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A split is emerging inside
Sanders’s campaign over
whether he should stand down
after Tuesday’s primaries and
unite behind Clinton A1
Damage caused by a
band of saboteurs in
Nige-ria has reduced oil output
and helped tip the country
toward recession A1
Some large public U.S.
universities recorded
higher rates of cheating
among international students
than domestic students A1
China pushed back
strongly against U.S criticism
of its stance on maritime
dis-putes as the two sides
be-gan high-level talks A10
Trump is giving a
na-tional platform to parents of
victims of crimes by illegal
immigrants to boost support
for hard-line policies A4
India’s Modi will seek to
cement progress made with
the U.S on economic and
security issues on a visit
to the nation this week A10
A Buddhist temple in
Thailand is at the center of
a wildlife-trafficking probe
after scores of dead tiger
cubs were found A10
Kansas, Illinois and other
Midwestern states are
scram-bling to firm up financial
packages to ensure classes
open again in the fall A7
Novak Djokovic won his
first French Open title,
beating Andy Murray B7
U.S officials appear
poised to make history by
approving the first private
space mission to go beyond
Earth’s orbit, a move that may
set important precedents A1
The Fed’s plans for
raising rates went on hold
after a dismal jobs report,
with officials wanting to
wait and see whether the
economy stays on track A3
GM plans to convert
some Cadillac stores into
virtual dealerships that
will have low overhead but
sophisticated technology B1
Investors are buying
municipal debt at a record
clip, enduring low returns
in exchange for stability C1
Republican victory in
November elections would
herald a scaling back of
fi-nancial regulations,
accord-ing to a policy blueprint C1
The Pentagon has decided
to rely on an Abu
Dhabi-owned company to supply
the most advanced
micro-chips used in the military B3
Low interest rates are
hurting investment by
en-couraging stock buybacks
and dividends instead, a
Car-lyle Group economist says C1
The spread of combination
cancer treatments threatens
to heighten tensions over
soaring drug prices B1
“Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles: Out of the Shadows”
was the latest sequel to
under-perform its predecessor B5
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Peter Thiel’s Legal Smackdown
Approval of a formal launchlicense for the second half of
2017 is still months away, andthe proposed mission poseshuge technical obstacles forMoon Express, including thefact that the rocket it wants touse hasn’t yet flown
But the project’s nents have considered federalclearance of the suitcase-sizeMX-1 lander and its payload aswell as approval of a plannedtwo-week operation on theMoon itself to pose the mostsignificant legal challenges tothe mission
propo-After months of lobbying byMoon Express officials andhigh-level deliberations among
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U.S officials appear poised
to make history by approvingthe first private space mission
to go beyond Earth’s orbit, cording to people familiarwith the details
ac-The government’s ment would eliminate the larg-est regulatory hurdle to plans
endorse-by Moon Express, a relativelyobscure space startup, to land
a roughly 20-pound package ofscientific hardware on theMoon sometime next year
It also would provide thebiggest federal boost yet forunmanned commercial spaceexploration and, potentially,the first in an array of for-profit ventures throughout thesolar system
The expected decision, saidthe people familiar with thedetails, is expected to set im-portant legal and diplomaticprecedents for how Washing-ton will ensure such nongov-
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OAKLAND, Calif.—A ticketfor a floor seat to an NBA Fi-nals game between the star-studded Cleveland Cavaliersand Golden State Warriors is arare and increasingly expen-sive commodity But that priv-ilege also presents the luckyfans in these courtside seatswith a peculiar dilemma
It isn’t the possibility ofspilling beer on the court orbeing caught on television star-ing into your phone It’s whatyou choose to do when a hu-
Cleveland ter TimofeyMozgov, whostands 7-foot-1 and weighs 275pounds, already knows what hewould do if he were in thebleachers and someone of hissize came flying at him at full
cen-speed “I wouldget away,” Mr
Mozgov said
If only it werethat simple There
is no statisticianwho tracks playerleaps per game,but it is likely tohappen a lot more
in the playoffs,when possessionscome at a premium In thisyear’s NBA Finals, though, thefuss isn’t over how many play-ers have flung themselves into
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At the Boyhood Home of Muhammad Ali, Fans Pay Tribute
Students from China weresingled out by many facultymembers interviewed “Cheat-ing among Chinese students,especially those with poor lan-guage skills, is a huge prob-lem,” said Beth Mitchneck, aUniversity of Arizona profes-sor of geography and develop-ment
In the academic year justending, 586,208 internationalundergraduate students at-tended U.S colleges and uni-versities, according to the De-partment of HomelandSecurity More than 165,000 were from China
South Korea and Saudi Arabia were the source
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At Ohio State University, aChinese student took tests forChinese classmates for cashlast year, guaranteeing an A
At the University of fornia, Irvine, some interna-tional students used a lost-ID-card ruse to let impersonatorstake exams in place of others
Cali-At the University of zona, a professor told of Chi-nese students handing in mul-tiple copies of the sameincorrect test answers
Ari-A flood of foreign graduates on America’s cam-puses is improving the finan-cial health of universities Italso sometimes clashes with afundamental value of U.S
under-scholarship: academic integrity
A Wall Street Journal analysis of data frommore than a dozen large U.S public universities
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Number of internationalundergraduate students in the U.S
Note: Figures are for school years ending
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A split is emerging insidethe Bernie Sanders campaignover whether the senatorshould stand down af-ter Tuesday’s election con-tests and unite behind Demo-cratic front-runner HillaryClinton, or take the fight allthe way to the July partyconvention and try to pry thenomination from her
One camp might be dubbedthe Sandersistas, the loyalistswho helped guide Mr Sand-ers’s political ascent in Ver-mont and the U.S Congressand are loath to give up afight that has far surpassedexpectations Another hasties not only to Mr Sandersbut to the broader interests
of a Democratic Party pining
to beat back the challengefrom Republican DonaldTrump and make gains incongressional elections
Mr Sanders in recentweeks has made clear heaims to take his candidacypast the elections on Tues-day, when California, NewJersey and four other statesvote But the debate withinthe campaign indicates that
Mr Sanders’s next move isn’t
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latest demonstration of tive proficiency by the Avengers,which has considerably cut theamount of oil in global markets
destruc-The strikes have led Nigeria toshift some of the forces whohave been fighting an Islamistinsurgency
On and off for years, criminalgroups in the Niger Delta haveextorted and bombed oil compa-
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Attacks by the Niger Delta Avengers have cut output, helping to push up crude prices
A band of saboteurs that callsitself the Niger Delta Avengershas been prowling the swamps
of Nigeria’s petroleum-richsouth for four months, bombingpipelines and diving underwater
to destroy equipment
The damage has helped tip
Shell PLC and the other owned
by Italy’s Eni SpA, according toNigeria’s navy Shell confirmedsigns of a spill from one of itspipelines and said it is still eval-uating potential damage Eniconfirmed the attack but said itdidn’t contribute to any newsupply disruption
On the group’s purportedTwitter account, it called the Eniattack part of its promise “thatNigeria Oil production will beZero.”
The brazen strikes were the
Africa’s biggest economy towardrecession, and has cost Nigeriaits position as the continent’stop oil producer—a distinctioninherited by Angola
The Avengers struck againbefore dawn on Friday A group
of militants sneaked throughmarshland to bomb two pipe-lines, one owned by Royal Dutch
By Drew Hinshaw
in Abuja, Nigeria, and
Sarah Kent in London
FOREIGN STUDENTS MORE LIKELY TO CHEAT
U.S schools show higher rates of academic fraud among overseas enrollees
Washington, Beijing Open Talks
SHARP SHOOTER: Secretary of State John Kerry taking part in a ceremony in Mongolia on Sunday Mr Kerry is part of the U.S delegation meeting in Beijing this week for economic and security talks with Chinese officials A10
Trump brings new voices
to bitter crime debate A4
Republican elders criticize attacks on judge A4
Saboteurs Hit Nigerian Oil
Saudis cut prices of oil exports to Europe C3
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The investment was in
“human capital,” or, more
specifically,higher educa-tion The gov-ernmenthelped financetens of mil-lions of tu-itions as enrollment in U.S
colleges and graduateschools soared 24% from
2002 to 2012, rivaling thehigher-education boom ofthe 1970s Millions of othersattended trade schools thataward career certificates
The government nanced a large share of theseeducations through grants,low-interest loans and loanguarantees Total outstand-ing student debt—almost allguaranteed or made directly
fi-by the federal government—
has quadrupled since 2000
to $1.2 trillion today Thegovernment also spent tens
of billions of dollars ingrants and tax credits forstudents
New research shows a
significant chunk ofthat investment back-fired, with millions of stu-dents worse off for havinggone to school Many neverlearned new skills becausethey dropped out—andnow carry debt they are un-willing or unable to repay Pol-icy makers worry that without
a bigger intervention, thoseborrowers will becometrapped for years and will ul-timately hurt, rather thanhelp, the nation’s economy
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Treasury Deputy tary Sarah Bloom Raskincompares the seven millionstudent-loan borrowers indefault—and millions of oth-ers who appear on the samepath—to homeowners whofound themselves underwa-ter and headed toward fore-closure after the housingcrash
Secre-“We needed individualhouseholds to stabilize prop-erty values and help revivecommunities,” she said “Wewant to stabilize this genera-tion of student borrowersand revive their prospects forthe future I think studentsare essential to our futureeconomic growth and contri-butions to productivity.”
In a working paper leased last week, economists
re-at George Washington versity and the Treasury De-partment tracked the earn-ings of some 1.4 millionstudents who left a for-profitcollege in the two yearsthrough September 2008
Uni-Seventy percent of themdropped out Those who en-rolled in associate’s andbachelor’s programs earned
an average of $600 to $700 ayear less in the six years af-ter leaving school comparedwith the six years before
they entered Almost all ofthem left with studentdebt—an average $8,000 forassociate’s candidates and
$13,000 for bachelor’s dates
candi-Those in for-profit cate programs earned an av-erage $920 less The Na-tional Bureau of EconomicResearch working paperused federal tax records andEducation Department data
certifi-There are similar lems in nonprofit colleges,which enroll about 2.7 mil-lion students a year A re-port released in May byThird Way, a nonpartisanthink tank, showed thatamong students who en-rolled in 2005, on averageonly half graduated fromsuch institutions within sixyears On average, nearlyfour in 10 undergraduates
prob-at those schools who took
on student debt earned nomore than $25,000 in 2011,the same as the typical
high-school graduate Otherresearch shows similardropout rates at public col-leges and universities
Along with weak job
prospects, most ofthese students arenow severely behind on pay-ments, damaging their creditand limiting their ability toborrow for homes and cars.More than a fifth of all stu-dent debt is at least 90 daysdelinquent, according to theNew York Federal Reserve,and federal data show drop-outs are three times morelikely to default than degreeearners
No group saw its networth decline more be-tween 2010 and 2013 thancollege dropouts The me-dian value of their assetsminus debts fell 14% overthat period, according tothe Federal Reserve’s Sur-vey of Consumer Finances
By comparison, the typicalcollege graduate saw herwealth increase 5%
In that sense, student debtthreatens to widen the gapbetween society’s haves andhave-nots A disproportionateshare of for-profit collegestudents is poor, black andHispanic The NBER studyshowed that half of the 1.4million for-profit school bor-rowers were parents
Ms Raskin worries theseborrowers are at risk of hav-ing their financial positionsspiral downward due to debt.During the housing crisis,plummeting home values leftmillions of Americans under-water on their mortgages,preventing them from sellingtheir homes and moving tobetter jobs The lack of mo-bility in turn hurts produc-tivity, since it limits the pool
of workers that employerscan choose from
Student debt threatens to widen the gap between the haves and have-nots.
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He was remembered in nila, the Philippine capitalwhere he beat Joe Frazier in
Ma-1975, by local boxing legendManny Pacquiao
Later in life, Ali was nowned for his three-decade-
re-long battle with Parkinson’sdisease, a degenerative neuro-logical disease The Muham-mad Ali Parkinson Center inPhoenix posted a video onlinewith patients paying tribute tothe fighter known as TheGreatest
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Ms Yellen’s approach Thoughthe two women don’t alwayssee eye-to-eye, they are bothcautious about raising interestrates
“In this environment, dent risk management impliesthere is a benefit to waitingfor additional data to provideconfidence that domestic ac-tivity has rebounded stronglyand reassurance that near-term international events willnot derail progress toward ourgoals,” Ms Brainard said atthe Council on Foreign Rela-tions
pru-The Federal Reserve’s plans
for boosting short-term
inter-est rates went on hold after
Friday’s dismal jobs report,
with central bank officials now
wanting to see whether the
economy remains on track
be-fore they make a move
A rate increase at the Fed’s
June 14-15 meeting is almost
surely off the table A move at
their July meeting six weeks
later is still possible though
less likely, because officials
won’t have that much more
economic data to reassure
themselves about the course of
the economy’s expansion,
ac-cording to their remarks
Some officials could prefer
to wait until their September
meeting to consider lifting
rates, provided the economy
picks up during the summer
The Fed’s next signal could
come Monday from
Chair-woman Janet Yellen, who is
scheduled to speak in
Philadel-phia on the economic outlook
and monetary policy
“We cannot take the
resil-B Y J ON H ILSENRATH
A ND K ATE D AVIDSON
Before Friday, when the bor Department reported thathiring slowed sharply in May,Fed officials were consideringlifting rates this month ornext
La-“Today’s labor market port is sobering, and suggeststhat the labor market hasslowed,” Ms Brainardsaid Friday
re-Cleveland Fed President retta Mester, speaking Satur-day in Stockholm, said the jobsgain reported Friday was a
Lo-“disappointing number,” ing it “has not changed funda-mentally my economic outlook,but we will be assessing thedata as it comes in.”
add-Employers added just38,000 jobs to their payrolls inMay, and the pace of hiringslowed to an average 116,000 amonth over the past threemonths, the Labor Departmentsaid
Ahead of the report, manyFed officials believed economicgrowth was accelerating mod-estly after a first-quarter slow-down Consumer spendingpicked up in the spring aftersoftening in the first quarter
Exports were firming, and nancial markets stabilized af-ter turbulence early in theyear
fi-With hiring steady and flation showing signs of rising,they thought before Friday
in-that it was about time to raiseshort-term rates by anotherquarter percentage point Themain question was whether tomove this month or wait untiltheir July meeting, after theJune 23 U.K vote on whether
to stay in the European Union
“The economy is continuing
to improve,” Ms Yellen said inlate May “We saw weakgrowth in the first quarter ofthe year and relatively weakgrowth at the end of last year
Growth looks to be picking upfrom the various data that wemonitor.” A rate increase, shesaid, was probable “in thecoming months.”
Now officials need to piecetogether whether the hiringslowdown was temporary ormore lasting If the slump wastemporary, they can proceedtoward rate increases once theyget the data to prove it On sixoccasions since 2010, monthlyhiring gains have dipped below100,000 and bounced back
One important factor isbusiness investment, whichsoftened in the first quarter Agauge of such investment rose
in April, but government sures can be volatile
mea-Fed officials won’t get areading on second-quartergross domestic product, abroad measure of economicoutput, until after their Julymeeting
Fed Back in Wait-See Mode
Bank officials want
economy to stay on
track before raising
interest rates again
Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen
John Miller, a spokesman forthe 1st Cavalry Division A me-morial service for the eightother soldiers is tentativelyplanned for June 16, he said
The memorials would allowsoldiers at Fort Hood whocan’t attend private family fu-nerals off base a chance togrieve, he said
“As the extended Cav ily grieves together, we wrapour arms around the lovedones and teammates impacted
Fam-by this tragedy,” Maj Gen J.T
Thomson said on the 1st alry Division’s Facebook page
Cav-Three other soldiers fromthe accident were rescued andreleased from the hospital,Fort Hood officials said Theaccident occurred in a centralTexas area hit hard by floodsthat started after heavy rainbegan pounding Texas on Me-morial Day weekend
U.S Army officials released
the names over the weekend of
the nine soldiers from Fort
Hood in Texas killed last week
when a flash flood swept away
their truck during a training
exercise
Eight of the deceased
sol-diers were members of the 1st
Cavalry Division, and one was
a cadet from West Point They
ranged in age from 19 to 38,
according to Fort Hood They
came from around the U.S.,
in-cluding two soldiers from both
California and Florida
A team from the Army
Com-bat Readiness Center at Fort
Rucker, Ala., will investigate
the training accident,
accord-ing to Fort Hood The team
was dispatched to Fort Hood
on Friday, a day after the
acci-dent, the Associated Press
re-ported
Fort Hood is planning a
me-morial service for Cadet
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Soldiers Killed in Texas
Flooding Identified
James Dixon, a boxing
coach in Louisville, Ky.,
planned to head over to the
Muhammad Ali Center on
Sun-day to leave a T-shirt from his
gym with some handwritten
words: “Rest in peace champ.”
Flowers, notes and boxing
paraphernalia from scores of
well-wishers piled up on the
plaza outside the museum and
cultural institution dedicated
to Ali’s life, as his hometown
prepared to say goodbye to
him with a procession and
fu-neral Friday, a week after his
death at age 74 A makeshift
memorial also took shape
out-side his boyhood home
“We lost our son,” said Mr
Dixon, a 42-year-old who
founded the Louisville TKO gym
The funeral will take place
Friday afternoon at Louisville’s
KFC YUM! Center arena, the
city said, after a morning
pro-cession winds slowly through
the city, down a boulevard
named after the boxing legend
Confirmed speakers at the
funeral include former
Presi-dent Bill Clinton, comedian
Billy Crystal and sportscaster
Bryant Gumbel
“I was honored to award
him the Presidential Citizens
Medal at the White House, to
watch him light the Olympic
flame, and to forge a
friend-ship with a man who, through
triumph and trials, became
even greater than his legend,”
Mr Clinton said in a statement
At Louisville’s Spalding
Uni-versity, where the athletic
cen-ter includes the gym where Ali
first trained when he was
known as Cassius Clay,
univer-sity President Tori Murden
McClure spoke about her
friend during Saturday’s
com-mencement ceremony He
per-sonally encouraged her to try
again, she said, when shefailed attemping to row ahand-built boat across the At-lantic Ocean in 1996 She com-pleted the quest three yearslater
Other Ali fans also reveredhim for his words and actionsoutside the ring Mr Dixon,the local boxing coach, said hewas impressed with Ali’s will-ingness to take a stand againstthe Vietnam War in the late1960s, even though it cost himmore than three years of sus-pension during his athleticprime
“He stood up to adversityand discrimination and racismlike no other athlete,” Mr
Dixon said
But Ali’s exploits in the ringalso helped seal his iconic,global status Donald Lassere,the Muhammad Ali Center’s
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Global Tributes Follow Ali’s Death
Rahaman Ali, right, the boxer’s brother, cried at a service in a Louisville church his family attended.
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are either recent immigrants
or have ancestors who “wererisk takers and who got upfrom wherever they were andcame here.”
The denunciations come as
severe this crisis is is to see thefamilies, and then they see thehorror of it.”
Mr Trump’s kinship withthese grieving parents parallelsHillary Clinton’s ties to severalmothers of African-Americanskilled in gun violence or in con-frontations with police, includ-ing Trayvon Martin, Eric Garnerand Michael Brown The “moth-ers of the movement” havecampaigned with Mrs Clinton
to push tougher gun-controllaws and raise awareness aboutracial profiling
Two weeks after he flaggedcrime by illegal immigrants inhis June 16, 2015, campaign an-nouncement, 32-year-old Kath-ryn Steinle was slain in SanFrancisco, allegedly by a felonwho had been deported five
times Mr Trump seized on themurder as proof his focus onborder security was on track
Ms Steinle’s brother, Brad,told CNN in July that Mr
Trump was “sensationalizing”
her death The Steinle familylast week declined a request forcomment on Mr Trumpthrough an attorney
Mr Trump did find an ally inJamiel Shaw, whose 17-year-oldson was gunned down in 2008
by a gang member living gally in the U.S “Donald Trumpwas right on,” Mr Shaw toldFox News last July “DonaldTrump is like speaking for us,speaking for our dead.”
ille-Mr Trump saw the Fox terview and called him Dayslater, he met Mr Shaw andother parents of children killed
in-by illegal immigrants at a erly Hills, Calif., hotel
Bev-“He told me my son’s deathwould not be in vain,” said Mr
Shaw, a pendent voter who owns a gym-equipment repair firm
Democrat-turned-inde-Among the parents Mr
Trump is giving voice to areblacks and Hispanics, who bring
a diverse face to a candidatefacing allegations of racial andethnic prejudice, most recentlyfor accusing a Mexican-Ameri-can judge of being biasedagainst him Mr Shaw is Afri-can-American
Last year’s Beverly Hillsgathering was organized by Ma-ria Espinoza, founder of the Re-membrance Project, which ad-vocates on behalf of suchfamilies The Anti-Defamation
League, which opposes ination, said in a 2014 reportthat the Remembrance Project
discrim-“demonizes immigrants.” Ms
Espinoza didn’t respond to terview requests
in-Another parent who met Mr
Trump in Beverly Hills was DonRosenberg, whose 25-year-oldson was riding his motorcycle
in San Francisco when he wasstruck and killed by an illegalimmigrant driver in 2010
Mr Rosenberg is grateful Mr
Trump is drawing attention toillegal immigration but said hisinflammatory references toMexicans as “rapists” muddleshis message The self-describedliberal Democrat has pressedcampaign advisers to offermore detailed policy plans
“Every speech can’t be,
‘We’re going to build a wall andMexico will pay for it AndKate,’” said Mr Rosenberg, re-ferring to Ms Steinle in SanFrancisco
In the Journal interview, Mr.Trump attributed a “stagger-ing” amount of crime to illegalimmigration But data is scarce.The federal government reportsthe ethnicity and race of offend-ers but not their legal status orcountry of origin
“On the question of whetherillegal immigrants commitcrimes out of proportion totheir share of the population,it’s very hard to say,” said Ste-ven Camarota, director of re-search at the Center for Immi-gration Studies, which favorscurbs on legal immigration andstricter border enforcement
Mr Camarota and other ponents of reduced immigrationoften point to a GovernmentAccountability Office report in
pro-2011 that found an estimated296,000 immigrants here ille-gally or with unknown legal sta-tus in state and local jails Thatcount, which includes multipleincarcerations of the same per-son in different jurisdictions,covers violent and nonviolentoffenses There are estimated to
be 11 million illegal immigrants
in the U.S
Deportations remain at cord-setting numbers underPresident Barack Obama, andmore Mexicans are leaving theU.S than entering it, according
re-to the Pew Research Center Mr.Trump’s critics say his empha-sis on crime tied to immigra-tion is misguided
“Trump’s attacks on grants and immigration are di-visive, racist, and quite frankly,hearken back to some of thedarkest periods in our nation’shistory,” said Ali Noorani, exec-utive director of the NationalImmigration Forum ActionFund, which backs citizenshipfor illegal immigrants
immi-Republican presumptive
presidential nominee Donald
Trump is giving a national
plat-form to parents of victims of
crimes by illegal immigrants,
inviting them to rallies and
tell-ing their tragic stories to boost
support for hard-line
immigra-tion policies
Mr Trump is drawing
in-tense media attention to what
he says is a public-safety issue
caused by illegal immigration
But the families also help put a
sympathetic face on Mr
Trump’s attacks on some
Mexi-can immigrants as criminals
and his plans to build a wall
along the southern border and
deport millions of people who
are in the U.S illegally
Two weeks ago, Sabine
Dur-den told thousands of people at
a Trump rally in Anaheim,
Ca-lif., about her 30-year-old son,
Dominic, a sheriff’s dispatcher
who was killed in a 2012
motor-cycle accident by an illegal
im-migrant truck driver convicted
twice of driving under the
influ-ence
Choking back tears, she
re-called: “I heard Donald Trump
on the television as I walked by
talking about illegal
immigra-tion and about the cost of
American lives and I screamed
Donald Trump became my life
savior that day, my hero.”
In an interview, Mr Trump
said meeting the parents of
children killed by illegal
immi-grants “reinforced even more”
his support for stringent
immi-gration laws
“Even I didn’t realize how
bad it was,” he said “The only
way people can understand how
B Y B ETH R EINHARD
Trump Brings New Voices to Bitter Debate
The Republican cites
support from families
Trump’s running mate, calledthe presumptive nominee’s re-marks “one of the worst mis-takes Trump has made,” andsaid, “I think it’s inexcusable.”
In an interview broadcastSunday on CNN, Mr Trumpcomplained that Judge Curielhad issued “horrible rulings”
against him in the Trump versity litigation and hadtreated him “very unfairly.” Hecited the judge’s “Mexican her-itage” and noted “I’m building
Uni-a wUni-all” between the U.S Uni-andMexico Judge Curiel, he said,
“should recuse himself.”
Asked whether it was racist
to say the judge can’t do hisjob effectively because of his
ethnicity, Mr Trump swered, “I don’t think so at all
an-He’s proud of his heritage…
He’s a Mexican We’re building
a wall between here and ico.”
Mex-Judge Curiel is presidingover a pair of cases in whichthe plaintiffs allege TrumpUniversity duped them intopaying tens of thousands ofdollars on the belief theywould be trained to learn Mr
Trump’s real estate strategies
Mr Trump denies the tions, saying the students gottheir money’s worth, withmany offering positive evalua-tions of the program
allega-Appearing on NBC, Mr
McConnell said that “all of uscame here from somewhereelse.”
Almost all Americans, theKentucky Republican added,
the Republican Party ment has been fitfully comingaround to support Mr Trump
establish-Mr Gingrich, appearing onFox News, called on Mr Trump
to “move to a new level.”
“This is no longer the maries,” the former Housespeaker said “He’s no longer
pri-an interesting contender He isnow the potential leader of theU.S and he’s got to move hisgame up to the level of being apotential leader.”
Republican Sen Rob man of Ohio, who is facing adifficult re-election race in abattleground state, told theWashington Post in an inter-view printed Sunday, “The factthat the judge has a Mexican-American heritage has nothing
Port-to do with how you should scribe his judicial ability.”
de-And last week, House
Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis)told a local radio station, “Thecomment about the judge theother day just was out of leftfield It’s reasoning I don’t re-late to I completely disagreewith the thinking behind that.”Also on Sunday, Democraticfront-runner Hillary Clintonsaid Mr Trump’s remarksabout Judge Curiel were “vi-cious” and “typical” of Mr.Trump’s “ethnic slurs andrants against everyone.”The former secretary ofstate, appearing on ABC, saidher opponent is “trying to di-vert attention from the veryserious fraud charges” againstthe for-profit school
Mr Trump, she said, “doeshave that thin skin and, youknow, Judge Curiel is as Amer-ican as I am and certainly asAmerican as Donald Trump.”
Two Republican Party
el-ders on Sunday denounced
Donald Trump’s attacks on a
Hispanic federal judge, adding
to a wave of criticism from
party figures of their
presump-tive presidential nominee
Over the past week, Mr
Trump has repeatedly said
that U.S District Judge
Gon-zalo Curiel, the Indiana-born
jurist presiding over civil fraud
litigation in California
involv-ing Trump University, is unfit
to hear the case because he is
of Mexican ancestry and Mr
Trump has vowed to build a
wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border
“I couldn’t disagree more
with what he had to say,”
Sen-ate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell said in an interview
B Y T HOMAS M . B URTON
Republican Elders Knock Attacks on Hispanic Judge
U.S Judge Gonzalo Curiel
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People per square mile Percent white, non-Hispanic Pledged delegates at stake
U.S.
California New Jersey New Mexico Montana South Dakota North Dakota
90 251
1,208 17
7 11 11
63 39 58 40
87 84 88
475 126
34 21 20 18
POLITICS COUNTS
Tuesday’s Terrain
The six states holding Democratic contests Tuesday offer different challenges for Hillary Clinton and Sen Bernie Sanders Mr Sanders has won no state that is more racially diverse than the U.S on average, so rural Montana and South Dakota, which are largely non- Hispanic white, are likely a good fit for him Diverse and densely populated New Jersey will probably favor Mrs Clinton.
her focus to Mr Trump, shetold CNN that after Tuesday,
“I’m going to do everything Ican to reach out to try tounify the Democratic Party,and I expect Sen Sanders to
do the same.”
When she ran against Mr
Obama in 2008, Mrs Clintonstayed in the race until theend As late as the final week
of voting, she was talkinghopefully of wooing super-del-egates and capturing the nom-ination But on June 7 of that
year—four days after the mary season ended—she gave
pri-a speech bowing out pri-and mediately threw her support
im-to Mr Obama
Tad Devine, a senior ers strategist who advisedDemocratic nominees Al Gore
Sand-in 2000 and John Kerry Sand-in
2004, among others, gested the “path forward” isuncertain, hinging on the out-come in California and otherstates He voiced a concilia-tory note, describing how the
sug-two campaigns might set asidedifferences that have grownmore pronounced in the heat
of the year-long campaign
“What will happen fully when the voting is done,our two campaigns will begin
hope-to talk once more hope-to one other and figure out where thecommon ground is,” he said
an-Campaign manager JeffWeaver, who has worked in
Mr Sanders’s congressionaloffices and Vermont-basedcampaigns dating to the
settled
For now, Democratic
offi-cials, fund-raisers and
opera-tives are getting impatient,
calling on Mr Sanders to quit
the race and begin the work of
unifying the party for the
showdown with the
Republi-can presumptive nominee
Orin Kramer, a New York
hedge-fund manager who has
raised campaign funds for
both President Barack Obama
and Mrs Clinton, said with
re-spect to Mr Sanders’s future
plans: “I would hope people
would understand what a
Trump presidency would mean
and act accordingly—and
‘ac-cordingly’ means quickly.”
A strong showing in New
Jersey on Tuesday, before
Cal-ifornia results even come in,
could help Mrs Clinton reach
the 2,383 delegates needed to
clinch the nomination Her
to-tal includes hundreds of
su-perdelegates—party leaders
and elected officials who can
back either candidate Mr
Sanders is hoping that
defeat-ing Mrs Clinton in the most
populous state later Tuesday
might give superdelegates
rea-son to drop her and get
be-hind his candidacy Those
su-perdelegates have given no
indication they will shift
alle-giances
Even so, Mr Sanders isn’t
backing off In an interview
that aired Sunday on CNN, he
stepped up an attack on Mrs
Clinton involving the Clinton
Foundation Echoing a critique
made by Republicans, Mr
Sanders said he has “a
prob-lem” with the foundation
ac-cepting money from foreign
sources during her service as
secretary of state
In a news conference
Satur-day in California, Mr Sanders
indicated he would battle for
superdelegates all the way to
the convention
“The Democratic National
Convention will be a contested
convention,” he said
Mrs Clinton, who won
Puerto Rico’s Democratic
pri-mary on Sunday, seems to be
running out of patience with
Mr Sanders Having shifted
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“The plan is as the senatorhas described it: to go forwardafter Tuesday and keep thecampaign going to the conven-tion and make the case to su-perdelegates that Sen Sanders
is the best chance that crats have to beat Trump,” Mr
Demo-Weaver said
That is what worries cratic leaders Pointing topolls indicating a tighteningrace in November, they say
Demo-Mr Sanders, if he is sincereabout beating back Mr Trump,must quickly join forces withthe party front-runner
“Democrats will need asmuch unity as early as we canget it as possible,” said TomDaschle, a former Senate Dem-ocratic leader “It would be ahuge mistake to underestimate[Mr Trump] We’ve done thatthe entire election season.”
Democratic Senate leaderHarry Reid has concluded Mr
Sanders has no path to thenomination, an aide said, andthat he should shift focus tohelping Democrats pick upSenate seats Doing so wouldhelp Mr Sanders return to thechamber with more powerthan he wielded before thepresidential race began a yearago, the aide said
William Daley, who chaired
Mr Gore’s presidential paign and served as a WhiteHouse chief of staff for Mr
cam-Obama, said in an interviewthe “damage” Mr Sanderscould do is “overwhelming if
he doesn’t give [Mrs Clinton]
the breather she needs in therun-up to the convention totake on Trump.”
At a minimum, some ofMrs Clinton’s supporterswould like to see Mr Sanderslay off the attacks Alan Kes-sler, a longtime Democraticfundraiser, said Mr Sanders’stone is “a little disappointing.”
“There’s no reason why heshouldn’t fight for the thingsthat he’s talking about, butthere’s no need to continuallymake it personal,” he added
H H H H H
CAMPAIGN WIRE
H H H H H
DEMOCRATIC RESULTS
Clinton Winner in Puerto Rico Primary
Hillary Clinton overwhelmedBernie Sanders in Puerto Rico'sDemocratic presidential primary
on Sunday, putting her withinstriking distance of capturing herparty's nomination
After a victory Saturday in theU.S Virgin Islands and a win in theU.S territory, Mrs Clinton was lessthan 30 delegates short of the2,383 needed to win the nomina-tion, according to an AssociatedPress count
While Puerto Rican residentscannot vote in the general election,the island's politics could reverber-ate into the fall campaign Tens ofthousands of Puerto Ricans haveleft the island to escape a dismaleconomy, with many resettling inthe key battleground of Florida
—Associated Press
CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE
Trump: Protesters Sent by Democrats
Presumptive Republican dential nominee Donald Trump
presi-on Sunday suggested protesterswho attacked his supporters af-ter a rally in San Jose, Calif.,Thursday were “paid agitators”deployed by the Democrats.Appearing on CNN, Mr Trumpblamed for the mayhem “thugs”who attend “every rally.”
“They’re bad people, and Ithink they’re sent by the Demo-crats,” he said
He offered no evidence forthe claim, but said some of theprotesters were holding cam-paign signs for Democratic candi-date Bernie Sanders
In separate appearances onCNN, Mr Sanders and Democraticfront-runner Hillary Clinton con-demned violence at political gath-erings “I condemn it absolutely,”
Mr Sanders said “I want to make
it clear that any person who is aBernie Sanders supporter, please,
do not in any way, shape or formengage in violence.”
—Kate Davidson
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U.S NEWS
do are boring or dull?” Scoresare generated by comparing anoffender’s characteristics to arepresentative criminal popula-tion of the same sex
Prosecutors said Mr Loomiswas the driver of a car involved
in a drive-by shooting in LaCrosse, Wis., on Feb 11, 2013
Mr Loomis denied any ment in the shooting, saying hedrove the car only after it hadoccurred He pleaded guilty in
involve-2013 to attempting to flee lice in a car and operating a ve-hicle without the owner’s con-sent and was sentenced to sixyears in prison and five years
po-of supervision
“The risk assessment toolsthat have been utilized suggestthat you’re extremely high risk
to reoffend,” Judge Scott Horne
in La Crosse County said at Mr.Loomis’s sentencing
Mr Loomis said in his peal that Judge Horne’s reli-ance on COMPAS violated hisright to due process, becausethe company that makes thetest, Northpointe, doesn’t re-veal how it weighs the answers
ap-to arrive at a risk score.Northpointe General Man-ager Jeffrey Harmon declined
to comment on Mr Loomis’scase but said algorithms thatperform the risk assessmentsare proprietary The outcome,
he said, is all that is needed tovalidate the tools
Northpointe says its studieshave shown COMPAS’s recidi-vism risk score to have an accu-racy rate of 68% to 70% Inde-pendent evaluations haveproduced mixed findings.Michael Rosenberg, a lawyerfor Mr Loomis, and a spokes-woman for the Wisconsin Attor-ney General Brad Schimel de-clined to comment on the case
jected to run out of cash
On Thursday, the stateHouse of Representativespassed a set of six bills thatwould provide $617 million tothe district, including $467million to pay off its operatingdebt and $150 million to start
up a new, debt-free district
Democrats overwhelminglyopposed the funding plan, call-ing for more money for thedistrict and a new commission
to oversee school openings
The measures passed day would create an advisorycouncil that would make nobinding recommendations
Thurs-“This plan saves Detroit’sschool system and returns lo-cal control to the city, prevent-ing a disastrous bankruptcythat would have affected everycommunity in the state,” saidRepublican House SpeakerKevin Cotter
The measures now head tothe state Senate, which passed
a different version of the age Michigan’s Legislaturetypically breaks for the sum-mer in mid-June, and the Sen-ate could squeeze in the newproposals this week, said Am-ber McCann, spokeswoman forSenate Majority Leader ArlanMeekhof
pack-Funding Fights Vex Schools
Officials in Kansas,
Illinois and Michigan
work to try to keep
authori-The state’s highest court isset to rule on whether such al-gorithms, known as risk assess-ments, violate due process anddiscriminate against men whenjudges rely on them in sentenc-ing The ruling would be amongthe first to speak to the legality
of risk assessments as an aid inmeting out punishments
Criminal-justice expertsskeptical of such tools say theyare inherently biased, treatingpoor people as riskier thanthose who are well off Propo-nents of risk assessments saythey have elevated sentencing
to something closer to a ence
sci-“Evidence has a better trackrecord for assessing risks andneeds than intuition alone,”
wrote Christine Remington, anassistant attorney general inWisconsin, in a legal brief filed
in January defending the state’suse of the evaluations
Risk-evaluation tools havegained in popularity amid ef-forts around the country tocurb the number of repeat of-fenders They help authoritiessort prisoners, set bail andweigh parole decisions Buttheir use in sentencing is morecontroversial
Before the sentencing of year-old Eric Loomis, whosecase is before the state’s highcourt, Wisconsin authoritiesevaluated his criminal risk with
34-a widely used tool c34-alled PAS, or Correctional OffenderManagement Profiling for Al-ternative Sanctions, a 137-ques-tion test that covers criminaland parole history, age, em-ployment status, social life, ed-ucation level, community ties,drug use and beliefs
COM-The assessment includesqueries like, “Did a parent fig-ure who raised you ever have adrug or alcohol problem?” and
“Do you feel that the things you
B Y J OE P ALAZZOLO
Risk Algorithms Face Court Test
Tools used to evaluate offenders for sentencing raise controversy.
transmit photos and videos
Moon Express’s lander isslated to be blasted into orbitfrom a remote New Zealandsite by a 52-foot Electronrocket manufactured byRocket Lab Ltd Onboardthrusters are supposed to pro-pel the spacecraft, carrying aspace telescope and equip-ment for other experiments,further from the Earth anddown to the Moon’s surface in
a matter of days or weeks
Though the plan has drawnlittle attention outside thecommercial space industry, it
is being closely monitored byaerospace companies and en-trepreneurs mulling invest-ments in the nascent industry
Under decades-old treaties,the U.S and other countriesare responsible for “continu-ing supervision” of both gov-ernment and commercial pay-loads Such responsibilities arelargely formalities when theyfocus on satellites headed fortypical orbits around theEarth, or spacecraft controlled
by the Pentagon, the NationalAeronautics and Space Admin-istration or other federal enti-ties So far, the governmenthas sent probes to the Moon,Mars and other planets
But the proposed Moon press mission is more com-plex, raising new questionsabout international treaty ob-ligations and protection ofheavenly bodies
Ex-The new procedure features
a more detailed, mentwide review of what suchpayloads include, and whethertheir contents or expected tra-jectories pose contamination
govern-or other threats prohibited bytreaty provisions According tothe FAA, a company such asMoon Express “may volun-tarily request an FAA review
of its payload” to determine if
it poses “any significant publicsafety, national security, orforeign policy concerns.”
“With the emergence ofnew private players, it’s im-portant to show some regula-tory predictability,” according
to Scott Pace, a former seniorNASA official who teaches atGeorge Washington University
Moon Express illustrateshow dramatically costs tobuild and launch small space-craft are falling When thecompany was formed aroundthe beginning of the decade, itprojected a moon missionwould cost roughly $50 mil-lion Today, company officialsproject a price tag of aroundhalf that amount
The government is pected to use the same pro-cess to vet private attempts tofly deeper into space, includ-ing billionaire Elon Musk’splan to send an unmannedcraft to Mars in 2018 Officials
ex-of SpaceX, as Mr Musk’s pany is called, are engaged insimilar governmentwide dis-cussions in advance of seek-ing a launch license
com-A SpaceX spokesman onSunday said, “we take plane-tary protection very seri-ously,” adding the company isworking with federal officials
to ensure compliance withspace treaty obligations
Eventually, space scientistsand aerospace-industry lead-ers expect congressional ac-tion will be required to spellout new review procedures re-ducing industry uncertainty
But until that occurs, MoonExpress is expected to set thestandard for how the FAA,State Department and otherfederal agencies review pri-vate launches aiming to escapethe Earth’s gravitational pull
our children’s education,” hesaid
State Rep Jim Ward, aDemocrat, said his colleagues
in the statehouse are the onesplaying politics “They’re going
to play chicken for a while
That never works out well,” hesaid, predicting a special ses-sion would be called towardmonth’s end
“We must plan for theworst and hope for the best,”
John Allison, superintendent
of the 51,000-student WichitaSchool District, wrote on thedistrict’s website Thursday
He said that while regularsummer school is completed
by July 1 and won’t be affected
by any shutdown, extendedsummer sessions and a sum-mertime meal program used
by low-income students could
be suspended, and monthlypayroll and nonbond vendorpayments of more than $50million would be affected
Illinois closed out its springlegislative session last Tues-day without a budget for thesecond year in a row Thestate, with a Republican gover-nor and Democratic-led Legis-lature, now has $7 billion inunpaid bills, as well as the na-tion’s lowest credit rating and
highest unemployment rate
“We’re like a banana lic We can’t manage ourmoney,” Gov Bruce Raunertold reporters last week whenthe two sides again failed toreach a deal
repub-Illinois passed supplementalbills to release funds for spe-cific purposes, like education,last year; a first attempt to dothe same for the coming cyclefailed last week
Chicago’s schools won’topen in the fall unless the gov-ernor and Legislature pass abudget or supplemental educa-tion appropriation, said Chi-cago Public Schools Chief Ex-ecutive Forrest Claypool Thatcould compound the problemsfacing many of the city’sneighborhoods already suffer-ing from a surge in deadlyshootings this year
“Any time your school tem shuts down it has an in-credible impact on families,”
sys-said Mr Claypool, whose trict has more than 392,000students “But I don’t believe itwill come to that.”
dis-Meanwhile, Michigan makers are trying to finalize afinancial rescue package lessthan a month before the De-troit Public Schools are pro-
law-Lawmakers in some states
have a daunting homework
as-signment over their summer
break: to find hundreds of
mil-lions of dollars to make sure
the next school year can start
on time
Stung by lower tax revenue
and nearing the end of the
reg-ular legislative sessions,
politi-cians and school
administra-tors in Kansas, Illinois and
some other Midwestern states
are scrambling to firm up
fi-nancial packages that would
keep some educational
pro-grams running through the
summer, and ensure that
class-rooms open again in the fall
The Kansas Supreme Court
ruled last month that
legisla-tive efforts to make funding
for poorer school districts
more equitable didn’t go far
enough to meet a standing
court order; judges said
Fri-day that the state had
un-til June 30 to bring funding
formulas in line with
constitu-tional requirements or the
court would shut schools
The Kansas fight is the
lat-est fallout from a move by the
state’s Republican governor
and Legislature to cut taxes
dramatically in an effort to
spur economic growth
The state’s regular
legisla-tive session ended last
Wednesday and was adjourned
until January Gov Sam
Brownback hasn’t yet said
whether he would call for a
special session to address
school funding, but he
reiter-ated Friday that he would
work with the attorney general
and legislative leadership “to
respond aggressively and
ap-propriately” to the court’s
clo-sure threat “The court should
not be playing politics with
By Melissa Korn,
Douglas Belkin
and Kris Maher
various federal agencies led by
the White House science
of-fice, the people familiar with
the matter said, the company
appears close to obtaining
what it has called “mission
ap-proval.” Until recently, Moon
Express faced a regulatory
Catch-22 because there was no
template for getting
Washing-ton’s blessing for what it
pro-posed
Official action coordinated
through the Federal Aviation
Administration, which
regu-lates U.S rocket launches and
is responsible for traditional
payload reviews, could come
as soon as the next few weeks,
these people said
An FAA spokesman said the
agency “is currently working
through the interagency
pro-cess to ensure a mechanism is
in place that permits emerging
commercial space operations”
such as Moon Express But the
agency declined to elaborate
Bob Richards, chief
execu-tive and a founder of Moon
Express, said over the
week-end that “we’ve become a
reg-ulatory pathfinder out of
ne-cessity,” because in the past
“only governments have
un-dertaken space missions
be-yond Earth orbit.” He added
that the company “is eagerly
awaiting a determination” on
its mission-approval request
Based in Cape Canaveral,
Fla., Moon Express, which has
40 employees, was co-founded
by Naveen Jain, a Silicon
Val-ley entrepreneur and
philan-thropist, and Mr Richards,
along with another longtime
space expert, Barney Pell, a
former NASA scientist Mr
Richards also is a founder of
International Space University,
a private institution that
trains space scientists and
which has a central campus in
Strasbourg, France
From the beginning, Moon
Express’s goal was to conduct
robotic missions able to carry
scientific payloads and scale
up to commercial operations
The company is among
those competing for the
Google Lunar X Prize, which
offers a first prize of $20
mil-lion for the first privately
funded team that develops a
spacecraft to land on the
Moon, traverse its surface and
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As U.S and European leaders have acknowledged,
anti-Semitism is on the rise In response, AJC reached
out to mayors across Europe and the U.S., urging
them to publicly condemn and take concrete actions
against this pathology These 188 European mayors
from 31 countries, representing over 67 million people,
and 319 U.S mayors and municipal leaders from 50
states and the District of Columbia, representing over
82 million people, have signed the Mayors United
Against Anti-Semitism statement.
“Anti-Semitism is not compatible with fundamental democratic values,”
asserts the Mayors United Against Anti-Semitism statement.
“As Mayors and municipal leaders, we have a special responsibility to
speak out against the growing menace of anti-Semitism.” The statement
affirms that:
n Condemn anti-Jewish hatred, in all its forms;
n Reject the notion that anti-Semitic acts, while sometimes carried out in the name of a political cause, may ever be justified or excused by one’s opinions about the actions or existence of the State of Israel;
differences in religious faith are inconsistent with our core values;
anti-Semitism and preventing extremist indoctrination and recruitment; and support expanded education programs, including Holocaust programs, that increase awareness and counter intolerance and discrimination;
n Recognize the ever-present need to be vigilant about efforts to prevent and report acts of anti-Semitism, and other hate crimes;
and
understanding and respect among all citizens are essential to good governance and democratic life.”
If your mayor is listed, please take a moment to thank him or her for
standing up against anti-Semitism Otherwise, mayors can join this
global effort by contacting mayorsunited@ajc.org If not now, when?
U.S., EUROPEAN MAYORS UNITE TO FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM
ALBANIA Berat– Petrit Sinaj
Korçë- Sotiraq Filo
Lushnjë– Fatos Tushe
Patos– Rajmonda Balilaj
Roskovec– Majlinda Bufi
Tirana– Erion Veliaj
AUSTRIA Salzburg– Heinz Schaden
Vienna– Michael Häupl
Villach– Günther Albel
BELGIUM Antwerp– Bart de Wever
Boortmeerbeek– Michel Baert
Knokke-Heist– Graaf LeopoldLippens
Turnhout– Eric Vos
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Sarajevo– Ivo Komšić
BULGARIA Sofia– Yordanka Fandakova
CROATIA Zagreb– Milan Bandic
CYPRUS Akanthou– Savvas Savvides
Athienou– Dimitris Papapetrou
Ayia Napa– Yiannis Karousos
Ayios Dhometios– Kostas Petrou
Dali– Leontios Kallenos
Engomi– Zacharias Kyriacou
Famagusta– Alexis Galanos
Geri– Argyris Argyrou
Karavas– Ioannis Papaioannov
Kyrenia– Glafkos A Cariolou
Kythrea– Petros Kareklas
Larnaca– Andreas Louroudjiatis
Latsia- Panayiotis Kyprianou
Lefkara– Savvas Xenofontos
Limassol– Andreas Christou
Morphou– Charalambos Pittas
Nicosia– Constantinos Yiorkadjis
Paphos– Phedonas Phedonas
Paralimni– Theodoros Pyrillis
Strovolos– Lazaros Savvides
Yermasoyia– Andreas Gavrielides
CZECH REPUBLIC Brno- Petr Vokřál
Prague– Adriana Krnáčová
DENMARK Copenhagen– Frank Jensen
ESTONIA Tallinn– Taavi Aas
FRANCE Bordeaux– Alain Juppé
Montpellier– Philippe Saurel
Nancy– Laurent Hénart
Nice– Christian Estrosi
Paris– Anne Hidalgo
Sarcelles– François Pupponi
Strasbourg– Roland Ries
Toulouse– Jean Luc Moudenc
GERMANY Aachen– Marcel Philipp
Augsburg– Kurt Gribl
Bayreuth– Brigitte Merk-Erbe
Bergheim– Maria Pfordt
Bochum- Thomas Eiskirch
Bonn– Ashok Sridharan
Bramsche– Heiner Pahlmann
Braunschweig– Ulrich Markurth
Charlottenburg– ReinhardNaumann
Cologne– Henriette Reker
Dachau– Florian Hartmann
Datteln– André Dora
Dortmund– Ullrich Sierau
Düsseldorf– Thomas Geisel
Emmerich am Rhein– Peter Hinze
Erfurt- Andreas Bausewein
Essen– Thomas Kufen
Esslingen am Neckar– JürgenZieger
Frankfurt– Peter Feldmann
Fürth– Thomas Jung
Gelsenkirchen– Frank Baranowski
Göttingen– Rolf-Georg Köhler
Greven– Peter Vennemeyer
Halberstadt– Andreas Henke
Haltern am See– Bodo Klimpel
Hamburg– Olaf Scholz
Hameln– Claudio Griese
Hannover– Stefan Schostock
Hansestadt Rostock– RolandMethling
Heidelberg– Eckart Würzner
Heilbronn– Harry Mergel
Hildesheim– Ingo Meyer
Hofheim am Taunus– Gisela Stang
Hürth– Dirk Breuer
Kamen– Hermann Hupe
Karlsruhe- Frank Mentrup
Kiel- Ulf Kämpfer
Kleve– Sonja Northing
Lampertheim– Gottfried Störmer
Landau– Thomas Hirsch
Landsberg am Lech– Mathias Neuner
Leipzig– Burkhard Jung
Leverkusen– Uwe Richrath
Lingen/Ems– Dieter Krone
Ludwigshafen– Eva Lohse
Maintal– Monika Böttcher
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West Palm Beach– Geraldine ‘Jeri’
Muoio
GEORGIA Atlanta– Kasim Reed
Augusta– Hardie Davis, Jr
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Macon-Bibb County– Robert A B
Reichert
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HAWAII Hilo– William P Kenoi
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INDIANA Indianapolis– Gregory A Ballard
IOWA Des Moines– T.M Franklin Cownie
KANSAS Kansas City– Mark R Holland
Leawood– Peggy J Dunn
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Wichita– Jeff Longwell
KENTUCKY Lexington– Jim Gray
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LOUISIANA Bossier City– Lorenz J Walker
MAINE Augusta– David M Rollins
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MARYLAND Anne Arundel County– Steve Schuh
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Leggett
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Baker III
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McCathran
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BANGKOK—A Buddhisttemple west of Bangkok, once
a staple on Thailand’s touristtrail, is at the center of one ofthe country’s biggest-everwildlife-trafficking investiga-tions after scores of dead tigercubs were found piled in afreezer and stuffed into bot-tles and jars
Until recently, the TigerTemple drew visitors with theopportunity to pose for photo-graphs with big cats or bottle-feed tiger cubs Wat Pha Lu-ang Ta Bua, as the temple isformally known, was an easyday trip from the capital Bud-dhist monks would charge 600baht—about $17—per person
as an entry fee, with tional payments for photos orinteracting with cubs
addi-But now, Thai investigatorssay they are trying to confirmactivists’ suspicions that thetemple was breeding tigers tofeed the market for wild-ani-mal parts in China and else-where
After removing 137 tigersand shutting the attraction inrecent days, police and wildlifeofficials found 40 tiger-cubcorpses in a freezer and theremains of another 20 stuffedinto bottles and jars Thisraised questions aboutwhether endangered animalswere being trafficked
Wildlife-protection officialshave filed criminal complaintsagainst several suspects for il-
legally possessing endangeredanimals or animal parts, in-cluding temple abbot PhraSutthi Sarathera and othermonks, none of whom could bereached for comment Somewere arrested while attempt-ing to move tiger pelts andother body parts away fromthe temple
Officials said they alsofound tiger carcasses in theliving quarters of Phra Sutthi
Temple staff said he left forBangkok in May and hiswhereabouts were unknown
On its Facebook page, thetemple said the cubs in thefreezer died of natural causes
and were stored there on therecommendation of a veteri-narian It said it had no knowl-edge of tiger pelts and tigerparts found at the temple
Authorities say it is toosoon to conclude that the Ti-ger Temple was breeding cubsfor the trade in endangeredanimals “We need to talk tothe suspects and expand ourinvestigation,” said AdisornNuchdamrong, deputy direc-tor-general of Thailand’s De-partment of National Parks
Thailand has long been ahub for wildlife trafficking,and the business appears to begrowing despite efforts to
crack down on the trade mal-welfare and antitraffick-ing groups, which researched
Ani-a 2014 report for the tion on International Trade inEndangered Species of WildFauna and Flora, wrote that
Conven-“an increasing number of liveanimals and frozen bodies arebeing detected, with morethan 50% of seizures over thepast 14 years occurring since2010.” Tigers and tiger partsare still used in traditionalmedicine in China, and are of-ten sold as a way to boost sex-ual potency in men
—Wilawan Watcharasakwet contributed to this article.
and Treasury Secretary JackLew, and on the Chinese side
by State Councilor Yang Jiechiand Vice Premier Wang Yang
At the opening of thetalks, Mr Lew chided Chinafor a recently passed lawgranting police broad author-ity to supervise foreign non-profit groups
“We are very concernedthat China’s recently passedForeign NGO Management Lawwill weaken that foundation
by creating an unwelcome vironment for foreign NGOs,”
en-Mr Lew said, adding that dressing it will be importantfor our bilateral relationship.”
“ad-Mr Kerry appeared to erence the NGO law as well—
ref-saying “nothing does more toassist our official deliberationsthan the involvement of indi-viduals and grass-roots organ-
izations in both the UnitedStates and China”—and said
he would raise concerns abouthuman rights and transpar-ency in the meetings
Disagreements were evident
on Sunday At Asia’s largest curity conference in Singapore,Beijing’s highest-ranking dele-gate spoke forcefully againstU.S.-led criticism of China’s ac-tivities in the South China Sea,particularly its refusal to ac-cept a coming tribunal ruling atThe Hague that could contra-dict its maritime claims in theworld’s busiest shipping lanes
se-Adm Sun Jianguo, deputychief of the Chinese military’sJoint Staff Department, dis-missed what he characterized
as U.S interference in Asiansecurity issues and rebuffedaccusations that Beijing riskedisolating itself through its as-
sertive behavior and expansiveclaims in the South China Sea
“We were not isolated inthe past, we are not isolatednow, and we will not be iso-lated in the future,” Adm Sunsaid at the Shangri-La Dia-logue, an annual gathering ofAsian and Western defense of-ficials Instead, he criticizedother countries for retaining a
“Cold War mentality” whendealing with China, sayingthey may only “end up isolat-ing themselves.”
On Monday, at the start ofthe talks in Beijing, ChinesePresident Xi Jinping saidChina is committed to “ad-vancing peace, stability anddevelopment in the Asia Pa-cific.” “The vast Pacific should
be a stage for…cooperation,not an arena for competition.”
U.S Defense Secretary Ash
Carter on Saturday told theconference in Singapore thatChina risked erecting a “GreatWall of self-isolation.” Heurged Beijing to abide by in-ternational law and respectthe outcome of The Hague ar-bitration case, which was filed
by the Philippines in 2013 in abid to curtail China’s territo-rial assertions in the SouthChina Sea The ruling is ex-pected within weeks
China’s denunciations ofthe tribunal and its legal au-thority dominated discussions
at the Shangri-La Dialogue
Several Asian and Western fense chiefs—including thosefrom Japan, Malaysia, Britainand France—urged compliancewith the United Nations Con-vention on the Law of the Sea,
de-or Unclos, under which the bunal was established, though
tri-only a few of them referred rectly to China
di-“The timing of this ence was very sensitive forChina,” coming just ahead ofthe tribunal ruling, said BonnieGlaser, senior adviser for Asia
confer-at the Washington-based Centerfor Strategic and InternationalStudies “The Chinese werevery much on the defensive.”
A senior Chinese delegateadmitted as much, saying theyface an uphill task in overcom-ing foreign “propaganda”against Beijing “Internationalpublic opinion is still beingcontrolled by the Westernworld,” said Maj Gen Jin Yi-nan, a professor at China’s Na-tional Defense University “Insuch unfavorable circum-stances, we must still do ourbest to use public forums toexplain China’s position.”
WORLD NEWS
China and the U.S sparred
over maritime disputes at a
weekend summit before sitting
down for economic and
secu-rity talks expected to be
domi-nated by tensions over the
South China Sea
The dialogue, which began
on Monday in Beijing, takes
place with China bracing
against growing international
pressure over its territorial
claims and asserting its intent
to exercise greater clout as a
major power Economic strains
between Beijing and
Washing-ton, meanwhile, have flared
over currency and trade
prac-tices
The intent of the high-level
talks, which President Barack
Obama launched in 2009, is to
try to find common ground
U.S officials, for instance,
have said they would seek
Bei-jing’s help in pressuring North
Korea over its nuclear
pro-gram Last week, though,
Washington took additional
steps to cut off Pyongyang
from the global financial
sys-tem—a move that could
ex-pose China, North Korea’s
largest trading partner, to
negative economic effects
The annual Strategic and
Economic Dialogue is a
two-day affair that draws hundreds
of U.S and Chinese officials
They are led on the U.S side by
Secretary of State John Kerry
By Chun Han Wong in
Singapore and Felicia
Schwartz in Beijing
Maritime Spat Brews as U.S., China Talk
Beijing rejects warning
that it risks isolating
itself due to its stance
Obama’s foreign-policy efforts:
cultivating New Delhi as part ofhis Asian pivot The focus onIndia under Mr Obama hasn’tdrawn as much attention asmany other initiatives abroad,but the president sees a change
in India’s role as one of his jor achievements, a senior ad-ministration official said
ma-“India made a big shift der Prime Minister Modi,” theofficial said “I think it’s reallyhard to overestimate the rapidpace of progress in our defenserelationship.”
un-The two countries agreed inApril to facilitate their armedforces’ use of each other’sbases for replenishment and re-pair They are in talks to co-produce advanced militaryhardware in India In a message
to Beijing, they released a
“joint strategic vision” last yearagreeing to ensure freedom ofnavigation, “especially in the
B Y J AMES H OOKWAY
Tiger Temple Is Focus of Trafficking Probe
A tranquilized tiger was removed from the Tiger Temple, west of Bangkok, on Friday.
South China Sea,” where China
is locked in a standoff with theU.S and others over its mari-time claims
New Delhi remains wary of
an outright alliance with theU.S In a recent interview withthe Journal, Mr Modi said hewouldn’t deviate from the
“nonalignment” doctrine thathas defined India’s interna-tional relations for decades
Still, India’s current stance is asignificant shift from Cold Wardays, when New Delhi tiltedclearly toward Moscow
Mr Modi—who is seekingAmerican investment to fuel In-dia’s growth and technology tomodernize its defense sector—
has been eager to work closelywith the U.S Among the factorspropelling the relationship isChina’s growing footprint in In-dia’s traditional sphere of influ-ence
The U.S has supported India
on issues including New Delhi’sbid to join the Nuclear Suppli-ers Group, which would help itaccess nuclear fuel and technol-ogy more easily China, a closeally of India’s nuclear-armed ri-
val Pakistan, hasn’t backed dia’s membership on thegrounds that India, which alsohas nuclear arms, hasn’t signedthe nonproliferation treaty
In-Mr Modi is also makingstops in Switzerland and Mex-ico this week in a bid to winsupport for India’s application
The issue is expected to come
up in his meeting with Mr
Obama Making India’s case onFriday, Foreign Secretary S
Jaishankar invoked a subjectcentral to Mr Obama’s legacy:
the climate-change agreementsigned in Paris last year
Mr Jaishankar pointed toIndia’s pledge to increase theshare of its electricity-genera-tion capacity from sourcesother than fossil fuels to 40%
by 2030 To make that happen,India will have “a very largenumber" of nuclear reactors inthe next 15 years, he said
“If there is uncertainty
about trading rules, if there isuncertainty about technologyaccess, you will really not getthat kind of investment andplayers stepping forward,” hesaid “Getting us into the NSGwould help facilitate nucleartrade with us.”
Until three years ago, Mr.Modi was barred from the U.S.after religious riots broke out
in 2002 in a state he governed
as chief minister, leaving 1,000people dead, most of themMuslims The U.S revoked histourist visa and denied him adiplomatic visa following alle-gations Mr Modi didn’t doenough to restrain Hindu mobsfrom attacking Muslims
Mr Modi has denied the cusations and an Indian courthas said there isn’t enough evi-dence to prosecute him
ac-—William Mauldin
in Washington contributed to this article.
Indian Prime Minister
Nar-endra Modi, who has worked to
forge closer strategic ties with
the U.S as China’s rise changes
Asia’s power balance, will seek
to cement progress the two
have made on economic and
se-curity fronts when he arrives in
Washington on Monday
Mr Modi will address
Con-gress during the three-day
visit, which comes months
be-fore President Barack Obama
leaves office India’s Foreign
Ministry described Mr Modi’s
White House meeting,
sched-uled for Tuesday, as a
“consoli-dation visit,” after two years of
brisk diplomacy and deepening
relations between the leaders
The trip furthers one of Mr
By Niharika Mandhana
in New Delhi
and Carol E Lee
in Washington
India’s Modi Looks to Fortify Ties With Washington
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visits the U.S this week
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WORLD NEWS
Peruvian Presidential Runoff Goes Down to the Wire After Economist Surges in Polls
LIMA, Peru—Voters went to the polls to pick a new presi- dent, in a contentious runoff election that saw 77-year-old economist Pedro Pablo Kuczyn- ski surge in the final days of the campaign.
About 22 million Peruvians went to the polls on Sunday to choose between Mr Kuczynski, known here as PPK, and Keiko Fujimori, the 41-year-old daughter of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori At left, a woman voted in Lima on Sunday.
Peru’s election agency said late Sunday that with 51.7% of the votes counted, Mr Kuczyn- ski had 50.59% support and
Ms Fujimori had 49.41% A quick count by pollsters Ipsos and GfK, which is based on a sampling of ballots at polling stations, showed that Mr Kuc- zynski would win with a simi- lar spread.
Mr Kuczynski, who would become one of the oldest poli- ticians to win an election in Latin America’s history, cele- brated the early results by dancing on the balcony of his mansion in an affluent Lima
neighborhood.
He told supporters that he would await the full count but added that he was confident
he won “We are going to ern Peru towards a bright fu- ture,” he yelled to supporters outside his campaign office “I love you Peru.”
gov-Ms Fujimori, who narrowly lost the 2011 election, said she was optimistic but looked som- ber when addressing support- ers “We are going to wait with prudence because during the entire night the votes from re- gions, from abroad and the ru- ral vote from deep Peru are go- ing to arrive,” she said The winner will take over Peru’s government on July 28 from President Ollanta Humala, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a second consec- utive term.
Both candidates have ised to maintain Peru’s free- market policies while running slight fiscal deficits to boost infrastructure spending and support economic growth They have pledged to reduce poverty
prom-by expanding basic services.
ca-Mr Renzi’s Democratic Party,resigned in October last yearover accusations of expensesirregularities
Widespread disaffection fortraditional parties and theItalian capital’s seemingly in-tractable problems have fueledsupport for the antiestablish-ment 5 Star Movement,founded by comedian-turned-
politician Beppe Grillo
Mr Renzi has distancedhimself from a race that hasrisked being a debacle for hisparty
In Rome, the DemocraticParty has been weakened by astring of political scandals and
by a major criminal tion that uncovered ties be-tween organized crime andCity Hall officials
investiga-If Ms Raggi wins the ond round, her victory woulddeal a major blow to the primeminister, giving the 5 StarMovement, which has closed
sec-in on the Democratic Party sec-inrecent polls, a major opportu-nity to prove its ability to gov-
ern Final results of the tions across the country,including in Naples and Turin,are expected to emerge earlyMonday
elec-A poor showing by theDemocratic Party would cast ashadow over a constitutionalreferendum that Mr Renzi hascalled for October
That vote is on whether toapprove a plan to simplify It-aly’s tortuous legislative pro-cess, reduce the Senate’s pow-ers and ensure more stablegovernments The prime min-ister has staked his govern-ment on a positive outcome tothe referendum, promising toresign if it fails
KABUL—Taliban militantsstormed a court in eastern Af-ghanistan on Sunday, killingseven people, including thetop provincial prosecutor, offi-cials said—the latest in a se-ries of attacks targeting thejudiciary
In a separate incident, anAfghan lawmaker was killed
by a bomb placed outside hishome in Kabul later on Sun-day, the interior ministry said.The Taliban also claimed re-sponsibility for the attack,which wounded another 11people in the vicinity.Also on Sunday, DavidGilkey, a photojournalist withNational Public Radio, and hisAfghan translator were killedwhen their vehicle was struck
by shellfire while traveling in
an army convoy in southernAfghanistan, the news organi-zation said
Three assailants enteredthe appeals court building inLogar province during a cere-mony to introduce the newlyappointed chief prosecutorand shot at people in the hall,said Saleem Saleh, the gover-nor’s spokesman Ten people,including the three attackers,were killed and 23 werewounded in the hourlong siegethat followed, he said.Afghan security forces whowere deployed to rescuetrapped workers and flush outthe attackers eventuallygunned down the militants be-fore they could detonate explo-sive vests, local officials said.The Taliban claimed re-sponsibility and said the at-tack was launched to avengethe deaths of six Taliban pris-oners in May
The Taliban have long geted lawyers and judges whoare seen to be responsible forimprisoning their fighters But
tar-in recent weeks, they have calated attacks against courtworkers to avenge the hanging
es-of the Taliban prisoners.The six prisoners, who hadbeen on death row for years,were executed after a truck-bomb attack in Kabul killedmore than 60 people andwounded hundreds in April.The prisoners themselveshadn’t been involved in the in-cident, and human-rightsgroups criticized the hangings.Since then, the Taliban havemade the Afghan judiciary of-fices one of their main targets
In late May, a suicide bomberkilled 10 people in an attack
on a minibus carrying workers
to a court in Wardak province,west of Kabul A week later,Taliban insurgents wearingsuicide vests attacked a pro-vincial court in Ghazni prov-ince, killing six people andwounding more than a dozen.Fears of an escalation inTaliban attacks on governmenttargets have risen since the in-surgent group’s leader, MullahAkhtar Mansour, was killed by aU.S drone strike in southwestPakistan in May Maulavi Hai-batullah, a religious leader, wasnamed to succeed him
B Y E HSANULLAH A MIRI AND J ESSICA D ONATI
Taliban Assault Afghan Court
migration as part of his referendum negotiationswith the EU
pre-Another reason for the
Leave campaign’sstrength is that it hastapped into the global tide ofanti-establishment senti-ment Unable to cite afriendly foreign governmentthat supports Brexit or acredible international organi-zation that backs the cam-paign’s claim that the U.K
would be economically ter off outside the EU, it hasinstead presented supporters
bet-of the U.K.’s continued bership as members of aself-interested globalelite Leave campaigners ar-gue they in contrast arebacked by risk-takers andentrepreneurs, though there
mem-is scant evidence for thmem-is: A
clear majority of businesses
of all shapes and sizes backRemain, not least the over-whelming majority of techcompanies
But perhaps the Remaincampaign’s biggest problemhas been its inability tocome up with a convincingnarrative of why the EU ex-ists, what it does and where
it is going The Leave paign has resonated in largepart because it has con-vinced many voters that the
cam-EU is a distant, cratic overbearing superstate
undemo-or a soon-to-be failed statethat presents a clear danger
to British identity and tutions Rather than counterthis caricature, Mr Cam-eron’s approach has beenbroadly to agree, whilestressing the ways in whichthe U.K.’s special status
insti-Cameron Struggles to Win Hearts on ‘Brexit’
This wasn’t what was
supposed to happen With
just over two weeks to go
until the British referendum
on European Union
member-ship, Prime Minister David
Cameron might have
ex-pected his “Remain”
Britain, Europe and the
world were supposed to have
convinced voters that the
risks of leaving were too
high in terms of lost trade,
investment and jobs Remain
campaigners say they are
confident this message has
cut through with enough
voters to win the day Yet
the polls still show the
con-test neck-and-neck Mr
Cam-eron is fighting for his
politi-cal life
How did it come to
this? One reason is
that the spotlight has
swung firmly onto the
touch-stone issue of immigration
following data published this
month that showed that anet 333,000 people came tolive in the U.K in the pastyear That is far above thegovernment’s longstandingtarget of fewer than 100,000and has reinforced anxietiesabout EU rules that give ev-ery citizen in the bloc theright to live and work in theU.K The Leave campaign’sclaim that a British exit fromthe EU, or Brexit, would al-low the U.K to “take backcontrol” of its borders anddrastically cut migration hasclear appeal for many voterswho fear that excessive mi-gration is putting an intoler-able strain on the U.K.’s eco-nomic and social fabric
Whether Brexit would ally lead to a substantial fall
re-in migration is open to tion: More than half of re-cent migrants came fromoutside the EU, and the evi-dence suggests that EU mi-grants contribute positively
ques-to the economy and tax tem Meanwhile, U.K unem-ployment is just 5%, andthere is scant evidence that
sys-EU migrants have depressedwages The Leave campaign’spledge to restrict total immi-gration to below 100,000could only be met by takingthe U.K out of the EU singlemarket
Nonetheless, Mr Cameron
is vulnerable over migration
in part because he ously promised and failed tocut immigration below100,000, then promised andfailed to introduce curbs on
previ-shields it from Brussels’ cesses
ex-True, the current nomic and political backdrop
eco-in Europe hardly makes iteasy to counter this narra-tive But a self-confidentpro-EU campaign could tell astrong story about the EU’svital role as a mechanism bywhich 28 sovereign countriescan try to find common solu-tions to common problemsfacing a historically unstablecontinent Mr Cameron’s re-luctance to point to the EU’srole in responding to cross-border challenges rangingfrom terrorist threats to ille-gal migration to climatechange is puzzling So, too,
is his reluctance to talkabout his own journey fromBrussels-basher to champion
of U.K membership andwhat he learned about therealities of international di-plomacy on the way
Perhaps that is because
the prime minister lieves that a few weeks
be-of campaigning is cient to counter 30 years ofpolitical and media hostilitytoward the EU Or perhaps
insuffi-he is wary of appearing toopro-European while he hashopes of reuniting hisparty after the June 23rdreferendum Either way, hefinds himself trying to fight
an emotionally charged,identity-based Brexit cam-paign armed largely witheconomic statistics It isn’tclear that will be enough
EUROPE FILE
SIMON NIXON
ROME—An ment movement’s candidatewon the largest share of votes
antiestablish-in the first round of Rome’smayoral election, adding tothe advances of populist par-ties across Europe and posing
a fresh test to Prime MinisterMatteo Renzi’s ruling center-left party
The candidate for the start, euroskeptic 5 StarMovement, 37-year-old lawyerVirginia Raggi, won between34% and 38% of the vote castSunday in Rome, according toexit polls Roberto Giachetti,the candidate for Mr Renzi’sDemocratic Party, received be-tween 22% and 26% If finaldata confirm the exit polls, thetwo will face a runoff on June19
up-Millions of Italians went tothe polls on Sunday to casttheir votes in local electionsfor new mayors and towncouncilors in more than 1,300cities The elections—held insome of Italy’s biggest cities—
came at a delicate time for Mr
Renzi, whose popularity hassagged amid a timid economicrecovery, a simmering bankingcrisis and an uptick in migra-tion flows
In Milan, exit polls showedthe center-left candidateGiuseppe Sala leading with be-tween 39% and 43% of thevote cast, followed by his cen-ter-right rival Stefano Parisi atbetween 34% and 38%
But the main battlegroundhas been Rome, where locals
B Y G IADA Z AMPANO
Populist Party Takes Lead in Rome Vote
Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi cast her ballot at a polling station in the capital on Sunday.
VATICAN CITY—Pope
Fran-cis proclaimed two new saints:
a Lutheran convert who hid
Jews during World War II and
the Polish founder of the first
men’s religious order
dedi-cated to the immaculate
con-ception
The pope called
Swedish-born Elizabeth Hesselblad and
Stanislaus Papczynski
“exem-plary witnesses to this
mys-tery of resurrection” during
the canonization Mass in St
Peter’s Square
Polish President Andrzej
Duda and first lady Agata
Kornhauser-Duda attended the
ceremony
Ms Hesselblad saved the
lives of 12 Jewish members of
the Piperno-Sed families by
hiding them in the convent in
Rome where she was superior
from December 1943 until the
capital’s liberation from Nazi
forces on June 4, 1944
Stanislaus of Jesus and
Mary, as he is known,
sup-ported hospitals and shelters
for the poor and cared for the
sick in 17th-century Poland
“Papczynski preached mercy
and encouraged people to do
acts of mercy,” the Polish
Episcopate said on its website
His crowning achievement
was founding the order of
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government has been at oddswith the residents of the NigerDelta, the Portugal-sizedswamp where almost all of thecountry’s oil lies Decades of oilspills and a prevailing senti-ment that the country’s vastpetroleum wealth has enrichedonly a few have pushed locals
to bomb pipelines, kidnap oilworkers, and steal oil
But until recently, Nigeriahas been able to exercise somebasic level of control Since
2009, the government has paidmilitants to stay out of trouble
It has also hired thousands ofmilitants to protect the pipe-lines they used to bomb andhacksaw open
The attacks come at a ous moment for the nation of
peril-187 million Even before theAvengers arrived on the scene,Nigeria’s government was run-ning low on money The coun-try’s reserves have plummeted
so precipitously that the centralbank has rationed access to for-eign currency since last year,forcing businesses to shut downbecause they can’t get the dol-lars they need to import spareparts or repay foreign lenders
The economy contracted by0.36% in the first three months
of this year It is now headedinto an “imminent” recession,Godwin Emefiele, governor ofthe central bank, said in May
Nigeria’s government says it
is working as quickly as it can
to repair the damage theAvengers have done To winsupport, Mr Buhari has ordered
a clean up operation there cades of oil spills have left thewater so polluted that a UnitedNations report estimated a fullcleanup would take 30 years
De-The military is also sendingmore troops into the swamps,even as it battles the insur-gency Boko Haram in the north
To secure oil infrastructure,the army recently moved agroup of U.S.-trained troopsfrom the front against BokoHaram It has also used surveil-lance planes to try to peer into
the thick mangrove forests andfind the Avengers’ camps
“The military will continue
to do its best,” said RabeAbubakar, spokesman for Nige-ria’s Defense Ministry
In May, the military postedtroops around one of ChevronCorp.’s oil storage depots Forthree days, the Avengers hadbeen vowing to attack it But in-stead of storming the depot,the militants bombed a nearbygas pipeline Hours later, themilitants bombed a pair ofcrude pipelines supplyingnearby refineries
“They knew exactly where toattack and the time to attack,”said Mr Oni, the oil analyst
“There was literally nothingyou could do.”
—Gbenga Akingbule
in Abuja, Nigeria, contributed to this article.
A fish farmer in January stands in mud polluted by oil in his fish ponds in Nigeria.
OTTAWA—A political
stale-mate over right-to-die
legisla-tion is stirring legal queslegisla-tions
about who can seek a doctor’s
help to die and under what
conditions doctor-assisted
sui-cide is lawful in Canada
A 2015 Supreme Court of
Canada ruling decriminalizing
doctor-assisted suicide will
take effect Tuesday, giving
Ca-nadians who have “grievous
and irremediable” conditions
the constitutional right to seek
a physician’s help to die The
ruling had been suspended to
give lawmakers time to craft
legislation defining who fits
the court’s criteria
But while Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau’s government
introduced legislation in April,
its bill has yet to be approved
The proposed law would
narrow the criteria to restrict
physician-assisted suicide to
those with a terminal disease
or to when death is
“reason-ably foreseeable.”
nai,” Rep Michael McCaul,chairman of the House Com-mittee on Homeland Security,said after meetings with Egyp-tian President Abdel Fattah AlSisi and other officials inCairo recently ISIS is anothername for Islamic State
The developments showthat Islamic State is able tobuild relationships and shapeevents far afield, just as theattacks in Brussels and Parislinked to the group demon-strated its lethal reach
Sinai Province was created
by up to 1,000 jihadists with agroup previously known as An-sar Beit al-Maqdis that pledgedallegiance to Islamic State inNovember 2014 The group,
based in Sinai, has launcheddeadly attacks in Egypt
The group is in contact withIslamic State’s leadership,which helps fund the affiliateand promote it through IslamicState’s social-media network,according to Israeli officials,Egyptian security officials andindependent researchers
Sinai Province and Hamasare both Sunni Muslim-ledgroups, but Hamas doesn’tshare the same strict interpre-tation of Islam
Sinai Province operates interritory where the entrances
of smuggling tunnels that lead
to Gaza are located, according
to smugglers and diggers whowork on tunnels That has led
to a pragmatic arrangementbetween Sinai Province andHamas, according to Israeliand Western officials Egypt’sdefense and interior ministrieshave said the ties between thetwo groups have included co-ordination on attacks in northSinai Spokesmen for the min-istries didn’t comment
Egypt shared intelligencewith Israel last year about co-operation between Sinai Prov-ince and members of Hamas’sarmed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, according to
a Western official Israel wassurprised to learn of the tiesgiven clashes in Gaza betweenHamas and Islamic State sym-pathizers, the official said
Israeli officials said theylearned in April of 2015 thatHamas was allowing SinaiProvince fighters to be treated
in Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital Thehospital declined to comment
Later last year, Hamas eratives spent a month in theSinai region teaching the mili-tants how to fire antitank mis-siles, Israeli officials said Theofficials declined to providemore details Hamas subse-quently received Russian-madeantitank missiles via thesmuggling network Sinai Prov-ince controls, an Israeli de-fense official said
op-Hamas officials have beenmeeting with Egyptian officials
to improve ties and attempt to
open the border crossing fromEgypt in Gaza Earlier thisyear, Hamas stepped up pa-trols along Gaza’s border withEgypt, a move it said wasmeant to assure its powerfulneighbor it isn’t working withmilitants in Sinai
“We have nothing to do withEgypt,” Ghazi Hamad, a seniorHamas leader, said recently, re-ferring to Sinai Province andEgypt’s claims that Hamas hasplanned attacks there.Attacks by Sinai Provincehave led Egypt to retaliate InMarch, Egyptian authoritiessaid a mortar attack on acheckpoint near the city of el-Arish in Sinai had killed 13 po-licemen Sinai Province claimedresponsibility
In subsequent days, tian jets, helicopters and artil-lery attacked targets near theborder with Gaza, according tothe Levantine Group, a consul-tancy on regional security af-fairs, a sign of the weaponry Is-rael is allowing Egyptians touse in Sinai
Egyp-Israeli Prime Minister min Netanyahu has said thatboth Hamas and Islamic Stateare driven by extremism and adesire to expand beyond theterritory they control.But Sinai Province andHamas don’t share political ormilitary goals, according to of-ficials and independent re-searchers
Benja-People familiar with thesmuggling operations say thelinks are important to Hamas
“Hamas needs this ship with [Islamic State] forsure,” said a cigarette smugglerwho goes by the nom de guerre
relation-of Abu Abd “If the Egyptianarmy won’t allow you to getthings in, it makes sense tohave a relationship with ISIS.”
The rise of an Islamic State
affiliate in Egypt is altering
the security landscape in a
critical corner of the Middle
East, according to Israeli and
Western officials
Militants with Sinai
Prov-ince, which has pledged
alle-giance to the extremist group,
have developed ties with the
Palestinian movement Hamas
that rules the neighboring
Gaza Strip, the officials said—
despite deep ideological
differ-ences between the two
Isla-mist groups
The ties include help with
smuggling and medical care,
they said Officials in Israel,
which has likened Hamas to
Islamic State, said the
cooper-ation has also extended to
mil-itary training Hamas officials
denied any involvement with
Sinai Province
Egypt’s and Israel’s shared
concern about Sinai Province’s
growing threat is spurring
deeper security cooperation,
according to the officials Israel,
for example, has let Egypt bring
more sophisticated weapons
into its restive Sinai Peninsula
than allowed under their 1979
peace treaty, in a bid to help
counter the group, they said
“The relationship has
prob-ably never been stronger in
terms of assistance in military
operations to attack ISIS in
Si-By Rory Jones in
Rafah, Gaza Strip, and
Tamer El-Ghobashy
in Cairo
Militants Find Common Ground in Sinai
Islamic State affiliate
in Egypt has forged
ties with Hamas,
“Canada will become themost liberal country in theworld with respect to death-hastening policies” in the ab-sence of legislation, said Har-vey Chochinov, a palliative-care expert at the University
of Manitoba in Winnipeg Dr
Chochinov, a critic of having
no law in place to govern tor-assisted death, last yearled a government panel on ad-dressing right-to-die policy
doc-The proposed legislation,which has been passed by Par-liament’s lower house and isnow being debated in the Sen-ate, is similar to laws in someU.S states with right-to-dieregimes, such as Oregon andCalifornia
To avoid so-called suicidetourism, it limits doctor-as-sisted suicide to people who
are eligible for funded health services in Can-ada
government-Some senators oppose iting doctor-assisted suicide tothose with terminal illnessesand say that limit contravenesthe Supreme Court ruling
lim-That debate is part of what isholding up passage of the law
Justice Minister Jody son-Raybould told senators intestimony last week that with-out legislation, there would be
Wil-a legWil-al vWil-acuum thWil-at would Wil-act
as a barrier to right-to-die vices, since some doctorsmight shy away from acting
ser-A national physicians’
group echoed that concern
“Physicians across the countryremain uncertain, and in that
climate of uncertainty ans will be left to languish—
Canadi-exactly what the SupremeCourt of Canada ruling sought
to avoid,” said Cindy Forbes,president of the CanadianMedical Association
It is unclear when bothchambers of Parliament willagree on legislation The Sen-ate is expected to hold a finalvote this week Should the up-per chamber make amend-ments, the legislation wouldhead back to the lower housefor a new round of debate
Anticipating the risk thatlegislation wouldn’t be ready,regional medical authoritieshave issued guidelines to doc-tors that they say are in ac-cord with the Supreme Court’sruling But Ms Wilson-Ray-bould, along with some medi-cal experts, warn that thiswon’t be enough because theprotocols fail to impose limits
on who can seek a doctor’shelp to die
—Kim Mackrael contributed to this article.
B Y P AUL V IEIRA
Canada Debates Right-to-Die Limits
Citizens with
‘grievous’ conditions can seek a doctor’s help as of Tuesday.
around 1.4 million barrels a day
in the first quarter, according tothe International EnergyAgency, which monitors energytrends for industrialized coun-tries, so the lost Nigerian pro-duction is almost as large asthe excess daily output that hasweighed down prices
“It is clearly having a rial impact,” said James Davis,head of oil supply at consul-tancy Facts Global Energy
mate-A few months ago, oil priceslingered at a 13-year-low Gold-man Sachs Group Inc analystspredicted late last year that oilcould fall as low as $20 a bar-rel Instead, a series of disrup-tions—including a worker’sstrike in Kuwait, a blockade inLibya, and wildfires in Can-ada—have pushed prices up
Nigeria’s government haspublicly asked the Avengers tonegotiate: “This government is
a listening government,” saidLai Mohammed, Nigeria’s infor-mation minister
The Avengers have sponded with a mix of threats,steep demands—such as redis-tribution of oil rights to localresidents—and more attacks
re-The group has sabotaged atleast 10 oil installations in thepast month It didn’t respond toseveral emailed requests for aninterview
“To the International OilCompanies and Indigenous OilCompanies, it’s going to bebloody,” the Avengers said in anonline statement “Your facili-ties and personnel will bear thebrunt of our fury.”
Since the 1990s, Nigeria’s
nies for profit Pipelines have
also been sawed open by oil
thieves, seeking to siphon off
their valuable content
The Avengers seem to be
more interested in
undermin-ing the administration of
Pres-ident Muhammadu Buhari,
se-curity consultants and
government officials say They
say they are frustrated by the
lack of information about who
the Avengers are
Mr Buhari, a former military
dictator from Nigeria’s north
who was elected last year, is
unpopular in much of the
coun-try’s south: He received just 13%
of the vote in the Niger Delta
“It is different this time,”
said Dolapo Oni, oil and gas
an-alyst for Togo-based Ecobank
Transnational Inc “These guys
are not stealing crude They
just bomb the pipelines and
they run away They just want
to destroy.”
With near-weekly attacks
that began in February, the
mil-itants have taken about one
million barrels of oil a day out
of production, according to
Ni-gerian oil officials The attacks
have intensified in recent
weeks
The lost production helped
push crude prices above $50 a
barrel recently for the first time
since November Roughly 96
million barrels of crude are
pro-duced globally every day, but
supply exceeded demand by
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Source: International Energy Agency
2.0 million barrels
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World Watch
French officials were stillgrappling with the consequences
of severe flooding in the regionaround Paris, including weakeneddikes and pollution dislodged bythe overflowing Seine
The river fell to 18.5 feet bySunday evening in Paris, Frenchofficials said It had peaked earlySaturday morning at more than
20 feet
A government spokesmansaid the death toll over theweekend from the flooding hadrisen to four
for-Mr Kaczynski blamed his ponents for a crisis over judicialappointments and rules governingthe constitutional court His so-cially conservative Law and Jus-tice party’s government has been
op-in conflict with the court sop-ince itcanceled predecessors’ nomina-tions of judges and rewrote rulesgoverning the court’s work lastyear The court’s chairman re-jected most of those changes.Each side has accused the other
of overreaching
The spat has led to tensionswith the European Commission,which last week said the govern-ment’s agenda for the court poses
a systemic threat to the rule oflaw, and triggered a legal processthat could end in sanctions
—Martin M Sobczyk
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of nearly 50,000 each and India
of about 23,500
Faculty and domestic
stu-dents interviewed said it
ap-pears that substantial numbers
of international students either
don’t comprehend or don’t
ac-cept U.S standards of academic
integrity
At the University of Arizona,
the staff works hard to explain
academic integrity to those from
abroad, but “our students don’t
always understand what
plagia-rism is,” said Chrissy Lieberman,
associate dean of students
Citing the Freedom of
Infor-mation Act, the Journal asked
50 public universities with large
foreign enrollments how many
reports of alleged
academic-in-tegrity violations they recorded
for international undergraduates
and how many involving U.S
un-dergraduates
Many of the schools said they
didn’t have such information or
it would be too onerous to track
down Fourteen provided the
full records sought, for the
2014-15 academic year
At nearly all that provided
data, the rate of such cheating
reports was at least twice as
high for foreign as for domestic
students, ranging up to over
eight times as high
Universities don’t all define
and track cheating reports
ex-actly the same way Most record
the number of incidents, but
some record the number of
stu-dents involved The Journal’s
analysis tabulated cheating
re-ports as the universities defined
them It didn’t delve into how
the cases were resolved
Lanqing Wang, a Georgia
In-stitute of Technology
electrical-engineering student from
Shanghai, who is distressed by
the cheating he sees, said, “In
China, it’s OK to cheat as long as
you’re not caught.”
Paidi Shi, vice president of
the Chinese Students and
Schol-ars Association at the University
of California, San Diego,
dis-agreed that it was all right to
cheat in her home country but
said, “In China, our culture puts
a lot of pressure on students
We are more likely to find a
shortcut to get a good grade.”
Qingwen Fan, president of
the Chinese Students and
Schol-ars Association at the University
of California, Davis, said some
students in China get burned
out by cramming in high school,
and when they get to college
“they want to enjoy life They
are busy with social stuff and
everything they missed before
They start to cheat They didn’t
put in the time but they want to
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of a sports show on KNBR, aSan Francisco radio station
There was even some class fare in blaming Mr Curry’s spill
war-on the people who paid smallfortunes for courtside spots
“It was an easy way to goBernie Sanders on the 1-per-centers,” Mr Murphy said
The consensus among hisshow’s listeners was over-whelming: They said fans inthose seats have a responsibility
to break a player’s cially if that player is Mr Curry
fall—espe-“There was much scolding
and tsk-tsking from those of usnot in those seats,” Mr Murphysaid “Everybody’s a hero untilthey’re in the fox hole.”
Basketball is the only majorsport with an imaginary bound-ary between the court and thecrowd In baseball, there is awall In basketball, there ispaint Ticket-holders assumethe risk of personal injury whenthey attend NBA games
In another incident, theother megastar of the Finals,Cleveland’s LeBron James,showed why such warnings arenecessary In December, Mr
James had his own crash when
he failed to hurdle the front row
Gaming the System
Reports of cheating were more frequent for international studentsthan for domestic students at 14 large public universities thatprovided The Wall Street Journal with data
Source: WSJ analysis of schools’ records THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Domestic students
Reports of cheating per 100 students
International students
105
0 per 100 studentsUniv Calif., Davis
Univ of ArizonaGeorgia Tech
UC, San Diego
UC, IrvineUniv of MinnesotaCal State-FullertonPurdue
UCLAIowa StateNorth Carolina StateUniv of WashingtonUniv of HoustonFlorida International
0.5 2.8 1.3 3.1
2.3 2.0 1.6 0.5 1.0 5.1 0.8
1.1 6.0 0.7 5.8
0.9
0.4 0.4
the front row It’s who those
players were
In a Warriors playoff game
last month, Golden State’s
Ste-phen Curry, one of the NBA’s
biggest stars, launched himself
at and then over the fans
be-tween the visiting team’s bench
and the scorer’s table
Even though Mr Curry is a
somewhat manageable 6-foot-3
and 185 pounds, which is small
by NBA standards, no one tried
to catch him or help cushion his
fall Mr Curry crashed into a
metal island between the
pad-ded courtside seats and the
arena’s lower bowl He laid
groaning on the floor for
sev-eral anxious seconds before
peeling himself up with an
el-bow that suddenly looked like a
misshapen potato
Mr Curry’s hustle play was
immediately passed along on
social media, and there was
soon a storm of criticism
di-rected at the fans in the front
rows who had parted like the
Red Sea
There was even more
out-rage when the television replay
showed a Warriors fan named
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pass the test That is kind of acultural thing.”
Ms Shi said her associationplans to launch a social-mediacampaign to tackle the problemnext fall
Foreign surge
Both private and public U.S
universities have welcomed asurge in foreign students, whooften pay two to three times thetuition and fees of others, partlybecause of special programs forthem At many public universi-ties, their payments help com-pensate for shrinking state sub-sidies
Sanctions for cheating canrange from an F on an assign-ment to suspension or expul-sion At the University of Ari-zona, which recorded over 11reports of alleged cheating foreach 100 foreign undergraduatestudents in the 2014-15 schoolyear (and 1.8 per 100 domesticundergrads), no student was ex-pelled that year and just twosuspended, according to the uni-versity
“I can assure you that where someone at the university
some-is doing a calculus about howmuch tuition they would lose ifthey start coming down hard onstudents who cheat,” said Ms
Mitchneck, the geography fessor
pro-Asked about that, Lynn Nadel
a leader of the faculty senate,said it is true the university’sbusiness model “is somewhatdependent on out-of-state stu-dents, and it’s an acknowledgedfact that we depend on them tocover our costs But the nextstep, that therefore we shouldtreat them with kid gloves, hasnever come before me or evenbeen uttered in my presence.”
Academic dishonesty is an sue on campus without regard
is-to students’ origins About 60%
of all students on U.S campusesadmit they cheated at least once
in the last year, according toTeddi Fishman, director of theInternational Center for Aca-demic Integrity, a nonprofitwith offices at Clemson Univer-sity She said that level has re-mained steady for 23 years
Most of this cheating neverleads to a formal complaint, theJournal’s analysis shows
The especially high rate ofcheating reported for interna-tional students fuels faculty con-cerns about a cheapening ofschools’ diplomas “If the integ-rity of the degrees they areearning is undermined, that
market could also be mined,” said Ms Fishman
under-Some universities workharder than others to monitorcheating, which could affectwhere they stood in the Jour-nal’s analysis UC San Diego,which had one of the highercheating-allegation rates for in-ternational students, also has anespecially robust effort to trackinfractions, led by Tricia Ber-tram Gallant, its academic-integ-rity director
“We decided to admit moreinternational students in re-sponse to a decrease in publicfunding without consideration
of extra socialization they mightneed to adapt to the new aca-demic culture,” Ms BertramGallant said Schools are still
“playing catch-up.”
At Purdue University, DavidSanders, a leader of the univer-sity senate, recently had thetask of reading 4,000 essaysfrom applicants and said hefound the obvious copyingamong Chinese students, in par-ticular, mind-numbing
“I can’t tell you how manytimes I read an essay thatstarted, ‘The 20th century wasthe century of physics and the21st century will be the century
of life sciences.’ I read that samephrase over and over and overagain,” he said
Ms Fan of the Chinese dents association at UC Davissaid there was a “concept differ-ence” in how Americans andChinese “define cheating.” Shesaid it is common for Chinesestudents to collaborate on as-signments
stu-A spokesman for Purdue,Brian Zink, said the schoolstresses academic integrity atfreshman orientation, “and wedon’t accept ‘cultural confusion’
as an excuse for dishonesty.”
It is possible that cheating ismore likely to be caught when astudent is foreign, said Ms Fish-man of the academic integritycenter A student who can barelyspeak English but hands in askillfully written English-lan-guage paper would draw atten-tion, she noted And instructors,once having perceived a cheat-ing issue among foreign stu-dents, might scrutinize theirwork more closely
Still, Ms Fishman said, there
is a profile of a certain kind ofstudent more likely to cheat: ayouth who faces a high-stakestest, feels unprepared for it, andbelieves that others are cheatinganyway A relatively high per-centage of foreign students, es-
pecially those with poor guage skills, fit this description,she said
lan-They often are targeted byentrepreneurs offering to sellcustom-written research papers
Other opportunists offer theservices of professional test tak-ers
Guaranteed ‘A’
Last year, Ohio State learnedthat a Chinese student had beenadvertising on a Chinese mes-sage board that he could guar-antee an A on a test by taking it
in someone’s place His pricewas around $500 per test, saidKim Arcoleo, associate dean fortransdisciplinary scholarship
Ohio State has so farfound more than 30 Chinesestudents who made use of thescheme, she said, with the inves-tigation still under way
“The cheating isn’t limited toChinese students, but we see adisproportionate amount com-ing from international stu-dents,” Ms Arcoleo said
The University of Iowa is vestigating at least 30 studentssuspected of paying professionaltest takers to take online exams
in-in their place, the school says
Some of the suspected sonators took the online tests inChina, said one person familiarwith the matter Some of the
imper-students have been sent lettersexplaining what offenses can re-sult in expulsion
One method used by stand-intest-takers was uncovered at UCIrvine Imposters would reportlosing their university ID cards
The bookstore would issue newones bearing the impostor’s pic-ture, but carrying the name ofthe student for whom a test was
to be taken The system wasused mainly by Chinese stu-dents, faculty members said
A spokeswoman for UC Irvinesaid it didn’t know how manystudents were involved in thescheme and declined to say howthey were disciplined She saidcampus police have helped de-velop a system to thwart the ID-card trick
Adele Barker, a professor inthe Department of Russian andSlavic Studies at the University
of Arizona, said frequently acluster of four or five Chinesestudents sitting near one an-other during a test all providethe same version of a wrong an-swer
The influx of Chinese dents with weak English-lan-guage skills has grown “expo-nentially,” she said “Theircomprehension is so bad thecheating is a nonevent And Ican tell you everyone is dealingwith this, across disciplines,across universities.”
stu-Stacey Hancock, a statisticsprofessor at UC Irvine, said alarge portion of faculty time isspent trying to ensure academichonesty She uses randomizedseating and four different ver-sions of a test in an effort to de-ter copying from someone sit-ting nearby
Many professors spell out in
a course syllabus what tutes cheating, lest there be anydoubt Ms Arcoleo of Ohio Statedevotes three pages of the sylla-bus to this
consti-At Georgia Tech, the honorcode is emblazoned on plaquesoutside classrooms ArmaanMehta, an American studentthere majoring in computer en-gineering, showed a note on oneassignment stating that “youshould design, implement andtest your own code,” and thatnot doing so “constitutes aca-demic misconduct.”
Despite the warning, he saw
“ridiculous amounts of ing” among Indian and Chinesestudents, Mr Mehta said, sitting
cheat-in Georgia Tech’s futuristicClough Commons building
A spokesman for GeorgiaTech said it works diligently tomake sure students know itspolicies and the consequences of
a violation
Suspension or expulsion forcheating is a risk for those fromabroad Their student visas can
be revoked if they aren’t tered at a U.S college
regis-“I have had students sobbing
in my office, saying their familyhas done everything to get themhere and pleading for mercy,”said Melissa Famulari, vice chairfor undergraduate education in
UC San Diego’s economics partment
de-Mr Sanders of Purdue saidconfronting a cheater is “incred-ibly unpleasant for everyoneconcerned All of the institu-tional incentives, at multiplelevels, are against catching andprosecuting cheaters.”Expulsion can be a businessopportunity for Andrew HangChen, a Pittsburgh-based con-sultant who places Chinese stu-dents in U.S colleges If a for-eign student is in danger oflosing a visa, he can assist.His company, WholeRen Edu-cation, charges $4,000 to help astudent transfer to another U.S.school The stakes are high be-cause experience shows if a stu-dent has to return to China, he
or she likely won’t ever go back
Though many colleges clude explanations of academicintegrity in orientation for inter-national students, the lessonsoften don’t sink in, said Wenhua
in-Wu, a 21-year-old Chinese nomics major at the University
eco-of Pittsburgh
Over time, Chinese studentscome to understand what con-stitutes cheating, Mr Wu said,but many do it anyway
“They do it for bettergrades,” he said “Most of themdon’t get caught.”
—Andrea Fuller contributed to this article.
Danny Katz reaching for hiscamera and snapping a picture
of the NBA’s Most ValuablePlayer in distress Mr Katz, aformer hedge-fund manager,has been attending Golden Stategames for more than 20 years,but he’s also a sports bloggerand photo journalist, he said, sohis first instinct was to grab thecamera to record the scene
“Twitter was all over me,” hesaid “It’s not something I’dwish on anybody.”
Mr Katz said he reached outwith an apology “The last thingI’d want to do is disrespect youand the Warriors in any way,”
he wrote to Mr Curry
Sitting nearby that night wasDave Scially, who had a specialincentive to secure Mr Curry:
He’s a partial owner of the riors Mr Scially bumped into
War-Mr Curry at a team dinner afterthe incident and told him thatwhen Mr Curry hit the wall offans, he had actually planted hisfoot on Mr Scially’s wife, Kathy,and used her as a vault to pro-pel himself over the first rowand into the void on the floor
Mr Scially said Mr Currysought her out before one of theWarriors’ next games, said hewas sorry for scaring her andgave her a hug “You’re sosweet,” she told him
and rammed directly into EllieDay, who is the wife of profes-sional golfer Jason Day
Ms Day was taken from herseat in a stretcher and brieflyhospitalized She later said onTwitter that being tackled by
Mr James was the equivalent of
a minor automobile accident
“Much like attending a golfevent and risking getting hitwith a ball,” she said, “sittingcourtside you risk getting runinto.”
Mr James apologized andsaid he hoped Ms Day wouldcome to another game soon
“It’s unfortunate it happenedtonight,” he said that night,
“but that doesn’t happenmuch.”
To be fair to the fans, thereisn’t much time for etiquettewhen an NBA player is bum-rushing you “I don’t blamethem,” Mr Curry said after theincident “I wanted to do acrowd-surfing kind of deal, like
at a concert, but they weren’tready.”
Warriors and Cavaliers ers say that if a teammate cameroaring toward them on thebench, they would try to breakhis fall The calculus is trickierfor players on the other team
play-“If it’s somebody I like,” saidWarriors forward Marreese
Speights, “I probably would.”Nevertheless, there are timeswhen sacrificing your body tosave a teammate’s doesn’t makesense Warriors radio analystTom Tolbert once played in theNBA with the 7-foot-1, 325-pound Shaquille O’Neal When
Mr O’Neal came rumbling ward the team bench, Mr Tol-bert remembered, he wouldn’teven consider slowing himdown
to-“There was no way in hell,”
Mr Tolbert said on his radioshow “I would’ve been a greasespot on the ground.”
Mr O’Neal, a four-time NBAchampion who was one of thelargest players in NBA history,said courtside collisions werenever far from his mind He es-timated he laid out for looseballs more than 20 times in hiscareer, beginning in college,when his coach threatened topunish him if he didn’t.Over time, Mr O’Neallearned how to aim himselfwhile in the air “If it was ladiesand babies,” he said, “I had toangle so I wouldn’t hurt any-body.”
In his entire career, he said,there was only one crash with awoman, which he immediatelyattempted to remedy “I gaveher a kiss,” Mr O’Neal said
the U.S., 2015-16 school year
Source: Student and Exchange Visitor
Program, Department of Homeland Security
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The Elements
Of Style
How to Write Like Tolstoy
By Richard Cohen
(Random House, 323 pages, $28)
BOOKSHELF | By Stefan Beck
OPINION
One is bound to feel duped if, having bought a book
called “How to Write Like Tolstoy,” one encounterswithin the first six pages the question “Can one, infact, teach people to write?” This dodge is a common rhe-torical gambit of people being paid to teach people towrite—the implication being, “Don’t expect a miracle.”Richard Cohen, an author, professor and veteran editor ofsuch luminaries as Kingsley Amis and John le Carré, citesKurt Vonnegut as having been skeptical of writing instruc-tion Vonnegut, on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Work-shop, “held that one could not make writers, and likenedhimself to a golf pro who could, at best, take a few shotsoff someone’s game.” So one can teach people to write—
just not like Count Lev.Notwithstanding its ti-tle, which is clearly tongue-in-cheek, Mr Cohen’s bookhas admirably modest aims
It seeks to provide soundadvice to aspiring writersand to illuminate the ways inwhich the finest novelistshave addressed fiction’s cre-ative and technical challenges
It begins with “Grab, Invite,Beguile: Beginnings,” endswith “The Sense of an Ending,”and, in between, discoursesupon character, point of view, dia-logue, plot and rhythm There are also, lesspredictably, chapters on plagiarism and the difficulties andrewards of writing about sex All of this amounts to some-thing more substantial than a mere handbook It is a paean
to the creative process
The book’s weakness, that it is at times accessible to afault, can also be counted among its strengths Seriousreaders may chafe at how often Mr Cohen illustrates hispoints with all-too-familiar works and passages In his
“Beginnings” chapter, for instance, he quotes the openingparagraphs of “The Old Man and the Sea” and “TheCatcher in the Rye”; Salinger reappears later, in a two-page section on “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.” Mr Co-hen includes such inescapable matter as the concludinglines of “The Great Gatsby,” the apocryphal tale of JackKerouac’s “On the Road” “scroll,” and an explanation ofGordon Lish’s role in creating Raymond Carver’s work as
we know it
Serious readers are aware of this stuff So are many than-serious ones Yet it helps make “How to Write LikeTolstoy” feel like a book for everyone, not just MFA stu-dents with a draft or two under their belts It belongs inevery high-school classroom Not only does it cover the ba-sic mechanics of storytelling in a genial, conversationalway, but it also makes the literary sphere and literary lifeseem wilder and more enticing than any high-school Eng-lish curriculum is allowed to do The by turns amusing,groan-making and meditative chapter on writing aboutsex—which provides a survey of literary erotica from “TheSong of Songs” and “Fanny Hill” to Philip Roth, John Up-dike and Tom Wolfe—goes a long way in that direction, too
less-In any case, the sort of quotations one might find on abookstore tote bag sit amid a greater quantity of more so-
phisticated or esoteric material, culled from literary raphies, writers’ and editors’ correspondence, and Mr Co-hen’s own editorial career An inquiry into the nature ofplot takes as its jumping-off point his work on editingChristopher Booker’s “The Seven Basic Plots” (2004), atwo-decade-plus project that Mr Cohen describes, in an al-lusion to “Middlemarch,” as a “modern equivalent of Casa-ubon’s Key to All Mythologies.” This section is a reminder
biog-of how deeply the author and his lodestars have engagedwith the issues under discussion
Those lodestars are far too numerous to list, but as aconsequence “How to Write Like Tolstoy” is worth pur-chasing for its implied Suggested Further Reading alone.Part of the value of a college education is that it alerts theautodidact to his embarrassing blind spots Mr Cohen’sbook could serve as a decent substitute It names dozens ifnot hundreds of works, as old as the Gilgamesh epic and as
of the moment as the levee-breaking tides of Karl OveKnausgaard’s prose It also draws on significant works ofliterary criticism and instruction, ranging from the popular(Stephen King’s “On Writing,” James Wood’s “How FictionWorks”) to the classic (E.M Forster’s “Aspects of theNovel,” F.L Lucas’s “Style,” Henry James’s “The Art of Fic-tion”) to the lesser-known (Georges Polti’s “Les Trente-SixSituations Dramatiques”)
Mr Cohen’s chapter on plagiarism is, sadly, an cially welcome one, given how common literary theft hasbecome in high schools and on college campuses Yet onewonders whether it might be misinterpreted by unsubtle
espe-or unscrupulous minds as a warrant to steal He quotesBill Bryson: “Shakespeare was a wonderful teller of sto-ries so long as someone else had told them first.” He tells
us that Laurence Sterne plagiarized Robert Burton, cis Bacon and Rabelais when writing “Tristram Shandy.”While this discussion is fascinating, there is a bit toomuch of this “good writers borrow, great writers steal”(T.S Eliot) sort of thing, and it is hardly relevant to thetype of plagiarism that tends to occur in the age ofGoogle and Wikipedia
Fran-The highest compliment one can pay “How to Write LikeTolstoy” is that it provokes an overwhelming urge to readand write, to be in dialogue or even doomed competitionwith the greatest creative minds Encouraging this impulse
is a teacher’s real job The Irish writer Brendan Behan, Mr.Cohen tells us, once disappointed a standing-room-onlycrowd by thundering, “Go on back home and frickin’ write”and then making his exit This is a cop-out One cannot im-prove as a writer without practice, but seldom does onesubmit to that discipline without first having been taught
to love it That Mr Cohen is an editor, that his love of erature comes in large part from awe in the presence ofbetter writers than he, is no small matter His love is infec-tious, and regardless of how well he ends up teaching us towrite, that is miracle enough
lit-Mr Beck is a writer living in Hudson, N.Y.
Part of the value of a college education is that
it alerts the autodidact to his embarrassing blind spots This book is a decent substitute.
Fuji-mori, in Peru’s runoff
presi-dential election on Sunday as
we went to press But his lead
was within the 2% margin of
error, making the race too
close to call
Even before polls opened,
the election was already
nota-ble for April’s first-round
re-sults In that balloting, voters
rejected Verónika Mendoza,
the candidate for the
left-wing Broad Front party who
promised hard-core socialism
as a cure for poverty Both
runoff candidates were
cen-ter-right advocates of the
country’s market-friendly,
pro-development path of the
past two decades
Yet there also were real
differences between the two
candidates and, amid the
ris-ing expectations of the
bur-geoning middle-class, a
Kuc-zynski victory could have
important implications for
stability and growth
Plenty of festering sores in
Peru’s political economy need
attention if popular support
for liberal economics is to be
maintained The state is
noto-riously corrupt Too much
government has pushed most
economic activity
under-ground, limiting access to
credit, and violent crime is
in-creasing Mr Kuczynski’s
pre-scriptions for reducing the
large informal economy and
A Close Race in Pro-Growth Peru
upgrading the quality of thejudiciary and police divergedsignificantly from Ms Fuji-mori’s right-wing nationalpopulism, which included acall to expand the role of thestate-owned oil company
Peru stands out for its herence over the past 15 years
ad-to democratic capitalism, ing a time when the authori-
dur-tarianism of chavismo
ema-nating from Venezuela gainedground in neighboring coun-tries Even the 2011 election
of Ollanta Humala—an ally ofVenezuelan President HugoChávez who died in 2013—
didn’t derail Peru’s capitalistrevolution
The economy grew at acompounded annual rate of5% from 1999 through 2008
Over the same period exportswent up by a factor of seven
Strong commodity priceshelped But Peru also did itsstructural homework
A vibrant mining sector, nanced by foreign investors,was allowed to flourish along-side the trade liberalizationbegun in the 1990s, whichended protectionism for do-mestic producers Access toforeign exchange and importsgave Peruvian entrepreneursthe tools they needed to com-pete globally In the yearssince the global financialcrisis and the slowdown of theChinese economy Peru hasbeen among the region’s bestperformers with a com-pounded annual rate of growth
fi-of 4.7% from 2009 through2015
Another Peruvian ment since Mr Fujimori leftoffice in 2000—after he tried
achieve-to run for a constitutionallyforbidden additional term andwas blocked—is that no presi-
dent has tried to stick aroundbeyond his term limit Mr Fu-jimori was popular because hestabilized a country brought
to the brink by hyperinflationand terrorism But with thebacking of the left—whichnever forgave his victory overthe bloodthirsty Maoist terrorgroup Shining Path—Peru’sdemocrats stopped the presi-dent’s power grab He’s now
in prison for convictions oncharges of human-rights vio-lations and bribery
If the Latin American left,which feigned a love of de-mocracy, had used even afraction of the energy it putinto ending Mr Fujimori’spolitical career on opposingHugo Chávez as he shaped amilitary dictatorship, Venezu-elans might not be starvingnow By denying Mr Fujimorianother term, Peruvians set aprecedent for the peaceful,predictable transfer of powerand political competition
Ms Fujimori—who wasPeru’s “first lady” after herfather and mother separated
in 1994 and later divorced—
distanced herself from herfather’s government andpledged to respect democ-racy She is a disciplined poli-tician and prosecuted a fabu-lous campaign ground game,effectively mobilizing hergrass-roots Popular Forceparty which she had builtover years
Yet many Peruvians ate the Fujimori name withauthoritarianism, and therewas concern that her party’smajority in Congress wouldrubber stamp Ms Fujimori’sagenda She was furtherweakened by the revelationlast month that the secretary-general of her party is beinginvestigated by the U.S DrugEnforcement Agency
associ-Ms Fujimori’s economicnationalism is strange in acountry that has been climb-ing out of poverty throughengagement with the world
During the campaign shefrequently demagogued Mr
Kuczynski as a rich guy whowants to help corporationsand foreigners by allowingthe export of natural gas re-serves
That seemed insincere onmultiple levels As the daugh-ter of the president she didn’texactly grow up in the barrio
And surely the Columbia versity M.B.A understandsthat the gas has no value if itsits in the ground
Uni-Mr Kuczynski didn’t havethe benefit of a party ma-chine But he benefited from astrong anti-Fujimori senti-ment among Ms Mendoza’ssupporters And his platformpromising to upgrade law en-forcement and intelligence,enhance transparency, lowerand simplify taxes, and bringpotable water to Peruvianhomes resonated in an aspir-ing nation
If Ms Fujimori wins, she’llneed Mr Kuczynski’s ideas tomove the country ahead IfPPK maintains his early lead,his challenge will be getting a
fujimorista Congress to work
with him
Write to O’Grady@wsj.com.
Two center-right candidates, but one has a more promising economic agenda.
AMERICAS
By Mary
Anastasia
O’Grady
From “Minimum Wage vs.
the Carwasheros: New York’s
new $15 wage floor pits man
against machine” by writer
Jim Epstein for the July issue
of Reason magazine:
When the minimum wage
goes to $15 an hour,
automat-ing will be a no-brainer “Since
I have 15 guys on the property,
I wouldn’t be able to charge
less than $30,” [New York City
car-wash owner Martin Taub]
says “Who’s going to pay $30
for a car wash?”
Amir Malki, a leading car
wash equipment installer in
the region, says over a dozencar wash operators in NewYork City have inquired aboutputting in the necessary ma-chinery to cut their laborcosts
One owner, who talked toReason under the condition ofanonymity because he’s wor-ried about the political reper-cussions of speaking outabout the minimum wage,says he’s considering purchas-ing $300,000 in equipment,which would allow him toeliminate 15 of the 22 menwho currently staff his full-service hand wash
When the minimum wagegoes from $9 to $15, he esti-mates that his expenses perwash will rise about $7 to
$22, meaning he’ll have tocharge at least $25 to make aprofit “Now put yourself inthe shoes of the customer,” hesays “The first thing they’ll
do is wash their cars at home
Or they’ll drop from washingtheir cars three times amonth to once a month.” If heautomates, he figures he couldlower his price to about $8
“That’s the only way I canthink of to survive.”
“I can’t think of any
indus-try where the service that’sprovided is so expendable,”
says economist [Donald] dreaux “In economic terms,you’d say that the demand forcar washes is highly elastic.”
Bou-In other words, the industryfaces strong pressures to keepprices down, because carwashes aren’t a necessary ser-vice, so an increase will lead
to a quick fall-off in customertraffic That’s why most can’tafford to pay their workers
$15 per hour and stay in ness Car wash operators have
busi-no choice but to automate,”
What happens to freedom of
the press if wealthy people
can fund lawsuits to bankrupt
media outlets they don’t like?
Good question Here’s a
better one: Why did it take so
long for journalists to discover
abuses of the legal system
that torment every other
in-dustry?
Media commentators have
almost universally condemned
Peter Thiel, a PayPal
co-founder and early investor in
Facebook, for how he went
af-ter Gawker, which outed him
as gay in 2007 Mr Thiel
de-fends his actions as “less
about revenge and more about
specific deterrence.” Gawker,
he argues, plays a “uniquely
degrading role in our culture.”
Mr Thiel, himself a
Stan-ford-trained lawyer, was smart
enough to take advantage of a
radical change in the U.S legal
system He paid the lawyers
representing professional
wrestler Hulk Hogan, who
sued for invasion of privacy
after Gawker disseminated an
explicit video of the plaintiff
and another man’s wife
Until recently Mr Thiel’s
Peter Thiel’s Legal Smackdown
backing would have been acrime, known as “mainte-nance” and dating from 13th-century English statutesaimed at preventing feudallords from interfering withthe legal process English ju-rist William Blackstone de-fined maintenance as “offi-cious intermeddling in a suitthat no way belongs to one”
and characterized it an fense against public justice, as
“of-it keeps alive strife and tention and perverts the re-medial process of the law into
con-an engine of oppression.” Butlaws against maintenance, aswell as the related offenses of
“champerty” and “barratry,”
were repealed in most U.S
states in the 1960s, when yers persuaded policy makersthat funding to encouragemore litigation was good forsociety
law-It was long understood whyonly parties to a lawsuitshould have an interest in it:
The wealthy could influenceothers’ cases, outside fundingwould encourage “vexatious”
litigation, and conflicts in terest between funders andlitigants would corrupt the le-gal process Example: Mr Ho-gan’s lawyers excluded a claimthat would have activatedGawker’s insurance to pay its
in-fees and damages, and theyrejected settlement offers Itlooks as if the lawyers’ pri-mary loyalty was to Mr Thiel,who signed their checks, not
to their client
Litigation finance quicklybecame a huge business, fund-ing everything from mass tortclaims by plaintiff lawyers toendless lawsuits by patenttrolls against technology com-panies Outside investorsbankrolled the multibillion-dollar case brought by Ecua-dorians against Chevron thatresulted in the plaintiff lawyerbeing convicted of fraud andracketeering
Walter Olson, author of
“The Litigation Explosion”
(1991), explained in his lawyered.com blog that Mr
Over-Thiel’s approach was able after maintenance “meta-morphosed around the 1960sinto what we now know as thepublic interest litigationmodel: foundation or wealthyindividual A pays B to sue C
predict-Since litigation during this riod was being re-conceived assomething socially productiveand beneficial, what could bemore philanthropic and pub-lic-spirited than to pay forthere to be more of it?”
pe-With maintenance nalized, Mr Olson warns, “It
decrimi-will be used not just againstthe originally contemplatedtargets, such as large business
or government defendants,but against a wide range ofothers—journalistic defen-dants included.”
The effect is compounded
by American juries’ tendency
to award huge sums in ages—$140 million in Mr Ho-gan’s case Contrast that withthe £60,000 ($80,000) Eng-land’s High Court in 2008awarded Max Mosley, the 76-year-old son of British FascistOswald Mosley, when a Britishtabloid published video andphotos of what it called “asick Nazi orgy” he had orga-nized Mr Mosley, who hadrun the Formula One car-rac-ing organization, won a pri-vacy judgment when the judgeruled there was no Nazitheme, only “bondage, beatingand domination,” which wasnot a matter of public interest
dam-Even without the enormousaward—even if all the plain-tiffs he solicited and fundedlost every case—Mr Thielcould have sued Gawker out ofbusiness In almost all othercountries, losing litigantscover the winning party’s le-gal bills, but in the U.S., suc-cessful defendants must paytheir own lawyers The costs
to Gawker of a few lawsuitswould eventually have de-pleted the online publisher’smodest assets
The Constitution usuallyshields journalists from litiga-tion, but that immunity toooften blinds the news industry
to abuses in the legal system
The Gawker case’s lesson forjournalists isn’t that they de-serve protections beyond theFirst Amendment, but thatthey should do a better job re-porting the abuses committedthrough a legal system thatmakes it so easy to achieve in-justice
With Gawker under
attack, the press wakes
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Risk Corridors Are Essential in Health Care
Over the past several years, muchhas been said about the politics ofhealth-care reform However, Sen
Marco Rubio’s criticism of risk dors associated with the AffordableCare Act (“ObamaCare: A Crony Cap-italist’s Best Friend,” op-ed, May 25)
corri-and other criticism on these pages
of the private health insurance dustry are misguided
in-When Congress passed the healthreform law, it included a temporarythree-year transition program tomitigate disruption to consumers inthe early years of the new insurancemarket This risk corridors program
is a time-tested policy that has beenused on a bipartisan basis as part ofmany insurance initiatives, includingMedicare’s highly successful pre-scription drug program
Health plans responded to the lawand the subsequent federal andstate regulations as required Cover-age options for millions of Ameri-
cans were developed based on therules that were in place Unfortu-nately, as a result of the shortfall inthe risk corridors funding, morethan 800,000 Americans across thecountry have faced disruptions incoverage, health plans have had toreduce benefits and options, andseveral had to close their operationsentirely
No matter the party, everyoneshares the goal of ensuring afford-able access to health care We be-lieve the private insurance market
is the best way to deliver choiceand quality for consumers Thatwill require Congress to move for-ward with bipartisan solutions thatprotect consumers and promote astable, affordable market for allAmericans
M ATTHEW E YLES
Executive Vice President America’s Health Insurance Plans
Washington
It’s Time to Consider the Libertarian Ticket
Your editorial calls the LibertarianParty’s Gary Johnson-William Weldticket an “honorable alternative” tothe presumptive Democratic and Re-publican nominees, and indeed it is(“The Libertarian Alternative,” May31) If Messrs Johnson and Weld werethe Republican standard bearersrather than the Libertarian ones, theywould enjoy the full-throated support
of conservatives and classical liberalswho cherish the GOP’s legacy of freemarkets and limited government Theyare two successful former governorswith unimpeachable conservative cre-dentials on economic matters, tolerantviews on social issues and bipartisanappeal to boot In this election cycle,where the major parties offer voters apoor choice, the Johnson-Weld ticket
is a no-brainer—or it would be if somany Americans weren’t conditioned
to dismiss the idea of a third-partycandidate out of hand
Donald Trump’s ascendancy has
demonstrated that on too many majorissues, the GOP no longer offers a co-herent message to counter Democraticdogma Republicans pay lip service tothe goal of smaller government, but
no progress has been made on thatfront since the 1980s
On the most important issues of theday—how to fix America’s ailing econ-omy, America’s role in foreign affairsand the extent to which governmentshould be allowed to curtail liberties
to ameliorate perceived social lems—Libertarians, not Republicans,offer the starkest and most principledalternative to the Democratic Party
prob-J AMES L IDDELL
Washington
I couldn’t agree more that the complished Libertarian ticket is an ex-cellent alternative to Donald Trumpand Hillary Clinton, but more impor-tant, it would punish the two estab-lished parties for breaking faith withAmerica for giving us unacceptablecandidates We know they are unac-ceptable because each party has basedits message on how bad the other can-didate would be rather than any ac-tual policy or character consider-ations This is insulting
ac-At 10% now in the latest Fox poll,the Libertarians would need to takejust 12% from each of the establishedparties to be positioned to win A Lib-ertarian presidency might just bewhat the country needs Everybodywould have to work together becausethey’d have no choice With a Libertar-ian president standing between them,the usual Republican-Democratic ran-cor just wouldn’t play
D AVE D AVIS
Phoenix
Writing Off Student Loans
Is an Idea With Great Legs
How wonderful that the Obama ministration is forgiving studentloans of those attending schools said
ad-to have used deceptive advertisingand recruiting (“Applications to Can-cel Student Loans Surge,” U.S News,May 27) Perhaps now American tax-payers can have their past incometaxes forgiven (and returned) whenit’s shown that politicians have useddeceptive advertising
E D W RIGHT
San Jose, Calif.
If the government pays off the dent loans that graduates claim areworthless, then the graduates shouldlose their diplomas, which they claimdon’t have value Graduates who have
stu-a vstu-alued diplomstu-a wouldn’t stu-ask giveness This would separate the bo-gus claims from real ones
for-T ED H AMMOND
Greensboro, Ga.
For Many College Often Isn’t the Best Choice
Jeffery J Selingo makes an oftenoverlooked point that while the vastmajority of today’s good jobs requireeducation and training beyond highschool, that doesn’t mean everyoneneeds a bachelor’s degree (“CollegeIsn’t Always the Answer,” op-ed, May27) The programs he mentions,started by community colleges andbusinesses, provide important alter-natives But states also have a role
We need to ensure that our dren’s curriculum includes built-inoptions that prepare them for suc-cess in fields offering great careeropportunities in our states The Path-ways to Prosperity initiative, cur-rently implemented in 12 states, is anideal model In Delaware, we havenearly a dozen pathways in areasranging from IT and engineering toculinary arts and bioscience—all cho-sen because those industries havegood jobs available in Delaware Par-ticipants take hundreds of hours ofcoursework and have access to paidinternships, all developed with en-gaged business partners Studentsgraduate high school with workplaceexperience as well as some collegecredits We just recognized the firstgraduates of our initial pathway—
chil-started two years ago in ing All received industry-recognizedcertificates and decided for them-selves whether to choose a job, con-tinued education or both
manufactur-G OV. J ACK M ARKELL
Dover, Del.
Mr Selingo seems to think that theonly reason to attend a college is tomake a living Isn’t it worth some-thing to know the difference between
a Sunni and a Shiite, or that tians once killed Christians in un-heard of numbers during the ThirtyYears War (1618-1648)? Does thestudy of history or, God forbid, Shake-speare belong in economic statistics?
Chris-Can’t we learn something about ily from “King Lear”? It’s time to free
fam-a college educfam-ation or lifelong lefam-arn-ing from the employment statistics.There is more to life than that
learn-S OL G ITTLEMAN
Winchester, Mass.
Young people entering college are
in dire need of effective career seling Determining whether or not toattend college and what to major inrequires a great deal of thought As
coun-Mr Selingo suggests, in many cases astudent may be better served bychoosing to pursue a trade such asplumbing, carpentry, welding, electri-cal or others, instead of attending col-lege because the demand may begreater and the pay more rewarding.Our leaders in government shouldalso do everything possible to dis-abuse people of the idea that there is
a stigma associated with jobs thatdon’t require a college degree Politi-cians always speak of the need for acollege education and promise stu-dent loans and even free college foreveryone but seldom speak aboutother options
R ALPH T IBILETTI
Spring, Texas
An untold aspect of co-op tion is that of influencing students to-ward careers with industries theymight otherwise never have consid-ered In my case, it was love at firstencounter in January 1956 when I, amechanical-engineering studentshowed up for a Northeastern Univer-sity co-op job interview at the Salem(Mass.) Harbor Station, then NewEngland Power Company’s new flag-ship station I was seduced Thatcharismatic experience engendered apassion that stayed with me through-out my 35-year career
educa-P ETER K USHKOWSKI
Portland, Conn.
Trump and the ‘Mexican’ Judge
D onald Trump keeps giving his political
opponents ammunition, most recently
with his continuing attacks on Judge
Gonzalo Curiel, who is
presid-ing over lawsuits against
Trump University But it’s
im-portant to distinguish
be-tween what is merely
obnox-ious and the truly odobnox-ious in
his remarks.
Mr Trump has repeatedly attacked the
judge as “unfair” and “a hater.” He has also
threatened a civil case against the judge if he
becomes President, adding that because Judge
Curiel is “of Mexican heritage” he has “an
in-herent conflict of interest.” The media have
of-fered Mr Trump opportunities to retreat, but
he keeps insisting that ethnicity disqualifies
the judge from ruling fairly because the
Re-publican favors building a wall at the
U.S.-Mexican border.
Democrats and their media allies are trying
to portray this as an attack on “judicial
inde-pendence,” but criticizing the judiciary is
nei-ther new nor beyond the pale Perhaps they’ve
forgotten that President Obama slammed the
Supreme Court for its Citizens United ruling in
2010 while the Justices were a captive audience
during the State of the Union address.
Mr Obama also contributed to the
Demo-cratic intimidation campaign against Chief
Jus-tice John Roberts ahead of the 2012 ObamaCare
ruling “I’m confident that the Supreme Court
will not take what would be an unprecedented,
extraordinary step of overturning a law that was
passed by a strong majority of a democratically
elected Congress,” the President said at an April
2012 press conference The Chief Justice ruled
as the President recommended.
We and others criticized those attacks on
the judiciary at the time If our great
progres-sive moralists were outraged, we must have
missed it However, the left has long wanted
to make progressive judges off-limits to
politi-cal criticism, which explains the attempts to
conflate Mr Trump’s comments with
criticiz-ing any judge ever.
Mr Trump is attacking Judge Curiel in a
per-sonal business case, not a political one, and as
a candidate for President we think he should be
above this kind of pettiness His implied threat
against the judge if he becomes President is
more obnoxious, though we doubt he could do much about it in office The political blowback would rightly be enormous.
What elevates Mr Trump’s remarks to the reprehensible
is his equation of ethnicity with bias That truly is an at- tack on the independence of the judiciary because it means that a judge can be disquali- fied from a case merely for his personal back- ground, rather than for any material conflict
of interest.
The suit against Trump University is a sic civil fraud case that has nothing to do with ethnicity Judge Curiel happens to be an American born in Indiana to immigrant par- ents, but that is of no legal import He shouldn’t be judged by the ancestry of his par- ents any more than Chief Justice Roberts should be barred from ruling on religious lib- erty cases like the Little Sisters of the Poor be- cause he is a Roman Catholic.
clas-As a legal matter this is well established,
no-tably in a 1998 case (MacDraw v CIT) in the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals A litigant lenged the fairness of Judge Denny Chin due to his ethnicity Judge Chin responded by slapping down the complaint and sanctioning the law- yers, and he was backed by the appellate judges.
chal-“Courts have repeatedly held that matters such
as race or ethnicity are improper bases for lenging a judge’s impartiality,” wrote Judge Ralph Winter, a highly regarded conservative appointed by Ronald Reagan.
chal-Apart from his racist implications, Mr.
Trump is also indulging in the left’s habit of tributing the motivations of everyone and ev- erything to race, class, gender and sexual orien- tation Claiming that a person’s judgment is determined by his objective circumstances is a Marxist trope Isn’t Mr Trump supposed to be running against such thinking?
at-The hopeful news is that Mr Trump’s attack
on Judge Curiel’s ethnicity has been widely nounced, notably by senior Republicans includ- ing House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Unlike many of our outraged progressives, they are politically con- sistent As for Mr Trump, he should let his law- yers argue his civil case, apologize to the judge, and start talking about the economy.
de-Why equating ethnicity with judicial bias is so offensive.
Squeezing Kim Jong Un’s Bankers
T he Obama Administration put
signifi-cant new pressure on North Korea
last week by designating the entire
country a “primary
money-laundering concern.” This is
the biggest gun in the
arse-nal of financial sanctions If
enforced, it will make banks
world-wide choose between
doing business with North
Korea and maintaining access to U.S dollars.
For Kim Jong Un and the Chinese banks that
sustain his regime, life is suddenly more
complicated.
It’s about time Despite blacklisting the
fi-nancial systems of Burma and Iran in this
wholesale fashion years ago, the U.S has hit
North Korea only with sanctions on certain
in-dividuals and entities This allowed Pyongyang
to keep working with foreign banks and using
nominally legal channels to move dirty money
from its rackets in drugs, counterfeiting, slave
labor and weapons President Obama was
wrong last year to call North Korea the “most
sanctioned” country on earth, but perhaps now
he is committed to making it so.
The model is the Bush Administration’s 2005
blacklisting of Banco Delta Asia, a small Macau
bank, for allegedly helping North Korea launder
money That froze $25 million in Kim family
as-sets and, more important, caused other banks
to drop their Pyongyang business for fear of
be-ing similarly barred from the U.S financial
sys-tem Pyongyang soon had trouble buying
mis-sile parts and paying its cronies, so it begged
for a reprieve.
The Bush Administration obliged, at the
urg-ing of diplomats Condoleezza Rice and
Christo-pher Hill, lifting the Banco Delta Asia sanctions
in 2007 in exchange for denuclearization ises that Pyongyang predictably broke But the
prom-episode showed the Kim gime’s sensitivity to losing foreign bank access.
re-Which is why Wednesday’s move is potentially conse- quential: If any foreign bank doing business with any North Korean entity will be subject to a U.S.
dollar ban, Pyongyang could face financing problems that dwarf its former Banco Delta Asia woes.
It’s true that past performance doesn’t antee future results As powerful as the U.S.
guar-designation may be, Pyongyang’s patrons in Beijing can still undermine it by equipping se- lect Chinese banks to operate independent of the U.S dollar system, or by resupplying Kim
as his coffers dry up Beijing criticized the U.S.
move as “unilateral,” reiterating its line that sanctions must not “harm the legitimate rights and interests of China.”
So the fate of these sanctions, like those that came before, lie in the U.S ability to persuade China to get on board In this regard the timing
of the designation may offer some reason for hope: It came as tensions are already high over the South China Sea, on the eve of this week’s annual U.S.-China summit in Beijing, and as Chi- nese leader Xi Jinping met a personal envoy of Kim Jong Un.
Rather than shrinking from such calendar pressure, as it often has in the past, the Obama Administration made its move Here’s hoping this presages tough enforcement in the months
to come.
The U.S puts pressure
on the North’s finances.
What will China do?
Bringing Justice to Justice
R emember the federal judge who
or-dered Justice Department lawyers to
take ethics classes after he learned
they’d deliberately lied about
President Obama’s executive
order on immigration? He’s
not the only official asking
hard questions about
inde-fensible behavior by federal
prosecutors.
On May 19 Senators Chuck Grassley and
Mike Lee sent a letter to Deputy Attorney
Gen-eral Sally Quillian Yates asking about the
“questionable actions of federal prosecutors”
regarding the criminal case against
medical-device maker Vascular Solutions Mr Grassley
chairs the Judiciary Committee.
In February a federal jury acquitted
Vascu-lar Solutions and its CEO Howard Root on all
criminal charges related to the promotion of
one of its varicose-vein kits The company
wasn’t accused of spreading false
informa-tion—merely of marketing the kits for off-label
uses that the Food and Drug Administration
hadn’t approved The company’s attorneys
found evidence that prosecutors had shared
grand jury testimony from some witnesses
with other witnesses, interviewed witnesses
outside the grand jury without their counsel present, and threatened perjury charges against witnesses whose testimony didn’t fit
the DOJ narrative.
In their letter to Ms Yates, the Senators want to know whether this behavior is “ac- cepted practice or policy,”
and, if not, “what disciplinary steps have been taken.” They also want to know whether the Office of Pro- fessional Responsibility is investigating the al- leged misconduct.
They should also ask Ms Yates about the memo she issued in September offering new guidance on prosecuting corporate officers.
Justice has ample statutes to hold businesses accountable for genuine abuses The question
is whether President Obama’s antibusiness titudes have created a climate in which DOJ prosecutors are willing to cut ethical corners
at-to win convictions for which there isn’t enough evidence U.S Attorney Preet Bharara’s failed insider-trading cases are one example.
Maybe Justice needs a new Yates memo that focuses on the consequences for DOJ law- yers who bring cases that never should be brought—with sanctions for legal abuses.
Sen Chuck Grassley wants answers from DOJ
on prosecutorial abuse.
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
OPINION
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Ending the Corporate-Welfare Circus
heart of America’s
eco-nomic success, but not
every type of contest
benefits society
Con-sider the growing trend of
busi-nesses cajoling states and
politi-cians to compete for who can dole
out the most corporate welfare
It’s especially frustrating because
there are already plenty of ways
to promote job growth without
robbing taxpayers
General Electric is one of the
latest companies to shamelessly
demand taxpayer-funded goodies
from government The company’s
senior tax counsel Bobby Burgner
spoke freely about the firm’s
strat-egy earlier this month at a panel
hosted by the National Bureau of
Economic Research Mr Burgner
declared that GE would generally
avoid states with congressional
delegations opposed to
federal-sub-sidy programs like the
Export-Im-port Bank, which hands out
tax-payer-backed loans and guarantees
to businesses like GE This followed
the company’s refusal last summer
to relocate its headquarters to
Dal-las, because some prominent Texas
lawmakers opposed reauthorizing
the bank
Increasingly, major companies
determine where to maintain,
ex-pand or relocate facilities based on
how much money they can take
from taxpayers’ pockets in the
pro-cess They sometimes hold jobs and
entire communities hostage until
they get their way
The most frequent tactic is to
demand tax credits or direct
subsi-dies from state governments In
2010 John Deere secured $15 lion from Iowa to maintain roughly
mil-300 jobs at a Waterloo plant Ayear later in neighboring Illinois,Sears and the Chicago MercantileExchange Group threatened to relo-cate their headquarters unless thestate forked over about $100 mil-lion in tax breaks General Electricwas in on the game as early as
2010 when it sought $25 million intax credits from Massachusetts tomaintain 150 local jobs
States also use tax giveaways tolure businesses to relocate or ex-pand North Carolina gave presents
of $320 million to Apple and $250million to Google so they wouldbuild data servers in the Tar HeelState Kentucky has doled outmore than $500 million in taxbreaks and subsidies for Toyotaand Ford auto plants Medicalcompanies have milked Florida forwell over $1 billion in varioushandouts Nevada threw $1.3 bil-lion at Tesla Motors to build anelectric-car-battery plant
And then there’s Boeing In
2013, the company, which bles jetliners in the world’s largestbuilding in Everett, Wash., an-
assem-nounced that it was looking for alocation to build its new 777X
This spurred a furious scramble bymultiple states to win the com-pany’s favor Although most kepttheir bids under wraps, Missouritried to tip the scales by passing abill containing $1.7 billion in taxincentives
That still wasn’t enough, andBoeing decided to stay in Washing-ton The price? An $8.7 billionpackage, the largest such giveaway
in American history, that includedtax breaks on airplane production,
a sales-and-use tax exemption fornew buildings and taxpayer-fundedtraining for employees
Some states now devote part oftheir annual budget to doling outtaxpayer-funded goodies to busi-nesses, and many have establishedgovernment agencies to greasecompany wheels New York has itsEmpire State Development Corpora-tion California’s is known as theCalifornia Infrastructure and Eco-nomic Development Bank And, asusual, everything is bigger in Texas:
The state annually hands out morethan $19 billion in corporate wel-fare through the Texas EnterpriseFund and other programs, accord-
ing to the New York Times
It’s not all bad news for ers Wisconsin lawmakers last yearrejected Gov Scott Walker’s plan toinject $55 million into the Wiscon-sin Economic Development Corpo-ration In February Florida lawmak-ers rejected Gov Rick Scott’sproposal to give $250 million toEnterprise Florida The stateagency will now be shrunk byroughly two-thirds—a big win foranyone paying taxes in the Sun-shine State
taxpay-Yet these are only exceptionsthat prove the rule in this special-interest race to the bottom If stateand local lawmakers are truly inter-ested in spurring job creation andeconomic growth, they have betteroptions than handing out taxpayermoney to a lucky few
States could start with ing tax carve outs and replacingthem with lower-overall tax ratesand lighter regulatory burdens Fed-eral lawmakers could also do theirpart by lowering America’s highest-in-the-developed-world corporatetax rate These already proven ideaswould help states create a healthyeconomic climate to attract busi-nesses and investment
eliminat-Embracing these policies wouldprotect taxpayers, who shouldnever be forced to fork over theirmoney to companies that includemultinational firms with multimil-lion-dollar profit margins Con-sumers and taxpayers will alsobenefit once a level economic play-ing field forces businesses to com-pete with each other based solely
on the quality of their productsand services
That might seem like a novelconcept to many of today’s lawmak-ers and business leaders But it’sthe kind of competition that hasspurred the innovation and ad-vances that made America the eco-nomic envy of the world—not acorporate welfare free-for-all
Mr Gardner is vice president of government affairs at Americans for Prosperity.
By Brent Gardner
State gifts to the likes of
Boeing, Ford, Google and
Apple are unnecessary and
unfair Better to cut the tax
rate and reduce regulation.
Waiting For Obama
On Religious Liberty
By Frank Pavone
The ball is now in the Obama
administration’s court For morethan four years, religious non-profit groups like mine have defendedourselves against the ObamaCareHealth and Human Services mandate,which makes religious nonprofitgroups complicit in the distribution ofabortion-causing drugs to theiremployees We are now waiting to seewhat the president and his appointeeswill do in light of the Supreme Court’s
recent action in Priests for Life v HHS
and the other six cases that make up
Zubik v Burwell.
The Supreme Court could havesettled the question of whether fed-eral bureaucrats may issue punishing,perhaps incapacitating, fines to faith-based organizations that refuse toparticipate in what we believe to beevil Instead, the justices sent all of
the cases in Zubik back to the four
federal circuit courts that heard themfirst The high court also asked thoseappeals courts to step away momen-tarily and give the two sides time toresolve the case on their own
What will the administration donow? The White House’s latest “ac-commodation” proposal for religiousnonprofit charities, schools and otherorganizations did not satisfy the Reli-gious Freedom Restoration Act Theproposal and each of its previous ver-sions required faith-based groupsseeking an exemption from the man-date to submit a form to an authority.Without this initiating action, abor-tion-causing drugs would not bemade available to our employees Thebasic requirement that we be com-plicit in the provision of abortifa-cients and other life-denying drugs,devices and procedures was a part ofevery government proposal When weresponded that we are forbidden byour faith to take part in thisscheme—the government effectivelyretorted, “So what?
But both sides in Zubik have told
the Supreme Court that a solution istheoretically possible
For instance, the administrationcould, for once, actually listen to the
Zubik petitioners—and to the scores of
other faith-based groups that havelawsuits pending in lower courts—andpropose a solution that does not hijackour health-insurance plans Theadministration could, for example,make abortifacient/contraceptive cov-erage available to religious nonprofitemployees through the ObamaCareexchanges, Title X (the federal pro-gram devoted to family-planning ser-vices), or separate arrangements withour own or another insurance com-pany In other words, don’t involve us,
or the health-insurance plan we offerour employees, in the effort to expandcoverage of abortion-inducing drugs.The administration might betempted to come up with a proposalthat satisfies only those groups thathave third-party insurance coverage—and not those that self-insure Thiswouldn’t be acceptable, because self-insurers underwrite their own health-insurance plans and are, practicallyspeaking, their own insurance compa-nies A government “accommodation”that offered as its only option a re-quirement that insurers of religiousnonprofit groups offer the employees
of those groups separate plans forabortifacients and contraceptiveswould still force self-insured religiousgroups to violate their faith.Then again, the administrationmight completely ignore the SupremeCourt and come up with yet anotherregulation that satisfies no one ex-cept the bureaucrats who insist thatthe religious must bow to the state
If all the parties resolve the ter, the case would probably beclosed But if the two sides can’tagree, four federal appeals courts willeventually have to rule on the seven
mat-Zubik cases Almost all of the judges
from these courts who heard theselawsuits the first time are Democraticappointees who sided with the ad-ministration It isn’t likely that theywould issue decisions favorable to re-ligious liberty The four courts mayalso end up issuing conflicting rul-ings Either scenario would bring usback to the Supreme Court
No timetable has been set for anend to the HHS mandate controversy.Given that both sides have indicated
to the Supreme Court that there is away to satisfy all parties, the govern-ment’s unwillingness so far to makethe changes in the mandate necessary
to accomplish that is inexplicable
Fr Pavone is the national director
of Priests for Life.
Priests for Life is ready
to reach a solution, as the Supreme Court directed.
Aloha, Puerto Rico
Congress is wrestling with
legislation to put Puerto Ricoback on its feet while avoiding
a taxpayer bailout or chapter 9bankruptcy Legislation empowering
a strict fiscal-control board is animportant first step But lawmakersalso need to implement policies thatenable the Puerto Rican economy togrow Exempting the territory fromthe Jones Act would be a good start
The Merchant Marine Act of
1920, better known as the Jones Act,specifies that ships carrying cargobetween two American ports must
be built in the U.S and be 75%
owned by American citizens ther, at least 75% of a barge’s crewmust be U.S citizens, and it has tofly the American flag
Fur-In practice, the law has been credibly damaging—to Puerto Rico
in-as well in-as Hawaii, which hin-as its owneconomic worries One study esti-mated that the Jones Act has costPuerto Rican residents $29 billion inthe past 40 years The cost of ship-ping a 20-foot container from anyU.S port to Puerto Rico is twice asexpensive as shipping to the virtu-ally equidistant Dominican Republic,
a 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork study showed
This makes most aspects ofeveryday life more pricey A vehiclecosts $6,000 more in Puerto Ricothan on the mainland, and food istwice as expensive as in Florida
Energy can cost two or three times
more per kilowatt-hour than on themainland, according to the U.S
Energy Information Administration
Because of the Jones Act, liquefiednatural gas cannot economically beimported to the island
The fleet of U.S vessels thatcomply with the Jones Act hasdwindled to fewer than 100 today,from 2,300 in 1946 Many of thoseships are antiquated and expensive
to maintain Allowing “internationalrelay”—that is, a non-Jones Act ship
on a single voyage transferringgoods between two U.S ports—
would bring significant relief toPuerto Rico
The Jones Act also damages waii, which is the next-highest state
Ha-or territHa-ory in debt service PuertoRico needs Jones Act relief to sur-vive, and Hawaii needs it to avoidbecoming Puerto Rico
The congressional RepublicanStudy Committee in February re-leased a statement explaining that itdidn’t support a bailout for PuertoRico but instead wanted “pro-growth reforms that would alleviatethe burden that current federal poli-cies place on the territory.” Why notJones Act reform for Puerto Rico?
An exemption was made for the U.S
Virgin Islands in 1922 Congresscould alleviate Hawaii’s burden atthe same time by reforming thisanachronistic, anti-growth law
Mr Akina is the president and CEO of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Mr Blom is the executive director of Grassroot Hawaii Action.
By Keli’i Akina And Andy Blom
Muhammad Ali and the Pinnacle of Confidence
that?” Muhammad Ali
asked We were in
adja-cent seats on an American Airlines
flight from Chicago to Washington,
D.C., as the plane made its landing
approach
Ali was gesturing out the
win-dow I thought he was referring to
the nighttime sight of the
illumi-nated monuments I said I thought
they looked very pretty
But that is not what he was
talk-ing about He was looktalk-ing at the
houses in suburban Virginia and
Maryland:
“Look at all those lights on all
those houses Do you know I
could walk up to any one of those
houses, and knock on the door, and
they would know me? It’s a funny
feeling to look down on the world
and know that every person knows
me Sometimes I think about
hitch-hiking around the world, with no
money, and just knocking on a
different door every time I needed
a meal or a place to sleep I could
do it.”
Probably so We first met and
had our first conversations when he
was 26 and I was 21 This flight was
a decade and a half later: In 1983
Esquire magazine, to commemorate
its 50th anniversary, was devoting
an issue to the 50 men and women
judged to have most influenced the
world in the previous half-century
I’d been asked by the magazine to
travel with Ali on this three-day trip
to Washington
For a man so often seen, on
fren-zied fight nights, surrounded by
handlers and trainers and
hangers-on, he always seemed exceedingly
comfortable being alone He had
told me to meet his plane from Los
Angeles at O’Hare International
Air-port in Chicago so we could get on
the connecting flight; he arrived byhimself, with no entourage at all Iwould have been surprised, exceptthat this was the same as it hadbeen the first time I ever encoun-tered him
Still in school, I had been ing as a summer reporter at theColumbus Citizen-Journal in Ohiowhen I was told to cover a visit totown by Ali I was intimidated bythe assignment, but the number ofpeople initially accompanying himand running interference turned out
work-to be zero
I’d see it again over the years: Inthe early 1970s, in Chicago, he waspreparing for a fight against a boxernamed Jimmy Ellis There was aweathered little gym called theJohnny Coulon Physical TrainingClub, underneath the elevated-traintracks on 63rd Street on the SouthSide Ali came to the place alone,climbed the three shadowy flights ofstairs and, in solitude except for aperson timing him, punched away atthe heavy bags, his grunts of exer-tion and the slapping of his fistsagainst the leather the only sounds
in the room In the 1990s, outside ahotel in downtown Chicago, I no-ticed him standing by himself, trying
to hail a cab; when I asked him what
he was doing there, he softly said, “Ihave to get to the airport.”
Unremarkable for anyone else,but not what you would necessarilyexpect for a man of his renown Thepinnacle of confidence is being justfine keeping your own company
And, for all the tales of Ali’s vauntedego, he courageously put self-con-sciousness aside when his healthbegan to fail He could have hidden,hoping to preserve the world’simage of him in his prime; instead
he looked the public right in the eye
By the time of that trip to ton, his voice had already becomeshaky and slurred Everyone he
Washing-encountered knew it, and so did he,and he couldn’t do a thing about it
He didn’t let it stop him for a ment He spoke to every person whoapproached him
mo-The last time I saw him was atdinner a few years back at aChicago steakhouse There werefamily members and friends at thetable Ali said not a word the entireevening; he drew a picture of a
mountain on a piece of paper infront of him Because of his tremors
he needed help eating his meal, but
he graciously nodded hello to eachstranger who walked by When herose to leave, the other diners in therestaurant, some with tears stream-ing down their cheeks, spontane-
ously burst into applause
He seemed to understand, cially near the end, that, heavy-weight championships aside, thegreatest victory in this life issimply being able to wake up eachmorning to a new sunrise Shortlybefore that trip to Washington allthose years ago, I had phoned him
espe-at his home in California to arrangethe logistics Partly kidding butmostly serious, he had said: “Youjust want to put me on the cover
I’m the most famous man in theworld.”
I said that there would be no tographs on the cover of the maga-zine: just type And that there would
pho-be people in the issue as famous as
he was He scoffed at the idea, andasked who Oh, I said, John F Ken-nedy Franklin Delano Ro-osevelt Dr
Martin Luther King Jr
“They’re all dead,” Ali said, ing a bit And reveling, as ever, inthe sheer, joyous fact of being alive
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Housing growth near train lines exacerbates crowding, vexes riders;
no relief in near term
A Providence, R.I.-based
builder run by the same family
for five generations has been
making a big push into the
New York City market,
increas-ing its share of business from
developers of residential,
com-mercial and institutional
con-structions projects
But Gilbane Building Co
hasn’t made many friends
among the city’s labor unions
Rather, the company has
be-come a lightning rod for
Unions have sponsored about
a half-dozen anti-Gilbane rallies
in recent months, including one
in May that began at a Gilbane
construction site at 1 Wall
Street and ended at the
com-pany’s downtown offices where
more than 250 protesters were
joined by two large inflatable
rats Other rallies have included
as many as five of the rats
“They pride themselves at
having an over-100-year history
with the highest ethical
stan-dards,” said Gary LaBarbera,
president of the Building and
Construction Trades Council,
who has spoken at many of the
rallies “Then they go out and
do the exact opposite.”
William Gilbane III, a
fifth-generation descendant of the
B Y P ETER G RANT
company’s founder and head ofthe New York office, said thecompany adheres to the highestsafety standards in the indus-try He pointed out that thecompany has never had a fatal-ity in New York at one of itssites
Union leaders say Gilbane isbeing singled out partly be-cause the company has beenpushing the bounds of the size
of projects being built with amix of union and nonunion la-bor The protests are also asign of the intense behind-the-scenes maneuvering going on
in the clash between labor andmanagement in the city’s con-struction business
On the surface, constructionunions are attacking Gilbanefor hiring nonunion contractorsthat they say aren’t fair toworkers, pay lower wages anddon’t adhere to top qualitysafety standards Mr LaBarberasaid the company’s nonunionsubcontractors pay as little as
com-$15 per hour
Mr Gilbane said the main nancial difference betweenunion and nonunion contrac-tors is that nonunion shopsdon’t have many of the onerouswork rules that drive up costs,like requiring expensive labor-ers to push buttons on auto-matic elevators
fi-“We’re not doing unionbusting,” he said “We are veryfocused on putting the mostqualified, responsible compa-nies and people on our proj-ects.”
Tension between labor andmanagement has been part ofNew York’s construction busi-
Please see CLASH page A22
Builder Riles Up
Labor Amid Push
Into NYC Market
John Anderson III, Alexander Cole, Brennan Gilbane Koch, and
William Gilbane III, below, work for the family firm, Gilbane Building.
The ers, who didn’tdisclose totalcosts for theproject, paid $115 million forthe parcels that make up thesite
develop-The building will have vate apartments, landscapedterraces and an overall designinspired by classic Park Ave-nue apartment houses It will
be targeted at those with vate means to pay
pri-“This is a place wherethese people can be reminded
of things in their past,
poten-tially by the design of thebuilding and by the location
of the building and have a nificantly better quality oflife,” said Thomas DeRosa,chief executive of Welltower,which has 72 senior housingproperties in the tri-statearea
sig-Investor interest in seniorhousing that offers assisted-living services and care fordementia-related conditionshas grown in and around cit-ies such as New York, whereaging residents are increasing
in number, industry brokers,analysts, developers and in-vestors said
These residential facilities,which typically offer less carethan a nursing home, largely
rely on residents who can payfor services rather than on re-imbursement from govern-ment programs, such as Med-icaid, which are susceptible tocuts
There are about a dozen censed assisted-living resi-dences in New York City, in-cluding one in Manhattan,according to the New YorkState Department of Healthwebsite Of those, nine—in-cluding the Manhattan facil-ity—are also licensed as spe-cial-needs assisted-livingresidences, providing special-ized care for conditions thatcan include dementia
li-“People are living longer,and as people live longer they
Please see SENIOR page A22
When executives from estate investment trust Well-tower Inc and developerHines began discussing a proj-ect to build a senior-housingdevelopment, they didn’timagine the traditional leafylocation outside the city Theywanted to build in Manhattan
real-Welltower and Hines aretargeting an affluent sector of
a growing urban aging lation, as have other players
popu-in the niche development tor They said they are aiming
sec-to fill the gap between thestrong demand and limitedsupply of facilities that offerassisted-living services andcare for memory-impaired,
B Y K EIKO M ORRIS
Housing for City’s Senior Moment
The PATH train, alreadybursting at the seams, stands
to get more crowded amid abuilding boom in northernNew Jersey, in another signthe transit network is strain-ing under the region’s popula-tion growth
Apartment buildingsspringing up in Jersey Cityand communities nearby arefunneling new riders onto thePATH, whose lines run to theWorld Trade Center and Her-ald Square in Manhattan
Many passengers complain
of crammed commutes, orhaving to wait for trains topass before boarding one thatisn’t packed—an experiencefamiliar to many New YorkCity subway riders
“It’s just miserable,” saidElliot Kelly, 24 years old, whorides the PATH from JerseyCity each weekday morning towork at a law firm in Manhat-tan “It’s never nice to make acommute when you’re 3 centi-meters from someone else’sbody.”
As the PATH’s operator, thePort Authority of New Yorkand New Jersey, considers im-provements to expand the sys-tem’s capacity, questions lin-ger over when they will becompleted and who should payfor them
Port Authority ChairmanJohn Degnan said Jersey Cityshouldn’t approve new devel-opments along the PATH’sroute without making sure thesystem can handle the ex-pected growth in riders
“It’s irresponsible for a city
to allow indiscriminate growththat’s going to tax public in-frastructure beyond its capa-bility,” Mr Degnan said
Jersey City Mayor StevenFulop faulted the Port Author-ity, which is jointly controlled
Please see PATH page A20
B Y A NDREW T ANGEL
political corruption
In her run for Congress, shehas won the endorsement ofU.S Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, afellow New York Democrat, andraised more than $500,000
Aides to Mr Cuomo didn’t spond to a question about who
re-he endorses
Ms Teachout has been a cal advocate of a public cam-paign-finance system, but shehas proved skilled at privatefundraising in this race Her do-nors include movie star MarkRuffalo, former Kickstarter ex-ecutive Fred Benenson and Ben
vo-& Jerry’s co-founder Ben hen Much of her funding hasalso come from small donorsthrough ActBlue, a political-ac-tion committee supportingDemocrats
Co-Ms Teachout said she iscampaigning as hard as ever “Ihave spent my entire life speak-
ing out and raising people’svoices and standing up topower,” she said, “and I’ll keepdoing what I’ve done.”
By contrast, Mr Yandik, aPrinceton University graduate,has stressed his working-classHudson Valley roots “I’msomeone who grew up here andgot a good education, and in-stead of moving to some othercity, I’ve come back,” he said
Mr Yandik, 38, in addition tofarming, works in local politicsand helps run a family bakery
He called Ms Teachout a comer to the area and said ofher celebrity backers: “Endorse-ments don’t win elections.”
new-The district is currently resented by Chris Gibson, a Re-publican who held the seat forthree terms but said last yearthat he wouldn’t seek re-elec-tion in 2016 In the Republican
rep-Please see RACE page A20
In her losing 2014 primary
against New York Gov Andrew
Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, then
a little-known law professor,
ran as a populist Democrat to
the left of Mr Cuomo
Two years later, Ms
Tea-chout, 44 years old, is the
front-runner in the Democratic
primary for the state’s 19th
Congressional District But now
she is the one facing an
insur-gent rival: Will Yandik, a
fourth-generation farmer who
hails from the region
“Zephyr is a star, she’s a big
hero,” said Melinda Hardin, a
political activist in the district,
which includes the Catskills
and Hudson Valley, who voted
for Ms Teachout in 2014
However Ms Hardin said
she is now backing Mr Yandik
“He’s more grass-roots than she
B Y M IKE V ILENSKY
Teachout, Who Tested Cuomo, Faces Her Own Populist Rival
Zephyr Teachout, running for Congress, lost to Gov Cuomo in 2014.
SUNNY, WARMER
Approved developmentProposed development
4
9 Some projects completed
over the past two years:
1 2 3 4 5 Some projects expected to open within the next two years:
200 Greene: 766
155 Marin,
Liberty Harbor North: 448
65 Bay Street: 447 Embankment Newport: 163
6 7 8 9
Source: Jersey City City Planning Division
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A surge in development in Jersey City is helping fuel growing ridership
on the PATH train between northern New Jersey and Manhattan
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the case now
Until such upgrades are inplace, PATH’s plans to easecrowding involve the expan-sion of rush-hour service, run-ning trains more frequentlyfor longer periods
Port Authority officials clined to specify plans forother service improvements,such as when the systemwould begin running 10-cartrains on its Newark-to-WorldTrade Center line, up from thecurrent limit of eight
de-It remains to be seenwhether the Port Authoritywill move forward with plans
to extend the PATH from ark Penn Station to NewarkLiberty International Airport
New-Mr Degnan said the PortAuthority planned to seekcapital contributions from cit-ies and developers that bene-fit from projects that increasethe PATH’s capacity and ex-pand the system That wouldmark a shift in how the PortAuthority pays for PATH im-provements
Such a financial ment has recent precedent:
arrange-New York City effectively paidfor a new subway station atthe Hudson Yards develop-ment in Manhattan by issuingbonds backed by expected in-creases in property-tax reve-nue
pected to arrive until the end
of 2018 at the earliest A newadvanced signal system, which
is part of a crash-avoidancesystem required by federallaw, would let PATH trains runcloser together, increasing ca-pacity up to about 20%, PortAuthority officials said Trainscould then run about everytwo minutes during peaktimes—as some of the busierNew York City subway lines doduring rush hours—instead ofevery four to six minutes as is
Mr Degnan said the PortAuthority couldn’t afford tofund the PATH system’s oper-ating deficits while also foot-ing the entire bill for its fu-ture needs
“We’re not a piggy bank,”
Mr Degnan said “We can’tstand by and simply dole outmoney because the mayor of atown tells us that the develop-ment they’re planning in thefuture requires it It’s time forthem to step up to the plate.”Unlike other transportationagencies, the Port Authority islargely funded by tolls it col-lects on Hudson River bridgesand tunnels and revenue fromthe New York City area air-ports it operates The MTA, bycontrast, derives a significantamount of its operating andcapital budgets from state andlocal funding sources
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worked with communities inthe district during the gover-nor’s race and while advocat-ing for public education issuesand developed deep relation-ships there
Since announcing her dacy, Ms Teachout has ap-peared to some observers toveer to the center She calledfor an economic study of theConstitution Pipeline, a pro-posed natural-gas project thathas riled upstate New York Butboth candidates said theyagreed with a state decision toreject it Both candidates havecriticized New York’s strictgun-control laws, saying theprocess by which they were im-plemented was flawed
candi-Ms Teachout said she is a “abit of a Teddy Roosevelt Re-publican,” adding “I like break-ing up big banks, and I want totake on big cable.” She has pre-viously called herself a “Rocke-feller Republican.”
Support for Mr Yandik,meanwhile, comes almost ex-clusively from within the dis-trict Ms Teachout has drawnnational attention
Marvin Ammori, a ton, D.C., attorney, donated to
Washing-Ms Teachout, he said, becausethey are friends and he believesshe will advocate for net neu-trality, a broadband policy that
is important to him
Ms Teachout’s politicalclout hasn’t gone to her head,
he added “To see her now, ing this political thing and get-ting endorsements and dancing
do-at shindigs, she is still prettymuch just Zephyr.”
primary, John Faso, former
mi-nority leader of the state
As-sembly, is battling businessman
Andrew Heaney
The district is split about
evenly between Democrats and
Republicans, but politicians’
roots in the area have been a
heated subject in the past In
2014, Democratic activist Sean
Eldridge ran against Mr
Gib-son but was criticized for
buy-ing a multimillion-dollar home
in the area and moving there
shortly before announcing his
candidacy
“He was right about many
things, but he didn’t
under-stand what we’re all about,”
said Pamela Pine, a 69-year-old
retired designer and Columbia
County Democrat, of Mr
El-dridge She is supporting Mr
Yandik because she said he is
looking out “for the people who
live here.”
Mr Eldridge, who lost to
Mr Gibson by double digits,
donated to Ms Teachout but
declined to comment for this
article
Ms Teachout, who grew up
in Vermont, lived in Brooklyn
during the 2014 primary but
moved north after that race
She continues to teach law at
Fordham University but lives in
a Dutchess County home and
said she grew up in a similar
area She move to Dutchess
County in 2015
Ms Teachout said she
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My Father Taught Me” issue
of Popular Mechanics where
both Mr Berendsohn and his91-year-old father, Oscar, areinterviewed
Oscar, who fled the Nazis,got an engineering degreefrom the Polytechnic Institute
of Brooklyn (now the NYUTandon School of Engineer-ing) and started working on
spy satellites His workbench,shown in the story, is a thing
of organizational beauty
Roy also learned a trick
or two working construction
in western Connecticut as ateenager He still uses thesolid steel Estwing hammer
a boss gave him back then
“It’s the hammer that put
me through college,” he said
I couldn’t help askingabout mishaps, as Mr Ber-endsohn pulled sawhorsesand a circular saw from theback seat of his 2001 ChevyMalibu My attitude beingthat the safest home im-
Raising the Beds, With Assistance From a Professional
While I didn’t flunk
shop, I didn’t excel
at it either
In fact, I still marvel that I
had any desire to become a
writer after the 500-word
punishment essays my shop
teacher handed out as
casu-ally as he did hammer and
nails If anything can turn a
person off the essay form, it’s
repeatedly having to come up
with variations on the theme
try tools was
family recently began to
con-sider a raised-bed garden, I
took the liberty of enlisting
the help of Roy Berendsohn,
“Popular Mechanics”
maga-zine’s “Ask Roy” columnist
Why raised beds instead
of a conventional garden? I’m
not sure except that our
Hud-son Valley property is
terri-ble for growing anything but
poison ivy There’s
approxi-mately 2 inches of topsoil
And from there to the center
of the earth it’s solid rock
Per Mr Berendsohn’s
in-structions, I purchased
wood, nails and a truckload
of topsoil before his arrival
at our home All he had to
do was show me how to
measure, saw and nail
to-gether a few boards
Or preferably do so
him-self why I feigned taking
notes
But first I was curious to
learn a bit of Mr
Berend-sohn’s biography; he’s been
at “Popular Mechanics” for
27 years Specifically, did he
excel in shop class as a kid?
Impressively modest, Mr
Berendsohn, 56 years old,
denied any special talent
recognized at an early age
for hammering a nail
straight
“I did not have a
mechan-ical gift,” he insisted “I’ve
learned the hard way with
anything I’ve done I tell
provement projects are thoseyou hire others to perform
“When I was 17, I got afinish nail in my right eye,”
he explained “It bounced offconcrete I never do thiswork without some form ofeye protection.”
The accident caused nopermanent damage Mr Ber-endsohn blinked reflexively atthe incoming projectile andtrapped it with his eyelid.Fortunately, there were
no mishaps as he sawed the10-foot planks I’d purchasedinto 6-foot and 4-foot sec-tions to make the sides forthe raised beds
I took command of the cular saw only briefly, mostly
cir-to say I had I also solicitedtips about some of the gen-teel chores I find myself oc-casionally tempted to accom-plish: such as how to hammer
a nail into a wall or piece ofwood without bending it
“You put your shoulderover the nail,” he explained
as he did just that, nailingtwo sections of the board to-gether “Start with a couple
of taps and drive it in.”
Mr Berendsohn alsocoached me on proper wheel-barrow shoveling technique:
“Get as close to it as ble Align the long accesswith the direction you’reshoveling You want to avoidshoveling from the side.”He’d already lost me.But it turns out I’mpretty good at pushing awheelbarrow downhill, if notthe advanced math Mr Ber-endsohn employed to markoff the wood
possi-However, the most plicated chore yet awaits—figuring how to mount fenceposts in solid rock Whatever
com-we grow in the beds willhave to be protected fromthe woodchucks, which areapproximately the size andravenousness of black bears
Mr Berendsohn’s initialsuggestions included settingfence posts inside concreteblocks and stapling chickenwire to the wood, or jack-hammering
He’s working on tional solutions
Commuters pass a construction site for new condo buildings near the Grove Street PATH station.
by New Jersey and New Yorkgovernors, for failing to prop-erly plan
“At the end of the day it’sPort Authority’s responsibil-ity,” Mr Fulop said “Theyshould stop putting blameelsewhere Every surroundingmunicipality has grown.”
Apartments under struction or approved in Jer-sey City alone could usher in
con-an estimated 64,250 new dents, increasing the city’scurrent population of about264,000 by some 25%
resi-“We’ve got a brewing sis,” said Dawn Zimmer,mayor of neighboring Hobo-ken, whose constituents fre-quently complain of PATHovercrowding
cri-The Port Authority casts the PATH will carry 88.4million passengers in 2020, a15% surge from 2015 levels
fore-The PATH’s experiencehighlights a recurring plan-ning disconnect between mu-nicipalities and regional tran-sit systems A building boom
in the trendy Brooklyn area ofWilliamsburg in part forcedthe New York’s MetropolitanTransportation Authority tospend hundreds of millions ofdollars to increase capacity onthe New York City’s L subwayline
Much of the Port ity’s attention over the pastyear has focused on improvingother means for crossing theHudson River, including a re-placement for Manhattan’s ag-ing Port Authority Bus Termi-nal Last year, the busterminal served 66.7 millionpassengers, about 10 millionfewer than the PATH
Author-“Crowding will get worsebefore it gets better,” saidRich Barone, transportationexpert at the Regional PlanAssociation, a civic group fo-cused on urban planning inthe region “This is the univer-sal trans-Hudson story Ourdelay in implementing years
of planning to add new ity will have consequences.”
capac-Upgrades to PATH thatwould allow run trains to runmore frequently—and help re-duce crowding—aren’t ex-
Continued from page A19PATH
Will Yandik, a Democrat, is running for Congress in a New York
state district that includes the Catskills and Hudson Valley.
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Support for Israel on the Upper East Side
RAIN OR SHINE: Seth Kofina of Rockland County blows a shofar in the Celebrate Israel Parade that traveled up Fifth Avenue on Sunday.
Group Says Attack
May Be a Hate Crime
A leading Muslim civil-rights
organization Sunday called on
the New York Police Department
to investigate the possibility of a
hate crime in Queens
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task
Force was notified of last week’s
incident, officials said, and the
investigation is continuing
Mohamid Rasheed Khan, 59
years old, was near the Center
for Islamic Studies on Jamaica
Avenue on Wednesday, when he
was attacked, said Afaf Nasher,
the executive director for the
New York Chapter of the Council
on American-Islamic Relations
Mr Khan was riding his
bicy-cle when he was hit in the face
and knocked over, causing his
head to slam on the ground, a
law-enforcement official said He
was taken to Jamaica Hospital
Medical Center, where on
Sun-day he was in the surgical sive care unit
inten-Mr Khan, a U.S citizen ofGuyanese heritage, was wearingtraditional Islamic attire when hewas attacked, according to Ms
Nasher, who visited Mr Khan inthe hospital Sunday
She said nothing was stolen
Authorities didn’t immediatelyknow the circumstances of theshootings on Neptune Avenuejust before 3 p.m
Two of the men were ted to Coney Island Hospital, andtwo others to Lutheran MedicalCenter Each was in stable condi-tion Their names weren’t imme-diately released
admit-—Associated Press
THE BRONX
Unconscious Woman Found on Roadway
Authorities are trying to tify a woman who was foundunconscious and badly injured on
She was discovered late day on an entrance ramp to Pel-ham Parkway, with trauma toher head and her arm cut Inves-tigators are trying to determinethe cause of her injuries
Fri-—Associated Press
NEW YORK STATE
Public Defense Funds Change Is Proposed
New York’s Assembly haspassed legislation to graduallytransfer responsibility to fundpublic defenders from the coun-ties to the state
Assembly member PatriciaFahy, an Albany Democrat, saidthe bill would relieve the burdenfrom counties, where servicesand funding are uneven
Under current law, New YorkCity and the 57 counties outside
it are required to fund attorneysfor criminal defendants unable
to afford one
A companion bill with 20 sponsors has been introduced inthe Senate
co-—Associated Press
Police say the robberies
play out briskly and in roughly
the same fashion: A stocky,
young man enters a fast-food
restaurant, brandishes a big
knife and demands cash
He usually leaves with
sev-eral hundred dollars, and,
au-thorities say, the man has
car-ried out 22 similar holdups on
Long Island and in New York
City since March 1
About a dozen of the heists
have taken place in Nassau
County
“The arrest of this
individ-ual is our number one
prior-ity,” said Nassau County Police
Department Detective
Lieuten-ant Richard LeBrun, in a
state-ment released Sunday
The robber apparently
started his spree March 1 at a
Dunkin’ Donuts on Lakeville
Avenue in New Hyde Park,
po-lice said
He most recently is
sus-pected to have been involved
in a robbery Friday at a
Sub-way restaurant on 108th
Street in the Forest Hills
sec-tion of Queens, officials said
“He caught us We’re glad
no one got hurt,” sad Anthony
Malave, 22, a Subway
restau-rant employee who was inside
during the robbery on Friday
B Y M ARK M ORALES
night
Mr Malave said he and other co-worker were insidethe store about 9:30 p.m mak-ing preparations to close when
an-a man-an wan-alked quickly inside
He wore sunglasses andflashed a knife, Mr Malavesaid Images captured on asurveillance camera show theman holding out the knife be-fore making his way to an areadesignated for employees only
Officials said the man said,
“ ‘Give me the money,’ ” fore grabbing a tray of cashfrom the register and makingoff with as much as $300
be-“It was a very quick cess He made it clear what hewanted,” said Mr Malave “Wewere alone, so there’s nothingmuch we could do.”
pro-Before the Subway rant robbery in Forest Hills,the robber took $400 on June
restau-1 from a Subway restaurant onNorthern Boulevard, policesaid
Before that, on May 25, thethief targeted a Dunkin’ Do-nuts on Cross Bay Boulevard
in Queens and made off with
$776 in cash, police said
New York Police ment Chief of Detectives Rob-ert Boyce said the suspect se-lects fast-food restaurantslocated close to highways
Depart-Detectives are combingthrough surveillance footage
They think he parks severalblocks away from the store hechooses to rob, Chief Boycesaid
“He walks in and produces
a large butcher’s knife that heuses for each one and puts itback into his pant leg when heleaves,” Chief Boyce said
Police say the man appears
to be in his 20s
He stands about 5 feet 9inches tall and was last seenwearing a gray hooded shirt,black jeans and black boots,police said
Police Hunt Man
Wielding Knife
In Robbery Spree
New York Gov AndrewCuomo signed an executive or-der Sunday to divest statefunds from businesses support-ing a boycott against Israel
Mr Cuomo said the boycott,divestment and sanctionsmovement “is in many waysmore frightening” than tunnelsHamas constructed to infiltrateIsrael
“We are against the BDSmovement and it’s very sim-ple,” Mr Cuomo said in re-marks at the Harvard club inMidtown before marching inthe Celebrate Israel Parade onthe Upper East Side “If youboycott against Israel, NewYork will boycott you.”
The order would preventstate agencies and depart-ments from investing in com-panies boycotting Israel Thestate Office of General Services
will develop a list of those stitutions and companies andpost it online within 180 days
in-The office will notify the nesses before adding them tothe list and give them 90 days
busi-to show proof they aren’t porting the boycott
sup-The Palestinian BDS tional Committee, which coor-dinates the initiative, didn’t re-turn a request for comment
Na-The committee’s website scribes the movement as “astrategy that allows people ofconscience to play an effectiverole in the Palestinian strugglefor justice.”
de-Mr Cuomo said New Yorkwas the first state to issuesuch an such an order
A Republican-sponsored billwith similar aims as Mr
Cuomo’s order passed the stateSenate in January Senate ma-jority leader John J Flanagan,
a Long Island Republican,
ap-plauded the order
In a statement providedthrough a spokesman, DonnaLieberman, executive directorfor the New York Civil Liber-ties Union, said the groupwould be looking “very closely
at this executive order.”
“Whenever the governmentcreates a blacklist based onpolitical views it raises seriousFirst Amendment concerns andthis is no exception,” Ms Lie-berman said
On Sunday, Mr Cuomo, aDemocrat, also expressed dis-approval of some Democratswho have criticized Israel forits response to Hamas in the
2014 Gaza war “How can youhave a disproportionate re-sponse when you are dealingwith an enemy who is ob-sessed and single minded?” hesaid
Vermont Sen Bernie ers, running against Hillary
Sand-Clinton for the Democraticpresidential nomination, hassaid he thought Israel’s re-sponse in the seven- weekGaza conflict was dispropor-tionate Mr Sanders’s cam-paign didn’t return a requestfor comment
Mr Cuomo, who has dorsed Mrs Clinton, didn’tmention Mr Sanders’s name.Mrs Clinton, during a de-bate in April with Mr Sanders
en-in Brooklyn, expressed thy for Israelis who she saidare constantly under terroristattack
sympa-After Mr Cuomo’s speech,Rep Jerry Nadler, a Democratwhose district covers portions
of Manhattan and Brooklyn,criticized Mr Sanders “A re-sponse is disproportionate if it
is more destructive of life orproperty that is necessary toaccomplish its military objec-tive,” he said
Cuomo Counters Boycotts of Israel
B Y Z OLAN K ANNO- Y OUNGS
An image of the suspect from
a May 11 robbery in Queens.
Polynesian Tradition Sails Into the City
ALOHA, NEW YORK: Crew members of the Hokule’a sing Sunday from aboard the vessel in
Manhattan The Hawaiian voyaging canoe is sailing around the world and to promote conservation.
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A rendering of Welltower Inc and Hines’ 15-story senior living community, left, and a current view of the block at the northeast corner of East 56th Street and Lexington Avenue, above Below, a rendering of an assisted living residence planned by Maplewood Senior Living and Omega Healthcare Investors for Second Avenue between East 93rd and East 94th streets.
Forest Hills Tower at 118-35 Queens Blvd., where Child Center of New York has signed a lease.
Forest Hills Tower
Signs New Tenants
The owner of an office
build-ing in the Forest Hills section of
Queens is replacing a departing
government tenant with local
organizations seeking
headquar-ters space in the neighborhood
Muss Development has
signed 43,000 square feet of
new leases at 118-35 Queens
Blvd., known as Forest Hills
Tower The building, which Muss
constructed in 1981, is
undergo-ing a multimillion-dollar
renova-tion, said principal Jason Muss
In 2012, Muss arranged a
hasty, 200,000-square-foot
lease with the Federal
Emer-gency Management AEmer-gency to
set up its New York City
head-quarters after Hurricane Sandy
The government agency is
giv-ing back space and will fully
de-part the building by the end of
the summer, Mr Muss said
With the available space,
Muss signed a 12-year lease
with the Child Center of New
York to take 21,808 square feet
on the sixth floor Plaza College,
a current tenant, signed a year lease for 21,107 square feet
15-on the third floor After the pansion, Plaza College will oc-cupy 61,107 square feet there
ex-The Child Center of New York,founded in 1953, offers program-ming, education and counseling
to children in Queens Its currentheadquarters in Woodside hasbecome overcrowded, saidspokeswoman Eugenie Bisulco
“The new space is suited to accommodating ourgrowth,” she said “Forest Hills is
better-a more centrbetter-al locbetter-ation, putting
us nearer to our wellness ters and partner schools in Ja-maica and South Queens.”
cen-Brittany Travis, a woman with Plaza College, saidits expansion will be used forclassrooms and administration
spokes-“to accommodate the new andexciting programs we are plan-ning to offer in the near future.”
Asking rents at the buildingrange from mid- to- high $30s asquare foot
Mid-to a JLL report
The Hedge Fund Index, whichtracks 24 high-end buildingswith a high concentration ofboutique hedge funds and in-vestment management tenants,
necessarily a sure bet Thebusiness is labor intensive,heavily regulated and requiresexperienced operators, indus-try experts said
“The challenge is operatingsomething in New York that iscompelling for people to moveinto when you can stay inyour co-op and have full ser-
vice in terms of maintenanceand doorman and porters andeverything delivered to yourdoor,” said John Moore, chiefexecutive of Atria Senior Liv-ing Inc., a national operatorwhich manages four New YorkCity senior housing communi-ties, including one on Manhat-tan’s Upper West Side
Still, some see opportunity
Maplewood Senior Living andits partner Omega HealthcareInvestors Inc., a real-estate in-vestment trust focused on thelong-term care industry, weredetermined to establish apresence in the Manhattanmarket The companies had tonegotiate with several parties
to secure the assemblage offive buildings for their site onSecond Avenue between East93rd and East 94th streets,said the company’s chief exec-utive Gregory Smith
Maplewood and Omega areplanning a $246 million se-nior-housing high rise therewith apartments and special-
ized services, including carefor those with varying levels
of dementia The project willalso have an indoor pool,beauty salon and terrace
“Even knowing there werehigh barriers to entry, westood our ground and decidedthat was a market we wanted
to be in,” Mr Smith said
have health and memory
is-sues,” said Chris Merrill, chief
executive of Harrison Street
Real Estate Capital LLC, a
pri-vate-equity firm The firm and
its partner, the Engel Burman
Group, own 13 senior
commu-nities offering assisted living
and memory care services in
the surrounding New York
City area He noted, “there is
a real need for quality
as-sisted living and memory
care.”
By 2040, the city’s
popula-tion of residents ages 60 and
older is expected to reach 1.86
million—up 22% from 2013—
and make up more than 20%
of the population, according
to projections from the New
York City Department for the
Aging
“For Hines, what we liked
about this as an economic
matter [is] it’s on a
demo-graphic curve and not an
eco-nomic cycle,” said Tommy
Craig, senior managing
direc-tor at Hines, which will make
its first foray into senior
housing with this Midtown
development
Home prices also make the
New York City region
attrac-tive, because many potential
residents will use the equity
in their homes to pay for
se-nior housing, said Beth Mace,
chief economist of the
Na-tional Investment Center for
Seniors Housing & Care, or
NIC, an educational and
re-search nonprofit that tracks
the market The median home
value in the New York
metro-politan area is $404,000,
while the U.S average is
about $207,000, according to
NIC
The large presence of adult
children of the elderly living
in the New York area is also a
strong driver in the senior
housing industry, she said
“You see a lot of marketing
efforts not just to residents,
but to their children as well,”
said Ms Mace “Adult children
decide where the adult parent
is going to go.”
The project may be
ad-dressing a demand, but it isn’t
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Developers Bank on New York City’s Aging Population
Landlords are maintainingpricing levels but likely will con-tinue to offer robust tenant con-cession packages with free rentand allowances for tenants tobuild out their offices, said Cyn-thia Wasserberger a JLL manag-ing director
In previous economic cycles,asking rents in trophy buildingsshowed sharp increases, rising127% between 1997 and 2000and 82% between 2003 and
2007, the report noted Since
2009, average asking rents havesteadily increased by 36% Thefirst quarter’s average askingrent was 17% below the 2007peak of $120.22
“We are sort of chuggingalong,” Ms Wasserberger said
“Rents aren’t too out of whack theway they were in 2000 and ‘07.”
—Keiko Morris
NEW YORK
Investors Are Bullish
On Real Estate Tech
Investors are more bullishabout the real estate tech sectorthis year than startup companiesare, according to a new survey
MetaProp NYC, a real estatetechnology accelerator, seed in-vestment and advisory firm, in
May surveyed 2,000 investorsand startup firms, mostly in theU.S., aiming to get a sense ofkey players’ views on where thesector is headed in 2016.About half of the investorssaid they expect to see more ac-quisitions in 2016 than 2015, and87% said they anticipate makingthe same number or more in-vestments in real estate technol-ogy, according to the Global RealEstate Tech Confidence Index.None of the investors said theyexpect to see fewer real estatetech deals this year
Meanwhile, about 44% ofstartup founders expect raisingventure capital in 2016 will beharder than in 2015, with 39%saying it will remain the same aslast year and about 17% expectingfundraising to be easier this year.Startups also are pessimisticabout exit opportunities, with44% reporting it is unlikely or veryunlikely their firm will be acquired,
go public or have a major liquidityevent in the next two years Only17.4% said such transactions werelikely or very likely
Startups, however, aren’t tirely skeptical about the yearahead, saying they plan to hireaggressively, with 39% planning
en-to hire six en-to 20 employees thisyear and 12% indicating theywould hire up to 50 workers.The Real Estate Board of NewYork reviewed the survey’smethodology and analysis
—Keiko Morris
sents infrastructure contractorsthat exclusively use unionworkers
Gilbane stepped into the ture as this sea change was tak-ing place Founded in 1873 by
pic-an Irish immigrpic-ant, the pany has built several billionsquare feet of space over thedecades and today has morethan 50 offices world-wide
com-The company, which is 100%
family owned, did its firstbuilding project in New York in
1940, but its work here hasbeen limited until recently Thecompany began flexing its mus-cles in the city after the 2008financial crisis as part of astrategy to focus more on urbanareas throughout the country
Mr Gilbane said that thecompany currently is working
on about $1.1 billion worth ofNew York projects, up from
$250 million four years ago
The firm has grown from 80employees in the city in 2008
to about 350, including threeother family members, Alexan-der Cole, John Anderson III andBrennan Gilbane Koch
Gilbane’s newcomer statushelps explain why it is a leader
in pushing the use of a mixture
of nonunion and union tors Homegrown constructioncompanies have been moresteeped in the city’s union-dominant culture
contrac-Union leaders say they gan perceiving Gilbane as athreat recently as it took on bigjobs that traditionally wouldhave been exclusively union,like 1 Wall Street That 1-mil-lion-square-foot office building
be-is being converted by developerHarry Macklowe into residen-tial and retail space Gilbane isusing both union and nonunioncontractors on that job
“We’re not talking about story residential buildings,”
20-said Mr LaBarbera “We’retalking about very complicated
projects that historically havebeen all union jobs.”
Gilbane also is in unions’
crosshairs because other bigconstruction companies havestarted to balk at renewing col-lective-bargaining agreements
The big firms “feel as thougheconomically they’ve beenforced into this position,” Ms
Richardson said “They’re going
to do exactly what Gilbane hasdone: open their subcontractorpackages up to union as well asnonunion firms.”
Mr Gilbane said the pany doesn’t like being subject
com-to such attacks, but it has noplans to change its method forchoosing contractors He ex-pressed hope that his companyand unions will be able to findcommon ground
“There will be a meeting inthe middle here that will behealthy for everybody,” he said
—Laura Kusisto contributed to this article.
ness for decades But it has
been intensifying lately partly
because nonunion contractors
have been making major
in-roads in what used to be an
all-union town As recently as the
1980s, all residential projects in
the city used union labor
exclu-sively Today it is about half
that much
Unions still dominate
com-mercial and institutional
con-struction But that too is
show-ing signs of slippshow-ing
“The nonunion contractors
became steadily more skilled
and able to take on bigger
pieces of work, and the unions
didn’t see it in time,” said
De-nise Richardson, executive
di-rector of the General
Contrac-tors Association of New York,
an industry group that
repre-Continued from page A19
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
bands and 55 food trucks,many by New York restau-rants Around 45,000 dailyfans flocked to the grounds
by both bridge and ferry and55% were local from the sur-rounding boroughs
In true New York style,every inch of green spacewas occupied to its maxi-
mum capacity while thecrowds enjoyed this sold outevent Behind the scenes,4,500 staff members and
600 volunteers helped keepthings running smoothly
We got an inside look atsome of the artists and whatthey can’t live without atthis homegrown festival
The sixth annual
Gover-nors Ball Music Festival
kicked off this past Friday on
Randall’s Island Park before
closing down early Sunday
due to inclement weather
The three-day, New York City
based festival hosted 66
Bloc Party:
Kele Okereke, frontman for the English indie rock band Bloc Party, center, uses an iPod for his routinevocal warm up before every performance, which gets him in the mood for singing ‘When I pull it out,people look at me a bit funny because not many people have iPods anymore,’ he said ‘I still keep it realwith a BlackBerry, so it’s very useful to me to have my entire music library in one place.' Their lineupalso includes from left, Justin Harris (bass), Louise Bartle (drums) and Russell Lissack (guitar)
Holly Miranda:
American singer-songwriter
Holly Miranda brings on stage
with her a special rock that
she picked up during a
meditative music event near
Joshua Tree National Park in
southern California ‘So now I
carry it around and I feel like I
am carrying a little bit of that
energy or that power with
me,’ she said
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he defiantly rejected his last time outwith a seven-inning, two-hit shutoutagainst the White Sox “Today was, Iguess you could say, a second stepfrom last start,” Harvey said
As for the injuries, Cespedes isday-to-day with a sore hip, an injurythat has flared up in the past butisn’t considered serious He wastaken out of the starting lineup Sat-urday and pinch-hit on Sunday, withthe team hoping to have him back forthe upcoming series in Pittsburgh
Lagares’s status is less clear ing Saturday’s game, he made a div-ing catch to rob Ichiro Suzuki of anRBI-hit but in the process injured histhumb and later had to be removedfrom the game It has been diag-nosed as a sprain before he visitswith doctors in New York, and hesaid he hopes to be back in Pitts-burgh for game time on Monday
Dur-It’s also unclear how the Mets will
proceed: Can they weather the stormwith a lineup filled with players whobegan the year in Triple-A, or willthey need to look for outside help?
The good news is that the alded starting rotation is finallyclicking on all cylinders with Harveyfinally looking like his old self Metsstarters have a 3.17 ERA on the sea-son, the second lowest rotation ERA
her-in baseball, and that figure may evendrop with Harvey’s improved form
Now the pressure is on for Harveyand the other Mets aces to dominate
“No matter what our lineup maylook like or injuries we have, youhave to stay focused and do every-thing you can to put up zeroes,” Har-vey said “We could have the bestlineup in the world, we could havethe worst lineup in the world Obvi-ously, our job is to go out and go asdeep into the game as we can andfight for zeroes.”
From “The Rumble in the gle” to “The Thrilla in Manila,” Mu-hammad Ali’s title fights spannedthe globe But the biggest battle ofhis career was reserved for NewYork City
Jun-On March 8, 1971, MadisonSquare Garden was the site of his
“Fight of the Century” with Joe zier The showdown, in which Aliwas trying to reclaim the belt thathad been stripped from him for re-fusing to be drafted, brought to-gether two undefeated heavy-weight champions, drew aworldwide audience of 300 millionand was broadcast in 12 languages
Fra-Ringside seats were scalped for
$1,000 (nearly $6,000 in today’smoney.) Each fighter earned theequivalent of about $15 million to-day, or about 17 times the salary ofthe highest-paid baseball player ofthe time, Carl Yastrzemski
After a three-and-a-half-year ile from boxing, Ali returned amuch different, less evasive fighter,content to battle the southpaw-slugging Frazier toe-to-toe Afterdominating the early going, Ali lostthe vast majority of the remainingrounds according to the officialscorecards, with Frazier winning aunanimous decision But, unoffi-cially, the United Press Internationalscored the fight a 7-7-1 draw Alisuffered the only knockdown afterbeing hit flush with a Frazier lefthook in the 15th round But Frazier,his face badly swollen and mis-shapen, was in and out of hospitalfor two weeks following the fight
ex-Ali’s rivalry with Frazier wouldcontinue after the latter lost his ti-tle to George Foreman Their re-match at the Garden on Jan 28,
1974 saw Ali take a narrow win bydecision thanks to his tactic ofclinching Frazier by the back of theneck every time he tried to move in
to attack After Ali’s shocking upset
of Foreman in Zaire just nine
months later, the pair continuedtheir epic rivalry with 1975’s “Thrilla
in Manila,” in which Ali prevailedagain by TKO after Round 14
That ensured their epic rivalryended with Ali holding a 2-1 edge
in the ring, although that may beunderselling his record The day be-fore their second fight in New York,Ali also prevailed over Frazier in themarbles ring—on the city’s Sundaymorning kids’ TV show, “Won-derama.” —Michael Salfino
Fight of the Century
Some noteworthy facts from thefirst bout between Muhammad Aliand Joe Frazier
(2016 dollars) $150 ($886)Scalper ringside
(2016 dollars) $1,000 ($5,908)
Guaranteed purse (2016 dollars)
$2.5 million ($14.8million)
Worldwide viewership 300 million
AP scorecard 9-5-1 Frazier
UPI scorecard 7-7-1 Draw
Knockdowns Ali in Round 15
Result unanimous decisionFrazier by
MIAMI—Please excuse Terry
Col-lins for needing to make a joke
“We may only have seven guys
to-morrow,” he cracked before Sunday’s
1-0 loss to the Marlins
The Mets entered this series
against the Marlins missing most of
their starting infield—Travis
d’Ar-naud, Lucas Duda and David Wright
Then when Yoenis Cespedes and
Juan Lagares went down with
inju-ries on Saturday, Collins had all sorts
of issues
He pulled Lagares from the game
to get his thumb examined by a
doc-tor, but couldn’t find one “There was
no doctor to see Juan, I know that If
anybody’s qualified, please step
for-ward now,” Collins said
After Saturday’s game, Collins
tried calling Mets executives in New
York to inquire about roster moves
He couldn’t connect with them
So there’s definitely something
comical about all of this, making
Col-lins’s inclination to crack jokes
un-derstandable Although there’s
noth-ing funny about the injuries
themselves or the threats they pose
to the season, they did survive the
weekend rather well After all, they
took two of three games from Miami,
only losing against the utterly
domi-nant Jose Fernandez, who struck out
14 and kept the Mets scoreless on
Sunday
The other reason to be cheery:
The Mets’ patchwork lineup showed
surprising promise The Mets scored
six runs in each of Friday and
Satur-day’s back-to-back wins after a frigid
May during which the team averaged
only three runs per game
They got key contributions from
catcher Rene Rivera, first baseman
James Loney and third baseman
Wilmer Flores, all of whom came
through with big hits Backups Matt
Reynolds and Alejandro De Aza made
key contributions, while outfielder
Michael Conforto broke out of an
0-for-20 slump at a time when his bat
is vital
In Sunday’s loss, Matt Harvey had
his second consecutive stellar outing,
allowing just one run on four hits in
seven innings This came after his
struggles had become so severe
there were talks of removing him
from the starting rotation, a question
B Y A NDREW B EATON
Injuries Take Toll on Mets
Neil Walker was one of the few healthy starters in the lineup on Sunday.
The Injured List
A look at injuries to Mets’ position players
Travis d’Arnaud C Rotator cuff strain DL; Began rehab assignment playing DH on Sunday
Lucas Duda 1B Back (stress fracture) DL; Likely out until at least late June or July
David Wright 3B Neck (Herniated disc) DL; Out a minimum of six to eight weeks
Yoenis Cespedes OF Hip Day-to-day; has flared up previously
Juan Lagares OF Thumb (sprained) Seeing doctor in New York on Monday
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