vero Beach, FL and
Dorset, VT passed away on
June 9 in Red Bank, NJ. He
was an Executive with Burlington Industries and Ward
Howell International, where
he retired as President. He is
survived by his wife, Lyn,
their four children, seven
grandchildren and his four
brothers.
DIMON—Themis and
Theodore. The child analysts
at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute record with sorrow the passing
of Themis and Ted Dimon. A
generous and elegant couple,
they championed the cause
of child analysis and the work
of our members. They passionately supported our Institute and tirelessly brought
others to understand the importance of our mission.
Ruth K. Karush, M.D.,
Dean of Education
Steven J. Wein, M.D.
Associate Dean for
Child Analysis
FRIEDMAN—Fred B., 84.
Beloved husband to Maren,
father to Karin, Laura and
Ed. Grandpa to Jordan,
Jacob, Michael, Katie, Rachel, Alyssa.
Nicholas and Stephen; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
While teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor
White became friends with Mr.
Goodman, whose theories on hypotheses and inductive reasoning
influenced him decisively. A second, even more powerful influence was Mr. Quine, whom he met
after joining Harvard’s philosophy department in 1948.
Mr. Quine proposed a holistic
approach to understanding how
human beings test beliefs against
experience — not one by one, but
as an interconnected system of
beliefs. He had applied this insight
to natural sciences and logic, but
Professor White extended it to religion, history, art and morality.
He addressed these problems in
a seminal essay published in 1950,
“The Analytic and the Synthetic:
An Untenable Dualism,” and at
greater length in “Toward Reunion in Philosophy,” which he
dedicated to Mr. Goodman and
Mr. Quine. He later refined his theories in “Religion, Politics and the
Higher Learning” (1959), “Foundations of Historical Knowledge”
(1965), “What Is and What Ought
to Be Done: An Essay on Ethics
and Epistemology” (1981) and “A
Philosophy of Culture: The Scope
of Holistic Pragmatism” (2002).
He also edited “Paths of American Thought” (1963), with Arthur
M. Schlesinger Jr., and “Documents in the History of American
Philosophy” (1972).
RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Voinovich on Capitol Hill in 2009. He cultivated an image as a proponent of fiscal discipline.
As governor in the 1990s, Mr.
Voinovich vowed to streamline
state government. He began programs to roll back environmental
regulations and struck long-term
contract deals with state employee unions, promising security but
little money.
He also cut $720 million from
the state budget in two years. But
in 1993, Mr. Voinovich and leaders
of both parties in the Legislature
pushed a tax increase to shore up
the state’s finances. The move an-
Deaths
Deaths
GREEN—Joseph.
Age 83, a former resident of
Miami, Florida since 1979,
born in Brooklyn, NY, September 6, 1932. A Korean War
Veteran and a graduate of
James Monroe High School, Bronx, 1/50, and New
York
University
BS/1956,
MBA/1962. Retired internal
auditor died peacefully on
June 12, 2016. Devoted uncle
of
Alan
Kafker
(predeceased) and Arlene Kafker
Beckerman. Also survived by
cousins Barbara Cohen and
Sheila Knapp, niece-in-law
Miriam Kafker and nephewin-law David Beckerman,
three great-nieces and one
great-nephew, and sister-inlaw Shirley Kafker. Employed Dime Savings Bank
1961-1969, New York Life
1969-1979, Storer Communications (Miami) 1979-1993. Joe
continued to be active following retirement. Worked at
Lord & Taylor, Nieman Marcus,
Bloomingdale
and
Magellan Health (two years).
Was a life member of VFW
Post No. 1966. Services will be
held on Tuesday, June 14th,
at 11:00am at Wellwood Cemetery in Farmingdale, Long
Island.
MIRANDA—Joseph C., Esq.,
of Manhasset, NY, passed on
June 10, 2016 at age 86. Beloved husband for 61 years of
Joan, father of Neal and Gail,
father-in-law of Robert and
grandfather
of
Lindsay,
Adam, Melanie and Jackson.
Proud alumni of Regis High
School, Fordham University
and Fordham Law. He will be
sorely missed.
In Memoriam
NEWMAN—Debra S.
Dear Debra, Happy Birthday.
I love you and miss you.
Hugs, Aunt Sharon
QUINN—Kenneth Marc.
(1948-1966) Your presence on
earth makes the universe a
better place.
Love, Jeanne and Gail
gered some conservatives, who
began questioning his commitment to their cause.
In 1979, while Mr. Voinovich was
running for mayor, his 9-year-old
daughter, Molly, was killed when
she was hit by a van that went
through a red light. “When one
loses a child,” he said at the time,
“things come into focus, what is
important, what is unimportant.”
She was the youngest of four
children born to Mr. Voinovich and
his wife. Complete information on
survivors was not immediately
available.
Mr. Voinovich was a prized
commodity in the Ohio G.O.P.: a
Republican who could deliver
Cleveland, a Democratic stronghold.
Though he was one of Ohio’s
most popular Republican politicians, he stumbled in 1988 during
his first bid for the United States
Senate. Trailing badly in the polls,
he attacked the grandfatherly
Democratic incumbent, Howard
Metzenbaum, for not being tough
on child pornography. The move
backfired, and Mr. Metzenbaum
soundly carried the election.
In a statement, former President George Bush praised Mr. Voinovich as a “quintessential public
servant” who “brought people together, focused on results and left
his state and our country a better
place.”
George Victor Voinovich was
born on July 15, 1936, in Cleveland.
He was the oldest of six children of
George and Josephine Voinovich.
His father’s heritage was Serbian,
his mother’s Slovenian; his grandparents had immigrated to the
United States from what is now
Croatia.
He served in the Ohio House
from 1967 to 1971.
By the late 1970s, Cleveland was
in default and most people blamed
the Democratic mayor, Dennis
Kucinich, who constantly fought
electric utilities, the city’s banking
community and other big-business interests.
Mr. Voinovich defeated Mr.
Kucinich, who later became a congressman, and went on to serve a
decade as mayor. He was credited
by members of both parties with
turning the city around.
In 1990, he easily defeated Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., another
Clevelander, and began the first of
two four-year terms as governor.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, with Carole King, as he accepted the Tony Award for best score for “Hamilton.” “Senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised — not one day,” he said.
Tonys Hail ‘Hamilton’ and Denounce Hate
By MICHAEL PAULSON
“Hamilton,” a hip-hop musical acclaimed by critics, movie stars and
the president of the United States,
on Sunday was celebrated with the
theater world’s top honors, raking
in Tony Awards as a capstone to a
remarkable season for an unlikely
show.
The big night for “Hamilton,”
however, was transformed by a national tragedy: 18 hours before the
awards ceremony began, a lone
gunman armed with an AR-15-type
assault rifle opened fire at a gay
nightclub in Orlando, Fla., leaving
50 people dead. The shooting — the
deadliest in United States history —
added a note of sadness, disbelief
and anger to Broadway’s big night.
“Senseless acts of tragedy re-
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mind us that nothing here is
promised — not one day,” LinManuel Miranda, the author and
star of “Hamilton,” declared, emotionally reciting a sonnet as he accepted the Tony for best score. And
then, alluding directly to the “love is
love” slogan of the gay rights movement, he said, “Love is love is love is
love is love is love is love is love —
cannot be killed or swept aside.”
And the actor Frank Langella,
picking up his fourth Tony Award,
for his portrayal of a Frenchman
with dementia in a new play called
“The Father,” said, “Today in Orlando we had a hideous dose of reality,
and I urge you, Orlando, to be
strong.”
The Tony Awards, as well as CBS,
which broadcast the event, declared the ceremony dedicated to
those affected by the tragedy. Performers and presenters arrived for
the broadcast wearing silver ribbons — created by the Tony-winning designer William Ivey Long in
the color of the award itself — to express their concern about Orlando.
Between the time of a morning rehearsal and the evening broadcast,
“Hamilton” decided to drop the use
of muskets in its production number (“Yorktown”), while the comedian/musician Steve Martin cut
a joke that alluded to violence.
Owner of a Modigliani
Maintains It’s Not Nazi Loot
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
PARIS — The art dealer and billionaire David Nahmad says he is
well aware of the scornful whispers that trail him when he travels
to Brazil, to New York. He says he
feels the disapproving stares
when he enters his synagogue at
home in Monaco.
“People say, ‘Oh, David stole it;
he should give it back immediately,’ ” Mr. Nahmad said in a rare
interview at a hotel here.
“It” is a valuable painting by
Modigliani, an oil portrait of a dapper chocolate merchant in a hat
and tie, seated and holding a cane.
A Nahmad holding company
bought the work at auction in 1996
and has owned it ever since. But
the grandson of a Jewish antiques
dealer says it is the same work
that was confiscated from his relative’s Paris shop during the Nazi
occupation and sold off more than
70 years ago.
For almost five years, the
grandson, Philippe Maestracci,
and a company specializing in recovering looted art have pressed a
claim in New York state and federal courts for the work, once estimated to be worth as much as $25
million.
Mr. Nahmad, the scion of a family of international art dealers, remains adamant that he will not
settle. He is basing much of his
stance on a French court record
from 1947 that he says casts doubt
on whether his painting is the
same Modigliani that the antique
dealer, Oscar Stettiner, tried to reContinued on Page 5
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Performers and presenters wore
silver ribbons, a tribute to the
Orlando massacre victims.
INSIDE
Bugging Out in D.C.
In the new CBS sci-fi comedy
“BrainDead,” insects crawl
into politicians’ heads. PAGE 4
Vanishing Space
In Toronto, an abandoned
power plant is reborn as a
cultural space that will quickly
be torn down. PAGE 5
Musical Flourish
The NY Phil Biennial, Alan
Gilbert’s brainchild, comes to
an end in a set of challenging
programs. PAGE 6
Dance Speaks Volumes
“Seated Man With a Cane,” a
disputed Modigliani oil painting
now owned by David Nahmad.
In works new and old, Alvin
Ailey shows that it isn’t looking behind the times. PAGE 6
As the show began, its host,
James Corden, paid tribute to the
Orlando victims and their families,
saying “our hearts go out to all of
those affected by this atrocity.”
“Hate will never win,” Mr. Corden
said. “Together we have to make
sure of that.” He added, “Tonight’s
show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle.”
But then, in a razzle-dazzle showmust-go-on moment, he began a
rapid-fire song-and-dance journey
through 20 much-loved musicals,
from “Les Misérables” to “42nd
Street.”
And the broadcast proceeded as
planned, with a series of production
numbers introducing television
viewers to the musicals of the seaContinued on Page 2
Father Was a Bully.
And Then a Woman.
On July 7, 2004, Susan Faludi received an email with a
one-word subject line: “Changes.” To describe it as an
understatement would itself be an understatement. The
note was from Ms. Faludi’s father, with whom she had
barely spoken in 25 years. He was writing to say that he
— now she — had
just had sex reassignment surgery
in Thailand. Steven
Faludi had become
BOOKS
Stefánie. He was 76.
OF THE TIMES
“I’d always known
my father to assert the male prerogative,” Ms. Faludi writes in the
opening pages of “In the Darkroom,” trying to convey the dissonance and drama of this announcement. “He had seemed invested —
insistently, inflexibly, and, in the last year of our family
life, bloodily — in being the household despot.”
The “bloodily” part is especially chilling. When Ms.
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The Tonys’ host James Corden, center, surrounded by nominees at the Beacon Theater in New York. The opening included a rapid-fire song-and-dance journey through 20 much-loved musicals.
Tony Awards Hail ‘Hamilton’ and Denounce Hate
is about celebrating live theater, illuminating the human condition
in all its diverse forms. We walk
into the Beacon Theater tonight
with thoughts of our brothers and
sisters in Orlando clearly in our
hearts.”
There appeared to be little
precedent for a cultural awards
show taking place in the immediate aftermath of a national tragedy. Variety noted that in 2001, the
Emmy Awards were postponed
because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Performers and presenters
spoke out on social media
throughout the days. Some noted
that the shooting took place at a
gay club, making it especially resonant in the theater world, which
includes a significant number of
gay
and
lesbian
artists,
employees and fans.
The Tony Awards, officially
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son, interspersed with awards
and acceptance speeches. Outside
the theater, casts of the nominated
shows performed brief tributes to
their favorite musicals, a nod to
the sidewalk concerts performed
weekly for last-minute ticket lottery entrants outside the “Hamilton” theater.
“Hamilton,” which has become
the rare musical to fully cross over
into the broader popular culture,
was nominated for 16 Tonys —
more than any other show in history, a reflection of the excitement
engendered by its use of contemporary music and a diverse cast to
explore America’s revolutionary
history.
The show is enormously successful, not only artistically but
commercially — it is earning
about $600,000 in profit every
week on Broadway, and it is about
to expand its reach, with a production opening in Chicago in September, followed by two North
American tours and a London production.
“Hamilton” was unlikely to top
the 12 wins by “The Producers” in
2001, but it scored a big haul: for
Mr. Miranda’s book and score,
Thomas Kail’s direction, Alex Lacamoire’s orchestrations, Andy
Blankenbuehler’s choreography,
Paul Tazewell’s costumes and
Howell Binkley’s lighting design.
Also singled out were Renée
Elise Goldsberry, as best featured
actress in a musical, and Daveed
Diggs as best featured actor in a
musical.
The 2015-16 theater season was
the most diverse in Broadway history, and the Tonys celebrated
that distinction, particularly as it
came during a year when Hollywood faced criticism for its failure
to nominate any nonwhite performers for the Oscars. Of the 40
acting nominations, 14 went to
black, Hispanic and Asian-American actors.
“Think of tonight as the Oscars,
but with diversity,” Mr. Corden
said at the start of the show,
prompting raucous laughter. He
joked, “It is so diverse that Donald
Trump has threatened to build a
wall around this theater.” And
then, at the close of the segment,
he brought out a multiethnic
group of children, and, singing
“This could be you,” replaced
them with the equally diverse
group
of
nominees
for
performances in musicals.
Mr. Kail, accepting the award
for best direction, noted the diverse array of plays and musicals
on Broadway: “What we’ve seen
this season is that there are
stories to be told and there are
people that want to hear them.”
“Hamilton” dominated the
broadcast, and the theatrical season, but was not the only show to
win awards.
Among new plays, “The Humans,” by Stephen Karam, did especially well, winning best play,
best featured actress for Jayne
Houdyshell and best featured actor for Reed Birney for their moving portrayal of a married couple
‘Think of tonight as
the Oscars, but with
diversity.’
Above, Cynthia Erivo in a performance from “The Color Purple” at the Tonys, which were dominated by “Hamilton.” Below, from
left, Jayne Houdyshell of “The Humans” won for featured actress in a play; Frank Langella won for leading actor in a play for “The
Father”; and Jessica Lange of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” won the Tony for leading actress in a play.
struggling to love and cherish a
family under stress. David Zinn
won a Tony for his design of “The
Humans” set, which replicated a
shabby two-story apartment in
the Chinatown neighborhood of
Manhattan.
Work on classics of American
drama proved award-worthy for
several. Jessica Lange, the Oscarwinning actress, won a Tony for
her portrayal of the morphine-addicted Mary Tyrone in Eugene
O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey
Into Night.” Ivo van Hove, the Belgian director, won a Tony for his
direction of a revival of Arthur
Miller’s “A View From the Bridge.”
And David Rockwell, a prolific
and much-admired set designer
who has been nominated six times
for Tony Awards, finally won one,
for recreating a Budapest parfumerie for a revival of a cherished but less well-known classic
musical, “She Loves Me.”
The awards ceremony followed
a bittersweet day for the theater
industry. At the morning rehearsal, as a jubilant crowd cheered
run-throughs of production numbers, somber network and awards
show administrators clustered in
aisles and hallways at the Beacon
Theater on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, trying to figure out
how the show should respond to
the mass shooting.
“Our hearts are heavy for the
unimaginable tragedy that happened last night in Orlando,” the
presenters of the Tony Awards,
the Broadway League and the
American Theater Wing, said just
before 11 a.m. “Our thoughts are
with the families and friends of
those affected. The Tony Awards
dedicate tonight’s ceremony to
them.”
At 5 p.m., organizers reiterated
their intention to go on with the
show, saying: “The Tony Awards
called the Antoinette Perry
Awards, are presented annually
by the Broadway League and the
American Theater Wing, and honor plays and musicals that open
each season in the 40 theaters in
and around Times Square that
make up Broadway. There were 36
shows that opened during the
2015-16 season and were eligible
for awards; 26 received at least
one nomination.
This year’s nominees were selected by a panel of 47 theater experts, many of whom work at nonprofit organizations and in academia. The winners were chosen by
the Tony voters — a mix of
producers, performers and other
theater industry professionals —
and this year there were 846 people eligible to vote on the awards.
There are 24 competitive categories, but the Tonys also bestow
several noncompetitive awards
each year, and those awards were
announced in advance. This year,
those included lifetime achievement awards to the lyricist Sheldon Harnick, best known for “Fiddler on the Roof,” and the director
Marshall W. Mason, the founding
artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company. An annual award
honoring a regional theater went
to the Paper Mill Playhouse in
Millburn, N.J., and the Isabelle
Stevenson award for volunteerism to the performer Brian Stokes
Mitchell for his work with the Actors Fund.
Special Tony awards were given to the National Endowment for
the Arts, for its support of theater,
and to Miles Wilkin, a pioneer of
the Broadway touring industry.
And Tony honors for excellence in
the theater were given to Seth
Gelblum, an entertainment lawyer; Joan Lader, a vocal coach;
and Sally Ann Parsons, a costume
shop owner.
Blood and Loneliness
In an Uneasy Tale
Crack the scarred, hard surface of an Adam Rapp play, and
you’ll discover a yielding marshmallow center. Though this
dramatist — the author of the
recent “Wolf in the
River” and the Pulitzer Prize finalist
“Red Light Winter”
— creates vicious
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unspeakable things
to one another, he tends to regard their savagery not with a
sneer but a furtive tear.
Mr. Rapp’s sentimentality
bursts out of the dark, dank
closet with his latest effort, “The
Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois,”
at Atlantic Stage 2. Directed with
a tender touch and (for a while
anyway) a refreshing respect for
silence by Mr. Rapp, this intermission-free, real-time drama
portrays a lonely, mentally unstable man trying to reconnect
with a world he walked out on.
This is a story you have probably encountered many times
before if you watch mainstream
television drama (particularly
the Lifetime channel, where
weepiness is next to godliness).
But Mr. Rapp redecorates it with
his own festive color scheme,
which includes lots of blue language, purple prose and lurid
accounts of violence, real and
imagined.
BEN
BRANTLEY
At the story’s center is the
fearful and awkward Ellis,
played by William Apps, a tallish,
bearded man of uncertain age
who wears his skin as if it were a
badly cut jacket. When the play
begins in his dingy, barely furnished home (given authentically
depressing life by the set designer Andromache Chalfant),
Ellis is evidently expecting company.
From his stratospheric anxiety
level, you gather that Ellis is also
utterly unused to company. Mr.
Apps makes a rather sweet display of the symptoms of uneasy
anticipation, both usual (he
frantically applies deodorant)
and less usual (he keeps working
a hand grip exerciser he then
stuffs in his pants pocket).
And then the visitors arrive, a
pair that is just as uneasy as
their host, though a bit less
squirrely in showing it. Their
names are Catherine (the startlingly beautiful Katherine Reis)
and Monique (a high-octane
Susan Heyward). That they are
adolescent girls in full hormonal
bloom makes you fear for everybody’s safety.
The more aggressive Monique
is a self-defined feminist and
“sociopathic hard-core gangster”; Catherine is as taciturn
and nearly as awkward as Ellis.
It is she whom he embraces,
The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois
Written and directed by Adam Rapp;
sets by Andromache Chalfant; costumes
by Jessica Pabst; lighting by Keith
Parham; sound by Christian
Frederickson; fight choreography by J.
David Brimmer; production stage
manager, Jillian M. Oliver; production
manager, Ian Paul Guzzone; associate
artistic director, Annie MacRae; general
manager, Pamela Adams. Presented by
Atlantic Theater Company, Neil Pepe,
artistic director; Jeffory Lawson, managing director. Through June 26 at Atlantic
Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street, 866-811-4111,
atlantictheater.org. Running time: 1 hour
30 minutes.
WITH: William Apps (Ellis), Susan
Heyward (Monique), Katherine Reis
(Catherine) and Connor Barrett (Barrett).
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
William Apps, Katherine Reis and Susan Heyward in Adam Rapp’s “The Purple Lights of Joppa
Illinois” at the Atlantic Theater. It shows a refreshing respect for the silences we live among.
stiffly and self-consciously, in a
genuinely affecting moment of
tentative connection.
If this were a typical Adam
Rapp play, you might expect Ellis
and the girls to get down to some
serious polymorphous partying.
Instead, they wordlessly cohabit
the same room while Ellis plays
records (vinyl, on a turntable),
which include the rapper Tyler
the Creator’s “Sandwitches” at
ear-blasting volume and a for-
lorn country and western ballad
by Mickey Newbury.
These musical, dialogue-free
moments, and the stretches of
silence that surround them, mark
the high points of “Purple
Lights.” They establish a vivid
sense of characters who are both
specifically and idiosyncratically
present while maintaining a
teasing air of mystery about who
exactly they are and how they’ll
interact.
Arts, Briefly
WARNER BROS.
‘The Conjuring 2’ Beats
Summer’s Sequel Curse
Hollywood had a mixed weekend at the box office. “The Conjuring 2” was strong. “Warcraft”
was soft. “Now You See Me 2”
was a shrug.
Beating this summer’s sequel
curse, the well-reviewed “Conjuring 2” (starring, above from left,
Frances O’Connor, Madison
Wolfe and Lauren Esposito) was
the No. 1 draw at North American multiplexes between Friday
and Sunday, taking in about $40.4
million, according to comScore,
which compiles box office data.
The first “Conjuring” arrived to
$41.9 million in opening-weekend
ticket sales. On the downside,
New Line and its financing partners spent about $42 million to
make the sequel, double the
production cost of the original.
The poorly reviewed “Warcraft” was second, taking in
about $24.4 million. That is a
dismal start for a film that cost at
least $160 million to make, but
“Warcraft,” from Legendary
Entertainment, has been doing
surprisingly well overseas,
where it has taken in roughly
$261.7 million.
Lionsgate had hoped that
“Now You See Me 2” would officially end a box office cold
streak, but the studio instead had
to make do with a ho-hum $23
million in opening-weekend
ticket sales for its magic-themed
sequel, or 22 percent less than
initial results for the original
film. BROOKS BARNES
10,000-square-foot exhibition
area is to be spread over the fifth
and sixth floors of H Queen’s, a
24-story tower under construction in the bustling Central district, and will open shortly after
the building is completed.
Speaking by telephone from
New York, Mr. Zwirner, right,
said the gallery decided to open
a space in Hong Kong based on
its experience over the last few
years participating in ART HK, a
local art fair, and its successor,
Art Basel Hong Kong.
“We have seen literally explosive growth in the interest for
Western art among Asian collectors,” he said.
Hong Kong Outpost
For David Zwirner
In the fall of 2017, David
Zwirner Gallery will open its first
outpost in Asia in Hong Kong,
the fast-growing hub for contemporary art in Asia.
It will be the fourth location for
the gallery, which is based in
New York and has two spaces
there and one in London. The
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Zwirner is following in the
footsteps of other prominent
Western galleries, like Gagosian
Gallery and White Cube, that
have established outposts in
Hong Kong. Those earlier forays
into the city were instructive, Mr.
Zwirner said.
In particular it
helped his staff
realize the
importance of
finding a space
that could
accommodate
large works of
art — a formidable challenge in Hong Kong, where open
interior space is a luxury.
Zwirner will be working with
the New York architect Annabelle Selldorf to design the space,
for which the plan is to have
ceilings about 13 feet high. Mr.
Zwirner said the gallery would
present about five to six exhibitions a year, initially focusing
on artists currently on the
Zwirner roster. They include Jeff
Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Richard
Serra and, most recently, William
Eggleston. AMY QIN
L.A. Dance Project Forms
Partnership With Luma
Benjamin Millepied’s L.A.
Dance Project has formed a
three-year partnership with the
Luma Foundation in Arles,
France, the foundation announced Friday.
The partnership will offer the
nine-member company a continuing residency and performance space in the foundation’s
Parc des Ateliers, a former rail
That tantalizing atmosphere
evaporates once these three start
to explain themselves. Monique,
who is celebrated for her off-thecharts verbal test scores, is
obsessed with words and plies
them ostentatiously. So, for better or worse, does Mr. Rapp. The
revelations that follow are dense
with images of dragons, ocelots
and creatures called “halfwolves,” as well as homier evocations of everyday family life.
yard of about 25 acres that contains several 19th-century industrial buildings, currently being
restored by Selldorf Architects.
The architect Frank Gehry is
building a central cultural resource building for the campus,
to be completed in 2018.
The residency in Arles provides a continuing link to France
for the French-born Mr.
Millepied, who was a principal
dancer at New York City Ballet
before founding the L.A. Dance
Project in 2012 and going on to
become director of the Paris
Opera Ballet. ROSLYN SULCAS
‘Analogy’ Trilogy’s
Second Installment
The second installment of the
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s “Analogy” trilogy will have
its New York premiere in October as part of the coming season
at New York Live Arts, the organization announced Friday.
This juxtaposition of the exotic
and the banal — and the evidence of sad human longings
within it — is clearly meant to
elicit strong emotions for the
audience. Yet the script often
feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host,
suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by
a precocious pupil who would
rather be working on something
else.
Since this is, after all, an Adam
Rapp play, there will be blood
before the curtain falls. It is
spilled not long after the arrival
of the play’s fourth character, a
strapping and sympathetic nurse
played by Connor Barrett. The
blood flows, though from the kind
of wound that — unusual in the
work of this playwright — could
easily be handled with a home
First Aid kit.
“Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka
The Escape Artist,” which runs
Oct. 25 through Nov. 6, will be a
work of dance theater that
continues the style of oral history
told with movement that the
troupe began with “Analogy/
Dora: Tramontane,” which had
its debut at Peak Performances
last year. The two dances will be
performed together at the Joyce
Theater this fall.
The trilogy is inspired by the
W. G. Sebald novel “The Emigrants.” Part 1 told the story of
Dora, a 95-year-old who was a
nurse during World War II.
“Lance” tells the story of drug
use and the sex trade in the ’80s.
The season opens with
“Pandæmonium” (Sept. 28
through Oct. 1), an interdisciplinary work that reflects the aim
of New York Live Arts in recent
seasons to add diversity to its
performance mediums.
The season’s full lineup is at
newyorklivearts.org.
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Alien Ants Become
Washington Insiders
By Crawling to the Top
Momentous elections turn on
momentous questions. In 2016
the question is clear: What has
gotten into people’s heads?
“BrainDead,” which begins on
CBS Monday, has
a theory: bugs.
Specifically,
antlike insects
that have turned
TELEVISION
up in Washington
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after a meteor
strike and crawled into the ears
of politicians and their staffers,
turning them into — well, themselves, but more obnoxious.
“BrainDead” is a fun summer
experiment, with a loopy, I-can’tbelieve-this-got-on-CBS charm.
It’s sci-fi, it’s comedy, it’s political commentary. But it’s also
about as nuanced as an ant
colony lodged in your cranium.
Our field guide to our new
insect overlords is Laurel Healy
(Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who
was born into a political dynasty
but would rather be shooting
documentaries about
Melanesian choirs.
Strapped for cash, Laurel
moves from Los Angeles to work
as an aide for her brother, Luke
(Danny Pino), a Democratic
senator, amid a looming government shutdown. When she notices many of her new associates
acting strangely — personalities
change, the occasional head
explodes — she finds herself on
the trail of the creepy-crawly
ant-agonists.
The 1956 movie “Invasion of
the Body Snatchers” used a
comparable premise — alien
invaders replace humans with
emotionless replicas — as an
allegory of Cold War-era groupthink. In “BrainDead,” the evil is
tribalism, the forces that make
political sides march in lock step
like good soldier ants.
Here, the insects work by
making their victims more extreme. Conservatives become
more stridently determined to
decimate the federal government. Liberals find themselves
robotically quoting statistics
about the wonders of Scandinavia.
“BrainDead” is the brainchild
of Robert and Michelle King, the
creators of “The Good Wife”
(whose Zach Grenier, Nikki M.
James and Megan Hilty appear).
That legal drama began with a
political scandal and was packed
with subtle commentary on
current events.
“Good Wife” fans will recognize its appealing quirkiness
here. The insects and their hosts,
for instance, are crazy for the
1984 hit by the Cars, “You Might
Think.” (Yes, the ear bugs have
an earworm.) Later episodes —
CBS previewed three in total —
begin with musical “previously
on” segments by the offbeat
folk-rocker Jonathan Coulton.
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The series has a flair for the
dorky details of Washingtonprofessional life, as when Laurel
and her Republican counterpart
Gareth (Aaron Tveit) dance the
white-man-and-woman’s-overbite at a dinner called “the Tax
Prom” (an actual thing).
Throughout, “BrainDead” has
the goofy-A-student vibe of a
particularly saucy public-radio
show.
The other parts of this mashup are weaker. The sci-fi plotting
is perfunctory. Ms. Winstead is
charming, but Laurel is conceived mainly as an audience
surrogate, there to roll her eyes
for us at the egos in Washington.
(The city is described, in a notso-original quip, as “Hollywood,
but with uglier people.”) The
pols, like Tony Shalhoub’s boorish Republican senator, are flat
characters even before they
come down with brain-bugs.
The satire boils down to “It’s
time those Beltway politicians
stopped squabbling and got to
work for us,” a take with all the
heat of a public-service spot
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A Breath Upwards , a new composition by Michael Hersch, in its New York premiere on Friday night, with, from left, Ah Young Hong, soprano;
Jamie Hersch, horn; Miranda Cuckson, violin/viola; and Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet, at St. Peter’s Church in Manhattan.
A Dark and Haunting Work by Way of Dante
Dante’s “Inferno” might seem
an unlikely inspiration for an
artist trying to escape illness
and loss. But the composer
Michael Hersch saw hell as a
point of departure
when writing “a
breath upwards,”
which received its
New York preMUSIC
miere at Saint
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Peter’s Church in
Manhattan on Friday evening,
presented by Lex54 Concerts.
This stately, slow-moving song
cycle, inspired by the etchings of
the artist Michael Mazur, proved
as dark and unsettling as earlier
works by Mr. Hersch, who is
often propelled by grim subject
matter and has said that composing is a way to channel his
anxiety.
His music is notable for its
startling contrasts, with hauntingly beautiful interludes juxta-
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BrainDead Mary Elizabeth
Winstead stars in this
science-fiction comedy, with a
dash of political satire, on CBS.
from a centrist think tank. It’s
blunt yet generic.
At the same time, the show
aims to be specific and current
by editing in news clips from the
current campaign. And sure, the
brain-snatching metaphor certainly rings true when we’ve
seen, in real life, a politician who
once warned that Donald J.
Trump couldn’t be trusted with
the nuclear codes now stoically
supporting him for president.
But the allegory feels limited
and easy. After all, the
extremism in our politics doesn’t
just come from the capital. It’s in
the supporters and protesters
cold-cocking each other at rallies. It’s in the hashtag-and-burn
vitriol of our social media echo
chambers. We have met the
animus, and it is us.
Sometimes “BrainDead” hints
at this bigger context. In the
background of scenes, the news
is reported almost entirely on
two fictional cable channels, one
of which blames every problem
on Democrats, the other on
Republicans. It’s a small but
clever reminder of the vast
systems our science-fact world
already has to put a partisan bug
in your ear.
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on the open edge/one at a time.”
Wordless interludes illustrated
verses by Ezra Pound, a flicker
of a chorale evoking the text
from his “Cantos:” “Borne into
the tempest, black cloud wrapping their wings.” Clarinet, horn
The poet inspires
intense beauty with
an eerie twist.
and viola fragments grew increasingly agitated in another of
Dante’s texts, culminating in a
dense outburst for the soprano’s
apocalyptic declamation of “Now
you can understand.”
Both works on the first half of
the program seemed apt pair-
ings for Mr. Hersch’s piece. Ms.
Hong vividly conveyed the contrasting moods of selections
from Kurtag’s “Kafka Fragments” — expressionistic settings of German texts from
Kafka’s letters and diaries. She
shaded her voice with myriad
hues: lovely and clear in “The
Good March in Step” and grittier
in the zigzag vocal line of “Hiding Places.” The eclectic moods
and textures are mirrored in the
accompanying violin part, brilliantly rendered by Ms. Cuckson.
Ms. Hong also sang with expressive fervor in Milton Babbitt’s “Philomel,” a dramatic
monologue based on Ovid’s myth
of Philomena. Synthesized
sounds blended evocatively with
a live and recorded soprano in
this startling work, the intensity
heightened by the surroundsound effect from multiple
speakers.
Father Was a Vicious Bully. Then He Became a Woman.
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posed with dissonant outbursts
and interwoven with solitary
passages tinged with a Renaissance-flavored melancholy. Mr.
Hersch’s monodrama “On the
Threshold of Winter” (2014) was
inspired by his own struggle
with cancer, the death of a close
friend and texts by Marin
Sorescu, a Romanian poet who
died of liver cancer.
The soprano Ah Young Hong,
a frequent collaborator, delivered the eerie texts of “a breath
upward” with expressive intensity, although she sometimes had
to sing in such a high range that
the text wasn’t audible. The
vocal line unfolded over the
jagged, spare and haunting
textures of viola (Miranda Cuckson), clarinet (Gleb Kanasevich)
and horn (Jamie Hersch).
Claustrophobic harmonies
underpinned with sparse insistence the line: “So we had to go
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TURN ME LOOSE
Faludi is determined both to
demystify the father of her youth
— “a simultaneously inscrutable
and volatile presence, a black
box and a detonator” — and to
re-examine the very notion and
nature of identity. In doing so,
she challenges some of our most
fundamental assumptions about
transsexuality, most notably by
suggesting that the decision to
change sexes may sometimes
involve more than gender-identity questions alone.
It’s a position I imagine that
will invite pushback, and almost
certainly — understandably —
anger. Trans activists would be
quite right to point out that we
cannot infer much of anything
about transgender concerns
from a single case study. This
book provides plenty of analyses
with which to quarrel.
But in telling her father’s
story, Ms. Faludi is also adding a
layer of complexity to this evolving canon of literature, and she’s
doing it with typical brio. Having
spent a lifetime interrogating
conventions of gender, she’s
uncannily suited to write this
book. (Ms. Faludi is best known
for her 1991 best seller, “Backlash,” a withering dissection of a
culture traumatized by women’s
progress.) Time Magazine may
have declared in 2014 that we’d
reached the “Transgender Tipping Point,” establishing gender
identity as the next frontier in
civil rights. But Ms. Faludi was,
and remains, unimpressed with
the media’s uncritical scrutiny of
this subject, “with all the requisite tropes of victimization,
heroism and celebrity. Rarely did
the fanfare convey the daily
texture of complicated ordinary
lives.”
What do stories about Caitlyn
Jenner, she seems to be saying,
have to do with the extraordinarily complicated man who
raised her?
Ms. Faludi’s father, Istvan
Karoly Friedman, was born in
Hungary in 1927. He was a Budapest Jew surrounded by abundant wealth and little love; as a
teenager during the Nazi occupation, he was left to fend for
himself while his parents roved
from one refuge to the next. All
three survived, but few in their
extended family did. His parents
eventually went to Israel, and he
to the United States.
When Ms. Faludi first visits
her father post-surgery, Stefánie
is living in Budapest, having
relocated there after the fall of
communism in 1989. Ms. Faludi
cannot help but view her father’s
transition through feminist
spectacles. She notes with dis-
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By Susan Faludi
417 pages. Metropolitan Books. $32.
may how entranced Stefánie is
with the rites and aesthetics of
femininity: She obsesses over
clothing and cosmetics; she
delights in male attentiveness.
“You write about the disadvantages of being a woman,” Stefánie pointedly tells her daughter, “but I’ve only found advantages.” Especially when it comes
to assists with home repair.
What truly troubles Ms.
Faludi, though, is how opaque
her father remains, even after
her operation, about the nature
In the end, a parent
who eludes all
explanations.
of her gender identity. Stefánie
never met the requirements
observed by most doctors to get
her gender reassignment
surgery (on the contrary, she
went to elaborate lengths to skirt
them). And she never gives her
daughter a straight answer
about whether she’d always felt
herself to be a woman. “This is
who you were all along? This is
your true self?” Ms. Faludi asks.
“Waaall,” her father answers
(the Hungarian cadences in this
book are fabulous), “it’s who I
am now. Since the operation. I
have developed another personality.”
What Ms. Faludi eventually
suspects is that her father’s
late-in-life decision to change
sexes may be determined by a
much broader variety of personal
and historical forces, and that
gender, as she has long argued, is
more fluid than we’d like to believe. She knows that she should
resist the temptation to connect
her father’s being transgender
with the Holocaust — or more
specifically, his extraordinarily
vexed Jewish identity. But it’s
awfully tempting. Her ambivalence is poignantly clear.
In 1944, every Budapest man
who wasn’t in uniform risked
“trouser inspections” — meaning
her father’s genitalia, which he’d
one day be rid of, could at any
moment have betrayed him as a
Jew. In general, the Jewish men
of Hungary in the early 20th
century were depicted as feminine and neurasthenic, while the
Jewish women, especially if they
were well educated, somehow
escaped this fate, often marrying
members of Budapest’s Christian
ruling class.
“What had been the cost, I
wondered, to one striving-toassimilate Jewish boy growing
up in such a system?” Ms. Faludi
writes.
Stefánie denies that growing
up in such a climate had any
effect on her self-concept. And
who are we to tell her it did?
Thousands of Hungarian Jewish
men survived that era without
ever once reimagining themselves as women.
Yet Ms. Faludi can’t help but
notice that when Stefánie imitates other Jews — like those she
tried to enlist to help get her
family property back — she
speaks in a high voice and uses
mincing gestures. “Here was a
Jewish man-turned-woman,” she
writes, “making fun of Jewish
men for not being manly
enough.”
At moments, Stefánie herself
seems to conflate her change in
sex with a kind of religious conversion. When she attends an
opera in an old synagogue with
Ms. Faludi, she tells her daughter that her fellow patrons are all
looking at her and saying to one
another, “There’s an overdressed
shiksa.”
As “In the Darkroom” progresses, it becomes clear that
Ms. Faludi’s father will always
elude explanation. The real Rosebud the author provides is her
own. Her identity as a feminist,
she realizes, sprang from her
father’s “desperation to assert
the masculine persona he had
chosen.” That it never suited
Istvan, and then Steven, is
achingly clear. Whether Stefánie
suited her better is hard to say,
but perhaps is not our call to
make: It was, at least, a choice
she freely made. “Women,” she
tells her daughter, “get away
with murder!”
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C5
A Power Plant Reborn as a Red-Hot Engine of Creative Pluck
Toronto Festival
Is a Technical Feat
By SHAUN PETT
TORONTO — In just three and
a half weeks, workers here built
one of the world’s largest cultural
performance spaces inside an
abandoned power plant. There
are stages for theater, dance and
music, as well as multiple art galleries and a high-end French
restaurant.
And after 17 days, they’re going
to tear it all down.
The temporary site was built for
the 10th edition of the Luminato
Festival, which opened on Friday.
It is the first time that the festival
has located all of its ambitious programming in a single place: the
Hearn Generating Station in
Toronto’s industrial Port Lands
area.
The festival includes the only
North American performances of
the National Theater of Scotland’s
trilogy of “The James Plays”; the
immersive “Situation Rooms” of
the Berlin theater group Rimini
Protokoll; and the thunderous Unsound Festival. Music events span
the sonic spectrum, from Beethoven to a queer hip-hop dance
party. And the power plant’s former control room has been transformed into Le Pavillon, an ode to
the storied New York restaurant
of that name. Around 850 artists
are participating in 162 events;
last year’s festival drew more
than 600,000 visitors.
Jörn Weisbrodt, the outgoing
artistic director of Luminato, described the Hearn, which was decommissioned in 1983, as a creative achievement. “It’s an artwork in itself,” he said. “It’s not
just a venue.”
Galleries, an interactive video
installation and bars line a grand
hallway that cuts through the towering concrete plinths of the
plant’s former turbines, and a vast
mirror ball hangs in the cavernous hall.
Drawing on his early experiences reanimating abandoned
spaces in Berlin after the Berlin
Wall wall fell, Mr. Weisbrodt sees
this year’s festival as a live proposal for the Hearn’s future as a
new kind of 21st-century cultural
institution.
“If you look at the Barbican or
the Pompidou, these are places
that try to bring all the arts closer
together, but they still build individual spaces,” Mr. Weisbrodt
said. “We don’t separate in space,
but we separate in time,” he said,
referring to the events. “And in
that way we give the audience
freedom to migrate to so many different art forms and for audiences
to mix.”
To create a space that would be
responsive, adaptable and accessible, Mr. Weisbrodt took inspiration from the influential British architect Cedric Price and the theater director Joan Littlewood.
They envisioned the “Fun Palace,”
a repurposed space for the arts
and sciences that could accommodate different fields of creativity
and ways of life.
The starting point for Luminato’s overall design was the
1,200-seat theater for “The James
Plays,” which required some original thinking. Jerad Schomer, a designer with the theater consultancy Charcoalblue, said it was
the most ambitious project he has
been involved in to date. Because
of the challenging acoustics of the
power plant, the designers hung
almost 100,000 square feet of fiberglass duct liner to absorb echoes that would make dialogue incomprehensible.
Fitting the theater into a space
where the plant’s 120-foot tall
boiler used to be required precision. A detailed 3-D model was
created by Partisans, the Toronto
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Glory and grit: Clockwise from above, a disco ball, 26 feet in diameter, in the
cavernous turbine hall of the Hearn Generating Station at the Luminato Festival
in Toronto; a restaurant, Le Pavillon, in the plant’s former control room; a corridor in the turbine hall near the main entrance; an exterior view of the plant.
While the future of the former power station, in the city’s Port Lands district,
remains undecided, some locals believe it could be a catalyst for development.
architecture and design firm,
which spent months scanning every girder, duct, pipe and hole.
When the installation was complete, they had 1.5 inches to spare.
The key breakthrough came
with a decision to repurpose shipping containers to create the balconies and wraparound box seats.
Rolling with the idea, Partisans
embraced Mr. Price’s ethos of offthe-shelf architecture by repurposing industrial items.
A construction elevator provides public access to a mezzanine gallery and restaurant; electronic road signs are used to display information; and the grand
staircase is built from scaffolding.
The 45 shipping containers in use
are scattered throughout like
“God’s Jenga,” said Alex Josephson, a co-founder of Partisans. “There’s such beauty in the
Moduloc stock fencing put togeth-
er to make the pathways,” he said.
“This is the anti-Bilbao,” he added, referring to Frank Gehry’s fantastical titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Spain. “It’s
ready-made monumentalism.”
The construction job fell to
Clyde Wagner, Luminato’s executive producer, and his production
team. Much of the labor and the $2
million budget went into bringing
the decaying building, which had
no sewer connection, water or
electricity, up to code in less than a
month.
Nine cement trucks’ worth of
concrete was used to patch the
floor, and more than 6,000 feet of
barricades were put in place to
close off ruined areas. Elaborate
temporary plumbing snakes up to
the restaurant’s kitchen.
Unexpected challenges arose.
A planned third-floor space
proved too difficult to make acces-
sible, and the leaks from a torrential rain last week necessitated
readjusting part of the layout.
“Creating access to something
that’s forbidden to the entire city
is the project,” Mr. Josephson said.
What will happen after the festival ends is unclear, but interest in
the Hearn’s future has been growing. Some locals believe it could be
a catalyst for development in the
Port Lands, which are to be transformed in coming decades into a
mixed-use community, housing
tens of thousands of people.
Cost has always been a stumbling block to development, but
the former plant’s future is further
complicated by the fact that Ontario Power Generation, the government agency that owns the
building, leased it in 2002 to a
group of private investors.
In 2011 the group announced a
plan to demolish the Hearn. That
seems unlikely for now, but it is
still an option under the terms of
the lease. Investors have been
considering many local and international proposals, said Paul
Vaughan, the president of the
investors group.
The festival may well have generated a new regard for the value
of the physical plant. “One would
have to think very hard before
they took the building away,” Mr.
Vaughan said, “because it could
never be put up again.”
Time is a factor, because the
structure could quickly deteriorate. Toronto’s mayor, John Tory,
has said he would like to get the
decision process moving by holding a future “international competition of imagination” to solicit
ideas.
Mr. Weisbrodt, the outgoing artistic director of the festival, has
his own suggestions for how the
space could be used: for culture,
of course, but also hockey rinks, a
rock-climbing wall with commissioned murals and a school. “It
should be the world’s Hearn Generating Station,” he said. “Why
don’t we do something that encompasses basically everything
people do in their spare time?’’
One idea is visualized along 960
feet of wall space in the mezzanine
gallery. Partisans has made
digital renderings of an art gallery
that could be built inside the turbine hall; it is filled with a collection of significant objects from
the city’s history photographed by
the Toronto photographer Scott
McFarland.
Gazing upon the images can
open up a space-time continuum
in which the viewer contemplates
the past but also glimpses the future.
Scrutinized Owner of a Modigliani Portrait Maintains That It Isn’t Nazi Loot
cover after World War II.
The court paper, filed in connection with Mr. Stettiner’s 1946 claim
to regain the painting, describes it
as a Modigliani self-portrait, not
an image of a chocolate merchant.
But there is conflicting evidence cited by Mr. Maestracci, including the provenance listed
when the Nahmad holding company unsuccessfully tried to sell
the disputed painting, “Seated
Man With a Cane,” through Sotheby’s in 2008.
In its sale materials, the auction
house listed “Stettiner” as a possible previous owner of the painting
and said it had then been sold
anonymously in Paris between
1940 and 1945.
“I think the evidence is overwhelming,” James Palmer, whose
Mondex Company is trying to reclaim the Modigliani painting for
Mr. Maestracci, said in an interview from Italy.
In recent months, much of the
conversation over the work has
focused not on the particulars of
its provenance but on whether Mr.
Nahmad went to great lengths to
conceal his ownership. Techni-
cally, the painting is owned by the
International Art Center, a holding company that controls many
masterpieces, from Monets to Picassos, and has long been known
as a Nahmad company by art
world insiders.
“The International Art Center
is me personally,” said Mr. Nahmad, who said he uses it for security purposes to mask his name.
“It’s David Nahmad.”
Nonetheless, for years, Mr.
Nahmad’s
representatives
avoided making that direct connection in interviews. Much of the
court battle over the Modigliani
has revolved around whether the
Art Center company is controlled
by the Nahmads.
But the recent leak of a trove
from the so-called Panama Papers
— showing documents from the
Mossack Fonseca law firm, which
set up the holding company —
made clear that Mr. Nahmad was
indeed its principal. The resulting
publicity was ugly and overwhelming, Mr. Nahmad said.
“Looted art, hidden art — they
made me look like a crook instead
of doing real battle in the court,”
he said.
In April a Swiss prosecutor, re-
DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
David Nahmad in Paris. Some say he should have been more
transparent about his ownership of “Seated Man With a Cane.”
acting to the disclosure, placed a
legal hold on the work, which is in
storage in Geneva, while he investigated whether the painting was
stolen property. (Last month, he
dropped the seizure order, citing
insufficient evidence.)
Wasn’t it a mistake not to have
been more transparent?
Mr. Nahmad turned to his Swiss
lawyer, Rodolphe Gautier, who
said that when you are “filing a
lawsuit in New York you have to
go against a proper defendant.”
“No matter who is behind” the
International Art Center, he added, “it really does not change the
lawsuit.”
Mr. Nahmad, 69, has long
loathed publicity, but he has
changed his strategy. He hired a
public relations firm and last week
set up shop at a suite in the fivestar Plaza Athénée hotel here
where he met individually with
several reporters.
A glass coffee table was piled
high with Modigliani catalogs that
Mr. Nahmad, in a casual blue
sweater and slacks, thumbed
through. They showed that he had
lent the disputed painting to several museums, including the Jewish Museum in New York in 2004.
“If you had any doubt about
looted art, would you really lend it
to a Jewish museum?” he asked.
Mr. Palmer, of Mondex, says a
series of documents demonstrate
the Stettiner ownership of the
work, including the catalog for the
1930 Venice Biennale where a
“portrait of a man” by Modigliani
was exhibited and credited to the
collection of a Mr. Stettiner. The
listing for a July 1944 sale by the
French auction house Drouot,
which sold items taken from Mr.
Stettiner, records the sale of an unnamed Modigliani picture.
The price was 16,000 francs,
though, far too low, Mr. Nahmad
says, for a large work in oil by Modigliani, even then. Today that
price would be equal to almost
3,000 euros, or about $3,375.
Mr. Nahmad said he feels his position has been strengthened by
an obscure 1947 French court document located by his researcher
in the Paris archives amid the files
of the claim submitted by Mr. Stettiner. The document had been legally sealed until 2022, but Mr.
Nahmad successfully applied for
an exemption to examine it.
The document is from a French
bailiff who presided over Mr.
Stettiner’s restitution case. In it,
the bailiff refers to the painting as
“a picture representing the painter Modigliani painted by himself.”
But Mr. Palmer, who has seen
the document, said he is not persuaded. “The bailiff is not an art
expert,” he said. “It’s pretty easy
for a bailiff to make that kind of
mistake.”
With that impasse, Mr. Nahmad
said he is poised to fight on in the
courts.
In the meantime, he is weighing
invitations to exhibit his painting.
He said he thinks the best option is
to loan it to a museum in Israel.
For now, he said, he has too many
doubts to relinquish the painting.
But he said, “If it’s proven that
this painting is looted by the Nazis, I will give it back.”
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A Range
Of Styles
Pointing
To Future
Robert Battle, the artistic
director of Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater since 2011, gives
an excellent curtain speech. But
when the company returned to
the David H. Koch
Theater on Thursday
and Friday, he kept
uncharacteristically
quiet. What spoke
DANCE instead was the reperREVIEW
tory he has updated
and upgraded.
The two programs featured
seven works. Apart from Ailey’s
“Revelations,” still the cornerstone of the troupe’s repertory,
all of the dances had received
either world premieres or company debuts in the past year.
Two of the works — Kyle Abraham’s “Untitled America: Second Movement” and Mauro
Bigonzetti’s “Deep” — were
brand new. The pieces had problems, but the programs were
impressive, especially Thursday’s, offering the kind of
stylistic variety that a repertory
company should provide and
that this one often has not.
Mr. Abraham’s contribution,
the second installment of a
three-part suite registering the
effect of incarceration on
African-American families, was
more substantial than its skimpy
first movement had been. It
draws power, expressive and
historical, from the work song
“No More My Lord,” recorded in
a Southern prison in the 1940s.
To that haunting female voice
and spare, sledgehammer beat,
dancers emerge to kneel and
touch the ground. They guide
one another to the floor, or go
down of their own volition, so
that bodies accumulate with
hands clasped behind their
backs as if bound.
That image is a favorite of Mr.
Abraham’s, found in other recent
works of his that have addressed
racially charged subject matter.
The repetition is a mark of thematic preoccupations but also of
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SEIBERT
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an artistic impasse, of a talented
choreographer reiterating the
same gestures without discovering how to unlock their (and his)
potential.
This second movement of
“Untitled America” segues into
an electronic score by Raime
interspersed with contemporarysounding voices of people recounting the number of years in
their prison sentences and how
they miss their families. Over
this affecting soundscape, Mr.
Abraham drapes a loose coil of
duets and solos; the layering is
sophisticated but ultimately too
slack. Mr. Abraham’s vocabulary,
with its rich mix of street and
studio suggesting a body at war
with itself, is potent and explosive and wonderfully of the
moment, yet his sense of structure seems stuck. The installments keep coming without
advancing.
Mr. Bigonzetti’s “Deep” has
almost the opposite flaw. This
Italian choreographer, who was
recently appointed director of La
Scala Ballet, can make a coherent dance with a chic and
sparkling surface. The Ailey
dancers look terrific in his broken shapes. But what at first
appears inventive in the
choreography — the unusual
connections between elbows and
stomachs, the feet clasping
necks — turns out to be mere
flash. The way Mr. Bigonzetti
takes advantage of the dancers’
extraordinary technique comes
to feel exploitative. A motif in
which a dancer hovers at the
edge of something without diving in is all too apt as an encapsulation of the work. “Deep” it
isn’t.
For music, “Deep” uses
recordings by Ibeyi, FrenchCuban twins who sing of
Yoruban gods in lightweight,
club-friendly tracks. The more
challenging sounds of AfroCuban jazz that drive Ronald K.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Jamar Roberts and Constance
Stamatiou, above, in “Untitled
America: Second Movement” at
the Koch Theater. Jacquelin
Harris, left, in “Deep.”
Brown’s “Open Door” aren’t the
only element that distinguishes
Mr. Brown’s treatment of AfroCuban material from Mr.
Bigonzetti’s. Mr. Brown knows
From Boulez
To Bolcom,
Going Out
With a Bang
From the start, Alan Gilbert
conceived the NY Phil Biennial
as a citywide festival, not a New
York Philharmonic showcase.
Both New York and international
ensembles would
perform works by
composers young
and old in spaces
small and large.
MUSIC
This year’s ambiREVIEW
tious biennial, the
second, followed that template,
opening May 23 with the JACK
Quartet playing premieres in an
intimate hall at the 92nd Street Y.
For a big finale, this threeweek journey into contemporary
music ended when Mr. Gilbert
and the Philharmonic played two
challenging programs on Friday
and Saturday at David Geffen
Hall. Saturday’s paid tribute to
two composers who had significant associations with the Philharmonic and who died this
year: Pierre Boulez, the orchestra’s pioneering music director
from 1971 to 1977, and Steven
Stucky, the beloved American
composer who hosted the Philharmonic’s Hear and Now series
presenting new works and interviewing their composers. Mr.
Stucky died of cancer at 66 in
February; Mr. Boulez died at 90
in January.
Mr. Boulez was acknowledged
with a performance of “Messagesquisse” for Solo Cello and
Six Cellos, music of wondrous
precision and vibrant colors,
featuring the cellist Eric Bartlett.
Then the Philharmonic presented the belated New York
premiere of Mr. Stucky’s Second
Concerto for Orchestra, which
was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer
Prize for Music. This dazzling
27-minute score explores the
sonic capacities of the orchestra
with bracing imagination and
sizzling energy. Under Mr.
Gilbert, the Philharmonic gave
an electrifying performance.
On Friday the mood was festive for a program offering a look
at what’s going on with American concertos these days. It
began with the premiere of
William Bolcom’s Trombone
Concerto, featuring the Philharmonic’s formidable principal
trombonist, Joseph Alessi. The
Cuba, even if this work isn’t one
of his most inspired.
What’s most remarkable is
how the Ailey dancers can fully
flesh out Mr. Brown’s irresistible
blend of African and modern and
then just as fully inhabit the
groove and footwork of the hiphop steps in Rennie Harris’s
“Exodus.” Something subtle in
the style of Paul Taylor’s tangoinspired “Piazzolla Caldera” still
eludes them, but they can easily
manage the vast stylistic shift
between “Untitled America” and
Mr. Battle’s own “No Longer
Silent.” That 2007 piece, Mr.
Battle’s best, could be from the
1930s. Especially because the
virtues of that work are so
rooted in the past, it is to Mr.
Battle’s credit that the company
he leads no longer looks behind
the times.
Serene Calculation, Yes.
Wild Risk-Taking, No.
Wilderness probably isn’t the
first word that pops into your
mind when considering dances
by the choreographer Brian
Brooks. His work, which lives in
a place of repetition
and lines, moves
bodies through space
with serene calculation. A manicured
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nothing wild, nothing
untamed. On Thursday at the
Kitchen, he unveiled “Wilderness” as part of a season presented by the American Dance
Institute. For Mr. Brooks, this
exploration of fluidity — lugubrious, ponderous — offered little in
the way of a change of course.
Nevertheless, Mr. Brooks is on
a roll: He was recently appointed
the inaugural choreographer in
residence at Chicago’s Harris
Theater for Music and Dance —
he’ll earn $300,000 over three
years — and he has also been
commissioned to create works
for the ballerina Wendy Whelan.
His rise in the field is one of
those dance-world puzzles. “Wilderness,” with its self-aware
slickness, is largely bland and
feels particularly out of place at
the Kitchen, where some facet of
risk-taking is expected.
Set to Jerome Begin’s original
score, which is played by Sandbox Percussion, “Wilderness”
takes place in a two-sided white
space; the four musicians, who
wear pristine white suits and
stand in a row to form the stage’s
third side, mix live percussion
with sounds of ripping paper and
scribbling. Oddly, the music
activates the space in a way that
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ANTHONY
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CAITLIN OCHS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
NY Phil Biennial From paeans to premieres: Alan Gilbert leading the orchestra in the festival’s final days.
premiere coincided with the 45th
annual International Trombone
Festival at the Juilliard School.
Speaking from the stage, Mr.
Bolcom asked the trombonists in
attendance to stand up. What
looked like many dozens did.
In the episodic first movement,
“Quasi una fantasia,” Mr. Bolcom
lightly evokes the heritage of the
trombone as a solemn instrument in sacred music, beginning
with a kind of subdued chorale
with dissonant tweaks for brass
and winds. The trombone enters
playing a searching lyrical line,
soon cushioned by plush string
chords. The second movement,
“Blues,” features the trombone in
a soulful solo over a gently
swinging orchestral backdrop.
“Charade,” the finale, is a
spirited dialogue between trombone and orchestra that turns
slyly combative. Mr. Alessi’s
technical aplomb during fleet
passages was impressively effortless.
Then, joined by the stunning
33-year-old Austrian percussionist Martin Grubinger, Mr. Gilbert
led the New York premiere of
John Corigliano’s “Conjurer”:
Concerto for Percussionist and
String Orchestra and Brass
(2007). To see the lanky soloist
dispatch this 38-minute, hypervirtuosic piece was like watching
an arduous athletic feat.
The composer, a highly skilled
orchestrator, told the audience
why he had at first resisted a
commission to write a percussion
concerto. For one, a percussionist plays a diverse array of in-
struments and therefore lacks a
singular soloist’s voice. Percussion concertos tend to sound like
orchestra pieces with lots of
percussion, Mr. Corigliano said.
His solution was to cast the
work in three distinctive movements titled “Wood,” “Metal” and
“Skin.” In the first, the soloist
plays instruments involving
wood and mallets, like marimba
and xylophone; the second uses
chimes, gongs and other metal
instruments; the third mostly
involves skins, or drums, including the African talking drum, in
which strings that hold the top
and bottom skins in place can be
squeezed by the performer’s arm
to alter pitch. Each movement
begins with a cadenza, so the
soloist (the conjurer of the title)
can establish the character of the
percussion choir and make clear
who’s boss. To further set off the
soloist, Mr. Corigliano scores the
work just for string orchestra,
with some final brass flourishes.
There are stretches in the first
movement in which frenetic
marimba volleys skirt atop jittery string ostinatos that break
into cresting harmonic waves.
Bursts of tinkling metal madness
somehow mesh with the overall
darkness of the slow second
movement. In the third, Mr.
Grubinger had the talking drum
delivering breathless tirades,
when he was not rushing around
producing giddy flights from all
manner of drums.
On Saturday afternoon at
Geffen, performers from the
contemporary ensemble of the
Aspen Music Festival and School
played a short program of works
by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mr.
Stucky, who had a long association with Aspen and had been
scheduled to conduct both
pieces. Timothy Weiss ably took
his place. Mr. Stucky’s “The
Stars and the Roses,” a 15-minute
work for tenor and chamber
ensemble, sets three mystical
poems by Czeslaw Milosz in
English translation to comparably lacy, shimmering music.
Spencer Lang, a young lyric
tenor, brought melting sound to
his alert performance. The playing of the ensemble in Mr. Salonen’s crackling “Catch and Release” lacked precision, though
the character of the music came
through.
Saturday’s Philharmonic concert opened with an engrossing
account of Per Norgard’s Symphony No. 8 (2011) in its United
States premiere. This Danish
master, 83, has been curiously
neglected in America. His 35minute, three-movement symphony is run through with ingeniously intricate motifs and
figures. With its multilayered
textures and dense harmonic
language, the music is hauntingly elusive, a quality conveyed
in this teeming performance.
Though Mr. Gilbert has one
season left as the Philharmonic’s
music director, this biennial was
his last. Will Jaap van Zweden,
his successor, continue this visionary initiative in 2018? There
has been no definite word.
Mr. Brooks’s choreography does
not. Odder still is the funereal
way the dancers seem to defy the
beat by drifting across the stage
in slowly curving shapes that
twist their bodies in one direction
and then the next.
After a while, the dancers’
weightless and slow-motion
swaying, especially as they lean
against one another and twirl
away, is enough to induce queasiness. Rare moments when they
react to the score — in one scene,
they lie on their backs and lift
and lower their hips with a brisk
A new work,
‘Wilderness’ opts for
self-aware slickness.
thud — are too obvious and feel
like an exercise in composition
class.
Despite solos and a duet for
Matthew Albert and Nate Buchsbaum, this eight-member cast,
wearing Karen Young’s black
short-sleeve tops and fitted
pants, is somewhat anonymous.
The uniform costumes give the
dancers the look of an efficient
sales staff. Even in Joe Levasseur’s continually shifting
lighting — which is more hectic
than evocative as it dims, brightens and eventually bathes the
stage in a rosy blush — “Wilderness” is as barren as a department store at opening time.
ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Brian Brooks Moving Company members performing in “Wilderness” at
the Kitchen. Mr. Brooks’s work lives in a place of repetition and lines.
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particularly saucy public-radio show,” James
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The Penguins Get One More Cup for the Road
By DAVID POLLAK
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Game 6 of the
Stanley Cup finals was part hockey, part
speedskating. When it was over on Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Penguins had
their second title in eight years and their
fourth in franchise
PENGUINS
3
history, defeating
the
San
Jose
SHARKS
1
Sharks, 3-1.
Pittsburgh wins
What turned out
series, 4-2
to be the winning
goal typified the
high-end skill on display by both teams.
The Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby
fed defenseman Kris Letang for a onetimer low in the right face-off circle that
found its way into the San Jose net at 7
minutes 46 seconds of the second period.
And despite encouragement from the
spirited crowd inside SAP Center for the
Sharks’ first appearance in the Stanley
Cup finals in their 25-year history, San
Jose could not find the equalizer before
Penguins forward Patric Hornqvist
scored into an empty net with 1:02 left in
the game for the insurance tally.
The game ended when Crosby cleared
the puck the length of the ice with San
Jose on a power play, and then the celebration began.
“Man, I’m going to remember this day
for the rest of my entire life,” Penguins
goaltender Matthew Murray said.
He added: “I probably won’t believe
this until next year to be honest. It’s so
The Penguins
captured their
fourth Stanley
Cup. All four
times have
been on their
opponents’ ice.
surreal.”
Crosby, who had 19 postseason points,
was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy,
which is given to the most valuable player of the playoffs.
After taking a three-to-one series lead,
the Penguins missed an opportunity to
close out the series at home on Thursday
night. It would have been the first time
that a Pittsburgh professional sports
team had won a title inside the city limits
since a Bill Mazeroski home run against
the New York Yankees gave the Pirates
a World Series championship in 1960.
Still, one Penguins defenseman said
he did not think the team’s fan base
would have a problem if the Stanley Cup
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Inner Voice
Made Quiet
By a Son
Slow to Speak
Ernie Els was once the future of golf, but his
child’s autism made him forge a different path.
By KAREN CROUSE
OAKMONT, Pa. — The little evil voice plagued the
Big Easy, as if mocking the nickname that had been bestowed upon Ernie Els because of his fluid swing. On
bad days, the voice pounded his mind with negative
thoughts. Even on Els’s best days, like the Monday
playoff in the 1994 United States Open at Oakmont
Country Club, the voice cleared its throat
on his backswings as he started with a bogey and a triple bogey and found only six
fairways before winning on the 20th hole.
It was the first of four major titles for
Els, who went on to spend a total of nine
weeks as the world No. 1 in 1997 and 1998
and gain entrance into the World Golf Hall
of Fame in 2011. In 2002, when he made the
British Open at Muirfield his third major
victory, his wife, Liezl, was pregnant with
the couple’s second child. That baby, born
three months after Els’s triumph, would
deliver him from the little evil voice.
But not right away. Born a Libra like
‘At 24, I was
his father, Els’s son was slow to crawl, slow
way ahead of to walk, and slow to talk. His bright blue
eyes would not meet his father’s adoring
my time
gaze. The little evil voice that badgered the
as a golfer,
Big Easy on the course followed him home.
but as a man I “What did I do wrong?” Els wailed to his
wife.
was nowhere.’
His boy was different, that much was
painfully obvious, and soon they would
ERNIE ELS,
have a diagnosis: autism. It was a word Els
about winning the
and his wife knew only in the context of
1994 U.S. Open
Dustin Hoffman’s character in the 1988 film
“Rain Man.”
“It was hard for him,” Liezl Els said. “I think he just
wanted to know, were we in any way responsible for
what happened to Ben? He was like: ‘I’m supposed to
take care of this family. Where did I mess up?’”
Ernie Els, 46, looks back at his 1994 self, the one
anointed “the golfer of the future” by Jack Nicklaus after he separated himself from his playoff foes Colin
Montgomerie and Loren Roberts, and he barely recognizes him. He is not the same person who will return to
DAVID CANNON/GETTY IMAGES
Ernie Els once wondered whether he had contributed to his son Ben’s autism. Now, his son brings him a sense of peace.
Tickets on Fans’ Phones?
It’s a Big Hang-Up for Some
Before each
game, fans
unable to get
into Yankee
Stadium line
up for help
with their
ticket problems.
By BILLY WITZ
When the Yankees announced that they were
overhauling their ticketing system this season — introducing mobile ticketing and no longer accepting
print-at-home tickets — they said it was to enhance
the fan experience.
But that has hardly been the case for the fans
camped out at the Yankee Stadium customer service
window before each game, having been unable to get
into the ballpark because of a problem with the tickets on their phones or turned away at the gate with
tickets they printed at home or at work.
Ultimately, most of the fans have their problems
resolved, but not before standing in lines while the
game goes on without them.
ALEX GOODLETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“It’s a nightmare,” said Michael Goodrich, who
missed the first inning of a game against Kansas City
last month before he could meet his friend at their
seats. “This whole nonsense is ridiculous.”
The problems fans have experienced are myriad. Among them: not being able to open mobile tickets, experiencing glitches while trying to transfer
tickets to friends, and having bar codes register as
invalid. Some foreign phones do not accept mobile
ticketing, and other obstacles include remembering
the password for the ticketing account and downloading the right app to begin with.
Some fans, acknowledging that they are not tech
savvy, wonder why the Yankees did not consider this
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fers print-at-home options.
“I’m a little irritated,” Ashley
Castle said while she waited in
line as last Monday night’s game
against the Los Angeles Angels
began without her, her two daughters and a friend. Castle, from
Jackson, Miss., had bought mobile
tickets months before their visit to
New York.
“I can get on Delta with this,”
she said, referring to the airline,
as she held up her phone. “But I
can’t get in here.”
The Yankees’ chief operating officer, Lonn Trost, who has overseen the new ticket policies, and
the team president, Randy
Levine, declined interview requests. However, the Yankees said
in response to emailed questions
that mobile ticketing had caused
few problems among the 6,000 to
12,000 fans who they say use that
option each game.
“To date, the overwhelming majority of real-time feedback has
been positive,” the Yankees
spokesman Jason Zillo said in a
statement. “We have been
pleased to see how quickly fans
are familiarizing themselves with
mobile-ticket technology. The
vast majority of our fans picked
things up quickly, and we have
done everything in our power to
create a support system for fans
who may need help navigating its
interface.”
At the start of the season, the
Yankees sent an email to fans who
had bought tickets through the
team and mentioned the new mobile-ticketing policy, the team
said. A follow-up email focused
solely on mobile ticketing. The
Yankees also said they had added
staff members trained in mobile
ticketing to each stadium gate for
the first several homestands.
Still, the Yankees seem to have
created a hurdle for at least some
people at a time when the team is
facing new challenges in drawing
fans.
The Mets, for one thing, are a
formidable team again, with the
extra attention that brings. The
Yankees, meanwhile, no longer
have iconic players like Derek
Jeter and Mariano Rivera to attract fans, and their only playoff
appearance since 2012 has been
brief — a wild-card-game loss last
season.
And while they have recently
played much better, they have
spent much of this season with a
losing record, which is hardly a
selling point.
Entering Sunday, the average
attendance at Yankee Stadium
had dropped by nearly 20 percent
compared with 2010 and by more
than 2,000 fans per game compared with this point last season,
although the Yankees were still
sixth in average attendance
among all teams.
When the Yankees announced
their new ticket policies in midFebruary, just before pitchers and
catchers reported to spring training, they insisted they were fighting back against fraud. Print-athome tickets could more easily be
altered or sold multiple times,
they contended.
Still, the move to ban print-athome tickets was widely viewed
as a broadside at StubHub, a major resale-market competitor of
the Yankees’ ticket exchange,
which Ticketmaster runs for the
team. The Yankees have long been
bothered that exchanges like
StubHub, SeatGeek and Vivid
Seats have declined to set a floor
on ticket prices, which the Yankees contend diminishes the tickets’ value.
Mobile tickets can essentially
be locked to allow resale only
through the Yankees’ ticket exchange, freezing out StubHub.
And eliminating the print-athome option makes it more cum-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX GOODLETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Fans who attended a Yankees game last month, above and left,
had to abide by the team’s ticketing policy for this season, which
bans print-at-home tickets. The Yankees’ new mobile-ticketing
system has had problems, including glitches when fans try to
transfer tickets to friends and bar codes that register as invalid.
bersome for StubHub and others
to disseminate tickets to their
customers.
Yankees fans who use StubHub
must now rely on old-fashioned
hard-stock tickets that can either
be delivered to them if bought far
enough in advance or be picked up
on the day of a game at a service
center 10 blocks south of Yankee
Stadium. The office is tucked
away off the street in the Bronx
Terminal Market parking garage
and is not exactly a trek that fans
want to make before heading inside the stadium.
Levine, the team president,
suggested before the season that
a deal to allow StubHub to deliver
mobile tickets to its customers
was imminent. As of late last
week, however, no agreement had
been reached; the team and StubHub said talks were continuing.
“I wish StubHub and the Yankees would get along, just like I
wish Comcast and the Yankees
would get along,” Jon Sterling of
Iselin, N.J., said as he picked up
two tickets to last Monday’s game
at the StubHub outlet. (Comcast
and the Yankees-owned YES Network are in a dispute over subscriber fees, leaving about
900,000 people unable to watch
games.)
Sterling said that he usually
bought tickets through the Yan-
A team facing
new challenges
in drawing a crowd
has created a hurdle.
kees’ exchange but that these tickets on StubHub were too cheap to
pass up — $6 for a bleacher ticket
that has a face value of about $25.
StubHub maintained that its inventory was close to what it was
last year but said that its
customers were buying tickets
earlier so they could avoid the
hassle of picking them up at the
Bronx office.
Outside the Stadium, there is a
steady murmur of discontent.
Emily Hart stood near Gate 4 at
Yankee Stadium recently, waiting
to distribute the last of 35 tickets
for a University of Rochester
alumni outing. She had felt uneasy
walking 20 blocks from her job to
the Stadium while carrying $1,500
worth of tickets, and she felt
inconvenienced as she waited to
hand over the final few tickets after the game had already begun.
Hart said she had the email address of everyone in her group, so
she would have been able to send
each person a PDF for a print-athome ticket. But she did not have
everyone’s phone number and did
not think she could distribute mobile tickets.
So she did it the old way, handing out hard-stock tickets.
“It feels like we’re back in the
’90s,” her friend Stephen Keeley
said.
Some fans said the Yankees’
customer service representatives
were helpful, but there are only
two windows available, so on
many days, as the start of the
game draws near, the line grows
to around 25 deep.
“What happened to punch it, rip
it?” Chuck Thomas said after he
needed to go through the
customer service line because his
mobile ticket, which had opened
on his computer, did not do so on
his phone. “All this technology is
doomed to fail.”
His friend Nolan Fleming, who
had been waiting somewhat impatiently, told Thomas, “I need a
Blue Moon for my inconvenience.”
Al Flade had to wait far longer
than Thomas and Fleming, about
25 minutes, after his wife and his
son went through the gates with
mobile tickets. Flade’s bar code
could not be read, so he had to go
to customer service to have it regenerated.
“It was a distraction, an inconvenience,” said Flade, who was using mobile ticketing for the first
time. “Hopefully it doesn’t happen
again.”
Tom O’Malley, wearing a Yankees cap and a Rivera jersey, said
his mobile-ticketing problem was
exacerbated because the tickets
had been bought with his wife’s
credit card; he had to call her from
the ticket window.
“They need to make it more
user-friendly,” O’Malley said. “Every other major pro team in New
York — the Nets, Knicks, Jets —
all I have to do is buy a ticket, print
it out and walk into the stadium.”
When Michael Koffman showed
up with tickets he said he had
bought through Ticketmaster and
had mistakenly printed out at
home, he and a friend were sent to
the customer service window,
where they were given two hardstock tickets. His friend went into
the stadium, but Koffman’s ticket
was rejected by the scanner, so he
had to go back to customer service.
“It ultimately worked, but I was
frustrated,” Koffman said. “I didn’t feel like I did anything wrong.”
Goodrich, who had trouble getting into the Stadium for the game
against the Royals last month,
said a friend had invited him to the
game and had forwarded him a
mobile ticket via email. To open it,
he said, he had to open a Ticketmaster account, which required
him to supply credit card and contact information.
This bothered him, Goodrich
said in a phone interview, because
the day after he attended the
game, he received a call from a
Yankees sales representative who
wanted to sell him tickets.
“I find it ridiculous that I can’t
print tickets,” said Goodrich, an
executive at an audiovisual company. “Let’s say I’ve got tickets
and I can’t go. In the past, I’d say
to one of the guys at work, ‘Here,
Joe, take your girlfriend to the
game.’ Now, I’ve got to transfer it.
Some of my employees don’t have
credit cards.”
Dan Matwey had a little more
patience than some of the Yankees
fans. He was visiting last month
from Toronto and had bought tickets to see his hometown Blue Jays
play the Yankees. He stood in
three lines and waited 45 minutes
before the problem with his mobile ticket was resolved.
“Other than that, I love New
York,” said Matwey, who added
with a wink that he at least had
company as he stood in line. “It’s
good
to
know
I’m
not
discriminated against. It’s not just
being from Canada.”
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BASEBALL
As Yankees Honor the Past, Their Prospects Look Murky
One man in pinstripes hit a
home run on Sunday at Yankee
Stadium: Hideki Matsui, who
belted a David
Cone pitch into the
second deck inside
the right-field foul
pole on Old-Timers’
ON
Day. Matsui turned
BASEBALL
42 on Sunday, still
younger than Bartolo Colon and
Ichiro Suzuki. But he is not coming back to save his old team.
“I’d probably last not even one
game,” Matsui said through his
interpreter, Roger Kahlon. “I’d go
on the D.L. as well.”
That is a pity, because Matsui
actually did play first base on
Sunday. Of course, so did Ron
Guidry, the great left-hander,
who is 65. For their latest first
baseman, the Yankees plan to
bring in the son of a former
Yankee: Ike Davis, the ex-Met
whose father, Ron, made an
All-Star team as a Yankees reliever.
Davis was hitting .268 with
four homers and a .350 on-base
percentage for the Class AAA
affiliate of the Texas Rangers,
who released him from his minor
league deal on Sunday. The Yankees cleared a roster spot for
Davis by sending the reliever
Chad Green to the minors. Nick
Swisher, the prodigal bro, hit two
homers on Sunday for Class AAA
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — too
late, it would seem, for a promotion.
Rob Refsnyder played first on
Sunday, and the Yankees pinchhit for him with two outs in the
ninth inning against the Detroit
Tigers’ Francisco Rodriguez.
Brian McCann struck out looking
at a high, outside curveball, and
protested politely with the plate
umpire. Manager Joe Girardi
smirked and retreated to the
clubhouse.
It was one of those days for the
Yankees, a 4-1 loss to the rookie
Michael Fulmer, who extended
his scoreless streak to 28⅓ innings. On Saturday night they
lost to a veteran master, Justin
Verlander. Before that, they had
won five straight.
‘We know what
our formula is for
winning,’ Manager
Joe Girardi says.
TYLER
KEPNER
KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reggie Jackson, left, with Hideki Matsui after scoring on Matsui’s two-run homer at Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium.
The loss dropped the Yankees
back under .500, at 31-32. It is
hard to know exactly what kind
of team they really are.
“I think we have a pretty good
read,” Girardi said. “We know
what our formula is for winning.
Verlander’s been throwing well,
Fulmer’s been throwing well, and
we didn’t score a lot of runs these
last two days. And we’ve been in
a long, long stretch.”
Sunday’s game was the 40th in
41 days for the Yankees, who will
rest on Monday before two
games in Colorado and four in
Minnesota. They had started this
stretch in crisis, with an 8-15
record after a sweep in Boston.
They have since gone 23-17, and
their pitchers give them a reasonable chance to win most
games.
“I think we’re playing much
better, and I think our starting
pitching has been much better,”
Girardi said. “And, really, that’s a
big part of it. When your starting
pitchers are doing their job,
you’re going to win a lot more
games.”
That is true, and if the Yankees
pitch the way they have, they
will compete. And if they compete, it is hard to imagine the
team trading Dellin Betances,
Andrew Miller or even Aroldis
Chapman. The first two would
have plenty of value in the winter, anyway, and Chapman could
bring back a high draft choice if
he leaves as a free agent.
The Yankees’ next 11 games are
against the Rockies and the
Twins, with the San Diego
Padres up ahead at the start of
July. It is easy to imagine the
Yankees using the soft schedule
to rise above .500, stay there for
a while, and keep all their veterans. Again, they would pass on a
chance to get younger for the
future.
With two wild cards available,
a winning record essentially puts
a team in the pennant race. The
Yankees believe their formula
could work in October, when the
best bullpens can dominate. Do
not expect them to retreat.
But the Yankees would also
have to beat good pitching to
have a real chance in the postseason, where they would face
pitchers like Verlander and Fulmer. The lineup still lacks impact
hitters who inspire confidence.
“In baseball, you look for
larger sample sizes,” third baseman Chase Headley said, dismissing the lost weekend. “I
think we’ve been swinging well
the last 10 or 15 days.”
The Yankees should be proud
of their emergence from the
April abyss. But everything
counts, and their on-base plus
slugging percentage, .693, is
among the worst in the game.
They needed Alex Rodriguez and
Mark Teixeira to avoid injury
and duplicate their 2015 production, which was probably too
much to ask. Rodriguez has a
.238 on-base percentage since
coming off the disabled list in
late May, and Teixeira is out with
torn cartilage in his right knee.
“Injuries have really set back
the team,” said Matsui, who
works as a special adviser in
baseball operations. “Guys have
to really grind it out, so they
haven’t had a chance to really
get the full roster out there and
compete. But it’s not even halfway yet.”
Matsui, of course, finished his
Yankees career as the most
valuable player of the 2009
World Series. He homered and
drove in six runs in the clincher,
which remains the last World
Series game the Yankees have
played.
Mets Lose Again After Collins Takes Ill
By PAT BORZI
JIM M cISAAC/GETTY IMAGES
The Tigers’ Michael Fulmer, a rookie and former Mets prospect, improved his record to 7-1.
Hot Rookie Drops Yanks Below .500
By WAYNE EPPS
The rookie right-hander Michael Fulmer, a former Mets
prospect who was sent to the
Tigers’ system last season as part
of a trade for
TIGERS
4
Yoenis
CesYANKEES
1 pedes, dominated
the
crosstown Yankees Sunday in Detroit’s 4-1 victory at Yankee Stadium.
Fulmer, 23, has been sharp recently, and on Sunday he gave up
no runs, three walks and two hits
over six innings, extending his
scoreless innings streak to 28⅓
and his winning streak to five
games. His scoreless innings
streak is the second-longest by a
Tigers rookie in franchise history,
behind John Hiller’s 28⅔ innings
in 1967.
According to the Elias Sports
Bureau, Fulmer is also the only
pitcher since 1893 to record four
straight starts in a single season
with at least six shutout innings
while also allowing no more than
three hits.
Fulmer improved to 7-1 and lowered his E.R.A. to 2.52 in 53⅔ innings for the season. He seems to
be enjoying his success.
“It’s always fun to win,” Fulmer
said.
Fulmer was not upset when the
Mets traded him last year; it was
nice to be wanted, he said. He added that he enjoyed seeing the success of the Mets’ major league
pitchers while he was in the Mets’
minor league system — including
success among some of his former
teammates.
“It was awesome to see guys
like that succeed and get to live
their dream,” Fulmer said. “I
knew if I kept at it and pitched the
way I could, then my time would
come. Whether it was with the
Mets or this Tigers team.”
Now, Fulmer is making his own
mark. He said the biggest factor in
his recent success was just getting
outs when he needed to.
“If a guy gets on, I try not to
panic,” Fulmer said. “I just try to
locate my pitches and get good action on my pitches.” He then lets
the defense do its work, he added,
“and they usually come up pretty
big.”
The Yankees tried to put something together against Fulmer in
the fifth inning Sunday. Austin
Romine led off with a ground-rule
double to right field. Two outs later, Fulmer walked Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner to load
the bases. Carlos Beltran popped
up to end the inning, however, and
Fulmer’s
scoreless
streak
continued.
Afterward, Beltran praised Fulmer’s fastball and slider.
“For me, especially, I was having trouble picking up the spin on
the slider,” Beltran said after the
game. “He got me chasing a couple of times.”
The loss pulled the Yankees to
one game under .500, at 31-32.
They finished their seven-game
homestand at 5-2 after succumbing to the strong pitching
performances of Fulmer on Sunday and Justin Verlander on Saturday.
Michael Pineda went six innings for the Yankees, striking out
eight and allowing six hits and two
runs. He got into trouble in the
fourth and fifth innings but was
able to limit the damage. After
Pineda yielded three straight singles at the opening of the fourth,
Nick Castellanos’s sacrifice fly
scored Miguel Cabrera from third,
giving the Tigers a 1-0 lead. But after another single by Justin Upton, Pineda got Jarrod Saltalamacchia to line out and struck out
Mike Aviles swinging.
Pineda gave up one more run in
the fifth. With two on and one out,
Victor Martinez’s groundout toward first was enough for Ian
Kinsler, who had walked to lead off
the inning, to score from third
base and build the Tigers’ lead to
2-0.
In the sixth, Pineda, whose
record fell to 3-7, retired the side in
order, striking out Upton and
Saltalamacchia.
“My slider the last couple of
starts is good,” Pineda said. “It’s
way better than the first couple of
months. I’m more consistent with
my slider, and my fastball location
too.”
Yankees reliever Anthony
Swarzak came on to start the
seventh, giving up a leadoff single
to Mike Aviles. Kinsler followed
with a two-run home run to left
field, making Detroit’s lead 4-0.
Kinsler had also homered on Saturday.
The Yankees scored their only
run in the eighth when Chase
Headley singled, driving Ellsbury
in from second. But it was not
enough.
After a stretch of 40 games in 41
days, the Yankees will have Monday off before beginning a twogame series against the Rockies
at Coors Field on Tuesday.
MILWAUKEE — Mets Manager Terry Collins appeared perfectly fine about two and a half
hours before Sunday’s game at
Miller Park.
BREWERS
5
Speaking
to
reporters
in
METS
3
his
office,
Collins reviewed his limited options off the bench: Second baseman Neil Walker (stiff back) and
outfielder Michael Conforto (sore
wrist) were not starting, and
Collins hoped to give shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera his first complete
day off this season.
“Managing in the minor
leagues, you’re used to it because
it happens all the time,” Collins
said. “In ’84, I had to activate myself to give us enough players to
play. If you’ve done it as long as
I’ve been doing it, it’s just part of
the game.”
But less than an hour before the
start, Collins, 67, felt ill and headed
to nearby Froedtert Hospital for
tests, accompanied by the trainer
Ray Ramirez. The bench coach,
Dick Scott, who last managed with
Class A South Bend in 1997, took
over for Collins, the oldest manager in the majors. The Mets’ assistant general manager, John
Ricco, said Collins walked out of
the clubhouse and would remain
overnight for observation and
more tests.
Collins and Ramirez watched on
television, Ricco said, as the Mets
lost, 5-3, to Milwaukee, a mess of a
game featuring five errors —
three by the Mets — and several
head-scratching plays.
“He was probably a bit agitated,
knowing Terry,” Ricco said. “But
other than that, he was feeling
fine.”
Ricco said Ramirez and a Brewers team doctor examined Collins
in the Mets’ clubhouse.
“He just said he wasn’t feeling
well,” Ricco said. Most players
knew nothing about what had happened to Collins until Scott informed them 30 minutes before
the game, just before starter
Steven Matz headed to the bullpen
to warm up.
“I saw him walking and talking,
asking for his stuff when he was
escorted out,” right fielder Curtis
Granderson said.
Then the Mets went out and lost
for the second consecutive day to
a club they had beaten five consecutive times, bringing an unsatisfying end to a 5-5 road trip.
Brewers starter Zach Davies
limited the Mets to one hit through
six scoreless innings before allowing a double to Kelly Johnson and
a single to James Loney to start
the seventh. Davies departed and
was ultimately charged with a run
when Johnson scored. Matz allowed five runs, four earned, on
nine hits in six innings. The Mets
trailed by 5-0 when Matz left, then
chipped back with Johnson’s run
in the seventh and two more in the
eighth.
DARREN HAUCK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Mets’ Wilmer Flores, right, committed an error when he
tried to throw out the Brewers’ Jonathan Villar in the fifth.
Neither club took batting practice on the field, and major league
teams
abandoned
regular
pregame infield practice years
ago. Whether that contributed to
the ragged play, including four
throwing errors in the first five innings, was up to the beholder.
Granderson attributed the Mets’
misplays to fatigue after a 10-day
trip, not concern about Collins.
“None of that had anything to
do with whatever ended up happening to Terry,” he said.
On a cool, sunny afternoon, the
mistakes commenced almost immediately. Milwaukee’s Aaron
Hill bounced a throw to first in the
first inning. Mets left fielder Alejandro De Aza threw wildly past
second in the bottom of the inning.
In the second, when Milwaukee
scored three, Matz’s misfire on a
sacrifice bunt by Davies allowed
two runs to score. With Davies on
first base in the fifth, third baseman Wilmer Flores threw away
Jonathan Villar’s bunt, leading to
two more runs.
“It wasn’t great for sure, turning routine plays into little bit of a
disaster there,” Scott said. “It’s the
first game we’ve had like that all
year long. After early in the game,
we could have phoned the rest of
the game in, but they continued to
play.”
In the eighth, Villar, the Brewers’ shortstop, mishandled a leadoff grounder by pinch-hitter Juan
Lagares, which was generously
scored a double. Granderson,
whose bat has come alive the last
few days, singled sharply to right
for one run. A long double by Yoenis Cespedes brought in another.
A one-out infield single by Kevin Plawecki in the ninth brought
the tying run to the plate, but
Brewers closer Jeremy Jeffress
struck out pinch-hitter Conforto
and retired Granderson on a
grounder to first.
Afterward, the Mets quietly
packed their gear and headed for
the airport, minus their manager.
“It was tough,” Matz said.
“We’re all concerned about him,
definitely.”
INSIDE PITCH
Before he left, TERRY COLLINS
said TRAVIS d’ARNAUD, on a rehab
assignment with Class A St. Lucie,
was about “seven or eight days
away” from rejoining the Mets.
D’Arnaud caught Saturday for the
first time. “One of the things you
would like to see when he’s been
out as long as he is are back-toback games,” Collins said. JOHN
RICCO, the ranking Mets executive on the trip, concurred, adding
the Mets might move him up to
Class AA Binghamton or Class
AAA Las Vegas later in the week.
. . . The Mets added a bullpen arm
Sunday, calling up ERIK GOEDDEL
and optioning LOGAN VERRETT,
Saturday’s starter, to Las Vegas.
Baseball’s Lightweight Class
Zach Davies, who was the starting pitcher for Milwaukee on Sunday
against the Mets, has a listed weight of 155 pounds, making him the
lightest active pitcher. Infielder Ronald Torreyes of the Yankees is the
lightest player at 150 pounds. Players 160 pounds or less:
Player
Weight
Position
Ronald Torreyes, Yankees
150
Infielder
Zach Davies, Milwaukee
155
Pitcher
Alexi Amarista, San Diego
160
Infielder
Reymond Fuentes, Kansas City
160
Outfielder
Cesar Hernandez, Philadelphia
160
Infielder
Rafael Ortega, Los Angeles Angels
160
Left fielder
Billy Hamilton, Cincinnati
160
Center fielder
Source: Baseball-Reference.com
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S C O R E B OA R D
Peru Eliminates Brazil on a Disputed Goal
By The Associated Press
Peru stunned Brazil, 1-0, on Sunday
night in Foxborough, Mass., eliminating Brazil from the Copa América Centenario on a late goal by Raúl Ruidíaz
that might have been a hand ball.
Peru will face Colombia in the quarterfinals on Friday after winning
Group B by beating Brazil for the first
time in 31 years.
When Ruidíaz, a second-half substitute, deflected the ball into the net off
an Andy Polo cross, Brazil goalkeeper
Alisson immediately complained that
the ball had also made contact with
Ruidíaz’s hand. After a lengthy discussion by the referees, the goal was allowed in the 75th minute.
Brazil had advanced to the quarterfinals of every Copa América since
1993.
ECUADOR 4, HAITI 0 Enner Valencia
scored and added two assists in East
Rutherford, N.J., helping Ecuador advance to the Copa América quarterfinals for the first time since 1997.
Ecuador, which locked up second
place in Group B with the win, will face
the United States, which won Group A,
on Thursday in Seattle. Ecuador previously tied Brazil, 0-0, and Peru, 2-2, in
the group stage.
Valencia started the scoring against
Haiti by firing in a low shot in the 11th
minute after taking a long feed from
Christian Noboa from the corner of the
6-yard box. About nine minutes later,
Valencia tapped a pass to Jaime Ayoví,
who sent a roller past goalkeeper
Johnny Placide. Noboa and Antonio
Valencia added goals in the 57th and
78th minutes, respectively.
POLAND 1, NORTHERN IRELAND 0 Poland showed that it was more than just
one man in a strong performance,
beating Northern Ireland, 1-0, in Nice,
France, for its first ever win in the European Championships.
Forward Robert Lewandowski, Europe’s top scorer in qualifying, was
kept in check for large stretches of the
game, leaving space for others to succeed. The attacking midfielder Arkadiusz Milik scored the game’s only
goal with a low shot in the 51st minute.
Though Poland dominated the
Group C match, it will most likely need
to convert more chances to get past
Germany, the world champion, which
it will play on Thursday.
Milik missed the target twice in the
first 10 minutes and struck the side netting with a rising shot from a good position in the 31st. Midfielder Grzegorz
Krychowiak had a chance to double
the lead in the 88th when his longrange shot flashed wide of the post.
Northern Ireland showed a lot of defensive effort but failed to register a
single shot on target in its first appearance at the Euros. A wayward overhead kick from Kyle Lafferty in the
76th minute was the closest Northern
Ireland came to equalizing.
CROATIA 1, TURKEY 0 When Luka Modric scores, Croatia cannot be beaten.
The diminutive Modric, a Real Madrid midfielder, made the difference
again, displaying perfect technique to
score with a dipping volley in Paris
and lift Croatia to a 1-0 win over Turkey
at the European Championships.
Croatia Coach Ante Cacic called the
goal “magical,” but a modest Modric
did not realize that, as of Sunday, Croatia had 10 wins and a draw in international games in which he scored.
“If this is true, then it’s really important,” Modric said through an interpreter. “I kicked it in a perfect way, but
I’m even happier about the performance and the three points.”
Modric settled an often rugged
Group D match in the 41st minute. He
strode forward into the path of a high
clearance and sent a 25-yard shot past
the diving goalie Volkan Babacan.
Croatia had several good chances to
pad its lead but was twice denied by
the crossbar in the second half. The
veteran captain Darijo Srna’s curling
free kick glanced off the woodwork,
and Ivan Perisic’s close-range header
rebounded out of danger.
PRO BASEBALL
PRO BASKETBALL
A.L. STANDINGS
East
Pct
GB
Baltimore
36
W
26 .581
—
Boston
36
26 .581
—
Toronto
35
30 .538
2{
Yankees
31
32 .492
5{
Tampa Bay
29
32 .475
6{
Central
L
W
L
Pct
GB
—
Kansas City
32
30 .516
3
W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
Detroit
32
30 .516
3
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
Atlanta
7
Liberty
5
Chicago
5
Indiana
4
Washington
4
Connecticut
2
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
Minnesota
10
Los Angeles
9
Phoenix
4
Seattle
4
Dallas
3
San Antonio
1
Sunday’s Games
Atlanta 93, Connecticut 87
Phoenix 86, Chicago 80
Seattle 90, Indiana 88
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled=
Chicago
31
32 .492
4{
19
43 .306
16
West
W
Texas
39
Pct
GB
24 .619
L
—
Seattle
34
29 .540
5
Houston
30
35 .462
10
Los Angeles
27
36 .429
12
Oakland
26
36 .419 12{
SUNDAY
Detroit 4, Yankees 1
Toronto 10, Baltimore 9
Oakland 6, Cincinnati 1
Tampa Bay 5, Houston 0
Kansas City 3, Chicago White Sox 1
Minnesota 7, Boston 4, 10 innings
Cleveland 8, L.A. Angels 3
Texas 6, Seattle 4
MONDAY
Philadelphia (Eickhoff 3-8) at
Toronto (Dickey 4-6), 7:07
Detroit (Boyd 0-1) at Chicago White
Sox (Shields 2-8), 8:10
Cleveland (Carrasco 2-1) at Kansas
City (Volquez 5-6), 8:15
Minnesota (Nolasco 2-4) at L.A.
Angels (Weaver 5-5), 10:05
Texas at Oakland (Manaea 2-4),
10:05
W
L
Pct
GB
Washington
39
24 .619
—
Mets
34
28 .548
4{
Miami
32
31 .508
7
Philadelphia
29
34 .460
10
Atlanta
18
44 .290 20{
Central
W
Pct
GB
Chicago
43
18 .705
—
St. Louis
35
28 .556
9
Pittsburgh
32
31 .508
12
Milwaukee
30
33 .476
14
Cincinnati
24
39 .381
West
W
L
L
20
Pct
GB
San Francisco
37
26 .587
—
Los Angeles
33
30 .524
4
Colorado
30
33 .476
7
Arizona
28
37 .431
10
San Diego
26
38 .406 11{
SUNDAY
AUTO RACING
Logano Leads Young Pack Across Finish Line
Joey Logano, 26, pulled away to win the FireKeepers
Casino 400 on Sunday and was followed by Chase Elliott,
20, and Kyle Larson, 23, making up the youngest top three
in history for a race on Nascar’s top series, now known as
the Sprint Cup.
The three’s average age, 23, was lower than the 24.7 of
the top three finishers at a race in 1951 and two races the
previous year.
“The future of Nascar is present,” Logano said. “It’s going to be big. It’s amazing to see.”
Logano, the pole-sitter at Michigan International
Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., passed Elliott on Lap 153 and
stayed ahead for the 15th Sprint Cup Series victory of his
career. Elliott finished a career-best second, but he was not
in the mood to celebrate, blaming himself for poor restarts.
“I definitely messed up,” he said. “Putting it in the correct gear would be a good start.”
Brad Keselowski was fourth, and Kevin Harvick, the
points leader, finished fifth.
Maddon said he would not be worried that Arrieta
would be hurt but stopped short of endorsing the idea on
behalf of the team.
“That’s above my pay grade, right there,” he said.
Still, Maddon became more enthused about the idea as
he mentioned the Diamondbacks’ Zack Greinke, the
Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, and the Mets’ Jacob deGrom
and Bartolo Colon as other National League pitchers who
could compete.
“I think it would be interesting,” Maddon said. “It might
even be more interesting than the regulars.”
The Giants’ Madison Bumgarner has said he would like
to participate in the event, set for July 11 in San Diego during the All-Star break. On Saturday, Arrieta said he would
want to match his home run power against Bumgarner’s.
Arrieta said swinging for the fences in the Home Run
Derby spotlight “would probably be the most adrenaline I
would ever have.”
Lewis Hamilton took advantage of
Sebastian Vettel’s pit-stop strategy to earn his 45th career
Formula One win, capturing the Canadian Grand Prix for
the fifth time. Vettel took the early lead in Montreal with an
audacious move at the start, but he gave it back for good
when he went to the pits — for the second time — on Lap 37.
With the victory, Hamilton cut the series lead of his
teammate Nico Rosberg to 9 points, from 24, at 116-107. Vettel moved into third in the points race, with 78.
tive pitcher to reach 2,000 strikeouts in the Texas Rangers’
6-4 win against the host Seattle Mariners, joining C.C.
Sabathia, Bartolo Colon, Felix Hernandez, Jake Peavy,
John Lackey and Justin Verlander. Hamels struck out five
and allowed one run on four hits in seven innings.
HAMILTON NARROWS GAP
The IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden broke his right collarbone in a scary crash in the
Firestone 600 after his car was slammed to its side and slid
along the frontstretch wall with the top of the cockpit exposed. Only 71 of the scheduled 248 laps in Fort Worth were
completed before rain from an approaching thunderstorm
hit the track, so IndyCar rescheduled the race for Aug. 27.
INDYCAR RACE RESCHEDULED
MILESTONE FOR HAMELS Cole Hamels became the seventh ac-
AROUND THE MAJORS Dallas Keuchel, the reigning American
League Cy Young Award winner, became the first major
league pitcher to lose nine games this season as the visiting
Houston Astros fell to the Tampa Bay Rays, 5-0. • Russell
Martin hit a three-run homer, and the host Toronto Blue
Jays used a season-high seven doubles to beat the Baltimore Orioles, 10-9. • Max Kepler’s first major league
homer, a three-run shot in the 10th, gave the host Minnesota
Twins a 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox. • Jon Lester
earned his fourth straight win, allowing no earned runs in
seven innings as the visiting Chicago Cubs beat the Atlanta
Braves, 13-2.
T ENNIS
Murray and Former Coach Will Reunite
Andy Murray said he was reuniting with his former
coach Ivan Lendl, who helped Murray win his two Grand
Slam titles, at the United States Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013. Since splitting with Lendl in March 2014, Murray has lost three Grand Slam finals, all to Novak Djokovic.
Murray and Lendl parted ways after Lendl, an eighttime Grand Slam singles champion, decided he no longer
wanted to spend 20-plus weeks a year traveling. Murray
replaced Lendl with Amélie Mauresmo, who helped him
climb back up the rankings after he had back surgery, but
the partnership ended last month.
GOLF
Langer Climbs the Senior Major List
Bernhard Langer won the Constellation Senior Players
Championship for the third straight year, making a 12-foot
birdie putt on the final hole for a one-stroke victory at
windy Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown, Pa.
Langer, a 58-year-old German, won his seventh senior
major title — his fifth in the last 11 — to tie Hale Irwin for
second on the career list, one victory behind Jack Nicklaus.
AROUND GOLF Daniel Berger won the FedEx St. Jude Classic
CoCo Vandeweghe beat Kristina Mladenovic, 7-5, 7-5, to win her second Ricoh Open title in The
Hague, Netherlands. Vandeweghe also won the grasscourt tournament in 2014 — her only two titles on the WTA
Tour. • Heavy rain forced organizers to push back until
Monday the Mercedes Cup final between Dominic Thiem
and Philipp Kohlschreiber with the first set tied, 6-6, in
Stuttgart, Germany.
in Memphis for his first P.G.A. Tour title, shooting a threeunder-par 67 to hold off Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker and
Brooks Koepka by three strokes. • Wu Ashun rallied to win
the Lyoness Open in Atzenbrugg, Austria, for his second
European Tour victory, improving his chances of playing
for China in the Rio Olympics. Wu closed with a three-under
69 for a one-stroke win over Adrian Otaegui. • Bronte Law
became the second player in Curtis Cup history to go 5-0,
doing so in Britain and Ireland’s 11 ½-8 ½ victory over the
United States in Dublin.
B ASEB ALL
CYCL IN G
Some Support for Pitchers in the Derby
Froome Again Captures the Dauphiné
Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon is intrigued by the
idea of pitchers, including his ace, Jake Arrieta, competing
in the Home Run Derby.
Chris Froome warmed up for the Tour de France by
winning the Critérium du Dauphiné stage race for the third
time. Froome’s other Dauphiné wins were in 2013 and 2015
— the years he also won the Tour, which starts July 2.
Froome finished with a winning margin of 12 seconds over
Romain Bardet. Alberto Contador finished fifth.
AROUND TENNIS
All news by The Associated Press unless noted.
All Times EDT
FIRST ROUND
Top two in each group advance
GROUP A
Friday, June 3
SANTA CLARA, CALIF.
Colombia 2, United States 0
Saturday, June 4
ORLANDO, FLA.
Costa Rica 0, Paraguay 0
Tuesday, June 7
CHICAGO
United States 4, Costa Rica 0
PASADENA, CALIF.
Colombia 2, Paraguay 1
Saturday, June 11
PHILADELPHIA
United States 1, Paraguay 0
HOUSTON
Costa Rica 3, Colombia 2
27 .565
East
CARLOS OSORIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
All Times EDT
FINALS
(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)
Golden State 3, Cleveland 1
Thu., June 2: Golden State 104, Cleveland 89
Sun., June 5: Golden State 110, Cleveland 77
Wed., June 8: Cleveland 120, Golden State 90
Fri., June 10: Golden State 108, Cleveland 97
Mon., June 13: Cleveland at Golden State,
9 p.m.
x-Thu., June 16: Golden State at Cleveland,
9 p.m.
x-Sun., June 19: Cleveland at Golden State,
8 p.m.
35
N.L. STANDINGS
At Michigan International Speedway on Sunday, Joey Logano earned his 15th career Nascar Sprint Cup win.
COPA AMERICA
Cleveland
Minnesota
Oakland 6, Cincinnati 1
Chicago Cubs 13, Atlanta 2
Milwaukee 5, Mets 3
Washington 5, Philadelphia 4
Arizona 6, Miami 0
Colorado 2, San Diego 1
St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 3
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco
MONDAY
Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 4-5) at
Washington (Scherzer 7-4), 7:05
Philadelphia (Eickhoff 3-8) at
Toronto (Dickey 4-6), 7:07
Cincinnati (Simon 2-6) at Atlanta
(Blair 0-4), 7:10
L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 1-3) at
Arizona (Greinke 8-3), 9:40
Miami (Chen 3-2) at San Diego (Rea
3-2), 10:10
Milwaukee (Anderson 4-6) at San
Francisco (Cain 1-5), 10:15
BREWERS 5, METS 3
New York
ab
Granderson rf
5
Reynolds ss-3b 4
Cespedes cf
4
Johnson 2b
3
Loney 1b
3
Cabrera ph-ss
0
Flores 3b-1b
4
De Aza lf
4
Plawecki c
4
Matz p
2
Goeddel p
0
Lagares ph
1
Reed p
0
Conforto ph
1
Totals
35
Milwaukee
ab
Villar ss
4
Perez rf
4
Nieuwenhuis rf 0
Braun lf
3
Lucroy c
4
Carter 1b
4
Hill 3b
4
Gennett 2b
3
Broxton cf
4
Davies p
2
Boyer p
0
Torres p
0
Smith p
0
Jeffress p
0
Totals
32
New York
000
Milwaukee
030
r
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
3
r
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
5
h
1
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
7
h
1
0
0
1
1
0
1
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
9
000
020
bi bb so avg.
1 0 1 .218
0 0 2 .158
1 0 1 .282
0 1 1 .444
0 0 1 .255
0 1 0 .267
0 0 1 .250
1 0 1 .181
0 0 1 .205
0 0 0 .238
0 0 0
--0 0 0 .292
0 0 0
--0 0 1 .233
3 2 10
bi bb so avg.
0 0 2 .292
0 0 2 .307
0 0 0 .228
1 0 0 .316
1 0 1 .303
0 0 0 .228
0 0 0 .261
0 1 0 .259
1 0 1 .140
1 0 0 .100
0 0 0
--0 0 0
--0 0 0
--0 0 0
--4 1 6
120—3 7 3
00x—5 9 2
E—Flores (4), De Aza (1), Matz (1), Carter
(5), Hill (2). LOB—New York 7, Milwaukee
6. 2B—Cespedes (11), Johnson (2),
Lagares (5), Braun (11), Lucroy (11),
Gennett (8). RBIs—Granderson (20),
Cespedes (40), De Aza (4), Braun (36),
Lucroy (29), Broxton (1), Davies (1).
SB—Villar (23), Broxton 2 (6). SF—Braun.
S—Davies.
New York
ip h r er bb so np era
Matz L7-3
6 9 5 4 0 5 104 2.71
Goeddel
1 0 0 0 0 1 13 0.00
Reed
1 0 0 0 1 0 17 1.82
Milwaukee
Davies W5-3
6 3 1 0 1 7 97 3.88
Boyer
1 0 0 0 0 0 11 2.03
Í/¯ 3 2 2 0 1 19 3.73
Torres
Î/¯ 0 0 0 1 0 12 0.00
Smith H2
Jeffress S18-19 1 1 0 0 0 2 17 2.67
T—2:51. A—32,491 (41,900).
TIGERS 4, YANKEES 1
Detroit
ab
Kinsler 2b
4
Maybin cf
5
Cabrera 1b
4
V.Martinez dh
4
J.Martinez rf
4
Castellanos 3b 3
An.Romine ss
0
Upton lf
4
Saltalamacchia c 3
Aviles ss-3b
4
Totals
35
New York
ab
Ellsbury cf
3
Gardner lf
3
Beltran dh
3
Castro 2b
4
Headley 3b
3
Gregorius ss
3
Au.Romine c
4
Hicks rf
4
Refsnyder 1b
3
McCann ph
1
Totals
31
Detroit
000
New York
000
r
2
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
4
r
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
h
1
1
2
1
2
0
0
1
0
1
9
h
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
4
110
000
bi bb so avg.
2 1 0 .316
0 0 1 .375
0 0 2 .297
1 0 0 .333
0 0 2 .273
1 0 2 .305
0 0 0 .152
0 0 2 .224
0 1 2 .181
0 0 1 .207
4 2 12
bi bb so avg.
0 1 0 .284
0 1 2 .258
0 1 2 .277
0 0 0 .253
1 0 0 .240
0 1 0 .266
0 0 1 .288
0 0 2 .205
0 0 1 .212
0 0 1 .222
1 4 9
200—4 9 0
010—1 4 0
LOB—Detroit 7, New York 8. 2B—Cabrera
(13), J.Martinez (14), Au.Romine (6), Hicks
(7). HR—Kinsler (13), off Swarzak. RBIs—
Kinsler 2 (42), V.Martinez (35), Castellanos
(37), Headley (13). SB—Maybin (5). SF—
Castellanos.
Detroit
Fulmer W7-1
6 2 0 0 3 3 91 2.52
Greene
1 0 0 0 0 2 15 5.03
Wilson
1 2 1 1 1 1 18 3.55
Rodriguez S19-201 0 0 0 0 3 12 3.18
New York
Pineda L3-7
6 6 2 2 2 8 114 5.88
Swarzak
1 2 2 2 0 1 18 4.91
Goody
1 1 0 0 0 2 15 4.08
Green
1 0 0 0 0 1 9 7.20
HBP
Fulmer(Headley).
T—2:56. A—47,474 (49,642).
SOCCER
N.B.A. PLAYOFFS
L
3
4
5
6
7
8
Pct
.700
.556
.500
.400
.364
.200
GB
—
1{
2
3
3{
5
L
Pct
0 1.000
0 1.000
6 .400
6 .400
6 .333
7 .125
GB
—
{
6
6
6{
8
GOLF
SENIOR PLAYERS
CHAMPIONSHIP
Philadelphia Cricket Club (Wissahickon
Course)
FLOURTOWN, PA.
Purse: $2.8 million
Yardage: 7,017; Par: 70
Final
Bernhard Langer, $420,000 71-68-69-73—281
Joe Durant, $224,000 . . . 74-70-70-68—282
Miguel Angel Jimenez, $224,00072-71-71-68—282
Brandt Jobe, $166,600 . . 69-69-74-71—283
Wes Short, Jr., $133,000 71-69-72-72—284
Olin Browne, $112,000 . . 72-72-70-71—285
Bart Bryant, $95,200 . . . 69-71-72-74—286
Kirk Triplett, $95,200 . . . 74-74-65-73—286
Jay Don Blake, $72,800 . 68-72-71-76—287
Mark Brooks, $72,800 . . 71-73-69-74—287
Jeff Sluman, $72,800 . . . 69-73-70-75—287
Fran Quinn, $61,600 . . . 72-75-66-75—288
David Frost, $47,600 . . . 72-70-71-76—289
Greg Kraft, $47,600 . . . . 74-70-74-71—289
Scott McCarron, $47,600 71-71-75-72—289
C. Montgomerie, $47,600 70-73-70-76—289
Jesper Parnevik, $47,600 72-73-71-73—289
Kenny Perry, $47,600 . . . 74-77-67-71—289
Kevin Sutherland, $47,600 76-71-67-75—289
Carlos Franco, $32,760 . 74-68-76-72—290
Chien Soon Lu, $32,760 . 77-71-73-69—290
Larry Mize, $32,760 . . . . 79-73-68-70—290
Tom Pernice Jr., $32,760 72-75-72-71—290
Loren Roberts, $32,760 . 75-72-69-74—290
Billy Andrade, $22,400 . . 70-72-73-76—291
Woody Austin, $22,400. . 71-70-71-79—291
Jose Coceres, $22,400. . 78-72-70-71—291
Joe Daley, $22,400 . . . . 74-75-73-69—291
Glen Day, $22,400 . . . . 76-71-68-76—291
Brad Faxon, $22,400 . . . 76-75-70-70—291
John Huston, $22,400 . . 74-76-68-73—291
Tom Lehman, $22,400 . . 73-75-70-73—291
Steve Lowery, $22,400 . . 71-71-73-76—291
Jerry Smith, $22,400 . . . 75-72-75-69—291
Tom Watson, $22,400 . . 71-75-73-72—291
Tom Byrum, $14,595 . . . 74-67-75-76—292
Jim Carter, $14,595 . . . . 77-72-71-72—292
Doug Garwood, $14,595 . 70-73-75-74—292
Brian Henninger, $14,595 73-74-72-73—292
Skip Kendall, $14,595 . . 72-73-72-75—292
Jeff Maggert, $14,595 . . 71-73-73-75—292
Mark O’Meara, $14,595 . 76-71-69-76—292
Duffy Waldorf, $14,595 . . 73-73-72-74—292
WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
Sahalee Country Club
SAMMAMISH, WASH.
Purse: $3.5 million
Yardage: 6,668; Par 71
Final
(x-won on first playoff hole)
x-Brooke M. Henderson, $525,000 . . . . . .
67-73-73-65—278
Lydia Ko, $321,675 . . . . 71-70-70-67—278
Ariya Jutanugarn, $233,352 . . . . . . . . . . .
70-75-68-66—279
Hee Young Park, $148,230 . . . . . . . . . . .
70-74-72-66—282
So Yeon Ryu, $148,230 . 72-70-73-67—282
Mirim Lee, $148,230 . . . 71-69-73-69—282
Amy Yang, $99,505 . . . . 74-73-66-70—283
Su Oh, $78,959 . . . . . . 73-69-72-70—284
Anna Nordqvist, $78,959 73-71-69-71—284
Chella Choi, $78,959 . . . 71-73-69-71—284
Sei Young Kim, $66,042 . 75-72-69-69—285
Minjee Lee, $56,179 . . . 70-73-72-71—286
Catriona Matthew, $56,179 . . . . . . . . . . .
76-67-71-72—286
Suzann Pettersen, $56,179 . . . . . . . . . . .
70-73-71-72—286
Gerina Piller, $56,179 . . . 72-69-71-74—286
Charley Hull, $48,255 . . . 73-74-72-68—287
Jennifer Song, $42,197 . 71-78-70-69—288
Mo Martin, $42,197 . . . . 75-73-70-70—288
Shanshan Feng, $42,197 76-70-72-70—288
Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $42,197 . . . . . . . . . .
72-75-70-71—288
Tiffany Joh, $42,197 . . . 70-72-72-74—288
Alena Sharp, $35,620. . . 74-72-76-67—289
Lexi Thompson, $35,620. 75-74-72-68—289
Beatriz Recari, $35,620 . 73-73-73-70—289
Brittany Lincicome, $35,620 . . . . . . . . . .
71-70-71-77—289
Mi Hyang Lee, $30,556 . 77-72-74-67—290
Cydney Clanton, $30,556 74-75-70-71—290
Marina Alex, $30,556 . . . 79-70-69-72—290
Moriya Jutanugarn, $30,556 . . . . . . . . . .
75-72-71-72—290
Kris Tamulis, $23,619 . . . 71-75-78-67—291
Sandra Gal, $23,619 . . . 72-75-75-69—291
In Gee Chun, $23,619 . . 71-73-77-70—291
Azahara Munoz, $23,619 76-73-70-72—291
Sandra Changkija, $23,619 . . . . . . . . . . .
75-71-72-73—291
Lizette Salas, $23,619 . . 72-72-74-73—291
Kelly Tan, $23,619. . . . . 74-70-73-74—291
ST. JUDE CLASSIC
TPC Southwind
MEMPHIS, TENN.
Purse: $6.2 million
Yardage: 7,224; Par: 70
Final
Daniel Berger (500), $1,116,000 . . . . . . . .
67-64-69-67—267
Brooks Koepka (208), $462,933 . . . . . . . .
70-65-69-66—270
Phil Mickelson (208), $462,933 . . . . . . . . .
70-65-68-67—270
Steve Stricker (208), $462,933 . . . . . . . . .
66-71-66-67—270
Dustin Johnson (110), $248,000 . . . . . . . .
66-69-73-63—271
Brian Gay (100), $223,200 66-70-70-66—272
Russell Henley (88), $199,950 . . . . . . . . .
68-68-70-67—273
Seung-Yul Noh (88), $199,950 . . . . . . . . .
65-72-67-69—273
Ken Duke (75), $167,400 70-66-70-68—274
Shawn Stefani (75), $167,400 . . . . . . . . .
65-71-73-65—274
Brett Stegmaier (75), $167,400 . . . . . . . .
67-69-69-69—274
Retief Goosen (60), $125,550 . . . . . . . . .
67-70-71-67—275
Luke Guthrie (60), $125,550 . . . . . . . . . .
68-72-69-66—275
Freddie Jacobson (60), $125,550 . . . . . . .
72-66-70-67—275
Boo Weekley (60), $125,550 . . . . . . . . . .
70-69-66-70—275
Michael Kim (55), $102,300 . . . . . . . . . . .
69-70-69-68—276
Harold Varner III (55), $102,300 . . . . . . . .
71-69-69-67—276
Abraham Ancer (50), $72,850 . . . . . . . . .
71-68-69-69—277
Bronson Burgoon (50), $72,850 . . . . . . . .
72-66-71-68—277
Chad Collins (50), $72,850 . . . . . . . . . . .
72-66-74-65—277
Colt Knost (50), $72,850 . 66-71-67-73—277
John Merrick (50), $72,850 . . . . . . . . . . .
68-70-67-72—277
D.A. Points (50), $72,850 71-68-64-74—277
Wes Roach (50), $72,850 67-70-73-67—277
AUTO RACING
SPRINT CUP FIREKEEPERS
400
SUNDAY
MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
BROOKLYN, MICH.
Lap length: 2 miles
(STARTING POSITION IN PARENTHESES)
1. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 200.
2. (10) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 200.
3. (7) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 200.
4. (15) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 200.
5. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200.
6. (11) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 200.
7. (3) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 200.
8. (8) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 200.
9. (14) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 200.
10. (17) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 200.
11. (6) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 200.
12. (2) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 200.
13. (23) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 200.
14. (19) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 200.
15. (13) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 200.
16. (16) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 200.
17. (5) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 200.
18. (32) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 200.
19. (18) Greg Biffle, Ford, 200.
20. (22) Chris Buescher, Ford, 200.
GROUP B
Saturday, June 4
SEATTLE
Peru 1, Haiti 0
PASADENA, CALIF.
Brazil 0, Ecuador 0
Wednesday, June 8
ORLANDO, FLA.
Brazil 7, Haiti 1
GLENDALE, ARIZ.
Ecuador 2, Peru 2
Sunday, June 12
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
Ecuador 4, Haiti 0
FOXBOROUGH, MASS.
Peru 1, Brazil 0
GROUP C
Sunday, June 5
CHICAGO
Venezuela 1, Jamaica 0
GLENDALE, ARIZ.
Mexico 3, Uruguay 1
Thursday. June 9
PHILADELPHIA
Venezuela 1, Uruguay 0
PASADENA, CALIF.
Mexico 2, Jamaica 0
Monday, June 13
HOUSTON
Mexico vs. Venezuela, 8 p.m.
SANTA CLARA, CALIF.
Uruguay vs. Jamaica, 10 p.m.
GROUP D
Monday, June 6
ORLANDO, FLA.
Panama 2, Bolivia 1
SANTA CLARA, CALIF.
Argentina 2, Chile 1
Friday, June 10
FOXBOROUGH, MASS.
Chile 2, Bolivia 1
CHICAGO
Argentina 5, Panama 0
Tuesday, June 14
PHILADELPHIA
Chile vs. Panama, 8 p.m.
SEATTLE
Argentina vs. Bolivia, 10 p.m.
QUARTERFINALS
Thursday, June 16
SEATTLE
United States vs. Group B second place,
9:30 p.m.
Friday, June 17
Group B winner vs. Colombia, 8 p.m.
Saturday, June 18
FOXBOROUGH, MASS.
Group D winner vs. Group C second place,
7 p.m.
SANTA CLARA, CALIF.
Group C winner vs. Group D second place,
10 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Tuesday, June 21
HOUSTON
Seattle winner vs. Foxborough winner, 9
p.m.
Wednesday, June 22
CHICAGO
East Rutherford winner vs. Santa Clara
winner, 8 p.m.
THIRD PLACE
Saturday, June 25
GLENDALE, ARIZ.
Semifinal losers, 8 p.m.
CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday, June 26
Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.
PRO HOCKEY
N.H.L. PLAYOFFS
All Times EDT
STANLEY CUP FINALS
Pittsburgh 4, San Jose 2
Mon., May 30: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2
Wed., June 1: Pittsburgh 2, San Jose 1, OT
Sat., June 4: San Jose 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT
Mon., June 6: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 1
Thu., June 9: San Jose 4, Pittsburgh 2
Sun., June 12: Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 1
PENGUINS 3, SHARKS 1
Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1—3
San Jose. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 1 0—1
FIRST PERIOD—1, Pittsburgh, Dumoulin
2 (Schultz, Kunitz), 8:16 (pp). Penalties—
Zubrus, SJ (tripping), 7:50.
SECOND PERIOD—2, San Jose, Couture
10 (Karlsson, Burns), 6:27. 3, Pittsburgh,
Letang
3
(Crosby,
Sheary),
7:46.
Penalties—None.
THIRD
PERIOD—4,
Pittsburgh,
Hornqvist 9 (Crosby), 18:58 (en).
Penalties—Sheary, Pit (hooking), 5:26;
Burns, SJ (slashing), 11:02; Fehr, Pit
(high-sticking), 19:50.
Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 9-11-7—
27. San Jose 4-13-2—19. Power-play
opportunities—Pittsburgh 1 of 2; San
Jose 0 of 2. Goalies—Pittsburgh, Murray
14-6 (19 shots-18 saves). San Jose,
Jones 14-9 (26-24). A—17,562 (17,562).
T—2:25. Referees—Wes McCauley, Kelly
Sutherland. Linesmen—Brian Murphy,
Pierre Racicot.
CYCLING
TOUR DE SUISSE
Sunday
At Baar, Switzerland
Second Stage
A 116.5-mile hilly ride beginning and
ending in Baar
1. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Tinkoff, 4 hours,
35 minutes, 19 seconds.
2. Maximiliano Ariel Richeze, Argentina,
Etixx-QuickStep, same time.
3. Michael Matthews, Australia, OricaGreenEdge, same time.
4. Magnus Cort Nielsen, Denmark, OricaGreenEdge, same time.
5. Jurgen Roelandts, Belgium, Lotto
Soudal, same time.
6. Jasper Stuyven, Belgium, TrekSegafredo, same time.
7. Danny van Poppel, Netherlands, Sky, 3
seconds behind.
8. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, South
Africa, Dimension Data, same time.
9. Sven Erik Bystrom, Norway, Katusha,
same time.
10. Tom Van Asbroeck, Belgium, LottoNLJumbo, same time.
TENNIS
MERCEDES CUP
Sunday
At TC Weissenhof
Stuttgart, Germany
Singles
Championship
Philipp Kohlschreiber (7), Germany, leads
Dominic Thiem (3), Austria, 6-6 (3-2), susp.,
rain.
Doubles
Championship
Marcus Daniell and Artem Sitak, New
Zealand, d. Oliver Marach, Austria, and
Fabrice Martin, France, 6-7 (4), 6-4,
10-8.
RICOH OPEN
Sunday
At Autotron Rosmalen
Den Bosch, Netherlands
Singles
Men
Championship
Nicolas Mahut (8), France, leads Gilles
Muller (7), Luxembourg, 6-4, susp., rain.
Women
Championship
CoCo Vandeweghe (6), United States,
d. Kristina Mladenovic (3), France, 7-5,
7-5.
WTA AEGON OPEN
NOTTINGHAM RESULTS
Sunday
At Nottingham Tennis Centre
Nottingham, England
Singles
Championship
Karolina Pliskova (1), Czech Republic,
d. Alison Riske, United States, 7-6 (8),
7-5.
Doubles
Championship
Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, and
Peng Shuai, China, d. Gabriela Dabrowski,
Canada, and Yang Zhaoxuan (4), China,
7-5, 3-6, 10-7.
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SOCCER
A Day After an Alarming Melee, a Fight Keeps the Focus Off the Field
By SAM BORDEN
LILLE, France — An early
flurry of memorable goals at the
European Championships has
been overshadowed by disturbing
scenes of fan violence in multiple
cities, leading the police to ask for
greater resources, the tournament’s organizers to open disciplinary proceedings and the
French government on Sunday to
ban alcohol sales near stadiums
for the duration of the event.
The most disconcerting clash
came late Saturday in Marseille,
in southern France, when Russia
fans appeared to storm en masse
into sections filled with England
fans just after a 1-1 tie between
those teams had ended. But several days of violence involving
both sets of fans, as well as local
residents and the police, had preceded that melee, and clashes between Germany and Ukraine fans
were caught on video before Germany’s 2-0 victory Sunday
evening at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy just outside Lille.
While fan violence was not the
foremost concern ahead of this
tournament — fears of terrorism,
heightened after the Paris attacks
in November, remain high — the
ugly nature of the fighting has
forced national agencies and soccer officials to scramble. And
there are related worries, such as
how some fans have managed to
take firecrackers or smoke bombs
into stadiums.
In a statement, UEFA, which
governs European soccer, expressed its “disgust” at the fight
involving the Russia and England
fans and threatened that any instances of in-game violence by
fans would bring harsh punishments, “including the potential
disqualification of their respective
teams from the tournament.”
Video of the fight in Marseille
was startling. Almost immediately after the final whistle, a sea
of fans from the Russian section
surged into an English section
while stewards vainly tried to intervene. (Fans at most high-level
soccer matches, including games
at the European Championships,
are segregated by which team
they support.) Many of the Russia
fans were seen with shirts or
scarves over their faces, and others were reported to be wearing
mixed-martial-arts-style gloves.
It also appeared that at least one
fan fired a flare gun during the fracas.
Some England fans confronted
the onrushing fans while others
tried to run away. Many simply
tried to protect themselves or the
children in the area. More than 40
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Russia fans appeared to storm en masse into sections filled with England fans after a game Saturday night. On Sunday, Germany and Ukraine fans clashed.
people were injured during the
confrontation, the police said, with
one England fan said to be in critical condition at a hospital.
Vitaly Mutko, the Russian
sports minister and a senior executive with FIFA, which oversees
world soccer, initially tried to play
down the actions of the Russian
fans, saying that “everything is
fine.” Later, however, he acknowledged the gravity of the situation
and said: “It’s clear that some
people didn’t come here to watch
football. They’ve covered their
faces and then brought shame on
their country.”
This is not the first instance of
crowd trouble involving Russian
fans. Russia was disciplined after
fan disturbances at the 2012 European Championships, and apprehension about Russian fans —
who have been punished several
times for violence, as well as racist
behavior — is particularly notable
because Russia is set to host the
2018 World Cup.
After the fight, UEFA said it
would open an investigation to determine whether the Russian soccer federation deserved blame for
failing to control its fans. The results of that investigation are expected to be made public Tuesday.
England’s federation is not under investigation by UEFA, but its
fans are not blameless, the police
said. While UEFA’s remit is
limited to in-stadium problems,
several England fans were arrested and many more questioned
by the authorities after a series of
clashes in the city center during
the days and nights leading to the
Russia match.
In some of the fights, the fans
faced off with law enforcement,
and the police used tear gas — a
not-uncommon technique in Europe.
While not as graphic, video
footage of fights between Germany and Ukraine fans on Sunday
was similarly jarring. The atmosphere in Lille ahead of the game,
each team’s tournament opener,
was largely genial, particularly
around the stadium as kickoff approached. But a nasty, frantic confrontation on the streets of the city
continued a trend that has also included more minor episodes of violence in Nice that involved local
fans and fans of Northern Ireland
and Poland.
The fighting has dimmed the
beginning stages of a tournament
that French officials had hoped
would be solely about brilliant
soccer. France’s late goal and
thrilling victory in the tournament
opener at the Stade de France on
Friday was quickly marred by
Saturday’s events in Marseille,
and France’s interior minister
said Sunday that bans on alcohol
near stadiums and fan zones
would be enacted.
The
minister,
Bernard
Cazeneuve, called on the local police to expel “all foreign
supporters whose behavior disturbs public order” and said the
fighting in Marseille was “unacceptable for the authorities, unacceptable for society, unacceptable
for football lovers.”
The scrutiny on fan violence
and security does not figure to
ease anytime soon, even as the
players have done their best to
provide memorable moments, including Gareth Bale’s free-kick
goal for Wales, Luka Modric’s
stunning volley for Croatia and,
here on Sunday, Bastian Schweinsteiger’s cool finish in stoppage
time.
Excellent as those goals were,
the larger focus will now very
likely shift to northern France,
with both Russia and England
fans on the move. England is set to
play Wales on Thursday in Lens, a
city of about 30,000 that had already instituted strict restrictions
on alcohol consumption because
of its small size and the expected
influx of visitors.
Given the relative paucity of hotels in the area, many England
fans are expected to stay in Lille
— a bigger city about 25 miles
away. That could be troublesome,
however, because of the schedule:
Russia is set to play Slovakia
near Lille on Wednesday night.
Mexico’s Coach Climbs
To Success, Rung by Rung
By JOSEPH D’HIPPOLITO
PASADENA, Calif. — The man
who has guided Mexico to international soccer’s longest current unbeaten streak began his coaching
career with a small club on Staten
Island.
That man, a Colombian immigrant named Juan Carlos Osorio,
traveled to the United States in
the 1980s, after injuries ended his
playing career in South America,
to attend college in Iowa. After
one semester, he moved to New
York, where he worked in construction and food-service jobs to
support himself before attending
Southern Connecticut State University. After graduating in 1990
with a degree in exercise science,
Osorio worked as a personal
trainer in Queens while playing
for local club teams.
By 1998, Osorio reached a crossroads. At 37, time was ticking on
his dream. So Osorio took a risk by
joining a local club, the Staten Island Vipers, as a conditioning
coach.
“We could tell almost immediately that he would be very successful, because what set him
apart from just about everyone
was his professionalism and work
ethic,” said Adrian Gaitan, the
Vipers’ coach at the time, who now
guides a club in Spain.
The Vipers competed in the ALeague, the second level of American professional soccer at the
time, behind Major League Soccer, but played their home games
at Tottenville High School and
Wagner College. Osorio devoured
the opportunity.
“He took his job very serious
and was always trying to better
himself so he could better the people around him,” Gaitan said. “He
was also one of the most competitive people you can be around. He
had a great ability to relate to
players, and I believe that being a
former player helped him a lot.”
When the Vipers folded in 1999,
Osorio contacted the MetroStars
in M.L.S.
“Juan Carlos knocked on my
door looking for an opportunity,”
said Octavio Zambrano, then the
team’s coach. “I was looking for a
bilingual trainer with experience.
He was respectful and had the
acumen to become a good assistant, but I needed to see his personality and ability to deal with
professional players.”
So Zambrano took Osorio on the
MetroStars’ preseason tour of
Spain and Portugal to evaluate
him.
“The players took an immediate
liking to him because of his preparation for every session and his individual care for each one of
them,” said Zambrano, now the director of youth development for
Club Deportivo El Nacional in Ecuador. “By the time we got back to
New York, he had earned his position.”
The traits refined during those
early years set Osorio on a path toward four club championships
A decorated career
is rooted in a job on
Staten Island with a
now-folded team.
and two domestic cups as a head
coach — and defined a meticulous,
intellectual, collective approach
that has helped Mexico win or tie
21 successive games.
Mexico will risk that streak
Monday night in Houston against
Venezuela at the Copa América
Centenario, with the victor finishing first in Group C.
Since Osorio became Mexico’s
coach in October, the team has
won nine consecutive games and
allowed only one goal. Yet when
he took the job — his first as any
national team’s coach — Osorio
was criticized before his first
game.
“I don’t know how they came up
with Osorio, but there are better
coaches in Mexico,” said Cruz
Azul Coach Tomás Boy, who
played for Mexico in the 1986
World Cup.
Hugo Sánchez, one of Mexico’s
12 coaches between 2006 and 2015,
was asked whether Osorio deserved the position.
“If he were Mexican, yes,”
Sánchez said. “But since he’s not
Mexican, he’d be the ideal coach
for Colombia’s national team.”
Mexico’s players, however, are
learning to appreciate Osorio’s
style.
“He knows a lot and he loves to
study,” said goalkeeper Alfredo
Talavera, who called Osorio “a
soccer philosopher.”
Osorio’s philosophy leaves no
room for the melodrama surrounding Mexico’s national team.
“The most important thing is to
gain the players’ confidence, because they’re the ones who have
to implement what we plan,” he
said. “I knew it was going to take
time. In fact, I still have the responsibility to inculcate in the
players the way we want them to
work.”
Osorio’s attention to detail extends to arranging and rearranging training cones himself. He directs players with a notebook he
fills with detailed, color-coded
comments. He emphasizes collective effort, especially when selecting Mexico’s lineup.
“The national team is involved
in a lot of games, and there’s not a
lot of time for training,” Osorio
said. “It’s more a matter of having
a defined strategy. It’s a matter of
trying to identify who complements whom in what scenario. In
a group like this that has multifaceted players, we see how they interact with each other as a group.”
Osorio’s methods reflect his
postgraduate education in Britain, which accelerated his career.
In 2001, Osorio left the MetroStars
to obtain a degree from Liverpool
John Moores University in a
unique major: science and football. While pursuing his degree, he
often observed Liverpool F.C.’s
training sessions from outside a
fence at the club’s Melwood training center.
“I remember talking to him before he left for England and told
him I thought he was crazy,” Gai-
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Juan Carlos Osorio, above left, instructing Mexico defender
Yasser Corona during a match against Chile this month. Osorio,
near left, with forward Javier Hernández, known as Chicharito.
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tan said. “He was going there to
spend a year and take a coaching
course. He ended up taking the
course watching training sessions, I believe, from his apartment, and eventually working his
way into the Liverpool facility.”
Osorio’s persistence led to a
four-year stay at Manchester City,
where he rose from trainer to assistant coach. In 2006, the Colombian club Millonarios gave Osorio his first head coaching job. A
year later, Osorio returned to
M.L.S. to guide the Chicago Fire,
which promptly surged from last
place to the playoffs in half a season.
Yet in December 2007, Osorio
resigned to return to New Jersey
as coach of the renamed Red
Bulls, who reached the 2008
M.L.S. championship game. But
after the Red Bulls lost 16 of their
first 22 M.L.S. matches in 2009,
Osorio resigned that August.
Colombia’s Once Caldas, where
Osorio once played, provided his
next job and his first league championship in 2010. But Osorio made
his biggest impact when he
guided Medellín’s Atlético Nacional to three league championships
and two domestic cups between
2012 and 2014.
After firing Miguel Herrera last
July, Mexico lured Osorio away
from his post at São Paulo F.C. in
Brazil.
“I guess my whole career is different from anybody else,” Osorio
told an interviewer in May. “Now
when I look back, probably the
hardest and most important decision was being 23, playing professional football in Colombia and
saying to myself: ‘No, this is not
good enough. I have to go prepare
myself to be the best coach I can
be. I need to go start from
scratch.’”
From that decision, he built a
career. With Mexico, Osorio built a
team that could become the first
from outside South America to
win the Copa.
“He started out being a fitness
coach, and look how he has
evolved,” Gaitan said. “Not many
people have that kind of passion
and desire to do what he did. He
deserves everything that comes
his way, and we all take a little
pride in the fact that his success
started with us.”
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GOLF
An Inner Voice Quieted by a Son Slow to Speak
From First Sports Page
Oakmont this week for the 116th
United States Open.
“At 24, I was way ahead of my
time as a golfer,” he said, “but as a
man I was nowhere.”
He embarked on the path that
would lead to personal fulfillment
in 2008, when he chose to go public with his son’s autism. Els and
his wife formed the Els for Autism
Foundation to raise awareness
and money for the little understood neurodevelopmental disorder, which is characterized by
impairments in social interaction
and verbal and nonverbal communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior.
According to the Autism and
Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
roughly one in 68 children in the
United States has autism spectrum disorder, representing every
racial, ethnic and socioeconomic
group.
But many overwhelmed parents of children on the spectrum
retreat into the shadows because
they feel embarrassment and
shame, as if it is a bankruptcy of
their sometimes deep investment
in a perfect family tableau. The
Elses were no different.
“In 1994, we were flying so high,
not a care in the world,” Liezl Els
said. “But who we are now, this
journey from Oakmont to today,
that journey was made even more
interesting because of Ben.”
She said her husband had undergone the most profound transformation.
“Ernie’s relationship with Ben
has gone from, ‘What am I going
to do with this kid?’ to ‘When can I
spend time with him again?’ ” she
said. “It’s been a beautiful evolution.”
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Liezl Els, above left, overseeing the construction of the 26-acre property where more than 100
students with autism are educated today. Left, Ernie and Liezl Els, with their son Ben and daughter Samantha, breaking ground for the $35 million center in 2014. It opened last August.
Raising Their Voices
Liezl Els was speaking last
month from behind the wheel of
her sport-utility vehicle as she
navigated traffic on Interstate 95
in north Palm Beach County after
an autism-related business lunch.
The drive to publicize their son’s
autism for the greater good began
with her, generally more outgoing
and outspoken than her husband,
questioning his sense of direction.
“He was the brave one,” she
said. “It’s so funny with my big
mouth and all, but I was the afraid
one who wanted to hide my head
in the sand. Even though it took
him a longer while to come to
grips with Ben’s autism, when he
decided, ‘This is the way I’m going,’ he went full-tilt ahead.”
For parents of children on the
autism spectrum, the world becomes a giant booby trap, rigged
for outbursts that lead only to a
minefield of scorn and judgment.
In 2013, Liezl Els was traveling
with the couple’s daughter
Samantha, then 14; Ben, who was
10; and her mother-in-law from
London to Philadelphia to watch
Els play in the U.S. Open at
Merion.
The trans-Atlantic flight to Miami was uneventful, she said, and
the immigration officers whisked
them to the front of the customs
line after noticing Ben’s fitfulness.
In the boarding area for the flight
to Philadelphia, an overtired and
overstimulated Ben launched into
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what she described as one of his
“2-year-old tantrums.”
The flight attendants informed
her that unless she could calm her
son, he would not be allowed on
the plane. They were able to board
only after one of the pilots intervened. The couple’s activism
sprouted from a heap of such public indignities.
“You get to that stage where
your child’s autism is the elephant
in the room in players’ dining or at
the 18th green,” Ernie Els said.
“When Ben would have an outburst, I could hear people whispering, ‘What’s wrong with him?’
And I decided: You know what? I
need to tell people my son has autism. He’s a little different, but he’s
my boy.”
Ben’s sister, Samantha, who will
soon be a high school senior, was
the first to embrace her brother’s
separateness. “She would come to
me and say: ‘Mom, why are you
trying to change him? Ben is
unique,’” Liezl Els said.
Her husband looks at the reigning United States Open champion,
Jordan Spieth, who has a younger
sister on the spectrum, and in him
sees the same compassion and
forbearance as his daughter.
“Samantha’s such a special kid,”
he said, adding that at times she
seemed to be more of a parent to
Ben than he and his wife were.
In 2008, the family moved from
their home base in London to Jupiter, Fla. Overwhelmed at times by
their son’s special needs, the couple conceived of a nurturing place
to learn for those on the autism
spectrum and provided $6 million
in seed money for the Els Center
of Excellence. The $35 million center, which took eight years to
build, opened last August with
more than 100 students ages 3 to
14, including the Elses’ son.
The fund-raising was undertaken by Ernie Els, who left his wife
to oversee the construction of the
school and the development of the
26-acre property. An upper school,
for students up to 22 years old, is
scheduled to open next year.
Wielding a borrowed club like a
hammer, Rickie Fowler, the fifthranked player in the world, drove
in the final metaphorical nail for
the addition in March, making an
ace at a charity event to secure a
$1 million donation that was
matched by a South African businessman.
From the soundproof classroom
walls to the high ceilings and wide
hallways, the lower school was
constructed to provide a warm,
welcoming environment. During
a tour of the facility last month,
Els’s son was in an exercise room
working on his fine motor skills by
pulling himself up on an inclined
roller board.
“Before, we had to drag him out
of bed to go to school,” Els said.
“Now he can’t wait. He says,
‘When the sun comes up, I go to
school.’ ”
Drowning One Out
Ernie Els spent four days practicing at home at the Bear’s Club
before leaving for Memphis, his final tuneup for his 24th United
States Open. As he hit balls on the
range, he said his son sat in a cart
behind him and read aloud from
his “Lion King” and “Kung Fu
Panda” books. Every few minutes,
Els said, his son prevailed upon
him — loudly — to stop hitting
balls and read to him instead.
“He’s 13 going on 4,” said Els,
whose son’s favorite game on the
golf course is to take off running
around the driving range. “I have
to chase him down and throw him
in the palmetto bush after hugging him.”
Ben accompanies him on his
weekend recreational rounds. He
will sit in the cart and, Els said:
“He’s not very quiet. He talks or
yelps a lot on backswings and
putts. I used to go: ‘Guys, I’m
sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’ But
now guys don’t even hear it.”
Errant Swing Lands South Africa’s Grace Firmly on His Feet
By JEFF SHAIN
Caught between hitting a driver
or a 3-wood, Branden Grace opted
for the safer play. Except that the
3-wood proved to be not so safe.
Grace was tied for the United
States Open lead last year with
three holes to play, but his tee shot
on the 16th at Chambers Bay
started out to the right and never
got the draw he wanted. The ball
sailed over a boundary fence and
beyond the nearby railroad
tracks.
Take that swing back, and
Grace, a 28-year-old South
African, might have been coming
to the U.S. Open this week at Oakmont, near Pittsburgh, as the defending champion. Though his resulting double bogey got lost in
the chaos of Dustin Johnson’s
closing three-putt, which lost him
the title, Grace finished two shots
behind Jordan Spieth, the champion, in the final count.
Now Grace is seeking to take a
page from his mentor, Ernie Els,
and secure his first major crown
at Oakmont.
“It’s one of those things that I
look back and I think it’s made me
stronger,” Grace said recently of
last year’s Open.
He certainly has been moving
in the right direction. He followed
up his share of fourth at Chambers
Bay, near Tacoma, Wash., with a
third-place finish at the 2015 P.G.A.
Championship, unable, like everyone else, to catch the surging Jason Day.
Grace was then the breakout
performer for the International
side at the Presidents Cup in
South Korea. He became the first
International player in 17 years to
win all five matches as the Inter-
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Branden Grace said an error with three holes to play at last year’s U.S. Open “made me stronger.”
nationals pushed the United
States until the final match.
And less than two months ago,
Grace got his first victory on
American soil, turning a threeshot, third-round deficit into a
two-stroke triumph at the RBC
Heritage tournament in Hilton
Head Island, S.C.
“I came close last year, a couple
of close calls,” Grace said before a
three-week respite at home to recharge and fine-tune his game for
the Oakmont test. “The majors
are big things,” he said, adding,
“It’s happened pretty much in a
short space of time, my first full
year that I’m over here in the
States.”
Five of his 10 career victories
have come in the past 18 months.
And when the U.S. Open tees off, it
will be Grace — not Louis Oosthuizen or Charl Schwartzel — who
stands as the South African with
the highest world ranking.
“No moment is too big for him,”
Oosthuizen told reporters at the
Presidents Cup in October.
Of his first American victory,
Grace said he was “really excited
for things to start.”
“Now I can just tick this off the
box and head into maybe the next
couple of majors trying to win,” he
said. “Knowing I have won out
here before, now I can do it again.”
In a sense, Grace’s rise was only
a matter of time. Talented in multiple sports as a youth, he chose golf
at 15 and honed his game in Els’s
youth program in South Africa.
“Growing up in South Africa, we
grew up with team sports,” Grace
said. “It was hard to go from team
sport to individual sport. But I
made the right decision, and it’s
paid off.”
In 2012, he turned heads with
five victories on the Sunshine
Tour in his homeland. The first of
those came in the Joburg Open,
which earned him a berth in the
Volvo Golf Champions the following week at Fancourt. Grace won
that event in a three-man playoff,
outlasting Els and another United
States Open-winning countryman, Retief Goosen.
That season earned Grace a
place on the European Tour,
where his game continued to
grow, with nine top-10 finishes
across 2013 and ’14. He won his final 2014 start, then won twice
early in 2015.
With two top-five finishes in last
year’s majors, Grace secured a
PGA Tour card and dedicated himself to a rookie season in the
United States. He chose South
Florida as his base, not far from
Oosthuizen, Schwartzel and Els.
Grace’s first stop after winning
at Hilton Head was Els’s home for
a late-night celebration.
“He says, ‘Call me,’ you call
him,” Grace said. “It was good.
Very relaxed, just him and his
family, myself and my fiancée and
a couple of mates.”
Grace followed that victory
with another top-10 finish the next
week in San Antonio, but he struggled at the Players Championship,
finishing with a share of 57th
place. A lengthy break followed,
but he will be rested for the Open
challenge.
Oakmont will be Grace’s fourth
United States Open, with his other
finishes a tie for 51st in 2012 and a
missed cut a year later at Merion.
“I was kind of, in the back of my
mind, putting a little bit of pressure on myself,” Grace said of his
recent transformation. “Now I can
really sit back — not really relax,
but enjoy it a little more.”
Els uses golf to get Ben outdoors, where he is free to run and
exercise his mouth. In February,
the week of the Honda Classic, Els
oversaw a golf clinic at the tournament site for the students in the
center. It quickly devolved into a
spirited free-for-all. Any learning
taking place was probably happening farther down the range,
where some of the tour players
took a break from their work to
watch the students.
“Whenever somebody asks me
about Ben, it’s almost like they
want to feel sorry for us,” Els said.
“But it’s like with any other family.
You’re going to have parents who
have a kid with colic or teenagers
with their own challenges or
something going on. This is just
our version of something going
on.”
Since the Masters, where his
opening 80 doomed his aspirations of playing on the weekend,
Els has missed the cut in four of
seven starts. It has been a discouraging stretch, with a tie for 14th his
only top-25 showing. But his frustrations fall away when he calls or
has a video conversation with his
family.
His son’s chatter drowns out the
little evil voice in Els’s head. Who
knew that the Big Easy would be a
nickname that better describes
the son than the father?
“When I’m around my boy, or
talking to my boy, I change,” Els
said. “I just go in his world. I’m
kind of at peace because I’m listening to my boy being himself.”
Canadian
Overcomes Ko
On Extra Hole
For First Major
SAMMAMISH, Wash. (AP) —
Brooke Henderson beat topranked Lydia Ko with a birdie on
the first hole of a playoff Sunday in
the Women’s P.G.A. Championship after overcoming a threeshot deficit on the back nine.
Henderson, an 18-year-old Canadian ranked No. 4 in the world,
closed with a bogey-free six-under-par 65 — the best round of the
week at Sahalee Country Club —
to match Ko at six-under 278.
Ko, who led by a stroke entering
the final round, finished with a 67.
In the playoff on the par-4 18th,
Henderson hit her second shot
from 155 yards to three feet, while
Ko’s second left her with a 20-foot
putt. Ko missed to the left, and
Henderson tapped in to cap a
week that started with a hole-inone on her fourth hole of the tournament and ended with her first
major championship.
Ko was seeking her third
straight major title.
In regulation, Henderson saved
par on 18 with a 12-footer moments
before Ko missed a 4-foot birdie
try on the par-3 17th. Henderson
also made a long eagle putt on the
par-5 11th and birdied the par-3
13th.
Henderson became the secondyoungest winner of a women’s
major championship, with Ko the
youngest last year at the Evian
Championship in France.
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H O R S E R AC I N G
One Year Later,
An Exciting Race
Is Just a Letdown
It was hard during Saturday’s
Belmont Stakes not to think
about American Pharoah, the
colt who a year ago delivered a
historic performance
at the race in becoming just the 12th Triple
Crown winner ever
and horse racing’s
ON HORSE first in 37 years.
RACING
When the jockey
Victor Espinoza and American
Pharoah turned for home, they
transformed this grand old racetrack on Long Island into a soulquaking monument to pandemonium. The colt had pulled into
Belmont Park promising greatness, and over the mile-and-ahalf marathon fittingly known as
the Test of the Champion, he
delivered it. His five-and-a-halflength victory was simply a
masterpiece.
American Pharoah had packed
the place. He made the $11 beers
JOE
DRAPE
Even with a photo
finish, a Triple Crown
from 2015 resounds.
that the New York Racing Association was selling taste like Dom
Pérignon at Pabst Blue Ribbon
prices. He sent strangers into
one another’s arms.
That is worth remembering
because odds are that it will be
an equally long time before we
see another horse with enough
talent and magic to sweep the
Kentucky Derby, the Preakness
Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.
We were reminded of — no,
bludgeoned with — that likelihood over the last five weeks as
the owners and trainers of the
current crop of 3-year-olds
measured their horses against
American Pharoah and Triple
Crown history.
On paper at least, the most
formidable challenger was
Nyquist. He rolled into the first
Saturday in May as the reigning
2-year-old champion and was
undefeated over seven races. He
easily won the Kentucky Derby
and had a résumé far more impressive than American
Pharoah’s at that point in his
career.
Nyquist was missing something, however. He is a smallish
colt who, while consistently
doing enough to win, never gave
anyone the sense that he was a
dominant competitor. He did not
possess the wow factor that
American Pharoah had.
Even as a weanling — a mere
child, called the Littleprincessemma colt after his
mother — American Pharoah
took away the breath of Frances
Rellihan, a seasoned horsewoman who had had her hands on
thousands of colts over her career but to that point had never
seen one so perfectly engineered,
with an intricate mind to match
his physical gifts. It was a combination that bowled over seasoned horse people at every
point of American Pharoah’s
development and still makes his
Hall of Fame trainer, Bob Baffert,
wish he had him for one, two, six
more races.
“I never got to the bottom of
him,” Baffert said. “He was still
getting better.”
Nyquist, on the other hand,
although recognized as a nice
horse in his formative years, was
treated as a commodity rather
than a gift from the heavens. He
was sold three times before
reaching the racetrack, finally
fetching a modest $400,000 in a
2-year-old-in-training sale in
Florida.
Luck and magic took their turn
along American Pharoah’s career.
Early on, his owner, Ahmed
Zayat, tried to sell the colt, needing cash to help settle his stable’s
bankruptcy. Lucky for him, the
colt banged his ankle in the days
before a yearling sale at Saratoga. Zayat had thought he might
get millions in the auction ring;
instead, no one wanted the modestly bred colt with the unsightly
leg.
Magic was bestowed on American Pharoah when Espinoza got
on his back. He was not the first
choice to ride the colt, nor was he
the second or third. Martin Garcia had ridden American
Pharoah in his debut, a loss, and
did not get along with him. Baffert had hoped to get Gary
Stevens or Mike Smith, two Hall
of Famers, but they were not
available. He settled on Espinoza, whose happy-go-lucky nature
and intuitive riding style fit
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American Pharoah on the way
to winning the Belmont
Stakes last year and capturing
the Triple Crown. Left,
Nyquist, after a Preakness loss
dashed his crown hopes.
American Pharoah perfectly.
For Nyquist, however, bad luck
and black magic landed on him
like an anvil in the Preakness. A
wet week in Baltimore and a
misty, rainy race day served up a
soupy track at Pimlico Race
Course, one that he had never
seen before.
His chief rival, Exaggerator,
was a proven mudder and took to
the surface, which gripped
hooves like peanut butter gliding
over a sandwich. He emphatically dispatched Nyquist,
who developed a fever in the
days afterward, persuading his
connections to skip the Belmont
and let the colt catch his breath
for a second-season campaign
into the Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Exaggerator, a hard-trying
colt, was out of gas in the Belmont Stakes. He is somewhere
between a nice horse and a very
good one but looked like neither
in finishing 11th.
So the 148th running of Belmont Stakes turned into an entertaining race without a great
deal of consequence. Instead of
American Pharoah’s historic
stretch drive with a capacity
crowd on hand to witness, about
half as many people cheered on
three gray horses, all of them
long shots, as they raced home in
a photo finish. Creator had a
nose ahead of Destin, and Lani
finished third behind them.
Those who had the three on
their betting tickets left Belmont
Park with more money than they
came with and a smile on their
faces. Congratulations to them. It
is one of the most rewarding
parts of a good day at the racetrack.
Last year, though, while American Pharoah sent some people
home with less dough, he pushed
all of us out of the racetrack with
a priceless feeling of elation.
Great horses do that, and they
are rare. So appreciate what
American Pharoah accomplished, and be patient until
another comes along.
A Push to Improve the Welfare of a Sport’s Involuntary Heroes
Last year at this time, the
thoroughbred horse racing community and casual racing fans
alike were riding
the high of a milestone: American
Pharoah had won
the Belmont
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OF THE TIMES
the first horse in
37 years to complete the Triple
Crown.
A year later, without the distraction of a Triple Crown or
even a rematch between this
year’s Kentucky Derby winner,
Nyquist, and Exaggerator, the
Preakness winner, the racing
industry has had to look in the
mirror. What it sees is still not
pretty. The systemic problems
that existed before the Triple
Crown have not gone away.
Horses are still dropping dead on
the track as unscrupulous trainers, under pressure to produce,
continue to administer harmful
drugs, threatening the sport’s
already fragile credibility.
“There has to be a correction,”
said Wayne Pacelle, the chief
executive of the Humane Society
of the United States.
Pacelle and I have spoken over
the years about animal welfare
and animal cruelty. In his recent
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book “The Humane Economy:
How Innovators and Enlightened
Consumers are Transforming the
Lives of Animals,” Pacelle argues
that businesses that do not adjust to consumer concerns about
the treatment of animals are
doomed.
“If a business is engaged in
some sort of animal cruelty or
animal mistreatment, it’s
eventually going to catch up to
them,” he said.
Some are starting to pay attention. Ringling Brothers retired its
elephant herd last month after
having had the animals as part of
its traveling circus act for nearly
150 years. In March, SeaWorld
announced that it would stop
breeding orcas.
“The two biggest brand names
have phased out or are phasing
out the use of animals that are
the center of their brands because of the animal welfare
concerns,” Pacelle said. “Everything is changing, yet horse
racing is still resisting reform.
There has to be a correction.”
But thanks in part to social
media, the casual fan, who tends
to care about horse racing only in
April, May and June (around the
time of the Kentucky Derby, the
Preakness and the Belmont), is
taking an active interest in how
equine athletes are treated. Their
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an off-site random blood test to check for doping at Green’s Racing Stable in Fairland, Ind.
concerns — along with the
specter of death at the track, of
increased breakdowns, of widespread doping — are also compelling some forces within the
industry to take steps toward
real reform, beginning with
doping.
The powerful Jockey Club is
working with the Humane Society to eliminate the scourge of
doping and, in the process, get
the fragmented racing industry
to play by a single set of rules.
The two groups are supporting
federal legislation, the Thoroughbred Horse Racing Anti-Doping
Act of 2015, that would put the
United States Anti-Doping
Agency in charge of monitoring
the administration of race-day
medication at the track. The
organizations hope to put Usada,
an independent agency, in a
position to police the sport’s
deeply rooted doping culture.
Race-day doping is particularly troublesome. It can give
horses an advantage, but it can
also put already injured horses,
who should not be racing, at risk
of greater, even catastrophic,
injury.
“It won’t solve everything, but
doping is the most insidious of
the practices in racing,” Pacelle
said. “It is Exhibit No. 1 for the
idea that people are more concerned with winning than they
are with the protection and welfare of the horses.”
The Jockey Club has taken
polls over the last five years that
show convincingly that racing
fans are paying attention to
aspects of the sport beyond
simply wagering.
They are concerned, said Jim
Gagliano, the chief executive of
the Jockey Club, with matters of
“animal welfare and the fairness
and integrity of competition.”
He added: “Those are very
high among our current fans and
potential new fans. It is good
business for racing.”
There are many contentious
issues in the sport: breeding
horses for speed, for example,
not endurance; sending poor and
underperforming horses to
slaughter. But this legislation is
just about doping.
“You have to start somewhere,” Pacelle said.
The support from the Jockey
Club, which, made up as it is of
owners and breeders, is the
closest thing racing has to central leadership, is an acknowledgment that the regulatory
system in place to police doping
could be substantially improved
by Usada’s oversight.
For a sport that plays by 38
different sets of rules corresponding to the 38 racing commissions nationwide, a universal
set of doping regulations would
be a major accomplishment.
“There’s a collective recognition that the system that’s in
place, and has been in place for a
long time, hasn’t been adequate,
hasn’t been nimble enough,
hasn’t been uniform across all
the racing states,” Gagliano said.
Pacelle and Gagliano will no
doubt face fierce opposition from
within racing.
Some of the sport’s
stakeholders don’t want to reboot
the process and relinquish some
of their autonomy.
“Change is always hard for
some to contemplate,” Gagliano
said. “Others feel this is going to
require a federal act, and they
oppose federal intervention in
our sport.”
But if horses keep dying on the
track, breaking down and being
exploited by race-day doping, the
sport could find itself up to its
neck in federal intervention, and
deservedly so.
The larger issue — the only
issue, really — is the care of the
animals.
We write quite a bit about the
danger of participating in high-
risk sports and recreational
pursuits. Human beings take
risks, whether we’re jumping out
of planes, climbing mountains,
playing football or boxing. We go
into them, more or less, with our
eyes open. But race horses are
involuntary participants in a
tough sport; they need protection now more than ever.
Bringing Usada into thoroughbred racing is the best idea in the
sport in decades.
“We’re not unlike any other
sport,” Gagliano said, “except
we’ve got a competitor — the
horse — whose responsibility
and welfare is really entrusted to
us.”
From Eight Belles, who died at
the end of the Kentucky Derby in
2008, to scores of others that
died more anonymous, inglorious
deaths on the track, the industry
has abused its horses and the
trust of its fans.
With this legislation, racing
can take a small step toward
winning it back.
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Warriors’ Green Out for Game 5 After One Too Many Flagrant Fouls
By SCOTT CACCIOLA
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Golden State Warriors were practicing
Sunday when they learned that
one of their most important pieces
would be absent from Game 5 of
the N.B.A. finals on Monday.
Coach Steve Kerr approached
Draymond Green, the team’s doeverything forward, and told him
that he had been suspended.
“He’s disappointed,” Kerr said.
The N.B.A. announced Sunday
that the league had retroactively
assessed Green with a flagrant-1
foul for striking the Cleveland
Cavaliers’ LeBron James in the
groin in the fourth quarter of the
Warriors’ 108-97 Game 4 victory
on Friday, triggering an automatic
one-game suspension, per league
rules.
A flagrant-1 foul is less severe
than a flagrant-2, which results in
an automatic ejection. However,
four flagrant foul “points” in the
postseason (two points for a flagrant-2, one point for a flagrant-1)
result in a suspension. Green, who
has had trouble keeping his appendages to himself in recent
weeks, already had three.
It was a seismic decision by the
N.B.A., with the Warriors heading
into Game 5 at Oracle Arena with
a three-games-to-one lead in the
best-of-seven series and an opportunity to clinch their second
straight championship. Green’s
value to the team is difficult to
overstate. In the finals, Green is
averaging 14.8 points, 9.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists while playing more than 38 minutes a game.
Without him, the Warriors will
need to find solutions by committee. Green did not address the
news media.
“We know it’s going to kill him
not being there,” shooting guard
Klay Thompson said. “But we’re
going to go out there and do it as a
team and win for him.”
The Warriors sounded edgy
about the situation. Andrew
Bogut, the team’s starting center,
said he had no doubt that the
Cavaliers had lobbied for Green’s
suspension. Bogut also described
the N.B.A.’s disciplinary system
as one without “rhyme or reason”
A strike to LeBron
James’s groin leads to
a player’s suspension.
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The Cavaliers’ Channing Frye separating LeBron James, left, and the Warriors’ Draymond Green during Game 4 on Friday.
and compared it to the league’s
draft lottery process.
“Pull out a Ping-Pong ball and
make a decision,” Bogut said.
“They made a decision, which was
an interesting one.”
On Friday, after James pushed
Green to the court late in the
fourth quarter and tried to step
over him, Green retaliated by
swiping at James and making contact with his groin. After the game,
James said he was “not cool” with
some things that Green had said
to him. Green, in turn, took offense
to the way James had stepped
over him.
On Sunday, Kiki Vandeweghe,
the N.B.A.’s executive vice president for basketball operations,
said in a statement that while
Green’s actions in Green 4 did not
merit a suspension as a “standalone act,” he was deserving of a
flagrant foul. It was an accumulation of offenses that resulted in the
one-game suspension.
The series — already physical
— has reached a heightened state.
After Sunday’s practice, Thompson basically accused James of being a crybaby.
“I guess his feelings just got
hurt,” Thompson said, adding:
“Guys talk trash in this league all
the time. I’m just kind of shocked
some guys take it so personal. I
mean, it’s a man’s league, and I’ve
heard a lot of bad things on that
court. But at the end of the day, it
stays on the court.”
When James was informed of
Thompson’s comments, he asked
a reporter to repeat them. Then he
laughed.
“Oh, my goodness,” James said.
“It’s so hard to take the high road.
I’ve been doing it for 13 years. It’s
so hard to continue to do it, and
I’m going to do it again.”
Green has always had a tenden-
cy to treat games like high-wire
acts. Consider his well-publicized
blowup inside the Warriors’
locker room at halftime of a game
against the Oklahoma City Thunder in February. His volatility can
fuel his play and that of his teammates (the Warriors wound up
winning that game against Oklahoma City), but he also risks becoming a distraction.
“We thrive off of Draymond’s
competitiveness and his edge,”
Kerr said, “and it’s been very important for us this year. And maybe that same quality has led him to
this point — just his competitive-
ness and his passion. And that’s all
part of it.”
Bogut said that Green had to
play with emotion, otherwise he
would not be nearly as effective.
So the Warriors accept the pros
while bracing for any potential
cons.
Against Portland in the conference semifinals, Green was borderline
obsessed
with
psychological games. After guaranteeing one win, he declared that
the Trail Blazers’ playoff chances
were dead before the series was
over. His fondness for the dramatic arts bled onto the court,
where he swung his arms in reaction to a call and made inadvertent contact with the official Ken
Mauer, who had to seek treatment
for a cut to his hand.
Green’s fire worked out against
the Trail Blazers because he
produced, averaging 22.2 points,
11.2 rebounds and 7.4 assists over
the course of the series as the
Warriors advanced.
Against the Thunder in the conference finals, Green kicked
Steven Adams in the groin in
Game 3, drawing a flagrant-2 foul,
and tripped Enes Kanter in Game
4. (The league did not penalize
Green for the latter offense, and
perhaps he was fortunate.)
But all the outside noise appeared to affect him. In Games 3
and 4 against the Thunder, Green
scored a total of 12 points while
shooting 2 of 16 from the field.
Now, with the Warriors on the
cusp of a championship, they will
need to find a way to cope with his
absence.
“We know we have the personnel and the depth to come out and
get a win, and that’s all that really
matters,” Stephen Curry said. “It
honestly doesn’t matter what we
think about what he did or didn’t
do. The situation is what it is, and
we’ve got to win.”

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