The Week USA – December 9, 2016

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means for Cuba and the U.S

Pages 15, 16, 39

DECEMBER 9, 2016 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 800

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24 Books

A lurid history of Bellevue, America’s ﬁ rst public hospital

Amos Oz on what it means to be a traitor

26 Art & Stage

Francis Picabia’s constant reinventions

28 Film

In Moana,

Disney debuts

a feisty seafaring princess;

Loving’s quiet

portrait of a barrier-breaking marriage

NEWS

Donald Trump ﬁ lls out

his Cabinet; a recount

push in the Rust Belt

Is Trump ﬂ ip-ﬂ opping on

his promises, or just using

his business savvy?

ISIS claims a stabbing

attack at Ohio State

University; standoff at

Standing Rock

Crash wipes out Brazilian

soccer team; India and

Pakistan on the brink

Billy Bob Thornton’s

many wives; Carrie

Fisher’s Star Wars ﬂ ing

11 Briefi ng

Jared Kushner, Donald

Trump’s son-in-law, will

play a major role in the

White House Who is he?

Why Trump needs to step

back from his business;

Putin moves on Aleppo

Trump stays put in NYC;

the Democrats’ new

identity battle

LEISURE

30 Food & Drink

Three refreshing restaurant reinventions

31 Travel

A skier’s paradise on Japan’s stunning slopes

Holiday shopping migrates

to mobile; China’s social credit scores

be Made in the USA

Cubans in Havana read news of Castro’s death (pages 15, 16, 39)

Disney’s Moana (p 28)

THE WEEK December 9, 2016

A friend of mine is an immigration attorney She personally

ab-hors Donald Trump’s positions on deporting undocumented

immi-grants and building a border wall, but she’ll be the first to admit

there’s been a silver lining to his victory: Her office phone has

been ringing off the hook She’s not the only anti-Trumpist to

en-counter a startling business bump over the past few weeks

Ther-apists in deep-blue enclaves can’t keep up with the demand for

counseling from despondent Hillary voters Journalists openly fret

about a coming assault on press freedoms, but publications like

The New York Times and The Washington Post have reported

a surge in subscriptions And Wall Street banks, which wanted

nothing to do with Trump during the campaign, have been

de-lighted by an unexpected—and record-breaking—market rally

Who else stands to profit mightily from a Trump presidency?

Trump himself, of course He pledged this week to leave his

busi-nesses “in total” to focus on running the country But with his

name emblazoned above the door and his children possibly ing the ship, some still worry that the Trump Organization will become a magnet for ill-gotten profits and corruption I, for one, think it would be not only proper but also savvy for Trump to distance himself now After all, it’s far from certain that the value

steer-of his businesses will soar while he’s in the Oval Of fice Brands depend on consistency for success, and Trump Inc., which has long stood for gilded luxury and decadence, is already struggling with the contradictions inherent in his populist run The inconsis-tencies will only grow as Trump begins to govern What happens

to Trump the Brand when his name comes to be associated with, say, a trade war with China or bungled Medicare reform? Trump Inc.’s fortunes, of course, could grow without Trump at the helm And the president-elect could then enjoy his windfall while duck-ing suspicion; if its fortunes fell, he could dodge

blame How’s that for a silver lining?

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What happened

Donald Trump named a series of nominees

for major Cabinet posts this week, stocking

his administration with a mix of hard-line

conservatives, Wall Street veterans, and

GOP establishment ﬁgures To head the

Department of Health and Human Services,

the president-elect chose Rep Tom Price, a

Georgia doctor who has authored a 242-page

plan to replace the Affordable Care Act and

who advocates overhauling Medicare and

other entitlement programs Trump tapped

Hollywood ﬁnancier and former Goldman

Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Treasury

secretary and selected billionaire Betsy DeVos,

a major Republican donor, to lead the Department of Education

Mnuchin, who served as ﬁnance chair of Trump’s presidential

campaign, says his chief priority is lowering corporate and personal

tax rates DeVos is a longtime foe of teacher’s unions and a staunch

proponent of school choice and voucher programs Praised by

many conservatives, the nominations drew ﬁre from leading

Demo-crats “This isn’t draining the swamp,” said Ohio Sen Sherrod

Brown “It’s stocking it with alligators.”

For his Commerce secretary, Trump nominated billionaire investor

Wilbur Ross—a 79-year-old “turnaround specialist” known for

buying troubled companies and restructuring them, often with

substantial layoffs The president-elect also drew on Washington

insiders His choice for Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao,

served as secretary of labor under President George W Bush and

is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell; Trump

nominated Gov Nikki Haley of South Carolina as ambassador to

the United Nations A Ted Cruz backer in the GOP presidential

primary, Haley once called Trump “everything a governor doesn’t

want in a president.”

Speculation swirled around Trump’s possible secretary of state

Among the names under consideration were retired general and

former CIA Director David Petraeus, former New York City

May-or Rudy Giuliani, and fMay-ormer U.N ambassadMay-or John Bolton But

the most intense debate was over former Massachusetts governor

and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a

pos-sibility that divided the president-elect’s own team Senior adviser

Kellyanne Conway said the president-elect’s supporters would feel

“betrayed” if he chose Romney, who

attacked Trump as “a phony” and “a

fraud” during the campaign After the

two men dined together in Manhattan

this week, Romney said he had

“increas-ing hope” that Trump would lead the

nation to “a better future.”

What the editorials said

Trump is confounding naysayers who

as-sumed he’d bear grudges “all the way to

the crack of doom,” said the Washington

Examiner Instead of exacting revenge,

the president-elect is choosing “from

among the ranks of his ﬁercest critics and

most stalwart opponents.” It’s heartening

to see Trump “displaying such

equanim-ity and broad-mindedness.”

“Trump just tapped two smart, tough women to help lead his administration,” said

the New York Post In selecting Haley, the

president-elect is helping a rising Republican star—“letting her gain crucial experience

en route, presumably, to yet higher ofﬁce.” DeVos, meanwhile, “has been ﬁghting for ed-ucation reform for decades.” Charter schools will have “a potent friend in Washington.”Price is “a radical choice for Health secre-

tary,” said The New York Times His plan

to replace the Affordable Care Act would, among other things, roll back the feder-ally ﬁnanced expansion of Medicaid in 31 states, taking coverage away from 14 million poor people It would slash subsidies that have helped millions of people afford coverage since Obamacare went into effect And it “would no longer require insurers to cover addiction treatment, birth control, maternity care, prescription drugs, and other essential medical services.”

What the columnists said

“Get ready for an epic showdown over the fate of Medicare,” said

Greg Sargent in The Washington Post Trump promised to protect

the entitlement on the campaign trail, but Price wants to gut the popular program and offer seniors a voucher toward private insur-ance Critics say that would inevitably result in higher costs for elderly recipients, because their fixed benefit from the government would fall behind rising health-care costs Price’s confirmation hearing is sure to be explosive as progressives like Sens Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren hammer home “the true radicalism”

of Trump’s agenda

Trump’s secretary of state drama has overshadowed “a more

important story,” said Jonathan Tobin in CommentaryMagazine

.com All the contenders for the post—Romney, Giuliani, Bolton,

Petraeus—support the sort of internationalist foreign policy that Trump opposed as a candidate No matter who gets the nod, it seems his administration “will have far more in common with his Republican predecessors’ on foreign policy than anyone might have imagined.” That he’s even considering Petraeus is shocking, said

Bryan Bender in Politico.com Trump insisted Hillary Clinton’s use

of a private server for State Department emails “made her unﬁt for high ofﬁce.” Yet Petraeus pleaded guilty to leaking reams of clas-

siﬁed information to his biographer- mistress and was sentenced to two years of probation and ﬁned $100,000

“Let’s not jinx it, but this incoming Cabinet looks pretty darn good so far,”

said Jim Geraghty in NationalReview

.com Considering the “limited circle

of connections and talent” that rounded Trump during the campaign, this group is solidly conservative,

sur-“sufﬁciently experienced, professional, knowledgeable, and prepared.” They could be stunningly effective, quietly re-pealing regulations and executive orders and pushing through legislation, while

“the political world froths at the mouth

Trump and DeVos, his pick for Education

The main stories

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Trump fills out a conservative Cabinet

Illustration by Howard McWilliam Cover photos from AP, NASA, Newscom

What next?

Trump is still mulling his options for two crucial national security posts He tweeted that retired Marine Gen James Mattis, a favorite to head the Defense Department, is “a true general’s gen-eral.” But Mattis’ appointment “would require a congressional waiver from the requirement that the Pentagon chief be out of uniform for at least

seven years,” said Susan Page in USAToday.com

Trump also met this week with hard-line kee Sheriff David Clarke, a potential secretary

Milwau-of the Department Milwau-of Homeland Security Clarke called anti-Trump protests after the election

“temper tantrums” that needed to be “quelled,”

and has predicted that Black Lives Matter “will join forces with ISIS.”

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What happened

Wisconsin ofﬁcials this week began a

recount of the state’s nearly 3 million

presidential election votes, following

a last-minute ﬁling by Green Party

nominee Jill Stein, who is also seeking

recounts in the closely contested states

of Michigan and Pennsylvania Stein

has alleged that there were unspeciﬁed

voting irregularities on Election Day

and that Russian hackers may have

interfered with voting machines, but

she has not provided any evidence for

the claims President-elect Donald Trump won the three states by

a combined margin of 100,000 votes; if all three ﬂipped to Hillary

Clinton—a highly unlikely scenario, given that past statewide

re-counts have tended to shift only a few hundred votes—the defeated

Democratic nominee, who currently leads the popular vote by nearly

2.4 million votes, would claim an Electoral College victory After

Stein raised $6.6 million to pay for the recounts, Clinton’s campaign

agreed to join the process The recount deadline is Dec 13, six days

before the Electoral College votes are formally certiﬁed

In a series of angry tweets, Trump called the recounts a Green Party

“scam,” and accused Clinton of hypocrisy for questioning the

election’s integrity In an unprecedented move for a president-elect,

Trump asserted without evidence that there had been “serious voter

fraud” in Virginia, New Hampshire, and California, all of which

Clinton won He also claimed he would have won the popular vote

“if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

What the editorials said

Trump is right to call these recounts a farce, said the New York Post

There is virtually zero chance even one of the states will ﬂip to

Clin-ton, let alone all three Stein is simply pandering to “liberal hysteria

over Trump’s win” to raise funds and build up a huge database of

“suckers” for future donation appeals The hypocrisy of the Left

is astonishing, said The Wall Street Journal Before the election,

Democrats slammed Trump for claiming the election was “rigged”;

now, “the same crowd” is echoing his exact words

Stein deﬁnitely shouldn’t be sowing “unfounded doubts” over the

integrity of the election, said The Washington Post But Trump’s

“incendiary charge” that millions

of noncitizens voted is even more worrisome The U.S already makes it

“too difﬁcult for citizens to cast their votes,” with restrictive registration, limited early voting, and long lines

“If Trump’s preoccupation with tom voting fraud is any indication,”

phan-he may well seek to decrease ballot access even further

What the columnists saidTrump didn’t win the election “by means that most people would consider fair and square,” said

Amanda Marcotte in Salon.com He lost the popular vote; there is

“compelling evidence” that Moscow interfered by releasing hacked emails from senior Democrats; and strict voting laws crafted by Republican state lawmakers almost certainly depressed Demo-cratic turnout That being said, the rules are the rules—and Stein won’t ﬁnd anything “lurking in the data of some Wisconsin voting machine.” Liberals need to abandon their “wishful thinking,” said

Bruce Shapiro in TheNation.com Disputing clear results will

sim-ply “escalate the dangerously paranoid post-election atmosphere” and “distract from addressing systemic issues like voter disenfran-chisement and the Electoral College.”

I’m actually in favor of the recounts, said Nate Silver in FiveThirty

Eight.com The chances of uncovering “deliberate and widespread

fraud” are inﬁnitesimally small—swinging a national ballot through nefarious means would require a conspiracy of unimaginably large proportions But a thorough audit may at least put to bed any lin-gering doubts people have over the integrity of this divisive election

“More information is better.”

Not always, said Megan McArdle in BloombergView.com Both

sides—those backing the recount as well as those defending Trump’s baseless allegations about illegal voters—see themselves engaged in

“a vitally important ﬁght for the future of the country.” Their sion is admirable, but they need to consider the “pit of doom that awaits any country that cannot ﬁgure out how to settle its disputes

pas-by politics.” All that’s between us and that pit is “the safety net of civic institutions, like the legitimacy of election results.” Tearing that net apart is a sure path to “lawlessness” and “autocracy.”

Casting ballots in Wisconsin on Election Day

and rages as recounts advance in three states

It wasn’t all bad Q Pray Eat raw eggs Stay single Those are the keys to a long

life, according to Emma Morano, who celebrated her 117th birthday this week As the world’s oldest person—and the only person alive to have been born in the 1800s—Morano

is a national treasure in her native Italy, where her birthday

celebration was broadcast live on state TV Journalists, relatives, and well-wishers crowded into her cozy apartment in the northern town of Pallanza, where Morano received plenty of gifts and cheek kisses She only interrupted the festivi- ties once, to ask, “Is there anything to eat here?” After the party, Morano took a well-deserved nap

QAt nine months pregnant, Ariel Boggs really should be avoiding stressful situations But last week the Kentucky mom of three was stopped in her car, waiting for a work crew to move a new trailer home out of the road, when one of the workers accidentally touched

a power line—sparking a fire that engulfed him in flames Without

a moment’s hesitation, Boggs jumped out of her car, climbed

up the ladder to the trailer’s roof, and began to administer CPR that saved the workman’s life “Feel-ing his heartbeat and knowing I helped give him that back,” said Boggs, “that means a lot to me.”

QWhen Illinois repo man Jim Ford

went to repossess a 1998 Buick

belonging to Patty Kipping, 70, and

her 82-year-old husband, Stanford,

he was distraught to learn that the

couple was mired in debt from

medical expenses and had only

$30 to last until their next Social

Security check Taking the car broke

Ford’s heart, so he set up an online

fundraiser to help the Kippings out

In a single night, he raised $3,500:

enough to pay off the car, which

he also repaired, and put $1,000

toward the couple’s bills “It was a

miracle come true,” said Patty Morano, still kicking at 117

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Controversy of the week

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Trump: Flip-flopping on campaign promises

Is Donald Trump a hypocrite? asked Michael Gerson in

The Washington Post “For the nation’s sake, let’s hope

so.” Only days after winning the election, Trump elicited

howls of protest from his more rabid supporters when he

walked back his chilling campaign pledge to prosecute

Hillary Clinton He then went on to praise President

Obama (formerly “the worst president in history”)

and say that he was open to preserving some

ele-ments of the Affordable Care Act Last week, in

an interview with The New York Times, Trump

retreated even further toward “realism and good

sense.” On climate change, the president-elect

now claims to have “an open mind” about the

Paris agreement to slash emissions, which he once “threatened to

tear up,” and is apparently no longer convinced of the need to

bring back torture for terrorist suspects It’s been a “breathtaking

fortnight of flip-flopping” from Trump, said David Ignatius, also

in the Post Ordinarily we look for consistency and principle in our

politicians But given the “reckless and damaging” pledges he made

on the campaign trail, “perhaps we should be thankful this week

for Donald Trump’s insincerity.”

Don’t be fooled, said Robinson Meyer in TheAtlantic.com The

president-elect may sound like a moderate when he’s wooing liberal

Times editors, but his Cabinet nominations and staffing choices

so far have been those of an “extremist Republican.” If Trump

were softening his positions, would he have picked Myron Ebell, a

professional climate-change denier, to lead his transition team for

the Environmental Protection Agency? Or immigration hard-liner

Sen Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General? To his credit, Trump was

fairly blunt on the campaign trail about what he hoped to achieve

in office, said Matthew Yglesias in Vox.com He vowed to crack

down on illegal immigration and slash corporate taxes No

presi-dent manages to follow through on every campaign promise, of course, but it does look as if Trump is “prepping to take a real shot at doing what he can.”

Trying to determine Trump’s actual beliefs or agenda “is

like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall,” said Harry Enten in

FiveThirtyEight.com His transition picks may indicate

“an instinct to go hard right,” but Trump’s own words really have been much more moderate since the election He has barely mentioned immigration, the centerpiece of his campaign The only policy outlined in his victory speech was a New Deal–ish program of infrastructure spending And in a YouTube video outlining the agenda for his first 100 days, Trump almost sounded like “a Bernie Sanders–style Democrat,” with a focus on jobs, worker-friendly trade deals, and lobbying reform So far, President-elect Trump is a vast improvement over Trump the

candidate, said Fareed Zakaria in WashingtonPost.com If this is

flip-flopping, “we should all hope that he flip-flops some more.”

Trump’s not a “flip-flopper,” said Salena Zito in NYPost.com He’s

a businessman, and business people change their minds a lot Why? Not because they lack courage or conviction, but because they care more about real-world results than about ideological purity To a lifelong deal maker like Donald Trump, “everything is negotiable,” and the flexible, freewheeling pragmatism he displayed throughout the campaign was evidently a quality that voters found attractive

Maybe so, said Kathleen Parker in The Washington Post, but they

were also attracted by Trump’s unambiguous promises to bring back jobs, defeat ISIS, fix the U.S health-care system, and do so much else If he doesn’t start delivering, and quickly, his support-ers may soon join the rest of us in wondering just “who is the real Donald Trump, and what does he stand for?”

Only in America

QA transgender police officer

in San Diego was barred from

an LGBT event that she helped

organize over concerns that

her uniform would upset other

attendees Officer Christine

Garcia provided security for

the annual march honoring

victims of anti-transgender

violence But when she tried to

enter a post-march event, she

was turned away A

spokes-person blamed the incident on

a “misunderstanding.”

QA conservative

organiza-tion has compiled a watch

list of 200 college

profes-sors it claims hold “radical”

liberal beliefs The Professor

Watchlist, created by

Turn-ing Point USA, identifies one

faculty member as a

“promi-nent Marxist economist,” and

another as a leader of anti–

campus carry efforts The site

encourages students to send

in tips about professors

ad-vancing “leftist propaganda.”

Boring but important

Immigrant detention challenge

The Supreme Court heard guments this week on whether immigrants can be detained indefinitely while a court de-cides whether to deport them The case concerns legal per-manent residents who have committed a crime, as well

ar-as people seeking ar-asylum in the U.S Forty percent of legal immigrants facing deporta-tion ultimately win their cases,

as do 70 percent of asylum seekers—but they spend an average of 13 months in harsh detention conditions awaiting

a court’s decision Two federal appeals courts have ruled that immigrants should be granted a bond hearing after six months of detention The Obama administration chal-lenged those rulings, arguing that immigration matters are the domain of the executive and legislative branches

$30,000 award to anyone who could help devise a hygienic way for astronauts to poop and pee inside their space suits, without having

to use an uncomfortable diaper

announced plans to sell strains of marijuana cultivated from the remnants of the writer’s personal stash “I’m looking forward to being a drug lord,” she said

Feeling the spirit, after scientists at the University of Utah ered that engaging in prayer has the same effect on religious people’s brains as having sex “We’re just beginning to understand how the brain participates in experiences that believers interpret as spiritual, divine, or transcendent,” said lead researcher Jeffrey Anderson

discov-Helicopter parenting, after a court in Switzerland ruled that a 7-year-old boy must attend a specialized school because his doting parents spoiled him so much that he can’t cope with the challenges

of a regular school environment

Kind words, after Dictionary.com announced that “xenophobia”

was its word of the year for 2016 The site saw a huge spike in searches for the term, which is defined as “fear and hatred of foreigners,” in the wake of the Brexit vote and as Donald Trump moved closer to securing the GOP nomination

Love potions, after North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ordered

his country’s scientists to develop a cure for male sexual dysfunction using snake extracts, sea urchins, and mushrooms soaked in alcohol

Good week for:

Bad week for:

What does he actually believe?

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The U.S at a glance NEWS 7

a two-day hearing that including mony from a psychologist, Judge Richard Gergel declared Roof fit for trial He also granted Roof permission to act as his own attorney—though Roof’s decision to rep-resent himself was “strategically unwise,”

testi-said Gergel The decision cleared the way for jury selection to resume Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty

Indianapolis Carrier deal: President-elect Donald Trump claimed another victory for U.S workers this week, announcing

he had reached an agreement with air- conditioning company Carrier to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis rather than having them shipped to Mexico

Trump had made Carrier’s plan to shutter two Indiana plants, affecting about 2,100 jobs, a focal point of his campaign, fre-quently citing it as part of his promise to bring back Rust Belt manufacturing jobs

Trump didn’t offer any immediate details about the Carrier agreement, which he says was negotiated by Vice President–

elect Mike Pence, Indiana’s outgoing governor But Trump planned to travel to the state this week to unveil the specifics alongside Carrier officials “Great deal for workers!” tweeted Trump In exchange for Carrier staying in the country, Indiana and the Trump administration will likely offer tax and regulatory incentives

Standing Rock Sioux

Reservation, N.D

Deadline approaching: A face-off was

looming at the Standing Rock Sioux

Reservation this week,

as North Dakota’s governor ordered a mandatory evacua-tion of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest site, citing the

harsh weather State law enforcement also

threatened to block any people or

sup-plies from entering the camp Thousands

of Native Americans and environmental

activists have vowed to spend the winter

at the site to protest the proposed

1,170-mile pipeline stretching to Illinois, saying

the project threatens the reservation’s

water supply and sacred burial

grounds The U.S Army Corps

of Engineers, which manages the

site, has set a Dec 5 deadline

for protesters to clear out, but

said it would not remove

dem-onstrators by force The corps

said it had decided to close the

camp when it became

“appar-ent that more dangerous groups

have joined this protest.”

Columbus, Ohio ISIS attack on campus? At least 11 people were hospitalized this week when an Ohio State stu-

dent rammed his car into

a campus crowd and began stab-bing students with a butcher knife Ab dul Razak Ali A rtan, 18, a Somali refugee and permanent U.S resident who came

to the U.S in 2014, allegedly posted a Facebook rant before his rampage say-ing he was “sick and tired” of seeing fellow Muslims “killed and tortured.” Authorities put the campus on lockdown shortly after the attack began, around 10

in the morning Artan was shot dead by a university police officer shortly thereafter The following day, ISIS claimed respon-sibility for the rampage, calling Artan its

“soldier,” though authorities have said there is no evidence that the teen had contact with the terrorist group Last month, ISIS’s online magazine called for knife attacks in the West In a tweet, Donald Trump called the attack

“terrible,” and said Artan “should not have been in our country.”

Austin

New abortion rules: After several months

of heated public debate, Texas

health officials announced this

week that they would begin

implementing a controversial

new rule requiring that fetal

remains be ied or cremated

bur-by hospitals and abortion clinics, start-ing Dec 19 Proposed by Republican

Gov Greg Abbott in July and approved

by the state health agency, the

regula-tions ban hospitals and clinics from

dis-posing of fetal remains alongside other

medical tissue—which includes disposing

of it in landfills or the sewer system

The rules won’t apply to miscarriages

or at-home abortions State Sen Don

Huffines said the new requirement would

stop “the most innocent among us”

from being “thrown out with the daily

waste.” But the rule has sparked an

out-cry among the medical community and

abortion activists, who said cremation

or burial could cost clinics thousands of

dollars per case, and make it more

diffi-cult for women to obtain abortions

Gatlinburg, Tenn

Savage fire: At least seven people were killed

wild-in eastern Tennessee this week as wildfires tore through two resort towns in the Great Smoky Mountains, gutting hundreds of homes and forcing 14,000 tourists and residents to flee The blaze was “human-caused,” investigators said, but it was intensified by a prolonged drought and wind gusts of nearly 90 mph—sending people in the towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge scrambling to evacuate “It happened so fast, it was staggering,” said Gatlinburg Mayor Mike Werner “People were basically running for their lives.” The fire prompted mandatory evacua-tions of the nearby tourist destination of Dollywood, though the Dolly Parton–owned amusement park escaped damage The center of Gatlinburg’s tourist district was also spared heavy damage, but either side of the downtown resembled “the apocalypse,” said Newmansville Fire Department Lt Bobby Balding

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The world at a glance

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Berlin Russians hack the vote: The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has warned that Russia could try

to hack next year’s German election the same way

it meddled with the U.S presidential contest Bruno Kahl said he had evidence that Moscow engaged in cyberattacks and spread fake news during the U.S

election The Russians “are interested in mizing the democratic process,” he said, “regard-less of whom that ends up helping.” Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, said Russian secret services had already targeted German computer systems in attacks “aimed at comprehensive strategic data gathering.” Some

delegiti-1 million Germans lost phone and internet access last week after a cyberattack that security experts blamed on Russian hackers

Brasília Call to impeach Temer: Less than three months after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and ousted, the oppo-sition is calling for the impeach-ment of her successor, Michel Temer A former minister in Temer’s government, Marcelo Calero, told federal investigators that Temer had pressured him to override historic-preservation rules that were halting the construction of a luxury tower in the northeastern city

of Salvador Calero claimed the president wanted to help a top political ally, Vieira Lima, who had invested in an apartment in the development Lima resigned as government secretary last week after news of the investigation broke; he is the fourth member of Temer’s cabinet to quit because of corruption allegations “The president evidently sponsored a private interest from his public office,” the Socialism and Liberty Party said in its impeachment request

Medellín, Colombia

Crash wipes out soccer team: Almost every member of a beloved

Brazilian soccer team was killed this week in a plane crash The

Chapecoense club had charmed fans with its Cinderella-like rise

from fourth-tier obscurity to Brazil’s top professional soccer league

in 2014 Its players were flying to the biggest game in the team’s

history—the Copa Sudamericana final in Colombia—when their plane went down near Medellín, killing

75 people There were just six vors, including three players Striker Alejandro Martinuccio missed the flight because of an injury suffered in

survi-an earlier game “I was saved because

I got injured,” he said “I feel found sadness.”

pro-Port-au-Prince, Haiti

New president, at last: Haiti finally has

an elected president again Banana farmer

Jovenel Mọse easily won last week’s election,

taking 55.7 percent of the vote against 26

rivals and avoiding the need for a runoff Mọse,

the handpicked successor to former President

Michel Martelly, had led in the first attempt

at an election, last year, but because of

wide-spread fraud the results were scrapped and the entire election

held again A caretaker government has run the country since

February, when Martelly’s term ended The election was held just

a month after a major hurricane devastated the island, and

turn-out was only 21 percent Supporters of several other candidates

are disputing the results

Rabat, Morocco

Covering for abusers: A Moroccan state TV channel has been

forced to apologize after running a segment on how women

can use makeup to cover up bruises and other signs of

domes-tic abuse “After the beating, this part is still sensitive, so don’t

press,” host Lilia Mouline told viewers of the popular lifestyle

show Sabahiyat, as she applied makeup to a woman with what

appeared to be a black eye and bruised cheeks “Use foundation

with yellow in it If you use the white one, your red punch marks

will always show.” After a public outcry and petition, channel

2M issued online and on-air apologies, calling the makeup

tuto-rial “completely inappropriate.” More than half of Moroccan

women report being beaten by their husbands

Amsterdam Burqa ban: The Dutch House of Representatives has voted over-whelmingly to ban the burqa in cer-tain public places, including schools, hospitals, and public transportation

The new law, which is expected to

be approved by the Dutch Senate, outlaws all face coverings, includ-ing ski masks and motorbike helmets The centrist government said the ban was essential for security Those caught flouting

the law would be fined $430 Very few Muslim women in the

Netherlands wear the burqa—the full-body, full-face Islamic

coverall—but the ban has been a major demand of the far-right

Freedom Party Party founder Geert Wilders says that if his party

wins elections next March, it will extend the ban to include

pub-lic streets as well France and Belgium have completely banned

the wearing of face veils in public

Rescuers at the wreckage

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Moscow

Seagal is a Russian now: President

Vladimir Putin personally handed a

new Russian passport to American

action movie star Steven Seagal last

week at a televised ceremony at the

Kremlin “I would like to

congratu-late you,” said Putin, “and I also

hope that this small step will mark

the beginning of the gradual improvement in our interstate

rela-tions.” Seagal, 64, thanked the president in Russian The actor,

whose martial-arts movie career peaked in the 1990s, is popular

in Russia, where he says he has family roots He has called Putin,

a martial arts fan and judo practitioner, “one of the world’s great

leaders.” Unlike French actor Gérard Depardieu, who renounced

French citizenship to become a Russian in 2013, Seagal is not

giv-ing up his U.S passport

Harare, Zimbabwe

New money rejected: Zimbabwean police used water cannons

and tear gas this week against crowds of demonstrators

protest-ing the introduction of new bond notes based on the U.S dollar

Zimbabwe’s own currency collapsed in 2009 after hyperinflation

reached more than 200 million percent, and the country has been

using the South African rand and U.S dollar since then This week

the government introduced new $2 notes and $1 coins, which it

claims are not a new currency But Zimbabweans don’t trust the

new bill and coin, and shopkeepers aren’t accepting them Instead, people thronged outside banks and ATMs for hours, waiting to withdraw their U.S dollars and hoard them at home

Zimbabwe’s economy has all but disintegrated; at least 80 percent of people there are out of work

Ramallah, West Bank Abbas consolidates power: The Palestinians’ main political party, Fatah, has re-elected Mahmoud Abbas, 81, to another five-year term as party leader Some 1,300 Fatah delegates, many of them elderly and nearly all men, came to the convention at Abbas’ presidential compound in Ramallah The

last party congress, in 2009, had 2,500 delegates, but since then Abbas has purged those loyal to his rival, Mohammed Dahlan, who now lives in exile in Abu Dhabi Abbas holds all three top Palestinian leadership positions: head

of Fatah, president of the Palestinian Authority, and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Neelum Valley, Pakistan Kashmir violence: Residents of Pakistani-administered Kashmir are building bunkers and shelters as fears grow that another war with India will break out A

2003 cease-fire, long shaky, was shattered

in September when Pakistani militants crossed the Line of Control that divides Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir and attacked an Indian army base, killing 19 soldiers This week, Pakistani militants stormed another Indian army base, killing seven India has responded with shelling, and diplomatic rela-tions between the two countries have been all but severed About 500,000 people on the Pakistani side live within range of Indian artillery “The voice of the guns is horrible,” said resident Chand Bibi “We are near to dying at the moment we hear the boom.”

Aleppo, Syria Rebels in retreat: Syrian government forces stormed rebel-held east-ern Aleppo this week and retook more than a third of the territory, causing thousands of civilians to flee the devastated city as oppo-sition defenses collapsed Reclaiming all of Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial capital, would be President Bashar al-Assad’s biggest victory of the five-and-a-half-year civil war The ground offensive

by government troops and their Hezbollah allies was accompanied

by a massive aerial bombardment from Russian and Syrian ment warplanes Assad’s aircraft also dropped leaflets on rebel-held neighborhoods reading, “If you don’t leave these areas quickly, you will be annihilated.” About 10,000 people left the city this week, said United Nations humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien, but thou-sands more are “trapped, terrified, and running out of time.”

govern-Seoul Park to resign: South Korea’s scandal-battered President Park Geun-hye has offered to resign before her term ends in 2018, in

an attempt to head off a pending impeachment vote over ruption allegations “I will step down from my position according to the law once a way is formed to pass on the administration in a stable manner,” she said this week Park has seen her popularity plummet since her long-time friend and unofficial adviser, Choi Soon-sil, was charged with extorting more than $60 million from South Korean businesses Prosecutors allege that Park helped her to do so Opposition politicians have dismissed Park’s request that the legislature decide how and when she should leave office, calling it a delaying tactic “She is handing the ball to parliament when she could simply step down,” said Park Kwang-on, a lawmaker with the opposition Democratic Party

Swapping new for old

A makeshift bomb shelter

Abbas: Not going anywhere Putin congratulates Seagal.

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Han Solo’s secret lover

It has taken Carrie Fisher 40 years to admit what fans have long suspected, said Simon Hattenstone

in The Guardian (U.K.) In her new memoir,

Fisher reveals that she did have an affair with

Harrison Ford on the set of the first Star Wars

film At the time, Fisher—who played Princess Leia—was just 19 and racked with teenage insecu-rity Ford, who played her love interest, Han Solo, was 14 years older and a married father of two She was totally

infatuated with her handsome, taciturn co-star, but though he was

very willing to have a fling, it was “unreciprocated” love “I don’t

think, until now, he knew the intensity of my feelings,” she says

“I was shocked by the fact that he fancied me I was a very

inse-cure girl and had only had one boyfriend.” The affair lasted three

months—after which neither of them ever mentioned it again Even

when they were reunited on the set of last year’s Star Wars reboot,

The Force Awakens, they couldn’t talk about it “On this last film I

noticed that two people were flirting and they had a big age

differ-ence like we had, and I pointed it out to him, and he said [she puts

on a deadpan growl]: ‘Well, I hope it goes well for them ’ He’s not

a big talker,” she says drily “You know, he wasn’t Mr Chuckles.”

The man who saves history

Professor Maamoun Abdulkarim felt overwhelmed when he was

made head of antiquities at Syria’s National Museum, said Christina

Lamb in The Sunday Times (U.K.) “I had no idea how I could

protect hundreds of thousands of objects from war and terrorists,”

he says “If I wasn’t an optimist I would have lost my mind.” In

the four years since his promotion, Abdulkarim and his team have

rescued more than 400,000 ancient artifacts from cities across

Syria They have worked night and day, smuggling the objects

out of besieged areas and hiding them in underground chambers

throughout Damascus This may seem a strange priority to some

“I know that people’s lives are more important than heritage, but

my job isn’t to save people, it’s to save the memory of the country.”

It’s dangerous work Last year, after seizing the ancient Roman site

of Palmyra, ISIS captured his friend Khaled al-Asaad, an

82-year-old archaeologist “I said to Khaled, you should leave the city But

Khaled replied: ‘I’m an old man, my life is Palmyra, and I will

fin-ish my life here.’” Sure enough, al-Asaad was beheaded—one of

15 archaeologists, academics, and museum guards who have lost

their lives protecting Syria’s ancient treasures “We are happy we

rescued all this, but it has been a high cost,” says Abdulkarim “I

always say I am the saddest museum director in the world.”

Billy Bob Thornton is a big believer in marriage, said Taffy

Brodesser-Akner in GQ The actor is on his sixth wife, Connie

Angland—and finds it embarrassing when people refer to the makeup effects artist as a statistic from his unconventional life “I didn’t want her to be called No 6 You know?” To make their union more official, Thornton, 61, has had Connie’s name tattooed on his spine, along with the name of their daughter Bella Unfortunately,

he still has two tattoos dedicated to wife No 5, Angelina Jolie—one

on his leg, and one covered by an angel on his arm “It’s just resting there You can still see the name.” Thornton says he and Jolie had

a great relationship The problem was, he says, “I never felt good enough for her.” While Jolie was focused on her humanitarian work and went off to meet U.N officials, Thornton just wanted to stay home and watch baseball Having grown up dirt poor in Arkansas,

he didn’t like hanging out with politicians and world leaders, or with Hollywood bigwigs like George Lucas “I’m real uncomfortable around rich and important people.” It isn’t just that he doesn’t know

which fork to use, he says—but that he doesn’t want to know which fork to use “I like how I am.”

QHospitalized after a spate of strange

behavior, Kanye West is struggling with

“extreme paranoia” and

depres-sion, TMZ.com reports Sources

say the rapper believes doctors

at UCLA Medical Center in Los

Angeles are out to get him,

and for a time wouldn’t let

staffers touch him. West was

rushed to the hospital last

week when he began

behav-ing “erratically” at his trainer’s

home The health scare came

hours after West canceled the

remaining 21 dates of his Saint

Pablo tour; during earlier dates,

he cut shows short and ranted

onstage about Hillary Clinton, Beyoncé, and Jay Z Throughout his medical crisis, wife

Kim Kardashian has offered stalwart support

“Kim has been amazing,” an insider says,

“helping to feed him and lying by his side.”

QIn a party prank gone horribly wrong,

Britain’s Princess Beatrice last week sliced a gash in Ed Sheeran’s cheek while pretend-

ing to knight his fellow singer-songwriter

James Blunt During a bash at the Royal

Lodge in Windsor, England, Blunt joked that he craved a knighthood and Beatrice,

28, “fetched a ceremonial sword,” a source

tells The Sun (U.K.) As he got down on one

knee, she raised the weapon and nounced, “Arise Sir James.” Unfortunately,

pro-“instead of lightly tapping him on the der, she swung it back, not knowing Ed was standing right behind her.” The blade barely

shoul-missed Sheeran’s eye The “Bloodstream” singer was treated at a nearby hospital, but returned to the party, to the relief of a morti-fied Beatrice “She and Ed spoke about it, and everything was fine.”

QOnetime Brat Packer Anthony Michael Hall

is facing up to seven years behind bars after being charged this week with felony battery for allegedly attacking a neighbor during

an argument over an unlocked gate in their condo complex In an altercation caught by

security cameras, the Breakfast Club star,

48, is accused of slamming the man to the ground, leaving him with a broken wrist and

an injured back This isn’t Hall’s first legal scrape: He was arrested in 2011 for allegedly

“terrorizing” neighbors with aggressive havior, which included spraying them with a hose and shouting obscenities

be-THE WEEK December 9, 2016

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Who is Jared Kushner?

Ivanka Trump’s husband is a real estate

developer who, like Donald Trump,

inherited a fortune from his father and

grew it through daring deals Kushner,

35, is worth an estimated $200

mil-lion He’s also one of Donald Trump’s

closest advisers and helped engineer

his upset victory over Hillary Clinton

“The president-elect knows that the only

person Jared is looking out for is the

president-elect,” says Jason Miller,

com-munications director for Trump’s

transi-tion team “He doesn’t have any other

agendas or motives or fiefdoms And in

the world of politics, that’s frequently

hard to find.” In stark contrast to his bombastic father-in-law,

Kushner is reserved, modest, and unfailingly polite Yet they are

described as kindred spirits—men born to wealth who nonetheless

see themselves as scorned outsiders with something to prove

Why is that?

Manhattan’s cultural elite has long mocked Queens-born Trump

for his gold-plated gaucherie New Jersey native Kushner, on the

other hand, has faced skepticism ever since Daniel Golden’s 2006

book The Price of Admission, which suggested Kushner’s father,

Charles, used a $2.5 million donation to get Jared into Harvard

University “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not

warrant it,” says an official at Kushner’s high school The book

was the second humiliating blow Kushner had to absorb at a

young age The year before Golden’s book came out, Kushner’s

father was sent to prison, after a scandalous trial involving a

family feud, sex, and blackmail (See box.) When Kushner took

over his father’s business, Kushner

Companies, at age 24, he quickly set out

to redeem his family’s reputation and

prove his own mettle

What did he do?

He expanded into New York City “He

knew early in his career that the way

to become important was to get out of

Jersey and become a Manhattan

devel-oper,” says Mitchell Moss, urban

plan-ning professor at New York University

In 2007, Kushner put up $1.8 billion

in mostly borrowed funds to purchase

the 41-story office building at 666 Fifth

Ave.—a near disaster when values

plum-meted after the 2008 financial crisis

But he has found enormous success by

investing in office and residential

build-ings in SoHo, Brooklyn, and other hip,

rising areas

When did he meet Ivanka?

A real estate broker introduced them

and they began dating in 2007 “I feel

really lucky to have met, like, a great

New Jersey boy,” Ivanka says The

stumbling block was religion—Ivanka

was a Presbyterian and Kushner a devout Orthodox Jew whose parents hoped he’d marry within the faith The conflict led to a 2008 breakup, but they got back together after Ivanka prom-ised to convert to Judaism Her future in-laws didn’t make it easy, insisting

on rigorous study of the Torah “It was hard and difficult and it was on Charlie’s terms,” says former Observer Media president Bob Sommer Ivanka passed the test, and they wed in 2009

at Trump National Golf Club in minster, N.J Kushner and Ivanka have three children, keep the Sabbath, and often spend weekends with Jared’s parents at their Jersey Shore mansion “It was understood that marriage meant loyalty to their in-laws,” says former Hollywood superagent Michael Ovitz, another mentor “Incidentally, Jared discovered that he really liked Donald.” When Trump ran for president, Kushner became deeply involved in the campaign

Bed- How did that happen?

Kushner says he became a true believer last November after watching Trump thrill a packed arena in Springfield, Ill “People really saw hope in his message,” Kushner says Convinced his father-in-law could win, he encouraged him to make better use

of computer data and social media Kushner called on friends in Silicon Valley, he says, and “had them give me a tutorial on how

to use Facebook microtargeting.” Last summer Kushner built a data hub, which gathered a trove of constituent information to identify possible Trump voters The data pointed to momentum

in the Rust Belt, prompting last-minute rallies and outreach that

helped the Republican turn those states red Kushner “managed to assemble a presidential campaign on a shoestring using new technology and won,” says former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who assisted the Clinton campaign

“That’s a big deal.”

What role will he play now?

He has already helped direct the tion as a liaison to his father-in-law, and reportedly helped orchestrate the ouster of original transition leader Chris Christie—the man who had prosecuted Kushner’s father Federal anti-nepotism laws may bar him from a paid post and perhaps even an unpaid one, but Trump has signaled Kushner will nonetheless play a key advisory role and become a formidable force in the Trump White House Indeed, despite Kushner’s utter lack of diplomatic experience, Trump suggests

transi-he might ask his son-in-law to broker

an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace “I think he’d be very good at it,” Trump says “He knows the region, knows the people, knows the players.”

Kushner at Trump Tower in New York City

Trump’s most trusted adviser

His father’s stint in jail

A flamboyant developer, Charles Kushner,

62, was a major Democratic donor and one

of New Jersey’s premier power players But

he suffered a spectacular fall from grace In

2001, his brother learned Charles had used family business partners to make political con-tributions without their consent When Chris Christie, then U.S attorney for New Jersey, launched an aggressive investigation, Charles blackmailed his sister to discourage her from cooperating: He paid a prostitute $10,000 to lure her husband to a motel room, and sent

a videotape of the encounter to his sister “It

was like a Sopranos episode,” says Kushner

adversary Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club Charles pleaded guilty to 18 felony counts, including making illegal campaign contributions and retaliating against a federal witness, and was sentenced to two years in

an Alabama penitentiary Jared Kushner took

it hard He visited Charles in prison every Sunday, and came to share his father’s belief he’d been sold down the river by jealous rela-tives and the media “I felt what happened was obviously unjust in terms of the way [prosecu-tors] pursued him,” Jared says

Jared Kushner, the president-elect’s reserved son-in-law, will play a major role in his administration.

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in his ward’s trash cans Just weeks later, Brookins was out bicycling when one of those squirrels ran into his path and got tangled in the spokes, causing the alderman to flip over the handlebars Brookins fractured his skull, broke his nose, and knocked out several teeth in the crash; the squirrel died “It was like

a suicide bomber,” he said of the rodent, “getting revenge.”

QA Georgia man is refusing

to find out who won the presidential election

Joe Chandler says that on the day after the vote he woke

up feeling happy and relaxed—and decided not to ruin his mood by finding out the result Since then, the artist, who works from home, has avoided televi-sion, newspapers, and social media When he leaves the house, he wears headphones and a sign asking people not

to tell him who won “It is very peaceful in my bubble

of ignorance,” Chandler says

QA Japanese amusement park shut its ice rink after visitors kicked up a stink over its unusual decor: thousands

of frozen fish Space World theme park bought some 5,000 dead sprats, mackerel, and other fish from a market and embedded them in the ice—some with their mouths open as if in suspended animation “We wanted customers to experience the feeling of skating on the sea,” said general manager Toshimi Takeda Instead, critics lambasted the display

on social media, calling it

“tasteless,” “sinful,” and “a desecration of life.” The park

is now replacing the ice and says it will hold a memorial service for the fish

It must be true

I read it in the tabloids

If President-elect Donald Trump has been reluctant to give up his ness ties, blame “the habits of a lifetime,” said Peggy Noonan For the past 50 years, the real estate mogul “has devoted all his professional energies to money, profit, the deal.” Those three motivations have to-tally governed his mind, and he has brought up his children to absorb the Trump family ethos Yet now, for the first time in his life, padding the bottom line is not his job In order to avoid massive conflicts of interest, he needs to “put personal profit motives behind him.” He has suggested he will take himself out of the business operations of his 500

busi-or so companies We don’t yet know whether that means handing over control to his children or divesting completely But it’s hard to see how any decision other than liquidating his stakes and putting those pro-ceeds in a blind trust would allow Trump to “avoid endless accusations that he is enriching himself as president.” That route will be difficult for a businessman whose life has been a constant race to make the next buck, but Trump needs to fundamentally alter his mindset He shocked his critics by winning “He should shock them now with rectitude.”

Vladimir Putin believes he’s found the perfect moment to batter the Syrian city of Aleppo into submission, said Tom Rogan Syrian gov-ernment forces, backed by weeks of brutal Russian airstrikes, “are close to seizing the entirety” of the rebel-held city For the various op-position forces fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the loss of Aleppo will be devastating, both strategically and for morale But that’s not why Russia and its allies “have waited until now for their final push”

on the long-besieged city Putin clearly senses that President Obama has given up on Syria “Putin therefore feels empowered to do his worst while Obama remains in office.” At the same time, the Russian president knows that U.S foreign policy under a Trump presidency

is a wild card Trump may appear sympathetic to Moscow now, but once he learns more about what Russia is actually doing in Syria—

“for example, not targeting ISIS”—his approach could shift quickly

That’s why Putin hopes to crush Aleppo “now rather than later.” He’s clearly gambling that, come Inauguration Day in Washington, “images

of bloodied Syrians will be an afterthought in Western minds.”

It’s time for House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and her ian deputies to step aside, said Dana Milbank If Democrats ever hope

septuagenar-to recover from the Trump debacle and regain control of Congress, they desperately need an infusion of young talent Pelosi, minority whip Steny Hoyer, and No 3 House Democrat Jim Clyburn are talented and accomplished public servants, but they’re all in their late 70s—their combined ages “would date back to 1787, the year George Washington presided over the signing of the Constitution.” Their governing style—

“passionately ideological and unyielding”—is emblematic of their eration, and it has given us “cultural warfare and dysfunction.” That’s why Ohio Rep Tim Ryan’s long-shot challenge for the minority leader post this week was such a welcome development Ryan, a 43-year-old former high school quarterback, “drinks at the Open Hearth bar on Steel Street in Youngstown” with blue-collar Democrats who feel abandoned

gen-by a party led gen-by coastal elites Ryan understands that many of these ers flipped to Trump not because they agreed with his racial politics, but because they liked his economic populism and “wanted to say ‘Go screw yourself’ to the establishment.” Ryan may have lost his challenge, but it’s not too late for the Democratic establishment to start listening

“Donald Trump will be the first president in 150 years who does not have

a pet Martin Van Buren had tiger cubs, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt had bears, and Calvin Coolidge had a pygmy hippopotamus In recent decades, presi-

dents have stuck to cats and dogs, and these furry first friends have served to soften the

execu-tive’s image and garnered positive White House news coverage But even if Trump sees no need

for an image boost, it may help him to have a friendly animal around Animals can simultaneously

boost self-esteem and keep ego in check So, Mr President-elect: For your own good, and the good

of the nation, please get a puppy.” Lauren Wright in The Washington Post

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POLAND Our right-wing government is only interested in “revenge and populism,” said Wojciech

Czuch-nowski The ruling Law and Justice party last week announced a plan to cut the pensions of about 32,000 people who served in Poland’s feared Communist-era security services Some former members of the secret police receive monthly pension payments in excess of $4,000 a month

Under the new regulations, they’d get just $500 a month—the same as the average pensioner “We are restoring social justice,” said Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, who argued that ex-Communists shouldn’t receive more than the people they re-pressed But there is nothing just about this cut

When Communism collapsed in 1989, security officers who were found to have persecuted pro- democracy activists were barred from public office Those who were assessed positively were given the chance to work for democratic Poland—and most did so brilliantly A police officer who worked briefly for the Communists, and then served 20 or more years in free Poland, will now see his pension slashed The government claims that such cuts will help those jailed and tortured by the secret police, but not a penny of the $120 million in expected annual savings is being set aside for those victims This is nothing more than a cynical cash grab wrapped up in anti-Communist hysteria

Many politicians have made the mistake of estimating Angela Merkel, said Gunnar Jonsson

under-They were fooled by the chancellor’s quiet, tent approach, only to discover at the last minute that she had outmaneuvered them But there is now a real danger in overestimating Merkel, who announced last week that she would run for a fourth term as chancellor in 2017 After the U.K

compe-voted for Brexit and the U.S elected a “wild man named Donald Trump,” liberals around the world have looked expectantly to Berlin, hoping Merkel

“will take care of the entire free world.” She can’t

Her political power is diminishing at home, in part

because of her decision last year to let some 1 lion refugees settle in Germany Her role as the unchallenged leader of the EU is being undermined

mil-by the rise of populist, nationalist parties across the Continent—reactionary movements fed by Merkel’s insistence that austerity, not public spend-ing, is the cure for Europe’s economic ills And if Trump continues cozying up to Russia and pulls back from the Atlantic alliance, Germany cannot

“replace the Americans as NATO’s spine.” Its tary is too small and its pacifist instincts too strong

mili-“Germany needs a peaceful world order to export its cars.” But Merkel cannot shape that world

First Britain voted to leave the European

Union Then America put Donald Trump

in the White House Will Italy be the next

Western nation to be engulfed by a populist

wave? asked James Politi in the Financial

Times (U.K.) It might be, thanks to Prime

Minister Matteo Renzi’s decision to hold a

referendum next week on his flagship plan

to amend the Italian constitution Renzi

wants to end the perennial gridlock between

Parliament’s two equally powerful chambers

by shrinking the Senate, the upper chamber,

in power and size But the center-left leader

made a devastating mistake, “excessively

personalizing the referendum by vowing to

resign and leave politics if he lost.” That

pledge “galvanized the opposition, which

quickly turned the vote into an opportunity

to oust the prime minister rather than issue

a verdict on his reforms.” Now, everyone

who opposes Renzi for whatever reason is

against the reforms, and if Renzi does step

down after a No vote, the way is clear for a populist takeover by

Beppe Grillo, the comedian turned politician who heads the

anti-EU, anti-euro Five Star Movement

Nevertheless, Italy should vote No, said The Economist (U.K.)

The country needs reforms, but not these particular reforms

Coupled with a new electoral law that gives more than half the

seats in Parliament’s lower house to whichever party wins a

plural-ity of votes, Renzi’s reforms would make it all too easy for Italy to

end up with “an elected strongman.” Given that the country is

al-ready “worryingly vulnerable to populism,” having previously created a Mussolini and

a Berlusconi, such concentration of power

is simply too risky A Prime Minister Grillo would be bad now, but just think of what he could do if he were “elected by a minority and cemented into office” by Renzi’s reforms.Many of us are sick of Renzi and ready

to see him go, said Pippo Corigliano in

L’Eco di Caserta (Italy) If Renzi wins the

referendum, his Democratic Party will be emboldened to continue on its path of ex-panding gay rights and pushing a liberal agenda Italy could end up with “gay adop-tion, gender theory taught in elementary schools, even abortion on the last day of pregnancy.” This is the kind of “ideological colonization” by the decadent West that the pope has warned us against

Conservative Catholics could end up

sway-ing this vote, said Paolo Rodari and Alessia Candito in La

Re-pubblica (Italy) Many of them want “revenge against Renzi for

the law on civil unions for gay couples,” which the prime ter pushed through over the objections of the Church Anything that will deny him power is good in their eyes When the final opinion polls were taken, at least a quarter of voters were still

minis-undecided, said Marcello Sorgi in La Stampa (Italy) That means

the vote will come down to emotion, not reason Win or lose, Renzi is surely now doubting “whether it was really such a good idea” to take his reforms to the people

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

Italy: Will a referendum topple the government?

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MYANMAR

IRAQ

What will it take for the world to stop the slaughter of Myanmar’s Muslims? asked Charles Santiago After Islamic extremists killed nine soldiers in attacks along the border with Ban-gladesh in October, the military ramped up its ethnic cleansing of the region’s Muslim Rohingya minority Whole villages in Rakhine state have been torched, and tens of thousands of Rohingya have been left homeless “Yet the world is silent.”

There has not been a whimper of protest from Myanmar’s neighbors, and the United Nations has said little Worse still, all this is occurring under not the old military dictatorship but the new

elected government of that “icon of democracy,” the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi She isn’t behind the repression—the offensive was almost certainly ordered by still powerful army generals But credible reports of murder, rape, and looting

by soldiers have been leaking out for weeks, spite the army’s attempt to impose an information blackout, and Suu Kyi could at least have ordered

de-a top-level investigde-ation into the crimes Instede-ad, she has “turned a blind eye.” Local activists and Western leaders are losing faith in her A humani-tarian disaster is in the making: The international community must act now to halt it

Baghdad and Ankara are in a panic, said Tanya Goudsouzian Now that ISIS is nearing defeat in Mosul, Iraqi and Turkish leaders fear that Iraq’s Kurds will demand full independence as the price

of their involvement in the city’s liberation ish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has some 700 troops stationed at a base just north of Mosul in part to stop that from happening But Iraqi Kurds have more pressing problems to deal with before declaring independence “A festering dispute” with Baghdad over illicit oil sales has meant that the Kurdish Regional Government has not received its 16 percent share of the national budget for months Public-sector workers have gone with-

Turk-out pay, pensions and benefits have been slashed, and schools and universities have been shuttered

“Once a postwar boomtown for foreign investors, the Kurdish region today is a ghost town.” Kurds worry they’re becoming “a nation of shoe shiners and vegetable sellers.” Above all, they’re utterly cynical about their own leaders Masoud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan, refuses to step down even though his term ended last year Now when

he appears on TV promising independence, people laugh, knowing he’s trying to distract them from some corruption scandal Far from dreaming of in-dependence, most Kurds just want to return to the life they knew a few years ago

Thanks to Fidel Castro, Cuba now

stands as an example to the world, said

Sergio Alejandro Gómez in Granma

(Cuba) Our great former leader, who

died last week at age 90, gave this

is-land global influence while making life

incalculably better for our people

Dur-ing his 47 years in power, Castro

elimi-nated illiteracy and child malnutrition—

two key markers of human worth that

the U.S still has not attained Cuban

doctors, well trained and dedicated,

have been a godsend for other countries

in the region and a humanitarian asset

that can be deployed to any crisis zone Most important, Castro

stood against American aggression, refusing to accept that there

should be one rule for the U.S and another for everyone else His

voice “in support of the wretched of the world” inevitably spread

“like a fine powder across the plains, jungles, and mountains

of the continent.” Many Latin American leaders “had the good

fortune of benefiting from his support,” from Chile’s Salvador

Al-lende to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez to Bolivia’s Evo Morales

You have to admire Castro’s extraordinary diplomatic savvy, said

Miguel Azpúrua in El Universal (Venezuela) “Like a wizard or

snake charmer, Fidel knew how to dazzle Americans,” and he

drew huge crowds on his 1960 visit to New York City

“Intel-ligent, Machiavellian, and daring, he provoked the wrath of U.S

politicians,” making them look ridiculous as they mounted

fruit-less attempts on his life He allowed the Soviets to think Cuba

was their satellite, but in fact “he used the Russians,” tricking

them out of their money while taining his nation’s independence

main-In fact, Castro was the Nelson

Man-dela of the Americas, said Patricio

López in Radio.Uchile.cl No other

leader of the 20th century tributed more to the battles against colonialism and imperialism.” Not only a fighter, but also an intellec-tual and a statesman, Castro based his ideology on a belief in Latin American unity Yet he wasn’t satis-fied with helping free our continent from U.S imperialism: He also sent tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers to Africa, where they fought in Angola’s and Namibia’s wars of freedom against the forces of apartheid South Africa

“con-“Mandela, so admired by the international press, and Castro,

so vilified, considered each other comrades engaged in the same struggle.” True, Cuba under Castro lacked political freedom—but Castro considered free health care and quality education for all to

be the most important human rights

But look at the disaster that Castro left behind in Cuba, said

Héctor Aguilar Camín in Milenio (Mexico) Cubans have health

care, but their country is “a living ruin.” Havana, thriving before Castro’s revolution, is crumbling, its people housed in slums, its infrastructure decayed Cubans spy on one another and suffer the whims of “bureaucratic cruelty.” Castro once famously said that history would absolve him Instead it will show that he has left a legacy of “isolation, oppression, deprivation, and backwardness.”

Latin America: Mourning a giant of the region

Cubans line up in Havana to pay tribute to Castro.

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Fidel Castro: How will the world remember the Cuban dictator?

“The death of Fidel Castro is the perfect

Ror-schach test for our times,” said Ryu Spaeth in

NewRepublic.com For some on the Left, his

demise at age 90 last week marked the tragic

passing of a revolutionary hero: a romantic,

cigar-chomping Cuban legend who stuck it

to the U.S for five decades and proved “that

a ragtag band of guerrillas could overthrow

the Western Hemisphere’s hegemon.” As

Cuba announced nine days of mourning

for its Maximum Leader, tributes to Castro

poured in from around the world Russian

President Vladimir Putin called him “a strong

and wise man,” Canadian Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau said he was a “larger-than-life leader who served

his people,” and a more muted President Obama said Castro was a

“singular leader” who “altered the course of the Cuban nation.”

For us Cubans who were forced to flee his despotic regime for the

U.S., “there is no RIP for Castro, just good riddance,” said Fabiola

Santiago in The Miami Herald This Soviet-backed tyrant executed

6,000 opponents, tortured and jailed thousands of homosexuals

and other “unpardonables,” forced more than 1 million Cubans

to flee their beloved island, and dragged the world to the brink of

nuclear war That’s why Miami’s Little Havana erupted in

celebra-tion when it heard of Castro’s death, with exiles and their U.S.-born

children and grandchildren dancing in the streets “It feels as if an

evil curse—the heaviest of weights—has been lifted.”

Clearly, Castro’s Cuba never qualified “as an objectively free

soci-ety,” said Belén Fernández in AlJazeera.com But Castro was not

the “communist menace” that his Western enemies claimed After

overthrowing the hated U.S.-backed dictator Gen Fulgencio Batista

in 1959, he instigated a period of wealth redistribution and

govern-ment spending that made Cuba’s state-run health-care and

educa-tion systems the envy of Latin America and beyond While

noth-ing justifies his authoritarianism, “Castro had good reason to be

paranoid,” said DeWayne Wickham in USA Today President John

F Kennedy landed 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles at Cuba’s Bay

of Pigs in 1961 in a failed attempt at regime change And the CIA

kept trying to kill Castro, conducting as many as 638 assassination

attempts over the next 40 years Critics hate that Castro “forever

bedeviled America.” But he remains a hero elsewhere, especially in

Africa, where 36,000 Cuban troops played a crucial role in

defeat-ing the forces of apartheid South Africa stationed in Angola

Castro’s anti-Americanism is the real

rea-son that leftists love him, said National

Review.com in an editorial Self-hating

Westerners don’t care that Fidel’s regime impoverished and brutalized the Cuban people, shooting some in the water as they tried to escape the island gulag What matters to the apologists is that Castro

defied “the yanqui colossus.” Castro’s

fellow travelers have also bought into the myth that Cuba’s health care has been a great boon for the country, when in reality the system has three distinct tiers: the top two for celebrities, tourists, and officials and a third dismal tier for everyone else Ordinary Cubans have

to take their own bedsheets, soap, and toilet paper to Cuba’s filthy, crumbling hospitals For Americans still tempted to don a Fidel T-shirt, I suggest they read up on 1962’s Cuban Missile Cri-

sis, said John Avlon in TheDailyBeast.com During the standoff

between Moscow and Washington, Castro urged Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to launch a first nuclear strike against the U.S., an attack that would have murdered millions of Americans

“How does that T-shirt feel now?”

Sadly, El Comandante’s death will change little in Cuba, said Bret

Stephens in The Wall Street Journal Illness forced Fidel to step

aside for his brother, Raúl, in 2006, and the regime has “shown

no signs of letting up its repression.” Activists continue to be jailed and silenced, even though President Obama restored diplomatic relations with Havana in 2014 after five decades of U.S.-Cuba estrangement But Castro’s death does offer “the chance to flood

Cuba with American ideas and values,” said Eugene Robinson

in The Washington Post Thanks to Obama’s diplomatic thaw,

Cuba is opening up: Passenger planes and cruise ships now travel between Havana and Miami, and American businesses are eagerly pursuing Cuban projects Our profit-loving next president could hasten the Cuban regime’s demise by continuing this business engagement Yet spurred on by conservative hard-liners, Donald Trump this week threatened to reverse Obama’s executive actions

on business and travel unless Raúl Castro makes “a better deal” giving Cubans political freedom A half century of U.S hostility solidified Fidel’s brutal regime, and if Trump restores those Cold War–era policies, he’ll help only one Cuban: “Raúl Castro, who will be all too happy to play David to Trump’s Goliath.”

He pushed global socialism—and nuclear war

QAt least 73 people around the world died

while taking “extreme selfies” in the first

eight months of 2016, up from 39 selfie

deaths in the whole of 2015, and 15 in 2014

The majority fell from buildings or

moun-tains; others tried to take selfies on train

tracks or while posing with firearms Men

accounted for 76 percent of the deaths

NYPost.com

QLicensed firearms dealers filed a record

185,713 background checks on

prospec-tive gun buyers on Black Friday—roughly

400 more than the FBI processed on Black

Friday last year

New York Daily News

QAfter five years of drought, Cali-for nia now has

102 million dead trees in its forests, an unprecedented die-off that heightens the danger of mas-sive wildfires The U.S Forest Service said

62 million trees died this year alone

Los Angeles Times

QAnticipating a crackdown on tion, growing numbers of Hondurans, Guatemalans, and Salvadorans are fleeing

immigra-their violence- and poverty-plagued homes and heading north, hoping to reach the U.S before Donald Trump takes office on Jan 20 The U.S Department of Homeland Security says its immigration detention facilities are holding about 10,000 more people than usual following the surge

Reuters.com

QAn American Airlines flight out of Miami touched down this week in Havana, the first commercial flight operated by a major U.S airline to make the journey since Cold War tensions shut down regular air service between the U.S and Cuba in 1961

The Miami Herald

Noted

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“There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.”

Moss Hart, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

“Not everything is unsayable in words, only the truth.”

Eugène Ionesco, quoted in TheBrowser.com

“Nobody looks stupid when they’re having fun.”

Amy Poehler, quoted in Allure.com

“Have no fear of tion You’ll never reach it.”

perfec-Salvador Dalí, quoted in Forbes.com

“Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: It main-tains commerce, and we often pay, not because it

is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people

to trust us.”

François de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in Flavorwire.com

“Bedew no man’s face with your spittle.”

George Washington, quoted in NPR.org

“I never dreamed about success I worked for it.”

Estée Lauder, quoted in Inc.com

Talking points

Wit & Wisdom

contest, while 27% think

the media was too easy on him 21% believe the press

was too tough on Hillary Clinton, while 45% say the

media gave her a pass Pew Research Center

Q51% of Americans

believe that presidents should be elected via the popular vote instead of

the Electoral College 44%

prefer to keep the current

system In 2000, 59%

backed changing the rules

and 37% favored keeping

the Electoral College

CNN/ORC Poll

Melania Trump: Staying put in New York

Melania Trump intends to be

“a long-distance first lady,”

said Catherine Lucey in the

Associated Press Instead of

moving into the White House

on Inauguration Day, the future

first lady has announced that

she will continue living in

Manhattan’s Trump Tower at

least through the summer, so

her 10-year-old son, Barron,

can finish the fourth grade The

break with tradition “seems in character” for the

former model, who was an “elusive figure” on the

campaign trail But her decision “inflicts

unneces-sary inconvenience” on untold numbers of New

Yorkers, said the Chicago Tribune in an editorial

Since the election, the area around Trump Tower

has become a security nightmare Police have

closed two lanes of Fifth Avenue, “one of the

busi-est commercial arteries in America,” causing

mas-sive traffic gridlock, and Secret Service checkpoints

have created “the urban equivalent” of snarled

airport security lines for those unlucky enough to

be working or walking nearby All this protection

is already costing New York taxpayers $1 million

a day As a public service, the family should move

to Washington “sooner, rather than later.”

Mrs Trump will hardly be the first presidential

spouse to avoid Washington for long stretches,

said Krissah Thompson in The Washington Post

Eleanor Roosevelt was a trotting activist; Bess Truman

globe-“spent most of her summers

in Missouri with her daughter, Margaret”; and Jacqueline Ken-nedy, “who cherished her pri-vate life, traveled extensively.”

There’s also “no reason to think that the White House will oper-ate much differently without

a resident first lady.” The East Wing’s bureaucracy will see

to that State dinners will still be scheduled, tour groups will be guided through, and “the residence will be cared for by a team of butlers, housekeep-ers, and florists.” When Mrs Trump warms to the job, it’ll be there for her to step into

Why not abolish the ceremonial office of first

spouse altogether? said Jack Shafer in Politico com

It’s a “rancid barrel of pork that has outlived its usefulness.” Surely we could find better uses for the

$1.5 million currently being used to pay Michelle Obama’s “ridiculously large staff” of 25 Then we’d also be spared the lectures from the “federally funded bully pulpit” about healthy eating, highway beautification, and other pet causes First ladies can write books, give speeches, and even “embrace leisure” without a big budget and a PR machine

“Melania Trump would do us all a great service if she told her husband she had better plans for the next four years.”

“For the Democrats, no activity is immune from

reflexive accusations of sexism and racism,” said

Rich Lowry in NationalReview.com “Not even

soul searching.” Since the election, a few liberals

have spoken out against the party’s “self-limiting”

obsession with identity politics—and they’ve all

been angrily shouted down Sen Bernie Sanders

was castigated for pointing out that Democrats

won’t win votes simply by saying: “I’m a woman!

Vote for me!” Democratic Rep Tim Ryan argued

that his party shouldn’t divide the electorate up

into aggrieved groups—a point that was illustrated

perfectly when a left-wing writer accused him of

“sexism” for mounting a challenge against House

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Meanwhile, a

thoughtful essay by Columbia professor Mark

Lilla on American liberalism’s “moral panic” over

race, gender, and sexual identity sparked a moral

panic of its own, “focused overwhelmingly on

how Lilla is, in fact, himself a white male.” Will

Democrats ever be able to “quit identity politics”?

Liberals are right not to change course, said Lovia

Gyarkye in NewRepublic.com We focus on race,

gender, and sexuality because these issues don’t

exist in a vacuum, and they are “inextricably

linked” to broader societal challenges “How can

we talk about class without recognizing that the poorest Americans are often people of color?” Can

we really discuss “the common good” without acknowledging that women, blacks, and LGBT people are still “treated as outsiders?” Democrats should definitely “champion the interests of work-

ing people,” said Michelle Goldberg in Slate.com,

but not if it requires abandoning others whose freedoms and rights are under threat With Presi-dent Trump in the Oval Office—and Jeff Sessions,

“a racist opponent of the Voting Rights Act,”

as his attorney general—the “dark years ahead”

will be those when minorities and other targeted groups need our support the most

Even if the Democratic Party wanted to change

tack, its supporters wouldn’t allow it, said

Dan-iel Payne in TheFederalist.com “After decades

of aggressive identity politicking,” many liberals won’t take kindly to being asked to cool their rhetoric on racial injustice or gender identities—

particularly Millennials, who have never known any different And abandoning identity politics will become even harder under Trump, the Left’s bogeyman on pretty much all these issues For moderate Democrats, even “subtle rhetorical reform” would be a massive “uphill battle.”

Identity politics: The Democrats’ downfall?

Telecommuting to the White House

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You won’t find this season’s must-have

gad-get in any store, said Edward Baig in USA

Today Snap Spectacles—funky,

camera-equipped sunglasses that let wearers capture

and share short video clips on the popular

Snapchat messaging app—went on sale in

limited quantities last month But Snap,

as Snapchat’s parent company recently

rebranded itself, has decided to sell its

first-ever hardware product not in retail

outlets but out of mustard-colored vending

machines dubbed Snapbots that pop up

“in seemingly random places around the

country.” So far, Snapbots have appeared

in New York City, Tulsa, and even outside the Grand Canyon

In each location, they’ve been greeted by crowds of people

who line up for hours for the chance to buy a $129 pair of

the computerized shades The long wait is worth it, said Sean

O’Kane in TheVerge.com Spectacles make it ridiculously easy

to capture fun moments with friends without having to whip

out your smartphone Plus, they’re “a total blast to use.”

You might have thought tech companies would shy away from

making computerized camera glasses “after the spectacular

failure of Google Glass,” said Andrew Tarantola in Engadget

.com But even in their brief run, Spectacles “are already a hot

commodity,” selling for upward of $900 on sites like eBay To

use them, you simply tap the “record” button on the glasses’

left temple to take a 10-second video A ing ring of LED lights above your left eye lets people know you’re filming them You can then download any video you take to the Snapchat app The video quality isn’t as good

glow-as you’ll find on a high-end smartphone, but

“by not requiring you to have your phone in hand, Spectacles can be used in a much wider range of situations,” like action sports shots And unlike Google’s heinously dorky glasses, Spectacles, which come in colors like black, aqua and fire- engine red, “could even be con-sidered stylish.”

Snap is smart to sell its first wearable computer “as a toy,” said

Kurt Wagner in Recode.net Unlike the über-serious marketing

for Google Glass, Spectacles have been clearly positioned as a fun accessory, best used for filming friends at a football game,

“not for answering email.” “Time will tell if Spectacles become socially accepted or end up in the same junk drawer as Google

Glass,” said Raymond Wong in Mashable.com “At least with

a phone it’s mostly (but not always) obvious when someone

is in your face and recording you.” With camera glasses, “the boundaries to personal space in public are even less defined, since there’s no real social etiquette for them yet.” Once more people start to realize those hip-looking sunglasses you’re wear-ing might be recording them without their permission, the Spec-tacles hype could quickly turn into a Spectacles backlash

Gadgets: Snap’s spiffy ‘Spectacles’

Automated lipreading

Machines are beginning to beat humans at lip

reading, said Jamie Condliffe in Technology

Review.com Using video of people saying

three-second sentences, researchers at Oxford University were able to build an artificial- intelligence system “similar to the kind often used to perform speech recognition,” but for reading lips The program, dubbed LipNet, was able to correctly identify 93.4 percent of words when tested, compared with 52.3 per-cent for volunteer human lip-readers A more ambitious collaboration between Oxford and Google Deep Mind is using 100,000 video clips taken from BBC television to build and train a lipreading AI That project’s AI ac-curacy is lower—46.8 percent—because of greater variations in lighting, language, and mouth position But it still outperformed humans, who identified “just 12.4 percent of words without a mistake.”

Facebook warms to Chinese censors?

Facebook appears willing to help Chinese sors if it means being allowed to operate in

cen-the country, said Mike Isaac in The New York

Times The social network has been blocked in

China since 2009 because of the government’s strict control of internet content But Facebook

“has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds

in specific geographic areas.” The software would reportedly allow a third party—like

a Chinese partner company—to monitor popular stories and topics, with the power to block certain posts The project is said to be controversial within Facebook, with several employees departing the company over their misgivings But, “like many experiments inside Facebook, it may never see the light of day.”

Feds tackle distracted driving

Federal officials want smartphone makers to block motorists from using certain apps while driving, said Todd Shields and Alan Levin in

Bloomberg.com The National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration released voluntary lines last week calling on phone manufacturers

guide-to build new features that would sguide-top drivers from watching video or entering text while behind the wheel Officials said one way to do this would be to create a “driver mode” for connected phones that kicks into effect when

a vehicle’s transmission shifts from “park” to

“drive.” The proposal comes after U.S way deaths “spiked to 35,092 last year in the highest one-year increase since 1966.” At least 3,500 of those were caused by distractions

high-Bytes: What’s new in tech

TheVerge.com Trouble is,

“smell-ing your own breath is anatomically

challenging.” But Mint, a smart

mouthpiece built by a Silicon Valley–

based startup called Breathometer,

will do it for you, sniffing your

mouth for signs of bad oral health

Users bite down on the Mint

mouth-piece for 30 seconds, while it sucks

in a bit of air for analysis The device

uses electrochemical sensors to

check for sulfur-containing

mole-cules, which are associated with

peri-odontal disease, a serious condition

that can destroy bone and gum

tis-sue and eventually lead to lost teeth

Mint, which sells for $100, connects

to an app that helps users track their

oral hygiene and assigns grades for

oral health: An ‘A’ means all is well

“An ‘F’ means make an appointment

with your dentist Like, now.”

Innovation of the week

The stylish, computerized shades

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