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By JIM RUTENBERG By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and NICK CORASANITI WASHINGTON — President The trouble broke out inside the Trump’s refusal to concede the main counting room in Detroit late election has entered a more dan- on the morning of Nov. 4. gerous phase as he stokes resist- It was the day after Election ance and unrest among his sup- Day, and until then the process of porters and spreads falsehoods tabulating votes from the city’s aimed at undermining the integri- various counting boards had gone ty of the American voting system. smoothly inside the TCF Center, More than a week after Presi- the cavernous convention hall dent-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. was that plays host to the North Amer- declared the winner, Mr. Trump ican International Auto Show. continues to block his successor’s As batches of ballots came in by transition, withholding intelli- van, workers methodically in- gence briefings, critical informa- spected and registered them at tion about the coronavirus pan- 134 separate tables, each moni- demic and access to the vast ma- tored by voting rights observers chinery of government that Mr. and so-called election challengers Biden will soon oversee. from each party. Some former top advisers to Mr.

MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES But the posture of the Republi- Trump have said that his refusal can challengers shifted as the to cooperate is reckless and un- Armenians outside a monastery in the Kelbajar district of Azerbaijan. A peace deal is forcing the Armenians to leave the enclave. count swung in favor of Joseph R. wise. John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump’s Biden Jr. and word spread that former chief of staff, called it President Trump would sue. One “crazy” on Friday. John R. Bolton, witness, a nonpartisan observer, the president’s former national se- Julie Moroney, heard a Republi- curity adviser who wrote a In Azerbaijan, Once a Distant Threat, Covid Moves In Next Door can organizer say, “Now we’re go- scathing memoir about his time in ing to challenge every ballot.” A Teary Start to the virus, the public remains Republican volunteers sud- This article is by Amy Harmon, But Greater Exposure deeply divided about how and denly ramped up their objections Lucy Tompkins, Audra D. S. Burch whether to fight it, and it is un- across the room: accusations that To War’s End and Serge F. Kovaleski. Dulls Alarm Among clear whether seeing friends and the workers doing the counting relatives sick or dead will change were entering obviously incorrect Just a few weeks ago, Kem that. Kemp, a high school teacher in Many Americans birth years or backdating ballots. By ANTON TROIANOVSKI Many who have seen people In some cases, the volunteers Houston, knew no one personally close to them seriously affected and CARLOTTA GALL who had tested positive for the co- lodged blanket claims of wrongdo- say they are taking increased pre- ing. KELBAJAR, Azerbaijan — The ronavirus. Then her roommate Kemp, 62. “Now it’s started creep- cautions. Others, though, are fo- “What are you doing?” a cars, trucks and vans jamming the came down with a deep cough and ing into my neighborhood, my cusing on how most people re- worker asked a Republican ob- mountain roads deep into the was diagnosed with Covid-19. Her school, my home — right where cover and are shrugging off the vi- server who was challenging bal- night on Saturday brimmed with brother, a dentist in Amarillo, I’m existing.” rus — and calls for concerted ef- lots before he was able to even be- all the possessions that the fleeing Texas, also tested positive. A As Covid-19 cases surge in al- forts to combat it. gin to inspect them, a Democratic Armenians could rescue: uphol- neighbor fell sick with the virus. KENNY HOLSTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES most every part of the country, re- The United States surpassed 11 observer, Seth Furlow, recalled. stered furniture, livestock, glass Two faculty members at the pri- searchers say the United States is million reported virus cases on doors. The Republican observer re- The president’s backers rallied vate school where she teaches fast approaching what could be a Sunday, with one million of those sponded, “I was told to challenge in Washington on Saturday. As they left, many set their were required to quarantine. And significant tipping point — a pan- tallied in just the last week. The homes on fire, enveloping their every one.” in the last few days, so were two of demic so widespread that every daily average of new cases is up Mr. Furlow vividly recalled his exodus in acrid smoke and illumi- the students she advises. American knows someone who by 80 percent from two weeks ago. the administration, said the refus- nating it in an orange glow. Near discomfort with a scene in which al “harms the country.” “Before, we were watching the has been infected. But, as re- More than 69,000 people were in mostly white Republican chal- some of the burning houses stood “Every day that he delays un- numbers on the news,” said Ms. flected in the polarized response Continued on Page A5 lengers were confronting the older ruins: the remains of homes der the pretense that he’s simply mostly Black elections workers. abandoned a quarter-century ago, asking for his legal remedies ulti- when Azerbaijanis fled and Arme- Already, the police had escorted a handful of particularly disrup- mately is to the country’s disad- nians moved into the region. vantage,” Mr. Bolton said on In the southern Caucasus tive observers from the room. But tensions increased when election ABC’s “This Week” program on Mountains at the border of Eu- officials noticed that the number Sunday morning. rope and Asia, this weekend was a of challengers had grown well be- The president’s attempt to cling turning point in a decades-long yond what each side was permit- to power played out against a conflict between Armenia and ted and barred entry in a bid to re- backdrop of protests by Trump Azerbaijan over isolated and duce their ranks. Shouts of “stop supporters and opponents late mountainous lands that both sides the count” went up among Repub- Saturday, with sporadic clashes believed rightfully were theirs. licans. near the White House. The police Back in the 1990s, it was the Azer- The fraud that the Republicans arrested 21 people as one pro- baijanis who were forced to leave. claimed to observe was not fraud tester was stabbed and four offi- Now, it is the Armenians, a re- at all, a Michigan state judge de- cers were injured. Rather than newed tragedy for them and a tri- termined on Friday in rejecting a seek to calm tensions, Mr. Trump umph for their foes. lawsuit filed by allies of Mr. lashed out. Under a Russia-brokered peace Trump. The various instances of “ANTIFA SCUM ran for the deal ending a six-week war that supposed malfeasance were in hills,” he posted on Twitter on Sat- killed thousands, Azerbaijan on fact well-established procedures urday as he urged the police to Sunday was set to take control of a swath of the breakaway, ethnic Continued on Page A16 Continued on Page A15 Armenian region of Nagorno-Ka- rabakh, which is part of Azerbai- jan under international law. “How can I burn this?” said Parties Hunting for a Message Ashot Khanesyan, a 53-year-old Armenian, referring to the home he had built and was about to After a Split-Decision Election desert in the town of Kelbajar. His neighbors had urged him to destroy the house, he said, but, “My By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS conscience won’t let me.” WASHINGTON — America’s on from Trump-style chaos. He was packing his chickens, DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES two major parties had hoped the With 306 Electoral College tying up their feet with white A Masters Tradition, After a First 2020 presidential election would votes and the most popular votes string, but he said he would leave render a decisive judgment on the of any presidential candidate in Continued on Page A8 Dustin Johnson, who finished 20 under par, getting the winner’s jacket from Tiger Woods. Page D1. country’s political trajectory. But history, Mr. Biden attained a vic- after a race that broke records for tory that was paramount to many voter turnout and campaign Democrats, who saw a second spending, neither Democrats nor Trump term as nothing less than a Republicans have achieved a threat to democracy. More Than 82,000 File Sexual-Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts dominant upper hand. Yet on the electoral landscape, Instead, the election delivered a both parties find themselves accusations filed in Catholic ber close to this.” split decision, ousting President stretched thin and battling on new By MIKE BAKER Church cases, continued to mount An Imminent Deadline One coalition of attorneys, oper- Trump but narrowing the Demo- fronts, with their traditional ahead of a Monday deadline es- ating as the group Abused in More than 82,000 people have cratic majority in the House and strongholds increasingly under Scouting, has clients from all 50 come forward with sex-abuse tablished in bankruptcy court in in Bankruptcy Court perhaps preserving the Republi- siege. Indeed, Democrats and Re- claims against the Boy Scouts of Delaware, where the Boy Scouts states along with cases in which can majority in the Senate. As Jo- publicans are facing perhaps the America, describing a decades- had sought refuge this year in a the abuse occurred overseas at seph R. Biden Jr. prepares to take most unsettled and up-for-grabs long accumulation of assaults at bid to survive the demands for the filings was breathtaking and places such as military bases in office and preside over a closely electoral map the country has the hands of scout leaders across damages. might reflect only a fraction of vic- Japan and Germany. The accus- divided government, leaders in seen in a generation, since the the nation who had been trusted Paul Mones, a lawyer who has tims. ers range in age from 8 to 93. both camps are acknowledging parties were still fighting over as role models. been working on Boy Scouts cases “I knew there were a lot of While the vast majority are men, that voters seem to have issued California in the late 1980s. The claims, which lawyers said for nearly two decades, said the cases,” Mr. Mones said. “I never some women have also filed com- not a mandate for the left or the This competition has denied ei- far eclipsed the number of abuse prevalence of abuse detailed in contemplated it would be a num- Continued on Page A19 right but a muddled plea to move Continued on Page A14

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NEW YORK CITY Schools Narrowly Avoid Closure as Virus Rate Stays Below 3%

Should Strict Threshold Be Softened or Upheld?

By ELIZA SHAPIRO and DANA RUBINSTEIN The news that hundreds of thousands of parents and educators had been await- ing arrived at 9:45 on Sunday morning, in a tweet from Mayor Bill de Blasio: New York City’s test positivity rate remained below 3 percent. The city’s school system, which must close if the positivity rate hits a 3 percent seven-day average, would remain open another day. New Yorkers breathed a sigh of relief, for now. But it was also clear that parents’ and teachers’ focus on that number would not let up. The fixation points to both the profound anxiety surrounding the fate of the school system — the nation’s largest — and the extraordinary challenge of operating schools in a pandemic that is again on the upswing. Over the summer, Mr. de Blasio pushed hard to reopen classrooms, calling it a moral imperative and a vital step in the city’s recovery. But about seven weeks after he managed to restart the system, the mayor is facing fresh questions about how and whether to close it: Should he stick to the 3 percent threshold he set months ago, or should he revise it, given that recent data shows that schools seem to have relatively few infections? New York City, one of the few big cities to return children to school buildings, has chosen a relatively conservative threshold for closure. Several states have adopted higher levels, including New York, where Gov.

Andrew M. Cuomo has said that schools MARK ABRAMSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES across the state would have to close only when the test positivity in a region Students in Manhattan. Mayor Bill de Blasio has said the entire school system will close if the city’s positivity rate hits 3 percent over a seven-day rolling average. reaches 9 percent. In Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds has set the state’s closure spokesman, Bill Neidhardt, said. “That’s shutdowns. That same day, Mr. de Blasio weeks or longer. Some students cleaned ing that the threshold should be closer to threshold at 15 percent. why the schools are safe to begin with.” suggested that such closures could last out their desks. the state guideline of 9 percent. But Anna Debates about when and how to re- The future of New York City’s ambi- for weeks. On Friday, the mayor encour- Parents questioned whether the 3 per- Bershteyn, a professor of population open schools come as America is experi- tious effort to offer in-person schooling aged parents to develop alternative cent metric was in fact the correct one, or health at N.Y.U.’s Grossman School of encing a stunning surge in cases in most at its 1,800 public schools hangs in the plans for the likely end of in-person just a relic from the earlier days of the Medicine, said, “It’s really difficult to parts of the country, forcing some dis- balance. schooling this month. pandemic, when scientists knew less know what the right number should be.” tricts to delay their reopening plans or As of last week, about 300,000 children With so much uncertainty, parents are about how the virus would spread in Isaac Weisfuse, a medical epidemiolo- cancel in-person classes altogether. had received at least some in-person in- left scouring the city’s latest numbers for schools. gist at Cornell University, said he hadn’t A vaccine is unlikely to be widely avail- struction; the vast majority of the city’s clues: Was Friday’s alarming 2.8 percent The mayor announced the metric over seen officials make a persuasive case for able until the end of this school year, and roughly 1.1 million students are still average positivity rate artificially high? the summer, when it was still unclear if the 3 percent threshold, particularly it is still unclear whether schools will re- learning with online classes only. Most Could Saturday’s low daily rate have his administration could pull off reopen- since some neighborhoods continue to turn to normal next fall, since the vac- children are permitted to attend school in been an outlier, or a positive sign? ing. At the time, the leader of the city’s have very low positivity rates. cines have so far mostly been tested on person just one to three days a week. “We have a struggle ahead right now, teachers’ union was warning that “It’s hard to have policies that please adults, not school-age children. As of Sunday morning, the city’s aver- I’m not going to lie to you,” Mr. de Blasio schools would not be safe come fall, and everyone and policies that apply to every In recent days, Mr. Cuomo has sug- age positivity rate stood at 2.57 percent, said Sunday during an appearance at a threats of sickouts or even a strike neighborhood uniformly,” he said. gested that the mayor re-evaluate his and the expectation is that the rate will Brooklyn church. “But I do want to let loomed. Some teachers said they thought the calculus, based upon scientists’ current only increase. you know school is open tomorrow, and Mr. de Blasio said that he set the mayor should stick with the threshold. understanding of virus transmission. City officials are preparing for the that’s a blessing.” threshold intentionally low to give anx- “I do think it’s a matter of time until the Still, the governor has left most decisions worst. On Friday, school administrators ious parents and educators a clear signal virus spreads in our schools,” said Mike about school reopening to individual dis- On Thursday evening, Chancellor weren’t taking any chances. Teachers that the city was taking safety seriously. Loeb, who teaches at a Bronx middle tricts, and the mayor doesn’t want to Richard A. Carranza sent an email to filled bags with books and papers in an- A City Hall official said the threshold school. “In our incredibly unpredictable move the goal posts for safety now, offi- principals, asking them to prepare for ticipation of teaching from home for was developed with the city’s public world, which the mayor has not helped to cials said — particularly after the uproar health experts, as part of a package of improve much, sticking with the stand- in September, when he repeatedly school safety measures that they set out ard set months ago would bring some pushed back the school reopening date. to make the strictest in the world: man- consistency.” Michael Mulgrew, the president of the datory mask requirements, six feet be- Several dozen parents and children New York City teachers’ union, has de- tween desks, school buildings at half or held a rally in Lower Manhattan on Sat- fended the threshold, saying it was “part even a third capacity and a monthly test- urday in support of keeping schools open of the plan” and should not be revised. ing regimen. even if the city hits the 3 percent average “When the mayor told us about the 3 per- The city also predicted then that a 3 in the coming days. cent, we went to our doctors, and they percent positivity rate would correlate to Ellene Hu, who lives in Manhattan, at- said it was an appropriate number,” Mr. roughly 1,000 positive tests a day, which tended the protest because her son has Mulgrew said in an interview on Friday. would inevitably cause alarm through- loved being in his kindergarten class- Adding to parents’ concerns is the fact out the city. room five days a week. “We know now that Sunday is the deadline for families Reassuring the teachers’ union, the that schools aren’t superspreaders,” she to decide if they want any in-person United Federation of Teachers, was cru- said. “Can we re-look at the data, and re- classes for their children — most likely cial at a moment when the mayor did not look at what contributes to the pandemic the last chance to opt in for the entire appear to have the political support and prioritize accordingly?” she said. school year. needed to reopen schools. On Saturday, Mr. Cuomo suggested The mayor’s messaging has been con- But to the city’s surprise, very little that New York City should reconsider its sistent: The 3 percent threshold is sacro- transmission happened in schools. The plans. sanct, meaning it is likely that schools latest data shows that random testing “If the school has a much lower posi- will soon close temporarily. since October has produced a positivity tivity rate than the surrounding area, “The 3 percent threshold is a strict rate of just .17 percent. “Schools have then the school is not part of the prob- standard, just like our mask standard been safer than even our most rosy pre- lem,” he said. “And you could argue keep- and our school shutdown standard,” his dictions in City Hall, but that’s because ing the children in the school is part of the SHARON PULWER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES we set standards based on public health, solution, rather than the children spend- Juliana Kim and Mihir Zaveri contribut- The city drafted safety measures, including mandatory mask rules and six feet not public opinion,” Mr. Neidhardt said. ing time on the street in the neighbor- ed reporting. between desks, before offering in-person classes at its 1,800 public schools. A rising chorus of parents is now argu- hood where the infection rate is higher.”

THE MOST VULNERABLE Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities May Heighten Risk of Death From Virus

By RONI CARYN RABIN FAIR Health, a nonprofit that claims to tions where you could either prioritize “There will be some balking and bat- pairment, epilepsy, heart failure, spinal People with intellectual disabilities host the nation’s largest private health vaccine distribution or, prior to that, be- tling, on grounds that I would consider cord injury and liver disease were also and developmental disorders are three insurance claims database, in collabora- gin to give special attention to the care discriminatory.” associated with an increased risk. times more likely to die if they have tion with Dr. Marty Makary, a public and treatment of these individuals know- The new analysis included claims filed The report is not the first to highlight Covid-19, the illness caused by the co- health expert and professor of health pol- ing that they’re particularly vulnerable,” by 467,773 privately insured patients. the unique risks that individuals with de- ronavirus, compared with others with icy and management at the Johns Hop- Ms. Gelburd said. While the database included seniors en- velopmental disorders and intellectual the diagnosis, according to a large analy- kins University School of Medicine, and People with intellectual disabilities rolled in private Medicare plans, it did disabilities face in the pandemic. Scien- sis of insurance claims data. the West Health Institute, a group of non- and related conditions include those with not include patients on Medicaid, the tists at Syracuse University reported in The finding raises complex questions profits focused on aging and lowering Down syndrome and other chromosomal government plan for the poor that covers June that people with these disabilities about how to allocate new vaccines as health care costs to seniors. anomalies and congenital conditions like many disabled individuals. who were living in group homes in New they become available in limited sup- The analysis was evaluated only by an microcephaly. Developmental disorders Some of the report’s findings con- York State had far higher rates of plies. The drug maker Pfizer announced academic reviewer and has not been include those of speech and language, as firmed earlier reports. Men were more Covid-19, compared with other state resi- this week that its experimental vaccine published in a scientific journal. well as central auditory processing dis- likely to die of Covid-19 than women, ac- dents, and that their risk of dying was is performing well in clinical trials. FAIR Health set out to identify who is orders, some of which may be caused by counting for 60 percent of all such markedly higher, as well. So far, guidelines for distributing vac- at greatest risk for dying of Covid-19 by an underlying condition like cerebral deaths. People aged 70 and older ac- The population is uniquely vulnerable cines have recommended prioritizing reviewing health claims from nearly half palsy. Neither category included autism, counted for barely 5 percent of Covid-19 for several reasons. Many live in group emergency workers, health care a million Americans of all ages filed from the authors noted. diagnoses but 42 percent of the deaths. homes or receive care from aides, thera- providers and other essential workers, April 1 through Aug. 31, said Robin Gel- “There is no question,” said Arthur Over all, the death rate among all pa- pists or teachers who must maintain as well as people at heightened risk for burd, president of the organization. Caplan, director of medical ethics at the tients with Covid-19 was 0.6 percent. By close physical proximity in order to as- severe disease, including some older “What we find particularly new is the New York University Grossman School contrast, 1.22 percent of those with devel- sist them. Between 16 percent and 20 adults and those with certain chronic ill- identification of developmental dis- of Medicine. “These people are high risk opmental disorders and Covid-19 died, as percent live in congregate settings, com- nesses. orders and intellectual disabilities really and must be given priority for vaccina- did 3.37 percent of those with intellectual pared with only 6 percent of seniors, said The guidelines, which are still evolv- surfacing to the top in terms of linkages tion.” disabilities. Scott Landes, an associate professor of ing, have not specifically emphasized the between these categories of comorbidi- Still, Dr. Caplan expected there would In addition to the high risk to people sociology at Syracuse University and an importance of prioritizing the vaccina- ties and the risk of death,” Ms. Gelburd be debate about what constitutes appro- with developmental disorders, lung can- author of that study. tion of children and adults with intellec- said. priate distribution of scarce resources. cer and intellectual disabilities, people Many are medically frail to begin with, tual disabilities like Down syndrome and Lung cancer patients with Covid-19 “There has always been some hesi- with spina bifida and other nervous sys- with high rates of underlying health con- developmental disorders. They empha- have a similarly heightened risk of tancy to treat people with intellectual tem anomalies were twice as likely to die ditions, particularly respiratory prob- size more generally the need to protect death, compared with patients without disabilities and people who are institu- of Covid-19. So were patients with lems. That makes them susceptible to people with underlying health problems the cancer, the analysis found. tionalized as equal in terms of considera- leukemia and lymphoma. pneumonia, increasing the risk for se- and those living in congregate settings. “As we move toward approval of a vac- tion for scarce medical resources — and Chronic kidney disease, Alzheimer’s vere illness if they become infected with The new analysis was performed by cine, we’re identifying at-risk popula- that also includes prisoners,” he said. disease, colorectal cancer, mobility im- Covid. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A5

Tracking an Outbreak U.S. Fallout

UNCONTROLLED SPREAD Once a Distant Threat, Covid Moves In Next Door. But the Fear Is Dulled. me to lose my little sister to real- died or suffered a long-term dis- From Page A1 ize how real this virus is,” Ms. ability as a result of the virus. American hospitals with Covid-19 Polk said. “Every day we’re suf- While about a third of Americans on Saturday; more than 1,100 fering, and we have to be re- know someone who has died of deaths are being reported each minded of what happened and Covid-19, only a small percentage day on average. how it happened to her.” can count a virus victim among Those alarming numbers — the Nearly 2.2 million Americans their 20 closest contacts, accord- highest case numbers and death have lost a close family member ing to a calculation by James toll in the world — underscore a to Covid, research has shown, Moody, director of a network reality found in small towns, big with troubling emotional and fi- analysis center at Duke Univer- cities and sprawling suburbs nancial effects for children, wid- sity. alike: The coronavirus has be- ows and parents. Kristin Urquiza, “It’s the old joke about Face- come personal. 39, of San Francisco, said she con- book friends,” Dr. Moody said. Researchers estimate that tinues to have nightmares about “How many of them will help you nearly all Americans have some- her father’s death from the dis- move your couch? If you’re talk- ease in late June in Arizona. Rosie one in their social circle who has ing to a friend of a friend about Davis, a skin laser technician in had the virus. About a third of the someone who died, at that point Carrollton, Texas, has been at- population knows someone — it’s not impactful in the way that tending remote grieving classes from a close relative to a neighbor tends to shape people’s behavior.” since her mother died in May at a to a co-worker to a friend of a hospital: “I will never have clo- Mike Weinhaus, who was hos- friend — who has died from the vi- sure because I was not able to be pitalized with Covid-19 in St. Lou- rus, researchers say. But not ev- next her when she passed,” Ms. is this spring at the same time as eryone is hunkering down in fear Davis said. his wife, has actively sought to or taking precautions as simple as Kerry Knudson, of Sioux Falls, share their cautionary tale with wearing a mask. S.D. has “been a wreck,” she said, friends, family and wider social “As more and more people after people in her circle died and network. His wife, Jane, went on a know someone who gets sick and her daughter, Jadyn, 13, con- ventilator, then off, then back on dies, more and more Americans tracted the virus. With the virus again. Neither had pre-existing are likely to take this disease seri- percolating fast through Jadyn’s GO NAKAMURA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES conditions. Two of his children ously,” said Nicholas A. Chris- middle school three months later, “It’s started creeping into my neighborhood, my school, my home,” said Kem Kemp of Houston. and a daughter-in-law have also takis, a Yale sociologist and the Jadyn is still battling waves of ex- had Covid-19. haustion and fever. But Mr. Weinhaus knows his But for Dennis Rohr 77, even personal experience can only go learning that an acquaintance so far as a means of persuasion. Not everyone is had died from Covid-19 a few days “When I see people that aren’t after sitting beside him at a din- practicing social distancing and persuaded to hunker ner table has not changed his refuse to wear masks, I do not go down or wear a mask. opinion that the disease is rela- up to them and say, ‘You’re mak- tively benign. ing a big mistake,’ because you His grandson’s family has all aren’t going to win that battle,” been infected, Mr. Rohr said, as Mr. Weinhaus said. author of “Apollo’s Arrow,” a new have his granddaughters. The The virus tore through Jennifer book about the impact of the virus. guitar and piano player in his rock L. Stacy’s family over a nine- “But the effect of knowing people ’n’ roll band both got the virus re- month stretch, with an older who survived it may lead people cently, and one was hospitalized. brother, a younger sister and a to misread Covid as not being as But, he notes, most people re- nephew among those infected. On bad as it is.” cover. Friday, Ms. Stacy’s immediate Ms. Kemp, for one, has become “Fear and hysteria have creat- family went to get tested after more vigilant since listening to ed more problems than the virus possible exposure from another her roommate cough herself to itself,” said Mr. Rohr, a city com- family member. sleep at night. She wears a mask missioner in Mandan, N.D., the Like many Americans gripped state with the highest rate of when she walks her dog, and no- by Covid-19, Ms. Stacy, 57, a budg- known cases in the country. tices when others do not. Wessie et analyst, had learned to live “Most people I know have had and John Dietz, of Sauk County, with technology as a stand-in for sniffles and loss of taste.” Wis., wear masks even in their car visits to her mother in Charlottes- Ken Weigel, 57, also knows ville, Va. An hour away at her since their 20-year-old grandson, many people who have been in- home in Locust Grove, Va., she an electrician’s apprentice, ap- fected with the coronavirus. The peared to have contracted the vi- list includes himself, his wife and created a bubble with her hus- rus from a friend he took a ride their son, and his 83-year-old band and close relatives, forging a with. “I hadn’t even thought about mother, who is currently infected. routine of sanitizer, masks and so- SANJAY SUCHAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES it before that,” Ms. Dietz said. But there is more to consider, cial distancing. And April Polk, of Memphis, has he said, than a simple calculation Jennifer L. Stacy of Locust Grove, Va., has created a bubble with her husband and close relatives. And when Virginia relaxed urged all young people to follow about health risks, like the side- some restrictions over the sum- restrictions to curb the spread of effects of shutting down the econ- have as much to do with faith as from it in the United States. Gabri- ful than anything they read on the mer, she worried that it would the virus since her 24-year-old sis- omy, stifling individual freedom public health. el’s own parents and two of his news or receive from a govern- eventually lead to an increase in ter, Lameshia, died this summer. and isolating people from one an- Gabriel Quintas accepts the brothers tested positive and so did ment or educational institution cases. Now, as Ms. Stacy awaits “I was one of the ones that did- other. death of his favorite uncle, Joel both of Joel’s young sons, though they may not trust. How Ameri- her own test results, the virus n’t take it seriously, and it took for “There’s so many people dying Quintas, from Covid-19 complica- they all made full recoveries. cans perceive the threat of the vi- feels closer than ever — and the from suicides and depression and tions at the age of 39 as the will of “We don’t want to blame any- rus in the lives of their friends and need to be cautious more urgent. Reporting was contributed by Julie alcoholism and drug overdose, God and says that he harbors no body,” Gabriel, 20, said. “It is acquaintances will likely influ- “I used to mask up and go to the Bosman, Jack Healy, Melina Del- and it’s just wrong,” said Mr. anger or resentment. Joel, who something tragic that happened ence their willingness to be vacci- grocery store,” she said. “Now I kic, Dan Levin, Giulia McDonnell Weigel, who works as a hot shot worked in a bakery in Champaign, and we want to move on.” nated, researchers said. am ordering online with curbside Nieto del Rio, Rick Rojas, Simon driver for Halliburton at the oil Ill., was not the only one in his Research has shown that the The perceived threat of the vi- delivery,” She added: “I still did Romero, John Eligon and Mitch fields in Minot, N.D. family to contract the coronavi- lessons people draw from their so- rus may also depend on how close not anticipate Covid would come Smith. For some, the lessons learned rus, but he was the only one to die cial networks can be more power- someone is to a person who has into my own house.”

ENFORCEMENT Illegal ‘Rumble in the Bronx’ Is Busted

By JAN RANSOM Organizers of the events did not gatherings held in the city since More than 200 people stood respond to requests for comment the start of the pandemic. Sheriff shoulder to shoulder shouting as or could not be immediately Joseph Fucito said such events two men sparred at the center of a reached on Sunday. have long existed. Bronx warehouse. Some people For months, New York City, Since July, his office has shut hung over the barricades, social which had been an early epicenter down at least one large illegal media showed, craning their of the coronavirus, had largely event each weekend. The pan- Tried. necks for a better view. When one managed to keep the virus con- demic, he said, has amplified the man knocked out the other, the tained. Although cases and hospi- problem. crowd erupted in a thunderous talizations are lower than they His office learned about the roar. were in the spring, officials have gatherings from the internet and The amateur fight would have said they will consider further re- through tips. Tested. been illegal before the pandemic, strictions to stop a second wave. At 3:15 a.m. Saturday, the au- but with coronavirus cases spik- On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio thorities found 180 people attending in the city, it risked being a said on Twitter that there were 937 ing a party at Hearts of Love on dangerous underground event. new virus cases and 117 people Liberty Avenue in Brooklyn. had been hospitalized. The seven- Sheriff’s deputies broke up the Many did not have face coverings, Truly delicious. day average of positive test re- unlicensed fight club, known as and were drinking and smoking “Rumble in the Bronx,” around hookah, the authorities said. 11:15 p.m. Saturday. Many of those Three men, including a security crowding inside were drinking, guard, were charged with vio- smoking hookah and not wearing Sheriff’s deputies lating an emergency executive or- masks, the authorities said. der. The guard, Julio Soto, 35, was The leader of the club, Michael arrest and charge also charged with unlicensed J. Roman, 32, and nine others were 10 people after a fight warehousing of alcohol. arrested and charged with unlaw- Two hours earlier in Manhat- ful assembly, health and alcohol club draws over 200. tan, the sheriff’s office shut down code violations and participating the party on West 26th Street at in a prohibited combative sport. Rogue Space. Deputies saw ta- They were also each fined $15,000. bles, chairs and velvet ropes being Just days earlier, Gov. Andrew sults was 2.57 percent, slightly unloaded from a truck on Friday M. Cuomo had tightened restric- lower than last week. evening. At 1 a.m., they found 205 tions in the state in an effort to Speaking at the Brown Memori- guests packed into the space with- control the spread of the virus. al Baptist Church in Brooklyn on out masks, officials said. Private indoor and outdoor gath- Sunday, Mr. de Blasio reminded Ahmad McLure, 36, a promoter, erings statewide are now limited New Yorkers that with the holi- and three others were charged to 10 people, and gyms, bars and days approaching, the virus — with violating the governor’s What to cook for anyone, anytime. restaurants must close every which has killed more than 24,000 emergency order and alcohol vio- evening at 10 p.m. city residents — remains a very lations. “Bars, restaurants, gyms, serious threat. Mr. O’Hanlon, the venue owner, Discover thousands of recipes, how-to guides house parties, that’s where it’s “We face a challenge again, but said the space was 3,000 square for every skill level, plus more. coming from, primarily,” Mr. we can’t have amnesia,” Mr. de feet. He said guests were required Cuomo said on a conference call Blasio said. “A second wave is to wear a mask into the building nytcooking.com with reporters last week. bearing down upon us, but we can and that he had reminded people Hours before breaking up the stop it.” to wear their masks properly. fight club, sheriff’s deputies had Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo The gathering was supposed to also disbanded a party in Brook- have discouraged traveling and be limited to 50 people and smok- lyn with nearly 200 guests and an- gatherings during the holidays. ing was not allowed, Mr. O’Hanlon other in Manhattan with over 200 A spokesman for the mayor said, but “then it all broke down.” people. thanked the sheriff’s office, but Mr. O’Hanlon said he had re- Kevin O’Hanlon, owner of said that New Yorkers would have ceived many requests for social Rogue Space, which hosted the to do their part. events recently, but had been re- event in the Chelsea neighbor- “Nobody’s going to beat luctant to agree. He said business hood of Manhattan, expressed re- Covid-19 for us,” said the spokes- had been slow and acknowledged gret in a phone interview on Sun- man, Mitch Schwartz. “We have to the financial pressure that he and day. do it ourselves — and that starts other venue owners have felt “We’re about being a positive by remembering that our choices since the start of the pandemic. influence in the community, and matter.” But because of the raid, he said, this is not something I’m proud of It is unclear if there has been an he did not make any money from at all,” he said. increase in the number of illegal the event. A6 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As Rallies Grow, Peru’s New Chief Leaves, Opening A Power Vacuum

Former Head of Congress Steps Down After 6 Days

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and MITRA TAJ Facing widespread opposition, Peru’s interim president stepped down on Sun- day, his sixth day on the job, plunging a country already facing an economic tail- spin and a devastating pandemic into a constitutional crisis. The interim president, Manuel Me- rino, had taken power on Tuesday after legislators shocked the nation by voting to remove the popular incumbent, Martín Vizcarra, and then swearing in Mr. Merino, who was the head of Con- gress. By giving up the presidency, Mr. Me- rino opened up a power vacuum and left Peruvians bracing for the prospect of living under a fifth president in five years, certain only that there is more turbulence to come. “The resignation of Merino is just the beginning of the end of the political crisis,” said Denisse Rodríguez-Olivari, a Peruvian political scientist at Humboldt University of Berlin. “There are still profound problems in the way the country is EDUARDO SOTERAS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES governed.” Amhara militiamen, aligned with federal and regional forces against Tigray’s forces, receiving training outside Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, on Friday. From his first moments in office, Mr. Merino faced opposition from Peruvians who took to the streets in protest and from prominent political and social lead- They Once Ruled Ethiopia. Now They Revolt. ers, many of whom said they did not recognize him as the country’s leader. On Sunday, after most of his cabinet re- By DECLAN WALSH the ruling “clique” of Tigray, and not its signed and his last political allies aban- and SIMON MARKS people, has repeatedly promised a short doned him, the Congress that had put NAIROBI, Kenya — When it comes to And a Peace-Talking Leader Strikes Back Violently campaign. Few experts believe that is him in power called on him to step down, mountain warfare, the people of Tigray likely. By some estimates, Tigray has and Mr. Merino took heed. — an ancient kingdom in the far north of 250,000 armed men, including special “I present my irrevocable resigna- Ethiopia, spread across jagged peaks forces and militias. And its leaders, who tion,” he said in a video address to the na- and lush farmland — have decades of have been anticipating this confronta- tion. “I call for peace and unity of all Pe- hard-won experience. tion for more than a year, will not be easy ruvians.” Tigrayan fighters led a brutal war to find. The task of resolving Peru’s problem through the 1970s and ’80s against a Ethiopian officials say their immedi- has fallen to its deeply unpopular and in- hated Marxist dictator of Ethiopia, ate goal is to topple the rebellious Tigray experienced Congress. whom they eventually toppled in 1991, authorities and capture their 12-person Elected in January, the lawmakers becoming national heroes. For most of executive committee: a group of poli- have proven more interested in pushing the next three decades, Tigrayans ruled ticians, ideologues and security officials, through their narrow business interests Ethiopia. many veterans of Tigray’s last war in the than governing a nation in crisis, ana- But after Abiy Ahmed, a peace-talking 1980s. lysts said. About half of them are under young reformer, came to power as prime One major target is Getachew Assefa, investigation for corruption and other minister in 2018, he brusquely sidelined a Tigrayan hard-liner and former head of crimes, and many in the country have Tigray’s leaders. Tensions exploded vio- Ethiopia’s intelligence service, who has blamed their political opportunism for lently on Nov. 4, as the world was focused been on the run since 2018, when Mr. the current turmoil. on the presidential election in the United Abiy’s government issued a warrant for Mr. Merino said he would now focus on States, when Mr. Abiy launched military his arrest. ensuring a smooth transition to a new strikes in Tigray. Even in power, Mr. Getachew was no- leader, and the Congress announced that Now Tigray is once again at war, fight- toriously had to find. A single dated it would appoint a new president from ing the federal government. But this time photo of him is in circulation. After the among the lawmakers later Sunday. the risks could be even wider: the poten- American ambassador then, Donald Ya- Mr. Vizcarra, the former president, tial fracturing of Ethiopia and the upend- mamoto, obtained a rare meeting with added to the transition uncertainty Sun- ing of the entire Horn of Africa. Mr. Getachew in 2009, he noted his “hot day evening by claiming the Congress The battle pits the nation’s army and temper and reclusive habits” and that he was too discredited to select Mr. Me- Mr. Abiy, a winner of the Nobel Peace was known for “eccentric behavior and rino’s replacement. He urged the nation’s Prize, against the ruling party of Tigray, YONAS TADESSE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES elusiveness.” top court to weigh in on the legality of his which commands a large force of well- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, the capital, in 2018. Other senior Tigrayans wanted by the removal — a move that he could poten- armed and experienced fighters who government include an 80-year-old ideo- tially use to stage a political comeback. logue, a former foreign minister and the know their own mountain terrain well. lined and, in some cases, prosecuted for ponents, pushed for much tighter central Protesters have also demanded that, if party president, Debretsion Ge- Already the conflict has escalated at corruption and human rights abuses. control. Congress is to pick the next president, bremichael, considered a political mod- alarming speed with intense fighting Resentful and angry, the Tigrayan “Everyone saw this coming,” said they must chose from the small group of erate until tensions with Mr. Abiy ex- that has involved airstrikes and artillery leaders retreated to Mekelle, the re- Kjetil Tronvoll, a scholar of Ethiopian lawmakers who voted against Mr. Viz- ploded this year. barrages, sent thousands of civilians gional capital of Tigray. The two sides politics at Bjorknes University College in carra’s impeachment, and that the nomi- That dispute did not have to end in fleeing across borders — some in boats sparred over politics, funding and con- Norway. “Both sides felt insecure and nee have a clean reputation, with no fighting, said Asnake Kefale, an associ- or even swimming — and led to reports trol of the army. Then in September the started to mobilize troops. It was a clear pending investigations or charges. ate professor of political science at Addis of civilian massacres. Tigrayans openly defied Mr. Abiy and signal of a civil war in the making.” Mr. Vizcarra had Ababa University. But a purported With such intransigent foes, analysts proceeded with regional elections that Mr. Abiy’s speed in prosecuting the earned the support predict a potentially long and bloody Tigrayan attack on an Ethiopian Army of a majority of Pe- had been canceled in the rest of Ethiopia war has sent waves of alarm across the base in Tigray early this month “took the fight that is already spilling over Ethi- because of the pandemic. region and dismayed those who once ruvians during his opia’s borders. division, which could have been resolved But that clash, ostensibly a dispute be- lauded him as a peacemaker. two years in power On Friday, Tigray launched rockets at through politics, to a war, with all the ad- by working to clean tween Ethiopian elites, was also em- With phone and internet connections two airports in neighboring Amhara verse consequences,” he added. up Peru’s notori- blematic of a much wider threat to Mr. cut off, it’s hard to know exactly what is Province and on Saturday said it had In Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, the ously venal politi- Abiy’s authority. happening in Tigray. But both sides fired a volley of rockets at the main air- conflict has acquired signs of a broader cal establishment. Although Ethiopia is one country, it agree that government warplanes have port in Ethiopia’s neighbor Eritrea, crackdown. To remove him, contains 10 regions, many of them ethnic pounded targets around Mekelle, that which Tigray accuses of siding with Mr. The authorities have detained at least lawmakers cited strongholds that have historically jostled some Ethiopian troops were pushed over Ex-President Abiy. 250 people, mostly Tigrayans, and dis- unproven accusa- for power. In moving so quickly to liberal- the border into Eritrea and that the most Manuel Merino The rush to war has exacerbated eth- missed or furloughed Tigrayans from tions of corruption ize politics in 2018, Mr. Abiy may have in- intense fighting has raged in western nic divisions so badly that on Friday it jobs in the security services, civil serv- and used an archaic constitutional advertently unleashed pent-up regional Tigray. By Sunday at least 20,000 Ethi- prompted warnings of potential ethnic ice, the national airline and even as offi- clause that allows the Congress to de- frustrations that had been simmering for opian civilians had fled into Sudan, a ref- cleansing and even genocide. cers of international organizations. clare the president morally incapable to decades. ugee stream that the United Nations “The risk of atrocity crimes in Ethiopia The Tigrayan head of security at the lead the nation. Mr. Vizcarra had been remains high,” said Pramila Patten, the Rivalries among ethnic groups like the fears could quickly become a flood. Su- African Union, which is headquartered due to step down after a presidential United Nations’ acting special adviser Oromo, Amhara, Tigray and Somali dan says it is preparing for up to 200,000 in Addis Ababa, lost his job after the De- election in April, and had promised to for the prevention of genocide, and Kar- burst into the open, leading to violent refugees. fense Ministry complained about him in face justice after leaving office. en Smith, the special adviser on protect- clashes that have increased in frequency There have been accusations of war a letter, according to a copy seen by The Mr. Merino promised to unite the na- ing civilians, in a joint statement. and intensity this year, often killing crimes against both sides, including a New York Times. tion and respect democracy, but his ad- Until recently Ethiopia, a close Ameri- scores of people. With Ethiopia’s shaky massacre reported by Amnesty Interna- In Somalia, where 4,400 Ethiopian ministration unraveled before it got can military ally, was seen as the stra- federation straining badly, Tigray tional in which dozens of villagers were peacekeepers form the bulk of an African started. tegic linchpin of the volatile Horn of Afri- emerged at the vanguard of a movement said to have been chopped to death with Union peacekeeping mission, Tigrayan His presidency was met with the big- ca. But with its brewing civil war spilling pressing for greater autonomy for Ethi- machetes, possibly by pro-Tigray mili- officers have been confined to barracks gest street demonstrations in the two into Eritrea, refugees streaming into Su- opia’s regions. tiamen. or sent home, according to a Western decades since the downfall of the au- dan and Ethiopia’s peacekeeping mis- Mr. Abiy, who started to imprison op- Mr. Abiy, who insists his dispute is with diplomat and an African Union official. thoritarian President Alberto Fujimori, sion to Somalia now under strain be- At Bole International Airport in Addis who is now in jail for human rights cause of its domestic turmoil, analysts Ababa, human rights workers say, secu- abuses and corruption. worry that Ethiopia could destabilize the rity officials have begun to ask Ethiopian An umbrella group for human rights region. passengers for their identity cards, organizations in Peru said Saturday that The dispute between Mr. Abiy and the which show ethnicity, instead of their 41 people had gone missing during the Tigrayans goes back to the early days of passports, which do not. protests and that 112 had been wounded. his term as prime minister two years An uneasy current of jingoism runs Then two protesters were killed dur- ago. through the capital. ing a police crackdown Saturday night, He moved quickly to shake up the On Thursday morning hundreds of and calls for Mr. Merino to resign spread country after decades of stultifying, iron- flag-waving people streamed into the na- to some of his government’s staunchest fisted rule under the Tigray People’s Lib- tional stadium, waving Ethiopian flags, supporters. By Sunday morning, most eration Front. Political prisoners were to support the war effort. First in line to members of his Cabinet had tendered freed from secret prisons, exiled dissi- donate blood was the city’s mayor, their resignations. dents were welcomed home and Mr. Abiy Adanech Abiebie. “Our army is the pride Marches continued in Lima on Sunday, promised free elections and press free- of Ethiopia, the pride of Africa,” she said. ilocal media showed, even after Mr. Me- dom. The rally was directed purely against rino announced his resignation. Those rapid, wide-ranging reforms, the political leaders of Tigray, Ms. “We have a single feeling that’s been which eventually helped Mr. Abiy win Adanech said. “Ordinary Tigrayans are multiplied. Why? The greed and hunger the Nobel Peace Prize, were a pointed re- our brothers and sisters,” she said. of those in power who should be defend- pudiation of the Tigrayan old guard. But Woldegiorgis Teklay, a Tigrayan ing our rights,” said Rubén León, a 38- Leaders of the Tigray People’s Libera- journalist whose office in Addis Ababa year-old cook. “I’m not a fan of Vizcarra, tion Front were unceremoniously side- was raided last week, said he had since but his impeachment is an embarrass- received numerous calls from Tigrayans ment and it’s causing a lot of instability.” Declan Walsh reported from Nairobi, and whose relatives had been detained by Simon Marks from Addis Ababa, Ethi- MARWAN ALI/ASSOCIATED PRESS the police because they speak Tigrinya, Rosa Chávez Yacila contributed reporting opia. Ethiopian refugees fleeing Tigray lined up for water in Sudan on Sunday. the language of Tigray. from Lima, Peru. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A7 In Ardern’s 2nd Term, New Zealand Seats Most Diverse Parliament Ever By DAMIEN CAVE In her new role, she is expected politics,” said Morgan Godfery, a Nanaia Mahuta entered New to focus on organizing Covid-safe political commentator who writes Zealand’s Parliament as the tourism across the region while about Maori politics. “Ms. Mahuta youngest Maori woman to ever expanding economic links with is one of the most senior members gain a seat. More than two dec- other Pacific Island nations and of the Maori King Movement, the ades later, she has become the Australia. 19th-century resistance move- country’s minister of foreign af- David Cunliffe, a former Labour ment that fought against the in- fairs, another trailblazing first. So Party leader who worked with Ms. vading New Zealand government, when she was asked at a recent Mahuta for nearly two decades, and her appointment to that same news conference about another called her promotion to foreign af- government’s foreign ministry is woman of color breaking barriers fairs an inspired choice. a signal of just how far this coun- halfway around the world, she “She’s someone who seeks try has come.” broke into a wide smile. progress without necessarily And, yet, for any government, Vice President-elect Kamala appointments alone are only the Harris, she said, “will bring, I’m beginning. As is the case in the sure, some very unique attributes United States, Ms. Ardern’s team to their leadership.” An alternative to the faces serious domestic and inter- “I’m not sure I’m in a position to national anxieties. Climate give her a message,” Ms. Mahuta chauvinist populism change threatens everyone and added, her eyes bright with possi- everything. The economy is strug- bility. “But what I can say, as the driving other nations. gling, with Covid-19 exacerbating first woman representing the for- inequality as housing prices con- eign affairs portfolio in Aotearoa, tinue to rise beyond the reach of the middle class. New Zealand, is that we will do seeking fame for herself,” he said. what we must do in the best inter- Oliver Hartwich, the executive “All that hard work has now been director of the New Zealand Insti- ests of our respective countries. I recognized.” know we will have many opportu- tute, a center-right research insti- In an interview on Thursday, nities to share areas of common tute, said Ms. Ardern needed to be Ms. Mahuta said she had not interest, and I hope we can.” bolder, overhauling education to sought the foreign affairs job — Her excitement reflects a global create more equal outcomes and “though it was on my long list,” desire among progressives for a changing the tax structure to cre- she said — and had been sur- shift away from the chauvinist, ate incentives for local govern- prised by the offer. She said she right-wing populism that has ments to approve new housing jumped at the chance to build New shaped the past four years in the construction. HAGEN HOPKINS/GETTY IMAGES Zealand’s international reputa- United States and other countries “They are not willing to rock the Nanaia Mahuta, above, is New tion while working closely with that elected leaders like Jair Bol- boat and do what needs to be “our Polynesian family across the sonaro in Brazil and Victor Orban Zealand’s new foreign minister, done,” he said. “There are a lot of in Hungary. the first Maori female in that Pacific.” announcements and not much fol- New Zealand offers what many role. Grant Robertson, right, is The region has become more low-up.” see as the world’s most promising, the country’s first openly gay important and more closely scru- Mr. Cunliffe, the former Labour if tiny, alternative. deputy prime minister. tinized in recent years as China’s Party leader, said the govern- When Prime Minister Jacinda influence and investment have in- ments of Ms. Ardern and Presi- Ardern coasted to re-election last creased. dent-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. both also has 11 lawmakers who are les- American officials say Ms. faced the need to be transforma- month in a landslide that gave her bian, gay, bisexual or transgen- Labour Party the country’s first Mahuta and her team — the de- tive while bringing along skeptics. der; a dozen people of Pacific Is- fense minister, Peeni Henare, is Populism, he said, can be defeated outright majority in decades, the land descent; and 16 Maori mem- remote island nation cemented its also Maori — will be welcomed only with progressive results that bers. position as a beacon of hope for throughout the region as cultural benefit supporters and critics It is, by far, the most diverse those seeking an anti-Trump mod- equals and as a strong counter- alike. Parliament the country has ever el of government led by char- weight to Beijing. “You don’t beat it by one day at ismatic women and functioning seen, reflecting New Zealand’s Ms. Mahuta’s elevation is also the ballot box,” he said. “You do it with an emphasis on inclusion and demographics and its place within being celebrated in the Maori by using the power of your office competence. the broader Pacific Islands. community, which represents 17 to address the root causes that led With a victory over Covid-19 “It’s a really tectonic outcome,” percent of New Zealand’s popula- to it in the first place, and if you said Richard Shaw, a politics pro- burnishing her image, Ms. Ardern BEN McKAY/AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS, VIA REUTERS tion, even as her rise has revived don’t, it will be back again in four and her team now face a surge in fessor at Massey University, old cultural divides. years’ time or three years’ time.” expectations. After three years of which is based in Palmerston age of 26 with a master’s degree in trailed her as she moved through In 2016, she became the first Ms. Mahuta agreed. She said leading a coalition government North, New Zealand. social anthropology after working various roles. As associate envi- woman in Parliament to display a she hoped that solutions for “re- that produced few, if any, lasting Ms. Ardern’s executive council, as a researcher for her Tainui ronment minister, she navigated moko kauae (a sacred facial tat- imagining what prosperity looks policy achievements on major is- sworn in this month, includes a tribe in the lead-up to its historic complicated negotiations over too). But when her foreign affairs like” can be transferred from the sues like inequality, Labour now mix of well-known allies. She treaty with the government that water rights between her tribe promotion was announced, a con- Indigenous community, with val- has the votes to pass what it named Grant Robertson, the fi- settled land claims from coloniza- and the government. As local gov- servative New Zealand author ues like manaakitanga (Maori for wants, and the diversity other pro- nance minister, as her deputy tion. Her father was the lead nego- ernment minister, she was often tweeted that the tattoo was in- looking after people) and kaitiaki- gressives long for. prime minister, making him the tiator; the Maori queen, Te Arik- sent to calm disputes over issues appropriate for a diplomat, calling tanga (guardianship of the envi- Labour’s newly elected major- first openly gay lawmaker to have inui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, ranging from doctor shortages to it “the height of ugly, uncivilized ronment). ity is made up mostly of women. It that role. She also appointed sev- was her aunt. dog control. While serving as wokedom.” “Addressing issues of economic also includes the New Zealand eral members of Maori and Pacific But rather than seizing the customs minister, she worked New Zealanders quickly rallied inequality is a significant chal- Parliament’s first member of Afri- Island descent. spotlight, Ms. Mahuta burrowed closely with exporters and helped to Ms. Mahuta’s side. lenge for many countries,” she can descent, Ibrahim Omer, who is Ms. Mahuta, 50, was the biggest into briefing papers. forge agreements with Japan and “This isn’t simply a win for ‘di- said. It’s time, she added, “to cut a former refugee from Eritrea. surprise. No-nonsense. Measured. Hon- other countries to streamline versity,’ although it certainly is; through the old way of doing The 120-member legislative body She arrived in Parliament at the est. Those were the words that trade. it’s also a triumph of history and things.” Egypt Unearths Over 100 New Coffins And Mummies Dating Back 2,500 Years Embrace the warmth of family and create By ISABELLA KWAI ing knowledge about mummifica- news conference on Saturday, ex- Archaeologists in Egypt have tions in that period, he added. perts opened a coffin and scanned unearthed more than 100 deli- The artifacts and coffins will a mummy with an X-ray, deter- PERFECT mining it was most likely a man HOLIDAY cately painted wooden coffins, eventually be exhibited at several some with mummies inside, and museums in Egypt, including the around the age of 40. 40 funeral statues in the ancient Grand Egyptian Museum, a The discovery announced on burial ground of Saqqara, the sprawling archaeological center Saturday is the most recent in a Egyptian antiquities authorities under construction near the Giza series of historical finds at the site. said, calling the discovery the Officials said in October that they oments largest find at the site this year. had found 59 intact coffins. 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Saqqara, a city about 20 miles pled the longtime leader Hosni Other artifacts discovered in- south of Cairo, is a vast necropolis Mubarak, coupled with terrorist clude funeral masks, canopic jars for the Old Kingdom capital of attacks and other instability have and amulets. Memphis, and it has long been the deterred tourists, and the pan- “This discovery is very impor- source of major archaeological demic has dealt another blow. tant because it proves that finds. Made a UNESCO world her- According to a Times database, Saqqara was the main burial of itage site in the 1970s, the necrop- Egypt has reported 110,547 total the 26th Dynasty,” Zahi Hawass, olis holds more than a dozen buri- virus cases, with an average of an Egyptologist, told the maga- al sites, including the Step Pyra- 226 new infections per day over zine Egypt Today, referring to the mid of King Djoser, the first known the last week. 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MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Russian peacekeepers rolling into the Kelbajar district of Azerbaijan. Nearly A bus in Stepanakert, Armenia. “They said we were winning, we were win- 2,000 Russian forces will patrol the area for at least five years. ning, and then suddenly it turned out we weren’t winning,” one woman said.

MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Armenian Christians at a final ceremony at the centuries-old Dadivank monastery in Kelbajar. Some feared that the Azerbaijanis, mostly Muslims, would deface the building after taking control. For Armenians in Azerbaijan, a

its politics. From Page A1 A quarter-century of on-and-off talks failed to resolve the standoff, his potatoes behind. and on Sept. 27, Azerbaijan’s pres- The New York Times came to ident launched an offensive to re- Armenian-controlled areas and to take the territory by force. Ad- Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, to doc- vanced drones, funded by Azer- ument this pivotal moment for baijan’s oil and gas boom, both sides in the conflict. The war pounded the Armenians in their has drawn in some of the region’s biggest international powers, trenches. At least 2,317 Armenian with Turkey backing Azerbaijan soldiers died; Azerbaijan has not and Russia struggling to stop the released a death toll. fighting in a region it once ruled. As Azerbaijan’s forces in early Russian peacekeeping troops, November approached the overseeing the handover, rumbled fortress city of Shusha — a place into the district of Kelbajar on Fri- steeped in history and symbolism day aboard armored personnel for both countries — Azerbaijanis carriers. They set up one of their barely slept, watching the state observation posts at Dadivank, a television channel for news. centuries-old monastery that Ar- “We were all crying,” said Tey- menians, who are mainly Chris- mur, 37, recalling the moment tian, fear the arriving Azerbaija- when Mr. Aliyev announced that nis, who are mainly Muslim, will Azerbaijan had taken Shusha. He deface. said he had watched the an- “When an Armenian is born, nouncement with his aunt in their they all know about Artsakh,” said one-room apartment, as neigh- Vergine Vartanyan, 24, in tears, bors poured in to congratulate. using the Armenian term for Na- Many of them, like his family, are gorno-Karabakh. Along with hun- from Shusha. He asked that his dreds of other Armenians, she surname to not be published to prayed at Dadivank for what preserve the family’s privacy. could be the last time on Friday, to “It is the end of longing and liv- bid farewell. ing bad times,” he said. “When you The contrast with the scenes in are a displaced person, and when Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, you are longing for that place and could hardly be sharper. There, you cannot visit it, that place be- celebratory flags graced almost comes more than just a stone or every surface, hanging from bal- mountain, it becomes like a be- conies, draped over car roofs and loved person. You want to kiss it, windows and wrapped around the MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES and lie down on it and feel the en- shoulders of a teenager at the Armenian soldiers near a burning house in the Kelbajar district. Many Armenians set their houses ablaze before leaving the region. ergy from the earth.” Martyrs’ Alley cemetery on a hill- Nearly a million people were side overlooking the Caspian Sea. uprooted by the first war between Much of Azerbaijan exploded in was over and that Armenian two friends near the seafront in mainly ethnic Armenian, ended ing districts, including Kelbajar, the two in the 1990s and were re- joyous celebration in the streets forces would withdraw from three Baku. “Finally, the people of Kara- up as part of Azerbaijan. Armenia that had been mostly inhabited by settled in towns and settlements on Tuesday after President Ilham districts adjacent to Nagorno-Ka- bakh can go home.” won a war over the territory in the Azerbaijanis. The entire region across Azerbaijan. Many of the Aliyev announced in the early rabakh and return them to Azer- Armenians and Azerbaijanis early 1990s that killed some became the internationally unrec- families still live in cramped hours of the morning that the war baijani control. lived side by side when both coun- 20,000 people and displaced a mil- ognized, ethnic Armenian Nagor- apartments in and around Baku, “We are so happy because we fi- tries were part of the Soviet Un- lion, mostly Azerbaijanis. no-Karabakh Republic. Azerbai- and their happiness at the prom- Anton Troianovski reported from nally won, thank God,” said ion, but century-old ethnic enmity Azerbaijanis were expelled not jan’s desire to return its citizens ise of return was tempered with Kelbajar, Azerbaijan, and Carlotta Ibrahim Ibrahimov, 18, a comput- reignited when communism col- only from Nagorno-Karabakh it- who had been displaced from their grief. Gall from Baku, Azerbaijan. er science student walking with lapsed. Nagorno-Karabakh, self but also from seven surround- homes became a driving force in “We are so happy, but many of THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A9

IVOR PRICKETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES IVOR PRICKETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A former university dormitory in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan, which took in hun- A resident of Baku in another former dormitory that houses thousands of ref- dreds of refugee families during the Armenia-Azerbaijan war in the 1990s. ugees displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh.

IVOR PRICKETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES After the peace deal, Azerbaijanis in Baku lined the streets in celebration. “We are so happy because we finally won, thank God,” one teenager said. “Finally, the people of Karabakh can go home.” Teary Exodus Marks a War’s End our young died in that place,” we were winning, and then sud- Elnare Mamedova, 48, said of the denly it turned out we weren’t recent fighting in and around Na- winning,” said Karine Terteryan, gorno-Karabakh. “All the bodies 43, crying next to the opera house are coming back now.” in central Yerevan after police of- She opened a photograph on ficers in balaclavas detained her phone of her neighbor’s son, a scores of protesters. “This is trea- soldier in the hospital with a bullet son.” wound to the head. “He’s been in a On the central Republic Square coma for 40 days,” she said. An- in Yerevan, a giant screen broad- other neighbor’s son was missing, cast cellphone videos shot by Ar- she said. “We don’t know where he menian soldiers. One threatened is, maybe he is captured.” vengeance against Azerbaijanis. It was far from clear when dis- “For every broken window, for placed Azerbaijanis would be able every broken house, we will enter to return. Mr. Aliyev has promised your homes,” the soldier said, his to rebuild infrastructure and to rid voice echoing across the square. the region of land mines before al- “You won’t be able to sleep lowing families to move back. calmly.” On Saturday, in the hectic hours Nearly 2,000 Russian forces will before they thought Azerbaijan patrol the line between Azerbai- was set to take control of the Kel- jani- and Armenian-controlled re- bajar district (the deadline to gions for at least five years, under leave was extended for 10 days on the deal brokered by President Sunday), the departing Armeni- Vladimir V. Putin last week. The ans appeared determined to make deal reasserted Russian influence resettling the area as difficult as in the formerly Soviet southern possible. They knocked down Caucasus, and the Russians’ ar- power lines and disassembled rival was largely welcomed by restaurants and gas stations. Men those ethnic Armenians who said with chain saws fanned out across they planned to stay in the section the roadside, stuffing freshly cut of Nagorno-Karabakh that re- logs into vans and truck beds. mains under Armenian control. “Let them die from the cold,” But even amid the heartbreak, said one man, who had arrived some older Armenians recalled from Armenia, collecting the logs. wistfully the days when they lived In a bank in Kelbajar on Friday, with Azerbaijanis as friends and an employee was breaking down neighbors — a still relatively re- the interior walls with a large mal- cent past now impossible to imag- let, while workers carried every- ine for younger generations. Igor thing that moved — windows, IVOR PRICKETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Badalyan, 53, an Armenian who desks, doors — into a truck. At the The eternal flame overlooking Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, is a tribute to those who have died in the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh. fled his hometown, Baku, a quar- police station, officers were hav- ter-century ago, said it was poli- ing a farewell bottle of vodka, ticians, not regular people, who while a three-foot-tall white cone hannes Hovhannisyan, the abbot crowded the monastery grounds burst into flames. son for acceding to the peace deal. were to blame for the conflict. of burning documents smoldered of the Dadivank monastery. When on Friday for one last prayer; “I told him not to touch it!” Ab- Mr. Pashinyan and defense offi- “The people fight each other in the back. he arrived with the Armenian sol- many brought their children to be bott Hovhannisyan exclaimed, re- cials said that Armenia, out- like dogs baited against each “These were always Armenian diers who took control of the area baptized. Some of the monastery’s ferring to the guard, who had ap- matched on the battlefield, had no other,” he said, visiting Dadivank lands!” one police officer yelled in 1993, they found that the grace- unique, carved-stone steles, parently ignored his entreaty. choice — a statement that came as on Friday with his wife and col- when asked who had lived in Kel- ful mountainside monastery had known as khachkars, were set on In Yerevan, the capital of Arme- a shock to a country, and a global lecting stones and earth in bajar before. been converted to a cattle yard, he wooden pallets, apparently to be nia, tensions ran high in recent diaspora, that had united in patri- farewell. “It is sad that it hap- One of the few people staying in said. removed. Suddenly, down below, days as protesters accused Prime otic support of the war effort. pened this way. We didn’t want it the Kelbajar District was Hov- Hundreds of Armenians the monastery guard’s home Minister Nikol Pashinyan of trea- “They said we were winning, to be this way.” A10 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

How a Minneapolis Suburb Turned Blue

The shift in Chaska, Minn., was representative of a change that played out across the country.

By JOHN ELIGON CHASKA, Minn. — As some protests over police brutality and systemic racism descended into vandalism and looting in Minneapolis over the summer, President Trump insisted that he was the candidate to restore “law and order” to the city. In the nearby suburb of Chaska, Minn., Mike Magusin bristled. In his view, he said, the president had fueled the unrest. “He’s said plenty of stupid, stupid things that upset people deeply,” Mr. Ma- gusin, 51, said. “That’s what’s dangerous, because people are upset. They’re struggling. And here’s this guy making it even worse with his words.” Four years ago, Mr. Magusin voted for the Green Party candidate, in part because he assumed the nation would be mostly fine even if Mr. Trump won. This year, he left nothing to chance. Even though he was not excited about Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Magusin cast his ballot for him, helping the president- elect become the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Chaska in nearly 25 years. In all, Mr. Trump lost Chaska by nine percentage points — a steep fall from 2016, when he beat Hillary Clinton in that city by six percentage points. And although Mr. Trump captured Carver County, which includes Chaska, he did so by just five percentage points, down from a 14-point margin of victory in 2016. The shift was so drastic that it helped Mr. Biden easily win Minnesota, by more than 233,000 votes. His performance in PHOTOGRAPHS BY JENN ACKERMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Chaska, as well as in other outlying Twin ASHLEY TIKE moved to Minnesota with her husband, Guillaume, and their daughter, Lenni, last year. She was surprised her neighbors liked her lawn sign. Cities communities, mirrored his success in suburbs across the country, where voters turned out in such significant numbers that they helped fuel Mr. Biden’s rise to the presidency. Indeed, Mr. Biden improved on Mrs. Clinton’s performance in suburban counties by an average of five percentage points, representing the places with the biggest shift in vote margins from 2016, according to a New York Times analysis. His gains were largest in traditionally Republican strongholds in battleground states, in the suburbs of Phoenix, Dallas, Jacksonville and Atlanta, to name a few. As was the case nationally, Mr. Trump got more votes in Chaska this year than in his first presidential run. But he also drove thousands of opponents to the polls. Some residents said they were re- pulsed by Mr. Trump’s attitude and his divisive rhetoric on race, leading them to vote for Mr. Biden or a third-party candidate. Over the past couple of years, the city has grappled with racism after incidents at its high school, which included white students who dressed in Black face. Those episodes, residents said, liberal- ized some people’s views and fostered a greater understanding of racial justice issues that stands in contrast to Mr. Trump’s denial of systemic racism. MIKE MAGUSIN voted for Joe Biden this year AMY OLSEN-SCHOO said the Black Lives Matter DONTA HUGHES offered to patrol the communi- A shift in the city’s demographics, too, after a third-party vote in 2016. He said Pres- movement had been a “huge turning point” ty during a protest, which ended peacefully, seems to have given Mr. Biden a boost. ident Trump had fueled racial unrest. in her swing away from backing Mr. Trump. blunting Mr. Trump’s warnings of violence. More nonwhite families and professionals who used to live in cities — groups that tend to lean more Democratic — have settled in Chaska — population close to home, residents said, after a se- ral out of control like demonstrations gain support in the eastern part of the people to vote Democratic. 27,000 — for its affordability and high- ries of racist incidents at Chaska High elsewhere in the country. Some busi- county, which is more developed and In some ways, Mr. Trump was his own performing schools. School and after critics of a new equity nesses boarded up their windows in the closer to the Twin Cities relative to the worst enemy. And although the occasional acts of program in the school district argued downtown strip of shops and boutiques rural western part. Coming from a family of Illinois farm- vandalism and looting in Minneapolis af- that it would lead to discrimination housed in low-slung brick buildings. Ms. Leizinger said she focused heavily ers, Rachel Frances said she was drawn ter the killing of George Floyd in police against white students. To ease the tensions, Mr. Hughes, who on combating misinformation on Face- to Mr. Trump as a first-time voter in 2016 custody might have stoked some anxiety From those racial tensions, residents moved to Chaska eight years ago with book by posting reputable news articles because of his pitch to working-class in Chaska, it did not seem to evoke seri- formed a racial justice group in Chaska, a his wife and four children for the schools, to the county party’s page. She increased people. But once he took office, she ous concern, even among Mr. Trump’s city of sprawling subdivisions with sin- told residents he would patrol the com- participation of county Democratic quickly came to believe that he did not supporters. In fact, the main takeaway, gle-family homes, surrounded by walk- munity during the protest. The protest Party members in community festivals know what he was doing, she said. some residents said, was not that the ing trails and lakes. was peaceful, which helped people to see and parades, carrying large banners “He knows nothing what it means to country was descending into lawless- Donta Hughes, 38, said that after Mr. that Mr. Trump’s law-and-order con- bearing the party’s name and signs that be the working class,” said Ms. Frances, ness, but that systemic racism was a ma- Floyd’s killing, support grew for the cerns were overblown. addressed specific issues. 22, who moved to Chaska three months jor problem in America. group and for Black residents like him- “I think the voices that we had here “Five or 10 years ago, we’d walk in the ago with her boyfriend and voted for a “That was a huge turning point for me, self. He began receiving supportive mes- just spoke loud enough to combat that,” parades and it would be stone-cold third-party candidate this election. “It I think, in general of really understand- sages on Facebook, he said, and more Mr. Hughes said. faces,” Ms. Leizinger, 63, said. But last very quickly wore off, his whole allure.” ing the Black Lives Matter movement white residents became willing to have In many ways, the hard left turn in summer, they marched with signs de- Though it remains to be seen whether and just embracing it,” said Amy Olsen- difficult conversations about race. The Chaska — and the higher Democratic nouncing the Trump administration’s Chaska’s Democratic swing will continue Schoo, a white Chaska resident who Chaska police chief brought together turnout in Carver County — stemmed child separation policy at the Mexican beyond this election, some liberal resi- voted for Mr. Trump four years ago but community members, including Mr. from yearslong efforts by local Demo- border “and got standing ovations,” she dents say they have discovered alliances for Mr. Biden this time. Hughes, to discuss racial issues. crats to increase their visibility in a said. where they least expected them. Ms. Olsen-Schoo, 45, was raised in the Still, when a group of high school stu- deeply Republican territory. The party also bought space on five Ashley Tike and her husband, Gui- Twin Cities suburbs as a moderate Re- dents organized a Black Lives Matter When Mary Leizinger became the billboards in the western part of the llaume, represent the demographic publican — fiscally conservative but protest in Chaska, there was pushback. chair of the Carver County Democrats county and plastered them with mes- change that has made suburbs bluer. more liberal on social issues. Until this Some residents warned that it could spi- four years ago, she saw an opportunity to sages attacking Mr. Trump and urging They met in Los Angeles, where Ms. Tike year, she had voted Republican her en- moved after attending college in North tire life. Dakota, where she was raised in a con- When Mr. Trump campaigned four servative Catholic household. Her politi- years ago, Ms. Olsen-Schoo was drawn cal views became more liberal while liv- to his lack of political experience and his ing on the West Coast and for a year in pledge to “drain the swamp.” She said France, where her husband is from. she brushed off his most offensive re- They moved to Minnesota last year marks. When he spoke harshly of immi- when she was pregnant so that they grants, she took it to mean that he was could be closer to her parents, and they championing immigration reform, which chose Chaska because it was quieter and she agreed with, she said. more affordable than a big city. “I saw him as someone interesting, But for all of its advantages, Ms. Tike, something different — it was appealing,” a 26-year-old figure skating coach, felt she said. “You look past some of those politically out of place. Still, she thought transgressions. I can’t believe I did that. that the stakes in this election were too I’m ashamed.” high to stay silent, so she nervously Once Mr. Trump became president, planted a Biden sign in their front yard. Ms. Olsen-Schoo quickly saw his rhetoric “I was just kind of like, ‘Well, I haven’t as inciting hatred, she said. She was hor- met any of the neighbors really anyway rified by comments that she read from because of Covid, and so if they hate us, Republicans on social media, she said, they hate us,’” she said. “I just felt like such as suggestions that Muslims were Trump needed to get out. Every time I going to destroy America. saw him on the TV, my fists were clench- Although 83 percent of Chaska’s popu- ing.” lation is white, its racial and ethnic diver- Shortly after Ms. Tike put out the sign, sity has slightly grown over the past dec- a neighbor on one side came to her and ade. Latinos make up 8.4 percent, Asians said that her own Biden sign was on its 3.5 percent and Black residents 2.2 per- way. Then, the neighbor on the other side cent. also approached Ms. Tike: Where could The divisiveness of the Trump era hit Mr. Trump lost Chaska, home to 27,000, by nine percentage points, a steep fall from his six-point 2016 win. she get her own Biden sign, she asked. THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A11

Transition in Washington Immigration Overhauling Homeland Security Will Be One of Biden’s Early Priorities

Challenged to Balance Left’s Demands With the Concerns of Moderates

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS he said, will take “a broader- WASHINGTON — President- based, more strategic approach.” elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said A team composed mostly of vol- that one of his first priorities will unteers separate from Mr. Biden’s be rolling back his predecessor’s official transition team has restrictive immigration policies. worked for weeks on that ap- To do it, he may have to overhaul proach. Those volunteers, includ- the Department of Homeland Se- ing Mr. Obama’s former director curity, which has been bent to of the Domestic Policy Council, President Trump’s will over the Cecilia Muñoz, and his former past four years. deputy homeland security advis- The department, created after er, Amy Pope, have focused on in- the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has fusing climate change research helped enforce some of Mr. into the decision-making of the Trump’s most divisive policies, next department leadership. like separating families at the bor- While the agency will not be- der, banning travel from Muslim- come “the department of climate,” majority countries and building one adviser said, the new admin- his border wall. When the presi- istration will use the research to dent tried to reframe his cam- shape natural disaster response paign around law and order this and resilience to assist the Coast year, homeland security leaders Guard as it patrols the Arctic. The rallied to the cause, deploying tac- next homeland security leaders tical officers to protect statues and could rely on climate science to confront protesters. predict migration from places like After agents were videotaped Guatemala, where coffee rust has hauling demonstrators off the disrupted the crops farmers rely streets of Portland, Ore., into un- on. marked vans, department critics “This is something that needs to called for systemic changes to the be a long term priority for D.H.S.,” agency, or even its dismantle- said Thomas S. Warrick, a former ment. But the incoming adminis- top counterterrorism official in SERGIO FLORES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES tration is intent on keeping the de- the department and a co-author of A vehicle near a section of the border wall near McAllen, Texas. Billions of Pentagon dollars were diverted for the wall’s construction. partment intact. a report this year that emphasized the department’s future roles de- Still, change is coming. through the full regulatory But at the physical border, Mr. if there is a surge to the border?” Mr. Biden has said he would cut fending against cyberthreats, Interviews with 16 current and process will take time, according Biden’s plans center more so on said one official involved in the funding used to detain migrants former homeland security offi- pandemics and white supremacy. to Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst what he will stop rather than what transition. and instead rely more on pro- cials and advisers involved with Mr. Warrick’s co-author, Caitlin for the Migration Policy Institute. he will develop. Mr. Biden has not committed to grams that track migrants after Mr. Biden’s transition, and a re- Durkovich, is on Mr. Biden’s offi- “On immigration, I expect them He has said he will stop “meter- lifting a public health emergency they are released into the United view of his platform, suggest an cial transition team. to stick to things that are high pro- ing,” which restricts the number rule that has essentially sealed States to make sure they appear agenda that aims to incorporate The volunteer team has empha- file, very easy procedurally and of migrants who can seek protec- the border to asylum seekers. The at immigration court. climate change in department pol- sized that change will come not come with minimal logistical bur- tion at border ports. It is unclear if Trump administration has cited Brandon Judd, the president of icy, fill vacant posts and bolster re- from a drastic restructuring but den,” Ms. Pierce said. he would pull out of agreements the risk of the pandemic to em- the National Border Patrol Coun- sponsibilities that Mr. Trump ne- from personnel. Of the 74 leader- That includes ending travel with Central American countries power Border Patrol agents to cil, the Border Patrol’s union, said glected, including disaster re- ship positions at the Department bans that restrict travel from 13 that allow the United States to di- rapidly turn migrants back to that would mean the return of sponse and cybersecurity. of Homeland Security, 18 are ei- mostly Muslim and African coun- vert migrants seeking protection Mexico or their home countries “catch-and-release,” pejorative But undoing Mr. Trump’s immi- ther vacant or held by an acting of- tries and halting the Trump ad- back to the region. He would end without providing the chance to shorthand for releasing migrants gration policies will initially domi- ficial. Even those serving in acting ministration’s efforts to strip pro- Mr. Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” have their asylum claims heard. from detention into the public to nate. capacities have had their appoint- tections for about 700,000 young policy that has sent more than An adviser to the campaign said await their immigration hearing. Many of the Trump administra- ments questioned by government immigrants brought to the coun- 60,000 migrants back to Mexico to the administration planned on Mr. Trump has argued the policy tion’s policies cannot be immedi- watchdogs and the courts. As re- try as children. await asylum hearings that have consulting with public health offi- encourages migration. cently as Saturday, a federal judge ately undone, and Mr. Biden is Mr. Biden also plans to raise the been suspended during the pan- cials to discuss the policy. “Obviously my members were said Chad F. Wolf, the acting secre- likely to face an early test if migra- cap on refugee admissions to demic. Biden advisers also acknowl- hoping President Trump was go- tion to the southwestern border tary of homeland security, was not 125,000, impose a 100-day morato- Mr. Biden’s advisers have dis- edged the need to bolster the ca- ing to win, and they were hoping surges with Mr. Trump’s pending serving lawfully when he issued a rium on deportations and direct cussed rushing asylum officers pacity at the Department of he was going to win because of departure. memo in July suspending protec- Immigration and Customs En- and immigration judges to the Health and Human Services, what happens with border securi- That could be politically tions for the immigrants brought forcement to focus on violent of- border to process those families which is responsible for shelter- ty,” Mr. Judd said. “Let’s hope Bi- fraught, balancing the demands of to the United States as children fenders. But it remains unclear and others seeking protection. ing migrant children traveling den proves us wrong. But we’ve the Democratic left for more le- known as Dreamers. how he will rebuild a deteriorated “The real question is scale. Can alone. That will take congres- already seen this movie and we nient immigration policies, with Two advisers involved in the resettlement system to welcome they be scaled up quickly enough sional approval. expect a replay.” the concerns of moderates who that many immigrants or the spe- fear such issues cost the party cific details of his temporary halt dearly in House and Senate elec- on removing undocumented im- tions this month. Mr. Trump cam- Remaking a cabinet migrants. paigned on a hard-line immigra- department that was The new administration will tion agenda when he won the elec- end the national emergency dec- tion in 2016 and the policies re- molded in President laration that allowed Mr. Trump to main a central appeal to many divert billions of Pentagon dollars who have supported Mr. Trump. Trump’s image. to the border wall, but an adviser “If it looks like they’re just kick- involved in the transition said ing the can down the road, then there were no plans to dismantle people will be very angry,” said the 400 miles of wall already up. Marisa Franco, the executive di- planning meetings said the team Other regulations will prove rector of Mijente, a Latino civil was advising the incoming admin- more challenging to unravel, like rights organization, who served istration to steer clear of all offi- the maze of asylum restrictions on a task force that issued recom- cials who led the agencies over- imposed by the Trump adminis- mendations to the Biden cam- seeing immigration, even those tration and the public charge rule Our ﬁve-strand pearl necklace paign. who publicly resisted the White that allows green cards to be de- House’s efforts or publicly turned Mr. Trump measured the suc- nied to immigrants who are is the perfect choice against Mr. Trump. cess of his homeland security sec- deemed likely to use public assist- They are “poisoned,” one advis- retaries primarily by the progress ance. of his border wall and the monthly er said. Stunning for an evening out, Ms. Pierce said the new admin- totals of arrests made by his bor- Some transition officials have istration could begin the lengthy a sophisticated option for every der agents. rallied around Alejandro N. May- process of replacing the Trump orkas, a former homeland securi- The 23-member transition team regulations or, given that the pub- day. Five lushly layered strands ty deputy secretary and director announced by Mr. Biden last week lic charge rule is still being litigat- indicates he will bolster the other of Citizenship and Immigration ed in court, revise that regulation of graduated cultured pearls. responsibilities of the sprawling Services, to be the next secretary. in a settlement. department. The team includes at Mr. Mayorkas’s supporters be- Thisprettypiecewillbecome Mr. Biden has also revived the least four former officials with Cit- lieve his background as a U.S. at- longstanding Democratic goal of izenship and Immigration Serv- torney for California and as a Cu- your favorite go-to for creating a path to citizenship for ices, the legal immigration agency ban immigrant would appeal to nearly 11 million undocumented that has been mired in financial both the law enforcement officials so many occasions. immigrants, but without a Demo- struggles. The leader of the team, in the agency and the immigrant cratic Senate, that is likely impos- Ur Jaddou, was a chief counsel for communities in the United States. sible. (Control of the Senate rests the agency under President They emphasized that a decision on two Senate runoff races in Barack Obama and frequent critic on the position had not yet been Georgia in January.) of Mr. Trump’s policies. made. An expected surge of migration The group also features multi- But reinstating officials who to the southwestern border in the ple former Obama administration served under Mr. Obama, who coming months will test Mr. Bi- officials who focused on cyber- was criticized as the “deporter in den’s ability to balance the de- security, emergency response and chief” and who expanded deten- mands of the liberal and moderate transportation security. Mr. tions at the border to respond to a wings of his party while prevent- Trump had a team of only four surge of migrants, could cause ing overflowing border facilities. transition advisers for homeland consternation on the left. “We will treat our immigrants security. “My hope is people can see with respect and give them due “If you look at what’s going on some of the errors of their ways,” process, which they aren’t having in the world now, in addition to Ms. Franco said, adding, “We’ll be under this administration,” said border security and T.S.A. airline vigilant.” Representative Lucille Roybal-Al- issues, you have a pandemic and The Trump administration en- lard, the chairwoman of the House an unprecedented hurricane sea- acted more than 400 changes to appropriations subcommittee on son,” said Michael Chertoff, a tighten or choke off immigration, homeland security who repre- homeland security secretary un- and while Mr. Biden can roll back sented the Biden campaign in der President George W. 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Transition in Washington A Political Divide

LAUREN JUSTICE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES SCOTT MCINTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Supporters of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Madison, Wis., left, celebrated his being declared victorious on Nov. 7. Backers of President Trump in Miami marked his winning Florida on Nov. 3. Both Parties Stretched Thin After Neither Side Delivers a Knockout and ideological lodestar of the they show up at the polls. “We’re a re-election without ever endors- From Page 1 G.O.P. base. persuasion universe and should ing Mr. Trump, said the president ther from being able to claim At the same time, Mr. Trump’s be treated like whites.” “is an important voice but not the broad majorities and prompted a defeat this month has removed Yet if Republicans cling to Mr. dominant voice in party,” pointing series of election cycles, which the single most important force Trump, or to his brand of crude na- to “next generation” figures like could be repeated in 2022, in holding the Democratic Party’s tionalism, they will continue to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida which any gains Democrats make eclectic coalition together: the alienate voters in the fast-growing and the former South Carolina in the country’s booming cities president himself. With his ouster, South and West who helped hand governor Nikki Haley. and states are at least partly offset the détente that persisted Mr. Biden Arizona and Georgia. But Senator Ron Johnson of by growing Republican strength throughout the year between the As Mr. Biden showed, there are Wisconsin, who may run again in in rural areas. Democratic left and center has be- hordes of swing voters who find 2022, was more deferential to Mr. The election also represented a gun to crumble, with open sniping Mr. Trump and his divisive politics Trump. “It’s President Trump’s continuation of this trench war- and blame-casting between fig- even more offensive than the slo- supporters’ party,” Mr. Johnson fare between two parties that are ures like Representative Alexan- gans of the hard left. said. “That’s a group of people I increasingly defined by their ac- dria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Mr. Biden’s map-stretching vic- think the Republican Party wants tivist flanks and limited to only in- the party’s most prominent young tories were not isolated events. to hang onto.” cremental advances. progressive, and Senator Joe They cap a steady expansion of For Democrats, the election has “We are more divided than any Manchin III of West Virginia, a Democratic strength, especially illustrated the fragility of their co- other time in my lifetime,” said centrist of vital importance to Mr. in the West, where the party has alition. Haley Barbour, the former Missis- Biden’s agenda in the Senate. AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES gained four Senate seats since With Mr. Biden racking up over- sippi governor and Republican It remains to be seen whether Mr. Biden may have an executive branch controlled by one party 2016: two in Arizona, and one each whelming margins in Philadel- National Committee chair, whose either party will embrace a head- and part or all of the legislative branch held by the other. in Colorado and Nevada. phia, Detroit and Milwaukee — first job in politics was on Richard on reckoning with its own elector- State Senator J.D. Mesnard of and even winning metropolitan M. Nixon’s 1968 campaign. “But al vulnerabilities. Moderate Dem- Arizona, a Republican who won a Phoenix and Atlanta — progres- deed, the only House seats Repub- Representative Harley Rouda usually when we’re at parity we’re ocrats have mostly just criticized difficult race for re-election this sives have become angered by the licans picked up that were not in of California, an Orange County bunched up in the middle — now the party’s left wing for having month, said his state had clearly party establishment’s complaints districts Mr. Trump also carried Democrat who narrowly lost his we’ve got parity but with extreme promoted stances that they be- become “more competitive,” about the issues energizing activ- were in heavily Hispanic or Asian bid for re-election, said the party polarity.” lieve cost them seats in Congress, though he argued that down-bal- ists. regions. needed to deliver a more assertive Mr. Biden and the Democrats while Republicans have largely lot results suggested voters had- On a Democratic conference and moderate message if it “While there is a lot of sniping at viewed this election as an oppor- remained silent on Mr. Trump’s in- n’t abandoned the party entirely. call this past week, Representa- wanted to claim districts like his. defund the police, Medicare for all, tunity to deliver a crushing repu- “You see similar things in Geor- transigence and conspiracy-mon- tive Linda Sanchez, a former Mr. Rouda, who is planning to run the Green New Deal and things diation to Republicans and the gia and North Carolina — states gering. member of the House leadership, again in 2022, said he suffered like that, we also have to recog- movement known as Trumpism, that have seen a lot of growth,” Mr. While Mr. Biden rebuilt the criticized Democrats’ Latino out- with centrist voters and his dis- nize that the Black Lives Matter while Mr. Trump and his allies saw Mesnard said. “A lot of these Democrats’ Blue Wall — reclaim- reach strategy as a dismal failure, trict’s numerous Vietnamese- movement was a seminal moment the chance to cement a durable places that were pretty hard-core ing the swing states of Wisconsin, according to two people who par- American voters, many of whom for the country and it also boosted governing coalition led by the far red are now on the bubble.” Michigan and Pennsylvania — he ticipated on the call. And Repre- recoil from messaging about so- Democratic registration and turn- right. The deeper problem for Repub- carried them by a fraction of the sentative Donna Shalala of Flor- cialism. out across the country,” said Rep- licans is the powerful grip Mr. Neither party got all it wanted. margins former President Barack ida, who lost her seat in a heavily “This narrative that the Demo- resentative Pramila Jayapal of Trump retains on the party — ex- Democrats improved consider- Obama achieved in both the 2008 Hispanic district, complained on cratic Party is borderline socialist, Washington, co-chair of the House ably on their performance in the and 2012 elections. As long as Re- the call that her party did not ef- we need to fight back harder on actly the factor that made those Progressive Caucus. last presidential race, repairing publicans manage to amass enor- fectively rebut Republicans’ por- that because it’s simply not true,” states competitive. National Democrats, mean- their standing in the Midwest, mous leads with working-class trayal of Democrats as socialists. he said. “We needed to be more Among Republicans, there is a while, were shocked that Republi- building their strength in the Sun white voters, those states may not “Defund police, open borders, forceful in defending the moder- stark difference between how law- cans made incremental gains with Belt. Yet voters in Ohio, Iowa and be safely Democratic anytime socialism — it’s killing us,” said ate position of the Democratic makers who are nearing retire- voters of color, especially in a cam- Florida delivered a stinging re- soon. Representative Vicente Gonzalez, Party as a whole.” ment age or are safely ensconced paign pitting Mr. Trump’s incendi- buke to the idea the Democrats Just as troubling to the party, a Democrat from South Texas who Chuck Rocha, a longtime Demo- in their seats approach Mr. Trump ary persona against Mr. Biden’s would pick off increasingly con- Democrats sagged with voters of won just over 50 percent of the cratic consultant, said too many and how those who still require his message of racial-justice mes- servative states. color, particularly in Hispanic and vote, two years after he nearly white Democrats “see Black and favor speak of him. sage. That development chal- The G.O.P. defied expectations Asian-American communities captured 60 percent. “I had to brown people as the same” in- Senator Charles E. Grassley of lenged some of the party’s basic and gained seats in the House, where Republicans’ attacks on fight to explain all that.” stead of approaching Hispanics as Iowa, the senior Senate Republi- cultural assumptions. limited its losses in the Senate and Democrats as a left-wing party The “average white person,” people open to either party and in can whose term is up in 2022, in- Longtime lawmakers in both protected critical state legislative appear to have resonated, deny- Mr. Gonzalez added, may associ- need of convincing. sisted that “the Republican Party parties expressed guarded opti- majorities. But the party experi- ing Mr. Biden a victory in Florida ate socialism with Nordic coun- “Our community is not a get- is the Republican Party, it’s no one mism that the depth of the coun- enced troubling erosion in the and costing the Democrats con- tries, but to Asian and Hispanic out-the-vote universe,” said Mr. man’s party.” try’s crises would at least initially South and West as Mr. Biden won gressional seats in that state as migrants it recalls despotic “left- Rocha, alluding to voters almost And Senator Susan Collins, the force consensus and action, add- Arizona and Georgia. well as Texas and California. In- wing regimes.” certain to support Democrats if Maine Republican who just won ing that their side would pay a po- As the results come into sharp- litical price if they are seen as ob- er focus, a more sober mood has structionists. set in on both sides of the aisle. “They may not want to compro- Unless Democrats can win a mise with Mitch McConnell, but pair of Senate seats in Georgia’s their choice is doing nothing that January runoff elections, Mr. Bi- improves people’s lives or trying den will arrive in the White House to find a way to compromise,” Sen- facing the same circumstances his ator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat predecessors have for eight of the of Michigan, said of her party’s last 10 years: an executive branch left. controlled by one party and part Representative Tom Cole of Ok- or all of the legislative branch held lahoma, a Republican, argued that by the other. it would be folly during simulta- Mr. Biden, elected officials and neous health and economic calam- strategists in both parties agree, ities for Mr. McConnell, the Senate will most likely have a limited win- majority leader, to reprise his dow to show he can lead success- strategy of denying Mr. Biden bi- fully. If he can bridge Washing- partisan success the way he did ton’s bitter partisan divides to with Mr. Obama. craft successful policies to fight the coronavirus pandemic and re- “We’re going to have a tough vive the economy, he may well map in the midterms and we need have a chance to transform his to get some stuff done,” Mr. Cole party’s loose anti-Trump coalition said. “Next year we better start into a more stable electoral major- governing in a normal way.” ity. The question for both parties is Already, there are mounting how they can satisfy voters who signs of just how difficult it may be are pulling further apart, energiz- for either party to govern through ing their bases without alienating pragmatism and compromise. a bigger share of the electorate. With Mr. Trump’s refusal to con- “The more outrageous one cede the election and his talk of sounds, the greater exposure they running again in 2024, Republi- get to the public,” said Represent- cans are worried about Trumpian ative Emanuel Cleaver II, a Mis- retribution if they break with a souri Democrat, lamenting the leader who remains the cultural modern incentive structure in politics. “But it just deepens the ANNA MONEYMAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Nicholas Fandos contributed re- divisions and worsens the climate porting from Washington, D.C. President Trump at the White House on Friday. Republicans have largely remained silent on his intransigence after his electoral loss. in the country.” THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A15

Transition in Washington The Outgoing Administration

ard is on his way out, Oz still exists.” As Trump Digs In, Of course, angry people can be very dangerous when backed into corners, and Mr. Trump’s belief in his own falsehoods has A Look at Others already had damaging, real-life consequences. Some sympathetic right-wing media outlets and many Republican officials are Who Refused to Go refusing to acknowledge that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the president-elect. Millions of people By SARAH LYALL wedding gown even as her house appear to believe Mr. Trump’s In Nancy Mitford’s comic 1960 decays around her. assertions that the election was novel, “Don’t Tell Alfred,” the “He’s wearing the cloak of the stolen and that the coronavirus, wife of the new British ambassa- presidency and he’s stuck in his now raging out of control, is not a dor to Paris arrives at the em- room, getting dusty, while every- serious problem. His supporters bassy to find that she has a vex- one else has moved on,” Mr. are marching in the streets to ing problem: Her Naftali said. protest the election result, and it POLITICAL predecessor has No president in American remains to be seen under what MEMO refused to move history has ever before refused circumstances he will finally out. for so long to concede an election leave the White House. Indeed, Pauline he has obviously lost. But when it All these things raise the ques- Leone, the wife of the previous comes to hanging on to an alter- tion (asking for a friend): How ambassador, is so unhinged by native version of reality, Mr. do you get someone to face reali- the prospect of a status-free Trump has plenty of nonpresi- ty and get out of the White future that she has set up her dential company. House? own rival court, grandly receiv- There was Eteocles, a son of For clients who have lost their ing a stream of visitors as if for Oedipus in Greek mythology, jobs during this unsettling time, all the world she were still Mad- who remained on the throne of said Megan Walls, an executive ame L’Ambassadrice, the social Thebes, reneging on his promise coach and career adviser in arbiter of Paris. to share it with his twin brother, Chicago, she works to help them “At the beginning one thought leading to a battle in which they accept what has happened and it was a lark — that in a day or killed each other. move on. “The reality is that we two she’d get tired of it,” a British There was Gov. Edmund J. can’t control Covid or jobs or official says crossly. But no. Davis of Texas, a Republican, business — we can only control “She’s having the time of her who refused to leave office after ourselves,” she said. losing the election of 1873, claim- life,” he adds, “and quite honestly However, she added, Mr. ing that he had several months I don’t see how we shall ever Trump would not be a good can- left in his term and barricading induce her to go.” didate for the kind of coaching himself on the ground floor of the she offers. As the nation ponders the State Capitol. (The newly elected awkward case of Donald J. “I won’t work with people who governor and his supporters are avoiding the situation or Trump, a president who will not installed themselves on the first acting like a victim,” she said. admit that he has been fired, it is floor, using ladders to enter “Anyone who is digging their helpful to consider him through through the windows.) heels in — I can’t help him until the experiences of other people, There was the Hiroo Onoda, they help themselves. Maybe fictional and otherwise, who the Imperial Japanese Army they don’t need a coach; they have been unable to accept the officer who would not surrender need a psychotherapist.” arrival of unwelcome develop- after the end of World War II, How about flattery? ments in their personal and remaining in combat-readiness in On Twitter, the Trump-admir- professional lives. CHLOE CUSHMAN the jungle for 29 years until his ing journalist Geraldo Rivera Is Trump like King Lear, rag- by-then elderly former com- compared the president to a ing naked on the heath and des- manding officer arrived and heavyweight champion who perately hanging on to the in- rescinded his no-surrender order. Burgo, a clinical psychologist itself. When the president’s fa- knows he has lost but grittily creasingly diminished trappings And there was the entire gov- Wisdom on handling who has studied Mr. Trump and ther, Fred, developed fights on in case he can eke out a of power even as they are ernment of Moldova, which in written about his appeal to vot- Alzheimer’s, the family report- victory. His lyrical description — stripped from him? Or is he more 2019 decided not to make way for the long goodbye ers. edly conspired to help him be- “Still, he’s going to answer the like Bartleby the Scrivener, the a new government, leading to a “Once he has exhausted all lieve that he still ran the Trump final bell, looking for the knock- inscrutable model of passive bizarre situation in which both from Shakespeare to possible avenues to challenge the organization. According to Vanity out he knows is a long shot”— resistance who one day declines groups claimed for a time to be in election, he will spend the rest of Fair, the elder Mr. Trump would inadvertently brings to mind the to do any more work or indeed charge of the country. The im- Dickens to ‘Seinfeld.’ his life insisting the system con- show up for work every day, delusional Black Knight in leave the building, declaring: “I passe finally ended when the spired to deprive him of his vic- signing blank papers and using “Monty Python and the Holy would prefer not to?” former prime minister grudg- tory,” said Dr. Burgo, the author an office phone connected only to Grail,” who won’t surrender even Is he like Nellie, the character ingly stepped down in the face of to a third term “based on the of “The Narcissist You Know: his secretary’s line. “Fred pre- after his arms and legs have in “The Office” who installs growing national outrage and way we were treated.” (That was Defending Yourself Against tended to work,” a family friend been hacked off. (“Tis but a herself at the desk of the regional international pressure. before he lost the election.) Extreme Narcissists in an All- told the magazine. scratch,” the knight declares. manager when he is out of town While American presidential But given the news wafting About-Me Age.” “He will take With his vast coterie of en- “What are you going to do, bleed and unilaterally appoints herself transfers of power have tradition- like the occasional smoke signal refuge in blame, self-pity and ablers willing to believe his base- on me?” King Arthur responds.) boss? Or how about George from ally been smooth, well-run af- from the White House, where righteous indignation to shore up less assertions about the elec- As for the former ambassa- “Seinfeld,” who quits one of his fairs, world history is replete some of the president’s advisers his sense of self, thereby warding tion, Mr. Naftali said, Trump dor’s wife who overstays her many jobs in a huff, unsuccess- with examples of dictators and and relatives are reportedly off the humiliation of true defeat.” might be better compared to the welcome in “Don’t Tell Alfred,” fully tries to get it back, and strongmen employing nefarious attempting various psychological Meanwhile, many Republican Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz.” embassy officials decide that the reports to work anyway, as if means to remain in office. Some- techniques to get Mr. Trump to legislators, loath to upset Mr. “Many of us assumed that best way to evict her is to de- nothing had happened? times such rulers refuse to ac- accept the fact that he is now a Trump, are helping to prop up Trump’s behind-the-curtain prive her of the attention she Timothy Naftali, a history cept the results of honestly con- lame-duck president, his behav- the illusion that he is still some- moment — when Dorothy ar- craves. “We must bore her out,” professor at New York Univer- ducted elections. Sometimes they ior seems less like a putsch and how in power, in a way reminis- rived and, thanks to Toto, found an official says. sity, said that one way to view throw out term limits, and just more like an extended whiny cent of the courtiers who flat- out that the Wizard was a hum- Finally, reluctantly, she leaves, Mr. Trump would be as a version keep on governing. Sometimes tantrum. As Dan Rather, an elder tered, lied and enabled their way bug — would come because of taking on a diva-ish air of of Miss Havisham, the jilted they jail, torture, kill or disappear statesman of American journal- through the final days of Emper- his handling of the Covid emer- wounded glamour as she encoun- bride from “Great Expectations” their political opponents. (Some- ism, said on Twitter: “Dude. You or Haile Selasse’s reign in Ethi- gency,” he said. “But one of the ters a crowd of guests arriving who lives forever in the past, times they do all of those things.) lost.” opia in Ryszard Kapuscinski’s reasons the president is able to for a party to which she has not never taking off her tattered Mr. Trump has spoken admir- “He cannot bear being the “The Emperor.” continue this fantasy that he won been invited. ingly about at least some of these loser and so now is doing every- Interestingly enough, there a second term is that 73 million “She shook hands, like a royal Susan Beachy contributed re- practices, saying, for instance, thing within his power to assault appears to be some precedent for people don’t agree that he was a person,” Mitford writes, “as she search. that he was “probably entitled” the reality he hates,” said Joseph this within the Trump family humbug. Even though the Wiz- sailed out of the house forever.” Tensions Are Rising as Trump Continues to Deny the Outcome of the Election

tended a meeting of his coronavi- Republican secretary of state, ap- them on the ground. porary job. We’re not above the At another point, Ms. Powell From Page A1 rus task force in “several months,” peared to be going smoothly, as “You could feel the intensity,” rules. We’re not above the law. claimed that the C.I.A. had ig- move in aggressively. “DC Police, vanishing from participation in about 50 of Georgia’s 159 counties said Damien Courtney, 24, a That’s the essence of our democra- nored complaints about the soft- get going — do your job and don’t the panel. had completed their new counts. Trump supporter from Tennessee. cy.” ware, “which makes me wonder hold back!!!” But anyone hoping for a simi- As Mr. Trump arrived at the golf “It was nerve-racking.” Mr. Obama said he worried that how much the C.I.A. has used it for By Sunday morning, the presi- larly quiet withdrawal from Mr. course, dueling signs showed the The rally on Saturday also many parts of what he called a its own benefit in different places.” dent seemed to briefly acknowl- Trump as he leaves the presiden- deep rift in the country that he has prompted Kayleigh McEnany, the “deeply divided” nation believed She then urged Mr. Trump to fire edge defeat, but he quickly re- cy appears destined not to get it. sought to exploit with false allega- White House press secretary, to Mr. Trump’s falsehoods. Gina Haspel, the agency’s direc- versed himself, declaring “I con- He continues to deny facts and sci- tions of vote-counting fraud since wildly exaggerate the size of the “The power of that alternative tor. cede NOTHING!” He repeated ence in favor of baseless conspir- Nov. 7, when Mr. Biden was de- pro-Trump crowd. In a tweet from worldview that’s presented in the Asked by Ms. Bartiromo lies about the vote-counting acy theories and has moved ag- clared the winner. The president’s her personal account, she claimed media that those voters consume, whether the president was con- process, falsely insisting that Mr. gressively to remove anyone he supporters at the entrance waved that “more than one MILLION it carries a lot of weight,” Mr. ceding the race, Mr. Giuliani said: Biden’s victory was the result of a views as disloyal: a fact under- “TRUMP 2020” and “KEEP marchers for President @real- Obama said. “No, no, no, far from it. What he’s “RIGGED ELECTION” orches- scored by a purge of top officials at AMERICA GREAT” messages DonaldTrump descend on the Inside the West Wing, most of saying is more, I guess you’d call it trated by the “Fake & Silent” news the Pentagon last week that was while protesters held signs say- swamp in support.” In fact, the au- Mr. Trump’s top advisers have pri- sarcastic.” He added that “obvi- media. followed by an implicit rebuke by ing, “SURRENDER DONNIE.” thorities estimated it was far vately told him what is clear to ev- ously he’s contested it vigorously.” the military’s top general. Facing his final 65 days in office, The nation’s divisions were on short of her claims, which echoed eryone except his most loyal sup- The president’s tweets about “We do not take an oath to a porters and the Republican poli- Mr. Trump appears unwilling to grim display in the capital on Sat- the falsehoods that Sean Spicer, whether Mr. Biden had won the king or a queen, a tyrant or a dicta- ticians who fear his wrath: His re- break from the gut instincts that urday night, when pockets of vio- the president’s first press secre- election came as Mr. Trump con- tor. We do not take an oath to an election bid has failed, and Mr. Bi- have guided his pursuit of the lence broke out between people tary, told about the inaugural tinued to spread misinformation individual,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, den will be inaugurated on Jan. 20. presidency and his exercise of au- rallying on behalf of Mr. Trump’s crowd four years ago. about the vote-counting process. the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of A few Republicans have ac- thority in the past five-and-a-half desire to stay in office and anti- Former President Barack His first tweet on Sunday came Staff, said in a speech on Wednes- knowledged that publicly. On Sun- years: a fierce determination to Trump demonstrators. After a day Obama warned in an interview at 7:47. Referring to Mr. Biden, the day. “We take an oath to the Con- day, Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Ar- act only in his self-interest and a in which thousands of the presi- that aired Sunday night that Mr. president said that “he won” and stitution.” kansas joined their ranks, saying near-total refusal to accept blame dent’s supporters gathered Trump’s willingness to spread claimed again that “all of the me- The president’s desperate lan- on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he or responsibility for his failures. mostly peacefully in support of his misinformation about the election chanical ‘glitches’ that took place guage as he tries without success false election assertions, the was hurting the country’s ability expected that Mr. Biden would be As the total number of coronavi- on election night were really to preserve his position stood in scene turned darker as night fell. to conduct the basic functions of the next president and should THEM getting caught trying to rus cases in the United States stark contrast with the disciplined have access to intelligence brief- Counterprotesters, including democracy. steal votes.” Twitter quickly la- soared past 11 million and deaths silence from Mr. Biden, who spent ings. neared 250,000, Dr. Anthony S. some from a group calling them- “It’s very hard for our democra- beled almost all of Mr. Trump’s Sunday morning at church serv- selves Refuse Fascism, con- cy to function if we are operating But publicly, Mr. Trump’s aides Fauci, the nation’s top infectious posts on Sunday morning as “dis- ices and later met behind closed fronted Trump supporters. One on just completely different sets of and virtually all Republican law- disease specialist, warned that puted.” doors with his transition advisers. threw bottles and fireworks, a facts,” Mr. Obama said on CBS’s makers continued to stand by — or 200,000 more people could die by After a flurry of tweets and Ron Klain, who will be Mr. Biden’s USA Today reporter said. People “60 Minutes.” “Any of us who at- at least not challenge — his false spring if Americans did not more news reports about his “conces- chief of staff, said on NBC’s “Meet backing the president at one point tain an elected office — whether assertions about the election. fully embrace public health meas- sion,” Mr. Trump insisted that he the Press” that a concession tweet ripped “Black Lives Matter” signs it’s dogcatcher or president — are Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. ures, even with an effective vac- had been misunderstood. from the president was not neces- off a building before trampling servants of the people. It’s a tem- Trump’s personal lawyer, has tak- cine. sary. en over the president’s legal fight At 9:16, he insisted: “RIGGED “We are not going to turn it on “Donald Trump’s Twitter feed to overturn the election results. In ELECTION. WE WILL WIN!” and off, going from where we are doesn’t make Joe Biden president interviews on Sunday with Maria The rapid flip-flop made clear to completely normal,” Dr. Fauci or not president,” Mr. Klain said. Bartiromo on Fox News, Mr. Giuli- that Mr. Trump was still refusing said on CNN’s “State of the Union” “The American people did that.” ani and Sidney Powell, another to abandon his false narrative on Sunday, challenging Mr. Before going to play golf at his member of the president’s legal about the vote being rigged and Trump’s claims that the virus club in Virginia for the second day team, floated false conspiracy the- stolen that he has been spreading would go away quickly once a vac- in a row on Sunday, the president ories that there was a sweeping ef- since Election Day, inflaming an- cine was ready. “It’s going to be a once again lashed out at the news fort to switch votes using specific ger among his supporters about gradual accrual of more normality media and Mr. Biden’s supporters, software. his defeat. as the weeks and the months go retweeting reports of a university “President Trump won by not There was no indication that his by, as we get well into 2021.” professor who said that anyone just hundreds of thousands of tweet would immediately prompt Dr. Fauci said health officials who voted for the Democrat was votes, but by millions of votes, that the administrator of the General had not begun working with Mr. “ignorant, anti-American and were shifted by this software that Services Administration to offi- Biden’s transition team. He also anti-Christian.” In his tweet, Mr. was designed expressly for that cially allow the Biden transition said the president had not at- Trump called that “Progress!” purpose,” Ms. Powell insisted. team to have access to the money He also continued to attack the “We have so much evidence, I feel and information they are due, Reporting was contributed by election results, calling a hand re- like it’s coming in through a fire which she has so far refused to do. Maggie Haberman from New count underway in Georgia, a hose.” Mr. Trump later retweeted a post York, Richard Fausset from Atlan- state he narrowly lost, “a scam.” In fact, Mr. Biden leads in the by the administrator, Emily W. ta, and Pranshu Verma, Zolan Despite the president’s as- KENNY HOLSTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES popular vote by more than 5.5 mil- Murphy, on veteran-owned small Kanno-Youngs and Chris Cameron sertions, the recount, which is be- President Trump waved to supporters near the White House on lion votes, a total that has climbed businesses, adding, “Great job from Washington. ing conducted at the direction of a Saturday, before clashes broke out with anti-Trump protesters. as states have continued counting. Emily!” A16 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Transition in Washington Challenging the Results The Trump Team’s Plan to Make Losing Look Like a Win voting easier and to slow the servative news media. Mr. Clark explained how a rul- From Page A1 counting of mail ballots. This al- Mr. Trump’s Electoral College ing from a voter intimidation case for dealing with the peculiarities lowed Mr. Trump to do two things: victory rendered those 2016 plans against Republicans in New Jer- of data entry, the correction of mi- claim an early victory on election unnecessary. But the incoming sey in the early 1980s had led to a nor errors and protocols for social night and paint ballots that were president had reason to cling to longstanding judicial decree for- distancing — all intended to en- counted later for his opponent as the falsehood as a way to cast bidding the Republican National sure a careful and accurate vote fraudulent. doubt on the reality that he had Committee from sending and or- count. The United States Postal Serv- lost the popular vote by a margin ganizing poll watchers in elec- But in the fact-twisting narra- ice, after coming under the leader- of nearly three million. tions. But that decree finally tive of Mr. Trump, his political al- ship of a Trump ally, Louis DeJoy, Mr. Trump even went so far as lapsed in 2018, which, Mr. Clark lies and his supporters, the De- made several cost-saving moves to impanel a presidential commis- said, gave the national party a troit counting center was a crime that severely slowed mail delivery sion to endorse his charge about new ability to send challengers scene where Democrats stole an rates and prompted broad con- widespread voter fraud, led by into polls in 2020 and coordinate in election, a miscarriage demand- cern about mail ballots arriving Vice President Mike Pence and every battleground state. ing that outrage be channeled on time. Kris Kobach, a former Kansas sec- The challengers would be fo- through the courts, presidential In the Senate, under the leader- retary of state and prominent sup- cused on Democratic “cheating,” Twitter posts and cable news ship of Mitch McConnell, the ma- porter of the baseless idea that he said. And the Republican Party stemwinders. jority leader, Republicans blocked voter fraud is a national threat. would have an ability it never had And that was the plan envi- Democratic efforts to get more The commission disbanded before to blast those charges far sioned by the pro-Trump forces all money to states so they could buy BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES amid lawsuits and dissension af- and wide, through the social me- along. more sorting equipment to count ter several months without issu- dia accounts of the president of Like similar episodes in Las Ve- the huge influx of mail ballots fast- ing findings. But internal docu- the United States. gas, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and er. ments later released through liti- “How many times do you have Pittsburgh, the scene in Detroit In key states like Pennsylvania gation showed that even before its an issue in a county that is just was the culmination of a years- and Michigan, Republican-con- work truly began it had worked up egregious and terrible, but it long strategy by Mr. Trump to use trolled legislatures refused at- the outline for a report to claim never gets the attention it de- the power of the executive branch, tempts by civil rights groups and systematic voter fraud and that it serves, because the media won’t an army of lawyers, the echo Democrats to change or suspend wanted to produce an extensive report it?” Mr. Clark told the Re- chamber of conservative news statutes forbidding election work- database to identify fraudulent publicans. “We’ve got a guy who is media and the obedience of fellow ers from beginning to count bal- registrations using information committed to this, who is able to Republicans to try out his most lots before Election Day. And once from government agencies. short-circuit media attention on audacious exercise in bending re- the counting began, the Trump Such matching exercises are a stuff and just say things.” ality: to turn losing into winning. campaign and the president’s al- necessary part of keeping voting Obscured by the postelection lies pursued other tactics to slow lists accurate. But in recent years, Clashes in the States noise over the president’s efforts or stop the count and seed doubt sloppy data comparisons have re- to falsely portray the election sys- about the validity of the results. sulted in erroneous but sensa- Wisconsin was one of three key tem as “rigged” against him has Before Election Day, party offi- tional-sounding claims of suppos- battleground states, along with been how much Mr. Trump and his cials at the state and national lev- edly dead or noncitizen voters Pennsylvania and Michigan, allies did ahead of time to promote els helped organize teams of ob- that repeatedly fell apart after where the president had loyal al- a baseless conspiracy devised to servers, a role that was once a BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES close inspection. lies who controlled the state legis- appeal to his most passionate sup- symbol of the transparency of Before the 2020 election, Re- latures but Democrats were in the porters, providing him with the American democracy. But in this publicans in several states pushed governors’ mansions. opportunity to make his histori- case, Mr. Trump and his allies en- aggressive “purges” of their rolls During the pandemic, that polit- cally anomalous bid to cling to couraged their observers in key based on such imprecise data ical dynamic generated clashes power in the face of defeat. states to act aggressively to stop matching, often with support from that grew more intense as the key That bid is now in its last throes. what they portrayed as wide- Mr. Trump, before embarrassing role of mail-in balloting became Judges are dismissing the presi- spread cheating and provide in- revelations that their lists were apparent, with Democrats voting dent’s lawsuits, as various bits of formation that could be fed into badly flawed and threatened to by mail in large numbers during supposed evidence — an alleged lawsuits and stoke demonstra- wrongfully remove legal voters primary elections in the spring. box of illegal ballots that was in tions and coverage from friendly from their rolls. The need for more money and fact a case containing camera commentators and journalists. For instance, a poorly con- new procedures to help process equipment and “dead voters” who As a Pennsylvania state sena- ducted data match led Texas to an- mail ballots more quickly became are alive — unravel. And yet Mr. tor, Mike Regan, a Republican, put nounce in early 2019 that it had evident. Trump has still not given up on it at a rally in Harrisburg last identified some 95,000 “nonciti- An explosion of litigation and seeding doubt about the election’s week, “I’ve been told in no uncer- zens” on its registration rolls. The legislative maneuvering followed, integrity as he seeks to stain Mr. tain terms by the state party and state swiftly moved to strike these in which voting rights groups and Biden’s clear victory — by more by our leaders that they are co- supposedly illegal voters — many Democrats pressed to make it eas- than 5.5 million votes and also in ordinating with the Trump cam- of them Hispanic — from its lists ier to cast and count mail ballots the Electoral College — with false paign, and so far Pennsylvania as Mr. Trump posted on Twitter and Republicans pressed to keep insinuations of illegitimacy. On has done everything that the VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES that “voter fraud is rampant.” deadlines and restrictions in Sunday alone, he posted more Trump campaign has asked them Top, election challengers with the Michigan Republican Party After further review, Texas place, saying they were to prevent than two dozen election-related fraud. to do.” confronted an election worker on Nov. 4 in Detroit. Middle, the learned that its data was incor- tweets, seeming to briefly ac- Nearly all of it would be done in rect, and civil rights groups suc- A case that reached the Su- knowledge Mr. Biden’s victory be- the name of a falsehood: that the police pushed back a crowd filled with many Republicans during cessfully sued to halt the planned preme Court gave Wisconsin addi- fore declaring, “I concede NOTH- American voting system was so the count that day. Above, supporters of President Trump rallied purge. Wisconsin delayed plans tional time to count ballots in its ING!” corroded by fraud that any losing on Nov. 7 at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. for a large purge last year because primary as the state struggled to The roots of Mr. Trump’s ap- result for the president could not of concern about the accuracy of conduct the election while the proach date to before his election be legitimate. narrative that the election was ers to collect evidence of Demo- the information, prompting a con- pandemic was raging. in 2016, and he advanced his plans There was no greater propo- rigged in favor of his Democratic cratic cheating. Mr. Trump’s ad- servative lawsuit to push it for- After the Pennsylvania primary throughout his term. But his strat- ward, which is still pending. in June, Philadelphia officials nent of that notion than Mr. opponent, Hillary Clinton. visers readied legal go-teams to egy for casting doubt on the out- Trump, who promoted it heavily By then, Wisconsin had counted for a week. In the State Facing what he and the entire jet anywhere he could press a come of the 2020 campaign took from behind his presidential emerged as a critical battleground Legislature, negotiations began political world expected to be a claim. shape in earnest when the corona- lectern or from his phone. A presi- for both parties, along with Penn- over changes that would allow the loss, Mr. Trump repeated the virus pandemic upended normal dency that began with a lie — that He also hired a field general for sylvania and Michigan. counting to run more smoothly in life and led states to promote vot- President Barack Obama was not claim regularly as international his efforts to bring charges of vot- That November, Justin Clark, a November. ing by mail. a citizen — is now ending with one, and domestic allies backed him er fraud: an operative from Phila- senior Trump adviser, visited with Local election administrators From the start, the president too. up: the ambush-video activist delphia named Mike Roman. Mr. Republicans in Madison, Wis., to and Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylva- saw mail-in ballots as a political James O’Keefe, Russian troll net- Roman had achieved fame in con- emphasize just how important the nia, a Democrat, sought to allow works, Sean Hannity and In- servative circles in 2008 for help- threat that would appeal more to How It Began state was to Mr. Trump’s early processing of mail ballots, Democrats than to his followers. fowars. ing to push out video from a voting prospects. He signaled how voter known as precanvassing, as early And so he and his allies sought to In fact, by the time Mr. Trump Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime site in Philadelphia where two fraud allegations would be key to as three weeks before Election block moves to make absentee acknowledged in September 2016 adviser to Mr. Trump and a peren- members of the New Black Pan- any Trump strategy in 2020, ac- Day. Statehouse Republicans pub- that Mr. Obama was indeed born nial Republican trickster, created ther Party were patrolling out- cording to a recording that leaked licly signaled a willingness to Michael Wines contributed report- in the United States, he was well an outside group, Stop the Steal, side, one with a billy club, becom- to The Associated Press in De- work on the issue but kept attach- ing. along in promoting a new false that sought to enlist poll observ- ing a much disputed cause in con- cember. ing conditions.

The Trump Campaign Has Filed 16 Lawsuits Contesting the Election.

By EMILY BAZELON Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and said, “Tell me how that is not It is difficult to overturn an American election result, as President Trump was re- v. Benson hearsay. Come on now!” Judge Stephens Pennsylvania dismissed the suit on Nov. 5. The Trump FILED: Nov. 11 minded on Friday, when his campaign lost in courts in Michigan and Pennsylvania campaign’s appeal of her ruling was de- In re: Canvass of Absentee and and dropped a challenge in Arizona. CLAIM: This is a federal suit that repeats nied because it lacked the required at- Mail-In Ballots of Nov. 3, 2020, A losing candidate who is within striking distance — say a few hundred votes — the pending state-court claims of fraud tachments. General Election and misconduct in Costantino v. Detroit. might get lucky in a recount. Beyond that, he or she would need to show systemic FILED: The Trump campaign is similarly seek- Nov. 10 Stoddard, et.al. v City Election fraud on a large scale. ing to block Michigan’s certification of CLAIM: On behalf of a voter, the Trump Commission of the City of Detroit Mr. Trump has shown nothing like systemic fraud in any of the lawsuits, 16 and the vote. campaign appealed the decision by the FILED: counting, that his campaign and allies have filed since Election Day as they seek to The decision to file a second case sug- Nov. 4 Philadelphia County Board of Elections gests that the Trump campaign is “trying CLAIM: to count five categories of mail-in ballots. block certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the Electoral College. The alle- A Republican poll challenger and to try the same case in multiple court- the Election Integrity Fund, a nonprofit Pennsylvania law provides that voters gations of fraud are a smattering of unverified accusations about the voting or count- rooms hoping that somebody will pro- organization, sued to stop election work- must sign and “fill out” an outer envel- ing process, usually directly affecting too few ballots to change a state’s results. vide an endorsement of their baseless ers in Detroit from hand duplicating bal- ope (as well as include an inner security Other lawsuits in the batch depend on the theory that differences among coun- conspiracy theories,” said David Fink, an lots that could not be read by a machine. envelope when they return their ballots). outside lawyer for the city of Detroit. This suit challenges a total of 8,349 bal- ties in verifying or including absentee ballots amount to a violation of a voter’s con- The suit also sought to delay certification CONTEXT: The plaintiffs submitted more of the results. lots with outer envelopes that were stitutional right to equal protection. Given how decentralized the voting system is in signed but lacked other information, like than 230 pages of affidavits from Repub- CONTEXT: This was an early effort to the United States, that argument has yet to get legal traction after this election. lican poll challengers. But they de- the date or the voter’s printed name or suggest that mail-in ballots were being street address. Here is a rundown of the cases and their statuses. scribed isolated grievances and per- handled to benefit Mr. Biden. ceived irregularities, not systemic fraud. CONTEXT: The number of ballots chal- STATUS: Judge Kenny dismissed the suit “I felt intimidated by union people who lenged in this suit for minor errors would the process for verifying and tabulating on Nov. 6. “Plaintiffs fail to identify the were staring at me,” one poll challenger not be enough to change the election result. absentee votes, according to Chris occurrence and scope of any alleged vio- Michigan complained. Another said the loud vol- STATUS: Thomas, the state director of elections in lation,” he wrote. On Friday, Judge James Crum- ume of the P.A. system was distracting. A Michigan for 36 years before his retire- lish of the Court of Common Pleas denied Costantino v. Detroit third said a Democratic poll worker told ment in 2017, who submitted an affidavit all of the challenges to all five categories FILED: Nov. 9 her to “go back to the suburbs, Karen.” A for the defendants, the City of Detroit of ballots. fourth found it suspicious that most of Arizona CLAIM: The plaintiffs were two poll chal- and the Detroit Election Commission. He the few dozen ballots he saw counted lengers — representatives of the Repub- explained that election workers entered Pirkle v. Wolf that were cast by members of the mili- Donald J. Trump for President Inc. lican Party allowed to monitor the vote Jan. 1, 1900, as a placeholder when the tary were votes for Mr. Biden. v. Hobbs FILED: Nov. 10 counting — who alleged fraud and mis- computer system required them to type FILED: CLAIM: conduct during the vote count last week in a birth date but they could not access STATUS: Pending. Nov. 9 Four voters sought to block all at the TCF Center in Detroit. The lawsuit that information in the voter file. CLAIMS: The Trump campaign claimed votes from Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware and Allegheny Counties from asked the court to block certification of Mr. Thomas also said that ballots re- Donald J. Trump for President Inc. that some ballots in Maricopa County being included in the state total, claiming the election results in Wayne County ceived on Nov. 3 were entered on Nov. 4 were filled out with Sharpie pens. A v. Benson that the state violated the right to equal (which includes Detroit), where more after election workers discovered that handful of voters and a poll observer said FILED: Nov. 4 protection by allowing differing absen- than 867,000 people voted. they had not previously been fully pro- they saw bleeding ink on these ballots, tee balloting practices among counties. The plaintiffs claimed that election cessed. Finally, he explained that Detroit CLAIM: During the ballot counting in causing an “overvote” on the other side, Before the election, Pennsylvania’s workers were instructed “to not verify allows 134 challengers each from the Re- Michigan, the Trump campaign sued to and that poll workers were instructed to secretary of state, Kathy Boockvar, ad- signatures on absentee ballots, to back- publican and Democratic Parties, and stop it. In an affidavit, one poll watcher press a green button on the scanner to vised county election officials that “cur- date absentee ballots, and to process once those limits were reached, access said another, whom she did not name, accept the votes despite the error. The ing” absentee ballots (the term for fixing such ballots regardless of their validity.” for a new challenger was allowed when told her that she was told by still other suit seeks to prevent the supposed “over- mistakes like a missing signature) was They presented five affidavits from poll workers to change the date on which votes” from being included in the tally someone left the hall. permitted but not required. As a result, other poll challengers who said, among a ballot was received. until they are reviewed. STATUS: On Friday, Chief Judge Timothy local practices differed to a degree. This other things, that they saw election CONTEXT: CONTEXT: M. Kenny of Wayne County Circuit Court This was one of a number of The suit involves only 191 suit claims that it was unconstitutional to workers enter Jan. 1, 1900, as the birth denied the petition from the pro-Trump cases the Trump campaign filed in key votes for president. At a hearing on allow some but not all Philadelphia vot- date of many absentee voters. The plain- side. “It would be an unprecedented exer- states to try to stop the counting as the Thursday, when one witness was asked if ers to cure their ballots. The suit also tiffs offered no corroborating evidence cise of judicial activism for this court to results swung in favor of Mr. Biden. she had a basis to believe her vote was cites Delaware County for allegedly giv- for the affidavits. They also falsely stated stop the certification process of the Wayne STATUS: At a hearing, Judge Cynthia not counted, she answered, “Uh, I’m not ing in-person ballots to voters who were that Republican poll challengers could County Board of Canvassers,” Judge Stephens of the Michigan Court of sure.” recorded as having received mail-in bal- not observe the count. Kenny wrote. “Plaintiffs’ interpretation of Claims characterized the affidavit as, “‘I STATUS: On Friday, the Trump campaign lots without requiring them to sign the CONTEXT: The plaintiffs misunderstood events is incorrect and not credible.” heard someone else say something,’” dropped the suit. registration book at the polls. In Alleghe- THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A17

Transition in Washington Challenging the Results

One demand sought to do away advantage on Election Day as the they do,” he said at a rally in North the city of Detroit later reported in cases judges pressed for evi- place holder for the computer pro- with drop boxes, which voters in-person vote came in but to Carolina. legal filings, Mr. Cushman shared dence, the Trump campaign re- gram, which required something could use for ballots as opposed to badly lose the mail-in vote and, po- Mr. Roman, the Philadelphia other posts promoting the QAnon leased what Kayleigh McEnany, in the birth date field. the regular mail system; another tentially, the presidency along operative involved in the New conspiracy theory.) the White House press secretary, Other witnesses reported that wanted new signature-matching with it. A digital consulting firm Black Panther Party case, would About 24 hours later, Mr. Trump called “234 pages of sworn affida- boxes of ballots arrived at the con- requirements or to eradicate a founded by Michael R. Bloom- be in charge of the poll-watching delivered the same message when vits” from the Trump poll watch- vention center hours after an 8 provision requiring all poll watch- berg, Hawkfish, called the early operation. His Twitter account he addressed staff members, sup- ers in Detroit: “real people, real p.m. deadline; Detroit officials ex- ers to live in the county. returns the “red mirage.” quickly began pumping out de- porters and followers at the White allegation, signed with notaries.’’ plained that these ballots had ar- “Every time we agreed to some- The president and his allies be- ceptive allegations that, for in- House while the votes were being The affidavits were connected rived on time at other city election thing that was put out there, gan a concerted campaign to twist stance, Philadelphia election tabulated around the country and to a last-ditch federal lawsuit by offices and boxes and were per- they’d raise the bar,” said Jay that situation — one to which they workers were blocking Trump ob- his early leads were slipping the Trump campaign to prohibit fectly legal. Costa, the Democratic minority contributed by opposing early servers from satellite early voting away. Detroit from certifying its results. On Friday, Judge Timothy M. leader in the State Senate who counting of mail ballots — into sites. “We were winning everything, But, as lawyers for the city Kenny dismissed the suit in a was leading the negotiations. something more sinister. “What are they hiding?" he and all of the sudden it was just pointed out with expert testimony Michigan court, largely on the ba- Eventually, there seemed to be “They are planting stories that wrote in a tweet, the gist of which called off,” he said. “We want all addressing similar affidavits in sis that the affidavits were mean- some momentum behind an President Trump, he’ll have a Mr. Trump repeated during the voting to stop; we don’t want them another Republican lawsuit in ingless. The suit’s “interpretation agreement that would have al- landslide lead on election night first presidential debate. In fact, to find any ballots at four o’clock in state court, what Republicans de- of events is incorrect and not cred- lowed for three days of precan- but will lose when they finish Pennsylvania law did not permit the morning and add them to the scribed seeing was standard pro- ible,” he found. vassing, enhanced security meas- counting the mail-in ballots,” Don- observers at the early voting list.” cedure intended to ensure an ac- When thousands of the presi- ures for drop boxes and ballots ald Trump Jr. said in a video sites. From there, a fire hose of confu- curate and legal count. dent’s supporters demonstrated postmarked on Election Day and posted on Twitter in late Septem- Thousands were hearing the sion flooded conservative news For instance, Republicans who in Washington on Saturday, the le- received within three days to be ber that was viewed nearly 2.5 call and the message. On the day media and the major social media believed they had witnessed fraud gal losses and electoral implausi- counted. But the deal abruptly fell million times. “Their plan is to add before the election, a Republican platforms. when workers input birth dates bilities were irrelevant. As they apart after a Republican caucus millions of fraudulent ballots that poll observer in Detroit named “We believe these people are from 1900 for some mail ballots marched through the streets hold- meeting in the lower chamber. can cancel your vote and overturn Bob Cushman posted a meme on thieves; we believe the big city apparently did not understand ing an enormous Trump flag In Michigan, Republicans in the the election.” Facebook featuring a photo- machines are corrupt,” the former that this was done in cases where flecked with white stars against a State Legislature conducted a The president urged his follow- shopped image of Mr. Trump hold- House Speaker Newt Gingrich information other than dates of navy backdrop, they repeatedly similar dance, appearing to be ers to become poll watchers. ing a shotgun and the headline said on Fox & Friends. birth were being used for verifica- chanted the phrase planted four willing to provide more time to be- “When you go there, watch all the “Election stealing will not be toler- As Democrats, opposing law- tion and the dates were not readily years ago by Mr. Stone: “Stop the gin processing ballots, only to ne- thieving and stealing and robbing ated in America.” (As lawyers for yers, fact checkers and in some available. The 1900 date was a steal.” gotiate the additional time down to just 10 hours and only in counties with more than 25,000 people. Forced to accept the deal as better than nothing, Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic secretary of state, called it a “small step forward.” But she expressed concern in an interview as early as September that the counting would remain so slow that it would leave room for misinformation about the process to spread. States like hers, Ms. Benson noted, were in dire need of more federal funds for equipment like high-speed envelope openers that could speed the counting. In Washington in the spring, Congress had allocated $400 million for pandemic election pre- paredness as part of a $2 trillion recovery package known as the CARES Act — a welcome injec- tion, but it was $3.6 billion shy of what election officials projected would be needed nationwide. Democrats such as Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota pushed for more throughout the summer and into the early fall. Several influential Republicans, including Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, the chairman of the Rules Committee, said they were open to providing more, but nothing would come of it. Mr. Trump had made clear his opposition to more money to support increased mail-in balloting, and aides to Mr. McConnell argued that Congress had already allocated enough. Looking back, Senator Klobuchar said, she saw the Re- publican decision to block more money to help run the election and support voting by mail as part of a plan to “create havoc, because that was one of the only paths he saw to victory.”

An ‘Incorrect’ Account DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES By this fall, Mr. Trump was in- President Trump and his allies opposed the early counting of mail ballots, and then tried to present his loss of election-night leads in some states as something sinister. creasingly likely to have an early

Not One Has Yet Gained Traction. ny County, according to the suit, voters Donald J. Trump for President Inc. allowing them to tell absentee voters plaintiffs did not have standing to stop data, but without proof, that thousands of were required to vote provisionally when v. Bucks County Board of Elections they had until Nov. 12 to provide missing the counting of the late-arriving ballots. noncitizens voted for Mr. Biden. records showed they had requested an proof of identification. The Supreme Court has yet to say FILED: Nov. 9 CONTEXT: Georgia is in the middle of a absentee ballot but not cast it. CONTEXT: Pennsylvania law normally whether it will hear the Republicans’ ap- recount. CLAIM: The Trump campaign and others CONTEXT: The election system in the sets a deadline for six days after the elec- peal. appealed the decision of the Bucks STATUS: The suit is pending in the United United States is highly decentralized and tion, Nov. 9 this year, for providing miss- County Board of Elections to count 2,175 States District Court for the Southern gives considerable authority to state and ing voter ID. Ms. Boockvar, the secretary ballots that lacked the voter’s printed District of Georgia, Savannah Division. county officials over how to run elections. of state, extended the deadline to Nov. 12 name or street address, or the date of Nevada As a result, it is common for states to allow in light of a decision by the Pennsylvania signing. The suit also challenged the in- In re: enforcement of election laws some variation in local election practices clusion of 76 ballots that arrived in un- Supreme Court to allow absentee ballots Stokke v. Cegavske and to allow voters to cast provisional bal- to be counted if they were received by FILED: sealed inner envelopes or with markings FILED: Nov. 5 Nov. 4 lots in a variety of circumstances. on them. Nov. 6. The extension Ms. Boockvar al- CLAIM: The Trump campaign sued to CLAIMS: Two voters, a poll observer and STATUS: On Thursday night, the law firm lowed applied to only a small number of prevent ballots from being counted if CONTEXT: Like a number of other suits, elected officials, backed by the Trump representing the Trump campaign, ballots with missing ID that arrived after they were received after 7 p.m. on Elec- this one involves a relatively small num- campaign, claimed there were problems Porter Wright, asked to withdraw. Previ- Nov. 3. tion Day. ber of votes that would not change the with an automated signature verification ously, the plaintiffs asked Judge STATUS: On Nov. 12, Judge Mary Hannah outcome. machine in Clark County. One of them, CONTEXT: This was one of the flurry of Matthew Brann of the United States Dis- Leavitt of the Commonwealth Court or- Jill Stokke, said at a Trump campaign cases around the country seeking to limit trict Court for the Middle District of STATUS: Judge Robert O. Baldi of the dered this narrow category of ballots to news conference, “I went to vote and was the counting of mail-in ballots. Pennsylvania to consolidate this case Court of Common Pleas scheduled a be excluded from the state count. None of told I already voted.” STATUS: with the next one below. hearing for Nov. 17. these ballots had yet been included. This Judge James F. Bass of the Supe- is the Trump campaign’s only win so far CONTEXT: The Clark County registrar of rior Court of Chatham County dismissed in postelection litigation. voters, Joe Gloria, investigated Ms. the case on Nov. 5 for lack of evidence. Donald J. Trump for President Donald J. Trump for President Inc. Stokke’s complaint and said that the sig- v. Boockvar v. Montgomery County Board nature on her absentee ballot appeared of Elections FILED: Nov. 9 Republican Party of Pennsylvania to match the one in the voter file, but Wisconsin FILED: Nov. 5 v. Boockvar gave her the option of challenging that CLAIM: The Trump campaign is seeking vote and casting a provisional ballot. Ms. CLAIM: The Trump campaign and others FILED: Nov. 6 Langenhorst v. Pecore to block the certification of the Pennsyl- Stokke refused. vania election, alleging fraud in mail-in sued the Montgomery County Board of CLAIM: The Pennsylvania Republican FILED: Nov. 12 STATUS: Judge Andrew Gordon of the balloting, insufficient access for poll ob- Elections for notifying voters before Party asked the Supreme Court to block CLAIM: Election Day to allow them to fill in miss- United States District Court for the Dis- Four voters sought to exclude all servers and varying procedures for cur- the counting of ballots received between of the votes cast in three counties from ing ballots among different counties. ing information on ballot envelopes. the end of Election Day and Nov. 6. trict of Nevada denied the plaintiff’s request on Nov. 6 for lack of evidence. Wisconsin’s total based on differences in The plaintiffs said “Democratic heavy” CONTEXT: About 600 ballots are at issue. CONTEXT: In September, the Pennsylva- absentee voting rules among the coun- counties allowed voters to cure their ab- At a hearing, Judge Richard P. Haaz of nia Supreme Court ruled that ballots ties. The suit objected to Milwaukee, sentee ballots while “Republican heavy” the Court of Common Pleas asked if the could be counted if they were post- Dane and Menominee Counties allowing counties did not. They also said ballots suit included any accusations of fraud. marked by Nov. 3 and received by Nov. 6. Georgia voters who say they are “indefinitely were processed in Allegheny County and When pressed, the lawyer for the plain- Republicans then asked the U.S. Su- confined” by age, illness or disability to Philadelphia while poll observers were tiffs said no. preme Court to block the Pennsylvania Brooks v. Mahoney cast ballots without proving photo- too far away to see what was happening. STATUS: On Friday, Judge Haaz denied court’s ruling. In October, in a 4-to-4 split, FILED: Nov. 11 graphic identification. The complaint CONTEXT: On Election Day, Republican the petition to disqualify the ballots. the justices let the state court ruling also cited a handful of voters (identified CLAIM: Four Republican voters sued lawyers acknowledged in court that the “Voters should not be disenfranchised by stand. Pennsylvania’s attorney general, by only their initials) who said they re- over the process of absentee vote count- party’s observers were present at the reasonably relying upon voting instruc- however, ordered the late-arriving bal- ceived absentee ballots without request- ing in several Georgia counties, seeking Pennsylvania Convention Center in Phila- tions provided by election officials which lots segregated from the rest of the ing them, and three absentee ballots al- to exclude all of the votes cast in them are consistent with the Election Code,” count. legedly completed after they were mai- delphia when votes were being counted. from the state total. “I’m sorry, then what’s your problem?” he wrote. On Nov. 6, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. led to deceased people. The plaintiffs cited isolated instances CONTEXT: Judge Paul S. Diamond of the United also ordered the late-arriving ballots of fraud. One voter, for example, said his This suit makes the same States District Court for the Eastern Dis- segregated. In the end, there were fewer absentee ballot was recorded even kinds of equal-protection claims as the trict of Pennsylvania asked. He granted a Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. than 10,000 such votes. They have not ones in Brooks v. Mahoney. Both were et al v. Boockvar et al though he voted in person. The plaintiffs modest accommodation, ordering the city been included in the reported state total. also claimed that several counties ap- filed by the conservative lawyer James FILED: election commission to allow poll observ- Nov. 4 By themselves, those ballots would not peared to have more registered voters Bopp. ers to move closer to the counting. CLAIM: The Trump campaign and others affect the outcome in Pennsylvania. than their interpretation of census data STATUS: The case is pending in U.S. Dis- STATUS: Judge Brann scheduled oral ar- challenged guidance that Ms. Boockvar STATUS: On Friday, the U.S. Court of Ap- would suggest was plausible. They cited trict Court for the Eastern District of gument for Nov. 17. provided to counties before the election, peals for the Third Circuit ruled that the a study that estimated from past survey Wisconsin, Green Bay Division. A18 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 Iota Barrels Toward Central America on Heels of Eta

By ALLYSON WALLER Gracias a Dios, on the Nicaragua- ing amid the rubble left from Hur- Hurricane Iota, upgraded to a Honduras border, and moved west ricane Eta. Category 2 storm, inched closer to at nine miles per hour, with maxi- A hurricane expected Elsewhere in the country, it is Central America on Sunday as mum sustained winds of 100 to hit Nicaragua and not yet clear how many people countries reeling from the devas- m.p.h., as of 7 p.m. Sunday. have been transferred to shelters, tation left by Hurricane Eta The storm’s impact will be felt Honduras on Monday. but smartphone images sent by nearly two weeks ago prepared “well before the center makes eyewitness show hundreds of res- for another major storm system. landfall,” Mr. Feltgen said. idents being evacuated in Cabo Gracias a Dios and other remote “It’s eerie that it’s similar in Catastrophic winds, along with firmed throughout Central Amer- villages where Hurricane Iota is wind speed and also in the same a life-threatening surge in water ica from Hurricane Eta. In Guate- area that Eta hit,” said Dennis levels, could affect portions of the mala, rescuers feared that more expected to hit. Feltgen, a spokesman and me- Nicaragua-Honduras coast. than 100 people had been killed af- Sadam Vinicius, a father of teorologist with the National Hur- Heavy rainfall is expected ter the storm chopped off part of a three, decided to stay with his ricane Center in Miami. through Friday in portions of Cen- mountain slope that crushed mul- family at their home near the Hurricane Iota, the 30th named tral America and could lead to in- tiple homes in the village of Quejá. coast. Afraid of losing his roof, he tense flooding and mudslides in attempted to save it from damage storm in this record-breaking At- Many people were left home- RICARDO MALDONADO ROZO/EPA, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK lantic hurricane season, is ex- more elevated areas. The storm is by tying it up with ropes he uses less after a number of structures Floods in Cartagena, Colombia, brought on by tropical storm Iota. pected to make landfall along the set to weaken upon landfall as it were damaged or destroyed, Mr. for his work as a fisherman. coast of Nicaragua and Honduras moves across mountainous ter- Feltgen said. “Shelter is going to Marina Rodríguez, 47, said her by Monday night as a Category 4 rain, the center said. be a problem.” home had disappeared during the coming up and up every minute, hausted the 21-name list used storm, according to the National Forecasters warned that dam- Dozens of Indigenous commu- surge of Hurricane Eta. Her chil- so I guess we will have to evacu- each season, turning to the Greek Hurricane Center. It was about age from Hurricane Iota could nities were evacuated Saturday dren are now helping her build ate.” alphabet to name systems. The 255 miles east-southeast of Cabo compound the destruction caused night through Sunday in temporary shelter, but the threat The 2020 Atlantic hurricane last time the Greek alphabet was by Hurricane Eta in Central Nicaragua and Honduras. In the of Hurricane Iota looms. season, which is set to end on Nov. used was in 2005, which saw 28 Alfonso Flores Bermúdez contrib- America. neighborhood of Puerto Cabezas, “I am afraid of the sea level,” 30, has seen 30 named storms and storms strong enough to be uted reporting. More than 60 deaths were con- in Nicaragua, families are sleep- she said. “You can see the water 13 hurricanes. Meteorologists ex- named.

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Milwaukee 52/ 31 0.50 48/ 29 PC 42/ 28 S Sydney 83/ 63 0 95/ 67 PC 72/ 63 PC Mpls.-St. Paul 34/ 23 0.04 39/ 20 C 35/ 26 S Taipei City 84/ 70 0 84/ 74 S 84/ 72 PC 90 days C ...... Clouds S ...... Sun Nashville 63/ 36 0.10 62/ 41 S 59/ 32 S Tehran 55/ 41 0 55/ 42 PC 58/ 42 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days F ...... Fog Sn ...... Snow New Orleans 79/ 54 0 69/ 52 S 72/ 55 S Tokyo 66/ 50 0 69/ 57 S 66/ 58 S Norfolk 74/ 50 0.01 62/ 45 S 61/ 39 S Yesterday ...... 71% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation H ...... Haze SS ...... Snow showers Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow I...... Ice T ...... Thunderstorms Oklahoma City 61/ 37 0 68/ 39 S 68/ 45 S Est. normal ...... 79% trends compare with those of the last 30 years. Omaha 51/ 30 0 59/ 27 S 53/ 39 S Amsterdam 59/ 49 0.43 55/ 49 C 55/ 46 PC PC ...... Partly cloudy Tr ...... Trace Athens 68/ 52 0.01 67/ 55 S 67/ 56 PC R ...... Rain W ...... Windy Orlando 84/ 69 0.07 79/ 62 PC 77/ 58 S Philadelphia 63/ 43 0.07 54/ 37 W 51/ 31 W Berlin 57/ 47 0 53/ 46 PC 51/ 45 Sh Sh ...... Showers –...... Not available Phoenix 81/ 55 0 88/ 59 S 89/ 60 S Brussels 59/ 49 0.50 53/ 47 C 54/ 45 PC Recreational Forecast Budapest 48/ 40 0 47/ 42 Sh 52/ 36 PC N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow Pittsburgh 62/ 36 0.38 47/ 36 W 41/ 28 SS Portland, Me. 44/ 41 0 51/ 32 W 45/ 25 PC Copenhagen 54/ 50 0.22 52/ 46 Sh 52/ 50 Sh New York City 58/ 41 0 53/ 41 W 48/ 33 PC Portland, Ore. 55/ 46 0.34 55/ 48 R 55/ 47 R Dublin 50/ 43 0.33 55/ 53 R 60/ 53 R Sun, Moon and Planets Mountain and Ocean Temperatures Bridgeport 52/ 34 0 53/ 38 W 49/ 29 PC Providence 53/ 43 Tr 53/ 34 W 49/ 26 PC Edinburgh 54/ 47 0.21 50/ 48 Sh 59/ 54 Sh Caldwell 56/ 31 0.16 53/ 34 W 50/ 28 PC Raleigh 73/ 44 Tr 62/ 39 S 61/ 34 S Frankfurt 62/ 44 0.23 53/ 43 C 52/ 39 PC First Quarter Full Last Quarter New Danbury 51/ 25 0.06 50/ 32 W 46/ 24 C Reno 61/ 33 0 65/ 40 PC 63/ 43 W Geneva 58/ 37 0.16 52/ 37 C 51/ 38 PC Today’s forecast Islip 57/ 31 0.06 53/ 36 W 49/ 29 PC Richmond 71/ 44 0.06 59/ 40 S 59/ 31 S Helsinki 39/ 34 0.05 40/ 39 Sh 46/ 44 Sh Newark 62/ 36 0.11 54/ 38 W 50/ 31 PC Rochester 56/ 37 0.33 42/ 33 W 39/ 25 SS Istanbul 56/ 51 0.03 60/ 47 PC 61/ 50 S White Trenton 60/ 32 0.16 52/ 35 W 49/ 28 W Sacramento 68/ 44 0 68/ 49 PC 63/ 53 R Kiev 41/ 36 0.14 37/ 25 PC 32/ 29 C Nov. 21 Nov. 30 Dec. 7 Dec. 14 37/27 Very windy White Plains 54/ 32 0.07 51/ 34 W 46/ 28 C Salt Lake City 51/ 37 0.03 59/ 37 PC 62/ 47 PC Lisbon 70/ 60 0 67/ 55 PC 69/ 58 S 4:30 a.m. 11:17 a.m. Green United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 74/ 46 0 75/ 46 S 75/ 47 S London 55/ 47 0.69 53/ 50 PC 58/ 50 PC San Diego 78/ 54 0 81/ 56 S 75/ 57 PC Madrid 62/ 51 0.06 64/ 46 PC 61/ 47 S 29/16 Snow, 1-2", windy, colder Albany 48/ 39 0.01 46/ 30 W 41/ 22 SS Sun RISE 6:45 a.m. Moon R 8:20 a.m. San Francisco 65/ 51 0 69/ 55 PC 63/ 54 R Moscow 34/ 31 0.02 31/ 19 C 26/ 22 S Albuquerque 58/ 34 0 65/ 37 S 66/ 42 S SET 4:37 p.m. S 5:56 p.m. Adirondacks San Jose 69/ 48 0 73/ 53 S 66/ 54 R Nice 64/ 53 0.05 65/ 53 C 66/ 51 PC Anchorage 23/ 13 0 21/ 13 S 19/ 13 S NEXT R 6:46 a.m. R 9:33 a.m. 35/24 Rain and snow San Juan 86/ 75 0.03 86/ 75 PC 85/ 75 PC Oslo 49/ 43 0.72 49/ 38 PC 52/ 49 Sh 50s Atlanta 71/ 43 0.04 63/ 44 S 64/ 39 S Seattle 52/ 45 0.09 51/ 49 R 56/ 46 R Paris 59/ 49 0.27 56/ 46 C 57/ 43 PC Jupiter R 11:10 a.m. Mars S 3:32 a.m. Atlantic City 66/ 47 0 55/ 43 W 54/ 33 W Berkshires Sioux Falls 43/ 25 0 52/ 22 PC 43/ 34 PC Prague 46/ 37 0 49/ 42 Sh 49/ 38 PC S 8:35 p.m. R 2:50 p.m. Austin 74/ 39 0 75/ 41 S 76/ 41 S 44/31 Partly sunny and windy Spokane 46/ 35 0.01 43/ 36 R 53/ 40 C Rome 68/ 53 0.09 66/ 51 Sh 66/ 48 S Baltimore 65/ 43 0.10 58/ 36 W 53/ 31 W Saturn R 11:22 a.m. Venus R 4:06 a.m. St. Louis 55/ 36 0.06 62/ 37 S 52/ 34 S St. Petersburg 34/ 26 0 36/ 32 C 34/ 31 C Baton Rouge 74/ 44 0.02 71/ 42 S 74/ 45 S S 8:54 p.m. S 3:19 p.m. St. Thomas 84/ 77 0.02 85/ 77 PC 85/ 77 Sh Stockholm 49/ 41 0.02 50/ 44 C 48/ 45 C Birmingham 71/ 40 0.10 63/ 41 S 64/ 39 S Catskills Syracuse 54/ 39 0.28 46/ 34 W 40/ 24 Sn Vienna 48/ 41 0.02 49/ 44 Sh 51/ 37 PC Boating 39/28 Windy with clouds and sun Boise 45/ 40 0.27 55/ 40 C 57/ 45 C Tampa 84/ 71 0 83/ 62 PC 77/ 57 S Warsaw 52/ 44 0.02 48/ 42 R 49/ 41 PC Boston 51/ 45 0 53/ 37 W 47/ 28 PC Toledo 56/ 34 0.54 47/ 35 S 43/ 25 PC From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 Poconos Buffalo 56/ 37 0.44 44/ 35 W 40/ 28 SS North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Tucson 82/ 51 0 88/ 58 S 90/ 57 S nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York 40/30 Partly sunny and colder Burlington 47/ 40 0.06 48/ 33 W 39/ 22 SS Acapulco 87/ 75 0 87/ 74 S 88/ 74 S Tulsa 63/ 39 0 69/ 38 S 68/ 46 S Harbor. Southwest Pa. Casper 47/ 33 0 53/ 37 S 62/ 43 W Virginia Beach 73/ 49 0.01 60/ 44 S 60/ 40 S Bermuda 74/ 69 0 76/ 73 PC 75/ 68 T 42/32 Partly sunny and cooler Charlotte 72/ 42 0.01 63/ 39 S 62/ 33 S Washington 67/ 45 Tr 59/ 41 S 53/ 33 S Edmonton 22/ 7 Tr 18/ 13 C 30/ 22 C Wind will be from the west at 15-20 knots, with gusts up Chattanooga 68/ 39 0.07 62/ 39 S 61/ 35 S Wichita 59/ 35 0 67/ 37 S 65/ 46 S Guadalajara 86/ 53 0 82/ 50 S 80/ 54 S to 30 knots. Waves will be 2-3 feet on New York Harbor 60s Chicago 45/ 31 0.39 50/ 30 PC 42/ 28 S Havana 86/ 70 0 83/ 72 PC 82/ 72 Sh and Long Island Sound, and 6-9 feet on the ocean. Vis- Wilmington, Del. 65/ 42 0.10 55/ 35 W 51/ 30 W West Virginia Cincinnati 56/ 35 0.49 54/ 38 S 47/ 26 S Kingston 86/ 77 0.11 87/ 76 Sh 87/ 75 Sh ibility will be generally unrestricted. Cleveland 58/ 36 0.57 45/ 37 W 40/ 30 SS Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 86/ 75 0.20 84/ 76 Sh 86/ 76 Sh 45/34 Mostly sunny and cooler Colorado Springs 56/ 34 0 61/ 34 S 66/ 39 S Algiers 73/ 58 0 77/ 56 PC 72/ 52 PC Mexico City 76/ 50 0 71/ 49 S 63/ 49 C High Tides Columbus 55/ 34 0.27 50/ 37 S 44/ 25 PC Cairo 73/ 61 0 73/ 60 PC 74/ 60 PC Monterrey 80/ 64 0 76/ 59 PC 72/ 58 C Color bands Concord, N.H. 45/ 38 0.03 49/ 29 W 44/ 22 C Cape Town 68/ 55 0 72/ 59 PC 73/ 59 PC Montreal 43/ 28 0.26 45/ 30 Sh 37/ 19 PC Atlantic City ...... 7:46 a.m...... 8:12 p.m. Blue Ridge indicate water Dallas-Ft. Worth 67/ 41 0 69/ 43 S 72/ 46 S Dakar 91/ 77 0 92/ 76 PC 92/ 77 PC Nassau 85/ 75 0 84/ 76 Sh 83/ 74 C Barnegat Inlet ...... 8:01 a.m...... 8:28 p.m. 52/36 Mostly sunny and cooler temperature. Denver 58/ 35 Tr 62/ 37 S 67/ 44 S Johannesburg 81/ 58 0 84/ 63 PC 85/ 64 PC Panama City 81/ 73 0.32 83/ 76 R 83/ 76 T The Battery ...... 8:32 a.m...... 9:01 p.m. Des Moines 47/ 28 0.01 56/ 27 S 45/ 33 S Nairobi 81/ 60 0.08 76/ 59 T 77/ 60 T Quebec City 38/ 21 0 41/ 25 R 32/ 16 C Beach Haven ...... 9:26 a.m...... 9:52 p.m. Detroit 54/ 33 0.34 46/ 32 W 40/ 25 PC Tunis 79/ 55 0 76/ 60 PC 69/ 58 W Santo Domingo 86/ 71 0.06 86/ 71 PC 85/ 72 Sh Bridgeport ...... 11:33 a.m...... --- El Paso 70/ 42 0 75/ 46 S 79/ 52 S Toronto 53/ 39 0.51 41/ 33 W 38/ 25 SS City Island ...... 11:32 a.m...... --- It will be a windy and cooler day from the Fargo 34/ 21 0.04 32/ 15 Sn 34/ 26 S Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 49/ 43 0.07 48/ 44 R 52/ 43 Sh Fire Island Lt...... 8:54 a.m...... 9:20 p.m. Green and White Mountains to the Alle- Hartford 52/ 41 0.02 52/ 33 W 48/ 26 C Baghdad 75/ 49 0 74/ 51 PC 74/ 49 PC Winnipeg 29/ 21 Tr 23/ 8 PC 25/ 18 S Honolulu 85/ 73 0 85/ 74 PC 85/ 73 C Bangkok 90/ 71 0 92/ 78 PC 92/ 78 PC Montauk Point ...... 9:09 a.m...... 9:39 p.m. ghenies following the passage of a cold Houston 75/ 46 0.06 72/ 45 S 75/ 47 S Beijing 66/ 37 0 55/ 46 C 57/ 49 C South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ...... 11:41 a.m...... --- Indianapolis 55/ 33 0.61 53/ 35 S 45/ 27 S Damascus 60/ 49 0.17 64/ 45 PC 64/ 42 S Buenos Aires 77/ 61 0.07 74/ 63 S 74/ 64 S Port Washington ...... 11:45 a.m...... --- front. Lake-effect rain and snow showers Jackson 72/ 40 0.20 67/ 40 S 70/ 41 S Hong Kong 78/ 71 0 81/ 73 S 81/ 74 PC Caracas 91/ 76 0 86/ 73 Sh 86/ 73 Sh Sandy Hook ...... 8:08 a.m...... 8:34 p.m. are expected over the Adirondacks and Jacksonville 84/ 59 Tr 73/ 46 S 72/ 48 S Jakarta 91/ 79 0.04 91/ 77 Sh 92/ 77 T Lima 73/ 62 0 69/ 62 PC 69/ 62 PC Shinnecock Inlet ...... 7:51 a.m...... 8:18 p.m. parts of the Allegheny Plateau. High Kansas City 56/ 36 0 63/ 34 S 57/ 42 S Jerusalem 62/ 56 0.35 61/ 52 PC 64/ 51 PC Quito 62/ 50 0.33 66/ 53 R 65/ 52 R Stamford ...... 11:40 a.m...... --- Key West 83/ 76 0 81/ 74 PC 81/ 74 PC Karachi 88/ 64 0 88/ 61 PC 85/ 57 PC Recife 86/ 79 0 87/ 80 PC 87/ 79 C Tarrytown ...... 10:21 a.m...... 10:50 p.m. pressure building over the region will Las Vegas 68/ 47 0 74/ 52 S 76/ 53 PC Manila 90/ 78 0.02 91/ 78 S 91/ 77 S Rio de Janeiro 82/ 73 0 83/ 74 S 85/ 73 T Willets Point ...... 11:32 a.m...... --- Lexington 56/ 34 0.24 54/ 37 S 48/ 25 S Mumbai 93/ 77 0 95/ 80 PC 95/ 81 PC Santiago 75/ 48 0 80/ 49 PC 74/ 49 PC promote a mostly sunny sky.

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By MARIE FAZIO The treatment, however, does Michael Knapinski was hiking not guarantee recovery. But in Mount Rainier National Park sometimes, she said, it can save a last Saturday when he got lost in life. blinding snow and freezing condi- Dr. Johnson, who treated Mr. tions. Knapinski, said that cooler tem- The next afternoon, after hours peratures had been shown to “proof fruitless searching, he was spot- tect the brain and improve out- ted by a helicopter crew and air- comes after cardiac arrest, or lifted to Harborview Medical Cen- when the heart stops.” ter in Seattle. Upon arrival he was “We thought with him being unconscious and had hypother- cold, in addition to him being a mia, and his pulse was faint, said young and fit guy who was climb- Nick Johnson, an emergency ing a mountain before this, he was room doctor. a great candidate for this ag- Minutes later, Mr. Knapinski’s gressive treatment,” Dr. Johnson heart stopped. said. For the next 45 minutes, doc- As his organs began to regain tors and nurses performed CPR function, Mr. Knapinski was taken and hooked him up to a special- off the ECMO machine on Tues- ized heart-lung bypass machine day. that ran his blood through an oxy- That night Dr. Arbabi received a genator before pumping it back page from Whitney Holen, a into his body. trauma nurse in Harborview’s in- “He was on the verge of death,” tensive care unit who was caring said Dr. Sam Arbabi, the medical for Mr. Knapinski. That’s usually a director of the surgical intensive sign of disaster, but Ms. Holen’s care unit at Harborview. voice was full of joy when she re- But two days later Mr. Knapin- ported that “our mountain man” ski was sitting up in his hospital had opened his eyes and was smil- ing, he said. JOHN RAOUX/ASSOCIATED PRESS bed, his heart and lungs function- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon capsule, took off Sunday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. ing normally, expressing grati- About two hours after he was tude for being alive. taken off life support, Mr. Knapin- “He was as dead as somebody ski was lying in his hospital bed, gets before they are truly dead,” seemingly unconscious, Ms. Rocket Lifts 4 Astronauts Into New Era of Spaceflight Dr. Arbabi said. “For this person Holen said in an interview. Before she began another round of seda- to come back and his mental sta- By KENNETH CHANG NASA, said in a telephone interference on Monday about his For Mr. Bridenstine, this was tion treatment, she softly said his tus to be great, it is as miraculous and ALLYSON WALLER view with reporters on Thursday. thoughts on making history, Mr. the last astronaut launch he would as it gets in medicine.” name. It’s not yet the same as hopping “For the first time in history, there Glover modestly nodded to the view as leader of NASA. In an in- Dr. Arbabi said Mr. Knapinski His eyes sprung open, she said, on a commuter flight from New is a commercial capability from a significance. terview last week with the maga- had been sedated and kept at a and tears began streaming down York to Washington or renting a private sector entity to safely and “It is something to be celebrat- zine Aviation Week, Mr. Bridens- lower temperature to protect his his cheeks. He wiggled his toes car from Avis, but Sunday’s reliably transport people to ed once we accomplish it, and I am tine said he would not stay in his brain and give his other organs a and gave a thumbs-up. Unable to space.” honored to be in this position and current role past the inaugura- talk because of a breathing tube, launch of four astronauts to the In- chance to recover. Before he came ternational Space Station in a cap- Despite iffy weather — fore- to be a part of this great and expe- tion, even if asked by the incoming he mouthed a request to speak to, doctors didn’t know if a lack of sule built by SpaceX was a mo- casts gave only a 50-50 chance of rienced crew,” he said. “And I look Biden administration. with his mother. oxygen to his brain while his heart mentous step toward making favorable conditions at the forward to getting up there and Mr. Musk, the chief executive of was stopped had done permanent “It was very emotional,” Ms. space travel commonplace. launchpad — the skies remained doing my best to make sure, you SpaceX, remained out of sight, af- damage. It is not uncommon, Dr. Holen said. “We all right now are In the future, instead of relying clear enough. At 7:27 p.m. Eastern know, we are worthy of all the ter he said he “most likely” had a Arbabi said, for people who are re- so burned out and so exhausted. on government-operated space- time, the nine engines of the Fal- work that’s been put into setting “moderate case” of Covid-19. suscitated by CPR to have im- To have something so dramatic craft, NASA astronauts and any- con 9 rocket roared to life and us up for this mission. You know, The four astronauts who lifted paired cognitive function. happen, for someone whose heart one else with enough money will brightened the night sky as the unlike the election — that is in the off on Sunday will join three oth- “Medical people always try to was stopped for 45 minutes to be be able to buy a ticket on a com- rocket arced over the Atlantic past or receding in the past — this ers already at the space station: be optimistic, but we always have awake three days later — we all mercial rocket. Ocean. mission is still ahead of me. So, Kate Rubins of NASA and two let’s get there, and I’ll talk to you to think about the worst-case sce- needed this.” NASA designated Sunday After dropping away from the Russians, Sergey Ryzhikov and after I get on board.” nario,” Dr. Arbabi said, noting that By the next morning, Mr. Knap- night’s launch as the first opera- second stage, which continued to Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. He also said last week in an in- he could see the fear in his col- inski’s heart was pumping nor- tional flight of the Crew Dragon orbit, the Falcon 9 booster turned They will be doing what astro- terview with The Christian Chron- leagues’ eyes as they treated Mr. mally and his kidneys showed spacecraft built and operated by around and landed on a floating nauts have been doing for the past icle, a publication of the Churches Knapinski. signs that they were functioning SpaceX, the rocket company two decades on the space station: of Christ, that the milestone was properly, Dr. Arbabi said. Doctors started by Elon Musk. The four as- overseeing scientific experi- Mr. Knapinski, 45, of Wood- “bittersweet.” removed him from a ventilator tronauts aboard — three from ments, performing maintenance inville, Wash., could not be “I’ve had some amazing col- NASA and one from JAXA, the tasks and talking to students on reached on Sunday. He told The and he began to speak. His first If you have the money, leagues before me that really Japanese space agency — left the ground. Seattle Times that he had been words were to express gratitude could have done it, and there are you’ll be able to buy The astronauts, for example, hiking with a friend in Mount that he was alive, Dr. Arbabi said. Earth from the Kennedy Space some amazing folks that will go will collect their own biological Rainier National Park on the On a walk with nurses around Center in Florida. behind me,” Mr. Glover said. “I a ticket off Earth. samples to help scientists on the morning of Nov. 7 when they de- the hospital, Dr. Arbabi said, Mr. A Crew Dragon took two astro- wish it would have already been cided to split up. They planned to Knapinski stopped at a window, nauts — Robert Behnken and done, but I try not to draw too ground study how dietary meet up in an area of the park looked out at the Seattle drizzle Douglas Hurley — to the space much attention to it.” changes affect the body. They will called Paradise, his friend on skis and remarked that he had feared station in May, but that was a test platform. SpaceX now, as a matter Charles F. Bolden Jr., who also grow radishes, the latest ex- for the rest of the trek and Mr. he would never see rain again. flight to shake out remaining of course, recovers and reuses the served as NASA administrator periment to explore whether food Knapinski on snowshoes. Dr. Arbabi said he had written a glitches in the systems. boosters. This same rocket stage under President Barack Obama, can be grown in space. (Red let- tuce and mizuna mustard greens The weather took a turn “to note about Mr. Knapinski to add to The four astronauts on this will be used to launch the next said that while Mr. Glover was flight are Michael S. Hopkins, are among earlier foods that as- whiteout conditions,” Mr. Knapin- a collection of “miraculous recov- quartet of astronauts to the space making history, he should not feel Shannon Walker and Victor J. tronauts have studied.) They will ski said, adding, “I couldn’t see eries” he has witnessed. station next spring. burdened. Glover of NASA, and Soichi Nogu- also test whether fungi can break anything.” The last thing he re- But Dr. Badulak said Mr. Knap- The Crew Dragon, named Resil- “Several of us have had an op- chi, a Japanese astronaut. apart asteroid rock and help ex- members before losing conscious- inski’s recovery was less a miracle ience, is scheduled to dock on portunity to try to talk with him NASA and SpaceX last week tract useful metals — a scientific ness is taking small steps down than it was a testament to team- Monday at about 11 p.m. after a regularly and try to help put him completed the certification 27.5-hour trip as the capsule at ease and help him understand prelude to extraterrestrial mining the mountain, the newspaper re- work, from the rescue crews to the process, which provides the space operations, and a follow-up to a ported. emergency room doctors and spe- catches up with space station, he’s not carrying the weight of the agency’s seal of approval that which is traveling at more than world on his shoulders,” said Mr. similar, successful experiment “I’m not sure what happened,” cialized nurses. Dr. Badulak said SpaceX has met the specifications 17,000 miles per hour. Bolden, who is also Black and that used bacteria. he said. “I think I fell.” she was overcome with emotion set out for regularly taking NASA When Mr. Glover arrives, he spent almost 700 hours in space as With the Crew Dragon entering when she passed Mr. Knapinski’s The life support machine that astronauts to orbit. This launch, will become the first Black astro- a NASA astronaut. “He shouldn’t operational status, the crew of the room on Thursday and saw him the hospital used to treat Mr. known as Crew-1, is a regularly naut to serve as a member of the feel unusual responsibility be- space station can be increased to Knapinski is known as an ECMO, sitting on his bed, eating a sand- scheduled trip to take four crew station’s crew in the 20-some cause he’s Black. He should just go seven. But for now, the space sta- and it is used sparingly because it wich and laughing with his members for a six-month stay at years that people have been living and be another crew member and tion only has places for six astro- requires special training to oper- mother. the space station. aboard the International Space have a good time.” nauts to sleep. “We are currently ate, said Dr. Jenelle Badulak, an “He is definitely lucky for all of “It marks the end of the devel- Station. Other Black astronauts On Sunday afternoon, as the as- short one crew quarters on board intensive care unit doctor at Har- that to have all worked out that opment phase of the system,” Phil have previously been aboard the tronauts prepared for the launch, station,” Mr. Hopkins said during borview. It is sometimes used for way,” she said. “Everything in McAlister, director of commercial space station, but they were there they were visited by Jim Bridens- a news conference on Monday. coronavirus patients with lung medicine has complications be- spaceflight development at for briefer stays during space tine, the current NASA adminis- Mr. Hopkins, the commander of function of less than 20 percent cause we try to do these advanced shuttle missions that helped as- trator, and Gwynne Shotwell, the the SpaceX crew, said that he who are not improving with a ven- things and defy death, and it’s re- Katherine J. Wu contributed re- semble the orbiting outpost. president and chief operating offi- might sleep in the Crew Dragon tilator. ally cool when it all works.” porting. When asked during a news con- cer of SpaceX. instead.

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Around the same time, Mr. of the 1960s. heiress Marysia (Ulam) Krauss Leary, the high priest of LSD, who was 26 years her senior, was urg- He was 52 and a fugitive from Harcourt-Smith, was playing CREATESPACE justice, having escaped from pris- bridge there when she went into ing people to “turn on, tune in and on in California, where he was labor 10 weeks early. After 43 drop out.” serving a 10-year sentence on hours, she gave birth to Joanna, A psychologist, he had been drug charges. Ms. Harcourt- who weighed less than three fired in 1963 from Harvard, where Smith was instantly enthralled — pounds. undergraduates had shared in his not just by his canary yellow stash of psychedelics, though Porsche 911 Targa, but also by his these drugs were not illegal at the mesmerizing eyes and his prom- time. He also faced multiple out- ise of psychological freedom. standing indictments, most on mi- “You are looking for a way out of nor drug charges, and was even- the decadent aristocratic game, tually imprisoned. the limbo of Jet Set desperados,” His wife at the time, Rosemary he told her. “I’ll show you the way.” Woodruff Leary, aided by the radi- After weeks of LSD-fueled ad- cal Weather Underground, helped ventures, they headed for Afghan- orchestrate his escape from the istan. But on landing, they were California Men’s Colony at San taken into custody by American Luis Obispo in 1970, and the two agents and returned to the United fled to Algeria, where they stayed States, where Mr. Leary was with Eldridge Cleaver, the Black again imprisoned. Ms. Harcourt- HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES Panther leader. EVENING STANDARD/GETTY IMAGES NAFIS AZAD/VIA SHOWTIME. They made their way to Switz- Smith stood by him and pressed Joanna Harcourt-Smith, a Clockwise from above: Ms. Harcourt-Smith with Timothy Leary in 1973; her 2013 memoir; and an for his release, which came three European socialite, in 1968. erland, where Ms. Harcourt- and a half years later. By then they Smith sought him out. Mr. Leary’s undated photograph. Ms. Harcourt-Smith and Mr. Leary were together from 1972 to 1977. had both changed, and soon after- wife left him, and he and Ms. Har- ward they broke up. She was 30 A traumatizing court-Smith began an intense ro- “Her outspoken, upper-class program for their own safety, and had been “extremely trauma- and ready to start her life over. mantic odyssey that lasted from European manner put people off,” they lived for a time outside Santa tized” by her experience with Mr. Ms. Harcourt-Smith was 74 experience that took 1972 to 1977. he said. “She had an edge and Fe, N.M., under the aliases James Leary, “but we were both abso- when she died on Oct. 11 at her Switzerland did not want to har- knew how to get her way. Tim em- and Nora Joyce. lutely determined not to let the home in Santa Fe, N.M. Her decades to absorb bor the fugitive Mr. Leary, whom powered her, and she in turn was But by then they were wearing events of her life destroy us.” Over daughter, Lara Tambacopoulou, President Richard M. Nixon had tremendously loyal to him, dedi- on each other. His years in solitary time, they found peace with each said the cause was breast cancer. and ‘compost.’ called “the most dangerous man cated to getting him out — what- confinement had damaged him, other. Ms. Harcourt-Smith may have in America,” and did not extend ever it took. Alienating many in she wrote. They were both alco- In 2006 Ms. Harcourt-Smith been a footnote in Mr. Leary’s his asylum there. So he and Ms. the counterculture was the fallout holics and fought all the time be- and Jose Luis Gomez Soler, a mys- event-filled life — he was married Joanna’s father, Cecil Harcourt- Harcourt-Smith hit the road, first from that.” fore splitting up. tic from Spain, founded a website, multiple times, though never offi- Smith, a commander in the Royal to Vienna, then to Beirut. An in- As a condition of Mr. Leary’s re- Ms. Harcourt-Smith moved to futureprimitive.org, and she be- cially to her, and she was not men- Navy, was not a presence in her formant tipped off the authorities lease, he and Ms. Harcourt-Smith the Caribbean and lived on a sail- gan hosting a podcast in which tioned in his 1996 obituary in The childhood and died when she was about their travel plans, and when agreed to become federal inform- boat for a few years. She stopped she interviewed authors and inno- New York Times — but he loomed 10. they landed in Kabul, Afghani- ants. Mr. Leary’s followers were drinking and taking drugs in 1983 vators. large in hers, though she, too, was “Many times,” Ms. Harcourt- stan, they were rerouted to the outraged and blamed her for their and settled again in Santa Fe, She and Mr. Soler married in married multiple times. It took Smith wrote, “my mother told me United States. guru’s becoming a traitor to the where she began life anew. 2009. In addition to Ms. Tamba- her three decades to absorb and that I was a mistake from the mo- Ms. Harcourt-Smith was not cause. The poet Allen Ginsberg “I felt like a child who grew up in copoulou, Ms. Harcourt-Smith is “compost” her experience with ment I was conceived, never mak- charged with anything but in- branded her “a C.I.A. sex provoca- the forest,” she said in a radio in- survived by her husband; two him, as she put it, before she pub- ing it exactly clear whose mis- sisted on staying with Mr. Leary teur.” terview with Susun Weed, an sons, Alexis d’Amecourt and Mar- lished her memoir, “Tripping the take.” and was held as a useful asset un- Ms. Harcourt-Smith always in- herbal health expert. “I had to re- lon Gobel; and three grandchil- Bardo With Timothy Leary: My Joanna attended a Catholic til they arrived in California, sisted that their becoming inform- learn everything,” she said, add- dren. Psychedelic Love Story,” in 2013. boarding school outside of Paris. where she spent the next three ants was not her idea; rather, she ing: “I had so much shame and “She grew and transformed “I followed him off that preci- (She was Jewish, but her mother, and a half years trying to free him said, it was Mr. Leary who told her guilt that I could barely write.” enormously over the course of her pice, and my family, nationality who had lost several relatives in from prison. All the while she was to tell the government that he was In the late 1980s she began to life and became an inspiration to and sanity were fragmented be- the Holocaust, forbade her from a confounding figure. ready to cooperate. She felt she reconcile with her daughter, many in her later years,” her yond recognition,” she wrote. saying so.) She was sexually “Neither the counterculture nor was being scapegoated. whom she had not seen for 15 friend Cynthia Jurs, a Buddhist A documentary based on her abused by her mother’s chauffeur, the prosecutors and prison sys- In any case, Mr. Leary was re- years, from the time her daughter teacher in Santa Fe, said in an book is scheduled to air on Nov. 29 she said; she told her mother tem knew what to make of her,” leased in 1976. Anger at the pair was 5. email, adding, “I would love for on Showtime. The film is by Errol about it, but she didn’t believe her Michael Horowitz, Mr. Leary’s ar- was so great that the government Ms. Tambacopoulou said in a people to know who she became, Morris, acclaimed for “The Thin and said to her, “A good chauffeur chivist, said in a 2017 interview. put them in the witness protection phone interview that her mother not who she was.”

1955-1981 Anya Phillips A fashion influencer in New York’s punk scene, she dressed rockers like Debbie Harry of Blondie and became an ‘It girl.’

By JULIE HOANGMY HO In the 1970s, Anya Phillips left Tai- ONLINE: OVERLOOKED wan to forge a fashion career in New Overlooked is a series of obituaries York City, showing up in a burgeoning about remarkable people whose downtown punk scene in what would deaths, beginning in 1851, went become her signature dress, an eye- unreported in The Times. catching piece made of electric blue nytimes.com/overlooked spandex that laced up the front. When she paired it with stilettos and a full- length fur coat, she exuded a slinky ing an influential trendsetter in New glamour that would make her the “It York,” Reed said, “and she was that.” girl” of Lower Manhattan’s night clubs. Debbie Harry, who befriended New York at the time was on the Phillips through that scene, asked her brink of bankruptcy, overwhelmed with to design her dress for the cover photo neglect and crime. But rent was cheap, of “Plastic Letters.” and amid the decay, designers, artists, “You know, there’s people that you musicians and filmmakers formed meet and you understand them, and collaborations, making art and meeting they understand you sort of instantly,” up at rock venues. Harry said in a phone interview. “We “Arriving there and finding this in- shared a similar kind of sense of hu- credible creativity happening in this mor.” kind of grimy downtown scene — she Phillips was also an artist, photogra- instantly got it,” Sylvia Reed, a close pher and actress in underground films. friend and the former wife and man- She interviewed Paul Simonon, the ager of the Velvet Underground’s front- bassist of the punk band the Clash, and man, Lou Reed, said in a phone inter- contributed photos for Punk magazine. view. And she appeared in the fumetti-style Phillips mingled with artists like the illustrated photo comic “The Legend of Ramones and Iggy Pop and styled Nick Detroit,” among an ensemble cast musicians in garments that suited their of New York punks. She later co- sensibilities and colored their rock founded, with the downtown figure personas. She designed the pink dress Steve Mass and the artist Diego Cortez, that the singer Debbie Harry wore on the Mudd Club in Tribeca, a nightclub the cover of Blondie’s album “Plastic where artists and scenesters gathered Letters” (1978) and dressed James for a taste of the avant-garde. Chance and the Contortions in 1950s- CHRIS STEIN By the late 1970s she had begun era suits and ties that helped define the Clockwise from above: Anya Phillips, left, in 1979 at the Mudd Club in Manhattan with James Chance, a musi- managing James Chance and the Con- aesthetic of no wave, a nihilistic sub- cian she styled in garments that suited his rock persona; Phillips, right, with Debbie Harry of Blondie; and tortions, which played a blend of punk, genre of punk rock. Harry on the cover of Blondie’s 1978 “Plastic Letters” album wearing a pink dress designed by Phillips. funk and jazz, and before long she and Phillips’s plans were always bigger Chance were dating. than the punk scene. She talked with Acting as a kind of creative director Reed about wanting to translate her for the band, Phillips sought to create designs into her own fashion label, but for it a loud fashion aesthetic to comple- expressed concerns that conventional ment the group’s sound. She dressed avenues to fame might be challenging Chance in sharkskin suits and styled for her, particularly as an Asian immi- his hair into a pompadour — a retro- grant. inspired look that reflected the band’s Before she could realize her ambi- fusion music. tions, Phillips died of cancer on June 19, She acted as a promoter for the band, 1981. She was 26. generating the buzz that helped take “She was always up to something, James Chance and the Contortions designing clothes, drawing sketches,” from an opening act to a headliner. James Chance said in an interview with “She had a lot of credibility with the the website Vacant. “I really think if she other people on the scene who might was still alive, she would have become have been dubious about me,” Chance a designer. Many other people have said in a phone interview, adding, “She been using her ideas.” didn’t want me to stay an underground Phillips is believed to have been born thing that only a few SoHo artists like.” in Taipei in February 1955. Her mother, her high school classmate. Although Chance and Phillips were preparing Bi Li-na, had grown up in Beijing and Phillips could not sew, she had her to record a demo for a sci-fi disco album left for Taiwan around the time of the garments handmade by local tailors, she conceptualized when she learned Chinese Communist Revolution in the which likely sharpened her own in- she had cancer. Her death two years late 1940s; her father was a soldier in stincts in cut, fit and detailing. later was noted in a brief obituary in Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist army. Phillips moved to Manhattan in 1974 Rolling Stone. They separated when Anya was a child. after graduating from high school, and CHRIS STEIN Through the people who know her Her mother later married Wade Reed soon joined her. work, Phillips’s ideas have endured. Phillips, an American Army colonel, Phillips aspired to make a name for with NBC News in 2016. Instead, she rooted herself in the Harry wore another of her designs on and had a son with him, Kris, who herself as a fashion designer in New By then, Phillips had realized that the punk scene — merging the under- the cover of her solo single “Rush became known as Fei Xiang, one of York City, with Reed as a sort of side- traditional path was not for her. She ground culture with the mainstream Rush” in 1983. Some years after that, China’s biggest pop stars in the 1980s. kick. “She had this picture in her mind was awarded a full scholarship to Par- fashion she’d grown up admiring — and Phillips’s blue lace-up dress was an As a teenager at Taipei American of how she wanted her life to be, and I sons School of Design in Greenwich quickly became as known for her cut- inspiration for an Anna Sui collection. School, Phillips spent hours sketching was to fulfill this role for her as her Village but dropped out days into her out, form-fitting dresses as she was for To this day Phillips is regarded, along clothing designs and showing them off confidante, best friend and trusted studies, finding she lacked the disci- her eclectic style. with Vivienne Westwood, as one of the to Sylvia Reed (then Sylvia Morales), companion,” Reed said in an interview pline for structured coursework. “She had a very clear idea of becom- designers who defined punk fashion. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A21 Roger Jepsen, 91, Senator From Iowa and Staunch Reagan Ally, Is Dead By ROBERT D. McFADDEN newspaper’s chief political report- Roger W. Jepsen, an Iowa Re- er, David Yepsen, said, “People publican and Reagan administra- are laughing at him, and that can tion ally who served one term in be fatal, at least in this state.” the Senate before losing a 1984 re- It was. Despite an overwhelm- election bid after it was revealed ing re-election showing by Presi- that he had joined a private health dent Reagan, who carried other spa that was later shut down on Republicans to victories on his prostitution charges, died on Fri- coattails, Mr. Jepsen’s political ca- day in Bettendorf, Iowa. He was reer was ended with a decisive 91. loss to Mr. Harkin. His death, at the Clarissa C. Roger William Jepsen was born Cook Hospice House, was con- in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Dec. 23, firmed on Sunday by his son 1928, the eldest of three children of Craig, who did not specify a cause. Ernest and Esther (Sorensen) He said Mr. Jepsen had been liv- Jepsen. Roger and his siblings, ing in Florida but moved back to Myron and Carol, grew up on the Iowa in October with his wife, Dee family farm and attended local Ann Jepsen, so that his family public schools. Roger graduated could help look after him. from high school in 1945 and attended Iowa State Teachers Col- An Iowa state senator and lieu- lege (now the University of North- tenant governor before his elec- ern Iowa) for a year. tion to the Senate in 1978, Mr. After Army service in 1946-47, Jepsen became a dedicated sup- he attended Arizona State Univer- porter of President Ronald Rea- sity in Tempe, earning a bache- gan’s conservative agenda of tax lor’s degree in psychology in 1950 cuts and a defense buildup in the and a master’s in guidance coun- early 1980s. Having grown up on a seling in 1953. farm, a son and grandson of Dan- CHARLES HARRITY/ASSOCIATED PRESS Mr. Jepsen married Dorothy ish-American farmers, he was a Senator Roger Jepsen, left, with Ronald Reagan on a 1980 presi- Lambertson in 1948 and had four voice in Washington for the na- dential campaign stop in Des Moines. Left, Mr. Jepsen in 1983. children with her. The marriage tion’s agricultural interests. ended in divorce. In 1958, he mar- Mr. Jepsen was the Reagan ceptive services. Hailed by evan- that Mr. Jepsen in 1977, a year be- ried Dee Ann Delaney, who had a presidential campaign’s chief fore he ran for the Senate, had daughter, Linda, by a previous farm adviser in 1980 and helped gelicals but criticized by liberals joined Leisure Spa, a Des Moines marriage. Linda died in 1996. persuade the incoming president as an attack on the rights of wom- brothel that offered “nude mod- In addition to his wife and son to lift a partial embargo on Ameri- en and gay people, the measure eling, nude encounters and nude Craig, from his first marriage, he can grain sales to the Soviet Union died in committee. rap sessions to our members.” The is survived by another son from that had been imposed by Presi- To Americans fed up with prolif- establishment was closed three his first marriage, Jeffrey; two dent Jimmy Carter after the Sovi- erating codes and numbers in months later in a prostitution raid, daughters from his first marriage, et invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. their lives, Mr. Jepsen struck a and its owner pleaded guilty to Ann Carruthers and Debbie The embargo had minimal effects chord in 1980 by ridiculing a Post- al Service plan to require the use “keeping a house of ill-fame.” Geisler; a son from his second on the Soviet Union, which bought marriage, Coy; his sister, Carol grain elsewhere, but American of nine-digit ZIP Codes on mail in- Mr. Jepsen initially called the reports a “deliberate attempt at Nymann; nine grandchildren; farmers had felt the brunt of the stead of five. He called the plan character assassination.” He did and 16 great-grandchildren. sanctions. “another Washington monument not dispute his membership — Mr. Jepsen was an insurance The embargo had caused Amer- to stupidity.” ANDREA MOHIN/CQ ROLL CALL, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS The service said it would spend there were copies of his signed ap- underwriter and sales manager in ican grain prices to plummet, Iowa in the 1950s and ’60s. He be- $900 million for machines to sort leading to an agricultural credit Reagan’s side. He joined a voting Mr. Jepsen’s reversal raised his gan his political career as a Scott mail by nine-digit codes but prom- crisis, and some farmers had bloc that approved the sale of five standing with the president, who County Supervisor from 1962 to ised eventual annual savings of burned crops in protest. The em- Airborne Warning and Control in 1982 named the senator’s wife, 1965, and was an Iowa state sena- $600 million. Reflecting wide- He became a voice bargo was believed to have hurt System planes to the Saudis for Dee Jepsen, to be a special White tor from 1966 to 1968 and a two- spread public resistance to more Mr. Carter in his bid for re-election $8.5 billion. It was then the largest House assistant and liaison to term lieutenant governor from numbers, the service introduced in Washington for in 1980 as anger in Midwestern foreign arms sale in American his- women’s organizations. Two years 1969 to 1973, serving with Gov. farm states turned into votes for tory. later, Reagan campaigned in Iowa nine-digit codes in 1983, but the the nation’s farmers. Robert D. Ray. the victorious Reagan. When Senate Democrats de- for Mr. Jepsen’s re-election, and last four digits are still optional. Advocating a constitutional ban On another foreign-policy issue, manded a closed session to study after Mr. Jepsen was voted out of Iowa’s 1984 Senate race, pitting on abortions, Mr. Jepsen in 1978 Mr. Jepsen, a strong supporter of the classified information, Mr. office, the president appointed Mr. Jepsen against Representa- narrowly beat Senator Dick Clark, Israel, found himself in a dilemma Jepsen admitted that there was him to a $73,600-a-year federal tive Tom Harkin, a five-term Dem- plication — but said he had the incumbent Democrat, who in 1981 when he initially joined none, and a White House official post. ocrat, began as a classic conserva- thought that the spa was a health had been targeted for defeat by Senate opposition to the Reagan later told The New York Times On domestic issues Mr. Jepsen tive-liberal contest over Iowa’s club, had visited it only once and National Right to Life forces. administration’s plan to sell that the real reason for his rever- introduced Senate bills to support sluggish economy, abortion and had left “immediately.” He later After Mr. Jepsen left the Senate Awacs surveillance planes to Is- sal was that Mr. Jepsen had given conservation, consumer protec- other issues. But it degenerated admitted visiting the brothel out in 1985, Reagan named him chair- rael’s hostile neighbor Saudi Ara- in to presidential pressure. tions, child nutrition, assistance into a mudslinging war of accusa- of “curiosity and weakness” and man of the National Credit Union bia, a step that required Congres- In an interview for this obituary for crime victims and voting pro- tions and questions over Mr. said he had been “humbled before Administration, a regulatory sional approval. Mr. Jepsen said in 2017, Mr. Jepsen acknowledged tections for older adults and the Jepsen’s morality and military an entire nation” before making body. He retired in 1994. the sale would jeopardize Israel’s that he had met with Reagan at handicapped. service record. his “commitment to Christ” in late Mr. Jepsen told The Times in security. the White House before the Sen- A born-again Christian who As the Harkin campaign trum- 1977. the 2017 interview that in his Sen- But on the eve of the Senate ate vote but denied any presiden- made “family values” a keystone peted, Mr. Jepsen once claimed he But the scandal did not fade ate years, he and his wife had reg- vote, Mr. Jepsen, saying that he tial arm-twisting. of his later political career, Mr. had been a paratrooper in World from the 1984 race. Campaign but- ularly joined members of Con- had received “highly classified in- “He did not pressure me,” Mr. Jepsen was a chief sponsor of the War II, but when challenged had tons declared, “Roger Jepsen — gress in prayer breakfasts, Bible- formation” on Awacs that had Jepsen said. “He shook my hand. Family Protection Act of 1981, a acknowledged that he had not en- Porn Again.” The Des Moines study groups and Christian fel- changed his mind, switched to He put his hand on my shoulder package of proposals to strength- tered the Army until 1946, a year Register ran a cartoon depicting lowship gatherings. and said, ‘If you can give me a en families through education, tax after the war ended. the senator at the spa, asking, “They helped to develop pos- Byran Pietsch contributed report- boost on this vote, I’ll really appre- incentives and restrictions on fed- In a more damaging revelation, “Could someone tell me where the itive feelings about public serving. ciate it.’” eral funds for abortion and contra- two Iowa radio stations reported exercise machines are?” The ice,” he said. Lynn Kellogg, 77, Actress Who Found the Spotlight in ‘Hair’ By ANITA GATES so heartless? . . . Especially peo- to be biased in favor of main- troops and toured with the folk Lynn Kellogg Simpers, a singer ple who care about strangers/ stream Broadway productions, musician Gordon Lightfoot. But and actress who, as Lynn Kellogg, Who care about evil and social in- and therefore against “Hair,” but she may be best remembered for played Sheila, the uptight debu- justice?” — comes in response to the cast’s performance of a med- her musical appearances on se- tante who turns into a free-spir- the casual rudeness of the charac- ley of “Hair” numbers on the ries like “The Johnny Cash Show.” ited hippie in the original 1968 ter Berger (played by Mr. Ragni). awards telecast impressed a lot of On July 20, 1969, the same night Broadway production of “Hair,” Sheila is also one of the lead sing- people, including the next celebri- American astronauts had landed died on Thursday in St. Louis. She ty to appear onstage, Zero Mostel. on the moon, she wore bell bot- was 77. Lynn Jean Kellogg was born on toms and center-parted hippie The cause was Covid-19, accord- April 2, 1943, in Appleton, Wisc., a hair in singing the nostalgic coun- ing to Timothy Philen, her publi- Entertaining troops Fox River Valley city north of Mil- try song “When Papa Rolled His cist. in Vietnam and waukee. She was one of four chil- Own.” Her husband, John Simpers, dren of Harry Burton Kellogg, a Later, using her husband’s sur- said she had been infected at a re- touring with Gordon chemist, and Maxine (Goekes) name in addition to her own, she cent gathering in a large theater in Kellogg. Lynn attended the Uni- began developing children’s con- Branson, Mo. Most of the people Lightfoot. versity of Wisconsin but dropped tent for television and performing there were not wearing masks, he out after one year. on those shows. “Animals, Ani- said. Ms. Kellogg Simpers had had She made her television debut mals, Animals” (1976-81), a Sun- a non-life-threatening form of on the daytime drama “The Edge day morning series starring Hal leukemia that compromised her ers on the show’s finale, “Let the of Night” in 1964. She also ap- Linden, won a Peabody Award vascular system, he added. She Sun Shine In.” peared on episodes of “The Bever- and a Daytime Emmy for out- died in a hospital. John Chapman, reviewing the ly Hillbillies” (as a bird watcher), standing children’s informational “Hair,” the original countercul- show in The Daily News, did not “It Takes a Thief” and “Mission: series. Ms. Kellogg also worked in ture musical created by James care for the “tribal love-rock” mu- Impossible” (as a folk-music per- Christian programming. Rado and Gerome Ragni, ran for sic, but he liked the cast’s youthful former singing Bob Dylan’s “The In addition to her husband, more than four years at the Bilt- energy. And he appreciated Times They Are a-Changin’” in an whom she married in 1995, her more Theater. It has always been Sheila. “I did see at least one Eastern bloc country). She had a survivors include a sister, Ede an ensemble show, but Sheila is pretty girl, Lynn Kellogg,” he supporting role in Elvis Presley’s Kellogg Morris; two brothers, the closest thing it has to a female wrote, “and she sang a pretty song 1969 western “Charro!” John and Harry Kellogg; a step- HENRI DAUMAN lead. Her big Act I ballad, “Easy to called ‘I Believe in Love.’” As a singer and guitarist, Ms. son, Justin Simpers; and a grand- Lynn Kellogg in about 1968. She had the closest thing to a lead Be Hard” — “How can people be The 1969 Tony Awards seemed Kellogg entertained Vietnam War child. role in the musical “Hair” and was in the original Broadway cast.

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marvelous smile. A private SHATZ—Geraldine A., THAU—Roland, the world. Roland was loving, best in everyone and in every BYRON—Elizabeth Byron, Elizabeth Shatz, Geraldine Thau, Roland church service will be held November 16, 1950 - April 4, legendary criminal defense passionate, funny and irre- situation. You were always Sverbeyeff. Detkin, Paul Simon, Richard Whitmore, Myrtle this week, and she will always 2020. Happy 70th Birthday, attorney, died on November pressible. The loss is unima- positive and supportive as Legendary art and architec- be remembered for her Geri. We miss you dearly. Remec, Peter Tesch, Michael 10, 2020 at 86. He was the ginable and has left a huge well as understanding and ture editor, died peacefully at strength, grace, and joie Ardent lover of her family, beloved husband of Mary hole in our hearts. Gratefully, sympathetic. We were most home on April 1 of natural de vivre. Yerucham and Israel, the and adored father of Barba- he lived to see Trump defeat- fortunate to have had you in causes. Born in Berlin in 1923, arts, travel, literature, cross- ra. Born in France, he and ed. A memorial is planned our lives. the daughter of Vladimir DETKIN—Paul. the field for countless non- going personality charmed word puzzles and cerebral professionals who read and and delighted everyone he his courageous mother man- for the spring. Sverbeyeff and Countess Ma- The Board of Directors and conversation. aged to elude the Germans rie Belevsky-Zhukovsky, and Membership of Glen Head love its unpretentious yet touched. And — he would not Your loving Ted, Jim, Liz, literate voice. Thousands of want it to go unmentioned — during the occupation, de- the great-granddaughter of Country Club announce with Rick, Nicki, David, & Carol spite the fact that Roland had Grand Duke Alexei of Russia. profound sorrow the passing those psychotherapists and he was a great basketball social workers make a pilgri- player. There was absolutely to be repeatedly hospitalized. WHITMORE—Myrtle. Elizabeth was married to the of our esteemed Member Ultimately, his mother ar- Myrtle G. Whitmore, age 96, inimitable art dealer Charles Paul Detkin. Our deepest SIMON—Richard. mage each year from around no one like him. And there ZEIDMAN—Linda Freya. the globe to attend the never will be. One-of-a-kind, a ranged to have nine-year-old Retired Commissioner of Byron for 48 years until his sympathies are extended to Age 75, native New Yorker, Networker Symposium in force of nature, he will be Roland escape to Switzerland NYC Housing Authority died death in 2013. Raised in Paris, the bereaved family. daughter of Rose and Holo- Washington, DC, a confer- missed by his Networker with his aunt and cousin. He Thursday, November 5, 2020. she came to the States in the Dr. Richard Copell, President caust survivor Boris Gottlieb. ence Rich joyously, yes, ex- crew, his family, his friends remained there until after the Wake 9-10:45am. Virtual Ser- 1940s, landing a job as an ass't Died 11/14/2019 from Parkin- uberantly, hosted. Together, and his tribe. A memorial war, when he returned to vice 11-12pm. The Lawrence editor at House & Garden and DETKIN—Paul G. son's Disease. Educated at the magazine and the confer- service will be held some- France and to his mother. In H. Woodward Funeral Home launching a nearly seven- December 7, 1925 - Novem- ence inform and entertain time next year. 1948, Roland, his mother and Brooklyn. Burial The Ever- CCNY and UW-Madison, decade career. She held se- ber 12, 2020. A veteran of readers and attendees alike, stepfather came to Brooklyn, greens Cemetery. where she organized the first nior positions at The New WWII, avid golfer and skier TA union in the country, she creating a community — a TESCH—Michael H., where his loving brother [email protected] York Times, House Beautiful, and a fighter to the end, Paul was active in the antiracist, “tribe” Rich called it. His en- October 7, 1938 - November Larry was born. The family House & Garden, and Elle De- passed peacefully just shy of antiwar and women's move- thusiasm for learning, his ap- 11, 2020. Mike Tesch, the decided to return to France, cor, and was a contributor to his 95th birthday. Son of Louis ments. Moved to Baltimore preciation of talent in all its award-winning Ally & Garga- but Roland, then 19, chose to Architectural Digest until and Lillian, he now joins his as part of a community orga- manifestations, his reverence no advertising art director, remain here. He devoted his In Memoriam 2016. With her keen eye, laser beloved wife Sylvia (who nizing collective; was a found- for the written word, his ea- died at his home in Miami af- professional life to represent- focus, and superb taste Eli- passed a few months ago) ing member of the Women's gerness to nurture and deve- ter a long illness. Devoted ing the indigent, working for zabeth was a vibrant force in and brother Gilbert. Father to Union of Baltimore; carried lop new writers, his love of husband and companion of The Legal Aid Society and architecture, spotting poten- Marjorie Alice (Fred Feld- CURRY—Beth. out oral history research on conversation — both as a Billie Vilano Taylor for 32 then The Federal Defenders tial, nurturing young careers, man), Barbara Jeanne (Da- steelworkers' lives and union wildly funny and creative years. Loving brother-in-law of New York. Roland became and showcasing exciting vid Kikoler) and Peter Neal struggles, which resulted in a speaker and an engaged and to Bobbie van der Vlught, a well-known figure in the work by Hugh Newell Jacob- (Michelle Oates). Loving widely exhibited archival 71, of Chevy Chase, MD, died deeply attentive listener, his uncle to Alan Chovel, Ben federal courthouse in Man- sen, Richard Meier, Frank grandfather of five, great- photo collection and do- on November 10, 2020. He is curiosity in exploring new Chovel, Bronwyn Chovel, hattan and always made time Gehry, Richard Gluckman, grandfather of two. Grave- cumentary film; created survived by his beloved wife vistas in the field of first Bella Prio, Brigid Prio, Max to give advice or share a sto- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, side services are private, me- Jette, his cherished daughter family therapy and then psy- Prio and Paco Prio, father to ry. He was honored by the working class history bus Shelton Mindel, and countless morial to be held at a later Signe and his grandson-to-be, chotherapy, and his commit- Amelia and Stephen Batta- New York Criminal Bar Asso- tours and co-authored The others. A striking, elegant wo- date. In lieu of flowers, please Baltimore Book (Temple Uni- Auguste. Born in the Bronx, ment to making the tribe glio, and grandfather to Rap- ciation and the State Bar As- man, Elizabeth had an ency- make a donation in his me- versity Press); co-founded Rich studied English at the aware of what was new in hael and Luke Sorcio. Pas- sociation and received the clopedic knowledge of histo- mory to your favorite charity. the Women's Studies pro- University of Rochester and therapy — what worked and sionate pet owner and pain- Orison S. Marden and Nor- ry, art, and architecture, fuel- gram at the Comm. Coll. of earned a Ph.D. in Psychology what didn't — inspired hunter. He absolutely positively man S. Ostrow awards. Ro- ed by her boundless curiosity REMEC—Peter Pavel. Baltimore Co. where she also from the University of Mary- dreds of thousands of gave his all, no matter what land loved trying cases and and relentless energy; she at- June 28, 1925, died November taught history and economics land. After a brief stint as a practitioners, presenters, at- the endeavor. Friends will be worked until he was 82, retir- tended lectures and scouted 2, 2020. Beloved husband of for 34 years. A paper-cut col- clinical psychologist, he drew tendees, readers and contri- contacted about an upcom- ing only because his physical galleries well into her nine- Majda and father of Peter, lagist, she captured her fami- upon his vast writing, editing, butors for over forty years. ing Zoom celebration of stamina waned - he missed ties. She was a fierce suppor- Alenka, Marko and Tomaz. ly history in New York and entrepreneurial and network- His infectious wit and out- his life. trial work terribly. In addition ter of emerging talents and a Dr. Iuris (1948) and Dr. Rerum ing skills to transform a small to his wife, daughter and the Ukraine in her art; and in thoughtful mentor, with a Politicarum (1949) from Uni- publication for therapists into brother, he is survived by sis- retirement, ever the provo- work ethic that set a high versity of Graz and Ph.D. in the celebrated and award- ters and brothers-in-law and November 15, 2015 catrice, she formed “Shake It standard for all. Elizabeth International Relations from winning journal, the Psycho- nieces and nephews, includ- In the five years without you, Baby,” a Parkinsonians' was disciplined, forward- University of Chicago (1956). therapy Networker. In time, ing Xavier and Daphne. He is we have been inspired every dance group. Linda is sur- thinking, and kind; she had a Taught Political Science at the Networker grew in size also survived by his former day to be better people by vived by her daughter Annie, wicked sense of humor and a Fordham University for 50 and reputation to become not wife, Norma, stepchildren the memory of your warmth, beloved son-in-law Seth Kar- years. Awarded Knight Com- only a bi-monthly bible for Nancy and Jerry, step-grand- your smile, your caring and pinski, grandchildren Boris mander of the Order of St. psychotherapists and social children, step - great - grand - your unqualified love for all and Zara; and many loving Gregory the Great (1983). workers but a window into children, and cousins around of us. You always found the friends. A22 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

EDITORIAL LETTERS Office Friends: Remember the Office? The World That Mr. Biden Will Inherit TO THE EDITOR: tucky, and I have heard this heart- Re “We Miss In-Person Work felt feeling of loss many times in Friends” (Op-Ed, Oct. 23): my interviews. Ashley Fetters’s article about One other thing that really missing the in-person interaction stands out about this dwindling of with co-workers is right on target. in-person contacts, and not just in I’d add one more thing to what’s the workplace, is the loss of physi- missing: diversity. Outside of our cal touch. No hugs, handshakes or schools, what better place than the other encouraging touches has workplace to learn about others been something very difficult for whose color is different, whose people to bear, especially the many culture and religion are different, who live alone. It is the one ques- whose sexual orientation is differ- tion I ask that will often cause ent, whose views are different? people to dissolve into tears when The sickness of divisiveness can they are responding. be cured only if we see one another PEGGY CUMMINS, LOUISVILLE, KY. as human beings, all wanting the same things. The workplace provides that opportunity, around the TO THE EDITOR: conference table, the lunch counter Ashley Fetters expressed it all for and the water cooler. me. A state lobbyist in New Jersey, I am lucky to have two sets of HELEN MORIK, BRONX work friends: one in my office in Trenton, and one in the New Jer- TO THE EDITOR: sey Statehouse. Until my office I miss being in the same room as shut down in March, I didn’t real- my students, especially the direct ize just how much my social needs eye contact that’s so automatic in a were fulfilled by my work friends. classroom and so difficult on Zoom. In September, I got to see some I miss the demarcation between of my Statehouse work friends office and non-office time that when I attended some outdoor commuting afforded me. I miss the fund-raisers and testified at a family and friends I haven’t seen in legislative hearing. Although it felt more than seven months. good at the time, it has made me I know that I’m among the lucky more keenly feel the absence of EMILY ELCONIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ones, with a home and food on the something I took for granted. I talk table and fulfilling work to keep me and Zoom with my office col- President-elect Joe Biden has signaled that he will move conflicts, though with more nuance and more concern for al- busy and a partner to share all this leagues, but it’s just not the same. I do feel lonely. I miss the camarade- swiftly to restore dignity to the badly sullied image of the lies. While Mr. Biden will definitely not emulate Mr. Trump’s with. But Ashley Fetters’s article reminded me how much I miss rie and the casual conversations United States; respect for the professionals of America’s zero-sum approach to trade, with tariffs slapped on friend those “weak ties” that are actually that took place. diplomatic, intelligence and military services; and a more and foe alike, free trade is not something Democratic voters among the most resilient. I used to love working from predictable, nuanced and sympathetic approach to foreign are always keen on. While most NATO allies and members home, and wished that I could do it ROSA OPPENHEIM, NEW YORK relations. of the European Union will celebrate the exit of Mr. Trump, frequently. Now I can’t wait until The writer is a professor at Rutgers the pandemic has passed and I can That message of a restoration of norms is likely to res- the United States is likely to continue insisting that NATO Business School. return to the office and the State- onate in many capitals around the world, as it did with an allies start paying a fair share for the common defense. The house. I might not even complain electorate that gave Mr. Biden a decisive victory over Don- Europeans, for their part, have recognized that the United TO THE EDITOR: about the traffic on the way there. ald Trump. States is no longer the undisputed boss of the free world. I agree with Ashley Fetters about FRANCINE PFEFFER, SKILLMAN, N.J. There is much that Mr. Biden can do in his first 100 In short, the world is not what it was in 2016, nor can it missing direct interaction with days. He has already vowed to promptly rejoin the Paris ac- go back to the status quo ante. China is considerably more work friends. I am doing a virtual cord on climate change and to make climate action central assertive, and countering Beijing’s aggressions while recog- oral history project on life during to his administration. He has declared his intention to re- nizing its legitimate demands and seeking its help in con- the pandemic in my state, Ken- Biden and Climate Policy store the United States’ relationship with the World Health taining North Korea or reducing carbon emissions will re- TO THE EDITOR: Organization, signaling that the United States will join quire creative new approaches. So will dealing with a right- “Biden Will Roll Back Parts of forces with the rest of the world to halt the rampage of the wing president in Brazil or a tenacious dictator in Venezue- A Family’s Political Divide Trump Agenda With Strokes of a coronavirus. la, or negotiating further nuclear arms reductions with Rus- Pen” (news article, Nov. 9) gives Mr. Biden is also expected to organize a summit of de- sia while maintaining sanctions, or trying to placate Israel TO THE EDITOR: me hope for the future. As a returned Peace Corps vol- Re “I Love My Twin. How Did We mocracies, and to recommit the United States to exposing and several Gulf Arab states while reviving a deal with their unteer and a co-founder of Re- End Up So Far Apart?,” by Jeneen human rights abuses wherever they arise, whether in archenemy Iran. turned Peace Corps Volunteers for Interlandi (Opinion, nytimes.com, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia or Turkey. At the same time, he It is a restive world, requiring constant adaptation and Environmental Action, I have Nov. 4): will seek ways to revive the nuclear deal with Iran, and engagement from its most powerful democracy. But the im- worked in the battle against deser- I am a 72-year-old fraternal trip- tification in northern Ghana and agree with Russia to extend the New START treaty on lim- portance of vision, expertise, honesty and simple decency in let with two identical twin sisters. iting strategic nuclear arms. Hopefully, Mr. Biden will termi- the management of world affairs cannot be overstated. against flooding from melting We are all lifelong Democrats. I do glaciers in the country of Georgia. nate American support for Saudi Arabia’s terrible war in Mr. Trump’s “America First” approach meant, first and have some relatives who are Trump These issues were not caused by Yemen. foremost, reducing international affairs to the same level as supporters with whom I have had these countries alone, but also by These are all welcome signs of America’s imminent re- his real-estate wheeling-dealing: What’s in it for me? The to limit contact because of our our own country, through our irreparable differences. I can sim- turn to a role in the world that better reflects our historical president’s infamous phone conversation with President narrow focus on “America first.” ply not imagine facing that dilem- values. The team Mr. Biden is said to be assembling looks as Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the one that got him im- For the sake of my children’s ma with my sisters. future, I have been fighting for if it will be composed of veterans of administrations past peached, provided an apt motto for his administration: “I But for me the bottom line is that improved environmental policy and paid-up members of the foreign policy establishment. If would like you to do us a favor though.” anyone who can support a man who since the first oil crisis in the 1970s Republicans retain control of the Senate, Mr. Biden’s ap- It is understandable that allies will harbor some doubts thinks that white supremacists and am heartened to see the ideas pointments could be constrained by the need to get them over whether Trumpism is finished for good, especially marching in Charlottesville, Va., that President-elect Joe Biden confirmed, while the scope of his actions will often be re- while Mr. Trump clings indecently to the hope of staying in and shouting “Jews will not replace campaigned on. He can count on us!” are some “very fine people” is duced to what can be accomplished through executive or- power. But the expectation that a Biden-Harris administra- my group to support environmen- simply racist. The same can be said tal justice and climate action. ders. tion will at least end the volatile and unpredictable lurches of those who support a president I call on all of us to listen care- Even a Senate controlled by Democrats would not of the past four years has already elicited relief from allies who did not try to heal the country fully and respectfully to one an- presage a dramatic departure in American strategies and who suffered Mr. Trump’s disdain. And it has caused anxiety after the death of George Floyd in other and to work together as we policies. Mr. Biden may tone down the trade war with China, among illiberal leaders who reveled in Mr. Trump’s camara- police custody. This holds true move forward for the planet. despite any other reason they but contentious differences on issues such as 5G networks derie and the dimming of America’s beacon. KATE SCHACHTER, MADISON, WIS. or China’s claims in the South China Sea will remain at the Simply abandoning Mr. Trump’s approach is immeasur- might support him. Ms. Interlandi, of course you love fore. Whatever hold President Vladimir Putin may have had ably important for America and the world. The strength of your twin brother. A twin bond can on Mr. Trump almost never translated into a lifting of sanc- the United States has always derived as much from the soft be a very special bond that is diffi- tions, and Democrats are not likely to seek a reset with Rus- power of its democracy, freedoms and values as from its bat- cult to explain to others. I cannot Trump Twittertorium sia. Mr. Trump’s bromance with Kim Jong-un did little to tleships and drones. That strength is multiplied by Ameri- even imagine what I would do in TO THE EDITOR: change the U.S. stance on North Korea. Mr. Trump’s ap- ca’s alliances among democracies in the East and West. your situation. There are 14 presidential libraries. proach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was decidedly one- There will be plenty of time to sort out why the United LYNN VILLAGRAN, SAN JOSE, CALIF. All of them are titled with a presi- sided, yet there had been no movement toward a two-state States fell for Mr. Trump or whether he can come back. Pres- dent’s name and the word “library.” But because President Trump is settlement in the years before Mr. Trump became president, ident-elect Biden has signaled that he intends to lead Amer- TO THE EDITOR: celebrated for transcending estab- and there is little indication that any such movement is im- ica back into the international arena, and whatever their Remember the Civil War and the lished traditions, the resting place minent no matter who’s in the White House — or where the qualms or doubts, America’s friends and allies should not American Revolution — times that for his written works should have a U.S. Embassy is. wait to join forces in tackling the business of the day — a produced many familial disruptions unique name. I propose the Donald Mr. Biden is likely to continue Mr. Trump’s attempts to global pandemic and the future of the planet, to name just over differences in ideas. J. Trump Twittertorium. withdraw from foreign wars and be reluctant to enter new two items on the agenda. GERRY DALE, DELRAY BEACH, FLA. MURRAY SUID, INVERNESS, CALIF.

CHARLES M. BLOW Trump, the Absolute Worst Loser

DONALD TRUMP LOST the election. He presidency, he is lying, concocting a nar- Donald Trump will no longer be presi- democracy, period. He cares about Party is a thing that now exists in name knows it. But he won’t admit it. rative detached from reality. dent on Jan. 20. That is a hard fact, an money and power. He cares about man- only. This is Trump’s party, bought and He still hopes and believes that there is His Twitter feed since the election — unmovable date. Biden will be sworn in aging the mob. He cares about adora- paid for. a way for the courts to erase enough he has made precious few appearances and will become the president. tion. In other years, the rising stars of the votes to tip the election in his favor. This or official statements during this time — But Trump is not going to allow this But the problem here is bigger than party would emerge in this period offer- will not happen. has been an unprecedented attack on transition to be smooth. He rose in spec- Trump. Republicans in Congress are in- ing a post-loss vision for an alteration His legal challenges in swing states election integrity and the voting fran- tacle and he will flame out in it. We dulging Trump’s delusion, which has the that would ensure victory the next time across the country are largely being met chise as a whole. should put nothing beyond him. effect of granting his derangement cre- out. Not this year. They are all too afraid with defeat and setback. In court, you He keeps complaining that the elec- He will do everything he can do not to dence in the eyes of his loyal followers. to tell the loser that he lost. have to provide evidence. Lies, accusa- tion was rigged, that it was stolen from assume the posture of the defeated. He Trump became president in part be- And, if Trump declares soon that he tions and conspiracy theory don’t cut it. him, that computer software switched will do everything to secure a future for cause the Russians interfered with our will run again in 2024, as some have Trump has spent his life gaming the sys- millions of votes from him to Joe Biden. election to help him in 2016. That was a speculated, it will further cow other fact. Trump repeatedly called the inves- 2024 contenders. Any suggestion that tem. It is unfathomable to him that this On Sunday, in reference to Biden, he tigation into that interference a hoax. they would run would put them immedi- system can’t be gamed. tweeted: “He only won in the eyes of the He has spent his life Election officials have deemed this elec- ately in a fight with the man who just re- In the end, Trump hopes to push his FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede gaming the system, tion “the most secure in American his- ceived a record number of Republican case to the Supreme Court, where he has NOTHING! We have a long way to go. tory.” That is a fact. Trump keeps claim- votes. seated three conservative justices. That This was a RIGGED ELECTION!” so it’s no surprise. ing it was wracked with corruption. After Republicans lost in 2012, they is also not likely to be a winning strategy. But Trump has gone further, appear- Trump is depressingly predictable: produced an autopsy report designed to Trump believes he can use the judicia- ing to attack the voters who cast their constantly lying and denying, construct- grow the party. With Trump, they threw ry as a weapon against the American ballots for Biden. He retweeted a post himself and his family that is comfort- ing a world in which he is the winner that out and doubled down on being the people. The judiciary is not likely to allow by a Richmond, Va. television station able and secure. He will do everything and hero. party of white grievance. This year’s itself to be used. that read: with the last bits of power from his pres- We know why Trump does what he election and Trump’s reaction to it is not Barring that, he is committed to de- “Virginia Wesleyan University busi- idency. does. He is depraved. Republicans in likely to produce an autopsy but induce stroying faith in the electoral process it- ness professor and dean Paul Ewell His attack on the election system is Congress, by going along with this non- a séance. self. If he didn’t win, he insists he must wrote that anyone who chose Biden for doing damage to our democracy. So is sense, are proving once again that they The Republican Party is dead. Trump have been cheated because, in his mind, president is ‘ignorant, anti-American his refusal to concede. So is his sulking. are so cowardly and craven that they killed it. MAGA is dancing on the grave. failure is not a possibility. and anti-Christian.’” To that tweet, But, of course, Trump doesn’t care about will join Trump in his depravity. The way to remember that party is in Like he has done for the entirety of his Trump appended, “Progress!” our democracy. He doesn’t care about They underscore that the Republican spirit. 0 THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N A23

Biden Faces A Crisis of Governing

Mark Schmitt

OST of the election-disaster scenarios that journalists and campaign lawyers prepared

IMONE NORONHA M for don’t seem to have come to S pass. But we may be unprepared for the crisis of governance that Joe Biden will face after he is inaugurated as president. gy, a company that does so- It’s not just the likelihood that the Sen- phisticated modeling of ate will remain controlled narrowly by Re- power systems, found that a publicans — and so prevent ambitious leg- robust wholesale power mar- islation on climate change, economic stim- ket in the Southeast could save ulus or health care. customers $384 billion be- There’s much more to governing than tween now and 2040, while legislative initiatives. And Mr. Biden could avoiding most new gas plants. hit the ground running with the day-to- Details of such markets can day work of administrative governance. be complex, but the basic idea Unlike predecessors such as Bill Clinton is simple. If power is available and Jimmy Carter, he and his core staff from an existing power plant in, have the experience in the executive say, South Carolina, why should branch that others needed years to ac- customers in Georgia pay to quire. When Will Electricity Companies build a new, duplicative plant, or But they may have to reassemble a bro- vice versa? ken government before they can begin to Recent events in New Mexico use it for good. show what can happen when The Covid-19 pandemic and economic power companies are asked to crisis have revealed the limits of our ca- Finally Quit Burning Natural Gas? weigh all options. pacity to respond to crises that demand The big utility there, Public basic coordination and resources, limits Service Company of New Mexico, made far worse by members of the Trump are behaving like smokers who really, two large electricity markets “is now at- Justin Gillis and Michael O’Boyle is shutting down a large coal administration but not solely their fault. truly plan to quit, as soon as they finish tracting only a small fraction of investor plant, as required by an excellent In personnel and regulatory rules, the that last carton of cigarettes. interest compared to clean energy.” new law, the Energy Transition core of the daily business of governing, S AMERICANS suffer through im- Now, it is true that gas plants play a crit- Alas, the situation is quite different in Act. The company wanted to build Mr. Biden is likely to encounter a mine- mense wildfires, rising coastal ical role on the electrical grid at the mo- monopoly markets, where utilities face lit- field of Trump-era changes; a bureaucra- flooding and an epic hurricane ment because they provide nearly 40 per- tle or no competition. a gas plant to replace much of the cy that’s lost much of its experienced mid- A season, the nation’s corpora- cent the country’s electricity. They recover their costs through rates lost power. dle tier; and hundreds of officials who tions want you to believe they are coming But a major new report from the Uni- set by state regulators, not by operation of Clean-energy advocates pro- have passed the Trump loyalty tests re- to grips with the climate crisis. versity of California, Berkeley, shows that a market. posed an alternative, involving portedly organized by the White House Among the companies pledging bold the United States already has enough gas The Southeast is one section of the wind and solar farms, batteries and personnel director, Johnny McEntee, or emissions cuts are those that generate plants to support a transition to a far country that is especially problematic. other steps, that would cost nearly cabinet officials like Secretary of State America’s electricity, which emit more cleaner grid. There, big utility holding companies like the same, with lower financial risk Mike Pompeo, who asked Mr. Trump to than a quarter of the nation’s global- To the extent new power is needed, Duke Energy and Southern Company jeal- and much lower emissions. fire his agency’s inspector general in May. warming pollution. wind and solar plants, coupled with large ously guard their monopoly fiefs. Regulators were persuaded, and The Trump administration has moved Yet that same industry is about to make batteries, are generally cheaper options. Duke just released a plan suggesting it the gas plant is dead. Every utility aggressively to alter regulations affecting a strategic error that could render meet- By contrast, if the companies go for- wants to build at least 10 new gas plants in executive and regulator in the coun- the environment, workplace health and ing its own goals far more expensive, if not ward with $100 billion worth of new plants, the Carolinas. Southern Company — try needs to study this example. safety, education policy and programs like impossible. which owns utilities in Alabama, Georgia We admire the nation’s power Medicaid. This newspaper has docu- As they shut down costly and dirty coal- and Mississippi — also wants to build companies. They are adroit at the hard job of keeping the lights on. mented the completion or advancement of burning power plants, the electrical com- Wind and solar are large new gas plants, though it has yet to And they are starting to see that rollbacks of more than 100 environmental panies are planning to build 235 gas-fired reveal the exact number. power stations across the country, accord- global warming is serious. Emissions rules, some of which went even beyond better bets for investors The Tennessee Valley Authority, a fed- ing to our analysis of figures compiled from electricity generation have fall- the wish lists of the companies that will erally owned corporation that is also a de from commercial databases by the Sierra and for the planet. en more than a quarter since 2005. benefit. The Economic Policy Institute facto monopoly and supplies power to sev- Club. But we also think the companies found 50 actions that would limit workers’ en Southern states, plans to build up to 11 The companies claim these are needed lack a sense of urgency about the cli- rights. gas plants. Some changes made by executive order to replace the coal plants, and to balance those plants may need to be shut down mate crisis, a problem compounded by fluctuations in electricity generation from within 10 to 15 years to meet national, At risk here is not investor money, but their poverty of imagination. can be reversed quickly by the same the wallets of people who live in the South- method, but most will require lengthy rising levels of wind and solar power. state or utility goals for emissions reduc- Technologies are available now that This investment in new gas plants tions — a foolhardy investment. ern states. Once these plants get built, would allow them to go much faster on would exceed $100 billion. At least 26 of the proposed plants are al- customers will be forced to pay for them energy transition, yet they are stuck in If the plants are built, along with the ready under construction, and it may be even if they shut down early. an antiquated mind-set: The best way A broken government pipelines to support them, they are likely too late to stop them. Fortunately, many of It is not too late to stop these plants. to make electricity is to burn some- to run for 30 or 40 years — long past the the ones that are not as far along could Governors and regulators in the Southern thing. may need reassembling point that emissions from the electrical well be killed by market forces. states, and the board of the T.V.A., will not That era will end. The sooner the com- before he can use it. grid need to approach zero if we are to Large parts of the United States have be doing their jobs unless they subject panies come to grips with that, the have a reasonable climate future. competitive markets for wholesale elec- these proposals to rigorous scrutiny. Citi- sooner they can build the clean, afford- The companies are portraying these tricity production. zens should demand it. able power grid the American people 0 rule-making periods of their own, with new gas plants as a bridge to the future, As the cost of big wind and solar power Superior options are available. For need. time for public comment and possible le- since they have lower greenhouse gas plants continues to fall, a rush is under- starters, the Southern utilities need to gal challenges. emissions than coal plants. way to pair them with huge batteries that commit to moving much faster on clean JUSTIN GILLIS is a contributing opinion With Democratic control of the Senate, In fact, they are a bridge to a climate can supply electricity even when the sun energy. They also need to do a far better writer and a former environmental re- the Biden administration would have been breakdown because their emissions are isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. job of trading power across state lines. porter for the The Times. MICHAEL able to use an obscure process, the Con- still significant. Many gas plants will not be able to com- A recent study by Energy Innovation, a O’BOYLE is a director of electricity policy gressional Review Act, to reverse regula- The companies ought to know that, but pete. In fact, the Rocky Mountain Institute research group in San Francisco where at Energy Innovation, which does re- tions finalized late this year, just as Mr. building chimneys is in their blood. They recently reported that gas generation in one of us works, and Vibrant Clean Ener- search and analysis on clean energy. Trump and congressional Republicans used it 16 times to reverse regulations from President Barack Obama’s administration. Instead, the Trump administration has two and a half months to jam through even more rules changes. All these regulatory changes, and the What Happened in California Is a Cautionary Tale complexity of reversing them, will be like research groups at the University of Cali- sand in the gears in the implementation of Terri Gerstein any action on climate, student loans or fornia, Berkeley, found that Uber and Lyft health care, as well as to the ordinary drivers would be guaranteed only an estimated $5.64 per hour. This no doubt would functioning of government. And they will HAT happened in Califor- have surprised 40 percent of those in a make enacting an effective medical, eco- nia? Despite the state’s lib- survey of early voters who said they had nomic and social response to the pan- eral reputation, voters there supported Proposition 22 to ensure work- demic even more challenging. last week approved Proposi- Steve Bannon and other acolytes of Mr. W ers earned livable wages. tion 22, a ballot initiative exempting many Finally, there is the issue of benefits. Trump denounced the “administrative gig companies from state workplace laws state” as if it were a permanent and un- Gig companies have used snazzy “port- and stripping their workers of basic, es- changing feature, but Mr. Trump has ef- able” benefits language, but Proposition sential protections. fectively used the administrative state to 22 gives workers crumbs compared with Uber, Instacart, Lyft, DoorDash and dismantle itself, beginning quickly to what it takes away. Companies must pro- other on-demand providers of ride-shares drive out experienced midlevel lawyers, vide a “health care subsidy” to people and food and grocery deliveries spent scientists and analysts. Throughout the working at least 15 hours of “engaged $200 million pushing the proposal, an as- federal government, political loyalists so time.” At 30 weekly hours, the subsidy inexperienced they have not yet com- tounding sum that workers and their al- would average about $1.22 per hour, or just pleted college have been installed in key lies couldn’t remotely hope to match. Not over $36.00 a week, according to one anal- positions. Many are likely to try to “bur- surprisingly, Californians were misled by ysis, a paltry sum compared with what row in,” converting political appointments an avalanche of claims about the propos- workers would receive as employees who to protected Civil Service positions. al’s impact on workers. The measure, were paid for all of their work time — not Officials below the cabinet level will be which takes effect next month, was ap- just two-thirds of it. as important as the higher-profile posi- proved with 58 percent of the vote. And of course, rights are meaningful tions, and filling them quickly (or replac- Emboldened by the results in Califor- only if they are enforceable. If a company ing unqualified people who hold those po- nia, Uber and friends are apparently plan- MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS pays less than what’s required, shaves sitions now) with experienced people fa- ning to take the show on the road. Poten- hours or doesn’t pay the health care sub- miliar with the agencies should be a pri- tial targets could include Massachusetts A gig worker in Los Angeles pumps her fist through her car’s sun roof. sidy, Proposition 22 is silent about what ority. or New Jersey, where state regulators mechanism workers can use to enforce But Mitch McConnell’s Senate can have pursued them, or New York or Penn- in California will not have a right, as em- those pay and subsidy rights. grind this process to a halt, too, even if it sylvania, where courts have rejected the ployees do under state law, to paid sick The kicker? Unlike most laws, which re- confirms many of Mr. Biden’s top-level argument by gig companies that workers A ballot measure quire only a majority vote of the State Leg- nominees. run their own independent businesses. days, overtime pay, unemployment insurance or a workplace covered by occupa- strips gig workers islature to revise, Proposition 22 requires There are still constructive efforts to The rest of us need to understand what the vote of seven-eighths of the Legisla- prepare for governance. Perhaps the most happened in California. tional safety and health laws. How did these companies persuade Cal- of basic protections. ture to make any changes. comprehensive catalog of actions a Demo- What was at stake with Proposition 22 These are the truths that can be buried cratic president could take without sup- ifornia voters to approve this snatching of was whether workers for app-based by well-funded advertising campaigns of port in Congress is the “Day One Agenda” rights from thousands of vulnerable peo- driver and delivery companies would be But here’s the catch: Workers will be large corporations collaborating to write from The American Prospect in 2019. It in- ple? They used a deluge of money to con- considered employees under California paid only for “engaged time,” defined as their own rules. And this, in the end, is cludes ambitious steps to strengthen an- vince voters that the proposal served statutes, which like workplace laws na- the time between receiving a request and what’s most dangerous about Proposition titrust enforcement and forgive student workers’ interests by preserving their tionwide, cover only employees, or dropping off the passenger. This is far less 22. Companies shouldn’t be able to do this. loan debt. flexibility, ensuring a guaranteed level of whether they should be classified as inde- than what’s required under laws for em- Surely, lots of other industries would like But the basic challenge of claiming con- pendent contractors. Proponents argued pay and providing them with “portable” ployees, who must be compensated for all trol of the executive branch and carrying benefits. to avoid paying unemployment insurance that requiring gig companies to follow work time. About a third of drivers’ work taxes, sick days or overtime. Surely, food out a public health and economic response Their claims were deceptive. current laws would badly damage their time wouldn’t fall within this definition of manufacturers would like an exemption to the pandemic requires far more than a on-demand business model and result in There’s no law prohibiting flexible or “engaged time,” according to a study day to be ready. from safety requirements and inspec- longer wait times, higher prices and the part-time hours for employees. Millions of funded by the companies themselves. tions, and chemical companies would save People’s direct experience of govern- loss of countless jobs. These were the employees already work part-time or flex- Workers will not be paid for time spent ment and the services and security it pro- a bundle if they got an exemption from en- same bleak prognostications gig compa- ible hours. Indeed, these particular indus- getting gas, waiting for a ride request or vides, or fails to provide, shapes our sense vironmental laws. nies made about the minimum wage for tries (ride-share and food delivery) would cleaning and sanitizing their cars. of ourselves as citizens in a democracy as But that’s not how our system is sup- drivers that New York City enacted two be unlikely to hire only full-time employ- Plus, 30 cents per mile doesn’t cover all much as, or more than, elections and legis- posed to work. California has always been years ago — predictions that did not come ees because of the ebb and flow of vehicle-related expenses; by comparison, lation. Much will depend on the Biden ad- a bellwether. This time, let’s not follow its to pass. customer demand. 0 ministration’s preparation for what it the Internal Revenue Service’s optional lead. What they didn’t say was that it was a Under Proposition 22, gig companies finds when it finally takes the keys to the standard deductible rate for the costs of will have to pay their contractors 120 per- White House. 0 terrible deal for workers. Allowing compa- operating a car for business is 57.5 cents TERRI GERSTEIN is the director of the State nies to write their own exemption from cent of the state or local minimum wage. per mile. And as independent contractors, and Local Enforcement Project at Har- MARK SCHMITT is the director of the politi- California law is also a cautionary tale for In addition, companies must pay 30 cents drivers won’t have a right to overtime pay vard Law School’s Labor and Worklife cal reform program at the research orga- our fragile democracy. per mile for gas and other vehicle-related for long workweeks, as is required for em- Program and a senior fellow at the Eco- nization New America. Now, workers for these gig companies expenses, adjusted annually for inflation. ployees. In light of all this, a study by three nomic Policy Institute. A24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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By REED ABELSON Families were also staying away, concerned about catching the virus. “I did some Two years ago, Dr. Kelly McGregory opened telemedicine, but it wasn’t enough volume to her own pediatric practice just outside Min- really replace what I was doing in the clinic,” neapolis, where she could spend as much she said. time as she wanted with patients and par- After her husband found a new job in a dif- ents could get all of their questions an- ferent state, Dr. McGregory, 49, made the dif- swered. ficult decision to close her practice in Au- But just as her practice was beginning to gust. “It was devastating,” she said. “That thrive, the coronavirus hit the United States was my baby.” and began spreading across the country. “As an independent practice with no real Many other doctors are also calling it connection to a big health system, it was aw- quits. Thousands of medical practices have ful,” Dr. McGregory said. At one point, she closed during the pandemic, according to a had only three surgical masks left and wor- July survey of 3,500 doctors by the Physi- JENN ACKERMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ried that she could no longer safely treat pa- cians Foundation, a nonprofit group. About 8 tients. percent of the doctors reported closing their offices in recent months, which the foundation estimated could equal some 16,000 prac- The pandemic is causing medical tices. Another 4 percent said they planned to Dr. Kelly McGregory, above right, decided to shutter within the next year. close her practice outside Minneapolis because practices to close, and doctors and nurses Other doctors and nurses are retiring of the pandemic. Above left, Dr. Joan Benca retired early to look after her grandchildren. CONTINUED ON PAGE B3 to retire early or shift to less stressful jobs.

(French) President Faults Privacy Risks of Wearable Trackers China Signs By NATASHA SINGER The (American) Press In Rochester, Mich., Oakland Uni- Trade Deal, versity is preparing to hand out Samuel Paty, who, in a lesson on wearable devices to students that Ben Smith free speech, had shown his class log skin temperature once a In Challenge THE MEDIA EQUATION cartoons from the satirical maga- minute — or more than 1,400 zine Charlie Hebdo mocking the times per day — in the hopes of Prophet Muhammad. pinpointing early signs of the co- To the U.S. The president has some bones to “When France was attacked ronavirus. pick with the American media: five years ago, every nation in In Plano, Texas, employees at By KEITH BRADSHER about our “bias,” our obsession the world supported us,” Presi- the headquarters of Rent-A-Cen- and ANA SWANSON with racism, our views on terror- dent Macron said, recalling Nov. ter recently started wearing prox- BEIJING — After eight years of ism, our reluctance to express 13, 2015, when 130 people were imity detectors that log their close talks, China and 14 other nations solidarity, even for a moment, killed in coordinated attacks at a contacts with one another and can from Japan to New Zealand to with his embattled republic. concert hall, outside a soccer be used to alert them to possible Myanmar on Sunday formally stadium and in cafes in and virus exposure. signed one of the world’s largest around Paris. And in Knoxville, students on regional free trade agreements, a “So when I see, in that context, the University of Tennessee foot- pact shaped by Beijing partly as a Protesting the U.S. several newspapers which I ball team tuck proximity trackers counterweight to American influ- coverage of recent believe are from countries that under their shoulder pads during ence in the region. share our values — journalists games — allowing the team’s The agreement, the Regional terror attacks. who write in a country that is the medical director to trace which Comprehensive Economic Part- heir to the Enlightenment and players may have spent more nership, or R.C.E.P., is limited in the French Revolution — when I than 15 minutes near a teammate scope. Still, it carries considerable So President Emmanuel Ma- see them legitimizing this vio- or an opposing player. symbolic heft. The pact covers cron of France called me on lence, and saying that the heart The powerful new surveillance more of humanity — 2.2 billion Thursday afternoon from his of the problem is that France is systems, wearable devices that people — than any previous re- gilded office in the Élysée Palace racist and Islamophobic, then I continuously monitor users, are gional free trade agreement and to drive home a complaint. He say the founding principles have the latest high-tech gadgets to could help further cement China’s argued that the Anglo-American been lost.” emerge in the battle to hinder the image as the dominant economic press, as it’s often referred to in Legitimizing violence — that’s coronavirus. Some sports power in its neighborhood. his country, has blamed France as serious a charge as you can leagues, factories and nursing It also comes after a retreat by instead of those who committed make against the media, and the homes have already deployed the United States from sweeping a spate of murderous terrorist sort of thing we’ve been more them. Resorts are rushing to trade deals that reshape global re- attacks that began with the be- used to hearing, and shrugging BIOINTELLISENSE, INC. adopt them. A few schools are pre- lationships. Nearly four years heading on Oct. 16 of a teacher, CONTINUED ON PAGE B4 A Kinexon proximity detection device, top, and a BioButton. CONTINUED ON PAGE B3 CONTINUED ON PAGE B4 B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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least eight years old and works OK. I were irrelevant, Facebook could ignore On Tech haven’t felt the need to replace it. But objections to its harvesting of people’s By SHIRA OVIDE I’ve started using a virtual indoor cy- personal information. cling app, and the game looks blah on Srinivasan’s point was that Face- my tired Mac. Then my colleague Kevin book’s data recklessness was an out- Computers are like hammers. Lots of Roose tweeted about his affection for a growth of the company’s market power. people own them and find them useful. souped-up desktop he bought for web I also wonder whether Google’s photos Not many people have deep emotions streaming. bait-and-switch is connected to its about them. (To prove me wrong, I felt something that I hadn’t felt for a market power. please send me poems about your while. Envy. About a computer. There used to be good digital photo hammers.) storage apps that weren’t owned by But one of the surprises in this not- Google ends free photo storage giant companies, like Picturelife and normal year is how personal computers When a big company tinkers with Everpix. But it is tough to compete with that had been zzzzzz for a long time prices, it’s a moment to ask whether it’s free or mostly free alternatives from have been the star gadgets of 2020. a sign of unrestrained power. Google and Apple. That’s partly because the pandemic There was a lot of fury at Google on Even if people are angry enough now has forced people to spend more time at Wednesday when the company said to ditch Google Photos, Google and home in front of computer screens. that Google Photos, its digital photo Apple have squeezed out or killed many Computers, though, have also saving service, would no longer have of the viable alternatives. Now those morphed to meet the moment, includ- free and unlimited storage for new giants can mostly do what they want ing the stripped-down Chromebook snapshots. After June 2021, avid pho- with their photo apps. (Will Oremus at laptops popular for remote schooling tographers might eventually have to OneZero made a similar point.) pay Google to stow photos. Apple al- The worst thing is that we don’t know and beefy PCs ideal for quarantine IRENE SUOSALO ready does this. video gaming. what good ideas in photo apps we It was a classic bait-and-switch. This year should give us renewed computers. Partly because of our in- underappreciated new digital idea of might have missed, because few com- Google offered something for free, got appreciation for the humble personal creased interest, some computers have the last decade. panies can compete with giants offering people hooked and then turned on the something for free. Even when it’s not computer, and the ways in which the been hard to find at times. We now also have more computing cash register. (It also has never really In 2021 and beyond, though, IDC variety than ever, including PCs that free anymore. industry has changed to make the right been free — Google uses our photos to expects new computer sales — which double as tablets like the Microsoft tool for the right person. train its software systems.) Before we go . . . peaked in 2011 and have mostly trended Surface, stylish and ultra thin laptops, With the reach of smartphones, On the one hand, it’s hard to com- ■ there’s no going back to the time when down since then — will see a slow de- specialist machines for video game plain when a company wants money to The retreat to Parler: Since the U.S. computers were the only digital device cline. (Smartphone sales have been die-hards and PCs with always-on sustain a good product. But one of the election, millions of people have migrat- for most people — and in some coun- inching down, too.) internet connections like smartphones. big questions about technology super- ed to alternative social media and me- tries they never were. The glum sales trends, however, And Apple this week unveiled new stars like Google is whether behavior dia sites like Parler, Rumble and News- But one lesson from the enduring mask some of the fresh thinking in Macs that promise to be zippier than that might seem inevitable and natural max, my colleagues Mike Isaac and appeal of computers is that old technol- computers the last few years. many conventional computers. is instead a reflection of their un- Kellen Browning report. It’s a reaction ogy doesn’t necessarily die. It can The best example is how Google and Not all of these devices are hits, but checked power. to a concern among some people that adapt. its partners made Chromebook laptops the activity shows that there’s still The antitrust scholar Dina Srinivasan sites like Facebook and Twitter are The research firm IDC has predicted cheap, simple and durable enough for innovation in a digital category that not published a provocative research paper biased against conservative voices. that this year’s sales of new personal kids, and controllable for administra- long ago was mostly boring beige last year that suggested Facebook had computers and similar devices will tors, to put computers into more class- boxes. Desperation to avoid irrelevancy once been a stickler for protecting This essay was adapted from the On Tech increase a bit over last year because rooms than ever before. These devices might have been the mother of re- people’s data and privacy — at least newsletter, which gets delivered every schools and workplaces that went re- — pushed along by Google’s sales tac- invention in the computer industry. while the company had competition. weekday. To sign up, go to nytimes.com/ mote prompted many people to buy tics with schools — might be the most At home, I have a laptop that is at Once social media rivals like Myspace newsletters

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an annoyed passenger scrambling for calmer pastures — next to your son. Or Help! How Do I Make Sure I Am a seat doesn’t recline, causing its occu- pant to move. Or the plane is 70 percent full and the math works out that a In the Safest Seat on a Plane? handful of solo travelers have to sit together. Dear Tripped Up, If you’re someone who can’t tolerate My son is flying from Los Angeles to New York City for Thanksgiving. I got that kind of uncertainty, sit on the aisle him a ticket on Delta Air Lines because they’re blocking out the middle in the center section — the aisle will be on one side and an empty middle seat seats. That said, the seating configuration of the plane is a 2-3-2. I’ve heard will be on the other. that window seats are safest, but there’s always a risk that someone will sit “The benefit is that you don’t have next to him. What do you recommend? SUSANNA anyone sitting next to you, so you’re farther away from other people for a consistent period of time,” Dr. Albrecht said. “But you do have a variety of Dear Susanna, Delta, unlike many of its peers, will people in the aisle, so you’ll probably Deciding where to sit on a plane has continue blocking middle seats through have briefer interactions with a lot of always been an exercise in strategy at least Jan. 6 in an effort to separate different people.” and skill: how to get the most legroom, smaller parties of one or two. Parties of Luckily, Dr. Barnett said, when some- the best shut-eye, the quickest exit. The three or more can book adjacent — one does brush by (say, on their way to stakes certainly feel higher now. including middle — seats. On aircraft the bathroom), “it’s such a short time Before we start, some numbers to put that have sections without middle seats that you’re in proximity and you’re your mind at ease: In its third quarter, — say, the 2-3-2 configuration of econ- wearing masks.” Delta’s passenger load factor — the omy class on a 767 — other seats will be We can only predict and control so percentage of available seats that are blocked as tickets are purchased and much, so experts recommend focusing filled — fell from 88 percent last year to seats are selected. The more people on exactly that: what we can predict 41 percent this year, according to the who sit together, the higher the likeli- and control. airline’s latest investor report, meaning hood that your son can sit alone when “We shouldn’t let the seat-assign- there are plenty of not-full flights. New the plane is 70 percent full, but there’s ment question distract us from thinking data also suggests that when everyone no way of predicting how many people through how we can stay safe through- is wearing a mask and other protocols will be flying individually, in pairs or in out the rest of the travel process,” Dr. are met, planes — with their high- groups. Albrecht said. efficiency, virus-zapping air filters — There still are ways to be proactive; That means leaving your mask on, are less risky than grocery stores. But for instance, your son can use the Fly eating at home or in the airport, and I’ll leave the specifics of viral dispersal Delta app to change seats until about waiting until the rush has subsided to to the scientists and try to outline some an hour before boarding. Just as one deplane. It also means keeping some of the things your son can do to avoid might refresh fantasy football scores or perspective: We’re in a pandemic that sharing an armrest with a stranger. election results, your son can be “that has ravaged air travel — on Nov. 1, the Before the pandemic, the Boeing 767 guy” at the gate, hunched over the seat number of people passing through aircraft that your son is scheduled to fly map. He can also continue to make T.S.A. checkpoints clocked in at around on would have accommodated 165 changes with the gate agent and (unof- BRIAN BRITIGAN 38 percent of last year’s figure, accord- passengers in economy class. Delta ficially, perhaps) onboard. her. “If you’re in the window seat and the ing to the agency’s ongoing tally. Even currently has a 70 percent capacity Additionally, said a Delta spokes- “Absolutely not,” she said. “As with aisle seat wasn’t occupied, the nearest holiday travel is expected to be down; limit in several cabins, including econ- woman in an emailed statement, “if everything with Covid-related, the risk passenger would be in the middle sec- airports may be busy around Thanks- omy class, bringing the passenger customers are uncomfortable with spectrum is a sliding scale. You can tion or on the other side of the plane,” giving, but the numbers are almost maximum to about 115. Even on a flight where they’re sitting, they can be rethink of seating as something you’d be said Arnold Barnett, an M.I.T. Sloan certain to be a fraction of what they where economy class is 70 percent, booked to another flight without a able to slide up a notch and down a School of Management statistics profes- normally are. about 50 seats are guaranteed to be change fee or fare difference.” notch, but there are other things you sor who has studied the effects of keep- And because your son is flying the empty. I asked Sandra Albrecht, an assistant could slide, like, 10 points up or 10 points ing middle seats open on the likelihood week before — a particularly smart My original plan was to take the professor of epidemiology at Columbia’s down.” of getting sick. “That’s already a dis- move any year, but especially now, number 115, geek out with the seat map Mailman School of Public Health and Risk tolerance and health vary, of tance of several feet. If everyone’s wear- when crowds bring safety concerns — on Delta.com and figure out the likeli- the chief epidemiologist behind “Dear course, so let’s return to your question ing masks, that’s a good situation.” he’s likely to end up with lots of elbow hood of your son sitting alone when the Pandemic,” a scientific communication about window seats. If the goal is to sit Even then, it’s not open-and-shut. Say room. As I suspected, the seat map plane fills to 70 percent. That, I learned, effort on social media, if she would as far from strangers as possible, your you have selected the perfect window confirms: There is still a sea of open is a huge waste of time. cancel her flight if someone sat next to hunch is theoretically correct. seat and boom: A shrieking baby sends window seats. SARAH FIRSHEIN

Japan’s Economy Surges, but Experts Warn Lasting Recovery Is Unlikely By BEN DOOLEY growth was the largest since 1955, when the most recent quarter. Economic sentiment in the service sec- if the government calls for new restric- and HISAKO UENO the Japanese government began to use Japan declared a national emergency tor is at its highest point in six years, actions on activities as it seeks to curb new TOKYO — Japan became the latest ma- gross domestic product as a measure of in mid-April, asking people to stay home cording to a monthly government sur- cases, he said, adding “as of right now, all jor economy to bounce back from the its economy, and paralleled similarly dis- and businesses to close, but by early vey. And the country’s main stock ex- you can say is that there is a lot of uncer- devastation of the coronavirus, as lock- astrous numbers for most of the world’s summer case numbers had dropped to a change, the Nikkei, hit a 29-year high last tainty.” downs eased and pent-up demand led to major economies. few hundred a day nationwide, and life week. The bigger immediate threat to surging domestic consumption and a re- While the country appears to be on the returned to something approaching nor- But it may be difficult to maintain the growth, however, may be an explosion in bound in exports. road to recovery, severe economic dam- mal, despite a bump in July. recovery’s momentum as the virus virus cases in other countries, said But the recovery is unlikely to be long- age remains, according to Yuichi Ko- Large government subsidies kept spreads in the winter months. Although Akane Yamaguchi, an economist at the lived, analysts warn, as a surge in new dama, chief economist at the Meiji Yasu- workers in their jobs and companies in daily case counts in Japan have yet to Daiwa Institute of Research. virus cases has led to a second round of da Research Institute. business. To stimulate the service sector, pass the 2,000 mark, the numbers have The recovery “depends on overseas lockdowns in the United States and Eu- “The rate of expansion is high, but the authorities provided discounts for those grown steadily in recent weeks. economies,” she said. “There is downside rope and threatens to dampen sentiment real economy is not as good as the num- willing to travel and eat out. Diners re- As case counts grow, government ef- risk as Europe locks down, and in the at home. bers. It’s only about halfway recovered turned to restaurants and shoppers re- forts to stimulate the economy through United States if the president tightens Japan’s economy, the world’s third from its enormous fall,” he said. turned to malls. By October, moviegoers discounts on travel and dining out have prevention policies as infections in- largest, surged 5 percent during the July- When the pandemic hit in February, were flocking to the theaters. come under fire, with many questioning crease.” to-September period, for an annualized Japan’s economy had already begun to Abroad, pent-up demand from Japan’s the wisdom of encouraging people to Regardless of what happens abroad, growth rate of 21.4 percent, after three shrink because of slumping demand major trading partners, especially China move around during the pandemic. Japan’s economy may take a long time to straight quarters of contraction. The per- from China, a tax increase on Japan’s — where the virus has been nearly eradi- While the government has said it will fully recover. formance follows spurts of growth in the consumers and a costly typhoon in Octo- cated — drove a recovery in exports. Chi- exercise increased vigilance, Prime Min- While China’s return to growth will United States and China, the No. 1 and 2 ber. That underlying weakness made it nese consumers rushed to buy new cars ister Yoshihide Suga has continued to help, “Japan’s economy can’t rely on ex- global economies, after the initial hits the first among major economies to fall and factories resumed purchases of elec- support the program, saying that there ternal demand alone to pull it into eco- caused by the pandemic, in a hopeful into recession, defined by two consecu- tronic components, helping Japanese is, as of now, no need to consider a new nomic recovery,” Mr. Kodama of the Meiji sign for global growth prospects. tive quarters of contraction. companies to recover from devastating state of emergency. Yasuda Research Institute said. Japan’s economy had contracted a re- That same fragility has also made it losses earlier in the year. But “things could change a lot depend- While a vaccine could spur a rapid revised 8.2 percent last quarter as the pan- slower to recover. The size of its rebound Japan’s success in controlling the vi- ing on what happens with the coronavi- covery, he said, without one, “Japan’s demic kept consumers home and devas- has not been as stark as other major rus so far — it has recorded around 1,800 rus,” said Yoshiki Shinke, chief econo- economy will continue to be sluggish, tated already-weak demand for the economies’. The United States economy deaths since the pandemic began — has mist at the Dai-ichi Life Research Insti- tending toward stagnation, through next country’s exports. The collapse in grew 33 percent, on an annual basis, in made businesses and investors bullish. tute. The recovery would most likely stall year.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N B3

VIRUS FALLOUT

Privacy Concerns Over Wearable Trackers in the Pandemic FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE fected person may have spent paring to try them. And the con- time. ference industry is eyeing them as GlaxoSmithKline recently a potential tool to help reopen contested the system at a site in Ma- vention centers. laysia and is rolling it out to other “Everyone is in the early stages consumer health plants in Africa, of this,” said Laura Becker, a re- Asia and Europe. The tracking search manager focusing on em- data has also allowed the com- ployee experience at the Interna- pany to see where workers seem tional Data Corporation, a market to be spending an unusual amount research firm. “If it works, the of time close together, like a secu- market could be huge because ev- rity desk, and modify procedures eryone wants to get back to some to improve social distancing, Mr. sense of normalcy.” Lim said. Companies and industry ana- “It was really designed to be a lysts say the wearable trackers fill reactive type of solution” to trace an important gap in pandemic workers with possible virus expo- safety. Many employers and col- sure, he said. “But it has actually leges have adopted virus screen- become a really powerful tool to ing tools like symptom-checking proactively manage and protect apps and temperature-scanning our employee safety.” cameras. But they are not de- Oakland University, a public resigned to catch the estimated 40 search university near Detroit, is percent of people with Covid-19 infections who may never develop symptoms like fevers. Finding a balance Some offices have also adopted smartphone virus-tracing apps between public health that detect users’ proximity. But the new wearable trackers serve a and intrusion. different audience: workplaces like factories where workers can- at the forefront of schools and not bring their phones, or sports companies preparing to making teams whose athletes spend time the leap to the BioButton, a novel close together. coin-size sensor attached to the This spring, when coronavirus skin 24/7 that uses algorithms to infections began to spike, many try to detect possible signs of professional football and basket- Covid-19. ball teams in the United States Whether such continuous sur- were already using sports per- veillance of students, a young and formance monitoring technology EMILY ROSE BENNETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES largely healthy population, is ben- from Kinexon, a company in Mu- eficial is not yet known. Re- nich whose wearable sensors searchers are only in the early track data like an athlete’s speed phases of studying whether wear- and distance. The company able technology could help flag quickly adapted its devices for the signs of the disease. pandemic, introducing SafeZone, David A. Stone, vice president a system that logs close contacts for research at Oakland Univer- between players or coaches and sity, said school officials had care- emits a warning light if they get fully vetted the BioButton and within six feet. The National Foot- concluded it was a low-risk device ball League began requiring play- that, added to measures like social ers, coaches and staff to wear the distancing and mask wearing, trackers in September. might help hinder the spread of The data has helped trace the the virus. The technology will contacts of about 140 N.F.L. play- alert campus health services to ers and personnel who have students with possible virus tested positive since September, symptoms, he said, but the school including an outbreak among the will not receive specific data like Tennessee Titans, said Dr. Thom their temperature readings.

Mayer, the medical director of the BIOINTELLISENSE, INC. “In an ideal world, we would N.F.L. Players Association. The love to be able to wait until this is system is particularly helpful in Oakland University, top, in Rochester, Mich., plans to introduce the an F.D.A.-approved diagnostic,” ruling out people who spent less BioButton, above, a wearable sensor. Tyler Dixon, right, a senior, began a Dr. Stone said. But, he added, than 15 minutes near infected col- successful petition to stop a mandate that students wear the sensor. “nothing about this pandemic has leagues, he added. been in an ideal world.” College football teams in the tuted online. They also caution Executives at Kinexon and Dr. James Mault, chief execu- Southeastern Conference also use that some wearable sensors could other companies that market the tive of BioIntelliSense, the start- Kinexon trackers. Dr. Chris enable employers, colleges or law wearable trackers said in recent up behind the BioButton, said stu- Klenck, the head team physician enforcement agencies to recon- interviews that they had thought dents with privacy concerns could at the University of Tennessee, struct people’s locations or social deeply about the novel data-min- ask to have their personal details said the proximity data helped networks, chilling their ability to ing risks and had taken steps to stripped from the company’s teams understand when the ath- meet and speak freely. And they mitigate them. records. He added that BioIntel- letes spent more than 15 minutes liSense was preparing to conduct say these data-mining risks could Devices from Microshare, a close together. They discovered it a large-scale study examining its disproportionately affect certain workplace analytics company EMILY ROSE BENNETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES was rarely on the field during system’s effectiveness for workers or students, like undocu- games, but often on the sideline. that makes proximity detection Covid-19. mented immigrants or political cials at client companies to use to said he wanted to ensure maxi- “We’re able to tabulate that sensors, use Bluetooth technol- Oakland had initially planned to activists. ogy to detect and log people wear- identify and alert employees who mum privacy for workers who data, and from that information spent time near an infected per- would wear the proximity detec- require athletes and dorm resi- we can help identify people who “It’s chilling that these invasive ing the trackers who come into dents to wear the BioButton. But and unproven devices could be- close contact with one another for son, not to map workers’ social tion sensors. are close contacts to someone connections. As a result, he said, the system the university reversed course who’s positive,” Dr. Klenck said. come a condition for keeping our more than 10 or 15 minutes. But GlaxoSmithKline, the pharma- silos the data it collects. It logs this summer after nearly 2,500 Civil rights and privacy experts jobs, attending school or taking the system does not continuously students and staff members ceutical giant, recently began close contacts between workers warn that the spread of such wear- part in public life,” said Albert Fox monitor users’ locations, said Ron signed a petition objecting to the working with Microshare to de- using ID numbers, he said. And it able continuous-monitoring de- Cahn, executive director of the Rock, the chief executive of Mi- policy. The tracker will now be op- vices could lead to new forms of Surveillance Technology croshare. And it uses ID codes, not velop a virus-tracing system for separately records the ID num- tional for students. surveillance that outlast the pan- Oversight Project, a nonprofit in employees’ real names, to log its sites that make over-the- bers of workers who spent time in “A lot of colleges are doing demic — ushering into the real Manhattan. “Even worse, there’s close contacts. counter drugs. Budaja Lim, head certain locations — like a packag- masks and social distancing,” said world the same kind of extensive nothing to stop police or ICE from Mr. Rock added that the system of digital supply chain technology ing station in a warehouse — en- Tyler Dixon, a senior at the school tracking that companies like requiring schools and employers was designed for human re- for Asia Pacific at the company’s abling the company to hyper- who started the petition, “but this Facebook and Google have insti- to hand over this data.” sources managers or security offi- consumer health care division, clean specific areas where an in- seemed like one step too far.”

“It wasn’t the way I wanted to end my Under the Stress of Covid, career,” Dr. Benca said.

Doctors Are Calling It Quits only to see wildfires break out. Many of her patients are farm- FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE treating the sickest Covid pa- workers and work outside, and early or leaving their jobs. Some tients, and they have two small they became ill from the smoke. worry about their own health be- children. When cases climbed in cause of age or a medical condi- In 14 years as a nurse, Ms. the spring, their day care center tion that puts them at high risk. Barry has never experienced any- closed, and Dr. Benca’s daughter Others stopped practicing during thing “like this that is just such a desperately needed someone she the worst of the outbreaks and high level of stress and just keeps trusted to look after the children. don’t have the energy to start going,” she said, adding, “The “It wasn’t the way I wanted to again. Some simply need a break other hard part is there’s no end in end my career,” Dr. Benca said. “I from the toll that the pandemic sight.” think for most of us, we would say, has taken among their ranks and She tried working fewer days you would fall on your sword for their patients. but decided eventually that she your family but not for your job,” would stop altogether for several Another analysis, from the she said, adding that she knows months beginning in early De- Larry A. Green Center with the other female colleagues who have Primary Care Collaborative, a stayed home to care for children cember. Ms. Barry hasn’t figured nonprofit group, found similar or older relatives. out what’s next for her. patterns. Nearly a fifth of primary Dr. Michael Peck, 66, an anes- “My intention is to stay in medicare clinicians surveyed in Sep- thesiologist in Rockville, Md., de- cine, although I would not be to- tember say someone in their prac- cided to leave after working in tally opposed to doing something tice plans to retire early or has al- April in the hospital’s intensive in a totally different area, which is ready retired because of Covid-19, care unit, intubating critically ill something that I would not have and 15 percent say someone has patients, and worrying about his said in the past,” she said. left or plans to leave the practice. own health. “When the day was LAUREN JUSTICE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES And patients have indeed felt The clinicians also painted a over, I just said, ‘I think I’m done’ course of the pandemic, Dr. Lisa tients. As the number of virus “The big hospitals and health care the effects. The pandemic has de- grim picture of their lives, as the — I want to live my life, and I don’t Bielamowicz, a co-founder of Gist cases balloons in the Midwest, her systems have pretty well-estab- veloped into “a really huge disrup- pandemic enters a newly robust want to get ill,” said Dr. Peck, who Healthcare, a consulting firm, pre- employees must deal with in- lished systems of P.P.E.,” she said, tion,” said Dr. Hollister, the family phase with record case counts in had already been cutting back his dicts “another wave of financial creasingly agitated parents. but smaller outfits might not have physician, who thinks closed prac- the United States. About half al- hours. stress hitting practices.” Many “They’re yelling and cussing at a reliable source. “I was literally tices are likely to result in “a sig- ready said their mental exhaus- He is now spending a few hours doctors’ groups will seek a buyer, my staff,” she said. Working for a on eBay looking for masks,” she nificant impairment to patients’ tion was at an all-time high. Many a day as the chief medical officer whether a hospital, an insurance telemedicine firm might be an al- said. The cost of these supplies access to medical care.” In his worried about keeping their doors for a start-up. company or a private equity firm ternative, she added. “It’s a hard has also become a significant fi- community, where both special- open: about 7 percent said they Still, most practices have that plans to roll up practices into job to begin with, to own your own nancial issue for some practices. ists and primary care doctors are were not sure they could remain proved resilient. The Paycheck a larger business. business,” she said. Doctors are also stressed by the open past December without fi- leaving, he is tending to more pa- Protection Program — authorized One doctor, who asked not to be The coronavirus crisis has am- never-ending need to keep safe. tients who no longer have a doctor. nancial help. by Congress to help businesses, identified because the discussions plified problems that doctors were “There is a hunker-down mental- It is an issue that Dr. McGreg- For some, family obligations including medical practices, with are confidential, said she and her already facing, whether they own ity now,” Dr. Bailey said. She is ory, who took a job at the Univer- left them no choice. the economic fallout of the pan- partner had already been talking their practice or are employed. “A concerned that some doctors will sity of Wisconsin School of Medi- “Honestly, if it hadn’t been for demic — helped many doctors re- with the nearby hospital nearby lot of physicians were hanging on develop PTSD from the chronic the pandemic, I would have still main afloat. That money “kind of about buying their pediatric prac- by a thread from burnout before stress of caring for patients dur- cine and Public Health in Madi- been working because it was not made me solid,” said Dr. Ripley tice before the pandemic arrived the pandemic even started,” said ing the pandemic. son, worries about. There were my plan to retire at that point,” Hollister, a family physician in in the United States. Dr. Susan R. Bailey, the president Even those who are not respon- some families in her practice said Dr. Joan Benca, 65, who Colorado Springs who serves as Although federal aid has of the American Medical Associa- sible for running their own prac- whom she could not convince to worked as an anesthesiologist in chairman of the research commit- helped, patient visits are still 15 tion. tices are leaving. Courtney Barry, find another pediatrician immedi- Madison, Wis. tee for the Physicians Foundation. percent below normal, she said, In particular, smaller practices 40, a family nurse practitioner at a ately. She said they “are waiting, But her daughter and son-in- The volume now “is really coming and they are continually worried continue to have difficulty finding rural health clinic in Soledad, which I discouraged, because I law hold administrative positions back,” he said. about making payroll and having sufficient personal protective Calif., watched the cases of co- think every child should have a in a hospital intensive care unit, But, depending on the future enough doctors and staff to see pa- equipment, like gloves and masks. ronavirus finally ebb in her area, medical home.” B4 0 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

MEDIA | TRADE

In a Challenge to the U.S., China Signs a Trade Deal FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE ministers. At the other extreme, and limiting government subsi- ago, President Trump pulled the China’s ceremony was conducted dies to state-owned enterprises. United States out of the Trans-Pa- in front of a wall of five very large, Most conspicuously, the pact cific Partnership, or T.P.P., a bright red Chinese flags. does not include India, another re- broader agreement than the Premier Li Keqiang, China’s gional giant. The New Delhi gov- R.C.E.P. that was widely seen as a second-highest official after Xi ernment pulled out of the negotia- Washington-led response to Chi- Jinping, oversaw the Beijing tions in July. China had rebuffed na’s growing sway in the Asia-Pa- event. In a statement released by India’s demands for a more ambi- cific region. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the state news media, he called tious pact that would have done the president-elect, has been non- the pact “a victory of multilateral- far more to tie together the re- committal on whether he would ism and free trade.” gion’s economies, including trade join the T.P.P.’s successor. The R.C.E.P. encompasses the in services as well as trade in To some trade experts, this new 10 countries of the Association of goods. agreement shows that the rest of He Weiwen, a former Com- the world will not wait around for Southeast Asian Nations plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zea- merce Ministry official in Beijing the United States. The European and prominent Chinese trade pol- Union has also pursued trade ne- land and South Korea. The pact will most likely formal- icy expert, said that the deal none- gotiations at an aggressive pace. theless represented a big step for- As other countries sign new deals, ize, rather than remake, business ward. American exporters may gradual- between the countries. The “The Regional Comprehensive ly lose ground. R.C.E.P. eliminates tariffs mainly Economic Partnership, due to its “While the United States is cur- for goods that already qualify for size, will certainly contribute to rently focused on domestic con- duty-free treatment under existing free trade agreements. It al- world free trade,” he said. VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS cerns, including the need to fight The leaders and trade ministers of the countries in the R.C.E.P. signed the deal in an online ceremony on Sunday. the pandemic and rebuild its econ- lows countries to keep tariffs for The agreement’s lower trade omy and infrastructure, I’m not barriers could encourage global sure the rest of the world is going companies trying to avoid Mr. ship of industries, serving as both ticians were leery of lowering ening trade ties in Southeast Asia. to wait until America gets its Showing that the Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made a challenge to China and an en- their country’s steep tariffs and It is unclear how the United goods to keep work in Asia rather house in order,” said Jennifer Hill- ticement for Beijing to relax its admitting a further flood of Chi- States will respond to the new than shift it to North America, said man, a senior fellow for trade and world will not wait grip on its economy, the world’s nese manufactured goods. China trade pact. While Mr. Biden is set Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the international political economy at second largest. ships $60 billion a year more in to assume office in January, trade around for America. Peterson Institute for Interna- the Council on Foreign Relations. The T.P.P. did not include China goods to India than it receives. and China have become fraught tional Economics in Washington. “I think there are going to have to but encompassed many of its big- India sought more flexibility to issues. “R.C.E.P. gives foreign compa- be some responsive actions to imports in sectors they regard as gest trading partners, like Japan increase tariffs if imports surged. The T.P.P. came under fire from what China is doing.” especially important or sensitive. nies enhanced flexibility in navigating between the two giants,” and Australia, as well as Chinese It also sought tariff reductions for both Republicans and Democrats Because of the pandemic, the The pact’s so-called rules of origin neighbors like Vietnam and Ma- low-end, labor-intensive industri- for exposing American busi- will set common standards for she said. “Lower tariffs within the signing of the agreement on Sun- laysia. After President Trump al goods for which production has nesses to foreign competition. It day was unusual, with separate how much of a product must be region increases the value of oper- pulled the United States out of already been moving out of China. remains contentious, and Mr. Bi- ceremonies held in each of the 15 produced within the region for the ating within the Asian region, that arrangement, the other 11 But Beijing has been wary of let- den has not said whether he would member countries all linked by final product to qualify for duty- while the uniform rules of origin countries then went ahead with it ting high-employment industries rejoin the deal — renamed the video. Each country’s trade min- free treatment. These rules could make it easier to pull production on their own. like shoe and shirt manufacturing ister took turns signing a separate make it simpler for companies to away from the Chinese mainland Comprehensive and Progressive copy of the pact while his or her set up supply chains that span while retaining that access.” China has been eager to move move out of China too quickly. Agreement for Trans-Pacific Part- head of state or head of govern- several countries. The prospect of China’s forging into that vacuum. Still, it must “As far as India is concerned, nership — once he enters office. ment stood nearby and watched. It has little impact on legal closer economic ties with its navigate India’s ambitions. India’s we did not join R.C.E.P. as it does But analysts say it is unlikely to be Simultaneously broadcast on a work, accounting or other serv- neighbors has prompted concern relations with China have deterio- not address the outstanding is- a high priority. split screen, the different ceremo- ices that cross borders, and does in Washington. President Barack rated considerably in recent sues and concerns of India,” Riva Mr. Biden has said he would nies offered a glimpse of each not venture far into the often-divi- Obama’s response was the T.P.P., months amid clashes between Ganguly Das, the secretary for wait to negotiate any new trade country’s political culture. Viet- sive issue of ensuring greater in- which had extensive provisions troops on their mountainous Eastern relations at India’s Min- deals. He wants to focus his ener- nam, the host nation for the talks tellectual property protections. on services, intellectual property, shared border. istry of External Affairs, said at a gy on the pandemic, the economic this year, and South Korea and The R.C.E.P. also skirts broad is- independent labor unions and en- Beijing had initially tried to news briefing on Thursday. recovery and investing in Ameri- Cambodia each had one or two sues like protecting independent vironmental protection. It also sway New Delhi into joining the Still, Ms. Das stressed that In- can manufacturing and technol- small desktop flags next to their labor unions and the environment called for limits on state sponsor- R.C.E.P. However, Indian poli- dia remained interested in deep- ogy.

The (French) President Faults the (American) Press

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE French government’s “ghettoiza- off, from the American president. tion” of Muslims in the suburbs And Americans, understandably of Paris and other cities played in distracted by the hallucinatory creating generations of alienated final days of the Trump presiden- young Muslims. And some of the cy, may have missed the intensi- coverage that has most offended fying conflict between the French the French has simply reflected elite and the English-language the views of Black and Muslim media. French people who don’t see the More than 250 people have world the way French elites want died in terror attacks in France them to. since 2015, the most in any West- Picking fights with American ern country. Mr. Macron, a cen- media is also an old sport in trist modernizer who has been a France, and it can be hard to bulwark against Europe’s know when talk of cultural differ- Trumpian right-wing populism, ences is real and when it is in- said the English-language — and tended to wave away uncomfort- particularly, American — media able realities. And reactionary were imposing their own values French commentators have gone on a different society. further than Mr. Macron in at- In particular, he argued that tacking the U.S. media, drawing the foreign media failed to under- energy from the American cul- stand “laïcité,” which translates ture wars. A flame-throwing as “secularism” — an active article in the French magazine separation of church and state Marianne blasted U.S. coverage dating back to the early 20th and then appeared in English in century, when the state wrested Tablet with an added American control of the school system from flourish denouncing “simplistic the Catholic Church. The subject woke morality plays.” has become an increasing focus But the ideological gaps be- this year, with the approach of tween French and American the 2022 election in which Mr. points of view can be deceptive. Macron appears likely to face the The French commentariat has far-right leader Marine Le Pen. also harped on the #metoo Mr. Macron didn’t initially cam- movement as an example of paign on changing the country’s runaway American ideology. approach to its Muslim minority, Pascal Bruckner, the well-known but in a major speech in early public intellectual, called the October denouncing “Islamist sexual abuse case against Ro- separatism,” he promised action man Polanski “neo-feminist against everything from the POOL PHOTO BY IAN LANGSDON McCarthyism.” But perhaps the foreign training of imams to President Emmanuel Macron of France speaking by telephone with President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the Élysée Palace in Paris last week. most prominent American jour- “imposing menus that accommo- nalism in France this year came date religious restrictions in from The Times’s Norimitsu “Macron’s war on Islamic sepa- rope’s editor in chief, Stephen France “incites” anger in the model in particular,” he said. cafeterias.” He also called for Onishi, who played a central role ratism only divides France fur- Brown, said that the article’s Muslim world, saying it was a “American society used to be remaking the religion itself into in forcing France to grapple with ther,” which argued that he was timing after the attack was in- segregationist before it moved to “an Islam of the Enlightenment.” poor word choice for an article the well-known pedophilia of a a multiculturalist model, which is His tough-talking interior min- alienating a Muslim majority appropriate, but that he had explaining anger at France in the famous writer, Gabriel Matzneff. ister, meanwhile, is using the that also hates terrorism. The apologized to the author for Muslim world. The New York essentially about coexistence of A recent profile in a French news inflammatory language of the far article said he was attacking taking it down without explana- Times was roasted on Twitter different ethnicities and religions site described Mr. Onishi and right. “Islamic separatism” when, in tion. He didn’t cite any specific and in the pages of Le Monde for next to one another.” others as “kicking the anthill just When Mr. Paty was murdered, fact, he had used the word “Is- errors. It was also the first time, a headline — which appeared “Our model is universalist, not by naming things” that had Mr. Macron responded with a lamist.” Mr. Macron’s critics say he said, that Politico had ever briefly amid the chaos of the multiculturalist,” he said, outlin- previously gone unspoken. Mr. crackdown on Muslims accused he conflates religious observance taken down an opinion article. beheading — “French Police ing France’s longstanding insist- Matzneff is now facing charges. of extremism, carrying out doz- and extremism, and the high- But French complaints go Shoot and Kill Man After a Fatal ence that its citizens not be cate- And Mr. Macron has his own ens of raids and vowing to shut profile misquote — of his attempt beyond those opinion articles Knife Attack on the Street.” The gorized by identity. “In our soci- political context: a desperate down aid groups. He also made a to distinguish between the reli- and to careful journalism that Times headline quickly changed ety, I don’t care whether some- fight against a resurgent corona- vocal recommitment to secular- gion of Islam and the ideology of questions government policy. A one is Black, yellow or white, virus, a weak economy and a ism. Muslim leaders around the Islamism — infuriated him. skeptical Washington Post analy- whether they are Catholic or political threat from the right. He world criticized Mr. Macron’s and “I hate being pictured with sis from its Paris correspondent, Asserting a focus on Muslim, a person is first and is also disentangling himself his aides’ aggressive response, words which are not mine,” Mr. James McAuley, “Instead of foremost a citizen.” from an early, unsuccessful at- which they said focused on Macron told me, and after a fighting systemic racism, France policy failures, not Some of the coverage Mr. tempt to build a relationship with peaceful Muslim groups. The wave of complaints from readers wants to ‘reform Islam,’” drew global terror. Macron complains about reflects President Trump. He had spoken president of Turkey called for and an angry call from Mr. Ma- heated objections for its raised a genuine difference of values. to President-elect Joseph R. boycotts of French products, as cron’s office, The Financial eyebrow at the idea that “instead The French roll their eyes at Biden Jr. the day before our varied as cheese and cosmetics. Times took the article off the of addressing the alienation of as French police confirmed de- America’s demonstrative Christi- conversation. The next month saw a new wave internet — something a spokes- French Muslims,” the French tails, but the screenshot re- anity. And Mr. Macron’s talk of I asked him whether his vocal of attacks, including three mur- woman, Kristina Eriksson, said government “aims to influence mained. head scarves and menus, along complaints about the American ders in a Nice church and an she couldn’t recall the publica- the practice of a 1,400-year-old “It’s as though we were in the with the interior minister’s com- media weren’t themselves a little explosion at a French ceremony tion ever having done before. faith.” The New York Times drew smoking ruins of ground zero plaints about Halal food in super- Trumpian — advancing his in Saudi Arabia. The next day, the newspaper a contrast between Mr. Macron’s and they said we had it coming,” markets, clashes with the Ameri- agenda through high-profile Some French grievances with published a letter from Mr. Ma- ideological response and the Mr. Macron’s spokeswoman, can emphasis on religious toler- attacks on the press. the U.S. media are familiar from cron attacking the deleted arti- Austrian chancellor’s more “con- Anne-Sophie Bradelle, com- ance and the free expression Mr. Macron said he simply the U.S. culture wars — com- cle. ciliatory” address after a terror plained to Le Monde. protected by the First Amend- wanted himself and his country plaints about short-lived head- In late October, Politico Europe attack, and noted that the iso- As any observer of American ment. to be clearly understood. “My lines and glib tweets by journal- also deleted an op-ed article, lated young men carrying out politics knows, it can be hard to Such abstract ideological dis- message here is: If you have any ists. But their larger claim is “The dangerous French religion attacks don’t neatly fit into the untangle theatrical outrage and tinctions can seem distant from question on France, call me,” he that, after the attacks, English of secularism,” that it had so- government’s focus on extremist Twitter screaming matches from the everyday lives of France’s said. (He has, in fact, never and American outlets immedi- licited from a French sociologist. networks. In the Times opinion real differences in values. Mr. large ethnic minorities, who granted The Times’s Paris bu- ately focused on failures in The piece set off a firestorm from pages, an op-ed asked bluntly, “Is Macron argues that there are big complain of police abuse, resi- reau an interview, which would France’s policy toward Muslims critics who said the writer was France Fueling Muslim Terror- questions at the heart of the dential segregation and discrimi- be a nice start.) rather than on the global terror blaming the victims of terrorism. ism by Trying to Prevent It?” matter. nation in the workplace. Mr. And he recoiled at the compar- threat. Mr. Macron was particu- But the hasty deletion prompted And then, of course, there are “There is a sort of misunder- Macron’s October speech also ison to Mr. Trump. larly enraged by a Financial the author to complain of “out- the tweets. The Associated Press standing about what the Euro- acknowledged, unusually for a “I read your newspapers, I’m Times opinion article on Nov. 3, right censorship.” Politico Eu- deleted a tweet that asked why pean model is, and the French French leader, the role that the one of your readers,” he said. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N B5

SMALL BUSINESS

After the Protests: Gaps in Small-Business Insurance By NELLIE BOWLES cost to replace it. That’s what hap- KENOSHA, WIS. — It’s a prominent pens. refrain these days from activists “It costs more to get replace- in the aftermath of arson and loot- ment coverage, so this issue is going: Businesses have insurance. ing to bear more of an impact on Buildings can be repaired. Broken lower-income folks where every glass is a small price to pay in a dime really counts, and they opted movement for justice. for the less expensive plan,” Mr. One new book, “In Defense of Kochenburger said. “It is not intu- Looting,” for example, argued that itive how this works.” looting was an essential tactic The government is sending $4 against a racist capitalist society, million in aid to be distributed by and a largely victimless crime — the Kenosha Area Business Asso- again, because stores will be ciation, but the city’s Fire Depart- made whole through insurance. ment estimates that damages The top editor of The Philadelphia from the late August riots are $11 Inquirer resigned amid an outcry million. Local accountants are vol- for publishing the headline, unteering to help business owners “Buildings Matter, Too.” navigate the daunting insurance “‘People over property’ is great bureaucracy. as a rhetorical slogan,” the paper’s “Larger businesses have risk architecture critic, Inga Saffron, managers who tell them exactly wrote in that piece. “But as a prac- what type of coverage to buy, what tical matter, the destruction of the risks are, what liability insur- downtown buildings in Philadel- ance to have,” said Loretta phia — and in Minneapolis, Los Worters, a vice president at the In- Angeles and a dozen other Ameri- surance Information Institute, a can cities — is devastating for the nonprofit industry association. “A future of cities.” small business has to be their own On the burned-out blocks hit by risk manager, and they don’t know unrest since the killing of George the right stuff, and that’s a big Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in problem.” Minneapolis in late spring, the re- The Rev. Jonathan Barker, who ality is complicated. Mr. Floyd’s is a pastor at Grace Lutheran death was the start of months of Church, said the riots hit Ke- protests for racial justice led by nosha’s most vulnerable popula- the Black Lives Matter movement TAYLOR GLASCOCK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES tion. And he added that they that have left long-term economic tapped into an existing racial ten- Tony Farhan’s Kenosha family hired a lawyer to help (the damage, especially in lower-in- sion in the neighborhood. electronics shop was looted lawyer takes a percentage of come business districts. Although there are many Black and burned in the violence whatever is paid out). While large chains like Walmart residents, most of the shops are after the police shooting of “I’m keeping my expectations and Best Buy have excellent in- owned by Middle Eastern, Asian Jacob Blake in August. low,” Mr. Khindri said. “I’m al- surance, many small businesses and Latino families. Insurance will not cover all ready broke. I’ve got no money. that have been burned down in the Some businesses will never that was lost. Left, the Car It’s been total loss.” riots lack similar coverage. And bounce back, said Mr. Tagliapi- Source used car lot. for them, there is no easy way to Even many of the businesses etra, who has been involved in replace all that they lost. with good insurance will not be citywide discussions on redevel- In Kenosha, more than 35 small shopping district. able to rebuild without outside do- opment. He has seen plans to fully businesses were destroyed, and On Aug. 23, Mr. Blake was shot nations or loans. redevelop Uptown and the sur- around 80 were damaged, accord- by a white officer. The video “There’s a huge divide between rounding area, an idea that ex- ing to the city’s business associa- showed the officer shooting him in the replacement cost and the in- isted before the riots but which tion. Almost all are locally owned the back seven times as he got into sured cost,” said Heather now is more feasible. and many are underinsured or his car. News spread that he had Wessling Grosz, the vice presi- “When you look at Uptown, no struggling to manage. been trying to break up a fight and dent of the Kenosha Area Busi- matter how it gets rebuilt, busi- “It’s a common problem, busi- that he was unarmed. The facts ness Alliance. “The ability to re- nesses there are never going to be nesses being underinsured, and that ultimately emerged about the place those buildings on those able to afford it again,” he said. the consequences can be devas- encounter were more complex, blocks will be very difficult. It is “It’s instant gentrification.” tating,” said Peter Kochenburger, but the viral video of the shooting out of reach for most of them.” Nowadays, at the Uptown site executive director of the Insur- taking advantage of a chaotic situ- (her landlord’s insurance is cover- was damning. Another unarmed Many small businesses choose where the Farhans had their ance Law LL.M. Program and a ation after the police shooting of ing it). In the meantime, she esti- Black man had been attacked by insurance that covers the cash shops, there are just high piles of University of Connecticut law pro- Mr. Blake, which is now being in- mated she was paying $800 extra the police. value of their building or products charred objects and melted plas- fessor. vestigated by the U.S. Depart- each month to heat the shop, Kenosha erupted. That night, rather than the actual replace- tic: cellphone cases, electronics “We can’t call corporate,” said ment of Justice. which now lacks proper windows, antiracism protests turned into ri- ment cost, which can be consider- cords, appliances and brightly col- Ricardo Tagliapietra, who owns But the topic is a difficult one to and she is working all day behind ots that lasted for days. ably higher. ored pieces of children’s clothing three restaurants in Kenosha. broach even for the riots’ victims: plywood without natural light. So The city’s lower- and middle- “Let’s say you have a 10-year- sticking out among piles of black- “There’s no backup.” Many on the left decry anyone Ms. Tolliver said she was making class business owners were ulti- old washing machine, and maybe ened wood and bricks. When people started burning who criticizes looting, arguing do with less — cutting back on em- mately hit harder than the more it was $500 to buy and a new one At the Car Source lot, the vehi- down buildings in Kenosha after that it is a justifiable expression of ployee hours and forgoing the new affluent. When the riots started on would cost $600, but it’s depreciat- cles are now just rusted pieces of the police shooting of Jacob Blake rage, widely quoting (out of con- winter uniforms her workers a Sunday night, Kenosha’s wealth- ed, so now it would have a value of metal, with seats burned through on Aug. 23, Tony Farhan, 36, text) the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther need. ier and whiter Downtown orga- $50,” said Mr. Kochenburger, the to their frames. On the hood of prayed that his electronics shop King Jr. that “a riot is the language The night after her shop was nized quickly to board up the insurance law professor. “So four cars, someone has written in would be left alone. of the unheard.” broken into, she stayed inside to storefronts, thanks to a longstand- you’re not getting either the cost graffiti: Black — Lives — Matter The Farhans have struggled re- At a recent antifa gathering in guard it and watch what was hap- ing tight-knit business associa- you paid for it or what it would — . cently. Mr. Farhan, his wife and Portland, Ore., protesters shared pening. She was shocked, she tion. By the next morning at 7, their four sons moved in with his literature arguing for the right- said, to see so many white pro- hundreds of volunteers were gath- parents while their savings went eousness of property destruction testers destroying property in the ering with hammers and nails. UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT WILL BE BARRED FROM OBJECTING TO CONFIRMATION OF THE name of Black lives. And they Those who couldn’t hammer came EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI,SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION PLAN, AND THE OBJECTING PARTY WILL NOT BE HEARD AT THE to one son’s health care. Mr. with titles like “Why Break Win- In re: BRIGGS & STRATTON § Chapter 11 CONFIRMATIONHEARING. Farhan’s hope for a better life was dows.” seemed to be well-off young peo- with water and sandwiches. Sev- CORPORATION,et al., § Case No.20-43597-399 7. Voting Deadline. The Order establishes December 11,2020 at Debtors. § (Jointly Administered) 5:00p.m.(CentralTime)asthelastdaytosubmitawrittenballottoaccept tied up in the shop. So were many In a media critique earlier this ple, with little sense of what a eral shops had already been or reject the Plan (the“Voting Deadline”). The ballots must be delivered storefront means to a family like looted and damaged. But mostly, ObjectionsDue:December11,2020 to and actually received by the Voting Agent by no later than 5:00 p.m. of his family’s belongings. They year published on the website Re- HearingDate:December18,2020 (Central Time) on or before December 11,2020 at either of the following couldn’t fit all the clothes and toys finery29, Britni de la Cretaz hers. the area was protected. HearingTime:9:00a.m.(CentralTime) addresses:If by standard or overnight mail or hand delivery:Briggs Uptown Kenosha, a less affluent HearingLocation:Courtroom5North,111S.10thSt.,St.Louis,MO63102 Ballot Processing Center,c/o KCC,222 N.Pacific Coast Highway,Suite 300, for their boys in his parents’ wrote: “Putting the focus on steal- “It’s some blue-haired, latte- NOTICE OF (I) ORDER APPROVING DISCLOSURE El Segundo,CA90245; If by e-balloting portal:Visithttp://www.kccllc. house, so they tucked things away drinking hippie in Seattle coming area, did not have a well-re- STATEMENT; (II) HEARING ON CONFIRMATION OF PLAN; net/briggs,clickonthe“SubmiteBallot”linkandfollowingtheinstructions ing objects from a store (during a (III) PROCEDURES AND DEADLINE FOR OBJECTING TO setforthonthewebsite. in the shop storage room. “Half pandemic, no less!) rather than here to raise hell while they go sourced tight-knit business asso- CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN; AND (IV) PROCEDURES 8. VotingRecordDate. Holdersof Claimsagainst the Debtors in the ciation. Many shop owners could AND DEADLINE FOR VOTING ON THE PLAN followingClassesasofNovember9,2020areentitledtovoteonthePlan: my house was in there,” said Mr. on the injustice behind the looting, home to their nice beds,” said Ms. PLEASETAKENOTICEthat: Farhan, who grew up in Kenosha. the horrific loss of life and racial Tolliver, who is in her late 50s. not afford to buy the plywood 1. Approval of Disclosure Statement. On November 10, 2020, Class Designation Treatment Entitled the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri to Vote The shop, which sells cell- violence that Black folks live with “They don’t care about any of us.” boards to protect their businesses (the “Bankruptcy Court”) entered the Order (I) Approving Disclosure 4(a) General Unsecured Claims against BSC Impaired Yes Few city leaders fault the busi- in time, though Downtown Statement; (II) Establishing Notice and Objection Procedures for 4(b) General Unsecured Claims against BGI Impaired Yes phones, charging cords, head- every day, is sending the message Confirmation of Plan; (III) Approving Solicitation Packages and Procedures 4(c) General Unsecured Claims against ABI Impaired Yes phones and speakers, was looted that property matters more than ness owners for not buying more quickly came to help both finan- forDistributionThereof;(IV)Approving theFormof BallotsandEstablishing 4(d) General Unsecured Claims against BSI Impaired Yes comprehensive insurance poli- cially and physically with volun- Procedures for Voting on the Plan; and (V) Granting Related Relief [Docket 4(e) General Unsecured Claims against BST Impaired Yes on the night Mr. Blake was shot people. It just demonstrates the No. 1233] (the “Order”), approving the Amended Disclosure Statement 9. Parties in Interest Not Entitled to Vote. The following hold- and burned the next. So was his way that white supremacy sees cies. teers. Still, block after block for Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Briggs & Stratton Corporation and its Affiliated ers of Claims and Interests are not entitled to vote on the plan:(A) hold- burned over the course of the Debtors (as it may be further amended,modified and supplemented,the ers of unimpaired Claims that are presumed to accept the Plan (Classes brother’s shoe and clothing shop more value in a TV set than in the “Nobody expected this in little “Disclosure Statement”) [Docket No. 1227], filed by Briggs & Stratton 1(a) through 1(e) – Priority Tax Claims against each Debtor, Classes 2(a) next door. The apartment units life of a Black man.” Kenosha,” said Jennifer Dooley- week. Protests continued long af- Corporation and its debtor affiliates,as debtors and debtors in possession through 2(e) – Priority Non-Tax Claims against each Debtor, and Classes in the above-captioned chapter 11 cases (collectively,the“Debtors”),for 3(a) through 3(e) – Other Secured Claims against each Debtor); and upstairs burned with them, as did And Preston Mitchum, an ad- Hogan, a local marketer who is the ter the nights of fire and looting, use by the Debtors in soliciting acceptances or rejections of the Amended (B) holders of impaired Claims or Interests that are deemed to reject the president of Downtown Kenosha but they became more quiet and Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Briggs & Stratton Corporation and its Affiliated Plan (Classes 5(a) through 5(e) – Subordinated Securities Claims against many other buildings in the work- junct professor at Georgetown Debtors [Docket No.1226], filed November 9, 2020, (as it may be further each Debtor, Classes 6(a) through 6(d) – Intercompany Interests in each ing-class neighborhood of Uptown University Law Center, said in an Inc., which is working to raise peaceful. Now, old exterior walls amended, modified, and supplemented, the “Plan”), from holders of Debtor,andClass7(a)–EquityInterestsinBSC. of stores still stand uptown, but in- impairedClaimsagainsttheDebtors(each,asdefinedinthePlan),whoare 10. Notice of Non-Voting Status. Pursuant to the Order, holders of Kenosha, a historic and bustling interview: “Businesses will be $300,000 in grants to help busi- (ormaybe)entitledtoreceivedistributionsunderthePlan. Claims and Interests in Classes 1(a) through 1(e), 2(a) through 2(e), 3(a) multicultural neighborhood. nesses damaged during the riots. side many shops are just piles of 2. Access to the Disclosure Statement, the Plan and the Order. through3(a),and5(a)through5(e),6(a)through6(d)and7(a)willreceive OK. You can revive a business. Interested parties may review the Disclosure Statement, the Plan and aNoticeofNon-VotingStatus. Weeks later it remained a scene of You can’t bring back people who bricks, melted plastic and twisted the Order, free of charge at http://www.kccllc.net/Briggs. In addition, 11. ClaimsDisallowedforVotingPurposes. IfaClaimislistedinthe A season of downturn and pain chairs. the Disclosure Statement, the Plan and the Order are on file with the Schedules as contingent,unliquidated,disputed, in the amount of $0.00, char and rubble. are killed by the cops.” Bankruptcy Court and may be reviewed by accessing the Bankruptcy or unknown, and a proof of Claim was not (i) filed by the applicable bar They have insurance, though Within the argument that loot- A city of about 100,000 built along This is why the insurance ques- Court’s website at: https://www.moeb.uscourts.gov/. A login and pass- dateforthefilingofproofsofClaimestablishedbytheCourtor(ii)deemed tion is key. word to the Court’s Public Access to Electronic Court Records (“PACER”) timelyfiledbyanorderoftheCourtpriortotheVotingDeadline,unlessthe they say it is not enough, and now ing is a minor issue is the assump- Lake Michigan, Kenosha has seen are required to access the information on the Court’s website and can be Debtors have consented in writing,such Claim shall be disallowed for vot- hard times. In 1988, most opera- One company that became an obtained through the PACER Service Center at www.pacer.psc.uscourts. ing purposes. If a Claim is filed in the amount of $0.00,the holder of such they are tangling to get the money. tion that property owners can eas- gov). Copies of the Disclosure Statement, the Plan and the Order may Claim shall not be entitled to vote on account of such Claim. If a Claim has But personal items they stored ily replace what was lost. But tions of the local Chrysler plant iconic local scene of the destruc- also be examined by interested parties during normal business hours been paid in full prior to the Record Date,and so the value of the claim is were shut down, and the city lost tion is Car Source, which sells at the office of the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court. Furthermore,in accor- $0.00asoftheRecordDate,theholderofsuchclaimshallnotbeentitledto there were not insured. Mr. many of the small businesses in dance with Bankruptcy Rule 3017(a) and Local Rule 3017(B),upon writ- voteonaccountofsuchClaim. Farhan does not know how he will Kenosha’s lower- and middle-in- 5,500 jobs. But it slowly came back used cars. Some 140 vehicles in its ten request to the Debtors’ Voting Agent, Kurtzman Carson Consultants 12. Challenging the Allowance of a Claim for Voting Purposes. to life, with companies like Haribo lot were destroyed by arson. The LLC (the“Voting Agent”), the Debtors will provide, at no charge to the Paragraph 16 of the Order establishes certain procedures for voting and replace his children’s winter come Uptown neighborhood will requestingparty,copiesoftheDisclosureStatement,thePlan,ortheOrder. ballot tabulation purposes. If any holder of a Claim seeks to challenge the candy, Uline shipping specialists family that owns the lot, of Indian Such requests shall be made to theVoting Agent at the following address allowance (or disallowance) of its Claim for voting purposes in accordance clothes that were at the shop. not receive enough in insurance or e-mail:If by standard or overnight mail or hand delivery: Briggs withtheprocedures,theDebtorsrequestthattheCourtdirectsuchcreditor “I have no job, and I’m using proceeds to fully replace de- and Nexus pharmaceuticals open- descent, estimates the damage at BallotProcessingCenter,c/oKCC,222N.PacificCoastHighway,Suite300,El toserveontheDebtorsandfilewiththeCourtamotionforanorderpursu- ing or expanding in town. $2.5 million. They have been fight- Segundo,CA90245; Ifbye-mail:[email protected]. ant to Bankruptcy Rule 3018(a) temporarily allowing such Claim in a dif- credit cards,” said Mr. Farhan, stroyed property. And many Ke- 3. Confirmation Hearing. A hearing (the “Confirmation ferent amount for purposes of voting to accept or reject the Plan (a“Rule who is of Palestinian descent. “I’m nosha business owners describe This summer, Mr. Tagliapietra, ing with their insurer, which ini- Hearing”)toconsiderconfirmationofthePlanwillbeheldonDecember 3018(a) Motion”) by December 1, 2020. If a holder of a Claim files a the restaurant owner, and his tially attempted to classify the 18,2020 at 9:00 a.m. (Central Time),in the United States Bankruptcy timely Rule 3018(a) Motion, such holder’s Ballot should not be counted going into debt, and I just got out the losses in more personal ways. Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 5th Floor, North Courtroom, unless temporarily allowed by the Court for voting purposes,after notice partners had opened a high-end damage as the result of a domestic Thomas F.Eagleton United States Courthouse,111 South Tenth Street,St. andahearing,pursuanttoanorderenteredbytheCourt. of debt.” “We lived here, basically,” said Louis,Missouri. The Confirmation Hearing may be continued from time to 13. Classification and Treatment. A chart summarizing the treat- Mr. Farhan’s brother Vinnie, 40, Scott Carpenter, the owner of of- downtown attraction, a symbol of terrorism incident — an event not time without further notice other than the announcement by the Debtors ment provided bythe Plan toeach classof Claims and Interests is included its economic rise: the Apis Hotel covered by their plan, said Anmol at the Confirmation Hearing or any continued hearing or as indicated in insectionI.DoftheDisclosureStatement. who had the shoe and clothing fice furniture supply shop B&L anynoticeofagendaformattersscheduledforhearingfiledbytheDebtors 14. ReleasesbyHoldersofClaimsandInterests. Please be advised shop next door, said the logistics of Furniture, whose family has run and Restaurant, with entrees like Khindri, whose family owns the with the Bankruptcy Court,and the Plan may be amended or modified,if that under the Plan, the following holders of Claims or Interests are coriander braised lamb shoulder business. Most of their business necessary,priorto,during,orasaresultofthe ConfirmationHearing,with- deemedtohavegrantedthereleasescontainedinSection10.6ofthePlan: wrestling the insurance compa- the shop for 40 years and which is outfurthernoticetointerestedparties. (a) theCreditors’Committeeandeachofitsmembersintheircapacity ($20) and raviolo al’uovo ($18). records were destroyed in the fire, 4. Objection Deadline. Pursuant to Local Rule 3020(A) of the Local assuch; nies and restarting his life were just a few blocks away from the Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure for the Eastern District of Missouri (the (b) all holders of Claims who are entitled to vote on the Plan and vote overwhelming. “People don’t see Farhans’ stores. “It was our home Then two forces hit: the pan- and many of the car VIN numbers “Local Rules”),the Order establishes December 11,2020 at 5:00 p.m. toacceptthePlan; demic, and the economic damage were burned off, making it hard to (CentralTime) (the“Objection Deadline”) as the last day for filing and (c) all holders of Claims who (i) are entitled to vote on the Plan and behind the scenes. I put every- away from home.” servingwrittenobjectionstoconfirmationofthePlan. abstain from voting on the Plan or (ii) vote to reject the Plan and,in either thing into starting this business.” to the budding hospitality and prove how much was lost. The 5. ObjectionstoConfirmation. Responses and objections,if any,to case,donotelecttoexercisetheirright,asprovidedintheBallot,toopt-out It is now burned out, a couple confirmationofthePlanmust: ofgrantingthereleasessetforthinthisSection 10.6; In the units above the Farhans’ walls still standing around the (a) beinwriting; (d) all holders of Claims who are deemed to accept or reject the Plan, shops, all the tenants made it out melted core. The office furniture is (b) statethenameandaddressoftheobjectingpartyandtheamount are provided with a notice of non-voting status providing them with the UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT IfyouhaveaPrepetitionClaimagainstmorethanoneDebtor,you andnatureoftheClaimorInterestofsuchparty; right to opt-out of the releases contained in this Section 10.6,and do not (c) statewithparticularitythebasisandnatureofanyobjection; alive, but several family pets died gone, of course. And so is the play SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK MUST file a separate proof of claim against each Debtor against electtoexercisesuchright; ) which you assert a claim.You SHOULD NOT include claims against (d) conform to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (the (e) with respect to any Person or Entity in the foregoing clauses in the fires, the brothers said. One area in the corner with games and In re: K.G.IM,LLC,et al., CHAPTER 11, CASE NO.20-11723 (MG) “BankruptcyRules”)andtheLocalRules; (a) through (d), such entity’s predecessors, successors, assigns, subsid- Debtors. ) (Jointly Administered) morethanoneDebtoronasingleproofofclaimform. PLEASETAKEFURTHERNOTICEthateachproofofclaimmustbefiled, (e) be filed with the Bankruptcy Court (i) by registered users of the iaries, affiliates, managed accounts or funds, managed or controlled by upstairs resident started an online old NASCAR memorabilia he and NOTICE OF (I) DEADLINE REQUIRING FILING OF BankruptcyCourt’scasefilingsystem,electronicallyinaccordancewiththe such Entity and all Persons entitled to assert Claims through or on behalf PROOFS OF CLAIM BY CREDITORS ON OR BEFORE including supporting documentation, by U.S. mail, overnight delivery or fund-raiser the brothers high- his father built for local kids. His actuallyreceived Bankruptcy Rules and the Local Rules and (ii) by all other parties in inter- of such Persons or Entities solely with respect to the matters for which DECEMBER 15, 2020 AND (II) DEADLINE REQUIRING otherhanddeliverysystem,soastobe onorbeforethe est,inwritingwiththeUnitedStatesBankruptcyCourtClerk’sOffice,111S. applicable bar date in accordance with the Bar Date Order by Omni Agent the Releasing Parties are providing releases to the extent such Person or lighted: “My mom and I lost ev- family owned the building and has FILING OF PROOFS OF CLAIM BY GOVERNMENTAL 10thStreet,4thFloor,St.Louis,Missouri63102; and Entitywouldbeobligatedtoreleaseunderprinciplesofagencyifitwereso UNITS ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 25, 2021 Solutions (“Omni”) at the following address:K.G.IM,LLC,c/o Omni Agent (f) be filedand served so as to be receivedno later thanthe Objection erything and our 2 cats and now insurance, and he estimates the Solutions, 5955 De Soto Avenue, Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. directedbytheapplicablePersonorEntityinclauses(a)through(d). PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the United States Bankruptcy Court for DeadlinebytheCourtandtheNoticeParties. ELECTION TO WITHHOLD CONSENT TO THE RELEASES CONTAINED IN the Southern District of NewYork (the“Court”) has entered an order (the Alternatively, proofs of claim may be submitted electronically through 6. Pursuant to Local Rule 3020(A), objections to confirmation of my mom is homeless and I would cost to rebuild will be $1.5 million. the electronic filing system available at https://omniagentsolutions. THE PLAN IS AT THE OPTION OF THE CLAIM OR INTEREST HOLDER. “Bar Date Order”) requiring that each person or entity (“Claimants”) the Plan must also be served on (i) the plan proponent,(ii) any parties on HOLDERS OF CLAIMS ENTITLED TO VOTE MAY “OPT-OUT” OF THE like to try to raise money to help He plans on reopening in a rented holding or wishing to assert a claim against any of the Debtors that arose com/ilmulino. Proofs of claim may not be delivered by facsimile, the Local Rule 9013-3(D) Master Service List, and (iii) any entity making telecopy,orelectronicmailtransmission. RELEASES ON THEIR BALLOTS, BUT ONLY IF SUCH HOLDERS DO NOT her with getting a place,” the ten- location four miles away in a prior to July 28,2020 (the“Petition Date”),including any administrative PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT IF ANY CREDITOR THAT IS NOT a written request. In accordance with Local Rule 3020(A), objections VOTE TO ACCEPT THE PLAN. HOLDERS OF CLAIMS AND INTERESTS expense claims arising under section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code EXEMPTED FROM THE REQUIREMENT TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM AND must be served on the following parties: (i) Debtors: Briggs & Stratton NOTENTITLEDTOVOTEMAYSUBMITANOPT-OUTFORMTOOPT-OUT ant’s daughter, Ashley Powell, neighborhood he thinks is safer. (the “Prepetition Claims”) file a proof of claim against any of the THAT FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 15, Corporation, et al., c/o Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC, 222 N. Pacific OFTHE RELEASES,AS DESCRIBED IN MORE DETAIL INTHE NOTICE OF wrote on the GoFundMe page. One pattern that emerged in the Debtors listed below (collectively, the “Debtors”) on or before (i) 5:00 2020 (OR JANUARY 25, 2021, IN THE CASE OF GOVERNMENTAL UNITS) Coast Highway,Suite 300,El Segundo,California 90245;(ii) Office of the NON-VOTINGSTATUS. p.m.(prevailing Eastern Time) on December 15,2020 (the“General Bar ON ACCOUNT OF ANY PREPETITION CLAIM SUCH CREDITOR HOLDS U.S.Trustee: Office of the U.S.Trustee for the Eastern District of Missouri, 15. Injunction, Exculpation and Debtors’ Releases.The Plan also Mr. Farhan, hoping some of the aftermath of the riots in Kenosha: Date”);or (ii) 5:00 p.m.(prevailing EasternTime) on January 25,2021 for OR WISHES TO ASSERT AGAINST ANY OF THE DEBTORS, THEN SUCH 111 South 10th Street,Suite 6.353,St.Louis,Missouri 63102,Attn:Sirena contains provisions regarding injunction,exculpation and releases by the insurance and redevelopment Many white-owned businesses holders of Prepetition Claims that are governmental units as defined in CREDITOR SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED TO VOTE ON ANY PLAN FOR THE T. Wilson, Esq., Email: [email protected]; (iii) Attorneys to the Debtorsthatmayaffectyourrights,suchasthosesetforthinSections10.4 section 101(27) of the Bankruptcy Code (the“Governmental Unit Bar DEBTORS OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY DISTRIBUTION IN THE DEBTORS’ Debtors: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP,767 Fifth Avenue, New York, New through10.11ofthePlan. grants will come his way soon, like Mr. Carpenter’s had better, Date,”togetherwiththeGeneralBarDate,the“BarDate”). Acopyofthe CHAPTER11CASESONACCOUNTOFSUCHCLAIM. York 10153,Attn: Ronit J.Berkovich,Esq.,Debora A.Hoehne,Esq.,Martha 16. Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order is available free of charge at https://omniagentsolutions. E. Martir, Esq., Email: [email protected], debora.hoehne@weil. Plan,as of and subject to the occurrence of the Effective Date (as defined said he recently borrowed $20,000 more comprehensive insurance com/ilmulino,orforafeeviaPACERathttp://ecf.nysb.uscourts.gov. 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Davido, an Afrobeats star, favors lighthearted topics, even amid a pandemic. A Voice Upbeat In Times Of Trouble

By JON PARELES Davido — the American-born Nigerian Afrobeats artist David Adedeji Adeleke — has built an international career on songs about love and lust that have collectively amassed more than a billion streams. The album he released on Friday, “A Better Time,” is filled with them. But the perky song that opens the LP “Fem” (“Shut Up”) has taken on an unexpected role since it appeared in September: as a protest song for Nigerians demonstrating to end police brutality and corruption. “It was on an entirely different subject,” Davido, 27, said via a shaky video connection from his home in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, with his fiancée, Chioma Rowland, and their year-old son, Ifeanyi, nearby. “What the song is literally saying is to tell somebody that talks too much to shut up.” The lyrics, mixing English and Yoruba, boast about Davido’s success and taunt those who envy him: “Before the whole matter gets dangerous/You need to make sure you don’t say too much.” Protesters have sung “Fem” in the faces of police officers and government officials. The protests were set off by anger at a no- torious police unit, the Special Anti-Rob- bery Squad, and became known as the #EndSARS movement. On Oct. 11, Davido joined protests in Abuja, the capital of Ni- geria, and ended up defusing a confronta- tion between the police and demonstrators; videos of the incident raced across social media. He had come for a meeting with the CONTINUED ON PAGE C4

“One thing about Africans — rich or poor, happy or sad, no matter the situation going on in your culture, you always find time to smile and just be happy.”

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Wanted: Art Lover With High Ceiling The Critic Chagall’s 65-foot-tall stage As Audience curtain for ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met is being auctioned. And Star By JAMES BARRON A spate of shows offers a Wanted: art lover with deep pockets and a high ceiling — a very high ceiling. A 65-foot- different perspective and puts high ceiling, 20 feet taller than the Holly- the watcher to work. wood sign, 25 feet taller than a telephone pole and 46 feet taller than a full-grown gi- By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES raffe. and ALEXIS SOLOSKI The object in question is a stage curtain — a riot of figures on a fiery red background Could we get a volunteer up here? not quite 44 feet wide — that Marc Chagall That’s not an invitation theater fans are created for a Metropolitan Opera produc- likely to hear from an actor on a physical tion of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The stage anytime soon, but it is the beguiling Magic Flute”) in the 1960s, about the same come-on from a small flock of experimental time he designed the murals that flank the productions happening right now — online, Met’s lobby at Lincoln Center. The curtain is over the phone and even in person. (Well, in to be auctioned on Tuesday in New York by cubicle, if you participate in “Temping,” in Bonhams, which estimates that it will sell the East Village.) for $250,000 to $500,000. All of them depend on the willingness of a The curtain’s gigantic size is why it is be- spectator to step forward and become a ing sold. It was too big for the spot where the star. most recent owner wanted to hang it, in a We both raced to take them up on the of- museum in Armenia, a lofty pyramid with fer, then sat down, remotely, one recent artificial waterfalls that is almost as tall as weekday morning to chat about this entic- the Empire State Building. And so it was ing development in pandemic theater. folded, put back in its custom-made crate These are edited excerpts from our conver- and returned to New York. sation. MARC CHAGALL/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS; VIA BONHAMS “It does take a special space,” said Molly LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES Alexis, in the Before Ott Ambler, a senior vice president of Bon- Marc Chagall’s curtain for a Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” which was too large Times, were you one of those audience hams. “It’s a unique object to consider.” for a museum in Armenia to display, is expected to sell at auction for $250,000 to $500,000. members who is happy to be brought up on- CONTINUED ON PAGE C6 CONTINUED ON PAGE C5 C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A Booker Finalist Returns From Break Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses I didn’t think about prose for several years. After the success of “Nervous Conditions,” what it means to be a woman my publisher asked me to write a sequel, in the African literary canon. but I was in Germany, so I didn’t think I could write about Zimbabwe. By WADZANAI MHUTE It was the second half of the ’90s, I had a young family and was living at the student When Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel, level. There was also no one to discuss Zim- “Nervous Conditions,” was published in babwe with. Few people in Germany knew 1988, it was hailed as one of the 20th centu- about it. For them, it was just a country in ry’s most significant works of African litera- Africa. ture. I started going back to Zimbabwe for film It tells the story of Tambudzai, a girl projects so had more contact with the coun- raised in poverty in what was then called try. Then I returned in 2000, and I started Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. It explores her writing again. The children went to school fight to obtain an education and the chal- and with help, I had the space to write. “The lenges of entrenched gender inequality, Af- Book of Not” was published in 2006. rica in the 1960s and ’70s, and the postcolo- Since there were no more royalties from nial world. Her publisher soon wanted a se- my first publisher, what saved me was a fel- quel. lowship from the Rockefeller Foundation But instead of plunging back into writing, Bellagio Center in 2016. My husband took Dangarembga went to film school. “I didn’t care of the children in Zimbabwe, and I think about prose for several years,” she spent four weeks in a place where I was in- said in an interview. “I had no headspace for tellectually stimulated, talking about writ- writing.” ing with writers. It wasn't until 2006 that a sequel, “The When I finished “This Mournable Body,” I Book of Not,” came out, featuring Tam- put part of it on social media. The editor El- budzai, or Tambu, attending boarding lah Wakatama Allfrey helped me get an school but increasingly disillusioned with agent. I am really grateful to her, because her life, though it wasn’t released in the there were no opportunities for people like United States. The third book, however, me. “This Mournable Body,” was published with more fanfare, and this year it was nomi- When you finished “Nervous Conditions,” nated for the Booker Prize. did you think it was the beginning of a tril- In “This Mournable Body,” Tambu is the ogy? Did you intend to go back? educated woman that she worked so hard to I wanted to present hope in “Nervous Con- become, though it doesn’t appear to have ditions,” but I always saw it as an end of a brought her much comfort — materially, so- section, not the end of her story. Tambu cially or emotionally. Lonely, often unem- went to a multiracial school that wasn’t very ployed and struggling to hold on to her multiracial. I wanted to explore that. How- sense of self, she reflects in some ways the ever, I was writing in the 1980s, just after frustration of Zimbabweans like Dan- independence, and I couldn’t write what I garembga about the state of their country, wanted because it was not an appropriate which is in economic free fall and reeling moment. Zimbabwe was independent, but it from human-rights violations and the co- hadn’t dealt with the issues that led to inde- ronavirus pandemic. pendence. Then the land issue erupted in Dangarembga has not shied away from the ’90s, and I returned from Germany. I felt speaking out, and she made global head- that was the time to write about it. lines over the summer when she was arrested during a protest in Harare, Zimba- Some readers have said there are biographi- cal similarities between you and Tambu. bwe’s capital, just days after the Booker CYNTHIA R. MATONHODZE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Prize longlist was announced. “This How much of that was intentional? Tsitsi Dangarembga Mournable Body” has since become a final- I could see how people can view it that way. that she has to include others in her life. way that they choose. ist, and the winner will be announced on When I started writing, I was a newly at home in Harare, Thursday. minted feminist. I saw how intersection of Zimbabwe. “This You have been outspoken about politics in In “This Mournable Body,” you used the She discussed the years between her nov- race, gender and class affected people. I Mournable Body” is Zimbabwe, but it’s not as apparent in your second-person narrator. Can you explain els and what she sees as the problems and wanted people to relate to Tambudzai, who her latest novel. books. Was that a choice and did you con- this choice? possibilities of Zimbabwe, where she re- had faced many similar things. sider doing it differently? I started off writing several drafts in the turned after stints in England and Ger- It reflects my position. I believe politics is first person and had trouble navigating her Tambu from “Nervous Conditions” is very many. These are edited excerpts from the there to serve people, people in Zimbabwe struggles. It was too distressing communi- different from the Tambu in “This Mourn- conversation. exist to serve politics. I like to portray that cating that way. I felt I had to leave things able Body.” She experiences disillusion- point of view, about the individual person out, so I wasn’t doing justice to what I What have you been doing in the interim ment, despite her education, and she still and how they engage with other humans wanted to say. A third-person narrator between “Nervous Conditions” and your can’t make a living. Does she reflect the and their environment. Their success or would be too remote given the first-person latest book? What was going on in between? current state of the educated in Zimbabwe? failure is the success and failure of the na- narratives of the other books, so I tried a I wrote “Nervous Conditions” while I was a She was an educated woman approaching tion. I write about humans as a subject mat- second-person narrative and it worked. student at the University of Zimbabwe. I middle age in the 1990s, with a degree, and ter, and you see the politics through the lens What are your future plans? couldn’t get published in Zimbabwe, which couldn’t sustain herself. She would have of the person. If the state of the nation is at the time was publishing men, and I had been considered a failure in that society at functioning well, the people will flourish, I want to be able to set up woman film train- no access to publishing houses. I had heard that time. Now it’s more common to have a but if the system is not well, the people will ing, capacity-building initiatives, to be able that the Women’s Press in England pub- degree and not be able to find a job. I could not flourish. to make films. I have some in preproduction lished Alice Walker, so I mailed my only see the current situation in Zimbabwe per- and some are production-ready. I would live copy of my manuscript to them. They didn’t colating back then. What does a better Zimbabwe look like for in an environment with reliable electricity. I respond, and years later when I went to you? finally have solar, now electricity doesn’t go England for work, I visited their offices in What do you want readers, especially non- When I worked for former Deputy Prime off when I am in midsentence. To have run- London. They had my manuscript in the Zimbabweans, to get from your books? Minister Arthur Mutambara, he asked me ning water, to live somewhere where there basement and hadn’t read it. Because I was As a writer, I don’t like to prescribe a mean- what my vision was for a family in Zimba- is a vibrant arts and literary community there, they agreed to read it, and the very ing for readers. I want them to follow the bwe. I didn’t answer at the time, but then where I can have meaningful discussions. next day said they wanted to publish it. So it trajectory of Tambudzai. In “This Mourn- later I thought, What is the basic family unit If you notice, the Zimbabweans who are was four years from writing to publishing. able Body,” she becomes a hard and embit- in society? How do we want them to relate writing successfully are living outside of Before publication, I didn’t think I had a tered woman. to each other? I would want them to have Zimbabwe. It’s great that they write about career in writing, so I started working for a She tries to get into groups that exclude clean water, shelter, education, health care, their experience there, but we need writers small company that made documentaries. her. There is also the loss of pride and dig- meaningful entertainment, recreation, spir- on the local level writing about local issues. From there, I decided to go to film school in nity of her family. She eventually comes to itual growth to the extent that it doesn’t im- Ideally, we can have a government that sup- Germany. Since I had to learn the language, the realization that it is not about her and pose on others. They can live a life in the ports art.

Pledge to Help Artists Becomes a Lucrative Lifeline An Instagram initiative has in my life before,” Ms. Knorr said. The works she buys to fulfill her end of generated millions in sales. the bargain are from artists all over the world, including several from Brazil, she By SCOTT REYBURN said. “It feels good helping other people.” UDIMORE, ENGLAND — It has always been Many buyers who aren’t artists feel the difficult for artists to make a living. But in same way. March, when fairs and galleries shut down “I wouldn’t normally buy art online,” said across the world, even established names Deborah Nagan, a London landscape archi- found their income streams suddenly dry- tect and occasional collector who, since ing up. March, has bought six works by British art- “When Covid happened, everybody left ists through #artistsupportpledge. But, she their posts. The gatekeepers left the door said, “It seemed right to support artists in open,” said Matthew Burrows, a British lockdown.” painter and founder of the Artist Support Research for the latest Hiscox Online Art Pledge, an initiative on Instagram that has Trade Report, set to be published this year, been helping artists sell modestly priced TOM JAMIESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES showed that 55 percent of a sample of 552 works to a global audience through the pan- Above, Matthew Burrows, international art buyers had bought works demic. founder of the Artist Support online during the pandemic to directly sup- “I thought now is an opportunity to do Pledge. Right, “Morning Glory, port artists and arts organizations, accord- something you can’t normally do,” he added the Grand Mosque, Abu ing to the survey’s author, Anders Petter- in an interview in his studio in rural Sussex, Dhabi,” by Karen Knorr, found son. in southern England. “This is the art world buyers through the Artist Mr. Petterson said that the Artist Support shutting down. I’ve got to do my little bit.” Support Pledge. Pledge was “an example of a new patronage The idea is simple. Artists anywhere in model, a sort of venture philanthropy.” He the world use their own Instagram accounts added that it had “enabled people to engage to post images of works for sale, with a max- at price levels that weren’t available before. imum price of 200 pounds (or $200 or 200 KAREN KNORR The artist has found a way round the gallery euros) — far below the minimum that most system.” minister their own sales, there is no authori- Mr. Burrows said. “It turned out they were- dealerships charge for original art. The art- The Hiscox reports have shown how, over ists add the hashtag #artistsupportpledge, tative data on how many works have been n’t just surviving on it, they were thriving.” the past 10 years, numerous specialist start- which includes them in the initiative’s vast sold. Some were making “double or triple what ups have devised strategies to sell art on- online shop window of affordable works In April, however, the freelance data jour- they were before,” he added. line, without a breakthrough product that Instagram users can browse. nalist James O’Malley wrote some code to Karen Knorr, a London photographer emerging. Paradoxically, as Mr. Petterson If someone wants to purchase a work, the monitor the hashtag’s use. His two-week represented by several New York galleries, noted, a nonprofit in the English country- buyer messages the artist directly. And the analysis suggested a rough estimate of £15 is one of the tens of thousands of artists who side — Artist Support Pledge — came up artists all pledge to spend £200 (or $200 or million in sales had been made, from pieces have benefited from Mr. Burrows’s online with a successful business model. 200 euros) on other works once they sell tagged directly or from “spillover” pur- initiative. “When Covid hit, sales went Mr. Burrows said a bigger marketplace £1,000 of their own, to support fellow par- chases of works from participating artists’ down. I was anxious, as I support an artist’s was a plus for all artists. “If we can have a ticipants. studios. assistant, have a studio and storage,” Ms. permaculture, a broader ecology of a mar- Images of the artworks are posted at no A forensic audit of the initiative’s per- Knorr said. ketplace for artists, we all thrive better,” he charge, there is no selection process and no formance has yet to be conducted. “It’s ex- “I’m an Instagram user, and have been said. “If the art world is going to have true commission on sales. pensive,” Mr. Burrows said of such an effort. for years,” she said. “I noticed the Artist health, we’ve got to look at every element, “It doesn’t discriminate in any way be- But on the basis that the hashtag’s use has Support Pledge and dived in.” not those that are just big.” tween good or bad, experienced or inexperi- increased more than sixfold since May, he Her first post, in April, a five-photograph That said, what has enabled the Artist enced, amateur or professional,” Mr. Bur- estimates that up to £60 million in sales may edition showing birds in an Abu Dhabi Support Pledge to help so many thousands rows said. “It doesn’t matter.” have been generated by more than 50,000 mosque, each priced at £200, sold out within of creative individuals is one of the players So far, there have been more than 445,000 artists. three minutes. in today’s art world: Instagram, owned by tagged posts, but, because the artists ad- “It was set up as a survival mechanism,” “It was bizarre. That had never happened Facebook. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N C3

Friends Forever, Filmmakers for Now The stars and writers of ‘The Climb,’ a bromance, have been best pals for a decade.

By MEKADO MURPHY “The Climb” is a movie about a friendship that stands the test of time through some pretty gnarly events. Oh, how strangely can life imitate art. I first spoke to the film’s writers and stars, the best friends Michael Angelo Covino (who also directed) and Kyle Mar- vin, in person back in March at a Manhattan hotel. “The Climb” was to be released that month, but the coronavirus scuttled those Right, Michael Angelo plans. Covino (in stripes) and Kyle Marvin met while While the movie, which takes place over working on commercials. several years, is more about friends who Below, a scene from their weather disasters frequently of their own film “The Climb” with, making, it is interesting to watch now and from left, Gayle Rankin, wonder how the characters would have Marvin and Covino. dealt with the additional obstacle of a pandemic. After playing the Cannes, Toronto, Tel- luride and Sundance film festivals before the pandemic, and enduring an eight-month postponement because of it, “The Climb” has opened in theaters. I spoke with the two again this month, via Zoom, about what it took for these buddies, both 35, to make a movie together and how their friendship and work has fared recently. They were on the call in the same room together, so that may give a hint. Here are edited excerpts from both conversations. How did you first get into the business? BRITTAINY NEWMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES MICHAEL ANGELO COVINO I graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles, then Did you ever date the same woman? And you’ve been in regular contact since the tried to find work in the film industry for a pandemic began? COVINO Not yet. We’ll see. His wife is pretty long time and struggled with that. I started cool. [Laughs] COVINO Yeah, I got Covid early on and had making my own shorts, but eventually antibodies. I felt more comfortable so I stumbled my way into the advertising in- MARVIN I’ve been married since we’ve started going to L.A. to see Kyle and we dustry, producing and directing commer- known each other, so the opportunity has not presented itself. would write out there. And then if I had to be cials. And that’s how I met this guy. here in New York, he would come out for a COVINO The impetus for that in the script KYLE MARVIN I grew up outside Portland, large chunk of time to write together. We was that I had a friend and an ex-girlfriend Ore., and have always been interested in the would also write remotely. But when we’re who ended up together. We had long since arts. I got married, had kids and, luckily at trying to crack a story or come up with the broken up, but it stuck with me as this thing the time, got into advertising. And then I meat of how we’re going to write a script, I that I was upset about but didn’t have any quickly burned out on the glory of advertis- think it’s really helpful for us to be in person right to be. And I had to process that. ing, but made commercials and eventually because you can just talk it through. started making films with Mike. The betrayal in the film is the kind of thing MARVIN There’s an alchemy to human inter- that many friendships wouldn’t survive. How What were you making together at first? action. I think that’s hard to replicate with a did you get to that extreme place in the screen-to-screen sort of thing. COVINO We would shoot sketches. story? And you’re in New York together working on MARVIN When we were making commer- MARVIN I think we were really fascinated by something now? cials and had access to a camera, we would adult friendships and the pressures that say: “OK, we’ve got six hours and a setup. come to bear on those, particularly those COVINO We’re writing a couple of films right ZACH KUPERSTEIN/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS Let’s shoot a sketch.” that we formed at a young age and are asso- now. We just finished one and now we’re fin- nance films. And it helped us understand ciated with our identity in a foundational How did you transition into films? ishing another. And then we have two the lay of the land more. way. So we wanted to say, how far do those shows. We wrote one pilot, and now we’ve get tested? And I think in many ways they COVINO We produced a few movies in the Your new movie begins with the revelation got to write the next one. And then we’re get tested all the time. years leading up to making our own. With that one character has been sleeping with never writing again for the next three our commercial company, we would put the other’s fiancée. What’s the biggest Your characters cycle together in the movie years. [Laughs] aside money. That leftover money we would challenge the two of you have faced in real and, in March, you had been doing a press Has the pandemic impacted the kinds of put into making movies with other filmmak- life over your 10 years of friendship? tour where you biked in each of the cities scripts you’re writing? ers. It really got us familiar with how to you were in, correct? make a feature film on a smaller budget. We MARVIN Poverty. We had to ask each other, MARVIN The things we’re always interested produced a movie called “Hunter Gatherer” “Are you committed to this crazy thing MARVIN Yes, it was surreal. We’d ride bikes in are a little more universal, so we have less and one called “Kicks,” “Keep in Touch” and called independent cinema, which is not an and we’d get to a new city and the Covid desire to, say, write a dystopian movie. In “Babysitter.” They played at film festivals easy thing to sustain your life?” measures would have incrementally in- that way, we’re more like, even if you’re like South by Southwest and Tribeca. That COVINO For me, it was easier because it’s creased everywhere we went. wearing masks at Christmas dinner, it’s still gave us more contacts in the film industry, like, I can live off peanut butter, but Kyle has COVINO And it was like more hand sanitizer going to be really awkward because that un- meeting distributors and people who fi- kids. in every newsroom we went into. cle, you know what I mean?

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A Voice That’s Upbeat in Times of Turbulence

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 inspector general of police, Mohammed Ad- umu, initially hoping to bring along fellow artists. He also had a livestreamed meeting with Nigeria’s speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. “They kept on saying, ‘Yeah, but give us time, give us time,’” Davido recalled. “But it’s like, yo, we’ve given you time. You have to understand people have been fighting this system since 1960. It’s long overdue. And it doesn’t even end with SARS. End- SARS is one of a million problems.” Unrest has continued. About a week after Davido’s meetings in Abuja, Nigerian soldiers shot and killed peaceful protesters in the Lekki neighborhood of Lagos. Burna Boy, another leading Afrobeats performer, released a furious single, “20 10 20,” that includes gunshots recorded at the scene. Yet Burna Boy has often incorporated historical and sociopolitical messages in his songs. Davido, instead, has concentrated on more lighthearted topics: romance, ambi- tion and positive thinking. One of his first big hits in Nigeria, “Dami Duro” from 2011,

Nigerian Afrobeats was poised for its American breakthrough in 2020. declares, “You can’t stop me”; it was his reaction, he told the website Bella Naija, to being picked up by the police on his way to the studio. “One thing about Africans — rich or poor, happy or sad, no matter the situation going on in your culture, you always find time to smile and just be happy,” Davido said. “Peo- ple always like to celebrate. So on this album, there’s no downers. It’s just straight bangers and music to make people happy.” Nigerian Afrobeats was poised for its American breakthrough in 2020. The music is a gleaming, transparent, ultramodern reclamation of a broad African diaspora — STEPHEN TAYO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES American and Afro-Caribbean styles as after it began — but it only made him more wouldn’t say my time in the States affects “Fem,” the song that opens The new album includes a twinkling affir- well as music from all around Africa — pro- prolific. my African music,” he said. “But my style, Davido’s new album, “A Better mation of deep affection, “Very Special”; grammed by some of the world’s most cre- the way I dress, my attitude, my charisma, Time,” has become a protest the breezily suspicious “Something Fishy”; ative producers and songwriters. He returned to Lagos and brought a re- volving cast of producers to his home stu- the way I run my label — I think I get a lot of anthem for Nigerians a touch of 1990s hip-hop with appearances Like hip-hop, Afrobeats revels in collabo- that from studying the American system demonstrating against police from Nas and Hit-Boy on “Birthday Cake”; rations and crossovers. Tiwa Savage, who dio, working at all hours. “I definitely like to and people like 50 Cent.” brutality. and “So Crazy,” a midtempo duet with the sings a duet with Davido for “Tanana,” on be there for the whole process, from the the new album (after his appearance on her beat, to the engineering, to the arrange- Against his parents’ wishes, Davido left Atlanta rapper Lil Baby that seesaws be- 2020 album, “Celia”), said in a video inter- ments, to the mixing, to the mastering — ev- college and moved to London and then to tween heartbreak and come-on. Davido view that Afrobeats is “a new genre and still erything,” he said. Lagos to make music, determined to prove also has African collaborators, including growing. I think we all realize that we need In a few months, they churned out more he was not merely some wealthy dilettante. the Kenyan band Sauti Sol, the South Afri- to work together. We’ve all realized that it than three dozen songs; 17 appear on “A He released his first album, “Omo Baba can rapper and singer Sho Madjozi and the can’t be just one person. We all have to come Better Time.” Davido said: “I just kept on Olowo” (“Son of a Rich Man”), in 2012, when Nigerian singer and producer CKay. as a force.” recording. I had nothing else to do.” he was 19. He had hit after hit in Nigeria, Davido secured a collaboration with Leading Afrobeats performers like Da- Davido was born in Atlanta but grew up and he drew collaborators from Africa and Nicki Minaj, “Holy Ground,” when, drunk vido, Savage, Burna Boy, Wizkid and Mr in Lagos; his father, Adedeji T. Adeleke, is then beyond: Meek Mill and Rae Sremmurd after a night at a club, he sent her a direct Eazi have already proved themselves one of Nigeria’s wealthiest businessmen, on non-album singles, Tinashe on his 2016 message on Instagram, where she follows across Africa and Europe. They have been the founder and chief executive of the con- EP “Son of Mercy,” Chris Brown and the Ja- him. “I’m like: ‘Hello, Nicki, I’m a big fan. I signed to multinational labels, drawn mil- glomerate Pacific Holdings. “I’m from both maican hitmaker Popcaan on his 2019 al- got a hit for us.’ She says, ‘Send it.’ I’m like, lions of streams and sung alongside Ameri- sides of the world,” he said. “I’m from Ni- bum “A Good Time.” His tour venues kept what? And then I send it. And two days later can and British superstars — notably geria and at the same time I’m from Amer- growing larger; in 2019 he headlined the she sent it back. That’s exactly what hap- Drake, who collaborated with Wizkid on the ica. And it’s like both sides are going crazy 20,000-capacity O2 Arena in London. pened: no label in between, no mutual hit “One Dance,” and Beyoncé, who em- right now.” While his international audience ex- friend, nothing like that. It was just plain braced Afrobeats on her 2019 album “The After attending the British International panded, Davido found himself singing magic.” Lion King: The Gift” and its 2020 “visual al- School in Lagos, he returned to America to more, not fewer, lyrics in Yoruba rather Despite his excitement about the new bum” expansion, “Black Is King.” study business administration at Oakwood than English. “Back in the day, I’d say ev- work, the pandemic has left Davido, like American album releases, concert tours University in Huntsville, Ala. But he was erybody really had the mind-set that, ‘Oh, countless other musicians, frustrated about and festival dates were booked for more interested in music, and he got the the more English you sing, the more they what comes next. “I’m not even sure if I’m Afrobeats stars in 2020. Then the pandemic equipment to start producing his own beats. understand you,’” he said. “But my biggest going to be able to perform in the near fu- hit and plans collapsed. Davido had to can- While in the United States, he also soaked records in America are records where I’ve ture — and I’ve got all these banging cel a sold-out 26-show American tour soon up hip-hop’s entrepreneurial spirit. “I spoken my dialect.” records,” he said. “It’s taking a toll on me.”

ANTHONY TOMMASINI ALBUM REVIEW A Pianist Loses Himself in a Fantastical Musical ‘Labyrinth’ David Greilsammer’s new In an effort to share his dream ety runs. Finally, two fiery pieces by Scri- sensations of alluring sounds, abin provide transfixing context for an ar- album is a disorienting trip David Greilsammer played his rangement by Jonathan Keren of a Baroque through centuries of works. program “Labyrinth” in the piece for orchestra by Rebel, the aptly titled underground crypt of a Harlem “Chaos” — teeming, unpredictable and as- church in 2017. His new tonishing music. THREE YEARS AGO, in the underground recording captures an updated Besides succeeding as listening pleasure, crypt of a church in Harlem, I watched the version of that recital. “Labyrinth” challenges the view that classi- pianist David Greilsammer perform “Laby- cal music is a story of steady, explicable rinth,” a program that daringly juxtaposed evolution. Maybe music history is more like pieces from across centuries. As a young a labyrinth. This album encourages us to go man, Mr. Greilsammer had a dream that with it — to look for points of light and strange, alluring sounds were guiding him grounding, yes, but also to enjoy being dis- through a labyrinth. This recital was his at- oriented. tempt to share that sensation. Playing without pause, Mr. Greilsammer audaciously shifted from early Baroque works by Johann Jakob Froberger and Jean-Féry Rebel to fantasies by C. P. E. Bach and Mozart to Ofer Pelz’s flinty new “Repetition Blindness.” Movements from Janacek’s mercurial, dreamy, sometimes nightmarish suite “On an Overgrown Path” were inserted among the other pieces. MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Mr. Greilsammer played beautifully, but CLUE OF THE DAY he wasn’t fully satisfied. He kept refining new contexts. In the next section, two of Beethoven’s six the program, trying out different options In his recital program and Sony recording Op. 126 bagatelles, from this composer’s 18th-CENTURYART AMERICANS and juxtapositions, culminating in a new re- “Baroque Conversations,” Mr. Greilsam- late years, frame George Crumb’s “The cording on the Naïve label. “Labyrinth” now mer brought Rameau, Couperin and Fres- Magic Circle of Infinity.” As played by Mr. includes 19 pieces, movements and — in a cobaldi into feisty encounters with modern- Greilsammer, Bagatelle No. 4 is so pugna- daring move — even some fragments of ists like Feldman, Lachenmann and Matan cious, it almost sounds like chase music in a ONE EULOGIZER works by Lully, Beethoven, Janacek, Porat. In “Scarlatti: Cage: Sonatas,” an- silent-film comedy. Yet the middle section OF THIS MAN NOTED, Crumb, Ligeti, Satie and more, grouped into other Sony recording, he bracingly alter- turns mysterious, with a hushed, breathless HE “WAS ABLE TO what Mr. Greilsammer writes in the liner nated Domenico Scarlatti’s single-move- melody unfolding over an obstinate bass RESTRAIN notes are seven “chapters” in a fantastical ment Baroque sonatas with pieces from pattern. THUNDERBOLTS & and disorienting adventure. John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for pre- You remember that mysterious feeling The album arrives at an appropriately pared piano. Scarlatti’s brazenly inventive when the Crumb begins: a glistening piece TYRANTS” unsettling moment for the world. And it is sonatas seemed, implausibly, the more radi- with tinkling chime-like sounds, eerie spi- an ambitious attempt by a thoughtful artist David Greilsammer cal of the two. raling figures and thick, plush chords. Bag- ‘Labyrinth’ to rethink what a recital can be in our time. In “Labyrinth,” most of the “chapters” atelle No. 5, which closes the group, here Naïve Mr. Greilsammer, 43, the artistic director are made up of two pieces by one composer seems like a graciously lyrical attempt to FOR THE CORRECT of the adventurous Geneva Camerata, un- framing a work by another. The first chap- reconcile the disparate sounds we’ve just RESPONSE, WATCH derstands that mix-and-match programs ter begins with Janacek’s “The Owl Has Not heard. In another chapter, steely, propulsive JEOPARDY! TONIGHT can come off as gimmicky. And he has cer- Flown Away” from “On an Overgrown Ligeti études frame an elegantly intricate OR LOOK IN THIS tainly proven himself with traditional pro- Path.” The piece opens with short, agitated piece from Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.” SPACE TOMORROW gramming, as when he conducted the 27 bursts, like grim rustic fanfares, that keep The core of “Labyrinth” is given over to IN THE TIMES. Mozart concertos from the keyboard over a halting and hovering as repose is offered by Granados’s poignant “Love and Death,” a single season with the Geneva Chamber Or- quizzical passages and chorale-like phrases rhapsodic 13-minute work with Friday’s Response: chestra. evocative of ancient folk tunes. This leads Chopinesque reveries and passages sug- WHAT IS THE But even during his student days at Juil- into an arrangement of “Les Sourdines,” gesting a forlorn guitar song. The two parts WASHINGTON MONUMENT? liard, Mr. Greilsammer recalled in 2012, he from Lully’s opera “Armide” — music that of Mr. Pelz’s maniacal “Repetition Blind- was concerned that classical music was be- reflects the Old World aura of the Janacek, ness” are broken up by Mr. Greilsammer’s coming disconnected from our times. He while alive with crunchy harmonies and arrangement of the Baroque composer Ma- Watch JEOPARDY! wanted to bring music from earlier eras snappy rhythms. The triptych closes with rin Marais’s “Labyrinth,” which on the sur- 7 p.m. on Channel 7 “into today” — not by playing older pieces another Janacek piece, “Words Fail” — and face sounds chirpy and animated, but just in an unusual way, but by placing them in they do in this troubled, shifting music. below is spiked with tart clusters and fidg- THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N C5

The Theater Critic as Audience and Star

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 COLLINS-HUGHES Did it bug you at all that, stage, or not so much? no matter how you delivered your lines, ALEXIS SOLOSKI Well, on my third date with there was no exchange of energy with your my husband, we went to a magic show and scene partner? they asked for help with an ax-throwing act SOLOSKI A little. It’s a necessary limitation and I made myself the target. So yes, of the form. But it doesn’t have to be too lim- shamefully, I am. You? iting. Last night, I went through it again, in- COLLINS-HUGHES I would way rather hide vesting more emotion. The energy is there if behind my notebook in the audience. So it’s you want it. It’s a dance, a pas de deux. If weird that I was eager to go to “Temping,” they step forward, you step back and then it the show at the Wild Project that has ex- mostly works. actly one performer: the audience member, COLLINS-HUGHES Did it feel theatrical? playing a temp hired to fill in for an actuary. SOLOSKI I felt theatrical! And occasionally It’s a piece that predates the pandemic, but embarrassed. There’s a part where I had to its setup is ideal right now. sing “Purple Rain.” So even though it wasn’t SOLOSKI I’ve read the script, but I haven’t live, I felt present. Too often, pre-pandemic, seen it yet. Is “seen” even the right word? I would see plays that didn’t seem to ac- “Done?” “Experienced?” knowledge the audience at all. Now, I find COLLINS-HUGHES “Seen” is wrong — there’s that a lot of experimental work takes partic- no audience, live or otherwise — but “done” ular care of us — I’m thinking of pieces like is right. The audience member does every- “Cairns” and “Tempest” in VR — valuing thing, including, if your brain works like audience experience and trusting us to do a mine does, thinking about what you’re go- lot of the imaginative work ourselves. ing to wear on your first day. COLLINS-HUGHES I experience the screen as SOLOSKI So what did you wear? much more of a barrier. I have seen some wonderful work, but a lot of it just makes me COLLINS-HUGHES I decided on a skirt and a feel more alone — which frankly is a feat, knit top, but it was in the 70s out, so I ratio- given that I live by myself and haven’t nalized that my temp would be the kind of hugged another human since March. The- person who risks violating a no-open-toed- ater that contemplates our isolation is the shoes rule. I wore sandals. last thing I need right now. SOLOSKI I remember skirts. The show, SOLOSKI I may have the opposite problem. presented by Dutch Kills Theater Company, I’ve been inside a 600-square-foot apart- tries to mix mundane office tasks and meta- ANDRES GREINER-NAPP/FESTIVAL THEATERFORMEN ment with two kids for the duration. As I did physics. How was it? Above, Lena Lappat and pre-pandemic, I look to theater as a kind of COLLINS-HUGHES It is a show about how Wolfram Sander, escape. I don’t have any use for traditional fleeting life is, and how necessary some de- separated by glass in “A fourth-wall theater online right now. But in gree of risk is to happiness, but really the Thousand Ways.” Right, immersive spaces, I’ve felt really seen and storytelling is a weak link. The design is the Kathryn Hamilton helps welcomed and taken out of myself. I know strength, with loads of voicemails and audio create the illusion of a we both loved the first part of the new 600 messages to play, and emails to read and an- conversation in “Read Highwaymen piece, “A Thousand Ways.” swer. Subtitles Aloud.” Below, COLLINS-HUGHES Yes! It’s startling to so en- It does require a basic proficiency in an office setting in joy a phone call that’s just you and a strang- Microsoft Office, and I wondered what hap- “Temping.” er (again, there is no audience, and here no pens if, say, you’re hopeless at Excel spread- one is even listening in) being guided by an sheets. But there are workarounds for that; electronic voice that’s following a script. the show responds differently based on But “A Phone Call” — the start of a triptych- your actions. in-progress — is a lovely thing. And it’s de- And it really is fun to have the lighting lightful to have an ally in the other person so change according to what you’re doing right that you can decide whether and how much that second. That’s one clue that while to follow the automated prompts. How was you’re alone in the cubicle — which is nice your call? and airy, so it feels safe — behind the scenes, someone is watching. SOLOSKI Splendid. Funny and sweet and unexpectedly moving. I was partnered with a SOLOSKI So were you a good temp? And Canadian woman, maybe a decade or two how did it feel to be the star, knowing that older than me. The prompts took us through two members of the company, a room away, childhood, family, special skills. (She saved were surveilling you? someone’s life once!) I may have cried a bit. COLLINS-HUGHES I was a good temp! And it VIA MEDIA ART XPLORATION I guess the flip side of any work about isola- was reassuring that I wasn’t all by myself — tion is that it’s also necessarily about con- that this show, which runs about 50 min- Temping nection — however impossible. Nearly all of utes, was more than just a video game that I Through Dec. 4 at Wild us have people in our lives that we can’t be could have played at home. Project, Manhattan; with right now or can never be with again. (I SOLOSKI So you are comfortable acting. Just dutchkillstheater.com. was crying talking about my grandfather, for very small audiences. Me, I starred in a Read Subtitles Aloud dead for a decade.) Work that somehow show, too, “Read Subtitles Aloud,” short vid- New episodes daily through takes that on, I have a lot of time for. eos from Media Art Xploration, PlayCo and Nov. 23; COLLINS-HUGHES I did think of that show as the Turkish theater festival A Corner in the mediaartexploration.org. being more about connection and using re- World, in which the participant plays a for- A Thousand Ways (Part ally simple tools to accomplish theatrical mer member of a theater company web- One): A Phone Call goals. One of the temptations of experi- chatting with onetime colleagues. Subtitles Ongoing, dates vary; mentation is to use every available tool. appear on the screen. When read aloud, 600highwaymen.org. Pulling back and just giving us the space to they create the illusion of a conversation be- listen and respond — asking us to risk noth- tween you and the prerecorded performer. ing physically, because it’s completely dis- COLLINS-HUGHES Did it work for you? I tried tanced, but to be vulnerable emotionally — the first episode and found it frustrating. can be a more satisfying way to go. And voice can be so intimate. SOLOSKI The first episode is frustrating. It assumes a ton of intimacy. Plus kissing. I SOLOSKI I’m eager for the second part — don’t want to kiss anyone right now. Even and eager for a moment when it can be through a screen. Even if they can’t see me. staged safely — where you meet a different But I did enjoy the later ones as I learned partner one on one, in person. The only more about the company, their relation- screen, I believe, is plexiglass. ships and what I guess I have to call “my COLLINS-HUGHES I’m eager for it, too — so character.” I’ve seen — sorry, done — the mask up, everyone. There’s live theater to first five and I imagine I’ll do the rest, too. get back to! MAX RUBY, VIA DUTCH KILLS

PLAYLIST Billie Eilish’s Brushoff (With Attitude), and More New Songs Pop critics for The New York Billie Eilish revisits some of her sings in “Stay,” but with a caveat: bombastic refrain into a kind of Probably Leave” from his new Times weigh in on notable new favorite musical devices on “I don’t know how long I’ll stay.” introvert’s anthem: “I don’t want album, “Starting Over.” The song “Therefore I Am.” songs and videos. An orchestra assembles around the world to see me, ’cause I lands precisely where country her, but her ornery, sweet-and- don’t think that they’d under- meets Southern soul: with grit, Billie Eilish ing. To be fair, though, the song is sour voice defuses any possibility stand.” details, clarity and ache. Every THEREFORE I AM merely a pretext for the video, of pomp. That’s just Part 1; “You LINDSAY ZOLADZ syllable — precise in meaning, which is a hyperfuturist update and I” begins with voices and sung with ambivalence — sup- ...... of the Missy Elliott oeuvre. And finger snaps, then gathers differ- ports a narrative that, spoiler There’s not much subtext to Billie Kelsea Ballerini, the video is merely a pretext for ent ensembles: rippling folk-rock alert, is bound to lead to regrets. Eilish’s “Therefore I Am.” It’s a the continued spotlight on Lil guitars, a bustling big band and featuring Shania Twain direct brushoff — “I’m not your JON PARELES Nas X, a funny, inventive and swoopy synthesizers, melting HOLE IN THE BOTTLE friend, or anything” — from refreshing public figure for whom into one another as she marvels, ...... someone who knows she’s in the AC/DC music is an inconvenience and, “So much to discover for you and When Kelsea Ballerini performed public eye. The music revisits REALIZE over time, almost certainly an I.” It’s not overstuffed; it’s pro- the rollicking “Hole in the Bottle” some of her favorite devices: a albatross. fuse. at the CMA Awards last week, ...... slowly pulsing beat, a skulking DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS JON CARAMANICA JON PARELES she ended it with a winking From Brian Johnson’s screechy bass line, a vaudeville bounce to vocals to the bludgeon and the chords, a switch between activation of the Shania Twain crunch of the guitar riffs, “Real- whispery singing and deadpan Wizkid, featuring Phoebe Bridgers bat signal: “Let’s go girls.” A few Lil Nas X ize” is instantly recognizable as rapping with a dismissive Burna Boy days later, she released a new HOLIDAY and Maggie Rogers AC/DC, a band that has rarely GINGER version of the song, featuring chuckle. It’s a relatively minor IRIS ...... vocal contributions from Twain swerved from the sound it estab- addition to her catalog, but it has ...... It should be said, first, that “Old ...... herself. The elder star’s twang is lished in the 1970s. The group’s attitude enough to get by. Enjoy the tricky, sinuous Town Road” was novel, clever “If trump loses I will cover iris by a welcome addition to the second founder, rhythm guitarist and JON PARELES Afrobeats groove — a loping bass and direct. And then it should be the goo goo dolls,” Phoebe Brid- verse, but the best part of this songwriter, Malcolm Young, died line teased by filtered vocals, said, second, that nothing Lil Nas gers tweeted on Election Day — version is their giggling ad-libs in 2017, but the songs on the new elusive guitar lines and dabs of Foo Fighters X has made since then has come a tantalizing promise that cer- over the bridge, which conjure a album, “Power Up,” are still, as percussion — of “Ginger,” a bilin- SHAME SHAME close to that song’s vim, bright- tainly impacted the future of always, by Malcolm Young and gual come-on Wizkid shares with certain . . . authenticity to the ...... ness or wit. His is the peculiar American democracy. (Proceeds Angus Young, AC/DC’s lead Burna Boy, on the full track from song’s central theme (“Just look Foo Fighters, a band with conundrum of the viral phenom- from the track on Bandcamp will guitarist and Malcolm’s brother. Wizkid’s new album, “Made in at that . . . hole in the bottle,” rhythm at its core even though enon burdened with the expecta- go to Stacey Abrams’s Fair Fight (Malcolm’s nephew, Stevie Lagos.” Then borrow some dance Twain remarks, completely Dave Grohl has moved from tion of becoming something organization.) The cover may Young, has taken his place in the moves, if you can, from the Ni- cracking herself up.) What’s drummer to guitar-strumming more, and burdened further by have begun as something of a band.) While Johnson exhorts, gerian-American choreographer better than drinking wine alone? frontman, discover funk with the budget, time and attention lark, but Bridgers — a dual citi- “Feel the chills up and down your Izzy Odigie in the “official dance Splitting a bottle (or two . . . ) “Shame Shame,” which backs the that such a goal requires. And so zen in the realms of both absurd- spine/I’m gonna make you fly,” video,” which unfortunately with Shania Twain, of course! band’s rock guitars with a dou- the further he progresses in his ist meme humor and sincerely Brendan O’Brien’s production shortens the track and squashes LINDSAY ZOLADZ ble-time beat and pizzicato career, and the more profession- felt songwriting — brings trem- brings subtleties to the band’s it down to mono sound. strings. “Shame Shame” harks als he works with, the less intu- bling emotion to her rendition of wall of guitars, embedding trills, JON PARELES back to glam-rock, as Grohl sings itive his music becomes. “Holi- the ’90s-radio staple. Maggie Chris Stapleton quick lead licks and wordless YOU SHOULD PROBABLY LEAVE about nihilistic despair — “I day” is clunky, stilted and dull, Rogers provides impassioned vocals within the all-important found a reason and buried it/ almost provocatively unmusical. Valerie June vocals on the second verse, but ...... riffs. STAY/ STAY MEDITATION/ YOU AND I beneath a mountain of empti- His sing-rapping is labored, and her voice best fits the song’s A vintage-style soul backbeat JON PARELES ness” — even as the melodies lift the production — by Take A ...... sparse arrangement when it’s and two-bar melody phrases the song toward hope. Daytrip and Tay Keith — is al- “Since the day we first met/I’ve braided in harmony with Brid- carry the terse storytelling of JON PARELES most apologetically undemand- had not one regret,” Valerie June gers, who transforms the song’s Chris Stapleton’s “You Should Order home delivery today. C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 This Week on TV

A SELECTION OF SHOWS, SPECIALS AND MOVIES. BY LAUREN MESSMAN

Friday A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS 8 p.m. on Lifetime. Lifetime’s holiday programming continues with this film about Natalie (Anni Krue- ger), a young woman who tries to help her cousin (Nia Vardalos) open an Italian restaurant by Christmas. But first Natalie has to get the chef (Gilles Marini) onboard, with just three days to pull off the opening.

MAN ON A TIGHTROPE (1953) 8 p.m. on TCM. This classic film, directed by Elia Kazan, follows a Czech circus owner who, after being harassed by the Communist government, attempts to take his troupe out from behind the Iron Curtain and into Bavaria. In a review in The New York Times, the film was described as “not only an arrest- ing melodrama but a vivid commentary on a restricted way of life in our parlous times.”

HBO Lin-Manuel Miranda plays a Texan aeronaut in the HBO fantasy series “His Dark Materials,” based on the trilogy by Philip Pullman. Saturday BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME 8 p.m. on HBO. In 2015, Ta-Nehisi Coates published “Be- tween the World and Me,” a nonfiction book formatted as a letter to Monday Wednesday Thursday his teenage son, recount- ing his experiences ALL RISE 9 p.m. on CBS. Judge Lola FORGED IN FIRE 9 p.m. on History. The sea- SUPERNATURAL 9 p.m. on the CW. After 15 Carmichael, played by Simone Missick, is son premiere of this reality competition seasons, this sci-fi series, which follows growing up Black in back for a new season of this legal drama. series finds four new talented bladesmiths the demon-hunting Winchester brothers Baltimore and explor- The two-part premiere centers on a pro- recreating some of history’s most notable (Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles), will ing white supremacy test, at which Lola tries to defend a weapons for a chance to win $10,000. end. At 8 p.m., ahead of the series finale, in America. This special, reimagined teenage girl, resulting in an escalating Season 8 has a new host, Grady Powell, a catch SUPERNATURAL: THE LONG ROAD HOME, encounter with the police. former Green Beret. And David Baker, an hourlong special looking back at the for the screen, weaves Doug Marcaida, J. Neilson and Ben Abbott show’s run. together readings from HIS DARK MATERIALS 9 p.m. on HBO. This return as judges. that book — as well as fantasy series, based on Philip Pullman’s documentary footage, trilogy, embarks on a second season, pick- CRAZY, NOT INSANE (2020) 9 p.m. on HBO. animation and elements of its ing up after Lyra (Dafne Keen) follows Fans of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” or the 2018 Apollo Theater stage adapta- Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) through a podcast “My Favorite Murder” will not tion — to give the narrative new life bridge to a new world. The second season want to miss this documentary chronicling against the backdrop of this year’s pan- will feature return performances by Ruth the life of Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a demic and protests for racial justice. The Wilson, Andrew Scott and Lin-Manuel psychiatrist dedicated to understanding special features appearances by Coates, Miranda, as well as conspiring witches, why humans kill. The film, directed by Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett (above), steampunk hot-air balloons and a knife Alex Gibney, includes taped interviews Oprah Winfrey and others. that can slice between worlds. between Lewis and the infamous killers Arthur Shawcross and Ted Bundy, in which she examines their formative experiences and neurological dysfunction, proposing that killers are made, not born. Sunday

Tuesday ROBERT FALCONER/CW SMOKE: MARIJUANA + BLACK AMERICA (2020) THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 8 p.m. on ABC. Jared Padalecki, left, and Jensen Ackles in BIG SKY 10 p.m. on ABC. This new drama, 10 p.m. on BET. While the winner of the Taraji P. Henson will host the 2020 Ameri- from the “Big Little Lies” creator David E. presidential race took days to determine, the series finale of “Supernatural.” can Music awards in Los Angeles, hon- Kelley, chronicles what happens after two one clear winner of the 2020 election was oring artists of all genres based on their streaming numbers, album and digital sisters, Danielle and Grace Sullivan (Nat- marijuana, which became legal for recrea- A MILLION LITTLE THINGS 10 p.m. on ABC. The song sales, radio airplay and social media alie Alyn Lind and Jade Pettyjohn), are tional use in four more states, bringing the friends at the center of this drama navi- activity. This year, the Weeknd and Roddy kidnapped by a truck driver in nationwide total to 15. How will these new gate depression, cancer, chemical depend- Ricch each received eight nominations, rural Montana. In an effort legalization and decriminalization meas- ency, domestic violence, family and love. while Megan Thee Stallion is up for five to locate the teenagers, ures impact communities that have been This season they face another challenge: awards. The three-hour special will fea- the private detectives disproportionately affected by marijuana- Covid-19. The season picks up after Ed- ture performances by Bad Bunny, Shawn Cody Hoyt (Ryan related arrests and convictions? This die’s (David Giuntoli) car accident. Phillippe, right) and documentary, narrated by the rapper Nas, Mendes, BTS and Dua Lipa. Cassie Dewell (Kylie explores the drug’s social, economic and Bunbury) team up legal impact on Blacks, and shares stories BELUSHI (2020) 9 p.m. on Showtime. This with Cody’s estranged of Black entrepreneurs across the country R. J. Cutler documentary features audio- wife, the former cop who are fighting for a piece of the legal tapes, diary entries and words from John Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn cannabis industry. Belushi’s collaborators, family and friends Winnick). But soon they to revisit the life of one of America’s most discover that the Sullivans popular comedians, who died in 1982 at are not the only girls who have gone the age of 33. The documentary draws missing in the area. largely on an audio archive made by Belu- shi’s wife, Judy, as well as interviews with Dan Aykroyd, Penny Marshall, Lorne Michaels, Carrie Fisher, Chevy Chase and Dates, details and times are others. subject to change.

New Home With High Ceiling Sought for a Chagall CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 The Russian stage designer others — and “The Magic Flute.” But unlike auctions where the item being Volodia Odinokov, far left, And then he plunged into the new Met sold — a painting or a diamond or a tiny and Marc Chagall production. His granddaughter Bella Mey- stamp — is carried to the podium before the collaborated on the curtain er described the curtain as “a whole cele- bidding begins, the curtain will remain in its for “The Magic Flute.” It bration” of the composer. “It was an ex- crate on Tuesday. It is so large that Bon- was part of the only opera traordinary adventure for him to be able to hams had to rent a studio about half the size set designed by Chagall, go into the world of Mozart and to be able to who was captivated by that of a football field just to photograph it. bring it onto the stage,” she said in an inter- Mozart opera. “It’s such a quintessentially Chagall im- view. age, with multiple figures and a swirling “The Magic Flute” was planned for the fantasy flying through the air,” Ms. Ott Am- Met’s first season at Lincoln Center. Chagall bler said, noting that Chagall used more “drew and painted sketches from morning gold and silver pigment on the curtain’s lin- to night,” Bing wrote in his memoir, “A en fabric than on the sets for ballets that he Knight at the Opera” (1981), and met with had designed when he was younger. “He’s The curtain had its Günther Rennert, the production’s director. really good at incorporating geometric Not everyone was enthusiastic about the shapes, at giving the sun and moon a vibrat- critics. One said the outcome. John Canaday, The New York ing quality. He’s able to create these dynam- artist ‘seems to have Times’s art critic at the time, said that Cha- ic relationships between the sections of the gall “seems to have thought of the assign- curtain that tell the story.” thought of the assignment a little too ment a little too much as a one-man show,” The Met sold the curtain, seen in the final while Harold C. Schonberg, The Times’s act of the production, in 2007, two years be- much as a one-man chief music critic, complained that the fore it put up the murals in the lobby as col- show.’ opening-night audience was not listening to lateral for a loan in the wake of the financial the arias but “busy trying to count the num- crisis. ber of figures in the backdrop.” The curtain, executed in collaboration Still, the Chagall-designed “Magic Flute” with the Russian stage designer Volodia remained in the Met’s repertoire for 24 Odinokov, was part of the only opera set years. Even after the production was re- that Chagall designed. Artists have long ex- tired, the sets, whose cost the Met declined panded their portfolios by collaborating with choreographers and directors. Per- to divulge, were brought out from time to haps the most famous such partnership was time for black-tie dinner-dances for its pa- Salvador Dalí’s backdrop for Alfred Hitch- trons. cock’s thriller “Spellbound” in 1945. Artists And then the Met sold the curtain to Ge- like Eugene Berman and John Piper de- rard L. Cafesjian, a collector who had made signed opera sets — Berman did five for the a fortune from his stake in a Midwestern Met from 1951 to 1963 — and Maurice publishing house. Ms. Ott Ambler said that Sendak’s rough sketches and polished de- Mr. Cafesjian, who died in 2013, “loved signs for operas and ballets were the sub- works of great color and powerful impact.” ject of an exhibition at the Morgan Library (His estate now owns the curtain.) He was & Museum last year. The sculptor Henry also passionate about his Armenian her- Moore designed a staging of “Don Gio- ALAMY, VIA BONHAMS itage and reportedly gave more than $50 vanni” by Mozart in 1967 that included ab- million for the museum in Yerevan, the Ar- stract shapes made of foam rubber. And Ju- duction of Mozart’s last opera, a fantasy proaches those two perfections, ‘The Magic menian capital. lie Taymor, the Tony Award-winning direc- about a prince assigned to rescue the ab- Flute’ and the Bible,” he once declared. “I think he saw this as a potentially tor of “The Lion King,” designed a new ducted daughter of the Queen of the Night. Chagall, then in his 70s, had just unveiled strong centerpiece” for the museum, she “Magic Flute” for the Met in 2004 to replace Bing, who was friendly with Chagall, had a painted ceiling at the Paris Opera, actu- said of the curtain. “I think he found it to be a one designed by the painter David Hock- tried to get him to design a production for a ally a set of panels that were placed over the compelling celebration of life and the im- ney. ballet in the 1950s. Chagall said no to that original circular painting by Jules Eugène ages you think of with Chagall, the large Chagall had created inventive settings project and to Verdi’s “Nabucco,” which was Lenepveu. Chagall created a swirl of figures blue bird in the foreground or the symbols for ballets in the 1940s but did not venture scheduled for the 1960 season. But he could and symbols that paid tribute to Bizet’s of music that Chagall portrayed again and into opera until Rudolf Bing, director of the not say no to “The Magic Flute.” It was a “Carmen,” Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” again. Chagall was always looking for joy, Met, persuaded him to work on a new pro- favorite. “There is nothing on earth that ap- and Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” among and music was a major part of that.” 2 PRO FOOTBALL 6 SPORTS OF THE TIMES Tom Brady gets plenty of help Chris Nikic set a from the Bucs’ running game.

3 PRO FOOTBALL triathlon record. But Daniel Jones and the Giants finding confidence are now 3-7 and riding high. was the true quest.

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THE MASTERS FINAL ROUND THE FALL OF A RECORD In a November Masterpiece at Augusta, Johnson Finishes at 20 Under

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Dustin Johnson, who grew up an hour from Augusta and has endured heartbreak in big moments, secured his second major title and then broke down in tears.

Lowest 72-Hole Totals at the Masters By BILL PENNINGTON has long sought with a runaway five- stroke victory at the 2020 Masters. It is 2020 Dustin Johnson 65-70-65-68 268 –20 AUGUSTA, Ga. — For 10 years, Dustin Johnson’s chase for career- a championship that separates John- 2015 Jordan Spieth 64-66-70-70 270 –18 defining major titles was tinged with son, one of golf’s most talented players, ruthless angst, misfortune and calami- from the gaggle of nearly 150 golfers 1997 Tiger Woods 70-66-65-69 270 –18 tous setbacks. with one major title and brightens the 1976 Raymond Floyd 65-66-70-70 271 –17 He grounded a club in an unobserved path to the game’s pantheon of heroes. bunker at the 2010 P.G.A. Championship Johnson, 36, hopes to find his way 1965 Jack Nicklaus 67-71-64-69 271 –17 to earn a heartless penalty that bounced there. 2010 Phil Mickelson 67-71-67-67 272 –16 him from a playoff for the victory. Five “It feels good to get past one major, years later, at the United States Open, a especially when the second one is the 2001 Tiger Woods 70-66-68-68 272 –16 three-putt on the final hole cost him an- Masters, which I always dreamed of other major championship playoff winning as a kid,” said Johnson, who berth. Riding a hot streak that made grew up in Columbia, S.C., about an Leaderboard Notables him the prohibitive favorite at the Mas- hour’s drive from Augusta National Golf Sungjae Im –15 Xander Schauffele –7 ters three years ago, Johnson slipped on Club. “I dream of winning a lot of ma- Cameron Smith –15 Tommy Fleetwood –6 the stairs at his rental house on the tour- jors. Hopefully, this one will help give me a little spring.” Justin Thomas –12 Justin Rose –5 nament’s eve and withdrew with a back injury. Johnson, whose unshakable stoicism Dylan Frittelli –11 Rickie Fowler –3 Even as he won the 2016 U.S. Open, he on the golf course has become his best- Rory McIlroy –11 Bryson DeChambeau –2 was saddled with the ignominy of a pen- known trait, broke down in tears while Jon Rahm –10 Tiger Woods –1 alty assessed after his celebration on being interviewed after the final round behind the 18th green. C.T. Pan –10 Tony Finau –1 the final hole. But on Sunday, with verve and nerve, “It still feels like I’m dreaming,” he Brooks Koepka –10 Collin Morikawa E Johnson comfortably secured the vali- said, wiping his eyes. Three tied at -9 Phil Mickelson +3 dating breakthrough achievement he Continued on Page D4 D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

N.F.L. Week 10

ROSS D. FRANKLIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Surrounded by three Bills defenders, DeAndre Hopkins somehow pulled in a 43-yard touchdown pass from Kyler Murray, lifting the Cardinals to a 32-30 win — and a tie for first in the N.F.C. West. Who Caught This? You Can Barely See Him Thrilling Finish in Arizona • Bucs’ Jones Runs for 192 Yards • Costly Mistake by a Washington Rookie

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN the season with 248 yards passing and topped that mark only once in his final A Hail Mary into triple coverage. A two interceptions, D.K. Metcalf had just 10 games with New England — and he 98-yard touchdown run. A roughing- two catches on four targets, and Seattle, once again split up his touchdown pas- the-passer call that handed a team a which has lost three of its last four ses, with one each to Rob Gronkowski, win. It was a week of big plays and games, fell into a three-way tie with the Mike Evans and Cameron Brate. last-minute changes in fortune, and it Rams and Arizona for the lead in the STEELERS 36, BENGALS 10 Pittsburgh’s shook up the N.F.L.’s best division, as N.F.C. West. big day on offense saw Diontae John- the N.F.C. West now has a three-way tie The Seahawks host the Cardinals son, a second-year wide receiver, con- for first place. next week in what appears to be a cru- tribute six catches for 116 yards and a Here’s what we learned: cial game for both teams. touchdown while the rookie sensation Chase Claypool scored two more touchdowns, bringing his total over his last six games to eight. DeAndre Hopkins is magic. Chase Young owes his teammates an apology. RAMS 23, SEAHAWKS 16 Leonard Floyd Buffalo had just scored a gut punch of a got three of the Rams’ six sacks and five touchdown to take a 30-26 lead in the There was less than 10 seconds remain- of the team’s 12 quarterback hits, help- final minute of the fourth quarter. Ari- ing in a tie game between the Lions and ing to make Russell Wilson’s day abso- zona, after the ensuing kickoff, had just the Footballers when Detroit’s Matthew lutely miserable. 34 seconds to go 75 yards to score a Stafford threw an incomplete pass at his GIANTS 27, EAGLES 17 It was a throw- winning touchdown. Undeterred, Kyler own 35-yard line, making overtime back game for the Giants, as the team’s Murray and the Cardinals were me- seem like a foregone conclusion. But defensive front set the tone with three thodical. Murray, the second-year quar- Young, a rookie defensive end for Wash- sacks and 13 quarterback hits, and terback, completed passes of 14, 9 and 9 JUSTIN K. ALLER/GETTY IMAGES ington, came in late and tossed Stafford Daniel Jones went a second consecutive yards to put Arizona at Buffalo’s 43- Ben Roethlisberger, who didn’t practice all week, threw for 333 yards and four to the ground, earning a flag for rough- game without committing a turnover. yard line, and that was all the space he touchdowns as the Steelers moved to 9-0 with a 36-10 rout of the Bengals. ing the passer. The 15-yard penalty, plus After starting the season 0-5, the Giants needed. a 6-yard pass from Stafford to Marvin have improved from historically awful On his fourth pass of the drive, Mur- Jones, got Matt Prater just close enough to merely bad, which in their division ray launched a Hail Mary into triple vincing 29-21 win over Justin Herbert with tight end Vance McDonald. Roeth- for a 59-yard field goal as time expired. could lead to a playoff spot. coverage in the end zone, and Hopkins, and the Los Angeles Chargers, the lisberger wasn’t cleared to enter team PACKERS 24, JAGUARS 20 After an im- acquired in a trade this off-season to rookie running back Salvon Ahmed led facilities until Saturday, but that hardly pressive N.F.L. debut last week, Jack- unlock Murray’s potential, managed to the way, and the team’s defense with- seemed to matter against Cincinnati’s sonville’s Jake Luton came back to earth outjump and outmuscle all three Buf- One* Sentence stood a late surge from Herbert. defense, as the veteran quarterback About Sunday’s Games a bit, passing for just 169 yards with one falo defenders for the ball. The remark- Tagovailoa’s statistics haven’t been threw for 333 yards and four touch- touchdown and one interception against able catch is the type of highlight that eye-popping, but getting him much- downs, helping his team improve to an *Except when it takes more. a Green Bay defense that typically will be replayed for years, and it gave needed experience while inching closer N.F.L.-best 9-0 record. makes quite a few mistakes. That won’t Arizona a thrilling 32-30 win. to a wild-card spot is a major case of a CARDINALS 32, BILLS 30 Buffalo’s Josh work against Aaron Rodgers, even on a Thanks to a Seattle loss to the Rams, team having its cake and eating it too. Allen threw for 284 yards, ran for 38 day that was a little slow by his lofty it also gave the Cardinals a share of the yards and caught a 12-yard touchdown standards. division lead in the ultracompetitive Seattle can’t blame pass, but he walked away with a loss N.F.C. West. its defense this week. SAINTS 27, 49ERS 13 A huge hit from Ben Roethlisberger needs practice after Kyler Murray’s once-in-a-career San Francisco’s Kentavius Street in the throw to DeAndre Hopkins stole the The Achilles’ heel of the Seahawks all second quarter left Saints quarterback about as much as Allen Iverson did. game. season has been their porous defense, Drew Brees wincing — and resulted in a Ronald Jones II had Pittsburgh’s quarterback was idle all but in a devastating loss to the Rams, BUCCANEERS 46, PANTHERS 23 Tom fairly questionable penalty on Street. a point to prove. week after landing on the Covid-19 the offense pulled a disappearing act. Brady had more than 300 yards passing Brees was able to fight his way through reserve list as a result of close contact Russell Wilson had his worst game of for the third time this season — he the pain until halftime, but he gave way After Tampa Bay set an N.F.L. record to Jameis Winston for the second half by running the ball just five times in a despite never being officially ruled out humiliating loss to New Orleans last with what was described as a rib injury. week, the Buccaneers remembered DOLPHINS 29, CHARGERS 21 Justin Jones existed and the running back Herbert has had a remarkable rookie helped carry them to a laughable 46-23 season, but the Chargers quarterback win over Carolina. Jones ran for 192 was outplayed by Tua Tagovailoa in this yards on 23 carries, but one play stood game. His interception early in the out. In the third quarter, with Tampa fourth quarter helped give Miami the Bay clinging to a 3-point lead, Jones breathing room it needed to stretch its took a handoff at his team’s 2-yard line, winning streak to five games. sliced right through a pack of Carolina defenders and raced 98 yards for a LIONS 30, FOOTBALLERS 27 In his first touchdown, just the fourth rushing start in nearly two years after a devas- touchdown of 98 or more yards in N.F.L. tating leg break, Alex Smith threw for history, according to Pro Football Refer- 390 yards and rallied his team all the ence. way back from a 24-3 deficit to a 27-27 According to the N.F.L.’s Next Gen tie before a mistake by his team’s de- Stats database, Jones hit 21.19 miles per fense handed Detroit the victory. hour on the run. BROWNS 10, TEXANS 7 In his first action since Week 4, Nick Chubb ran for 126 yards and a touchdown while Kareem Hunt, seeming happy to share the load, Miami’s future is now. had 132 yards from scrimmage. The Dolphins’ decision to switch from RAIDERS 37, BRONCOS 12 When asked Ryan Fitzpatrick to Tua Tagovailoa at about a game in which his team’s de- quarterback raised a few eyebrows — fense forced five turnovers and running most notably Fitzpatrick’s — since backs Josh Jacobs and Devontae Miami was playing well and was on the Booker combined for 193 yards rushing fringe of this year’s playoff hunt. The and four touchdowns, quarterback move was rationalized by most as the Derek Carr just seemed happy to be right play for the team’s future, but there. “It’s kind of awesome,” Carr said Tagovailoa has quickly changed that in his postgame news conference. “As I narrative by winning the first three LYNNE SLADKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS get older, I let the young guys do more of the work.” starts of his career. In Sunday’s con- The Dolphins’ defense withstood a late surge by the Chargers and helped Tua Tagovailoa improve to 3-0 as a starter. THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N D3

N.F.L. Week 10 Giants, Improving to 3-7, Make a Strong Case in a Wretched N.F.C. East By BEN SHPIGEL goal. ning percentage, as well. In its EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — For the second consecutive way? The 2008 N.F.C. West (.344). The N.F.L. is not going to disband game, Jones delivered the sort of Much like Bill Belichick, his pre- the N.F.C. East, that wretched as- performance — 21 of 28 for 244 vious boss in New England, Judge semblage of teams galloping to- yards, with, again, no turnovers — maintains that tomorrow does not ward collective infamy. Nor, at last that not only reinforced the Gi- exist until midnight, and he has ants’ faith in him but, in a rarity, conditioned his players to believe cast him as the best quarterback as much, too. Giants 27, Eagles 17 at MetLife Stadium on Sunday. “It’s irrelevant,” Judge said. Even with Philadelphia quarter- “The only thing that matters is check, does it plan to rescind the back Carson Wentz, the league that we keep improving.” division’s automatic postseason leader in turnovers, not commit- That they are. They have won berth as punishment for pro- ting any, and even with Philadel- two of their last three games, de- ducing such unsightly football phia fielding a far healthier team feating Washington and losing by week after week after week. than it did three weeks ago — 2 points to Tampa Bay. The playoffs, per league rules, Miles Sanders and Alshon Jeffery, “We’re finally feeling that sense will include the N.F.C. East cham- for two, returned — the Eagles re- of team,” said running back pion, which, in this most bizarre of mained serial practitioners of dis- Wayne Gallman, who ran for 53 appointment, going 0 for 9 on third seasons, could end up being a yards and two touchdowns, add- down and looking altogether dis- team that lost its first five games ing: “We’re not trying to show ev- combobulated for vast stretches. erybody what we are. We just and seven of its first eight. Their struggles, coupled with know who we are and we’re doing That team would be the Giants, those of well, everyone else, have it as a team.” who on Sunday prevailed, 27-17, contributed to the decline of a What they are, at this point, is a over Philadelphia, in an emphatic once-grand division. In a league 3-7 team. A team with difficult rebuke of their last meeting, three that prides itself on parity, the games against Seattle, Arizona, weeks ago, and in a victory that N.F.C. East has become parody. and Baltimore remaining, but a COREY SIPKIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS bestowed upon them one divi- By nightfall on Sunday, its four team making incremental sional distinction — the least infe- Giants quarterback Daniel Jones threw for 244 yards and ran for a touchdown at MetLife Stadium. teams had combined to win 10 progress. rior team — as they fervently games, the fewest by any division Only two teams with losing chase another. in a 22-21 loss to the Eagles on Oct. on all three of its possessions. drives to draw to 21-17, the Giants through Week 10 of a full season records have qualified for the Through Week 10, the Giants 22, the Giants preserved their ad- “The emphasis,” Giants Coach put the onus on Jones, who since the A.F.L.-N.F.L. merger in playoffs, and both — the 2010 Se- (3-7), who had lost their last eight vantage. Instead of tripping with Joe Judge said, “was to finish the throughout the game demonstrat- 1970, according to the Elias Sports attle Seahawks and the 2014 Car- games to Philadelphia, do not lead open space before him, quarter- game.” ed a certain decisiveness. Bureau. And the ignominy doesn’t olina Panthers — won a game. The the N.F.C. East. The Eagles (3-5-1) back Daniel Jones remained up- The Giants finished the game, His throws were accurate, his stop there. N.F.C. East winner will almost cer- still do. But as Philadelphia capit- right to race into the end zone. In- as Judge said, in part because decisions smart, and his pocket Already careening toward the tainly join that group of qualifiers, ulated on Sunday, doomed by a stead of folding in the fourth quar- they started so well, with long awareness savvy, and when Dari- fewest combined victories over a and because no one else seems in- sordid assortment of penalties, ter, a collapse that in Week 7 left touchdown drives on their first us Slayton streaked down the far full season since the merger — the terested in doing so, as absurd as drops and third-down flops, the the defensive coordinator Patrick two series that put them ahead by sideline in single coverage, Jones record is 22, Elias said, shared by it seemed eight weeks ago — six Giants coalesced. Graham alone on the bench after- 14-3 at halftime. When Philadel- delivered a perfect throw for a 40- the 2008 N.F.C. West and the 2014 weeks, four weeks, two weeks — Instead of wilting when leading ward with his head in his hands, phia regrouped in the third quar- yard gain that led to the Giants’ fi- N.F.C. South — the N.F.C. East maybe, just maybe, that team will by 11 in the second half, as they did the Giants thwarted Philadelphia ter, by scoring on consecutive nal points, a Graham Gano field could finish with the worst win- be the Giants.

PRO BASKETBALL A Name You Can’t Miss, With a Skill Set That Possibly Could

On the verge of entering the N.B.A., LaMelo Ball is a most unusual prospect. His name has been suggested as a potential No. 1 pick in Wednesday’s draft, SOPAN but he also could fall out of the top DEB five in a class considered by execu- ON PRO tives to lack stand- BASKETBALL out players. Like his brother Lonzo, who was selected with the No. 2 pick in 2017, LaMelo’s shooting form is unorthodox to the point of sus- pect. His size — 6 foot 7 and roughly 180 pounds — does not make him a natural fit at any position, at least not immediately. And nearly three years after he left the California high school where he burst onto the national scene, there is still a very limited sample of tape showing Ball succeeding against the kind of competition he might

LaMelo Ball is part of his family’s show and of his father’s circus.

face in the N.B.A. In some ways, though, Ball, 19, represents a new generation of basketball players who will be populating the N.B.A. in the coming decade. As the youngest of three basketball-playing, reality-show-making brothers, he is already more famous than most RICK RYCROFT/ASSOCIATED PRESS professional athletes, with more LaMelo Ball, whose placement in Wednesday’s N.B.A. draft is a Instagram followers than the majority of N.B.A. players. His subject of debate, skipped college to play overseas, most recently highlights had been viewed by in Australia, above. At left with his brothers, LiAngelo, center, millions on social media before and Lonzo, who was selected No. 2 over all in 2017. he was old enough to drive a car. And all of that attention has not matter. LaVar pulled LaMelo impression was in Australia. Last come in spite of his having cir- out of Chino Hills in fall 2017 year, he joined the Illawarra cumvented the N.C.A.A. entirely, because of a disagreement with Hawks of the country’s National perhaps proving that an Ameri- the team’s coach. Soon after, Basketball League, where he can player can skip attending a LaMelo and LiAngelo, who with- averaged 17 points, 7.6 rebounds leading program like Duke or drew from U.C.L.A., made the and 6.8 assists in 12 games. But North Carolina, earn significant surprising move of signing one- even as he struggled with long- money overseas and still be a top year contracts with Prienai- range shooting — he made just pick. Birstonas Vytautas of the Lithua- 25 percent of his 3-point attempts On that last point, he is not nian Basketball League. — and a foot injury ended his alone this year. James Wiseman, At age 16, LaMelo was set to season, Ball did enough to raise who played only three games at take on seasoned professionals. his stock for the draft. Memphis University, and Killian When the Ball family arrived in But how those numbers will Hayes, an American-born point Lithuania early the next year, translate to the N.B.A. is an open guard who grew up in France, they were mobbed at the airport question. There isn’t much of a are also projected to be lottery despite the fact that neither blueprint for young stars coming picks. It is possible, if not proba- brother had any professional out of the Australian league ble, that the majority of picks in JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS pedigree. beyond Patty Mills, who starred the draft’s top 10 will have little ular Ball as he gets ready to play LaMelo seemed more than whopping 92 points, raising the The run in Lithuania lasted in the league as a 22-year-old in to no connection to the N.C.A.A. in the league? Some teams will happy to brush off his father’s ire of the opposing coach. four months. LaMelo struggled 2012 and has had a productive system. certainly be wary of the attention comments. Months later, LaVar’s ball appar- against more physically devel- N.B.A. career. But Ball’s path goes far beyond that follows his family. Any team “I’m my own man, he’s his own el company, Big Baller Brand, oped players. LaVar, predictably, Ball, though, wasn’t content what even the most hyped recent that takes on the LaMelo experi- man,” LaMelo told reporters unveiled its first pair of basket- clashed with the coach and with just having been a solid prospects, like Zion Williamson, ence also will take on a relation- recently. “He has his opinions, I ball sneakers, made available for pulled both of his sons from the have gone through. His personal ship with LaVar Ball, the bom- have mine. I feel like I can play $495, a price roundly mocked. league before the season ended, player in Australia. Instead, he life — and that of his brothers bastic family patriarch with a on any team, and do good any- That August, LaMelo, still in high but not before creating an exhibi- raised some eyebrows last spring Lonzo and LiAngelo — has been craving for the spotlight. where I go.” school, got his own signature tion pro-am league to showcase when he attempted to buy his on display through a continuing Experience has shown that LaMelo Ball’s nontraditional shoe (this one for $395), a deal his children. LaVar coached one former team. reality show, “Ball In The Fam- this does not go well: LaVar was route to the league began at that threatened his N.C.A.A. of the games. The talks eventually fizzled ily.” He has grown up in the publicly critical of Luke Walton, Chino Hills High School in Cali- eligibility. In summer 2018, LaMelo out. public eye, in front of an audi- former Los Angeles Lakers fornia, where he played along- For the Balls, though, nothing signed with the Junior Basket- It wasn’t a typical move for a ence hungry for more. coach, after Lonzo entered the side his brothers, Lonzo (now 23 was out of bounds. LaVar and ball Association, a semiprofes- teenager, but Ball isn’t a typical Yet he is, so far, a celebrity not league, one of many of his sons’ and playing for the New Orleans LaMelo once appeared on the sional league began by his father teenager. He has already lived on because of his on-court play but coaches LaVar has blasted over Pelicans) and LiAngelo (21, and wrestling program “Monday that targeted high school gradu- different continents, starred in mostly because of his last name. the years. But beyond some playing in the N.B.A.’s G League) Night Raw.” Afterward, the ates who did not want to go to his own reality show, worn his What has defined Ball’s career — comments about LaMelo’s not to form one of the most fearsome WWE, which produced the show, college. That fall, he opted to own signature sneaker and and the way he and his talents being a good fit on the Golden teenage threesomes in the coun- had to issue an apology for the finish high school at SPIRE watched both of his brothers play are perceived — is that name, State Warriors, one of the teams try. appearance because of LaMelo’s Academy in Geneva, Ohio, a professional basketball. and the others who possess it. that has reportedly scouted him LaMelo started high school a repeated use of a racial slur on school focusing on athletic train- But once the youngest Ball And that may ultimately deter- at a private workout, LaVar has year early so LaVar could see his live television. ing. (Eventually, the J.B.A. col- steps on an N.B.A. floor, he will mine where he is drafted. actually been uncharacteristi- three sons share the court. In Discussions about LaMelo’s lapsed.) need a lot more than his fame. So what to make of this partic- cally quiet over the last year. And one 2017 game, LaMelo scored a N.C.A.A. eligibility ultimately did Where LaMelo made his best He will need to produce. D4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GOLF THE The Fall of a Record: Johnson Wins at 20 Under

Dustin Johnson passed by patrons at the 15th hole, top, and later received the green jacket from Tiger Woods, who held the previous 72-hole Masters record of 270 with Jordan Spieth.

par for the tournament and tied strange year,” said Johnson, who From First Sports Page ‘I dream of winning for 38th. contracted the coronavirus last Johnson’s closest pursuers Johnson’s victory also con- month and quarantined for a lot of majors. were Sungjae Im of South Korea cluded a bizarrely atypical Mas- roughly two weeks with mild Hopefully, this one and Cameron Smith of Australia, ters, which was postponed to No- symptoms. “But it’s been good to who each finished the tournament vember from its customary spot in me.” will help give me a at 15 under par. They narrowed early April because of the corona- Johnson’s victory was his first little spring.’ Johnson’s lead after he made con- virus pandemic. An event known after holding the 54-hole lead in a secutive bogeys on the fourth and for its traditions, the 84th Masters major championship. He had was contested for the first time failed to win in four such in- fifth holes, but Johnson rallied DUSTIN JOHNSON without fans, who are normally an stances, including in August when with two birdies in his next three essential part of the visual and au- he tied for second at the P.G.A. holes and then extended his lead ditory experience. Augusta Na- Championship. Johnson conceded from there. tional was so quiet that only the that not being able to close out the Johnson’s four-under 68 in the chatter between player and cad- lead in a major had begun to weigh final round gave him a tourna- die rose above the chirping birds. on him. ment score of 268, or 20 under par, The final round, a theatric staple “There was doubts in my mind,” which broke the 72-hole Masters of the worldwide sporting calen- he said, adding: “I’m in this posi- record of 270 previously held by dar, was held four hours earlier tion a lot of times — like when am I Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth. than its standard time to account going to finish off the golf tourna- Woods, the defending cham- for the diminished amount of sun- ment or finish off a major? pion, began Sunday 11 strokes be- light in the fall. “This definitely proved that I hind Johnson, but never mounted Finally, Johnson was presented can do it.” a run at the lead. At the par-3 12th with the green jacket that goes The Masters victory caps off a hole, he hit three balls into the with his victory less than five brilliant year for Johnson, who creek protecting the green and months before he will have to de- won four 2020 PGA Tour events registered a score of 10, his high- fend his title in April 2021. and was second or tied for second est score on any hole in his PGA That is a circumstance that did three other times. In what is the fi- Tour career. not vex Johnson, the world’s top- nal substantial tournament of Woods then birdied five of his Paulina Gretzky congratulated her fiancé, who has be- ranked player. 2020, Johnson on Sunday also last six holes to finish one under come known for his unshakable stoicism on the course. “I know 2020 has been a really stole the spotlight from Bryson THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N D5

E MASTERS

“This sport is awfully lonely sometimes,” Tiger Woods said. After a 10 on Hole No. 12, Woods Refuses to Wilt

By ALAN BLINDER A putt just missed. Then, at last, AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods technically a 10th stroke to a con- had just birdied three holes on clusion somewhere between mer- Sunday at the Masters when he ciful and wrenching. He evacuat- stood at the tee box at No. 18. A few ed with his worst score on any sin- of the men sitting around the 17th gle hole during his career on the green did not bother to watch. PGA Tour. His gallery, already This was no charge toward a vastly diminished because of Au- sixth green jacket. It was the last gusta National’s pandemic pre- act of a Sunday unlike any other in cautions, fled, too. Woods’s quarter-century around “He had a bit of a disaster on Augusta National Golf Club: He that hole, didn’t he?” said Shane shot a 76, equal to his worst round Lowry, who was in Woods’s group. at any Masters. Yet that score was “Look, this is what Augusta is a far greater achievement than it, when the wind is up like this. It’s a or his tie for 38th place at one un- pity we’re not out there for the full der par, would suggest. day in this because it would have “This sport is awfully lonely been a nice chance for some peo- sometimes,” said Woods, who en- ple to shoot good scores and move tered the tournament as its de- really far up the leaderboards.” fending champion. “You have to Woods certainly tried. But there fight it. No one is going to bring is only so much to do on the last six you off the mound or call in a sub. holes when, even at the start of the You have to fight through it. That’s day and before the torment at the what makes this game so unique hole known as Golden Bell, Woods and so difficult mentally.” needed the greatest comeback in Few figures in the game could Masters history if he was to keep have pushed on quite like Woods, his green jacket for another year. who appeared intent on salvaging something even if few people were watching. He birdied five of the fi- Imperfect 10 nal six holes and parred the other Tiger Woods needed 10 shots on — a better late showing than the Golden Bell, the 155-yard Par 3 — new champion, Dustin Johnson, the middle hole of “Amen Corner.” who finished at 20 under. Sum- 1 Tee shot into water moning the experience that he has judged particularly vital at the 2 Drop Masters, Woods somehow assem- 3 Wedge into water bled the type of performance that 4 Drop ordinarily would have had the 5 Wedge into back bunker grounds swelling into roars. 6 Thins bunker shot into water But it came only after an indis- 7 Drop putably calamitous turn at No. 12, 8 Bunker shot the very hole that Woods used as a 9 Missed putt springboard to his Masters vic- 10 Putt tory just last year. Resplendent in his ritual Sun- day red, he strode to the hole, a The observers thinned out par-3 around Rae’s Creek made more. Woods plodded on, invisible even more dazzling this year by on almost all of the scoreboards the soft colors of autumn after the around the course. No matter. coronavirus pandemic forced a Birdie. Par. Birdie. Birdie. Birdie. postponement of the traditional Then to No. 18, the place that April major. He had another tour- has seen champions go awash in nament’s worth of earned confi- glory. He peered down the 465- dence, having made par there in yard hole, the last test of a tourna- his first two rounds and birdie on ment lost. Saturday. He drove it to the middle of the Swing. Plop. The ball rolled into fairway, well right of the second the water. bunker. Then came a push onto “The wind was off the right for the green. A nifty putt for birdie the first two guys, and then when I earned claps but nothing like a stepped up there, it switched to roar. howling off the left,” Woods said. A reporter asked afterward “I didn’t commit to the wind, and I about his motivation — about also got ahead of it and pushed it, whether he worried, at age 44 and too, because I thought the wind with a career of triumph, pain and would come more off the right and scrutiny, that it might fade away it was off the left, and that just sometime. started the problem from there.” “No matter how hard I try, “From there,” he added, “I hit a things just don’t work the way lot more shots and had a lot more they used to, and no matter how experiences there in Rae’s Creek.” much I push and ask of this body, it From the drop zone: Swing. Hit just doesn’t work at times,” Woods the green. Roll backward into the said. “Yes, it is more difficult than water. others to be motivated at times.” Again from the drop zone: The But there he had been on Sun- ball stayed dry, but it landed in a day at Augusta, pushing to the fin- back bunker. Then, with Woods’s ish, assessing the past, talking legs forming part of a quadrilat- about the future. Later, he eral over the sand, he hit over the emerged to present the green flagstick and into the water. He jacket to Johnson. tried again from the bunker and fi- On this Sunday, at least, it was nally reached the green safely. someone else’s turn.

Photographs by DOUG MILLS/The New York Times

DeChambeau, whose recent top results and attention-grabbing, towering drives had made him the Masters favorite. DeChambeau, who shot a one-over-par 73 Sun- day to finish the event two under par, said that he battled bouts of dizziness during the tournament and indicated he was going to see a doctor when he returned home to Dallas. “I’ve got to fix this dizziness; I’ve got to get healthy,” DeCham- beau said. As the sun set Sunday evening, in a Masters ritual, Woods helped put a green jacket, size 42 long, on Johnson’s shoulders. Later, John- son was asked if there was any special meaning to having Woods, the five-time Masters champion, performing the ceremony. “Yes,” he answered. Then, with a laugh and broad smile he added: “But any guy could put it on me Dustin Johnson’s closest pursuers on Sunday were Sungjae Im, left, of South Korea and and I’d be just fine.” Cameron Smith, above, of Australia, who each finished the tournament at 15 under par. D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

TRIATHLON

JONATHAN BACHMAN/GETTY IMAGES FOR IRONMAN MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES FOR IRONMAN MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES FOR IRONMAN Chris Nikic swam, biked and ran to become the first competitor with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman triathlon in less than 17 hours. He was helped by his guide, Dan Grieb. Facing a Life of Obstacles and Never Stopping Till He Stood Alone

The Florida sky had grown as a guide, tethered to his charge dark, and Chris Nikic felt ready by a black bungee cord meant to to quit. He had been pushing offer extra safety. They emerged through the grueling race for from the choppy sea in a little more than 13 hours, even though less than two hours. he could not navi- Grieb then helped Nikic onto KURT gate the course or his 10-speed bike and fixed his keep the time feet onto the pedals, and they STREETER without help. began the long ride. There would It suddenly be trouble ahead. Because Nikic SPORTS became too much. could not balance well enough to OF THE TIMES In the hot, humid drink water while riding, he had air, he struggled to breathe. His to stop and climb off his bike to feet burned as they pounded the hydrate. When he did that on the pavement, his legs felt like con- 22nd mile, he had not noticed crete, and it seemed as if the that he was standing atop a large muscles in his back had been put mound of red ants, which through a shredder. swarmed his ankles and bit at his Nikic, a 21-year-old who lives flesh, causing his legs to swell. with his parents in an Orlando He managed to get going suburb, had started the day with again, only to crash his bike a determination. If he could over- few miles later while speeding come the challenge of this race down a hill. — a 2.4-mile open-water swim Again, he kept on. followed by a 112-mile bike ride Then came the marathon and a 26.2-mile run — and do it segment. It began well enough. in less than 17 hours, he would be Looping through the streets of the first competitor with Down Panama City Beach in the night- syndrome to complete an Iron- time darkness, tethered to Grieb man triathlon. so he would keep from falling Such a feat would not just put him in the record books. It would also prove to himself and those around him that he could, in fact, Sports lifted up a boy do big things. And if he could do big things, then maybe one day who had felt ‘isolated, he would be able to fulfill his ultimate dream: to live inde- left out, excluded.’ pendently and have a wife and a family of his own. Would he make it? The finish line was 16 miles away, but he and stay on course, he passed a was breaking down. clutch of family and friends who It was then that Nikic sum- cheered in support. moned a well of patient, hopeful But at Mile 10, everything perseverance — along with the changed. He slowed so much that energizing power of the simple it seemed he was barely moving vision he had set for his life. at all. He began complaining One step forward, two steps. about the pain. There was an- One step. Two steps. Three. . . . guish in his eyes. “He looked like a zombie,” said his sister, Jacky. ■■■ “Like he was just absolutely done.” To understand the long odds His supporters huddled Nikic faced during that race, held around him, giving hugs, hoping in Panama City Beach, Fla., on a to lift his spirits. recent Saturday, you have to go Nik Nikic clutched his son, back to his childhood. drew him close and whispered in At 5 months old, he endured his ear, “Are you going to let your open-heart surgery. He was so pain win, or let your dreams weak and had such poor balance win?” that he did not walk on his own Chris Nikic knew this wasn’t until he was 4. To keep him from only about finishing an Ironman, choking, his family fed him baby but about showing himself what food until he was 6. When he he could achieve in the future. learned to run, it took months for His own home. Independence. A him to discover how to swing his wife as kind and beautiful as his arms at his side instead of hold- mother. ing them straight above his head. “My dreams,” he told his fa- It took years for him to learn ther, “are going to win.” how to tie his shoes. He began to jog again. His parents — Nik, a corporate ZACK WITTMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES One step forward. Two. Three. performance trainer, and Patty, a The 21-year-old Nikic with his father, Nik. Chris Nikic saw the triathlon as part of his goal of gaining more independence. One step. Two. Three. stay-at-home mother — strug- He found his rhythm. Nothing gled to get their son proper care could stop him. He crossed the and attention. They moved him sprints, swimming and playing more than he ever had before. helped him learn how to shift “Based on all of his training, I finish line with arms held high in to seven elementary schools, basketball in the Special Last October, with the help of a gears and balance. How to ride was certain he would finish” in celebration, and a little time to searching for the right fit. Olympics. When he was about 15, local endurance training group with the wind. How to relax under 17 hours, Nik Nikic said. spare — 16 hours 46 minutes 9 At every turn, experts spoke of his parents took him to a parking and Dan Grieb, a volunteer while swimming in the ocean, “Unless something went wrong. seconds. Nikic in terms of limits instead of lot near their home and taught coach, he set his sights on the even around jellyfish. Something can always go “I learned that there are no possibilities. him to ride a bike. It took six Ironman. It was the ultimate Something was changing. He wrong.” limits,” he said when we spoke “I always felt isolated, left out, months for him to go 100 feet, but test. Conquer it, and he felt he added muscle to his stocky 5- days later. “Do not put a lid on excluded,” he told me during a once he got the hang of it, there could do anything. foot-10 frame, but it was more ■■■ me.” video call this week, describing was no turning back. Nikic and Grieb began meet- than that. Everyone around him Take a bow, Chris Nikic, for the emotions that he felt growing After undergoing a series of ing in the predawn hours for noticed that as he grew fitter, he A stiff wind swept across the holding tight to your dreams, for up. ear operations that sapped his 20-mile runs and 100-mile bike seemed mentally sharper, more Gulf of Mexico in the early morn- your patience and hopeful perse- He found solace in sports. By strength and left him home- rides. Focused on making small attentive and confident. ing on race day. verance and guts. We could use a his early teens, he was running bound, he grew determined to do improvements each day, Grieb The race neared. Grieb was there in the water little more of that in this world.

AUTO RACING Hamilton Clinches Seventh Formula One Title, Tying Schumacher’s Record

ISTANBUL (AP) — Lewis words,” Hamilton said, thanking resurfaced and skiddy circuit not spin twice on the track. He boxed Hamilton cemented a record- his family. “I dreamed of this as a used in Formula One since 2011, for new tires again on Lap 19. equaling seventh Formula One ti- kid. This is way, way beyond our compared to an “ice rink” by Ham- Halfway through the race, Stroll tle after winning a wet and gloomy dreams.” ilton. and Perez were ahead of Hamilton Turkish Grand Prix for a record- The British driver started from A chaotic start saw Verstappen but losing ground. Stroll came in extending 94th victory on Sunday. sixth place but took advantage of stall while Hamilton moved up to for new tires on Lap 37 and Hamil- Hamilton now stands alongside errors and poor tire strategies third only to lose grip and get ton used Drag Reduction System Formula One great Michael Schu- from other teams to win a fourth overtaken by Red Bull’s Alexan- to get past Perez one lap later and macher on seven titles, having re- straight race and the 10th of an- der Albon and Verstappen. Vettel take the lead. placed the German driver at Mer- other hugely dominant season. made a great move from 11th to Stroll’s tire change backfired cedes in 2013. “I know I often I say it is beyond third, but Bottas spun and and he was soon passed by both Hamilton only needed to finish wildest dreams but my whole life dropped right down. Ferraris, while Bottas spun for the ahead of his teammate Valtteri secretly I have dreamt as high as Vettel and Hamilton pitted for fourth time at the back of the pack. Bottas to seal his sixth title for this,” Hamilton said. “It felt so far- new tires on Lap 9, followed by On a humiliating day for the fetched. I remember watching Mi- Stroll, Perez and Verstappen Mercedes, and Bottas placed a Finnish driver, he was lapped by chael win those world champi- three laps later. lowly 14th after making a poor Hamilton near the end. onships. To get one or two or even The virtual safety car was acti- start. Perez is being replaced by Vet- three is so hard. vated on Lap 13 after Alfa Romeo’s tel at the end of the season, with Hamilton’s other title was with “Seven is unimaginable,” he Antonio Giovinazzi pulled over on Racing Point changing its name to McLaren in 2008. said. “There is no end to what we POOL PHOTO BY OZAN KOSE the side of the track. Aston Martin. That leaves Perez He seemed to be in tears when can do together, me and this Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Turkey continued a dominant season. At the restart Hamilton tried to currently without a seat, despite he spoke on the team radio mo- team.” overtake Vettel but locked his being at his peak at 30 years old ments after crossing the line in Is- Hamilton placed about 30 sec- tires, while Albon passed Hamil- and with nine podiums to his tanbul. onds ahead of Racing Point’s Ser- very happy,” Vettel said. “It was Vettel, a four-time Formula One ton and Vettel to move into fourth name. “That’s for all the kids out there gio Perez and Ferrari’s Sebastian quite intense but good fun.” champion, was quick to congratu- spot. “You have to be delivering who dream the impossible,” Ham- Vettel, who overtook teammate It was also Perez’s first podium late his longtime rival, crouching “Brakes aren’t working,” Ham- weekend after weekend, you are ilton said. “You can do it.” Charles Leclerc for his first podi- of the campaign, while teammate by his cockpit and shaking his ilton said on team radio. only as good as your last race,” he Then, speaking a short time lat- um of a difficult season. Lance Stroll finished ninth despite hand as he spoke. The impatient Verstappen said. “So it’s important to end on a er, he wiped away tears. “It is a bit of a surprise to snatch leading from pole position for Stroll started from pole ahead of pushed too hard behind second- high, but the rest is not in my “I’m definitely a bit lost for the podium, but I am certainly much of the 58-lap race. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen on a place Perez and lost control to hands.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 N D7

SCOREBOARD HOCKEY

FOOTBALL GOLF

N.F.L. STANDINGS THE MASTERS

AMERICAN CONFERENCE At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. Purse: $11.5 million East W L T Pct PF PA Yardage: 7,475; Par: 72 Final Round Buffalo 7 3 0 .700 272 265 D. Johnson $2,070,000 . . . 65-70-65-68—268 -20 S. Im $1,012,000...... 66-70-68-69—273 -15 Miami 6 3 0 .667 251 182 C. Smith $1,012,000 . . . . . 67-68-69-69—273 -15 N. England 3 5 0 .375 166 194 J. Thomas $552,000 .....66-69-71-70—276 -12 D. Frittelli $437,000 ...... 65-73-67-72—277 -11 Jets 0 9 0 .000 121 268 R. McIlroy $437,000...... 75-66-67-69—277 -11 B. Koepka $358,417 .....70-69-69-70—278 -10 South W L T Pct PF PA C. T. Pan $358,417...... 70-66-74-68—278 -10 J. Rahm $358,417...... 69-66-72-71—278 -10 Indianapolis 6 3 0 .667 242 177 C. Conners $287,500 ....74-65-71-69—279 -9 P. Reed $287,500...... 68-68-71-72—279 -9 Tennessee 6 3 0 .667 249 235 W. Simpson $287,500 ....67-73-71-68—279 -9 A. Ance $215,625 ...... 68-67-69-76—280 -8 Houston 2 7 0 .222 200 252 M. Leishman $215,625 . . . 70-72-70-68—280 -8 Jacksonville 1 8 0 .111 199 271 H. Matsuyama $215,625 . . 68-68-72-72—280 -8 K. Na $215,625...... 73-68-69-70—280 -8 North W L T Pct PF PA P. Cantlay $178,250 .....70-66-73-72—281 -7 X. Schauffele $178,250 . . . 67-73-71-70—281 -7 Pittsburgh 9 0 01.000 271 171 C. Champ $144,325 .....68-74-68-72—282 -6 T. Fleetwood $144,325 . . . 71-66-71-74—282 -6 Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 227 142 S. Munoz $144,325...... 70-68-69-75—282 -6 S. Scheffler $144,325 ....71-68-72-71—282 -6 Cleveland 6 3 0 .667 216 244 L. Oosthuizen $115,000. . . 68-70-75-70—283 -5 J. Rose $115,000 ...... 67-70-76-70—283 -5 Cincinnati 2 6 1 .278 204 250 S. Lowry $91,713 ...... 74-69-68-73—284 -4 West W L T Pct PF PA I. Poulter $91,713 ...... 72-71-71-70—284 -4 C. Schwartzel $91,713 . . . 73-71-69-71—284 -4 Kansas City 8 1 0 .889 286 183 D. Willett $91,713 ...... 71-66-74-73—284 -4 R. Fowler $74,750...... 70-70-75-70—285 -3 Las Vegas 6 3 0 .667 255 241 S. Kang $74,750...... 75-69-71-70—285 -3 B. Langer $74,750 ...... 68-73-73-71—285 -3 Denver 3 6 0 .333 186 254 C. Reavie $74,750 ...... 71-72-72-70—285 -3 N. Taylor $74,750 ...... 72-72-69-72—285 -3 L.A. Chargers 2 7 0 .222 226 245 B. DeChambeau $62,100 . 70-74-69-73—286 -2 S. Woo Kim $62,100 .....70-71-73-72—286 -2 A. Scott $62,100...... 70-72-71-73—286 -2 NATIONAL CONFERENCE A. A. Ogletree (amateur) . . 73-70-71-72—286 -2 C. Bezuidenhout $50,600. . 69-73-74-71—287 -1 East W L T Pct PF PA P. Casey $50,600 ...... 65-74-71-77—287 -1 T. Finau $50,600...... 69-75-71-72—287 -1 Phila. 3 5 1 .389 203 232 B. Horschel $50,600 .....70-70-72-75—287 -1 L. Westwood $50,600 ....68-74-71-74—287 -1 Giants 3 7 0 .300 195 236 T. Woods $50,600...... 68-71-72-76—287 -1 S. Imahira $41,400 ...... 72-70-72-74—288 E Dallas 2 7 0 .222 204 290 C. Morikawa $41,400 ....70-74-70-74—288 E Washington 2 7 0 .222 180 218 M. Fitzpatrick $33,672 ....74-70-73-72—289 +1 C. Howell III $33,672 .....71-70-74-74—289 +1 South W L T Pct PF PA V. Perez $33,672 ...... 70-71-76-72—289 +1 PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHENZHEN KRS VANKE RAYS J. Spieth $33,672 ...... 74-70-73-72—289 +1 New Orleans 7 2 0 .778 271 213 M. Wallace $33,672...... 69-73-70-77—289 +1 Several North Americans of Chinese descent play for the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays, a club that manages the women’s national team. R. Cabrera Bello $28,003. . 73-71-74-72—290 +2 Tampa Bay 7 3 0 .700 296 226 J. Janewattananond $28,003 69-71-75-75—290 +2 Z. Johnson $28,003 .....73-71-73-73—290 +2 Atlanta 3 6 0 .333 243 251 M. Weir $28,003 ...... 71-72-71-76—290 +2 P. Mickelson $26,680 ....69-70-79-73—291 +3 Carolina 3 7 0 .300 233 272 J. Augenstein (amateur) . . 69-72-75-75—291 +3 B. Watson $26,450 ...... 74-69-71-78—292 +4 China’s Olympic Hopes Take a Detour, to Russia North W L T Pct PF PA B. Wiesberger $26,220 . . . 71-72-78-73—294 +6 Green Bay 7 2 0 .778 277 224 B. Snedeker $25,990.....71-71-79-74—295 +7 J. Walker $25,760 ...... 71-73-76-76—296 +8 By SETH BERKMAN team. For now, Llanes plays only when he first met the Chinese na- hockey association has reason to be Chicago 5 4 0 .556 178 190 The players most crucial to Chi- for KRS in Russia’s Zhenskaya tional players, “we could see in cautious of bringing international Detroit 4 5 0 .444 227 267 AUTO RACING nese women’s ice hockey reside in a Hockey League with six North their eyes they were just numb” players into its bubble. In March, Americans of Chinese descent who from practicing four times per day. two Chinese players training with a Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 217 234 TURKISH GRAND PRIX hotel about 70 miles south of Mos- West W L T Pct PF PA cow. The quasi resort’s expansive harbor similar Olympic dreams. In The new staff incorporated travel squad in the United States At Istanbul Park Circuit the 2019-20 season, KRS won the shorter practices with weight lift- tested positive for the coronavirus Arizona 6 3 0 .667 266 210 Istanbul grounds contain horses, stray cats Lap length: 5.00 kilometers and a speleochamber — a salt cave league title, but this year the team ing, nutrition lessons or meetings shortly after returning to Beijing. L.A. Rams 6 3 0 .667 216 168 (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, designed to improve breathing. has had 10 games rescheduled be- with a sports psychologist. Since July, about 40 Chinese Seattle 6 3 0 .667 290 266 Mercedes, 58 laps, 1:42:19.313, 25 points. cause of the pandemic. The Chinese players responded homegrown players have been in 2. (3) Sergio Perez, Mexico, Racing Point That these players are in Russia San Fran. 4 6 0 .400 238 234 BWT Mercedes, 58, +31.633 seconds, 18. and not Beijing, 3,600 miles away, “I hope to be at the Olympics, but positively to the changes, Morgan Beijing, playing against youth 3. (11) Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari, said. Murphy said North American THURSDAY 58, +31.960, 15. symbolizes how far China, whose I know it’s not guaranteed,” Llanes teams and practicing multiple Indianapolis 34, Tennessee 17 4. (12) Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 58, said. “If you’re banking on it, I don’t players teased Chinese players for times a day when most of the wom- +33.858, 12. women’s ice hockey team last qual- SUNDAY 5. (15) Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, McLaren ified for the Olympics in 2010, has recommend thinking that way. If hiding snacks in their bags — many en’s hockey world was on pause. Giants 27, Philadelphia 17 Renault, 58, +34.363, 10. we don’t get called, we’ll get four were shocked they could freely That won’t necessarily create an 6. (2) Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red moved away from its grand plans in Cleveland 10, Houston 7 years of experience no one else can leave their rooms to eat, instead of advantage at the Olympic tourna- Detroit 30, Washington 27 Bull Racing Honda, 58, +44.873, 8. the sport. 7. (4) Alexander Albon, Thailand, Red Bull being limited to having meals at ment, though. China ranks 19th in Green Bay 24, Jacksonville 20 Racing Honda, 58, +46.484, 6. “Not seeing it come to fruition say they had.” Tampa Bay 46, Carolina 23 8. (14) Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren and deviate is a disappointment,” Since 2017, KRS has invested mil- their training facility’s dining hall. the world, but has an automatic bid Renault, 58, +1:01.259, 5. “The first year, in terms of help- Miami 29, L.A. Chargers 21 9. (1) Lance Stroll, Canada, Racing Point said Maddie Woo, who was re- lions to create an environment un- as the host. Arizona 32, Buffalo 30 BWT Mercedes, 58, +1:12.353, 2. cruited to play in China and occa- common in women’s hockey. Digit ing the Chinese players, was proba- “If they really want a great show- Las Vegas 37, Denver 12 10. (5) Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Renault, 58, +1:35.460, 1. sionally skated with China’s na- Murphy, an American who had bly the most collaborative and most ing in 2022, based on what I’ve L.A. Rams 23, Seattle 16 11. (7) Esteban Ocon, France, Renault, 57, tional team over the past three effective,” said Melanie Jue, a Chi- seen, it needs to include Chinese New Orleans 27, San Francisco 13 +1 lap. 12. (16) Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Scuderia Toro years. “There was so much poten- nese-Canadian defenseman on North Americans,” said Bob Der- Pittsburgh 36, Cincinnati 10 Rosso Honda, 57, +1 lap. KRS. 13. (19) Pierre Gasly, France, Scuderia Toro tial. There still is. It’s just the time aney, who coached KRS in 2018. Baltimore at New England But toward the end of KRS’s first Open: Jets, Kansas City, Atlanta, Rosso Honda, 57, +1 lap. sensitivity of it now. It’s shocking.” Deraney and Morgan added that 14. (9) Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes, The Winter Games year, higher-ups within Chinese Dallas 57, +1 lap. Woo was one of several North they expected the North American MONDAY 15. (8) Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Romeo Americans of Chinese descent who in Beijing are just hockey began making unexpected contingent to eventually get called Racing Ferrari, 57, +1 lap. alterations. The national hockey Minnesota at Chicago, 8:15 16. (20) George Russell, Great Britain, signed in 2017 with the newly up, and Liu believed it was still a Williams Mercedes, 57, +1 lap. 15 months away. association changed leadership, THURSDAY, NOV. 19 17. (13) Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas formed Kunlun Red Star, a team possibility, although another hur- Arizona at Seattle, 8:20 Ferrari, did not finish, 55. now known as the Shenzhen KRS and junior teams training in the dle remained. Since China does not 18. (17) Romain Grosjean, France, Haas U.S. were disbanded. Regional N.F.L. TOP PERFORMERS Ferrari, did not finish, 49. Vanke Rays. With China hosting recognize dual nationality, Canadi- 19. (18) Nicholas Latifi, Canada, Williams the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Chi- hockey organizations with political ans and Americans would have to PASSING Mercedes, did not finish, 39. coached in college and the profes- clout grumbled about the resources Sunday's games not included. 20. (10) Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa nese Ice Hockey Association, the surrender their passports. 502, Dak Prescott, DAL vs. CLE 10/4 (41- sional ranks, was hired to lead the Romeo Racing Ferrari, did not finish, 11. afforded to KRS. There are political ramifications 58, 4 TD) national governing body, assigned women’s program. She enticed re- 472, Dak Prescott, DAL at SEA 9/27 (37- Xu Guoqi, author of “Olympic to representing China, which has 57, 3 TD) SOCCER the club to manage the women’s na- cruits with a simple, yet novel, ap- 450, Dak Prescott, DAL vs. ATL 9/20 (34- Dreams: China and Sports, 1895- been roundly criticized for human tional team. proach. 47, 1 TD) M.L.S. PLAYOFF SCHEDULE KRS hired Woo and other players 2008,” said sports rivalries among rights abuses and holds a souring 450, Matt Ryan, ATL vs. SEA 9/13 (37-54, KRS not only pays livable sala- local governments in China were 2 TD) PLAY-IN to be sport ambassadors, training reputation in the West. 416, Patrick Mahomes II, KC vs. NYJ 11/1 Eastern Conference ries of about $70,000 per year, but not uncommon. (31-42, 5 TD) and playing alongside less experi- Rose Alleva, a forward from Min- Friday, Nov. 20 provides amenities expected of a “Backstabbing practices, or they 415, Josh Allen, BUF at MIA 9/20 (24-35, Montreal at New England, 6:30 p.m enced Chinese nationals in hopes of nesota who played one year with 4 TD) Inter Miami at Nashville, 9 p.m. pro team like first-class airfare, an try to lobby, always that’s a case,” 415, Josh Allen, BUF vs. SEA 11/8 (31- FIRST ROUND elevating the homegrown players’ KRS, said giving up her American 38, 3 TD) equipment manager and ice times Xu said, noting that the Chinese Eastern Conference skills. passport was “a deal breaker” and 406, Joe Burrow, CIN vs. CLE 10/25 (35- Saturday, Nov. 21 when the sun is still shining. hockey association is essentially 47, 3 TD) Orlando City vs. N.Y.C.F.C., noon In a 2017 interview with The New decided not to continue with the 397, Cam Newton, NE at SEA 9/20 (30- Columbus vs. Red Bulls, 3 p.m. That hasn’t been the case for under the control of the Chinese 44, 1 TD) York Times, Billy Ngok posited that program. Tuesday, Nov. 24 North American women’s hockey, government. “The reality is the 390, Russell Wilson, SEA at BUF 11/8 (28- Toronto vs. higher-seeded play-in winner, players like Woo might become “It’s definitely something you 41, 2 TD) despite Canada and the United party is in charge of everything.” 6 p.m. Chinese citizens, making them eli- have to grapple with,” said Woo, Philadelphia vs. lower-seeded play-in States reigning as the sport’s pow- For the 2018-19 C.W.H.L. season, COLLEGE FOOTBALL winner, 8 p.m. gible for the Olympic team. For the who left KRS to begin her career in Western Conference erhouses (several United States China supplied only one team, the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, host biomedical engineering. “You can’t Saturday, Nov. 22 national team alumnae have also Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays. (The A.P. TOP 25 POLL Sporting Kansas City vs. San Jose, 4 p.m. South Korea deployed a similar tac- be ignorant to the idea someone Minnesota United vs. Colorado, 7:30 p.m. been KRS sports ambassadors). C.W.H.L. folded soon after and said The top 25 teams in the Associated Portland vs. Dallas, 10 p.m. tic, although China has stricter will hand you a Chinese passport Press college football poll, with first- Tuesday, Nov. 24 Founded in 2015, the National the revenue from China had proba- place votes in parentheses, records passport policies. and everything will be fine, and Seattle vs. Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m. Women’s Hockey League, which bly kept the league from ceasing through Nov. 14, total points based on Now, just 15 months before the you’ll still be Canadian or Ameri- 25 points for a first-place vote through CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS has six teams across North Amer- operations earlier.) one point for a 25th-place vote, and Eastern Conference opening ceremony — when teams can.” previous ranking: Sunday, Nov. 29 ica, had a highest reported salary of In 2017, KRS also ran a men’s Game 1: Teams TBD, 3 p.m. begin paring their rosters — the Xu said there could be one work- $15,000 last season. team with a similar mission to build Record Pts Pvs Game 2: Teams TBD, 8 p.m. North American imports would around if players got passports 1. Alabama (60) ...... 6-0 1,548 1 Western Conference In October, Secret, the deodorant Chinese hockey centered around 2. Notre Dame (1) .....8-0 1,467 2 Tuesday, Dec. 1 ideally be with the Chinese nation- from Taiwan or Hong Kong. When 3. Ohio St. (1) ...... 3-0 1,445 3 brand, contributed $1 million to the foreign players and Chinese teen- Teams TBD, 9 or 10 p.m. als in Beijing, where a training bub- the former N.B.A. player Jeremy 4. Clemson ...... 7-1 1,355 4 Wednesday, Dec. 2 Professional Women’s Hockey agers who previously trained in 5. Texas A&M ...... 5-1 1,240 5 Teams TBD, 9 or 10 p.m. ble has been set up by the hockey Lin obtained his Taiwanese pass- 6. Florida ...... 5-1 1,222 6 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Players Association, a rare in- America. 7. Cincinnati ...... 7-0 1,198 7 association. port last year, he became an eligible Sunday, Dec. 6 stance in which a party proclaim- In interviews with current and 8. BYU ...... 8-0 1,094 8 Game 1: Teams TBD, 3 p.m. Claire Liu, the general manager “domestic” athlete for China under 9. Indiana ...... 4-0 997 10 Game 2: Teams TBD, 6:30 p.m. ing interest in elevating North former KRS players and coaches, 10. Wisconsin...... 2-0 950 13 of KRS, attributed the separation to new rules instituted by the Chinese 11. Oregon ...... 2-0 949 11 M.L.S. CUP American women’s hockey gave none said they knew where the Saturday, Dec. 12 the coronavirus pandemic limiting government, allowing him to play 12. Miami ...... 7-1 940 9 more than just crumbs. partnership between their club and 13. Georgia ...... 4-2 824 12 Teams TBD, 8 p.m. travel into China. But current and in the Chinese Basketball Associa- 14. Oklahoma St...... 5-1 750 14 “We’re pretty spoiled, I’m not go- the C.I.H.A. currently stood. The tion. 15. Coastal Carolina ....7-0 557 15 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE former KRS players and coaches ing to lie,” said Llanes, who worked Chinese nationals currently on 15. Marshall ...... 7-0 557 16 added that communication be- Whether or not the imports play 17. Iowa St...... 5-2 498 17 Team GP W D L GF GA Pts three jobs while playing in Boston KRS are mostly older players not 18. Oklahoma ...... 5-2 497 18 Leicester ...... 8 6 0 2 18 9 18 tween them and the hockey associ- for teams in North American expected to compete at the next for China in 2022, there have been 19. Northwestern ...... 4-0 378 23 Tottenham .....8 5 2 1 19 9 17 ation had diminished to sporadic 20. Southern Cal ...... 2-0 377 20 Liverpool ...... 8 5 2 1 18 16 17 leagues. “We don’t have to worry Olympics. potent takeaways. 21. Liberty ...... 8-0 307 22 Southampton . . . 8 5 1 2 16 12 16 messages passed along by a bilin- China once built rinks in a de- 22. Texas ...... 5-2 296 21 Chelsea ...... 8 4 3 1 20 10 15 about anything. You’re hockey Liu, the team’s general manager, gual intermediary. 23. Auburn ...... 4-2 187 24 Aston Villa .....7 5 0 2 18 9 15 players.” said that the “relationship is still commissioned war bunker, but now 24. Louisiana-Lafayette. . .7-1 177 25 Everton ...... 8 4 1 3 16 14 13 Rachel Llanes, a Filipino-Ameri- state-of-the-art sheets are popping 25. Tulsa ...... 4-1 155 - Crystal Palace .. 8 4 1 3 12 12 13 In 2017, KRS staff also ran junior there” and that the roster composi- Others receiving votes: North Carolina Wolverhampton . 8 4 1 3 8 9 13 can forward who also hopes to rep- national teams and two franchises tion was different because of the up throughout the mainland. Ac- 101, SMU 20, Utah 17, Washington 15, Man City ...... 7 3 3 1 10 9 12 resent China, said she still trains as Arizona St. 9, Boise St. 6, San Jose St. Arsenal ...... 8 4 0 4 9 10 12 in the now-defunct Canadian Wom- pandemic. The hockey association cording to the International Ice 5, Appalachian St. 5, Nevada 3, Iowa 2, West Ham .....8 3 2 3 14 10 11 if she’s “on call” for the national Hockey Federation, there are 822 Buffalo 1, UCF 1. Newcastle .....8 3 2 3 10 13 11 en’s Hockey League. declined interview requests. Man United ....7 3 1 3 12 14 10 Rob Morgan, who coached one of Because of the coronavirus pan- rinks in China. HOW THE A.P. TOP 25 FARED Leeds...... 8 3 1 4 14 17 10 Leah Lum, a Chinese-Canadian Brighton ...... 8 1 3 4 11 14 6 Martin Tsai contributed transla- the Chinese teams in the C.W.H.L. demic, KRS relocated to Russia this No. 1 Alabama (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. Fulham ...... 8 1 1 6 7 15 4 tion. forward, noted that when KRS runs Kentucky, Saturday. West Brom ....8 0 3 5 6 17 3 and is now an adviser for KRS, said season to reduce travel. The No. 2 Notre Dame (8-0) beat Boston Burnley ...... 7 0 2 5 3 12 2 youth clinics around the country, College (45-31). Next: at North Carolina, Sheffield United .8 0 1 7 4 14 1 there’s an indescribable pride in Saturday, Nov. 27. No. 3 Ohio State (3-0) did not play. Next: Saturday, Nov. 21 seeing Chinese children engaged in Newcastle vs. Chelsea vs. No. 10 Indiana, Saturday. her sport. Playing hockey in China No. 4 Clemson (7-1) did not play. Next: at Aston Villa vs. Brighton Florida State, Saturday. Tottenham vs. Man City has also allowed Lum and her No. 5 Texas A&M (5-1) did not play. Next: Man United vs. West Brom vs. Mississippi, Saturday. Sunday, Nov. 22 teammates to connect with their No. 6 Florida (5-1) beat Arkansas (63-35). Fulham vs. Everton families’ heritage in ways that were Next: at Vanderbilt, Saturday. Sheffield United vs. West Ham No. 7 Cincinnati (7-0) did not play. Next: at Leeds vs. Arsenal impossible before. UCF, Saturday. Liverpool vs. Leicester “It’s a dream to be able to come No. 8 BYU (8-0) did not play. Next: vs. Monday, Nov. 23 North Alabama, Saturday. Burnley vs. Crystal Palace here and focus on hockey,” Lum No. 9 Miami (7-1) beat Virginia Tech (25-24). Wolverhampton vs. Southampton Next: vs. Georgia Tech, Saturday. said. “Experiencing our culture No. 10 Indiana (4-0) beat Michigan State U.S. MEN'S SOCCER SCHEDULE and ancestry — China, that’s who I (24-0). Next: at No. 3 Ohio State, Saturday. No. 11 Oregon (2-0) beat Washington State (Won 1, Lost 0, Tied 1) am.” (43-29). Next: UCLA, Friday. Saturday, Feb. 1 — United States 1, Costa No. 12 Georgia (4-2) did not play. Next: vs. Rica 0 Mississippi State, Saturday. Thursday, Nov. 12 — United States 0, No. 13 Wisconsin (2-0) beat Michigan Wales 0 (49-11). Next: at No. 23 Northwestern, Monday, Nov. 16 — vs. Panama at Wiener Saturday. Neustadt, Austria, 2:45 p.m. No. 14 Oklahoma State (5-1) did not play. Next: at No. 18 Oklahoma, Saturday. No. 15 Coastal Carolina (7-0) did not play. TRANSACTIONS Next: vs. Appalachian State, Saturday. No. 16 Marshall (7-0) beat Middle M.L.B. Tennessee (42-14). Next: vs. Charlotte, Saturday. National League No. 17 Iowa State (5-2) did not play. Next: ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Signed C Tyler vs. Kansas State, Saturday. Heineman to a minor league contract. No. 18 Oklahoma (5-2) did not play. Next: Brooklyn vs. Oklahoma State, Saturday. Co−ops & Condos 1125 No. 19 SMU (7-2) lost to Tulsa (28-24). Next: N.B.A. vs. Houston, Saturday. BEDFORD-STUYVESANT No. 20 Southern Cal (2-0) beat Arizona (34- CHICAGO BULLS — Named Maurice Loft/Condo Cheeks, Josh Longstaff, John Bryant, 30). Next: at Utah, Saturday. Beautiful 1Bdrm 2Bath, Hardwood flrs, No. 21 Texas (5-2) did not play. Next: at Damian Cotter and Billy Schmidt vaulted ceilings, and terrace Darlene Kansas, Saturday. assistant coaches. Named Henry 516-521-2520 Bkr No. 22 Liberty (8-0) beat Western Carolina Domercant, Ronnie Burrell, Ty Abbott (58-14). Next: at NC State, Saturday. and Max Rothschild player development Connecticut No. 23 Northwestern (4-0) beat Purdue coordinators. Houses for Sale 1805 (27-20). Next: vs. No. 13 Wisconsin, Saturday. N.F.L. Danbury No. 24 Auburn (4-2) did not play. Next: vs. Merson's Pond Tennessee, Saturday. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed LT David 19.4 acs w/6 ac pond. Subdividable. 1 No. 25 Louisiana-Lafayette (7-1) beat Bakhtiari to a four-year contract extension. mile to I84 / 75 minutes to NYC $4.750M South Alabama (38-10). Next: vs. Central GIANTS — Signed K Graham Gano to Broker Protected 203 - 994 - 6031 Arkansas, Saturday. three-year contract extension. Alexandra Vafina of KRS. The team’s general manager blamed the pandemic for the players’ separation. [email protected] D8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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