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Trump Thrusts Taiwan Into Glare, Rattling Asia
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WASHINGTON — Over the past two decades, Taiwan has slipped from its position atop the list of flash points in the complex relationship between the United States and China. In meetings between President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China, it has typically come up after half a dozen more pressing issues, like trade, cyberattacks and Beijing’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea. Now, though, in a single protocol-shattering phone call with the president of Taiwan, Presidentelect Donald J. Trump has thrust it back on the table. Not since President Richard M. Nixon met with Mao Zedong in 1972 — when the two issued the Shanghai Communiqué clarifying the status of Taiwan — has an American leader so
shaken up the diplomatic status quo on the issue. “Taiwan is about to become a more prominent feature of the overall U.S.-China relationship,” said Jon M. Huntsman, who served as ambassador to China during Mr. Obama’s first term. “As a businessman, Donald Trump is used to looking for leverage in any relationship. A President Trump is likely to see Taiwan as a useful leverage point.” In the short run, Mr. Trump has rattled the entire region. Representatives of several Asian counContinued on Page 28
RECOUNT STUMBLES A statewide effort in Pennsylvania appeared to founder over costs. PAGE 19
Extremists Turn to One Leader To Protect West’s Values: Putin By ALAN FEUER and ANDREW HIGGINS
As the founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, an American group that aims to preserve the privileged place of whiteness in Western civilization and fight “anti-Christian degeneracy,” Matthew Heimbach knows whom he envisions as the ideal ruler: the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. “Russia is our biggest inspiration,” Mr. Heimbach said. “I see President Putin as the leader of the free world.” Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump mystified many on the left and in the foreign policy establishment with his praise for Mr. Putin and his criticism of the Obama adminis-
tration’s efforts to isolate and punish Russia for its actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. But what seemed inexplicable when Mr. Trump first expressed his admiration for the Russian leader seems, in retrospect, to have been a shrewd dog whistle to a small but highly motivated part of his base. For Mr. Heimbach is far from alone in his esteem for Mr. Putin. Throughout the collection of white ethnocentrists, nationalists, populists and neo-Nazis that has taken root on both sides of the Atlantic, Mr. Putin is widely revered as a kind of white knight: a symbol of strength, racial purity and tradiContinued on Page 12
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GREAT MEADOW CORRECTIONAL FACILITY As with other New York prisons in rural areas, almost all guards here are white.
This article is by Michael Schwirtz, Michael Winerip and Robert Gebeloff.
The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York’s upstate prisons. They describe being called porch monkeys, spear chuckers and worse. There are cases of guards ripping out dreadlocks. One inmate, John Richard, reported that he was jumped at RACE BEHIND BARS Clinton CorrecFirst of two articles tional Facility by a guard who threatened to “serve up some black mashed potatoes with tomato sauce.” “As soon as you come through receiving, they let you know whose house it is,” said Darius Horton, who was recently released from Groveland Correctional Facility after serving six years for assault. Most forbidding are the maximum-security penitentiaries — Attica, Clinton, Great Meadow — in rural areas where the population is almost entirely white and nearly every officer is too. The guards who work these cellblocks rarely get to
know a black person who is not behind bars. Whether loud and vulgar or insinuated and masked, racial bias in the state prison system is a fact of life. It is also measurable.
A review by The New York Times of tens of thousands of disciplinary cases against inmates in 2015, hundreds of pages of internal reports and three years of parole decisions found that racial disContinued on Page 22
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In Security Pick, ‘Sharp Elbows’ And No Dissent
By MATT RICHTEL
This article is by Matthew Rosenberg, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt.
WASHINGTON — Days after Islamist militants stormed the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn reached a conclusion that stunned some of his subordinates at the Defense Intelligence Agency: Iran had a role in the attack, he told them. Now, he added, it was their job to prove it — and, by implication, to show that the White House was wrong about what had led to the attack. Mr. Flynn, whom Presidentelect Donald J. Trump has chosen to be his national security adviser, soon took to pushing analysts to find Iran’s hidden hand in the disaster, according to current and former officials familiar with the episode. But like many other investigations into Benghazi, theirs found no evidence of any links, and the general’s stubborn insistence reminded some officials at the agency of how the Bush administration had once relentlessly sought to connect Saddam Hussein and Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Continued on Page 26
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SING SING Inmates graduating from an educational program in October.
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Protesters at the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota facing off with the police. They have been ordered to leave by Monday.
On the Frozen Dakota Prairie, Readying for One Final Stand
As Chuck Peal lay in a Waterbury, Conn., emergency room one Sunday in early September, doctors furiously tried to make sense of his symptoms. Mr. Peal, 61, appeared to be dying, and they were not sure why. He slipped CELL WARS in and out of Promise and Peril consciousness, his blood pressure plummeted, his potassium levels soared and his blood sugar spiked to 10 times the normal level. A doctor suspected a heart attack, but uncertainty left him urgently researching the situation on his phone.
This was not a heart attack. Mr. Peal’s body was attacking itself, a severe reaction by his immune system that was a side effect of a seemingly miraculous cancer treatment aimed at saving his life. In the seven weeks prior, doctors at Yale had combated Mr. Peal’s melanoma with two of the most promising drugs in cancer treatment today. These medicines work by stimulating the immune system to attack cancer as ferociously as it does other threats, like viruses and bacteria. These so-called immunotherapy drugs have been hailed as a breakthrough in cancer treatment, attracting billions of research dollars and offering new hope to patients out of options.
But as their use grows, doctors are finding that they pose serious risks that stem from the very thing that makes them effective. An unleashed immune system can attack healthy, vital organs: notably the bowel, the liver and the lungs, but also the kidneys, the adrenal and pituitary glands, the pancreas and, in rare cases, the heart. Doctors at Yale believe immunotherapy is causing a new type of acute-onset diabetes, with at least 17 cases there so far, Mr. Peal’s among them. In cancer clinics around the world, and in drug trials, myriad other side effects are showing up. Studies are finding that severe reactions occur nearly Continued on Page 20
Dozens Missing In Oakland Fire
By JACK HEALY
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Lee Plenty Wolf knows the government wants him to clear out of the snowbound tepee where he stokes the fire, sings traditional Oglala songs and sleeps alongside a pair of women from France and California who came to protest an oil pipeline in the stinging cold. But he and thousands of other protesters are vowing to make what may be their last stand at Standing Rock. The orders to evacuate the
sprawling protest camp on this frozen prairie just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation came down last week from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the North Dakota governor’s office. After four months of prayer marches and clashes with law enforcement officials who responded with tear gas and water cannons, the protesters now have until Monday to leave.
Recovery efforts proceeded slowly in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, a day after at least nine died when a warehouse hosting a dance party caught fire. It was one of the nation’s deadliest structure fires in the past decade. Page 29.
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The Mentawai have long lived in Indonesia’s rain forest, resisting government intrusion and modern ways. But many of their young have moved on. PAGE 6
Lower Manhattan has seen a population boom since the Sept. 11 attacks. The downside to that growth: the neighborhood has become too crowded. PAGE 1
Liberty University hired a “godly man” to raise its athletic profile, ignoring a scandal that happened on his watch at Baylor. Sports of The Times. PAGE 1
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Panama Struggles to Shed A Suspicious Image
The Christmas Album That Takes a Year to Make
Even in a Renaissance, Can TV Be Fair to Muslims?
How Banks Are Putting Rain Forests in Peril
The country’s president, Juan Carlos Varela, has named a panel to recommend how to make Panama’s financial sector more transparent, but the effort has had mixed success. PAGE 10
Bill Adler, a fixture of the New York music industry, has compiled a CD of seasonal songs, including soul, R&B, jazz and much more, annually since 1982. PAGE 1
It has never been easy to put a Muslim character on American screens. Could that change now, after a divisive presidential campaign? PAGE 1
Global lenders, sometimes flouting their own policies, have financed projects that are destructive to ecosystems and the climate. PAGE 1
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In his new book, “The Undoing Project,� Michael Lewis studies two psychologists who laid bare the often irrational basis of human decisions. PAGE 1
An Impostor in Afghanistan Sardar Zmarai, the son of a wheat seller, was arrested after more than a decade of fraud, audacious even by the standards of Afghanistan, where con artists have flourished in the chaos of war. PAGE 14
A Tackle Football Revival In the Heart of Texas Youth programs for tackle football have sprung up and remained popular in a Texas town despite growing health and safety concerns. PAGE 6
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Flaws in Insurer Networks Due to outdated and inaccurate directories, many consumers shopping for health coverage find that some of the doctors listed are out of network, declining new patients or charging extra fees. PAGE 25
Team Effort Aids Woods After Tiger Woods’s work as a mentor to the winning United States golf team, members are supporting his comeback to the sport. PAGE 1
Youth Boosts the Giants As Coach Ben McAdoo has turned to younger players, the Giants have had a promising string of wins. PAGE 2
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Raynoma Singleton, 79 She played a vital role in the early days of Motown as the business partner and second wife of Berry Gordy Jr., the label’s founder. PAGE 30
The most striking thing about the men of Blue Man Group, the zany performance troupe, is how comprehensively they have moved from the fringes to the mainstream. PAGE 8
An Immigrant’s ‘Nutcracker’ A new production of “The Nutcracker,� for the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, moves the Christmasseason classic from its traditional upper-class German household to a worker’s shack at the World’s Columbian Exposition. PAGE 12
History’s Other Composers While they have hardly ended up as household names, the women in the history of composing are anomalies: people whose ambition and talent coincided with privilege and pedigree. PAGE 16
A Cinema of Women The director Pedro AlmodĂłvar has drawn inspiration from wide-ranging sources. But it is his fascination with women and his ability to conjure memorable female characters that remain constants. PAGE 18
Going With Their Guts
Inner Peace, for a Price The Headspace meditation app offers mindfulness to the frazzled masses. Revalued. PAGE 3
SUNDAY STYLES
Tiny Tattoos Gain Big-Name Fans The tattoo artist Jonboy is a favorite of the fashion and music crowd, thanks in part to a small white dot on Kendall Jenner. PAGE 1
Her Father’s Daughter Ivanka Trump is slated to become the most influential first daughter in over a century, but with that may come damage to her brand. PAGE 1
Heir to Trouble The Fiat heir Lapo Elkann is under fire for a false kidnapping report. PAGE 13
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The stunning vistas, the dizzying altitude and the rush of adventure combine to give a hint of the sublime at Seekarspitz and other mountains in the Austrian Alps. TRAVEL, PAGE 1 SKIING THE ALPS
Hyperpartisan voting districts, created with the help of sophisticated software, subvert democracy and the will of voters. SUNDAY REVIEW, PAGE 8
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Public Library,â&#x20AC;? a collection of stories by the Scottish novelist Ali Smith, is a homage to public libraries as budget cuts in Britain and new ways of communicating are closing them. Review by Edmund White. Holiday Books. PAGE 12
The United States and Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of democracy and freedom defined the world after World War II. What will happen in an age of Donald J. Trump and Brexit?
Can Donald J. Trump help workers, even when he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t strong-arming their bosses?
Famously earnest, David Foster Wallace said he liked Midwestern people, and got more work done in the gusty open spaces of central Illinois. Footsteps. PAGE 1
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Tress Relief â&#x20AC;&#x153;Entanglement,â&#x20AC;? by Emma Tarlo, looks at the international hair trade, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hairâ&#x20AC;? is a handsome coffee table book by the celebrity hairdresser John Barrett. Review by Sarah Lyall. PAGE 14
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Sea of Money When a globe-trotting millionaire set out to divorce his wife, their fortune also seemed to vanish. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the American economy. PAGE 30
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A Quaint Past in Macau Away from the casinos, Macau, with its cobblestone streets, old Catholic churches and narrow alleyways, has an almost European feel to it. Frugal Traveler. PAGE 4
Afraid to Fly? Holding hands works. But so can apps showing concrete (and reassuring) statistics. Pursuits.
Two new biographies of Queen Victoria seek to pierce the sanitized, puritanical mythology built up around her to illuminate the woman she actually was. Review by Priya Parmar. PAGE 20
Shuafat Refugee Camp, in East Jerusalem, is a kind of no manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land. According to Israeli law, the camp is inside Israel, but the people who live there are refugees in their own city, with barely any access to services. PAGE 44
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Robert Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new thriller, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conclave,â&#x20AC;? is a tightly woven tale about power machinations at the top of the Roman Catholic Church. Review by Vanessa Friedman. PAGE 65
Nothing sounds quite so noble as preaching â&#x20AC;&#x153;empathyâ&#x20AC;? for those with whom we disagree. But are we trying to relate to other people for their good or for ours? First Words.
When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not creating elegant spaces for his clients, the architect Brian Sawyer is transforming his own New York home into a walk-in cabinet of curiosities. PAGE 172
Monetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Closing Act Ross Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Liliesâ&#x20AC;? is an engaging and authoritative portrait of the artist as an old man. Review by Deborah Solomon. PAGE 68
Art in the Extreme In her engrossing new memoir, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walk Through Walls,â&#x20AC;? the performance artist Marina Abramovic writes touchingly about romantic heartbreak and shows unexpected flashes of humor. Review by Francine Prose. PAGE 72
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Voters lining up at the Multnomah County election headquarters last month in Portland, Ore. permanent fund dividend, an annual payment to residents of investment earnings from mineral royalties. In Oregon, eligible voters receive a card in the mail notifying them of their automatic registration. To affiliate with a political party or opt out of voter registration, residents must return the card with the appropriate information filled out. Or they can simply do nothing. “It’s one of the biggest things you could do to boost participation nationwide,” said Jonathan Brater, who focuses on voting rights and elections at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute at the New York University School of Law. Mr. Brater was cautious about drawing far-reaching conclusions from the Oregon results, citing the need for more data over several election cycles to fully understand the program’s impact. But he and other voting law specialists say the early data released last month by Jeanne P. Atkins, Oregon’s secretary of state, was promising. “Based on the initial data, it definitely looks like a success,” he said.
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Airbnb has capitulated to the demands of lawmakers over its operations in New York City, the company’s largest market in the United States, agreeing to drop a lawsuit in which it pushed back against a new state law that it said could have hurt its business. The short-term home rental service on Friday settled the lawsuit that it filed against New York City two months ago. The suit challenged a New York law that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed in October. That law called for fines of as much as $7,500 for illegally listing a property on a rental platform such as Airbnb. The company had said the large fines could have deterred hosts and impaired its revenue in New
An agreement that a law will be enforced only against hosts. York City. Hosts in the city generated about $1 billion in revenue last year, and the company took a cut of that in fees. But on Friday, Airbnb agreed that it would drop the suit as long as New York City enforced the new law only against hosts and did not fine Airbnb. The settlement takes effect on Monday. The agreement is a victory for opponents of Airbnb. The company and New York authorities have battled for years over the le-
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matic registration bill in his state this year, citing concerns about fraud. When the Oregon program was being debated, it was projected to cost the state just over $750,000 over the course of two years. The projected cost to Oregon’s counties was just over $765,000. Some on the left worry that such laws will hinder a tried-andtrue strategy of using voter registration drives as a way to connect with voters who they can learn more about and later mobilize, said Paul Gronke, political science professor at Reed College and director of the school’s Early Voting Information Center. Proponents of automatic registration say the policy will free those groups up for other kinds of outreach. They also argue that such programs make government more efficient by spreading out a spike in processing of voter registration forms. “Those forms tend to come in a glut right before Election Day,” Mr. Burden said. By registering voters throughout the year, states can avoid hiring temporary workers and paying overtime for employees closer to the election, he said.
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ment on Friday. In a statement, Airbnb said the settlement was “a material step forward for our hosts.” Airbnb has been fighting with local governments around the globe that are displeased with the effects of the online rental service. Cities such as Amsterdam, Miami Beach and New Orleans have been closely watching the New York case. “I expect the city will now get down to the important business of enforcing the law against the serial lawbreakers on the site” who turn affordable housing into illegal hotels, Ms. Rosenthal said in her statement. “This is a win for everyone.”
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MEN OF THE FOREST Teu Kapik Sibajak, left, and Aman Aqwi Sakkukuret of the Mentawai tribe, which resisted when Indonesia, in the past, tried to suppress its culture on the island of Siberut.
Modern World Tugs At a Tribe Clinging To Its Ancient Ways By JON EMONT and SERGEY PONOMAREV
DOROUGOK, Indonesia — The older man wore just a loincloth, revealing taut muscles and leathery skin from decades of living deep in the rain forest. Like other members of his tribe, he was covered head to toe in tattoos. Though he appeared strong, he had a pronounced hunch, and a cough from smoking too much tobacco. The man, Teu Kapik Sibajak, grabbed his ax on a recent morning and went off through the forest to chop down a sago palm tree. Mr. Kapik delivered precise blows before he and a few friends stooped down and rolled pieces of the thick, heavy trunk toward his house. “Hard work, this!” he announced. But the effort would be worth it: The tree’s leaves provide the roof for his wooden long house; its starchy insides can be cooked and eaten, or fed to the household’s pigs, ducks and chickens. Mr. Kapik and his wife, Teu Kapik Sikalabai, are among the last of the Mentawai people living traditional lives deep in the forest on the remote island of Siberut. They, and others like them, have for decades resisted Indonesian government policies that pressured the forest-bound indigenous groups to abandon their old customs, accept a governmentapproved religion and move to government villages. That shift, along with the inevitable lure the modern world has for their children, has led to major disjunction between generations of Mentawai. The Mentawai tribe, which today numbers around 60,000, is a rare Indonesian culture that was not influenced by Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim currents over the last two millenniums. Instead, their traditions and beliefs strongly resemble those of the original Austronesian settlers who came to this vast archipelago from Taiwan around 4,000 years ago. If the tribe’s culture disappears, one of the last links to Indonesia’s early human inhabitants will go with it. Their physically demanding lives now pose a challenge for their children. “They have to work although they’re already very old, work until they can’t work anymore,” said Petrus Sekaliou, the Kapiks’ son. Mr. Sekaliou wears Western clothing and, unlike his parents, can communicate in fluent bahasa Indonesian, the national language. Mr. Sekaliou, 42, lives in Mongorut village on the outskirts of the forest, a brisk 90-minute walk from his parents. He farms and does odd jobs there, and tries to visit his parents every weekend. When his parents can no longer fend for themselves, Mr. Sekaliou said, his plan is to leave his children in the care of his wife and move back to the forest until his parents die. The alternative — moving his parents to the village, where motor-
bikes whir and teenagers banter on cellphones — would be too wrenching in their old age. “They’re happy in the forest,” he said. “This is what they know.” Mr. Kapik, his father, is of a special class known as Sikkerei — shamans, forest healers and keepers of the Mentawai’s animist faith. He and his wife insist they are not going anywhere. “I would never move from here,” Ms. Kapik said. Since arriving on the island of Siberut around 2,000 years ago, the Mentawai people had limited exposure to the outside world. It wasn’t until Indonesia gained its independence in 1949, and the new country’s leaders sought to turn this archipelago into a nation with a common language and culture, that the Mentawai culture began to be fundamentally transformed. By law, all citizens of Indonesia had to accept one of Indonesia’s officially recognized religions: Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism or Buddhism. But the Mentawai, like many other Indonesian animist tribal peoples, didn’t adopt a state-recognized religion. In 1954, the Indonesian police and other state officials arrived on Siberut to deliver an ultimatum: The Mentawai had three months to select either Continued on Page 14
DIFFERENT GENERATIONS Many young Mentawai, such as Esmat Sakulok, top, who lives in Jakarta, have drifted away from the tribe’s traditional beliefs. Mr. Kapik, above, chopped a sago palm, which will provide both food and shelter for his family.
ISLAND HOME Silumang Sipelege, rear, with a relative from the village at the entrance to her house on Siberut.
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Clockwise from top, a hair salon in Havana displaying an image of Fidel Castro, ubiquitous in Cuba; a crowd lining a street in Bayamo, awaiting the caravan carrying Mr. Castro’s ashes; and sorrow in Santa Clara as his ashes passed by. A funeral on Sunday for Mr. Castro, who died on Nov. 25 at age 90, will conclude a national period of mourning.
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This article is by Tomas Munita, Mauricio Lima and Azam Ahmed.
Cuba declared nine days of mourning after Fidel Castro’s death, a period that will culminate in his funeral on Sunday. Photographers for The New York Times crossed the nation to capture the mood of Cubans grappling with life without him. Havana, by nature, is a noisy place. Honking, chatter and pulsing music are just three strands of the city’s braided soundtrack. But the death of Mr. Castro
brought an eerie silence. The government banned drinking, partying and loud music, leaving the city on mute, bereft of its melody and verve. For many Cubans, the death of Mr. Castro felt like that of a father — one with whom they had a complicated relationship. In his nearly 50 years leading the nation, he brought much to Cuba, including free health care and education, but he also oversaw economic deprivation and stifled freedom. The contradiction of Mr. Castro’s Cuba
persisted in his passing. Across the generations, there were tears and genuine sorrow. Others hardly mourned at all, keeping quiet all the same, out of fear, respect or a sense of social obligation. In death, as in life, Mr. Castro demanded reverence. On Wednesday, Mr. Castro’s ashes were taken into the countryside, on a route that retraced, in reverse, the steps of the revolution he led in 1959. Towns and villages along the route were emp-
tied of residents as caravans of flatbed trucks carted thousands to catch a glimpse of Mr. Castro’s remains. People, many carrying framed pictures of Mr. Castro, filled the streets. As his remains approached Santiago de Cuba, the crowds grew denser, slowing the cortege as it approached the city. In Santiago, where Mr. Castro will be buried on Sunday and where his revolution began, the clearest impression was borne on the banners and shirts of those paying their respects: Yo soy Fidel.
Gambians Celebrate Defeat of Longtime President Thailand Arrests Student By JAIME YAYA BARRY and DIONNE SEARCEY
BANJUL, Gambia — Residents of Gambia awoke Saturday to a surreal joy and hope for a freer future after they finally shook off a long era of oppression by voting President Yahya Jammeh out of office. For 22 years, Gambians have lived under the threat of imprisonment or even death if they spoke out against Mr. Jammeh’s strange and violent government in this tiny West African nation. Now, finally, the fear is gone. “He was like God,” said Bintou Ceesay, a hairdresser who voted against Mr. Jammeh and sobbed in happiness when she learned of the election’s outcome. “Now it is over.” Mr. Jammeh’s defeat on Thursday was a surprise, but what was even more shocking was that a man who seemed to relish his absolute authority would so calmly let it go. In an even-toned concession speech broadcast Friday on state television, Mr. Jammeh declared that he would abide by what he called God’s will for him to hand over the presidency to the winner, Adama Barrow. Mr. Barrow, 51, a real estate agent with no political experience, quickly ascended late in the campaign to become the leader of the opposition coalition. Mr. Jammeh phoned him on Friday, and in what was described as a pleasant conJaime Yaya Barry reported from Banjul, and Dionne Searcey from Dakar, Senegal.
versation joked with him and offered to help with the transition. Mr. Jammeh seized power in a coup in 1994, and his rule has been anything but predictable. Human rights groups have denounced him for threatening to behead gay people, ordering so-called sorcerers to be hunted and killed, and arresting and prosecuting journalists and supporters of the opposition. His government prosecuted and jailed critics, some of whom wound up dead, and thousands of citizens have fled into exile. “You are the elected president of the Gambia, and I wish you all the best,” Mr. Jammeh told Mr. Barrow during the call. “My time is up.” Mr. Jammeh was initially reluctant to accept the election results, according to a top military intelligence official close to the president. As returns coming in from major regions clearly indicated that he was going to lose, Mr. Jammeh asked his key advisers to annul the votes, the official said. He then gathered at the statehouse his top military security advisers, police officers and intelligence officials and asked for their support to discredit the vote. The officers told him that chaos would break out if they did so. Tempers flared at the meeting, said the official, who declined to be named because of the top-secret nature of the gathering. But eventually, Mr. Jammeh agreed to concede. Speculation had been rampant that Mr. Jammeh had fled the
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Adama Barrow, Gambia’s president-elect. His rise happened quickly late in the race. country in the wake of the election, but the official said Mr. Jammeh remained in Gambia. On Saturday, the streets in the capital, Banjul, were largely calm. But Friday night, thousands celebrated across Gambia, the smallest nation on continental Africa. Young people burned posters with photographs of Mr. Jammeh and currency bills, which bear his image. Even the inspector general of the police was spotted among the crowd of celebrants. This year in the period before the election, the security forces arrested more than 90 opposition activists for participating in peaceful protests. Thirty activists, including the leader of the largest opposition party, the United Democratic Party, were prosecuted and sentenced to three years in prison. Two other opposition protesters died in custody, including the opposition party’s national organizing secretary, Solo Sandeng, who was beaten to death at the country’s National Intelligence
Agency in April, according to an Amnesty International report. Human rights groups tried to draw attention to Mr. Jammeh’s abuses with numerous reports outlining deaths and torture suffered by his opponents. Western nations criticized Mr. Jammeh and threatened sanctions. He began courting nations in the Middle East for aid. On Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement hailing “the first democratic transfer of power in the country.” “I also commend President Jammeh for respecting the results and for agreeing to peacefully transfer power to the presidentelect,” Mr. Kerry said. Some of the exiles and thousands of other Gambians spread across the world already were reported to be packing bags to return to a home that they had not dared visit in years, according to their posts on social media sites. The sheer terror at the mere mention of Mr. Jammeh had so penetrated numerous exiles in Senegal, the country that borders Gambia on three sides, that few dared even speak his name, convinced that spies would report them. Lamin Jammeh, an auto mechanic in Kololi, Gambia, who is not related to Mr. Jammeh, said he had been so rattled by the election results that he had left home without locking his front door. He stayed out celebrating with friends until 4 a.m. Saturday. “Wow,” he said. “We are finally free.”
Accused of Sharing Article BANGKOK (AP) — The police in Thailand on Saturday arrested a student pro-democracy activist accused of sharing an article about the country’s new king that was posted on Facebook by the Thai-language service of the BBC. The arrest was apparently the first under the country’s tough lèse-majesté law since King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun took the throne on Thursday, succeeding his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej. A conviction for lèse-majesté, or insulting the monarchy, carries a penalty of three to 15 years in prison. The law student, Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, was arrested while attending a Buddhist ceremony in the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum, said Duangthip Karith of the group Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. Mr. Jatupat posted that he was being arrested and briefly broadcast the police reading the charge on a Facebook Live video stream. Mr. Jatupat is a prominent member of Dao Din, a small student organization that has held public protests against Thailand’s military government. Critics of the lèse-majesté law, known as Article 112, say it is used to silence political dissidents. The military junta that took power in a 2014 coup has especially cracked down on internet commentary. The authorities had warned that even “shares” — links to postings, rather than the content itself — could be considered in violation
of the law. Mr. Jatupat also posted several passages from the BBC Thai article. The BBC article included mentions of the king’s personal life when he was crown prince, including details of three marriages that ended in divorce and other material that cannot be published in the Thai news media. Ms. Duangthip said the lawyers’ group believed that Mr. Jatupat’s case was the first in which the accused had not created or edited the content considered illegal. It also appeared that the case might be the first involving material produced by a mainstream news outlet, although previous cases involved content from foreign tabloids. Articles about the Thai monarchy in mainstream news outlets, including The Economist and The International New York Times, have been censored, through the blocking of their websites and the voluntary stopping of distribution of print editions in Thailand. Dao Din, the student group, issued a statement calling for Mr. Jatupat’s immediate and unconditional release, and the dropping of the charge. Ms. Duangthip said a member of the lawyers’ group had met with Mr. Jatupat in Khon Kaen Province, where a soldier had filed the complaint against him. She said that he had denied the charge and that the group would apply for his bail on Sunday.
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In August of last year, Panama sought to shed its image as a magnet for shady deals and narco traffickers by paying at least $2 million to host the world’s largest anticorruption conference, now taking place in Panama City. At the time, it seemed like good idea. Now, some prominent Panamanians aren’t so sure. Eight months after agreeing to host the conference, the nation was deeply embarrassed when confidential records leaked to journalists revealed that a single Panamanian law firm had created thousands of offshore companies, allowing the wealthy to hide income, some of it from illicit activities. The records became widely known as the “Panama Papers,” a term that so upsets Panamanian officials that some can’t bring themselves to utter it in public. After the leak, involving millions of legal documents, the president, Juan Carlos Varela, appointed a seven-member commission in April to recommend how to make its financial sector more transparent. That did not work out exactly as planned, either. For credibility, the president had included Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist and a fierce critic of tax havens — onshore and offshore — which he views as the dark side of globalization. What happened next should surprise no one familiar with Panamanian politics or the resolve of Mr. Stiglitz. The commission, if not dead on arrival, quickly ended up on life support. Mr. Stiglitz and another board member, Mark Pieth, a Swiss anticorruption expert, resigned after only one official meeting because the government, they said, would not promise to make their final report public. “You can’t have a committee on transparency and not be transparent,” Mr. Stiglitz said. The repercussions of this contretemps continued in the months leading up to the anticorruption conference. Each faction issued its own report. A prominent Panamanian lawyer publicly chastised professors at Columbia University, where Mr. Stiglitz teaches, for using the words “Panama Papers” in a course title, saying it unfairly singled out his country. And at the university’s World Leaders Forum in September, Mr. Stiglitz gently confronted Panama’s vice president for rendering what he said was an inaccurate account of why the commission had broken apart. With the world’s economic powers intensifying their attack on tax havens, the commission’s failure to speak in one voice illustrates the difficulty of trying to reform a financial system, particularly in a small country where familial ties run deep and the financial interests of elite lawyers and bankers are embedded in offshore businesses. Panama has taken some steps toward transparency. After initially balking, Panama did agree this year to a multilateral deal to provide the names of the real owners of offshore companies when other countries request them. And President Varela spoke at the opening ceremony of the anticorruption conference. But more needs to be done, said Mr. Stiglitz, a former co-chairman of the committee. He and Mr. Pieth said they were not bitter, but rued Panama’s lost opportunity to Vinod Sreeharsha contributing reporting.
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Top, President Juan Carlos Varela, right, greeting Joseph E. Stiglitz, center, and Mark Pieth in April, when he formed a commission to report on Panama’s financial sector. Above, a police officer outside the Mossack Fonseca law firm office in Panama City. serve as a model for other nations — including the United States — that do not fully comply with international standards of transparency. Other commission members blamed internal conflicts, not the government, for resignations. “All institutions have been open and willing to share information, documents and even opinions,” Roberto Artavia Loria, a commission member, wrote in an email to Mr. Stiglitz Even so, an examination by The New York Times of the business connections of the four Panamanian commission members — the fifth was Costa Rican — points to the challenges that Mr. Stiglitz and Mr. Pieth had to overcome. One member, Nicolás Ardito Barletta, a former president of Panama under a dictatorship, helped to create the country’s offshore industry in the 1970s as minister of planning. Mr. Barletta also championed the country’s freetrade zone, a prime target of Mr. Stiglitz, who views lightly regulated, tax-advantaged zones as an invitation to money laundering.
A second member, Gisela Porras, was once a partner in a law firm that recently advertised: “Our corporate law is attractive for many reasons. First of all, shareholder information is not filed at the Public Registry, therefore granting confidentiality to beneficial owners.” The commission’s other cochairman, Alberto Alemán, is an independent director of Global Bank, one of three Panamanian banks whose outlook was recently revised by S & P Global to negative from stable, reflecting “shortfalls in regulation, supervision, governance and transparency in the Panamanian financial system.” Mr. Alemán, a former canal administrator, had previously owned stock in a company that did millions of dollars in business with the Panama Canal. He also has three cousins who are or were partners in law firms with offshore services. President Varela is also closely tied to law firms that handle offshore accounts. One Alemán cousin is now his chief of staff, and both
his vice minister of foreign affairs and the minister of economy and finance came from the Morgan & Morgan Group, which includes a law firm known for its offshore business. And one of the president’s closest advisers until early this year was Ramon Fonseca Mora, a partner in Mossack Fonseca, the law firm that generated the Panama Papers. The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung obtained the data and later shared it with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a nonprofit group based in Washington. Mr. Stiglitz initially wondered whether the government was serious about his appointment, but he said two things had convinced him that it was. Panama’s vice president, Isabel de Saint Malo, flew to New York to personally ask Mr. Stiglitz to join, and Mr. Pieth was also asked to serve. The group met officially for the first time in June in New York. The honeymoon did not last long. “Everyone was guilty of bad Googling,” said one person who knew the commission members.
Mr. Pieth added, “We didn’t spend an awful amount of time on due diligence on our colleagues.” Potential conflicts quickly became apparent, according to notes taken by an attendee. One member expressed concern about damage control, since the expanded canal was about to open — a moment of great national pride — and, the member said, “we will use that moment to say this is who we are and where our future is headed.” When the subject of a public registry of beneficial owners was raised, Mr. Stiglitz said, “you could see them blanch.” And, he added, there was no serious discussion about closer monitoring of tax-advantaged, free-trade zones, or the strong enforcement of the open-records law. The group agreed that it should secure a promise from President Varela that its final report would be made public. “They said they would go to the government and get it, and they never did,” Mr. Stiglitz said. Instead, on July 29, the group received a stern note from the government, saying that the pres-
idential decree establishing the commission stipulated that the report “will be the property of and used by the Republic of Panama” and that it would decide what to share with the public. The government also said funds requested for operational expenses would not be coming. Compounding matters, Mr. Stiglitz and Mr. Pieth said they had been shocked to learn, other members had surreptitiously sent an “interim” report to President Varela without their knowledge or approval. That report, Mr. Stiglitz said, was too narrow and poorly written. Mr. Pieth wrote his own stinging response. “I cannot help feeling that the president asked you to participate in the committee exactly for what you have done: to pull the emergency brakes when matters seemed to get tight for the Panamanian services industry.” Around that time, Mr. Alemán, the co-chairman, visited Mr. Stiglitz in New York to tell him that the commission should disband. The rump commission recently filed a final report, which Mr. Stiglitz said was not substantively different from the interim report. “They’re making a valiant effort to sound tough,” he said. “But the key weaknesses in the transparency framework have not been addressed.” He emphasized the importance of making all the names of beneficial owners public. “We are very big on the notion of a searchable registry, and they are very opposed to that,” he said. Recent corruption investigations underscore their concern. This year, United States officials publicly identified Nidal Waked and Abdul Waked and their associates as running a major money-laundering ring that allegedly helped drug traffickers hide illicit profits in dozens of shell companies and a Panamanian bank. Both men, who dispute the allegations, have long had a power base in the Colón Free Trade Zone, which is next to the Panama Canal. In a statement, the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said that by publicly identifying this ring and freezing the ring’s assets under United States control, it had disrupted the group’s ability “to launder drug-trafficking proceeds using trade-based methods, dutyfree retail, real estate development and financial services throughout the region.” In an unrelated investigation that has rocked Brazil’s political establishment, prosecutors there said they had the Panama Papers law firm, Mossack Fonseca, in their sights. “It is clear to us that there were at least two crimes committed by Mossack Fonseca’s office in Brazil — financial crime and organized crime,” said Jerusa Burmann Viecili, a Brazilian federal prosecutor. She added: “Mossack Fonseca’s registering of offshores had an objective that was quite clear — to hide the truthful beneficiaries of these shell companies.” Mossack Fonseca said its Brazil affiliate, or franchise, operated independently of the main office. Brazil’s investigation, called Operation Lava Jato, or Operation Car Wash, has also alleged that workers of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, one of the largest in Latin America — and one of Panama’s public-works contractors — used shell companies to cover its tracks in a bribepaying scheme. Panamanian banks are alleged to have held some of the bribe money. Multibank, formerly known as Multi-Credit Bank, is cited in court documents as one of the places where funds were deposited. This financial institution’s outlook was recently revised downward by S & P Global.
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Extremists Turn to One Leader to Protect the Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Values: Putin From Page 1 tional Christian values in a world under threat from Islam, immigrants and rootless cosmopolitan elites. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always seen Russia as the guardian at the gate, as the easternmost outpost of our people,â&#x20AC;? said Sam Dickson, a white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan lawyer who frequently speaks at gatherings of the socalled alt-right, a far-right fringe movement that embraces white nationalism and a range of racist and anti-immigrant positions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are our barrier to the Oriental invasion of our homeland and the great protector of Christendom. I admire the Russian people. They are the strongest white people on earth.â&#x20AC;? Fascination with and, in many cases, adoration of Mr. Putin â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or at least a distorted image of him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; first took hold among far-right politicians in Europe, many of whom have since developed close relations with their brethren in the United States. Such ties across the Atlantic have helped spread the view of Mr. Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Russia as an ideal model. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need a chancellor like Putin, someone who is working for Germany and Europe like Putin works for Russia,â&#x20AC;? said Udo Voigt, leader of Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Democratic Party. That farright group views Chancellor Angela Merkel as a traitor because she opened the door to nearly a million migrants from Syria and elsewhere last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Putin is a symbol for us of what is possible,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Voigt said. The Obama administration has accused Russian interests of meddling in the presidential campaign by spreading fake news and hacking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and the emails of John Podesta, a leading figure in Hillary Clintonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presidential campaign. But efforts by Russia, which has jailed some of its own white supremacist agitators, to organize and inspire extreme right-wing groups in the United States and Europe may ultimately prove more influential. His voice amplified by Russianfunded think tanks, the Orthodox Church and state-controlled news media, like RT and Sputnik, that are aimed at foreign audiences, Mr. Putin has in recent years reached out to conservative and nationalist groups abroad with the Hana de Goeij contributed reporting.
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message that he stands with them against gay rights activists and other forces of moral decay. He first embraced this theme when, campaigning for his third term as president in early 2012, he presented Russia not only as a military power deserving of international respect, but also as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;civilizational modelâ&#x20AC;? that could rally all those in Russia and beyond who were fed up with the erosion of traditional values. The Kremlin has also provided financial and logistical support to
far-right forces in the West, said Peter Kreko, an analyst at Political Capital, a research group in Budapest. Though Jobbik, a neoNazi party in Hungary and other groups have been accused of receiving money from Moscow, the only proven case so far involves the National Front in France, which got loans worth more than $11 million from Russian banks. Russia also shares with farright groups across the world a deeply held belief that, regardless of their party, traditional elites
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should be deposed because of their support for globalism and transnational institutions like NATO and the European Union. But this means different things to different groups and people. Mr. Putin, for example, has â&#x20AC;&#x153;a natural interest in making a mess in Europe and the U.S.,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Kreko said. But for Mr. Heimbach, whose Traditionalist Worker Party uses the slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Globalism is the poison, nationalism is the antidote,â&#x20AC;? the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;international elitesâ&#x20AC;? is often an anti-Semitic code for Jews, though he denied any racist intent. Mr. Putin has never personally promoted white supremacist ideas, and has repeatedly insisted that Russia, while predominantly white and Christian, is a vast territory of diverse religions and ethnic groups stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Nor has he displayed any sign of hostility toward Jews, a fact that has infuriated some of Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more extremist nationalist groups. In fact, Mr. Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agenda is not purely ideological. It is as much about accomplishing strategic goals like destabilizing Europe and NATO, or forcing the European Union to rescind the sanctions it applied after his forays into Crimea and eastern Ukraine. This has not stopped people like Richard B. Spencer, who runs the website AlternativeRight.com and directs the National Policy Institute, an alt-right group based in Montana, from hailing Mr. Putin as a protector of the white race. Not all of the alt-right has fully embraced the Russian leader. Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new chief strategist, who until he entered the White House ran Breitbart News, which he has called a platform for the alt-right, has a complicated view of Mr. Putin. In a speech in 2014, he said that Mr. Putin ran a â&#x20AC;&#x153;kleptocracy,â&#x20AC;? but also
that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we, the Judeo-Christian West, really have to look at what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about as far as traditionalism goes.â&#x20AC;? Mr. Spencer, who held a muchdiscussed conference in Washington in November, produced a video last year in which he claimed that â&#x20AC;&#x153;an understandingâ&#x20AC;? between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin might bring together Slavic and American Caucasians and eventually â&#x20AC;&#x153;foretell a unified white world.â&#x20AC;? This summer, he echoed those remarks when he told The Nation magazine, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we should be pro-Russia because Russia is the great white power that exists in the world.â&#x20AC;? In an interview this past week, Mr. Spencer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he made headlines at his conference by shouting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hail Trump!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; offered a more
To some, a model of strength, racial purity and Christian faith. measured version of this sentiment, referring to Mr. Putin as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a normal leader in an abnormal world.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wants to conserve his nation and his people,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Spencer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He recognizes certain enemies and certain traditions that should remain, like the church and the state. These are very normal conservative ends.â&#x20AC;? Mr. Spencer acknowledged that Mr. Putin did not share his ideology, but played that down, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can look to Putin as someone we can admire and understand.â&#x20AC;? Mr. Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fans in Europe generally avoid white supremacist ideas, at least in public, but have also praised him for his nationalis-
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tic pride and his views on Islamic extremism, immigration and traditional sexual mores. When ordinary people see that â&#x20AC;&#x153;a man can kiss a man in the street in Germany, they look to the east and Russia and see that this kind of a new life has been stopped there,â&#x20AC;? said Mr. Voigt, the German far-right leader. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For us, this is hope.â&#x20AC;? Mr. Voigt added that he and his party â&#x20AC;&#x153;agree 100 percent with Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s positionâ&#x20AC;? on homosexuality: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are absolutely against gender politics for my country and for Europe.â&#x20AC;? Not all of Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right-wing populists are smitten with Mr. Putin, though most tend to see him much more favorably than their own entrenched elites. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more a fan than not,â&#x20AC;? said Tom Van Grieken, the leader of Vlaams Belang, a Belgian group that champions independence for the Dutchspeaking region of Flanders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He does a good job for Russian interests. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure he is good for the rest of the world.â&#x20AC;? In Mr. Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor, Mr. Van Grieken insisted that Russia had been demonized by a Belgian establishment that â&#x20AC;&#x153;is a slave to America,â&#x20AC;? adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Putin is not black or white, but 50 shades of gray.â&#x20AC;? Last year, in an effort to unite disparate and occasionally feuding far-right groups and to place Russia squarely at the center of the expanding movement against liberal elites, a Russian political party, Rodina, organized a gathering of nationalist figures from Europe, the United States and elsewhere in a cramped conference room at St. Petersburgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holiday Inn. Fyodor V. Biryukov, a leader of the Rodina, or Motherland, party, said it was the first time that activists in the vanguard of â&#x20AC;&#x153;a new global revolutionâ&#x20AC;? had gotten together to rail against same-sex marriage, political correctness, radical Islamists and New York financiers. He said the Kremlin had not supported the event, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but â&#x20AC;&#x153;did not bother us, either.â&#x20AC;? Among the Europeans at the conference were representatives from Britain First, a far-right nationalist party, and Golden Dawn, the Greek neo-fascist group. At least two Americans were also there. One of them was Mr. Dickson, the former Klan lawyer, who flew in from Atlanta and gave a speech that ended with a cry in halting Russian: â&#x20AC;&#x153;God save the czar!â&#x20AC;? The other was Jared Taylor, the founder of the white supremacist think tank American Renaissance, who said that the descendants of white Europeans risked being swept away by a wave of Africans, Central Americans and Asians. In recent years, Mr. Taylor has struck up ties with European groups, inviting officials from the National Front, Vlaams Belang and the British National Party to speak at his American Renaissance events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a worldwide awakening of nationalism among European countries â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I include the United States in that,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Taylor said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All across Europe, we are seeing the rise of parties expressing the idea that Europe, in order to remain Europe, must remain European. I have a feeling of intense kinship for those that wish to preserve their nation and their culture.â&#x20AC;? Mr. Heimbach has made three trips to Europe in the last three years, meeting with officials from the Golden Dawn in Greece, the New Right in Romania and Mr. Voigtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Democratic Party in Germany to discuss fundraising and organizing strategies. In Prague in September, he addressed members of the Workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Party of Social Justice, which opposes NATO and the European Union, has sought to criminalize homosexuality and has called for the Czech Republic to restore relations with Russia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We white Americans can never be truly separated from our European brothers and sisters,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Heimbach told the crowd, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because we are all bonded together by shared blood, heritage and destiny.â&#x20AC;? Tomas Vanas, the Czech partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chairman, said in a telephone interview this past week that he stood together with Mr. Putin and others to resist â&#x20AC;&#x153;the perverse liberal values of the Western world.â&#x20AC;? From home in Ohio last month, Mr. Heimbach described his visits to Europe as field trips that help him learn how to make the white nationalist movement in the United States a â&#x20AC;&#x153;real political force.â&#x20AC;? He also spoke about creating a broader, worldwide network, which he called, with a nod to Comintern, the old Communist International, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Traditionalist International.â&#x20AC;? In this, as in many things, Mr. Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Russia, now the home of a new global alliance of far-right groups called the World NationalConservative Movement, was the template. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Russia has already taken its place on the global stage by organizing national movements as counterparts to Atlanticist elites,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Heimbach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intellectually, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve shown us how it works.â&#x20AC;?
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Hailed Like an Afghan Prince; Held Like a Fraud Arrest Exposes Daring Impostor By MUJIB MASHAL and FAHIM ABED
KABUL, Afghanistan — He arrived in northern Afghanistan bearing certificates of appreciation from the presidential palace in Kabul — a favored token of Afghan officials, second only to government medals. The dignitary, a burly young man with a massive watch, was provided security by Afghan commandos and ushered around in one of the government’s precious helicopters. District governors in Baghlan Province posed with him for photographs; generals clicked their heels together in respect and then gladly extended their hands to receive their certificates. The only problem? The man, who had introduced himself as Sardar Zmarai, a prince and a senior representative from President Ashraf Ghani’s Office of the National Security Council, was actually a serial impostor — a daring con. And after more than a decade of tricking officials and business executives across the country, and growing rich from it, Mr. Zmarai, the son of a wheat seller, had pushed his luck a little too far. At the end of his northern tour, Afghan security agents were waiting for him with handcuffs at the airport in the city of Mazar-iSharif. The date of his arrest, sometime in the past two weeks, was not clear. But the security council confirmed the incident in a statement late Wednesday. “He is being investigated at a detention center of the National Directorate of Security,” the statement said. Mr. Zmarai, whose latest false identity was as a descendant of an Afghan prince who had served as the country’s first president before he and his family were wiped out in a Communist attack in the 1970s, may be one of the more cunning impostors here. But he is not the first to have benefited from the chaos of the Afghan war. Many have posed as Taliban peace emissaries, sometimes turning out to be suicide bombers on assassination missions. One shopkeeper made it as far as the presidential palace posing as the Taliban’s deputy leader and was rewarded with cash for a willingness to talk peace. Others have made fortunes forging the signatures of senior officials, including that of the country’s vice president to give away prime plots of real estate just hundreds of yards from the presidential palace. Some of Mr. Zmarai’s victims laughed at how badly they had Najim Rahim contributed reporting from Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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An undated photograph of Sardar Zmarai wearing Afghan garb in Panjshir Province. been duped. Gen. Noor Habib Gulbahari, the police chief of Baghlan Province and one of the recipients of the certificates, said Mr. Zmarai had introduced himself as a prince and governmental envoy in charge of security matters in the northeast of the country. “He gave certificates of appreciation to some high-ranking officials — including the army corps commander, myself and some other officials,” General Gulbahari, in a kind of humorous amazement, said in a phone interview last week. “He came to Baghlan from Balkh with a bunch of army commandos, then he called the army corps commander in Balkh to inform him that he had arrived safely to Baghlan,” the general said. “I also talked with the corps commander in Balkh through his phone, and he told me to take care of him.” During his stay in Baghlan, Mr. Zmarai was put up in a government guesthouse. When he moved on to assess the security situation in neighboring Kunduz Province, General Gulbahari asked his deputy to accompany Mr. Zmarai in a convoy and provide security for the journey. “We did not ask him for any document or ID, as he came in an army chopper and with army commandos,” General Gulbahari said. “He did not ask us for money or anything.” A picture of Mr. Zmarai’s broad exploits over the past decade and a half was quick to emerge. Mr. Zmarai, believed to be in his late 20s, hails from Khanabad District in Kunduz Province, said government officials and relatives who were reached by phone. His father sells wheat in the local market, and his brothers work as tailors and mechanics. Relatives, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they did not want to anger the family, said Mr. Zmarai had made his foray into con work about 14 years ago. He would pose as a government
inspector on local projects in Khanabad, luring officials and contractors to give him a cut. But early on, the authorities arrested him twice. He tried posing as a senator, going around with a traditional Afghan cape draped over his shoulders. When people would ask where he had gotten the votes, Mr. Zmarai’s family would say some senators were appointed by the government. Later, he took his craft to the city of Kunduz, the provincial capital. Just doors down from the province’s intelligence directorate, he established an office and marketed himself as a middleman to the NATO military base, where
Duping generals and other officials in a variety of guises. lucrative contracts were up for grabs, his relatives said. One day, he drove a senior military official from the province up and down a stretch of highway he said he had obtained the contract for paving and was hoping the official would become his partner in starting the project, said Ahmad Fahim Qarluq, a civil society activist in Kunduz. Mr. Zmarai persuaded the official to pay him $700 and disappeared. He also said he could contract vehicles to nongovernmental organizations and businesses across the country: $600 a month for a Toyota Corolla, and $1,200 for a four-wheel-drive vehicle. “There would be so many cars in front of his office that people wouldn’t get a turn to talk to him,” said Salahudin, who gave one of his cars to Mr. Zmarai for rent. “After three months, he left with people’s cars.” Mr. Salahudin said Mr. Zmarai had not taken his car because it
had been parked for maintenance, but owed him money nevertheless. When he finally tracked Mr. Zmarai down in Badakhshan Province three months later, the con man duped the owner of a gas station there into paying what he owed Mr. Salahudin. In more recent times, Mr. Zmarai was largely based in Mazar-i-Sharif, but his ambitions were national. On one visit to the central jail in northern Panjshir Province, he posed as a presidential adviser. But he preferred the identity of a prince. When he arrived in Helmand Province a couple of years ago, he was greeted with garlands of flowers and boarded in a V.I.P. government guesthouse. He even sold the land of his supposed ancestor, Prince Daoud, in Nangarhar Province. “He sold a plot of land to me in Nangarhar which belonged to Daoud,” said Gen. Abdul Wahid Taqat, a military commander under the Communist government who is now retired. “He took $10,000 from me, and when I followed the issue, the land did not belong to him.” General Taqat said Mr. Zmarai had also persuaded one of his friends to sell his apartment in Kabul and bring him $110,000 he made from it to buy him a larger plot of land. The con man ran away with the money. For a man with such a colorful life, the final moments before his arrest had to be dramatic, and were — though the accounts, fittingly, differ. The office of Balkh Province’s governor said Mr. Zmarai, running from the police, had jumped from the third floor of the airport. A second official said Mr. Zmarai had been arrested as soon as the government helicopter he used during his northern tour landed in Mazar-i-Sharif. Fearing his arrest when he saw security guards on the grounds, Mr. Zmarai had jumped from the helicopter and hurt his leg, that official said.
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Christianity or Islam as their religion and cease practicing their traditional faith, which was considered pagan. Most Mentawai selected Christianity, in part because Islam forbids the raising of pigs, which is central to their culture. Over the next few decades, Indonesian police officers worked with state officials and religious leaders to visit Mentawai villages to burn traditional headdresses and other items the tribe used during religious rituals. The Kapiks fled deeper into the forest to avoid the state’s incursions, without success. Ms. Kapik recounted how the commander of the local police had once forbidden them to get tattoos or sharpen their teeth, both customs among the Mentawai. “It made me so angry,” she said. So she rebelled. In the late 1960s, Ms. Kapik said, she decided that she would ignore the ban and tattoo her legs. The police commander, Nikodemus Siritoitet, noticed the new tattoos during one of his visits to the Kapiks’ home in the forest. He punished her by forcing her, without pay, to cultivate land in the hot sun for a week. “It was miserable,” she said. “I was never brave enough to get tattooed again.” Reimar Schefold, a Dutch anthropologist who lived among the Mentawai in the late 1960s, had his own brushes with Mr. Siritoitet, who objected to his research into the tribe’s traditional life. “It was a time when much of the old heritage was destroyed,” Dr. Schefold said. “When they held rituals, the police would come and burn their traditional equipment — ‘the burning of the idols,’ as they considered it.” The forced-conversion campaign deepened during the early years of the right-wing Suharto dictatorship, which worried that families, such as the Kapiks, who had not embraced a state-approved religion would be susceptible to Communist influence. Only after Western tourists be-
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Teu Kapik Sibajak, left, prepared a meal in his home in the rain forest on Siberut. He and his wife, their 42-year-old son said, are “happy in the forest,” adding, “This is what they know.” gan paying visits to the forest people in the 1990s did the local government recognize the commercial advantages of allowing traditional Mentawai to live freely. By that point, an entire generation had been raised without the touchstones of traditional life. Today, according to the Mentawai anthropologist Juniator Tulius, only around 2,000 Mentawai practice their traditional beliefs. The tug between the old and new continues in the villages. In 2014, the Indonesian government
established a single-payer universal health care system. Two years ago, a clinic that provides free health care to all was set up in Saibi Samukop, a village on the edge of the forest. But a doctor there, Winda Anggriana, 26, said many residents had rejected her advice in favor of consulting with shamans in the forest. “It’s deeply regrettable,” she said, listing patients with treatable conditions who had died during her nearly two years of working on the island. A sharp divide has emerged be-
tween churches about how to handle the traditional Mentawai animist faith, in which many villagers still believe. In July, the Lutheran church in Mentawai celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first conversions of Mentawai people. During an interview, a Lutheran priest insisted there could be no synchronicity between Christianity and an animist faith. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church, which has repeatedly apologized for its treatment of indigenous communities in Latin America and elsewhere, is open to the Mentawai’s practicing aspects of their traditional faith alongside Catholicism, said the Rev. Tangkas Dame Simatupang, the pastor of Saibi’s Catholic church. The pastor added, as an example, that Mentawai parishioners should cross themselves before consulting their ancestors. Attempts to revive Mentawai tradition have begun, however haltingly. Indonesia began its transition toward democracy in 1998, and the youngest generation of Mentawai came of age during a less restrictive era. Activists have successfully pushed to add Mentawai culture to local elementary school curriculums. Today, Mentawai elders can worship and dress as they wish. Still, many Mentawai are reeling from what they have lost over decades of government oppression. “My kids don’t know about their culture whatsoever,” said Mr. Sekaliou, the villager who will soon move back into the forest to tend to his parents. Mr. Sekaliou said he was disappointed by his life in the village, saying he looked forward to staying with his parents during their twilight years. “Personally, I prefer living in the forest,” he said. “I’m happier there. I don’t have to stress about finding work every day.” On a recent evening, as he watched his father return from feeding his pigs, he added: “The older generation is happier than we are.”
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Democrats Say Hearings Will Unmask ‘Swamp Creatures’ in Cabinet By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats concede they have little leverage to stop Donald J. Trump’s cabinet nominees. But that will not discourage them from trying to make life as uncomfortable as possible for many of his choices, with the hope of forcing their Republican colleagues and Mr. Trump to squirm along the way. With nominees like Representative Tom Price, a proponent of fundamental changes to Medicare, to be health secretary, and Steven Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs trader turned hedge fund manager, as Treasury secretary, Democrats hope to use the confirmation hearings to highlight the wide river of incongruities between Mr. Trump’s campaign promises and much of the team he is assembling. The goal: to fuel a narrative that the incoming president, and the Republicans who support him, cannot be trusted. “President-elect Trump promised that
he was going to clean up the swamp,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming Democratic leader, “and a whole lot of his nominees have had their career in the swamp.” One by one, Mr. Schumer said, Democrats will use the confirmation process to highlight positions held by nominees that are either inconsistent with Mr. Trump’s campaign promises or raise the sorts of ethical questions that Democrats tried in vain to hang around Mr. Trump’s neck during the campaign, like refusing to release his tax returns. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, who serves on committees that are likely have contentious hearings, can be counted on to work over many nominees. “We should know what direction this administration is headed in,” Mr. Schumer said. “They didn’t win the election by saying they were going to hire people who want to cut Social Security and
Medicare. I will also be looking for any ethical transgressions.” For starters, Democrats announced this past week that they would push for a rule requiring all cabinet-level nominees to provide Congress with their tax re-
An attempt to highlight incongruities with Trump’s campaign positions. turns, a move made to suggest that some of Mr. Trump’s selections may share conflict-of-interest and tax issues with the incoming president. Democrats have themselves to blame for their weakened position in challeng-
ing a nominee. In 2013, the Senate voted largely along party lines to remove the 60-vote threshold on cabinet-level and non-Supreme Court judicial nominees. Mr. Trump’s nominees will now need the support of only 51 senators to be confirmed; Republicans are expected to hold 52 seats next year. “At the end of the day, we were the ones who changed it to 51,” said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, who voted for the measure. “I think it’s important to remember how righteous we were.” It is highly unusual for Congress, even in an era of divided government, to outright filibuster cabinet nominees. Republicans have shown broad support for Mr. Trump’s choices so far, even those lawmakers who have been otherwise critical of him. In one telling move, Senator Susan Collins gave a fast nod to Mr. Trump’s
choice of attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who came under immediate fire by Democrats for his decades-old positions on civil rights issues and his hard-line immigration stance that made him an early Trump ally. In short, Republicans say, bring it on. “Responsible Democrats responded to the election by saying they heard the message of the American people and pledged to work with the incoming administration and Republicans in Congress to move America forward,” said Antonia Ferrier, a spokeswoman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. She added, “We hope responsible Democrats won’t be bullied by the radical left to turn the confirmation process into some political side show.” But Democratic lawmakers can make the process afflictive. Mr. Price is expected to receive a particularly hot Continued on Page 26
After Death of Castro, Cubans in Kentucky Aim To ‘Leave All That Behind’ By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Yahima Leblanc Núñez and her husband, Pavel Reyes, were Cuban government workers when, in 2009, they plotted an escape. Five years later, after an arduous trek across Central America, including 15 days in a Mexican jail, they arrived here with two backpacks of clothes and a single tidbit of information — “Kentucky Fried Chicken” — about the state they now call home. There is no Little Havana here in Louisville. Nobody is banging pots and pans or dancing in the streets to celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, as Cuban exiles did in Miami. But there is a small, fast-growing community of “Kentubanos” — recent refugees like Mrs. Leblanc Núñez, 36, and Mr. Reyes, 42 — who will quietly mark Castro’s burial on Sunday by trying to put him out of their minds. “I haven’t even thought about that,” Mr. Reyes said. “I just deleted that from my mind.” Miami has long been the focus of the Cuban diaspora. But Cubans, who can enter the United States legally as “parolees” under a 1966 congressional act, have been resettling outside that city for years through State Department-backed refugee agencies headquartered there. In past decades, many were sent to Un-
El Kentubano, a Cuban-themed magazine in Louisville. ion City, N.J., nicknamed Havana on the Hudson. Now they are being funneled to cities like Lancaster, Pa.; Syracuse; and Louisville. For these nascent diasporic communities — including Louisville’s “Kentubanos,” a term coined by Luis Fuentes, the publisher of El Kentubano, a Cuban-themed magazine here — Castro’s death has evoked a complex mix of emotions, including fear. Unlike their more vehement compatriots in Florida, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades, newly arrived refugees almost always have family back home. They worry about repercussions and whether they will be granted visas to go back. Some whisper that Raúl Castro, Fidel’s brother, has spies here in Louisville. “Even when we are here, we are still afraid. The government is very strong, even a thousand miles away,” said Mr. Fuentes, who spent Friday delivering the latest edition of his magazine, which carried the news of Castro’s death. “I no like to talk about Fidel,” said Yolan Gonzalez, 41, one of those Mr. Fuentes visited. Mr. Gonzalez eked out a living selling peanuts on the black market in Cuba before arriving in Louisville in 2009. After delivering newspapers for three years, he now runs a thriving Cuban grocery. Too busy working to perfect his English, he turned to his wife, who was working the cash register, searching for words to explain their feelings about their new life here. “Cómo es?” he asked, before taking a long pause. “Tranquilo,” he finally said. Peaceful. There are now roughly 10,600 Cubans in the greater Louisville metropolitan area. Since 2009, local officials say, their numbers have nearly
doubled. Today, foreign-born Cubans account for 19 percent of the Louisville region’s Hispanic population, a greater share than any metropolitan region outside Florida. Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, a Democrat, views these newcomers as a way to spur economic growth and keep the city’s population stable. The Louisville region has 29,000 jobs to fill, said Bryan Warren, who directs the city’s Office of Globalization. “We know that our native-born population is not going to sustain the city’s growth,” said Mr. Warren, who predicted that Cubans would soon surpass Mexicans as Louisville’s largest group of Hispanic immigrants. He called the influx of refugees a “win-win.” On Wednesday, a dozen Cubans flew in from Miami, sent by Church World Service, an agency that works with local groups to resettle refugees around the country. They included doctors, engineers and the wife and 2-year-old son of Miguel Guerrero, 28, a doctor who arrived here seven months ago. He now works packing boxes in customer returns for Amazon. He showed up at the airport with a dozen red roses and a spray of balloons to celebrate reuniting with his family. Apart from the death of Castro, these are uneasy times for new Cuban immigrants. President Obama’s move to thaw relations between Washington and Havana could mean the end of the federal program that helped resettle them in the United States. And with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant comments, some worry that funding for the refugee program will be cut off. “It’s terrible,” said Dr. Guerrero, who came to the United States via Colombia and knows many other medical professionals waiting there. “It’s the only way to flee, for us, from that dictatorship.” Louisville has no Cuban association, as some cities with larger Cuban populations do. The closest thing the community has to connective tissue is El Kentubano, the publication run by Mr. Fuentes, who also works full time as an air-quality engineer for the state. He publishes the magazine out of his basement home office in Frankfort, the capital. But Cubans are leaving their imprint on Louisville’s food, culture and art. At Havana Rumba, a Cuban restaurant, Joel Toste, an owner, dismissed talk of Castro with a wave of his hand. “That’s political,” he said. Instead, Mr. Toste pulled out his iPhone and proudly showed photographs of paintings he intended to display at the Jewish Community Center. He was 24 years old and studying to be an artist in Havana in 1998 when he won an immigration lottery to come to the United States. Mr. Toste had no relatives in Miami; the refugee agency was promoting Louisville. He agreed to come. “I just wanted to get to a quiet place somehow,” he said. What did he know about the city? “Nada — the only thing I knew is baseball bats,” he said, referring to the famed Louisville Slugger bat factory. “Cuba is big for baseball.” That yearning for a “quiet place” was one reason many Cubans said they found happiness here. If they had the means, some said they might prefer Florida. But here, they can build comfortable lives, learn English in a city where Spanish is rarely spoken, and put some distance between themselves and their difficult memories. “Miami,” said Maria Antonia Garcia Lozano, 59, a former physical education teacher who arrived last month, “is Cuba with food and money.” Mrs. Leblanc Núñez and Mr. Reyes are among those trying to let the past be the past. Both worked for Cuba’s
Yanara Cespedes, a recent Cuban immigrant, served pastries at Bodega Mi Sueño in Louisville, Ky.
Yahima Leblanc Núñez, right, a case worker at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, in her office.
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Joel Toste at Havana Rumba, his Cuban restaurant. He won a lottery to come to the United States in 1998. Ministry of Culture; she was a German translator, and he ran the state copyright agency. They decided to leave, both said, because they saw little future for themselves in a country where $8 a month was a common wage and educated professionals lived with their parents. So they secretly planned for Mr. Reyes to defect while on a government trip to Germany by flying to Ecuador, which accepted Cubans without a passport.
It proved a terrifying move. When Mr. Reyes did not return, government officials sent Mrs. Leblanc Núñez home from work and searched through her emails, hoping to find evidence that would implicate her in his escape. They were eventually reunited in Ecuador and came to the United States two years ago, entering through Texas, as many so-called “border-crossers” do. Now, they own two houses and have two dogs and
good jobs at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, the agency that helped resettle them here. Driving to the airport to pick up new arrivals last week, Mrs. Leblanc Núñez was asked about Castro, and her eyes welled up with tears. “People are making jokes and parties in Miami, but for me, it’s just another chapter,” she said. “Him passing away is not going to change all the mess that he has done. I just want to leave all that behind.”
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KEYTRUDAÂŽ (key-true-duh) (pembrolizumab) injection
What is the most important information I should know about KEYTRUDA?
What should I tell my doctor before receiving KEYTRUDA?
KEYTRUDA is a medicine that may treat your melanoma, lung cancer, or head and neck cancer by working with your immune system. KEYTRUDA can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in many areas of your body and can affect the way they work. These problems can sometimes become serious or life-threatening and can lead to death.
Before you receive KEYTRUDA, tell your doctor if you: have immune system problems such as Crohnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, ulcerative colitis, or lupus have had an organ transplant have lung or breathing problems have liver problems have any other medical problems are pregnant or plan to become pregnant KEYTRUDA can harm your unborn baby. Females who are able to become pregnant should use an effective method of birth control during and for at least 4 months after the final dose of KEYTRUDA. Talk to your doctor about birth control methods that you can use during this time. Tell your doctor right away if you become pregnant during treatment with KEYTRUDA. are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if KEYTRUDA passes into your breast milk. Do not breastfeed during treatment with KEYTRUDA and for 4 months after your final dose of KEYTRUDA.
Call or see your doctor right away if you develop any symptoms of the following problems or these symptoms get worse: Lung problems (pneumonitis). Symptoms of pneumonitis may include: shortness of breath chest pain new or worse cough Intestinal problems (colitis) that can lead to tears or holes in your intestine. Signs and symptoms of colitis may include: diarrhea or more bowel movements than usual stools that are black, tarry, sticky, or have blood or mucus severe stomach-area (abdomen) pain or tenderness Liver problems (hepatitis). Signs and symptoms of hepatitis may include: dark urine feeling less hungry than usual
bleeding or bruising more easily pain on the right side of your than normal stomach area (abdomen) Hormone gland problems (especially the thyroid, pituitary, adrenal glands, and pancreas). Signs and symptoms that your hormone glands are not working properly may include: constipation your voice gets deeper
muscle aches dizziness or fainting headaches that will not go away hair loss or unusual headache feeling cold Kidney problems, including nephritis and kidney failure. Signs of kidney problems may include: change in the amount or color of your urine. Problems in other organs. Signs of these problems may include: rash changes in eyesight severe or persistent muscle or joint pains severe muscle weakness low red blood cells (anemia) Infusion (IV) reactions, that can sometimes be severe and life-threatening. Signs and symptoms of infusion reactions may include: chills or shaking shortness of breath or wheezing itching or rash flushing dizziness fever feeling like passing out Getting medical treatment right away may help keep these problems from becoming more serious. Your doctor will check you for these problems during treatment with KEYTRUDA. Your doctor may treat you with corticosteroid or hormone replacement medicines. Your doctor may also need to delay or completely stop treatment with KEYTRUDA, if you have severe side effects. What is KEYTRUDA? KEYTRUDA is a prescription medicine used to treat: a kind of skin cancer called melanoma. KEYTRUDA may be used when your melanoma has spread or cannot be removed by surgery (advanced melanoma). a kind of lung cancer called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). KEYTRUDA may be used when your lung cancer: has spread (advanced NSCLC) and, tests positive for â&#x20AC;&#x153;PD-L1â&#x20AC;? and, you have not received chemotherapy to treat your advanced NSCLC and your tumor does not have an abnormal â&#x20AC;&#x153;EGFRâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;ALKâ&#x20AC;? gene, or you have received chemotherapy that contains platinum to treat your advanced NSCLC, and it did not work or it is no longer working, and if your tumor has an abnormal â&#x20AC;&#x153;EGFRâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;ALKâ&#x20AC;? gene, you have also received an EGFR or ALK inhibitor medicine and it did not work or is no longer working. a kind of cancer called head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC). KEYTRUDA may be used when your HNSCC: has returned or spread (advanced HNSCC) and you have received chemotherapy that contains platinum to treat your advanced HNSCC, and it did not work or is no longer working. It is not known if KEYTRUDA is safe and effective in children less than 18 years of age.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them to show your doctor and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. How will I receive KEYTRUDA? Your doctor will give you KEYTRUDA into your vein through an intravenous (IV) line over 30 minutes. KEYTRUDA is usually given every 3 weeks. Your doctor will decide how many treatments you need. Your doctor will do blood tests to check you for side effects. If you miss any appointments, call your doctor as soon as possible to reschedule your appointment. What are the possible side effects of KEYTRUDA? KEYTRUDA can cause serious side effects. See â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is the most important information I should know about KEYTRUDA?â&#x20AC;? Common side effects of KEYTRUDA include: feeling tired, itching, diarrhea, decreased appetite, rash, shortness of breath, constipation, and nausea. These are not all the possible side effects of KEYTRUDA. For more information, ask your doctor or pharmacist. Tell your doctor if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. General information about the safe and effective use of KEYTRUDA Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Medication Guide. If you would like more information about KEYTRUDA, talk with your doctor. You can ask your doctor or nurse for information about KEYTRUDA that is written for healthcare professionals. For more information, go to www.keytruda.com. What are the ingredients in KEYTRUDA? Active ingredient: pembrolizumab Inactive ingredients: KEYTRUDA for injection: L-histidine, polysorbate 80, and sucrose. May contain hydrochloric acid/sodium hydroxide. KEYTRUDA injection: L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sucrose, and Water for Injection, USP. Manufactured by: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of MERCK & CO., INC., Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, USA For KEYTRUDA for injection, at: Schering-Plough (Brinny) Co., County Cork, Ireland For KEYTRUDA injection, at: MSD Ireland (Carlow), County Carlow, Ireland U.S. License No. 0002 For patent information: www.merck.com/product/patent/home.html
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Protesters facing off with the police on Friday outside the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota. The authorities have ordered the protesters to evacuate the camp by Monday.
On the Frozen Prairie, Pipeline Protesters Steel for One Final Stand From Page 1 The government said it would not forcibly remove anyone, but could cite people for trespassing or other offenses. At the camp, defiance is rising like smoke from the stovepipe of Mr. Plenty Wolf’s tepee. People are here to stay. They are building yurts and hammering together plywood for bunkhouses and lodges. The communal kitchen stops serving dinner at 9:30 p.m.; it reopens a half-hour later as a sleeping space. “I ain’t going nowhere,” Mr. Plenty Wolf said one night as he cradled a buffalo-hide drum and reflected on grievances that run deeper than groundwater among Native Americans here. “We’re getting tired of being pushed for 500 years. They’ve been taking, taking, taking, and enough’s enough.” The approaching deadline to leave the camps and the dwindling days of President Obama’s term create a feeling that any opportunity to stop the Dakota Access pipeline is fading. The fight has drawn thousands of tribal members, veterans, activists and celebrities and transformed a frozen patch of North Dakota into a focal point for environmental and tribal activism. The main camp sits on federal lands that people at the camps say should rightfully belong to the Standing Rock Sioux under the terms of an 1851 treaty. To Mr. Plenty Wolf, closing it amounts to one more broken treaty. The Standing Rock Sioux’s concerns about an oil spill just upriver from their water source has resonated with environmentalist and clean-water groups across the country, and dozens have rallied to support the tribes. Climatechange activists who fought the Keystone XL pipeline have also joined the protests. “Keep it in the ground” is a rallying cry on banners. Even as violent confrontations erupted in fields and along creeks and about 600 people were arrested, crews kept digging and burying the pipeline. Its 1,170-mile path from the oil fields of North Dakota to southern Illinois is nearly complete. Since September, the Obama
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On Thursday, with winter storms arriving, children took the opportunity to go sledding down a hill near the protest camp. administration has blocked construction on a critical section where the pipeline would burrow underneath a dammed section of the Missouri River that tribes say sits near sacred burial sites. The tribe and activists are pushing Mr. Obama to order up a yearslong environmental review or otherwise block the project before he leaves office. Presidentelect Donald J. Trump said on Friday that he supported finishing the $3.7 billion pipeline. Nobody here knows what to expect. The Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the federal land on which the main camp sits, says it wants protesters to make a “peaceful and orderly transition” out of the camps and to a “free speech zone” nearby. Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier of Morton County, a
critic of the protesters who leads the law enforcement response, said his officers would not go into the camps to remove people. The divide between law enforcement officials and the tribe and protesters now feels more brittle than ever. Dave Archambault II, the Standing Rock Sioux chairman, has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of civil rights violations. He criticized officers for using rubber bullets and sprays of freezing water against what he called unarmed, peaceful “water protectors.” “I’m worried about the next confrontation,” he said. “The escalation has continued to rise. They have concertina wire all over the place. They’re almost daring the
water protectors. That’s not safe.” Sheriff Kirchmeier dismissed the claims. “I reject it all,” he said in an interview in the basement of the county offices, where stacks of snacks, fruit and juice donated by the public sat beside scuffed riot shields. “The protesters are forcing police and us into taking action. They’re committing criminal activities.” He said protesters had used sling shots to attack officers and thrown rocks and bottles. He and other local officials continue to criticize the federal government’s response. They say the decision to delay the pipeline created months of instability that have cost Morton County $8 million. They say federal officials have offered little in the way of manpower or money
to help. On Friday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she had asked Justice Department officials who handle tribal-justice issues and community policing, as well as the United States attorney for North Dakota, to help mediate. In recent days, conflicting statements from local and state officials have stirred confusion about how vigorously officials will enforce the closing of the camps. A Morton County spokeswoman initially said people could face $1,000 fines for trying to bring supplies to the camp, only to be contradicted by a governor’s spokesman who said that North Dakota had no plans to block supplies. The authorities are still enforcing a blockade of the fastest, most direct route into the camp. But
other roads — and supply lines — were still open. Pickup trucks and U-Hauls carried in lumber and propane tanks, pallets of bottled water, firewood and food. A container truck managed to crawl down the icy, flag-lined ramp into camp. Cusi Ballew, a Pottawatomie member from southern Ohio making his second trip to the camp, was up on a ladder drilling pieces of plywood together to make a bunkhouse for Sioux tribal members. “Humans have been surviving winters for over 250,000 years,” he said. “What’s important isn’t how we’re doing it but why we’re doing it. We’re here for prayer and for action.” And more people were pouring in. Veterans’ groups were hoping to bring 2,000 Native and non-Native veterans to Standing Rock over the weekend. The Bismarck airport was a hive one morning: the actress Patricia Arquette could be seen heaving a suitcase off the baggage carousel; the director of a clean-water group was on the phone figuring out transportation; California friends from the Burning Man festival arrived with $5,000 worth of turmeric and medicinal herbs and oils. At the camp, children sledded down the icy hills and horses cantered through the snow, and as night fell and people clustered around campfires to cook chili and fry bread, Laurie Running Hawk made her way to a small camp by the banks of the river. In the distance were the sounds of Native men drumming and singing, and the sight of tall floodlights along a ridge that marked the path of the pipeline. Ms. Running Hawk grew up on the southern end of the Standing Rock Reservation and said she had been home from Minnesota for a powwow this summer when she and her 7-year-old and 15year-old sons chanced onto one of the first major confrontations to block the pipeline. They joined in, and four months later, she was back, sleeping in a yurt with four teenagers from Minnesota who nearly froze to death on their first night in camp. “I’m here,” she said. “You’re not going to kick me out. This is my land.”
Pennsylvania Recount Effort, Led by Stein, Is Dealt Major Blow in Anti-Trump Push By STEVE EDER
Pennsylvania appears increasingly unlikely to have a statewide recount of its votes, diminishing the last long-shot hope by opponents of Donald J. Trump that a review of the ballots could overturn his election as president. In a filing on Saturday, a lawyer for Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, who began the recount bids in Pennsylvania — as well as in Michigan and Wisconsin — said “petitioners are regular citizens of ordinary means” and could not afford a $1 million bond payment that was or-
dered by Pennsylvania courts. A lawyer for Ms. Stein’s recount campaign indicated on Saturday night that they were not giving up in Pennsylvania and planned to request that the federal courts on Monday intervene to order a statewide recount. Lawyers for Pennsylvania Republicans and Mr. Trump had asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss Ms. Stein’s request, saying she had not identified any fraud or illegal activity during the Nov. 8 election. Lawrence J. Tabas, the general counsel of the Republican Party of
Pennsylvania, said on Saturday that the withdrawal served as “recognition” that the Stein-led effort was “completely without merit,” and that the decision to drop the case “assures that Presidentelect Trump will be declared the winner by the Electoral College,” which meets on Dec. 19. Earlier, Ms. Stein had criticized the $1 million bond needed to proceed with a recount. “This is yet another sign that Pennsylvania’s antiquated election law is stacked against voters,” she said. “We will pursue every available remedy to ensure Pennsylvanians can trust
what happened in this election.” Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, trails Mr. Trump by 49,543 votes in the state, according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of State. As voting results were updated this week, Mr. Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania had shrunk by about 20,000 votes. Mrs. Clinton would have needed to be declared the winner in all three recount states to overturn the Electoral College result. While the statewide effort was withdrawn, a related campaign to recount votes in targeted precincts in places like Philadel-
phia is continuing, but it would fall far short of the statewide recount Ms. Stein had sought. Ms. Stein has gained more traction pushing for recounts in the other two battleground states, where Mr. Trump leads by narrow margins. Election officials in Wisconsin on Thursday began the task of recounting about three million votes across the state, while continuing to face legal challenges from Trump backers. A recount is also pending in Michigan, amid a flurry of litigation, including opposition from the
state’s attorney general and Mr. Trump, as well as a federal lawsuit from the Stein campaign. The review of the votes there could begin as early as Tuesday. Ms. Stein is funding the recount bids, having collected $6.9 million as of Saturday evening. Opponents, though, are concerned that local governments, particularly in Michigan, will end up shouldering millions of dollars in costs. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has played a muted role in the efforts, only passively participating and paying for lawyers to be present during recounts.
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“We’ve heard about immunotherapy as God’s gift, the chosen elixir, the cure for cancer. We haven’t heard much about the collateral damage.” DR. JOHN TIMMERMAN, an oncologist and immunotherapy researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles
Immune System, Unleashed by Therapies, Can Attack Organs From Page 1 20 percent of the time with certain drugs, and in more than half of patients when some drugs are used in combination. Another recent paper found that 30 percent of patients experienced “interesting, rare or unexpected side effects,” with a quarter of the reactions described as severe, life-threatening or requiring hospitalization. Some patients have died, including five in recent months in clinical trials of a new immunotherapy drug being tested by Juno Therapeutics Inc. The upshot, oncologists and immunologists say, is that the medical field must be more vigilant as these drugs soar in popularity. And they say more research is needed into who is likely to have reactions and how to treat them. “We are playing with fire,” said Dr. John Timmerman, an oncologist and immunotherapy researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who recently lost a patient to side effects. The woman’s immunotherapy drugs had successfully “melted away” her cancer, he said, but some weeks later, she got cold and flulike symptoms and died in the emergency room from an inflammatory response that Dr. Timmerman described as “a mass riot, an uprising” of her immune system. “We’ve heard about immunotherapy as God’s gift, the chosen elixir, the cure for cancer,” he said. “We haven’t heard much about the collateral damage.” Despite the warnings, physicians like Dr. Timmerman remain hugely supportive of drugs that are saving the lives of people who would otherwise die. Far better to cope with diabetes, hepatitis or arthritis, the thinking goes, than to die. Most reactions are not nearly so bad and are treatable. The rub, doctors and researchers say, is that the medical system — from frontline nurses to oncologists to emergency rooms — is too often caught off guard. This is happening for a number of reasons: The drugs are new, so many side effects just have not been seen. Symptoms appear at random, sometimes months after treatment, and can initially seem innocuous. Finally, oncologists are now trying to treat patients with a combination of two or more immunotherapy drugs, hoping for more effective treatment but sometimes getting amplified risks. In the meantime, these drugs are moving from academic centers into cancer clinics across the country, where oncologists in smaller cities most likely have less experience with the side effects. And with lives to be saved and billions of dollars to be made — $250,000 or more is the list price for a year of some regimens — not enough research has been done into the risks of the new therapies, said William Murphy, a professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis, who reviews immunotherapy-related grants for the government. It is “a massively understudied area,” Dr. Murphy said, adding: “The No. 1 priority is anti-tumor effects. Everything else, however severe, is considered the price worth paying.” Caught in the middle are patients like Mr. Peal, whose stories show the delicacy of tinkering with the immune system. It may hold the keys to curing cancer if it can be at once stoked and tamed.
Real Promise, and Real Risks Mr. Peal, bespectacled and lean, was dealing with melanoma that had spread to his lungs in June 2015 when he saw a Yale oncologist, Dr. Harriet Kluger. In the past, a patient like him would have been given little chance. “We’d sit the patient down and say, ‘I’m really sorry, the median life expectancy is nine months. Get your affairs in order,’” said Dr. Kluger, who runs immunotherapy clinical trials focusing on skin and kidney cancer. Now she could offer Mr. Peal hope. Consider: One study co-written by Dr. Kluger found positive responses in more than 40 percent of advanced melanoma patients when they used a combination of two major immunotherapy drugs, nivolumab and ipilimumab. Other research, however, shows that the promise comes with real risks. A 2015 paper in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that use of these drugs carried a risk of side effects that were severe, required hospitalization or were life-threatening 54 percent of the time. “It’s at least that high, at least,” Dr. Kluger said. But, she noted, most of the side effects are manageable through immune suppression, such as with steroids. The effectiveness of immunotherapy drugs and their side effects are intimately bound by the same biological mechanisms. Called checkpoint inhibitors, the drugs work by essentially reversing a trick that cancer plays on the immune system: The cancer cells send nefarious signals to immune-system cells that cause them to stand down. Cancer is turning on the immune system’s brake. There is a valuable reason the brake exists: It can shut down the body’s powerful defenders so that they do not inadvertently attack the body itself. Cancer is taking advantage of this key survival mechanism. When an immunotherapy drug turns the brake off, the immune system can sometimes shrink tumors in mere days. Mr. Peal, an engineering technician who tests the performance of helicopter parts, started taking nivolumab and ipilimumab on July 8. Dr. Kluger told him he might feel drowsy or nauseated, or he could get a rash. A rash indeed struck with a vengeance on Aug. 30: red welts from his knees to his waist. On Sept. 1, a Thursday, he visited Dr. Kluger’s office, where he was given a steroid.
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to let Dr. Kluger and Dr. Herold discuss his case — feels the trade-off will be well worth it. In fact, on Friday, he got the results from a scan taken the day before and learned that immunotherapy had eliminated two of his cancer lesions and shrunk two others. “I can deal with diabetes,” he said, “if I can beat melanoma.”
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Chuck Peal, 61, top, of Southbury, Conn., and Colleen Platt, 65, of Torrington, Conn., both received immunotherapy drugs at Yale as part of their cancer treatments. The medicine has been hailed as a breakthrough, but it can also cause severe reactions, including acute-onset diabetes, as it did with Mr. Peal and Ms. Platt.
The next day, he had a fever, nausea and was “dying of thirst — like beyond being in the desert,” he said. He threw up everything. His girlfriend, Jo-ann Keating, called Dr. Kluger’s office, and an oncall doctor prescribed an antinausea drug. Later, Ms. Keating called back to say it was not working, and he was prescribed a second antinausea drug. By Sunday morning, Mr. Peal, unable to move, took an ambulance to the emergency room. In his wallet, he kept an information card published by Bristol-Myers Squibb. It lists dozens of risks, including that the therapy “can cause serious side effects in many parts of your body, which can lead to death.” Mr. Peal’s family told the emergency room doctor about the treatment, Ms. Keating recalled. “The doctor kept on saying he was on chemotherapy,” she said. “I said,
‘They’re calling it immunotherapy.’ He went on his phone and started looking for information.” But even Dr. Kluger’s experienced team, which answered the distressed phone calls that weekend, was caught off guard and did not react immediately to the symptoms. “It took us by surprise. He looked absolutely fine on Friday,” Dr. Kluger said. Part of the problem, she thinks, is that Mr. Peal was relatively new to the clinic, and so she and her staff members did not have the experience with him to accurately assess his symptoms. “It also happened very quickly. It spiraled within hours.” Ultimately, Mr. Peal spent 24 days in the hospital, where trouble mounted. First his pancreas failed, then his bowels inflamed and his kidneys became dysfunctional, and “to top it off, he has a fe-
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Dr. Harriet Kluger, top, at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, says immunotherapy gives options to patients who would otherwise have little chance. Matthew Krummel, above in San Francisco last month, did key research in the field in the 1990s.
ver of 103 for which we can’t find a source,” Dr. Kluger said in an interview during the crisis. She was trying to figure it out and had emailed other experts around the country to see if they had ever had a patient with this combination of acute immune reactions. No one had seen it before. The pancreas problem was particularly noteworthy. Mr. Peal’s is among a growing number of such cases that have led a Yale endocrinologist, Dr. Kevan Herold, an authority on autoimmunity, to conclude that he is seeing a new form of Type 1 diabetes. Typically, the peak age of onset of Type 1 diabetes is 6 to 12, and it involves the immune system’s destroying, bit by bit, the cells in the pancreas that make the insulin needed to metabolize sugar into energy. But this is different: Patients are 50 or older and are losing insulin production all at once, including in one case of an 83year-old. Dr. Herold said he was hearing similar stories from peers around the country. “A single case like this is uncommon,” he said. “As an aggregate, it’s unheard-of.” Another case at Yale involved Colleen Platt, 65, a real estate agent from Torrington, Conn., who was being treated by Dr. Kluger for late-stage kidney cancer. Ms. Platt opted for a clinical trial involving two immunotherapy drugs, atezolizumab and a second drug that Dr. Kluger declined to name because the trial is continuing. Days after the second treatment in November 2014, Ms. Platt started feeling dizzy and numb and was vomiting water. She went to Dr. Kluger’s office, where lab tests were done that “were so profoundly abnormal, we thought this was lab error,” Dr. Kluger recounted. “We thought the machine was messed up.” The tests were right. Like Mr. Peal, Ms. Platt had gone into diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition in which her body, desperate to compensate for energy it was missing when her pancreas shut down, created a flux of acid that could keep her functioning in the short term, at the risk of gravely harming organs throughout her body. Outside the emergency room, while a chaplain visited Ms. Platt to comfort her, Dr. Kluger called the drug company to report the extraordinary reaction. Today, like Mr. Peal, Ms. Platt takes multiple insulin shots each day, and still her sugar level fluctuates wildly. On the other hand, immunotherapy has largely beaten her cancer. In fact, after consulting with other doctors and one of the drug companies, Dr. Kluger recommended Ms. Platt continue with treatment, which she did. “Her pancreas isn’t coming back,” Dr. Kluger said, referring to the diabetic effects of immunotherapy. “She has her life.” Mr. Peal — who, like Ms. Platt, agreed
Evidence of these challenges is decades old. In the mid-1990s, Matthew Krummel, a young immunology graduate student known as Max, worked at a lab at the University of California, Berkeley, that would become one of the most influential in the development of immunotherapy. The lab was run by Dr. James Allison, who, along with Dr. Krummel, published a seminal paper in 1995 showing that they could eliminate tumors in mice by turning off a brake on the immune system. But the lab got less attention for a related experiment: The skin of some mice treated this way turned from black to white. They had lost their pigmentation, a result of the immune system’s attacking the cells that make melanin. The startling change was not life-threatening but indicated the power of tinkering with the immune system. This discovery was novel but not particularly celebrated compared with the promise of curing cancer, Dr. Krummel recalled. The skin study “was kind of a footnote,” he said. Then came the TeGenero tragedy in 2006. TeGenero Immuno Therapeutics designed a drug to stimulate the immune system to fight leukemia. At Northwick Park Hospital in London, a Phase 1 trial took place, with six healthy patients getting the drug. Within hours, all suffered multiorgan failure. The devastating results tempered the enthusiasm and suggested that more work needed to be done in advance of human trials. But enthusiasm came roaring back. Part of the reason was that, ultimately, the autoimmune reactions were seen not only as an acceptable cost of these drugs but as evidence they were working. “It’s the nature of the beast,” said Martin Bachmann, a professor and immunologist at the Jenner Institute, which is affiliated with Oxford University. “I’m not sure you can get rid of the side effects — it’s really what you want.” Chemotherapy, too, has side effects, but Dr. Kluger prefers immunotherapy’s trade-offs because the drugs may offer enduring control of cancer without the need for continued treatment. So she is joining others looking to address largely unanswered questions: Who is likely to be at risk, can the side effects be recognized before turning dangerous, and how should they be treated? In June, Dr. Kluger and Dr. Herold submitted a grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health to study whether they could predict which patients would develop these symptoms. They based the proposal on a hypothesis that some patients have a biology or a genetic background that might make them more likely to have side effects. The proposal has not yet been funded. Thus far, only a modicum of work has been done on these questions. Several studies found that older mice were more susceptible than younger mice to autoimmune reactions; another study, also in mice, found that obese subjects were more likely to have adverse effects. “Old or fat mice were literally dead within hours,” said Dr. Murphy, the professor at Davis who believes too little is being done. He is well positioned to see the trends: In the past year, he sat on eight government grant review committees focused on immunotherapy, and he said only three out of 500 research proposals he reviewed focused on the toxicity side of immunotherapy. Part of the problem, he said, is that the drug companies that are driving research prefer working with labs that support trials’ moving quickly. As a result, Dr. Murphy said, human trials are advancing faster than the background research can be done. Hoping to push access to lifesaving drugs, the Food and Drug Administration has a “breakthrough therapy designation” that allows faster approval. Since 2012, the agency has granted breakthrough designation about 110 times, almost a quarter of them for immunotherapy. “When people talk about moonshots, they’re talking about curing cancer, but it has to look at the whole picture,” Dr. Murphy said. With so much momentum pushing for a cure, the emphasis from researchers and front-line oncologists is on more vigilance about the side effects. Dr. Timmerman, from U.C.L.A., said he wished he had seen the signs of trouble in his patient, who survived cancer only to die in the emergency room after exhibiting seemingly modest flulike symptoms. “If we had only known the power we had unleashed that was causing such a toll on her organ system, we might have saved her,” he said. “You have to manage this hour by hour,” he added. “Minute by minute.”
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Bias in prison discipline has a ripple effect — it prevents access to jobs and to educational and therapeutic programs, diminishing an inmate’s chances of being paroled. And each denial is likely to mean two more years behind bars. A Times analysis of first-time hearings before the State Board of Parole over a three-year period ending in May found that one in four white inmates were released but fewer than one in six black inmates were. Even well-run prisons are dangerous. There are more than 50,000 inmates doing time at 54 prisons around the state for a range of crimes, from petty theft to multiple murders. Many interviewed by The Times, like Ibrahim Gyang, who is serving 25 years to life for killing a gang rival, were confined at maximum-security prisons. He acknowledged that inmates needed guards to keep order and protect them from being preyed on by the most violent among them. “I just want the system to follow the rules,” he said. Presented with The Times’s findings, officials from the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said that while there were racial issues in any large organization, these had little impact on the disciplinary system in the prisons. “With an agency of close to 30,000 staff, the vast majority of our work force understand that it is a challenging job, and they approach it professionally,” Tom Mailey, the department spokesman, said in a statement. The agency said that some racial disparities, like why black inmates spent more time in solitary confinement than whites, could be explained by data The Times did not have access to — most important, prisoners’ full disciplinary histories. But the department provided no data to contradict The Times’s findings of a systemwide imbalance in discipline. In July, Chavelo Borden, who is serving a six-year sentence for robbery, met with reporters in the visiting room at Clinton, where guards had hung a sign saying “All Lives Matter.” Mr. Borden said he and other black prisoners at Clinton were treated “like we’re another species.” “They don’t see us with pristine eyes,” he said. So many of the racial problems in the New York’s prisons stem from a fundamental upstate-downstate culture clash that plays out daily on the cellblocks. The largely white work force comes from places in northern, western and central New York like Elmira, Malone, Rome and Utica. These are some of the state’s poorer and less diverse communities, where, even as far north as the Canadian border, a Confederate flag can be spotted on the back of a pickup truck or hanging from a front porch. Inmates refer to some of the big maximumsecurity facilities as “family prisons,” where members of the same family have worked for generations. In these communities, prisons are often seen as political spoils, fiercely protected by upstate politicians for the jobs they provide. With the disappearance of manufacturing upstate, prisons provide many of the middle-class jobs factories once did. They are fueled by a steady supply of inmates, mostly black or Latino, who are shipped north, far from the urban areas where they grew up. More than half of the state’s inmates are from New York City or its suburbs. Blacks and whites are treated more equitably in some of the prisons close to the city, including Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, less than an hour by train from Grand Central Terminal. Black officers make up the majority of the uniformed staff there, setting it apart from every other men’s prison in the state. There were no disciplinary disparities between whites and blacks at Sing Sing, according to a Times review of the 1,286 violations issued to inmates there for breaking prison rules. Inmates interviewed at prisons around the state said that if they had to do time in a maximum-security facility, Sing Sing would be the best place. “Everyone wants to get to Sing Sing,” said Justin Shaw, an inmate who was doing time for criminal possession of a weapon. Mr. Gyang said, “It’s coveted.”
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From Page 1 parities were embedded in the prison experience in New York. In most prisons, blacks and Latinos were disciplined at higher rates than whites — in some cases twice as often, the analysis found. They were also sent to solitary confinement more frequently and for longer durations. At Clinton, a prison near the Canadian border where only one of the 998 guards is African-American, black inmates were nearly four times as likely to be sent to isolation as whites, and they were held there for an average of 125 days, compared with 90 days for whites. A greater share of black inmates are in prison for violent offenses, and minority inmates are disproportionately younger, factors that could explain why an inmate would be more likely to break prison rules, state officials said. But even after accounting for these elements, the disparities in discipline persisted, The Times found. The disparities were often greatest for infractions that gave discretion to officers, like disobeying a direct order. In these cases, the officer has a high degree of latitude to determine whether a rule is broken and does not need to produce physical evidence. The disparities were often smaller, according to the Times analysis, for violations that required physical evidence, like possession of contraband. Blacks make up only 14 percent of the state’s population but almost half of its prisoners. Racial inequities at the front end of the criminal justice system — arrest, conviction and sentencing — have been well documented. The degree of racial inequity and its impact in the prison system as documented by The Times have rarely, if ever, been investigated. Nor are these issues systematically tracked by state officials. But for black inmates, what happens inside can be profoundly damaging.
For Black Inmates, More Discipline and Punishment In New York State prisons last year, black inmates were disciplined at a higher rate for violating prison rules, and they were punished more harshly than whites. State officials said reforms they put in place as a result of a lawsuit settlement reduced the disparity in solitary confinement, but it is unclear how the changes will affect other aspects of the system. Inmate population and share of disciplinary punishments, 2015 SHARE BY RACE
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Disobeying orders is the most common violation inmates are punished for in the state prison system. It also is one of the most subjective — officers do not need to produce physical evidence to give an inmate a disciplinary ticket. In prisons throughout the state, blacks are punished for disobeying orders disproportionately to their numbers. A rare exception is Sing Sing, one of the few prisons where black guards are in the majority. Inmates charged with “disobeying orders” violation, 2015 N.Y. State prison population
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On the cellblocks, it is a foregone conclusion that the disciplinary system is rigged. The uniformed staff is given almost total control over the process. Corrections officers make the charges — issuing “tickets,” in prison parlance — and hearing officers,
typically sergeants, lieutenants or captains, determine guilt and decide punishment. Inmates almost always lose. At disciplinary hearings, inmates won only about 4 percent of the cases in 2015, according to the department. The Times analyzed 59,354 disciplinary cases from last year. Systemwide, black inmates were 30 percent more likely to get a disciplinary ticket than white inmates. And they were 65 percent more likely to be sent to solitary confinement, where they are held in a cell 23 hours a day. Last year, black inmates got 1,144 tickets that resulted in 180 or more days in isolation; white inmates received 226 tickets that had similarly long sentences. Department officials said there were marked improvements in the past few years, thanks to a settlement the state had signed with the New York Civil Liberties Union that brought in a federal expert to oversee efforts aimed at reducing the use of solitary confinement. Between April 2014 and October of this year, the share of solitary prisoners who were African-American had decreased to 57 percent, from 64 percent, said Mr. Mailey, the department spokesman. Taylor Pendergrass, the lead New York Civil Liberties Union lawyer in the settlement, said the department was “off to an encouraging start.” “It will be a major undertaking to unwind
decades-long practices and transform the culture of this large organization all the way down to the staff working in the cellblocks,” Mr. Pendergrass said. There has been resistance from the rank and file. In a statement, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents guards, said the settlement with the civil liberties union had made the prisons more dangerous. “The disciplinary system has been weakened in our prisons,” the association said. “Especially given the heavy gang presence and overwhelming increases in violent incidents, appropriate disciplinary measures are needed to maintain order and to protect other inmates, as well as staff.” Solitary confinement is only one piece of the disciplinary process that had a disparity, The Times found, and it is unclear whether the settlement will affect other elements of the system. Some of the starkest evidence of bias involves infractions that are vaguely defined and give officers the greatest discretion. Disobeying a direct order by an officer can be as minor as moving too slowly when a guard yells, “Get out of the shower.” It is one of the most subjective prison offenses. For every 100 black prisoners, guards issued 56 violations for disobeying orders, compared with 32 for every 100 whites, according to the analysis.
‘As soon as you come through receiving, they let you know whose house it is.’ DARIUS HORTON, who was recently released from Groveland Correctional Facility.
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For smoking and drug offenses, which require physical evidence, white inmates, who make up about a quarter of the prison population, were issued about a third of the tickets. Inmates have the right to appeal to an outside court and be represented by a lawyer — if they can find one willing to take their case; they almost never do. Of the tens of thousands of inmates who got disciplinary tickets in 2014 and 2015, about 280 were represented by Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, which is financed by the state. If an inmate is lucky enough to have Prisoners’ Legal Services take his case, his odds improve greatly. About two-thirds of the organization’s clients won their appeals — but by then, many had completed their solitary sentence. Ibrahim Gyang said in an interview that at one of his disciplinary hearings, an officer called as a witness had to reread the ticket because he could not remember the case. And Mr. Gyang still lost. It is not just that blacks fare worse: Whites are more likely to get a break. Both white and black prisoners mention the escape of two murderers from Clinton last year as a prime example of white guards’ tendency to be more trustful of white inmates. The murderers, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat, both white, got the tools they needed to cut through walls and piping because of friendships they had developed with an officer and a civilian employee, both white. “A major reason for allowing those inmates to have the latitude that they had was because they had white privilege,” said Joseph Williams, who worked for the corrections department for 47 years and was one of its few black prison superintendents. “We know if he had been black he would have never been given that wide a latitude.” Markus Barber, a black inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility, called it “the complexion for the connection.”
Poupore had a minor injury, according to the medical report, while the other officers had none. The medical report said Mr. Richard had bruises all over his body, including his face, under his ear and on his back. He had trouble walking, the report said. His glasses were broken. He was found guilty of assault and spent the next six months in solitary confinement. Assault on prison workers may seem like a straightforward infraction, but a closer look reveals a disturbing pattern. There were 1,028 such violations issued in the state system last year. Black men received 61 percent of them, while white men received 9 percent. Under department rules, officers have considerable leeway over what constitutes an assault. An inmate need not cause an injury or even touch an officer. About 20,000 uniformed officers work in the state’s prisons. During the first half of the year, 2,007 of them were involved in assault cases, according to department data, but 98 percent of them had no injuries or only minor ones, which can be as vague as “aches/pain.” Eight officers suffered seri-
ous injuries, defined as a broken bone or a puncture wound. The Times reviewed 215 reports of assaults on staff from the first quarter of 2015, obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request. The department redacted the officers’ names but not the inmates’. It also redacted most information about injuries, but in several cases, The Times was able to obtain medical records through the prisoners. Among those reports, the cases of three black inmates — Darius Horton, Paul Sellers and Justin Shaw — followed the same pattern: All were involved in seemingly trivial disagreements with guards that led to minor altercations. And while it is hard to know who was responsible for escalating the episodes, the officers were not injured and remained on duty, while the inmates were punished with long stints in isolation. Mr. Sellers was returning from dinner at Five Points Correctional Facility when he was stopped by an officer for taking “a loaf of state bread” back to his cell, according to the guard’s report. “Surrender the bread,” the officer ordered. Mr. Sellers refused and
Few guards are black at Elmira Correctional Facility, top left. It is in a largely white area upstate, above, as are many New York prisons. There are racial quotas at Elmira for jobs and cellblock assignments, but the state does not monitor disparities in discipline.
Examining One Charge: Assault On Oct. 23, 2014, at Clinton, John Richard was stopped by Officer Brian Poupore, who took issue with his tinted glasses even though he has vision problems and had a medical permit to wear them, according to department records. “Monkeys don’t wear glasses,” a sergeant said, according to Mr. Richard, who is serving a life sentence for murder. When Mr. Richard refused to remove them, he said, Officer Poupore and several other guards jumped him. In their internal reports, the officers said Mr. Richard punched them several times and had to be subdued. After the encounter, Officer
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Time Served Bar & Grill, across the street from Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in rural Comstock.
grabbed the shirt of the officer, who punched him in the face. He was sent to solitary for 166 days. Mr. Shaw was stopped at Washington Correctional Facility because he was “attempting to conceal contraband,” according to the officer’s report. When challenged, “the inmate produced a stack of waffles,” the report said. Mr. Shaw was accused of then grabbing the officer’s arm and given a 180-day lockup. Mr. Horton was caught by Officer Michael Stamp at Groveland carrying a bowl of hot water from the microwave for coffee after the common room had closed. The officer ordered Mr. Horton to leave it, he refused and they got into a shouting match and bumped shoulders, according to the report. The guard claimed that Mr. Horton then punched him. In an interview, Mr. Horton denied this, saying he was jumped by Officer Stamp and six other guards. Two of the officers had minor injuries; the other five were unharmed. Mr. Horton was sentenced to 270 days in isolation. How much race figured in these three encounters — if it did at all — is hard to know. The guard in Mr. Sellers’s case was Hispanic; in the other two cases, the guards were white. Mr. Shaw said the officer might have just been having a bad day. “I don’t like to say everything is race,” he said. For Mr. Horton, there was no doubt that race was at play when, as he told it, he was handcuffed and beaten by seven officers, all of them white. “They took me out there and beat me like I got caught drinking at the whites-only fountain,” he said. The corrections officers’ union encourages members to report even the slightest physical contact as an assault. As the union negotiates a new contract, billboards in the Albany area have shown officers with neck braces, strapped to stretchers. Assaults on staff members have increased in recent years. There were 895 cases recorded in 2015, some involving more than one inmate, compared with 577 in 2010, according to department data. More recently, assaults on staff were down by 16 percent between January and October of this year, compared with the same period last year, the department said. Union officials did not comment on the racial disparities in discipline that The Times found. “While facing record high levels of violence and one of the most dangerous work environments in the country, corrections officers conduct themselves with professionalism and integrity to keep our prisons secure and our communities safe,” the union said in a statement. Continued on Following Page
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The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State’s Prisons From Preceding Page Inmates claim that officers regularly provoke altercations that are classified as assaults, including taunting them with racial slurs or touching them inappropriately during a pat frisk. The Times’s analysis showed that prisoners charged with failing to comply with a pat-frisk order were also often charged with assault. Over all, black men were punished seven times as often for patfrisk infractions as white men, and among inmates under 25, blacks received 185 tickets, while whites got only 14. One of the more humiliating abuses inmates describe is known as the “credit card swipe.” Officers order the prisoners to stand against a wall for a pat frisk and then swipe their hands aggressively between their buttocks. If an inmate is startled and pulls a hand off the wall, the officer has a green light to use force.
Black and Mentally Ill When a corrections sergeant stopped Rashief Bullock on his way back from breakfast at Attica Correctional Facility in January 2015, it was not for breaking a prison rule. It was because he was acting “erratic” and “fidgety,” the sergeant’s report said. That should have been no surprise. Mr. Bullock, who is serving an eight-year sentence for selling drugs to an undercover police officer, describes himself as “mentally unstable.” Many of his letters home to his father are confused and delusional. In one he wrote, “I haven’t been talking like how I use to because I’ve been hearing voices to much.” In another he asked, “Why do these middle Eastern prostitutes Harass me everyday?” The sergeant wrote in his report that he conducted a pat frisk and found nothing, but then, as they were heading back to his cell, Mr. Bullock suddenly punched him in the face with his left fist. Mr. Bullock, who is right-handed, denies hitting anyone. Wherever the truth lies, the incident report makes it clear that no one was hurt and that all six officers involved remained on duty. Even so, Mr. Bullock was found guilty of assaulting an officer and spent six months in solitary confinement. Inmates with mental illness are often the least equipped to handle the stresses of a regimented prison life. They tend to act out more and are disciplined at far higher rates. Race magnifies their problems. Of the 100 inmates statewide who were sentenced to the most time in solitary last year, more than half were minorities who at some point had been treated in prison mental health programs, according to the Times analysis. Mr. Bullock, 32, has spent long stretches in isolation at six different prisons. “I get thrown in the S.H.U. every jail I go to because I can’t control my body,” he said, referring to solitary-confinement cells. He is what fellow inmates call a “herb,” an easy mark for guards to pick on. Corrections officers “really don’t like me, I think,” he said. It was the same on the outside. On the evening of Jan. 8, 2009, as plainclothes officers moved in to arrest Mr. Bullock on a Staten Island street corner, his friends drove off without him, according to the police report. For much of the past summer, Mr. Bullock was confined to his cell for 23 hours a day after getting a ticket for “being out of place.” Given how psychotic he seemed during two recent interviews in the visiting room at Elmira, it is remarkable that he could follow any of the 120 regulations for which an inmate can be disciplined. He described a “dimension portal” in Sudan that was a secret entrance to hell; explained that he was from “divine lineage”; and said he communicated with people in their graves, including his relative Alexander the Great. At the time, he said he was not receiving mental health treatment or taking medication. Mr. Bullock was not sure whether racism had been a factor in his case at Attica — where 96 percent of the officers are white, and only 1 percent black — although he said he had seen it a lot in prison. At Greene Correctional Facility, he said, an officer mocked him for “sweating like a black man at a math contest”; at Coxsackie Correctional Facility, a guard threatened to “beat the black” off him. During the seven years in prison, he has written scores of letters to his father, Rudy Bullock. Early on, his letters were rational, focused and touching. In May 2012, he asked his father to send him a scientific calculator. Around the same time, he wrote: “Dear Pops, I wish I was home and we were going to the movies or a restaurant. I hate jail a lot. So many colored folks in jail, if I was rich I know I could of beat this case.” But in July of that year he wrote: “I’M GOING THROUGH TO MUCH DEPRESSION. I CAN’T HANDLE THIS MUCH LONGER!” And that November: “My mental health is going horrible in here and it’s detiriating fast from being isolated in my room all day.” “Being in the box,” he wrote in September 2014, “I have been undergoing unsurmountable stress.” Mr. Bullock is currently doing a 90-day solitary sentence at Five Points for disobeying a direct order. He is scheduled to leave isolation on Christmas.
Paths to Improvement No other prison in the state is like Sing Sing. Of the 686 uniformed staff members there, 83 percent are black or Latino, compared with 17 percent for the entire state prison system. Reggie Edwards, who is serving 25 years to life for murder, said Sing Sing’s guards were often from the same neighborhoods as the inmates. Mr. Edwards said the white guards knew city life and were more likely to have black or Hispanic friends. “They identify with us,” he said. “They see things from our perspective.” Elizabeth Gaynes, the executive director Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
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‘Excessive use of force in prisons, we believe, has reached crisis proportions in New York State.’ PREET BHARARA, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
of the Osborne Association, an inmate advocacy group, said guards at Sing Sing “see the men as less ‘foreign.’” The disciplinary disparities in most of the other prisons do not exist at Sing Sing. Black inmates make up 57 percent of the population there and get 58 percent of the tickets. Guards write fewer disciplinary tickets there than they do at most other maximumsecurity prisons. In 2015, there were 27 tickets given for assault on staff at Sing Sing, compared with 91 at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison of similar size in Comstock. “It relieves so much stress being in one of those jails down there with all those black people,” Mr. Bullock wrote in one of his letters to his father. Being that close to home, he wrote, he could pick up Hot 97, the New York City hip-hop radio station, in his cell. Because Sing Sing is so close to the city, with major nonprofits like the Fortune Society and the Osborne Association nearby, it has more programs than most state prisons. Inmates can get a college degree and participate in theater and art initiatives. Sing Sing also receives more family visits annually than any other prison in the state, the department said. For these reasons, Sing Sing is used by the corrections department as a reward for inmates with good records at other prisons. At a graduation ceremony in mid-October, 68 men received certificates for completing a four-month parenting and relationships course as wives, girlfriends, parents and children rose for one standing ovation after another. One woman in the audience, Joyce Newell, a nurse’s aide, said that when her son was at Clinton, 300 miles north of the city, she would have to catch a bus from the Bronx at 11:30 on Friday nights to be there in time for visiting hours on Saturday morning. She would arrive back in the Bronx at 2 a.m. on Sunday and then take a subway to her apartment. Now that her son is at Sing Sing, the trip takes her half an hour. “I visit him every week on my day off,” she said. Sing Sing can still be brutal. One assault case examined by The Times involved an inmate named James Wright, who was released last year after completing a five-year robbery sentence. Mr. Wright argued with a guard, was pushed against a wall and subdued by four other officers, according to the incident report. The guards had no injuries; Mr. Wright’s two front teeth were knocked out. And still, when asked if the prisons farther upstate were worse for black inmates, Mr. Wright answered, “Absolutely.” There is evidence that the inequitable treatment of blacks in state prisons has been going on for decades. In 1993, in response to a lawsuit filed by the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society, a federal judge ordered the state to correct disparities at Elmira. Based on a detailed statistical analysis, the judge, David G. Larimer, concluded that black inmates were assigned the worst prison jobs, housed on the most decrepit cellblocks and disciplined out of proportion to their numbers. In a ruling meant to correct these imbalances, Judge Larimer mandated quotas to
ensure that black prisoners would get a fair share of the good jobs and housing on preferred cellblocks. Those quotas remain in place. To this day, the Prisoners’ Rights Project receives regular reports from the corrections department listing the number of Elmira inmates by race for the most desired jobs and housing blocks. At the time, Legal Aid also asked that discipline be monitored for racial disparities, but the state resisted. John Boston, the lead lawyer for the prisoners, warned in court that without such monitoring, black inmates would continue to be singled out disproportionately for punishment. “Once everybody’s head is turned and we all move on to something else, the problem is likely to reassert itself,” he said at the time. That is exactly what happened. After more than two decades, disparities in housing and jobs at Elmira have largely disappeared. But as The Times’s analysis showed, discipline in Elmira is still as racially skewed now as it was in the 1980s, with black inmates punished at about twice the rate of whites.
An inmate with his daughter, top, before a graduation from a program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, above. The New York Times found no disciplinary disparities between whites and blacks at the prison, where, atypically, most corrections officers are minorities.
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Bias Against Guards It is not just black inmates who suffer harassment at the hands of white guards. In the early 2000s, a group of white officers and supervisors relentlessly taunted and abused Curtis Brown, one of the few black guards at Elmira. According to documents from an investigation by the corrections department’s affirmative-action office, the white officers wrote “Token” on his locker, and someone attached a picture of a disheveled black man to his timecard and wrote, “This is your black ass nigger brother.” While Officer Brown was serving in the honor guard at a funeral for a fellow officer, a corrections lieutenant, George Martin, came up to him and said, “I didn’t know they let niggers in here,” investigators reported. And at a local hockey game that Officer Brown was attending with his family, Officer Nicolo Marino said to another white guard who was present, “I see you brought your inmate porter with you,” according to a state investigation. In a federal lawsuit filed by Officer Brown, he said that another guard once came up behind him and wrapped a chain around his neck as if it were a lynching. The suit was settled in 2009 for an undisclosed amount. A white guard who stood up for Officer Brown was also targeted. The guard, Quentin Halm, reported in an affidavit that because they were friends, he was singled out by “bigots and racists.” One guard said to Officer Halm that if he loved Officer Brown so much, “why don’t you kiss him on his big, fat lips?” Another suggested that he go to “cornrow school with your homey.” Records from the state comptroller indicate that none of the white guards involved were suspended, and that several of them continued to work at Elmira for years after the state affirmative-action investigation. Whether they received some other form of punishment is not known, since state law
prohibits the public release of officers’ disciplinary records. Officer Brown, now in his 28th year on the job, is one of eight black guards at Elmira. Through the years, the corrections department has made attempts to integrate the work force at some of the big upstate prisons. In the 1970s and ’80s, black officers from the Buffalo area were transferred to Attica. While the two communities are just 35 miles apart, Attica sits in the middle of farm fields, in the overwhelmingly white Wyoming County. The new black guards were mercilessly harassed, said Tyrrell Muhammad, who was imprisoned at Attica then and is now a project associate at the Correctional Association, an inmate advocacy group that has a state mandate to monitor conditions in the prisons. Mr. Muhammad said black officers were roughed up and humiliated in front of the other guards. Most left, he said. Even if the department wanted to transfer black officers into the upstate prisons, a seniority provision in the state’s contract with the guards’ union would make that impossible. It is the officers who decide where they work, not the prison superintendents or even the corrections commissioner. The state is negotiating a new contract, but union officials say that seniority rules are not negotiable.
Race Behind Bars Articles in this series will examine bias in New York State’s prison and parole systems.
Federal intervention has been one of the few effective means of addressing the racial inequities and civil-rights violations in New York State prisons. It has worked at Elmira for housing and jobs and has been somewhat successful in holding officers accountable for the worst excesses of brutality and discrimination. On Sept. 21, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a group of corrections officers at Downstate Correctional Facility, in Fishkill, had been arrested over the brutal beating of Kevin Moore, a black inmate. Mr. Moore, 56 at the time, had five broken ribs, a collapsed lung and shattered bones in his face. The guards, who called themselves the Downstate Four, were also accused of ripping out his dreadlocks. One of them even bragged about using the dreadlocks to decorate his motorcycle, the indictment said. Just as egregious was the cover-up, Mr. Bharara said: The officers hit one of their own on the back with a baton to make him appear injured, took several photos for the record and falsified reports claiming that Mr. Moore had attacked them, according to the indictment. “Excessive use of force in prisons, we believe, has reached crisis proportions in New York State,” Mr. Bharara said at the news conference. Like Attica and Clinton, Downstate is a particularly difficult prison for minority inmates, who, in 2015, were more than twice as likely to be disciplined as whites, The Times’s analysis showed. Blacks and Latinos got 1,078 tickets, while whites received 144. Mr. Moore was so badly beaten that he spent 17 days in the hospital. What happened next is a prime example of why many inmates consider the prison disciplinary system to be a farce. Mr. Moore was issued a ticket for assault on staff and put in solitary confinement after being discharged from the hospital. It was only when an internal affairs investigator with the corrections department intervened that Mr. Moore was let out of isolation and the assault charge was dropped. By then, he said, he had spent 26 days in solitary confinement. After the officers were indicted, he was transferred out of state custody and moved to an undisclosed location to protect him from possible reprisals by corrections officers.
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Jazmyn Benjamin walked onto the hardwood floor at Madison Square Garden to a symphony of squeaking soles. She made her way through a maze of tall men in tailored sweatsuits rehearsing beneath a basket, to a spot that signified a turning point in her life. “I was standing right here back in 2009 when I interviewed Estelle,” she said, referring to the British singer and songwriter, shortly before the start of a New York Knicks basketball game last week. “I was so nervous that day because she was such a big celebrity, and I was just a 15-year-old kid in the program.” Ms. Benjamin — now a 22-yearold senior at Brooklyn College majoring in film production who hopes, she said, “to become the next influential film director” — was referring to her days as a student in the MSG Classroom program, which teaches children about jobs in television, including announcing, producing, directing and creating graphics. In 2009, Ms. Benjamin was living with her mother and two younger siblings in a homeless shelter. Things began to brighten when she was one of 10 children from low-income neighborhoods selected to participate in the Hope Leadership Academy. The academy is run by the Children’s Aid Society, one of the eight agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. The Children’s Aid Society also provided $300 to Ms. Benjamin to buy clothes to wear during interview assignments and college visits. The academy worked with the Garden of Dreams Foundation, a nonprofit that helps children facing obstacles, to form the MSG Classroom program, which allows students to use Madison Square Garden as a laboratory of sorts. Program members are free to interview MSG employees and officials; players with the Knicks, the New York Rangers and the New York Liberty; and celebrity guests booked by MSG Entertainment. Vincent M. Mallozzi wrote 49 stories for the Neediest Cases from 2000 to 2002, and contributed one more, about Jazmyn Benjamin, in 2009. Mr. Mallozzi is now a society reporter for The New York Times.
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halftime at the Knicks game against the Oklahoma City Thunder last Monday, when Ms. Benjamin was escorted to a section of courtside seats where she found Mr. Lee chatting with the comedian Chris Rock. Mr. Lee immediately invited Ms. Benjamin over, and wasted no time offering her valuable advice. “The easiest way to break into this business is to be a writer-di-
rector, with a hyphen,” he said. “How are your writing skills? Do you keep a journal? Do you write down your story ideas every single day? Just keep writing.” Mr. Lee became animated when Ms. Benjamin said to him, “When you came along, you did a lot of things that were new at the time, and now it sometimes feels as if everything has already been done.” “That’s not true,” he said. “There’s a whole new world of cinema yet to be discovered, and we need more female directors like yourself out there trying to find it. So keep believing in yourself and do not let anyone discourage you from telling a story you want to tell. That’s just noise that you don’t want to hear.” Mr. Lee offered one more directorial tip. “Always remember that a good director needs to be surrounded by very good actors, because the best actors might bring something extra or new to a role that you never expected,” he said. “You’ll find that out one day when you’re directing Denzel.” When their conversation ended, Mr. Lee invited Ms. Benjamin to spend a day on the set of his coming Netflix show, “She’s Gotta Have It,” named for Mr. Lee’s first movie, released in 1986. The series is being filmed in Brooklyn. “Oh my goodness,” Ms. Benjamin said, her smile widening. “That would be amazing.” Andrea Greenberg, president and chief executive of the television company MSG Networks, which runs the program, and a board member of the Garden of Dreams Foundation, said that Ms. Benjamin was “just one example of the long-lasting impact and effect the foundation has on our kids, which is something we pride ourselves on — and we are very proud of Jazmyn.” So is Ms. Benjamin’s mother, Monica, who watched as Mr. Lee held court with her daughter. “What an amazing night,” said the elder Ms. Benjamin, who now lives with her three children in an apartment of their own in West Harlem. “Jazmyn is a very artistic person who has impressed me with a few film projects she has directed at school,” she said. “She’s always looking for that different camera angle, always trying new and creative things, and in that regard, she’s a lot like Spike.”
Insurers’ Flawed Lists Send Patients Scrambling By JAY HANCOCK
WASHINGTON — Penny Gentieu did not intend to phone 308 physicians in six different insurance plans when she started shopping for 2017 health coverage. But a few calls suggested to Ms. Gentieu, a photographer who lives in Toledo, Ohio, that doctors listed as “taking new patients” in the health plans’ directories were not necessarily doing so. Surprised that information about something so central to health insurance could be so poor, she contacted almost every primary care physician listed as accepting new patients in every local plan. More than three-quarters of those doctors in her part of Ohio were in fact rejecting new patients, she found. “It’s just not fair to be baited and switched,” said Ms. Gentieu, who must find a new doctor because her physician of several years will not be in any available plans in her area next year. “It’s just so crazy that you’re presented with this big list of doctors and then you call them and you realize there’s nobody there.” As consumers review their coverage and shop for 2017 insurance through the federal health law’s online marketplaces during the annual open enrollment period, many of the directories they are using are outdated and inaccurate. Some doctors in the directories are not accepting new patients and some are not participating in the network, say experts, brokers and consumers. Still other physicians in the directories, who are listed as “in-plan,” charge patients thousands of dollars extra per year in “concierge fees” to join their practices. “There continue to be inaccuracy problems,” said Justin Giovannelli, a Georgetown University professor, who studies coverage under the health law. Flawed directories are “a real barrier to accessing the care and accessing the insurance consumers have purchased.” President-elect Donald J. Trump has pledged to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which created the marketplaces. This article was produced in collaboration with Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The author is a reporter for Kaiser Health News.
But insurers’ doctor lists are likely to remain a problem no matter what the law looks like, consumer advocates say. Knowing which doctors and specialists are available within a plan is critical, as patients who visit a physician outside a plan’s network must pay much if not all of the cost. The effect from flawed directories is even greater this year, as carriers have stopped offering coverage in many markets, meaning many consumers have only one or two insurers to choose from. The number of doctors and hospitals in plan networks also continues to shrink as insurers steer patients toward lower-cost narrow networks. Reports of inaccuracies suggest that new federal rules to ensure reliable directories are having little effect. Starting this year, all plans sold through the marketplaces are required to “publish an up-to-date, accurate and complete provider directory” or be subject to penalties or removed from the marketplace portal. But so far no plans have been fined or kicked off the enrollment sites for having poor doctor directories, said Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which would enforce the rules. A Health and Human Services Department survey of Medicare plans for those 65 and older that was released in October found errors in nearly half of the listings in doctor directories. Staci Doolin, a co-owner of a radon-testing company in Forsyth, Ill., consulted the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois physician directory in January to make sure her primary care physician was in the network and even called the insurer to double-check. The directory was wrong. The doctor was not in the plan. “I thought I was good to go, and then I get this bill and it says my insurance didn’t cover anything and I owe $503,” Ms. Doolin said. It took until September to resolve the matter — but not before the office threatened to summon a bill collector. She never recovered $100 she spent on a dermatologist who was listed in the directory but who also was not part of the plan. No comprehensive data exists on doctor directory accuracy. The health law and the Health and Human Services Department set
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Manuel Hernandez, 49, consulted with a licensed insurance agent last month in Miami. standards for network adequacy but leave most enforcement up to states. States rarely test the lists for accuracy and often rely on consumers to report problems. But third-party surveys frequently reveal big discrepancies. One recently published study showed as many as a fourth of the doctors listed in California directories last year for marketplace plans were not accepting new patients. About one doctor in 10 was
Directories of doctors that are inaccurate or outdated. not working for the listed practice. Consumer advocates often praise California for vigorous insurance regulation. Last year, the state fined one plan $350,000 and another $250,000 for flawed doctor directories. “I have to think it’s pretty much the same nationwide,” said Simon Haeder, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, who led the study. “Insurers have a hard time keeping these up-to-date because it costs a lot of money, and providers don’t put a lot of effort on giving insurers updated information.” Even doctor offices are frequently unclear about whether they participate in certain plans, say insurance brokers, who assist
consumers shopping for plans. Confusion multiplies when physicians are in some networks and not others offered by the same insurer. Doctors might be part of broader plan with many choices but not part of a narrow network with nearly the same name. Directories for specialty physicians may be even more difficult to navigate than those for primary care doctors. Brian Jarvis, who lives near Dayton, Ohio, needed an orthopedist after straining an Achilles’ tendon this summer. He had to go through 17 doctors listed as accepting his marketplace plan before finding one who really did, he said. An online tool for Florida Blue, the Blue Cross insurer in that state, does not let consumers search for anesthesiologists, who are often outside coverage networks even when their hospital is in network. Unwittingly being put under by a non-network anesthesiologist can cost patients thousands of dollars. Even insurers admit patients are ultimately on their own to navigate the directory thicket. “We recommend you contact the provider to confirm that they are in your plan and that the desired service is covered,” warns the online doctor-search tool for Anthem, one of the biggest sellers of marketplace plans under the health law. Few consumers take that advice to heart like Ms. Gentieu. “I was shocked at how awful the
state of Ohio is for handling all of this,” said Ms. Gentieu, who was concerned about having a fiveyear-old hip replacement monitored. She posted results on her website and sent complaint letters to plans and the Ohio Department of Insurance. Four of the insurers did not substantially dispute Ms. Gentieu’s research. “While our findings do not exactly match those of Ms. Gentieu, we did identify issues which are being addressed,” said Don Olson, a spokesman for Medical Mutual of Ohio, a health insurer in the state. Ms. Gentieu found that only 15 percent of those listed as primary care doctors in one Medical Mutual network were actually primary care physicians taking new patients. Many had not accepted new patients in years. Others were specialty doctors, nurse practitioners or medical residents who had not completed their training. Physicians often fail to tell insurers when they stop accepting patients for certain plans, Medical Mutual and other carriers said. Like the Health and Human Services Department, Ohio instituted new directory-accuracy rules this year for marketplace plans. But enforcing them is “consumer-driven,” said David Hopcraft, a spokesman for the Ohio Insurance Department. The state does not check the lists until consumers report inaccuracies, one doctor at a time.
Reject Claim Pinning Heat On El Niño By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Scientists on Friday debunked a widely circulated news report suggesting that recent recordhigh global temperatures were unrelated to climate change. The report, which first appeared in the British tabloid The Daily Mail and was summarized in Breitbart News, the right-wing opinion and news site, cited incomplete data and drew incorrect conclusions, the scientists said. Federal and international agencies have said that 2016 is likely to be the hottest year on record, eclipsing the record set last year. In its report, The Daily Mail cited a recent decline in temperatures over land since the weather phenomenon known as El Niño ended this year and said that suggested El Niño, and not climate change, was responsible for the record heat. But scientists said that while the recent El Niño did contribute to the record warmth, climate change played a major role, too. “Nobody said the record temperatures were exclusively the result of climate change,” said Mike Halpert, the deputy director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center. Deke Arndt, the chief of the climate monitoring branch at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, said that the long-term warming trend was quite clear, and that the effect of El Niño was in addition to what were already higher temperatures. “You can have both climate change and a goose from El Niño,” he said. In El Niño, water temperatures
A report saying record highs were unrelated to climate change. increase in the eastern equatorial Pacific, affecting air temperatures and weather worldwide. Sea surface temperatures have declined since their peak this year, and now the opposite condition — La Niña, with water temperatures lower than normal — prevails. Scientists are not surprised that some global temperatures are falling and expect that temperatures next year will be below those of the past two years because of La Niña. “But it’s still likely to be quite a bit warmer than average,” Mr. Halpert said. Scientists said the news reports were also faulty in that they cited only temperatures over land, which accounts for about 30 percent of the earth’s surface. Temperatures over land are much more variable than those over water because land stores relatively little heat. “If you’re going to be making global-scale assessments,” Dr. Arndt said, “you need to be looking at global-scale data.” Global data show a slower decline in temperatures than landonly data, scientists said. The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology posted about the Breitbart News report on Twitter on Thursday, complaining of an “icy silence from climate alarmists.” The committee’s Republican chairman, Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, has accused the Obama administration of having a “suspect climate agenda.” The House committee’s Twitter post drew sharp rebukes from scientists and others, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who wrote on Twitter, referring to an academic expert cited in the article, “Where’d you get your PhD? Trump University?” The Daily Mail report, which was written by David Rose, was also strongly disputed online. One blogger headlined a post on the subject: “How Stupid Does David Rose Think You Are?”
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In Trump’s Pick for National Security Adviser, ‘Sharp Elbows’ and No Dissent Ledeen, a controversial writer and former Reagan administration official. The two men connected immediately, sharing a similar worldview and a belief that America was in a world war against Islamist militants allied with Russia, Cuba and North Korea. That worldview is what Mr. Flynn came to be best known for during the presidential campaign, when he argued that the United States faced a singular, overarching threat, and that there was just one accurate way to describe it: “radical Islamic terrorism.” He has posted on Twitter that fear of Muslims is rational, written that Islamic law is spreading in the United States, and said that Islam itself is more like a political ideology than a religion. The United States, he wrote in “Field of Fight,” a book about radical Islam he co-wrote with Mr. Ledeen, is “in a world war, but very few people recognize it.”
From Page 1 Years before Mr. Flynn met Mr. Trump, his brief tenure running the Defense Intelligence Agency foreshadowed some of the same qualities he has exhibited more recently as he has plunged into politics and controversy as a key campaign adviser to Mr. Trump, who shared his desire to usurp what he viewed as Washington’s incompetent and corrupt elite. Many of those who observed the general’s time at the agency described him as someone who alienated both superiors and subordinates with his sharp temperament, his refusal to brook dissent, and what his critics considered a conspiratorial worldview. Those qualities could prove problematic for a national security adviser, especially one who will have to mediate the conflicting views of cabinet secretaries and agencies for a president with no experience in defense or foreign policy issues. Traditionally, the job has gone to a Washington veteran: Condoleezza Rice, for instance, or Thomas E. Donilon.
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The Last Word The new job will give Mr. Flynn, 57, nearly unfettered access to the Oval Office. Whether it is renewed bloodletting in Ukraine, a North Korean nuclear test or a hurricane swamping Haiti, he will often have the last word with Mr. Trump about how the United States should react. For Mr. Flynn, serving as the president’s chief adviser on defense and foreign policy matters, represents a triumphal return to government after being dismissed as agency director in 2014 after two years there. Heading the agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm, was supposed to be the capstone of a storied career. Through tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Flynn had built a reputation as a brash and outspoken officer with an unusual talent for unraveling terrorist networks, and both his fiercest critics and his outspoken supporters praise his work from those wars. In numerous interviews and speeches over the past year, Mr. Flynn, who did not respond to requests for comment for this article, has maintained that he was forced out as director for refusing to toe the Obama administration’s line that Al Qaeda was in retreat. The claim has made the general something of a cult figure among many Republicans. “D.I.A. has always been a problem child and it remains that way,” said Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of Mr. Trump’s transition team. “Flynn tried to get in there and fix things and he was only given two years until they ran him out because they didn’t like his assessment.” The congressman added: Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt contributed reporting.
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Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for national security adviser, on Thursday at Trump Tower in New York. “They didn’t have an excuse to fire him, so they made it up. Nobody has been able to fix that place.” But others say he was forced out for a relatively simple reason: He failed to effectively manage a sprawling, largely civilian bureaucracy. At the agency, “Flynn surrounded himself with loyalists. In implementing his vision, he moved at light speed, but he didn’t communicate effectively,” said Douglas H. Wise, deputy director from 2014 until he retired in August. “He didn’t tolerate it well when subordinates didn’t move fast enough,” he said. “As a senior military officer, he expected compliance and didn’t want any pushback.”
The Boss Is Always Right Founded in 1961, the Defense Intelligence Agency has long been in the shadow of the Central Intelligence Agency, and with the end of the Cold War it lost its primary mission of collecting and analyzing information about the Soviet military. Strained by a decade of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was performing an uncertain role within the constellation of American spy agencies when Mr. Flynn arrived at headquarters in mid-2012. The agency’s system of human intelligence collection was perceived as largely broken. The effort to rebuild it was underway when Mr. Flynn took control in 2012, but he made it immediately known that he had a dim view of
the agency’s recent performance. During a tense gathering of senior officials at an off-site retreat, he gave the assembled group a taste of his leadership philosophy, according to one person who attended the meeting and insisted on anonymity to discuss classified matters. Mr. Flynn said that the first thing everyone needed to know was that he was always right. His staff would know they were right, he said, when their views melded to his. The room fell silent, as employees processed the lecture from their new boss. Current and former employees said Mr. Flynn had trouble adjusting his style for an organization with a 16,500-person work force that was 80 percent civilian. He was used to a strict military chain of command, and was at times uncomfortable with the often-messy give-and-take that is common among intelligence analysts. Some also described him as a Captain Queeg-like character, paranoid that his staff members were undercutting him and credulous of conspiracy theories. At times, the general also exhibited what a number of officials described as tone-deafness on the larger strategic challenges confronting the nation. The most glaring example came in early March 2014, just after Russia had seized Crimea. American officials were weighing whether to impose sanctions in response, but Mr. Flynn was pushing ahead with plans to travel to Moscow to build on an existing intelligence-sharing initiative with
his Russian counterparts. He also wanted to invite Russian military intelligence officials to Washington to discuss the threat of Islamist militants. His superiors ordered both canceled. By the end of his tenure, he had largely cut out senior staff members from significant decision-making, relying instead on a small circle of trusted advisers he had come to know during his overseas military deployments. His bosses — Michael G. Vickers, the under secretary of defense for intelligence, and James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence — came to think that the agency was adrift, and that Mr. Flynn refused to address its biggest problems. “Regrettably, he got engaged in an increasingly bitter and organizationally paralyzing feud with his senior staff when he should have been focused on building the intelligence capabilities” of the agency, said Mr. Vickers, who was Mr. Flynn’s immediate boss at the Pentagon. During his tour in Iraq, he served under Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, running intelligence for the military’s Joint Special Operations Command, whose relentless campaign of raids and airstrikes hollowed out Al Qaeda in Iraq. When General McChrystal went to run the war in Afghanistan in 2009, Mr. Flynn signed on as his intelligence chief. “He wasn’t a staid intelligence officer. He was aggressive. He was about the mission,” said Richard M. Frankel, a former senior F.B.I.
official who worked with Mr. Flynn at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. “He can have sharp elbows because he is about the mission.” He burnished his reputation as an intelligence officer — but also for controversy. He co-wrote a paper, “Fixing Intel,” that offered an early hint of his disdain for the civilian intelligence analysts he would later clash with at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Published by a Washington think tank, it bluntly stated that “the U.S. intelligence community is only marginally relevant to the overall strategy,” infuriating officials at the D.I.A. and the C.I.A. More problematic from the military’s perspective was Mr. Flynn’s willingness to share intelligence with other countries. He returned to Washington at the end of 2010, and found himself under investigation for sharing sensitive data with Pakistan about the Haqqani network, arguably the most capable faction of the Taliban, and for providing highly classified intelligence to British and Australian forces fighting in Afghanistan. His superiors eventually concluded that he was trying to prod Pakistan to crack down on the Haqqanis (they have yet to do so), and the general remains unapologetic about sharing intelligence with British and Australian forces. “They’re our closest allies! I mean, really, we’re fighting together and I can’t share a single piece of paper?” he said in an interview last year. Around the same time, he was also getting to know Michael A.
Mr. Flynn saw the Benghazi attack in September 2012 as just one skirmish in this global war. But it was his initial reaction to the event, immediately seeking evidence of an Iranian role, that many saw as emblematic of a conspiratorial bent. Iran, a Shiite nation, has generally eschewed any alliance with Sunni militants like the ones who attacked the American diplomatic compound. For weeks, he pushed analysts for evidence that the attack might have had a state sponsor — sometimes shouting at them when they didn’t come to the conclusions he wanted. The attack, he told his analysts, was a “black swan” event that required more creative intelligence analysis to decipher. “To ask employees to look for the .0001 percent chance of something when you have an actual emergency and dead Americans is beyond the pale,” said Joshua Manning, an agency analyst from 2009 to 2013. Beyond Benghazi, American officials said that in time, the general grew angrier at what he saw as the Obama administration’s passivity in dealing with worldwide threats — from Sunni extremist terrorism to Iran. He also saw the C.I.A., an organization he had long disdained, as overly political and too willing to advance the White House’s agenda. In particular, he became convinced that the C.I.A. was refusing to declassify many of the documents found at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, because they seemed to undercut the administration’s narrative about Qaeda strength at the time Bin Laden was killed. “If they put out what we knew, then the president could’ve not said, in a national election, Al Qaeda’s on the run and we’ve killed Bin Laden,” Mr. Flynn said before the latest election, referring to Mr. Obama’s 2012 re-election bid. “Even today, he talks about Bin Laden as though that was a stroke of genius. I mean, c’mon!”
Democrats Say Hearings Will Unmask ‘Swamp Creatures’ in Trump’s Cabinet From Page 16 grilling. As a congressman from Georgia, Mr. Price has been the chief architect of a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act and has long desired to transform Medicare into a voucherlike program for future participants. Mr. Sessions is likely to undergo tough questioning about accusations of racially insensitive comments from the 1980s that doomed his nomination to be a federal judge and his tentative embrace of Mr. Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim immigration. That effort seems most likely to backfire because Mr. Sessions has served in the Senate for more than a decade and has a complex record on civil rights back home in Alabama, and his Republican colleagues will likely be quick to defend him. “Our friend,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican, referring to Mr. Sessions, “is undoubtedly qualified and prepared for this role as attorney general because of the long career he spent protecting and defending our Constitution and the rule of law.” Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire Mr. Trump chose to lead the Department of Education, will also be questioned by Democrats for her unwavering support of charter schools, many of which have fared poorly in her state, and tax issues concerning her summer home. “There are a lot of pointed questions I plan to ask,” said Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the highest ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, which over-
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Chuck Schumer, center, in November, after being named the Democratic leader in the Senate. sees the Medicare program and already requires tax returns from nominees. “These nomination hearings are extremely important in that they are going to provide a key opportunity to lay out the concerns we have.” Democrats hope that moderate Republicans, especially those up for re-election in two years, will face an uncomfortable vote on someone like Mr. Price, given the popularity of the Medicare program. “Are Republicans going to want to vote for a guy who wants to raise the Medicare eligibility age?” said Senator Sherrod
Brown, Democrat of Ohio. “I don’t think it’s a done deal.” (It probably is a done deal.) But most Democrats seem more interested in pointing out that Mr. Trump’s nominees largely stand out of step with his campaign promises to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists, former bankers and Washington insiders. Mr. Mnuchin is a 17-year veteran of Goldman Sachs, and the billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, the choice for commerce secretary, signed a letter in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which Mr. Trump has
ridiculed as disastrous. Democrats plan to use the nomination process to underscore the dichotomy. “He’s filling it with bigger swamp creatures,” said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, who is pressing for nominees to be required to disclose tax returns. And for whatever bumps Mr. Price or Mr. Sessions might face, other nominees will probably breeze through confirmation. Gov. Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina, whom Mr. Trump has chosen to be his ambassador to the United Nations, and Elaine L. Chao, a former
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Top, Senators Charles E. Grassley, left, and Jeff Sessions, the nominee for attorney general. Above, Senator Mitch McConnell with Betsy DeVos, the choice for education secretary. labor secretary whom he has nominated for secretary of transportation, have encountered little opposition.
Mr. McConnell is especially excited for Ms. Chao, his wife. “I think it was an outstanding choice,” he said.
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Maine Adopts New Way Of Counting Ballots By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Maine has changed how it will choose most officeholders, becoming the first state in the country to adopt ranked-choice voting, also known as instantrunoff voting. Ranked-choice voting allows voters to list candidates in order of preference so that if in the first round no one wins a majority, officials can recount the ballots immediately until someone does. A few cities — including San Francisco; Minneapolis; Cambridge, Mass.; and Portland, Me. — have used this method to count ballots, but none use it in statewide elections. In Maine, this type of voting will apply to races for Congress, governor and the State Legislature, but not to municipal offices or president. It is to go into effect starting with the primary races in June 2018. Ranked-choice voting had been under consideration for some time in Maine, where independents often mount strong third-party bids. The winner in nine of the state’s past 11 elections for governor won with less than a majority. The goal is to keep that from happening again. Here are some frequently asked questions about rankedchoice voting. How does ranked-choice voting work?
Instead of casting a ballot for a single candidate, the voter ranks all of the candidates by preference. So if there are four choices, the voter is asked to rank them one through four. If no one wins a majority on the first round, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. For voters, that means if the eliminated candidate was your first choice, then your second-choice vote will be applied in the next round of counting. If your second choice is eliminated, your vote for third choice will be applied — and so on until someone wins a majority. What are the advantages?
Proponents say the voting method ensures that whoever is elected has the support of a majority of voters. They say this
helps increase civility because candidates need to appeal to a spectrum broader than just their base in order to win over their opponents’ supporters on subsequent ballots. And theoretically it eliminates the possibility of a “spoiler” candidate winning. What are the disadvantages?
Opponents argue that because it is more complex, rankedchoice voting depresses turnout and leads to more errors in part because it can be confusing. In a rural state like Maine, where half of the communities count ballots by hand, ranked voting could also lead to more errors by the people doing the counting. Opponents argue further that the voting method can still skew the results toward someone not favored by the majority, and it can be costly. Why did Maine voters approve ranked-choice voting?
It was close — 52 percent in favor to 48 percent against. But a slim majority seemed to want reform, and ranked-choice voting had been successful in two mayoral races in Portland. This year’s measure was put into motion in 2014, but the campaign coincided with rising voter anger over Maine’s governor, Paul R. LePage, a Republican, who has repeatedly embarrassed the state with contentious comments. Mr. LePage was twice elected in three-way races with less than a majority of the vote, which may have given voters an added incentive to approve this measure. The state Democratic Party supported it, though ranked-choice voting does not favor one party or another, and it earned the support of the League of Women Voters of Maine. One major concern was that ranked voting violates the state’s Constitution, which calls for elections of the governor and Legislature by a plurality, not a majority, but a constitutional amendment could resolve that. How much will it cost?
In Maine, the secretary of state’s office said it would need $761,000 in fiscal year 2017-2018
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Gov. Paul R. LePage greeted voters in March in Wiscasset, Me. He was twice elected with less than a majority of the vote. and $641,000 in fiscal year 20182019 to print additional ballot pages and update ballot machines. The Department of Public Safety said it would need a general fund appropriation of $76,000 and a highway fund allocation of $73,000 in fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 for overtime and fuel to retrieve, secure and return ballots for central counting in Augusta, the state capital. How has it worked elsewhere?
Ranked-choice voting is used in Ireland and Australia in national elections, and it is used to pick the Oscar nominees for best picture. But only 11 American cities, all of them liberal, have instituted it, so their experience may be too limited to draw firm conclusions. Here in the United States, it generally appears to be working. But there is some question about whether it decreases turnout; some studies say it has, others say that when compared with the
quent rounds, she surged to victory on the strength of those second- and third-place votes after other candidates were eliminated. Supporters of the candidate who had come in first in the initial round accused Ms. Quan of gaming the system.
current system in most cities, it has not. A study of the 2014 mayoral primary in Minneapolis found that voters who were more affluent and white turned out at a higher rate and completed their ballots more accurately than minorities and those in low-income areas. Howard Dean, a Democrat and former governor of Vermont, favors ranked voting, saying that without a majority vote, “you can’t hold the powerful accountable.” But Gov. Jerry Brown of California, also a Democrat, vetoed a bill in September that would have expanded it in a number of jurisdictions. He called ranked voting “overly complicated and confusing.” Ranked voting has certainly led to some unexpected results. In the mayor’s race in Oakland, Calif., in 2010, Jean Quan, who came in second in the initial round, had also strategically campaigned to be everyone’s second or third choice. In subse-
ested,” said Rob Richie, the executive director of FairVote, a nonprofit that favors rankedchoice voting. Could ranked-choice voting be used in presidential elections?
Why have only cities adopted this method until now?
Ranked-choice voting has been easier in cities because they have uniform voting equipment and are geographically compact, reducing issues involving the central counting of ballots. States have multiple jurisdictions with different kinds of voting equipment and are geographically spread out, hampering central counts. A few states have considered ranked-choice voting but balked in part because of the cost and difficulties of putting it in place. “This nerdy inside-baseball issue of election administration is the biggest barrier, after people get inter-
Proponents believe that more states will start adopting rankedchoice voting and will eventually allow it for presidential elections. They say that if it had been in place during this year’s primaries, Donald J. Trump might not have won the Republican nomination; he won 13.3 million votes in the primary races, but 16 million were cast against him. “There’s no doubt Trump would have been stopped in the primaries” if the early states had used ranked-choice voting, said Richard Winger, the editor and publisher of Ballot Access News, which tracks election issues and supports ranked-choice voting. “And obviously Al Gore would have been president if Florida had used it in 2000.”
The Array of Conflicts of Interest Facing the Trump Presidency By LARRY BUCHANAN and KAREN YOURISH
Donald J. Trump’s global business empire will create an unprecedented number of conflicts of interest for a United States president, experts in legal ethics say. Mr. Trump has said he will separate himself from his company before taking the oath of office, but he has not offered any details on how. Ethics experts warn that if Mr. Trump puts his children in control of operations but continues to own the company, he will remain vulnerable to charges that his actions as president are guided by personal financial interests. Here are some examples of the potential conflicts:
Trump International Hotel, Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Deutsche Bank
National Labor Relations Board
Foreign Interests
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with advice from the Transition Team (which Mr. Trump’s children are on), by
and his children run Trump Organization
an executive agency that, as of Jan. 20, will be overseen by
has said his income tax returns are under audit by the
the head of which will be appointed,
with advice from the Transition Team (which Mr. Trump’s children are on), by
which will be run by an attorney general chosen, which leases the Old Post Office Building from the
General Services Administration
The Trump Organization’s contract with the General Services Administration prohibits any elected official of the United States government from being part of the lease or deriving any benefit from it. Unless the agency ends its lease before the president-elect takes office, Mr. Trump will, in effect, be both the landlord and tenant of the building, according to two government procurement experts, Steven L. Schooner and Daniel I. Gordon. Mr. Schooner and Mr. Gordon wrote that putting Mr. Trump’s children in charge of the organization was “plainly insufficient to avoid strictly any conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict, particularly where the president’s name will remain as the hotel’s name, brand, trademark and marquee.”
and his children run Trump Organization which owes millions of dollars to Deutsche Bank
which is negotiating a settlement with the
Internal Revenue Service
The head of the Internal Revenue Service is nominated by the president for a five-year term. Republicans have tried to impeach the current commissioner, John A. Koskinen, whose term ends on Nov. 12, 2017. Mr. Koskinen could resign or be impeached before then, clearing the way for Mr. Trump to nominate a new commissioner.
Justice Department
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, is in negotiations with the Justice Department to settle claims over its handling of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis. Questions remain about the bank’s ability to pay a large penalty. The Justice Department’s opening bid was $14 billion. If the negotiations are not settled by Jan. 20, Mr. Trump will oversee a department that has the potential to make or break the bottom line of one of his biggest lenders.
and his children run Trump Hotels
with advice from the Transition Team (which Mr. Trump’s children are on), by
which have occasional disputes brought before the
the head of which will be appointed,
National Labor Relations Board
The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency responsible for enforcing labor laws and safeguarding employees’ right to organize. The five members Mr. Trump appoints will be in charge of investigating complaints brought by workers, which could include those at his hotels and other properties. In fact, a week before the election, the board ruled against the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, which Mr. Trump co-owns, for refusing to negotiate with a new culinary workers union.
Mr. Trump’s children and
and his children run Trump Organization
that could affect the bottom line of
which has business interests in countries around the world
that will be negotiating foreign policy with the Trump administration
Ethics experts warn Mr. Trump’s holdings around the globe could give the appearance of tainting his decisions on various foreign issues. In addition, they could also open him up to accusations that he has violated a part of the Constitution known as the emoluments clause, which prohibits government officials from taking payments or gifts from a foreign government or entity. “Unless he divests ownership, he will have an interest in the foreign government payments and benefits that flow to his business daily,” said Norm Eisen and Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyers for President Obama and former President George W. Bush, respectively, in a statement on Democracy 21, a group that pushes for government transparency.
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Why a Single Phone Call, Lauded by Trump, Roiled the Taiwan Strait When President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke on the phone with Taiwan’s president on Friday, he was wading into one of Asia’s longest-running and sensitive issues: the dispute between Taiwan and mainland China. Though the MAX FISHER call alarmed experts, who say it risks upending decades of American efforts to manage the dispute, nonexperts could be forgiven for scratching their heads about the uproar. What follows, then, is a guide to the China-Taiwan issue: why it is so delicate, what role the United States has in the matter and why the phone call is significant.
for potential changes in America’s policy, must ask whether the call hints at a coming change, or at least at the possibility that hard-liners on Mr. Trump’s team could steer policy in radically new directions. If they are unsure, prudence would seem to require at least preparing for the possibility of a shift.
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What is the China-Taiwan issue? Both players claimed, at least formally, to represent all of China — which they considered to include each other’s territory. That created problems, including periodic risks of war, for decades. The disagreement dates to 1927, when civil war broke out in the Republic of China. The war culminated in Communist revolutionaries, led by Mao Zedong, mostly defeating China’s Nationalist government in 1949. But the Nationalist leaders fled to Taiwan, which their forces still controlled. Though fighting eventually stopped, both sides continued to claim all of China. The Taiwan-based government considered mainland China to be controlled by illegitimate Communist rebels. The Beijing-based government considered Taiwan a breakaway province. In this sense, the civil war was never fully resolved. Thus, Taiwan’s formal name is still the Republic of China. Mainland China — controlled by the Communist government in Beijing — is called the People’s Republic of China. Their dispute became a global Cold War issue. The Soviet Union and its allies recognized Beijing as China’s rightful government, while the United States and its allies recognized the Nationalists in Taiwan. The Taiwan government even held the United Nations seat for all of China. In the 1970s, the world began accepting the reality of a divided China. Beijing took over the United Nations seat in 1971. President Richard M. Nixon traveled to mainland China the next year. In 1979, America switched its recognition from the Taiwan government to Beijing’s. Many other countries followed suit. Since then, no American president or president-elect is believed to have spoken with a Taiwanese president — until the phone call on Friday. Why don’t China and Taiwan just split? This would be extremely difficult for either government.
Why can America sell arms to Taiwan but not call its leader?
Many Americans might reasonably wonder about this question, which Mr. Trump raised in a Twitter post in defense of the phone call. United States arms sales to Taiwan have indeed been controversial, particularly with Beijing. But they are an approach intended to maintain the status quo. By selling Taiwan arms, the United States ensures that the island can deter an invasion from the mainland’s far larger military. This maintains a balance of power that, while fragile, is intended to prevent war. Granting Taiwan’s leader informal recognition, or even an unofficial upgrade in ties, is different because it disturbs the status quo.
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President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, center, speaking with President-elect Donald J. Trump from her office in Taipei on Friday. The Beijing government has never given up hope of reintegrating Taiwan. Territorial integrity is an existential issue for all countries, but it is especially sensitive for Beijing, which fears emboldening separatism in Tibet and other regions. The Taiwan government is constrained on both sides. It cannot offer to reintegrate with the mainland, as the island is a democracy and Taiwanese people would be unwilling to surrender their freedoms. At the same time, Beijing has credibly threatened war should Taiwan declare independence. Taiwan cannot formally drop its claim to mainland China, because it would be seen as tantamount to declaring independence. This led, in 1992, to a semiofficial arrangement: Both countries agreed that there is only one China, encompassing the mainland and Taiwan. But they also agreed to disagree about what that means. Beijing is adamant about upholding this policy because it carries the promise of reunification. But in Taiwan, it has been controversial. Some prefer warm ties with their fellow Chinese and have sought to bolster trade. Others, particularly younger voters, distrust Beijing. Over time, Taiwan’s citizens have become more likely to call themselves Taiwanese — a distinct national identity — than
Chinese. Some Taiwanese leaders have questioned the current arrangement, including President Tsai Ing-wen, who was elected this year. She has promised to uphold the status quo but stopped short of endorsing the 1992 understanding — exacerbating Beijing’s fears that Taiwan could declare independence. Mr. Trump, by speaking with Ms. Tsai on the phone and referring to her as “the President of Taiwan” in a Twitter post, indulged those fears — and upended the traditional American stance, known as the “One China” policy. What is the “One China” policy?
Because both Taiwan and Beijing claim the same territory, foreign states cannot recognize both. Beijing forces countries to choose, as the policy’s name indicates, “one China.” Nearly all countries have chosen Beijing, which controls the world’s second-largest economy. The United States has a particular kind of One China policy, meant to accomplish three main goals: keep positive relations with Beijing, with which the United States has a host of agreements and interests; protect and assist Taiwan, a fellow democracy; and prevent the outbreak of war. Though the United States officially broke off relations with
Taiwan in 1979, it maintains a nonprofit center known as the American Institute in Taiwan, which acts as a barely unofficial embassy. The United States has also worked to promote Taiwan’s democracy and has sold it advanced military equipment, though these sales have declined in recent years. In this way, the United States is able to deny Taiwan recognition, yet also ensure it is strong enough to remain functionally independent. The policy should not be mistaken as a favor or handout to Beijing. Rather, it is intended to maintain American interests in both mainland China and Taiwan and prevent instability or war. As the United States has come to play a crucial balancing role, both sides have scrutinized any hint of change in the American position. In 1995, Washington broke with practice by granting a visa to Taiwan’s president. Beijing considered this a possible step toward recognition of Taiwanese independence and, in response, fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait. The United States, in turn, placed two aircraft carrier groups nearby. Though the crisis ended peacefully, it underscored the United States’ role in maintaining stability and the risk or war. Why does the phone call matter?
The call does not in itself
change policy, but it implies the possibility of a shift, forcing both China and Taiwan to guess at Mr. Trump’s intentions. Mr. Trump’s transition team, by categorizing his call with Ms. Tsai of Taiwan alongside calls with other heads of state, implied that Mr. Trump recognized her as the leader of a sovereign state. Mr. Trump also wrote on Twitter that he had spoken to the “President of Taiwan.” Recognizing Ms. Tsai as a sovereign leader would communicate that the United States considered Taiwan an independent nation. Such a position would force both Taiwan and Beijing into a difficult choice. Either ignore American policy on the issue — perhaps ending the decades-long American role in balancing cross-strait relations — or confront Taiwanese independence, which Beijing has said would provoke war. Both Beijing and Taiwan have played down the phone call, suggesting that they would prefer to see Mr. Trump’s words as a mistake rather than a deliberate policy shift. Still, Mr. Trump has retained some advisers who advocate more fully siding with the democratic Taiwan over the authoritarian China, perhaps even granting the former partial or full recognition. China and Taiwan, preparing
Why has this alarmed China experts?
To be fair to Mr. Trump, past presidents have adjusted the level of support for Taiwan, for example by increasing or reducing arms sales. But those policy shifts typically came with an explanation, so that China and Taiwan understood American intentions and knew what was and was not changing. What is different is that Mr. Trump has not made clear whether or not he intends to end America’s 37-year-old policy on Taiwan and China. The fact of the phone call implies that he does intend to do so, but the possibility that he erred implies that maybe he does not. In this way, the issue is not that he caused offense or broke with tradition, but rather that he introduced real uncertainty about how the United States will approach this issue under his leadership. In international relations, especially on tense issues, a lack of clarity or predictability can be destabilizing because it forces all states to plan for the worst. The American policy on Taiwan and China is already ambiguous by design. In 2004, when asked about the One China policy, a senior State Department official told a congressional hearing, “I didn’t really define it, and I’m not sure I very easily could define it.” While the policy may be tough to articulate, it has at least been predictable. Mr. Trump, intentionally or not, has added a layer of ambiguity that is wholly new.
Trump Thrusts Taiwan Into Glare, Rattling Asia and Raising New Tensions From Page 1 tries contacted the White House on Saturday to express concern, according to a senior administration official. In the longer term, officials in the Obama administration worry that the episode could not just ignite tensions across the Taiwan Strait but also inflame trade relations and embolden China in the South China Sea, where it has clashed with the Philippines, Vietnam and other neighbors over competing claims to reefs and shoals. Mr. Trump expressed no misgivings about taking the call from President Tsai Ing-wen, which was arranged beforehand at the initiative of the Taiwanese government, not Mr. Trump’s camp. Mr. Trump bridled at suggestions that he had committed a faux pas, writing on Twitter on Friday evening that it was “interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.” Nor did Mr. Trump or his aides make a gesture to reaffirm the One China policy, much to the chagrin of the White House. It fell to a spokesman for the National Security Council to affirm that the United States was not changing the policy. Under that policy, the United States formally recognized the People’s Republic of China in 1979, abrogating its ties with Taiwan, as the Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, sought to bolster China’s economy and create closer ties to the West. Whether Mr. Trump views the call as the beginning of a change in approach toward Taiwan is not Reporting was contributed by Eric Lipton from Washington, Maggie Haberman and Megan Twohey from New York, and Michael Forsythe from Taoyuan, Taiwan.
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clear. A person close to him insisted that he was just being polite in taking Ms. Tsai’s call. But Stephen Yates, a former deputy national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney who is advising the Trump transition, said in an interview that people around Mr. Trump were well aware of the nuances of American policy toward Taiwan. Among hard-line Republicans, there has always been a push to confront China by reaching out to Taiwan. In a statement on Friday, Senator Tom Cotton, the Arkansas Republican who was briefly believed to be a candidate for Mr. Trump’s defense secretary, praised him for taking the call, saying it “reaffirms our commitment to the only democracy on Chinese soil.” President Ronald Reagan antagonized China by inviting a delegation from Taiwan to his inauguration. Aides to President George W. Bush pressed him to take a more confrontational ap-
proach with China until the attacks of Sept. 11 reordered his priorities, increasing the need for him to cultivate China on counterterrorism and other issues. Tensions over Taiwan peaked under a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who in March 1996 ordered two aircraft carrier battle groups into the Taiwan Strait after China conducted missile tests to intimidate the island. For some China experts, shaking up the cross-strait relationship would not be the worst thing in the world. “We have had a status quo of sorts in the Taiwan Strait that has kept the peace, but it recently has not looked all that durable, nor was it very agreeable to most citizens of democratic Taiwan,” said Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. “Whether a new kind of Trumpian brinkmanship will now cause China to reconsider its hard-line position towards Taiwan, or to respond in a dangerous
and militant way, remains to be seen,” he said. Mr. Trump has spoken harshly about China, accusing it of concocting climate change as a hoax to undercut American manufacturers, branding it a currency manipulator (when it in fact is trying to prop its currency up), and threatening to impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods. Mr. Trump’s trade advisers have also advocated punitive responses to what they portray as unfair Chinese actions. A few days after he was elected, however, Mr. Trump spoke with China’s president, Mr. Xi, and released a statement afterward that said the two men had a “clear sense of mutual respect.” Taiwan is also likely to seek a closer relationship with the United States. After years of a Kuomintang government, which pursued closer China ties, Taiwan elected Ms. Tsai as its second president from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive
Party. Analysts said that Ms. Tsai, though not a firebrand, was seeking to diversify Taiwan’s economic partners and carve out more space for it in international affairs. There are also lingering questions about Mr. Trump’s business dealings in Taiwan. The news media there has reported that the Trump Organization sent a representative to Taiwan to explore building a luxury hotel in a government-backed development near Taipei’s airport, though an official with the Trump Organization said it was not planning any expansion into Taiwan. The Trump Organization does not dispute that one of its employees — assigned to promote hotel sales related to Asia — was in Taipei, the capital, in October for a work-related visit. The duties of the executive, Anne-Marie Donoghue, include trying to find guests for the company’s hotels worldwide, and she is not involved in developing new real estate projects for Trump Hotels.
For the Chinese government, as for many other governments around the world, Mr. Trump’s freewheeling diplomacy poses a challenge. At first, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, played down the episode, saying it was a “petty action by the Taiwan side” that would not upset the longstanding policy of One China. But hours later, the Chinese Foreign Ministry lodged a formal complaint with the Obama administration. It urged the United States to “handle issues related to Taiwan carefully and properly to avoid causing unnecessary interference to the overall U.S.-China relationship.” David Shambaugh, the director of the China policy program at George Washington University, said Beijing’s measured response made sense. But he said that if the Trump administration took more concrete steps to change timetested ways of dealing with Taiwan, “they can expect additional pushback from China.”
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The 45th President Breaking From Precedent
China Sees New Ambiguity in Trump’s Taiwan Call By JANE PERLEZ
BEIJING — China’s leaders have been markedly reticent about what kind of leader they think Donald J. Trump will be. A pragmatic dealmaker, as his business background might indicate? Or a provocateur who tests the ways of statecraft? By talking on Friday with Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, Mr. Trump answered that question in stark terms, Chinese analysts said Saturday. Breaking decades of American diplomatic practice, he caught the Chinese government off guard by lunging into the most sensitive of its so-called core interests, the “One China” policy agreed to by President Richard M. Nixon more than four decades ago. “This is a wake-up call for Beijing — we should buckle up for a pretty rocky six months or year in the China-U.S. relationship,” Wang Dong, an associate professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University, said Saturday. “There was a sort of delusion based on overly optimistic ideas about Trump. That should stop.” Chinese leaders covet stability in their relationship with Washington, and perhaps for that reason, they have allowed fairly rosy assessments of Mr. Trump to appear in the state-run news media. Many of those accounts have depicted the president-elect as a practical operator devoid of ideology, the kind of person China might find common ground with despite his threats of a trade war. In the hope of maintaining a relatively smooth relationship as Mr. Trump begins his administration, Beijing will probably take a waitand-see attitude despite his phone call with Ms. Tsai, said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University. Indeed, China’s first official reaction, from Foreign Minister Wang Yi, was fairly benign — though it was firm in reiterating the One China policy, under which the United States formally recognized Beijing as China’s sole government in 1978 and broke ties with Taiwan a year later. No American president or presidentelect had spoken to a Taiwanese president since then.
Mr. Wang blamed Ms. Tsai’s government for arranging the call. “It won’t stand a chance to change the One China policy agreed upon by the international community,” he said. A follow-up statement from the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, noting that the ministry had filed a formal complaint with the United States government, was similar in tone. It urged “relevant parties in the U.S.” to “deal with the Taiwan issue in a prudent, proper manner.” China’s leaders disdain Ms. Tsai, of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, who was elected president this year after pledging to wean the island off its economic dependence on China, a policy that won enthusiastic support from younger Taiwanese. China favored her opponent, Hung Hsiu-chu of the Kuomintang, which has sought closer ties with mainland China. Before the election, President Xi Jinping of China met with Ms. Tsai’s predecessor, Ma Ying-jeou, also of the Kuomintang, in the first encounter between the leaders of the two governments, a rapprochement that Beijing had long sought.
A challenge to images of a nonideological, pragmatic president. Mr. Trump broke a Chinese taboo merely by using Ms. Tsai’s title. The Chinese state news media refer to the Taiwanese president as the “leader of the Taiwan region,” to indicate that Beijing regards Taiwan not as a sovereign nation but as Chinese territory to eventually be brought under its control. A basic tenet of the Chinese government is that Taiwan, where Chiang Kai-shek’s forces fled in 1949 after losing China’s civil war, will be brought back into the fold. According to Mr. Xi, Taiwan is destined to become an integral part of his so-called China Dream, a vision of an economically successful Communist China astride the
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President Xi Jinping of China takes a hard line on Taiwan. world. Mr. Trump’s phone call also violated a longstanding principle of American policy: that the president does not speak to the head of Taiwan’s government, despite selling arms to it. “Interesting how the US sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter after the stunned reaction to his conversation with Ms. Tsai. Though Beijing vehemently protests the arms sales, it also warily acknowledges them as part of long-established practice. Since the mid-1990s, Washington has signaled to Taiwan that it will not support any military effort to gain independence from China. The Obama administration’s last arms sale to Taiwan, in 2015, was relatively modest — consisting of antitank missiles, two frigates and surveillance gear, worth $1.8 billion in total — but it still provoked a bitter denunciation from Beijing. Douglas H. Paal, a former director of the American Institute in Taiwan, which represents American interests there, said it would not be surprising if the United States sold arms to Taiwan early in the Trump administration. Beijing’s reaction would depend on the price tag, the kinds of weapons sold and how the administration informed China of the sale, Mr.
Paal said. While it broke diplomatic precedent, Mr. Trump’s conversation with Ms. Tsai could be seen in some ways as following a pattern of Republican presidents’ reaching out to Taiwan, although others did not do so before taking office. George W. Bush, for example, was vocal in his support of Taiwan early in his presidency, saying in a television interview that the United States would do “whatever it took” to defend it. His aides said afterward that the comment did not reflect a change in the One China policy. By the end of his second term, Mr. Bush had helped to strengthen trade ties between Beijing and Washington through the approval of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Though Mr. Trump has received generally favorable coverage in the state news media, some Chinese analysts have expressed irritation with him, and some have suggested that his administration will offer China opportunities to show strength. Yan Xuetong, a professor of international relations at Tsinghua University and a foreign policy hawk, said the overall tenor of the China-United States relationship in the coming years would depend a great deal on the personal chemistry between Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi. He said China, with its growing military and the second-largest economy in the world, could largely afford to act as it liked. “China is increasingly resilient to the United States,” he said. Shen Dingli, a professor of international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, took a contrarian view of Mr. Trump’s call with Ms. Tsai: He said it was not a problem because Mr. Trump had yet to take office. “He is a private citizen,” he said. But if such contacts continue after Inauguration Day, Mr. Shen said, China should end diplomatic relations with the United States. “I would close our embassy in Washington and withdraw our diplomats,” he said. “I would be perfectly happy to end the relationship. I don’t know how you are then going to expect China to cooperate on Iran and North Korea and climate change. You are going to ask Taiwan for that?”
Fed Policy Maker Urges an End to ‘Too Big to Fail’ By Reuters
The United States “absolutely must complete” work on ending the too-big-to-fail bank problem that helped plunge the global economy into recession eight years ago, an influential Federal Reserve policy maker said on Saturday. In remarks that appeared to respond to President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has promised to roll back Wall Street regulations, the
president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, William C. Dudley, said there had been much progress in making the financial system “less prone to panics.” “Still,” he said in prepared remarks, “there is more to do before we can say that we have ended ‘too big to fail.’ This is work that we absolutely must complete.” Mr. Dudley’s comments, to a Group of 30 meeting of top world regulators, came a day after another powerful regulator at the
United States central bank, Daniel K. Tarullo, issued a similar warning. Mr. Tarullo said that this was “a good moment to remember just how bad things can be when financial stability is not effectively safeguarded and a financial crisis ensues.” He added, “It is, accordingly, also a good moment to caution against backsliding on the considerable progress that has been made toward a regulatory system that will provide just such a safeguard.”
Mr. Dudley, whose institution acts as the Fed’s eyes and ears on Wall Street, said challenges remain in regulators’ safe and smooth handling of the hypothetical failure of a big bank with operations in multiple jurisdictions. “Bank leaders still have much to do to rebuild the trustworthiness of their industry,” he said. Mr. Trump has said that his administration will roll back elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law.
Senator Calls for Inquiry Into ‘Surprise’ Medical Bills By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ and REED ABELSON
Saying that “surprise” medical bills for emergency room visits are unfair to patients, Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the practice. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine last month found that many patients around the nation were being hit with big out-of-network bills even though they had taken care to go to hospitals that their insurers considered in-network. Such billing occurred in about 22 percent of visits covered by one large commercial insurance company alone, the study found. Mr. Nelson, the ranking member of the Commerce Committee, became interested in the issue after reading about the research in The New York Times. The article included the case of a Florida man who received a $1,620 bill after seeking out a covered hospital when he became sick at a work conference. The problem arises when insurance companies and emergency-room doctors fail to reach an agreement on what the doctors should be paid, even when the insurer has reached a deal with the hospital.
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Senator Bill Nelson has criticized doctors for charging out-ofnetwork fees even when patients used in-network hospitals. In his letter to the commission, Mr. Nelson called the practice “unfair and deceptive,” the legal standard for trade commission action. When patients go to an in-network hospital, they expect that the doctors who work there will also be covered by their insurance, he wrote. “Consumers in such cases have little choice over who provides their medical care and are led to believe that all services provided in that facility are cov-
ered by their insurance plan,” he wrote. The letter alone cannot compel the Federal Trade Commission to look into the issue, but the commission often honors the requests of the Commerce Committee and can undertake investigations at its own behest. “Consumers deserve better than that,” said David Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown who led the F.T.C. Bureau of Consumer Protection in recent
years. “If the agency is authorized to do this investigation, my guess is the agency will energetically do this investigation.” But even if the commission determines that the practice is problematic, it may not be able to intervene without action from Congress or state insurance regulators. Insurance companies are regulated primarily by state governments. Many hospitals are nonprofit, and nonprofit groups are also outside the commission’s reach. “It is kind of not fair to the consumer to say, ‘You tried hard. You broke your leg. You went to an in-network hospital, and then we’re going to stick you with an out-of-network bill,’” said Fiona Scott Morton, a professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management, and one of the authors of the study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Remember the Neediest!
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People gathered on Saturday at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, Calif., to mourn the victims of a warehouse fire.
‘Expecting the Worst’ After Deadly Fire at Party In Oakland Warehouse This article is by Thomas Fuller, Eli Rosenberg and Conor Dougherty.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Anguished family members awaited news of the fate of dozens of people still unaccounted for on Saturday after a fire gutted a makeshift nightclub in Oakland, leaving at least nine people dead. In one of the deadliest structure fires in the United States in the past decade, partygoers at the two-story converted warehouse were asphyxiated on Friday night by thick black fumes, which poured from the building’s windows for several hours. Survivors stood across the street in a Wendy’s parking lot, watching firefighters try to put out the blaze and rescue those inside. Oakland officials said the building, a rambling warehouse they described as “a labyrinth of artist studios,” had been under investigation for several months. They said escape from the building, which had only two exits, might have been complicated because the first and second floors were linked by an ad hoc staircase made of wooden pallets. By Saturday afternoon, a list of those missing, compiled by friends and family, had grown to about 35 people. Officials said that the nine bodies recovered were in areas accessible to rescue crews, and that they had not been able to search the rest of the smoldering, unsafe building for at least two dozen people still missing and feared to be dead inside. “We know that there are bodies in there that we cannot get to, that have been seen but have not been recovered,” Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said at an evening news conference. Others who were believed to be missing have been accounted for, he said, adding, “We have been able to put some families’ fears at ease.” Earlier on Saturday, Sergeant Kelly said the authorities were “expecting the worst, maybe a couple dozen victims.” “It appears that people either made it out or they didn’t make it out,” he said. Firefighters arrived just before midnight Friday, and the fire was still smoldering more than 12 hours later. One survivor, Aja Archuleta, 29, a musician, was scheduled to perform at the electronic music party with her synthesizers and drum machines around 1 a.m. and was working at the door when the fire broke out around 11 or 11:15 p.m. “There were two people on the first level who had spotted a small fire that was growing quickly,” she said. “It was a very quick and chaotic build, from a little bit of chaos to a lot of chaos.” She added, “I have lost 20 friends in the past 24 hours.” Family members of the missing expressed anguish over spending hours waiting to know if their relatives were inside. Daniel Vega, 36, said he was “infuriated” waiting to hear news about his 22-year-old brother, Alex Vega, who had not answered his phone Saturday morning. Mr. Vega said he had heard from a friend that his brother was at the party. “Give me some gloves. I’ve got work shoes. I’m ready,” Mr. Vega said. “Let me find my brother, that’s all I want.” The building’s roof had collapsed, and the site was a dangerous scene of debris, beams and other wreckage. The structure had a permit to function as a warehouse, but not as a residence or for a party. Officials said they were investigating reports that the building had also been used as a living space. At the news conference, Mayor Libby Schaaf said: “This is complicated. And it’s going to take us time to do the investigation that these families deserve.” The building, known as the Ghost Ship, in the Fruitvale neighborhood, was the site of an event Thomas Fuller and Conor Dougherty reported from Oakland, and Eli Rosenberg from New York. Melissa Wen contributed reporting from Oakland, and Christopher Mele from New York.
that was to feature a range of experimental and electronic music, performed by a synth musician drawing from the “black, queer diaspora” and others, as well as a visual installation. On Saturday morning, the event’s Facebook page said admission to the show was $10 for those who arrived before 11 p.m. and $15 after that. By the end of the day, the pricing had disappeared and the page had turned into an emergency message board, as dozens of friends and family members posted about missing loved ones. “A lot of these people are young people,” Sergeant Kelly said. “They are from all parts of our community.” Some of the dead may be citizens of other countries, he said. Images from the building’s website depict a wooden studio filled with antiques, sculptures and curios. Old lamps, musical instruments, suitcases and rugs decorated the ornate space. Emergency workers said they arrived to find the building filled with heavy smoke and flames. Bodies were found on the second floor of the building, Chief Teresa Deloach Reed of the Oakland Fire
Nine people are confirmed dead, with dozens still missing. Department said Saturday. “In my career of 30 years, I haven’t experienced something of this magnitude,” she said. Even without a full accounting, the fire was one of the deadliest in the United States in many years. In 2003, 100 people were killed in a fire in a nightclub in Warwick, R.I. An explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas in 2013 killed 15 people. Chief Deloach Reed said there were “no reports of smoke alarms going off.” At least two fire extinguishers were inside, she said. On the event’s Facebook page, people distributed a spreadsheet that listed identifying information — age, height, weight, hair color, tattoos — and contact numbers for many of those who were unaccounted for. Oakland’s music and art scene was already struggling with high rent prices. The city’s underground bands and artists live a seminomadic existence in search of warehouses, homes and other spaces to show art, play music and dance into the early hours. Diego Aguilar-Canabal, 24, a blogger and freelance writer who lives in Berkeley and plays guitar in a band called the Noriegas, estimated he had been to three dozen house and warehouse parties over the past two years. “The basic idea is people want to do loud things late at night, and industrial space is really good for that because there aren’t many neighbors to complain,” he said. “There’s a lot of anxiety about income inequality and class warfare, and a lot of these artists are trying to do the best they can to have a community.” Mr. Aguilar-Canabal has been to the Ghost Ship once, last summer, and remembered it as a dim and cluttered area with a “maze” of furniture, canvas paintings on the walls and papier-mâché hanging from the ceilings. “The reason we left was that it had only had one source of water, which was a sink, and the water tasted really gross,” he recalled. “We went to a corner store to get something to drink and were like, ‘Let’s just go home.’” Mr. Aguilar-Canabal flew to Vancouver early Saturday morning, and first read about the blaze on Twitter. Instead of going to bed, he stayed up tracking the fire on social media until it was time to go to the airport. He spent most of the day looking for the names of friends who he thinks were killed, and calling Highland Hospital in Oakland. “It’s just a really surreal experience to be refreshing a window to see if names are confirmed to be missing or not missing,” he said. “I’m keeping track of a couple names and hoping they end up being in a hospital.”
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Raynoma Singleton, Early Motown Force, Dies at 79 By BEN SISARIO
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C. Wyatt Dickerson and Nancy, his wife at the time, at Merrywood, their 22-acre estate in McLean, Va., around 1968.
C. Wyatt Dickerson, 92; Man About Washington By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
C. Wyatt Dickerson, a dapper investor and real estate developer who, alongside his wife, Nancy Dickerson, glittered at the top of the Washington A-list from the Kennedy era to Reagan’s, died on Tuesday in Washington. He was 92. His son John Dickerson, the host of “Face the Nation” on CBS, said the death was caused by complications of esophageal cancer. During their 20-year marriage, Wyatt and Nancy Dickerson were the Gerald and Sara Murphy of the Cold War establishment: wealthy bons vivants who witnessed history over candlelight at dinner parties, inaugural balls and even 1970s discothèques. The couple dined privately with Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson the night after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. They held a dinner for Ronald and Nancy Reagan and their California friends during the 1981 inaugural weekend at their storied 22-acre estate, Merrywood. Overlooking the Potomac, Merrywood had belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy’s stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and it was where John Kennedy, then a senator, is said to have written his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Profiles in Courage.” Both Dickersons had a knack for making friends in high places: She was a glamorous network news correspondent, and he was a businessman with panache. Ms. Dickerson, who died in 1997,
Witnessing history at dinner parties, balls and discothèques. worked as a congressional aide early in her career and had befriended senators like Kennedy and Johnson. She married Mr. Dickerson in 1962, and he established himself in Washington society by snapping up Merrywood, restoring its grandeur and filling it with European antiques. He sold off some of the property to build townhouses — a complicated deal that was eased along with the help of the secretary of the interior, Stewart Udall, a friend of the couple’s. There were lots of parties and plenty of power couples in those days, but riding around town in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce convertible, Mr. Dickerson and his elegant wife stood out. She was the celebrity, but he was a skillful co-star, charming the politicians his wife covered as well as the waiters who poured their drinks. He turned his flair for hospitality into a sideline business. In 1973, he orchestrated the opening of the Palm Restaurant in Washington. In 1975 he was a founding member of Doubles, the private club in the Sherry-Netherland hotel in New York. And that same year, he opened the Pisces Club in Washington, which operated for nearly 20 years. In 1982, he opened the Chinoiserie restaurant on M Street in Georgetown. Long before the Reagans came to town, Mr. Dickerson brightened Merrywood parties with a sprinkling of Hollywood, inviting stars like Jack Benny and Kirk Douglas and others he had met as a young actor in Los Angeles after World War II. Mr. Dickerson himself had never been a star in Hollywood: He played uncredited walk-on parts in movies like “Without Reservations,” which starred John Wayne and Claudette Colbert, and “Buck Privates Come Home,” with Abbott and Costello. But he was a player. He lived with the actress Nina Foch, and ran around town with other young actors like
Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Peter Lawford and Blake Edwards (who went on to a directing career). Claude Wyatt Dickerson Jr. was born on Aug. 25, 1924, and grew up in Roanoke, Va., the son of a druggist and a schoolteacher. He developed a taste for the finer things at a young age. When a friend teased him about his attire, he went to work in a clothing store, acquiring a sense of style that stayed with him even through the era of safari jackets and leisure suits. A football scholarship got him to Duke University in 1942, but with World War II underway, he enlisted in the Navy. Though he was given a medical discharge in 1944, he never finished college, and headed to Hollywood to pursue a movie career. After his father died, he moved back to Roanoke in 1948 and married a high school classmate, Ruth Fowler Johnston. An advertising job took him to New York, where he entered the banking world. He returned to Virginia in the 1950s and in Leesburg founded Pilot Financial, an investment business catering to Pan Am pilots who were profiting from the air travel boom. As the business made him wealthy he bought property and made other, eclectic investments, including the purchase of Cherry Smash, a soft drink company, and an interest in the Connecticut Telephone and Electric Company. His first wife died of cancer in 1960, leaving him with three school-age daughters. He met his second wife through friends eager to marry her off. Ms. Dickerson was Nancy Hanschman then, the first woman to be made a network news correspondent, and defiantly single at the age of 34. Mr. Dickerson moved quickly after their first date, arranging for her to stay at the Savoy while in London and sending a Bentley to pick her up at Heathrow. He followed up a few days later and wooed her in museum galleries and with hard-to-score theater tickets. When they married in 1962, Lyndon Johnson, then vice president, was one of the hosts of a party in their honor. (The Dickersons returned the favor in 1968, giving a goodbye party at the Whisky a Go Go in Washington for the college-bound first daughter Lynda Bird Johnson and her date, the actor George Hamilton.) Ms. Dickerson’s network career ebbed after President Johnson chose not to seek re-election, but the couple’s social whirl held strong through the Nixon administration and beyond. The party ended when they divorced in 1983. They sold Merrywood soon after. Mr. Dickerson’s business endeavors were marked by highs, like the Merrywood coup, and equally splashy lows, including a partnership with Tongsun Park, a Korean lobbyist who was at the center of a 1976 Washington bribery scandal. Some good did come from the deal: After his divorce, he took up with Tandy Dickinson, a socialite who had been Mr. Park’s girlfriend in the 1970s. She and Mr. Dickerson married in 1994. In addition to his wife and his son John, he is survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Sinclair, Ann Dickerson Pillion and Jane Dickerson; another son, Michael; 13 grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. “He made everyone feel like they were the center of the party, no matter how insignificant they were,” John Dickerson wrote in an email. “This isn’t to say that he didn’t admire the famous and the powerful. He was just gracious. A few days before he died he was still offering us a seat in his hospital room, apologizing for not being able to offer us anything nicer.”
Raynoma Gordy Singleton, who played a vital role in the early days of Motown as the business partner and second wife of Berry Gordy Jr., the record label’s founder and patriarch, died on Nov. 11 in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 79. The cause was brain cancer, her family said. Her death was not immediately announced. In most versions of Motown’s founding myth, Mr. Gordy, a former boxer and Detroit autoworker, created his musical enterprise — a series of interconnected labels and other companies — in early 1959 to gain greater control over his budding career as a songwriter and producer. But by his side from the earliest days was Ms. Singleton, whom Mr. Gordy met when she auditioned as a singer in 1958, impressing him with her perfect pitch. From then until 1964, when she left Motown for the first time, Ms. Singleton helped Mr. Gordy run some of his most important businesses, including Jobete, the company that managed Motown’s music publishing rights. She also created arrangements for Motown’s studio musicians and taught future stars like Smokey Robinson the fundamentals of music theory. It was Ms. Singleton who, in 1959, found the former photography studio at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit that became the label’s headquarters, known as Hitsville U.S.A. Many of Ms. Singleton’s achievements, however, are little known. In part that may be because Motown’s golden era in the mid-1960s, when it churned out Top 10 hits by the dozen, came after Ms. Singleton left the company and divorced Mr. Gordy, said Adam White, who wrote the book “Motown: The Sound of Young America,” published this year, with the former Motown executive Barney Ales. “So much happened subsequently” to Ms. Singleton’s time there, Mr. White said in an interview, “that it’s obscured the importance of her role at that critical early stage.” Yet as Ms. Singleton saw it, Mr. Gordy himself was the cause of her obscurity. In her book “Berry, Me, and Motown: The Untold Story” (1990), Ms. Singleton bitterly accused her
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Raynoma Gordy and Barney Ales, left, and Berry Gordy Jr., far right, in Detroit around 1960. former husband — whom she called “that thief of dreams” — of denying her credit for helping to found the label, and of persuading her to remove her name from company legal papers, leaving her with no financial stake. After the Motown label was sold in 1988 for $61 million, she said, she received only a plaque. Raynoma Mayberry was born in Detroit on March 8, 1937. Her father, Ashby, was a janitor at a Cadillac plant; he and her mother, Lucille, encouraged her musical talent at a young age. At Cass Technical High School, Raynoma learned to play 11 instruments, including the harp. She married Charles Liles, a saxophonist, in 1955, and divorced him two years later. After meeting Mr. Gordy in 1958, she quickly became his business and romantic partner, and in 1959 she gave birth to their son, Kerry; she and Mr. Gordy married the following year. In Motown’s infancy, Ms. Singleton held a variety of roles. As one of the Rayber Voices — the name was a combination of Raynoma and Berry — she was a backup singer on many early songs, including Marv Johnson’s “Come to Me,” the inaugural record on Tamla, Mr. Gordy’s first label. She also worked as a producer
under the name Miss Ray. And as a label executive, she signed the first contract for one of Motown’s most important early talents: Stevie Wonder. Ms. Singleton and Mr. Berry had already decided to divorce, when she was sent to New York in 1963 to open a branch of Jobete. But their relationship collapsed the next year when she bootlegged 5,000 copies of Mary Wells’s single “My Guy,” peddling
Berry Gordy’s second wife was also his partner at the label. the record out of a silver Lincoln Continental; she spent a night in jail. According to Ms. Singleton’s book, she agreed to a settlement with Motown to avoid being prosecuted. She signed a general release from the label, she said, in exchange for $10,000 and monthly payments including child support. She divorced Mr. Gordy in 1964, and the next year she married Eddie Singleton, a songwriter. The two started a new label, Shrine, in Washington. But after a few years,
the label failed and Ms. Singleton returned to the Motown fold, for a time working as an assistant to Diana Ross. Her marriage to Mr. Singleton also ended in divorce. Despite her break with Mr. Gordy, Ms. Singleton continued to have various affiliations with Motown. In the late 1970s she managed Apollo, a band that included her son Kerry and was signed to a Motown label. In 1983, credited as Ray Singleton, she was an executive producer of “Somebody’s Watching Me,” the hit album by Rockwell (a stage name for Kennedy Gordy, another Motown scion). Already estranged from the Motown circle by the time she published her book — she called her status an “exile” — she eventually reconciled with Mr. Gordy. In his 1994 memoir, “To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown,” Mr. Gordy disputed some of the claims in her book. Ms. Singleton apologized to him personally, he wrote, and the two had become “closer than ever.” Ms. Singleton, who lived in Woodland Hills, is survived by her sons, Cliff Liles, Kerry Gordy and Eddie Singleton Jr.; her daughter, Rya Singletary; four grandchildren; and a sister, Juanita Dickerson.
Irving Fradkin, 95; Founded Dollars for Scholars Program By SAM ROBERTS
In 1957, Irving Fradkin, an optometrist, declared his candidacy for the School Committee of Fall River, Mass., a struggling former mill town. He had been struck by how few of his young patients planned to attend college, mostly because they could not afford it, and a crucial plank in his campaign platform was for the city to rally community support for scholarships. He was defeated, though. “I’m sorry for you, Dr. Fradkin, but I’m even sorrier for the students,” he recalled his receptionist’s son’s lamenting. “You lost an election. We lost a college education.” But Dr. Fradkin was undaunted. He figured that if each household in Fall River gave just one dollar (the equivalent of about $8 today), every graduating high school senior could be sent to college. The idea gave birth to Dollars for Scholars, a campaign he almost single-handedly began on a card table in his home, and by the end of 1958 (when tuition was typically well under $1,000 annually) it had delivered $5,000 to 24 local high school seniors. Nearly 60 years later, it has evolved into Scholarship America, an organization that by its own estimate has overseen the distribution of $3.5 billion to more than 2.2 million students. Based in St. Peter, Minn., it also coordinates about 500 local Dollars for Scholars affiliates, which have awarded $600 million to about 750,000 students since 1958. And, for a fee, it advises or administers an additional 1,300 grant programs for corporations, foundations, associations and individuals. Dr. Fradkin died on Nov. 19 at his home in Fall River. He was 95. With his success as a doctor, Dr. Fradkin wrote in the introduction to his autobiography, “Dollars for Scholars” (1993), “I have fulfilled the dream of democracy.” Others could, too, he suggested, by using his example — he had worked his way through college at his father’s bakery — and by enrolling in an academic or vocational curriculum after high school with the help of a scholarship. In 2014, Scholarship America announced its first Dream Awards — up to $15,000 to each of 12 needy students who had overcome obstacles to start college. The program was begun with a grant from the television anchorwoman Katie Couric, who also donated some of the proceeds from her book “The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons
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Dr. Irving Fradkin, right, an unabashed fund-raiser, awarding a college scholarship in 1959. From Extraordinary Lives.” Dr. Fradkin was an unabashed fund-raiser. He even called the White House collect to solicit support. He received congratulatory greetings from his home state senator, John F. Kennedy, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower and got his first $1 from Eleanor Roosevelt. He recruited the comedian Sam Levenson, who used to teach Spanish at Samuel J. Tilden High
An optometrist struck by how few patients could afford college. School in Brooklyn, to host a fundraising dinner at a Fall River restaurant. Mr. Levenson, who died in 1980, hailed Dr. Fradkin as “an optometrist with a vision.” Dr. Fradkin said he had been inspired to solicit small contributions by the March of Dimes campaign, which was started to fight polio, and by the ubiquitous blueand-white pushkes, or tin boxes, that families kept for loose change to donate to the Jewish National Fund. He kicked off Dollars for Schol-
ars with the help of Daniel J. McCarthy, the Fall River representative of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The program was incorporated as the Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America and evolved into Scholarship America in 2003. Under the program, students are encouraged to eventually repay the scholarships interestfree; this helps make the awards self-renewing. Among the early recipients was William K. Reilly, who became the nation’s environmental protection administrator under President George Bush, and who remembered Dr. Fradkin soliciting contributions on Fall River street corners in a cap and gown. “The scholarship money,” Dr. Fradkin said, “is not a handout, but a hand up.” Irving A. (he said that he gave himself the initial and that it stood for Anything) Fradkin was born on March 28, 1921, in Chelsea, Mass. He was the youngest of seven children of Jewish immigrants, Abraham Fradkin, who came from Russia, and the former Eva Steinberg, from Poland. He had planned to become a baker until he injured his thigh playing football and realized he could not endure long hours standing. When his vision failed
and he got glasses, he decided to become an optometrist. He graduated from what is now the New England College of Optometry in Boston in 1943 and married Charlotte Sheinfield. She survives him, along with his sons, Russell, who confirmed his death, and Robert; a daughter, Marlene Adams; four grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. After opening his practice in Fall River, Dr. Fradkin became active in civic affairs and, despite his defeat for the School Committee, emerged as something of a hometown hero in a city where the namesake falls was buried by expressways during the 1960s. In 1995, Fall River added the words “The Scholarship City” to its official seal. Over time, Dr. Fradkin’s Dollars for Scholars reaped other unexpected dividends. In 1988, when he had a heart attack, the emergency room supervisor told him not to worry. After all, she said, she had gotten through nursing school with his program’s help. ONLINE: NOTABLE DEATHS
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Can TV Be Fair To Muslims?
Writers and showrunners — including those for ‘24’ and ‘Quantico’ — talk about casting, cultural gaps and network demands for stories about terrorism. By MELENA RYZIK
It has never been easy to put a Muslim character on American screens. Even in this TV renaissance, most characters are on shows that rely on terrorism — or at least, terrorist-adjacent — story lines. Other kinds of Muslim characters are woefully absent across the dial. Could that change now, after a divisive presidential campaign that included vows by Donald J. Trump to stop Islamic immigration? Or will it be more difficult than ever? Less than two weeks after Election Day, five showrunners gathered in New York to discuss the representation of Muslims on TV. Howard Gordon, a creator of “24” and “Homeland,” has faced these issues the longest; after “24” emerged as a lightning rod for its stereotyped depictions, he CONTINUED ON PAGE 24
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“I feel that I can tell a richer and more entertaining story with women.” T H E S PA N I S H D I R E C T O R P E D R O A L M O D ÓVA R , PAG E 1 8
“I have to be careful not to do it on my friends or on my boyfriend.” T H E B R I T I S H AC T R E S S F E L I C I T Y J O N E S , O N H E R M A RT I A L A RT S S K I L L S , PAG E 1 8
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An article last Sunday about the TV special “Mr. Neighbor’s House” misstated the circumstances of its appearance on Adult Swim. It was a one-time special on Friday, Dec. 2 — not a regular show on the late-night programming block. An article last Sunday about the British singer Kate Bush misstated the period in which her songs have reached the Top 10 in Britain. A 2012 remix of “Running Up That Hill” reached No. 6 on the British singles chart. It is not the case that her songs were in the Top 10 from 1978 to 2005.
Katie Holmes on Directing, Motherhood and Mistakes “Touched With Fire,” Rita is demanding. Do you gravitate toward this kind of woman onscreen? Yes, [long pause] I think I do.
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Katie Holmes has a thing for women. “I’m the youngest of five, I have three older sisters, obviously I’m a mom, and I feel comfortable with telling female relationship stories because I’ve been surrounded by so many women my whole life,” she said. So for her feature directorial debut, Ms. Holmes naturally chose a female protagonist — this one drowning in life’s complications and fighting desperately to keep her daughter from going down with her. In “All We Had,” set during the 2008 financial crisis, she plays Rita, an impoverished Midwestern single mother who, fleeing the latest abusive man, aimlessly heads east with her 15-year-old, Ruthie (Stefania Owen). But when her car breaks down after she runs out on the check at a diner, she is offered a second chance by the owner (Richard Kind) and his transgender niece (Eve Lindley). (The film opens Friday, Dec. 9.) In a phone interview from Los Angeles, where she lives when not in New York, the candid Ms. Holmes, 37, spoke about moving behind the camera and keeping Suri, her daughter with Tom Cruise, out of the Hollywood glare. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
That wasn’t a condemnation. You can condemn me if you want! How did you bond with Stefania Owen? It was challenging because she arrived a week before shooting, and we had to pull off being a very close mother and daughter who really, really need each other. We collaborated on little things — the wardrobe, holding hands at certain times. At the end of the movie, you gave special thanks to “my daughter, Suri. Dreams come true.” It was my first film, and I want her to always know that she’s the inspiration behind everything, and so hopefully it means something as she gets older. Just to let her know how important she is. You’ve spoken highly of your mother’s parenting skills while you were a teenage actress. How do you approach your own mothering? I try to make our world very much an environment that’s just all about being a kid without too much of Hollywood coming into that. And I just enjoy it. Honestly I think that there are so many books and opinions about how to be a great mom, and you have good days and bad days, and sometimes you do great and sometimes you could have done better. But I have to say I’m really enjoying having a 10-year-old. She’s a remarkable person.
Had you wanted to direct for a while? I directed an ESPN “30 for 30” on Nadia Comaneci, and it boosted my confidence enough to give a narrative a try. So I went to the book department of ICM and started reading this pile. And Annie Weatherwax’s book really struck a chord in me. I liked that it was a mother-daughter story but that the relationship was unconventional in that it’s more like sisters, and they’re two survivors on the road. It had a quality of hope and healing that I really responded to — about people who falter but are resilient.
You’re playing Jacqueline Kennedy again in “The Kennedys: After Camelot,” a mini-series that follows her marriage to Aristotle Onassis and beyond. She was an amazing woman that we’re all very much mystified by, and there’s a freedom to taking on a character like that because no one really knows how she felt behind closed doors. And I directed the third episode and had a wonderful time figuring out that world.
How hard was it to both direct and act? Well, you don’t sit down — that’s for sure. [Laughs] It was really empowering. I knew that it was going to be very intense, and I had my notebooks of acting notes and directing notes, and the first day I just directed. And so it was the second day that I was like: “Oh God, here we go. If this doesn’t work I’m in big trouble.” But you just go for it. You do fumble and make mistakes. But I came out of it inspired to do it again.
So they just said, “We want you to direct”? Well no, I told them I wanted to. I said, “You’ve got to give me one episode.” [Laughs] We gotta speak up, Kathryn, we gotta speak up and get what we want, because no one’s going to give it to us. So are you still single, or is there a secret marriage we have to talk about? [Laughs] Nooo, I’m not married. But thank you for asking.
Like your characters in “Pieces of April” and EMILY BERL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Jake Broder in “His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley.”
THEATER HE INFLUENCED DYLAN AND CARLIN JASON ZINOMAN Lord Buckley is a founding father of stand-up comedy who is often left out of history books. A contemporary of Lenny Bruce, he influenced everyone
from George Carlin to Bob Dylan (who supposedly took the term “jingle-jangle” in “Mr. Tambourine Man” from a stand-up routine). His albums are filled with jazzy retellings of classic stories (“A Christmas Carol,” “The Raven”) or historical incidents (the Gettysburg Address) in eccentric slang that mixed aristocratic airs with beatnik styles. His improvisational performance was so strange and hard to categorize that it doomed him to be a cult comic. Ken Kesey once described him as “a secret thing that people passed under the table.” For those who want to be part of this conspiracy of fans, there is “His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley,” a solo show starting Tuesday, Dec. 6, by Jake Broder that revives bits of his from the 1940s and ’50s. Mr. Broder played the role charmingly in an earlier production that ran over a decade ago. (59E59 Theaters; 59e59.org.)
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FILM LAVISH VISUALS OF THE ’30S AND ’40S DANIEL M. GOLD An ideal Hollywood moviemaker of Depression-era escapism, Busby Berkeley, the choreographer and director of
musical comedies, was also a pioneer who expanded the language of cinema. Decades before C.G.I., Berkeley constructed lavishly kaleidoscopic productions: scores of dancers and musicians; elaborate sets; and innovations like revolving stages, overhead camera shots and mirrors. And generations of homagepayers have mined his giddy, surreal imagery for inspiration
(Steven Spielberg in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and the Coen brothers in “The Big Lebowski,” to name but two). Starting Wednesday, Dec. 7, Film Forum’s survey packs 17 Berkeley films into eight days. Many of his best works are here, including “Dames,” “Footlight Parade” and, of course, “42nd Street.” There’s also “The Gang’s All Here,” in which a Technicol-
From left, “Gold Diggers of 1933” (1933), “Footlight Parade” (1933) and “Dames” (1934).
ored Carmen Miranda memorably wears her tutti-frutti hat, and “Roman Scandals” (1933), with a sequence featuring Lucille Ball as a nearly nude slave girl (you read that right). (filmforum.org)
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The artist Mike Kelley may be most closely associated with the sculptures he made out of hand dolls and stuffed animals — ostensibly cheerful objects suffused with the sadness of his short life, given that he committed suicide in 2012 at 57. But Mr. Kelley was also taken by the DC Comics of his youth and, before his death, had started a series that explored the fictional planet Krypton, where Superman was born before his parents rocketed him to Earth. According to the early comics, the villain Brainiac shrunk the planet’s capital city of Kandor and preserved the miniature metropolis under glass. Mr. Kelley’s “Kandor Project” sculptures — made between 1999 and 2011 — each include a custom-built base, a cast-resin cityscape and a handblown glass bottle that fits over the model. Now, the gallery Venus Over Manhattan is showing four of the Kandors — and their associated projections and light boxes — from 2007. (Through Jan. 28; venusovermanhattan.com.)
Examples of Mike Kelley’s “Kandor Project” sculptures, to be shown at the gallery Venus.
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Bon Iver, a.k.a. Justin Vernon, has a series of shows in New York.
POP METICULOUS, AND IN NEW YORK JOE COSCARELLI For the versatile, sometimes eccentric songwriter Justin Vernon, more fame has meant more meticulousness when it comes to how he delivers music. In the case of “22, a Million,” his third and most experimental album as Bon Iver, that attention to detail meant taking five years to finish it, as well as a carefully curated debut at his own hometown music festival, Eaux Claires, in Wisconsin. Bon Iver will try to recreate that intimacy in a series of 10 New York shows, beginning with five nights (Dec. 3-7) at the Pioneer Works gallery and performance space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where Mr. Vernon is on the advisory board. The shows continue at the ornate Capitol Theater in Port Chester (Dec. 9) and at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom (Dec. 10), followed by two nights (Dec. 12-13) at the revitalized Kings Theater in Brooklyn and a finale the next night at the modest Music Hall of Williamsburg. The sizes of the rooms vary, though the band’s attention to the idiosyncrasies of each probably will not.
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JACK ANDERSON Thirty years ago, Bill Young inaugurated a new performance space at 100 Grand Street with a program of four dances bearing the overall title of “Interleaving.” To celebrate the anniversary of that space and event, he is recreating “Interleaving” with a new cast of 14 dancers for his unusual choreographic concept. The four dances have traditional beginnings, middles and ends, but instead of a linear presentation of those sections, Mr. Young has grouped them together: All four beginnings are performed sequentially, then all four middles and, finally, all four ends. Reviewing the original production for
CLASSICAL A PIANO CHALLENGE AND A MET DEBUT ANTHONY TOMMASINI In 2011, when he was 20, the Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov took the top prize in two prestigious international piano competitions: the Arthur Rubinstein in Israel and the Tchaikovsky in Russia. Now 25, he continues to astonish audiences with his technically prodi-
Bill Young and his wife, Colleen Thomas, in rehearsal.
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The New York Times in 1987, Jennifer Dunning wrote that all of these forming and dissolving bits of movement were like daubs of color, making “Interleaving” resemble “an activated Jackson Pollock painting.” Any way you look at it, it’s four dances in one. (Thursday, Dec. 8, through Dec. 11, at 8:30 p.m.; 212-925-6573.)
TELEVISION NBC TAKES US BACK TO 1962 BALTIMORE K AT H R Y N S H AT T U C K To its ambitious live productions of “The Sound of Music,” “Peter Pan” and “The Wizard of Oz,” NBC has added “Hairspray,” with its cast of “the sugar and spice-est, nicest kids in town.” Based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical spun from the 1988 John Waters film, “Hairspray Live!” (Wednesday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.) follows a zaftig teenager onto the dance floor in 1962 Baltimore as she dreams of racial equality while shaking and shimmying her way to stardom on the
The cast of “Hairspray Live!,” which will be broadcast on Dec. 7.
all-white “Corny Collins Show.” Maddie Baillio, a jazz singer, plays Tracy Turnblad, the unlikely celebrity; and Dove Cameron is her archrival, Amber Von Tussle; Kristin Chenoweth is Amber’s mother, Velma, the show’s manipulative producer; Ariana Grande is Penny Pingleton, Tracy’s incorrigible bestie; and Jennifer Hudson is Motormouth Maybelle, a deeply hip record-store owner. And Harvey Fierstein — who wrote this adaptation’s teleplay — reprises his role as Tracy’s indomitable mom, Edna, who encourages her daughter’s rainbow vision. The Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov will be at Carnegie Hall.
gious, insightful and imaginative playing. He comes to Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 7, with a rich and challenging recital program: Schumann’s “Kinderszenen,” Toccata and “Kreisleriana”; five of Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues; and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrouchka.” (8 p.m.; 212-2477800, carnegiehall.org.) On Monday and Friday, the director Jurgen Flimm’s grip-
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pingly modern 2004 production of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” returns to the Metropolitan Opera. It features the soprano Patricia Racette in the daunting title role and the overdue Met debut of the German conductor Johannes Debus, the respected music director of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. (8 p.m.; 212-3626000, metopera.org.)
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How Blue Turned to Green Blue Man Group celebrates 25 creative, lucrative years. By SARAH LYALL
They are bald, blue and earless. They do not talk. They play with their food (and their paint), perform wild music on instruments of their own devising and are the centerpiece of an international entertainment empire with 550 full- and part-time employees and annual revenues of $100 million. But perhaps the most striking thing about the men of Blue Man Group, which began as a nebulous let’s-do-somethingweird response to the banality of downtown culture in the late 1980s, is how comprehensively they have moved from the fringes to the mainstream, and beyond. In November, the group celebrated its 25th anniversary in a manner befitting an institution whose brand reverberates far beyond the city limits but that also shouts “Manhattan” as thoroughly as the Rockettes or the Circle Line. Cities with permanent Blue Man productions — Las Vegas; Orlando, Fla.; Boston; Chicago; and New York — declared Nov. 17 “Blue Man Group Day.” Madame Tussauds in Times Square unveiled limited-edition wax figures. There was a party at the Highline Ballroom. And the Blue Men got to flip a switch and turn the Empire State Building blue for a night. Their popularity is undisputed; two million people worldwide visit their shows every year. But in New York, full of theatergoers who scurry to the other side of the street when tourist buses roll up, wide appeal is hardly a recommendation. It’s easy to write off Blue Man Group as the local equivalent of “The Mousetrap,” a piece of old furniture that is always there but has little new to offer. But that may be the wrong way to look at it. The show is so winsome, so witty, so ener-
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getic that it might ensnare you despite yourself, leaving you as tangled up in blue as the most undemanding out-of-towner. “The appealing peculiarity of these wordless, smooth-skulled creatures remains,” Laura Collins-Hughes wrote last year in The New York Times, checking back on the show 24 years after the newspaper gave it its first (glowing) review. Snootiness doesn’t bother the original Blue Men, who argue that they never saw themselves as avant-garde, anyway. They couldn’t be, they say, rooted as they are in the populist traditions of vaudeville. “We look at it like we tapped into something deep and universal and profound,” Chris Wink, one of the original Blue Men, said. Give in to the Blue Men, and you give in to their silliness, seen to its best advantage during the showstopping Twinkies-based banquet scene that relies on the kindness of a participating audience member. Other unlikely props include splatter-prone paint, Cap’n Crunch cereal and a series of tubes. The show has been refined and overhauled with new material over the years but still features gentle digs at pretentiousness and technology saturation, and a lot of good drumming. As always, it ends with an exuberant finale that leaves everyone in the theater covered in glorified toilet paper. Anyone can T.P. a room. What sets the group apart is the Blue Man character himself: an exotic Everyman — outsider to both the punk rocker and the business executive — that Mr. Wink and his collaborators, Matthew Goldman and Phil Stanton, brought to life in the late 1980s. (They are all now in their 50s.) Mr. Wink, a musician, and Mr. Stanton, then an aspiring actor, met catering an event at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Chris was putting garbage liners in the big garbage cans, and they asked me to help,” Mr. Stanton said. Mr. Goldman, a software producer, knew Mr. Wink from their junior high days at the Fieldston School in New York. They have told the story often, but it essentially goes like this. Unhappy about the cultural scene in Lower Manhattan — so exciting in the ’60s and ’70s, so dreary in the ’80s — they began holding weekly get-togethers at the apartment Mr. Wink and Mr. Goldman shared on the Upper West Side. “Basically everyone was charged with bringing something interesting to share — a book, a movie, a record, an article,” said
only Blue Men, performing six days a week without respite. But wanting to expand to other cities, they began training other men (and a few women) for the job. There have been a total of 125 so far. There have also been albums; television commercials; a rock concert parody tour; multiyear runs in Europe and Asia; appearances on “The Simpsons” and late-night talk shows; a book; a world tour that began last spring and features some old and some new material; and, on “Arrested Development,” a very funny multiseason running gag about Tobias Bluth’s Blue Man obsession, starting from the time he attends a show under the mistaken belief that it’s a depressed men’s support group. In 2010, Mr. Goldman sold his one-third share to GF Capital, a private equity fund. (Blue Man Group is a private company and won’t disclose the figure.) He is now focused on the Blue School, an independent pre-K through eighth-grade private school on Water Street that the Blue Men helped found and that emphasizes creativity, originality and a sense of wonder. The group’s New York real estate holdings include the building that houses its theater, a rehearsal space and video editing suite, and a recording studio and instrument creation lab. Forty percent of revenues are spent on salaries and benefits, said Leslie Kelley, managing director of Blue Man Group. But with financial success has come some friction. Last summer, Ian Pai, who helped compose much of the show’s early music and worked as the musical director in several cities, sued in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, contending that he had been cheated of his fair share of royalties for decades. Though a judge threw out part of his claim, the case is pending. In a statement, Blue Man Group called Mr. Pai’s suit “baseless,” saying that he has been earning between $100,000 and $200,000 a year. “We look forward to refuting the details of his claims,” it added. All the Blue Men are trained in a facility downtown, and the place was bustling during anniversary week. In one room, a trio of current Blue Men explained why it was not wearisome to continually play a character who is always blue, always silent and always surrounded by two others of his ilk. David McLaughlin, 28, from Northern Ireland, said the role was counterintuitively liberating. “When you have the inability to speak, you have to be honest and be yourself,” he said. “There’s nothing to hide behind.” Down the hall, 30 superfans who had come from as far afield as Turkey and Germany were finishing lunch. Like members of any fan group who stay in touch mostly online, they are a little obsessive. “You can relate to them regardless of your background or where you come from or who you are,” said Joe Striedl, 41, a program manager for a Baltimore aerospace company, who reckons he’s been to 2,000 shows in 13 years. “In so many ways, our culture feeds off what you see, and we need to move beyond that. They’ve taken away the external qualities yet found a way to express their personalities.” Davitta Simon, 42 and living in Spartanburg, S.C, became entranced by the wild tribal music and the anarchic spirit in the Blue Man videos she stumbled on while in the Navy in Iraq in the 2000s. The live shows have inspired her to draw and to develop a comic book character. “I’ve never experienced a camaraderie, other than in the military, quite like this,” she said of the Blue Man community. The three founders don’t perform much any more — you can’t be blue forever — but amid the festivities they expressed amazement at how far they had come from the days when, as Mr. Wink said, “we were just guys who put on bald caps and paint and went to Central Park.” “I’d like to think,” he added, “that we’ve left a small, yet palpable, blue thumbprint on New York.”
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Larry Heinemann, an old friend of Mr. Wink’s who was a musical coordinator for the group in the early years. “It was like a book club, but it wasn’t limited to books.” Performance art was in the air: “We got this idea that we should get blue and walk around,” Mr. Wink said. Their formative event, the famous-in-retrospect “Funeral for the ’80s” in Central Park, was not especially well thought out. “It wasn’t like we were really earnest about this,” said Mr. Wink, the group’s big talker despite his years as a silent Blue Man. “It was more like, ‘Let’s put it out of its misery and make way for something new.’” But he was savvy enough to send a news release to MTV. The V.J. Kurt Loder and a cameraman came along to witness a bunch of blue people carrying a coffin, making portentous pronouncements and setting fake fire to ’80s symbols they found objectionable, including Rambo. The audience: perhaps two dozen. MTV hyped the story, Mr. Goldman said, “and through the magic of editing, made it look like you’d missed the Sex Pistols” if you missed the event. The ’80s were still not over — this was 1988 — and the Blue Men began refining the Blue Man. He would be at once primal and futuristic — and mute, on the grounds that silence would increase his mystery and his power.
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They started putting on short sets with homemade props at alternative spaces downtown, got their first reviews when they played at La MaMa, performed (and got a standing ovation at) the Serious Fun Festival at Lincoln Center, and in 1991 moved to their permanent home, the Astor Place Theater on Lafayette Street. For three years, the original trio were the
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The Tender Side of Edward Albee Famous and fearsome, but also a mentor and a friend. The playwright Edward Albee died in September, and the New York theater community is celebrating his life and work in an event open to the public at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the August Wilson Theater. Here, four people who crossed paths with this famously irascible writer recall him as a friend, a mentor and an inspiration. THE TELEVISION WRITER
Tom Donaghy “He was, I came to realize, trying to cultivate taste.” I met Edward Albee when I was in my early 20s. I had just graduated from N.Y.U., where I’d studied to be an actor. Someone who knew Albee told me he was looking for an assistant, and suggested I put myself up for the job. I revered Albee. The movie of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was my gateway drug. George and Martha’s existential slalom from dusk to dawn somehow made deep, real sense to a gay suburban teenager huddled in his basement watching television. The interview was held in Albee’s TriBeCa loft, stuffed floor to ceiling with art. Kandinsky, Chagall, Picasso. The great man sat among them — that legendary twinkle in his eye, his Irish wolfhounds at his feet. There is nothing quite like meeting one of your idols in his own home. You think: This person living and breathing in front of me wakes up in the space where I’m greeting him, then goes on to make plays that shape the world. It’s a good kind of awe to feel when you’re young and ambitious. Daunting and galvanizing in equal measure. At the time, he was out of critical favor. It didn’t seem to be affecting him much. Yes, he mentioned it. But with a wry smile, full of a sly bemusement, as if he were thinking, “Isn’t life odd that I would be treated so?” Otherwise, he was cheerful, talking about his travels and African art, and about the theater he was attending almost every night. He was up on all the new plays and playwrights. He also talked about his childhood love of vaudeville — which was his family’s business — the theater of the absurd, musical revues, O’Neill, Genet. His tastes were extremely catholic. I was mesmerized. I had recently decided I no longer wanted to be an actor and yet had zero idea what my next move would be. I was interning at Mabou Mines but was also drawn to Bunraku, anything at Dance Theater Workshop, as well as the plays of Churchill, Mamet, Orton, Wilson. In the still, quiet space, with the afternoon light coming in from Harrison Street, I could tell he was measuring my words. Finally, he reached a verdict. “I don’t think you want to be my assistant. But you might want to be a playwright.” The thought had never occurred to me. I began writing plays. Years later, I found out that Albee, whose early goal was to be a poet, had shown his poems to Thornton Wilder. Wilder apparently read each carefully, then suggested Albee write plays instead. Now, my playwriting career was not what Albee’s was to Wilder’s, but Albee had somehow seen something in me that I had not yet seen in myself. This was another gift from Albee. Who soon became “Edward.” He helped me get a fellowship to his foundation in Montauk, where writers and visual artists spend the summer in Spartan rooms carved out of an old barn. He would come by every morning with the mail, and to chat. He wanted to know what we were reading. He approved of my deep dive into Franz Xaver Kroetz. He made a face when I mentioned Barbara Pym. He was, I came to realize, trying to cultivate taste. He spoke with contempt about Hollywood and the writers who went there. TV had yet to begin its renaissance, and Hollywood was a place where writers slouched in disgrace. I held my tongue. I never revealed my admiration for Mike Nichols’s work on “Virginia Woolf,” especially knowing how Edward had frowned on the film’s “hopeful” ending, its “sentimental” score. I never mentioned I wished more of his plays had been made into movies in that jaggedy, in-your-face Cassavetes style. That there was something exhilarating about being trapped with those monsters, and their words, in those fat, messy closeups. Each word of dialogue measured for its vitality, its maximum punch. For its ability to do damage. To wake people up to themselves. As I write this from Los Angeles, where I now write for television, I often think of those words, his awareness of their currency and energy, their ultimate economy. This is precisely what’s needed on the small screen. It’s also what Edward Albee began encouraging in me from our first meeting. Tom Donaghy is a co-creator of “Star,” a Fox series that has its premiere Dec. 14. THE PRODUCER
Elizabeth Ireland McCann “Onward, Edward.” It was 1994 when I called upon the playwright at his loft on Harrison Street. We had never met. My mission was to get the rights to “Three Tall Women” for a commercial transfer. I prevailed, produced the show Off Broadway and eventually on a national tour, and ended up producing it on the West End as well. After that, there were revivals of Edward’s plays and new plays — including “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” — on Broadway, Off Broadway and in London. And after every opening, I received a card from
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him with the simple message, “ONWARD, EDWARD.” Eventually he added the word love. In the last years of his life, there was an ebb and flow to his memory. But the noble mind was not overthrown. In August, I visited him at his Montauk home, which years before Uta Hagen had encouraged him to buy. Mercedes Ruehl was there, and his devoted caretaker, ironically named Martha. It was a beautiful late summer day. As I began to leave, I uncharacteristically leaned over and kissed him on the forehead. “I love you,” I said. He grasped my hand, staring in my eyes intently and whispering softly, said, “ONWARD.” Elizabeth Ireland McCann has produced more than 40 shows in New York and London. THE ACTOR
Mercedes Ruehl “To kiss or not to kiss?” I first met Edward Albee when his good friend Irene Worth, knowing how greatly I admired him — venerated him really — took me to his annual Christmas party. Desperately did I try to fascinate that night; dismally did I fail. A second encounter ended just as badly when I was called to read for his new play a year later and acquitted myself so miserably that I wound up on the street in tears. There is no dejection worse than the one that comes with the death of a dream. So it was an utterly unexpected dropped-fromheaven day when I was offered the part of Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opposite Patrick Stewart at the Guthrie Theater. Albee had somehow — had he mistaken me for someone else? — approved! The night of the first performance (the only one Albee would attend), I waited in the wings with Patrick and wondered what on earth had ever led me to chose acting as the thing to do with my life. I have no idea how I did — what I did — or how I survived — but three hours after the curtain came up, it went down — and I found myself dazed and exhausted and very
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Above, Edward Albee in England, circa 1967. Left, Mercedes Ruehl and Bill Pullman in “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” Right, from left, George Segal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1966 film “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
much alone in a chilly dressing room in the basement of that old theater. A knock at the door. I opened it, and there he was. The big small man himself. He held his arms out for a hug, and I walked into them expecting something stiff and brief and found myself instead in a genuine embrace — strong and truly felt, even lingering — for a moment. My face somehow got tucked in his neck, and I thought: to kiss or not to kiss? I kissed. I immediately drew back aghast. My God, that was inappropriate, I thought — just wrong! But no — a pleased and open face was looking at me. A pause. “Is there anything you want to tell me?” I stammered. “No,” he smiled and moved into the room, “that was good.” I only discovered later that this was considerable praise. He sat. We spoke for a while. At first, I was terribly awkward, but as he clearly had settled in to wait out my awkwardness, I relaxed. More than the words that were said I remember a feeling of warmth crept into the room — like being by a campfire on a cold night — the kind of conversation you can have under such conditions. When he got up to leave, he turned to me and said about Martha: “Remember: She loved her father very much.” Another quick kiss and he was gone. I sat down at my dressing table and thought: It will take you a long time to parse what has happened to you tonight. And thus my friendship with Edward began. Mercedes Ruehl, a Tony- and Oscar-winning actress, starred in “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” on Broadway. THE PLAYWRIGHT
Will Eno “A spokesman for our animal needs.” I first met Edward in June 1996, when I was a fellow at the Albee Foundation in Montauk. You’d sometimes spot him out in the yard, coiling up a garden hose or poking a stick at something. Life at the Barn is fairly quiet, so it was fun to see a famous
playwright dragging a branch by the window or staring up into a tree. One day, I was out not-writing on the porch, and Edward came over and sat down. We didn’t say very much. The local dog, Ziggy, was sitting with us on the porch. “Who’s a good dog?” Edward finally asked Ziggy, in a kind of schoolmasterly way. “You’re a good dog,” I told Ziggy, after a suitable pause, completing the circle. This was, to me, a familiarly New Englandish way to connect; there were a number of dogs in my youth through which a lot of the family’s feelings flowed. Things can get lost or go astray when you’re relaying them through a dog, but with Edward, you felt a kind of clarity and ease when an animal was around. That a dog might suddenly bear its teeth or run off barking is only proof of its trustworthiness. Some version of that porch scene happened a lot, over the years: Edward and an animal and I, sitting somewhere, not saying too much but feeling, if I may speak for the other two, cared-for and calm. There was Edward’s little cat, Snow, and a student’s dog in Omaha that would eat grapes if you had grapes. We saw an owl one day in Houston. “He should be sleeping,” Edward said, like he was about to do something about it. I once heard Edward read “Krapp’s Last Tape” and, in an all-around gorgeous rendering, he rose particularly to the line, “Let me in.” You’re free to picture a dog on the other side of a screen door, but of course you don’t have to. Part of me just wants to write, “Edward wore a lot of scratchy-looking wool shirts and pants and I miss him.” It’s not by accident Edward wrote “The Goat,” “The Zoo Story” or “Seascape,” with its two lizards, Sarah and Leslie. In fact, in all of his plays the animal is pretty prominent, somehow or other. I don’t know what the first year of Edward’s life was like, but it sounded pretty hectic. Maybe that lack of calm somehow enabled him to become the soothing presence he was to the critters around him, and such an elegant spokesman for our simple animal needs, and such a howling voice for a hard kind of honesty. Will Eno’s new play, “Wakey, Wakey,” is to open at the Signature Theater in the spring.
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An Immigrant, Working-Class ‘Nutcracker’ Christopher Wheeldon sets the classic in 1893 Chicago. By ROSLYN SULCAS IOWA CITY — The tree wasn’t growing cor-
rectly. The projection cues weren’t right. A mouse got stuck as it scurried up a pole. The Nutcracker’s sword broke, then broke again. “Stop, please,” Christopher Wheeldon called out patiently for the umpteenth time as the technical team of his new production of “The Nutcracker,” for the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, worked away at a table in the newly rebuilt, gleaming Hancher Auditorium here recently. “It’s hard to make magic,” Mr. Wheeldon, the British-born choreographer, said with a laugh during a break. “But I’ve done this enough to know what the process is. It may feel like chaos now, but it’s all going to work.” As if predictable chaos wasn’t enough, Mr. Wheeldon was in a wheelchair: Several days earlier, he had stepped backward off the darkened stage, falling into the orchestra pit and breaking his ankle. “It’s frustrating not being able to rush up and down between the stage and the front of house,” he said. “It’s a lesson in patience and trust.” It was Day 2 of a week of stage rehearsals at the Hancher, where the Joffrey would present five preview performances before opening in Chicago on Saturday, Dec. 10. A week of onstage rehearsal and previews is an unusual luxury for a ballet company. But a lot rides on this “Nutcracker,” a $4 million reimagining of the traditional story — it’s set at the 1893 Chicago world’s fair — that will serve as replacement of the Robert Joffrey production that the company has performed every December for 28 years. In a neat bit of symmetry, its 1987 premiere was at the former Hancher (closed after flooding in 2008 and rebuilt in a new spot); Ashley Wheater, the director of the Joffrey who was then a company member, danced as the Snow King. Like most American ballet troupes, the Joffrey depends heavily on the box-office revenues of its Christmas-season “Nutcracker” to balance the books. Why spend money on a new one? “When I came back to take over the company in 2007, I saw a production that was absolutely in tatters,” Mr. Wheater said. “For me, it was a necessity.” Mr. Wheeldon, 43, who recently directed and choreographed the Tony Award-winning “An American in Paris” on Broadway, is a star of the ballet world, with — among much else — several full-length, critically applauded narrative ballets to his credit. One thing he has clearly mastered: his directorial bedside manner. During a 12-hour day of slow-going rehearsal, he remained calm and warmly encouraging, giving detailed instructions to dancers (“Miguel, more crazy genius face!” “Amanda, you need to be having a much worse nightmare.”) and staying in constant dialogue with his team seated nearby: Natasha Katz (lighting), Julian Crouch (sets and costumes), Ben Pearcy (projections) and the puppeteer Basil Twist. Since Mr. Wheater wanted a “Nutcracker” that would be specific to Chicago and the Joffrey, Mr. Wheeldon has relocated the story from its traditional setting of an upper-middle-class German household. Now it’s set in a worker’s shack on the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. In this telling, Marie, the young heroine of the tale (danced by an adult rather than a child here) is the daughter of Polish immigrants. Her mother, who will later in-
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carnate the Sugar Plum Fairy role in the different guise of a golden sculpture that presides over the world’s fair, is a single parent, raising her and her brother, Franz, alone. “I was always slightly bothered by the fact that ‘Nutcracker’ is about a child who has everything, then falls asleep and has more,” Mr. Wheeldon said. “I wondered how we could make the story more relatable.” He added that when he was thinking about the story, he had no intention of making a political statement but that his “Nutcracker” had turned out to be oddly topical. “Immigrants did build the world’s fair,” he said. “We imagined the Christmas party happening in a worker’s shack, with the impresario who is building the fair as the
Top, the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon guiding Christine Rocas in rehearsal for a new Joffrey Ballet production of “The Nutcracker”; above, Christian Ayala at rehearsal.
Moving the setting of a well-known ballet proves to be oddly topical.
Drosselmeier figure, arriving with gifts for the workers.” At the same time, Mr. Wheeldon said, “‘The Nutcracker’ still needs to be ‘The Nutcracker’ and deliver what people want — and what is dictated by Tchaikovsky’s score: the tree growing, the snow, the journey to a magical land.” To help his story ideas fit into the existing structure of the ballet, Mr. Wheeldon called on Brian Selznick, a writer and illustrator of children’s books, whose work he had long admired. Mr. Selznick’s immediate response was to feel nervous. “I was aware that I was going to be talking to a great choreographer about things I knew nothing about,” he said in a telephone interview from New York. But by the time they had finished their first brainstorming session, they had finessed a number of plot points and set the story five months before the opening of the fair to provide a Christmas setting. (Mr. Wheeldon noted that this also aligned the time frame with the first performance of “The Nutcracker,” in December 1892, in St. Petersburg.) Mr. Selznick went home and wrote a 15page outline. “When I got it,” Mr. Wheeldon said, “I thought it would make the most phenomenal movie, but we have to strip away, which is what we did over the next year. It’s still a pretty action-packed ‘Nutcracker.’” The second act, he said, was a child’s fantasy of the world’s fair rather than of the Land of the Sweets, filled with pavilions representing countries from all over the world and showing their dances, which echo the round-the-world divertissements in the traditional version. “The structure is intact; in
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LEFT, HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098-1179).
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Women Once Heard, Now Silent Female composers have been writing. Who’s been listening? By ALICE GREGORY
At Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at the Metropolitan Opera, audiences can see and hear, for the first time there in over a century, an opera composed by a woman. It’s a shocking fact — one that can be explained, if not fully justified. A composer with a desire for an audience has to be in possession of skills that have, on their surface, very little to do with music. He (it was almost always a he) needs to be capable of self-promotion, of fund-raising, of a kind of confidence that makes others follow instructions. Arguably, it’s these adjacent abilities that have been least encouraged in female composers. Then there is the notion, intractable for centuries, that women could perhaps be talented of body — with nimble fingers and a bell-like voice — but never of mind, which is, of course, where composition originates. Even if they’ve hardly ended up household names, the women in this alternative history of composing are, quite frankly, anomalies: people for whom ambition and talent coincided with privilege and pedigree. Many had musically influential or well-connected fathers and husbands; others had the support of powerful nobles. Changes in geopolitics played a role in their success, as did quirks of history. As Anna Beer writes in “Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music”: “They did not seek out, or seek to create, a female tradition, nor did they wait for a female teacher or mentor. They invariably worked with, and within, a male-dominated musical culture.” To read about their lives, and to listen to their music, is to mentally catalog everything that went right for them — and to imagine all the forgotten women for whom it must have gone wrong.
RIGHT, ÉLISABETH JACQUET DE LA GUERRE (1665-1729).
The Soul’s Struggle Hildegard of Bingen, circa 1151 By the natural light from a single window, Hildegard of Bingen wrote books on medicine, botany and theology, and corresponded with penitents and popes. Born around 1098 and one of the first known composers in the Western tradition, she spent most of her life sequestered in a remote Rhineland monastery. Dozens of her com-
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positions survive, all with original text, along with her magnum opus: a hypnotic liturgical drama called “Ordo Virtutum,” which tells the story of a struggle for a human soul between the Virtues and the Devil. Hildegard experienced visions from the time she was a young girl — Oliver Sacks speculated that she suffered ABOVE, MARIANNA from blinding migraines — and MARTINES (1744-1812). people across medieval Europe RIGHT, LOUISE FARRENC knew her as a prophet, “the Sib(1804-1875). yl of the Rhine.” She claimed to have been uneducated, and her letters suggest a compositional practice inspired only by faith. “Hearing earthly music,” she wrote, “enables humans to to recall their former state.” Her work remained cloistered, though; it’s believed that none of it was ever heard outside her convent in her lifetime.
Exceptional Women Francesca Caccini, 1625 February in Florence was Carnival season, and in 1625 the Medici court was celebrating a recent victory against the over-
extended Ottoman Empire, welcoming a visit from the Crown Prince Wladyslaw IV Vasa of Poland with opulent feasts and extravagant ceremonies. Francesca Caccini, a 36-year-old composer, was the architect of the day’s signature entertainment: “La Liberazione di Ruggiero Dall’isola d’Alcina,” a comic opera in four scenes, complete with dancing horses and other visual pyrotechnics and a fantastical plot involving warring and seductive sorceresses. With its juxtaposed arias, canzonets and madrigals, the gynocentric and multifarious opera was the product of a historically exceptional period at the court, dominated first by Caccini’s original patron, Christine de Lorraine, the wife of Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and then by her daughter-in-law, Maria Magdalena of Austria. The original audience for “La Liberazione” was, as the musicologist Suzanne Cusick has written, well prepared to welcome the “representation of a fictional world ruled by exceptional women.”
ABOVE, CLARA SCHUMANN (1819-1896)
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The Composing Coquette Barbara Strozzi, 1650s Like that of many if not most female composers throughout history, Barbara Strozzi’s career was engineered by a man. Her adoptive father, the poet Giulio Strozzi — many assumed Barbara was his illegitimate daughter — organized salons at his Venice home, where he would invite important men to debate philosophical and often prurient topics. Between discussions, the teenage Barbara would perform suggestive musical interludes. It wasn’t until her 30s that she began to seriously and consistently compose her own music, a professional pivot that can be read as an assertion of autonomy after a lifetime of sexualized manipulation. The music she wrote could be overtly erotic — voices interweaving to a sonic climax — and sometimes misogynistic in its lyrics. It remains uncertain as to whether or not she was ever a courtesan or even a concubine. Private Performances and Public Humiliations Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, 1694 Baptized Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet, the composer now known as Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was born in Paris in 1665 to a family of artisans (her father was a master
harpsichord maker) whose craft allowed them access to the French nobility. She was accepted into the court of Louis XIV as a teenager, and her education and musical practice was overseen by Madame de Montespan, the king’s most adored mistress. As was common with many musicians at the time, Jacquet’s career depended on the whims of her patrons, for whom she performed in mostly private setABOVE, THE tings. Being at the mercy of a mistress was even more precari- SUFFRAGIST ETHEL ous. And by 1694, when Jacquet SMYTH (1858-1944), staged “Céphale et Procris,” her WHO WROTE THE first opera, Madame de Mon- ANTHEM “THE MARCH tespan had been replaced by a OF THE WOMEN.” new, more religious mistress whose conservatism was already influencing the court’s taste. Though Jacquet took the trouble to publish the work, the production itself was performed only five or six times in Paris, to a wan reception. Jacquet’s husband, himself a composer, is said to have met with attendees the day after the premiere, telling them to stifle any criticism. But she never composed another opera.
Ergonomic Concerns Marianna Martines, 1772 The English music historian Charles Burney visited Vienna in 1772, and on a Sunday
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THE COMPOSER ASHLEY FURE AT HER REHEARSAL SPACE IN NOVEMBER 2015.
afternoon in September was greeted in a grand home by the Italian librettist Pietro Metastasio. Letters were read aloud, compliments paid to mutual friends; the conversation was pleasant and intriguing. The tenor of the room shifted with the entrance of a young woman, whom Burney would later describe as “well dressed,” “graceful” and “very elegant.” It was the composer and harpsichordist Marianna Martines, Metastasio’s pupil and protégée, who even as a child was deemed skilled enough to play at the imperial court. The group of men greeted her with great respect, and she proceeded to sing two airs of her own composition. Her performance, Burney would write, surpassed all that he “had been made to expect.” In his account of the visit, Burney praises
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Strategic Scholarship Louise Farrenc, 1850 In the middle of the 19th century, Paris audiences vastly preferred opera to instrumental music. But when Louise Farrenc’s Nonet in E-flat major had its premiere in 1850 — with Joseph Joachim, not yet 20 years old and not yet quite world famous, leading on the violin — the performance was met with ecstatic excitement. Alternating between winds and strings, the work is lively and bright; listeners enjoyed the way in which each instrument is given its own moment to shine. Eight years earlier, Farrenc had been appointed professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory — one of the first female instrumental professors in Europe — and Farrenc parlayed her newfound public success into
a pay raise, demanding that her wages be equal to those of her male colleagues. Her employers agreed, and Farrenc kept the post for another quarter-century. In addition to composing and teaching, she helped her husband, a music scholar and publisher, to research and edit books, including a 23volume anthology of keyboard masterpieces. She continued the work after he died, organizing talks and concerts to coincide with various publications. Her strategic scholarship — intent on reviving and publicizing works of the past — was unusual at the time, but such behind-the-scenes labor has in fact been a large part of the work women have contributed over the centuries.
Touring and Torment Clara Schumann, 1837 In the winter of 1837, Clara Wieck, a German piano prodigy turned teenage touring virtuoso, came to Vienna to give a series of concerts that lasted through the spring. The shows often sold out; excited crowds grew CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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the man of the house. “It’s taken quite a while to come to a point now where we can find different facets in male characters. Men are kind of the protagonist of epic stories, but really what I’m more interested in are stories that deal with the ordinary, with the every day.” “Julieta,” which also stars Emma Suárez as the older version of the title character, centers on one such everyday relationship, that of a mother and daughter. With movies like “High Heels” (1991) and “All About My Mother” (1999), maternity is a familiar theme for Mr. Almodóvar. And it is perhaps fitting that his 20th returns to it. “I was lucky to meet his mother when she was alive, and it helped me to understand a lot the way he is and the fascination he has for women and how well he knows women,” said Penélope Cruz, who has appeared in five of his movies. “He was raised by his mother and her sisters and neighbors, with a lot of women together. It’s a little bit of what you see in ‘Volver’” — his 2006 film about a family of women and a matriarch
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As a little girl growing up in Spain, Adriana Ugarte dreamed of starring in a Pedro Almodóvar movie. Now, just over 25 years later, she is joining the rarefied ranks of actresses who have helped bring to life the women who teem in Mr. Almodóvar’s imagination. In “Julieta,” loosely based on short stories by Alice Munro, Ms. Ugarte plays the younger version of the title character, whose life takes a dramatic turn after a tryst on a train. The film, Mr. Almodóvar’s 20th feature, is a return to drama and his “cinema of women,” as he has called it. When it comes to Mr. Almodóvar and his female characters, Ms. Ugarte said recently, “It’s a mystery, but he can feel how we feel and how we are.” Over the course of nearly 40 years, Mr. Almodóvar has drawn inspiration from wide-ranging sources — Alfred Hitchcock, B-movies, Pina Bausch, to name just a few. But it’s his fascination with women and his ability to conjure memorable female characters that remain constants. Now, as the Museum of Modern Art is paying tribute to Mr. Almodóvar with a retrospective of his work that runs through Dec. 17, and as “Julieta” arrives in theaters in the United States on Dec. 21, he and many of the most prominent actresses in his career have taken a closer look at the role of women in his life and films. “I feel that I can tell a richer and more entertaining story with women,” Mr. Almodóvar said, his signature shock of thick white hair and mischievous eyes in full evidence during the interview at the Peninsula Hotel in Manhattan. He spoke softly and quickly, in a mixture of Spanish and English. “I will write male and female characters,” he said, “but I do find at least in Spanish culture, women to be more vivacious, more direct, more expressive, with a lot less of a sense of being fearful of making a fool of themselves.” La Frances Hui, associate curator in the film department at the Modern, said: “Almodóvar is someone who is very beloved by female actresses. He has an unusual ability to observe women with a real sense of empathy. He is able to highlight their emotions and their strengths, and he is often very funny. He shows women in a very different way than we usually see in cinema. The films that a director makes are a reflection of himself, and this is how he sees women.” Conversely, Mr. Almodóvar often finds male characters limited. “I think that until very recently men in Spanish culture were quite corseted,” he said, with roles restricted to the Latin lover, the macho hero or
‘He has an unusual ability to observe women with a real sense of empathy.’
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who reappears as a ghost — “and he was always watching and observing.” She likened it to her own childhood in her mother’s hair salon, observing customers and stylists. “It was so inspiring watching them interact, what they were saying, what they were not saying,” she said. “The fascination with the female universe, he’s constantly paying homage to that.” Mr. Almodóvar, too, was watching his mother, Francisca Caballero, who died in 1999, as he grew up in the La Mancha region of Spain and agreed that many of his characters were inspired by her. “She had the capacity to fake things, fake things in order to solve problems,” he said, explaining that as opposed to the men in his family, the women “would resolve situations with the greatest naturalism, with the greatest ease, they would just fake that certain things were happening in order to protect us as children, and they did it with the greatest conviction.” He added, “Life is filled with these miniature plays, scenarios, where people are forced to act or fake, and women are naturally born actresses.” Women have helped him to grow cinematically, too. Mr. Almodóvar said it was Carmen Maura, one of his first muses, who pushed him to make the jump to 16-millimeter film, from Super-8. Another actress, Rossy de Palma, who met Mr. Almodóvar in Madrid in the early ’80s and became a lifelong collaborator, said she and others in the Madrid art scene influenced and encouraged him. “Initially, Pedro was having fun, passionate, but he didn’t have a strategy,” Ms. de CONTINUED ON PAGE 22
A Rising Star, Now in a Galaxy Far, Far Away Already in Hollywood ascent, Felicity Jones joins ‘Rogue One.’ By DAVE ITZKOFF
Some weeks ago, Felicity Jones was strolling the streets of London when she was stopped by a woman she described as “very tall and very model-y looking,” who politely asked to take a picture with her. Ms. Jones, an Academy Award-nominated actress, gladly obliged, then walked a short distance before she was stopped by another passer-by. “Who was that?” this pedestrian asked her. As a humbled Ms. Jones recounted this exchange, “I just went, ‘I don’t know, but she seems cool!’” She added, “My feet are kept, very much, firmly, firmly on the ground.” This is what it means to be Ms. Jones, 33, who, at least by some reckonings, is the British actress and fashion star whose career was exponentially accelerated by the critical and commercial success of “The Theory of Everything,” the 2014 biographical film about Stephen Hawking. By other assessments, including her own, she is hardly worthy of recognition, just a diligent performer whose résumé includes some modest cult favorites (“Like Crazy”) and some big-budget crowd-pleasers (“Inferno”). Whatever claims to obscurity she can still make will not last long after the Dec. 16 release of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” In this latest chapter of the epic outer space adventure, Ms. Jones plays Jyn Erso, the scrappy and unlikely leader of a team of rebel fighters tasked with stealing the plans for the Galactic Empire’s planet-killing war machine, the Death Star. (As fans know, these are the events that precede the original “Star Wars” film, known as “A New Hope.”) “Rogue One” could be a breakthrough opportunity for Ms. Jones, who is not usually seen swinging her fists or piloting interstellar vessels in tentpole action movies, and for the makers of the “Star Wars” series, who in recent films have featured women more prominently. True to her own unassuming spirit, Ms. Jones played down these possibilities in a conversation, as she spoke by Skype from a patio at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, instead emphasizing her passion for strong, relatable characters in whatever form they take. “It’s hard to find an indie that has a great female lead — it’s hard to find anything,”
Ms. Jones said. “We wanted the audience to relate to Jyn as a person,” she added. “Like all of us, she’s trying to work out what the hell to do.” The filmmakers and co-stars who have worked with her over the years say this is typical of Ms. Jones, who would rather keep her head down and work than look up and see where her accomplishments are taking her. “When you meet Felicity, it doesn’t really add up,” said Gareth Edwards, the “Rogue One” director. “She’s incredibly — and I mean this in a positive way — incredibly normal. None of this, so far at least, has in any way affected her. It’s kind of remarkable.” Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Ms. Jones said she came from a “family culture of education being prized and important, and having a balance — I wasn’t a Judy Garland-type child actress.” (She did, nonetheless, appear on TV shows like “The Worst Witch” and its sequel, “Weirdsister College.”) Another treasured household ritual, she said, was piling in the car with her parents and brother to drive 90 minutes to the nearest multiplex and see whatever was playing; as a result, Ms. Jones grew up admiring idiosyncratic actresses like Christina Ricci in “The Addams Family” and Samantha Morton in “Morvern Callar.” After graduating from Oxford, Ms. Jones moved to London to pursue acting full-time, appearing in stage productions at the Donmar Warehouse and getting a crucial break in a TV adaptation of “Northanger Abbey.” (“It was a fusion of studying English at university and being a fan of Jane Austen, as all English women should be,” she said wryly.) The film that helped bring Ms. Jones to America’s attention was “Like Crazy,” the 2011 feature that cast her and Anton Yelchin as young lovers trying to maintain a transAtlantic relationship. Directed by Drake Doremus from a lengthy outline rather than a traditional script, “Like Crazy” required Ms. Jones to invent large swaths of her own dialogue, including a romantic poem that her character reads to Mr. Yelchin in a tender moment on their bed. “I’ve had people send me pictures of that poem tattooed on their bodies,” Mr. Doremus said. “It’s a tribute to her.” “Like Crazy” has become a bittersweet bond for Ms. Jones and Mr. Doremus, who reconnected after Mr. Yelchin’s accidental death in June. “It still doesn’t quite feel real CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
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The British actress Felicity Jones, above, already highly regarded in films like “The Theory of Everything” and “Like Crazy” is poised for a great leap forward in visibility with “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (left, with Diego Luna).
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and make sense,” Mr. Doremus said. “He’s just in everything we do, and influences everything we do.” What Mr. Doremus said has stayed with him about Ms. Jones’s performance was how she set aside self-consciousness to play such an open and vulnerable character. “The cool thing about Felicity is she’s not an actor, she’s a person,” he said, “and there are a lot of people out there that are actors first and people second.” Keeping those spheres of her life separate became a greater challenge after “The Theory of Everything,” in which she played Jane Hawking, the wife (now ex-wife) of the physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), who cares for him as he is weakened by a motor neuron disease. The success of the film, for which Mr. Redmayne won an Oscar and Ms. Jones was nominated, still startles her. Ms. Jones said they approached the movie no differently than they would an intimate independent feature. “One of my favorite films is ‘Splendor in the Grass,’” she said, “and we would try to emulate those naturalistic, impassioned performances.” She added, “When you hear the two magic words — which are, ‘It works’ — then you know something has come together.” After the nominations and a whirlwind publicity tour — during which Ms. Jones was flying between Los Angeles and Barcelona, to make the fantasy coming-of-age drama “A Monster Calls” — she suddenly found herself being sought for some of the biggest films of her career. Those included Ron Howard’s adaptation of “Inferno,” the Dan Brown thriller, in which she starred opposite Tom Hanks as a doctor with a more complicated agenda. “She’s not an overt careerist,” Mr. Howard said of Ms. Jones. “She’s not a personality — she’s not trying to be a brand. Her brand is to do good work and to make her name in that way.” She was also being considered for “Rogue One,” in a role for which Tatiana Maslany and Rooney Mara were also reportedly tested. Mr. Redmayne — who had his own illfated audition for the “Star Wars” film “The Force Awakens,” then landed the J. K. Rowling franchise “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” — said he could see Ms. Jones wrestling with herself over her blockbuster opportunity. “We did have a discussion about it — although it was probably meant to be top secret, so she probably wasn’t allowed to,” he said with a laugh. More sincerely, Mr. Redmayne added, “It was crazy times for both of us, and you need someone to articulate the complexities, the eccentricities and the hilarities of the entire Hollywood system.” Mr. Edwards, whose credits include “Monsters” and the 2014 remake of “Godzilla,” said that “Rogue One” deliberately reverses some of the tropes of the original “Star Wars” trilogy and the story of Luke Skywalker. “ ‘A New Hope’ is the story of a boy who grows up in a tranquil home and dreams of joining a war,” he said. “What if we have the story of a girl who grows up in a war and dreams of returning to the tranquillity of home?” To that end, Mr. Edwards said he was not looking for “an action star in the classic sense — the clichéd expectation of a soldier or a rebel.” “You can teach anyone to fight, with enough stunt training,” he said. “But you can’t teach someone to have that soul in their eyes. Whenever you point the camera at Felicity, there’s just so much going on inside.” The casting of women in the lead roles of fantasy films like “Rogue One,” “The Force Awakens” and “Ghostbusters” has proved unexpectedly provocative, drawing the ire of those few frustrated fans who call it a concession to political correctness. Ms. Jones sidestepped this issue, saying that “we wanted the audience to relate to Jyn as a person, whether you’re a boy or a girl, a man or a woman.” Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, the studio that makes the “Star Wars” films, was more direct about whether she felt she had to placate these critics. “I have a responsibility to the company that I work with,” she said. “I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way.” She added, “I would never just seize on saying, ‘Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to men for many, many years, and therefore I owe men something.’” What Ms. Jones said she takes away from the “Rogue One” experience is the feeling of camaraderie that comes from inclusion in the four-decade “Star Wars” franchise. “It taps into some kind of deep mythology,” she said. “I don’t think anyone who’s been a part of it has any critical distance from it. It really takes your heart, it does.” Perhaps more tangibly, what she has retained is her training in wushu, a style of
Felicity Jones and Lewis MacDougall in “A Monster Calls.”
martial arts that Jyn Erso uses in combat situations. “We didn’t want it to be balletic and majestic,” Ms. Jones explained. “It’s all quite short, sharp movements. We wanted it to feel authentic and a little bit dirty.” “She has this short stick, and then she grabs onto it and she just hits,” she said, beginning to swivel in her chair as she described it. “I can feel it now; I absolutely love doing it. I have to be careful not to do it on my friends or on my boyfriend or on my family.”
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Women Once Heard, Now Silent so congested that the police were called upon; and a torte was named after her. She was a celebrity. In addition to her work on the piano, she composed music that she would play at each recital — a rarity for both men and women at the time. The fact that she toured at all was in itself somewhat novel. By the 19th century, musicians who once performed privately for their noble employers now gave public concerts to larger, more diverse and more distant audiences, but it was not a tradition friendly to women, for whom a life onstage and constant transit were considered inappropriate if not impossible. Wieck was an exception. By the time she married her husband, the composer Robert Schumann, and took his name, she was already world famous — and only 20. She continued to perform for decades, through relentless pregnancies and multiple miscarriages. And despite Robert’s nervous breakdowns and possible syphilis infection, she believed his opinion that she should retreat from composing. “I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea,” she wrote. “A woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?”
Data on the Rhine Ashley Fure, 2016 In the summer of 2014, “Something to Hunt,” by the American composer Ashley Fure, 32 at the time, had its premiere at the prestigious Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany. The almost 11-minute piece for seven players is theatrically menacing, with prowling instrumental lines and surprising silences. Ms. Fure describes it on her website as “a multidimensional but unidirectional thrust that circles back and pushes forth relentlessly, obsessively, until its end. Looking for
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something. Hungry for meat.” It was awarded the Darmstadt festival’s grand prize that summer. In August, Ms. Fure returned to Darmstadt for the biannual festival’s 70th anniversary. The organizers had furnished her with archival data about its history, and Ms. Fure found the underrepresentation of women to be even worse than she had expected. “How do you deal with an absence?” she wondered in a recent phone interview. She decided to organize a panel discussion based on the dismaying statistics pertaining to such topics as compositions performed, prizes awarded, faculty members invited and CDs produced. The presentation and subsequent round table resulted in the creation of web pages, articles and interviews — all in just few days. Ms. Fure remains optimistic that merely offering this information transparently will have positive effects: on hiring considerations by ensembles, on invitations to teach master classes — at Darmstadt in 2018, but also sooner, and elsewhere. Music, Ms. Fure emphasizes, is not unlike success in fine cuisine or architecture. Talent isn’t enough: A vast and complicated matrix of financing, promotion and patronage presents, as she put it, “many opportunities for the pressures and incongruities of culture to impact the dissemination and development of work.”
British women gathered in central London, removed hammers and stones from their muffs and purses, and proceeded to smash the windows of politicians and businesses known to oppose voting rights for women. The composer Ethel Smyth, then in her 50s, was one of them. The previous year, she had written “The March of the Women,” a soulful and optimistic song that immediately became the movement’s anthem. Smyth was arrested with over 100 of her compatriots that night and sent to Holloway Prison, where she served a two-month sentence. When her friend the conductor Thomas Beecham visited her in jail, he witnessed scores of suffragists marching inside the quad and singing the march, while Smyth herself leaned out a window, conducting with a toothbrush.
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Fresh Scares You Won’t See in a Theater The horror auteur Mike Flanagan breaks ground online. AS IS THE CASE with a lot of cinephiles my
age (let’s say I’m a late boomer), horror movies were my gateway drug to movie love. It started in the late 1960s, when my mom asked me to watch “The Haunting” with her when it played on network television. (My dad was working nights.) I was traumatized but hooked. Martin Scorsese cites the New York TV station WOR’s “Million Dollar Movie” as the site of his early film education; mine was that station’s “Chiller Theater” (not to be confused with a similar program on WPIX). It would be a few years before I’d see a horror movie — “Night of the Living Dead” — in an actual movie house. Things have come full circle in a sense. My favorite American contemporary horror director is Mike Flanagan, and I’ve yet to see any of his movies in a theater. (His latest theatrical release, “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” is one I need to catch up with.) His 2011 debut feature, “Absentia,” is a tense, creepy tale about a woman who registers her husband’s death seven years after his disappearance, only to have him turn up alive, and in very weird state. “Oculus,” from 2014, about an evil mirror and the havoc it wreaks on a brother and sister during two distinct periods in their lives, is an ingenious atmospheric shocker with intimations of the 1944 classic “The Uninvited.” This year’s “Hush” is a brisk stalker-and-sensory-deprivation exercise, with its deaf heroine terrorized in her cabin in the woods by a sadistic killer. “Absentia” and “Oculus” were on Amazon; “Hush” had its premiere at the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival, and went to Netflix directly thereafter. Mr. Flanagan just completed shooting a film set for Netflix in 2017, “Gerald’s Game,” an adaptation of Stephen King’s very provocative 1992 novel, in which the battle of the sexes takes on a grotesquely Grand Guignol dimension. Mr. Flanagan is, like Mr. King, eclectic in his range: He can do supernatural and nonsupernatural horror with equal conviction. His movies contain violence, sometimes of the grisly kind, but he doesn’t go for the constant semiautomatic, conviction-free sadism that distinguishes the “Saw” franchise and other movies. He also doesn’t go for the arguably cheap “jump scares” that are a feature of many contemporary horror pictures. But it won’t do to call him old-fashioned. He’s doing new things. The parallel editing
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of “Oculus,” portraying his characters as young children and young adults in shifting flashbacks and flash-forwards that become increasingly complex as the movie progresses, is innovative. In “Hush,” the way he uses movie language to change perspectives — from the deaf heroine to the hearing
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phone interview that whatever platform they’re going to be viewed on, he wanted his movies to feel like . . . movies. “With digital technology there’s a huge spectrum of flexibility in what you can do to manipulate sound and image,” he said, “which you can push into a really artificial realm if you aren’t careful.” Mr. Flanagan, who is in his mid-30s, mentioned “Jaws” as a picture that showed him “what cinema can do” and also cited horror classics like “The Changeling,” “The Exorcist” and “The Shining” as influences. He said the 1940s movies of the producer Val Lewton (“Cat People”) gave him an appreciation of atmosphere. But without the advent of the digital age, Mr. Flanagan acknowledged, he “might not have a career.” “Absentia” was financed in part by the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. He admits that when he first envisioned a film career, he didn’t see the internet as a congenial home for his work. When he was studying film, he attended a seminar about broadband at the International Film Festival of Manhattan, “and it seemed insane that you’d be able to watch a movie in high quality on the internet. I never imagined it as a viable outlet.” But working with online production entities has been crucial for Mr. Flanagan. He was frustrated with the troubled movie studio Relativity earlier this year over its handling of his movie “Before I Wake,” which he made in 2013. His experience with Netflix, which, he notes, “could release ‘Gerald’s Game’ the day after I delivered it if they were so inclined,” has been exhilarating. “A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result,” he said. “Netflix has an incredible bravery about things that just don’t excite a studio anymore. You can feel the excitement they have about just getting a project into production. “‘Gerald’s Game,’ we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story. Working in this way takes away a lot of the red tape that you’d have to machete your way through in the studio system.” Is there any downside? “The question is how long that attitude can survive the bigger the company becomes, but I haven’t seen any signs of it flagging,” Mr. Flanagan said. Netflix will probably release “Gerald’s Game” in the spring. Mr. Flanagan said the service may want to give it some festival exposure before offering it to subscribers.
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. . . I Did a Triathlon
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By AMERICA FERRERA
It wasn’t a dream. I was standing onstage holding an Emmy. I’d imagined being in this room, clutching this statue ever since watching my first Emmy broadcast at 7 years old. Now, I was actually at the podium and accepting the award on national television. It was 2007, and I was 23. I had worked very hard to get this far, I was shooting 16hour days to make “Ugly Betty,” and I was loving every minute of it. This should have been a moment of sublime celebration. But it wasn’t. I can’t remember the words that came out of my mouth, but I do remember, clear as day, the words that ran through my mind: Who do you think you are? You don’t belong here. No one here thinks you deserve this. Hurry up and get off the stage. So I did. It deeply saddened me that this mean, scared voice stole that moment of joy away. If I wasn’t going to own and enjoy my successes, then what was the point of working so hard? I decided to put up a fight by getting into therapy. For the next eight years, I worked really hard to recognize and silence that nagging internal critic. And at times, I even believed that she’d left for good. Then a year ago, a friend of mine competed in her first triathlon to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. As I
AMERICA FERRERA The actress stars on “Superstore” on NBC. Below right, on the morning of her triathlon.
watched her train, I was equal parts enthralled and horrified. The running and biking seemed brutal enough, but the open-water swimming was unimaginable. When my husband decided he was going to join her in the next triathlon, the voice returned with a vengeance: Don’t even think about it, America! You’re the fat kid. The procrastinator. The quitter. You have cellulite. YOU ARE NOT A TRIATHLETE! “O.K., I’ll do it!” I yelled the words desperately. Sensing my own self-doubt, I doubled down, announcing my triathlon plan on every social media platform I have. Every time my alarm went off at 6 a.m. on a Saturday, I deeply questioned the decision: What the hell was I thinking? Whenever I tried to run, an old shoulder injury would flare up. The pain was excruciating. I would trudge along trying to think of ways to get out of this commitment. I could get sick. I could get called out of town for work. Maybe a car could hit me . . . lightly? One day as I was miserably running laps, my coach Jerome said to me, “I don’t know what you’re saying to yourself when you reach that pole, but you need to change it.” I
“I began to have a real conversation with my mean, scared voice. I even began to understand her fear.” was annoyed and exhausted, but mostly I was creeped out. Was he psychic?! Every single time I passed that pole and looked up to the last 100 meters of my lap, the voice would start to scream: Who do you think you are? You can’t do this! Just stop and accept you’re a failure! It occurred to me then that if I really wanted to make it through this challenge, I needed to rewrite my inner dialogue. On my next run, I gave it a try. As I approached the last leg of my lap, and the sensation that I might throw up or pass out began to rise, I dug out my inner Beyoncé. I began to chant: I’m a survivor. I’m not gone give up. I’ma keep running, ’cause a winner don’t quit on herself! I sounded like a crazy person, and it still hurt like hell. My shoulder, my lungs, my legs — my whole body ached. But for the first time, I didn’t feel beaten down at the end of a run. I felt like a badass. When I had to start swimming in the
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ocean, I added a new line to my mantra: You are a warrior, you are strong, and sharks are not real. And in I went. Although I wasn’t graceful or fearless, I was swimming in the ocean at 7 a.m. on a Saturday. Who the hell was I? And what else was I capable of that I had never dared to try? Slowly, I stopped thinking about training as a physical challenge. It became mental. The true exercise was to keep the negative thoughts at bay for as long as I could. How many strokes could I take before the fear needed a breath of air? How many miles could I run before my shoulder wanted to start telling her story again? How far up the hill could I pedal before I felt the urge to give up? I began to have a real conversation with my mean, scared voice. I even began to understand her fear. She’d only wanted to save me from humiliation and failure. She was protecting me the best way she knew how, and I learned to appreciate that, even if I no longer required her services. On the day of the race, I only had two goals: (1) finish and (2) stay positive. I am proud to say that I accomplished both. I swam a mile in the ocean (not a shark in sight), biked 25 miles and then finally began to run the last 6.2 miles. The homestretch. As I powered past people, more often than not, they would start walking. I’m going to be honest — the first few times, it felt good. But by the third or fourth time, it lost its novelty. I know how it feels to be passed by. I know how it feels to allow someone else’s success to be my own failure. I know all too well how hard it is to battle a nasty inner voice. So I started to talk to each person I passed. I smiled as I hurled cringe-worthy enthusiasm their way. “GO, GIRL!” “You GOT this, man!” “We’re almost there!” My only goal was to yell louder than the voices in their heads. And you know what? People smiled back. Some started running again. When I crossed the finish line, I didn’t cry, which shocked me, because I am a crier. It wasn’t until two days later, on a flight to New York, that the reality of what I had actually done hit me and the tears began to flow. I didn’t just complete a triathlon. For five months, I showed up to defend myself against a scared and angry voice. In the end, I didn’t eradicate her. But I had transformed her. With every step, stroke and pedal, I turned “No, I can’t” into “Yes, I can,” “I’m limited” into “Look what I’m capable of,” and “I’m weak” into “I am whole, healthy and strong.” I finally got my answer to that question: Who do you think you are? I am whoever I say I am. And I am a triathlete.
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Palma said. “It wasn’t calculated. He became like a fountain, something we could not stop.” Living in Madrid after the Spanish ruler Franco died, in 1975, Mr. Almodóvar said, affected his view of women, too. “Women in the ’80s were much more willing to take risks than the women now, and maybe it had to do with the fact that the women at that time were becoming emancipated” from any kind of control and expressing their sexuality, he said. “Women today are not facing the same historical moment and so their attitudes are very different, but maybe that will change.” Ms. Maura and Ms. de Palma appear again and again in Mr. Almodóvar’s films, and watching them age through his movies adds poignancy and depth to his portrayal of women. Unlike many in Hollywood, Mr. Almodóvar’s appreciations of female beauty aren’t restricted to younger women. “It’s much more deep,” Ms. de Palma said. “Beauty is in the eye. It’s in the eye you live through, and go through life. The way you look becomes different. In ‘Julieta,’ you see younger, older and all the women are celebrated.” Marisa Paredes, now 70, has worked with Mr. Almodóvar throughout her career. And each time her character’s age was adapted to reflect her own, whether it was “Dark Habits” (1983), in which she played an eccentric nun or the 2011 thriller “The Skin I Live In,” in which she was the a housekeeper for a twisted plastic surgeon. “He never pretends to do something else,” Ms. Paredes said. “If he wants an actress who is 40, that is the actress he looks for.” Mr. Almodóvar explained that “I like working with people who are photogenic, which has nothing to do with how beautiful you are. The camera decides who it likes and who it rejects.” He offered contrasting examples: “Penélope is very well-treated by the camera, but at the same time I also adore Rossy de Palma, whose beauty is unbalanced in comparison.” Her face, he added, “is cinematic, expressive and beautiful.” In the new drama, “Julieta,” beauty and aging are dominant themes, and Ms. Suárez, playing the older woman dealing with tragedy, said getting the specifics of her appearance right — the shade of blond hair, the sunglasses — is a hallmark of Mr. Almodóvar. “There’s a bookcase in the background in one shot, and you can be sure he’s gone through every single book and
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made sure every book is the right one.” Ms. Suárez recalled a moment during the production of “Julieta” that epitomized his approach. “One time he took me to the set, and they were painting the walls of the house my character would move into, and
he wanted to see if the color of my hair went with the light when it hit the paint on the wall in the room. And the opportunity to be able to work with and live with a filmmaker of this caliber, it’s something that feeds me as person and actress.
Long before he starts shooting, Mr. Almodóvar is just as specific about his actresses’ preparation. For “Julieta,” Mr. Almodóvar gave Ms. Suárez a copy of Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking” for its focus on the pain of grief and abandonment, Ms. Suárez said. He also suggested she study the paintings of Lucian Freud, watch films by Louis Malle and Stephen Daldry, and study the work of actresses like Jeanne Moreau and Gena Rowlands. All of these details help make the women he writes so vivid. “The character will tell me even if the shoes will be flat or high, and those tiny things are important for you to do the scene,” Ms. Cruz said. Several actresses mentioned his attention to the exact tone of their characters’ voices. “He’s the director that gives the most notes,” said Elena Anaya (“The Skin I Live In”). “He tells you exactly what the character thinks, feels, wants, in every second.” Ms. Suárez said that “you even begin to imagine how a character breathes,” adding, “It’s actually quite exhausting, because you arrive at your home after a day of shooting, and you are empty, you’ve given everything, and he wants more.” In the end, Ms. Suárez said: “He’s a man with a great sensitivity and with a tragic sense of life. I think women end up serving as a vehicle to express all these feelings for him.”
Left, Adriana Ugarte in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, “Julieta.” Above, from left, Lola Dueñas, Yohana Cobo and Penélope Cruz in Mr. Almodóvar’s “Volver” (2006). He is known for conjuring memorable female characters and says women are “more vivacious, more direct, more expressive.”
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Inspired by What Lies Beneath Guillermo del Toro goes subterranean in ‘Trollhunters.’ By ROBERT ITO WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIF. — When Guiller-
mo del Toro was 11, he and his friends would explore the vast sewer system below his hometown, Guadalajara, Mexico. Although he never found anything too fantastical on his subterranean forays, the idea of vast cities and civilizations beneath our own has entranced him ever since. Mr. Del Toro, the director of “Pacific Rim” and “Crimson Peak,” returns to the underworld with “Trollhunters,” a 26-episode DreamWorks Animation series on Netflix, starting Dec. 23. The series is set in Arcadia, a fictional American suburb, as well as the secret subterranean city beneath it. In the first episode, a magical amulet chooses Jim Lake Jr. (voiced by Anton Yelchin), a kindhearted and lovelorn high school student, to become the Trollhunter, a protector of good trolls and a scourge of the evil ones. While Mr. del Toro has made his name on scarier, creepier fare like “Pan’s Labyrinth” (a fairy tale populated by sadistic military officers and sentient stickbugs in 1944 Spain), “Hellboy” (an action fantasy film about a demon spawn called up from the netherworld by Nazis) and “The Strain” (a horror TV series starring vampires with stinging, prehensile tongues), “Trollhunters” is decidedly more family friendly. “I wanted to do a series that I could imagine watching with a glass of milk on the couch with my dad and my brothers,” he said. Besides those early trips through Guadalajara’s sewers, Mr. del Toro drew inspiration for the series from cultural references high and low: Jonny Quest cartoons. The early work of Hayao Miyazaki, “back when he was animating for Toho.” Irish folklore and Arthurian legend. Kids movies from the 1980s, like “The Goonies.” Asked about a scene involving a gnome and a dollhouse, he admitted with a laugh that, yes, it did indeed come from the 1963 “Twilight Zone” episode “Miniature,” starring Robert Duvall. Mr. del Toro was at the Four Seasons Hotel here recently, explaining how he incorporated many of these past and present loves into his current venture. Dressed in a
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black hoodie, black T-shirt and jeans, he looked a lot like the fanboys who flock to see him at comic conventions or who queued up for hours to view his recent exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters.” Many of the exhibited works there — a fraction of the director’s vast collection of paintings, animation cels, comic books and movie props — shaped his vision of “Trollhunters.” “I do not lead a normal life,” he said. “I spend my day surrounded by creatures.” A lifelong lover of fairy tales, Mr. del Toro recalled a Brothers Grimm story about a king who offered his daughter’s hand in marriage to anyone who could hold her attention. Three brothers go to the kingdom.
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The youngest is something of a scatterbrain, picking up a piece of string here, a dead bird there. “His brothers laugh at him,” Mr. del Toro said, “but eventually he uses those objects to keep the interest of the princess.” “That’s me,” he continued. “I’ve always got my head in the clouds, looking at the floor, picking up string that nobody picks up, and enshrining it.” Here are four of the magical elements from “Trollhunters,” and a few of the bits of string that informed them.
The Amulet To summon his magical armor and sword, the Trollhunter calls upon a mystical golden talisman, which serves as both a source of his power and a symbol of his high office. Visually, the amulet is “a cross between an Arabian astrolabe and a clock”; its spinning gears evoke “a kind of Arthurian steampunk,” Mr. del Toro said. To make the thing work, its master must speak the magic words, much like Ali Baba’s “Open Sesame,” or Green Lantern’s overly wordy, battery-charging oath. “Every talisman needs an incantation,” Mr. del Toro said. The Trollhunter’s oath — “For the glory of Merlin, daylight is mine to command” — is, of course, straight out of Arthurian legend. “It also hints at some of the deeper origins that we’re going to explore in the series,” Mr. del Toro said.
The Armor The Trollhunter’s gleaming armor was inspired by the polished chrome beauties in John Boorman’s 1981 fantasy “Excalibur.” In that film, the armor of King Arthur and his knights was constantly bathed in an eerie emerald glow (green lights placed offstage created the effect), a visual signature that Mr. del Toro borrowed for his own. “We did a little nod to Boorman,” he said. “Every time you see Jim, there’s a green light that comes from nowhere.” Unlike with Arthur’s suit, however, no loyal page is required to help put it on: When needed, the armor magically attaches piece by piece to the Trollhunter’s body. “That is complete Japanese animation,” he said, occurring in anime including “Ronin Warriors” and “Erza Scarlet.”
The Goblins In addition to trolls, gnomes and changelings, Arcadia has goblins, lots of them. Mr. del Toro’s vengeful creatures, all flashing canines and skittering little legs, are based on Anglo-Saxon myths going back centuries. (The director consulted a book from his own collection, “British Goblins,” an obscure 1880 tome, to help create his modern-day versions.) One particularly nasty trait of goblins is their habit of stealing human babies from cribs and replacing them with “changelings,” tiny creatures that look like babies but aren’t. In the olden days, iron horseshoes were hung near an infant’s crib to prevent the swap, and a magical horseshoe figures in “Trollhunters,” as well. Their insectlike movements are pure del Toro (reminiscent of the stick insect/fairy in “Pan’s Labyrinth”); their creepy tendency to skitter up walls and ceilings evokes memories of Japanese ghost movies. “It’s very much like yokai,” he said, referring to Japan’s famous and centuries-old spooks.
Troll Market The visual heart of the series, Troll Market is a subterranean metropolis pulsing with energy and jewelfueled light, where trolls eat, fight and down brews in pubs straight out of Viking lore. The works of the comic book artist Richard Corben inspired the city’s grand scale and purple-and-orange color scheme. “There is a pulp energy to Richard Corben that no one else gives me,” Mr. del Toro said. Every del Toro creation has an underworld, be they cellars (“Crimson Peak”), labyrinths (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) or monster-infested sewers (“Hellboy”). As a child, Mr. del Toro was entranced by the underground treasure troves of “The Arabian Nights”; later, he fell in love with the 1973 made-forTV movie “The Night Strangler,” which featured scenes shot in downtown Seattle’s famed network of tunnels and passageways. “It spoke about an entire underground city that exists underneath Seattle,” he said. “And I always thought, God, I want to go there. I want to live there.”
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engaged with Islamic community groups to broaden his understanding. (Mr. Gordon is an executive producer of the rebooted “24: Legacy,” debuting in February.) Joshua Safran is the creator of “Quantico,” an ABC series about F.B.I. operatives. Aasif Mandvi, an actor and former correspondent for “The Daily Show,” is adapting his comedy “Halal in the Family” for an animated series. Zarqa Nawaz is the creator of the Canadian series “Little Mosque on the Prairie” (available on Hulu). Cherien Dabis, a filmmaker known for her 2009 indie “Amreeka,” about a Palestinian single mother who emigrates to the United States, was a writer on “Quantico” and now works on “Empire.” She took part via FaceTime from Los Angeles. The conversation was thoughtful, anxious and determined. All seemed well aware of the stakes. “It’s really popular culture that impacts how people feel about one other,” said Sue Obeidi, the director of the Hollywood bureau of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which works with networks and studios to promote Islamic voices. These are edited excerpts. MELENA RYZIK Let’s start by talking about your role as artists. Beyond telling a good story, what is your responsibility — especially with an incoming Trump administration? Do you feel that your job is to reflect society, or to move ideas forward? JOSHUA SAFRAN Both. We had this long talk the day after the election, in the writers’ room, about how the show is about terrorism. We were there for hours. We were crying, and it was really tough. How do you go in there and talk about what terrorists are going to do today? You just don’t want to do that. I don’t want to watch a show about terrorism now. I called the network and I said, “Can we change the show?” They said yes. We’re changing the show so that it can represent, in a dark time, more hope. AASIF MANDVI I think it becomes a difficult conversation, especially for somebody who is from a Muslim background. As an artist, you want to stay true to the narrative, and sometimes that goes against your activist agenda, which is to promote this positive image of Muslims. At the same time, to balance that with a truth that exists, in terms of my own experience with Islam, which may not always be necessarily positive. ZARQA NAWAZ That is exactly what I was worried about when I made “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” I said, I’m going to talk about a mosque where the imam is going to be pro-woman, pro-young people, against this misogyny.
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view. It was eye-opening. MANDVI Once there’s that voice that raises
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that question, “Should we do this? Is this going to be good?,” people who are trying to create something that is more nuanced suddenly feel the pressure. SAFRAN That’s exactly what happened. That one person made all of these other people step forward: “Is this show not balanced? Is the show tipped in one direction?” I believe that that would never have been a conversation if the show was tipped in the other direction. NAWAZ Well, Islamophobes hated “Little Mosque on the Prairie” — hated it. They were, like: “This is terrible. Why is a Canadian network allowing this on television?” What was interesting for me was the execu-
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There was a lot of worry in the Muslim community — well, if you start to wash our dirty laundry in public, then everyone will say, “Oh, we always knew.” But the opposite started happening, because the show was about a whole Muslim community, the good and the bad. And so they started seeing them as full human beings. What they started saying to me was, “This reminds me of my community, my synagogue, my church, my temple. We have the same exact debate you guys have.” HOWARD GORDON The specificity of your story allowed you to tell that story, and make that specific story universal. When you’re doing a show about terrorism — in the case of “24,” there was an accidental resonance. We were well into [creating] the first season when 9/11 happened, so the meaning of it changed so radically. It was brought to my attention pretty quickly from some Muslim Americans: “Hey, I like your show, but you have to understand that you’re contributing to this xenophobia by trafficking in this worst fear, the sort of basest fears.” If nothing else, that started a dialogue — the dawning sense that there’s a responsibility not to just traffic in these not-helpful stereotypes. At the same time, you have the conundrum [that] the show is about counterterrorism. CHERIEN DABIS I think we need real depictions. I was developing a show [in 2013-14] about a Muslim family in Dearborn, [Mich.,] which is the largest community of Arabs outside of the Middle East. I wanted to create this authentic family drama. When I took it into the marketplace, every suggestion was that I needed to have some kind of terrorist component. Ultimately I ended up incorporating it in a way that looked at false accusations of terrorism. But I lost interest in the show because I was like, we can’t keep showing Muslims as terrorists, even if it’s just a false accusation. NAWAZ Do you remember that show “AllAmerican Muslim”? MANDVI We covered “All-American Muslim” [a 2011 TLC series] when I was on “The Daily Show,” because that was a reality show of real Muslim families. Basically everyone was like, “This is propaganda trying to promote Muslims as nice, friendly, nextdoor neighbor people, and we shouldn’t trust these people at all.” The show ultimately got taken off the air because it lost
advertising money. NAWAZ One guy, David Caton, he created
an organization — the only employee, himself — the Family Florida Association. He sent a letter to all the advertisers saying, “This show is propaganda.” SAFRAN One guy took that show down? MANDVI Specifically, Lowe’s pulled their advertising. And other places as well. We focused on Lowe’s, when we did the story on “The Daily Show,” because Muslims can buy a lot of terrorist material at Lowe’s. GORDON Fertilizer! MANDVI When I did my one-man show, many years ago, I wanted to write a story about Muslim characters that were not what Hollywood was putting out there. I got that same reaction, “Oh, this is my family. I recognize [it].” And then 9/11 happened, and we made this movie based on the show. And then the show became political because it wasn’t about terrorism. All people wanted to talk about after 9/11 was terrorism . . . SAFRAN It’s political because it’s not political. NAWAZ But I have great hope for the future. I pitched a show to one of the networks about a Muslim family, and I was told by the executive, “There is no way an American network is going to have a Muslim woman with a hijab on television. Get her out. We will not do it.” And then I watch “Quantico” [which has a main character in a hijab]. I’m like, “Oh my god. I’ve been vindicated.” SAFRAN But it wasn’t about her. NAWAZ It wasn’t about her, but she just changes the whole show for me, to see a Muslim woman in hijab, being her own person. MANDVI My goal is to write a sexy Muslim woman, in hijab. RYZIK Are there shows, besides your own, that you thought did a good job in depicting well-rounded Muslim characters? NAWAZ There was Abed on “Community.” There was Sayid on “Lost.” There’s not a lot of them. There’s a book called “Reel Bad Arabs,” by Jack Shaheen — between the years 1896 to 2000, they analyzed a thousand films with Arabs and Muslims, and 12 of them were positive. MANDVI When I was working on “The
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tives. At first, they were like, “Make it about white people, because no white people are going to want a show about brown people.” But then they realized the white people actually wanted the show. They were like, “Make it more Muslim, Muslim, Muslim.” I’m like, I’m running out of ideas! Because we don’t really do that many weird, wacky things. After a certain point, we act like you guys. We’re kind of all the same.
Brink,” on HBO, I felt like we took great pains to create the character that I played, who is Pakistani, to make his family and him positive. It’s that dilemma: When nonMuslims are writing for some characters, it either becomes they’re terrorists or they’re so P.C. that they end up writing sanctified characters, who are so good and so wellmeaning. We ultimately found that balance, and I think it was good that they had me in the writers’ room because ——. GORDON You gave them license to actually make him a person. RYZIK So, for those of you who are nonMuslim, do you have Muslim writers or producers on your shows? GORDON Writers, producers or consultants. SAFRAN Season 1 we did. In this season, we don’t have a Muslim writer, actually. I did not want that to happen. GORDON I don’t know the statistics, but I think there’s surprisingly a small number of Muslim Writers Guild members. NAWAZ Historically Muslims have gone into nonartist jobs — for example, medicine. MANDVI It’s a cultural thing. SAFRAN Yasmine [Al Massri], who plays [the twins] Nimah and Reina [on “Quantico,”] comes from Lebanon. She grew up in a Muslim household. We bring her to the writers’ room constantly. I have a question for you guys. For me, one of the biggest stumbling blocks wasn’t how the community approached [that portrayal], it was how the industry talks to us about that — which was very difficult. GORDON Really? Without throwing people under the bus? SAFRAN Like you were saying, one voice can take down a show. Well, one voice, at some point, tried to get us to change things, and that was very surprising to me, because this was a show that has many points of
Above left, a scene from the CBC television series “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” created by Zarqa Narwaz.
RYZIK Who must stand up to get a comedy about Muslims on a broadcast network? MANDVI I’ve got a couple of shows in development right now, but they’re not on network, they’re on cable. SAFRAN Network, forget it. I think that’s never going to happen because the executives are all business people now. They no longer come from a creative place, so their brains can’t even go, “I can be at the forefront of something, or I can change something.” They’re just going, “Does this make financial sense?” MANDVI On network, you have to create a show about family and not make it about being Muslim, but then sneak it in every now and then — they happen to go to the mosque. You’re allowed one every now and then. SAFRAN The very special episodes. RYZIK The F.B.I. has said that attacks against Muslims were up 67 percent last year. Do you have any anxiety about your shows being fodder for that? GORDON The short answer is, absolutely, yes. RYZIK What can you do to handle that? GORDON On “Homeland,” it’s an ongoing
and very important conversation. For instance, this year, the beginning of it involves the sort of big business of prosecuting entrapment. It actually tests the edges of free speech. How can someone express
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their discontent with American policy — even a reckless kid who might express his views that may be sympathetic to enemies of America, but still is not, himself, a terrorist, but is being set up to be one by the big business of government? For me to answer, personally, that question, it’s a difficult one. “24” having been the launching point for me to engage in these conversations, which I have been having for 10 years, and being very conscious about not wanting to be a midwife to these base ideas. We’re all affected, unwittingly, by who we are and how we see the world. It requires creating an environment where people can speak freely about these things. It requires this vigilant empathy. SAFRAN For me, it was important to not ever put a Muslim terrorist on our show. There hasn’t been one. This year we have the appearance of one — which is a spoiler. But it’s not true. RYZIK Cherien, can you talk about your experience pitching shows? DABIS Often it’s, “Oh, well, that’s not dramatic enough.” What they’re saying is that it’s just not sensationalized enough. They want it to be ripped out of the headlines, especially when it comes to Middle Eastern content. RYZIK Do you have a stance, when it comes to casting, on whether the actor’s background should match the character’s background? GORDON I did a show called “Tyrant,” one I was not running, but kind of wound up running. The lead was sort of the Arab Godfather, except the family business happened to be the military dictatorship of this country. So, right away, the tone of the show is up for grabs. It was at some level ambitious but ill-conceived, and we wound up casting, in the end, a Brit, who had not a drop of . . . MANDVI A white guy. GORDON A white guy. SAFRAN A white guy, right, to play a halfArab. GORDON Why we didn’t find someone [else], I don’t know why. I will call it my inattention, and somehow this happened, and I knew, at some visceral level, this is going to be, among the many challenges, perhaps the greatest challenge. MANDVI That is the sort of laziness of Hollywood. I auditioned for that show, and I followed that story. It was that tone deafness. One thing is, white people can play anything. SAFRAN Hopefully not anymore. MANDVI But it’s been tradition. You’ve got Jake Gyllenhaal playing the Prince of Persia. I can’t play white people, but white people can play me. GORDON Can you play a Hispanic person?
MANDVI Not really. No. NAWAZ As long as it was a terrorist, yes. SAFRAN And I don’t want to pile on How-
ard, because it’s not his fault, but the thing with “Tyrant” is that . . . GORDON I accept. SAFRAN What bothered me about “Tyrant” was that the financing of the show was not contingent on the star — which, by the way, is no excuse, but you sometimes get that as the excuse. I didn’t know who that actor was, so why did that actor have to be white? MANDVI When we were doing “The Brink,” I would push the production to look for South Asian actors in India. There are huge movie stars in India, very good actors. Most network executives, most showrunners, don’t know these people. So even on “The Brink,” we ended up casting a Persian actor to play a Pakistani general, who was supposed to speak Urdu, and then spoke Urdu really badly. They were like: “That’s fine. It’s good.” DABIS One of the challenges of casting Middle Easterners these days is that Middle Eastern actors are not considered diverse. So for networks checking off diversity initiatives, Middle Eastern actors are considered white because Middle Eastern people are considered white on the U.S. census. I think it’s one of the reasons networks don’t make it a huge priority to put Middle Easterners in the writers’ room or in front of the camera. SAFRAN Here’s the thing: It goes both ways. I think it’s great that we’re being held accountable more now, but at the same time, as a white Jewish writer, I want to be able to write about a wealth of experience. If I am forced to only write from my experience, I’m going to stop writing. Because there’s enough written from my experience. So, should I give up? I don’t want to. GORDON I’m feeling that as well. NAWAZ If you bring in writers with different experiences, you get different stories. For example, I’m going to start growing a henna plant because I’m tired of all these henna powders. To a friend, I said, “But you have to dry the leaves and put them in a baggie. Do you think I’ll get caught for weed possession?” She’s like, “Oh my God, you have to put that in a show, because that is hilarious.” Unless you put someone like me in a show, you’re never going to get that story line. DABIS Obviously, “Empire” is not my experience, but I’m in a writers’ room that’s so diverse, and I think that’s part of what makes the show work.
Above right, a scene from the Showtime series “Homeland.” Below, Cherien Dabis, a writer on the first season of “Quantico,” who is now a writer, producer and director on “Empire.”
weren’t taking talking points from Karl Rove, though, you know, Jack Bauer did stuff that was in a long tradition of Clint Eastwood. Suddenly he became the guy who was the poster child for Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. And I had to explain that. Even “Homeland” — which really tries to talk about the folly of government, of American policy, of misunderstanding, misapprehension, and has been called apologist for normalizing that — at the same time it’s also been thought of as racist. NAWAZ Do you remember the spray, the graffiti [on a “Homeland” set]? GORDON Berlin street artists were dressing the set — what was [meant to be] a refugee camp in Syria — and they said “Homeland” is a watermelon, which I guess is an Arabic curse word. “Homeland” is racist, and “Homeland” is a watermelon.
DABIS Well, watermelon in Arabic just kind
of means nonsense.
GORDON Nonsense, O.K. I just sat down
with the guys, and it was eye-opening. Part of it was just mischief, but part of it started a productive conversation that I think led to this year’s story. I think Alex [Gansa, the showrunner] was so stunned, because this was the last thing in the world he wanted to be a purveyor of. I mean imagine, someone who thinks he is as thoughtful as he possibly can be is being called a watermelon. MANDVI Right. But this is the blind spot, right, we all have it. RYZIK Howard, you were talking about “24.” Given this historical context, and what you know now, do you regret some things? GORDON This was the story that we were telling, and so absent taking the show off the air, it’s a hard thing to say. The short answer is no. I don’t think that we could have done anything differently. I could have left the show. Was my conscience sufficiently bothered that I decided to leave the show? No — I mean I didn’t. I tried to continue with a new level of understanding. The writing reflected, as best as possible, that new dawning and obviously still primitive awareness. RYZIK Let’s talk about our new paradigm.
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Has the Trump presidency changed the urgency? Are the stakes higher than ever to put a new Muslim show on TV? MANDVI It’s imperative. GORDON I’m hopeful, but I’m also pretty upset. We want to make sure that we’re not just talking to ourselves here. NAWAZ I can’t go anywhere, anymore, without people looking at me, going, “Why are you just sitting there? Why aren’t you making a show?” SAFRAN As if it’s up to you. DABIS Now is the time to push forward.
RYZIK Howard, people thought the original
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We had a writers’ room that did have people who were to the right but also the left. We
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Beyond ‘Hamilton,’ for Better and for Worse Its stars move out from under a new cultural brand’s umbrella. “HAMILTON” HAS BEEN the rare production that extends the creative potential of musical theater, provides historical commentary, remakes Broadway’s racial dynamic and, when asked, rises to the political moment. It is as much of a cultural juggernaut as any theatrical production with a usual audience of about 1,300 can be. Even more promising, though, is the “Hamilton” diaspora, the show’s still-evolving potential to shape culture beyond its walls. Key members of the original cast — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr. and Christopher Jackson — are beginning to appear in other projects, several reaffirming the lessons of “Hamilton.” Their new work is becoming a sort of referendum on the world Mr. Miranda imagined and wrote into life, but one that’s not always easy to recreate beyond the stage. Mr. Miranda, who in addition to his Tony victories for “Hamilton,” has also received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy, is making the democratizing of “Hamilton” a continuing part of his creative platform. His most immediate project is the release of “The Hamilton Mixtape,” an album that takes his show off the stage and puts it in the mouths of a winning group of singers and rappers: Kelly Clarkson, Nas, Alicia Keys, Chance the Rapper and more. This isn’t the only time that the music has been divorced from the show — the cast album of “Hamilton” has undoubtedly been consumed by many more people than have been able to see the musical in person. (Since its September 2015 release, it has posted 829,000 album sales and 883 million streams, according to Nielsen Music.) But the soundtrack is still a collection of musical-theater songs, and Mr. Miranda has wider, more ambitious goals for his music. By and large, the singers on “The Hamilton Mixtape” treat Mr. Miranda’s material reverently, as interpreters handling a precious jewel: Ms. Clarkson on “It’s Quiet Up-
town,” Ms. Keys on “That Would Be Enough.” Others go above and beyond: John Legend gives “History Has Its Eyes on You” a bolt of 1960s soul dignity, shaving it down to an urgent piano arrangement. Andra Day adds swing and sass to “Burn,” and Usher gives “Wait for It” a sensuality the original lacked (and maybe wasn’t suited for, though that’s no obstacle). The savviest moment here is “Helpless,” which revives the playful singer-rapper chemistry between Ashanti and Ja Rule, and draws a direct parallel between Mr. Miranda’s songwriting and real-world pop. Like the best parts of this collection, this tale of puppy love suggests that the ideas Mr. Miranda seeks to spread have always found a welcoming home in pop music. “The Hamilton Mixtape” serves as a proxy for how “Hamilton” has entered the wider popular imagination, but Mr. Miranda is also beginning to present work outside of that umbrella. He was one of the songwriters for “Moana,” the new Disney film set in the Pacific islands, the highlights of which include the soaring anthem “How Far I’ll Go,” sung by Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) and the wry “You’re Welcome,” with the familiar Miranda blend of singing and rapping, performed by Maui (Dwayne Johnson). (For good measure, “Moana” also features brief vocals by Mr. Jackson and Phillipa Soo, who played Eliza Schuyler in “Hamilton.”) Mr. Miranda is a natural in this context: matching exposition to melody is one of his many gifts. Disney should call him if it ever gets around to making a film with a Latina princess. Mr. Miranda’s reach is also expanding in a manner unusual for even the most acclaimed of Broadway talents. He has appeared on “Drunk History” on Comedy Central, telling a loose-tongued version of the Hamilton story. He will star alongside Emily Blunt in the film “Mary Poppins Returns,” and he recently signed on to produce film and TV adaptations of Patrick Rothfuss’s fantasy series, “The Kingkiller Chronicle.” He has also been active in bringing attention to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and raised money for the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights. For some “Hamilton” stars, leaving the stage has meant a turn to music. Mr. Odom has released two albums: a self-titled collection of standards, and “Simply Christmas,” a holiday set. He has a sterling voice, and in his music he is much more comfortable with his upper register than in “Hamilton,” where his role as the villain Aaron Burr only sometimes (“Dear Theodosia”) allowed him to showcase his tender side. He
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Clockwise from top: From left, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson at the world premiere of the Disney movie “Moana,” for which Mr. Miranda was one of the songwriters; from left, Daveed Diggs, who was in the original cast of “Hamilton,” with Marcus Scribner, Marsai Martin and Miles Brown on the ABC sitcom “Black-ish”; Leslie Odom Jr., who has released two albums since “Hamilton,” including “Simply Christmas”; Christopher Jackson, formerly of “Hamilton,” on the TV show “Bull,” which stars Michael Weatherly, left; Mr. Miranda’s latest project, “The Hamilton Mixtape,” an album featuring a range of rappers and singers delivering the musical’s songs.
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even brings a level of dignity and creativity to the commercial he recorded for Nationwide Insurance, taking that company’s seven-note jingle and building a short song about life’s complexities around it. Like Mr. Odom, Mr. Diggs is a musician, and in September he and his avant-rap troupe, Clipping, released a new album, “Splendor & Misery.” In “Hamilton,” Mr. Diggs had perhaps the most complex task, playing both the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, and rapping in warpspeed cadences that are difficult to replicate. In his own career, he is a rapper, too, and an intricate one, but his subject matter is even more provocative. “Splendor & Misery” is a striking tale of interstellar slave rebellion, heavily inspired by black sciencefiction writers. Like “Hamilton,” it’s about re-empowering the disenfranchised by upending the system used for oppression. At the same time, Mr. Diggs has been appearing in the far smoother environs of the network sitcom, with a recurring role on “Black-ish,” the ABC family comedy about the intersection of contemporary race and class anxiety. Mr. Diggs plays Johan, the brother of the matriarch, Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross). He’s a spoken-word poet just home after living in France, given to saying things like: “This chilled butter wreaks havoc on a croissant. You Americans and your mania for refrigeration.” Initially, Johan is there to serve as an antagonist to Andre (Anthony Anderson), Rainbow’s husband, who is perpetually trying to hold his heritage and the lessons of his upbringing close in the face of professional ladder-climbing, financial success and suburbanization, and whose perception of race relations is forged in the shadow of the civil rights era. But “Black-ish” is too nuanced to make Johan’s bohemian self-righteousness one-note. Outside of his sister, Johan finds the most common ground with Andre’s stodgy, irascible father (Laurence Fishburne). They’re both skeptical of the utility of voting, but, even so, are both agitated by voter suppression. And most surprisingly, after a dust-up with the police (it takes place offscreen), Johan seems shaken up, and pulled closer to Andre’s worldview, doubting even his precious poetry. (Mr.
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Diggs has also appeared, lip-syncing lyrics written and performed by Nas, in awkward interstitial segments of “The Get Down,” Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant love letter to the early days of hip-hop.) Unfortunately, projects featuring the women of “Hamilton” are moving more slowly. On Dec. 4, Ms. Soo will begin playing the title role in “Amélie” in Los Angeles before it goes to Broadway. Renée Elise Goldsberry, who played Angelica Schuyler, will play Henrietta Lacks in the coming HBO adaptation of Rebecca Skloot’s book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” The power of “Hamilton” becomes most clear when one of the principals materializes in an ecosystem that’s far less diverse, nurturing and welcoming. In “Hamilton,” Mr. Jackson played George Washington as a wise older-brother figure, stern boss and deliverer of tender soliloquies about the limits of executive power. On the new CBS procedural “Bull,” he is Chunk Palmer, a former college football star reborn as a style consultant for besieged defendants in need of a sartorial boost.
“Bull” is prototypical network primetime chum: Each self-contained episode revolves around a single legal case; the protagonist is an omniscient, infallible, borderline unethical white man. In some episodes, Mr. Jackson has barely a dozen lines — he is a bit player, part of a team built largely to emphasize how many different sorts of misfits Bull (Michael Weatherly) can wrangle to work under him. Even the wardrobe fails Mr. Jackson here. He is meant to be the fashion expert, but apparently believes that a peak-lapel salmon blazer goes with a muted buttondown-collar multicolor-striped shirt paired with a paisley tie. (Whoever knots his ties should be reassigned to craft services.) Watching “Bull” after seeing “Hamilton,” it is difficult not to want to reach into the television and yank Mr. Jackson to higher ground, somewhere beyond the reach of trite stories and synthetic fabrics. His work on the show serves as a reminder to never again casually dismiss the talented actors who are cashing checks by working on a structurally unforgiving procedural. And it’s also a reminder that vast swaths of contemporary pop culture aren’t designed to showcase diverse talents and narratives — gatekeepers are still coloring within old lines. Even though it tells a story from more than two centuries ago, Mr. Miranda’s “Hamilton” still manages to show the world as it could be, not as it is.
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A Fine Tradition, Skiing the Alps A lapsed skier finds an annual trip to Austrian slopes was all he needed to reclaim his passion.
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One more run. We had to take one more run from the Zehnerkar peak down the steep, snowy trails, beyond the black strings of chairlifts and all the way into the Austrian valley below, where the high-speed gondola would gather us up like parishioners crowding into church and whisk us back to the top.
My legs were tired and trembling a little, but my friends Christoph and Thomas were too excited about the packed powder, sunshine and empty trails in this corner of the Obertauern ski area to stop now. After that next run we would have earned the Alpine refreshments, the spiked mountain-goat milk and the yeast dumpling drizzled in vanilla sauce. There were traditions to uphold,
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the Wiener schnitzel, the pear schnapps, but most of all the camaraderie that came with our yearly weekend trip to Austria. I know that sounds extravagant — “my annual trip to the Alps with my friends” — but they’re German, and I was living in Berlin when we started the tradition. Christoph and I would hop down on a short
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A Writer’s Peaceful Prairie David Foster Wallace’s tortured spirit found work and rest in Midwestern college towns. By LYNN FREEHILL-MAYE
There is a spare beauty to the Illinois prairie, with winds swooshing between its wide sky and paper-flat fields. Central Illinois will often surprise visitors who don’t realize there’s much between St. Louis and Chicago. But the writer David Foster Wallace knew this gusty stretch of the Midwest well. He felt at peace among the prairie lights of its university towns, which nourished his literary genius before his death in 2008, at age 46. In early spring, before the crops were planted, I drove down from Chicago’s Midway Airport along Route 66, that old-fashioned strip of duct tape affixing America’s great farmland to California and the Mountain West. Wallace had driven that direction
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A cornfield along Route 66 between Pontiac and Chenoa in central Illinois, where David Foster Wallace found shelter and stability.
many times, I knew, returning from major literary-tour stops around the country to his anonymous home in central Illinois. Local farmers were burning off the rainwashed stalks and husks of last year’s harvest. Stiff winds blew the smoke flat, creating a dreamy white line above black fields. The late-afternoon air carried the tang of clippings burning slow and controlled like patchouli incense, a discordant thought for this anything-but-countercultural area. To the west, orange and peach striations yielded to a deep blue that mellowed the full sky. Distracted by the sunset, I drove below 50 miles an hour, holding up the red Ford pickup behind me on the two-lane road. After catching the wild light reflected on a series of ponds, once a limestone quarry, outside the town of Chenoa, I pulled over. This sunset was an IMAX-dimension prairie fire. My mother had urged me back to the state’s glacier-flattened center, where I CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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on New York City’s food heritage. When the food writer Andrew F. Smith had an idea for a new book on New York City, he went for an intriguing angle. “We preserve the homes of people who were born here and later became famous, and we preserve all sorts of artwork,” he said, “but people don’t think about preserving a city’s food heritage, which was something that was missing in New York.” His idea resulted in the book “Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City,” which he edited. The topics range from the culinary history of the Lower East Side to the emergence of Automats, where food was dispensed to patrons through small vending windows. Below are edited excerpts from an interview with Mr. Smith. . ............................................................................
Q. “Savoring Gotham” is an ambitious delve into the city’s food and history. What led you to edit such a book? A. I really became interested in New York City food in 1991, with the closure of the Horn & Hardart [Automat]. To me, this was something that was symbolic of New York City food, so when it closed it seemed as though something was lost. Over the course of 20 years, I collected a lot of material about the history and culture of the city’s food system. I previously wrote “New York City: A Food Biography,” which was published in 2013, but that contained just small a fraction of the material that I collected, so I went to the pub-
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Hotel Rosa Alpina in the Dolomites of Italy.
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In a photo from 1945, Broadway and 42nd Street in Manhattan in front of the Horn & Hardart Automat.
lisher and said that we really need an encyclopedia of New York City. They’d never done anything like that before, and it took about a year to convince them that it was something that merited their attention. With the proliferation of chain stores and higher operating costs in the city, what is the challenge of restaurants opening in the future? I live in Brooklyn and it’s great. There are many new start-ups here. This is the place to come if you want good food. When I moved to New York, much of Manhattan was decaying. It was relatively easy to open up momand-pop shops. Today, every inch of real estate in Manhattan is going sky-high with condo construction, so it is not going to be easy for smaller operations.
What New York neighborhoods have impressed you with their food offerings? From Park Slope, Brooklyn, west to Manhattan, there must be at least 300 or 400 new places that have opened up recently, and many of them are excellent. Bushwick, Brooklyn, is another place where you can walk around, and there are incredible places opening. Once you get out of the really expensive restaurants in Manhattan, you have ethnic restaurants that are opening from virtually every group. There must be 180 or more different food groups in the city, and the vast majority are in the outer boroughs [Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island]. You can get good Ethiopian and excellent Afghan food farther out into the city. Who makes your favorite cheesecake in
the city? Junior’s. It’s a Brooklyn establishment. I’ve been going there for 30 years and it has become a tradition for me. Let’s say someone is in New York for a short trip. What are three food places they have to try? I love New York’s ethnic diversity, so I would strongly encourage them to go to an ethnic establishment to have cuisine that they haven’t sampled before. I would certainly encourage them to go to some of the more expensive restaurants. Lastly, they should go to a food truck. Some people turn up their noses at trucks because they don’t want to think of them as purveyors of good food, but I think this is one of the more interesting trends going on in New York. JOHN L. DORMAN
TRAVEL TIPS
Getting the Most Out of a Vacation by Train
ANDY HASLAM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Our article on Nov. 13 by Jessica Colley Clarke about lighthouses in Ireland (“Beckoning Beacons”) drew several responses. Below are two, edited.
Drawn to the Light What a lovely story. My uncle, Harry Barr, was a lighthouse keeper and worked in the Fanad Head lighthouse. Next time I visit Ireland I will definitely try to stay at the lighthouse. EIMAR BARR
As a boy in the west of Ireland I dreamed of staying in a lighthouse. The dream came true in March 2015 when I stayed at Clare Island for two nights. It was one of the highlights of my life, and the hospitality was first class. EAMONN MONSON
For more, visit facebook.com /nytimestravel.
If you think that traveling by train isn’t your idea of a fun vacation, think again, says Eleanor Flagler Hardy, the president of the Society of International Railway Travelers, a Louisville, Ky.-based travel agency specializing in trips by rail. “Traveling by train is a fabulous way to see any country unfold, and you can truly relax onboard because you’re not worrying about driving, directions or traffic,” she said. Here, she shares her top tips on planning an enjoyable train trip. There’s a train journey for just about every type of traveler. For example, VIA Rail Canada and Rocky Mountaineer, both Canadian companies, offer the option of two- to three-day trips that are suited for families with younger children. Active travelers will appreciate the Gornergrat Bahn or the Glacier Express in Switzerland because their itineraries have the option to disembark and take hikes through the surrounding mountains, while those seeking a longer, more relaxed journey should consider Golden Eagle’s 21-day Silk Road, which travels between Beijing and Moscow, or Rovos Rail’s 15-day journey between Cape Town and Dar es Salaam. PICK THE RIGHT TRAIN
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vacations can accommodate both luxury and cost-conscious travelers. Pricey train trips with high-quality service, multicourse meals paired with premium wines and deluxe accommodations include the Venice SimplonOrient-Express, which goes through various destinations in Europe, the Belmond Royal Scotsman, through Scotland, England and Wales, and the Eastern & Oriental Express, which includes a Bangkok-to-Singapore itinerary. For more affordable trips, Ms. Hardy recommended select Amtrak itineraries in the United States and any sleeper trains in Europe. “You get the same gorgeous scenery and reliable service for a fraction of the
price of a luxury train,” she said. PACK LIGHT Minimizing your luggage is essential on a rail vacation, said Ms. Hardy, because most trains have limited storage space. Also, unless you’re on a luxury journey, you’re responsible for managing your own bags, and the fewer you have, the easier they are to handle. Ms. Hardy recommended taking no more than one small roller bag and small backpack per person. PLAN WISELY Avoid the three mistakes rookie train travelers tend to make. First, show up for your trip at the right train station since many cities around the world have multiple train stations. Next, when it comes to an international train trip, though you may save money if you buy your ticket in the country you’re going to be traveling in, don’t. Instead, buy your ticket before you leave home because your desired train may sell out otherwise. Last, arrive at your train departure city one day ahead of the departure, and plan to stay one night at your destination after arrival. “Flights can be delayed, and your train won’t wait for you, and trains can be late, and you don’t want to be ruining your relaxing time on the train worrying about making your flight,” Ms. Hardy said. SHIVANI VORA
Checking into a hotel and sleeping in the same room for your entire stay might be the norm but is undoubtedly routine. Travelers looking for variety can now have it. Some properties are giving their guests a chance to spend a night or more in secluded lodgings. • The upscale Hotel Rosa Alpina in the Dolomites of Italy, for example, has a small cabin at an altitude of 6,000 feet with no electricity or hot water. Guests reach it from the main hotel by hiking, mountain biking or car and arrive in time to catch the sunset. A dinner of grilled meats and vegetables, cheeses and wine — either prepared on their own or with the help of a hotel chef — follows. Prices from 650 euros (about $730) a night, which includes accommodations and dinner with wine. “There is something to be said about getting away from the creature comforts and being surrounded by stillness and stars,” said the hotel’s owner, Hugo Pizzinini. • The Gstaad Palace in Gstaad, in the Swiss Alps, has the Walig Hut, a mountain farmhouse that’s reachable by a two- to three-hour hike. Along the way, guests take in views of the snow-covered peaks and lush green valleys. At the hut they’re greeted by one of the hotel’s chefs, who will cook them dinner. Prices from $1,560 a night with dinner. • At Lion Sands Game Reserve in South Africa, adjacent to Kruger National Park, guests can book Chalkley’s Treehouse, a room on a platform underneath a canopy of stars; once there, they enjoy a sunset aperitif and picnic dinner. Prices from $240 a person, including dinner and drinks. • For a larger group there is Perivolas Hideaway, at Perivolas Lifestyle Houses in Santorini, Greece. The four-bedroom villa is on the nearby island of Therasia and comes with a boat for exploring the area, meals, alcohol, laundry and a staff of five; 70,000 euros a week for eight guests. SHIVANI VORA
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ONLINE BLOG, WRITTEN BY THE EDITORS AND REPORTERS OF THE TRAVEL SECTION, AT NYTIMES.COM/INTRANSIT
CORRECTIONS
The Frugal Traveler column last Sunday, about the Kowloon area of Hong Kong, characterized Hong Kong incorrectly. It is a city, not a country.
An article last Sunday about a family trip to Hawaii misstated the location of Kona on the Big Island. It is on the island’s leeward, not windward, side.
An article last Sunday about Catskill, N.Y., gave an outdated reference to a performing arts organization. It is Lumberyard, no longer American Dance Institute.
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Want to Check Out Canada? Hotels and Resorts Are Ready A collection of trips and packages designed to show off the country. By SHIVANI VORA
For some United States residents, Canada is an increasingly attractive vacation destination and, possibly, a country to live in. Do Americans really want to move to Canada? It certainly looks that way, at least since the United States presidential election. Canada’s immigration site crashed on election night, and statistics from the airfare predictor app Hopper show that between midnight and 1 a.m. Eastern on Nov. 9, the time period when the news media reported that President-elect Donald J. Trump had taken the lead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, there was a 210 percent spike in searches for one-way flights to Canada among eight United States and Canadian airlines, including Delta, American Airlines and Porter Airlines. And, according to data from the
travel search engine Kayak, there was a 13 percent increase in flight searches from the United States to Canada for three days after the election, compared with the same period the previous week. Whether the immediate postelection effect of Canada’s appeal as a permanent home is here to stay remains to be seen. But heading there for a getaway is more of an established trend: From January through August of this year, the number of visitors from the United States to Canada increased 9.4 percent, to 9.8 million people, compared with the same period last year, according to Destination Canada, Canada’s national tourism marketing organization. Also, Kayak saw a 15 percent increase in flight searches from the United States to Canada between Jan. 1 and Nov. 22 this year compared with the same time frame in 2015. The surge, said Adam Weissenberg, the head of travel, hospitality and leisure at Deloitte & Touche, is likely caused by the strength of the United States dollar against the Canadian dollar. “Canada is a bargain for Americans to visit right now and is the
A visit to the Tobeatic Wilderness Area includes canoe trips and hiking.
best deal it has been in a while,” he said. Numbers from the New York City-based economic research firm Oxford Economics show that this value proposition is true: the United States dollar appreciated around 25 percent against the Canadian dollar from the second quarter of 2013 to the second quar-
ter of 2016 (the latest exchange rate is around 1 United States dollar to around 1.35 Canadian dollars). Here are five trips that may inspire you to vacation in Canada: Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta is offering the Jasper Family Ski Experience over the winter. Included are accommoda-
tions, transportation to and from the ski hill and ski lift tickets for two adults and one child. Prices from 469 Canadian dollars a night for a two-night minimum. The Delta Grand Okanagan Resort, in the heart of British Columbia’s Okanagan wine region, has a “Ski Canada’s Champagne Powder” package. Included are accommodations for two nights, two ski passes for Big White Ski Resort, located an hour away, return transportation from the ski resort and a wine tasting for two. Available until March 31. Prices from 515 Canadian dollars. The Ritz-Carlton, Montreal has a Colder the Better package. Guests who book a suite in the downtown hotel save 1 percent off their room rate for every degree the temperature falls below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). If the temperature is minus 15 Celsius, for example, the discount is 15 percent (the city’s late winter and early spring temperatures usually hover at around minus 10 Celsius). Included are a suite with a fireplace, a welcome amenity of cookies, tea and hot chocolate, breakfast, parking and a late checkout. Prices from 800 Canadi-
an dollars a night. Josh Alexander, from the travel consultancy ProTravel, has created the four-night Ontario MiniBreak that explores the region’s highlights. In Toronto, guests stay at the Shangri-La Toronto and take a private tour of the city’s haunted site; in Stratford, they go canoeing down the Avon River; in Niagara-on-the-Lake, they visit a local winery; and in Niagara Falls, they take a behind-the-scenes tour of the namesake falls. Prices from $1,500 for two. For more information, email josh.alexander @protravelinc.com. On a guided trip with adventure travel company Ukaliq Wilderness Adventures, explore the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in Nova Scotia renowned for its varied geography of barren landscapes, interconnected lakes and pine forests. Guests take hikes and canoe trips in the summer, snowshoe in the winter and stay overnight in a tent. A three-day trip for two people starts at 1,150 Canadian dollars and includes transportation from Halifax to the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, tents, canoeing equipment and all meals and snacks.
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Navigating the New and Expanded Airbnb With Trips, the company could become a major travel-booking site like Expedia. AIRBNB, THE PEER-TO-PEER accommodations site where travelers book everything from single rooms to entire villas, has spent the last couple of years branching out. It has teamed up with airlines like Delta and Virgin America to give miles to travelers who book stays. And it has teamed up with travel management companies including American Express Global Business Travel on its Airbnb for Business program, which includes homes with business essentials such as Wi-Fi and laptop-friendly work spaces. Now, the company has unveiled its most ambitious endeavor yet — Trips — designed to help travelers not only book accommodations, but also book activities like cooking and painting lessons; take audio walking tours; and attend meetups. Soon users will be able to make restaurant reservations through the Airbnb app. And the company says car rentals, grocery deliveries and even flights are in the works, further propelling Airbnb toward being a fullfledged travel company. “This is literally just the beginning,” Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s chief executive, said in November at the Airbnb Open in Los Angeles, where the company’s leaders discussed what’s in the pipeline. So far, Trips has experiences available in a dozen cities worldwide: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Detroit, Havana, London, Paris, Florence, Nairobi, Cape Town, Tokyo and Seoul. Mr. Chesky said that it would expand to more than 50 cities next year. “Trips is an immense program of both vertical and horizontal expansion of Airbnb’s business model,” said Bjorn Hanson, a clinical professor with the New York University School of Professional Studies at the Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism. Indeed, the revenue from the new Trips businesses could exceed Airbnb’s core business revenue in just a few years, he said in an email. It ultimately could put Airbnb in the same class as major trip-booking sites like Expedia. Yet Airbnb’s expansion over the last eight years has not been without controversy. Travelers have experienced discrimination by Airbnb hosts, leading the company to create a new nondiscrimination policy. In New York, politicians and tenants’ rights groups said that Airbnb worsened affordable housing problems. In San Francisco, Airbnb was fined for processing illegal listings. Even as Airbnb is working to fix these and other issues, it is pushing forward. Trips includes three categories (for now), which appear at the top of the Airbnb app:
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Experiences (activities such as following a member of the Tuscan Truffle Hunters Association through a forest in Italy, or motorcycling from Nairobi to Lake Naivasha with a biker); Places (online local guides for, say, finding authentic tacos and scenic trails; audio walking tours; and meetups); and Homes (Airbnb offers about three million rentals). In the future, it plans to add additional categories such as flights, though exactly what that might include remains to be seen. What awaits you in Trips? Let’s take a look. EXPERIENCES While researching flights and hotels online has become second nature, few companies have managed to offer a worldwide variety of local experiences and make them easy and attractive to browse. Few sites offer consistency when it comes to particulars like photos, clutterfree pages and reviews. And not all sites offer the chance to communicate with a guide in advance. Airbnb’s “Experiences,” which you can browse in thumbnails that call to mind old movie posters, are clear and fleshed out and allow travelers to post reviews and contact hosts in advance. Experiences vary in length and cost, such as “Biking Hidden Tokyo,” a three-day cycling tour (with stops for meals) for $301, or “Bubbly With a View,” a four-hour wine estate tour and tasting of Methode Cap Classique, a South African style of wine, in the Franschhoek wine val-
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ley for $73. Half the experiences offered on Airbnb are below $200, Mr. Chesky said. Airbnb divides experiences into multiday “immersions” or single experiences ( just a few hours). You can filter by interest, such as “food & drink,” “history,” “nature,” “wellness,” “fashion,” “sports,” “arts” and “social impact,” which are experiences offered for the benefit of nonprofit organizations like the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Facing Change: Documenting Detroit. Beginning last month, would-be hosts in the dozen cities mentioned above, as well as
SMARTER LIVING
Let Social Media Be Your Guide Venture beyond Twitter and Facebook and expand your circle. By JUSTIN SABLICH
When it comes to planning and navigating a trip, guidebooks have started to give way to social media. For searching and crowdsourcing tips, it’s tough to beat the old-guard apps, led by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — all established networks that are easy to use and have a broad reach. Don’t discount travel-focused accounts on Snapchat or niche-focused social apps, though. No matter which network you prefer, here are five ways to use social media to get the most out of your next trip. Among the networks that use geo-targeting, Instagram is particularly suited to checking out locations, in real time, with a simple search or by clicking on hashtags. “Whether it’s taking a peek at the food served at a restaurant or seeing how crowded an attraction might be, it’s kind of a way to visually snoop before deciding to go,” said Rachelle Lucas, travel and food expert at thetravelbite.com. Pinterest, another photo-driven app, is great for those seeking inspiration about where to go and what to see. “It stands out against other platforms as it is relevant and useful for each different stage of your trip, from the planning stages in the beginning to sharing photographs after you’ve returned at the end,” said Megan Jerrard, who blogs about her travels at mappingmegan.com.
1. GO ONLINE TO SCOUT.
2. MOVE PAST THE FRIEND ZONE.
Asking your Facebook friends for travel suggestions can lead to some useful information, but if you don’t mind talking to strangers, you might find a wider array of options. “Facebook is friends; Twitter is the world,” said J. D. Andrews, a travel photographer and videographer who runs earthxplorer.com. Of course, not all of us have Mr. Andrews’s reach on Twitter (more than 180,000 followers). For us mere mortals, hashtags can again come to the rescue: Seek out us-
This is the second in a series of articles about getting started as a traveler.
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Instagram is ideal for checking out locations, in real time, with a search.
ers who specialize in the places you are researching, using search and hashtags. “I’ll usually get a few great recommendations either from locals that are excited to highlight something they love about their city or a traveler that had a great experience and wants to share it,” Ms. Lucas said. And if you are willing to expand your Facebook circle, that can come in handy, too, especially if you ask friends who might have connections overseas. “There may not be anyone within our Facebook circles traveling to Madrid on our given dates, but one of our friends tags their friends, their friends share the post with theirs, and the world becomes a lot smaller quite quickly,” Ms. Jerrard said. 3. TRUST THE LOCALS. Need dinner plans? If you’re willing to take some risks in the form of advice from strangers, you could end up with a memorable experience. Just make sure to be specific in your requests. “I’ll often ask my followers ‘What can’t I miss in Reykjavik?’ or ‘Where can I find the best tapas in Barcelona?’ It almost always unearths something interesting I wouldn’t have otherwise found,” said Stephanie Yoder, who blogs at twenty-somethingtravel.com. 4. SERVICE WITH AN EMOJI. Many airlines have been bolstering their customer service departments with social media specialists to respond to questions and complaints on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Posting about a travel problem may now be the fastest
way to get it resolved. “Someone from the KLM Twitter team rebooked a flight for me that was delayed while I was still on board the plane,” Mr. Andrews said. Not all stories will have endings that happy, of course, but it can’t hurt to try. 5. BEYOND TWITTER AND FACEBOOK. Don’t discount apps and
networks that specialize in a particular area of interest or help you organize your trip. If you’re heading to wine country, for example, Ms. Lucas suggests Vivino, which relies on its 19 million users for wine recommendations. “All you have to do is take a picture of a wine label and it automatically looks up the wine and gives you tasting notes about it,” she said. Snapchat now has more daily users than Twitter, and while it may be more difficult to target specific interests or locations (you can’t search for snaps as you can tweets, and they expire after 24 hours), there are travel-focused accounts worth following for general inspiration. The best ones are those of fulltime travelers like @anna-everywhere and @ExpertVagabond who offer perspectives from around the world, presented in an appealingly immersive way. There are also apps that can help you plan your entire itinerary. TripIt, for example, allows you to share your travel details with a chosen circle. “It’s a great way to see where my friends and colleagues are traveling and to arrange meetups when it’s serendipitous,” Ms. Yoder said.
Airbnb now offers “immersions” or “single” experiences that travelers can book, in areas like the arts.
Besides a room, how about a bike trip in Tokyo or an audio walking tour?
in nearly 40 more — including Berlin, Cartagena, Chicago, Dubai, New Delhi, Reykjavik, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Toronto — could begin asking to list their experiences with Airbnb. An experience purchased through the site can be canceled within 24 hours of booking for a full refund. If you cancel 30 days or more before the experience, you are also eligible for a full refund. If, however, you cancel less than 30 days before the start date, you won’t receive a refund, unless the spot is booked and the experience completed by another guest. More details are at Airbnb.com/experiences/cancellation -policy. Airbnb has also introduced a new identity authentication process for those offering and booking experiences. They have to scan an official government ID (like a passport) and then take a selfie in real time (which must match the ID photo). While meant to help protect users, these and other security measures raise privacy concerns. For instance, the site stores your government ID photo, and information you provide to Airbnb is shared with third-party partners. To help make an informed decision about whether you want to participate, check out the site’s “help” section for details. PLACES The “Places” category focuses on sightseeing. This includes free themed guides written by local influencers about their own cities. A pianist in Havana, for instance, writes about where to hear live music like salsa and jazz. A booking agent in California writes about the Los Angeles rock scene. So far, there are 100 such guides in six cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Havana, Nairobi, Detroit and Seoul. In addition to guides, Places also offers audio walking tours. Airbnb partnered with Detour, which creates GPS tours of cities. Right now the tours are available only in certain areas of downtown Los Angeles and can be downloaded free. In the spring of 2017, additional city tours will include San Francisco, Paris, London, Tokyo and Seoul. Under “Places,” users may also find Meetups — free get-togethers for Airbnb users hosted by local businesses. A feature called Nearby Now offers tips and advice for places around you, like restaurants. For those on the go, a partnership with a restaurant booking platform called Resy will soon allow travelers to book tables at such restaurants through the Airbnb app. Resy said the feature will be available in early 2017. HOMES The “Homes” tab includes Airbnb’s rentals. In the future, users will be able to use the “Homes” tab to have groceries delivered to their Airbnb. They will also be able to book rental cars.
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In Macau, a Respite From Hong Kong Away from the casinos, cobblestone streets and old churches with a European feel. AS WE BUMPED ALONG in the No. 25 bus on Estrada do Istmo, it was impossible not to notice the Venetian Macau, a mountain of steel and glass, shining in the distance in the afternoon sun. Opened in 2007, it’s home to one of the largest casinos on earth. And it’s not alone: Of the 10 biggest casinos in the world in 2014 (based on revenue), a staggering eight were in Macau, a tiny region on the southern coast of China, where over half a million people are packed into fewer than 12 square miles. But I wasn’t there to gamble. Following a precedent I’d established in my very first Frugal Traveler column, when I toured Las Vegas without going to the famed Strip, I was determined to break the shell of Macau’s opulent exterior and see what lay beneath the surface. During a quick two-night trip, taking the ferry across the Pearl River Estuary, I found it was the perfect place for a getaway from the noise and intense urban compactness of Hong Kong. Owing to its colonial past, Macau, with its cobblestone streets, old Catholic churches and narrow alleyways, has an almost European feel to it, along with an interesting local cuisine that fuses Portuguese and Chinese flavors. And my focus, naturally, was putting this trip together without causing undue strain on my budget. Macau was one of the first Asian settlements to be forced into the yoke of European colonization and the last to shed it, achieving full independence from Portugal in 1999. As with Hong Kong, China administers Macau but employs a somewhat laissez-faire, capitalist-friendly approach. There are no visa requirements for Americans staying in Macau fewer than 30 days (you will need to bring your passport). The TurboJet ferry ride from Hong Kong (150 to 200 Hong Kong dollars for an economy fare, about $20 to $25) is reasonably quick and comfortable. Ferries leave from various spots in Hong Kong regularly, so if you miss one, there’s no need to worry. (Be more cautious when you’re leaving Macau — it’s easier to end up on the wrong ferry.) My attack plan was simple: to see as much as I could, by foot and by public transportation. Macau is traditionally divided into three sections: the peninsula and the islands of Coloane and Taipa. (A fourth “region” of land reclaimed from the ocean, Cotai, now connects Coloane and Taipa and is the home to many of the newer casinos.) I particularly had my eye on rustic Coloane Village in the south. Though I had no plans to indulge in the
casinos, one lesson I’ve learned in my travels is that where there’s gambling, cheap rooms follow — it’s how they lure you in. I was able to land a very comfortable, relatively luxurious room at the Sofitel on the western side of the peninsula for 650 Hong Kong dollars, a little over $80. Close to the center of the city, it was an ideal jumping-off point. I was able to check another essential off the list by walking to Yin He Dian Xun (roughly, Galaxy Telecommunications) and purchasing a 500-gigabyte SIM card from a very helpful young woman for 50 Macanese patacas (about $6). Ah, yes, the currency. The Macanese pataca and Hong Kong dollar are separate currencies but virtually interchangeable in Macau. Change will sometimes come in patacas, sometimes in Hong Kong dollars. A dollar is, however, slightly more valuable than a pataca. If you’re considering making a big souvenir purchase (like gold or jade jewelry, which is plentiful on the main drag of Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro) either use a credit card with no foreign transaction fee, or walk into a bank to exchange for patacas — I was able to do both without difficulty. Senado Square, within walking distance of my hotel, was a good place to begin exploring. Beautiful old yellow and pink pastel buildings with arched doorways and green shuttered windows frame the historic square, which is paved with small tiles. It was a perfect place to stroll and enjoy the egg tart I’d purchased for 9 dollars from Koi Kei Bakery. The egg tart is one of Macau’s signature delicacies, a local interpretation of the Portuguese pastel de nata — perfectly creamy custard with a pleasantly caramelized top, encased within a delicate, flaky pastry cup. Another distinctive item is the pork chop bun. I stopped into the celebrated Tai Lei Loi Kei, a nearly 50-year-old Macanese chain, and paid 48 dollars for a small, bonein pork chop that had been slapped somewhat unceremoniously onto a buttered white roll. Fortunately the meat was simply seasoned and well cooked (just be careful not to break a tooth). In addition to its cuisine, Macau has memorable architecture. Catholic influence is still very much present, at least aesthetically. St. Dominic’s Church, a beautifully restored, custard-colored 16th-century structure, is free to enter, as is a three-story art museum housed in the church’s bell tower. I looked over the icons and relics of the church on display, including beautiful old wooden carvings. Other worthy architectural attractions include the Ruins of St. Paul, a grand stone facade that is one of the few remaining pieces of a centuries-old complex. While there, I made the steep hike up to the adjacent Fort-
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aleza do Monte, which provided an excellent view of the city. I could walk to the ruins and St. Dominic’s from my hotel, but despite Macau’s compact size, not everything is walkable. I would not recommend driving in Macau, nor riding one of the city’s ubiquitous scooters. I found a bike rental shop called Si Toi in Taipa that charged 20 dollars per hour (only $2.50, remember) but I ultimately decided on the bus: I found it cheap and fairly reliable. Unless you have something called a Macaupass (which I did not, and purchase locations are annoyingly scarce), you will need coins. Lots of coins. And they don’t make change on the buses, so get used to walking around with a pocketful of patacas. (Local businesses and banks can help you make change if you’re hard up.) I hopped the 26A bus to Coloane, eager to see the rustic, more peaceful side of Macau. (A quick note on signage: Every official sign in Macau will be in both Portuguese and Chinese. I found this somewhat curious, as I didn’t hear a word of Portuguese my entire stay. I asked Neal, a server at the cute Cafe Cheri, if he spoke Portuguese or knew anyone who did. “Well,” he hesitated, “No, not really.” Did anyone in Macau speak
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Top, the Ruins of St. Paul, whose stone facade is one of the few remaining pieces of the complex. Above, egg tarts at Lord Stow’s Bakery.
China administers Macau but employs a somewhat laissez-faire, capitalist-friendly approach.
Portuguese? “Yes, I think in some restaurants.”) Coloane Village was quiet, almost sleepy, when I hopped off the bus by the roundabout near Eanes Park. It was, in other words, exactly what I was seeking. I began walking north up the coast, stopping for another excellent 9-dollar egg tart at Lord Stow’s Bakery. Colorfully painted houses stood on stilts in the bay, China a mere 1,000 feet to the west. Fishermen hung their catch outside their homes, and every now and then there was the distinctive clack of mahjongg tiles. I wound my way down Avenida de Cinco de Outubro, in the shade of thick-trunked ficus rumphii trees with aerial roots, like banyan trees. I eventually found myself in a beautiful cobblestone plaza with a fountain on one end and the beautiful, bright yellow Chapel of St. Francis on the other. I dined al fresco at Cafe Nga Tim on a 58-dollar dish of rice and curried prawns and watched evening set in. The casinos? Didn’t need them. They do provide a useful benefit, though: When it came time to head back to the ferry terminal, I happily used the hotel’s free shuttle bus.
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An Enclave of Cool in a Bustling Metropolis Cune S H I M O K I TA Z A W A ICHIBANGAI
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The low-key neighborhood of Shimokitazawa in western Tokyo is only one expresstrain stop from the sensory excesses of chaotic Shibuya — imagine Times Square, amplified — but it’s a world away in spirit. The area, locally called Shimokita, is populated by hip young Tokyoites drawn by the relaxed, small-town atmosphere that makes the neighborhood an anomaly in this bustling megalopolis. The narrow streets are easy to navigate and dense with local businesses, including a high concentration of vintage shops, unusual specialty stores and small boutiques stocked with wares from young artists and artisans. Many consider this the coolest neighborhood in Tokyo, and when you browse some of the most interesting shops, it’s hard to disagree. INGRID K. WILLIAMS
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Little Trip to Heaven In a neighborhood overflowing with secondhand shops, this beautifully arranged vintage store stands out for its well-chosen collection of clothing, shoes and accessories, mainly from the 1950s to 1970s. Equally impressive is the enviable style of the employees, who dress the part in headscarves, floral midi-skirts and round granny glasses. 2-26-19 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku; 81-050-3385-7975; smallchange.jp/ltth
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Shimochari Those hoping to impress with a unique mode of transportation come to this bicycle shop, which specializes in hand-built custom beach cruisers in a rainbow of colors. Other two-wheeled options include matte-black lowrider bicycles and skater bikes, a skateboard-bicycle hybrid that looks like a scooter with pedals. 2-35-15 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku; 81-03-3485-1180; shimochari.com
Cune This homegrown clothing label extends its offbeat design sensibilities to the décor at its flagship store, where a recent artificial garden scene had dresses hung from branches of a leafy tree. On the spacious second floor, shelves are piled with T-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags and denim printed with subversive bunny cartoons that are equal parts creepy and cute. 3-30-2 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku; cune.jp
Village Vanguard Shimokita Garage Department The indie version of a Japanese mall, this indoor shopping complex is in an enormous garage where over 20 stalls are rented by young designers and artisans. Colorful graffiti art at the entrance leads to a warren of shops stocked with everything from vintage clothing to hand-knit hats and cute koala stud earrings. 2-25-8 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku; 81-03-3468-7000; k-toyo.jp /frame.html
The facade proclaims “Exciting Bookstore,” but this sprawling store is actually a manic pop-culture paradise with music radiating from every corner and aisles overflowing with manga, movies, music, toys, gadgets and more. It’s easy to get disoriented in the labyrinth, but bonsai-tree-growing kits and wasabi-flavored Kit Kats will reaffirm that you’re in Japan. 2-10-15 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku; 81-03-3460-6135; village-v.co.jp
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A Fine Tradition, Skiing the Alps of our lift rides. “This is redemption for being a bad skier as a kid,” he said, then paused for a moment to consider. “I was not a bad skier,” he corrected. “I was a terrible skier.” The other reason you have to get in runs on Friday, as he pointed out, was that otherwise you felt like a fraud in cavernous après ski bars like the Lürzer Alm, which looks like a peaceful mountain lodge from the outside but transforms into a Brothers Grimm go-go club mixing traditional woodwork and disco balls, where everyone is wind burned and still wearing their gear from the mountain. I was mentally better prepared for the soaring mountains — “White Winter Heat” was partly set in the Alps, after all — than the party atmosphere. The World Cup Alpine ski racer Bode Miller nearly torpedoed his reputation in the United States with a comment on “60 Minutes” about skiing drunk. In Austria he had plenty of company. We once watched an entire police unit at the bottom of the mountain with Breathalyzers pulling people aside and writing ticket after ticket. After your last run, you plant your skis into the snow, leaving them in the neon forest of equipment outside the bar, and enter a miniOktoberfest.
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Air Berlin flight to Munich. Thomas would pick us up for the drive to neighboring Austria, where a lift ticket at Obertauern costs less than $50. On days with decent visibility, the mountains were already discernible in the distance. We would stop at a gas station for chips and candy bars, Haribo gummy bears and sodas as if we were on a school ski trip. To save money we slept three to a room and somehow I always ended up as the one on the pullout couch while the Germans shared the bed. Capturing that teenage feeling of friends joking and daring and not caring was basically the premise of the entire trip. We set aside one weekend a year without spouses or children or work responsibilities to risk middle-aged limbs on black-diamond slopes. The only other rule was a different resort every time, always a new adventure. We met an actual princess in a bar in Kitzbühel, and her stepsister asked me what kind of Lamborghini I drove (hint: none). Somewhere a grainy BlackBerry video supposedly exists where I am dancing — in ski boots — on a table at the Krazy Kanguruh slopeside bar in St. Anton am Arlberg (doesn’t quite sound like me). And in a pulsating nightclub in Ischgl full of German, Dutch and Austrian teenagers, we conceded our age and called it an early night (about time). We were rewarded for our judiciousness the next morning with an early start, first up the mountain and out onto the best untouched powder any of us had ever skied. Over and over again it comes back to that: the mountains all around you, some with elevations over 10,000 feet, black and white crags as far as you can see in any direction. As Albrecht Dürer, inspired painter and traveler of the Alps, insisted, “Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.” There would always be that moment, coming off the highest lift for the first time, when some combination of dizziness from the altitude, the bracing wind and the stunning vista would hint at the sublime.
Top, Dikt’n Alm restaurant and bar, in Obertauern. Above, the Lürzer Alm restaurant and bar, which turns into a rustic disco at night, in Obertauern.
MY SKIING ROOTS are decidedly modest.
Growing up in the Washington, D.C., area meant carving the nearby hillocks of Pennsylvania and Virginia with names like Liberty and Roundtop. We would rarely even stay overnight; Dad would wake up my sister and me as early as possible, and we would pile into the brown Volkswagen Dasher station wagon, fortifying ourselves at the drive-through with McMuffins and hash browns. At that age I had no idea that the mountains were tiny or the waits for the lift interminable. My frame of reference was summer trips to the amusement park, where you stood in line for 20 minutes for the brief thrill of a roller-coaster ride. Skiing beat any roller coaster for me. I felt like the Italian slalom legend Alberto Tomba, despite the poor imitation my snowplow turns were of his muscular moves around each gate. I begged to stay longer every time and kept the lift ticket dangling from the zipper of my ski jacket all winter to remind myself of the fun I’d had. When I got a little older, there were 10hour bus rides to Vermont with friends, watching VHS tapes of Warren Miller movies like “Steep and Deep” and “White Winter Heat,” filled with guitar solos and aerial tricks we would never pull off. The cramped journey earned you a spot on slopes of pure ice where subzero windchill gusts rearranged the tiny drifts, like a decorative dash of confectioners’ sugar on a dessert. But the mountains were much taller than those in the mid-Atlantic and the runs were longer. The rush of those solitary slides down the mountain alternated with good talks with friends on the chairlift up again. A ski accident my senior year of high school sent me to the hospital, and other than one trip with my dad, I took a decadelong hiatus from my favorite sport. When I moved to Germany as a correspondent for this paper and realized how tantalizingly close the Alps were, I made a deal with myself: One day a year, no matter what. But my promise became a reality only because my friends got onboard. I was the instigator, who began peppering the others with emails starting in October, hounding NICHOLAS KULISH is an investigative reporter
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them until a date was chosen and reservations could be made. Thomas was the driver, leaning on his BMW in his Ray-Bans when we arrived, ready to beat the Friday rush hour traffic with an early start from Munich. Christoph was the navigator of the pistes; his skills as an illustrator came in handy as we puzzled over the stylized blue, red and black slashes on the map, where, to my eternal confusion, you could somehow ski down something pointing upward. Each had his role, the key to assembling a team that travels well together time and again. THIS YEAR, on our way to Obertauern, we drove past the Chiemsee, one of the placid Bavarian lakes you pass before you begin the climb into the mountains. The sky was blue with a few cumulus clouds scraping the peaks in the distance. We even saw a mountaintop castle, in case in my jet-lagged state I momentarily thought we were headed for the Rockies or the Sierras. As usual, we raced to get there in time for a few runs in the afternoon. Saturday was our only full day of skiing, so getting the feel
Clockwise from top right: Snowboarders checking out the map at Zehnerkar-Bergstation; skiers heading for Zehnerkarspitz; the Alpenhotel Perner in Obertauern, where the author stayed; relaxing in the sun with an Almdudler, Austria’s local soda, on Plattenspitz mountain.
for our skis on Friday was essential. We dropped our bags at the Alpenhotel Perner, changing as quickly as we could into ski pants and jackets. The nerve-racking moment at the rental shop arrived. Could they find the ridiculous size-15 ski boots I needed? One year we had to go to three different stores before I could squeeze my feet into a pair and missed our Friday start. I watched anxiously as the staffers conferred, then checked the cobwebby back corners of their storage spaces before emerging, chuckling, with the single Sasquatch-size pair of boots in the place. On the mountain, Thomas barreled fullsteam downhill, always skirting the edge of control. Christoph executed one meticulous turn after another, like an ice skater perfecting his figures, or the illustrator that he is, drawing curves on the mountainside with his skis. I alternated between following in his tracks and pointing my tips straight down and hurtling into Thomas’s wake. “At the beginning, I think, ‘Oh God, why am I doing this,’ but by the third or fourth round, I remember,” Christoph said on one
THE LATSCH’N SCHIRM in Obertauern looked like a circus tent, with the red and yellow striped roof. Immediately someone called for a round of pear schnapps with a chunk of pear speared on a plastic sword. The music is a beguilingly weird blend of oompah, disco, hair metal and techno, with songs about polar bears and red horses. When a hundred people clomp their heavy plastic ski boots at once you feel as if the floor is about to drop out from under you. We watched a grown man tear a teddy bear apart until the cottony stuffing blew across the bar while the members of a bachelorette party in snow pants, blue sashes and bunny ears danced together on the bar. It’s a party every time but one with a clear and blessedly early endpoint. With a few exceptions the hotels are all half-board, including dinner as well as breakfast, so the bars clear out at a reasonable hour as everyone retreats to their hotel rooms for a shower and then down to their meal. The second night, chastened by the first night’s party, we cut the après ski short and had a restoring sauna at the Perner before dinner. My friend Julia, at her home resort of Ellmau in view of the jagged Wilder Kaiser range, taught me the basics of hearty mountain eating in Austria. You have your staples, like the aforementioned Wiener schnitzel and spaghetti Bolognese, pure fuel for the slopes. You have to drink an Almdudler, the Austrian herbal soft drink, a little reminiscent of cream soda, the name a reference to yodeling. There’s the rösti, a dish of shredded potato with a couple of eggs over easy, which hails from Switzerland. You will break Thomas’s heart if you don’t have kaiserschmarrn for dessert, an eggy pancake chopped up and topped with powdered sugar and served with fruit sauce or compote. Which leads us back to that yeast dumpling, better known in these parts as a germknödel. It looks a bit like a round lump of uncooked bread dough but is fluffy and delicious and hides a plum jam in the middle. Covered with vanilla sauce and sprinkled with ground-up poppy seeds, it is a miniature mountain in a bowl. “One more run after this?” Christoph asked. I demurred. My legs were so tired and I was feeling comfortable in the Gamsmilch-Bar, a large mountaintop hut decorated with old wooden poles and skis. Out the window I could see gusts of snow swirling around the cross set high on the peak. “He’s not up for it,” Thomas said. I took another sip of fortified chamois milk, thinking how those intrepid mountain goats wouldn’t turn in early. The day was receding and with it Christoph’s flight to Berlin approaching. Each year you had to wonder whether next year would really happen, if the tradition could hold up under the pressure of careers, of children, and with my move back to the States it frankly didn’t seem all that likely. Outside in the snow, we clicked our boots into the bindings and pushed toward the drop-off, wondering if this would be our last time down the mountain together. I remembered those day trips to Roundtop, pleading with my father to stay a little longer. “One more run?” “Maybe even two,” I said. And off we went.
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26 Ways That Skiing Gets Better This Season A range of improvements from new lodging and programs to new lifts and expanded terrain. By ELAINE GLUSAC
In ski country, lifts will go farther and faster this year, even as more enthusiasts choose to trek uphill under their own power to ski back down. New lodging options range from rustic micro-homes to a five-bedroom staffed alternative. And winter fans will find new ways to race to the runs on the ground and in the air.
By Train, Chopper and Cat Traveling in and out of snow country requires a certain amount of delay risk on powder days. The new Winter Park Express train from Denver’s Union Station to Winter Park Resort cuts out the mountain drive. The Amtrak-operated service will run on weekends and holiday Mondays from Jan. 7 to March 26. The roughly twohour ride one-way (from $39) means you can make it a day trip and be back for a 7 p.m. dinner reservation. Take a Eurocopter into the Chugach Mountains in Alaska with Black Ops Valdez. The heli-ski operator will offer a new sevennight package in 2017 with overnight accommodations aboard a 72-foot yacht in Prince William Sound complete with a hot tub on deck ($89,600 for up to eight people, all-inclusive). Black Ops will also open a new remote base camp in the mountains outside of Valdez with three heated tents for seven-night trips (from $2,400 a person, allinclusive). Train for remote conditions with Telluride Ski Resort’s three-day Heli-Ski Camp that combines two days at the resort with an instructor and the final day heli-skiing in more remote slopes and bowls in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. In the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, Whisper Ridge Cat Skiing will start operating Dec. 26. Eight snowcats, ferrying groups of up to 12 skiers and snowboarders each, will have access to 60,000 acres of private terrain (from $450 a person). Guests have the option of overnighting at one of its 10 mountaintop yurts with meals included (from $775 including cat skiing).
New Lodging Overnight options in ski country will expand across the range beginning with the new Limelight Hotel Ketchum in Idaho, gateway to Sun Valley Resort. Owned by Aspen Skiing Company and opening Dec. 16, the 99-room lodge in Ketchum’s very walkable downtown will include outdoor hot tubs and a swimming pool, firepits and a lounge with regularly scheduled live music as well as free shuttles to the ski area and free use of fat-tire bikes and snowshoes (rooms from $240). In Alberta, Canada, Banff has its first new hotel in nearly 10 years: the 174-room Moose Hotel & Suites downtown. Amenities include rooftop heated pools and a 10-treatment-room spa (from 169 Canadian dollars, about $126). In South Lake Tahoe, Calif., the new Hotel Becket from Joie de Vivre Hotels joins two existing properties into one 167-room inn across the street from the lifts to Heavenly Mountain Resort. It also hosts an indooroutdoor barbecue restaurant, and guests may take Remington, the hotel’s resident Bernese mountain dog, for walks (from $119). Sample the downsized life at the new Mount Hood Tiny House Village near Mount Hood National Forest and Mount Hood Meadows ski area in Oregon. Opened in May, the five individually decorated homes ranging from 175 to 260 square feet feature wood-paneled interiors and sleeping lofts (from $129). Just opened in Telluride, Dunton Town House, from the owners of nearby Dunton Hot Springs, comes with a house manager to act as personal concierge to the residents of the five-bedroom home, just a few minutes’ walk to the ski area’s gondola (from $300). In Vermont, the new Burke Mountain Hotel and Conference Center opened in the fall offering 116 rooms and ski-in/ski-out access to Burke Mountain runs (from $109). In Beaver Creek, Colo., the Pines Lodge, a RockResort, will unveil a renovation of all 60 guest rooms including USB ports and 55inch televisions (from $249).
Clockwise from above: Fat-tire biking in Sun Valley, Idaho; a skier at Powder Mountain in Utah, which has limited the number of day tickets; the Limelight Hotel Ketchum in Idaho, to open mid-December; and the new Hotel Becket in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Lift-Free Skiing Resorts are newly embracing uphilling. Also known as skinning or ski touring, the activity involves marching up ski hills in your skis — with special bindings that free your heels — then skiing back down for a no-pain-no-gain round trip. According to SnowSports Industries America, participation in the sport has grown from 1.8 million to 2.1 million since the 2008/2009 season. This year Aspen Snowmass in Colorado is encouraging uphilling at all four of its mountains by publishing a guide to the routes and offering lessons and gear rentals. Monarch Mountain in south central Colorado has added three uphill routes for treks to the top of the Continental Divide. Skiers must register with the resort, but the trip does not require a lift ticket. Stay at the Four Seasons Resort and Residences Vail to take a few turns before the slopes open. Its Dawn Patrol program pairs guests with a guide for a pre-sunrise ascent and return downhill to breakfast back at the resort.
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Mountain Upgrades In Utah, 55 miles north of Salt Lake City, Powder Mountain Resort is adding two chairlifts, opening up an additional 1,000 acres of ski hill. The resort, which now offers over 7,900 acres of skiing, promises low skier density by limiting adult season passes to 1,000 and day tickets sold to 2,000. At Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming, the new Sweetwater Gondola is scheduled to open mid-December. Rising
go edge-to-edge on the racecourse, which features jumps, banks and turns. A new high-speed quad chairlift known as Cloudchaser will add 635 accessible acres of terrain at Mount Bachelor in Oregon by mid-December. Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont will open its new Adventure Center this season, offering children’s programs including ski and ride lessons for children age 3 and up and an indoor climbing wall. Nearby, Smugglers’ Notch Resort will open a familyfriendly FunZone with an obstacle course, laser tag, climbing wall and arcade in midwinter.
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1,276 feet in 7.5 minutes, the 48-cabin gondola will offer a new way to get uphill. A midway station with a new ski school facility will open next winter. Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado aims to get skiers around its famous Back Bowls quicker with the introduction of its new
high-speed Sun Up Express, increasing capacity by 65 percent and cutting average travel time by roughly half to 3.9 minutes. In New Mexico, the state’s first lift-accessed cross course for boarders and skiers will open at the expanded terrain park at Angel Fire Resort. Groups of competitors
Women-specific ski programs, now staples of the Vail Resorts family, continue to proliferate across the industry. Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado is introducing Women’s Tips on Tuesdays ski clinics, halfday sessions that conclude with an aprèsski glass of wine at the on-mountain Umbrella Bar. Two multiresort passes are expanding, including Mountain Collective, which has added Telluride and Revelstoke in British Columbia to its 14-resort portfolio. Pass holders get two days at each resort ($419). M.A.X. Pass added 10 resorts including Crested Butte and Alyeska Resort in Alaska for a total of 39 resorts, each offering five days’ access throughout the season ($749). The Audi FIS World Cup tour will touch down in Aspen (March 15 to 19), for the first time in 20 years, with men’s and women’s competitions. It’s been almost 50 years since Squaw Valley near Lake Tahoe hosted the tour; the women’s events will take place there, March 10 to 11.
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Afraid to Fly? Technology Might Help Holding hands works. But so can apps showing concrete (and reassuring) statistics. By ONDINE COHANE
As a longtime travel writer, you would think that, for me, getting on a plane would be as routine as brushing my teeth. Whether it’s a long haul to Asia, a trans-Atlantic visit, or a short hop from my home in Italy to another city in Europe, barely a week goes by that I am not catching a flight, or multiple ones. Sadly, however, the frequency of heading to the airport has not cured me of my visceral fear of flying. It ebbs and flows. When crashes are not in the headlines and after a number of smooth, turbulence-free flights, I feel much calmer and am less likely to have catastrophic thoughts. But following tragic incidents like the Germanwings crash in March 2015, the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines carrier one year before that, or the Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, I have tended to be on high alert. I board planes but I really wish I didn’t have to. I have a few coping strategies, like allowing myself to be hyper vigilant only at certain moments until we reach cruising altitude, for example; having one — or two — glasses of wine; trying to meditate (I alternate between an app called Meditation Made Simple, created by Russell Simmons, the hip-hop impresario and yoga devotee, and meditations from Headspace, which address how mindfulness and meditation can help manage fear of flying). And on most flights, when things get white-knuckle bumpy during turbulence, I ask to hold the hand of a complete stranger. When my husband or son has not been with me, I have clasped hands with, among others, a basketball player from Siena, a nun on her way to the Vatican, an Ecuadorean farmer who didn’t speak English, and an 18year-old French student whose mother had the same anxiety (she would have been proud of his empathetic nature). It helps me endure the bumps, but clearly clammy hand-holding is not an ideal strategy. So I was curious about an app that launched in 2015, which is aimed to show, scientifically, just how safe air travel really is. Called (obviously with a sense of humor) “Am I Going Down?” the app (which costs $2.99) indicates the statistical chance of something catastrophic happening on board, based on the aircraft model, airline flown and the departure and arrival airports (which you enter on a screen in a palette of calming green and yellow colors). “My wife was on an incredibly turbulent flight on its way to Australia,” explained Nic Johns, a Londoner who developed the app, “and her fear of flying was triggered from that incident. It got so bad we couldn’t fly anywhere, and we were taking a train to places like Italy and Spain from London, which was obviously a huge time commitment.” Mr. Johns set out to offer his wife, and others who shared her fear, comfort through concrete statistics. Making use of his degree in mathematics and statistics, he scoured and accrued safety records to come up with his percentages; in Britain he used records from the Bureau of Aircraft Accidents and Archives, and in the United States from the National Transportation Safety Board. “I gathered all the data on all the crashes that were on record, and more importantly all the safe flights, and put together the
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data, and odds of a fatality in this app,” he said. “In most cases a normal flight will give you a one in five million, or one in 10 million, chance of crashing, so that tends to reassure most people.” Applying technology to help allay fear of flying is part of an increasing trend, whether through apps like Turbcast, which explains and predicts turbulence on the route that one is flying, or through Flightradar24, which shows a map of flights en route (the sight of how many airplanes are
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up at the same time and arriving safely at destinations puts in context the routine nature of air travel and is reassuring to many travelers like me). And at a cost of about 99 cents each, having an arsenal of apps on my iPhone seemed a relative bargain. Some of this tech help, in the form of apps, has actually grown out of fear of flying programs in classroom-like settings and their auxiliary websites. I asked some fellow sufferers for their tech tips. Rebecca Misner, a senior editor at
Condé Nast Traveler, said the website fearofflying.com helped her a great deal with her anxiety with nuts and bolts information on everything from how aircraft work mechanically to turbulence. “There was something very methodical and no nonsense about the website that I found reassuring,” Ms. Misner wrote. “It was sort of bizarre — the first time I flew after using the site, I was totally calm, like a different person.” Now, the founder of the Fear of Flying onthe-ground program and website, Capt. Tom Bunn, a former Air Force and commercial pilot for United Airlines and Pan Am, offers his techniques on a smartphone application called SOAR, Seminars on Aeroanxiety Relief. It is an offshoot of the counseling he offers by phone to nervous passengers to prepare them before they go on a trip, and once onboard (with in-person or phone counseling for $199; some resources are free). The free app offers explanations for basic aspects of aviation like takeoff and descent, and a tool to measure the G-force in turbulence, which shows passengers that the aircraft is well within the range to withstand any bumps — moments that particularly unnerve skittish fliers. But the captain’s approach mixes technology with face-to-face interaction. “Most people feel remarkably better after they meet the person in charge of the aircraft,” he explained of the letter he provides on the app and in his course, which asks the captain flying the plane to meet anxious passengers. Soon after talking to Mr. Johns and Captain Bunn, I had a chance to test whether their apps, and others, were of any help to me. On a flight to London from Italy, I used “Am I Going Down?” To be honest, it made my anxiety spike sharply before the flight because I felt as if I was somehow tempting fate by even entering the data: that I was on an Airbus A-380 Ryan Air flight from Perugia to London Standsted Airport. But the percentage that came back was decidedly in my favor, with only a one in five million chance of crashing. And the accompanying statistic on the screen was even more comforting — I could fly this route once a day for 14,000 years safely! The bumps started to feel less catastrophic. I eased my grip on the armrest. On a flight from Miami to London on American Airlines, I prepared with my SOAR app. I wasn’t convinced that my letter from Mr. Bunn would actually lead to an introduction to the captain, but after giving it to the gate attendant, she allowed my 6year-old son and me to board early, and we met Capt. George Katsahnias and his first officer, Frederick Staats. Friendly and calm, and in no way patronizing of my anxiety, Captain Katsahnias let my son sit in the captain’s seat while explaining to me that it should be a smooth ride to Britain. He also said cheerfully that if I had any questions en route, I should let him know through a flight attendant. Later, as we gathered speed on the runway (keeping in mind the normal sounds of the engine changes that Captain Bunn had explained we’d hear at takeoff), my son, who has been on hundreds of flights, calmly took my hand. I thought about the kind pilots who had our safety in their hands, all the backup systems in place. And I can’t scientifically prove it, but as we bounced up to cruising altitude I felt, well, noticeably calmer. I hope to continue to be less of a nervous Nellie with my new arsenal of tech support.
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How to Shop for a Vacation Package Have a plan. Then know when to look outside the package for a better deal.
fees have proliferated in recent years. These fees are mandatory; they apply whether you’re using the services they supposedly cover: Wi-Fi, parking or equipment, like snorkeling gear. Worse, the charges — typically $10 to $40 per night — are often hidden in small print. In the case of Expedia, the site contradicts itself. At the top of its vacation-package search results it specifically states that prices include “taxes and fees,” but further down the page, beneath where the room price is listed, it adds, “Plus $30 daily resort fee.” Having read that some hotel chains waive resort fees for customers in their loyalty programs, I signed up for the Fairmont loyalty credit card, which is free for the first year. The Fairmont Orchid, unfortunately, makes no such exceptions. Being greeted with a nonsensical $120 charge at check-in was an unfortunate first impression.
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ing as little as possible to take the longest, farthest, most ambitious adventure possible. Other times, you just need a break. If the goal of a trip is to relax and spend focused time with family, you have to be realistic about scheduling and budgetary constraints and honest about your tastes and you need to seize any window of opportunity. Here are some lessons this vacationpackage skeptic learned from her first experience with what the industry calls “bulk” travel.
Make a List If you have only a few days for your trip, spend as little time as possible in transit. Use Google Flights’ highly customizable search parameters to explore your options. Add the name of your home airport, pull down “nonstop flights” and select a duration of six hours or less. By leaving the destination blank, Google will return a list of places matching your requirements. From there, you can further narrow the search using the “Interests” tab. The Frugal Family’s search for “beaches” and a nonstop flight from the Bay Area turned up a handful of destinations in Hawaii, Mexico and Central America, for example.
Window Shop, Within Reason Armed with your list of potential destinations, begin plugging your dates into sites selling vacation packages. There are dozens, but opening a manageable number of browser tabs (five or six, max) is adequate for comparison shopping. Initially I was most intrigued by sites like Costco and Groupon, which I don’t typically turn to for
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travel. But there are also niche sites, like Last Minute Travel, which caters to the spontaneous, and Cheap Caribbean, which specializes in a single region. It’s likely, however, that your best option is a site like Priceline, Kayak or Booking.com that you’re probably already using for the rest of your travel.
What Does the Package Include? Every “bundle” includes at least airfare and hotel, but some offer a rental car, tours and more. In the case of the Frugal Family’s re-
cent trip [“What’s an Unlikely Vacation Bargain? Hawaii”], which was booked through Expedia, adding a car increased our price by $300 to $400. I was confident I could get a better rate on a stand-alone rental. Using Priceline’s “Name Your Price” feature, I reserved an economy car for just $21 a day, a reminder that buying in bulk isn’t always best.
Beware of Resort Fees The scourge of the budget traveler, resort
Plane tickets are almost always most expensive during what Cheapair.com calls the “Hail Mary” window of 0 to 13 days before a flight, when airfare is $75 to $200 more, on average, than during the “Prime Booking” window of 21 to 112 days out. According to Cheapair’s analysis of three million trips, the best flights — those nonstop morning flights that would get us to Hawaii by midday — are often hundreds of dollars more when purchased last-minute. Because convenience was a priority this trip, I booked as soon as possible, 12 days before our trip was to start. A few days later, our package had jumped from less than $2,000 to $2,607, well outside my $2,400 budget. This is where being open to where you’re traveling pays off. If one destination on your list is out of reach during your travel dates, try another. With the peso at record lows, for example, this winter is an ideal, and affordable, time to visit Mexico.
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grew up, at this time of year. There would be no corn or soybeans yet to ripple endlessly like an ocean, but she appreciated March’s stark earth and sky. I lived out East now, and it had been months since I could watch a sunset’s full reach from horizon to horizon. I remembered what Wallace, a central Illinois native, had told family after he left for Amherst College in Massachusetts. The Berkshires were pretty, he wrote, but not beautiful “the way Illinois is.” Finding beauty and nuance in a landscape others might dismiss as nothingness was part of what has made Wallace, who took his own life, a postmodern American classic. Like the actor John Malkovich, who also grew up quirky in downstate Illinois, he represents both high and pop culture. The New Yorker writer D. T. Max published Wallace’s biography not long after his death. “The End of the Tour,” a film about how he lived anonymously in Illinois even as his national fame grew, was a critical darling in 2015. His 1,100-page masterwork, “Infinite Jest,” was released in a 20thanniversary edition this year. His writing is still referenced everywhere from a “Simpsons” episode to a Decemberists video. Yet even many fans don’t realize where David Foster Wallace was from. At one point he was listed among New York City’s most eligible bachelors. He never lived there. Wallace was raised in central Illinois and returned to it for the most stable, productive period of his life. Its college towns sustained him — he grew up in ChampaignUrbana, where his father was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois, and later spent a decade in nearby Bloomington-Normal, where he taught writing at Illinois State University. The meditative spaces and down-toearth people of the Midwest were central to Wallace’s writing, as he pushed back the ironic for the heartfelt. And he didn’t produce brilliant work in spite of the more conventional folks surrounding him in Illinois; as his essays and books like “The Pale King” reveal, he was inspired by the Midwest’s sincerity to go beyond America’s cultural snark for truth about its contemporary life, which he found rushed, overstimulated and lonely. At home in Illinois, this tormented genius, wild maximalist and yet somehow earnest moralist of a writer said he felt “unalone and unstressed.”
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ONE MORNING after the traffic-stopping sunset, I set out for Champaign-Urbana. The college town of 120,000 is where farm kids like my father would try pizza and tacos for the first time. Dad studied at the U. of I. in the ’70s, when Wallace was growing up in Urbana, and for six years during Wallace’s adolescence, drinking beer was legal at age 18. Dad remembers the city as chaotic then — marijuana wafting, teenagers vomiting, trash piling up. For Wallace, life was unstructured. I stopped at placid Blair Park, where he and a high school teammate, John Flygare, taught tennis for five summers. They’d collect cash for the lessons, order pizza out of the proceeds, then turn over whatever was left in the cash box to the Urbana Park District every couple of weeks, Mr. Flygare told me. No one monitored. “I see my kids almost assuming their lives are going to stay structured,” he said. “When we were among ourselves, we were just free.” There were no children in the park that morning, a school day. Soccer nets were up now, signs of an organized sport new to Illinois. An older man walked his dogs alone. Two miles away I walked into the Illini Union, one of the U. of I.’s acres of neo-Classical buildings, positively Roman in their scale. Upstairs was all elegant blond wood, but downstairs reeked of a cheap rec-room, with pizza, doughnuts and tater tots competing for airspace. Aping college students, Wallace and his friends often played pool on one of the many tables, now orange-felted, Mr. Flygare said. The teenagers were always in a pack; not so today. A student whose blue hair was gelled up like a unicorn horn fired up an “In the Groove” dance game solo. Other times the Urbana tennis teammates smoked or drank in hotels or on the road when they drove to tournaments around Illinois, which they entered at will, coach-free. The freedom fostered Mr. Flygare’s autonomy, he told me. Other teammates, he said, found the downside of the wide-openness; one developed a spiraling drug problem. Wallace, too, later fought depression and addiction. He entered treatment in Boston, according to the Max biography, and joined a 12-step program back in Illinois. He drew on those experiences in “Infinite Jest,” whose high-I.Q. characters struggle with their need for a program and its platitudes. “ ‘Getting in Touch With Your Feelings’ is another quilted-sampler-type cliché that ends up masking something ghastly deep and real, it turns out,” Wallace wrote of an alter-ego character, Don Gately, who relives traumas in recovery. “It starts to turn out that the vapider the A.A. cliché, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.” From Champaign I drove northwest to Normal, where I would spend days following the David Foster Wallace “Places of Significance” map of haunts from his teaching days that the Bloomington-Normal Area Convention and Visitors Bureau helpfully supplies. The distance between the cities was 50 miles, which on this square-mile road grid took exactly 50 minutes. The two-lane highway was accompanied by train tracks — Bloomington was founded as a wealthy depot town in one of the world’s most fertile counties. En route I passed towns like Farmer City, where grain elevators stood above the fields like naval-ship superstructures on the ocean. I listened to the reassuring all-viewpoints-appreciated intoning of Tom Ashbrook, a 4-H kid who grew up outside Normal, on National Public Radio’s “On Point.” Knowing Wallace and his friends preferred psychedelic rock, I flipped to a ’70s station, and Pink Floyd’s
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IF YOU GO WHAT TO SEE
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Visitors revel in the kitschy memorabilia of the Route 66 Association of Illinois Hall of Fame and Museum, on a portion of the Mother Road between Chicago and Bloomington-Normal (110 West Howard Street, Pontiac; 815-8444566.
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Uptown Normal, the oncegrungy business district abutting Illinois State University, is now a likable mix of shops selling accessories, kitchen tools, sportswear, hardware and plenty of coffee (11 Uptown Circle, Normal; 309-454-9557; uptownnormal.com).
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David Foster Wallace The writer, who took his own life at 46, said that when he was at home in central Illinois, he felt “unalone and unstressed.”
“Brain Damage” thrummed in. Signs with lightning bolts and thunderclouds in one town along the way, Mahomet, proclaimed it a “StormReady Community.” This was the start of tornado season in Illinois. Wallace described that time in “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley,” an essay about his tennis years and the downstate wind; he claimed he read the gusts like a weather vane to lift his game against the city kids. He trash-talked Chicago, saying that as “one giant windbreak,” the city “does not know but from a true religioustype wind” that could inspire an unholy fear. With nothing tall between central Illinois and the Rockies, he wrote, the winds “move east like streams into rivers and jets and military fronts that gather like avalanches and roar in reverse down pioneer ox trails toward our own personal unsheltered asses.” THAT NIGHT a local TV report noting “westerlies,” “supercells” and “wind gusts at 60 miles an hour“ broke into prime time. “A tornado warning remains in effect for Fulton County, the Fairview and Farmington areas,” the weathercaster announced. “It’s gonna be interesting to see how this holds together.” Eventually the storms died down. Despite the occasional edge of danger, Illinois was where Wallace took shelter. New York hissed with egos inflating and deflating, he told the Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky. After his successful first novel, and an unhappy stint earning an M.F.A. at the University of Arizona, he returned home in 1993 to try what he called “academia at its nicest” at Illinois State. “When I’m here,” Wallace said, “it’s just more like, ‘Huh, what an interesting storm, going on outside my window. I’m sure glad I’m inside.’” Illinois State provided stability. I started at blocky, solid Stevenson Hall, where Wallace’s colleague Robert McLaughlin
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showed me the writer’s office, 420C, now a medieval language center. “I still think we should put up a plaque,” he said, as a professor walking by chuckled. “See, they laugh at me. Although it’s true David would have hated that.” From the campus I strolled the few blocks to uptown Normal, where Wallace often hung out with his students and his various girlfriends. Grimy in the ’90s, with comicbook stores and sandwich shops, uptown now felt fresh-scrubbed, with boutiques, murals, wine bars and a new Marriott where the university’s David Foster Wallace Conference now draws scholars from around the world each spring. Behind the all-brick buildings, a train sounded its lonesomeness, and Union Pacific freight cars chugged west. I looked for the new location of Babbitt’s Books, which Wallace once told Condé Nast Traveler was his favorite bookstore. A former Illinois State art major, Brian K. Simpson, long owned the store until he moved it down the street and sold to a millennial owner in 2015. Peeking inside with me, Mr. Simpson said that the place looked better-swept than during his day, when it was piled with books, and when writers like Wallace gave readings upstairs in a clammy old apartment where a worn couch sat among the hodgepodge of folding and kitchen chairs. “Infinite Jest” was now in the window, but the place does only modest Wallace business locally, the new owner said. He sold his first copy of “The Pale King” to me. Across Beaufort Street was another Wallace favorite, the Coffeehouse & Deli, a lovable establishment whose beige walls dated back decades, and some of whose crumbs
WHERE TO EAT
Monical’s Pizza was a David Foster Wallace favorite (718 South Eldorado Avenue, Bloomington; 309-662-8502; 2720 South Philo Road, Urbana; 217-367-5781; monicals.com).
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Although his tastes ran more toward burgers and Denny’s, when Wallace chose fine dining, he might turn up at classic, dignified Silvercreek (402 North Race Street, Urbana; 217-328-3402; couriersilvercreek.com).
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Arguably the best independent restaurant in BloomingtonNormal is Medici, where menu offerings include beer-can chicken and lobster primavera. (120 North Street, Normal; 309-452-6334; medicinormal .com). WHERE TO STAY
Wallace scholars from around the globe stay annually at the Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, in uptown Normal. (201 Broadway Avenue; 309-862-9000; marriott.com/hotels/travel /bmimc)
might have, too. “This place is from, like, 1985,” a clerk said as the credit-card machine balked. Charles Harris, the retired English Department chairman who had hired Wallace, and his wife, Victoria Harris, a former colleague and friend of the writer’s, met me there. “The way he depicted Gately was the way he was in person,” she told me. “He listened so astutely. Nothing was overlooked when you spoke.” Mr. Harris took me past Wallace’s place, a plain ranch house on a modest lawn along Bloomington’s rural Woodrig Road. Wallace lived there alone, then with a girlfriend, Juliana Harms, then alone again. A horse was pastured beyond the windbreak, a line of spindly willows alongside his yard. It had the edge-of-town positioning locals call “tornado bait.” Wallace finished “Infinite Jest” in a room there he later painted black. “Some of the greatest literature of the past 50, 60 years was written in that house,” Mr. Harris said, and we gaped. Curtains drawn, the place had a vacant air, its scraggly bushes overgrown to the size of dairy cows. Even after Wallace left, recruited to Pomona College, outside of Los Angeles, in 2002, he still drew on Illinois. He set “The Pale King” in Peoria, the figurative perfect middle of the country since vaudeville days. The book opens with a wry, Whitmanesque description of the landscape: “Ale-colored sunshine and pale sky and whorls of cirrus so high they cast no shadow. Insects all business all the time.” In the novel he used I.R.S. auditing as a metaphor for the meditativeness of valuable work, the prairie as a metaphor for meditativeness. Serially tormented by relationships and writing, Wallace found a different peace out West, but it proved fragile. In 2004 Wallace married Karen Green, an artist he met in California, back in Urbana, among family, and they returned to Claremont to live. Storms were still on his mind. In one letter he called the writing process “a tornado that won’t hold still long enough for me to see what’s useful and what isn’t.” He tried switching antidepressants, with shattering results. Within months he was dead. Before Wallace left Illinois, a Bloomington-Normal newspaper columnist, Bill Flick, had poked at his local anonymity by writing about his national fame. I had lunch with Mr. Flick at Monical’s Pizza, a Midwestern chain with around 60 locations. This one, near State Farm Insurance’s headquarters east of downtown Bloomington, had been a Wallace favorite. The pizza was as flat as the land (the secret was tilling the crust with some sort of puncturer, a cook said), and the toppings went to the edge. His interview with Wallace, in the Denny’s next door, had been uncomfortable, Mr. Flick remembered. “David was quiet and guarded,” he said. “Maybe because I was invading his little space, his own private Idaho in the calming middle of Illinois. That probably scared him.” On our way out I asked the waitress, in her 20s, if she knew of David Foster Wallace. She winced apologetically — she didn’t know the name. I stepped out into a promising March afternoon, the wind strong as ever, the sun high. Even in death, central Illinois leaves Wallace in his anonymity, and a deep peace.
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Don’t underestimate the city’s under-the-radar enticements like quirky shops and museums and alluring outdoor markets.
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From left: View of Geneva and Lake Geneva from the St. Pierre Cathedral; blackberry sorbet with fresh cheese, blackberries and cocoa nibs at the Michelin-starred La Bottega; at the Barbershop, a dive bar with beers on tap.
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IF YOU GO
Geneva is like that guy, or girl, you underestimated in high school: slightly square and easily passed over for someone more dynamic. When you take a second look, however, maybe a decade later, you see a cultured, vibrant denizen of the world. That’s Geneva. These days the city offers a growing, thriving food scene; the charming district of Carouge; quirky museums; outdoor markets; great shopping — all set against the expansive beauty of Lake Geneva and the soaring Alps. Don’t be afraid to go off-script in terms of what Geneva is known for — chocolate, watches and fondue — and instead head for what’s simply the best, even if it’s Japanese food, to get a better sense of the well-roundedness of the city. Then steer toward more unexpected variations of the city’s staples. The best part is that Geneva is easily, and very rewardingly, conquered in a weekend. THE NEW YORK TIMES
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AN INKLING OF ITALY
Take the highly efficient Swiss tram 10 minutes from downtown to Carouge, across the Arve River, which has Italian architecture, as well as sophisticated shops and an intimate scale that’s reminiscent of the West Village. Here you’ll find a welcome reprieve from the big, ubiquitous brand names that dominate other parts of the city. Shop the small artisan boutiques. A few not to be missed: Papillon sells Italian cashmere. Stop in Tropicolor for indigenous art and housewares from Madagascar like colorful placemats. Preppy Luxury specializes in menswear from Italy, while La Librerit carries a large selection of children’s Frenchlanguage books. Caffeinate along the way at Valmandin, an artisanal coffee roaster.
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HIGH-END LOUNGING
Timothy Oulton, the British designer, not only has his upscale furniture store on the fashionable Rue du Rhône in a gleaming shopping mall, but turns the space into a bar and night club in the evening. Amid the cured-leather upholstery, you can get a whiff of the luxurious Geneva life — a wellcoiffed and -suited crowd seems to head here after work to start the night in style. Everything is for sale, including the bar stools. Cocktails — the Champagne is also quite good — run around 23 to 28 Swiss francs (about the same in dollars).
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LOCAL FLAIR
This does not mean fondue — we’ll get to that — but Nagomi, the Japanese restaurant of choice for in-the-know locals who want mouth-watering fish. It turns out the Genevans have a serious passion for sushi. The restaurant has no website and almost
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feels as if you need a secret password to get in. Start with their seafood salad (22 francs), then move onto an assortment of sushi (50 francs) and pair it with a glass of rosé (7 francs). Finish with the plum wine sorbet (12 francs). Expect to pay about 150 to 200 francs for two, including alcohol. Reservations strongly recommended.
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Grab some brioches, fruit sodas and coffee from the authentic Italian bakery Mafalda Tavola Calda in the St. Gervais area. Then get your first taste of Swiss watch culture at M.A.D. Gallery (stands for Mechanical Art Devices) on Rue Verdaine, which specializes in and sells artistic pieces of exquisite engineering — many inspired by Swiss watches — from a global base of artists whose works are linked with mechanisms and machinery. Ask any of the friendly staff for a tour of their workshop or to explain the physical craftsmanship behind the artwork that is all the more spellbinding in juxtaposition with our virtual and digital age.
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THE GRAN CRU OF CHOCOLATE
There’s certainly no shortage of chocolate in Geneva, so the question is which place to choose. Try Sweetzerland, an elegant and minimalist shop. It’s where Russian tourists come to buy chocolate by the kilo. Here’s why: It is organic, made from guaranteed pure cocoa butter with no palm oil or preserving agents. The taste, in other words, is sublime. Sweetzerland makes small batches of truffles that come in exotic flavors like forest honey, bergamot tea, ginger and whiskey. Expect to pay 1.40 francs per truffle; 10 francs for a bar of the real stuff (80 percent cacao).
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BOTTOM-TO-TOP VIEWS
Start at the bottom of the St. Pierre Cathedral by heading to the Archeological Site, an elaborate museum built on the oldest known spot in the city. Situated amid the actual medieval ruins beneath the cathedral, the museum will guide you through the history of Geneva from Roman times into the Middle Ages. Then, make your way upstairs to the cathedral itself and climb the 150-plus steps into the towers for panoramic views of modern Geneva (16 francs for a combined ticket).
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FEAST OF FONDUE
When locals crave fondue, the Swiss melted cheese delicacy, they go to Café du Soleil, a bit away from the main tourist drags. Café du Soleil makes its fondue (23.60 francs) with only one kind of cheese: Gruyère, giving it a creamy, consistent flavor. The Gruyère is hand-selected from the village of La Roche. When you are finished with the pot, be sure to ask your waiter to scrape the bottom cheese off for you, known locally as the “religieuse.” Leave room for dessert, in particular the house-made chocolate mousse (6.90 francs), and the meringue and Gruyère cream (8.90 francs). A meal, including drinks, will cost around 100 francs.
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1 Preppy Luxury, Place du Marche 5; preppyluxury.com. La Librerit, 1 Place du Marche; lalibrerit.ch. Tropicolor, Rue Ancienne 12; 41-22-342-44-14. Papillon, Rue St.-Joseph 11; 41-22-301-87-01. Valmandin, Rue Ancienne 46; valmandin.ch. 2 Timothy Oulton, Rue de Rhone 42; timothyoulton.com. 3 Nagomi, Rue de Zurich 47; 41-22-732-38-28. 4 Mafalda Tavola Calda, Rue des Etuves 7; 41-76-277-2915. M.A.D Gallery, Rue Verdaine 11; madgallery.net. 5 Sweetzerland Chocolats, Rue du Mont-Blanc 5; sweetzerland.net. 6 Archeological Site of St. Pierre Cathedral, Cour St.Pierre 6; site-archeologique.ch. St. Pierre Cathedral, Place de Bourg-de-Four 24; saintpierre -geneve.ch. 7 Cafe du Soleil, Place du Petit-Saconnex 6; cafedusoleil .ch/site/fr. 8 Patek Philippe Museum, Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 7; patekmuseum.com. 9 La Bottega, Rue de la Corraterie, 21; labottegatrattoria .com. 10 L’Apothicaire Cocktail Club, Boulevard GeorgesFavon 16; apothicairecocktail .club. Barbershop, Boulevard Georges-Favon 14; lebarbershop.ch. KYtaly, Boulevard Georges-Favon 12; kytaly.com. 11 Bain Bleu Hammam & Spa, Quai de Cologny 3; bain-bleu .ch. 12 Plainpalais Market, 1205 Genève; geneva.info /plainpalais.
a Garden of Eden watch that has a snake second hand that circles every minute. Free tours in English every Saturday at 2:30 p.m., French at 2 p.m.; 10 francs.
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HAUTE, HIPSTER CUISINE
If you still think Geneva is staid and passé, your moment of enlightenment has arrived. From an Italian and Argentine pair — Paulo Airaudo and Francesco Gasbarro — comes La Bottega, which opened last year and has already received a Michelin star for its innovative Italian cuisine, some of which is served on bark. The four-course tasting menu is a relative bargain starting at 75 francs (without wine) and includes small but delicious portions of dishes such as veal cappelletti (small dumplings), perfectly cooked hake and pan-seared sea scallops. Desserts are inventive with out-of-the-box flavors like kumquat. Dinner runs around 200 francs, including drinks, for two.
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BAR HOP
On one street, Boulevard Georges-Favon, a lively spot, there are three bars right in a row with something for everyone. L’Apothicaire Cocktail Club serves elaborate cocktails — try one with ginger — in sumptuous glasses. Barbershop is more of a typical dive bar with beers on tap and a more lively crowd. KYtaly is the most subdued, a wine bar with an extensive selection.
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STEAM IT OFF
Head along the Rhône River to where it meets Lake Geneva, then follow Quai Gustave-Ador along the lake’s scenic southern edge. Make sure to stop along the way to see the Flower Clock, a time-keeping work of landscaping in the Jardin Anglais. End up at Bain Bleu, a new Turkish-style bathhouse that opened last year one and a half miles from downtown along the shore. It offers sleek facilities with steam rooms and many pools. Don’t miss the rooftop bath overlooking Lake Geneva and be sure to get instructions from the staff about the multistep process for making the most of the hammam. Opens at 9 a.m.; 42 francs a person.
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HISTORY THROUGH TIME
Spread over four floors in a historic building, the Patek Philippe Museum isn’t a homage just to the high-end watch maker, but to the history of measuring time. Through the four floors of countless precious specimens, you’ll see how Geneva became a watch-making center and exported this unique art and science to other countries. The museum displays some of the most complicated watches in the world, not to mention some of the most unusual — like
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SUNDAY SAMPLER
Plainpalais is the city’s biggest outdoor farmers’ market, where you can find everything from meats to soaps. A few standouts are Leonhard Bretzel for poppy bread, Au Poulet Doré for rotisserie chicken with potatoes and vegetables, the canelé stand (for those small Bordeaux cakes with a tender custard center), and the Lebanese Guys for Middle Eastern food. Then find space at one of the communal tables and enjoy your last tastes — and sights — of Geneva.
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Small Plates for a Creative Crowd The most visible sign of an artistic quickening in Arles is probably the Frank Gehrydesigned tower rising at LUMA Arles, a contemporary art center being created in a former rail yard. But it’s Chardon, a cozy restaurant that opened this summer, which perfectly expresses its new bohemian effervescence. This bistro and wine bar is run by the British chef Harry Cummins, known for his light but earthy and original producedriven cooking style, and Laura Vidal, a Québécoise sommelier. (They are partners in both business and life.) Since 2013, the 30-something pair, who met while working at the celebrated Paris restaurant Frenchie, have run the Paris Pop-Up, a roaming series of food-and-wine events featuring his cooking and her biodynamic wine lists. But Arles made them decide to stay put for a while. “Arles is becoming really edgy because the new cultural institutions are drawing more creative people,” Ms. Vidal said. “This is why we thought our concept of a restaurant that’s constantly evolving instead of being static would work here.” So when you don’t see Mr. Cummins in the kitchen, you might find a visiting cook, like Haan PalcuChang, a Canadian of Chinese-Romanian descent, who was the last guest of 2016 at Chardon. “Chardon is like a little theater, because the show, which is the menu, changes often,” said Mr. Cummins. The only criter-
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Lobster, samphire and cucumbers at Chardon, where it’s best to order the whole menu and share.
ion for visiting chefs is that they follow Mr. Cummins’s lead by cooking with local seasonal produce when possible. Since Chardon serves in a small-plates format, the best approach is to order the whole menu, which feeds two generously when shared. A recent lunch began with beef carpaccio, smoked oysters, leeks and salad burnet, a beautifully balanced composition of flavors and textures spiked by the astringency of the herb. Next, a soothing salad of warm winter vegetables and toasted rye was brightened by the fruitiness of homemade fig vinegar.
Barbecued lamb heart with harissa was succulent, while black rice from the Camargue garnished with grilled squid, chorizo and turnips satisfied with locavore rusticity. The dessert we shared, a treacle tart with pickled lemon and Earl Grey ice cream, winked at the chef’s English origins and also his globe-trotting palate. ALEXANDER LOBRANO .......................................................................................
Chardon, 35-37, rue des Arènes; 33-9-72-8672-04; hellochardon.com. Average price of a meal for two, without drinks or tip, is 80 euros (about $85).
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Vacation rental, clean sheets not included. BY DAVID SEGAL
From White House intern to global advocate for women.
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The Banks Putting Rain Forests in Peril Global lenders, sometimes flouting their own policies, have financed projects that destroy ecosystems and contribute to climate change.
By HIROKO TABUCHI
In early 2015, scientists monitoring satellite images at Global Forest Watch raised the alarm about the destruction of rain forests in Indonesia. Environmental groups raced to the scene in West Kalimantan province, on the island of Borneo, to find a charred wasteland: smoldering fires, orangutans driven from their nests, and signs of an extensive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “There was pretty much no forest left,” said Karmele Llano Sánchez, director of the nonprofit International Animal Rescue’s orangutan rescue group, which set out to
save the endangered primates. “All the forest had burned.” Fingers pointed to the Rajawali Group, a sprawling local conglomerate known for its ties to powerful politicians like Malaysia’s scandal-plagued prime minister. But lesser known is how some of the world’s largest banks have helped Rajawali — and other global agricultural powerhouses — expand their plantation empires. The year before the clearing of trees in West Kalimantan, Rajawali’s plantation arm secured $235 million in loans — funds that the Indonesian company used to buy out a partner and bolster its landholdings —
Orangutans, above, at the International Animal Rescue center in West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. Left, remnants of trees in the forest where the primates lived.
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Freedom May Be Nigh For Fannie and Freddie Signals from the Trump administration of good news for small lenders and home borrowers.
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Michael Lewis, author of the best seller “Moneyball,” writes about two unconventional psychologists in his new book, “The Undoing Project.”
The Men Who Shaped ‘Moneyball’ Michael Lewis chronicles a partnership of unconventional minds who changed the rules. By ALEXANDRA ALTER
More than a decade ago, Michael Lewis was following a group of young baseball players through the minor leagues. He was working on a sequel to his 2003 best seller “Moneyball,” which chronicled how the Oakland A’s
general manager Billy Beane revolutionized the sport by using statistics to evaluate players. “I thought I was going to show where the revolution went,” he said. Mr. Lewis tracked the players for two years, but the sequel never went anywhere. By then, “Moneyball” had become huge — it has now sold more than 1.7 million copies — and the subject felt overexposed. So instead of tracking where the revolution went, Mr. Lewis decided to explore how
it started. The inquiry led him to the work of two Israeli psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, whose discoveries challenged long-held beliefs about human nature and the way the mind works. Mr. Lewis chronicles their unusual partnership in his new book, “The Undoing Project,” a story about two unconventional thinkers who saw the world differently from everyone around them. Their peculiar area CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
STEVEN MNUCHIN, Presidentelect Donald J. Trump’s nominee to run the Treasury Department, electrified Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders on Wednesday when he signaled that the mortgage finance giants would finally be allowed to get out from under Washington’s thumb. “We got to get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership,” he told Fox Business. “It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have.” Mr. Mnuchin is right. It has been more than eight years since the federal government took over Fannie and Freddie in the mortgage crisis; as such, they are the last big piece of unfinished business from that era. When the government changed the terms of their bailouts in the summer of 2012 and began expropriating all of Fannie’s and Freddie’s profits every quarter, it seemed as if that unsatisfactory setup would go on forever. After all, it is hard for the government to give up a honey pot that has re-
turned over $60 billion more to the Treasury than the companies received from taxpayers during their troubles. Granted, Mr. Mnuchin said little about how the administration thinks the nation’s biggest government-sponsored enterprises, or G.S.E.s, should be structured. That is not surprising, given the complexity of the $6 trillion mortgage market. So why did Mr. Mnuchin’s comments jazz the markets? Because they revealed a seismic shift in the way these companies are viewed by the new administration. In place of the strident, anti-G.S.E. ideology that has dominated the conversation on both the left and the right since the bailout, it looks as if a more pragmatic and positive approach to the companies and their role in the mortgage market is on the way. What that means, in my view, is that the enterprises may be allowed to live a new day rather than continue to be diminished and drained of their profits. This is good news indeed for small lenders who rely so heavily on Fannie and Freddie to buy the mortgages they underwrite, freeing them to repeat the process rather than hold the loans on their balance sheets. And when small CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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“This is a big day for me. I love the company as much as I love my family.” Howard Schultz, who announced that he would be stepping down as the C.E.O. of Starbucks next year and handing the job over to the company’s president, Kevin Johnson.
“Now I can put my daughter through college without having to look for another job.” Robin Maynard, an employee of the Carrier heating and air-conditioning company in Indianapolis. President-elect Donald J. Trump and Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana announced a plan to keep 1,000 Carrier jobs in the state, about half the number it was planning to move to Mexico.
“This is a spot solution.” Mohan Tatikonda, a professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, talking about the Carrier plan. He added, “It doesn’t address the loss of manufacturing jobs to technological change, which will continue.”
CORRECTION
An article last Sunday about an effort to farm truffles in North America misspelled the term for the fungal relationships that assist in plant-to-plant communication, enabling truffles to grow. They are mycorrhizae, not mychorrizae.
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The Chatter
Are You a ‘First Principle’ Thinker? essence of the problem, rather than starting with what the answer should be and then working your way to justifying it. So it’s all about making sure that everyone understands the problem we’re trying to solve. And to do that, you have to maintain a broader perspective and listen very carefully to people. I have one-on-ones with every single person on the team and then connect the dots. So I ask a lot of questions and build a mental model of the outline of what we need to do. Then when something seems inconsistent in that mental model, you get people together and say, “Wait a second, how do we resolve this?” The other thing that’s important is to have people on the team who want to take personal ownership of a problem. You get 10 times better results when somebody feels personally invested in solving a problem rather than somebody just saying, “Hey, I’m doing it just to check the boxes.”
Abe Ankumah
Chief executive of Nyansa, a network analytics software company.
Q. What were your early years like? A. I was born and raised in Ghana. I’m the youngest of five children. My parents were in the travel and tourism business — they started the first travel agency in Ghana about 45 years ago. I was fortunate to have traveled quite a bit with them when I was growing up. They would bring me along to international conferences. When I was 15, I moved about three hours away to go to an all boys’ boarding school. What was that like? It was really rigorous. If you wanted to stay ahead, you had to wake up in the middle of the night to study. I ended up with a passion for math and science. I took a national exam at the end of high school and was ranked No. 2 in the country. Tell me more about your parents. How have they influenced your leadership style? My father had this quiet confidence about him, but he was also very humble. That’s something that has stayed with me. Regardless of how well you’ve done at any point in your career, there’s no point in making a big deal of it. My mom was very strong on values, particularly about treating people the way you would expect them to treat you. If you wanted to get mad at someone, she would say, “Put yourself in their shoes.” It was kind of a mind-set. When did you come to the United States? I was planning to go to the top university in Ghana, but when I graduated from high school, the primary universities were on strike. So I applied to universities outside the country. I ended up going to Caltech. I gravitated quickly toward computer science and electrical engineering, which was a little crazy because the first time I used a computer in my life was at Caltech. There were other students in the class who had been using computers since they were 5 years old. I had to work three or four times harder. I would stay up studying through the night, but I had some experience doing that from high school. You seem to enjoy taking the harder path. I’ve always tried not to do typical things. I don’t know whether that’s deliberate or it’s because of the thrill and the journey that comes with it. I also like pushing myself, beEach week, Adam Bryant talks with top executives about leadership. Follow him on Twitter: @nytcorneroffice. This interview has been edited for space and clarity.
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cause otherwise you don’t know what your limits are. It’s always been my mind-set: Don’t get too comfortable in any way.
“Some people can explain something in a way that just shows they really understood it.”
What were some early leadership lessons for you? One of the things I learned very quickly was that when you work with a team, you make sure that it doesn’t really matter who gets the credit. I’ve always been very hesitant to take credit for myself, especially within that context. It’s more about giving others credit, because I learned very quickly that it made them want to work and contribute even harder.
So how do you interview people to make sure they have that quality? The way you assess that is to talk to them about a couple of things. When they talk about things they’ve done in the past and how well they’ve done it, do they light up? That tells you that they were all in when they were working on that problem. The other thing I look for are those firstprinciple thinkers I mentioned earlier. So I’ll ask a lot of questions about things they’ve done, just to generally learn. Some people can explain something in a way that just shows they really understood it. They just knew what mattered, and they broke down the problem to its essence. And we really look for first-principle thinkers because, as a tech company, we’re charting a course in a new market segment, and a lot of what we’re doing has not been done before. And so it’s all about asking why, and does this make sense or not? Finally, we really look for people who are adaptable, and that comes from asking them about what they’ve done in the past and how they’ve handled adversity. And adversity doesn’t necessarily mean some terrible personal tragedy. Maybe you changed majors, which can be a little bit of a shock to the system. What career and life advice do you give to new college grads? Be a lifelong student. That doesn’t mean go enroll in a bunch of classes all the time. It’s a mind-set. It means continuing to push yourself to learn rather than saying, “I’ve got this degree in this, and that’s what I’m going to do.” The other thing is not to become too comfortable in a role. Chances are that if you’re comfortable, you’re not learning, you’re not pushing the envelope and you’re probably going to get stagnated.
How have you tried to build the culture of your current company? I think start-ups kind of take on the value system of their founders. There are three of us who started the company, and we’re all first-time entrepreneurs. We tend to be very “first principle” thinkers. What I mean by that is when you’re trying to solve a problem, you start by trying to understand the
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Selling Inner Peace in the Palm of Your Hand The Headspace meditation app offers mindfulness to the frazzled masses, for a price. ON A RECENT SUNDAY, football fans viewing the showdown between the Los Angeles Rams and the New York Jets saw an unusual ad among the spots for pickup trucks and light beer. Against a backdrop of pastel colors and an up-tempo beat, a diverse cast of athletes testified: “I meditate to crush it.” “I meditate to not freak out.” “I meditate to have the edge.” The ad was for Headspace, a guided meditation app developed by two Britons — a former monk and an advertising executive. By targeting the vast audience of football fans, the Headspace team was making clear its belief that meditation is something with mass commercial appeal. Their pitch has new resonance on the heels of a bitter election. In the week after Donald J. Trump’s victory in the presidential race, Headspace said it had experienced a 44 percent jump in its app’s “SOS” meditation, a sort of panic button for the frazzled. Yet even without an anxious electorate, Headspace was finding an audience. A standout among a group of websites, apps and consulting firms that are seeking to capitalize on the current craze for all things mindful, the Headspace app has been downloaded more than 11 million times. With its coffers full from a recent funding round befitting a Silicon Valley social media darling, Headspace is now aiming to convert millions more people with advertisements on network television and posters plastered on New York City bus stops and subway stations. Yet even as Headspace finds its groove, questions linger about just how broad its appeal can be, and whether the app’s creators can back up their aspirational claims with real science. “The cheerleading phase is over,” said James Gimian, publisher of Mindful magazine. “People know mindfulness can be a good thing. Now people need to do research into what the benefits are in specific applications.” Headspace was founded by Rich Pierson and his buddy Andy Puddicombe in 2010. At the time, Mr. Pierson was a stressed-out ad executive in London, and Mr. Puddicombe — who had studied as a Buddhist monk and dabbled as a circus performer — was teaching meditation to anxious Britons. The two men agreed to barter: Mr. Puddicombe would teach Mr. Pierson how to meditate in exchange for help in developing something with mass market potential. By 2012, they had their first app. Mr. Puddicombe, with his chummy British accent, honed and narrated the teachings, which were delivered through a mix of cartoons, videos of Mr. Puddicombe and podcasts. And the app gained decent traction, for a meditation app at least. But in 2013, the pair moved the company from London to Los Angeles. England, Mr. Pierson said, is “one of the most cynical markets in the world,” and the co-founders were optimists. Also, they wanted to surf.
Rich Pierson, left, and his friend Andy Puddicombe founded Headspace in 2010. Mr. Pierson was a stressed-out ad executive, and Mr. Puddicombe had studied as a Buddhist monk. Above, screen shots from their meditation app. JAKE MICHAELS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
In 2014 they updated the app. Before that relaunch, they had fewer than one million downloads. Since then, growth has taken off. Last year Headspace raised $30 million in a financing round led by the Chernin Group and rounded out by celebrities including Jared Leto and Jessica Alba. Today, Headspace claims to employ 160 people at offices in Los Angeles, London and San Francisco. The company doesn’t disclose revenue. What Headspace is selling is deceptively simple. By instructing people to focus on their breathing and let go of thoughts and emotions, Mr. Puddicombe gently coaxes users back to fuller engagement with the present moment. In modern parlance, it is mindfulness — a quick, secularized adaptation of Buddhist teachings that have been distilled for a modern, Western audience. A 10-day course on the app is free. Annual subscriptions cost about $100. For this price, the goal is not so much enlightenment as it is stress relief and selfcare. “It’s great if people think it can help them with sleep and productivity and the rest, but really what we’re trying to do is get them to
be more compassionate,” Mr. Pierson said. “And wouldn’t that be an amazing skill for the world to learn at the moment?” OF COURSE, compassion wasn’t what Headspace was pitching in the commercials that aired during the football game. And therein lies one of the inherent tensions with a for-profit meditation company: In the rush to expand a business, it’s easy to misrepresent, oversell or exaggerate the benefits of a product, especially something as mercurial as mindfulness. In particular, some claim that Headspace has gone too far in trying to appeal to those in fragile emotional states by offering meditation courses devised to treat depression. “The problem I have with Headspace is the way they’ve expanded their content to target vulnerable populations,” said Zindel Segal, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, and the co-developer of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, a meditation-based treatment for depression. “They have no research that validates the claims they are making in this area,” Professor Segal said, “yet their business model requires that they constantly grow
THE HAGGLER
Some experts worry that as a for-profit company, Headspace may oversell the psychological benefits of meditation.
their user base.” Headspace says it is sensitive to these concerns. “Science is one of those things we take really seriously,” Mr. Pierson said. Headspace has dozens of studies going on, employs many scientists who are building on the already voluminous body of research documenting meditation’s potential benefits, and says it will publish more research soon. Mr. Pierson also noted that Headspace tells users to seek professional help if they have severe depression and said, “This isn’t meant to replace medication.” Yet in the end, Mr. Pierson was somewhat defiant. “We are just trying to put stuff out there that will help people,” he said. If meditation and mindfulness can cheer someone up, is a peer-reviewed study really necessary? What’s more, he said, “I don’t think Western science has a monopoly on the human condition.” When it comes to another growing market opportunity — the business of selling meditation offerings to corporations — Headspace has exhibited restraint. There is no special version of the app for enterprise customers, and Headspace says less than half of a percent of all subscriptions are paid for by companies as a benefit to employees. “I worry about people getting it from H.R.,” Mr. Pierson said. “If companies are going to promote it, I want them to do it not just because of productivity, but because they want their teams to be healthier and happier.” Headspace has an early lead, but the field is becoming more crowded. Thrive Global, a venture from Arianna Huffington, will be introduced soon. Audible, the audiobooks company owned by Amazon.com, is expanding its mindfulness offerings. And rival apps including Calm, Insight Timer and 10% Happier are all vying for mind share. In the meantime, Headspace will hope to capitalize on the nation’s lingering unease. “Meditation helps you be more comfortable with the uncomfortable,” Mr. Pierson said. “We’ve definitely seen a bump in usage postelection.”
DAVID SEGAL
All the Comforts of Home, Minus the Comforts The Haggler has heard about vacations, but obviously he never takes one. There are too many consumers in need, too much justice to mete out. A day off every year or two? Maybe. But the Haggler doesn’t have time to see the world. He is too busy saving it. O.K., that sounded a touch self-aggrandizing. And ridiculous. Also, it isn’t true. The Haggler never leaves the bunker that is Haggler Central because leisure travel doesn’t sound very relaxing. That, at least, is the impression one gets from the Haggler’s inbox, which is filled with tales of vacations gone wrong. Like this one:
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This summer, we rented a lakeside cottage through FlipKey, an online rental service, and when we arrived we discovered that the place was filthy. The television didn’t work. The oven didn’t work. The outdoor barbecue didn’t work. There were no sheets, no towels. We called FlipKey reps each of the three days we were there and were told, each time, that someone would contact the owner and call us back. But we heard nothing. A number of times we received emails telling us to contact the owner directly, which we did. But he was unresponsive. He later accused my family and me of trashing the place. FlipKey eventually told us that we could not put in a claim under their payment protection plan because we had an issue with the cleanliness and the amenities of the cottage — areas not covered by the plan. Plus, to get a refund, we needed to have vacated the property on our first night there — something no one ever told us when we called during our trip. After I hectored FlipKey a bit on social media, a company rep sent me $150 — $50 a day. But we spent $450 total. This result seems inadequate. Maybe you can do better.
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Haggler’s first thought upon A. The reading this email went like this: “Wait, cleanliness is not covered by the FlipKey payment protection plan?” That seems too important to exclude. Ditto for amenities. That nonfunctioning oven, television and barbecue? Tough, says FlipKey. EMAIL: haggler@nytimes.com or tweet to
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Those are amenities. Get over it. Given these terms, the Haggler would be reluctant to rent from FlipKey, which is owned by TripAdvisor. But what gives the Haggler real pause is that the Better Business Bureau currently gives the company an F rating, along with an average customer review of 1.01 out of five stars. Many of the 190 complaints now listed on B.B.B.’s company page echoed Ms. Beattie’s experience. In September, one reviewer described renting a house in Ireland and discovering mold the first night. Like Ms. Beattie, the renter stayed through the entire scheduled trip — “There were 11 adults and two infants; we had no option but to stick it out.” A claim under the payment protection plan was denied. On one level, you can understand FlipKey’s logic. Both Ms. Beattie and that unfortunate Ireland clan used the property for the allotted time. You can also understand the distress of these renters and why they think they are owed some restitution. Renting properties online is a difficult business. But not impossible. Airbnb has an A-plus rating from the B.B.B. and an average customer review of 3.77 out of five stars. The Haggler contacted FlipKey — whose head is the TripAdvisor C.E.O. Stephen Kaufer — and exchanged emails with Laurel Greatrix in the company’s communications department. She said that most FlipKey customers have great experiences. “We take tens of thousands of bookings and inquiries a day from travelers and only a fraction of a percent of these have problems with their bookings,” Ms. Greatrix wrote. “Complaints of misrepresentation make up a fraction of this fraction, while many problems are minor and easily resolved.” The Haggler asked if FlipKey inspected the properties before listing them. It does not, Ms. Greatrix replied, and that isn’t a very practical idea given that the company lists more than 800,000 properties on its site. Instead, FlipKey keeps on eye on prop-
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erty owners and their review scores. “When we see issues, we act,” Ms. Greatrix said. “These actions vary case to case, but might include educating, suspending or blacklisting the homeowner.” She said if issues of cleanliness and amenities are bad enough, FlipKey will issue refunds. But bad enough is up to FlipKey, and Ms. Beattie evidently did not clear the bar. Where FlipKey hiccuped, she acknowledged, was in communicating with Ms. Beattie during her trip. FlipKey was interacting with the owner of the property after Ms. Beattie complained — and during the vacation — but never relayed that to her. “It took us longer than expected to get the necessary information from the homeowner and we did not keep Julie sufficiently apprised of our efforts during these few days,” she wrote. “This was understandably frustrating for Julie and we’re sorry to have
Fighting to get a full refund after a vacation rental misses the mark.
fallen below our very high customer service standards in this instance.” There is one other way that FlipKey fell below its standards. Ms. Greatrix told the Haggler on Oct. 21 that “our customer service team will be reaching out to Julie next week to discuss further.” By Nov. 29, that had not happened. “Everyone is pretty horrified and embarrassed,” Ms. Greatrix said in a phone call last week when informed of this lapse. She explained that a request for the customer service department to contact Ms. Beattie “fell off the radar.” The remedy was nearly immediate. The next day, Ms. Beattie wrote to say that FlipKey called to offer a credit of $450 toward a future FlipKey rental. She was delighted. It was news that had a salutary effect on the Haggler’s nerves. Which is kind of like a vacation.
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from banks including Credit Suisse and Bank of America, according to an examination of lending data by The New York Times. The deal forms part of at least $43 billion in loans and underwriting to companies linked to deforestation and forest burning in Southeast Asia alone, according to a tally compiled by the California-based Rainforest Action Network, the Dutch consultancy Profundo and the Indonesian nongovernmental organization TuK Indonesia. More than a third of that sum comes from American, European and Japanese banks, many of which have sustainability pledges that specifically mention deforestation. That figure is almost certainly incomplete because not all financing is made public. It also excludes loans made by the same banks to forestry projects outside Southeast Asia, or financing provided to other, more global players. And it contrasts with efforts by companies like Nestlé and Procter & Gamble to distance themselves from suppliers linked to deforestation. And while there has been a growing movement among endowments and pension funds to divest from the fossil-fuel industry — and banks have started to back away from financing coal projects — any move away from deforestation has been slower to catch on, experts say. The role of banks has come under the spotlight in recent weeks after environmentalists called out banks like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs for financing the contentious Dakota Access oil pipeline project. The money is aiding a process that scientists say destroys ecosystems, displaces indigenous communities and covers the region each year in a thick, suffocating smog that stretches from Jakarta to Hong Kong. Deforestation — and the fires that frequently accompany it — also generates onetenth of total global warming emissions, making forestry loss one of the biggest single contributors to global warming, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Destroying the world’s forests makes fighting climate change almost impossible,” said Andrew W. Mitchell, executive director of the Global Canopy Programme, a forestry think tank. “The finance sector is really lagging behind in realizing that.”
The Palm Oil Boom In funding Rajawali’s palm oil plantations, the banks appear to have violated their own sustainability policies. In its forestry and agribusiness policy, adopted in 2008, Credit Suisse says it will not finance or advise companies with operations in “primary tropical moist forests” like those of West Kalimantan. Bank of America says in a banking policy, adopted in 2004, that it will not finance commercial projects that result in the clearing of primary tropical moist forests. The 2014 deal financed Rajawali’s expansion into palm oil by helping the conglomerate buy out a former partner, invest in new palm oil mills and increase its landholdings. Demand for palm oil is surging worldwide, driven by rising incomes in markets like China and India and a switch away from trans fats by Americans and Europeans. Rajawali’s plantations have been accused by environmental and labor groups of deforestation and illegal burning. Indonesia is one of the world’s biggest palm oil producers, and forestry loss there and elsewhere ranks as one of the biggest single contributors to global warming. Sebastian Sharp, a spokesman for Rajawali’s plantation arm, acknowledged that the burning and clearing on its West Kalimantan forest sites might be illegal but said local communities encroaching on its properties and starting the fires were to blame. He said the company did not engage in illegal burning or clearing.
Credit Suisse declined to comment on its Rajawali deal or to say whether the deal violated its sustainability policies. A Bank of America spokesman, Bill Halldin, said that the most serious accusations against Rajawali came after the 2014 loan, in which the bank played “a very small role.” “Today, we would certainly consider more information before making any decision on any client,” he said. Brigitte Seegers, a spokeswoman for ABN Amro, declined to comment.
A Deadly Haze Climate concerns have been brought into sharp relief by the impending presidency of Donald J. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax. Mr. Trump has said he will pull the United States out of the Paris accord, a commitment by 95 countries to take concrete measures to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions. Daily emissions from Indonesia’s forest fires last year at times exceeded emissions produced by all economic activity in the United States. A recent Harvard and Columbia study estimated that the fires caused at least 100,000 premature deaths across Southeast Asia. The World Bank estimates that the fires cost Indonesia’s economy $16 billion. Although deforestation has slowed in many parts of the world, notably in the Brazilian Amazon, forest clearing is on the rise in Southeast Asia. Indonesia, in particular, suffers the world’s highest rates of forest loss, an average of almost 2.1 million acres a year, a study published in 2014 found. About 15 percent of the world’s historical forest cover remains intact, according to the World Resources Institute. The rest has been cleared or degraded or is in fragments. Rajawali originally operated its palm plantation business, Green Eagle Holdings, as a joint venture with the French conglomerate Louis Dreyfus. But starting in 2014, Rajawali took the first step to consolidate the palm oil business under its control, and invest in new infrastructure. Its loans from Western banks were crucial. In January 2014, Green Eagle attracted a $120 million loan from a group of lenders led by ABN Amro. In July of that year, it scored an even bigger loan of $235 million from a syndicate led by Credit Suisse. Bank of America also took part in that loan.
The financing allowed Green Eagle to buy out Louis Dreyfus to invest in new palm oil mills and increase its landholdings. In November 2014, Green Eagle merged with another plantation operator, BW Plantation; Rajawali is majority shareholder of the resulting company, Eagle High Plantations. The banks issued those loans as Rajawali was being accused of extensive forest and peatland destruction, illegal burning, use of child labor and the use of force against workers at plantations under its control. Land-cover mapping by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and satellite imagery from Global Forest Watch, show forest loss at two sites in West Kalimantan from 2011 to 2013 and again in 2015, with much of the forest gone by the end of the year. Those sites included around 11,000 hectares of peat, which, when set alight, can smolder for months underground. Zamzami, who goes by one name, a Greenpeace staff member in Indonesia who visited a Rajawali plantation in West Kalimantan in September 2015, said the burning continued. “It was difficult to breathe because of the smoke,” he said in field notes. “Far away, on the horizon, I could see the forest wall.”
Confronting Child Labor Eagle High is now one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil plantation operators, with more
Top, peatland forest destroyed by fire last year in West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. Above, baby orangutans at the International Animal Rescue center. Below, a palm oil plantation run by Eagle High Plantations.
than a million acres in land rights under its control, according to an investors’ presentation dated September 2014. Human rights organizations have reported that children as young as 6 work to support their parents in another Rajawalicontrolled plantation in the Papua province. That plantation has promised to support the abolition of child labor by ensuring that there are no children on plantation sites. In December 2015, a 22-year-old worker was shot dead at the plantation by state security forces. It was unclear why state forces were on private property. Mr. Sharp, the Eagle High spokesman, blamed local villagers for the forest clearing and burning on its sites. “It’s being done by local communities, and we have no control over that,” he said. Environmental groups argue that plantation companies are responsible for protecting their sites. Mr. Sharp said that there were instances in which workers brought their children to plantations but that the company was “trying to brainstorm ways in which we can stop them from doing that.” He also questioned the wisdom of Indonesian labor law. “Why can’t we hire children at 15? Families need income,” he said. Under the country’s law, the minimum age for hazardous work, including jobs on plantations, is 18. The worker who was killed, Marvel Doga, was “drunk and violent, poured petrol everywhere and threatened to set fire, and he had with him a bow and arrow” when nearby state security forces tried to incapacitate him, leading to his death, Mr. Sharp said. He said Eagle High paid “thousands of dollars” to his family in compensation. Credit Suisse and ABN Amro declined to discuss specific deals. Bank of America declined to comment on the accusations. But in a February 2015 research note, Credit Suisse deemed Rajawali’s palm oil push a success. Eagle High’s increased landholdings and land rights signaled “significant headroom for expansion” of palm oil production, Priscilla Tjitra, an equity analyst for the bank, said in a report to clients. “The allocation of finance is so influential in our economy and to our environment,” said Tom Picken of the Rainforest Action Network. “But there’s little way we can hold financial sectors to account.”
Running Out of Refuges The orangutan rescues continue. The world has lost 60 percent of its population of Bornean orangutans since 1950, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In July, the Bornean orangutan was listed as critically endangered. International Animal Rescue, which runs a temporary shelter for about 100 orangutans in West Kalimantan, said its staff had rescued roughly 50 of the primates during the 2015 burning season, twice the number the organization rescues in an average year. “They were all starving, all skinny,” said Ms. Sánchez, the orangutan rescue group’s director. So far this year, about 25 orangutans have been rehabilitated. “The problem is that every time an area is destroyed and orangutans are under real threat, we have to look for areas to release them, and that’s challenging,” she said. “We’re running out of places where we can release these orangutans.” In September, Rajawali’s plantation arm secured a $192 million loan from Bank Negara Indonesia, a state bank, to refinance the debt held by its plantation subsidiaries and to double the capacity of palm oil refineries in Papua and West Kalimantan. Bank Negara Indonesia’s sustainability policies say that its clients must adopt “minimum environmental, social and governance standards.” The bank did not respond to requests for comment.
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of research — how humans make decisions, often irrationally — has had profound implications for an array of fields, like professional sports, the military, medicine, politics, finance and public health. It helped explain why a simple algorithm is often better than the most experienced doctors at diagnosing stomach cancer, why so many financial experts failed to foresee the implosion of the housing market, and why professional basketball teams make costly errors when picking players — in short, why people’s instincts are often so wildly wrong. In 2002, Mr. Kahneman won the Nobel in economic science, a field he had no formal training in, for demonstrating how people make decisions when faced with risks and uncertainty. (When asked if their work had any application to artificial intelligence, Mr. Tversky, who died in 1996, countered that they were more interested in exploring “natural stupidity.”) When he began digging into their research, Mr. Lewis found an even more compelling story about a fertile intellectual partnership that ended too soon, when Mr. Kahneman and Mr. Tversky had a fallingout over who was receiving more credit for their discoveries. “It’s a love story,” Mr. Lewis said during an interview in Manhattan this fall. “It’s this bromance of such great intensity, with such fertility, and the children are ideas, the children live on.” “The Undoing Project,” which will be released on Tuesday, seems like a departure for Mr. Lewis, whose best-known works have largely been character-driven narratives that reveal something unexpected about the way markets work. Often, they feature eccentrics and visionaries who see things that others are blind to — like Mr. Beane of the A’s, or Michael Burry, the misanthropic hedge fund manager in “The Big Short,” who made a fortune by betting against the housing market. “The Undoing Project” centers on psychology, a field Mr. Lewis, a financial journalist who once worked as a Wall Street bond salesman, knew next to nothing about. “I had cold feet about this, for very good reasons,” he said. On closer inspection, though, it becomes obvious that Mr. Kahneman’s and Mr. Tversky’s research shaped many of the subjects that Mr. Lewis has explored, to an almost unsettling degree. “Danny and Amos’s work has something to say about why baseball players get misvalued, or why people can’t see the value of Michael Oher in ‘The Blind Side,’ or why people can’t see what mortgage-backed securities really are,” he said. In a roundabout way, their work influenced Mr. Lewis’s career. Their research demonstrating how people behave in fundamentally irrational ways when making decisions, relying on their gut rather than available data, gave rise to the field of behavioral economics. That discipline attracted Paul DePodesta, a Harvard student, who later went into sports management and helped upend professional baseball when he went to work for Mr. Beane. “Without their basic work, Michael Lewis doesn’t get to write ‘Moneyball,’” Starling Lawrence, Mr. Lewis’s editor at W. W. Norton, said of Mr. Kahneman and Mr. Tversky. It wasn’t until Mr. Lewis read a 2003 review of “Moneyball” in The New Republic, which mentioned the connection between Mr. Kahneman’s and Mr. Tversky’s research and the data revolution in baseball, that he realized the extent to which their work had shaped the book. He became fascinated with their research and their unique partnership. Four years later, he finally worked up the nerve to call Mr. Kahneman and request a meeting. IT IS HARD to imagine Mr. Lewis, 56, feeling
skittish around anyone. A New Orleans native, he comes across as someone who is at ease in any situation, whether he is shad-
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Michael Lewis is a financial journalist who once worked as a Wall Street bond salesman.
owing professional athletes and coaches, foul-mouthed derivatives traders or bigwigs at the International Monetary Fund. After studying art history at Princeton and getting a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, he worked at Salomon Brothers selling bonds. He left to write “Liar’s Poker,” his 1989 memoir about his experience on Wall Street, which he sold to Mr. Lawrence at W. W. Norton. They have worked together ever since, on more than a dozen books. Unlike many nonfiction writers, Mr. Lewis declines to take advances, which he calls “corrupting,” even though he could easily earn seven figures. Instead, he splits the profits from the books, as well as the advertising and production costs, with Norton. The setup spurs him to work harder and to make more money if the books are successful, he says. “You should have the risk and you should enjoy the reward,” he said. “It’s not healthy for an author not to have the risk.” Mr. Lewis’s books have sold more than nine million copies, and three have been adapted into successful feature films. Norton is printing nearly 500,000 hardcover copies of “The Undoing Project.” Other authors speak about him with admiration bordering on reverence. “His willingness to jump in and take on these topics that are incredibly difficult to represent on the page has always left me awe-struck,” the New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell said in an interview. “There’s not a single book he’s written that I thought I could have pulled off myself.” “The Undoing Project” — which tackles abstract concepts like utility theory, prospect theory and heuristics — may be Mr. Lewis’s most arcane and ambitious undertaking to date. “I don’t know how you write a book about a couple of psychologists,” Mr. Lawrence said. “Let’s just say, it’s not promising in another writer’s hands.”
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WHEN MR. LEWIS first met Mr. Kahneman in
2007, over coffee at Mr. Kahneman’s house in Berkeley, Calif., where Mr. Lewis also lives, he had no intention of writing a book about him. Instead, he found himself offering writing advice to Mr. Kahneman, who was struggling with his own book, which laid out his theories about human cognition and decision making. “He would say, ‘It’s going to ruin my reputation. I don’t know why I agreed to do this,’” Mr. Lewis said. “At some point I said, ‘If you’re not going to do it, I’m going to write something.’” Mr. Kahneman’s literary agent vetoed that idea. In 2011, Mr. Kahneman reluctantly published his book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” It sold about 1.5 million copies. Despite the book’s success, Mr. Lewis felt the story was incomplete. Mr. Kahneman had largely left out a huge piece of the narrative — his own biography and his complicated relationship with Mr. Tversky. Mr. Lewis continued to lobby Mr. Kahneman to let him write about their work. Mr. Kahneman was ambivalent, arguing that the book would read like a textbook. “I said, ‘You don’t understand what a good character you are, and the fact that you don’t understand it is part of what makes you a good character,’” Mr. Lewis said. It took a few years, but Mr. Kahneman finally acquiesced. “He’s a pessimist, so he thought it would come out terribly,” said Richard H. Thaler, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a longtime friend of both Mr. Kahneman and Mr. Tversky. “Danny needed to be convinced and charmed, and Michael was up to the task.” OVER THE NEXT eight years, as he completed other books, Mr. Lewis spent countless hours with Mr. Kahneman, hiking in the hills surrounding Berkeley, traveling to Israel with him twice, and meeting at his apartment in Manhattan. He also dug through Mr. Tversky’s archives and corre-
spondence, with the help of his widow, Barbara Tversky. People close to both men, including Mr. Thaler and Ms. Tversky, say Mr. Lewis captured the intensity of their relationship and their individual quirks. Colleagues described how the pair would finish each other’s sentences and could often be heard cackling from behind an office door as they wrote dense academic papers. Mr. Tversky was the bold one who delighted in undermining well-established dogma within psychology. Mr. Kahneman was cautious, sensitive and deeply pessimistic. A few of the more colorful details in the book stray from reality, said Ms. Tversky, who praised Mr. Lewis for getting the “broad strokes right.” For example, Ms. Tversky disputed a delightful anecdote about how her husband was so immune to social convention that he would strip down to his underwear and run outside when he felt like getting exercise. Actually, he would on occasion run on the treadmill in his underwear, but never outside, she said. Mr. Kahneman, now 82, declined to be interviewed for this article, but offered a statement through his publisher. “Naturally, there are points on which I would quibble, but this is Michael’s book, not mine,” he wrote. “Some things in the book surprised me, some hurt, but I am glad it was written, and grateful to Michael for writing it. In the course of many conversations and countless email exchanges I came to understand the defining chapter of my life better than I had understood it before.” Mr. Lewis said he expected Mr. Kahneman to have a complex reaction to it. “It would be out of character for Danny just to like it, because he doesn’t like much,” he said. “It would not be out of character for Danny to be kind and come to terms with it in a condescending way, like, that’s the best he could do, and I admire him for trying as hard as he could.”
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lenders benefit, borrowers do too, by having more choices. As executive director of the Community Mortgage Lenders of America, Glen S. Corso represents many of the small entities that depend on the liquidity provided by Fannie and Freddie to make their loans. He said in an interview that he and his constituents were extremely encouraged by the comments from Mr. Mnuchin. “Since 2012, we’ve been advocating for the G.S.E.s to be reformed, recapitalized and then released from conservatorship,” Mr. Corso said. “We’re hopeful that is the direction the Trump administration will head in.” That would be an almost total turnabout from the proposals pushed in recent years by housing officials under President Obama and some influential lawmakers. Railing against recapitalizing the companies and releasing them from conservatorship, they have put forward an array of complicated and impractical proposals that would have reconfigured the mortgage market and, in some cases, handed over a big chunk of it to the nation’s largest banks. Although there was not much talk of Fannie and Freddie on the campaign trail, it was widely assumed that a Clinton administration would embrace some of those Obama housing officials as well as their ideas. That those officials now have little sway is one reason shares in Fannie and Freddie soared in value just after the election and even before Mr. Mnuchin spoke about the companies. As a former head of the mortgage-backed Twitter: @gmorgenson
securities desk at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Mnuchin well understands the mechanics of this enormous market. He also recognizes the significant role a well-capitalized Fannie and Freddie could play in ensuring that borrowers have access to mortgage money in good economies as well as bad. So what might happen now? In his comments, Mr. Mnuchin nodded to a crucial issue regarding Fannie and Freddie: safety and soundness. “We’ll make sure that when they’re restructured, they’re absolutely safe and they don’t get taken over again,” he said, “But we got to get them out of government control.” A first step in ensuring that Fannie and Freddie are safe would be to let them rebuild their capital. Since the government began taking all their profits in 2012, it has directed the companies to operate on a small and shrinking sliver of capital. Under the current arrangement, the companies will have zero capital at the end of 2018. This is clearly untenable and unsafe for taxpayers, who would again be on the hook if Fannie and Freddie began losing money. An easy way to let them rebuild capital would be to end the quarterly transfer of all their profits to the Treasury. This would not require legislation; it could be done administratively with incoming Treasury officials advising the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates Fannie and Freddie, to change the terms of the government’s agreement with the companies. This was supposed to happen anyway while the companies were operating under the conservatorship. What of the fears that if they are allowed to recapitalize, the companies will return to their swaggering, prebailout ways and
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Fannie Mae’s headquarters in Washington. The mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been under federal government control since the financial crisis, affecting taxpayers as well as investors in the companies.
grow powerful and reckless as they did in the 1990s? Mr. Corso and others say safeguards are in place to protect taxpayers from such an outcome. “We would be the first to acknowledge that there were serious deficiencies in the way the G.S.E.s operated, pre-2008,” he said. “But a lot have been addressed in the conservatorship.” Simply recapitalizing the companies will also be cleaner, preventing potential self-
dealing and the giveaways of the companies’ assets that existed in some of the privatization proposals. There is another intriguing aspect to the Trump administration’s shift, and it has to do with the lawsuits that have been filed against the government. One such suit was brought by Fairholme Funds, a mutual fund company that owns Fannie and Freddie shares. It contends that the 2012 profit sweep was an improper taking of private property without just compensation. For years, Justice Department lawyers have been stonewalling document requests from the plaintiffs. The government has requested confidential treatment for thousands of pages of materials and has asserted presidential privilege in 45 documents. Margaret Sweeney, the judge hearing the matter in the Court of Federal Claims, recently opened the door a crack, letting some documents see the light of day. Some of the materials cast doubt on arguments made by the government’s lawyers that the profit sweep came about because Fannie and Freddie were in dire condition and the taxpayers needed protection from future losses. If Judge Sweeney were to order the release of more documents, the current administration would probably appeal. It is not as clear that a Trump administration would do so, however. This opens the possibility that all those materials that the Obama administration has fought so hard to keep secret might just emerge. That would be a huge service for anyone interested in holding government officials accountable for their actions.
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ECONOMIC VIEW
N. GREGORY MANKIW
LETTERS
The Courage to Invest
Seeing Past the Trade Deficit Threat
TO THE EDITOR:
Re “Choke Point of a Nation” by Tyler J. Kelley and “A Trump-Led Trip Back to the Gold-Plated ’80s” by Robert Frank (Inside Wealth), Nov. 27: These two articles show cause and effect of a common problem — the unwillingness of our political leaders (and us) to have the courage to tell the American people what it costs to properly invest in our nation. There could be no better stimulus than a publicly funded infrastructure program, not more tax cuts for the wealthy. It is also crucial that American workers, rather than wealthy investors, enjoy the majority of the benefits of any rebuilding program.
Why a major focus of Trump’s economic advisers may not be worth all the hand-wringing. THE ECONOMIC POLICY of President-elect
Donald J. Trump is still a work in progress. But if campaign rhetoric is a reliable guide, reorienting trade policy may become one of the main goals of the new administration. Perhaps the best indication of Mr. Trump’s thinking is a report released by the campaign in September. The report, “Scoring the Trump Economic Plan: Trade, Regulatory and Energy Policy Impacts,” was written by Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross. Mr. Navarro is an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Ross is an investor whom Mr. Trump has chosen to be secretary of commerce. A major theme of the report is concern about the trade deficit. In recent years, American imports have exceeded exports by about $500 billion a year. Mr. Navarro and Mr. Ross argue that if better policies eliminated this “trade deficit drag,” gross domestic product would be higher and more people would be employed. That conclusion is correct, but only in a superficial sense. Gross domestic product is, by definition, the sum of consumption spending, investment spending, government purchases and the net exports of goods and services. If net exports rose from their current negative value to zero, and the other three components stayed the same, domestic production would increase and, consequently, so should employment. But a fuller look at the macroeconomic effects of trade deficits suggests that things aren’t so simple. The most important lesson about trade deficits is that they have a flip side. When the United States buys goods and services from other nations, the money Americans send abroad generally comes back in one way or another. One possibility is that foreigners use it to buy things we produce, and we have balanced trade. The other possibility, which is relevant when we have trade deficits, is that foreigners spend on capital assets in the United States, such as stocks, bonds and direct investments in plants, equipment and real estate. In practice, these capital inflows from abroad have been large. Net foreign ownership of American capital assets has risen to about $8 trillion from $2.5 trillion at the end of 2010. American companies moving production overseas get a lot of attention, but this data shows that capital has, over all, moved in the opposite direction. It is easy to understand why foreigners are eager to buy American assets. Despite the meager recovery from the financial crisis and recession of 2008-9, the United States remains one of the more vibrant economies of the developed world. And if N. GREGORY MANKIW is a professor of econom-
ics at Harvard.
EDWIN ANDREWS MALDEN, MASS., NOV. 27
Help More Whistle-Blowers TO THE EDITOR:
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Trade deficits are not a threat to robust growth and full employment.
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you want a safe place to park your wealth, United States Treasuries are your best bet. The trade deficit is inextricably linked to this capital inflow. When foreigners decide to move their assets into the United States, they have to convert their local currencies into American dollars. As they supply foreign currency and demand dollars in the markets for currency exchange, they cause the dollar to appreciate. A stronger dollar makes American exports more expensive and imports cheaper, which in turn pushes the trade balance toward deficit. From this perspective, many of the policies proposed by Mr. Trump will increase the trade deficit rather than reduce it. He has proposed scaling back both burdensome business regulations and taxes on corporate and other business income. His tax cuts and infrastructure spending will most likely increase the government’s budget deficit, which tends to increase interest rates. These changes should attract even more international capital into the United States, leading to an even stronger dollar and larger trade deficits. We have already started to see some of these forces at work. In the 10 days after Mr. Trump’s victory, the interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds increased by 46 basis points (0.46 of a percentage point). The dollar appreciated by about 4 percent against a broad basket of currencies to its highest level since 2002. But what about those tariffs that Mr.
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Gretchen Morgenson’s column “A Win for a Whistle-Blower” (Fair Game, Nov. 27) captures the retaliation that employees who try to stop wrongdoing by their employers often face. The federal government and many states have gradually added laws that encourage whistleblowers to report fraud to the government by offering them job protection and rewards as well as confidentiality in some instances. As a lawyer for whistle-blowers, I have seen firsthand the powerful impact these laws have had. But existing whistle-blower programs generally apply only if a company is defrauding the government or there are significant securities, commodity or tax violations. Whistle-blowers who expose consumer frauds often do not have the same options. Legislators should create programs that encourage company insiders to provide enforcement agencies with information about consumer frauds. Whistle-blowers who fight for consumers should not have to battle on their own. ERIKA A. KELTON WASHINGTON, NOV. 29
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Trump’s Win Gives Prison Stocks a Reprieve Under fire from the Obama administration, private jailers have rallied since the election. AS TERRIFIC AS Donald J. Trump has been for the stock market, he has been absolutely spectacular for a troubled niche: companies that run for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers for states and the federal government. In the market rally on the day after the election, the stock with the best performance was Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s biggest prison company. It soared 43 percent that day. Shares of the GEO Group, its main competitor, rose 21 percent. These two big private prison companies have had a rough time until recently: In August, after the Justice Department put out a monitoring report that found safety and security problems at their facilities, the Obama administration said it would start to phase out the use of private prisons. So Mr. Trump’s surprise victory represented a radical change in fortunes for them — a boon for investors and a potential nightmare for critics. “It’s an extreme case of politics affecting the stock market,” said Ryan Meliker, a senior analyst with Canaccord Genuity. “Politics drove down the shares of the companies over the summer — and now the situation is reversed.” These two companies, both real estate investment trusts, are not household names. In fact, on Nov. 10, Corrections Corporation of America changed its trading name to CoreCivic. According to Jonathan Burns, a company spokesman, the move was part of a long-planned rebranding that emphasizes diversification into areas like inmate transportation and residential re-entry programs for former inmates. On its website, CoreCivic, which is based in Nashville, says it houses nearly 70,000 inmates, which makes it “the fifth-largest corrections system in the nation, behind only the federal government and three states.” The GEO Group, which is based in Boca Raton, Fla., and operates internationally — in Britain, Australia and South Africa — is close behind. The nonprofit Hamilton Project estimates that the two companies account for 85 percent of the private prison market in the United States. But that market had appeared to be shrinking. Investors shunned the two companies over the summer when the Obama administration signaled its displeasure. A Justice Department memo concluded that privately operated prisons were inferior to
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those operated directly by the Federal Bureau of Prisons in three critical areas: They do not provide comparable services, do not save substantially on costs and do not maintain “the same level of safety and security.” In July, there was a measles outbreak at an immigrant detention center in Arizona run by Corrections Corporation of America for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency. State officials found fault with the way the institution handled it. Private prisons began a resurgence in the United States in the 1980s with the law-andorder, privatization and anti-union campaigns of the Reagan revolution. They helped ease overcrowding in state and then federal prisons as inmate populations swelled, while budgets were constrained. But in 2013 the prison population began to decline, a trend that seemed likely to continue, with the help of changes in sentencing laws, the rise of alternatives to imprisonment and a softening in parole policies. On Aug. 18, Sally Q. Yates, the deputy attorney general, said in that Justice Department memo that the Federal Bureau of Prisons was “beginning the process of reducing — and ultimately ending — our use of privately operated prisons.” The memo was a bombshell: In one day, shares of CoreCivic (then Corrections Corporation of America) fell 35.5 percent. GEO dropped 40 percent. From a purely financial standpoint, that horrendous market decline may have been an overreaction. The Yates memo referred only to phasing out or reducing contracts with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Those contracts
amounted to less than 16 percent of the two companies’ revenue, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Far more money — 44 percent of CoreCivic’s 2015 revenue, said Terry Dwyer, an analyst with KDP Investment Advisors — flowed from contracts for detention centers run on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the United States Marshals Service. On Thursday, a Homeland Security panel recommended that those agencies keep using private prisons. Even as the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that it was ending a contract with CoreCivic to house inmates in Cibola County, N.M., CoreCivic promptly got a new contract to run the same center on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Obama administration’s approach is “an inconsistent revolving door policy,” Carl Takei, staff attorney for the national prison project of the American Civil Liberties Union, said. The A.C.L.U. objects to private prisons as a matter of principle, he said, adding that they engage in “profiteering.” “These companies by their nature depend on and profit from mass incarceration,” Mr. Takei said. Pablo Paez, a spokesman for GEO, said in an email: “We do not believe in cost-cutting for profit sake as critics like the A.C.L.U. contend, instead we believe in running an efficient operation that provides adequate staffing and relies on state of the art technology for monitoring, communication and health care.” Mr. Burns of CoreCivic said in an interview, “We have played a pivotal role in im-
A detention center in Eloy, Ariz. President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promise to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama as attorney general could mean big money for the private prison industry.
proving the conditions and environment for many inmates in many states, and we continue to do that.” Oliver Hart, the Harvard professor who is one of this year’s Nobel laureates in economic science, has problems with for-profit prisons for other reasons. The difficulty is not just that the companies’ profit incentives don’t entirely align with civic interests, he said in an interview. “There is a problem in contracts that we call residual control,” he said. While it’s relatively easy to shift a public service like garbage collection to private companies, he said, it’s not reasonable to do so for some government functions, like decision-making in foreign policy. “You don’t want private contractors to have ultimate control over use of violence,” Professor Hart said. “Prisons are somewhere in the middle” between garbage collecting and decisionmaking on war and peace, he added. “It’s generally better not to privatize prisons.” But the market has concluded that the business may have its best days ahead of it. “The outlook for the companies really changed overnight with the election of Mr. Trump,” Mr. Dwyer of KDP Investment Advisors said. The new administration’s policies are not clear, but Mr. Trump’s statements have been starkly different from those of President Obama — and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who each called for the end of private prisons. In March, for example, Mr. Trump called the bulk of the nation’s prisons “a disaster” but added: “I do think we can do a lot of privatizations and private prisons. It seems to work a lot better.” And in an interview with “60 Minutes,” he said that up to three million undocumented immigrants were “criminals”: “We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.” The claim that there are three million undocumented immigrants in America who have criminal records is not supported by the facts, Mr. Takei of the A.C.L.U. said. Still, because most detained immigrants are housed by private companies at a cost to the government of about $127 a day, any increases in incarceration of immigrants would swell the companies’ coffers. Incarceration on the state level may well decline. California and Oklahoma approved referendums last month that may reduce the number of people in custody. The prison companies are compensating with “things like halfway houses with electronic monitoring and ankle bracelets,” Mr. Meliker, the Canaccord Genuity analyst, said. The implications for investors are clear, he added: “There is a big upside for these companies.”
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social media at the career site Monster, I read Cal Newportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent Preoccupations column, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It,â&#x20AC;? with great interest. Mr. Newport argues that social media is harmful for careers because it is too much of a distraction and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide a valuable return on investment professionally. As someone who spends the majority of his work time on social media helping people find careers theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll love, I disagree with his assessment. I believe that you should not quit social media â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that doing so will actually damage your career. Understandably, you might be questioning my motives â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, this guy does social media for a living, so clearly heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a vested stake in this matter.â&#x20AC;? Well, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right. But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s start with the point that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not the only one who makes a career doing this: Just one platform, Facebook, has created more than 4.5 million social media industry jobs globally, according to a study conducted by Deloitte. Talk about literal career benefits. The number of people in the creative industries, advertising and more who make a living on social media is probably much higher. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not just here to proclaim the greatness that is social media. I agree with some of the points that Mr. Newport makes about the potential harm it can cause. But I think there are ways to navigate these hurdles rather than hiding from social media altogether. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how I believe we can address some career challenges presented by social media, as outlined by Mr. Newport: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people in my generation fear that without a social media presence, they would be invisible to the job market.â&#x20AC;? This is actually a reasonable belief, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reality that is becoming more clear each day. Tools are available that enable employers to search all the digital bread crumbs you leave behind to see a fuller picture of who you are and how you might fit within their organization. Most employers and customers Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve talked to are ultimately looking for confirmation of their excitement about you, not reasons for suspicions or doubts. Not having any profile could be seen as a red flag, so why give a potential employer any reason to question your candidacy? Your social media presence â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, really, your whole digital footprint â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is no longer just an extension of your rĂŠsumĂŠ. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as important as your rĂŠsumĂŠ. Social media use is
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In many cases, social media can have a substantial effect on important issues and on public discourse. For instance, I fully believe social media indirectly affected the 2016 presidential election by generating a kind of mass conversation that further polarized supporters of the two major candidates. In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reality, these conversations often influence what becomes news â&#x20AC;&#x201D; real or fake. Regardless of your sentiments about these mainstream discussions, not staying on top of them means youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excluding yourself from critical conversations with co-workers and clients. In the case of clients in particular, exposing yourself to diverse views expressed on social media will make it easier to find common ground, as you can expect to work with people from all walks of life and political backgrounds. This will not happen naturally if you visit the same publications every day (which are probably in line with your views), but it can happen on social media if you follow a well-rounded collection of sources. The main point is this: Social media is often where news â&#x20AC;&#x201D; real or fake, in line with your views or not â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is happening, and being aware of it is crucial for business professionals today.
now a standard of the hiring process, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little chance of going back. You need to realize that social media wields great power: What you say there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including saying nothing at all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has an effect on your network or on the employer who is checking out your Instagram account. But remember that you control what people see. By being more judicious about what you share or by altering the platform settings where possible, you can manage your digital trail to increase the odds that a potential employer will form a positive impression of you. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cultivating your social media brand is a fundamentally passive approach to professional advancement.â&#x20AC;? One reason to leave the social world behind is the torrid pace of maintaining a public, digital brand on social media for little return. Mr. Newportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column tells of a writer who became overwhelmed by his sense of obligation â&#x20AC;&#x153;to update his blog every halfhour or so,â&#x20AC;? for very little value delivered. But the rabid sharer is just one type of social media user. There are many people with a presence on social media who are what we affectionately call lurkers, those who may never or rarely post or share but who simply consume content widely. These activities may seem passive, but they are not. Lurkers may be doing much to further their careers: learning new things, keeping up with the latest trends or preparing for any conversation that might crop up in the break room or during a job interview.
In the end, for these reasons and more, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support abandoning social media. I suggest we embrace it, fully and more actively than ever, but also thoughtfully and deliberately. In doing so, we create important career opportunities, from simply expanding our networks and improving our knowledge, to exposing ourselves to jobs we may not have previously considered. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that social media is here to stay, so why not make it work for you?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable.â&#x20AC;?
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Asst General Counsel req'd w/Cantor Fitzgerald in NY NY. Draft & negotiate various forms of legal IT contracts, including service agrmts, outsourcing agrmts, softw & data licensing agrmts, consulting agrmts, non-disclosure agrmts, & hardw purchase agrmts as well as legal communications, & other legal docs. Req Masters of Laws degree. Min 1 yr Paralegal exp. Must have exp drafting & negotiating various forms of legal IT contracts, including service agrmts, outsourcing agrmts, softw & data licensing agrmts, consulting agrmts, non-disclosure agrmts, & hardw purchase agrmts, as well as legal communications, & other legal docs including privacy policies & website terms of use. Exp must include at least 6 months working with DataStore, Hummingbird, & Workshare. Must be admitted to the NYS Bar. To apply: email careers@cantor.com. An EOE.
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Assoc-Int/VP w/Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY, NY.Dvlp, implement, & maintain mkt risk models (such as Value at Risk & stress tests) guided by fin theory & empirical evidence in order to assess the mkt risk of the Firm's trading bus. Reqs: Mstrs deg (U.S. or foreign equiv) in a Math or Sci discipline that req stat analysis w/ 6 yrs of exp, in the job offered or in a quant modeling & model implementation pos OR Ph.D (U.S. or foreign equiv) in a Math or Sci discipline that req stat analysis w/ 3 yrs of exp, in the job offered or in a quant modeling & model implementation pos. Prior wrk exp must incl 3 yrs of: dvlpng quant models by utiliz probability, stats, optimization, stochastic calculus, time series analysis & numerical analysis; fin engg, incl exp covering everything from derivative pricing, the intricacies of computing volatilities, to producing a Monte Carlo simulation; & presentations or conference talks to Assoc-Fin w/ Goldman, Sachs & Co. in global audience, w/demonstrated comNY,NY. Negotiate terms & structures munication skills. Prior wrk exp must of debt & equity invests. Lead sourcing incl at least 1.5 yrs of: dvlpng risk modof invest opportunities. Evaluate risks els on a wide range of businesses of invest opportunities across sectors covering both trading & asset mgmt, incl industrials & natural resource in- w/understanding of fin mks & fin prods dustries. Reqs: Bach deg (U.S. or equiv) across a broad range of assets & their in a quant field such as Fin, Math, pricing models; designing, implementEngg. 4 yrs of exp in the job offered or ing, & documenting full re-priced based in a rel fin or private equity pos. Prior Value-at-Risk models for new bus & wrk exp must incl: Analyzing, evaluat- prods; SQL proficiency to efficiently ing & executing natural resources & en- query & manipulate large dbase tables ergy rel invests in the upstream, mid- where ref info & computational output stream, & oilfield services sectors; An- such as pricing results are stored; Obalyzing public disclosures of upstream, ject oriented (such as C++ or similar) midstream & oilfield services compa- prog, incl exp writing commercial nies; Dvlpng fully integrated upstream s/ware; interacting w/global team corp cash flow models based on asset members in a fast paced environment. level dvlpmnt plans & single well econ, Job Code: FIN111816XHMRMA incl an understanding of well producti- Qual Applicants: Apply at: vity & key upstream fin drivers; Con- https://careers.gs.com Under 'Experducting due diligence & in-depth valua- ienced Professionals,' click on 'Apply tion in the upstream & midstream sec- Now.' If New User, Click on 'Register tor, incl familiarity w/typical contract Now'. Upon completion, an email w/a structures & industry terminology; Ne- link will be sent to you. Click or paste gotiating natural resources specific fin link into browser & log-in. On Welcome instruments (e.g. Reserve Based screen, enter job code into KeyLoans, Volumetric Production Pay- words: field & click on Search . Click ments); Interacting closely w/ C-level on the job from the results to apply. execs at large cap companies (enter- Complete application tabs, then click prise value of $500 million & more); Ne- 'Submit'. If already registered, log-in & gotiating Limited Liability Corp docs & follow above instructions to submit an other associated corp documentation; application. NO PHONE CALLS Coordinating fast paced invest procs PLEASE. Goldman Sachs is an equal directly w/external parties incl invest employment/affirmative action embankers, company mgmt teams, & oth- ployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. er private equity firms. Travel reqd. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2016. Job Code: MBK111716NS Qual Appli- All rights reserved. cants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com Under 'Experienced Professionals,' click on 'Apply Now.' If New User, Click Assoc w/Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY, on 'Register Now'. Upon completion, NY. Support Goldman Sachs' Asset an email w/ a link will be sent to you. Mgm's (GSAM) Third Party DistribuClick or paste link into browser & log- tion global mgmt team to perform in.On Welcome screen,enter job code growth & profitability analyses & into Keywords: field & click on projections of the bus through the Search . Click on the job from the re- dvlpmnt of fin models & process imsults to apply. Complete application provement initiatives. Reqs: Bach deg tabs, then click 'Submit'. If already re- (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Fin, Econ, Bus gistered, log-in & follow above instruc- Admin or a rel field + 3 yrs of exp in an analytical function in fin services. Prior tions to submit an application. wrk exp must incl: wrking w/global NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Goldman Sachs is an equal employ- teams w/in distribution/asset mgmt ment/affirmative action employer Fe- businesses; dvlpng dynamic Excel models that incorp multi-variable inmale/Minority/Disability/Vet. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2016. puts (specialized Excel formulas, charts, filtering & other scenario analyAll rights reserved. sis tools); analyzing & manipulating Assoc w/ Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY, large volumes of numeric data utilizing NY. Participate in the planning, scop- sales tracking s/ware & data bases; ing, fieldwrk & reporting for internal process enhancement for reporting of audits of the Investment Banking Div, strategic metrics; & proj mgmt exp Merchant Banking Div, Global Invest- must incl mng multiple tasks in a fastment Research & Realty Mgmt Divi- paced team-oriented environment, sion. Reqs: Bach deg (U.S. or foreign identifying scope, target timelines, levequiv) in Acctg, Fin, or a rel field, + 3 el of effort & conducting calls to gather yrs of exp in the job offered or in an consensus across various stakeholder Acctg, Internal Audit, or an operational teams. Job Code: IMD110716AATP. role (such as Invest Banking). Must Qual Applicants: Apply at: have exp w/: utilizi bus know of Invest https://careers.gs.com. Under 'ExperBanking, Merchant Banking,or Global ienced Professionals,' click on 'Apply Invest Research & prods to identify key Now.' If New User, Click on 'Register risks to the bus; utiliz know of applicab- Now'. Upon completion, an email w/ a le rules & regs issued by, but not limited link will be sent to you. Click or paste to the following regulatory agencies: link into browser & log-in.On Welcome the Securities & Exchange Commis- screen, enter job code into Keysion (SEC), Fed Reserve,& the Fin In- words: field & click on Search . Click dustry Regulatory Authority (FINRA); on the job from the results to apply. applying know of the regs relevant to Complete application tabs, then click the specific audit to the approved 'Submit'. If already registered, log-in & scope to ensure all aspects of the reg follow above instructions to submit an are adhered to by the audited entity; application. NO PHONE CALLS executing an audit plan, which incls PLEASE. Goldman Sachs is an equal completing control design assess- employment/affirmative action emments & control effectiveness testing & ployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. validating key bus controls based on The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2015. keen observation & inspection of the All rights reserved. evidence provided by the stakeholders; summarizing & presenting the audit findings to stakeholders to clearly de- Assoc w/Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY, fine the control deficiency. Job Code: NY. Responsible for continuous moniLIA111616XZIAIM Qual Applicants: Ap- toring & auditing of the various techs in ply at: https://careers.gs.com Under the Equities division, to identify areas 'Experienced Professionals,' click on of potential risk to Goldman Sachs. 'Apply Now.' If New User, Click on 'Re- Reqs: Bach deg (U.S. or foreign equiv) gister Now'. Upon completion, an email in Comp Sci, Magmt Info Systems, w/a link will be sent to you. Click or Electronic/Electrical Engg, Bus Admin, paste link into browser and log-in. On Fin, Engg or a rel field + 3 yrs of exp in Welcome screen, enter job code into the job offered or a rel role. Must have Keywords: field & click on Search . exp w/: equity prods, trading procesClick on the job from the results to ap- ses, regulation, & associated techs; bus ply. Complete application tabs, then risk & tech risks assoc w/running a click 'Submit'. If already registered, lo- trading bus; identifying bus risks & anag-in & follow above instructions to sub- lyzing system controls utilizing 1 or mit an application. NO PHONE CALLS more of the following:SQL, C++, & PytPLEASE. Goldman Sachs is an equal hon w/in the fin services industry; employment/affirmative action em- wrking across a large global team; artiployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. culating results & findings to stakeholThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2016. ders(both orally & in writing); wrking on multi projects concurrently. Job All rights reserved. Code: LIA111716WNIA. Qual AppliAssoc w/ Goldman,Sachs & Co. in NY, cants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com. NY. Execute audit testing rel to regula- Under 'Experienced Professionals,' tory & fin reporting to ensure audit click on 'Apply Now.' If New User, Click fieldwrk is focused on the appropriate on 'Register Now'. Upon completion, areas & documentation meets qual an email w/a link will be sent to you. standards per internal audit (IA) policy. Click or paste link into browser & log-in. Reqs: Bach deg (U.S. or foreign equiv) On Welcome screen, enter job code in Fin, Fin Mgmt, Accotg or a rel field. 3 into Keywords: field & click on yrs of exp in the job offered or in a rel Search . Click on the job from the rerole w/in fin services. Must have exp: sults to apply. Complete application w/ U.S. GAAP acctg, Fed/Basel regula- tabs, then click 'Submit'. If already retory capital rules, & fin concepts rel to gistered, log-in & follow above instruccontrollers & tax functions; w/ in an au- tions to submit an application. dit context, incl exp identifying & as- NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. sessing risk & controls for a bus proc, Goldman Sachs is an equal employincl a demonstrated ability to analyze ment/affirmative action employer & navigate through the regulatory reqs Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. & instructions; wrking across a global The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2015. audit team, incl exp balancing priorities All rights reserved. & juggling multi tasks at the same time; interacting w/stakeholders across levels w/ in an audit context & communi- Associate: Morgan Stanley Services cating control gaps (both verbally & in Group Inc. seeks an Associate, Technowriting); wrking independently as part logy in NY, NY to serve on Morgan of larger team, incl the ability to take Stanley Online/Mobile project team, ownership of wrk, thinking proactively which is new initiative that will enable & planning accordingly to meet de- new user features on Morgan Stanley liverables,influencing others to achieve Online website & mobile app's. Req's best outcome,& move projs towards Bachelor's in CS, Eng'g (any), or rel timely completion through follow-up & field of study & 3 yrs exp in position offered or 3 yrs exp as Program Manapersistence. Job Code: ger, Vice President, AVP, Technology LIA111616FYIAC Qual Applicants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com Under Associate, Bus. Analyst, or rel. occupa'Experienced Professionals,' click on tion. Req's 3 yrs exp in Wealth 'Apply Now.' If New User, Click on 'Re- Mgmt/Investment Mgmt tech focusing gister Now'. Upon completion, an email on tech architecture, srvc delivery, & w/a link will be sent to you. Click or release mgmt functions. Req's exp in paste link into browser & log-in. On planning, tracking, & reporting medium Welcome screen, enter job code into to high complexity tech projects; hands Keywords: field & click on Search . on exp performing detailed bus. analyClick on the job from the results to ap- sis; & req'mts specs creation for comply. Complete application tabs, then plex broker/dealer sys's. Req's demonclick 'Submit'.If already registered, log- strated exp w/large scale dbases incl in & follow above instructions to submit DB2 & SQL Server; messaging softw; & an application. NO PHONE CALLS prog'g languages incl .NET, Java, COPLEASE. Goldman Sachs is an equal BOL, Scheme, Python, Ruby on Rails, employment/affirmative action em- & VB.NET. Req's prior exp w/softw ployer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. dvlpmt methodologies incl Agile, KanThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2016. ban, & Waterfall as well as prior exp w/proj mgmt tools incl JIRA, MS All rights reserved. Project, RALLY, & TFS. Req's prior Associate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC exp in bus analysis & testing functions seeks Associate, IT Internal Audit in pertaining to softw dvlpmt & tools incl NY, NY to eval. adequacy & effective- MS Visio, MS SharePoint Designer, HP ness of Firm's internal controls, using Quality Center, & QTP. To apply visit risk based methodology dvlpd from http://www.morganstanley.com/about prof'l auditing standards. Req's Mast- /careers/careersearch.html Scroll er's in Info Sys's, CS, or rel field of study down & enter 3080417 as Job Number & 2 yrs exp in position offered or 2 yrs & click Search jobs. No calls pls. EOE exp as Assoc, IT Audit, IT Risk, or rel occupation. Req's 2 yrs exp in audit processes, incl risk assessments, plan- Associate: Morgan Stanley Services ning, fieldwork, & reporting. Req's prior Group Inc. seeks an Associate, Java exp validating adequacy & effective- Developer in NY, NY to work as user ness of key controls such as Access facing, hands on java dvlpr in Products Admin, Segregation of Duties, Change Ref Data team. Position req's Master's Mgmt, Sys Security, Disaster Recove- in CS, Comp Eng'g, Info Sys's, or rel ry, Sys Dvlpmt Life Cycle, Backup & field of study & 3 yrs exp in pos offered Recovery, & Sys Interface. Req's prior or 3 yrs exp as Analyst, Java Dvlpr, exp partnering w/Tech & Fin'l Auditors Apps Dvlpr, or rel occupation. Employ& working w/i team. Req's prior exp er will accept Bachelor's & 5 yrs exp in providing tech audit coverage in inte- lieu of Master's & 3 yrs exp. Req's degrated audits thru risk assessments, monstrated exp w/Object Oriented deaudit planning, testing, reporting, & sign, use of design patterns & strong issue closure verification. Req's knowl Java dvlpmt exp; Spring Batch or other of internal control concepts, incl how to similar frameworks; exp w/srvc orienttailor testing per bus. processes & eval. ed architecture & Web Srvcs architecadequacy of controls by considering ture styles incl protocols such as SOAP bus. & tech risks in integrated manner. & REST; in-depth knowl & use of relaReq's demonstrated exp working w/in- tional dbases; dbase skills incl exp frastructure softw incl WIN, UNIX, & working w/procedures, triggers, & inMainframe operating sys's & Oracle, dexes (Sybase, DB2 or Oracle); Unix Sybase, DB2, & SQL dbases. Req's tools & scripting (Perl, ksh/bash, & Auknowl of SOX & SSAE16 req'mts. Req's tosys); full SDLC, from bus. req'mts prior exp employing computer- assis- gathering to production deployment; ted auditing tools to maximize efficien- recognition of common design patcy of sampling & reduce risk of fraud & terns; & working on large-scale, realidentify opp'tys for use of continuous time, bus. critical sys's (Ref Data, Sales monitoring & automated auditing. & Trading, or Clearing). Req's prior exp Req's prior exp w/SQL to query dbase working w/Apache Lucene or similar environ. Req's knowl of Visio. Req's non- relational dbases such as Manprior exp using MS Access & advanced goDB or Neo4J or prior exp working w/ Excel functions for data analytics. To text search & indexing engines such as apply visit http://www.morganstanley. Attivio. To apply, visit http://www. com/about/careers/careersearch.html morganstanley.com/about/careers/ Scroll down & enter 3080928 as Job careersearch.html Scroll down & enter Number & click Search jobs. 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W Assoc-Int-Fin, VP w/Goldman, Sachs & Co. in NY,NY. Assess portfolio's mkt & liquidity risks across a substantial client base & across multi asset classes in global mkts. Reqs: Mstrs deg (US or foreign equiv) in Fin Engg, Operations Research, Physics,Math or a rel field AND 5 yrs of exp in the job offered or in fin mkts in a numerate & tech role OR Bach deg (US or foreign equiv) in Fin Engg, Operations Research, Physics, Math or a rel field AND 7 yrs of exp in the job offered or in fin mkts in a numerate & tech role. Prior wrk exp must incl: applying math know of fin instruments pricing, incl complex derivatives for day to day risk assessments incl futures, vanilla/exotic options & swaps prods on commodities, interest rates, credit, foreign exchange & equities assets; utiliz math know on stochastic calculus,probability, stats, partial differential, volatility models; participating in approval & review process for stress test methodology & new prods offering for multi-asset delta one & derivatives prods; utiliz know of risk mgmt mechanics includ the methodology for defaulting mechanism; utiliz mkt & credit risk know such as models, practices, standards incl the know of Basel rules & capital stress test rules; designing & implementing new as well as improvements to existing stat risk measures; wrking w/trading desks to continuously improve understanding of mkt dynamic & liquidity in equity, foreign exchange & fixed income products. Job Code: SEC112116RGFUT. Qual Applicants: Apply at: https://careers.gs.com. Under 'Experienced Professionals,' click on 'Apply Now.' If New User, Click on 'Register Now'. Upon completion, an email w/ a link will be sent to you. Click or paste link into browser & log-in. On Welcome screen, enter job code into Keywords: field & click on Search . Click on the job from the results to apply. Complete application tabs, then click 'Submit'. If already registered, log-in & follow above instructions to submit an application. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2015. All rights reserved.
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Computer/IT: TransRE (NY, NY) has 2 Banking: Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. job open'gs: .NET Architect - Wrk seeks an Associate, Global Credit Fi- w/.Net tech stack to build next genernancing and Solutions, Asset Finance atn web apps. Dsgn/implmt DWH & Group in New York, NY to perform re- reprt'g solutn; dsgn/implmt/dvlp .Net view of client inquiries for both credit basd web appls; create tech specs; facilities and capital markets transac- provd tech expertise/recommdtns; issues. Reqs: tions. Requires a Bachelor's degree in track/coordnt/fix Economics, Finance, or related field or Bs.Comptr Info/Systms, Comptr Sc or equivalent and two (2) years of exper- US eqv + 5yrs/exp in job or 5yrs/exp as ience performing financial analyses. Sr/Prgrmmr Analyst or clsly reltd Prior experience must include at least occptn(s) wrk'g in a hghly IT envrnmt. two (2) years performing review of Exp must include web basd front end client inquiries for credit facilities and dvlpmt using JavaScript, Ajax, JQuery, capital markets transactions; research- HTML, ASP.NET using C#, WCF, Web ing and presenting new asset class pos- Srvcs,etc. Datawarehouse (DWH) & sibilities in the esoteric asset class; re- Busnss Intellgnc (BI) Specialst- Clarify, searching, analyzing, and providing translate, docmt bsnss needs to dvlp, borrowing base recommendations on dsgn/implmt DWH/BI solutns/apps. corporate loans in the middle market Build/maintn franchise platfrm that delending asset class; modeling complex livrs analytcl capablty for users from transactions in the middle market lend- Undrwrit'g, Claims, Globl Risk, Modeling, consumer, and esoteric asset clas- 'g/Actuarl depts. ETL exp with SSRS, ses; working with legal counsel to do- Informatica Powr ctr,OWB/ODI or othr cument transactions in the middle majr ETL ste. Reqs: Bs. IT, Comptr market lending, consumer, and esoter- Systms, Electrncs/Electrcl Eng'g or US ic asset classes; conducting portfolio eqv+ 5yrs/exp in job or 5yrs/exp as reviews and in-depth transaction re- ETL Dvlpr, Assct/Projcts, Systms views of deals in the middle market Eng'r or clsly reltd occptn(s) wrk'g on lending, consumer, and esoteric asset BI globl stndrd & majr BI prodcts.Must classes; creating and reviewing inves- have at least 3yrs of end to end exp of tor presentations, rating agency pre- integrtd soluts on both DWH/BI tools & sentations, deal documentation, and ability to structr a robust DWH ongoing reporting; analyzing transac- w/undrstnd'g of dimnsnl model'g using tion and product structures; perform- SCD concpt & model'g tools KALIDO ing company and pricing analyses; and ste, Data Modelr,etc. Expert knwldg of utilizing MS Excel and VBA for model- SQL & undrstd'g of SDLC & othr ing transactions. Apply to methdlgs; ITIL Foundtn Certfct'n in IT www.db.com/careers and search by Servc Mgmt. Resumes: L. Barcena, professionals, keyword HK0916. Mgr-HR,Transatlantic Reinsurance Co. 701 NW 62nd Ave. #790, Miami FL 33126.
BUSINESS Employer: The Blackstone Group Location: New York, NY The Blackstone Group ( BX ) in NYC seeks an Business Analyst who will be responsible for managing the full software development lifecycle and work closely with stakeholders during the conceptual, design, development, quality assurance and production stages of particular projects; Developing and taking ownership of specific functionality areas within the various applications; Developing and writing detailed design documents to outline business Associate-Litigation & Dispute Resolu- specifications, workflow and user intertion Department (NY, NY) Advise face; Performing quality assurance clients re: int'l arbitration proceedings task to ensure stability and accuracy of under institutional & ad hoc rules (in- the platforms; Executing product rollcluding ICC, ICSID, AAA/ICDR, LCIA & outs to users to ensure that targeted UNCITRAL rules). Advise on matters goals are met; Performing market reincl. court proceedings brought in sup- search and analysis, and conducting port of arb. under Federal Arbitration user interviews to identify specific Act. Draft & advise on arb. agreements areas of improvement; Developing, & draft memos of advice on int'l arb. creating and presenting designs of proissues. Civil litigation participation incl. posed functionality improvement to inanalyzing merits of potential claims & ternal teams and clients; Designing defenses; drafting pleadings & mo- and managing large scale software tions; discovery; preparing witnesses. technology integration and migration Review & respond to subpoenas from for newly acquired fund of funds busigov. regulatory & enforcement agen- ness; Outlining project priorities and cies, incl. DOJ & SEC. Reqs: JD or ensuring that product development efforeign law degree that satisfies Rule forts are properly aligned with strate520.6 of the NY Rules of the Court of gic and operational objectives; CreatAppeals for Admission of Attorneys & ing detailed documentation of functionCounselors at Law; 4yrs. legal exp. al requirements, workflows, business w/contentious matters incl. int'l arb. & logic and user interface mockups and litigation re: energy, infra, eng'g & con- wireframes for proposed technology struction, IT, industrials & finance in- solutions; and Designing reviews for dustries; exp. w/int'l arb. proceedings new applications based on client needs. under rules of major int'l institutions, Interested candidates should apply by incl. ICC, LCIA & ICSID; exp. w/proce- mail to Attn: Cynthia Bombara, Human dural framework of int'l arb.; drafting Resources, The Blackstone Group, 345 arb. & settlement agrm'ts; preparing Park Avenue, New York, NY 10154 and witness & expert testimony; trial exp. reference job Business Analyst. via participation & assistance at merits hearings in int'l arbs.; NYS Bar admission. Res by mail only: Legal Recruiting Department, Clifford Chance US Business Partner, Manager (New York, LLP, 31 W.52nd St.,New York, NY 10019. NY): Partner with business leaders across the company to lead major data Associate Attorney, Asset Finance science initiatives. Fulfill a significant (NY, NY) Advise lenders, inst'l inves- technical component that requires tors & operating lessors on cross- strong understanding & experience border financing, leasing & sale trans- with information technologies, data actions governed by NY & English law, warehousing, statistics, data visualizaincl. purchase & financing of aircraft tion, & other data science techniques. leased to carriers in Gulf region. Advise Utilize management consulting experclients re: purchase, finance, & leasing ience to effectively identify & develop docs for individual & portfolio aircraft business strategies, improve procestrans. Review & draft term sheets & ses, perform project management, & transaction docs. Advise financiers on deliver & implement change recomtermination & recovery options after mendations. Work with the construclessee default. Advise leasing cos. & tion of predictive models, visualization lenders on aircraft refinancing & man- tools, & financial analysis. Req's Mastaging transactions to closing. Intermit- er's degr plus 2 yrs exp. Mail resume to tent domestic & international travel to AIG PC Global Services, Inc., Ref# client meetings. Reqs: JD, LLM or re- AL- AIG-28, Attn: Lisa Goldner, 175 Waspctv frgn academic equiv; 4yrs. legal ter St., NY, NY 10038. No phone calls. exp. w/asset finance, incl. int'l crossborder transactions invlv banks, airlines, & lessors in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, & Americas.; exp. w/air- Business Systems Analysts (NY, NY) craft lessors & airlines in the Gulf, Isla- Anlyze & trnsfrm business reqrmts for mic finance transactions, UAE & DIFC bankg & financl srvc indstry. Req MS law issues on aircraft financing & leas- or equiv (BS + 5 yrs prgrssv exp after ing transactions; knwlg of English law collg) in CS, Elect & Comm, or Comp principles & framework & their applica- Info Sys + 1 yr exp in job offrd. Req bility to asset financing transactions; skills & knwldg in Project Mgmt/PMO NYS Bar admission. Res by mail only: Reporting, CCAR/DFAST/ Basel III, reLegal Recruiting Department, Clifford gression testing/UAT, SQL/MySQL, Chance US LLP, 31 W.52nd St., New Regulatry Compliance, financial markYork, NY 10019. ets/banking (bonds/stocks/mortgages/derivatives). Req 100% travel to unAssociate, Bus. Analyst, Mkt Risk antcptd loctns in USA. Email res to Mitchell/Martin, Inc. at Technology - Brooklyn, NY. Analyze HR, bus. req'ts from Firm-wide Mrkt Risk ABM001@itmmi.com bus., & translate req'ts into functional specs for dvlpmt team to produce sys solutions in support of req'mts. Testing & validating results w/i dvlpmt team. CIB Engagement Manager I sought by Master's or equiv in Fin'c, Econ, Info Oliver Wyman, Inc in New York, NY. Sys, Bus. Analysis or rel field + 2 yrs rel Serve as contact point for client execs exp OR Bachelor's or equiv in Fin'c, & Oliver Wyman consultants on mgmt Econ, Info Sys's, Bus Analysis, or rel consulting engagements across finanfield + 5 yrs relevant exp. Demonstrat- cial sectors. Advise clients for mediumed knowl of Fin'l Products. Bus. Analy- size projects. Collaborate w/ Principals sis exp. Exp working w/Market Risk & Partners in production & delivery of Measures, incl VaR & Stressed VaR. presentations, proposals & reports. DeMust have exp w/Softw Dvlpmt Life- velop practice-specific intellectual cacycle. Functional SQL exp working pital & support marketing efforts for w/multi-relational dbases. Functional regional & global revenue initiatives. Testing exp. To apply, visit Req's Bach's + 3 yrs exp providing http://careers.jpmorganchase.com & strategic management consulting or apply to job # 160121441. EOE, AAE, working in the financial services indusM/F/D/V. J.P. Morgan Chase is a mark- try. Master's + 2 yrs exp providing eting name of JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategic management consulting or The Chase Manhattan Bank is a subsi- working in the financial services indusdiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 2003 try also accepted. Up to 80% domestic J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. All rights re- & int'l travel req'd for business meetings. Send res identifying position to: served. www.jpmorganchase.com Attn: AN (CIB Eng Mgr I), Oliver WyAssociate: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC man, Inc., 1166 Avenue of the Ameriseeks an Associate, Risk Management cas, 29th Fl., New York, NY 10036. in NY, NY to perform daily analysis of mrkt risk profile of Equities Div., incl use of tools such as VaR (value-atrisk), Stressed VaR, & scenario analy- Computer/IT: Global Digital Marketing sis. Req's Master's in Math, Fin'c, Econ, Specialist for Shutterstock, Inc. in New Fin'l Eng'g, or related quantitative field York, NY to analyze and execute gloof study & 3 yrs exp in position offered bal, digital marketing programs in oror 3 yrs exp as Assoc, Mgr, Auditor, or der to optimize the growth of our stock rel occupation. Req's 2 yrs exp working photo business. Requires: Bachelor's w/complex Derivatives incl exotics degree in Management Information payoffs w/exp in pricing & risk-based Systems, Computer Science or related P&L attribution; interacting w/trading field (willing to accept foreign educadesks on daily basis; utilizing front- of- tion equivalent) plus two years of exfice trading sys's; using Excel, VBA, & perience developing behavioral dataBloomberg; & option risk sensitivities driven e-mail marketing campaigns ( Greeks ). To apply visit using Responsys e-mail platform. Spehttp://www.morganstanley.com/about/ cific skills/other requirements (quanticareers/careersearch.html Scroll down tative experience requirement not ap& enter 3080930 as Job Number & plicable to this section) - must possess the following: Responsys Programclick Search jobs. No calls pls. EOE ming Language ( RPL ); marketing Analyst, Business Dvlpmt & Corporate automation and CRM systems; Oracle Finance req'd w/Cantor Fitzgerald in Responsys Interact platform; HTML NY NY. Conduct mrkt research/analy- and CSS best practices for email, inses, evaluate investment opportunities, cluding responsive coding, fluid coding; prep proj materials & complete various Oracle-SQL and relational databases; industry & financial analyses. Req CAN-SPAM rules and guidelines; email Masters in Finance, Mgmt Sci or relat- regulations in the European Union; and ed. Min 18 months banking analyst exp working closely with Business Intelw/financial modeling & acctg back- ligence ( BI ) teams, aiding with the ground. Must have exp w/mergers & technical aspects of transferring data acquisitions transactions; building fi- between BI and the CRM teams datanancial models including Discounted base, including Oracle-SQL based ReCash Flow, Public Trading Comparab- sponsys at present. Submit resume les, Precedent Transaction Comparab- to: recruitment-LGLHR@shutterstock. les, Merger model & Leveraged Buy- com. Reference Position Number: out model; prep investment presenta- 072655-93. tions & internal memos; debt financing transactions, company due diligence processes, & Credit analysis. To apply: Computer/IT: Tata Consultancy Serviemail careers@cantor.com. An EOE. ces Limited seeks a Technical Lead in Audit: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC seeks New York, NY & various unanticipated Senior Manager, Internal Audit in NY, locations throughout the U.S. to serve NY to be respons for audit coverage of as a lead in delivery of tech'l sys or subtech systems rel. to Compliance, Fin'c sys under aggressive timelines, lever& Enterprise Data. Req's Bachelor's in aging global delivery model for project Bus. Admin. or rel field of study & 5 yrs execution. Reqts: Bach deg or equiv in exp in position offered or as an Internal Comp Sci, Engg (any) or a quantitative Audit Assoc, Audit Mgr, or rel occupa- discipline + 5 yrs exp in EMC SAN adtion. Position req's detailed knowl of min mgmt. Must have 3 yrs exp w/ SysAnti-Money Laundering (AML), incl tem Admin of EMC Storage Technoloexp w/global regs such as Patriot Act, gies, incl CLARiiON & DMX/VMAX; Compliance Surveillance & Reporting, Cisco Switches, Models 9503, 9506, 9509, & Broker Dealer regulatory com- & 9513; & Datacenter Operations pliance rules such as Dodd Frank Act; Mgmt. Must have 2 yrs exp w/ System knowl & exp of working w/dbases & Admin of AIX, Windows, Linux, & Soladata warehouses & exp in using data ris & Data Migration. Must have 1 yr analytics to perform control testing for exp leveraging a global delivery modinternal audit req'mts; demonstrated el. All exp may be acquired concurrentunderstanding of enterprise data ly. Must be willing to work anywhere in mgmt considerations incl awareness U.S., as position may involve relocation of data lineage & authoritative sources to various & unanticipated TCS office of data; knowl of fin'l products to help locations & client sites; any relocation plan audit engagements & assess risks; to be paid by employer pursuant to in& exp w/fin'l processes governing ternal policy. Equal Opportunity Embooks of records such as GL, sub ledg- ployer: disability/veteran. To apply resume to ers & regulatory reporting. Employer email will accept 3 or 4 yr Bachelor's. To ap- jobopportunities@tcs.com & reference ply, visit http://www.morganstanley. Job Code: 10NY. com/about/careers/careersearch.html Scroll down & enter 3080283 as Job Number & click Search jobs. No calls Computer/IT: ADP Technology Servipls. EOE ces, Inc. seeks Application Developers at our New York, NY location to design, develop, test, support, & maintain apps, create tech. design and implement docs., & implement & config. apps functionality. Bach's degree in Comp. Sci., Comp. Engg., Elec. Engg., Math, or a rel. field & 2 yrs of exp. reqd. Empl. will accept a Master's degree & 1yr of exp. Exp. must include: Bldg HCM, BPM or ERM tools; JavaScript, CSS, & Web Standards; C#, Java, C, Ruby on Rails, Python or Go; Agile s/w dvlpmnt method.; Automation testing specif. in BDD or TDD method.; coord. various tech groups for dependency & roadmap alignment; app dvlpmnt in startup or high growth tech envts.; analysis of security measures; & domain knowledge reg. HR, HR & Payroll sys & HR domains. To apply, please respond to req. 128806 at http://jobs.adp.com. Alternatively, applicants may mail their resume to the following address referencing req. 128806: Employment Practices, 1 ADP Blvd., MS 248, Roseland, NJ 07068.
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Finance: Associate, Credit (Ares Operations LLC, NY, NY) Asst sr. investmt profl's w/ screening & underwriting potential transactions incl: creating various complex excel fin models incld cash flow analysis, debt sizing & structuring, carrying out due diligence activities, prep investmt committee memos, & present recommendations to investmt committee. Reqs: Bachelor's deg in Acct, Fin or rltd fld, + 2 yrs exp in complex credit investmts w/ demst ability to analyze companies & fin performance. Exp must incl detailed fin modeling & fin stmt analysis; exp determining relative value among different investmt alternatives; & demst history of exposure to valuation methods. Proven knwl of Microsoft Office & Advanced Excel skills for fin modeling, investmt return analysis under different scenarios & statistical analysis also reqd. Resumes to: Ares Operations LLC, Attn: L. Chun, 2000 Ave of the Stars, 12th Fl, Los Angeles, CA 90067. No calls.
Finance: Analyst, Risk-Linked Securities (ILS) - NY, NY. Membr of Capitl Partnrs Team-Global Risk Mgmt Grp. Analyze, model/admnstrt existg/new sidecar reltnshps prtfolios. Idntfy/construct rsks suitbl for securitztn via sidecars, collaterlzd reinsrnce &/or catstrph bonds. Evluat impacts using multpl prtfolio mgmt tools. Dvlp mrktg & investr comm materls. Evluat 3rdprty ILS. Assess alterntv rsk financ'g structrs. Reqs: Ms. Statstcs, Math, Finance or eqv quantitatv dscpln + 2yrs/exp in job or 2yrs/exp as Conslt't/Analyst in a capitl mrkt solutn envrnmt dvlp'g/delvr'g detaild solutns for evalt'g ILS at model'g firm, reinsurer, brokr or bnk/financl institut'n. Exp must include catstrph &/or othr stochstc model'g in AIR or RMS envrnmts. Resumes: L. Barcena, Mgr HR, Transatlantic Reinsurance Co, 701 NW 62nd Ave #790, Miami FL 33126.
Financial: Lead Business Analyst, New York, NY: Lead product management lifecycle from inception to rollout & adoption for new initiatives within subject area. Gather & analyze business requirements from clients to enhance existing product functionality. Provide SOW/functional specs, participate in testing efforts & conduct training sessions w/documentation of user guides. Provide guidance to business analysts in daily tasks in software development release cycle. Must have a Bachelor's in Finance, Business Administration, or Management & 2 yrs. exp. in treasury, risk & liquidity management. Must have 1 yr exp. in (i) analyzing business use case & preparing functional specifications & SOW, (ii) overseeing delivery & rollout of project in coordination w/key strategic groups, & (iii) developing use cases testing for functionality. Exp. may be gained concurrently. Mail resume to Maureen Cohen, Reval, 1345 6th Ave, 49th Floor, New York, NY 10018. No calls.
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Financial: American Express Travel Related Services seeks a Director, Finance to analyze and monitor financial results to help business partners understand business trends and financial performance. Provide regular valuation (CMV and ROI) updates by acquisition channel and product for acquisition alignment and trade-off decisions. Ensure continuous improvement of data and reporting capabilities to provide detailed segmented views of acquisition performance. Align investment tracking and utilization. Represent finance in cross-functional strategic exercises and drive the annual budget process. Responsible for improving the efficiency and accuracy of the planning process through the implementation of appropriate tools and focusing on having a best in class process. Position requires a Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field, and two years of experience with enterprise-level analyses in the financial industry. Experience with data mining is required. Demonstrated SQL and SAS programming experience is required. Demonstrated experience with operational risk management and regulatory reporting is required. Experience with developing contingency options in the analysis and monitoring of financial results for business partners is required. Must demonstrate experience working with cross-functional business units to solve enterprise business problems with a focus on customers' needs. Demonstrated ability presenting financial analysis, forecasting, and recommendations that drive business results to management is required. Job location: New York, New York. To apply, please visit https://careers.americanexpress. com/ and enter keyword 16016225 when prompted. Alternatively, please send your resume, cover letter, and a copy of the ad to: American Express, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10285; mail code 01-35-04, Attn: M. Lee, Recruitment Operations.
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Financial: Vice President, Investment Banking (New York, NY). Conduct complex financial analyses to advise major domestic and international clients in the technology, media, entertainment, and sports industries on investments, M&A, divestitures, restructurings, public and private financings, fairness opinions, appraisals, and other strategic decisions based on analyses of financial markets, dynamics of various industries, and regulatory and economic information. Oversee junior investment bankers in the preparation of client-ready presentations during mandates and marketing materials. Must possess a U.S. Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Economics, Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, or Mathematics, plus four (4) years of experience as an Investment Banking Analyst or Associate. Experience must include participating in the execution of complex and large scale ($1 bn+) cross-border financial transactions and performing general corporate advisory work for major domestic and international clients in the technology, media, entertainment, and sports industries under the guidance of senior investment bankers. Must possess experience utilizing CapitalQ, ThomsonOne, Bloomberg, and FactSet Databases. Send resume to Allen & Company LLC, Attn: P. DiIorio, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Financial: HSBC seeks Vice President, Structured Capital Markets (New York, NY) Responsible for the origination and structuring of structured capital markets opportunities for North American & Latin American borrowers. Manage the coordination between Structured Capital Markets New York, with HSBC Group offices throughout North America, Latin America, EMEA and Asia. Resumes to S. Scibelli, HSBC Bank USA, N.A 95 Washington Street, Atrium -1NW, Buffalo, NY 14203. Must ref job #3065-561. No calls/emails/faxes. EEO/AA/Minorities/Women/ American Express is an equal opportu- Disability/Veterans. nity employer and makes employment Financial: HSBC seeks Manager Finandecisions without regard to race, color, cial & Business Analysis (New York, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender NY). Manage financial analysis to supidentity, national origin, protected ve- port business unit reporting & analysis teran status, disability status, or any needs. Manage & develop tech. finanother status protected by law. Click cial analysis, modeling & reporting to here to view the EEO is the Law pos- support business results tracking & deter and supplement and the Pay Trans- cision- making. Manage staff by asparency Policy Statement. If the links signing & reviewing work to support do not work, please copy and paste the business unit & department analysis & following URLs in a new browser win- reporting needs. Resumes to S. Scibelli, dow: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/ HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 95 Washington compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm and Street, Atrium - 1NW, Buffalo, NY 14203. http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/EO13665_ Must ref job #3159-655. No calls/emailPrescribedNondiscriminationPosting s/faxes. EEO/AA/Minorities/ Women/ Language_JRFQA508c.pdf. Disability/Veterans.
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Financial: AVP Analyst, CMBS (Moody's Investors Service, Inc., New York, NY): Contribute to assignment of credit ratings for CMBS & other CRE transactions. Responsibilities incl evaluating credit risk, CMBS structures, CRE mortgage loans, cash flow modeling & quantitative modeling/tools used during ratings processes. Rqmts: MBA or Mstr's dgr in Finance, Real Estate or rltd fld & 3 yrs exp as Analyst or in rltd pos in financial svcs industry. Will also accept Bchlr's dgr in std or rltd flds & at least 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in stated or related position. Must have at least 2 years of experience involving CRE transaction analysis; conducting CRE property valuation w/in office, retail, industrial, lodging, multifamily, self-storage & manufactured housing sectors; preparing CRE fundamental research & anlys across several US MSAs & incorporating findings into credit reports; conducting credit & legal risk anlys for CRE properties & loans; & maintaining consistency of credit underwriting & training junior analysts in developing & adhering to uniform credit underwriting standards. Apply at: www.moodys.jobs, hrbox28@moodys. com or to Moody's Investors Svc, Inc., Attn: HR Box 28, 7 World Trade Ctr at 250 Greenwich St., NY, NY 10007. Job Ref. 9092BR. EOE M/F/D/V. Financial: HSBC seeks Quantitative Analyst (New York, NY). Work as part of the Quantitative Risk and Valuation Group (QRVG) Model Review. Support and development of quantitative tools and resources to enhance the model control framework. Develop alternative models to study the model risk. Study the model behavior and risk profiles. Resumes to S. Scibelli, HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 95 Washington St, Atrium 1NW, Buffalo, NY 14203. Must ref job #2685 - 233. EEO/AA/Minorities/ Women/Disability/Veterans.
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Financial: HSBC seeks FX Corporate Sr. Salesperson (New York, NY). Build & maintain business relationships w/ accounts. Work closely w/ portfolio managers & analysts to integrate Company's products into existing & prospective clients' investment process. Present research services & advise clients on investment opportunities. Resumes to S. Scibelli, HSBC Bank USA, N.A. 95 Washington St, Atrium 1NW, Buffalo, NY 14203. Must ref job #3116-611. No calls/emails/faxes EOE.
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Financial: BNP Paribas seeks Vice President (Job Code S238) in NYC to function as CCAR Forecasting & Analytics Analyst to develop forecasting models/analytical solutions used for producing baseline & stress projections. Requires Master's or foreign education equivalent in Stats, Econometrics, Economics, Political Science, Engineering or Math & 3 years of experience performing quantitative modeling w/in financial services industry. Email cover letter & resume w/Job Code in subject line to: careers@americas.bnpparibas.com. BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer fully committed to workplace diversity.
Food and Beverage Manager (NY, NY) sought by AvroKO Hospitality Group NYC LLC. Facilitate the daily operations, planning, and upkeep of food and beverage operations across four venues and the related catering division. Facilitate the daily activities of food and beverage production including menu planning, recipe development, testing and standardization, and maintenance of systems and tools to monitor ingredient control and production levels for excesses and storage. Estimate food and beverage consumption, place orders with suppliers and schedule and receive delivery of fresh, locally-sourced, imported, and specialFinancial: Markit North America, Inc. ty supplies. Oversee employee relaseeks a Product Services Analyst for tions encompassing staff recruitment, New York City office. Resp for quanti- training and performance evaluations. tative interest rate model develop- Lead employees through in-house ment. Rqrd: Bach Degree in a financial training and incentive plans. Oversee or quantitative discipline + 2 yrs related the coordination of staff hiring and emexp. Must have exp in the rates deriva- ployee roster on a weekly basis. Must tives market w/ direct exp in structur- have minimum of 24 months relevant ing, trading or valuations. Send resume experience. Must have minimum of 24 w/ cv ltr to resumes@ihsmarkit.com months of prior experience directing (ref # rqrd: Product Services Analyst multiple food/beverage venues including experience with vendor contract 51667-294). negotiations and staff recruitment. Financial Send resumes to hr@avroko.com
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General Manager (VHG New York LLC â&#x20AC;&#x201C; New York, NY) Oversee all aspects of hotel's ops, incl finan prfrmnce & operational cntrls for Viceroy NY, specif as they relate to dvlp'g & retain'g talent & ensur'g optimal guest satisfaction scores. Apply online at Careers page of viceroyhotelsandresorts.com & refer to Job Code 2021.
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HUMAN RESOURCES Workday Human Capital Management Manager (Mult. Pos.), PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, New York, NY. Provide strategy, mgmt., tech. & risk consulting services to help clients anticipate & address complex bus. challenges. Req. Bach's deg or foreign equiv. in HR Mgmt, Bus Admin, Info Sys, Comp Sci, Engg or rel. + 5 yrs post-bach's, prog. rel. work exp.; OR a Master's deg or foreign equiv. in HR Mgmt, Bus Admin, Info Sys, Comp Sci, Engg or rel. + 3 yrs rel. work exp. Travel req. up to 80%. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code NY1054, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.
Human Resources Specialist wanted F/T in NY, NY. Must possess Bach's deg or equiv in HR Mgmt or rltd & 1 yr exp as HR Specialist or similar researching companies' HR & recruitment needs. Send resume: N. Tabata, Tabata Oxford Personnel, LLC, 45 W 34th St, Ste 1102, NY, NY 10001
IT Specialist, IBM Corporation, Somers, NY and various unanticipated client sites throughout the US: Responsible for gathering and analyzing business scenarios and forming and analyzing technical/functional flows. Prepare, write, execute, and test High Level Design documents and Test case documents. Raise and track defects using Financial Specialist (Flushing, NY) Quality center and Clear Quest. PerConduct mkt, peer analysis & customer form System testing, Production testvaluation w/ quantitative fin'l analysis/ modeling skills (R, Matab); Prep/re- Graphic Designer for Broadstreet Pro- ing, User Acceptance testing, and Saniview fin'l report, budget; fund/asset ductions LLC in Manh create graphic ty testing as required. Investigate and mgmt. MS in Finance +1 yr exp. Mail designs; dvlp visual solutions; design in- Debug Production and User Accepto: HR American New Line Express ternal mktg materials; dvlp designs for tance testing issues. Customize applisocial media; provide logo design/ cation components. Migrate scripCorp., 132-05 Roosevelt Ave, brand & identity design; perform brand ts/batch jobs, Siebel application and daFlushing, NY 11354 research; manage & organize graphic tabases from UNIX to LINUX. Analyze FIRE PROTECTION/PLUMBING EN- assets Bachelor's in Graphic Design + 6 the root cause for any critical issue in GINEER-WSP USA Corp seeks Fire mos exp in job off'd req'd Respond all phases of the project. Perform SimiProtection/Plumbing Engineer for its DSR/Broadstreet PO Bx 4241 NYC lator Testing using XML Spy and NYC office. Design Fire Protection & 10163 Mockey setups. Responsible for runPlumbing systems, including domestic ning regression test suites, understandwater, sanitary, lab waste and pure waing the failures, and reporting it. Perter in residential, commercial & institu- Guidance Counselor-Counsel clients for form Regressing testing using Autotional buildings in coordination with ar- personal/social/behavioral problems. mation Testing tools. Design En-d tochitects, structural engineers, lab plan- Confer & discuss personal/academic End flows to track data flows between ners & building owners. Conduct sprin- progress & problems & to determine interfacing applications. Utilize: Oraclekler,standpipe, fire pump, foam system priorities for students. Prep students to -Siebel (CRM Sales Module), Java (Ja& clean agent system design. Update explore learning opps & meet challen- va Scripting), SQL & PL/SQL, Test Metstandards for fire protection & develop ges. Evaluate abilities, interest, & per- hodologies, Test Automation, Agile master calculation sheets. Prepare do- sonality characteristics w/tests/record- Methodology, Web services/XML, and cumentation of meeting minutes & re- s/interviews, or school adjustment, Business Analysis. Required: Master's view of construction. Utilize AutoCAD truancy, study habits & career plan- degree or equivalent in Computer & Revit. Master's degree in Mechanical ning. Do f/u interviews to see if needs Science or related (employer will acEngineering or Sustainable Design & 2 are met. Reqs: Masters Psych or Edu- cept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years experience in job duties or 2 cation & 3 yrs exp as above or as Edu- years of progressive experience in lieu years experience as Design Engineer, cation Administrator, or, Bachelors & 5 of a Master's degree) and one (1) year Mechanical Systems/AutoCAD De- yrs exp. Resumes to: G. Hong, ICN of experience as a Systems Engineer signer/Production Engineer, will ac- Group, 34 W 32nd St, NY, NY 10001 or related. One (1) year of experience cept applicants with Bachelor's degree must include utilizing Oracle-Siebel in Mechanical Engineering or Sustai(CRM Sales Module), Java (Java Scripting), SQL & PL/SQL, Test Methonable Design & 5 years experience in HVAC SALES ENGINEER dologies, Test Automation, Agile Metjob duties required, or 5 years experManufacturers representative in the hodology, Web services/XML, and ience as Design Engineer, Mechanical tri-state area looking for inside & Systems/AutoCAD Designer/ProducBusiness Analysis. Send resumes to outside sales engineers. Will train. tion Engineer. Email resume to IBM, box #V265, 71 Fifth Avenue, 5th Send resume to: USAcareers@WSPGroup.com Floor, New York, NY 10003. dawn@dntenter.com
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IT: American Express Travel Related Services seeks a Senior Engineer to serve as a core member of an Agile team that designs and develops software applications. Write code and unit tests, work on API specs, automation, and conduct code reviews and testing. Perform ongoing refactoring of code, utilize visualization and other techniques to fast track concepts, and deliver continuous improvement. Work with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and monitor a list of technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues. Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies to solve existing needs and predict future challenges. Position requires a Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and 2 years of application design, development, and implementation experience. Demonstrated experience with front-end technologies, including Velocity, Freemarker, JSP, HTML5, jQuery, and Javascript is required. Experience must include server-side implementation using Java, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JPA, and Spring Internationalization. Experience with JCL, Cobol, SOAP Web Services, XML as well as Oracle and DB2 databases is required. Experience developing database layers with Hibernate and connecting them to DB2 in the backend is required. Experience with securing applications using Spring Security is also required. Job location: New York, New York. To apply, please visit https://careers.americanexpress. com and enter keyword 16016524 when prompted. Alternatively, please send your resume, cover letter, and a copy of the ad to: American Express, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10285; mail code 01-35-04, Attn: M. Lee, Recruitment Operations. American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law. Click here to view the EEO is the Law poster and supplement and the Pay Transparency Policy Statement. If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/ compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm and http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/EO13665_ PrescribedNondiscriminationPosting Language_JRFQA508c.pdf.
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IT: Murex North America, Inc. seeks Proj Mgr Asst (NY, NY) to ass't Project Mgr in initiating, executing & closing projects accord. to deadlines & budgets & implementing solutions for French speaking clients based in Canada/Quebec. Reqs: Bachelor's or equiv in CS, Info Sys's, Fin'c, or rel field & 4 yrs exp. in Ops, IT support, Treasury operations in Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange, Equity, Commodities, Fixed income or Asset Mgmt in global fin'l softw co. Prior exp must incl working on IT implementations, integrating change mgmt. Incl project delivery, gathering end-user req'mts, writing specs, dvlpg improved bus. processes, providing training, & documenting delivered IT solution & new bus. processes. Must be fluent in French. Must travel internat'ly to Canada as nec to perform duties. Submit resumes to HR Dept/Resumes, Murex North America, Inc., 810 Seventh Avenue, NY, NY 10019. Indicate code NWG1016NYT.
IT: Advisory Manager (Cyber Risk) in Technology Risk, Cyber Risk Services for Deloitte & Touche LLP in New York, NY to identify and evaluate complex business and technology risks, internal controls that mitigate risks, and related opportunities for internal control improvement. Requires: Bachelor's (or higher) degree in Comp. Sci., Info. Sys., Math, Dec. Sci., Risk Mngt. or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five years of Identity and Access Management services experience. Position requires approximately 80% travel. To apply, visit https://jobs2.deloitte.com/us/en/ and enter XSFH17FA1116NYC4 in the Search jobs field. No calls please. Deloitte means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www. deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Deloitte LLP & its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers.
IT: Advisory Senior Consultant for Deloitte & Touche LLP in New York, NY to develop control frameworks encompassing regulatory requirements, including privacy and Sarbanes Oxley, and application security designs. Requires: Bachelor's (or higher) degree in Acctng., Fin., Bus. Admin., Bus., Engg., Mngt Info. Sys., Comp. Sci. or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus two years of professional consulting experience in the banking and securities industries. Position requires approximately 80% travel. To apply, visit https://jobs2. deloitte.com/us/en/ and enter XSFH17 FA1116NYC3 in the Search jobs field. No calls please. Deloitte means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Deloitte LLP & its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers.
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Reqs J.D., LL.M. or foreign equiv & 3 yrs exp in job offrd or rel. 3 yrs exp must incl: Negotiating & drafting covenants for high-yield financing agreements & bankruptcy exit financing; Negotiating & executing multicurrency loan agreements, margin loan agreements & capital call (equity bridge) facilities for private equity & strategic clients; Negotiating & drafting 1st & 2nd lien notes & rltd intercreditor arrangements; Preparing documentation for int'l asset-based & receivablesbased financing, incl export-prepayment facilities; Preparing legal memoranda evaluating privatization options of public utilities (incl Build-OwnIT: Murex North America, Inc. seeks Sr Operate-Transfer, Build-Own-Operate, Consultant, in NY, NY to render con- Built-Operate-Transfer & EPCC arsulting & implementation srvcs of pro- rangements); Preparing legal memorprietary fin'l softw sys's at client sites. anda & client presentations advising on Reqs: Master's or equiv in Fin'c, Math, various legal issues arising in deal Stat's, CS, Mgmt Info Sys's rel field & 2 practice, incl summaries of default trigyrs exp in global fin'l softw co. or exp in gers & contractual restrictions in conInvestment Banking, Treasury ops in nection w/ proposed mergers & acquiInterest Rates, Foreign Exchange, sitions & analysis of risk allocation unEquity, Commodities, Fixed Income or der proposed project financings; ReAsset Mgmt. Prior expe must incl utiliz- commending private operation and ing dbase/SQL & UNIX & supporting all management (O&M) & power purphases of softw project life cycle incl chase arrangements (PPA) for public analysis, design, dvlpmt, testing, & de- utilities & drafting leases & tolling ployment. Submit resumes to HR Dep- agreements for public-private partnert/Resumes, Murex North America, Inc., ship (PPP) arrangements in the trans810 Seventh Ave, NY, NY 10019. Indi- portation & energy sectors; Drafting cate code BN1216NYT. stalking horse contracts for requests IT: Amazon Corporate LLC – Multiple for proposals (RFPs) issued by public Software Development Engineer III po- entities & presenting responses to sitions available in New York, NY. Job RFPs on behalf of private sector partiduties involve driving the architecture cipants; & Drafting descriptions of & design of large-scale, multi-tiered, notes (DONs), notes indentures, offerdistributed software applications, tools, ing memoranda (OMs), & forms 8-K, systems & services using object- 10-Q & 10-K in connection w/ public co. oriented design, distributed program- financing transactions. Must be admitming, Java and C/C++. Requires MS in ted to practice law in the State of NY. Comp Sci, Eng, Math or rel field +3 yrs Submit resumes by accessing the of exp or BS +5 yrs of exp. Send re- following link: http://legalrecruit.cgsh. sume, referencing AMZ1614, incl job com/CGSelfApply/viRecruitSelf history, to: Amazon Corporate LLC, an Apply/ReDefault.aspx. Indicate Amazon.com company, Attn: Steven job code FA16NYT. EOE/M/F/D/V. Hatch, P.O. Box 81226, Seattle, WA 98108-1300. Amazon.com is an Equal Legal: Opportunity Employer. Sr. Law Clerk (NY, NY) Research in IT: The Guardian Life Insurance Com- Chinese law/legal systm, US law; repany of America seeks Senior Data- view Eb-5 project documents, prep base Administrator in New York, NY to contracts/memo/motions, deal w/ Chiprovide engineering & operational sup- nese speaking clients for fact finding/ port for production, UAT & test envir- legal strategies. BA legal studies/law + onments. Requires Bachelor's or 2 yrs exp. Mail cvr ltr & resume to Law foreign education equivalent in CS, IT, Office of Theodore Cox, 325 Broadway, Info Sys, Engineering, Math or Physics #201, NY, NY 10007 & 5 years of experience performing database administration for Oracle & Legal: BILLING COORDINATOR/AR SQL Server. Will also accept Master's Familiar with electronic billing and & 3 years of experience. To apply, collection programs, Excel Word. email resume to resumes@glic.com Downtown law firm, high salary and w/reference to Senior Database Admi- benefits. Email resume to: nistrator & job code GCPS in subject vpetrungaro@LondonFischer.com line. IT: VBA/Excel Developer (New York, Loan Officer (New York, NY). EvaNY). Analyze business problems, deve- luate and recommend approval on lop technology solutions to these prob- loan proposals prepared by junior loan lems and manage the project through officers, conduct loan reviews, review its life cycle. Design, implement, and draft of loan commitments, bank letmaintain VBA/Excel/MS Access data- ters, and related documents prepared base applications using forms, reports, by junior loan officers. Must possess a macros and SQL. Build user-friendly UI U.S. Bachelor's degree or foreign equiutilizing data from databases, parsing valent in Finance, Accounting, or a data from flat, csv and tab delimited closely-related field, plus two (2) years files. Writing complex SQL queries. of experience preparing loan propoEdu & Exp req'd. Send res & refs to S. sals for a multinational commercial Weston at J. Crew (Code: SM-VBAED) bank. Experience must include conducting due diligence on credit clients, 770 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003. collecting and maintaining information IT: Zebra Technologies Corporation for credit analyses, and preparing cresks Software Engineer in Holtsville, NY dit proposals with tailored terms and – Perform design, development, cod- conditions. Experience must further ining, testing, research, programming clude reviewing financial statements and documentation for software sys- from abroad (esp. China) and evaluattems, applications and/or operating ing them under GAAP. Send resume to systems. Job ID – MS+3 (36251) DeHR, Ref#CD, Shanghai Commercial gree Electrcl Engring, Comp Engring Bank Limited, 125 East 56th Street, New or rltd. To apply go to www.zebra.com York, NY 10022 & search for Job ID. For'gn equiv deg accptd. EOE/Affirm Actn Emplyr. Logistics Manager, Master's deg in Int'l IT: Lead S/W Dvlpr. New York, NY. Mi- Transportation Mgmt, office at Lynnimum HS/GED +2y exp. Java, brook, NY. Duties: Manage the import Groovy, FIX Prtc, Oracle RDBMS incl. dept's operation, work w/ other depts PL/SQL, JSP, Spring Frm, GOOG Gua- to integrate import operation team w/ va Frm, Red Hat Linux cluster. Res: co. systm, direct inbound logistics operEPAM SYSTEMS, 41 University Dr, ations, supv & assist team members to #202, Newtown, PA 18940. resolve customer problems, monitor & prep reports for all import activities, analyze shipment volume & recomNYC agency has openings for investi- mend changes, dsgn & recommend opgators to conduct and/or supervise timal transportation routing by giving confidential criminal and administra- customer comparable estimated cost & time, maintain positive & encourage tive investigations. Visit www.nycsci.org and click on Em- working relations w/ carriers & wareployment to see the minimum qualifi- housing, negotiate transportation rates & svc., monitor shipment import to encations for Confidential Investigator. sure compliance. Resume & cvr ltr Send cover letter and resume to mail to: Pan-Link International Corp, applicant@nycsci.org 300 Merrick Rd, Ste 307, Lynbrook, IT Professional: NY 11563 Vice President, Technical Product Manager @ TD Securities (USA) LLC (New York, NY) F/T. Mng clnts' IT Manager of Finance & Operations for planning prcsses. Lead dev of pro- North America (Editions de Parfums posls, articulate bus needs, & assist IT LLC, NY, NY). Report directly to Glopartnrs in dev of appro tech solutions. bal Brand CFO. Help to support a Req Master's or foreign equiv in CS, smooth flow of process for the bus. in Comp Eng, Elec Eng or rltd & 3 yrs exp North America. Coord logistics, finance in job offrd or as Soft Eng, Dvlpr, or (acctg & reporting), IT & HR processes rltd. 3 yrs of exp must incl: network for the U.S. entities. Reqmts: Master's prgrmmng; data structures & algor- deg in Acctg, Finance or closely rltd ithms; sftwr engin best practices; & uti- field + 3 yrs of operations exp incl: lolization of: Java, Scala, SQL, & Bash gistics, finance, acctg & HR. Exp must Shell/Perl; Concurrent Programming, incl auditing, fin'l planning, budgeting; Object-Orientated Design & Analysis demonstrated analytical skills; & knowl (OOAD) & dsgn pattrns; SCM/Build/CI of perfume industry. Must have exp w/ Git, Subversion, Maven, & Team City; & ADP & Quickbooks. Resumes to: Unix/Linux. Must also have 2 yrs of exp ukaskie@estee.com designing, building, & operating Big Data pltfrms; performing test driven Manager: US SUPPORT MANAGER dvlpmnt; & utilizing Apache Hadoop (New York, NY) wanted by developer Map Reduce, HDFS, HBase, Storm, & of proprietary publishing S/W platform Data Torrent; Apache Spark & Akka; to oversee tech support function, incl Apache Kafka & Zero MQ. Empl will S/W customization, support, & training. accept any suitable comb of edu, train- Must have 5 yrs exp in S/W dev, suping, or exp. Mail resume to Andrew port or App Specialist related role in Brancato at TD Securities, 31 W 52 St, publishing industry and knowledge of New York, NY 10019. Ref. TD-7-2016 Methode platform. Travel to various, Lawyer (New York, NY) Draft and re- unanticipated locations periodically view real estate transaction related le- req'd. Send resume and cover letter to gal documents, such as attorney let- Steve Ball at ters, deeds, mortgage requests, res- steve.ball@eidosmedia.com idential and commercial contracts and at EidosMedia, Inc. No calls please. leases; Represent clients in the closing of residential homes, and commercial Managing Director, Investment Banpurchases; Analyze the probable out- ker: Guggenheim Securities, LLC is comes of cases; Interpret laws, rulings seeking a Managing Director, Investand regulations for individuals and ment Banker in New York, NY w/ the businesses; Research factual and legal following requirements: MS degree in issues; Confer with colleagues to estab- Economics, Finance, Business Admin lish and verify bases for legal proceed- or related field or foreign academic ings. Master's Degree in Law. Send re- equivalent + 8 yrs of related expersume to Jun Wang & Associates, P.C., ience OR BS degree in Economics, Ficontact@junwanglaw.com nance, Business Admin or related field Legal: Warranty Litigation Lawyer, or foreign academic equivalent + 10 Dorsey & Whitney LLP, NY, NY. Full yrs of related experience. Related extime senior-level associate position perience must involve working for an with main focus on complex warranty investment banking firm with an insurlitigation. The position represents both ance sector practice. Required skills: global and domestic (often multi- Provide advisory services to financial district) corporate clients, and primari- institutions, including mergers and acly acts as lead associate for handling quisitions and capital raising advice (8 all aspects of complex warranty- yrs); Focus on servicing insurance related litigation, in addition to pro- companies, including life, propertyducts liability, intellectual property casualty, brokerage and reinsurance (trade mark and patent), copyright, companies (8 yrs); Prepare operating class-action, and corporate gover- and valuation models, investor presennance litigation. Minimum Require- tations, board presentations, legal doments: JD degree from an ABA- cuments, and other client discussion accredited law school or equivalent materials and conduct due diligence (8 foreign degree, and New York attorney yrs); Interface with clients and other license (or eligibility for NY State Bar members of firm (8 yrs) and manage admission). Must have a minimum of 3 junior resources (5 yrs). 50% travel reyears of litigation lawyer experience in quired; must live w/in normal commutthe following types of cases: warranty, ing distance to New York, NY & near a products liability, corporate gover- major airport. Submit resume to nance, class-action, intellectual proper- HRNY@guggenheimpartners.com; ty (trademark and patent) and copy- subject line must reference K101077. right litigation. This must include experience as lead associate represent- Mrkt Risk Mgr for Citigroup Global ing corporate clients in multi-district, Markets Inc. (NY, NY) to mnage mrkt multi-million dollar litigation and super- rsk & crdt rsk asscted w/ Citi's Crdit vising electronic discovery. Exper- Vlue Adjstmnts acrss all drvative bsinience must include all aspects of litiga- ses. Reqs: Master's in math, stat, econ, tion: coordinating discovery process fnce or rltd quant fld & 2 yrs exp in pos (developing discovery strategy, draft- offrd or as Mrkt Rsk Anlyst or rltd pos ing discovery requests and responses at glbal fncial srvcs institutn. Will acpt and protective orders, preparing depo- Bach & 5 yrs prog, post-bacc exp as sition outlines, preparing witnesses, de- specfied. Exp must incl: CVA rsk mgmt fending representative witnesses, & trding; Hdging technqs for drvtive overseeing document review and pro- prdcts incl vnilla & exotcs; Stats & duction, and preparing privilege logs); Advncd Dta Anlys, incl Stochstc prcss, drafting pleadings, motions, summary time sries anlys, Lnear Rgrssions, judgment, trial, and appellate briefs Prncpal cmponent anlys & Monte Carand lay and expert witness declara- lo Sim; Mrkt & crdt rsk anlys, incl Value tions; preparing trial plans, direct and at risk & fctrs snsitives; Prfit attrbtion cross examination outlines, and testi- anlys; Strss tsting & strss scnario dsgn; mony summaries; and participating in Asets/Liablities anlys, Debt strctr & witness interviews, court conferences, rcvery anlys; Basel Regultory Cpital and court-ordered mediation sessions. frmwrk; Bloombrg & API, Excl, VBA, Access, SQL. Mail resumes ref Please apply to KC/MRM/YG to Citigroup Recruiting recruiting@dorsey.com. Dept, 3800 Citigroup Center Dr, Tampa, LEGAL FL 33610. Citigroup is EOE. Direct apps WebMD LLC seeks Attorney in New only. York, NY to provide legal service on issues concerning the rights, obligations and privileges of the corporation. Marketing Operations Analyst (ManJuris Doctor or foreign equivalent + 7 hattan, NY) Seek & provide mktg info years exp. Exp. must include at least 1 on men's, women's & children's denim year with each of the following: repre- products, fabrics & accessories. Mastsenting corporations in both Canada er's deg in Mktg or rltd w/ exp. 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Pharmacy Manager Assign tasks,trn & supervise pharmacy team. Ensure prescription accuracy,liaise w/health care providers, & counsel clients.Ensure compliance w/regs & maintn security. Mng inventory.Compare vendors & negotiate best prices. Implement clinical programs such as MTM (Medication Therapy Mgmt),& Diabetes Care. Liaise w/hospitals & nursing facilities to expand the business & plan future expansion. BA-Pharmacy,3yrs exp,NYS pharmacist license req.Mail res: Usama Edris, Pres,Fine Care Pharmacy Inc 981 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY, 11238 Physician (Emergency Medicine) New Hyde Park, NY. Customary duties of ER Physician including diagnosing and treating patients presenting in ER, regular hospital rounds, on-call service and related professional duties. Reqs: MD, 3 yrs Emergency Medicine Residency, NYS Medical license. Send resume to: Northwell Health at KMelbourne@northwell.edu, subject line Resume . EOE M/F/D/V. PHYSICIAN - INTERNIST. Bronx, NY. Examine, diagnose & treat patients at 2 BLHC locations (approx. 0.1 mile apart). BC in Internal Med or completion of post grad training in internal med. Must qualify for NYS medical license. Mail CV: Bronx Lebanon Hosp Ctr. , 1650 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY, 10457, Attn: Alana Puentes, Med Dept
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Quantitative Trading Analyst (NY, NY): Rsrch financially reltd data sets in order to find statistically significant patterns that can be used to build trading strategies. Build, clean & organize data sets. Create tools to automatically identify potentially profitable trading products. Study causality & correlation btwn diff mkt products in order to dvlp & improve mkt prediction models. Search info for insights into how mkts trade & incorporate these insights into trading strategies. Perform thorough post-trade analysis to determine whether automated trading strategies behave as expected. Analyze strategy trading behavior in order to identify problems in strategy as well as tune strategy parameters in a way that maximizes performance. Using statistical s/ware, build smart data visualization tools in order to aid in post-trade analysis described above. Req: Master's or equiv in Computational Finance, Statistics, Engg, Physics, Math or rel fld from school in top 200 of QS world university rankings for degree programs in enumerated fields, + 2 yrs of exp working w/ Linux & scripting language, as well as w/ equity, interest rate or foreign exchange derivatives. Send cvl/res w/ job #TRCQTA to: HR, Tower Research Capital LLC, 377 Broadway, 11th Fl., NY, NY 10013.
Quantitative Research Analyst (Citadel LLC – New York, NY) Conduct empirical rsrch & stat analyses of equity, commodities, fixd income, currencies & rel securities. F/T. Reqs Bach dgr in Math, CS, Finan Eng, Comput Finan or rel quant fld & 2 yrs of exp in job offered or work'g w lrg datasets on co Product Specialist, Director - Sales & fundamentals, analyst estimates & mkt Customer Service, Credit Assessment pric'g. All stated exp must incl: Adv lvl & Origination, ERS (Moody's Analytics, program'g w R/Python in a WindowInc., New York, NY): Demonstrate the s/Unix/Linux envmt; perform'g advd capability & value of Moody's Analy- math & stat model'g, inclu time-series tics Enterprise Risk Management Soft- & cross-sect analysis; work'g in a quant ware suite of products for risk mgmt & role within an invest rsrch team focus'g regulatory compliance to potential & on systematic rsrch in securities inclu existing banking/financial institution currencies, commodities, or equities; clients. Rqmts: MBA or Master's dgr in formulat'g & backtest'g mid to longFinance, Info Sys or rltd fld & 10 yrs of horizon trad'g signals; utiliz'g analyt exp invlvg risk mgmt & compliance tools for portfolio analysis; & inproduct sales for banking/financial in- house/vendor-based quant risk modstitution clients. Must have at least 5 els. Resumes: ER/LW, Attn: R-0275, Ciyrs of exp supporting technical dvlpmt tadel LLC, 131 S. Dearborn St, 32nd Fl, & sale of analytical solutions to meet Chicago, IL 60603. Basel, ALM, Liquidity Risk, Governance & Compliance, Operating Risk, Credit Scoring, Solvency 2 & Risk Data Quantitative Analyst for Citigroup GloMgmt rqmts for intnatl financial institu- bal Markets Inc. (NY, NY) to dvlp tions; facilitating implmntn & deplymnt advncd mathmtcl mdels to asist in of software apps & techn components mrkt frcasting of mrtgages & calc of that support regulatory compliance; & prepaymnts, dflts & losses of mrtgeutlzg Oracle database, PL/SQL, Visual bckd scurities & whole loan prtflios. Basic & VMWare to create & present Reqs: Master's in Computation, Eng, product demos. Must also have exp ap- Ops Rsrch, Math or rltd qntv fld & 2 yrs plying knowledge of Mexican & other exp as a qntv anlyst or rltd pos w/i fncl LATAM country tax rules, business sctor. Exp must incl: Prfrmng qntv anlaw, trade law, contract protocols, lys for MBS by aplyng mathmtcl banking regs & IFRS 9 & GAAP ac- mthods incl linear- & non-linear counting principles to support client optmztn, Monte Carlo sims, stochstc dvlpmt & client rltnshp mgmt. Requires prceses & nmrical mthods; & impltng domestic & intnatl travel 20-50% of qntv mdels usng prgrmng langs C++, R, SQL, Excel, VBA & Perl. Mail retime. Apply at: www.moodys.jobs, hrbox28@moodys.com or Moody's An- sumes ref KC/QA/LC to Citigroup Realytics, Inc., Attn: HR Box 28, 7 World cruiting Dept, 3800 Citigroup Center Dr, Trade Ctr at 250 Greenwich St., NY, NY Tampa, FL 33610. Citigroup is EOE. Direct apps only. 10007. Job Ref. 9118BR. EOE M/F/D/V.
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERS (NY, NY): Dvlp entrprse web srvcs using Play Frmewrk. Dvlp web apps. using Rails & Node.js; Resume to: AOL Inc. Attn: Kristin Faison, 22000 AOL Way, Dulles, VA 20166. Ref job #PR335556NP
Professional: Film Distribution Coordinator (LIC, NY) Create web content and film synopses, evaluate programs, arrange promotion and fundraising events, research on film distribution in US and China. Master's deg in PR or Film Studies, w/3 months exp. Send res. to: Attn: Fan He, EnMaze Pictures LLC, 34-01 38th Ave, 4th Fl, #7, LIC, NY 11101 Program Director (NY, NY) Dvlp & implmt community projects/ Research & analyze member or community needs. Support all phases of prgms offrd. Oversee the prgm budget. Recruit & coord volunteers. Master's deg. 2 yrs exp. req'd. M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Send Resume to: Nebi Demirsoy, Executive Director, Peace Islands Institute, Inc., ndemirsoy@peaceislands.org Project Manager, E-Business Technology (New York, NY). Strategically partner with key business stakeholders/product managers/technical team to implement projects based on approved project roadmap. Responsible for managing all aspects of diverse, complex IT projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality, and cost. Edu & Exp req'd. Send res and refs to M. Swihart at Ann Taylor (Code: GJ-PMEBT), 7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036. Public Relations Coordinator for DataArt Solutions, Inc. in NY, NY to promote the co.'s prof'l svcs in American, British & European target audiences. Rqrd: Bachelor's deg in Mgmt, Mktg, Communications or rltd field w/2 yrs rltd exp. Knowl of Russian language is reqd. Send resumes w/cvr ltr at Mzia.ptadze@dataart.com. Ref. code: Public Relations Coordinator Public Relations Account Executive for Sard Verbinnen & Co LLC in Manh draft, review & revise internal & external communications materials; liaison with media representatives,; develop media & PR strategies Master's in Writing or Public Relations and 12 mos exp in job off'd req'd Respond NR/Sard PO Bx 4241 NYC 10163
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Quality Assurance Engineer at Everyday Health in NY, NY will dsgn & execute test strategy, test plan & unit test scripts for existing & new features; find, diagnose, & report s/ware & dbase bugs; & submit well-written & welldocumented bug reports. Reqs Bachelor's deg in Comp Sci, Info Systms, Info Sci or directly rltd field, + 3 yrs s/ware dvlpmt & s/ware testing exp. Exp must incl at least 2 yrs exp w/: (1) exp w/ 1 other prgmg lang. & 1 scripting lang.; (2) testing complex algorithms; (3) breaking well-written code; (4) Microsoft SQL Server; (5) Web architecture; (6) unit testing, s/ware testing, & test automation in a live production envrmt; (7) Selenium Test automation scripting exp & (8) exp w/ the complete s/ware testing life cycle in conjunction w/ systm dvlpmt life cycle (SDLC) & agile s/ware dvlpmt. Apply online at http:// corporate.everydayhealth.com/life-atevdy/default.aspx?section=careers Quality Assurance Analyst - (Neuberger Berman Group LLC - NY, NY): Dsgn test plans, scenarios, scripts, & procedures. Dvlp testing prgms that address areas incl dbase impacts, s/ware scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, & usability. Reqts: Bach's deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Engg (any), or rel + 5 yrs progressively resp exp in job offrd or rel. Must have 5 yrs progressively resp exp w/: Java; J2EE; .Net Framework; SQL Server; HP ALM; HP UFT; descriptive prgmg & user defined functions using QTP for asset mgmt bus. incl Equity, Fixed Income, & Alternative Investments; HP Qlty Center; QuickTest Prof'l; VB Script; SQL; automation framework; & open source tools. Submit resumes by fax to Sey Choi at 646-537-4980 & indicate job code PG16NYT. EOE/M/F/D/V. Quality Assurance Engineer needed by non-profit org in NY, NY to work on dsgn & dvlpmt of child welfare case mgmt systm. Create, modify & execute automated test scripts & regression tests in Ruby. Use Neustar for performance & scaling testing. Log, assess & monitor resolution of defects. Provide feedback & analysis on s/ware usability & functionality. Define & refine qlty assurance methodologies. Must have Master's deg in Comp Sci or Electrical Engg + 4 mths s/ware dvlpmt exp, incl 2 mths using Ruby on Rails. Send resume to: #YL2016, C. Simon, Case Commons, Inc., 71 West 23rd St, 2nd Flr, NY, NY 10010.
Quantitative Research Analyst w/ Axioma, Inc. in NY,NY.Support & dvlp new derived data processes for generation of yield, spread & volatility curves. Maintain & improve code used to derive Fixed Income & volatility rel factors.Construct volatility surface by using models (e.g. Quadratic, SABR) to price FX options & simulate(e.g. Monte Carlo, Historical) Vega risk factors. Reqs:Mstrs deg (US or foreign equiv) in Math Fin, Computational Fin, Fin Engg, or a closely rel field & 1 yr of exp in the job offered or in a rel quant research or model validation role. Prior exp must incl 1 yr of the following: Prog w/ python or C++ using Numerix financial pricing s/ware; Conducting financial data & pricing research through Bloomberg or Reuters terminals; & Validating Fixed Income (non-callable bond) pricing models & sensitivity measures such as duration & convexity. Prior exp must also incl 6 mos using volatility smile models such as SABR for IR or FX options pricing. Qual Applicants: Visit https:// careers-axioma.icims.com & search for Quantitative Research Analyst.
REAL ESTATE Employer: The Blackstone Group Location: New York, NY The Blackstone Group seeks a candidate for the position of Associate, Real Estate, at its New York, NY office responsible for performing real estate valuation analysis, computer modeling, research and competitive analysis; developing presentations, assisting in the execution of transactions, and drafting memoranda for internal and external use; working in a range of transactions to include acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and leveraged buyouts; developing, structuring, and financing of transactions; attending both external and internal meetings, negotiations and due diligence sessions; analyzing financial data and developments in real estate markets. Interested candidates should apply by mail to Attn: Cynthia Bombara, Human Resources, The Blackstone Group, 345 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10154 and reference job Associate, Real Estate.
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Senior Trader (Exotic Equity Derivatives) (SG Americas Securities, LLC; New York, NY) Assist in mgmt of & trading book of US index Exotic derivatives. Price Exotic derivatives payoff for Institutional clients. Work with quantitative analysts to improve models. Work with financial engineers to innovate & introduce new products to clients. Must pass FINRA Series 7, 55 & 63 licensing after commencement of employment. Min Reqs: Masters degree or US equiv in Fin, Fin Engin, Mathem, Mathem Fina, Stats or rel, plus 3 yrs exp at financial institution working with hedge funds. Within the 3 yrs, must have: 1 yr exp trading US exotic equity products; exp analyzing & producing financial models (incl stochastic volatility model & Local Volatility Model) used to price Exotic equity portfolios; exp applying US market rules & regs during pricing & unwinding of risk positions; exp evaluating systematic versus individual risk relating to exotic equity derivatives; exp analyzing ongoing financial & economic conditions to determine its impact on trading, portfolio performance & portfolio risk mgmt; exp using Excel & VBA to develop quantitative tools for backtesting of systematic trading strategies. Send resume to: HR or SG Recruitment Team, SG Americas Securities, LLC, 245 Park Ave, NY, NY 10167, at us-humn-recruitment@sgcib.com. Specify Ad Code WBTF in subject line. EOE. MFDV. Senior SAP/ABAP Developer @ Bloomberg LP (NY, NY) F/T. Partcpte in all aspcts of the sftwre dvlpmnt life cycle. Gathr reqs by engagng users & stkehldrs. Idntfy app scenrs & dsgn soltns using SAP/ABAP. Implmnt, test & maintn sftwre. Posit reqs a Bach's deg, or foreign equiv, in Comp Sci, Bus Admin, Econ, Comp Engg, Fin, Info Sys, Info Ntwrks, Math, Physcs, or rel & 5 yrs of prgrssvly respons exp in the job offd, as a Sr Sftwre Dvlpr or rel. Experience must include: ABAP development in SAP Netweaver 7.0 or above; OO paradigm and OO design; Debugging and troubleshooting in ABAP; SRM, SCM and FI modules in SAP; Workflow; ALE/EDI experience; and, Prior ABAP in MM and SD modules. Emp will accept any suitable combo of edu, training or exp. Send resume to Bloomberg HR 731 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Indicate B71-2016. EOE. Senior Software Developer at Jane Street Group, LLC (NY, NY). Dvlp sftwr in OCaml as part of trdng & oprtnl infrstrctr for proprietary trdng co. Reqs Bach deg or equiv in Info Tech, Comp Sci, Engnrng or rel. quant. field + min. 2 yrs exp dvlpng sftwr using OCaml progrmmg lang. Reqs exp managing sftwr release cycles & sftwr QA processes. Reqs understanding of OCaml lang. semantics & runtime sys. as well as exp using Mercurial distributed version cntrl sys. Reqs exp with asynchronous progrmmg, typeful sftwr dsgn & monadic progrmmg. Reqs exp progrmmg on Linux pltfrm incl. exp with ntwrk progrmmg & scripting tools. Send res to jobs@janestreet.com w/ app ref code JSET01 in subj line. Senior Quantitative Researcher at Jane Street Group, LLC (NY, NY). Indpndntly manage & execute quant rsrch. Review & vet rsrch prfrmd by jr Quant Rsrchrs. Reqs Bach deg in Math, Physics, Engnrng, Comp Sci or rel scientific or quant field + min 2 yrs exp applying machine learng & statistical analyses to lrg time series dataset & back-tstng trdng strategies. 2 yrs exp using OCaml progrmmg lang & Mercurial distributed vrsn cntrl sys, Linux & bash. Knwldge of stocks, bonds, options & other fncial instruments as well as mathmtcal pricing mdls. Send res to jobs@janestreet.com w/ app ref code JSET03 in subj line. Sr. Consultants-Business Analysts (NY, NY) – Anlyz operatnl processes, sys & stratgies. Req MS in CS, Comp Engg, Finncl Engg, or Info Systm + 1 yr exp in job offrd. Req skills & knwldg of Project Mgmt, Business Intelligence Tools (Business Objects/ Micro Strategy), Middle Office/Back Office Operations, Capital Markets & Products, Risk management, SDLC, ETL Processes. Req 80% travel to unantcptd client locatns in USA. Send res w/code GIC001 to HR, Capco, 77 Water St, 10thFl, NY, NY 10005
Sr., Software Engineer & Architect for NBCUniversal Media, LLC in NY, NY. Resp for devel't, delivery, & support of custom apps, incl architecting, developing, & enhancing existing apps; designing & developing new apps & capabilities; & partnering w/ business & tech RECRUITMENT. Bilingual Financial divisions to increase productivity & Recruiter @ NYC firm specializing in revenue opportunities. Mail resume to: recruitment of financial professionals M. Krakauer, NBCUniversal Media, for Japanese financial institutions. Pro- LLC, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 1631W, NY, vide bilingual support to US based Ja- NY 10112. Ref: SrSWEA2. panese companies w/sourcing, interviewing, evaluating & placing financial SR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER professionals for their internal posi- (New York, NY) wanted by NYC firm tions across the US. Recruiter will also to prepare assist with preparing detailwork with U.S. financial firms that need ed arch drawings and construction financial professionals with Japanese docs. Must have at least BS in Arch and & Asian mkt expertise & background. 4 yrs arch design exp. Send resume Bachelor's degree in finance or eco- and cover letter to Michael Zenreich at nomics with fluency in Japanese and Architect PC at zenreich@ English reqd. Send resume: YK, Alpha mzarchitects.com. No calls please. Global Search LLC, 600 3rd Ave, 2nd SR. STRATEGIC PRODUCT CONSULFlr, NY, NY 10016 TANT- Marin Software Inc. has job opp. in New York, NY: Sr. Strategic Product Consultant. Provide marketing support Restaurant General Manager. Manage for social media platform. Mail reday-to-day oper'ns for 2 NY locations, sumes refernc'g Req. #SPC49 to: Attn: one remotely. Manage staff, set sched- C. Cerda, 123 Mission St, 27th Flr, San ules, hire & fire, negotiate vendor con- Francisco, CA 94105. tracts, maintain food licensure, ensure compliance w/ food/health/safety Senior Associate- (job location: New codes. Maintain operational QA stan- York, NY)- Create proposals for & dards & brand. Supv 6-11 employees. manage a portfolio of clients, & identify Reqs 3 ys in job offered or as Restau- opportunities to increase existing rant Mgr or related w/ above exp & scope of work. Oversee operations & verifiable refs. Resumes to HR, DM partner engagement for campaigns up Bary, LLC (dba Cafe Bari), 276 Canal St, to $100M. Develop multi-sector innovative health system strategies. Establish NY, NY 10013. resource mobilization programs that scale catalytic funding toward global health initiatives. Direct treatment & RISK MANAGEMENT prevention programs for leading pharEmployer: The Blackstone Group maceutical companies focused on nonLocation: New York, NY The Blackstone Group ( BX ) in NYC -communicable diseases. Oversee seeks a Vice President - BAAM Risk campaigns to eliminate infectious Management who will be responsible diseases in low & middle income counfor performing qualitative and quanti- tries, w/ a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. tative analysis of hedge fund strate- Provide research & analysis for global gies; Analyzing existing risk in the port- health programs & initiatives to inform folio; preparing manager's investment decision making. Conduct stakeholder recommendations; Executing single interviews, including the development equity/future hedging trades; and deve- of questions & parameters. Responsibloping and maintaining a reporting le for project management for highframework to produce and distribute level programs, initiatives & business risk reports, among other responsibili- development initiatives. Specialize in ties. Must have Bachelor's degree in sustainable investments in global quantitative field such as physics, com- health, intersecting business priorities puter science, engineering, mathema- & market needs. Req's: Master's in tics, statistics, or a related field, plus 5 Communications Management or Pubyears' experience as a Risk Analyst, or lic Health & 2 yrs of exp in position ofa related occupation.Must also have: fered or as a Director at a communica5 years' experience with Matlab/ tions or strategy consulting firm OR Python, SQL, Bloomberg, and statisti- Bachelor's in Communications Mancal software packages; 5 years' exper- agement or Public Health & 5 yrs of ience in U.S. and global equities mark- exp in position offered or as a Director ets, equities derivatives, and futures at a communications or strategy conand commodities; 5 years' experience sulting firm. All req'd exp must have inbuilding portfolio analytics and risk cluded leading campaign proposal demeasurement methods, using factor velopment; overseeing operations & models, building and using portfolio op- partner engagement on $50M+ global timization tools, building and tracking health campaigns w/ a focus on Afririsk and performance metrics, building can & Latin American countries; devecustom analytics and reporting, and loping strategies focused on eliminatevaluating portfolio performance ing infectious diseases in Africa; & proagainst hypothetical market scenar- viding resource mobilization solutions ios. Qualified applicants submit resume to NGOs, multilaterals, foundations & by mail only to: Attn: Cynthia Bomba- corporations. Contact: Meg Battle, Rara, 345 Park Avenue, New York, New bin Strategic Partners Inc. DBA Rabin Martin, 104 W 40th St, 3rd Fl, New York, York 10154, and ref: SP-VP(BAAM) NY 10018. RECEPTIONIST (Brklyn) perform administrative tasks. 6 months exp req'd. 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Sales: HSBC seeks Salesperson (NY, NY) to build & maintain Fixed Income Business LATAM Institutional Clients (Banks, Pension & Mutual Funds) in Mexico, Chile, Colombia & Peru. Up to 20% int'l & dom travel. Resumes to J. Nagel, Ref job # 3120-618. HSBC Securities USA, Inc. 95 Washington St, Atrium 1NW, Buffalo, NY 14203. No calls/ emails/ faxes EEO/AA/Minorities/ Women/ Disability/Veterans.
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SALES OPPORTUNITIES SALES. West Corp. (SchoolMessenger) seeks Sales Rep. in NY, NY to locate and define target mkts and sales oppor. Develop relationships with decision makers and provide review of pdcts/svcs. Conduct detailed product demos to educate about product features, benefits, and advantages. Maintain and dvlp current client accounts. Must have 5 yrs sales exp. w/1 yr. of sales exp. in SaaS environ. in the K-12 edu or higher education industry. Resumes to J. Slater 11808 Miracle Hills Dr. Omaha, NE 68154.
Software Developer, Manh - Resp for full (SDLC) incldg s/ware analy, dsgn, dvlpmt & implmtatn of fincl s/ware apps & framewrk to enhance/expand suite of apps & reltd prdcts; prtcpt in dbase dsgn & dsgn data mgmt s/ware; collbrte w team membrs to obtn req'd info for prjcts; perf codg for biz logics & unit testg; dsgn, analy & implmt s/ware modules for integrtn w/ Primr Brokr data, acctg systs & mrkt data prvdr; analy biz data & custmz/refine existg s/wr features to optmz oprtnl effcncy & perf, etc. Mster in CS, Info Tchnlgy or rltd + 2 yrs s/ware dvlpmt exp in financl tradg. Exp mst incl 1 yr SDLC utlzg SQL Servr, .NET Framewrk, ASP.NET, WPF & Web API. RSM to HR, MIK Group, Inc., 155 E. 56 St., 2 Fl., NYC 10022. Software Engineer at GetGo in Jersey City, NJ. Design, dvlp, test, troubleshoot & debug complex SW applications. Reqs masters dgr or foreign equiv in comp sci, comp eng, elect eng, or rel tech fld & 3 yrs of SW dvlt exp, incl Java. Stated exp must inclu unit & integration test'g using JUnit & Mockito test'g framework; SOA based services; API test'g; Agile methodologies; Spring frameworks; REST services; distributed applications; SW automation; & system optimization/scaling. Must pass co's tech review. Resumes: Citrix, c/o A. Gonzalez, Job Code 51, 851 W Cypress Creek Rd, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33309. Software Engineer (NY, NY): Dvlp, create & modfy web apps, web srvcs & implmnt new clnt facing features. Optmze web apps. Reqs: Bach deg or for equiv in Comp Sci, CIS, MIS, Engg (any), Math, Bus Admin or clsly rel fld, & 2 yrs prof exp as Sftwr Engnr, Sftwr Dvlpr, Progrmmer or rel role. Exp to incl: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net Web Forms, WCF Web Services, Entity Framework, Visual Studio, T-SQL & Microsoft SQL Server. Mail resumes to: HR, Gogotech II, LLC, 1407 Broadway, Ste 700, NY, NY 10018.
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Treasury Associate - Reporting & Data Sr Web Dvlpr @ Bloomberg (NY, NY) Analysis sought by MUFG Union Bank, F/T. Intro Web based access ctrls to da- N.A. in NYC, NY to control liquidity ta. Build web svcs & online intgrtn con- risks embedded in the Banks' balance sole. Ld dsgn & implmntn of web based sheet in accordance w/ regulatory rqts; authntctn model to rspct data snstvty enhance liquidity risk mgmt capabiliwhile keepng web API authntctn pttrns. ties by creating cash flow projections & Ld dsgn & implmnttn of mgrtng web refining liquidity stress testing analysis; infrstrctr to intrnl cloud usng Infrstrctr & assisting in managing funding & inas code process, as well as secur svc terest risk mgmt w/in prescribed risk lidscvry for distrib HTTP microsvcs de- mits defined by GAP & VaR metrics. ployed on cloud. Rsrch & dsgn HTTP Req. Bachelor's in Bus. Admin, Fifor Blmbrg Pltfrm As A Svc (PaaS) to nance, Acctg or Econ or foreign equiv assist intrnl dvlprs to deploy microsvcs deg + 2 yrs exp in Treasury, Liquidity, in svrless enviro. Dvlp new Intgrtn Con- & Funding mgmt w/in a wholesale sole usng gateway bckend svcs & Web banking envrmt; creating cash flow frntend. Build systs tht provide cntrlzd projections & refining liquidity stress capabilities for Data Trnsfrmtn (ETL), testing analysis; enhancing liquidity real-time prcssng, data intllgnce, va- policy & procedures incl Contingency lidtn, monitrng & alrtng. Reqs BA or for Funding Planning & dvlpg Intraday liequiv, in CS, CompEngg, IN, IS or rltd & quidity mgmt practices; conducting li1 yr in job or Gateway Dvlpr, Sftwr quidity stress testing assumption Dvlpr or rltd. Exp must incl: C#, C++, dvlpmt; managing funding & interest C++/CLI, F#, JavaScript; Redis; & Win- risk mgmt w/in prescribed risk limits dows. Emp will accept any suita combo defined by GAP & VaR metrics. Backof edu, training or exp. Send res to ground checks & fingerprinting may Bloomberg, HR 731 Lexington Ave, apply. For applic screening details & NY, NY 10022. Indicate B69-2016. EOE. to apply go to https://careers.mufgamericas.com. Job # 34786. EOE. Sr IT Analyst @ Bloomberg LP (NY, NY /Princeton, NJ) F/T. Guide dvlpmt of sftwr prdcts using C & C++ on Unix. Resp for planning & executing sml & mid-size prjcts by wrking thru prjct life-cycle from reqs elicitation, risk assessmnt & dev thru operations & maintenance. Position reqs Master's deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Bus Admin, Econ, Engg, Fin, IN, IS, Math, Phys or rltd & 1 yr exp in job offd or as Sftwr Dvlpr, Sr Sftwr Dvlpr or rltd. Alt, emp will accept a Bachelor's deg & 5 yrs progressively resp exp. Exp must incl: C & C++ on Unix. Emp will accept any suitable combo of edu, training or exp. Send resume to Bloomberg HR, 731 Lexington Ave, NY, NY 10022. Indicate B72-2016. EOE.
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Facing Off Once Again In Marshall, Tex., a number of youth programs were dropped in the last two years as the town tried to roll back tackle football. But two new programs have sprouted in Marshall, drawing about 200 players and showing the sport’s deep appeal in the heart of football country. Page 6.
Behind Woods’s Return, a Team Effort U.S. Ryder Cup players showed their support for an assistant captain as he worked his way back.
All Sins Forgiven On Altar of Football A Christian university covetous of athletic glory proves none are so blind as those who will not see.
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NASSAU, the Bahamas — Before this year’s Ryder Cup, Zach Johnson was scrolling online and stumbled upon distributors selling T-shirts that he thought would be perfect for the dozen United States team members to wear when they gathered at Hazeltine National Golf Club for that biennial event. He ran the idea by his wife, Kim, who did not share his enthusiasm. She talked him out of it. But Johnson could not let go of the idea. Upon arriving at Hazeltine in September, Johnson sought second, third — even 11th — opinions. His teammates’ responses were overwhelmingly positive. So Johnson ordered more than a dozen of the shirts and had them shipped express to Minnesota, where the players unveiled them during a team meeting after the first day of competition. There they stood, 12 strong, with “Make Tiger Woods Great Again” written across their chests. Woods, a 14-time major champion, could not play because of a bad back that had sidelined him for more than a
There was grand news out of Lynchburg, Va., last week: Liberty University announced that it had hired Ian McCaw, a “godly man of excellent character,” as its athletic director. Liberty, which bills itself as the world’s largest Christian university, has large appetites, and it desires to vault into the SPORTS OF THE TIMES big time. And McCaw, a man with the angular build and cobalt blue-eyed intensity of an ultramarathon runner, has achieved much success in his three decades in college sports. “My vision for Liberty is to position it as a pre-eminent Christian athletic program in America,” McCaw said during a news conference in Lynchburg. McCaw is well acquainted with Christian athletics. In May, he left his job as the athletic director at Baylor, another eminent Christian university. His departure followed a devastating investigation that found that the leaders of the football team and the athletic department had looked away when told of
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Tiger Woods, left rear, with Bubba Watson at the closing ceremony of this year’s Ryder Cup, in which the United States defeated Europe with ease. year and threatened his career. But his selfless work as an assistant captain played a significant role in the United States’ resounding victory over Europe. In the weeks, and months, before the Ryder Cup, Woods had gone above and beyond what was required of him to help the team. And now it was the team’s turn to do whatever it could to help him get back on the course. The T-shirts were just the start of a campaign that gained momentum last
week when Woods teed it up in the Hero World Challenge, the unofficial PGA Tour event that he hosts. In returning to competition, Woods, who turns 41 this month, is having to make up the blueprint as he goes. No former No. 1 player has been sidelined from competition for more than a year at Woods’s age and returned to resume his winning ways. So where does Woods turn for inspiration? To the tennis player Juan Continued on Page 4
multiple gang rapes and sexual assault. I would not bury a man without offering a dollop of praise. During McCaw’s tenure, the football team prospered mightily. There were a Heisman Trophy winner, two Big 12 championships and breathless news media coverage of its down-home coach, Art Briles, and his whiskey-cured voice. And Baylor University leveraged that success into a $260 million stadium of the sort that spots the landscape of Texas like pimples on the rear of a steer. Liberty plays football in Division I’s second rung. The university is run by Jerry Falwell Jr., a godly sort who understands the need for occasional accommodation with the secular world. Earlier this year he strolled around the Republican National Convention with his candidate, Donald J. Trump, a thrice-married man whom numerous women have accused of sexually harassing them. This did not please Liberty’s students, who are expected to abide by the Liberty Way, which sets strict personal Continued on Page 9
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In the Bloom of Youth, the Giants Find the Seeds of Their Rebirth By BILL PENNINGTON
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — In a nationally televised game at Green Bay two months ago, the Giants lost for the third consecutive week, dropping their record to 2-3. The team was in disarray, hapless on offense and toothless on defense. Player frustration was boiling over. When Ereck Flowers, the mammoth left tackle who had played a humbling game, was asked about his performance, he ended up pushing a reporter in the locker room. Ben McAdoo, the Giants’ new head coach, was hectored with postgame questions about whether the problem was his playcalling, since his team had managed just three offensive touchdowns in three weeks. “We need to regroup,” McAdoo said. Six games later, the Giants have the fourth-best record in the N.F.L., at 8-3. McAdoo could be a contender for coach of the year. His Giants are an odds-on favorite to earn a wild-card playoff berth and are still within striking distance of the N.F.C. East leaders, the Dallas Cowboys, who will bring their league-best record to MetLife Stadium on Dec. 11. How did the 2016 Giants go from vexed, bewildered and embattled to resourceful, efficient and ascendant? It began with the littlest of things. McAdoo is a something of a computer geek. He began his coaching odyssey as a part-time assistant, a cerebral guy in eyeglasses who passed painstakingly meticulous reports to the full-time coaches. “The most important thing was Ben’s ability on the computer and how he used it to suggest adjustments,” said Sal Sunseri, who was a linebackers and special-teams coach at Michigan State in 2001, when McAdoo was there, in his first year as an assistant coach. “It was better than anything that we had ever had.” Fifteen years later, and about a month into his first season as a head coach at any level of football, McAdoo turned to his systematic roots to figure out how his Giants had lost their way. “We are going to take a good, long, hard look at ourselves,” McAdoo said. “Self-scouting.”
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Ben McAdoo, right, engaged in rigorous self-scouting after a three-game losing streak left his team in disarray just five weeks into his first season as the Giants’ coach. His solution was to rely more on younger players, like the rookie safety Andrew Adams (33). McAdoo hinted at a possible outcome: “Addition by subtraction.” The subsequent changes did not amount to an overhaul, but McAdoo, 39, had hardened his resolve to make the team younger. It would no longer be cast in the image of Tom Coughlin, the former coach who won two Super Bowls with the Giants and left at the end of last season, when he was 69. The transformation McAdoo has planned may not entirely take shape until next season, but his research has backed up his belief that the Giants should follow a leaguewide trend of putting more rookies and second-year players into critical roles. The Giants, who will face the Steelers (6-5) in Pittsburgh on Sunday, look strikingly different from the team that opened the season. The best example of their transformation is a player who established himself during the losing streak: Andrew Adams, the rookie free safety. Adams was an undrafted free agent who was waived by the Giants and assigned to the practice squad. Injuries elevated him to the active roster in the third week of the season, but he appeared to bungle the opportunity when he committed a careless unnecessary- roughness penalty while the Giants were blocking a fourthquarter punt deep in the Washington Redskins’ territory. It was the most memorable play in a crushing Giants defeat that began their tailspin.
Many coaches in the N.F.L., especially in the past, would have cut Adams the next day, if only for the statement it would send to the rest of the team. Undrafted rookies tend to be especially easy fodder for such displays. Instead, McAdoo gave Adams his first start the next week. Adams has not been dislodged from the job since then. Granted, an injury had made a new starter at safety necessary. But last year’s Giants would have signed an aging free agent to fill the job. The team did give tryouts to four veteran safeties after the Redskins game, but ultimately they gave the job to Adams. “It’s not about time of service; it’s not about when you were born,” McAdoo said. Seated at his locker Wednesday, Adams said he did not fret that he would be released after his costly penalty. “I wasn’t worried,” he said. “One play doesn’t define a player or his career. Or his character.” Adams said his coaches treated him the next week as they normally had. He has responded with 33 total tackles, one interception and the trust of the Giants’ defensive coordinator, Steve Spagnuolo, whose frequent late-game blitzes put substantial extra pressure on Adams, the team’s last line of defense. As the Giants’ winning streak grew week by week, their lineup was infused with new, young faces. After the team’s bye week in late October, when McAdoo and his assistants had time to thor-
oughly reconsider the team’s personnel, there were significant changes. Will Tye, a second-year player, became the starting tight end. His backup was not the fourth-year player he replaced, Larry Donnell, but Jerell Adams, a rookie. Another rookie, wide receiver Roger Lewis, was suddenly on the field in situations that had been previously reserved for the esteemed Victor Cruz. Lewis caught a first-quarter touchdown pass against Philadelphia in the Giants’ first victory after the bye. Over the Giants’ first five games, Paul Perkins, the Giants’ fifth-round draft pick this year, had a total of four carries and three receptions. In the next six games, Perkins had 39 rushing attempts and 10 receptions. His patient running style and field vision have given the Giants a subtle dimension that had been missing since an early-season injury to the veteran running back Shane Vereen. “Playing rookies and secondyear players will definitely help the team in the long run,” Perkins said. “If nothing else, in December, it will keep the older, veteran guys more fresh.” The inexperience on the Giants’ evolving roster has required adjustments from certain veterans. Quarterback Eli Manning, for example, spends more time teaching in games and practices. “A lot of this is learning on the run for these guys,” Manning said last week. “So I have to do a lot of talking with them. Often, it’s
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A Late Goal Helps Real Madrid Tie Its Rival Barcelona BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Sergio Ramos stepped up in a major match once more for Real Madrid, scoring REAL MADRID 1 in the 90th BARCELONA 1 minute to secure a 1-1 draw at Barcelona on Saturday in the Spanish league. “He never gives up,” Real Madrid Coach Zinedine Zidane said. “That is what Sergio brings.” Ramos charged in to head a Luka Modric free kick past Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-André
ter Stegen, who got a hand on the ball but could not stop it. A Luis Suárez header off a free kick by Neymar had given Barcelona the lead in the 53rd minute, but Barcelona squandered the opportunity to finish off Real Madrid, its archrival. The stalemate favored Madrid, which maintained a 6-point lead atop the standings, with Barcelona in second. “Our effort paid off,” Ramos said. “We were able to maintain the difference. We can’t go crazy.
There is still a long way to go, but we depend on ourselves.” Madrid, which extended its unbeaten streak to 33 matches, is seeking its first domestic league title since 2012. In his 12 seasons at Madrid, Ramos, 30, has shown a knack for striking late in big games. He headed in a goal to force extra time in the 2014 Champions League final, which Madrid went on to win, against Atlético Madrid. He also scored an equalizer — after 90 minutes were up — against
Sevilla in this season’s UEFA Super Cup, with his team again emerging the winner. “What we have to highlight is the heart of this team,” Zidane said. “We believed until the end and got an important draw.” Ramos’s goal stunned Barcelona, the defending league champion, which has played to three straight draws and won only two of its last seven matches over all, a particularly poor run for a team featuring an attack of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Suárez.
something you thought they knew but they didn’t quite know exactly. Every day you talk through a lot of things to make sure you’re on the same page.” But Manning acknowledged receiving a boost from the youngest Giants, a group that includes the rookie wide receiver Sterling Shepard and strong safety Landon Collins, whose performance in his second season merits Pro Bowl consideration. “You have young guys who are hungry and eager to be great players, and you can sense the effect of that,” Manning said. “It rubs off on everyone.” The Giants owe their turnaround to more than a youth
movement, however. First and foremost, whenever they consistently getting the football to Odell Beckham Jr., they usually win. Beckham had one touchdown catch through the first five games this season and has seven since. Defensive end Jason PierrePaul has flashed his old dominance, while his newly acquired colleagues on the defensive line, Olivier Vernon and Damon Harrison, have made it difficult for teams to double-team him. The Giants have also been fortunate in their schedule, which in recent weeks has matched them with teams enduring difficult seasons. Their last six opponents have a combined record of 20-46-1. But beginning with the Steelers on Sunday afternoon, the Giants’ next five opponents have a combined record of 35-20-1. And the winning streak has not cured all of the Giants’ failings. They still, for instance, are second-to-last in the league in rushing yards per game. But McAdoo’s early-season maneuvering has helped set the course for a Giants revival, and he said on Friday that he was not worried about second-guessing. “There’s a quote in a movie that is escaping me now,” he said, “but the quote is, ‘Those who know don’t care, and those who care don’t know.’” He added: “I believe that youth and inexperience pumps energy into the building. That helps the veterans. I think it really does work both ways.”
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N.F.L. Matchups By David White
The Playoff Push Comes to Shove Across the League
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When the Falcons’ Matt Ryan leads the league’s top offense against the Chiefs on Sunday, he will be looking to extend his streak to 51 straight games with at least 200 passing yards. December is here, which brings us to Separation Sunday. Twenty-one teams are within a game of someone else in their divisional standings. There are five games remaining to sort out the sameness of it all. That includes five first-place teams that have all the wiggle room of a middle-seat holder on an overbooked flight. Sunday’s schedule includes five matchups of teams that are separated by one win, with the game between Kansas City and Atlanta on the marquee. May the thumb wrestling over playoff seeds, byes and tiebreakers begin. Here is a look at Sunday’s games and who we think will win them:
Chiefs (8-3) at Falcons (7-4) 1 p.m. Line: Falcons by 4 ½ The Falcons’ Matt Ryan is the first N.F.L. quarterback with 50 straight games of 200 or more passing yards, parlaying very good numbers into great results this year. His offense leads the league with 31 points a game, which is one way to say that the N.F.C. South remains Atlanta’s to win. The Kansas City defense starts with cornerback Marcus Peters, who has five interceptions and the best hope of matching strides with Atlanta’s 1,140-yard receiver, Julio Jones. It ends with outside linebacker Dee Ford, who might return from a Nov. 20 hamstring injury that has kept him stuck at 10 sacks. PICK: CHIEFS
Dolphins (7-4) at Ravens (6-5) 1 p.m. Line: Ravens by 3 ½ The Dolphins have won six consecutive games for the first time since 2005, including five in a row by a touchdown or less. Their seven wins would put them on the top shelf in five divisions. But they are looking up, as A.F.C. East teams usually are, at the Patriots. Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill has a 104.7 rating in the winning streak. Through Miami’s 1-4 season start, his rating was 83.6. The Ravens lead the N.F.L. in rushing defense, so the Dolphins must rely heavily on Tannehill for another week. Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs has eight and a half sacks, seven tackles for a loss and an interception return for a touchdown in his last six games against the Dolphins. He will be sure to thank them in his Hall of Fame speech. PICK: RAVENS
Eagles (5-6) at Bengals (3-7-1) 1 p.m. Line: Bengals by 1 These playoff dreamers have lost nine of their past 12 games combined. After Sunday, one of them can stop doing the math on its postseason chances. The Eagles’ rookie quarterback, Carson Wentz, can do only so much when his top running back, a top wide receiver and two offensive linemen take medical leave from the starting lineup, as they did in Monday’s loss to Green Bay. If Wentz, who has thrown seven interceptions in his last six games, seems to be trying to do too much, it’s because there is too much to do. Cincinnati is scoring 19.4 points a game, which has hobbled the push for a sixth straight PICK: EAGLES playoff appearance.
Texans (6-5) at Packers (5-6) 1 p.m. Line: Packers by 6 ½ The Packers lost three straight games when linebacker Clay Matthews rested an injured hamstring. No wonder Matthews wants to play through his current shoulder injury: Green Bay’s playoff intentions won’t survive without him. Even an unhealthy Matthews can make do against this Texans offense. Houston sits in the bottom five in total yards, passer rating and points scored. Yet that and two straight losses have failed to knock Houston out of first place. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers won’t be dashing downfield with his newly acquired hamstring injury. With 17 passing touchdowns in the last six games, he should stick to throwPICK: PACKERS ing, anyway.
Broncos (7-4) at Jaguars (2-9) 1 p.m. Line: Broncos by 3 ½ The Broncos had better enjoy this last mini vacation. Their Super Bowl defense will be working all uphill in the snow from here, with their final four opponents combining for a 32-13 mark to date. Then again, Jacksonville has never been an easy stop for Denver. The Jaguars lead the series, 5-4, with a 3-1 record at home. But they have not won any games in Jacksonville since last December. Jacksonville is health-deficient at running
back. That could mean more chances for Broncos linebacker Von Miller to add at least one takedown of Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles to his collection of 12 ½ sacks. PICK: BRONCOS
Rams (4-7) at Patriots (9-2) 1 p.m. Line: Patriots by 13 ½ The Patriots just lost tight end Rob Gronkowski to back surgery. It’s as if they want to prove they can win with one All-Pro arm tied behind their back, just to make things interesting. New England started the season at 3-1 when Gronkowski was slowed by a hamstring injury and quarterback Tom Brady was serving a suspension. They adapted. They always do. The Rams, losers in six of their last seven, have the problems of a genuinely troubled team. Their coach, Jeff Fisher, spent his week defending his job security and playing down a public feud with Eric Dickerson, the Rams’ famed running back, over sideline access. PICK: PATRIOTS
PICK: BILLS
Redskins (6-4-1) at Cardinals (4-6-1) 4:25 p.m. Line: Cardinals by 2 ½ Washington looked every bit the playoff contender in a close Thanksgiving loss to Dallas. The aging tight end Vernon Davis seemed like a Pro Bowler again, and he gives the Redskins reason to think they can put 500 yards of offense on the board for a teamrecord third straight week — even against the N.F.L.’s top overall defense. Expect the Cardinals to target wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald because why wouldn’t they? With 1,096 career catches, he needs seven more to make a double-move past the Hall of Famers Cris Carter and Marvin Harrison for No. 3 on the N.F.L. career list. PICK: CARDINALS
Lions (7-4) at Saints (5-6) 1 p.m. Line: Saints by 6 The Lions have taken the N.F.C. North lead with three straight wins and no regard for the collective blood pressure of their fan base. All 11 of Detroit’s games have been decided by 7 or fewer points. That’s a first in 97 years of N.F.L. ledger-keeping. Credit quarterback Matthew Stafford for leading the Lions on seven game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime, tying an N.F.L. season record, with five more games to play. Saints quarterback Drew Brees used to be the one called Captain Comeback. His team is on the playoff fringe because it has lost five games by 6 or fewer points. PICK: LIONS
Bills (6-5) at Raiders (9-2) 4:05 p.m. Line: Raiders by 3 The Raiders have won five straight games. They lead the top-heavy A.F.C. West. Their quarterback, Derek Carr, is so polite that he smiles and thanks reporters when they ask about his injured right pinkie. What’s not to love about the team that used to be an emblem of deviltry and dysfunction?
49ers (1-10) at Bears (2-9) 1 p.m. Line: Bears by 1 No one is going to take the No. 1 pick in the 2017 draft from the winless Browns. That leaves these two other basement dwellers to have it out over No. 2. The 49ers have lost 10 straight under Coach Chip Kelly, who probably wouldn’t get his old job back at the University of Oregon even if he wanted it. (Kelly has denied interest.) Colin Kaepernick leads all quarterbacks in rushing yards, but 0-6 as a starter is still 0-6. Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was on the docket for season-ending surgery this weekend, but his replacement, Matt Barkley, threw for 316 yards and three touchdowns in his first N.F.L. start last week. This weekend, Barkley meets the league’s lowest-ranked defense.
Giants (8-3) at Steelers (6-5) 4:25 p.m. Line: Steelers by 6 The Giants have avoided a losing record for the first time since 2012, thanks to a six-game winning streak, against teams with a combined 20-46-1 body of work this year. The heavy lifting commences Sunday with the first of three teams that own or share a division lead. The Giants’ opponents are 35-20-1 from here. A win at Heinz Field would give the Giants every reason to think it’s not too late to catch the first-place Cowboys. Wide receivers Antonio Brown of Pittsburgh and Odell Beckham Jr. of the Giants, both from the 2014 draft, are tied for the league lead in touchdown catches. PICK: GIANTS
Buccaneers (6-5) at Chargers (5-6) 4:25 p.m. Line: Chargers by 3 ½ Teams that overcome bleak autumns with hot Decembers are the scariest of all. Consider the Buccaneers the potential wild-card team that everyone else would prefer not to see. Their 24th-ranked defense just held the Seahawks’ offense to 3 points. Quarterback Jameis Winston has three interceptions in his past 169 passes after throwing eight in his first 177 of the year. Any takers? The Chargers’ rookie pass rusher Joey Bosa is coming along just fine with a team-best 10 tackles for a loss. Nice haul for a trainingcamp holdout who missed the first four games. PICK: CHARGERS
Panthers (4-7) at Seahawks (7-3-1)
PICK: BEARS
Picks do not reflect the betting line.
Well, Buffalo Coach Rex Ryan might tell you. The Raiders did fire his twin, Rob, as defensive coordinator a few years back, and the Ryans love to keep all of their axes properly ground. A Bills team that won at New England in Week 4 has just enough running game to pull off another upset.
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Matthew Stafford has led first-place Detroit on seven game-winning drives this season.
8:30 p.m. Line: Seahawks by 7 The Panthers and the Seahawks are each 19-5 in regular-season games in December and January over the past five years. Good luck predicting which quarterback will come up short. The Panthers’ Cam Newton had a 119.4 passer rating with 15 touchdown passes and just one interception in the final five games last year. The Seahawks lead the N.F.C. West by three games and have Russell Wilson, who has a record of 12-2 at home in games after Dec. 1. PICK: SEAHAWKS
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After Early Glimpse of Vintage Play, Woods Fails to Sustain His Edge By KAREN CROUSE
NASSAU, the Bahamas — On his fifth hole Saturday at the Hero World Challenge, Tiger Woods holed a bunker shot for his fourth birdie of the day. It had taken him only 41 holes in his first competitive start in 15 months to reach double figures under par. When Woods’s ball tracked toward the hole and trickled in, the roar from his gallery was so loud, it might have scared off the fish on Lyford Cay, four miles away on the western tip of New Providence Island. After 466 days away from golf, Woods was 10 under par and in contention at the tournament he hosts. With a birdie at the par-5 11th, Woods moved to 11 under, to the delirium of the crowd following him. But over the last seven holes, the tide of sound would recede as Woods wobbled home for a two-under 70 and a 54-hole total of eight under. He was 11 strokes behind the leader, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, who posted a 65 and was at 19 under. “Only Tiger could take a year and a half off and put up the numbers that he’s putting up this week,” Matsuyama said. “I don’t care how many strokes I’m leading over him, I still worry about him, fear him.” Woods, who had a bogey-free 65 in the second round, made his first bogey in 24 holes when he three-
putted from 40 feet on the par-5 sixth. If he had a qualm about his game, it was with his play on the greens. “I just hit some bad putts,” Woods said. But his overall performance was solid given how rusty he was after the longest layoff of his 21-year pro career. Of all the signs of progress, perhaps the most promising was that Woods was upset despite shooting below par. “If you think about it, I’ve gotten off to some really good starts the first three days,” said Woods, who has played the front nine in a cumulative 10 under. “Generally, when I come back from layoffs, that’s the most concerning part of the game is getting off to a halfway decent start. I’ve been into the round early, built a significant amount of positive shots and gone under par early. “Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to keep it going except for yesterday.” In a 17-man field that includes 12 of the top 25 players in the world, Woods was in 10th place. Did that exceed his expectations coming into the event? “I didn’t really have much, because I didn’t know,” Woods said. “I didn’t know what I was going to feel like after each round.” After three rounds, his takeaway was this: “I’m just not quite there. But it’s coming.”
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Tiger Woods on his opening tee shot of the Hero World Challenge’s third round. Woods birdied four of his first five holes.
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Tiger Woods, left, an assistant captain, with Patrick Reed during practice for the Ryder Cup. “You have to joke around with Tiger because he’s lived under a microscope his whole life,” Reed said.
Behind Woods’s Return, a Ryder Cup Team Effort From First Sports Page Martín del Potro, a one-time United States Open champion whose four wrist operations cost him two years of his career and who started 2016 ranked 1,041st in the world and ended it by leading Argentina to its first Davis Cup title? To his longtime friend and practice partner Derek Jeter, the retired Yankees shortstop who broke his left ankle when he was in his late 30s, returned too soon and reinjured it, costing him parts of two seasons? Woods seemed as surprised as anyone by his answer. “It’s hard to fathom how many of the players here have really — have rallied and really tried to help me come back and offered any kind of advice, any kind of help, whether it’s with equipment, it’s playing, it’s getting out and going out to dinner, just being part of the tour and part of the fraternity,” Woods said. He added, “I’ve had a lot more close friends out here than I
thought.” It was hard to get close to Woods in his prime when he was winning tournaments by eight or nine strokes. Dustin Johnson, a Ryder Cup teammate whose partner, Paulina Gretzky, is the daughter of the hockey Hall of Famer
‘I’ve had a lot more close friends out here than I thought.’ Wayne Gretzky, was asked who he was more intimidated to meet for the first time, Gretzky or Woods. He pondered the question for several seconds, then said, “Probably Tiger, for sure.” Johnson explained that the first time he met Woods was when they played in the same group in a tournament. “Yeah, that was definitely more
intimidating,” he said. “Wayne’s way too nice.” Henrik Stenson, the reigning British Open champion from Sweden, played 10 events on the PGA Tour for the first time in 2006, a year when Woods won eight of his 15 starts. Woods, he said, was “always very much into his own bubble.” “Certainly there would be a big reason for that as well,” Stenson said. “If you stop and talk to everyone, if you’re signing everything, it’s just impossible to do that.” At the Ryder Cup, the American players got a glimpse of the chess game that is Woods’s life and how he must always be thinking two or three moves ahead. Knowing that he had planned to return for the PGA Tour’s 2016-17 season-opening event in California, which started 11 days after the Ryder Cup ended, the American players tried to coax Woods to hit balls with them. Brandt Snedeker recalled, “He said, ‘Man, do you know what a distraction that would have been if
I had been out there hitting range balls with you?’” Snedeker added, “We hadn’t even thought about that.” Snedeker was vacationing in Fiji when he heard that Woods had withdrawn from the event in California three days before the first round. The timing struck many as curious, but to Snedeker, it made complete sense. His initial reaction, he said, was, “It’s probably because he was with us at the Ryder Cup and lost that week of practice.” Other teammates came to the same conclusion. Rickie Fowler, who lives near Woods in Florida and plays out of the same club, texted Woods regularly to ask if he would like to practice or play money games. “Obviously trying to kick him in the butt to try to keep him motivated to get back out here and play,” Fowler said. After they were done with their work, Fowler joined Woods a couple of times for unhurried dinners at the restaurant that Woods owns near the course.
“He loves the game and he wants to be back playing well,” Fowler said. “I know it’s probably been very hard for him the last two years, because golf is something he loves to do and he hasn’t been able to do it.” The support for Woods has not been limited to the American players. The Englishman Justin Rose, a member of the losing Ryder Cup team, spent time on the range last week showing Woods how to get the most out of his adjustable TaylorMade driver, which Woods is experimenting with as he searches for replacements for the woods that Nike has phased out. “I think they’re all ready to, I don’t want to use the phrase ‘pay it back,’ but I think they all want him to see him do well and be positive with it,” said Woods’s caddie, Joe LaCava. The Ryder Cup team’s thread of group texts has become a daisy chain of support for Woods, with Patrick Reed and Bubba Watson, who also served as an assistant captain, among the most active. Reed likes to needle Woods, a 79-
time tour winner, by referring to him as his “pod leader.” After the United States clinched the Ryder Cup, Watson blurted out in the news conference: “I have Tiger’s cellphone number now. Yes! I’m going to text you all the time.” On Tuesday, Woods was asked if Watson had been true to his word. He mouthed an exaggerated “Yes,” but then he broke into a broad smile. Woods’s fellow golfers, including those like Zach Johnson and Snedeker who are old enough to have lost to him when he was in his prime, read the situation right. They recognized that the first step to making Woods great again was acknowledging his ordinariness. “You have to joke around with Tiger because he’s lived under a microscope his whole life,” Reed said. “And he’s watched everything he’s had to say everywhere because anything he says or does will get scrutinized. He doesn’t want to be treated like one of the best athletes in the world. He wants to be treated like a normal human being.”
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Chances at the Hall, via the Veterans Committee Across their decades in baseball, Bud Selig and George Steinbrenner should have been natural adversaries. Selig, who owned the Milwaukee Brewers before becoming commissioner, was the self-effacing chamON pion of the small BASEBALL market. Steinbrenner, who owned the Yankees from 1973 until his death in 2010, was the blustering bully from the biggest market of all. Yet Selig and Steinbrenner, who will be considered for the Hall of Fame by the new veterans committee on Sunday at the winter meetings, were close. Before he became commissioner, it sometimes fell to Selig to place a calming phone call to an overheated Steinbrenner, who was four years older and called him Golden Boy. In later years, Steinbrenner would fume about Selig’s policies as commissioner, which cost Steinbrenner a fortune in the name of competitive balance. But when Selig cleaned out his office two years ago, he found numerous notes from Steinbrenner, including one signed, “Your loyal friend.” Now, they have a chance to be linked in Cooperstown as part of the 2017 Hall of Fame class. The latest incarnation of the veterans committee — officially called the Today’s Game Era Committee — will vote on 10 candidates: five players, two managers and three executives. The panel is made up of eight Hall of Famers, five major league executives and three writers and historians, with 12 votes needed for induction. The results of that vote will be announced on Sunday night. The results of the writers’ ballot — in which, this time around, hundreds of voters will consider candidates like Barry Bonds, Vladimir Guerrero and Mike Mussina — will be unveiled next month. This is the first appearance on a veterans committee ballot for Selig, 82, who took a franchise to Milwaukee in 1970 and served as commissioner from September 1992 to January 2015. It is the third chance for Steinbrenner, who ruled the Yankees through a blizzard of controversy and championships and was rejected for the Hall in 2010 and 2013. Here are snapshots of the other eight candidates, all making their veterans committee debut except Davey Johnson, who was considered in 2009 before his final stop as manager with the Washington Nationals. HAROLD BAINES Nearly everyone with more career hits than Baines (2,866) is in the Hall of Fame. The exceptions are Bonds and Rafael Palmeiro, who are tainted by performance-enhancing drugs; Pete Rose, who has never been on a ballot because of his lifetime suspension; and younger players who are not yet eligible. Baines never had 200
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Bud Selig, top left, then the president of the Milwaukee Brewers, and the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in 1981. Both could be selected for the Hall of Fame on Sunday. The Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, above left, and Mets Manager Davey Johnson are complicated candidates. hits in a season, never won a batting title and never finished higher than ninth in voting for the Most Valuable Player Award. Yet he was so revered by the White Sox that they retired his number three weeks after trading him in 1989, and they brought him back twice as a player. Baines also ended up having three stints with the Baltimore Orioles, who put him in their Hall of Fame in 2009. For this Hall, though, Baines never polled higher than 6.1 percent from the writers. He will most likely fall short again. ALBERT BELLE The easy comparison to Albert Belle is Kirby Puckett. Both had 12-year careers that ended abruptly, Belle’s because of an arthritic hip and Puckett’s because of glaucoma. Belle, a slugging left fielder who played mostly with Cleveland, had better on-base and slugging percentages than Puckett, a Minnesota center fielder who had more defensive value and a better batting average than Belle. Puck-
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For the second time in the past week, the Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes with a strong third period at Madison Square Garden. “We RANGERS 4 found a way in the HURRICANES 2 third period,” Rangers Coach Alain Vigneault said Saturday after Chris Kreider scored two goals, 4 minutes 46 seconds apart, late in the third to lift the Rangers to a 4-2 victory. “When the game was on the line, to play our best hockey to get 2 points, we’ll take it and get ready for the next game.” On Tuesday night, the Rangers trailed, 2-0, before pulling to within 1 in the second and scoring twice in the third to beat Carolina, 3-2. The Rangers, at 17-8-1 the Metropolitan Division leaders, also received a goal and two assists from Derek Stepan, a goal by Michael Grabner and two assists from Mats Zuccarello. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 21 shots to bounce back from a shaky outing at Buffalo two nights earlier and pick up his 11th win of the season. The Rangers are 8-0-1 after losses this season and have not lost consecutive games in regulation. The Rangers’ 13-game home winning streak against Carolina is their longest home streak against any opponent in franchise history. Kreider scored the tiebreaking goal by knocking a rebound past Hurricanes goaltender Michael Leighton with 7:35 left. Kreider made it a two-goal game with 2:49 remaining when his shot rang off a post and deflected in off Leighton. “There was a big difference in our game — more energy, more
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speed to our game,” Lundqvist said of the Rangers’ play in the final period as opposed to the first two. “It felt like they wanted it a little bit more for two periods, but I think in this league, a lot of times, games are decided in the third. Teams try to stay close, and then in the third, you try to make that final push to make the difference.” Viktor Stalberg and Victor Rask scored for Carolina, and Leighton finished with 24 saves in his second start of the season. The Hurricanes concluded a three-game road trip and fell to 1-4-1 in their last six games. Carolina (9-10-5) had a strong first period, outshooting the Rangers by 15-3, but Stepan’s goal at 4:05 in the first gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead. Kevin Klein joined the rush and crashed the net, which allowed Stepan to control his own rebound and open the scoring. The referee initially waved off the goal, but it was allowed after a review. Stalberg, who scored twice in the Hurricanes’ loss Tuesday night at the Garden, tied the score by beating Lundqvist with a wrist shot on the glove side. Ryan McDonagh, the Rangers’ captain, tried to skate the puck out of trouble but turned it over in the neutral zone, leading to Carolina’s odd-man rush. Speaking of Stalberg, Hurricanes Coach Bill Peters said: “He fits the modern game, a big guy that can skate well. That’s what he does.” Grabner picked up his 13th goal of the season and put the Rangers ahead, 2-1, at 5:54 of the third. Rask tied the score just 32 seconds later with his ninth goal of the season — and his 99th career N.H.L. point — when his slap shot from the point beat Lundqvist.
ett, though, also had a much better story. The first sentence on his Hall of Fame plaque refers to his leadership, his smile and his two championships with the Twins. How do we remember Belle? He was a prolific slugger for a short time in an era full of prolific sluggers. Unlike Puckett, Belle has nothing to elevate him higher. WILL CLARK In his only appear-
ance on the writers’ ballot, in 2006, Clark managed just 4.4 percent of the vote. The top three finishers that year were Bruce Sutter, Jim Rice and Goose Gossage. All are in Cooperstown now, yet all collected fewer career wins above replacement than Clark. At their best, though, each of those three could rightly be called dominant, a trait with strong appeal to voters. Clark’s hallmark was consistency: Over
15 seasons, he always hit between .282 and .333 with a strong on-base percentage, and he displayed perhaps the most elegant, graceful swing of his era. Clark lacks the accumulated numbers or the high peak to make much of a case, but his legacy survives in an unlikely way: Today’s best pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, grew up in Texas rooting for Clark and wears No. 22 in his honor. OREL HERSHISER Hershiser was good enough in the regular season (204-150 with a 3.48 E.R.A.) that his work in the postseason (8-3, 2.59) should lift him to the Hall of Fame. He most likely will not get there, but he had a greater impact and a higher peak than many pitchers who have. Like David Cone — also dismissed too quickly by the writers — Hershiser was at his best in October, when he authored one of the most magical runs in the history of his craft: 67 scoreless innings in a row, playoffs included, on the way to a championship for the Dodgers in 1988. He won three postseason M.V.P. awards, including one with Cleveland, a team he helped reach two World Series in the 1990s. A bonus effect on baseball history: Hershiser’s success with the sinker inspired Greg Maddux to make it his primary weapon, too. MARK McGWIRE Call him onedimensional if you want, but by the end of the ’90s, McGwire was as obvious a Hall of Famer as Babe Ruth. He had a highway named for him in St. Louis, and a spot on the All-Century Team, and he shared a Sports Illustrated cover with Sammy Sosa, with laurel wreaths on their heads and togas wrapped around their massive bodies. It makes you cringe now, in light of McGwire’s admitted use of steroids, but the context is useful as a new set of judges evaluates his candidacy. In a decade on the writers’ ballot, McGwire — who ripped 583 career home runs and was the first to hit 70 in a season — never polled higher than 23.7 percent. Hall of Famers tend to be protective of their club’s exclusivity and image, so it is highly doubtful McGwire will make it. But the story of his feats is already told in the museum, and his second act is going quite well: McGwire, now with San Diego, has been a
well-respected coach for years. DAVEY JOHNSON Here is the full
list of managers with more victories and a better winning percentage than Johnson, the skipper of the swashbuckling Mets of 1986: John McGraw, Joe McCarthy, Fred Clarke, Earl Weaver and Al Lopez. Johnson won just one World Series — but so did Clarke and Weaver, and Lopez won none. In 14 full seasons with five teams, Johnson finished with a losing record just once and was 1,372-1,071 over all — a strong case, especially with his career as a four-time All-Star player factored in. Voters are told to mostly weigh one category but to consider the totality of a candidate’s career. Johnson and the next candidate, Lou Piniella, make interesting hybrid cases. LOU PINIELLA Only 13 managers have won more games than Piniella, who was 1,835-1,713 for five teams. All of those managers are in the Hall of Fame except Gene Mauch, the only one of the group who did not win at least three pennants. Piniella won just one, guiding Cincinnati to the World Series title in 1990, and he fell short in four postseasons with Seattle and two more with the Chicago Cubs. But he brought legitimacy to the Mariners, and his stout 18-year playing career, including a .319 average in four World Series for the Yankees, might push him past the borderline. This much we know: If lively storytelling counted for anything, the feisty Piniella would have made it long ago. JOHN SCHUERHOLZ The last
general manager elected to the Hall of Fame, Pat Gillick, serves on the voting committee for this ballot. Schuerholz’s career compares favorably to Gillick’s: Both won World Series with two franchises. Schuerholz built the 1985 Kansas City Royals and the 1995 Atlanta Braves, but his greatest achievement was stringing together a record 14 consecutive division titles with Atlanta, and making it look seamless. The Braves’ foundation was a dominant starting rotation, but Schuerholz constantly wove good-to-great players in and out of the lineup, leading to a streak of success unlikely to be repeated.
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TACKLE FOOTBALL MAKES A COMEBACK In a Texas town, faith in a sport’s virtues wins out over its risks
A squad of 7- and 8-year-olds practiced in October as part of the Longhorns, one of two tackle football programs started in the past year in Marshall, Tex., where other tackle football teams had recently been scrapped.
By KEN BELSON
MARSHALL, Tex. — Two years ago, as fears over head injuries and the long-term consequences of collisions on the field intensified, this small town in the heart of football country took the unlikely step of trying to roll back tackle football. The junior high school scrapped the seventh-grade tackle team because of safety concerns. The Pop Warner youth program had shut down because of a lack of players. This year, worried about potential liabilities, the local Boys & Girls Club dropped tackle football. Yet in late October, the crack and thud of helmets and shoulder pads punctuated the warm evening air as about 100 boys ran into one another, a sign that tackle football is not done here after all. The players were on the Marshall Longhorns, one of two programs that started in the past year, organized by parents and coaches who believe tackle football has its virtues and is more fun for the boys. “My kids love it, so I love it,” Qwanneshea Johnson said as she watched her sons Quentravious, 11, and Jourdan, 7, practice at West End Park. “They love the contact, and I don’t really worry because they teach them the fundamentals.” The emergence of the Longhorns and the Conquering Lions, a rival organization, is a sign of the complex attitudes toward tackle football as parents across the nation wrestle with the decision of whether to let their children play. Participation in tackle football by boys 6 to 12 has fallen by nearly 20 percent since 2009, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association, although last year it rose by 1.2 percent, to 1.23 million. Schools in several states, including Maine, Missouri and New Jersey, have shut down their tackle football programs because of safety concerns and a shortage of players. Prospective players, including many in Marshall, have been steered toward other
sports, leading coaches, players and fans who feel that the dangers of football have been exaggerated to fill the vacuum. They think that boys should be challenged, not coddled, and that football is a good way to challenge them. That sentiment is acute in this northeastern Texas town of 24,000, a former railroad crossroad. A proliferation of teaching colleges and cultural institutions once garnered Marshall the nickname the Athens of Texas. Yet it is also a football hotbed, having sent numerous players to top colleges and professional teams, including the Hall of Fame quarterback Y. A. Tittle. The two new youth programs grew easily, even as more boys opted to play baseball and soccer. Started last year by former coaches from Pop Warner and the Boys & Girls Club, the Lions and the Longhorns have each filled
four teams of boys 5 to 12 years old, about 200 players in all. The makeup of the teams, however, reflects a socioeconomic undercurrent that has not gone unnoticed here: Most of the players on the new tackle teams are African-American — the town is about 40 percent black — and come from communities where the sport is more often seen as a pathway to eventual prosperity. Despite the enthusiasm for the sport, the debate over the virtues of tackle football is far from settled, whatever the longstanding tradition has been. “If he wants to play in junior high school, that’s fine, but I’d just as soon he not play football,” said Matt Moore, who is happy his 10-year-old son prefers baseball and flag football. “Now that we know about the dangers, you can no longer claim ignorance.” Still, for every parent like Moore, there
The Conquering Lions, the other new program in Marshall, travel to other towns for games to expand their players’ horizons.
are others who believe tackle football provides a good outlet for boys in need of discipline and exercise. They recognize that the sport has potentially devastating effects but believe that better-trained coaches can reduce the risks. “It can be a barbaric sport, but these coaches teach them the proper technique,” said Chad Hygh, a former high school linebacker whose 9-year-old son, Caleb, plays for the Lions. “Some of the steps they are taking to make it safer are good. There was a lot more hitting in my day.” Many of the coaches for the Lions and the Longhorns have taken the Heads Up course, a program aimed at teaching safe tackling techniques. It was developed by the nonprofit organization U.S.A. Football, which has received tens of millions of dollars from the N.F.L. Critics have accused U.S.A. Football of exaggerating the benefits of the program, but the tackle football coaches in Marshall endorse it. They say they are confident that football can be made safer if players are taught proper tackling habits at a young age. “Safety is always a concern, but everywhere you go, there’s a concern,” said Desmond Andrus, a founder of the Lions. “But if you’re always worried, you make it safer. The N.F.L. is doing everything they can to make it better, and that’s the same thing we’re doing here.” In conversations with parents and coaches in Marshall, it was clear that the notion of football as the best way to toughen youngsters and potentially earn them a college education was more closely held in the black community. Indeed, most of the members of the Lions and the Longhorns, as well as many of the players on the local high school team, the Mavericks, are black. This is consistent with support for football among African-Americans elsewhere in the country. According to an HBO Real Sports/Marist Poll released last month, 43 percent of whites and Latinos are less likely to let their children play football because of
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the risk of brain trauma, compared with 28 percent among African-Americans. The divide between white and black extends beyond the playing field in a town where sit-ins and civil rights marches were common in the 1960s, and where the economic gap between white and black families remains wide. The median household income among African-American families in Marshall is $25,616, nearly 40 percent less than among white families. Julius Maloy, the general manager of the Longhorns, said his organization had received few donations or sponsorships from the business community. “The problem is people don’t want to invest in kids from the projects,” Maloy said, motioning to public housing buildings where some of the players live. Still, coaches on the Lions and the Longhorns — nearly all of whom are black — say that football strengthens their community. Many parents who watched their sons practice said that they were grateful their children had a safe place to exercise and that the coaches kept after them to study and respect others. “It’s a way of keeping kids off the streets, giving them something to do,” said Marlon Hawkins, a Longhorns coach whose son and nephew play for the group. “Maybe half of them are dreaming of playing in the N.F.L., and we tell them: ‘The ball there on the ground will take you around the world. It’s your ticket.’” Andrus and the Lions’ other founder, Clarence Haggerty, agreed. Beyond teaching the fundamentals of the sport, they try to be role models to the boys, some of whom do not have fathers at home. The Lions’ motto, “Play hard; pray harder,” is reinforced at every practice. Andrus and Haggerty coached at the Boys & Girls Club. Bryan Partee, the club’s director, had heard concerns from board members about the safety of the game and the club’s potential exposure to lawsuits over injuries. With support for tackle foot-
Photographs by BRANDON THIBODEAUX for The New York Times
ball at the club in doubt, Andrus and Haggerty left to start the Lions. Unlike the Boys & Girls Club, whose teams played only in Marshall, the Lions intended to travel to other towns to play, something that would expand the boys’ horizons. “It brings out his character to hit a kid you’ve never seen before,” Andrus said. Partee, whose father, Dennis Partee, was a punter and kicker in the N.F.L. from 1968 to 1975, defended the decision to drop tackle football. He said that Clint Harper, the football coach at Marshall High School, who pushed to end the seventh-grade tackle program in 2014, told him that many youngsters were not taught the right way to tackle
and were susceptible to injury. “We’re not on a crusade — we’re on the side of safety,” said Partee, whose soccer and flag football teams have grown considerably. “The contact stuff is just outside our youth development strategy.” Partee said that some parents felt as if the club had “jumped the gun” by ending its tackle program but that he was not antifootball. He sold the club’s football equipment to the Lions, and he said that Andrus had helped children and was “filling a need.” The devotion of the coaches was obvious on a Saturday in late October when the Lions traveled about an hour to Henderson to play their last regular-season games. Andrus and the other coaches were on the field from the first game, which involved 5- and 6-year-olds playing flag football, to the fourth game, a matchup of 11- and 12-year-
A coach with an injured player. Coaches are confident football can be made safer if players are taught proper tackling at a young age.
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olds — spending about seven hours in the hot sun. The coaches were stern, urging the players not to back down and to hit anyone who hit them. In the second game, for 7- and 8year-olds, the team from Henderson built a 30-0 lead by halftime. One Lion cried after his wrist was stepped on. Another boy nicknamed Bran Bran walked off the field with his head down after Henderson scored a touchdown. “Everyone hold your head up and dry your tears,” yelled Bob Boyd, one of the few white coaches. “They did exactly what they wanted to do. They intimidated you.” Linda Morris, whose grandson, Cordiay Wilbert, was on the team and who helped the Lions on the sidelines, came next. “When they hit you, you hit ’em back,” she said. “Be tough. This is the game of football.” Andrus took a couple of boys aside to give them tackling tips and to offer encouragement amid the tough love. Soon, the players returned to the field, where they smacked helmets as they tried to tackle opponents. Cedric Wrighten, whose collegiate football career was derailed by concussions, said he and the other coaches taught the boys to keep their heads up. He was confident enough in their instruction that he let his two sons play for the Lions. They “love football, but I got to make sure they play the right way,” he said. For all the angst about head trauma nationally, the parents of the Lions and Longhorns players said that the coaches were taking the right approach and that football would remain as strong as ever in Marshall. “My son has changed 110 percent” since joining the Lions, said Rocky Underwood, whose boy, Chevy, plays on the team for 11and 12-year-olds. At first, “when he got hit, he cried,” Underwood said. “But football’s made him tougher. Like my wife said, if it’s not broken or bleeding, you need to get back out there.”
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Clockwise from top left, Aris Johnson and Eddie Silas awaiting Marshall High School’s game against Hallsville in October; Gabby Juarez, a member of the visiting team’s band; Marshall players cheering after the opening coin toss; and Jamarion Dillard before a Longhorns practice.
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Boating From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Wind will be from the northwest at 8-16 knots. Waves will be 2-3 feet on the ocean and a foot or less on Long Island Sound and on New York Harbor. Visibility will generally be clear to the horizon.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2016
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All Sins Are Forgiven On the Altar of Football From First Sports Page guidelines including, but not limited to, no NC-17 movies, no face piercings, no naughty music, and absolutely no canoodling, such as hanging out alone with a person of the opposite sex. Getting caught in a “state of undress” with the opposite sex is good for a $250 fine and 18 hours of community service. When a Liberty student penned an editorial critical of Trump for the campus newspaper, Falwell censored it. (Liberty University also teaches Young Earth creationism, which is the belief that God created the universe, Earth and life in the last 10,000 years.) The hiring of McCaw has also proved contentious. As the university’s Facebook page filled up with angry comments, Falwell felt compelled to offer explanations on the university’s website. He said Liberty had conducted an “investigation.” It found that McCaw was a fine man. Far from being pushed out of Baylor, Falwell said, McCaw’s “decision to resign was his own choice.” “If he made any mistakes at Baylor,” Falwell said — let us pause here to appreciate his use of the conditional — “they appear to be technical and unintentional.” There is not an athletic director in America, Falwell added, who better understands the importance of complying with federal guidelines on reporting any sexual assault on a campus. And thus tin is transmuted into gold. At this point, it’s worth recalling the summary that Baylor provided about its confidential investigation. The law firm Pepper Hamilton, which oversaw the inquiry, said it had found that the “the choices made by football staff and athletics leadership, in some instances, posed a risk to campus safety and the integrity of the University.” The report’s summary gloried in passive language, and in an act of apparent Christian charity, it omitted all names and, therefore, any accountability. But this is what it meant, if not Email: powellm@nytimes.com
what it said: Athletic leaders (that would be McCaw) and football coaches learned of accusations of gang and date rape and decided not to report that violence; they met with the alleged victims, and their parents, and still did nothing. The football team existed in the same hermetic world found at too many top college programs. This, the report found, “reinforces the perception” — and, of course, the reality — “that rules applicable to other students are not applicable to football players.” McCaw, who had spoken of his hand-in-glove working relationship
A university looks the other way and finds a man who did the same. with Briles, oversaw all of this. When Briles chose to bring in Sam Ukwuachu, a talented defensive end who transferred from Boise State, all involved should have known his background, which was deeply troubling. At 6 feet 4 and 220 pounds, Ukwuachu was a terror to opposing quarterbacks, and to women with the misfortune to make his acquaintance. At Boise State, he was found to have beaten a former girlfriend. He was nonetheless welcomed at Baylor. While forgoing football for the year required of athletic transfers, he sexually assaulted a freshman soccer player. According to Texas Monthly, Baylor officials made a few not-sopointed inquiries and cleared Ukwuachu. As my colleague Joe Nocera has pointed out, reporters the next year asked why Ukwuachu was still sitting out during games. A university spokesman mumbled something about issues. Ukwuachu was later sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years’ probation. No good actors can be divined here. Our two Christian universities
cannot even settle on a single narrative. Falwell claimed that McCaw had been beloved at Baylor and that his departure “was in no way a forced resignation or firing.” Baylor’s interim president, David E. Garland, told a very different story to USA Today last month. “When you remove the president, the athletic director, and a successful and beloved football coach,” he said, “I think there’s incredible accountability.” What we have here is a contradiction. I called Baylor University’s assistant vice president for communications, Lori W. Fogleman, and told her that Falwell had claimed to have conducted an investigation of the Baylor scandal. Did Falwell’s people reach out to your people? “I don’t know,” she replied. I suggested that perhaps her university might wish to be more forthcoming. An hour or so later, she emailed me: “The university prefers not to comment.” I was getting confused. So I called Len Stevens, a spokesman for Liberty University. He was a friendly fellow and quickly agreed that what we had here were conflicting accounts. Whom did your people talk to at Baylor, I asked. “We checked with Coach Grant Teaff, who knows lots of people there.” Teaff, 83, is a football legend at Baylor. He last coached there in 1992 — 11 years before McCaw’s arrival. Liberty University officials did not ask to speak with Pepper Hamilton, the law firm that conducted the investigation, Stevens said. But they did chat with a couple of members of the Baylor Board of Regents, several of whom are not at all pleased that nettlesome accusations of gang rapes and assaults had pushed out a beloved coach and athletic director. I got off the telephone and reread Falwell’s statement, which nearly swelled with charity for McCaw. “He is a good man who found himself in a place where bad things were happening and decided to leave,” Falwell said, “and now Liberty is the beneficiary.” God, or more to the point those people who desire a top football program and claim to hear his word, delivers.
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Harvard University placed its men’s cross-country team on athletic probation on Friday after university lawyers found that the 2014 team had made “crude and sexualized” documents about the women’s team. Similar conduct prompted the university to cancel the men’s soccer team’s season this fall. In the cross-country case, Harvard decided to monitor the athletes’ behavior during a probationary period.
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No. 11 U.C.L.A. Upsets No. 1 Kentucky
Dellavedova Leads Bucks Past Nets
Isaac Hamilton scored 19 points, T. J. Leaf had 17 with 13 rebounds, and No. 11 U.C.L.A. shot 53 percent to beat No. 1 Kentucky (7-1) by 97-92 on Saturday. The Bruins (9-0) won in their first visit to Rupp Arena and ended the Wildcats’ 42-game home winning streak. AROUND THE N.C.A.A. Esa Ahmad hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 1 minute 28 seconds remaining, and No. 25 West Virginia (6-1) ended No. 6 Virginia’s 24-game home winning streak with a 66-57 victory over the Cavaliers (7-1). • Manu Lecomte scored 24 points, and No. 9 Baylor (8-0) took over in the second half in a 76-61 home victory over No. 7 Xavier (7-1). • Przemek Karnowski scored 18 points, and No. 8 Gonzaga defeated No. 16 Arizona, 69-62, in Los Angeles.
Matthew Dellavedova scored 12 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, helping the Milwaukee Bucks hold off the visiting Nets, 112-103. Bojan Bogdanovic led the Nets with 24 points, while Sean Kilpatrick added 19.
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Devils Erase a Three-Goal Deficit
Chelsea’s Win Is Marred by Scuffle
Michael Cammalleri’s second goal of the game, with 18 seconds remaining in overtime, capped the Devils’ comeback from three goals down in the third period and gave the Devils a 5-4 win at Nashville.
Chelsea scored three goals in the final half-hour before a hard foul and a scuffle led to two injury-time red cards in a 3-1 Premier League victory at Manchester City. Elsewhere, Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen each scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur thrashed visiting Swansea, 5-0, and Alexis Sánchez scored three goals in 15 minutes as Arsenal cruised to a 5-1 victory at struggling West Ham.
All news by The Associated Press unless noted.
Gronkowski’s Season Is Over New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski was placed on injured reserve after having season-ending back surgery on Friday. Gronkowski left last week’s game with what was described as a herniated disk.
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New Panel Will Hear Doping Cases The International Association of Athletics Federations, track’s governing body, voted to establish a single panel to handle doping cases, removing the responsibility of dealing with the cases from individual member countries.
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Sacramento at Knicks, 7:30 Orlando at Detroit, 6 New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 7 Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 9:30
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Washington at Nets, 7:30 Denver at Philadelphia, 7 Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 7:30 Boston at Houston, 8 Memphis at New Orleans, 8 Portland at Chicago, 8 San Antonio at Milwaukee, 8 Charlotte at Dallas, 8:30 Indiana at Golden State, 10:30
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Giants at Pittsburgh, 4:25 Kansas City at Atlanta, 1 Los Angeles at New England, 1 Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 1 Miami at Baltimore, 1 Denver at Jacksonville, 1 Detroit at New Orleans, 1 San Francisco at Chicago, 1 Houston at Green Bay, 1 Buffalo at Oakland, 4:05 Washington at Arizona, 4:25 Tampa Bay at San Diego, 4:25 Carolina at Seattle, 8:30 Open: Tennessee, Cleveland
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Oakland at Kansas City, 8:25
BUCKS 112, NETS 103
RANGERS 4, CAROLINA 2
N.F.L. CALENDAR
FG FT Reb NETS Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS Bennett 23 3-6 1-2 4-14 1 7 Lopez 29 3-17 4-6 1-4 6 13 Bogdanovic 32 8-17 6-8 1-2 3 24 Kilpatrick 29 3-13 12-13 0-1 3 19 Whitehead 23 3-6 0-0 0-3 0 6 Harris 29 7-12 0-0 0-5 2 17 H. Jefferson 23 2-5 0-3 1-9 3 5 Foye 20 2-5 0-0 0-2 2 5 Hamilton 18 0-6 0-0 1-3 1 0 Scola 10 3-4 1-1 2-3 0 7 Totals 240 34-91 24-33 10-46 21 103 Percentages: FG .374, FT .727. 3-Point Goals: 11-41, .268 (Harris 3-7, Lopez 3-9, Bogdanovic 2-4, Hollis-Jefferson 1-3, Foye 1-4, Kilpatrick 1-5, Scola 0-1, Whitehead 0-2, Bennett 0-3, Hamilton 0-3). Team Rebounds: 16. Team Turnovers: 14 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 5 (Lopez 3, HollisJefferson, Scola). Turnovers: 14 (Bogdanovic 3, Whitehead 3, Hamilton 2, Lopez 2, Bennett, Foye, Harris, Hollis-Jefferson). Steals: 6 (HollisJefferson 3, Hamilton, Harris, Lopez). Technical Fouls: None.
Carolina 0 1 1—2 N.Y. Rangers . . . . . . . . . .1 0 3—4 First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Stepan 5 (Zuccarello, Klein), 4:05. Second Period—2, Carolina, Stalberg 7 (Mcginn, Ryan), 8:34. Third Period—3, N.Y. Rangers, Grabner 13 (Skjei, Fast), 5:54. 4, Carolina, Rask 9 (Pesce, Slavin), 6:26. 5, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 5 (Stepan, Girardi), 12:25. 6, N.Y. Rangers, Kreider 6 (Stepan, Zuccarello), 17:11. Shots on Goal—Carolina 15-10-3—28. N.Y. Rangers 3-8-12—23. Power-play opportunities—Carolina 0 of 3; N.Y. Rangers 0 of 2. Goalies—Carolina, Leighton 1-1-0 (23 shots-19 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 12-7-1 (28-26). A—18,006 (18,200). T—2:25. Referees—Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman. Linesmen—Steve Barton, Scott Cherrey.
Jan. 1 — Regular season ends. Jan. 7-8 — Wild-card playoff games. Jan. 14-15 — Division playoff games. Jan. 21-22 — Conference championships. Jan. 29 — Pro Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Feb. 5 — Super Bowl, Houston. Feb. 28-March 6 — Combine Timing and Testing, Indianapolis. March 1 — Deadline for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players. March 9 — Free Agency period begins. March 26-29 — Annual League Meeting, Phoenix. April 21 — Deadline for Restricted Free Agents to sign Offer Sheets. April 26 — Deadline for prior club to exercise Right of First Refusal to Restricted Free Agents.
FG FT Reb MILWAUKEE Min M-A M-A O-T A PTS Antetokounmpo34 5-9 5-8 1-10 6 16 Henson 26 7-11 6-7 1-7 2 20 Parker 33 6-13 3-7 2-8 2 15 Snell 27 4-10 0-0 0-3 1 10 Dellavedova 26 6-10 6-6 1-2 6 18 Monroe 21 5-10 3-3 2-7 1 13 Brogdon 20 2-8 1-1 0-2 4 5 Beasley 17 2-5 1-2 0-3 1 5 Terry 16 1-3 0-0 0-1 0 3 Teletovic 14 2-6 1-2 0-3 2 7 Totals 240 40-85 26-36 7-46 25 112 Percentages: FG .471, FT .722. 3-Point Goals: 6-24, .250 (Teletovic 2-6, Snell 2-7, Terry 1-2, Antetokounmpo 1-3, Brogdon 0-2, Dellavedova 0-2, Parker 0-2). Team Rebounds: 13. Team Turnovers: 11 (0 PTS). Blocked Shots: 10 (Antetokounmpo 5, Henson 2, Beasley, Monroe, Snell). Turnovers: 11 (Antetokounmpo 3, Beasley 2, Monroe 2, Dellavedova, Henson, Snell, Teletovic). Steals: 9 (Monroe 4, Antetokounmpo 2, Parker 2, Henson). Technical Fouls: Defensive three second, 4:16 first; team, 4:16 first. 18 25
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A—15,565 (18,717). Officials—Leon Wood, Matt Boland, Kane Fitzgerald
Another Harvard Men’s Team Draws a Rebuke
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GOLF HERO WORLD CHALLENGE Albany Golf Club NASSAU, BAHAMAS Purse: $3.5 million Yardage: 7,267; Par: 72 Third Round Hideki Matsuyama . . . . . . . . 65-67-65—197 Henrik Stenson . . . . . . . . . . 67-71-66—204 Dustin Johnson . . . . . . . . . . 66-66-72—204 Brandt Snedeker . . . . . . . . . 72-64-69—205 Matt Kuchar. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67-67-71—205 Rickie Fowler . . . . . . . . . . . . 68-70-68—206 Jordan Spieth . . . . . . . . . . . 68-69-70—207 J.B. Holmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 64-73-70—207 Louis Oosthuizen . . . . . . . . . 67-67-73—207 Tiger Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . 73-65-70—208 Jimmy Walker . . . . . . . . . . . 70-74-66—210 Bubba Watson. . . . . . . . . . . 72-63-75—210 Zach Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . 72-69-70—211 Russell Knox . . . . . . . . . . . . 69-72-71—212 Patrick Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . 72-69-71—212 Brooks Koepka . . . . . . . . . . 72-68-72—212 Emiliano Grillo . . . . . . . . . . . 70-72-75—217
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ALFRED DUNHILL CHAMPIONSHIP Leopard Creek Country Club MALELANE, SOUTH AFRICA Purse: $1.275 million Yardage: 6,951; Par: 72 Third Round Brandon Stone, South Africa 67-66-66—199 Charl Schwartzel, South Africa 66-68-68—202 Chris Hanson, England . . . 69-65-68—202 Keith Horne, South Africa . . 69-66-67—202 Benjamin Hebert, France . . 70-66-68—204 David Drysdale, Scotland . . 70-71-64—205 Bryce Easton, South Africa . 70-69-67—206 Pablo Larrazabal, Spain . . . 67-70-69—206 Richard Sterne, South Africa 68-70-68—206 Alexander Bjork, Sweden . . 67-69-71—207 Branden Grace, South Africa 69-67-71—207 Thomas Aiken, South Africa 69-67-71—207 Scott Jamieson, Scotland . . 67-71-69—207 Carlos Pigem, Spain . . . . . 68-69-70—207
AUSTRALIAN P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP RACV Royal Pines Resort GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA Purse: $1.12 million Yardage: 7,364; Par: 72 Third Round (a-amateur) Andrew Dodt, Australia . . . 65-67-70—202 Harold Varner III, United States 65-72-67—204 Ashley Hall, Australia . . . . . 65-69-70—204 John Senden, Australia . . . 70-68-68—206 Adam Scott, Australia . . . . 68-68-70—206 Ryan Fox, New Zealand . . . 67-69-73—209
N.H.L. CALENDAR Jan. 1 — NHL Centennial Classic, BMO Field, Toronto. Jan. 2 — NHL Winter Classic, Busch Stadium, St. Louis.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL HOW A.P. TOP 25 FARED 1. Kentucky (7-1) lost to No. 11 UCLA 9792. Next: vs. Valparaiso, Wednesday. 2. Villanova (8-0) beat Saint Joseph’s 88-57. Next: vs. La Salle, Tuesday. 3. North Carolina (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. Radford, Sunday. 4. Kansas (7-1) beat Stanford 89-74. Next: vs. UMKC, Tuesday. 5. Duke (8-1) beat Maine 94-55. Next: vs. No. 24 Florida, Tuesday. 6. Virginia (7-1) lost to No. 25 West Virginia 66-57. Next: vs. East Carolina, Tuesday. 7. Xavier (7-1) lost to No. 9 Baylor 76-61. Next: at Colorado, Wednesday. 8. Gonzaga (8-0) beat No. 16 Arizona 69-62. Next: vs. Washington, Wednesday. 9. Baylor (8-0) beat No. 7 Xavier 76-61. Next: vs. Southern U., Wednesday, Dec. 14. 10. Creighton (8-0) beat Akron 82-70. Next: at Nebraska, Wednesday. 11. UCLA (9-0) beat No. 1 Kentucky 97-92. Next: vs. Michigan, Saturday. 12. Saint Mary’s (Cal) (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. UT Arlington, Thursday. 13. Indiana (6-1) did not play. Next: vs. Southeast Missouri State, Sunday. 14. Louisville (7-1) beat Grand Canyon 7970. Next: vs. Southern Illinois, Wednesday. 15. Purdue (6-2) beat Morehead State 9056. Next: vs. Arizona State, Tuesday. 16. Arizona (6-2) lost to No. 8 Gonzaga 6962. Next: vs. UC Irvine, Tuesday. 17. Wisconsin (7-2) beat Oklahoma 90-70. Next: vs. Idaho State, Wednesday. 18. Butler (8-0) beat Central Arkansas 8258. Next: at Indiana State, Wednesday. 19. Iowa State (5-2) did not play. Next: vs. Omaha, Monday. 20. South Carolina (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. FIU, Sunday. 21. Rhode Island (5-3) lost to Providence 63-60. Next: vs. Old Dominion, Tuesday. 22. Syracuse (5-2) beat North Florida 77-71. Next: vs. UConn, Monday. 23. Oregon (7-2) beat Savannah State 12859. Next: vs. Alabama, Sunday, Dec. 11. 24. Florida (7-1) did not play. Next: at No. 5 Duke, Tuesday. 25. West Virginia (6-1) beat No. 6 Virginia 6657. Next: vs. Western Carolina, Wednesday.
TRANSACTIONS M.L.B. SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed LHP Marc Rzepczynski to a two-year contract. Signed RHP Casey Fien. Designated LHP Dean Kiekhefer and RHP Zach Lee for assignment.
N.F.L. GIANTS — Signed LB Deontae Skinner from the practice squad. Waived OL Shane McDermott. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed TE Gerald Christian from the practice squad. Released K Jordan Gay. DETROIT LIONS — Signed WR TJ Jones from the practice squad. Activated DE Armonty Bryant from the exempt/ commissioner permission list. Signed RB Mike James to the practice squad. Waived CB Johnthan Banks and RB Justin Forsett. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated CB Makinton Dorleant from injured reserve. Placed CB Demetri Goodson on injured reserve. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed DL T.J. Barnes from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released OT Sean Hickey from the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed TE Rob Gronkowski on injured reserve. Signed RB D.J. Foster from the practice squad. OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed DL Branden Jackson. Placed CB DJ Hayden on the injured reserve.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOW A.P. TOP 25 FARED No. 1 Alabama (13-0) beat No. 15 Florida 54-16, SEC championship at Atlanta. Next: TBD. No. 2 Ohio State (11-1) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 3 Clemson (12-1) beat No. 19 Virginia Tech 42-35, ACC championship. Next: TBD. No. 4 Washington (12-1) beat No. 9 Colorado 41-10, Pac-12 championship, Friday. Next: TBD. No. 5 Michigan (10-2) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 6 Wisconsin (10-3) lost to No. 8 Penn State 38-31, Big Ten championship. Next: TBD. No. 7 Oklahoma (10-2) beat No. 11 Oklahoma State 38-20. Next: TBD. No. 8 Penn State (11-2) beat No. 6 Wisconsin 38-31, Big Ten championship. Next: TBD. No. 9 Colorado (10-3) lost to. No. 4 Washington 41-10, Pac-12 championship, Friday. Next: TBD. No. 10 Southern Cal (9-3) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 11 Oklahoma State (9-3) lost to at No. 7 Oklahoma 38-20. Next: TBD. No. 12 Florida State (9-3) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 13 Western Michigan (13-0) beat Ohio 29-23, MAC championship, Friday. Next: TBD. No. 14 West Virginia (10-2) beat Baylor 2421. Next: TBD. No. 15 Florida (8-4) lost to No. 1 Alabama 54-16, SEC championship at Atlanta. Next: TBD. No. 16 Louisville (9-3) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 17 Stanford (9-3) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 18 Auburn (8-4) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 19 Virginia Tech (9-4) lost to No. 3 Clemson 42-35, ACC championship. Next: TBD. No. 20 Navy (9-3) lost to Temple 3410, AAC championship. Next: vs. Army, Baltimore, Saturday, Dec. 10. No. 21 LSU (7-4) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 22 Iowa (8-4) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 23 Nebraska (9-3) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 24 Pittsburgh (8-4) did not play. Next: TBD. No. 24 South Florida (10-2) did not play. Next: TBD.
SOCCER M.L.S. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE Eastern Conference Championship Tuesday, Nov. 22: Montreal 3, Toronto FC 2 Wednesday: Toronto FC 5, Montreal 2, Toronto FC advances 7-5 on aggregate Western Conference Championship Tuesday, Nov. 22: Seattle 2, Colorado 1 Sunday: Seattle 1, Colorado 0, Seattle advances 3-1 on aggregate M.L.S. Cup Saturday, Dec. 10: Toronto FC vs. Seattle, 8 p.m.
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To the Big Ten Champion, Penn State, Goes but a Sliver of Playoff Hope By MARC TRACY
INDIANAPOLIS — The Big Ten championship game featured, according to most rankings, neither of the two best teams in the Big Ten, and the result was flashes of brilliance PENN STATE 38 amid sloppy WISCONSIN 31 play as Penn State deBig Ten feated Wischampionship consin, 38-31, on Saturday night. It was an impressive achievement that will, nonetheless, most likely leave the Nittany Lions short of the College Football Playoff. No. 8 Penn State (11-2) overwhelmed Wisconsin’s defense, which entered the game holding opponents to 13.7 points per game, with a pass attack spearheaded by quarterback Trace McSorley and receiver Saeed Blacknall, both juniors. McSorley finished 22 of 31 for 384 passing yards and four touchdowns, while Blacknall caught six of those passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns. No. 6 Wisconsin (10-3) ran the ball well, as is its tradition, with the hydra-headed rushing attack of Corey Clement, Bradrick Shaw and Dare Ogunbowale. But as the game wore on and Wisconsin’s stellar front seven found it more difficult to pressure McSorley, Wisconsin’s weaker defensive secondary was exposed. For Penn State and its fans, it was a triumphant Saturday night — and a hope against hope for a berth in the playoff. Because of conference standings, the Badgers, sixth in the playoff rankings, and the Nittany Lions, seventh in the playoff rankings, played for the conference ti-
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Running back Saquon Barkley caught a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter at Lucas Oil Stadium, giving Penn State a 35-31 lead. tle even though two conference rivals — Ohio State and Michigan — were ranked above them. With No. 4 Washington manhandling No. 9 Colorado in the Pa-
cific-12 title game Friday night, 4110; No. 1 Alabama rolling over No. 15 Florida, 54-16, for the Southeastern Conference title Saturday afternoon; and No. 3 Clemson han-
dling No. 19 Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, 42-35, on Saturday night, there was expected to be room for only one Big Ten team in
the final four-team playoff bracket. That team will very likely be Ohio State (11-1), which has just one loss — at Penn State, 24-21, in
October — and wins over No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 5 Michigan and Wisconsin. Wisconsin seemed in control early, steadily moving the ball in a first drive that consumed eight minutes and resulted in a touchdown. Wisconsin’s second drive was shorter, the score coming on the second play as Clement ran by Penn State’s secondary for a 67yard touchdown. In the second quarter, Wisconsin linebacker Ryan Connelly recovered a bad snap and ran it in 12 yards to give the Badgers a 21-7 lead. Penn State, rushing to the line and conveying offensive plays via hand signals, wanted the game to be fast and did well when it turned the tempo its way. With 58 seconds left in the first half, the Lions scored on a 40-yard pass to Blacknall after a defensive misplay. The third quarter brought an even worse error from Wisconsin’s secondary. With Penn State at its 30, McSorley backed up and heaved the ball nearly 60 yards to Blacknall, who broke free of cornerback Natrell Jamerson while safety D’Cota Dixon, coming from the opposite direction, overran Blacknall, allowing him to run 20 yards into the end zone. Penn State was amid a streak of four consecutive drives culminating in touchdowns. They made it 28-28 before Wisconsin — which earlier had missed a 48-yard field goal attempt — drove into the red zone and settled for a 21-yard field goal. That was followed by the fourth drive in Penn State’s streak, which ended with a touchdown pass to the star running back Saquon Barkley that gave Penn State the lead, 35-31. Tyler Davis added a 24-yard field goal to wrap up the scoring.
Clemson Survives a Scare From Virginia Tech to Lay Claim to the A.C.C. Title By The Associated Press
Deshaun Watson bolstered his Heisman Trophy hopes by passing for three touchdowns and running for two more on Saturday night to lead No. 3 Clemson to a 4235 victory over No. 19 Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game in Orlando, Fla. The victory, which gave Clemson consecutive league titles for the first time in 28 years, is likely to send the Tigers (12-1, 7-1) back to the four-team College Football Playoff for the second straight year, providing Watson with an opportunity to resolve unfinished business from last January, when his team lost to Alabama in the national championship game. Watson completed 23 of 34 passes for 288 yards, including touchdowns of 21 and 10 yards to Jordan Leggett and one of 15 yards to Hunter Renfrow for a 42-28 lead midway through the fourth quarter. Watson rushed for 85 yards on 17 attempts for the Tigers, who won back-to-back A.C.C. titles for the first time since taking three straight from 1986 to 1988. Virginia Tech quarterback Jerod Evans was just as impressive. The 6-foot-3, 238-pound Evans ran for two touchdowns and rallied the Hokies from a 21-point deficit to make it close at the end. The Hokies (9-4, 6-2) scored on three straight possessions, trimming a 35-14 deficit to 7 points on Evans’s 5-yard run early in the fourth quarter and Cam Phillips’s 26-yard touchdown reception with a little less than six minutes remaining. Virginia Tech got the ball back with a chance to force overtime. Evans drove the Hokies to the Clemson 23-yard line, where the drive stalled when Tigers cornerback Cordrea Tankersley intercepted a pass on fourth-and-6. ALABAMA 54, FLORIDA 16 This
was merely an annoyance for Alabama, a chance to add another prize to its overflowing trophy cases. The Crimson Tide did just enough things wrong to give Coach Nick Saban something to complain about during the next month, but in the end, it was another dominating victory for the nation’s No. 1 team. Florida Coach Jim McElwain was impressed after his No. 15 Gators absorbed a whipping in the Southeastern Conference championship game in Atlanta. He called it Saban’s best team yet in a dynasty that shows no signs of stumbling. “I don’t see a lot of weaknesses,” said McElwain, who was Saban’s offensive coordinator from 2008 to 2011. Alabama (13-0, 8-0) unleashed
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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson (4), above, after scoring in the third quarter against Virginia Tech. Florida running back Lamical Perine (22), right, was gangtackled by the Alabama defense in the second quarter. all its weapons against the overmatched Gators, scoring on an interception and a blocked punt in the first half, snuffing out Florida’s last gasp with a goal-line stand, and wearing down the Gators at the end with a dominant running game. The Tide now head to the College Football Playoff for the third year in a row, most likely returning to Atlanta for a semifinal game on Dec. 31. Alabama will be seeking its second straight national title and its fifth in eight seasons. Saban already has five national titles, counting his first at Louisiana State, and is one short of Bear Bryant’s record for the most by any coach.
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brook’s injury was similar to way the Sooners have bounced back throughout a season plagued by injuries. “I’m just incredibly pleased with our team, their resilience through the season and in this game,” said Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops. Samaje Perine ran for 239 yards on a career-high 37 carries, and Joe Mixon caught a touchdown pass and had a 79-yard touchdown run for the Sooners. TEMPLE 34, NAVY 10 Phillip Walker threw two touchdown passes, visiting Temple’s defense stuffed Navy’s running game, and the Owls (10-3, 7-1) claimed their first American Athletic Conference title by crushing the No. 20 Midshipmen (9-3, 7-1). After Temple scored touchdowns on its first three possessions, protecting its 21-0 lead became easier when Navy lost quarterback Will Worth to a second-quarter ankle injury. The Midshipmen’s coach, Ken Niumatalolo, said Worth is done for the season, along with running backs Toneo Gulley and Darryl Bonner, both of whom left with first-half injuries. Although the defeat took Navy out of the running for the Cotton Bowl, the Midshipmen are expected to play in the Armed Forces Bowl after their game against Army next Saturday. The Owls extended their winning streak to seven games and earned their first league title since finishing atop the Middle American Conference in 1967. “It showed we have a really good team that is capable of doing a lot of good things,” said Walker, who finished 16 of 25 for 199 yards. Temple lost to Houston in last year’s A.A.C. championship game. This time, the Owls dominated from the outset. Not only did Temple open with touchdown drives of 75, 59 and 70 yards, but its defense derailed a Navy attack that was averaging 61 points in its previous three games. The Midshipmen had scored on 34 of 38 drives — including 33 touchdowns — before being denied on their first three possessions by the Owls. Worth was injured at the end of the third drive and did not return. That spelled doom for an offense that produced more than 500 yards in each of its past three games. Navy finished with 306 yards, 168 on the ground. SAN DIEGO ST. 27, WYOMING 24
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The Crimson Tide raced to a 16-9 lead in the first quarter, despite being held to minus-7 yards and no first downs. Minkah Fitzpatrick returned an interception 44 yards for a touchdown, and Josh Jacobs went 27 yards for a score after a blocked punt. A field goal was set up by another interception, one of three thrown by Florida quarterback Austin Appleby in the first half. The Tide led, 33-16, at halftime, and iced the win with scoring drives of 98 and 91 yards, keyed by a goal-line stand that finished off
the Gators (8-4, 6-2). It was the most points surrendered by Florida since a 62-24 loss to Nebraska in the January 1996 Fiesta Bowl. A 24-point underdog, the Gators marched the length of the field on their opening possession, the first touchdown given up by the Tide in more than 17 quarters. They had another long scoring drive near the end of the first half. OKLAHOMA 38, OKLAHOMA ST. 20
Baker Mayfield passed for 288 yards and three touchdowns at home, and No. 7 Oklahoma (10-2, 9-0) defeated No. 11 Oklahoma
State (9-3, 7-2) in a matchup that decided the Big 12 champion and most likely guaranteed the Sooners a trip to the Sugar Bowl. Mayfield, a Heisman Trophy candidate, performed well, despite finishing the game without his top receiver, Dede Westbrook, who is a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award. Westbrook caught four passes for 111 yards before being knocked out of the game with concussion-like symptoms after a hard hit by Cowboys safety Jordan Sterns. Oklahoma’s response to West-
Rashaad Penny rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns, Donnel Pumphrey added 110 yards and a score, and San Diego State (10-3, 6-2) edged host Wyoming (8-5, 6-2) to win its second consecutive Mountain West Conference title. Penny also gained 113 yards on two kickoff returns and added 13 receiving yards for a total of 243 all-purpose yards for the Aztecs. W. KENTUCKY 58, LA. TECH 44 Anthony Wales rushed for 209 yards and four touchdowns, Mike White threw for 421 yards and three more scores, and Western Kentucky (10-3, 7-1) defeated Louisiana Tech (8-5, 6-2) in the Conference U.S.A. championship game in Bowling Green, Ky. Louisiana Tech won the regular-season matchup, 55-52, on Oct. 6.
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Her Father’s Daughter Ivanka Trump is slated to become the most influential first daughter in over a century, but with that may come damage to her brand.
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY and JACOB BERNSTEIN
When Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, called Donald J. Trump shortly after the Nov. 8 election, they talked about domestic policy and infrastructure. But when Ms. Pelosi raised the specific subject of women’s issues, the president-elect did something unexpected: He handed the phone over to another person in the room — his 35-year-old daughter, Ivanka. Around the same time, Sheryl Sandberg,
the chief operating officer of Facebook and the author of the best-selling women’s empowerment book “Lean In,” reached out to Ms. Trump, hoping to begin what aides from both sides described as “a dialogue.” Anne-Marie Slaughter, a policy adviser to Hillary Clinton at the State Department and the author of “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family,” had met Ms. Trump about a year ago at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. She also sent word to the incoming first daughter a week after the election, saying that she hoped to be in touch with her after her father took office.
“She is really serious about the ‘care agenda’ and can be a strong inside force,” Ms. Slaughter said in an interview. Perhaps most important, she said, “I don’t know anyone else.” A month and a half before Mr. Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated, Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, 35, are key advisers to the president-elect, with Ms. Trump poised to be perhaps the most influential first daughter since Alice Roosevelt Longworth. They have attended meetings with political advisers, job seekers, foreign
Ivanka Trump with her father, Donald J. Trump, then the Republican presidential nominee, in September at a campaign event in Aston, Pa.
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Tiny Tattoos Gain Big-Name Fans The artist JonBoy is a favorite of the fashion and music crowd. By STEVEN KURUTZ
By his calculation, Jonathan Valena, a tattoo artist who goes by the name JonBoy, has given more than 20,000 permanent souvenirs. The one that changed his life was inked on June 16, 2015. On that day, Mr. Valena placed a white dot on a woman’s middle finger. It took him about a second. “It was that little white dot that blew things up,” Mr. Valena, 36, said recently. “The phone started ringing off the hook. Talk about God’s grace.” Mr. Valena once thought he had to choose between his love for tattoos and his love of God. But in this case, his good fortune may have more to do with another all-powerful force in the universe: the Kardashian-Jenner family. The finger that Mr. Valena tattooed belonged to Kendall Jenner, a model
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and younger sister of Kim Kardashian. One Instagram post later, he found himself hailed as the latest cool tattooer, a Dr. Woo of the East Coast, a Sailor Jerry for the young Hollywood and fashion crowd. In the last year, he’s put a tiny cross near Justin Bieber’s left eye, the letters PR and AY on the hands of the model Hailey Baldwin and “Janette Duke” on the under-rib flesh of Chloë Grace Moretz, an actress who wanted to honor her grandmother. His trademark style is single-needle, fine-line tattooing, what his fans simply call tiny tattoos: hearts and flowers and city skylines etched in black ink and shrunken to emoji size; the names of loved ones and inspirational mantras rendered in his squiggly, miniature cursive. Many tattoo artists don’t like doing little tattoos because they are difficult to apply and can rub away. But Mr. Valena, sensing an attractive market, has made them his specialty. He is a favorite of models and actresses, who appreciate the delicacy and CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
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IF YOU FREQUENT the internet, you most likely saw the photos of Beyoncé with her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, a few months back, styled in matching palette ball gowns at the MTV Video Music Awards. In one particular shot, captured in an elevator and posted to the star’s Instagram (with 2.5 million likes), Beyoncé stares fiercely into the camera, her hand placed protectively on her young daughter’s arm, as her princess dress overtakes the floor. As you may have expected, the Bey-hive (that’s Beyoncé’s fan base) went nuts: “SLAYYYYYYY,” they commented. The photo was “everything,” they squealed. It was so fierce they were all “dying” — like, literally, physically rolling in their graves. And then there was this response, from a variety of fans: “MOMMMMMM.” “Will you be my mom?” “Beyoncé is everyone’s mom.” And, on Twitter: “Beyoncé just ENDED your moms, moms mom, moms mom’s cousin, your moms mom’s cousin’s friend, and your moms mom’s cousin’s friends dog.” There was a time when the term “mom” (when said in public, anyway) elicited a certain kind of eye roll. When it wasn’t used to poke fun at a person’s awkward-fitting “mom jeans,” or to ask friends, “Do I look like a mom in this outfit?,” it was the universal code for “Mommmmm, you’re embarrassing me!,” a phrase recognizable to teenagers (and moms) around the world. Yet these days, “mom” is the highest form of flattery. And you don’t even have to be an actual mother to receive it (nor does the mom you’re talking about need to be yours). So Beyoncé? She’s a mother, yes. But she’s also mom adjective — internetspeak for the absolute coolest. Who else is mom? Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, after being criticized for sounding off on Donald J. Trump, was defended by the website Jezebel, which declared: “You Leave Our Mom Ruth Bader Ginsburg Alone, You Monster.” Ruby Rose of “Orange Is the New Black” is a mom, referred to so frequently by the term that she tweeted: “The Internet is a confusing place, apparently I’ve birthed hundreds of people I didn’t know about! #mom.” And naturally, Taylor Swift is also mom — so much so that she received an appeal from the real mother of a superfan named Maddie to hand back the title. “I am her mom! I earned it! I did all the work!” the mother proclaimed in a video posted to her daughter’s Tumblr. (To which Ms. Swift responded: “Maddie. This is a passionate plea and I see her reasoning. Your mom birthed you,” adding, “So no, I have not earned the right to be referred to as your ‘Mom.’ I’m more like your crazy aunt.”) But “mom” needn’t be reserved for celebrities. Your best friend can also be your JESSICA BENNETT is the author of “Feminist
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mom. So can your high school English teacher — if you really, really like them. And, actually, your mom can be a mom, too — when she’s not embarrassing you by being your actual mother. “In my eyes, it just means when you admire someone so much that calling them one of your parents is the ultimate compliment — but, like, in a noncreepy way,” explained 20-year-old Freddy Cabrales, a kind of unofficial cultural denizen of Twitter, who tweets at @FreddyAmazin. Blaine Edens, 25, who has a group text with three best friends that is titled “MOMS,” wrote: “My moms are my #1s. Like you need to be top-tier bestie to be a mom. I really just use mom as a compliment.” She added: “Or to people I really care about. Like if someone is being great we call them ‘the ultimate mom.’” Annika Wahlsten, 15 and the daughter of one of my mom friends, texted: “It’s kind of like the way we say ‘goals.’” (She was referring to the word used to indicate a thing that is aspirational, or a “goal.”) “My friend at camp said it about me recently, because she liked my dress. She saw me and was like ‘omg mom.’”
Beyoncé is ‘mom.’ Taylor Swift is ‘mom,’ even if she doesn’t want to be. Is your mom ‘mom’? Depends. Like most things internet, the origin of “mom” — or at least, how most of us learned about it — can be traced to Kim Kardashian West. In 2014, when Ms. Kardashian West posed for a Paper magazine cover with her oiled backside glistening in full force, Lorde, the 20-year-old pop star, tweeted the image with only one word: “mom.” At first, fans wondered whether she was critiquing Ms. Kardashian West. (Was she criticizing the new mom’s decision to pose naked?) Luckily, a fan wrote to Lorde’s Tumblr asking her to explain, for those of us who don’t speak internet, and Lorde set the record straight. “I retweeted kim’s amazing cover and wrote ‘MOM,’ which among the youthz is a compliment,” she wrote. “It basically jokingly means ‘adopt me/be my second mom/i think of you as a mother figure you are so epic.’” Aha! So Kim’s butt was epic: That’s what Lorde was saying. Of course, as 21-year-old Sharon Attia pointed out, there is an important distinction between saying, “She’s such a mom” and “She’s MOM.” Both may be intended as a compliment, but “you can be MOM without being A mom,” Ms. Attia said. As Rowan Blanchard, the 15-year-old star of the Disney Channel series “Girl Meets World” recently tweeted: “My fave way to use the Internet lingo version of ‘mom’ and it’s variations (yas mom! Thank you for blessing me mom! Etc) is at my own
mother.” Linguists aren’t entirely sure of the origins of “mom,” except to say that it thrives in youth slang online. But Jane Solomon, a lexicographer at Dictionary.com, suspects that — like popular phrases including “throw shade” and “yas queen” — “mom” may be traceable to 1980s drag culture. “Many of those who competed at drag balls were (and still are) part of communities of people who often lived together called houses,” Ms. Solomon said. “The leaders of the houses were called mothers and fathers. ‘Mom,’ to them, was a compliment.” As part of a team that creates dictionary definitions, Ms. Solomon recently worked to update the Dictionary.com definition of “mom” to reflect this new use; likewise, the annual “new words” issue of the journal American Speech this year added a definition to “mom” — as well as “dad” — as “a playful term of address.” Famous “dads” — who may or may not be actual dads — include Barack Obama (a dad but also “dad”), Justin Bieber (the internet’s assessment, not ours) and, apparently, Senator Tim Kaine, whom the linguist Gretchen McCulloch noted was frequently referred to as “America’s stepdad” during the Democratic National Convention last summer (“Why ‘stepdad’ is an interesting question,” she said). “Dad” may not have experienced quite the popularity of “mom,” but it does have a possible twist to its origin story — one that takes us back to the internet stone age: a 1996 episode of “Friends” (or at least that’s what some fans have posited). In the episode, Joey and Chandler develop a man crush on Monica’s new boyfriend, played by Tom Selleck, who is (in their words) the cool dad they never had. No single man dating a younger woman wants to be referred to as the “cool dad,” so Joey and Chandler concoct a cover-up so as not to offend Mr. Selleck. “Dad,” they tell him, is part of their “young person’s vernacular” — another way to mean “buddy.” Moms are just happy for some credit. “Finally, some mom love!” said Rachel Simmons, mother to a 4-year-old in Northampton, Mass. “The other day, I asked the babysitter how I looked, and she said I looked like a ‘hot mom.’ Can’t I just be hot?” And sometimes it doesn’t even matter whether the credit was intended. “My roommate and I say ‘mom’ to each other all the time,” Ms. Attia said. “Every time someone leaves the apartment, ‘Bye, Mom!’ If someone did the other a favor, ‘You’re the best, Mom!’ So recently I said ‘Thanks, Mom!’ to my roommate when she handed me something in front of my real mom. And my real mom said, ‘You’re welcome.’” CORRECTION
A picture caption with an article on Nov. 27 about interracial marriages omitted the photographer’s credit. The picture was taken by Allison Shelley.
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Spanish Shirts Do one thing — and do it right. That’s the mind-set shared by the Parsons graduates Paloma Canut and Ana Marroquín, who bonded over a love of shirts and a frustration at not being able to find a good one at a reasonable price. So, when they decided to start their own line, Sunad, they knew exactly where to start. The Madrid-based brand makes only shirts using natural fabrics. All pieces are handmade, and buttons are sourced from Mallorca. The designers say they often look to the ’70s for inspiration. “We always reference the Yves Saint Laurent woman from that decade,” Ms. Canut said. “We thought it was very hard to find something today that would suit that woman and didn’t cost a fortune.” Shirts from $115 to $150, at sunad.es. HAYLEY PHELAN
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The Real Zef Rappers of Beverly Hills Accents notwithstanding, the rave-rap musicians Ninja (right) and Yolandi Visser (left) — who formed Die Antwoord in Cape Town in 2008, and now live in Los Angeles and Johannesburg — could at times be mistaken for native Angelenos. With matching mullets and meth-chic attire, the seemingly out-of-place pair are also oddly at home whether dissecting the vegetarian options on the menu at the Chateau Marmont or recalling coffee at the home of David Lynch, who, for a while, was their neighbor in the hills above the Hollywood Bowl. Die Antwoord exploded on the music scene in 2010, when videos for two songs
from their debut album, “$O$,” became viral sensations. Since then, they’ve seized every opportunity to challenge the mainstream. They responded to the chance to open for Lady Gaga with a video sendup of the singer (an impersonator gives birth to a cockroach, then gets mauled by a lion). They answered an invitation to Kanye West’s house by trash-talking him in a video they made in a bathroom. Surprisingly, it was collaboration that brought them to Los Angeles last year. On a visit to the city, a photographer friend took them to a quinceañera (a 15th-birthday party) and introduced them to DJ Muggs,
a.k.a. Lawrence Muggerud, a founder of the influential SoCal hip-hop group Cypress Hill. “We didn’t move to L.A. to move to L.A.,” Ninja says. “We moved to make music with Muggs.” It was the first time Die Antwoord had ever used an outside producer, and the resulting album, “Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid,” is a dizzying tour de force. Die Antwoord’s founding D.J., known as God, began sharing D.J. duties with Muggs, and they pushed each other. “There’s a Zulu saying that goes, ‘Spear sharpens spear,’” Ninja said. “The competition was ill.” ALEX BHATTACHARJI
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Minimalist Appeal This season, timeless metallic objects meld old materials with modern design. From left: the brass YStudio pen ($100, mrporter.com) was made to show its age (the material will oxidize over time); in 3-D printed steel, a Philippe Malouin for OTHR bowl ($620, othr.com) riffs on the old cast-iron look; a Workstead sconce ($875, workstead.com) features a hand-sanded globe; and a brass Apparatus case ($1,800, apparatusstudio.com) conceals trinkets, right out in the open.
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High on the wall of a brick building in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a jaunty terra cotta troubadour forever plays his accordion and opens his mouth in wordless song. Peering from the window of Bergdorf Goodman, an emerald green gorilla made from feathers and sequins surveys a mystifyingly fortified Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower, as though across an unbridgeable abyss. A fellow rider on the E train clasps a service dog that, as she also does, has a symbolic safety pin stuck to its coat. Jangled by the election and left off kilter in the last month, a walker in the city still found some assurance in the beautiful, if faded, hard structures and in the perennial urban pleasure of watching New Yorkers interact. Who is he searching for, the man who daily takes up a position on Eighth Avenue in his sculptural greatcoat? What do they see, the man on the subway gazing adoringly at the woman in the faux leopard topcoat, the woman peering into the dark tunnel? It really doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. Every instant, some new narrative is composing itself and as quickly dissolving, with only the shutter of an iPhone to record that it ever occurred. GUY TREBAY
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After a Breakup, an App to Help Me Breathe Jilted by my longtime boyfriend, I had to try trusting intuition over rationale.
was capable of them. The tears were new, and they felt animal. Salt burned a rash around my eyelids in a way that I suspected wasn’t entirely about the end of a relationship. The breakup had done something else: It had caused a crack, and the breathing only seemed to be making it wider. Earlier, stuffed-down secrets and disasters found the fissure and out they came, noisily, messily. They had been quiet for years, but now they wanted water and air. In Allan’s company, I seemed to spend increasing amounts of time feeling like an idiot. “I’m not trying to be difficult —— ” He suddenly sounded kind. “I don’t think you are,” he said. “But deep down, people often know when something is coming. When something has to change.” The last time I spoke to Allan was on the phone; I had work I couldn’t get out of. He was as unrepentantly to the point as ever. “It’s fine,” he said as I apologized. “You’ll be fine. But I wanted to say, if your exboyfriend comes back, think seriously. Good luck. And don’t forget to fill in the feedback form.” Later that day, from across my office desk, my phone pinged. It was a message from my ex: “Do you want to meet up? I’d like to speak to you.” How had Allan foreseen that? The old love drew me back in, even when reduced to digital form. “When?” I replied. “Where do you want to meet up?”
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“When was the last time you breathed properly?” the therapist asked me. His name was Allan. Thirty minutes into my first visit, I was still waiting for him to reach the part where he would help me get over the end of my relationship. “I’m not sure what you mean,” I said. “Easy, open breathing. Big lungfuls of air.” “I don’t know,” I said. “I breathe all the time.” I tried steering the conversation myself. “I just think I need to work out what happened —— ” “I’m not interested in what happened,” he said. “I’m interested in the last time you breathed normally. You’re a young, healthy woman. But your paperwork tells me you’re struggling at work, haven’t eaten a full meal in weeks and can’t sleep. You need to fix that.” I thought therapy would help convince me that the loss of the person I had been devoted to for years was a good thing. Instead, something in Allan’s blunt insistence on the symptoms and not the cause had put me on my heels. He peered over his notepad. “You’re all hunched up,” he said. “You look miserable. Your homework for next week is to do the exercises I’ll email you. You’ve got six sessions, and I want you breathing and sleeping properly by the end of it.” Cycling home afterward, I had already dismissed Allan’s words and returned to my regular programming: raking through the seven years since I had met my ex, mining memories for details of where it went wrong. We had started with two years of silent longing (me) and dating other people (him) before finally feeling our way into a life and home together in London. Until one painful, protracted summer, he left. I had always prided myself on being strong, on being able to bounce back, but here I was, months later, wrestling with questions without answers at night and awakening to a frightening bleakness. Lying awake that evening, I wondered if I was making a mistake in outsourcing my problems. Allan’s focus on breathing sounded suspiciously like mindfulness to me. I had another long night ahead, though, so I groped around the bedsheets for my phone, and that’s when I saw his promised email. “Download the app in the link below,” it read. “When you use it, imagine a place you feel happy and safe. Hold that image in your mind. Then focus on your breathing. Use the app each night before you go to sleep. Exercise.” My mind cast around for the prescribed happy place, settling on a pebble beach on the south coast of England where I had spent childhood summers. I tried to remember its hard, smooth stones, the sounds of my brother yelling from the sea. The app, Positivity with Andrew Johnson, started. In a Scottish burr, a man counted down from 10. With a twinge of curiosity, I tried breathing in. Allan had a point: My chest was tight with tension. I attempted to push the air down, and my tummy distended like a child’s. As I tried to synchronize my breathing, the vision of the beach kept escaping OLIVIA GAGAN is a journalist in London. EMAIL modernlove@nytimes.com
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and then reappearing, interrupted by jags of thought. Still, I kept trying every night. Learning how to breathe was at least something different, a quick break from analyzing my own well-worn love story with exhausting precision. When I visited Allan a few weeks later, our conversation turned to intuition. “What does your gut tell you about what you should be doing?” he asked. “My gut?” I felt embarrassed. “I don’t feel anything in there.” I looked down hopefully at my stomach. Privately, I had always wondered what people meant by intuition. “You mentioned that you were nervous, that you often experienced anxiety from the start of the year,” he said. “Why do you think that was?” I have always relied on the flush of adrenaline to get stuff done. Yet a deeper, more frantic energy than usual had seeped in during the months before my boyfriend left. This tension pushed the vacuum cleaner faster round the living room and infused the meals I had started to make from cookbooks. Our apartment had never looked so tidy. On rainy Sundays, I urged him to make plans for a trip to Paris, which he wasn’t keen on.
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“I find it hard to believe that my body knew something was up before my brain did,” I said, petulance creeping into my voice. “Intuition is a sense developed from your past experiences, books you’ve read, sounds on the street, conversations, facial expressions,” Allan said. “All valuable information. It can help you to distinguish between what is real and what is fake, to notice something dangerous. Perhaps you trust your thoughts more, though.” “Thoughts are all I have, surely,” I said. “That’s where all that information ends up getting used.” “There’s plenty of research that would disagree with you. Why not try listening to your body instead of your head? That’s where all your feelings have been coming from.” Feelings. We hadn’t talked about feelings at all. But as the weeks passed, I found that painful emotions, long ossified and remote, began overtaking me in humiliating ways. Tears streamed down my face in supermarkets; my shoulders heaved silently on family car trips. My feelings were like the drunk who shows up too late to the party, misjudging the mood. Yet it was a strange relief to find I
A FEW DAYS LATER, after an evening of stilted small talk in a pub, we stood together on a London street streaming with people. It was a sharp, clear November night. I felt blindsided. Ten minutes earlier he had stared cryptically into my face and said: “I think we should try again. I miss you.” Words I had been willing him to say. “I understand this is a surprise,” he said. “I’ll wait for you to decide.” “I don’t know what to say,” I mumbled. But then there was the beach. I had found that the more time I spent imagining that beach, the better I felt, the more I noticed things. That afternoon, for example, I had enjoyed how the cold air smelled of bonfires. Even now, flooded with fear, I had briefly thought how cheerful the city’s scarlet buses looked as they slid past in the dark. I could see him waiting for a response, but I stood dumb. The traffic roared and I could feel my feet vibrating with the pavement. Cold wind brushed past, goading me. It was all in league with a new, internal voice, one that spoke quietly and unexpectedly. “Leave him,” it said. “Take what you have and run.” So with hardly a word, I turned and ran for the bus. That was a couple of years ago. Allan gave me no cure for heartbreak, but he did teach me some things. To look after my body, to pay it respect. To question my mind, which doesn’t understand half as much as it thinks it does. To understand that the time spent in the gap between the endless stories we tell ourselves is the present. These days, I care more about being peaceful and happy than about being in love. I’m not sure love is love if it consumes you, if it dominates your thoughts. Perhaps that’s something else: obsession, limerence. While it’s a trip to get lost in a relationship, finding yourself again can prove timeconsuming and costly. But breathing freely, feeling alert to the world and being in touch with your emotions? Just $2.99 at the app store. And a lot of work. Next I’d like to try having love and happiness at the same time, though. I’ve heard it’s possible.
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Yarn Bombing Goes Mainstream A street artist makes crochet as feminist expression and lucrative career. By JENNIFER MILLER
Not long ago, a street artist named London Kaye became embroiled in an unexpected controversy. A flea market in Bushwick, Brooklyn, asked her to create a large-scale installation. So Ms. Kaye crocheted a portrait, measuring 15 feet by 10 feet, of Sam Shakusky from Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” holding hands with the creepy twins from “The Shining.” “It was about young love,” she said. Not everyone was charmed. Though Ms. Kaye did not know, the flea market hadn’t secured permission to hang her work on an adjacent building. Anti-gentrification activists took their frustrations against her to social media. Gothamist reported that one aggrieved person equated Ms. Kaye and her work to “colonizers who claim indigenous lands for themselves.” “I was the perfect scapegoat,” said Ms. Kaye, who is 28. “It was three white kids holding hands — it was huge.” She took the installation down. There may be a double standard here. Few would call Banksy’s work gentrifying, but Ms. Kaye’s genre of street art, known as “yarn bombing,” has been widely derided as a hipster fad or dismissed as cutesy, mere “women’s work.” But Ms. Kaye is proving it to be much more. In her hands, crochet is both an outlet of creative feminist expression and a lucrative career. Her boundary-unraveling work is appearing throughout the culture, from high fashion to the heart of the mass market. There’s no question that the needle arts are having a moment. “It used to be that a lot of people didn’t like crochet or relegated it to your mother’s afghan, but there’s been a big renaissance,” said Trisha Malcolm, editor in chief of Vogue Knitting. She pointed to designers like ICB, Ryan Roche, Rosetta Getty and Tommy Hilfiger, who are “updating traditional techniques,” moving around sweater cables, creating big holes and crocheting bikinis. This year also saw the release of the critically acclaimed documentary “Yarn,” about international yarn bombers, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York is exhibiting an elaborate crochet coral reef. Vogue Knitting has just begun a redesign and expects to turn out 8,000 people at its Vogue Knitting Live symposium in Times Square in January. Ms. Kaye is crocheting 10 historic Vogue covers for the event.
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Above, London Kaye at her studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Left, Ms. Kaye installs a crocheted piece across from the Apollo Theater in Harlem for the Conan O’Brien show.
“You’ve still got the core crocheter who buys acrylics in Walmart,” Ms. Malcolm said. “But it’s a big trend in the younger kids. London is almost like a spokesperson for that group. She’s the super-creative crocheter who will cover anything.” Among Ms. Kaye’s projects this year
“I hope I can inspire people to do something daring. Ladies, get out there!”
were the facade of a school bus for a Gap holiday commercial and a 5½-by-15-foot installation of Conan O’Brien with four Rockettes to promote his recent show at the Apollo. She also designed 18 window displays for Valentino and a five-piece capsule collection for the brand, featuring a crochet appliqué of herself: big blue eyes, bright yellow hair and languid, spaghetti-like limbs. (Ms. Kaye attended New York University on a dance scholarship and jokes that all her crochet girls have perfect technique.) The aesthetic is a bit South Park-y, but skews sunny, not snarky. “I love dressing my crochet girl up, making her fun and fabulous and putting her in weird situations,” Ms. Kaye said. One piece, hung on a fence under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, featured the girl swooning over an alien; the girl’s face also appears on the Valentino sweater, and Ms. Kaye revels in the strangeness of wearing the design. “It
was like I had two heads,” she said. Ms. Kaye quit her day job, at an Apple Genius Bar in downtown Manhattan, a year ago, but still seems awed by the demand for her work. She’s been knitting since middle school in Agoura Hills, Calif., and keeps a book of yarn samples in her studio from that time. That — and a collection of bags she crocheted in college and failed to sell at a SoHo street fair — are reminders of how far she’s come. She learned about yarn bombing four years ago, when she happened to sell a computer to Agata Oleksiak, one of the world’s most pre-eminent yarn artists. “She had a crazy crochet bag,” Kaye said. “I started Googling her.” After reading about Ms. Oleksiak, Ms. Kaye grabbed a scarf she had made and wrapped it around a tree outside her apartment. She assumed someone would rip it down, but nobody did. Ms. Kaye then gave herself a challenge: Yarn bomb something new for 30 consecutive days. She made it to 50. Though Ms. Kaye said she has been stopped by the police four times, her work quickly attracted positive attention. In 2014, a Starbucks store designer happened upon 10 “Nutcracker” dancers she had hung on a fence. Soon, the company hired her to yarn bomb around a new Brooklyn store location. Valentino contacted her after seeing a video of subway poles she had adorned. Then Miller Lite asked her to crochet a billboard in Times Square. In the last three years, Ms. Kaye has created a textile collection for ABC Carpet & Home and commercials for Isaac Mizrahi Craft, Delivery.com, TBS and Progressive car insurance. (Flo, it turns out, makes a terrific crochet girl.) Akin McKenzie, the production designer for the Gap spot that is currently running, said Ms. Kaye manages to both embrace and subvert the stereotype of the grandmother knitting on the couch. “When you merge that image with a new imagining of it, you get something special that doesn’t have a defined demographic,” he said. Of course, not everyone applauds the appropriation by corporate marketing departments of a once-subversive practice. “Some street artists think working with brands is selling out,” Ms. Kaye said. “But I don’t think ‘starving artist’ should be a thing.” Indeed, making money from her work arguably augments its feminist impact. “In a male-dominated art form,” she said, referring to street art, “I like being able to have my two cents. I hope I can inspire people to do something daring. Ladies, get out there!”
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Feminism Sits in the Front Row Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an award-winning author, talks beauty and femininity. By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA
Perhaps the most unexpected fashion icon of the year has just added another glossy credit to her name. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian-born novelist and feminist known for novels like “Americanah” and “Purple Hibiscus”; recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, the O. Henry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award (among others); and author of a viral TED Talk, “We Should All Be Feminists,” which has been viewed over 3.2 million times since its delivery in 2012 as well as sampled by Beyoncé, is now the face of No7, the makeup brand owned by the pharmacy chain Boots. This follows her front-row appearance at Dior’s spring runway show, where she was
both guest of honor and inspiration — printed across one of the T-shirts was the title of her TED talk — as well as her inclusion on Vanity Fair’s International BestDressed List. Though her feminism may seem at odds with this embrace of the fashion world, Ms. Adichie has argued, most recently in a letter she posted to her Facebook page about raising a daughter, that diminishing things that are considered feminine, such as makeup and fashion, is part of a culture of sexism. As to why, consider the following. (The conversation has been edited and condensed.)
The author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the face of the makeup brand No7.
Why do you think things that are associated with femininity, like fashion and beauty, are not taken seriously? I think it’s part of a larger picture of a world that simply doesn’t give women the same status that it gives men. There are many examples, and some have more serious consequences. All over the world, there is violence against women, and many cultures have ways of justifying it or minimizing it. But I think you can actually draw a line from that to other feminine pursuits that culture diminishes.
How have your feelings on makeup evolved? In general, the cultures that I know — Nigeria, the U.S., the U.K, Western Europe — all largely judge women quite harshly for appearances. But in Nigeria, there’s a slight difference. There isn’t much of a judgment if you’re an accomplished woman and seem to care about your appearance. But I do remember that when I moved to
Why did you finally decide to wear makeup, no matter what people thought? It’s getting older. You realize there’s very litVIA NO7
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A Little Me Time I am a 40-year-old woman who is sort of shocked as I consider the selfish behavior of my boyfriend and my allegedly close friends. I work hard at my job, but also on my personal relationships. But lately I can’t help noticing how one-sided they all are. My friends and boyfriend sit back and talk about themselves nonstop without ever asking me a question about my life. It’s even fallen on me to initiate plans and make all the arrangements. How should I complain to these people (or back away from them)? LISA, NEW YORK
I have never worked the land, but growing up in Vermont gives me a free pass, I believe, to use farming metaphors: The best way to figure out what crop we’re growing is to check our wheelbarrow at harvest time. A bushel of turnips doesn’t just materialize. We cultivate them, like your relationships. I don’t believe that all your friends (and boyfriend) suddenly became selfish monsters. I bet they didn’t start that way, either. Consider the main thing they have in common: you! Selfish people abound. But it seems more plausible that, like many of us, you aren’t comfortable with floodlights of attention.
cussing things you wish he were talking over with you? These are issues you can resolve through discussion with him. But on its own, chatting with his mom every day does not constitute an offense. (I wish I could still speak with mine.) Sound Him Out I live alone in a small apartment building. Last night at 11, there was a loud knock on my door. My upstairs neighbor, whom I had not met, was upset that my TV was too noisy. It was unintentional. But he was angrier than I would have expected, and confrontational: He didn’t introduce himself and huffed off. Obviously, I’ll keep the volume down. But I am uncomfortable with our interaction. I want to be a good neighbor and don’t understand why he was so upset about something so minor. Should I write a note, mention this to my super, or leave it alone? ANNE
So you deflect. “How are things going at work?” your pals asked. To which you replied, “Fine” (whether they were or not) then quickly turned the attention back to them: “How about you?” Over time, this redirecting can become habit. And from there, it’s a short hop to making all the dinner reservations. Rather than ditching all your friends or reading them the riot act, claim some limelight for yourself, even if it’s a little uncomfortable. (And it may be more than a little uncomfortable, at first, if you’ve shied away from it before). Push yourself to tell your friends about challenges at work or troubles with your sister, whether they ask or not. You don’t need an engraved invitation to take the mike. Simply start talking. If things aren’t better after six weeks on the takecharge diet, get back in touch, O.K.? No Problem Here My husband and I were recently married. We didn’t live together beforehand. So I am slightly stunned to learn that he has a 10-minute phone conversation with his mother every day. Do you find this as strange as I do? HEATHER
In the scheme of post-marital surprises, this one barely registers as a blip on the radar. (For a true shocker, check out the second episode of “Lilies,” the BBC drama streaming on Netflix, with its genital homage to “The Sun Also Rises.”) So far, you haven’t sketched out a problem. Are these calls interfering with your time with your husband? Is he dis-
If your proposed note would include quibbling with your neighbor over the reasonableness of his anger, I would skip it. The same goes for mentioning the episode to your super, unless you felt physically threatened by the interaction. (It’s hard to tell from your email, and I want you safe.) Being a good neighbor sometimes entails smoothing ruffled feathers. So, while leaving this alone (and keeping the volume down) works fine, I love your idea of a note: “Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.” It paves the way for more pleasant meetings in the lobby. Walk the Walk I am a dog walker. I often use my dog-walking time to catch up with friends on the phone. The problem occurs when other friends see me and want to chat, not noticing that I am on the phone (and using an earpiece). They start conversations and I become confused. Do I drop the person on the phone or the passer-by? MARIANE
As a dog owner, I vote for your paying more attention to the dogs, which you are being paid to exercise. It is safer for them, you and other pedestrians. But should you run into a pal (in person) while speaking (on the phone), simply smile and point to your earbuds as you say: “I’m on the phone. Let’s catch up later.” And remember, not even a gold-plated cellular plan lets you evade poopscooping.
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the U.S. — and I think maybe there are different standards for people who are supposed to be particularly intellectual or particularly creative — I very quickly realized that if you want to seem as a serious writer, you can’t possibly look like a person who looks in the mirror.
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tle time for rubbish. You realize life is short, and it’s so much better to be who you are. When I was younger, I didn’t have the sense of self to do that. But it’s interesting because even when I didn’t wear makeup in the U.S., I wore makeup in Nigeria because I wanted to look my age and not too young. In Nigeria, in particular, it was easy for men to dismiss what I said because they thought I looked like a small girl. I remember seeing a man at the airport after my first novel was published, and he looked at me, quite quizzical, and said, “You look like the writer.” And I said, “Well, I’m kind of her.” His face fell. And he said, “I didn’t think the writer would be such a small girl.” There was such disappointment on his face. At some point, I wanted to be who I am. And who I am is a person who enjoys, from time to time, putting a bright color on my lips. What are your thoughts on the #nomakeup movement, exemplified by both Alicia Keys
A lot of this is especially important to teenagers and women in their 20s. If you were speaking to this group directly, what would you say? There’s no such thing as perfection. Originality is a beautiful thing. I think it’s much harder now than when I was younger because we didn’t really have the internet. I would say don’t watch too many of those beauty YouTube or makeup videos. They use way too much product. There’s a lot the industry can do. It’s important to have a much wider range of what’s considered beautiful.
Will you continue to be a presence in the fashion world? If you were raised by Grace Adichie, my mother, you had better be interested in fashion. From the time I was a little girl, my mother would dress me up. She would put some of her jewelry on me. I’m a bit of a shoe fiend. I make no apologies for it. The first makeup I used was my mother’s lip gloss. I remember putting on a lot of it, so it was quite shiny. She didn’t mind at all. She said, “You look like you ate hot jollof rice and didn’t wipe it off.” There’s a part of me that likes shoes, and likes dresses, and likes makeup, and likes books, and likes to write. I think that’s the case for many women. But our culture makes us think we have to choose slices of ourselves that we’re comfortable showing the world.
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just my kind of woman. It seemed strange to me that this great, storied fashion house caters to women, and a woman hadn’t been a creative director before.
to think of it.
and, more recently, Hillary Clinton? Women have choices to make. When you’re not feeling good, you don’t have the energy to do your face the way you usually do. I really respect Alicia Keys’s choice not to wear makeup because she felt it was a mask. And she feels now that she’s more truly herself. I think, “Amen to that.” If makeup feels that way for you, then don’t do it. We have to allow women a multiplicity. Why do you think we don’t? I think people will judge appearance. Humans are visual beings. We notice because we have eyes. What I would love to see changed is the baggage we bring to those judgments. When we see a man who’s well dressed, we don’t assume that he must be shallow or he must not be a serious person. Talking about men is helpful because we can then say, “If this woman who we are judging were male, and everything else stayed the same, would we judge her the same way?” I think that would be a fair way
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Why did you decide to attend the Dior show at Paris Fashion Week this fall? As a writer, I sort of think of myself as anthropologist. I thought I might be able to collect material. No, but I really went because I really admire the new Dior creative director. She’s such an intelligent, thoughtful, interesting, honest woman. She’s really
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Taxidermied Animals Bring Ideas to Life By KATIE ROGERS
On the eve of her latest book release, Anne Rice did not lurk online reading early reviews. Instead, she examined a set of taxidermied kittens, posed into a Victorian wedding scene, at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. “It’s like making a vampire against its will,” she said with empathy. “Somebody made these little kitties into art against their will.” Surrounded by the dead (sailfish, squirrels, a pheasant), Ms. Rice, 75, suddenly found inspira-
Ms. Rice said. “I think many people feel that way today.” Gazing at a portrait of Jesus, Ms. Rice said she was reminded of her late husband, Stan Rice, a poet who died in 2002. “My husband grew up in the protestant tradition in Texas,” she said. “He was always astonished when he saw a picture like that, with Jesus’s sacred heart blazing in his chest. But I grew up in New Orleans, in an intense Irish-Catholic community, and that was par for the course.” Aside from religion, another topic that animates Ms. Rice is
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The author Anne Rice examining a diorama made up of stuffed kittens.
tion. “There have to be kitties on the astral plane,” she said. This is what it’s like to hold a conversation with Ms. Rice, a person whose work is often inspired by what could happen to us in the spaces between life and death. She is an author who delights in the intensity of her subject matter — she has found art in the macabre since wandering through the cemeteries of her native New Orleans as a child. But in person she engages easily. Ms. Rice has written more than two dozen books, 12 of which comprise the series known as “The Vampire Chronicles,” which began with “Interview With the Vampire” in 1976, a book that later became an A-list-heavy film in 1994. Her book signings have been spectacles stocked with exotic dancers and fans in costume. She has ridden in closed coffins to these signings, with ice to keep her cool. Ms. Rice’s cadre of sexy vampires evolved from pop-Gothic fantasy creations into figures so complicated they required their own glossaries in later novels. Perhaps it was time for a new scene. She had been working on a novel about Atlantis for years, but when it didn’t panning out, she turned back to her hero. “When I put Lestat and the vampires into the mix, it really came to life,” she said. “And all of the problems were solved immediately.” The result is “Prince Lestat and the Realm of Atlantis,” which was released Tuesday. Moving on from the kittens and a perturbed-looking preserved monkey, Ms. Rice visited the museum’s library, which contained art fashioned out of the hair of the dead and a few objects of Catholic art that caught her eye. Ms. Rice has a fraught personal history with religion. In 2010, she announced that she had quit Catholicism, saying she objected to what she called anti-gay and anti-feminist views. Her feelings on the faith today, she said, remain the same. “I see myself as a follower of Jesus Christ but not of his followers,”
anything involving her fans. She has worked to tighten her bond with readers online. Almost 1.2 million fans follow her on Facebook. And online, she can be sensitive about how her work is perceived. In 2004, Ms. Rice posted a 1,200word admonishment to critics on Amazon who had given her book “Blood Canticle” poor reviews, saying those people had used the site as a “public urinal.” At the museum, Becket Ghioto, her fan-turned-assistant for more than a decade, was by her side. The two met when he was study-
‘It’s like making a vampire against its will. Somebody made these little kitties into art against their will.’ ing to become a Benedictine monk. (Ms. Rice needed a harpsichord at a book signing party in New Orleans, and Mr. Ghioto was one of the monks who carted the instrument over from the local monastery.) Having left the monastic lifestyle, Mr. Ghioto now helps operate her Facebook page. These days, Ms. Rice is most interested in conspiracy theories, reading spy thrillers and watching what she calls “high quality TV” like “The Crown” on Netflix. She and her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, are exploring how to develop “The Vampire Chronicles” into a television series. “Game of Thrones” is the template they would like to follow. When she’s not touring, Ms. Rice writes constantly from a 12foot-by-12-foot room in a house in La Quinta, Calif. Paradoxically, the writer whose name is synonymous with vampire fiction said she moved from New Orleans to California for the sunlight. She has also written about ghosts, witches and even her cat. But there is one territory of the undead she said she’ll never visit. “I can’t get with zombies,” she said. “I love dealing with a hypersensitive werewolf. Zombies are at the opposite end of the spectrum.”
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Fashion Takes a Stand
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Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss has found a cause in Standing Rock.
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The usually frigid Grand Palais in Paris was heated for the Victoria’s Secret show, which the models must have appreciated.
They Only Skimped on the Fabric The first Victoria’s Secret show in Paris was a $20 million spectacle. By TINA ISAAC-GOIZÉ PARIS — On Wednesday evening, Paris, the
birthplace in 1889 of the modern bra (not to mention the home of many of the world’s greatest fashion houses and runway shows), finally played host to the Fantasy Bra as the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show rolled out the pink carpet at the Grand Palais. “We’ve wanted to come here for many, many years,” said Edward Razek, the executive producer of the show and the chief marketing officer of creative services at Limited Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret. “Without Paris, I wonder whether Victoria’s Secret could ever have existed. So when Les Wexner suggested coming, we set out to do our very best both as a guest in France, and as a host.” Mr. Wexner is the chairman of Limited Brands. The 45-minute runway show featured 51 models in 82 looks, with a roster that included Kendall Jenner, Adriana Lima, Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls, Alessandra Ambrosio and the sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, as well as a number of fast-rising new faces, such as the Houston native Jourdana Phillips and the Iowan Alanna Arrington. And then the sweet, lacy nothings went into overdrive. Think of it as a rollicking world tour trussed up in feathers, hundreds of thousands of Swarovski crystals and sequins paired with towering thigh-highs and stilettos by the shoe designer Brian Atwood. A series called Mountain Romance featured floral numbers, crystal thistle wings and an outfit, worn by Lily Donaldson, set with more than 2,500 stones. Live performances by Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars — grooving along in a fur coat and shades — and the Weeknd kept the energy running as the models shook their tail feathers, and 43 pairs of wings, for the cameras. Jasmine Tookes wore the $3 million Bright Night bra set with 450 carats of diamonds and emeralds designed by Eddie
Borgo. For the finale, Gaga got her own set of wings (on a white biker jacket), and the 12 angels fronted a final salute amid a shower of silver and gold confetti. The show got a seven-minute standing ovation. Eighteen months in the making, the event took two weeks to set up and involved equipment transported in 45 trucks, armed soldiers, barricades, multiple checkpoints, photo IDs for all, bomb-sniffing dogs and a plainclothes detail. The usually frigid Grand Palais was heated. Mr. Razek said it was the most expensive fashion show ever, an investment in excess of $20 million. It will also most likely smash records in viewership: Once the show is broadcast on
‘It was pure entertainment, which for the French is rather unusual.’ Monday at 10 p.m. Eastern time on CBS, is posted on the Victoria’s Secret website the next day and enters worldwide distribution, its global audience is expected to hit 800 million viewers in more than 190 countries. That outstrips the Super Bowl many times over. “People come with preconceived notions about what it is,” Mr. Razek said of the show. “But the expectation is one thing. The reality is another. It’s a really unique entertainment vehicle with a very broad appeal. Especially among women. “It’s a celebration of powerful women by powerful women who work very hard at what they do, live a healthy life and inspire legions of admirers. It speaks to diversity in a number of ways, as well as free-spiritedness. These girls are remarkable. Women recognize that and can relate to them in a way that no other fashion brand has.” Lingerie as a feminist issue? Maybe. Though equally interesting was that the French fashion crowd — including Azzedine Alaïa; Carine Roitfeld; Riccardo Tisci and his muse Léa (who blew kisses to Ms. Smalls dressed as a black swan); Nina Ricci’s artistic director, Guillaume Henry; and Balmain’s designer, Olivier Rousteing — not
only turned out for the event, but also had their own take on the matter. According to Clare Waight Keller, the creative director of Chloé, “Whenever a model does Victoria’s Secret, her social media rankings go through the roof, and her rates follow accordingly.” Indeed, Ms. Waight Keller had just wrapped shooting for Chloé’s fall campaign with one of the new Victoria’s Secret faces (she wouldn’t say whom). A preshow Instagram tally indicates that this year’s crop of models has a combined reach of 164 million followers. Last year, after the London show, some models saw follower numbers leap by 250,000 overnight. “It was pure entertainment, which for the French is rather unusual,” Mr. Henry said after the show. Mr. Rousteing said: “Paris needs joy and happiness, and this was all about that in a wonderful mix of pop culture and fashion. Here you have the most beautiful women in the world daring to show how powerful, sexy and confident women can be, in all their diversity. It’s everything I love.” Then there was Inès de la Fressange, otherwise known for her associations with Chanel and Roger Vivier, who added: “I think in France we sometimes lack a bit of lightness and gaiety in dressing. We have a huge culture of spectacle, but I think that sometimes we over-intellectualize dressing too much. I loved the lightness and fun, the youth. My daughters know everything about these models, so I’m an old lady by comparison. “But when you look beyond the spectacle, there are pieces that you’d wear every day. It’s a very smart move for the brand and a big gift for the rest of us.” Ms. Roitfeld declared Paris the perfect place for the show. “It was very joyful and American, but I also adore lingerie and know it well, so I know how hard it is to be sexy without being vulgar,” she said. “It’s a very hard thing to pull off. For me, that’s the French touch, and they really pulled it off. Personally, my dream is to have the wings, but that would require lots of pushups and serious time at the gym.” Maybe next year.
Kerby Jean-Raymond, the founder of the independent, critically acclaimed fashion label Pyer Moss, planned to attend more than a dozen events at Art Basel Miami Beach this weekend, including an exhibition that showcases some of his label’s shoes. Instead, he’ll be flying to North Dakota. Mr. Jean-Raymond is among a number of designers and brands that are responding to the basic needs of demonstrators fighting to prevent the Dakota Access pipeline from being built near the Standing Rock Reservation out of concern for the environment and Native American ancestral lands. Activists have requested nylon coveralls, heavy-duty sleeping bags, gloves, wool clothes and blankets, along with monetary donations, on their own websites and on Amazon. After all, temperatures in Cannon Ball, N.D., the town near which protesters have gathered, range from highs in the low 30s to single digits. And it’s not about to get any warmer. On Monday, Gov. Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota cited “anticipated harsh weather conditions” when issuing a mandatory evacuation order. Exacerbating the effects of the cold are the water cannons that the police have used against protesters, causing early signs of hypothermia in some. Over the last several days, Mr. Jean-Raymond, 30, has worked to secure an assortment of warm clothes, using his personal funds and his connections. “I called Nike and I said, ‘Instead of me keeping a couple of thousand dollars worth of sneakers that I’m not going to wear, let me send these back to you,’” Mr. Jean-Raymond said. “‘Let me get some thermals instead.’” In exchange for the free sneakers, he received credits that he then used to purchase thermal clothing. He has also personally purchased outerwear from Uniqlo. It’s not the first time the designer, whose youthful but streamlined collections often engage with heavy topics, has taken a dive into activism. For his spring 2016 show, Mr. Jean-Raymond prepared a short film about race relations in the United States. And two years ago, he designed a T-shirt listing names of victims of police brutality, profits from which went to the American
Civil Liberties Union. Designers with less visible profiles have also jumped in to help Standing Rock demonstrators. Bethany Yellowtail, a Los Angeles-based designer who is a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and who grew up on the Crow Reservation in Montana, created a line of “Protector Gear,” including T-shirts, hoodies, water bottles and hats, with profits to go directly to the Standing Rock Sioux, the tribe leading the protests. So far, the effort has raised over $10,000, Ms. Yellowtail said. Louie Gong, founder of the brand Eighth Generation, sent 60 blankets to the Standing Rock campsite, at a cost he estimated to be about $10,000. “It seems like a small and superficial sacrifice, however, when compared to our cousins sleeping in tents that are
Standing Rock is not the designer’s first association with activism. covered in snow,” Mr. Gong, who grew up in the NookSack tribe, wrote in an email. Bliss and Mischief, a Los Angeles brand, is donating 15 percent of proceeds from every purchase until the end of 2016 to a cause of the customer’s choice, with the Standing Rock Sioux offered as an option. And at least one major corporation is involved. Patagonia gave a $25,000 grant to the Indigenous Environmental Network, a nongovernmental organization, to support the indigenous community at Standing Rock. Ms. Yellowtail expressed enthusiasm about the outflow of support the tribes have received, but she cautioned non-Native American volunteers, whether in the fashion industry or otherwise, against blindly appropriating the cause of the tribes at Standing Rock. “They’re not asking allies to come out and speak for them, they’re asking for people to stand in solidarity and be supportive,” she said. “Ask yourself: Are you going for your own agenda or to listen and follow protocol?” For Mr. Jean-Raymond, the purpose of his trip is simple. “I’m bringing as much supplies as I can out there,” he said. “If I can do anything past that, I’ll do it. If I feel like I’m unnecessary, I’ll leave.”
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A Comeback Takes a Wrong Turn The Fiat heir Lapo Elkann is in trouble over a false kidnapping report. By ALEX WILLIAMS
It sounded like a 1970s Scorsese film channeling Fellini: a dapper, 39-year-old Italian industrial scion claimed he was being held captive in a third-floor apartment of a public housing building at 344 East 28th Street in Manhattan, and he had been contacting home to secure a $10,000 ransom. Authorities, however, quickly ordered a rewrite on that script. The Italian visitor, the police said, was apparently at the apartment by choice. Moreover, he is suspected of having been there for two days bingeing on cocaine, marijuana and alcohol, news reports say, with his purported abductor — a 29-year-old transgender escort. Things took a surreal turn when they reportedly ran out of money for drugs and alcohol, and the well-heeled man contacted family in Italy, according to news accounts, in order to arrange a cash drop. “It was not a well-thought-out plan to get money,” said a law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case. “It kind of fell apart.” At 5:50 a.m. last Sunday, the Italian man, who was born in New York, was charged with filing a false report, a misdemeanor, the official said. The arrest report described him as 5-foot-10, 185 pounds, with green eyes, a “blotchy” complexion and short, curly gray hair. That is, to be sure, the least glamorous portrait of Lapo Elkann ever painted. Mr. Elkann, a globe-trotting bon vivant and grandson of the Fiat chieftain Gianni Agnelli, is considered as much a prince in Italy as anyone claiming a royal birthright. Leveraging an electric personality and a showman’s instinct for spectacle, he created a cult of celebrity, transforming himself into a fashion entrepreneur whose personal brand is rooted in rock-star excess: the camouflage-painted Ferraris, the Technicolor double-breasted suits, the film-starlet girlfriends. That taste for excess, however, comes with a dark side. His arrest occurred a month after Vanity Fair published a splashy profile describing Mr. Elkann’s dramatic rebound after a widely publicized cocaine and heroin overdose in 2005 in the Turin apartment of a 53-year-old transsexual prostitute that rippled like a thunderclap through Italian society. For good or bad, it seems Mr. Elkann has never been one for half-measures. “He is, on one hand, a guy who had an extremely privileged background, and privileged means a family that is not just rich; it’s a family that had a lot to do with Italian history and heritage, like the Kennedys here,” said Francesco Carrozzini, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, photographer and friend of Mr. Elkann’s who is the son of the longtime Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani. “But on the other hand, Lapo has an extreme sense of style and creativity,” Mr. Carrozzini added. “If you put a turquoise suit on someone else, they would look like a clown. But on him, it’s doesn’t. It’s his personality. It’s also not caring about what other people say.” In terms of cutting a figure, Mr. Elkann always had a lot to live up to. His maternal grandfather, Mr. Agnelli, who died in 2003, was midcentury Europe’s quintessential jet-setter and playboy. A cross between Henry Ford and Marcello Mastroianni, he
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Lapo Elkann, above, at the Venice Film Festival in September. Below left, Mr. Elkann with the designer Karl Lagerfeld in 2014 at an economics discussion in France. Below, the apartment building in Manhattan where Mr. Elkann was arrested last weekend.
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dated the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy and the film star Anita Ekberg, and at one point was said to control 4.4 percent of Italy’s gross domestic product. His mother, Margherita Agnelli, is a painter, his father, the American-born writer Alain Elkann. Even so, Lapo Elkann was never content to disappear into a life of happy indolence in Capri or Gstaad. “People would laugh if I say I started from ground zero, but the reality is I started my companies from scratch,” Mr. Elkann told the journalist Mark Seal in the Vanity Fair profile. “My mind-set today and in those days was: ‘Think like a self-made man. Even though you come from a family who has a humongous heritage, has everything, you need to think like someone who is poor.’” Lending his considerable marketing en-
ergies to the family brand, Mr. Elkann worked to modernize the public image of Fiat, and spoke grandly about reinventing the image of Italian manufacturing. “Italy is at a turning point where we have to prove ourselves internationally,” he told Newsweek in 2011, adding: “We need to hit ‘reset.’ There needs to be a generational change.” Mr. Elkann’s klieg-light personality also proved a marketing boon to his budding business empire, which includes the eyewear brand Italia Independent as its centerpiece. Certainly, any scene that Mr. Elkann drops in on transforms into an event. At the Baselworld watch fair in Switzerland last March, Mr. Elkann bounced onstage before the flashing cameras with the triumphant air of Justin Bieber kicking into an encore, as he pumped his latest collabo-
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Leveraging an electric personality and a showman’s instinct for spectacle, and creating a cult of celebrity.
ration with the watch brand Hublot, the $29,400 Big Bang Unico Italia Independent, featuring a camouflage “bespoke” carbon fiber case. After one interview, he slung his arm around the reporter and insisted they take selfies. Mr. Elkann never seemed to be big on boundaries. Seated courtside at a Los Angeles Lakers game in 2010, Mr. Elkann stunned television announcers when he appeared to interfere with the Toronto Raptors’ Jose Calderon, who was reaching for a loose ball. After winning a $196,000 auction prize at an amfAR gala in France last May, he took a page from Adrien Brody’s Oscars book and planted a passionate and unwelcome kiss on Uma Thurman, the auction host. (“She wasn’t complicit in it,” her spokeswoman said.) But Mr. Elkann’s gestures seem just as grand when employed for good. Just months after the kissing episode, he took the stage in Milan to receive amfAR’s Award of Courage in recognition of his generous support of the AIDS charity. “I see many of my Italian brothers in the room, many of you who love your planes and your cars, to go to fashion shows and buy dresses for your wives,” he said. “Dig deep, gentleman, and keep giving.” As Mr. Elkann took his place among the celebrities and influencers that night, his 2005 overdose seemed like a distant memory. Even so, its details remain indelible. As Mr. Seal wrote in a Vanity Fair profile in 2006, paramedics rushed to a tiny apartment in Turin’s red light district around 9 a.m. one October morning and found a 28year-old man unconscious on a bed. “He didn’t come to for three days,” Mr. Seal wrote, “and by the time he awoke and began responding in three of the five languages in which he is fluent, his family had sped in from their villas.” The story, however, had taken a happier turn in recent years. When Mr. Seal revisited the topic a decade later for the magazine, the headline was: “How Lapo Elkann Rebounded From Rock Bottom to Build His Own Business Empire.” The article recounted how Mr. Elkann had emerged “creatively more alive” after a rehabilitation stint in Arizona. The timing of that piece made the events of the past week seem even more stunning. And, so far, the next steps are unknown. When Mr. Elkann was charged, he was fingerprinted, photographed and issued a desk appearance ticket that will require his presence in court Jan. 25, the law enforcement official said. The New York Post’s Page Six column reported that Mr. Elkann’s family was refusing to support him financially in this latest imbroglio. A representative for Mr. Elkann declined to comment for the heir or his family. Mr. Elkann was a no-show at an Art Basel Miami Beach party that he was supposed to help host Thursday. For now, the only hint at how he may respond to his latest scandal is to look back on how he responded to the last one. Interviewed by The New York Times in 2007, Mr. Elkann looked back on his brush with death and, fittingly, framed it in automotive terms. “I am an obsessive personality,” he said. “And if you are an obsessive personality you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself. “It’s like a car accident; we all have crashes, and I was very lucky not to die in that crash.”
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leaders and real estate developers eager to sell $2 million apartments as “presidentelect branded.” They are also triaging calls and emails from their own left-leaning high-powered friends and acquaintances who hope to influence the young consiglieri in chief, believing that if there is a voice for their causes in a Trump administration, it is likely to be that of the first daughter’s. Even Leonardo DiCaprio has weighed in. The Oscar-winning actor recently met with Ms. Trump privately and gave her a copy of his climate change documentary, “Before the Flood,” according to aides to both people. But as Ms. Trump’s platform gets bigger, she is also coming in for some criticism that her primary agenda may be the further enhancement of the Ivanka Trump brand she carefully built over the last decade. In that time, Ms. Trump has published a New York Times best-selling self-help memoir (with another book scheduled for next spring), started a fashion and jewelry brand, co-starred with her father on “The Apprentice” and become a fixture at fashion shows and at charity balls. Messages about empowering women have been woven into her sales pitch, which blends inspirational mottos with “shop this look” appeals on her website, ivankatrump.com. On Tuesday, for instance, her company sent out a newsletter presenting a givingback feature to ivankatrump.com — philanthropy tips for millennials. Beneath the “Get Inspired” rubric was a different message: “Give Warmth.” But it wasn’t a coat drive. Instead it was a link to buy Ivanka Trump winter apparel on sale at Nordstrom’s (a $325 faux Toscana shearling coat knocked down to $199.90). Ms. Trump said on “60 Minutes” last month that when her father becomes president, she will just be a “daughter.” She has said she will use her “heightened visibility” to champion working women. (After the show, Ms. Trump was criticized for her company’s attempt to market the Ivanka Trump $10,800 diamond and gold bracelet she wore during the interview. She later apologized and said her brand was due for a “readjustment.”) Some prominent figures remain skeptical of Ms. Trump’s commitment to their causes. “I don’t think it’s useful to denigrate the image she projects as a working woman and as a mother and a wife, but there are limits to it,” said Faye Wattleton, the former president of Planned Parenthood. “It’s easy to talk about self-help when you have access to the best medical care in the world by virtue of your birth. It’s not so easy when you can’t earn a living wage and you have children to support. And we have not heard her speak out on those hard survival issues.” Last month, artists like Dan Colen and Nate Lowman, both of whose works Ms. Trump has collected, lent their names in support of a “Dear Ivanka” open letter, one that included statements like “I’m black and I’m afraid of Jeff Sessions” and “My mom is going to be deported,” but that also said, “We wanted to appeal to your rationality and your commitment to protecting the rights of all Americans, especially women and children.” The two were among the 200 or so attendees Monday night at a protest outside the Puck Building, which Mr. Kushner owns and where the couple has an apartment. Also there was the artist Marilyn Minter, expressing puzzlement that Ms. Trump would be associated with an ideology that Ms. Minter says she found personally troubling. “She’s supposed to be a feminist,” Ms. Minter said. Stella Schnabel, the actress and daughter of the artist and director Julian Schnabel, seemed personally affronted by what she saw as Ms. Trump’s support of her father’s positions. “I had a playdate with Ivanka. I went to Mar-a-Lago!” Ms. Schnabel said of
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Ms. Trump, as she stood beside the shoe designer Arden Wohl, an acquaintance of the future first daughter for two decades and who counts Ms. Trump among her 33,000 Instagram followers. “I always thought her father was tacky. But she’s elegant and classy and strong. She had a great group of friends when she was at Trinity,” Ms. Wohl said, referring to the Upper West Side private school Ms. Trump attended. “So I can’t understand this. She is not a hateful, racist person. She’s just not.” Tell that to the mogul Barry Diller, a social acquaintance for many years, and one who in 2009 did a business deal with Mr. Kushner. “I think it’s delusional to believe there’s any difference between Mr. Trump and his children on any of his extreme positions,” Mr. Diller, a Clinton donor in the 2016 campaign, wrote in a recent email. “They’ve had every opportunity to publicly modify them and have not done so.” There has even been some dissension within family ranks. The supermodel Karlie Kloss has recently been involved with Mr. Kushner’s younger brother, Joshua, a New York entrepreneur, yet spent the fall making her strong opposition to a Trump presidency known to near-total strangers. Shortly before the election, she posted an Instagram shot of herself filling out an absentee ballot and put the hashtag #Imwithher below it.
Joshua Kushner in July and August “liked” a number of vociferously antiTrump tweets from his Twitter account. Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue, was a mentor to Ms. Trump, a person who ran two profiles of her in the Condé Nast magazine and at one point, offered her a job there. (Ms. Trump wrote in her memoir, “Trump Rules,” that she turned it down.) But as the election drew near a close, as Ms. Wintour bundled millions of dollars for Mrs. Clinton, the two fell out of touch. After the election, Ms. Wintour wept as she talked to her staff members about the need to move forward in the face of a stinging defeat. Asked to comment about her relationship with Ms. Trump, Ms. Wintour politely declined through a spokeswoman. FOR A LONG TIME, Ms. Trump’s popularity owed (at least in part) to her ability to smooth out her father’s rough edges. Where Donald Trump was brusque, Ms. Trump was tactful. Where Mr. Trump came off self-centered and easily distracted, she was self-effacing and sharply focused, traits she displayed from her earliest days growing up on the Upper East Side. Ms. Trump worked briefly as a model as a teenager, before entering Georgetown University. Two years later, she transferred to her father’s alma mater, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Clockwise from top: Ivanka Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio; with her husband, Jared Kushner, and Wendi Murdoch (who helped bring the two back together) in 2010 in New York; part of her footwear collection; and with, from left, Melania Trump and her brothers Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. in October at the second presidential debate.
After graduation, Ms. Trump began to get photographed around town, at parties like the opening of the Tribeca Film Festival and the annual Frick Gala, where she stood out as a refreshing change from a generation of hard-partying heiresses like Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie and Casey Johnson. By then, she was working for her father at the Trump Organization, but she built a social life that in many ways eclipsed her famous father. Mr. Trump and his older sons are not fixtures of the New York power scene, but Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner, who bought The New York Observer in 2006, are more socially nimble. She was seated front row at Carolina Herrera shows at New York Fashion Week, walked the red carpet at the Glamour Woman of the Year gala at Carnegie Hall and was a guest at dinners with the movie star Hugh Jackman and the media heir James Murdoch. When Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner broke up during their courtship, a reconciliation took place on Rupert Murdoch’s yacht – a rapprochement that was brokered by Ms. Trump’s good friend Wendi Murdoch, who at the time was still married to Mr. Murdoch. Soon, Ms. Trump converted to Judaism and got married to Mr. Kushner at Bedminster, her father’s private golf club in New Jersey, wearing a Vera Wang dress, as a Getty photographer snapped away. They have since had three children. Occasionally, there were naysayers: gossip items in Gawker and Page Six. But slights about the couple were few. “They’re ideal politicians,” said Peter Davis, the society journalist Mr. Kushner hired in 2011 at his wife’s suggestion to edit a magazine called Scene. “Because you come away from any interaction thinking they’re great and nice and don’t have any deeper feeling about them.” As with many people eager to move up the New York social ladder, the couple engaged in philanthropic endeavors. But they didn’t leave strong footprints. Indeed, to look at Ms. Trump’s charitable deeds is to find echoes of her father’s much-chronicled pattern of claiming a lot while giving just a little. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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In 2010, Ms. Trump became a founding partner of the UN Foundation Girl Up initiative and then showcased her involvement on the Trump Organization’s website, where it remains today as the first of just three outside causes the family supports, along with the New York City Police Foundation and the Police Athletic League. Ms. Trump’s main contribution was to post a promotional link to her fine-jewelry collection, where she sold a Girl Up bracelet, with part of the sales going to the initiative. Once the election began, the UN Foundation, which is nonpartisan, officially parted ways with Ms. Trump. “We cut all ties with her, but there weren’t any, anyway,” said Beth Nervig, a spokeswoman for the organization. Ms. Trump did even less for the “blood diamond” cause. In 2011, she announced she was starting a sustainable bridal jewelry line using ethically sourced Canadian diamonds. In an interview with Women’s Wear Daily, Ms. Trump talked about the “multitude of ways” she was planning on building her brand into “a truly socially engaged and responsible company.” But using Canadian diamonds cost more, the line did not get traction, and it was soon abandoned, although Ms. Trump did manage in 2012 to accept a “Good” award from the Diamond Empowerment Fund, a nonprofit co-founded by Russell Simmons. Along with Mr. Kushner, Ms. Trump made inroads on the benefit circuit, popping up at galas for New Yorkers for Children and the New York Public Library, where they were guests at other people’s tables. Last year,
Ms. Trump attended an amfAR gala, where she was seated with Anthony Weiner and Ms. Wintour. Ms. Trump was also a fixture at the Glamour Women of the Year awards. Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump also hosted a 2013 fund-raiser for Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, at their Park Avenue apartment. Ms. Trump was inclined to leverage her celebrity and give products that bore her name, as she did more than once with her acquaintance Mary Alice Stephenson’s charity Glam4good. “There were a couple of times I called on Ivanka to send shoes and product, whether it was battling breast cancer or dressing girls from homeless shelters,” Ms. Stephenson said. “They always sent. I think she’s a lovely person.” DURING THE REPUBLICAN National Convention, at which her father officially accepted the party’s presidential nomination, scrutiny of Ms. Trump began to take a more negative turn. Though her own speech was widely praised, friends were taken aback by the coarseness of some of the other speakers (like those who encouraged chants of “Lock her up”) and wondered when Ms. Trump would speak up to denounce them. In September, Ms. Trump got testy with a reporter from Cosmopolitan who grilled her about what were apparently inconsistencies between her professions of feminism and the campaign she defended so ardently. “So I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions,” she said, according the transcript. The next week, Ms. Trump got another
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signal that her father’s race for the presidency was not doing great things for her reputation or her own global brand. It took place in what was supposed to be her safe space: a closed-door gathering of her fellow plutocrats. In Aspen, Colo., at the annual Weekend With Charlie Rose conference in September, Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner, her husband, joined the likes of Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Ari Emanuel and Jeffrey Katzenberg at a dinner in the dining room of the Hotel Jerome. Hasan Minhaj, 31, the popular “Daily Show” comedian, was the entertainer at a Thursday night dinner and gently ribbed some of the more exalted guests about their wealth and power. But his digs went deeper when Mr. Minhaj, whose parents emigrated from India to the United States shortly before he was born, turned to Ms. Trump. “Why are you doing this?” he asked, his tone suggesting others in the room were asking the same question. Listing Mr. Trump’s attacks on Muslims, like suggesting that they should be barred from entering the country, Mr. Minhaj implored Ms. Trump to stop abetting her father, and then closed with a sharp-edged joke. “At the end of the day, your dad wants to deport my dad,” he said. Ms. Trump sat there, Mr. Minhaj said, “looking uncomfortable.” When a now-infamous tape of Mr. Trump and Billy Bush came out a few weeks later, Shannon Coulter started a boycott of Ms. Trump’s brand over social media, with a #GrabYourWallet hashtag that went viral. “People think that because she’s polished and well spoken, that she isn’t like him,” Ms. Coulter said. “I think she is more dangerous
Ivanka Trump and her father, from left, at the Galeries Lafayette grand opening at Trump Tower in New York in 1991, at his 50th birthday celebration at Trump Tower in 1996 and at the Trump International Hotel in Washington in October.
because she is more polished.” Then came “Vicuña” at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City, Calif., the latest work from the Tony-nominated playwright Jon Robin Baitz. His satire centered on a Trump-like presidential candidate and his lovely, loyal daughter, Srilanka, who struggles to stand by her monstrous father and power-hungry husband, and ends up a social and professional pariah as a result. (Mr. Trump’s surprise victory was a plot twist the playwright didn’t see coming.) “Everyone who knows Ivanka says, ‘How could she support her dad like this?’” said Mr. Davis, the society journalist. “But she works for her father. The Trump motto is: Win at all costs.” According to old friends, Ms. Trump — who, along with her husband, declined repeated requests for an interview for this article — is keeping a stiff upper lip. “She doesn’t complain about anything, and she rarely expresses weakness,” said Maggie Cordish, a friend since college who met her husband, a Baltimore real estate developer, through Ms. Trump. Ms. Cordish says Ms. Trump’s interest in the cause of working women is heartfelt: “She elevated issues that weren’t part of the Republican agenda because she cares about them.” The Hollywood mogul David Geffen, a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates, said he has a fondness for Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner, even though he did not vote for her father in the election. “I’ve known Ivanka and Jared for years,” he said. “She’s a lovely, intelligent woman, and Jared has been a loyal son-in-law. Trump depends on him. He’s a very smart guy. Is he a genius? No, but guess what: The geniuses all lost.”
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near-invisibility of his work. “I don’t want anything big on me,” said Sofia Richie, a model. “I’m shooting a lot. It’s important that it’s something I can hide.” She has five tattoos by JonBoy, including her brother’s initials, the word “clarity” on her neck and the numerals 13:4, a reference to her favorite Bible verse, in First Corinthians. Ms. Richie, who described herself as “not the kind of person to have tattoos,” said that Mr. Valena’s etchings are nevertheless feminine and artistic, and that he’s a gentleman. “The first time I got tattooed by him we hung out for hours,” she said. “He made it an easy process where I felt relaxed.” LIKE ALL NEWLY SUCCESSFUL people in Manhattan, Mr. Valena is on everyone’s invitation list. There he was with Coco Rocha and the Misshapes at a party celebrating
‘I fell away from church, and I really just wrestled with it. Just feeling, like, man, where am I?’ Jeremy Scott’s collaboration with Google for its Pixel smartphone. And brands like Schott NYC and Coach have hired him to tattoo at store events and for social media campaigns. In recent weeks, he’s taken his needles and ink on work trips to Los Angeles and South Korea. “I feel blessed,” Mr. Valena said. “There’s a lot of people out there that can do the same thing I do, even better. It just so happens that I got to tattoo some famous people.” Still, for all his accomplishments, Mr. Valena said at times he has struggled with his professional and life choices. Tattoo artist to the stars was not his original calling. He planned to join the ministry. “There’s almost that guilt of, you were going to be a youth pastor,” Mr. Valena said. “I fell away from church, and I really just wrestled with it. Just feeling, like, ‘Man, where am I?’” On a recent weekday afternoon, Mr. Valena was at his work station at West 4 Tattoo, the Greenwich Village shop that is his base. Loud club music thumped as customers waited in chairs by the front desk. The place resembled a thousand other tattoo parlors, except for the wall of photos of Mr. Valena posing with celebrity clients, a paper collage of his Instagram account. Mr. Valena, who described himself as “a little Filipino guy,” sat cross-legged on a chair. He wore black shorts and a black Tshirt that revealed heavily inked arms and legs, and a black trucker hat that made him a few inches taller. His tattooed hands were weighted by two fistfuls of chunky gold rings by Gucci and Versace. A fluffy Pomeranian he named Gucci and is raising with his girlfriend and manager, Lauren Ledford, yipped at his feet. “I’ve always loved fashion,” Mr. Valena said. “And now living in New York City and being part of it is just a dream.” On a break between appointments, Mr. Valena reflected earnestly on his life’s journey so far. There was a God-saved-mywretched-soul aspect to his storytelling, an emphasis on redemptive moments. The first came when Mr. Valena, who was raised outside Chicago in a divorced family, said he had a near-fatal drug overdose at 17. He embraced Christianity and enrolled at a Bible college in Rhode Island. Two years later, he found himself working as a youth pastor and church coffeehouse barista in Decorah, Iowa, population 8,000. “It was a college town, there were a handful of things to do, but it got old,” Mr. Valena said. He had a few tattoos already, and was in-
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terested in the art form. He started hanging out at a local parlor, Valhalla Tattoo and Piercing, run by a mullet-haired Irish biker and ex-con who taught him the ropes. “Yes, I had to start by doing grapefruits,” Mr. Valena said. “But the feeling you get when you have that vibrating piece of machinery in your hand and you’re creating something permanent on someone’s body
— it started there.” Some church leaders thought he was doing the devil’s work. There was pressure put on him to quit tattooing, he said. Instead, Mr. Valena quit the church and honed his craft at biker rallies throughout the Midwest. In short order, he followed a girl to Wisconsin and then Minneapolis, married, fathered a son, became a successful local tattooer, grew restless, had an affair, got divorced and made an impulsive leap with his young mistress to New York City, where he had trouble acclimating and became “the insecure JonBoy who is rarely tattooing because I had no clientele out here.” After an altercation in the subway with a romantic rival, he was arrested and jailed, Mr. Valena said, prompting a dark night of the soul. “I felt, man, I failed at everything,” he said. “I failed my marriage. I failed my
Clockwise from top: Jonathan Valena at work at West 4 Tattoo in Greenwich Village; the “meow” tattoo on Kendall Jenner’s inner lip; Hailey Baldwin’s “pray” tattoo; one of Sophia Richie’s five tattoos done by Mr. Valena, who is known as JonBoy.
family. I’m failing this relationship here. I’m failing in New York City. I failed becoming a youth pastor. I felt lost.” After being released from jail, he remembered being told about Hillsong Church, a global megachurch popular with celebrities like Mr. Bieber. It was through Hillsong that his life turned around, Mr. Valena said. He began inking the church’s hipster leadership, who approved of tattoos. And he met Ms. Baldwin, the daughter of the actor Stephen Baldwin and a Hillsong congregant, who asked Mr. Valena to give her a tattoo and recommended him to Kendall Jenner. A few years ago, Mr. Valena was so desperate for work that he took a job tattooing at a nightclub in the meatpacking district while drunk people cavorted around him. Now he sets his own schedule, sees as many as eight clients a day and charges a minimum of $300 an hour. In the Kardashian kingdom, Mr. Valena is pretty much official court scribe, having tattooed Kendall Jenner again (“meow” on her inner lip), as well as her younger sister, Kylie Jenner, repeatedly (most recently a miniature red “M” on her pinkie) and a family friend, Jonathan Cheban (“Foodgod” on his forearm). He has cemented his relationships with celebrities by asking many of them to tattoo him, which he likened to “getting their autograph, but not in a crazy fan way.” Mr. Valena held out the crowded canvas of his arms, showing the spot where Kylie Jenner inked a tiny K with a crown and Ireland Baldwin tattooed a wobbly-looking “L.A.” “And Chloë Moretz — she’s, like, ‘I’m really good at doing stick figures with big penises,’” Mr. Valena added. He shrugged. “I give them liberty. When Hailey or Kylie come in here, I want to remember those times.” FRIDAYS ARE MR. VALENA’S day off, but an actress and model named Sabina Gadecki was in New York for a movie premiere and wanted a tattoo. So Mr. Valena, dressed in black and carrying Gucci the Pomeranian, rolled into the shop from his East Village apartment around 2 p.m. Soon Ms. Gadecki arrived with hugs, accompanied by her parents and her leatherjacket-wearing boyfriend. She wanted a tiny “R,” her father’s first initial, behind her ear, which would be her third JonBoy tattoo (like Happy Meal trinkets, tiny tattoos encourage a collection). Ms. Gadecki, who also belongs to Hillsong, was referred to Mr. Valena by a friend after an unpleasant experience with another tattoo artist. “I felt like they didn’t care,” she said. “It was just, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ JonBoy listened. He realized it’s important to me.” After the letter design was agreed to, Mr. Valena began placing the stencil onto Ms. Gadecki’s skin. He stopped abruptly because he wasn’t feeling the music. “I need a new song!” he yelled, then ran to the front desk, cued up a track by Mr. Bieber and returned to his work, singing. Ms. Gadecki sat on the tattoo chair while her entourage watched. The actual tattooing took Mr. Valena exactly six minutes. Posing Ms. Gadecki afterward for his Instagram account took longer. “I never thought it would be like this,” Mr. Valena said. “I never thought putting a little white dot on Kendall Jenner would come to this. I’m living the dream.” And what of his planned career as a youth pastor? Is his soul still divided? He answered, sounding at peace, “You have a path and a journey, and your life is going to take you where it’s supposed to take you.”
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That Old Giving Spirit Unicef had its annual Snowflake Ball on Tuesday at Cipriani Wall Street, where Hillary Clinton was a surprise guest and presented Katy Perry with the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award. Phoenix House held its fashion award dinner on Tuesday at Cipriani 42nd Street. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gave its opening night benefit on Wednesday, followed by a dinner at the New York Hilton Midtown. And the Native Son Awards, which celebrates the achievements of gay black men, held its inaugural ceremony on Wednesday at the Cadillac House. DENNY LEE
Hillary Clinton was the surprise guest at the Unicef gala, where she was joined by, clockwise from top left: Pamela Fiori, Katy Perry and Caryl M. Stern; Octavia Spencer; Gillian Miniter and Moll Anderson; Orlando Bloom; and Sterling McDavid and Daria Daniel.
At the Phoenix House dinner, from left: Roopal Patel, Marc Metrick and Tracy Margolies; Michael A. Clinton; and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.
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At the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gala, from far left: Robert Battle and Nicole Bernard; Solange Knowles, the honorary chairwoman (center, in white dress); and Joan Weill, smiling.
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At the Native Son Awards, from left: Emil Wilbekin and Don Lemon, an honoree; George Faison and George C. Wolfe, an honoree; and Lewis Duckett and Dr. Billy Jones, who were married in 2013 after 46 years together.
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Against All Odds, One Match Was All He Needed By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Once upon an algorithm, a widower in San Francisco who was an expert in online consumer behavior took to the internet to find the one. “I was still hurting,” said Bill Tancer, whose wife of 17 years had succumbed to complications of breast cancer in July 2014. “But I felt it was time to put myself out there and start dating again.” Mr. Tancer did exactly that in January 2015, when he created a dating profile and sent it to eHarmony. He fully expected to receive numerous matches, wishing to find a woman who could potentially become, as he put it, “my one and only.” But Mr. Tancer, then 48, received a reply that seemed to come not from an algorithm in a search engine, but from a genie in a bottle. He was granted exactly what he had wished for: one match, and one match only, an improbable result that brought to his screen the profile of Erika Holiday, a 38year-old forensic psychologist and adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, some 300 miles away. “I didn’t know if there was something wrong with my computer,” he said jokingly,
‘I didn’t know if there was something wrong with my computer.’ “or if there was something wrong with me.” Nevertheless, the fact that Dr. Holiday had emerged as Mr. Tancer’s only match based solely on his criteria for finding a suitable mate suggested that he had perhaps found a perfect mate. “She was single and successful, brilliant and gorgeous, and she had never been married,” he said. “Being an algorithm believer, I thought I should just trust it, and that maybe she was truly, and literally, the one for me.” Though Mr. Tancer began receiving additional matches after changing some of his relationship criteria, he reached out only to Dr. Holiday, “but not before doing a ton of research on her,” he said. He was soon reading online excerpts from a book Dr. Holiday had co-written in 2009 called “Mean Girls, Meaner Women.” He also watched numerous YouTube videos of Dr. Holiday, as a psychology expert, chatting on “Dr. Phil,” and with various other television hosts on CNN, Fox News and the E! channel. Dr. Holiday, who said she had received “well over a hundred matches” on eHarmony, took an immediate and less cautious approach to Mr. Tancer. The two were, in her estimation, a match made in cyberheaven. “I’m a very intuitive person, and the moment I saw him, without ever having met him, I said to myself, ‘He’s the one, he’s the one,’” Dr. Holiday said. “I thought he was so handsome and he seemed so intelligent.” She enlisted the help of her mother, Eva Yomtobian, “to help me look up some stuff about him,” she said. “But deep down inside, I just had that feeling.” Though her mother was equally ecstatic, she chose to remain cautiously optimistic. “It sounded so good, everything just fit and I was really excited for Erika,” said Ms. Yomtobian, a retired social worker for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. “Bill was really nice,” she said. “He was educated. He was intelligent. He was Jewish. But I wasn’t going to get overly excited just yet.” Dr. Holiday and Mr. Tancer exchanged several messages, shared a handful of latenight phone calls and eventually made arrangements to meet a few weeks later at a tiny coffee shop in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, where Dr. Holiday had lived her entire life. “Driving past the shop, I saw her standNoah Gilbert contributed reporting from Beverly Hills, Calif.
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ON THIS DAY When Nov. 5, 2016. . ..........................................................
Where In Beverly Hills, Calif., at the home of the bride’s brother. . ..........................................................
What They Wore The bride wore
a strapless Martina Liana gown and sparkly Christian Louboutin heels. The groom wore a Ralph Lauren dark blue suit, a light blue Armani shirt and a patterned blue tie by Charvet. . ..........................................................
The Little Details The two
flower girls were the bride’s nieces, Layla Yomtobian, 6, and Hudsen Yomtobian, 20 months. The ring bearer was the bride’s nephew, Sky Yomtobian, 5. Last Hanukkah, Layla gave Mr. Tancer a card that read, “Happy Chanukah, when are you going to marry my auntie and can I be the flower girl?” Top, the couple were married in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the home of the bride’s brother. Above, the bride added earrings to her ensemble, which included a strapless Martina Liana gown.
ing outside,” Mr. Tancer said. “I wasn’t prepared for the fact that she was even more beautiful than her profile pictures. I parked and nervously walked up to her and introduced myself.” Before long, Mr. Tancer was feeling comfortable and opening up about the sorrow and pains of being a widower, which struck an emotional chord with Dr. Holiday. “He had been married for a long time,” she said. “It was only about six months since his wife had passed away, and listening to him talk about how much he cared for her, and how he never left her side and was a faithful husband, well, I thought what an amazing man. Through that story I could see how loving and kind he was. It told me a lot about his character and what kind of person he truly was. I was hooked.” True to the algorithm that brought them together, they became an immediate item. “I was used to being the quintessential caretaker for guys I dated,” Dr. Holiday said. “And along comes this guy who is treating me with such respect and kindness. It was overwhelming, but in a good way. He was Prince Charming, and I wasn’t used to Prince Charming.”
They were soon bonding over their “fascination of people and what makes them tick,” as Mr. Tancer put it, and talking most things California. He learned that she graduated from California State University, Northridge, and received a master’s degree in psychology from Pepperdine University, as well as a doctor of psychology degree from Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles. (He also learned the she was born Erika Yomtobian, but had legally changed her surname, which means holiday in Hebrew.) She learned that he grew up in Palm City, Fla., a son of Sheila and Martin Tancer, real estate agents who moved the family to Atlantis, Fla., when he was 12. He graduated from the University of Florida, and received a law degree from Mercer University in Georgia before joining the Navy in 1990. He was first stationed at the Kings Bay Trident Submarine Base in Georgia, where he was a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve and a special assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. The Navy transferred him to the Naval Medical Center in Oakland in 1993 for his
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Song and a Dance The bride
walked down the aisle to a recording of an instrumental version of the song “Sunrise Sunset” by the O’Neill Brothers Group. She and the groom hired a professional dance instructor to choreograph their first dance to Joe Cocker’s version of “You Are So Beautiful.” . ..........................................................
Pass the Fruit The guests were served a special vegan wedding cake by Jamaica’s Cakes. The bride is vegan and the groom is vegan “everyday but Tuesdays,” he said. . ..........................................................
Pardon the Introduction Since they began living together, the couple have embarked on a “How We Met” project, collecting more than 350 inspirational stories from other couples telling how they initially came together. Those stories are posted on the site: howwemetstory.com
last year and a half of service. He was living in Burlingame, Calif., in 2008 when he wrote the first of two books centered on data and algorithms: “Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters,” which became a New York Times best seller. He had moved to San Mateo, Calif., by 2014, the year he wrote “Everyone’s a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World.” “With Erika being a psychologist and me studying consumer behavior, we just had so much in common,” Mr. Tancer said. “We practically spoke the same language.” During the next four months, each took turns hopping aboard commuter flights to spend weekends together, much to the delight of their friends and family. “Bill would fly for like half an hour, have dinner with Erika, and then fly back to San Francisco,” said Vikain Hanounik, Dr. Holiday’s best friend. “And the next day, Erika would fly out just to have lunch with him. They would just go back and forth. I’ve never seen her happier.” The same was true for Mr. Tancer, said Ed Tancer, his older brother. “I could tell by the way Billy talked about Erika that she was someone special,” he said. “Billy’s wife was sick for the majority of their marriage. It was a very rough time for him, so we were thrilled when he found Erika.” In April 2015, Dr. Holiday invited Mr. Tancer to her parents’ home in Malibu, Calif., to meet them for the first time while celebrating Passover. Before dinner ended, her mother and father, Luigi Bian (a filmmaker), were convinced that their daughter had found the perfect match. “They were so cute, holding hands the whole time, it was really sweet,” Ms. Yomtobian said. “He looked like he was really into her. As an older woman, I knew it. It was there.” In July 2015, Mr. Tancer decided to move to Los Angeles to be with Dr. Holiday and has since been working there as an independent marketing consultant to the technology, financial services, travel and hospitality industries. “I sold my house and moved there, and I haven’t looked back since,” Mr. Tancer said. “In 2014, I didn’t think it was possible to ever be happy again, but Erika proved me wrong. “She’s brought me unconditional love and she makes me laugh,” he said. “But most importantly, she’s given me the gift of unbounded happiness and a reason to love life again.” They were married Nov. 5 at the Beverly Hills home of the bride’s brother, Daniel Yomtobian, who described his sister in the years before Mr. Tancer came clicking as “very focused on her work and her career, and pretty happy doing her own thing.” “I’m sure she had been dating, but I hadn’t heard about anybody in 10 years before she met Bill,” he said. Most of the couple’s 140 guests gathered in the backyard of the Mediterranean-style house, a 15,000-square-foot building with palatial floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room and a flowing terrace that offered views stretching from Los Angeles to the Santa Monica skyline, with the Pacific Ocean barely visible in the hazy distance. “By coming underneath this huppah, you two have built your first home together,” Rabbi Joshua Knobel told the couple, who began exchanging vows as the sun set on a warm evening. “When I look at you, I see everything that is right with the universe,” the groom told his new bride. “I see beauty, kindness, intelligence, but most of all, I see magic.” His perfect match had the perfect response. “I feel like my life didn’t truly start until meeting you,” the bride said. “I honestly didn’t think it would be possible to experience a love and a relationship like this. “This is the best love story I have ever known, and I can’t believe it’s mine.”
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Dr. Sarita Manu Mahtani and Ankur Rajiv Dharia were married Dec. 3 at the Four Seasons Resort in Orlando, Fla. Pandit Mahesh Shastri, a Hindu priest, led the Hindu ceremony. The bride, 36, who will keep her name, is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a hospitalist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital, both in New York. She graduated cum laude from the University of Washington, from which she also received a medical degree. She is the daughter of Latika M. Mahtani and Manu V. Mahtani of Orlando. The bride’s father is the founder of Mahiras, a custom clothing company specializing in men’s suits, based in Seattle and Hong Kong. He works in Orlando as a consultant for the company. The groom, also 36, is an investment analyst at Smith Cove Capital Management, a hedge fund in Greenwich, Conn. He graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina State University, and received an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Sukeshi R. Dharia and Rajiv K. Dharia of Charlotte, N.C. The groom’s father is a chemical engineer and the founder of Prime Colors Corporation in Charlotte, a chemicals supply company for the textile, paper, plastic and oil industries. The groom’s mother is the accounting supervisor there. The couple met in 2015 at a gala at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, when the groom asked Dr. Mahtani, who was caught by surprise while looking up at the atrium, how she liked the macaron she was eating.
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Emma Katherine King, a daughter of Martha A. King and Thomas W. King III of Valencia, Pa., was married in Pittsburgh Dec. 3 to Brett William Doyle, a son of Charlotte B. Doyle and Dr. Daniel B. Doyle of Lakeside, Conn. The ceremony was led by the Rev. Brian A. Evans at the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he is the senior pastor. Mrs. Doyle, 28, is a registered lobbyist in Washington for the Ford Motor Company. She graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown, from which she also received a master’s degree in finance. Her father is a lawyer in Butler, Pa. Mr. Doyle, 27, is a legislative assistant in Washington for Senator Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania. The groom graduated cum laude from Lafayette College. His father is a veterinarian in Bantam, Conn. The couple met in January 2011 on their first day of work for Senator Toomey in Washington. At the time, she was a staff assistant and he was a legislative correspondent.
Nicole Jessica Bochner and Adam William Malitz were married Dec. 3 at Temple Beth El in Cedarhurst, N.Y. Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik performed the ceremony. The bride, 29, is a project manager in New York for Horizon Media, where she manages media campaigns. She graduated from George Washington University. She is a daughter of Debra C. Bochner and Jeffrey M. Bochner of Forest Hills, N.Y. The groom, 29, is a commercial real estate broker in New York for Lee & Associates. He is the secretary and a board member of Manhattan Community Board 1 and is on the board of the Friends of Washington Market Park, a nonprofit neighborhood organization. He graduated from Hobart College. He is the son of Rhona Drossman and Jeffrey Malitz of New York. The couple met in 2014 through OkCupid.
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Sarah Danielle Sincoff, the daughter of Wendy S. Sincoff and Gregg M. Sincoff of Roslyn, N.Y., was married Dec. 3 to Michael Jay Zuckerman, a son of Terri L. Zuckerman and William S. Zuckerman of Syosset, N.Y. Rabbi Alan B. Lucas led the ceremony at the Garden City Hotel in Garden City, N.Y. The couple met in September 2009 at the University of Michigan, from which they graduated, she with distinction and he with high distinction. He also received a Master of Accounting with high distinction from the university. A few weeks after they met, they learned that their maternal grandmothers were sorority sisters at Syracuse University (Class of 1953) and remain friends. Mrs. Zuckerman, 26, is a merchandise planner for women’s intimate apparel at Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan. Her father is a managing director in the tax department at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Manhattan, where he provides tax compliance and consulting services, mainly to law firms. Her mother is the bookkeeper at the Joyce Center/Advanced Prosthetics & Orthotics in Manhasset, N.Y. Mr. Zuckerman, 28, is a certified public accountant, and the assistant controller at Saba Capital Management, a hedge fund in Manhattan. His father is a vice president overseeing operations and sales at Sterling Sanitary Supply Corporation, a family-run janitorial supply company in Woodside, Queens.
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Ingrid Lydia Swanson, the daughter of Linda I. Swanson and Calvin C. Swanson of Rye, N.Y., was married Dec. 3 to Peter Eric Bretschger Jr., a son of Linda-Kari Bretschger and Mr. Bretschger Sr. of Irvine, Calif. The Rev. Jesse Garner, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony at the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Mrs. Bretschger, 29, is a clinical social worker at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire and received a master’s degree in social work from Boston University. She is studying for a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa. Her father is an artist whose portraits of New Yorkers in the 1970s will be on display in March at the Rye Arts Center in Rye. Her mother retired as a registered nurse at the Osborn, an assisted-living facility in Rye. Mr. Bretschger, 33, is a manager of product strategy at Brandywine Global Investment Management in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine, and received an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. His parents are founders of Integrated Marketing Works, a marketing firm in Costa Mesa, Calif. The couple met in November 2013 in New York as parishioners at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, where the groom was a tenor in the choir. CORRECTION
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Dr. Ann Christy Monahan and Dr. David Ross Stern were married Dec. 3 at the Equinox, a golf resort and spa in Manchester Village, Vt. Rabbi Harry Pell officiated. The couple met in 2011 during their residencies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Dr. Monahan in anesthesia and Dr. Stern in general surgery. The bride, 32, is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She graduated from Johns Hopkins and received her medical degree at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She is the daughter of Jane B. Monahan of South Londonderry, Vt., and John R. Monahan of Rochester Hills, Mich. The groom, 38, is a cardiothoracic surgeon with Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgical Associates, a medical group in the Chicago area. He graduated from Columbia College and received his medical degree from Tel Aviv University. He is a son of Claudia J Stern and George Stern of Clearwater, Fla.
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Kristen Marie Caiazzo, the daughter of Maryellen R. Caiazzo of Edgewater Park, N.J., and the late Robert J. Caiazzo, was married Dec. 3 to Brendan James Stuart, the son of Denise C. Stuart and Kirk N. Stuart of Haddonfield, N.J. The Rev. Christopher Heckert, a United Methodist minister, performed the ceremony at Haddonfield United Methodist Church, with the Rev. George Morris, also a United Methodist minister, taking part. Ms. Caiazzo, 29, is keeping her name. She is a special-education teacher at Millbridge Elementary School in Delran, N.J. She graduated cum laude from the College of New Jersey, from which she also received a master’s degree in special education. Her mother retired as a third-grade teacher at Walt Disney Elementary School in Levittown, Pa. The bride’s father was a sixth-grade science teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School in Willingboro, N.J. Mr. Stuart, also 29, is a litigation associate in the New York office of Clifford Chance, the London law firm. He graduated magna cum laude from Dickinson College and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a certificate in business economics and public policy. His mother, who works in Collingswood, N.J., is the director of development, responsible for fund-raising, at Symphony in C, an orchestra based in Camden, N.J., that provides training for music directors, musicians and soloists. His father, who is based in Newtown Square, Pa., is a technical quality manager at SAP, a German-based software and technology provider. The couple met in 2012 at a bar in Philadelphia.
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Griffith Elizabeth Roberts, a daughter of Elizabeth B. Roberts and Robin D. Roberts of Alexandria, Va., was married Dec. 3 to James Merritt Roth, a son of Mary Katherine Roth and T. Christopher Roth of McLean, Va. The Rev. Sarah H. Duggin, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Georgetown, in Washington. Mrs. Roth, 29, is an interior designer in Washington. She graduated from Bucknell University and received a certificate in interior design from the New York School of Interior Design. Her father is the president and chief executive of National Media, a company in Alexandria that specializes in strategic research, planning and placement of advertising for corporate and political campaigns. Mr. Roth, 30, is a vice president at Vonage Holdings, the internet phone-service provider in Holmdel, N.J., where he oversees East Coast business operations, acquisition and development. He graduated from Amherst College. His father, who works in Washington, is the president of the Eastern U.S. Group at Trammell Crow Company, a Dallas real estate development and investment firm. The couple met on Easter in 2015 while having brunch in Washington.
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Dara Rachel Postar, a daughter of Adeen J. Postar and Michael R. Postar of North Bethesda, Md., was married Dec. 3 to Marshall Scott Cohen, the son of Jill K. Greene of Bridgewater, N.J., and Joel G. Cohen of Bedminster, N.J. Rabbi William D. Rudolph officiated at the Fairmont in Washington. Mrs. Cohen, 32, works in Washington as the chief of staff to Representative Norma J. Torres, a California Democrat. The bride graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and has a master's in public policy from Georgetown. Her father is a partner in the Washington law firm Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke. Her mother is the library director for the University of Baltimore School of Law. Mr. Cohen, 29, is the deputy political director in Washington for the Democratic Governors Association. He graduated from George Washington University, from which he also received a master's in political management. His mother is an interior designer in Bridgewater. His father is the managing partner in Flanzbaum, Cohen & Raia, a law firm in Warren, N.J. The couple were introduced in 2013 by friends in Washington.
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Emily Cahn and Jacob Galler Singer were married Dec. 3 at the W Hoboken in Hoboken, N.J. Rabbi Michael Mishkin officiated. Mrs. Singer, 27, is a senior political reporter in Manhattan for the news and media website Mic. She graduated cum laude from George Washington University. She is the daughter of Jane M. Cahn and Gary Cahn of South Orange, N.J. The bride’s parents own Private Stock Menswear, a manufacturer and retailer of neckties and other accessories in South Orange. Mr. Singer, 27, is a law clerk to Judge Cheryl L. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, with chambers in Brooklyn. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, from which he also received a law degree. He is a son of Linda Galler and Murray E. Singer of Port Washington, N.Y. The groom’s mother is a professor of law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, and a senior tax counsel at the Manhattan law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. His father is a criminal defense lawyer in Port Washington, N.Y. The couple met New Year’s Eve 2012 at a party in Washington.
Erica Samantha Schwartz and Michael Evan Goldberg were married Dec. 3 at the Four Seasons Resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Rabbi Paul Offenkrantz officiated. Mrs. Goldberg, 29, is an associate at the New York law firm Mavrides, Moyal, Packman & Sadkin. She graduated from Emory University and received a law degree from Yeshiva University in New York. She is a daughter of Paula L. Schwartz and David A. Schwartz of Weston, Fla. Mr. Goldberg, 30, is a real estate associate at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He graduated from the University of Michigan and received a law degree from N.Y.U. He is the son of Marilyn R. Goldberg and Rick D. Goldberg of Bryn Mawr, Pa. The couple were introduced through JDate in October 2012.
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Caitlin Murphy-Kennelly, Peter Wells . ................................................................................
Caitlin Murphy-Kennelly, a daughter of Patricia A. Murphy and John W. Kennelly of Mahwah, N.J., was married Dec. 3 to Peter Joseph Wells, a son of Barbara A. Wells and Douglas J. Wells of Greenwich, Conn. The Rev. Robert B. Stagg, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Church of the Resurrection in Rye, N.Y. The bride, 31, is a speech-language pathologist at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. She graduated from Boston College and received a master’s degree in communicative sciences and disorders from New York University. Her father, a certified public accountant, works in Pearl River, N.Y., as an investment adviser representative with Sagepoint Financial, an investment management firm in Phoenix. Her mother is a partner in Murphy & James, a law firm in Pearl River. The groom, also 31, is a real estate agent at Houlihan Lawrence in Greenwich, where his mother is also a real estate agent. The groom graduated from the University of Colorado. His father is a lawyer in Greenwich. The couple met in August 2010 at a restaurant in New York. ONLINE: MAKING SENSE OF DIVORCE
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Maura Douglas, Nikhil Singh . ................................................................................
Dr. Maura Margaret Douglas and Dr. Nikhil Singh were married Dec. 3. The Rev. Erik Arnold, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. Earlier that day, Pandit Dwijendra Doobay, a Hindu priest, led a Hindu ceremony at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel. The bride, 29, is a fellow in geriatric medicine at Yale. She graduated summa cum laude from Lehigh and received her medical degree from the University of Maryland. She is the daughter of Lynne M. Douglas and R. Gregory Douglas of Columbia, Md. The groom, 32, is a postdoctoral fellow in nephrology at the Yale School of Medicine. He graduated magna cum laude with distinction from Cornell. He received a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Minni Singh and Dr. Ram N. Singh of London, Ontario. The couple met in 2013 during their first year of an internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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Kate Anne Offerdahl and Brendan Daniel Guy were married Dec. 3 at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. The Rev. Dr. Karyn Carlo, an American Baptist minister, led the ceremony, and Mary Evelyn Tucker, a friend and mentor to the couple, gave a message about the couple’s relationship and efforts on behalf of the environment. Mrs. Guy, 24, recently worked in Brooklyn as the assistant to the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. The bride graduated from Columbia, from which she also received a master's degree in international affairs. She is a daughter of Lynn M. Offerdahl and Larry C. Offerdahl of Champlin, Minn. Mr. Guy, 28, is the manager of international policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and received a master's in environmental management from Yale. He is a son of Linda C. Guy and Stewart E. Guy of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The couple met in 2012 when he was assigned to be her student host during a weekend conference at Yale on United Nations global environmental policy.
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The World Is Their Oyster Now Anna Lindbergh Conte, a daughter of Kristina R. Lindbergh and Robert H. Conte of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., was married Dec. 3 to Ryan Andrew Hodgdon, the son of Teresa L. Hodgdon and Matthew P. Hodgdon of St. Simons Island, Ga. The Rev. Robert Brearley, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony at St. Luke's Chapel in Charleston, S.C. The bride, 31, is taking her husband’s name. She works in Atlanta as a vice president for retail services marketing with Citigroup. She graduated from Trinity College in Hartford. Her father is a senior vice president of HBO Films in New York. Her mother is a freelance writer and a ballet teacher at Logrea Dance Academy in Ossining, N.Y. The bride is a maternal great-granddaughter of the aviators and writers Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh. The groom, 33, is a director at Trimont Real Estate Advisors in Atlanta, where he specializes in commercial real estate consulting. He graduated from the University of Georgia and received a master's in real estate from N.Y.U. His mother is an interior designer on St. Simons Island. His father retired as the chief financial officer of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The couple, lovers of all things shellfish, met in February 2014 at an Oysterfest in Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Both had arrived with a large group of mutual friends, and it wasn’t long before Ms. Conte spotted Mr. Hodgdon, whom she hoped had spotted her first. “When I noticed this tall, handsome, dark-haired guy looking my way, I asked a girlfriend if she knew who he was,” Ms. Conte said. “Then to my complete mortification, my girlfriend marched right up to him and told him that I thought he was cute.” From the perspective of Ms. Conte, whose face took on a scarlet hue, things got a bit ugly from there. “He looked down, embarrassed, and walked away,” she said. But what she didn’t realize was that Mr. Hodgdon was seeing things a bit differently. “It had already been a long day of celebration,” he said. “Let’s just say I wasn’t in the best position to make good sense as to everything that was going on in that moment.” “Anna was up on a hill, and I was in no condition to walk up that hill,” he said, laughing. “So I just told her friend thank you, and turned away.” A few days later, they crossed paths again at a bar, but never spoke. A few days after that, Ms. Conte received a Facebook message from Mr. Hodgdon beginning with the words, “Hey, I think we met at the Oysterfest the other day.” “I was stoked, just really excited,” Ms. Conte said. “I had been thinking about him from the moment I first saw him.” He asked her out to a seafood restaurant in Atlanta, where they ordered a dozen oysters, and then a dozen more when they realized they had each made a pretty good catch. “He’s very endearing,” Ms. Conte said. “He’s the kind of guy who is a great listener and remembers everything you tell him, which makes people around him feel very important.” Mr. Hodgdon said that he and Ms. Conte “shared a similar sense of humor and a passion for trying new things.” “We had one great conversation after another, and things just clicked,” he said. “I came to know her as a very hard worker, a very driven person with a great attitude toward life.” Before dinner ended, they realized they had a lot more in common than their love of oysters. “I never really believed in fate until Ryan came along,” she said. “But looking back now, it seems as if we were destined to be together.” VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
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An attendee at a Trump campaign event in New Hampshire in September.
What the Alt-Right Really Means N OT even those most depressed about Donald J. Trump’s election and what it might portend could have envisioned the scene that took place just before Thanksgiving in a meeting room a few blocks from the White House. The white nationalist Richard B. Spencer was rallying about 200 kindred spirits. “We are not meant to live in shame and weakness and disgrace,” he said. “We were not meant to beg for moral validation from some of the most despicable creatures to ever populate the planet.” When Mr. Spencer shouted, “Hail, Trump! Hail, our people! Hail, victory!” a scattered half-dozen men stood and raised their arms in Nazi salutes.
The term, and the movement, may tell us something about how the country is changing. OPINION BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
A senior editor at The Weekly Standard who is at work on a book about the rise and fall of the post-1960s political order.
Mr. Spencer, however you describe him, calls himself a part of the “alt-right” — a new term for an informal and ill-defined collection of internet-based radicals. As such, he poses a complication for the incoming president. Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, whom Mr. Trump has picked as his chief White House strategist, told an interviewer in July that he considered Breitbart a “platform for the alt-right.” Perhaps we should not make too much of this. Mr. Bannon may have meant something quite different by the term. Last summer “alt-right,” though it carried overtones of extremism, was not an outright synonym for ideContinued on Page 4
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HIS year, parks in several states including Idaho and Washington, and the National Park Service, will be blazing a new trail, figuratively at least, as they begin offering opportunities to advertisers within their borders. King County in Washington, which manages 28,000 acres of parkland surrounding Seattle, offers a full branding menu: Naming rights or sponsorships may be had for park trails, benches and even trees. “Make our five million visitors your
next customers,” the county urges potential advertisers. King County already partnered with Chipotle to hide 30 giant replica burritos on parkland bearing the logo of the agency and the restaurant chain. People who found the burritos won prizes from Chipotle. In May, the National Park Service proposed allowing corporate branding as a matter of “donor recognition.” As The Washington Post reported,
under new rules set to go into effect at the end of the year, “an auditorium at Yosemite National Park named after Coke will now be permitted” and “visitors could tour Bryce Canyon in a bus wrapped in the Michelin Man.” The logic behind these efforts is, in its own way, unimpeachable. Many millions of people — that is, “green consumers” — visit parks every day, representing an unrealized marketing opportunity of Continued on Page 3
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The author, most recently, of “Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism,” an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a contributing opinion writer.
ATE HAVARD is taking a break from American conservatism. “I’m not sure what’s happening with my party,” she said from Jerusalem, where she is studying Hebrew. “I need a timeout.” When she returns to her job in Washington at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, she’ll seek refuge among a small group of young conservatives who believe that studying the history of ideas helps them keep Donald J. Trump in perspective. Ms. Havard, 26, said that before she left, “we’d get together once a week to have a political philosophy study group,” to discuss ancient authors like Xenophon instead of bashing Obamacare. Studying the deep roots of “conservative principles” helps allay the fear “that just because there’s a politician ascendant who totally disregards these things, that means the end of the conservative movement,” she told me. “You have to be hopeful.” A small but growing number of young conservatives see themselves not only as engaged citizens, but as guardians of an ancient intellectual tradition. The mem-
bers of Ms. Havard’s group were alumni of a seven-week crash course in political theory offered by the Hertog Foundation, the family foundation of the Wall Street financier Roger Hertog. Attendees discuss authors like Aristotle, James Madison and Leo Strauss and hear lectures by scholars and policy experts. “Our curriculum represents what we think ought to be a highlevel introduction to politics, one you rarely find in any political science department,” Peter Berkowitz, the program’s dean, told me. The Hertog course is one of more than a dozen similar seminars sponsored by conservative and libertarian organizations around the country. Some last for months, others just a few days. Some recruit older participants, but most target college students and 20-somethings. The syllabuses and faculty vary, but they all seek to correct the defects they see in mainstream higher education by stressing principles over pluralism, immersing students in the wisdom of old books and encouraging them to apply that wisdom to contemporary politics.
Liberals have their own activist workshops and reading groups, but these rarely instruct students in an intellectual tradition, a centuries-long canon. Why have philosophical summer schools become a vibrant subculture on the right, but only a feeble presence on the left? The disparity underscores a divide between conservatives and liberals over the best way to teach young people — and, among liberals, a certain squeamishness about the history of ideas. Liberals, however, can’t afford to dismiss Great Books as tools of white supremacy, or to disdain ideological training as the sort of unsavory thing that only conservatives and communists do. These are powerful tools for preparing the next generation of activists to succeed in the bewildering ideological landscape of the country that just elected Mr. Trump. Since Brittany Corona graduated from Colorado Christian University in 2012, she has enrolled in the John Jay Institute’s Fellows Program, the Claremont Institute’s Publius Fellowship and the Young Conservatives Coalition Fellowship, and she has attended conferences hosted by the Liberty Fund. All helped her see that “you can engage with the left in an academic way, to understand the roots of philosophical differences,” she told me. “So much of the problem with Fox and MSNBC is that everyone is talking past each other, and they don’t understand their own philosophical positions.” At the John Jay Institute’s semesterlong program, Ms. Corona lived with other fellows in a mansion outside Philadelphia, wrote papers every night, and wore a black academic robe to class (something the institute no longer requires). Fellows hosted dinners and teas for visiting scholars, politicians and businessmen. The appeal here is aesthetic and psychological, not just intellectual. This is an embellished re-creation of college life be-
Conservatives have clustered in reading groups. Liberals should, too.
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fore the rise of the modern university in the mid-19th century — presumably without the student duels or frequent riots over inedible dining-hall food. While other programs are not so allconsuming, they, too, whisk participants away from the dozing herds that fill university lecture halls. Most are free; some even come with a stipend. Acceptance means joining an elite vanguard, what the American Enterprise Institute calls “the next generation of leaders” or “a selective group of promising young conservatives,” as the Claremont Institute puts it. These are safe spaces for conservatives who think little has changed since William F. Buckley scorned the “ne plus ultra relativism, idiot nihilism” at Yale in the 1950s. Participants pride themselves on civil disagreement — which is easy when there are rarely any liberals in the room. Instead of mocking conservatives’ echo chambers and self-regarding fantasies, progressives should learn from them. For one thing, higher education should include a bit of self-regarding fantasy. It allows 20-year-olds to turn off their phones, try on the ideas of civilization’s greatest minds, and practice interacting as adults. (Academic gowns aren’t such a silly idea, either: They are a great equalizer. One may be a prince or a pauper underneath.) At many universities, those “liberal professors” — whose nefarious influence these programs claim to counteract —
hardly have time to indoctrinate unsuspecting undergraduates. They’re too busy taking attendance in class, policing students’ use of digital toys and fending off complaints about next week’s outrageous assignment: a book (yes, read the whole thing!). We are witnessing the gradual high schoolization of the university.
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HESE conservative seminars make an enormous impact simply by taking students seriously. “They’re not at the children’s table,” said Tom Palmer, who directs Cato University, a program that mixes undergraduates with midcareer professionals and retirees. “No one pinches their cheeks and tells them how cute they are.” There is another insight here: the power of teaching the canon. Most of these programs conceive of the canon far too narrowly, but the canon is an elite debating society that anyone can join. It shows students that the struggle for freedom and justice began long before the 1960s, and that this deep history lurks beneath today’s policy debates. Unfortunately, at most universities, studying political philosophy has become a form of countercultural rebellion, a discipline marginalized by courses in supposedly practical subjects like business and communications. Campus activists may learn organizing strategies and the argot of identity politics, but few study the history of their own ideas. A few years ago John Halpin, a fellow at the Center for American Progress, started the Progressive Studies Program. His reading list ran from early Progressive reformers to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Port Huron Statement on to President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech. But he could afford to bring students together for only a day or two. Soon his resources dried up altogether. “It’s hard to get long-term funding for ideological training of this sort” from liberal donors, he told me. “We get a lot more support for demographic work.” It’s not just the reek of dead white men that puts them off. In the spirit of the New Deal and the Great Society, many progressives think of themselves as empiricists, experimenters who follow the evidence wherever it leads. The left is “anti-philosophical, not as committed to the application of deductive philosophical ideas,” Mr. Halpin said. Yet for all its relativism and wonkishness, the progressive tradition grew from firm ideological commitments: a faith in human equality and empathy; the rule of law; the scientific method. Progressives can find kindred spirits among classic conservative thinkers: Adam Smith on moral sentiments, Edmund Burke’s critique of imperial power. You can’t fully understand the theology of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without grasping Augustine’s doctrine of original sin. But few young progressives read these authors. The hyperspecialized, careerist ethos of mainstream universities has served them just as poorly as it has conservatives. If the Trump administration does what Mr. Trump has promised, it will smash conservative orthodoxies like free trade and the evils of government spending. It will embrace primitive nationalism over humanitarian ethics. Its enemies, conservative and liberal, will find themselves having to make principled cases for positions they thought were settled long ago. “We’re in trouble,” Mr. Halpin said. “Large numbers of Americans don’t buy the underpinnings of the two major parties right now.” The paradox of the antiideological election of 2016 is that ideology is now more important than ever.
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An actor, comedian and the author of the memoir “No Land’s Man.”
HITE nationalists have been captured on video raising their hands in a Nazi salute while shouting “Hail Trump.” Hate crimes have surged across the country — the Southern Poverty Law Center gathered reports of 867 in just the 10 days after the election. Yet, unlike his predecessors, our president-elect has been mostly silent in condemning the hate talk and violence being done in his name. In an interview with this paper, Donald J. Trump said that the alt-right is “not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why,” seemingly unable to fathom that the reason they are “energized” is because of him and the thing he needs to “look into” are his own words. When asked by “60 Minutes” whether he had anything to say about the reports of racial slurs and threats by his supporters against African-Americans, Latinos and gays, he replied, “Stop it.” He might as well have preceded that with, “O.K., fine . . . if I have to.” Mr. Trump’s supporters and staff say he has disa-
vowed and condemned these acts and organizations and that should be the end of it. But to many of us, this isn’t enough. It feels disingenuous and forced because we all know that when Mr. Trump has something he really wants to say, he does one thing and one thing only: He spews forth on Twitter. When the president-elect wants to unleash his disapproval, or his thin skin has been ever so slightly bruised, the people responsible can be sure to find themselves on the receiving end of a Twitter barrage like none other. That’s what I want to see now, and I won’t settle for less. The American people deserve to see Mr. Trump attack these hate groups and the people perpetrating hate crimes in his name the way he attacked the cast of the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” the television personality Rosie O’Donnell, Gold
We know he’s mad about ‘Hamilton.’ What about neo-Nazis?
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Star families, The New York Times, Miss USA, the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, women accusing him of sexual misconduct, protesters and the I.R.S. We don’t want a pro forma apology extracted out of him reluctantly by a reporter. We want him to feel so hurt and angry about Nazis using his name that he is up tweeting at 3 a.m. So let me ask you, Mr. Trump — the cast of “Hamilton” are worth a tweet storm, but you can’t muster even one tweet against neo-Nazis yelling “Hail Trump”? Nothing? Come on, I’ll write you a couple of options: “Neo-Nazis are haters and losers. Nasty people. #smallhands #lowenergy.” “White supremacists are a threat to our nation #bigleague. Worse than the #NYTimes. Only I can stop them.” “Time to retire the boring and unfunny Hitler salute, highly overrated.” “Steve Bannon. You’re fired!” I don’t know when or if we will ever see tweets like this, for one of two reasons. Either Mr. Trump actually sympathizes with these hate groups and what they stand for or, what is more likely, he neither agrees nor disagrees with them. Mr. Trump is not driven by any particular ideology; he is driven by the need to be praised and adored. He cannot repudiate any kind of praise, even if it comes from the most despicable people or places. His thin skin works both ways. He lashes out at the smallest perceived slight with ferocity, while praise of any kind is so intoxicating to him that he is blind to where that praise comes from. Whether it’s Vladimir V. Putin or the altright darling and future White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, the way to get to Mr. Trump is clearly to flatter him and massage his fragile ego. This should make us all incredibly nervous, because this is how dangerous people will enter the halls of power and use our president as their puppet. We will find ourselves living in a kakistocracy — a word that recently only spelling bee nerds knew, a word the rest of us will soon become very familiar with. It means a country that is run by the most unqualified and unprincipled among us. Here is a terrifying thought: If Islamic State militants booked rooms at the Trump International Hotel in Dubai and their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi openly flattered Mr. Trump’s “very good brain” on social media, how long would it take before our future president changed his mind about defeating them? For now we are waiting for Mr. Trump to do what only he can do best: call out the racists and the bigots in 140character hyperventilating temper tantrums. For once, we look forward to the barrage.
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T takes a certain force of will to turn away, even briefly, from the burlesque of Donald Trump’s transition into the presidency. But that’s not the entirety of American politics, just as his election wasn’t the lone political story of 2016. Other contests had important lessons. One especially draws my eye. It was a gigantic win for Republicans, who will use it as a model. But Democrats can learn as much from it, because it mirrored some mistakes they made nationwide. I’m referring to Senator Rob Portman’s re-election in Ohio. His seat was one that Democrats identified early as a potential steal, and through much of 2015 and 2016, political analysts tagged the race as one of the most competitive in the country. But he ended up winning by 21 points. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Ohio by a smaller margin of eight points, so Portman didn’t merely surf a Republican wave. And while the Democratic Party essentially gave up on the race two months before Election Day, diverting money elsewhere, that didn’t fully ex-
victory often isn’t. A barrage of attack ads early on branded his opponent, Ted Strickland, who governed Ohio from 2007 to 2011, a failure in office and a hostage to the liberal causes he subsequently worked for in Washington. And seemingly contradicting a history of advocacy for trade, Portman came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. He later garnered union endorsements that don’t typically go to a Republican. But other factors had considerable sway, prime among them the Democrats’ choice of Ted Strickland to challenge Portman. Strickland made sense on a superficial level, and the party initially con-
And did he ever. In early 2015, he was nine points behind Strickland in polls. By late summer 2016, he had established enough of a lead for Democrats to surrender hope. How? He said little about Trump. Once Trump was the party’s de facto presidential nominee, Portman endorsed him, tersely, and that was pretty much that. Questions kept coming, from reporters eager for melodrama. But Portman and his aides kept pivoting to Portman’s record and his plans, and unlike Republicans in other Senate races, they wouldn’t be worn down. “I would give the same succinct answer: This race isn’t between Donald
One formula for victory had nothing to do with Donald Trump. plain the size of Portman’s victory. Nor did his formidable war chest of funds. He and his team prevailed with a series of smart decisions and a conviction — borne out by the results — that even in these viciously polarized times, there remain voters who are moved less by partisan fever than by whether a candidate seems to be duly and humbly focused on them and their particular problems. “I very much believe — no offense to anyone — that Rob Portman ran the best campaign in America,” Matthew Borges, the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio, told me. “People think this world of campaigns is like these stupid movies and, at some point, some grand decision suddenly tips the scales: a particular ad, a particular event,” he noted. But what Portman did, he said, was toil away, methodically and precisely, with one question above all others in mind: What’s the path to the most votes? He never let vanity tug him away from that path. He was ruthlessly disciplined and relentlessly practical. That’s not a sexy formula, but more often than not, it’s a winning one. Portman’s victory was hardly pretty —
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vinced itself that it had hit a home run. A former Ohio governor, he had instant name recognition and deep experience, and was guaranteed to raise gobs of money. But he was 15 years older than Portman, a fellow political insider and a lackluster campaigner. He couldn’t use the most effective tactic against an incumbent and cast himself as a spirited insurgent or agent of change. Portman sometimes played the underdog: a nifty trick when your government résumé is as long as his. Having Strickland as an opponent made it possible. And Strickland had been voted out of the governor’s office, after one term, at a time of enormous economic pain. Portman, whose six years in the Senate coincided with an improving Ohio economy, simply had to remind voters of that.
Trump and Hillary Clinton, it’s between Rob Portman and Ted Strickland,” Portman said in an interview late last week. Sticking to that took extraordinary restraint. Similarly, he didn’t inject himself into divisive national debates or tend to a public profile outside Ohio. You seldom saw him on national shows, but he was on Ohio TV constantly, a contrast that assured Ohio voters that they were his concern. In fact he and his aides insisted that debates with Strickland be moderated by Ohio journalists. No flashy news personalities from elsewhere. Countering voters’ cynicism that politicians are more interested in shouting at one another than in getting anything done, he presented Ohioans with a litany of bipartisan federal legislation that bore his name. He promoted a record of laws
that made strides toward matters as concrete as “repairing the damage of harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie or dealing in very specific ways with the heroin and drug epidemic in Ohio,” he said. For that reason, among others, most of Ohio’s major newspapers endorsed him over Strickland. “People want you to get stuff done,” he told me. “That gets lost in a red-and-blue world where people think you just rev up the base to win. We talked to everybody.”
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Mother Nature Is Brought to You By ... From Page 1 great value. Yes, parks are meant to be natural, not commercial, but times are tough, or so say the backers of the new schemes. The spread of advertising to natural settings is just a taste of what’s coming. Over the next decade, prepare for a new wave of efforts to reach some of the last remaining bastions of peace, quiet and individual focus — like schools, libraries, churches and even our homes. Some of this reflects technological change, but the real reason is the business model of what I call the “attention merchants.” Unlike ordinary businesses, which sell a product, attention merchants sell people to advertisers. They do so either by finding captive audiences (like at a park or school) or by giving stuff away to gather up consumer data for resale. Once upon a time, this was a business model largely restricted to television and newspapers, where it remained within
Pastors were paid to work references to Superman into their sermons. certain limits. Over the last decade, though, it has spread to nearly every new technology, and started penetrating spaces long thought inviolate. In school districts in Minnesota and California, student lockers are sometimes covered by large, banner-style advertisements, so that the school hallways are what marketers call a fully immersive experience. Other schools have allowed advertising inside gymnasiums and on report cards and permission slips. The Associated Press reported this year that a high school near South Bend, Ind., “sold the naming rights to its football field to a bank for $400,000, its baseball field to an auto dealership, its softball field to a law firm, its tennis court to a philanthropic couple and its concession stands to a tire and auto-care company and a restaurant.” Even megachurches, with their large and loyal congregations, have come to see the upside of “relevant” marketing, yielding the bizarre spectacle of product placements in sermons. In one of the first such efforts, pastors in 2005 were offered a chance to win $1,000 and a trip to London if they mentioned “The Chronicles of Narnia” during services. For the 2013 release of “Superman: Man of Steel,” pastors were supplied with notes for a sermon titled “Jesus: The Original Superhero.” Nor are our workplaces and social spheres immune. The time and energy we spend socializing with friends and family has, almost incredibly, been harnessed for marketing, through the business models of Facebook, Instagram and other social media. At the office, the most successful of the productivity-killing dis-
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traction engines, BuzzFeed, brags of luring a “bored at work” network hundreds of millions strong. Unfortunately, there is worse yet to come: The nation’s most talented engineers now apply themselves to making marketing platforms out of innovations — A.I. assistants like the Amazon Echo or self-driving cars. Here the intrusions will be subtle, even disguised, so as not to trip our defenses, but they will be even more powerful, going after our very decision-making processes. Consider how much we already depend on Siri or Google Maps: What happens when our most trusted tools have mixed motives? Advertising revenue often seems like “free money,” but there are enormous risks for the character of any institution once it begins to rely heavily on advertising income. History and logic suggest that, once advertisers become a major funding source, they create their own priorities, and unless carefully controlled they will warp the underlying space to serve their interests. This development raises questions beyond the mere issue of how annoying ads can be. The model of individual liberty
and a self-reliant citizenry was proposed by the founders and influenced by philosophers like John Stuart Mill who envisioned sufficient time and space for selfdevelopment of character and room for making decisions that are truly ours. Similar ideas about the prerequisite of free will are to be found in the great spiritual traditions, which sanctify certain times and spaces for the sake of our spiritual development.
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default setting will always be intrusion and distraction. We need to flip the switch. The second should be to reduce the attention economy by patronizing businesses or institutions with subscription models or those that keep advertising within reasonable limits. Third, the leaders of schools, libraries and even the more principled technology firms should understand that there is always a hidden cost to the proposition offered by advertising. Once an institution is dependent on ad revenue, it’s impossible to put the Crest 3D White Radiant Mint toothpaste back in the tube. Above all, we should not simply resign ourselves to a world saturated by commercial appeals at the cost of our private and sacred spaces. As the great legal scholar Charles Black Jr. once put it, “I tremble for the sanity of a society that talks, on the level of abstract principle, of the precious integrity of the individual mind, and all the while, on the level of concrete fact, forces the individual mind to spend a good part of every day under bombardment with whatever some crowd of promoters want to throw at it.”
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What the Alt-Right Really Means From Page 1 ologies like Mr. Spencer’s. But in late August, Hillary Clinton devoted a speech to the alt-right, calling it simply a new label for an old kind of white supremacy that Mr. Trump was shamelessly exploiting. Groups such as Mr. Spencer’s, which had indeed rallied behind Mr. Trump, were delighted with the attention. Mr. Spencer called the days after the Clinton speech “maybe the greatest week we ever had.” While he does not consider either Mr. Trump or Mr. Bannon alt-right, Mr. Spencer has expressed hope that the press’s describing them as such will help his own group grow. The alt-right is not a large movement, but the prominence that it is enjoying in the early days of the Trump era may tell us something about the way the country is changing. At least since the end of the Cold War, and certainly since the election of a black president in 2008, America’s shifting identity — political, cultural and racial — has given rise to many questions about who we are as a nation. But one kind of answer was off the table: the suggestion that America’s multicultural present might, in any way, be a comedown from its past had become a taboo. This year a candidate broke it. He promised to “make America great again.” And he won the presidency. Mr. Trump’s success is bound to embolden other dissenters. This could mean a political climate in which reservations about such multiculturalist policies as affirmative action are voiced more strenuously. It could mean a rise in racial conflict and a platform for alarming movements like Mr. Spencer’s. More likely, it is going to bring a hard-to-interpret mix of those things. Mr. Spencer, 38, directs the National Policy Institute, which sponsored the Washington meeting. Despite its name, the institute has little to say about policy, although it has called for a 50-year moratorium on immigration. What it mostly does is seek to unite people around the proposition that, as Mr. Spencer put it, “Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.” There are many such groups, varying along a spectrum of couth and intellect. Mr. Spencer, who dropped out of a doctoral program at Duke and worked, briefly, as an editor for The American Conservative, has his own online review, Radix Journal. The eloquent Yale-educated author Jared Taylor, who hosts the American Renaissance website and magazine, was at the conference, too. Kevin MacDonald, a retired psychology professor whose trilogy on Jewish influence is a touchstone for the movement, also came. There were cheers from the crowd at the mention of Andrew Anglin, who runs a neo-Nazi website called The Daily Stormer, but he was not there. Neither was Greg Johnson, whose online review Counter-Currents translates right-wing writings from various European languages. Some of these groups sprouted on the internet. Others have been around since before it existed. There is no obvious catchall word for them. The word “racist” has been stretched to cover an attitude toward biology, a disposition to hate, and a varying set of policy preferences, from stop-and-frisk policing to repatriating illegal immigrants. While everyone in this set of groups is racist in at least one of these senses, many are not racist in others. Not many of the attendees at the Washington gathering favored the term “white supremacist.” The word implies a claim to superiority — something few insisted on. “White nationalist” is closer to the mark; most people in this part of the alt-right think whites either ought to have a nation or constitute one already. But they feel that almost all words tend to misdescribe or stigmatize them. Almost all of them are gung-ho for Mr. Trump. That is a surprise. “I’ve been watching these people for 17 years,” said Heidi Beirich, who follows extremist movements for the Southern Poverty Law Center. “It’s the first time I’ve seen them come out for a candidate.” Mr. Trump disavowed the alt-righters once the excesses of
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Mr. Spencer’s conference went viral. But as a candidate, Mr. Trump called the government corrupt, assailed the Republican establishment, flouted almost every rule of political etiquette, racial and otherwise, and did so in a way that made the altrighters trust his instincts. And whether or not he exploited them as shamelessly as Mrs. Clinton alleged, he did little to put the public at ease on the matter — retweeting posts from someone called @WhiteGenocideTM and dawdling before disavowing the endorsement of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. “I don’t think that Trump is a rabid white nationalist,” the alt-right blogger Millennial Woes said at a speech in Seattle days after the election. “I think that he just wants to restore America to what he knew as a young man, as a child. And I think he probably does know at some level that the way to do it is to get more white people here and fewer brown people.” Mr. Spencer speaks of Mr. Trump’s campaign as a “body without a head” and considers many of his policies “halfbaked.” But for him, that is not the point. “Donald Trump is the first step towards identity politics for European-Americans in the United States,” he said. There is no good evidence that Mr. Trump or Mr. Bannon think in terms like these. Not even the former Breitbart editor at large Ben Shapiro, who has become an energetic critic of Mr. Bannon and his agenda, says that Mr. Bannon is himself a racist or an anti-Semite. Mr. Shapiro considers fears that Mr. Bannon will bring white nationalism to the White House “overstated, at the very least.” To be sure, Mr. Bannon holds right-wing views. He believes that a “global Tea Party movement” is underway, one that would fight crony capitalism and defend Western culture against radical Islam. In a 2014 speech he showed an interest in linking up American activists with certain European populist movements, including opponents of both the European Union and same-sex marriage. But while he recognized that some groups, such as France’s National Front, had “baggage, both ethnically and racially,” he expressed confidence that their intolerance “will all be worked through with time.” Until Hillary Clinton’s speech last summer, a similarly broad idea prevailed of what the alt-right was. The Southern Poverty
Law Center’s webpage on the movement traces some of its roots to libertarian followers of Ron Paul and traditionalist Christians. Neither were in evidence at the National Policy Institute conference in Washington. The adjective “alt-right” has been attached in the past to those, like the undercover documentarian James O’Keefe (known for his secret recordings of Planned Parenthood encounters), whose conservatism is mainstream, even if their tactics are not. Understood this way, the alt-right did look as if it might be a pillar of Mr. Bannon’s world Tea Party. This was especially so if you worked for one of Mr. Bannon’s enterprises. Last March, Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, a peroxide-blond gay Trump supporter, critic of feminism and internet “troll” of a particularly aggressive kind, helped write “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right,” which painted the movement as “born out of the youthful, subversive, underground edges of the internet,” treating the neo-Nazis in its ranks as unrepresentative. But since then, and certainly since the National Policy Institute event, alt-right has come more and more to mean white nationalist. Mr. Yiannopoulos’s exuberant youths look peripheral to the movement, the extremists central. William Johnson of the American Freedom Party even wrote Mr. Spencer a letter accusing him of squandering what might have been a “start-over moniker” — a gentler term that didn’t invite immediate dismissal — for his fellow white nationalists. How big is the movement? There is a “hard core” of thousands or tens of thousands who are “taking us seriously on a daily basis,” Mr. Spencer said. But both members and detractors have an incentive to exaggerate the alt-right’s size. The National Policy Institute, at this point, would have trouble holding a serious street rally, let alone turning into a mass political party. Even so, this more narrowly defined alt-right may be a force. In the internet age, political consciousness can be raised not just through quarterlies, parties and rallies but also through
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The president and chief executive of the National Constitution Center and the author, most recently, of “Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet.”
There are fewer white nationalists than we think, and yet they’re still a force. comment boards, console games and music videos. The internet solves the organizing problem of mobs, even as it gives them incentives not to stray from their screens. The adjective “alt-right” does not just denote recycled extremist views — it also reflects the way those views have been pollinated by other internet concerns and updated in the process. For example, the alt-right has an environmentalist component, centered on a neo-pagan group called the Wolves of Vinland. The Norwegian heavy-metal musician Varg Vikernes, after serving 16 years for murder, has an alt-right blog that contains his musings on everything from Norse mythology to the meaning of the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. There are sci-fi and video-game enthusiasts, too, including many who participated in the “GamerGate” uproar of 2014, which pitted (as the alt-right sees it) feminist game designers trying to emasculate the gaming world against (as the feminists saw it) a bunch of misogynist losers. But most of all there is sex. The alt-right has a lot of young men in it, young men whose ideology can be assumed to confront them with obstacles to meeting people and dating. Sexcynicism and race-pessimism, of course, often travel in tandem. At the National Policy Institute conference, the writer F. Roger Devlin gave a talk on why young Norwegian women in Groruddalen, outside Oslo, preferred dating Somali and Pakistani gang members to ethnic Norwegian boys-next-door. “The female instinct is to mate with socially dominant men,” he explained, “and it does not matter how such dominance is achieved.” Likewise, the common alt-right slur “cuckservative,” a portmanteau combining cuckold and conservative, is not just a colorful way of saying that establishment conservatives have been unmanly. According to Matthew Tait, a young ex-member of the far-right British National Party, the metaphor has a precise ornithological meaning. Like the reed-warbler hatching eggs that a cuckoo (from which the word “cuckold” comes) has dropped into its nest, cuckservatives are raising the offspring of their foes. One can apply the metaphor equally to progressive ideas or to the children of the foreign-born. Type “reed warbler” into YouTube, and you will find a video with more than a million views, along with a considerable thread of altright commentary. The internet liberates us to be our worst selves. Where other movements have orators and activists, the alt-right also has ruthless trolls and “doxers.” The trolls bombard Twitter and email accounts with slur-filled letters and Photoshopped art. Doxing is the releasing of personal information onto the internet. Last month, several alt-right writers, including Mr. Spencer, had their accounts suspended by Twitter. Mr. Spencer says he appreciates the “frenetic energy” of trolling but doesn’t do it himself. The alt-right did not invent these tactics. But during this election the trolling reached a sadistic pitch. Journalists who opposed Mr. Trump received photos of themselves — and in some cases their children — dead, or in gas chambers. Jewish and Jewish-surnamed journalists were particular targets, especially those seen to be thwarting Mr. Trump’s rise: Jonah Goldberg, Julia Ioffe and Ben Shapiro, among others. The Daily Stormer has been particularly aggressive in deploying its “troll army” against those with whom it disagrees. A signature punctuation of the alt-right is to mark Jewish names with “echoes,” or triple parentheses, like (((this))). One got a strange sensation at the National Policy Institute gathering that everyone in the room was either over 60 or under 40. There was a lot of tomorrow-belongs-to-me optimism, as if the attendees felt the ideas being aired there were on the verge of going mainstream. Whether this had anything to do with Mr. Trump’s victory or the effect of alt-right rebranding was hard for a newcomer to say. As Mr. Spencer spoke, a dapper guy named Ryan looked on. Ryan was a 27-year-old who sported the common “fashy” haircut — close-cropped (like a skinhead) on the sides, free-flowing (like a mullet) on the top. Mr. Spencer was lecturing journalists about how it took courage to embrace a movement that was “quite frankly, heretical.” “For the moment,” Ryan muttered. Mr. Tait, who hopes to start an alt-right movement in England, said: “What you’re seeing now is young people who have never been affiliated to any kind of politics, ever. They don’t remember what it was like before the war or in the 1960s or even in the 1980s. Their motivation isn’t a sense of loss.” That is what is “alt” about the alt-right. These people are not nostalgic. They may not even be conservatives. For them, multiculturalism is not an affront to traditional notions of society, as it would have been in the Reagan era. It is society.
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HE Vanderbilt University political scientist Carol Swain was among the first to describe the contours of this worldview. In her 2002 book, “The New White Nationalism in America,” she noted that young people were quick to identify double standards, and that they sometimes did so in the name of legitimate policy concerns. “I knew that identity would come next,” she recalled. “It had to come. All they had to do was copy what they were hearing. The multiculturalist arguments you hear on every campus — those work for whites, too.” Mr. Spencer, asked in an interview how he would respond to the accusation that his group was practicing identity politics in the manner of blacks and Hispanics, replied: “I’d say: ‘Yuh. You’re right.’ ” Professor Swain’s analysis does not just pertain to radicals. It is a plausible account of what is happening in the American electoral mainstream. The alt-right is small. It may remain so. And yet, while small, it is part of something this election showed to be much bigger: the emergence of white people, who evidently feel their identity is under attack, as a “minority”style political bloc.
N the wake of the presidential election, as Democrats realized that Republicans will soon control all three branches of the federal government, progressives disinclined to secede from the Union rediscovered another exit strategy: states’ rights. Mayors in several so-called sanctuary cities, including Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago and New York, immediately reaffirmed their commitment not to work with federal immigration officials in detaining and deporting illegal immigrants. President-elect Donald J. Trump, like Attorney General Loretta Lynch before him, promised to block federal funding for cities whose law enforcement officials refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy pledged to stand up for state laws when they conflicted with the Trump administration’s policies on immigration, abortion, L.G.B.T. rights, social services spending and guns. And the State Innovation Exchange, a progressive organization based in Madison, Wis., predicted that “for the foreseeable future, our nation’s state legislatures will provide one of the only consistent places where advancing progressive policy reforms is possible.” Small-government conservatives are accusing progressives of opportunism in their invocation of states’ rights to resist the big government conservatism of Donald Trump. After the cast of the musical “Hamilton” urged Vice President-elect Mike Pence to “work on behalf of all of us,” Rush Limbaugh observed: “I wonder if the people in this cast have any idea who they are lionizing and celebrating. This guy’s Donald Trump. Alexander Hamilton was a huge nationalist. He did not like states’ rights. He wanted a massive federal government.” Mr. Limbaugh had a point: Since the 1930s, progressives have unapologetically embraced Hamiltonian big government. But in rediscovering the virtues of Jeffersonian small government, Democrats and liberals are returning to a tradition of “progressive federalism” that they favored before the New Deal and the Great Society — and that they began to revive during the second Bush administration. Jefferson viewed American history as a clash between centralization and decentralization, between monopolistic financiers and agrarian
Trump’s victory has revived the idea of local control, but with a progressive twist. producers. Jefferson proposed a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited Congress from chartering corporate monopolies and opposed Hamilton’s Bank of the United States because the claim that Congress had “implied powers” to charter corporations would clash with the 10th Amendment, which protects states’ rights. This tradition of economic populism continued to be embraced by Democrats through the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who vetoed the Second Bank of the United States as an instrument of the “moneyed aristocracy.” Woodrow Wilson ran in 1912 pledging to break up monopolies and appointed his chief economic adviser, Louis Brandeis, to the Supreme Court in 1916. Brandeis was the 20th century’s leading progressive champion of federalism, attacking “the curse of bigness” and defending the states as “laboratories of democracy.” In the 1960s, however, much of Democratic and progressive activism shifted to expanding rights for previously excluded groups, like minorities and women, while the labor movement continued to push for greater economic equality. Progressives deplored the South’s “massive resistance” to federal desegregation efforts; they viewed Jefferson as a flawed slaveholder and states’ rights as the enemy of liberty and equality. But their focus on civil rights rather than on economic equality had legal and political implications that culminated in Mr. Trump’s Electoral College victory. After George W. Bush’s second victory in 2004, when Republicans held all three branches of government, progressive scholars and public officials began to rediscover the virtues of what Heather K. Gerken of Yale Law School, the intellectual guru of the movement, calls “A New Progressive Federalism.” David J. Barron, now a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, wrote an article in Dissent after Mr. Bush’s re-election referring to “the emer-
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The author, most recently, of “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World.”
HEN the modern Tea Party movement coalesced in the early days of the Obama presidency, its allusion to the political grievances of the protesters in Boston Harbor a couple of hundred years earlier seemed plausible enough: Its members felt that their taxes were too high and their interests not adequately represented by the remote authorities in Washington. But the election of 2016 presents a challenge to that historical lineage. The home states to the Tea Party are actually doing great on the taxation and representation front. It’s the progressive blue states that should be protesting. Start with the Electoral College. It has always deviated from the one-person-one-vote system that most Americans imagine they live in, but demographic shifts in recent years have made its prejudices more conspicuous, culminating in the striking gap between Hillary Clinton’s decisive popular vote victory and her Electoral College loss. Thanks to the two extra votes delivered to each state for its two senators, the Electoral College gives less populated states a higher weight, per capita, than it gives more populated states in the decision of who should be the next president. This was always a betrayal of one-personone-vote equality, in that a voter in rural Wyo-
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gence of why-go-to-Canada-when-you-havefederalism discussions within lefty circles.” Several progressive politicians relied on these arguments, from Barney Frank’s urging the city of San Francisco to use the rhetoric of local control to resist a federal gay marriage ban to Senator Richard B. Blumenthal’s invoking states’ rights when he was the attorney general of Connecticut on issues ranging from banking regulations to banning assault weapons. In fact, you can make a credible case that the most important progressive victories in the Obama era — including health care reform and marriage equality, both originally tested in Massachusetts — emerged from the states during the Bush administration, just as Brandeis anticipated. As Professor Gerken explained in an article for the journal Democracy in 2012, progressive federalism is a way to create a decentralized system “where national minorities constitute local majorities,” thus allowing “minorities to protect themselves rather than look to courts as their source of solace.” Progressive federalists like Professor Gerken argued during Mr. Obama’s second term that decentralization could help minorities in mostly African-American cities like Atlanta or in a state like California, where Hispanics are the largest group. Having lost all three branches of the federal government again, progressives are now con-
cluding that they have no alternative but to redouble their efforts at the local level. Some of these efforts will be defensive: If a Supreme Court with more than one Trump appointment overturns Roe v. Wade, the abortion issue, as Mr. Trump noted, “will go back to the states.” Progressives would then have to make the case against abortion restrictions state by state. But some important progressive victories have already occurred in blue and red state referendums. On Nov. 8, voters in three states (California, Nevada and Washington) voted for stricter gun control. Four states (Arizona, Colorado, Maine and Washington) voted to increase the minimum wage. Four Trump states (Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota) passed ballot measures allowing or expanding the use of medical marijuana, while California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada voted to legalize the use of recreational marijuana. These state marijuana legalization initiatives, however, may be challenged by the Trump Justice Department and the Supreme Court. And the tables may be turned as White House conservatives abandon their devotion to federalism to pursue a national war on drugs while progressives invoke states’ rights to defend local legalization efforts. In August 2013, the Obama Justice Department announced that while federal law continues to regulate marijuana as a controlled substance, it would condition-
ally waive its right to challenge Colorado and Washington State laws legalizing the drug. A Trump administration, however, might reverse this policy and enforce federal anti-marijuana laws. The battle could end up at the Supreme Court, much as it did in 2005, when the Bush administration challenged California’s medical marijuana law.
An index combining aid received per federal tax dollar and Electoral College strength per capita yields this ranking, from most to least shortchanged.
ming has more than three times the power of a voter in New Jersey, the country’s most densely populated state. But those imbalances have become far more glaring, thanks to a filter bubble more pronounced than anything on Facebook: the “big sort” that has concentrated Democrats in cities and inner-ring suburbs, and Republicans in exurbs and rural counties. The right way to think about the political conflict in this country is not red state versus blue state, but red country versus blue city. And yet we are voting in a system explicitly designed to tip the scales toward the countryside. But that’s only part of the imbalance. When the founders were plotting the Electoral College, more urban states to the north had significant debt, while the rural Southern states
centuries ago (at least if you took slavery out of the equation) but it bears no resemblance to the current economic map of the United States, where the major cities are now overwhelmingly the engines of economic growth and wealth creation — and also tax revenue. For complicated reasons — some of which have to do with rural poverty, some of which have to do with the basic physics of supporting infrastructure in low-density regions — a disproportionate amount of per capita federal spending and benefits now flow down to the low-density states. According to a study by the Tax Foundation conducted several years ago, for every dollar New Jersey pays in federal taxes, it receives 61 cents in benefits and other federal spending. For the same dollar of taxes Wyoming spends, it gets $1.11 back. Put those two trends together and you have a grievance worthy of the original Tea Party: more taxation with less representation. The urban states are subsidizing the rural states, and yet somehow in return, the rural states get more power at the voting booth. You can represent the injustice of this arrangement mathematically. Think of it as two different kinds of return on investment: how much does each state receive for every dollar it pays in taxes, and how much Electoral College influence does each state get for each vote cast. Take the average of those two data points and you have a measure of which states are getting shortchanged by the system. Call it the disenfranchisement index. The states that rank at the top of this list are the ones that are paying the highest proportion of the country’s bills while ranking lowest in terms of voting power in the Electoral College. The first 12 on the list have all voted for the Democratic candidate in at least two of the last three elections, and all but two of them went for Mrs. Clinton in 2016: New Jersey, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, Connecticut,
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26 Arizona
2 Minnesota
27 Kansas
3 Illinois
28 S. Carolina
4 Colorado
29 Virginia
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30 Kentucky
6 New York
31 Oklahoma
7 Wisconsin
32 Utah
8 Michigan
33 Delaware
9 Connecticut
34 Nebraska
10 California
35 Arkansas
11 Washington
36 Louisiana
12 Oregon
37 Alabama
13 Florida
38 Maine
14 Ohio
39 Idaho
15 N. Carolina
40 Mississippi
16 Texas
41 Montana
17 Pennsylvania
42 Rhode Island
18 Georgia
43 W. Virginia
19 Indiana
44 Vermont
20 Nevada
45 New Mexico
21 Iowa
46 S. Dakota
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47 Hawaii
23 Maryland
48 N. Dakota
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25 Tennessee
50 Wyoming
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Progressive urban areas pay more taxes and have less voting power than rural ones. were in better financial shape, thanks in part to the free labor of slavery. Recall the line from “Cabinet Battle #1” from the musical “Hamilton”: “If New York’s in debt — Why should Virginia bear it? Our debts are paid, I’m afraid Don’t tax the South cuz we got it made in the shade” There’s a straight line that connects that caricature of more urban Northern states living beyond their means in the late 1700s to Ronald Reagan’s welfare queens in the 1980s: the prevailing sense that the big cities are dependent on government bailouts and benefits, while the less dense regions live responsibly. That sketch might have been accurate two
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HE last time around, these challenges divided Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian conservatives on the Supreme Court, who reached opposite conclusions. In Gonzales v. Raich, the court held by a 6-3 vote that the Controlled Substances Act was a constitutional exercise of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce and therefore preempted California’s law legalizing medical marijuana. The sometime Hamiltonian nationalist Justice Antonin Scalia joined Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the four liberal justices in holding that local use of marijuana might affect supply and demand in the national marijuana market. The Jeffersonian Justice Clarence Thomas joined two other states’ rights conservatives — Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — in holding that Congress was threatening the ability of states to serve as “laboratories of democracy.” After his inauguration, Mr. Trump will have an opportunity to nominate a replacement for
Justice Scalia. Some of the nominees on the list of 21 names he released before the election are principled Jeffersonian defenders of federalism and states’ rights who might vote to restrict Congress’s power to second-guess state laws. Others are Hamiltonians who would side with congressional power over states’ rights. Most claim to be defenders of federalism and judicial restraint and therefore should face hard choices about whether to strike down progressive state gun control laws or wage laws in the name of the Second Amendment or economic liberty. One thing is clear. In the Progressive Era, Herbert Croly, an adviser to President Theodore Roosevelt, urged liberals to use Hamiltonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends, drawing on federal power to defend economic liberty and individual rights. With no branch of federal power at their disposal during the Trump era, progressives will have to use Jeffersonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends, convincing some blue and purple states to serve as laboratories of democracy and to protect equal rights and civil liberties for all. Whether the Republican White House, Congress and Supreme Court allow progressive federalists to get away with that will depend on whether Republicans prove as devoted to states’ rights now that they control the federal government as they were when they were the ones in the wilderness.
California, Washington and Oregon. Those states make up the overwhelming majority of Hillary Clinton’s Electoral College support in 2016. They are also paying billions of dollars of taxes and receiving only a fraction back in benefits and other federal spending. By contrast, 19 of the 25 most empowered (and largely rural) states went for Mr. Trump. The gap between the two extremes is remarkable. South Dakota, one of the most empowered states in the country, received almost twice the return on taxes as California, the country’s most populated state, while also commanding nearly twice as much power per capita in the Electoral College. If anyone should be declaring themselves the heirs to the Boston patriots who rebelled against the unjust taxation of King George, it’s the big city blue state citizens who are funding a system that by law undercounts their votes.
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O date, wealthy states like California, New York and New Jersey have not expressed much outrage at this situation, in part because they have experienced less economic anxiety than some of the struggling red states and in part because the injustice has not been as visible during the Obama years, thanks to his Electoral College victories. But as our cities get wealthier and more diverse and begin to realize how the system is genuinely “rigged” against them, tectonic forces may well be unleashed. If a Trump administration that urban states voted overwhelmingly against starts curtailing voting rights and rolling back drug-law reform, reneging on the Paris climate accord, deporting immigrants and appointing justices that favor overturning Roe v. Wade, states like California and Massachusetts are sure to start asking hard questions about why they are subsidizing a government that doesn’t give them an equal vote.
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girl, I would stand in my school uniform for hours on end next to my mother in the Plaza de la Revolución, sweating and sunburned, hungry and thirsty, as he fired off endless litanies of numbers and percentages. Did Fidel, I wondered, never need a drink of water? Did he never need the bathroom? When Fidel appeared on television in his pristine olive-green uniform, surrounded by presidents of other countries in suits and ties, I’d ask my mother: “Why is our president always dressed up like a soldier? Are we at war?” My mother tried to explain that this was how Fidel went through life, that he was an eternal warrior and that his battle was not over yet. When I was 12 I learned that presi-
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out into “savage capitalism”? What will become of us without that person who thinks for us, who gives us permission to enter and exit an island surrounded by politics and water? Who will give me — or deny me — permission to be the person I am? On Nov. 26, the morning after Fidel died, I felt this little cage open, just a crack. I looked at the empty, silent city. But I didn’t go out to breathe in the cool air. Instead, I moved away from the door. I was afraid that someone might come in and hurt me. I was scared. And I understood that the cage was inside of me. I thought about my parents, now dead. This came too late for them. And I thought about myself, a censored author in Cuba, a 21st-century woman whose voice has long been silenced. Despite the fact that this was the chronicle of a death foretold, I realized that Fidel was not as immortal as he thought he was. His long speech had ended. But his ideas had long since contaminated my blood. Fidel left that mark on all of us. And so my last question now hangs in the air: “How do we live without Fidel?”
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The author of “Castaway: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis.”
MECHELEN, BELGIUM
HE 20-foot-high effigy of a refugee perched on a rooftop here does not have a name. To his creators, the anonymity of the figure crouched in an orange life vest, his arms wrapped tightly around his knees, reflects the universality of his plight. But it also reflects the way many Europeans view the refugees and migrants arriving in their towns and cities: a nameless, threatening mass. The arrival last year of more than a million migrants — the majority fleeing conflict and persecution — brought panic across Europe. Now host countries need to think beyond immediate needs like emergency housing, food and medical care and address the broader challenge of making people feel included in the societies where they must rebuild their lives. This is especially difficult at a time when terror attacks in Europe by Islamist extremists have created tensions, and far-right political parties are stoking fear for electoral gain. Bart Somers, the mayor of Mechelen, wants to address these fears. He aims to do so by stripping away that anonymity and encouraging interaction between locals and the new arrivals. The inflatable refugee on the roof is one of the more abstract of several initiatives he hopes will break down barriers in this city of around 85,000 people in northern Belgium. When Mr. Somers volunteered earlier this year to open a new center to house 150 more migrants and refugees, in addition to the 250 already living in the city, he arranged an open day so concerned residents could come and see the housing. Children at the center have been invited to join the local scouts group. A “buddy” program pairs new arrivals with a local. And at an adult education center a few blocks from the train station, where refugees learn Dutch, Belgians who also attend classes are invited to spend a day with their foreign counterparts. The day I visited the school, a Somali, a Moroccan, an Afghan, a Palestinian and a Kosovar were engrossed in a lesson on telling the time. Learning the local language and accessing the labor market are the two most important steps to integration, and here they can do both simultaneously. Lessons take place for a few hours over lunch, then the students return to work with a cleaning company subsidized by the municipality.
It is a pilot project, and right now there are only 11 jobs available, but for the men and women taking part, it gives them independence and hope. “Here in Mechelen, for the first time I can help myself,” said Ilham Addilgadir, a 22-year-old Somali woman in a bold red head scarf. She fled Somalia when her father told her she would be killed if she refused to marry a Shabab fighter. Despite having no formal education, she is making swift progress and wants to stay in Mechelen. The situation here is very different from what I’ve seen as I’ve reported on refugees across Europe over the past four years. In Sweden, I know a chemical engineer from Eritrea who has been waiting a year for her refugee papers. While she can in theory work as her application is processed, no company wants to hire her until they know she will be staying. Hanan al-Hasan, a Syrian mother of four, spends two-and-a-half hours a day traveling to her German-language class in Vienna, leaving no time for a
A town tries to get right what the rest of Europe is getting wrong. job with regular hours. In Malta, I saw refugees housed in shipping containers stacked behind barbed wire near the airport. It’s an “out of sight, out of mind” approach aimed at placating a skeptical local population, but it could backfire in the future, Mr. Somers warned. “We live in a super-diverse reality, and we have to see our neighbors as citizens, regardless of their origin, and we have to treat each other the same way.” About 20 miles south of Mechelen is Brussels, which was the epicenter of one of Europe’s deadliest terror rings. The same distance to the north is the port city of Antwerp, and Mr. Somers says that the stretch between Brussels and Antwerp is responsible for 8 percent of all the Europeans who have left to fight in Syria and Iraq. In the nearby municipality of Vilvoorde, just nine minutes away from Mechelen by train, 28 young people have traveled to join Islamist extremist groups. Mr. Somers says that not one Mechelen youth has traveled to Syria, despite 20 percent of his constituents coming from Muslim backgrounds. “There are mayors who said that if people of their city go and fight in Syr-
ia, they hope they will die there,” said Mr. Somers, who has been re-elected three times since 2001. “I say the opposite. I have to do everything to prevent young people going and throwing away their lives there, because they are kids of my town, they are children of Mechelen.” The welcoming policies for refugees are an extension of that same outlook. Of course, some of the policies that work with 400 refugees in a city the size of Mechelen may be difficult to replicate in a place like Vienna, a city of 1.7 million. But the fundamental principles — inclusion rather than exclusion — can apply anywhere. For many Europeans, fear of a culture clash between people from Muslim countries and their predominantly Christian hosts is at the heart of their opposition to welcoming refugees. Dorothy Arts, a 46-year-old former consultant now retraining in the undertaking business, took part in Mechelen’s buddy scheme in part to address her own prejudices about the role of women in Muslim societies. “I thought, ‘That’s my fear, and I don’t want to give in to it — I want to go in there and meet them,’” she said. The city is also working on a course for newcomers, which teaches cultural norms, like the role of men and woman in Belgian society. It’s a sensitive subject, but such courses could benefit everyone. Fahima Ghulani, a 27-year-old mother of two from Afghanistan, refuses to shake the hands of men, has no formal education and wells up in frustration at being unable to find the right words to express herself. In many ways, she represents the kind of person who some in Europe fear can never integrate. But when I asked her if she liked Mechelen, she said: “In Afghanistan, women can’t go outside, but in Belgium I can go outside. Here, my children can go to school. European people, and me, an Afghan — we are all the same.” Europe’s new arrivals overwhelmingly want to integrate and become part of the societies in which they have found themselves. Studies show that refugees can be an asset to communities, bringing cultural rejuvenation and economic benefits. To fail to offer them the opportunity to fulfill their potential would be a mistake that will haunt Europe for generations.
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Cashing In on Climate Change
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The author of “An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Disease” and a contributing opinion writer.
OU’VE saved your money and amassed a surplus. You’ve read a few books on investing and gleaned the basics — the importance of diversification, of investing for the long term, and of buying and holding rather than trying to beat the market. But you also know that human-caused climate change will (if it hasn’t already) start eroding economic output. Extreme weather, droughts and crop failures could mean mass migration and political instability. As Henry Paulson, the former Treasury secretary, recently put it, the “greenhousegas crisis” won’t burst like the housing bubble of 2008 because “climate change is more subtle and cruel.” What’s a climate-aware investor to do? Individuals aren’t the only ones contemplating this question. Sixty-nine percent of Fortune 500 companies reported more demand for “low carbon” products this year, according to the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project. And some of the country’s largest pension funds, including the California State Teachers’ Retirement System and New York State’s retirement fund, have begun tilting away from fossil fuels. This approach has been called “socially responsible investing.” But these days, money managers aren’t doing it only because they think it’s morally correct; they also worry that, over the long term, fossil fuels are a losing bet. Some experts told me that the historic accord on limiting greenhouse-gas emissions reached in Paris last year was a turning point in how investors think about climate change. The United States and China, the world’s two largest emitters, ratified it in September. It’s now unclear what will happen to the agreement; President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he wants to pull the United States out of it. But it’s worth noting that business interests — and Mr. Trump sells himself as a consummate businessman — were integral to making the Paris deal happen in the first place. They realize that “environmental stability is absolutely at the base of financial stability,” Christiana Figueres, the diplomat who organized the conference, told me. Extreme weather, like the 2011 monsoon floods that ravaged parts of South Asia where electronic components that go into hard disks and cars are built, have driven that lesson home. Something more hopeful is happening as well. Renewable energy prices have dropped, and are nearly competitive with fossil fuels. China aims to build enough charging stations to power five million electric cars by 2020. What will happen, Ms. Figueres asked, if China phases out the combustion engine altogether? “You can begin to see the signals,” she said. “The tide is beginning to change.” Advances in battery technology are part of this change. The wind doesn’t blow all the time, nor does the sun shine all day. Energy produced intermittently needs to be stored. A lack of easy storage options has been an obstacle to renewables. But battery costs have declined by more than 70 percent since 2008. Mark Fulton, a founding partner of Energy Transition Advisors, says that what’s about to happen with the battery and renewables is an old-fashioned technological disruption story, akin to the advent of the internet. From an investor’s standpoint, this kind of disruption could mean losing your shirt or, if you plan properly, handsome returns. One of the myths around socially responsible investing is that aligning investments with ethics means lower returns. But that’s not the case. George Serafeim, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, and his colleagues analyzed data going back over 20 years. Companies that were committed to sustainability outperformed companies that weren’t, they found. A dollar invested in sustainability-minded companies in 1993 would have grown to $22.58 by 2014, but just $15.35 if invested in companies with no such commitments. Why might this emphasis increase profits? These firms may also be more
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likely to invest in human capital and be better run overall. So what can an individual investor do? You might follow the Rockefeller Family Fund and divest from the fossil fuel companies entirely. The research firm MSCI offers fossil-free stock indexes — like the S.&P. 500 but without fossil fuel companies — as does a newer organization called Fossil Free Indexes. Various climate-aware mutual funds exist. But even if you divest, says Jean Rogers, chief executive of the nonprofit Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, there’s no escaping the ripple effects of climate
Socially responsible investing makes good business sense. change. “Because it’s so ubiquitous, it’s very hard to diversify away from climate risk,” she told me. Another approach is a kind of divestment lite. Asha Mehta, director of responsible investing at Acadian Asset Management, told me that her clients increasingly request a “decarbonization” of their portfolios. Worried that complete divestment might hobble a portfolio’s performance, however, Ms. Mehta might reduce a portfolio’s carbon footprint to, say, 80 percent of a benchmark like the S.&P. 500 by removing the biggest emitters.
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FIRM called Osmosis Investment Management takes a different tack. It researches the overall efficiency of companies — how many resources a firm uses to create how much product. And instead of excluding certain industries entirely, Osmosis chooses only the most efficient within a given sector. It caters to institutional investors, but plans to release a fund for individuals soon. You can, of course, try to do what Osmosis does on your own; the Carbon Disclosure Project has a trove of information on how companies fare on the sustainability front. But here’s the problem. More than 5,600 corporations disclose sustainability information, but no standards govern these disclosures. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and others are working to devise such standards. Pressure is also mounting on the Securities and Exchange Commission to enforce the disclosure of sustain-
ability information. The commission recently asked for feedback on reforming the disclosure process, and a good chunk of letters mentioned sustainability and climate change. Under a Trump administration, it seems less likely that the S.E.C. will respond to these concerns. But that may have a paradoxical effect: If investors can’t count on regulators to enforce transparency on sustainability, says Sonia Kowal, the president of Zevin Asset Management, they may take matters into their own hands. So if you’re concerned about how climate issues might damage your nest egg, you might begin by raising your voice. Ask your fund managers about their plans. And look at how the funds you own vote on sustainability-related issues, such as whether to calculate and disclose a company’s greenhouse gas emissions, or whether to develop a risk-assessment plan for climate change. Some of the largest asset managers consistently vote against such resolutions. In so doing, critics argue that they work against their customers’ interests. An organization called Fund Votes tracks how mutual funds vote, and the nonprofit Ceres keeps a list of what happens with climate-related resolutions. The broader point is that climate-proofing your portfolio may require homework and some rabble-rousing. Does that make you an activist? “The word I prefer is ‘investor advocate,’ ” Jackie Cook, who operates Fund Votes, told me. “You’re advocating for your own investments.” For many, the perceived gap between socially responsible investing and good business has narrowed almost to the point of convergence. And maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. A Citi report from last year put the costs of climate change, without mitigation, at $44 trillion by 2060. Many analysts have pointed out that a yearslong drought preceded the conflict in Syria — an example of how shifting climate can encourage political instability that ripples around the world. And this year, a report from the World Economic Forum said that the No. 1 global risk in the next 10 years was water crises. Nos. 2 and 3 were climate adaptation failure and extreme weather. The economy can be only as healthy as the planet that houses it. Pushing for transparency on sustainability issues, and asking money managers to consider climate change, is really the purest form of self-interest.
THE STONE GEORGE YANCY
I Am a Dangerous Professor George Yancy is a professor of philosophy at Emory University, the author of “Black Bodies, White Gazes” and “Look, a White!” and a co-editor of “Pursuing Trayvon Martin.”
Those familiar with George Orwell’s “1984” will recall that “Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.” I recently felt the weight of this Orwellian ethos when many of my students sent emails to inform me, and perhaps warn me, that my name appears on the Professor Watchlist, a new website created by a conservative youth group known as Turning Point USA. I could sense the gravity in those email messages, relaying what is to come. The Professor Watchlist’s mission, among other things, is to sound an alarm about those of us in academia who “advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” It names and includes photographs of some 200 professors. The Watchlist appears to be consistent with a nostalgic desire “to make America great again” and to expose and oppose voices in academia that are anti-Republican or express anti-Republican values.
bedded in the Professor Watchlist. Its devotees would rather I become numb, afraid and silent. But it is the anger I feel that functions as a saving grace, a place of being. If we are not careful, a watch list like this can have the impact of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon — a theoretical prison designed to create a form of self-censorship among those imprisoned. The list is not simply designed to get others to spy on us, to out us, but to install forms of psychological self-policing to eliminate thoughts, pedagogical ap-
dents to become angry or resistant in their newfound awareness of the magnitude of suffering that exists in the world. Yet I reject this marking. I refuse to be philosophically and pedagogically adjusted. To be philosophically adjusted is to belie what I see as one major aim of philosophy — to speak to the multiple ways in which we suffer, to be a voice through which suffering might speak and be heard, and to offer a gift to my students that will leave them maladjusted and profoundly unhappy with the world as it is. Bringing them to that state is what I call doing “high stakes
My inclusion on a new Watchlist is intended to shame me into silence. For many black people, making America “great again” is especially threatening, as it signals a return to a more explicit and unapologetic racial dystopia. For us, dreaming of yesterday is not a privilege, not a desire, but a nightmare. The Professor Watchlist is essentially a new species of McCarthyism, especially in terms of its overtones of “disloyalty” to the American republic. And it is reminiscent of Cointelpro, the secret F.B.I. program that spied on, infiltrated and discredited American political organizations in the ’50s and ’60s. Its goal of outing professors for their views helps to create the appearance of something secretly subversive. It is a form of exposure designed to mark, shame and silence. So when I first confirmed my students’ concerns, I was engulfed by a feeling of righteous indignation, even anger. The list maker would rather that we run in shame. Yet I was reminded of the novel “The Bluest Eye” in which Toni Morrison wrote that anger was better than shame: “There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth.” The anger I experienced was also — in the words the poet Audre Lorde used to describe the erotic — “a reminder of my capacity for feeling.” It is that feeling that is disruptive of the Orwellian gestures em-
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proaches and theoretical orientations that it defines as subversive. Honestly, being a black man, I had thought that I had been marked enough — as bestial, as criminal, as inferior. I have always known of the existence of that racialized scarlet letter. It marks me as I enter stores; the white security guard never fails to see it. It follows me around at predominantly white philosophy conferences; I am marked as “different,” not because I am different but because the conference space is filled with whiteness. It follows me as white police officers pull me over for no other reason than because I’m black. As Frantz Fanon writes, “I am overdetermined from without.” But now I feel the multiple markings; I am now “un-American” because of my ideas, my desires and passion to undo injustice where I see it, my engagement in a form of pedagogy that can cause my stu-
philosophy.” It is a form of practicing philosophy that refuses to ignore the horrible realities of people who suffer and that rejects ideal theory, which functions to obfuscate such realities. It is a form of philosophizing that refuses to be seduced by what Nietzsche called “conceptual mummies.” Nietzsche notes that for many philosophers, “nothing actual has escaped from their hands alive.” In my courses, which the watch list would like to flag as un-American and as leftist propaganda, I refuse to entertain my students with mummified ideas and abstract forms of philosophical self-stimulation. What leaves their hands is always philosophically alive, vibrant and filled with urgency. I want them to engage in the process of freeing ideas, freeing their philosophical imaginations. I want them to lose sleep over the pain and suffering of so many lives that many of us deem dis-
posable. I want them to become conceptually unhinged, to leave my classes discontented and maladjusted. Bear in mind that it was in 1963 that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. raised his voice and said: “I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence.” I also recall the words Plato attributed to Socrates during his trial: “As long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy.” By that Socrates meant that he would not cease to exhort Athenians to care more for justice than they did for wealth or reputation. So, in my classrooms, I refuse to remain silent in the face of racism, its subtle and systemic structure. I refuse to remain silent in the face of patriarchal and sexist hegemony and the denigration of women’s bodies, or about the ways in which women have internalized male assumptions of how they should look and what they should feel and desire. I refuse to be silent about forms of militarism in which innocent civilians are murdered in the name of democracy. I refuse to remain silent about the existential and psychic dread and chaos experienced by those who are targets of xenophobia and homophobia. I refuse to remain silent when it comes to transgender women and men who are beaten to death by those who refuse to create conditions of hospitality. I refuse to remain silent in a world where children become targets of sexual violence, and where unarmed black bodies are shot dead by the state and its proxies, where those with disabilities are mocked and still rendered “monstrous,” and where the earth suffers because some of us refuse to hear its suffering, where my ideas are marked as un-American, and apparently dangerous. Well, if it is dangerous to teach my students to love their neighbors, to think and rethink constructively and ethically about who their neighbors are, and how they have been taught to see themselves as disconnected and neo-liberal subjects, then, yes, I am dangerous, and what I teach is dangerous.
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Readers offer ideas for creating jobs in the Trump administration in response to a Nov. 29 letter by Andrew G. Bjelland. IN THE SHORT term, Prof. Andrew G. Bjelland is right: Certainly it is imperative that the government — either with or without a partnership with private industry — create jobs by improving the nation’s infrastructure, Works Progress Administrationtype projects, national service and all the rest. But that is just a temporary fix. We are only on the cusp of major developments in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence that within a generation or so will require us to completely rethink the structure of society. What will happen when there are no more lowpaying jobs and when many higher-paying jobs also disappear? Right now, at the dawn of A.I. and smart robots, we are already seeing the disappearance of enormous numbers of manufacturing and even service jobs. When was the last time you reached a live telephone operator when you called a company? Our society must come to terms with the fact that people will have to be given the means to a happy, healthy and productive life without paid jobs. Are we close to that point? It’s a major cultural upheaval that we need to prepare for, and it’s coming all too soon. MICHAEL SPIELMAN Bronx
Where Unfair Voting Practices Begin Partisan gerrymandering — the drawing of federal or state legislative districts to benefit Republicans or Democrats — is among the most corrosive practices in modern American democracy. It lets incumbents keep themselves and their party in power even without majority support, it deprives voters of representatives who reflect their wishes and it contributes to the hyperpartisan gridlock in the nation’s politics. As President Obama put it in his State of the Union speech this year, “we’ve got to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around.” This behavior has been hard to prevent, in part because courts don’t know how to respond to it. Lawsuits involving racial gerrymandering are fairly common; on Monday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear two cases, one out of North Carolina and one from Virginia, alleging that Republicans drew district lines that diluted the voting strength of racial minorities. But even though race and partisanship are deeply entangled, especially in the South, the justices have long avoided the question of whether a legislative map drawn for partisan advantage is unconstitutional. That could change. A federal court panel ruled last month that Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin had intentionally redrawn state legislative district lines in such a blatantly partisan way that the maps violated the Constitution. “There is no question,” the court wrote, that the new maps, which were created in 2011, were “designed to make it more difficult for Democrats, compared to Republicans, to translate their votes into seats.” In 2012, the year after the new lines were drawn, Republican candidates for the Wisconsin Assembly won less than half of the statewide vote — but 60 of the Assembly’s 99 seats. That pattern persisted in 2014, as well as in federal and state races elsewhere around the country. In North Carolina, Democrats got 51 percent of the 2012 vote for the United States House of Representatives, which translated to only four of the state’s 13 congressional seats. The skew was roughly the same in Pennsylvania: Democrats won a little more than a quarter of the House seats, even though they got a majority of the votes cast in congressional races in the state that year. Republicans achieved this effect in Wisconsin, according to the plaintiffs in that case, with two tactics: dividing Democratic neighborhoods among multiple districts so that Democratic voters fell short of a majority in each one and, in other places, cramming Democrats into a few districts to dilute their votes statewide. Both Democrats and Republicans have tried to tilt the playing field when they’ve had the chance. But Republicans, who swept into power in statehouses in recent years, have done much more of it lately, and they have had the benefit of increasingly powerful mapping software to make partisan line-drawing even more precise and effective at protecting their party’s seats. The result is “the
most extreme gerrymanders in modern history,” according to a paper published in The University of Chicago Law Review last year. The paper, co-written by Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a law professor who represented the Wisconsin plaintiffs, argued that courts could address partisan gerrymandering with a measure called the “efficiency gap” — a relatively simple formula that compares each party’s “wasted” votes. Using that measure, the court in the Wisconsin case found that the new maps resulted in so many more wasted votes for Democrats than for Republicans that they violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause. The court declined to rule on a remedy. The fate of the ruling now rests with the Supreme Court, which has two options: affirm or reverse it without argument, or hear oral arguments and consider the decision on its merits. Justice Anthony Kennedy has expressed an openness to an argument like the one that succeeded in Wisconsin, which suggests that there might be a majority to uphold the decision. A permanent fix for partisan gerrymandering would be to take redistricting entirely out of the hands of self-interested lawmakers and give it to independent commissions. In California and Arizona, both of which have adopted such commissions, legislative races have become more competitive than the national average as measured by the smaller margins of victory. That’s good for voters, and for democracy.
CREATING JOBS FOR people with limited education and skill sets is incredibly challenging. Andrew G. Bjelland’s suggestion of a Works Progress Administration-like program is on the right track. But the question is how to get it through a Republican Congress. Since Republicans have said for years that the rich are the “job creators,” I suggest that we put this notion to the test. Congress could establish a program that provides tax credits to individuals and companies that sponsor training and a job for individuals. The jobs must be 1) in an area with the longest and highest rates of unemployment; 2) for a minimum of one year; and 3) given to individuals who have been unemployed for at least six months. STEVE MIZEL Lewisville, N.C. ONE OF THE best ways to create jobs is to not eliminate them in the first place. “No layoff” policies — either formal or in practice — allow roughly 20 American companies to preserve jobs in manufacturing (Nucor Steel, Lincoln Electric), retailing (the Container Store, Wegmans), travel (Southwest Airlines) and technology (SAS). Another method to maintain jobs is furloughs — unpaid or partially compensated leaves. During the Great Recession, Honeywell used furloughs worldwide to maintain its work force so it would be ready for the recovery. The result? A more than 20-point lead in total stock returns between 2009 and 2012 over General Electric, the nearest competitor. Innovative, practical business leaders recognize the benefits of job preservation for companies, employees and society. SANDRA J. SUCHER Boston The writer is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. WHILE ARGUING, RIGHTLY, for infrastructure investment as a reliable way to address the country’s unemployment and underemployment problems, Mr. Bjelland repeatedly counsels, but without any evidence of its efficacy, a “private-public partnership.” Thankfully, the case for “private-public” partnerships in infrastructure revitalization has been widely debunked, including by your own Paul Krugman in his blog (nytimes.com, Nov. 19). Mr. Krugman asks the obvious question: Why should private investors both raise the money and build the projects, instead of the government borrowing and directly spending money on infrastructure projects? Mr. Krugman discredits a self-serving assertion made by privatization boosters — that private investment avoids incurring additional public debt — by looking at the long term, most compellingly the toll road example: “If the government builds it, it ends up paying interest but gets the future revenue from the tolls.” Therein lies the folly of handing over key public functions to private, profit-driven corporations. JAMES THINDWA Chicago The writer is a board member at In These Times magazine.
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The Horror of Lynchings Lives On The time when African-Americans were publicly hanged, burned and dismembered for insisting on their rights or for merely talking back to whites is nearer in history than many Americans understand. The horror of these crimes still weighs heavily on black communities in the South, where lynching memories are often vivid. The anguish is made worse by the realization that some of the killers are still alive and may never be prosecuted. Consider Walton County, Ga., where the Justice Department is investigating the infamous Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching of 1946, in which a white mob tied up four black citizens — one of them pregnant — and shot them more than 60 times at close range. The killers were never brought to justice. The crime resurfaced three years ago when a white man in his 50s said in an interview with the N.A.A.C.P. that he had grown up hearing adults talking about the killings and that some of those responsible were still alive. He also said that the local police had ignored evidence that he had given them. The Moore’s Ford Bridge case, often described as the last mass lynching in country, stands out for its wanton brutality and for the fact that one of its victims was George Dorsey, a World War II Army veteran who had recently returned to Georgia after serving five years in the Pacific. A study released last month by the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that has been researching racial terror lynchings for several years, finds that black military veterans were disproportionately singled out for assault because Southerners viewed them as a particular threat to white supremacy. This report adds to “Lynching in America,” a sweeping study of racial terror released by the organization last year. That study was based on a lengthy review of local
FREE TRADE AND globalization have left too many Americans with no jobs or low-paid jobs, while corporate executives and investors have done quite well. It really is time to give back and help the millions of willing workers who are part of the backbone of this nation but are existing in desperate employment situations. Creating good jobs is fundamentally dependent on stimulating domestic business start-ups and expansions as well as expanding public works. Equally important is preparing people for those jobs. Companies used to train workers; they need to resume those programs. Public schools and colleges need to acknowledge that graduates want jobs, and work with corporations to gear more of their curriculums to job readiness. Workers also need to be prepared to relocate to where the jobs are. Government should provide support and incentives for relocation. DON CARLSON Boston The writer is a former management consultant.
newspapers, court records and historical archives as well as interviews with local historians, survivors and victims’ descendants. In the end, researchers counted 4,075 lynchings — about 800 more than have shown up in previous surveys. That so many killings were missing from the historical record illustrates the extent to which lynchings — sometimes carried out before hundreds of spectators — have been erased from public discourse. The report about black veterans argues persuasively that former soldiers like Mr. Dorsey were targeted for assault because black men in uniform challenged the white supremacists’ idea of black inferiority and were seen as potential leaders in insurrections. Southern states reacted to this fear during the 19th century by making it a crime for African-Americans to own firearms. Newspapers fanned the flames of hatred through sensational stories that portrayed black veterans as participants in a national “race war.” Local elected officials often worked hand in hand with the mobs, giving the public advance notice of these killings. By the time of the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching, the report says, thousands of black veterans had been attacked, and many either narrowly escaped or were put to death by mobs. Understanding the persecution that black veterans suffered from the Civil War period through World War II is crucial to understanding the nightmare of terror that extended to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as the racism that pervades the country today. This report is especially relevant given that white supremacist groups with roots in the Jim Crow era have recently come marching out of shadows, emboldened by the poisonous rhetoric deployed in the Trump campaign.
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Americans once united behind federal programs that created jobs, served human needs and greatly increased productivity. A striking example: In 1934 less than 11 percent of American farms were on the grid. Thanks to Rural Electrification Administration projects, by 1942 nearly 50 percent of farms had electric power — close to 100 percent by 1952. Couldn’t a similar effort today do for renewable energy what the R.E.A. once did for electrification? I focused on public-private partnerships because, after a Republican sweep, that is the only type of job creation likely to be offered. I agree with Mr. Thindwa’s and Mr. Krugman’s critique, and personally have always believed direct federal funding makes more sense. Mr. Spielman addresses a serious concern. Artificial intelligence will render many human workers obsolete. The G.O.P. congressional leadership is fast-tracking Reaganomic “solutions” — privatize, deregulate, reduce taxes, etc. — and avoiding this issue. National service provides a partial solution: By inculcating problem-solving skills, by encouraging interaction with a broad range of people, and by establishing invaluable networks, such service humanizes individuals and bonds communities. Youthful enthusiasm abounds: Hundreds of thousands of talented young people apply to AmeriCorps each year. Because of a lack of funding, only about 75,000 actually serve. The example of Israel, where national service is mandatory, indicates that we could do much better. ANDREW G. BJELLAND Salt Lake City
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In ‘Arrival,’ the World Is Saved by Words A woman stands inside a spaceship. Only a glass-like partition separates her from two enormous aliens. The woman removes her biohazard suit. She approaches the aliens. She presses her palm against the partition. This is what heroism looks like in “Arrival.” The woman is Louise Banks, a linguist played by Amy Adams, and she has been recruited by the United States military to communicate with the aliens and find out what they’re doing on Earth. “Arrival,” released to theaters on Nov. 11, offers a science fiction hero who wields no weapon, pilots no spacecraft and conquers no planet. Instead, Dr. Banks manages to (spoiler) save the world using a low-tech yet highly complex technique: talking. The aliens communicate using a language unlike anything spoken or written on Earth, one that depends on a nonlinear perception of time. Dr. Banks
is able to decipher some of its written symbols fairly quickly, but to understand the aliens’ purpose on Earth — and to stop the nations of the world from going to war with the aliens — she needs to experience time the way the aliens do. This requires a superhuman level of empathy, as well as the emotional strength to see the future, with all its joys and tragedies, and do what is necessary to bring it about. Empathy and emotional agility are traditionally seen as feminine virtues, which is probably why they’re not typically viewed as heroic, especially in the male-dominated field of science fiction. These qualities have largely been the province of female side players, like Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), the therapist on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” who got a spot on the bridge of the Enterprise for a while but was given very little to do there.
In recent years, there have been a few gun-toting female protagonists, like Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) in “Battlestar Galactica” and Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) in “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Less common is the hero of any gender who does something other than shoot. The most recent sci-fi character to break this mold was probably Mark Watney (Matt Damon), the botanist who keeps himself alive through ingenious tinkering in “The Martian.” But he isn’t a leader the way Dr. Banks is. Her planet-saving skill rests on her ability to communicate with aliens and people who can’t understand one another. When it matters most, she conveys the right message to the right person and saves the world without firing a shot. In doing that, she’s a model for real life: someone who leads by learning, listening and talking. ANNA NORTH
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ROSS DOUTHAT
A Great Deal For the Many
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F Donald Trump could script his presidency, every week would probably look like the one just past. You get on the phone with some corporate big shot who’s considering closing a plant in the Rust Belt. You offer some carrots, you threaten implicitly, you make a deal: Jobs stay, factories don’t close, and maybe next time they even open. (Nothing will make Trump happier than the day he gets Apple to open a minor widget factory in Wisconsin.) Then you hold a big rally, brag about your dealmaking prowess, promise that C.E.O.s won’t be shipping jobs overseas with impunity anymore . . . and then fly back to Trump Tower and wait for the next opportunity to do it all again. Unfortunately this is not an optimal approach to economic policy. It ignores deep Hayekian insights about the problems inherent in picking winners and punishing losers from on high. It expands an economy of favors and phone calls in which insiders will inevitably profit more than innovators. It embodies the crony capitalism that only yesterday Republicans opposed. At the same time — well, it could be worse. Trump is putting a celebrity spin on something that happens under both parties: George W. Bush’s administration came in with steel tariffs and went out with the Wall Street bailout, which was followed by the G.M. bailout under President Obama; meanwhile, ethanol salesmen and sugar moguls and defense contractors and green-energy tycoons all jostle for their share of federal favors, and at the state level the bribery is even starker. Trump will make the cronyism more personal and public, and his own conflicts of interest will bear watching. But if he sticks to jawboning individual companies — as opposed to instituting tariffs and starting trade wars — he won’t necessarily make the underlying sclerosis that much worse. But strong-arming individual companies also isn’t going to do that much to help the mass of heartland voters to whom he promised a Trumpian New Deal. Saving jobs that Carrier planned to ship to Mex-
Annette Dove and Jesse Spencer at an office of Topps, which helps children and young adults in Pine Bluff, Ark.
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Finding America’s Mother Teresa
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Can Trump help workers when he isn’t strong-arming their bosses? ico is a meaningful thing for the workers involved. But even if you scale up the same deal-making dramatically, you’re still talking about a footnote to the unemployment rate and average wage. And it’s disappointment with wages writ large, and male-breadwinner wages especially, that’s crucial to the economic element in Trump’s populist appeal. Even with unemployment falling, years and decades of slack wage growth are a crucial fact on the economic ground, and an issue that both parties — the Republicans in their paeans to heroic entrepreneurs, the Democrats in their promise of new welfare spending — have talked around more than they’ve addressed. They’ve talked around it, of course, because there is no single policy lever to pull that delivers higher wages, and the policies involved can be slow, subtle, and uncertain in their effects. Perhaps Trumpism’s immigration restrictions and infrastructure spending and corporate tax cuts can have a clearer impact than other presidents’ approaches; it’s not impossible. But if the rest of his agenda is conventionally Republican, he could end up with a disappointingly conventional Republican result: Rising G.D.P., but stagnant takehome pay. However: It is possible for policy makers to raise take-home pay directly even without big boosts in the underlying wages. Cutting payroll taxes would do it. The earned-income tax credit does it. Middle-class tax cuts do it. Child tax credits do it. A wage subsidy would do it. The list of possibilities is long. Several of those possibilities are immediately available to Trump, if he wants to reach for them. His daughter’s child-care subsidy could be reconfigured to deliver more to the working class; it could be combined with the larger earned-income tax credit envisioned by Paul Ryan or the wage subsidy that Marco Rubio is championing, and both could be folded into a tax reform that makes good on Trump’s Treasury nominee’s recent promise to prioritize middle-class tax cuts over tax cuts for the rich. None of this would solve the long-term dilemma of slow wage growth. But it would make it immediately easier, often to the tune of thousands of dollars a year, for Americans who aren’t employed by companies amenable to Trumpian jawboning to pay bills, raise children, take vacations, and pursue the American Dream. It would also cost money, money that conventional Republican economics — and Trump’s official campaign tax plan — tends to reserve for upper-bracket tax cuts. Which is why the tax policy to expect from Trump is probably a modest gesture toward Middle America paired with a sweeping, 1-percent-friendly, supply-side tax cut. But it could be otherwise. So far Trump has induced free-trading Republicans to sound like protectionists, and once-libertarian Republicans to nod along to his mercantilism. If he bends the party’s tax orthodoxy as well, he would be able to deliver something bigger than last week’s public-relations win: not just manufacturing jobs for a fortunate few, but more money for the many. CORRECTION Last Sunday’s column im-
plied that Father Antonio Spadaro had tweeted a quote from “Lord of the Rings” as a rebuke to the cardinals questioning Pope Francis. Father Spadaro has clarified that his tweet was actually directed against his own critics on Twitter.
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PINE BLUFF, ARK.
F this political season has you feeling down, meet Annette Dove. She’s a salve for our aches and wounds, for she represents the American grass roots’ best. Dove, 60, is a black woman who dropped out of high school when she became pregnant and who has endured racism and domestic abuse. Drawing on her own experience overcoming difficulties, she now runs a widely admired program for troubled children. Funding the program in part with her own savings — even going into personal bankruptcy to keep it going — she transforms lives. Dove works seven days a week and struggles month to month to pay the bills with donations, foundation support and a state grant; when the money runs out, she prays. The poverty and disadvantage that Dove is fighting here in Pine Bluff, a poor, majority-black town of 50,000, are found all across America. But so, too, are people like Dove, battling for progress through churches, schools, Big Brother programs, advocacy efforts. These heroes get no headlines, no reward, no glory, and they regularly have their hearts broken, only to soldier on to help the next child. This is the spirit that Tocqueville admired in 19th-century America, and it’s why in a brutal political year, Dove and those like her help restore my faith in America. Consider Jesse Spencer, a young man who says he was kicked out of his house at age 13 by his mom’s boyfriend. Homeless, he turned to street gangs to survive and missed learning to read. Spencer had a few run-ins with the police, and then at age 16 he joined with friends in robbing a pizza delivery woman with a pellet gun. He was arrested, charged as an adult and sentenced to 12 years in prison; he ended up serving more than nine years and was released in August. Dove is helping him get a job and an ID, and here’s one gauge of how marginalized he is: Even the spelling of his name is an
issue. He says it’s Jesse, but some police record shows him as Jessie, and because he was arrested at 16, he’s never had a normal adult identification card. Spencer had brief interactions with Dove’s program as a boy, and he told me ruefully that if he had had more, “it would have made a great difference.” I keep thinking this: Taxpayers spent more than $200,000 imprisoning Spencer, yet we’re unwilling to invest sufficiently in programs like Dove’s that help break the cycle of poverty and keep kids out of trouble. It’s in places like Pine Bluff that one sees how much federal, state and local policies matter in shaping ordinary lives, and the most heroic charitable efforts
A small-town hero transforming lives. can’t make up for failed policies. We wouldn’t build an interstate highway system through charities, and we can’t build a comprehensive program for at-risk kids that way, either. But in difficult times, people like Dove keep their fingers in the dike and avert catastrophe. Dove is so driven to help these children because this is her world. After becoming pregnant at 16 and dropping out of school, she earned her G.E.D. and a college degree, became a star special education teacher, and, after her beloved husband died, she quit her job and started Topps, for Targeting Our People’s Priorities with Service. It evolved into an afterschool program that also feeds 600 children a day in the summer and offers mentoring, tutoring and help staying out of jail, off drugs and in school. The first children to go through Topps are now in college — 33 of them. “We have a lot of drug-infested families,” Dove said, and she and her mentors come across as surrogate parents, telling kids how to dress and use birth control, and steering them to college admission tests and applications for scholarships. The boys learn skills that middle-class
children absorb routinely, such as how to tie a necktie or look a job interviewer in the eye. This training doesn’t erase the damage from troubled schools or dangerous neighborhoods, but it helps. In meetings, they discuss politics, sex, AIDS, budgeting and financial literacy, and how to treat girls with respect. “We teach about holding hands with a lady instead of grabbing hold of her and touching them all over,” explained Mike Dove, Annette’s son, who oversees the boys’ mentoring and precollege programs in his spare time. I asked several boys in the program what would happen if one made “locker room” comments about girls. They looked aghast. “That’d be push-ups,” said Devonta Brown, who came into the program as a troubled fourth grader and is now senior class president, aiming for all A’s this year, and headed for college. Despite all the good work Topps does, Dove still struggles constantly to meet its expenses (more information about it and options to donate are at toppsinc.org). She has no regrets. A month ago, I wrote about a struggling Pine Bluff 13-year-old named Emanuel Laster, a black boy who does well at school but has no books in the home and is in danger of being sucked into the world of gangs and drugs. Dove has now recruited Emanuel to attend her afterschool programs and is talking to him about college. She is also giving him books and offering him $5 for each one he reads and writes her a report about. One afternoon, we stood outside Emanuel’s home and spoke of his tremendous promise — and the enormous risk that he’ll be waylaid without achieving it. “The way we’re going to break the cycle is to give these kids an opportunity and show them how to take it,” Dove told me. By force of will, she creates opportunities for kids who have none — and reminds us that whatever happens in Washington, there are miracle workers at the grass roots.
Pakistan Has a Drinking Problem
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OPINION BY MOHAMMED HANIF
The author of the novels “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” and “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti” and a contributing opinion writer.
KARACHI, PAKISTAN
AKISTAN was recently mesmerized by a bottle of Scotch. In October, as hundreds of supporters of the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf were making their way to the capital Islamabad, with the declared intent of shutting down the city, the police searched the car of a party politician and discovered a bottle of Johnnie Walker Double Black. Most Pakistanis had not seen a bottle of whisky in the news in a long time. Although there’s no ban on showing alcohol, the subject rarely comes up on television news. But this one bottle of whisky, waved around by a policeman, was broadcast on a loop. It became an emblem of the opposition’s immorality. The politician claimed that it held honey. Yet later that evening, on a current affairs TV show, he put a sobering question to the other guests: “Which one of you doesn’t drink?” Complete silence. If they said yes, they’d be implicating themselves. If they said no, nobody would believe them. For Muslims in Pakistan, drinking alcohol is prohibited and talking about it is taboo. Drinking and denying it is the oldest cocktail in the country. It wasn’t always like this. The country was founded in 1947 by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who was known to indulge in the occasional drink. Liquor stores and bars were banned in 1977 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had proclaimed, “Yes, I do drink alcohol, but at least I don’t drink the blood of the poor.” That year, facing protests over an allegedly rigged election that his party had won, Bhutto decided to declare prohibition. He probably believed that he and his comrades would continue to enjoy their Scotch in private. He was hanged two years later. Since those days, Pakistan’s rich have
continued to drink at home and members’ clubs, but the less privileged have been persecuted and flogged, and are at risk of being imprisoned, for possessing and consuming alcohol. It’s true that many people in Pakistan don’t drink because they are Muslim. But many more don’t drink because they are Muslim and poor. Nobody abstains from drinking because it’s illegal. Under the Bhutto alcohol ban, an exception was made for non-Muslims. They would be issued licenses and allotted a quota. Non-Muslim visiting foreigners would be able to order a drink in
Consuming alcohol and denying it is the oldest cocktail in the country. their hotel rooms, but the hotels would make them fill out a form saying they needed the alcohol for medicinal purposes. In the province of Sindh, where I live, licensed shops, usually called wine stores, have operated even since prohibition. The stores are supposed to sell only to non-Muslims, but they don’t discriminate. Owners have to pay off the police, though, and any dispute can result in the shops being closed. The laws can be cruel and absurd. Last summer, the Karachi police barred liquor stores from keeping freezers. Apparently chilled beer was a threat to our faith and to peace, but warm beer was just warm beer. In late October, a High Court judge ordered all these stores closed after receiving a petition that said alcohol is prohibited not only in Islam but in Christianity and Hinduism, too. This ban means that only those who can afford imported liq-
uor will keep buying from a flourishing network of bootleggers. Others will have to buy one of the many versions of moonshine brewed in the country, which routinely blind and kill consumers. Two years ago, when liquor stores were shut in Sindh over the Eid holiday, more than 25 people died after drinking home brew. Survivors report that if the stuff doesn’t kill you or blind you, it isn’t that bad. Members of Parliament and law enforcers and industrialists and bureaucrats and young professionals and even some religious scholars can drink with impunity. A taxi driver trying to score a beer on the go risks a jail term or losing his eyesight to moonshine. It’s a law-and-order issue, you see. The rich drink in their own homes and frolic or vomit on their own lawns, but the assumption is that if the poor get drunk in public spaces, they’ll make a nuisance. Which is why those who can afford fine Scotches can also afford to give everyone else lectures about religious duties. It seems that those who suck the blood of poor people want to make sure it’s not tainted with cheap alcohol. No wonder Pakistanis go to any lengths to ensure they’re not seen drinking, even when they smell like a barrel of liquor. I once had dinner with a 74-yearold grandfather who sipped from his spiked bottle of cola but worried that the children at the table would get their Pepsis mixed up with his. I’ve tried to interview my neighborhood liquor-shore owner, but he has discouraged me. There are enough problems in Pakistan, he said, so why don’t you write about them? But is this Bombay Sapphire knockoff you’re selling any good? I asked. How would I know? he said, I have never had a drop. Not even for medicinal purposes.
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Octopuses and the Puzzle of Aging
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Peter Godfrey-Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and at the University of Sydney, is the author of the forthcoming “Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness,” from which this essay is adapted.
ROUND 2008, while snorkeling and scuba diving in my free time, I began watching the unusual group of animals known as cephalopods, the group that includes octopuses, cuttlefish and squid. The first ones I encountered were giant cuttlefish, large animals whose skin changes color so quickly and completely that swimming after them can be like following an aquatic, multiarmed television. Then I began watching octopuses. Despite being mollusks, like clams and oysters, these animals have very large brains and exhibit a curious, enigmatic intelligence. I followed them through the sea, and also began reading about them, and one of the first things I learned came as a shock: They have extremely short lives — just one or two years. I was already puzzled by the evolution of large brains in cephalopods, and this discovery made the questions more acute. What is the point of building a complex brain like that if your life is over in a year or two? Why invest in a process of learning about the world if there is no time to put that information to use? An octopus’s or cuttlefish’s life is rich in experience, but it is incredibly compressed. The particular puzzle of octopus life span opens up a more general one. Why do animals age? And why do they age so differently? A scruffy-looking fish that inhabits the same patch of sea as my cephalopods has relatives who live to 200 years of age. This seems extraordinarily unfair: A dull-looking fish lives for centuries while the cuttlefish, in their chromatic splendor, and the octopuses, in their inquisitive intelligence, are dead before they are 2? There are monkeys the size of a mouse that can live for 15
British immunologist, Sir Peter Medawar. A decade later, the American evolutionist George Williams added a second step. Mutations often have multiple effects, and these can differ in their timing. Consider a mutation that has good effects early in life and bad effects late. If the bad effects come late, after the organism has most likely perished because of external threats, then these bad effects will have less importance than the early benefits. This is a “buy now, pay later” principle, with payments coming due only after you have probably left the scene anyway. So mutations with that combination of effects — helpful early, harmful late — will be beneficial over all and will accumulate in the population. Then if an individual survives all the external threats and reaches old age, it will be hit with the bill. The Medawar effect and the Williams effect work together. Once each process gets started, it reinforces itself and also magnifies the other. As some mutations are established that lead to agerelated decline, they make it even less likely that individuals will live past the age at which those mutations act. This means there is even less selection against mutations that have bad effects only at that advanced age. As a result, that age becomes harder and harder to exceed. In the light of all this, I think it is becoming clearer how octopuses and other cephalopods came to have their peculiarly poignant combination of features. Like their mollusk relatives, early cephalopods had protective outer shells, which they carried along as they prowled the oceans. Then, in some animals, the shells were abandoned. This had several interlocking effects. First, it gave rise to their unique, outlandish bodies — in the octopus, a body that can take on any shape at will. This created an opportunity for the evolution of finer behavioral control and large nervous systems. But the loss of the shell had another effect: It made the animals vulnerable to predators, especially fish. That put a premium on the evolution of octopus wiles and camouflage. But there are only so many times those tricks will save the animal. Octopuses can’t expect to survive long. This makes them ideal candidates for the Medawar and Williams effects to compress their natural life spans. As a result, octopuses have ended up with their unusual combination: a large brain and a short life.
The life spans of different animals seem to lack all rhyme or reason. years, and hummingbirds that can live for over 10. Nautiluses (who are also cephalopods) can live for 20 years. A recent Nature paper reported that despite continuing medical advances, humans appear to have reached a rough plateau at around 115 years, though a few people will edge beyond it. The life spans of animals seem to lack all rhyme or reason. We tend to think about aging as a matter of bodies wearing out, as automobiles do. But the analogy is not a good one. An automobile’s original parts will indeed wear out, but an adult human is not operating with his or her original parts. Like all animals, we are made of cells that are continually taking in nutrients and dividing, replacing old parts with new ones. If you keep replacing the parts of an automobile with new ones, there is no reason it should ever stop running. At least in principle, the puzzle of aging has been largely resolved, through some elegant pieces of evolutionary reasoning. Imagine some kind of animal with no tendency to decline in old age. It just keeps going, and keeps reproducing, until some accident or predator gets hold of it. In such a species, like any other, genetic mutations continually arise. Sometimes (very rarely) a mutation occurs that makes organisms better able to survive and reproduce; more often mutations are harmful and are filtered out by natural selection. But in some cases, a mutation arises that acts so late in an organism’s life that its effects are usually irrelevant, since the organism has already died for another reason, such as being eaten. Natural selection will have little effect on that mutation, so it will become either more common in the population, or less common, purely by chance. Eventually, some mutations of this kind will become common, and everyone will be carrying them around. Then when some lucky individual does succeed in living a long time without being eaten, it will run into the (usually harmful) effects of these late-acting mutations. It will appear to have been “programmed to decline,” because the effects of those lurking mutations will appear on a schedule. The population has now evolved a natural life span. That idea was sketched in the 1940s by a
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HIS view is supported by the recent discovery of an exception to the usual octopus pattern, an exception that illuminates the rule. The octopuses I’ve been talking about tend to live in shallow water. But in 2014 researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute released some remarkable images of a deep-sea octopus they had watched with remote-controlled submarines. This one octopus brooded its eggs for over four years. Even allowing for the fact that everything tends to happen slowly at these depths, that’s a very long time. The total life span of this octopus might have been as long as 16 years. The Medawar-Williams theory predicts that predation risks should be much less severe for this species than they are for shallower-water octopuses with shorter life spans. And the images taken by the Monterey researchers contain a strong clue that this is so: They show an octopus sitting out in the open with its eggs for years on end. It did not find itself a den. This suggests that this species has less to fear from predators than other octopuses do. As a result, evolution has tuned the life span of this species differently. Putting these things together, we can see how many features of the octopus could have stemmed from the abandoning of the shell all those years ago. This move set octopuses on a path of mobility, dexterity and nervous complexity, and it also led to a live-fast-die-young lifestyle, an existence always exposed to the predators around them. If octopuses could somehow gain the upper hand against those predators, their natural life spans should increase, though it’s hard to see them making it to our 115 years — and when one contemplates the thought of a century-old octopus, perhaps that’s just as well.
THE PUBLIC EDITOR LIZ SPAYD
When the Language of Politics Becomes a Minefield
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F you have not yet heard the term “alt-right,” you most likely are living in another orbit. It is the chosen name of an extremist fringe with white supremacy at its roots. It is also a label many consider dangerous because it sanitizes the movement’s racist core. And if the media uses the word, they think, then they’re part of the problem. As the fire rages, The New York Times has become ground zero. Every time it uses the term — which it does frequently, given the alt-right’s ties to Donald Trump — letters pour in, social media ignites and the comments section overflows. Reporters and editors have huddled in sometimes tense discussions about when the term should be applied — or even whether. But so far, there is no move among top editors to ban it. Instead, their thinking is: You can use the phrase in a story, but make sure you include a blunt explanation of its meaning. To say this will be unsatisfying to many Times readers is probably a reckless understatement. I’ve received reams of emails and tweets from people complaining that The Times’s use of “alt-right” in its pages brings legitimacy to Trump’s inner circle. It “normalizes” his incoming administration, they claim, by sugarcoating the racist views of certain advisers. Trump could not be easily normalized, even if the media had such a goal. But the country’s highly polarized electorate and its factious media environment are combining to produce a linguistic battle royale. And since some readers view the use of specific words as the sole measure of good journalism, there are times when the substance of the story is turned almost into a sideshow. A case study arrived last week. Scott Shane, a veteran reporter, produced a significant investigative piece on Trump’s most controversial adviser, Stephen Bannon. Through rigorous reporting and revelatory details, a portrait of Bannon emerged that was fascinating, original, and yet not neatly characterized. The story didn’t call Bannon a racist, a demerit in the eyes of some readers. And the headline used the phrase “Combative Populist.” Another demerit. Within minutes of publication, a tweetstorm erupted. From @BradSonneborn came this: “Populist as a euphemism for white supremacist is why the Times continues to fail its readers.” @BDanielleW photoshopped
a new headline onto the story, replacing “Populist” Steve Bannon with “White Supremacist.” Another just wrote the word “Nazi” over and over and over. Shane, a prominent investigative reporter who specializes in national security matters, says the response was the most emotional he’s received since covering waterboarding and other forms of torture during the George W. Bush administration. “I think what was particularly disappointing is that a lot of young, educated people saw a 4,500-word story and said ‘You didn’t use the right label,’ instead of reading the story and drawing their own conclusions,” he said. Readers also complained to my office, some with passionate responses, like that of Paul Kingsley of Rochester. “Steve Bannon could accurately be referred to as a racist, a misogynist, or a xenophobe,” Kingsley wrote. “It is inaccurate to refer to him as a ‘populist.’ Inherent
Is ‘alt-right’ a euphemism? Yes, many readers insist. in the definition is to represent ‘ordinary people’; Bannon’s views are extreme and anything but ‘normal.’ The NYT referring to him thusly normalizes his views and does the majority of people, who would not claim his hateful rhetoric as their own, a disservice.” Kingsley’s point is worthy of discussion, but I had a different reaction to the story. When I read it, I trusted my narrator more because he wrote without judgment or loaded terms. He let me judge. And he wasn’t afraid to use nuance when it was called for, which in this age is braver than flat-out proclaiming someone a racist. The Times shouldn’t be adopting or rejecting the preferred term of the politically motivated, because words do matter. One side prefers “illegal immigrant” because that sounds like someone who should be rounded up. The other side likes “undocumented worker” because that suggests a bureaucratic problem in need of a fix. “Climate skeptics” suggests reasoned suspicion, “climate deniers” willful ignorance. “Pro-choice” connotes individual liberty, “pro-life” a moral imperative. Politics and language have been riding in the same passenger car for decades. And The Times, like most
news outlets, is well-practiced in negotiating the linguistic land mines. But something is fundamentally different in the current media climate. Previous clashes, over immigration or abortion, were lively, but they were more contained. The use of a single word in a story rarely dominated public discussion, or a paper’s entire line of coverage. Now it can wash out any other discussion. Many commenters are convinced that if The Times uses words like “populist,” or if it fails to call Trump a “liar” with sufficient frequency, the public will be duped into thinking he’s a legitimate occupant of the White House. As if that battle will be won over a dictionary. Joseph Kahn, The Times’s managing editor, said reporters and editors were fully aware of the pressure readers are trying to apply. “Some readers want us to eliminate euphemisms that they think paper over reality,” he said. “Or they’re angry when we don’t color someone with a singular brush.” “We’re not trying to normalize anyone,” Kahn said. “We’re applying a 360-degree view, to open doors to understanding.” Last week, The Associated Press and The Guardian released guidelines for using the term “alt-right.” With some variation, they both chose not to ban its use, but to explain clearly what the term means. On Friday, The Times joined them, with a memo to the newsroom that flatly described “alt-right” as “a racist, far-right fringe movement that embraces an ideology of white nationalism and is anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-feminist.” It said the term is appropriate to use — but not without defining it. That seemed right to me. I applaud its unflinching definition of “alt-right,” and I support the theory behind allowing the term to stay. If you keep saying what “altright” is, you eventually dilute the movement’s attempt to sanitize its beliefs for wider consumption. I hope the editors will release their guidance publicly with an explanation of how they arrived at their thinking. As for Times readers, I hope they will ask themselves what such a singular focus on labels actually achieves. Does it really push news organizations in a healthy direction? Most journalists, I think, find them constraining because they oversimplify ideas. They wash out the grays, which is usually where the truth lies.
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Artists Weigh In on Change By RONDA KAYSEN
Most New Yorkers would rather not relive the mind-numbing disappointment that can come from navigating the city’s real estate market. They would rather forget that awful landlord, or that apartment they can’t afford, or that condo that replaced all the shops on their block. But where most people see only stress and angst in the face of rapid gentrification, some artists find inspiration. A real estate broker desperately trying to sell an apartment in a Trump high-rise makes for a surreal short film. Over-the-top amenities at a new
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David Ostow, a cartoonist and illustrator, draws on an F train in Brooklyn, his studio on the way to and from work. Above is his “Park Slope Bike Family.”
condo seem doubly absurd when they’re drawn as cartoons with quirky captions. And, somehow, the story of a landlord trying to force a grizzled New Yorker out of his rundown Hell’s Kitchen walk-up is something to laugh about when it’s a television show. For these artists, such events are not a source of despair. They are fodder for creativity. Artists often hold up a mirror so the rest of us can better see the world around us. At the moment, the image reflected back is of a city undergoing a rapid, and sometimes disorienting, transformation. And it is no wonder artists have taken an interest in gentrification — they are often its bellwether. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
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Calculator: Listing Views
For Your Viewing Pleasure The most viewed listings for the month of November on The New York Times “Find a Home” site were far-flung and varied. Two high-end waterfront homes, in Florida and Minnesota, topped the list. MICHAEL KOLOMATSKY
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$5.495 million 5908 Highway 61 Silver Bay, Minn. At roughly a tenth of the price of the most-viewed home, this waterfront property on Lake Superior has four bedrooms, a treetop art studio and dramatic coastline views. But the water is warmer in Miami.
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$300,000 155 West 66th Street #926 Lincoln Square A sticker price this low in Manhattan could draw a curious click. It buys you one-eighth ownership (or 45 days a year) in this luxury two-bedroom time share at the Phillips Club. The amenities are enticing. Broker The Corcoran Group
$82 million 432 Park Avenue, #PH95 Midtown East A six-bedroom seven-bath penthouse in the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere is a fantasy for most. If you do have the down payment, don’t forget about the $17,182 maintenance and $15,910 taxes per month.
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$399,000 340 West 19th Street, #18 Chelsea The heading on the fifth most-popular listing begins: “Incredible Opportunity...” In this case, that means “you can’t live here.” This is a rent-controlled two-bedroom apartment with a tenant who isn’t likely to be going anywhere soon. Broker Compass THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ask Real Estate: Noisy Neighbors
OTTO STEININGER
Can my co-op building fine me for not carpeting my entire apartment? My family and I live in a co-op in Riverdale, in the Bronx. Our apartment is not 80 percent carpeted, as the lease requires, and my downstairs neighbor has complained about the noise our children make, although he plays his television loudly late at night. Building management has threatened to fine my wife and me unless we carpet our apartment. But our governing documents do not give management the explicit authority to impose such fines. What would be the consequences if we didn’t comply? Regardless, can I complain to the board about the noise my neighbor makes? “Why should the neighbor be quiet if you’re not quiet?” said Patricia Napier-Fitzpatrick, the president of the Etiquette School of New York. Buy some area rugs, with thick padding underneath. The lease requires carpeting, but it’s also a nice thing to do for the person living below you. “A man’s home is his castle, but in New York one man’s castle is directly above another man’s castle,” said Submit your questions to realestateqa@nytimes.com
Alan Fierstein, the owner of Acoustilog, an acoustical consultant in Manhattan. Remember, the co-op is entitled to enforce its rules, even if the governing documents do not allow it to fine you. It could put you in default, in theory terminating your lease and evicting you. However, “that is unlikely to happen,” said Dennis H. Greenstein, a Manhattan real estate lawyer. “In most instances, this type of complaint is resolved without such extreme measures being taken.” You have a right to peace and quiet, too. Call management about the television noise and ask that it mediate a discussion between you and your neighbor. “The co-op has a duty to be evenhanded,” Mr. Greenstein said. Perhaps you could limit the hours of the day that your children run around — or restrict their play to one area. In exchange, your neighbor could lower the volume. To reach an agreement, you need someone to talk to the two of you together, Ms. NapierFitzpatrick said. Otherwise, the situation “can fester and get worse.” RONDA KAYSEN
CORRECTIONS
A cover article last Sunday, about properties with a grisly history, misstated the number of adults killed by Adam Lanza at a school in Newtown, Conn. It was six, not seven. (The seventh adult to die at the school was Mr. Lanza himself, who committed suicide.)
The Hunt column last Sunday carried an erroneous email address. It is thehunt@nytimes.com, not hunt@nytimes.com.
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The Hunt A Three-Dog Welcome Two men go searching for a home in an extremely dog-friendly building. By JOYCE COHEN
Isaac Mahone and Marcus Arnett, who lived in San Antonio, visited New York often. After you visit the city, Mr. Mahone said, “that’s where you want to live.” The men, both 34, met as students at the University of Texas at San Antonio. This past summer Mr. Mahone landed a job in Hoboken, N.J., as a transaction coordinator for a real estate company, and they jumped at the chance to relocate. Mr. Arnett, who is employed in the member-relations department of a financial services company, arranged to work from home. They put the San Antonio house, which had belonged to Mr. Arnett’s grandmother, on the market. It was small, but it had a yard. The house, in the Highland Park neighborhood, sold for around $107,000. For their three dogs, all husky mixes, the couple needed an ultra-pet-friendly building, preferably with outdoor space. They preferred a Midtown or downtown Manhattan location so Mr. Mahone could easily reach his Hoboken office via subway and PATH train. Their budget for a rental apartment was around $2,500 a month. “We knew we were pretty limited,” Mr. Mahone said. “We knew New York was expensive. We didn’t want to blow all our money on rent.” The couple, who were married earlier this year, were in close touch with a Citi Habitats salesman who became ill just as they were flying up for an apartment-hunting trip. So the agent referred them to a colleague, Lex Wang, also a salesman there. “We were very clear that we had three dogs and we knew it was going to be difficult,” Mr. Mahone said. The dogs — Glinda, Elphaba and Fiyero — have names from “Wicked,” one of the couple’s favorite musicals. They began the hunt at a Hell’s Kitchen walk-up, climbing several flights of stairs to find a small one-bedroom that did not appear to have been renovated, ever. “It was becoming a quick reality check,” Mr. Mahone said. “This is what we were getting.” Mr. Arnett didn’t mind a place that was “rough around the edges,” he said. So what if the floor was badly gouged. “We could make it look good. You can cover stuff up.” They moved on, to see a one-bedroom on East 32nd Street. But they could not get in. Another unit in the same building was dark and unprepossessing. The area was not in-
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The prospective renters, visiting a building on East 32nd Street, thought the area was too commercial.
The couple liked City Tower, a brand-new high-rise. But they were not sure three dogs would be welcome.
At a doorman building in Midtown, an alcove studio on the ground floor with a patio pleased men and dogs.
The Renters Marcus Arnett, left, and Isaac Mahone with their roommates.
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Their largest dog seems to like the cold. ‘It will be interesting when the snow comes how they react, because we didn’t have that in Texas.’
viting. “It was in the middle of a bunch of tall buildings,” Mr. Wang said. “It was not really a neighborhood.” They headed to a 1961 brick building in Midtown East, near the entrance ramp to the Queensboro Bridge. There they saw an alcove studio on the ground floor with a private fenced patio. “The building is really dog-friendly,” Mr. Wang said. “We saw, like, four dogs walking out while we were there.” The couple were surprised how suitable the place was. The rent was $2,700 a month. “It was more than our original budget but within the comfort zone,” Mr. Arnett said. They had one more place to check out, the new City Tower in Downtown Brooklyn, near an assortment of subway lines. A Brooklyn-to-Hoboken route was doable, but it wasn’t clear whether all three dogs would be allowed. With apartments renting quickly, they didn’t want to wait to find out and in the meantime lose the studio with the patio. Their paperwork was ready. “Getting an apartment is like applying for a home loan,” Mr. Arnett said. “You have to have this whole package together, which is not like anything you have in Texas.” So they rented the studio in Midtown East and arrived in early fall, paying an extra dog deposit and a broker fee of 15 percent of a year’s rent, or $4,860. “If you up your budget a little bit, the rent isn’t going to be that much more and you can get what you are looking for,” Mr. Mahone said. City life is all they thought it would be, punctuated by endless varieties of food. “We’ve tried not to repeat restaurants,” Mr. Arnett said. He appreciates lunchtime delivery. “I use GrubHub,” he said. “It’s not like I’m ordering from McDonald’s every day.” Working from home, he tends the dogs. Fiyero, the largest, likes to lie outside when it’s chilly. “It will be interesting when the snow comes how they react, because we didn’t have that in Texas,” Mr. Mahone said. They have had to train the dogs not to howl at sirens. During rush hour, the honking from bridge traffic is constant. Some of the traffic officers are entertaining, shouting at motorists. “Often, it’s ‘Come on,’ ‘Hurry up,’ or ‘What are you doing?’ ” Mr. Arnett said. The neighborhood has plenty of small dogs but few large ones. In Texas, the most frequent comment was, “What a pretty dog.” In New York, people are more impressed by the size of the animals. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com
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Big Ticket An Aerie Ready for Artwork, and Other Sales By VIVIAN MARINO
One of China’s richest men, the eccentric taxi driver-turned-financier Liu Yiqian, has a new place to display some of his trove of art. Mr. Yiqian, an avid collector and the chairman of the Sunline Group, a Shanghai holding company with interests that include financial services, real estate and chemicals, officially closed on a 62nd-floor aerie at One57, the vitreous Midtown Manhattan residential tower popular among his wealthy compatriots. He paid $23.5 million last month, according to city property records, a discount from the most recent asking price of $25 million and the $38.9 million the previous owner had hoped to flip it for two years ago. (The seller, using the limited liability company Escape From New York, took a significant loss, having paid nearly $31.7 million in 2014.) Mr. Yiqian’s pied-à-terre purchase was one of the most notable closed transactions in November — others involved the screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen; the reality TV star Bethenny Frankel; and the wife of the “Man of La Mancha” composer Mitch Leigh, among others — but it certainly wasn’t the most expensive. Three apartments at 432 Park Avenue, near East 57th Street, the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and, like One57, part of Midtown’s so-called Billionaires’ Row, closed above $30 million. The priciest of the trio, and the month’s most expensive sale, at $31,840,509, was unit 70A, a 4,019-square-foot apartment with three bedrooms, four full baths, one half-bath and a library, in addition to panoramic views of Central Park, the Manhattan skyline and the Atlantic. Monthly carrying charges are $16,109. Jacky Teplitzky of Douglas Elliman Real Estate brought the buyer, 432 Park 70A LLC; Macklowe Properties Sales and Douglas Elliman Development Marketing represented the sponsor. The two other closed apartments, of similar size and also bought by unidentified buyers, were just a floor below: No. 69B sold for $31.47 million and 69A for $30.95 million.
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62A at 157 West 57th Street, near Seventh Avenue, has three bedrooms and four and a half baths over 4,483 square feet, according to the listing with Douglas Elliman. The well-lit apartment, with floor-to-ceiling windows, has a 26-by-15-foot gallery leading to a commodious living room/dining area with nearly 12-foot ceilings — ideal for hanging paintings. Though out of reach for mere-mortal home buyers, the price of this apartment
was a drop in the bucket when compared with the cost of some of the artwork in Mr. Yiqian’s portfolio. In November 2015, he paid $170.4 million, including fees, at Christie’s New York for Amedeo Modigliani’s “Nu Couché” (Reclining Nude). Mr. Yiqian — whose net worth is estimated at $1.4 billion, according to Forbes — was born into a working-class family in Shanghai and drove a taxi for a living before making his fortune in the Chinese stock market
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Liu Yiqian, top right, bought an apartment on the 62nd floor of One57, top left; Bethenny Frankel, above, sold her loftlike TriBeCa home at 195 Hudson Street, above right; and Robert Mark Kamen, left, sold his co-op at 910 Fifth Avenue, far left.
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in the 1990s, when state-owned companies began issuing shares. He and his wife, Wang Wei, among China’s biggest art collectors, have opened museums in their country and showcase some of their collection. ROBERT MARK KAMEN, whose work includes the “Karate Kid” and “Transporter” movie franchises, as well as the “Taken” thrillers, and his wife, Lorna, sold their apartment at
910 Fifth Avenue, a prewar co-op near 72nd Street, for $11 million. The buyers were Kenneth S. Aschendorf, a principal of APF Properties, a real estate investment company specializing in office buildings, and his wife, Wilma. The sprawling unit, 8CD, with partial Central Park views, has five bedrooms, six full baths and two powder rooms, according to the Douglas Elliman listing, along with 67 (yes, that’s correct) closets. BETHENNY FRANKEL, who appeared on “The Real Housewives of New York City” and founded the Skinnygirl brand that includes cocktail mixers, was also on the selling end last month. The spacious TriBeCa apartment that she had shared with her former husband, Jason Hoppy, and where she filmed a spinoff show, “Bethenny Ever After,” sold for $6.95 million. Ms. Frankel bought the four-bedroom three-bath unit, 5B, at 195 Hudson Street, for nearly $5 million in 2011, in the name of an assistant, Molly Hayden. The fully renovated loftlike apartment has 3,275 square feet and includes private parking and storage. THE ARTIST ABBY LEIGH, the wife of Mitch Leigh, the Tony-winning composer of the Broadway show “Man of La Mancha,” who died two years ago, sold her townhouse at 49 East 68th Street for $20.4 million to the limited liability company Automation Townhouse. She had wanted as much as $38 million when first listing it with the Corcoran Group last year. The brick-and-limestone house, near Park Avenue, is 25 feet wide and has around 12,500 square feet over five levels that includes six bedrooms and 10½ baths. An elevator was installed for easier maneuvering. The home also features a landscaped roof terrace and a half basketball court in the basement, where Ms. Leigh, whose abstract paintings have been shown in places including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had stored her work. AMONG THE OTHER NOTEWORTHY TRANSACTIONS, the philanthropist Laurie Tisch, whose family made its fortune in Loews movie theaters and is now an owner of the New York Giants football team, paid $14.6 million for unit 5C at 834 Fifth Avenue. At 50 Central Park South, Susan Carmel Lehrman, a philanthropist, sold her apartment, No. 24B, for $20.5 million to Yizheng Zhao, the founder of RedStone Haute Couture, a Chinese luxury brand management company. And the celebrity stylist Jill Swid Rosen and her husband, Eric S. Rosen, a money manager, sold their fully overhauled co-op apartment, PHAB, at 791 Park Avenue, for $22.5 million.
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On The Market MICHELLE HIGGINS
HAMILTON HEIGHTS TOWNHOUSE
$2,290,000
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MANHATTAN 519 West 142nd Street A four-family townhouse with five bedrooms and five baths, with original woodwork, six decorative fireplaces, exposed brick walls and hardwood floors throughout. Tiga McLoyd, Citi Habitats (917) 887-2127; citihabitats.com
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$749,000 NEW JERSEY 1210 State Route 36 A five-bedroom three-bath house, built in 1908, on 1.12 acres with views of Sandy Hook Bay and the New York City skyline, with nine-foot ceilings, a large, sunny family room, an updated kitchen with a commercial range, and a two-car attached garage. Nicholas McCabe, Resources Real Estate Broker (646) 373-1307; resourcesrealestate.com TAXES $11,581 a year
PROS Situated in the hills above the Highlands, the house has a wraparound front deck and many rooms with views of Sandy Hook National Recreation Area and the lower tip of Manhattan. Original details include wood floors, molding and oversize doors, which work well with decorative features added by the current owner. The house is close to beaches and a ferry terminal.
TAXES $4,735 a year
PROS The owner’s duplex has central air-conditioning, a large kitchen with high-end appliances, and a separate dining area with a pair of glass doors that open to a roomy backyard patio. There are three rental units, which can be delivered vacant. CONS The owner’s unit has one closet, converted from a stairwell.
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CONS Reaching the property involves coming off a busy highway up a very steep driveway.
SOUTH SLOPE TOWNHOUSE
$1,850,000 BROOKLYN 212 16th Street A two-family house with a three-bedroom one-and-a-half-bath duplex and a one-bedroom one-bath garden-level apartment. Jessica Buchman, Corcoran Group (718) 832-4193; corcoran.com. Open house Sunday, 12 to 2 p.m. TAXES $2,941 a year
PROS Both units are filled with light; each has a full-size washer and dryer and each has a separate entrance. The main floor of the duplex has a decorative brick fireplace and glass sliders leading to the deck. CONS One bedroom is accessible only through another bedroom. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS CONDO
$950,000 MANHATTAN 2360 Amsterdam Avenue, #6A A three-bedroom two-bath with a balcony and a deeded indoor parking spot in the New Amsterdam, a condominium with a video intercom system. Dylan Hoffman (646) 431-2260, Andrew T. Corso (203) 535-6011, Compass; compass.com
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COMMON CHARGES $855 a month; taxes: $117 a month, abated through 2033.
BAYVILLE HOUSE
$1,200,000 NASSAU 10 Mountain Avenue A five-bedroom four-bath gated and renovated 1938 house, with three fireplaces, front and back staircases, a finished basement, a bluestone terrace and a two-car garage, on a 0.35-acre lot. Cottie Maxwell Pournaras, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty (516) 857-3011; danielgale.com TAXES $15,805 a year
PROS This newly renovated unit has a gas fireplace, built-in bookshelves and a sliding door that opens to a balcony with views of Highbridge Park.
PROS This house has quirky charm, with distinctive molding, an antler chandelier in the dining room and antelope-patterned carpet in some upstairs bedrooms. The master suite includes an office with a library balcony and a bedroom with a raised barn board ceiling.
CONS The living area is tight. The bathrooms lack windows. The building lacks doormen.
CONS The main entry is in the back. Part of the yard is gravel. The laundry is in the basement.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JILL P. CAPUZZO, MARCELLE SUSSMAN FISCHLER AND SUZANNE HAMLIN
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From Hospital to Housing
ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL
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faces Morningside Drive, between West 113th and 114th Streets. The western lot will continue to operate as part of Mount Sinai St. Luke’s. Mr. Flagg had just set up his own architecture practice when he was hired by St. Luke’s to design the hospital. But his work
By KAYA LATERMAN
The developer converting four historic medical buildings into apartments in Morningside Heights believes that features considered therapeutic for patients a century ago — access to light, air and views — are also essential for wooing future residents. Four pavilions that were part of St. Luke’s Hospital, now Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, at 30 Morningside Drive, will be converted into about 200 rentals for the new owner, Delshah Capital. John Cetra, a founding principal of CetraRuddy, the architecture firm handling the adaptation, said the layout of the buildings, originally designed by Ernest Flagg in a French Renaissance Revival style, worked in his favor because they were built like villas. “The ceilings are high, the windows are grand and are very well-spaced,” Mr. Cetra said of the four pavilions built in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. “I’ve worked on building conversions that didn’t have much architectural pedigree, but these buildings are fantastic.” Two of the buildings, the Plant and Scrymser pavilions, were originally used to house affluent patients and were designated together as a landmark in 2002. The Travers pavilion housed an outpatient facility and served as a dormitory for hospital
‘The ceilings are high, the windows are grand and are very well-spaced.’
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attendants, according to a 1911 New England Journal of Medicine. The Minturn building once had a women’s surgical ward, according to the photo archives of the Museum of the City of New York. Before the buildings were sold, Plant and Scrymser sat vacant, while the other two structures housed administrative and doctors’ offices, according to Tom Ahn, a vice president for the real estate division of Mount Sinai Health System. The new rental complex will take up the eastern lot that
Four pavilions that were part of the former St. Luke’s Hospital in Morningside Heights, above, are being converted into rental apartments. The Scrymser building, top left, and a rendering of how it will look when infills are built to connect the pavilions.
there later became a standard for hospital design nationwide, where, according to the report issued by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, pavilions were built symmetrically around a central administrative building and each building had a specific focus and was run autonomously to contain germs. Perhaps not coincidentally, Mr. Flagg was a cousin of Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt, the wife of the then-chairman of the hospital’s executive committee. The buildings’ interiors will be gutted, and some hospital mechanical structures that are on the exterior will be removed. Infills will be built to connect the pavilions, while the entrance to the new rental complex will be placed between the Plant and Scrymser buildings overlooking Morning-
side Park, Mr. Cetra said. Pending regulatory approval, there will likely be a mix of market-rate studios to three-bedrooms, of which about 60 percent will be one- and two-bedroom units, he said. The larger apartments will be on the higher floors, where there are grand spaces underneath the mansards, some with small windows. Mr. Cetra said he planned to add more windows, which would make the space feel more like a room inside a Parisian mansion. A 3,000-square-foot carriage house, which can now be seen from 114th Street and is in the middle of all four buildings, will also be restored and converted into a residents’ lounge, surrounded by a landscaped garden, according to Jeff Bogino, the managing director of Delshah Capital. He said that even with the opening this year of the Enclave at the Cathedral, rental buildings on the grounds of the nearby Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the neighborhood still has a limited supply of new rental apartments. According to CityRealty, the median rental price for the neighborhood is $3,200 per month. “With Columbia University continuing to expand, I think our location will prove that the neighborhood could easily support another rental product,” Mr. Bogino said.
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WHAT I LOVE
MARY BETH PEIL
An Actress Digs in Her Heels By JOANNE KAUFMAN
The minute she was divorced, the actress Mary Beth Peil high-tailed it out of Leonia, N.J., where she had raised her two children, and hit the reset button, first renting a onebedroom apartment on the ground floor of a carriage house in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, then, a year later, in 1994, buying a similar unit on the fourth floor. Initially ideal, those quarters became problematic as time passed. Ms. Peil’s elderly mother, no longer able to manage the stairs, couldn’t visit. Her daughter-in-law became pregnant, and visions of grandchildren coming for sleepovers began dancing in her head. “I thought, ‘I need an elevator building, and I need two bedrooms, and I think it’s time to go back to the Upper West Side, where I first lived when I came to New York in the early ’60s,’ ” said Ms. Peil, 76, who plays the aunt of Liev Schreiber’s Vicomte de Valmont in the Broadway revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” a chronicle of bedhopping and other bad behavior among denizens of the upper class during the an-
Name Mary Beth Peil Age 76 Occupation Actress and singer On Why She Loves Her Home ‘My apartment reminds me of the house I grew up in, in Iowa. A lot of that has to do with the river: As a child, I lived a block from the Mississippi River and now I’m a block away from the Hudson River.’
cien régime. But she is perhaps best known for her other family ties: as Jackie, the mother-inlaw of Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) on the recently concluded CBS series “The Good Wife” and the deeply religious “Grams” of Michelle Williams’s character, Jen Lindley, on the TV series “Dawson’s Creek,” which ran from 1998 to 2003. “I had always been enchanted by the area above 96th Street,” said Ms. Peil, a former opera singer and musical theater performer who was the final Anna to appear on Broadway opposite Yul Brynner in “The King and I.” “I would walk the side streets and feel I was in Vienna or something. I just felt at home.” At one open house, the brown paint that covered the walls of the entryway and living room was several shades beyond unfortunate. The apartment itself, a top-floor aerie in a building on one of those great side streets, was too big, Ms. Peil thought, and too much over her budget. “I thought, ‘Oh, no, no, no. Let’s not even bother,’ ” she recalled. But her daughter, Gwyneth, who had come along for the ride, paid her no mind and kept moving farther inside. “I was chatting with the broker,” Ms. Peil said, “and I heard Gwyneth yell from the master bedroom, ‘Mom, you’d better get in here.’ “I went in,” Ms. Peil continued, “and there was this view of the city and of the Hudson River, and I thought, ‘Oh, my God, I have to live here. I have to live here.’ ” Her very low bid was accepted, and 13 years ago she moved in, hastily eradicated the offending paint, knocked down a few
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The actress Mary Beth Peil, now playing on Broadway in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” was sold on her Manhattan apartment by its view of the Hudson River. You can see a corner of her desk behind her. Her father made the child’s rocking chair, her daughter the textured kitchen wall.
walls and installed French doors between the living room and what had been one of the bedrooms. It’s now called the River Room. Look out the window and you’ll see why. It is accurate, not effusive, to say that Ms. Peil exudes warmth. Maybe she’ll invite you to sit down and stay awhile, to exchange life stories and have a cup of coffee. But here’s the question: Where are you going to put the coffee cup?. “My daughter tells me, ‘Mom, there is no wall or surface that is safe from you,’ ” she said. “It’s clear that my past is very important to me.” Very clear. A pair of mid-19th century lithographs that once adorned the dining room of Ms. Peil’s maternal great-grandparents’ house in Wales now hang in the River Room. Mugs on a shelf in the kitchen are from Ms. Peil’s childhood home in Davenport, Iowa, as are the armchairs, the
hanging wall cupboard and a rocker in the living room. The Hoosier cabinet, the dining table and the Windsor chairs were part of the home décor during her marriage. The show posters in the narrow foyer, the poster from the 1967 Spoleto Festival, the photos above the desk in the master bedroom and the hutch in the living room, a keepsake from “Dawson’s Creek,” help tell the story of Ms. Peil’s life as a performer. When the series ended, the people in charge, Ms. Peil said, offered her a chance to select items from the set. Decorously, she requested some small things: the rolling pins that are now on display on a wall opposite the breakfast bar and two sconces. “But,” she recalled, “then they said, ‘Don’t you want any of the furniture?’ ” Sure, she did. The hutch joined the hurricane lamps from Ms. Peil’s maternal grandmother, the perfume bottles from her Aunt Kate, the “King and I” collector plate from a
fan and the faux-emerald ring Mr. Brynner’s character bestowed on his many Mrs. Annas during the last scene of the musical. “Yul’s widow gave it to me. It was life imitating art,” said Ms. Peil, who also has the single gold earring Mr. Brynner wore during his very long reign as the King of Siam. But Ms. Peil not only curates her own past, she’s an archivist for others as well. The wing chair and the coffee table in the River Room were from friends who were giving up city life for the country; the couch and the armchair, also in the River Room, were castoffs from Ms. Peil’s agent. Somehow or other, the clutter just enhances the sense of coziness. “You asked what I loved — this is it,” Ms. Peil said, taking a look around. “I wanted to be in an apartment that would be my last apartment in New York. One doesn’t have control, but my wish would be that I wouldn’t live anywhere else.”
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A Four-Bedroom Loft in Milan market will continue to improve, as consumer confidence has increased and credit is loosening. Still, he added, demand is a bit “unstable” and is highly dependent “on the mood of people in Italy.”
By LISA PREVOST
This 3,600-square-foot, three-level loft, built in 2008 within a former industrial building, is on the market for $2.44 million (2.3 million euros). It is a stand-alone unit, not part of an association, according to Roberto Magaglio, the listing agent with Engel & Völkers and the agency’s licensed partner for Milan. The four-bedroom loft is about a 10minute drive from the old city center, not far from the tree-lined Corso Sempione thoroughfare and the Parco Sempione. The main entrance leads to the open living area, with wall-height windows, marble floors and vaulted ceilings. A gas fireplace, in a shelflike wall recess, is remote-controlled. A glass wall separates the kitchen from the living area. Kitchen appliances include a professional-quality gas stove. Two bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath, are also on the main floor, along with a powder room. A staircase leads to the basement, which has a counter-current pool, a sauna, an exercise room and a full bath. The same staircase leads from the main living area up to a balcony that provides access to the master suite and a fourth bedroom, which also has an en-suite bath. The entire loft is heated and cooled through a geothermal system. The only fuel cost is for electricity to pump the water throughout the system, Mr. Magaglio said. The hot-water heater is solar powered. The loft comes with a street parking space. Furnishings are negotiable, Mr. Magaglio said. Milan, with a population of about 1.3 million, is a center for fashion and design, as well as home to Italy’s stock exchange. This property is on Via Monviso in a residential neighborhood with shops and restaurants, and a few steps from a subway stop. Nearby is the fashionable Via Piero della Francesca, which has many restaurants and bars.
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$2,440,000 This 3,600-square-foot, three-level loft in Milan is on the market for $2.44 million (2.3 million euros). It is a short drive from the Arco della Pace, or Arch of Peace, a gateway to Parco Sempione.
The nearby Corso Sempione begins at the Piazza Sempione with its neo-Classical Arco della Pace, or Arch of Peace, a gateway to Parco Sempione that dates to the Napoleonic era. The dense concentration of restaurants and bars in this area draws a crowd for its night life.
Market Overview Milan’s housing market is undergoing a slow recovery in the aftermath of Italy’s prolonged recession and amid continued concerns about the stability of its debt-burdened banking system. The housing market bottomed out in 2012-13, according to a recent report on the luxury market from Tirelli & Partners, a real estate company. While demand had shifted markedly to rentals, the report said, sales have been climbing since 2014. “Over the last five years, prices were too high and confidence in the market was low,”
said Gabriele Torchiani, the commercial director and a partner at Tirelli. “Now things are changing.” According to Mr. Magaglio, at its height in 2008, sales volume in Milan was about 18,000 transactions; by 2013, it had plummeted to around 10,000. He expects this year’s tally to come in at about 12,000. Prices are about 25 percent below their peak, he said. Properties commanding the highest prices are in the old downtown center, including the prestigious Quadrilatero della Moda and Brera districts. The average for apartments there is roughly $800 to $900 per square foot, but those in the best condition can command more than twice that, according to Mr. Torchiani. Over all, the Milan market is oversupplied with apartments, many still overpriced, Mr. Torchiani said, but demand is increasing. He expressed optimism that the
Who Buys in Milan Milan is dominated by local buyers, with foreign buyers making up a small percentage, said Simone Rossi, the managing director at Gate-Away, a website that promotes Italian property to overseas buyers. Among foreign buyers, Europeans are the largest share, particularly the French, Germans and Swiss, Mr. Magaglio said. Buying Basics There are no restrictions on foreign buyers. Lawyers are not usually involved in purchases, which are instead handled by notaries, Mr. Magaglio said. A deposit of 5 percent to 20 percent is due when an offer is accepted. Most purchases close within three to four months. The agent’s commission is 4 percent to 6 percent in Milan, and is split between buyer and seller, he said. The transfer tax on properties is very complicated, as many factors are involved. In general, Mr. Magaglio said, the transfer tax on a sale between private individuals involving a primary residence is 2 percent of the assessed value. (The assessed value is typically about a third of the sales price, he said.) The tax on second homes and luxury homes, as defined by law, is 9 percent. This property has not been categorized as a luxury home, he said. Taxes and Fees The current owners do not pay property tax because of a recent change in the law that exempts resident owners of a first home, Mr. Magaglio said. The change was one of several tax measures aimed at boosting the sluggish housing market. Contact Roberto Magaglio, Engel & Völkers, (011 39) 02 9443 3331; engelvoelkers.com
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On the Rocks Or Straight Up? For those looking to impress holiday guests, a striking, well-stocked bar cart could be just the thing. “They’re a glamorous, kind of Hollywood accouterment,” said Ken Fulk, an interior designer and event planner with offices in San Francisco and New York. “Rather than a big tray, you have this cart that might be wheeled around by a tuxedo-clad gentleman.” That’s one of the reasons Mr. Fulk keeps fully stocked vintage bar carts by Aldo Tura at both of his offices. And his fascination may also help explain why a cart of his own design is the bestselling item in the collection of home goods he created for Pottery Barn. But bar carts aren’t merely about seasonal showmanship; they’re practical year-round. “A lot of people don’t have the space for a full bar,” Mr. Fulk said. “Rather than having glassware, liquors, decanters and tools closed away, a bar cart is a great way to store and display them.”
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• Does it matter what it’s made of? If you plan to serve from the cart, it does: Consider choosing something made of impervious materials like glass and metal, Mr. Fulk said, because they are
easily wiped down. • How well does it roll? If your cart will traverse uneven floors or rugs, larger wheels are better, because they’re less likely to get stuck.
• Do you need guardrails? The more you plan to move a cart around, the more important it is to have rails around the edges, Mr. Fulk said: “They prevent you from knocking things off.”
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Catherine Roggero-Lovisi and her husband, Dr. Bruno Lovisi, both in their 40s, lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and in Paris before settling in West Chelsea. In 2014, they rented a one-bedroom apartment in London Terrace Gardens and decided to buy in the area as they grew to love it. “The neighborhood is very charming, not impersonal,” said Ms. Roggero-Lovisi, the general manager for Christian Louboutin Beauté, a beauty company. Within five days of looking with a broker, Dr. Lovisi contacted his wife, who was in Paris on business, about a two-bedroom coop in a brownstone on West 22nd Street west of Ninth Avenue. Was she willing to walk up four flights? She was. “We snatched it,” she said. The couple paid $1.75 million and moved in last April. Ms. Roggero-Lovisi commutes to Midtown on the E train; her husband gets around on his Harley-Davidson. On the same block as the Lovisis, Jim Brawders, 63, an associate broker for the Corcoran Group, lives with his husband, Rick Livingston, an interior designer, in a parlor-floor three-bedroom co-op that they bought in the early ‘90s for $645,000. West Chelsea was more of a night life destination back then, he said, and fairly desolate during the day. Clients he took there would reject it as “too far out in the hinterlands.” A nearby apartment similar to his just sold for $3.37 million, he said. For condominiums bordering the High Line or facing the Hudson River, listings in the $10 million to $20 million range are not unusual. Projects from star architects like Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Annabelle Selldorf and Zaha Hadid have further transformed the formerly industrial landscape. Marc Levin, a filmmaker in his mid-60s who has an office on West 26th Street and lives nearby, said rezoning in 2005 and the opening of the first section of the High Line in 2009 fueled the land rush. His recent HBO documentary, “Class Divide,” chronicles West Chelsea’s rapid gentrification through the eyes of children from housing projects and a private school across the street. “My film is a microcosm of what’s happening around our country, in London and Hong Kong, where real estate has become like a safety deposit box,” he said. Corey Johnson, 34, a city councilman representing Chelsea as part of District 3, said redevelopment “has made the neighborhood much less affordable, and small businesses are falling by the wayside — the locksmith, the dry cleaner . . . ” He added, however, that “even with the challenges that Chelsea faces, it’s still a welcoming place and the epicenter of art, fashion and innovation.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Looking up Tenth Avenue from the High Line, which passes through West Chelsea in Manhattan. The park has become an attraction for tourists from around the world.
What You’ll Find West Chelsea, by popular definition, runs from Ninth Avenue to the Hudson River and from West 14th to West 30th Streets. Tech and media workers from Google’s New York office, at 76 Ninth Avenue, and the Frank Gehry-designed IAC headquarters, at 555 West 18th Street, have added a youthful dynamic to the streets. Commercial tenants at the massive Starrett-Lehigh building, at 601 West 26th Street, include the architecture and design studio Diller Scofidio & Renfro and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Century-old brick-and-brownstone townhouses have been preserved on some blocks, mostly in the West 20s. The West Chelsea Historic District is tied to the neighborhood’s prestige as a manufacturing center, protecting 30 buildings erected from 1885 to 1930. The 1930s-era London Terrace Gardens — 10 adjoining rental buildings — and the complex’s four co-op buildings, London Terrace Towers, take up the blocks between Ninth and 10th Avenues and 23rd to 24th Streets. Subsidized housing dominates several blocks, with Robert Fulton Houses between 16th and 19th Streets and Ninth and 10th Avenues. The New York City Housing Authority plans to add an 18-story mixedincome building to the complex on 18th Street, to be built by Artimus Construction. The Chelsea-Elliot Houses, another housing project, run from West 25th to 27th Streets, between Ninth and 10th Avenues.
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engine, from a $625,000 studio co-op in London Terrace Towers to a five-bedroom penthouse facing the High Line for $50 million in a 39-unit condo designed by Zaha Hadid, scheduled for occupancy by spring. The median sales price through the third quarter for a one-bedroom condo or co-op was nearly $1.14 million, a 14 percent increase from the same time last year, according to Gregory J. Heym, the chief economist at Terra Holdings. The median for a two-bedroom, at $2.95 million, was up 40 percent, and for a three-bedroom, at $8 million, up 34 percent, which Mr. Heym said was in large part because of the prices at 551 West 21st Street, a luxury condo designed by Foster & Partners. The median for townhouses was $7.35 million, down 3 percent from last year, he said. Monthly rentals ranged from $2,500 to $4,000 for studios, $3,500 to $5,000 for one-bedrooms and $4,500 to $7,000 for two-bedrooms, according to Jordan Cooper, a partner of Cooper & Cooper Real Estate.
The Vibe Tourists from around the globe thread along the High Line park, as well as through Chelsea Market, the nearby Whitney Museum of American Art and some 200 galleries, mostly west of 10th Avenue. Local restaurants with strong followings include the Red Cat, Cookshop, Del Posto, Bottino and the Half King. An enduring center for the arts and live performance is the Kitchen, at 512 West 19th Street. The sports complex Chelsea Piers has golf, swimming, ice hockey and tennis, among other pursuits. Pier 63 and Pier 64 offer outdoor recreation and relaxation.
The Schools Public School 33 Chelsea Prep, 281 Ninth Avenue, serves about 620 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5. According to the city’s 2015-2016 School Quality Snapshot, 64 percent met state standards in English, versus 39 percent citywide; 68 percent did so in math, versus 40 percent. City Knoll Middle School, 425 West 33rd Street, serves about 250 students in Grades 6 to 8. There, 27 percent met standards in English, versus 37 percent citywide; 28 percent did so in math, versus 32 percent. The Bayard Rustin Educational Complex, 351 West 18th Street, contains several public high schools, including Landmark, Humanities Preparatory Academy, Manhattan Business Academy, the James Baldwin School and Hudson High School of Learning Technologies. Quest to Learn, with Grades 6 to 12, is also within the campus.
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100 11th Avenue, #7D
A two-bedroom condo with a terrace in a 2009 building designed by Jean Nouvel, listed at $4.225 million. (646) 998-7443
The Commute Subway stations nearby include 14th StreetEighth Avenue, where the A, E and L trains stop full time and the C part time. The 23rd Street station has the E full time and the A and C part time. The 7 train stops at 34th Street-Hudson Yards. Buses include the M14A, M14D, M11, M12 and M23.
The History The writer and theologian Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) was also a developer, subdividing and leasing out land he had inherited, which at one time extended several blocks in the West 20s from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River. By the turn of the 20th century the waterfront was a major port.
520 West 23rd Street, #15A
A studio condop with a balcony in a doorman building, listed at $650,000. (917) 304-3658
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Size 3 bedrooms, 2 baths Details A 112-year-old vinyl-sided house with a formal dining room, a washer and dryer, a woodburning stove and an aboveground pool. Cost $4,235 a year in taxes Listing broker Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
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Artists Weigh In on Change CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
When artists arrive, developers often take it as a signal that a neighborhood is ripe for investment. Longtime residents, meanwhile, get the message that displacement is not too far behind. But artists are not immune to the effects of gentrification, either, so why shouldn’t it find its way into their art? Not that gentrification is new terrain for artists. But the tenor has changed as the scale of development has become ever larger and more frenzied. “Some artists now are more militant, for lack of a better word, in the way that they look at the issue” of gentrification, said Micaela Martegani, the executive director of More Art, a Chelsea nonprofit that connects artists with local communities. “There is more of an activist perspective.” Among the new entries is “The Holdouts,” a comedy series created by Stephen Girasuolo and Dan Menke. The show, which is in production, centers on a classic New York situation: a lease buyout. In the pilot episode, “Change Is Bad,” a disheveled New Yorker named Kevin refuses to relinquish his grimy one-bedroom, even after his landlord offers him $500,000 to leave. He’d rather wait for the return of a bygone era. “I look forward to the day when I can raise pigeons on my roof again, when I can grill in a vacant lot,” he tells his roommate, Jayce, a schoolteacher who is trying to put on a tie so he will look respectable when he meets the wealthy parents of his students. At one point, Jayce takes Kevin to see a $7,000-a-month two-bedroom in a new development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with “wool-brushed” stainless-steel appliances and a separate “poor door” to the building’s subsidized units. “I’m having an allergic reaction,” Kevin says. In early November, I sat in Andrews Coffee Shop in Midtown with Mr. Girasuolo, who is looking for a television network to pick up the series. Over eggs and home fries, Mr. Girasuolo, 46, asked, “How long do
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Above, and right: Scenes from the Postmasters Gallery in Lower Manhattan, where Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have a show titled ‘Broker,’ the centerpiece of which is a 28-minute film about a fictional high-end real estate broker selling an apartment inside a Trump building. The McCoys pose for a portrait inside their installation of a scaled-down apartment kitchen. Below: David Ostow, who is also an architectural designer who works in interior design, often riffs on brokers’ pitches, below left, or designs fantastic condos, below that.
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ury residential developments, designing palatial amenity floors and selecting quartz countertops, lacquered cabinets and fancy faucets for the kitchens. Riding the train through Brooklyn from his home in South Slope to work in Bushwick, Mr. Ostow was often struck by the industrial Brooklyn skyline, grim and yet unexpectedly beautiful. That contradiction defines the Brooklyn brand — you know, distressed furniture and hanging Edison bulbs in the lounge area, but, paradoxically, a pet spa and a golf simulator on the amenity floor. Mr. Ostow had long doodled skylines and cityscapes, but in the summer of 2015, he sketched imaginary condos with absurd signs that said things like “Don’t Panic: We Paid for the Graffiti in the Hallway!” He soon began imagining other condos as a sort of catharsis. “I’m part of that ecosystem, so I’m laughing at myself as much as anyone else,” Mr. Ostow said. “These comics are my way of coming to terms with feeling a bit ridiculous about myself.” The caption for “The Salvage,” a condo made from a hodgepodge of buildings, reads: “Yesterday’s debris is today’s décor. Just sign the bed bug waiver and get ready to smell the luxury.” In answer to the obvious question, Mr. Ostow said in an email, “Yes, my employers have seen my work, these condos included, and they are big fans (either that or they are too polite to say otherwise!).” Artists often play an uncomfortable role in real estate and gentrification. Someone has to paint those graffiti walls in the condo lobbies, but few artists can afford to actually live in such places. Instead, artists often live on the fringes of hot neighborhoods — until developers discover those areas, too. “We are used by marketing people and developers as a sign that a neighborhood is going to be palatable for wealthier people,” said the artist Jennifer Dalton, 48, who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “We are part of the process, but also pawns.” Last May, Ms. Dalton and the artist William Powhida, 40, of Bushwick, organized Month2Month, a monthlong series of events held in private homes that focused on “whether housing is a right or a privilege.” An exhibit about Month2Month is on display through February in “Home (ward),” a show organized by More Art at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in Manhattan. One event, “a night of experimental improvisational comedy” was called “The Rent Is Too Damn High So We Took Away Its Weed.” Another, called “Gentrifiers Anonymous” encouraged participants to confess their gentrifying sins. “Who Stole the House” was a murder mystery involving a Brooklyn home in the clutches of a limited liability corporation. “A lot of people came away feeling like it’s more urgent than ever for artists to organize,” Ms. Dalton said of the series. “We need to be activist citizens.” Ed Hamilton, 55, a writer who has lived in the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street for more than two decades, is certainly aware of the urgency. “Artists used to be able to resist gentrification,” he told me. “At some point, the tide turned.” The hotel has been undergoing renovations for years. Mr. Hamilton and his wife have managed to hold onto their tiny room on the eighth floor, continuing to live there despite the construction, and its attendant
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you want to deal with unhealthy living conditions at a cheaper price?” It’s a reasonable question, and one that Mr. Girasuolo asked himself in 2010 as conditions deteriorated in the Hell’s Kitchen walk-up where he had lived for nearly two decades. Vagrants slept in the hallway, the building frequently had no heat, and a fire started on the roof. He did not receive a buyout offer, but other than that, Mr. Girasuolo said, the show “is completely drawn on my personal experiences.” Unlike Kevin, though, Mr. Girasuolo did not hold out. He gave up his crummy apartment in 2011, even though it was rent-stabilized, equivalent in New York to a winning lottery ticket. But, as luck would have it, he eventually found another rent-stabilized apartment, a one-bedroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which he shares with his wife, Nina Phuong Ha. He walked past his old apartment building a few weeks ago. It still had evacuation notices on the door. Kevin’s apartment on the show, with a bathtub in the living room and a hanging sheet for a bedroom door, actually belongs to someone, the avant-garde composer Elliott Sharp. The show’s producer, Christopher Pike, found the place by sitting on stoops of old apartment buildings in the East Village and accosting tenants in the hope that someone would agree to let the crew use his or her apartment as a set. When Mr. Sharp emerged from his apartment, on East Seventh Street between Avenues B and C, Mr. Pike followed him for three blocks, pleading his case. By the third
block, Mr. Sharp agreed to let him see the place. “Elliott’s was perfect because he had all these old CDs, albums, analog equipment,” Mr. Girasuolo said. While “The Holdouts” spotlights the grittiness of New York tenements, “Broker,” a short film by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, rubs some of the veneer off a spotless threebedroom on the 77th floor of Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza. Gillian Chadsey, an actress, spreads out glossy Trump Organization promotional brochures and recites marketing strategies with statements like: “Emphasize unique qualities to increase the perception of scarcity.” In a monologue stuck on an increasingly frenetic loop, she hawks glazed herringbone parquet floors and white Caesarstone countertops over and over again. By the end, it is not only the luxe bed that has become undone. The film was screened recently at Postmasters Gallery in Lower Manhattan. The McCoys, who are married and in their late 40s, filmed the movie over the summer in an apartment that is currently listed for $6.99 million. They selected the location because they could rent it through Airbnb, not because the building took its name from Donald J. Trump, then running for president. “The staff was nice as pie,” Ms. McCoy said. “Once we got our equipment in there, it was a hermetically sealed netherworld.” The McCoys never thought Mr. Trump would win the election, an outcome that in-
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Day 1 of shooting the pilot for “The Holdouts,” a series about a tenant trying to decide whether to accept a lease buyout of his crummy but cheap apartment. Above, Kevin Corrigan (in bathrobe), playing the tenant, is flanked by Nick Dalessio (in tub), the sound mixer, and Stephen Girasuolo, the director and a creator of the series.
advertently gave the film a more political tone. Ms. McCoy began thinking seriously about luxury apartments when she and her husband spent a year living in one in Abu Dhabi in 2010. “We found it almost impossible to be creative in that space,” she said of an apartment that seemed sterile. When the couple returned to New York in 2011, Ms. McCoy began visiting open houses to see how brokers sell homes. She would dress up as a wealthy apartment hunter, wearing jewelry and heels, “like someone who didn’t have to walk too far,” she said. She would make up stories about why she was there — she needed more space, or she wanted to live closer to the children’s school. Secretly, she recorded the sales pitches on an iPhone hidden in her purse. On one tour, the broker told her that the faucets were modeled after an antique coffee maker. “I didn’t really understand what that meant,” she said. “But you’re not meant to. It’s just intended to carry you through the dream of your life.” The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment. David Ostow, 37, an illustrator and cartoonist, is quite familiar with high-end finishes. In his day job as an architectural designer, he works with design teams on lux-
plastic sheeting, all around them. Mr. Hamilton sees gentrification as not just a literal event, but also as a metaphor for growing old. You become invisible as the world changes around you. Last year, Mr. Hamilton wrote “The Chintz Age” (Cervena Barva Press, 2015), a collection of short stories and a novella about artists trying to survive in a changing city. The novella is called “The Retro-Seventies Manhattan Dream Apartment.” In the story “Highline/Highlife,” the narrator, a writer unhappily married to an heiress, is living in his wife’s luxury apartment overlooking the High Line. Trapped in a glass home, he is both a voyeur and an exhibitionist. Eventually, he goes crazy in his fishbowl. “Gentrification really doesn’t benefit anybody,” Mr. Hamilton said, sitting in an armchair in his tiny room, surrounded by stacks of CDs, books and art. “It seems originally like it’s going to benefit the rich. But it gets out of hand.” But Mr. Hamilton, a Kentucky native who speaks with a soft Southern drawl, is more optimistic than his characters. “I don’t want to be somebody who’s always down on something now,” he said. Instead, “the way to resist is to carve out a niche for yourself in a crazy, gentrified world.”
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Makeup, mustaches and eyelashes in Hell’s Kitchen.
Remembering the great dock explosion of 1956.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2016
NEW YORK CITY
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTOPHER LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Downside of a Boom Lower Manhattan has made a comeback since 9/11. That success now threatens the area’s quality of life.
By WINNIE HU
A sidewalk war has erupted in Lower Manhattan. Paul Proulx is caught in the middle of it. Just to get to his apartment in the financial district, he has to contend with hordes of commuters and selfie-snapping tourists clogging narrow sidewalks. But these are the least of his problems.
Security barriers around landmarks and key government posts send him in circles if he forgets to plan ahead. Scaffolding stretches above him in an impenetrable line, ensuring that the walk home is dark and claustrophobic. He is not even safe on his side of the curb. Delivery trucks routinely park on the sidewalk as if they own it. If that was not enough, there is the trash. Supersize contractor bags of smelly, leaking
garbage are stacked up to 10-feet high outside gleaming high-rise towers, ready to topple over on someone who is not paying attention, or is just really unlucky. “We fight every day for every square inch,” said Mr. Proulx, 44, a land-use lawyer and soft-spoken father of three who moved to the area from Brooklyn in 2007. So Mr. Proulx and his neighbors have
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Donald J. Trump, who, among other distinctions remains an avatar of 1980s materialism, the ’80s, it seemed, were under review. In May, an auction at Christie’s set a record for the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, when a large, untitled canvas he created in Italy in 1982 sold for $57.3 million. BIG More recently, the clothing CITY line Alice & Olivia, in conjunction with the Basquiat estate, produced graphic printed skirts paying tribute to the artist, while the Japanese retailer Uniqlo delivered Basquiat T-shirts. Beyond that, the Museum of Modern Art
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‘Christmas Jollies,’ a Year in the Making Bill Adler’s annual eclectic holiday mix has been a musical tradition for decades. By HELENE STAPINSKI
“Are you ready?” Bill Adler shouted with the joyful enthusiasm of a teenager about to set off a firecracker in his living room. Instead of lighting a fuse, Mr. Adler, 64, hit play on his home stereo in his Flatiron district apartment. Blasting out of the speakers was Calypso Rose’s upbeat “Oh Christmas,” one of the 28 tracks on Mr. Adler’s latest annual holiday mix, upon which he is putting the finishing touches. It was suddenly Caribbean carnival meets Christmas, as the horns, steel pan, strumming guitars, maracas, bouncing bass and lilting vocals filled every crevice in
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the room. “BOOM!” Mr. Adler yelled in his radio D.J. voice when the track ended. “Pure joy! It’s a party, isn’t it?” Since 1982, Mr. Adler has been making a holiday mix — which he calls his “Christmas Jollies” — as a gift for his growing legion of friends, family and associates. It started as a mix tape for about a dozen people, and in 1999 it went digital; this year’s 55-minute CD will go out to 500 people. Mr. Adler has worn more hats in the music industry than he can remember: critic and journalist, author, publicist, record executive, radio D.J., archivist. But the one constant in his life, besides his wife and two grown children, is this mix CD. “It’s pure pleasure,” he said. “It’s not work. It’s bigger than I am.” This is not a collection of Bing Crosby and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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Downtown Maven, Midtown Mama lox. And cream cheese, of course. I’ll also throw something easy in the slow cooker for later in the afternoon. Andy’s parents are from Colorado, and there are these Hatch green chilies that they can get only once a year, so I will use them to make green chili or chicken enchiladas or pork tacos.
Jessica Lappin, president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, among the city’s largest business improvement districts, has a long history with Lower Manhattan. While she now calls a twobedroom co-op in Midtown East home, in 1993 she was in the first graduating class of Stuyvesant High School’s Lower Manhattan campus. “Lower Manhattan was a ghost town on nights and weekends,” she said of the early 1990s. Since then, it has become one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in the city. Ms. Lappin, 41, lives with her husband, Andrew Wuertele, 42, the chief administrative officer at East River Medical Imaging, and their sons, Lucas, 9, and Miles, 5. JULIE SATOW
ROOSEVELT RIDE Since the spring, Lucas and I go on long bike rides. His birthday was in March and he got a new bike; it’s a neongreen Specialized. It is really fun to map out routes. We often do Roosevelt Island. We live close to the tram, so we will take that over. They have a loop you can bike around, which is great for kids because you are separate from the cars and it isn’t too crowded with people. TEAM LOYALTY When we get back, it’s football time. Andy grew up playing high school football in Nebraska and he’s an avid University of Pittsburgh football fan, while I was raised on the Jets. We’ve adopted each other’s teams. I have one of those old-fashioned air popper popcorn makers and we’ll eat whatever I made in the slow cooker. At halftime Miles will get antsy, so we will bake something. I’ll measure all the ingredients, and he will put everything into the bowls; he especially likes to work the stand mixer. We have a few standards, like a quick banana or zucchini bread. Or he might successfully lobby for cookies. He has a particular Thomas Keller chocolate cookie with chocolate chunks that he likes.
PODS, PAPER I usually wake up around 6:45. My oldest son, Lucas, and I are up early together. He’s a big reader of fantasy adventure — right now it is “Ranger’s Apprentice” — so he will sit in a chair by the window and read while I make myself coffee. We have a Nespresso machine with all the different colored pods, which I’m addicted to, and a milk frother. I’ll check email and Twitter and read the Sunday Times.
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MORNING MILES Then I’ll go for a run. I like to run in Central Park. Running is definitely my private time to clear my head and think things through. I like being outside and in nature. I ran the marathon in 2014, which was the first time I had done anything like that. Unfortunately, last year I broke my ankle in three places playing soccer with the kids, and I wasn’t sure I would be able to run again. But I just did the Staten Island Half Marathon. While I run I listen to pop music. I have my own Spotify playlist that I update periodically. So I’ll do around eight to 10 miles, a good 60 to 90 minutes.
SUSHI SUNDAYS On Saturday nights I tend to cook and make something more elaborate, so on Sundays I like to take a break. We order a lot of sushi. Our go-to is Fusha. Having dinner as a family has always been a priority for us. It is a nice way to end the week. LAUGHTER BEFORE SLEEP We tend to eat around 8:30, so then it is bedtime: pajamas, brushing teeth, story and then lights out. Then Andy and I have some quiet time together. We will map out the week ahead, who is going to drop-off each morning and who will be home each evening. Then we will zone out in bed, usually to comedy shows that we have on our DVR from earlier in the week. It is usually “Modern Family,” and until recently, it was “S.N.L.” Andy would also watch “Game of Thrones,” but I need comedy before bed.
A LOT OF LOX When I get back from my run, Andy will go to Tal Bagels and pick up breakfast. I have a whole wheat everything bagel, as does he, and the boys get cinnamon raisin with lox. Not just a little bit of lox, either. My kids consume a large amount of
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by our Walmart economy. One could view this as a form of tyranny: The means of living are now mostly doled out by the corporation, and few consider taking the risky route of entrepreneurship.
that time allowed me to travel more. Diners are the sweet spot between a fast-food burger place and a foo-foo snooty restaurant. Plus, the diner is the place where our elderly citizens gather to socialize and not be alone. I love listening to their stories of the “good old days.”
comfort — rather somber, to be sure — but an oasis in a dark world. A hot cup of coffee and a bit of a chat — maybe the most we can hope for at 3 in the morning, and maybe enough.
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City Noise? It’s Music to Her A WALK THROUGH the bustling streets of Midtown Manhattan can be auditory anarchy, with intrusions from squealing bus brakes, roaring garbage trucks, whining ambulances and other noisy contributors. For Elena Kowalsky, the cacophony is music to the ears. “You really can make music of it, if you pay attention the right way,” said Ms. Kowalsky, 42, who has absolute pitch, commonly called perfect pitch, which is the rare ability to identify and name tones without having to use a keyboard for reference. And while Ms. Kowalsky, a classically trained pianist, might prefer some Bach, Sinatra or Led Zeppelin, she is also a fan of the unintended compositions by the city, offered up by the street-level smorgasbord of pitches. Those taxi horn blasts, subway screeches or jarring police-car whoops: She hears them as pure — or often out-of-tune — pitch tones. On Wednesday, she pointed to an M5 public bus heading down Fifth Avenue, its decelerating engine emitting a heavy exhale, which Ms. Kowalsky identified as a B on the piano that descended a short way down the scale to a G. Then an ambulance siren’s song wailed through the canyon of buildings, a barely noticeable background noise that Ms. Kowalsky regarded like an orchestra conductor, declaring it a glissando, or slide, from F sharp, up an octave, to a higher F sharp, and then trilling between G and B. Ms. Kowalsky, who grew up in Queens EMAIL character@nytimes.com
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and lives in Lower Manhattan, said that when she was 2 she walked over to a neighbor’s piano and played a tune she had heard played on it a month earlier, in the same key. “My parents said, ‘We better get her lessons,’” recalled Ms. Kowalsky, who in middle school was told by a band teacher she had this innate ability. She studied ballet and piano privately and music theory at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. She now works at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, on Long Island, studying the genetic basis of absolute pitch. The work involves finding and testing people with the talent and collecting a DNA sample. Ms. Kowalsky helped create an app to test for absolute pitch. Ms. Kowalsky teaches classical piano and directs a small choir based in Harlem made up of women from Belgium and France. She also plays keyboard in Bustling Hedgerow, a Led Zeppelin cover band. She practices
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Sufi whirling, a twirling style of dance associated with Persian dervishes that involves extended stretches of vigorous spinning in a meditative trance. Ms. Kowalsky, who is training under Banafsheh Sayyad, a master of sacred dance, said her musical ability helped her focus while spinning. Before a twirling class on Wednesday, Ms. Kowalsky sat in a Midtown coffee shop and compared her listening ability to an average person’s recognition of colors. It is impossible to walk down the street and not assign note values to pitched sounds — be it a traffic officer’s whistle or an elevator’s arrival tone. Usually it is a note that shows up on a musical staff, or on a keyboard. Two women chatted nearby, and Ms. Kowalsky said that she heard the rise and fall of their voices “as musical notes on a page,” noting that a refrigerator motor nearby hummed in B. A window display at Saks Fifth Avenue featured a “Nutcracker”-themed display, which played an excerpt from the ballet that Ms. Kowalsky identified as being in B flat. The music was augmented by steady beeping in A flat — the warning signal of a Transportation Department truck backing up. “Completely dissonant,” she said. “But hey, why judge it?” She walked inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where worshipers sang a hymn along with the pipe organ, in F major, she said. “When I hear this, my hands are on the keyboard with the organist,” she said. “What the people are playing, I can see it in my mind. It almost feels like I’m playing with people when I hear them play.” Outside, an umbrella vendor trying to lure customers repeated a singsong, twonote chant, a narrow interval between G and the B above it. Many of the car horns were B notes, and Ms. Kowalsky joked that perhaps B was the median pitch of all the noises produced in the city, something of a karmic convergence of acoustic vibration. If so, then the furious driver trapped in gridlock on 49th Street would be contributing a sustained two-note chord of her car horn — a G with a B just above it. So would a tinny speaker outside a restaurant piping an instrumental version of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” in the key of G. In the Times Square subway station, Ms. Kowalsky paused near a man playing a saw with a violin bow — John Lennon’s “Imagine” in F major — and boarded an uptown No. 3 train. Before departing, it emitted the familiar descending two-note electronic bing-bong, which Ms. Kowalsky called “a funky E and C,” because of its shaky tuning. The express train’s steel wheels were whinnying in D and F, she said, with another tone above them. “That’s a nice B — clean,” she said, then hearing yet another unintended city sound in the symphony of the city. “With a C sharp under it.”
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The actor Woody Harrelson made the first move for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship that ended Wednesday in Manhattan. Wasn’t Humphrey Bogart supposed to have earned drinking money hustling chess games in New York?
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Indeed. Humphrey Bogart, who was taught the game A. by his father, a prominent New York City doctor, later became known as one of the best players among the many actors devoted to chess. But long before “Casablanca,” he had developed a reputation on the chessboard. When Bogart was working as an office boy for a theatrical office, he “dove headfirst into the Jazz Age lifestyle, always up for late night revels, ” Frank Kelly Rich wrote on the website Drunkard .com. “When his meager wages were exhausted, he’d play chess against all comers in arcades for a dollar a match (he was a brilliant player) to fund his outings,” Mr. Rich wrote. On Chess.com, Mike Doyle wrote of Bogart, “Before he made any money from acting, he would hustle players for dimes and quarters, playing in New York parks and at Coney Island.” The actor even achieved a draw against the grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky in 1955 — though Reshevsky was also simultaneously playing 29 other opponents. STEVE BELL
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A. There are about 10,000 such barrel-like wooden tanks crowning city buildings, said David Hochhauser, a co-owner of Isseks Brothers Inc., one of three companies that dominate the city’s water tank business. And if Mr. Hochhauser had to guess, the two 10,000-gallon wooden water tanks atop the 30 Fifth Avenue apartment building, at about 50 years old, are the city’s oldest. Water tanks are housed on city roofs for two reasons: so they won’t take up precious space in the building, and because they are gravity-fed, which makes them energy efficient and a favorite of sustainability-minded building managers (or anyone interested in a green tax credit). Pressure in the city’s pipes will propel water up only about half a dozen stories; buildings beyond that height require a pumping system or a tank. The tanks at 30 Fifth Avenue have endured so long because they are made of redwood, he said. Most redwood tanks last around 40 years, Mr. Hochhauser said, compared with about 25 years for cedar tanks. All wooden tanks eventually need to be replaced, because the wood rots and starts to leak. (Water tanks can also be made of sturdier steel and fiberglass, but those tanks are less visible because they are mostly enclosed.) The industry largely switched to cedar from redwood for wooden tanks, which are the least expensive and easiest to maintain of all water tanks, in the late 1980s or early 1990s. “They stopped letting us cut down redwood because you couldn’t replenish it,” Mr. Hochhauser said. “One day we called out to the West Coast and they said, ‘Listen, we can’t get that lumber anymore.’ Cutting down redwoods became as politically incorrect as Donald Trump.” TAMMY La GORCE EMAIL fyi@nytimes.com
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Gilded Gifts That Leap From the Page “IT IS A TIME when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more?” Sound familiar? It could refer to the end of the year, a time when you’re thinking about getting away, or about buying new books to give as holiday gifts; some ideas on that subject follow in this column. It’s also how Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner described the Gilded Age in their 1873 novel of the same name. Esther Crain, who created the Ephemeral New York blog, has produced a second book about the 19th century’s golden era, as a follow-up to her three-dimensional tome on the period that came with a stereoscopic viewer, produced in 2014. “The Gilded Age in New York: 1870-1910” (Hachette, $35) is a beguiling, lavishly illustrated book that — emerging from the center of the epoch, Madison Square — epitomizes what Ms. Crain calls the city’s incredible energy and sense of its own greatness and destiny. “Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront” (Damiani, $39.95) culled by Elizabeth Albert, a professor at St. John’s University, is a stunning guide to 10 offbeat and pristine sites that have so far been spared the incursion of high-rise condominiums or private swim clubs. Among the places illuminated in fiction, poetry and art are Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn, where the beach is littered with old bits from glass bottles and remnants of the working animals who ended up in a glue factory there, and Hart Island, where Jacob Riis photographed the poor being buried in the 19th century, much the same way as they are today. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel celebrates more than 50 years of architectural preservation with the sixth edition of “The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Record of New York City’s Historic Buildings” (New York University Press, $75). This chronological guide by a determined advocate catalogs 1,352 landmarks and 135 historic districts, both the familiar and the unheralded. “New York Landmark Posters” (Ziga Media, $16.99) by the artist and photographer Michael Ziga, is also available as a handsome wall calendar. “A Celebration in the Raw: Oysters” (Abbeville Press, $24.95) by Jeremy Sewall and Marion Lear Swaybill reveals everything you wanted to know about the shellfish that made its restaurant debut on Broad Street in 1763 and soon became synonymous with New York City. City Lore celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with “The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness” (Cornell University Press, $26) by
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Steve Zeitlin, a folklorist and the nonprofit cultural center’s founding director. It’s a “how-to book for everyone,” the poet Bob Holman writes, “where language itself becomes a way of life.” “Rescue Me!” (Aperture Foundation, $15.95), with photographs by Richard Phibbs and text by Richard Jonas, is an impassioned and poignant appeal to find permanent homes for adopted animals. Royalties benefit the Humane Society of New York.
Richard Sandler’s “The Eyes of the City” (powerHouse Books, $49.95) is a black-andwhite vista of what David Isay describes in his forward as “a fiercely political meditation” on painful truths captured by a powerful street photographer. “Shop Cook Eat New York: 200 of the City’s Best Food Shops, Plus Favorite Recipes” (Rizzoli New York, $27.50) by Susan Meisel and Nathalie Sann provides a bountiful neighborhood tour to whet one appetite or another.
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is currently reprising “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Nan Goldin’s visual confessional of indulgence and torment, a defining artistic achievement of the ’80s whose themes — violence among intimates, AIDS, the reimagining of family — were totemic to the period. It stands as a journalist’s curse to seek meaning in trends when often coincidence is merely exerting a hand. Perhaps ’80s revivalism was inevitable after a long period in which the culture was steeped in nostalgia for New York in the ’70s (novels like “City on Fire” and “The Flamethrowers,” television series like “Vinyl” and “The Get Down”). Or perhaps the ’80s have simply come to seem more relatable to our current moment because Wall Street then, too, wielded a disproportionate influence over the city’s psyche — Basquiat facetiously painted in Armani. The hedonism of the ’70s had given way to a new and necessary decadent rage (“Die yuppie scum,” as the rioters against East Village gentrification declared). The power structure of the Reagan years — repressive, phobic, money-loving, indifferent to the mounting horrors of AIDS — offered artists and activists something to beat their fists against, and whatever might have inspired these renewed reflections, their rebellions now seem very much worth revisiting. Both David France, in his new book, “How to Survive a Plague,” a chronicle of the AIDS years that serves as a companion to his Oscar-nominated documentary of the same name, and Tim Murphy, in “Christodora,” his novelistic telling of the period and its haunting aftermath, offer guidebooks, in essence, to battling the most destructive kinds of oppression. What is required is an almost baroque, almost pathological commitment. “When I think back on that period of late ’80s activism,” Mr. Murphy told me, “the people who were really doing things were out every night; they were doing something every single night, inhabiting a whole downtown world of nocturnal animals. For young people who look at that period with some degree of envy, I’d say, ‘Well, now, here’s your chance, now is the time to get into big rooms and see how people did it 30 years ago.’” In the ’80s, art, activism and night life were closely yoked — the revolution was happening at a nightclub like Danceteria as much as it was happening in those big rooms with terrible coffee. A tepid effort at recapturing that spirit was evident this past week as well-known artists, not typically known for political engagement, gathered outside the Puck Building, where EMAIL bigcity@nytimes.com
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Ivanka Trump is thought to keep parts of her art collection, to protest the entirety of the Trump gestalt. Things were quiet and orderly — this was not Act Up outside the Federal Drug Administration’s headquarters. The artist Marilyn Minter, who marched with a battery-powered candle, spoke to a reporter about the resurgence of fascism in this country, but what Mussolini detractor would have risen up against him in ire with a decorative tabletop accent? A precursor to the protest had been an Instagram account, newly established by art-world figures, called Dear Ivanka, in which photographs of the president-elect’s daughter, looking very contentedly 0.01 percent, are juxtaposed with statements of fear and discontent about the impending Trump administration. But Instagram activism, no matter how aesthetically
The New York City AIDS Memorial, at the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, was dedicated on Thursday.
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compelling, will never have the impact of staging funerals. In the theater, some of what is emerging in the vein of ’80s renaissance reminds us of what social networks really meant before they meant Facebook. A new play, “Street Children,” which made its debut the other day at the New Ohio Theater in Greenwich Village, is set in 1988, among a group of young transgender women who inhabit the lower Hudson piers. The play looks at the bonds and sense of belonging formed during a chaotic and dangerous time when blood families routinely disavowed difference and the acutely ostracized moved to New York, in all its welcoming seediness, and built street families or “houses” — connections of profound, lifesaving intensity in the predigital age. Last month saw the arrival on Broadway of “Falsettos,” the critically praised
musical, which had its premiere there in 1992 as an exploration of love, commitment and shifting domestic arrangements — made families, unconventional families — among Manhattan sophisticates of the previous decade amid the traumas of a plague. It delivers some of the same idea. When I asked James Lapine, who directed the production this time and the last, what inspired the revival, he mentioned the experience of taking his bright, well-educated 23-year-old assistant to see “The Normal Heart,” Larry Kramer’s important AIDS play. “At intermission she looked at me and said: ‘Is this based on fact? I mean I know about AIDS, but I didn’t know it was like this.’ That made me think it was important to tell these stories now to the younger generations.” All future activists need history lessons.
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Andy Williams standards, with some “Frosty the Snowman” and “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” novelties thrown in. “I don’t do cheese,” Mr. Adler said. “People don’t realize how much terrible music I listen to to get to the good stuff.” This is serious business, a heartfelt, carefully curated collection of mostly soul, R&B, Latin and Caribbean music, jazz and blues that takes nearly a year for Mr. Adler to compile. He dives into record store bins and haunts city flea markets, enlisting family to do the same; takes recommendations from trusted friends; searches iTunes; calls record store owners around the country; and spends hour upon hour surfing YouTube for the perfect, rarest of tracks. This year’s mix begins with an introduction from a Bobby Bland record that Mr. Adler happened to have in his 3,000-album collection (he also has about 1,000 CDs and 500 45s). “Ladies and gentlemen,” the voice says, “Here’s the man ——” the voice switches to Mr. Adler, dubbed in, who announces: “Santa. Santa Claus.” The CD skillfully winds through a variety of genres and spoken-word segments, including some fast-talking Christmas banter from La Mega, a New York Latin radio station. Mr. Adler recorded several hours of the station last year in preparation. A Dominican group, Alberto Díaz y Sensación, performs a lightning-fast merengue, “Navidad con Lechon,” which translates roughly as “Christmas With Suckling Pig.” (Mr. Adler may not do cheese, but he does do pork.) Mr. Adler will happily detail the provenance of each and every track on his mixes. “You go looking for one record,” he said of his YouTube searches, “but then there are two dozen other records you didn’t even know about.” The challenge every year is to find enough great music to fill up that year’s lineup. “Luckily,” he said, “there’s a ton of new Christmas recordings released every year, and there’s a continent of previously recorded Christmas songs still to be discovered. Most of it is damn near unlistenable, in my opinion, but I always manage to sift out 50 to 55 minutes of gold.” THERE’S ROCKABILLY, electric blues guitar, Cajun music, a Christmas waltz, some soul and a “Sleigh Ride” through the honking horns and revving motors of Los Angeles with El Vez, known as the Chicano Elvis. As a palette cleanser, Kent Brockman, the news anchor from “The Simpsons,” makes an announcement about global warming:
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Project “Christmas Jollies” mix CD Driving Force Bill Adler In the Works Since 1982 (though he skipped 1983, for some reason) Biggest Obstacle Finding enough good music to go on the mix. “I made a deal with myself years ago. If I can’t find a program’s worth of music in the course of a year, I can repeat a song, as long as 10 years has elapsed.” Cost $2,000 (not counting the records bought during the year for research)
“Meteorologists warn there will be no snow this Christmas anywhere in America, not even in Alaska, where the Eskimos now have 100 words for ‘nothing.’” This year, Mr. Adler discovered a Christmas zydeco tune by Rockin’ Sidney through a new friend he made in Rayne, a small Louisiana town in Acadia Parish — Christine Stelly, the owner of No-Name Vinyl. “She has stacks and stacks of old 45s,” he said. “She’s just the nicest woman, and she signed onto my quest.” Ms. Stelly digs through the 45s, takes
photos of the labels and emails them to Mr. Adler, who decides what to buy and sends her a money order. The pièce de résistance is “Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’,” by Mack Rice. “Santa’s at home the night before Christmas,” Mr. Adler explained, “trying to get ready, but he also wants to be able to spend some time with his wife. Are you married? Dig this.” BOOM! There is also the occasional Hanukkah song, though not as many as Mr. Adler would like. “I look every year,” he said, “but there are very few wonderful Hanukkah songs.” This year, it’s Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ “8 Days (of Hanukkah)”: “Cooking up the brisket the kosher butcher sold my Uncle Saul.” It was poignant good luck the song made the cut; Ms. Jones died at age 60 last month. MR. ADLER WAS BORN in Brooklyn out in
Sheepshead Bay a few days before Christmas but never celebrated it growing up. His bris was held on Jesus’ birthday. “A nice Jewish fellow himself,” he says. He grew up in Detroit, where he said he was spoiled by amazing radio, and one of his earliest jobs was as a D.J. there. He then
Bill Adler has been making a holiday mix since the early 1980s. His 2016 version includes 28 tracks from various genres, among them soul, waltz, jazz, merengue and zydeco.
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landed a job as the music critic at The Boston Herald, quit and made the move to New York with the chef and cookbook author Sara Moulton — “my high-earning wife,” he calls her. After marrying Ms. Moulton in 1981, he was pulled into her family’s Christmas celebrations. He loved everything but the music. “It was typical and shopworn,” he said, “so I started to put together my own Christmas soundtrack.” In New York, he worked as a freelance journalist and eventually met Russell Simmons, the hip-hop impresario behind Def Jam records. Mr. Adler offered to work at the label, which didn’t have a publicist at the time. “I had never been a publicist, but I’d spoken to enough of them,” he said. Those years, Mr. Simmons, Slick Rick and Grand Master Dee made cameos on Mr. Adler’s Christmas mixes. Even Julia Child, Ms. Moulton’s mentor, made an appearance. During his time at Def Jam, Run DMC recorded “Christmas in Hollis,” one of the best-known Christmas rap songs. Mr. Adler, who came up with the title, let Jam Master Jay rifle through his collection of soulful Christmas records. He picked out Clarence Carter’s “Back Door Santa,” whose sample became the musical basis of “Christmas in Hollis.” Every year on Mr. Adler’s mix, there is a bonus track dedicated to Ms. Moulton: this time a jazz rendition of “It’s You or No One,” with a trombone solo by J. J. Johnson that’s so beautiful “it tears your heart out,” he said. And at the very end of the mix is a repurposed holiday greeting from the Obamas. “This is something I planned anyway,” Mr. Adler said, “but in the wake of the recent election . . . .” Mr. Adler’s 30-year-old daughter, Ruthie, who lives at home with her 26-year-old brother, Sam, has designed the covers of the CD for the past five years. The one this year is drawn from an old Mickey Mouse lobby card from 1932, culled from a calendar. Mr. Adler just handed over the records and digitized files to his audio engineer, Jacob Burckhardt, who edits some tracks, improves their sound quality and sequences them in seamless fashion. Finally, the master is sent to a CD plant to be pressed. This week, Mr. Adler will mail them out. “If I send it to somebody and I don’t hear anything over the course of several years, they might drop off my list,” he said, sounding like a rather severe Santa. Ruthie Adler, when asked if she tired of her father’s Christmas tunes, shook her head. “My mother and I migrate from different parts of the house to dance to it,” she said. “It never gets old.”
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banded together to take back their sidewalks. Earlier this year, they formed the Financial District Neighborhood Association, a volunteer organization that has grown to more than 100 members. The threat to the quality of life in this well-to-do enclave of multiplying skyscrapers is obvious to anyone who has made it their home: crowding. In the 15 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, Lower Manhattan has come back bigger, bolder and busier than ever. One World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum attract millions of visitors a year. The transit system was not just rebuilt but upgraded, with Santiago Calatrava’s sleek, steel-ribbed Oculus anchoring a sprawling commuter hub. One after another, new luxury apartment towers — including a 76-story building designed by Frank Gehry — rose where there were once parking lots, vacant parcels and former commercial sites. Thousands of young professionals and families settled into an area that used to be seen as a pass-through for Wall Street workers. When Sarah Elbatanouny moved to John Street in 2005, her oldest daughter was one of only two children in the 427apartment building. Now there are 70 children — so many that a storage room was converted into a playroom two years ago. Along with all the people came the headaches. “I always say be careful what you wish for,” said Ms. Elbatanouny, 43, the chief talent officer for Group SJR, a digital content agency. “We always wished for more restaurants and bars, but what’s come with that is trash, noise and congestion. It’s one of those double-edged swords.” MORE PEOPLE LIVE AND WORK in New York City than at any time in its history. The population has grown every decade since 1980, when it had slipped to 7.1 million, from 7.9 million in 1970, after residents left in droves to escape crime and a financial crisis. In later decades, as the city recovered, more people stayed and immigrants and transplants arrived. As life expectancy increased, they lived longer. By 2000, the city’s population had passed eight million for the first time. Today, it is 8.5 million and counting. By 2040, it is expected to hit nine million, according to city projections. For many government officials and business leaders, this growth is a testament to the city’s success: Everyone wants to be in New York. There are many reasons. The city has never had so many jobs — 4.3 million-plus — including more than 276,000 private-sector jobs that were created since 2014, according to city officials. Tourism is thriving, with about 60 million visitors estimated for this year. “We have turned a corner out of the challenges we faced in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and we’ve gone much farther than I think a lot of us ever would’ve imagined already,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a meeting called “Getting Ready for Nine Million New Yorkers” hosted by Crain’s last month in Midtown Manhattan. “And this growth has been extraordinary.” Still, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, added that the “pathway to nine million” would not be easy. “It will come with challenges to say the least,” he said. “We all are experiencing the congestion in this city, and that is in part because we are victims of our own success.” Roughly seven out of eight neighborhoods now have more residents than in 1990, according to an analysis of census data by Queens College using neighborhood boundaries as defined by the city’s Planning Department. The biggest change was in Lower Manhattan-Battery Park City, which gained 30,502 residents for a total of 42,485 in 2014, up 255 percent from 1990. “Crowding exists in other parts of the city,” said Patrick Kennell, 40, a lawyer who is also a member of the Financial District Neighborhood Association. “But it’s unique here because of the sheer amount of development that has happened post-9/11.” Four other neighborhoods also gained more than 20,000 residents during that period: Borough Park and Canarsie, in Brooklyn; the area encompassing Hudson Yards, Chelsea, the Flatiron district and Union Square, in Manhattan; and North Corona, in Queens. But even in a growing city, not all neighborhoods grew — 23 of them shrank, including the Upper West Side, which lost the most residents, 8,357. Right behind were the Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill and Seagate-Coney Island, an area hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. FOR MANY NEW YORKERS, a crowded city
means having no personal space on the subway or walking through traffic because of gridlock on the sidewalk. It means never getting that babysitter on a Saturday night, or abandoning hope of ever getting tickets for Shakespeare in the Park. As school enrollment has grown, it means larger class sizes and waiting lists at many neighborhood schools. Of the 1,763 public schools in the 2014-15 school year, about 43 percent were designated “overutilized,” according to city data. Citywide, the average class size for kindergarten through third grade is 24.3 students this school year, up from 20.9 students in 2007-8, according to city data. With more people calling the city home, it means building more places for them to live, work and eat. Construction is booming, with 2,465 permits issued for new building projects in 2015, up from 1,517 in 2010, rebounding from an earlier dip during the recession. And with all this construction going on, it also means a louder city. There were a record 57,796 noise complaints in 2015, up from 40,158 two years before. The cacophony of rebuilding Lower ManSusan C. Beachy contributed research.
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Children on their way to the Spruce Street School. Parents have raised concerns about a parking garage that opened this year next to the school’s entrance. “You have an unsafe condition because of the conflict that is inherent between children and automobiles,” one resident said.
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‘We always wished for more restaurants and bars, but what’s come with that is trash, noise and congestion.’
hattan is inescapable for residents. Or as Ms. Elbatanouny put it, the noise is “the welcoming committee” when she comes home. Recently, her family was kept up late at night by demolition trucks breaking down debris in the street, long after work is supposed to have ended for the day. “It’s a loud, banging noise — they stop, and you relax, and then it starts again,” she said. “It feels like the wild, wild West.” Still, there are also benefits to having more neighbors. More people bring more services, more arts and culture, more energy — in short, a more vibrant city. Laura Starr, 58, a landscape architect, recalled that when she lived in the South Street Seaport in the 1980s, there was no decent grocery store close by, let alone a pharmacy or dry cleaner. “I could tell who lived in the seaport because on the 2 or 3 train, I would see people carrying bags from Fairway,” she said. “We had to leave the neighborhood for practically everything.” Now no one ever has to leave. There are shopping centers, Westfield World Trade Center and Brookfield Place, along with a new luxury multiplex movie theater with oversize leather chairs, pillows and blankets. In recent months, two luxury hotels, the Beekman and the Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown, and the upscale Italian market Eataly NYC Downtown all opened their doors. The trade off, of course, is the crowds. Ms. Starr, for one, has all but stopped using the Citi Bike system to commute. She used to ride from her apartment in TriBeCa to her office on Maiden Lane in the financial district nearly every day. But as more pedestrians and cyclists filled the streets, she had to concentrate to avoid running into anyone or being run into. “I have more peace of mind walking,” said
Ms. Starr, who now rides maybe once a month. “If I’m on a bike, it takes so much vigilance.” CROWDING, AT ITS WORST, brings life to a standstill. Consider the sidewalk. Morning and evening commuters heading to and from Pennsylvania Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal regularly overwhelm Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Midtown. The throngs on Main Street in Queens can paralyze downtown Flushing. In Lower Manhattan, people are not the only obstacle. Construction on streets and buildings is everywhere. A labyrinth of imposing metal scaffolding hems in available walkways and forces pedestrians closer together, or into the street. Mr. Kennell, of the neighborhood association, pointed to scaffolding in front of at least two buildings near his home that have been in place for many years, even when no construction was going on. “It’s infuriating, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” he said. At his own apartment building on John Street, which has been under scaffolding since 2013 for repairs, residents are planning a party when it is finally dismantled soon. “People literally cheer when these things come down,” he said. “The streets are so narrow to begin with, and the buildings are so close together, light is a precious resource.” The neighborhood association is calling for city legislation to tighten regulations on scaffolding. The Buildings Department issued 6,667 permits for scaffolding in front of buildings — so-called sidewalk sheds — in the city in 2015; in 1990 only 1,016 permits were issued. City building records show that scaffolding was approved in 2007 for 45 John Street,
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a financially troubled conversion of a 14story office building into rental apartments that has changed owners. Joseph Soldevere, a spokesman for the Buildings Department, said it was unusual for scaffolding to remain that long. Mr. Soldevere said that according to city law, scaffolding must stay up until a building’s facade was deemed safe for pedestrians passing by and any construction that would affect public safety was completed. William Schneider, a lawyer for the current owner of 45 John Street, who bought the building earlier this year, said that three-quarters of the work was done and that the remainder of the project was expected to be finished in March, when the scaffolding will come down. THE INFLUX OF FAMILIES to Lower Manhattan has also strained public school resources. More than one-third of the elementary schools below Houston Street were designated “overutilized” for the last school year, according to a review of city data by the United Federation of Teachers. Michael Mulgrew, the union’s president, said the city needed more school seats and called for better planning by officials to address fast-growing neighborhoods such as Lower Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn and Hunters Point, Queens. “New towers are all over the skyline, not just in Manhattan,” Mr. Mulgrew said. “And new buildings mean more families and more pressure on schools that are already at or over capacity.” City education officials said they planned to add more than 44,000 new school seats across the city in coming years. In Lower Manhattan, eight new schools and an annex to an existing school have opened since 2007, adding more than 5,600 seats and helping to maintain, or reduce, the average
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class sizes. “We are dedicated to addressing overcrowding,” said Devora Kaye, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, adding that it was working closely with families and the community to identify new school sites. Several of these new schools in Lower Manhattan are already grappling with space issues. The Peck Slip School (P.S. 343) in the seaport, which opened in 2012, has grown to about 380 students — too many to fit on its rooftop play area at one time. So the school has lobbied to close the street it is on during school hours to use as a playground. LAZ Parking, which has an entrance on that block, initially opposed the request, but later agreed to the street closing after Manhattan Community Board 1 and elected officials negotiated a compromise in which a new entrance to the parking lot will be created on another street, said Anthony Notaro, the board’s chairman. At the Spruce Street School (P.S. 397), which is in the new Gehry building, parents have raised concerns about a parking garage overseen by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital that opened this year next to the school’s entrance. Now cars entering the garage drive through a plaza where parents and children walk. Though barriers have been erected to separate them, many parents find these inadequate. “It’s a big concern,” said Mr. Proulx, of the neighborhood association, whose three children attend the school. “You have an unsafe condition because of the conflict that is inherent between children and automobiles.” NewYork-Presbyterian said it had worked closely with school administrators and community leaders to maintain a safe environment around the garage, including the installation of a traffic light at its entrance, allowing only trained attendants to drive the vehicles and activating an alarm system during school fire drills when children can walk in front of the garage. “We remain committed to having further discussions with the school, parents and all of our neighbors in the interest of protecting everyone’s safety,” said Karen Sodomick, a spokeswoman for the hospital.
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CROWDING PROBLEMS have real economic
costs for those who have to put up with them day in and day out. At Da Claudio, an Italian restaurant that opened near City Hall in 2014, meat, fish, vegetables and wine are supposed to be delivered before noon. But when drivers get stuck in traffic or cannot find parking, they often trickle in too late to be served. Some delivery and service companies tack on extra charges for fuel, labor and even parking tickets to deliver to the restaurant, said Linda Marini, 43, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Claudio. Not long ago, a refrigerator repair service charging $150 an hour included the halfhour when the repairman disappeared to feed the parking meter, Ms. Marini said. Her bill was reduced after she called the company to complain. “I’m constantly looking at the bills,” said Ms. Marini, estimating that she pays more than $5,000 a year in extra delivery costs. “It cuts into all the profits, and it hurts.” In spite of these costs, the Marinis said they were not leaving Lower Manhattan. The couple, who have three children, moved there in 2000 and have stayed as apartment rents have risen, schools grew crowded and even babysitters became harder to find (and more expensive). They stayed after their previous restaurant in the seaport, Barbarini, flooded during Hurricane Sandy. “My family has roots here,” Ms. Marini said. “We made a commitment after 9/11 to stay down here. We made a commitment after Sandy destroyed our business to build down here. We’re just too heavily invested here.” The crowding problems in Lower Manhattan pose unusual challenges. The area has long drawn daytime crowds of commut-
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ers and tourists visiting Wall Street, often on their way to the Statue of Liberty, and, in recent years, the Sept. 11 museum and memorial site. Add to this the expanding number of downtown residents who need to pick up children, walk dogs, run errands and go out to restaurants and movies. All of these people have at times overwhelmed parts of the city’s oldest neighborhood, which differs from the rest of Manhattan because its residential skyscrapers sit on a colonial-era maze of narrow streets that was not designed for the masses. The city’s rectilinear grid above Houston Street allows for better mobility. For instance, William Street is 34 feet wide; West 54th Street is 60 feet. Kate Ascher, a partner at BuroHappold Engineering and the author of “The Works: Anatomy of a City,” said additional factors contributed to the crowding problems in Lower Manhattan, such as a large number of irregular intersections; deep canyons between buildings, which obstruct views and make it confusing to get around; and security barriers around the New York Stock Exchange and government buildings. And the increasing number of residential conversions has resulted in more trash bags piled on the street (unlike commercial buildings, which have loading docks where garbage is collected, residential trash is picked up at
From top, mounting piles of trash bags in Lower Manhattan; inside Brookfield Place; Sarah Elbatanouny, Patrick Kennell and Paul Proulx, who created the Financial District Neighborhood Association.
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the curb). Ms. Ascher said cities such as Barcelona, Istanbul and London had all faced similar crowding issues, which have been addressed by redesigning and managing streets in ways that better balance the needs of pedestrians and vehicles. BuroHappold has been working with city officials, community leaders and residents in
Lower Manhattan to identify potential solutions as part of two studies underwritten with $125,000 in grants from the J. M. Kaplan Fund. City planning officials and business leaders noted that even with Lower Manhattan’s transformation into a 24-hour neighborhood, its residential density is still well below the average for the borough’s neighborhoods. The Alliance for Downtown New York, which is funded by commercial property owners and runs a business improvement district in Lower Manhattan, pointed out that there are fewer workers today in the neighborhood — 235,000 in the private sector compared with about 270,000 before the Sept. 11 attacks — because there is 20-million square feet less office space (many units were not rebuilt after the attacks, while others were converted into residential apartments). In addition, the alliance said sections of the neighborhood remained fairly empty, especially at night, when daytime crowds of commuters and tourists leave. “The key to continued progress is to tackle any thorny outgrowths of our success in a thoughtful and specific manner,” said Jessica Lappin, president of the alliance. “We should harness our momentum and build upon it constructively so businesses here can continue to thrive and enrich and enliven the entire community and all of New York.” SOME BUSINESSES SAID that at least some of the congestion on the streets had been caused by temporary construction projects, and would get better as those projects finished. Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for the Durst Organization, which manages 1 World Trade Center, said many tenants now used an underground passage, which opened earlier this year, to reach the Fulton Center, a transit and retail hub. This has, in turn, reduced the crowding on Vesey Street. City transportation officials have also taken steps to ease the crowding. They have extended the sidewalk at heavily used pedestrian crossings along Water and Whitehall Streets and built a new pedestrian and bike pathway along South Street on the waterfront, which is expected to draw pedestrians and cyclists away from congested interior streets. Zoning regulations for Lower Manhattan have encouraged new developments to include public plazas and open spaces and locate subway stations inside buildings to improve pedestrian flow. The city’s Economic Development Corporation has also overseen a series of projects in Lower Manhattan, such as building a pedestrian bridge on West Thames Street and improving an esplanade along the East River, and plans to increase ferry service. City sanitation officials said they were working with new residential buildings to improve trash and recycling collections, including suggesting that they store the bags in containers rather than pile them directly on the sidewalk. The Sanitation Department has also increased trash collection to three times a week, from two, in crowded areas. Relief cannot come soon enough for Fern Cunningham, a marketing executive for Nielsen who recalled feeling like a pioneer when she moved to Lower Manhattan in 1983. Back then, she said, it was “a little patch of quiet in New York.” No more. Ms. Cunningham’s 14-story coop building on Nassau Street has been dwarfed by new towering high-rises, and there is no escape from the crowds — or their garbage. She often walks in the street rather than try to edge single-file past a “corridor of waste” that reeks of foul liquids and attracts rats. “It’s absolutely too crowded,” she said. “There are not enough services for people, and yet they keep bringing them down here.”
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