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China Targeted ECONOMIC STRAIN

As U.S. Weighs
Ban on Visitors
Focus Is Said to Be on
Communist Loyalists
By PAUL MOZUR
and EDWARD WONG
The Trump administration is
considering a sweeping ban on
travel to the United States by
members of the Chinese Commu-
nist Party and their families, ac-
cording to people familiar with the
proposal, a move that would al-
most certainly prompt retaliation
against Americans seeking to en-
ter or remain in China and exacer-
bate tensions between the two na-
tions.
The presidential proclamation,
still in draft form, could also au-
thorize the United States govern-
ment to revoke the visas of party
members and their families who
are already in the country, leading
to their expulsion. Some proposed
language is also aimed at limiting
travel to the United States by
members of the People’s Libera-
tion Army and executives at state-
owned enterprises, though many
of them are likely to also be party
members.
Details of the plan, described by
four people with knowledge of the
discussions, have not yet been fi-
nalized, and President Trump
might ultimately reject it.
While the president and his
campaign strategists have been
intent on portraying him as tough
on China for re-election purposes,
Mr. Trump has vacillated wildly in
both his language and actions on
the Chinese government since
taking office in 2017. He has criti-
cized China on some issues, par-
ticularly trade. But he has also
lavished praise on President Xi
Jinping, pleaded with Mr. Xi to
help him win re-election and re-
mained silent or even explicitly
approved of the repression in
Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
There are practical issues as
well. The Chinese Communist
Party has 92 million members. Al-
most three million Chinese citi-
zens visited the United States in
2018, though the numbers have
plummeted because of the coro-
navirus pandemic and the current
ban on most travelers from China.
The U.S. government has no
Continued on Page A11
MAKING ITS CASE TikTok beefs up
its Washington lobbying in a bid
to preserve its future. PAGE A10
Protesters, Police and Video
Police officials say there were “isolated cases” of inappropriate force. But 64 videos show seemingly unwarranted attacks. Page A18.
Clashing Environmental Views Protests Against Racism Reveal
Define a Presidential Contest Hidden Diversity in Small Towns
By LISA FRIEDMAN
and KATIE GLUECK
President Trump traveled on
Wednesday to the new political
battleground of Georgia to blast
away at one of the nation’s corner-
stone conservation laws, vowing
to speed construction projects by
limiting legally mandated envi-
ronmental reviews of highways,
pipelines and power plants.
One day earlier, his Democratic
presidential rival, Joseph R. Biden
Jr., took a different tack, releasing
a $2 trillion plan to confront cli-
mate change and overhaul the na-
tion’s infrastructure, claiming he
would create millions of jobs by
building a clean energy economy.
In that period, the major party
candidates for the White House
displayed in sharp relief just how
far apart they are ideologically on
infrastructure and environmental
matters of vital importance to
many voters, particularly in criti-
Biden’s Clean Energy
Overhaul vs. Trump’s
Regulatory Cuts
cal battleground states, including
Pennsylvania and Florida.
Mr. Biden is trying to win over
young voters and supporters of
his vanquished rival, Senator
Bernie Sanders of Vermont, by
showing an aggressive awareness
of climate change and promising
to move urgently to combat it. At
the same time he has sought to
maintain his promised connection
to white, working-class voters, es-
pecially in the Upper Midwest,
who swung to Mr. Trump four
years ago and are leery of what
they see as threats to their liveli-
hood, especially jobs in the oil and
gas industry.
Continued on Page A14
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. —
Nikki Wilkerson was used to
thinking of herself as the “small
brown girl” growing up in rural
Pennsylvania.
She has been eyed skeptically
while out shopping and ques-
tioned by the police for no clear
reason at all. But she had resigned
herself to keeping quiet about rac-
ism, which her white friends
never seemed to notice even when
it happened right in front of them.
Nobody around here ever talked
about any of this. It’s just what it
was.
And yet there one afternoon in
early June, right in the middle of
the county seat, she happened
upon it: a crowd of white people
demanding justice for Black lives.
They would be joined by Black
high school students, children of
Latino farmworkers, “gays, lesbi-
ans, queer, transgender, what-
DEMETRIUS FREEMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Wave of Activism Rises
as Neighbors Learn
They’re Not Alone
ever,” Ms. Wilkerson, 34, said.
“This was not the Chambersburg I
grew up in. I had no idea. All of
these people are just coming out of
the woodwork.”
The sight was inspiring, she
said. But also frustrating. “Why
weren’t we doing this a long time
ago?”
Black Lives Matter could be re-
sponsible for the largest protest
movement in U.S. history, which
sprang up in countless cities and
small towns after George Floyd
was killed by the police in May.
While the street protests have ta-
pered off in most places, newly
minted activists in small towns
Continued on Page A16
SEEN IN FORECAST
THROUGH AUTUMN
BARRIERS TO RECOVERY
Uncertainty Grows Amid
New Cases, Layoffs
and Closures
By JIM TANKERSLEY
and BEN CASSELMAN
WASHINGTON — The United
States economy is headed for a tu-
multuous autumn, with the threat
of closed schools, renewed gov-
ernment lockdowns, empty stadi-
ums and an uncertain amount of
federal support for businesses
and unemployed workers all
clouding hopes for a rapid re-
bound from recession.
For months, the prevailing wis-
dom among investors, Trump ad-
ministration officials and many
economic forecasters was that af-
ter plunging into recession this
spring, the country’s recovery
would accelerate in late summer
and take off in the fall as the virus
receded, restrictions on com-
merce loosened, and consumers
reverted to more normal spending
patterns. Job gains in May and
June fueled those rosy predic-
tions.
But failure to suppress a re-
surgence of confirmed infections
is threatening to choke the recov-
ery and push the country back
into a recessionary spiral — one
that could inflict long-term dam-
age on workers and businesses
large and small, unless Congress
reconsiders the scale of federal
aid that may be required in the
months to come.
The looming economic pain was
evident this week as big compa-
nies forecast gloomy months
ahead and government data
showed renewed struggles in the
job market. A weekly census sur-
vey on Wednesday showed 1.3
million fewer Americans held jobs
last week than the previous week.
A new American Enterprise Insti-
tute analysis from Safegraph.com
of shopper traffic to stores showed
business activity had plunged in
the second week of July, in part
from renewed virus fears.
Amazon on Wednesday ex-
tended a work-from-home order
for eligible employees from Octo-
ber to January, and Delta Air
Lines said on Tuesday it was cut-
Continued on Page A8

Twitter Accounts of Biden, Gates,

Obama and Others Are Hacked
This article is by Sheera Frenkel,
Nathaniel Popper, Kate Conger and
David E. Sanger.
It was about 4 in the afternoon
on Wednesday on the East Coast
when chaos struck online. Dozens
of the biggest names in America
— including Joseph R. Biden Jr.,
Barack Obama, Kanye West, Bill
Gates and Elon Musk — posted
similar messages on Twitter:
Send Bitcoin and the famous peo-
ple would send back double your
money.
It was all a scam, of course, the
result of one of the most brazen
online attacks in memory.
A first wave of attacks hit the
Twitter accounts of prominent
cryptocurrency leaders and com-
panies. But soon after, the list of
victims broadened to include a
Who’s Who of Americans in poli-
tics, entertainment and tech, in a
major show of force by the hack-
ers.
Twitter quickly removed many
of the messages, but in some cases
similar tweets were sent again
from the same accounts, suggest-
ing that Twitter was powerless to
regain control.
The company eventually dis-
abled broad swaths of its service,
Brazen Scam Soliciting
Bitcoin That Quickly
Raises $100,000
including the ability of verified us-
ers to tweet, for a couple of hours
as it scrambled to prevent the
scam from spreading further. The
company sent a tweet saying that
it was investigating the problem
and looking for a fix. “You may be
unable to Tweet or reset your
password while we review and ad-
dress this incident,” the company
said in a second tweet. Service
was restored around 8:30
Wednesday night.
The hackers did not use their
access to take aim at any impor-
tant institutions or infrastructure
— instead just asking for Bitcoin.
But the attack was a concern to se-
curity experts because it sug-
gested that the hackers could
have easily caused much more
havoc.
There was little immediate evi-
dence for who conducted the at-
tack. One of the most obvious cul-
prits for an attack of this scale,
Continued on Page A15
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LISA LUCAS
Pantheon and Schocken Books
Plotting the Future of Publishing, Now Under New Management
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
and ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Getting to the top in book pub-
lishing has traditionally been a
plodding and prolonged climb —
and once you got there, you didn’t
leave. Knopf has had four publish-
ers in its 105-year history. Farrar,
Straus and Giroux has been run
by only two people since John C.
Farrar, Roger W. Straus and
Robert Giroux.
But over the last year, deaths,
retirements and executive reshuf-
BOB KRASNER
AMY EINHORN
Henry Holt
fling have made way for new lead-
ers, more diverse and often more
commercial than their predeces-
sors, as well as people who have
never worked in publishing be-
fore. Those appointments stand to
fundamentally change the indus-
try, and the books it puts out into
the world.
The latest move came on
Wednesday, when Pantheon and
Schocken Books announced that it
had hired Lisa Lucas, the execu-
tive director of the National Book
Foundation, to be its publisher.
“Everything is up for change,
BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
DANA CANEDY
Simon & Schuster
Sea Change of Gender,
Race and Sensibility
and will change,” said Reagan Ar-
thur, who was named publisher at
Knopf in January. “Ten years from
now, I don’t think anything will
look the same.”
With the deaths of industry ti-
tans like Carolyn Reidy, the chief
executive of Simon & Schuster;
Sonny Mehta, Ms. Arthur’s prede-
MICHAEL LIONSTAR
REAGAN ARTHUR
Knopf
cessor at Knopf; Susan Kamil,
publisher at Random House; and
the longtime Simon & Schuster
editor Alice Mayhew, American
publishing has lost some of its
most prominent leaders.
Not only did they define con-
temporary literature, they
steered an industry not known for
its agility through such seismic
shifts as the digital revolution, the
rise of Amazon and online retail,
the 2008 financial crisis, the rise
and subsequent decline of Barnes
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A Statue Falls, Another Rises
With his poll numbers sagging, the
president replaced his longtime cam-
paign manager, Brad Parscale, with the
veteran operative Bill Stepien. PAGE A15
Clash of the Intellectuals
In the debate over free speech and race,
a Harvard scholar is trading jabs with
High-end development has transformed
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after they were scarred by unrest. How
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Fauci Says ‘Stop This Nonsense’
The White House denies attacking the
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calls the criticism “bizarre.” PAGE A7
A whistle-blower has cited conflict-of-
interest rules over a Detroit museum’s
acquisition of a rarely seen work. PAGE C1
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In Nashville, only country music’s out-
siders are dipping their toes in essential
conversations about racism. PAGE C1
Tommy Tuberville, the Republican
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The words “crisis” and “Facebook” are
practically joined at the hip. But the last
month or two have been something else.
Facebook has dealt with an employee
protest over how it handled inflammatory
posts by President Trump, an advertiser
boycott over hate speech in its online hang-
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reveals about Facebook’s role in our lives.
How did this latest crisis start?
Beginning last fall, Facebook — and its
chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in par-
ticular — made a series of decisions to give
relatively free rein to posts by political
figures, including President Trump, even if
they said divisive or false things on Face-
book. That set of policy choices is the root
of the advertising boycott of Facebook, and
it was highlighted in the report that came
out of a two-year civil rights audit of the
company. Civil rights advocates and others
Make sense of the believed that Facebook made a misguided
news, every day, with choice to prioritize free expression of the
David Leonhardt. powerful and to ignore the harm that ex-
pression can cause for people with less
power.
Facebook says it’s stuck between political
conservatives who generally want the
company to intervene less in what people say
The
online, and those on the left who want it to
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I get that they’re in a no-win situation. But
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The White House Called a News Conference.
Trump Turned It Into a Meandering Monologue.
Wednesday’s most read article was this recap and assessment
by Peter Baker of a news conference in the White House Rose
Garden that ended up being an hourlong “presidential stream
of consciousness as Mr. Trump drifted seemingly at random
from one topic to another, often in the same run-on sentence.”
On Tuesday evening, journalists on The Times’s Politics team
gathered virtually for a live chat about primary and runoff
results in Texas, Maine and Alabama, where the Republican
Senate primary runoff between Jeff Sessions, the former
senator and attorney general, and Tommy Tuberville, a for-
mer Auburn football coach, was closely watched. Selections
from their conversation follow.

Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control

Stephanie Saul The outcome of today’s Alabama
Of Coronavirus Data
election may be a litmus test for President Trump’s
Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Dis-
popularity in the state. He has endorsed Tuberville over
ease Control and Prevention and send all Covid-19 patient
Sessions, his former attorney general.
information to a central database in Washington, raising
questions about transparency.

The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse.
We Must Act Now.
In an Op-Ed article, John M. Barry, a professor at Tulane
University, said that “if we don’t get the growth of this pan-
demic under control now, in a few months, when the weather
turns cold and forces people to spend more time indoors, we
could face a disaster that dwarfs the situation today.”
Elaina Plott Voter turnout in the Alabama Senate runoff
race was abysmal all across the state, according to
Secretary of State John Merrill, who estimated it to be
between 10 percent and 15 percent.
Saul The low Alabama turnout is surprising given the
heavy spending and attention the race has received.
The Senate seat is considered the top offensive target
this year for Republicans.

Plott The call is in: Tommy Tuberville will be Alabama’s

Republican nominee for Senate, defeating Jeff Ses-
sions, and will face Senator Doug Jones in November.

“I leave elective office with my integrity intact,” Jeff Ses-

sions says. “This chapter of my life is closed.” And just
like that, his three-decade political career is over.
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First Coronavirus Vaccine Tested in Humans

Shows Early Promise
Jeremy Peters The big Alabama question for Demo-
crats: How much, if anything, will they commit to the
MONICA
The vaccine, developed by government scientists and Mod-
erna, a biotech company, appeared safe and provoked an
uphill re-election battle for Doug Jones, who has been a
loyal soldier for the party? RICH
immune response in 45 people in a study published in The
New England Journal of Medicine. Read more about the Alabama primary runoff at nytimes.com/politics.
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Tracking an Outbreak
N

Coronavirus Update Hot Spots in the United States

As of Wednesday evening, more than 3,495,200 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested positive for
the coronavirus, according to a New York Times database. More than 136,900 people with the virus have died in the United States.
Daily Record for Infections in California
How the number of new cases
Houston Schools to Start Fall Term Online has changed over the last two weeks

Wash.
Lockdown Orders in India and Australia Falling Rising ĺ Few or same
number of cases Maine
Mont. N.D.
Minn.

By JAMES BARRON Minn.

Vt.
Ore. Idaho Wis. N.Y. N.H.
The hot spots are in different places, but in many ways, mid-July
S.D. Mass.
looks as bleak as March. Businesses are closing. Hospitals are run- Mich.
ning short of beds or protective equipment or both. Test results are Wyo. Conn. R.I.
taking days to process. Economists sound less and less certain
about a rebound. And officials are warning yet again that the worst Pa.
Iowa N.J.
may be ahead. Nev. Neb.
Ohio
The present is disturbing: 65,000 new cases of the coronavirus Ind. Md.
Del.
were reported in the United States on Tuesday, 31 percent more than Ill. D.C.
Utah Colo.
on July 1. Compared with mid-March, when the Northeast was the W.Va.
Va.
center of the outbreak, surges have now spread across more of the Kan. Mo.
country. By early summer, the virus had whipped through every Calif. Ky.
state, infecting more people than the combined populations of South N.C.
Tenn.
Dakota, Wyoming and Washington, D.C. Okla.
There have been no indications this week that the surges will let Ariz. Ark.
S.C.
up. California set a daily record on Tuesday with more than 10,000 N.M. Miss. Ga.
new cases, and Florida added just under 9,200, bringing its total to Ala.
more than 300,000.
Places that were spared when the Northeast was living with La.
stay-at-home orders are straining. Missouri added more than 1,000
Texas
cases in a day for the first time on Tuesday. In Kentucky, where
Fla.
cases are rising and masks are now required, Gov. Andy Beshear Alaska
said on Tuesday that residents’ own actions in the coming days
would determine whether “we go the route of Arizona,” which has
reported the country’s highest per capita growth in coronavirus
cases over the past two weeks. Hawaii Puerto Rico
School reopenings remain a question mark, despite pressure
from the White House to bring students back to brick-and-mortar
classrooms in September. On Wednesday, the Houston Independent
School District, the nation’s seventh largest, became the latest dis-
trict to announce that the school year would start online. Sources: State and local health agencies. The map shows where the average number of reported cases over the past two weeks is increasing, decreasing or
about the same. Counties with fewer than 20 cases over the past two weeks and parts of a county with a population density lower than 10 people per square mile
The decision reflected the numbers: The Houston area has a are not shaded. Data for Rhode Island is shown at the state level because county data is infrequently reported. Data is as of July 15, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., Eastern. THE NEW YORK TIMES
positive test rate of 14 percent. Public health experts say that com-
munities with positive test rates above 5 percent are not ready to
reopen. Only two of the 10 largest school districts, the school sys-
tems in New York City and Chicago, have reached that point, ac-
cording to a New York Times analysis.
In Houston, students will spend at least six weeks learning A CHANGING SUPERMARKET
remotely. In-person classes are tentatively scheduled to begin in

Missing Your Favorite Chips? Get Used to It

mid-October. In Philadelphia, school officials announced that most
students would go to class in person only two days a week.

Prominent Patient in Oklahoma By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Governors have been at the forefront of the response to the Shoppers no longer stare at
pandemic but have apparently avoided contracting the virus — until aisles devoid of toilet paper. Pasta,
now. Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma said that he had tested positive, in many shapes and sizes, is back
becoming the first governor known to have been infected. Mr. Stitt, in abundance. And eager home
a Republican, said that he had felt “a little achy” on Tuesday but that bakers can restart their mixers
he did not know when, where or how he had contracted the virus. and ovens now that flour and
He and Dr. Lance T. Frye, the state health commissioner, maintained yeast have finally reappeared.
that it could not have happened at President Trump’s indoor rally in “I was thrilled to see King Ar-
Tulsa on June 20, which Mr. Stitt attended, because the event was thur whole wheat in good supply
too long ago. at Fairway,” David Toberisky, 68, a
retiree who lives on Manhattan’s
Tulsa’s top health official said last week that a surge in cases in Upper East Side, said of one
and around the city was probably tied to the rally. Oklahoma has highly desirable brand of flour.
averaged more than 640 new cases a day in the past week, a new But while the bare shelves
high, and the state set a single-day record on Tuesday with more brought on by the coronavirus
than 990 new cases. pandemic have largely been re-
stocked across New York City and
New Coronavirus Cases Announced Daily in U.S. the country, times are still far from
normal at supermarkets, which
As of Wednesday evening, more than 3,495,200 people across every face less pronounced but poten-
state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested tially more enduring shifts.
positive for the virus, according to a New York Times database. Americans have become accus-
tomed to enjoying an extraordi-
60,000 nary variety of choices — some-
times a dozen or more brands of
everything from ketchup to potato
chips to, yes, toilet paper.
New cases The pandemic changed all that.
Many companies have “really
30,000 curtailed the number of different
offerings” they produce in order
to focus on their best sellers and JUAN ARREDONDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

7-day meet the spike in consumer de-
average mand, said Scott Mushkin, the
chief executive for R5 Capital, a
consulting firm focused on retail
March 1 July 15 and consumer research.
Note: Wednesday’s total is incomplete because some states report cases Companies like Coca-Cola and
after press time. Data is as of July 15, 2020, at 5 p.m. Eastern. Pepsi have reduced the number of
Sources: State and local health agencies; hospitals; C.D.C. THE NEW YORK TIMES
products they make, and during
the pandemic some manufactur-
ers have stopped producing some
Plea in Philippines for ‘Dignity’ varieties of recognizable brands,
like lightly salted Lay’s barbecue
The Philippines is sending the police door to door in search of potato chips and reduced-fat Jif
people with the virus, and human rights groups are accusing Presi- peanut butter.
dent Rodrigo Duterte’s government of using repressive tactics. Chel “We’ve adjusted our operations
Diokno, a Filipino human rights lawyer, said people with the coro- to be as efficient as possible — and
navirus “are not police targets, they are medical patients” and they in some cases, we’re making
“should be treated with dignity and care.” Health officials have been fewer varieties of some products,”
under tremendous pressure from a public increasingly wary of Mr. said Lynne Galia, a spokeswoman
for Kraft Heinz.
Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaigns, which have left thousands
dead. He threatened in April to have the police and the military
Hershey’s has had to adjust to
consumers wanting more choco-
shoot people protesting lockdown orders.
In India, where the case count has passed 936,000, local govern-
late bars and less gum.
“If you think about mint and
ments are moving to impose new restrictions in hopes of tamping gum, it’s very much a social cour-
down outbreaks. The state of Bihar, to which nearly 2.5 million tesy, so when you’re home for
migrant workers have returned after losing jobs in other parts of the whatever reason people are less
country, has begun a two-week lockdown. Bihar has recorded more concerned about minty fresh
breath than when they are out and
than 1,000 new cases a day since Saturday.
about,” said Susanna Zhu, the
States in Australia have also locked themselves down since the
Hershey Company’s vice presi-
coronavirus flared anew in the state of Victoria and crept into neigh- dent of commercial planning and
boring New South Wales. Victoria began a six-week lockdown, bar- supply chain.
ring people from gathering in large groups and banning travel to But now, as states have loos-
most of the rest of the country. That has not stopped everyone — ened their lockdowns, interest in
including railroad stowaways and Pokémon Go players — from gum seems to be rebounding, Ms.
trying to evade the restrictions. Zhu said. One Hershey’s brand,
Ice Breakers, has started an ad-
Four men in their 20s were caught on an interstate freight train
vertising campaign built around
heading from Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, to Perth on the country’s
the slogan “Mint Before You
west coast, officials said this week. They were discovered when
Mask.”
officers with dogs searched the train during a stop in Adelaide, in The shifts in production have
South Australia. The four men appeared in court on Wednesday and reduced options at stores in New
were released on the condition that they commit no other offenses York and New Jersey. Shops that
A City Fresh Market in Brooklyn. The pandemic has led food companies to reduce certain brands.
said. “In this case, it’ll take two to
three months to recover.”
Changes in inventory differ
from store to store. Some items
are still widely in short supply, in-
cluding some popular disinfectant
products.
“You can’t get Lysol for any
money,” said John Catsimatidis,
the owner of the Gristedes and
D’Agostino supermarket chains in
New York. “It ends up on the black
market somehow and they’re
overcharging customers.”
Mr. Toberisky’s search for flour,
while ultimately successful, was
still more work than he bargained
for. Looking for King Arthur bread
flour, his top choice, was “like
searching for the Holy Grail.” Re-
peat visits to local supermarkets
were fruitless, and he couldn’t
even order any directly from King
Arthur’s website.
Grocers are experimenting
with new suppliers and goods to
make up for shortfalls, like toilet
paper made for commercial
customers instead of more luxuri-
ous, softer options.
Some cuts of meat have also still
not fully returned to many stores,
in part because of meatpacking fa-
cilities that closed because of the
virus. The shortages have also led
to an increase in prices.
Stephen Corradini, the chief
merchandising and marketing of-
ficer for Balducci’s and Kings
Food Markets, said supply issues
had led him to sell different cuts
and to buy from unusual suppli-
While some shoppers have
turned to Amazon and Fresh Di-
rect for groceries, others have
grown more reliant on local stores
as they have become everyday
home cooks by necessity, Mr.
Mushkin, of R5 Capital, said.
He said that even when restau-
rants are eventually fully opened,
a sizable number of people will
likely be reluctant to return to en-
closed places and will continue
making meals at home.
The pandemic has also forced
some shoppers with especially se-
Keeping the shelves
full, but with fewer
choices than before.
lective tastes to adapt to the short-
ages and change their buying and
eating habits.
When Kyle Hamilton, a 31-year-
old art dealer from Bedford-
Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, could not
find organic meat, he started em-
bracing more vegetarian options.
“I’m definitely eating different
types of mushrooms,” he said, “as
well as more vegetarian and or-
ganic meat substitutes like faux-
chicken tenders.”
Mr. Hamilton said the empty
meat freezers turned out to be a
boon because it “made me realize
protein part of our diet,” Ms. Ca-
det, 68, said. “With the pandemic,
we didn’t want to travel to China-
town to try to find fresh tofu in
shops.”
Ms. Cadet said that she had
turned to tempeh, a fermented
soy bean product, as a substitute
and that she planned to stockpile
freeze-dried tofu.
Many shoppers said they were
going to the store less frequently
and buying more when they did.
Stockpiling has become common-
place.
Beth Anderson-Harold, a 70-
year-old composer from Prospect
Heights, Brooklyn, said that her
husband stocked up on green
beans, pineapple, mushrooms and
even Spam to help them cope with
quarantine.
“When it first started, my hus-
band bought 86 cans of tuna,” Ms.
Anderson-Harold said, “of which
we have used two.”
Lorraine Pastore, an executive
vice president at a health care ad-
vertising firm who lives in Carroll
Gardens, Brooklyn, said she was
stocking up long before the virus
arrived in New York.
“I am of Italian heritage, so we
stockpile normally,” Ms. Pastore
said. “I do have about 50 pounds of
pasta at all times, and the pan-
demic hasn’t changed that. Heav-
en forbid if I don’t have the right
shape for the sauce I am making.”
Still, Ms. Pastore misses the ex-
perience of shopping for food and
perusing the aisles.
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for 12 months. might have stocked six types of
Rick Nugent, the deputy police commissioner in Victoria, said canned tuna fish are down to three
that more than 500 summonses totaling more than 880,000 Austral- or two, said Nelson Eusebio, the
ian dollars (about $617,000) had been issued to people who broke legislative director at the National
Supermarket Association.
stay-at-home orders or gathered in groups.
“What we’re going through is
an extended period, like when
Coronavirus Update wraps up the day’s developments with infor- there’s a huge snowstorm it takes
mation from across the virus report. two or three days to recover,” he
ers, like purveyors of expensive
Wagyu beef that he typically only
stocks for certain holidays.
“We’re still going to see chal-
lenges getting all of the meat we
need, and the variety, especially in
the summer months when the
grills are fired up,” Mr. Corradini
said.
Tofu has been the most sought-
after food for Nancy Cadet, a re-
tired professor of modern lan-
guages at the City University of
New York who splits her time be-
tween Brooklyn and East Hamp-
ton, N.Y.
“As vegans, fresh tofu is a main
“I never thought I’d say this, but
I miss browsing in the grocery
store and seeing my cashier and
delivery guy that I see every
week,” she said. “I miss chatting
with the local shopkeepers in the
small local family-owned stores
that I am too afraid to shop in any-
more.”
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Tracking an Outbreak Global Response

RACIAL INEQUITIES

Economic Damage of Lockdown Lingers for Minority Women in Britain

By CEYLAN YEGINSU
LONDON — Within 10 days of
the British government’s lock-
down announcement in late
March, one woman lost all nine of
her cleaning jobs. Another was
laid off from a laundromat after
she requested a mask, and a live-
in nanny was fired for using public
transport on her day off.
In separate interviews, the
three women said that they had
expected to confront hardships
during the lockdown. But as the
economy starts to reopen, they
and other women on the lower
rungs of the economy say they are
still struggling, weighed down by
debts accumulated during the
freeze and often facing pay cuts or
forced to do more work for the
same wages.
The three have one other thing
in common. They are all women of
color, a group that has long faced
economic and racial inequality in
Britain and is now being hit dis-
proportionately by the financial
and psychological impacts of the
coronavirus pandemic, according
to a recent study by a group of
British universities and women’s
charities.
“Covid-19 has brought the harsh
realities of pre-existing racial in-
equalities into sharp relief, and no-
where is this more manifest than
the disproportionate social and
economic impact of Covid-19 on
Black and ethnic minority wom-
en,” said Zubaida Haque, the in-
terim director of the Runnymede
Trust, a London-based organiza-
tion advocating racial equality.
The main reason that people of
color are so vulnerable, experts
say, is that they are more likely to
be in precarious employment or to
become unemployed, making it
harder for them to qualify for gov-
ernment support and to protect
themselves from the virus.
Minji Paik, a Korean beautician
who works in a hair salon in East
London, said she made 15 pounds
an hour before the pandemic,
about $19 dollars, plus tips. Now
she is making £10 an hour, and has
been working longer shifts be-
cause of staff shortages.
“My manager says this is tem-
porary and she will give me more
money when we make money,”
Ms. Paik said. “But actually, I
should be paid more because I’m
working inside and risking my
health.”
A government review of the dis-
parities in the risk and outcomes
from the coronavirus found that
death rates have been higher in
Black, Asian and other minority
ethnic groups than in white
groups. The review found that
Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and
other Asians, as well as Caribbe-
South London in May. A study said Black and ethnic minority women in Britain are being hit disproportionately by the pandemic.
ans and other Black people, had
from 10 percent to 50 percent
higher risk of death than white
Britons.
“There’s often a risk when peo-
ple start talking about the under-
lying causes of death because of
the assumption that the reason is
related to genetics or poor diets,”
said Bridget Byrne, director of the
Center on Dynamics of Ethnicity
at the University of Manchester.
“But actually, you need to look at
the wider process of racism and
the structuring of race and depri-
vation.”
The precarious nature of the
current labor market is a contrib-
uting factor as well, Ms. Byrne
said. “It makes people less willing
to voice their concerns, they
worry that if they say, ‘I don’t feel
safe, I don’t think I should be com-
ing in,’ they will be the first to be
laid off.”
Candice Brown, 48, a cleaner
who is of Jamaican descent, said
she had lost all her clients when
lockdown measures were im-
posed in March.
“They phoned me one by one to
say don’t come,” she recalled, re-
ferring to the owners of the nine
houses she cleaned each week in
the city of Manchester, in north-
western England. “Each call was
like a bomb, blasting every bit of
my livelihood until I had no work
left.”
For two months she tried to
navigate the government’s finan-
cial support system for those af-
fected by the pandemic, and even
Stress manifesting
itself through rashes
and hair that falls out.
borrowed money from a friend to
hire an accountant to help. But
eventually, she found out that she
was not eligible for any aid be-
cause she lacked the paperwork to
prove her employment history.
“I applied for universal credit,”
she said referring to the govern-
ment’s income support program.
“But I am still waiting. I haven’t
received a penny.”
Even with the easing of the lock-
down measures, Ms. Brown has
not been invited back to work be-
cause her employers fear that she
could contract and spread the vi-
rus by working between multiple
households.
“I don’t know how much longer
I can go on like this,” she said. “In
the first month, I was worrying
about how to pay my rent and my
bills, now I can’t sleep worrying
about how to feed my children.”
A survey published by the
Fawcett Society, a women’s rights
charity, found that nearly 43 per-
cent of Black and ethnic minority
women believed that they would
be in more debt than before the
pandemic, compared with 37 per-
cent of white women and 34 per-
cent of white men. More than four
in 10 of the women said they would
struggle to make ends meet over
the next three months.
Many are tasked with carrying
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out menial tasks that can be per-
ilous in a pandemic, a recent study
by the Runnymede Trust found.
Zuhr Rind, 48, a Pakistani laun-
dromat worker in East London,
was asked to work the last shift
when the pandemic broke out so
that she could wash the uniforms
of the front-of-house employees,
who collected laundry from cli-
ents.
“I was not happy about it, but
what could I do? Work is work and
I was afraid to lose my job if I
made an argument,” she said.
When she asked for a face
mask, her manager chided her,
she said.
“That is pathetic Z,” her man-
ager wrote back in a text message
she showed to The New York
Times. “Doctors and nurses do not
even have enough masks and
they’re still going to work.”
A day later, Ms. Rind said, she
was laid off. “When you have
brown skin, when you have an ac-
cent and when you don’t have a
high education, you don’t have
choices,” she said. “And this is a
very dangerous situation to be in
during Covid.”
The laundromat where she
worked did not respond to a re-
quest for comment.
Ms. Rind was recently offered a
cleaning job in a hotel but was
forced to turn it down because she
lives 40 minutes away and, as a
precaution against the virus, the
employer did not want her to take
public transport.
Black and ethnic minority wom-
en also generally have much
lower levels of savings and assets
than white Britons, according to
the Runnymede Trust study. So
those who lost their jobs in the
pandemic have had to seek new
employment straight away, forc-
ing some of them to take lower-
paid, higher-risk posts.
Verona Pollard, an experienced
nanny and maternity nurse, has
taken up part-time child care work
since she was fired from a full-
time nannying job, after her em-
ployer found out she had taken
public transport on her days off.
“She was ruthless about it and
wouldn’t take me back, even when
the lockdown was lifted,” she said
in a phone interview. “ It’s been
brutal since then, I’m just doing
odd jobs here and there.”
And in the Fawcett Society’s
survey, work-related anxiety was
highest among Black and minor-
ity ethnic women, with 65.1 per-
cent of women employed outside
the home reporting that they felt
apprehensive as a result of having
to go to work during the pan-
demic.
Ms. Brown, the cleaner in Man-
chester, said that she was still
waiting for her unemployment
benefits to come through and that
she had been borrowing money
from a friend and from a former
employer to get by. In recent
weeks, she said she has become so
stressed and anxious that rashes
have broken out over her body
and she has noticed her hair fall-
ing out.
“I promise you, what I am going
through now is worse than any vi-
rus,” she said.

CYCLING HOME

48 Days and Too Many Sardines

By ILIANA MAGRA
LONDON — Nearly a month
into the coronavirus lockdown,
Kleon Papadimitriou, a Greek stu-
dent in Aberdeen, Scotland, was
feeling homesick.
Restless — and with flights to
much of Europe canceled — he
was looking for a way home to
Athens. His father joked that he
could simply walk, and a light bulb
went on. What if he cycled?
“I wanted something big, a
project for the year,” the younger
Mr. Papadimitriou said by phone
on Tuesday.
What followed was a cycling
journey across Europe that
spanned five countries, more than
2,000 miles and 48 days, with Mr.
Papadimitriou finally arriving
home in Athens late last month.
Mr. Papadimitriou, 20, studies
electrical and electronic engineer-
ing at the University of Aberdeen,
but when classes stopped, he
found himself with a sudden sur-
plus of time and energy. So, turn-
ing the strictures of the pandemic
into an opportunity and motiva-
tion, he began planning his trip by
bike across a coronavirus-hit Eu-
rope.
Less than a month later, on May
10, he was packed and ready to
leave Aberdeen, in northeastern
Scotland, with a handful of essen-
tial supplies. Making the cut:
phone, power bank, some tools,
two changes of clothes, a raincoat,
a windbreaker, a tent, sleeping
bag, food for four days and water.
A book he had wanted to bring
took up too much space, so had to
be left behind.
In the beginning, he had daily
regrets about his self-inflicted od-
yssey, he said. His first day on the
road proved trying.
“My parents did not know
where I was, I started crying,” he
KLEON PAPADIMITRIOU
Kleon Papadimitriou rode his
bike from Scotland to Greece. It
was harder than he expected.
low morale, and how important
some relationships are,” he said.
Besides getting lost, the first
days of his trip were full of difficul-
ties that included flat tires, bad
weather and steep climbs. When
he set out, he planned to cover
about 125 miles a day. But he soon
realized that such a goal would be
unlikely. Instead, he covered
about 75 miles a day at most.
A week into his journey, he ar-
rived at a friend’s house in Leeds,
a city in northern England, where
he stayed for two days. He also
took his first shower since leaving
Scotland. Departing again was a
challenge.
“I was thinking ‘God, what am I
doing with my life,’ ” he said.
But his spirits lifted when he
reached his first milestone:
boarding a ferry from Britain to
the Netherlands, and crossing his
first national border. “It was the
point of no return,” he said.
Four days later, and after stay-
ing at campsites, he made it to
tant, milestone: Stuttgart, where
his grandmother lives.
“It was very important to me; it
was like a checkpoint,” he said. “I
hadn’t seen my grandma for so
many years, and the only thing I
cared about was, if something
were to happen to me, I didn’t
want it to happen before I got to
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pizza and a beer in the Italian Alps
before heading to Venice, where
he stayed for a day. Then it was on
to Ancona, a seaside city on the
Adriatic coast, where he boarded
a ferry to Patras, in the Pelopon-
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A6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Tracking an Outbreak Planning for the Fall
EDUCATIONAL RISKS
Scientific Panel Urges Opening Schools to Younger Pupils
By APOORVA MANDAVILLI
Wading into the contentious de-
bate over reopening schools, an
influential committee of scientists
and educators on Wednesday rec-
ommended that, wherever possi-
ble, younger children and those
with special needs should attend
school in person.
Their report — issued by the
prestigious National Academies
of Science, Engineering and Medi-
cine, which advises the nation on
issues related to science — is less
prescriptive for middle and high
schools, but offered a framework
for school districts to decide
whether and how to open, with
help from public health experts,
families and teachers.
The committee emphasized
common-sense precautions, such
as hand-washing, physical dis-
tancing and minimizing group ac-
tivities, including lunch and re-
cess.
But the experts went further
than guidelines issued by the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention and other groups, also
calling for surgical masks to be
worn by all teachers and staff
members during school hours,
and for cloth face coverings to be
worn by all students, including
those in elementary school.
Regular symptom checks
should be conducted, the commit-
tee said, and not just temperature
checks. In the long term, schools
will need upgrades to ventilation
and air-filtration systems, and
federal and state governments
must fund these efforts, the report
said.
Online learning is ineffective
for most elementary-school chil-
dren and special-needs children,
the panel of scientists and educa-
tors concluded.
To the extent possible, “it
should be a priority for districts to
reopen for in-person learning, es-
pecially for younger ages,” said
Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist
at Johns Hopkins and a member of
the committee.
Mary Kathryn Malone, a
mother of three children, has been
eager for schools to reopen in
Mount Vernon, Ohio, where she
lives. Her 9-year-old daughter is
pining for her friends, and her 3-
year-old has only part-time day
care — and not while Dr. Malone
works.
But she was most worried about
her 7-year-old son, who needs help
for his attention deficit hyperac-
tivity disorder and dyslexia.
“At one point, we were three full
weeks behind on schoolwork,”
said Dr. Malone, who teaches
French at Kenyon College. “I was
working through my own job, and
when I looked at this mountain ac-
cumulating, it was so stressful.”
The American Academy of Pe-
diatrics last month also recom-
mended that schools reopen, a po-
sition widely cited by the Trump
administration, which has been
pushing hard for a return to some-
thing resembling normal life de-
spite soaring infection rates in
many states.
Most studies suggest the virus
poses minimal health risks to chil-
dren under 18. And the report said
that evidence for how easily chil-
dren become infected or spread
the virus to others, including
teachers and parents, is “insuffi-
cient” to draw firm conclusions.
Outside experts said they ap-
preciated the report’s distinction
between younger and older chil-
dren. “I think that’s really smart,”
said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the
Harvard Global Health Institute.
“The risk is different for a third
grader than for a 10th grader, and
I say that as the dad of a third
grader and a 10th grader.”
But Dr. Jha and other experts
noted that the committee did not
address the level of community
transmission at which opening
schools might become unsafe sim-
ply because too much virus may
be circulating. “They punted the
most critical question,” he said.
Committee members said the
decision not to recommend a cut-
off was deliberate. “There is no
single prevalence or threshold
that would be appropriate for all
communities,” Dr. Rivers said.
Dr. Rivers said schools would
need to decide how and when to
open, close and reopen schools by
taking into account many factors,
including disease levels in the
community — and should plan for
what to do when students or
teachers become infected.
“Even with extensive mitiga-
tion measures, it’s not possible to
reduce the risk to zero, and that
has to be part of the discussions,”
Dr. Rivers said.
Reopening schools should be a
priority because schools fulfill
many roles beyond providing an
education, the authors said. “It’s
child care, it’s nutrition, it’s health
services, it’s social and emotional
support services,” said Dr. Enri-
queta Bond, the committee’s chair.
“These functions are really un-
dervalued, I think, in the conver-
sation that’s been taking place.”
The report’s recommendations
are largely consistent with those
from the A.A.P., said Dr. Nathaniel
‘At one point, we were three full weeks behind on schoolwork.’
Mary Kathryn Malone, a mother of three children, including Molly and Benjamin, above.
Beers, who co-wrote the acade-
my’s guidance. “The only nu-
anced difference is that they have
acknowledged the disproportion-
ate impact on younger kids of not
being in school,” he said.
While teenagers may be better
able to learn online, they suffer
the social and emotional conse-
quences of being separated from
their peers, Dr. Beers said.
“Adolescence is a period of time
in life when you are to be explor-
ing your own sense of self and de-
veloping your identity,” he said.
“It’s difficult to do that if you are at
home with your parents all the
time.”
Daniel A. Domenech, executive
director of the American Associa-
tion of School Administrators,
said school superintendents were
“already prioritizing in-person
learning for the youngest learn-
ers.”
The new report is not “ground-
breaking,” he said, “but it is help-
ful in affirming the touchy job
ahead and the need for additional
resources to do right by kids, edu-
cators and communities during
this school year.”
Some 54 percent of public
school districts need to update or
replace facilities in their school
buildings, and 41 percent should
Dr. Malone, who teaches French at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, with her husband,
Brandon Emig, and their children, from left, Benjamin, 3; Molly, 9; and Patrick, 7.
replace heating, ventilation and
air-conditioning systems in at
least half of their schools, accord-
ing to an analysis by the Govern-
ment Accountability Office.
“One of the shocks to me is that
over 50 percent of the school
buildings are awful,” Dr. Bond
said.
New evidence suggests that the
coronavirus may be airborne, and
that many indoor spaces may
need better air filtration to pre-
vent infections. “Between now
and September, you’re not going
to be able to put in a new ventila-
tion system,” she added.
In the meantime, schools may
be able to opt for simpler solu-
tions: Before the weather cools,
they might emulate their counter-
parts in Europe and move classes
outdoors, set up tents or build out-
door classrooms, said Jennifer
Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the
Johns Hopkins Center for Health
Security.
Schools may also need to hire
additional staff to replace educa-
tors or other staff members who
may not wish to return, the report
noted, and to implement some of
the recommendations, such as en-
forcing social distancing in the
classroom or ensuring that
groups of children remain with a
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particular teacher.
Some 28 percent of the more
than 3.8 million full-time teachers
in the country are older than 50,
and about a third of school princi-
pals are over 55, age groups at
high risk of severe illness from the
coronavirus.
In one survey, 62 percent of edu-
cators and administrators re-
ported that they were somewhat
or very concerned about return-
ing to school while the coro-
navirus continues to be a threat,
according to the report. “The
school work force issue is really
not discussed that much,” Dr.
Bond said.
Racial and socio-economic ineq-
uities are another prominent con-
cern. The communities where
children struggle to learn in dilap-
idated, understaffed schools are
also those hit hardest by the pan-
demic, said Keisha Scarlett, a
committee member and chief of
equity, partnerships and engage-
ment at the Seattle Public Schools.
Remote learning is often diffi-
cult for children in low-income
families. Nationwide, about 30
percent of Indigenous families
and about 20 percent of Black and
Latino families do not have access
to the internet or have it only
through a smartphone, compared
with 7 percent of white families
and 4 percent of Asian families.
Adults in these communities
are also more likely to be essential
workers who cannot stay home
with their children, Dr. Scarlett
said. Rates of hospitalization for
Covid-19 are four to five times
higher in Black, Latino and Indig-
enous populations than among
whites.
“Covid-19 exacerbates those
disparities,” Dr. Scarlett said.
The report also noted signifi-
cant differences between rural
and urban schools. Some 26 per-
cent of people in rural districts
and 32 percent of those living on
tribal lands do not have reliable in-
ternet access.
Samuel Berry-Foster Sr., a
sixth-grade science teacher, lives
just outside Asheville, N.C., in a
pocket of the Appalachian Moun-
tains, with his wife and two school-
age children.
For his family and for those of
many of his students, Mr. Berry-
Foster said, even a simple phone
call can be plagued with delays
and hangups. For more than one
family member to be online at the
same time is “impossible.”
“What we end up doing is driv-
ing about eight miles to a little
bitty library for broadband,” he
said. “We sit in the parking lot and
do our meetings and such.”
The C.D.C. has provided limited
guidance on reopening schools
and largely puts the onus on dis-
trict leaders to make judgments
they may be unequipped to make.
The new report offers more de-
tailed guidance for how to reopen,
including a list of the kinds of ex-
perts to consult — such as epide-
miologists who can interpret dis-
ease transmission rates. Local
task forces should take into ac-
count the number of coronavirus
infections, hospitalizations and
deaths, and the percentage of di-
agnostic tests that are positive.
President Trump has said that
even the C.D.C.’s less detailed rec-
ommendations were “very tough
and expensive.” But the new re-
port’s recommended retrofits are
likely to be out of reach for most
school districts, costing roughly
$1.8 million for a school district
with eight school buildings and
about 3,200 students.
“In my view, this has to be a top
priority,” Dr. Nuzzo said. “The
economy depends on this, the fu-
ture of our country depends on
this.”
Around the U.S.
And the World
NATIONAL HOT SPOTS
States and Cities Issue
Warnings as Cases Surge
As the pandemic worsens in the
United States, with caseloads
increasing in 41 states over the
past two weeks, leaders are
scrambling to try to contain it.
In Alabama, which broke its
record Wednesday for the most
coronavirus deaths reported in a
single day — 47 — Gov. Kay Ivey,
a Republican, issued an order
requiring people to wear masks in
public. In Montana, Gov. Steve
Bullock, a Democrat, said he was
issuing one, too.
Others were reimposing restric-
tions or considering doing so. In
Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf, a
Democrat, moved to reduce seat-
ing capacity in restaurants. May-
or Lori Lightfoot of Chicago said
she was willing to tighten restric-
tions again in the city.
“I won’t just turn the car
around,” she said. “I’m going to
shut it off, I’m going to kick you
out, and I’m going to make you
walk home.”
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio
warned his state’s 11 million resi-
dents that if they do not act to
curb the virus’s spread, “the
tragedy that we see playing out
on our television screens every
day in Florida, Texas, Arizona and
California may well be our reality
in just a matter of weeks.”
Quoting from Ronald Reagan
and the Bible during an address
from his office in Columbus, with
an American flag in the back-
ground, Mr. DeWine pleaded with
residents to make “once-in-100-
year sacrifices,” to stay at home
and to wear masks in public.
EDUCATION DELAYS
Districts Announce Plans
For Phased-In Approach
A growing number of education
officials have announced delays to
the start of in-person instruction,
despite pressure to get students
back into classrooms this fall.
The Houston Independent
School District, the country’s
seventh-largest, said Wednesday
that it would start its school year
virtually on Sept. 8. Students will
have at least six weeks of online
classes, with a tentative plan to
begin in-person classes on Oct. 19.
The San Francisco Unified
School District said the coming
school year would start with
distance learning, with plans to
“gradually phase in a staggered
return” when appropriate.
San Francisco’s decision fol-
lowed an announcement on Mon-
day by Los Angeles and San
Diego, the two largest public
school districts in California, that
they would be online-only in the
fall. Eleven of the 15 largest dis-
tricts in California have now
announced they will reopen with
100 percent remote instruction.
In Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly, a
Democrat, announced that she
would delay the opening of
schools in her state by several
weeks, until after Labor Day, to
give the schools time to purchase
masks, thermometers, hand sani-
tizer and other supplies.
And all students in Prince
George’s County, Md., will contin-
ue distance learning through
February.
BABY WITH COVID-19
Study Suggests Virus
Can Be Passed to Fetus
Researchers have reported strong
evidence that the coronavirus can
be transmitted from a pregnant
woman to a fetus.
A baby born in a Paris hospital
in March to a mother with
Covid-19 tested positive for the
virus and developed symptoms of
inflammation in his brain, said Dr.
Daniele De Luca, who led the
research team and is chief of the
division of pediatrics and neonatal
critical care at Paris-Saclay Uni-
versity Hospitals.
The baby, now 3 months old,
recovered without treatment and
is “very much improved, almost
clinically normal,” Dr. De Luca
said, adding that the mother, who
needed oxygen during the deliv-
ery, is healthy.
Dr. De Luca said the virus
appeared to have been transmit-
ted through the placenta of the
23-year-old mother. Since the
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pandemic began, there have been
isolated cases of newborns who
have tested positive for the coro-
navirus, but there has not been
enough evidence to rule out the
possibility that the infants became
infected by the mother after they
were born, experts said.
 K THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Tracking an Outbreak The Administration
POLITICAL DISTRACTION
Fauci, Attacked by Trump’s Aides, Fires Back: ‘Let’s Stop This Nonsense’
By KATIE ROGERS
WASHINGTON — After sev-
eral days spent weathering at-
tacks from White House officials,
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci hit back on
Wednesday, calling recent efforts
to discredit him “bizarre” and a
hindrance to the government’s
ability to communicate informa-
tion about the coronavirus pan-
demic.
“I cannot figure out in my wild-
est dreams why they would want
to do that,” Dr. Fauci said in an in-
terview with The Atlantic pub-
lished on Wednesday, speaking of
recent attempts by President
Trump’s aides to undermine him.
“I think they realize now that that
was not a prudent thing to do, be-
cause it’s only reflecting nega-
tively on them.”
It was the latest salvo in a war
that has broken out in the middle
of a pandemic between Dr. Fauci,
the government’s top infectious
disease expert, and a White
House that has never evolved be-
yond the bare-knuckle tactics of
the 2016 campaign.
On Wednesday, Peter Navarro,
Mr. Trump’s top trade adviser,
published a brazen op-ed article in
USA Today describing Dr. Fauci
as “wrong about everything.”
Over the weekend, another of Mr.
Trump’s top advisers shared a
mocking cartoon that portrayed
Dr. Fauci as a leaky faucet. Other
White House officials have tar-
geted Dr. Fauci by distributing op-
position research-style docu-
ments to reporters that detail
what they say are his mistakes.
All the while, White House offi-
cials — including the president
and the press secretary — assert
in the face of the evidence that
there is no concerted effort to at-
tack Dr. Fauci.
“We’re all on the same team, in-
cluding Dr. Fauci,” Mr. Trump told
reporters on Wednesday as he left
the White House for Atlanta.
When he was asked about Mr.
Navarro’s choice to go around
White House channels to publish
the op-ed article in USA Today, the
president added that Mr. Navarro
“shouldn’t be doing that.”
Mark Meadows, the White
House chief of staff, told reporters
traveling aboard Air Force One
that he had not read the piece, but
criticized Mr. Navarro’s decision
to publish it without allowing
other officials to vet the content.
“Peter Navarro’s statement or
Noah Weiland contributed report-
ing.
OPERATION WARP SPEED
Chief Vaccine Scientist Can Avoid Disclosures
By NOAH WEILAND
WASHINGTON — The scien-
tist leading the Trump administra-
tion’s coronavirus vaccine pro-
gram will be allowed to remain a
government contractor, a decision
that permits him to avoid ethics
disclosures required of federal
employees and maintain his in-
vestments in pharmaceutical
companies.
Two prominent watchdog
groups as well as some Demo-
crats in Congress had called for
the Department of Health and Hu-
man Services to require that the
scientist, Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a ven-
ture capitalist and a former execu-
tive at the pharmaceutical giant
GlaxoSmithKline, fall under the
same ethics rules as federal em-
ployees.
The office of the inspector gen-
eral at H.H.S. responded this
week that it could not require such
a shift, citing the unusual role that
Dr. Slaoui was playing in the ad-
ministration during the pan-
demic.
As the chief adviser for the vac-
cine program — called Operation
Warp Speed — Dr. Slaoui is work-
ing on a contract that pays him $1.
Under the arrangement, he is ex-
empt from federal disclosure rules
that would require him to list his
outside positions, stock holdings
and other potential conflicts of in-
terest.
That arrangement has alarmed
lawmakers, who have accused
H.H.S. of helping Dr. Slaoui, an ex-
pert in molecular biology and im-
munology, duck the usual ac-
countability required of govern-
ment employees.
The groups that filed the May
complaint, Public Citizen and
Lower Drug Prices Now, argued
for Dr. Slaoui to be classified as a
“special government employee,” a
tag that allows the federal govern-
ment to hire outside experts for up
to 130 days. The title would make
him subject to ethics rules that
also apply to regular government
employees.
The $1 contract, the groups said,
appears “designed primarily to al-
low Slaoui to maintain an exten-
sive web of conflicting financial in-
terests without the need to divest
of, recuse from or disclose those
conflicting interests” and “pro-
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in May. Despite evidence to the contrary, White House officials assert there is no concerted effort to criticize him.
op-ed or whatever you want to
classify it as was an independent
action that was a violation of well-
established protocols that was not
supported overtly or covertly by
anybody in the West Wing,” Mr.
Meadows said. “I think Peter
Navarro spoke for himself.”
Dr. Fauci, 79, the director of the
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, a post he has
held since 1984, is no stranger to
criticism. He oversaw much of the
government’s response to the
AIDS epidemic, weathering criti-
cism from activists like Larry Kra-
mer, who called him a “murderer”
and an “incompetent idiot.”
Mr. Trump’s administration
presents a different challenge. Be-
cause Dr. Fauci is a career civil
servant, his job is not in jeopardy,
and it is unlikely that Mr. Trump
can completely exile him, given
his emergence as the govern-
ment’s most credible voice on the
pandemic. He has not briefed Mr.
Trump in weeks, preferring to
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive, leads the
Trump administration’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
vides Slaoui with the opportunity
to enrich himself, his colleagues
and his employers.”
In its reply to the groups, an offi-
cial in the inspector general’s of-
fice said that Dr. Slaoui’s appoint-
ment is expected to stretch be-
yond 200 days, well past what it
said was the “applicable statutory
time limit” for a special govern-
ment employee.
The inspector general’s office
“is not in a position to determine
that the department’s decision
was unreasonable when it pur-
sued options other than an S.G.E.
appointment,” the letter, dated
July 13, concluded.
In his role, Dr. Slaoui has signifi-
cant influence over financial com-
mitments made by the govern-
ment, which has so far provided
little information about Warp
Speed’s resources, which agen-
cies the funding is coming from or
how decisions are being made.
“The basic idea that he’s in a re-
ally privileged position with lots of
resources to command and that he
has a personal financial stake in
the industry is really challenging,”
said Margarida Jorge, the cam-
paign director for Lower Drug
work with Dr. Deborah L. Birx,
who helps coordinate the adminis-
tration’s coronavirus response, or
to send his messages through Vice
President Mike Pence.
Without directly criticizing the
president — both men have em-
phasized their personal fondness
for each other — Dr. Fauci has be-
gun fighting back.
On Monday, he met with Mr.
Meadows to discuss his ability to
speak about the virus on televi-
sion — his broadcast appearances
have been sharply curbed in re-
cent weeks by Mr. Meadows and
members of the communications
staff. And in The Atlantic inter-
view, Dr. Fauci complained that
the administration’s actions had
made it difficult for health officials
to communicate accurate infor-
mation.
“It distracts from what I hope
would be the common effort of get-
ting this thing under control,
rather than this back-and-forth
distraction, which just doesn’t
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Prices Now. “Everyone can ap-
preciate that Slaoui has expertise
in the development of vaccines,
but expertise and ethics should
not be mutually exclusive.”
A group of Democratic lawmak-
ers, including Senator Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts, sepa-
rately wrote last month to Alex M.
Azar II, the health secretary, ask-
ing for Dr. Slaoui to be designated
Exempt from ethics
reporting rules under
a contract paying $1.
a special government employee.
They called Dr. Slaoui’s contract
“an attempted end-run around
federal ethics rules.”
Ms. Jorge said that her organi-
zation and other watchdog groups
were planning to meet Wednes-
day afternoon to discuss new
ways to challenge Dr. Slaoui’s sta-
tus.
The Trump administration has
invested nearly $4 billion in com-
make any sense,” Dr. Fauci said.
“We’ve got to almost reset this
and say, ‘OK, let’s stop this non-
sense.’ We’ve got to figure out,
how can we get our control over
this now, and, looking forward,
how can we make sure that next
month, we don’t have another ex-
ample of California, Texas, Florida
and Arizona?”
He added, “So rather than these
games people are playing, let’s fo-
cus on that.”
In the interview, Dr. Fauci dis-
cussed the op-ed article by Mr.
Navarro, which had the stark
headline, “Anthony Fauci Has
Been Wrong About Everything I
Have Interacted With Him On.” In
the piece, Mr. Navarro presented
what White House officials have
been saying privately about Dr.
Fauci, and what Mr. Trump has
said publicly: They like Dr. Fauci
personally, but he has made mis-
takes.
Dr. Fauci responded with bewil-
derment. “I can’t explain Peter
panies pursuing coronavirus vac-
cines. Last week, H.H.S. an-
nounced that the federal govern-
ment will pay Novavax, a Mary-
land company that has never
brought a product to market, $1.6
billion to expedite the develop-
ment of a coronavirus vaccine.
Dr. Slaoui spent his first days on
the job in May trying to disentan-
gle pieces of his stock portfolio
and other ties to pharmaceutical
interests. Before working for the
Trump administration, he sat on
the board of Moderna, a biotech-
nology firm pursuing a coro-
navirus vaccine. He sold his
shares in the company after the
value of his stock holdings soared
following the release of prelimi-
nary vaccine trial data.
The Trump administration said
at the time that Dr. Slaoui would
donate the increased value to can-
cer research.
In an interview in May, Dr.
Slaoui said he was determined to
avoid conflicts and would re-eval-
uate any remaining associations if
his financial interests stood to
gain more from his new post.
An H.H.S. spokeswoman reiter-
ated on Wednesday that Dr. Slaoui
resigned from Moderna’s board
and divested his equity, in addi-
tion to leaving advisory boards of
companies “with even the appear-
ance of conflict.”
“H.H.S. ethics officers have de-
termined Dr. Slaoui’s contractor
status, divestiture and board res-
ignations put him in compliance
with our robust department ethi-
cal standards,” the spokeswoman
said.
Soon after Dr. Slaoui was
brought on to Project Warp Speed,
its leadership underwent further
upheaval, in part because of his
holdings, according to senior ad-
ministration officials.
Dr. Peter Marks, a renowned
federal scientist who devised and
initially oversaw the Warp Speed
project at the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, stepped aside from
his role as its lead vaccine special-
ist, in part because of concern
over what he saw as Dr. Slaoui’s
potential conflicts of interest, the
officials said. Dr. Marks is the di-
rector of the F.D.A.’s Center for Bi-
ologics Evaluation and Research,
the office that approves vaccines.
SAMUEL CORUM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Navarro,” he said. “He’s in a world
by himself.”
The White House sought to dis-
tance itself from the attack by Mr.
Navarro, but so far has not at-
tacked the substance of his piece.
And officials declined to comment
when one of the president’s clos-
est advisers, Dan Scavino, posted
a mocking cartoon of Dr. Fauci to
social media.
Tension between Mr. Navarro
and Dr. Fauci has been brewing
since the early days of the pan-
demic this year. In a coronavirus
task force meeting that Mr.
Navarro asked to attend, the two
argued over the efficacy of hy-
droxychloroquine, a drug that Mr.
Trump has promoted as a cure for
the virus.
Mr. Navarro, an economist by
training, has since defended his
credentials when it comes to spar-
ring with Dr. Fauci over possible
medical treatments.
“Doctors disagree about things
all the time. My qualifications in
‘SOLE SOURCE’ DEAL
Virus Database Contract
Scrutinized by Democrats
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON — A $10.2 mil-
lion “sole source” contract to run a
centralized Covid-19 database for
the Trump administration drew
sharp criticism on Wednesday
from congressional Democrats,
who demanded that the federal
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention be reinstated as the
primary repository of coronavirus
data.
The contract drew scant public
attention when it was awarded in
April to TeleTracking Technolo-
gies, a Pittsburgh company whose
core business is helping hospitals
manage the flow of patients. But it
drew scrutiny after the adminis-
tration ordered hospitals, begin-
ning on Wednesday, to report co-
ronavirus information, including
bed availability, to the new data-
base, housed at the Department of
Health and Human Services in
Washington, instead of to the
C.D.C.
Two top federal health officials
— Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the
C.D.C. director, and José Arrieta,
the chief information officer for
the Department of Health and Hu-
man Services — defended the de-
cision in a conference call with re-
porters, saying that the new data-
base was necessary to expedite
and streamline data, which is used
to help the government make de-
cisions about where to deploy per-
sonal protective gear or medicine.
Dr. Redfield said C.D.C. experts
would still have access to the data.
“This access is the same today as
it was yesterday,” he said.
But the officials had no explana-
tion for the TeleTracking contract,
which was awarded on a sole-
source basis, federal records
show. Mr. Arrieta said he was not
involved in the negotiations. The
company did not respond to
emails seeking comment.
Senator Patty Murray of Wash-
ington, the senior Democrat on
the Senate health panel, has been
seeking an explanation for the
contract, which she argues is du-
plicative because the C.D.C. al-
Chris Hamby contributed report-
ing.
N A7
terms of looking at the science is
that I’m a social scientist,” Mr.
Navarro told CNN’s John Berman
in April. “I have a Ph.D. And I un-
derstand how to read statistical
studies, whether it’s in medicine,
the law, economics or whatever.”
Mr. Navarro is known to go
around official channels to make
sure his opinions are aired. In his
op-ed article, he wrote that “I con-
fronted him with scientific studies
providing evidence of safety and
efficacy,” and he promoted a new
study that he said showed a 50
percent reduction in the mortality
rate when the medicine was used.
Medical experts have criticized
that study, published by the Henry
Ford Health System in Detroit, as
incomplete.
Mr. Navarro also wrote that he
had warned officials in late Janu-
ary of the threat posed by the co-
ronavirus, while Dr. Fauci had
“fought against the president’s
courageous decision” to close
American borders to travelers
from China.
It is true that a memo that Mr.
Navarro wrote outlining the
threat of the virus was the earliest
high-level alert known to have cir-
culated inside the West Wing dur-
ing the early days of the adminis-
tration’s response. It is also true
that Dr. Fauci was initially skepti-
cal of closing the country’s bor-
ders, over concerns such an action
could limit the movements of doc-
tors and other health profession-
als trying to contain the disease.
But by the end of January, Dr.
Fauci and other public health ex-
perts were on board with the deci-
sion.
Despite the continuing attacks
by administration advisers and
the attempts to limit his television
appearances, Dr. Fauci has not
stopped other public appear-
ances. On Tuesday, he urged
Georgetown University students
to trust public health experts over
politicians, without criticizing the
administration he works for di-
rectly.
“You can trust respected medi-
cal authorities. I believe I’m one of
them. So, I think you can trust
me,” Dr. Fauci said. “I would stick
with respected medical authori-
ties who have a track record of
telling the truth, who have a track
record of giving information and
policy and recommendations
based on scientific evidence and
good data.”
He added, “Don’t get involved
in any of the political nonsense,”
calling it a “waste of time.”
ready had its own data-gathering
system, the National Healthcare
Safety Network.
“C.D.C. has had a system in
place for over a decade to track in-
fection data, and hospitals and
states know and trust this sys-
tem,” Ms. Murray said Wednes-
day in a statement. “So it’s en-
tirely unclear why the Trump ad-
ministration has asked states and
hospitals to upend their reporting
systems in the middle of a pan-
demic — in 48 hours nonetheless
— without a single explanation as
to why this new system is better
or necessary.”
Another top Democrat, Senator
Bob Menendez of New Jersey, told
reporters in Hoboken that if the
administration did not reverse it-
self and put the C.D.C. back in
charge, “we will look at withhold-
ing funding until the administra-
tion changes course.”
The switch in reporting ex-
posed deep flaws in the way the
government collects health data,
and the C.D.C. has been no strang-
er to criticism. Congress has long
been asking the agency to mod-
ernize its data collection, and
passed laws in 2006, 2013 and 2019
requiring a system that could col-
lect data in near-real time.
The C.D.C. has yet to establish
such a system, which would spare
hospital employees from having
to enter data manually. But the
TeleTracking system also re-
quires manual entry, said Dr.
Lissy Hu, the chief executive of
CarePort Health, a technology
firm. She said the new arrange-
ment made little sense.
“This whole thing is bizarre,”
she said. “The White House is say-
ing collecting real-time informa-
tion is problematic, and I agree
with that. But with TeleTracking,
it’s still going to be manual entry,
so how is that better than the cur-
rent manual entry system?”
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Addressing concerns about
transparency, Mr. Arrieta said the
Department of Health and Human
Services was considering giving
members of Congress access to
the new database and was “ex-
ploring the best way” to make in-
formation from it available to the
public.
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Tracking an Outbreak U.S. Response
THE STATES
In Oklahoma, the First Governor in the Nation Known to Test Positive
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
and SARAH MERVOSH
Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma
announced on Wednesday that he
has tested positive for the coro-
navirus, becoming the first gover-
nor in the United States known to
have been infected during the
pandemic.
Mr. Stitt told reporters in a vid-
eo news conference that he was
feeling fine and that he did not
know where, when or how he had
become infected.
Mr. Stitt, a Republican, said that
his own infection had not
prompted him to second-guess his
response to the virus, which has
been less aggressive than in many
other states, including some led
by fellow Republicans. The gover-
nor has resisted issuing a state-
wide mask order, and continued to
do so on Wednesday. He faced crit-
icism early on in the outbreak, in
March, when he posted a photo of
himself with his children inside a
crowded restaurant at a time
when many people in the state
were following social distancing
protocols.
“I’m probably getting tons of
texts right now from other gover-
nors around the country,” he said.
“I was pretty shocked that I was
the first governor to get it.”
Oklahoma has averaged more
than 640 new cases per day over
the past week, more than at any
point in the pandemic. On the
same day the governor an-
nounced he tested positive, the
state reported 1,075 new coro-
navirus cases, surpassing the sin-
gle-day record set on Tuesday.
The county that includes Okla-
homa City, the state capital, has
seen some of the swiftest growth,
with more than 200 daily cases on
average, more than double the
rate of two weeks ago.
The positive test for Mr. Stitt
represents a new frontier for
Ben Fenwick and Mitch Smith con-
tributed reporting.
THE ECONOMY
Economic Pain Is Seen
Into Fall as Cases Surge
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ting back plans to add flights in
August and beyond, citing flag-
ging consumer demand.
The nation’s biggest banks also
warned this week that they are
setting aside billions of dollars to
cover anticipated losses as
customers fail to pay their mort-
gages and other loans in the
months to come.
May and June will prove to be
“easy” in terms of recovery, Jenni-
fer Piepszak, the chief financial of-
ficer of JPMorgan Chase, said
during an analyst call on Tuesday.
“We’re really hitting the moment
of truth, I think, in the months
ahead,” she said.
Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chief
executive, said much of the eco-
nomic pain had been blunted by
federal spending, which was now
running out. “You will see the ef-
fect of this recession,” he said.
Some companies that used
small-business loans to retain or
rehire workers are now beginning
to lay off employees as those
funds run out while business ac-
tivity remains depressed. Ex-
panded benefits for unemployed
workers, which research shows
have been propping up consumer
spending throughout the spring
and early summer, are scheduled
to expire at the end of July, while
more than 18 million Americans
continue to claim unemployment.
Many states are already renew-
ing lockdowns, including Califor-
nia, where officials have ordered
indoor bars, restaurants, gyms
and other establishments to close.
College sports conferences are be-
ginning to cancel fall sports, in-
cluding the lucrative football sea-
son, and concert tours are out of
the picture.
“The earlier-than-anticipated
resumption in activity has been
accompanied by a sharp increase
in the virus spread in many ar-
eas,” Lael Brainard, a Federal Re-
serve governor, said on Tuesday.
“Even if the virus spread flattens,
the recovery is likely to face head-
winds from diminished activity
and costly adjustments in some
sectors, along with impaired in-
comes among many consumers
and businesses.”
Most economists abandoned
hope for a “V-shaped” recovery
long ago. Now they are warning of
an outright reversal, with mount-
ing job losses and business fail-
ures. And this time, much of the
damage is likely to be permanent.
“Our assumption has to be that
we’re going into re-lockdown in
the fall,” said Karl Smith, the vice
president of federal policy at the
conservative Tax Foundation in
Washington.
Until recently, Mr. Smith said,
America’s governors, who have
been at the forefront of respond-
ing to the crisis but have so far
largely avoided personally con-
fronting the virus.
In late March, Gov. Tim Walz of
Minnesota quarantined himself
after coming in contact with
someone who tested positive for
the virus, but the governor did not
develop symptoms. Gov. J.B.
Pritzker of Illinois isolated at
home in May after a senior staff
member tested positive, and the
governor later tested negative af-
ter attending anti-racism protests
and coming into contact with
someone who was infected. Gov.
Steve Sisolak of Nevada at one
point also tested negative.
A number of politicians and
prominent figures have had the vi-
rus, from the lieutenant governor
in Mississippi to members of Pres-
ident Trump’s campaign staff. At
least three senators, Rand Paul of
Kentucky, Tim Kaine of Virginia,
and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania,
have said they tested positive for
the virus or antibodies.
Mr. Stitt, 47, said he did not think
that he had a serious case.
“It just kind of feels achy, like
maybe the start of a little cold is
what it feels like right now, but re-
ally I feel fine,” Mr. Stitt said dur-
ing the Zoom call while sitting at
home.
He said that he received his test
results at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
and that given the timing, he did
not believe his infection was
linked to President Trump’s rally
in Tulsa on June 20. Mr. Stitt was
one of thousands who attended
the rally, where many officials and
Mr. Trump’s supporters decided
not to wear masks. A surge in co-
ronavirus cases in and around
Tulsa was most likely tied to the
rally, the city’s top health official
said last week.
“I don’t think there was any way
it was at the president’s rally,” Mr.
Stitt said Wednesday.
Mr. Stitt has not been shy about
he had been pushing administra-
tion officials and members of Con-
gress to begin phasing out an ex-
tra $600 per week for unemployed
workers — perhaps replacing it
with an incentive payment for
Americans who return to work —
and to shift spending toward tax
incentives.
The last two weeks of coro-
navirus data changed his mind.
He is now calling for another large
economic rescue package from
Washington, including extending
the enhanced unemployment
benefits, offering more aid to
small businesses and perhaps
sending another round of stimulus
checks to American households.
“We have to go back to liquidity
mode. I know in Congress there’s
not a lot of appetite for that,” Mr.
Smith said. “But there’s still a
chance it could be a horrible fall,
and the legislative calendar is not
set to deal with that.”
Trump administration officials
have suggested a willingness to
negotiate with Democrats on un-
employment benefits, small-busi-
ness aid and possibly another
round of stimulus checks, while
also pushing for business tax cuts
that have found little traction in
Congress. Some Senate Republi-
cans want to cut off pandemic
spending increases entirely,
though their leadership has ex-
pressed openness to a deal if it in-
cludes protections from lawsuits
for businesses that reopen.
Small businesses around the
country say that if lockdowns per-
sist without some type of addi-
tional financial cushion from Con-
gress, they will be faced with a
dire choice.
At Sonoma Fit, a three-gym
chain in Northern California, busi-
ness was finally starting to stabi-
lize this month after weeks of lost
revenue and extreme uncertainty.
Old customers were starting to
come back. New ones were sign-
ing up. The thousands of dollars
that Jennifer and Adam Kovacs,
the owners, had spent to overhaul
their facilities to allow for social
distancing seemed to be paying
off.
Then on Monday, a friend called
to tell Ms. Kovacs that the gover-
nor had just ordered gyms in
much of California to close again.
Ms. Kovacs said she was “blind-
sided," but tried to hide it from her
17-year-old daughter, who was
working at the front desk.
About three-quarters of Sono-
ma Fit’s nearly 5,000 members
stuck with them through the first
shutdown, but Ms. Kovacs said
she thought they would be lucky
to retain half their members this
time. She said she could not imag-
ine business returning to normal
as long as rules differed by county
and industry — and were subject
Gov. Kevin Stitt at a campaign rally for President Trump at an arena in Tulsa, Okla., last month.
not wearing a mask, at public
events, meetings and at Mr.
Trump’s rally. But he said he could
have been exposed anywhere at
any time.
“You just never know where it
is,” he said, adding, “I gassed up at
a gas station and we could have
touched the gas pump. You start
second-guessing and wondering
all those different things and how
you could have gotten it.” The vi-
rus spreads mainly from person to
person, rather than via contami-
nated surfaces, according to pub-
lic health experts.
Mr. Stitt’s announcement set off
a flurry of testing and self-isolat-
ing among state and local officials
who had been in close contact with
him or had recent meetings with
him. The governor’s busy, in-per-
son schedule in recent days will
complicate contact tracing efforts.
The governor said that in talking
to change at a moment’s notice.
“I really cannot express the lev-
el of fear and frustration and help-
lessness that we feel,” Ms. Kovacs
said. “This slow reopening isn’t
working. Shut down everything,
shut down every single thing, and
keep us home for three weeks. I’d
rather do that than this off-on, off-
on, off-on. Because every time we
do that, we’re losing thousands of
dollars.”
Mr. Trump’s advisers continue
to predict the economy will re-
bound sharply in the months
ahead, and the president has
made increasingly insistent calls
for a full reopening of schools this
fall. Many economists agree that
the economy cannot fully recover
— let alone grow — if millions of
young children remain at home
without viable child care options.
Yet failure to control the virus has
made reopening a risky trade-off.
Some of the nation’s largest
school districts, including Los An-
geles and San Diego, have an-
nounced that they will not imme-
to health officials, he was likely
not contagious before Saturday
and that he did not have “the tradi-
tional symptoms” of Covid-19.
On Tuesday morning, hours be-
fore he received his test results,
Mr. Stitt attended a special meet-
ing of the state’s Land Office in a
conference room at the State Capi-
tol building in Oklahoma City. He
did not wear a mask.
Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell, who
serves in the governor’s cabinet
as secretary of tourism and brand-
ing and who sat unmasked at a
conference table across from Mr.
Stitt at the Land Office meeting,
said in a Facebook post that he
was going to be tested after learn-
ing the news and was self-isolat-
ing at home.
“No one in Oklahoma can say
they don’t know anyone who has
had it,” Mr. Pinnell wrote on Face-
book. “We all know someone now
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diately return to in-person in-
struction when the new school
year begins. In New York and
other large public school districts
around the country, officials are
preparing to bring students back
for only part-time instruction and
have warned parents they could
shut down again if cases rise.
Those announcements have not
been accompanied by govern-
ment-funded programs that econ-
omists say would help schools
open safely or ensure access to
child care for millions struggling
to juggle parenting and work — a
group that is disproportionately
made up of women who are not
white. Even as Mr. Trump pushes
a return to classrooms, many dis-
tricts are facing pandemic-in-
duced budget shortfalls.
Census figures from 2019 ana-
lyzed by Melissa S. Kearney, a
University of Maryland econo-
mist who directs the Economic
Strategy Group at the Aspen Insti-
tute, show that nearly one-quarter
of workers — about 38 million
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and it should absolutely be taken
seriously.”
Mr. Stitt said he was tested for
the virus on Tuesday but it was un-
clear what time. Asked why he
had not worn a mask at the morn-
ing Land Office meeting, Mr. Stitt
said he has since notified the two
people he sat closest to, Mr. Pin-
nell and Blayne Arthur, the state
agriculture secretary, that he had
tested positive for the virus.
“Those two were probably six
feet away from me,” Mr. Stitt said.
Photographs of the meeting
show Mr. Stitt sitting at the head of
a conference table, with the lieu-
tenant governor leaning in to his
immediate left and the agriculture
secretary to his right. Mr. Stitt ap-
pears to be sitting closer than six
feet to them. Paul Monies, a re-
porter for Oklahoma Watch, a
nonprofit online news outlet, cov-
ered the meeting, and said it
A diminished summer and the possibility of more of the same in
the fall. Empty seats during practice for the St. Louis Cardinals
last week. In the Bronx, the locked doors of Public School 23.
adults — have at least one child
under age 13 at home. The share is
higher among so-called essential
workers who are required to re-
port to their jobs during lock-
downs, and it rises to one-third for
workers in low-income families.
Only 16 percent of all workers
with a young child have a non-
working spouse at home who
could care for children who are not
in school in order for a spouse to
report to work, Ms. Kearney said.
“There’s millions of workers
that can’t go back to work if their
kids don’t have a safe place to be,
most days a week,” Ms. Kearney
said. “This is not, get schools open
or don’t get schools open. We need
to figure out a way to get schools
open safely.”
Even for workers who are able
to work from home, having to jug-
gle parenting responsibilities dur-
ing the day reduces productivity
and hurts the economy, Ms. Kear-
ney added. “It’s hard to work at
home when kids are at home.”
Driving all that damage is the
resurgence of the virus. The fed-
eral government is nowhere close
to the testing and tracing capacity
that some economists have long
warned are needed to restore con-
sumer confidence until a vaccine
is found. The White House and
lawmakers at every level, on
school boards and in Congress,
have not coalesced around a uni-
fied approach to getting as many
Americans as possible back to
work safely by the fall.
The country has now tried two
strategies to raft its economy
looked to him as if the governor at
times could have been closer than
six feet.
Mr. Monies tested positive for
the virus after covering the presi-
dent’s rally in Tulsa, and had re-
cently returned to work. He said
that although he was wearing a
mask at the meeting, he is now
considering getting tested again.
“It was my first in-person meet-
ing back from quarantine,” Mr.
Monies said.
Oklahoma was among the first
states to reopen its economy, with
stores, barbershops and salons
opening back up on April 24. At
the time, the state had just 3,100
cases. New infections were hold-
ing steady — with an average of 94
new cases a day — but not on a
sustained decrease, the path that
is recommended by public health
experts before reopening.
Restaurants, movie theaters,
gyms and houses of worship were
allowed to reopen shortly after-
ward, on May 1. Bars — a known
source of new infections across
the country — reopened on May
15.
On Wednesday, the governor
said he had no plans to roll back
the state’s reopening or to man-
date the use of masks, which he
said are matters of personal re-
sponsibility and not within the
purview of government. “You
can’t pick and choose what free-
doms you are going to give peo-
ple,” Mr. Stitt said. “This is some-
thing that could be with us for the
next 24 months. I don’t think
Americans, Oklahomans particu-
larly, want to bunker in place for
the next 24 months.”
Mr. Stitt said he did not have a
fever, was self-isolating away
from his family and would be
working from home. His wife, Sar-
ah, and their six children have
tested negative.
A member of the Cherokee Na-
tion, Mr. Stitt is the first tribal citi-
zen to become governor of Okla-
homa since the 1950s.
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through the pandemic: shutting
down commerce to slow the
spread and rapidly lifting restric-
tions on activity to get business
humming again. It has not fol-
lowed through on either approach.
Officials in Florida, Texas and
other states began a rapid reopen-
ing of their economies in May,
while the nation’s infection rate
remained higher than those of
other wealthy nations — and well
before the federal government
had a plan to ensure the safety of
anything resembling normal busi-
ness activity. An ensuing surge of
cases in the Southeast and South-
west has forced some governors
to reimpose limits.
Restaurants, retailers and other
businesses that have partly
adapted to the new realities of the
crisis, often by moving some oper-
ations outdoors, must now brace
for the prospect of at least several
more months of constricted reve-
nues as colder weather sets in.
Broadway has shuttered until
2021. Popular music groups have
canceled tours, leaving independ-
ent concert venues with no way to
earn money to survive.
“I am normally a very opti-
mistic person, and I have never
seen an entire industry face an ex-
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istential struggle like we are fac-
ing right now,” said Audrey Fix
Schaefer, a communications direc-
tor for music venues in Washing-
ton, D.C., including The Anthem
and the 9:30 Club, and for a newly
formed trade group called the Na-
tional Independent Venue Associ-
ation. “It is that dire.”
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Where British Slave Trader’s Statue Stood, Black Protester’s Image Rises
By MARK LANDLER
LONDON — Jen Reid had
never marched in a Black Lives
Matter protest before she took to
the streets of Bristol, England, on
June 7. By the end of that angry
day, she had clambered up to
stand in the place of a 17th-cen-
tury slave trader, whose bronze
statue had been pulled down and
dumped in the city’s harbor.
The image of Ms. Reid, her fist
clenched, her right arm thrust up-
ward in a gesture of defiance,
spread widely on social media.
For many, it seemed the perfect
replacement for the notorious
merchant, Edward Colston — a
flesh-and-blood rebuke to the
trader’s cruel legacy, which still
hangs over modern Bristol.
At dawn on Wednesday morn-
ing, Ms. Reid was up there again
in the form of a resin-and-steel
sculpture by Marc Quinn. A prom-
inent British sculptor known for
his provocative works, Mr. Quinn
said that when he saw the image
of Ms. Reid on the plinth, he
sensed the opportunity for an act
of guerrilla art.
He got in touch with Ms. Reid
and proposed a clandestine
project, in which she would pose
for a sculpture that he would in-
stall where the Colston statue had
stood. Working with a team of 10
people, Mr. Quinn swiftly erected
the piece without the approval of
city authorities. How long it will
be allowed to stay there was not
clear.
“She created this iconic image,”
Mr. Quinn said in an interview.
“I’m just amplifying the moment
she created.”
He said he viewed the sculpture
as a complement to the protests,
one that he hoped would provoke
debate about “how we commemo-
rate people in statues.” While he
said he did not expect city officials
to leave the work in place perma-
nently, he hoped they would leave
it long enough to prompt a conver-
sation.
Ms. Reid, who works as a fash-
ion stylist, said she found it “surre-
al” to have an artist memorialize
her spontaneous decision to climb
up on the plinth, a moment she re-
calls with a mix of exhilaration
and fear, given her worries about
falling off.
“Looking back on that moment,
it just gives me goose-pimples,”
she said. “Marc has just captured
all of it in the statue.”
Even before that moment, Ms.
Reid said she had misgivings
about going to the march. She is
taking care of aging parents and
was worried about the risk of con-
tracting the coronavirus in the
crowds. But her outrage at the
murder of George Floyd at the
hands of the police in Minneapolis
overrode her trepidation, she said,
and she decided to go, even buy-
ing a black beret and glove for the
occasion.
Ms. Reid and her husband,
Alasdair Doggart, listened to
speeches before joining a march
to the site of the Colston statue. Af-
ter they watched the crowd tear it
down and dump it in the water, the
couple returned to the empty
plinth, where — helped up by Mr.
Doggart — she stood on the plinth
and struck her pose.
Tahini Becomes Flashpoint
In a Gay Rights Struggle
By ADAM RASGON
TEL AVIV — When Julia Zaher,
the owner of a company that
makes some of the most popular
tahini in Israel, made a donation to
an Israeli gay rights group re-
cently, she saw it as an unremark-
able act.
“When I see people in a tough
place, I always like to help them,”
Ms. Zaher, 65, an Arab citizen of
Israel, said in an interview. “If ev-
eryone turns their back on this
community, who is going to help?”
But after the gay rights organi-
zation publicly thanked her, the
backlash in Israel’s socially con-
servative Arab community was
swift and unforgiving.
Activists called for a boycott of
her company, Al Arz. Videos circu-
lated on Facebook and Twitter of
Arab shopkeepers pulling Al Arz’s
tahini from their shelves and
throwing it in the garbage. An ex-
ecutive at one of the largest Arab-
owned grocery chains in Israel, Al
Mashadawi, said it was consider-
ing dropping Al Arz from its 14
stores.
“We have values that we fol-
low,” said Jabr Hejazi, a super-
market owner in the northern
town of Tamra who abruptly
stopped carrying the brand. “It’s a
simple matter.”
But gay rights activists say the
controversy has had the welcome
side effect of focusing attention on
a group whose problems have
been ignored for too long: gay and
“It wasn’t as easy as it looked
because it was a lot higher than I
thought it was,” Ms. Reid said.
“My legs were jelly. It was a slow
rise, but when I stood up and
raised my fist, the crowd cheered
like crazy.”
Mr. Doggart snapped a photo,
which he posted on his Instagram
account. The next morning, after a
colleague of Mr. Quinn’s showed it
to him, he called Ms. Reid and pro-
transgender members of Israel’s
Arab minority, who say they are
discriminated against and mar-
ginalized twice over.
“This is a huge event,” said
Khader Abu-Seif, 33, an L.G.B.T.
rights activist in Tel Aviv. “Of
course, we’re seeing ugliness, but
we’re also seeing support from
people who never spoke out
openly for us in the past.”
Ms. Zaher, a mild-mannered,
strong-willed mother of two from
Nazareth, may seem an unlikely
catalyst for the controversy.
A schoolteacher for decades,
she took over her husband’s tahini
business when he died after a
heart attack in 2003.
The company was in poor finan-
cial shape, she said in an inter-
view on Saturday in Tel Aviv. But
she poured herself into it, paying
off debts, persuading the bank to
lend her more money and upgrad-
ing the manufacturing process.
Today, her company’s two
plants in the Nazareth area
produce 20 to 25 tons of tahini a
day. The paste they make from
Ethiopian sesame seeds is nearly
ubiquitous at supermarkets and
restaurants in Israel and is ex-
ported to 18 countries, including
the United States. And Ms. Zaher
became the rare woman to lead a
major Arab-owned company.
No stranger to philanthropy,
she had made previous donations
to benefit women’s rights and peo-
ple with disabilities.
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posed the project. She traveled to
a film production studio outside
London and recreated the pose for
Mr. Quinn, who arrayed 200 cam-
eras to shoot her from every an-
gle.
After he made a three-dimen-
sional scan, Mr. Quinn created the
sculpture from resin. Working in
bronze, he said, would have added
several months to the project, and
he wanted to install the piece
A donation to a gay rights group by Julia Zaher, the Israeli Arab owner of a tahini producer, led to a backlash and a counter-backlash.
The donation she made to
Aguda, a national L.G.B.T. rights
organization, was to help set up a
hotline for Arabic-speaking Is-
raelis.
The group’s C.E.O., Ohad Hizki,
declined to say how much Ms. Za-
her had given but called it “signifi-
cant.” He said the hotline would be
open for calls by next month.
The controversy erupted when
Aguda thanked Ms. Zaher on Twit-
ter on July 1.
Mouad Khateb, one of the most
prominent opponents of the dona-
tion, expressed the views of many
critics, saying that he had no ob-
jection to whatever gay and trans-
gender people do in private but
that the donation would contrib-
ute to “normalizing” their “unnat-
ural” way of life to the Arab public.
“What’s most problematic is
while memories of that day were
fresh.
Mr. Quinn is part of a cohort of
British visual artists, known as
Young British Artists, or Y.B.A.s,
who came to prominence in the
1980s. The group, which includes
Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, is
known for the shock value of their
works, like Mr. Hirst’s display of a
shark preserved in formaldehyde.
Mr. Quinn’s best known work is
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when Arabs are participating in
these efforts,” said Mr. Khateb,
who has used derogatory terms to
describe members of the L.G.B.T.
community and asserted that
they had “psychological dis-
orders” requiring “treatment.”
But the boycott has also drawn
public opposition from supporters
of gay rights.
“I’m with Al Arz against the
boycott,” Hana Amoury, a resident
of the port city of Jaffa, wrote on
Facebook. “Those still saying and
thinking gay people are ‘abnor-
mal’ need to do some reading.”
Mr. Abu-Seif, the activist, noted
that an Arab lawmaker from Acre,
Aida Touma-Sliman, had spoken
out in defense of the L.G.B.T. com-
munity — a rare instance, he said,
and a sign that it was becoming
more difficult for Arab politicians
Jen Reid posing in Bristol, England, on Wednesday in front of
Marc Quinn’s new statue portraying her. In a June 7 demonstra-
tion at the site, which Ms. Reid attended, protesters, left, toppled
a statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston.
a cast of his head, made from his
own frozen blood. He also drew at-
tention for a marble sculpture,
“Alison Lapper Pregnant,” which
depicted a woman with a condi-
tion that left her with no arms and
shortened legs. It was placed on a
plinth in Trafalgar Square in Lon-
don from 2005 to 2007.
“I’m interested in how society is
moving, and bringing it into the
world of art, which is kind of anti-
septic,” Mr. Quinn said. “It’s be-
cause I’m a successful artist, I can
get this up. It’s a temporary sen-
tence in the conversation.”
The debate over what should
permanently replace the Colston
statue has percolated since last
month. Historians have sug-
gested a statue of Paul Stephen-
son, a Black activist who orga-
nized a successful boycott of a
Bristol bus company in the 1960s.
A mannequin of Jimmy Savile, the
disgraced BBC television host —
dressed in a blonde wig and neon
tracksuit — was placed on the
plinth for a few days.
As for the statue of Colston,
Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, or-
dered it fished out of the harbor
and stored for safekeeping while
the public debates what to do with
it. It is likely to end up in a local
museum that has an exhibit about
to remain on the sidelines when
L.G.B.T. people were attacked.
Aside from the anti-gay back-
lash, some gay Arabs also criti-
cized the donation for going to an
Israeli organization, which they
contend supports policies that
work to erase the Palestinian ex-
perience, instead of a Palestinian
one. Aguda denies the accusation,
saying it advocates equal rights
for all gay and transgender people
in Israel, regardless of their reli-
gious or national background.
Al Arz’s donation was only the
latest in a series of public demon-
strations of support for Arab gays
and lesbians, activists say.
In May, thousands of mourners
attended the funeral of Ayman
Safiah, a gay dancer who drowned
in the Mediterranean after help-
ing save the life of a friend. And
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Bristol’s links to the slave trade.
Mr. Rees has gotten plenty of
other suggestions already.
Banksy, the elusive street artist
who became famous for his graf-
fiti paintings on the sides of build-
ings in Bristol, posted a sketch on
Instagram of a proposed memori-
al depicting Colston in the act of
being toppled, with protesters
tugging on ropes around his neck.
For Ms. Reid, a descendant of
Jamaican immigrants, the debate
over the statue symbolized Bris-
tol’s reluctance to confront the sin-
ister past of one of its biggest
benefactors. Colston’s name is still
on a school, a performing arts cen-
ter and several other institutions
in the city, though some are in the
process of removing it.
“I walked past his statue every
day for the last five years,” she
said. “It’s an effrontery to have a
slave master you have to walk
past everyday.”
Ms. Reid said she had no idea
whether the city would let the
statue of her stay in place for sev-
eral months — or a single day. But
she confessed to being tickled
about being a part of Bristol’s ur-
ban landscape in a time of social
change.
“I’ll tell people to meet me by
my statue,” she said laughing.
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last August, hundreds of people
protested in Haifa after the stab-
bing of a young transgender Arab.
“What we have been seeing is
the taboo slowly being broken
down,” said Fady Khoury, 35, a
gay civil rights lawyer from Haifa.
“Everything that happened in the
past year is the culmination of the
work that has been done over the
past two decades — all the efforts
activists have made to promote
social change on this issue.”
But Ms. Zaher, whose phone has
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been ringing constantly over the
past week, said she was still puz-
zled by the uproar.
“I never could have imagined
that something like this would
happen,” she said. “It doesn’t
make sense: You do something
positive, and then you get some-
thing negative in return.”
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TikTok’s All-American Bid to Calm Fears on China: Lobbyists
This article is by Cecilia Kang,
Lara Jakes, Ana Swanson and Da-
vid McCabe.
WASHINGTON — TikTok, the
wildly popular social media app
known for its viral dance and lip
sync clips, has been embraced by
millions of students, celebrities
and young adults across the
United States. But the company’s
ties to China could cripple its ex-
istence.
TikTok, which is owned by the
China-based ByteDance, has be-
come the latest target in the
Trump administration’s long-sim-
mering security and economic
battle with Beijing. It is now des-
perately trying to convince law-
makers and administration offi-
cials that its allegiance lies with
the United States, not China.
The social media company,
which one year ago had virtually
no lobbying presence in the na-
tion’s capital, has hired a small
army of more than 35 lobbyists to
work on its behalf, including one
with deep ties to President Trump.
Behind that buildup is a grow-
ing threat to one of TikTok’s most
important markets. Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo has threat-
ened to ban Chinese apps like Tik-
Tok, which are downloaded to mo-
bile phones, over concerns that
they could be used for surveil-
lance by the Chinese government.
Peter Navarro, the White House
trade adviser, called TikTok’s new
chief executive an “American pup-
pet” during a Fox Business inter-
view on Sunday and said the ad-
ministration would take “strong
action” against the company and
other Chinese social media apps.
A powerful U.S. panel has
opened a national security review
into Bytedance’s 2018 purchase of
Musical.ly, an app that was
merged to form TikTok. The Com-
mittee on Foreign Investment in
the United States is examining
whether the merged companies
could give the Chinese govern-
ment access to vast amounts of
American data, including videos
that would be useful for training
facial recognition software. And
the Trump administration is
weighing action against Chinese
social media services like TikTok
under the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act,
which allows the president to reg-
ulate international commerce in
response to unusual and extraor-
dinary threats, people familiar
with the deliberations say.
In the past three months, lobby-
ists working on behalf of TikTok
have held at least 50 meetings
with congressional staff members
and lawmakers, including those
on top committees like those relat-
ed to commerce, the judiciary and
intelligence. Those meetings have
featured a slick presentation that
includes an organizational chart
showing that TikTok does not op-
erate in China and that most of its
top leaders reside in the United
States and are American citizens.
For instance, TikTok’s new chief
executive, Kevin Mayer, a former
executive at Disney, lives in Los
Angeles, they say.
ByteDance denies that it shares
data with the Chinese govern-
ment and is distancing itself from
Raymond Zhong contributed
reporting.
Monsoon Floods in South Asia Kill Hundreds and Displace Millions
By SAMEER YASIR
When heavy floods started in-
undating her riverside home last
week in the village of Madarganj,
northern Bangladesh, Habiba Be-
gum chose to stay put with her
family instead of moving to shel-
ter.
Ms. Begum’s family, desperate
to save what few possessions they
had, chained their only suitcase to
their house, a makeshift structure
of bamboo and banana leaves con-
structed after the last devastating
flood in the area, just two years
ago.
As the waters rose, the house
was marooned in muddied waters,
and the family had to cook meals
on a raised area of dry ground
nearby.
Then tragedy struck. Ms. Be-
gum left her 1-year-old daughter,
Lamia Khatun, on a patch of
higher ground while she washed
clothes in floodwaters on Tuesday.
But the waters kept rising.
“When I came back, she was
gone,” Ms. Begum, 32, said. “We
found her body hours later.”
Across southern Asia, more
than four million people have been
hit hard by monsoon floods that
have destroyed homes and struc-
tures, drowned entire villages and
forced people to crouch on
rooftops hoping for rescue.
The monsoon season — usually
June to September — brings a tor-
rent of heavy rain, a deluge that is
crucial to South Asia’s agrarian
economy.
But in recent years, the mon-
soon season has increasingly
brought cyclones and devastating
floods, causing the internal dis-
placement of millions of people in
low-lying areas, particularly in
Bangladesh.
Scientists say global warming
has played a role by affecting rain-
fall patterns across the subconti-
nent. Instead of more constant but
less intense rains, warming has
ByteDance, TikTok’s owner, spent $300,000 on U.S. lobbying in the first three months of 2020.
its roots in China. The company
stressed TikTok was not available
in China — it offers a similar app
called Douyin there instead — and
said user data was stored in Vir-
ginia, with a backup in Singapore.
“There’s a lot of misinformation
about TikTok right now,” said Mi-
chael Beckerman, vice president
and head of U.S. public policy for
the company. “TikTok is led by an
American C.E.O., with hundreds
of employees and key leaders
across safety, security, product
and public policy in the U.S.”
But some members of Congress
still have suspicions. An aide to
Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida
Republican who requested the
CFIUS review of TikTok, said
ByteDance had provided conflict-
ing information in a meeting with
representatives of Mr. Rubio’s of-
fice about where its data was
stored, as well as insufficient in-
formation about how it controls
and censors its content.
“It is no coincidence that every
day more companies and organi-
zations are asking employees to
delete TikTok,” Mr. Rubio said in a
statement, referring to moves by
Wells Fargo and others to bar the
app from company devices. “Tik-
Tok has yet to provide a real expla-
nation to Americans about how
they protect their data and how
much of it could be made available
to the Chinese Communist Party.”
The United States provides a
crucial audience for TikTok.
American influencers have global
followings, and the app has be-
come a center of conversation
about politics, the pandemic and
racial inequality. TikTok users
claimed credit for reserving thou-
sands of seats for Mr. Trump’s
campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., last
month — and then not showing
up.
But it remains a high bar for
ByteDance to convince the U.S.
government that it is not suscepti-
ble to the directives of the Chinese
government. Mr. Trump and his
top advisers have increasingly fo-
cused on Chinese technology
companies, including Huawei and
ZTE, saying those companies
threaten national security by pro-
increased the frequency of ex-
treme rains, which are more likely
to cause flooding.
Last year, at least 600 people
were killed and more than 25 mil-
lion affected by flooding because
of the torrential monsoon rains in
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and
Nepal, according to the United
Nations. And in 2017, more than
1,000 people died in floods across
South Asia.
Rainfall has been heaviest this
year in northeast India, Bangla-
desh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Ne-
pal, according to the Southeast
Asia Flash Flood Forecast Sys-
tem, which is affiliated with the
United Nations.
The Bangladeshi authorities
say that the flooding started in
late June, inundations are ex-
pected to continue this month, and
more areas will be affected.
Enamur Rahman, the Bangla-
deshi minister for disaster man-
agement, said the inundations
were the worst in decades and
that hundreds of thousands of
families had been marooned, forc-
ing the authorities to open more
than a thousand emergency shel-
ters.
“We are fighting the catastro-
phe with every possible resource
available,” Mr. Rahman said. “It
seems rains and floods will be pro-
longed this year.”
Researchers have warned that
within a few decades, Bangladesh,
with a population of more than 160
million people, may lose more
than 10 percent of its land to sea-
level rise, caused by a warming
climate, displacing as many as 18
million.
India has also suffered im-
mensely. Floods have swept
across the states of Assam, Bihar,
Odisha, West Bengal and other ar-
eas in the eastern part of the coun-
try. The authorities in the country
have said that at least 85 people
have died, with more than three
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viding a conduit for the Chinese
government to infiltrate Ameri-
can technology. Out of national se-
curity concerns, the United States
has already barred dozens of Chi-
nese companies — including
those specializing in supercom-
puters, artificial intelligence and
facial recognition — from gaining
access to American technology.
“What the American people
have to understand is all the data
that goes into those mobile apps
that kids have so much fun with
and seem so convenient, it goes
right to servers in China, right to
the Chinese military, the Chinese
Communist Party and the agen-
A viral social media
app fights for its
future in Washington.
cies that want to steal our intellec-
tual property,” Mr. Navarro said
over the weekend.
The issue of whether TikTok
should be curbed in the United
States has taken on new urgency,
in part because of India’s decision
in late June to ban TikTok and
nearly 60 other Chinese apps, a
Trump administration official
said. TikTok has been downloaded
two billion times, with its biggest
markets in India, the United
States and Brazil, according to
SensorTower.
Last December, the Pentagon
ordered military personnel to de-
lete the TikTok app from their
phones, and some administration
officials have argued that the
United States should retroactively
block ByteDance’s acquisition of
Musical.ly, which could force the
company to divest its American
assets, or at least make changes to
the way it moves and stores data.
The State Department is con-
sidering expanding its so-called
clean networks program to in-
clude apps as it tries to steer for-
eign governments away from un-
In Sunamgong, Bangladesh, this week. Monsoon floods killed 600 in southern Asia last year.
Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Myanmar and
Nepal are inundated.
million affected by the deluge.
In the northeastern state of As-
sam, Kaziranga National Park, a
World Heritage site that is a home
to the one-horned Indian rhinoc-
eros, a species listed as vulnerable
by the WWF, has been completely
inundated. Officials said that
more than 50 animals had died in
the flooding, though some wildlife
had been rescued.
With more than a dozen rivers
and tributaries swelling above the
danger mark, rescue operations
have been carried out in at least 22
secure Chinese telecommunica-
tions companies in the name of
protecting Americans’ private in-
formation, according to officials
familiar with the discussions.
TikTok would be considered
among those apps, although offi-
cials said the State Department
had not yet designated companies
to be included in the expansion.
“Whether it’s TikTok or any of
the other Chinese communica-
tions platforms, apps, infrastruc-
ture, this administration has tak-
en seriously the requirement to
protect the American people from
having their information end up in
the hands of the Chinese Commu-
nist Party,” Mr. Pompeo said
Wednesday in an interview with
the newspaper The Hill.
He said he had heard from par-
ents eager to see TikTok banned:
“That’s for the parents to decide
their kids’ usage on their cell-
phones. It’s our task to make sure
that their children’s information
doesn’t end up in the hands of the
Chinese Communist Party.”
Officials have also been consid-
ering potential national security
risks from other Chinese internet
and social media services, includ-
ing Tencent’s WeChat, which had
more than a billion active monthly
users worldwide in the first quar-
ter of 2020.
“These companies cannot claim
that they don’t follow the orders of
the party; that’s just not credible,”
said Derek Scissors, a resident
scholar at the American Enter-
prise Institute who tracks Chinese
investment worldwide. “Chinese
firms don’t have a choice.”
TikTok and the venture funds it
counts as its major investors have
tried to reassure the Trump ad-
ministration — including Treas-
ury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,
who is in charge of the national se-
curity review panel — that it has
walled off its China operations
from other global activities, peo-
ple familiar with the conversa-
tions said. The company pulled its
operations out of Hong Kong after
the city imposed new security
laws that would bring Chinese-
style censorship to residents. Dur-
ing discussions with U.S. officials,
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districts across Assam.
In Nepal, 67 people have died
and 40 others are missing, accord-
ing to the National Emergency
Operation Center.
That is in additional to the mon-
soons that have battered Bangla-
desh. Low-lying and densely pop-
ulated, the country is chronically
ravaged by flooding.
In Jamalpur, in the north, the
flood situation has become criti-
cal, with rivers flowing well above
the danger level. Muneeb-ul-Is-
lam, 42, who lives in the area with
his wife and three children, said he
had lost his home several times in
10 years, leaving him with nothing
but the clothes he was wearing.
Mr. ul-Islam and his family are
among more than a million people
in Bangladesh left displaced or
company officials have also raised
the possibility of changes to Tik-
Tok’s corporate structure that
could include moving its global
headquarters, these people said.
The company has added well-
connected lobbyists, including Mr.
Beckerman, the former president
of the Internet Association and a
longtime Republican congres-
sional aide, and David J. Urban,
who ran Mr. Trump’s campaign in
Pennsylvania and has been de-
scribed by the president as “one of
my good friends.” He was also a
West Point classmate of Mr. Pom-
peo and Mark T. Esper, the de-
fense secretary.
Mr. Beckerman has hired 15 lob-
byists and communications staff
members for ByteDance, includ-
ing former aides to Paul Ryan, the
former Wisconsin lawmaker and
speaker of the House, and Repre-
sentative Jim Clyburn of South
Carolina, the Democratic whip.
ByteDance has also tapped its
prominent investors for help.
General Atlantic, whose chief ex-
ecutive, William E. Ford, sits on
ByteDance’s board, has been ad-
vising TikTok on lobbying strat-
egy, and SoftBank, which invested
in ByteDance in 2018, has sug-
gested Washington hires, said two
people familiar with the matter.
For the first three months of
2020, ByteDance spent $300,000
on lobbying, double the amount it
had spent in the previous quarter
and the equivalent of its two quar-
ters of lobbying in 2019. TikTok’s
lobbying force is not as large as
those of other tech giants, like Am-
azon, Facebook and Google, but it
has deployed a defensive army
with astonishing speed.
Efforts to sway lawmakers
have not always gone smoothly.
The company scheduled meetings
last December between its head at
the time, Alex Zhu, and lawmak-
ers who had criticized of the com-
pany. It then canceled the meet-
ings, which irritated lawmakers,
who promptly shared news of the
canceled meetings on Twitter.
(TikTok told reporters at the time
that the meetings had been post-
poned until after the holidays.)
In meetings with lawmakers,
lobbyists insist that the app is
mainly for entertainment and
does not involve the type of con-
tent that is normally targeted for
government surveillance, accord-
ing to two people with knowledge
of TikTok’s lobbying activities.
They point out that the most popu-
lar clips are by young influencers
like the 16-year-old dancer Charli
D’Amelio of Connecticut.
The company has also high-
lighted its American investors,
like the Chinese arm of the ven-
ture capital firm Sequoia and the
private equity firms KKR and
General Atlantic, one person fa-
miliar with the matter said.
Mr. Beckerman’s staff sends an
email newsletter to Capitol Hill
with uplifting stories about Tik-
Tok. The newsletters have high-
lighted fun videos about the Net-
flix series “Tiger King” and clips
related to Covid-19 prevention.
But in recent days, they have
taken a more defensive tone. In
the newsletter sent Friday, Mr.
Beckerman highlighted TikTok’s
decision to leave Hong Kong.
“We put action behind words,”
he said.
homeless by the floods.
“It is as if we have committed
some sin,” Mr. ul-Islam said. “This
is the third time in the last few
years that we will have to rebuild
our lives from scratch.”
Ms. Begum, who lost her 1-year-
old, said her life had been com-
pletely destroyed. She has now
moved to a nearby shelter, a
school building, where hundreds
of people were crammed in. Fear
of the coronavirus spreading in
such cramped quarters looms
large. Ms. Begum’s family said
there had not been enough warn-
ing about the magnitude of the
flooding.
“I will never go back to the
place where we used to live,” she
said, “The water has snatched ev-
erything from us.”
Shipyard
Is Latest Site
Hit by Fires
Across Iran
By FARNAZ FASSIHI
A large fire broke out at a ship-
yard in the southern Iranian port
city of Bushehr on Wednesday,
burning seven ships and sending
plumes of black smoke billowing
above the city skyline, according
to videos and Iranian media re-
ports.
The fire followed dozens of re-
cent fires and explosions across
Iran’s forests, factories and mili-
tary and nuclear facilities in the
past three months that have rat-
tled ordinary Iranians. Iranian of-
ficials have said that some of the
episodes may have been acts of
sabotage but blamed weather, ac-
cidents and equipment malfunc-
tions for the others.
On Tuesday an aluminum fac-
tory in the industrial city of
Lamard in Fars Province caught
fire. On Sunday, a fire broke out at
petrochemical plant in Khuzestan
Province.
An explosion at the country’s
top nuclear facility in Natanz two
weeks ago damaged the structure
where centrifuges were assem-
bled and has been attributed to Is-
raeli sabotage.
There have also been explo-
sions at two power plants, a chlo-
rine gas leak at a chemical plant
and an explosion at a missile pro-
duction factory at a military com-
plex in Tehran.
Some Iranian officials have said
privately that they suspected that
at least some of the fires and ex-
plosions were part of an American
and Israeli military campaign
against Iran but no official has
publicly said whether any of the
incidents are linked or blamed any
country or group for them.
Some analysts speculate that
various enemies of the Iranian
government — not just the United
States and Israel but possibly do-
mestic groups as well — may be
seizing the opportunity to stoke
the chaos.
“There is a belief that those who
want regime change in Iran are
throwing everything they have at
Iran to see which one would stick,”
said Foad Izadi a conservative po-
Forests, factories and
military facilities have
burned recently.
litical analyst in Tehran. The
waves of explosions and fires he
said are “creating this sense of in-
stability and chaos and insecuri-
ty.”
No casualties were reported for
the shipyard fire on Wednesday.
Local officials said the flames
were so extensive that they had to
call in additional fire engines from
the navy, the Revolutionary
Guards Corp and a nearby nucle-
ar plant.
The fire was tamed after about
five hours, local media reported.
Jahangir Dehghan, Bushehr’s
top crisis official, said the cause of
the fire was unclear but high
winds and the fiberglass used in
boat construction at the shipyard
had contributed to its rapid
spread, according to the Tasnim
news agency. Fiberglass, howev-
er, is not generally flammable.
While government officials
have not linked the fires and ex-
plosions, they have acknowledged
that the number and frequency
are unusual.
Aside from military and indus-
trial fires, there have been more
than 1,000 separate forest fires in
the past three months. Parliament
called in the ministers of envi-
ronment and intelligence to ques-
tion them about the forest fires, at
least a fifth of which were believed
to be arson.
Many Iranians and some offi-
cials suspect that the fires and ex-
plosions are part of a coordinated
covert operation by the United
States and Israel to pressure the
Islamic Republic government to
negotiate a new nuclear deal or to
provoke a response and start a
military confrontation.
The July 2 explosion at Natanz
was part of a yearlong covert op-
eration by Israel and the United
States, American and Middle
Eastern intelligence officials have
said. Intelligence officials said the
blast may have set the Iranian nu-
clear program back as much as
two years.
Israel and the United States
have sabotaged Iran’s nuclear
program in the past.
But officials from both coun-
tries said they had nothing to do
with the explosion at a missile pro-
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China Vows Retaliation for Latest Trump Moves North Macedonia Election
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
China on Wednesday sharply
criticized President Trump’s
moves to strip Hong Kong of its
preferential trading status with
the United States and clear the
way for new sanctions on officials
and companies there, vowing to
retaliate with punitive measures
of its own.
The response from the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in Beijing prom-
ised to continue a pattern of tit-
for-tat punishments that have ac-
companied the sharp downward
turn in relations between the two
countries on a variety of fronts,
from trade to technology to hu-
man rights.
China was swift to criticize Mr.
Trump’s latest actions, which he
announced at a rambling White
House news conference on Tues-
day. Those moves, along with his
remarks, underscored the extent
to which relations with Beijing
have become intertwined with the
American presidential election.
Mr. Trump said he had issued an
executive order revoking the spe-
cial trading status that Hong Kong
had enjoyed for more than two
decades, following the Chinese
government’s imposition of a
sweeping new national security
law there.
The law came into force on June
30, and its chilling effect on politi-
cal freedoms in the city — which,
under a formula called “one coun-
try, two systems,” is supposed to
have a high degree of autonomy
from China — has already been
evident in a series of arrests and
police raids.
Mr. Trump also signed legisla-
tion, adopted overwhelmingly in
May by Congress, that authorizes
the administration to impose
sanctions on officials or institu-
tions, including banks, found to
have undermined Hong Kong’s
semiautonomous status.
His executive order, besides re-
voking the territory’s special trad-
Reporting and research were con-
tributed by Keith Bradsher and
Claire Fu in Beijing and Elaine Yu
in Hong Kong.
U.S., Targeting China,
Weighs a Ban on Visits
By Communist Loyalists
From Page A1
knowledge of party status for a
vast majority of them. So trying to
immediately identify party mem-
bers to either prevent their entry
or expel those already in the
United States would be difficult.
The presidential order would
cite the same statute in the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act used
in a 2017 travel ban on a number of
predominantly Muslim countries
that gives the president power to
temporarily block travel to the
U.S. by foreign nationals who are
deemed “detrimental to the inter-
ests of the United States.” The
2017 ban was fought in the courts
and expanded this year.
Such a broad ban would be the
most provocative action against
China by the United States since
the start of the trade war between
the two countries in 2018. It would
further poison U.S.-China rela-
tions, even after several years of
open clashes over economics,
technology and global influence
have led some diplomats and ana-
lysts to draw comparisons to a
new Cold War.
Officials at the White House,
State Department and Depart-
ment of Homeland Security have
been involved in the discussion
over the ban. Spokesmen for the
White House National Security
Council and the State Department
declined to comment on Wednes-
day, and one for the Department of
Homeland Security did not return
a request for comment.
Officials at those agencies also
continue to debate a variety of for-
mulations for banning Chinese
travel to the United States short of
barring all party members, such
as targeting only the 25 members
of the ruling Politburo and their
families.
In recent months, top adminis-
tration officials have tried to draw
a distinction between party mem-
bers and other Chinese, saying
the party must be punished for its
actions — and its global ambitions
must be thwarted. They have
loudly denounced what they call
the evils of the Chinese Commu-
nist Party, pointing to the role of
its officials in the cover-up of the
initial coronavirus outbreak, the
detentions of one million or more
Muslims in internment camps and
the dismantling of civil liberties in
Hong Kong.
The Communist Party is both a
powerful and mundane part of life
in China. While its leaders main-
tain control of domestic and for-
eign policy, those on lower rungs
do everything from supervising
schools to managing neighbor-
hood-level governance. In recent
decades, many citizens joined to
Julian E. Barnes contributed re-
porting.
A float in Hong Kong harbor on July 1 welcoming the enactment of China’s national security law.
ing status, calls for sanctions
against people deemed to have
been involved in a variety of acts
in Hong Kong, including arrests
made under the new security law
and actions that undermine demo-
cratic processes or limit the news
media’s freedoms.
Officials in Beijing had clearly
anticipated the moves, but they
reacted harshly nonetheless.
“The act on the United States
side maliciously denigrates Hong
Kong’s national security legisla-
tion, threatens to impose sanc-
tions on China and gravely vio-
lates international law and basic
rules of international relations,”
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
said in a statement posted
Wednesday morning in China, not
long after Mr. Trump spoke.
“It is gross interference in Hong
Kong affairs and China’s internal
affairs,” the ministry said.
The Hong Kong government
said in a statement that the United
States was “using human rights,
democracy and autonomy as an
excuse” to introduce measures
get a leg up in a wide range of sec-
tors: business, academia and
even the arts. Many party mem-
bers do not conform to official
ideology; some are Christians
who attend underground
churches, for example.
Many Chinese outside the party
praise the top leadership but com-
plain about corruption among lo-
cal officials.
Counting party members as
well as their families, the ban
could technically bar travel to the
United States for as many as 270
million people, according to one
internal administration estimate.
“The overwhelming majority of
C.C.P. members have no involve-
ment or input into Beijing’s policy-
making, so going after the entire
party membership is like China
sanctioning all Republicans be-
cause of frustrations with Trump,”
said Jude Blanchette, a China
scholar at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in
Washington. “Such a move would
inflame public opinion in China, as
this would target nearly 10 per-
cent of the entire Chinese popula-
tion and would do so based on
blanket assertions of guilt.”
Besides the iterations of the
2017 travel ban, the Trump admin-
istration has put in place other en-
try restrictions. This year, during
the pandemic, it has banned entry
for most citizens of China as well
as those from the European Union
and some other nations. And last
month, it blocked employment vi-
sas and extended restrictions on
issuance of green cards, moves
that would keep as many as
525,000 foreign workers out of the
United States for the rest of the
year.
The State Department has also
announced visa restrictions on
various categories of Chinese citi-
zens. These include officials re-
sponsible for the mass internment
and surveillance of Muslim ethnic
minorities in the Xinjiang region
and journalists working in the
United States.
In May, American officials said
the government was canceling the
visas of graduate or higher-level
students in the United States who
had ties to certain Chinese mili-
tary institutions.
After Mr. Trump signed the
Hong Kong Autonomy Act on
Tuesday, the State Department
was expected to propose names of
Chinese officials overseeing re-
pression in Hong Kong for visa
and economic sanctions.
And on Wednesday, Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo announced
a ban on some employees of Chi-
nese technology companies, in-
cluding Huawei, that “provide ma-
terial support to regimes engag-
ing in human rights abuses glob-
ally.”
He added, “Telecommunica-
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aimed at attacking China.
The impact of the new powers
detailed in the American law and
Mr. Trump’s executive order re-
mains to be seen. Congress has
authorized similar measures be-
fore, only to have the administra-
tion delay imposing them as it
weighed other foreign policy con-
siderations, including Mr. Trump’s
signature trade deal with China.
With relations deteriorating
badly and the pandemic’s toll
mounting in the United States, the
administration has acted more ag-
gressively in recent weeks.
When the United States im-
posed sanctions on four Chinese
officials over China’s crackdown
on Uighurs and other Muslims in
the far western region of Xinjiang,
Beijing reciprocated by announc-
ing travel bans and sanctions on
prominent Republican members
of Congress.
Lau Siu-kai, a senior adviser to
the Chinese government on Hong
Kong policy, said the American ac-
tions would have limited effect on
Hong Kong and would, contrary to
tions companies around the world
should consider themselves on
notice: If they are doing business
with Huawei, they are doing busi-
ness with human rights abusers.”
Despite Mr. Trump’s admiration
for Mr. Xi, national security offi-
cials have tried to push tough poli-
cies on China that are designed to
counter what they view as dan-
gerous expansionist actions by
Chinese leaders and agencies.
The pandemic and Beijing’s re-
cent actions on Hong Kong have
helped push relations between the
two nations to the lowest point in
decades.
At the same time, some of Mr.
Trump’s top economic advisers
have promoted a softer approach
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the intent of the United States,
drive the territory closer to main-
land China.
“The overall damage to Hong
Kong and to China is rather min-
imal and can be absorbed,” said
Mr. Lau, a former senior Hong
Kong government official who is
now with the Chinese Association
of Hong Kong and Macau Studies.
He said Hong Kong was becom-
ing “increasingly detached from
the United States and the West,
and increasingly attached to
China and Asia.”
Others said the American ac-
tions could have more significant
effects by hurting the city’s repu-
tation for openness and rule of
law.
“The only way we can regain
the respect and favorable condi-
tions that we deserve is if Beijing
fulfills its original promise to the
world and Hong Kong people,
which is the genuine implementa-
tion of ‘one country, two systems’
and our high degree of autonomy,”
said James To, a pro-democracy
Hong Kong lawmaker.
to China, warning of further dam-
age to the world economy and fall-
ing stock markets. Those advisers
and allies among American exec-
utives are likely to oppose a broad
visa ban on Communist Party
members, some of whom do busi-
ness with American corporations.
A broad ban would give the
State Department new powers to
block top Chinese political and
business leaders and their fam-
ilies from entering the United
States. It would also allow the de-
partment to formalize a process
by which American officials could
inquire about party status during
visa application interviews and on
forms. Under the draft proclama-
tion, the Department of Homeland
Produces No Clear Winner
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
BERLIN — The first general
election in North Macedonia since
the country changed its name and
resolved a longstanding dispute
with neighboring Greece has
ended with no clear winner, leav-
ing the country’s future diplomat-
ic trajectory in the balance.
The center-left Social Demo-
crats emerged as the strongest
party, taking 36.3 percent of the
vote with nearly 90 percent of bal-
lots counted. That leaves the
party several seats short of the 61
it needs to form a majority in the
120-seat Parliament, and facing
several days of tense coalition
talks with smaller parties.
The Social Democrats’ closest
rival, the nationalist VMRO-
DPMNE, won 34.9 percent, mean-
ing it could still gain power with
the support of smaller parties rep-
resenting the country’s ethnic Al-
banian minority. “It’s still on the
precipice,” said Petar Arsovski, a
political analyst and polling ex-
pert based in North Macedonia.
The muddy result reflects the
ambivalence many Macedonians
feel toward Zoran Zaev, the Social
Democrats’ leader. As prime min-
ister, he angered some voters by
changing the country’s name and
by what they saw as foot-dragging
on an overhaul of the judicial sys-
tem. But Mr. Zaev did raise wages,
led North Macedonia into NATO
and cleared the way for its Euro-
pean Union application by settling
longstanding disputes with
Greece and Bulgaria.
While Mr. Zaev’s nationalist op-
ponents support the country’s
membership in NATO and its E.U.
application, they also want to re-
visit aspects of the deals with
Greece and Bulgaria.
That would be likely to cause a
diplomatic row, raising the risk
that Greece and Bulgaria, both
E.U. members, could hinder North
Macedonia’s application. It could
also distract international media-
Alisa Dogramadzieva contributed
reporting.
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Security would share responsibil-
ity for carrying out the ban.
Several Chinese citizens who
have traveled to the United States
in recent years said they did not
recall any questions on visa appli-
cations asking if they were party
members.
Language in the draft procla-
mation stresses recent egregious
behavior by China, in particular
theft of intellectual property by
Chinese state actors and so-called
exit bans used by security officials
to prevent some U.S. citizens from
leaving China. This month, the
State Department renewed a trav-
el warning, saying the Chinese au-
thorities engaged in “arbitrary en-
forcement of local laws for pur-
N A11
tors from addressing other ten-
sions in the Balkans, like the still
unresolved dispute between Kos-
ovo and Serbia.
While Mr. Zaev has been
praised as a statesman outside the
country, within North Macedonia
he divides opinion, partly because
of a step his government took to
end its diplomatic isolation: add-
ing the word “North” to the coun-
try’s name. That reassured
Greece that its neighbor no longer
harbored any secret claims over
the Greek region also named
Macedonia.
But the decision left many in the
small Balkan nation feeling their
identity had been erased. Many
also resented the way Mr. Zaev
pushed the amendment through
Parliament, though a majority of
citizens boycotted a referendum
on the subject.
Mr. Zaev entered office in 2017
after a government led by VMRO-
DPMNE collapsed amid a series
of protests against corruption, ju-
dicial interference and govern-
ment surveillance. His predeces-
sor, Nikola Gruevski, later fled the
country to escape corruption
charges.
Mr. Zaev resigned from the pre-
miership in January to allow a
caretaker government to oversee
the election campaign.
The quality of democracy in
North Macedonia improved
slightly during Mr. Zaev’s tenure,
according to annual ratings issued
by Freedom House, a Washing-
ton-based rights watchdog, but
his critics believe he has not done
enough to strengthen the judicia-
ry or to combat corruption.
Just over half of voters turned
out, about 15 percentage points
less than in 2016, partly because of
fears over the spread of the coro-
navirus, analysts said.
The election was initially sched-
uled for April but was postponed
to avoid the peak of the pandemic.
The election authority delayed the
announcement of initial results
because of problems with its web-
site, which the authority attribut-
ed to a possible hacking attack.
President Xi Jinping of China,
above, at the Great Hall of the
People in May. Left, morning
rush hour in Beijing. The Com-
munist Party is a powerful yet
mundane part of Chinese life.
An American proposal would
cite the same statute used in a
2017 travel ban on several pre-
dominantly Muslim nations.
poses other than maintaining law
and order,” which could include
“detention and the use of exit
bans.”
On Tuesday, the Trump admin-
istration reversed course on an or-
der that would have subjected in-
ternational students to deporta-
tion if they did not physically at-
tend classes during the pandemic,
after American universities filed a
lawsuit.
Still, the administration has
stood by its visa actions focused
more narrowly on China. The Chi-
nese government has continued
with its own harsh visa actions,
and even widened them to the
nonrenewal of work permits for
Western journalists in Hong
Kong.
At a speech in Beijing this
month, Wang Yi, the foreign min-
ister of China, said the China-U.S.
relationship was facing its “most
severe challenge” since the nor-
malization of diplomatic ties in
1979.
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“Some say that China-U.S. rela-
tions will not be able to return to
its past,” he said. “But that should
not mean ignoring the history al-
together and starting all over
again, let alone impractical decou-
pling. It should mean building on
past achievements and keeping
pace with the times.”
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Fiery, Tempestuous Birth
For a Global Nuclear Age
By MARIA CRAMER
It was 1 a.m. on July 16, 1945, when J.
Robert Oppenheimer met with an Army
lieutenant general, Leslie Groves, in the
parched landscape of Jornada del
Muerto — Dead Man’s Journey — a re-
mote desert in New Mexico.
A group of engineers and physicists
was about to detonate an atomic device
packed with 13 pounds of plutonium, a
nuclear weapon that the government
hoped would bring an end to World War
II.
Some scientists on the project worried
that they were about to light the entire
world on fire, according to researchers.
Others worried that the test would be “a
complete dud.”
Mr. Oppenheimer, who was tasked
with designing an atomic bomb for the
Manhattan Project, had not slept.
At 5:29 a.m. local time, the device ex-
ploded with a power equivalent to 21,000
tons of TNT and set off a flash of light that
would have been visible from Mars, re-
searchers said.
It was the first nuclear test in history.
Less than a month later, the United
States would drop a nearly identical
weapon on the city of Nagasaki in Japan.
The bomb, named Fat Man, fell three
days after Americans dropped a ura-
nium bomb, called Little Boy, on Hiroshi-
ma. Both weapons immediately killed
tens of thousands of Japanese people
and forced Japan’s surrender on Aug. 14,
bringing an abrupt end to the war.
Since the Trinity test 75 years ago, at
least eight countries have conducted
more than 2,000 nuclear bomb tests, said
Jenifer Mackby, a senior fellow at the
Federation of American Scientists. More
than half of those tests have been con-
ducted by the United States, a legacy of
the Trinity explosion, as the United
States and several other countries have
continued to refuse to ratify the treaty
prohibiting nuclear weapon test explo-
sions.
“You could say it unleashed the nucle-
ar age, really,” Ms. Mackby said. “It un-
leashed a whole new class of destruc-
tion.”
Many of the scientists who witnessed
the blast quickly realized the “foul and
awesome” power they had set free, ac-
cording to historians.
Mr. Oppenheimer said a Hindu scrip-
ture ran through his mind at the sight of
the explosion: “Now I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds.”
Kenneth T. Bainbridge, the test direc-
tor, was less poetic.
“Now we are all sons of bitches,” he
said.
The top secret test was heard and seen
for miles.
The goal of the test was to see if the mili-
tary could harness plutonium into a
weapon that would destroy whole cities,
said Alex Wellerstein, a science historian
at the Stevens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, N.J., who studies the history of
nuclear weapons.
The effects of radiation were not well
understood by most scientists on the
project at the time, according to histori-
ans, and the preparations that were
made to keep civilians safe reflected that
ignorance.
They placed crude monitors around
the small towns within 40 miles of the
testing site. A scientist who was seven
months pregnant and her husband, who
was also a scientist, were sent to a motel
in one of the towns with a Geiger counter,
a device used to detect radioactive emis-
sions, to measure the radiation. If the
needle hit a certain mark, she was in-
structed to alert officials so that they
could evacuate the town, Professor Wel-
lerstein said.
Officials did not warn any of the resi-
dents — many of them ranchers, Nava-
jos, Mexican settlers and their descend-
ants who raised cattle and drank water
from cisterns — about the test. Should
anyone ask about the blast, officials had
proposed several cover stories, includ-
ing telling the public that a remote am-
munitions depot had exploded, Profes-
sor Wellerstein said.
“They took some effort” to protect the
public, he said. “Would we consider it ad-
equate today? No, not at all. It’s not con-
sidered adequate to set off a nuclear
bomb, not tell anyone about it and set up
a pregnant scientist in a motel with a Gei-
ger counter to monitor radiation.”
The blast stunned bewildered resi-
dents of the small towns within a 50-mile
radius of the site.
“It produced more light and heat than
the sun,” said Tina Cordova, a founder of
the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Con-
sortium, which has urged the govern-
ment to conduct more research about the
aftermath of the blast and to compensate
the affected communities.
Based on census data at the time, the
consortium estimates there were tens of
The device, containing 13 pounds of plutonium, was hoisted to the top of a 100-foot tower days before the test.
thousands of people living within a 50-
mile radius of the blast, Ms. Cordova
said.
“Ash fell for days afterward in the
landscape and in every direction and in
amazing quantities,” she said.
Warnings went unseen and ignored.
The day after the blast, Leo Szilard, a
Hungarian physicist who worked on the
Manhattan Project, sent a petition
signed by 70 scientists to President
Harry S. Truman, urging him to give Ja-
pan a chance to surrender before drop-
ping the bombs.
“Thus a nation which sets the prece-
dent of using these newly liberated
forces of nature for purposes of destruc-
tion may have to bear the responsibility
of opening the door to an era of devasta-
tion on an unimaginable scale,” the peti-
tion cautioned.
It was not the first plea to reconsider
using a nuclear bomb to end the war.
A month before the test, a committee,
which included Dr. Szilard and was
headed by the German scientist James
Franck, issued the Franck Report, urg-
ing the United States to first demon-
strate the power of the weapons to mem-
bers of the United Nations.
Such a demonstration, the report said,
would say to the world: “You see what
weapon we had but did not use. We are
ready to renounce its use in the future
and to join other nations in working out
adequate supervision of the use of this
nuclear weapon.”
Mr. Truman did not see Dr. Szilard’s
petition and he most likely did not see the
Franck Report, said Steve Olson, who
has written a book about the develop-
ment of plutonium at the Hanford nucle-
ar reservation in southeastern Washing-
ton State.
“It’s very hard to conceive of a set of
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The atomic device detonated
at the Trinity test site in New
Mexico on July 16, 1945, ex-
ploded with the force of
21,000 tons of TNT, creating a
giant fireball, left, and blasting
the desert surface, above.
developments in 1945 that would have
avoided dropping those bombs,” Mr. Ol-
son said. “Truman wanted to end the war
as quickly as possible.”
The United States wanted “uncondi-
tional surrender” from Japan, he said.
“Government leaders thought that was
going to require a psychological shock.”
There were repercussions and regret.
The bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
are believed to have killed up to about
200,000 people, with many of those vic-
tims succumbing to radiation poisoning
in the weeks that followed.
Scientists “were totally shocked when
the Japanese reported radiation sick-
ness at Nagasaki,” said Professor Wel-
lerstein, who has written about what the
United States knew about the long-term
consequences of using the weapons.
While scientists were concerned about
the possible effects of radiation on their
own staff, they showed little interest in
calculating what that damage could be
for the Japanese, Professor Wellerstein
said.
He added that they expected “the blast
and fire effects of the atomic bomb would
greatly overshadow any radiation casu-
alties.”
The destruction of the cities would
haunt Mr. Oppenheimer, who worried he
had set a course for a future apocalypse.
“Mr. President, I feel I have blood on
my hands,” he said to Mr. Truman later
that year.
The true effects of the test on the peo-
ple who lived near the test site remain
unclear.
The government never conducted a
full investigation into the effects of the
radiation, even after the communities
downwind of the blast saw an unusual
spike in infant deaths in the months after
the explosion, said Joseph J. Shonka, a
scientist and one of the authors of a 2010
study about the effects of nuclear testing
for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
“The Trinity downwinders have not
been treated in either a fair or a just man-
ner,” he said.
Ms. Cordova, who grew up in Tularosa,
N.M., said cancer had been pervasive in
the towns near the Trinity test site,
where everyone can name someone who
died of the disease.
“We know that the government basi-
cally walked away and has taken no re-
sponsibility for the suffering and the dy-
ing,” said Ms. Cordova, who has survived
thyroid cancer and has several relatives
who died of various forms of cancer.
Members of Congress from New Mex-
ico have introduced legislation that
would expand the Radiation Exposure
Compensation Act, which compensates
uranium miners and people who lived
downwind from nuclear testing sites, to
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include the residents who lived around
Trinity.
In 2014, the National Cancer Institute
began interviewing people who lived in
the towns near the testing site to try and
document the effects of the blast. The in-
stitute said it anticipated publishing the
results “within the next few months.”

Wilting Heat, Intensified by Climate Change
High Temperatures
In Southern U.S.
Raise Virus Risks
For the Vulnerable
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
For much of the United States,
the last several days have been
brutal: record temperatures re-
corded around the country, and
coronavirus case numbers are on
the rise as well, complicating ef-
forts to protect people at risk.
The weekend set temperature
records in the South and South-
west, which continued into this
week. On Monday, the National
Weather Service warned that
“The relentless heat and humidity
across the south-central U.S. will
continue to make weather head-
lines going through the middle of
the week.” On Wednesday, the
Weather Service said that the
most punishing heat would begin
to abate across the South, but, like
a hot bubble under the nation’s
wallpaper, “will be on the increase
for the eastern U.S. and for the
northern High Plains.
Greg Carbin, the chief of the
forecast operations branch at the
National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration’s Weather
Prediction Center, said, “It’s July
— you kind of expect this, to some
extent. But the magnitude of it is a
little severe.”
This is the beginning of a sum-
mer that NOAA has warned is
likely to have many more scorch-
ing days.
The combination of heat and hu-
midity sent heat indexes in places
like central Oklahoma above 115
degrees, and “that is just really
dangerous to spend any time out-
doors in, unless you’re standing
under a cool waterfall some-
where,” Mr. Carbin said, who also
noted that the heat index in New
Orleans on Monday was 120 de-
grees. The tremendous heat and
moisture can also set the stage for
severe weather. “When you have
that much energy available for
those storms, it can be very dan-
gerous,” he said.
The heat wave is consistent
with what scientists say to expect
from climate change, said J. Mar-
shall Shepherd, a meteorologist at
the University of Georgia and a
former president of the American
Meteorological Society. He took
part in a 2016 report by the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences that
found that, of the weather phe-
nomena affected by climate
change, heat waves show the
strongest signal of the warming
planet.
He compared the process to fer-
tilizing a lawn. Grass will grow
naturally, but “when we put fertil-
izer in the soil, it grows differ-
ently,” he said, and so “the natural
cycle of heat waves is fertilized by
anthropogenic climate change.”
The heat wave has been playing
out across the South and South-
west in shared misery. On Mon-
day, the National Weather Service
in San Antonio announced the
temperature reached 106 degrees,
tying the July temperature
record. Monitors at Phoenix’s Sky
Harbor airport hit a blazing 114,
matching a record hit previously
in 2005, 2003, 1989 and 1939.
In Houston, Matt Lanza, a me-
teorologist for Space City
Weather, reported the tempera-
ture at Bush Intercontinental Air-
port reached 100 degrees, with a
heat index of 111. How does that
feel? Such temperatures over-
whelm the everyday vocabulary;
in an exchange of Twitter mes-
sages, he called the combination
of heat and humidity “terribad.”
For many cities, the heat is part
of a double whammy as they try to
deal with the novel coronavirus
pandemic.
Matthew Lara, a spokesman for
the City of Austin Office of Home-
land Security and Emergency
Management, said that Monday’s
high of 108 degrees — a record for
that day by three degrees — un-
derplayed the compounding ef-
fects of a city’s heat islands, where
buildings and paved surfaces can
amplify heat, temperatures can be
much higher.
Energy demand goes up during
heat waves, and with so many
people working from home that
surge may be compounded by the
rise in residential energy use, said
Christopher Jones, director of the
CoolClimate Network, a research
consortium at the University of
California, Berkeley. That would
add to the power load, especially
since so many of the office build-
ings people work in are still being
cooled, as well. Heat waves lead to
peak energy use, he said, which is
“dirtier energy” since the plants
that power companies bring on-
line only when they need them
tend to pollute heavily. The extra
stress on the system also raises,
“the potential for outages that can
shut down the economy even fur-
ther,” he said.
Weather like this disproportion-
ally affects the vulnerable: people
without the means to buy an air-
conditioner or crank it up to full
108° Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, where Monday’s high set a record by three degrees. The weather was expected to cool off, to the high 90s, by the weekend.
104° (heat index). On Tuesday in New Orleans, where virus cases were rising with the tempera-
ture. “Any day that we’re working with multiple emergencies is a difficult one,” a city official said.
111° On Tuesday at a water park in Chandler, Ariz. Officials in Maricopa County are creating more
cooling centers, and setting aside temporary camp sites with portable toilets for homeless people.
blast. Many cities have typically
had cooling centers, where people
can get out of the heat, often in
places like community recreation
centers. The coronavirus has in-
troduced complications, Mr. Lara
said, because the city’s cooling
centers now require visitors to
maintain social distancing and to
wear masks. “You don’t want to
cram 30 people into a room and
call it a cooling center,” he said.
In Maricopa County, Ariz.,
county spokesman Ron Coleman
said that the county has added to
its collection of daytime cooling
stations and land set aside for
homeless people to pitch tents
where they can have access to
hand washing stations and port-
able toilets. The county has also
opened a temporary overnight
cooling shelter, and for those who
appear to be at high risk for the co-
ronavirus or who may have been
exposed, the county has more
than 200 hotel rooms “so we can
have those individuals out of the
heat and away from the congre-
gate living,” he said.
In New Orleans, Sarah Bab-
cock, deputy director of policy and
emergency preparedness for the
city’s health department, said the
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ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
‘An overnight low of 81
is not as sexy as an
afternoon high of 106
but in a lot of ways it can
be more damaging,
more expensive, more
influential.’
DEKE ARNDT, chief of the monitoring
section for NOAA’s National Centers
for Environmental Information
city issued warnings, along with
tips on staying cool, with special
attention to those without air-con-
ditioning or who were experienc-
ing a financial squeeze. “A lot of
people worry about running air-
conditioning because of the cost,”
she said.
The city advises residents who
can’t run their air-conditioners all
day to run them at night, to keep
costs down and to help their bod-
ies recover from the heat of the
day. “People do best if they are
able to cool down at night,” she
said. Opening cooling centers is
difficult, she said, since “libraries,
rec centers and pools are closed
down for the moment” because
the virus case count is rising. And
of course, with a New Orleans
summer can come hurricanes,
rains that bring street flooding
and more. “Any day that we’re
working with multiple emergen-
cies is a difficult one,” she said.
Deke Arndt, chief of the moni-
toring section for NOAA’s Na-
tional Centers for Environmental
Information, said that the day’s
highest temperature is not neces-
sarily the most dangerous ele-
ment of the heat waves. “An
overnight low of 81 is not as sexy
as an afternoon high of 106 but in a
lot of ways it can be more damag-
ing, more expensive, more influ-
ential,” in disrupting people’s lives
and health. “Folks who don’t have
A.C., that overnight heat, they
don’t get a chance for their bodies
to reset,” he said. “It’s really tax-
ing.”
Mr. Lara, the Austin official,
said that relief, at least for his city,
was on the way, for now. “We’re
supposed to get a nice, breezy cold
front to cool us down to the high
90s by the end of the week,” he
said, “Which is more normal for
this time of year.”
Punishing Weather in Siberia
That Didn’t Have to Happen
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
This year’s startling heat across
much of Siberia would have been
all but impossible without human
influence on climate change, re-
searchers have concluded.
The scientists looked at two re-
cent examples of exceptional
heating in Siberia, one long-term
and the other more brief. The first
was the overall rise in tempera-
ture across the region from Janu-
ary to June, which was more than
nine degrees Fahrenheit above
average temperatures recorded
between 1951 and 1980. The sec-
ond was the astonishing spike on
June 20 that put temperatures at
the Russian town of Verkhoyansk
at a reported 100.4 degrees, which
the Russian Meteorological Serv-
ice said is a record for tempera-
tures anywhere north of the Arctic
Circle.
In their analysis, the scientists
said climate change made the pro-
longed heat event 600 times as
likely to occur as it would be with-
out climate change. In a state-
ment, Andrew Ciavarella, the lead
author of the research and senior
detection and attribution scientist
at the Met Office, the national me-
teorological service for Britain,
called the result “truly stagger-
ing.”
For all practical purposes, said
Friederike Otto, acting director of
the Environmental Change Insti-
tute at the University of Oxford
and an author of the paper, “you
would not have gotten an event
like this without climate change.”
In a world without climate
change, the prolonged Siberian
heat wave would only occur less
than once every 80,000 years,
“which is not anything you reckon
with or are expecting to see in
anyone’s lifetime,” Dr. Otto said.
Even under current climate condi-
tions, such prolonged warming
could only be expected to recur
less than once every 130 years.
The research, conducted by sci-
entists from in Germany, the
Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland
and Britain, employs the tech-
niques of the emerging field of
rapid attribution science, which
involves computer models and
rich troves of data to determine
how much of a weather phenom-
enon may have been caused by
human activities that have gener-
ated planet-warming greenhouse
gases. The scientific initiative,
known as World Weather Attribu-
tion, has found human finger-
prints on disasters like Australia’s
brush fires and the drenching
rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.
The Siberia research has not
yet been submitted for peer re-
view.
100.4° The remains of a forest fire in the Yakutia region of Siberia
in June. Warmer summers have made such fires more frequent.
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TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The heat in Siberia has
produced conditions both hellish
and bizarre, with spreading wild-
fires, ravening mosquitoes, and
destabilized permafrost that
caused infrastructure damage in-
cluding a burst tank that released
about 140,000 barrels of diesel into
a river. The fires have put more
greenhouse gases into the atmos-
phere than in any other month in
18 years of data collection, accord-
ing to one report.
Zeke Hausfather, a climate sci-
entist with the Breakthrough In-
stitute who was not involved with
the paper, said that the new re-
search underscores the changes
in the frequency of extreme
weather events. “What was a one-
in-100-year event a century ago,
would be a one-in-20- or a one-
in-10-year event now,” he said.
While the Siberian heat is unusual
today, if high greenhouse gas
emissions persist, by the end of
the century this year’s horror
story could be “an average sum-
mer in Siberia,” he said.
Without climate change, the
temperatures during the hot spell
would have been at least 2 de-
grees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahr-
enheit, cooler if it had occurred in
1900 instead of today. By 2050, the
researchers said, the temperature
increase in the Siberian region
since 1900 could be between 4.15
and 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
As for the June 20 spike at
Verkhoyansk, the researchers
noted that it is hard to quantify the
influence of climate change with
as much statistical confidence as
the effect on long-duration heat-
ing. The high one-day tempera-
ture, the scientists said, was made
many thousands of times more
likely than such an event would be
without climate change.
In a briefing with reporters on
Tuesday about the study, Sarah F.
Kew of the Royal Netherlands Me-
teorological Institute said that the
Siberia findings are “among the
strongest results of any attribu-
tion study so far.”
She added that without strong
action against climate change,
“we have little time to stabilize
global warming” at the levels
called for in the Paris accord, lim-
iting the temperature rise to two
degrees Celsius since the begin-
ning of the industrial age.
In his statement, Dr. Ciavarella
said, “This research is further evi-
dence of the extreme tempera-
tures we can expect to see more
frequently around the world in a
warming global climate. Impor-
tantly, an increasing frequency of
these extreme heat events can be
moderated by reducing green-
house gas emissions.”
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Poorer New Yorkers Yearn for a Grassy Oasis
By WINNIE HU
and NATE SCHWEBER
Governors Island, a 172-acre oa-
sis in the middle of New York Har-
bor, has become one of New York’s
City’s most popular summer play-
grounds, with hammocks, biking
and spectacular water views.
But the island’s managers want
it to be a greater resource for
those who need it the most, espe-
cially during the pandemic — poor
and nonwhite New Yorkers who
often lack parks in their neighbor-
hoods.
So the island, which reopened
on Wednesday, has for the first
time adopted a ticketing system
aimed at prioritizing those park-
goers while sharply reducing the
number of overall visitors to en-
sure social distancing.
“Our goal this year is really to
make sure New Yorkers in need
are able to access the island,” said
Clare Newman, the president and
chief executive of the Trust for
Governors Island, which man-
ages the park.
The coronavirus pandemic,
which has hit the poor and people
of color the hardest, has laid bare
another glaring inequity: park ac-
cess.
In a city with some of the most
famous green spaces in the world,
many low-income New Yorkers
live in virtual park deserts and are
largely shut out of a sprawling net-
work of more than 2,300 parks
that has become more important
than ever for physical and mental
well-being.
Many Black and Hispanic fam-
ilies squeezed into cramped apart-
ments in the South Bronx, one of
the poorest sections of the city,
have to fight for every bit of green
space, while less than five miles
away, residents of the affluent Up-
per West Side of Manhattan have
both the lawns and ball fields in
the 840-acre Central Park, and the
playgrounds, dog runs and water-
front views in the 310-acre River-
side Park.
At the height of the pandemic,
more than 1.1 million New Yorkers
did not have access to any park
within a 10-minute walk of where
they lived, according to an analy-
sis by the Trust for Public Land, a
conservation group that helps cre-
ate public parks across the coun-
try. Many of those without access
were in densely packed and low-
income Black and Hispanic neigh-
borhoods outside Manhattan.
Nearly all these New Yorkers
lost the only outdoor space they
had when the city shut down play-
grounds and small recreation ar-
eas to prevent the virus from
spreading. Since then, play-
grounds have officially reopened,
but many parents said they had
stayed away because of crowding.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has ex-
posed flaws in the park system
that I don’t think we understood,”
said Adrian Benepe, a senior vice
president for the Trust for Public
Land and a former city parks com-
missioner. “Not all parks are cre-
ated equal. Small parks do not
have room for lots of people to ex-
ercise and socially distance.”
Many large parks are heavily
used by nonwhite New Yorkers.
But across the city, parks in poor
and nonwhite neighborhoods are
smaller and have to serve far
more people than in wealthy
neighborhoods. The average park
size is 6.4 acres in poor neighbor-
hoods, compared with 14 acres in
wealthy neighborhoods, accord-
ing to an analysis by the Trust for
Public Land.
Similarly, the average park size
is 7.9 acres in predominantly
Black neighborhoods, compared
with 29.8 acres in predominantly
white neighborhoods.
For Michel Cerisier, a Haitian
immigrant, the closest thing his
family had to a park during the
pandemic was a patch of sidewalk
in front of their house in a predom-
inantly Black area of the Flatlands
neighborhood in Brooklyn.
His daughter, Brianna, 6, usu-
ally plays in Prospect Park three
miles away, but he worried that
taking two buses to get there
would expose them to the virus. “I
don’t go to the park at all,” said Mr.
Cerisier, 56, who works as a taxi
driver. “It’s tough for the kids.
Really tough.”
City officials said they had sig-
nificantly expanded access to
parks in recent years, refurbish-
ing small parks and remaking
larger parks into community an-
chors in the South Bronx;
Tackling an inequity
in access, large parks
try to attract people
from packed areas.
Brownsville, Brooklyn; and other
low-income neighborhoods. They
have added parks to public hous-
ing complexes and pressed more
schoolyards into service as neigh-
borhood parks.
During the pandemic, the city
also opened 67 miles of streets for
walking and biking. “To protect
health and safety, we had to tem-
porarily shut down playgrounds
and other park amenities, but we
also opened up miles of streets
across the city for pedestrians to
enjoy, with a focus on neighbor-
hoods that did not have access to
open space,” said Jane Meyer, a
spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de
Blasio.
A stretch along 34th Avenue in
Jackson Heights, Queens, now
serves the overflow crowd from a
busy park. “This open street has
been such a wonderful respite for
the neighborhood,” said Martha
Lopez Gilpin, 60, an actress who
walks there every day.
Still, some park advocates said
many park-starved neighbor-
hoods were left out of the city’s
open streets program. Adam
Ganser, the executive director of
New Yorkers for Parks, said that
while he supported the open
streets, “they were not equitably
distributed based on need.”
City officials said more recently,
HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
open streets have been placed in
neighborhoods with high rates of
the virus and few parks.
Even though New York City’s
network of parks is one of the
country’s largest, it was created
piecemeal as real estate develop-
ers built up neighborhoods, said
Mr. Benepe, the former parks
commissioner.
The result, he said, is some of
the city’s most crowded neighbor-
hoods were left with no parks or
only pocket-size parks and play-
grounds squeezed between build-
ings. Small parks often lack the
amenities found in larger parks,
like athletic fields, jogging and
biking paths, and natural areas
like woodlands.
And many small neighborhood
parks have been neglected for
decades, while Central Park and
other well-known parks have con-
servancies that help pay for their
operations and upkeep.
Tina Omoighe, a union supervi-
sor in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and
her sister recently tried to have
lunch at Betsy Head Park near
their home, only to find part of it
closed for construction. They
ended up at a small playground
over a mile away. “We didn’t have
other options,” she said. “What
are we supposed to do?”
In the South Bronx, Rick Fran-
cis, 58, said he had to watch three
of his eight grandchildren play on
the concrete pavement because
there was no good, big park
nearby. “You’re kind of just stuck
walking around the neighbor-
hood,” he said.
Leaders of some of the city’s
signature parks have acknowl-
edged the inequities in park ac-
cess. And some park leaders have
stepped up their efforts to make
large parks more accessible to
poor and minority visitors.
Prospect Park, a 585-acre oasis,
is building two new entrances to
connect directly with lower-in-
come communities along its east-
ern edge, including Flatbush and
Crown Heights.
“As neighborhoods change and
there’s more gentrification, I think
it’s imperative that we make sure
the park continues to feel open
and accessible to all,” said Sue
Donoghue, the park administra-
tor and president of the Prospect
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With outdoor space
crucial for physical
and mental health
during the pandemic,
Governors Island,
top and above, has a
new ticketing system
that prioritizes un-
derserved residents.
At playgrounds in
Brownsville, Brook-
lyn, left, and else-
where, social distanc-
ing can be difficult.
Park Alliance, the park’s conser-
vancy.
The Riverside Park Conser-
vancy has replaced its annual
spring gala with a two-month
fund-raising campaign for pro-
grams and activities in the north
end of the park, which draws
nearby residents of lower-income
communities, including Harlem
and Washington Heights. The
park also recently hired an out-
reach coordinator to work with
those communities.
Farther south, Hudson River
Park runs free science and tech-
nology camps — which have gone
virtual this summer — for chil-
dren from two public housing
projects.
Governors Island has a long
working history as a training
ground for soldiers, a hospital site
for yellow fever and a Coast Guard
base. Since opening as a park in
2005, it has offered attractions in-
cluding the city’s longest slide, at
57 feet, down a hillside. It has also
hosted Jazz Age lawn parties and
even luxury overnight glamping
in Frette robes.
Last year, the park had about
800,000 visitors, up from 8,000
when it opened.
Though the island draws people
from all over the city, a significant
percentage comes from affluent
neighborhoods, including Brook-
lyn Heights and Park Slope in
Brooklyn, and Lincoln Square and
the Upper West Side in Manhat-
tan, according to recent surveys.
The new ticket system will limit
the ferries to 5,000 people per day
on weekends, or roughly half the
typical ridership. “The pinch point
is the ferry,” Ms. Newman said.
“Once you get to the island, it’s a
huge amount of open space.”
Ferry tickets, which cost $3, are
being made free to public housing
residents and some community
organizations. The ferry stop to
the island from Brooklyn has also
been moved from Brooklyn
Bridge Park to Red Hook, which is
home to one of the city’s largest
public housing complexes.
“The pandemic has, for us, re-
ally raised an urgency to redouble
our efforts to make sure we reach
disadvantaged New Yorkers,’’ Ms.
Newman said, “and New Yorkers
with less access to green space.”
Clash Over Environment
Defines Presidential Race
From Page A1
The president, in contrast, is
pretty much where he has been
for more than a decade: intermit-
tently acknowledging global
warming and calling it a hoax;
making spurious accusations that
windmills cause cancer, energy ef-
ficient appliances are “worthless”
and zero-emissions buildings “ba-
sically have no windows.” At ev-
ery turn and on every regulatory
decision, the administration em-
braces business over envi-
ronmental interests.
“Biden wants to massively re-
regulate the energy economy, re-
join the Paris climate accord,
which would kill our energy to-
tally, you would have to close 25
percent of your businesses and
kill oil and gas development,” Mr.
Trump said on Wednesday as he
announced a “top to bottom over-
haul” of the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act, a bedrock
environmental law since its pas-
sage in 1969. He offered no evi-
dence to back up his statistics.
“When I think about climate
change,” Mr. Biden said on Tues-
day as he outlined his plan, “the
word I think of is ‘jobs,’ good-pay-
ing union jobs that will put Ameri-
cans to work, making the air
cleaner for our kids to breathe, re-
storing our crumbling roads, and
bridges and ports.”
The events captured the two
candidates’ radically different be-
liefs about the global threat of the
planet’s warming, and offered a
glimpse of how they would lead a
nation confronting a climate crisis
over the next four years. For Mr.
Trump, tackling global warming is
a threat to the economy. For Mr.
Biden, it’s an opportunity.
“They are polar opposites on al-
most everything to do with the en-
vironment but particularly cli-
mate change,” said Christine Todd
Whitman, the former Republican
governor of New Jersey and ad-
ministrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency under George
W. Bush.
Mr. Biden’s plan would spend $2
trillion over four years to put the
United States on an “irreversible
path” to net-zero emissions of
planet-warming gases before
2050, meaning that carbon diox-
ide and other pollutants would be
completely eliminated or offset by
removal technology.
He called for clean energy
standards to achieve a carbon-
free power sector by 2035; the en-
ergy efficiency upgrade of four
million buildings in four years;
and the construction of 500,000
electric-vehicle charging stations.
He also vowed to bring the United
States back into the Paris Agree-
ment, reinstate climate regula-
tions that Mr. Trump has repealed
and put more restrictions on
things like vehicle emissions.
Mr. Trump has already moved
to roll back virtually every effort
by the federal government under
President Barack Obama to com-
bat climate change, from restrict-
ing emissions from power plants
and vehicles to curbing methane
from the oil and gas sector. He
even rescinded an Obama-era ex-
ecutive order that urged federal
agencies to take into account cli-
mate change and sea-level rise
when rebuilding infrastructure.
The Trump administration’s lat-
est overhaul to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act highlighted
their differences still more.
The changes finalized on
Wednesday include a limit of two
years to conduct exhaustive envi-
ronmental reviews of infrastruc-
ture projects. They also revoked a
requirement that agencies con-
Corrections
FRONT PAGE
An article on Monday about oil
and gas companies that are head-
ing toward bankruptcy misidenti-
fied the scientific agency where
Claus Zehner works. It is the
European Space Agency, not the
SRON Netherlands Institute for
Space Research.
INTERNATIONAL
An article on Wednesday about a
new Cold War between the United
States and China misstated the
name of the group that James A.
Lewis writes for. It is the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies, not the Center for Stra-
tegic Studies.
An article on Saturday about a
decree that will allow the Hagia
Sophia to operate as a mosque
misstated Cevdet Yilmaz’s role in
the Justice and Development
Party. He is the party’s deputy
chairman responsible for foreign
affairs, not its spokesman.
BUSINESS
An article on Wednesday about
the effect of the latest surge in
coronavirus cases on automakers
described incorrectly General
Motors’ policy on masks, social
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sider the cumulative environmen-
tal effects of projects, like their
contribution to climate change.
Mr. Trump said the current
lengthy process “has cost of tril-
lions of dollars over the years for
our country and delays like you
wouldn’t believe.”
In past campaigns, candidates
shied away from bold proposals on
the environment, especially on cli-
mate change, but Patrick Murray,
director of the Monmouth Univer-
sity Polling Institute, said Mr. Bi-
den has more political space to
pursue his agenda amid the na-
tion’s economic and public health
crises. “With the pandemic shak-
ing up the core of people’s lives,
they are much less worried about
bold and radical change right
now,” he said, “because that’s
what they want in some way.”
Those political dynamics have
freed Mr. Biden to pursue policies
that his allies hope will electrify
younger, more liberal voters who
were skeptical of him during the
Democratic primaries, without
automatically alienating more
moderate voters, Mr. Murray said.
Mr. Biden’s allies also see politi-
cal risks, should he be perceived
as moving too far left on issues like
natural gas hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, a practice tied to
many jobs in states like Pennsyl-
vania. Unlike many of his primary
opponents, he does not support a
total ban on fracking. “Fracking is
not going to be on the chopping
block,” he said in an interview last
week with WNEP-TV, an ABC af-
filiate serving Northeastern and
Central Pennsylvania.
In a call with reporters on Tues-
day, Biden campaign officials
stressed that his long-held view on
the issue stands: “No new frack-
ing on federal lands.”
Mr. Trump is betting that his un-
compromising, unchanging
stands will appeal to business-
minded voters and people who
distrust government. But there is
a risk to him, too.
Carlos Curbelo, a former Re-
publican congressman from Flor-
ida who has championed a carbon
tax to combat climate change, said
he believes Mr. Trump’s disregard
for the issue and his handling of
the coronavirus are becoming
linked to part of “the broader char-
acter question.”
Such character questions res-
onate with “not just young voters
who have rejected his stance on
climate for quite some time but
also middle-aged and older voters
who now in the context of Covid
prioritize leaders who are good
crisis managers,” he said.
Mr. Biden’s campaign criticized
the president’s gutting of the envi-
ronmental policy act as a way to
distract from Mr. Trump’s failure
to deliver an infrastructure plan.
In some ways, the climate de-
bate reflects the broader realign-
ment in both parties that defined
the 2016 race: working-class white
voters, especially in rural areas,
have moved farther from their un-
ion Democratic roots to embrace
Mr. Trump and his energy policies.
Educated, affluent white subur-
ban voters, once staunchly Repub-
lican, drift toward the Democrats
and appear increasingly open to
ambitious efforts to combat cli-
mate change.
Scientists said the next four
years could be critical to whether
greenhouse gas emissions from
the United States rise or fall. “We
are on a trajectory to a hotter plan-
et,” said Waleed Abdalati, director
of the Cooperative Institute for Re-
search in Environmental Sciences
at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden,
he said, “represent two very diver-
gent paths.”
distancing and frequent hand-
washing at its plants. Those prac-
tices are required by the com-
pany, not simply encouraged.
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OBITUARIES
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South African activist and poet
Zindziswa Mandela misstated her
husband’s surname and omitted
the name of another survivor. He
is Molapo Motlhajwa, not Motl-
hawa. And in addition to the
survivors named, she is survived
by a half sister, Makaziwe Man-
dela-Amuah.
An obituary on Friday about Ola
Mae Spinks, who helped organize
an archive of interviews with
former slaves, misstated how old
she was when her family left
Louisiana for the all-Black town
of Vernon, Okla. She was 7 or 8,
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Trump Replaces Campaign Manager in a Bid to Regain His Footing
By MAGGIE HABERMAN
President Trump on Wednes-
day shook up his re-election team
with less than four months until
November’s vote, replacing his
campaign manager, Brad
Parscale, in an acknowledgment
of the president’s diminished
standing in nearly all public and
private polling.
Mr. Parscale, who was named
campaign manager unusually
early, in February 2018, will step
out of the job and Bill Stepien, the
deputy campaign manager and a
veteran political operative, will
take over. Mr. Parscale will stay on
with the campaign, becoming a
senior adviser for data and digital
operations.
The move comes as Mr. Trump’s
advantages as an incumbent pres-
ident have eroded in the face of a
pandemic that has killed over
137,000 Americans and battered
the nation’s economy — once Mr.
Trump’s most powerful argument
for re-election. The president has
been heavily criticized for his han-
dling of the coronavirus and the
halting federal response to it, and
Mr. Trump’s own public com-
ments have deepened the hole in
which he finds himself in national
and battleground state polling.
Several new polls released
Wednesday showed Mr. Trump
trailing the presumptive Demo-
cratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden
Jr., by double digits, and in one of
them, 62 percent of respondents
said they believed Mr. Trump was
“hurting rather than helping” ef-
G.O.P. Political Newcomer in Alabama Puts President at Center of a Senate Race
By ELAINA PLOTT
and JEREMY W. PETERS
MOBILE, Ala. — On Tuesday
evening, addressing supporters
and the news media after his run-
away victory in the Alabama Sen-
ate Republican primary, Tommy
Tuberville wasted no time in piv-
oting toward his general-election
opponent this fall, Senator Doug
Jones. In Mr. Jones’s Alabama, he
said, “You don’t work for the
United States of America — you
spend your first three years trying
to impeach the best president
we’ve ever had. And he voted to
impeach him!”
As for how Mr. Tuberville will
try to frame the race against the
Democratic incumbent in the
months to come, his message is
unlikely to get more complicated
than that.
Mr. Tuberville succeeded in his
primary campaign against Jeff
Sessions in large part by keeping
the race simple. His strategy be-
gan and ended with President
Trump, arguing in a bevy of televi-
sion ads that a vote for his oppo-
nent was a vote against the presi-
dent. And according to early con-
A Democrat holds a
sizable advantage in
fund-raising.
versations with his campaign
staff, Mr. Tuberville plans to keep
Mr. Trump front and center in the
general election, reminding vot-
ers of moments like Mr. Jones’s
vote against Brett M. Kavanaugh,
Mr. Trump’s nominee to the Su-
preme Court, in 2018, and his more
recent vote against the president
during his impeachment trial.
But one aide for Mr. Tuberville,
speaking on the condition of ano-
nymity, added the caveat that the
campaign had yet to hold many
meetings about its strategy
against Mr. Jones. As with most
races against Democrats in Ala-
bama, the aide joked, there wasn’t
a whole lot to talk about.
But Mr. Jones has managed to
Twitter Accounts of Biden, Gates, Obama, and Other Famous Americans Are Hacked
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North Korea, has been docu-
mented to have used Bitcoin ex-
tensively in the past. But its na-
ture — “effective, but also ama-
teurish” in the words of one senior
American intelligence official —
led American intelligence agen-
cies to an initial assessment that
this was most likely the work of an
individual hacker, not a state.
Had it been Russia, China,
North Korea or Iran, said the offi-
cial, who would not speak on the
record because they were not au-
thorized to discuss an intelligence
investigation, the effort would
have probably focused on trying
to trigger stock market havoc, or
perhaps the issuance of political
pronouncements in the name of
Mr. Biden or other targets.
Officials also noted that the
breach did not affect the account
of one of the most watched and
powerful users of Twitter: Presi-
dent Trump. Mr. Trump’s account
is under a special kind of lock-and-
key after past incidents, the offi-
cial noted.
Security experts said that the
forts to combat the pandemic.
“I am pleased to announce that
Bill Stepien has been promoted to
the role of Trump campaign man-
ager,” Mr. Trump said in a state-
ment. “Brad Parscale, who has
been with me for a very long time
and has led our tremendous dig-
ital and data strategies, will re-
main in that role, while being a
senior advisor to the campaign.
Both were heavily involved in our
historic 2016 win, and I look for-
ward to having a big and very im-
portant second win together.”
Mr. Trump is often described as
his own campaign manager, and
his political operation, which is
overseen by Jared Kushner, his
son-in-law and a senior White
House adviser, has been tailored
to his desires.
In recent weeks, as the Trump
team has tried to regain its foot-
ing, Mr. Trump brought back Ja-
son Miller, a communications and
political strategist who was a key
figure on his 2016 campaign. The
president also elevated Mr.
Stepien, who had been a top advis-
er, to deputy campaign manager.
Mr. Stepien maintains a low pro-
file, which Mr. Trump prefers, and
something Mr. Parscale did not
do.
Mr. Miller and Mr. Stepien have
been working closely with an-
other 2016 veteran, Hope Hicks, a
senior adviser to Mr. Trump in the
White House who handles his
schedule. Another veteran of 2016
whom Mr. Trump likes, Susie
Wiles, a Florida-based Republican
operative, was recently brought
navigate the in-between realm
where he is both a loyal Democrat
and someone who has no prob-
lems boasting that working with
Republicans and the president is
often in Alabama’s interest. In an
interview on Wednesday, he
name-dropped the state’s senior
senator, Richard Shelby, as some-
one whose record of representing
Alabama in Washington he has
tried to emulate, and pointed to
the 17 bills he sponsored that Mr.
Trump has signed into law.
“I have the luxury of telling peo-
ple in Alabama, ‘Look, I’m going
to be for President Trump on is-
sues that are good for Alabama,
and I’ve done that,’ ” Mr. Jones
said “But on the other hand, I’m
going to speak out when he’s do-
ing things that are not good for
Alabama.”
And he said he was betting that
voters would appreciate his inde-
pendence from the president,
which is not something they can
expect from Mr. Tuberville.
Even in Alabama, a deeply con-
servative state where Mr. Trump
has an approval rating that is reg-
ularly the highest of any state
among registered voters, a min-
imalist campaign strategy could
undermine even a heavily favored
Republican candidate.
For many Republicans here, the
wounds of the last Senate race, in
2017 — in which the Republican
Roy S. Moore lost a special elec-
tion, to replace Mr. Sessions, to
Mr. Jones after being accused of
molesting underage girls — are
still fresh. And while virtually ev-
ery Alabama Republican believes
the party will prevail in Novem-
ber, some fear that Mr. Tuberville,
a former Auburn University foot-
ball coach who has never held
elected office, is vulnerable to the
kind of scrutiny that could make
the path more difficult.
If he receives that sort of atten-
tion, “then Doug Jones is going to
get back in office,” predicted Cody
Phillips, a member of the Republi-
can Executive Committee for
Baldwin County, east of Mobile.
“Because the Democratic Party is
going to attack him on all these is-
sues.”
Those issues include questions
about Mr. Tuberville’s time at the
wide-ranging attacks hinted that
the problem was caused by a secu-
rity flaw in Twitter’s service, not
by lax security measures used by
the people who were targeted.
Alex Stamos, director of the Stan-
ford Internet Observatory and the
former chief security officer at
Facebook, said one of the leading
theories among researchers was
that the hacker, or hackers, had
obtained the encryption keys to
the system, which enabled them
to essentially imitate or steal the
“tokens” that grant access to indi-
vidual accounts.
There were a range of other the-
ories, he said, but all suggested
that the attackers got inside Twit-
ter’s system, rather than stealing
the passwords of individual users.
One American official called that a
“scary possibility” in a world
where national leaders, some-
times imitating Mr. Trump’s tech-
niques, have adopted Twitter as a
primary source of unfiltered com-
munications.
“It could have been much
worse. We got lucky that this is
what they decided to do with their
power,” Mr. Stamos said.
The hacker or hackers made
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President Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, above in 2019, faced scrutiny over the money
his operation was making, and tensions were inflamed after the letdown of a “reboot” rally in Tulsa.
back to the campaign.
A person familiar with the plan-
ning said there might still be an-
other addition to the campaign,
such as a campaign chairman.
Mr. Kushner, in a brief inter-
view, described both Mr. Parscale
and Mr. Stepien — both of whom
he hired — as key pieces of the
2016 campaign and the current
one.
Tommy Tuberville, above, a former Auburn football coach, aims
to unseat Senator Doug Jones, the Democratic incumbent.
helm of a hedge fund that ended in
charges of financial fraud. Mr. Tu-
berville’s partner in the venture
was sentenced to 10 years in pris-
on; accused of fraud as well, Mr.
Tuberville reached a private set-
tlement with investors in 2013, the
details of which have not been
made public.
But Terry Lathan, the chair of
the Alabama Republican Party,
said that one factor would still mo-
some rookie errors. Mr. Stamos
said that because the attackers
had sent identical messages from
the compromised accounts, they
were easy to detect and delete.
The decision to ask for money
through Bitcoin, he added,
showed that the attackers were
most likely unable or unwilling to
launder money or use their access
for a more sophisticated scam.
The messages were a version of
a long-running scam in which
hackers pose as public figures on
Twitter, and promise to match or
even triple any funds that are sent
to their Bitcoin wallets. But the at-
tacks Wednesday were the first
time that the real accounts of pub-
lic figures were used in such a
scam.
Bitcoin is a popular vehicle for
this type of scam because once a
victim sends money, the design of
Bitcoin, with no institution in
charge, makes it essentially im-
possible to recover the funds.
By Wednesday evening, the Bit-
coin wallets promoted in the
tweets had received over 300
transactions and Bitcoin worth
over $100,000, according to web-
sites that track Bitcoin’s public
Among the campaign compo-
nents that Mr. Parscale set up was
the digital fund-raising apparatus,
which gave the president a cush-
ion over the last few months,
when in-person, high-dollar
events were impossible to hold be-
cause of the virus.
But for over a year, Mr. Parscale
has been the focus of intense scru-
tiny and news coverage about his
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tivate voters above all else.
“It’s pretty simple, actually,”
Ms. Lathan said. “Doug Jones
only votes with the president 36
percent of the time.”
Mr. Tuberville was able to avoid
on-the-spot questions about the
hedge fund — about most things,
really — throughout the primary
race. He rarely held public events
or agreed to interviews with re-
porters, instead focusing his cam-
ledger of transactions, which is
known as the blockchain.
Twitter initially handled the at-
tacks by taking down the offend-
ing tweets. A spokesman for the
Biden campaign said that Twitter
had removed the tweet promoting
the scam and locked down Mr. Bi-
den’s account.
But the hackers kept control of
many of the accounts, such as
those of Mr. Musk and Mr. West,
and sent out new messages as
soon as the old ones were taken
down.
As Twitter locked down verified
accounts in an attempt to stop the
attack, the company also ham-
pered its function as a real-time
news service. Derrick Snyder, a
meteorologist in Kentucky, said in
a series of tweets that the National
Weather Service could not issue
warnings about a tornado in Illi-
nois because its account, one that
Twitter had verified, was shut
down.
“What a mess,” Mr. Snyder
wrote. “There is a tornado warn-
ing in effect.”
Twitter has fallen victim to
breaches before. Last August,
hackers compromised the ac-
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operation and whether he was
making an outsize amount of
money from the campaign. Those
articles have focused attention on
his purchases of property and
cars in Florida, where he lives,
and became a source of irritation
for the president, who saw them
as a distraction.
Mr. Parscale was also visible in
ways that campaign managers
paign on substantial television ad
buys that reiterated his endorse-
ment from Mr. Trump. The Tu-
berville aide said the campaign
would most likely do more news
media and public appearances
during the general election, but
said it would largely depend on
whether internal polling sug-
gested they were necessary.
If Mr. Tuberville’s campaign is
still lingering in the afterglow of
Tuesday’s victory, Mr. Jones and
the Alabama Democratic Party
have hit the ground running. For
Mr. Tuberville’s first morning as
the Republican nominee, the sena-
tor unleashed a combative Twitter
burst, and the state party let loose
a torrent of criticism directed at
Mr. Tuberville’s political positions
and (highly successful, on the
whole) football record.
The morning outburst quickly
sent the Alabama Democrats’
Twitter account trending nation-
ally; the group tried to capitalize
on the popularity of its tweets by
including links to its ActBlue fund-
raising page.
Many Democrats and progres-
sive activists celebrated Mr.
Jones’s successful 2017 campaign
as a teachable moment for the
party. But Mr. Jones probably
would not have become the first
Democrat elected to the Senate
from Alabama in a generation
were it not for a unique turn of
events, above all the fact that
many Republicans found his op-
ponent, Mr. Moore, so distasteful
that they voted for write-in candi-
dates instead.
And Ms. Lathan, the Alabama
Republican chair, was quick to
note that an overwhelming num-
ber of the state’s Republicans sim-
ply hadn’t voted in the election at
all.
“If our voters show back up” in
November, she said, “we’re un-
stoppable.” (Mr. Jones, in the in-
terview, noted that in fact Republi-
cans did not show up on Tuesday,
when statewide turnout did not
even reach 20 percent of regis-
tered voters.)
Mr. Jones’s considerable finan-
cial advantage in this year’s race
is one of the brightest spots for his
campaign, and it has allowed him
to get in front of the public early
count of Twitter’s chief executive,
Jack Dorsey, and posted racist
messages and bomb threats. Mr.
Dorsey’s account was taken over
after hackers transferred his
phone number to a new SIM card,
Celebrities’ followers
receive a fake offer to
double their money.
which stores a phone’s number.
The practice, known as SIM-
swapping, allowed hackers to
tweet from Mr. Dorsey’s account.
In 2017, a rogue worker at the
company used their access to
Twitter’s systems to briefly delete
President Trump’s Twitter ac-
count. The account was restored
within minutes, but the incident
raised questions about Twitter’s
security as it serves as a mega-
phone for politicians and celebri-
ties.
And in 2010, Twitter settled a
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typically aren’t, appearing in a
campaign ad and having his name
listed on fund-raising events.
The president at times berated
Mr. Parscale over real and per-
ceived transgressions, sometimes
screaming at him and once threat-
ening to sue him.
Mr. Parscale, who was hand-
picked by Mr. Kushner and who is
close to the Trump family, lasted
longer in the job than most of the
people who led various iterations
of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
And campaign aides emphasized
that Mr. Parscale was being asked
to stay on, unlike others who have
been let go from the Trump orbit.
But Mr. Parscale has no back-
ground in politics, and he suffered
something of a mortal wound in
the role three weeks ago when a
much-hyped rally in Tulsa, Okla.,
to “reboot” Mr. Trump’s campaign
was sparsely attended. After
boasting of nearly one million
ticket requests, just over 6,000
people attended the June 20
event, an embarrassment that Mr.
Trump could not let go of.
The campaign changes had
been settled on over the last two
days and were set to be an-
nounced on Thursday morning at
a 10 a.m. staff meeting, but word of
the moves began reaching report-
ers on Wednesday evening. Mr.
Parscale was said to have been
caught by surprise, and learned of
them only a short time before they
became public.
Other senior staff members
were also caught by surprise.
with positive ads, which the Re-
publicans have left unanswered.
In one such ad, Mr. Jones
speaks tenderly about how
George Floyd “cried for his
mama” as the police suffocated
him in Minneapolis. “As we wit-
nessed his death together,” Mr.
Jones says, looking into the cam-
era, “the world changed.”
The Jones campaign appears to
have enough money to keep the
television ads coming. On
Wednesday it said it had raised
$2.7 million from the beginning of
April through the end of June, and
had $8.8 million in cash on hand.
The Tuberville campaign, by com-
parison, had just $448,000 on
hand, according to the most re-
cent campaign report it filed, at
the end of June.
Mr. Jones has been a prodigious
fund-raiser, bringing in more than
$18 million over all, among the
highest of any Democrat running
for Senate this year. That should
help cushion him in the likely
event that the Democratic Party
and its Senate campaign arm, un-
der the guidance of Senator Chuck
Schumer of New York, devote few
resources to Alabama, choosing
instead to boost candidates in
states where Mr. Trump is less
popular.
Regardless of Mr. Jones’s
prospects or national support, po-
litical observers in the state ex-
pect the race will heat up quickly,
as Mr. Jones begins to aim his ad-
vertising efforts at his newly
anointed general election oppo-
nent’s scant experience in politics,
shallow ties to the state and trou-
bled business record.
Palmer Hamilton, a lawyer in
Mobile who has supported Ala-
bama Republicans like Mr. Shelby
and Mr. Sessions, recalled in an in-
terview how Howell Heflin, the
last Democrat to represent the
state in the Senate before Mr.
Jones, once described Alabama’s
merciless brand of politics.
“Heflin used to say, ‘Politics in
Alabama is dirty business.’ Pause.
‘When it’s done properly,’ ” Mr.
Hamilton said. “We have a history
of hardball politics. Doug and his
people understand that. And they
don’t plan to go soft on Tuberville.”
complaint brought by the Federal
Trade Commission, in which the
regulator claimed that the com-
pany did not do enough to protect
users’ personal information. The
F.T.C. charged that “serious
lapses” in Twitter’s security al-
lowed hackers to take control of
company systems and send out
phony tweets from high-profile ac-
counts, including Mr. Obama’s. As
part of the settlement, Twitter
agreed to undergo security audits
for 10 years.
On Wednesday evening, Sena-
tor Josh Hawley, a Republican
from Missouri, wrote a letter to
Mr. Dorsey asking for information
on the attack, including how many
users were compromised.
Shares in the social media com-
pany fell 3 percent in after-hours
trading.
Cybersecurity experts said the
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attack showed how vulnerable so-
cial media remains to attacks.
“This demonstrates a real risk
for the elections,” Mr. Stamos said.
“Twitter has become the most im-
portant platform when it comes to
discussion among political elites,
and it has real vulnerabilities.”
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Struggle for Racial Justice Evidence and Emergence
Body Camera Video Provides a Devastating Account of the Floyd Killing
This article is by Tim Arango,
Matt Furber and Nicholas Bogel-
Burroughs.
MINNEAPOLIS — Almost
from the moment George Floyd
encountered the police on May 25,
with a gun pointed at him, he ap-
peared terrified and emotionally
distraught, according to police
camera footage that was newly
made available for viewing
Wednesday at a courthouse in
downtown Minneapolis.
Mr. Floyd was visibly shaken,
with his head down, and crying, as
if he were in the throes of a panic
attack, as he put his hands on the
steering wheel in response to a
frantic order from an officer.
He told the officers over and
over that he was claustrophobic,
as two officers struggled to push
him to the back seat of a police ve-
hicle. Throughout the video, he
never appeared to present a phys-
ical threat to the officers, and even
after he was handcuffed and
searched, the officers seemed to
be more concerned with control-
ling his body than saving his life,
the footage showed.
The video offers the fullest por-
trait yet of the tragic events
around Mr. Floyd’s killing. It be-
gins with officers driving to the
scene, after a convenience store
clerk called 911 and said a man had
used a counterfeit $20 bill, and it
ends showing officers on the
street discussing what happened,
Tim Arango and Matt Furber re-
ported from Minneapolis, and
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs from
New York.
Maricruz Cabrera, a Mexican-American who waits tables at the
Falafel Shack in Chambersburg, Pa., a town of about 20,000.
Protests Against Racism Reveal a Long-Hidden Diversity in Small Towns
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are still discussing plans for new
events or standing in the back of
otherwise empty City Council
meetings to make their demands
for police reform.
But beyond any policy changes,
which could be slow in coming, a
significant consequence of recent
weeks could be the realization for
many Americans in small towns
that their neighbors are more
multiracial and less willing to be
quiet about things than most peo-
ple had assumed.
Across the state in Lehighton,
Pa., a town that is 95 percent
white, Montreo Thompson, 26,
pulled a lawn chair into his drive-
way in early June and held up a
Black Lives Matter poster. Within
days he was helping lead marches
in towns all over the region, and
also protesting alongside Black
people he had never seen before
— some of whom lived down the
street. “They were literally walk-
ing distance from our house and I
never knew they were there.”
Small-town America has never
been racially or politically mono-
lithic. After the 2016 election and
especially in places where Presi-
dent Trump romped, thousands of
women who were aghast at the re-
sult became politically active for
the first time in their lives, meet-
ing in library basements and or-
ganizing small but regular rallies.
Still, that movement, powered
chiefly by middle-aged, middle-
class women in the suburbs and
exurbs, was in many ways just a
preamble to the mass wave of pro-
tests after Mr. Floyd’s death.
For weeks, protesters in Cham-
bersburg gathered on the side-
walk in front of Central Presby-
terian Church, a bronze-steepled
landmark dedicated in 1871, just
seven years after the town was
burned to the ground by Confeder-
ate soldiers. The Rev. Scott Bow-
erman, who has been pastor of the
church for eight years, called Mr.
Trump’s election “an apocalyptic
moment.” It was a deliberate word
choice, he said, based in the root
meaning of apocalypse: a revela-
tion.
The 2016 election, Mr. Bower-
man said, revealed that Franklin
County, where Chambersburg
sits, was not only conservative but
enamored of a brand of America-
first politics that truly electrified
many of the white voters, who un-
furled flags for Mr. Trump in a way
they never had for any another
candidate. Mr. Trump won the
county by more than 45 points, 71
after Mr. Floyd is driven away in
an ambulance. At one point, in
footage not previously seen, the
officers are shown dragging Mr.
Floyd to the ground after he re-
sisted being put in the squad car.
Once he was on the ground, as
Mr. Floyd again said he couldn’t
breathe, and asked for water, and
begged for his life, Derek Chauvin,
the senior officer on the scene,
said, in a nonchalant, almost
mocking, tone, “takes a heck of a
Visibly shaken and
distraught when the
police first arrive.
lot of oxygen to say that.”
The footage provides more de-
tail into the action of Mr. Chauvin,
who has been charged with sec-
ond-degree murder and second-
degree manslaughter for keeping
his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for
more than eight minutes while he
gasped for life. He was later pro-
nounced dead at the hospital.
As the minutes ticked by, and
Mr. Floyd became quieter and his
body went limp, one officer
checked his pulse and said he
couldn’t find one.
Mr. Chauvin’s response, uttered
with no emotion, was, “uh huh.”
Just before, after being told that
Mr. Floyd appeared to be passing
out, Mr. Chauvin appears to ex-
press more concern for his fellow
A protest last month in downtown Chambersburg, which sits in a county that Donald J. Trump won by more than 45 points in 2016.
to 25 percent.
But the election also revealed a
silent minority, long quiet about
their politics. Many already knew
one another (“the usual suspects,”
Mr. Bowerman said) but they be-
gan forming overtly liberal groups
— Franklin County Coalition for
Progress, Community Uniting,
Concerned Citizens of Franklin
County — planning events to cele-
brate Pride month, for instance,
and digging into issues like redis-
tricting reform. A new organiza-
tion called Racial Reconciliation
began holding discussion groups
at the Presbyterian church, with
mostly white attendees.
But then the George Floyd dem-
onstrations began. These pro-
testers were not the Trump faith-
ful, nor were they members of the
so-called resistance. At first, no-
body recognized them at all.
“I couldn’t believe it,” said
Linda Thomas Worthy, a founder
of Racial Reconciliation and one of
the county’s most outspoken fig-
ures on racial issues. She would
drive through downtown during
the first week of the protests to try
officers than the man dying under
his knee.
“You guys all right, though?” he
said.
“My knee might be a little
scratched, but I’ll survive,” re-
sponded another officer, Thomas
Lane.
The footage was made available
for viewing Wednesday to the
public and media by appointment
at the Hennepin County Govern-
ment Center in downtown Minne-
apolis — in a conference room
with a dozen laptop stations — but
was not allowed to be copied or re-
corded.
A coalition of media organiza-
tions, including The New York
Times, has petitioned the court to
obtain the footage, which would
allow for release to the public.
Judge Peter Cahill, who is over-
seeing the case, will hold a hear-
ing on the matter on Tuesday.
Mr. Floyd’s family on Wednes-
day filed a lawsuit against the four
officers at the scene and against
the City of Minneapolis, arguing
that the police had violated the
Fourth Amendment in killing Mr.
Floyd and that the city had failed
to properly dismiss problem offi-
cers and train recruits about the
dangers of neck restraints.
“It was not just the knee of
Derek Chauvin on George Floyd’s
neck for 8 minutes and 46 sec-
onds,” Ben Crump, a lawyer repre-
senting Mr. Floyd’s family, said at
a news conference. “But it was the
knee of the entire Minneapolis Po-
lice Department on the neck of
George Floyd that killed him.”
In the lawsuit, Mr. Crump and a
“I couldn’t believe it,” said Linda Thomas Worthy, left, with her
daughter and husband, of the protests in Chambersburg.
to understand who all of the peo-
ple coming out to denounce rac-
ism were. “I wanted to see how
this unfolds.”
It started with Shiloh Hershey,
24, who had never done anything
like this and declined to be inter-
viewed. She is white. But, said
Amy Stewart, her mother, Ms.
Hershey knows something about
being marginalized, having come
out as transgender several years
ago. “I know what it’s like to have
a child who can be hated for who
they are,” Ms. Stewart said.
On the last afternoon in May,
Ms. Hershey and her mother
walked downtown after gathering
up markers, poster board and a
concoction of baking soda and wa-
ter to pour in their eyes if they
were tear gassed. The protest
soon became a standing appoint-
ment, growing larger and more
eclectic by the day, filled mostly
by people who did not know one
another and had never protested
before.
The protesters were mostly
white but not exclusively so, not in
a town where more than a third of
The Cup Foods grocery store in Minneapolis, where a call to the
police led to the killing of George Floyd on May 25.
team of prominent lawyers argue
that Police Department policies
had allowed for officers to use
“neck restraint” techniques that
could be deadly even when they
were not in life-or-death situa-
tions. It also said that training ma-
terials given to officers in 2014, in-
cluding Mr. Chauvin and another
officer charged in Mr. Floyd’s
killing, show an officer placing a
knee on the neck of a person being
arrested and is handcuffed in a
prone position, as Mr. Floyd was.
The lawyers said in the lawsuit
that the policies and training, ap-
proved or condoned by the mayor,
City Council and police chief,
“were the moving force behind
and caused” Mr. Floyd’s death.
Erik Nilsson, the Minneapolis
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the students in the local schools
are minorities. Lexi Leydig, 23,
who is mixed race and was raised
by a Guatemalan stepfather, was
there, as was Maricruz Cabrera,
26, a Mexican-American who
waits tables down the street at
Falafel Shack.
Protests followed in nearly ev-
ery town in Franklin County:
Shippensburg up the road, little
‘All of these people
are just coming out of
the woodwork.’
Greencastle and Mercersburg,
and Waynesboro, where a Grand
Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
showed up to jeer.
The politics of the protesters
were deeply eclectic. Many of
those at the demonstrations in
Chambersburg were avowedly
apolitical, with little faith in either
CAROLINE YANG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
city attorney, said the city would
review and respond to the lawsuit.
A spokesman for the Police De-
partment did not respond to an in-
quiry about the lawsuit’s claims.
Transcripts of the body camera
footage, from two of the four police
officers charged in the killing,
were released last week as part of
a motion on behalf of one of the ju-
nior officers, Mr. Lane, to have the
case against him dismissed.
Mr. Lane, 37, was a rookie offi-
cer, and one of the first officers on
the scene. His lawyer, Earl Gray,
has sought to shift the blame to
Mr. Chauvin, a senior officer who
trained new recruits to the force,
arguing that Mr. Lane was follow-
ing the lead of Mr. Chauvin.
According to the transcripts
Matt Fogal, the Republican district attorney of Franklin County,
Pa. sent out a statement reading, “Black lives matter. Period.”
major party or electoral politics at
all. In Shippensburg, a young
Black nursing assistant who an-
nounced the rally there was joined
by a Republican, a libertarian, a
Democrat and a young man who
described himself as a “radical
Christian,” all committed to de-
funding the police.
The most unexpected cham-
pion, perhaps, has been the
Franklin County district attorney,
Matt Fogal, a Republican. For
weeks he had been stewing, un-
happy about how partisan the
pandemic response had become
and about the president’s provo-
cations. Then one afternoon he
heard the protest out of his office
window.
“I’m listening to them out there
and just people honking in sup-
port, absolutely peaceful, a con-
trast to some of the images that
we had been seeing,” he said. He
sent a statement to local media.
“Black lives matter. Period,” it
said, going on to urge people to put
country over party in November.
The former chairman of the local
Republican Party called the state-
and an interview Mr. Lane gave to
investigators, Mr. Lane suspected
that Mr. Floyd was having a medi-
cal emergency and asked Mr.
Chauvin if they should turn Mr.
Floyd on his side as he was face-
down and gasping for breath. Mr.
Lane rode along in the ambulance
to the hospital with Mr. Floyd, ad-
ministering chest compressions
in an attempt to revive him.
Mr. Chauvin, a 19-year veteran
of the Minneapolis Police Depart-
ment, faces the most severe crimi-
nal charges, and three other offi-
cers are charged with aiding and
abetting second-degree murder.
All four were fired shortly after
Mr. Floyd’s death. Their trial is
scheduled to begin March 8.
Once an ambulance arrived —
late, because paramedics had
gone to a wrong location — Mr.
Lane went inside and adminis-
tered chest compressions on Mr.
Floyd, whose face appeared
bloodied.
In the ambulance, at first, there
appeared to be little sense of ur-
gency, according to the new
footage, with minutes passing be-
fore anyone tended to Mr. Floyd.
Later, they strapped a mechan-
ical chest compression device on a
nearly naked Mr. Floyd, which
kept pumping as Mr. Floyd’s body
was rising and falling.
Back at the scene, Mr. Chauvin,
who had arrived later than Mr.
Lane and another junior officer, J.
Alexander Kueng, stood erect, his
lips pursed, with his hands on his
hips as Mr. Kueng, who called his
superior, “sir,” showed him what
he believed was the fake $20 bill.
ment “thoroughly disgusting.”
Few involved in the protests be-
lieve that the politics of the county
had somehow been transformed
overnight. Trump flags still hang
from front porches all over the
county, and on local Facebook
pages, many commenters mock
the protesters as ignorant and
wasting their time. Many of the
young people doubt much will
come of this at all. “Once every-
thing slows down,” said Ms. Ley-
dig, “people will just go back to
their ways.”
Still, there are some develop-
ments. The district attorney is
forming an advisory group on ra-
cial matters. The meetings of Ra-
cial Reconciliation, which held a
large demonstration in late June,
are markedly bigger than they
were. The liberal groups have be-
gun letter-writing campaigns to
downtown businesses, urging
them to publicly support Black
Lives Matter.
The protests themselves, fueled
by the young and often working
class, have been hard to keep go-
ing. A young woman who had tak-
en over the organizing in Cham-
bersburg soon found her days
growing too complicated, espe-
cially after her mother was sud-
denly evicted from public hous-
ing.
The task of organizing trans-
ferred to a local graduate student,
Kristi Rines, 30, who tries to keep
a regular appointment in front of
the church, taking meticulous
notes about the ratio of honks to
jeers (“3 p.m.-4 p.m.; 9 incidents
of backlash, 77 incidents of sup-
port”) but often standing by her-
self in the sweltering heat.
Ms. Wilkerson has tried to show
up, but it is hard with children and
a full-time job. She teaches teen-
agers at a private juvenile deten-
tion center in the county, and as
one of the few Black employees,
has been among the few who will
talk with the boys there about
what has been happening outside.
“They heard how they’re
changing names of syrup bottles
and they’re canceling TV shows,”
Ms. Wilkerson said. Her students
tell her that they had never asked
for any of those things, instead
wanting “an end to watching my
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friends get beat up and watching
my uncles and fathers and broth-
ers get arrested over small
amounts of marijuana.”
“They don’t have much faith in
the system changing,” Ms. Wilker-
son said. She tells them she hopes
it will. “That’s all I can really say.”

Struggle for Racial Justice The Conversation
A Scholar Entangled in the Cultural Clash Over Free Speech and Race
By MICHAEL POWELL
Steven Pinker occupies a role
that is rare in American life: the
celebrity intellectual. The Har-
vard professor pops up on outlets
from PBS to the Joe Rogan pod-
cast, translating dense subjects
into accessible ideas with enthusi-
asm. Bill Gates called his most re-
cent book “my new favorite book
of all time.”
So when more than 550 aca-
demics recently signed a letter
seeking to remove him from the
list of “distinguished fellows” of
the Linguistic Society of America,
it drew attention to their provoca-
tive charge: that Professor Pinker
minimizes racial injustices and
drowns out the voices of those
who suffer sexist and racist indig-
nities.
But the letter was striking for
another reason: It took aim not at
Professor Pinker’s scholarly work
but at six of his tweets dating to
2014, and at a two-word phrase he
used in a 2011 book about a cen-
turies-long decline in violence.
“Dr. Pinker has a history of
speaking over genuine griev-
ances and downplaying injustices,
frequently by misrepresenting
facts, and at the exact moments
when Black and Brown people are
mobilizing against systemic rac-
ism and for crucial changes,” their
letter stated.
The linguists demanded that
the society revoke Professor
Pinker’s status as a distinguished
fellow and strike his name from its
list of media experts. The society’s
executive committee declined to
do so last week, stating: “It is not
the mission of the society to con-
trol the opinions of its members,
nor their expression.”
But a charge of racial insensitiv-
ity carries power in the current cli-
mate, and the letter sounded an-
other shot in the fraught cultural
battles now erupting in academia
and publishing.
Also this month, 153 intellectu-
als and writers — many of them
politically liberal — signed a letter
in Harper’s Magazine that criti-
cized the current intellectual cli-
mate as “constricted” and “intol-
erant.” That led to a fiery response
from opposing liberal and leftist
writers, who accused the Harper’s
letter writers of elitism and hypoc-
risy.
In an era of polarizing ideolo-
gies, Professor Pinker, a linguist
and social psychologist, is tough
to pin down. He is a big supporter
of Democrats, and donated heav-
ily to former President Barack
Obama, but he has denounced
what he sees as the close-minded-
ness of heavily liberal American
universities. He likes to publicly
entertain ideas outside the aca-
demic mainstream, including the
question of innate differences be-
tween the sexes and among differ-
ent ethnic and racial groups. And
he has suggested that the political
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& Noble, the collapse and subse-
quent resurgence of independent
bookstores, and the explosive
growth of audiobooks.
It was a generation that pub-
lished some of the most influential
books and authors of the 20th cen-
tury. Mr. Mehta, whose taste and
commercial acumen were legend-
ary, published literary giants like
Kazuo Ishiguro, John Updike and
Salman Rushdie. Ms. Mayhew,
who died in February after a
nearly 50-year tenure at Simon &
Schuster, shaped the work of Bob
Woodward, Walter Isaacson, Dor-
is Kearns Goodwin and Stephen
A. Ambrose.
Other industry icons are mov-
ing on, leaving a vacuum. Last
week, Nan Talese, publisher of her
own imprint at Doubleday, said
she would retire in December af-
ter a trailblazing career that
spanned six decades and shaped
the careers of writers like Mar-
garet Atwood and Ian McEwan.
At the same time, some of the
editors and publishers who were
viewed as rising stars and pre-
sumptive heirs in recent years
have been overlooked for top jobs,
and even let go amid corporate
streamlining.
Some of the people who have
been brought in as replacements
for those senior positions have
markedly different sensibilities
than their predecessors. Ms. Ar-
thur at Knopf and Amy Einhorn,
the new publisher of Henry Holt,
are both known for having a
strong commercial sense, an eye
for what sells and for knowing
what women want to read. While
the ranks of the publishing indus-
try skews heavily female, and
women tend to buy more books,
men have often held the top jobs.
Ms. Lucas’s new role comes on
the heels of another big hire in
publishing’s executive ranks. Last
Professor Steven Pinker of Harvard in 2018. He has been accused of racial insensitivity by people he described as “speech police.”
left’s insistence that certain sub-
jects are off limits contributed to
the rise of the alt-right.
Reached at his home on Cape
Cod, Professor Pinker, 65, noted
that as a tenured faculty member
and established author, he could
weather the campaign against
him. But he said it could chill ju-
nior faculty who hold views
counter to prevailing intellectual
currents.
“I have a mind-set that the
world is a complex place we are
trying to understand,” he said.
“There is an inherent value to free
speech, because no one knows the
solution to problems a priori.”
He described his critics as
“speech police” who “have trolled
through my writings to find offen-
sive lines and adjectives.”
The letter against him focuses
mainly on his activity on Twitter,
where he has some 600,000 fol-
lowers. It points to his 2015 tweet
of an article from The Upshot, the
data and analysis-focused team at
The New York Times, which sug-
gested that the high number of po-
lice shootings of Black people may
not have been caused by racial
bias of individual police officers,
but rather by the larger structural
and economic realities that result
in the police having disproportion-
ately high numbers of encounters
with Black residents.
“Data: Police don’t shoot blacks
disproportionately,” Professor
week, Simon & Schuster brought
on Dana Canedy, a former New
York Times editor and the admin-
istrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, as
the new publisher of its namesake
imprint.
Ms. Canedy, 55, will become the
first Black person to lead a major
publishing house. She said she’s
aiming to acquire books that are
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Chris Jackson, publisher and
editor in chief of the Random
House imprint One World.
“completely out of the box.”
“The most obvious element of
diversity I bring is being a Black
woman, but I also grew up in a
small town in Kentucky. I’m also
of a military family. I’m also a sin-
gle mother,” she said in an inter-
view. “I think I will be more open,
perhaps, than some to taking a
chance on unknown authors.”
Ms. Lucas and Ms. Canedy, both
newcomers to publishing, are now
poised to become two of the most
powerful Black women in the liter-
ary world, with the ability to alter
the culture of the divisions they
lead and shape the landscape.
Both are taking on roles that give
them discretion over who and
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Pinker tweeted with a link to the
article. “Problem: Not race, but
too many police shootings.”
The linguists’ letter noted that
the article made plain that police
killings are a racial problem, and
accused Professor Pinker of mak-
ing “dishonest claims in order to
obfuscate the role of systemic rac-
ism in police violence.”
But the article also suggested
that, because every encounter
with the police carries danger of
escalation, any racial group inter-
acting with the police frequently
risked becoming victims of police
violence, due to poorly trained of-
ficers, armed suspects or overre-
action. That appeared to be the
point of Professor Pinker’s tweet.
The linguists’ letter also ac-
cused the professor of engaging in
racial dog whistles when he used
the words “urban crime” and “ur-
ban violence” in other tweets.
But in those tweets, Professor
Pinker had linked to the work of
scholars who are widely de-
scribed as experts on urban crime
and urban violence and its de-
cline.
“‘Urban’ appears to be a usual
terminological choice in work in
sociology, political science, law
and criminology,” wrote Jason
Merchant, vice provost and a lin-
guistics professor at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, who defended
Professor Pinker.
Another issue, Professor
what gets published, and the abil-
ity to recruit new authors and edi-
torial talent, at a moment when
the publishing industry is strug-
gling to diversify both its work
force and the titles and authors it
champions.
They join a small but influential
group of Black editors and pub-
lishers at major publishing
houses, including Dawn Davis,
who heads the 37 Ink imprint at Si-
mon & Schuster; Tracy Sherrod,
editorial director of the Amistad
imprint at HarperCollins; Erroll
McDonald, the longtime execu-
tive editor of Pantheon; and Chris
Jackson, the publisher and editor
in chief of the Random House im-
print One World.
Publishing employees often toil
for decades as assistant editors
and vice presidents, gradually
working their way up the ladder.
The fact that both Simon & Schus-
ter and Knopf appointed leaders
who had never worked in the in-
dustry suggests that companies
are prepared to overthrow old hir-
ing practices that rely on insider
networks and paying your dues
over the decades.
Mr. Jackson said that the
scarcity of Black executives in
publishing makes it hard for com-
panies to recruit from within their
own ranks and imperative that
they look to other industries when
hiring.
“So much of the discussion we
have about things like diversity
and inclusion is about hiring at the
entry level, and so we’re really
talking about a 20- or 30-year
project to get those people into
senior positions as they work
their way up,” he said. “These
openings happening at this mo-
ment create an opportunity to
look outside of our industry — be-
cause we have to, because there’s
been no cultivation of any kind of a
diverse group of senior executives
who are ready to move into those
positions from within the indus-
Pinker’s critics say, is contained in
his 2011 book, “The Better Angels
of Our Nature: Why Violence Has
Declined.” In a wide-ranging de-
scription of crime and urban de-
cay and its effect on the culture of
the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote that
“Bernhard Goetz, a mild-man-
nered engineer, became a folk
hero for shooting four young mug-
gers in a New York subway car.”
The linguists’ letter took strong
issue with the words “mild-man-
nered,” noting that a neighbor lat-
Racial insensitivity or
an intellectual will to
entertain ideas?
er said that Goetz had spoken in
racist terms of Latinos and Black
people. He was not “mild-man-
nered” but rather intent on con-
frontation, they said.
The origin of the letter remains
a mystery. Of 10 signers contacted
by The Times, only one hinted that
she knew the identity of the au-
thors. Many of the linguists
proved shy about talking, and
since the letter first surfaced on
Twitter on July 3, several promi-
nent linguists have said their
names had been included without
their knowledge.
try.”
While publishers have made
strides in elevating women into
executive positions in recent
years — with leaders like Mad-
eline McIntosh at Penguin Ran-
dom House, Ms. Arthur at Knopf,
Ms. Einhorn at Henry Holt and
Mitzi Angel at Farrar, Straus and
Giroux — the industry still lags far
behind in terms of racial diversity.
Publishing’s work force is more
than 75 percent white, according
to a survey released earlier this
year by the children’s book pub-
lisher Lee & Low Books. Compa-
nies that have long made vague
promises about recruiting more
people of color, in some cases
prompted by the nationwide pro-
tests against systemic racism, are
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Several department chairs in
linguistics and philosophy signed
the letter, including Professor
Barry Smith of the University at
Buffalo and Professor Lisa Da-
vidson of New York University.
Professor Smith did not return
calls and an email and Professor
Davidson declined to comment
when The Times reached out.
The linguists’ letter touched
only lightly on questions that have
proved storm-tossed for Profes-
sor Pinker in the past. In the de-
bate over whether nature or nur-
ture shapes human behavior, he
has leaned toward nature, arguing
that characteristics like psycho-
logical traits and intelligence are
to some degree heritable.
He has also suggested that un-
derrepresentation in the sciences
could be rooted in part in biologi-
cal differences between men and
women. (He defended Lawrence
Summers, the former Harvard
president who in 2005 speculated
that innate differences between
the sexes might in part explain
why fewer women succeed in sci-
ence and math careers. Mr. Sum-
mers’s remark infuriated some fe-
male scientists and was among
several controversies that led to
his resignation the following
year.)
And Professor Pinker has made
high-profile blunders, such as
when he provided his expertise on
language for the 2007 defense of
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facing louder calls to deliver con-
crete plans.
Last month, a crowdsourced
campaign to reveal racial dispari-
ties in author advances, using the
hashtag #PublishingPaidMe,
swept Twitter. More than 1,300
employees of major publishing
companies called for a day of ac-
tion to highlight the industry’s di-
versity problem, signing a letter
citing their opposition to the “in-
dustry’s role in systemic racism,
its failure to hire and retain a sig-
nificant number of Black employ-
ees or publish a significant num-
ber of Black authors, and its pur-
suit of profit through books that
incite racism.”
In response, major publishing
houses said they would make di-
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the financier Jeffrey Epstein on
sex trafficking charges. He has
said he did so free of charge and at
the request of a friend, the Har-
vard law professor Alan Der-
showitz, and regrets it.
The clash may also reflect the
fact that Professor Pinker’s rosy
outlook — he argues that the
world is becoming a better place,
by almost any measure, from pov-
erty to literacy — sounds discord-
ant during this painful moment of
national reckoning with the still-
ugly scars of racism and inequal-
ity.
The linguists’ society, like many
academic and nonprofit organiza-
tions, recently released a wide-
ranging statement calling for
greater diversity in the field. It
also urged linguists to confront
how their research “might repro-
duce or work against racism.”
John McWhorter, a Columbia
University professor of English
and linguistics, cast the Pinker
controversy within a moment
when, he said, progressives look
suspiciously at anyone who does
not embrace the politics of racial
and cultural identity.
“Steve is too big for this kerfuf-
fle to affect him,’’ Professor
McWhorter said. “But it’s de-
pressing that an erudite and rea-
sonable scholar is seen by a lot of
intelligent people as an under-
cover monster.”
Because this is a fight involving
linguists, it features some ex-
pected elements: intense argu-
ments about imprecise wording
and sly intellectual put-downs.
Professor Pinker may have in-
flamed matters when he sug-
gested in response to the letter
that its signers lacked stature. “I
recognize only one name among
the signatories,’’ he tweeted. Such
an argument, Byron T. Ahn, a lin-
guistics professor at Princeton,
wrote in a tweet of his own,
amounted to “a kind of indirect ad
hominem attack.”
The linguists insisted they were
not trying to censor Professor
Pinker. Rather, they were intent
on showing that he had been de-
ceitful and used racial dog whis-
tles, and thus, was a disreputable
representative for linguistics.
“Any resulting action from this
letter may make it clear to Black
scholars that the L.S.A. is sensi-
tive to the impact that tweets of
this sort have on maintaining
structures that we should be at-
tempting to dismantle,” wrote
Professor David Adger of Queen
Mary University of London on his
website.
That line of argument left Pro-
fessor McWhorter, a signer of the
letter in Harper’s, exasperated.
“We’re in this moment that’s
like a collective mic drop, and ci-
vility and common sense go out
the window,” he said. “It’s enough
to cry racism or sexism, and that’s
that.”
American publishing has lost
several prominent leaders,
including Carolyn Reidy, presi-
dent and chief executive of
Simon & Schuster, who died in
May, and Sonny Mehta, of
Knopf, who died in December.
versifying their work forces a pri-
ority. Penguin Random House
said it would share statistics on
the racial makeup of the company,
require antiracist training among
its workers and pledged to publish
more books by people of color. Ha-
chette Book Group also said it
would share demographic infor-
mation about its work force inter-
nally and create diversity goals
for both its publishing programs
and its staff.
Michael Pietsch, the chief exec-
utive of Hachette Book Group,
said that the lack of diversity
within publishing houses has
made it difficult to recruit people
of color for leadership positions.
“Everyone is going to be much
more open looking outside the in-
dustry to find people who have the
right business skills and sensibil-
ities, and who can grow into the re-
lationships,” he said. “Everyone is
going to have to widen their lens.”
Ms. Lucas, who will take over at
Pantheon and Schocken next year,
said in an interview that she tried
to get a publishing job fresh out of
college but couldn’t. She went on
to positions in theater and film, be-
fore becoming the publisher of the
arts magazine Guernica.
In 2016, she was named the ex-
ecutive director of the National
Book Foundation, where she
raised the profile of the organiza-
tion, helped to elevate the work of
writers of color and directed an ef-
fort to make 1.4 million books
available to children in public
housing.
“I always joke that I’m like a
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house renovator,” Ms. Lucas said.
“You go into a classic old beautiful
house that’s totally fine, and you
figure out how to bring it into the
future and make sure it’s steady
and strong and modern. The idea
is loving tradition but also loving
the future.”
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Struggle for Racial Justice Law Enforcement

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Union Square, Manhattan Union Square, Manhattan Union Square East and East 17th Street, Manhattan Classon and Lafayette Avenues, Brooklyn
May 28. An officer grabs someone by their backpack, May 28. Two officers lift their bicycles and push May 28. An officer hits someone in the leg with a May 29. An officer shoves at least three people,
and several officers engage in a struggle as other them repeatedly into a group of people, knocking baton, and the baton breaks. one of whom is also shoved in the chest by a
people join to pull the person away. one person over. white-shirted officer.

Punches, tackles,
beatings and shoves.

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DeKalb and Classon Avenues, Brooklyn Greene and Classon Avenues, Brooklyn Fifth Avenue and Bergen Street, Brooklyn
May 29. An officer shoves two people, and one falls May 29. An officer runs up and shoves someone sev- May 29. A white-shirted officer shoves someone, who
to the ground. eral times, and then shoves a second and third person falls backward.
standing nearby.

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Classon and Gates Avenues, Brooklyn Barclays Center, Brooklyn Barclays Center, Brooklyn Flatbush Avenue Extension
May 29. A passenger in a moving unmarked police May 29. An officer shoves a protester, who falls to May 29. Officers repeatedly hit two people with ba- and Willoughby Street, Brooklyn
car opens the car door to strike someone standing the ground. tons. Another officer pushes someone to the ground. May 30. An officer shoves someone, who pushes
on the street. back, and a second officer shoves the person over.

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Church and Rogers Avenues, Brooklyn
May 30. An officer pepper-sprays a crowd after two
people in the crowd throw things at a line of officers.
395 Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn
May 30. An officer runs up and shoves a person who is
backing away, then chases the person down.
Bedford and Tilden Avenues, Brooklyn
May 30. An officer shoves a protester twice.
Bedford and Tilden Avenues, Brooklyn
May 30. An officer pushes through a crowd and grabs
a person by the neck to push them aside. Another
officer knocks the person over, and the first officer
throws the person down again when they try to get up.

The department said

it exercised restraint.
The videos tell a
different story.
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Bedford and Tilden Avenues, Brooklyn Flatbush and St. Marks Avenues, Brooklyn Broadway and East 12th Street, Manhattan
May 30. An officer pulls down a protester’s mask and May 30. Protesters block the path of a police car and May 31. An officer pepper-sprays a crowd, then
pepper-sprays the person’s face. pelt it with garbage. Two police cars then drive into the knocks someone down with an elbow to the face.
crowd, knocking over several people.

Caught on Over 60 Videos: Police Using Force on Protesters

This article is by Allison McCann,
Blacki Migliozzi, Andy Newman,
Larry Buchanan and Aaron Byrd.
It was two hours after curfew
on the sixth night of protests
against police brutality in New
York City.
An officer in Brooklyn pushed
a protester so hard that she fell
backward on the pavement. Then
he shoved someone on a bicycle
and picked up and body-
slammed a third person into the
street.
Nearby, a man fell running
from the police. Officers
show the police using force on
protesters during the first 10
days of demonstrations in the
city after the death of George
Floyd.
A review of the videos, shot by
protesters and journalists, sug-
gests that many of the police
attacks, often led by high-ranking
officers, were not warranted.
A video of five or 10 or 30 sec-
onds does not tell the whole
story, of course. It does not depict
what happened before the cam-
era started rolling. It is unclear
from the videos, for instance,
proportionate to the threat or
resistance at hand at the mo-
ment it is applied.
In instance after instance, the
police are seen using force on
people who do not appear to be
resisting arrest or posing an
immediate threat to anyone.
Officers attacked people who
had their hands up.
They hit people who were
walking away from them.
They grabbed people from
behind.
And they repeatedly pum-
meled people who were already
looted businesses, burned police
cars and attacked officers with
bricks, bottles and in one case a
fire extinguisher. The unrest
prompted Mayor Bill de Blasio to
impose an 8 p.m. curfew.
“I think the officers used an
incredible amount of restraint in
terms of allowing people to vent,”
Commissioner Shea said on June
22. “I am proud of their perform-
ance in policing these protests,
ending the riots and upholding
the rule of law.”
Yet for just about each viral
moment that emerged from the
Officers charged into peaceful
crowds and pushed people to the
ground.
Sometimes, they appeared to
lash out at random.
Devora Kaye, the Police De-
partment’s assistant commis-
sioner for public information,
declined repeated requests to
review the full set of videos
provided by The Times and to
explain the use of force in them.
She reiterated that “isolated
incidents” of misconduct were
being addressed, noted that four
officers had already been disci-
lead to interactions where force
is used.”
The police said that nearly 400
officers were injured during the
protests, and that 132 of the more
than 2,500 people arrested re-
ported injuries, but that they did
not have records of injured peo-
ple who were not arrested. Pro-
testers have described and docu-
mented at least five broken or
fractured bones and four concus-
sions.
When presented with the
videos collected by The Times,
Kapil Longani, counsel to Mr. de
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swarmed him and beat him with
batons. A commanding officer, in
his white-shirted uniform, joined
the fray and stepped on the
man’s neck.
All of it was caught on video.
In fact, The New York Times
found more than 60 videos that
what the officers’ intentions were
or why protesters were being
arrested or told to move.
But the Police Department’s
patrol guide says officers may
use “only the reasonable force
necessary to gain control or
custody of a subject.” Force,
policing experts say, must be
on the ground.
Police Commissioner Dermot
F. Shea has maintained that
misconduct during the protests
was confined to “isolated cases”
and that officers were confronted
with violence by protesters.
He noted that during the first
week of demonstrations, people
protests — officers violently
shoving a woman to the ground
or beating a cyclist who seemed
to be doing nothing more than
trying to cross the street — The
Times turned up multiple exam-
ples of similar behavior.
The police responded to words
with punches and pepper spray.
plined, and said that the depart-
ment’s Internal Affairs Bureau
was investigating 51 cases of use
of force during the protests.
“The N.Y.P.D. has zero toler-
ance for inappropriate or exces-
sive use of force,” she wrote, “but
it is also critical to review the
totality of the circumstances that
Blasio, said, “These incidents are
disturbing and New Yorkers
deserve a full accounting of these
matters and access to a transpar-
ent disciplinary process.”
But he cautioned that the
police disciplinary system
needed time to carry out thor-
ough investigations.
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Atlantic Center, Brooklyn
May 31. Someone runs toward a person who is on
the ground being detained by officers, and several
people in blue uniforms beat the person on the
ground with batons.
F.D.R. Drive and Houston Street, Manhattan Church and Canal Streets, Manhattan 41 East 57th Street, Manhattan
May 31. An officer walks along a roadway pepper- May 31. Officers rush a crowd and knock down a June 1. An officer running by a group of bystanders
spraying protesters. protester whose hands are up. A white-shirted officer pepper-sprays them and keeps running.
drags another protester on the asphalt.

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West and Rector Streets, Manhattan
June 2. An officer approaches someone with a bicycle,
striking the person in the legs with a baton.
17 Battery Place, Manhattan
June 2. A white-shirted officer pushes one person
down, and then shoves another. A second officer grabs
a protester by the hair to bring her to the ground.
West and Rector Streets, Manhattan
June 2. An officer orders someone to put down a bicy-
cle. The protester is then shoved to the ground before
another officer approaches and pushes the protester’s
head toward the pavement.
West and Morris Streets, Manhattan
June 2. A protester is on the ground surrounded by
multiple officers. An officer then strikes the person in
the legs with a baton.

At the height of the

recent Black Lives
Matter marches in
New York City, the
police were repeatedly
recorded using force
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Fourth and Atlantic Avenues, Brooklyn Third Avenue and 50th Street, Manhattan Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
June 2. Several officers chase down and beat a person June 3. Multiple officers, including one in a white shirt, June 3. An officer approaches a person walking with a
with their batons. A white-shirted officer runs up and hit a cyclist with their batons. bicycle, grabs the cyclist around the neck and pushes
steps on the person’s neck. them to the ground.

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Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn 54th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan Washington Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn East 136th Street and Brook Avenue, Bronx
June 3. Three officers use riot shields to shove a June 3. An officer tries to restrain a protester who is June 4. An officer grabs someone, then shoves an- June 4. Multiple officers strike a group of protesters
protester who is astride a bike, and the protester holding on to a bicycle. The officer drags the protester, other person twice into a car. with their batons.
falls down. and the bicycle, until both fall to the ground.

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Washington Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn
June 4. A white-shirted officer uses a baton to strike a
person on a bike.
East 136th Street and Brook Avenue, Bronx
June 4. An officer throws a protester to the ground to
arrest the protester. Another person then interferes
with the arresting officer. The officer turns, hits the
person and shoves him.
885 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn Nassau and Gold Streets, Brooklyn
June 5. An officer shoves someone on a bicycle, June 6. A person is tackled to the ground by a group of
who falls over. officers and punched in the head multiple times.

“To conclude that these offi-
cers or any American committed
a crime without due process is
inconsistent with the fundamen-
tal fairness that underlies our
judicial system,” Mr. Longani
said.
The Police Benevolent Associ-
ation, the union that represents
most N.Y.P.D. officers, declined to
comment on the videos.
The episodes in the videos The
Times reviewed were spread
across 15 neighborhoods in three
boroughs. Several videos each
were taken June 3 in Cadman
the police, offered a blunt assess-
ment of the behavior shown in
these videos.
“A lot of this was ‘street jus-
tice,’ ” he said, “gratuitous acts of
extrajudicial violence doled out
by police officers on the street to
teach somebody a lesson.”
Sometimes, the police went
after people already in custody.
Sometimes officers went after
people they did not appear inter-
ested in arresting at all.
Mr. Stinson said that in some
of the videos, the police used
force permissibly. He saw noth-
“Some of the stuff that they do
is so sloppy,” he said. “Some of it
is just downright criminal.”
Scott Hechinger, a public de-
fender for nearly a decade in
Brooklyn, said he found it strik-
ing that being filmed by crowds
of protesters did not seem to
inhibit some officers’ conduct.
“That the police were able and
willing to perform such brazen
violence when surrounded by
cellphone cameras and when the
whole world was watching at this
moment more than any other,
underscores how police feel and
commander shoved a protester
and another pulled her down by
the hair.
A civil rights lawyer with the
legal aid group the Bronx De-
fenders, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta,
said she saw violations of consti-
tutional rights in nearly all the
videos, including the rights to
free speech and due process.
“The primary question is
whether the force is reasonable,
but you have to remember, if
they’re not arresting someone,
they shouldn’t be using any
force,” Ms. Borchetta said.
secret and New York City cut its
police budget and broadened a
ban on chokeholds. Last week,
New York’s attorney general,
Letitia James, called for an inde-
pendent commission to perma-
nently oversee the Police Depart-
ment.
But acts of force by the police
are still being caught on video,
more than six weeks into the
protests.
Axel Hernandez, a high school
teacher in New York City who on
June 3 filmed an officer throwing
someone down by the neck, said
ONLINE: VIDEOS
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64 videos of police officers
using force at protests in New
York City from May 28 to June 6,
from which 37 still images are
shown here. Watch all of the
videos at nytimes.com/newyork
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reporting.
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Plaza in Brooklyn and on June 4
in Mott Haven in the Bronx,
when officers “kettled” pro-
testers into tight spaces and then
beat them with batons.
Philip M. Stinson, a Bowling
Green State University criminol-
ogist and former police officer
who studies the use of force by
ing inappropriate, for example,
in a widely viewed video of offi-
cers using batons on people who
appeared to be trying to evade
arrest.
In many other videos, though,
he said he believed that force
had been applied without disci-
pline or supervision.
know they will never be held to
account in any meaningful way
even for the most egregious acts
of violence,” Mr. Hechinger said.
Many of the videos show vio-
lence led by officers in white
shirts, signaling a rank of lieu-
tenant or higher.
In Manhattan on June 2, one
At several protests, the police
used bicycles as weapons.
More often, they used their
hands.
The protests, and the outcry
over the policing of them, have
already led to changes. State
legislators overturned a law that
kept police discipline records
he felt it was important to contin-
ue to keep watch over the police.
“Part of the reason we’re out
here is because they were on
George Floyd’s neck,” said Mr.
Hernandez, 30. “This is exactly
why we are protesting in the first
place.”
from Times reporting and lists
shared by T. Greg Doucette, Corin
Faife, a crowdsourced effort
started on Reddit and public
responses to requests by the New
York attorney general’s office and
the city’s Civilian Complaint
Review Board.
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Killing of Tech Executive in Manhattan Appears to Be ‘Hit,’ Official Says
This article is by Michael Gold,
William K. Rashbaum and Daniel E.
Slotnik.
The killer, dressed entirely in
black and wearing a black mask,
followed the young technology en-
trepreneur from the elevator of
his luxury condo building into his
apartment.
Detectives believe he then used
an electrical stun gun to immobi-
lize the entrepreneur, Fahim
Saleh.
Some time after, the assailant
killed Mr. Saleh, decapitated him
and dismembered his body with
an electric saw.
The investigation was in its
early stages, but that was the
chilling account that a law en-
forcement official briefed on the
inquiry gave on Wednesday as de-
tectives continued scrutinizing
evidence in the killing of Mr.
Saleh, 33. His body parts were
found Tuesday in plastic garbage
bags in his apartment on Manhat-
tan’s Lower East Side.
On Wednesday, the police con-
tinued their investigation at the
building and inside Mr. Saleh’s
apartment, a seventh-story unit
that he bought last year for $2.25
million, public records show, and
for which he expressed his affec-
tion on Instagram.
The investigation included a re-
view of surveillance video from
Mr. Saleh’s apartment building
and an interview with his sister.
Investigators believe the
killer’s work dismembering the
body was interrupted when the
victim’s sister entered the apart-
ment to check on him after not
hearing from him for a day, an-
other law enforcement official
said.
Detectives think that the assail-
ant fled through the apartment’s
back door and into the building’s
stairwell when she arrived, the of-
ficial said.
A Police Department spokes-
man said he could not comment on
how the killer entered the build-
ing. The property’s management
company said that the building
did not have a doorman but had
extensive security in place.
The management company, in a
statement, said Mr. Saleh was an
active member of the condomini-
um board.
Juliana Kim contributed report-
ing. Sheelagh McNeill and Kitty
Bennett contributed research.
Asylum Officers Condemn
Trump’s ‘Draconian’ Plans
By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
WASHINGTON — A Trump ad-
ministration plan to overhaul the
asylum system in the United
States would subject vulnerable
families to danger and violate in-
ternational law, officers who
would carry out the policy said
Wednesday.
In its public comment on the
proposed regulation, the union
representing federal asylum offi-
cers said it would effectively deny
most migrants pursuing protec-
tion the right to have their claims
of fear or persecution assessed.
“In the last three years, the ex-
ecutive branch of our government
has sought to turn the asylum sys-
tem on its head,” the union repre-
senting the officers said. “The
most extreme in a recent series of
draconian changes to the Ameri-
can asylum process, the proposed
regulation dismantles our care-
fully crafted system of vetting
asylum claims, and with it, Ameri-
ca’s position as a global leader in
refugee assistance.”
The proposal, filed last month,
is one of a slew of policies the
Trump administration has pushed
forward to seal the border to asy-
lum-seekers even after the coro-
navirus pandemic subsides.
“They would close off every
possibility for the average asylum
After Supreme Court Ruling, Trump Lawyers Renew Effort to Block Release of Tax Returns
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
and BENJAMIN WEISER
Days after the U.S. Supreme
Court delivered a defeat to Presi-
dent Trump, clearing the way for
the Manhattan district attorney to
seek his tax returns, his lawyers
on Wednesday renewed their ef-
forts to block or at least narrow ac-
cess to the records.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers wrote to
the federal judge in Manhattan
who originally presided over the
case, saying they planned to ar-
gue that the district attorney’s
subpoena seeking eight years of
his corporate and personal tax re-
turns was too broad and politically
motivated.
The filing came less than a week
after the Supreme Court struck
down Mr. Trump’s previous argu-
ment — that the subpoena was in-
valid because a sitting president
could not be criminally investi-
gated. In the new filing, Mr.
Trump’s lawyers noted that the
high court’s decision allowed him
to raise other objections: that the
subpoena was “motivated by a de-
“The unit owners, residents,
board and management are all
quite upset,” the statement said.
On Tuesday, a law enforcement
official said that the electric saw
was still plugged into an electrical
outlet when the police arrived,
and the killer had left some clean-
ing supplies behind. It appeared
that some effort had been made to
clean up the evidence.
The official who spoke on
Wednesday said that the killing
“looks like a professional job,” re-
ferring to it as a “hit.” A Police De-
partment spokesman said he
could not comment on a possible
motive or whether any suspects
seeker to even have a fair process
much less getting asylum,” said
Michael Knowles, a spokesman
for the National CIS Council,
which represents employees with
United States Citizenship and Im-
migration Services, the legal im-
migration agency. “How they
think they can do it without vio-
lating their own laws and conven-
tion is beyond us.”
Migrants have a legal right to
apply for asylum in the United
States once they step on U.S. soil,
regardless of whether they
crossed the border legally or ille-
gally. An officer from Citizenship
and Immigration Services
screens applicants to verify their
claims of being persecuted based
on race, religion, political beliefs
or a number of other factors.
The proposal put forward in
June by the Department of Justice
and the Department of Homeland
Security would significantly raise
the standard that migrants would
have to meet. Those claiming to be
targeted by gangs or “rogue” gov-
ernment officials would be more
likely to be denied, and those seek-
ing protection on the basis of their
gender would see their ability to
seek asylum further limited.
Migrants also would not be enti-
tled to a full hearing in which an
immigration judge could hear
sire to harass or is conducted in
bad faith,” and that it would im-
pede his constitutional duties.
The president and the district
attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a
Democrat, have been locked in a
battle over the records for almost
a year.
The district attorney issued the
subpoena to the president’s ac-
counting firm last August, seeking
records dating to 2011 as part of an
investigation into hush-money
payments made to an adult film
actress who said she had an affair
with Mr. Trump. The president
has denied the affair, and he has
fought the request for his financial
records, contending presidents
were immune from state criminal
investigations.
On Thursday, the Supreme
Court rejected his position by a 7-
to-2 vote, but it left open the possi-
bility that he could raise new argu-
ments against Mr. Vance’s sub-
poena in the lower court.
No matter who ultimately wins
the battle, it is unlikely that Mr.
Trump’s financial records will be-
had been identified.
On Tuesday night and Wednes-
day morning, detectives were
scouring the neighborhood for
surveillance video from outside
local stores, residential and com-
mercial buildings and area traffic
cameras to see if cameras had
captured the killer coming or go-
ing or waiting for his prey, several
law enforcement officials said.
The grisly death has attracted
international attention given Mr.
Saleh’s global connections. The
son of Bangladeshi immigrants,
Mr. Saleh founded ride-hailing
companies in Bangladesh and Ni-
geria as well as a venture-capital
their claims under the proposal.
And it would give officers ex-
panded authority to declare asy-
lum applications “frivolous,” bar-
ring migrants from seeking other
forms of immigration relief in the
United States.
The new proposal would also
empower the Trump administra-
tion to deny asylum to migrants
who spent two weeks in another
country on their way to the United
States and did not apply for pro-
come public any time soon. If they
are turned over to prosecutors,
they will remain shielded under
grand jury secrecy and may
emerge only if charges are
brought and they are introduced
as evidence at a trial.
The flurry of legal activity over
how quickly Mr. Vance would be
able to access some or all of the
records — and to what extent Mr.
Trump could block them — came
after the lower-court judge, Victor
Marrero, asked both sides to in-
form him of whether further ac-
tion was needed in light of the Su-
preme Court’s landmark decision.
In a response on Wednesday,
Mr. Trump’s lawyers said they
planned to argue that the sub-
poena should be blocked, while
Mr. Vance’s office told the judge
that the issues had largely been
decided. The two sides wrote to
the judge in a joint letter outlining
their positions.
Judge Marrero is set to hold a
hearing on Thursday to discuss a
schedule for further arguments.
He is not expected to immediately
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The condo building on the
Lower East Side of Manhattan,
where Fahim Saleh was dis-
covered decapitated and dis-
membered. Mr. Saleh, 33, had
founded several tech compa-
nies, including a motorcycle
ride-hailing service in Nigeria.
fund based in Manhattan that in-
vested largely in companies in the
developing world.
On Wednesday, Bangladesh’s
minister for information and com-
munication technology, Zunaid
Ahmed Palak, expressed his con-
dolences and said on Twitter that
Mr. Saleh’s death was a great loss
for the country.
Mr. Saleh’s family has declined
to speak to the press.
Sumeet Rametra, who met Mr.
Saleh in college and has been in
close communication with his
family since his death, described
his friend as someone who in-
dulged in kind gestures, like buy-
ing his parents a home and a
Tesla.
On one recent occasion, Mr.
Saleh asked Mr. Rametra to join
him for a game of tennis, but Mr.
Rametra said he didn’t have a
racket, he recalled.
“He was like, ‘I already got you
one, let’s go,’ ” Mr. Rametra said,
crying. “I never got to play with
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tections there, reviving a similar
measure that was recently
blocked by a federal judge in
Washington, D.C.
“It will burn down the American
refugee protection system,” said
Jason Marks, a steward for the
American Federation of Govern-
ment Employees Local 1924,
which also represents some em-
ployees with Citizenship and Im-
migration Services, which is pre-
paring to furlough nearly 70 per-
rule on the merits of either side’s
position on the subpoena itself.
Last October, Judge Marrero
rejected Mr. Trump’s initial argu-
ment that he was immune from all
investigation, calling it “repug-
nant to the nation’s governmental
The president tries to
fend off Manhattan’s
district attorney.
structure and constitutional val-
ues.” After a federal appeals court
panel unanimously upheld the
judge’s ruling, the president
sought review in the Supreme
Court.
After the Supreme Court deci-
sion was announced last week,
Mr. Vance, in a statement, called
the ruling “a tremendous victory
for our nation’s system of justice.”
He said his office’s investigation,
him.”
Mr. Rametra, 31, also lauded Mr.
Saleh’s business acumen, saying
that his friend was a visionary
who was always looking to his
next idea.
“He was a machine, dude, he
never stopped,” Mr. Rametra said.
“He was always trying to make
money.”
Mr. Saleh grew up near Pough-
keepsie, N.Y., according to public
records. As a teenager, he learned
to code and began to develop web-
sites, his friends said. He graduat-
ed from Bentley University, a
small college in Waltham, Mass.,
in 2009 with a degree in computer
information systems, according to
his LinkedIn profile.
On social media, in interviews
and blog posts, Mr. Saleh depicted
himself as an entrepreneur driven
by passion.
“Entrepreneurs are the ones
that really change countries, that
really change cities,” Mr. Saleh
said in a YouTube video in Febru-
ary. “They’re the ones that bring
the vision.”
After college, Mr. Saleh turned
his love for practical jokes into a
prank-calling app named
PrankDial, which allowed users to
buy prerecorded calls to send to
friends.
Writing years later about the
business, Mr. Saleh said that it
eventually generated millions and
led him to realize that he could
keep turning his passions — in
this case, for practical jokes — into
big bucks.
“If you go into a project entirely
focused on making money, you’re
going to be disappointed,” he
wrote in a post on Medium.
Still, PrankDial had its stum-
bles. On his LinkedIn profile, Mr.
Saleh boasted that while his com-
pany had millions of downloads, it
also drew more than 100 subpoe-
nas.
At the time of Mr. Saleh’s death,
PrankDial and its owners faced an
active civil suit from a New Jersey
jail worker who was convicted in
2015 of using the site to illegally
wiretap his co-workers.
After PrankDial, Mr. Saleh
turned his attention to Bangla-
desh, where he co-founded the
ride-sharing company Pathao in
2015. The business, which Mr.
Saleh left in 2018, started as a bike-
sharing company but now offers
transportation, delivery and busi-
ness logistics.
“Fahim believed in the potential
cent of its work force as the immi-
gration fees that fund the agency
plummet.
The departments of Homeland
Security and Justice did not im-
mediately respond to requests for
comment.
The proposal is part of a web of
restrictions intended to wall off
asylum seekers. The Trump ad-
ministration is currently using an
emergency authority granted to
top federal health officials to im-
which had been delayed for al-
most a year by the president’s le-
gal challenge, would resume.
The president’s lawyers did not
offer much detail about the
grounds for their new objections
in the filing on Wednesday, but
said they were likely to pursue
several arguments about the sub-
poena’s scope and purpose.
Mr. Vance’s office made clear it
intended to push back against Mr.
Trump’s position. Citing Judge
Marrero’s opinion last October, it
argued he had found “no demon-
strated bad faith” or harassment
in the decision to issue the grand
jury subpoena. Mr. Vance’s pros-
ecutors also said Judge Marrero
had rejected the president’s claim
that there was “any evidence of a
‘secondary motive’ that goes be-
yond good-faith enforcement of
the criminal laws.”
The dispute emerged out of the
case of Michael D. Cohen, the
president’s onetime lawyer, who
paid the adult film actress Stormy
Daniels $130,000 to buy her si-
lence during the 2016 presidential
for technology to transform lives
in Bangladesh and beyond,”
Pathao said in a statement.
Fueled by his success in Bang-
ladesh, Mr. Saleh tried to launch a
similar venture in Nigeria. That
company, Gokada, began operat-
ing as a motorcycle ride-hailing
company in Lagos, Nigeria’s most
populous city, in 2018.
Motorcycle taxis, called okada
in Nigeria, have long been popular
in Lagos and many other African
cities as a way to circumvent traf-
fic jams. Gokada raised $5.3 mil-
lion in venture capital in June
2019, according to the website
TechCrunch.
But Mr. Saleh’s business hit a
major stumbling block in Febru-
ary, when state officials banned
motorcycle taxis from operating
in major commercial and resi-
dential parts of Lagos.
Gokada was forced to halt its
ride-hailing business. In a video
discussing the ban, Mr. Saleh, the
company’s chief executive, ap-
peared crestfallen.
“This has definitely been a
blow,” Mr. Saleh said in the video,
which he posted to YouTube and
social media platforms on Feb. 2
and titled “Gokada is not okada.”
Mr. Saleh was forced to lay off
workers, friends said. But he tried
to rebound, saying he still be-
lieved that Nigeria had enormous
economic potential and that he
could provide jobs to young Ni-
gerians.
In February, Gokada pivoted
quickly to a food and package de-
livery service. After the change,
Mr. Saleh sounded an optimistic
note.
In April, as the pandemic up-
ended New York and Nigeria
alike, he noted on Twitter that his
company was well positioned to
adapt to the economic shift.
“Now it seems like we had a
two-month head start in one of the
few thriving business sectors,” he
said.
The law enforcement official
said that investigators were ex-
ploring on Wednesday whether
Mr. Saleh’s killing might be relat-
ed to his business, noting the indi-
cations that his company had
been hurting.
Even as his start-up encoun-
tered setbacks, Mr. Saleh had re-
mained both hopeful and persist-
ent.
“Have a very good feeling about
2020,” he said on Twitter on June
2.
Chihuahua, Mexico, in April.
Once in the United States,
migrants have a legal right to
apply for asylum, regardless of
how they entered.
mediately block migrants, includ-
ing children traveling alone, from
obtaining asylum and return them
to Mexico or their home countries.
The administration built on that
effort with another proposal that
would allow the government to
deny a migrant asylum if they had
traveled from or through a coun-
try that the administration had
classified as in the midst of a pub-
lic health emergency. That rule
would also disqualify a migrant
from what’s known as a “with-
holding of removal,” which can de-
lay deportation and provide an op-
portunity for a full hearing before
an immigration judge. The burden
of proof is much higher for that
screening than a typical asylum
interview.
Under the proposed rule, even
migrants at the border who can
prove they were tortured in their
home country and would nor-
mally receive some protection
would most likely be sent to a third
country to seek sanctuary in-
stead.
President Trump has signed ac-
cords with Guatemala and Hon-
duras that allow the United States
to deport migrants to those Cen-
tral American countries, where
they would have to seek asylum
from those governments.
campaign. He later pleaded guilty
to federal campaign finance vio-
lations for his role in that deal and
another hush-money payment.
Mr. Cohen, serving a three-year
sentence at a federal prison in
Otisville, N.Y., implicated the
president, saying in court that he
had acted on Mr. Trump’s orders.
After federal prosecutors con-
cluded their investigation last
year, Mr. Vance’s office began ex-
amining whether New York State
laws had been broken when Mr.
Trump and his company, the
Trump Organization, reimbursed
Mr. Cohen. The subpoena was is-
sued as part of that inquiry.
On Wednesday, Mr. Vance’s of-
fice asked the judge to order Mr.
Trump to file any additional argu-
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ments quickly in light of the risk of
losing evidence “as a result of fad-
ing memories or lost documents,”
or the possibility that statutes of
limitations would expire.
“If the president has anything
left to say,” Mr. Vance’s office
wrote, “the ball is now in his
court.”
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Blaine Kern, 93, Visionary Builder

Of Lavish Mardi Gras Floats, Dies
By STEVEN KURUTZ
Blaine Kern, who helped turn
Mardi Gras in New Orleans into a
huge event known around the
world, most notably through the
innovative and spectacular pa-
rade floats he designed and built,
died on June 25 at his home in the
city. He was 93.
His son Barry, who confirmed
the death, said he had developed
an infection after falling from an
exercise bike.
Like Walt Disney, to whom he
was often compared, Mr. Kern
was an artist, a businessman and
a showman all in one. He was also
a visionary designer: His parade
floats had double decks, multipart
structures, lights, animation and
many other features that later be-
came common in the various pa-
rades in the city.
Two of his most famous floats
are the Bacchasaurus, a nearly
life-size dinosaur, and the Baccha-
gator, a 105-foot-long alligator,
both built for the Krewe of Bac-
chus, one of the social groups be-
hind the celebration and one
known for its elaborate parade
floats.
Since the late 1960s, Bacchus
has invited celebrities, including
Bob Hope, Hulk Hogan and Will
Ferrell, to reign as king of the
krewe and ride its float in the pa-
rade. The parade’s organizers
“turned my dad loose to do what-
ever he wanted to do,” Barry Kern
said. “There was no budget.”
Mr. Kern’s roots as a float build-
er went back, if not to the begin-
nings of Mardi Gras, then at least
to its days as a more modest cele-
bration. He recalled that as a boy
in the 1930s he helped his father
build a float for the Krewe of
Choctaw out of six old trash wag-
Mr. Kern’s Mardi Gras work. He was called “a dynamic force.”
ons.
“A dynamic force” was how Ar-
thur Hardy, publisher of the annu-
al Mardi Gras Guide, described
Mr. Kern in a phone interview. Mr.
Kern was, he added, “one of the
most significant people in the
whole history of the event.”
Mr. Kern supersized Mardi
Gras with his floats, but he also
enlarged the celebration by pro-
moting it tirelessly and democra-
tizing it. In the mid-19th century,
Mardi Gras, with its parades and
social balls, was the province of
the well-off white men who con-
trolled New Orleans’s business
A New Orleans native
often compared to
Walt Disney.
and society. To get a parade per-
mit, an organization needed to
stage more than a dozen floats,
which were expensive to build,
store and insure.
“What Blaine did was, he creat-
ed a pool of rental floats so many
groups could participate without
being a blue blood or having a zil-
lion dollars,” Mr. Hardy said.
“Now, this was a business move. I
don’t think Blaine was trying to
save the world by doing this. But it
made it available to more people.”
In 1968, Mr. Kern lobbied suc-
cessfully for one krewe to appoint
a Jewish parade marshal, some-
thing unheard-of at the time. And
in 1991, when a Black City Council
member introduced a law that
would deny parade permits to so-
cial clubs that discriminated in
their membership ranks, Mr.
Kern, who belonged to a krewe
with Black members, supported
the law, which passed. (He did not,
however, want all-male krewes to
welcome women.)
In 1984, Mr. Kern opened Mardi
Gras World, giving tourists the op-
portunity to visit the 300,000-
square-foot warehouse where his
floats were built and, in a sense, to
experience Mardi Gras year-
round. The gift shop does a robust
business.
Having grown up in the city’s
Algiers neighborhood, a histori-
cally poor area on the West Bank
of the Mississippi River, Mr. Kern
delighted in the local fame and
wealth he achieved. He “lived un-
apologetically large and loud,” as
The Times-Picayune put it — driv-
ing a Mercedes, handing out busi-
ness cards that referred to himself
as “Mr. Mardi Gras” and traveling
the world. He married four times,
most recently in 2010, when he
was in his 80s, to a woman 49
years his junior.
“He ran all the gas out of the
tank, so to speak,” said Barry
Kern, who today runs Kern Stu-
dios, the parade attraction busi-
ness he and his father had formed.
He added: “My dad had a big
ego. But nothing was more impor-
tant to him than the adoration of
people who would see his pa-
rades.”
Blaine Salvador Kern was born
in New Orleans on May 17, 1927.
His mother, Josephine (Gendusa)
Kern, was a homemaker. His fa-
ther, Roy, was a sign painter who
spent more time fishing and
drinking than working.
At one point the family was un-
able to pay rent, and Blaine, along
with his mother and three sisters,
moved in with neighbors, who
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were retired schoolteachers. In
their book-filled house he read Blaine Kern in 2005 at Mardi Gras World, the New Orleans tourist attraction he opened in 1984.
H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs
and other authors and later cred- animatronics that he had ob- to serve theme parks and parades home city, where he instead be-
ited that experience with awak- served in Europe, forever chang- in other parts of the world and came the “Walt Disney of Mardi
ening his imagination. ing the look of Mardi Gras. even to help with billboards for Gras,” as The New York Times
Mr. Kern was not long out of the By 1981, his company was turn- Chick-fil-A: His firm made the fi- once proclaimed him. By his own
Army when, in the 1950s, he began ing out 350 to 400 floats a year and berglass cows that adorned them. account, it worked out pretty well.
building floats for Rex, the most had contracts to produce 30 of the In addition to his son Barry, Mr. “Life’s been good,” Mr. Kern told
prominent and well-funded Mardi 51 parades that rolled during the Kern is survived by his wife, Holly U.S. News and World Report in
Gras organization. Its captain, Mardi Gras season that year. Kern; two other sons, Blaine Jr. 1986. “I have met three or four
Darwin Fenner, sent Mr. Kern to Competitors soon emerged, but and Brian; two daughters, Thais presidents, dozens of governors.
Europe (paying his way) to study Mr. Kern retained his market Barr and Blainey Kern; 10 grand- I’ve been everywhere.”
artistic techniques in Valencia, share. Ultimately, his son said, in children; and one great-grandson. “And,” he added, “I’m a float
Spain; Viareggio, Italy; and other the 1990s when the superkrewes Early in his career, the story builder.”
places known for parades and fes- accelerated their float rivalry, the goes, Mr. Kern was recruited by
tivals. On his return, Mr. Kern be- cost of some Kern floats exceeded Walt Disney himself to work in
gan incorporating into his floats a million dollars. California. He passed up the op- More obituaries appear on
the bright colors, large props and He later expanded his business portunity and chose to stay in his Page A24.

Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths

Adler, Norman Gordon, Gerald Tobar, Mario
Amir, Pual Henningsen, Mayde Zann, Nicky
Braunstein, Ruth Levine, Gladys
Cole, Gladys Marans, Arnold
Goodison, Jules Samberg, Arthur
swimming, hiking, traveling,
ADLER—Norman.
Norman Adler died peaceful- and exploring. He much pre-
ferred to give than to take,
ly at age 96 on July 15. He was
and he regularly offered
mentally sharp and emotion-
ally strong to the end, using knowledge, wisdom, and love
- as well as the biggest slice of
his last days to share his
deeply held feelings toward pie, the most comfortable
chair, or the best view from a
his family, whom he loved so
much. For decades, Norman scenic overlook. He was, on
every day of his life, a good,
taught Shakespeare to high
school students, inspiring kind man who will be
them with his love of reading, sorely missed.
and he later chaired the
English and History depart-
AMIR—Paul.
ments at Aviation High
The Board and staff of the
School in Long Island City. He
American Friends of the Is-
was a natural teacher and
rael Museum and of the Is-
an eloquent speaker, ever-
rael Museum, Jerusalem
enthusiastic about discussing
mourn the death of our dear
books, politics, music, educa-
friend Paul Amir, beloved
tion, and culture with family
Board and Executive Com-
and friends, reveling in all in-
mittee member. Paul's com-
tellectual exchanges. For 73
mitment to the Museum was
years, he was the loving hus-
exceptional. Paul and his wife
band, travel companion, and
Herta have been deeply loyal
best friend to Mildred, whose
and generous supporters who
death preceded his by two have enabled the Museum's
years. He was a devoted, growth by enriching the col-
deeply engaged father to lection, gifting generously for
Charles and Stephen; loving the renewal of the Shrine of
grandfather to Martin, Susan, the Book, and were lead do-
Elizabeth, and Jonathan; and nors of the Museum's Cam-
delighted great-grandpa to pus renewal project among
Parker, all of whom survive many other things. Our heart-
him. Norman loved Aque- felt condolences to Herta,
bogue and Vermont, boating, Orna and Keenan, and the en-
tire family.
Stephen Lash &
Judy Steinhardt,
Board Co-Chairs, AFIM
Jill Bernstein,
President, AFIM
Ido Bruno, Anne &
Jerome Fisher Dir., IMJ
Leah Siegel, Exec Dir, AFIM
BRAUNSTEIN—Ruth
Nagashima.
Died July 14, 2020 in Phoenix,
age 80. Mother of Chris and
Dawn Matus. Services pend-
ing.
COLE—Gladys,
age 90, passed away peace-
fully at home on Tuesday,
July 14, 2020, surrounded by
her loving family. Cherished
wife of the late Charles J.
Cole and the late Albert Le-
vine, daughter of Dr. William
Douglas and Carrie Douglas,
sister of Dr. Bruce Douglas
and wife Jan, adored mother
of Abbie (Glenn), Kenneth
(Maria), Neil (Elizabeth),
Evan (Sherry), and loving
grandmother of Tara (Mat-
thew), Bradley, Brandon,
Cory (Alyssa), Emily (Mat-
thew), Alexander (Morgan),
Amanda, Catherine, Charley,
and great-grandchildren
Blake, Max, Ellie, and Simon.
Stepmother of Richard Le-
vine and the late Dr. Robert
Levine and family. They say
it's not what you have at the
end of life, but what you
leave behind that matters.
Thank you, Mom, for your
unconditional love, and
for your generous and
meaningful life example.
Private family interment at
Beth David Cemetery.
COLE—Gladys Douglas.
I was so blessed to have had
you for my mother. You were
a strong and guiding light for
which I will be forever grate-
ful. I can now rest knowing
you are at peace and with
Daddy, and will continue
looking over us and guiding
me in the right direction. You
gave me the greatest gift I
can now have with Georgie
and I will cherish him and
take care of him for you. I
love you Mom.
With love forever,
Abbie, Brad, Glenn & Georgie
COLE—Gladys Levine.
High Ridge Country Club
acknowledges with sorrow
the passing of our esteemed
member, Gladys Cole Levine.
We extend our deepest
sympathy to her family.
Alan Osofsky,
President;
Barbara Dilsheimer,
Secretary
GOODISON—Jules.
The partners, counsel, asso-
ciates and staff of the firm of
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP express pro-
found sorrow at the death on
July 12th of Dr. Jules Goodis-
on, beloved father of our
friend and partner, Eric
Goodison. He was prede-
ceased by his wife of 61
years, Marlene, on July 5th.
We express our deepest sym-
pathies to Eric, his wife Lisa,
their children Sara and Har-
ris, Eric's sister Lisa and her
husband Roy Faden and their
children Danielle and Mat-
thew, and to all other mem-
bers of the family.
GORDON—Gerald,
devoted husband, father,
grandfather and greatgrand-
father passed away after a
brief illness. He was born in
Brooklyn in 1927 to Louis and
Irene. A veteran, he served in
the military during WW2 in
the signal corps in the Philip-
pines. Upon his return, he gra-
duated from NYU. Jerry met
the love of his life, Marlene
Rabinowitz who he married
in 1952 and had three child-
ren. Gerald had great success
in the business world joining
Accurate Casting Corp, a me-
tals casting manufacturer,
where he soon became a
partner. Through his leader-
ship Accurate became a re-
spected leader in the indus-
try. He was active in local pol-
itics serving as a committee
man. He was also actively in-
volved with the South Bald-
win Jewish Center serving as
an officer. He was prede-
ceased by his daughter Amy
and survived by his wife of 68
years, Marlene and children
Melanie (Michael) and
Robert, four grandchildren,
Heather (Josh) Marc (Aman-
da) Benjamin and Alex and
four great-grandchildren, Dy-
lan, Gryffin, Liam and Leight-
on. Upon retirement, Gerald
resided in Boynton Beach, FL
enjoying painting, golf, and
investing. For those who wish
to make a donation, Gerald's
preferred charity is the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal.
HENNINGSEN—Mayde L.
July 12, 2020, in her 94th year,
after a long period of declin-
ing health cheerfully borne.
Born November 4th 1926 to
Francis Henry and Mary Bed-
ford Harris Ludington, she
was a lifelong resident of Pel-
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EDITORIAL LETTERS

N.Y.P.D. Seeks to Limit Press Scrutiny A Vaccine: The Waiting and the Worries
TO THE EDITOR: and doctors who are working on
this. But the last few months have
Re “A Vaccine Doesn’t Work if
Increased public scrutiny of American policing — through “misrepresenting the press credential” or a perceived “at- People Don’t Take It” (Sunday given me no reason to trust the
cellphone videos, social media and mass protests — has re- tempt to interfere” with police officers’ work. Such rules are Review, July 12): government that regulates their
vealed in recent weeks an urgent need for sustained and written far too broadly and could easily be used to penalize I thank Dr. Phoebe Danziger for work. I have given my young
systemic reform. The New York Police Department has cho- journalists who are simply observing and documenting po- her thorough and persuasive argu- daughter every vaccine recom-
ment in favor of a more concerted mended by her pediatrician, with-
sen to respond by pressing ahead with new rules to grant lice actions. out a second thought. I will most
effort to educate the population
wider latitude to bar journalists from covering official police It’s little surprise, then, that the rules quickly drew ire about the importance of vaccina- definitely not be first in line for this
activity. from other New York officials. tions. I wholeheartedly agree that one — not until Mr. Trump and his
The department.’s proposed regulations would add new “Let’s revoke the NYPD’s ability to issue press creden- the approach needs to change, crooked team are swept out of
tials entirely. They’ve repeatedly proven that they are un- engaging social and religious lead- office. I believe in science. This
reasons to revoke reporters’ credentials that allow them
ers as well as medical profession- administration does not.
past police lines. In a news release Wednesday, the depart- willing and unable to oversee a legitimate process,” Scott
als. PIAN ROCKFELD, NEW YORK
ment outlined a litany of offenses that can cost reporters Stringer, the city’s comptroller, tweeted. Keith Powers, a
However, her article identifies —
their credentials, including being arrested, being perceived City Council member, tweeted that he was considering legis- but never provides an answer for
lation that would move credentialing to a new agency. TO THE EDITOR:
not to be complying with police orders or conduct that “in- — the primary reason I will wait
before vaccinating myself and my Dr. Phoebe Danziger lays out a
terferes with legitimate law enforcement needs.”
family: the deeply corrupt, anti- number of difficulties in recruiting
The timing of the changes, in the works for years, sends science government that President the large numbers of people
a message that police officials are trying to hinder an impor- Trump has created. needed to accept a Covid-19 vac-
tant check on their conduct. The new rules themselves are Through intimidation, bullying cine, and thus make it truly effec-
an affront to both good government and common sense. As and threats to fire those who dis- tive.
agree, he has created a Centers for Sorry to add to the problems she
proposed, they are too broad and clear the way for the de-
Disease Control and Prevention outlines, but I would include older
partment to act capriciously in retaliation against the press. that is amending its health guide- Americans among those with
The city has included journalists on the list of essential lines within hours of an angry concerns. Many drug trials have
workers in the pandemic, allowing them to be on the streets tweet, he has promoted harmful historically eschewed using older
even during Covid-19 lockdowns and out after curfews. In and phony “cures,” and he has people or those with any pre-exist-
awarded a $1.6 billion vaccine ing conditions during drug trials.
practice, however, the police have too often treated report- As a result, we have little way of
contract to a pharmaceutical com-
ers as a nuisance. In New York City and beyond, reporters pany that has never successfully knowing if a positive effect in
were a frequent target of retaliation by police officers during brought a product to market. children and younger adults will
the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. Jour- Under these conditions, who can hold true with senior citizens.
nalists were pushed, bludgeoned and shuffled away as cam- possibly trust that the first vaccine I believe in vaccines and I see
to emerge from Operation Warp the complexities. Transparency,
eras rolled. In June, for instance, two Associated Press re- clarity about risks and benefits,
Speed (a name that also does not
porters were shoved and berated by officers and ordered to imply careful and meticulous and a medical-political alliance in
go home shortly after a curfew went into effect, though they work) will have undergone the communicating are essential. We
were permitted to be there. proper testing and scrutiny that don’t have that now, not even close.
Despite those efforts, journalists still documented how other vaccines have? MARY ANNE LUSHE
I do not doubt the hard work and WALLED LAKE, MICH.
the police often treated peaceful protesters more like enemy integrity of the many scientists
combatants. Video and news stories showed officers strik-
ing back at demonstrators with pepper spray, batons and TO THE EDITOR:

rubber bullets. I agree with Dr. Phoebe Danziger

that some strategies, such as
A Police Department official noted that the proposed Athletes’ Covid-19 Tests “green vaccines” or coalitions of
rule changes were drawn up before the protests following TO THE EDITOR: persuasive leaders, may influence
Mr. Floyd’s killing. The changes are the culmination of a Re “Coronavirus Briefing: The some of those whose distrust of
lawsuit filed in 2015, when the photojournalist Jason Nicho- Dire State of Testing” (ny- science, government or the world
las sued over the repeated revocation of his credentials. Mr. times.com, July 7): in general would lead them to
avoid vaccination. I think what will
Nicholas said at the time that police officials tried to prevent Older, symptomatic, high-risk
work to persuade hard core anti-
him and other reporters from witnessing police activity by NICHOLAS KONRAD patients sit in cars for hours hop-
vaxxers is a daily scorecard: Of
penning them in far from unfolding events and by selec- ing to be able to get tested for
It’s time to consider more seriously the comptroller’s the people who present with dis-
Covid-19 and possibly get results ease, how many of the sick were
tively pulling their press passes, which would bar them from proposal. Revoking credentials “goes against everything we back in a week (if they are still
access. vaccinated against the disease
believe in,” said Mr. Stringer in an interview. “We should al- alive). Young healthy athletes get versus how many were not? If you
The proposed rules are being released now for public ways side with the free press — it’s all we’ve got.” frequent if not daily tests and want to protect yourself and your
scrutiny and comment after delays in the court system dur- quick results to make sure that child, which group do you think
Credentialing in 2020 is difficult enough as it is. Many
ing the coronavirus pandemic, a police official said. A public they can keep getting paid to play you should join?
journalists rely on credentials to do their jobs. Revocation a game. It’s ridiculous.
hearing on them is set for next month. But the announce- can threaten that livelihood. Smaller media outlets have JOYCE ADAMS, PORTLAND, ORE.
To all the N.B.A., M.L.B. and
ment and potential impact cannot be viewed out of the con- been sidelined by the process, particularly criteria that re- N.H.L. players claiming to be
text of the weeks of demonstrations: Now is not the time to quire clips from events where a credential is needed to champions of social justice: Give TO THE EDITOR:
shield the police from the press’s watchful eye. cover them. Rather than sliding backward, New York can be up your “athletes’ privilege.” Do- I know several people who refuse
Even in more tranquil periods, the police have used cre- a leader for other cities by establishing clear standards for nate the thousands of tests you will to take vaccines. Sadly, I will miss
dentials to bully reporters into compliance, threatening to credentialing that make arbitrary revocation more difficult. receive to people who really need them!
them.
revoke them on the spot for minor infractions — real or The department is in need of immediate reform, includ- I. MILTON KARABELL
imagined. ing changing tactics and procedures that put lives in danger. LEE GOLDBERG, NAPERVILLE, ILL. PHILADELPHIA

Particularly troubling in the proposed regulations are But for a department also in dire need of more transparency
several that grant officers too much leeway to take a report- and oversight, making it easier for police officers to punish
er’s credentials. The rules govern, for instance, a reporter’s journalists is a foreboding development. Bari Weiss: A Fiery Parting Shot at The Times
TO THE EDITOR: Want to know how to sell more
Re “An Opinion Editor and Writer papers? Publish a greater diversity
at The New York Times Quits” of ideas, generate more conversa-
(Business Day, July 15): tion and, every once in a while,
I read Bari Weiss’s resignation make a Jacobin mad.
letter with . . . well, a sense of resig- CARL LOEB, FAIRFAX, CALIF.
nation. And elation. Resignation
FARHAD MANJOO because you’re losing a fresh, skep-
tical voice. Elation because she TO THE EDITOR:

Please Don’t Call Them Heroes

IN AMERICA, you should always get a little
suspicious when politicians suddenly
start calling you a hero. It’s a well-worn
trick; they’re buttering you up before sac-
rificing you to the gods of unconstrained
capitalism and governmental neglect.
A few months ago, it was nurses, doc-
tors and other essential workers who
were hailed as heroes — a perfectly accu-
rate and heartwarming sentiment, but
also one meant to obscure the sorry reali-
ty that the world’s richest country was
asking health care workers to treat coro-
navirus patients without providing ade-
quate protective gear.
“Please don’t call me a hero,” a nurse in
Brooklyn wrote on a protest sign at the
time. “I am being martyred against my
will.”
Now it’s America’s parents and teach-
ers who are being valorized for doing a job
that really should not require putting their
lives on the line.
At a White House event last week to en-
courage the nation’s schools to reopen,
Vice President Mike Pence laid the hero-
ism on thick. Parents and teachers, he
said, were “two categories of heroes that
emerged” in the crisis. Since the pan-
demic is all but over, at least in the magical
thinking of the Trump administration,
Pence wants parents and teachers to
again put on their capes and save the day.
“To open up America again, we got to open
up America’s schools,” he said.
I want schools to reopen as much any
parent does. My wife and I were driven to
the verge of breakdown this spring while
trying to home-school our kids while
working from home, and I am freaking out
about having to do that again in the fall.
But parents and teachers would be wise
to reject any invitation to unnecessary
heroism. I don’t want educating my kids to
gests that classrooms can be safe when
the virus is contained or declining, and so
long as schools take necessary precau-
tions to minimize the chance that class-
rooms become superspreaders. But in
much of the nation, the virus remains un-
contained, and so we face a grim future.
There is likely to be danger and chaos if
the schools do not reopen, and there will
be danger and chaos if they do.
The needs of children and working par-
ents have long been ignored by American
lawmakers, but I’ve never felt the govern-
ment’s neglect as viscerally as in its inabil-
ity to make school safe again during a pan-
demic.
Shouldn’t getting our kids back to
school have been a primary goal of the fed-
eral government throughout the sum-
Parents and teachers
need a real plan
to reopen schools safely.
mer? What possible excuse can anyone
muster for falling down on this job?
I’m reminded of that famous presiden-
tial call to sacrifice: Ask not what your
country can do for you . . . because hon-
estly, it probably won’t do much of any-
thing, and your best bet when facing a cri-
sis is to just learn to live with it. (This
sounds like a joke, but it’s the actual plan:
“The virus is with us, but we need to live
with it,” an anonymous administration of-
ficial recently told NBC News.)
Experts say there are many ways to
mitigate the risks of the coronavirus while
reopening the schools. The most obvious
of these would have been to reduce the
office buildings or gyms for the space re-
quired to teach students while social dis-
tancing.
In May, Democrats in the House passed
a bill that calls for $58 billion in new funds
for schools. But the Republican Senate has
not taken up the measure, and President
Trump has done little more than post sev-
eral all-caps tweets demanding that they
reopen. In cable-news interviews this
weekend, Betsy DeVos, the education sec-
retary, refused to say if schools should fol-
low the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention’s health guidelines, which
calls for strict social distancing, masks
and the installation of physical barriers
and improved ventilation to reduce the
spread of the virus.
DeVos’s plan, like Trump’s, appears to
be little more than wishful thinking: Go to
school. Don’t worry about it. Things will
be fine. You’re a hero!
Forgive me if I feel less like a hero than
like a chump. This week several large
school districts, including Los Angeles
and San Diego, announced that it’s too
dangerous to open for in-person instruc-
tion. I expect that we’ll see a wave of oth-
ers deciding the same, leaving parents
across the country in an impossible bind.
There is a danger that frustrated par-
ents blame teachers for the crisis. After
all, distance learning has been a disaster.
It’s unfair, and likely impossible, for kids to
learn by themselves off a screen, and in
my experience, remote learning requires
a great deal of parental oversight, which is
difficult or impossible for most overbur-
dened parents.
But as I tried and failed to educate my
kids during months under quarantine, I
gained new appreciation for my children’s
teachers, and I’m wary of asking more of
them. Spending a day teaching kids has
called you out on your new toxic
woke culture and put her money
where her mouth is.
I identify as a left-leaning cen-
trist. My education trained me to
greet the world with an open mind.
I believe in dialogue, not debate.
And as a Times reader since col-
lege, I can see it plain as day: The
Times has largely abandoned dia-
logue when it comes to cultural
issues and ideas. You’ve handed the
keys to America’s greatest paper to
a strident, new orthodoxy that will
not tolerate intellectual diversity.
God, how sad.
I used to love reading William
Safire’s column in The Times; I
didn’t agree with his politics, but I
celebrated his dexterity with the
language.
I never thought I’d turn to The
American Conservative for comfort,
but at least it has the guts to pub-
lish controversial opinions that run
counter to conservative orthodoxy.
I used to get that from The Times.
Paean to a Reporter
TO THE EDITOR:
“As Paper Withers, a Reporter
Dares to Ask Why” (front page,
July 11) was an obituary for small-
town journalism. Thank you for
having Dan Barry write it.
Reporters, photographers and
editors nodded in shared experi-
ence, laughed occasionally and,
maybe, shed a few tears. I’ve
known dozens of Evan Brandts (the
reporter featured in your article) in
my career. Maybe I’m even one.
We’ve made a difference, I like to
think, a chance that today’s young
journalists, better educated, just as
There is suddenly a great deal of
concern being expressed over
“cancel culture” on the left, general-
ly ignoring that the right has been
suppressing dissent and penalizing
nonconformity for decades. Still, it
cannot be denied that many on the
left have adopted an intolerant
posture toward those in their own
ranks who deviate from what is
currently considered politically
correct opinion. Free expression is
the centerpiece of liberal politics,
and its defense must be a priority.
Two points must be noted. First,
it is not bullying or harassment to
have people disagree with your
opinions or to be made the subject
of criticism for expressing views
that others find morally reprehensi-
ble. Too often those who complain
about “cancel culture” seem suspi-
ciously thin-skinned, at least when
it’s their opinions or the opinions of
people they agree with that come
under attack.
Second, speech is not violence.
Undoubtedly, words can sting. They
can be hurtful and offensive. But
the best remedy for the wounds
inflicted by words consists of words
spoken in rebuttal.
Bari Weiss was not forced to
leave The Times; she chose to
resign in protest. She also chose to
make her resignation an indictment
of The Times and its workplace
culture. Fair enough. But in the
escalating war over “cancel culture”
there is a danger that both sides are
seeking to stigmatize each other.
And this mutual application of tar
and feathers will not do the cause of
free expression any good at all.
STEPHEN NEWMAN, TORONTO
The writer is an associate professor of
politics at York University.
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be a heroic act of American defiance — I
want it to be ordinary. And I’d rather not
sacrifice my children’s teachers, either, so
that America’s economy can begin hum-
ming once more.
Again and again in this crisis, the fed-
eral government’s callous incompetence
has left Americans with no good options.
Early research on school reopening sug-
spread of the virus, but you know how well
that’s going.
The federal government could also
have provided the hundreds of billions of
dollars that school district officials say is
necessary to remake education during a
pandemic. We could have funded hazard
pay for teachers and paid time off for par-
ents, and come up with a plan to repurpose
got to be one of the most difficult and most
thankless jobs our society asks profes-
sionals to do. It doesn’t strike me as fair to
demand that teachers now risk their lives,
too, just because our government couldn’t
be bothered to protect them. Teachers
shouldn’t have to be heroes to do their
jobs; educating our children should be
heroism enough.
diligent, might not have. All of us
will be the worse for the official
never questioned and the article
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GAIL COLLINS
Who Can
Depress Trump
This Fall?
I HOPE BY NOW you’ve managed to come to
grips with the fact that we’re no longer go-
ing to have Jeff Sessions in our lives.
“It’s been a real adventure for me,” Ses-
sions said in his concession speech this
week, after he lost the Republican Senate
nomination to a former football coach
whose biggest campaign moment proba-
bly came when his bus caught on fire.
Not clear which adventure Sessions
was referring to — scampering out of the
Senate to become Donald Trump’s attor-
ney general and wage his long-dreamed-
of war against immigrants? Accepting the
advice of Justice Department lawyers and
recusing himself from the Russia investi-
gation? Being attacked by a furious
Trump who had purposely put Sessions in
the job to get protection from the forces of
. . . justice?
Truly, he’s been badly treated by the
man who he helped propel into the presi-
dency. Hehehehe.
It’s a little weird contemplating Ses-
sions now. Trump’s treatment of him was
outrageous, but if anybody’s going to suf-
fer a political stab in the back, you have to
be glad it’s the guy whose policies as attor-
ney general ranged from keeping more
people in prison longer to “good people
don’t smoke marijuana.”
Tommy Tuberville, the football coach
who beat Sessions, doesn’t seem to have
any ideas beyond flexing his muscles and
promising to do whatever President
Trump likes. Alabamians have no idea
what he would do if Joe Biden was presi-
dent, since Tuberville will never acknowl-
edge such a possibility.
The nominee will go on to fight against
Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat who
you’ll recall won his seat in a race against
a judge with a history of making improper
advances to teenage girls. Tuberville will
presumably be more of a challenge.
I guess we’ll have to chalk the Alabama
primary up as a win for Trump, who as-
sured voters that Sessions was “not men-
tally qualified.” (This was before the presi-
dent gave that wild, rambling press con-
ference in which he claimed Biden was op-
posed to windows.)
We’re deep into the Senate election sea-
son now, with primaries right and left, set-
ting the stage for the Democrats’ attempt
to take control of the majority in 2021. Ev-
erything is on the line — taxes, economic
recovery, Supreme Court justices.
Let’s look at a few of the battles brew-
ing. You’ll be able to discuss them with
your friends over virtual cocktails. And if
Goodbye, Jeff Sessions,
hello . . . Heir Archy.
you want to send a donation or two to can-
didates who strike your fancy, go for it.
In Maine, Republican Senator Susan
Collins is fighting for survival. You may re-
member Collins as the self-styled brave
independent moderate, who spends most
of her working days caving in.
Her opponent will be Sara Gideon, the
speaker of the state House. Gideon won
the Democratic primary Tuesday over
two lesser-known women who seemed to
spend much of their time attacking her for
not agreeing to enough debates.
That’s an important rule for political
campaigns: When all else fails, demand
more debates. John McCain insisted that
he and Barack Obama have 10. Trump is
already complaining about Biden’s refusal
to go beyond the three scheduled.
Gideon showed up for two, which
seemed OK given the fact that she was
about a mile ahead in the polls. But it’s per-
fectly fair to have your doubts about a can-
didate who won’t debate at all. Coach Tu-
berville, for instance, said he backed out of
any new encounters with Sessions be-
cause of:
A) The coronavirus.
B) Donald Trump already having
praised his mental capacity.
C) Lack of attractive cheerleaders.
Yeah, he blamed the coronavirus.
Hardly exists at all for the Trump camp,
unless somebody is asking you to do
something you don’t want to do.
Moving west there’s Arizona, which
looks like it’s going to be huge. This is the
one that could tip the balance for the Sen-
ate Democrats. The Republican incum-
bent is Martha McSally, who lost a Senate
race in 2018, but then was appointed to the
state’s second seat after John McCain died
and his successor quit. You could argue
that she’s been through a lot. Everything,
really, except being elected to her job.
We’re pretty sure McSally’s Democratic
opponent is going to be former astronaut
Mark Kelly, even though Kelly first has to
weather a primary against someone
named Bo Garcia. All we know about Bo is
that his nickname is “Heir Archy” and he’s
running as a write-in candidate. Really,
that’s all. No campaign website, no noth-
ing. But if you write in his name on your
ballot, they’ll count the vote.
Do not be dispirited because some of
the people running for high office in Amer-
ica appear to be phantom candidates from
nowhere. Think of it this way: It’s sort of
inspiring how wide open the system
sometimes is, as long as you don’t expect
to actually get elected to anything.
One of my favorite meaningless races
was for an Idaho Senate seat in 2010. No-
body had any doubt that Mike Crapo, the
Republican incumbent, was going to win.
Eventually Democrat William Bryk vol-
unteered to oppose him, just so Crapo
would have some competition. This came
after he noticed that you did not actually
have to live in Idaho in order to run there.
Bryk was, in fact, a bankruptcy lawyer in
Brooklyn. His campaign slogan was, “If
Elected, I Will Move.”
Right now, that sort of sounds better
than Make America Great Again. 0 draconian reductions in essential services
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
When America Bombed Itself
Joshua Wheeler
W
HEN America detonated the world’s first atomic
bomb at 0529 hours on July 16, 1945, it was an attack
on American soil.
The blast melted the sand of southern New Mex-
ico and infused it with the bomb’s plutonium core — 80 percent of
which failed to fission — scattering radioactive material across
the desert. The first atomic bomb was both a feat of engineering
and, by today’s standards, a crude dirty bomb.
After riding the fireball over seven miles into the sky, as much
as 230 tons of radioactive sand mixed with ash and caught the
breeze of a cool summer morning. It floated 15 miles northwest to
the Gallegos Ranch, where it fell and bleached the cattle. The
dirty ash floated 20 miles northeast to the
M.C. Ratliff Ranch, where that family
would spend days cleaning it off their roof,
off their crops and out of their water cis-
tern. Thirty-five miles southeast, at the
Herreras’ home in Tularosa, the radioac-
tive soot stained the white linens drying on
the clotheslines.
The fallout from that detonation, code-
named Trinity, floated over a thousand square miles and exposed
thousands of families to radiation levels that “approached 10,000
times what is currently allowed,” according to the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention.
In the hours after the explosion, 185 Army personnel chased
the fallout to monitor its extent. They chased it so far that their
communications radios stopped working. Some who were sta-
tioned a few miles north of Trinity looked anxiously at their
whirring Geiger counters and decided to bury their now-irradiat-
ed breakfast steaks.
Those soldiers had been given respirators, but at least
one forgot his and was forced to take the offi-
cially sanctioned precaution of breathing
through a slice of bread. Others were
sent out with vacuum cleaners in
a futile attempt to suck up the
fallout.
In short, the Army was
woefully unprepared and
even willfully negligent
about the fallout of its
first atomic bomb. It
warned no resi-
dents. It ordered no
evacuations. It
maintained that
the area around
Trinity was safe,
even when it
knew it was not.
So Americans
went on living in
the fallout, work-
ing in the fallout,
eating from the
dirty soil.
Downwind of
the blast, the in-
fant mortality
rate, after declin-
ing in previous
years, spiked. It in-
creased by as much
as 52 percent in 1945,
with the highest in-
crease occurring in Au-
gust through October, the
months immediately after Trinity. Re-
cent research suggests that when America deto-
nated the world’s first atomic bomb, its first victims
were American babies.
Though there is no conclusive data about the rise
in cancer rates after Trinity, largely be-
cause of a lack of government funding
for such studies, stories collected
by the Tularosa Basin Down-
winders Consortium reveal gen-
erations ravaged by nearly ev-
ery cancer. An Army doctor later
wrote about Trinity: “A few people
were probably overexposed, but they
couldn’t prove it and we couldn’t prove it. So we just
assumed we got away with it.”
It has been 75 years and the American govern-
ment still refuses to admit that the detona-
tion of the “gadget,” as the Trinity
bomb was called, was a nucle-
ar disaster.
Aboveground nuclear
testing was halted in
1963. Underground
testing, which is com-
parably safer but still
terrifying, was stopped in
Helping States Helps the Whole Nation
Ben S. Bernanke
T
HE coronavirus pandemic has
set loose a recession of shocking
speed and severity. In the coming
months, the actions taken by both
the public and the private sectors will
have economic and public health reper-
cussions that will reverberate for years.
As a member of Gov. Phil Murphy’s Re-
start and Recovery Commission in New
Jersey, I have worked to help put together
a reopening strategy, one that not only will
allow the state’s economy to move for-
ward but also will address the glaring in-
equalities the pandemic has revealed.
The experience has been eye-opening.
It’s become abundantly clear that the re-
sponsibility for responding to the pan-
demic cannot lie only with local and state
governments. Congress must act deci-
sively — and it must act in ways that don’t
repeat mistakes of the recent past, during
the Great Recession.
Our state governments serve a dual
role as providers of critical services —
health care, public safety, education and
mass transit — as well as large employers.
Many states, including New Jersey, are re-
sponsible for tens of thousands of jobs and
the paychecks that go with them.
Since a raging outbreak in March, New
Jersey has flattened the curve of new
Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. But
since it had to virtually shut down in order
to control the spread, that success has
come at a staggering cost: The state faces
a revenue shortfall in the billions of dol-
lars.
Many other states face ominous budg-
etary outlooks, too, implying the need for
1992. But today the Trump administration is floating the idea of
resuming such testing — even though America is, after more than
1,000 tests, already the most nuclear-bombed country in the
world.
“We maintain and will maintain the ability to conduct nuclear
tests if we see any reason to do so, whatever that reason may be,”
President Trump’s nuclear negotiator said last month.
Mr. Trump campaigned in 2016 saying he wanted to be “unpre-
dictable” with nuclear weapons. He went on to antagonize North
Korea in 2017 by tweeting, “My first order as President was to
renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal.” According to Ax-
ios, he suggested “multiple times” the use of “nuclear bombs to
stop hurricanes from hitting the United States.”
He withdrew from many arms agreements, including the Iran
nuclear deal, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and
the Open Skies Treaty. And he raised the budget of the National
Nuclear Security Administration by more
than 50 percent.
An anniversary What’s next? An explosive nuclear test
that’s a warning, can be orchestrated in as little as six
months. And with a president whose lust
not a celebration. for nuclear weapons is as evident as his
lust for showmanship, that should terrify
all of us. Resumed explosive testing, even
underground, will undoubtedly encourage other nations to follow
suit.
Any explosive nuclear test is an escalation toward global anni-
hilation.
Congress is now so concerned that Democrats in the House
have proposed a bill that would prohibit Energy Department
funds from being used for nuclear weapons testing, while the Sen-
ate has introduced a bill to make any nuclear testing require a
joint resolution. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said,
“The decision to conduct an explosive nuclear test should not be
made without congressional approval and should never be made
by a president hoping to gain political points.”
But the decision to resume explosive nu-
clear tests should never be made at all.
We can and do perform successful
tests in virtual-reality chambers
using advanced supercomput-
ers. Explosives tests of any
kind carry magnitudes
more risk, and the conse-
quence of that risk has
historically fallen on
the most vulnerable
Americans.
It should come as
no surprise that the
downwinders
Trinity were large-
ly impoverished
agricultural fam-
ilies, mostly His-
panic and Native.
New Mexico, one
of the poorest
states in the na-
tion, is the only
one with a cradle-
to-grave nuclear
industry, where
weapons are de-
signed, uranium is
mined, and waste is
stored. This is “ra-
dioactive colonial-
ism,” with minority and
impoverished communi-
ties forced to suffer the costs
of the nuclear industry.
Henry Herrera, whose family’s drying linens
were stained by the fallout on that July morn-
ing in 1945, told me: “We were lab rats. That
ought to make us hero patriots or
something. Which we are. But no-
body gives a damn.” Mr. Her-
rera, his brother and his two sis-
ters all had cancer.
If Congress truly wants to
awaken Americans to the dan-
gers of nuclear testing, it should start
by finally telling the truth about the disas-
ter at Trinity. Bills to acknowledge and com-
pensate Mr. Herrera and other Trinity downwinders
have lingered in legislative purgatory for over a decade.
Passing them would help establish what should be ob-
vious: The shameful legacy of nuclear weapons
testing is something we should never at-
tempt to revive.
JOSHUA WHEELER, the author
of the essay collection
“Acid West,” teaches in
the creative writing
program at Louisiana
JESSE AUERSALO
State University.
and large potential job cuts. Furloughs Those numbers are particularly dire for
have already begun in New Jersey. Since people of color. They not only face a far
February, state and local governments greater health risk from Covid-19, they
collectively have laid off close to 1.5 mil- also have higher rates of unemployment
lion workers. than white families.
We have been here before. I was the States and localities are in desperate
chairman of the Federal Reserve during need of additional federal intervention be-
the global financial crisis and the subse- fore the bulk of the CARES Act funding ex-
quent Great Recession. As part of the re- pires this summer. Budget gaps like the
covery effort, Congress responded with a one in New Jersey cannot be closed by
stimulus package of nearly $800 billion. austerity alone. Multiply New Jersey’s
problems to reflect the experiences of all
But that package was partly offset by
state governments and thousands of local
cuts in spending and employment by state
governments and the result, without more
and local governments. With sharp de-
help from Congress, could be a signifi-
clines in tax revenue as the economy
cantly worse and protracted recession.
The CARES Act allocated $150 billion to
state and local governments. This new aid
Without aid from package must be significantly larger and
provide not only assistance for state and
Congress, the country local governments but also continued sup-
will linger in recession. port for the jobless, investments in public
health and stimulus payments to encour-
age household and business spending and
slowed, states and localities were con- restore full employment.
I know that states such as New Jersey
strained by balanced-budget require-
are grateful for the aid they have received
ments to make matching cuts in employ-
so far — without it, their fiscal reality
ment and spending, as they are still today.
would be much more grim. But much of
This fiscal headwind contributed to the
high unemployment of the Great Reces- the aid already provided has come with
tight restrictions, which means that it can-
sion, which peaked at 10 percent in late
not be used to offset budgetary shortfalls
2009.
Together with a subsequent turn to aus- resulting from the recession and pan-
demic-related shutdowns.
terity at the federal level, state and local
budget cuts meaningfully slowed the re- To continue to provide services that its
citizens need and to avoid severe budget
covery.
and employment cuts that will drag down
In the current recession, unemploy-
the economy, states and localities need
ment rates have been much higher than 10
more federal help. Providing that help is in
percent, and even with recent job gains
everyone’s interest. 0 everywhere. I fear lately that we will rec-
the Congressional Budget Office esti-
mates that, without further action from BEN S. BERNANKE, a former chairman of
Congress, the unemployment rate at the the Federal Reserve, is a distinguished
end of 2020 will most likely be close to 11 fellow in residence at the Brookings
percent. Institution.
N A23
We Need
Foreign
Students
L. Rafael Reif
C
ONFRONTED with a deadly vi-
rus, many American colleges and
universities are choosing to pro-
tect their communities by teach-
ing fall classes largely or entirely online.
Last week, the federal government delib-
erately disrupted those plans by propos-
ing a new rule that would have prevented
potentially hundreds of thousands of for-
eign students from studying in the United
States this fall if their classes were taught
remotely.
Harvard’s president, Larry Bacow,
termed this move “cruel and reckless,” a
ploy to force institutions to open classes as
if the pandemic had vanished. On Tuesday,
responding to a joint lawsuit led by Har-
vard and my institution, the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, as well as
pressure from many other quarters, the
government revoked the policy.
Yet the larger battle is far from over.
This misguided policy was one of many
signals that the administration wants for-
eign students to stay away — an attitude
that reflects a stark misreading of our na-
tional interest.
In any long-running competition, no
one understands your strengths better
than your rivals. At a dinner I attended a
few years back, Chinese tech leaders con-
tended that China’s most important eco-
nomic advantage is scale: China’s vast
population and market offer a permanent
leg up. But they also remarked on Ameri-
ca’s advantage in scientific creativity.
What gives our country this advan-
tage? Their explanation surprised me. Be-
cause the U.S. is heterogeneous, these
leaders told me, it draws the best and
of
brightest from all over the world to work
and create together. This, they said, was
much more difficult for China.
This astute observation captures why
forcing foreign students to abandon their
studies here would be disastrously self-
defeating for America: Precisely at a time
of sharp economic rivalries, we are sys-
tematically undermining the very
strength our competitors envy most.
Why is foreign talent so important to
the United States? For the same reason
the Boston Red Sox don’t limit themselves
to players born in Boston: The larger the
pool you draw from, the larger the supply
of exceptional talent. Moreover, America
gains immense creative advantage by ed-
They are vital to
American innovation
and competitiveness.
ucating top domestic students alongside
top international students. By challeng-
ing, inspiring and stretching one another,
they make one another better, just as star
players raise a whole team’s level of play.
Unfortunately, when you turn away
great players, rival teams sign them.
Other countries are working hard to at-
tract students who have soured on the
United States because of growing anti-im-
migrant hostility or bureaucratic road-
blocks. As a nation, when we turn our
backs on talented foreign students, we not
only lose all that they bring to our class-
rooms and laboratories, we also give up a
0
strategic asset.
We also lose the kind of personal drive
that built this country: the life force of bril-
liant young people with the courage and
ambition to leave everything familiar in
search of a better future. What’s more,
most students who come here to earn a
Ph.D. stay to build their families and ca-
reers, and often companies that create
thousands of jobs.
The latest data show, for example, that
83 percent of Ph.D. students from China,
the kind of highly trained scientists and
engineers who drive American innova-
tion, were still in the United States five
years after completing their degrees.
The percentage would be higher if long-
standing U.S. policies did not require
many students to return home after fin-
ishing their education. Recently, the per-
centage of doctoral graduates remaining
here has begun to decline, in part because
our national message is that they are not
welcome.
As some in Washington have sought to
limit foreign students, especially those
from China, that hostile message has
grown louder.
Of course the United States must screen
students seeking visas and keep out those
with dubious backgrounds. But even the
fiercest China hawks acknowledge that
when foreign interests engage in espio-
nage or intellectual theft, they seek to re-
cruit senior scientists.
I believe that we must increase the
number of Americans pursuing training in
science and engineering. But we must
also understand that America’s strength
in science and engineering is central to
the nation’s strength, period — and that a
core element of that strength has been our
ability to lure the world’s finest talent.
I first came to America in 1974 from
Venezuela, where my parents finally set-
tled as refugees from Hitler’s Europe. I
came to improve my own prospects
through a graduate degree. But I found a
culture of openness, boldness, ingenuity
and meritocracy — a culture that taught
me that in coming to America, I had truly
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come home.
Our competitors openly envy our ca-
pacity to welcome and adopt talent from
ognize this strategic U.S. strength only
once it is lost. 0
L. RAFAEL REIF is president of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
A24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020

Those We’ve Lost

Faces From the Coronavirus Pandemic

Jose Morón, 54 Michael W. Lewis, 65

Welder and Businessman
Whose Metal Creations
Adorn Chicago Buildings
By EMMETT LINDNER
When Jose Morón, known as
Fredo, first came to the United
States from Mexico at 18, the only
word he knew in English was
“cheeseburger,” and he ate a lot of
them. He was working construc-
tion jobs in Texas and would es-
cape the relentless heat by going
to restaurants and giving the
same order, day after day.
His job was tiring, the pay mea-
ger and the climate brutal. Mr.
Morón (pronounced more-OWN)
had larger ambitions.
Decades later, swaths of up-
scale neighborhoods and low-in-
come housing across Chicago dis-
play iron gates, metal stairwells
and window bars installed by Mr.
Morón and the employees of the
company he founded, New Town
Iron Works.
He was proud of the mark he
had made. “We would go out and
drive around,” Luisa Mendoza,
Mr. Morón’s partner of 28 years,
said. “He would say, ‘Oh, look, I
did this,’” pointing to the fruits of
his labor. “It was just beautiful
work.”
Mr. Morón died on June 16 at
University of Illinois Hospital in
Chicago. He was 54. Ms. Mendoza
said the cause was respiratory
failure and pneumonia brought on
by Covid-19.
Jose Alfredo Morón was born
on July 7, 1965, to Elias Morón and
VIA MORÓN FAMILY
Jose Morón ran a metalwork
business in Chicago. Behind
him is a gate fabricated by the
company he started in 2005,
New Town Iron Works.
Dulce Nunes was best known for the 1964 album “Poor Little Rich Girl.”
Dulce Nunes, 90
Actress and Bossa Nova Star of the 1960s
By MICHAEL ASTOR
Dulce Nunes seemed poised to become a
movie star, with her face plastered on the
covers of national magazines and a high-
profile marriage to one of Brazilian cine-
ma’s leading men. She had made several
films in her early 20s and found a place in
the society pages thanks to her storybook
marriage. The public eagerly awaited her
next movie.
Then she disappointed them, taking a de-
tour into singing and releasing a trio of al-
bums in the 1960s that capitalized on the
surging popularity of bossa nova.
She died of Covid-19 on June 4 in a Rio de
Janeiro hospital, her cousin Sergio Bres-
sane said. She was 90.
Ms. Nunes is best known for the 1964 al-
bum that launched her singing career,
“Poor Little Rich Girl,” with songs arranged
by Antonio Carlos Jobim from a musical by
Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the book,
and Carlos Lyra, who composed the music
— three of the biggest names in bossa nova,
which combined samba rhythms with jazz.
A year later, Ms. Nunes released her first
solo record, “Dulce,” featuring composi-
tions by up-and-coming bossa nova com-
posers, including Mr. Jobim. In 1967, she
came out with her only other solo record-
ing, “Writers’ Samba,” in which she sang
her own settings of contemporary Brazilian
poetry.
That same year she married Egberto
VIA NUNES FAMILY
Gismonti, her ex-husband’s nephew, who
became a successful musician in his own
right. The couple divorced in 1976, but Ms.
Nunes continued to sing on Mr. Gismonti’s
records into the early 1990s.
Dulce Pinto Bressane was born on June
11, 1929, in Rio de Janeiro to Fernando Bres-
sane, a merchant, and Euridyce de Oliveira
Pinto, a painter. She grew up in an uncon-
ventional family, in which the women
worked, smoked and associated with the
city’s bohemian set.
Ms. Nunes was expelled from a presti-
gious Roman Catholic school in Rio for bad
behavior, and she began acting while still in
her teens. She would complain about how
all the male leads tended to be older men,
but then married one of them: the actor,
composer, pianist and notorious lady’s man
Bené Nunes, in 1956. The couple separated
in 1963 but remained close until his death in
1997.
Ms. Nunes’ first movie, “Woman From
Afar,” came out in 1949, and in 1950 she ap-
peared in two more films, “Morning Star”
and “My Wife’s Fiancé.” Her last role was in
“The ABC of Love,” in 1967.
She is survived by her sisters, Heloisa
Bressane Neno Rosa and Amélia Bressane
Pontes.
Ms. Nunes began working as an interior
designer in the early 1990s, spending her fi-
nal years in Rio’s beachside Ipanema dis-
trict.
Volunteer Counselor of Newly Released Inmates
By NEIL GENZLINGER
After her father, Michael W.
Lewis, died of the coronavirus on
May 14 in Fort Worth, Tamara
Griffin was sorting through the
belongings in his home. One dis-
covery puzzled her.
“As I’m cleaning up his things, I
see all these backpacks,” she said
in a phone interview. “And I
thought, ‘Why are these back-
packs here?’ And you’d open it up
and see food and toothpaste.”
One of his friends explained the
mystery.
“He would ride around and give
these backpacks to homeless peo-
ple,” said Ms. Griffin, who con-
firmed his death.
That man distributing back-
packs to the less fortunate had
come a long way from the father
Ms. Griffin knew — or, often, did-
n’t know — when she was growing
up. He frequently wasn’t around
because he was in prison.
“He spent several decades in
and out,” Ms. Griffin said, “and I
know this to be true because he
was in and out of my life.”
But in recent years Mr. Lewis,
who was 65 at his death, had
turned things around. In addition
to his personal backpack project,
he had for some six years been
volunteering with Welcome Back
Tarrant County, a nonprofit orga-
nization that helps newly released
inmates readjust to life outside
prison.
Jerry Cabluck, founder and di-
rector of that group, said Welcome
Back had helped Mr. Lewis when
he was released from his latest
prison stay, at Huntsville, Texas.
The organization found a bicycle
for him so that he could get to
work, and soon Mr. Lewis com-
pleted a long-interrupted college
degree at Tarrant County College.
And he became a volunteer at
Welcome Home, counseling oth-
ers coming out of prison.
“We saw 2,000, 2,500 a year, and
this man was the exception,” Mr.
Cabluck said in a phone interview.
“He became a role model.”
Michael Wayne Lewis was born
on July 24, 1954, and grew up in
Oklahoma City. Ms. Griffin said he
had fallen in with the wrong crowd
there and had first gone to prison
on a minor drug charge. That be-
gan a cycle of repeated incarcera-
tions that continued until, she
said, he made a conscious deci-
sion to break it.
“He honestly said he didn’t
VIA LEWIS FAMILY
Michael W. Lewis forged a
new life after prison and
helped other former inmates.
want to die in jail,” she said.
After completing his degree he
worked as a mental health re-
source assistant. He also had a
business selling and delivering
smoked meats as well as a lawn-
care business.
“He was a hard worker and
wasn’t afraid of a little dirt,” Ms.
Griffin said.
Mr. Cabluck said Mr. Lewis had
made a particularly strong im-
pression when he spoke to groups
of the newly released because of a
keepsake of sorts that he had re-
tained from his own incarceration.
“Upon release, they give you an
orange bag,” Mr. Cabluck said,
something to hold an inmate’s few
belongings. “He kept that, and he
would always use that. He’d be
talking to a group of 20, 30, 40
men, and he’d pull that bag out,
and he’d say: ‘Do you want this
bag again? Do you want to go
back? Do you want to go through
all the drudgery of being incarcer-
ated?’
“And that got their attention.
Most of the guys, they threw that
bag away.”
In 2016, when Welcome Back re-
ceived a state award for its work,
Mr. Lewis was among the volun-
teers and staff members who trav-
eled to Austin to accept it.
Ms. Griffin summed up her fa-
ther’s life.
“It’s not how you start the race,”
she said, “it’s how you finish the
race.”

Amparo Herrera in Morelia, Mex-
ico, in the Pacific Coast state of Mi-
choacán west of Mexico City. He
went to Chicago in the mid-1980s
after being offered a job at his un-
cle’s welding shop, then enrolled
in English-language courses and
at a trade school to perfect his
craft. To earn extra money, he
worked for Amtrak as a track
maintainer.
Mr. Morón left Amtrak and the
welding shop in 2005 to establish
New Town Iron Works, and he
quickly acquired clients, who
came to admire his dedication and
skill. He fostered intense loyalty
among his workers and taught
them the trade. He had three full-
time employees, but he would of-
fer part-time work to anyone who
came to him in need.
Mr. Morón also helped others
outside of work. Several of Ms.
Mendoza’s friends were the vic-
tims of domestic violence, and Mr.
Morón would put them up in his
home for as long as necessary.
In addition to Ms. Mendoza, he
is survived by his brothers,
Manuel, Rafael, Lino and David;
his sisters, Emelda, Angeles,
Etelvina, Rosa and Lourdes; two
stepchildren, Angela Lopez and
Richard Reyna; a son, Samuel
Mendoza; and two step-grand-
children.
Mr. Morón delighted in making
his signature dish, ceviche, for his
family. A fan of Spanish-language
soap operas and a music lover, he
met Ms. Mendoza after a concert.
He was leaving the hall when he
encountered her — she had left
through the wrong door and got-
ten lost — and kept her company
until she was able to locate her
friends. The two parted ways, but
not before Ms. Mendoza gave Mr.
Morón her phone number.
Mr. Morón closed New Town
Iron Works in mid-March out of
concern for his employees’ safety
during the coronavirus pandemic.
By the end of April, reports of the
Richard di Liberto, 82
Expert Photographer of Museum Artworks
By STEVEN KURUTZ
As the chief of photography at the Frick
Collection on the Upper East Side of Man-
hattan, Richard di Liberto was one of the
“upstairs” employees — the curators, con-
servators and administrators who run the
museum.
But Mr. di Liberto, the son of an Italian
immigrant bricklayer, liked to hang out
downstairs — in the basement billiards
room, with the custodians, gardeners,
guards, art movers and maintenance work-
ers who shot pool in the afternoons.
A musician since his teens, he used lunch
breaks to play drums at Jazz at Noon, a
long-running weekly jam session in Man-
hattan.
And when his granddaughter visited him
at work, Mr. di Liberto would lift the velvet
rope and whisk her upstairs to show off the
opulent rooms forbidden to museumgoers.
Mr. di Liberto photographed the Frick’s
collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture,
decorative objects and furniture from 1974
until his retirement in 2004. He also shot in-
terior and exterior architectural images of
the museum, and any traveling exhibits
that came there. His photographs illustrate
many of the Frick’s books, catalogs and
press materials.
Mr. di Liberto died on April 1 at North
Shore University Hospital in Manhasset,
N.Y., on Long Island. He was 82. His grand-
daughter, Nika Sabasteanski, said the
cause was Covid-19.
Richard Peter di Liberto was born on
Feb. 7, 1938, in Manhattan to Gaetano di
Liberto, who had emigrated from Sicily, and
Mildred (Macaluso) di Liberto. The family
soon moved from a tenement on the Lower
East Side to Corona, Queens.
Mr. di Liberto dropped out of high school
at 17 and enlisted in the Air Force. After his
discharge, he returned to the city and fin-
ished his G.E.D., working a series of hum-
drum jobs before pursuing photography. He
took courses at RCA Institutes in Manhat-
tan and the Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy, apprenticed himself to the fine-art pho-
tographer Scott Hyde and began shooting
art and architecture for corporate clients,
galleries and museums.
The Brooklyn Museum hired him as its
VIA DI LIBERTO FAMILY
Richard di Liberto photographed works
of art for the Frick museum. He also
played drums and restored old cars.
objects and surfaces in their best light. Us-
ing a medium-format film camera, Mr. di
Liberto captured the subtle veining of a
marble bust, the patterns of an 18th-cen-
tury Flemish tapestry, the craquelure of a
Goya canvas. He printed the images in a
darkroom on-site.
Outside of work, Mr. di Liberto restored
old sports cars. He and Galen Lee, the
Frick’s horticulturist, rented a garage in
Queens with other gearheads.
“Richard had an obsession with cars and
convertibles,” Mr. Lee said. “We’d go out
there and figure out why they never ran
right.”
Mr. di Liberto spent his retirement at
home in Beechhurst, Queens, with his wife,
Irene di Liberto, and at their rural cabin
west of Albany. The couple met as teen-
agers when he was stationed at Mitchel Air
Force Base on Long Island.
“We would have been married 62 years,”
Ms. di Liberto said. “If you want to call it
James Harrison, 84
Longtime Music Professor and Piano Lover
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI it included stints as chair of the
The piano was at the center of music department and dean of
James Harrison’s life. arts and humanities.
For his classes in music theory In addition to his daughter, Mr.
at Hunter College in Manhattan, Harrison is survived by his wife; a
he did a great deal of teaching son, Phil; a sister, Sue Rodgers;
while sitting at it, playing musical and three grandchildren.
excerpts as he explained the inner Mrs. Harrison grew up near
workings of harmony and coun- Genoa, Italy, in her family’s splen-
did villa, which has been turned
terpoint.
into the grounds of a residential
A Steinway grand piano was the
centerpiece of Mr. Harrison’s fellowship program for the arts
and humanities run by the
home in Palisades, N.J. He turned
Bogliasco Foundation, which Mr.
a commodious room with strik-
Harrison co-founded in 1991. He
ingly tall ceilings into an inviting,
acoustically lively space. He became its director after retiring
hosted regular informal perform- from Hunter College. His daugh-
ances there, inviting instrumen- ter now runs it.
talists and singers to make music In a 2011 interview with RAI,
for gatherings of 20 or so friends. the Italian broadcaster, Mr. Harri-
Mr. Harrison died on May 24 at
a rehabilitation facility in
Cresskill, N.J., of complications of
Covid-19, his daughter, Laura
Harrison, said. He was 84.
James Stanley Harrison was
born on Aug. 29, 1935, in St. Louis
to Stanley Leonard Harrison, a
physician, and Garnet (Toalson)
Harrison, an administrative as-
sistant in her husband’s practice.
An exceptional student who ex-
celled at football and soccer at
John Burroughs School in St. Lou-
is, he then attended Harvard Col-
lege, graduating with a bachelor
of arts degree in music in 1957. He
continued his training under the
renowned musical pedagogue VIA HARRISON FAMILY
Nadia Boulanger at the American James Harrison taught at
Conservatory in Fontainebleau,
France. There he met Marina Bi- Hunter College in Manhattan.
aggi de Blasys, a gifted Italian pi-
anist and another Boulanger stu-
son spoke of the foundation’s role.
dent. They married in 1961.
Mr. Harrison was invited to “If, for example, a philosopher
from Israel and an Australian
teach at Fontainebleau, and he
composer can become friends
and his wife lived for several
through a daily exchange of
years in France and in Switzer- ideas,” he said, “we feel we are do-
land, where Mr. Harrison was an ing something important for
apprentice to the influential Ger- global culture.”
man conductor Hermann At an awards ceremony for the
Scherchen.
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city’s imminent reopening cou-
pled with mounting financial pres-
sure led Mr. Morón to reconsider.
“That same week he opened up,
he got sick,” Ms. Mendoza said.
“He was always helping and try-
ing to help others.”
chief of photography in 1971. But two years
later, when a dispute broke out between
museum staff members and a new director,
Mr. di Liberto sided with the staff, resigned
and went to work for the Frick.
Photographing art is a specialty, requir-
ing the technical skill to show a variety of
love at first sight, sure, that’s what it was.
We always made a good partnership.”
In addition to his granddaughter and his
wife, Mr. di Liberto is survived by two
daughters, Lisa di Liberto and Carolyn di
Liberto, and a grandson, Harper di Liberto-
Bell.
Mr. Harrison had originally in-
tended to become an orchestra
conductor. But, encouraged by
Boulanger, he followed her path
and became a teacher of music
theory and counterpoint. His time
at Hunter College began in 1969
and lasted nearly three decades;
foundation in 2007, Mr. Harrison
described the study center as a
paradise “where time seems to
stand still, and the creativity of
our fellows is boundless.”
More obituaries appear on
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3 MEDIA 5 TECH FIX 8 SPORTS

Margaret Sullivan, a former In a pandemic that forces us The Washington Bullets took
Times public editor, saw the to stay home, doomscrolling two years to change their
crisis of the newspaper has taken over. Health name. The city’s N.F.L. team
industry from within. experts want us to stop. will have to move faster.

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N

Troubled Jet
HOW THE RIOTS OF YESTERYEAR Plots Return
To Industry
In Turmoil
Airlines may have good
reason to reconsider the
Boeing 737 Max.

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
The first half of the year was not
kind to the 737 Max. Boeing froze
production of its beleaguered
plane from January through much
of May as customers canceled
hundreds of orders, and deals for
hundreds more were put at risk by
delays in the plane’s return to the
skies and the coronavirus pan-
demic.
But Boeing is back to work on
the Max, and if it passes regula-
tory scrutiny, the plane could fly
again as soon as the end of the
year. When it does, it will return to
an industry that was hammered
by the coronavirus and faces a
yearslong recovery.
The Max crisis has already
wrecked Boeing’s bottom line. In
January, the company said it ex-
pected the grounding to cost more

$135M
The list price of the latest model
MATTHEW LEWIS/THE WASHINGTON POST, VIA GETTY IMAGES
Max, though it can sell for 50
percent of that figure.

than $18 billion, which didn’t ac-

count for the ruinous effect the
pandemic would have on airlines.
In April, it announced plans to cut
about 16,000 jobs, or a tenth of its
work force, because of the pan-
demic’s impact.
The aerospace manufacturer
said this week that its customers
had canceled 373 Max orders in
the first six months of the year.
Another 439 are considered at
risk, including nearly 100 that
Norwegian Air, a struggling low-
cost carrier, recently said it no
longer planned to buy.
Boeing still has several thou-
sand pending orders for the Max,
but analysts expect that to shrink
somewhat as more customers
back out of deals. And even
though the company plans to in-
crease production of the jet and
other 737 variants to 31 planes per
month sometime next year, that is
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SEEDED THE SOIL FOR LUXURY LIVING
‘Racism and murder’
cleared the way for
wealth opportunists.
Hollywood Noticeably Silent About Facebook Advertising Boycott
By BROOKS BARNES
and NICOLE SPERLING
LOS ANGELES — More than
1,000 companies have halted their
Facebook advertising over the
Attention,
Shoppers:
T.J. KIRKPATRICK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Wear a Mask
At Walmart
By MICHAEL CORKERY
By EMILY BADGER Christian Leadership Conference office, in Top, H Street NE
the days before the Rev. Dr. Martin Lu- in Washington In perhaps the strongest state-
and QUOCTRUNG BUI
after the ment yet by a major American
WASHINGTON — At the corner of 14th ther King Jr.’s assassination, organizers
had been planning his Poor People’s Cam- assassination of company about the importance of
and U Streets Northwest, where the an- the Rev. Dr. Martin masks, Walmart said it would re-
ger first simmered in what became Wash- paign.
Luther King Jr. in quire that all of its customers wear
ington’s devastating 1968 riots, the going That history clashes with what’s in the face coverings starting next week.
area now: the modern luxury apartments, 1968. Above, the
rent for a one-bedroom today is about same area, five The new rule from the nation’s
$2,500 a month. That sum buys concierge the Lululemon. Yet across Washington largest retailer, with more than
decades later, is
services, rooftop terrace access and prox- and in other American cities, high-end 5,000 stores nationwide, comes as
much changed.
imity to any number of niche fitness stu- development rises directly on top of Black health officials and scientists
dios. neighborhoods that suffered the greatest point to wearing masks as a way
In 1968, the intersection was the gate- damage during civil unrest decades ago. to slow the spread of the coro-
way to the city’s segregated Black com- And there is an economic logic to it: navirus. But Walmart’s new pol-
munity, and it was home to several civil The sheer scale of harm to Black neigh- icy, which goes into effect on Mon-
rights organizations. In the Southern CONTINUED ON PAGE B6 day, also means the company is
wading into the kind of culturally
and politically divisive issue that
it has a history of avoiding.
Already, companies like Apple,
Best Buy, Costco and Starbucks
require customers wear masks.
The retailer Kohl’s said on
Wednesday that its customers
would be required to wear masks
starting Monday, and the grocery
chain Kroger announced on Twit-
ter that its customers would, too,
The pharmaceutical giants Pfi- But one of Facebook’s most im- what civil rights groups are call- time for them to say that Face- starting July 22. But the ubiquity
zer and Bayer have joined the portant advertising categories — ing the #StopHateForProfit boy- book needs to stop hate for profit.” of Walmart stores in parts of the
anti-Facebook campaign. So have Hollywood — has been noticeably cott. Crickets. country where masks are unpopu-
Microsoft and Verizon. Also repre- silent even though stopping hate “Where is Hollywood?” asked “I’m not sure why they are still lar make the giant retailer’s move
sented are industries like apparel speech is one of the entertainment Jonathan Greenblatt, chief execu- silent,” Mr. Greenblatt said in an particularly significant.
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past month as part of a protest
over the social network’s handling
of hate speech, with most major
industries represented in the boy-
cott.
(Levi Strauss, Eddie Bauer), au-
tos (Ford, Honda), household
products (Unilever, Kimberly-
Clark) and beverages (Coca-Cola,
Starbucks).
industry’s longtime causes. As of
Tuesday, only Magnolia Pictures,
a small distributor of foreign films
and documentaries, and the non-
profit Sesame Street had joined
tive of the Anti-Defamation
League, during a discussion on
July 2 with The Wrap, an enter-
tainment news site. “It’s time. It’s
time for them to take a stand. It’s
interview. “You’ll have to ask
them.”
Netflix, ViacomCBS, Disney,
WarnerMedia, Lionsgate, STX
CONTINUED ON PAGE B7
“We know some people have
differing opinions on this topic,”
Walmart said in blog post on
Wednesday. “We also recognize
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The Digest

MANUFACTURING

Surge in Factory Output

last month after climbing 3.8 per-
cent in May.
Still, factory output was 11.1 per-
Markets Rise on Hopes of Covid-19 Vaccine
Trails Pre-Virus Levels cent below its level in February. By The Associated Press
Businesses have resumed oper- S&P 500 INDEX Markets worldwide rallied on ris-
ations after being shuttered in The S& P 500 Index
Factory output in the United +0.91% ing hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine
States increased for a second mid-March in an effort to slow the Wednesday, and the S&P 500- Position of the S& P 500 index at 1-minute intervals on Wednesday.
spread of the coronavirus. 3,226.56
straight month in June as motor stock index climbed back to where 3,240
vehicle production accelerated Production at factories con- it was a few days after it set its
tracted at a 47 percent annualized record early this year.
amid the reopening of businesses,
rate in the second quarter after Investors see a vaccine as the
3,230
but the improvement in manufac- falling at a 5.5 percent pace in the
turing activity was overshadowed January-to-March period. Manu-
by surging new Covid-19 infec- facturing, which accounts for 11
STOCKS & BONDS 3,220
tions. percent of the American economy, best way for the economy and hu-
The Federal Reserve said on is also being constrained by the man life to get back to normal, and 3,210
Wednesday that manufacturing fallout from the trade war with DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS researchers said late Tuesday that
production increased 7.2 percent China. REUTERS one developed by the National In-
+0.85% stitutes of Health and Moderna 3,200
26,870.10
revved up people’s immune sys- Previous close
tems in early testing, as hoped. 3,197.52 3,190
AIRLINES
The S&P 500 rose 0.9 percent to
American Airlines Warns pull within 4.7 percent of its all- 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
time high set in February. Source: Reuters THE NEW YORK TIMES
25,000 Could Lose Jobs The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age climbed 227.51 points, or 0.9
American Airlines is notifying percent, to 26,870.10, and the Nas- economic recovery collide with
about 25,000 workers that their Industrial Production continuing increases in coro-
daq composite gained 61.91, or 0.6
jobs could be eliminated in Octo- NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX navirus counts.
percent, to 10,550.49. During the Index of total industrial production,
ber because of plunging demand morning, the S&P 500 touched its The nation’s industrial produc-
for air travel.
+0.59% 2012 = 100, seasonally adjusted. tion improved more in June than
10,550.49 highest level since Feb. 25, and it
American’s top executives said APRIL MAY JUNE economists expected. So did man-
ended the day at 3,226.56, up
Wednesday that the number of 110 –12.7% +1.4% +5.4% ufacturing in New York state ear-
29.04.
layoffs or furloughs could be lower lier this month.
Several things helped lift the
if enough workers take buyouts or JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS Goldman Sachs rose 1.4 percent
market, including stronger-than-
accept partially paid leave for up 105 after it reported much stronger re-
expected reports on the economy
to two years. sults for the latest quarter than
Air travel has picked up slowly and on corporate profits from
Airline officials thought they analysts expected. Financial
since mid-April, but remains se- Goldman Sachs and others. But 100
might avoid any furloughs “be- verely depressed. American’s pas- stocks in general did well, with
the vaccine hopes were at the cen- those in the S&P 500 up 1.9 per-
cause we believed demand for air senger revenue in June was down ter of the rise, which meant the
travel would steadily rebound by more than 80 percent from the
10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD 95 cent.
market’s leader board was domi- Other areas of the market
Oct. 1 as the impact of Covid-19 dis- same month last year. 0.64% nated by companies that would
sipated. That unfortunately has Airlines accepted up to $25 bil- +0.01 points where profits are closely tied to
benefit most from a return to nor- 90 the strength of the economy were
not been the case,” American’s lion in federal aid to help cover mal life. They included cruise-ship also particularly strong. Industri-
chief executive, Doug Parker, and payroll costs in exchange for not ’19 ’20
operators, airlines, retailers and al stocks rose 2.6 percent for the
its president, Robert Isom, said in cutting jobs until October.
hotel chains. Source: Federal Reserve THE NEW YORK TIMES
biggest gain among the 11 sectors
a memo to employees. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stocks of smaller companies that make up the S&P 500, and en-
also leapt much more than the rest ergy producers gained 2 percent.
Winners of the stay-at-home
of the market, an indication of ris- Royal Caribbean Cruises
economy created by quarantines
ing expectations for the economy. surged 21.2 percent to lead a
EXECUTIVES sides would take over as chief and lockdowns, meanwhile,
The Russell 2000 index of small- lagged behind. Clorox, Netflix and group of stocks that stand to gain
space officer.
Virgin Galactic Names The move comes after Virgin
CRUDE OIL (U.S.) cap stocks jumped 3.5 percent, a Amazon all fell. if shoppers and travelers get back
New Leader From Disney $41.20 turnaround from earlier months Wednesday’s lift for markets, to life as it was before the pan-
Galactic in June announced it had
+$0.91 when big, tech-oriented compa- though, came only after another demic. American Airlines rose
successfully completed the sec-
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic nies were carrying the market. day of choppy trading. The S&P 16.2 percent, Gap jumped 12.7 per-
ond SpaceShipTwo test flight from
Holdings on Wednesday named “Investors are gaining more 500 shot to a quick 1.3 percent gain cent, Live Nation Entertainment
Spaceport America, as the com-
the Walt Disney executive Mi- confidence of the longer-term di- shortly after trading began, only rose 11.7 percent, and Hilton
pany prepares for commercial
chael Colglazier as its new chief rection of the market,” said Sam to give up nearly all of it before Worldwide added 10.1 percent.
service.
executive officer. Stovall, chief investment strat- swinging a couple more times. The yield on the 10-year Treas-
The space tourism company of-
Mr. Colglazier, who was previ- egist at CFRA. “It’s not just the be- It’s the latest bout of erratic ury rose to 0.64 percent from 0.63
fers zero-gravity experiences to
ously president and managing di- hemoth tech stocks that are likely trading for a market that has been percent late Tuesday. It tends to
rector at Disney Parks Interna- customers and has long-term
to lead share prices higher, but largely churning in place for move with investors’ expectations
tional, will replace George White- point-to-point travel plans to
that mid- and small-cap stocks weeks. The S&P 500 is almost ex- for the economy and inflation.
sides, who joined the company in quickly transport passengers GOLD (N.Y.)
will also benefit, not only from an actly where it was on June 8. Of- Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose
2010 as its first chief executive. from city to city at near-space alti- $1,811.40 economic recovery, but also from ten, it has swung sharply within a 91 cents to settle at $41.20 per bar-
Virgin Galactic said Mr. White- tudes. REUTERS +$0.80 very low interest rates.” single day as hopes for a budding rel.

What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

POWERED BY

S&P 500 3226.56 0.9% Nasdaq Composite Index 10550.49 0.6% Dow Jones industrials 26870.10 0.9%

10,500 29,000
3,400
+20% +20% 28,000 +20%
10,000
3,200 +15% +15% 27,000 +15%
9,500
26,000
+10% +10% +10%
3,000
9,000 25,000
+ 5% + 5% + 5%
24,000
2,800 8,500
0% 0% 0%
23,000

May June July May June July May June July

TOTAL
Best performers Worst performers Most active TOTAL RETURN
ASSETS
VOLUME
S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE IN MIL. Regional and emerging markets 1 YR 5 YRS IN BIL.

1. Royal Carib C (RCL) $58.36 +21.2% 1. Ball (BLL) $69.52 –5.6% 1. American Airl (AAL) $13.44 +16.2% 131.8 1. Fidelity Series Emerging Markets Opps(FEMSX) +8.6% +7.7% $24.7
2. Nrwn Crs Ln (NCLH) 18.50 +20.7 2. BONY Mellon (BK) 36.86 –5.4 2. Ford Motor (F) 6.74 +6.0 101.5 2. DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity I(DFCEX) –3.0 +3.4 23.5
3. Carnivl (CCL) 17.48 +16.2 3. Fortinet (FTNT) 129.32 –3.8 3. GE (GE) 7.14 +3.8 89.6 3. Invesco Oppenheimer Developing Markets Y(ODVYX) +3.0 +5.9 17.4
4. American Airl (AAL) 13.44 +16.2 4. Edison Intl (EIX) 55.28 –2.5 4. Nrwn Crs Ln (NCLH) 18.50 +20.7 85.1 4. DFA Emerging Markets Value I(DFEVX) –12.8 +1.8 13.3
5. United Arlns (UAL) 36.37 +14.6 5. Amazon.com (AMZN) 3008.87 –2.4 5. United Arlns (UAL) 36.37 +14.6 83.5 5. Vanguard Emerging Mkts Stock Idx Adm(VEMAX) +3.0 +4.3 13.3
6. HanesBrands (HBI) 14.34 +14.3 6. KLA Corp (KLAC) 196.04 –2.4 6. Carnivl (CCL) 17.48 +16.2 71.7 6. American Funds New World A(NEWFX) +8.2 +7.6 12.5
7. Gap (GPS) 12.57 +12.7 7. Campbell Soup (CPB) 49.21 –2.2 7. Wells Fargo (WFC) 25.35 +4.5 61.5 7. DFA Emerging Markets I(DFEMX) –1.9 +3.9 5.6
8. MGM Resorts I (MGM) 18.20 +12.6 8. Clorox (CLX) 225.50 –2.2 8. BofAML (BAC) 24.60 +1.9 57.0 8. DFA Emerging Markets Small Cap I(DEMSX) –4.6 +2.7 5.0
9. H&R Block (HRB) 15.26 +12.1 9. Citrix Syste (CTXS) 150.82 –1.9 9. Boeing (BA) 187.94 +4.4 47.7 9. Virtus Vontobel Emerging Markets Opps I(HIEMX) –1.9 +3.7 5.0
10. Live Nation (LYV) 51.84 +11.7 10. Evergy (EVRG) 61.23 –1.8 10. Delta Air (DAL) 28.60 +9.5 47.1 10. Baron Emerging Markets Institutional(BEXIX) +6.2 +5.7 4.4
Source: Morningstar

Sector performance How stock markets fared yesterday in Asia … … in Europe … and in the Americas.
S&P 500 SECTORS
+3.0
Industrials +2.6% +2.5
Energy +2.0 +2.0
Tokyo +1.6% Frankfurt +1.8%
Financials +1.9 +1.5
Toronto +1.0%
Materials +1.7 +1.0
Health care +1.3 +0.5
London +1.8% New York +0.9%
Information technology +0.5 0.0
Real estate +0.5 –0.5
Shanghai –1.6%
Consumer discretionary +0.5 –1.0

Communication services +0.3 –1.5

Consumer staples +0.01 –2.0

Major stock market indexes
–0.4 Utilities –2.5
6 p.m. E.T. 8 10 12 a.m. 2 4 6 a.m. 8 10 12 p.m. 2 4 6 p.m.

What Is Happening in Other Markets and the Economy

Bonds Currencies Consumer rates Commodities Economy

10-year Treas. Key rates 1 euro = $1.1412 Crude oil Unemployment Rate Consumer confidence
3% $1.3
6% $100 a barrel
10% 120
1.2 Borrowing rate
2
30-year fixed mortgages
5 50
2-year Treas. 1.1 5 100
1

Fed Funds 1.0 4 0 0 80

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3% 120 $6 a bushel
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600
1 1-year CDs
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1 YESTERDAY 100 2 500

0 Maturity 90 0 0 400 220

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MEDIA | EDUCATION

The Decline of Local News, Dissected by a Newspaper Veteran

By MARC TRACY there a moment where things as a service that I wanted to do as
Before she became a media col- could have gone differently? well as I could. And it was very
umnist, Margaret Sullivan saw Traditional media companies tough, at times, to come into the
the crisis in the American news- could have responded to the building every day and feel part of
paper industry from within. changes much more nimbly. a great institution, but also know
She spent roughly three dec- There was a whole thing about that your role was to critique and,
ades at The Buffalo News and was “Should we or shouldn’t we charge to some extent, to find fault. But I
the first woman to serve as its top for the content of the paper?” For tried to keep in mind that the peo-
editor, a job she held from 1999 to a long time, local newspapers de- ple I was really working for were
2012. “For years, it seemed like it cided not to. It never made any the readers of The Times, so that it
had a license to print money,” Ms. sense, because it costs lots of wasn’t about making people
Sullivan writes in her first book, money to produce this journalism. within the institution happy.
“Ghosting the News: Local Jour- We were very slow to take advan-
tage of the particular strengths of The Post also did away with its
nalism and the Crisis of American
the internet in a way that might ombudsman. Are outlets well
Democracy,” which was published
have made a real difference. The served by having such a position?
Tuesday.
But like many papers, the Buf- kind of work we do now — some Some places are. I think for very
falo daily has become a reduced newspapers, including The Times large, influential media organiza-
version of what it once was. Berk- and The Post, present things in a tions, it is a service to the reader-
shire Hathaway sold it to the Lee way that’s much better than the ship to have someone in that role. I
Enterprises chain this year after way they’re presented in print. see it as unfortunate, but not a
Berkshire’s multibillionaire chief But for the longest time, newspa- tragedy, that these roles have
executive, Warren E. Buffett, said pers, especially local newspapers, been discontinued.
most newspapers were “toast.” were just shoveling their content
onto the web and expecting peo- What have you made of the pushes
Ms. Sullivan went on to be the
ple to like it. It was smug. It was in newsrooms to have better
public editor of The New York
slow. And it hurt us. representation of previously
Times, a post that put her close to
TAYLOR GLASCOCK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES marginalized voices, as well as to
the journalists and newsroom
Margaret Sullivan, a former public editor at The Times, has published a book on the struggles of local news outlets. Does some blame lie with the Wall rethink journalistic objectivity?
leaders whose work she scruti-
nized as a representative of the Street-backed companies that It’s extremely important to have
paper’s readers. The Times elimi- have become newspaper owners? real diversity, not tokenism, in
the Watergate hearings were tak- and I was the editor at that time. drama critic, an art critic, plus re- newsrooms. You get different im-
nated the position, in a much-de- Hedge-fund ownership is one of, if
ing place, and my family was gath- We were doing round after round porters who wrote about other el- portant perspectives and internal
bated move, about a year into the not the, worst developments that
ered around the TV in the living of buyouts throughout the com- ements of the community that had have occurred for newspapers. criticism and points of view when
tenure of her successor, Liz Spayd.
room and we were mesmerized. pany, including the newsroom. We nothing to do with watchdog jour- These companies don’t care about you have a diverse population in
Since leaving the paper in 2016,
could no longer cover things the nalism. There was a section that, journalism. They care about strip- the newsroom — at the top levels,
Ms. Sullivan has kept watch over How did your time in Buffalo
the news industry as The Wash- way we used to. I could see first- with the help of staff, I founded, mining what’s left for whatever too. I was proud at The Buffalo
inform your outlook on the local hand that these changes were Life & Arts. That section, which
ington Post’s media columnist. profits can be squeezed, not with News to name the first person of
news crisis? hurting the community. was in the paper Monday through
She spoke from her cottage in Ev- an eye to a sustainable future. color, a Black man, Rod Watson, to
ans, N.Y., near Lake Erie and not The newsroom that I came to was Friday, no longer exists. When I newsroom management. I was
thriving, vibrant. It had newspa- There’s a lot in your book about stay at my cottage near Lake Erie How do you look back on your four
far from her hometown, Lack- also very proud to name a woman,
per competition down the street. the importance of community. years as public editor of The Lisa Wilson, as our executive
awanna. This interview has been in the summer, and I get the print
And, fairly quickly, the competi- Why is that function of Times? sports editor. She was one of only
edited and condensed. edition, I always feel like some-
tion went out of business. We had newspapers important to you? I’m sure this may sound sappy or a few women sports editors in the
thing’s missing.
When were you first bitten by the a number of very profitable years, I was the features editor for sev- sentimental or pandering or country, not to mention a Black
journalism bug? and then structural changes came eral years. We had a pop music Was what happened to local something bad, but I really found woman. This is a needed correc-
When I was in early high school, about, starting in 2008 or 2009, critic, a classical music critic, a journalism inevitable? Or was it to be a privilege. I approached it tive, and overdue.

Times to Relocate Office States Sue Education Dept.

From Hong Kong to Seoul For Revising Rules on Fraud
By STACY COWLEY ing, politically driven lawsuit
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Mr. Buckley’s investigative re- meant to grab a cheap headline,
Twenty-two states and the Dis-
The New York Times said on Tues- porting on China has made him and the media seems to always
trict of Columbia sued the Educa-
day that it would relocate its Hong the target of criticism by state oblige. To any objective observer,
tion Department on Wednesday,
Kong-based digital news opera- news outlets in mainland China. our borrower defense rule clearly
claiming it broke federal law in
tion to Seoul, South Korea, a sig- Since joining the paper in 2012, he protects students from fraud, en-
adopting new rules for a program
nificant shift by an American has extensively covered China’s sures they are entitled to financial
meant to wipe out the student loan
news organization as China has elite politics, the party’s expan- relief if they suffered harm and
debt of borrowers whose schools
stepped up its efforts to impede sive crackdown on Muslims in the holds schools accountable.”
defrauded them.
the affairs of the Asian metropolis. far western region Xinjiang and, State attorneys general have
most recently, the government’s The new rule also “unreason-
Hong Kong, a former British ably favors the interests of preda- successfully challenged some of
initial mishandling of the coro- Ms. DeVos’s efforts to strip down
colony, has served for decades as tory schools over students and
navirus pandemic. the borrower-defense system. In
an Asian headquarters for Eng- ANTHONY WALLACE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES would deny relief to borrowers
He had to leave Beijing in May 2018, a federal judge ruled in their
lish-language news outlets drawn A new national security law for Hong Kong passed by China has created who have been indisputably
after the Chinese government de- favor in a lawsuit over a delay im-
to the city’s openness to foreign uncertainty about the city’s prospects as a hub for journalism. harmed by their schools,” accord-
clined to renew the journalist visa plementing a rule created during
companies, proximity to the Chi- ing to the complaint filed in San
that allowed him to work in the the Obama administration that
nese mainland and rich tradition Francisco federal court.
mainland. Beijing said only that Kong as China has moved to con- protects the vast majority.” made claims easier to pursue. The
of a freewheeling press. The suit was the latest legal bat-
Mr. Buckley would have to reap- solidate power in the former colo- “The rights and interests en- ruling forced the department to let
But a sweeping national securi- tle over the decades-old program, the delayed rule to take effect,
ply for his credentials outside the ny. There is concern over the ease joyed by the majority of Hong
ty law passed by China in June — mainland — a requirement incon- known as Borrower Defense to clearing the way for thousands of
of obtaining future work permits, Kong citizens, foreign institutions
aimed at stymieing opposition sistent with past practice. Repayment, which allows stu- students enrolled at ITT Technical
a quality that made Hong Kong and personnel including foreign
and pro-democracy forces in dents to ask that their federal Institute when it closed to have
Besides serving as a base for re- particularly desirable to foreign media in Hong Kong in accord-
Hong Kong — has unsettled news porters and editors covering Asia, companies. loans be eliminated if their their loans eliminated.
ance with law are not affected in
organizations and created uncer- The Times’s Hong Kong bureau any way,” she said. schools seriously misled them or The revised rule reversed most
Some journalists also worry
tainty about the city’s prospects became an integral part of the violated state laws. Education of the Obama-era changes and ap-
that Beijing will crack down on ac- With the full impact of China’s
as a hub for journalism in Asia. newspaper’s 24/7 digital opera- Secretary Betsy DeVos has called plies to all federal student loans
tivism and speech in ways more new security law still unclear,
Some Times employees in Hong tion in recent years. Editors there some outlets say they are staying Borrower Defense a “free money” made from this month onward. It
akin to how the news media is
Kong have faced challenges se- oversee The Times’s online report put for now. Bloomberg News and giveaway and repeatedly tried to survived a bipartisan effort in
treated on the Chinese mainland.
curing work permits, hurdles that when staff members in New York CNN, both of which maintain slash the relief available. Congress to overturn it: Mr.
The United States and China
are commonplace in China but and London, the paper’s other two large teams in Hong Kong, have Last year, her agency finalized Trump vetoed the bill, and law-
have been engaged in a diplomatic
were rarely an issue in the former global headquarters, are signed no current plans to leave the city, a policy revision that significantly makers couldn’t override him.
standoff over media organiza-
colony. With the city facing a new off. tions, with China expelling Ameri- according to people familiar with raised the bar for new claims. The states’ lawsuit says the re-
era under tightened Chinese rule, The Times said it would move can reporters for The Wall Street internal discussions. Among other changes, the new vision violated the Administrative
Times editors determined they that digital team of journalists — Journal, The Washington Post and The Times, in seeking a suitable rule eliminated a group-discharge Procedure Act, a law that guides
needed an additional base of oper- roughly one-third of its Hong The Times. When they were ex- location outside Hong Kong, con- process, forcing each borrower to the federal government’s rule-
ations in the region. Kong staff — to Seoul over the pelled, they were told that they sidered Bangkok, Seoul, Singa- pursue relief individually, and re- making process, by imposing “ar-
“China’s sweeping new national course of the next year. Corre- could not report in Hong Kong. pore, Tokyo and other cities in the quired applicants to prove both bitrary and capricious” require-
security law in Hong Kong has spondents will remain based in (Mr. Buckley, an Australian citi- Asia-Pacific region. South Korea that their school had knowingly ments. The Trump administration
created a lot of uncertainty about Hong Kong to cover the city and zen, was not among the expelled proved attractive, among other lied to them and that the deception has lost dozens of federal court
what the new rules will mean to region. “We have every intention reporters.) reasons, for its friendliness to for- caused them financial harm. cases on similar grounds.
our operation and our journal- of maintaining and even increas- “Hong Kong has been a leader eign business, independent press, Those requirements “are so A second lawsuit challenging
ism,” Times editors and execu- ing our coverage of the city’s in supporting the rights of a free and its central role in several ma- onerous that they make this de- the Education Department’s bor-
tives who oversee the paper’s in- transformation, as well as using it press in Asia for decades, and it is jor Asian news stories. fense impossible for a student rower-defense rule revision is al-
ternational coverage and opera- as a window on China,” the memo essential that it continues to do In the memo on Tuesday, lead- loan borrower to assert success- ready underway in federal court
tions wrote in a memo to staff on said. so,” a Times spokeswoman, Ari ers at The Times said they would fully,” the state attorneys general in Manhattan. That complaint,
Tuesday. “We feel it is prudent to Hong Kong also houses the Isaacman Bevacqua, said in a “remain deeply invested in Hong wrote. brought by the New York Legal
make contingency plans and be- print production team for The statement on Tuesday. Kong — as a focus of our journal- Angela Morabito, an Education Assistance Group, says the rule
gin to diversify our editing staff New York Times International In response to questions on ism and as a place to do business.” Department spokeswoman, said: “imposed herculean standards”
around the region.” Edition, and those staff members Wednesday about The Times’s de- But the uncertainties, they “This is yet another grandstand- that would block nearly all claims.
Last week, the authorities in will remain. Advertising and mar- cision, a spokeswoman for the wrote, required action. “Any dis-
Hong Kong refused to renew a keting staff are also expected to Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hua ruption to the operation has the
IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT or unexpired lease must file a Proof of Claim by the later of (a) the Claims
work permit for Chris Buckley, a stay. Chunying, said it did not comment potential to undermine our jour- FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date, as applicable, or (b)
veteran China correspondent of nalism, which is now more impor- In re: MAINES PAPER & FOOD ) Chapter 11 5:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time on the date that is thirty days
Western businesses, including on the “internal arrangements of SERVICE, INC., et al. ) Case No. 20-11502 (KBO) following entry of an order approving such rejection (the“Rejection
The Times. The city’s immigration banks, technology firms and ma- foreign media.” She noted that the tant than ever,” the memo said. Debtors. ) (Jointly Administered) DamagesBarDate”).
NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WHO FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM,
department offered Mr. Buckley, jor news organizations, have national security law “punishes a (I) PROOFS OF CLAIM, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR INCLUDING ANY REQUEST FOR PAYMENT UNDER SECTION
503(B)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE, OR WHO FAILS TO FILE WITH
52, no explanation. weighed their presence in Hong very small number of crimes and Claire Fu contributed research. PAYMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 503(B)(9) OF THE
THE COURT AN ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIM ARISING ON OR PRIOR
BANKRUPTCY CODE, (II) ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS,
AND (III) REJECTION DAMAGES CLAIMS TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS DEADLINE, IN EACH CASE ON OR
BEFORE THE APPLICABLE BAR DATE, SHALL NOT BE TREATED AS A
PLEASETAKE NOTICE OFTHE FOLLOWING: CREDITOR WITH RESPECT TO SUCH CLAIM FOR THE PURPOSES OF
NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF PROOFS ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WHO FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM,
OF CLAIM, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR PAYMENTS INCLUDING ANY REQUEST FOR PAYMENT UNDER SECTION Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim and Administrative Claims VOTINGANDDISTRIBUTIONONANYCHAPTER11PLAN.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE defined in the UCC,to the extent applicable),and,including the proceeds Arising Prior to the Administrative Claim Deadline.On July 9,2020,the
UNDER SECTION 503(B)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY 503(B)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE ON OR BEFORE THE GENERAL andrecoveriesfromAvoidanceActions. Filing a Proof of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must be filed, including
CODE WITH RESPECT TO INTELSAT S.A. AND ITS CLAIMS BAR DATE OR GOVERNMENTAL BAR DATE, AS APPLICABLE, PUBLIC TELEPHONIC AUCTION DATE AND TIME: July 31, 2020 at United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Court”) supporting documentation,so as to be actually received by the Debtors’
The public auction sale will take place telephonically on July 31, entered an order [Docket No. 152] (the “Bar Date Order”) establishing
AFFILIATED DEBTORS SHALL NOT BE TREATED AS A CREDITOR WITH RESPECT TO SUCH 10:00 a.m. (EDT).Dial-in to access the telephonic auction may 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). Dial-in to access the telephonic auction may notice and claims agent, Stretto, on or before the Claims Bar Date or the
be requested by emailing Robert M.Hirsh,Esq.and Phillip Khezri, certain dates by which parties holding prepetition claims against the Governmental Bar Date (or, where applicable, on or before any other bar
THE GENERAL CLAIMS BAR DATE IS SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 CLAIM FOR THE PURPOSES OF VOTING AND DISTRIBUTION ON ANY be requested by emailing Robert M.Hirsh, Esq.and Phillip Khezri, Esq.at above-captioned Debtors must file (a) proofs of claim (“Proofs of Claim”),
CHAPTER11PLAN. Esq.at the following email addresses by July 30,2020 at 4:00 p.m. the following email addresses by July 30,2020 at 4:00 p.m.(EDT):rhirsh@ date as set forth herein) either 1) electronically through the interface
THE GOVERNMENTAL CLAIMS BAR DATE IS includingclaimsbygovernmentalunits,claimsarisingundersection503(b) available at https://cases.stretto.com/Maines/file-a-claim or (2) by first
Filing a Proof of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must be filed, including (EDT): rhirsh@lowenstein.com and pkhezri@lowenstein.com. lowenstein.comandpkhezri@lowenstein.com. (9) of the Bankruptcy Code,and Rejection Damages Claims,and (b) requests
NOVEMBER 16, 2020 class,overnight U.S.mail,or by other hand delivery system at the following
supporting documentation, by electronic submission through PACER JMB Capital reserves the right to change the date and time of the for payment of Administrative Claims (as defined herein) arising on or prior
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING: (Public Access to Court Electronic Records at https://ecf.vaeb.uscourts. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY VIRTUE OF CERTAIN EVENTS OF auction. Parties interested in attending the auction should contact address: Maines Paper & Food Service Claims Processing Center,c/o
Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim. On June 30, 2020, the United DEFAULT under that certain Senior Secured, Super-Priority Debtor-In- to the Administrative Claims Deadline (as defined herein) in the chapter 11 Stretto,410Exchange,Suite100,Irvine,CA92602.
gov), or if submitted through non-electronic means by U.S. Mail or other counsel to JMB Capital, provided below, on July 30th to confirm the date cases of the following debtors and debtors in possession (collectively, the
States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the “Court”) hand delivery system,so as to be actuallyreceived by Stretto on or before Possession Loan and Security Agreement dated as of December 20,2019 Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must: (i) be written
andtimeoftheauction. “Debtors”): Maines Paper & Food Service,Inc.; Maines Funding Corporation; in English; (ii) include a claim amount denominated in United States
entered an order [Docket No. 421] (the “Bar Date Order”) in Case No. the General Claims Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date at the following (the “Security Agreement”), among NPXE PLC, NeuroproteXeon, Inc., Terms and Conditions of Sale.
20-32299 (KLP) establishing certain deadlines for the filing of proofs NeuroproteXeon Limited, and NeuroproteXeon GmbH (collectively, the Maines Paper & Food Service - Chicago,Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Service - dollars;(iii) conformsubstantiallywith the Proof ofClaim Form provided by
address: Intelsat S.A., et al., Claims Processing, c/o Stretto, 410 Exchange, 1. TheCollateralshallbesoldasawholelotorinmultiplepartiallots, Dallas,Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Service - Great Lakes,Inc.;Maines Paper &
of claim, including requests for payment under section 503(b)(9) of the Suite100,Irvine,California92602. “Borrowers”), and JMB Capital Partners Lending, LLC (“JMB Capital”), as the Debtors or Official Form 410;and (iv) be signed by the claimant or by an
as determined in the sole discretion of JMB Capital, on an“AS IS,WHERE Food Service - Maryland, Inc.; Maines Paper & Food Service - Mid-Atlantic,
Bankruptcy Code, in the chapter 11 cases of the following debtors and Lender,1 JMB Capital will foreclose and sell, at public auction, pursuant IS” basis, with all faults, and without recourse to JMB Capital, and JMB
authorizedagentorlegalrepresentativeoftheclaimant.
PROOFSOFCLAIMSUBMITTEDBYFACSIMILEOR to the Security Agreement and Section 9-613 of the Uniform Commercial Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Service - New England,Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Section 503(b)(9) Requests for Payment. Any Proof of Claim
debtors in possession (together, the “Debtors”): DEBTOR, CASE NO.: ELECTRONICMAILWILLNOTBEACCEPTED. Capital makes no representations or warranties,express or implied,as to
Intelsat S.A.,20-32299 (KLP);Intelsat (Luxembourg) S.A.,20-32296 (KLP); Code as adopted under applicable law, for cash, all of Borrower’s right, Service - NY Metro, Inc.; Maines Paper & Food Service - Ohio, Inc.; Maines asserting a claim entitled to priority under section 503(b)(9) must also:
Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each proof of claim must:(i) be written title and interest in and to some or all of the following Collateral (the the value, condition, merchantability, quality or fitness for use of any of Paper & Food Service - Tennessee, Inc.; Maines Paper & Food Service - (i) include the value of the goods delivered to and received by the Debtors
Intelsat Align S.à r.l, 20-32305 (KLP); Intelsat Alliance LP, 20-32324 (KLP); the Collateral or any other representation or warranty with respect to the
in English; (ii) include a claim amount denominated in United States “Collateral”): (a) Borrowers’ Executory contracts and unexpired leases; Worcester,Inc.;andWarehouse&Logistics,Inc. in the twenty days prior to the Petition Date;(ii) attach any documentation
Intelsat Asia Carrier Services LLC,20-32328 (KLP);Intelsat Connect Finance Collateral whatsoever. JMB Capital does not claim title to the Collateral The Bar Dates. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all entities (except
S.A., 20-32295 (KLP); Intelsat Envision Holdings LLC, 20-32297 (KLP); dollars;(iii) clearly identify the Debtor against which the claim is asserted; (b) Borrowers’ name and related trademarks; (c) All other intellectual identifying the particular invoices for which the 503(b)(9) claim is being
(iv) conform substantially with the Proof of Claim Form provided by being sold hereunder and disclaim any warranty of title, possession or governmental units), including individuals, partnerships, corporations, asserted;and (iii) attach documentation of any reclamation demand made
Intelsat Finance Bermuda Ltd., 20-32309 (KLP); Intelsat Genesis GP LLC, property related to the performance of the Borrowers’business;(d) Such quietenjoymentoftheCollateralandthelikeinanysale.
the Debtors or Official Form 410; (v) be signed by the claimant or by an business and regulatory licenses and/or any other regulatory approvals joint ventures, estates, and trusts who have a claim or potential claim totheDebtorsundersection546(c)oftheBankruptcyCode(ifapplicable).
20-32318 (KLP);Intelsat Genesis Inc.,20-32323 (KLP);Intelsat Global Sales 2. The Collateral will be sold at public foreclosure auction at the time against the Debtors, that arose prior to June 10, 2020, no matter how
& Marketing Ltd, 20-32313 (KLP); Intelsat Holdings LLC, 20-32308 (KLP); authorized agent or legal representative of the claimant on behalf of the as are necessary to the performance of the Borrowers’ business; (e) All Additional Information. If you require additional information
claimant, whether such signature is an electronic signature or is ink; and and date set forth herein to the bidder with the highest or otherwise best remote or contingent such right to payment or equitable remedy may regarding the filing of a proof of claim,you may contact the Debtors’claims
Intelsat Holdings S.A.,20-32301 (KLP);Intelsat International Employment tax refunds and refundable VAT related to the Collateral; (f) All books bid(asdeterminedbyJMBCapital),forcashexceptasotherwiseexpressly
(vi) include as attachments any and all supporting documentation on and records related to the Borrowers’ from the two year period prior to be, including requests for payment under section 503(b)(9) of the agent, Stretto, directly by writing to: Maines Paper & Food Service Claims
LLC, 20-32316 (KLP); Intelsat International Systems, LLC, 20-32314 (KLP); agreed by JMB Capital,in its sole discretion, at or prior to the date of the Bankruptcy Code, MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before August
Intelsat Investment Holdings S.à.r.l.,20-32300 (KLP);Intelsat Investments which the claim is based. Please note that each proof of claim must state the Closing Date, in whatever form (with copies to be retained by the Processing Center, c/o Stretto, 410 Exchange, Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92602,
a claim against only one Debtor and clearly indicate the specific Debtor sale, and on other such commercially reasonable terms as JMB Capital 21, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time (the “Claims Bar or contact the Debtors’restructuring hotline at: (855) 295-3672 (toll free)
S.A., 20-32302 (KLP); Intelsat Jackson Holdings S.A., 20-32304 (KLP); Borrowers’ for the purposes of administering a wind down and filing may determine in accordance with JMB Capital’s bid procedures (the
against which the claim is asserted. To the extent more than one Debtor is of final tax returns); (g) All software related to the administration of Date”). Governmental units who have a claim or potential claim against and(949)266-6335(international). Pleasenotethat Strettocannotoffer
Intelsat License Holdings LLC, 20-32306 (KLP); Intelsat License LLC, “Bid Procedures”),a copy of which is available upon request from counsel the Debtors that arose prior to the Petition Date, no matter how remote
20-32311 (KLP);Intelsat Satellite LLC,20-32310 (KLP);Intelsat Service and listed on the proof of claim,a proof of claim is treated as if filed only against the Borrowers including, without limitation, all accounting software, legaladviceoradvisewhetheryoushouldfileaproofofclaim.
Intelsat S.A., or if a proof of claim is otherwise filed without identifying a to JMB Capital listed below.JMB Capital reserves the right, on or prior to or contingent such right to payment or equitable remedy may be, MUST ClaimAgainstMultipleDebtorEntities.Unless otherwise ordered by
Equipment LLC, 20-32319 (KLP); Intelsat Subsidiary (Gibraltar) Limited, historical accounting and other information, in whatever form; (h) the date of the sale, to modify, waive or amend any terms or conditions
specific Debtor, the proof of claim may be deemed as filed only against Borrowers’prepetition and postpetition commercial tort claims, and the FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before December 7, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., the Court,each Proof of Claim must state a claim against only one Debtor
20-32307(KLP);IntelsatUKFinancialServicesLtd,20-32303(KLP);Intelsat of the sale, or to withdraw all or part of the Collateral from the public prevailingEasternTime(the“GovernmentalBarDate”).
IntelsatS.A. proceeds thereof, including but not limited to all claims and causes of and clearly indicate the Debtor against which the claim is asserted. To the
US Finance LLC, 20-32325 (KLP); Intelsat US LLC, 20-32298 (KLP); Intelsat foreclosure sale,or impose any other terms or conditions on any sale and, Administrative Claims Bar Date. Parties asserting Administrative extent more than one Debtor is listed on the Proof of Claim,such claim may
Ventures S.à r.l.,20-32312 (KLP); Intelsat Virginia Holdings LLC,20-32294 Electronic Signatures Permitted. Proofs of claim signed action (i) against the Borrowers’ officers and directors, and (ii) all other if JMB Capital deems appropriate,to reject any bids and/or to continue or Claims against the Debtors’ estates arising on or prior to July 10, 2020 betreatedasiffiledonlyagainstthefirst-listedDebtor.
(KLP); PanAmSat Europe Corporation, 20-32317 (KLP); PanAmSat India electronically by the claimant or an authorized agent or legal prepetition tort claims, and the proceeds thereof (regardless of whether adjournanysalewithoutpriornotice.
representative of the claimant may be deemed acceptable for purposes of such proceeds arise from damages to the Prepetition Collateral); (i) (the “Administrative Claims Deadline”) (but excluding claims for fees Supporting Documentation. Each Proof of Claim must include
LLC, 20-32326 (KLP); PanAmSat India Marketing L.L.C., 20-32327 (KLP); 3. JMB Capital reserves the right to bid for the Collateral (or any and expenses of professionals retained in these proceedings and claims supporting documentation in accordance with Bankruptcy Rules 3001(c)
PanAmSat International Holdings LLC, 20-32315 (KLP); PanAmSat claims administration. Copies of proofs of claim or proofs of claim sent by Borrowers’avoidance claims and causes of avoidance actions under and portion thereof) at any sale and to credit bid all or any part of the total
facsimileorelectronicmailwillnotbeaccepted. related recoveries under the Bankruptcy Code; and, (j) to the extent not asserting priority pursuant to section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code), and (d). If,however,such documentation is voluminous,upon prior written
International Sales, LLC, 20-32322 (KLP); Southern Satellite Licensee LLC, amount of its secured claims in satisfaction (or partial satisfaction) of the are required to file a request for payment of such Administrative Claim consent of Debtors’ counsel, such Proof of Claim may include a summary
Section 503(b)(9) Requests for Payment. Any proof of claim already including in (a) – (i),Borrowers’prepetition and postpetition real
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20-32321(KLP);SouthernSatelliteLLC,20-32320(KLP).
The Bar Dates. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all entities (except
governmental units), including individuals, partnerships, estates, and
trusts who have a claim or potential claim against the Debtors that arose
prior to May 13, 2020, no matter how remote or contingent such right to
payment or equitable remedy may be, including requests for payment
under section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code, MUST FILE A PROOF OF
CLAIM on or before September 9, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing
Eastern Time (the “General Claims Bar Date”). Governmental entities
who have a claim or potential claim against the Debtors that arose prior
to May 13, 2020, no matter how remote or contingent such right to
payment or equitable remedy may be,MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or
before November 16, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time
(the“GovernmentalBarDate”).
asserting a claim entitled to priority under section 503(b)(9) of the
Bankruptcy Code must also (i) include the value of the goods delivered to
and received by the Debtors in the 20 days prior to the Petition Date; (ii)
attach any documentation identifying the particular invoices for which
such 503(b)(9) claim is being asserted; and (iii) attach documentation of
any reclamation demand made to the Debtors under section 546(c) of the
BankruptcyCode(ifapplicable).
Additional Information. If you have any questions regarding the
claims process and/or you wish to obtain a copy of the Bar Date Notice, a
proof of claim form or related documents you may do so by: (i) calling the
Debtors’ restructuring hotline at (855) 489-1434 (toll free) or (949) 561-
0347 (international);and/or (ii) visiting the Debtors’restructuring website
at: https://cases.stretto.com/intelsat.
property and all prepetition and postpetition tangible and intangible
personal property of each Borrower, in each case wherever located and
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, including, but not limited
to, all accounts, contracts rights, Copyrights, Copyright Licenses, Patents,
Patent Licenses, Pledged Debt, Pledged Equity Interests, Pledged LLC
Interests,Pledged Stock,Trade Secrets,Trade Secret Licenses,Trademarks,
IP2IPO License, chattel paper, cash, general intangibles, investment
property, machinery, equipment, goods, inventory, furniture, fixtures,
letter of credit rights, books and records, deposit accounts, documents,
instruments, commercial tort claims, leases and leaseholds and rents,
avoidance actions under section 549 and related recoveries under
section 550 of the Bankruptcy Code,together with all proceeds of each of
the following, including insurance proceeds (as each such term above is
purchasepriceassetforthintheBidProcedures.
4. Requests for information concerning the Collateral, Bid
Procedures,and other related documents and the terms of the sale should
beaddressedto,orinquiriesregardinglegalissues,pleasecontactcounsel
for JMB Capital, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Attn: Robert M. Hirsh, 1251
Avenue of the Americas,New York,New York 10020,Telephone:212-419-
5837,Facsimile: 973-597-2400,Email: rhirsh@lowenstein.com.
5. All bidders and others requesting confidential information
relating to the Collateral may be required to sign a confidentiality
agreement and shall be provided solely at JMB Capital’s discretion. No
information provided in response to such request shall constitute a
representationorwarranty.
1
Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
tothemintheSecurityAgreement.
arising on or prior to the Administrative Claims Deadline with the Court on
orbefore August21,2020,at5:00 p.m.,prevailing EasternTime(the
“AdministrativeClaimsBarDate”).
Amended Schedules Bar Date. All parties asserting claims against the
Debtors’ estates that are affected by a previously unfiled Schedule or an
amendment or supplement to the Schedules are required to file Proofs of
Claim by the later of (a) the Claims Bar Date or the Governmental
Bar Date, as applicable, or (b) 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time,
on the date that is twenty-one days from the date on which
the Debtors provide notice of a previously unfiled Schedule
or amendment or supplement to the Schedules (the “Amended
SchedulesBarDate”).
Rejection Damages Bar Date. All parties asserting claims against the
Debtors’estatesarisingfromtheDebtors’rejectionofanexecutorycontract
of such documentation or an explanation as to why such documentation is
not available;provided that any creditor that received such written consent
shall be required to transmit such writings to Debtors’ counsel upon
requestnolaterthantendaysfromthedateofsuchrequest.
Receipt of Service. Claimants wishing to receive acknowledgment
that their Proofs of Claim were received by Stretto must submit (i) a copy
of the Proof of Claim Form (in addition to the original Proof of Claim Form
sent to Stretto) and (ii) a self-addressed,stamped envelope.
Dated: July13,2020
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Attention, Shoppers: Walmart Will Require Masks
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
the role we can play to help protect
the health and well-being of the
communities we serve by follow-
ing the evolving guidance of
health officials.”
The National Retail Federation
said it hoped Walmart’s move was
a “tipping point in this public
health debate” and urged all other
retailers to enact the same rule.
The trade group cited the dan-
gers that customers without
masks posed to retail workers.
“Workers serving customers
should not have to make a critical
decision as to whether they
should risk exposure to infection
or lose their jobs because a minor-
ity of people refuse to wear masks
in order to help stop the spread of
the deadly coronavirus,” the
group said in a statement.
Many of the details of Wal-
mart’s new policy are still being
ironed out. The company has not
described how it plans to handle a
situation in which a customer re-
fuses to wear a mask.
But in states where masks are
already required, retail workers
have faced heated and even vio-
lent confrontations when they re-
mind customers to cover their
faces. At a Walmart in Florida this
week, a customer accused people
who were wearing masks of being
members of a “cult.” She was told
to leave the store.
At another Walmart in Florida’s
Palm Beach County, a man not
wearing mask pulled a gun on
man who was wearing a mask on
Sunday. The man who brandished
the gun is wanted for assault, the
sheriff’s department said.
Walmart said that 65 percent of
its stores, which include Wal-
marts and Sam’s Clubs, are in ar-
eas where there was already some
form of government mandate to
wear masks.
At Sam’s Clubs, the company
said that it would provide compli-
mentary masks to customers who
did not already have one. (Sam’s
Club customers have to pay a
membership fee to shop there.)
In Walmart stores — which are
far more numerous — the com-
Black Businesses Struggled to Get Federal Aid, a Study Finds
By EMILY FLITTER
Black business owners are more
likely to be hindered in seeking co-
ronavirus financial aid than their
white peers, a new study has
found.
The study looked at how more
than a dozen Washington-area
banks handled requests for loans
under the federal government’s
Paycheck Protection Program. It
was conducted by the National
Community Reinvestment Coali-
tion, a nonprofit in Washington, in
partnership with researchers
from universities in Utah and New
Jersey.
From late April to late May, the
researchers and the nonprofit,
which advocates better access to
capital for low-income and minor-
ity communities, sent pairs of
would-be loan applicants to
branches of 17 banks. In each pair,
a Black borrower and a white bor-
rower shared similar credit and
asset characteristics, so the only
difference between them was
their race. To make the study
more conservative, the re-
searchers gave each Black bor-
rower a slightly better financial
profile than his or her white coun-
terpart.
The Black borrowers were of-
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a European court overruled a 2016
decision that ordered the com-
pany to pay $14.9 billion in unpaid
taxes to Ireland.
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The National Retail Federation said it hoped Walmart’s move was a “tipping point in this public health debate” and urged all other retailers to follow suit.
pany said it was creating a new
job called a “health ambassador.”
That person will be stationed next
to the front door and will remind
customers of the new rule.
“Ambassadors will receive spe-
cial training to help make the
process as smooth as possible for
customers,’’ Walmart said, and
“will work with those who show
up at a store without a face cover-
ing to find a solution that works
for everyone.”
The retailer did not immedi-
ately identify what those possible
solutions might be, nor did it say
that it would provide masks to
customers who did not have one.
Walmart’s enormous reach has
fered different products and
treated significantly worse by em-
ployees than white borrowers
were in 43 percent of the tests, the
study found. Of the 17 banks, some
of which were tested through mul-
tiple branches, 13 had at least one
test in which a white borrower
was treated better than his or her
Black counterpart. In the rest of
the tests, the pairs were treated
relatively equally or the differ-
ence wasn’t significant enough to
count as a violation of fair lending
laws, in the researchers’ view.
Critics of the $660 billion pro-
gram — which was intended to
prop up small businesses through
forgivable loans — have said that
its structure was likely to perpetu-
ate historical inequalities in the fi-
nancial system, where Black
Americans have struggled to ob-
tain credit and capital.
Since the government didn’t be-
gin collecting data on the race and
gender of aid recipients at the out-
set, it is nearly impossible to use
data recently released by the
Treasury Department to deter-
mine whether Black business
owners were approved for loans
as often as white business owners.
The study published on
Wednesday — conducted by Ster-
ling Bone, a marketing professor
what the authorities there believe
is anticompetitive behavior by the
world’s largest technology com-
panies. Google and Amazon have
other court appeals pending as
they seek to overturn decisions
that they broke European compe-
tition laws.
The Apple case stems from the
company’s use of Ireland as its
base for its European operations.
In 2016, the European Union’s top
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reshaped communities nation-
wide, and in the past it has largely
avoided publicly weighing in on
any politicized debates. A notable
exception came last year when it
announced it would stop selling
ammunition that can be used in
military-style assault rifles and
would discourage its customers
from openly carrying guns in its
stores. It also called on Congress
to increase background checks
and consider a new assault rifle
ban. More recently, the retailer
said it would no longer sell mer-
chandise associated with Wash-
ington’s professional football
team before it changed its name.
Retailers, including Walmart,
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Spiked Spin, a Black-owned business in Brooklyn. A recent study shows that
Black borrowers were at a disadvantage when applying for P.P.P. loans.
at Utah State University; Glenn
Christensen, a marketing profes-
sor at Brigham Young University;
and Jerome Williams, a business
professor at Rutgers University —
shows that Black borrowers were
at a disadvantage even before
they submitted a loan application.
The researchers did not name
the banks because while their
findings were statistically signifi-
cant as a whole, they did not
amount to proof of a pattern of dis-
competition regulator said Apple
had used illegal deals with the
Irish government to avoid tax-
ation on profits from the sales of
Apple products in the European
Union.
In 2011, for instance, Apple’s
Irish subsidiary recorded Euro-
pean profits of $22 billion, but only
about $57 million was considered
taxable in Ireland, regulators said.
The authorities said the ar-
rangement amounted to an illegal
subsidy not available to Apple’s
competitors, and ordered Ireland
to recover 10 years of back taxes,
worth 13 billion euros, or about
$14.9 billion at current conversion
rates.
Apple and Ireland appealed the
judgment, arguing that the struc-
tures were consistent with tax
laws. Apple called the effective
3446 tax rate used by the European
regulators “a completely made-up
number.” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief
executive officer, called the pun-
ishment “total political crap.”
The appeal has put Ireland in
the unusual position of opposing
the collection of billions in taxes
when its government is facing a
budget deficit, a result of emer-
gency spending to respond to the
3454 pandemic. The country, which has
long faced criticism from other
countries for low corporate taxes,
argued that its appeal was a de-
have been criticized for not pro-
viding their employees with
masks soon enough into the pan-
demic. But throughout the crisis,
retailers had been receiving
mixed messages from health and
government officials about the ef-
fectiveness of masks.
Many stores have been requir-
ing that their employees wear
masks since April and May, but
health researchers say the protec-
tive coverings are most effective
when everyone inside an enclosed
space is wearing them.
The nation’s business commu-
nity has been pushing for manda-
tory masks for weeks, and has
grown frustrated with the lack of a
crimination at any one institution.
They are described in the study as
“randomly selected to represent a
broad cross-section of the small-
business lending market” and
range in size from small commu-
nity lenders to banks with assets
of more than $10 billion.
The study gauged banks’ treat-
ment of potential borrowers by
how enthusiastically employees
encouraged them to apply for var-
ious loans, the kinds of products
fense of Ireland’s independence.
“Ireland has always been clear
that there was no special treat-
ment,” Ireland’s Department of
Finance said in a statement. “The
correct amount of Irish tax was
charged in line with normal Irish
taxation rules.”
Apple praised the court’s deci-
sion. The company has said that
A debate on how to
tax multinational tech
corporations.
because its products and services
are made in the United States, that
is where it books much of its tax-
able income.
“This case was not about how
much tax we pay, but where we
are required to pay it,” said Josh
Rosenstock, a company spokes-
man. “We’re proud to be the larg-
est taxpayer in the world as we
know the important role tax pay-
ments play in society.”
Apple has used Cork, Ireland, as
its home in Europe since 1980. The
company employs about 6,000
people in the country in areas in-
cluding logistics, distribution and
customer support.
Other American tech giants fol-
lowed Apple, including Google,
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governmental response.
The National Retail Federation,
along with the Chamber of Com-
merce, lobbied the Trump admin-
istration and governors around
the country for a national mask
standard in a letter two weeks
ago. The groups asked for not only
a national standard for when
masks should be worn, but also le-
gal protections for businesses that
refuse to serve customers who
will not wear masks.
“Retailers are protecting the
health and safety of communities
they serve,” the retail trade group
said. “Our elected leaders need to
set politics aside and follow their
example.”
the employees offered and the
type of information the employees
asked the borrowers to provide.
Researchers found that white
customers were told more fre-
quently than Black customers
that they would qualify for a loan.
Male customers who were either
Black or white were told they
would qualify for loans more fre-
quently than female customers
who fell into either category. Not a
single Black female customer was
encouraged to apply for a loan by
having an employee assure her
she would qualify.
Black customers were also of-
fered different products. In one
case, a white customer was of-
fered not just a P.P.P. loan but also
a $100,000 business line of credit.
The Black customer who visited
the same bank and presented the
same overall borrower profile was
not offered the additional line of
credit.
“These differences in treatment
between white and Black testers
are particularly troubling because
the combined effect of these vari-
ous differential treatments may
lead to feelings of discouragement
and despondency among minority
entrepreneurs in the financial
marketplace,” the researchers
wrote.
Facebook and Twitter, drawn to
using an English-speaking coun-
try with favorable corporate taxes
as a base for operations across
Europe.
The decision on Wednesday by
the General Court of the European
Union in Luxembourg is a blow to
Margrethe Vestager, the Euro-
pean Commission’s top antitrust
enforcer, who for years has been
taking aggressive action against
the world’s largest technology
platforms. It shows that compa-
nies she has targeted can some-
times find a more sympathetic au-
dience in courts that can overturn
her judgments.
Google is appealing three an-
titrust decisions brought by Ms.
Vestager that amount to fines of
about €8.2 billion, worth $9.4 bil-
lion. Amazon is appealing a 2017
ruling that it owes Luxembourg
€250 million in unpaid taxes.
“The courts are ready to exer-
cise their judicial review and are
not going to take the commission’s
assertions for granted,” said
François-Charles Laprévote, a
lawyer with Cleary Gottlieb Steen
& Hamilton in Brussels who spe-
cializes in state aid cases.
In a statement, Ms. Vestager
said her office would “carefully
study the judgment and reflect on
possible next steps.”
The ruling on Wednesday cen-
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J.C. Penney to Cut 1,000 Jobs
J.C. Penney, the 118-year-old re-
tailer that filed for bankruptcy in
May, said on Wednesday that it
would cut 1,000 corporate, field
management and international
jobs, as the company shrinks and
closes 152 stores.
The layoffs are separate from
job cuts tied to the retailer’s first
round of store closures, where
most liquidation sales have
started. A spokeswoman for J.C.
Penney has said that the retailer
planned to close up to 250 loca-
tions over all, which would leave
it with roughly 600 stores.
J.C. Penney, which is based in
Plano, Texas, said in bankruptcy
filings that it had nearly 85,000
associates, but did not specify
how many were full or part time.
The cuts at the corporate level
add to the broader pain in the re-
tail industry, which has been left
reeling from the pandemic. The
disruption has forced a spate of
bankruptcies since May and
spurred layoffs at surviving re-
tailers. Macy’s said last month
that it would cut about 3,900 cor-
porate and management jobs, or
25 percent of that staff.
SAPNA MAHESHWARI
Burberry Sales Plummet
The British luxury retailer
Burberry plans to cut up to 500
jobs worldwide as it continues to
grapple with the impact of the co-
ronavirus on its business.
On Wednesday, Burberry said
sales fell 45 percent to 257 million
pounds, or $324 million, in its first
quarter, which ended June 27.
Across Europe and the Middle
East, sales plummeted 75 percent
because of a steep decline in tour-
ism. Sales fell 70 percent in the
Americas and 10 percent in the
Asia Pacific region — with dou-
ble-digit growth, however, in
mainland China.
Burberry’s chief executive,
Marco Gobbetti, announced plans
for “structural savings,” including
staff redundancies. He said the
job cuts would include 150 office
roles in the London headquarters
as the company sought savings
“to reinvest in customer-facing
activities.”
The additional £55 million in
savings comes on top of £140 mil-
lion of cost cuts already an-
nounced. Last month, Burberry
said that its next live runway
show would take place — without
an audience — on Sept. 17.
ELIZABETH PATON
MEDIA
BBC Cutting More Jobs
BBC News is cutting 520 jobs as
part of a sprawling cost-cutting
plan, 70 more jobs than previ-
ously announced because the
pandemic has put more strain on
the British broadcaster’s budget.
In January, 450 job losses were
announced but then postponed in
March to meet the demands of
covering coronavirus and its im-
pact. The reactivated plan, de-
tailed on Wednesday, will be even
more sweeping. “The Andrew
Neil Show,” hosted by the long-
time political interviewer, will be
cut, business news coverage will
be scaled down, and there will be
reductions in World Service pro-
gramming, among other changes.
In 2016, the BBC announced it
needed to save 800 million
pounds, or $1 billion, with about a
tenth of that coming from the
6,000-person news department.
In addition to the 520 job losses in
BBC News, the BBC said in recent
weeks it would cut 600 jobs from
regional services in England,
Scotland, Northern Ireland and
Wales. ESHE NELSON
tered on tax law and what consti-
tutes illegal state aid. The court
said that the European Commis-
sion’s argument was flawed and
that regulators were “wrong” to
conclude Apple had been granted
“selective economic advantage.”
Based on the decision, Mr.
Laprévote said the commission
would have a “difficult but not im-
possible” task in winning an ap-
peal.
Ms. Vestager has made target-
ing what she considers unfair tax
deals a central part of her leader-
ship of the European Commis-
sion’s competition office. In an
earlier decision, a court over-
turned her ruling that Starbucks
must repay €30 million to the
Netherlands. The commission did
not appeal that decision.
A broader international debate
is underway about how to tax
large multinational technology
corporations. Several European
countries, led by France, have
been putting forward digital serv-
ices taxes that would hit compa-
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Facebook and Google.
The Trump administration has
threatened to retaliate if Euro-
pean countries move forward with
the proposals. The Organization
for Economic Cooperation and
Development has been leading an
effort to negotiate a compromise.
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TECHNOLOGY | AVIATION

Doomscrolling Again? Snap Out of It

As the pandemic forces us to stay home, there are ways to break the habit of bingeing on bad news.

Brian X. Chen
TECH FIX

Your phone alarm goes off at 6 in the

morning. You check some news sites
and Facebook. It’s bad news after bad
news. Coronavirus cases keep climbing,
and so do deaths. Children can’t go
back to school. Your favorite restaurant
and barbershop are still closed. People
are losing their jobs.
Everything is awful. The world as we
remember it has ended. Next thing you
know, it’s 9 a.m. You haven’t climbed
out of your pit of despair yet to even
shower. You repeat this masochistic
exercise during your lunch break —
and again while getting ready for bed.
This experience of sinking into emo-
tional quicksand while bingeing on
doom-and-gloom news is so common
that there’s now internet lingo for it:
“doomscrolling.” Exacerbating this
behavior, shelter-in-place orders leave
us with little to do other than to look at
our screens; by some measures, our
screen time has jumped at least 50
percent.
We’re not alone, exactly, with so
many of us going through this. Yet
doomscrolling, combined with screen
addiction, could take a significant toll
on our mental and physical well-being,
according to health experts. The activi-
ty can make us angry, anxious, de-
pressed, unproductive and less con-
nected with our loved ones and our-
selves.
“It’s the path of least resistance to
keep consuming passively through GLENN HARVEY
social media,” said Dr. Vivek Murthy,
the former surgeon general, who has health, Dr. Gazzaley said. “You have to under shelter-in-place orders, browsing ■ While imagining these people, give phone while taking a walk, which lifts
written extensively about the impact of realize you don’t want to live your life in the web has become the default work them positive wishes. For example: his energy and helps him stay focused.
loneliness on personal health. “You a hamster wheel of complete news break, an obvious trap that could lead “May you be happy. May you be peace- Dr. Murthy also recommended that
have to pull yourself out of that. It’s not consumption,” he said. “It’ll take a toll to doomscrolling. ful. May you be safe. May you be people try to form a “moai,” a Japanese
just disengaging but also dealing with on you in the way that stops becoming Instead of staying glued to a screen, healthy.” word for a social support group. This
the impact that has on your mind-set, valuable, and being an informed person take a stroll around the block, hop on “You’re gift-giving,” Ms. Salzberg could be a small group of friends who
which can often last for hours.” is a diminishing return.” the exercise bike, prepare your favorite said. “It’s a different way of relating regularly convene — on the phone, in
Fret not: We aren’t doomed just yet, Step 2 is to create a realistic plan that snack. And, yes, set calendar appoint- and not feeling isolation.” video chat or in person at a safe dis-
and there are approaches to modifying you can stick with and repeat until it ments even for your breaks, Dr. Gazza- tance — and agree to look out for one
our behavior. We can create structure forms a habit. ley said. another. He and two friends formed a
in our lives, for one, and practice medi-
Connect with others moai, and, once a month, they spend
Creating a schedule is an effective
tation techniques, for another. Here’s approach. Start by making calendar Dr. Murthy’s book “Together: The two hours catching up in a frank con-
what the health and wellness experts
Practice meditation Healing Power of Human Connection in versation about personal issues related
appointments for everything from
say. Exercises in mindfulness can help us a Sometimes Lonely World” underlined to health, relationships and finances.
mundane activities, like taking a walk
break the cycle of information bingeing the importance of spending 15 minutes Changing behavior can be tough to
outside, to business matters, like video-
Control your time or prevent us from sinking into a dark a day connecting with the people we do on your own. So you could even tell
conferencing meetings. place altogether. care about most. That can help us feel your moai that you want to stop doom-
People are, by nature, information Set aside certain times of the day to Sharon Salzberg, a meditation less alone and resist doomscrolling. scrolling, and they could hold you ac-
consumers, and the news is like digital read the news, if you must — and if it teacher and author of the book “Real But how can we connect with people countable. Dr. Murthy said that his
candy being dispensed 24 hours a day. helps, set a 10-minute timer to remind Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves when we can’t easily see them? In the moai conversation with his friends was
To resist information bingeing, we can you to stop scrolling. Another trick is to and the World,” recommended this beginning of the pandemic, many of us coming up, and that he planned to talk
create a plan to control how much we wear a rubber band around your hand exercise to feel more connected with turned to videoconferencing apps to about having a cleaner relationship
consume, similar to how people can while you are reading the news, and others in a time when we can’t see virtually connect with friends, col- with social media — because he, too,
create a dieting plan to lose weight, when you believe you are succumbing many people: leagues and loved ones. Now, more occasionally gives in to doomscrolling.
said Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist to doomscrolling, snap the rubber band than four months into the pandemic, “The idea of carving time out for
and co-author of the book “The Dis- against your wrist, Dr. Murthy said. ■ Take some breaths and think about many are experiencing “Zoom fatigue.” people you care about, whether it’s 15
tracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High- It’s also important to rethink breaks. the people who have helped you in the Dr. Murthy said he, too, was getting minutes or more, is all the more impor-
Tech World.” Before the pandemic, one of our typical past. This could be your friends, col- tired of the neck strain from constant tant in a world where the lines between
Step 1 is to acknowledge the burden lunch breaks involved browsing Face- leagues and even the restaurant work- video calls and had begun shifting day and night, weekday and weekend,
that doomscrolling creates for our book. With nowhere to go out for lunch ers bagging your takeout food. many work and personal calls to the have been erased,” he said.

Troubled Boeing Jet May Have a Future in an Aviation Industry in Turmoil

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
about half the rate Boeing had tar-
geted before the Max was
grounded.
Globally, airlines are losing
hundreds of millions of dollars by
the day, and most experts predict
it will be two to five years before
the industry sees as many pas-
sengers as it did in 2019. After the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the fi-
nancial crisis a decade ago, air-
could yield double-digit increases
in profits for airlines, said Vitaly
Guzhva, a professor of aviation fi-
nance at Embry Riddle Aeronauti-
cal University. “There’s still a
pretty strong business case for the
Max.”
Southwest, for example, has
nearly 750 planes in its fleet, each
some version of the 737. If it had
been able to replace part of its
fleet last year with the more than
at Credit Suisse. If the timing is
right, an airline might choose to
replace a plane in need of major
repairs with a Max.
“When you have a brand-new
airplane, you don’t have to think
about that kind of expense,” Mr.
Spingarn said.
Strapped airlines could also see
an opportunity in buying the Max,
expensive maintenance or re-
placement soon. And airlines over
the past few months have retired
older aircraft, sometimes years
ahead of schedule.
Rather than back away from
Boeing, airlines might also try to
negotiate compensation for the
plane’s grounding and delays in
securing the jets. Customers
could demand that Boeing defer
deliveries or offer them deep dis-
Contracts are drawn up years in
advance of delivery and can be dif-
ficult to break, experts said. Still,
terms vary substantially by order,
so some airlines may be better po-
sitioned than others, and con-
tracts for the Max typically pro-
vide for some renegotiation rights
if deliveries are delayed by more
than a year. Some airlines may
also have signed contracts that re-
quire them to forfeit money
cent more when it signs a con-
tract, said Eddy Pieniazek, an air-
line consultant at Ishka, a consult-
ing firm. The rest is typically paid
in the year or two before a plane is
delivered.
Relationships with manufactur-
ers can run deep, with long-term
plans built around an all-Boeing
or all-Airbus fleet; the two compa-
nies have a roughly equal share of
the commercial plane market.e

lines recovered before the overall
economy, according to Boeing,
which expects the opposite this
time around.
In the United States, a limited
recovery in domestic travel has
stalled in recent weeks as virus in-
fections soared and states and cit-
ies reimposed restrictions on trav-
el and business activity. And more
than a third of the world’s pas-
senger planes — over 8,000 air-
craft — remain parked and un-
used, according to Cirium, an air-
line data firm.
Yet experts said the 737 Max
would survive because many air-
lines still saw value in it as they
fought for what few passengers
remained.
“It’s not phenomenal, but I don’t
think it’s all that dire for the Max,
despite Covid and everything
275 Max jets it hopes to own,
Southwest could have saved more
than $230 million in fuel costs, ac-
cording to Dr. Guzhva’s math.
Boeing says the plane offers fuel
savings of more than $10 million
over its 25- to 30-year life span.
Airlines can also point to fuel
savings as an indication of their
environmental stewardship to
customers who are increasingly
cognizant of air travel’s contribu-
tion to climate change. Others
might just want to apply the
money saved to lowering the price
of tickets to lure business.
The jet could yield big savings
on maintenance, too. New planes
often come with warranties, and
expensive engine overhauls are
typically needed a few years after
those end, said Robert Spingarn,
an aerospace and defense analyst
16,000
The number of workers Boeing said
it would cut because of the
pandemic’s impact.
selling it to a third party for cash
and then immediately leasing it
back. “They get an upfront 10, 15,
maybe even 20 million dollars,
which helps with liquidity,” Dr.
Guzhva said.
Delta Air Lines did just that af-
ter passenger traffic bottomed out
this year. Between April and June,
the airline raised $2.8 billion by
selling and leasing back planes.
Delta is the only major U.S. airline
not to use the Max.
By Boeing’s count, thousands of
airplanes worldwide are at least
20 years old and may be due for
counts. After the Sept. 11 terrorist they’ve already paid if they can- would increase maintenance and
attacks, the low-cost Irish carrier cel. training costs.
Ryanair reportedly snapped up The Max has a list price of as “There are companies that stick
much as $135 million for the latest with Boeing, and there are compa-
737s at a substantial discount, for
example. When asked the price he model, but can sell for far less: as nies that stick with Airbus; you
little as 50 percent of that figure don’t often get people jumping
paid, the airline’s chief executive,
Michael O’Leary, demurred: “I for a large enough order, accord- and changing,” Mr. Pieniazek
wouldn’t even tell my priest what ing to experts. An airline might said. “There are people who have
discount I got off Boeing.” pay 1 percent upfront when it bought into the Max story and will
Industry trends are also on Boe- signs a letter of intent and 5 per- want to fly their airplanes.”
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Riots of the Past
Cleared the Land
For Opportunists
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
borhoods — from the conditions
that led to unrest, from the build-
ings that burned then, from the
years of neglect that followed —
made it easier, when the time
finally came years later, for de-
velopers and new businesses and
residents to amass wealth.
“You think of a forest fire, with
the clearing of the land,” said
Nizam Ali, whose family restau-
rant, Ben’s Chili Bowl, is one of
the rare Black-owned businesses
near 14th and U to survive the
rioting and the decline afterward.
“Unfortunately,” he said, “it was
racism and murder that was the
clearing of the land.”
It was redlining and segrega-
tion, then arson, depopulation,
slumlords, the drug trade, over-
incarceration, inflated property
taxes and denied home equity
loans. Gentrification itself has
become part of the critique in a
new generation of protest over
racial inequality precisely be-
cause it follows from this story in
cities like Washington, and be-
cause it has brought its own set
of encounters with police.
“Gentrification is on the tip of
almost every Black person’s
tongue,” said Willow Lung-
Amam, a professor of urban
studies and planning at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, who mar-
ried into a native Washingtonian
family. “People are deeply sad-
dened about the loss of Black
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institutions, Black politics, and a
Black place in the city. We can’t
get through a Sunday dinner
without talking about the city as
the city that actually doesn’t
exist anymore.”
There are similar conversa-
tions in Philadelphia, where
apartments for college students
have begun to fill the vacant lots
on a strip with a storied jazz past
that burned in 1964; in Miami’s
Liberty City, where gentrification
feels just over the horizon dec-
ades after 1980 riots; in South
Los Angeles, where the Black
population has declined signifi-
cantly since the 1992 Rodney
King riots.
“I think people feel that they
have an absence of control of
their community,” said Damien
Goodmon, an organizer in Los
Angeles and the founder of the
Liberty Community Land Trust,
which aims to empower Black
communities in the area.
Far more of the Black neigh-
borhoods nationwide that experi-
enced unrest, or the forces that
drove it, have remained in de-
cline than have gentrified. And
past unrest is no required pre-
condition for gentrification today.
But the economics that turn
destruction into opportunity are
most visible in these places.
Redevelopment Has Brought Wealthier Residents Into Neighborhoods Once Scarred by Unrest
Areas where low-income residents have moved out and higher-income residents have moved in, since 2000.
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Note: The number of middle- and higher-income households in highlighted tracts has grown by more than 10 percent since 2000, as the number and
share of poor households have declined. The University of Minnesota Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity identifies these tracts as economically
expanding neighborhoods experiencing low-income displacement. Source: The University of Minnesota Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
GENTRIFICATION
Many of these neighborhoods
had bargain real estate, but also
grand old housing stock, close to
downtown, close to transit, with
built-in commercial corridors.
They also had vacant land and
city-owned lots that could be
assembled into larger develop-
ments.
And because entire communi-
ties had been devalued, it was
possible to redevelop at the scale
of entire neighborhoods.
“If you devalue the whole area,
you can redevelop the whole
area based on a particular narra-
tive of it,” said Brandi T. Sum-
mers, a professor of geography
and global metropolitan studies
at the University of California,
Berkeley. Her book “Black in
Place” followed the transforma-
tion of H Street Northeast in
Washington after the riots. The
new narrative there of “cool”
multiculturalism appeared in
signs like “Chocolate City,” which
was mounted, to quick criticism,
over the chocolate display in the
Whole Foods that opened in 2017.
‘Until that riot happened’
Rioting in the 1960s depressed
the value of Black-owned prop-
erty in central cities for years
afterward. As a result, the racial
gap in property values between
white and Black homeowners
widened more in cities with
severe riots, according to re-
search by the economic histori-
ans Robert Margo and William
Collins.
“As destructive as these
events were, our interpretation
of the large and relatively lasting
impact of the riots on property
values isn’t really a story just
about the physical destruction of
particular buildings,” Mr. Collins
said.
Rather, he said, the destruction
combined with expectations that
these communities would remain
risky places to invest or live in.
The same pattern followed later
unrest, like the 1980 rioting in
Miami’s Liberty City, set off
when an all-white jury acquitted
police officers in the beating
death of Arthur McDuffie.
“Liberty City was reeling even
before the 1980 riot, but there
was no specific association of the
name ‘Liberty City’ with death,
with race violence, with rioting,”
said Marvin Dunn, a historian
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chology at Florida International
University, who went to elemen-
tary school in the neighborhood
in the 1950s. “There was no rushed to build cheap rental places of investment,” said as was shot to death by a police vouchers sold their properties.
sense that you should be afraid housing for the crowds of renters N.D.B. Connolly, a historian at officer. And amid the decades of neglect,
in Liberty City any more than they knew were coming. “Con- Johns Hopkins University who Business leaders responded by the city had never bothered to
anyplace else in Black Miami. crete monsters,” those buildings has also written about the area. creating a development corpora- demolish old buildings dating to
Until that riot happened.” came to be called. “You look at the physical condi- tion that bought and invested in the earlier German settlement in
Liberty City had long been the Now 40 years after the riots, tions, you think about the vacan- deteriorating buildings in the the neighborhood.
destination neighborhood for an effort to replace the public cies. But what is actually hap- neighborhood. Their work got “Disinvestment is fortuitous,”
African-Americans pushed out of housing in the neighborhood pening is one form of profit- underway at a moment when said David Stradling, a professor
other parts of Miami. In the with mixed-income development making and speculation and empty nesters and young profes- of urban history at the Univer-
1930s, a large segregated public has made some residents ner- capitalism is replacing another, sionals were increasingly looking sity of Cincinnati. “Cincinnati
housing project was built there. vous. And Liberty City’s high with gentrification.” to live near downtown. And in winds up with a collection of
In the 1950s, when a highway ground, away from the coast, has This cycle is clearer still in the many ways, the earlier decline of 19th-century buildings out of
was planned through the pre- suddenly enhanced its value in a Over-the-Rhine neighborhood the neighborhood facilitated its neglect rather than by purpose-
dominantly Black Overtown city worried about sea-level rise. bordering downtown Cincinnati. transformation. ful preservation.”
neighborhood to the south, white “We tend to assume that these Rioting erupted there in 2001, Landlords who had catered to The neighborhood has become
landowners in Liberty City poor neighborhoods are not after 19-year-old Timothy Thom- poor tenants with Section 8 a hub of condos and restaurants,
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Above, fire-gutted buildings smoldering on H Street in
Washington in April 1968. Far left, the Culmer section of
Miami after rioting in May 1980. Left, firemen amid the
rubble after the Great Boston Fire of November 1872.
a success story for the city’s tax
base and the neighborhood’s
population growth. But Over-the-
Rhine has lost much of its afford-
ability. And its identity as a Black
community has faded in the
revival of Over-the-Rhine as a
historically German place.
Dorothy Darden, who has lived
in the neighborhood for half a
century, was a baby when urban
renewal displaced her family
from Cincinnati’s Lower West
End, a transformation that she
dryly refers to as an “urban
renaissance.”
“I’ve lived through two of
them,” Ms. Darden, 63, said. “And
neither one of them has bene-
fited anyone that looks like my-
self, who doesn’t have a big pay-
check.”
Opportunity after the fire
There is a lesson in another fire,
the Great Boston Fire of 1872, of
what can happen when urban
land is cleared at a vast scale.
That fire destroyed part of down-
town Boston, at a time when the
city was rapidly growing. The
economists Richard Hornbeck
and Daniel Keniston argue in an
influential paper that the whole
area was rebuilt in a way that it
most likely wouldn’t have been
otherwise.
Instead of buildings being
replaced one by one as they
aged, there was widespread
simultaneous reconstruction.
Individual property owners were
motivated to upgrade by all the
other reconstruction around
them. Land values rose in the
burned area, and nearby.
The lesson, Mr. Hornbeck said,
isn’t that destruction necessarily
leads to revitalization. Rather, it
clears the way for whatever
forces were already bearing
down on a place.
“Reactions to these disasters
tell you what was going on other-
wise under the surface,” Mr.
Hornbeck said. “It gives people
an opportunity to act free of
certain constraints that they
might have faced before.”
In Boston, the city’s swelling
population immediately put
pressure on the area to rebuild.
In Washington, that pressure did
not arrive for decades.
When it finally did, all the
same benefits of scale were at
play. The 40,000-square-foot
grocery store anchored the
apartment construction, which
enabled the restaurant scene,
which gave developers still more
confidence in yet more apart-
ments.
“The whole is more valuable
than the sum of the parts, be-
cause it’s a neighborhood,” said
AJ Jackson, the executive vice
president for social impact in-
vesting at JBG Smith, a large
developer in Washington. “It’s
not a project, or a building, or a
land island. You can create that
ecosystem.”
In this way, the city’s history
— not one single fire, but a long-
running destruction, punctuated
by widespread arson — made the
particular kind of current devel-
opment possible. History, Mr.
Jackson said, “is constraining
and it is creating opportunities at
the same time.”
After the riots in Washington,
the city counted more than 250
lots where buildings had been
entirely destroyed, primarily on
the three main riot corridors. It
wasn’t until 2010 that these lots
were as likely as other properties
on the same streets to have a
building on top of them, accord-
ing to continuing research by the
economists Leah Brooks, Jona-
than Rose, Daniel Shoag and
Stan Veuger.
“In the ’70s, there’s this huge
disappointment, and then a huge
disappointment now,” said Pro-
fessor Brooks, who teaches at
George Washington University.
“Then, it was that they didn’t
build anything. And now it’s that
they’re building something in a
way that isn’t responding to what
the community wanted.”
When H Street finally began to
redevelop, the last of the three
corridors to do so, some rela-
tively newer residents were
vocal about what they wanted.
Ben’s Chili Bowl had planned to
open another location on a street
that felt akin to U Street. But in
community meetings, some
neighbors pushed back: They
didn’t want fast food, or carryout
containers littering the neighbor-
hood, or a noisy rooftop bar. The
restaurant wound up opening in
2015, but it has struggled in its
new home, amid competing ideas
of what the corridor should be-
come.
“We had great Black neighbor-
hoods and commercial districts,”
Mr. Ali said, evoking a time be-
fore the fires, before the aban-
donment, before the reinvention.
“If allowed to thrive, think of
where these neighborhoods
would be.”
Alana Celii and Kevin Quealy contrib-
uted production.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N B7
GENTRIFICATION | ADVERTISING
Hollywood
Stays Silent
In Facebook
Ad Boycott
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
and Sony Pictures Entertainment
declined to comment for this arti-
cle or did not respond to queries.
NBCUniversal, which is owned
by Comcast, said in a statement:
“We are actively engaged in con-
versations with Facebook across a
number of Comcast NBCUniver-
sal businesses to address the use
of hate speech and other objec-
tionable content on their platform.
Our brands are monitoring the sit-
uation, and each is evaluating its
next steps, including altering ad-
vertising plans, if necessary.”
The Walt Disney Company was
Facebook’s No. 1 advertiser from
Jan. 1 to June 30, spending an esti-
mated $212 million — more than
double No. 2 Procter & Gamble,
according to the advertising ana-
lytics platform Pathmatics. (Proc-
ter & Gamble has not publicly
joined the Facebook campaign.)
WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS and
Lionsgate ranked among Face-
book’s top 15 advertisers during
that period.
Hollywood is sitting out the boy-
cott for a simple reason, said
Barry Lowenthal, chief executive
of Media Kitchen, a media buying
agency: “They need Facebook too
much and don’t want to make it
mad.”
Terry Press, a former president
of CBS Films, noted that enter-
tainment companies tended to be
allergic to controversy and move
slowly even when they wanted to
participate. “It’s not surprising
that the entertainment industry
finds itself behind other giant cor-
porations on this,” Ms. Press said.
A few other industries — bank-
ing, news media, travel — are also
largely absent from the boycott
list.
Senior officials at multiple stu-
dios said they believed they could
be more effective in pushing Face-
book to police hate speech more
rigorously by working through
back channels. Besides, they said,
movie studios are not spending
much money on advertising right
$121M
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Walt Disney Company’s
estimated spending on Facebook
advertisements this year.
now because theaters are closed.
A couple of studios said they be-
lieved they were already doing
enough on the topic of social jus-
tice, whether by increasing dona-
tions to organizations like the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People or
announcing inclusion-oriented
hiring programs.
Other entertainment execu-
tives noted that marketing new
movies and television shows
would be difficult without Face-
book, which is both a hammer
(huge audience reach) and a
scalpel (offering an ability to pre-
cisely target consumers). Holly-
wood’s own advertising channels
— for instance, Paramount’s buy-
ing time on its corporate sibling
CBS to promote a new movie —
have become less effective as
viewership has eroded.
“You can now get more reach on
an Instagram post than through a
TOM UHLMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
prime-time cable spot,” Mr.
Hauling construction debris from a building being renovated on Vine Street in the Lowenthal said. Facebook owns
Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati in 2006. Rioting had erupted there in 2001. Instagram.
Facebook is not a significant
buyer of content from studios.
Facebook Watch, the company’s
original video service, scaled back
its scripted efforts this year by
canceling shows like “Sorry for
Your Loss,” starring Elizabeth
Olsen.
But Hollywood has another self-
protective reason to avoid the
boycott: Most entertainment
companies sell advertising on
their own platforms and — espe-
cially amid a recession — cannot
afford to do anything that might
put their own businesses at risk.
In other words, it is not in their
best interest to show how effec-
tive an advertiser action might be
in forcing change.
Facebook has defended its poli-
cies while also vowing to do a bet-
ter job of combating racism and
misinformation. “We know we will
be judged by our actions, not by
our words, and are grateful to
these groups and many others for
their continued engagement,”
Facebook said in a statement last
week, referring to organizations
behind the #StopHateForProfit
campaign.
But leaders of the boycott have
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The Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in 2017. After the unrest, business leaders created a “They have had our demands
development corporation that bought and invested in deteriorating buildings there. for years, and yet it is abundantly
clear that they are not yet ready to
address the vitriolic hate on their
platform,” Rashad Robinson,
president of Color of Change, a
civil rights group, said after meet-
ing with Facebook leaders last
week.
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N

Changing a Team’s Name? Remember the Tennessee

Oilers? We didn’t think so.
Rebranding a team typically

That’s Just the Beginning

takes anywhere from six
months to a couple of years.

By KEVIN DRAPER untarily — he was concerned by an epi-

When the team owner Abe Pollin de-
cided to change the name of the N.B.A.’s
Washington Bullets in 1995, the two-year
rebranding process had the veneer of a
democratic undertaking.
The fast-casual restaurant chain Bos-
ton Market ran a renaming contest that
resulted in nearly 3,000 submissions. A
seven-person panel came up with five fi-
nalists — the Wizards, Dragons, Stal-
lions, Express and Sea Dogs — which
were put to a public vote.
Jody Shapiro, who at the time ran the
regional sports television network that
aired Bullets games, was one of the sev-
en panel members. His preference, the
Monuments, was highly rated by the
panel, but the N.B.A. rejected it because
of trademark considerations. “I thought
it had the D.C. connection and the sense
of towering structures and buildings or
individuals,” he said.
But Shapiro was never under any illu-
sion about who was really in charge.
“Truth be told at the end of the day, Abe
and Susan chose whatever they wanted
to choose,” he said, referring to Pollin
and Susan O’Malley, then the team’s
president. “It was more public relations
than it was actually significant.”
For the second time in a quarter cen-
tury, a professional sports team based in
the Washington area will undergo a
name change and rebranding, in large
part because of the name’s negative con-
notations. On Monday, Washington’s
N.F.L. team announced it would drop its
logo and “Redskins” name, with a new
identity to be determined.
While Pollin rebranded his team vol-
demic of gun violence in Washington and
the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the
Israeli prime minister and a friend —
Daniel Snyder, the owner of Washing-
ton’s N.F.L. team, was largely forced into
it by sponsors who said they would end
their association with the team if the
name didn’t change.
The timing of Washington’s rebrand is
unique. “Any redesign is either done with
a franchise acquisition or done with a big
transition,” like relocation or the unveil-
ing of a new stadium, said Mark Verlan-
der, who has designed the logos for a
number of N.F.L. teams.
Altering a professional sports team’s
identity is a huge undertaking that typi-
cally takes anywhere from six months to
a couple of years. Research is conducted,
design firms are contracted, hundreds of
logos are mooted, trademarks are se-
cured, merchandise is produced and
marketing plans are rolled out. The
N.F.L. has a creative services division to
help teams through such occasions.
This rebrand could be particularly dif-
ficult, as the trademarks to a number of
names that have bandied about over the
years, like the Redtails and Monuments,
are owned by the same man.
Matthew Wolff is a graphic designer
who focuses on the visual identity of soc-
cer teams, though he has participated in
redesigns for North America’s big-four
professional sports teams. He designed
the uniforms France wore while winning
the World Cup in 2018, as well as the in-
stantly iconic Nigeria jerseys from the
same men’s tournament.
He said that a logo should be “a mirror,
an avatar of self-identification” for fans.
This is particularly explicit in soccer,
where team names are less prominent on
uniforms and supporter culture can de-
fine a team in the eyes of outsiders.
This is not necessarily true in Ameri-
can football. There are names that ex-
plicitly refer to regional identity, like the
New England Patriots, but in the N.F.L.
identity often works in reverse. Nobody
particularly associates tigers with the
Ohio River Valley or big cats with the Ca-
nadian border, but over decades the Ben-
gals have come to represent Cincinnati
and the Lions Detroit.
“I think there is an inherent connec-
tion with football still as kind of a gladia-
tor wild animal spirit that they can’t let
go of,” Verlander said.
“Those N.F.L. team names are so his-
toric that I don’t even think about their
origin story,” Wolff said. “I don’t really
think about Buccaneers Buccaneering
across the sea when I watch Jameis Win-
ston throw interceptions.” He referred to
the former Tampa Bay quarterback who
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joined the New Orleans Saints this off-
season.
What makes a good logo or name is not
objective, as ultimately it is art. It also
isn’t static. Winning and losing, contro-
versy and popular culture trends can al-
ter meanings. Washington’s N.F.L. team
meant something different in the early
1990s, after three Super Bowl titles in a
decade, than in 2020, after two decades
of mismanagement.
Wolff knows that much of the success
of his Nigeria jersey design, which sold
out in minutes, came from what hap-
pened after the garments were made. Ni-
ke’s brand design team rolled out an in-
fluencer marketing campaign and used
beautiful photographs in ads, just as as-
pects of Nigerian culture, like film and
fashion, became prominent worldwide.
“I felt like it was the right piece at the
right time,” he said. “To be frank, that is
kind of dumb luck.”
It is not clear yet in which direction
Washington’s football team will go. In an-
nouncing the change, the team said Sny-
der and Coach Ron Rivera were develop-
ing a “new name and design approach
that will enhance the standing of our
proud, tradition-rich franchise.”
In a previous statement, Rivera said
he had “hoped to continue the mission of
honoring and supporting Native Ameri-
cans and our Military.” That could prove
problematic.
In a letter sent to N.F.L. Commissioner
Roger Goodell earlier this month, repre-
sentatives from hundreds of Native
American groups demanded the league
require Washington cease the use of “im-
agery of or evocative of Native American
culture, traditions and spirituality,” as
well as change its longtime burgundy
and gold color scheme to discourage fans
from continuing to wear their old gear.
But what Washington’s team will be
named, and the logos and colors it uses,
isn’t up to Native American groups, de-
sign firms or others.
When Verlander was given the brief to
design the Tennessee Titans’ logo in the
late 1990s after the team relocated, he
was told the Houston Oilers’ colors had
to be used because Nancy Neville Ad-
ams, the wife of the team’s owner Bud
Adams, loved the colors.
Wolff knows that no matter what the
brief says, only one person’s opinion mat-
ters. “Once it gets past legal checkpoints,
and even if the supporters overwhelm-
ingly say one thing in their online poll or
Twitter or Reddit, ultimately someone
bought a franchise for X million or billion
dollars.”
That someone is Snyder. He paid
roughly $800 million.

Central Ohio
Prepares
For a Party
Without Fans
By MICHAEL CROLEY
DUBLIN, Ohio — In a typical year, the
Bogey Inn would be preparing to party
this week. While PGA Tour golfers ply
their trade at nearby Muirfield Village
Golf Club, site of the Memorial Tourna-
ment, the sports bar would welcome an
overflow crowd of fans to enjoy a live
band on its expansive patio outfitted
with a disco ball.
Mark Dombek, the restaurant’s gen-
eral manager, said that in past years as
many as 30,000 guests passed through
its doors during tournament week. He
was braced for a quieter scene this year
as the event, a hallmark of central Ohio
summers, will be played this weekend
without fans because of concerns over
the rise in coronavirus infections.
“We’ll probably only do 30 percent of
what we might normally do this year,”
Dombek said. “It’s going to be a massive
hit for us.”
The tournament will again draw
marquee golfers to the course designed
by the Ohio native Jack Nicklaus and re-
configured to his specifications yearly to
flummox top players. Daniel Sullivan,
the tournament’s executive director, said
that in normal years the Memorial gen-
erated $35 million to $40 million for the
local economy, according to the most re-
cent economic study from 10 years ago.
This summer, area hotels have seen a
sharp downturn for what is usually their
biggest revenue generator of the year.
One nearby hotel estimated that it was
only at 60 percent occupancy.
In June, Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio ap-
proved a plan for the event to host a lim-
ited number of fans — around 8,000 daily
— but the PGA Tour scuttled it as infec-
tion rates climbed. Sullivan’s team had
developed a task force to address the is-
sue of fans and prepared for months to
host back-to-back tournaments on the
PGA Tour for the first time since 1957.
The reversal forced a logistical pivot at
Muirfield, which also served as the site of
last week’s Workday Charity Open. “We
had every goal and intention of having
fans,” Sullivan said. “Disappointing, no
doubt, but completely out of everyone’s
control.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MADDIE MCGARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Memorial staff had intended to
use radio frequency identification tech- The Bogey Inn, top, will take a financial hit with no fans visiting the Memorial Tournament. Above right, Muirfield Village Golf Club, which is
nology in the badges distributed to fans, hosting back-to-back PGA Tour events. Above left, a bar and golf shop at the course, where up to 8,000 fans a day had been anticipated.
moving attendees through a system of
so-called corrals where they could watch
the action while a “patron ambassador” ference on Tuesday that playing was a the world, said last week that coming to less than what we would do for the Me- ing to try to throw the best party possi-
monitored the number of people walking risk. “I know the tour has done a fantas- Ohio felt like a reprieve after the uptick of morial,” he said. ble.
into the space using the technology. tic job of setting up the safety and trying cases in Arizona, where he lives. Rahm The tour was clear that greens would The first of three oversize screens ar-
Anticipating that large crowds would to ensure that all of us are protected and was among the tour golfers who re- run faster this week and, with a major rived at the Bogey Inn last Thursday, and
try to follow Tiger Woods, who is return- are safe,” he said. “But it is a risk that we mained in Ohio after playing the tourna- course renovation planned after the the restaurant will use its large patio to
ing from a five-month tour hiatus for the are now undertaking when we walk on ment last weekend at Muirfield, where tournament, Mark said he was hoping bring in more tables to accommodate the
event, Sullivan said they were to have “a the property and are around individuals Collin Morikawa defeated the No. 3- his team could push for more challenging golf fans who may still show up.
patron ambassador walking around with that you don’t know where they’ve been ranked Justin Thomas in a playoff. speed and firmness. For the past five years, Paul Sorvold, a
a paddle that said, ‘Be smart. Stand or what they’ve been doing.” The Workday provided a riveting Sun- “We’re going to be comfortable doing sales manager for a lighting manufactur-
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champion, came near.
Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commis-
sioner, called the plan “as thorough as it
could possibly be,” but said Wednesday
that he ultimately decided to proceed
without fans after looking at the rate of
cases and getting input from players.
Woods acknowledged in his news con-
For players who have experienced un-
precedented changes to the PGA Tour
calendar, adapted to new social distanc-
ing protocols at events and worried as
peers and caddies tested positive for the
coronavirus, the reversal on having fans
at the Memorial has been just another
adjustment in an unusual season.
Jon Rahm, the No. 2-ranked golfer in
day, but no one expects Muirfield to play
as friendly as it did last weekend, when
the average round was a 72. The main
challenge for this weekend, according to
the course superintendent, Chad Mark,
was ensuring the integrity of the course
week-to-week. “One of my biggest wor-
ries was for our staff to let any of our egos
get in the way of letting the course be any
that because we don’t have to turn the
course back over to the members,” Mark
said.
Outside the club’s gates, the atmos-
phere around Dublin is significantly sub-
dued. The Workday, fanless and stifling
hot the first two days, took place in mo-
nastic silence. But Dombek, the restau-
rant manager, and his owner are still go-
er, has been bringing clients to the Bogey
to celebrate tournament week, but he ac-
knowledged that this weekend “no one is
flying into Dublin if they can’t get into the
tournament.”
Still, he plans to spend Friday night at
the restaurant with his wife and some
friends. “Our local businesses need us
now more than ever,” he said.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL S C O R E B OA R D

Trying for One Last Victory in Alabama SOCCER

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

By GILLIAN R. BRASSIL
Tommy Tuberville, who made
his name as one of the most suc-
cessful football coaches at Au-
burn, won in overtime and now
faces an intrastate rival in Ala-
bama.
This time, instead of recruiting
players to defeat Alabama on the
field, he is attempting to persuade
voters to select him for the United
States Senate over an incumbent,
Doug Jones, who is considered to
be in the weakest position of any
Senate Democrat in this year’s
election. Senator Jones narrowly
won a special election in 2017 to fill
Jeff Sessions’s seat after Presi-
dent Trump appointed Mr. Ses-
sions the United States attorney
general.
Mr. Sessions, who fought for his
political life after Mr. Trump threw
his full support behind Mr. Tu-
berville in the Republican prima-
ry, was crushed in the runoff elec-
tion on Tuesday night, sending Mr.
Tuberville’s name to the Novem-
ber ballot.
“There’s no way he could run
for Senate in Alabama and not
align himself with Trump,” said
the Rev. Wayne Dickens, a defen-
sive tackle for Auburn from 2001
to 2005 who is now on the coach-
ing staff at Western Kentucky.
“My disappointment would be his
actions falling in line with Trump-
ism,” though he said he would vote
for “Coach Tub” if he were regis-
tered to vote in Alabama.
Mr. Tuberville’s football past
has been present on the campaign
trail, and Alabama Democrats
have used his losses, abrupt job
changes and team decisions to call
into question his integrity and
ability to win on Election Day. At
times in recent days, the party’s
official Twitter account has read
more like a trash-talking college
football message board, speaking
a language familiar to many Ala-
bama voters.
“Tuberville couldn’t score a TD
for 2 weeks with 4 first rounders
on his offense,” read one message
posted hours after Mr. Tuberville’s
victory over Mr. Sessions. “He
also lost to Vanderbilt.”
A Bumpy Ride at Auburn
Mr. Tuberville coached the Ti-
gers from 1999 to 2008, and posted
an 85-40 record and the universi-
ty’s longest winning streak
against the Crimson Tide, six
straight, in the rivalry.
But it wasn’t a smooth ride. In
2003, William F. Walker, the presi-
dent of Auburn, and David Housel,
the athletic director, flew to chat
with Bobby Petrino, then Lou-
isville’s football coach, about re-
placing Mr. Tuberville after he lost
three Southeastern Conference
games in which the Tigers should
have had the upper hand. That
was the same week as the highly
anticipated Iron Bowl, which Au-
burn won, 28-23. Fans found out
after the coveted victory, spurring
severe backlash against univer-
sity officials.
Mr. Tuberville held on to his job.
The incident is remembered as
JetGate.
And the next season, Mr. Tu-
berville led Auburn to a 13-0 sea-
son, earning him Coach of the
Year Awards from the SEC, his
second, and The Associated
Press.
“I still think about 2004,” Mr.
Dickens said. “For me, being an
ordained minister and under-
standing the impact faith has on a
person, the willingness that Coach
Tub had to share his faith in Jesus
Christ when his team was on a na-
tional stage, he let people see who
he genuinely was. 2004 was prob-
ably the best year he ever had.”
As a coach, Mr. Tuberville was
more like a chief executive, Mr.
Dickens said — excellent at hiring
2004 Tommy Tuberville leading the Auburn Tigers onto the field before the SEC championship game against Tennessee.
assistant coaches who supported
his team and mission.
But some of the coach’s losses at
Auburn are being used to taunt
him, including the Iron Bowl wipe-
out that sealed his resignation
from Auburn in 2008.
Football and Politics
Mr. Tuberville, 65, was always
athletic, according to his sister,
Vicki Tuberville Fewell. Born and
raised in small-town Camden,
Ark., about 100 miles south of Lit-
tle Rock, he became a quarterback
at Harmony Grove High School’s
quarterback; his father was a ref-
eree.
“He and Tommy were very
close,” Ms. Fewell said. “He and
Dad would work together because
of their love of sports.”
Charles Tuberville, a World War
II veteran with five Bronze Stars,
2008 Mr. Tuberville greeting fans before an Auburn game. He went 85-40 as the team’s coach.
died at a training camp as a mem-
ber of the National Guard when
Tommy was coaching at Her-
mitage High School in Arkansas.
It was a hard loss for the tight-knit
family — Tommy, Vicki, Charles
III and their mother, Olive. He was
an inspiration to his son’s football
and political careers.
The children considered them-
selves “army brats,” and support-
ing veterans has become central
to Mr. Tuberville’s campaign,
along with strong Christian val-
ues, instilled from the days his
family attended Maul Road
Church of Christ.
Mr. Tuberville played safety at
Southern Arkansas University,
then started his coaching career.
After graduation in 1976, he
coached at nearby Hermitage
High for four years, then Arkan-
sas State University for five. From
1986 to 1993, he coached at the
University of Miami, contributing
to three championships as a grad-
uate assistant and later as the de-
fensive coordinator. For the 1994
season, he served as defensive co-
ordinator for Texas A&M, which
finished with a 10-0-1 record.
That propelled him into his first
head coaching job at the Univer-
sity of Mississippi for the 1995 sea-
son, where he bolstered a move-
ment to bar the Confederate battle
flag from home games. He focused
on attracting Black recruits and
making them feel more welcome.
“The flag is killing us,” he told
Robert Khayat, a former univer-
sity chancellor, in a brief visit. And
it worked, to an extent. Flags were
waved at the 1997 homecoming
game, but Mr. Tuberville’s state-
ments helped eventually ban the
flag from Vaught-Hemingway
Stadium.
The former coach has not
TODD VANEMST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
t-Liverpool . . . . 36 30 3 3 77 29 93
Man City. . . . . 36 24 3 9 93 35 75
Chelsea . . . . . 36 19 6 11 64 49 63
Leicester. . . . . 35 17 8 10 65 36 59
Man United . . . 35 16 11 8 61 35 59
Wolverhampton 36 14 14 8 49 38 56
Tottenham. . . . 36 15 10 11 57 46 55
Sheffield United 35 14 12 9 38 33 54
Arsenal . . . . . . 36 13 14 9 53 45 53
Burnley . . . . . . 36 14 9 13 40 48 51
Everton. . . . . . 35 12 9 14 41 52 45
Southampton . . 35 13 6 16 45 58 45
Newcastle . . . . 36 11 10 15 37 55 43
Crystal Palace . 35 11 9 15
Brighton . . . . . 35 8 12 15
30
36
45
52
42
36
West Ham . . . . 35 9 7 19 44 59 34
Watford . . . . . 35 8 10 17 33 54 34
Bournemouth . . 36 8 7 21 37 62 31
Aston Villa. . . . 35 8 6 21 38 65 30
Norwich . . . . . 36 5 6 25 26 68 21
t-clinched title
Sunday, July 12
Wolverhampton 3, Everton 0
Aston Villa 2, Crystal Palace 0
Tottenham 2, Arsenal 1
Bournemouth 4, Leicester 1
Monday, July 13
Man United 2, Southampton 2
Tuesday, July 14
Chelsea 1, Norwich 0
Wednesday, July 15
Burnley 1, Wolverhampton 1
Man City 2, Bournemouth 1
Newcastle 1, Tottenham 3
Arsenal 2, Liverpool 1
Thursday, July 16
Everton vs. Aston Villa
Leicester vs. Sheffield United
Crystal Palace vs. Man United
Southampton vs. Brighton
M.L.S. IS BACK
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
All Times E.D.T.
All matches played at ESPN Wide World of
Sports Complex, Orlando, Fla.
GROUP STAGE
GROUP A
Wednesday, July 8
Orlando City 2, Miami 1
Thursday, July 9
Philadelphia 1, N.Y.C.F.C. 0
Tuesday, July 14
Orlando City 3, N.Y.C.F.C. 1
Philadelphia 2, Miami 1
Monday, July 20
N.Y.C.F.C. at Miami, 9 a.m.
Orlando City at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
GROUP B
Friday, July 10
San Jose 0, Seattle 0, tie
Tuesday, July 14
Chicago Fire 2, Seattle Sounders 1
Wednesday, July 15
San Jose at Vancouver
Sunday, July 19
San Jose at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 23
RIC FELD/ASSOCIATED PRESS Vancouver at Chicago, 9 a.m.
GROUP C
Thursday, July 9
New England 1, Montreal 0
Monday, July 13
shared his thoughts on the re-
D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 2
Thursday, July 16
moval of Confederate symbols Toronto FC at Montreal, 8 p.m.
Friday, July 17
across the country in the wake of New England at D.C. United, 8 p.m.
the police killing of George Floyd Tuesday, July 21
New England at Toronto FC, 9 a.m.
in Minneapolis. D.C. United at Montreal, 10:30 p.m.
His campaign did not respond
GROUP D
Sunday, July 12
to a request for comment. Al- Minnesota 2, Sporting Kansas City 1
though he made his stance clear
Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado 0
Friday, July 17
Colorado at Sporting Kansas City, 8 p.m.
on kneeling during the national Minnesota at Real Salt Lake, 10:30 p.m.
anthem in a recent campaign ad: Wednesday, July 22
Sporting Kansas City at Real Salt Lake, 9 a.m.
Don’t.
Minnesota at Colorado, 10:30 p.m.
Despite his dedication to Mis- GROUP E
Saturday, July 11
sissippi recruiting, Mr. Tuberville Red Bulls 1, Atlanta 0
left for Auburn before the 1999 Columbus 4, Cincinnati 0
Thursday, July 16
season (after saying they’d have Cincinnati at Atlanta, 9 a.m.
Red Bulls at Columbus, 10:30 p.m.
to take him out “in a pine box” just
Tuesday, July 21
two days before). Columbus at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 22
His departure from Auburn was Red Bulls at Cincinnati, 8 p.m.
much more quiet: After a disap- GROUP F
pointing 2008 season, he resigned,
Monday, July 13
Los Angeles FC 3, Houston Dynamo 3
taking a year off from coaching as LA Galaxy 1, Portland Timbers 2
Saturday, July 18
an analyst for ESPN before as- Houston at Portland, 8 p.m.
suming the head coach role at LA Galaxy at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 23
Texas Tech. Houston at LA Galaxy, 8 p.m.
“He’s unquestionably one of the Portland at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.
greatest coaches of all time,” Mr. NATIONAL WOMEN'S
Dickens said. “He should be up SOCCER LEAGUE
there with Pat Dye and other well- CHALLENGE CUP SCHEDULE
known coaches in Auburn his- All Times E.D.T.
tory.” All matches played at Zions Bank Stadium,
But keeping with the flair of his
Herriman, Utah.
Quarterfinals
exit from Mississippi, after Mr. Tu- Friday, July 17
North Carolina Courage vs. Portland
berville had spent three years Thorns, 12:30 p.m.
coaching Texas Tech, he silently Houston Dash vs. Utah Royals, 10 p.m.
Saturday, July 18
withdrew from a recruitment din- Washington Spirit vs. Sky Blue, 12:30 p.m.
ner to accept the head coaching OL Reign vs. Chicago Red Stars, 10 p.m.
Semifinals
job at Cincinnati in December Wednesday, July 22
TBD vs. TBD, 12:30 p.m.
2012. Recruits at the time claimed TBD vs. TBD, 10 p.m.
he took the call midmeal and Championship
Sunday, July 26
bailed, but Mr. Tuberville said that TBD vs. TBD, 12:30 p.m. (CBS)
simply wasn’t the case.
“I actually paid the bill,” he told BASEBALL
Al.com in 2019. M.L.B. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Ending with a bang in four sea- All times E.D.T.
sons at Cincinnati, he won a share Saturday, July 18
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05 p.m.
of the American Athletic Confer- Yankees at Mets, 7:10 p.m.
ence championship once before Sunday, July 19
Baltimore at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.
retiring from football in 2016. Mets at Yankees, 7:05 p.m.
In another instance of college Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.
football coming up on the cam- Monday, July 20
Philadelphia at Yankees, 6:05 p.m.
paign trail, Mr. Tuberville’s Washington at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.
thoughts on the coming season Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40 p.m.
aligned with those of Mr. Trump L.A. Angels at San Diego, TBD
about getting back to school. Tuesday, July 21
Baltimore at Washington, 6:05 p.m.
When asked about starting the Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.
season on time by WNSP-FM Colorado at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40 p.m.
Sports Radio in June, he said, Wednesday, July 22
“You betcha.” Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.
Colorado at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
San Diego at L.A. Angels, 9:40 p.m.

H O R S E R AC I N G HOCKEY
N.H.L. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Baffert Suspended 15 Days After Horses Test Positive for Banned Substance
By JOE DRAPE
The Arkansas Racing Commis-
sion suspended the Hall of Fame
trainer Bob Baffert for 15 days on
Wednesday and vacated the vic-
tories of two of his horses after
they tested positive for a banned
substance.
One of the horses, Charlatan,
won a division of the Arkansas
Derby on May 2. The colt’s owners
will forfeit the $300,000 in prize
money. The owner of the other
horse, a filly named Gamine, must
forfeit a $36,000 first-place check
won in an allowance race earlier
that day. The suspension will run
from Aug. 1 to 15.
On June 20, Gamine won the
Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park in
oughbred Regulatory Rulings
database maintained by the
Jockey Club.
Charlatan and Gamine had two
samples test positive for lido-
caine, a local numbing agent, ac-
cording to a person who spoke on
condition of anonymity because
the case had not been fully adjudi-
cated. The Times reported on the
first positive tests in late May.
Lidocaine can be used legiti-
mately for suturing wounds or in
diagnosing if a horse is sound
enough to compete. It may also be
present in ointments used on cuts
or abrasions. It is regulated be-
cause of its potential to mask
CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
lameness in an unsound horse.
In a hearing, Baffert and his
A lawyer for Baffert, W. Craig
Robertson, said the trainer was
disappointed in the ruling and
planned to appeal. In a statement,
he said, “This is a case of innocent
exposure and not intentional ad-
ministration.”
Four days after Charlatan’s
runaway victory in the Arkansas
Derby, the colt’s stallion rights
were sold for an undisclosed sum
to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms. The colt
missed the Belmont Stakes with
an ankle injury, and Baffert has
said he will miss the Kentucky
Derby, as well. Charlatan may be
able to come back in time for the
Preakness on Oct. 3.
Baffert-trained Justify failed a
drug test after winning the Santa
tigated the failed test for four
months, allowing Justify to keep
competing long enough to win the
Triple Crown. In August, after Jus-
tify’s breeding rights had been
sold for $60 million, the California
Horse Racing Board — whose
chairman at the time, Chuck Win-
ner, had employed Baffert to train
his horses — disposed of the inqui-
ry in a rare closed-door session.
The board ruled that Justify’s
positive test for the banned drug
scopolamine had been the result
of “environmental contamina-
tion,” not intentional doping. Baf-
fert has denied any wrongdoing,
but the quantity of the drug found
in Justify suggested that it was
present not because of contamina-
All Times E.D.T.
Tuesday, July 28
Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, at Toronto, 4
p.m.
Toronto vs. Montreal, at Toronto, 8 p.m.
Edmonton vs. Calgary, at Edmonton, 10:30
p.m.
Wednesday, July 29
Tampa Bay vs. Florida, at Toronto, 12 p.m.
Colorado vs. Minnesota, at Edmonton, 2:30
p.m.
Carolina vs. Washington, at Toronto, 4 p.m.
St. Louis vs. Chicago, at Edmonton, 6:30
p.m.
Islanders vs. Rangers, at Toronto, 8 p.m.
Vancouver vs. Winnipeg, at Edmonton,
10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 30
Nashville vs. Dallas, at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Boston vs. Columbus, at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Vegas vs. Arizona, at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
TRANSACTIONS
M.L.B.
American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Placed LHPs
Eduardo Rodriguez, Josh Taylor and
Darwinzon Hernandez on the 10-day IL.
Signed LHP Jeremy Wu-Yelland to a minor
league contract.
HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Joe
Smith on the restricted list.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed 1B Ryan

New York by nearly 19 lengths in a

stakes-record time of 1 minute
32.55 seconds, a performance that
inspired talk of the filly taking on
Bob Baffert has trained the last
two Triple Crown winners.
1978. Baffert won his second
representatives argued that the
horses were accidentally exposed
to the lidocaine by an assistant
trainer, Jimmy Barnes, who had
Anita Derby, nearly a month be-
fore the 2018 Kentucky Derby.
Justify wound up winning the
Derby, the Preakness and the Bel-
tion in his feed or his bedding but
rather because of an effort to en-
hance performance, according to
Dr. Rick Sams, who ran the drug
O'Hearn and RHP Brad Keller on the 10-
day IL. Activated C Salvador Perez from
the 10-day IL.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed SS Wilfredo
Tovar on the 10-day IL.
National League
CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with C
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males in the Kentucky Derby,
which is scheduled for Sept. 5.
Baffert is America’s pre-emi-
nent active trainer. He has won
the Kentucky Derby five times. In
2015, he trained American
Pharoah, the first horse to win the
Triple Crown since Affirmed in
Triple Crown in 2018 with Justify.
Baffert has also caught the at-
tention of regulators over the
years. These are his 26th and 27th
drug violations, according to pub-
lic records compiled by the Asso-
ciation of Racetrack Commission-
ers International and the Thor-
applied a medicinal patch to his
own back. Barnes had broken his
pelvis, and the brand of patch he
used, Salonpas, contains small
amounts of Lidocaine. The drug
was transferred from his hands
through the application of a
tongue tie, they said.
mont that year for the Triple
Crown. The rule on the books
when Justify failed the test re-
quired that the horse be disquali-
fied, forfeiting both his Santa
Anita Derby prize money and his
entry into the Kentucky Derby.
California racing officials inves-
lab for the Kentucky Horse Racing
Commission from 2011 to 2018.
Mick Ruis, owner of the Santa
Anita Derby’s second-place horse,
is in litigation with California offi-
cials to have his colt Bolt d’Oro de-
clared the winner and awarded
the $600,000 first-place check.
Jose Lobaton on a minor league contract.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RF Charlie
Blackmon on the 10-day IL.
METS — Placed RHP's Brad Brach and
Jared Hughes on the IL.
N.F.L.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DE Myles
Garrett to a five-year contract extension.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms
with RB Derrick Henry on a multi-year
contract extension.
B10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Texas Says It Will Address Racism, but Keep Anthem
By MARIA CRAMER
The University of Texas at
Austin said it would rename a
building named for a racist profes-
sor, erect a statue of the school’s
first Black football player and
commission a monument to its
first Black undergraduates.
What’s not changing? “The Eyes
of Texas,” a campus anthem with
minstrel roots that student-ath-
letes want abolished.
Athletes at the university had
called on campus officials to find a
song “without racist undertones”
in place of the anthem, which has
lyrics that were in part inspired by
the words of Robert E. Lee, the
Confederate general.
“ ‘The Eyes of Texas,’ in its cur-
rent form, will continue to be our
alma mater,” Jay Hartzell, interim
president of the university, said in
a statement on Monday.
“It is my belief that we can ef-
fectively reclaim and redefine
what this song stands for by first
owning and acknowledging its
history in a way that is open and
transparent,” he continued. “To-
gether, we have the power to de-
fine what the Eyes of Texas expect
of us, what they demand of us, and
what standard they hold us to
now.”
Replacing the song was among
a long list of requests made by the
athletes, who said that if their de-
mands were not met, they would
no longer help the university re-
cruit new players or participate in
donor events.
On Monday, after the announce-
ment was made, many athletes
said they were grateful for the ac-
tions the university had decided to
take.
Caden Sterns, a defensive back
on the Longhorns football team,
thanked the administration on
Twitter.
“Great day to be a Longhorn,”
he wrote, adding, “Looking for-
ward to make more positive
change on campus.”
“These are great first steps!”
Asjia O’Neal, a Texas volleyball
player, wrote on Twitter, adding
that she was proud “to be a part of
the change.”
“The Eyes of Texas” can be
traced back to Lee and was per-
formed at minstrel shows in the
early 20th century.
Lee’s connection to the song
goes back to William Prather, the
University of Texas’ president
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from 1899 to 1905. In the 1860s,
Prather was a student at Wash-
ington College, in Lexington, Va.,
while Lee was its president.
Lee would always end remarks
to Washington faculty members
and students by saying “the eyes
of the South are upon you,” ac-
cording to historians.
When Prather became presi-
dent of the University of Texas, he
invoked the phrase and changed it
to “the eyes of Texas are upon
you.”
Students wrote satirical lyrics
with the phrase and set them to
the tune of “I’ve Been Working on
the Railroad.”
A university quartet first per-
formed the song around 1903, at a
minstrel show at the Hancock
Opera House in Austin, where the
singers are believed to have worn
blackface.
Edmund T. Gordon, a professor
in the University of Texas’ African
and African diaspora studies de-
partment, who has studied and
documented the campus’s racial
history, said he supported the de-
cision to keep the song in the con-
text of the university’s mission “to
foment teaching, learning and re-
search in service of positive
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change in our society.” He added
that keeping the song and explain-
ing its origins would serve as a
“constant reminder to our com-
munity that there were problem-
atic aspects of our past that can
and do continue to impact the
present.”
Last month, the athletes called
on the athletics department and
the university to take measures
including creating a permanent
Black athletic history exhibition
in its Hall of Fame; donating a
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organizations, including Black
Caden Sterns, a safety, praised the university on Twitter.
Lives Matter; and renaming cam-
pus buildings, including one hon-
oring Robert Lee Moore, a mathe- Whittier, who joined the would use revenue from the ath-
matics professor who refused to Longhorns in 1970 and became letics department to invest in pro-
let Black students in his class after the team’s first Black football grams that recruit Black students
the university desegregated. player, at Darrell K. Royal-Texas and students from underrepre-
The university agreed to re- Memorial Stadium. sented groups from Dallas, Hous-
name that building the Physics, Joe Jamail Field, which was ton and San Antonio.
Math and Astronomy Building. named after a white Texas billion- The university vowed to adopt a
The university added that it aire, will be renamed to honor two plan to recruit and retain faculty
would “provide historical expla- Black football players, Earl Camp- members “who bring more diver-
nations within the building about bell and Ricky Williams, former sity to our research and teaching
why past university leaders chose Longhorns and Heisman Trophy missions” and to expand a com-
to name the space for Professor winners. That change was sug- mittee that oversees campus po-
Moore.” gested by Mr. Jamail’s family, ac- lice to include more community
University officials said they cording to the university. members and a “broader range of
would erect a statute for Julius The university also said it students.”
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Black artists discuss their
lives. BY SIOBHAN BURKE
3 THEATER
Fine acting in unexpected
places. BY ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
NEWS CRITICISM
A whistle-blower asserts that conflict-of-interest rules to prevent
self-dealing have been skirted at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The ‘Appearance of Impropriety’
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
It was a chance to borrow a rarely seen El
Greco for a museum that had only a single
painting by the old master.
So the director of the Detroit Institute of
Arts courted a wealthy Dallas collector to
arrange for a loan of the painting, “St. Fran-
cis Receiving the Stigmata,” and it now
hangs in the reopened museum’s medieval
and Renaissance galleries.
That coup, however, has set off a whistle-
A Virtual
Playground
Comes to TV
The Sims’ inclusive spirit will
be part of the new show.
By SETH SCHIESEL
Deep down, Rayvon Owen already knew he
was gay when a classmate introduced him
to the Sims back in 2003, when they were in
sixth grade in Richmond, Va.
“I grew up in a very conservative, reli-
gious home; my mom was super strict and
over my shoulder a lot, and when I started
playing the Sims I would show her this
happy typical family with a white picket
fence,” he said in an interview last week.
“And she was like: ‘Oh good, I like this
game. You get a job, you manage money, get
a wife and kids.’ ”
Owen laughed. One of the most popular
games in the world, the Sims has for two
decades provided young people a virtual so-
cial sandbox to explore the joys, terrors and
mysteries of adult life for the first time.
While puerile toxicity does characterize
some precincts of gaming, the Sims has
long been at the vanguard of mainstream
entertainment inclusion simply by giving
players choices.
“So I had one neighborhood in the game
for when my mom was watching,’’ Owen
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blower complaint, filed with the Internal
Revenue Service and the Michigan attor-
ney general, asserting that conflict-of-inter-
est rules to prevent self-dealing have been
skirted. The wealthy Dallas collector, it
turns out, was the director’s father-in-law.
The director, Salvador Salort-Pons, said
that his family’s interest in the painting was
properly disclosed and that he followed a
procedure approved by the institute’s board
of directors for borrowing works.
“It’s a common practice for American
museums to engage collectors and patrons
asking them to loan paintings,” he said in an
interview.
But his answers have failed to satisfy the
museum employees who filed the complaint
at a time when other concerns, including
ones about Mr. Salort-Pons’s management
style and about D.I.A.’s treatment of its
Black employees, are roiling the institute.
They say that a lack of transparency sur-
rounding the artwork cloaked a situation
that could financially benefit the director
JON CARAMANICA
ROB GRABOWSKI/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
4 BOOK REVIEW
A festering wound
plagues people in
a Tibetan town.
BY PARUL SEHGAL
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BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
An El Greco painting lent to and his family, since a painting’s exhibition
the Detroit Institute of Arts, in the institute could burnish its value.
“St. Francis Receiving the Some ethics experts, too, said he proba-
Stigmata,” belongs to the bly didn’t go far enough in disclosing his
museum director’s family’s interest.
father-in-law. “A museum official (or close relative)
who loans an object to the museum for dis-
play, then sells it after exhibition, would
likely earn an enhanced price for the ob-
ject,” said Greg Stevens, director of the In-
stitute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall Uni-
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CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Country Music
And These Times
In Nashville, only the genre’s outsiders are dipping
their toes in essential conversations about racism.
SCORNFUL AND INDIGNANT, Eric Church —
the most accessible of country music’s con-
temporary heretics — begins his new sin-
gle, “Stick That in Your Country Song,” with
an image of a decayed America:
Take me on up to Detroit city
Jails are full, the factories empty
Mommas crying, young boys dying
Under that red, white and blue still flying
Church never explicitly refers to race, but
it’s clear the nation he’s singing about con-
tains multitudes, and it’s failing; the song’s Eric Church has released
lyrics are a far cry from the benign bliss that a song with a pointed
suffuses the rest of the genre, even at this message for Nashville,
very pointed moment. By the time Church “Stick That in Your
arrives at the chorus, he’s taunting his ideo- Country Song.”
logically vacuous peers: “Stick that in your
country song/Take that one to No. 1,” he
sneers, knowing full well they never would.
There’s similar pique in “March March,”
the latest single from “Gaslighter,” the
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comeback album by the Chicks (formerly
the Dixie Chicks), the country music pa-
riahs. The lyrics deplore climate change,
laws that seek to control a woman’s body
and gun violence: “Standing with Emma
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C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Wagner in the Parking Lot in Germany
Stripped-down productions
show how opera is gradually
re-emerging in the pandemic.
BERLIN — The Rhinemaidens lament their
lost gold on asphalt. Tristan savors doomed
love in a stately 17th-century garden. A mot-
ley crew of playboys and deposed royalty
are set adrift in an industrial harbor.
This is what opera in Germany looks like
in the midst of a pandemic.
The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted
live performance around the world. And of
all art forms, opera is particularly ill-suited
to limitations on large gatherings, by dint of
its size, complexity and cost.
But nearly three months after the virus
scuttled the remainder of its season, the
Deutsche Oper here became the first com-
pany to perform grand opera while comply-
ing with hygiene and distancing regula-
tions. In a nod to the canceled start of its
much-anticipated new “Ring” directed by
Stefan Herheim, the company mounted an
alternative “Das Rheingold” in an unex-
pected outdoor location last month.
You’ve heard of Shakespeare in the Park.
How about Wagner in the Parking Lot?
In an opera-rich city starved of the art
form for months, interest was predictably
high, and the company said the perform-
ances, each with about 200 seats for five eu-
ros (less than $6), sold out online in min-
utes. The Deutsche Oper used Jonathan
Dove’s 1990 reduction of the score for 22
musicians and 12 singers, which shaves
about 40 minutes off the two-and-a-half-
hour running time. Many of the singers
scheduled to sing in Mr. Herheim’s produc-
tion still appeared, and Donald Runnicles,
the company’s music director, remained on
hand to conduct the diminished musical
forces with a muscular conviction and dra-
matic flair that made this chamber version
sound remarkably full.
As a preamble to the “Ring,” “Rheingold”
is fast-paced and witty, something of a
punchy political cartoon. The director, Neil
Barry Moss, did a clever job of working
around both virus regulations — the singers
needed to maintain five feet of distance
from one another — and the peculiarities of
a makeshift outdoor stage made up of little
more than a few rows of stadium seating.
The orchestra (which was amplified)
played from behind the singers (who were
not), below an overhang that protected
them from the threat of rain. The parking
lot, surrounded on all sides by the opera
house and its administrative buildings, had
remarkably good acoustics.
The singers entered and exited through a
central aisle between the rows of plastic
chairs on which the physically-distanced
audience sat. There was a special thrill in
having the cast breeze past at regular inter-
vals. (The audience was required to wear
masks except during the performance.)
In his metatheatrical production, Mr.
Moss cast Wotan — the god who uses stolen
gold to pay for his new castle, Valhalla — in
the role of a stage director, and the bass-
baritone Derek Welton played him as a
high-strung creative type overseeing re-
hearsals. Loge, the fire god (the tenor
Thomas Blondelle), zoomed around with
large Starbucks cups, personalized with the
names of the gods, as Wotan’s put-upon per-
sonal assistant. Other touches were equally
cheeky and effective: Assorted props rep-
resented the gold; a bound copy of the score
stood in for the ring; and, in a climactic re-
veal, Valhalla was the opera house itself.
Stripped-down and irreverent, the pro-
duction highlighted the intimate qualities of
“Das Rheingold” within the epic cosmos of
the “Ring.” It never felt like a compromise.
While the Deutsche Oper did its best to
adapt Wagner to these extraordinary cir-
Black Artists in Motion, and an Aerobic Jolt
Standout livestreams this
week feature storytelling,
performances and workouts.
By SIOBHAN BURKE
Here is a guide to the best dance online this
week and a workout class for all ages.
WATCH: Black Dance Stories
In the absence of live dance performances,
interviews with artists in the field,
presented online, have become a way to
stay connected until it’s safe to gather
again. A new series in that spirit, Black
Dance Stories, favors storytelling over in-
terviewing, while giving artists a chance to
meet and chat the way they might have in a
theater lobby.
Created by the performer, producer and
dance writer Charmaine Warren, with the
dancers Kimani Fowlin and Nicholas Hall,
the series features two guests per episode
who overlap for a few minutes about half-
way through. Ms. Warren, a big-hearted
host beloved by her peers — as the delight-
ful first two episodes demonstrate — mostly
cedes the floor (or, rather, the screen) to the
artists, inviting them to tell any story, how-
ever they wish, about their lives in dance.
The virtual gatherings shed light on lin-
eages, personal and cultural, and on the im-
portance of laughter in a time of isolation.
Ms. Warren’s emphasis on levity — she
keeps a glass of wine nearby and urges
guests to do the same — goes hand in hand
with the project’s deeper archival and edu-
cational purposes.
“Historically, Black stories, Black dance,
are written out of dance history,” Ms.
Fowlin, also a choreographer and educator,
said. “And so I think it’s important, it’s em-
powering, for young dancers and dancers of
A.J. GOLDMANN
WATCHING AND MOVING
all ages to hear these stories and to hear
what it took for someone to come through.”
The luminous lineup of future guests in-
cludes Cynthia Oliver and Marjani Forté-
Saunders (Thursday); Rennie Harris and J.
Bouey (July 23); and Kyle Marshall and Ok-
wui Okpokwasili (July 30). Episodes are
streamed on Thursdays at 6 p.m. Eastern,
live on YouTube. Find details about how to
tune in and read about the artists at
@blackdancestories on Instagram. The se-
ries is free to watch, but donations to the
Venmo account @BlackDanceStories are
encouraged.
WATCH: ‘Relations’ Viewing Party
In 2018, three veteran choreographers and
longtime friends came together for two
nights of improvisation, a fleeting and mo-
mentous event called “Relations.”
Presented by the Museum of Contempo-
rary Art Chicago, it featured Bebe Miller,
Ralph Lemon and Ishmael Houston-Jones
sharing space for an hour, a simple frame-
work for their collective and complex bril-
liance.
People who were there, and people who
weren’t, wondered whether it would hap-
pen again. It didn’t, but on Saturday, the mu-
seum will host a “Relations” watch party on
Facebook, with footage from the perform-
ance and a moderated live chat. (The re-
cording will also be available on Vimeo
through Monday.) See mcachicago.org for
details and contextualizing materials, in-
cluding a new essay by Tara Aisha Willis, a
curator at the museum and the main organ-
izer of “Relations.”
WATCH: Trisha Brown Dancers
And Clouds
The great choreographer Trisha Brown cre-
ated her early works with no music, just the
accompaniment of ambient noise. By the
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
BETTINA STOESS
Frank Martin’s “Le Vin Herbé,” by Hanover helped make up for some discomfort caused
State Opera in Herrenhäuser Gardens. Left, by the inclement weather.
Annika Schlicht and Derek Welton in “Das Water was also central, though intention-
Rheingold,” by Deutsche Oper in a parking lot. ally so, in the Stuttgart State Opera’s pro-
duction of Paul Abraham’s 1931 jazz operet-
ta “Die Blume von Hawaii,” staged at that
cumstances, the Hanover State Opera, in
southern German city’s harbor. Performed
northern Germany, inaugurated a virus-
over the first weekend of July, “Hawaii” was
friendly summer program with a work that
the first of two harbor productions created
was ideally suited to the new restrictions:
under unusual constraints: They couldn’t
Frank Martin’s “Le Vin Herbé.”
exceed 70 minutes, five cast members or 10
First performed in 1942, “Le Vin Herbé”
days of rehearsal. (The second was Leon-
is a haunting, difficult-to-characterize work
ard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti.”)
inspired by the Tristan myth. Martin called
it a secular oratorio, but there’s a long tradi- Arriving at the harbor, the audience put
tion of staging it as an opera. Scored for sev- on wireless headphones and sat on wooden
en strings, piano and 12 singers (six men shipping pallets. A couple of hundred feet
and six women) who chant a libretto that of- below, in the middle of the waterway built
fers little in the way of conventional dra- along the Neckar River, the singers and mu-
matic development, it can feel like a rebuttal sicians occupied separate rafts while bring-
to the lush Romanticism of Wagner’s “Tris- ing to life this widely forgotten Weimar-era
tan und Isolde.” Martin’s austere musical work, with its infectiously tuneful score and
language, hovering on the threshold of to- firecracker lyrics.
nality, is hypnotic. Sebastian Schwab’s reduction for an
The performances, beginning June 19, eclectic variety of instruments — including
took place in the Baroque “Gartentheater” banjo, violin, saxophone, vibraphone and,
of the magnificent Herrenhäuser Gardens, briefly, steel guitar — was skillful, even if
which belonged to the kings of Hanover. the opulence of Abraham’s original orches-
There was special significance in the fact trations was lost. Marco Storman’s sparse
that this was the site of the first opera per- production jettisoned the convoluted plot in
formance in Germany after the end of favor of a quick-and-dirty staging that
World War II in Europe: “Cavalleria Rusti- winked at the work’s exoticizing tendencies
cana” and “Pagliacci,” on July 11, 1945. and its stereotypes about Pacific Islanders.
The stately setting was an unexpectedly (I was amazed to find that quite a number of
apt complement to the music and Wolfgang people in the audience had donned
Nägele’s simple, mournful production. The Hawaiian-print shirts for the occasion.)
sides of the deep stage were flanked by The image that has remained with me af-
golden statues and hedges. Flocks of bird ter sampling some of Germany’s intrepid
soared overhead. Even in the midst of a per- efforts to make opera in the age of the coro-
sistent drizzle, most of the roughly 200 navirus is the closing tableau of “Das
spectators remained to the bitter end. Rheingold.” The gods prying open the mas-
Stephan Zilias, the company’s incoming sive door that services the stage of the
music director, stood at a podium halfway Deutsche Oper powerfully symbolized the
between the musicians, who were protected deep wish for this country’s — and the
by a tent, and the singers onstage, who were world’s — curtains to rise once again. The
not. Despite the rain, all soldiered on with blaring chords that accompany the gods’
unbroken concentration. The result was a entrance to Valhalla had never sounded so
performance whose steely excellence joyous.
BERND UHLIG
early 1980s, she began branching out in her
use of sound, if subtly at first. In “Opal Loop
/ Cloud Installation #72503” (1980), four
dancers move to the whisper of water pass-
ing through high-pressure nozzles, also the
source of the mist that fills the stage. The
visual design, by the Japanese fog artist Fu-
jiko Nakaya, becomes one with Brown’s va-
porous movement.
Performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Cen-
ter in 2010 by the Trisha Brown Dance Com-
pany, “Opal Loop” opens the second install-
ment of PlayBAC, in which the center
presents videos from its vast archive. It will
be available at bacnyc.org/explore from 5
p.m. Eastern on Thursday through Tuesday.
WATCH: A Ballet Tribute
To Nelson Mandela
As a Black choreographer working in ballet,
a predominantly white field that’s been
slow to change, Jeremy McQueen rarely
saw reflections of his own experiences on-
stage. In 2016, he founded the Black Iris
Project, which brings artists together to IAN DOUGLAS
create new ballet works celebrating diversi-
ty and Black history. classes of Viva Soudan, a dancer and fitness Marjani Forté-Saunders will
At the invitation of Misty Copeland, the instructor whose capacity to motivate — take part in the new online
American Ballet Theater star, Black Iris and to inspire with retro fashion — knows series Black Dance Stories on
brought “Madiba,” their 20-minute work no bounds. On a recent Saturday, Ms. Thursday.
about the life of Nelson Mandela, to the Ken- Soudan, in a colorful high-cut leotard over
nedy Center’s Ballet Across America festi- spandex shorts, led about 30 participants
val in 2017. On Saturday and Sunday, in hon- through one of her signature “Bodyroll”
or of what would have been Mandela’s workouts on Zoom. “We’re here to shed
102nd birthday, Mr. McQueen’s local televi- emotional weight,” she told us.
sion station, BronxNet, will broadcast the
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Set to a genre-spanning playlist of 1980s
ballet at BronxNet.tv. The video will also be and ’90s hits, the class is for movers of all
available on the Black Iris website, Monday ages, levels and body types. This week’s
though July 24. Details are at Thursday and Saturday sessions, both at 10
blackirisproject.org. a.m. Eastern, will be livestreamed from Ma-
ria Hernandez Park (weather permitting)
MOVE: Bodyroll With Viva Soudan in Bushwick, Brooklyn. A donation of $5 to
If you need a jolt of dance aerobics to jump- $25 a person is suggested. More informa-
start your day, look no further than the tion is at hausofsweat.com.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N C3

In Theater Streams, Stars Pop Up in Unexpected Places

Live and recorded shows offer writers and performers to the fore. The pro-
duction, filmed in 2017, streams through
viewers some familiar faces. Aug. 3.

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI What-If Scenarios

One of theater’s great pleasures is watching This summer, the Cape Cod Theater Project
actors bring characters to life. The era of on- pivoted to live readings and rustled up a dy-
line performing arts has added a remark- namic lineup that ends with a pair of prom-
ably democratic element by allowing high- ising new pieces. On Thursday and Satur-
caliber casts to pop up in everything from day, Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the “Afro-
revisited classics to fresh-from-the-oven ef- Currentist” play “Bust,” in which Zora How-
forts by young playwrights. Most stars are ard (“Stew”) imagines that Black people
available on short notice these days, after suddenly start disappearing. On July 23 and
all, and now they can take on projects that 25, Kevin Artigue’s “I, My Ruination” sets
time or financial constraints may have kept up a confrontation between Elia Kazan and
them away from. We look for whatever up- Arthur Miller in 1952; the impressive cast
side we can find, and the pleasure of fine includes Nina Arianda, Paul Giamatti, Ari-
acting in an unexpected setting has been a an Moayed and Corey Stoll. All readings are
balm. at 7 p.m.; suggested donation starts at $25.
There is no letting up in the coming
weeks, as you’ll see in the selection of Mint Condition
streaming events below. But don’t forget to Ever heard of Teresa Deevy or Harley
look for unknown actors, either — discover- Granville-Barker? No? In the Mint The-
ing new favorites is just as rewarding as ater’s world, they are stars; then again, the
checking in with old ones. New York company is dedicated to redis-
covering forgotten playwrights. Since 2013,
Everything Not-So-Old Is New Again the Mint has been recording its productions
The New Group is bringing back some of its for archival purposes, and it’s making three
recent hits and their original casts in a se- of them available for free through Sunday:
ries of benefit live readings. First out of the Harold Chapin’s “The New Morality,” Hazel
gate on Thursday (and available through Ellis’s “Women Without Men” and George
Sunday) is Sharr White’s “The True,” in Kelly’s “The Fatal Weakness.” Let’s hope
which Edie Falco reprises her juicy role as a
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more will follow.
1970s Democratic Party operator in Albany.
On July 30 (available through Aug. 2), Jesse Cold Sweats in a Hot Month
Eisenberg heads his own “The Spoils,” play- Conor McPherson’s Dylan musical “Girl
ing a spectacularly obnoxious aspiring film- From the North Country” shut down in
maker. The livestreams start at 7 p.m. with March with the rest of Broadway, but fans of
tickets $10 for the first 100, $25 after that. the Irish writer will get a quick fix when the
From Monday through July 24, the com- Irish Repertory Theater presents a “per-
pany is presenting “Facing the Rising Tide,” formance onscreen” of one his most popular
a free festival of five plays about envi- plays, the spooky tale “The Weir.” Note that
Top, Michael McKean and Edie
ronmental racism and the climate crisis. while Ciarán O’Reilly’s new production is
Falco in “The True” in 2018.
prerecorded, it will stream only at specific
They and other original cast
The Running of the Red Bull times from Tuesday through July 25, so
members will participate in a
For its 10th annual festival of 10-minute make sure to check the company’s website.
benefit live reading online
plays, Red Bull Theater selected six new A $25 donation is suggested.
starting Thursday. From far
works among submissions from around the left, Brenda Meaney, Michael
country. They will be staged and What Happens In Vegas . . .
Frederic, Ned Noyes and
livestreamed free, along with new commis- Clemmie Evans in “The New Patrick Page, who played the underworld
sions from Jeremy O. Harris and Theresa Morality” at the Mint Theater. overlord of “Hadestown,” is reliably fun to
Rebeck, on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Intrigu- watch — and listen to, with that hot-fudge
ingly, the year’s theme is “Private Lives,” in- baritone of his. Now, he and Karen Ziemba
spired by the Noël Coward comedy of that (“Prince of Broadway”) attempt to bring a
title. Can’t wait to watch Frankie J. Alvarez, touch of Elizabethan class to the Strip in a
Kathleen Chalfant, Lilli Cooper, Edmund Short plays and jukebox reading of the Suzanne Bradbeer comedy
Donovan, William Jackson Harper and musicals, by way of your “Shakespeare in Vegas.” A joint production
Charlayne Woodard work their magic. screen. with the Vegas Theater Company, this bene-
RICHARD TERMINE fit for TheaterWorks Silicon Valley streams
Hot Summer Nights July 23-27.
No Zoom window could possibly contain the Selznick (“The Invention of Hugo Cabret”) kick out of a pair of rocking and rolling pro-
outsize personality of Marga Gomez, whose and based on his book with Pam Conrad, ductions from London’s Southwark Play- There Are Worse Things They Could Do
new work, “Spanking Machine,” should be a “Doll Face Has a Party!” is a whimsical house (er, Stayhouse): a 100-minute What do Rosie O’Donnell, Joely Fisher,
highlight of Dixon Place’s Hot Festival, an show about making the most of what’s in “Twelfth Night” and the infernally catchy Mackenzie Phillips and Maureen McCor-
annual “celebration of queer culture.” The your house. The 12-minute Chicago Chil- musical “Wasted,” about the romantic head- mick have in common? They all played
show is the latest installment in a long-run- dren’s Theater production is narrated by bangers known as the Brontë siblings. Betty Rizzo in the 1990s Broadway revival
ning autobiographical project that includes James Lecesne and features low-tech, in- of “Grease.” On Saturday at 8 p.m., they
“Latin Standards,” about her father. (Al- ventive puppetry by Will Bishop and Grace All-Access reminisce about that experience in an
though primarily a solo artist, the biting Needlman. episode of Seth Rudetsky and James Wes-
writer and performer made quite an im- In San Diego, the La Jolla Playhouse con- “Hello to you out there in Normal Land!” So ley’s online talk show “Stars in the House.”
pression last fall portraying a gentle butch tinues its Digital Without Walls series with went the 1981 song “Spasticus Autisticus,” (Where art thou, Linda Blair and Lucy Law-
lesbian in the Liza Birkenmeier play “Dr. Tom Salamon’s interactive treasure hunt which is included in the Ian Dury jukebox less?)
Ride’s American Beach House.”) Perform- “The Wizards of Oakwood Drive” (Thurs- musical “Reasons to Be Cheerful.” In addition, Rudetsky’s Sunday concert
ances are Thursday through July 25 and day through July 26; $25). Parents, make Produced by the Graeae Company, which series continues with Norm Lewis (Sun-
tickets are $10-$40. sure to check out the list of items you will places “D/deaf and disabled actors center- day), Megan Hilty (July 26) and Cheyenne
need to have on hand to make the most of stage,” the raucous show is a good reminder Jackson (Aug. 2). Showtime is 8 p.m. with a
Not-Just-for-Kids Stuff this online performance. that theaters’ move to streaming has repeat Mondays at 3 p.m.; tickets are $20-
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and our sons and daughters/Watching our
youth have to solve our problems/I’ll follow
them, so who’s coming with me.”
The video amplifies the song’s lyrical
provocations, collecting protest footage
from the early 20th century to the present,
spanning various causes but heavily ad-
dressing the Black Lives Matter movement,
concluding with an onscreen roll call of
names of Black victims of police violence.
“Stick That in Your Country Song” and
“March March” aren’t directly about the
current political moment — both were writ-
ten before the recent protests sparked by
the killing of George Floyd — but they’re
about a nation that was already in turmoil,
and has been for decades. Viewed through
Caught flat-footed, that lens, they are perfectly timed.
But that the two most prominent quasi-
Nashville fumbles when protest songs to come from the extended
it should be reckoning. country music ecosystem are from artists
who, in very different ways, have made a
point of cutting against its orthodoxy only
underscores how ill-prepared country mu-
From left, Hillary Scott, sic — the genre and the industry — is for the
Charles Kelley and Dave current conversations about racial justice.
Haywood rebranded from This isn’t a surprise. For most of the last
Lady Antebellum to Lady A, decade, mainstream country music has
only to learn that a Black been distilling down to the dimmest version
blues singer in Seattle also of itself, overindexing on breezy flirtation
performs under that name. and lol-shrug rural tropes. Even the
brawny, quasi-militaristic chest-puffing of
the early 2000s — exemplified by Toby
Keith, Trace Adkins and so on — has been
all but excised. Luke Bryan is singing about
drinking, Morgan Wallen is singing sweet
nothings, Justin Moore is singing about
drinking, Chris Janson is singing sweet
nothings: More than at almost any time in
its history, country music is a pool party.
Out in the rest of the world, industries
that have long cruised with blinders on have
been upended. The parts of the music indus-
try that operate out of New York and Los
Angeles have begun to take steps to redress
decades of injustice, or at least have given
lip service to the idea.
Nashville, though, has been caught flat-
footed, an outcome that was essentially pre-
ordained, given that the country music
business has always been woefully insuffi-
cient in how it addresses race — sidelining
the Black music that was essential in its for-
mation, overlooking the ways the genre still
intersects with contemporary Black music
and consistently giving Black performers
short shrift. Building an identity premised
upon Black erasure leaves the world of
country music fumbling when it should be
reckoning.
Nowhere has this been more evident than
in the case of Lady Antebellum, which fi-
nally arrived at the realization that the
name it’s been using for a decade and a half
carries unwelcome slavery-era connota-
tions. The band announced that it was re-
An Eye on the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’
Deeply reported profiles also
cover an awe-inspiring breadth
of Tibetan history.
IN “THE UNWOMANLY Face of War,” an oral
history of World War II, the Nobel Prize-
winning writer Svetlana Alexievich re-
counts a strange little story. A woman leaps
into dark water to rescue a drowning man.
At the shore, however, she realizes it is not a
man she has hauled from the water but a gi-
gantic sturgeon. The sturgeon dies.
Censors initially cut the scene from Alex-
ievich’s book. You’re not asking about the
right things, they remonstrated. Focus on
bravery, on patriotism. Let’s have less about Eat the Buddha: Life and
fear, and less about hairstyles. There was no Death in a Tibetan Town
place in the canon for her sort of wartime By Barbara Demick
stories, Alexievich recalled in an interview Illustrated. 325 pages. Random
with The Paris Review. There was no place House. $28.
for reality, which comes stuffed with stur-
geons and all manner of misapprehensions
and muddle; reality, which shows notable
indifference, if not outright hostility, to plot.
Perhaps an alternative canon exists, in
the work of oral historians like Alexievich,
and in the deeply reported narratives of
journalists like Barbara Demick. The
method is programmatic openness, deep
listening, a willingness to be waylaid; the
effect, a prismatic picture of history as ex-
perienced and understood by individuals in
their full amplitude and idiosyncrasy. Alex-
ievich collects the daydreams of her sub-
jects. In Demick’s impressive account of life
in North Korea, “Nothing to Envy,” she de-
scribed a society on the brink of starvation,
cut off from the world, lacking even elec-
tricity. But she told love stories, too. Dark-
ness proved to be a surprising boon; some
North Koreans told her they grew to need it,
as it conferred the only freedom they knew.
Young people fell in love in the dark:
“Wrapped in a magic cloak of invisibility,
you can do what you like without worrying
about the prying eyes of parents, neighbors
or secret police.”
“Eat the Buddha” is Demick’s third book,
all of them told in rotating perspectives — a
model inspired by John Hersey’s “Hiroshi-
ma,” and one she has made her own. In “Lo-
gavina Street,” she described daily life dur-
ing the Bosnian War through the lens of one
neighborhood in Sarajevo. “Nothing to
Envy” followed six refugees from the port
city of Chongjin. The close focus gives her
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branding as Lady A, a nickname it has long
used (and a trademark it owns), only to dis-
cover that a Seattle blues singer — a Black
woman — also performs under that same
name.
What began as an overdue attempt at a
good-faith act has devolved into a comedy
of errors. After negotiations between the
two parties — which included the prospect
of a collaborative song — broke down, Lady
A the blues singer asked for a payment of
$10 million, half of which would be donated
to charity. In response, Lady A the band
filed a lawsuit to assert its right to use the
name. Whether or not a judge offers the
band relief, it has already been deeply dam-
aged in the court of public opinion — blind to
the associations its original name held, and
equally blind to the implications of attempt-
ing to steamroll a Black artist on its path to
attempted redemption.
This is what happens when racial aware-
ness is an afterthought. But while it’s easy
to malign the group for its stumbling, it is by
no means alone. And the case of the former
Dixie Chicks is instructive here. In 2003, the
group was effectively exiled from the genre
when Natalie Maines expressed her dis-
pleasure with President George W. Bush.
This was country music’s most jingoistic
era, and its most overtly politically conser-
vative one. But even as liberal outcasts, the
trio did not take steps to address the impli-
cations of its name. Even when it released a
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work its granularity, but it also allows her to
crosscheck the stories of her subjects.
“Good reporting should have the same
standard as in a courtroom — beyond a rea-
sonable doubt,” she has said. In her latest,
the masterly “Eat the Buddha,” she profiles
a group of Tibetans with roots in Ngaba
County, in the Chinese province of Sichuan,
which bears the gory distinction of being
the “undisputed world capital of self-immo-
lations.”
Despite the Buddhist taboo against sui-
cide, some 156 Tibetans — at the time of
Demick’s writing — have set themselves on
fire in recent years, protesting China’s rule.
They have perfected their technique, wrap-
ping themselves in quilts and wire to pre-
vent rescue, dousing themselves in gasoline
and swallowing it, too, to ensure they will
burn from the inside. Almost a third of these
people — monks, mothers, ordinary citizens
— have come from Ngaba and the sur-
rounding region.
Why Ngaba? “Why were so many of its
residents willing to destroy their bodies by
one of the most horrific methods imagi-
nable?” This mystery hooked Demick, who
arrived in China in 2007 as the Beijing bu-
reau chief of The Los Angeles Times. On the
face of it, Ngaba is better off than many of its
counterparts, she observes. The residents
are comfortable, the infrastructure compar-
atively decent. (The government invested
in a “blitz” of modernization in the hopes of
quelling the uprisings). Some attribute the
protests to the harsh and oppressive police
presence. But Demick argues that the roots
run deeper. Ngaba was the site of Tibet’s
first meeting with Chinese Communists, in
the 1930s. “The people of this region have a
particular wound causing excessive suffer-
ing that spans three generations,” the monk
Kirti Rinpoche testified before a U.S. con-
gressional commission in 2011. “This wound
is very difficult to forget or heal.”
Fleeing Nationalist forces, the Red Army
marauded through monasteries. They
burned holy books and manuscripts, and
survived by boiling and eating the skin of
drums and the votive offerings to the Bud-
dha (from which the book gets its title).
Demick traces this first encounter, and the
ensuing violent history, through the testi-
monies of her cast of characters: students
and teachers, market sellers, the private
secretary to the Dalai Lama, the former
princess of the Mei kingdom.
These scenes are narrated as flashes of
memory, anchored by the types of details
children remember, giving them an unbear-
defiant comeback album in 2006, it still
went by the Dixie Chicks. Only now has the
group rebranded.
It’s important to remember that harmful
language can be perpetuated by cruel in-
tent, and also by deaf ears. Country music
has largely aligned itself with contempo-
rary conservative values and has consis-
tently sidelined the contributions and con-
cerns of nonwhite and nonmale performers.
In this climate, it can be jolting to hear even
the faintest allusion to dissent, like on “How
They Remember You,” the most recent sin-
gle from the denuded balladeer trio Rascal
Flatts, which features this benign ponder-
able: “Did you stand, or did you fall?/Build
a bridge, or build a wall?”
Often, the genre finds itself dead center in
the culture wars, as happened in June when
the singer Chase Rice performed a concert
in Tennessee at which fans were unmasked
and not practicing social distancing, earn-
ing widespread ire, including from some of
his peers. (More promisingly, the country
superstars Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley and
Alan Jackson have all recently done ver-
sions of drive-in concerts.)
But there are indications of changes in
sentiment and in the ways country stars are
willing to be outspoken. The Mississippi na-
tives Faith Hill and Charlie Worsham spoke
out in favor of removing Confederate
iconography from the Mississippi state flag.
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd,
able vividness and horror. One man recalls
hiding himself as a little boy when his house
was invaded by Chinese soldiers. He
emerged to find his grandfather gone and
grandmother badly shaken, her scalp
bleeding. He remembers wondering:
Where are her pigtails? The former prin-
cess remembers being so curious about the
Chinese at first, so delighted to meet them.
Her mother joked that she offered grass to
their trucks, the first vehicles she had ever
seen. She thought they were horses.
Those who self-immolate today are the
grandchildren of those who participated in
the early uprisings, Demick writes. Having
imbibed the Dalai Lama’s teachings of non-
violence, they can only bear to hurt them-
selves. They bear the scars of the “Demo-
cratic Reforms” in eastern Tibet that began
in 1958. “Tibetans of this generation refer to
this period simply as ngabgay — ’58. Like
9/11, it is shorthand for a catastrophe so
overwhelming that words cannot express it,
only the number,” Demick writes. “Some
will call it dhulok, a word that roughly trans-
lates as the ‘collapse of time,’ or, hauntingly,
‘when the sky and earth changed places.’ ”
Tibetans were forced into cooperative liv-
ing, stripped of their herds and land. Their
yaks were seized and slaughtered, recalling
the American government’s devastating
policy of culling the Lakota’s bison. Daylong
public “struggle sessions” were instituted
— rituals of public humiliation in which
those accused of perceived infractions were
forced to admit to crimes and submit to ver-
bal and physical abuse — with children
forced to observe and cheer along. Some 20
percent of the population was arrested and
held in prisons that were often only pits in
the ground filled with hundreds of people.
An estimated 300,000 Tibetans died.
Demick covers an awe-inspiring breadth
of history — from the heyday of the Tibetan
empire, which could compete with those of
the Turks and Arabs, to the present day, as
the movement for Tibetan independence
has faltered and transformed into an effort
at cultural and spiritual survival. She charts
the creative rebellions of recent years, the
efforts at revitalizing the language and tra-
ditions, Tibetans’ attachment to the Dalai
Lama (and their criticisms). Above all,
Demick wants to give room for contempo-
rary Tibetans to testify to their desires.
They want only the rights enjoyed by the
Han Chinese, she writes — to travel, hold a
passport, to study their own language, to
educate their children abroad if they wish.
Her forecast is pessimistic. Only in North
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Lorie Liebig, a country music publicist and
journalist, assembled a spreadsheet detail-
ing how dozens of country musicians had
(or hadn’t) been addressing the protests —
though many were silent, a not insignificant
number were actively engaging with the
topic.
One easy way to make the genre less
cloistered would be to simply pay more at-
tention to its Black performers, who remain
heavily marginalized, with the very notable
exceptions of Darius Rucker and Kane
Brown.
The singer and songwriter Jimmie Allen
just released a promising EP, “Bettie
James,” that features his smooth voice and
pop instincts. Next week, the singer Rissi
Palmer will debut a podcast, “Color Me
Country,” devoted to the stories of Black
and brown women country performers.
And last month, Mickey Guyton, a singer
who’s been knocking at the door of
Nashville’s mainstream for years, released
a new song, “Black Like Me,” which explicit-
ly links the casually blinkered stories coun-
try music tells about America to the feeble-
ness of its allyship:
It’s a hard life on easy street
Just white painted picket fences far as
you can see
If you think we live in the land of the free
You should try to be Black like me
Korea has she witnessed such smothering
surveillance and high levels of fear, she
writes, accelerated by technological devel-
opments like a social credit system in devel-
opment that will prevent “untrustworthy”
citizens from employment, buying plane
tickets and using credit cards.
In Ngaba, the last Tibetan-language
school — the last one in all of China — has
switched to teaching primarily in Chinese.
Meanwhile, across the country, Demick no-
tices the same red billboards springing up,
proclaiming the latest propaganda: “TO-
GETHER WE WILL BUILD A BEAUTIFUL
HOME. BEND LOW. LISTEN TO WHAT
PEOPLE SAY.”
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versity. “And it would also cause the appear-
ance of impropriety to arise — namely, that
the museum used its prestige, resources
and reach to enrich the official.”
The institute said it had engaged a Wash-
ington law firm to review the museum’s
loan procedures and policies to ensure that
they had been followed.
The bonds between museums and
wealthy collectors is one of the essential re-
lationships of American museums. Without
the generosity of such patrons museums
could likely not afford the art that enhances
the visitor experience.
So, museums routinely engage in all man-
ner of relationship-building they hope will
encourage collectors to donate money or
major works. Mr. Salort-Pons said that was
his ultimate goal when he implored the col-
lector, Alan M. May, a retired real estate in-
vestor, to lend the El Greco.
The late-16th-century painting, valued at
$5 million in the museum’s internal data-
base, shows the young saint standing alone
in a wild landscape.
Praising its “dynamic image of ecstasy,”
Mr. Salort-Pons said the work surpasses in
quality the institute’s existing El Greco,
“Madonna and Child,” which was donated in
1970 by a Detroit collector. (Damaged by a
repaint, it has not been exhibited for dec-
ades.)
“When I heard that he bought this paint-
ing, I called him and said you need to lend
this to the D.I.A. because it’s an amazing
painting,” he said.
In the case of the St. Francis painting,
both Mr. May and Mr. Salort-Pons informed
the institute’s chairman, Eugene A. Gar-
garo, about the plan to lend it to the insti-
tute, and Mr. Gargaro approved the loan. “If
it’s disclosed to me, then it’s disclosed to the
whole board,” Mr. Gargaro said in an inter-
view.
The work was also listed in the usual loan
agreement issued for incoming works of art
and was known to a circle of staff members
who deal with borrowed artworks, Mr. Sa-
lort-Pons said.
The El Greco was the second painting he
had borrowed from his father-in-law.
In 2010, Mr. Salort-Pons borrowed a 17th
century painting valued at $500,000, “An Al-
legory of Autumn,” attributed to the circle of
the French artist Nicolas Poussin. It was a
painting that would help explain Poussin’s
influence; Mr. Salort-Pons, who was then a
curator, said he sought the approval of Gra-
ham Beal, who was the director at the time.
Mr. Beal said in an email that the loans of
such paintings to the institute’s galleries
represented “a hole that the curator in
charge hoped the loan might fill perma-
nently in the fullness of time.”
“The loan(s) from Alan May was/were
totally above board and benefited the DIA
as much, if not more, than the lender,” Mr.
Beal said.
The institute’s own guidelines say that
family loans can benefit the museum but
“exhibition can enhance the value of the ex-
hibited object and care should be used to
achieve objectivity in such cases.” Whistle-
blower Aid, a nonprofit law firm in Washing-
Tyra Banks Is the New Host of ‘Dancing With the Stars’
The former supermodel will fill
the role that Tom Bergeron
occupied for the past 15 years.
By SARAH BAHR
A day after Tom Bergeron, the longtime
“Dancing With the Stars” host, announced
on Twitter that ABC had not invited him to
return for the show’s 29th season, the net-
work revealed his replacement: Tyra
Banks, the former supermodel and busi-
nesswoman.
Banks, whose reality TV credits include
hosting “America’s Next Top Model” and
“America’s Got Talent,” will also serve as
the show’s executive producer, the network
announced late Tuesday night.
“Tom has set a powerful stage,” Banks
said in a joint statement from ABC and BBC
Studios, the show’s production company.
“And I’m excited to continue the legacy and
put on my executive producer and hosting
hats.”
The network parted ways with Bergeron,
The Detroit Institute of Arts,
above left, arranged to show a
borrowed El Greco painting,
“St. Francis Receiving the
Stigmata,” top, in its medieval
and Renaissance galleries. But
the painting belongs to the
father-in-law of the museum’s
director, Salvador Salort-Pons,
above right, prompting
concerns about a conflict of
interest. Mr. Salort-Pons said
that his family’s interest in the
painting was properly
disclosed.
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ton representing the staff members, said
Mr. Salort-Pons did not take nearly enough
care.
He should have recused himself com-
pletely and should have formally informed
the entire board as well as the public about
any family interest.
This accords with what some ethics ex-
perts believe. Ideally, museum experts say,
if a work is borrowed from a family member,
the director should also justify why the
work is joining the museum’s collection.
Whistleblower Aid said Mr. Salort-Pons
ran afoul of these guidelines because the
paintings were owned by a family trust and
his wife was a beneficiary.
“At best, Salort-Pons exercised poor judg-
ment by entering into an opaque arrange-
ment that financially benefits his father-in-
law and wife,” said John N. Tye, founder of
Whistleblower Aid, which has previously
worked on high-profile cases including the
who had hosted the show for 15 years, and
Erin Andrews, who had done so for six, ear-
lier this week, citing a desire to take the
show in a new direction after several sea-
sons of sagging ratings.
Bergeron had been outspoken about the
show’s decision to cast political guests,
which included Sean Spicer, the former
White House press secretary and communi-
cations director for President Trump. “We
can agree to disagree, as we do now, but it’s
ultimately their call,” he wrote on Twitter
last August.
Spicer joined a number of Republican-af-
filiated contestants who had appeared be-
fore him, including Bristol Palin, the daugh-
ter of Sarah Palin, the former G.O.P. vice-
presidential candidate; and Rick Perry, the
former Texas governor who ran for presi-
dent.
Banks is not without controversy. She
apologized in May for comments she made
about a contestant’s tooth gap during the
2006 season of “America’s Next Top Model,”
the TV modeling competition she created,
hosted and executive produced.
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Five years into his directorship, the is-
sues with the paintings are part of a larger
pattern of dissatisfaction with Mr. Salort-
Pons’s leadership, according to several cur-
rent and former staff members.
The broader complaints describe a less-
than-collaborative management style,
sidelining of senior staff members, and frus-
tration that Mr. Salort-Pons is undermining
the institute’s emphasis on community out-
reach and education for which it prides it-
self.
They also complain about a certain deaf-
ness on race at a time when questions about
systemic racism are coursing through the
country’s cultural institutions.
In June, Andrea Montiel de Shuman, a
digital experience designer, quit, complain-
ing in an online essay of “a contradictory,
hostile, at times vicious and chaotic work
environment” that censors the work of peo-
ple of color and neglects Black communi-
ties.
Two assistant curators, both Black wom-
en, who were hired for the contemporary
art department in 2016 as part of an effort to
expand diversity, left within two years.
One of the curators, Taylor Renee
Aldridge, said in an email that her situation
“is emblematic of many abuses and sys-
temic violences that permeate from the top
down in museums, and especially the DIA.”
The institute declined to comment on in-
dividual personnel matters. Mr. Salort-Pons
conceded that his European background
meant that initially he had had a limited un-
derstanding of the Black struggle in Amer-
ica but was taking steps to improve diversi-
ty. “I came with privilege,” he said. “I am
aware of that right now and I understand it.”
Those steps include a new paid intern-
ship program and hiring a consultant to ad-
vise on diversity and access.
He also defended his support for African-
American art and said a vote in March in fa-
vor of renewing the property tax ear-
marked for the museum was a strong show
of community approval for his achieve-
ments.
His tenure in Detroit has coincided with
his father-in-law’s growing involvement.
Mr. May became a member of the institute
in 2009, and travels with curators to art
world events — a perk often extended to im-
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CARLOS OSORIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
whistle-blower complaint about President portant collectors.
Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. He declined He said that he believed his loans were
to say how many institute staff members handled properly.
were involved in the complaint. “As a philanthropist, I can assure you that
Mr. May and Mr. Salort-Pons declined to my sole motivation was to enrich the mu-
comment about the trust. seum experience to its visitors and to help
Mr. Salort-Pons acknowledged that in- provide learning opportunities for students
cluding the work of, say, a young contempo- and art lovers,” he said.
rary artist on the institute’s walls would be He has donated conservation equipment
likely to increase that work’s value. But he to the institute and has given paintings to
questioned whether that held for paintings other museums like the Dallas Museum of
by established names like El Greco. Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
The Spanish-born Mr. Salort-Pons, 50, But he has yet to donate a work to D.I.A.,
joined the institute in 2008 and became di- though he said he might donate a painting
rector seven years later, after a turbulent from his collection in the future.
period when the institute was saved by the The painting attributed to the circle of
infusion of nearly a billion dollars from Poussin stayed at the institute until 2012,
foundations, private donors and the state of and has now returned to its owner. Mr. Sa-
Michigan. A deal for an annual property tax lort-Pons said he was encouraging his fa-
increase paid by three Michigan counties ther-in-law to keep the St. Francis painting
continues to support its annual $38 million at the institute for much longer.
operating budget. “I would like it to stay forever,” he said.
“So, Danielle, you went to the dentist, but
you refused to have your gap closed,” Banks
told the contestant, Dani Evans, who is
Black, during the show. “Do you really think
you can have a CoverGirl contract with a
gap in your mouth?”
When Evans replied that she thought she
could, Banks chided her that her tooth gap
was “not marketable.” (Evans went on to
win that cycle of the show.)
Banks later told a white contestant on Cy-
cle 15 of the show, Chelsey Hersley, to have
her own gap widened to make her look
“more edgy.”
In the statement announcing the new
host, Karey Burke, the network’s president,
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an award-winning multi-hyphenate whose
fierce female prowess and influence across
many industries have made an indelible
mark,” she said.
In a statement on Wednesday, Banks said
of the show, “I will do my best to honor its
legacy while also injecting new ideas to
reach new generations of audiences.”
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A Virtual Above, in the Sims, players can

create any kind of identity they
want. “The theme of the show and

Playground the game is you come as you are,’’

said Tayla Parx, far left, with, from
her left, Dave Miotke, Kelsey
Impicciche and Rayvon Owen.

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said. “But little did she know that then I had
my real neighborhood where I was married
to a guy and living in a home with a man —
or several men — and doing all these pro-
miscuous things that were totally unthink-
able in the real world I was living in, grow-
ing up in the church and all that.”
Owen, 29, a singer now living in Los An-
geles, did not discuss his sexuality publicly
until 2016, after appearing as a finalist on
“American Idol.” This week he is scheduled
to debut as the host of a different reality
television competition: “The Sims Spark’d,”
a new show based on the game, which ar-
rives Friday on TBS. New installments of
the four-episode season will premiere on
Fridays at 11 p.m. as part of Turner’s
ELeague brand and will arrive on Buzz-
feed’s Multiplayer YouTube channel the fol-
lowing Mondays.
While competitive e-sports have long
been broadcast around the globe, “Spark’d”
is poised to become the first mainstream re-
ality show based on an electronic game.
And as a reality show, it hews closely to the
tried-and-true formula popularized by hits
like “Project Runway,” with 12 contestants
competing in various in-game challenges —
“Design two rival families from different
neighborhoods,” for example — while vying
to win $100,000.
For contestants — 10 women, two men —
the series draws mainly from Sims content
creators with significant followings on
YouTube and Twitch. While there are some
relatively minor conflicts, “Spark’d” is not
heavy on interpersonal drama. The cam-
eras don’t follow the contestants back to
their hotel and the overall vibe of the show
is wholesome rather than salacious.
Instead, the show focuses on allowing the
contestants to tell stories in the game that
reflect their own lives and experiences. Is-
sues of gender, sexuality, race and class fig-
ure heavily.
In that sense, the true narrative emerges
from the personal meaning the game seems
to hold for both contestants and judges, al-
most all in their 20s.
“The theme of the show and the game is
you come as you are and play however rep-
resents you,’’ said Tayla Parx, 26, a singer
and songwriter who is one of the judges.
“For me as a bisexual Black woman, I al-
ways found the game really valuable.
“Being able to play with family dynamics
and sexual dynamics, it’s made to explore
the boundaries of you in a way that’s really
beautiful. The worst that can happen is you
rebuild again if you don’t like it.”
Will Wright, already an acclaimed game
designer as the creator of the popular and
influential SimCity, first conceived the Sims
after his family lost its home to fires in Oak-
land, Calif., in 1991. In its planning stage, the
project was called simply “Dollhouse.” In
the years since the first version of the game
was released, in 2000, the basic premise has
remained the same: Give players the ability
to create some fantasy rendition of real fam-
‘It’s all about, how do we
make the game reflect
the world we live in?’
ily life. Players create various characters,
known as Sims, and homes and then direct
them as they desire.
“It’s all about, how do we make the game
reflect the world we live in?’’ said Lyndsay
Pearson, the general manager of the Sims
for the video game company that publishes
it, Electronic Arts. “The world we live in
changes and the stories our players want to
tell change and we embrace that. For the
show, that’s really what we want to come
through.”
The game series has allowed players to
pursue same-sex relationships since its in-
ception, but did not allow all couples to
marry until the Sims 3 was released in 2009.
Four years ago, Electronic Arts updated the
game in its latest version, the Sims 4, to in-
clude more flexible gender customization
options. In addition to letting players create
digital characters with independent gender
options for clothing preference and physical
frame, the game now allows players to
choose whether a particular Sim can be-
come pregnant, can impregnate other Sims
or neither, regardless of gender. The game
also lets players decide whether a particu-
lar Sim, regardless of gender, can use the
bathroom standing up.
Within the game, individual computer-
controlled characters interact with one an-
other without regard to gender or racial ap-
pearance until they are prompted by a hu-
man player.
“I was in early middle school when I first
played, and now I’m in my late 20s, and here
we are on TV,’’ said Kelsey Impicciche, a
judge on “Spark’d,” best known to Sims fans
for her Buzzfeed YouTube series on the
game’s unofficial 100 Baby Challenge. (The
challenge relies on extremes of fertility pos-
sible only in a video game.) “Over the years,
the core of the game has stayed the same,
but the big difference is that the community
itself is more diverse and the Sims are more
inclusive.”
The game series has sold more than 200
million copies and more than 10 million peo-
ple play every month, according to Elec-
tronic Arts. About two-thirds of players are
girls and women between 13 and 30, the
company said. Craig Barry, the chief con-
tent officer for Turner Sports, said the show
was a good fit for TBS’s ELeague Friday
night programming window as the network
tries to expand its coverage of gaming cul-
ture beyond hard-core e-sports.
While a reality show based on the virtual
world of a computer game might seem tai-
lor-made for the quarantine era, Electronic
Arts developed and filmed the series last
year at the company’s Bay Area headquar-
ters.
In early 2019, multiple teams at the com-
pany coalesced around the concept of creat-
ing a structured contest based on the Sims
in an effort to both energize existing players
and recruit new ones. The company settled
on a traditional reality competition format
after enlisting established reality
producers, including Allison Tom and Rich-
ard Hall (“The Amazing Race,” “Ex on the
Beach”) — each now an executive producer
on “Spark’d.” While the Buzzfeed online dis-
tribution deal seemed clear once Impicci-
che signed on as a judge last year, the televi-
sion deal with Turner didn’t come together
until early June, Pearson said.
Electronic Arts executives said that the
TBS slot was meant to showcase the Sims
for nonplayers and hard-core gamers while
the Buzzfeed YouTube window is aimed at
the game’s core audience of young women
and adolescent girls. Many designers and
experts believe that women gravitate to
simulation games like the Sims because the
sense of control players have over their vir-
tual worlds may provide respite from the
challenges women often face in a male-
dominated society.
Jeanette Wall, a 28-year-old music execu-
tive in Brooklyn who identifies as queer, be-
gan playing the Sims when she was in ele-
mentary school in Oklahoma. She said it is
the only electronic game she still plays reg-
ularly and that her latest project in the
game is a “lesbian commune.”
“I didn’t have any dolls to play with, and
the Sims was this total digital dollhouse for
me, and I guess it still is,’’ she said. “The ele-
ments of control over the environment are
so important — especially for queer people
and women — because at various points
you feel like your life is so totally out of your
control, especially right now when the
world we live in is in shambles.”
“Hearing about the show," she added, “it’s
like you didn’t really realize how many peo-
ple were playing the game all this time for
the exact same reasons you were.”
Owen, the host, welled with tears as he
discussed the program.
“Honestly, the game was always a thera-
peutic experience,” he said. “The show is
fun and it’s exciting to host, but there is a
deeper meaning that relates to this whole
journey of coming out and getting into a
place of self-acceptance, not just for me but
for a lot of people.”

ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon, Citing Anti-Semitic Podcast Remarks

The network said the TV star
promoted ‘hateful speech.’
By NEIL VIGDOR
The television star Nick Cannon was fired
by ViacomCBS on Tuesday for making anti-
Semitic remarks during a recent podcast in
which he discussed conspiracy theories
about Jewish people and praised a minister
notorious for anti-Jewish comments.
ViacomCBS is the parent company of
MTV and the cable channel TeenNick, both
of which prominently showcased Mr. Can-
non for years on various platforms.
Mr. Cannon, 39, had worked as an execu-
tive producer and chairman of TeenNick, a
spinoff of the network Nickelodeon geared
toward teenagers. He had also been a host
and executive producer of the MTV comedy
show “Wild ’N Out.”
A ViacomCBS spokeswoman said in a
statement that the company categorically
denounced all forms of anti-Semitism.
“We have spoken with Nick Cannon
about an episode of his podcast ‘Cannon’s
In a tweet on Monday, Mr. Cannon said,
“Anyone who knows me knows that I have
no hate in my heart nor malice intentions.”
On Wednesday, Mr. Cannon said in a
statement on Facebook that he “must apol-
ogize to my Jewish Brothers and Sisters for
putting them in such a painful position,
which was never my intention.”
“Systemic racism is what this world was
built on and was the subject in which I was
attempting to highlight in the recent clips
that have been circulating from my pod-
cast,” he said. “If I have furthered the hate
speech, I wholeheartedly apologize.”
In the lengthy statement, he said that he
was “now receiving death threats, hate
messages,” but also an “outpouring of love
and support from the Jewish community.”
Mr. Cannon, who is Black, said that he had
“dedicated my daily efforts to continuing
conversations to bring the Jewish Commu-
nity and the African-American community
closer together.”
Mr. Cannon said that he had tried to
speak with Shari Redstone, the company’s
controlling shareholder, “to have a conver-
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robbing our community for years, under-
paying talent on their biggest brands.” Mr.
Cannon demanded an apology from Via-
com, full ownership of the “Wild ’N Out”
brand and an end to “the hate and backdoor
bullying.”
Mr. Cannon, an actor and a musician, is
also a host on the Fox show “The Masked
Singer.” It was not immediately clear if Mr.
Cannon’s relationship with the network was
being re-evaluated. Fox did not respond to
this.” He also said that Jews were responsi-
ble for “the majority of wickedness that
goes on across the globe.”
Speaking to Mr. Cannon, Mr. Griffin dou-
bled down on his past remarks about the in-
fluence of Jewish people on the music and
media industries.
“I’m hated now because I told the truth,”
Mr. Griffin said.
“You’re speaking facts,” Mr. Cannon said.
“There’s no reason to be scared of anything Nick Cannon at a
when you’re speaking the truth.” Black Lives Matter
Mr. Cannon said it was an honor to have protest in New York
the “legend” Mr. Griffin on his podcast. He last month.
also said it was a shame that Louis Farra-
khan, a minister known for his history of
anti-Semitic comments, had been silenced
on Facebook.
Responding to Mr. Griffin’s contention
that six dominant media companies were
controlled by Jewish people, Mr. Cannon
said it was comparable to the power of the
Rothschilds, the banking scions who are a
focus of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
“I find myself wanting to debate this idea
and it gets real wishy and washy and un-
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Class’ on YouTube, which promoted hateful
speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy
theories,” the statement said. “While we
support ongoing education and dialogue in
the fight against bigotry, we are deeply trou-
bled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or
apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism,
and we are terminating our relationship
with him.”
sation of reconciliation and actually apolo-
gize if I said anything that pained or hurt
her or her community.” But he said he had
heard “Dead Silence!” and that ViacomCBS
“wanted to show me who is boss, hang me
out to dry and make an example of anyone
who says something they don’t agree with.”
He also made several demands of the
company, accusing it of “mistreating and
requests for comment on Tuesday night.
On the June 30 episode of the podcast, Mr.
Cannon was interviewing the rapper Rich-
ard Griffin, known as Professor Griff, about
his dismissal from the hip-hop group Public
Enemy in 1989.
Mr. Griffin left the group after he said in
an interview with The Washington Times:
“The Jews are wicked. And we can prove
clear for me when we give so much power to
the ‘theys,’ and ‘theys’ then turn into illumi-
nati, the Zionists, the Rothschilds,” Mr. Can-
non said later in the podcast.
He also echoed Mr. Griffin’s remarks
about how Black people are Semitic people
by definition and that Semitic people are not
white. “You can’t be anti-Semitic when we
are the Semitic people,” Mr. Cannon said.
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E! House (14) (6:30) House “Ugly.” (14) House “You Don’t Want to Know.” House “Games.” (14) House “It’s a Wonderful Lie.” (14) Nightly Pop (N) Celebrity Call ‘Friends,’ but it weds the mechanics of that
ELREY Chuey-Show El Rey Nation Lucha Underground “El Jefe.” (14) Vampiro Vampiro Collide (2016). Backpacker becomes drug smugglers’ driver. (PG-13) Vampiro kind of glib New York sitcom with the
ESPN SportsCenter Boxing Marriaga vs. Yap. SportsCenter SportsCenter grittier, but still fanciful, aesthetic of John
ESPN2 N.F.L. Live The Jump To be announced USL Soccer Phoenix Rising FC vs. Orange County SC. N.F.L. Live The Jump Carney’s musical films like ‘Once’ — dress-
ESPNCL M.L.B. From Oct. 14, 1979. (6) M.L.B. Game 5 of the 1980 National League Championship Series. M.L.B. From Oct. 15, 1986. ing up the former, but not capturing much
FOOD Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Restaurant: Impossible “Soul Food and Home Cooking.” (N) (G) Beat Bobby Flay Beat Bobby Flay Restaurant: Im. of the energy or the spirit of the latter.”
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FS1 The Nascar 1992 All-Star Race M.L.S. Group Stage, Toronto FC vs Montreal Impact. M.L.S. Group Stage, New York Red Bulls vs Columbus Crew SC.
FUSE The Parkers (PG) Modern Day Gladiators Malcolm, Middle Malcolm, Middle Malcolm, Middle Malcolm, Middle The Parkers (PG) The Parkers (PG) The Parkers (PG) My Wife & Kids
FX . The Martian (2015). Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain. Stranded astronaut tries to survive. Blissed-out cosmic high. . The Martian (2015). Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain. Stranded astronaut tries to survive.
(PG-13) Blissed-out cosmic high. (PG-13)
FXM Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). Map sends Smurfs on Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). Voices of Ray Romano. Animated. Mam- Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). Map sends Smurfs on . Across the Uni-
journey through Forbidden Forest. Animated. (6:40) moth and squirrel versus asteroid. Best when no one’s talking. (PG) journey through Forbidden Forest. Animated. (10:25) verse (12:15)
FXX The Simpsons The Simpsons Family Guy (14) Family Guy (14) Family Guy (14) Family Guy (14) Cake (N) (MA) Cake (MA) (10:31) Cake (MA) (11:03) Cake (MA) (11:35) Cake (MA) (12:07)
FYI Top Gear “Minnesota Ice Driving.” Top Gear “Coast to Coast.” (PG) Top Gear “Halo VS. Velociraptor.” Top Gear “Military Might.” (PG) Top Gear “Fast in Florida.” (11:01) Top Gear (PG)
GOLF Golf Central P.G.A. Tour Golf The Memorial Tournament, first round. The first round of the Memorial Tournament gets underway from Muirfield Village Golf Club. Golf Central
GSN America Says America Says America Says Master Minds Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud
HALL Christmas in Evergreen: Letters Christmas Getaway (2017, TVF). Bridget Regan, Travis Van Winkle. The Christmas Cottage (2017, TVF). Merritt Patterson, Steve Lund. Christmas in
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son 7, Episode 14.” (14) son 7, Episode 15.” (14) son 7, Episode 16.” (N) (14) son 7, Episode 17.” (N) (10:03) son 7, Episode 16.” (14) (11:03) Sight (14) (12:01) sion with members of the cast and creative
LIFEMOV Killer Dream Home (2020, TVF). The Wrong Housesitter (2020, TVF). Vivica A. Fox, Anna Marie Dobbins. Man The Wrong House (2016, TVF). Clare Kramer, Tilky Jones. Woman loses it The Wrong House- team behind the “Back to the Future” tril-
Maiara Walsh, Eve Mauro. (6) realizes seemingly ideal housesitter has no plans to leave. when she loses house in bidding war. sitter (2020, TVF). ogy, including Michael J. Fox (who starred
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LOGO RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars “I’m in RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars “Get a Room!” Boutique RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars “SheMZ.” The stars are RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars “Snatch Game of Love.” A McFly), Lea Thompson (who played Mar-
Love!” (14) (6:30) hotel suite experiences. (14) overexposed. (14) dating show version of a game. (14)
MLB M.L.B. Now . The Natural (1984). Robert Redford. Malamud’s gifted young baseball player. Diamond in the rough. (PG) M.L.B. Tonight M.L.B.
ty’s mother) and the director Robert Ze-
MSG MSG Shorts Best of NY Rangers ’19-’20 Best of NY Rangers ’19-’20 Best of NY Rangers ’19-’20
meckis. Among the questions Gad asked
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the team: What would they pitch as a story
MSNBC MSNBC Live: Decision 2020 (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word The 11th Hour Rachel Maddow
for a possible fourth installment? “I’d like it
MTV Jersey Shore Ronnie is released. Double Shot at Love Revenge Prank Revenge Prank Revenge Prank Revenge Prank Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness
to go back to, like, January,” Thompson
NBCS Mecum Auto Auctions “Indy.” (N Same-day Tape)
said, “where they could warn us about the
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coronavirus.” In lieu of that fictional sequel,
NICK SpongeBob Unfiltered Tooth Fairy (2010). Dwayne Johnson. Hockey player sentenced to be tooth fairy. Ouch. (PG) Friends (14) Friends (PG) Friends (PG) Friends (PG)
consider revisiting this original installment
NICKJR Paw Patrol (Y) Blaze, Monster Bubble Guppies Blue’s Clues Peppa Pig (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Peppa Pig (Y) Bubble Guppies Blue’s Clues Peppa Pig (Y)
in the series, in which Marty’s greatest
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worry is whether he can save himself from
OVA Changing Lanes (2002). Little fender-bender has big consequences. Just ride on by. (R) The Fan (1981). Lauren Bacall, James Garner. (R) . Drop Zone (1994). Wesley Snipes. (R)
being stranded in the past.
OWN 20/20 on OWN “Lost at Sea.” (14) 20/20 on OWN “Her Last Chance.” 20/20: Homicide 20/20 on OWN (14) 20/20: Homicide 20/20: Homicide 30 ROCK: A ONE-TIME SPECIAL 8 p.m. on NBC.
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PARMT Two/Half Men Two/Half Men The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017). Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson. (R) The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017). Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson. (R) final episode of “30 Rock,” which means the
SCIENCE Mysteries of the Deep (PG) Strange Evidence (14) Strange Evidence (N) (14) Strange Evidence (N) (14) Evidence show has been off the air for longer than it
SMITH Air Disasters “Terror Over Egypt.” Britain in Color “Royalty.” (PG) Britain in Color “Empire.” (PG) Britain in Color “Churchill.” (PG) Britain in Color “Royalty.” (PG) Britain in Color was on it. But many will still flock to this
SNY Mets Classics Game 4. (6:30) Kid: A Gary Carter Story (G) Baseball Night SportsNite SportsNite SportsNite hourlong special, which will remotely re-
STZENF The Frog Prince (1987). (6:28) Oddball (2015). Alan Tudyk, Sarah Snook. (7:55) Daddy Day Care (2003). Eddie Murphy. (PG) (9:32) Bigger Fatter Liar (2017). Jodelle Ferland. (PG) (11:06) unite the show’s cast, including Tina Fey,
SUN Law & Order “Reality Bites.” Mother of Law & Order “Dignity.” Detectives in- Law & Order “Human Flesh Search Law & Order “Boy Gone Astray.” A Law & Order “Doped.” A suspicious Law & Order (14) Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane
10 children is found dead. vestigate a protester. (14) Engine.” Suspicious web site. (14) wealthy young woman is found dead. nasal spray. (14) Krakowski and Jack McBrayer. NBC is
SYFY R.I.P.D. (2013). Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds. Heavenly police force hunts Underworld: Blood Wars (2016). Kate Beckinsale, Theo James. Vampire-ly- SYFY Wire’s the Anaconda (1997). Jennifer Lopez, Ice using the special to promote its next year
dead villains. Noisy nonsense. (PG-13) can war continues. Almost willful lack of fun. (R) Great Debate (N) Cube. (PG-13) (11:31)
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TCM . Bachelor Mother (1939). Ginger . The More the Merrier (1943). Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea. Bright, deft com- . Louisa (1950). Spring Byington. Delightful family caper . Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). nostalgia.
Rogers, David Niven. (6:30) edy of crowded, wartime Washington. Coburn won supporting Oscar. about competitive, elderly courtship. Spring is darling. Marilyn Monroe. (11:45) GABE COHN
TLC Dr. Pimple Popper (MA) Dr. Pimple Popper (14) Dr. Pimple Popper (N) (14) Extraordinary People: Conjoined World’s Smallest Woman: Jyoti Dr. Pimple
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As heat and humidity build along the In Central Park, for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
L Showers Eastern Seaboard, a swath of heavy,
gusty and severe thunderstorms will Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
L
extend from the middle Mississippi and Record Yesterday ............... 0.00
100° high 102° Record .................... 1.80
Ohio valleys to the central Appalachians (1995)
and eastern Great Lakes regions. The For the last 30 days
JET STREAM TUE. YESTERDAY Actual ..................... 4.86
main threats from the storms will be flash Normal .................... 4.11
H flooding and damaging wind gusts. 90° For the last 365 days
A few drenching storms will also be Actual ................... 45.04
scattered about the South, with isolated 81° Normal Normal .................. 49.90
2 p.m. high 84° LAST 30 DAYS
urban flooding. As slightly cooler and less
humid air settles over the North Central 80°
Air pressure Humidity
states, heat and high humidity will contin- High ........... 30.23 1 p.m. High ............. 83% 6 a.m.
Low ............ 30.09 1 a.m. Low .............. 55% 2 p.m.
Thunderstorms ue to broil the South Central states.
Unusually Unusually
warm cool Much of the West will be dry and sunny. Cooling Degree Days
Normal
A few widely separated late-day storms 70°
low 69° An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
will erupt over the interior Southwest that 70° far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
Hot weather will stretch from the central Plains to the Northeast this weekend. Thunder- could spark more fires, while a few loca- 6 a.m.
Yesterday................................................................... 11
storms, some of which could be heavy and gusty, will cut into the heat across the Midwest. tions may be doused with heavy rain. So far this month...................................................... 205
60° Record So far this season (since January 1) ........................ 519
Heat will also build across the interior Northwest. low 57° Normal to date for the season ................................. 447
(1930)
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p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Little Rock 95/ 77 Tr 95/ 78 PC 94/ 75 T New Delhi 98/ 81 0 95/ 82 T 96/ 82 T
Cities Los Angeles 80/ 62 0 80/ 62 PC 83/ 63 PC Riyadh 115/ 87 0 113/ 88 PC 113/ 85 PC Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 94/ 77 0 90/ 75 T 90/ 76 T Seoul 82/ 64 0 83/ 69 PC 84/ 69 PC Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Memphis 95/ 78 0.04 95/ 79 C 94/ 78 PC Shanghai 75/ 70 2.22 78/ 71 T 77/ 76 T from normal from normal Last 10 days
for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 93/ 79 0 92/ 80 T 89/ 80 T Singapore 85/ 79 0.27 86/ 77 T 85/ 79 T this month
...................... +2.3° this.........................
year +2.4°
Milwaukee 81/ 65 0.05 81/ 67 S 87/ 73 PC Sydney 60/ 52 0.15 61/ 53 W 61/ 52 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 80/ 62 0 83/ 67 S 87/ 75 PC Taipei City 93/ 82 0 100/ 82 PC 99/ 83 T 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 96/ 76 0 95/ 76 PC 92/ 75 T Tehran 95/ 75 0 94/ 75 PC 95/ 80 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 91/ 80 0.34 91/ 76 PC 92/ 78 PC Tokyo 75/ 66 0.57 77/ 70 C 77/ 71 T
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 90/ 75 Tr 88/ 72 PC 93/ 77 S Yesterday ............... 90% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 96/ 74 0.03 94/ 75 PC 97/ 76 S Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
I............................... Ice T............ Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 93%
Omaha 80/ 59 1.64 87/ 71 PC 90/ 76 PC Amsterdam 68/ 52 0.02 67/ 55 Sh 71/ 57 PC
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 86/ 69 0 87/ 72 S 88/ 70 S
Orlando 92/ 77 0.14 91/ 76 T 89/ 76 PC
R ........................... Rain W ........................ Windy Berlin 68/ 58 0.46 71/ 53 Sh 74/ 57 T
Philadelphia 88/ 69 0 85/ 70 C 89/ 74 C
Sh ................... Showers –............... Not available Brussels 68/ 54 0.05 65/ 55 Sh 72/ 57 PC
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
110/
89/
88
69
0
0
110/ 87 PC
87/ 69 T
110/
86/
89
67
PC
PC Budapest 79/ 52 0 75/ 59 T 70/ 55 T
Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 75/ 59 0 71/ 60 PC 71/ 64 C Copenhagen 64/ 56 0.40 67/ 56 PC 71/ 56 PC
New York City 81/ 70 0 79/ 68 PC 80/ 72 C Portland, Ore. 86/ 63 0 83/ 63 PC 76/ 57 PC Dublin 66/ 53 0.01 69/ 56 PC 66/ 51 C Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 79/ 68 0 78/ 68 PC 78/ 72 C Providence 78/ 62 0.01 77/ 61 PC 76/ 69 C Edinburgh 64/ 53 0.01 67/ 57 PC 65/ 50 Sh
Caldwell 85/ 67 0 81/ 69 PC 82/ 72 C Raleigh 92/ 70 0 90/ 71 PC 92/ 72 PC Frankfurt 73/ 58 0.17 65/ 55 Sh 77/ 55 T New First Quarter Full Last Quarter
Danbury 80/ 62 0 76/ 64 PC 75/ 67 T Reno 97/ 65 0 98/ 66 PC 97/ 64 S Geneva 72/ 59 0.13 75/ 58 C 76/ 58 T Today’s forecast
Islip 79/ 67 0.03 77/ 67 PC 77/ 71 C Richmond 91/ 70 0 90/ 71 PC 92/ 74 T Helsinki 72/ 48 0 73/ 54 C 75/ 55 PC
Newark 83/ 70 0 78/ 69 PC 83/ 72 C Rochester 87/ 71 0 83/ 68 R 86/ 66 PC Istanbul 77/ 68 0 81/ 67 S 81/ 70 PC
Trenton 84/ 66 0 81/ 67 C 85/ 71 C Sacramento 93/ 61 0 92/ 60 S 92/ 60 S Kiev 73/ 56 0 77/ 59 C 79/ 58 PC July 20 July 27 Aug. 3 Aug. 11
White Plains 80/ 65 0 77/ 64 PC 77/ 69 C Salt Lake City 92/ 66 0 96/ 73 PC 100/ 75 S Lisbon 93/ 66 0 97/ 74 S 95/ 68 S 1:32 p.m. 11:58 a.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 103/ 78 0 99/ 74 S 98/ 75 S London 66/ 54 0.14 73/ 60 PC 80/ 56 PC Kennebunkport
San Diego 76/ 66 0 76/ 67 PC 77/ 67 PC Madrid 93/ 62 0 96/ 68 S 97/ 64 S Sun RISE 5:39 a.m. Moon R 2:09 a.m. 69/60 Periodic clouds and sun
Albany 85/ 69 0 82/ 67 PC 82/ 69 C Moscow 70/ 59 0.53 61/ 56 Sh 66/ 54 C
San Francisco 74/ 57 0 73/ 57 PC 74/ 56 PC SET 8:25 p.m. S 4:53 p.m.
Albuquerque 94/ 70 0 91/ 67 PC 93/ 68 C Nice 79/ 68 0.01 80/ 69 S 80/ 71 S
San Jose 83/ 60 0 83/ 60 S 85/ 60 PC NEXT R 5:39 a.m. R 2:45 a.m. Cape Cod
Anchorage 71/ 58 0 71/ 57 C 67/ 57 Sh Oslo 66/ 55 0.31 71/ 52 PC 67/ 58 PC 60s
San Juan 90/ 78 0.02 90/ 78 Sh 89/ 78 PC 75/63 Periodic sun and clouds
Atlanta 94/ 72 Tr 92/ 74 T 94/ 73 PC Paris 72/ 59 0.06 74/ 59 PC 79/ 60 PC Jupiter S 5:36 a.m. Mars R 11:55 p.m.
Seattle 81/ 60 0 77/ 60 PC 72/ 57 PC
Atlantic City 80/ 69 0 77/ 71 PC 82/ 75 PC Prague 70/ 52 0.04 67/ 50 Sh 68/ 53 T R 8:12 p.m. S 12:08 p.m.
Sioux Falls 80/ 60 0 86/ 70 PC 89/ 74 PC L.I. North Shore
Austin 100/ 73 0 98/ 75 S 98/ 74 S Rome 81/ 67 0 82/ 64 S 82/ 65 S
Spokane 87/ 62 0 88/ 59 S 82/ 56 PC Saturn S 6:11 a.m. Venus R 2:56 a.m.
Baltimore 90/ 70 0 88/ 72 PC 90/ 74 PC St. Petersburg 67/ 52 Tr 69/ 53 C 73/ 52 S 79/68 Some sun, then clouds
St. Louis 90/ 72 0 88/ 75 PC 94/ 76 C R 8:35 p.m. S 5:12 p.m.
Baton Rouge 91/ 75 0 91/ 76 PC 93/ 75 S Stockholm 66/ 53 0.08 73/ 55 Sh 76/ 57 PC
St. Thomas 90/ 79 0.05 88/ 79 Sh 89/ 80 Sh
Birmingham 96/ 73 0.04 93/ 76 PC 95/ 74 PC Vienna 81/ 56 0.01 74/ 55 Sh 69/ 54 T L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 87/ 70 0 85/ 69 R 87/ 68 C Boating
Boise 91/ 61 0 95/ 63 S 95/ 63 PC Tampa 92/ 80 0 94/ 77 PC 92/ 78 PC Warsaw 79/ 54 0 69/ 55 R 73/ 59 C 76/70 Sunshine and clouds
Boston 69/ 60 0.01 72/ 62 PC 75/ 69 C Toledo 92/ 71 0 86/ 67 T 91/ 67 PC
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 87/ 73 0 83/ 71 T 85/ 68 C Tucson 105/ 80 0 104/ 81 PC 103/ 79 PC N.J. Shore
Burlington 83/ 65 0 83/ 67 PC 82/ 69 T nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Tulsa 95/ 78 0.02 93/ 77 PC 97/ 80 S Acapulco 88/ 78 0.05 89/ 77 T 90/ 79 T 77/71 Humid with clouds and sun
Casper 88/ 49 0 93/ 58 S 96/ 59 W Harbor.
Virginia Beach 86/ 73 0 84/ 72 PC 89/ 76 S Bermuda 82/ 78 0.07 84/ 77 PC 83/ 77 PC
Charlotte 94/ 73 0 91/ 74 PC 93/ 72 T Edmonton 65/ 50 0.13 73/ 50 T 69/ 51 S Wind will be from the southeast at 6-12 knots. Wave Eastern Shore 70s
Washington 92/ 74 0 90/ 75 PC 92/ 77 PC
Chattanooga 95/ 74 0 94/ 76 PC 93/ 76 PC Wichita 91/ 72 0.10 89/ 72 PC 99/ 80 PC Guadalajara 83/ 60 0 83/ 60 T 82/ 58 T heights will be 1 foot or less on New York Harbor and on 84/72 Partly sunny, humid
Chicago 88/ 68 0 85/ 70 PC 92/ 75 PC Wilmington, Del. 86/ 66 0 82/ 67 C 87/ 70 C Havana 92/ 73 0 88/ 74 T 88/ 73 T Long Island Sound and 2-3 feet on the ocean. Visibility will
Cincinnati 92/ 70 0 89/ 73 T 88/ 72 T Kingston 91/ 79 0 89/ 77 T 89/ 78 T be generally unrestricted. Ocean City Md.
Cleveland 90/ 72 0 85/ 70 T 87/ 65 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 90/ 76 0.02 88/ 77 Sh 88/ 76 Sh 79/72 Clouds and sunshine
Colorado Springs 82/ 59 0 87/ 61 T 90/ 64 C Algiers 86/ 67 0 87/ 63 S 86/ 65 S Mexico City 77/ 56 0 77/ 54 PC 74/ 54 T High Tides
Columbus 92/ 71 0 88/ 72 T 90/ 71 PC Cairo 95/ 75 0 95/ 72 S 95/ 73 S Monterrey 96/ 71 0 98/ 74 PC 96/ 72 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 78/ 57 0 77/ 58 PC 75/ 63 C Cape Town 63/ 40 0 68/ 41 PC 73/ 47 PC Montreal 80/ 59 0 83/ 68 T 84/ 68 Sh Atlantic City .................... 4:43 a.m. .............. 5:13 p.m. indicate water
84/72 Partly sunny, humid
Dallas-Ft. Worth 97/ 79 Tr 99/ 77 S 96/ 76 S Dakar 84/ 79 0 86/ 77 PC 85/ 79 C Nassau 90/ 79 0 88/ 78 PC 87/ 77 T Barnegat Inlet ................. 4:58 a.m. .............. 5:20 p.m. temperature.
Denver 84/ 60 0 91/ 63 PC 94/ 65 PC Johannesburg 58/ 28 0 64/ 33 PC 68/ 36 PC Panama City 88/ 72 0.09 88/ 73 T 87/ 76 T The Battery ..................... 5:40 a.m. .............. 5:57 p.m.
Des Moines 76/ 65 0.96 85/ 68 S 90/ 76 PC Nairobi 72/ 52 0 68/ 53 T 73/ 51 PC Quebec City 75/ 55 0 76/ 61 T 73/ 62 R Beach Haven .................. 6:19 a.m. .............. 6:41 p.m.
Detroit 89/ 70 0 82/ 69 T 89/ 70 PC Tunis 88/ 72 0.05 90/ 70 S 88/ 70 S Santo Domingo 91/ 74 0.13 91/ 74 T 90/ 74 T Bridgeport ...................... 8:45 a.m. .............. 8:57 p.m.
El Paso 103/ 78 0 104/ 76 PC 102/ 77 PC Toronto 84/ 64 0 80/ 70 R 89/ 70 S City Island ....................... 9:23 a.m. .............. 9:14 p.m.
Tranquil and generally dry weather will
Fargo 83/ 65 0 85/ 64 PC 89/ 68 PC Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 66/ 54 0 72/ 58 PC 68/ 56 PC
Hartford 83/ 64 0.01 80/ 63 PC 78/ 67 C Baghdad 113/ 83 0 116/ 86 PC 115/ 84 PC Fire Island Lt. .................. 5:47 a.m. .............. 6:09 p.m. span beach locations under a mixture of
Winnipeg 75/ 59 0 78/ 58 PC 84/ 64 S
Honolulu 87/ 74 0 88/ 74 Sh 88/ 77 Sh Bangkok 92/ 78 0.03 94/ 78 T 94/ 80 T Montauk Point ................ 6:37 a.m. .............. 6:58 p.m. clouds and sunshine. There will be a
Houston 99/ 80 0 97/ 78 S 94/ 76 PC Beijing 95/ 69 0 94/ 73 C 88/ 70 T South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 8:59 a.m. .............. 9:11 p.m.
Indianapolis 89/ 71 0 85/ 71 PC 90/ 73 PC Damascus 102/ 66 0 101/ 64 PC 99/ 63 PC Buenos Aires 54/ 40 0 56/ 47 S 59/ 55 PC Port Washington ............. 9:28 a.m. .............. 9:20 p.m. gentle to moderate breeze from the east
Jackson 94/ 74 0 93/ 74 PC 94/ 74 PC Hong Kong 93/ 82 0 92/ 84 Sh 92/ 84 Sh Caracas 91/ 74 0.20 88/ 75 PC 88/ 75 T Sandy Hook .................... 5:01 a.m. .............. 5:23 p.m. to southeast across most areas while
Jacksonville 92/ 72 0 91/ 73 PC 89/ 73 PC Jakarta 88/ 75 0.16 90/ 77 Sh 91/ 75 T Lima 64/ 59 Tr 64/ 59 PC 64/ 59 S Shinnecock Inlet ............. 4:49 a.m. .............. 5:17 p.m.
Kansas City 81/ 65 1.36 86/ 68 PC 92/ 75 PC Jerusalem 88/ 65 0 86/ 67 S 84/ 66 S Quito 67/ 46 0 71/ 45 S 72/ 46 Sh Stamford ........................ 8:43 a.m. .............. 8:55 p.m.
afternoon temperatures will range from
Key West 93/ 82 0 91/ 82 T 90/ 81 T Karachi 97/ 87 0 100/ 87 PC 101/ 84 C Recife 82/ 70 0.07 83/ 72 PC 83/ 73 PC Tarrytown ....................... 7:29 a.m. .............. 7:46 p.m. near 70 in northern New England to the
Las Vegas 107/ 82 0 108/ 85 S 109/ 84 S Manila 93/ 79 0.05 96/ 80 T 94/ 79 T Rio de Janeiro 69/ 64 0.42 73/ 64 PC 78/ 68 S
Lexington 92/ 69 0 89/ 69 T 86/ 69 T Mumbai 85/ 77 1.11 83/ 79 R 87/ 79 Sh Santiago 72/ 37 0 66/ 45 PC 63/ 46 C
Willets Point .................... 9:22 a.m. .............. 9:07 p.m. middle 80s in Virginia Beach.

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Guys, it’s time to tame that Museums’ plea: Save your ’20
beard. BY ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN artifacts. BY LESLEY M. M. BLUME
4 YESTERDAY’S ACCESSORIES 7 THE LOOK

Did the lockdown knock out The complexity of modesty at

the handbag? BY LOU STOPPARD a pageant for Muslim women.

FASHION BEAUTY NIGHTLIFE THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 D1

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A Photographic
Milestone
At Condé Nast
By JESSICA TESTA

Until about two weeks ago, Dario Calmese

didn’t know he was the first Black photogra-
pher to shoot the cover of Vanity Fair. But he
had a suspicion, so he asked the editors, who
went digging.
“To the best of our knowledge, it is the first
Vanity Fair cover made by a Black photogra-
pher,” Radhika Jones wrote in her July-Au-
gust editor’s letter. The subject of the cover is DA R IO CA L M E S E
M A K E S H ISTO RY
Viola Davis, who, in the same issue, told her WIT H H IS
interviewer, Sonia Saraiya, that Black wom- COV E R S H OT F O R
VA N IT Y FA IR .
en haven’t traditionally been photographed
for the cover of Vanity Fair, either.
In her letter, Ms. Jones runs the numbers:
In the 35 years before she was named editor,
CONTINUED ON PAGE D5

Dario Calmese is the first Black photographer to shoot

a Vanity Fair cover, which will feature Viola Davis.
TERON BEAL

Covid-19
Derails
The Return
Of a Pariah
Dov Charney retooled to make
masks, but his workers got sick.
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
In mid-March, as the coronavirus raged
across California, New Jersey, New York
and Washington State and the crisis in per-
sonal protective equipment shortages grew,
Dov Charney of Los Angeles Apparel was
one of the first clothing retailers to step into
the void.
In reopening his Los Angeles factory to
produce face masks, Mr. Charney, the for-
mer chief executive of American Apparel
who was ousted amid allegations of misuse
of funds and knowingly allowing sexual har-
assment, was transformed from industry
pariah to champion.
Los Angeles Apparel, his new company,
was deemed an essential business. The fed- JACKIE NICKERSON

eral government became a client, Mr. Char-

ney said. The long road to redemption
seemed, suddenly, much shorter.
But late last week, the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health or-
In Paris, Looking West
Above, from Dior. The men’s wear styles this
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dered Mr. Charney to close his factory: An season evoke California, Guy Trebay writes. Page 2.
investigation found over 300 confirmed co-
ronavirus infections among the garment
VIA LOS ANGELES APPAREL
workers and four deaths related to the
Dov Charney, the ousted chief executive of American Apparel, at his Los Angeles mask factory. CONTINUED ON PAGE D4
D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020

FASHION REVIEW GUY TREBAY

Familiar
Looks,
Peculiar
Location Left, a look from
Hermès. Below left,
a look from Dior.
For Paris men’s wear virtual
shows, the dominant
California vibe is very real.

flowers, a paper mask of what looked like

WE HAVE SEEN the future of European fash- some rumbustious skate rat and little or-
ion, and it is California. ange cards printed with New Age dithers:
Peering out from behind the curtain of a “Never Compromise,” “The Future is Un-
long lockdown, designers in Paris and Mi- written,” “Keep Looking Up.”
lan seemed unanticipatedly hopeful during There was something irrepressibly D.I.Y.
the digital shows this past week. It was not about the collection, an effect that belied the
so much that they were willing to forgo the masterful design and construction of patch-
inimitable theater of the fashion show as work coats slit high and flared like clown
ready to embrace the accelerated alter- garments; oversize pockets ready made for
ations in everybody’s way of doing business boosting items from the department stores
forced on us by the pandemic. that no longer exist; and wallpaper prints
Being indoors, onscreen, casual to the and brocades that looked as if they were
point of forgetting to put on our hard pants swiped from Joni Mitchell’s attic in Laurel
has affected us all, not least designers. Canyon.
“I was doing all these Zoom meetings, If being sentenced to an indefinite term in
and I didn’t have the garments I wanted,” Zoom jail has taught us anything, it is that in
Alessandro Sartori, the Zegna designer, periods of prolonged exposure to tragedy
said last week by phone from northern Italy. we yearn for escape; often enough, that
What he needed was lightweight things takes the form of silliness. What else are
suited to the new exigencies of the work- people doing trading bells for hula skirts
place. What he had was summer linen jack- and Froggie dresses on Animal Crossing
ets in what he called “vacation” colors. New Horizons?
But we are not on vacation, are we? How else does one account for digital
Though we may be working 10 feet from our hordes of people picking up crochet hooks
beds, we still need uniforms that draw a after a rainbow knit sweater from the JW
clear distinction between labor and leisure. Anderson spring men’s collection went viral
We need something along the lines of a RAFFARD ROUSSEL
on TikTok? Harry Styles wore it in rehears-
formula the men’s wear consultant Josh al for a pre-lockdown performance on “To-
Peskowitz once proposed as the basis for a day.”
distinctly California style when he ran Mag- “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Mr. An-
asin, the influential (and lamented; it closed derson said. Because the nearly $1,500
in 2019) store in Culver City. hand-knit sweater is no longer available for
Take a comfortable shirt, and trousers, sale, he posted the pattern online — an act
and add something tailored. Or, swiping a of radical Etsy.
cue from the guayabera, that most ele- Even a gesture like his has roots you
gantly casual of masculine uniforms, sim- could trace, if you wished, to California
plify to a mere two pieces. The result is groups like the utopian activists, the Dig-
something that, while as presentable as a gers. Those early anticapitalists once
suit, is not one. staged semi-naked street theater happen-
The pursuit of the un-suit turned out to ings in the San Francisco of the 1960s, gave
have allied designers whose names are sel- away food, and opened a bunch of Free
dom seen in the same sentence. When Mi- Stores in Haight-Ashbury.
uccia Prada showed a loose, dropped-shoul- Is it a stretch to imagine that the stuff
der version of a chore coat or a boxy three- they gave away probably resembled Mr.
button jacket worn over a snug-fitting Anderson’s irresistibly kooky granny
sweatshirt, she wasn’t just experimenting sweater? I doubt it.
with designs intended to function as, the While Kim Jones’s show for Dior Men
show notes said, “straightforward, unosten- made reference to style gestures that most
tatious machines for living and tools for ac- likely originated on the West Coast (Teva-
tion and activity.” like sandals with socks, flap pocket shorts
She was also making unexpected com- and berets worn Eldridge Cleaver-style),
mon cause with Véronique Nichanian at the collection for the most part paid homage
Hermès, whose collection — shown in a film to the tailoring traditions of the great cou-
by the experimental director Cyril Teste ture house’s French founder.
that replicated the vibe of that electric mo- For this outing Mr. Jones collaborated
ment backstage when models dress in first with Amoako Boafo, a Ghanaian artist he
JACKIE NICKERSON

From left, looks from Isabel

Marant, Rick Owens, Prada,
Berluti and JW Anderson.

looks — was detailed at the achingly re- a Rick Owens show titled “Phlegethon,” two pretty stoners who forgot where they first met in Miami last year when a Dior
fined level of precision you’d expect after one of the five rivers that in Greek left their car in parking structure No. 6 at men’s show was staged next door to the
from a venerable luxury goods house. mythology flowed through the under- the Third Street Promenade in Santa Mon- newly opened Rubell Museum, where Mr.
(To wit: a ribbed sweater with all-but- world. (Styx, Lethe, Cocytus and Acheron ica. It was a true Reyner Banham moment Boafo was the resident artist.
invisible leather insets.) were the others, just so you know.) transplanted to the present. In design terms, the connection is super-
Despite that, Ms. Nichanian’s col- The Owens presentation, shown on And the clothes were, like so much of ficial to the point of indifference. Some of
lection remained easeful enough to the model Tyrone Dylan Susman, ended what is being designed now, based on sim- Mr. Boafo’s daubed portraits appear as
hold its own with clothes from, say, Sec- up being something you might term ple overlapping pieces that reflect the exi- prints. What is significant, though, is Mr.
ond/Layer, a young label in Los Angeles health-goth. It fused the sort of funky lay- gencies of a changing and often fickle cli- Boafo’s decision to forgo royalties from Dior
that has a lot to teach the old guard about ering and proportions you would spot on mate. That and the fact that one of the few in return for a donation to a cultural founda-
how to dress a generation that has never guys in any surf town along the state’s 840- clear ways to mark the progression of a day, tion the 36-year-old artist has set up in Ac-
worn a suit and tie. mile coastline to elements of the designer a week or a month anymore is by adding or cra, Ghana, just one element in an overdue
California felt like an uncredited collabo- Larry Legaspi’s futuristic death-metal cos- subtracting a layer.
cultural shift from appropriation to ac-
rator in many collections. It was there in tuming for Kiss. A critic for Vogue.com referred to the
knowledgment and homage.
the gorgeously gnarly shirt prints that the “I basically make cutoffs and T-shirts,” Marant collection as “L.A. meets the Ma-
Berluti designer Kris Van Assche ex- Mr. Owens, a native of Portersville, Calif., The transformation, it is worth noting, is
rais.” Yet the low-slung trousers with rolled
tracted from his collaboration with Brian said by phone before his presentation went cuffs, the low-waist flight suits, the waxed being spearheaded by Black artists like Mr.
Rochefort, a sculptor who works with ce- live online last week. “European complex- poplin trenches and the fuzzy sweaters Boafo, Kehinde Wiley and Mickalene Thom-
ramics. ity meets California simplicity — that’s my looked to be no more inherently French as. In May, Mr. Boafo raised $190,000 from
Mr. Rochefort, one of the legions of art- gimmick.” than Thomas Keller’s restaurant the French the online auction of his painting “Aurore
ists who have transplanted themselves to California was also a presence in an Isa- Laundry, which is just off State Highway 29 Iradukunda,” with the proceeds going to the
Los Angeles, traveled the world in the bel Marant collection shot at the Centre in Yountville, Calif. Museum of the African Diaspora, an institu-
days before quarantines to visit volca- National de la Danse on the outskirts of In a sense, one could even detect ele- tion whose goal is tracing the artistic and
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noes, caves and sinkholes. He was seek- Paris. ments of wackadoodle California Republic
ing inspiration for works that frequently Watching the presentation of a video optimism in an exceptionally exuberant JW sion.
resemble magma samples from the core showing two young models racketing Anderson collection. It was presented to This singular museum stands not in New
of Planet Skittles. around within the corridors of this critics as a boxed set of fabric samples and York or Paris or London, but right on gritty
California was there again in spirit in Brutalist structure felt like watching photos with the addition of pressed dried Mission Street in downtown San Francisco.

How to Avoid the Cro-Magnon Look
Even under lockdown, some help is needed to keep your beard from scaring your Zoom-call buddies.
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
Some men working from home and growing
beards for the first time are coming to the
realization that their facial hair is a tangle of
waves and curls. But Matt Vilanova discov-
ered how unmanageable his beard can be
years ago.
“My beard is just naturally very kinky,
and it kind of twists and turns,” said Mr. Vi-
lanova, 34, a manager at a software com-
pany who lives in Seymour, Conn. “When I
grew a beard a little longer than a five
o’clock shadow, I looked like a Neander-
thal.”
A couple of years ago, when his beard was
about two inches long, Mr. Vilanova bor-
rowed — from his girlfriend and future wife
— a hair-straightening flatiron, the type
with opposing ceramic plates.
Clamping his whiskers in a flatiron hot
enough to pop popcorn “was a very delicate
process,” Mr. Vilanova said. “To a degree it
helped, but it got very close to my skin. I
was like, ‘I’m going to absolutely destroy
myself if I keep on doing this.’ ”
A year ago, Mr. Vilanova bought a
Kuschelbär, a heated beard-straightening
brush made by Masc by Jeff Chastain. It has
heated teeth that emerge from a heated
plate, a compact version of the full-size hair-
straightening brushes marketed to
women.
“I approached it with some
skepticism, but the very first
time I used it, I was like, ‘This
S ALE S O F
thing is awesome,’ ” Mr. Vi-
ST RAIG H T E N IN G
lanova said. “Everything
BRU S H E S H AVE
looks clean and sharp and
rigid. You feel like a badass.” BE E N H E AT IN G U P.
Also a fan of the
Kuschelbär: the basketball
star Andre Drummond, who
made a video of himself straight-
ening his beard with it.
Sales of beard-straightening brushes are,
appropriately enough, heating up.
Jeff Chastain, who owns a salon in Green-
wich Village, introduced the Kuschelbär
(German for “cuddle bear”) in late 2017, and
he says that it is the original beard-straight-
ening brush. He has sold more than 115,000
of the devices, he said, which he encourages
men to use on their head hair too. He now
sells three models, ranging from $100 for
the original to $140 for a cordless version.
Aberlite, a beard care brand, began sell-
ing a heated straightening brush on Ama-
zon early in 2019. Teng Ma, who owns the
company, said that initially he bought thou-
sands of no-label women’s hair-straighten-
ing brushes from Alibaba, the Chinese e-
commerce giant, and rebranded them as
beard brushes. Now he sells three more
compact models designed for beards.
Getting By With a Little Help From Their Edibles
Pandemic anxiety and concerns about vaping have helped shift sales of cannabis products.
By ALISON STINE
Ben Emerson had never tried cannabis ed-
ibles before his birthday in April. He was
raised in the Evangelical Presbyterian
Church, which he left five years ago, and
marijuana was “this thing that I had never
really even thought that I was allowed to
do,” he said.
“And then I’m like, ‘Wait, I can actually
make up my own mind about this.’ ”
For his first foray, Mr. Emerson, 38, chose
strawberry-flavored gummies, which he or-
dered online and picked up curbside at a
dispensary near his home in Portland, Ore.
“I’m not super-interested in smoking any-
thing,” he said. “But as soon as I decided I
wanted to try cannabis, I wanted to try
something edible.”
Anxious times (say, a pandemic) call for
palliatives, like meditation, exercise or, in
some cases, weed. More than a dozen states
declared cannabis stores and medical mari-
juana dispensaries essential businesses,
along with pharmacies and grocery stores,
as the coronavirus sent millions of Ameri-
cans home, with or without jobs.
Since March, the cannabis industry has
seen an influx of new customers: Eaze, an
online cannabis retailer, told The Associ-
ated Press that first-time purchases of
cannabis were up more than 50 percent in
early March. And as fear of inhaled prod-
ucts has risen — spurred partly by studies
of “vaping illness” and exacerbated by res-
piratory risks associated with the coro-
navirus — many consumers have opted to
enjoy cannabis in edible form.
When the Apothecarium, an upscale dis-
pensary with locations in California and Ne-
vada, moved from in-store retail to curbside
pickup in March, Cali Manzello, the general
manager of its San Francisco flagship, no-
ticed a change in the size of orders.
“One of the first orders that printed out
from the pickup machine said 25 packages
of this gummy on it,” she said. “And we all
kind of giggled. We were like: ‘Ooh boy, here
it goes. It’s starting.’”
“It did not stop,” she added. “People were
ordering, you know, up to the legal limit,
which can be up to 80 edibles in some
cases.” Ms. Manzello said the company’s ed-
ible sales were up 16 percent, while vape
sales had fallen by 19 percent.
Alex Levine, an owner and joint C.E.O. of
Green Dragon, a dispensary that operates
15 locations in Colorado, said: “Edibles ev-
ery year have been taking up a bigger slice
of the pie. Right before corona hit, edibles
were basically at 20 percent of our sales.
That was a huge increase over the past cou-
ple of years.”
Vince Ning, the founder and chief execu-
tive of Nabis, a wholesale cannabis distribu-
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(Brushes with longer teeth
can glide over shorter
beards instead of engaging
them.)
Aberlite sold almost 25,000
beard brushes in 2019 and is on pace to
sell as many this year, Mr. Ma said. They
cost $40 to $90.
Another brand, the Beard Struggle, also
bought thousands of full-size hair-straight-
ening brushes and rebranded them as
beard brushes. Then, in the fall of 2019, it in-
troduced a compact straightening brush de-
signed for beards, the Vaeringjar, $97, with
a heated pick on one end to add volume. Ac-
cording to Faiysal Kothiwala, the founder of
the Beard Struggle, the company has sold
about 63,000 of them.
Judd Curtis, 37, lives in Portland, Ore.,
and works as a tree trimmer keeping paths
clear for power lines. But while Mr. Curtis
has no trouble getting a Douglas fir under
control, his beard is another story.
“I have a cowlick on my chin, this one spot
where it kind of grows straight out,” he said.
tor in California, said that as a possible re-
sult of “health-conscious” consumerism, his
company had also seen an increase in sales
of edibles.
“I think cannabis in general is a pretty re-
cession-proof good,” Mr. Ning said. “Much
like alcohol,” sales of which also skyrock-
eted as people prepared to be holed up at
home indefinitely.
Chris Beals, the chief executive of
Weedmaps, an online directory for dispen-
saries, said that according to company data,
overall sales of edibles in March were dou-
ble those in February. He said it could be a
result of increased cannabis consumption
among habitual users but also “new con-
sumers coming in, who were working from
home, dealing with the stresses of Covid.”
In the close quarters of quarantine, being
stuck with roommates or family for an ex-
tended period of time, consumers may not
want to smoke or vape. “When people are
working at home or they’re around children
or family, edibles are just more discreet,”
Mr. Beals said.
Lauren Gockley, a classically trained
chocolatier, is the director of edibles at Coda
Signature, whose product line includes truf-
fles and “fruit notes” (fancy weed gum-
mies). She said consumers might be turn-
ing to edibles during the pandemic for other
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“And my beard’s just super-bushy, and it
kind of goes all over the place.”
Last July, Mr. Curtis bought a beard-
straightening brush on Amazon made by
Arkam, $40, and left a five-star review.
“It now takes me about three minutes in
the morning to go from looking like a crazy
hobo to a whimsical woodsman,” he wrote.
While popular, beard straighteners have
not won over everyone.
Greg Berzinsky, 59, an architect in Phila-
delphia who makes grooming videos on the
popular Beardbrand channel on YouTube,
has tried a beard-straightening brush on his
salt-and-pepper beard. But he prefers
styling with a blow dryer and a rounded
brush, which he turns downward and in-
ward as he dries his beard so it follows his
jawline.
Mr. Berzinsky demonstrates this method
in a video that has almost 3.5 million
YouTube views and thousands of comments
admiring his beard. (“I don’t have daddy is-
sues but . . . ” begins one comment. “Sweet
Lord . . . Hello Daddy.”)
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social reasons, including community.
“With the pandemic, there’s not that
same sharing of cannabis the way there
used to be,” she said. “There’s the phrase
‘puff, puff, pass,’ and now it’s ‘puff, puff,
don’t pass.’”
“Passing around a tin of gummies is go-
ing to be much more acceptable than pass-
ing around a joint or a vape pen,” she added.
In April, Mr. Levine said that Green Drag-
on saw sales of edibles dip. He chalked that
up to customers buying flowers, the smok-
able part of the plant (commonly called
“bud”), which they could use to make their
own edibles.
“People didn’t know how long this was go-
ing to last,” Mr. Levine said. “ ‘Is cannabis
going to be unavailable for months?’ So
people bought flowers. Flower is always the
best value. It’s like buying the raw ingredi-
ents, if you will. It’s always cheaper to buy
the flour and stuff to make cookies than
buying the prepared cookies.”
Tee Franklin, a comic book writer and
novelist in New Jersey, makes edibles at
home and often uses cannabis oil in her
cooking. “Oh, baby, I make everything,” she
said. “Every single thing you can think of, I
have made within reason.”
That includes “an entire soul food dinner,”
which she cooked for herself and her 80-
Clockwise from left, beard
straighteners by Aberlite,
the Kuschelbär by Masc
by Jeff Chastain and the
Beard Struggle.
Marijuana edibles have
become popular during the
coronavirus pandemic. Above
are chocolate cannabis truffles
from Coda Signatures. (The
cherries, for the record, are
just cherries.)
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“It’s really to control the bottom fringe of
my beard,” Mr. Berzinsky said of his ap-
proach, adding that he’s not straightening
his beard as much as he’s adding volume to
it, which is helped along by some Beard-
brand Sea Salt Spray.
“Facial hair is very different from the hair
that grows on top of your head,” said Matty
Conrad, the founder of throwback barber-
shops in British Columbia and a line of
men’s grooming products, Victory Barber &
Brand. “Not to be crass or anything, but it’s
more akin to pubic hair.”
Mr. Conrad said that about 10 percent of
his clients with beards are heat-styling
them with a thermal brush or hair dryer, but
that’s not what he generally recommends,
or the approach he takes with his own wavy
beard.
“I’m used to seeing a certain texture and
a certain volume to my beard,” Mr. Conrad
said. “As soon as I groom that out, it reduces
the volume, and it makes it really, really
straight and almost overgroomed.”
With barbershops closed, GQ recently
featured Mr. Conrad in a beard-trimming
tutorial video. Barbers typically take a
buzz-cut approach to beards, the length de-
termined by the guard attached to the clip-
pers.
But Mr. Conrad takes more of an Afro-
trimming approach, focusing on the silhou-
ette. He uses clippers with no guard going
down the sides of his beard and along his
chin — straight down like a ball would drop,
not following the curve of the face.
At the close of the video, Mr. Conrad’s
beard is less red carpet than “Game of
Thrones,” and he wouldn’t have it any other
way.
“I think there’s an inherent coolness to
having a bit of a rougher beard,” he said. “If
you are a guy that wears a suit every day
and is very polished, then a straightening
brush probably makes sense with your
style, but I usually look like I just got off a
horse, you know? I like to embrace that
wildness.”
Still, for those who look in a mirror in the
morning and see a cave man staring back,
beard-straightening brushes have become
indispensable. Mr. Vilanova never packs his
Dopp kit without a straightener. His
Kuschelbär joined him on his honeymoon. It
went along for a trip to India and for many
business trips.
His wife likes his beard better after he
straightens it but wonders if he may be get-
ting a bit obsessed.
“If I have to get ready to go somewhere,”
Mr. Vilanova said, “she says, ‘Oh, Matt
needs an hour to get ready because he’s got
to straighten his beard.’”
year-old mother: ribs with homemade
cannabis-infused barbecue sauce, mac and
cheese made with cannabis butter, and
baked beans and collard greens cooked
with cannabis sugar.
Ms. Franklin, who is in her mid-40s, re-
ceived a medical marijuana card (another
item in high demand these days) in Decem-
ber, after seven years of living with a dis-
ability caused by a car accident. It took her a
month to save up enough money to make a
purchase. When she first tried it, she said:
“My pain in five minutes went from a 9, 10 to
a 6, 7. Those five minutes changed my entire
life.”
Ms. Franklin still uses a walker, but she
said she could move better and stand for
longer because of the relief cannabis pro-
vided her. “I’m not as slow,” she said. “I’m
not the Flash, but I got a little pep in my
step, and that’s all from marijuana.”
“It helps with depression, anxiety,
stress,” she said. “There is no way on God’s
green Earth that I would be able to deal with
the coronavirus and the protests of George
Floyd and just me being a Black woman, pe-
riod, there’s no way.”
Ms. Franklin said edibles were the most
accessible form of marijuana for many peo-
ple, but not for everyone.
Money can be a major barrier, especially
since some 20 million Americans are out of
work because of the pandemic. Mr. Levine
noted that at one of the Green Dragon store-
fronts where he was recently working, “half
of the people coming in had no income. I’m
sure it was even worse than that.”
The price of edibles can vary based on the
state — and the amount of THC — but with a
package of 10 gummies with 100 milligrams
per bag of THC selling for $20 in Colorado
and $18 in California, the cost can be prohib-
itive for some people.
Mr. Emerson, in Portland, acknowledged
that his own ability to afford and have ac-
cess to legal cannabis, for recreation, was a
privilege. “That’s not something that a lot of
people have been able to do,” he said. “A lot
of damage has been done particularly to
Black communities, the communities of col-
or, because of something like cannabis,
which is pretty harmless.”
Ms. Franklin echoed his words, noting the
disproportionate incarceration rates of
Black people for marijuana possession.
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she said. “It’s a drug-dealing business that
is owned majority by white. But the Black
people who were doing the same thing are
locked up. The brown folks, same thing,
they’re locked up.”
“That’s the only thing about this whole
weed business that I am not of fan of,” she
added. “That’s the only thing. Everything
else, I am for it. I’m for it.”
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Wherever We’re Going, It’s Not in a Handbag

The once-ubiquitous accessory has become
obsolete during lockdowns and useless at
protests. Will we ever embrace it again?

Some of the backpacks

and fanny bags seen at
a protest in New York
last month.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMIR HAMJA

FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

fashion history does attest to a link between

By LOU STOPPARD
I feel it sometimes, like a phantom limb,
banging against my side as I move around
the house. I sense it nestled in the crook of
my arm as I wander from room to room. It
was the onetime receptacle of all I held im-
mediately important: purse, receipts, iden-
tification, charger, books, tissues (fresh and
used), flask, tampons, a card for that deli-
cious but inexpensive Italian restaurant
from that one time a few months back.
What was it? My surprisingly roomy yet
somehow streamlined handbag, of course.
My bag of choice was black leather with
gold hardware, made by Balenciaga,
bought on sale. Once upon a time I didn’t
leave the house without it. Now, of course,
because of Covid-19, I no longer really leave
the house. I haven’t carried my bag for
months.
Masks are the accessory of the moment, if
one is looking to define such a thing. The
tote (or clutch or saddle bag) seems a relic
of ages past, gathering dust in bedroom cor-
ners and closet shelves. But is this a perma-
nent change in our wardrobe? Or will the
bag live again?
Ana Kinsella, a freelance copywriter in
London, has relied on her pockets for most
of her daily lockdown walks, or the occa-
sional canvas tote for gathering supplies.
“In my pre-coronavirus life, my handbag
wasn’t so much a way to carry things
around as a way to keep things together,”
she said. Lockdown has brought about the
inverse; that constantly accumulated junk
is scattered with abandon around the home,
rather than stuffed in one place. “I now have
no idea where anything is,” she added.
Ms. Kinsella recalled being drunk after a
late-night Zoom bachelorette party, for
which she had dressed up, and walking to
the end of her road for a cigarette. On the
way out she picked up her fanciest bag, a
small, bright orange leather satchel, de-
spite not actually needing it.
“I thought, ‘I owe it to the outfit to have a
handbag with me, even if no one is there to
see it,’ ” she said.
Katie Hillier knows leather goods better
than most, having worked as the creative
director of Marc by Marc Jacobs and con-
sulted for an array of luxury brands. Her
work at the former British brand Luella, be-
ginning in 1999, was part of what helped
kick off the “It” bag movement of the early
2000s.
“It always used to be about the work
tote,” Ms. Hillier said. “What is that now?
The work-from-home tote is your backpack,
or the bag that fits on your bike, or the bag
The author’s Balenciaga
handbag, which she hasn’t
carried for months. Then
again, she really no longer
leaves the house.
that you take to the market or the grocery
store or on the march.”
She observed that, throughout lockdown,
people have been finessing the minutiae of
their routines — the preferred shopping
route, the ideal outdoor workout — and will
most likely now shop with these in mind.
“Functionally is going to be even more im-
portant than it ever was before,” she said.
She predicts a market for inventive can-
vas shoppers, lined in something water-
proof, or cross body bags with adjustable
straps for hiking or cycling — “geeky stuff
like that.”
Already, the luxury retailer
MatchesFashion.com has seen a boost in
sales of “functional lifestyle styles such as
canvas totes” such as Rue De Verneuil,
whose structured canvas bags cost over
$200, said Cassie Smart, head of women’s
wear buying for MatchesFashion.
Ms. Hillier said she thought future bag
purchases would be “less about bags as a
status thing.”
“Some people may have realized that
they actually enjoy being at home,” she con-
tinued, “and that there are other things that
they can spend their money on.”
With stores closed, fashion and acces-
sories sales have plunged by 35 percent to
VIA LOU STOPPARD AND ANA KINSELLA
39 percent, according to a recent report
from McKinsey, and some of the money that
might normally have gone on bags has, over
the last few months, been allocated to bikes.
(In March, nationwide U.S. sales of bicycles
and related services nearly doubled com-
pared with the same period last year, ac-
cording to the N.P.D. Group.) Large leather
bags are impractical for cycling: Anything
too long swings forward and lodges be-
tween the legs, making peddling difficult,
while shoulder styles risk slipping down.
Handbags are also unhelpful at protests,
which have swelled globally. For most at-
tendees at the recent demonstrations, back-
packs or fanny bags were omnipresent.
In various cities, as protesters marched
past luxury stores, there were also few
handbags to be seen. Nervous of the unrest,
Gucci, Chloé, Louis Vuitton and others had
removed stock, their usually bombastic
window displays stripped bare. When, in
late May, despite the spreading unrest, Vuit-
ton opted to unleash a widespread influenc-
er campaign for their new bag, the LV Pont
9, the move was criticized on social media as
tone-deaf.
According to Colleen Hill, curator of cos-
tume and accessories at the Museum at FIT,
changing handbags and social shifts. “That
is an idea that can be traced back to at least
the early 20th century, when women began
carrying bags that held items such as cos-
metics, cigarettes, a wallet and keys,” she
said. “All of these signified growing free-
doms for women in public life.”
Chanel’s 2.55, for example, equipped with
myriad pockets and a long shoulder strap,
“reflected Chanel’s personal, but highly in-
fluential, design ethos that combined prac-
ticality with high style,” Ms. Hill said.
Ms. Hill said she expected to see another
such shift now. “As a New Yorker, I usually
carry a large bag that will hold everything I
need for the entire day — my iPad or a book,
headphones, some cosmetics, my water
bottle, and maybe even a spare pair of
shoes,” she said. “Now that I stay closer to
home, I can get away with smaller and more
functional bags.”
She has been relying on a neat black
leather tote, purchased on Etsy, years ago:
“It’s subdued, and it feels like the right bag
for this moment.”
The question of appropriateness is para-
mount. Typically, bags have been a financial
crutch for fashion brands, propping up
ready-to-wear sales, and, thanks to their
logos, serving as a form of advertis-
ing. Whether this will remain true
given the recession and the relat-
ed shift in attitudes toward big
business and wealth inequality is
debatable.
“I think people are becoming quite con-
fused about what they should buy and what
they shouldn’t buy,” said Ms. Hillier. “They
are thinking about where materials came
from, whether they are eco.” She predicts
people will be keen to “shop to support,”
saving their money for brands that share
their values.
Case in point: Tree Fairfax, a small inde-
pendent label based in Virginia, whose
handmade leather goods, designed, the
website says, for “moving around lightly,”
received numerous shout-outs on social me-
dia in the recent drive to promote Black-
owned businesses.
But when contacted to discuss the effect
of the current moment on handbag trends,
the brand’s owner, Tricia Hash, replied that
she was too exhausted by racism, and too
worried about her son who was still work-
ing as a delivery driver without personal
protective equipment, to talk about leather
goods. Which seemed exactly the point.
Later, keen to remember what had once
felt so important, I took my former favorite
bag for a walk around the house. We me-
andered from living room to bedroom and
back again. After weeks of living bagless,
hands-free, my swag weighing down my bi-
cycle basket rather than my shoulders, I
was transported back to a time of com-
mutes, rushing, air travel, post-work
drinks, and a laptop ensconced in leather
beneath the table. Suddenly, it all felt so
heavy.

Covid-19 Derails the Return of a Pariah

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virus. Three of the deaths were in June, and
one in July.
The health department, in a news release
detailing the closure, cited “flagrant vio-
lations of mandatory public health infection
control orders” and failure “to cooperate
with D.P.H.’s investigation of a reported
Covid-19 outbreak.”
This is one of the first forced closures of a
factory in Los Angeles because of out-
breaks related to the coronavirus, accord-
ing to Jan King, the regional health officer
for South and West Los Angeles. Though
the health department conducts numerous
investigations, they are usually resolved
through action with the companies
involved.
Barbara Ferrer, the department’s direc-
tor, said in a statement about the closure,
which contained a timeline of the investiga-
tion, “Business owners and operators have
a corporate, moral and social responsibility
to their employees and their families to pro-
vide a safe work environment that adheres
to all of the health officer directives — this
responsibility is important, now more than
ever, as we continue to fight this deadly
virus.”
Mr. Charney called the announcement
“media theatrics” and said: “I don’t think
that press release represents the point of
view of the people I am working with at the
department of health. Some of them have
apologized to me. It’s not truthful.”
He also issued a lengthy statement of his
own in response, which stated, in part: “In
all fairness, it’s morally irresponsible for
partment say they are working together to
resolve the issues so the facility can reopen
and business (and employment) can contin-
ue; both say their only concern is for the
safety of the workers.
However, the drama is playing out under
a spotlight, because of Mr. Charney’s com-
plicated professional history, and because
of recent revelations about the Los Angeles
garment sector.
The phrase “Made in the U.S.A.” is often
used as a shorthand for products that are
ethically made. But reports over the past
few years of sweatshop conditions and sala-
ry levels — including an investigation by
The New York Times into factories in Los
Angeles that supply the fast-fashion brand
Fashion Nova — have upended that myth.
chines were spaced six feet apart. He said
that the equipment and the space were reg-
ularly disinfected, and that the company
had been regularly testing employees for
the last five weeks.
On June 19, a nurse contacted the Los An-
geles County Department of Public Health
about a potential outbreak at Los Angeles
Apparel, according to officials.
The health department opened an inves-
tigation, which included a request that the
company send over a list of all employees —
a request the health department said was
not met even after multiple appeals. On
June 26, the health department conducted a
site visit, and the next day the factory was
closed.
According to Ms. King, the violations dis-
LISA BAERTLEIN /REUTERS
An American Apparel
factory and store in Los
Angeles in 2014, the year
Dov Charney, the chief
executive, was ousted over
allegations of misdeeds.
not list what they were — even though they
were posted up on the wall behind the
employee.
While some of the infractions were minor,
Ms. King said, there was a sense that the
company was not taking seriously the docu-
ments the health department had sent that
listed the changes that need to be made. As
a result, the investigation team increased
from one person to about 10.
The factory reopened briefly last week
before being forced to close again.
Mr. Charney disputed almost all of the de-
partment’s findings. He said that it was the
company itself that first alerted the health
department to the situation; that the com-
pany had been making its best effort to pro-
vide the employee list requested but that
there were privacy issues involved; that the
cardboard was used in addition to social dis-
tancing protocols (and had been recom-
mended by a consultant because the virus
does not live long on cardboard).
He also said that it was the responsibility
of the health department to translate their
documents into Spanish — not the responsi-
bility of the company.
The legal office of the health department,
he said, had told him the factory could re-
open on July 9, though Ms. King said a writ-
ten document permitting reopening was re-
quired first. Mr. Charney attributed the con-
fusion to “miscommunication” in an over-
burdened agency.
“Three hundred is a very concerning out-
break,” Ms. King said of the individuals who
had fallen ill.
The factory remains closed, according to
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the health department to speak on the infec-
tion rates at our factory without also ad-
dressing its connection to the issue at large:
that the Latino community in Los Angeles is
left vulnerable to Covid-19 in a health care
system that provides no support with test-
ing and no support or assistance for those
that test positive.”
Now both Mr. Charney and the health de-
Los Angeles Apparel opened in 2016 and
employs just under 2,000 workers in three
buildings according to Mr. Charney. Since
the coronavirus began, they have produced,
Mr. Charney said, more than 10 million
masks, about 80 percent of which have gone
to government agencies.
Mr. Charney said that all employees had
been wearing face coverings, and that ma-
covered included the use of cardboard bar- the health department statement, until
riers between worker stations, and coro- “they can show that the facility is in full
navirus guidance materials that had not compliance with public health mandates,”
been translated into Spanish (the first lan- but the hope for both the health department
guage of most of the employees). An official and Mr. Charney is to reopen later this
also found a lack of training on health proto- week.
cols such that, when asked by a doctor, the Both sides are, Ms. King said, “in con-
employee who was supposed to be screen- stant touch.” Mr. Charney said he was
ing fellow employees for symptoms could “learning a lot.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N D5

EVERYTHING MUST GO

The Writing
On the Wall
Read Clear
The retailer Totokaelo
shuts down, along with
Need Supply Co.
By JESSICA TESTA
Jill Wenger, the founder of the bou-
tique Totokaelo, described her former
customers like this:
“Mature. Women that were not in-
terested in doing what everyone else
was doing and looking like everyone
else. They definitely had a distinct
point of view. A lot of them were old
punk rock.”
These were the shoppers in the
early years, 2008 to 2012, when it was
still just a store in Seattle and an on-
line presence known for its discerning
taste. Then Totokaelo began offering
men’s wear, in 2013, and opened a lo-
cation in New York, in 2015; in 2016
Ms. Wenger sold the company to Her-
schel (like the backpacks) Capital
Corp.
But in many ways, Totokaelo
customers never changed. They are
still luxury shoppers and fans of
brands like Acne Studios, Marni and
Yohji Yamamoto — all consistent top
sellers during the Wenger tenure.
They are drawn to idiosyncratic neu-
trals and quality construction and the
word “curation.” They are also enter-
taining for writers to describe.
Spotted by The New York Times in
Totokaelo’s men’s section a few
months ago: “Someone who looked
like a rogue K-pop star on the lam, a
young stylist for rappers, three men
(shopping separately) wearing
heels.”
And in the women’s, five years ago:
“The average female wore no makeup
and steeply expensive shoes that
could be mistaken by the uninitiated
for inexpensive shoes.”
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Totokaelo store on Crosby Street in
Manhattan in November. The company
first opened a New York location in 2015.
At Totokaelo’s peak, Ms. Wenger
said, sales were doubling year to year.
“At the time, I did think it would go on
forever,” she said.
It didn’t, of course. The retail indus-
try has been contracting for years, but
the pandemic has made the financial
situation of clothing companies, par-
ticularly those in the brick-and-mor-
tar business, even more dire.
So it wasn’t a shock last week when
news broke that Totokaelo was shut-
ting down, along with Need Supply
Co., a fellow multibrand e-commerce
darling, based in Richmond, Va. In
2018, the two businesses began merg-
ing to form the joint venture NSTO.
(Herschel Capital Corp, now called
Cormack Capital Corp, but still mak-
ing Herschel backpacks, which also
owned part of Need Supply, is still in
business. Simple backpacks can have
complicated back stories.)
The retailers have several brands in
common, but aesthetically Need Sup-
ply Co. casts a wider and generally
more affordable net, leaning further
into color, patterns and bared midriff
— the fashion most likely to make
your finger pause, reverse and hover
for a few seconds while quickly
scrolling Instagram. It was the first
North American company to stock the
breezy Danish brand Ganni.
The writing may have been on the
wall for both stores — frequent emails
about 60 percent off, then 70 percent
off, then 80 percent off sales are never
a good sign. (A spokeswoman for
NSTO declined to comment on how
long the websites would be opera-
tional.) But Ms. Wenger, 43, was still
shaken when she learned about the
closing.
“It was the thing that I loved the
most in the world for 15 years,” she
said.
When she started her company in
2003, she sold only local designers on
consignment. D.I.Y. fashion, the kind
parodied on “Portlandia,” was the de-
fining trend of the moment. “I sold so
many sweatshirts with birds on
them,” she said.
It was her customers who drove To-
tokaelo’s expansion; they kept asking
her about bringing in specific design-
ers — indie brands from across the
globe. It seems like a pretty big pivot
now, but to Ms. Wenger, a craftsman
was a craftsman.
“I didn’t see that big of a difference
between someone that was carving
wood in Tacoma and Dries Van
A Photographic
Milestone
At Condé Nast
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Vanity Fair published 17 solo covers featur-
ing Black people. As of Tuesday, Ms. Jones
has published eight since she took over two
and a half years ago, along with two featur-
ing interracial married couples.
Yet this accomplishment exists within a
broader, more distressing reality: Accord-
ing to several employees who have shared
their experiences in recent weeks, some
magazines at Condé Nast, the publisher of
Vanity Fair, are racist workplaces.
In June, The New York Times reported
that Ms. Jones’s covers were criticized in-
ternally by a white female executive for not
featuring “more people who look like us.”
(Through a Condé Nast spokesman, the ex-
ecutive denied making the assertion.)
Mr. Calmese may not have realized he
was the first Black photographer to shoot
the magazine’s cover when he got the as-
signment, and he spoke glowingly of his in-
teractions with Vanity Fair staff. But he did
not shy away from the heat of the moment,
in the news media and in fashion.
“I did know that this was a moment to say
something,” he said in an interview the
week before the cover’s release. “I knew
this was a moment to be, like, extra Black.”
There was an image that had long lin-
gered in Mr. Calmese’s personal reference
folder: “The Scourged Back,” an 1863 por-
trait of an enslaved man whose back is rav-
aged by whipping scars. When Mr. Calmese
came across it again a few days before the
shoot, he decided to replicate it.
“When you look at it, it is gruesome and
harsh,” he said. But Mr. Calmese also saw in
it elements that could inform his upcoming
portrait. “He pushes back more toward the
camera,” he said. “His hand is at his waist —
you know that line, with his profile going
down the arm and coming back. And so I
was like: I can recreate this.”
Still, he didn’t intend the re-creation to be
the cover image. This was the summer is-
sue, and he thought the cover should have
more brightness and vibrancy.
But the result was too moving for him to
ignore. In it, Ms. Davis sits with one hand on
her hip, like the man in the portrait. She
gazes to the left. Light gently reflects off her
exposed back, the silhouette of her face, the
corner of her lap.
“Once you sit in the chair for a while, you
start to have a sense of the pictures that JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES (JONES); DARIO CALMESE/VANITY FAIR (DAVIS)
stay in your mind,” Ms. Jones said. “When I
saw the work and saw the picture, it just felt
right.”
For her, the image represented the
strength it takes to tell your own story, she ‘It’s about replacing the images that have been washing over all of us
said. For Mr. Calmese, it is about rewriting
an old story. for centuries, telling us who we are and our position in the world.’
“Not only around slavery, but also the
white gaze on Black bodies, and transmut-
ing that into something of elegance and
Calmese’s first attempt at reclamation on Top left, Radhika Jones, Mr. Calmese said.
beauty and power,” he said. behalf of Black women. A year ago, for the the editor of Vanity Fair. For the image that became the cover
summer 2019 cover of Numéro Berlin, he Above, one of the shot, she wore a taffeta MaxMara trench
‘A Banal Industry Standard’ answered the prompt “What is America?” photographs of Viola dress backward so it could be unbuttoned to
Despite being the latest in a short line of with an image of five Black women wearing Davis, taken by Dario reveal her back. Even the deep blue color of
much belated firsts — he joins Tyler different hairstyles inspired by models in Calmese, that will appear the garment feels symbolic; indigo cloth
Mitchell, who in 2018 became the first Black Ebony magazine in the 1970s. in the magazine. was used as currency in the slave trade.
photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue, “Black women have held this country to- Mr. Calmese wanted Ms. Davis’s hair to
and Dana Scruggs, the first to shoot the gether since its inception,” he said. And yet, be natural; he had the hairstylist style three
cover of Rolling Stone, in 2019 — Mr. he said, “they’re rendered invisible.” Afros of different sizes and chose the larg-
Calmese doesn’t actually consider himself a Last year he began shooting for Vanity est. Her makeup was undramatic. He did
photographer. Fair; his first subject was Billy Porter. In not want what he called a “whole glamour
“I think of photography as a part of me, March, he had been assigned to photograph moment,” the aspirational default for main-
but not me,” he said. “It’s a mode of expres- the actress Catherine O’Hara. But the shoot stream American magazines. For all of his
sion. It doesn’t completely fill me.” was abruptly canceled because of state re- buoyant energy, he wanted the photo to feel
He also writes, curates art shows, directs strictions on gatherings, he said. (Ms. underexposed and somber.
fashion shows and hosts the “Institute of O’Hara was eventually photographed via “For me, this cover is my protest,” he
Black Imagination” podcast, interviewing drone.) said. “But not a protest in ‘Look at how bad
other Black creatives and academics. He Then, in mid-June, Mr. Calmese got the you’ve been to me, and I’m angry, and I’m
has been an actor and is a classically call to photograph Ms. Davis for the cover. upset.’ ” Rather, it’s: “I’m going to rewrite
trained singer and dancer. In all things he is He wanted Ms. Davis to look incredible this narrative. I’m just going to take owner-
exceptionally upbeat, and he talks ani- because, he said, she deserved to look in- ship of it.”
matedly about finding beauty at a time credible. But he also saw the assignment as It’s hard to see the cover as anything but
when many people, for a variety of reasons, an opportunity to subvert the magazine protest. Magazine covers are often planned
are finding that difficult. cover — a “banal industry standard,” he months in advance, but in Ms. Jones’s first
Mr. Calmese, 38, began taking portraits of said — to imbue it with the same current issue since Condé Nast’s reckoning, she has
Black people around 2012, while enrolled at that ran through his runway shows with Mr. paired a Black actress (and wage-gap activ-
the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Sev- Jean-Raymond. ist) with a Black photographer inspired by
eral years earlier, while attending a small “It’s about replacing the images that have slave imagery.
Jesuit college in Kansas City, Mo., he had been washing over all of us for centuries, Ms. Jones has placed a quote from Ms.
planned on becoming a clinical psycholo- telling us who we are and our position in the Davis, “My entire life has been a protest,”
gist. world and our value,” Mr. Calmese said. prominently below the Vanity Fair logo. Her
But he put off grad school, leaving Mis- editor’s letter declares, “We are not bound
souri, where he grew up, to move to New ‘You Will Be Creating History’ to continue the cultural hierarchies we in-
York and give performing a shot. By the From the time he got the assignment, Mr. herit.”
time the idea of grad school appealed to him Calmese recalled, he had about nine days to And the image has been released amid
again, he had decided to pursue fashion prepare. At the time, the cover was still criticism that Vogue’s choice of photogra-
photography at S.V.A. meant to be summery. He was imagining pher for its new Simone Biles cover, Annie
There, Mr. Calmese started photograph- Ms. Davis as the Black Athena, represent- Leibovitz, does not properly light Black
ing what he calls “ordinary Black people ing survival and justice, or the Black Ma- people.
who were living extraordinary lives.” One donna representing the transformation of Two days before the photo shoot, Mr.
was Lana Turner, a collector of vintage fash- one’s internal darkness into light. Calmese emailed his friend André Leon Tal-
ion who Mr. Calmese first encountered at There were daily conference calls with ley, the former Vogue editor at large, to ask
Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the magazine, and at one point he decided to for advice.
where he now lives. write a 500-word essay, or a treatise as he Mr. Talley, who in a recently published
In photographing Ms. Turner and her called it, “to define what should be and what memoir chronicled the experience of hav-
Sunday best wardrobe, which he did for five shouldn’t be.” ing no Black contemporaries as he navi-
years, he realized that at church, “Black “I read it to everybody in the Zoom, like 10 gated fashion’s highest echelons, re-
people were able to, through fashion, live people,” Mr. Calmese said, laughing at him- sponded with a pep talk. “I want to person-
and exist and play a role that outside of self. “It’s just the way that I work, in every- ally applaud you for your continued break-
those walls they couldn’t,” he said. thing.” out high-art roles in our culture,” Mr. Talley
In 2013, Mr. Calmese met Kerby Jean- On the day of the photo shoot in Califor- wrote back.
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Noten,” she said. “Those are both
small-business owners that are ex-
tremely hands on — touching fabrics,
making decisions. To me, it made
sense.”
Raymond, the founder of the Pyer Moss la-
bel. He became the casting director for Mr.
Jean-Raymond’s fashion shows, then the di-
rector. Last year he directed the powerful
Pyer Moss show at Kings Theater in Brook-
lyn, which aimed to reclaim the role of Black
musicians, particularly Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, in American rock ’n’ roll history.
His portrait of Ms. Davis was not Mr.
nia, everyone on set wore masks and signed Twenty minutes later — Mr. Talley’s
waivers and filled out questionnaires about emails tend toward stream-of-conscious-
potential coronavirus symptoms. There ness, Mr. Calmese said — he continued:
were two medics, including one taking tem- “Soar and believe in your dream. I’m so ex-
peratures at the door. cited for you and Vanity Fair.”
Elbow bops replaced double cheek kiss- Mr. Calmese may not have realized then
ing, and Ms. Davis was specific about not that he would be the first. Mr. Talley may
wearing clothes that had been worn by any- well have. “You will be creating history,” he
one else in the two days before the shoot, wrote.
D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Someday We’ll Be Looking Back at 2020
Museums want your help in collecting ephemera from the pandemic and the racial justice movement.
By LESLEY M. M. BLUME
A few weeks ago, a nerdy joke went viral on
Twitter: Future historians will be asked
which quarter of 2020 they specialize in.
As museum curators and archivists stare
down one of the most daunting challenges
of their careers — telling the story of the
pandemic, followed by severe economic col-
lapse and a nationwide social justice move-
ment — they are imploring people across
the country to preserve personal materials
for posterity, and for possible inclusion in
museum archives. It’s an all-hands-on-deck
effort, they say.
“Our cultural seismology is being re-
vealed,” said Anthea M. Hartig, the director
of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of
American History. Of these three earth-
shaking events, she said, “the confluence is
unlike most anything we’ve seen.”
Museums, she said, are grappling “with
the need to comprehend multiple pan-
demics at once.”
We Are All Field Collectors
Last August, Dr. Erik Blutinger joined the
staff of Mount Sinai Queens as an emer-
gency medicine physician. He knew that his
first year after residency would be intense,
but nothing could have prepared him for the
trial-by-fire that was Covid-19.
Aware that he was at the epicenter not
only of a global pandemic, but of history, Dr.
Blutinger, 34, began to take iPhone videos of
the scenes in his hospital, which was one of
New York City’s hardest hit during the early
days of the crisis.
“Everyone is Covid positive in these hall-
ways,” he told the camera in one April 9 re-
cording that has since been posted on the
Mount Sinai YouTube channel, showing the
emergency room hallways filled with hiss-
ing oxygen tanks, and the surge tents set up
outside the building. “All you hear is oxy-
gen. I’m seeing young patients, old patients,
people of all age ranges, who are just incred-
ibly sick.”
He estimated that he had recorded over
50 video diaries in total.
In Louisville, Ky., during the protests and
unrest that followed the killings of George
Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who was a resi-
dent of the city, a filmmaker named Milas
Norris rushed to the streets to shoot footage
using a Sony camera and a drone.
“It was pretty chaotic,” said Mr. Norris,
24, describing police officers in riot gear, ex-
plosions, and gas and pepper bullets. He
said that at first he didn’t know what he
would do with the footage; he has since
edited and posted some of it on his Insta-
gram and Facebook accounts. “I just knew
that I had to document and see what exactly
was happening on the front lines.”
About 2,000 miles west, in Los Angeles,
Above, items at a George Floyd tribute outside the Schomburg Center in New York. Below, this cowbell was rung at a Central Park field hospital whenever a Covid-19 patient was discharged.
the NPR editor Nina Gregory, 45, had set up
recording equipment on the front patio of
her Hollywood home. In March and April,
she recorded the absence of city noise. “The
sound of birds was so loud it was pinging
red on my levels,” she said.
Soon the sounds of nature were replaced
by the sounds of helicopters from the Los
Angeles Police Department hovering over-
head, and the sounds of protesters and po-
lice convoys moving through her neighbor-
hood. She recorded all this for her personal
records.
“It’s another form of diary,” she said.
Museums have indicated that these kinds
of private recordings have critical value as
public historical materials. All of us, cura-
tors say, are field collectors now.
‘A National Reckoning’
In the spirit of preservation, Ms. Hartig
from the National Museum of American
History — along with museum collectors
across the country — have begun avid cam-
paigns to “collect the moment.”
“I do think it’s a national reckoning
project,” she said. There are “a multitude of
ways in which we need to document and un-
derstand — and make history a service.
This is one of our highest callings.”
Some museums have assembled rapid-
response field collecting teams to identify
and secure storytelling objects and ma-
terials. Perhaps the most widely publicized
task force, assembled by three Smithsonian
museums working in a coalition, dispatched
curators to Lafayette Square in Washington
to identify protest signs for eventual possi-
ble collection.
The collecting task force went into action
after June 1, when President Trump or-
dered Lafayette Square cleared of pro-
testers so he could pose for photos in front of
St. John’s Episcopal Church, clutching a
Bible. Shield-bearing officers and mounted
policemen assailed peaceful protesters
there with smoke canisters, pepper bullets,
flash grenades and chemical spray. The
White House subsequently ordered the con-
struction of an eight-foot-high chain link
LESLEY M. M. BLUME is a journalist, a historian
and the author of “Fallout: The Hiroshima
Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It
to the World,” to be published on Aug. 4.
Above, a Covid-19 journal replete with canceled plans. Left, the Kings County
Distillery pivoted to making hand sanitizer when the pandemic started.
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A demonstrator photographed by a staff member of the National Museum
of African American History and Culture in Lafayette Square in June.
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fence around the perimeter, which pro-
testers covered in art and artifacts.
Taking immediate moves to preserve
these materials — much of which was made
of paper and was vulnerable to the elements
— amounted to a curatorial emergency for
the Smithsonian’s archivists.
Yet with many museums still closed, or in
the earliest stages of reopening, curatorial
teams largely cannot yet bring most objects
into their facilities. It is falling to individuals
to become their own interim museums and
archives.
The Ordinary Is Extraordinary
While some curators are loath to suggest a
laundry list of items that we should be sav-
ing — they say that they don’t want to ma-
nipulate the documentation of history, but
take their cues from the communities they
document — many are imploring us to see
historical value in the everyday objects of
right now.
“Whatever we’re taking to be ordinary
within this abnormal moment can, in fact,
serve as an extraordinary artifact to our
children’s children,” said Tyree Boyd-Pates,
an associate curator at the Autry Museum
of the American West, which is asking the
public to consider submitting materials
such as journal entries, selfies and even
sign-of-the times social media posts (say,
a tweet about someone’s quest for toilet
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KEMPER BATES
The NPR editor Nina Gregory collects
“personal ambi,” or ambient noise, from her
home. “It’s another form of diary,” she said.
paper — screengrab those, he said).
To this end, curators said, don’t be so
quick to edit and delete your cellphone pho-
tos right now. “Snapshots are valuable,”
said Kevin Young, the director of New York
City’s Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture. “We might look back at one
and say, ‘This picture tells more than we
thought at the time.’ ”
At the National Civil Rights Museum in
Memphis, the curatorial team will be evalu-
ating and collecting protest materials such
as placards, photos, videos and person-
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KYRA YIP
An antiracism poster created by 14-year-old Kyra Yip. It will be on
display at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America when it reopens.
alized masks — and the personal stories
behind them.
“One activist found a tear-gas canister,
and he gave it to us,” said Noelle Trent, a di-
rector at the museum. “We’re going to have
to figure out how to collect items from the
opposing side: We have to have the racist
posters, the ‘Make America Great’ stuff.
We’re going to need that at some point. The
danger is that if we don’t have somebody
preserving it, they will say this situation
was not as bad.”
And there is perhaps no article more rep-
resentative of this year than the mask,
which has “become a really powerful visual
symbol,” said Margaret K. Hofer, the vice
president and museum director of the New-
York Historical Society, which has identi-
fied around 25 masks that the museum will
collect, including an N95 mask worn by a
nurse in the Samaritan’s Purse emergency
field hospital set up in New York’s Central
Park in the spring. (The museum also col-
lected a set of field hospital scrubs, and a
cowbell that the medical team rang when-
ever they discharged a patient.)
“The meaning of masks has shifted over
the course of these past several months,”
Ms. Hofer said. “Early on, the ones we were
collecting were being sewn by people who
were trying to aid medical workers, when
there were all those fears about shortage
of P.P.E. — last resort masks. And they’ve
more recently become a political state-
ment.”
Document the Back Stories, Too
Curators say that recording the personal
stories behind photos, videos and objects
are just as crucial as the objects themselves
— and the more personal, the better. Muse-
ums rely on objects to elicit an emotional re-
action from visitors, and that sort of person-
al connection requires knowing the object’s
back story.
“For us, really, the artifact is just a meta-
phor, and behind that artifact are these
voices, and this humanity,” said Aaron Bry-
ant, who curates photography and visual
culture at the Smithsonian’s National Mu-
seum of African American History and Cul-
ture, and who is leading the Smithsonian’s
continuing collection response in Lafayette
Square.
Curatorial teams from many museums
are offering to interview donors about their
materials and experiences, and encourage
donors to include detailed descriptions and
back stories when submitting objects and
records for consideration. Many are also
collecting oral histories of the moment.
How to Donate to a Museum
Many museums have put out calls for sub-
missions on social media and are directing
would-be donors to submission forms on
their websites. The National Museum of Af-
rican American History and Culture site
has a thorough form that covers items’ sig-
nificance, dimensions, condition and ma-
terials. The Civil Rights Museum is looking
for “archival materials, books, photo-
graphs, clothing/textiles, audiovisual ma-
terials, fine art and historic objects” that
share civil rights history. The New-York
Historical Society is seeking Black Lives
Matter protest materials.
“We review material, we talk about it and
we respond to everyone,” said William S.
Pretzer, a senior curator of history at the
National Museum of African American His-
tory and Culture. “We can’t collect every-
thing, but we’re not limiting ourselves to
anything.”
Gathering materials from some commu-
nities is proving challenging, and curators
are strategizing collection from individuals
who may be unlikely to offer materials to
historical institutions.
“A lot of our critical collecting and gather-
ing of diverse stories we’ve been able to do
because of directed outreach,” said Ms. Ho-
fer of the New-York Historical Society.
“We’re trying to capture the experience of
all aspects of all populations in the city, in-
cluding people experiencing homelessness
and the incarcerated.”
“We want to make the barrier to entry on
this very low,” said Nancy Yao Maasbach,
the president of New York’s Museum of Chi-
nese in America, which began collecting
materials relating to pandemic-related rac-
ist attacks on Asians and Asian-Americans
in late winter, and personal testimonies
about experiences during the pandemic
and protests. Because museums may not
necessarily be obvious repositories for
many immigrant communities, Ms. Maas-
bach said, the museum is making transla-
tors available to those who want to tell their
stories.
“We’re trying to make sure we’re being
accessible in creating this record,” Ms.
Maasbach said.
Keep Documenting
Curators recognize that their story-of-2020
collecting will continue for years; we are in
the midst of ongoing events. They are ask-
ing us to continue to document the subse-
quent chapters — and to be as posterity-
minded as one can be when it comes to
ephemera.
“We don’t know what the puzzle looks like
yet,” said Ms. Hartig of the National Mu-
seum of American History. “Yet we know
that each of these pieces might be an impor-
tant one.”
Some museums are exhibiting submitted
and accepted items right away on websites
or on social media; others are planning vir-
tual and physical exhibits for as early as
this autumn. The Eiteljorg Museum of
American Indians and Western Art, for ex-
ample, is collecting masks and oral history
testimonies from Native American commu-
nities and is considering the creation of a
“rapid-response gallery,” said the muse-
um’s vice president and chief curator, Elisa
G. Phelps.
“If art is being sparked by something
very timely, we want to have a place where
we can showcase works and photos,” she
said, adding that this process differed from
“the elaborate, formal exhibit development
process.”
Some donors, however, may not be
among those to view their materials once
they become part of institutionalized his-
tory — at least not right away. Even though
Dr. Blutinger said that he sees the historical
value of his emergency room video diaries,
he has yet to revisit the peak-crisis videos
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himself.
“I’m almost scared to look back at them,”
he said. “I’m worried that they’ll reignite a
set of emotions that I’ve managed to tuck
away. I’m sure one day I’ll look back and
perhaps open up one or two clips, but I have
never watched any of them all the way
through.”

Top row from left:
Amina Abdikadir, who
represented New York
at the 2019 event;
touching things up
backstage; fashion
accessories; and an
Islamic specialty store,
which are common in
Dearborn, Mich. Nimo
Hashi, center right,
represented Kentucky.
LAST YEAR, ON A THURSDAY in June, long before
live events and large gatherings bore the threat of
contagion, the ballroom of the Ford Community
and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Mich.,
was in full pageant form.
For a century, the beauty pageant has embed-
ded itself in the cultural identity of America. Miss
Muslimah USA offers a fresh take on the well-
worn event format, one that lies at the intersec-
tion of American cultural identity and religious
freedom at a time when both seem to be in flux.
The pageant has given Muslim women, particu-
larly those who wear the hijab, the chance to
participate in an American rite on their own
terms, without having to compromise their faith.
(Its motto: “promoting modesty and inner
beauty.”) It was created by Maghrib Shahid, a
39-year-old Black Muslim mother from Columbus,
Ohio, and a designer of modest clothing.
As a hijabi, a Muslim woman who wears a head
scarf, Ms. Shahid felt that she and other women
like her bore the brunt of discrimination against
Muslims, a diverse population estimated to num-
ber more than three million in the United States.
President Trump — a former pageant-world
figure himself — has inflamed Islamophobia in
the nation.
“We’re visibly Muslim, it’s us who will be at-
tacked first,” Ms. Shahid said. “I wanted to give
Muslim women the opportunity to change mis-
conceptions about themselves.”
Halima Yasin Abdullahi, 23, who was crowned
in the first Miss Muslimah pageant in 2017, said
that two years on, she still felt its impact.
“I’ve gained a really strong and consistent
confidence in myself, and learned to appreciate
my flaws,” she said. “This is me. This is how I was
born.”
To enter Miss Muslimah USA, contestants must
be practicing Muslims age 17 to 30, a range estab-
lished after the first pageant, which accepted
contestants as old as 40. There’s a $250 registra-
tion fee and a screening process. They can pre-
pare to compete in five categories: abayah (a
loose, robelike dress), burkini (a swimsuit that
covers the whole body), modest special occasion
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dress (dresses that are too tight could lead to
disqualification) and talent, which may be a spo-
ken word poem or a Quran recitation.
Contestants must also answer this question: “If
you were crowned Miss Muslimah USA, how
would you use that title to change misconceptions
about Muslim women in the world?”
The winner holds the Miss Muslimah USA title
for a year, signs a contract to abide by certain
codes of conduct, is managed by the organization
and walks in a show at an annual fashion conven-
tion hosted by Perfect for Her, a modest wear
brand. Ms. Shahid helps the winner navigate
sponsorships and fashion bookings.
Running the pageant by herself, Ms. Shahid
dipped into her savings to bring Halima Aden, a
Somali-American model, to the first Miss Mus-
limah USA. Ms. Aden was the first contestant to
wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota pageant in
2016, and she was the first woman to wear a hijab
and burkini in Sports Illustrated, in 2019.
Ms. Shahid’s passion for pageants began in
childhood; she told herself that someday she
would enter a competition. “As I got older, I real-
ized, I don’t see anybody like me — who looks like
me and the way I dress,” she said. “It became a
distant dream.”
Now that she has Miss Muslimah, she said,
“I’m living my dream through these women.”
Backstage last year, the contestants adjusted
the gowns they had modified and helped one
another tuck in their scarves.
The contestants strutted down the catwalk in
their gowns one by one.
The women moved on to recite their speeches,
which touched on Islamophobia, feminism, self-
care and the desire to be seen as multidimen-
sional people in American society.
“I am a Muslim feminist,” Zeytuna Mohamed, a
22-year-old nursing student from Des Moines,
said onstage. “Many people think that those two
words are incompatible, but I am here to prove
you wrong. I am not oppressed. I am not passive,
and I am certainly not caged.”
Umuhani Abdullahi, 20 and representing Ohio,
said in her speech: “This is my home, America.
Middle row from left: Andrea Rahal, who
represented Michigan; Maghrib Shahid, in blue,
the founder of Miss Muslimah USA; and Ms.
Rahal at home with her son. Above, Zeytuna
Mohamed, representing Iowa, preparing for
the special-occasion-wear segment.
At a U.S. pageant for
young Muslim women,
the complexity of
modesty is on full display.
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This is the only home that I know right now. I
passionately dream of seeing girls like me in
fashion books, on billboards, in Coca-Cola adver-
tisements and obviously in movies. Hopefully
Netflix.”
Just like several American beauty pageants,
Miss Muslimah has had its share of shake-ups
while attempting to establish itself as a legitimate
organization.
In 2017, Dr. Khadijah Ismael, 42, won the first
pageant, in which she ran on a platform of knock-
ing down stereotypes about Muslim women. After
winning, she traveled on a speaking tour which
she paid for. But disagreements between Dr.
Ishmael and the Miss Muslimah organization
arose, and a month before her reign was over she
was informed that she was disqualified.
Dr. Ismael, a dentist, went on to create Women
of Wellness of New Jersey, an organization that
produces the Miss Glitz, Glamour, and Brains
USA in S.T.E.M. pageant, which “showcases the
beauty of the mind.” She and Ms. Shahid are now
on good terms. “I thank the organization for being
the catalyst for me and many other women to do
many productive things in the community and
beyond,” Dr. Ishmael said.
The pageant itself is adapting, defying tradi-
tions it established early on to embrace the com-
plexity of the very community it hopes to uplift. In
2018, as a way to welcome new converts and
young women who couldn’t speak Arabic, contest-
ants were given the choice between reciting from
the Quran or reading a poem.
This year, nonhijabi Muslims will be allowed to
enter and compete alongside hijab-wearing con-
testants, Two international contestants — from
Kazakhstan and Britain — will also be competing.
Ms. Shahid thinks there’s still work to do to
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reach the pageant’s full potential. She pointed to
the rise of the Miss USA pageant, which grew out
of the Miss America pageant after the winner
Yolande Betbeze Fox refused to pose for publicity
shots while wearing a swimsuit in 1950.
“It took time for them to build,” Ms. Shahid
said. “If you support Miss Muslimah, in the next
10 years we’ll also have that great momentum.”
LIANA AGHAJANIAN
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