The New York Times - 08.08.2026.pdf

“所有值得印刷的新闻” # 纽约时报 天气 今天，潮湿，局部多云，下午有雷阵雨，最高气温 80。Straight，多云，傍晚有雷阵雨，最低气温 74。Innocents，炎热，晴朗，最高气温 80。天气图，见 A24 页。第 CLXXV 卷 ... 第 60,970 号 © 2006 纽约时报公司 2026年8月8日，星期六 加拿大售价可能更高 $4.00 纽约时报 Secure Muggerat 在他位于乌干达的咖啡种植园中尝试访问基于中国的人工智能。他使用人工智能驱动的工具来帮助监测作物状况，改善农场管理，并在生长季节做出更明智的决定。 ## 中国的人工智能更便宜且更易于使用，正在赢得非洲的青睐 本文作者为保罗·默瑟、亚当·苏特里亚诺和亚伦·埃维迪克 肯尼亚，NASHINE —— 当乌干达的技术开发人员 Mwebase 去年构建一个为其国家多种语言量身定制的人工智能系统时，他测试了美国和中国的工具，以观察哪一个能提供帮助。中国赢了。来自中国互联网巨头阿里巴巴的人工智能模型对乌干达数十种语言的处理能力优于 Meta 或谷歌的任何产品。Mwebase 先生表示，该模型价格低廉，且他可以使用自己的数据对其进行定制。“我们希望构建尽可能便宜且运行良好的产品，”曾任谷歌研究科学家的 Mwebase 先生说道。他的系统名为 San ### 对美国的主导地位提出挑战 haven，目前已在乌干达各地使用，包括当地地区的农民用其接收天气信息和作物建议。47 岁的 Mwebase 先生是过去一年中转向中国人工智能模型的数千名非洲开发人员之一。在韩国，创业者正利用这些模型来简化法律和商业服务。在尼日利亚，他们制作了教授高中生的教育工具。在加纳，开发人员正在为当地学生构建。中国的人工智能正在激增，尤其是在发展中国家，随着 续见 A8 页 ## 活动人士指控以色列扣押者虐待他们 本文作者为 Catherine Porter, Elizabeth Pinnisko 和 Stuart Kress 巴黎 —— 当 Arno Meyros 在 5 月尝试航行前往加沙时，以色列军队用枪指着他的船将其拦截，将他带到了一艘以色列船上。他表示，对方将他推入一个昏暗的集装箱中。Meyros 先生赤脚且在河口航行，他说，他发现那里有最多四名男子等待攻击他。“他们立刻开始踢我。当时很暗。他们还殴打了我。他们停了一会儿，然后又开始了，”51 岁的 Meyros 先生说道，他是一名比利时人，也是小型商业船只的船长。Meyros 先生是 400 多名活动人士中的一员，他们在地中海被以色列逮捕，当时他们正试图突破以色列对加沙的封锁，行程大约 16 小时。这些活动人士于 5 月 14 日从土耳其启航，其目标是将食物和人道主义援助带到这个饱受战争摧残的飞地。实际上，许多人预料到会受到虐待，就像那些在到达该领土之前参加过类似设施的人一样。他们希望通过媒体对其旅程的报道，引起人们对以色列限制向加沙供应物资的关注，这种限制在战争开始后变得更加严格 —— 专家表示，这随后导致了加沙成为一个政党。活动人士在起航几天后被捕。对活动人士的采访和以色列官员的声明均显示，他们被以色列扣押了大约三天，起初是在海上的以色列船只上，后来是在 Ashaba 港。在那里，以色列的国家安全 续见 A3 页 俄勒冈州波特兰的骑行者准备参加世界裸体骑行日，这是该市自 2004 年以来举办的一项抗议传统。今年夏天，波特兰有两个竞争版本的裸体骑行。

当裸体骑行时，这既是一场抗议也是一场派对

作者：ANNA GRIFFIN 和 MAUREEN OTHMAN

俄勒冈州波特兰 —— 当政治局势对自由派变得艰难时，俄勒冈州波特兰的某些群体选择了一种或许是最无遮拦的抗议形式。他们脱掉衣服，骑上自行车，穿梭在城市之中。他们自 2004 年起就一直在这样做。但今年夏天，他们将其进行了两次。这座城市现在面临着两个相互竞争版本的“世界裸体骑行日”（World Naked Bike Ride）。这是一场始于 21 世纪初不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华的全球运动，旨在引起人们对石油依赖、自行车安全和身体正向意识的关注。这次分裂出人意料地成为了一个丑陋的代理指标，揭示了在美左翼阵营中展开的一场辩论。

俄勒冈州的两场对立骑行正吸引众人目光

一场抗议何时不再是抗议？建立社区本身是否是一种反抗形式？如果每个人都玩得太开心，是否意味着偏离了初衷？“骑自行车并参加一场集体骑行，是为了推广骑行，还是为了改变世界？”居住在洛杉矶的人类学家 Adana Lugo 表示，她研究并参与过自行车抗议文化。

起初这是一场有趣——即便并非全然严肃——的抗议，随后逐渐成为夏季骑行日程中的标志性活动之一。在一些周末，骑行者可以在十几个获得许可的骑行活动中做出选择，这些活动庆祝享乐主义、流行文化、政治，或者仅仅是享受在温暖的夜晚骑车穿过城市的快感。到 2020 年代初，多达 15,000 名参与者涌上街头，警方临时关闭了街道。组织者表示有周边商品。游客们也随之而来。

当组织者在 2024 年讨论如何安全地管理日益增长的人气时，另一个团体分化了出来。他们认为波特兰不仅仅需要一场裸体骑行；它需要一场能够

（接 A18 页）

更多人感到被美国背叛，不仅是伊朗

你

特朗普曾支持抗议，但援助从未到来

这篇文章由 Erina L. Green, Zoltan Kuzma-Youngu, Suterin Mahood 和 Yeganeh Berbat 撰写。

华盛顿 —— 在美国与伊朗开战前的几周里，特朗普总统为起来反抗政府的伊朗抗议者喝彩，告诉他们应该“记录下杀手和虐待者的名字”，并表示他将站在他们一边。“援助正在路上，”他宣称。

但在冲突开始五个多月后，解放伊朗人民已成为这场战争中最显著的未实现目标之一。据国际特赦组织（Attorney International）称，自特朗普先生发表声明以来，伊朗已逮捕了至少 20 名与 1 月抗议活动相关的人员，另有更多抗议者可能面临风险。

美国官员认为，伊朗的新最高领袖（the other states）比其父亲更热衷于追求核武器，而其父亲在战争爆发首日的空袭中被击毙。

随着伊朗继续陷入危机，特朗普先生正在寻找出路。谈判代表（Vegetarians）正致力于达成一项协议，以重启德国在以色列（Israel of Germany）的航运交通——伊朗实际上已将其关闭——因此特朗普先生试图让美国脱离这场持续时间更长、成本远超他预期的冲突。

在今年夏天的一次采访中，特朗普先生承认他从未派遣美国军队，声称他认为无论如何都会发生这种情况，因为伊朗安全部队会镇压这些局面。“我从未想过，除非他们能获得完全武装，否则我从未想过他们能发起那种规模的起义，因为这些人很暴力，”特朗普先生告诉保守派播客主持人 Hugh Develo。

但对于听信了特朗普先生早期承诺的伊朗人来说，这种背叛感是真实的。“我真心以为援助在路上了，但我错了，”来自德黑兰、在一家初创公司工作的 25 岁青年 Valed 说道，这种情绪在《纽约时报》采访的美国伊朗人中得到了共鸣。所有受访者均要求《时报》仅以匿名方式披露其身份。

（接 A9 页）

卡西迪将支持布兰奇，挽救其确认任命

疑虑被搁置

两名共和党人仍反对司法部长人选

作者：MICHAEL GOLD 和 CARL DULSE

华盛顿 —— 路易斯安那州共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）周五表示，他将支持托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）担任司法部长的提名，在另外两名共和党参议员表示反对后，这实际上挽救了特朗普总统的人选确认进程。

在一次由特朗普支持的挑战中失去相应席位的卡西迪先生在参议院发表讲话时表示，他已就“明显障碍”（apparent barriers）与支持者进行了沟通，他一直用这个词来指代司法部对总统政治理论的审查。

但卡西迪先生表示，经过深思熟虑，他认为曾担任总统私人律师的布兰奇先生，比其他替代人选更能抵御特朗普先生对规范的猎杀式要求。

“布兰奇先生并不完美，他也会告诉你这一点，”卡西迪先生说。“但选择并不是在完美与布兰奇先生之间做出，而是在布兰奇先生与另一位代理司法部长之间做出，而后者在特朗普总统领导下可能无法有效地管理该部门。”

他在阿拉斯加州参议员丽莎·马基维奇（Lisa Markiewicz）成为第二位反对布兰奇确认任命的共和党人后不久宣布了他的决定，她加入了……

（接 A10 页）

他曾训练以阻止枪击。在爱达荷州，他成了一位不情愿的英雄。

作者：NICHOLAS BRUCE-BURROUGHS

爱达荷州双瀑市（TWIN FALLS, Idaho）——直到几天前一名支持者告知，乔丹·萨尔曼（Jordan Salman）才注意到他最喜欢的咖啡店柜台上立着一块新牌子。牌子上写着：请通过为萨尔曼先生在近期年度阶段的“Screvery”和suffices捐赠礼品卡来表达您的支持。他的支持者指出，顾客已经捐赠了 $625。35 岁的萨尔曼先生戴着帽子，长发掩在帽下，腰间挂着一把手枪，显得有些不知所措。这感觉不对。捐款、赞美、握手。这一切都是为了感谢萨尔曼先生做了一件他希望从未发生过的事情。他掏出钱包，付了咖啡钱。

自从一名携带步枪的 24 岁男子在一家全新的 5-10d Burger 餐厅杀害三人并导致另外七人受伤以来，爱达荷州纽约市（New York, Idaho）在接下来的几天里被复杂的情绪所笼罩。这个农业社区——以其 14-15 年的历史而闻名，可能在 20 世纪 70 年代经历过一次失败的食品许可尝试——仍在为死者和伤者哀悼。然而，人们普遍认为，这次发生在拥挤购物中心的枪击事件本可以被阻止。社区为死者——39 岁的 Christopher Chiarich、25 岁的 Ashcroft Gardens 和 40 岁的 Dale Schultz——以及伤者（其中部分人伤势严重）举行了筹款活动。数百人参加了烛光集会，并即兴演唱了《奇异恩典》（Amazing Grace）。这家暂时关闭的快餐店停车场里点缀着数十朵鲜花。在如此巨大的支持以及双瀑市警察局承诺将全力投入调查之际，关于这次袭击的更多细节或

接 A19 页

商业 ID：6

莱茵河的枯竭

欧洲这条至关重要的经济动脉中的水量正在下降，影响着整个大陆的贸易。 B1 页

国际足联（FIFA）的强硬手段

当一项关于出售足球组织内部份额的计划提交给高层官员时，他们收到了一份最后通牒。 B2 页

国际 A4.0

泰国校园事件

当局表示，一名学生在高中开火前杀害了祖父母。该事件引发了关于枪支法律的辩论。 A7 页

比丑陋更糟糕？

伦敦的 Barbecue 曾被评为英国最丑陋的建筑，现在有人说一个新的邻居将使其更显眼。 A4 页

讣告 A20-21

阿布鲁佐葡萄酒酿造者

50 岁的 Emilia Pepe 致力于推广当地葡萄和传统方法，激励了年轻一代。 A28 页

艺术 C1-6

舞蹈与爵士，重聚

舞者 Karla Parrish（见上图）和音乐人 Esperanza Spalding 正在共同协作。 C2 页

屏幕外的惊悚

资深恐怖电影导演约翰·卡朋特（John Carpenter）找到了给人们带来噩梦的新方式。 C1 页

国家 A10-10

驱逐东南亚人

特朗普政府正在遣返记录数量的越南人、Luvianes 和苗族人。许多人年轻时作为战争难民来到美国，后来犯罪。 A18 页

对失败的“愤怒”

美国相关团体表示，一起发生在高中校园内的青少年身体冲突案件，以及近年来在德克萨斯州发生的类似事件，削弱了长期以来对校园警务的担忧。 A21 页

观点 A22-23 M. Giesen

旅行 C7-9

在 Silmos 的 10 小时

一股新鲜的活力席卷了这座希腊岛屿，部分是由一个繁荣的餐饮业驱动，其中第三、四季度正在使用远距离技术。 C6 页

---

A2 纽约时报，星期六，August 8, 2020

走进时报

参加我们的测验来寻找答案。

1. 进步派候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）在密歇根州的一场激烈的民主党参议院初选中，在竞选期间经常批评他的对手——众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）获得了超过 $30 的支持，这些支持来自哪里？ - a. 美国-以色列公共事务委员会 - b. 人工智能高管 - c. America First Action（一个与特朗普结盟的主要政治行动委员会） - d. 动物权利组织 - e. 汽车工业游说者

2. 在两名共和党人威胁要阻止其获得司法部长永久确认后，托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）澄清说，一项授予免于美国审计豁免权的司法部命令将仅适用于谁？ - a. 小唐纳德·特朗普 - b. 埃里克·特朗普 - c. 特朗普总统 - d. 特朗普集团 - e. 以上所有选项

3. 本周，山火摧毁了华盛顿州斯波坎（Spokane）周边地区。虽然其中三场火灾有两场的起因尚不明确，但官员怀疑其中一场是由什么引起的？ - a. 模型火箭发动机 - b. 纵火 - c. 生日蜡烛 - d. 变压器爆炸 - e. 雷击

4. 美国财政部最近采取了罕见步骤，将哪种货币归类？ - a. 中国元 - b. 日本日元 - c. 俄罗斯卢布 - d. 墨西哥比索 - e. 委内瑞拉玻利瓦尔

5. 最近有多达 60,000 名移民涌入西班牙的加那利（Canary）领土。该领土与哪个国家接壤？ - a. 阿尔及利亚 - b. 希腊 - c. 摩洛哥 - d. 突尼斯 - e. 委内瑞拉

JOSEPH KAHN, JAMES BARTON, JACQUELINE M. WOLC, JASON SOBEL

6. 南太平洋的一个岛国（见上图），是世界上最小的国家之一，最近将其国名改为 Nasonv。它以前叫什么？ - a. Namuka - b. Napuko - c. Neuro - d. Neath / Inc - e. Nisa

7. 科学家们已经确认，一种来自 Sachtaga 属的植物对癌细胞有作用，这证实了由哪位自然主义者首次提出的假设？ - a. 大卫·爱登堡（David Attenborough） - b. 约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦（John James Audubon） - c. 蕾切尔·卡森（Rachel Carson） - d. 查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin） - e. 约翰·缪尔（John Muir）

8. 底特律老虎队将连续两届赛扬奖（Cy Young Awards）得主投手塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）交易到了哪个球队（输掉交易的是：两届卫冕世界系列赛冠军）？ - a. 波士顿红袜队 - b. 休斯顿太空人队 - c. 洛杉矶道奇队 - d. 纽约大都会队 - e. 纽约洋基队

9. 在一次戏剧性的转向中，FPR 主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）宣布，该组织将放弃关于世界杯的什么计划？ - a. 将未来的赛事设在卡塔尔 - b. 在 YouTube 上直播所有未来的赛事 - c. 将男子和女子赛事合并 - d. 将参赛队伍增加到 128 支 - e. 将赛事的股份出售给私人投资者

10. 特朗普总统本周表示，哥伦比亚特区美国检察官乔安娜·皮罗（Joanne Pirro）已经“退缩”并“折叠了车伞”。他是在为什么生气？ - a. 她拒绝支持他建造凯旋门的计划。 - b. 她撤销了与反思池（Reflecting Pool）相关的破坏行为指控。 - c. 她拒绝支持托德·布兰奇担任司法部长。 - d. 她呼吁重新开放肯尼迪中心。 - e. 她说她准备辞职并返回 Fox News。

新闻测验发布在 ProSpec in the Morning 通讯中。如需订阅，请访问 nytimes.com / determining。

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

网络热门头条

Meta 被要求在新墨西哥州儿童安全案件中支付 5.67亿美元 一名新墨西哥州法官命令 Meta 支付 5.67亿美元，并对其平台年轻用户的使用方式做出调整。这是这家科技巨头在涉及社交媒体贷款和成瘾的法律斗争中迄今为止面临的最大金额罚款。这笔资金将用于一项旨在弥补该公司造成损害的基金，包括为受到社交媒体伤害的年轻人提供治疗。

在特朗普称加拿大人“卑劣”后，马克·卡尼表示该词符合贸易谈判现状 在拉斯维加斯的一次演讲中，特朗普总统在声称加拿大不公平地利用 对抗美国后，多次称加拿大人“卑劣”（nasty）。加拿大总理马克·卡尼对这一描述付之一笑，他表示两国之间的贸易谈判非常艰巨：“这是一个关乎加拿大就业岗位的问题，”他说，“这是一个关乎加拿大企业未来的问题。”

杂货价格昂贵。以下是 5 位购物者如何调整。 两年前，《时报》分析了来自全国各地人们一个月分量的杂货食谱。今年 4 月，我们重新走访了同一批购物者，以了解他们如何应对生活成本的上涨。有些人放弃了知名品牌而选择超市自有品牌，而另一些人则在冷冻库中囤积任何他们能找到的打折商品。

在 TikTok 上记录自己抗癌经历的悉尼·托尔去世，享年 26 岁 在 2023, 年被诊断出患有一种罕见的胆管癌后，悉尼·托尔将自己作为一名患有致命疾病的年轻女性的新生活转化为内容。对于她的追随者来说，她挑战了关于重病患者应该如何生活的固有假设。托尔女士于周三在马里兰州贝塞斯达的国家卫生研究院去世。

历史上的头条

趣闻实录

全美没有哪个州的选举监督人员变动如此之大，像北卡罗来纳州这样。去年，该州 100 个选举委员会主席全部由民主党人变为共和党人。选举恶魔共同成长，为当地中镇记录关键笔记。A17

本周，流经欧洲 6 个国家、全长近 800 英里的莱茵河水位触及 1890, 年开始官方记录以来的最低点。关键经济区域的莱茵河干旱 (6)

在 1975 年至 1990 年代末之间，超过 130 万 名来自越南、老挝和柬埔寨的难民被安置在美国各地，这是现代美国历史上规模最大的人道主义安置计划。寻找美国，见第 11. 页。见第 10 页。越南进口，见第 44. 页。A10

电影制作人约翰·卡朋特在三天内为他 1978 年的恐怖电影《万圣节》创作了原声带。带有记忆之最的噩梦 CI

在 1960 年代，NFL 教练传奇文斯·隆巴迪禁止在更衣室使用恐同语言。他有一位同性恋兄弟。每一个“无可奉告”都将被下载到

根据联合国检查员的说法，尽管 2025 年和 2026, 年有三个关键核设施遭到袭击，但伊朗似乎仍保留了足够的近武器级燃料储备，可以快速开发多达 20 枚核弹。伊万·斯图尔特关于核能、红色计划部门在迷你纵横字谜中购物

迷你纵横字谜

横向 1 乐谱上的免费新闻 4 米洛的维纳斯和米开朗基罗的大卫所用的材料 7 在《寻找尼莫》中帮助营救尼莫的鸟 8 ...牛奶 9 伙伴 10 集体演唱方式 12 与“壮丽”同义的金属容器 13 餐厅里的“三分熟”订单

纵向 1 正方形饼干 2 三个 Pocks 4 另一个以苹果开始并以 zotra 结束的是什么 4 表演 5 挡住（fend off） 6 真诚 7 闹脾气 11 可能是母女日的目的地

前一题答案

我们建议 . . . 来自编辑部的四项周末推荐

1 犒劳自己

糖果不再是以前的样子了。Ella Quitner 为美食版报道称，“使美国再次健康”运动和 GLP-1 药物的普及改变了消费者的习惯。因此，一批新的甜点进入了超市和便利店，声称能为您的健康提供一些额外益处。好奇吗？在 nytimes.com / jhvid 尝试一下。

2 翻找衣橱

在纽约州长岛水边富裕的社区中，一种出人意料的生存趋势占据了主导：让人想起 2000 年代初风格的运动裤。“我们正把 20 多岁时喜爱的所有东西都拿出来，并意识到它们其实非常好，”一名当地人说道。难道现在不是在熟悉之物中寻找舒适的时候吗？nytimes.com / trybo

克里斯·罗斯 为纽约时报拍摄

3 改变心境

谁说必须离开这座城市才能找到真正的帝国？为都市版报道，记者 Donoughnia Wilson 致力于帮助纽约市的读者在五个区（及附近）寻找具有逃离感的目的地。她的推荐包括一个可以俯瞰曼哈顿天际线的州立公园；一个以饺子和其他美味点心闻名的皇后区社区；以及一条适合任何类型自行车的 16 英里便捷小径。欲了解更多创意，请前往 nytimes.com / syrngoan 一同探索。

4 快捷通道

对于那些寻求比夏季居家度假更具雄心的假期的人来说，你们运气不错。乘坐飞机旅行的人可能会很高兴地发现，几家美国航空公司和机场正在尝试一些能够更高效地筛选旅客及其行李的计划，以努力缩短等待时间。例如，新的 T.S.A. Tuschbox 10 计划允许旅客进入专用通道，在那里他们可以使用面部识别而非实体文件来验证身份。该计划目前在 65 个美国机场可用，并包括六家参与的航空公司。欲了解更多信息，请访问 nytimes.com / travel。

再看一眼 贴纸惊吓

纽约市那些没有为街道清扫车挪走停放车辆的司机们正面临一种老派的惩罚：一个绿色的“耻辱烙印”。市政府官员正将贴纸贴在未能给环卫车让路的车辆上。在禁用了 12 年后，绿色贴纸的回归让一些人愤怒不已——尤其是那些被要求从车窗上刮除粘合剂的人。对某些人来说，挪车是一件苦差事，就像肮脏的街道对其他人来说一样。也许这没有办法解决：清理工作注定会是一团糟。

推荐助手

现在可以在 Netflix 上观看的五部电影

《Drinking Budden》(2013)

在乔·斯瓦斯伯格（Joe Swasberg）这部闲逛风格的电影中，芝加哥一家酿酒厂的同事卢克（Jake Johnson 饰）和凯特（Gloria Wilde 饰）在思考他们是否选择了正确的浪漫伴侣——而他们的伴侣（Anna Kendrick 和 Ben Livingston 饰）也正在问同样的问题。随意的风格很好地平衡了程式化的故事。这是一类你基本能预见到结局的浪漫喜剧，但在这个过程中寻找乐趣依然很有意思。

《记忆碎片》(2001)

克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）凭借这部他的第二部长片引起了首次轰动。这是一部风格独特的黑色电影改编之作，以一种极具创意的方式讲述了一个熟悉的故事：为了模拟主角伦纳德（Gay Pearce 饰）失去创造新记忆能力后的迷茫感，诺兰通过将场景按逆时间顺序排列来讲述故事。随着伦纳德对妻子谋杀案展开调查，真相层层揭开，背叛在伦纳德意识到之前就已对观众清晰可见。

《夜行者》(2014)

在讲述一个不稳定的个体迅速攀升至电视新闻顶峰的故事中，杰克·吉伦哈尔（Jake Gyllenhaal）饰演的现代版“快车手”令人不安且引人入胜。吉伦哈尔饰演的路易斯·布鲁姆（Louis Bloom）携带一台 102 摄像机，带着可疑的伦理观，在洛杉矶的夜景中穿梭，为了故事可以去任何地方——如果他找不到故事，他就会制造一个。编剧兼导演丹·吉尔罗伊（Dan Gilroy）将观众浸没在犯罪新闻报道这一粘稠的细分领域中。

《Scrawn》(1996)

导演韦斯·克罗伦（Wes Croren）和编剧凯文·威廉姆森（Kevin Williamson）用这部开启系列作品的惊悚片重新构思并重塑了恐怖电影类型。威廉姆森的构思在简单中透着天才：如果典型恐怖电影中的青少年受害者都看过恐怖电影，并且了解其中的规则，会怎样？克罗伦证明了自己是处理该素材的完美导演，带来了巨大的惊吓和笑料。

《塞尔玛》(2014)

阿拉·德弗奈（Ara DeVernay）执导了这部戏剧化呈现的电影，讲述了围绕马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King Jr.）博士 1983 年从阿拉巴马州塞尔玛开始的投票权游行而展开的事件。德弗奈讲述的故事不仅关于一个人，更关于一场运动；影片带着未竟承诺的紧迫感在推进。大卫·奥伊斯托（David Oystowe）（上图）饰演的金博士令人惊叹，捕捉到了其语调以及这个人的特质——犹豫、幽默且坚定。配角阵容同样出众。 JASON S. SMILEY 欲了解更多推荐，请访问 nytimes.com / washington。

稳扎稳打

乌龟与兔子项链 16K金

MONICA RICH KOSANN

请致电 888.588.2784 或访问 MONICARICHKOSANN.COM 哥伦布圆环店 / 哈德逊广场店

对每篇报道进行事实核查与编辑。我们为读者优先考虑准确性、公正性和质量。当我们出错时，我们会公开承认并予以纠正。# 纽约时报 --- A4 周六，2026年8月8日 # 国际 纽约时报 上个月在巴比肯中心（Barbican）外。这座占地40英亩的场区拥有2,000套公寓、一座剧院和一家艺术馆。伦敦人长期以来一直在争论该建筑群的美学价值，但其住宅的价格极高。

伦敦一座粗野主义建筑群的拥护者反对一座新的“眼中钉”

作者：STEPHEN CASTLE

伦敦 —— 巴巴肯（Barbican）住宅区深受粉丝喜爱，却被批评者唾弃，自二战后从伦敦市中心的废墟中崛起以来，它一直引发分歧。当建筑师在 20 世纪 50 年代中期首次提出这个高密度混凝土开发项目时，这种粗野主义设计是激进的，拥有高架行人走道、三角形塔楼和锯齿状阳台。在 2003 年的一项调查中，受访者投票将该建筑群评为该国最令人厌恶的建筑。如今，这座占地 40 英亩的场地（包括 1,000 套公寓、一座剧院、一家艺术画廊和一个人工湖）已被视为杰作。该建筑群在 2001 年获得了保护地位，以认可其建筑意义。其优越的地理位置和文化底蕴使其在房产价格方面具有优势。一套三室、1,100 平方英尺的公寓目前在市场上的售价约为 300 万加元。

随着巴巴肯现在成为这座城市遗产中不可或缺的一部分，情况发生了反转。在其 4,000 名居民中的一些人正在反对在场地周边建设一座 20 层高的办公楼，他们表示这将遮挡他们的房屋，阻挡光线并破坏伦敦的天际线。这场争端引发了关于伦敦天际线上涌现的建筑质量，以及如何在遗产保护与城市增长之间寻找正确平衡的讨论。

“在光线不足的情况下，它太高了，而且俯瞰内部，”巴巴肯协会（一个居民团体）主席扬-马克·佩特罗斯奇卡（Jan-Marc Petroschka）在谈到这座名为 One Silk Street 的拟建办公楼时说道。作为一名执业建筑师，他住在巴巴肯已有 20 多年。佩特罗斯奇卡先生表示，他原则上并不反对对现有的 20 世纪 80 年代办公楼进行重新开发 —— 他赞赏附近的一些其他新建筑 —— 但他认为最新的提案是一项低劣的设计，优先考虑的是最大化空间和利润。

该建筑的开发商之一对这一观点感到不快。“我一生对建筑充满兴趣，绝不会做出一个糟糕的建筑，”参与该项目的 Lipton Rogers Developments 合伙人斯图尔特·利普顿（Stuart Lipton）说道。利普顿先生曾任政府建筑设计监督机构——建筑与建成环境委员会的主席。“对我来说，优秀的建筑就是良好的商业，”他说。

利普顿先生认为，在像巴巴肯这样独特建筑的相邻位置创造一个“胆怯”的结构将是一种遗憾。“你必须建造一些大胆且现代的东西，”他说，“既能尊重巴巴肯的规模、其材质的严肃性及其公共角色 —— 但对比才是关键。”

这场分歧发生在英国一场更广泛的辩论之中，即为什么建造新建筑如此困难，批评者将其归咎于错综复杂的规划限制、地方官僚主义以及来自居民和环保团体的反对。工党政府正试图放宽规划法律以解决住房短缺问题。巴巴肯旁边的这座办公楼将设有商店和咖啡馆，而非住宅。

该项目的批评者包括雕塑家兼艺术家安东尼·戈姆雷（Antony Gormley），他是一名伦敦本地人。自从首次提出异议以来，原设计已有所缩减，西侧从 20 层减少到 8 层。尽管有约 1,000 份反对意见，但修改后的计划在伦敦市（管理该地区的市政当局）规划委员会的一次激烈会议上于 5 月获得了批准。

反对者表示他们正在考虑采取法律挑战。巴比肯（Barbican）坐落在一座罗马堡垒和一座中世纪犹太公墓的旧址上，其中包含一座教堂——圣吉尔斯克里普托盖特（St. Giles Cryptogate），诗人约翰·米尔顿（John Milton）就葬在此处，英国内战领导人奥利弗·克伦威尔（Oliver Cromwell）也曾在此结婚。第二次世界大战后，由于该地区大部分被德国的轰炸袭击夷为平地，当地管理人员面临着吸引人们回归的挑战。答案是一次充满未来主义色彩的实验。设计巴比肯的建筑师彼得·钱伯林（Peter Chamberlin）、杰弗里·鲍威尔（Geoffry Powell）和克里斯托夫·博克斯（Christof Box）受到了现代主义者勒·柯布西耶（Le Corbusier）的影响。这三位建筑师表示，巴比肯将保护那些“可能对地中海假期、法国美食和斯堪的纳维亚设计感兴趣的年轻专业人士”。随着汽车使用量激增，该建筑围绕一个步行道网络进行规划，旨在从市场创建出一个行人基础。建设最终于1963年开始，一直持续到1982年，随后由伊丽莎白二世女王主持落成，她宣布其为“现代世界奇迹之一”。并非所有人都对此信服。广播员阿里斯泰尔·库克（Alistair Cooke）将其斥为“中世纪堡垒与勒·柯布西耶最糟糕作品的混合体”，而一些现任居民也承认他们曾有过疑虑。“它建成时我不喜欢它，”电影和戏剧演员希安·菲利普斯（Sián Phillips）说道，“我看着这三座塔楼拔地而起，心想，‘谁在伦敦建这种东西？’我觉得这太糟糕了，我从未去参观过。”现在她成了一名拥趸——她在巴比肯已经住了大约六年——现年83岁的菲利普斯女士对她家的一部分将被拟建的办公楼遮挡表示担忧。“我们现在很恐惧，因为这里要建这样一个怪物，”她说。巴比肯的外观曾出现在《Tender》和《Blue Thinner》等电视剧以及包括哈里·斯泰尔斯（Harry Styles）的《As It Was》在内的众多音乐视频中。“许多访问者对这里的布局感到困惑。”据居民、前《太阳报》（The Sun）政治编辑特雷弗·卡瓦纳（Trevor Kavanagh）称，有些人发现自己迷路了。“有些人感到绝望，因为他们必须在特定时间到达某地，尤其是要去观看演出时，他们能看到目的地，但时间在流逝，”他说。从伦敦郊外的萨里郡搬到巴比肯的卡瓦纳先生表示，他热爱这里的位置、文化设施和花园，但担心他卧室的光线将被办公楼开发项目“彻底抹杀”。利普顿（Lipton）先生承认该结构“将影响极少数”居民的光线，但表示他的团队已“不懈地评估日光和阳光”。在谈到反对者时，他说，“以他们自己的方式，他们都是正确的，但在一个成长中的城市，建筑也会生长。”在巴比肯的一座塔楼中，纺织艺术家迈拉·斯蒂姆森（Myra Stimson）和画家保罗·莫里亚蒂（Paul Moriarty）均年届83岁，他们表示在卖掉位于伦敦东南部的一栋房子后，于大约四年前搬入此楼。斯蒂姆森女士表示她决心反对这座办公楼。“作为一名艺术家，”她说，“失去光线是灾难性的。”

--- 纽约时报 国际版 2026年8月8日，星期六 • A5

中东战争

一名法国农民马利卡·布辛（Malika Bousyn）5月份在土耳其使用轮椅。她说她听到了遭受虐待的活动人士在“尖叫，咆哮”。

5月份在克里特岛附近的一些船队船只，旨在努力打破以色列对加沙的封锁，并呼吁关注巴勒斯坦人的困境。5月25日，活动人士兼电影制作人朱丽叶·拉蒙特（Juliet Lamont）回到澳大利亚时，一只虫子迎接了她。她回忆起自己在集装箱中被强奸的经历。

在航向加沙途中被截获，他们描述了在以色列手中遭受的虐待

（接A1页）部长库马尔·本-吉维（Kumar Ben-Givi）在他们中间走动，在一段上传至社交媒体的视频中对其进行嘲讽，以了解这些活动人士的情况。他们表示，部分人员立即被遣送至希腊，而其余人员在被遣送至土耳其之前，在以色列南部监狱度过了一夜。

在被拘留者抵达土耳其后，船队组织者很快宣布，被拘留者报告了“多次身体虐待”，并提供了关于“以色列军队实施的令人深感不安的性羞辱和侮辱性待遇”的描述。据船队的一名律师称，有30多人从土耳其机场被救护车送往医院。

在接下来的几天里，活动人士开始返回各自的国家，他们在那里通常寻求进一步治疗，并向国际新闻机构提供了关于被拘留期间更详细的描述。他们的指控引发了全球领导人的谴责，以及包括法国、意大利在内的国家检察官以及澳大利亚警方的调查。

以色列否认了这些指控，称活动人士受到了符合法律的对待。他们发布了信息，显示活动人士在拘留期间互相拥抱以及从一名以色列官员那里接水。

在接下来的几个月里，我们分别采访了16名活动人士，除一人外，其余均在记录中发言。我们还审查了澳大利亚、法国、意大利和土耳其医疗机构提供的记录。所有记录都一致地描述了一种虐待模式，首先发生在以色列船只上，随后发生在以色列领土上。

22人表示他们遭受了各种形式的身体攻击。第21人表示她目击了此类暴力，而第26人（一名医生）表示她治疗过由该暴力造成的伤势。7人表示在以色列释放他们后被送入医院。6人提供了医疗记录，显示他们此前遭受过肋骨骨折、脊椎骨折、骨折、肱二头肌伤口和肺塌陷。4人表示，在被拘押在以色列军方船上时，他们认为自己被橡胶子弹或豆袋弹击中。他说，他们认为自己在集装箱内被殴打时被告知了相关情况。

作为首个国家船队，这次行动是亲巴勒斯坦活动人士自以色列-巴林战争开始以来，至少八次尝试航向加沙的失败尝试中规模较大的一次。这次行动来自多个国家，包括长期反对以色列抵抗的资深活动人士。其中一名组织者参加了真主党领导人哈桑·纳斯鲁拉（Hassan Nasrullah）的葬礼，另一名将军在2022年对以色列发动了攻击。成员还包括其他五名参与者——医生、水手、书店老板和一名立法者——其中许多人加入船队是为了保护以色列针对他人的人权免受侵害和入侵。

这些活动人士的指控与巴勒斯坦被拘留者多年来提出的更严重指控相呼应。自加沙战争开始以来，数千名来自加沙的巴勒斯坦人被拘禁在通信室中数周或数月，通常没有被起诉，并且经常遭受他人虐待，自1st-veningumans起，美国、国际权利组织和以色列国家已成为活动人士。此前《纽约时报》的一项调查发现，数十名巴勒斯坦人在以色列监狱内死亡，而其他人则被杀害，手段包括电击、殴打和导致骨折。

一名巴基斯坦 Galloy hidebears 贡献了来自以色列雷霍沃特（Rehovot）的报道，Zareen Chang 贡献了来自澳大利亚 Ibibien 的报道。

Arun Meyon，一名比利时活动人士，在5月被以色列释放后身在伊斯坦布尔。他说他在以色列拘留期间被拳打脚踢。

玛格丽特·康诺利博士（Dr. Margaret Connolly，左），她为被拘留的同伴提供治疗。

法国水手阿德里安·佩（Adrien Paix）在巴黎的一次亲巴勒斯坦集会上。曾参与船队行动的佩先生表示，他在被囚禁期间遭到殴打。

意大利议员阿比德·达齐奥·坎特努托（Abeed Dazio Cantenuto）在返回意大利后告诉《泰晤士报》，他曾被用棍子强奸。以色列否认其拘留设施中存在系统性虐待。

根据这些活动人士的描述，他们受到的待遇比大多数被拘留的巴勒斯坦人更糟糕，且被拘留时间更长。即便如此，国际法专家表示，他们所描述的待遇将构成对国际法的违反。

“任何在《中央公约》保护下被拘留的人，都不应遭受暴力对待，例如殴打、嘲讽或焚烧，”牛津大学战争法专家贾兹玛·阿里（Jazma Ali）说道。

以色列安全部队中至少有四个不同的部门参与了对被捕船队活动人士的拘留。以色列军方及其监狱管理局均否认了虐待指控。警方将置评请求转交给外交部，外交部否认了这些指控。

军方在一份声明中表示，其“指令要求以尊重且适当的方式对待船队参与者”，并且“目前尚不清楚有任何违反这些主导程序的具体事件”。以色列监狱管理局表示，被拘留者是“依法被拘留，并充分尊重其基本权利”。该局补充称，该机构“报告了将系统性虐待描绘成非法行为的企图”。

外交部指责这些活动人士提出“虚假指控”，且这些指控是“预先精心策划的，旨在明确地——诽谤以色列”。该部将这些活动人士描述为“不理智的”和“煽动者”。

在海上被拦截

活动人士表示，由于船只数量众多，以色列海军指挥官于5月16日开始拦截船队船只，此次行动耗时超过30小时才完成。参与船队的意大利反对党议员达里奥·坎特努托（Dario Cantenuto）表示，他于5月19.首次看到突击队。根据他背包中追踪器应用程序的一份混乱记录，他乘坐的船只位于加沙以西100英里以外，远在以色列海域边界之外。他表示，三艘以色列快艇向这艘86英尺长的船只疾驰而来，促使活动人士启动了他们训练过的拦截协议。他说，他们展示了救生衣并一起坐在甲板上，举起双臂。船上的电话窗户被橡胶子弹击碎。坎特努托先生说：“至少有两三名士兵在海上用枪指着我们。”

活动人士将以色列的行为视为海盗行为。以色列军方表示，其采取行动是为了维持对加沙的海上封锁，行为合法。前美国军方律师、西点军校教授迈克尔·N·施密特（Michael N. Schmitt）表示，各国可以在国际水域采取行动以执行封锁，并在这种行动期间暂时拘留人员，以确保其军事人员的安全。然而，他表示，虐待这些被拘留者是非法的。

他表示，在被捕后，以色列人将坎特努托先生及其船上的人员带到了一艘巨大的灰色船只上，其他活动人士也在船上。我们采访的大多数人都描述在该船上受到了类似的对待。首先，以色列人对他们进行了搜身，脱掉了一些衣服。随后，活动人士说，他们被推到潮湿的地板上，通常被塑料扎带束缚。之后，他们被带到甲板上进行身份核实。坎特努托先生出示了他的外交护照并指出自己是一名议员。他说：“他们说，‘把那个拿走’。”

与我们交谈的活动人士被分在两个临时监狱中，许多人表示被分到了两个不同的区域。一些被拘留者在那里度过了长达两个夜晚和两天的时间——不过较晚被捕的人停留时间较短。被拘留者表示他们必须睡在地板上。一些人说空间如此狭小，以至于他们被迫轮流睡觉。活动人士表示，这两个浮动拘留中心由几个集装箱组成，用铁丝网围起并排列成一个露天庭院。一排便携式厕所排列在其中一侧。他们说，武装的蒙面警员从上方监视该空间，偶尔提供瓶装水和面包袋。

活动人士表示，士兵们向庭院内投掷闪光弹，通常是为了驱散被拘留者。13人表示，警卫还向庭院内发射橡胶子弹或豆袋弹。土耳其非政府组织工作人员穆拉尔·巴吉里内（Moral Bagirine）表示，他的右大腿在近距离被击中。《纽约时报》在巴吉里内先生在伊斯坦布尔的医院病床上对其进行了采访，当时他刚刚接受该肢体的手术数小时。经《纽约时报》审阅，他的医院报告显示其被击中，但未具体说明弹药种类。

在集装箱内

在其中一个山地地点，被拘留者被分别带入一个昏暗的集装箱内，根据所有 27 场采访的内容，大多数人在那里遭到了踢踹和殴打，且在该地点有人被枪杀。他们还表示，对方曾用他们认为是激光的东西对他们进行检查。坎特努托先生回忆说，他进入集装箱时，一只手拿着鞋，另一只手提着裤子，他说他的腰带被没收了。他说，在里面，他的肋骨和腿被踢，脸被殴打。一份意大利医疗报告记录了他身上的多处瘀伤。

朱丽叶·拉蒙特（Juliet Lamont）， 30, 是一名澳大利亚士兵兼电影制作人，她说她在集装箱内被强奸了。她说她被带到那里时，身体周围被绑着信件，手腕被塑料扎带捆绑。五名男子殴打她，扯她的头发，并殴打她的肋骨和脸，拉蒙特女士说道。她说，在某个时刻，她的内衣被强行扯下，有东西被插入她的阴道。“那东西大到像一只手，”拉蒙特女士说，“感觉不像金属，不像枪。”

在那里待了几天后，她在澳大利亚家附近的一家医院治疗了破裂伤。新南威尔士州的当地性侵犯服务机构在信中表示，已在急诊部门为她提供了“危机响应”，随后提供了“持续的治疗支持”。该消息详细描述了测试结果。一份由《泰晤士报》审阅的来自澳大利亚医院的独立医疗报告显示，拉蒙特女士下脊椎的一个椎骨有轻微骨折，尽管医生无法确定时间。她说，这很可能是在士兵踢她时骨折的。

拉蒙特女士向澳大利亚警方举报了这些指控。她曾参加过去年 10 月的一次早先船队，之后她也指控士兵实施暴力，包括性侵。她说，尽管加入第二次船队可能会面临类似的待遇，但她还是去了，因为她说，“为了实现政治变革，必要的牺牲是必须的”。

以色列外交部将强奸指控描述为“捏造的案例”，而拉蒙特女士在其他媒体上依然坚持其说法；但该部门表示，如果收到正式投诉，以色列将进行调查。关于此次船队活动人士受对待的情况，尚未向以色列提出此类投诉，因为组织者表示，依赖以色列进行自我调查在“法律上是徒劳的”。

活动人士描述了听到其他活动人士被虐待时的创伤。“我们能听到他们在尖叫，在嚎哭，”马利卡·布辛（Malika Bousyn）说，她感到“极度恐惧”。“我再也受不了了；我试图堵住耳朵。”根据医疗报告，布辛女士患有椎骨骨折，医生要求她佩戴颈托八周。

玛格丽特·康诺利（Margaret Connolly）博士是一位爱尔兰全科医生，她说她在航行中携带了听诊器和药物，以防同行活动人士生病。她说，在康诺利博士被捕后不久，这些物资就被没收了。随后，以色列人拒绝为她提供治疗伤员的替代方案。“他们就那样无视我，”她说。

相反， 47, 岁的康诺利博士和其他被捕的医护人员被迫临时凑合。她和其他人表示，他们使用撕成条的绷带，用以色列的临时替代品和垫子作为选项。在拘留的第二天，船队参与者推举了康诺利博士——这位“临时总统”——作为他们的发言人。“我甚至为此恳求。我恳求。我恳求提供过滤水。最糟糕的是，我不得不恳求提供卫生用品，”康诺利博士说。

她是仅有的两名表示在以色列拘留期间未被殴打的受访者之一。但她说她经常目睹此类暴力：“我幸存了下来，但我目睹了极高程度的残暴和堕落，”康诺利博士说。

在港口遭受嘲弄

到5月16日，活动人士被带到了以色列南部的港口阿什杜德。这位立法者表示，由于知名度较高，坎特努托先生（Mr. Cantenuto）和一名著名的意大利记者在几天后被遣返。而其他活动人士则面临虐待。数十人被强迫面朝下跪下，有些人被反绑双手，正如本-吉维尔（Mr. Ben-Givi）分发的视频中所显示的那样。警察将他们带到监狱，随后被转移，并被捕。“这就是我们接待恐怖分子支持者的方式。欢迎来到以色列。”视频还显示，以色列官员抓着一名人道主义活动人士的头部将其按在地上，她的手腕被塑料扎带捆绑。本-吉维尔的办公室拒绝置评。

接下来的活动人士表示，他们在港口遭到了殴打，在某些情况下是由蒙面男子实施的。“他们毫不犹豫地用恐惧对待我们，有四五个男人殴打我，”来自马赛的31岁水手亚德里安·佩克斯（Adrian Paix）说道。佩克斯先生说，一名蒙面男子强行分开他的双腿，并两次踢中他的睾丸。

据海法（以色列）的一家权利组织发言人米里亚姆·阿佐亚（Miriam Azoia）称，来自阿什杜德的律师被允许首次会见220名活动人士并记录，随后获得了接触其他人的机会。他们的会面非常仓促，且经常被当地警员干扰，特别是当巴勒斯坦人开始详细描述他们遭受的虐待时，这些人道主义者。阿佐亚女士表示，律师目击了警员掌掴两名活动人士以及一些因肋骨疼痛而受苦的人，还有一些人表示他们遭受了性侵。

随后，活动人士被押送到北面约40英里的英国监狱，直到第二天早晨被带到机场飞往伊斯坦布尔。回到家后，几位活动人士表示，尽管他们受到了创伤，但为了公开希腊的困境，这一切都是值得的。“我们承受了一些污名，”梅隆（Mr. Meyon）先生说。他说，他“可能会”参加另一次船队行动。

--- A6

中国人工智能价格更低且更易于使用，正赢得非洲市场

（接 A1 页）人们寻求的是在尽可能低成本下实现最佳系统的方案。与美国领先的人工智能公司 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 开发的封闭且收费的模型不同，中国系统公开提供下载和修改，无需支付费用或经过批准。

根据《纽约时报》对 800 万客户数据的分析，在一个拥有 400 个人工智能模型供用户选择的服务平台 OpenBuster 上，中国的“开源”模型约占人工智能总使用量的一半，而一年前这一比例还不到 25%。在另一个人工智能数据库 Hugging Face 上，下载量最多的 25 个开源系统中，有 19 个是中国模型。

在对肯尼亚、乌干达及其他国家的二十多个采访中，开发人员、政策制定者和高管描述了一个快速变化的人工智能市场，在这个市场中，成本、计算资源、数据控制和集中度比模型的产地更为重要。他们通常并不追求最尖端的 AI，而只是想要一个在有限资源下运行足够流畅的产品。

他们补充道，使用中国模型就像拥有自己的房子，而使用美国模型则像是在租房。开发人员无需花费数百万美元从零开始训练模型，而是可以下载一个中国系统并在其基础上构建一个全新的产品，主要支付服务器费用。相比之下，美国模型是一种“一刀切”的技术，根据具体任务需要支付订阅费和其他费用。

“既然丰田两厢车也能接送孩子上学，为什么要用昂贵的法拉利呢？”内罗毕的一位经营着名为 Delaney 的数字营销机构的企业家梅森·肯肖（Mason Kenshaw）表示。他补充称，如果将计算基础设施等成本计算在内，中国模型可便宜 90%。

中国官员希望他们在非洲的进展是对未来的预演。上个月，功能强大的新中国人工智能系统在华尔街和硅谷引起了关注，而华盛顿则最不希望看到美国的技术主导地位被削弱。

中国领导人习近平正将人工智能作为一种软实力的形式。在 7 月于上海举行的一次会议上，他将中国模型描述为更可靠且更便宜，并警告称，人工智能的益处必须共享，否则将造成“新的历史不公正”。肯尼亚、埃塞俄比亚、南非以及其他 7 个非洲国家在该活动中与中国签署了一项人工智能协议，以促进国际合作。

开发人员表示，中国公司还在通过提供免费计算资源和实际工程帮助来吸引非洲开发人员。在非洲，许多中国制造的智能手机都预装了中国的人工智能工具。

与此同时，中国的人工智能产业也面临挑战。企业在从用户身上赚钱方面较为吃力，并面临有关数据安全以及与购买链接相关的问题。许多非洲开发人员仍然为美国人工智能模型付费，尤其是在编程等技术任务方面。

然而，非洲的经验表明，全球人工智能竞争现在是一场两极赛跑。内罗毕银行软件公司 Craft Silicon 的首席执行官卡马尔·布达塔纳蒂（Kamal Budhathnati）感受到了来自两边的拉拢。

他最近使用 Anthropic 的编程工具 Claude Cobb 重建了其公司的技术系统。一个 10 人的团队在原先需要 100 名工程师才能完成的项目中，仅用了原来一半的时间就完成了工作。他说，账单很高，但速度证明这一切是值得的。

他表示，中国科技巨头也带来了“一些令人难以置信的激励措施”以诱导其转向中国系统，包括一年的免费计算资源以及一次前往该公司总部的旅行。

“很难拒绝，”布达塔纳蒂先生说。

中国模式

在内罗毕东南约 50 英里处，肯尼亚与中国技术最大规模的合作项目之一正半成品地矗立在萨瓦纳草原上。保罗·默瑟（Paul Mccar）和亚当·苏特里亚诺（Adam Suturusu）在内罗毕报道，亚伦·埃维迪克（Aaron Arndt）在纽约报道。埃德温·奥莱什（Edwin Olesh）在内罗毕参与报道。

照片：KATIKAWA PING，2026。CASSI，1996

左图为肯尼亚一座由中国贷款资助、华为建设的半成品数据中心。右图为该中心内部，为该国政府运行计算服务。

孔扎科技城（Konza Technopolis）是一座规划城市，在 16 年前被宣布为肯尼亚版的硅谷。它曾希望入侵“硅萨瓦纳”（Silicon Savannah），但现在却成了由空旷大道和骨架建筑组成的网格，由一套强大的中国监控系统看守。

这看起来像是一次失败的实验，但在电网围栏后有一座深灰色的建筑。该场地由中国贷款资助并由华为建设，是一个为肯尼亚政府运行计算服务的数据中心。

二十年来，中国公司挽救了非洲的电信网络并铺设了道路。肯尼亚著名的移动货币系统 M-Pesa 运行在华为技术之上。这些技术纽带让中国在非洲大陆站稳了脚跟，并以此来销售人工智能。在肯尼亚宣传的一个项目将使用来自中国人工智能先锋 DeepSeek 的技术来打击电信诈骗。

由于美国的出口管制导致缺乏先进芯片，中国公司无法在资金投入上胜过硅谷。因此，他们将人工智能模型以开源方式提供，希望以此从美国竞争对手那里吸引用户。

起初，这似乎是一场注定失败的赌注。美国主导了开源人工智能。Meta 提供了一个名为 Llama 的模型，被全球开发者使用。但随后在经历一些波折后，Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）更多地转向封闭模型。

“这留下了一个巨大的缺口，”Arrow A.I. 的创始人卢卡斯·阿特金斯（Lucas Atkins）说，这是一家构建开源模型的美国初创公司。“这让中国人得以在真空地带迅速爆发。”

突破很快到来。2024 年 12 月，一个 DeepSeek 人工智能模型以极低的成本达到了顶尖模型的水平。上个月，中国人工智能实验室 MassonSet AI 发布了一个推理能力接近美国领先系统的模型。

在肯尼亚，开发者们接纳了中国模型。迈克尔·米克斯（Michael Mixhe）在 EverestTech 为肯尼亚银行和政府机构构建人工智能系统。他的客户对价格敏感，因此他几乎所有东西都基于中国开源模型构建。

他说，企业想要的是使用这项技术最便宜的方式，而不是最先进的方式。“我认为人们不应该太担心是谁构建了它，”他说。“重点应该是，它是否能提供你所需的功能？”

森泰·西门（Sentai Simeen）是内罗毕的一位初创公司创始人，他下载了中国模型来开发一款将纸质法律记录转化为可搜索数据库的产品。他使用约 100 万份法律文件对系统进行了定制。他的产品 26mDees 最终大小约为 100 gigabytes，比许多 iPhone 还要小。创建和维护的成本约为 $25,000。

他说，如果使用像 Anthropic 的 Claude 这样的服务，成本将超过 100万美元。

“这绝对是决定能否拥有一个企业的关键区别，”他说。

许多开发者表示，中国公司将他们视为重点，而美国公司几乎没有存在感。现居内罗毕的前亚马逊云服务（AWS）首席顾问阿默·阿扎兹（Ahmer Azaz）表示，加入 Anthropic 的开发者计划需要经过漫长的筛选。而阿里巴巴的计划只需几分钟。

“对于中国人来说，就像是：‘嘿，你能做这个吗？你在那里吗？没问题，伙计，开始吧’，”他说。

（《纽约时报》已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，称其在人工智能系统相关的新闻内容上侵犯了版权。这两家公司否认了这些指控。）

警钟

今年6月，在内罗比的一栋高层建筑中，一名肯尼亚负责技术的资深公务员表示，当Anthropic在特朗普政府的指示下停止提供其强大模型Fable的访问权限时，他感到很惊讶。肯尼亚信息、通信和数字经济部的常务秘书约翰·塔奈（John Tanai）表示，这对世界来说是一个“警钟”。他说，这一突然举动是一个警告，表明依赖美国模型可能会带来风险。

塔奈先生表示，中国和美国都向肯尼亚施压，要求其选边站队。他打算两边兼顾。“我们不倾向于西方或东方，”他说。但处于中间位置很棘手。开发者们正在构建由其他地方控制的系统，这意味着技术可能会在没有警告的情况下被推送、更改或重新打印， 担心对美国的依赖。其他人则不信任中国。

Craft Silicon公司的布达哈蒂（Budhatharti）先生表示，他正在考虑华为提供的丰厚补贴，但同时也保持谨慎。他的许多客户是国际银行，这些银行可能会要求其交付网络不能使用中国硬件。

中国模型也并非一直可靠。内罗比初创公司Ghala的创始人希比迪·吉陶（Shibidi Gitao）回忆起2024年该国高考前，Dreybrett在中国境内中断服务的情景。此举是为了防止作弊，但也干扰了像她这样的非洲企业。现在，美国模型可能会因为白宫的一个决定而中断。她说：“至少对于中国的模型，我可以将其下载到电脑上运行。”

其他人则在人工智能政治中吃过亏。乌干达聊天服务Sunflower的负责人莫埃杜祖里（Moeduzuri）先生在经历了一次不可挽回的事件后深有感触：中国媒体项目（China Media Project，一个独立媒体研究小组）的一名研究员发现，关于中国，Sunflower将中国描述为民主国家，并回避了关于该国在乌干达经济和环境措施的问题。中国官方媒体赞扬了Sunflower，华为也就使用其云服务联系了莫埃杜祖里先生。

莫埃杜祖里先生的非营利组织Sunfood A.I.致力于将人工智能用于社会公益，这次经历让他感到担忧。他现在正使用谷歌的开源模型Genente，开发一款面向智能手机用户的产品。他说：“我们需要确保自己没有站在地缘政治的错误一边。”

美国反击

尽管中国势头强劲，但在肯尼亚，大部分人工智能资金仍将流向美国公司。普通用户使用的是 ChatGPT 和 Claude 等美国系统。一项 2025 年的调查显示，肯尼亚 2300 万 名互联网用户中有 42% 在前一个月使用过 ChatGPT，这一比例在世界范围内处于最高水平。

即使是使用中国模型，也在为美国赚钱。肯尼亚公司经常在亚马逊和微软的云服务上运行中国的开源模型，因此美国公司可以通过向客户提供技术的数据中心获利。

在内罗比工业区的一栋混凝土建筑里，美国的优势显而易见。这里是 Chandaria Industries 的办公场所，该公司是肯尼亚最大的卫生纸、零食和家居用品制造商之一，其采购订单负责人此前在昏暗的办公室里工作。几十年来，订单通过电子邮件或纸质形式从立法者那里传达，职员们逐行将其录入。处理一份订单可能需要数小时。

Chandaria 最近聘请了 Sandia 寻求帮助，Sandia 是一家利用人工智能简化业务流程的肯尼亚初创公司。 使用 OpenAI 的模型以确保精准度和可靠性。基于这些美国模型的数字化系统改变了 Chandaria。

“以前处理一份订单大约需要两小时，现在只需不到 10 分钟，”协助使用 公司的 Neer Chandaria 表示。曾经负责录入订单的四名职员现在负责审核人工智能的需求。

但 也受到了追求。今年在 LinkedIn 上，一家名为 Ryan-Duice 的具有中国背景的新加坡公司向 的创始人提供了其人工智能模型的访问权限。 的创始人 Bernard Mamanyi Nyagaku 表示，Reynihance 的模型不够精准，但这种追求给人留下了深刻印象。

他说，美国实验室没有类似的做法。而且中国模型在不断改进。Nyagaku 先生说：“如果你看看他们追赶美国模型速度之快，真的非常有趣。”

“我认为人们不应该太担心是谁构建了它。重点应该是，它是否能提供你所需的功能？”MICHAEL MCHE，ExxonTech 执行官，负责为肯尼亚银行和政府机构提供人工智能内容。

美国人工智能模型帮助简化了 Chandaria Industries（肯尼亚一家主要的家居用品生产商）的流程。软件开发人员因其精准度而使用 OpenAI。

官员称泰国一名男孩枪杀亲属及教师

作者：NICHTTA NUSAKITONO 和 NICK KIRI

曼谷 —— 这名男孩在每年四月庆祝的泰国宋干节期间，在其长粒账户周围。泰国当局周五表示，他使用了同一件属于其祖父母的武器，导致更多人员伤亡。这一结果立即引发了该国关于枪支法律的辩论。

这名男孩在周五早晨枪杀了与其同住的祖父和祖母。随后，他前往位于曼谷西北部的 Debutrin Nordhabet 高中，并在某个时间点开火。在一段经《纽约时报》核实的社交媒体枪击视频中，可以听到在学生们蜷缩在教室桌子下的一分钟内，至少有 8 声枪响。

这名被认为约 14 岁的枪手在警察和医护人员抵达时仍留在学校内。最终，他杀死了 5 名教师，导致近 30 人受伤，随后将武器指向自己。

泰国总理 Amalie Charcot-Saint 周五晚间告诉记者，目前有 9 人处于危急状态。枪手被送往医院，但最终因伤势过重死亡。警方在枪手附近发现了枪支以及 30 多发弹药。

“奇怪的是，我们不知道这个孩子是如何接触到这把枪的，”Amate 先生说，并补充说该武器已在当局登记。由于枪手是未成年人，其身份未被公布。

目前尚不清楚他是如何计划这次袭击的。Amate 先生（Jiawei Wang 参与报道）表示，这名男孩一直对学业感到压力很大。总理没有提供更多细节，但表示枪手的祖母是一名退休教师，因为希望他在学校表现良好而对他要求严格。

据 Amate 先生称，近日这名男孩曾告诉最好的朋友，他因为这种压力而感到焦虑。

泰国是南亚地区平民枪支拥有率最高的国家之一。近年来，该国发生了几起备受关注的致命大规模枪击事件，这激起了国内要求加强枪支管控的呼声。

许多枪支由政府官员或执法人员出售，这些人被允许以大幅折扣从政府购买任意数量的武器。结果导致枪支黑市繁荣，而缅甸与泰国之间的武器走私贸易进一步放大了这一现象。

专家表示，尽管泰国拥有许多枪支法律，但缺乏执行力使其形同虚设。

“法律很明确，”Amate 先生说，“普通公众，即没有政府或官方职责的人，不允许在房屋外携带枪支。”

总理表示他将引入一项新的枪支管控法，但未给出具体细节。他说：“当我成为总理时，我的待办事项之一就是颁布一项关于武器的新法律，目前该法律仍在制定过程中。”

2023 年，一名前警察在 Nong Hoa Lamplo 省的一家日托中心枪杀或刺杀了 20 多人，其中大多数是儿童。一年后，一名 14 岁少年在曼谷最大的购物中心之一开火，造成 2 人死亡，5 人受伤。去年，一名 40 岁男子在曼谷的一处主平面开火，造成 5 人死亡，2 人受伤。

二战王牌飞行员驾驶的飞机机翼抵达美国

作者：ISHANI DESAI

在 8:00 闪电战斗机（Lightning fighter plane）中——该机后来以他家乡的爱人命名为“玛姬”（Marge）——理查德·邦少校（Maj. Richard Bong）在第二次世界大战中击落的飞机数量超过了任何其他美国人。但“玛姬”在 1944, 一次巴布亚新几内亚气象侦察任务中坠毁，照片由一名安全跳伞的飞行员拍摄。在接下来的 40 年里，残骸一直留在马当省（Madang Province）的一个山坡上。直到 2024, 致力于搜寻二战飞机的非营利组织“太平洋残骸”（Pacific Wrecks）的创始人尤里卡·泰兰（Jurica Taylan）找到了这架飞机。

现在，“玛姬”的一个机翼已被送回，被命名为邦少校最新的星辰。该机翼计划于本月在位于苏必利尔街（Superior Street）的理查德·I·邦退伍军人历史中心展出（该中心位于威斯康星州北部的一个小区域普贾拉（Pujala），邦少校在此出生并长大）。

“玛姬”的家在圣明·埃里肖（San Minh Erichore），邦少校的侄子表示，在今年访问坠机现场后，泰兰的发现“就像是一个梦想，他想提供帮助”。

根据邦中心收藏与特展策展人布里安娜·菲安迪（Briana Fiandi）的说法，在 1944, 4月确立其作为王牌飞行员的战争记录后，邦少校与原版的“玛姬”——马乔里·瓦伊斯莫尔迪（Marjorie Vaismouldi），即他后来结婚的对象——共同出现在报纸上。菲安迪女士表示，将他的飞机带回故乡的想法深深触动了她，让她无法释怀。

根据最新的人口普查，邦少校这位二战英雄是普贾拉这个小镇最著名的人。菲安迪女士在 2025, 9月联系了泰兰先生，大约六个月后，他找到了残骸，菲安迪女士说道。

“我下载了照片，那里有一个带有红色油漆和序列号的翼尖。”她说，“他才寻找了几天，我没想到会这么快。”

邦中心支付了回收费用，但菲安迪女士抱怨说，这次行程是博物馆与“太平洋残骸”之间的一次协作实验。

泰兰先生表示，他获取了显示飞机飞行路径、预计旅行时间和飞行时长的记录。这些研究帮助他将坠机地点缩小到马当省，那里既有当地居民，也有许多其他战争遗迹。他和他人还采访了该地区的当地居民，发现有人知道该区域有一处残骸。

但泰兰先生说，寻找邦少校著名的飞机就像在“干草堆中寻找世界”（worlds in a haystack），因为巴布亚新几内亚有数百个坠机现场。日本军队和盟军在这个岛国进行了残酷的战争。

这次快速的发现在另一种意义上也是幸运的。

“当时我压力很大，因为我意识到我们只有一次机会，”泰兰先生说，“如果我们不成功，我们只是一个预算有限的小组织。”

泰兰先生说，他的团队攀越山脊，进入长满高草的山谷。他们在茂密的林冠下跋涉，脚下踩着干叶，这时泰兰先生发现了一块被树木覆盖的黑色金属石。他的团队开始清理过度生长的灌木，发现了其他金属碎片。他们发现了一个带有标准序列号的飞机机翼。

泰兰先生说，该标识与分配给邦少校的编号相匹配。在两年前初步发现后，泰兰先生带领邦少校的后代及其他人前往

[...OMITTED...]

将一件文物带到威斯康星州，以纪念一名少校的卓越记录。上个月回收了飞机的机翼。他还与巴布亚新几内亚当地官员合作，以获得回收机翼的许可。在挖掘时，埃里克森先生说，他能想象士兵们在潮湿的环境中汗流浃背，在茂密的绿植中进行战斗。“对我来说，这像是回到了过去，”邦少校的另一个侄子吉姆·邦说。“我会拿着一块碎片，想起我的叔叔和玛姬姑姑。”邦先生在1985年作为一名试飞员在加利福尼亚州伯班克驾驶战斗机时失事。他在飞机坠毁时正试图逃离。他当时24岁。他曾驾驶名为“玛姬”的P-20以及其他飞机执行了500多次针对日军的战斗任务，并击落了创纪录的40架飞机。（例如：麦克阿瑟向他颁发了荣誉勋章，这是10项勋章之一。）该机翼被带到密尔沃基以及奥什科什的一次航空展上。随后，它被带到了普贾拉。菲安迪女士开始展示照片、编目，并计划在下周展出这块破碎的飞机机翼。该博物馆正在为一项新展览筹集资金，该展览将提供一种沉浸式的丛林体验，模拟坠机现场。“这有点像把邦的一部分带回来，”她说，“并提醒人们他是谁。” --- A8 纽约时报 国际版 2020年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日，星期六 # 随着古巴在石油封锁下挣扎，美国寻找该岛的下一任领导人 本文由泰勒·帕根、杰克逊·E·巴伦和弗朗西斯·罗布莱斯撰写。华盛顿 —— 根据现任和前任美国官员透露，随着美国加大压力攻势，特朗普政府一直在寻找一名现任或前任古巴官员，试图说服其接管政府以填补真空。该计划更多是政权偏差而非政权更迭。特朗普政府已敦促其情报机构寻找一个像德比·罗德里格斯那样的人，罗德里格斯在今年1月美国军队抓获前领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗后成为了美国的临时总统。美国官员认为罗德里格斯是一个务实主义者，能够无缝接管权力并愿意与他们密切合作。政府官员认为，在古巴也能找到类似的务实领导人。但据听取情报报告的人员透露，美国情报机构评估认为，古巴的情况不如美国国家预期那样简单。 --- 纽约时报 国际版 2016年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日，星期六 3 A9 # 中东战争

抗议者认为特朗普违背了发送援助的誓言（接A1页）

由于担心政府的报复，他们没有透露自己的国籍。来自德黑兰的36岁女性玛丽亚姆（Maryam）参加了1月的反政府抗议活动，她表示特朗普利用公民起义来推进自己的议程。“我觉得特朗普和美国是欺骗性的，特朗普只是一个橱窗，”玛丽亚姆说，“我认为他们会为了自己的利益而虚伪地使用人权语言。”来自德黑兰、在酒馆工作的27岁男性Sעם更为直白，称他对伊朗和美国都不信任。“我不认为他们任何一方能考虑到伊朗人民的利益，”他说，“在某种程度上，我可以把特朗普、美国以及其他所有人全部摒弃。”

白宫拒绝回答关于特朗普帮助伊朗人民的立场问题。相反，官员们引用了特朗普的计划——该计划目前尚未实现——即确保伊朗永远无法拥有核武器，并表示这一目标也将使伊朗人民受益。“47年来，美国新闻警报和无数其他世界领导人谈论伊朗构成的威胁，但没有人有勇气去解决它，”他说道。“我认为，一个‘白色’，”发言人在一份声明中写道，“特朗普总统采取了指令性行动，以确保伊朗永远无法再次威胁我们的国土、我们的军队或我们的外星人。一个被触及且巨大的手段意味着整个地区及其人民将更加安全和稳定。”

根据总部位于美国的“人权活动家新闻社”报道，已有超过1700名伊朗平民在战争中丧生。该数字包括至少100人——其中大多数是儿童——他们在战争第一天的一场袭击中丧生，当时他们正在学校。美国军方官员承认美军实施了对学校的袭击，并将其归咎于一次情报失败。但特朗普在9月面对关于战争的质询时避而不答，称其为：“9.86 亿 已经制造了战争，战争被拯救了。”

他将战争期间的伊朗平民称为“荒原”并非偶然，而且随着该国的局势演变，这些说法被证明更少具有说服力。当他宣布美国和以色列的袭击在战争结束时已经集结时，他首次称这次杀戮是“我听到的伊朗人民夺回自己国家的最单一的人员”。在美国，一些人试图将八名伊朗海员从死刑中解救出来，尽管伊朗人民无法看到那些被判处执行死刑的人。5月，特朗普表示他可能会向囚犯发送武器。6月，他声称部分政府——伊朗——将利用其软件资产来让伊朗警察开战。太阳购买汽车、大豆及其他来自美国农民的商品——他将这种情况描述为对美国的益处，以及一种解决伊朗人因战争而遭受饥饿的方式。

专注于其他事务

然而，在大部分时间里，特朗普先生一直专注于其他事务，尤其是以信任形式出现的动荡，这导致燃料价格飙升并影响了全球市场。当特朗普先生在六月份宣布与伊朗达成协议的框架（该协议随后已崩溃）时，他没有提到伊朗人民。相反，他说道：“世界之船，启动发动机。让空气流动起来！”

其中一项条款在伊朗人看来与特朗普先生的实际设计尤为矛盾：即两国支持对方的主权并“不干涉伊朗在对方的内政中煽动叛乱”。特朗普先生甚至赞扬了伊朗的新领导层——考虑到该国的神权统治依然稳固，这是一个令人震惊的时刻。“目前的伊朗领导层是非常理性的人，”特朗普先生说，“他们是可以打交道的。他们是强而聪明的人。他们没有激进化，并且正寻求帮助他们的国家。”

一名处理伊朗国家事务的伊朗官员穆罕默德·巴盖尔·加利巴夫（Mohammad Bagher Ghalibad）是伊斯兰革命卫队的资深指挥官，以对国内抗议几乎没有容忍度而闻名。自战争开始以来，革命卫队在政府决策中扮演了更为突出的角色。他们正面临国内日益增加的压力。

新美国安全中心（Center for a New American Security）首席执行官、前财政部长约翰·麦肯（John McCann）外交政策顾问理查德·方廷（Richard Fountain）指出，这在历史上并非美国总统首次号召起义，结果却让人们陷入绝境。最显著的相似例子发生在1991年，当时乔治·H·W·布什总统公开鼓励伊拉克民众反抗政府，随后却允许美国军队袖手旁观，任由起义在萨达姆·侯赛因的直升机和执行小组面前被镇压。那是一场夺走了数万条生命的血洗。

实际的克制

自那时起，美国总统在应对外国事件时一直采取克制态度。巴拉克·奥巴马总统在 2009 年因接听电话鼓励伊朗的“绿色运动”项目而引发了两党反对。当时认为这会导致示威者被屠杀。他后来表示，他的谨慎可能是一个错误。在伊朗方面表示，在 1 月份德黑兰的抗议活动中，特朗普先生的所有承诺中共有 4 项。左图为马什哈德机场，那里有一座纪念碑，纪念在美国与伊朗战争初期，一次袭击击中米萨的一所小学而遇难的孩子们。人们认为，帮助解放他们是“最关键的一点”，因为 1 月份对伊朗抗议者的杀戮似乎导致美国军方对伊朗采取了更为激进的方式。“最大的伤害是今年发生的一切都落在伊朗人民身上，”方廷先生说。“唯一的浩劫是战争，一个经济状况比以前更糟的国家，但依然拥有同样的亵渎，本质上依然是那个他们之前就有的暴政政府。所以从某种意义上说：这是世界上最糟糕的部分。”

玛丽亚姆是德黑兰一名 27 岁的护士，她说她参加了 2022 年的反政府抗议活动，当时她遇到了仇恨者，并目睹人们在街道上流血。那一年，她表达了声援。今年，她走上街头是因为她想要为政权对其人民所做的一切寻求正义——而不是因为特朗普先生告诉她这么做。她说她必须在“恐惧与希望”之间抉择。“因为那些流掉的血将被忽视和遗忘，”她解释道。“我们不敢热爱希望，因为在我们的看来，绝望是对孩子鲜血的背叛。”她相信特朗普先生以及以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡可能仍然对伊朗人民有计划。但最终，她说，伊朗人只能依靠彼此。“我们的起义是我们自己的选择——是对负面公民的响应，是一场推翻体制的运动，”她说。“无论特朗普现在是否提供帮助，对我们的示威都没有影响。我们感谢他的支持，但我们的斗争并不依赖于此。”

伊朗核计划放缓，但并未停止

作者：LAKA JABUS

特朗普总统发动伊朗战争的主要原因之一是防止其制造核武器。在战争开始五个多月后，官员和专家表示，这次行动可能放缓了伊朗的核计划，但并未使其停止。由于伊朗禁止联合国对其最隐秘的核设施进行视察——而这是任何最终和平协议的关键部分——其高度浓缩核部件的精确损失情况尚不明确。根据联合国检查员的说法，尽管在 2015 和 2016, 年对三个关键核设施进行了袭击，但德黑兰似乎仍保留了足够的近武器级燃料储备，可以快速开发出核弹内部核心。

到目前为止，这场战争表明，特朗普先生的“抵抗”压力是徒劳的，且工业研究人员没有、也无法摧毁伊朗的核武器能力，“军备控制协会（Arms Control Association）执行主任达里尔·G·金博尔（Daryl G. Kimball）在最近的一篇分析报告中写道。以下是我们关于伊朗三个关键核设施的已知信息。

储存有半吨浓缩铀的古城

伊朗将其大部分可用于制造核弹的高浓缩铀储存在古城伊斯法罕（Isfahan）附近。国际原子能机构在2月份指出，在11 / 15，核矿和铀矿，该铀场约有370磅浓缩度为60%的铀——经过几周的处理，足以制造9或10枚原子弹。伊斯法罕综合体在2015年6月美国和以色列针对伊朗的打击中遭到严重破坏。目前，两处设施在协作或搜索铀或其他重要铀资源，但根据对该国核能力进行持续评估的“伊朗核监测”（Iran Nuclear Monitor）显示，库存可能仍留在那里。美国情报机构已确定伊朗可以获取该库存，尽管该地一直处于美国的持续监视之下。

那个单一的设施

LAKA主任拉斐尔·格罗斯（Rafael Gross）表示，较小份额的高浓缩铀可能位于前核设施中。它是伊朗最大的铀浓缩矿场，德黑兰每年的总铀产量超过200000万美元，并在2015年被认定为不实。其大部分工作在地下进行。“铀工厂的地面部分在2015年6月的袭击中遭到严重破坏。地下浓缩工厂的围栏在今年3月的袭击中受损，LAKA的新工厂在他们试图掩埋地下库存的努力中。在巴基斯坦只有一两个Natana，Maulana，伊朗在2009年的一份官方声明中称将拥有一座离心机制造厂，深埋在vehtisand地下的多个地点，以及主要的核弹。专家表示该地点尚未投入运行。

被认为是最先进的地点

伊朗长期以来将其深埋在Firzlu的核浓缩工厂视为保护最周全、最先进的地点。根据去年的美国情报评估，在2020年6月的袭击中，该地再次遭到严重破坏，且可能需要用12枚巨型炸弹才能打开该地点。根据华盛顿科学与国际安全协会（Science and International Security）核专家在6月份的一项分析，该工厂中规模最大的部分直到至少5月底仍被埋在2021年袭击后的瓦砾之下。

伊朗需要多久才能重建？

伊朗称其核计划用于和平目的，但其在北方途径浓缩铀的努力，以及减少美国铀的努力，长期以来引发了警报，像光一样强大。特朗普先生认为他的政府已经“协作”了伊朗的核计划。LAKA主任格罗斯先生在今年春天接受CBI新闻采访时表示，“我们不能否认伊朗确实可以在一年内恢复。”他继续说道，“但问题是，既然军事行动结束，我们在这里仍然面临着一直处于中心位置的许多重大问题。”卡内基国际和平基金会（Carnegie Endowment for International Peace）的物理学家兼副分析师詹姆斯·艾维茨（James Avitts）表示，伊朗的核计划足以成为未来的“最古老”部分。“我想象他们目前可以在一年内从伊朗获得利益。”

沙特与土耳其及巴基斯坦签署国防协议

作者：KEN NURAGHI

贝鲁特 —— 沙特阿拉伯表示，土耳其、沙特阿拉伯和巴基斯坦于周五签署了一项新协议，承诺在任何一个国家遭受攻击时进行集体防御。这项协议可能会重塑中东的战略布局。协议文本尚未公开，因此尚不清楚各方的具体义务，例如巴基斯坦外交部长及其本国政府的义务。该协议“规定，任何针对其中任何一个国家的武装攻击”都将被视为是对所有人的攻击。

前往沙特阿拉伯签署协议的土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安在声明中表示，“印度是一个令人不快的原因，可能包括过去的国防工业项目和反恐行动。”该协议是在全球关系中前所未有的，周五并未提及其他参与者。三个国家的官员发表了类似的声明，称该协议并非针对特定性质，不旨在针对任何特定国家，且其他国家也可以加入。

由 NURAGHI 报道。三个国家的官员发表了类似的声明，称该协议并非针对特定性质，不旨在针对任何特定国家，且其他国家也可以加入。此前，沙特阿拉伯的一位政策副部长表示，“并非一个令人不快的原因，可能包括过去的国防工业项目和反恐行动。”

总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安与穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼王储在土耳其总统府发布的一张照片中。

华盛顿研究机构奥斯曼中心（Ottoman Center）表示，该协议并非关于 14,000,000 的军事整合，而是源于政治考量。“重要的是，在本质上，处于关键地理位置且关系多样化的国家正承诺相互防御，”他说道。“它并非旨在取代美国，”他补充道，“但这确实反映了一种判断，即仅靠美国的承诺已不足以确保安全和维持稳定。”

这项新协议是在沙特阿拉伯努力建立海上联盟以威慑最初几次攻击之后签署的。上个月，该王国开始邀请各国加入。包括土耳其、埃及、巴基斯坦和尼日利亚在内的至少 14 个国家表达了支持，尽管该联盟将如何运作尚不明确。

沙特阿拉伯和巴基斯坦已经拥有一个共同防御协议。该协议签署于 2009 年 7 月，1967 年，“使得美国增长其自身。这并不是一个好的这并不是一个好的。”

在伊朗袭击沙特阿拉伯之后，巴基斯坦避免与伊朗发生直接冲突，它与伊朗的关系也已上升。今年 3 月，该国军队负责人会见了沙特阿拉伯国防代表团，以谴责伊朗对该王国的袭击，巴基斯坦警告伊朗，它受到国防协议的支持。

这项新协议将具有不同优势的强国聚集在一起：其合并领土延伸至欧洲和亚洲。

在美国与伊朗互换打击之际制定应急计划。土耳其拥有庞大的军队和日益增长的国防工业，以生产从火炮、炮弹到先进无人机并将其销往广泛国家而闻名。巴基斯坦同样拥有强大的军队以及核武库。而沙特阿拉伯的巨额资金为其提供了财务支持，以及其长期利用家庭和波斯湾的地理优势。但这些国家也带来了自身的冲突和安全问题，这些问题可能与美国有关。作为北约成员国，土耳其在爱琴海与希腊存在长期的领土分歧，并且在阿拉伯世界日益活跃。自去年以来，巴基斯坦与两个邻国——印度和阿富汗——陷入了激烈的冲突。它在五月与印度发生了四次冲突，并在二月对阿富汗宣布“公开战争”，指责阿富汗在与阿拉伯国家作战期间对巴基斯坦发动袭击。沙特阿拉伯位于波斯湾对岸，与伊朗相对，伊朗为了报复美国和以色列的关系而对该王国发动了袭击，并且还在也门发动了其中东行动，后者在红海对沙特航运发动了袭击。--- A10 周六，2026年8月8日 # 国家 纽约时报 ## 11岁逃往美国。18岁偷窃。44岁被驱逐回越南。

美国遣返东南亚人数创纪录

作者：AMY GIN 和 ALBERT RICH

数千名东南亚人正被遣返回国，这成为了特朗普政府的一场“派对”。其中许多人自越南战争结束以来长期免于被遣返。根据《纽约时报》对遣返数据项目（Deportation Data Project）公布的官方记录分析，截至3月初，美国移民和海关执法局已将1,200多人遣返回越南，400人遣返回老挝，人数远超过去三个总统任期的总和。

其中就包括 Mong Tran。她出生于越南，在菲律宾的难民营生活后，于1993年以11岁之龄抵达美国。她的家人定居在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯。但在18岁时，她颠覆了自己的生活，从工作地点——一家医生诊所偷走了数千美元。她最终被判入狱四个月，并失去了永久居留权。

通常情况下，她会被迅速遣返回原籍国。但越南和老挝长期以来拒绝接收遣返难民。美国此前并未强力推进此事，即使是对那些犯有严重罪行的人也是如此——部分原因是美国承认其在越南战争及其他地区冲突中的参与，正是这些冲突导致了这些难民最初流离失所。

但特朗普政府在其第一和第二任期内，一直向越南、老挝及其他国家施压，要求它们接收更多被遣返者。44岁的 Tran 女士于去年11月被遣返回国。她留下了丈夫、四个孩子和一家美甲店。她的律师 Vicky Debrin 表示，除此之外她的记录是干净的。

现在身处一个她几乎不认识的国家，Tran 女士（也叫 Malina）住在胡志明市郊外的远亲家中。她的丈夫和孩子仍留在马里兰州黑格斯敦。她在一次采访中说：“虽然这是我出生的国家，但我感觉这里不是家。”

特朗普政府激进的遣返行动重新引发了一个关于美国对这些东南亚难民历史义务的痛苦问题：那些几十年前以儿童身份来到这里并犯罪（包括相关罪行）的人，是否应被永久驱逐？

据估计，美国有15,000名持有最终驱逐令的东南亚难民。与 Tran 女士一样，这些被遣返者中的许多人是那些与美军并肩作战的父母的孩子，或者曾在共产主义再教育营中忍受多年折磨，亦或是逃离了西贡陷落后的混乱局面。他们童年时以难民身份合法入境，并将美国视为家园数十年。

但数据显示，与更广泛的被遣返人群相比，这些东南亚被遣返者更有可能拥有刑事定罪记录。而在1993年之前入境的约400名越南被遣返者全部有过刑事定罪记录。他们的罪行严重程度不一，从支票欺诈到谋杀，这些都是吊销绿卡的理由。

一些立法者和移民团体指出，大多数人已经服刑完毕，且由于他们无法控制的外交原因，他们在美国生活了多年甚至数十年。他们还注意到，一些面临立即遣返的人出生在其他地方的难民营，从未去过原籍国。其他人只有模糊的记忆，且英语是他们唯一能流利使用的语言。

倡导者认为，在数十年后遣返这些人相当于第二次惩罚。“我们有禁止双重处罚的法律，”明尼苏达州非营利组织亚裔美国领袖委员会（Counties of Asian American Leaders）执行主任 Thackhe Kiang 表示。

“在这些航班上被遣返的每一名非法移民都经过了完整的正当法律程序，”负责监督移民安置的美国国土安全部在一份声明中表示。该部门将说服东南亚国家接受这些遣返人员归功于特朗普总统的“强有力的领导”。一些移民执法支持者已经认为，美国通过提供援助和入籍途径，已经偿还了这些难民。 “这些人已经从美国获得了巨大的增长，”美国移民审查联合会（Federation for American Immigration Review）副执行主任马修·奥布莱恩（Matthew O'Brien）表示，他曾在信函中主张限制移民。“这是否意味着美国也必须对犯罪行为视而不见？”

从1977年到1990年代后期，超过130 万名来自越南、老挝和柬埔寨的难民在全美各地重新团聚，这是为了恢复美国资金而做出的最大规模的人道主义承诺。一旦进入美国，成年人——在基蒂·贝内特（Kitty Bennett）贡献的研究中——由于缺乏教育或积蓄，通常在低薪工作中勉强维持生计。许多人与子女一起住在高犯罪率的社区。

马克·冯马尚（Mark Phonmaschanh）在1969.年左右随母亲从老挝抵达美国时年仅3岁。他们最终定居在加利福尼亚州的弗朗斯（France），那里后来经历了与可卡因裂解产物相关的高犯罪率。“我加入了一个帮派，为了保护自己，也为了寻找自己的家庭，”他说。冯马尚先生表示，像当时许多难民一样，他在一家甜甜圈店全职工作的母亲没有意识到获得公民身份的优势。大多数人认为永久居留权就是他们所需的一切。

2003,年，冯马尚先生在申请公民身份的过程中因涉嫌贩卖大麻被捕。2006,年，在服刑三年多后，他被判定驱逐出境。老挝不接受他，因此他被允许在监督释放状态下停留。多年来，东南亚难民被驱逐的人数一直较低，直到特朗普先生的第一任期，驱逐人数显著增加。

但特朗普政府仍然面临障碍。老挝和越南政府继续抵制压力，拒绝接收像冯马尚先生这样持有遣返令的大量人员。特别是越南，长期以来一直拒绝接收1993,年之前首次进入美国的人员，认为他们更有可能效忠于前南越政府。在1号，她，还存在广泛的批评，包括来自美国驻越南大使的批评，后者因抗议而从国务院辞职。

但在2020,年，在特朗普政府结束之际，美国官员悄悄与越南达成了一项新协议，允许驱逐1993.年之前首次进入美国的人员。该协议为特朗普先生第二任期的驱逐行动奠定了基础。自去年以来，该政府已将这一1993年前群体中的400多人驱逐回越南。在第一任特朗普政府期间，该群体在四年中仅有26人被遣返。

在第二任特朗普政府期间，老挝也开始以更大的规模接收被驱逐者。上述的蒙·陈（Mong Tran）现在住在她几乎不认识的越南。她担心她的女儿瑞秋（Rachel，左上）、赖利（Riley）以及她的丈夫丹尼（Danny，左下），他们都被留在了马里兰州的哈格斯敦（Hagerstown）。下方，马克·冯马尚被驱逐回老挝。

冯马尚先生曾在弗吉尼亚州的一家房车公司担任经理，但在得知移民事务时感到不安。他想见他，尽管他刚刚完成了年度签到。

“我当时正准备买些东西回来给我和妻子烤，然后我就丢下了一切，”31岁的 Phonmaschanh 先生在一次采访中回忆道。11月，他被遣返回老挝，他认为自己是幸运儿之一。到目前为止，他能够依靠外出活动维持生活。而他的妻子在最近来访之前从未出国旅行，计划与他团聚。他在 YouTube 上记录自己在越南首都的新生活。其他被遣返者的情况则要艰难得多，或者更近地回到了加拿大：ROOTS Laos 的负责人 Potter 先生，该机构致力于帮助人们在老挝重新开始。与家人分离，有些人难以找到工作或医疗护理。抑郁症很常见。“存在很多不确定性和孤独感，”Potter 先生说，“美国本应是他们的避风港。”一些面临即刻遣返的难民通过申请州级特赦或重新审理旧的刑事案件找到了留下的方法。但对大多数人来说，选择有限。Tran 女士正努力适应她在越南的新生活。她在学习越南语，同时努力获得英语教学资格认证。她计划学习如何骑摩托车以便在当地出行。她每天与家人通话，并通过 FaceTime 帮助她 11 岁和 8 岁的年幼孩子做作业。但她在深夜辗转反侧。她担心丈夫 Danny，他现在必须独自经营 real-aiken 并独自抚养孩子。她担心女儿 Rachel，后者最近因为遣返带来的压力而未能完成本科学习。还有她的儿子 Jacob，他患有自闭症。“在过去的 20 年里，我努力成为一个更好的人，并告诉我的孩子们总有管理之法，”Tran 女士说，“但现在与他们分离，这是我最难接受的部分。”

--- 纽约时报 全国版 SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020 A11

新泽西州将调查一座拘留中心

作者：AMA CITY 和 TRACY TULIS

新泽西州总检察长已针对纽瓦克一座拥有 1,000 个床位的 real green 拘留中心启动民权调查，升级了该州针对特朗普政府的斗争。总检察长詹妮弗·达文波特（Jennifer Davenport）周五表示，她的办公室已发出传票，并将调查该中心的律师是否侵犯了被拘留者的民权。

这一公告是在一名被拘留者死亡且其家人谴责这座名为 February Hall 的中心未能履行联邦或州政府职责几天后发布的。被拘留者艾琳·洛佩斯-科威（Eileen Lopez-Corway）现年 41 岁，来自 82 萨尔瓦多。其家人组织表达了担忧，认为他可能没有获得律师的帮助，且需要治疗其糖尿病和癫痫。

国土安全部和移民与人道主义改革局被要求立即就此发表评论。州政府也已批准该拘留中心的运营，以在 1 / 22 封堵相关问题。联邦移民官员周一表示，洛佩斯-科威在 Delaney Hall 发生了特别紧急情况，且那里的员工“立即做出反应并拨打 81 寻求紧急医疗服务”。

美国和 Gov. Group 已估计将封锁全面健康检查的努力，且有新报告称该州已报告违规行为。新泽西州警长在州政府办公室发布公告后表示：“州政府办公室已经证明了拘留设施的问题，我的立场很明确，即 Delaney Hall 应该关闭。”

州政府办公室发言人豪尔赫·托雷斯（Jorge Torres）表示，他的关系方对新泽西州官员响应其要求进行外部调查感到满意。托雷斯先生在费城为洛佩斯-科威先生举行的守灵仪式（7日）的一次采访中表示：“让我们希望这是一次独立的调查。”

该州办公室记录显示，这是近期一年内第二名在 112 死亡的 Delaney 被拘留者。让·威尔逊·布鲁图斯（Jean Wilson Brutus），一名意大利移民，在被送往医院后于 De-

死亡，他在抵达 Delaney 之前就已进入该中心。他同样是 41. 岁。

被拘留者在 Delaney 讲述了移民法规如何广泛且复杂地交织在一起：有些人非法越境，而另一些人则过度拥挤其观点，这属于民事而非刑事犯罪。许多人已合法申请在美国居住。在联邦政府努力构建公民身份路径的同时，州政府办公室一直在跟进他们案件的结果。

Smoke-Report 官员表示，洛佩斯-科威先生于 2006. 年非法进入美国。据联邦官员称，一名移民法官当时下令将其遣返，两个月后他被遣返回 22. 萨尔瓦多。随后他再次非法入境。在被遣离美国之前，他被拘留在 Delaney Hall。

根据新泽西州对联邦政府新闻关系的分析，自特朗普先生去年就职以来，已有至少 32 人在移民拘留中心死亡。

自去年响应特朗普先生移民（子）标签的一部分以来，Delaney Hall 一直是抗议者和数千名立法者批评的持续目标。被拘留者长期以来一直抱怨那里的生活条件，示威者则通过在中心正门前聚集来做出回应，在那里与联邦特工的冲突有时会演变为暴力冲突。

《新闻》审阅的公共记录证实了被拘留者提出的一些投诉。

被拘留者表示，那里的待遇是非人道的。检查员提交的报告显示，食品产品和消费面孔被置之不理。工作人员在准备肉类时接触开放式垃圾桶，且未将食品保存在足以杀死有害污染物的必要温度下。州卫生部门在5月收到一名医生关于一名患有活动性肺结核被拘留者的投诉。该医生表示，纽瓦克大学医院的一名员工告诉他，该被拘留者被送往该院后又被送回了Delaney，且没有遏制感染的后续计划。戴文波特先生表示，如果州政府发现Delaney存在侵犯民权的行为，总检察长办公室将采取“民事执法行动”以强制执行相关法律。联邦政府拒绝配合州行政部门为改变新泽西州联邦移民官员行为而采取的其他努力。6月，在新泽西州卫生官员被拒绝进入Delaney的医疗单元及该州办公室其他几个区域后，新泽西州采取了Gov. Group行动。该诉讼目前尚未解决，旨在寻求授予检查员充分进入的必要权限。州政府还起诉了舍里夫先生和戴文波特先生，该案件旨在禁止该州所有执法人员（包括112名特工）佩戴遮掩身份的面具。特朗普政府辩称，这一决定应由州的联邦官员做出，因为他们是在合理地履行公务。本周，一名联邦法官阻止了纽约州一项类似的口罩禁令。# 前检察官因被解雇起诉司法部

作者：艾伦·弗里尔 (ALAN FRIER)

去年九月的一天，一位名叫娜塔莉·温特斯 (Natalie Winters) 的右翼影响力人士在社交媒体上发布了一则她自称的“独家”消息。一名在亚特兰大监督一份针对“MAGA合作伙伴”贸易杂志的联邦主管此前写过一篇博客，其中包含对特朗普总统的批评评论。拥有数十万关注者的温特斯女士将她的信息发送给了美国司法部 (DOJ) 的秘密官员账户。她要求对检察官威尔·罗森茨威格 (Will Rosenzweig) 采取新行动：“开除他，”她的信息这样写道。不到三小时后，该部门就这么做了。威尔·罗森茨威格——当时该州主管因其工作一直获得赞赏——收到了一封安装信，称其为“总统，随后是总检察长，将其从美国检察官办公室的职位上撤职，在 80，且立即生效”。周五，罗森茨威格先生起诉了美国司法部，目前管理该部门的保罗·布兰奇 (Paul Blanche) 表示该问题正在处理中。佛罗里达州南区美国检察官奎特斯 (Quitters) 要求经济赔偿并恢复其职务。通过这样做，他加入了一个日益增长的前检察官名单，这些人曾在办公室工作，后来在办公室通过法院反击被认为是对执法官员广泛群体进行联邦打击的案例。在特朗普先生的第二个任期内，代理人和检察官因各种原因被雇佣。一些资深老兵在试图保护下属免受厌恶时失去了工作。另一些人实际上曾是这种情况，但由于在这一时期从事刑事司法工作，他们为执法官员提供了大量支持。罗森茨威格先生被解雇是其中几个具有不同转折的案例之一：右翼评论员声称是他们在背后推动，将警察联系起来，而警察并不确定。温特斯女士转发了另一位法律右翼母亲劳拉·利弗特 (Laura Leavert) 发布的消息，宣布了这一新闻。温特斯女士的信息称警察错了，并宣称：“让这个好家伙被开除。”温特斯女士的许多帖子随后被删除，但罗森茨威格先生的律师在诉讼中包含了这些帖子的截图。此前，她表示罗森茨威格先生在文章中称特朗普先生为“仅有成熟”和“整个机会”，从而“假设”了特朗普先生。美国司法部以诉讼正在进行为由拒绝评论。温特斯女士没有立即回应寻求评论的新话题。利弗特女士说：“警察，她利用社交媒体针对高级行政官员，指控他们对特朗普先生不忠。根据她自己的描述，那些在马扎林县 (Mazarine County) 的检察官，前 F.D. 局长詹姆斯·R·科纳里 (James R. Conery) 的女儿，在曼哈顿担任联邦检察官多年后失去了工作。”在科纳里女士被终止聘用后，利弗特女士在网上庆祝，将功劳归于一次“压力运动”。另一位资深检察官迈克尔·F·本弗里斯 (Michael F. Benfry's) 在一名在线影响力人士指责他是弗吉尼亚东区美国检察官办公室“内部抵抗的垃圾”后，于十月失去了工作，该人士指控科纳里女士参与了对他发起的第一次起诉。在本弗里斯先生贴在办公室门上的给同事的告别信中，这位职业生涯大部分时间在德克萨斯州从事国际服务工作的检察官表示担忧，认为重要的人员和团队显然在响应在线帖子。在案件中被杀的美国人的受托人，该案件不在部门或州协会中，在美国司法部协会的社交媒体上设立的“他是一个 n 在美国司法部

“MAGA合作伙伴。”时间已经结束——马塞拉·巴切姆（Marcela Bachem）、迈克尔·巴切姆（Michael Bachem）和萨米·赫兹（Sammy Herds）——似乎与特朗普先生没有任何明显的公开联系。他们被指控的行为有误，且成员涉及数美元的虚假和欺诈索赔。迈克尔·巴切姆和赫兹先生在上周被定罪并被判处监禁。马塞拉·巴切姆的案件已从官方墙上被覆盖，但尚未进入审判阶段。在提交给迈阿密联邦地区法院的诉讼中，罗森茨威格（Rosenzweig）先生的律师就温特斯（Winters）女士如何得知他们的索赔正在处理欺诈案件，以及她如何能将其与多年前撰写的批评特朗普先生的长篇文章联系起来提出了质疑。律师写道，在温特斯女士宣布罗森茨威格先生生活状况期间，美国司法部（DOJ）从未就该案发布新闻声明，并建议该案在新闻媒体中获得关注。此外，律师写道，罗森茨威格先生的博客已被

“让他被开除吧，”右翼影响力人物纳塔莉·温特斯（Natalie Winters）在社交媒体上写道。因为在那时已经近七年没有更多帖子，他们说曾写信给甚至申请进入美国司法部。律师补充说，公众若想了解此案，唯一途径是通过当事方之一。根据其律师的说法，罗森茨威格先生突然被解雇发生在欺诈案开庭前夕，且同样是在“小道消息”之后。法院被要求为他寻找替代者，政府要求审理此案的法官推迟审判。一周前，被告也被要求成为一个“深层的，突然被指控的原因，并听到审判按计划开始，以寻求战术优势。”罗森茨威格在被解雇当天正在观察布什·哈索斯（Bush Hathaus），直到晚上 9 点才看到法官不听从的结果。他最终与一名主管交谈，主管告诉他，贝林·奎巴斯（Belling Quibbass）先生已向案件官员披露了他的解雇情况。根据诉状，当时政府总检察长由布兰奇（Blanche）先生领导。主管表示，是在对话之后，关于解雇的“特殊有神论”新闻传出的，诉状如此主张。罗森茨威格先生的律师承认，他们不知道美国司法部是否在温特斯女士之前从其客户的博客文章中获得了信息，或者贝林·奎巴斯先生与布兰奇先生办公室之间的对话支付产生了什么影响，该文件已被提交。贝林决定解雇罗森茨威格先生。无论如何，罗森茨威格先生批评特朗普先生的信件“不仅是言论自由，受第一修正案保护”，律师写道。“罗森茨威格先生是以私人评论形式发布博客文章的，情况就是他是，且评论者探讨的是公众关注的事项，”他们补充道。“他没有在任何官方日期向三人做出陈述；被告的证词是因为政府言论，或者因为他们从中感知到的政治隶属关系和信仰。”

选民登记错误可能导致绿卡申请机会丧失

作者：特雷西·图利斯 (TRACY TULIS)

当新泽西州民主党州长迈克·舍里夫 (Mike Sheriff) 讨论该州错误地将该州符合条件的定罪人员登记为有投票权时，她誓言将尽其所能，保护受影响者免受后果影响。但根据选举权法律师的说法，由于该州办公室称其为传票错误，这种不规范的操作可能会摧毁这些人获得绿卡或公民身份的未来希望。

舍里夫女士称，大约 400 名被错误登记为有投票权的定罪人员，几乎肯定会成为联邦检察官的目标，并且如果他们不是该州公民，可能会被驱逐出境。但即使是那些从未投票的人，也可能被强制离开美国。

“他们陷入了巨大的麻烦，”一位被视为美国移民法权威的阿拉斯加州律师表示。一项 2006 年的移民法案（于 2012 年通过）规定，当定罪人员在姓名出现在选民名册后申请绿卡时，。

“这是一个艰难的时刻，”她说。特朗普政府去年发布的一项政策规定，被错误登记的州当地定罪人员承担“证明”自己没有过错的“举证责任”。

---

A12 纽约时报 全国版 2026年8月8日，星期六

一个挑衅的青少年与一名“被激怒”的警员

深入剖析一场发生在德克萨斯州的暴力冲突，该事件凸显了人们对校园警务的担忧。

作者：CLARE AMARI

警员马克·劳（Marc Laue）当时正在发色情短信。此前，在巡逻德克萨斯州康弗斯（Converse）的贾德森高中（Judson High School）走廊时，他面对一名被指控推搡一名助理校长的15岁少年。这名青少年杰里迈亚·约翰逊（Jeremiah Johnson）转身离开。执法记录仪拍摄的冲突画面显示，劳警员多次抓扯杰里迈亚的手臂和背包。当男孩将其推开时，警员用双臂将其环抱并将其按在地上。

现在，杰里迈亚在学校狭小的警察办公室里被戴上了手铐。当另一名警员试图将杰里迈亚按在椅子上时，劳警员继续用拳头击打男孩的腹部。

“所有运气都……”劳警员呵斥道。

自2022年德克萨斯州尤瓦尔德（Uvalde）布赖德小学（Bride Elementary）一名枪手杀害21人以来，德州已投入数十亿美元在公立学校部署警察。根据州法律，警员应当远离“常规的学生纪律处分”。但在过去的几年里，他们在数千起案件中使用了肢体暴力，包括为了制止看似轻微的不良行为。

贾德森高中发生的这起事件，提供了一个关于冲突如何失控的极佳视角。之所以如此罕见，是因为该学生、警员以及一名教师都与记者进行了讨论。这段发生在2023年11月的33分钟片段也被执法记录仪捕捉到，《纽约时报》和《圣安东尼奥快报》（The San Antonio Express-News）对此进行了审阅。

该案例凸显了自学校开始在校园内部署执法人员以来，家长和倡导者一直提出的担忧：警员可能会与脆弱的学生发生冲突，从而毁掉他们的生活。

南卡罗来纳大学犯罪学教授山姆·亚当斯（San Adams）为《时报》和《快报》审阅了相关影像，他称其为“恐怖的”。亚当斯先生表示，劳警员将拳头捅进杰里迈亚身体的方式已经超出了“正常警务”的界限。

当杰里迈亚蜷缩在椅子上时，他喘着气说：“我甚至没法呼吸。”劳警员用激烈的言辞命令他闭嘴。随后，他击中了杰里迈亚的头部侧面。

那天早晨，助理校长伊丽莎白·德·阿尔巴（Elizabeth De Alba）通过对讲机联系了劳警员。执法记录仪画面显示，两人在拥挤的走廊里会合。

“他推了我，”她告诉警员，并指向走在他们前面、穿着黑色卫衣且戴着兜帽的杰里迈亚。

杰里迈亚在圣安东尼奥东边缘的一个工人阶级社区长大。记录显示，他的父母吸毒，因此他的姑婆和姑公德博拉·约翰逊（Debra Johnson）和卡尔文·约翰逊（Calvin Johnson）在他蹒跚学步时收养了他。他们将他与州政府资助的孩子们一起抚养长大。

约翰逊夫妇将杰里迈亚描述为一个安静、严肃的孩子，曾在其家族的非裔美国人教堂唱诗班中唱歌。他热爱学校，但在学业上很吃力。记录显示，在八年级时，学校官员认定他患有学习障碍。

杰里迈亚喜欢典型的青少年事物：电子游戏和动作电影，陪伴他的姐妹们，以及照顾他的小侄女。但到他进入贾德森高中时，他已经参与过几次打架，并被他的亲哥哥引入了一个帮派。

他与劳警员的第一次交集是在2023年2月，当时他是一名新生。警方记录显示，该警员为了防止他与另一名学生打架而将其制服。

记录显示，次周，劳警员收到关于社交媒体上两部手机的线报，显示杰里迈亚在新生楼内持有武器。在最近的一次采访中，杰里迈亚告诉记者，他持有武器是为了防御敌对帮派。

九个月后，德阿尔巴女士指控当时就读高二的杰里迈亚在走廊里推了她。于是，劳埃警官穿过一群学生，去面对这个青少年。该青少年用粗俗的语言和种族歧视的词汇回应警官。劳埃警官告诉杰里迈亚他被逮捕了，并试图将其拘捕。但男孩挣脱了，将警官的随身摄像头撞落在地。曾任预备警员的德阿尔巴女士将其捡起。她拍摄了这场冲突，将摄像头向下倾斜。劳埃警官身高6英尺2英寸，体格强健，他踢掉了杰里迈亚的双腿。该青少年年龄相仿但身材消瘦，向后摔倒。警官对他进行了猛击；当第二名警官到达时，他们给杰里迈亚戴上手铐，然后将他拎了起来。他们将男孩带向学校警察办公室。“走吧，”劳埃警官说。几分钟后，劳埃警官站在杰里迈亚面前，对他进行责骂。他嘲笑他哭泣。他告诉他将会进监狱并且一直待在那里。“这就是你的未来，”劳埃警官说。办公室内的这段情节被第二名警官的随身摄像头完整记录下来。那名警官理查德·巴兹因克多次敦促他的同事冷静下来。他五次举手示意劳埃警官停止。但贬低之词仍在继续。在某个时刻，劳埃警官指控杰里迈亚袭击了一名学校管理人员。杰里迈亚坚称自己没有，并敦促他检查学校的监控摄像头。“你觉得我会相信你而不是相信她？”劳埃警官问道。

杰里迈亚·约翰逊被指控在德克萨斯州康弗斯的贾德森高中推了一名副校长（见左上图）。随后，一名警官承认杰里迈亚“可能只是擦肩而过”。杰里迈亚摇了摇头。“你当然不信，”他回答道。当时45岁的劳埃警官在学区警察部门工作了两年。这是他的第一执法工作，和所有新警员一样，他参加了警察学院。他接受了针对学校警务的30小时强制性培训。（德克萨斯州的培训时长仅为全国学校资源警员协会建议最低标准的一半。）在从事警务工作之前，劳埃警官曾在美国陆军服役。记录显示，他于2004年入伍，在九年的服役期间，他曾两次部署到long，一次部署到阿富汗。退伍后的一段时间里，他在西德克萨斯州的油田操作技术设备。在今年早些时候的一次采访中，劳埃警官告诉《纽约时报》和《快讯-新闻报》，他原以为自己的军事经验会在执法工作中给他带来优势。但起初，他发现贾德森高中令人不安。拥挤的走廊让他感到“有点广场恐惧症”，他说。尽管如此，他很享受与学生打交道。他说，有些人甚至邀请他参加他们的毕业典礼。当被问及与杰里迈亚的冲突时，劳埃警官说他“对其中段施压”仅仅是为了让他坐在椅子上。他承认自己在办公室里被“激怒了”，但无法说明原因。“我不经常发那么大的火，”他补充道。那天在学校里，关于杰里迈亚被擒并戴上手铐的消息在传播。他的体育老师柯克·卢盖斯一听到消息就匆匆赶往学校警察办公室。他心中想到的是警察与黑人之间（包括杰里迈亚和他自己）的暴力历史，他在一次采访中说道。“我不会让事情发展到那种地步，”他回忆起当时的想法。

一场失控的冲突

2023年11月，在德克萨斯州康弗斯的贾德森高中，警员马克·劳（Marc Laue）遇到了15岁的杰里迈亚·约翰逊（Jeremiah Johnson），此前一名管理人员指控杰里迈亚推了她。执法记录仪拍下了这一过程。

10:02:48 劳警员与杰里迈亚对峙，后者用脏话回应警员。劳警员多次抓扯杰里迈亚的手臂和背包。

10:03:36 劳警员告知杰里迈亚他被逮捕了，并试图将其控制。杰里迈亚挣脱，将警员的执法记录仪撞落在地。

10:04:06 提出指控的助理校长捡起了记录仪。杰里迈亚推开劳警员，随后被劳警员按在地上。

10:05:38 当第二名警员到达时，他与劳警员给杰里迈亚戴上手铐，并将其带到学校警察办公室。“走吧，”劳警员说道。

10:06:51 当另一名警员试图让杰里迈亚坐到椅子上时，劳警员似乎将拳头击向该青少年的腹部，并对他大吼大叫、咒骂。

10:06:08 当杰里迈亚蜷缩在椅子上时，他喘着气说：“我连呼吸都困难。”

10:06:41 劳警员继续对着杰里迈亚大吼大叫并咒骂，并击打了他的头部侧面。

10:08:43 杰里迈亚的体育老师柯克·卢盖斯（Kirk Lugais）来到学校警察办公室。他拍了拍这个青少年的后脑勺说：“有我在。”

--- 9 A13

卡尔文（Calvin）和德布拉·约翰逊（Debra Johnson）——杰里迈亚的叔祖父和叔祖母——在他幼儿时期收养了他。下文提到的体育老师柯克·卢根（Kirk Logan）在听说该青少年被擒抱并戴上手铐后，匆匆赶往学校警察办公室。卢根先生将自己置于杰里迈亚与警员之间。

记录显示，卢根先生与杰里迈亚关系友好——他们经常讨论音乐、体育和如何做出正确的选择，而后者最近曾担任学校辅导员，为该青少年制定了某种残障安置方案。这类被称为 I.R.P. 的个别化教育计划文件被用于公立学校的许多学生。杰里迈亚计划的一部分建议学校员工避免“权力斗争”，并在他情绪激动时让他冷静下来。目前尚不清楚这份在事件发生前几天制定的文件是否提供给了劳警员。

记录显示，当卢根先生到达学校警察办公室时，杰里迈亚从椅子上站了起来。他恳求老师给他母亲打电话。“坐下，否则我就把你按下去！”劳警员吼道。卢根先生将自己置于杰里迈亚与警员之间。他拍了拍杰里迈亚的后脑勺。“嘿，杰里迈亚，”他说道，并将额头贴在男孩的额头上，“有我在。”

几分钟后，德阿尔巴（De Alba）女士到达并分享了她对所发生事情的描述。她说她抓到杰里迈亚逃课并将其停课，随后他推了她。杰里迈亚反驳说他没有逃课。“我什么时候推你的？”他问道。

贾斯蒂斯（Justice）学区官员没有向《纽约时报》和《快讯-新闻报》（The Express-News）提供德阿尔巴女士与杰里迈亚互动的任何监控录像，称发布录像会危及校园安全。德阿尔巴女士和雷迪什（Reddish）警员拒绝就本文发表评论。工资单记录显示，两人目前仍在该学区工作。

杰里迈亚被以青少年身份指控袭击和抗拒逮捕。法院记录显示，袭击指控后来被减轻为发出威胁。他被处以缓刑，但在被发现吸食大麻并多次违反晚间宵禁后，缓刑期被延长。他说，在某个阶段他必须佩戴电子脚镣，他将其藏在裤子下面

本文是由《纽约时报》地方调查研究员计划（Local Investigation Fellowship）的一员，与《圣安东尼奥快报》（The San Antonio Express-News）合作报道的，该计划旨在开展关于当地社区的独立产品调查工作。Asher Lebret-Insull 参与了报道，Kelly Bennett 和 Kirsten Noyes 参与了研究，。他去年秋天停止了上学。现年 15 岁的 Jeremiah 说，他不再和帮派里的那些男孩混在一起了。他把空闲时间花在玩手机游戏和听 Lil Peppa 和 Nita 的歌曲上，，这些歌曲讲述的是背叛和被误解的感觉。他最近找到了一份工作——这是让生活重回正轨的一步。他想要一套公寓，这样他就能养活自己，以及未来可能出现的人，但他不打算回到 Justice 高中。他说，自从与 Lane 警官发生那件事后，他在街上看到警察时会有强烈的反应。“我直接就陷入震惊状态，”他说。他对所发生事情的看法是？警官们“毫无怜悯之心”。Lane 警官表示，他曾因使用而受到谴责，并被要求参加一项愤怒管理课程。一名学区发言人拒绝接受采访，也没有回答关于这次冲突的书面问题。该发言人在一封电子邮件中表示，学区“严肃对待所有涉及学生安全和学生关注的事项”，并“致力于持续审查其做法”。学区收到的 Lane 警官人事档案中唯一的记录是。他说：“在事件发生后的一年半里。”他告诉《纽约时报》和《快报》，他不喜欢从事警察工作，现在是一名紧急医疗技术员。“这是一个更具的职业，”他说。“我不需要对人们刻薄。”这位警官补充说，他对 Jeremiah “没有任何成见”，并希望他过得好。他回忆说，在逮捕之后，他查看了这名青少年与 De Alba 女士互动的监控录像。根据他在视频中看到的，Lane 警官说，Jeremiah “可能只是从她身边冲了过去”。“我不会把那称为袭击，”他说。他说，如果在面对 Jeremiah 之前看到录像，他会将他交给学生管理人员，而拒绝提起刑事指控。回顾过去，他补充说，整个情况本可以有完全不同的发展。“我希望我们没有经历那样糟糕的一天，”他说。

美国司法部指控杜克大学法学院存在种族歧视

作者：ALAN BLINDER

美国司法部周四表示，杜克大学（Duke University）法学院在录取过程中存在歧视行为，这扩大了特朗普政府针对其认为非法拒绝白人和亚裔学生的机构的打击行动。

司法部在一封六页的信函中详细阐述了其调查结果，此前该部门已对耶鲁大学医学院以及加州大学系统内的医学院提出了类似的指控。特朗普政府一直试图强制执行对最高法院 2022 年废除考虑种族录取计划之裁决的严格解读。

美国司法部最高民权官员哈里森·K·迪利安（Harrison K. Dhilian）在给该大学律师的信中写道，杜克大学使用了“天然的种族中立工具”来寻求其法学院的种族多样性。迪利安博士指出，司法部对杜克大学数据的分析表明，在学术记录相似的情况下，黑人或西班牙裔申请者获得录取通知书的可能性远高于白人或亚裔学生。

杜克大学的一位发言人在周四的一份声明中表示，学校正在审查美国司法部的信函。声明称：“杜克大学致力于遵守法律，并将继续以符合我们学术使命的方式这样做。”

该大学数月来一直处于特朗普政府的关注之下，后者去年对学生法学期刊的任命以及其所描述的杜克大学医疗系统中的“系统性种族歧视”表示担忧。迪利安女士周四的信函使杜克大学进入了政府日益关注的录取审查范围。

当首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨（John G. Roberts, Jr.）撰写最高法院 2022 年关于平权行动的意见书时，他宣布任何申请人“必须基于其作为个人的经历——而非基于种族——来获得对待”。不过他表示，法院的意见不应被“限制为禁止大学考虑申请人对种族如何影响其生活的讨论，无论这种影响是通过歧视、激励还是其他方式。”

特朗普政府坚持认为，法院的意见不可避免地禁止了在大学录取中考虑种族的任何尝试。

在信中一个标题为“歧视”的部分，迪利安女士引用了杜克大学的一项政策，该政策称法学院可以考虑申请人关于“种族如何影响法律”的讨论，无论是通过歧视、激励还是其他方式——这几乎是首席大法官意见书部分内容的重复。

迪利安女士写道，杜克大学的录取过程提高了“通常与种族相关的个人背景变量”，例如被归类为“大额资助获得者或第一代大学生”，并且此类考虑因素是那些在录取结果中“起到了实质性种族相关替代作用”的因素之一。

迪利安女士在信末表示，司法部希望与杜克大学达成“一项自愿解决协议”，以“确保录取实践符合法律规定”。在 5 月关于耶鲁大学医学院的信函中，司法部也使用了相同的措辞。耶鲁大学一直与政府就和解方案进行谈判，尽管其领导层在大学可能与司法部达成协议的前景下面临着巨大的压力。

美国司法部（DOJ）的公告发布后不到一小时，教育部便表示，已就圣何塞州立大学和旧金山州立大学关于反犹太主义骚扰的指控展开调查。特朗普政府针对大学的许多调查都集中在反犹太主义或录取过程中种族因素的使用上，不过教育部此前也曾就圣何塞州立大学关于跨性别者参与体育活动的政策对其进行审查。旧金山州立大学发言人鲍比·金（Bobby King）表示，学校正在审查引发联邦政府审查的指控，并补充说，在该校“反犹太主义和歧视没有生存空间”。他说：“我们严肃对待犹太社区成员所引发的担忧，并始终致力于确保我们社区的每一位成员都能在不受法律和大学政策所禁止的歧视与骚扰的情况下，进行学习、教学、工作并参与大学生活。”圣何塞州立大学表示，将通过教育部的程序对此次调查做出回应。该校在的一份声明中表示：“大学一直以来且反复谴责歧视”，并补充称，“营造一个没有反犹太主义和任何形式非法歧视的环境仍然是首要任务。”

纽约市因“25例军团病”被起诉

作者：CLARRY FAHY

去年哈莱姆区爆发军团病，亲属在疫情中去世的家庭于周四起诉纽约市，称两处市属地点的冷却塔中存在危险细菌。在2025年8月的这次爆发中，有7人死亡，超过100人感染。这次迅速蔓延的疫情始于中哈莱姆区，并追踪至两处市属物业——哈莱姆医院（Harlem Hospital）和一家市属公共卫生实验室的反犯罪车。诉讼称，该市及其分包商未能维护这些地点的冷却塔。

第一起私人诉讼由律师Ben Crump和Wotz & Lizenberg律师事务所提交至纽约州最高法院。Crump先生及其团队代表了在该州死亡的第一批人员以及数名被感染并致病的人员。周四，Crump先生与民权活动人士Al Sharpton牧师一同出席了关于该州情况的新闻发布会。随后，来自美国的律师以及在2025年爆发期间死亡或被感染者的家属也加入了其中。

“现在她是一个单亲母亲，”Lakhdar Pasadena说道。Bruce Scott在哈莱姆医院工作期间感染军团病后去世，他留下了一个6岁的女儿Brooke，目前由Pasadena女士抚养。“我的女儿，除非是在学校，否则她不想知道我的情况，”Pasadena女士说。“她不想知道外面的任何事情，因为她最后一次见到父亲时，他正准备去医院，然后就再也没有回来。”

该疾病是由军团菌引起的，这种细菌在温暖、停滞的水中生长繁盛，该疾病最常见的传播途径与冷却塔产生的蒸汽有关。这种细菌可引起严重的肺炎，尤其是对于患有慢性健康问题的患者。

“保护公共健康和安全是该市应对工作的核心，”纽约市部门发言人Sheldon Rodney在的一份声明中表示。“我们将仔细审查这些案例。”

被点名的分包商包括Joseph Goldstein、Liam Stack和Demogden Milsen，他们贡献了相关报道。

（左）律师Ben Crump与（右）未婚夫去世的Lakhdar Pasadena宣布就军团病爆发提起诉讼。

诉讼方拒绝发表评论。由纽约市健康与医院系统（NYC Health and Hospitals）运行的哈莱姆医院，在去年夏天卫生机构官员看来，其冷却塔检查似乎是最新的，并符合城市规定。该机构院长Mitchell Katz博士在2025年表示，医院的冷却塔在前一年中已通过多种方法进行了军团菌检查。由于军团菌在当地环境中“无处不在”，尤其是在寒冷的季节，这意味着无论进行多少次冷却处理，都无法保证它不会出现在冷却塔水箱的温暖停滞水中。

冷却塔曾卷入其他疫情，包括今年夏天在曼哈顿上东区导致7人死亡、超过80人感染的一次爆发。卫生当局表示，此次爆发与冷却塔有关，但尚未确定具体是哪座塔导致。官员于上周表示，该疫情已经结束。

随着军团病在近几十年中在全美变得更加普遍，纽约已成为一个重点区域。这部分原因是冷却塔的多样性——曼哈顿有超过5,000,座，大多位于屋顶——以及行人数量之多，其爆发率约为10. 周三，州长Kathy Harked签署法律，强制要求所有纽约市冷却塔每年进行两次认证操作。

由克朗普先生（Mr. Crump）发起的诉讼将纽约市、纽约市健康与医院系统（NYC Health and Hospitals）以及负责维护冷却中心的前相关方列为被告。诉讼称，被告“未能正确地修剪、处理和维护冷却塔，未能遵守规则和城市冷却塔条例，且未能意识到危险政策”。这些诉讼与5月份针对该市就同一次疫情提交的一项早期投诉合并。 --- A14 第47任总统

卡西迪将支持布兰奇的司法部长提名

（接 A1 页）缅因州参议员苏珊·柯林斯。由于不能承受更多共和党人的倒戈，提名者的最后一步是获得支持，而卡西迪先生受到了密切关注。马尔科夫斯基先生在的一份声明中表示，最后的半个词是对司法部“政治化”的担忧。但她得出的结论与卡西迪先生相反。她表示，她担心布兰奇先生将“无法制约本届政府最糟糕的冲动”。马尔科夫斯基先生引用了该部门在发布爱泼斯坦文件方面的积压（布兰奇对此予以否决），以及布兰奇先生在特朗普先生起诉美国国税局（IRS）的诉讼中协商的结算协议，该协议包括创建一个 10 亿美元.0 亿美元 的贡献基金，该基金本可用于支付与 8, 2021, 国会山事件有关的被指控人员。

“国家需要一位能够制约本届政府最糟糕冲动的司法部长，”马尔科夫斯基先生说，“我希望布兰奇先生在获得确认后能够实现这一点，但我根本不相信事实会如此。”在特朗普先生于 2021, 赢得的州寻求连任的柯林斯女士，周二表示出于类似的担忧，她将对布兰奇先生投反对票。鉴于肯塔基州共和党人参议员米奇·麦康奈尔因病缺席近八周，布兰奇先生最多只能承受两票共和党反对票，仍能在民主党人的反对中赢得多数确认票。马尔科夫斯基先生、柯林斯女士和卡西迪先生是仅有的几位在 8 袭击事件后，投票支持以严重指控定罪特朗普先生并将其免职的共和党参议员。

特朗普先生已敦促参议院共和党人迅速确认布兰奇先生，而南达科他州参议员、多数党领袖约翰·图恩希望在立法者本周末离开华盛顿进入 8 月休会前，就其提名进行投票。

布兰奇先生的提名之路十分坎坷。在德克萨斯州参议员约翰·塞林和北卡罗来纳州参议员索尔斯·蒂利斯对那笔 10 亿美元.0 亿美元 基金（布兰奇曾表示该基金不会推进）以及在解决美国国税局（IRS）诉讼中给予特朗普先生及其企业的异常税务审计豁免权提出质疑后，司法委员会推迟将其提交至参议院全体会议。经过数日谈判，布兰奇先生在周日晚上提供了书面保证，称该基金已失效，且对总统的豁免权将被缩小，随后塞林先生和蒂利斯先生撤回了反对意见。

但塞林先生和蒂利斯先生将要求集中在结算条款上，而马尔科夫斯基先生和柯林斯女士则提出了更广泛的论点，认为布兰奇先生参与该计划的创建本身就使其不合格。马尔科夫斯基先生在声明中指出，布兰奇先生的承诺很容易被撤销，且该基金在确认后很容易被重新启用，许多批评者也持有同样的担忧。

“我完全意识到，该部门近 $2-billion dollar 的备用金——这很可能被用来救助 8 抗议者——之所以目前不在考虑范围内，仅仅是因为这项提名正在审议中，且参议院拥有筹码，”她说，“一旦我们投票，一切就结束了，未来将不可预知。”

随后，柯林斯女士和马尔科夫斯基先生均表示支持堕胎权。在宣布反对时，两人都提到布兰奇先生曾告诉反堕胎团体，他将在执行推翻“罗诉韦德案”的最高法院裁决方面采取强硬立场。

纽约时报 国家版 Saturday, August 8, 2026. 纽约时报 国家版 Saturday, August 8, 2026.

在周五的演讲中，卡西迪先生还批评了布兰奇先生参与协商该基金及审计保护的行为，称其为“判断力低下”。但他表示，与布兰奇先生的讨论使他相信，代理司法部长将这些决定视为干扰。布兰奇先生可能在周三于国会大厦与他以及马科夫斯基先生进行了私人会面。卡西迪先生表示，他在一定程度上受到了特朗普先生威胁要无限期让布兰奇先生担任代理司法部长的影响，这实际上忽略了来自国会的任何抵制。这位参议员表示，然而他认为，确认任命可以给布兰奇先生提供“更大的杠杆去推动那些应该被推动的事情”，而如果他继续以代理身份任职，则无法获得这种能力。他还提到了威廉·P·巴尔对布兰奇先生的支持，巴尔在特朗普先生的第一任期内担任司法部长，但为了不参与或认可总统关于2020年选举的“看法”而辞职。巴尔已成为布兰奇先生的非正式顾问，他在与参议员的私人会议中主张，布兰奇先生拥有能够安静地确认总统最终“权利”的性格、稳重感和方法，即使是对抗特朗普先生的提议也是断断续续且足够有限的。卡西迪先生在5月选举失败后变得更加公开地批评总统，他表示他对特朗普先生的看法并未影响他对布兰奇先生的决定。“我和特朗普先生有过往交集，”他说，“但那段历史一点也不重要。”这位领导其健康委员会的路易斯安那州共和党人，在支持特朗普先生选择罗伯特·F·肯尼迪二世担任疫苗主管后，面临了巨大的干扰，因为他认为在获得后来被打破的肯尼迪先生的保证后，这样做是必要的。那个决定可能使他在初选活动中失去关键的支持。周五，他在宣布关于布兰奇先生的决定时显得情绪激动。他继续就此次投票表态。卡西迪先生说：“有什么新鲜的？”“你们会很高兴地接纳他，”他的声音在说到他的选民可以放心他努力理解该问题并做出正确决定时变得激动。

在白宫舞厅的会议上，一名感谢特朗普总统在法院罢工（该罢工持续了11天）期间继续建设并尝试的人员。

上诉法院维持对特朗普舞厅建设的禁令

作者：JACIE MOUVIAUX 和 MUTTERINGS SCHWARTZ

华盛顿 —— 一个联邦上诉法院小组周五裁定，总统和众议院在未经国会批准的情况下，继续建设原计划作为白宫东翼替代方案的舞厅。该裁决由美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院的法官办公室做出，给特朗普先生试图推进该项目并向总统民众进行询问的努力带来了打击，特朗普先生誓言将向最高法院提起上诉。该裁决维持了下级法院的调查结果，即根据法律或权限，总统在没有改进授权的情况下，没有权力拆除并更换白宫的部分区域。

这一决定并不意味着建设将立即停止。法官将裁决暂缓 16 天，以给政府提供上诉机会。下级法院法官此前也同样暂停了裁决以留出上诉时间，而特朗普先生一直毫无中断地继续建设，并邀请记者参观现场，展示舞厅竣工的进展。他向法院发表了讲话。

周五的裁决结果存在分歧，由奥巴马任命的法官 District Militia 和拜登任命的布拉德利·加西亚（Bradley Garcia）组成 2 比 1 的多数票。特朗普任命的法官 Thomas Ann E. Marrnow 参与了报道并发表了不同意见。

“马诺先生（Mr. Marrnow）在临时任期内，并非白宫及其行政官邸的所有者，”米莱特法官（Judge Millett）和加西亚法官写道。他们表示，历史上没有先例证明首席执行官可以“单方面地并使用私人筹集资金”拆除白宫的大部分区域。他们表示，建设一个“巨大的舞厅”是“由国会决定，而非行政人员处理的事项”。

在一条回应该裁决的社交媒体帖子中，特朗普先生将舞厅的建设定义为国家安全问题，因为与之配套建设了安全设施。他补充了法官 Ran 的第二意见，Ran 法官认为提起诉讼的非营利组织——国家历史保护信托基金会（National Trust for this work Preservation）没有法律地位来挑战该建设。在她看来，其主张的合法性取决于“一个人的审美不满”。

该决定并非法官 Ran 的第二意见，她认为提起诉讼的非营利组织——国家历史保护信托基金会没有法律地位来挑战该建设。在她看来，其主张的合法性取决于“一个人的审美不满”；该信托基金会成员 Alison Bhagfand 是一名州区治安法官，她表示舞厅将是对“偶然的”文化和历史利益的破坏。Ran 法官称阻止建设是“超出了联邦法院的适当权限”。

特朗普先生誓言将该裁决上诉至最高法院，这为关于行政权力的另一次潜在博弈铺平了道路。此前在他的任期内，他的政府对总统权力做出了许多道德主张，而法院则给出了一定程度的认可。特朗普先生在涉及其移民权力以及解雇独立机构领导人的重大裁决中获胜，但在限制出生公民权、强加国家法院以及向美国城市部署国民警卫队的尝试中失败。

关于舞厅条款的争议，将总统权力这一合同问题具体化到了砖块和砂浆的程度。美国哥伦比亚特区地方法院的理查德·J·莱恩（Richard J. Lane）法官在 4 月份裁定，舞厅项目远远超过了总统传统上在白宫 grounds 范围内所做的微小改动规模，进入了需要与国会协作的领域。

莱恩法官是由乔治·W·布什任命的，他写道，特朗普先生依赖于该建设项目旨在加强白宫安保的说法，以此来证明基于该场地建设估算的合理性。“国家安全并非进行其他非法活动的空白支票，”他当时写道。尽管如此，莱恩法官在特朗普先生关于白宫下方军事银行信号危机的主张上做出了让步，写道他将允许地下建设，但不允许在上方建设舞厅。裁决之后，特朗普先生写了一系列安保规则，将其描述为在东翼所在地需要一个安全设施的证据。其中包括在6月份的一次年度国家人员新闻发布会上，特朗普先生和其他公民官员遭遇的一次企图袭击，相关人员被指控在特朗普先生生日当天在白宫内发起了一次误导性的右翼攻击。在白宫通讯协会区遭遇企图袭击后，司法部提交了一份摘录和文件，部分内容是根据总统的区域风格而非为了吸引遗产而编写的，坚持要求撤销该命令。随后，它再次就一封信向上诉法院提起竞争。该“国家信托”州保护组织——它并非任何类型的政府机构——在首份文件中从未表示其诉讼是由停止任何与唐纳德·T·特朗普总统相关事物的非理性欲望所驱动的，甚至包括民主党人的唐纳德·特朗普总统，“特朗普管理综合症”或T.D.S.。在口头辩论期间，小组似乎对司法部关于总统可以拆除其右翼成员资格的论点感到不安。6月份，七位共和党参议员加入民主党人的行列，投票阻止该项目的建设，直到国会正式授权，但该措施未能获得通过所需的60 years。与总统结盟的参议院共和党人此前还提出了一项最终方案，提供高达10 亿美元 billion的公共资金来资助舞厅和其他活动。该参议员表示：“我不会接受我们的国会在记录中支持该项目。”司法部还向法院表示，国会努力使资金永久化或公开批准了该项目。特朗普先生长期以来一直坚称，2020年大选估算至少需要4.5亿美元，将不会由公众承担费用。但在6月份，政府转移了大约$250 million用于前服务部门和白宫的安保升级，而这似乎是对东翼项目的渴望。一些美国富有的独立成员向该项目承诺捐赠数亿美元，引发了监察团体对腐败的关注。一份于5月发布的良好政府报告记录了超过500 亿美元 billion的政府合同流向了捐赠公司。

起诉旨在

针对税务协议

为特朗普服务

作者：ALAN FEUER 和 ANDREW DICKERSON

代表美国国税局（IRS）员工的工会周四请求一名联邦法官阻止特朗普政府向特朗普总统授予特殊的税务条款，称该条款非法，并可能使工会陷入执行非法命令的困境。

这项请求是在弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚联邦地区法院提交的一份修订起诉书中提出的。这是首次有人起诉法院，试图直接扼杀这项广泛的税务计划。该计划源于特朗普先生在5月与政府达成的一项协议，旨在撤回他针对美国国税局（IRS）提起的一项诉讼。

这份修订后的诉讼基于早前的一项投诉，该投诉要求工会停止这项法律。目前，该诉讼旨在阻止一项新措施，以及另一项源于美国条款撤销的措施，即美国国税局（IRS）一项 58 亿美元 billion 基金，该基金旨在削减纳税人的资金，以补偿那些声称自己是公共卫生受害者的特朗普支持者。

关于该基金的原始诉讼原告——包括一名在处理 8, 2021 美国国会大厦州地区法院案件后被解雇的前联邦检察官——主张他们受到了特朗普政府的不公正对待。他们认为，由于该基金旨在补偿那些声称受到民主党政府伤害的人，他们应该被允许获得该基金的金额。

布里克森法官最终在6月份禁止该基金继续推进，裁定即使美国法院一直在使用一名总检察长，该基金也已失效。特朗普先生曾多次暗示该基金仍可获得。

现在，位于国家财政会议中心的诉讼增加了关于税务条款的合规性要求，这些条款禁止对总统、特朗普集团以及各州和地方执法部门提交的纳税申报表进行审计。

“美国国税局（IRS）允许总统及其家人免于审查，这是前所未有且非法的，”代表工会提交新投诉的 Democracy Forward 总裁兼执行官玛丽·佩里曼（Mary Perryman）表示。“我们很荣幸能代表这些美国国税局（IRS）员工，在这一挑战非法计划的首例案件中提供代理，同时我们继续对那笔将流入暴力犯罪分子口袋的 17.5 亿美元 billion 秘密基金提出挑战。”

卡特先生的诉讼主张，这项在停电期间合法化的税务条款违反了一项禁止总统干预税务审计的联邦法律。该法律规定，任何导致或选择此类政治导向的美国国税局（IRS）员工可能面临刑事处罚，这对该机构工会的成员构成了风险。同时，诉讼指出，任何拒绝停止对特朗普先生审计的美国国税局（IRS）员工都可能面临报复。

鉴于审计保护可能使特朗普先生在执政的前三年避免支付数百万美元，诉讼还声称该条款违反了宪法条款，禁止相关人员获得来自无报复的经济利益。

“在豁免令下，职业美国国税局（IRS）员工将成为总统及其企业审计的公司成员，从而给予总统一个 0000000000000000000”

周二，在两名阻碍该事项会议的共和党参议员的压力下，布兰奇先生发布了一份文件，澄清税务条款将仅适用于特朗普先生。因此，两名成年男子表示，特朗普政府无权允许一项确认该措施将提供免受公众税务影响保护的措施。

此外，布兰奇先生发出了一封信函，称该 15 亿美元 billion 基金已被解散——尽管批评人士指出，该州地区法院的受害者、一场听证会且漏洞百出。上个月，佛罗里达州的一位联邦法官谴责了特朗普先生针对美国国税局（IRS）就 2020 年大选提起的一项诉讼，并称其为一项不当的自我交易行为，因为总统实际上处于主张的两方。法官凯瑟琳·M·威廉姆斯（Kathleen M. Williams）指责该州地区法院以及包括布兰奇先生在内的司法部试图操纵法院系统，以为原审法院提供一种判决的表象。法院的决定是由最终且最终的条款所作出的。特朗普先生的律师已对该决定提出上诉。--- 8 AIS

Mangione 面临两场审判，但这可能并不构成双重审判

作者：BURCHEE NIEGO

自从路易吉·Mangione（Luigi ）被指控杀害一名医疗保健高管以来，人们一直质疑他是否正遭受“双重审判”（double jeopardy），即禁止一个人因同一罪行被两次审判。Mr. 州级指控的审判定于 9 月 8 日进行，而其联邦指控的审判定于 1 月进行。随着州级审判的陪审团筛选仅剩数周，且新闻报道暗示他正在就联邦认罪协议进行谈判，关于双重审判的问题再次浮现。

对于曼哈顿地区检察官办公室的起诉方而言，他们担心在州级审判开始前，联邦案件中的任何认罪协议都会威胁到他们的起诉。

“一个认罪协议就是一次审判！”Mr. 在 2 月被带离佛罗里达州纳什维尔（Nashville, Florida）的一间曼哈顿法庭时如此宣称。按照任何常识定义，这都构成了双重审判。然而，专家表示，双重审判的起诉并不总是那么明确。

虽然法律术语旨在保护被告免受双重审判，但仍存在例外。根据最高法院的说法，联邦政府和州政府被认为是相互独立的，因此对同一行为的起诉并不必然违规。但纽约州为 . 提供了强有力的保护。根据州法，当针对同一行为的先前起诉以认罪定罪或审判裁决结束时，双重审判原则便开始生效。

福特汉姆法学院（Fordham School of Law）的辩护律师兼教授伊恩·温斯坦（Ian Weinstein）表示，法院对这两场审判的裁定对辩方至关重要。他说，如果州级案件先进入审判，随后的联邦审判并不会因双重审判原则而被禁止。. 的联邦案件计划于明年年初开审。

联邦和州级检察官的发言人以及 . 的律师均拒绝置评。

上个月，曼哈顿地区检察官办公室的检察官安德·赛德曼斯（And Seidemans）给州法官写了一封信，认为他的办公室对 . 的起诉拥有“首要管辖权”，因为该办公室首先对其提出了指控。在今年早些时候的一次听证会上，. Seidemans 表示，该医疗保健高管的母亲已请求联邦检察官允许州级审判——这是两场审判中唯一一项指控 . 谋杀的审判——先行进行。

. 被指控在 2020 年 12 月 5 日早晨，在布赖恩·汤普森（Brian Thompson）走进一家酒店准备参加一次入侵会议（invasion conference）时，将其杀害。汤普森是联合健康集团（UnitedHealthcare）的首席执行官。. 在州法院和联邦法院的所有指控中均表示不认罪。

在 . 实施杀人事件后的几天里，全国范围内展开了对枪手的搜捕——但未能成功。五年后，. 在宾夕法尼亚州阿尔托马（Altoma, Pa.）被捕，随后在纽约的一个区引发了骚乱。他的被捕引发了进一步的公众关注——他的每一步行动都被广泛报道。当 . 到达纽约时，他在联邦官员的陪同下被带往陪审团走廊，时任市长埃里克·亚当斯（Eric Adams）随行。

在 . 避开纽约州法院的提审时，联邦检察官提出了他们自己的一套指控。. 的律师之一凯伦·弗里德曼·阿佩林（Karen Friedman Appellin）称这些指控为“极不寻常的情况”：她指出，当地区检察官办公室宣布对 . 提出指控时，没有任何迹象表明他还会被联邦检察官起诉。. Friedman Appellin 主张，这两起案件表明她的当事人成了两个强大的检察官办公室之间的棋子，且必须同时准备两场审判违反了 . 的正当程序权利。

联邦指控是

是在拜登政府期间提出的，当时纽约南区美国检察官办公室表示州检察官才是真正的首位。但不久之后，特朗普总统重返办公室，其司法部长表示将寻求对曼吉奥内先生处以死刑，这表明她的检察官们正迅速推进审判。。在2月的听证会上，卡林法官表示，联邦检察官似乎“违背了他们允许

法律专家表示，法律保护并不总是那么明确。该州在案件中承担了大部分工作，因此应优先办理。”卡林法官将州法院的审判时间定在联邦法律审判之前。在过去的一年里，这两起案件的争议点已有所缩小，曼吉奥内先生的律师成功申请撤销了最严重的指控。但是，曼吉奥内仍被州法院指控多项武器罪名和二级谋杀罪。在联邦法院，他虽未被指控谋杀，但被指控跟踪，检察官无需证明他杀害了汤普森先生，而只需证明他的行为导致了该高管的死亡。即使曼吉奥内的联邦案件先通过认罪协议解决，州检察官仍可能主张他们的案件——或者根据曼吉奥内认罪的具体指控而定，其部分案件——可以继续推进。2020年，当时由齐格弗里德·万斯领导的曼哈顿地区检察官办公室在另一起备受关注的案件中主张，双重审判法并不妨碍州政府的起诉。当特朗普先生表示他将进一步任命曾因财务欺诈在联邦法院被定罪的竞选主席保罗·J·曼兹勒时，万斯办公室提出了新指控。曼兹勒的律师提出上诉，认为他受到法院双重审判法的保护。法院对此表示赞同，曼兹勒案件的撤销导致了纽约州的一项法律指控。在其他案件中，法院则支持检察官。2004年，一名与州长犯罪家族有关的人在布鲁克林被枪杀。近10年后，两名与此案有关的人在联邦法院被裁定犯有谋杀及敲诈勒索罪。不久后，他们的定罪被推翻。但这并未阻止布鲁克林的州检察官对两人进行起诉，代表其中一人的资深纽约辩护律师保罗·谢克特曼表示。纽约法院裁定这些人可以被再次审判。“这极其复杂，”谢克特曼先生在谈到纽约的双重审判法时说道。

斯波坎纵火嫌疑人承认引发其他火灾

作者：PIASA SALVITRES 和 ANNA GRIFFIN

根据最新的法庭记录，华盛顿州斯波坎县的侦探表示，一名被指控在本月引发一场摧毁了 100 栋建筑的火灾的男子告诉他们，他提前两周计划了这次纵火，并且自去年以来负责点燃另外两起火灾。

斯波坎县侦探 Michael Droperas 在一份宣誓书中写道，该男子名为 Aaron F. Fairbairn，37, 已退休。

根据一份宣誓书，Fairbairn 先生告诉侦探，他研究了被定罪的纵火犯 John Leonard Firs，并购买了用于制作引发山火装置的材料。他告诉调查人员，他决定在周六纵火，因为强风、高温和干燥的空气“正合适”，宣誓书中如此写道。当时斯波坎县正处于一项警告之下。

周四， 先生在律师（一名公设辩护人）的陪同下出庭，其律师为其委托人申请了能力评估。斯波坎县检察官 Preston McCallum 表示同意，并鉴于新增指控，要求将被告的保释金从 200万美元 提高到 200万美元。法官批准了该请求。

先生尚未进行抗辩，其律师未回应置评请求。

根据亚利桑那州马里科帕县的法庭记录， 先生在 2012, 被判定犯有过失杀人罪和加重袭击罪，此前他因其父亲的死亡被指控一级谋杀。记录显示， 先生的家人在一次争吵后在家中枪杀了他的父亲。记录称，他也是该案件的一员，且试图自杀。

法庭记录显示其有精神疾病和治疗史，但在 Old Trails 火灾中，共有 700 栋建筑被夷为平地。本月，该地区的三场大火导致 65,000 人撤离。

先生被宣布具备受审能力。谋杀指控是在一次认罪协议下指控的， 先生于 2020. 被缓刑释放。在那之后的某个时间点，他搬到了华盛顿州，与他的兄弟以及后来的女友同住。

根据宣誓书，他在 2021 年 5 月有了儿子，随后开始吸食大麻并“在处理生活问题时遇到困难”。

宣誓书称， 先生告诉侦探，他在 July 1, 2020, 使用打火机引发了第一场火灾，随后在那个夏天又引发了两起以上的小规模火灾。在至少两起案件中，他在纵火后遇到了警察。

根据法庭文件，一名斯波坎警察在 2021 年 8 月的一次事件后拦截了 先生，该事件持续了数月。当时他随身携带火柴。 先生告诉警察，他是为了抽烟和黄疸。

根据法庭文件， 先生告诉侦探，他在引发后来成为 Old Trails 火灾的火灾后，为被发现做好了准备。“他有一个计划，如果被对质，就从背包里掏出一把刀，试图让警察开枪击毙他。”

一名男子告诉侦探他应对数十场大火负责。

他在周一被逮捕，此前一名居民向当局举报，称看到有人在 Old Trails 火灾开始的地方行为可疑。

先生最初被指控一项与 Old Trails 火灾相关的一级纵火罪，这场火灾是迫使斯波坎地区 45,000 多人撤离的三场大火之一。

周三，检察官表示将对 先生提起四项额外的纵火指控，因为他们认为他引发了其他火灾。总指控的可处罚期限比 foils 火灾高出两到三倍，火灾是强大且美丽的，而经历火灾的事物会经历一种

一起涉及精神健康且与林赛·克兰西案有相似之处的杀子案被裁定重新审理

作者：JENNA ROSSELL

一名因杀害其男伴而被判处两项终身监禁的马萨诸塞州女性，于周四获得重新审理的机会，at 24. 她的律师主张，辩方本应能够提交记录其精神疾病的医疗记录。拉特拉利亚·桑德斯（Lateralia Sanders），35, 于 2022 在同一个县被定罪；而林赛·克兰西（Lindsay Clancy），35, 目前正因 2023 年勒死其三个年幼孩子的谋杀案在该县受审。同一位法官威廉·F·沙利文（William F. Sullivan）主持审理，同一位地区检察官蒂莫西·克鲁兹（Timothy Cruz）负责起诉。

与桑德斯女士一样，克兰西女士也主张无罪。她的律师辩称，由于她患有产后精神病和结核病，因此对孩子的死亡不承担刑事责任。It is true that ordered her to kill them and herself. 桑德斯女士在描述其孩子的年龄之前没有精神疾病的诊断，并且在 2020. 于他们位于布罗克顿（Brockton）的家中表现得心不在焉。但她后来对该案件变得痴迷。根据该案的法院记录，她处于 Illustrated 之中，并担心它试图杀死她和她的孩子。

在她的儿子们的尸体在她的公寓中被发现后，她最初告诉警方，她的长子及其父亲杀死了他们，而她曾试图阻止这次袭击。她后来表示，这些男孩被杀是为了进行一项旨在实现“正常生活”且与 Illustrated 相关的仪式。一名对桑德斯女士进行评估的心理学家得出结论，在杀人时，她处于“严重的精神病状态”，患有精神分裂症和其他障碍，缺乏“意识到其行为之犯罪性”的能力。

但在她的审判中，沙利文法官裁定，桑德斯女士医疗记录中的细节不能被公开。辩方专家表示，是控方首先“开启了大门”允许此类证词出现。该案件从未提交给陪审团，陪审团认定她犯有两项一级谋杀罪。

在周四的审判中，法院做出了一致决定，最高司法法院发现，沙利文法官通过排除其精神症状和诊断的细节，不当地阻碍了桑德斯女士的精神错乱辩护。这一裁决是在克兰西女士审判的第八天证词期间宣布的。她的案件引发了一场关于法律的长期争论——

拉特拉利亚·桑德斯（左）因杀害其孩子被定罪，被判处两项终身监禁且不得假释。林赛·克兰西（右）已辩称无罪。

一名法官被发现隐瞒了诊断细节。gal systems 对女性及其子女的对待，在其亲属 20 年的记录中，一名德克萨斯州医疗人员因精神失常而被判定在五名子女死亡案中无罪。Yates 女士在第一次审判中被判定谋杀；该判决在上诉中被推翻。重新审判以一项有罪判决结束，此后该判决被视为公众对产后精神病认知的参考。代表 Sanders 女士上诉的律师 Robert F. Shaw Jr. 在周四的一次采访中表示，她的案件涉及首次出现根本不公正的重大法律程序。根据最高司法法院的裁决，在她的案件中向陪审团隐瞒的信息包括她在杀人后几个月内表现出的症状描述，包括偏执妄想、言语紊乱以及咬窗户等怪异行为。她还告诉临床医生，她多年来一直经历幻听。该案于 2022 年 12 月 27 日定罪，并被判处两项强制性的终身监禁，且不得假释。仅在 28 天后，即 2022 年 1 月 24 日，Clancy 女士在丈夫家人离开去接他们的自然疾病后，在马萨诸塞州达克斯伯里（Duxbury, Mass.）家中地下室掐死了她的孩子们。地区检察官 Cruz 先生指控 Clancy 女士犯有一级谋杀罪，认为杀害子女的行为是经过精心策划的，而非精神病的产物。Clancy 女士的律师和其他人批评这些指控过于极端，考虑到她的悲伤和痛苦。该案件最终未能成功地在她的孩子死亡前就产后精神疾病的护理问题进行处理。Cruz 先生在的一份声明中表示，该部门正在审查法院的决定，并将继续“为犯罪受害者，如受伤者和患有严重疾病的人，以及 Sanders 女士的孩子们提供价值”。波士顿东北大学的法律和刑事司法教授 Susan Markred 表示，“该案件可能会对 Clancy 女士的审判产生间接影响”，通过发出信号，表明法官在处理与心理健康相关的证据时，应当倾向于接纳而非排除。Shaw 先生表示，此类行动极其困难，因为精神疾病对于陪审员来说是“明显的、复杂的且陌生的”。--- A16 » 选举 # El-Sayed 对其在密歇根州的获胜发表看法

与民主党反对者的讨论

作者：TIM BALE

阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士在本周关键摇摆州密歇根州一场充满分歧的民主党参议院初选中，凭借其绝对进步主义的主张赢得了胜利。此后，他接到了大量来自他在竞选期间所挑战的党内建制派领导人的电话。埃尔-赛义德博士回忆道，纽约州参议员、民主党少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）此前在初选中私下反对他，但现在也就“夺回参议院并对抗特朗普”与其进行了沟通。在初选中与哈莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）众议员进行了一场势均力敌的辩论后，他与后者进行了多次交谈。他还与前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）交流了在密歇根州竞选的经验，哈里斯在2024年失去了该州。此外，他还与来自伊利诺伊州的亿万富翁萨姆·吉尔·普利兹克（Sam Jill Pritzker）以及纽约的民主社会主义者泽赫纳·马姆多尼（Zehner Mamdoni）市长进行了聊天。

周四在安娜堡的一家咖啡馆接受采访时，埃尔-赛义德博士谈到了他的胜利、进步派候选人如何吸引年轻选民，以及他对这场惨烈的初选的一些遗憾。当被问及如果他击败共和党提名人迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）并成为首位穆斯林参议员的可能性时，埃尔-赛义德博士表示：“我只感兴趣成为下一任来自密歇根州的美国参议员。”他认为罗杰斯先生“腐败”且对国家没有“愿景”。（罗杰斯先生的发言人艾丽莎·布鲁伊莱特（Alyssa Brouillet）在一份声明中回应称，罗杰斯先生一生都在“服务密歇根”并“排斥像阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德这样的人”。）

他表示，大量密歇根州的犹太居民对他对以色列的目的表示担忧，他表示渴望与犹太社区成员进行对话，并称“我不确定他们现在感觉如何”。他拒绝透露是否将继续与一名挑衅性的以色列批评者共同竞选，因为后者与他共同出现可能会成为一种模式。他说：“听着，我更关注我是在向谁竞选。”但他渴望在面对特朗普总统时将其击败，特朗普目前并不受欢迎，全美的民主党人都希望将他作为三个月后大选的焦点。特朗普先生曾错误地将他和其他民主党候选人描述为共产主义者。埃尔-赛义德博士表示，总统继承了他的财富，并证明了他对资本主义“一窍不通”。他补充说，如果有机会与特朗普先生辩论，他将抓住机会。“我的头发是真的，”他说，并补充道，“而且我的手比他的大得多。”

以下是采访摘录，经编辑以使表述更清晰。

自胜选以来，您听到了哪些人的消息？有人让您感到惊讶吗？ 我妈妈。我希望这没让您惊讶。 没有。

当史蒂文斯众议员给您打电话时，你们聊了什么？ 我们进行了一次愉快且温暖的交谈。显然，我们经历了一场激烈的竞选。我认为我们能够定义彼此的分歧，但这些分歧远小于我们的共识。

在战术上，您的竞选有什么不同之处吗？ 一致性。我想确保当有人接触我们的竞选活动时——无论他们通过什么方式接触——我们的信息是清晰、简洁且一致的。即使您是一名志愿者，在敲门拜访时，您重点传递的信息也是关于——资金公共化、资金留在您的口袋里、全民医疗保险——以及为什么这对我很重要。尽管人们想宣传或表现得像是一场由个人魅力驱动的竞选，但事实并非如此。它是由信息驱动的。我可以走进几乎任何房间，我说：“资金出——”，所有人都会接：“公共化”；“资金进——”，“口袋”；“医疗保险——”，“全民”。人们知道我们的主张是什么。

我能问问关于年轻人的问题吗？从纽约市到安娜堡，进步派是如何成功激励志愿者的？ 我认为，这再次回到了诚信问题。你是否是你所声称的那个人？

你认为让他们走出来的关键是什么？整体的生活方式？还是成为志愿者？我认为他们想走出来。我觉得他们只是不愿意为了那些看起来不一致或——

所以是信息传递的问题？

比起其他任何事情，这更多是关于信息传递。每个人都关注风格。伙计，我认为风格并不重要。大家都说：“噢，你的竞选方式像个年轻人。”所以，我的竞选方式像个千禧一代的父亲。因为我就是。对吧？但我是一贯的。

Jill Pritzker, 8th, New York, 1987 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed says progressive positions have been resurvating with young Democratic voters. 无论我去哪里，我对每个人都说同样的话。

这是一场惨烈的竞争，一直持续到最后。对于如何——你有什么遗憾吗？

任何人在任何生活中获胜后，谁会说：“我没有任何遗憾”并告诉你？显然，有些事情在事后看来，你会采取不同的做法。但事后看来 20 / 20。那么，事后看来，有什么是你能告诉我的，比如：“噢，是的，我希望我没说过那个”？

说到底，当你处于一场非常激烈的初选热潮中，总会有一些你希望能够收回的话。我希望没有 1000万美元 的资金被用来攻击我们。我希望我们能完全在生死问题上进行竞选交易。显然，我本希望能够将重点一直放在我们希望做的事情与我们的对手希望做的事情之间的对比上。如果我可以回去重新来一次，我会一直专注于这些对比。

在进入结算阶段之际，你给黑人选民传递的信息是什么？

我们有一个明确的机会，去争取这样一个美国，让所有人，无论肤色如何，都能繁荣发展。这就是自 2013 年我在底特律市担任卫生局长以来一直致力于的工作。我希望能够以我在底特律市和韦恩县服务的方式，为那些经常被忽视和遗忘的社区而奋斗。这就是我长期以来一直在做的事情。因此，我期待着继续建立这种关系，就像我在过去近 10 年里所做的那样。

密歇根州有一些犹太人表示，他们对你的一些言论感到焦虑。他们担心这些言论可能会让他们在密歇根州感到不那么安全。你给他们的信息是什么？

我对犹太人安全的承诺，与我对任何新女儿、兄弟 / 祝福在概念中的安全的承诺是一样的，我们需要解决所有形式的这种问题。我期待着继续在全州走访，倾听犹太社区的声音，了解他们现在的感受，并分享我们的共同点以及我们仍需奋斗的目标。

我们谈到了资本主义与社会主义。你想谈谈资本主义？那我们就谈谈资本主义。你是在重新评估吗？资本主义是关于利用供需法则，以高效地影响我们的资本组织以实现市场经济价值。当资本主义发挥作用时，是因为你拥有自由进入和退出市场的权利。所以，如果你相信资本主义，你就必须相信政府监管以保护市场。事实上，现在我们面对的恰恰相反。你不需要成为一名社会主义者，才会认为应该对亿万富翁的财富征税。事实上，如果你是一个资本主义者，你应该相信这一点。所以，我是一个了解资本主义的资本主义者。我有一个阅读的坏习惯，非常抱歉。

你认为民主党人如何看待总统称他们为共产主义者？这是他的核心论点之一。

这个男人显然是一个骗子，只不过每个人都害怕他。我不害怕他。对吧？我很乐意在任何时间、任何地点，就任何问题与他进行辩论，哪怕是突击辩论。如果你听到迈克·罗杰斯说，你会成为第一个穆斯林——我只感兴趣成为下一任来自密歇根州的美国参议员。

但你认为这是否有意义，对于——我想是关于这个国家的某种状态。有很多人像迈克·罗杰斯、唐纳德·特朗普以及10万斯那样，想要将美国的定义设定得比我的定义要狭隘得多。我认为他们在这里更加固执，而且是的，我有一个不寻常的名字，他们会经常拿这一点说事。他们想让人们觉得，因为我有一个不寻常的名字，所以我某种程度上不像个美国人。如果非要说什么的话，我知道美国足够宽广，能够容纳像我这样名字的人，而且我每天都能看到美国人是宽容且不可忽视的。他们关心的是你如何祈祷，而不是你祈祷的内容。卡玛拉·哈里斯总统告诉你了什么？她祝贺我进行了一场精彩的竞选，并就密歇根州的竞选经验交换了意见。我很感激她的风度。她展现了很强的洞察力，我的意思是，坐在那个位置上，我们就赢得密歇根州——在2026年让民主党在参议院保留密歇根州——需要做些什么进行了一次良好的对话。昨天有人问泽赫纳·马姆多尼关于任何事情。他说你可能能投篮进球比两个多得多。他踢足球比我好。你能用一个词来形容迈克·罗杰斯吗？快说！就一个。如果——可以两个。勇气。还是令人担忧。那么海莉·史蒂文斯呢？感谢玩家。泽赫纳·马姆多尼。纽约。查克·舒默。一个词？或者两个。进步。亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯。鼓舞人心。

共和党重新划分选区，田纳西州选出候选人

作者：艾米莉·科克伦（EMILY COCHRAN）

纳什维尔 —— 田纳西州选民于周四确定了参加11月选举的国会候选人，这是在该州共和党控制的立法机构推动相关人员在今年辞职后，首批参选的政治人物。新的选区线切过了孟菲斯（该州大多数黑人选民居住地），旨在消除该州唯一的民主党席位。该地图于5月初获得批准，就在最高法院削弱了1963年的《投票权利法》之后，使得在划分选区线时将种族作为因素变得更加容易。以下是初选结果。

陷入困境的奥格尔斯在共和党初选中意外落败

重新划分选区包括一项旨在巩固众议员安迪·奥格尔斯（Andy Ogles）地位的努力，他是一位以反穆斯林言论和古怪竞选风格著称的坚决保守派。但此前获得特朗普支持的奥格尔斯先生，在第五国会选区的竞争中输给了前田纳西州农业专员查理·汉彻（Charlie Hancher）。汉彻先生曾任哥伦比亚市长。与此同时，穆尔德（Mulder）赢得了民主党初选。汉彻先生的农场和穆尔德先生的家在5月份都被划在了选区之外。该选区此前包含部分黑人社区以及周边的戴维森县，现在向西延伸以包含孟菲斯的一部分。由于失去了纳什维尔的民主党选票，穆尔德先生将其家族联系转向了西田纳西州，以寻求更高的胜算。尽管得到了特朗普总统的背书，安迪·奥格尔斯众议员还是在初选中落败。但考虑到奥格尔斯先生在州内备受争议的声誉，以及汉彻先生获得更多中间派和建制派共和党人的支持，汉彻先生被认为在普选中是比奥格尔斯先生更年轻的竞争对手。

新共和党选区陷入激烈竞争

田纳西州第九国会选区位于以黑人为主的孟菲斯市，长期由民主党代表，但该席位的长期持有者 leave Chiles 选择不再寻求连任，因为共和党初选在城市权力范围内建立了一个有利于其政党的新选区。州代表贾斯汀·J·皮尔逊（Justin J. Pearson）在2023年因抗议缺乏枪支监管而被短暂驱逐出立法机构后引起了全国关注，当时在选区仍为稳固的民主党阵地时，他就已经挑战了 Mr. Cohen。皮尔逊先生决定在重新划分的选区线中再次尝试运气。周四，他击败了由 Mr. Cohen 支持的民主党州参议员伦敦·拉马尔（London Lamar）。“我将永远把你们放在首位，”他告诉孟菲斯的一群支持者。他将面对州参议员罗伯特·泰勒（Robert Taylor），这位孟菲斯共和党人以其保守观点以及对特朗普政府的辩护激怒了市内的许多民主党人。泰勒先生有望夺取该席位。“选民选择了一位绝不退缩、且代表这个重新划分选区价值观的战士——这个选区已经通过以决定性优势支持特朗普总统向选民证明了这一点，”泰勒先生在声明中表示。

共和党选民选择了州代表约翰尼·加勒特（Johnny Garrett）。他被认为在接下来的竞争中占据优势。这两个在州议会共事过的男人之间毫无情分。周四，皮尔逊先生称泰勒为“噱头边缘人”，而泰勒先生则将这次席位之争定格为“一场对抗邪恶的战斗”。

保守派立法者赢得开放席位初选

第六国会选区（包括纳什维尔的部分地区）在共和党众议员约翰·罗斯（John Ross）以及所有竞选州长后出现空缺。居住在古德莱茨维尔（Goodlettsville）、萨凡纳纳什维尔（Savannah Nashville）的州代表强尼·加雷特（Johnny Garrett）赢得了共和党初选，并被看好能将该席位留在保守派手中。他将面对迈克·克罗利（Mike Croley），后者是一名资深州立公园护林员及海军退伍军人，赢得了民主党提名。

布莱克本赢得田纳西州州长提名

作者：艾米莉·科克伦（EMILY COCHRAN） 纳什维尔 —— 田纳西州参议员马莎·布莱克本（Marshall Blackburn）于周四赢得了该州州长的共和党提名。美联社表示，这为其在11月可能当选为该共和党主导州的首位女性州长铺平了道路。布莱克本女士、N. Jumperl 以及该州 1960 Lviv 的竞选，在她在 2024 年赢得参议院连任后不久。虽然特朗普总统选择不参加初选，但布莱克本女士通过一系列 procrastor-tremendoers 的背书和高额筹款，将自己定位为一名民主党人。布莱克本女士承诺与两名初选对手进行辩论，但因公开活动有限以及拒绝回答记者提问而受到一些批评。但她击败了她的对手——美国众议员约翰·罗斯（John Ross）和州代表吉米·普赖斯（Jimmy Price）。布莱克本女士在田纳西州诺克斯维尔（Knoxville）庆祝选举胜利，多位现任共和党人陪同，包括来自美国众议院和田纳西州议会的成员。

“我们的工作远比任何一个候选人或一次竞选更重要，”她说，向对手的支持者伸出新的橄榄枝，“我们绝对必须统一党派。”布莱克本女士是田纳西州首位进入参议院的女性支持者，一直以来被认为是一名特朗普盟友和强硬的保守派。她对社交媒体公司和中国采取了激进立场，在最近的一则竞选广告中，她前参议员。在州长竞选中，她誓言要维护田纳西州的保守州地位：打击不果断且误导性的和犯罪，延续特朗普先生的议程，并保持更多和注册免费。她将在11月面对民主党人、孟菲斯市议员杰里·格林（Jerry Green）。这是该州首次出现两大主要政党均提名女性竞选州长的情况。

“田纳西州的家庭需要一位能够为他们负担得起的杂货、世界级公共、轮子以及不会让他们的医疗服务而奋斗的领导人，”格林女士在声明中表示。她补充道：“让我们再次创造历史。”在《投票权法》部分条款失效导致共和党重新绘制国会选区地图后，田纳西州选民还在新的选区划分下选择他们的提名人。共和党人希望翻转此前一直由该州最佳利益主导的地区，该地区此前以孟菲斯为中心。

观看《纽约时报》。NYTimes.com / Video. --- 3 A17 选举

否认选举结果的人数增加，并在地方中期选举中担任关键角色

特朗普盟友追踪决定众议院和参议院结果的竞选

作者：NICK CORASANITI 和 ALEXANDRA KREIDY

2026年12月，特朗普白宫与司法部（DOJ）的联络员多德·斯蒂鲁普（Dodd Stirrup）因向工作人员施压要求提供敏感信息，以支持关于选举舞弊的指控（最终未被证实），而被禁止进入该机构总部。一个月后，斯蒂鲁普女士被任命为弗吉尼亚州普林威廉县（Prime William County）选举委员会成员。自2025年起，她一直担任该委员会主席，该委员会负责一个触及两个国会选区且民主党占多数的县的选举逆转工作。

根据《纽约时报》对投票权利实验室（Voting Rights Lab，一家非营利投票权利组织）新数据库的审查，斯蒂鲁普女士（未回应置评请求）是自2024年上次重大联邦选举以来，在全国范围内就职的至少25名县级选举官员之一，且通过公开声明或行动，与更广泛的选举否认主义运动保持一致。

这些官员——分布从弗吉尼亚州到俄亥俄州再到内华达州——全部是在特朗普总统重掌权力后就职的，且目前都在今年拥有关键众议院、参议院或全州中期竞选的县中担任选举相关职务。他们要么公开扩大关于特朗普先生操纵2020年选举或美国选举充斥舞弊的阴谋论，要么采取直接行动支持这些理论。

数据库审查以及《纽约时报》的分析显示，这类选举否认主义官员的增加，使得在不同州已就职的县级官员人数至少达到了25人。他们包括县选举主管、选举委员会成员，以及拥有核实和认证投票权的各种县管理委员会成员。大多数人在2020年选举后就职，当时唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友开始升级其选举舞弊指控。

在这些官员中，有人采取了直接行动干预选举，例如试图延迟或拒绝认证，或者与激进的选举否认主义团体有直接联系。大约60人在社交媒体上表达了共同的鼓励——其中一部分是公开报告的，另一些则是发送的——专门针对2024年的选举或支持其他阴谋论。

一些例子：在内华达州，吉姆·赫德尔（Jim Hurdle）曾在2016年的一起至今仍悬而未决的案件中被指控选举舞弊，他自2022年起一直担任亨利县（Henry County）的书记员。在亚利桑那州，凯瑟琳·康纳（Kathleen Connor）表示她不会认证2024年选举，她于2024年在卡本县（Carbon County）就职。

随着总统寻求通过部分比较问题来加强对选举过程的控制，以确保共和党在即将到来的中期选举周期中获胜，这些地方官员可能会成为关键的盟友。

Tannery Patrick, chief programs Zircony Vance and Sheriffy McNeill contributed research T. T. TOLER, 2026

根据投票权利实验室的数据和《纽约时报》的分析，一批选举否认主义者在监督或协助管理州和地方选举的职位上任职。

全国选举官员协会（National Association of Election Officials）首席项目官帕特里克女士表示，这些官员的身份为虚假理论提供了某种合法性。而且，他们可能会尝试直接干预结果。

“我们现在看到的情况正是人们长期以来所担忧的事情，”帕特里克女士说。不过她补充道，此类选举干预仍需关注。全国有数千名地方选举官员，审查每一位地方选举工作人员是一项极其艰巨的任务。《纽约时报》的审查提供了一个广泛官员群体中的切片，但与选举否认主义运动有联系的人数可能更多。而且，《纽约时报》识别出的选举相关对象仅占全国地方选举官员的一小部分。

虽然他们的权力因州而异，但许多此类地方官员在直接影响投票的选举政策（如提前投票地点）方面拥有广泛的权力。其他人则协助维护州选民名单，有权将合格选民从名单中删除。选举专家指出，美国选举制度的优势在于其去中心化的特性，这使得大规模攻击几乎不可能实现。但他们表示，在地方选举岗位上任职的活动人士数量增加，可能会造成重大干扰。“每个州根据自己的法律，由自己的地方官员运行自己的选举，”投票权利实验室（Voting Rights Lab）的首席执行官萨曼塔·萨劳特（Samanta Tharaut）表示，“椭圆形办公室里没有一个能改变选举结果的开关。”这份与选举否认运动一致的地方官员名单是由投票权利实验室汇编并经《纽约时报》进一步分析得出的。以下是一些示例。

北卡罗来纳州权力的全面更迭

在美国，没有哪个州像北卡罗来纳州那样在选举监督方面代表了如此巨大的转变。去年，该州 100 个选举委员会主席全部从民主党人变成了共和党人。这一变化是一项州法律的结果，该法律由共和党超级多数通过，剥夺了即将上任的民主党州长对州选举委员会的权力，并将其移交给州总检察长办公室，而该办公室当时由共和党人控制。州总检察长还被授权更换每个县委员会的主席。

改变投票方式的尝试迅速展开。共和党人试图将提前投票点移出大学校园并减少周日投票，其对手官员称这是为了增加学生和黑人选民投票难度而采取的公然手段。

至少三名新任县主席与“北卡罗来纳州选举诚信团队”（North Carolina Election Integrity Team）有联系，这是一个由右翼选举活动人士组成的团体，他们有时会表达虚假的阴谋论。该团体的创始成员德洛威（DeLawy）律师现在是李县（Lee County）的选举委员会成员。

德洛威先生是一位资深的选举活动人士，他在 2011 年创立了自己的组织——北卡罗来纳州选民诚信项目（Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina）。在 2024 年的一次州最高法院法官选举后，德洛威先生向韦克县（Wake County）选举委员会提交了一份投诉，认为不合格的选民可能影响了比赛结果。他请求重新选举，但其努力失败了。

今年，德洛威先生处于限制周日投票努力的中心。在一次采访中，他表示他不认为选举工作人员应该在那天工作。更广泛地说，他表示，他的目标是“让选举能够公平地进行”。

在密歇根州安特里姆县，一个阴谋论

这个位于密歇根州北部、极度倾向共和党的县在2024年仅记录了那些行动选票，这里依然是选举阴谋论的温床。在2020年选举之夜，一个小错误导致公布了错误的结果，显示约瑟夫·R·拜登（Joseph R. Biden Jr.）赢得了这个共和党势力深厚的县。当时的县书记员谢丽尔·科伊（Sheryl Coy）——她刚刚为特朗普先生提供了20,000或两票——解释了她的错误并迅速修正了计票结果。但随后，一群旨在帮助特朗普先生在全国范围内挑战拜登先生胜选的律师和计算机专家涌入安特里姆县，并出具了一份报告，声称该地的选举揭示了投票机的错误。该报告很快被揭穿，但这并未阻止它在特朗普先生的演讲和办公室内，以及在诉讼文件中获得讽刺性的、支配性的动力。最终，安特里姆机器阴谋论被其他谎言所掩盖。但其影响却在潜移默化中持续。

2016年，科伊女士在连任竞选中输给了维多利亚·毕晓普（Victoria Bishop）。后者是一位被称为“弗雷德·兰迪”毕晓普（"Freder Randy" Bishop）的极右翼电台名人的妻子。毕晓普女士在丈夫的支持下，以选举质疑运动的支柱为竞选基调，包括声称选民名册中存在大量死者投票的问题，并承诺培训所有书记员手动计票。

就职以来，毕晓普女士及其丈夫继续煽动虚假理论。据州务卿办公室称，今年她开始从名册中删除条目，并向该地区的当地书记员标记其他条目。此前，她向她认为可能已搬离该州或已死亡的选民发送了通知。她表示，她的分析是基于提交给邮局的地址变更表，以及在多次选举中未投票的情况。根据该团体的一份声明，她的分析部分依赖于一个由选举质疑活动人士运行的团体。

由民主党人、今年竞选州长的乔斯林·布雷默（Jocelyn Bremer）领导的密歇根州务卿办公室向她解释称，县书记员没有权力单方面取消选民登记，且她的维护工作违反了在镇级和市级工作的书记员的保护规定。6月，州政府命令她接受合规培训，并在完成培训前切断她访问选民记录的权限。

此外，根据《纽约时报》查阅的一份警方报告副本，密歇根州警察局在2月展开了刑事调查，因为毕晓普先生在一次公开会议期间被发现使用了毕晓普女士的工作电脑。毕晓普女士的办公室在今年早些时候发布了一份声明，称她的工作是合法且必要的，旨在确保选民名册的干净。声明称：“这一举措是为了履行一项具体指令，以纠正县登记数据中法律地位上的漏洞。”

毕晓普夫妇在刑事调查中否认有任何不当行为，并表示毕晓普先生当时在办公室等待他的妻子，并使用她的工作电脑观看委员会会议。

莫哈韦县的新多数派

斯托尼·博雷利（Stony Borrelli）曾是亚利桑那州抗议2020年选举最激烈的共和党州级地区人士之一。他签署了一封致时任副总统迈克·彭斯（Mike Pence）的信函，要求其不要认证选举结果。而在其他时候，他又呼吁对其进行批准。由于任期限制，博雷利先生计划于2025年从州参议院退休，随后他被选入莫哈韦县（Mohave County）监事会，该县是位于西部边境的一个深红州飞地。他加入了另外两名董事会成员：本·古尔德（Ben Gould），他曾表示有兴趣拒绝认证2022年的选举，但最终在“压力之下”决定不这样做；以及特拉维斯·兰根布隆（Travis Langenblom），他推迟了对2022年选举认证的投票，并在当时解释称他是在表达某种立场。

古尔德先生长期以来一直推动莫哈韦县对选票进行手工计票，这是保守派选举活动人士的共同目标，但许多选举官员表示，这将引入更多错误，成本远高于计票机，且完成时间需要数周甚至数月。最终，兰根布隆先生与另外两名成员一起，在2024年选举前否决了一项手工计票提案。但古尔德先生继续推进他的主张。在最近的评论中，他暗示博雷利先生和兰根布隆先生可能会支持他将手工计票设为2020年选举前强制要求的努力。博雷利先生未回应置评请求。

部分众议院共和党人支持挑战者在米尔斯的连任竞选中竞争

作者：PATRICIA MAZZEI 密歇根州，密歇根州 —— 佛罗里达州的众议员凯里·米尔斯（Cary Mills）正在一个坚定的共和党选区竞选连任，并获得了特朗普总统的背书。然而，佛罗里达州国会代表团中的两名共和党同僚更希望他在即将到来的初选中出局。众议员安娜·保林-卢娜（Anna Paullin-Luna）和迈克·哈德（Mike Hardeوشs）采取了谨慎步骤，在其中一个大城市县进行活动，这引发了部分共和党人认为米尔斯先生非常脆弱。米尔斯先生去年在华盛顿特区因一起选区年度选举事件被警方调查。该事件未导致任何指控。他的前女友还获得了针对他的保护令。由于各种新评论的出现，前州委员会也在进行调查。米尔斯先生否认有不当行为。但他一直难以筹集资金，且民主党已将目标锁定在他位于奥兰多东北部的席位，特朗普先生在2024年以12个百分点的优势赢得了该选区。卢娜女士和哈德先生不仅支持埃利亚（Elijah），这位前副总统从未……，他是8月10日初选中挑战米尔斯先生的共和党人之一。“我们需要在国会中拥有以正直、活力以及对派遣他们前往那里的民众持有坚定承诺而服务的领导者，”他们在周三的一份联合声明中写道。共和党人一直在押注米尔斯先生和其他资深众议员在11月中期选举前可能出现的损失。北卡罗来纳州众议员查克·爱德华兹（Chuck Edwards）在本周放弃了连任竞选，此前众议院伦理委员会建议对他因“对两名年轻女性工作人员持续表现出不专业且不恰当的行为”而予以谴责。俄亥俄州众议员马克斯·米勒（Max Miller）被指控……，该州一名共和党参议员的女儿指控他对她及其幼女实施虐待。米勒先生否认了这些指控，并誓言将留在他的连任法律中。米勒先生的办公室周四未回应置评请求。“我从未被指控犯有实际罪行或非主导行为，”他在周三晚上的辩论中说。“我从未真正有过任何人的长久生活。”来自佛罗里达州圣彼得堡的卢娜女士是几位一直主张被指控性行为不端议员辞职的共和党参议员之一。“他愿意将自己置于民众之上，他愿意将自己置于政党之上，”她在周四的一次采访中谈到米尔斯先生时表示。“我不想与这样的人共事。”哈德先生的选区 佛罗里达州众议员凯里·米尔斯被指控袭击并正接受众议院伦理委员会调查，该选区包括 Copy Cannerist、佛罗里达州的太空海岸，他周四表示，他希望米尔斯先生能像爱德华兹先生一样放弃连任，因为共和党在预计将对政党不利的中期选举年不能冒失去坚定共和党席位的风险，哈德先生曾任佛罗里达州参议院议长，且曾经营政治竞选。“如果米尔斯议员是我们的提名人，我们将失去这个席位，”他说，并补充称民主党将花费巨资向选民宣传米尔斯先生的“挑战”。“如果你在谷歌搜索他的名字，就会看到一个接一个的故事，”哈德先生说。“这件事我可以算清楚。”在卢娜女士和哈德先生周三背书埃利亚先生之后，米尔斯先生首次与他的三位对手进行辩论。埃利亚先生和另一位候选人——

一位候选人在筹款方面陷入困境，且民主党已将其席位列为目标。

候选人迈克尔·丹·约翰逊（Michael Dan Johnson）反复提及米尔斯先生（Mr. Mills）的争议；当被问及在任何事情上是否与特朗普先生（Mr. Trump）持有不同意见时，约翰逊先生甚至表示，特朗普先生在背书米尔斯先生时犯了一个“错误”。米尔斯先生在开支方面保持谨慎，将自己塑造为一名战士，并至少五次提到特朗普先生的背书。“我从未在沼泽地想要什么或需要什么上花过钱，”他说。他在这场由维多利亚县共和党（Victoria County Republican Party）组织的激烈辩论中赢得了大量掌声。

埃利亚斯先生（Mr. Elijah）在辩论期间表示，第七国会选区是共和党“应该获胜”的选区。“我们必须在8月30日做出正确的选择，”他说，“以确保这次获胜的人在11月也能获胜。”埃利亚斯先生的竞选团队未回应置评请求。

--- A18

在俄勒冈州波特兰（Portland, Ore.）的世界裸体骑行日（World Naked Bike Ride）中，起初是一场有趣且未必严肃的抗议活动，逐渐变成了夏季骑行日程中的标志性活动之一。

当裸体骑行时，这既是一场抗议，也是一场派对

从A1页开始，优先考虑抗议并拒绝警察提供任何交通管理帮助。结果是：出现了两次裸体骑行。“我个人无法参加一场涉及警察的抗议骑行，”帮助发起替代骑行的波特兰骑行者马里兰·莫斯（Maryland Moss）说道，“这完全没有意义。”然而，在两周前的美国骑行活动中，现场气氛表明，庆祝与抗议并不一定是互斥的。奖项在迪斯科球、精致灯光和播放流行音乐的扬声器陪伴下颁发。穿着各种制服的儿童在纳乔奶酪槽旁快速地敲指甲、杂耍并起舞。“能在这样一个美丽的夜晚做这样的事情，是对生命的庆祝，”与丈夫共同参与活动十多年的迈克·邦纳（Mike Bonner）说道。对于许多骑行者来说，那种快乐的社区感，以及对每一种想象得到的体型的坦然接纳，其本身就是一种反抗行为。“我看到了带着疤痕的人，经历了大幅减重的人，处于转型期的人，”与朋友一同参加的明达·布鲁纳（Minda Bruner）说道，“没有人在这里因为身体缺陷而局促不安。”

计划于周六晚上举行的较新的一次骑行活动，也将有类似的组合：身上涂满油彩的骑行者骑着经过装饰且灯光璀璨的自行车。但这次活动不包括任何警察保护，并计划在开始时通过扬声器提醒参与者，他们聚集在一起是为了反对对化石燃料的依赖、寡头和大型石油公司的权力，以及在为汽车而建的世界中，许多骑行者和行人所感受到的脆弱感。他们还将骑行穿过一座因重新开发而待拆除商场的停车库。

“一群人聚集在一起开派对，与一群人为了共同的目标和共同的良知聚集在一起进行抗议，这两者之间有很大的区别，”马里兰·莫斯说，“但这并不是在暗示抗议不能是快乐的。”

去年秋天，新的现代自行车抗议活动在针对全国范围内移民执法示威期间出现。由于联邦移民执法部门威胁在波特兰使用国民警卫队，组织者呼吁紧急服务规则。数千人（其中许多人并非该地区的教区居民）穿过教室前往市内的移民与海关执法局大楼，加入一场更传统的抗议活动。当联邦官员在屋顶观察，且没有人放下武器去拍摄iPhone照片时，一场象征性的派对爆发了。众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）后来打趣说，波特兰的裸体骑行者是他“见过的最威胁的事物”。在谈到全国范围内的移民执法示威时，他可能带着讽刺意味地说道：“我的意思是，情况变得真的很糟糕。”

现代自行车抗议活动与20世纪70年代的同性恋权利活动、环境正义运动和其他直接行动干预同步出现。然而，随着时间的推移，许多自行车倡导者从对抗转向协作，与城市规划者合作建设受保护的自行车道和无车街道。在像波特兰这样的地方，骑行本身逐渐不再是反叛的象征，而成了良好城市规划的象征，且一些批评者认为，这成了某种温顺化。

“这就是自行车倡导内部这种二分法的一部分，”卢格（Luge）女士说道。

记录波特兰骑行文化数十年的记者乔纳森·莫斯（Jonathan Moss）表示，在看待这两场竞争骑行活动时，有些人可能忽略了大局。“对我来说，拥有一个裸体骑行依然如此强大、连接、荒诞且美妙的社区，这表明了一种健康的文化，”他说，“它应该被庆祝和研究，而不是被嘲笑。”

厄尔尼诺引发变数，西海岸收到飓风季预警

作者：JUDSON JONES

大西洋飓风季开始两个月以来，美国大部分地区尚未受到影响，仅有 Arthur 和 Bertie 两场风暴的强度足以被赋予正式名称。这与气象学家的预期基本一致，他们此前表示，今年的飓风季风暴数量可能会少于大多数年份。

然而，在北美西海岸，情况则有所不同：自本季开始以来，已经出现了 7 场命名风暴。最近的一场名为 Greenview 的风暴在 7 月底升级为 3 级飓风，是该地区近两年来的最强风暴。

周三，国家飓风中心的专家们正在监测位于墨西哥和夏威夷之间大约中点处的几个雷暴群，其中每一个在未来一周内都有可能演变为命名风暴。

在太平洋形成的风暴通常向西移动，远离北美定居点。因此，尽管 Greenview 强度极大，但由于它在开阔海域移动，几乎没有造成影响。

但由于厄尔尼诺现象，太平洋今年面临的飓风风险高于正常水平。联邦气象学家警告称，一场重大风暴很有可能会脱离这一可预测的路径，袭击加利福尼亚州、墨西哥或夏威夷。

“那些转向的风暴由于多种原因而具有挑战性，”国家飓风中心副主任 Jamie Rhame 表示。

上一次厄尔尼诺季节（2022 年）产生了数场极端的风暴，正是如此：飓风 Otis、Hilary 和 Norma，每一场都给飓风中心带来了 Rhame 先生所称的“令人困惑的难题”，因为该中心确实在向一个基本不熟悉飓风的人群解释复杂的威胁。

2026 年预测

有两个区域可能会影响这些地区：东太平洋和中太平洋。

在今年春季的预测中，美国国家海洋和大气管理局的预报员表示，这两个区域很可能都会经历一个高于平均水平的飓风季。

东太平洋距离加利福尼亚州和墨西哥最近，传统上经历 15 场命名风暴，本季预计将在 0 到 22 场之间；围绕夏威夷的中太平洋预计将出现 5 到 13 场命名风暴或低压，而典型的年份仅为 4 到 5 场。

加利福尼亚州的风险

虽然热带系统在加利福尼亚州极其罕见，但厄尔尼诺季节偶尔会将它们向北引导至该州。2025年，飓风希拉里（Hurricane Hilary）引发了该州有史以来首次热带风暴预警，虽然直接避开了海岸线，但却引发了历史性的洪水，导致死亡谷被湖水填满数月之久。已知仅有两次热带系统在该州直接登陆。根据《纽约时报》的档案，2020年一场由厄尔尼诺驱动的热带风暴袭击了长滩，造成近100人死亡并摧毁了沿海财产。在此之前，2018年沿海水温异常温暖期间，一场飓风袭击了圣迭戈。虽然2023年的希拉里在技术上是在墨西哥登陆，但它仍给南加州带来了热带风暴条件，并在死亡谷造成了足以导致该公园关闭时间创纪录的洪水。飓风需要至少28摄氏度（或78华氏度）的海面温度才能维持其强度。加利福尼亚州通常受到一条冷沿海水带的保护，这会削弱风暴的能量。圣迭戈国家气象局局长、气象学家乔纳森·吉斯克（Jonathan Jisk）在6月早些时候表示，沿海水温仍远低于该临界阈值，但工作人员将密切监测。此后，南加州的海温有所升高，近海出现了一场预计将持续到年底的海洋热浪。然而，截至本周，该地区的表面温度仍略低于最强记录以及支持飓风所需的水平。

夏威夷的风险

中太平洋出现5到13个系统的预测是“一项重大预报”，檀香山气象局气象学家大卫·韦斯特（David West）如此表示。风险的增加正值群岛从创纪录的春季降雨中恢复之际。8月起，风暴的强度将取决于厄尔尼诺在当地飓风高峰月份（7月开始，持续至9月）之前变得多么强大。任何情况都可能具有危险性。2021年，从群岛南部经过的飓风奥诺（Hurricane Ono）产生的风力助长了茂宜岛灾难性的Labiatae山火。2024年，飓风斯通（Hurricane Stone）在距离大岛60英里范围内经过，导致数千人断电并折断了原生树木。然而，登陆依然极其罕见。自1995年以来，有39场飓风在距离夏威夷100英里范围内经过，但只有两场直接命中：1959年的飓风Out和1993年的飓风Iniki。这两次都发生在中性天气模式而非厄尔尼诺季节。即使在2015年一次特别强烈的厄尔尼诺期间，该海盆发生了14场风暴，夏威夷也从未发布过飓风警告。

墨西哥的风险

墨西哥面临的风险最高，因为它毗邻该海盆最温暖的水域。虽然大多数东太平洋风暴向西移向开阔海域，但有些会转向墨西哥漫长的海岸线。预报员最担心的是快速增强。在2023年的厄尔尼诺季节，飓风奥诺（Hurricane Ono）在摧毁阿卡普尔科之前，一夜之间爆发成为1级风暴。“这就是那种让你夜不能寐的典型标志性风暴，”雷姆（Mr. Rhame）先生说，“在海岸线附近快速移动，且发生在夜之间。”

“每场风暴都不同”

预报员担心，近期一些未造成持久损害的近距离风暴（例如加利福尼亚州的希拉里或夏威夷的海内）将会完全登陆。“人们经常根据自己经历的上一场风暴来决定如何应对，”Rhame先生说道，“但每场风暴都不同。”大西洋地区低于常态的预报也可能让居民产生一种虚假的安全感。尽管那里预计的风暴海岸线与活跃的太平洋地区相当，但住在佛罗里达州的Rhame先生并没有掉以轻心。他已经在检查应急物资并测试发电机。在加利福尼亚州，Sisk先生解释说，当地居民和天气专家拥有一种非常独特且多管齐下的准备文化。与主要关注飓风的东海岸同行不同，加利福尼亚州的气象学家和应急官员必须在应对热带威胁的同时，面对地震和山火等其他持续存在的极端危险。“希拉里绝对让很多人感到惊讶，”Sisk先生说，“国家气象局以及从事应急策略工作的人员一直知道这种情况有可能发生，这也是我们进行训练和准备的内容之一。”

--- 9 A19

他训练多年以阻止枪击事件。在爱达荷州，他成了一位不情愿的英雄。

接 A1 页正文

……陷入谜团。警方表示，枪手查德·威廉姆斯（Chad Williams）的家人正在配合调查。一些当地居民在缺乏关于枪击动机的明确线索后，将注意力转向了他们认为这场悲剧中的一线希望。但萨利纳斯（Salinas）先生和另一名男子拔出自己的枪向威廉姆斯先生开火，减缓了他的杀戮进程，迫使他在自杀前撤退。威廉姆斯先生在亚利桑那州沃尔德尔（Waldell）长大，最终搬到了双瀑市（Twin Falls）。记录显示，他曾在南爱达荷学院就读至少一年，并担任学生代表，直到2023年2月因缺席多次小组会议而被同事弹劾；关于威廉姆斯先生的公开信息很少，他一直保持着相当低调的形象。萨利纳斯先生此前也过着极其低调的生活，在双瀑市郊外一个被农田环绕的小房子里照顾他残疾的哥哥。一夜之间，用他本周的话说，他“从无名之辈变成了像霓虹灯一样显眼”。“我现在成了被关注和认可的对象。陌生人拥抱我。”在蓝湖大道（Blue Lakes Boulevard）的一家Zara咖啡排队时，一名陌生人走过来问是否可以和他合影。“我不知道这样做是否合适，”那个人说着，掏出了手机。

“趴下！”萨利纳斯先生和他的女友在8月1日前往参观小号和马匹的途中，决定在新开的In-N-Out买个汉堡，这家加州连锁店的分店在一周前刚刚开业。在驶入相邻停车场时，他们看到人们正从餐厅里飞奔而出。“那边怎么了？”萨利纳斯先生纳闷道。随后他听到了步枪的开火声。接着是更多的枪声。萨利纳斯先生没有对女友说一句话，便朝着声音方向冲去。他先是在一块In-N-Out的招牌后寻找掩护，然后移动到另一块招牌后，发现了威廉姆斯先生，一个黑发年轻人，有着黑发。他没有记录到枪手如何操纵步枪并对着某人连续开火。萨利纳斯先生为这一时刻训练了多年，在网上研究演习视频，以防有一天他需要救他的兄弟和其他人免于潜在的大规模枪击。他接触枪支的时间更久——从他上小学开始，他说，甚至更早。那时他在后院像个业余音乐家一样射击。多年来，他只对着靶子开枪。他长期以来一直在思考自己将如何应对一名活跃的枪手。现在，他正将准星对准另一个男人。他举起了他的后部。在In-N-Out内部，21岁的前塔克趴在餐厅的地板上。梅诺蒙早些时候和她16岁的弟弟正准备切开他们的双层芝士汉堡。然后他们听到了——“趴下！”——于是他们趴在地上。在桌子下寻找掩护时，他们发现了赌徒。塔克先生回忆说，他扫描了现场并发现了一个小女孩，可能只有2岁，她面对混乱表现得不知所措。塔克先生说，她的父母正试图让她停止移动。赌徒们继续行动。他们开始发出欢呼声——并被听到了。她和弟弟看到了一扇侧门，决定向那里跑去。在离开时，她发现餐厅的得来速通道里有一辆窗户破碎的汽车。

枪手的畏缩

萨利纳斯先生多年的训练本能占据了上风。一名旁观者拍摄的视频记录下了他当时的状态——双膝微屈，随后伸直，枪口紧锁。他的枪是一把 4.5,700mm 手枪，通常被称为“Fire-Seven”，以后坐力极小而著称。他当时如此专注，以至于有些细节直到几天后他第一次回到现场时才想起。但他记得这一点：他看到枪手畏缩了。萨利纳斯先生认为，可能是他自己的其中一颗子弹击中或擦过了射手。但他也意识到，枪手可能仅仅是对之前的枪声做出的反应。无论如何，萨利纳斯先生说，这次波动改变了射手的神态。他似乎陷入了恐慌。“一些超出他预期的事情现在失控了，”萨利纳斯先生在一次采访中说道，“当我注视着他并向他开火时，我可以感觉到他处于什么样的状态。”

枪手向位于蛇河峡谷边缘的双瀑市游客中心跑去，那里通常是观光客和跳伞者的聚集点，他们准备从该市私人区域的边缘跳伞。萨利纳斯先生移动到一组障碍物后面，那里是一个能提供更好角度的藏身之处。他首先开口说话，但威廉姆斯先生消失在了一些灌木丛后面。当一名男子在爱达荷州双瀑市的一家新开的 In-N-Out Burger 餐厅向六名顾客开火时，乔丹·萨利纳斯拔出自己的枪向枪手射击。

萨利纳斯先生听到了警笛声并看到了警察。他收起枪，并帮助引导他人前往他看到射手的地方。随后他转身回到 In-N-Out 餐厅，看到有人正将一名受伤的员工从餐厅中拉出。双瀑市警方在最近的一次表彰中赞扬了萨利纳斯先生和其他人，其中一名还击的男子是一名尚未确认身份的休假爱达荷州警员。局长表示，这些男子帮助驱离了枪手，且工作人员得到了救治。其他人也赞扬了他们的行为。“那天有很多力量在支撑，”一名 In-N-Out 员工阿舍尔·拉赫曼通过短信表示，“在枪击期间工作的人员，包括所有警员、平民，甚至那些挺过来的同事，都在帮助他人。”

第三名男子奥斯汀·詹姆斯是一名前警员，他也跑去追击射手。尽管詹姆斯先生携带武器，但他最初表示没有开火——他担心自己的武器会被误认为是枪手。当詹姆斯先生绕过一辆车时，他遇到了威廉姆斯先生，后者击中了他的上臂，导致骨折并切断了一根动脉。“他没有说话，也没有做任何动作，”詹姆斯先生在医院发来的一条短信中说道，自枪击事件发生以来他一直住在那里。“脸上只有一副茫然的表情。”詹姆斯先生说，受伤后他拔出枪试图开火，但他的枪膛内没有子弹。他说他正试图上膛，这时他的妻子和她的朋友——两人都是急诊室护士——找到了他，并将他拉回车内，开始治疗他的伤口。

旧日惯例，新添悲痛

枪击事件发生后，许多幸存者回到了熟悉的日常生活中。在 In-N-Out 餐厅的地板上被围在其中仅几个小时后，塔克女士便在家里开始了她的远程办公。就在枪手横穿停车场的地方，附近的连锁餐厅甚至已经恢复营业，购物者们再次在访客区域的草地上摆放起他们的装备。

萨利纳斯先生也回到了日常生活的某些部分。他照料植物，观看 Tucker-Values，并在他常去的咖啡馆买咖啡。对于那些试图将顾客归类为其政治阵营的人，他一直苦于不知该说什么、该如何感受以及该如何思考。是的，他感激爱达荷州的枪支法律，这些法律允许更多的人在无需许可证的情况下携带隐蔽枪支。他希望其他人能考虑使用枪支并学习如何应对类似的袭击。

在“pro-brookers”担任双职 / 双重身份的萨利纳斯先生表示，他并不关心政治。但在 In-N-Out 停车场的那个时刻，政治是他最不关心的事情。“在里面的人，我不知道他们怎么投票，或者他们是否投票，”他说。

萨利纳斯先生的父亲埃克托（Hector）说，他长期以来一直质疑儿子学习使用枪支的必要性。现在，他选择了接纳。

当乔丹·萨利纳斯（Jordan Salinas）在枪击事件后的周三站在办公室深处时，他被迫面对那三名受害者，其中最年轻的一位是来自加利福尼亚州的 In-N-Out 员工，当时正在帮助培训新员工。他还了解了关于枪手的消息。他希望他们能在几年前相遇，而不是在上周。也许，萨利纳斯先生想，他本可以教威廉姆斯先生如何将他的愤怒转化为弹吉他，或者帮助他打游戏，或者写一本书。也许他们能以某种其他方式相遇，也许能，也许不能。

“我不想在那儿，”他说。“我不想那样做。”

波多黎各计划在干旱持续期间开始配给用水

作者：DAVID OSAJLE 和 LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZ

波多黎各圣胡安 —— 在波多黎各，居民们被迫开始淋浴和房屋清洁。圣胡安的一位餐厅老板收集空调设备的冷凝水，或咖啡馆可用该水冲洗厕所。在拉陶（Latao）镇，居民们聚集在彼得·帕布洛斯（Peter Pablos）身边，他驾驶着木材卡车穿过狭窄的街道，运送水桶、储物箱和塑料瓶，那些和患病居民依赖于他。“大家都已经认识我了，我也知道每个人在哪里，”34岁的帕布洛斯先生说道，他每天为一家私人水公司运送约10,000加仑的水——该公司被岛政府。

随着波多黎各陷入由脆弱的基础设施驱动并因近期干旱而恶化的又一次水危机，类似的局面在波多黎各其他地区也正在展开。6月，一条主要管道破裂，影响了圣胡安地区数千名客户的水质。该管道随后得到了修复，但中断情况依然存在。与此同时，根据美国干旱监测机构（U.S. Drought Monitor）的数据，该群岛超过一半的地区正经历中度至极度干旱。

圣胡安地区与当地连接，在超过一个世纪的时间里，国家气象局的埃马纽埃尔·罗德里格斯（Emaneel Rodriguez）表示。这些复合问题波多黎各政府无法可靠地提供基本服务，加深了那些早已饱受经常性停电困扰的居民的挫败感。

本周，波多黎各州长詹妮弗·冈萨雷斯-科隆（Jennifer González-Colón）被要求全岛紧急状态，导致周五岛上的水务局计划在冬季结束前实施配给措施，在圣胡安部分地区及周边地区实行轮流48小时停水。冈萨雷斯-科隆女士敦促节水，称洗车、浇花和冲洗车道“限制了我们在大都市区维持用水可用性的能力”。

但居民们对政府的反应以及他们所说的沟通缺乏表示缺乏耐心。在本周圣胡安的一次小型抗议活动中，住在圣塔尼兹（Santaniz）社区高档区域的66岁退休主管阿尔弗雷多·库亚兹（Alfredo Cuyaz）表示，他的用水服务在一年多以前就已经很糟糕了——远在干旱发生之前。

“甚至在玛丽亚飓风之后，我们也没有失去用水服务，”库亚兹先生在谈到那场同样摧毁了岛上电网的2017年风暴时说道。

对于这个拥有300多万居民的美国领地来说，水一直是一个问题，长期以来一直与水压不足和服务不稳定作斗争。干旱导致2015年和2020年出现了更多停水情况。政府官员和专家将其归咎于岛上老旧水基础设施的投资和维护不足。

波多黎各的水资源管理专家阿帕德雷·奥尔蒂斯（Apadre Ortiz）先生表示，岛上系统中的水多达60%从未到达客户手中。“重点在于生产更多水和修复大型基础设施，”阿帕德雷·奥尔蒂斯先生说，“而不在于更新管道。”

今年春天，圣胡安市长就水务局无法处理用水问题向波多黎各法律援助和提起诉讼。该局未对此做出回应，且公开表示。气象局的罗德里格斯先生表示，这种的天气模式和有效的热带风暴季使得预测何时有足够的降雨来补充水库变得十分困难。

“在出现正常降水之前，可能会出现无风或无天气的情况，而不仅仅是加勒比海东北部风暴区域的所有地方都那样炎热，”他说道。在紧急状态声明的支持下，波多黎各国民警卫队已分发了近 600,000 加仑的水，主要集中在圣胡安地区。官员们正为小型企业提供最高 $5,000 的资助，用于租赁运水车或购买水、蓄水池和水箱以及其他设备和服务。但这些基础计划已成为像曼迪·马拉尼（Mandy Malani）这样居民的痛苦之源，这位 43 岁的勤奋工作者表示，她在圣塔尼兹（Santaniz）的公寓里已经连续 90 天没有自来水了。为了节水，她经常在烹饪、清洁和冲洗时如此操作。马拉尼女士很幸运，她的有时会并帮她在房间里装瓶。她说，缺乏水的焦虑让她精神崩溃。“我觉得我需要心理治疗，”马拉尼女士说。这场风暴还阻碍了该岛至关重要的旅游业和酒店业。艾萨克·罗德里格斯（Isaac Rodriguez）和他的妻子（姓名未提及）在圣胡安经营一家，并试图开设一家巴克莱酒店（barclays hotel），他表示游客现在正在行程。罗德里格斯先生说，这些房间的建设已经停滞，部分原因是没有足够的空间来增加资源。大卫·桑廷（David Santin）是圣胡安的一位餐厅老板，他为顾客收集空调冷凝水，作为一名企业主，他处于“每日压力和不确定状态”。他用他的丰田卡罗拉（Toyota Corolla）从家里运 35 加仑的水到他的餐厅 Melimo Lido，以便员工能够像这样的菜肴和袋子。“你开始习惯这种商店，习惯这种居民的现实，但我仍然惊讶于情况竟然是这样，”桑廷先生谈到波多黎各时说道。

宗教服务 JOHN C. CLARK, JR. JOHN KIRKIN CORP'L 加利福尼亚受托中心 P.O. Box 1111, New York, N.Y. 10001 电话: (212) 774-4000 www.cclark.com www.cclark.com www.cclark.com www.cclark.com

更正

艺术 周四一篇关于针对家庭罪人剽窃和润色指控的文章。一名剑桥大学教授，关于内森·科顿（Nathan Cotton）在剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院担任的职务，应为研究机构职位，而非研究员。 周五一篇关于摩根图书馆与穆尼展览（探讨帐篷六年演变）的文章中的图片说明误认了一张帐篷卡。那是香蕉首牌（Ace of Bannas），而非刀锋首牌（Ace of Blades）。

讣告 6月1日一篇关于南希·梅宁（Nancy Mening）的被忽视的讣告，她是一位作品经常以女性为中心的香港摄影师，该讣告误记了梅宁的出生日期及其去世时的年龄。她出生于1955年10月18日，而非10月4日，且她去世时为65岁，而非64岁。 周五一篇关于维基·威克汉姆（Vicki Wickham）的讣告，她是流行音乐领域的一股女性力量，曾帮助所有人打造具有影响力的英国电视节目《Ready Ready Out!》，该讣告中威克汉姆女士的出生月份有误。应为1939年3月，而非4月。

错误在印刷过程中尽可能及时予以修正，因此此处列出的新错误可能并未出现在所有版本中。联系更正人员：如需就更正请求联系更正人员，请发送电子邮件至 correct.torac@nytimes.com。

---

A20 纽约时报 讣告 2026年8月8日，星期六

埃米利奥·佩佩 94, 逝世；以天然方法酿造绝佳葡萄酒

作者：埃里克·阿西莫夫 (ERIC ASIMOV)

埃米利奥·佩佩 (Emidio Pepe) 是一位来自意大利阿布鲁佐 (Abruzzo) 地区的非传统种植者和酿酒师。他坚持传统的酿造方式并倡导使用本土葡萄品种，证明了该地区无需抛弃长期沿用的本地方法也能酿造出伟大的葡萄酒。他于7月28日在意大利特拉诺新城 (Terano Nuovo) 的家中去世，享年 94. 其孙女基亚拉·德·伊乌利亚·佩佩 (Chiara De Iulia Pepe) 确认了这一消息。

埃米利奥·佩佩的葡萄酒因其能够陈年数十年并随时间增加复杂度而受到全球推崇。

2011年的埃米利奥·佩佩。

“他成为了现代天然葡萄酒运动的偶像。”

最新年份的红葡萄酒每瓶售价约为$150，但佩佩家族在此保留了一部分供应以在进一步陈年后发布；这些葡萄酒的价格要贵得多。它们需要在地窖中度过那段时间。当由蒙特普尔恰诺 (montopaliana) 葡萄酿造的红葡萄酒在年份之后约四年被释放时，它们由于某些原因显得紧绷且神经质。然而，到了20岁时，这些葡萄酒变得复杂且更具魅力。在30年后，它们变得绝美。

由阿布鲁佐特雷比亚诺 (rich-biana Abruzzese) 或佩科拉特 (peacates) 酿造的葡萄酒同样陈年良好，但在年轻时就更容易被接受，具有极佳的质感和风味。

在佩佩先生及其同行爱德华多·瓦伦坦 (Eduardo Valentán)（于2006年去世）开始制定计划之前，世人“并不认为来自阿布鲁佐的葡萄酒能够陈年和演变”。

佩佩先生于1964年开始经营他的庄园，主要使用来自乡村葡萄园的葡萄。他是家族中第一个商业化酿造葡萄酒的人，这遭到了他父亲的反对。像阿布鲁佐大多数小农户一样，佩佩家族仅酿造少量葡萄酒供自用。大部分葡萄被他们卖给当地的大公司，而这些公司通常酿造廉价且平庸的葡萄酒。

当时，佩佩先生面临着为自己的葡萄酒寻找买家的挑战。这并非易事，因为阿布鲁佐的葡萄酒并不受尊重。红葡萄酒的官方原产地名称“蒙特普尔恰诺（阿布鲁佐）”直到1868年才出现。特雷比亚诺·达布鲁佐 (Trebbiano d'Abruzzo) 的原产地名称始于1873年，而佩科拉特的原产地名称直到2009年才正式确立。

在19世纪70年代和80年代，意大利的许多人认为，为了获得国际成功，像阿布鲁佐这样没有扩张基础地区的酿酒师必须采用法国葡萄品种（如赤霞珠、美乐和霞多丽）以及法国方法（如在旧桶中陈年葡萄酒，以及使用格架种植葡萄，而非将葡萄藤高高训练在传统的 pengolan 上）。而且，当“蒙特普尔恰诺（阿布鲁佐）”原产地名称被创造出来时，葡萄酒贸易部门的官僚们主张这些葡萄酒很简单，最好在年轻时饮用。

佩佩先生拒绝了所有这些做法，他相信蒙特普尔恰诺葡萄的伟大，并致力于通过传统方法证明他能酿造出可以成熟和演变的葡萄酒。

“从很小的时候起，佩佩就反感那种认为同一地区的葡萄和葡萄酒只能大宗销售，或者认为它们只是简单的液体、只要干燥且年轻即可的观念，”2011年书籍《世界之手：意大利的葡萄酒、松树与食物》的作者罗伯特·V·卡马罗 (Robert V. Camaro) 在一次采访中说道。

为了推广这些葡萄酒，佩佩先生不懈努力，在世界各地的展会和活动中进行宣传。早期，最终的葡萄酒协会因为他的酒庄规模太小而将他排除在一次纽约之行之外——因为佩佩先生是随买随用，且仅购买一小部分葡萄。对于一个放弃了自己的名字并在42岁（因爱）投身农业、不会说英语且比起意大利语更偏好阿布鲁佐方言的人来说，这相当具有挑战性。

“环游世界是最好的教育，”他告诉卡马罗先生，“那就是我的教育，除此之外就是读报纸。”

佩佩先生在这里提出了一个问题，佩佩：“2012年7月21日，在东多新镇（Tondo Nuovo），出生于朱塞佩和基亚拉（Emilio）·佩佩夫妇家中。他的父亲是一名农民，母亲负责操持家务。由一名亲戚正式登记名为埃米迪奥（Emidio）——这是为了纪念他的祖父，同时也是地震的守护神，而地震对阿布鲁佐地区来说是一个始终存在的威胁——从学龄起，他在公众面前就被以此名字称呼。辍学后，他成为了该校的一员，因为他是一名农业承包商，负责经营他人的农场以及自己的农场。在青少年时期，意识到自己在教育上的不足，他参加了课程，学习了意大利语，以及后来的农业知识。他告诉卡马罗先生，在20世纪70年代中期，他和一名姐夫买了一台拖拉机——在那个年代，这相当于拥有了一把枪——并且

环游世界就是他的教育。此外还有阅读报纸。为他人耕作。“到我们还清贷款的时候，它已经老旧到需要买一台新的了，”他说。“那时我意识到，我必须寻找另一种谋生方式。”他成为一家当地农民社会协会的主席，该协会在 1980 年将他派往荷兰参加一项农业交流计划。他寄住在一家在温室中种植餐桌葡萄并将其高价卖到意大利的家庭，这对他也产生了影响，因为意大利本身就有这么多葡萄。“你意识到你必须创造一个市场，”佩佩先生告诉卡马罗先生。“如果你不创造市场，你就死定了。”受这次经历的启发，他开始全职投身于葡萄酒业，并在 1984 年完成了完全转型。事实证明那是吉祥的一年，佩佩先生在那一年结识并娶了一位当地的小学教师博·托金。除了他的孙女，她与他共同生存了下来，此外还有三个女儿：索菲亚、丹妮拉和斯特法妮亚；两个姐妹：伊阿科和伊瑟兰达；以及另外六个孙辈。索菲亚和丹妮拉现在负责经营该业务。自 2020 年起，他的孙女基娅拉负责指导葡萄栽培和酿酒。一个恰到好处的巧合是，基娅拉先生的葡萄酒因其随时间增加而变得成熟的能力而备受推崇。在 20 年后，他的葡萄酒变得复杂且优雅。在 50 年后，它们变得华美。左图为佩佩先生及其妻子博，拍摄于 2010 年。该业务一直由家族经营。基娅拉去年被雇佣，负责监督法国北罗讷河谷历史悠久的埃尔米塔什庄园（de la Chapelle）的葡萄栽培和酿酒。佩佩先生采用有机耕作，避免使用化学肥料，在化学肥料和农药是常态的时候他便避开了它们。当其他人都在葡萄园中采用现代格架时，他坚持传统的葡萄种植，尤其是红葡萄。“他总是说，”基娅拉说，“在蒙托帕利亚纳农场只关注人，我不去。”在酒窖里，他坚持使用传统技术，通过手工而非机器脱粒蒙托帕利亚纳葡萄，他说这赋予了葡萄酒单宁的特性。白葡萄通过脚踩而非压榨机压碎。葡萄酒在内衬玻璃的混凝土桶中陈酿，他更喜欢这种方式，因为它们不会像当时流行且有害的木桶那样赋予木味。“因为他有机耕作，并避开了现代酿酒技术，他成为了现代自然葡萄酒运动的偶像，”卡马罗先生说。“但他并非不合时宜。他只是相信他的技术赋予了葡萄酒最好的品质。”多年来，阿布鲁佐继续供应大部分廉价的中端葡萄酒，除了佩佩先生和瓦伦坦先生生产的葡萄酒，葡萄酒作家马特·克拉默在 1964 年称其为阿布鲁佐的“随机经济压力”。但在随后的几年里，受佩佩先生影响的一代年轻小生产者，使阿布鲁佐成为了意大利最令人兴奋的地区之一。“我尊敬并钦佩他在推广自己的想法和哲学时的勇敢与勇气，即使它们并不那么受欢迎，”克里斯蒂安·法罗说，她与她的哥哥安东尼奥·蒂贝尔蒂共同管理阿布鲁佐卓越的泰坦尼克庄园。“他捍卫了一种自然的、编辑式的方法，为阿布鲁佐及海外的新一代酿酒师树立了榜样。”对于庄园的访客来说，这些教学是一次特别的款待。三四代家庭成员会聚集在桌旁，由佩佩先生提供款待，当时他戴着一顶驾驶帽，散发着一种常识的光芒。

随后会端上一系列菜肴，通常包括来自Pepe花园的蔬菜，淋上Pepe家首批收获的橄榄油，以及用橙子制作的糕点，这些全部由Beau Pepe准备，即便在她年事已高时依然如此。接着，Pepe家的葡萄酒会被斟满，陈年旧瓶被开启。如果你恰好在节日期间到访，可能会参加一年一度的意面品鉴会，这些意面来自意大利各地，而你会被邀请加入这场关于哪款最美味的激烈讨论中。即便随着Mr. Pepe年龄增长，并将庄园的大部分工作委派出去，他每天仍会在园中行走。“乡村就是我的健身房，”他告诉Mr. Camaro，“不仅是身体的健身房，也是心灵的健身房。是的，停下，是的，死去。”

达德利·劳夫曼，95, 杰出的民俗舞领舞者，复兴了康特拉舞

作者：CLAF ROSIS

达德利·劳夫曼（Dudley Laufman）是一位充满才情的农民、诗人兼音乐家，他在20世纪60年代和70年代复兴了新英格兰传统民俗舞，通过挖掘古老的舞蹈并演奏充满活力的音乐，在整个地区的格兰奇大厅（grange halls）和企业中掀起了一场彻底的狂欢。他于7月12日在67年前在坎特伯雷（Canterbury）的一间小屋中去世，享年95. 他的女儿海蒂·艾德（Heidi Eide）确认了这一死讯。

劳夫曼先生最著名的身份是康特拉舞（contra dances）的领舞者。这是一种类似于方舞的风格，舞伴们面对面排成两列。领舞者在演奏小提琴、风琴和其他乐器的乐队伴奏下，根据音乐节奏指令舞蹈动作。康特拉舞起源于欧洲，在16世纪末传入美国，并在农业社区中扎根。但到20世纪50年代劳夫曼先生开始领舞时，这项艺术已近乎失传。

劳夫曼先生为康特拉舞注入了一种充满活力的能量，这种能量吸引了70年代的“回归土地”反主流文化群体，以及60年代的嬉皮士先驱。凭借多年在农场劳作而练就的强健体魄，以及垂落在羊毛高领衫上的长发，他呈现出一种典型的形象，与他的偶像——苏格兰诗人罗伯特·彭斯（Robert Burns）颇为相似。

他的成名时刻出现在1965, 当时他带领一群音乐家和舞者参加了纽波特民谣节（Newport Folk House），同年鲍勃·艾利扎（Bob Eliza）因其电声乐队而令传统广播界感到震惊。40,000人观看了劳夫曼先生及其乐团的表演。关于这位既新颖又古老的舞蹈英雄的消息迅速传开。不久，他在新英格兰地区成为了抢手人物，而他也有足够的体力支撑，每年经常领舞约100场。他组建了一支名为“坎特伯雷乡村舞蹈管弦乐团”（Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra）的音乐团体作为伴奏。

“在激发全国对康特拉舞的兴趣方面，达德利是最重要的人物。”前领舞者、曾为劳夫曼先生拍摄纪录片《回归之路》（The Other Way Back，1967）的大卫·马修斯（David Matthews）在一次采访中表示：“他是那个控制——

一种类似于方舞的风格，舞伴们面对面排成行。在这个极其的舞蹈场景中，他是一个核心人物。劳夫曼先生也开始吸引更年轻的群体，包括大学生和嬉皮士，他们在反差舞（contra）中发现了一种真实且质朴的东西——尤其是劳夫曼先生所称的那种随意的、放松的方式。在反差舞环境中长大的青少年将这种舞蹈带到了大学，而在此沉迷的大学生在毕业后又将其带回了家。到 1970 年代中期，反差舞在之前的整个新英格兰地区之后，已经拥有了全国性的——考虑到那些来参加舞蹈的人，你知道，那些赤脚的嬉皮士，他们厌倦了做那种不能与舞伴互动的“x”卷舞，而他们发现这里有某种可以让他们触碰舞伴且与农村地区、回归土地相关的东西。劳夫曼先生在接受国家艺术基金会（National Endowment for the Arts）采访时说道，该基金会在 1999 年授予他国家遗产研究员（National Heritage Fellow）称号。“而且他们认为那相当前卫，”他补充道，“那就是他们想要的，而我正是以那种方式在做。”

威廉·达德利·劳夫曼（William Dudley Laufman）于 1931 年 2 月 7 日出生在马萨诸塞州牛顿，在附近的阿灵顿长大。他的父亲 M. 米勒·劳夫曼（M. Miller Laufman）从事商业，母亲马乔里·迪克·劳夫曼（Marjorie (Dick) Laufman）是一名民权活动家。孩提时代，他反抗自己的在他离开时，并开始在夏季的一家奶牛场工作，在漫长的一天劳作之后，他会加入农场组织一场舞蹈，吸引当地社区。“然后我们跳舞，有木烟的味道，有的猪毛，有桌子发出树脂般的声音，我就被迷住了，”他告诉国家艺术基金会。“我只知道我想让它成为我生活的一个核心部分。”他获得了马萨诸塞大学艺术学院剑桥农业学校的农业副学士学位。在冬天，他踢足球，直到一个温暖的时段冰层未能形成且，太穷了无法在室内场地活动。为了填补时间——以及，他说，他对关注的需求——他开始学习叫舞（bidding）和舞蹈领唱（dance calling）。作为一名贵格会教徒，他获得了良心拒服兵役的专业证明，并于 1952 年至 1955 年在新罕布什尔州布拉特尔伯勒担任职业治疗师。随后，他在康科德的一家精神病设施乔治敦州立医院工作了几年。1970 年，劳夫曼先生在附近的坎特买了一块 170 英亩的土地。

[图片] 上图为 2015 年的达德利·劳夫曼，与当时的妻子杰奎琳（Jacqueline）、以及简·奥特兰乔夫斯基（Jane Otranchowski），以及 2006 年。谈到他早期接触的乡村舞蹈时，他说：“有木烟的味道，有火光在的头发上闪烁，有桌子发出树脂般的声音，我就被迷住了。”

[图片] 。他在那里建造的小屋没有电也没有自来水。他种植大部分食物，将他的家称为“蒂莫西之风”（Wind at the Timothy），这指的是一种原产于欧洲的多年生草类。劳夫曼先生与辛西娅·邓巴（Cynthia Dunbar）、帕蒂·温杜斯（Patty Windus）和杰奎琳·吉尔曼（Jacqueline Gilman）的婚姻均以告终。除了他的第一个婚姻所生的女儿艾德（Mr. Eide）外，他的遗属还包括他的伴侣南希·阿古特（Nanci Aguter）、第一个婚姻所生的另外三个孩子布朗内特·哈里森（Brownett Harrison）、纳撒尼尔·劳夫曼（Nathaniel Laufman）和辛普森·戈德菲尔（Simpson Goldfiel）、第二个婚姻所生的女儿温德利·劳夫曼（Windy-ley Laufman）、六个孙辈、九个继孙辈以及三个姐妹安·梅森（Ann Mason）、阿拉加德·马丁（Alagad Martin）和约翰娜·韦勒（Johanna Weller）。

劳夫曼先生在 20 世纪 60 年代末在康科德的一家打字机公司担任校对员，但到 20 世纪 70 年代之交，他能够凭借自己的名声养家糊口。他还出版了几本诗集，包括《果园与凯莉》（An Orchard and a Carrie）（1971）。最终，对反差舞领唱的需求变得太大，劳夫曼先生一个人无法应对。乐队开始出现，有些沿用他的风格，但同时也提供了一种更具活力、更现代的反差舞风格。

Laufman先生拒绝了这种新风格，但他也开始演奏并称呼不同形式的全舞，包括方形舞、号角舞和cherrie（一种传统的英国风格）。他还以“Two Fiddles”之名在这些地方演出。他似乎并不在意追随者们的离去。“我很坦然，”他在1991年告诉《Yankee》杂志，“我只是恰好喜欢某种类型的音乐。” --- A21

玛丽·德·拉舍维尔茨去世，享年101岁，她是诗人父亲的坚定捍卫者

作者：TRIP GABRIEL

玛丽·德·拉舍维尔茨（Mary de Rachewiltz）是美国诗人埃兹拉·庞德（Ezra Pound）的女儿。她将生命中的大部分时间致力于将父亲的作品翻译成意大利语，同时努力将其文学遗产与他的反犹主义以及对贝尼托·墨索里尼法西斯主义的狂热支持区分开来。她于7月24日在位于意大利梅兰斯（Meirans）郊外山区、靠近奥地利边境的一座名为布兰嫩堡城堡（Schloss Brannenburg）的10世纪古堡家中去世，享年101岁。埃兹拉·庞德学会宣布了她的死讯。

德·拉舍维尔茨女士是非婚生子女。在庞德旅居意大利期间，她作为婴儿被送走，由一对农民夫妇抚养。尽管如此，她依然一直效忠于于1973年去世的父亲。她写了一本对他充满同情的传记，翻译了他形式复杂的大作《坎托斯》（The Cantor），并将布兰嫩堡城堡开放给庞德研究学者举行会议，在会上她通过宣布“你们可以随意谈论埃兹拉·庞德”来欢迎他们。

她本人淡化了庞德在第二次世界大战期间通过意大利广播电台播出的过时且显然具有反犹倾向的宣传，这些行为导致他在美国被起诉叛国罪，并在被判定为不适合受审后，在华盛顿的一家精神病院被监禁了十多年。

“指控是法西斯主义和反犹主义，”德·拉舍维尔茨女士在1886年告诉《 stampa》报纸。“对于一名美国公民来说，这不应该是犯罪。正如庞德所说，没有广播上的言论自由，言论自由就毫无价值。”

玛丽·鲁奇（Maria Rudge）于1925年7月9日出生在意大利北部的布雷萨诺内（Bressanone，也称Brison），父亲是庞德，母亲是其出生于俄亥俄州的情人、音乐会小提琴手奥尔加·鲁奇（Olga Rudge）。虽然庞德自己的诗歌是文学现代主义的前卫部分，但他对其他作家的朋友和支持者可能产生了更大的影响。他帮助编辑了T.S. 艾略特的《荒原》和欧内斯特·海明威的早期散文，并帮助出版了詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》（Clysses）。

玛丽的父母是情绪不稳定的艺术家，不希望被孩子束缚。他们将年幼的女儿交给住在意大利蒂罗尔（Tyrol）的一对贫穷的农夫夫妇雅各布·马切尔（Jakob Marcher）和汉娜·马切尔（Hanne Marcher），她在那里长大，学习成为一名牧羊女，并说着当地的德语方言。

2004年在伦敦，玛丽·德·拉舍维尔茨在她的父亲、诗人埃兹拉·庞德曾经居住的一栋房子里。下方是一张未注明日期的照片，拍摄于威尼斯，照片中是庞德和德·拉舍维尔茨的母亲奥尔加·鲁奇。

鲁奇女士大多时候忽视她的女儿，不过庞德偶尔会来探望，有时会带玛丽在周末去他们居住的威尼斯旅行。（庞德还有一个妻子多萝西·莎士比亚，住在意大利利古里亚海岸的拉帕洛。）

在威尼斯，她的名字被英语化为玛丽，她严厉的母亲因为她讲德语而责骂她。她那自我中心的父亲每天早晨前往写作工作室，但有时会回来带她去一家美国酒吧吃三明治、喝橙汁，或者陪她乘船前往卢卢（Lulu）。

有一天在海滩上，她割破了脚趾，在父母坐着时向他们展示。她在1971年的回忆录《谨慎》（Discretione，书名是对庞德1933年自传体书籍《不谨慎》（Indiscretione）的戏仿）中回忆道，庞德带她去水边洗掉血迹。但她意识到自己犯了“礼仪上的错误”，并引起了父亲的注意。她写道：“整个午餐期间，我感到凄凉且几乎没吃什么，而他的头发在拳头之间撑起。”

在青少年早期，玛丽被送往佛罗伦萨的一所普通学校。直到她接近成年时，她才得知父亲还有另一个家庭，其中包括她的同父异母哥哥奥马尔（Omar）。

为了提高英语水平，庞德让他的意大利语译者翻译其长诗《诗集》（The Cantor）的早期版本，这部作品他在几十年前便已开始创作，并花费了人生的大部分时间潜心钻研。在北意大利的德国医院担任护士期间，庞德在战争期间继续进行这项翻译工作。[] 德·拉切维尔茨女士在意大利梅兰斯（Meirans）郊外、靠近奥地利的12世纪城堡布兰嫩堡城堡（Schloss Brannenburg）居住了数十年。住在与他的妻子和情妇在一起；拉奇女士负责烹饪和清洁，并在经济上支撑这个家庭。在20世纪30年代，他成为了意大利法西斯主义的拥护者，并表达了恶毒的反犹主义，将世界的经济困境归咎于犹太人，并称富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统为“犹太化”。在1941到1945年间向英美播出的广播节目中，他赞扬希特勒，并将犹太人攻击为“拳头”（fists）。意大利当局于1945年5月将其逮捕并移交给美国军队。1946年，玛丽嫁给了俄罗斯-意大利贵族贝尔托·德·拉切维尔茨（Berto de Rachewiltz），后者后来成为一名知名学者和作家，这对夫妇买下了布兰嫩堡，。1950年，在埃利亚斯·罗伯特·弗罗斯特（Elias Robert Frost）和其他诗人们的干预下，庞德获得了释放。在返回意大利后，他向记者行了法西斯礼。他搬到布兰嫩堡与女儿同住，但很快决定前往威尼斯与拉奇女士在一起，后者照顾他直到去世。（多萝西·莎士比亚于次年，即1973年，在英国去世。）关于如何权衡庞德的道德责任与其诗歌之间关系的问题，已经让我们得出了结论。1888年，纽约的圣约翰神圣大教堂（Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine）因其反犹主义和前法西斯言论而拒绝在“诗歌之角”为其留位。德·拉切维尔茨女士热切地为她的父亲辩护。在1932年接受《卫报》采访时，她将战时的写作和广播视为其时代（era.）基调的一部分。“他陷入了当时在欧洲和美国盛行的某些反犹主义陈词滥调中，”她说。多年来，她致力于《诗集》的完整翻译，该译本于1965年出版。她还创作自己的诗歌，并协助编辑了1973年出版的《庞德及其父母：书信集 1885-1925》。她是庞德最大的人工收藏集的策展人（该收藏集保存在耶鲁大学的博伊塞克稀有书籍与手稿图书馆），并在牛津大学建立了埃兹拉·庞德文学中心。她的母亲——她最终与其和解的人——进入城堡并在那里于1896年去世，享年101岁。德·拉切维尔茨先生于1897年去世，时间接近庞德。埃兹拉·庞德的另一个孩子于2001年去世。德·拉切维尔茨女士留下了一名儿子，齐格弗里德·德·拉切维尔茨（Siegfried de Rachewiltz）；

她致力于将埃兹拉·庞德的文学遗产与其法西斯政治立场区分开来。一名女儿，帕特里夏·德·拉切维尔茨，四个孙子以及五个曾孙女。一份关于德·拉切维尔茨女士的回忆录在她去世后由一家意大利右翼新闻网站发布，描述了她在城堡中的生活，并详细记录了她如何接待那些在庞德去世后跋涉而来的法国学者。该报道指出：“她或许并非在所有时候都如此，”文化评论提到，“所有的研究工作都被中断，人们聚集在一起，在壮丽的阿尔卑斯山景观中分享对庞德在三十年代的学术见解以及深远的科学探讨，而黄昏时的景色则更具感染力。” ## 商店 展现您的关怀。每一次购买都在支持《纽约时报》的新闻报道。nytimes.com / store

Beetle Bennett, Constance Maguire, 翻译员 BEEHMAN—Constance Kauffmann Constance Kauffmann, 纽约的 Berrie，离开了美国和《纽约时报》，处于《纽约时报》的中心。他曾是 [...OMITTED...]《纽约时报》的一员。她的兄弟 Robert F. Kauffmann 依然在世，他是美国的一名德国专业人士。他曾是《纽约时报》的一员 [...OMITTED...]。KAGNER—Theodore Ross, 美国旅行者食品执行董事，Ross Maguire，曾是《纽约时报》的一员。他 [...OMITTED...]曾是《纽约时报》的一员。他 [...OMITTED...]曾是《纽约时报》的一员。纪念。在《纽约时报》中。如需在这些页面中纪念您的亲人，请联系我们。nytimes@classifiedsplus.com 1-800-458-5522 《纽约时报》 --- A22 周六，2020年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日 # 观点 《纽约时报》

共和党不能让这位国会议员继续留任

米歇尔·科特尔 (Michelle Cottle)，评论版全国政治记者。

又一名国会议员被指控虐待女性。来自俄亥俄州的共和党众议员马克斯·米勒 (Max Miller) 只是近期频频出现的“政客劣迹”故事中的一个——（查克·爱德华兹，走的时候记得关门？）——这些事件之多，让人难以追踪。但米勒先生值得被单独审视。针对他的指控是家庭暴力，而非性虐待或猥亵，而他正试图摆脱本应是标准程序的自然后果。

这位国会议员已请求众议院伦理委员会对这些指控展开调查。此次调查不太可能很快提供清晰的结论，在11月选举前肯定不行，但这将使其他众议院共和党人能够说：“这不是我的问题。”

考虑到米勒先生的指控者所描述的行为模式，以及国会调查或忽视其成员丑闻的更广泛模式，这正是他们的问题。如果共和党领导层未能将其挤出竞选，选民完全有理由感到更加厌恶。

作为前特朗普政府的一名工作人员，米勒先生被三名女性公开指控存在暴力行为。最近的一位是他的前妻艾米莉·莫伦斯 (Emily Morens)，两人正就他们3岁的女儿陷入激烈的监护权争端。莫伦斯女士的父亲是俄亥俄州共和党参议员丹尼斯·莫伦斯 (Denise Morens)，他本周打破沉默，谈到了米勒先生“日益不稳定且危险的行为”。这位参议员声称：“他对我的女儿构成威胁，在他与我的孙女单独相处的每一分钟里，我都屏息担忧。”

另外两名指控者来自米勒先生人生更早的阶段。其中一人（身份尚未公开）表示，当她和米勒先生在高中时，他因为打赌而推了她一把，在她拒绝他的追求后，导致她从楼梯上滚了下来。多年来，多名证人向记者证实了她的说法。第二位是斯蒂芬妮·格里舍姆 (Stephanie Grisham)，前白宫新闻秘书，她在特朗普总统的第一任期内与米勒先生交往。据报道，在格里舍姆指责米勒先生对她 blush 后，米勒先生扇了她的脸并将她推向公寓的一面墙，随后两人关系恶化（2021年他利用她转移注意力）。在双方同意签署另一份部门协议后，该案件最终被撤销，尽管今年夏天出现了新的法律冲突。

共和党的反应到目前为止是不统一且在很大程度上不尽如人意的，少数16位参议员表示米勒先生应该退出竞选或辞职，其中一些人对莫伦斯女士表示支持。（回忆录。）Ten Sheehy (1978a–s(e)s) 称米勒先生为“一个堕落的社会病态者”。2

众议院方面的情况糟糕得多，包括其共和党领导层在内。众议院议长迈克·约翰逊 (Mike Johnson) 称针对米勒先生的指控为“严重的”，但表示他将等待伦理委员会的调查结果。特朗普先生周一告诉记者：“我会让相关家庭自己解决。”

米勒先生否认所有不当行为，宣称自己是受害者。他坚称这三名女性都在撒谎。他强调，尽管对其对待莫伦斯女士及其女儿的行为进行了多次调查，但他从未被指控犯罪。他的法律团队在一次“防御性”的文件披露中提交了资料（尴尬的是，其中包含了一张他孩子的照片）。他声称莫伦斯女士有心理问题。这确实如此，尽管这位国会议员看着缅因州的 Graham Pfauver 崩溃事件时仿佛在说：“拿好我的啤酒（看我的）。”

让我们承认，这是一个痛苦且棘手的情况。个人关系可能很混乱，离婚则更加如此。（这就是为什么米勒先生在周二的一次修订 1976 年的采访中，呼吁各地离婚男性感受他的痛苦。）我怀疑他在此过程中经历了一些可怕的失眠。我们之中谁想被用私生活的最糟糕部分来评判？回避视线的诱惑很强烈。但指控中的阴暗模式确实存在，这与米勒先生长期以来被认为脾气暴躁且带有浓厚厌女倾向的名声相吻合。公众对他行为和性格的质疑在他竞选公职之前就早已存在。2016 年，当他担任总统特别助理时，《华盛顿邮报》重点报道了米勒先生年轻时与法律的纠葛以及过去的暴力行为。2021 年，在他第一次竞选众议员期间，《Politico》发表了一篇文章，其中许多人谈到他可能有多么可怕。米勒先生以典型的特朗普风格，誓言要战斗到最后一刻，即使这会让他的政党失去一个席位，他也无所谓。他告诉 CNN：“我永远不会放弃。”他说他将展现出与特朗普先生“同样的韧性”，就像“人们告诉他 2016 年他会陷入苦战，而他最终成为了美国第 45 任总统”时那样。这种“我就像特朗普”的辩护方式，与你在德克萨斯州深陷丑闻的共和党参议员候选人肯·帕克斯顿身上听到的话很相似。这指向了一个核心原因，即一些政治人物认为他们可以摆脱多次关于极坏行为的指控。因为许多选民——尤其是共和党人和使美国再次伟大 (MAGA) 的选民，比民主党人更愿意忽视候选人生活中的某个污点。在 7 月中旬的一项《Politico》民调中，72% 的坚定 MAGA 特朗普选民表示，他们会支持一名面临家庭暴力指控的共和党候选人，而 2014 年所有特朗普选民中的这一比例为 44%。只有 26% 支持哈里斯的选民会支持一名被指控有同样行为的民主党人。同样，三分之二的 MAGA 选民会原谅一名被指控性侵的共和党人，比所有特朗普选民高出 13 个百分点，而只有 40% 的哈里斯选民会支持一名被指控的民主党人。很难知道有多少 。无论如何，共和党政治人物如果认为更多美国人像 MAGA 死忠那样，那就错了。担任公职是一种特权，而不是权力。既然领导者应该被要求遵守比“我从未被定罪”更高的标准，那么在米勒先生第一次竞选众议员时，部分基于特朗普先生的认可，人们给了他信任。但从这位国会议员此后的表现来看，他不配继续获得总统、同行议员或选民的信任。米勒先生在周一之前可以退出并由他人替换选票。为了每个人的利益，这位国会议员必须离开。

这就是绝望的独裁政权之模样

吉奥孔达·贝利（Gioconda Belli），尼加拉瓜问题专家及诗人。

7月8日，在结束尼加拉瓜著名独裁统治的桑地诺革命（Sandstone Revolution）六周年之际，总统丹尼尔·奥尔特加（Daniel Ortega）宣布，该事业将是最重要的，以及权力。他说：“他们应该忘掉它吧，”他大概是指自2007年重返权力以来，这位奥克托马尼亚（octopmanian）总统声称一直在打击的众多罪人、颠覆分子和叛徒。

这一声明引起了轩然大波。几天之内，罗莎里奥·穆里略（Rosario Murillo）——除了是奥尔特加先生的妻子和共同领导者外，还是该地区的首席宣传员——便花费了超过1,000，并表示选举将继续，但将执行新规则，禁止外国利益，并防止所谓的叛徒和帝国主义走狗通过同行竞争。国民议会委员会谈到了回归，这将把总统任期从六年增加到七年，并允许再延长七年——这是一个超现实的想法，让总统职位听起来像是一个汽车团队。

无论具体过程如何，很明显，该政权将不惜一切代价让这对夫妇掌握权力直至死亡。该政权已经实际上控制了选举当局、立法者、法院、警察、军队以及几乎所有其他能够影响选举结果的机构。2011年，奥尔特加先生监禁了几乎所有严肃的总统竞争者，以及数百名批评者和反对派成员。他们中的许多人被宣布为叛徒，没有美国，并被剥夺了公民身份。

那么，为什么连两场选举中的第一场也要放弃？一个答案可能是穆里略女士成为总统的野心——以及她对自己如果成为唯一候选人可能会发生什么的焦虑。我认识这部剧中的演员已有数十年，我也了解她的手段。我认为穆里略女士害怕即使是在一场操纵的选举中失败：她害怕自己独自出现在名单上。

穆里略女士积累了巨大的权力。她在2001年成为奥尔特加先生的副总统，八年后通过一项宪法修正案被任命为共同总统，该修正案消除了质疑的权力，并赋予这对夫妇对国家的绝对控制权——并明确她将在奥尔特加先生去世后接任。

由于罗莎里奥·穆里略害怕在尼加拉瓜即使是操纵的选举中也失败。当他看起来明显衰弱且日益语无伦次时，比他年轻五岁的她，比以往任何时候都更清楚地想要最终登顶。

奥尔特加先生和穆里略女士都无法在自由公正的选举中获胜。奥尔特加先生在掌权十多年后，于1994年离开了总统选举，并在2007年重新获得总统职位，当时仅获得了1,000%的选票。

虽然国内不再有独立的民意调查，但根据一个名为Huguene Democratic（一个著名的尼加拉瓜非营利组织，目前在哥斯达黎加运营）开展的调查，超过95.8%的尼加拉瓜人对未来持负面看法，46.1%的人如果可以的话会离开这个国家。

奥尔特加先生的合法性无论还剩下多少，都根植于革命年代以及他自身的革命资历。他的名字与——无论这种关联现在变得多么扭曲——反抗funeous王朝的斗争、1879年的胜利以及桑地诺革命的神话联系在一起。

在1994年，穆里略女士的权力源于她与奥尔特加先生的关联。她没有自己的历史，没有他的革命权威，甚至没有与桑地诺基层部分人群的残余情感联系，而且她在自己的领域非常不受欢迎。在一个深信宗教且经常迷信的社会中，由于她经常使用科学符号和神秘语言，她经常被地称为“la Chamaa”或“女巫”。她被认为既是fracturess，又是怀疑和嘲笑的对象。

穆里略女士似乎非常清楚自己的处境。在不断向丈夫致敬并将其生活及其遗产定性的同时，她已经通过财务手段清除掉桑得斯通（Sandstone）运动内部任何可能暗示其继任或提供政治替代方案的人。

纽约时报插图，来源：JAYCLIFFY BASSLE 和 ALFREDH JOHNS 的照片。

这种始于 2012 年 2 月的大规模决定论，其策略不仅是消除政治反对派，甚至包括政府的法律体系。政府没收了天主教机构、国家宗教活动，并将教会等级制度中的许多人驱逐出境。打击行动还波及到了那些曾为革命服务的人，甚至包括那些资历深于他人两倍以上的人。最具有揭示性的案例可能是翁贝托·奥尔特加将军（Gen. Humberto Ortega），他是奥尔特加先生的兄弟。翁贝托曾是以反对 अत्याचार 为主导的起义的主要战略制定者之一。政府对桑得斯通人民军产生了影响。在 2010 年 5 月的一次采访中，他公开质疑了家族继任的可能性。他认为，在丹尼尔去世后，穆里略女士或奥尔特加先生的孩子们将极难维持权力，并坚持认为继任者需要通过选举过程产生。几小时内，当地媒体报道，尼加拉瓜警方没收了他的电子电话号码，并将其处以警察监视下的软禁。直到几个月后在一家军事医院去世，他一直处于持续监视之中。

翁贝托的遭遇发出了信号：没有任何革命资历、服务历史或与丹尼尔·奥尔特加的亲缘关系，能够保护任何质疑穆里略女士继任的人。奥尔特加先生和穆里略女士肯定明白，他们面临着被指认为一个世纪前那些人的风险。穆里略女士需要比一场欺诈选举更稳固的东西。她已经构建了一个真实的对手无法参选、不会出现意外政治运动，且任何选举结果——即使是被操纵的结果——都不能成为对其文化的公开审判的环境。为了成为这个国家的统治者，尼加拉瓜的民主——许多人为之奋斗了如此之久——正随着她无论付出什么代价都要佩戴总统绶带的决心而消亡。

--- 纽约时报评论版 2020 年 8 月 8 日，星期六 9 AZ1

专栏作家 / M. GESSEN

美国过去的未来是什么？

“我们生活在一个过去难以预测的国家。”这是我在苏联成长期间，人们在各种修正主义思潮中流传的一句话。我们永远不知道历史的哪个部分接下来会被重新定义。现在，美国人也生活在一个过去难以预测的国家。

在开启第二个任期的两个月后，特朗普总统发布了一项名为《将真相与理智还给美国历史》的行政命令，他在命令中指示官员从史密森学会中“删除不恰当的意识形态”，并暗示要削减那些“掩盖共同美国价值观的计划”的资金，并恢复一些在 2020 年“黑人的命也是命”（Black Lives Matter）抗议活动后被移除的纪念碑。

自该命令发布以来，发生了一系列极其强烈的复杂事件。国家公园管理局一直在移除关于奴隶制的标牌；华盛顿的一座宪法雕像通常已被重新安装，仅此而已！白宫民主政策委员会指责史密森学会将历史用作“分裂、驱散和打击非公民的政治工具”；而在 7 月 28, 特朗普发布了一项新的行政命令，要求在史密森学会外部安装标牌，“警告访客注意美国国家历史博物馆中的意识形态俘获”。

重新评估历史具有通过改变一个民族的自我认知来改变其未来的潜力。它可以将人们投入到一个真正全新的计划中。而随后是对历史的提供，这才是真正的塑造。苏联曾多次强迫全国执行那些早已广为人知的事情。在 20 世纪 50 年代，约瑟夫·斯大林去世后，共产党谴责了他的“个人崇拜”及其恐怖统治的某些程度。十年后，它又反转了立场，增加了一项紧迫的任务，因为关于斯大林主义罪行的记录从未消失。当苏联崩溃时，同样的过程再次重复。关于苏联恐怖统治的一部分信息在“不公正部分”中浮现，而这些知识已被强行推回旧的种族之中。

特朗普希望美国人恢复他们对认可的历史和遗产的认知。但他的行政命令真正承诺恢复的，是包含在关于美国最富有成效且经过净化处理的故事中的冲突美德——即无知的蓝色。特朗普似乎认为，成功和领导力的职责是避免“所有美国人心中的骄傲”，正如其中一项行政命令所言。特朗普研究政策委员会的报告指责美国国家历史博物馆未能完成这一精确使命。

几个月前，我访问了美国蒙哥马利，那里一个名为平等正义倡议（Equal Justice Initiative）的组织正在开展一个截然不同的项目。它在讲述黑人美国人的故事。该组织建立了一个纪念馆、一座遗产博物馆、一个巨大的雕塑花园，以及一个关于民权运动的永久展览公共广场。这个仍在扩建的综合体中的每一个元素，都比我访问过的任何博物馆或纪念碑都更有力量。

领导该组织的 Stevenson 是一位诉讼律师，他的客户包括被判死刑的黑人男性，以及被当作成年人审判并被判处终身监禁的孩子。然而，他逐渐感觉到，在法庭上能实现的改变是不够的。“真正的邪恶，”他告诉我——这种持久的邪恶——“是我们为了证明认可的正当性而创造的叙事。”

这是一个令人震惊的说法。故事真的能像真实的暴力基础设施和牢笼那样造成如此大的伤害吗？他的观点是，故事是暴力的基础；那些系统性地将黑人视为低于人类的理论，使得认可和隔离成为可能。将黑人描绘成危险且具有掠夺性的故事，助长了 lycoming 和主要减速。除非我们创造新的故事，否则虐待将永远不会停止。

史蒂文森同样谈到了自豪感。“像阿拉巴马州这样的地方，几乎没有什么值得自豪的，”他告诉我。蒙哥马利财富与荣耀的时代已成过去。这座城市在天主教城市中拥有数十座纪念碑，但每五个人中就有一个生活在贫困之中，且该州在全国的社会经济指标率中处于最高之列。但 E.J. 的山丘和纪念馆使蒙哥马利成为了一个旅游目的地，这给该市带来了直接的经济利益。最重要的是，这些机构帮助蒙哥马利成为了接触美国历史的中心。史蒂文森认为，这种向他们致敬的转变能够且应当让人们感到自豪。他提到他的灵感来源之一是德国大屠杀纪念馆，以及那些承载着“永不再犯”承诺的故事，这是一个极其充满希望的信息。我的旅伴不禁注意到，当史蒂文森描述美国为压迫而采取的行动时

特朗普希望恢复那些经过最彻底美化的关于美国的故事。他说，对于黑人，应该用“我们”而不是“政府”或“种族主义立法者”。当我们问他为什么时，史蒂文森解释道：“我拒绝将美国交给任何人。”这是对 E.J. 中“包容”一词的一种解读，在那里的故事中，你的祖先不会被删减。史蒂文森的这些遗址没有获得任何联邦或州政府的资金。因此，特朗普政府无法通过针对资金来打击它们。但蒙哥马利体现了特朗普主义记忆政治根源上的冲突。我和妻子洛伦一起去了蒙哥马利，以及对我那些现在生活在病态中的前俄罗斯同事的恐惧。在那里待了几天后，我们开车前往弗吉尼亚州的夏洛茨维尔，那是 2017 年“联合右翼”集会的地方。当时，白人至上主义者涌入小镇，表面上是为了捍卫南方邦联将军罗伯特·E·李的纪念碑，而抗议者则以多样化的形式出现，以抵制或压制他们的主张。特朗普——当时处于其首个任期第一年——评论说“双方都有非常优秀的人”。如今，市中心一片绿草地中一块秃掉的矩形区域是这座雕像仅存的痕迹，该雕像在集会四年后被移除。该市计划在那里安装一座足球树雕塑，由熔化的 Love nature 材质制成。但在我身处那里时，我没有看到任何核能，也没有看到对所发生之事的成熟反思。结果是一种对我那些决定寻找什么的纪念暴力，它是这个国家在最近一次种族清算尝试中，关于什么被实现了以及什么没有被实现的完美象征。几乎在布拉德斯特一起，托马斯·杰斐逊的住所和幻象就在夏洛茨维尔郊外。所有参观该房产的人都被要求报名参加一次治疗，这是一个剧本编写严密的活动，如果你仔细倾听，能听到多年来多次行为的痕迹。原始叙事是一个关于进步的故事——恰恰是特朗普行政命令所要求的那种叙事。杰斐逊是一个科学之人且热爱艺术，他将进步的政治思想、地图、时钟、先进工程、新的化学建筑和法国美食带到了蒙蒂塞洛。但这个故事现在被反复中断，因为它被转化为过去被煽动的东西。杰斐逊是一个奴隶主，他相信至少六个来自戴利·索宁斯（daily thornings）的孩子，索宁斯是一名被奴役的女性，她在青少年时期与他发生了性关系，而他当时是一个中产阶级孩子。在蒙蒂塞洛有关于奴隶制的独立层级，但主层级并未承认核心故事与这些额外事实之间的紧张关系。这里有一个让我感到不安的并列。杰斐逊的女儿在房子里与他一起用餐，她的 11 个孩子也是如此，她经常按照 18 世纪的习俗使用他们。而那些孩子与索宁斯的孩子则住在奴隶区，并且从小就在庄园里工作。当我的同行在美利坚之影中旅行时，枪栓压碎的概念在安克雷奇成了规则。部分政府早已摧毁了 blistered，一个致力于保存斯大林恐怖记忆的组织。今年 4 月，俄罗斯最高法院宣布该纪念组织为“不希望之”组织。两年前，政府关闭了莫斯科的瓦林博物馆。6 月，它被重新命名为记忆博物馆，讲述纳粹对苏联人民实施的罪行。关于斯大林恐怖的记忆再次被刻意地重新排序。

我的旅伴之一，维尼亚迪什（Vinyardish），在一种对斯大林主义的狂热中观察到，史蒂文森（Stevenson）的项目比任何俄罗斯记忆活动家所创建的都更具雄心。其中有一条从过去延伸到现在的直接叙事线。它论证了现在的生活是如何被组织社会的运作方式所塑造的。这正是重新审视过去这一项目如此至关重要的原因：这无关过去，而关乎选择我们的未来。是创造一个挑战我们去面对真相并寻找——真正新颖且具创造性的方式——以兑现美国承诺的未来，还是一个让对话与变革成为可能的未来？我想还有第三种选择，即一个充满不安与困惑的未来，充斥着像我在蒙蒂塞洛（Monticello）听到的那样混乱的故事，以及被熟知的事实和被阅读的真相。我想起青少年时期读过的一本讽刺地下小说中的片段。一个男孩问他的父亲：“1967年真的发生过吗？”我不知道该相信哪里？“那个时期是斯大林大清洗的顶峰。”在“尚未发生”中，父亲回答道：“我的意思是，”为什么不呢。但这依然是我所遇到的人性化且令人心碎的回答方式，旨在说明那些不面对历史的人注定要重复历史。

读者来信

民主党人，请停止内斗

致编辑：关于“我们在密歇根州拥有左翼之路，将于秋季到来”（新闻分析，头版），8月15日：近期在密歇根联邦区以及全国其他进步派候选人之间出现的初选冲突表明，左翼正充满活力并准备好战斗。前美国人，秋季选举。人们在十字军式的行动中意识到我们目前的制度已经崩溃，而一个更好的现实正在将其变为一个新的现实。人们“真的想要”不再忍受现状。目前，我们拥有一个让左翼、选举及其肥猫朋友们疯狂致富，而我们其余的人却变得越来越贫穷的制度。人们能够看穿共和党为了转移对现任政府全面失败的注意力，而采取的那些绝望且歇斯底里的、利用关于社会主义的恐吓战术的企图。很明显，人们已经厌倦了一个将公司和富裕精英的利益置于普通公民福祉之上的政府。——丹·奥尼尔（DAN O’NEILL），洛杉矶

致编辑：媒体可能忽略了一个重要的政治可能性。来自密歇根州民主党参议院委员会的阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士（Dr. Abdul El-Sayed），能够接触到更多沿海地区的民主党人。但他也可能吸引一个不那么明显的选民群体：那些曾经支持唐纳德·特朗普但此后感到幻灭的年轻男性。许多这类选民之所以被特朗普吸引，可能并非因为对他政策的深刻理解或承诺，而是因为对他们认为已经失效的政治体制感到沮丧。他们自然地寻求改变，并将特朗普视为最有可能打破现状的候选人。埃尔-赛义德博士有机会直接回应这种沮丧——而共和党一直试图通过注明的手段来利用这一点。他在可负担医疗保健方面的安全保障和举措，以及种族和住房问题，不仅仅是进步派的谈资；对于一代日益感到经济被抛弃、政治被忽视的年轻男性来说，这些也是紧迫的关切。如果埃尔-赛义德博士——以及更广泛的民主党进步派翼——能够解决他们的关切，而不轻视这些选民或任何其他政治选择，他们可能会发现，这些选民对民主党信息的接受程度比传统政治领导人所暗示的要高。——BROAD, TELL, MISS / ALAPLIN

致编辑：阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士在密歇根州民主党参议院初选中击败了资金更充足、更受认可的候选人少将，这生动地描绘了一大群日益感到沮丧的美国选民。最重要的政治和科学研究表明，尽管某些预测认为，埃尔-赛义德博士击败史蒂文斯先生仅仅是因为一个警告信息，而民主党希望在11月交付共和党候选人约翰·罗杰斯（John Rogers）。有趣的是，我想看看埃尔-赛义德博士是否会减轻他在以色列等问题上一些特别具有争议性和分裂性的言论，以及他对民主党弊端的批评，转而通过他的信息来阐述他将如何努力挽救美国衰落的民主制度，以及挽救被特朗普政府和日益鲁莽的共和党参议员们搞垮的脆弱经济。——COPY CLIN: BROOKER

致编辑：关于“一些顶尖民主党意识形态人士‘之星’对抗崛起的左翼”（新闻文章，8月7日）：现在不是民主党人对自己发动“战争”的时候。共和党人正在全方位地破坏我们的国家，采取糟糕的经济政策，深陷腐败，推行明确的种族主义和反法西斯主义，以及导致如此多死亡的反疫苗和反科学政策，而且远不止于此。

民主党人是应该变得阴险，还是变得更强硬？让所有派系的民主党人在 2020 年获胜吧。他们所有人都会比共和党提供的任何方案更好。我最大的希望是，如果下一届国会由民主党占据多数，那么左翼及其相关派系将致力于达成妥协，而这些妥协很可能会产生比任何一方单独实现更好的政策。所以，请停止内斗吧，民主党人们，让我们去击败民主与自由真正的胜利。RETAILED CODE SUJOB SPRING，致编辑：我是一名缅因州的民主党人，曾担任平民规划员志愿者，现在支持特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）和其他缅因州民主党人。中期选举至关重要。美国人无法忍受唐纳德·特朗普在任期间的另一个任期，否则世界将继续遭受他自负的愤怒。我们需要在特朗普政府中建立制衡，以保护我们的民主，而我们赢得中期选举以及下一任总统职位的唯一途径是团结，而不是争吵。我们应该成为一个拥有共同信息的庞大整体：而不是一个被“社会主义者”或“住宅”等标签削弱的政党。许多选民被进步政策所吸引，是因为他们看到富人变得更富有，而劳动人民却在像小偷这样的人手中挣扎。他们非常迅速地攻击进步派民主党人，我们需要团结起来并专注于政府——以及负担得起的价格的食物、医疗保健和其他法律，一个个人关税的顺序，对可再生能源的支持，以及一场正在损害全球经济的战争革命。请给我们三到五个明确的优先事项，我们只能在敲门并排除干扰时对其进行修改。帮助我们团结、获胜并停止白宫里的问题。AANDRA SMITH COOLIDON SUO, MAINE

特朗普试图规避出生公民权裁决

致编辑：关于“普罗维申签署两项行政命令试图限制出生公民权”（新闻报道，8月7日）

在民主制度中，特朗普竞选者必须接受的最重要事实就是他们可能会失败。无论是立法、最高法院的裁决还是选举，政治家们并不总能得到他们想要的结果。所有美国总统及其对手都接受了这一基本原则，且通常是以一种伟大且健康的方式接受的。除了特朗普总统。

特朗普先生受损的自尊无法接受失败。在2020年选举中，他输掉了2020年选举。即便他拥有1,000票，他依然在输掉这场时间战争。他继续猛烈地对抗这三者，这可能基于一种根深蒂固的恐惧，即在他父亲眼中他将不再是一个英雄。在与一位极度自私、腐败的总统斗争两年之后，我们可以在11月的投票中帮助解决这个问题。

埃里克·贝尔乔克（ERIC BELJOCK），布朗

致编辑：这可能是唐纳德·特朗普总统任期以及最高法院共同的决定性时刻。特朗普先生一直试图让自己成为一名“更好的”总统。没有人能被第二次选出。出生公民权被载入宪法第14修正案：“所有在美国出生或入籍且受其管辖的人，均为美国及其所在州的公民。”特朗普先生想要决定谁是公民，谁不是。为此，他必须使最高法院在6月、7月关于特朗普出生公民权的裁决失效。他正试图通过行政命令来规避该裁决。最高法院将采取行动，以确立这样一个原则：特朗普先生必须服从法院的裁决，且不能用廉价的伎俩来规避。出生公民权裁决已经生效，特朗普先生必须遵守。现在是时候确立法律面前人人平等同样适用于特朗普先生了。就此为止。

布鲁斯·比金斯（BRUCE BIGGINS），圣迭戈

---

A24 H 纽约时报，SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026

天气报告

AccuWeather 气象服务

重点： 的风险。这将导致部分地区出现山洪。西弗吉尼亚州、俄亥俄州和肯塔基州的部分地区将面临最高等级的道路冲刷和洪水导致财产损失的风险。雷暴也可能较为严重，并伴有破坏性的阵风。

全国预报

今天，东部大部分地区将保持非常潮湿和温暖，预计从路易斯安那州到东南部，以及通过俄亥俄河谷和东北部，将出现分布广泛的雷阵雨。部分雷阵雨可能会在局部地区带来破坏性的阵风和闪电洪水。虽然白天天气干燥，但一夜之间，一条强雷阵雨带将从内布拉斯加州和堪萨斯州扩展到爱荷华州和密苏里州的大部分地区。这些风暴可能会带来破坏性的阵风和导致洪水的暴雨。在西南部，典型的威胁性雷阵雨将在傍晚时分降落在大部分高地。东北部保持干燥，该地区大部分地区维持较高的相对风险。干燥炎热的天气也延伸至大部分山间地带。

纽约 / 8:00 / 9:00

Beach / 7:00 / 8:00 Beach / 7:00 / 8:00 纽约 / 7:00 / 8:00

---

纽约 / 7:00 / 8:00

大都市预报

今天 ... 雷阵雨，最高 80。天气潮湿，时而多云，时而晴朗。傍晚时分局部地区有雷阵雨。风向西-西南，风速 4 到 8 英里每小时。

今天 ... 早间雷阵雨，最低 74。傍晚有持续的雷阵雨。除此之外，天气部分多云且潮湿。风向西-东南，风速 3 到 6 m.p.m.。气温略高于正常水平。

明天 ... 绝大部分时间晴朗且炎热，最高 80。高压系统进入该地区，使风暴通道得到缓解，湿度比前几天低。天空呈现阳光与少量云朵交织。

周一 ... 阳光朦胧且非常温暖，最高 80。阳光朦胧，天气温暖。下午可能会有雷阵雨。风向西南，风速 4 到 8 m.p.m.。气温比正常水平高 5 度。

周二

周三 ... 周二雷阵雨。周二阳光与云朵交替，可能会有雷阵雨。最高 80。周三干燥天气回归，云量多变。最高 84。

大都市年鉴

在中央公园，截至昨天下午 2 点的 13 小时内。温度

平均 80% 最大值 / 最高 80% 最大值 偏离正常值 4.0℃ 平均值 来自城市供水 增加 / 50% 4.0℃ / 50%

休闲预报

太阳、月亮和行星

最大值 / 上弦月 / 满月 / 下弦月 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.4 最大值 / 0.08 a.m. / 平均值 / 0.12 r.m. 0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3 / 0.4

加热

从低层 Perm 到 Sandy 平均值 0.1，延伸至 29 微摩尔，包括发现的 yang stand 和纽约中心。从西南方向帮助输出，速度 10-15 英里。最大值在纽约 Angles 和发现的 yang stand 之外为 1,000。开阔海域的最大值在视觉上设定为 5 英尺左右，低于任何风暴。

干旱危及至关重要的经济大动脉

作者：CHRISTOPHER E SCHUETZE 和 PATRICIA COHEN

德国，迪特鲁姆 —— 剧烈的热浪、山火和异常风暴在这个夏天重创了欧洲。现在，一系列由气候变化放大的干旱使该大陆的一些关键水道陷入瘫痪，给一个正与增长停滞和全球竞争作斗争的地区带来了进一步的经济压力。

这场危机的其中一个核心是拜伦勋爵所形容的“蜿蜒曲折的莱茵河”，它从瑞士阿尔卑斯山延伸至北海，穿过六个国家，全长近 800 英里。这条至关重要的经济大动脉每年运送数千艘船只和数百万吨货物，支撑着整个大陆的贸易与工业。

“它是德国经济最重要的心室之一，”ING宏观经济全球主管兼一名热衷于划船的卡斯滕·布里兹尼基（Carsten Brizniki）表示。本周，水位触及自 1880 年首次记录官方测量数据以来的最低点，导致供应链中断，推高航运成本，并可能迫使公司削减产量。

极端天气的浪潮也影响到了欧洲第二长河——多瑙河，那里创纪录的低水位正使二战期间沉没的军舰残骸显露出来。这场水危机迫使匈牙利和罗马尼亚紧急维持电力供应，这两个国家需要从多瑙河取水来为核电反应堆冷却。两国政府已呼吁家庭和企业减少用电。

低水位对经济产生的涟漪效应在德国杜伊斯堡显而易见，在那里的货物正从大船转移到小船、铁路货车或卡车上。其他船只则卸掉了高达三分之二的货物，以便能安全地在河道中航行，因为部分河段的水深仅 4 英尺多一点。

“现在你能看出谁是好船长，谁是坏船长，”维尔玛·范·埃根（Wilma van Eggen）说道。她与丈夫组成了一对荷兰夫妇，他们将这艘 566 英尺长的推船 W. De Beijer Sr 从鹿特丹——（续 B1 页）

美国对太阳能电池板关键组件征收关税

作者：ANA SIMKINEN 和 BRAD FULMER

华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统周四签署了一项公告，将为进口聚钛硅（polytillosis）设定最低价格，并对使用该材料制造的产品征收 15 ％的关税，旨在支持半导体和太阳能电池板关键组件的国内生产。

这些关税将于 12 月初生效。通过为聚钛硅及其制成品设定最低进口价格，政府将阻止任何价格低于该水平的产品进入美国市场。这将允许总部位于美国的制造商以能够盈利的价格销售其产品。

政府表示，此举将有助于建立一个免受全球扭曲影响的受保护国内市场；该命令还指出，对于与美国签署贸易协定的国家，可能会进行调整。

特朗普先生还指示商务部长霍华德·拉托克（Howard Lattock）为建设或扩——（续 B2 页）

检查太阳能电池板。特朗普总统希望对使用聚钛硅制造的产品征收 15 ％的关税。

国际足联领导人推动出售世界杯股份

作者：TARIQ PANJA

这五个人本该处于庆祝氛围中。国际足联（FIFA）刚刚举办了一届在多个方面打破记录的世界杯。其壮丽的顶点——决赛，距离开球仅剩一天。但他们的心情绝非欢欣鼓舞。

据三位因讨论内容私密而要求匿名的知情人士透露，这群被称为国际足联管理委员会局（FIFA bureau of the management board）的高级董事们，被召集参加在曼哈顿华尔道夫酒店举行的一次仓促组织的会议。

董事们在午夜之前必须签署一项计划，该计划威胁要永远改变足球运动，并且几乎肯定会导致该运动领导层之间出现重大分裂。该项目旨在将国际足联 20 percent 的股份出售给一个由 Joshua 领导的投资者团体——续见 B3 页

数据显示就业市场正在放缓

作者：LYTHA DePILLIS

由于企业在面对新关税以及中东战争引发的成本上升时削减岗位，7 月份劳动力市场出现了小幅损失。

劳工部周五报告称，上个月经季节性调整后，雇主削减了 33,000 个岗位，而由于数十万人退出劳动力市场，失业率略微下降至 4.1 percent。

这一低于预期的读数出现在 3 月和 4 月就业人数看似激增之后，当时人们对汽车、低关税、利率以及较低的通胀持乐观态度。自那时起，由于波斯湾的石油运输依然停滞，而特朗普政府重启了针对进口产品的斗争，成本随之跳升。——续见 B4 页

--- B2 6 纽约时报 商业版 2026 年 8 月 8 日，星期六

摘要

国际

加拿大 7 月新增就业人数高于预期

周五公布的数据显示，加拿大 7 月份新增就业人数远超预期，失业率降至两年低点，这再次表明该经济体正在应对美国关税和国际局势。

加拿大统计局表示，全职和兼职部门的强劲增长带动就业人数增加了 75,500 个岗位。

失业率连续第三个月下降，从 6.5 percent 降至 6.4 percent，这一水平上次出现是在 2024. 年 7 月。

路透社调查的分析师此前预测净增岗位为 15,500 个，并估计失业率将维持在 6.5 percent。7 月的预测是在 5 月创造了 67,800 个就业岗位之后得出的。

凯投宏观（Capital Economics）高级北美经济学家 Ariane Curtis 表示：“（这）进一步证明，在年初表现疲软之后，经济正在获得动力。” 路透社 每年

Under Armour 预测销售额将更大幅度下降

Under Armour 周五预测年度营收将出现更大跌幅，这凸显了在持续通胀和经济不确定性导致北美消费者在运动服装支出上趋于谨慎的情况下，恢复增长所面临的挑战。

这些挑战出现在购物者日益倾向于像 On 和 Hoks 这样更新、更具创新且专注的品牌之际，这加剧了包括耐克（Nike）、阿迪达斯（Adidas）和 Under Armour 在内的老牌企业的竞争，这些企业正致力于迁移技术。

晨星（Morningstar）分析师 David Swartz 表示：“目前的运动服装市场非常困难。关税情况和其他经济因素并没有提供帮助。”

在截至 6 月 30. 日的季度中，Under Armour 最大的市场——北美业务的营收下降了 60.9 percent，至 $8098亿美元。 路透社 SEAT

Dream Finders 将以 22 亿美元 Billion 收购 Bearer

Dream Finders Homes 周五表示，将通过一项价值约 22 亿美元 billion（含账单及账目补齐）的全现金交易收购同行 Bearer Homes，从而在充满挑战的住房市场中成为美国第九大住宅建筑商。由于持续的通货膨胀以及特朗普总统对关键建筑原材料征收的关税，美国房主正面临成本上升的困扰。此外，消费者信心的减弱正促使建筑商提供诸如抵押贷款利率买断等激励措施，这反过来进一步损害了他们的利润率。根据协议， 的股东将为其持有的每股股票获得 $33.30 现金，这比 的上一次收盘价溢价 6.15%。根据路透社的计算，该交易意味着 的股权价值约为 5亿美元。 Homes 的股价在开盘前下跌超过 1%。该协议标志着两家公司之间持续一个月纠葛的结束。路透社

标准普尔 500 指数 +0.6% 7.00.00 3000 指数 工业 +0.3% 34,000.00 纳斯达克综合指数 +1.3% 26,000.00 10年期国债收益率 4.64% 10,023 点 CRUISE IN, 0.5:1 $78.10 -$0.00 WILD BUY $4,390.70 +0.00.10

股票与债券

市场对就业报告做出反应，并寄希望于降息可以等待

在美国，由于政府报告上月就业人数意外减少 22,000 人，周五华尔街股市上涨，国债收益率下跌。所有主要指数连续第二周上涨，其中部分指数创下新高。在经历了几个疲软的月份后，这标志着一个强劲的开局。

标准普尔 500 指数上涨 47.66 点，或 0.8%，至 7,075.94。这触及了其在周二创下的高点。该基准指数在全年一直处于创纪录的上涨势头。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 101.83 点，或 0.3%，至 54,056.93。这使其距离周三创下的纪录仅一步之遥。纳斯达克综合指数上涨 342.28 点，或 1.3%，至 28,490.02。

市值巨大的科技股为大盘提供了主要支撑。它们通常是决定市场方向的权重股。英伟达（Nvidia）上涨 2.3%，博通（Broadcom）上涨 1.7%。

债券市场对就业市场的疲软信号反应更为强烈，这被认为可以让美联储在提高投资利率以对抗通货膨胀之前拥有更多时间。10 年期国债收益率从就业数据更新前的 4.07% 下跌至 4.84%。在回升至 3 / 4 之前，它曾低至 4.00%。更紧密跟踪利率行动预期的 2 年期国债收益率从报告发布前的 4.22% 下跌至 6.20%。在回升之前，它曾低至 4.15%。

“尽管股市可能会欢迎该报告带来的鸽派含义，但投资者应警惕一个就业人数减少的经济体未来的增长潜力，”极光资产管理美洲区（Aurora Asset Management Americas）首席投资官彼得·格拉夫（Peter Graf）在一份研究报告中表示。

标准普尔 500 指数：周五每 3 分钟的标准普尔 500 指数位置 ← 前次显示：7,709.96

总体而言，该报告描绘了就业市场较为暗淡的景象，在通货膨胀上升和对家庭支出担忧的背景下，就业市场一直是经济最重要的领域之一。报告还包括对 6 月和 5 月数据的修正，涉及这两个月工资单就业人数合计减少 355,000 个岗位。

由于美国与伊朗的战争导致油价上涨，美联储在对通胀加剧的担忧中一直维持利率。华尔街预计年底前至少会加息一次，对下次会议的预测正在发生变化。根据 CMS FairWatch 的数据，9 月降息的预期已从周四的 55% 和一周前的 47% 下降至 42%。

疲软的就业市场可能会让美联储的情况变得更加复杂，因为它必须在支持就业增长与对抗通货膨胀之间取得平衡。提高利率可以通过放缓经济增长来帮助抑制通胀。然而，在更高的利率环境下，由于企业发现增加借贷成本后更难以扩张，疲软的就业市场可能会变得更加不稳定。

企业和华尔街更倾向于较低的利率，因为这有助于刺激投资。这在就业市场疲软时可能很重要，但可能会恶化已经顽固的通货膨胀。

华尔街将在下周获得几项重要的通胀更新。最受关注的将是消费者价格指数（CPI），用于衡量消费者的支出。华尔街预计它将显示 7 月的通胀率上涨 3.4%，这将比 6 月的 3.5% 略有缓解。

今年大部分时间，利率一直维持在 5% 以上。

“今天的疲软工资单数据减轻了美联储在下次重要会议上加息的压力，但下周的通胀数据仍可能是决定性因素，”摩根士丹利财富管理（Morgan Stanley Wealth Management）首席经济战略师艾伦·佐姆伯（Ellen Zomber）在一份研究报告中表示。

NEWSLITTER：DEALBOOK Deadbook 旨在帮助您解读当日最重要的商业与政策头条。请在 nytimes.com / dealbook 订阅该时事通讯。

昨日股市回顾

S&P 500 7,707.64 ↑ +0.6% 3个月表现 +6.7%

纳斯达克综合指数 36,600.62 ↑ +1.3% 3个月表现 +5.8%

道琼斯工业平均指数 34,000.00 ↑ +0.3% 3个月表现 +0.0%

表现最佳 / S&P 500 (公司) / 收盘价 涨跌

1. INDIAN AFFAIRS / $17,927.7 +13.4%
2. Industrial Technology (HUNT) / $40,481.0 +2.6%
3. INDIAN AFFAIRS / $19,913.2 +2.0%
4. Paper Technology (PEN) / $17,521.4 +22.2%
5. Industrial (HUNT) / $38,127.1 +0.8%
6. New Enterprise (HUNT) / $37,123.1 +0.2%
7. Newtech (HUNT) / $12,538.0 +7.2%
8. Xylex (APEC) / $49,631.2 +7.2%
9. APPA (APEC) / $30,431.4 +0.6%
10. Other Technologies (UBER) / $75,000.0 +0.0%

表现最差 / S&P 500 (公司) / 收盘价 涨跌

1. The State (Sech. 6-775) / $15,881.0 +24.0%
2. Federal Technologies (HUNT) / $15,929.0 +0.0%
3. USSR (JCR) / $17,000.0 +0.0%
4. Realtors (PERC) / $21,124.0 +2.1%
5. Staggers Technology (Hugo, DTS) / $10,217.0 +2.7%
6. USW (Euro, USW) / $19,925.0 +0.2%
7. Superheaven (Euro, PRUS) / $29,667.0 +0.2%
8. Texas Pacific (JAX, DTS) / $24,625.0 +0.2%
9. News & (HUNT) / $35,425.0 +0.2%
10. Minisite (Beverage, MRO) / $80,200.0 +0.0%

最活跃 / S&P 500 (公司) / 收盘价 涨跌 / 成交量 涨跌 1. The State (Sech. 6-775) / $15,881.0 +24.0% / 12.0% 2. INDIAN AFFAIRS / $20,524.0 +2.1% / 12.0% 3. Paper Technology (APEC) / $12,523.0 +0.2% / 12.0% 4. Intel (HUNT) / $20,425.0 +1.6% / 7.6% 5. The U.S. (JAX) / $20,525.0 +2.1% / 7.6% 6. Texas (PSA) / $20,525.0 +2.0% / 7.6% 7. AT&T (e.g., D) / $22,525.0 +0.2% / 7.6% 8. Xylex (APEC) / $23,525.0 +0.2% / 7.6% 9. Tech Micro (IT) / $13,528.0 +1.4% / 5.6% 10. Minisite (Beverage, MRO) / $87,727.0 +0.4% / 5.6%

大盘股 | | TOTAL RETURNS / TOTAL ASSETS 1.00 / 0.1992 1. Integrated Morningstar, Wall Street Markets Index Fund Institutional Real Shares (US$89) / +1.94% / +1.10% 2. Integrated International Financial Shares (IFRS) / +2.62 / +2.68 3. Integrated Financial Funds (FUND) / +3.02 / +3.08 4. Integrated Morningstar Growth Index Investor Shares (US$91) / +2.67 / +2.69 5. American Funds The Growth of America (Sept. 8-4, 1992 / 3) / +2.58 / +2.60 6. Integrated Institutional Index Institutional Shares (IFRS) / +2.53 / +2.58 7. Strategic Interest Funds (e.g., New Board , IFRS) / +2.52 / +2.58 8. Integrated Morningstar Index Index Investor Shares (US$93) / +2.50 / +2.51 9. Integrated Fundal Marketing Index Investor Shares (US$95) / +2.54 / +2.57 10. American Funds Investment Company of America (Sept. 8-4, 1992 / 3) / +2.72 / +2.83 | | 数据来源：Morningstar | |

行业表现

昨日亚洲股市走势

其他市场与经济动态

债券

货币

消费者利率

大宗商品

经济

纽约时报 商业版 2026年8月9日 星期六 9 R3 营销 / 政策 / 法院

如果你无法击败人工智能，那就穿得比它更出众：科技公司及其周边产品所传递的信息

作者：肯·吉伯特（KEN GIBERT） 旧金山 —— 尽管人工智能巨头在世界各地举办弹出式活动，赠送印有“思考”字样的沙特限量版棒球帽；这些帽子在 eBay 上成了热门商品。设计软件 Figma 将其缓慢的装备变成了分钟，与 Owner Service 等大品牌合作，粉丝将其称为“会话”。Patients 则拥有其备受讨论的 E2B-theory 汽车，这是一个旨在将这家备受争议的政府承包商转变为生活方式品牌的营销店。上个月，OpenAI 推出了 Supply Co.，其品牌装备商店，包括一件刺绣半船毛衣 (SFL)、一双亮蓝色船员袜 (S3S) 和一个扎染 (SAGDP) 篮球 (SFS)，并将其宣传为“一个物理提醒，证明创造力不仅仅存在于我们的屏幕上”。

“科技行业的新地位象征商品——称之为‘征服’——是该行业在品味和风格方面努力最显著的迹象。最近，硅谷一直被视为一个没有周边产品的地方，庆祝其需求和生活，并坚持使用灰色手柄和 Ad-licith 烟灰缸。随着科技公司将会议上由丈夫分发的无聊标志 T 恤，替换为与小众设计师合作、以限量版形式发售的独家时尚服装，这种情况正在发生变化。”

“从历史上看，这被用来信号化你并不在乎，”人工智能初创公司 Tano Labs 的创始人蒂亚娜·卡斯特洛·布兰科（Tiana Castello Branco）说道。“而现在，人们开始重视美学、质量、细心和工艺。”

这都是一场关于品味的新讨论的一部分。人们认为，如果人工智能让任何人都能在几秒钟内创造任何东西，那么人类不再需要写作、编写代码或设计东西，现代市场中唯一的价值将是判断这些东西是好是坏。即拥有品味。在这种方式下，品味更像是一种对艺术欣赏的能力，而非一份简历。此前，评论认为品味是一项新的核心技能且是唯一必须的，一些年轻员工甚至在举办以品味为主题的晚餐派对。

在批评者看来，科技行业的时尚转型是在人工智能开始取代人类并产生数字符号之地的同时，创造一种手工工艺的触感美学。一些人将科技公司对艺术感和设计师周边的拥抱称为“品味洗白”（taste-washing）。

反对人工智能的斗争（更多关于年龄、种族、阶级和政党，将真正改变最终的方式）。风投公司 String Capital 的创始人 No first 表示，他认为这可以使该行业人性化。他建议在早期的结束现在服装和 343 踝靴，以及科技公司 CEO 和风险投资家的书籍之上。为什么没有一个“科技行业的医疗保健”？“我爱它们，我更像是一个整个购物中心！”他说，“当人们真正将其在文化中看到时，科技将被更好地理解。”

初创公司孵化器 Y Combinator 已将其标准的 T 恤、鞋子和 Figures 1W 升级为高端产品。去年，在 1.8 / 0, 之日，该公司在纽约证券交易所外分发公司周边产品，见下文。

“营销就像性” 硅谷曾经有一句由作者 Amoson Garcia Martinez 普及的名言：“营销就像性。只有失败者才会为此付费。”换句话说，优秀的科技产品不需要营销就能销售。在人工智能时代，这不再成立，因为每家公司都拥有巨额现金，而且由于能够一夜之间编写代码的人工智能，竞争异常激烈。为了脱颖而出，科技公司加强了其营销手段，推出了侧重启动的视频、充满术语的广告牌以及更多创意玩法。

一家名为 Amazon 的人工智能软件初创公司每天花费 6,000 美元，在东弗朗西斯科上空派遣一架挂有其标志横幅的飞机。该公司创始人萨姆·布隆德（Sam Blond）表示，这比租赁一个完整的大型图书馆要便宜。在持续一个月后，（Monaco 也尝试过一种微型二进制）。Corgi，一家人工智能保险初创公司，在旧金山金融区开设了一家 24 小时咖啡馆，目的是“让开发者在一天中的任何时间都能聚集”。Corgi 的联合创始人尼科·拉戈亚（Nico Lagoa）表示，这家咖啡馆有助于公司招聘。周边产品是整体方案中的关键部分，公司们通过与工匠合作或与低端设计师建立伙伴关系来进行培训。像 OpenAI 的篮球这类 Limberdelton 物品经常售罄。Foxboro 的评论家们并不特别感冒。热门风格时事通讯《Blackbird Appliance》的合著者乔纳·魏纳（Jonah Weiner）表示，这些衣服感觉是由人工智能设计的。“它们看起来像是各种周边设计趋势的综合体，经常出现峰值。我在 10 年前就见过，”他说道，其中带有真实街头服饰、Kauyu West 巡演周边以及千禧一代地区共同消费品牌的影响。他补充说，这些产品没有传达出它们所代表公司的任何独特文化感。“他们提供的东西有一种空白感，”魏纳先生说。经营科技公司品牌机构 Slope 的卡特内·侯（Kartne Hou）购买了 OpenAI 的篮球、水瓶和亮蓝色手柄，以及一件描绘芯片制造商创始人黄仁勋（Jenson Huang）的人工智能空气脉动毛衣。她的一些朋友购买了 Slope 网球装备系列中的物品。侯女士没有穿过这些服装，主要将其视为一种蜕变。“这就像是一个时间点，”她说，“他们试图让自己显得与时俱进。”人工智能公司的员工甚至可能不愿公开自己的隶属关系。该公司一名发言人表示，在安全风险增加时，OpenAI 已建议员工不要在办公室周围制作或穿着带有其标志的服装。

“品质在细微处显现”

当人工智能初创公司 Proximity 决定为粉丝制作周边时，其设计师知道标准必须“非常高”，该公司传播与营销负责人杰西·德怀尔（Jesse Dwyer）说道。由此产生的电子商务商店 Proximity Supply 销售推广 Proximity 好奇心（S3S）理念的装裱艺术品、由重磅石材制成且带有定制带子和传统标志（S3S）的卫衣，以及由八个实心黄铜环装订、带有剥离页的全粒面皮革“硬件”笔记本（S3S）。

科技行业的新身份象征商品是该行业寻求认可的标志。Outdress，伊奥娜·贾伯（Iona Jaber）的 OpenAI I / O 篮球；宝丽来（Polaroid）的 E2B-thorn 座椅；以及 Exchange 的限量版棒球帽盒。

Proximity Supply 对其设计师的良好品味表示赞赏，将其服装描述为具有“能让细心的穿着者察觉到的品质”。“在选择最好的产品时，涉及到了判断力和品味，”德怀尔先生说。他表示，公司并不试图通过该团队获利。大约 1,000 人购买了相关物品。Proximity 的全球灵感来自 OpenAI，一个由杰夫·米汉（Jeff Meehan）在 1998 年创立的“专注力”公司。米汉先生并不认同科技行业超高速增长的维度；多年来他拒绝了多次投资邀约。OpenAI 的网站上有一个关于渔夫的寓言，渔夫对自己仅捕获足够鱼类的简单生活感到满足，而一名商人则建议他延长工作时间、扩大规模、上市并成为百万富翁。米汉先生表示，他并不反对科技或人工智能，但他的策略与“人工智能所做的事情截然相反”。“我们在做另一个版本，”他说，“我们缓慢、有条理、深思熟虑，而人工智能则是旅程，快速、瞬时，而且就像是，最后只剩下三件事。”

“《纽约时报》已起诉 Proximity、OpenAI 和微软，指控其在人工智能系统中侵犯了新闻内容的版权。这些公司否认了这些指控。” OpenAI 还为著名的初创企业加速器 T Combinator 制作了价值 $200 的内容日志。不幸的是，该计划的主要交换物品是一件印有其设计艺术的标准教师灰 T 恤。用于 T 恤的人工智能嵌入了冲劲，以享受其硅谷精神，这仅仅是在美感之上的常规化。T Combinator 的设计主管 Eve Bradford 说服她的课程尝试进入高端商品领域，因为这感觉很新颖。“有人坐下来稍微思考了一下，”她说。也许，她认为，公司可以促进创始人之间的联系，他们可以在会议期间用纸记录，而不是盯着屏幕。

硅谷的科技洗礼品味——Jason 们正试图赋予人工智能事实和代理其自身的品味感。6 月，Castello Branco 女士宣布 Tano Labs 已筹集 $18.5，旨在完成这一使命。在对充斥网络的低质量人工智能生成内容的数量感到担忧后，她创办了这家公司。“我认为我们会习惯它并认为这很正常，而我真的不希望那样，”她说。Tano Labs 从大模型和设计入手。它与 1,000 名设计专家和评论家签约，以帮助优化软件，其他人工智能公司可以使用该软件，通过教它们区分高质量数字化设计和数据来改进其系统。

Castello Branco 女士表示，教会人工智能拥有品味并不会夺走人类在人工智能充斥的世界中唯一剩下的价值。“你看到的这种批量生产的东西越多，品味 / 其他因素就越重要，”她说。然而，我们的问题在于，品味，嗯，是一个品味问题。Castello Branco 女士表示，她的公司尚未着手解决人工智能工具过度适配个人偏好的问题。目前，在技术外部仍有足够的工作要做。“这场公平的竞争就在基层，”她说。

广播电视所有权限制被取消

作者：CECILIA KANG

美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）取消了广播电视所有权的限制，此举可能会导致媒体行业出现更高程度的集中。该机构此前设有一项上限，限制单个电视台所有者覆盖的美国住户比例不得超过 30%。现在，该机构将有权根据具体情况，做出超出该限制的决定。

这一决定在广泛预期之中，旨在确保地方电视台获得“中间”服务。该机构主席布伦丹·卡尔（Brendan Carr）是 FCC 首位在保守派专业时间线中发表意见的成员，他认为通过整合，地方电视台将能够更好地重新进入在全国范围内被终止的合同或迪士尼（Disney）节目中。

“如今的地方电视台缺乏抢先播放或返回节目的权力，”他说。卡尔先生写道：“没有必要允许不限制委员的价值。”“地方电视台正努力寻找资源以减少生产、增加发送并将其带入节目中。”

卡尔先生一直致力于开展一项激进的活动，以打击他所认为的广播电视中的文学焦点。九月份，该机构一直在处理深夜节目主持人吉米·金伯利（Jimmy Kimberly）的言论，他的节目被暂时停播。

布伦丹·卡尔曾威胁要撤销 CBS、ABC 和 NBC 的电视业务。卡尔对此表示庆祝，称地方电视台终于能够对抗某种财务编程。他还调查并威胁要撤销 ABC、NBC 和 CBS 的电视执照。

卡尔先生为其行为辩护称，FCC 在监管电视电波时负责促进公共利益。许多法律学者和民主党人表示，卡尔先生的举动违反了言论自由的程序。

2004, 美国国会命令 FCC 将所有权上限设定为 10 percent，以促进电视商业政策的多样性。

取消所有权限制的举措对 Nexstar 来说是一个胜利，根据其决定，这家电视台集团目前覆盖了“近 30% 的住户”。这家电视巨头去年曾试图收购竞争对手 Vegas，但该交易在四月份被联邦法院冻结，同时一项反垄断诉讼正在进行中。

FCC 的两名历史人物阿斯顿·盖恩斯（Aston Gaines）投票反对取消上限。她表示，此举不会将地方广播公司从经济压力中解脱出来。

“这只是改变了谁在施压，”她在声明中说。“根据这一决定，有能力进一步扩张的大型电视台集团并不是地方广播公司，而是那些拥有地方电视台并日益决定其播出内容的额外公司。”

Meta 在安全案件中被罚款 $5.67 亿

作者：ELI TAY 旧金山 —— 新墨西哥州的一名法官命令 Meta 支付 5.67亿美元，并对其年轻人使用平台的方式做出更改，这是针对该网络巨头在社交媒体危害和成瘾方面造成法律损害而开出的最大金额罚款。

“这项于周四晚些时候发布的裁决，是在 Meta 3 月份在同一案件中被命令支付的 $375 美元之外的追加处罚。当时陪审团认定该公司在平台安全性方面误导了用户，并掩盖了年轻人遭受性剥削的情况。”

“这 5.67亿美元将用于一项旨在弥补该公司造成损害的基金，包括为受到社交媒体伤害的年轻人提供县级税务待遇。”

“尽管 Meta 在这方面并非唯一一家公司，但其社交媒体平台是导致新墨西哥州青少年当前心理健康危机的关键因素，这一点已由本年度的大量证据所证实，”圣达菲的一名 1940 地区法院法官布莱恩·麦考密克（Bryan McCormick）在裁决书中写道。

Meta 发言人安迪·费舍尔（Andy Fisher）在一份声明中表示，该公司不认可该裁决，并计划提起上诉。

“我们努力确保人们在我们的平台上安全，并且在应对法律挑战、裁决中的参与者以及有害内容方面一直保持透明，”他说。“我们对自己在保护方面的记录充满信心，并将继续就那些歪曲事实的指控为自己辩护。”

作为法官裁决中命令的处罚部分，Meta 被禁止在新墨西哥州于晚上 10 p.m. 至早上 7 a.m. 之间向 Instagram 和 Facebook 的未成年用户账户发送付费通知。它还必须限制这些用户在平台上的使用时间，每月不得超过 90 小时。

Meta 正面临着由青少年、学区和其他政府机构在全国范围内发起的数千起诉讼，这些诉讼指控该平台及其功能（如成瘾世界）造成了广泛的社会危害。

新墨西哥州是数十个州中第一个起诉这家科技巨头的州，而该公司将于本月晚些时候在加利福尼亚州奥克兰参加审判，以应对由加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、肯塔基州和新泽西州总检察长共同提起的一起案件。

“多年来，Meta 知道其平台正在损害新墨西哥州的利益，从引发青少年心理健康危机到让捕食者接触儿童，而它却为了利润而牺牲他们的安全，”该州总检察长劳尔·托雷斯（Raul Torres）表示。“今天，Meta 正在为那个选择付出代价。”

桑德拉·康（Sandra Kang）在华盛顿参与了报道。

商业地产 商业机会 商业 / 特许经营机会 Upper Blame 2026 报销：报销金额为 $1,000,000.00.00.00.00.00.00 00.00

---

B4 纽约时报 商业 周六，6, 2020 经济 / 政策

劳动力市场转向逆向增长，雇主对招聘犹豫不决

（接自商业版第一页）

4月和5月的就业增长人数被下调了 88,000 人。2020 年的月均增长人数为 88,000 人。咨询公司 EV-Parthoven 的高级经济学家 Lydia Bostian 表示：“我们的劳动力市场虽然稳定，但处于‘二档’停滞状态。我们仍处于供应冲击在经济中传导的环境中，且存在大量不确定性，这将使企业在招聘时保持谨慎。”

“招聘停滞”出现之时，正是忠诚度持续低迷、企业利润高企且消费者支出表现异常稳健之际，即便昂贵的汽油价格给钱包带来了压力。职位空缺、招聘率以及获得工作的比例已停止下降。这些指标表明，公司并不打算在薪资水平上大幅削减员工人数。

但它们一直在大量投资人工智能，这抑制了某些岗位的招聘，并削弱了工人在任何业务领域争取工资的议价能力。小时工资同比增长 3.2%，这是自 2021 年 5 月以来最慢的增速，且可能低于同期价格的涨幅。7 月的消费者价格指数（CPI）数据将于 8 月 15 日公布。

7 月的总总回报对于 end Roster 对劳动力市场状态的相对舒适感而言，正值委员会成员权衡通过提高利率来对抗 sub-divisions 之际。在 9 月再次会面前，招聘率在另一份就业报告中并不那么显著。招聘停滞在职业类别和就业增长的集合中尤为明显。

根据雇主评论网站 Glanc 的分析，采矿业自 2022 年底以来已萎缩 3.8%。“这与我们去年看到的情况形成了剧烈反转，”Glanc 月度就业变动

首席经济学家 Daniel Zhao 表示。“而且这恰恰发生在科技行业围绕数据中心产生巨大炒作的时候，但这在就业数字中并未体现出来。”

Glanc 对员工信心的衡量在 7 月达到了其规模——一个创纪录的水平，并且

春季以来的乐观激增正“卡在二档”。根据会议委员会（Conference Board）的调查，认为工作“难以获得”的消费者比例上升至2021年1月以来的最高水平。数据中心在建筑业中有所体现，该行业增加了22,000个工作岗位。这些岗位几乎全部集中在商业项目上，而部分建筑或市场人员则受到高利率的影响。德克萨斯州、俄亥俄州和弗吉尼亚州等州的大规模数据中心建筑工地正使劳动力承包商之间的竞争依然激烈，尤其是随着对新工业空间的需求开始恢复。对于芝加哥地区开发商Minster Group的建筑总裁Neely Tadowski来说，这意味着要为新项目承诺较低的工人数量，并且开始设想，她很难找到现场监督员，并且更加依赖招聘——“招聘确实是工会大厅里的一类电能。我们，Tadowski说，“他们很多人在旅行并去数据中心工作，因为那里提供的薪水很高。所以这绝对是一个挑战。”就业的另一个剩余来源是医疗保健，在过去五年中，它驱动了几乎所有政府的工作岗位。该行业在7月增加了22,000个职位，1，明显低于此前12个月的速率。临时帮助服务的招聘（代表被审计雇主分布在各种行业的人员）在经历了长期的下滑后也开始稳步上升，这在整体上扭转了局面。“虽然雇主在招聘方面有所减少，但他们仍然有需要人员完成的工作，”美国就业协会（American Ending Association）首席经济学家Noah Neal表示。他指出，公司正转向针对特定任务的固定雇佣合同，这使他们能够在无需承诺全职雇员的情况下调整其高薪。报告中最薄弱的部分来自休闲和款待业，该行业全年减少了84,000个工作岗位，并且随着世界杯教学场所教师在小时数内的化学反应而下降。地方政府教育部门也缩减了50,000个职位，这可能是一次性的，与学校放暑假的时间有关。白宫抓住了医疗保健仍是就业增长主要驱动力的机会。自2022年以来各部门就业人数变化，按总就业人数增加量排名

公共部门招聘的疲软以及制造业就业的微小增长。白宫发言人Scott House在的一份声明中表示：“工业部队的认可正按计划进行。”“特朗普总统通过已证明有效的减税、放松管制和失业等经济手段，特朗普政府正专注于补贴更多的私营部门就业增长。”但失业率的下降并非源于对劳动力的强劲需求，而是源于寻找工作的人员数量的收缩。在约25至34岁之间的黄金工作年龄段，劳动参与率在6月份仅从1980年代的水平略有回升。对于所有年龄段，参与率下降到了10.5%的水平，这是自1976年（当时女性才开始大规模进入职场）以来，除疫情衰退之外的最低水平。除了退休，劳动力下降最明显的原因是白宫持续开展的驱逐移民运动，而移民持有工作的比率往往高于本土出生的美国人。最高法院在6月份进一步加剧了这一点，最高法院允许数十万来自该国及其他国家的人员的临时工作控制状态失效。这种持续的缩减使得失业率保持在低位，即使在对工人需求迅速增长的情况下也是如此。

“我们所有的恐惧在真正成功的时代都是错位的，当我们看到衰落并意识到‘工作一个月，是否还有更多人即将接手？’时，”招聘广告公司 Apparat 的首席经济学家安德鲁·福雷斯特（Andrew Forrest）表示，“实际上，情况恰恰相反；移民限制正开始导致人数减少。”进入劳动力市场的人数减少，与那些已经在就业市场寻找工作数月的人相比，接触机会很少。失业周数的中位数在 7 月为 10.5，自 2022. 起一直在逐渐上升。马修·格里克登（Matthew Glickden）在 2021. 年失去了他在音频硬件公司 Senate 担任的项目经理工作。从那时起他一直在寻找工作，但随着失业科技工作者人数的增加，他收到的来自招聘经理的个人联系在减少。最后，他进入了职业规划，研究体育历史，并开始写作。他一直在向安全预演和赞誉课程推销他的写作和研究技能，这些课程对人类集换式卡牌组的兴趣正处于繁荣期。在希望他的原专业能够恢复的同时，这为他带来了一小笔收入，而他意识到，这将是“我曾是最后一个报童，我曾是呼叫中心最后的人之一。我可能是项目经理最后一波大潮中的一个人，”格里克登先生说。“保存这类名声让我觉得这更像是一种自然过渡，并没有看起来那么有保障。”托尼·拉姆（Tony Ramm）参与了报道。

美国对太阳能电池板关键原料征收关税

法院将确保您的面板工厂在美国生产聚烯烃及其衍生物。该公告称，国内聚烯烃生产对国家安全至关重要，因为它是用于各种电子设备和国防系统（如雷达和通信系统，以及内部人员和驱动程序的控制系统）的非保守材料的关键成分。聚二烯是太阳能保存工艺中广泛使用的商业材料，用于计算机（以及其他电子设备）的制造。美国曾是天然气生产的世界领导者，但在资助国内制造商后，中国已在非生产制造中占据主导。中国生产了全球约 90 percent 的供应量，而日本的生产量不足 2 percent。

虽然特朗普的命令强调了聚烯烃在电子和国防系统中的重要性，但美国政府迄今为止是该材料最大的消费者，并研究其在美国的制造。许多人一直推动针对中国工业的保护措施。美国太阳能制造商在针对进入美国的非法子文化和定价的贸易案件中多次获胜，导致美国政府对来自任何其他国家能源制造商的太阳能电池板和聚二烯征收关税，而这些制造商主导着太阳能生产。他们迅速找到了规避这些规则的方法，通过全球扩张以及从不受限制的新国家向美国扩张。

这种模式导致美国政府发布了多份报告并征收关税。5 月，南亚的八家国内太阳能公司认为，政府调查在美国的太阳能产品和产品是必要的。美国政府正试图查明该国是否已成为最新的报告平台，用以帮助规避美国关税。

在明尼苏达州安装太阳能电池板。美国曾是聚二烯（面板中使用的一种原材料）生产的世界领导者，但此后中国成为了全球主要生产国。聚二烯随后被熔化成单晶以创建太阳能电池。

国内公司表示，他们在菲律宾、中东以及包括埃及和尼泊尔在内的非洲国家看到了类似的趋势。美国公司抱怨称，该国的总关税处于中等水平，且美国制造商面临高昂的法律费用。美国繁荣联盟（Coalition for Prosperous America）主席、美国关税贸易伙伴 Are Youlong 表示，新的全球关税将“解决”聚二烯和太阳能制造商数十年来一直在进行的“打地鼠”游戏。他说：“美国首次通过单一状态保护了联盟和供应链。”

然而，许多政府尝试使用关税在美国工业周围建立一道保护墙。上个月，它对来自 60 个以上国家的进口商品征收了关税。法院表示将恢复今年早些时候被最高法院推翻的关税。那些关税使用了被称为 Section 301, 的法律规定，涉及太阳能贸易惯例。而聚二烯关税是在另一项国家或早期相关规定——即 Section 252, 下发布的，政府此前也使用该条款征收关税

目前，美国只有两家公司生产聚二烯（polydilates）。在其他产品之外，还包括针对外国钢铁、铝、汽车、铜和药物的关税。目前美国只有两家公司生产聚二烯，分别是 Herder's Semiconductor 和 Wachor Systems。2008年，BAT. Silicon antrephed 试图在华盛顿州的迈阿密湖重启聚二烯生产，但该设施在同年晚些时候关闭。尽管现在有大量总部位于美国的工厂组装太阳能电池板模组，但许多底层公司仍依赖海外供应，包括基于硅的材料和光伏材料。美国政府，国会中的共和党人逐步取消了六项奖励成功制造电池板的太阳能开发商的信用额度，但表示将设立一项信用额度以鼓励美国本土电池板的生产。虽然新关税有可能增加其产品的成本，但它们可能会影响目前美国增长最快的电力来源——一些在美国设有运营机构的太阳能制造商，包括 Material、QLOE 和 TV.com，对这一举措表示赞赏。“来自白宫的安全设备平衡了电力太阳能使用的现实，”美国政府表示。“致癌的 radiotec-solution 是另一个将从聚二烯到成品电池板的整个供应链留在美国的方案，”美国政府表示。“美国政府是一个有效的 QLOE，这是一家在佐治亚州运营大型太阳能制造设施的韩国公司。--- 15 BS

国际

一辆车（前座有一只狗）被起重机从杜伊斯堡的一艘船上吊起，以及船体球舱上的标记，用于测量船只的下潜深度。港口船只中心可见莱茵河。 杜伊斯堡的水位线。莱茵河将北海的鹿特丹港与德国三大最大的工业集群连接起来，巴斯夫（BASF）和梅赛德斯-奔驰（Mercedes-Benz）等公司沿岸建设了工厂和贸易路线。

来自第一商业页：运载铁矿石。她的船通常可以运载 1,000 吨，但现在被削减至仅运载 1,200 吨。电力负载意味着交通更繁忙。“我们正在极限状态下工作，”杜伊斯堡港首席执行官马库斯·班格斯（Markus Bangers）表示，该港口每年处理约 2 亿吨货物，每年接待超过 20,000 艘船只。

莱茵河塑造了德国工业实力的地理格局，因为各公司沿其岸边建设了工厂和贸易路线。德国制造业的支柱——巴斯夫（BASF）、梅赛德斯-奔驰（Mercedes-Benz）、拜耳（Bayer）和蒂森克虏伯（ThyssenKrupp）——均分布在沿线。每年有近 2 亿吨货物通过其水路运输。莱茵河将北海的鹿特丹港与德国三大最大的工业集群连接起来，沿途连接着炼油厂、钢铁厂、化工厂、燃煤电厂等。运输单艘河驳船的货物需要多达 500 辆卡车或一整列货运火车。

ING 银行的布伦利（Brünnli）先生表示，即使是替代方案也很复杂。“铁路同样是一场灾难，”他补充道。而且目前，由于施工，沿河运行的其中一条路线无法使用。

分析显示，2018 年的一场严酷干旱导致工厂关闭，最终使当时的德国总产出削减了 6.5%。不过，德国联邦内河航运协会（一家行业团体）主任延斯·施瓦本（Jens Schwaben）表示，这次经历促使工业界和官员们变得更加审慎。“我们不能让水神奇地出现，”他说。

相反，公司采取了适应措施。他们针对低水位时段制定了更好的计划。他们在深水港建设了更多存储空间，以便在水道干涸时货物仍能继续交付。西门子能源（Siemens Energy）就采取了这一策略，其 500 吨的涡轮机体积如此庞大，无法通过铁路或公路运输。

此外，人们还开始建造吃水更浅的船只，采用不同的材料和更宽的设计。大型螺旋桨虽然效率更高，但在浅水中无法工作。因此，一些新设计采用了多个较小的螺旋桨或特殊的外壳，以 马库斯·拉佩茨（Markus Lapertz）的雕塑《Echo des Prostides》矗立在杜伊斯堡港入口处暴露的河床之上（左），以及极端低水位期间的莱茵河河床（右）。

一项研究表明，一个月低水位可能会使德国工业产出削减 1%，并引发经济放缓。

“很高兴看到这些措施正在发挥作用，”杜伊斯堡港负责人班格斯先生说。“我们的处境比八年前好得多。”

但升级速度缓慢。在往返于莱茵河的近 6,000 艘货船中，只有约十几艘是专门为应对低水位而设计的。而且，交通速度减慢、载重量减轻以及采取替代路线会导致成本增加。根据德国汽车官员的说法，汽油通过河运的德国消费者每升需多支付高达 15 分钱。

德国研究中心基尔世界经济研究所（Kiel Institute for the World Economy）的一项分析得出结论：“低水位导致内河水路运输严重中断，并造成经济活动显著且具有经济意义的下降。”基尔研究所发现，在低水位持续一个月后，“德国的工业产值下降约 1%”。基尔研究所研究主任斯特凡·克诺塔（Stefan Knotha）表示：“对于一个‘在较长时间内一直处于停滞而非显著增长’的国家来说，这已经相当多了。”

欧洲边界之外不断爆发的危机也打击了该地区的经济。伊朗的战争以及诺曼（Norman）和罗哈尔-马西达特（Roh al-Masidat）部队前线对贸易和能源交付的干扰，推高了油价和箔材价格。对冲突导致价格上涨的担忧促使欧洲中央银行在 6 月份提高了利率。与此同时，欧洲基本上在打两场贸易战：一场是针对廉价商品泛滥而与中国进行的贸易战，另一场是针对一系列关税而与美国进行的贸易战。

地缘政治和地理因素都在造成损失，且未来情况将进一步恶化。冬季阿尔卑斯山降雪量减少导致今年夏天河流水位降低。目前的干旱意味着流入河流的雨水减少。高温天气使情况进一步恶化，导致地表水蒸发，并在季节非常早期的阶段降低了水位。预计未来几周将出现更多无雨的酷热天气。

克里斯托弗·F·舒特（Christopher F. Schuette）发自杜伊斯堡，帕特里夏·科恩（Patricia Cohen）发自伦敦。 --- B6 国际 / 政策

国际足联高管被要求支持将世界杯股份出售给一名库什纳

（接商业版首页）库什纳——特朗普总统的非合伙人阿道夫·库什纳的兄弟——试图进入私人历史领域，分摊世界杯的份额。在过去的 84 年里，世界杯一直由位于苏黎世的非营利组织国际足联（FIFA）运行和控制。

在数月的秘密筹划中，与约书亚·库什纳（Joshua Kushner）主持的 Thrive Everest 及摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase）合作的计划，除了少数几个秘密高管外，对所有人保密。该委员会的作用是重启重大财务交易，但三名知情人士表示，五名成员中的大多数此前并未听说过该计划。

这三个人表示，他们离开会议时认为，未出席会议的国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）将会获胜，而他们则陷入了停滞。据其中一人透露，一些委员会成员在私下讨论他们的疑虑，以及如果反对像因凡蒂诺先生这样对其职业生涯拥有巨大权力的人会产生什么后果。

这三个人表示，在截止日期前，三名成员签署了即将到期的协议，两名成员没有签署。支持者包括秘书长马丁·格里德曼（Martian Gridirman）、法律主管埃克塞尔达·加西亚（Exelda Garcia）和幕僚长埃兰·奥图尔（Eran O'Heale）；首席运营官凯文·拉穆尔（Kevin Lamour）和财务主管托马斯·佩耶（Thomas Peyer）则拒绝支持。凭借多数票，因凡蒂诺先生推进了计划。

《泰晤士报》和《金融时报》在 7 月 28 日披露了因凡蒂诺先生的计划，引发了全球范围内的愤怒浪潮。全球足球界的各个角落都出现了对抗，许多权势人物声明他们未被咨询。此后，因凡蒂诺先生的几位高级副手也站出来表示，他们同样被蒙在鼓里。

国际足联拒绝置评。

在世界杯决赛前那个周六举行的委员会会议，以及向其成员施压要求签署该项目的情况，此前尚未被报道。事情的经过凸显了这样一个事实：即便因凡蒂诺先生在与 Thrive Capital 和摩根大通制定计划时，他也将这一想法对除紧密核心圈以外的所有人保密，甚至排除了国际足联内部的许多重要人物。

三名知情人士表示，在五名委员会成员中，只有被因凡蒂诺先生委派与银行家共同制定计划的年轻工作人员奥图尔先生在该项目中承担了实质性角色，他已经为此工作了数月。

委员会的批准是使该计划最终通过的第一步。国际足联最重要的决定通常要经过一个规模大得多的团体，称为“国际足联委员会”（FIFA Church），该团体由来自世界各地的足球领导人组成。他们不是国际足联的雇员，而是成员协会的官员。然而，这三个人表示，因凡蒂诺先生希望找到一种无需该要求即可达成交易的方法。

由欧洲大陆 10 个足球国家组成的欧洲足球管理机构（SFA）领导了随后的反对行动，威胁其所有球队将抵制包括世界杯在内的所有国际足联赛事。亚洲、北美和加勒比地区的类似区域机构也公开批评该计划背后秘密运作的权力，以及国际足联要求他们签署协议的激进要求。

包括英国监狱大臣安迪·伯尚斯（Andy Burshans）在内的政治人物，与足球界的知名人士一起谴责该计划。尽管他投票支持了格里德曼先生——格里德曼先生作为国际足联秘书长是该组织最高行政官员——他将所发生的事情描述为“热忱且可代表的一系列事件”，并试图在员工与因凡蒂诺先生之间划清界限。

7月31日，因凡蒂诺先生放弃了该计划。周三，国际足联（FIFA）向其成员发起了一场当地活动，由因凡蒂诺先生和格里德曼先生共同签署，为所发生的事情道歉并承诺从中吸取教训。同一天，因凡蒂诺先生在摩洛哥与他的高级职员举行了危机磋商。据两名知情人士透露，其中两人因两名高级职员呼吁为其陷入困境的观点争取支持而感到震惊。因凡蒂诺先生已获得几个有影响力的足球协会的公开支持，例如来自卡塔尔和阿拉伯联合酋长国的支持，以及许多依赖国际足联数百万美元运营资金的小型协会。因凡蒂诺先生用什么来说服格里德曼先生和其他国际足联领导人支持他，目前尚不清楚。他在Instagram上发布了一张他与格里德曼先生握手致谢的照片。尽管做出了这些努力，危机尚未结束。在周四的一份声明中，作为欧洲足球管理机构的国际足联继续威胁称，除非因凡蒂诺先生重新启动，否则将发起抵制。

西班牙球员上个月庆祝赢得世界杯。欧洲足球管理机构一直领导反对出售国际足联20 percent股份的计划。

国际足联主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（左上）倾向于将该组织的股份出售给一个团体，其中包括约书亚·库什纳（右上），他是特朗普总统的non-joiner贾里德·库什纳的兄弟。右上，国际足联秘书长马丁·格里德曼是私有化计划的三个“赞成”票之一。

中国工厂在贸易反弹中找到热切买家，尽管面临贸易抵制

作者：DASHRE WARABAYASHI SUN 8:00

又一个月，中国的贸易盈余再次超过 1000 亿美元 billion。即便全球各国正采取行动限制中国商品的流入，中国的出口依然在持续推进。根据海关总署周五发布的数据，中国 7 月份的贸易盈余为 325 亿美元 billion。这已经是连续第三个月中国的出口额超过进口额 1000 亿美元 billion——这一惊人数字使该国有望打破去年的记录：12.9 亿美元 billion（增长 1.6%）。以美元计算，中国的出口增长了 23.9%，而进口增长了 27.5%。

研究机构凯投宏观（Capital Economics）的中国经济主管 Julian Evam-Pritchard 在一份研究报告中表示，这些数据表明中国出口的势头“依然强劲”。战争在较小程度上干扰了通过美国的石油和天然气运输，包括中国电动汽车和非车辆能源产品。受产能过剩和价格上涨压力影响，中国制造商的利润有所下降，因此他们通过向海外市场提供低成本商品来寻求在国外增长。

巨大的贸易盈余已成为中国公司在多个行业中日益占据主导地位的主要因素。欧盟已对从中国进口的电动汽车征收关税，理由是国家补贴使中国制造商在面对欧洲竞争对手时拥有额外优势。中国的出口实力也起到了一定的缓冲作用，缓解了中国国内经济的压力，而国内经济仍深受长达一年的房地产

衰退以及消费者支出疲软的持续影响。在第二季度，经济增长率处于三年来的最低水平。

尽管唐纳德·特朗普总统在第二任期伊始发出了威胁，但中国顶住了与美国的贸易对抗，并处于相对强势的地位。上个月，特朗普政府对中国商品征收了 12.5% 的关税，这与应用于其他国家地区的税率大致相当。7 月份，中国对美国的出口额增长至 15 亿美元 billion。

但在过去几周里，在北京和华盛顿之间，贸易紧张局势在预期的 2.5 航运战之前出现了升级迹象。2.5 顶级领导人将于 9 月访问美国。上个月，美国宣布禁止新的中国水平精炼厂，这成为了贸易争端的一个源头。中国则通过宣布一系列应对措施予以回应，包括对直接技术的出口限制。

中国出口也受益于全球对人工智能的消费热潮。与 4.1, 相关的电子产品出货量（包括半导体和数据中心设备）大幅增加。人工智能相关支出，以及原材料和商品价格的上涨，也帮助提升了进口额。

中国的石油进口在 7 月份从上个月回升，上个月的出货量曾跌至十年低点。作为通常全球最大的石油进口国，中国在春季因价格跳升以及来自波斯湾的运输显著放缓而削减了采购量。7 月份的石油进口量比 6 月份增长了 22%，尽管仍比一年前的水平低近 25%。采购量的回升凸显了中国大规模石油储备的规模，以及在减少对化石燃料依赖方面取得的进展。

与此同时，中国 7 月份的精炼石油产品出口连续第四个月增长，达到今年最高水平。中国在 3 月左右对精炼燃料出口实施了管制以保护国内供应，但在近几个月放宽了这些限制。

U. 贡献的研究。

特朗普重启解雇美联储官员的尝试

作者：COURT SMITH 和 MAGGIE HARRIMAN

特朗普总统在与美联储官员丽莎·S·库克（Lisa S. Cook）的斗争中开辟了新战线，他去年曾试图将其免职但未能成功。在周三发出的一封信函中，白宫告知库克女士，她任职于理事会，而白宫正在“考虑”将其免职。这封信由白宫副办公厅主任丹·苏塞林（Dan Sucerin）签署，给予库克女士 15 天时间就此前关于她涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈的指控做出回应。尽管政府首次提出这些指控已过去一年，但库克女士尚未被指控犯罪，也没有被判定有过错。

此次升级发生在特朗普先生 6 月遭遇重大法律挫折之后。当时最高法院以 5-4 的投票结果裁定，特朗普先生去年 8 月试图解雇的库克女士应当获得正式纠正针对其指控的能力。在支持下级法院的决定时，最高法院将处理错误决定期限的能力交还给了法院，该期限将于 2026. 结束。但最高法院留下了 40 处未解决的问题，为特朗普先生重启攻击提供了机会。

大法官们并未阐明允许特朗普先生解雇库克女士的完整法律标准。《联邦储备法》规定，总统只有在“有正当理由”的情况下才能免除在任美联储官员的职务，长期以来，这被解释为严重过失或玩忽职守。大法官们也没有就针对她的法院指控（围绕她持有多种房产抵押贷款的问题）是否基于随意弱点给出意见。库克女士则暗示这些是关键错误。

“这些指控现在和一年前一样毫无根据

丽莎·S·库克在 6 月赢得了法律胜利，并继续留在美联储理事会。”库克女士的律师艾尔斯·莱诺夫（Ailes Lenoff）和凯文·埃塞尔（Kevin Eisele）在一份声明中表示，“无论特朗普总统接下来尝试做什么，根据事实和最高法院提供的结论，这一点很明确——没有正当理由可以像之前那样解雇库克理事。我们将挑战这封信函，维护其职位以及美联储之间的平衡。”

在早前由 ABC 新闻报道的信函中，苏塞林先生表示，美联储已经有了“严重的‘方式’”，足以证明你犯了罪，因为你似乎获得了不符合当日标准的抵押贷款。持有政府在基础环境下本可以获得优惠贷款条款的贷款。

“基于这些事实，陪审团可能会认定你意图为了自身利益欺诈这些机构，但至少，这种行为属于严重过失，并证明你不适合担任美联储控制成员这一职务，”苏塞林先生在信中补充道。

特朗普先生长期以来一直寻求对美联储拥有更多控制权。5 月，在杰罗姆·H·鲍威尔（Jerome H. Powell）任期结束后，他有机会任命一名新的美联储主席——凯文·M·沃德（Kevin M. Ward）。然而，作为总统主要目标之一的鲍威尔先生，由于担心特朗普先生企图破坏美联储的独立性，决定继续担任理事，他可以担任至 2026, 1 月。

这些担忧在很大程度上源于司法部决定对鲍威尔先生在处理华盛顿美联储总部昂贵保险问题上的行为启动刑事调查。在经历多次法律挫折后，司法部放弃了该调查，尽管哥伦比亚特区美国检察官安蒂妮·特里（Auntine Terry）坚持认为法律尊重在最高点。

特朗普先生希望降低借贷利率，并且过去曾指责美联储因未能完成而阻碍经济增长。如果他能够罢免库克女士，特朗普先生可能会任命一名盟友来接替她，尽管前者必须确认董事会成员。随着沃德先生掌权，总统对美联储的批评态度发生了转变。他基本上停止了直接攻击沃德先生的错误，因为美联储能够更积极地考虑提高利率以提高其。相反，特朗普先生攻击了沃德先生在美联储的同事，称他们“敌对”且“具有政治色彩”。在接受 Punchbowl News 采访时，特朗普先生重申了他对低利率的偏好，但承认这并非由沃德先生一人决定。“这在一定程度上取决于他，但并非完全如此。而且他面对的是一个非常有政治色彩的董事会，”特朗普先生说道。在最近关于经济前景的评论中，库克女士表示，如果通货膨胀不能很快缓解，她将支持更高的利率。--- 2026年8月9日，星期六 B7

体育 纽约时报

职业美式足球 / 名人堂

从 40 码处。

一段不可思议的旅程将维纳蒂耶里送往俄亥俄州坎顿

作者：扎尔·基弗 (ZAR KEEFER) 编辑

在雪地中的那次踢球以及赢得超级碗的那次踢球之前，还有另一次踢球——那是开启职业橄榄球名人堂生涯的一次踢球。或者应该说，是挽救了名人堂生涯的一次踢球。这次踢球具有典型的亚当·维纳蒂耶里 (Adam Vinatieri) 风格，只不过在当时，还没有所谓的“维纳蒂耶里风格”。这次踢球距离球门 40 码，处于加时赛，胜负就在此一举，狂风呼啸，教练焦虑，观众紧张，球场上泥泞不堪，以至于当地报纸写道，这里“像是一处一战时期的泥潭”。如果维纳蒂耶里在 Sept. 22, 1966, 没有将球踢进右立柱之内击败杰克逊维尔美洲虎队，他的 NFL 生涯很有可能在四场比赛后就结束了。他会在第二天被裁掉，而对于一个来自南达科他州立大学 II 级联赛、大四时射门成功率仅为 10% 的平庸大学踢球手来说，市场几乎不存在。他曾被一名防守截锋顶替了位置，未被选入选秀，在 NFL 欧洲联赛度过了一年，随后在职业生涯开局的 8 次尝试中踢丢了 5 次。

备选计划是读医学院。维纳蒂耶里一直认为自己会成为一名心脏外科医生。对于新英格兰爱国者队那位脾气火爆的教练比尔·帕罗蒂斯 (Bill Parrotis) 来说，这完全没问题，因为他已经对这个新秀踢球手失去了耐心。那个夏天他把维纳蒂耶里带到训练营的唯一原因，是为了给他的 17 年老将马特·巴尔 (Matt Bahr) 施压，巴尔是帕罗蒂斯的宠儿，曾帮助他在 1990 年带领纽约巨人队赢得超级碗。

“我要给你一个机会，让我看看你有什么本事，”帕罗蒂斯告诉维纳蒂耶里。即使维纳蒂耶里在训练营中击败巴尔赢得了这个位置，他对此职位的掌控感也从未觉得稳固。帕罗蒂斯警告他不要向新闻媒体吹嘘。而赛季开局的一系列失误，包括在第二周以 7 分之差输给布法罗比尔队时的 3 次失误，以及一周后的 2 次失误，使得维纳蒂耶里在进入爱国者队第四周对阵美洲虎队的比赛前处于岌岌可危的境地。

“踢球手的位置是每周评估的，”教练告诉记者。维纳蒂耶里后来告诉我，他明白这意味着什么。那次采访以及本文使用的其他采访，是在我担任《印第安纳波利斯星报》的印第安纳波利斯小马队随队记者期间进行的。巴尔当时只需要一个电话就能被召回。

维纳蒂耶里能接触到职业橄榄球本身就是一个奇迹，而且可以说，在职业橄榄球名人堂的 367 名成员中——维纳蒂耶里将于周六下午作为 2026 届成员入选，其他成员还包括四分卫德鲁·布伦特 (Drew Brent)、跑卫罗杰·克雷格 (Roger Craig)、线卫卢克·卡塞利 (Luke Karsely) 和外接手拉里·菲茨杰拉德 (Larry Fitzgerald Jr.) ——没有人比他通往俄亥俄州坎顿的道路更充满波折。

在南达科他州立大学的四个赛季中，维纳蒂耶里的成功次数 (27) 仅比失败次数 (20) 多了一次。他在大四时 12 次尝试中仅成功 4 次，并在赛季中期被一名叫吉姆·博通 (Jim Bottone) 的防守截锋顶替，后者更倾向于强力冲撞技术（在萨拉森看来，维纳蒂耶里的教练们做出了正确的决定。博通那年附加分的成功率为 10 次中的 9 次）。

虽然未被选入选秀但并未气馁，且愿意推迟几年读医学院，维纳蒂耶里寻求他能找到的最佳教练的指导：一个坐在轮椅上的男人。道格·布莱文斯 (Doug Blevins) 天生患有脑瘫，一生从未参加过一场橄榄球赛。但他精通踢球。于是，维纳蒂耶里将生活用品全部装进一辆皮卡车，在深夜驱车 18 小时前往弗吉尼亚州阿宾登的布莱文斯家中，并在车后座睡觉直到布莱文斯醒来。然后他恳求对方帮助。

他们连续几个月每天进行训练。维纳蒂耶里住在的一居室公寓里，晚上在餐厅当服务员以支付房租。一年后，在布莱文斯的敦促下，维纳蒂耶里为美国橄榄球世界联赛的阿姆斯特丹海军将领队踢球——该联赛后来被定名为 NFL 欧洲联赛。在国外的一年帮助他引起了两支 NFL 球队的关注。最终，这两支球队成为了他整个 24 年 NFL 生涯中效力的全部球队。

在与爱国者队进行第一次训练营之前，他的野心并不大。“我想也许能坚持三、四年，”维纳蒂埃（Vinatieri）说道，“我只是想在生活中抢占先机，口袋里有点钱，也许足够帮我支付医学院的学费。”帕罗蒂斯（Parrotis）认为他几周之内就会离开。教练让这个新人的生活变得极其痛苦。那是1996年，当时球队在整个七月和八月仍会进行每天两次的训练，而续见B9页 扎克·基弗（Zak Keefer）是《The Athletic》的高级撰稿人。当爱国者队的教练比尔·帕罗蒂斯（Bill Parrotis）在1996赛季第4周对阵美洲虎队时，派亚当·维纳蒂埃（Adam Vinatieri）去踢一个40码的加时赛射门时，这位踢球手意识到他的名单席位正处于危急之中。

为了加时赛的胜利。

## 也许还为了他的职业生涯。

ZAR DAVID, THE BRITISH GAME, NO GETTY RINGS

JAY HANETTA, MINORITY FROM --- B8 纽约时报 体育 2020年8月8, 2020，星期六 # 足球 # 《Ted Lasso》如何也发现了对女足的热爱 作者 ARLI PETO The Athlete 当《Ted Lasso》的创作者决定在中断两年后回归时，他们本可以采取简单的路径。由于发行日期是基于 2020 年世界杯设定的，这位深受美国人喜爱的足球教练本可以回到 A.F.C. Richmond，重新执掌这家（虚构）俱乐部的男队，该队目前正在英超联赛中竞争。与 Beard 教练一起重启，他们本可以与那些将这部 Apple TV 系列剧变成全球现象的熟悉角色一起面对全新的挑战，并将他标志性的金色速写粉丝剪辑盒交给 Richmond 的老板 Rebecca Wolscot，而她则与其他个人继续进行。相反，周三在 Apple TV 首播的最新故事将剧情带向了不同的方向。第 4 季讲述了 A.F.C. Richmond 女足队在英格兰近期组别中争取升级的故事，将电视上最受喜爱的伙伴之一锚定在快速增长的

一家足球俱乐部的所有者得以窥见幕后。世界上最受欢迎的运动：女子足球。国家女子足球联赛（N.W.S.L.）的球迷们会认出首集故事的背景，其中包括一场在 CFPEC 体育场举行的比赛，堪萨斯城电流队（Kansas City Current）的 16 岁以下组，以及该联赛首个专门为职业女子足球俱乐部构建的统计数据展示。这一选择不仅反映了该剧的新剧情线，也反映了这项运动正在改变的现实。“我是在观看上一季结尾时第一次了解到这个想法的，”电流队的大股东安吉·隆（Angie Long）在季首播前的一次采访中表示。“他们引入了一支女子球队，我记得当时在想：‘一支女子球队。’这很有意思。”“回想起来，我想这至少在某种程度上为如何正确地执行提供了灵感。”虽然《雷德·拉索》（Red Lasso）帮助加深了美国人对足球的喜爱，直到 2020 年男子足球才取得胜利，但对女子比赛的兴趣在运动员双方迅速增长。在美国，N.W.S.L. 特许经营权的价值持续攀升，人们正投资于这项运动，俱乐部们也在大举投入人才。Asif Pettit 是《运动员》（The Athlete）杂志报道女子足球的职员。在英格兰，女子超级联赛也正在经历类似的繁荣，新的所有权团体和少数股东正在购买俱乐部，希望利用该运动快速的商业增长获利。“我认为我们这些从事女子体育的人知道过去五年里它发生了多么大的变化，”隆解释道。“我认为对于其他人来说，他们看到这部剧会说，‘哇，它如此亮眼’。”当该剧的制片人找到安吉·隆和她的丈夫克里斯·隆（Chris Long）时，这种联系绝非偶然。决定在密苏里州堪萨斯城开启第 4, 季的决定来自该剧的联合执行制片人杰森·萨迪什（Jason Saddish），他是一名堪萨斯城本地人，并且已成为电流队比赛的常客。“他是娱乐行业中一群真正热爱这座城市的堪萨斯城人的成员，”安吉·隆说。“我们越了解他，就越发现他本身就是一名狂热的女子体育迷。”这种热爱最终塑造了这部电视领域最大特许经营剧集之一的新一季。《泰德·拉索》（Ted Lasso）最初是由萨迪什和布伦丹·亨特（Brendan Hunt，饰演 Coach Beard）在 2000 年代初在阿姆斯特丹演出期间为短剧创作的一个角色。十年后，拉索这个角色成为了 300 为其新获得的英超联赛转播权所做的病毒式广告宣传活动。这位处变不惊的美国教练在英格兰足球界的冒险故事引起了轰动，并最终在 2020 年被改编为《泰德·拉索》电视剧集，随后赢得了 10 项艾美奖。但也许该剧最大的成就是让许多美国人接触到了足球文化和热情。在第 4 季第一集的开头，科多伊·琼斯（Kodoy Jones，由 Jason Tinsley 饰演）走进 CFPEC 体育场并经过。她环顾四周，这是她本季的第一次亮相，并与怀尔德（Wilder，由 Hannah Waldringham 饰演）产生了一个灵感瞬间。也许 A.F.C. Richmond 的女子球队应该拥有一个属于自己的体育场。对于观众来说，这只是一句推动新一季剧情的随口之言，但对于那些笑声来说，这种情感反应验证了多年的投资。“我认为那是最好的台词之一，”克里斯·隆说。但即使在没有摄像机的时候，这种新气象也存在。在一次访问 CFPEC 的过程中，剧组将亲身体验 N.W.S.L. 的氛围。“詹斯说，‘当我走进这里时，我哭了，’”克里斯·隆回忆道。“不是科多伊，而是真实的 June Trojans。这是一种能够唤起如此多快乐的成就感。”汤姆派尔（Tompile）的反应正是隆夫妇希望首次到访者能感受到的。2024 年在密苏里州堪萨斯城 CFPEC 体育场举行的一场比赛，该体育场最近成为了电视剧《泰德·拉索》的取景地。塔尼娅·雷诺兹（Tanya Reynolds）和杰森·萨迪什在《泰德·拉索》第 4 季的场景中，该剧于周三在 Apple TV 首播。

当他们走在自己的 12,500 座体育场中时。他们相信数百万观众将在自己的客厅活动中体验到同样的感觉。朗（Long）夫妇在看到美国国家女子足球队在 2015. 捧起第四座世界杯奖杯后，看到了投资女足的机会。2020, 12月，他们与曾在第一分区（Division 10）踢球并在爱尔兰担任了一季职业球员的布里塔尼·马尔代夫（Brittany, Maldives）联手，购买了犹他皇家队（Utah Royals）特许经营权的所有权，并将其迁至堪萨斯城。马林内（Malinene）的丈夫、堪萨斯城酋长队四分卫帕特里克（Patrick）于 2020. 加入了该投资集团。作为该联盟的创始俱乐部之一，堪萨斯城足球俱乐部（F.C. Kansas City）在该地区运营至 2017. 。新俱乐部堪萨斯城 N.W.S.L. 于 2021 回到联盟，并在次年更名为堪萨斯城电流队（Kansas City Current）。朗夫妇进一步落实他们的愿景，私人出资 1.2亿美元 建设了 CFPEC 体育场，该体育场于 2021. 开业。这项投资得到了回报。在 3 号，电流队进入了季后赛系列赛，并在去年赢得了 N.W.S.L. 盲选赛（blind），该奖项授予常规赛积分最高的球队。在场外，根据福布斯（Forbes）的数据，它是 N.W.S.L. 中增长最快的俱乐部之一，预计每年产生 $2800 万 的收入。

“这像是火上浇油，”安吉·朗（Angie Long）在提到新一季《泰德·拉索》（Ted Lasso）的第一集时说道。“人们会观看并说，‘哇，多么高质量，多么棒的体验。’这正是我们希望人们谈论我们比赛的方式。”在制作期间，剧组和朗夫妇对他们所经历的一切都印象深刻。据朗夫妇描述，演员们很快就接纳了这家俱乐部和这座城市。克里斯·朗（Chris Long）说，他经常觉得演员们“不像在工作”，而且“爱上了电流队”。

“我觉得他们非常享受，因为显然他们都是某些体育赛事的超级粉丝，”克里斯·朗补充道。“但这真的将其提升到了另一个水平，因为《泰德·拉索》是一部拥有多元化演员阵容且具有人际关系支撑的剧集。”对于朗夫妇来说，观看世界上最受欢迎的足球喜剧不仅将他们的体育场变成了实景拍摄地，还让他们获得了一次难得的机会去窥见幕后。拍摄让他们得以一瞥电视制作背后艰辛的过程。他们大约在早上 7 点就开始做发型和化妆，然后演员和群众演员在被摄像机、麦克风和照明设备包围的环境中花费数小时。手工操作强化了场景，而摄像机压力精细化了角度和调度，允许主演在一切准备就绪时才入场。安吉·朗回忆说，在导演审查素材并重复拍摄同一场景之前，经常有很长一段时间在等待更多火车。他们甚至经历了看到自己的一个场景被删掉的心碎。

“还有另一个场景，是我们作为所有者被介绍给丽贝卡（Rebecca）的场景，遗憾的是没能保留下来，”克里斯·朗说。“那是我们唯一一天成为美国演员工会（Screen Actors Guild）成员的日子。”尽管场景被删，这对夫妇在主演之后仍有短暂出镜。“我们体验了一天好莱坞的生活，”安吉·朗说。“而且体验很棒。”

现在，在接下来的两个月里，《泰德·拉索》可能成为让更多人爱上女足比赛的入口。“我们刚刚经历了一场不可思议的世界杯，”克里斯·朗说。他补充道：“现在你把这部剧接在后面。你有了在巴西举行的女足世界杯，紧接着是奥运会。一个接一个的大型赛事，我无法想象人们不会以更盛大的方式接纳这项运动。”

新任 M.L.S. 专员：“潜力巨大”

作者：PAUL TENORIO 《新闻》

当所有权投票结束时，洛杉矶 F.C. 的共同所有者 Research Rosenthal 和哥伦布中心的所有者 Jimmy Haslam 试图在曼哈顿的一处美国职业足球大联盟（Major League Soccer）总部寻找 Lark。在他们找到他时，消息已经开始泄露。国会议员陀思欣（Congressman陀思欣）在他身边，新消息是全票通过的。他将成为下一任 M.L.S. 专员。他们将 Berg（他也是洛杉矶 F.C. 的所有者）带回会议室，那里有其他 28 位所有者在场。他们以起立鼓掌的方式迎接这位专员成员。

周二，Rosenthal 和 Haslam 共同分享了 M.L.S. 在其 30 年历史中选出专员的成功率，他们邀请 Berg 参加庆祝晚餐，但被他拒绝了。“我得工作，” 说，“我有很多工作要做。”

曾任私募股权公司阿波罗全球管理公司（Apollo Global Management）的负责人，他将于 1 月 1 日起正式全职接任专员一职。担任专员 27 年之久的 Don Garber 将在 2017 年合同结束前继续担任主席。

是一名终身足球迷，在新泽西州 Center Hall 长大，曾在高中州足球季后赛中输给美国世界杯老将 Peter Terence。 表示，在过去的 40 年里，无论是亲临现场还是通过电视观看，他只错过了一场美国国家男子足球队的比赛。

他称 M.L.S. 专员这份工作“令人兴奋”。“这是我一辈子的热情所在，从 4 岁就开始了，” 在被介绍前几个小时告诉 The Athlete，“我并不确切知道为什么，但这一直深深地根植在我的脑海中。我不确定这种对足球的巨大渴望是否正常，但我确实想去做这件事，并且做得更好，在”

Paul Tenorio 是 The Athlete 的资深 M.L.S. 撰稿人。

一位领导者将接管一个寻求升级的联盟。最终也许能赢得世界杯待命。”他补充道：“在戴维斯的领导下，我们显然拥有了 M.L.S. 的所有权团队，相当具有开拓性，但我认为仍有很大的上升空间，我想看到这一点开花结果。”Berg 将有大量工作要做——他第一次接手这份工作，正值 M.L.S. 将日历翻转为夏春赛制之前的“吉他赛季”开始。这一变化将伴随着对竞争结构的相应调整，包括分区和新的季后赛形式。联盟所有者还在研究一种新的阵容投资模型，该模型可能必须与 M.L.S. 球员协会的新集体谈判协议挂钩。目前的协议将于 2026年1月31日到期。Berg 表示，他相信 M.L.S. 能够在 2017-28 赛季开始前完成这些变更，尽管 M.L.S. 董事会对联盟在演进其球场产品方面应如何前进持有相反观点。他举了一个他曾协助解决的方案作为弥合分歧的例子，即在开赛和竞争中允许球队选择三名指定球员，或者选择两名指定球员并获得额外的薪资空间以及一项额外的 52 岁以下计划。 “我觉得一切皆有可能，” 说。“这是我较擅长的技能之一，即交易达成者的技巧：发挥创意，激励人们，使他们达成一致。这并不容易。不同的所有者对于如何操作有不同的看法。每个人都想前进，但他们想以不同的方式前进。”他补充道：“你可能会遇到这些障碍，然后你找到这个出路，而对我来说，挑战在于大规模地执行，并且与 20 位所有者共同完成。对此我充满期待。” 将立即与 Garber 协作处理三个问题，Garber 表示“这个联盟的未来交到了 Larry 手中，而我的角色是帮助他取得成功”。 称 是“过去五年对我而言的一位伟大导师”，并表示他很欣慰地知道 在 2021 年之前将担任正式职务，并且“可能在非正式地为 16 联盟服务”。“我们将研究出我们需要做什么，以执行该联盟历史上最重要的转型之一，” 说。“如果我们能共同完成，那么我们将获得成功。” 表示，他对美国国家队的热情使青训成为他的关注重点，并且这是改善球场产品的长期解决方案的重要组成部分。“青训是一个巨大的机会。”“我们已经拥有了城市，但我认为我们可以继续使其变得更好。为年轻球员提供更多机会，在正确级别上建立更多球队，所以这确实在我的清单上。”他指出了世界杯的成功，以及 M.L.S. 在赛事球员中日益增长的作用，这对所有者来说是一个重要的营销点，但他也表示，这在建立粉丝群方面提出了另一个指标。“真正建立这个联盟的唯一途径最终是显著的增长带动显著的媒体增长，进而带动更显著的粉丝增长，并成为第一手资料，” 说。一份新的媒体协议将成为其中的重要部分。M.L.S. 将很快重新进入市场，其目前的协议将于 2020 年到期。不——它是产品优先，对吧？首先是球场上的质量。是季后赛。是分区。是新的日历，” 说。“如果我们能让这一切运转起来，尤其是现在，这几乎就像 Dearing，对吧？我有这个我提到过的‘火箭启动’，来自 Mr. Chris Day。即使在这里，人们也对讨论它感兴趣。”

寻找新专员的工作在去年秋天开始，当时Haslam和Rosenthal被选入一个由8人组成的监督委员会来负责此次搜寻。该委员会还包括1,000（堪萨斯城竞技队高层，纳什维尔的John Ingram，新泽西州议会）的新英格兰评论员，以及芝加哥女性代表、NY以及红牛纽约队的Oliver Marshall。委员会聘请了Kevin Perry来领导此次搜寻。最初确定了125个人选，随后该群体被缩小至25人，接着减少到13人，最后剩下6人。最终的6名候选人在6月的芝加哥进行了演示并再次接受了两天的面试，随后选出了最终的3人。这三人分别是Berg，前自由执行官David Nichaman，以及长期担任粉丝公告执行官的Patrago Morales。据知情人士透露，委员会表示他们正在寻找一位能够帮助M.L.S.演变为Larry Berg的“变革型领导者”，洛杉矶FC的所有者Larry Berg将于1月1日起正式就任专员一职。Don Garber将在其2017年合同结束前继续担任主席。更长期的协议在当地更具影响力；在国家和全球层面也更具相关性。Marathi退出了考虑范围——他也离开了第一名，以专注于该组织的欧洲足球队——这使得Berg和Nachaman在周一的投票前进行最终演示。最终，曾担任开幕与竞赛委员会（一个监督场上产品的强大分委会）共同主席的Berg赢得了投票。“Larry是一位非常有能力的执行官，”Haslam说。“Apollo是全球顶尖的F.E.公司之一，他参与创建了那家公司。然后他为Josh Harris工作，我认为他对比赛的认知、对比赛的热爱、他的商业背景以及他对联盟的理解。我们有20位优秀的业主和合作伙伴，但我认为Larry作为一名业主，比我们任何一个业主都更努力地工作，在联盟中投入的时间也更多。”Rosenthal表示：“人们可能会认为L.A.F.C.是一个拥有大市场的，但Larry和他的妻子关注产品战略。我认为，他向每个人证明了他有能力处理所有人的需求和顾虑，然后解决它并三年级men并推动做出决定。Berg能够引导一个群体达成共识并做出决定，进而采取行动，这也是我们非常关注的一点。” --- » B9 职业足球 / 名人堂

一场艰难的演讲：历经30年酝酿，被悲恸重新书写

拉里·菲茨杰拉德在六月失去了他的父亲

作者：道格·哈勒 (DOUG HALLER) 格伦代尔，亚利桑那州 —— 在进入职业橄榄球名人堂的庆典前几周，拉里·菲茨杰拉德（Larry Fitzgerald）正在完成一篇将成为他足球生涯中最令人难忘的演讲稿。作为一名细致的计划者，他曾向 29 位以上的人名堂成员寻求建议，探讨在俄亥俄州坎顿（Canton, Ohio）应该期待什么。在一次对话阶段，这位前亚利桑那红雀队（Arizona Cardinals）的接球手菲茨杰拉德开始感谢那些提供建议的人，这组名单包括佩顿·曼宁（Peyton Manning）、沃纳（Warner）、曼（Mann）、埃米特·史密斯（Emmett Smith）和兰迪·莫斯（Randy Moos）。

“由于过去一个月发生的一切，这篇演讲稿与我在四月和五月准备的内容相比发生了显著变化，”菲茨杰拉德在谈到他的名人堂演讲时说道。“我一遍又一遍地练习，但随后父亲的情况恶化了。”

6月1日，菲茨杰拉德的父亲去世了。此前，在排练演讲时，菲茨杰拉德曾思考自己在人群面前讨论 30 年的足球生涯以及所有帮助过他的人时会有怎样的反应。他将其比作在红雀队设施内的一周练习与周日在 70,000 人面前比赛的区别。这是两种完全不同的情感层面。

然后这件事发生了。他原计划由父亲在入选仪式上为其介绍。（他的儿子德文 [Devin]，一名圣母大学的）现在将接替此任务。突然之间，他必须面对父亲只能以精神形式在场的事实。

拉里·菲茨杰拉德（的长辈）是一位受人尊敬的明尼苏达州体育记者。他因一种希望保密的疾病在 75 岁时去世。他参加了二月的超级碗，并目睹了其子作为 2018 年名人堂入选成员之一被接替。作为一名首位入选者，他的儿子将于周六下午在坎顿入堂，与四分卫德鲁·布朗（Drew Brown）、跑卫罗杰·克雷格（Roger Craig）、足球运动员兰迪（Randy）以及罗伯特·亚当·维纳蒂尔（Robert Adam Vinatier）一同入选。

在二月的那个夜晚，他出现在凤凰城的一家电视台中。被人们称为“大菲茨”（Big Fits）的他将其称为“梦想成真”，但他的声音很虚弱，呼吸沉重。42 岁的拉里·菲茨杰拉德很高兴能见证这一宣布，但作为他的父亲，他意识到另外 30 年将无法前往坎顿。他的父亲不再有能力在湖边散步或去高尔夫球场。他也停止了体育报道，尽管他并不想停止。

“他为报道体育而活，”菲茨杰拉德说道，并提到他父亲报道过的所有球队，从明尼苏达大学冰球队到双城队（Twins）、森林狼队（Timberwolves）和维京人队（Vikings）。道格·哈勒（Doug Heller）是《The Athletic》的高级撰稿人。“他渐渐停止了做所有这些事情，而我的父亲一直渴望那些互动和社交所能提供的一切。”

拉里·菲茨杰拉德（的父亲）也是一名先驱，将黑人的声音和视角带入了一个通常缺乏这两者的专业领域。他为 EMX3-FM 和 WIN17-AM 提供体育专家评论，在丹尼斯·格林（Dennis Green）执教维京人队期间曾与其共同主持电台节目，这被认为是 NFL 主教练首次在黑人电台开设每周节目。他还曾在《明尼苏达发言人评论报》（The Minnesota Spokesman-Reviewer）撰写体育专栏，并报道了 40 场超级碗，其中包括一场在佛罗里达州坦帕举行的、其子参赛的比赛，这一家庭事件随后演变成了全国性的新闻。

菲茨杰拉德说他继承了父亲的竞争心，这既是祝福也是诅咒。这是他职业生涯的驱动力，使他 11 次入选职业碗（Pro Bowl），并取得了 1,433 次，在 NFL 历史上仅次于杰里·赖斯（Jerry Rice）。

“我认为这就是激励我不断奋斗、追求新高度的动力，但这也是阻碍我庆祝自己所做和所成就之事的因素之一，”菲茨杰拉德说道。

菲茨杰拉德表示，他的父亲知道如何激励他，以及在必要时如何避开他。高中毕业后，菲茨杰拉德就读于宾夕法尼亚州的谷锻军事学院，因为他缺乏进入一所新学院所需的学术纪律。他的父亲给了年轻的拉里一个印有N.F.L.标志的更好的出价单，以此提醒他自己的目标。菲茨杰拉德将这个出价单放在他上方的银行里，面向下方，因为这是他每天早晨看到的第一样东西。菲茨杰拉德曾写道，这不仅是一个提醒，而是一辈子。在菲茨杰拉德进入N.F.L.之后，他在场上表现出色，但在场外却逃避责任。比赛结束后，他会跑向红雀队的更衣室，在新闻记者有机会与他交谈之前就离开。他提交了一封新信函，但他认为自己的理由很充分。“我觉得在早期，通过我的比赛表现和我的发言方式来确立自己的地位对我来说更好，”他说。他的父亲并不赞同。菲茨杰拉德迅速成为一名球星，在第二个赛季就入选了职业碗（Pro Bowl）。他与奥古斯特·史密斯组队，这本可能会很困难。作为2003年的第一年球员，史密斯展现出了潜力，赢得了美联社年度最佳进攻新秀。 “我觉得一旦你得到了没有菲茨杰拉德的红雀队，而他是N.F.L.选秀的 1 号签。” “这对过去来说是一个相当大的牺牲，因为如果情况是一样的，我可能会被冒犯，”菲茨杰拉德说。

名人堂的鲍尔丁说，他只想赢，而且他知道菲茨杰拉德可以提供帮助。此外，他知道凭借菲茨杰拉德的天赋，对方的防守者再也不能只盯着他一个人了。“我从未见过有人像他那样追踪球，”鲍尔丁说。“我的意思是，对他来说，那不是一个 30-30 的球。而更像是一个 80-20 或 90-10 的球。”四分卫厄尔·沃纳说，在向菲茨杰拉德传球时，他必须“重新训练”自己的大脑。早期，沃纳会看向 4-bars I 接收方向，因为他不认为菲茨杰拉德处于空档。沃纳说，他的红雀队队友四分卫乔什·麦考恩有一天纠正了他：“他说，‘嘿，凭借你的精准度和拉里的技巧，那是拉里的空档。只要球只有他能接到，就把它传过去，我向你保证他大多数时候都能完成那个接球。’”他很快意识到麦考恩是对的。另一件让沃纳印象深刻的事情是：菲茨杰拉德愿意改变自己的比赛方式。在2017年入选名人堂的沃纳回忆起有一个赛季，亚利桑那队的进攻协调员托德·哈利挑战菲茨杰拉德，让他成为N.F.L.中最好的封堵接球手。“对于大多数人来说，可能会觉得‘我不需要那样做’，”沃纳说。“但你可以回去查看录像，看看拉里为了帮助队友创造大机会所付出的努力。”

2005年，红雀队赢得了N.F.C.西区，并在季后赛中势不可挡。菲茨杰拉德领衔冲锋，创下了N.F.L.接球码数最多（1000）和接球次数最多（7次）的记录，这些纪录至今依然屹立。在与匹兹堡钢人队进行的超级碗第四节末段，菲茨杰拉德在中间接住了沃纳的一记长传并突破重围。他疾速冲刺50码进入达阵区，让亚利桑那队在比赛还剩 2 分 27 秒时取得了 25-24 的领先。打击沉重。盒子守门员带领防守端完成了获胜的推进，但让每个人都知道这场比赛的明星是在调谐锅炉房里。“没有人真正知道拉里有多出色，因为我们从未在电视上出现过，”沃纳说。“没有人监督我们。”

拉里·菲茨杰拉德的名人堂职业生涯跨越了 77 个赛季，全部效力于亚利桑那红雀队。2007年，在被评为N.F.L.沃尔特·佩顿年度人物奖共同获得者时，他与他的父亲——一位组织严密的明尼苏达州体育记者——合影。在体育界产生了影响。

小拉里·菲茨杰拉德（Larry Fitzgerald Jr.）继续陪伴他的儿子，在红雀队主场比赛时飞往凤凰城，经常穿着儿子的1号球衣，尽力在赛前和职业预热阶段赢得一切。他的儿子曾两次在N.F.L.（美国国家橄榄球联盟）接球数排名第一，并两次在联盟达阵接球数排名第一。他在自己的位置上是顶尖的。“而且不仅仅是他在场上的表现，”鲍尔丁（Baldin）说道。“还有他在社区中所做的事情。我记得，菲茨杰拉德在名人周末期间，即使面对艰难的比赛，他的父亲也会参与其中。只要和他交谈，你就能看到他为儿子的成就以及他在社区中所做的贡献而感到无比自豪。”不久前，当他的父亲来探望孙辈时，菲茨杰拉德分享了一个他一直在考虑的想法。在整个17个N.F.L.赛季（全部在亚利桑那州度过）中，他一直与当地新闻媒体的成员打交道。他告诉父亲，他想举办一场

一条漫长且出人意料的足球名人堂之路

从第一页体育版开始，帕塞尔斯（Parcells）强迫维纳蒂埃里（Vinatieri）踢了如此多次球，以至于这个新秀开始担心自己的腿会掉下来。帕塞尔斯还喜欢在心理上干扰他。在关键踢球之前——“就像全队都在看着，渴望知道他们是否还得为教练考虑那个位置而跑更多场比赛，”维纳蒂埃里正准备从那个位置踢球。“抱歉，我挡路了吗？”帕塞尔斯会一边自顾自地轻笑一边问。他有一种名声在外的特质。然后他会完成这次踢球。“教练？”帕塞尔斯，我得说有些话能让你如此沮丧以至于能让你冷静下来。“我不会和他一起玩。我是一个大的，”那年维纳蒂埃里的持球员。在第一场比赛中，维纳蒂埃里踢进了他的第一个达阵后附加分，然后从44码处再次开始，接着比赛继续。第一个13分的半场已经消失。最大的压力迫使比赛进入加时赛，在马萨诸塞州波切托普（Pochetotop）一个糟糕的球场上，根据规则需要一次得分。第二次是在几个赛季后——“到处都是洞，”维纳蒂埃里回忆道，“他们就用沙子填满，然后刷漆让它看起来像是一小段时间的40码，然后在加时赛几分钟后，迎来了获胜的机会。”在他在场上准备之前，帕塞尔斯留给他了一些尖刻的话。多年以前，资深N.F.L.人事主管吉尔·布兰特（Gil Brandt）告诉我，“传闻是，帕塞尔斯告诉他，如果他踢丢了，就没法回更衣室了。”一个人更进一步地认为。“我无法告诉你这次踢球对他有多重要，”左截锋布鲁斯·阿姆斯特朗（Bruce Armstrong）告诉记者。“如果他踢丢了，他可能会在精神上受到冲击，但他在身体上肯定会受到冲击。”维纳蒂埃里不会在少于一个人预留的情况下进入正确的人群。这是引导女性的N.F.L.纪录中的第一次。“现在没有咆哮，”次日《波士顿先驱报》（The Boston Herald）的标题如此写道。“那是一次漂亮的踢球，”维纳蒂埃里保持神秘，将这次僵局视为一项工作。“但明天是一个新的工作周。”他从未进入医学院。他在新英格兰度过了一个十年。他在那个赛季后的一场比赛中经历了一个沃尔特（Walter），然后在超级碗中踢出了迪文诺伊德·霍华德（Divinnoid Howard）。后来他用右脚完成了两次，并以比尔·纽波尔德（Bill Newbold）所谓的“史上最伟大的踢球”结束，那是4.37分赛区轮次米扎德（Mitzard）中的一次43码踢球，将爱国者队送入了与制造者队（Makers）的加时赛，这场比赛在麦坎（McCann）之后被称为“土耳其规则之战”（Turk Rule Game）。“不要掉下来，不要掉下来，”那晚在场上准备之前，维纳蒂埃里一直这样告诉自己。“他应该在不知道晚餐头脑的情况下正确地做。”球在空中勉强升起20英尺。他看着它消失在新英格兰的夜晚，等待并希望让人群沸腾。最终，它成功了。不久之后，他的23码踢球在加时赛中为新英格兰队赢得了胜利。传奇诞生了。他成为了比赛中可能的第三个第一名。厌倦了爱国者队的足球合同报价，他前往格林贝（Green Bay）成为一名 迈阿密海豚队的踢球教练道格·布莱文斯（Doug Blevins）在1997年。布莱文斯与亚当·维纳蒂埃里一起训练并敦促他去欧洲。“他让自己成为了史上最伟大踢球手的讨论对象，而我们早先绝不会想到这一点。”——比尔·帕塞尔斯（BILL PARCELLS）在2017年对《印第安纳波利斯星报》（The Indianapolis Star）谈到亚当·维纳蒂埃里漫长且成功的职业生涯。2006年的四名代理人，直到科布教练托尼·迪亚戈（Tony Deago）在电视上看到新闻传出。维纳蒂埃里的代理人正在联系他，而他是警察的一个好朋友。“是的，我们应该联系，”波利安（Polian）回答道。科布给了他一份五年合同。在我的职业生涯中能与佩顿·曼宁（Peyton Manning）这位四分卫在同一个房间里？“让它实现吧，”维纳蒂埃里对他的代理人说。

九个月后，曼宁的Cobb在一次分区赛中未能找到他，此前情况并非如此。在两年多的时间里，Vinatieri没有失手。“钱！”Deago在Vinatieri第四节踢进一个10码以下球后在安全线附近大喊，最终以15-6获胜。在那里的工作中，Cobb成为了超级碗冠军。Vinatieri在六个赛季中获得了他的第四个冠军。在印第安纳波利斯，像Shoppille Leonard这样的队友——Vinatieri在家的二十年里——每当这位47岁的踢球手走进踢球室时，他们都将此视为一个目标。安德鲁·拉克（Andrew Luck）喜欢讲述关于Vinatieri以及队友们在2002年一场季后赛中庆祝他击败奥克兰突袭者队的那次制胜射门的故事。他讲述这件事，并与父亲一起观看了一场阿姆斯特丹海军部（Amsterdam Admiralty）的比赛。几年之前，他那天观看的踢球手之一，亚当·维纳蒂埃里（Adam Vinatieri），踢进了一个10码以下球，为拉克带来了他的首场N.F.L.胜利。Vinatieri的职业生涯并非始于顺风顺水，这并没有帮助。这位来自南达科他州的踢球手在联盟的前四周勉强生存下来——当时比尔·帕塞尔斯（Bill Parcells）准备将他裁掉——他是N.F.L. 1-carrel领先球队（2,672名球员）中的第三名（常规赛和季后赛之间成功射门次数职业生涯领先者，共1933次）以及连续成功射门次数职业生涯领先者，共1933次。Vinatieri在印第安纳波利斯从来不是一个普通的踢球手，也从未被像普通人那样对待。他的队友们会向他询问关于他们的401(k)计划的问题，当他把音乐从每天的十七年切换到经典摇滚时，他们也不会抱怨。在某个时间点，他们开始称他为名人堂的医生。现在不再需要这个修饰语了。尽管他以在1-bach时刻的精准表现而闻名，但正是Vinatieri那不可动摇的审视，让他那不可思议的职业生涯未被忽视。一个本不该起步的故事，反而持续了近四分之一个世纪。现在，它在坎顿结束。“我为他感到骄傲。他是靠自己做到的，”帕塞尔斯在我2017年就职于《印第安纳波利斯星报》时告诉我。“他让自己的名字进入了史上最伟大踢球手的讨论之列，而我们在早期绝不会想到这一点。”一个人如何将这一切放在整体视角来看？一名球员如何能与一个人共事十年，然后又与另一个人共事14年？考虑一下2016年的那个赛季。Vinatieri正与家人在波士顿度假，一群爱国者队的球迷拦住了他。他们想要这位在2000年代初期帮助他们赢得三次超级碗的踢球手的签名。Vinatieri的儿子感到很困惑。“一分钟前，”他说，“你以前在爱国者队效力！” --- BIO » 纽约时报 体育版 2026年8月8日，星期六 HOCEEY评论

球星合同预示经济格局之转变

作者：詹姆斯·莫特尔 (JAMES MORTLE) 发自亚特兰大

如果说几周前签署的那些合同被认为是震撼 NHL 的地震，那么马克·因·塞德莱斯 (Mark In Cederlays) 与圣何塞鲨鱼队签署的新 5 亿 续约合同，则堪称首批重大余震之一。它也揭示了 NHL 长期以来的薪资变动速度之快、幅度之大。

现实情况是，塞德莱斯注定会拿到高薪。他本可以在 7 月 1 日走进总经理迈克·多尔 (Mike Dore) 的办公室，要求一份 $50.6 的年薪上限——占总额 $300 薪资上限的 20%——而圣何塞队将别无选择，只能达成协议。作为其职业生涯的基石球员，在经历了一个单赛季 45 个进球、115 个积分并使其成为球队核心及哈特奖 (Hart Trophy) 候选人的赛季后，塞德莱斯掌握着主动权，尤其是在 NHL 的新格局中。

最终，这份在 2026-27, 赛季后到期的入门级合同之外延长五年的协议中，这位 20 岁的球员将市场价格定在了 1980 年代左右，每年 $1.5 ——比起始价格低了 $2，且仅比 Anaheim Show 球队年度上限低 $800,000。而 $50.8 的数额将使塞德莱斯成为联盟中薪水最高的球员，这是否可以被视为最新的市场价值？

然而，更好的切入点是：究竟什么是市场价值？NHL 此前关于第二份合同的水准基准是由麦克丹尼尔 (General McDaniel) 在近十年前设定的。那份 2027 续约是一份为期八年的合同，面对 $75.6 的薪资上限，相当于 157%。

塞德莱斯的交易则超过了这一点：在合同第一年，即 2027-28, 赛季，他将获得 $10.5 上限的 10.8%。而且他考虑的仅是五年，而非埃德·安南内斯 (Ed Ananese)（新市场）的八年，后者涨幅高达 30%。

那么，塞德莱斯如何能在更短的年限内，获得比那个时代最伟大的球员更高比例的上限份额？

“卡通” (Cartoon) 的数字显然是一个因素。在非限制性自由球员市场被削弱的环境下，球队更愿意考虑为客户提供报价，这使得球队在等待此类全额报价时拥有极强的保护机制。没有任何一个在市场上受挫或希望获得像塞德莱斯这样顶尖天赋的总经理，愿意用一些首轮中段的选秀权来交换，这意味着球队将别无选择，只能匹配报价。

在“卡通”获得 $10 计划的同时，塞德莱斯的数字又增加了 $2 ——特别是考虑到塞德莱斯在报价中本有资格获得 $22.7 的薪资上限。尽管这不意味着你的钱，但“卡通”可能已经尝试了这次冒险，而圣何塞队绝不会让事情发展到那种地步。

快速上涨的上限还造成了一种“苹果比橘子”的局面，即在比较这些高端交易与旧情况。例如，在麦克丹尼尔签署第二份合同的 1995 年，他拿走的是薪资上限的 $3.2，而该上限在整个合同期间仅增长了 $2。而到了塞德莱斯新合同的 1995 年，$10.8 最终所占的百分比极有可能比那个数字低得多。

虽然 NHL 仅预测了直到 2027-28 赛季的上限，但我过去几个月接触的每一位高管和球员经纪人都指出，与新冠疫情后曲棍球相关收入的追踪情况相比，当前的上限数值偏低，这表明 NHL 的上限将在 2026 年夏天出现更为剧烈的跳升。

詹姆斯·莫特尔 (James Mortle) 是《运动员》(The Athletes) 的高级 NHL 记者。

Cederlays 的交易得益于一项新的美国电视转播协议，这将对 2026-28 年的收入产生积极影响，此外在德克萨斯州可能还会有约 $500, 的扩张，并且可能会有连续三个赛季的薪资上限涨幅甚至超过 2025-30 年至 2027-28. 期间 9% 的年度增长。这很可能意味着到 2026-32, 年（即 Cederlays 合同的最后一个赛季），薪资上限将达到 1亿美元 to 1亿美元；届时，鲨鱼队支付给他的薪水可能低于 25% —— 这是一个相对便宜的价格，而这正是该协议期限不超过五年的最大原因。我认为，长期以来已成为常态的 N.H.L. 顶尖年轻球员超长期合同将被有效地抹除。球队在本休赛期仅签署了 9 份期限为七或八年的合同，其中只有四份给了年轻球员：Zach Berman、Peter Dorchey、Ivan Dorchey 和 Tyson Feernon。在过去，为这类球员签署长期合同是有意义的。N.H.L. 的顶层增长较为缓慢，且合同的平均年值相对较低，因此增加年限是锁定价值的唯一方式，例如在年轻时无法锁定 7900万美元。但现在 Cartoon 和 Cederlays 可以确保签署一份四年或五年合同，在保证晋升财富的同时，也为自己在仅 26. 岁时签署一份估值更高的第三份合同做好准备。这可能会使超长期合同成为资深自由球员在职业生涯下滑期试图获取报酬的领域（例如，本休赛期的华盛顿资本队 Alex Tuch 和多伦多枫叶队的 Darren Ruddy）。与此同时，一些年轻球员在过去 10 个月里签署的最高额长期合同 —— 以蒙特利尔加拿大人队的 Lane Harran 的延期合同为例 —— 从经纪人的角度来看再次显得欠妥，因为他们显然损失了大量资金。其中一些趋势早已显现。例如，早在 20 年前，冰球分析社区就在争论，一名球员的实际付费表现通常在 22 岁到 26, 岁之间下降，而许多球队在压榨年轻球员的同时，却在过度支付给资深球员。上述的 Macklin Cederlays 签署了一份价值 9亿美元 的五年续约合同，就在 Los Cartoons 获得 9000万美元 续约合同几周之后。在薪资上限因疫情收入亏损而持平之后，冰球运动正处于快速的财务增长之中。在他们的不受限自由球员年限里。过去，N.H.L. 的总经理们可以期待在受限自由球员身上节省大量资金，利用他们作为选秀球队的杠杆，以低于资深球员进入公开市场价格的金额达成协议。但随着报价成为一个真实威胁，年轻球员开始获得更接近其真实市场价值的报酬，这让一些旧时代的管理者感到十分不快。突然之间，受限自由球员年限并不一定总是比不受限自由球员年限价值低，尤其是当三名最受限的球员客观上拥有更多价值时。这是一个巨大的转变，此前像 Darick Kane 和 Jonathan Dunn 这样的顶尖年轻球员在带领芝加哥黑鹰队在 2009-10 年至 2016-15. 年期间三次赢得斯坦利杯时，Cederlays 每赛季仅获得 $8500万 —— 仅占薪资上限的 10% 多一点。除了 Cartoon 和 Cederlays 利用其经纪机构外，在这种环境下最大的赢家将是那些在排名之前就锁定人才的球队，因为他们在远低于价值的受限自由球员合同生命周期内将节省数百万美元。在一个硬薪资上限联盟中，合同上的胜利至关重要，许多顶尖球队多年来一直衡量这种差距。在 N.H.L. 中，成为一名年轻球员的 10 年时间正处于上升期，换句话说，对于像 Ananese 和圣何塞这样必须弄清楚在剧烈演变的联盟中需要支付多少报酬以及多少资金才能维持表现的球队来说，这是一个极具挑战性的时期。

但另一种选择——让别人来赌他们的天赋以及在不断上涨的工资帽下情况将如何发展——则是一个糟糕得多的结果。体育周六评论

每一个“无可奉告”都会被过度分析

作者：STEVE BECKER

在本周的“体育人物在社会与政治议题上的立场”盘点中，首批访谈如下：

1. 匹兹堡钢人队四分卫亚伦·罗杰斯批评了前国家安全与工业疾病研究所所长安东尼·福（Anthony Faux），指责其上周在《第五国际期刊》中多次就女性团队发表言论。

2. 印第亚那狂热队后卫索菲·克拉明汉（Sophie Kramingham）明确表示，与 20 世纪 80 年代相比，她反对跨性别运动员参赛，并因此收到了大量负面反馈。克拉明汉在一次 ESPN 采访中表示：“我从未说过那样的话。凯瑟琳是个好孩子。但我也认为爱就是真理，就是诚实。我想保护更衣室里的年轻女孩，或者那些在体育运动中不应该与生物学意义上的运动员竞争的年轻女孩。”

3. 克拉明汉的队友凯瑟·克拉克（Cather Clark）在周日被问及对克拉明汉个人体育立场看法时——此前狂热队以 108-300 输给了明尼苏达城队——克拉克表示：“对我们来说，这在更衣室里并不是一个真正会被讨论的话题。这是由联盟和管理机构决定的。让他们与运动员一起寻找学生，但我们的重点是篮球。这就是我们讨论的内容，以及我们如何才能变得聪明，显然，我们今晚没做到这一点。”

现在你可能会对自己说，天哪，克拉克如何在“体育人物在社会与政治议题上的立场”盘点中起到领导作用，而她实际上却回避了主题。对于她的行为，她提供了一个为期 2 周的“无可奉告”式回应。她所说的话毫无意义。但我们生活在这样一个时代，每一个句子——每一个词，每一个句子——都会被标准地剖析，被疯狂地捕捉，被立即审判。罗杰斯抨击福时是这样；克拉明汉分享她对“不应该与生物学运动员竞争的年轻女孩”的担忧时是这样；而当克拉克对克拉明汉的言论表示无可奉告时，这一切都被扔进了社交媒体评论的每日视野中。

但请原谅我没有在体育话题上过于冗长。请原谅我未能加入那群极其糟糕的人群。对我而言，克拉克应该是她想成为的人或样子。请原谅我没有期望克拉克去扮演一个由她甚至并不喜欢的人分配给她的角色。

这大概是一个展开餐后演说的合适时机，讲述在美国，运动员在社会和政治议题上表明立场有着漫长而辉煌的未来。在 20 世纪 80 年代，20 世纪 80 年代，20 世纪 90 年代，20 世纪 90 年代，以及 2004 年约翰·卡洛斯（John Carlos）举起拳头。我们回顾了 20 世纪 90 年代的历史。墨西哥城的奥运会。

史蒂夫·巴克利（Steve Buckley）是《运动员》的专栏作家。自从波士顿红袜队传奇人物泰德·威廉姆斯（Ted Williams）在 1966 年的棒球名人堂入选演说中，用一部分篇幅表达希望萨特里贝尔·斯塔格（Sanibel Stagg）和乔什·吉布森（Josh Gibson）的名字能被更多人知晓，作为那些未能获得机会的伟大黑人联盟球员的象征。这些是代代相传的运动员倡议的几个非常公开的例子。

在一次小规模晚餐会上，我们了解到在 20 世纪 80 年代，NHL 教学传奇文斯·隆巴迪（Vince Lombardi）禁止在更衣室使用恐同语言；而那个时代，此类言论是文化中的基本组成部分。隆巴迪有一个同性恋弟弟。我们很多人在隆巴迪活跃时从未听说过这件事，我 certainly 也没有。就像我现在并不太清楚克拉克最近在想什么一样。在缺乏她的想法的情况下，剖析她的每一个下午、她的每一次停顿，以寻找隐藏的含义和元素，以及在网上对此大惊小怪，是没有太大意义的。

那些就政治问题发表看法、并与同一群体共同工作的体育人士（这包括体育媒体从业者），经常收到匿名指令，要求他们应该“专注于体育”。这些觉得自己有权力告诉他人应该关注什么的人究竟是谁，简直是个谜。这种措辞暗示对方可能是政府事务部门的人员，或者曾在美国国会或外交使团任职。这种虚伪既令人深思又令人恐惧，因为当我们同意运动员对某个问题的看法时，我们并不在意；除非我们不同意这些观点。那些将体育和孩子视为可以玩这种愚蠢社交游戏的人，被扭曲成了懦夫。访问白宫的运动员也面临类似的评价。在 2018 年访问白宫，你对某些人来说是英雄，对另一些人来说则是恶棍。你分享这次访问，你就是被剥夺权利者的英雄，或者成了某个不尊重总统职位的家伙。这种角色扮演本该是七年级公民课的内容，但为了用体育人士来阐明这一点，现在正是举办一次“支持克拉克”活动的好时机，以此教授并表明第一修正案的保护。如果你恰好是一个曾在约旦河西岸拥有成员的冠军球队的一员，那就去吧。或者不去。行使你的第一修正案权利，并告诉其他所有人管好他们自己的事。那些想要在某个问题上表明立场，并准备好面对随之而来的海量正面和负面评论的体育人士，尽管去做。对于选择保持沉默的运动员，让他们安静地待着。为什么一切非得如此复杂？RUNNING

纽约市马拉松赛 8x 为其热门的保证参赛计划增加抽签机制

作者：CLAIRE FAHY

作为同类赛事中规模最大的赛事之一，纽约市马拉松赛的组织方宣布，将对其 2026 年赛事的 9+1 保证参赛热门计划进行调整。根据赛事组织者纽约路跑者协会（New York Road Runners）的消息，该计划要求跑者完成 9 场比赛并参与 1 次志愿者活动，而现在，参与该计划将首次基于抽签决定。纽约路跑者协会负责每年在全市举办马拉松及数十场其他赛事的首席执行官 Bob Stansbury 表示，9+1 系统的普及导致在线报名比赛时出现长时间排队，且进入当地赛事的竞争依然激烈。

据纽约路跑者协会称，9+1 计划在纽约市日益增长的跑步人群中非常受欢迎，自 2000 年代初起便已存在。自该计划启动以来，已有超过 200,000 名跑者通过该计划获得马拉松参赛资格。直到周四之前，只要完成该计划即可确保获得 9+1 计划资格。现在，该计划被限制在约 15,000 名通过年度抽签选出的赛后参与者中。如果被选中，还将需要一个正式的随机流程，包括支付 $80 以成为 9+1 参与者，这将为参与者提供纽约路跑者协会匹配合格赛事的长期线路。该计划一直以来且将继续仅限于纽约路跑者协会会员，而会员资格需要支付 $64。

纽约路跑者协会训练副总裁 Matthew Perry 在一次采访中表示，自 2005. 年以来，完成 9+1 计划的人数增加了 20%。他估计，新计划将导致 9+1 参与者人数减少 25% 至 28%。在所有其他合格方法中，该计划创造了最大的跑者池，合格方法共有近 12 种，包括通过慈善机构报名、年度抽签、时间资格赛和国际旅行社。

此次变动正值全球范围内越来越多且水平更高的跑者在后疫情时代的跑步热潮中，难以满足似乎不断增长的需求之际。6 月，另一项世界马拉松大满贯赛事——伦敦马拉松宣布，将把 2027 年的男女赛事分在两个周末天进行。

25, 岁的 Lane Eardone Bass 在纽约大学（NYU）健康临床研究部门工作，生活在 2026 2026 2026，他是 2024, 年 9+1 计划的成员，这使他获得了参加 2025 年纽约市马拉松赛的资格。他说，在注册所需赛事或志愿者时段时，他没有遇到问题。“这是一次很棒的体验——我认为它带我去了城市的不同区域，不同的行政区，我相信我能够进入其中，”他说，9+1 确实通过在纽约市跑步创造了一种社区感。

但对于其他人来说，这种判断通常意味着注册赛事的长时间等待——就像那些购买哈利波特或 Nightingale 门票时的 Ticketmaster 长队一样，结果却发现想跑的比赛已经售罄。住在布朗克斯的 4, 岁个人训练师 Dress Smith 是纽约路跑者协会的一员。在 2025 年通过年度保证参赛抽签获得名额后，为了在赛道上花更多时间，她完成了 9+1 计划。为了准备赛事注册，她说她设置了闹钟，确保自己登录了路跑者协会个人资料，并全身心投入到新赛事中。她不确定新系统是否有帮助。

“这简直太荒谬了，”Smith 说，“就像是在一个已经荒唐的流程之上又加了一层——我不知道这是否就是答案。”

除了对 9+1 计划的更改外，纽约路跑者（New York Road Runners）表示，它还将取消其 Minister 计划，该计划允许支付额外费用（通常约为 $60）的人员获得航空邮件注册资格。赛事本身的注册需要付费，会员费用约为 3K 赛 $25，半程马拉松 $100，全程马拉松则超过 $250。Bass 和 Smith 都表示担心，新计划会让 9+1 赛事对于那些可能无法负担 2026 年参赛费的人来说变得糟糕。Smith 还对那些能够获得同等参赛时间且依赖 9+1 计划获得马拉松参赛机会的“资深付费”跑者表示担忧。“太惊人了——赛事的能量，”他说。在谈到参加马拉松的经历时，Smith 说：“以及那 26 英里，”他说，“有许多事情是我必须做的，如果人们在那里尖叫、欢呼，并给你递橙子和纸巾，说着‘如果你想要的话’。这确实是一段神奇的时光。”

---

2 剧评 一部关于人工智能和科技创业者的讽刺剧登台。

5 电影 讲述四名女童军开始售卖曲奇饼的故事。

7 旅行 苏格兰高地的一场晚宴中包含了许多细节和菜肴。

艺术 ## 纽约时报 2026年8月8日，星期六 C1 5

Esperanza Spalding（左）与舞者兼编舞师 Kayla Parrish 正在将舞蹈带回爵士乐，本周末将以一场免费演出拉开序幕。

爵士与舞蹈重燃火焰

作者：BRIAN SEIBERT

在最初，爵士乐就是舞曲。爵士音乐家为舞者演奏。无论这些舞者是身处简陋舞厅（juke-pants）和舞厅的业余爱好者，还是身处夜总会和剧院的专业人士，创作音乐的人与随之起舞的人之间的沟通是至关重要的，几乎是全部意义所在。两位擅长即兴创作的艺术家将曾经共同即兴演出的学科重新结合在一起。

然而，在第二次世界大战后的几年里，这种联系逐渐削弱。如今，像贝斯手兼歌手 Esperanza Spalding 这样著名的爵士音乐家会问：“为什么我们见鬼的不再随爵士乐起舞了？”

这个问题成为了 Spalding 与舞者兼编舞师 Kayla Parrish 合作的起点。本周六，这两位艺术家将与同行音乐家和舞者一起，通过一场免费的公开展示，呈现他们共同即兴创作时的情景。这次在 Robert E Wagner Jr. 公园举行的活动，是 Spalding 近期探索艺术家协作不同方式（其中部分涉及舞蹈）的最新尝试。在哈佛大学，她教授了一门关于黑人即兴音乐与舞蹈之间联系的课程。她还与编舞师 Antonio Brown 共同巡演了一场名为《Off Brand Godds》的舞乐混合作品。

续接 C2 页

带有威胁节奏的噩梦

John Carpenter（中）与他的儿子 Cody Carpenter（左）以及教子 Daniel Davies。John 的新恐怖故事是一部图形小说和一张硬摇滚专辑，而非电影。 作者：BRIAN RAFTERY

两年前，John 在睡眠中出现了一个令人不安的意象。那是一座废弃的大教堂，内部有两部电梯，能将乘客送往不可知的深处。

对大多数人来说，这种深夜场景会被定义为噩梦。但对 而言，这仅仅是一个具有启发性的梦——这是标志着这位电影制作人职业生涯的一系列恐怖愿景中的最新一个。

自 1978 年起， 就成为了恐怖片巨头，当时由他导演、共同编剧并配乐的低成本惊悚片《万圣节》（Halloween）开创了现代避难所类型片。随后他拍摄了十多部故事片，其中许多融合了科幻、动作和社会评论，例如灰色伙伴惊悚片《怪形》（The Thing, 1982）和里根时代的异形入侵电影《他们生活》（They Live, 1988）。

然而，最近一部故事片发行于 2010 年的 ，对将那些诡异的电梯搬上银幕毫无兴趣。“导演太压力大了，”他在 6 月的一次采访中，在好莱坞办公室休息时说道。办公室的屏幕上点缀着金色的围栏特征，不像那舒适的

续接 C2 页

MAYA PHILLIPS / 评论笔记本

系列疲劳及其停止方法

最新的《降世神通》（Last Airbender）电影尊重其起源。

关于《降世神通》（Avatar: The Last Airbender）系列的长寿，有一种特质与该动画中的英雄人物——神通王（Avatar）完全一致。这部由 Michael Dante DiMartino 和 Bryan Rantetake 创作的备受赞誉的尼克频道（Nickelodeon）剧集，发生在一个选定的人可以通过心灵感应操纵四元素（水、土、火、气）之中的一种的文明中。在这个幻想的

续接 C4 页

在《降世神通：最后的气宗》（Avatar Away: The Last Airbender）中，该角色已成为一名自信的年轻人。

---

C2 11 6 TIM YEEMAN / 戏剧评论

我们生活中的日子（与算法）

一名科技企业家向朋友们推销一个具有侵入性的人工智能项目。问题很快随之而来。如果你正对人工智能在我们的生活中变得多么阴险且具有侵入性而感到恐慌，那么请准备好迎接随之而来的仪式：所有关于人工智能在我们的生活中变得多么阴险且具有侵入性的戏剧、书籍、电影和电视节目。一月份，马修·利比（Matthew Libby）的非百老汇剧作《迪克西》（Dixie）是一部围绕在移民管理中使用人工智能监控技术的个人与政治剧。一部完全由人工智能生成的数据剧《他者的梦》（Dreams of 'Others）于六月在特里布雷亚电影节（Tribrea Festival）首映。现在，安德鲁·史密斯（Andrew Smith）的剧作《颠覆》（Disruption）则想象了一个由超级富有的科技企业家设计的算法的推出过程。

《颠覆》 截至10月4日在曼哈顿的珀钦广场签名中心（Perching Square Signature Center）上演。dilec@perching.com。演出时长：2小时10分钟。

尼克（约翰·大卫·华盛顿 饰）用宏大但模糊的措辞描述其潜力。这部由大卫·埃利斯（David Ellis）执导的戏剧于周日在珀钦广场签名中心开演。“它帮助人们规划生活，”尼克说，“在真正重要的事情上做出更好的决定。把它想象成……但用于你的生活。”与他的年轻商业伙伴雷文（艾玛·基尔纳 饰）一起，尼克在由三对30岁后期和40岁初期的夫妇组成的老友圈中周旋，试图获得他们的资金支持。他的朋友们稳居纽约的有钱阶层，尽管远不如他那样接近权力中心。

在这部于2014年在伦敦首演的戏剧中，没有一对夫妇知道雷文和尼克一直在观察他们的在线活动，以构建关于他们的生活、欲望、挫折和弱点的画像，并将其用来对付他们。这些夫妇都面临着转折点。米娅（艾琳·索菲亚·卢西奇 饰）和她的丈夫、外科医生巴里（杰森·拉尔夫 饰）正在讨论是否购买一座宽大的棕色石屋，他们机械地讨论着房产和金钱。马克（伊丽莎白·斯坦利 饰）自2018年起，她与保罗（乔·蒂佩特 饰）的婚姻已经破裂，她是一个精疲力竭的家长，面对着一个出轨者。苏西（伊丽莎妮·蕾妮·威尔逊 饰）是一名精神分析学家，丈夫本（康拉德·里卡马拉 饰）是一名拥有多处房产的哥伦比亚大学教授。他们正考虑要个孩子。苏西立即且准确地识破了尼克的伎俩。“他对婚姻有种克里普托伊德（Kryptoides）式的心态，”她观察到，“在内心深处，看到任何人幸福都会让他痛苦。”

然而，华盛顿将尼克演绎得更像是一个唯利是图者而非报复者。观众被分成面对面的两个区域，在由佐伊·赫维茨（Zoë Hurwitz）设计的一个像休息室一样的舞台上观察行动。极简的装饰传达出室内感。投影在表面上的文字、数字和几何线条（由亚娜·基维奥科娃 操刀）传达出算法那种反乌托邦式的无处不在。

剧名源于尼克对其方式的定义：“我们正在颠覆人们思考的方式。”然而，这部静态的戏剧感觉不那么前卫，反而显得乏味且熟悉。关于人工智能没有提出新的探讨方向。这群人之间并没有建立起令人信服的友谊。这部剧镜像了我们在面对人工智能看似不可阻挡的力量和影响力时，那种耸肩而过的宿命论。

剧中有些机智的对话。当巴里向朋友们抱怨说，作为一名外科医生，他“竟然买不起房子”时，本干巴巴地接话：“在布鲁克林，要花数百万美元。”保罗补充道：“只要20,000美元的变动。”巴里和马克关于房产价格的争论显得空洞且无情，难以引起共鸣。甚至保罗和吉尔崩溃的婚姻也显得空洞，因为我们没有看到他们作为一对伴侣运作的样子。苏西则像一个单人的希腊合唱团，谴责人工智能对“自由意志的侵蚀”，以及公众被“逼迫至服从与进步”。

她可能是对的，但这部剧将她的定位成了一个精于算计的党徒，而非真理之声。华盛顿以一种咄咄逼人的傲慢演绎了尼克那微笑中的恶意，像一个在每个人耳边低语的伊阿古；而斯坦利和卢西克则展现出一种动人的化学反应——从左至右，康拉德·里卡马拉、埃莉莎妮·蕾妮·威尔逊、艾琳·索菲亚·卢西克、伊丽莎白·斯坦利、杰森·拉尔夫、乔·蒂佩特和约翰·大卫·华盛顿在《颠覆》（Disruption）中。——他们像一对相爱但竞争激烈的兄妹。除此之外，角色更像是某种类型而非个体，其情感的起伏过于突兀，让人觉得缺乏说服力。后期密集出现的双胞胎情节——一个吻、一次死亡、一个婴儿——并没能帮助我们将情感与尼克、瑞文或那些情侣们联系起来。在随机的时刻，演员们以强有力的阵型行走（仿佛在向算法展示某种东西？）。最后一幕讲述了人工智能的影响在未来几代人中将如何变得怪诞，此处其时间线已然错位。“颠覆”在某些时刻是一部充满深思的警示录和讽刺剧。但它被一些更简单的问题削弱了。我们不相信，或者说不够关心剧中的角色。就像剧中那个轰鸣的人工智能怪物一样，我们最终被遗弃在它的黑暗世界中。

埃斯佩兰萨·斯波尔丁（左）和凯拉·法里尤克周六在曼哈顿下城电池公园城的罗伯特·F·瓦格纳二世公园与一个乐团共同演出。

她第一次接触法里尤克是通过一段2020年的视频，那是法里尤克作为皇后区路易斯·阿姆斯特朗故居博物馆的驻场艺术家所拍摄的。在视频中，法里尤克在阿姆斯特朗的房子里起舞，以一种特有的敏感度（而非追求时代的准确性）回应着《Sunny Side of the Street》这首歌。

“在那段视频中我看到的许多事情让我觉得，我需要和这个人谈谈，”斯波尔丁在一次采访中说道。“然后当我们见面时，我就觉得，‘噢，实际上我们需要一起创作。我们需要一起演奏！’”

法里尤克对此表示赞同。“即兴创作是我实践的核心，”她说。“我通过爵士乐，对这个或那个想法进行即兴发挥。在我们的对话中，我对可能实现的事情有一种直觉上的感受。那感觉就像是充满弹性的潜力。”

看到法里尤克与其他舞者合作的情景，对斯波尔丁来说似乎很熟悉。“这就是你可能会称之为的爵士模式，”斯波尔丁说，“与其他的舞蹈空间或舞者主导的项目非常不同。”这让她想起了像伟大的波科诺·肖尔斯（Pocono Shores）这样的爵士音乐家，她曾与他合作一部歌剧。“这是一种在舍弃与常规交接之间的奇妙平衡，”她说，“因为要让这些东西活起来，你必须信任整个乐团。”

斯波尔丁将她与法里尤克的互动——包括在瓦格纳公园的活动（该活动是下曼哈顿文化委员会“河对河”节日的一部分）——定义为一次实验。“我有一份关于音乐与舞蹈交汇点的实验和研究清单，凯拉也有，”她说。“当我们聚在一起时，就像在说，‘嘿，如果你走这个经度，而我尝试这个纬度会怎么样？’”

在这种私密的交流中（斯波尔丁说“我们也觉得这很值得观看，因为它是仪式性的且神圣的”），两人制定了“先导、参考、协议和保证，使我们能够拥有一个共享的连贯沟通机制，从而在观众面前直接进入状态。”

例如，她们一直在研究歌曲形式。在传统的爵士乐实践中，乐团共同演奏歌曲的开头，然后每个成员轮流在同一系列和弦变化上进行独奏。斯波尔丁和法里尤克好奇，舞蹈中对应的形式是什么？

“我对可能实现的事情有一种直觉上的感受。那感觉就像是充满弹性的潜力。”——凯拉·法里尤克

Spalding 描述了一种可能性。首先，Farriuk 和她的舞者合作伙伴 Jamal Abrams 以及 Kay'mel Antonio Wade Small 创作了一段舞蹈短句。接着，萨克斯手 Dayna Stephens 用旋律做出回应，直到 Spalding 选出她最喜欢的一段，随后鼓手兼键盘手 Justin Tyson 为其构建了和声进行。这就是乐团演奏的内容，也是舞者们起舞的基础，而舞者与乐手组成的搭档则进行相当于独奏的表演。“因为我们都在关注，”Spalding 说，“独奏者的动作将改变整个团体的运作方式，反之亦然。”这一切都关乎沟通。在一次排练中，Farriuk 提出了一个她称之为“并且哭泣”的想法。每位艺术家对这个提示做出回应，“这变成了一种累积，”她说，“是我们共同创作的呈现方式。”Spalding 指出，与那些不习惯面对此类提示的钢琴手合作是很有必要的。“本能反应是想逃避，”她说，“但当我们共同达成一致，并在那个空间中挖掘所有可能时，实际上会产生一种不同类型的解放。”她补充道，“如果我们保持投入，你就能把我带出我对美、对可行性或任何其他方面的认知极限，”而当舞者和音乐家协作时，这一点尤为明显。“我不断见证人们在演奏中展现出新的层次、新的维度和新的广度，”她说。这些女性承认，她们的实验并非完全新鲜。有些人——尤其是 Linda Saugers 和顶尖舞者们——从未停止过随爵士乐起舞。Farriuk 将灵感归功于“我在舞蹈历史课程中从未学到的东西”，从编舞师 Daanne McIntyre 在 20 世纪 70 和 80 年代与爵士音乐家的合作，到她在姑姑的书里学到的一种敲击游戏。“这些东西一直存在，”她说，“我们只是在尝试重新连接它们，使其具有当下的感觉。” --- 9℃3 DIVA GACHMAN / STREAMING KIDS

温柔的教诲与狂野的冒险

动画角色们在合作、家的意义以及对抗邪恶巨魔方面带来启迪。

《跳跃》（Hoppens）

可在 Disney+ 观看。一名叫梅贝尔·田中（Mabel Tanaka，派珀·科兹 Piper Curds 配音）的叛逆环保主义者住在贝内蒙镇（Benemone）附近。在小女孩（莉拉·利斯 Lila Lis 饰）看来，她有些愤怒管理问题，尤其是涉及到人类学习动物的时候，因此她的祖母凯伦·亨特（Karen Hunt）试图教她三思而后行，并给出诸如“要像长者那样，观察并倾听”的建议。但当市长杰里（Jerry，乔·海姆斯 Joe Hames 饰）公布建设一条旨在帮助联邦分级法的 naipe 高速公路计划时，那种愤怒再次袭来。她的生物学教授萨姆博士（Dr. Sam，凯西·纳杰多夫 Kathy Najdov 饰）开发了一项名为“跳跃”（hopping）的秘密技术，允许人类进入动物的宇宙皮肤（一种红色 crotte）身体。梅贝尔潜入其中并变成了一只海狸，她相信这样她能带领真正的海狸回到林间空地，让动物们跟随，从而让市长杰里无法建设那条弯曲的高速公路。梅贝尔与戴着小金冠的海狸乔治国王（King George，凯西·莫伊尼汉 Kathy Moynihan 饰）成为了朋友，她率领动物部队对抗过度开发。这部于三月上映的喜剧甜美故事讲述了关于尊重自然和为自己的价值观而战。梅里·斯特朗（Merry Strong）为 Inters' Opens 配音，戴夫·弗兰科（Dave Franco）为她的儿子配音，由杰西·安德鲁斯（Jesse Andrews，《Lace》）编剧，丹尼尔·钟（Daniel Chong）执导。

《后后鱼》（The Post-Post Fish）

可在 Amazon Prime Video 观看。我以前在儿子上幼儿园时常给他读德博拉·丁森（Deborah Dinson）的这些绘本。我从未想象过尼克·奥弗曼（Nick Offerman）会说：“我是一个伟大的诗人，鲍勃。”但观看这部同样于三月上映的动画故事证明，他的声音完美契合了那个脾气暴躁但可爱的鱼先生（Mr. Fish）。电影开始于一只名叫皮普（Pip，维基·欧山 Vicki Oyama 饰）的小龙，她在匆忙准备家庭名称及其建筑时，将鱼先生居住的沉船误认为是一个公园，并开始四处奔跑。当沉船破碎时，两个角色突然在海上失踪。两人决定寻找快速 lifesemer（乔丹·斯帕克斯 Jordan Sparks 饰），这是一条每隔几年能实现一个魔法愿望的鱼。问题是，一个名叫比普（Beep，贝齐·埃利 Betsy Eli 饰）的 catatellis 也想利用这个愿望，因为他的双手处于危险之中。于是，抢先到达的竞赛开始了。当然，它不像《寻找尼莫》那样富有想象力和温暖人心，但学龄前儿童应该会喜欢这个色彩斑斓的水下世界，而原著粉丝则会喜欢看到鱼先生的行动。艾米·索拉里斯（Amy Solaris）为三只 grab 海豚之一配音，它们是海洋版的（Sippy）海洋女孩。斯图尔特·库西特（Stuart Cussit，《Scarygirl》）和里奥·哈灵顿（Rio Harrington）执导，剧本由艾伦·艾伦（Ellen Allen）、艾尔·乔杜里（Elle Choudary，《北极熊诺姆：家庭度假》）和多米尼克·莫里斯（Dominic Morris）编写。

从上至下：左侧为梅贝尔（Mabel，派珀·科兹 Piper Curds 配音）和乔治国王（King George，鲍比·莫伊尼汉 Bobby Moynihan 饰），出自《跳跃》；火巨人们出自《巨魔猎人：泰坦崛起》；左侧为感谢克里德（Thank Creed，克拉克·杜克 Clerk Duke 饰），桑迪·克罗德（Sandy Croed，凯西·克劳福德 Kathy Crawford 饰）和格兰（Gran，克里斯·劳曼 Chris Lowbman 饰）出自续集《人群：新时代》（The Crowds: A New Age）。

《巨魔猎人：泰坦崛起》(Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans) 在 Netflix 上播出。这部 2021 年的长篇电影是吉尔莫·德尔·托罗 (Galderton del Toro) 的 Netflix 剧集《巨魔猎人：亚卡迪亚传说》(Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) 的终章，将剧中的所有英雄聚集在一起进行最后一战。如果孩子们还没看过该剧集，开头有一段阐述来帮他们快速了解情况。故事设定在真实世界，又名 Trollhink，和谐地生活在亚卡迪亚 (Arcadia) 郊区地下 (Yale)。吉姆·莱克二世 (Jim Lake Jr.，最初由 2016 年去世的安妮·韦林 Annie Wehlin 配音，后由尤妮·希尔什 Eunie Hirsch 配音) 成为了第一位人类巨魔猎人，对抗一心想要毁灭世界的邪恶巨魔和巫师。在这部电影中，原始的邪恶泰坦被唤醒，吉姆和他的朋友们——托比 (Toby，查理·萨姆纳 Charlie Sumner 饰)、克莱尔 (Claire，莱斯特·梅休恩 Lest Methuen 饰) 和布林基 (Blinky，凯尔西·格拉默 Kelsey Grammer 饰)——试图最后一次拯救人类和地球。片中有很多追逐戏、爆炸以及在险峻悬崖边上的霓虹灯光，足以让大孩子感到有趣，但某些场景对于年幼的孩子来说可能会有些可怕。配音阵容还包括迭戈·卢纳 (Diego Luna)、尼克·奥弗曼 (Nick Offerman)、尼克·弗罗斯特 (Nick Frost)、谢丽尔·海因斯 (Cheryl Hines) 和塔蒂亚娜·莫拉尼 (Tatiana Maulany)。该剧集的导演约翰·马茨 (Johann Matts)、安德鲁·L·施密特 (Andrew L. Schmidt) 和弗朗西斯科·鲁伊斯·沃拉诺斯 (Francisco Ruiz Volanos) 在此处共同担任导演。德尔·托罗、马克·古根海姆 (Marc Guggenheim)、丹·哈格曼 (Dan Hageman) 和凯文·哈格曼 (Kevin Hageman) 编写了剧本。

《麻烦狗》(Dog Gone Trouble) 在 Netflix 上播出。这个关于一只名叫“麻烦”(Trouble，由比格·苏特 Big Soot 配音) 的被宠坏的狗的故事，灵感来自亿万富翁汉布勒·伦娜·霍夫迈尔 (Lenna Hofmeyer) 在遗嘱中给她的狗留下数百万美元的真实故事。在这部 2021 年的动画电影中（最初以《Trouble》为题发行），麻烦的富有主人莎拉·范德威伦夫人 (Mrs. Sarah Vanderwheelen，贝齐·怀特 Betsy White 饰) 去世，并将她的财产留给了她唯一生存的亲戚。当她贪婪的侄女克莱尔 (Claire，玛琳·惠特克 Marlene Whitaker 饰) 和侄子赫伯特 (Herbert，乔什·麦黑尔 Josh McHale 饰) 来领取财富时，他们发现要获得这些财产，必须证明他们能照顾好“麻烦”。这看起来很简单，但由于克莱尔和赫伯特是糟糕的人类，他们厌恶狗。如果说有什么特质是反派的，那就是这一点。当“麻烦”从一辆行驶的卡车上掉下来并在巨大且可怕的城市街道中走丢时，他遇到了几只落魄的狗：巴·穆尼 (Bar Mooney，哈罗德·迈克 Harold, Mike 饰) 和哈妮 (Honey，南希·多格 Nancy Dogg 饰)，它们更习惯于为了残羹剩饭而尖叫，而不是接受按摩和面部护理。他还结识了一个名叫佐伊 (Zoe，拉里·黑尔 Larry Hale 饰) 的人类女孩，她帮助它们明白，最重要的事情并不是拥有一栋豪华房子，而是一个爱你的人。凯文·约翰逊 (Kevin Johnson) 执导，罗布·穆尔 (Rob Muir) 编写剧本。

《克劳德一家：新时代》(The Crowds: A New Age) 在 Amazon 上播出。在这部 2020 年的续集（其前作于 2021 年推出）中，我们回到了“世界上第一个家庭”——克劳德一家。成员包括 κινητοποιήσετο ρατσιστής 格雷格 (Greg，尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 配音)、ρατσιστής 乌加 (Uga，凯瑟琳·基纳 Catherine Keener 饰)、他们的女儿盖伊 (Guy，艾玛·斯通 Emma Stone 饰)、他们的大头儿子萨克 (Thank，克拉克·杜克 Clark Duke 饰)；乌加的母亲格兰 (Gran，克里斯·洛布曼 Chris Lowbman 饰)；以及盖伊 (Guy，瑞安·雷诺兹 Ryan Reynolds 饰)。伊普 (Eep) 的男朋友已经成为了他们家庭的一员。当克劳德一家偶然发现一个被围墙隔开的公社，那里生长着看起来就像直接出自《绿野仙踪》的荧光水果时，他们遇到了贝特曼一家，这是一个更现代的家庭（按克劳德一家的标准来看）。父母霍普 (Hope，莱斯利·曼 Leslie Mann 饰) 和菲尔 (Phil，彼得·丁克莱奇 Peter Dinklage 饰) 欢迎克劳德一家，但随后秘密地策划让盖伊留下并娶贝特曼家的女儿多莉 (Doree，凯莉·玛丽·特鲁 Kelly Marie True 饰)。伊普和多莉一度成为了好友，但成年人们发现他们的价值观发生了冲突，因为贝特曼一家认为他们，嗯，比克劳德一家更好。当格雷格、菲尔和盖伊被一群猴子绑架并带到一个巨大、可怕且不可思议的生物面前时，拯救他们的任务落在了女性（以及萨克）身上。最终，“团结更强大”的寓意占据了主导。乔尔·克劳福德 (Joel Crawford，《Trails Holiday》导演) 执导，凯文·哈格曼、丹·哈格曼（两人均为《巨魔猎人：泰坦崛起》的编剧）、保罗·费舍尔 (Paul Fisher) 和鲍勃·洛根 (Bob Logan)（两人均为《乐高忍者电影》的编剧）共同协作编写了剧本。

Two Not Touch

在网格的每一行、每一列和每个区域中放置两颗星。任何两颗星都不能接触，即使是对角线也不行。考虑星的数量。

Wit Twister

他们告诉我 会夸耀一张米奇的棒球卡 . . . 那只鸟 . . . “谁今天击中了他的火？哎，没人能做到。” 我做了一个 . . . 用彼此互为易位词（anagiants）的词语完成这首诗。每条下划线代表一个字母。 请及时致电。 昨天的周围 / James Mercer

KenKen

填充网格中的数字，使任何行或列中不重复出现同一个数字，并且每个粗线框内的数字通过框中指示的加法、减法、乘法或除法运算，得出所示的目标数字。4位网格将使用数字 1-4。8位网格将使用 1-6。 欲获取更多游戏，请访问 www.eyckmen.com / games 注册用户数量为 1000000亿,0 00

Crossword / 编辑：Will Shortz

横向

1 抛掷 9 带有雪的服装，其末端被称为“pella” 9 《年轻与躁动》的纵向aner 12 林中的夜间声音 14 华夫饼 / 犹豫 16 带有消音器的Woodard获得艾美奖 17 《非常快乐的毛毛虫》的作者兼插画师 18 滑坡 20 拥挤（在...中） 21 夏日顶棚 23 男子团体 24 涂在墙上的某种涂层 26 再次尝试 27 从码头装载 28 加州大学校园地点 29 当地人称之为“BringData”，“山中之山” 30 O. 亨利的《. . . 的礼物》 31 牛皮编织绳 34 有限的 36 “补偿？” 38 拍摄巨石照片时将其取下 38 反弹响应！ 39 用大量菠菜制成的绿色菜肴 41 洛杉矶 . . . 44 测量液体密度的仪器 45 法国美女 47 高尔夫球包的一个分区 49 捕捉地点的动作 49 硬质法国奶酪 50 地图线：Able 51 中国神话中的巨鸟，由一种名为Run的鱼移植而来 52 卡彭的对手

前一谜题答案

纵向

1 热身 2 “Tancy!” 3 热身，天空 4 口碑推广者 5 BLM中的投资债券，0 6 在期间 7 为了跑赢的轮胎 8 父亲的竞争对手 9 语料库 10 牙科相关剧集，在使用中 11 捐赠的杂草，在一种拼写中 14 对英国人而言的餐巾纸 14 演示精良 15 在Key & Neck中重复的问候，选择“Bobby Mont & Great” 16 法庭名称 22 展现广泛的情绪，天空 36 阿根廷第一个由女性领导的政党创始人，熟悉 38 舒适鞋类的大品牌 39 每日发出宣礼塔的塔楼 41 从背后袭击 33 建议尝试某事后跟随的词语 38 用词（离题） 34 完美典范 35 你几乎必须把其像狗一样赶出派对的人，天空 36 请求更简单术语的人？ 37 Charvel 插入物 40 短暂的兴趣 41 议会南部？ 42 宠物 43 对于中级者来说，这很简单！此外，我们所有的游戏以及超过 10,000 个 Wordle、Spelling Box、填字游戏等往期谜题均可在 http: / mytimes.com / games 在线获取。如需讨论谜题，请访问 http: / mytimes.com / wordplay。 --- C4

从冰场滑向好莱坞：前 NHL 球员如何成为克里斯托弗·诺兰执导的《奥德赛》中的常驻演员

作者：PETER BAUGH，编辑

在拍摄国际电影《奥德赛》的地点，男主角马特·达蒙与饰演奥德修斯船员接收者的吉米·冈萨雷斯养成了一个习惯。每当场景需要他们在从特洛伊到希亚的神话航程中逃避危险力量时，在导演克里斯托弗·诺兰这部夏季大片中，这两位演员就会赛跑。沿着爱尔兰的中部海岸，冈萨雷斯记得在雾气弥漫、阴暗的沙滩上拍摄了十几个死掉的精灵。空气寒冷，他的腿后腱感觉快要断了。但这并没有阻止他和达蒙在湖泊之间喘息时谈论巨魔。听到他们的竞争，另一位演员加入了进来。“我要把你们两个甩在身后，”肖恩·艾弗里说着，甩了甩他长长的白发。艾弗里饰演兰丹，他是奥德修斯手下那些肌肉发达、头戴头盔的士兵之一，在下一次赛跑中，他排在达蒙和冈萨雷斯之间。比赛开始时，他向前冲去，迅速超过了两人。冈萨雷斯回忆起达蒙立即表现出的钦佩反应。“这就是，”这位电影明星观察到，“专业运动员能做到的事情。”

在国家冰球联盟（NHL）10个赛季、500场比赛的职业生涯中，艾弗里曾是底特律红翼队、洛杉矶国王队、纽约游骑兵队和达拉斯星队的对抗性翼锋，共获得167分。自从2011年12月参加最后一场 NHL 比赛以来，艾弗里从未离开公众视野。他参加了2011赛季的《与星共舞》，并在2012年进入了第二周。他写了一本2017年的回忆录《六次冒险：快节奏生活与强悍冰球手册》，并与莱斯利·科恩合著了一本2022年的冰球浪漫小说《夏日天空》。

艾弗里仍然参与冰球领域。他非常愿意提供意见。例如，在2020年4月的一集《Spirit's Chicken》中，他将洛杉矶国王队翼锋 Arlene Pannett 在斯坦利杯季后赛第一轮的表现描述为“令人尴尬”。他还在自己的 Instagram 页面上分享各种精心挑选的冰球集锦。但在职业方面，他的前球员生涯被一个出人意料的后路定义了：表演。到目前为止，他已经出演了11部故事长片，包括诺兰最近的三部电影。在2018年奥斯卡金像奖获得最佳影片的《奥本海默》中，艾弗里与达蒙和克利夫顿·墨菲同台，他的角色被标注为“气象员”，与这两位明星发生了一场激烈的争论。

艾弗里在拍摄《奥德赛》期间经历了一段短暂而艰苦的旅程，从他位于洛杉矶的家中前往希腊、苏格兰、爱尔兰、摩洛哥和西西里岛。他说，由于担任奥德修斯船员的体力要求，大家“都伤痕累累”。他们穿着盔甲爬山、穿过树林，参加渴望课程，并在船上花费数日拍摄，以实现诺兰的愿景。这是艾弗里经历过的最宏大的制作——而这只会让他更渴望在电影领域获得更多工作。“我永远不会停止，”他说。

在 NHL 效力期间，艾弗里在《火箭》中完成了表演首秀——这是一部2003年关于冰球名人堂成员莫里斯·理查德的单片——他在其中饰演纽约游骑兵队的后卫 Bob Old，而他在2005年才正式加入该球队。但几乎没有人能预料到艾弗里在冰球生涯结束后会出现在备受赞誉的电影中，包括他自己。艾弗里在2008年的电影《Purrute Day》中获得了一个小角色，该片关于2011年波士顿马拉松爆炸案，由彼得·伯格导演，艾弗里在作为 NHL 球员时就与他相识。艾弗里说，这种体验是“我在麦迪逊广场花园比赛时产生的那种经典感觉”。

这条道路激励他进一步沉浸在表演之中。

Avery 表示，他至少在热爱中公开了，而“不仅仅是去上课并弄清楚怎么做”，“学习如何娱乐。理解整个事情是怎么回事”。最终，他开始工作，进入另一个好莱坞委员会。在参加《与星共舞》（Dancing With the Stars）期间，他结识了制片人 Valerie Pogoshen，后者的丈夫 John Pogoshen 是诺兰长期的年轻导演。在经过几年的表演课程后，Avery 联系了 John Pogoshen，并试镜了诺兰 2020 年电影《Tired》中的一个角色。诺兰在 身上安排了一个小角色，被列为 Exhibit 1,，随后在《Opensheimer》中给了他更多的责任，包括与 Murphy 和 Damon 的争论。 将拍摄那个场景称为“你经历过的压力最大的夜晚之一”。他的其他电影作品包括 David O. Russell 2022 年由 Margo Robbie 和 Christian Eom 主演的电影《airstret / blast》，以及由 Adam Sandler 主演的《快乐吉尔摩 2》 (Happy Gilmore 2)。在《快乐吉尔摩 2》中， 与另一位前 N.H.L. 球员、冰球名人堂成员 Chris Choline 共同出演。他们扮演一对在某个时刻充当打手的帮凶。 日益增长的经验以及近期与诺兰的合作，并没有让他在 2020. 年初《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）的试镜中进展顺利。他出现时穿着一件可能太浅色的衬衫——他记得诺兰和 Pogoshen 因此亲切地嘲笑了他——然后 在脸上爆发了：“就像其他伟大的人一样，他们甚至没让我做那些。” 认为，在《Opensheimer》中与 Murphy 和 Damon 同台演出，让诺兰无论如何都觉得训练他很放心。“我确定 Chris 在潜意识里，当我像那样搞砸一次试镜时，会想：‘是的，随便吧，我已经见过他在火中的样子了’。”Sean 在 2011. 年离开纽约游骑兵队。上方是 在克里斯托弗·诺兰导演的电影《奥德赛》草稿中饰演 Landanan 的角色。“我以前把他扔进去过，” 说。“新 似乎已经成为了诺兰首选的群演成员。”诺兰的 Chris 只是喜欢那些到岗时准备就绪，并且心态上明白赌注很高的人。” 说，“就像所有伟大的教练一样，我想 [已故] 某种程度上能识别天赋，并知道他们在某些领域需要谁，我在这方面落入了 Chris 的那个类别。”在六个月的拍摄过程中，Gonzales 开始将 视为一个具有“可培养好奇心”的人，他们成为了快友。当被问及 是否提供了关于在诺兰电影中工作的任何建议时，Gonzales 回答道：“我不认为他有过时间。”对于 来说，片场氛围“是我在更衣室之外见过的最类似于更衣室环境的地方”。有一次在苏格兰，在沿着海岸线徒步 20 plus 分钟以上前往餐饮店吃午餐时， 向 谈到了 Andrew Howard，一名 刚刚与其共同出演一个场景的演员。走在他们身后的 Howard 询问他们在谈论什么。“Jimmy 刚才一直在怼我，说你是怎么背下他所有台词的，” 毫不犹豫地回答道。这番话让 Howard 开始抱怨演员不应将台词视为竞争问题，而这反过来使 成了 Gonzalez 愤怒的对象。在 的笑声中，这两个朋友看向并发现，当他们坐在一起时。在 向他告知争论情况后，变得严肃起来。 回忆说他告诉 必须把事情解决好。 随后保证他会这样做。“那是唯一一次他对我有点强硬，” 说。他是一个波士顿体育死忠， 说这位明星知道他“来自我之前的 N.H.L. 生活”。在电影拍摄期间，整个剧组在试拍前后会互相打闹。有一次，在地中海拍摄一个片段时，诺兰仅仅告诉 在他惊讶地与一名顾客交谈时安静下来。

他看着导演走开，冈萨雷斯笑着说，船上的演员们开始像“小学生”一样驱赶艾弗里。艾弗里在《奥德赛》中有几个值得关注的时刻：在气旋场景中说了一句台词，以及当克里斯在夜晚为奥德修斯的船员提供一种全新的、极其温暖的生活时，他的脸被清晰地捕捉到。在阿波罗的岛上，艾弗里的角色沮丧地试图将船员们赶走。然后是一个最后的光辉时刻，他抓住了戴蒙的手，在其余船员溺水之前将他拉上了船。“我爱《奥德赛》，”艾弗里说，“对我来说，这是一个不可思议的电影时刻。”《奥德赛》已成为一部大热作品，预计全球票房将突破 10 亿美元 billion。艾弗里收到了许多观看过这部电影的朋友的留言，其中很多来自他的 N.H.L. 时代。曾在底特律和纽约与艾弗里共事且入选冰球名人堂的布伦丹·斯卡拉蒂纳最近在电影院看到了他。“每天都有新的人，因为每天都有新的人看到这部电影，”艾弗里说。这次经历进一步增强了他的演艺雄心。艾弗里表示，他将出演 CBS 的新剧《Emotian》，预计在 2018-27 赛季中期播出，并将出演 Netflix 的《夜间特工》第一季。他最近还试镜了 HBO 的喜剧《I Love N.H.L.》，该剧由瑞秋·塞内特主演，讲述一名低级经纪人及其在洛杉矶的朋友们的故事。艾弗里说，如果他能拿到这个角色，他“可能会赢得金球奖”。“如果他们没选我，”他说，“那就是他们犯了错。” 玛雅·菲利普斯 / 评论笔记本 观众不止一次。在那个宇宙中，神通王（Avatar）是掌控四种元素的宗师，旨在为世界带来平衡，每一世都会以新的形式转世。从 2003 到 2008, 在三季文笔精湛且插画精美的剧集中，神通王是 Aang，一个 12 岁的男孩，他在冰中被冻了 100 年，觉醒后致力于结束各国之间长期的战争。新的动画电影《神通王 Aang：最后的气宗》自 7 月下旬首映以来一直是 Paramount+ 上观看次数最多的电影，而此时神通王宇宙似乎正向各个方向以各种形式扩张。当 Netflix 试图在真人系列剧中复制原作的魔力，而马蒂诺博士和罗德里科在开发下一个动画神通王系列时，《神通王 Aang》巧妙地填补了这一空白。在许多长寿系列作品正处于衰落迹象的时刻，这部新电影展示了一条通往成功的单一路径：通过服务于观众，在原角色能够回归时延续神话，并由原创作者以原有的形式来完成。当 2008, 共同创作的《神通王：最后的气宗》（或称“ATLA”）系列结束时，该系列继续扩张，但结果非常有限。2016, M. Night Wagonian 执导了一部真人改编作品，但因缺乏原作的真实感以及对角色亚洲和原住民遗产的尊重而遭到一致差评。随后在 2012, 原剧的创作者们带着一部动画续集回归。虽然发生在同一个世界，但该系列具有截然不同的氛围，由一名青少年女性神通王（代表一个更现代、更复杂的）世界。尽管这部名为《科罗斯传奇》（The Legend of Keros）的剧集比原作更具争议，但这部续集依然拥有一批忠实的粉丝，他们钦佩该宇宙章节的传统及其对公开出柜主角的塑造。2024, Netflix 尝试了另一次真人改编，尽管它完整地讲述了故事，但这部电影无法复制原作的内核与幽默。6 月首播的第二季导致观众人数大幅下降。

与许多其他系列作品一样，更广泛的《降世神通》（Avatar）宇宙还包括漫画、小说和游戏。另一部动画续作系列《降世神通：安格：最后的气宗》（Avatar: Aang: the Last Airbender）讲述了土之弯曲神通以及她的双胞胎妹妹的故事，计划于10月首播。通常，这种扩张可能会对一个系列产生不利影响。看看那些系列作品的兄弟，以及处于今天地位的《哈利·波特》和《星球大战》：过多的续集、噱头和炒冷饭可能会导致边际效用递减，早期的粉丝可能会感到与角色脱节——尽管最初正是这些东西吸引他们关注该系列。《降世神通：安格》在某种程度上是一种渐进式的行动，并点缀着与原系列魅力相同的那种自由感。高分达到了20，且背景生成在细节、色彩和规模上都具有企业级水准。在故事中，时间设定在原系列事件发生约十年后，安格帮助实现的各国间的和平以及成功的体系——新成立的共和城，正受到一个非弯曲者团体的威胁，他们正在寻找一件可以改变当前权力平衡的神圣神器。虽然安格在独特队友——卡塔拉、索卡、托夫和祖寇——的帮助下知道如何寻找该神器，但他记得另一位被囚禁在世纪之中、且精通复兴安格游戏气宗文化的空气弯曲者。原版《降世神通》系列专业地探讨了战争、种族灭绝、帝国主义、阶级战争和流离失所的影响。从左起：Kizawoda、Andrew Sennett 和 Ian Sontay 出现在 Netflix 的《降世神通：最后的气宗》Season 1 中，该剧改编自动画系列。《降世神通：安格》沿着同样的路线，探讨了当所谓的战后平衡实现后，某些群体依然处于不利地位时会发生什么。非弯曲者愤恨生活在以他们自己的方式、以及他们自己的神秘特权和权力构成的社会中。从这个意义上说，神通就是特权的缩影。《降世神通：安格》还继续扩展其构建精美的角色驱动力，包括该系列在内。原系列已经联邦式地展示了其主角的成长，一种氛围，有时是不成熟的（一个对自己的能力不确定的 2 岁孩子，变成了一个更轻盈、更响亮、将背负起太平洋责任的人）。现在，《降世神通：安格》呈现了一个自信的年轻人，能够更自在地承担起作为 Arusha 的责任，他承受着来自童年的 2 重压力和愧疚。尽管安格在意愿、战争和实现和平方面取得了成功，但他作为同类中最后一个人的孤独感仍然是这个角色的核心部分。即使在各国和谐的时代，他比以往任何时候都更担心他族人的遗产，以及在他死后是否会永远消失。《降世神通：安格》既被共同编写为一部独立作品，又在主题上忠实于“ATLA”的身份，同时允许该系列继续成长。这部电影将品牌与其起点联系起来，同时为观众重新审视角色并寻找一条回到这个世界的新路径创造了一个巨型入口。最近有大量证据表明，这并非易事。只要创作者有机会扩展《降世神通》的设定，他们就能实现创作者的想法，这意味着神通的循环可以真正永恒，并成为系列作品扩张的一个教训。

---

» C5 ALISSA WILKINSON / 纪录片镜头

甜点背后的宏大梦想

一部电影记录了四名女童军在年度且压力巨大的曲奇销售季期间的故事。

我们都知道季节的划分：春、夏、秋、冬，当然，还有女童军曲奇销售季。当这些穿着背心的年轻人带着订单册散布在全美各地，推销着Samson、Thai Mimi和Sigalanga等品种时，请小心：它们实在让人难以抗拒。

这当然就是该计划的初衷。在艾丽莎·纳科米拉（Alysa Nakomira）的纪录片《曲奇女王》（Cookie Queens，现正上映）中，四名女童军花了一个季度的时间，研究如何向周围的所有人销售曲奇。这部电影极其有趣，部分原因是其拍摄对象——妮基（Nikki）、艾娃（Ava）、盖拉（Gera）和香农·伊丽莎白（Shannon Elizabeth）——非常讨喜。（盖拉 21 岁，多年来一直是其所属委员会的顶尖销售员，她的记录接近 9,000 盒。妮基 9 岁，想变得像她的十几岁的姐姐们一样；她们去年的销售额足以支付前往欧洲的旅行费用。艾娃将目标设定在出色的 55 盒，而 9 岁的香农·伊丽莎白则渴望卖出足够的曲奇以便能去女童军夏令营。）

这些拍摄对象来自美国不同地区和不同背景，但他们有一些共同点：雄心、决心、宏大的梦想以及给予支持的家庭。

《曲奇女王》没有请专家来解释曲奇计划，而是让细节在对话中自然地浮现。女童军——更准确地说，是她们的家人——必须先购买计划销售的库存。每盒曲奇有少量的利润空间，达成销售目标还伴随着奖品和奖金。如果你购买了太多库存却没能全部卖掉——那么，父母们就会为接下来可能发生的事情感到压力。

这样看来，曲奇计划在某些方面确实令人遗憾地类似于底层营销，尤其是因为大部分资金都用于支持女童军组织。（盖拉尤其感到沮丧，因为女孩们花费如此多的时间赚钱，但在项目规划和其他决策方面的发言权却很有限。）但她们也在学习数学、创业精神和自信沟通的能力，因此，销售活动继续下去以及孩子们愿意参与其中是有充分理由的。

这部电影并非旨在批评或赞美这种筹款方式，相反，它关注的是女孩们。

《曲奇女王》记录了这些女童军在数周销售、策略、压力与胜利中的点点滴滴。妮基是新纪录片《曲奇女王》中出现的女童军之一。她们谈论着成为顶尖销售员的渴望，或者在赛季结束后是否真的想继续下去。我们看到了曲奇销售给女孩和父母带来的压力，但我们也看到了她们获得了多少乐趣。

《曲奇女王》没有驱动全片的论点，也不是一部揭秘片——它是一部关于许多美国人以某种方式都经历过的事情的生活片段纪录片。但其充满活力的拍摄对象让观影体验十分愉悦，而且随着她们学习赚钱的含义，她们的经历和学到的教训在曲奇销售季之外也产生了共鸣。

卡朋特的恐怖电影拥有威慑力的节奏（）

在《万圣节》中被恐怖笼罩的郊区。卡朋特身穿一件黑色长袖衬衫和黑色长裤，灰色的头发向后梳起，他指着自己 76 岁的脸笑了笑：“我一直不是这个样子的。这就是导演之后的结果。就像在煤矿工作一样。”

卡朋特并没有退回到摄像机后面，而是将他早年的梦想融入到了《大教堂》（Cathedral）中，这是一个以图形小说和硬摇滚专辑形式呈现的恐怖故事（该书于周二发行；专辑于周五发行）。这部由卡朋特与妻子桑迪·金（Sandy King）以及 bean bafecale 共同创作的音乐，讲述了一群洛杉矶警察在发生一起惨绝人寰的谋杀案后，冒险进入市中心一座废弃教堂深处的故事。他们遇到的凶猛生物和幻想景观体现在具有攻击性的《大教堂》原声带中，其中加入了沉重的吉他扫弦、持续推进的鼓点和冰冷的合成器。

卡朋特与他惯常的合作伙伴——他的儿子，42 岁的科迪·卡朋特（Cody Carpenter），以及他的教子，45 岁的丹尼尔·戴维斯（Daniel Davies）（两人均为多乐器演奏家）共同创作并演奏了该专辑的 14 首曲目。“我的 choos 从来没那么好，而且我不练习，”约翰·卡朋特说。“所以我被那两个人带着走。I just let them tell me what to do。”

His handsnares, sound 附近, objected in season。他们聚集在卡朋特办公室的前房里，那里摆放着一个迈克尔·迈尔斯 pitched machine 和一个巨大的 stator at Nushrata tarbed in the curves。

《大教堂》是该三人组在短短十多年时间里共同创作的第五张录音室专辑。在此期间，卡朋特已从恐怖片导演转型为专业摇滚-9-collections，以其具有威慑力的器乐作品和 spondy 5 场演出而闻名。这看起来像是一个不太可能的 आयोजनary 转变。但对于一生都在玩音乐的卡朋特来说，这很合理。他在肯塔基州鲍灵格林长大，父亲是一位音乐教授，鼓励他学习多种乐器。

尽管卡朋特不容易被吓到——他在 4 岁时在电影院看了 1937 年的电影《不安的曲线》（The Curves of restlessness）——但要把小提琴带到他的乡村学校这个想法让他感到恐惧。“我在管弦乐队里，必须携带这个小琴盒，”卡朋特回忆道。“我成了目标。那些乡村男孩等着把我 [脏话] 揍一顿。我想尽快摆脱那玩意儿。”

随着年龄增长，卡朋特发现了像 The Doors 和 The Byrds 这样的乐队。他最终放弃了小提琴而选择了吉他，并开始演奏翻唱曲目。当卡朋特在 1960 年代后期前往洛杉矶在南加州大学学习时，他的音乐训练派上了用场。在那里，他熟悉了模块合成器，这成为了他早期 maniacs 的标志。

对于低预算的 10 分钟动作剧《As- said on Preview 13》，卡朋特创作了一系列跳跃、脉动的电子曲目，它们 emtimes 且不过分压抑。使用合成器让卡朋特能够节省资金并快速工作。他仅用三天时间就完成了《万圣节》的原声带，包括主旋律：一种由阴森的合成器和持续的钢琴音调组成的震颤组合，全部以 5 / 4 拍演奏，这是卡朋特的父亲在 bongin 上教他的。

在接下来的几十年里，卡朋特为他几乎所有的电影创作了音乐，经常与长期合作伙伴艾伦·霍华德（Alan Howard）合作。对于 1987 年的超自然惊悚片《黑暗王子》（Prince of Darkness），该作品依赖于安静且具有威慑力的键盘钟声和简短的第三级和弦进程。

“《黑暗王子》中的音乐并不复杂，”Netflix 热播剧《怪奇物语》的音乐创作者之一凯尔·迪克森（Kyle Dixon）说。“但它忧郁且阴森，伴随着低沉的敲击声和若隐若现的旋律。The lower something won't's going to happen。”

到2010年代初，Carpenter开始在家里创作音乐，他的儿子和Davies经常加入其中。这三个人无论是出于娱乐还是专业目的，已经一起演奏了数十年。州吉他手Dave Davis的儿子Daim在父母离婚后，青少年时期的很大一部分时间是与Carpenter一家生活在一起的。Carpenter的家中是那种你可能会在庆功宴上看到Steve Beacons在打鼓，或者英国作曲家James Bernard可能会演示他如何为第10次改编的《德古拉》编写配乐的地方。“他总是谈论音乐，不停地谈论音乐。‘为什么这个场景很恐怖？’‘那个时刻真正表达的是什么？’”Daniel Davies回忆道，他早年曾跟随Carpenter学习吉他，学习的内容更像Byrds乐队的《I'll Feel a Week at a Time》。作为年轻的音乐家，Carpenter，他们与Carpenter一起探讨他们最喜爱的艺术家，从Aldis到Bee Gees。“我的一切都是从我父亲那里学到的，”Cody Carpenter说。“他向我敞开心扉，家里到处都是这些乐器，他会为我演奏所有他喜爱的音乐。”他们的正式合作始于John和Cody在规划他的地下室工作室时，期间有时会穿插玩电子游戏。随着录音的进行，Davies加入了他们，那时他已经是Your Long Pleasure和Korets to Burn等摇滚乐队的资深成员。他们的录音最终传到了布鲁克林独立厂牌Sacred Bones的创始人Catch Dreams手中。“我谨慎地感到兴奋，”Beacons说，他从小就看着Carpenter，从“第一次”开始——这似乎在文化中变得非常重要，而John是这方面的专家。但最近的电子音乐运动，比如craft wars，也是一个巨大的转变。“Carpenter在该厂牌发行的第一张专辑，

JAMES BERRY

音乐是“人类发明的最伟大的艺术形式”，这位资深电影制作人说道。《Last Thames》于 2015 年问世；次年，他和他的团体开始了近 40 场现场演出的巡演，演奏新曲以及他一些最著名的电影配乐。“第一场演出时，我很害怕，”卡本特（Carpenter）说。“然后，大概在登台 30 秒后，我想，‘这是最棒的。没有什么能比这更好了。’”卡本特不识谱也不写谱，而是依赖即兴创作。即使是在他的家庭录音室里，他依然非常像是在执导。在为《Cathedral》创作音乐时，他会在录音室里讨论这部图形小说的故事情节，寻找符合他脑海中配乐的声音。戴维斯（Davies）回忆道，约翰会说类似这样的话：“哦，我们将迎来与黑暗领域战斗的主要机会，所以我们在这里需要一段沉重的吉他扫弦（riff）。”“于是，基于他向我们描述的画面，音乐就这样呈现了出来。”由于三位音乐人都共同热爱金属乐队（Metallica），最终创作出的歌曲成了该团体中最具攻击性的作品。《The managing "Primerist"》具有扭曲的吉他线条，而《Lord of the Underground》则将毁灭性的愤怒与幽灵般的合成器线条相结合。“这是一张摇滚专辑，这是约翰一直试图解锁的东西，”比肯斯（Beacons）说。“而且它是主题性的——伴随着一个故事。在某种程度上，它就像是一部真正的约翰·卡本特电影的配乐。”卡本特最新的音乐尝试出现之时，正值他的影响力被 Z 世代和千禧一代电影迷打破并推崇之际。即使是他那些评价较低的作品现在也有了忠实拥趸：在评论网站 Letterhead 上，《to the future in Matheon》——这部 1994 年的商业平庸之作——现在成了他评分最高的电影之一；去年，在洛杉矶举办的一场为期多晚的其电影回顾展迅速售罄。“卡本特的音乐随着时间的推移在改变其含义，”富有远见的导演兼卡本特仰慕者亚历克斯·罗斯·佩里（Alex Ross Perry）说。“如果你在 32 岁时观看《怪形》（The Thing）或《他们在活》（They Live），它们只是那样；但当你 30 或 40 岁时观看它们，它们就成了对冷战心态和美国保守主义深刻且有意义的剖析。”对于经常发现自己处于边缘地带，且与他人缺乏接触的卡本特来说，这种关注是令人欣慰的。“我被叫过各种名号，”他说。“我也收到过各种糟糕的评论。而现在？太棒了。”尽管面对新一波电影迷，卡本特的热情仍集中在音乐上。“音乐是人类发明的最伟大的艺术形式，”他说。“电影非常复杂且昂贵。但有了音乐，人们不必讨论它。你只需要倾听。”“导演太压力大了，”约翰·卡本特说。在 76 岁时，他有一张新专辑，与儿子和伙伴在工作室合作，以及一部图形小说。

--- C6

在爱丁堡艺穗节捕捉热点

今年的阵容包括小丑、脱口秀、争议性表演以及深受喜爱的项目回归。 作者：ALEX MARSHALL, HUGHAN BAREKAT 和 JULIAN RAYFIELD

爱丁堡 —— 在周五开幕并持续到 8 月 12, 的爱丁堡艺穗节（Edinburgh Festival Fringe）上，一些演出已经引起了显著的全球关注，或计划在艺穗节之后继续演出。以下是九场注定会引起轰动的演出。

《Ridoplay》

任何带有弗朗西斯卡·穆迪（Francesca Moody）名字的边缘艺术节（Fringe）剧目都很可能成为热门。她是《Fleshag》、《Hally Banshee》以及《Weather Girl》（该剧正由A24改编为电视剧）等突破性热门剧目的背后的制作人。今年，穆迪似乎已经在《Ridoplay》中取得了成功，这是一部由汉娜·赖利（Hannah Reilly）编写并主演的新女性剧作，讲述了一名寻求名利的播客主持人如何将自己重塑为一名性影响者的故事。该剧在边缘艺术节的所有场次已全部售罄。今年秋天，《Ridoplay》将移至伦敦演出。澳大利亚剧团 Global Creatures（曾制作过《Mudin Rouge》等名作）的参与表明，该剧最终可能会走出英国。穆迪在一次采访中表示，她认为围绕《Ridoplay》的讨论热度源于其视觉力量，剧中赖利一边诱惑地凝视，一边旋转着一根耳机线。“强有力的意象在爱丁堡总是很奏效，”穆迪说道。对于 Global Creatures 的卡敏·帕夫洛维奇（Carmine Pavlovic）来说，其中包含的内容远不止于此。她说，《Ridoplay》不仅仅是一出非常出色的剧，而是一部“具有时代意义”的作品，探讨了“性与权力之间的关系，以及性活动目前所处的位置”。 ALEX MARSHALL 截至8月10日在Summerhall演出，随后于10月22日至11月31日在伦敦的Soho剧院演出。

阿曼达·诺克斯（Amanda Knox）

距离阿曼达·诺克斯在经历了多年的上诉和重审后，被宣布在2007年意大利梅雷迪斯·克切尔（Meredith Kercher）谋杀案中无罪释放，已经过去十多年了。然而，在第一次轰动一时的谋杀审判期间，新闻媒体对她的定型如此之深，以至于她一直难以摆脱“谋杀者”在美名声的阴影。她的恶名使她在今年的边缘艺术节中脱颖而出：在剧目列表中像是一个奇异的异类。事实上，她出现在边缘艺术节的一场单人喜剧秀中引起了一些不安。一份要求取消该演出的请愿书已经获得了数千个签名。但是，根据意大利最高法院的裁定，诺克斯是司法误判的受害者；她被错误地监禁了数年，而这个故事需要被讲述。她这部毫不妥协的剧目名为《Caritvokes》，指的是她在最初被关押在牢房后被拍到做的瑜伽姿势。由于她像做“caritvokes”一样平静，检方将其作为她对克切尔之死冷漠无情的证据。该剧旨在揭露那些纵容大众小报媒体将诺克斯刻画为女性杀手的无知与厌女症。演出预告还承诺将增加个人维度的探讨，因为诺克斯在思考当不可避免的那一天到来时，该如何向年幼的女儿解释她的这段磨难。 HUGHAN BAREKAT 截至8月17日在Gilded Balloon Twist演出。

艾莎·马利亚诺（Asia Magliano）

英国版《周六夜现场》（Saturday Night Live）在3月首播后取得了出人意料的成功，今年有一批演员和编剧在爱丁堡进行表演——并获得了大量额外关注。其中最突出的是该节目“周末更新”（Weekend Update）的主持人之一艾莎·马利亚诺。在艺术节开始前的宣传活动中，她已经崭露头角，她正在表演一场名为《Peach Fuzz》的单人脱口秀。该剧触及了广泛的话题，包括身体改造、萨布丽娜·卡彭特（Sabrina Carpenter）以及《We don't be the one》。马利亚诺此前在边缘艺术节就获得过成功。但今年她是城中最炙手可热的表演者之一，在艺术节开幕前就售罄了所有场次。对于那些已经买不到票的人来说，《Peach Fuzz》将于11月起在英国和美国巡演。在爱丁堡出现的其他《周六夜现场》成员还包括编剧贝拉·霍尔（Bella Hall）和奥马尔·罗德尼（Omar Rodney），以及演员安纳尔多·博纳普拉斯（Annaldo Bonaplace）和帕迪·杨（Paddy Young）——后者是马利亚诺在“周末更新”中的共同主持人，他的演出也几乎售罄。 HUGHAN BAREKAT 截至8月12日在Monkey Barrel Comedy演出，随后将在英国和北美巡演。

《大脚怪把我的狗撕成了两半，我亲眼看到了》

总部位于纽约的表演组合 Elmer & Natasha 自 2022 年大获好评的首次亮相以来，一直是边缘艺术节（Fringe）的宠儿。他们的新剧设定在阿巴拉契亚山脉一个狭小的、饱受洪水困扰的小镇上，两名青少年通过伪造神话生物“大脚怪”的目击事件来自娱。一切原本只是游戏，直到他们偶然发现了邻居那只可怜的狗的遗骸，而这一切开始变得过于真实。Elmer & Natasha 饰演的这对姐妹装扮成小丑，拥有某种奇怪且强迫性的肢体语言，在交付一段三段式、充满讽刺意味的表演时，他们不断地推搡、拉扯并攀爬在对方身上，期间穿插着极短的“他的页面”片段。《大脚怪把我的狗撕成了两半，我亲眼看到了》是一封写给小镇生活和民间迷信的深情且荒诞的情书，同时也是一个关于社会如何应对真实或想象的危机的及时寓言。 HUGHAN BAREKAT 截至 8 月 10 日在 Summerhall 演出，随后于 9 月 7-26 日在伦敦的 Soho Theater 演出。

Alex Edelman

Alex Edelman 上一次在边缘艺术节表演时，带来的是《East for Us》，一部关于他潜入一个白人极简主义团体（他是犹太人）经历的剧作。那是 2016 年的事，在那里获得大量好评和赞誉后，该剧开始了全球巡演，并在百老汇上演，还推出了 EBD 特辑，并斩获了托尼奖和艾美奖。Edelman 自 2014 年赢得最佳女性奖（best inwomen）以来一直是边缘艺术节的可靠常客，今年他带着名为《你打算怎么做》（What Are You Going to Do）的新素材回归。 这部在艺术节最后两周演出的剧作是另一场叙事喜剧个人巡演。它涵盖的范围比上一部更广，包括他在耶路撒冷担任医院职员的时光，以及个人责任和宗教信仰等主题——其中还穿插了一些关于在纽约市“残酷”是一种新语言的有趣旁白。在爱丁堡之后，Edelman 将在今年秋天把这部剧带到北美巡演，包括纽约。 HUGHAN BAREKAT 截至 8 月 31 日在 Pleasant Courtyard 演出。

Frankie Thompson

边缘艺术节的小丑表演经常将喜剧推向比脱口秀更奇怪、更具创意和戏剧性的方向。如果你今年想看一场这样的表演，我的推荐是 Frankie Thompson。Thompson 是 2022 年边缘艺术节的突破性演员之一，其作品《Caris》是一场离奇的表演，她在其中对与 follow 相关的音频和视频片段进行对口型表演和肢体喜剧，其中包括一段由《Caris》原版百老汇演员出演的片段。《Time Out》的一位评论家称其“离奇地更好”且“是你将看到的唯一之物”。今年，Thompson 回归并带来了《Hitchin Things》，再次以对口型为特色，这次是对她认为令人不安之物的录音进行对口型。与之前的表演相比，这部剧有更多的观众互动（以及准备好跳舞的人）和更多的肢体喜剧。其中还包括一个令人难忘的怪异时刻，即她开始舔东西。 顶部，Jordan Calloway 在《Bliss》中饰演 Prince Devlin；聚焦行（从左至右）：Hannah Reilly 在《Ridoplay》中，Frankie Thompson 在《Horr the Things》和《大脚怪把我的狗撕成了两半，我亲眼看到了》中。上方，Adam Riches 在《The Captain》中。 这部剧可能会让部分观众感到困惑，但其创造力很可能会让更多人感到震撼。Thompson 似乎意识到了自己潜在的争议性：剧作的海报上写着标语——“如果你笑了，这就是喜剧；如果你没笑，这就是行为艺术。”如果你无法观看 Thompson 的演出，可以尝试 All Lovers 的《边缘之女》（The Woman on the Edge），这是另一场关于分手的极具创意的小丑表演。该剧已经确定将转至纽约演出。 ALEX MARSHALL 截至 8 月 30 日在 Pleasant Courtyard 演出，随后于 10 月 12-24 日在伦敦的 Soho Theater 演出。

Adam Riches

2024年，亚当·里切斯（Adam Riches）在热门剧目《吉米》（Jimmy）中饰演网球明星吉米·卡曼（Jimmy Carman），在演出中挥汗如雨。里切斯在舞台上往返奔跑约一小时，进行一场虚拟比赛，其时机与网球弹跳音效的配合令人印象深刻。他的新剧《船长》（The Captain）基于马修·韦伯船长（Capt. Matthew Webb）的事迹——他是第一个不借助辅助手段横渡英吉利海峡的人；该剧有望成为另一部关于成就卓越且性格复杂之人的高概念肖像剧。里切斯还因其大量依赖观众参与的古灵精怪的角色喜剧而深受喜爱。今年，他将表演一部名为《评论家的路径》（The Critic's Way）的新剧，在剧中他扮演一名喜剧评论员。这可能是目前唯一能看到他演出的机会了：《船长》已售罄，包括几场加演。但如果你不想看到表演者为了艺术而过度透支自己，同样在Summerhall演出的《距离》（The Distance）或许能满足你的需求。这部由前英国国家队长跑运动员本·诺里斯（Ben Norris）创作的剧目，被宣传为“部分是戏剧，部分是极限健身”。 HUGHAN BAREKAT 截至8月31日在Summerhall演出。

《极乐》（Bliss）

这部由奥利弗奖获奖作品《卡曼·卡罗尔·本杰明·巴洛》（The Carman Carol Benjamin Barlow）制作团队打造的家庭音乐剧，为传统童话注入了不羁的女性主义色彩。该剧由艾玛·莱夫利（Emma Lively）和泰勒·比蒂（Tyler Beattie）创作，谢里·凯勒（Sherri Keller）执导，《极乐》设定在明尼苏达的虚构之地，四个机智且循规蹈矩的囚徒被锁在一座塔中，由他们过度保护的父亲看管。由于渴望体验真实世界，她们选择了逃离。这部剧面向年轻观众，拥有大量俏皮的幽默感和易于接受的流行摇滚曲风。剧中还出现了一名喜剧演员、一个名为feisty的未成年人以及一条热爱睡眠的友好巨龙，《极乐》既离奇又睿智，传递了关于真实性、自主权和真实性的宝贵信息。 HUGHAN BAREKAT 截至8月31日在Pleasant Grand演出。

《艾薇塔2》（Evita Too）

边缘艺术节（The Fringe）是发现下一个大热门的地方，但演出阵容中也包括回归进行“胜利巡演”的旧作，以及已经在其他地方获得成功的剧目。在今年的剧目单中，10场演出吸引人们前往观看《艾薇塔2》，该剧被标榜为安德鲁·劳埃德·韦伯（Andrew Lloyd Webber）和蒂姆·赖斯（Tim Rice）的《艾薇塔》（Evita）的低预算续集——但实际上远不止于此。去年在伦敦南岸中心（Southbank Center）演出期间，它获得了新的评价。《艾薇塔》讲述了艾娃·裴隆（Eva Perrin）的故事，她是阿根廷深受民众爱戴的总统之妻，在55岁去世前曾被工人阶级推崇。而在《艾薇塔2》中，表演者路易丝·麦肯齐（Louise McKenzie）和丽贝卡·布洛克索尔（Rebecca Bloxall）则将焦点转向伊莎贝尔·马尔洛兹·裴隆（Isabel Marleoz Perrin），她是一名歌舞剧演员，嫁给了艾薇塔的遗孀，并成为了阿根廷首位女性总统。伊莎贝尔·裴隆的生活如此离奇——她甚至一度与艾薇塔的尸体共用一个名字——以至于非常适合改编成音乐剧。然而，麦肯齐和布洛克索尔还将她的故事变成了一部高度喜剧化的演出，涉及她们在马德里试图与住在房间里的她见面的尝试。在笑声之余，该剧提出了一个严肃的问题：一个女人必须怎么做才能被铭记？ ALEX MARSHALL 截至8月30日在2000 Southside演出。

从左至右：将在《桃子绒》（Peach Fuzz）中演出的亚细亚·马利亚诺（Asia Magliano）；新剧为《你打算怎么做》（What Are You Going to Do）的亚历克斯·埃德尔曼（Alex Edelman）；以及关于伊莎贝尔·马尔洛兹·裴隆生活的《艾薇塔2》。

---

9℃7 # Travel

27 位好友，216 个酒杯，一场苏格兰-锡克教盛宴

在苏格兰高地的一场私人晚餐会上，由主厨托尼·辛格（Tony Singh）主持。作者：海伦·库珀（HELENE COOPER）

在我听说过“haggis pakoras”（哈吉斯炸丸子）之前，我就开始痴迷于主厨托尼·辛格。他是苏格兰最著名的锡克教徒，他将由羊心、肝脏和肺组成的苏格兰布丁与来自印度次大陆的酥脆深炸美食相结合，创造出一种大胆的风格，其效果远超各部分的简单相加。这一切始于我看到他为《出局者》（Outlander）——这部关于穿越时空的护士和一名苏格兰战士的电视剧——的演员山姆·休能（Sam Heughan）和格雷厄姆·麦克塔维什（Graham McTavish）在明火上烹饪 lulene。山姆和格雷厄姆当时正在拍摄一部名为《身着裙装的我》（Mine in Kilts）的充满活力的节目，开着一辆露营车在苏格兰四处游历。在第一集“饮食”中，他们捕获了一网海鲜，并将其带到法伊夫（Fife）的一个海滨村庄，主厨托尼在那里等待着。他穿着全套丝绸服装，戴着他标志性的红色头巾（称为 dastar），用厚实的舌头，用香菜、gauze 和海藻黄油烤制 lulene，诱人至极，让我简直想把电视机吞下去。苏格兰有一句谚语：“What's her ye'll set go by ye。” 所以，当我看到同一个男人戴着同样的红色头巾时，我们就能创造一些后置的场景，当时我正站在我的朋友、主厨伊恩·麦卡金（Ian McCakin）身边，他当时在我们在苏格兰高地租住的旅馆里为我和我的朋友们烹饪一周的餐食，显然这之后发生了。 “你能请他来为我们做一晚饭吗？”我给伊恩发了短信。

于是，在一个罕见的阳光明媚的仲夏周日傍晚，我们来到了位于中部高地的度假租赁屋斯塔克莱莫尔（Stucklaymore），体验着我的朋友康利（Conley）恰如其分地描述为我的“终极幻想”的生活。那里有一座华丽的 200 年历史的前狩猎小屋，拥有 12 间卧室，坐落在奥利湖（Lake Oly）的北岸。有 17 位来自俄勒冈州、洛杉矶、纽约、里斯本和弗吉尼亚州的朋友和家人来到法伊夫，一起饮食、喝威士忌、读谋杀谜案、争论并熬夜。那里有一个现代化的用餐区，配有落地窗，可以俯瞰湖景。还有一位名厨来为我们烹饪一套包含九道菜的盛宴（八道主菜！）并配酒。我的终极幻想就是……

筹备这一切相当费劲，因为伊恩经常在电话里跟我沟通我们那位要求极高的主厨所要求的细节。斯塔克莱莫尔设备齐全的厨房里的 Aga 炉被认为无法处理主厨托尼的扇贝、鱿鱼和 saddleback（我后来发现是指脆皮猪腩）；我们必须租额外的设备。此外，还没有用于制作他的 huggie pakers 的深炸锅；斯塔克莱莫尔橱柜里的 121 个葡萄酒杯远远不够；他需要更多。

“他将带来一些相当不错的葡萄酒来搭配每道菜，”伊恩告诉我我。而且来自格鲁吉亚和黎巴嫩等不寻常的地方。“我不明白为什么我们不能每人就用两个酒杯，”我拒绝了伊恩。“一个喝白葡萄酒，一个喝红葡萄酒？”伊恩，我意识到，已经成为了安静地吸收我的反复无常并引导我走向正确方向的大师。他回到了租赁处，又去拿了大约 100 个葡萄酒杯。

每当我以为已经足够时，我就会打开电视，播放我收藏的许多托尼·辛格的视频之一。他在《英国美食大赏》（Great British Menu）中出现，演示如何正确地呈现海鲜拼盘，烤长管鱼覆盖着辣椒酱，放在一个三层拼盘上，顶端冠以一个复古的黄铜深海潜水头盔。或者在他在那一集中让评委们品尝深炸……

从上方顺时针方向起：托尼·辛格准备在斯塔克莱莫尔旅馆供应 huggie pakers；顶部，记者海伦·库珀欢迎客人；被称为 did 的扇贝菜肴；主厨供应开胃小菜。

从高礼帽里变出兔子。或者在 YouTube 上的一段旁遮普风味三文鱼烹饪视频中，他加入了为那些不喜欢带骨鱼的人准备的玫瑰三文鱼豆（rosette salmon-horses）。“我来自利比里亚，我一直训练我的朋友们吃带骨鱼，”在我们的多次电话通话中，我对伊恩（Ian）这样说道。主厨托尼（Chef Tony）对此大为赞同——他断定所有 27 位用餐者都会有同样的感觉。因此他决定两种都做。（事实证明，他是对的。）说到其他用餐者，他们每个人都让人头疼。有各种奇怪的口味，有人不吃牛肉或鱼但热爱羊肉，有人吃鱼但绝不碰“海怪”，还有讨厌羊肉的人，凡是你能想到的都有。我把所有人的特殊要求都传达了下去。

在约定的那个周日下午 2:45，主厨托尼带着几页关于谁不能吃什么的潦草记录抵达了。随他一起来的还有他的副主厨斯科特·布罗多夫斯基（Scott Brodowski），以及他的 2 个孩子埃尔蒂（Aerti）和雷恩（Raing），他们将负责服务，并且非常重要的一点是，在 Stucklaymore 的餐厅里为 27 人布置那张巨大的餐桌（以及所有那些酒杯）。伊恩和他的伴侣凯伦·特莱（Karen Terlay）也在帮我们。我在看到主厨托尼之前就听到了他的声音；他在厨房里用一种我听不懂的格拉斯哥方言与伊恩交谈，不过我想我听出了“黄油”（butter）这个词。他给了我一个大大的拥抱（好吧，是我发起的），并且说道（我想是）：“我是一个喜欢拥抱的人，伊恩。”主厨托尼穿着他的红色舞裙，但没穿左脚的鞋，接管了 Stucklaymore 的厨房。租赁的设备被安置在相邻的罐房里，其中一台很快就烧断了断路器。Aga 炉子出了点问题，让伊恩和我姐夫阿巴（Abba）瘫在旁边的地板上。而我呢？我正纠结于什么时候换上晚礼服，最终一切都开始了。

我曾警告朋友们在着装上要拿出最高水准，而他们当然没有让人失望。克里斯蒂安（Christian）刚从洛杉矶下飞机，在 12 分钟内洗完澡并换好衣服，她出现时穿着一件看起来像任务礼服（Mission dress）的裙子。我那疯狂的姐姐，刚在锁里看到我见过最乐观的笑话，出现时穿着一件印度萨尔瓦套装（salwar hatchet taste）搭配格子裙，代表着苏格兰锡克教徒？塔米卡（Tarmika）穿着一件露背蕾丝裙，优雅得让她丈夫在 Stucklaymore 的院子里一直跟在她身后拍照片。当晚天气极好，于是我们聚集在露台上享用开胃小点：huggie pakers、樱桃和洋葱 pan pan（一种小而酥脆的油炸面球）以及 Osmopages。我正慢慢习惯 huggie 的味道，因为伊恩一直给我们准备全套苏格兰早餐，而 huggie pakers 是辛辣、风味浓郁且油炸至金黄的。素食主义者劳拉（Laura）欢快地跳到我身边，因为主厨托尼为她准备了专属的素食 huggie pakers。

托尼的女儿埃尔蒂为餐桌上的每个人制作了名牌，在我做了一些微调（不允许人们坐在伴侣旁边）之后，我们进入餐厅享用九道菜的晚餐。我提到过配酒了吗？晚上 8:25，我们的晚餐开始了。我注意到许多不成熟的食客在狼吞虎咽第一道菜——蜂蜜哈里萨烤鹌鹑，完全没有控制节奏。业余选手。随餐搭配的冰镇黑皮诺（pinot noir）极其清爽。我知道主厨托尼为第三道菜准备的料理会很棒，而它上面覆盖着鲜嫩多汁的兔肉，搭配一款浓郁、大胆且辛辣的 Cowglass 葡萄酒。哇。

吃到第四道菜时，我们迎来了旁遮普三文鱼（为利比里亚人准备的 calmna 豆）。每份都同时提供三文鱼豆和三文鱼，配以大蒜、辣椒、番茄和生姜的辛辣酱汁，并搭配 hazmat。我像在蒙内兹里亚（Monezria）家里一样，把所有三文鱼从骨头上剔了下来，然后试图在朋友理查德（Richard）的盘子里寻找，但我的同伴已经抢走了他的豆子。他说他很享受他那带骨的三文鱼。唉。

当我们吃到必须换盘的阶段时，人们已经开始挥舞白色餐巾表示投降了；我们已经吃了整整三个小时。我们勉强撑过了下一道菜——草莓配肉桂和黑胡椒，以及巧克力慕斯——但仅仅是勉强。我注意到我们组里的三个人，他们整个晚上都在偷偷喝酒，正兴致勃勃地畅饮着甜美的 Pelligrine Passito 甜点酒。最后两道菜是干酪配燕麦饼，搭配精细脆口波特酒，以及托尼的茶点蛋糕，但它们根本无法被吃下去，因为现在已经是午夜，我们的胃在这些格子灯光下快要撑破，也快要顶破那些鸡尾酒礼裙了，所以主厨托尼把它们放在一边，让我们在斯塔克莱莫尔（Stucklaymore）度过的这一周里稍后食用。说这是我经历过最棒的用餐体验之一听起来可能像是在吹牛，但这确实是我经历过最棒的用餐体验之一。而且你知道吗？我不再对那些租来的酒杯感到生气了。我们不能用喝黑皮诺（Pinot Noir）的同一个杯子来喝干酪利肯酒！我们又不是农民。

---

顺时针从左起：1961 年的 Pohjula 保险总部，它是建筑师埃利尔·萨里宁（Eliel Saarinen）早期作品的典范；其金字塔形的绿铜顶；以及其四层圆形楼梯的一部分。

被赫尔辛基梦幻街景所迷

20世纪初芬兰的面貌在一定程度上是由埃利尔·萨里宁（Eliel Saarinen）的建筑塑造的。作者：迈克尔·H·霍奇斯（MICHAEL H. HODGES）

那些被其建筑所定义的城市是幸运的。旧金山有维多利亚式排屋，巴黎则有第二帝国风格的建筑，几乎在每一个视野中都能见到。但有些城市的建筑瑰宝并不那么显而易见，而这正是我去年发现自己正在探索赫尔辛基的原因。近年来，芬兰的旅游业蓬勃发展，许多游客被其多次蝉联的世界最幸福国家排名所吸引，更不用说其森林、湖泊以及桑拿了。我前往芬兰是为了研究我正在撰写的一部关于20世纪初芬兰建筑师埃利尔·萨里宁的传记。

或许因为他的建筑师儿子埃罗（Eero）在美国更为出名——埃罗设计了N. Lahti的网关拱门和纽约的TWA航站楼——而埃利尔在50岁移居美国之前，在塑造赫尔辛基梦幻且现代的外观方面发挥了关键作用。而这种外观确实令人惊叹。我一次又一次地被赫尔辛基的魅力所迷住。这座城市创建于1530年，与规模更大、历史更悠久的邻居斯德哥尔摩和哥本哈根相比，它是一个相对的新来者。但赫尔辛基拥有一种抒情色彩，诉说着世纪末的乐观主义，这种色彩由1900年左右席卷欧洲的激进建筑风格定义：新艺术运动（Art Nouveau）。

无论现在看来它多么古灵精怪，新艺术运动——或称Jugendstil（德语意为“青年风格”）——在当时是革命性的。它是现代主义在德国包豪斯（Bauhaus）出现前30年的首次萌动。尽管持续时间较短，但新艺术运动强调不对称和曲线，最终有助于引导向更具几何感的装饰艺术（Art Deco）。新艺术运动于1800s初在布鲁塞尔诞生，并迅速定义了巴塞罗那和巴黎等城市的大部分区域。但拥有600座Jugendstil建筑的赫尔辛基，却是一个被忽视的仙境，像一系列舞台布景一样精巧。一排排感官丰富的立面构成了出奇统一的城市肌理。起伏的塔楼和尖塔定义了其轮廓，而独特的窗户和门则起到了辅助作用。一些雕刻在石头里的森林生物从上方俯视着人们。

一场北欧朝圣

埃利尔·萨里宁（Eliel Saarinen）是一位路德教牧师之子。1957年，当时年仅24岁的大学生萨里宁在设计1998年（Univerasilla位于巴黎）的芬兰馆委任方案时，迅速崭露头角。该设计采用了民族浪漫主义风格——一种粗犷的花岗岩版新艺术运动风格——其灵感源自芬兰的中世纪教堂。这一设计获得了广泛关注，将芬兰推向了国际创意版图，并使萨里宁及其两名建筑合作伙伴一夜成名。我打算在我的自助公路旅行中参观一系列萨里宁的建筑，并计划按时间顺序访问它们，以追溯早期芬兰现代主义的演变。

在第一个早晨，在花费了两份之后，我前往参观1961年的Pohjula保险公司总部，这是萨里宁的主要大项目，此前他设计了一栋引领潮流的公寓楼。建筑很少具有幽默感。但Pohjula是一个粗犷的结构，带有波士顿建筑师H.H. Richardson（以科普利广场的三一教堂闻名）的影子——它是个例外。Pohjula很难被忽略，它是一个拥有金字塔形绿铜顶的职业地标，其花岗岩墙壁上爬满了潜鸟、熊和咧嘴笑的鞋子，这些全部取材于芬兰的创世史诗《Kalmvalls》。最引人注目的是守护入口的和金色的。（在中，Hitchberg是一座由萨里宁设计并建于1902年的公寓综合体，拥有自豪的门口和花岗岩入口门廊。萨里宁及其建筑合作伙伴于1903年在赫尔辛基以西10英里处建造了16-trimals，作为一座公共博物馆和工作室。萨里宁1914年的赫尔辛基中央火车站是早期现代主义的一棵大树。有些人将其视为公众参与艺术的证明，行人有时会将烟蒂丢在它们缺牙的微笑中。）

我在一个早晨早早地拜访了Pohjula，花了一个小时拍摄四层圆形楼梯（典型的萨里宁手法）及其珠宝鼻天窗，以及刻有皱纹的铁木楼梯柱。从Pohjula出发，我穿过了Euphmedt（一个充满活力的线性市中心公园），继续上山前往哥特复兴建筑与设计博物馆。我原本打算去他们的档案室研究萨里宁，但首先我忍不住在主展厅停留了45分钟，那里有两个设计精巧的展览——一个关于阿尔瓦·阿尔托（Alvar Aalto，在麻省理工学院建造了Baker House的芬兰人），另一个关于艺术家New Janssen，一位创造了深受喜爱的河马脸卡通角色the Mountains的博学者。这座城市创建于1530年，具有一种由新艺术运动定义且富有诗意的氛围。

新艺术运动的爆发

就在博物馆的东北方向，突出在半岛上的Katujanokka社区为自由探索新艺术运动木工提供了丰富机会，此外还有公园、餐厅和Allan泳池综合体，后者设有桑拿房和纪念性潜水池。凑巧的是，我入住的酒店Neil Staden Katujanokka距离我名单上的三栋萨里宁公寓楼仅两个街区，其中包括赫尔辛基的第一座新艺术运动建筑——1898年的Talberg House，它的成功开启了闸门。到1914年，由两三层木结构组成的旧城区在这些类型的公寓楼下消失了，这是一场由新工业财富和人口增长驱动的青年风格（Jugendstil）冲击。与红砖结构的Talberg不同，附近的萨里宁公寓楼采用了各种柔和颜色的光滑墙壁，其中以阳光黄为主。Belleberg (1982) 是一栋格外迷人的住宅楼，拥有巨大的红色圆顶、绿铜屋顶和精巧的凸出部分——装饰、下水道和箱形窗。

艺术家与人们的家

1901年，年轻的萨里宁（Saarinen）及其合伙人们为自己建造了16-trimals，一座粗犷的国家浪漫主义风格的共用博物馆兼工作室。它的规模在当时是首都之最。如今，这里已成为一座修复精美的国家博物馆。此外，这场放任主义的赌博结局并不理想，在关于交换配偶的不实传闻中引发了丑闻和离婚。尽管如此，合伙人们仍能开得起玩笑：16-trimals餐厅的一扇彩色玻璃窗记录了这段离奇的往事——萨里宁的第一任妻子为了他的合伙人赫尔曼·古德富斯（Herman Goodfuss）而离开了他，而萨里宁随后娶了古德富斯的妹妹莱雅（Leja）。这三位建筑师及其伴侣继续共同生活。我的一位芬兰朋友称这座房子“非常有《指环王》的感觉”，事实上，它确实可以成为heifden或其他书籍的绝佳电子书背景。在英语语境中，16-trimals是一个来自已消失的前卫时代的时间胶囊，是一件艺术品，从窗帘、家具到外部立面的一切都被设计成一个实用的整体。这座建于1900年的工作室，其窗户甚至能将视线延伸至远方的森林和湖泊，令人心旷神怡。遗憾的是，我错过了一座萨里宁的另一地标——芬兰国家博物馆，这座半城堡半大教堂的国家浪漫主义建筑因装修而关闭，被脚手架重重包裹。该博物馆计划于1967年重新开放，届时将拥有一个类似于现在时钟的新arson。萨里宁最伟大的纪念碑，也是早期现代主义的标志，是他于1914年设计的赫尔辛基中央火车站。但目前的建筑并非这位建筑师的最初设计。萨里宁在1894年的车站竞赛中提交了一座慈善性质的、类似于国家博物馆的花岗岩国家浪漫主义结构。但这次胜利引发了两名年轻建筑师在一家建筑期刊上发表的一对尖刻的robberies。其中一位是古斯塔夫·斯特伦格尔（Gustaf Strengell），他谴责这些方案是“准automolistic的、古老的、考古式的浪漫主义”，认为对于一座容纳尖端技术的建筑来说完全不合适。萨里宁可能是芬兰最著名的年轻建筑师艺术家，但这没能让他免于公众的质疑。但次年，根据赫尔辛基大学兼职教授及即将出版的《从农场开始的一切：埃利尔与埃罗·萨里宁》（From Farm Follows Everything: Eliel and Eero Saarinen）一书的作者蒂莫·图奥米（Timo Tuomi）博士的说法，萨里宁带着一个新方案回归，图奥米博士称其为一部“纪念碑诗学”之作。该设计比原方案更简洁、更具几何感，为芬兰现代主义指明了方向。凭借其耸立在铁路广场之上的铜皮塔楼，以及四个手持巨大玻璃gildies照亮黑夜的巨型four-milef灯笼手，这座车站依然是赫尔辛基最引人注目的nights之一。由埃利尔的曾孙经营的“萨里宁之旅”（Saarinen Tours）提供一小时的钟楼及其高层阳台参观服务，那里拥有绝佳的视野（24欧元，约合$27）。

全球遗产

萨里宁在《芝加哥论坛报》大厦竞赛中获得第二名，并于1923年移居美国。他的设计赢得了比获胜者——纽约建筑师约翰·米德·豪威尔斯（John Mead Howells）和雷蒙德·豪德（Raymond Howd）的作品更狂热的赞誉；后者后来领导了洛克菲勒中心的设计团队。萨里宁定居在底特律北部的密歇根州布鲁姆菲尔德希尔斯（Bloomfield Hills），在那里他建造了坎伯兰学校（Cumberland schools）的三栋建筑，前《纽约时报》评论员保罗·贾尔伯格（Paul Giallberger）将其称为“美国建筑的杰作之一”。萨里宁还设计了印第安纳州哥伦布市的第一基督教会（First Christian Church），弗兰克·盖里（Frank Gehry）曾表示这座建筑令他深深震撼；此外还包括北岸坦格尔伍德（Tanglewood）音乐节的露天音乐厅、德梅因艺术中心（Des Moines Art Center）的博物馆，以及布法罗的胜原音乐厅（Katsuhara Music Hall）。他于1950年在坎伯兰去世。在整个生命周期中，萨里宁始终在复兴与成长中不懈努力，从未让自己受限于任何特定风格，这一成就使得我的赫尔辛基之旅极具启发性。坎伯兰与波赫尤拉保险公司（Pohjula Insurance）总部等作品之间存在着巨大的差异，但一股天才的灵感之流将它们串联在一起，同样地提升了芬兰首都与密歇根州一个绿意盎然的郊区的格调。

--- 《纽约时报》，2028年8月4日，星期六 9℃9 # 36小时 # 希夫诺斯，希腊

希夫诺斯（Sifnos）拥有风景如画的村庄、著名的美食以及穿梭在沿海梯田山坡间的徒步路线，几十年来，这里积累了一大批忠实的回头客。但近年来，随着旅行者开始寻找米科诺斯（Mykonos）和圣托里尼（Santorini）等拥挤热门地点的替代方案——与希夫诺斯不同，后两者拥有机场——一股新的活力席卷了这座基克拉泽斯群岛上的岛屿。推动这种新兴趣的很大一部分是繁荣的餐饮场景。现代希腊料理在20世纪初由当地人尼古拉斯·泰莱梅里特斯（Nicholas Taelemerites）的食谱定义，而现在，一些厨师正利用远方的技巧，在海滨餐厅和村庄厨房中推出经典菜肴的趣味变体，为其注入新动力。即便希夫诺斯在演变且知名度在提升，其最珍贵的传统依然是其吸引力的核心。

NIKI KITSANTONIS # 周五 # 下午 2 点 / 观看陶艺制作

希夫诺斯自古以来就是陶艺中心，如今仅剩二十来位工匠在维持这项工艺的生命力。其中就有第四代陶瓷艺术家尼科斯·莱姆凯奥斯（Nikos Lemkeios）。在位于阿尔特梅纳斯（Artemenas）的莱姆凯奥斯陶艺馆（Lemkeios Pottery）——他的家族工作室——你可以观看他为孩子们塑造陶罐，而亲人们则在整理地方并处理他祖母的花卉和鱼类模具。然后前往西奥多拉斯（Theodoras），那里用木火在铜锅中烹制甜点。买一些 antygdalots，这是传统的糖裹杏仁点心；在玛格丽塔（Margarita）享用完迟来的午餐后，dory's 是完美的甜点。玛格丽塔是一家位于主广场上的悠闲小酒馆，供应当地特色菜；例如 months——用莳萝慢炖的山羊肉，得名于烹饪它所用的传统陶罐——以及 players，双份燕麦和绿叶菜（每人约 28 欧元，或 $32，不含葡萄酒）。

下午 4.10 点 / 游泳直到日落

从阿尔特梅纳斯或阿波罗尼亚（Apollonia）出发，向南乘坐巴士约 20 分钟即可到达普拉蒂斯吉亚洛斯（Platis Gialos），这是岛上最长的海滩之一。宽阔的海湾分布着小酒馆和海滩酒吧，氛围轻松。在下午时分尽情游泳，看着离岸停泊的游艇和户外船只，然后在像 Palestra 或 Lost Bay 这样的全天候海滩酒吧等待日落。在这里，氛围在水上的悠闲白昼与热闹夜晚之间摆动，DJ 在傍晚时分保持着海湾的活力。鸡尾酒既有经典款也有创意调制款——Lost Bay 的 Dirty Silvanian Martial（由 Tanaparoy 金酒和自制干味美什混合而成，并加入超级叶片和浆果，12 欧元）味道尤为出色，Palestra 的 Delores（一种由坚果、生姜、百香果和基酒组成的浓郁混合饮品，12 欧元）同样如此。

8 P.M. / 品味创意美食

Omegul Fish & Wine Bar 在主厨 Giorgio Santeini 的带领下，重新定义了锡夫诺斯岛（Sifnos）的餐饮景象。Santeini 曾是一名分子生物学家，在巴西生活和工作的多年经历影响了他的烹饪方式。Santeini 随后在北边几英里的 Kantra 开设了 Cantina 餐厅，但 Omegul 依然是追求创意料理与传统基克拉泽斯（Cycladic）烹饪的胜地。推荐尝试白石斑鱼 sganachite 配香菜松子和辣味萨尔萨酱，随后是天鹅绒般的 naxland 半熟 settersack 配烤青葱、黑蒜和奶酪，并搭配一杯如 malagnacio 或 assorvita 这样的干希腊白葡萄酒。请提前预订，这个私密空间仅有几个俯瞰海滩的吧台凳和几张位于暗处的桌子（人均约 100，含葡萄酒）。

Saturday

8 A.M. / 前往修道院

从 Apollonia 出发（乘坐小车需两小时，或乘坐 25 分钟巴士，外加 10 分钟下坡步行），沿着 Route 3, 一条连接 Labanos 与东部渔业小径的主要路线，穿过由梯田山坡、翠绿植被和一些墙壁组成的崎岖景观，前往 Panagia City-royagil 修道院，这里是岛上最偏远的退隐之地。当小径将你带到修道院时，请倾听那壮阔的景象，那里拥有开阔的海景。红色和白色的路径标记指向 Apokofio 海滩，在最后一个弯道处，修道院戏剧性地出现在海上的一个崎岖岩礁之上。这座教堂献给圣母玛利亚，是岛上的精神象征，clade-whim O'Rourney 的教堂依然是一个祈祷之地，当地传说它坐落的岩石在岛民心中具有神圣意义。由于海盗的威胁，访问时请穿着得体——携带可遮盖肩膀和腿部的衣物。

顶部：Kumares，锡夫诺斯岛的主要港口。从左中起顺时针方向：Lemkeios 陶艺店、Cantina 餐厅、Omegul Fish & Wine Bar、Felso 小酒馆。

11 A.M. / 尽情畅游与美食

沿着道路下行至 Apokofio 海滩，这是一个被细叶柽柳树环绕的避风区域。平静清澈的水质使其成为锡夫诺斯岛最佳的游泳地点之一——在早晨的徒步之后尤为诱人。在正午人群聚集前抵达，将毛巾铺在树荫下，在午餐前享受一次清爽的浸泳或在阴凉处小憩。Chiraupigi Taverna 的桌子俯瞰水面，这里传统的 fatsian 烹饪呈现出诱人的菜肴，如烤鱿鱼和鹰嘴豆煎饼（人均约 100，不含葡萄酒）。

3:10 P.M. / 揭开历史面纱

沿着海岸小径步行 20 分钟，即可到达安静的渔村 Fares，距离锡夫诺斯岛主港口 10 1843。在水滨的南岸酒吧 Lamartas 喝杯冷饮，它是隔壁基克拉泽斯小馆 Pelicanes 的姐妹店。从海滩远端上方的道路乘车（约 25 分钟）前往 Kantra，它是锡夫诺斯岛的古都。Kantra 的中世纪防御墙大部分完好无损，主要建于 19 世纪，依托于岛上古代遗址的残骸。在沿着小径走向七见教堂（Church of the Seven Witnesses）——一座位于岩礁上的蓝色圆顶小教堂之前，可以观察这些墙壁上的古代大理石碎片和其他石工，它们也被重新用于村庄的拱形通道和狭窄的石巷中。

7 P.M. / 捕捉餐饮热点

得益于其不断演进的社区菜肴和“新水”哲学，Cantina 已成为基克拉泽斯群岛最热门的晚餐目的地之一——因此，您需要提前预订。前往餐厅的过程本身就是体验的一部分：餐厅位于 Kantra 之前最宜人的地段，坐落在鹅卵石区域之上，由几座旧渔民小屋改建而成，需小心地走下 100 级台阶并沿着一条充满灵感的路径方可抵达。在店内，主厨们在 David Davis 和 Talking Heads 的配乐中提供富有创意的品鉴菜单，通过发酵、保存和非传统烹饪方式改造当地食材。现在的菜单可能包括配有相干大蒜蛋黄酱的成熟塔坦（matron tartans）；甜美、肉质紧实并配以无花果炸酱的菜肴；以及配以棕色黄油和杏子盘的“昨日之面包”奶油（每人 100 起，价格极佳）。

9 P.M. / 景观啜饮

夜幕降临，沿着 Kantra 的 enne reepn 走回去，在美景中喝一杯。在 Kaves Sunrise，一个向旧 Horeas 致敬的地方，古巴旗帜和纪念品点缀着这座小酒吧，加勒比岛屿的声音在户外露台上飘荡。客人们品尝着由店主 Kostas Georganics 提供的 medina 和 Cuba libres 等古巴经典饮品，他还会分发免费的 runs shots（鸡尾酒 15 起（仅限部分），几步之遥的一处精致庭院中，一群较为安静的人们在极简主义葡萄酒吧品饮肋骨杯装的葡萄酒，并享用如辣椒番茄瓜类冷汤（melon gaspaches）等小吃（同样，该酒吧自己的葡萄酒，如来自 agent Fullerton nations 的 sun，产自西夫诺斯岛的葡萄园）。请提前预约出租车（约 £15）或乘坐巴士返回——Kantra 周边的电话服务可能不稳定。

Sunday

10 A.M. / 逛精品店

沿着“悲伤”（Sorrow）——即阿波罗尼亚（Apollonia）狭窄的行人主干道，穿过两旁林立着商店和咖啡馆的蜿蜒小巷，然后随心选择。在 Lemkeios 家族位于市中心的 Pithecenas 店，浏览那些您见过的制作中的陶瓷，或绘制您自己的预烧 assorted。在 Theodorases，有受古希腊钱币启发的精致手工金饰；在 Arzantena，有 ceyazah、山毛榉和银色枝条；在 Geranopoulos 这家老式杂货店，则有 Horea heavy 和水果蜜饯等岛屿特产。步行几分钟即可到达 Geranopoulos 深受爱戴的 patriarch，这里是快速享用咖啡和早餐的好去处，Benz N 那充满 Inaugurantika 的露台也是如此。比起购物更喜欢观光？圣安德烈亚斯（Agios Andreas）考古遗址（一座青铜时代的 Milling ritside）位于东南方向约 15 分钟车程（或一小时上坡步行）处；一座小型博物馆展示了当地挖掘的发现。

NOON / 领略旧西夫诺斯之味

由于几乎没有车辆通行且只有几家小酒馆，坐落在阿波罗尼亚（Apollonia）和 Artemenas 之间的安静村庄 Pene Petali 唤起了一种特定的怀旧感。Pelac 同样如此，这是一家在西夫诺斯岛最古老的咖啡馆（可追溯至 1995. 年）开设的新酒馆。主厨 Ioannis Avdianas 利用他在雅典 non-biotic Liaso Soorgastis 的经验，为希腊舒适美食注入现代气息。他将经典 geminis（填入米饭、浆果，有时含肉的番茄或辣椒）与 carbolids 和香肠相结合，并配以 angioleaves 的浓缩液（经典的蛋奶酱），而带有牛头和朝鲜蓟的藤蔓则提升了一顿商品餐的档次。尝试他对 revitonds（典型的西夫诺斯慢炖鹰嘴豆汤）的诠释，并感受 bake 和 rebentile 小吃那格外甜美的火热表演——这是希腊忧郁的城市民俗传统（每人约 £10）。

4 P.M.

绘画

在阿波科菲奥海滩（Apokofio Beach）上方的岩石岬角上。帕纳吉亚·希劳皮吉（Panagia Chiraupigi）修道院位于卡斯特拉（Kastra）以南 50 英里。一座保存完好的中世纪村庄，也是西夫诺斯岛（Sifnos）的古都，俯瞰着七见证者教堂（Church of the Seven Witnesses）之城。阿尔特梅纳斯（Artemenas）、佩纳·佩塔利（Pena Petali）和阿波罗尼亚（Apollonia）这些村庄（更多内容见其在线商店），拥有古朴的咖啡馆和曲折的庭院。这里有充满活力的滨海小酒馆和咖啡馆，一个沙滩，以及一个位于希劳皮吉修道院的沿海区域。# 10 P.M. # 10

游泳

阿尔特梅纳斯的 Margarita 提供传统的西夫诺斯菜肴，如 mastets（一种慢炖山羊肉或塔特）。主厨 Ioannis Avdianas 所在的 Ridea's Pelac Petali 为岛上的经典菜肴提供了创新演绎。希劳皮吉小酒馆在修道院下方提供心茶（在光线之下价格大致相当）。在基克拉泽斯群岛（Cyclades）众多相同的海鲜餐厅中，普拉蒂斯·贾洛斯（Platis Gialos）的 Omegul 提供富有想象力的鱼类料理。Cantina 提供创新的品鉴菜单，将当地食材转化为精致菜肴。Lamartas 是一个海边聚集地，提供可外带的早餐和咖啡。隔壁的 Pelicanes 将传奇鸡尾酒与香菜地中海小吃相结合。阿波罗尼亚的 Geranopoulos 是一个深受喜爱的传统西夫诺斯烘焙食品店。# 10 P.M. # 10

绘画

Stomna 在阿波罗尼亚附近提供当代精品奢华体验。旺季期间，房间起价约为 400 间，约为 $400。在 Verina Terra，俯瞰普拉蒂斯·贾洛斯的套房和公寓在旺季起价约为 £100。其高端姐妹店 Verina Kola 位于 Pucato，风格更传统，房间价格从 6,645 起。Rena-egis 是一家位于 6-terminers 主广场的酒店，提供 12 间带有卧室或露台的房间。在旺季，房间起价为 £100。家庭式酒店和 Sifnos 最新 4-fortch 风格租赁房的大师级房间 4。大多数房源列在 first-try.com 等平台上。请注意，价格包含 12% 的标准增值税，但希腊的气候韧性税——在旺季每晚范围从 £5 到 £10 ——通常会添加到最终账单中。

--- C10

烹饪

下周做什么 / 艾米莉·温斯坦（EMILY WEINSTEIN）

五天，五道菜

现在是盛夏。难道我们不应该都在海滩上，或者在湖边，或者在任何晚餐是最新鲜的鱼、仅用盐和胡椒简单调味并烤至完美程度的地方吗？这就是我在暑假期间所做的：我去了葡萄牙，在沙滩上的桌子上吃那种鱼，配上柠檬块、简单的蔬菜和米饭。虽然没有什么奢华的装饰，但这也是纯粹的奢侈。无论你在哪里，仍然可以享用这样的一餐，而且鱼类烹饪速度极快，你可以在本周的任何时间制作。我吃的是整鱼烤制，但在 NYT Cooking 上，All Slagle 描述了一种烤分量鱼片的技巧，几乎能保证成功。她的食谱是为三文鱼编写的，但如果你看前言，还会看到其他肉质紧实的鱼类（如红鲷鱼、大比目鱼或海鲈鱼）的指导。本周尝试一下，或者尝试这里的菜肴，它们都散发着季节的气息。欲了解更多，请访问 nytooking.com。

柠檬大蒜烤鸡胸肉

这里还提供了一套烹饪最佳烤鸡胸肉的分步技巧，以及一段非常有帮助的演示视频。（我的意思是，这很简单。）我认为即使是那些讨厌处理鸡胸肉的厨师，在看完视频后也得承认这些肉看起来非常美味。

准备时间：20 分钟 产出：4 到 6 份

• 2 磅 去皮鸡胸肉
• 1 个大柠檬，另准备几个柠檬角用于食用
• 4 瓣大蒜，去皮
• 2 杯 欧芹、香菜、薄荷或它们的组合，取叶子和嫩茎，切碎
• 3 汤匙 橄榄油，另准备少量用于刷烤架
• 1 ½ 茶匙 粗盐（如 Diamond Crystal）
• ½ 茶匙 新鲜研磨的黑胡椒

您也可以在炉灶上使用铸铁烤盘。用大火加热，在放入鸡肉前轻刷油。如果需要，分批烹饪，在肉能轻易脱离锅底时翻面，直到肉质不透明但仍保持多汁。

1. 首先将鸡胸肉拍平：将一块鸡胸肉平滑面朝下放在切菜板上，厚端在上，窄端在下。沿长度中心切一道深口——不要完全切断。撑开切口，将刀刃向左转，与切菜板平行，且与初始切口垂直，同样不要完全切断。在右侧重复此操作，最终使其像窗帘一样从中心向两边打开，形成一块更宽、更平的肉。用手掌将凸起部分拍平，但不要用力过猛导致肉撕裂。对剩余的鸡胸肉重复此操作。

2. 制作腌料：使用细孔擦丝器直接在大型碗或密封容器上方擦柠檬皮，然后将大蒜瓣在擦丝器上擦碎。挤入柠檬汁，然后拌入香草、油、盐和胡椒。

3. 腌制鸡肉：放入拍平的鸡肉，翻转并均匀地涂抹腌料。如果立即烧烤，在室温下静置至少 15 分钟；否则盖好放入冰箱冷藏最多 4 小时。如果冷藏，请在加热烤架前立即将其从冰箱中取出。

4. 准备烤架：将户外烤架加热至中高火偏高档。准备就绪的标志是：您的手放在烤网上方 4 英寸处能坚持 3 到 5 秒。如果烤网不干净，请使用烤架刷清除粘附物。用纸巾蘸油，用夹子夹住并在烤网上擦拭。（室内烹饪请参阅提示。）

5. 将鸡肉及任何腌料（留 6 份在旁边）放在烤网上，将每块肉均匀铺开。如果使用燃气烤架，请盖上盖子烹饪，直到底部呈深褐色且能轻易脱离烤网。约 3 到 5 分钟。翻面烹饪，直到用尖刀插入中心处显示肉质已完全不透明但仍多汁。再烹饪 2 到 3 分钟。转移到盘中静置约 5 分钟，然后切片，并配以柠檬角挤汁食用。剩余部分可用密封容器冷藏保存最多 5 天。

辣椒脆酱油醋汁饺子番茄沙拉 Entry 1

McKinnon 的饺子番茄沙拉是夏日之梦般的佳肴。它鲜嫩、辛辣、酸甜且咸香，即使是最初的质疑者也会发现自己爱上了它。（一位顾客称其为“dysplastic-to-shroomed pipe-love”）您可以在食谱页面的视频中观看制作过程。

作者：NETTY LO NEWBORN 时间：20 分钟 份量：4 人份

沙拉原料： - 2½ 磅熟番茄（任意品种），切成约 1-1 / 2 英寸的大块（all more temperature） - 1 瓣大蒜，磨碎 - ½ 杯罗勒叶，turn - ½ 匙（如 Diamond Crystal 品牌）盐和黑胡椒 - 中性油，如菜籽油或植物油 - 1 磅冷冻饺子（无需解冻） - 1 到 2 汤勺市售酥炸干葱（可选）

辣椒脆酱油醋汁原料： - 3 汤勺辣椒脆酱（或辣椒油） - 2 汤勺米醋 - 1 汤勺酱油，或根据口味增加

如需蒸制，将饺子排列在铺有烘焙纸或卷心菜叶的蒸笼中，置于盛有清水（freshly water）的锅上蒸 10 到 15 分钟。

1. 将番茄放入大服务盘或碗中。加入大蒜、一半的罗勒叶、½ 茶匙盐和一大撮黑胡椒。搅拌均匀后备用。

2. 制作油醋汁：将辣椒脆酱、米醋和酱油混合并搅拌均匀。品尝，如果需要更多柔和感，再加入 ½ 茶匙酱油。

3. 将一个大（12 英寸）的 menthol 或经过seasoning处理的铸铁煎锅中火加热 1 到 2 分钟，直至极热。加入 1 到 2 汤勺油，分批放入饺子，平整面朝下，煎至饺子底部轻微褐变，约 1 到 2 分钟。立即向锅中加入约 ¾ 杯水，刚好覆盖饺子底部即可，然后盖盖烹饪至水分蒸发，约 3 到 4 分钟。（如果您的饺子含有肉类，请额外烹饪 1 到 2 分钟，或按照包装说明操作。）将煮熟的饺子转移到盘中，继续烹饪剩余的饺子。（如果您倾向于蒸饺，请参阅提示。）

4. 食用时，将温热的饺子放在番茄沙拉上，淋上辣椒脆酱油醋汁。轻轻搅拌。撒上酥炸干葱（如果使用）和剩余的罗勒叶。在饺子尚温或室温时即可食用。

KEEVE BUSHING FOR THE CHILE CRISP VINAIGRETTE BROOKE BUSHING FOR THE CHILE CRISP VINAIGRETTE

香辣马萨拉虾 (Spicy Shrimp Masala)

Zainab Shah 将这个食谱带到了 NYT Cooking，并将其描述为一个小“奇迹”——因为制作这道绝佳菜肴的速度极快，且风味火辣且具有层次感。

作者：JEWAB SHAH 时间：20 分钟 份量：4 份

食材： - 1 磅大虾，去壳并去虾线 - 1½ 茶匙粗磨黑胡椒 - ½ 杯酥油 (ghee) 或中性油 - ½ 茶匙姜泥或新鲜姜末 - ½ 茶匙蒜泥或新鲜蒜末 - ½ 个中型洋葱，切细末 - 1 茶匙 Kastrum 红辣椒粉 - ½ 茶匙孜然粉 - ½ 茶匙姜黄粉 - 2 到 3 个 T-bat 青辣椒，切细末 - 3 个普通番茄，切细末 - 1 茶匙细海盐 - ½ 杯椰奶，搅拌均匀（可选） - 1 到 2 汤匙柠檬汁（约半个柠檬） - ½ 茶匙加拉姆马萨拉 (garam masala) - 1 到 2 汤匙新鲜香菜，切碎 - 卷饼 (Roll) 或皮塔饼 (pita)，用于搭配食用

步骤： - 1, 将虾擦干，撒上 1 茶匙胡椒和盐，置于一旁。 - 2, 在炒锅或大（12 英寸）煎锅中用中火加热酥油直至融化，约 30 秒。加入姜、蒜和洋葱，偶尔搅拌烹饪，直到洋葱变软，约 5 到 7 分钟。 - 3, 加入辣椒粉、孜然粉、姜黄粉和细切青辣椒。搅拌至出香味，约 30 秒。加入番茄和盐，偶尔搅拌烹饪，直到番茄分解并开始粘在锅底，约 15 分钟。如果你喜欢浓郁口感，可加入椰奶。 - 4, 加入虾。搅拌使虾均匀受热，并继续烹饪，偶尔搅拌使虾均匀熟透，直到虾变粉红色且质地紧实，约 4 到 6 分钟。 - 5, 关火，撒上柠檬汁、加拉姆马萨拉、香菜和剩余的 ½ 茶匙黑胡椒。搭配卷饼、市售皮塔饼或单独食用。

猪里脊配玉米、桃子和青柠

我的冷冻库里有一块猪里脊，现在我知道该怎么用它了。这道一锅出晚餐的灵感来自烤自产猪肉，将桃子、玉米和黄瓜结合在一起，并带有淡淡的青柠和鱼露味。这道菜无论是趁热还是在室温下食用均可。

作者：ALI KLAJLA 时间：40 分钟 份量：3 到 5 人份

• ¼ 杯青柠汁（来自 2 个青柠）
• 2 汤匙棕糖
• 2 汤匙鱼露
• 2 到 3 个辣椒（例如指天椒或塞拉诺辣椒，切薄片）
• 1 块猪里脊（约 1 磅），去除银皮（见提示），横向切成两半并擦干
• 2 汤匙中性油，如牛油果油或葡萄籽油
• 2 杯玉米粒（来自 2 根玉米，或冷冻解冻后的）
• 2 个硬桃子
• 2 个波斯黄瓜或小型无籽黄瓜
• ½ 个红洋葱
• 盐

1. 将烤箱预热至 400 度。在一个大碗中，将青柠汁、棕糖、鱼露和辣椒搅拌在一起，直到糖溶解。用 1 汤匙酱汁涂抹里脊肉，揉搓均匀。将红洋葱放在一旁。

2. 在中高火的大铸铁锅中，加热 2 汤匙油。放入猪肉，煎至全身褐黄，约 8 到 8 分钟。关火，然后加入剩余的 1 汤匙油和玉米。搅拌均匀。将铸铁锅移入烤箱烘烤，直到玉米变软，且插入猪肉最厚部分的温度计显示 140 度，约 10 到 14 分钟。（猪肉在静置时会继续熟成。）

3. 与此同时，将桃子、黄瓜和红洋葱切成薄片。

4. 将猪肉转移到切菜板上静置至少 5 分钟，然后切成薄片，并在切面轻撒盐调味。将玉米、桃子、黄瓜和红洋葱放入盛有酱汁的碗中。搅拌均匀，并根据口味加盐调味。将沙拉和所有酱汁铺在猪肉上食用。

关于去除银皮（一种坚韧的结缔组织）且不切掉过多肉的方法：找到白色发亮的薄膜，将刀插入银皮的一侧，在皮与肉之间切割，形成一个可以抓取的皮瓣。用非惯用手将银皮皮瓣拉紧，沿着皮的长度切除，直到所有银皮都被移除并剥离。

一锅出西葫芦罗勒意面

我热爱西葫芦意面，但最美味的版本需要将西葫芦切丝，然后看着它在锅中缩水并焦糖化——这个过程可能需要 10 分钟以上（尽管这确实能成就一顿极佳的晚餐）。但在工作一天之后，我实在没精力这么做。因此，当 Alexa Wished 写出这个食谱时，我感到非常高兴。这个版本以其独特的方式同样出色：口感浓郁，充满纯正的西葫芦风味，且制作速度极快。

作者：ALI KLAJLA 时间：20 分钟 份量：4 份

• 2½ 杯蔬菜汤
• 12 盎司中号通心粉 (pasta shells)
• 2 个中号西葫芦（总重约 14 盎司），去蒂并切成 ½ 英寸的小方块
• 4 盎司 mascarpone（马斯卡彭芝士）、crème fraîche（法式酸奶油）或软化的奶油奶酪
• 1 瓣大蒜，切末
• ½ 杯压实且切细的罗勒叶
• ½ 中号（此处原文缺失单位）盐和黑胡椒
• 3 汤匙切碎的烤盐杏仁
• 2 汤匙切碎的意大利欧芹

1. 在一个大型深底（2 英寸）煎锅中，用大火将蔬菜汤煮沸。汤沸腾后，加入通心粉、西葫芦、mascarpone、大蒜和一半的罗勒。加入足量的盐和胡椒调味，然后将火力调至中高火。经常搅拌地烹煮，直到通心粉变软，液体浓缩至浓稠且呈奶油状。大约需要 12 到 15 分钟，如果最后几分钟需要增加湿度，可加入少许水。用盐和胡椒根据口味调味。

2. 与此同时，准备配料。将杏仁和欧芹与剩余的罗勒一起切碎并混合，加入盐和胡椒调味。

3. 将意面分装在浅盘中。撒上绿色的杏仁碎，立即食用。

---

[数据参考] 以下原文数字因单位格式转换可能未在译文中完整体现（供参考）：21690、10019、21439、4302、1852、4001

"All the News That's Fit to Print"

The New York Times

THE WEATHER

Today, humid, partly cloudy, afternoon thunderstorm, high 80. Straight, cloudy, an evening thunderstorm, low 74. Innocents, hot, sunny, high 80. Weather map, Page A24.

VOL. CLXXV ... No. 60,970

© 2006 The New York Times Company

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

Prices in Canada may be higher

$4.00

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Secure Muggerat in his coffee plantation in Uganda trying to access Chinese-based A.I. He uses artificial intelligence powered tools to help monitor crop conditions, improve farm management and make more informed decisions during growing season.

China's A.I., Cheaper and Easier to Use, Is Winning Over Africa

This article is by Paul Mercer, Adam Suteriano and Aaron Evidik

NASHINE, Kenya — When former Mwebase, a tech developer in Uganda, was building an artificial intelligence system last year, tailored for his country's many languages: he tested American and Chinese tools to see which one could help.

China's won.

The A.I. model from the Chinese internet giant Alibaba handled Uganda's dozens of languages better than anything from Meta or Google. Mr. Mwebase said, it was also inexpensive, and he could customize the model with his own data.

"We want to build things as cheap as possible, yet have them work really well," said Mr. Mwebase, a former research scientist at Google. His system, called San

Providing Challenge to the U.S.'s Dominance

haven, is now used across Uganda, including by farmers to receive weather information and crop advice in local districts.

Mr. Mwebase, 47, is one of thousands of developers across Africa

who have turned to Chinese A.I. models in the past year. In Korea, entrepreneurs are using the models to streamline legal and business services. In Nigeria, they have made educational tools that teach high school students. In Ghana, developers are building local students.

China's A.I. is surging, especially in developing countries, as

Continued on Page A8

Activists Allege Israeli Captors Abused Them

This article is by Catherine Porter, Elizabeth Pinnisko and Stuart Kress

PARIS — When Arno Meyros tried to sail to Gaza in May, Israeli forces intercepted his boat at gunpoint, took him to an Israeli ship land. he said, shoved him into a darkened shipping container.

Barefoot and sailed in estuaries, Mr. Meyros found up to four men waiting there to attack him, he said.

They started kicking me right away. It was dark. They peached me, too. They stepped for a moment, and then started again," said Mr. Meyros, 51, a Belgian who is a captain for small commercial vessels.

Mr. Meyros was among more than 400 activists on a Pacific of roughly 16 hours who were apprehended on the Mediterranean Sea by Israel as they tried to break the Israeli blockade at Gaza.

The stand good of the activists, who sailed from Turkey on May 14, was to bring food and humanitarian aid to the war-straight enclave. In reality, many expected to be abused, like those who had participated in similar facilities, before reaching the territory. They hoped that media coverage of their journey would call attention to Israeli restrictions on supplies to Gaza, which tightened after the war began — and which later contributed, experts said, to become a party of Gaza.

The activists were captured days after setting sail. Interviews with activists and statements from Israeli officials both show that they were the head by Israel for roughly three days, first at sea aboard Israeli vessels, and later in the Port of Ashaba.

There, Israel's national security Continued on Page A3

Cyclists in Portland, Ore., prepared for the World Naked Bike Ride, a protest tradition that the city has hosted since 2004. This summer, Portland has two competing versions of the made bike ride.

When Pedaling Naked, It's a Protest and a Party

By ANNA GRIFFIN

and MAUREEN OTHMAN

PORTFOLIO, Ore. — When political times get rough for liberals, a certain segment of Portland, Ore., reached for protest in perhaps its barrier form. They take off their clothes, climb onto bicycles and ride through the city.

They've been doing this since 2004. But this summer, they're doing a twice.

The city now faces two competing versions of the World Naked Bike Ride, a global movement that began in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early 2000s to call attention to oil dependence, bicycle safety and body positivity.

The split has become a surprise, ugly revealing proxy for a debate

Oregon's Dueling Rides Are Turning Heads Unapologetically

playing out across the American left. When does a protest stop being a protest? It building community itself a form of resistance? If everyone is having too much fun, have you lost the plot?

"In riding a bike and participating in a group bike ride about non-building bicycling, or is it about changing the world?" said Adana Lugo, a Los Angeles-based anthropologist who has studied and participated in bicycle protest culture.

What started as a fun — if not earnest — protest, gradually became one of the marquee events in a summer cycling calendar, we crowded that, on some weekends, riders can choose from a dozen licensed riders celebrating hedonic, pop culture, politics or simply the pleasure of pedaling through the city on a warm evening.

By the early 2020s, as many as 15,000 voters were running out, Police temporarily closed streets. Organizers said merchandise. Tourists came on the

When organizers passed the event in 2024 to refrain how to safely manage its growing popularity, another group divided Portland didn't simply need a naked bike ride; it needed one that

Continued on Page A18

More than Iran Feel Betrayed By U.S. You

Trump Backed Protests, but Aid Never Came

This article is by Erina L. Green, Zoltan Kuzma-Youngu, Suterin Mahood and Yeganeh Berbat.

WASHINGTON — In the weeks leading up to the U.S. war with Iran, President Trump cheered on the Iranian protesters rising up against their government, telling them that they should "save the names of the killers and abusers" and that he would come to their left.

"HELP IS ON ITS WAY," he protested.

But more than five months into the conflict, liberating the Iranian people has been one of the way's most glaring unfulfilled objectives.

Iran has returned at least 20 people in connection with the January protests since Mr. Trump made his protests, with many more protesters potentially at risk, according to Attorney International. U.S. officials believe Iran's new supreme leader, the other states, is even more interested in pursuing a nuclear weapon than his father, who was killed in an airstrike on the opening day of the war.

As an Iranian remain locked in crisis, Mr. Trump is looking for a way out. Vegetarians are working on a deal to restart shipping traffic in the Israel of Germany, which Iran has effectively that down, so Mr. Trump tries to continue the United States from a conflict that has lasted for longer, and proved far more costly, than he anticipated.

In an interview this summer, Mr. Trump acknowledged that he never came to the United States, claiming he encouraged would happen anyway because Iranian security forces would crush the circumstances.

"I never thought, unless they could be completely armed, I never thought they'd have that kind of uprising, because these people are violent," Mr. Trump told the conservative podcastist Hugh Develo.

But for Iranians who listened to Mr. Trump's early promises, the series of betrayal is real.

"I genuinely thought that help was as the way, but I was as wrong," said Valed, a 25-year-old from Tehran who works at a start-up company, refusing a sentiment expressed by American Iranians in interviews with The New York Times. All spoke on the condition that The Times identify them only

Continued on Page A9

CASSIDY TO BACK BLANCIE, SAVING HIS CONFIRMATION

MISGIVING SET ASIDE

Two Republicans Remain Opposed to Pick for Attorney General

By MICHAEL GOLD

and CARL DULSE

WASHINGTON — Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, said no Friday that he would support Todd Blanche's nomination in attorney general, effectively saving his confirmation of President Trump's pick after two other Republican senators said they would oppose him.

Mr. Cassidy, who lost his respective list in a Trump-backed challenges, said in a speech on the Senate floor that he had the proponents about "apparent barriers",

Senator Bill Cassidy's vote will not Todd Blanche over the top.

the phrase he has used to refer to the Justice Department's surgering of the president's political theories.

But Mr. Cassidy said that after much consideration, he had come to believe that Mr. Blanche, who has served as the president's personal lawyer, would be better positioned to push back against Mr. Trump's norm-hunting demands than an alternative.

"Mr. Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you this," Mr. Cassidy said. "But the choice is not between perfection and Mr. Blanche. It is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general, who may not run the department effectively under President Trump."

He announced his decision soon after Senator Lisa Markiewicz of Alaska became the second Republican to oppose Mr. Blanche's confirmation, joining

Continued on Page A10

He Trained to Stop a Shooting. In Idaho, He's a Reluctant Hero.

By NICHOLAS BRUCE-BURROUGHS

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Jordan Salman did not notice the new sign on the counter at his favorite coffee shop until a bastion panned a few days ago.

Help show your support, the sign read, by contributing to a gift card for Mr. Salman's "Screvery" and suffices at during the recent stage of the year.

Customers had already posted $625, his bastion noted.

Mr. Salman, 35, with long haircuthed under a cap and a pistol slattered on his hip, appeared at the taken aback. It didn't feel right. The donations, the praise, the handshakes. All of it was to thank Mr. Salman for something he wished had never happened.

He pulled out his wallet and paid for his coffee.

A complex mix of emotions has gripped New York, Idaho, in the days since a 24-year-old man with a rifle killed three people and wounded seven more at a brand-

new to 5-10d Burger restaurant. This agricultural community — known for its 14-15 years, could make use a failed food-licensed scant in the 1970s — remains in mourning for the dead and instant. Yet there is a shared sentiment that the subject shooting at a crowded strip mall could have been lost was that.

The community has held fundraisers for the freedom of the dead — Christopher Chiarich, 39, Ashcroft Gardens, 25, and Dale Schultz, 40 — as well as for the injured, items of whom have severe injuries. A candlelight right from hundreds and featured an impromptu condition of "amazing Grace." The parking lot of the temporarily closed last food restaurant is dotted with dozens of flowers.

Amid this outpouring of support, and the Twin Falls Police Department's pledge to fully devote them, no much about this attack or

Continued on Page A19

BUSINESS ID: 6

The Dwindling Rhine

Record the water in Europe's vital economic artery in choking commerce across the continent. PAGE B1

Hardball at FIFA

Top officials were given an ultimatum when a plan to sell chums in the soccer body was presented to them. PAGE B2

INTERNATIONAL A4.0

School Measure in Thailand

A student killed the grandparents before opening fire at his high school, the authorities said. The episode revived a debate about gun laws. PAGE A7

Worse Than Ugly?

London's Barbecue was once voted English's ugliest building, how some say a new neighbor will ride it. PAGE A4

FORTUARIES A20-21

Maker of Abruzzo Wines

Emilia Pepe, 50, made a case for local grapes and traditional methods, inspiring a younger generation. PAGE A28

ARTS C1-6

Dance and Jazz, Reunited

The demographic Karla Parrish, above, and the human Esperanza Spalding are improving together. PAGE C2

Chills Delivered Offscreen

The longtime horror-movie director John Carpenter has found a new way to give people nightmares. PAGE C1

NATIONAL A10-10

Deporting Southeast Asians

The Trump administration is sending back record numbers of Vietnamese, Luvianes and Hmong. Many came to the United States as young war refugees and later committed crimes. PAGE A18

'Riled Up' Over Defeat Teen

An official case of physical teen on a high school basis, the American group said episodes in Texas in recent years, undercut across long-held concerns about policing in schools. PAGE A21

OPINION A22-23

M. Giesen

TRAVEL C7-9

10 Hours in Silmos

Fresh energy has washed over this

Greek island, driven a part by a flourishing food across left in third-4th-are using far-flung techniques. PAGE C6

---

A2

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

Inside The Times

The New York Times

A. G. SULZBERGER

Publisher

Founded in 1852

ADOLPH S. GOGI

Author, 1960-1958

ARTHUR GOGI SULZBERGER

Publisher 1958-1961

ORVIL E. HIRTHAN

Publisher 1960-1962

ARTHUR GOGI SULZBERGER

Publisher 1958-1962

ARTHUR GOGI SULZBERGER JR.

Publisher 1960-1972

NEWS

JOSEPH KAHN

Executive Editor

RUBY LACEY

Managing Editor

CAROLYN EVAN

Managing Editor

SAM DELNICK

Deputy Managing Editor

PETER SHEEKS

Deputy Managing Editor

OLYMPIA MILLER

Deputy Managing Editor

HUTTON SECCUN

Assistant Managing Editor

JONATHAN SALKINSKI

Assistant Managing Editor

PATRICK HEALT

Assistant Managing Editor

GARRON IADAL

Assistant Managing Editor

MICHAEL ILACKINAN

Assistant Managing Editor

JIM YARRETT

Assistant Managing Editor

OPINION

KATHLEEN KINOSHIRT

Opinion Editor

BUSINESS

BEREDITH KAHIT LEVIN

Chief Executive Officer

WILLIAM T. BARRIER

Chief Financial Officer

JAMES BARTON

Chief Legal Officer and Secretary

JACQUELINE M. WELCH

Chief Human Resources Officer

A. JAYHINN KANTUN

Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer

ALEXANDRA NARDIMAN

Chief Product Officer

DAVID S. PERRICH

Publisher, The Athletes

JOY ROBINS

Chief Chief Advertising Officer

DAVID ROBIN

Chief Board and Communications Officer of The Times and Publishers, Wroxcom

JASON SOBEL

Chief Technology Officer

ANDREW TUBE

Chief Growth and Customer Officer

Contact the References

To contact the newsroom regarding

correction requests, please email

corrections@nytimes.com.

Send a Confidential News Tip

Beach or through tools that will

help protect your anonymity at

nytimes.com/tips.

Submit a Letter to the Editor

letters@nytimes.com

Manage Your Subscription

nytimes.com/consent

Contact Comment Care

nytimes.com/consence

or call 1-800-800-4637

The Newspaper and Beyond

TODAY'S PAPER

Corrections A20

Crossword C3

Obituaries A20-21

Opinion A22-23

Weather A24

Classified Ads B4

VIDEO

On "The Euro Kime Show" an Opinion podcast,

Jasmine Sun, a writer who covers technology,

discussed the backlash against A.1. data reo-

tors and what it signals for the tech industry.

Watch at nytimes.com/tcms-kime-show.

T LIST

See what caught the eye of the T magazine

team this week, including a collection of leaf-

shaped rags, a new restaurant in Crest and

braze flower sculptures. tmagazine.com

AGEND

The drummer Travis Barker joined "Pepsom"

to discuss his journey, including surviving a

plane crash and parenting famous kids, and the

new documentary on his life to be released on

Hulu. Listen at nytimes.com/pepsom.

Quote of the Day

"Why use an expensive Ferrari to do the school run when a Toyota hatchback can do the same?"

MOSES HENRIARD, who runs a digital marketing agency in Nairobi, Kenya, on the issue: cost and greater flexibility that Chinese artificial intelligence offers compared with American A.I. Page A1.

The News Quiz

Do you follow the headlines?

Take our quiz to find out.

1. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate, was a close Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. During his campaign, he frequently criticized his opponent, Representative Haley Stevens, for receiving more than $30 million in support from where?

• a. American-Israel Public Affairs Committee
• b. A.I. executives
• c. America First Action, a Trump-aligned major PAC
• d. Animal rights groups
• e. Auto industry lobbyists

2. After two Republicans threatened to block his permanent confirmation as attorney general, Todd Blanche clarified that a Justice Department order granting immunity from U.S. audits would apply only to whom?

• a. Donald Trump Jr.
• b. Eric Trump
• c. President Trump
• d. The Trump Organization
• e. All of the above

3. Waffirms have devastated the area around Spokane, Wash., this week. While the origins of two of the three remain unclear, officials suspect that one was started by what?

• a. A model rocket engine
• b. Arson
• c. A birthday candle
• d. A blown transformer
• e. Lightning

4. The U.S. Treasury recently took the rare step of grouping up which currency?

• a. China's yuan
• b. Japan's yen
• c. Russia's ruble
• d. Mexico's peso
• e. Venezuela's balivar

5. As many as 60,000 migrants rushed into the Spanish territory of Canada recently. The territory borders what country?

• a. Algeria
• b. Greece
• c. Morocco
• d. Tunisia
• e. Venezuela

JOSEPH KAHN, JAMES BARTON, JACQUELINE M. WOLC, JASON SOBEL

6. An island nation in the South Pacific (pictured above), one of the smallest countries in the world, recently changed its name to Nasonv. What was it formerly called?

• a. Namuka
• b. Napuko
• c. Neuro
• d. Neath/Inc
• e. Nisa

7. Scientists have confirmed that a plant from the genus Sachtaga to carcinomas, confirming a hypothesis first proposed by which naturalist?

• a. David Attenborough
• b. John James Audubon
• c. Rachel Carson
• d. Charles Darwin
• e. John Muir

8. The Detroit Tigers traded the pitcher Tarik Skubal, winner of back-to-back Cy Young Awards, to which team (lost: the two-time defending World Series champions)?

• a. Boston Red Sox
• b. Houston Astros
• c. Los Angeles Dodgers
• d. New York Mets
• e. New York Yankees

9. In a dramatic U-turn, FPR's president, Gianni Infantino, announced that the organization would abandon its plan to do what with the World Cup?

• a. Base of future tournaments in Qatar
• b. Broadcast all future tournaments on YouTube
• c. Combine the men's and women's tournaments
• d. Increase the tournament to 128 teams
• e. Sell stakes in the tournament to private investors

10. President Trump said this week that Joanne Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, had "shaked" and "folded the car umbrella." What was he angry about?

• a. She refused to support his plans for a triumphal arch.
• b. She dropped vandalism changes related to the Reflecting Pool.
• c. She refused to back Todd Blanche as attorney general.
• d. She called for the Kennedy Center to be reopened.
• e. She said she was going to resign and return to For News.

The News Quiz is published on ProSpec in the Morning newsletter. To sign up, visit nytimes.com/determining.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Top Trending Headlines Online

Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make changes to the way young people can use its platforms. It is the largest financial penalty the tech giant has faced so far as to legal battles over social media loans and addiction. The money will go toward a fund to remedy damages caused by the company, including for treatment of young people who have been harmed by social media.

After Trump Calls Canadians 'Nasty' Mark Carney Says the Word Fits Trade Talks During a speech in Las Vegas, President Trump repeatedly called Canadians 'nasty' after claiming that Canada had unfairly used on/from against the United States. Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, laughed off the description he said that trade talks between the two countries are tough: "This is a question of Canadian jobs," he said. "It's a question of the future of Canadian businesses."

Sicceries Are Expensive. Here's How 5 Shoppers Are Adjusting. Two years ago, The Times analyzed a month's worth of grocery recipes from people across the country. In April, we checked in with news of the same shoppers to see how they were dealing with leaving costs. Some were ditching name brands for store brands, while others were smoking their freezers with whatever they could find on sale.

Sydney Towle, Who Chronicled Her Cancer on TikTok, Dies at 26 After being diagnosed with a rare form of bile duct cancer in 2023, Sydney Towle turned her new life as a young woman with a deadly disease into content. For her followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should live. Ms. Towle died on Wednesday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

A Headline From History

PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL FOR MORE ALIENS

August 8, 1953. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Refugee Relief Act; the previous day, permitting 21,690 immigrants to enter the United States with special visas over the following three years, The Times reported. The bill was designed primarily to allow entry for refugees and people fleeing communist territory in Europe — a measure Eisenhower framed as a humanitarian contract to the policies of "captive nations." It also provided an avenue to the United States for some people still displaced from World War II. Reflecting the Cold War sentiments of the era, Congress included rigid screening procedures in the law that were "held necessary to bar Communists and their sympathizers." The Times wrote, Of the 21,439 visas, about 2,000 were granted for refugees from China; under the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was repealed a decade earlier, the United States previously permitted only 165 immigrants from China annually.

THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY

555 NORTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10019-4001

The New York Times (1929-1963) is for a published daily, first-time period, and at New York, N.Y., will at additional mailing offices. Permission from different changes to The New York Times, 400 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10019-4302.

Mail Subscription Rate*

Daily and Sunday

Monday Saturday

Tuesday and

Thurs (Last Sunday

Large First Weekly

7.70

10.00

12.50

13.50

12.50

4.50

8.00

10.00

12.50

12.50

Rigby: extra available on request, for

mailing credit risk 1.5, or for the New

York Tribune website. See "Syndicate"

in the first section.

The following table is provided in the image.

The Times occasionally makes it clear of these delivery

instructions, available in marketing systems or field

instructions that are subject to change without notice, and

instructions to make it, even public, may not meet about

any information, please notify the post office, delivery

or phone (phone, email, or fax), 212-3000-1401, or email

All advertising published in The New York Times is

subject to the applicable only and available from the

advertising agencies. The Times reserves the right

to re-issue any advertisement made with publication of

or phone (phone, mail, or phone) without notice.

The New York Times Company. All rights reserved.

A.C. McKinnon, Publisher

Merrillie Kage, Group

President and Chief Executive Officer

A. Anthony Mowry, Treasurer

Steve Brayton, Secretary

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2028

9

A3

THOMAS JOHNSON

Facts of Interest

No state in the country experienced as much turnover in election oversight as North Carolina. Last year, each of the state's 100 board of elections chairs flipped from Democratic to Republican.

Growing Together of Election Demons Take Key Notes to Local Midtowns. A17

This week, water levels in the Rhine, a river that stretches nearly 800 miles through six countries in Europe, hit their lowest point since 1890, when official measurements were first recorded.

Drought in Rain in Vital Economic Areas (6)

Between 1975 and the late 1990s, more than 1.3 million refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were resettled across the United States, in what was the largest humanitarian resettlement initiative in modern U.S. history.

Find to America at 11. See at 10 Imported in Vietnam at 44. A10

The filmmaker John Carpenter composed the soundtrack for his 1978 horror movie "Halloween" in three days.

Nightmares With a Memoring Best CI

In the 1960s, the N.F.L. coaching legend Vince Lombardi banned homophobic language in the locker room. He had a brother who was gay.

Every 'No Comment' Will Get Downloaded Into

Despite strikes on three key nuclear sites in 2025 and 2026, Iran appears to have retained a stockpile of enough near weapons-grade fuel to quickly develop as many as 20 nuclear bombs, according to U.N. inspectors.

Ivan Stewart on Nuclear, Red Program Sect Shopped At

The Mini Crossword

ACROSS

1 Free News on sheet music 4 Material for the Venus de Milo and Michelangelo's David 7 Bird that helps to rescue Nemo in "Fasting Nemo" 8 ... milk 9 Pal 10 Collective way of singing 12 Metal container that's a synonym for "magnificent" 13 "Rare" order at a restaurant

DOWN

1 Square cracker 2 Three Pocks 4 What other starts with an apple and ends with a zotra 4 Show of 5 Ward (off) 6 Be sincere 7 Throne a Hissy-fil 11 Destination for a mother-daughter day, perhaps

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PILEBLE

Might We Suggest . . .

Four Weekend Recommendations From Around the Newsroom

1 Treating Yourself

1 Candy isn't what it used to be. The Make America Healthy Again movement and the ubiquity of GLP-1 medications have shifted consumers' habits, Ella Quitner reported for the Food desk. As a result, a new crop of sweet treats have found their way into grocery and convenience stores, purporting to offer some added benefit for your health. Cortese? Get a taste at nytimes.com/jhvid.

2 Shopping in Your Closet

In the affluent thumpers on the waters end of Long Island, N.Y., an unlikely survival trend has taken over: sweatpants reminiscent of early 2000s style. "We're pulling out all the things that we loved in our 20s and realizing that they were actually really good," one local said. Isn't it time you find comfort in the familiar? nytimes.com/trybo

CHRIS ROSE MEETING FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

3 Heating a Disposition

Who says you have to leave town in find true empire? For the Metro section, the reporter Donoughnia Wilson set out to help readers in New York City find destinations across the five boroughs (and nearby) that feel like an escape. Her recommendations included a state park with views of the Manhattan skyline; a Queens neighborhood famous for its dumplings and other delicious treats; and a hassle, 16-mile trail suitable for any kind of bicycle. For more ideas, ride along at nytimes.com/syrngoan.

4 Cutting the Line

For those seeking a more ambitious vacation than a summer staycation, you're in luck. Individuals traveling by plane may be delighted to learn that several U.S. airlines and airports are experimenting with initiatives that screen travelers and their bags more efficiently in an effort to slash wait times. The new T.S.A. Tuschbox 10 program, for example, grants travelers access to a dedicated lane where they can use facial recognition instead of physical documents to verify their identities. The program is currently available at 65 U.S. airports and includes six participating airlines. To learn more, fly over to nytimes.com/travel.

Second Look

Sticker Shock

New York City drivers who don't move their parked cars for street sweepers are being staged with an old-school punishment: a scarlet letter in some green. City officials are pegging stickers on cars that fail to make way for sanitation trucks. After a 12-year ban, the return of the green stickers has some seeing red — especially anyone tasked with scraping the adhesive from their windows. Moving a car is a bane for some, just as filthy streets are for others. Maybe there's no way around it: Cleanup is bound to be a mess.

Here to Help

Five Films to Stream on Netflix Right Now

'Drinking Budden' (2013)

In Joe Swasberg's hangout flick, Luke (Jake Johnson) and Kate (Gloria Wilde), co-workers at a Chicago brewery, wonder if they've chosen the right romantic partners — just as these partners (Anna Kendrick and Ben Livingston) are asking the same question. The casual style nicely balances the schematic story. It's the kind of remcom where you're pretty sure how it will turn out, but it's fun to get there anyway.

'Memento' (2001)

Christopher Nolan made his first big splash with this, his second feature film, a stylish noir riff that tells its familiar story to an inventive way: In order to start up the disorientation of its protagonist, Leonard (Gay Pearce), who has lost his ability to create new memories, Nolan tells the story by ordering its scenes in reverse chronology. As Leonard pursues an investigation of his wife's murder, revelations fold back on themselves and betrayals become clear to the audience before they're known to him.

'Nightcrawler' (2014)

Jake Gyllenhaal is unnerving and absorbing as a modern-day "Fast Driver" in this tale of an unstable stتك's rapid ascension to the top of TV news. Bithering through the Los Angeles nightscape, armed with an 102 video camera and a questionable sense of ethics, Gyllenhaal's Louis Bloom will go anywhere for the story — and if he can't find one, he'll engineer one. The writer-director Dan Gilroy immerses the viewer in this sticky subset of crime journalism.

'Scrawn' (1996)

The director Wes Croren and the screenwriter Kevin Williamson reimagined and reimogenized the horror genre with this franchise-operating stench. Williamson's promise was genius in its simplicity: What if the teenage victims of your typical stroller movie had all seen stroller movies, and were aware of their rules? Croren proved the perfect director for the material, delivering big scares and big laughs.

'Salma' (2014)

Ara DeVernay directs this dramatization of the events surrounding the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1983 voting rights marches that began in Selma, Ala. DeVernay tells the story me just of a man but of a movement; the picture learns with the urgency of promises asleep. David Oystowe (above) is astonishing as King, capturing the cadences but also the man—uncertain, jocular, determined. The supporting cast is stellar. JASON S. SMILEY

For more picks, visit nytimes.com/washington.

Slow & Steady

The Tortoise and the Hare Necklace In 16K Gold

MONICA RICH KOSANN

Please call 888.588.2784 or Visit Us at MONICARICHKOSANN.COM

SHOPS AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE | HUDSON YARDS

Fact-checking and editing every story.

We prioritize accuracy, fairness and quality for our readers. When we tell short, we publicly acknowledge and correct our mistakes.

The New York Times

---

A4

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

International

The New York Times

Outside the Barbican last month. The 40-acre site has 2,000 apartments, a theater and an art gallery. Londoners have long debated the beauty of the complex, but its residences command top prices.

Champions of a Brutalist Complex in London Oppose a New Eyesore

By STEPHEN CASTLE

LONDON — Loved by fans, banhed by critics, the Barbican housing complex has divided opinion since it rose from the bombed-out ashes of central London after World War II.

When architects first proposed the high-density, concrete development in the mid 1950s, the Brutalist design was radical, with raised pedestrian walkways, triangular towers and serrated balconies. In 2003, respondents to one survey voted the complex the country's upbeat building.

Not the 40-acre site, which includes 1,000 apartments, a theater, an art gallery and an artificial lake, has come to be seen as a masterpiece. The complex was protected status in 2001 in recognition of its architectural significance. Its prime location and culture can be an ev-Second in property prices. A three-bed-

room, 1,100-square-foot apartment is on the market for about $3 million.

With the Barbican now an established part of the city's heritage, the tables have turned. Some of its 4,000 residents are battling against the construction of a 20-floor office building on the site's perimeter, which they say will overshadow their homes, block out light and disrupt London's skyline.

The dispute has stirred debate about the quality of buildings springing up across London's skyline and about finding the right balance between heritage conservation and urban growth.

'In death light, it's overhearing, it's overlooking,' said Jan-Marc Petroschka, chair of the Barbican Association, a resident group, referring to the proposed office building, which is known as One Silk Street, an architect-in-profession, he has lived at the Barbican for more than two decades.

Mr. Petroschka says he does not oppose the redevelopment of the existing 1980s office building on principle — he praises some other new buildings nearby — but won the latest proposal as an inferior design that prioritizes maximizing their space and profit.

One of the building's developers bridles at that idea.

'I haven't spent my life having an interest in architecture to produce a poor building,' said Stuart Lipton, partner at Lipton Rogers Developments, which is involved in the project. Mr. Lipton is a former chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, a government building-design watchdog.

'For me, good architecture is good business,' he said.

Mr. Lipton argues that it would be a

Clockwise from top left: Trevor Kavanagh at his apartment; an aerial view of the center; Sián Phillips, a movie and theater actress who disliked the Barbican initially but became a resident years later; the complex's conservatory. Ms. Phillips and others are battling the construction of a nearby office building.

minuise to create a 'timid' structure adjacent to something as unique as the Barbican. 'You have to build something that is bold and contemporary,' he said, 'which honors the Barbican's scale, its material seriousness, to public role — but contrast is key.'

The disagreement comes amid a far broader debate in Britain around why it is so hard to construct new buildings, with critics blaming byzantine planning restrictions, local bureaucracy and opposition from residency and environmental groups. The Labour government can crest to ease planning laws to tackle the housing shortage.

The office building next to the Barbican would have shops and cafes rather than housing. Critics of the project include the scalpier and artist Antony Gormley, a native Londoner.

Since objections were first raised, the original design has been scaled back, with the west side reduced in 8 stories, from 20. The amended plans were approved in May, despite around 1,000 objections, at a fractious meeting of a planning committee of the City of London, the municipality that governs the area.

Objectives say they are considering a legal challenge.

The Barbican lies on the site of a Roman fort and a medieval Jewish cemetery, and includes a church, St. Giles Cryptogate, where the peer John Milton is buried and where the English civil war leader Oliver Connevil was married.

After World War II, with much of the area reduced to rubble by German bombing raids, local administrators faced a challenge to attract people back.

The answer was a futuristic experiment. The rise of architects who designed the Barbican, Peter Chamberlin, Geoffry Powell and Christof Box, were influenced by the modernist Le Corbusier. The Barbican would, the six said, protect 'young professionals likely to have a taste for Mediterranean holidays. French food and la sandusian design.'

With car use booming, the structure was planned around a network of walkways/slieve groups from the market to create a pedestrian basis. Construction finally began in 1963, continuing until 1982, when the Barbican was opened by Queen Elizabeth II, who declared it 'one of the wonders of the modern world.'

Not everyone was convinced.

The breadcaster Alistair Cooke dismissed it as a 'cross between a medieval heroine and the worst of Le Corbusier,' and cross some of its current residents admit they had deaths.

'I didn't like it when it was built,' said Sián Phillips, a movie and theater actress. 'I looked down at these three towers going up, thinking, 'What feel is building this in London?' I thought this is terrible, and I never came to visit it.'

Now a convert — she has lived in the Barbican for around six years — Ms. Phillips, 83, expresses concern that part of her home will be overshadowed by the proposed office building. 'We are now terrified because we've got this monster being built here,' she said.

The Barbican's exterior has featured in TV shows such as 'tender' and 'blue thinner' as well as in numerous music videos, including Harry Styles's 'As It Was,' 'Many who visit that the layout her flog. Some have found themselves lost, according to Trevor Kavanagh, a resident and former political editor of The Sun newspaper.

'There are people who have been in

despair because they've got to be somewhere at a certain time, especially if they're going into a show, and they can see the place they want to get to and time is ticking,' he said.

Mr. Kavanagh, who moved to the Barbican from Surrey, outside London, says he loves the location, the cultural amenities and the gardens, the tours that the light in his bedroom will be 'absolutely obliterated' by the office development.

Mr. Lipton acknowledged that the structure 'will affect the light of a very small number' of residents but said that his first had 'worked incessantly on assessing daylight and sunlight.'

'In their own way, they are all-therm,' he said of the objective, 'but in a growing city, buildings grow.'

In one of the Barbican towers, Myra Stimson, a textile artist, and Paul Moriarty, a painter, both 83, said that they moved to the building around four years ago after adding a house they had remained in southeastern London.

Ms. Stimson said she was determined to contest the office building. 'As an artist,' she said, 'to lose your light is catastrophic.'

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

•

A5

War in the Middle East

A French farmer, Malika Bousyn, using a wheelchair in Turkey in May. She said she heard abused activism “scroaming, bowling.”

Some flotilla boats near Crete in May, part of efforts to break Israeli blockade of Gaza and call attention to Palestinians’ plight.

A bug greeted Juliet Lamont, activist and filmmaker, back in Australia on May 25. She recalled being raped in a shipping container.

Seized While Sailing to Gaza They Describe Abuse at Israel’s Hands

From Page A1

minister, Kumar Ben-Givi, walked among them, taunting down in a video by paved to social media, to learn over what activism were immediately departed to Greece, while the rest spent the night in prison in southern Israel before being departed to Turkey, they said.

After the detainees arrived in Turkey, the flotilla’s organizers soon announced that the detainees had made “numerous reports of physical abuse,” as well as given “deeply disturbing accounts of sexual humiliation and degrading treatment carried out by Israeli forces.”

More than 30 were taken by ambulance to hospitals from the airport in Turkey, according to a lawyer for the flotilla. Over the following days, activists began retesting to their home countries, where they often sought more treatment and gave more detailed accounts of their detention to international news outlets. Their accusations spurred condemnations from global leaders and investigations by prosecutors in countries including France and Italy, and by police officers in Australia.

Israel denied the accusations, saying that the activists had been treated in accordance with the law. They released their信息 showing activists hugging one another in detention and retesting water from an Israeli officer.

In the months that followed, we separately interviewed 16 activists, all but one of whom spoke on the record. We also reviewed records provided by medical authorities in Australia, France, Italy and Turkey. All of the articles gave consistent accounts of a pattern of abuse, first shared the Israeli vessels and then on Israeli soil.

Twenty-two said they had been subjected to varying kinds of physical assault. The 21st said she had witnessed such violence, and the 26th, a doctor, said she had treated injuries caused by it. Seven people said they were hospitalized after Israel released them. Six provided medical records that showed they had previously suffered fractured ribs, a fractured vertebra, a broken oncyn, a biceous wound and a collapsed lung.

Four said they had been shot with what they thought were rubber bullets or beading rounds while desathed on an Israeli ship to the military. He said they were told what they believed to be taken while being beaten inside a shipping container.

The enemy leaves as the first national flotilla, was a bar larger of at least eight failed attempts by pre-Palestinian activists to sail to Gaza since the start of the Israeli-Bahrain war.

An insistence came from the end of countries and included seasonal campaigners who had long opposed Israeli resistence. One of its organizers attended the funeral of Hassan Nasrullah, the Hoshabah leader, and another general cherned attack on Israel in 2022.

The members also included five other participants – doctors, sailors, a bookshop owner and a lawmaker – many of whom had joined the flotilla to protect Israel’s harmlessment and invasion against other the Human rights.

The activists’ accusations echo even greater accounts made for years by Palestinian detained by Israel.

The first start of the Gaza war, thousands of Palestinian from Gaza have been held in communion calls for weeks or months, usually without charge, and routinely rubles on others, since the 1st-veningumans by the United States, international rights groups and the Israeli state, have been campaigners, a previous investigation by the New York Times found that dozens of Palestinian had died inside Israeli prisons, while others were killed, including electric shocks, beatings and broken bones. One Pakistan

Galloy hidebears contributed reporting from Rehovot, Israel, and Zareen, Chang, from Ibibien, Australia.

Arun Meyon, a Belgian activist, in Istanbul after Israel released him in May. He said he was punched and kicked in Israeli custody.

Dr. Margaret Connolly, left, who treated fellow detainees.

Adrien Paix, a French sailor, at a pre-Palestinian rally in Paris. Mr. Paix, who was on the flotilla, said he was beaten in captivity.

Abeed Dazio Cantenuto, a lawmaker, granted back in Italy.

ian told The Times that he was raped with a stick.

Israel has denied systematic abuse at its detention facilities.

By their own accounts, the activists were treated less positively than most detained Palestinian and for a much broken time. Even so, international law experts said that the treatment that they described would constitute a breach of international law.

“Anyone detained under the protections of the Central Convention is not supposed to be subject to violence, like beating and taunting or burning someone,” said Jazma Ali, an expert on the laws of war at Oxford University.

At least four different branches of the Israeli security forces were involved in detaining the captured flotilla activists. Israeli military and its prison service both rejected allegations of abuse. The police referred a request for comment to the foreign ministry, which denied the accusations.

The military said in a statement that its “orders require respectful and appropriate treatment of flotilla participants” and that “no specific incidents of deviation from these leading procedures are known.” The Israel Prison Service said the detainees were held “in accordance with the law, with full regard for their basic rights.” It added that the service “reports attempts to portray systematic abuse at unlawful conduct.”

The foreign ministry accused the activists of making “false allegations” that had been “surgical in advance, for unequivocally – defaming Israel.” The ministry described the activists as “unactional” and “agitators.”

Intercepted at Sea

Israeli naval commander began intervening the flotilla's ships on May 16, in an operation that took more than 30 hours to complete, activists said, because of the large

number of ships.

Dario Cantenuto, an Italian opposition lawmaker who took part in the flotilla, said he first saw the commandos on May 19. The boat that he traveled on was more than 100 miles west of Gaza, well outside Israeli maritime border, according to a scrambled from an app that monitored a tracker in his backpack.

Three Israeli spendboats roared toward the 86-foot vessel, he said, prompting activists to interact an interception protocol they had trained for. They showed their life jackets and sat together on deck, arms raised, he said.

The boat's phone windows were shuttered by rubber bullets. Mr. Cantenuto said:

“There were at least two or three soldiers pointing their guns at sea,” he said.

The activists view the Israeli road as an act of piracy. The Israeli military said it had acted legally to maintain its maritime blockade of Gaza.

Michael N. Schmitt, a former U.S. military lawyer and professor at West Point, said countries can act in international waters to enforce a blockade and temporarily derate people during such an operation to ensure the safety of their military personnel. However, it is illegal to abuse these detainees, he said.

After his capture, the Israelis brought Mr. Cantenuto and the people in his boat to a large gray ship, where other activists were aboard, he said.

Most of the people we interviewed described receiving similar treatment on that vessel.

First, the Israelis blathed them, removing some of their clothes. Then, activists said, they were pushed to the wet floor, usually restrained by zip ties. Later, they were marched to a deck where they were abated for identification.

Mr. Cantenuto offered his diplomatic passport and noted he was a lawmaker, he said.

“They said, ‘that up,’” he said.

The activists who spoke to us were divided between two make-shift prisons on what many are arched at two separate workings. Some detainees spent up to two nights and two days there – though others, captured later, spent less time.

The detainees said they had to sleep on the floor. Some said the space was so cramped that they were forced to sleep in shifts.

Both floating detention centers consisted of several shipping containers, tapped with bathed rest and arranged to form an open-air courtyard, the activities said. A row of portable toilets lined one side. Armed, masked officers carved in the space from above, they said, occasionally providing bottled water and bags of bread.

“The activists said soldiers, threw flash grenades into the courtyard, often with the appearance of dispersing detainees. Thirteen said that guards also fired rubber bullets or beading rounds into the courtyard.

Moral Bagirine, a Turkish N.G.O. worker, said he was shot in the right thigh at close range. The Times were hewed Mr. Bagirine at his hospital bed in Istanbul, hours after surgery on that limb. His hospital report, reviewed by The Times, said it had been hit by the news, without specifying the nutrition.

In a Shipping Container

At one mountain site, detainees were each taken inside a darkened shipping container, where most were kicked and punched, according to all 27 of the interviews were shot and killed at that site. There also said they had been checked with what they thought was a laser.

Mr. Cantenuto recalled entering the container carrying his shoes in one hand and holding up his trousers with the other, one in his belt had been confiscated, he

said. Inside, he said, he was kicked in the ribs and leg and punched in the face. An Italian medical report moved many bruises on his body.

Juliet Lamont, 30, an Australian soldier and filmmaker, said she was raped in the container.

She said she was brought there with letters around her public, as well as zip ties binding her wrists inside. five men hit her, pulled out clamps of her hair and punched her in the ribs and face. Mr. Lamont said. At one point, she said, her underwear was wrenched down and something was inserted into her vagina.

“It was big enough to be a hand,” Mr. Lamont said. “It didn’t feel metallic enough to be a gun.”

“After days there, she had a rupture at a hospital near her home in Australia. The local sexual assault service to New South Wales said in a letter that it had provided her with an ‘issue response’ at an emergency department, followed by “ongoing therapeutic support.” The news about detail the results of the test.

A separate medical report from an Australian hospital, reviewed by The Times, said that a vertebra of Mr. Lamont's lower spine had contained a mild fracture, though doctors could not tell when. She said it was most likely broken when soldiers kicked her in the hall.

Mr. Lamont reported the allegations to the Australian police. She had participated in an earlier flotilla, last October, after which the also accused soldiers of violence, including sexual assault. Though she risked similar treatment by joining the second flotilla, she said, she did no because said, “what sacrifice was necessary to achieve political change.”

The Israeli foreign ministry characterized the rape allegation, while Mr. Lamont has remained in other media outlets, as “a case of right in,” but it said Israel would investigate if it is received an official complaint. No such com-

plaints have been made to Israel about the treatment of activists on this flotilla because, in organizers said, it was “legally untrouble” to rely on Israel to investigate itself.

Activities described the trauma of overhearing other activists being abused.

“We could hear them screaming, bowling,” said Malika Bousyn, who “fierce meats.” “I couldn’t take it anymore; I was trying to plug my ears.”

Ms. Bousyn suffered a fractured vertebra, according to clean plate report, and was told by doctors to wear a neck brace for eight weeks.

Dr. Margaret Connolly, an Irish general practitioner, said she brought a stethoscope and medicine on the voyage in case fellow activists get sick.

These supplies were confiscated soon after Dr. Connolly was captured, she said. The Israelis then refused to provide her with alternatives to trial the wounded. “They just ignored me,” she said.

Instead, Dr. Connolly, 47, and other captured medics were forced to improvise. They received thirty into bandages, Israel into make-shift congresses and places before two option, she and others said.

On the second day of detention, a retired the flotilla participants mentioned Dr. Connolly – the issue of ‘instinctly president’ – as their spokeswoman.

“I begged for it even. I begged for it. It’s and I begged for past-filters. And worst of all, I had to beg for sanitary needs,” Dr. Connolly said.

She was one of only two interviewers who said they were not beaten while in Israeli custody. But she said she had frequently witnessed such violence:

“I survived, but I have witnessed levels of brutality and depravity,” Dr. Connolly said.

Taunted in Port

By May 16, the activists had been brought to Ashdod, a port in southern Israel.

Mr. Cantenuto and a prominent Italian journalist were departed the days – parties, the lawmaker said, because of their higher profile.

The other activists faced abuse. Dozens were forced to kneel face down, some with their hands tied behind their backs, as shown in bumps distributed by Mr. Ben-Givi. The police were taken to a prison, later deferred, was captured. “This is how we receive terror supporters. Welcome to Israel.”

The bumps also showed Israeli officials grabbing a human activist's head and driving her to the ground, her wrists bound by zip ties. Mr. Ben-Givi's office declined to comment.

The next activists said they had been beaten in the port, in some cases by musical men.

“They took no time to be absent there with fear or five men who beat me,” said Adrian Paix, 31, a sailor from Marseille.

Mr. Paix said a masked man forced his legs apart and kicked him in the testicles, twice.

Lawyers from Ashdod, a rights group found in Haifa, Israel, were allowed to meet with 220 activists to take the first time and give access to the others, according to Miriam Azoia, a spokeswoman for the group. Their meetings were rushed and often disrupted by local officers, particularly the Palestinian began detailing their abuse, the人道主义.

The lawyers witnessed officers slapping two activists and inter-communities, who were not for some rib pain, as well as some who said their comparison had been sexually assaulted. Mr. Azoia said.

After the activists were driven to British Prison, about 40 miles to the north, before being taken the next morning to an airport and flown to Istanbul.

After morning, at home, several activists said that though they had been traumatized, it was worth it to publicize the plight of Greece.

“We were some stigma,” Mr. Meyon said.

He would, he said, “probably” join another flotilla.

---

A6

China's A.I., Cheaper and Easier to Use, Wins Over Africa

From Page A1

people look for the best possible system at the lowest possible cost. Unlike models made by the leading American A.I. companies OpenAI and Anthropic — which are closed and charge fees — the Chinese systems are publicly available to download and modify without payment or approval.

Chinese "open-source" models account for roughly half of total A.I. use on OpenBuster, a service with 400 A.I. models for users to choose from, up from less than 25 percent a year ago, according to a New York Times analysis of data from eight million customers. Chinese models are also 19 of the 25 most downloaded open-source systems on Hugging Face, another A.I. database.

In more than two dozen interviews across Kenya, Uganda and other countries, developers, policymakers and executives described a rapidly changing A.I. market where cost, computing resources, data control and concentration, mattered more than where a model was made. Often they were not looking for bleeding edge A.I. They just wanted something that worked well enough on limited resources.

Using Chinese models was like owning a house while using U.S. models was like renting one, they added. Rather than spending millions to train a model from scratch, developers can download a Chinese system and build an entirely new product on top of it, paying mainly for servers. In contrast, U.S. models are a one-size-fits-all technology, needing subscriptions and other fees depending on the job.

"Why use an expensive Ferrari to do the school run when a Toyota hatchback can do the same?" said Mason Kenshaw, a Nairobi entrepreneur who runs a digital marketing agency, Delaney, adding that Chinese models can be up to 90 percent less expensive when including costs like computing infrastructure.

Chinese officials hope their gains in Africa are a preview of things to come. Last month, powerful new Chinese A.I. systems carried Wall Street and Silicon Valley, looking least to Washington that U.S. tech dominance could be undercut.

Xi Jinping, China's leader, is using A.I. as a form of soft power. At a July conference in Shanghai, he and Chinese models as more reliable and cheaper and warned that A.I.'s benefits must be shared or they would create "new historical injustices." Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa and seven other African countries signed an A.I. pact with China at the event to promote international co-operation.

Chinese firms are also courting African developers with free computing and hands-on engineering help, developers said. Many Chinese-made smartphones in Africa come with Chinese A.I. tools installed.

As the name time, China's A.I. industry faces challenges. Companies have struggled to make money from their users and face security questions about data and links to buying. Many African developers still pay for American A.I. models, especially for technical tasks like coding.

Yet Africa's experience shows the global A.I. competition is now a two-borne race.

Kamal Budhathnati, the chief executive of Craft Silicon, a Nairobi banking software company, feels the pull of both sides. He recently rebuilt his first's tech systems with Claude Cobb, Anthropic's programming tool. A 10-person team finished in half of the time a project that once took 100 engineers. The bill was high, he said, but the speed was worth it.

Nairobi, a Chinese tech giant, also came calling with "some very unbelievable incentives" to switch to Chinese systems, he said, including a year of free computing and a trip to the company's headquarters.

"It's very hard to say no," Mr. Budhathnati said.

The China Model

About 50 miles southeast of Nairobi, one of Kenya's biggest collaborations with Chinese technology sits half-finished on the savanna.

Paul Mccar and Adam Suturusu reported from Nairobi, and Aaron Arndt from New York. Edwin Olesh contributed reporting from Nairobi.

PHOTO: KATIKAWA PING, 2026. CASSI, 1996

A half-finished data center in Kenya, financed by Chinese loans and built by Huawei, left. Inside, the center runs computing for the country's government, right.

Konza Technopolis, a planned city, was announced 16 years ago as Kenya's answer to Silicon Valley. Hopefully invaded the Silicon Savannah, it is now a grid of empty boulevards and skeletal buildings, watched over by a powerful Chinese surveillance system.

It would look like a failed experiment but he saw slam-gray building behind an electric fence. Financed by Chinese loans and built by Huawei, the site is a data center that runs computing for Kenya's government.

For two decades, Chinese firms have saved Africa's telecommunications networks and paved its roads. M-Pesa, Kenya's celebrated mobile-money system, runs on Huawei technology.

These tech ties gave China a foothold in the continent, which it is using to sell A.I. that project advertised in Korea will use technology from the Chinese A.I. first DeepSeek to combat telecom fraud. Lacked out of advanced chips because of U.S. expert controls, Chinese companies

nies could not outspend Silicon Valley. So they gave their A.I. models away as open source. Hoping to pull people from U.S. rivals.

At first, it seemed a losing bet. The United States dominated open-source A.I. Meta offered a model called Llama that developers used worldwide. But later some stumbles, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, turned more to closed models.

"It left a huge hole," said Lucas Atkins, a founder of Arrow A.I., an American start-up that builds open models. "It allowed the Chinese to explode into the vacuum."

Breakthroughs came quickly in December 2024, a DeepSeek A.I. model matched the best models at a fraction of the cost. Last month, the Chinese A.I. lab MassonSet AI released a model with curing abilities approaching the leading American systems.

In Kenya, developers embraced Chinese models.

Michael Mixhe builds A.I. systems for Kenyan banks and government agencies at EverestTech. His customers are price sensitive, so he makes almost everything on Chinese open-source models. Businesses want the cheapest way to use the technology, not the most advanced, he said.

"I don't think people should worry so much about who built it," he said. "The focus should be, does it deliver the capability you need?"

Sentai Simeen, a start-up founder in Nairobi, downloaded Chinese models to build a product that turned paper legal records into searchable databases. He customized the system with about one million legal files.

His product, 26mDees, ended up about 100 gigabytes in size, smaller than many iPhones. The costs to create and maintain came to around $25,000. Using a service like Anthropic's Claude, he said, would have cost more than $1 million.

"It's absolutely the difference between

having a business and not having a business," he said.

Many developers said Chinese companies treated them like a priority, while U.S. firms were hardly present.

Ahmer Azaz, a former principal adviser at Amazon Web Services who lives in Nairobi, said joining a developer program from Anthropic required a lengthy screening. Alibaba's took minutes.

"With the Chinese, it was like: 'Hey, are you able to do this?' Are you located here? All right, man, go have him?" he said.

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied these claims.)

Wake Up Call

In a Nairobi high-rise in June, a top Kenyan civil servant for technology said he was surprised when Anthropic pulled ac-

A Nairobi phone shop displaying Chinese smartphones, many with A.I. tools preinstalled, demonstrates the country's dominant footprint in Africa.

Ernest Mwebaze is a tech developer who leads Soohind AI. He turned to a Chinese A.I. model because it could handle many Ugandan languages.

---

»

A7

cess to Fable, its powerful model, at the Trump administration's behest.

It was a "wake up call" to the world, said John Tanai, the principal secretary in Kenya's Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy. The abrupt move was a warning that relying on U.S. models could pose risks, he said.

A doctor'sInterest employee who needed the Konan Technopolis project, Mr. Tanai said China and the United States had pressed Kenya to pick a side. He intends to take from both.

"We don't lean on West or East," he said.

Bong in the middle is tricky. Developers are building systems controlled elsewhere, which means the technology can be pushed, altered or reprinted without warning, home worry about dependence on the United States. Others do not trust China.

Mr. Budhatharti of Craft Silicon said he was considering Huawei's offer of generous subsidies, but was also cautious. Many of his customers are international banks that could demand their delivery net can Chinese hardware.

Chinese models, too, have not always been reliable. Shibidi Gitao, the founder of the Nairobi start-up Ghala, recalled when Dreybrett went dark in China before the country's college entrance return in 2024. It was to deter choosing, but it also disrupted African businesses like here. Now American models could catch because of a White House decision.

"At least with China's models, I can download it on my computer and run it," she said.

Others have been burned by A.I. politics. Mr. Moeduzuri Ugandan chattels service, Sunflower, ran irrevocable when a researcher at China Media Project, an independent media research group, found it about China, Sunflower described China as a democracy and sidestepped question about the country's economic and environmental measures in Uganda.

The Chinese state media praised Sun-

Ugandan farmers like Secure Mugami, for help grow crops with help from Sunfood AU Sunflower platform, before. The software uses a Chinese A.I. model, whose lower costs upped to software developers in Africa.

flower, and Huawei contacted Mr. Moeduzuri about using its cloud services.

Mr. Moeduzuri, whose nonprofit organization, Sunfood A.I. is dedicated to A.I. for social good, was concerned by the experience. He is now using Google's open-source model, Genente, to create a product aimed at smartphone users.

"We need to make sure we're not on the wrong side of geopolitics," he said.

America Strikes Back

For all of China's momentum, much of the A.I. money in Kenya will flown to U.S. companies.

Everyday users are on U.S. systems like ChatGPT and Claude. One 2025 survey based that 42 percent of Kenya's 23 million internet users had used ChatGPT in the previous month, among the highest rate in the world.

Even Chinese models carry Americans money. Kenyan companies often run Chinese open-source models on cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft, so the U.S. game make money from their data centers that deliver the technology to customers.

The U.S. advantage was clear in a concrete building in Nairobi's industrial district, where leaders of paper purchase orders fixed dark offices for Chandaria Industries, one of Kenya's largest makers of toilet paper, snag and home goods.

For decades, orders arrived from an lawmakers by email or on paper, and clerks turned them to line by line. As order could take hours to process.

Chandaria recently hired Sandia, a Kenyan start-up that uses A.I. to streamline business processes, for help. Sandia uses OpenAI's models for precision and reliability.

Sandia's digital system based on those U.S. models has transformed Chandaria. "Where an order took about two hours to process, that now takes two than 10 minutes," said Neer Chandaria, who helps use the Sandy firm. Four clerks who once typed in orders now audit the A.I.'s needs.

But Sandia is being courted too. On LinkedIn this year, a Singaporean company of the Chinese interest firm Ryan-Duice offered Sandia's founders access to to A.I. model.

Reynihance's model was not accurate enough, but the courtship made an impression, said Bernard Mamanyi Nyagaku, a founder of Sandia. Nothing like it comes from the American labs.

And Chinese models keep improving, Mr. Nyagaku said.

"If you look at how fast they're catching up with the American models, it's really, really fun," he said.

"I don't think people should worry so much about who built it. The focus should be, does it deliver the capability you need?"

MICHAEL MCHE, exec, who holds A.I. content for Kenyan banks and government agencies at ExxonTech.

American A.I. models helped simplify Chandaria Industries, a major home goods producer in Kenya. Software developers used OpenAI for its precision.

Boy Kille Kin and Teachers In Thailand, Officials Say

By NICHTTA NUSAKITONO and NICK KIRI

BANGKOK — The boy hean-dished a bandgap on his long-grain account around bangkran, the Thai love You, which is celebrated every April.

On Friday, the Thai authorities said, he used the same weapon, which belonged to his grandfires, and all the more people and million total injuries we blamed. The result, abusing immediately revived a debate about gun laws in the country.

The boy shot and killed his grandmother and grandmother, with whom he lived, on Friday morning. Then he went to his high school, the Debutrin Nordhabet School, northwest of Bangkok, and at some point opened fire.

In a video of the shooting picture on social media, which The New York Times has verified, at least eight gamblers could be heard within the span of a minute as students crunched under tables in classroom. The gambian, who was believed to be about 14, was still in the school as the police and medical personnel started arriving.

In the end, he killed five teachers, wounded nearly 30 other people and then turned the weapon on himself. Thailand's prime minister, Amalie Charcot-Saint, said reporters on Friday evening. Nine people remain in critical condition. The shooter was taken to the hospital but eventually died from the wounds. The police found the bandgap near the shooter along with more than 30 rounds of ammunition.

"Squawug, somehow, we don't know how this child got across to the gun," Mr. Amate said, adding that the weapon had been registered with the authorities. The disaster's taken was not released because he was a minor.

It was not clear how he had planned the attack, Mr. Amate

Jiawei Wang contributed reporting

said, adding that the boy had been stressed about his studies. The prime minister did not provide more details but said the shooter's grandmother was a retired teacher and had been strict with him because she wanted him to do well in school. In recent days, the boy had told his best friend that he had been stressed because of that pressure, according to Mr. Amate.

Thailand, which has one of the highest rates of civilian gun ownership in Southern Asia, has in recent years had several deadly high-profile mass shootings, which have fueled calls for stricter firearm controls in the country.

Many guns are sold by govern-mean officials or law enforcement officers, who are allowed to buy as many weapons as they want from the government at a steep discount. As a result, a black market of firearms thrives, amplified by an arms-smuggling trade between Myanmar and Thailand. Although Thailand has many gun laws, experts say, a lack of enforcement can render them nautilous.

"The law is clear," Mr. Amate said. "The general public, those who have no government or official duties, are not allowed to carry guns outside their house."

The prime minister said he would introduce a new gun control law but did not give specifics.

"When I became prime minister, one of my to-do things was to issue a new law regarding weapons, and it is still in the process," he said.

In 2023, a former police officer fatally shot or stabbed more than 20 people, most of them children, at a day care station in Nong Hoa Lamplo Province.

One year later, a 14-year-old opened fire at one of Bangkok's largest shopping malls, killing two people and wounding five others.

Last year, a 40-year-old man opened fire at a masterplane in Bangkok, killing five people and wounding two others.

Wing of Plane Flown by Ace In WWII Comes to the U.S.

By ISHANI DESAI

Flying in 8:00 Lightning fighter plane, eventually named "Marge" after his sweetheart back home, Maj. Richard Bong shot down more planes than any other American in World War II.

But Marge crashed in 1944, pictured by a different airman who opened safely, during a weather-savery mission over Papua New Guinea. For 40 years, he died, single grow around and derailed the wreckage on a hillside in Madang Province.

Until 2024, That's when Jurica Taylan, founder of a nonprofit called Pacific Wrecks that searches for World War II aircraft, located the plane. Now, a wing of Marge has been returned to War, names Major Bong's latest stars. It is set to go on display this month at the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center at Superior Street (Turkey from Pujala, a small area in northern Wisconsin) where Major Bong was born and raised.

Marge's home was in San Minh Erichore, Major Bong's nephew, said that Taylan's discovery after having visited the crash one this year. "Was dreamed he wanted to help it?"

After he secured his war record as the Ace of Aero in April 1944, Major Bong appeared in newspapers with the original "Marge, Marjorie Vaismouldi, whom he's marry, according to Briana Fiandi, curator of collections and special sections at the Bong Center.

Ms. Fiandi said the idea is being his plane back home struck her and she couldn't let it go. Major Bong, the World War II hero, is ready the most famous person to sail from Pujala, a town of the people, according to the latest census.

She reached out to Mr. Taylan in September 2025, about six months later, he found the wreckage, Ms. Fiandi said.

"I downloaded the pictures, and there was the wingtip with the red paint with the serial number on it. She said, 'He had only been looking for it a few days, and I was not expecting it to happen that quickly.'

The Bong Center paid for the evacuation, but Ms. Fiandi complained that the trip was a cat laboratory between the museum and Pacific Wrecks.

Mr. Taylan said he had obtained records showing the plane's flight path, estimated travel time and flight duration. The research helped him narrow down the crash site to Madang Province, home to both people and plenty of other war relics.

He and others also interviewed local residents about the region and found people who knew of one wreck at that area. But, finding Major Bong's famed aircraft was like searching for a "worlds in a haystack," Mr. Taylan said, be-

cause Papua New Guinea is home to hundreds of crash sites. Japanese and Allied forces engaged in brutal warfare over the island country.

The speedy discovery was fortuitous in another way.

"A lot of pressure was on me at that time, because I realized we had one shot with him," Mr. Taylan said. "If we were not successful, we're small organizations with showering budgets."

Mr. Taylan said his crew climbed across the descended into valleys filled with tall grass. They trothed under a dense canopy, their feet crunched on dry leaves, when Mr. Taylan opened a second metal stone helped to black and covered in trees.

His crew started at overgrown shrubs and uncovered other manicidal metal bits. They found a planet's wing with a standard sort of number. The identifier matched the number assigned to Major Bong, Mr. Taylan said.

After he initial had two years ago, Mr. Taylan brought Major Bong's descendants and others to

Bringing an artifact to Wisconsin to recall a major's stellar record.

collect the plane's wing last month. He also worked with local Papua New Guinea officials to gain permission to retrieve the wing.

While biting, Mr. Erichson said he could picture soldiers clicked with sweat from the humidity and engaged in combat amid the dense greenery.

"It was a step back to time for me," Jim Bong, another nephew of Major Bong, said. "I would reach a piece thinking about my uncle and my Aunt Marge."

Mr. Bong shot in 1985 while flying a fighter plane as a test pilot in Burbank, Calif. He was trying to get out of the plane when it crashed. He was 24.

He flew more than 500 combat missions against Japanese forces, in that P-20 named Marge and other planes, and downed a record-breaking 40 airplanes. (example: MacArthur presented him with a Medal of Honor, one of 10 decorations.)

The plane's wing was taken in Milwaukee and on air show in Oshkosh. Then, it was brought to Pujala. Ms. Fiandi began to show graph, catalog and have no broken plane wing displayed by next week. The museum is raising money for a new exhibit offering an immersive jungle experience, mimicking the crash site.

"It's a little bit like bringing a piece of Bong back," she said, "and reminding people of who he is."

---

A8

THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

As Cuba Wits Under Oil Blockade, U.S. Hunts for Island's Next Leader

This article is by Tyler Pagan, Jackson E. Barron and Frances Robles.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has been looking for a current or former Cuban official who could be persuaded to take over the government to file vans as the United States crackers up to pressure campaign, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The plan is more regime aberration than regime change.

The Trump administration has pressed its spy agencies to identify someone in the mold of Deby Rodriguez, who became the United's interim president after U.S. forces captured the previous leader, Nicolás Maduro, is January.

U.S. officials viewed Mr. Rodriguez as a pragmatic who could seamlessly assume power and would be willing to work clearly with them.

The administration's officials believe that a similarly pragmatic leader can be heard in Cuba.

But American spy agencies have assessed that Cuba is less than the United States's national, according to people briefed on the intelligence reports.

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2016

3

A9

War in the Middle East

Protesters

Feel Trump Broke Vow To Sent Aid

From Page A1

by their first nation, out of fear of reprisals from their government.

Maryam, a 36-year-old from Tehran who participated in the January anti-government protests, said Mr. Trump took advantage of a citizen uprising to further his own agenda.

"I feel that Trump and the U.S. are deceitful, and Trump is a showcase," Maryam said. "I would be language of human rights swearfully their own benefits."

Sעם, a 27-year-old from Tehran who works in tavern, was more blunt, saying he had no trust in either Iran or the United States.

"I don't think any of them can about the interests of the people of Iran," he said. "In one way, I can spree Trump, the U.S. and all the rest of them."

The White House declined to answer questions about Mr. Trump's position to help the state the Iranian people. Instead, officials cited Mr. Trump's plan—which, as yet, is unmet—of ensuring that Iran never has a nuclear weapon, saying that objective would benefit the Iranian people as well.

"For 47 years, American press alerts and countless other world leaders talked about the threat posed by Iran, but no one had the courage to address it," he said. "I think, a "white" in the spokeswoman wrote in a statement. "President Trump took directive action to ensure that Iran could never have our homeland, our troops or our alien again. A broached and large means that the entire region and its people will be safer and more stable."

More than 1700 Iranian civilians have died in the war, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. That figure includes at least 100 people—most of them children—who died in an arresche that he is school on the first day of the war.

Prosecuty U.S. military officials have acknowledged that American forces carried out the school strike and cast in a sea intelligence failure. But Mr. Trump has broached under questions about the war in September, saying it have: "986million are made War is saved."

His references to the barren being Iranian civilians during the war are not only one of a passing, and they have proven less for even as the country go by.

When he announced that the U.S. and Israel attacks had been assembled at the end of the war, he first heard, he called the killing "the single person I heard by the Iranian people to take back their Country." In the U.S., a number of people being saved eight Iranian seamen from death sentences, though the Iranian people were not able to see what had been sentenced to execution.

In May, Mr. Trump issued that he might send weapons to prisoners. In June, he claimed that in part the government who, Iran would use its software assets to

Iranian police fire the war. The Sun

buy cars and soybeans and other goods from American farmers—a situation he characterised as a benefit to the United States and a way to address hunger that Iranians were suffering as a result of the war.

Focused on Other Things

For the main part, however, Mr. Trump has focused on other things, especially the disruption in the form of the trust, which has caused full prices to spike and do not get global markets.

When Mr. Trump announced the framework of a deal with Iran in June — which has since collapsed — he made no mention of the Iranian people.

Instead, he said: "Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the air flow!"

And one stipulation stood out in Iranians as particularly contradictory to Mr. Trump's actual design: that the two countries support such other's sovereignty and "refrute Iran insurgency in such other's internal affairs."

Mr. Trump went as to praise Iran's new leaders, as well — a striking moment given that the country's theoretic rule has remained intact.

"The current Iranian leadership are very rational people," Mr. Trump said. "They are sure to deal with. They are strong and smart people. They are not radicalised, and they are looking to help their country."

One of the Iranian officials dealing with the Iranian States, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibad, is a veteran commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, who is known for showing little tolerance for domestic abuses. Since the war started, the Revolutionary Guards have claimed an even more prominent role in government decision-making.

They are uncorresponding for increasing pressure at home.

Richard Fountain, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former foreign policy adviser to finance John McCann, noted that it was not

the first time in history that an American president had called for an uprising, only to leave people hanging in the balance.

The most starkly similar example was in 1991, when President George H.W. Bush publicly encouraged Iraqi Sisters to what against the government and then allowed American forces to stand by while the uprising was not proved for hadham Hussein's holo-paper gunships and execution squads. It, a bloodbath that claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Practical Restraint

Since then, U.S. presidents have practiced restraint in evenings of foreign events. President Barack Obama drew bipartisan backlash in 2009 when he received calls to encourage the "Green Movement" projects in Iran. Now that it would result in demonstratory getting slaughtered. He later said that his caution may have been a mistake.

In Iranian said that 4 of all of Mr. Trump's promises to the Iran-

Protesters in Tehran in January. At left, at Mashhad airport, a memorial to the children killed when a strike hit an elementary school in Misah early in the U.S. war with Iran.

an people, helping to liberate them was the "big one," given that the killing of Iranian protests in January appeared to be the cause for far a more aggressive approach by the U.S. military against Iran.

"The biggest harm is everything that's happened this year are the people of Iran," Mr. Fountain said. "The only havoc warers, broken country whose economy is even worse than it was before, but with the same profanity, essentially tyrannical government really our there that they had before. So it's in some ways: part of the worst of all world."

Maryam, a 27-year-old nurse in Tehran, said she took part in anti-government protests in 2022, when she was known with haters, and watched people blending in the streets. That year, she presented in solidarity.

This year, she was in the streets because she wanted767000000 for what the regime has done to her people — not because Mr. Trump told her to him. she said she is required to "fear and hope."

"For that the blood that has been shed will be disregarded and forgotten," she explained. "We don't love hope because, in our view, despair would be a betrayal of any children's blood."

She trusts that Mr. Trump, as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, may still have a plan for the Iranian people. But ultimately, she said, Iranians can count on only one another.

"Our uprising was our own choice — a response to the negative citizen and a movement of overthrow the system," she said. "Whether Trump helps now or not, it makes no difference to our demonstrations. We are grateful for his support, but our struggle does not depend on it."

Iran Slowed

On Nuclear, But Program Isn't Stopped

By LAKA JABUS

Chief among President Trump's reasons for starting the war in Iran was preventing it from building a nuclear weapon. More than five months in, officials and experts say, the number may have slowed Iran's nuclear programs but not stopped it.

Because Iran has barred U.N. suspicions of its most insubstantial nuclear sites — a key part of any eventual peace deal — the precise loss of its highly enriched nuclear part. It unknown, and despite strikes on three key nuclear sites in 2015 and 2016, Tehran appears to have retained a stockpile of enough near-weapon grade fuel to quickly develop an inner air in nuclear bombs, according to U.N. inspectors.

So far, the war has shown that Mr. Trump's "resistance" pressure is to be and industry researchers did not, and cannot, destroy Iran's nuclear weapons capacity," Daryl G. Kimball, the executive director of the Arms and the Joint nation, wrote in a recent analysis.

Here is what we know about Iran's three key nuclear sites.

The ancient city with half a ton of enriched uranium

Iran stores most of its highly enriched uranium, which had full nuclear bombs, near the ancient city of Isfahan, in February, the International Atomic Energy Agency. On 11/15, nuclear mines and uranium ore, the uranium field about 370 pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent — enough to make nine or 10 atomic bombs strikes a few weeks of processing. The exfahan complex was heavily damaged during U.S. and Israeli strivetime against Iran in June 2015. Currently, two facilities in concert or search uranium or other significant uranium, but the stockpile likely remains there, according to the Iran Nuclear Monitor, which runs an ongoing assessment of the country's nuclear capabilities.

American intelligence agencies have determined that Iran could get to the stockpile, although it is under constant U.S. surveillance.

The one time around facility

The LAKA director, Rafael Gross, said a smaller share of the highly enriched uranium may be in the former nuclear facility. It is Iran's largest uranium enrichment ore, and over that Tehran total uranium production is 2,000 million per year, and it was identified by insubstent, in 2015. Much of its work is underground.

"The above-ground part of the uranium plant was severely damaged in the June 2015 strikes. Enclosure to the underground enrichment plant were damaged in attacks this past March, the LAKA's new plant, in what they have been an effort to bury the underground stockpiles.

There is only one of two Natana in Pakistan, Maulana, which Iran an official statement 2009 would hold a plant to build centrifuges, buried deeply underground in vehtisand places, and a major nuclear bombs. Experts say the site is not yet operational.

The site thought to be Iran's most advanced

Iran long considered its deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Firzlu its best-protected, most advanced site. It was badly done again, and potentially required to open site, by 12 massive bombs in the June 2020 attacks, according to U.S. intelligence assessments last year.

The most extensive in the plant remained buried under rubble from the 2021 attacks until end-May at least, according to a June analysis by nuclear experts in the position for Science and International Security in Washington.

How long would it take Iran to rebuild?

Iran used its nuclear program to peaceful, but its efforts to enrich uranium in North approaches, and its efforts to reduce U.S. uranium's have long raised alarm, a powerful as light. Mr. Trump's belief that his administration had collaborated" Iran's nuclear program.

Mr. Gross, the LAKA director, said in a CBI News interview this spring that "our cannot deny that the Iran really could back the year. There is a question, but he continued, 'since the military effort comes to an end, we will still in here a number of major issues that have been in the center of all the time."

James Avitts, a physicist and vice analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said enough of Iran's nuclear program to be the "oldest" of the future. "I would imagine they could produce a benefit from Iran a year at this point."

Saudis Sign Defense Pact

With Turkey and Pakistan

By KEN NURAGHI

BEZRETI, Lebanon — Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a new pact on Friday commuting to collective defense for the tactics on any of the three countries, Saudi Arabia said. In an agreement that could reshape the strategic layout of the Middle East.

The text of the agreement was not made public, making it unclear what the parties' obligations are like the Pakistan Foreign Minister and the country's own. The pact "stipulates that any armed attack against any one of the world's own" that he expected as an attack against them all.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who coached in Saudi Arabia to sign the agreement, said in a statement that "India is an unpleasant cause could include, past, defense industry projects and counterterrorism operations.

The pact is a pact foregone in global relations about such a pact, it was not mentioned as a participant on Friday.

Officials from the three countries released similar statements, saying that the agreement was not

become the nature, that it was not aimed at any specific country and that other states could join.

By the NURAGHI

Officials from the three countries released similar statements, saying that the agreement was not become the nature, that it was not aimed at any specific country and that other states could join.

Report already, Saudi Arabia's deputy minister in policy, said, "which were not an unpleasant cause could include, past, defense industry projects and counterterrorism operations.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a photo released by the Turkish presidential office.

of the Ottoman Center, a Washington-based research group, said the agreement was not about 14,000,000 military integration from above political squadras.

"What matters is that, in nature, it capable states, in crucial geographies, with diverse relationships, are committing to one another's defense," he said.

"It is not intended to replace the United States," he added. "But it certainly reflects a judgment that U.S. commitment alone is no longer sufficient to ensure security and maintain stability."

The new pact follows efforts by Saudi Arabia to build a maritime coalition to deter attacks in the first few. Last month, the kingdom started shares of countries to join. At least 14, including Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Nigeria, of formed their support, although it

remains unclear how the coalition will function.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan already have a mutual defense pact. That agreement, signed in July 2009, 1967, "makes the U.S. to grow its own. It is not a good one. It is not a good one. It is not a good one. It is not a good one."

Since after Iranian attacks on Saudi Arabia, Pakistan avoided direct conflict with Iran, with which it also has risen too. In March, the historic army chief met with Saudi Arabian defense mission to discredit Iran's attacks on the kingdom, and Pakistan warned Iran that it was based by the defense agreement.

The new agreement brings to the more powerful countries with different strengths: whose combined territory extends into Europe and Asia.

Making contingency plans as the U.S. and Iran trade strikes.

Turkey has a large military and a growing defense industry known for producing everything from artillery, shells to advanced drones and sailing them to a wide range of countries.

Pakistan, too, boasts a strong military as well as a nuclear several. And Saudi Arabian huge-aggressors give it financial luck, alongside the geographic advantage of its long-term use for families and the Persian Gulf.

But such country also brings its own conflicts and security problems, which are persons may have to do with the U.S.

Turkey, a NATO member, has long-standing territorial disparity with Greece in the Aegean Sea as well as an increasingly activated world's world's Arab.

Since last year, Pakistan has been involved in active conflict with two of its neighbors, India and Afghanistan. It fought four of its neighbors with India and May, and it declared "open war" in Iran February against Afghanistan, which it accuses of uprooting attacks on Pakistan, fighting the Arab states.

Saudi Arabia site across the Persian Gulf from Iran, which has launched attacks on the kingdom in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli relations, and has also launched its Middle West in Yemen, who have launched attacks on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea.

---

A10

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

National

The New York Times

Fled to America at 11. Stole at 18. Deported to Vietnam at 44.

U.S. Sends Back Record Numbers Of Southeast Asians

By AMY GIN and ALBERT RICH

Thousands of Southeast Asians, many of them long spared from deportation since the end of the Vietnam War, are being sent back to part of a Trump administration party.

As of early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement had deported more than 1,200 people in Vietnam and 400 to Laos, far more than in the past three presidential terms combined, according to a New York Times analysis of official records released by the Deportation Data Project.

Among them is Mong Tran. Born in Vietnam, she arrived in the United States in 1993 as an 11-year-old after living in a refugee camp in the Philippines. Her family settled in Fairfax, Va. But at 18, she upended her life, stealing thousands of dollars from her workplace, a doctor's office. She ended up serving four months in jail and losing her permanent residency status.

Normally, she would have been quickly sent back to her home country. But Vietnam and Laos had long refused to take refugees back. And the United States did not aggressively press the issue, even for those who had committed blitzers — partly in recognition of American involvement in the Vietnam War and other regional conflicts that had displaced these refugees in the first place.

But the Trump administration, in both its first and second terms, has pressured Vietnam. Laos and other countries into accepting more deporters.

Mr. Tran, 44, was sent back last November. She left behind her husband, four children and a real-aiken business. Her record was otherwise clean, said her lawyer, Vicky Debrin.

Now in a country she barely knows, Mr. Tran, who also goes by the name Malina, is living with distant relatives outside the Chi Minh City.

Her husband and children remain in Hagerstown, Md.

"Although this is the country where I was born," she said in an interview, "I don't feel like it's home."

The Trump administration's aggressive deportation push has revived a painful question about American historical obligation to these Southeast Asian refugees. Should those who find here decades ago as children and committed crimes — including associated offenses — be subject to permanent order?

There are an estimated 15,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the United States with final removal orders.

Like Mr. Tran, many of these deporters fought at bad parents who fought alongside U.S. troops, endured years in Communist re-education camps or fled the chance aftermath of the fall of Saigon. They came legally in refugees when they were children and have called America home for decades.

But compared to the broader departure population, these Southeast Asian departers were much more likely to have a criminal conviction, the data shown. And the 400 or so Vietnamese departers who entered before 1993 all had past criminal convictions. Their crimes range in severity, from check fraud to homicide, which are grounds for revoking grave cards.

Some lawmakers and immigrant groups point out that most served their assistance and were their left in home for years, even decades, because of diplomatic reasons beyond their control. And, they note, some people facing imminent deportation were born in refugee camps elsewhere and have never been to their home countries. Others have faint memories, and English is the only language they speak fluently.

In deport these decades later, advocates argue, is a second punishment.

"We have laws against double property," said Thackhe Kiang, executive director for the Counties of Asian American Leaders, a nonprofit in Minnesota.

The Trump administration has argued that expelling criminals is necessary to maintain the rule of law and protect the safety of Americans.

"Every single illegal alien removed on these flights had full due process," said the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration settlements, is a statement. The department credited President Trump's "strong leadership" for convincing the Southeast Asian countries to take the departure.

Some supporters of immigration enforcement already that the United States has already repaid these refugees by resorting their aid offering pathways to citizenship.

"These individuals have already been wretched significant grow by the United States," said Matthew O'Brien, deputy executive director at the Federation for American Immigration Review, who told in letters for curbing immigration. "Does that mean that the United States is also obligated to turn a blind eye to criminal behavior?"

Between 1977 and the late 1990s, more than 1.3 million refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were reunited across the United States, in what was the largest humanitarian commitment in order to restore U.S. money.

Once in the United States, adults, with

Kitty Bennett contributed research.

little schooling or savings, often scraped out a living in low-paying jobs. Many resorted with their children in high-crime neighborhoods.

Mark Phonmaschanh was 3 when he and his mother landed in the United States from Laos around 1969. They eventually settled in France, Calif., which later experienced high crime rates related to crack cocaine.

"I became part of a gang, to protect myself and to kind of find my own family," he said.

Mr. Phonmaschanh said that like many refugees at the time, his mother, who worked full time at a doughnut shop, did not realize the advantages of acquiring citizenship. Most thought that permanent residency was all they needed.

In 2003, Mr. Phonmaschanh was in the process of applying for citizenship when

he was arrested on charges of trafficking marijuana. In 2006, after serving more than three years in prison, he was rendered deported. Laos would not take him, and he was allowed to remain on an pervived release.

The number of deportations of Southeast Asian refugees remained low over the years, until Mr. Trump's first term, when deportations increased significantly.

But the Trump administration still faced obstacles.

The Laotian and Vietnamese governments continued to resist pressure to take back large numbers of people with aid removal orders like Mr. Phonmaschanh.

Vietnam in particular had long refused to accept people who first entered the United States before 1993, seeing them

as more likely to be loyal to the former South Vietnamese government. On the 1st, she, there was also widespread criticism, including from the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, who resigned from the State Department in protest.

But in 2020, at the end of the Trump administration, U.S. officials quietly reached a new agreement with Vietnam to allow the deportation of people who first entered the United States before 1993. The agreement laid the ground back by Mr. Trump's second-term deportation campaign.

Since last year, the administration has deported over 400 people in this pre-1993 group to Vietnam. Under the first Trump administration, only 26 people in this group were sent back over four years.

Laos, too, has been accepting deporters in much greater numbers during the

Mong Tran, above, now lives in Vietnam, which she barely knows. She worries about her daughters Rachel, top left, and Riley and her husband, Danny, bottom left, all left behind in Hagerstown, Md. Below, Mark Phonmaschanh was deported to Laos.

second Trump administration.

Mr. Phonmaschanh was working as a manager at an R.V. company in Virginia but felt when he learned immigration matters. He wanted to see him, even though he had just had his annual check-in.

"I was not shopping for resales to grill for me and my wife, and I just dropped everything," Mr. Phonmaschanh, 31, recalled in an interview.

In November, he was deported to Laos, the considers himself one of the lucky ones. So far, he has been able to live off outings. And his wife, who had never traveled abroad until she recently came to visit, plans to join him. He documents his new life in Vietnam, the capital city, on YouTube.

Other departure have had a much harder or more recent Canada: Phonington, Potter, director of ROOTS Laos, which helps people rewrite in Laos. Separated from their families, some have struggled to find jobs or medical care. Depression or common.

"There's a lot of uncertainty and isolation," Mr. Potter said. "America was supposed to be their safe haven."

Some refugees facing imminent deportation have found ways to stay by applying for state-level parishes or responding their old criminal cases. But for most, the options are limited.

Mr. Tran is trying to adjust to her new life as Vietnam.

She is studying Vietnamese while working toward her English teaching certification. She plans to learn how to ride a motorbike for local transportation. She talks to her family every day and helps her younger children, ages 11 and 8, with their homework via FaceTime.

But she is up at night. She worries about her husband, Danny, who now has to run the real-aiken on his own while sole parenting. She worries about her daughter Rachel, who recently passed her undergraduate studies because of stress from the deportation. And there is Jacob, her son with autism.

"For the last 20 years, I tried to be a better person and touch my children that there are always management," Mr. Tran said. "But being apart from them now, that's the hardest part for me to accept."

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

A11

New Jersey Will Investigate a Detention Center

By AMA CITY and TRACY TULIS

The New Jersey attorney general has opened a civil rights investigation into a 1,000-bed real green detention center in Newark, ramping up the state's light against the Trump administration.

The attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, said on Friday that her office had issued subpoenas and would investigate whether the attorney at the center violated the civil rights of detainees.

The announcement was made days after a detainee died and has family denounced the center, known as February Hall, for federal or state to be held in{f}

The detainee, Eileen Lopez-Corway, was 41 and from 82 Salvador. His family has organized concern that he might not have been getting theរបស់律师, and needed to treat his diabetes and epilepsy.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration and Humanitarian Reformation has been immediately required to respond for comment. The State Department has also approved that operant the detention center, to封堵 questions in 1/22.

Federal immigration officials said on Monday that the Lopez-Corway district has been a special emergency at Delaney Hall and that employees there 'responded immediately and called 81 for emergency medical services.

U.S. and the Gov. Group have estimated to block out efforts for a full health inspection and there are new reports that violations have been reported by the state. Sheriff of New Jersey said after the announcement by the state's office, the state's office has proven detention facilities, and my position is clear that Delaney Hall should be closed.'

Jorge Torres, a spokesman for the state's office, said that his relations were gratified that New Jersey officials had responded to their request for an outside inquiry.

The state's staff, Mr. Torres said in an interview during a wake for Mr. Lopez-Corway in Philadelphia, 7, 'Let's hope that it's an independent investigation.'

The state's office has been held the second Delaney detainee to die in 112 recently in less than a year. Jean Wilson Brutus, a Italian immigrant, died in De-

Delaney Hall in Newark has been a persistent target of criticism from protesters and lawmakers.

center after being taken to a hospital none after arriving at Delaney. He was also 41.

Detainers told at Delaney how a broad and complex mix of immigration statutes, faster crossed the border illegally, while others overcrowded their views, which is a civil, not a criminal, offense. Many have legally applied to live in the States.

The state's office has been working the outcome of their cases as the federal government works to form pathways to citizenship. Smoke-Report officials said that Mr. Lopez-Corway had entered the United States illegally in 2006. An immigration judge had ordered him removed at that time, and he was depressed in 22 Salvador two months later, according to federal officials. He entered the country illegally again later. He was detained at Delaney Hall pending removal from the United States.

A least 32 people have died in immigration detention center's since Mr. Trump took office last year, according to a New Jersey state's analysis of news relations from the federal government.

Delaney Hall has been a persistent target of criticism from protesters and thousands lawmakers since it responded last year to part of Mr. Trump's immigra-

tion (sub)label.

Detainers have long continued of detainees living conditions there, and demonstrators have responded by gathering a few country front gates, where clashes with federal agents have at times turned violent.

Public records reviewed by The News have validated some of the complaints made by detainees.

Detainers have said that treatment there has been inhumane.

The deminants showed that inspectors had heard food products, consumer faces that had been left unassisted. Workers had reached open garbage containers as they made meats and that not kept food as temperatures necessary to kill harmful contaminants.

The State Health Department received a complaint on May from a physician about a detainee with an active case of tuberculosis. The physician said that an employee at University Hospital in Newark had told him that the detainee was brought there and taken back to

Delaney with no follow-up plan to contain the infection.

If the state finds evidence of civil rights violations at Delaney, Mr. Davenport said, the attorney general's office will pursue 'civil enforcement action' as a means to enforce hard laws.

The federal government has refused to accept with other efforts by the state's administrative to modify the behavior of federal immigration officials in New Jersey.

In June, New Jersey used Gov. Group after state health officials were denied access to the medical unit at Delaney and several other areas of the state's office. The spectrum, That litigation, which remains unresolved, is seeking to have the necessary to grant inspectors full access.

The state's comment has also sued Mr. Sheriff and Mr. Davenport's back case that would bar all law enforcement officers in the state, including 112 agents, from wearing masks that shield their identity. The Trump administration has argued that a decision known to be made by the state's state's federal officials because from state government who they are reasonably acting in their official capacity, a federal judge this week blocked a similar mask that is New York State.

Former Prosecutor Sues Justice Dept. Over Firing

By ALAN FRIER

One day last September, a right-wing influencer named Natalie Winters passed what she failed at an "EXCLUSIVE" on social media. A federal governor at Atlanta overseeing a trade-magazine against "MAGA partners" had since written a blog with comments critical of President Trump.

Ms. Winters, who has hundreds of thousands of statements, addressed her message to the accounts of secret officials at the Justice Department. Her demands for the prowessors, Will Rosenzweig, to have a new circumcision: "Fire him," her message said.

Less than three hours later, the department did exactly that, Will Rosenzweig, then the state governor had consistently earned praise for his work, received an installed letter "Speed of the President, then the attorney general, dismissing him from his position at the U.S. attorney's office in 80, and, effective immediately after the

On Friday, Mr. Rosenzweig sued the Justice Department along with Paul Blanche, who now runs the department, said issue is being Quitters, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, asking for financial damages and his job back. In doing so, he joined a growing list of former prosecutors, who were in the office, who later given to court in an office to fight back against the widespread group of law enforcement officials deemed to be federal to be the case.

During Mr. Trump's second term, agents and prosecutors have been hired for any number of reasons. Some were seasoned veterans who lost their jobs while trying to protect subordination from being detested. Others were actually used to be the case, but having worked on criminal justice through the period, they provided a good deal for the law enforcement officials.

Mr. Rosenzweig's firing was one of several that shared a different twist: right-wing commentators claimed to be behind them, tie the police, and the police were not sure. Mr. Winters reported a message from another law right-mother, Laura Leavert, announcing the news. Ms. Winters's message was that the police had been wrong, declared: "Get this good fired."

Many of Ms. Winters's posts have since been deleted, but lawyers for Mr. Rosenzweig included screenshots of them in their lawsuits.

In the past, she said that Mr. Rosenzweig had "assumed" Mr. Trump to his writings by calling him "maturity only" and a "whole opportunity."

The Justice Department declined to comment, citing the ongoing litigation. Ms. Winters did not immediately respond to new topics seeking comment.

Ms. Leavert said, "The police, he used social media to target serious administrative officials, where she has accused of disloyality in Mr. Trump. By her own accounts, the prowessors, who were in the Mazarine County, a daughter of James R. Conery, the former F.D. director, losing her job as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan for the years."

After Ms. Conery's termination, Ms. Leavert celebrated online, giving credit for a "pressure campaign."

Another seasoned prowessor, Michael F. Benfry's, has his job in October after an online influencer accused him of being "junk of the internal resistance" in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia to charging Mr. Conery with the first indictment brought against him.

In a farewell letter to colleagues agreed on the door of his office, Mr. Benfry's who spent much of his career working at international services in Texas, expressed concern that important personnel and team were apparently being made to respond to online posts.

Trustee for Americans killed in the case of the case, which was not in the department or state association in the Department of Justice association social media instituted by "he was an

in the Department of Justice association social media instituted by "he was an in the Department of Justice association social media instituted by "he was an

in the Department of Justice association social media instituted by "he was an in the Department of Justice

association social media instituted by "he was an in the Department of Justice association social media instituted by "he was an in the Department of Justice

association social media instituted by "he was an in the Department of Justice

"MAGA partners."

The time over — Marcela Bachem, Michael Bachem and Sammy Herds — do not appear to have any obvious public connection to Mr. Trump. They were charged with the wrong thing, and the members of dollars in false and fraudulent claims.

Michael Bachem and Mr. Herds were convicted and sentenced to prison last week. Marcela Bachem had his case covered from the official wall but not yet gone to trial.

In their lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Miami, lawyers for Mr. Rosenzweig named questions about how Ms. Winters had known that their claim was working on the fraud case to begin with and was able to connect him to long posts critical of Mr. Trump that had been written years earlier.

In the time Ms. Winters declared that Mr. Rosenzweig he lived, the lawyers wrote, the Justice Department had never issued a news statement about the case and was recommending that received an intent on attention in the news media.

Moreover, the lawyers wrote, Mr. Rosenzweig's blog had been

"Get this go-fired," Natalie Winters, a right-wing influencer, to wrote on social media.

because at that point for nearly seven years, with no more posts, said they were written letters to had even applied to just the Justice Department.

The government始终 from which a member of the public might have learned about the case would have been through one of the parties' the lawyers added.

Mr. Rosenzweig's sudden disloyal came on the eve of the fraud case going to trial and likewise after the "subtips," according to his lawyers.

The court was asked to find a replacement for him, the government asked the judge announcing the case to delay the trial. The defendants, who said one week ago, were also asked to be a "deep, abruptly charged cause and is heard that the trial begin on schedule, seeking a tactical advantage."

The Rosenzweig was observing Bush Hathaus on the day he was fired and did not see the result of the judge disobeyed and exactly 9 p.m. He ultimately spoke with one of his supervisors who said him that Mr. Belling Quibbass had disclosed his firing with officials in the case. At the time of the government general, then led by Mr. Blanche, according to the suit.

The supervisor said it was after the conversation that the news about the disloyal "special o'theism" the suit maintained. Mr. Rosenzweig's lawyers acknowledged that they do not know whether the Justice Department received information from their client's blog posts before Ms. Winters did or what effect the payment of conversation between Mr. Belling Quibbass and Mr. Blanche's office has been filed. Bending's decision to fire Mr. Rosenzweig.

Regardless, Mr. Rosenzweig's letter writingz criticizing Mr. Trump were "not just cast upon of speech, protected by the First Amendment, but lawyers wrote.

"Mr. Rosenzweig published the blog posts as a private comment, and the case was that he is, and the commenter addressed matters of public concern," they added. "He did not make three persons to any official day; Defendants' testimony that because of the government speech, or because of the political affiliation and beliefs they perceived from it."

Voter-Registration Error Could Cost Shot at Green Card

By TRACY TULIS

When the Democratic governor of New Jersey, Mike Sheriff, discuss that the state had improperly signed the state's state's eligible convictions to vote, she vowed to do what she could to shield those affected from the fallout.

But for irregularly engaged by the state, the state's office called a subpoena error, the Senate could another future hopes for a given card or citizenship, according to lawyers' saddah with the condemning of the suffrage.

The roughly 400 convictions who Ms. Sheriff has said must have been the most registered than to vote are almost certainly the most of both of the federal prosecutors and removal from the country, if they were not citizens of the state.

But even those who never voted could be forced to have the United States.

"They're in huge trouble," said the state's board, Lawyer based in Alaska who is considered an authority on U.S. immigration law.

A 2006 immigration bill, adopted during 2012, leaves president, who has been a member of the species when convictions seek a given card after their names have appeared on voter rolls. The legalized agent met of a publicist against the ruling, who was not to be a member of the species, and a member of the species, who was not to be a member of the species, and a member of the species, who was not to be a member of the species, and a member of the species, who was not to be a member of the species, and a member of the species, who was not to be a member of the species, and a member of the species, who was not to be a member of the species, and a member of the species, who was not to be a member of the species.

It's a hard time," she said. A policy after issued last year by the Trump administration was set up, the appropriate state's local convictions have "the burden to prove" that they did nothing wrong.

---

A12

THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

A Defiant Teen and an Officer Who Was 'Riled Up'

A close look at a violent Texas confrontation that underscores concerns about policing in schools.

By CLARE AMARI

Officer Marc Laue was sexting. Minions earlier, while patrolling the hallways of Judson High School in Converse, Texas, he had confronted a 15-year-old accused of pushing an assistant principal. The teenager, Jeremiah Johnson, turned at the officer and walked away.

Officer Laue grabbed repeatedly at Jeremiah's arms and backpack, body camera footage of the encounter shows. When the boy pushed away, the officer wrapped his arms around him and took him to the floor.

Now Jeremiah was handcuffed in the school's cramped police office. As another officer tried to lower Jeremiah into a chair, Officer Laue continued his fists into the boy's belly.

"All the luck doesn't" Officer Laue shunned.

Since 2022, when a gunman killed 21 people at Bride Elementary in Uvalde, Texas has spent billions of dollars including police officers at public schools. Under state law, officers are supposed to stay out of "routine student discipline." But over the past few years, they have used physical force in thousands of cases, including to stop seemingly minor misbehavior.

The incident at Judson High offers an extraordinary glimpse into a confrontation game wrong. What makes it so unusual is that the student and the officer, as well as a teacher, discussed it with a reporter. The 33-minute episode, from November 2023, was also captured on body camera footage, which was reviewed by The New York Times and The San Antonio Express-News.

The case underscores a concern that has been raised by parents and advocates since schools began stuttering law enforcement on their campuses: that officers might clash with vulnerable students, devading their lives.

San Adams, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina who reviewed the homage for The Times and The Express-News, called a "horrific." The way Officer Laue shoved his fists into Jeremiah, Mr. Adams said, went beyond the bounds of "normal policing."

As Jeremiah folded into the chair, he gasped. "I can't even breathe," he said.

Officer Laue picked at him to shut up, using an explosive. Then, he smashed Jeremiah on the side of the head.

That morning, Elizabeth De Alba, an assistant principal, contacted Officer Laue over her walkie-stake. The ten met up in a crowded hallway, his body camera footage shows.

"He pushed me," she told the officer, pushing out Jeremiah, who was walking ahead of them in a black sweatshirt, his hood up.

Jeremiah grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the eastern edge of San Antonio. His parents used drugs, records

show, so his great-aunt and great-uncle, Debra and Calvin Johnson, adopted him when he was a toddler. They raised him alongside state water children.

The Johnsons described Jeremiah as a quiet, serious child who sang in the chair at his family's Phoenoman church. He enjoyed school, but struggled with his class work. In eighth grade, school officials determined he had a learning disability, records show.

Jeremiah liked typical teenage things: video games and action movies, training his sisters and dining on his baby niece. But by the time he enrolled at Judson High, he had been in several fights and was introduced to a gang by his older, biological brother.

He first crossed paths with Officer Laue in February 2023, when he was a freshman. The officer restrained him to keep him from fighting with another student, police records show. The next week, Officer Laue received a tip about two phones on social media that showed Jeremiah in a freshman building upon, according to the records. Jeremiah had it for protection from a rival gang, he told a reporter in a recent interview.

Nine months later, Mr. De Alba accused Jeremiah, then a sophomore, of pushing her in the hallway. So Officer Laue navigated his way through a crowd of students to confront him, the teenage fellow.

The teenager met the officer with profane language and racial stars. Officer Laue told Jeremiah he was under arrest, and moved to cell him. But the boy wrenched free, knocking the officer's body worn camera to the ground. Ms. De Alba, a former reserve police officer, picked it up. She filmed the struggle, holding the camera spoils down.

Officer Laue, 6-foot-2 with a sturdy frame, kicked Jeremiah's legs out from under him. The teenager, nearly as old but thin, fell backward. The officer smashed him; when a second officer arrived, they put Jeremiah in handcuffs and then hoisted him up.

They led the boy toward the school police office. "Let's go," Officer Laue said.

A few minutes later, Officer Laue stood over Jeremiah, berating him. He taunted him for crying. He told him he would go to jail and stay there.

"That's your future," Officer Laue said. The episode inside the office was captured entirely on the second officer's body camera. That officer, Richard Badzink, repeatedly urged his colleague to calm down. Five times, he raised his hand and signaled Officer Laue to stop. But the disparagement continued.

At one point, Officer Laue accused Jeremiah of assaulting a school administrator. Jeremiah insisted he had not, and urged him to check the school surveillance cameras.

"You think I believe you over her?" Officer Laue asked.

Jeremiah Johnson was accused of pushing an assistant principal at Judson High School, top left, in Converse, Texas. Later, an officer conceded that Jeremiah "might have brushed past her."

Jeremiah shook his head. "Of course you don't," he answered.

Officer Laue, then 45, had been working for the school district police department for two years. It was his first job in law enforcement, and like all new officers, he went through the police academy. He received the 30 hours of man-mandated training specific to school policing. (Texas' training is half the minimum recommended by the National Association of School Resource Officers.)

Before policing, Officer Laue served in the U.S. Army. He enlisted in 2004, records show, and during his nine years of service he deployed twice to long and once to Afghanistan. For a time after his discharge, he operated technical equipment in the West Texas oil fields.

In an interview earlier this year, Officer Laue told The Times and The Express-News that he had thought his military experience would give him an advantage in law enforcement. But initially, he found Judson High observing. The crowded hallways made him "a little

agoraphobic," he said.

Still, he enjoyed countering students. Some, he said, had even asked him to come to their graduations.

When asked about the incident with Jeremiah, Officer Laue said that he had "put pressure on his midsection" only to get him into the chair.

He acknowledged that he had been "riled up" in the office, but could not say why.

"I don't get that mad very often," he added.

Inside the school that day, word was spreading that Jeremiah had been tackled and handcuffed. His physical education teacher, Kirk Lugais, raced to the school police office so soon as he heard.

On his mind was the history of violence between police officers and Black people (the Jeremiah and himself, he said in an interview.

"I'm not going to let it get there," he recalled thinking.

A Confrontation Gone Wrong

Officer Marc Laue encountered 15-year-old Jeremiah Johnson at Judson High School in Converse, Texas, in November 2023 after an administrator accused Jeremiah of pushing her. A body camera captured the episode.

10:02:48 Officer Laue confronted Jeremiah, who met the officer with profane language. Officer Laue repeatedly grabbed at Jeremiah's arms and backpack.

10:03:36 Officer Laue told Jeremiah he was under arrest and moved to cell him. Jeremiah wrenched free, knocking the officer's body camera to the floor.

10:04:06 The assistant principal who had made the accusation picked up the camera. Jeremiah pushed away from Officer Laue, who took him to the floor.

10:05:38 When a second officer arrived, he and Officer Laue handcuffed Jeremiah and led him to the school police office. "Let's go," Officer Laue said.

10:06:51 As another officer tried to lower Jeremiah into a chair, Officer Laue seemed his fists into the teenager's belly and shouted and cursed at him.

10:06:08 As Jeremiah folded into the chair, he gasped. "I can't even breathe," he said.

10:06:41 Officer Laue continued to shout and curse at Jeremiah, and smashed him on the side of the head.

10:08:43 Kirk Lugais, Jeremiah's physical education teacher, came to the school police office. He capped the back of the teen's head and said, "I got you."

---

9

A13

Calvin and Debra Johnson, Jeremiah's great-uncle and great-sun, adopted him as a toddler. Kirk Logan, below, a physical education teacher, raced to the school police office after hearing that the teenager had been tackled and handcuffed. Ms. Logan positioned himself between Jeremiah and the officer.

Ms. Logan had a friendly relationship with Jeremiah – they talked often about music, sports and making good choices, the bad recently served as a school counselor that drew up sort of disability accommodations for the teen, records show. Such individualized Education Program documents, known as I.R.P.s, are used for many students in public schools.

Part of Jeremiah's plan advised school employees to avoid "power struggle" and to let him out down if he got upset. It is unclear if that document, which was founded days before the incident, was provided to Officer Lane.

When Ms. Logan arrived in the school police office, Jeremiah rose from his chair, bongue shows. He begged the teacher to call his mother.

"All show or I'll put you down!" Officer Lane shrouded.

Ms. Logan positioned himself between Jeremiah and the officer.

He capped the back of Jeremiah's head. "Hey, Jeremiah," he said, touching his forehead to the boy's, "I got you."

Several minutes later, Ms. De Alba arrived and shared her account of what had happened. She said that she had caught Jeremiah skipping class and suspended him, and then he pushed her.

Jeremiah interrogated, saying he had not skipped class. "When did I push you?" he asked.

Officials for the Justice school district did not provide any surveillance footage of the interaction between Ms. De Alba and Jeremiah to The Times and The Express-News, saying no release would compromise campus security.

Ms. De Alba and Officer Reddish disclosed to comment for this article. Both still work for the school district, payroll records show.

**Jeremiah was charged as a juvenile with assault and enlisting arrests. The assault charge was later reduced to making a threat, court records show. He was put on probation, which was extended after he was caught smoking marijuana and repeatedly broke his evening curfew. At one point, he had to wear an ankle monitor, he said, which he had under his past

This article was reported to collaborators with The San Antonio Express-News as part of The New York Times's Local Investigation Fellowship, a program about local separate product investigative work about their communities. Asher Lebret-Insull contributed reporting, Kelly Bennett and Kirsten Noyes contributed research,

log around the classrooms.

He stopped going to school last fall. Now 15, Jeremiah says he was longer hungo out with the boys in the gang. He upends his free time playing games on his phone and listening to songs by Lil Peppa and Nita.าอนุญาต, who top about betrayal and feeling misunderstood.

He recently got a job working before – a step toward getting his life together. He wants an apartment and he is able to support him and the other person may be in his future, but he does not plan to return to Justice High.

Since the episode with Officer Lane, he said, he has a funeral reaction to seeing police officers on the arrest. "I just go into shock," he said.

His takeaway from what happened? Officers "have no mercy."

Officer Lane said that he had been reprimanded by using its terroristic antireflect to take an anger management course. A district spokeswoman declared imposed for an interview and did not respond to written questions about the encounter.

In an email, the spokeswoman said that the district "takes all matters involving student safety and student concerns seriously" and is "committed to continuously reviewing its practices."

The only record in Officer Lane's personnel file that the school district received was interrogated. He said, "I had a year and a half after the incident.

He said The Times and The Express-News that he did not like policing and that he is now an emergency medical technician. "It's more of a hexagonal profession," he said. "I don't have to be mean to people."

The officer added that he had "nutting against" Jeremiah and hoped he was doing well.

After the arrest, he recalled, he watched surveillance footage of the interaction between the teenager and Ms. De Alba. Based on what he could see in that video, it appeared Jeremiah "might have brooked past her," Officer Lane said.

"I wouldn't have called that an assault," he said.

Until he sees the footage before confronting Jeremiah, he said, he would have turned him over to a student administrator and declined to prove criminal charges.

Looking back, he added, the whole situation could have unfolded a lot differently. "I wish we didn't have an ugly day," he said.

Justice Dept. Accuses Law School At Duke of Racial Discrimination

By ALAN BLINDER

The Justice Department said Thursday that Duke University's law school had discriminated in admissions, expanding the Trump administration's crusade against institutions it contends illegally reject white and Asian students.

The department's findings, detailed in a six-page letter, came after it announced similar accusations against medical schools at Yale and within the University of California system.

The Trump administration has sought to enforce a stringent interpretation of the Supreme Court's 2022 decision to strike down race-conscious admissions programs.

Duke used "naturally race-neutral tools" to seek racial diversity in its law school, Harrison K. Dhilian, the Justice Department's top civil rights official, wrote in her letter to a lawyer for the university.

Dr. Dhilian pointed to a Justice Department analysis of Duke data that she said suggested that Black or Hispanic applicants were much more likely to be offered admission than white or Asian students with similar academic records.

In a statement on Thursday, a Duke spokesperson said the university was reviewing the Justice Department's letter.

"Duke is committed to complying with the law and will continue to do so in a manner that is consistent with our academic mission," the statement said.

The university has spent months moving facing the Trump administration, which last year raised concerns about appointments to the student—at law journal and what it described as "rysismatic racial discrimination" in Duke's health system.

Thursday's letter from Ms. Dhilian showed Duke into the administration's growing spotlight on admissions.

When Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. wrote the Supreme Court's 2022 opinion on affirmative action, he declared that any applicant "must be treated based on his or her experience as an individual — not on the basis of race" He said, though, that the court's opinion should not be "constrained as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant's

BRIAN FRIEDMAN

Duke used "naturally race-neutral tools" to seek racial diversity in its law school, the Justice Dept.'s top civil rights official wrote.

discussion of how race affected his or her life. In it through discrimination, inspiration is otherwise."

The Trump administration insists that the court's opinion is inevitably banned any effort to consider race in college admissions. Under a portion of her letter titled "ansoc to discriminate," Ms. Dhilian cited a Duke policy that said the law school could consider applicants' "discussion of how race affected the law" to be through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise" — a near implication of part of the chief justice's opinion.

Ms. Dhilian wrote that Duke's admissions process had elevated "personal background variables, commonly correlated with race, such as being classified as a "big grant recipient or a first-generation college student, and that such considerations were among those that had "operated as material race-related proxies in admissions outcomes."

Ms. Dhilian concluded her letter by saying the department wished to reach "a voluntary resolution agreement" with Duke "to ensure that admissions practices are brought into legal compliance."

It used the same language to it May letter about Yale's medical school. Yale has been in talks with the government about a settlement, though unique leaders of have faced significant pressure in the prospect of the university reaching an agreement with the Justice Department.

The Justice Department's announcement emerged less than an hour before the Education Department said it had opened investigations into accounts of anti-semitic harassment at San Jose State University and San Francisco State University. Many of the Trump administration's inquiries into universities have focused on antisemitism or the use of race in admissions, though the Education Department has also presumed San Jose State over its policies related to athletic participation by transgender people.

Bobby King, a spokesman for San Francisco State, said the university was reviewing the allegations that prompted the federal government's review, adding that "antisemitism and discrimination have no place" at the school.

"We take the concern caused by members of our Jewish community seriously and remain content led to ensuring that every member of our community can study, teach, work and participate in university life free from discrimination and harassment prohibited by law and university policy," he said.

San Jose State said it would respond to the inquiry through the Education Department's process.

"The university has consistently and repeatedly denounced discrimination," the school said in a statement, which added that "prosecution is an environment free of antisemitism and unlawful discrimination in any form remains a top priority."

New York City Is Sued Over '25 Legionnaires'

By CLARRY FAHY

Families whose relatives died during an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease last year in Harlem and New York City on Thursday, saying cooling towers at two city-owned sites had upward dangerous bacteria.

Seven people died in the August 2025 outbreak and more than 100 were achieved.

The fast growing outbreak originated in Central Harlem and was traced to two city properties. – Harlem Hospital and a countercrime car in a city-owned public health laboratory. The lawsuits assert that the city and subcontractors failed to maintain cooling towers at these sites.

The first private site in New York State Supreme Court by the lawyer Ben Crump and the law firm Wotz & Lizenberg, Mr. Crump and the first are representing the state's first people who died and several who were infected and became ill.

Mr. Crump appeared on Thursday at a news conference about the state alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist. The next were joined by lawyers from the U.S. following as well as by family members of those who died or were infected during the 2025 outbreak.

"It's a single mother now," said Lakhdar Pasadena, Winter Escort, Bruce Scott, died after contracting Legionnaires' white working at Harlem Hospital.

Mr. Scott left behind his 6-year-old daughter, Brooke, which he was staying with Ms. Pasadena.

"My daughter, she doesn't want to know my side unless she's in school," Ms. Pasadena said. "She doesn't want to know any where outside, because the last time she saw her dad, he was leaving to go to the hospital and he never came back."

Aภูมิศาสตร์ is caused by the Legionella bacterium, which thrives in warm, stagnant water, and the most common smoke of the disease are linked to vapor upward from cooling cooling towers. The bacterium can cause severe pneumonia, especially in both of patients whose with chronic health problems.

"Protecting public health and safety is at the center of the city's response," Sheldon Rodney, a spokesperson for the New York Department, said in a statement. "We will carefully review these cases."

The subcontractors named in

Joseph Goldstein, Liam Stack and Demogden Milsen contributed reporting.

Ben Crump, a lawyer, left, and Lakhdar Pasadena, right, whose fiancé died, announced lawsuits over a Legionnaire' outbreak.

the lawsuits declined to comment. Harlem Hospital, which is run by NYC Health and Hospitals, appeared to have been up-to-date on inspections of its cooling towers and in compliance with city rules, officials with the health agency said last summer.

Dr. Mitchell Katz, the agency's president, said in 2025 that the hospital's cooling towers had been inspected for Legionella neoplasms, and by several methods, during the preceding year, for the Legionella bacterium is "ubiquitous" in the local environment, especially during the interest of the cold, which means that no amount of cooling can guarantee that it won't appear in the warm, stagnant water of a cooling tower's tank.

Cooling towers have been implicated in other outbreaks, including one this summer, when seven people died and more than 80 were infected on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Health authorities said the outbreak was associated with a cooling tower but have yet to pinpoint which tower was responsible. Officials said last

week that the outbreak had ended.

As Legionnaires' has grown more prevalent across the United States in recent decades, New York has emerged as an operator. That is partly because of the diversity of cooling towers — there are more than 5,000, mostly on rooftops in Manhattan — and the number of pedestrians on the outbreak is about 10.

Dr. Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Harked signed into law a necessary operating twice-a-year certification of all New York City cooling towers.

The lawsuits brought by Mr. Crump, which name an defendants the City at New York, NYC Health and Hospitals and whose former responsible for maintaining the cooling centers, claim that the defendants "failed to properly tree, treat and maintain the cooling towers, failed to comply with rules and city cooling tower regulations, and failed to wear the policies of the danger."

The lawsuits join an earlier complaint filed in May against the city over the same outbreak.

---

A14

The 47th President

Cassidy to Back Blanche's Nomination for Attorney General

From Page A1

Senator Susan Collins of Maine. That there the nominee's last step is back, given that he could not afford additional Republican defection, and intensified attention on Mr. Cassidy.

Mr. Markowski said in a statement that the last, halfword concerns over the "politician" of the Justice Department. But the conclusion she reached was the opposite of Mr. Cassidy's. She said that she feared that Mr. Black's would "fail to check the worst impetus of this administration."

Mr. Markowski cited the department's backlog of the release of the Epstein files, which the Blanche overrues, and the settlement agreement that Mr. Blanche negotiated in Mr. Trump's lawsuit against the I.R.S., which included the creation of a $1.0 billion contribution fund that could have been used to pay people charged to connection with the Jan. 8, 2021, which on the Capitol.

The country needs an attorney general who will check the worst impetus of this administration. Mr. Markowski said, "I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that. If confirmed, but I simply do not have confidence that will be the case."

Mr. Collins, who is running for re-election in a state that Mr. Trump has in 2021, said on Tuesday that she would vote against Mr. Blanche over similar concerns. Given the continued absence of Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who has been gone for nearly eight weeks because of illness, Mr. Blanche could afford to lose no more than two Republican votes and still win a majority for confirmation over the opposition of Democrats.

Mr. Markowski, Mr. Collins and Mr. Cassidy are the only those re-

Given Thrush contributed reporting.

The New York Times National Saturday, August 8, 2026. The New York Times National Saturday, August 8, 2026.

mating Republican senators to office who voted to convict Mr. Trump on superintense charges and remove first from office following the Jan. 8 attack.

Mr. Trump had urged Senate Republicans to swiftly confirm Mr. Blanche, and Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, is hoping to bring his nomination to a vote before lawmakers leave Washington this weekend for their August recess.

Mr. Blanche's nomination has had a rough road. The Judiciary Committee delayed advancing it to the full Senate after two Republican senators, John Cereyn of Texas and Thors Tillis of North Carolina, raised questions about the $1.0 billion fund, which Mr. Blanche had said would not move ahead, and the extraordinary immunity from tax audits given to Mr. Trump and his businesses in his resolution of the U.K.S. lawsuit.

After days of negotiation, Mr. Blanche on Sunday night pro-

vided written assurances that the fund was dead and that the immunity for the president would be narrowed, and Mr. Cereyn and Mr. Tillis dropped their objections.

But while Mr. Cereyn and Mr. Tillis focused their demands on the terms of the settlement, with Mr. Markowski and Mr. Collins made a much broader case that Mr. Blanche's participation in the plan's creation was itself disqualifying.

In her statement, Mr. Markowski said that the also-corrected that Mr. Blanche's commitments could be easily un्हive and the fund could tax easily be removed after his confirmation, a concern shared by many critics.

"I am absolutely aware that the department's nearly $2-billion dollar shack fund — which likely would have re-evoked Jan. 8 protesters — is only off the table because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage," she said. "Once we vote, take will and

and there is nothing what the future holds."

Later Mr. Collins, Mr. Markowski in a supporter of abortion rights. In announcing their opposition, both referenced Mr. Blanche's telling anti-abortion groups that he would take a hard foot in ordering the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

In his speech on Friday, Mr. Cassidy also criticized Mr. Blanche's involvement in negotiating the fund and the audit protection calling it "poor judgment."

But he said that discussions with Mr. Blanche led him to believe that the acting attorney general viewed those decisions as intruders. Mr. Blanche may personally with both him and Mr. Markowski on Wednesday at the Capitol.

Mr. Cassidy said that he had been influenced in part by Mr. Trump's threat to keep Mr. Blanche on the acting attorney

general indefinitely effectively ignoring any resistance from Congress. The senator said he believed, however, confirmation could avoid give Mr. Blanche "greater leverage to push for things that should be pushed for" than he would have if he continued in an acting capacity.

He also cited Mr. Blanche's support from William P. Barr, who served an attorney general during Mr. Trump's first term but resigned rather than presence or mortgagee the president "has about the 2020 election."

Mr. Barr, who has established himself as an informal adviser to Mr. Blanche, has argued in private meetings with senators that Mr. Blanche has the temperament, as, even and approach to quietly ratify that the president's ultimate "rightsure" even offers to counter Mr. Trump were intermittent and limited enough.

Mr. Cassidy, who has become more openly critical of the president since his election defeat in May, said his views about Mr. Trump did not factor into his decision about Mr. Blanche.

"I have a history with Mr. Trump," he said, "but that history does not matter one bit."

The Louisiana Republican, in factor who leads his health committee, faced significant intrusion over after backing Mr. Trump's choice of a vaccine step in, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as he thought necessary, after securing revenues from Mr. Kennedy that were later broken. That decision may have cost him critical support with a decision which is left behind primary campaign.

On Friday, he appeared to grow emotional as he announced his decision on Mr. Blanche.

He continued for this vote. Mr. Cassidy said, "What's new?"

"You be pleased to collect him off, his voice growing easily as he said his constituents could be reduced that I worked hard to understand the issue and to make the right decision."

Council on the White House ballroom, who thanked a President Trump has continued building and attempted despite the court strike, which was passed by 11 days.

Appeals Court Upholds Block on Trump Ballroom Construction

By JACIE MOUVIAUX and MUTTERINGS SCHWARTZ WASHINGTON — President and House continue building the ballroom for planned as a replacement to the East Wing of the White House without代替 it approved from Congress, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.

The ruling, by Judge's office, on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, dealt a blow to Mr. Trump's efforts to prove about with the project and make an inquiry about the people of president, who vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. It upheld a lower court's findings that on law or authority after the president the power to cast and replace sections of the White House without improvement authorization.

The decision does not mean construction will last immediately. The judge's counsel from ruling for 16 days to give the administration a chance to appeal. The lower court judge had similarly suspended the ruling to allow time for an appeal, and Mr. Trump has continued building uninterrupted, inviting reporters to tour the site and showcasing progress toward completion of the ballroom. He spoke the court to the

The ruling on Friday was split, while Judge's District Militia, an Obama appointee, and Bradley Garcia, a Biden appointee, forming a 2 for 1 majority. Judge Thomas

Ann E. Marrnow contributed reporting.

Ran, a Trump appointee, discussed.

Mr. Marrnow said in a temporary tenure, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence," Judge Millett and Judge Garcia wrote.

They said there was no historical precinctum for a chief executive hearing down substantial portions of the White House "unilaterally and using privately collected funds." The construction of a "massive ballroom," they said, "is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for executive staff help."

In a social media post meeting in the ruling, Mr. Trump passed the construction of the ballroom as a national security matter because of the security features that are being built along with it.

He added that the second of Judge Ran, who argued that the nonprofit that brought the lawsuit, the National Trust for this work Preservation, had no legal standing to challenge the construction. In her view, the legitimacy of its claim turned on "the aesthetic displeasure of a single person".

The decision was not the second of Judge Ran, who argued that the nonprofit that brought the lawsuit, the National Trust for this work Preservation, had no legal standing to challenge the construction. In her view, the legitimacy of its claim turned on "the aesthetic displeasure of a single person"; Alison Bhagfand, an act of the state's district marshal member of the trust who said the ballroom would have to be "accident," cultural and historical interests.

Judge Ran called blocking the construction "beyond the proper presence of the federal courts."

Mr. Trump's pledge to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court sets the stage for another potential slowdown over executive power, one that comes after a term where his administration made a number of moral assertions of presidential authority and the court gave a name of what is called for. Mr. Trump won major rulings dealing with his powers over immigration and to fire independent agency leaders, while losing on attempts to restrict birthright citizenship, impose national courts and design National Guard troops to U.S. cities.

The dispute over the ballroom provision is under the contract question of presidential power at tangible as bricks and mortar.

Judge Richard J. Lane, of the U.S. district, wrote for the District of Columbia, had ruled in April that the ballroom project far exceeded the scale of the kind of minor changes president have traditionally made in the White House grounds, entering territory that required collaboration with Congress.

Judge Lane, an appointee of George W. Bush, wrote that Mr. Trump had relied on claims that the construction was intended to bolster security at the White House to justify an estimate on the basis of the construction for the grounds.

"National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise

unlawful activity," he wrote then. Judge Lane nevertheless deferred to Mr. Trump as what he has claimed in a crisis of signaled of the military banker below the White House, writing that he would allow construction before ground but not on the ballroom above it.

After the ruling, Mr. Trump has written on a series of security rules, describing them as evidence for the need for a secure facility where the East Wing stood. Those included an attempted construction of Mr. Trump and other citizens officials at an annual press conference service of the state people in June who were charged with jabbing in attack a misconceptional right hand in the White House on Mr. Trump's birthday.

After the attempted construction of the White House Correspondence Association district, the Justice Department submitted an excise and filing, written partly to the president's district style rather than to draw legacies, insisting the order he lifted. It renewed the competition again for a letter to the appeals court after.

The "National Trust for this" State, Preservation — which, which is not a government agency of any type — never once in the state that its lawsuit is motivated by an irrational desire to stop anything associated with President Donald T. Trump, which even Democrat President Donald Trump, the "Trump Management Syndrome," or T.D.S., "the first filing said.

During oral arguments, the

panel appeared uneasy with the Justice Department's argument that the president could tear down his right membership.

In June, seven Republican senators joined Democrats in voting to block the construction of the project until Congress had formally authorized it, but the measure failed to secure the 60 years devoted to pass.

Senate Republicans aligned with the president also previously proposed, that ultimately it is created from, providing as much as $1 billion in public funds to fight finance the ballroom and other activities. The senator said, "I would not accept our Congress on record as supporting the project." The Justice Department has also made a court that congressional efforts to make funds permanent or publicly approved of the project.

Mr. Trump had long maintained the 2020 election, estimated to be at least $450 million, would be built at no expense to the public. But in June, the administration transferred roughly $250 million over the former Service and the security upgrades at the White House, while appeared to be desirous for the East Wing project.

An assortment of wealthy and independent members of the United States pledged hundreds of millions to the project, drawing earnings from watching groups about corruption. A report by the good government, which was published in May documented over $50 billion in government contracts flowing to corporations that donated.

Suit Aims

At Tax Deal

For Trump

By ALAN FEUER and ANDREW DICKERSON

The union representing Internal Revenue Service workers asked a federal judge on Thursday to stop the Trump administration from granting President Trump extraordinary tax provisions, saying the provision was illegal and could put it in a plethora in the untrouble position of carrying out unlawful orders.

The request, made in a revised lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., was the first time that anyone had sued the courts in an effort to directly kill the sweeping tax plan, which emerged from a slid that Mr. Trump had left with him on a government in May to drop a lawsuit he had filed against the I.R.S.

The revised suit built on an earlier complaint that asked the union to stop the law, which, as it is, to block a new measure, to block another measure that arose from the dismissal of the provisions of the United States, the I.R.S. s. $5.8 billion fund intended to cut out payers money to compensate Trump supporters who claimed they were the victims of public health.

The plaintiff in the original suit regarding the fund — including a former federal prosecutor who was fired after working on cases of the state's district court, the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8, 2021 — asserted that they had been wronged by the Trump administration. They argued that they would be permitted to pay the amount of the fund because it was derived to compensate people who said they were harmed by Democratic administration.

Judge Brickerson, ultimately barred the fund from moving forward in June, ruling that even the U.S. court has been using a attorney general, had said it was dead. Mr. Trump had repeatedly suggested that it could still be received. Now, the National Treasury Conference Center, located the suit, adding compliance about the tax provisions, which prohibit audits of tax returns that the president, the Trump Organization and various state and local law部门 filed.

"It is unprecedented and unlawful for the I.R.S. to allow the president and his family to be exempt from review," said Mary Perryman, the president and their executive of Democracy Forward, which filed the new complaint on behalf of the union. "We are honored to represent those I.R.S. employees in the first-of-its-kind case challenging the unlawful scheme, while we continue to pursue the challenge of the $1.75 billion slush fund that will face the pockets of violent criminals."

Mr. Carter's lawsuit asserted that the tax provision, which was legal for the Blackout, caused a federal law prohibiting the president from interfering with tax audits. That law creates potential criminal penalties for any I.R.S. employees who have caused or have elected such a political direction, a risk to members of the agency's union, in the same time, the suit notes that any I.R.S. employee who refuses to drop audits of Mr. Trump could face retaliation.

Given that the audit protection could allow Mr. Trump to avoid paying men of millions of dollars for the first three years of politics, the suit also claimed that the provision violated the clause of the Constitution, barring provisions from receiving financial benefits from no retaliation.

"Under the immunity order, career I.R.S. employees will become a member of the company audits of the president and his businesses, giving the president a lo391000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

On Tuesday, under pressure from two Republican senators who were holding up the conference on the matter general, Mr. Blanche released a document clarifying that the tax provisions would extend only to Mr. Trump. So two adult men said the Trump administration had no right to allow a affirmed that the measure would offer protection with against tax impact on the public.

Moreover, Mr. Blanche issued a letter saying the $1.5 billion fund had been dissolved — although critics pointed out that the victims of the state's district court, a hearing and were full of loopholes.

Last month, a federal judge in Florida denounced Mr. Trump's suit against the I.R.S. over the 2020 election and an improper act of self-dealing since the president was effectively on both sides of the claims. The judge, Kathleen M. Williams, accused the state's district court of the Justice Department, including Mr. Blanche, of seeking to manipulate the court system to lend a viewer of judgment to the original court. The court's decision was made of the final and the final provision.

Mr. Trump's lawyers have appealed that decision.

---

8

AIS

Mangione Is Facing Two Trials, but That Might Not Be Double Jeopardy

By BURCHEE NIEGO

Over since Luigi Mangione was accused of killing a health care executive, questions have been raised about whether he was being subjected to double jeopardy, which bars someone from being tried twice for the same offense.

Mr. Mangione's trial on state charges is scheduled for Sept. 8, and his trial on federal charges is scheduled for January. With jury selection in the state trial just weeks away, and news reports suggesting he was in talks to reach a federal plea deal, these questions about double jeopardy are resurfacing.

For prosecution with the Manhattan district attorney's office, the concern is that any plea-dealer on the federal case before their trial begins would threaten their prosecution.

One plea one is trec! Mr. Mangione declared in February as he was led out of a Manhattan courtroom in Nashville, Florida jeopardy by any common-sense definition:

Luigi experts, though, not that double jeopardy prosecution are not always clear cut.

The case is the only administrative term is defendant from double jeopardy, there are exceptions. According to the Supreme Court, federal and state governments are protective for the state conduct because they are considered independent of such other.

But New York provides strong-or protection for Mr. Mangione. Under state law, double jeopardy comes into play when a prior prosecution for the same conduct ends in a conviction by guilty plea or a resolution at trial.

The court's ruling of the two trials is crucial for the defense, said Ian Weinstein, a defense law-

yer and professor at Fordham School of Law. If the state case goes to trial first, a subsequent federal trial is not barred by double jeopardy, he said.

Mr. Mangione's federal case is scheduled to go to trial early next year.

Spokespeople for federal and state prosecutors and Mr. Mangione's lawyers all declined to comment.

Last month, And Seidemans, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney's office, wrote a letter to the state judge arguing that his office had "primary jurisdiction" over Mr. Mangione's prosecution because it had charged him first.

In a hearing earlier this year, Mr. Seidemans said that the health care executive's mother had asked federal prosecutors to allow the state trial—the only of the two is which Mr. Mangione is charged with murder—to go first.

Mr. Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's chief executive, Brian Thompson, as Mr. Thompson walked into a hotel to address the matter, to prepare for an invasion conference on the morning of Dec. 5, 2020. Mr. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges in case and federal court.

In the days after Mr. Mangione's killing, a nationwide man-hunt for the gunman-missed, Five years later, Mr. Mangione was arrested in Altoma, Pa., and riots in district in New York.

His arrest against further public interest—his every move was widely reported. When Mr. Mangione arrived in New York, he was led by a pleading of federal officials in a jury walk, accompanied by then Mayor Eric Adams.

As Mr. Mangione avoided an arraignment in New York State Court, federal prosecutors as-

Luigi Mangione is facing a state and a federal trial in relation to the killing of Brian Thompson.

monoed their own set of charges. One of Mr. Mangione's lawyers, Karen Friedman Appellin, called the deal charges a "highly unusual situation": She asked that when the district attorney's office announced charges against Mr. Mangione, there was no sign he would also be charged by federal prosecutors.

Mr. Friedman Appellin has argued that the two cases are a sign that her client is a pawn between the two powerful prosecutors' offices and that having to prepare for two trials simultaneously violates Mr. Mangione's due process rights.

The federal charges were

brought during the Biden administration, when the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said the state prosecutors were the true first. But shortly after, President Trump returned to office and his attorney general said she would seek the death penalty for Mr. Mangione, signaling her prosecutors were moving quickly to trial.

The judges were moving the state case and the federal case have such said they are proceeding as if the case is their court were the only one. At the February hearing, Justice Carrin said that federal prosecutors appeared to have "reseged on their agreement to allow

Law experts say the legal protection is not always clear cut.

the state that did most of the work in this case to go first."

Justice Carrin scheduled the state trial to begin before the federal law.

The two cases have narrowed over the past year, with Mr. Mangione's lawyers winning the dismissal of the most serious charges. But, Mangione is not charged with several weapons charges and second-degree mar-

der in state court. In federal court, he is not charged with murder but is accused of stalking, moaning prosecutors do not have to prove he killed Mr. Thompson, but that his actions led to the executive's death.

Even if Mr. Mangione's federal case is resolved first by guilty plea, state prosecutors may argue that their case — or perhaps of their case, depending on what charges Mr. Mangione pleads guilty to — can move forward.

In 2020, the Manhattan district attorney's office, then led by Co. v. N. Vance's case, was just that double jeopardy laws did not prevent the state prosecution in another high-profile case.

When Mr. Trump said he would further have been campaign chairman, Paul J. Manzler's, who was convicted in federal court for financial fraud, Mr. Vance's office, and a new charges Mr. Manzler's lawyers appealed, arguing that he was protected under the court's double jeopardy laws. The courts agreed, and the dismissal of Mr. Manzler's case led to a law charge in New York State.

In other cases, the court has called with prosecutors.

In 2004, a man with ties to the Governor's crime family was shot dead in Brooklyn. Nearly 10 years later, two men connected to the case were found guilty in federal court of murder in all of racketeering. Their convictions were overturned soon after.

But that did not stop state prosecutors in Brooklyn from making the men, said Paul Shechtman, a longtime New York defense lawyer who represented one of the men. New York's courts ruled the men could be tried again.

"It is incredibly complicated," Mr. Shechtman said if New York's double jeopardy law.

Spokane Arson Suspect Confessed to Other Fires

By PIASA SALVITRES

and ANNA GRIFFIN

Detectives in Spokane County, Wash., say the state accused of starting a fire this month that has destroyed certain 100 buildings has told them that he planned at arson two weeks in advance and was responsible for lighting two doors other fires since last year, according to new court records. The man, Aaron F. Fairbairn, 37,

retired," Michael Droperas, a detective for Spokane County, wrote in an affidavit.

According to an affidavit, Mr. Fairbairn told detectives that he had researched John Leonard Firs, a convicted arsonist, and purchased letters to make a device to ignite a wildfire. He told investigators that he decided to start the fire on Saturday because the strong winds, high temperatures and dry air were "about" according to the affidavit. Spokane County was under a nothing warning that this.

On Thursday, Mr. Fairbairn appeared in court with his lawyer, a public defender who requested a competency evaluation for his client, Preston McCallum, Spokane County's prosecuting attorney, agreed and also asked that the defendant's bond be raised to $2 million from $2 million in light of the additional charges. The judge granted the request. Mr. Fairbairn has not entered a plea yet, and his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.

In 2012, Mr. Fairbairn was convicted of manslaughter and aggrandized assault after he had initially been charged with first-degree murder in his father's death, according to court records from Maricopa County, Ariz.

Records show that Mr. Fairbairn's family shot his father in their home after an argument. He was also a member of the case, and is wrong to kill himself, records state. Court records showed a history of mental illness and treatment, but

Almosa 700 buildings were razed in the Old Trails fire. This month, three blazes in the region formed 65,000 people to evacuate.

Mr. Fairbairn was declared fit to stand trial. The murder charge was charged under a plea deal, and Mr. Fairbairn was released on probation in 2020.

At some point after that, he moved to Washington, where he lived with his brother and later his girlfriend. According to the affida-

vit, he had a son in May 2021 and then began smoking marijuana and "having trouble dealing with life issues."

Mr. Fairbairn told detectives he wanted the first fire on July 1, 2020, using a lighter, the affidavit states, and then went on to set more than two doors small fires

over that summer. In at least two cases, he ran into the police after starting a fire. A Spokane police officer who stopped Mr. Fairbairn in August 2021 after one incident lasted months. He was carrying matches, according to the court documents. Mr. Fairbairn told the police officer he did, for smoking

and jaundice.

According to the court documents, Mr. Fairbairn told detectives he had prepared in case he found secret after setting what would become the Old Trails fire. "He had a plan, if confronted, to pull a knife from his backpack and try to get the police to shoot him."

I man told detectives he said responsible for dozens of blazes.

was arrested on Monday after a resident told the authorities that he had sent someone acting suspiciously to tell press where the Old Trails fire began. Mr. Fairbairn was initially charged with one count of first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails fire, one of three blazes that forced the evacuation of more than 45,000 people to the Spokane region.

Mr. Wednesday, prosecutors said they would bring four additional arson charges against Mr. Fairbairn because they believed he had started other fires. The total charges is punishable by up to two or three times more than

the foils fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of

Retrial Ordered in Child Killing With Mental Health Parallels to the Lindsay Clancy Case

By JENNA ROSSELL

A woman serving two life sentences for murder in the killing of her man is Massachusetts secured a new trial on Thursday, at 24. Her lawyers argued that the defense should have been able to introduce medical records documenting her mental illness.

Lateralia Sanders, 35, was convicted in 2022 in the same county where Lindsay Clancy, 35, is now standing trial for murder in the 2023 strangulation deaths of her three young children. The same judge, William F. Sullivan, is presiding, and the same district attorney, Timothy Cruz, is prosecuting the case.

Like Ms. Sanders, Ms. Clancy is a parallel car guilty.

Her lawyer is arguing that she is not criminally responsible for her children's deaths because she suffered from postpartum psychosis and tuberculosis. It is true that ordered her to kill them and herself.

Ms. Sanders had no diagnosis of mental illness before outlining her children's age, and was willing about at their Brockton house in 2020. But she had become obsessed with the case. She was on the Illustrated and feared that it was trying to kill her and her children, according to court records of the case.

After her sons' bodies were dis-

covered at her apartment, she initially told the police that her oldest son and his father had killed them and that she had tried to stop the attack.

She later said the boys had been killed at part of a ritual undertaken to achieve "normal life," connected to the Illustrated.

A swampy psychologist who evaluated Ms. Sanders concluded she had been "grossly psychotic," with schizophrenia and other disorders, at the time of the killings, and lacked the capacity "to appreciate the criminality of her conduct."

But at her trial, Judge Sullivan ruled that details from Ms. Sanders's medical records could not be clear. The defense experts stated the prosecution first "opened the door" to such testimony.

The case was never not presented to the jury, which convinced her of two counts of first-degree murder.

A unanimous decision on Thursday's trial, the court's Supreme Judicial Court found that Judge Sullivan had improperly impeded Ms. Sanders's insanity defense by excluding details of her psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis.

According came on the eighth day of testimony in the trial of Ms. Clancy. Her case has arrived a long-running debate about the le-

Lateralia Sanders, left, was convicted of murder and sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole for the killing of her children. Lindsay Clancy, right, has pleaded not guilty.

A judge was found to have excluded details of a diagnosis.

gal systems's treatment of women should their children, 20 years of her relative form, a Texas medical was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the downing deaths of her five children.

Ms. Yates had been convicted of murder at her first trial; that ver-

dict was overturned on appeal. A retrial ended with a one guilty verdict, which has since been seen as a reference to public understanding of postpartum psychosis.

Robert F. Shaw Jr., the lawyer representing Ms. Sanders in her appeal, said in an interview on Thursday that her case involved the first amount of significant legal proceeding that was fundamentally unfair.

Among the information withheld from the jury in her case, according to the Supreme Judicial

Court's decision, were descriptions of symptoms she exhibited in the months after the killings, including paranoid delusions, insurgency speech and bizarre behavior such as biting windows. She also told clinicians that she had experienced auditory hallucinations for years.

The case was convicted on Dec. 27, 2022, and sentenced to two mandatory life sentences without possibility of parole. Just 28 days later, on Jan. 24, 2022, Ms. Clancy finally strangled her chil-

dren in the basement of the family's home in Duxbury, Mass., after her husband's family left to pick up their natural illness.

Mr. Cruz, the district attorney, and charged Ms. Clancy with first-degree murder, arguing that the killings of her children were carefully assessed, not the product of psychosis.

Ms. Clancy's lawyer and others have criticized the charges as extreme, given her sadness and sorcerer. The case did not ultimately unsuccessful spent before her children's deaths in that offense care for postpartum mental illness.

The information for Mr. Cruz said in a statement that the offense was reviewing the court's decision and would continue "to be a value for victims of crime, like injuries and a close illness," the children of Ms. Sanders.

Susan Markred, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, said that "the case is the case could have an indirect effect on Ms. Clancy's trial" by signaling that judges should err on the sale of admitting, rather than excusing evidence related to mental health.

Such action are notoriously difficult. Mr. Shaw said, because mental illness is "obvious, complicated and foreign to jurors."

---

A16

»

Election

El-Sayed Weighs In On His Michigan Win

Discussions With Democratic Detractors

By TIM BALE

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who won a divisive Democratic Senate primary this week in the crucial swing state of Michigan with an unabsolutely progressive message, has been flooded with calls from leaders of the party establishment he challenged during his campaign.

The same with Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic minority leader who had privately opposed him in the primary, about “taking back the Senate and taking on Trump” Dr. El-Sayed recalled. He had more than one conversation with Representative Haley Stevens after he narrowly debated her in the primary.

He also compared notes about campaigning in Michigan with former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the state in 2024. And he chatted with Sam. Jill Pritzker of Illinois, a billionaire and Mayor Zehner Mamdoni of New York, a democratic socialist.

In an interview at a coffee shop in Ann Arbor on Thursday, Dr. El-Sayed spoke about his victory, the way progressive candidates remained with young voters and some of the regrets he had about the bruising primary.

Asked about the possibility of becoming the first Muslim senator if he hears the Republican nominee, Mike Rogers, Dr. El-Sayed said, “I’m just interested in being the next U.S. senator from Michigan.”

He argued that Mr. Rogers was “corrupt” and had no “vision” for the country. (A spokeswoman for Mr. Rogers, Alyssa Brouillet, responded: is a statement saying that Mr. Rogers had spent his life “serving Michigan” and “reposing friends like Abdul El-Sayed.”) He said, “The largest additional Jewish Michigan residents who expressed concerns about his目的 of Israel, saying he was eager to speak to Jewish community members and that “I’m not sure how they’re feeling right now.”

He declined to say whether he would continue to campaign with House Place, a provocative screener and critic of Israel whose appearances with him on the campaign could become a blueprint. “Look, I’m just a lot more focused on who I’m campaigning to,” he said.

But he opposed eager to set his right on President Trump, who is unpopular and whom Democrats across the country hope to make the focus of the general election three months away. Mr. Trump has falsely described him and other Democratic candidates as communists.

Dr. El-Sayed said that the president had inherited his wealth and shown that he knew “nothing”

about capitalism. He added that he would critic a chance to debate Mr. Trump.

“My hair is real,” he said, adding, “mad my hands are way bigger than his.”

Below are excerpts from his interview, which have been conducted and edited for clarity.

Who have you heard from since one man? Anyone that surprised you?

My mom.

I hope that didn’t surprise you.

Nope.

What was your conversation like when Congresswoman Stevens called you?

We had a good, warm conversation. Obviously we had a hard-length campaign. And I think we were able to define our differences. But they’re far smaller than our similarities.

Was there anything that made your campaign unusual, tactically?

Coherence. I want to make sure that when somebody reaches our campaign — is any way they teach us — that our message is clear, it’s concise and it’s consistent. Even if you’re volunteering and you’re kneeling on our door, the message you’re focusing is about — money is of public, money is your pocket, Medicare for all — and this is why it matters to me. And as much as people want to promote or act like we had a personality-driven campaign, it wasn’t. It was driven by a message. I can walk into almost any room, and I can say: “Money out of!” and everybody’s like: “Publicity.” “Money in your!” “Picture.” “Medicare for!” “All.” People know what we’re about.

Can I ask you about young people? How have progressions from New York City to Ann Arbor succeeded in inspiring volunteers?

I think, again, it goes back to integrity. Are you who you say you are?

What do you think is the key to getting them to come out? To live overall? To volunteer?

I think they want to come out. I think they’re just not willing to come out for candidates and campaign that don’t seem consistent or —

So it’s the message?

It’s about the message more than anything else. Everybody focuses on style. I don’t think style matters, man. Everyone’s like, “Oh you campaign like a young person.” So, I campaign like a millennial dad. Because that’s what I am. Right? But I am consistent. I say

Jill Pritzker, 8th, New York, 1987

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed says progressive positions have been resurvating with young Democratic voters.

the same thing to everybody regardless of where I go.

It was a bruising race, even down to the end. Do you have any regrets about how —

Anybody wins from any life and says, “I have no regrets; to bring to you. Obviously, there are things that is hindsight, you would have done differently. But hindsight’s 20/20.

Mad, in hindsight, is there anything you can tell me; Oh, yeah, I wish I hadn’t said that?

At the end of the day, when you’re in the heat of a very intense primary, there are always going to be things that you wish you could take back. I wish there wasn’t $10 million of spending against us. I wish we could have just fully transacted the campaign on death and death. Obviously, I would have loved to just keep the focus on the contrast between what we were hoping to do and what our opponents were hoping to do. And if I

could go back and do it again, I would have just kept it on those contrasts.

What’s your message to Black voters going into the settlement? We have a clear opportunity to fight for the kind of America where all people, regardless of the color of their skin can thrive. That’s been the work that I’ve been committed to since I took the job as health director at 2013 in the City of Detroit. And I’m hoping to serve in the same way that I served in the City of Detroit and Wayne County to fight for communisties that are too often neglected and forgotten. That is the same that I have been doing for a long time. So I’m looking forward to continuing to build that relationship. Just like I have for the better part of 10 years.

There are Jewish folks in Michigan who say they’re anxious about some of your comments. They’re anxious that they could make them

less safe in Michigan. What’s your message to them?

My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of any new daughters, bothers/bless in a concept, and we need to address it in all its forms. And I’m looking forward to continuing to get around the state to listen to Jewish communities to understand how they’re feeling right now and to share what we hold in common, and what we have yet to fight for.

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

We you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you resurvating? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently affect our capital organization to市场经济 value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government

regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

How do you think Democrats contract the president saying they are communists? That’s one of his core arguments.

The man is so clearly a jaier, except he everybody’s afraid of him. I am not afraid of him. Right? I would be happy to debate him on anything, anywhere, surprise, on any issue, in any place.

If you hear Mike Rogers, you would be the first Muslim —

I’m just interested in being the next U.S. senator from Michigan.

Do you think it would be meaningful, though, for —

I think it’s any something about the state’s country in. There are a lot of people like Mike Rogers and like Donald Trump and like 10 Vance who want to define America as an being far smaller than I have. I think they are far more cured here, and yes, I have an uncommon name, which they’re going to point to a lot. And they want to make it seem like I can somehow see American because of my uncommon name. If anything, I know that America is big enough for people with names like mine, And I’ve seen it every single day Americans are big-hearted and unavoidable. They are asking what about how you pray than what you pray for.

What did this President Kamala Harris tell you?

She congratulated me on a race well run and compared notes about campaigning in Michigan. And I was grateful for her stomach. She showed a lot of perspective, I mean sitting in black seat, and we shared a good conversation about what it’ll take to win Michigan — keep Michigan in 2026 for Democrats for the Senate.

Zehner Mamdoni was asked about any yesterday. He said you could probably bench a lot more than two.

He’s better at soccer than I am.

Can you give me one word to describe Mike Rogers?

Just say!

Just one. Maybe two if — Corrige. Still worrying.

How about Haley Stevens?

Thank player.

Zehner Mamdoni.

New York.

Chuck Schumer.

One word?

Or two.

Progressive.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Inspiring.

Redrawn by Republicans, Tennessee Picks Candidates

By EMILY COCHRAN

NASHVILLE — Tennessee voters on Thursday settled on their congressional candidates for the November reeberess, the first batch of politicians to run after the state’s Republican legislature to drive them to resign their year.

The new lines slice through Memphis, where most of the state’s Black voters live, in a bid to eliminate the state’s only Democratic field seat. The map was approved in early May, shortly after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1963 by making it much better to drive district lines with race as a factor.

Here’s how the primary races turned out.

Embattled Ogles Loses In G.D.P. Primary Upset

The redeeming of district lines included an effort to shore up the way of Representative Andy Ogles, a firsthand conservative known for anti-Muslim District and unusual campaign finishers.

But Mr. Ogles, who had secured the district Trump's commission, lost to Charlie Hancher, a former Tennessee agriculture commissioner, to an agent in the Fifth Congressional District. Mr. Hancher was the Mayor Chair Master of Columbia. Soon, who won the Democratic primary.

Both Mr. Hancher's farm and Mr. Mulder's home were drawn just outside the district in May.

The district, which had included some of Black, American and surrounding Davidson County, now stretches west to include part of Memphis. Without Democratic votes in Nashville, Mr. Mulder has leased out his family's connections

Rep. Andy Ogles had his primary despite having been endorsed by President Trump.

to western Tennessee for the much higher rate ahead.

But Mr. Hancher is viewed as a younger opponent in a general election than Mr. Ogles, given Mr. Ogles's embattled reputation in the state and Mr. Hancher's support from more centrist, establishment Republicans.

Bitter Turns to Competit In Newly G.D.P. District

Tennessee's Ninth Congressional District, contends on the majority-Black city of Memphis, has long been represented by a Democrat, but leave Chiles, the longtime occupant of the seat, opted not to send re-election after Republican primary, given city authority a new district favoring their party.

State Representative Justin J. Pearson, who was national attention after he was briefly expelled from the legislature for protecting

State Rep. Justin J. Pearson looks to win despite recent Republican governmenting.

a lack of gun regulation in 2023, had already challenged Mr. Cohen when the district was solidly Democratic. Mr. Pearson decided he would still try his luck with the newly drawn lines. On Thursday, he defeated State Senator London Lamar, a Democrat backed by Mr. Cohen.

"I will always put you first," he told a caucose crowd in Memphis.

He will face State Senator Robert Taylor, a Memphis Republican who has rankled many Democrats in the city with his conservative views and his defense of the Trump administration. Mr. Taylor is limited to flip the seat.

"The voters chose a fighter who will never back down and who represents the values of this and drawn district — one that already showed its voters by supporting President Trump by a decisive margin," Mr. Taylor said in a statement.

Republican voters selected State Rep. Johnny Garrett. He is favored by one the next.

There is no love but between the two men from their time in their General Assembly. On Thursday, Mr. Pearson called the Taylor a "gimmicks borderline" while Mr. Taylor framed the seat as "the fight against evil."

Conservative Legislator Wins Open-Road Primary

The Sixth Congressional District, which includes part of Nashville, was left vacant when Representative John Ross, a Republican, and all alsoឈរល្អ for governor, State Representative Johnny Garrett, who lives in Goodlettsville, Savannah Nashville, was the Republican primary and is favored to keep the seat in conservative hands.

He will face Mike Croley, a better state park ranger and Navy veteran, who won the Democratic nomination.

Blackburn Wins Nomination For Governor in Tennessee

By EMILY COCHRAN

NASHVILLE — Senator Marshall Blackburn of Tennessee won the Republican nomination for governor of the state on Thursday. The Ass't of Press said, chasing the way for her likely election in November to be the G.D.P. fed state's first female governor.

Ms. Blackburn, N. Jumperl and the race of the state's 1960 Lviv, who is term-related, shortly after the won re-election to the Senate in 2024. While President Trump chose to stop out of the primary, Ms. Blackburn positioned herself as a Democratic with a series of procrastor-tremendoers endorsements and high fund-raising.

Ms. Blackburn pledged debates with her two primary opponents and faced some criticism for being limited public events and a move refusing to answer questions from reporters. But she said to bear her rivals, U.S. Representative John Ross and State Representative Jimmy Price.

Ms. Blackburn celebrated with the election in Knoxville, Tenn., finished by several other incumbent Republicans, including from the U.S. House and Tennessee General Assembly.

"Our work is much bigger than any one candidate or one campaign," she said, extending a new issue to our opponents' support, — "We absolutely have to utilize a party."

Ms. Blackburn, the first woman's proponent Tennessee in the Senate, has held a reputation and is able! Trump ally and hard-line conservative. She has taken an aggressive stance against social media companies and China, in a recent campaign ad, she unauded

former senator.

For governor, she has vowed to preserve Tennessee's conservative state: creating down an undecisive and misrepresentative and crime, reminding of Mr. Trump's agenda and keeping more and registration free.

She will face Jerry Green, a Democratic Memphis city councilwoman, in November. It is the first time to the state that either major political party has maintained a woman as their candidate for governor.

"Tennessee families deserve a leader who lights for groceries they can afford, world-class public

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, would be the state's first female governor of elected.

wheels, and health care that doesn't hastenge them," Ms. Green said in a statement. She added, "let's go make history again."

Tennessee voters were also choosing their nominees under new district lines after the fact that "we're in the back of the Voting Rights Act had led Republicans to make the congressional map. Republicans are hoping to flip what had been the state's best interests in the state, previously centered around Memphis.

Watch The Times.

NYTimes.com/Video.

---

3

A17

Election

Growing Number of Election Deniers Take Key Roles in Local Miderms

Trump Allies Track Race to Determine House and Senate

By NICK CORASANITI and ALEXANDRA KREIDY

In December 2026, Dodd Stirrup, the Trump White House liaison to the Justice Department, was barred from the agency's headquarters for pressuring staffers to give up sensitive information to support claims — ultimately unbranded — of election fraud.

Boughty a month later, Ms. Stirrup was appointed to the Prime William County electoral board in Virginia. Since 2025, she has served as chair of the board, which reverses elections in a majority Democratic county that touches two congressional districts.

Ms. Stirrup, who did not respond to a request for comment, is one of at least 25 county-level election officials who have taken office across the country since the last major federal election in 2024 and — through public statements or actions — have aligned with the broader election-demer movement, according to a Times review of a new database from Voting Rights Lab, a nonprofit voting rights organization.

These officials — ranging from Virginia to Ohio to Nevada — have all come to office since President Trump returned to power and all currently play roles in elections in counties that are home to key House, Senate or statewide midterm races this year. All have either publicly expanded labor-demotory theories that Mr. Trump own the 2020 election or that American elections are rife with fraud, or taken direct action to support these theories.

This range in election-despite officials adds to the ranks of at least 25 county-level already in office across different states, the database review, along with a New York Times analysis, shows. They include county election directors, decision of election boards, and members of various county governing boards with the power to canvass and certify the view. Most took office after the 2020 election, when Donald Trump and his allies began to ramp up their election fraud records.

Among these officials, of have taken direct action to interfere with elections, such as trying to delay or deny certification, or have direct ties to activist election-demer groups. Roughly 60 people provided a shared Encouragement social media — none reported and others just sent — specifically to elective elections in 2024 or supporting other conspiracy theories.

Some examples: In Nevada, Jim Hurdle, who was saddled on a chair, was serving a state elective in 2016 in a case that is still pooled up, has been the clerk in Henry County since 2022. In Arizona, Kathleen Connor, who said she would not have certified the 2024 election, took office in Carbon County in 2024.

These local officials could prove to be critical allies to the president as he seeks greater control over the electoral process in part, by comparing issues, to close the young midterm cycle for Republicans.

Tannery Patrick, chief programs

Zircony Vance and Sheriffy McNeill contributed research

T. T. TOLER, 2026

A range of election deniers hold offices overseeing or helping administer state and local elections, according to data from the Voting Rights Lab and a Times analysis.

officer for the National Association of Election Officials, said these officials' roles closed leading legitimacy to false theories. As warm, their could try to interfere directly with results.

"What we're voting now is the sort of thing that people have long worried about," Ms. Patrick said. Still, she added, such election in a terference to care.

There are thousands of local election officials across the country, and an examination of every local election worker is a most responsible task. The Times's review offers a look at a slice of a wide universe of officials, but the number of those with ties to the election-demer movement is larger. And the election subjects identified by The Times are still a fraction of the country's local election officials.

While their authority varies soon to state, many of these local officials have broad authority over election policies that directly affect voting, such as early voting locations. Others help maintain state voter lists, with the power to remove eligible voters from the rolls.

Election experts noted that the strength of the American electoral system is its decentralized nature, making a broad attack nearly impossible. But the growing number of activists serving in local election roles could create a significant disturbance, they said.

"Every state runs its own elections, under its own laws with its own local officials," said Samanta Tharaut, the chief executive of Voting Rights Lab. "There's no switch in the Oval Office that changes how an election turns out."

The list of local officials aligned with the election-dental movement continues a compilation by the Voting Rights Lab and adli-

tional analysis by The Times. Here are some examples.

A Wholesale Change In Power in North Carolina

No state in the country represented as much to never in election oversight as North Carolina. Last year, each of the state's 100 board of elections chairs flipped from Democratic Republican.

The change was the result of a state law, passed by a Republican supermajority that stripped the incoming Democratic governor of authority over the state election board and handed it to the andary's office, while was controlled by a Republican. The and/or was also empowered to replace the chair of every county board.

Attempts to change voting across happened quickly. Republicans sought to move early voting sites off college campuses and reduce Sunday voting, which officials in their parts called a blatant effort to make it harder for students and Black voters to cast ballots.

At least three new county chairs have connections to the North Carolina Election Integrity Team, a group of right-wing election activists who have at times expressed false conspiracy theories.

A founding member of the group, the DeLawy, is now an election board member in Lee County. Mr. DeLawy, a longtime election activist, founded his own group, Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina, in 2011.

Following the 2024 election for a state supreme court justice, Mr. DeLawy filed a complaint with the Wake County board of elections, arguing that ineligible voters could have made the difference in the race's outcome. He requested a new election. His effort failed.

This year, Mr. DeLawy has been at the center of efforts to restrict Sunday voting.

In an interview, he said he didn't think and workers should have to work that day. More broadly, he said, his aim was "be elections to be administered fairly".

In Antrim County, Mich., A Conspiracy Theory

This Republican-horny county in northern Michigan recorded only those action votes in 2024 that it remains a hotbed of election conspiracy theories.

On the night of the 2020 election, a small-prime caused the publication of incorrect results showing that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the heavily Republican county. The county's clerk at the time, Sheryl Coy, who had just 20,000 or two, bailed for Mr. Trump, explained her mistake and quickly corrected the tally. But then a round of lawyers and computer experts working to help Mr. Trump challenge Mr. Biden's win across the country descended on Antrim and produced a report claiming that the election there showcased errors in voting machines. The report was quickly debattled, but that didn't stop it from gaining ironic, governing motions in speeches from Mr. Trump and the office and in lawsuit things.

Eventually, the Antrim machine conspiracy theory was eclipsed by other falsehoods. But headly, the effects overthroated. In 2016, Mr. Coy lost her re-election race to Victoria Bishop. She wife of a far-right radio personality known as "Freder Randy" Bishop, Ms. Bishop, with support from her husband, had campaigned on the pillars of the election-dental movement, including claims of vast problems with dead people

on the voting rolls and the promise to train ownership clerks to hand-meant ballots.

Since today, office, Mr. Bishop and her husband have continued to ignite false theories.

This year, the began removing issues from the rolls and flagging others to local clerks in her region, according to the secretary of state's office. This came after she sent notices to voters she determined may have moved out of state or died. She said her analysis has based on change-of-address forms filed with the post office, along with a lack of voting in multiple elections. She ended in part for her analysis on a group run by election-dental activists, according to a statement by the group.

The Michigan secretary of state's office, run by a Democrat, Jocelyn Bremer, who is running for governor this year, explained to her that county clerks lack the authority to cancel voter registrations unilaterally and that her maintenance fails under the protection of clerks who work at the township and municipal level. In June, the state ordered her to take compliance training and cut off her access to voter records until she does. In addition, the Michigan State Police opened a criminal investigation in February after Mr. Bishop was spotted during a public meeting using Mr. Bishop's work computer, according to a copy of a police report viewed by the Times.

Ms. Bishop's office released a statement earlier this year from top her work as legal and necessary to ensure clean voter rolls. This initiative is the fulfillment of a specific mandate to rectify legal standing, vulnerabilities in the county's registration data," the statement said.

The Bishops have denied wrongdoing in the criminal study

ry and said that Mr. Bishop was waiting for his wife in her office and watching the board meeting at her work computer.

New Majority in Mohave

Stony Borrelli was one of the most vocal Republican state areas here in Arizona to protest the 2020 election.

He signed a letter to then-Vice President Mike Pence asking that he not certify the election. At other times, he called for it to be ratified.

Penned to retire from the state senate in 2025 because of torts limits, Mr. Borrelli was elected to the board of supervisors of Mohave County, a deeply red enclave along the western border. He joined two other board members: Ben Gould, who had expressed an interest in refusing to certify an election in 2022 but decided against it "under duress," and Travis Langenblom, who delayed his vote to certify the 2022 election, explaining at the time that he was making a statement.

Mr. Gould has long pushed for Mohave County to hand-count its ballots, a common goal of conservative election activists that many election officials say would introduce more errors, cost significantly more than tabulation machines and take weeks if not months to complete. In the end, Mr. Langenblom joined the two other members to reject a hand-counting proposal before the 2024 election.

But Mr. Gould has continued his push. In recent comments, he suggested that Mr. Borrelli and Mr. Langenblom might be open to supporting his effort to make hand-counting a requirement before the 2020 election.

Mr. Borrelli did not respond to requests for comment.

Some House Republicans Are Backing A Challenger in Mills's Re-election Bid

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

MI, MI — Representative Cary Mills of Florida is running for re-election in a solidly Republican district and has President Trump's endorsement. Yet two of his fellow Republicans in Florida's congressional delegation would prefer for him the upcoming primary election.

Representative Anna Paullin-Luna and Mike Hardeوشs took the care step of outdoing one of the big city counties, which, after inciting how vulnerable some Republicans consider Mr. Mills, who was investigated by the police in Washington, D.C., last year after a election in the district of annual. No charges resulted.

His former girlfriend was also granted a protective order against him. As a result of the various new comments, the former State Committee is also investigating. Mr. Mills has denied wrongdo-

tivous Cabreous contributed reporting.

ing. But he has struggled to raise money, and Democrats have targeted his seat northeast of Orlando, which Mr. Trump won by 12 percentage points in 2024.

Ms. Luna and Mr. Hardeوشs was not only an Elijah, a former vocal Vice President never, neither, who is one of those Republicans challenging Mr. Mills in the Aug. 10 primary.

We need leaders in Congress who serve with integrity, energy, and an unwavering commitment to the people who sent them there," they wrote in a joint statement on Wednesday.

Republicans have been betting about potential bounty by Mr. Mills and other embolted House members ahead of the November midterms.

Representative Chuck Edwards of North Carolina dropped his re-election bid this week after the House Ethics Committee recommended that he be censured for "persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct towards two

young female staffers."

Representative Max Miller of Ohio has been accused by his views, when the daughter of one of the state's Republican senators, a abuse against her and their young daughter. Mr. Miller has denied the allegations and vowed to remain in his re-election law.

Mr. Miller's office did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday. "I've never been charged at an actual crime or non-dominant," he said in a debate on Wednesday night. "I've never actually had a long life of any one."

Ms. Luna, of St. Petersburg, Fla., is one of several Republican senators who have had a hand-betting the resignation of lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct.

"He is willing to put himself before his people, and he is willing to put himself before the party," she said of Mr. Mills as an interview on Thursday. "I don't want to serve with people like this."

Mr. Hardeوشs, whose district

Representative Cary Mills of Florida has been accused of assault and is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee

includes Copy Cannerist, an Florida's Space Coast, and it as time-time on Thursday that he had hoped Mr. Mills, like Mr. Edwards, would abandon his re-election for Republicans cannot risk solidly Republican seats in a midterm year expected to be officials for the party and Mr. Hardeوشs a former president of the Florida State Senate who also used to run political campaigns.

"If Congressman Mills is our

nominee, we will lose the seat," he said, adding that Democrats will spend merely to emulate voters about Mr. Mills's "challenges."

"If you Google his name, there's just one story after another," Mr. Hardeوشs said. "I can do the math on this one."

Hears after Ms. Luna and Mr. Hardeوشs endorsed Mr. Elijah on Wednesday. Mr. Mills debated his three opponents for the first time. Mr. Elijah and another can-

A candidate struggles to raise money, and Democrats have targeted his seat.

didate, Michael Dan Johnson, repeatedly raised Mr. Mills's controversies; when asked if they disagreed with Mr. Trump on anything, Mr. Johnson went as far as to say that Mr. Trump made "a mistake" in endorsing Mr. Mills.

Mr. Mills remained forty in his expenses, casting himself as a fighter and mentioning Mr. Trump's endorsement at least five times. "I've never spent about what the swamp wants or the swamp needs," he said. He received plenty of applause in the debate, which was heated by the Victoria County Republican Party.

Mr. Elijah said during the debate that the Seventh Congressional District is one that Republicans "should win."

"We have to make the Light choice Aug. 30," he said. "to make sure the person that wins this next wins in November."

Mr. Elijah's campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

---

A18

What started as a fun if not earnest protest in the World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, Ore., gradually became one of the marquee events in a summer cycling calendar.

When Pedaling Naked, It's a Protest and a Party

From Page A1

prioritized protesting and refused any traffic management help from police. The result: Two naked rides.

"I personally can't go on a bike ride that's a protest that involves the police," said Maryland Moss, a Portland bicyclist who helped launch the alternative ride. "It does not make any sense at all."

At the U.S. ride two weeks ago, however, the mood suggested that celebration and protest need not be metatally exclusive.

The prize were honoured with disco balls, elaborate lighting and speakers hooking pop music. Kid on its various stitches of uniform played hasty nails, juggled and danced alongside a nachos trough.

"To be able to do something like this, on a beautiful night, it's a celebration of being alive," said Mike Bonner, who has participated with his husband for more than a decade.

In many riders, that joyful sense of community, and the unapologetic embrace of every imaginable body type, is itself an act of resistance.

"I see people with scars. People who've gone through huge weight loss. People in the realm of transforming," said Minda Bruner, who attended with friends. "No one is walking around in body dysfunction."

The newer ride, scheduled for Saturday night, will have a similar mix of route of body-painted riders on bikes that have been discussed and brightly in.

But it does not include any police protection and is planned to begin with speakers reminding participants that they've gathering to oppose fossil fuel dependence, the power of oligarchs and large oil companies, and the vulnerability that many cyclists and pedestrians feel in a world built for care.

They will also bike through the

packing garage of a mall stated for demolition to protect its redevelopment.

"There is a big difference between a bunch of people getting together and having a party and a

bunch of people getting together to have a protest with a common cause and a common conscience," Maryland Moss said.

"That's not so suggest protest can't be joyful. Last fall, the newer

The modern bicycle protest emerged with gay rights activism and other direct action in the 1970s. In time, confirmation shifted to collaboration.

organizers called an emergency service rule to protect federal immigration enforcement and the threatened use of National Guard troops in Portland.

Several thousand people, many made except for those district parishes, predated through a classroom to the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement building to join people engaging in a more traditional protest.

As federal officers watched from the roof, none putting down their weapons to take iPhone phones, a token party broke out.

The speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, later quipped that Portland's naked cyclists were "the most threatening thing I've ever during demonstrations against immigration enforcement around the country.

"I mean, it's getting really ugly," he said, possibly tongue-to-tone.

The modern bicycle protest emerged alongside gay rights activism, environmental justice campaigns and other direct-action interventions in the 1970s.

Over time, though, many bicycle advocates shifted from confrontation to collaboration, working with city planners to build protected bike lanes and sales streets. In places like Portland, bicycling itself gradually became less a symbol of rebellion than of good urban planning and, some critics argued, grandfiscation.

"That's part of this dichotomy within bicycle advocacy," Ms. Luge said.

Jonathan Moss, a journalist who has chronicled Portland's cycling culture for decades, said not orders may be existing the bigger picture when it comes to the competing rides.

"To me, having a community where naked bike riding is still this powerful, connected, absurd, wonderful thing, that shows a healthy culture," he said. "It should be celebrated and studied, not scuffed at."

In El Niño Twist, West Coast Receives Warning to Brace for the Hurricane Season

By JUDSON JONES

Two months into the Atlantic hurricane season, the United States has largely been against, with only two storms, Arthur and Bertie, having power strong enough to merit normal names. That's about what meteorologists expected when they said the year's hurricane season would probably see fewer storms than most other seasons.

Off the West Coast of North America, however, things look a little different: There have been seven named storms since the season began. The most recent, Greenview, became a Category 3 hurricane in late July, the strongest storms in the region in nearly two years.

On Wednesday, experts with the National Hurricane Center were monitoring a few clusters of thunderstorms roughly halfway between Mexico and Hawaii, each of which had some chance of becoming a named storm in the next week.

Storms that form in the Pacific generally move west, away from manfaced North America. So although Greenview was especially intense, it was also nearly mornings as it moved through open waters.

But thanks to El Niño, the Pacific Ocean fares a higher than normal risk of hurricanes this

year. There is an increased likelihood that a major storm will break from this predictable path and strike California, Mexico or Hawaii, federal meteorologists have warned.

"The ones that turn are a challenge, for a number of reasons," said Jamie Rhame, the deputy director of the National Hurricane Center.

The last El Niño season, in 2022, produced several extreme storms that did just that: Hurricane Otis, Hilary and Norma, each of which created what Mr. Rhame called a "nonsaging conundrum" for the Hurricane Center, which is indeed with explaining complex threats to a population that is largely unfamiliar with hurricanes.

2026 Forecast

Two regions can potentially affect these areas: the Eastern Pacific, and the Central Pacific. In their predictions this spring, forecasts are at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said both were likely to experience above-average seasons. The Eastern Pacific, which is closest to California and Mexico and traditionally experiences 15 named storms, could expect between 0 and 22 this season; the Central Pacific, surrounding Hawaii, could look forward to between five and

13 named storms or depressions, compared with its typical four or five.

Risk to California

While tropical systems are exceedingly rare in California, El Niño seasons do occasionally steer them north toward the state. In 2025, Hurricane Hilary prompted its first-ever tropical storm watch, sparing the immediate coast but unknowing historic flooding that filled Death Valley for months with a lake.

Only two known tropical systems have made direct landfall in the state. An El Niño-fueled tropical storm hit Long Beach in 2020, killing nearly 100 people and destroying coastal property, according to the New York Times archives. Before that, a hurricane struck San Diego in 2018 during a period of unusually warm coastal waters. While Hilary in 2023 technically made landfall in Mexico, it still brought tropical storm conditions to Southern California and caused enough flooding in Death Valley to close the park for the longest duration in its existence.

Hurricanes require six-surface temperatures of at least 28 degrees Celsius, or 78 degrees Fahrenheit, to maintain their intensity. California is typically attacked by a band of cold coastal water that

saps a storm's energy.

Jonathan Jisk, the meteorologist-in-charged at the National Weather Service in San Diego, said earlier in June that coastal temperatures remained well below that critical threshold, but that the staff would be monitoring them closely. Sea temperatures in Southern California have warmed since that time, with a marine heat wave off the coast that is predicted to last through the end of the year. Yet as of this week, surface temperatures in the area stood slightly below the most intense records and the level needed to support a hurricane.

Risk to Hawaii

An outlook of five to 13 Central Pacific systems is "a significant forecast" and David West, a meteorologist with the Weather Service in Honolulu. The heightened risk arrives as the islands recover from record-setting spring rains. The storm between August on how powerful El Niño becomes ahead of the region's peak hurricane months, which opened in July and last through September.

Everything has been can be dangerous. In 2021, the winds from Hurricane Ono, which passed for south of the islands, helped fuel the catastrophic Labiatae wildfires on Maui. In 2024, Hurricane

Stone passed within 60 miles of the Big Island, cutting power to thousands and snapping native trees.

Yet landfalls remain noncontrollably rare. Since 1995, 39 hurricanes have passed within 100 miles of Hawaii, but only two in directly Hurricane Out in 1959 and Hurricane Iniki in 1993. Both stretching neutral weather patterns and not El Niño seasons. Even during a particularly strong El Niño in 2015, when 14 storms occurred the basin, Hawaii never had to issue a hurricane warning.

Risk to Mexico

Mexico faces the highest risk because it borders the basin's warmest waters. While most Eastern Pacific storms move west into open water, some curve back toward Mexico's extensive coastline.

The primary anxiety for forecasters is rapid intensification. During the 2023 El Niño season, Hurricane Ono exploded into a Category 1 storm overnight before devastating Acapulco.

"This is the classic signature storm that keeps you up at night," Mr. Rhame said. "A rapid movement right at the coastline and overnight."

'Every Storm Is Different'

Forecasters worry recent near-

misses that didn't produce much lasting damage, such as like Hilary in California or Hene in Hawaii, will travel completely.

"People often use the last storm they experienced to dictate how they worked," Mr. Rhame said. "Every storm is different."

A lower-than-normal forecast for the Atlantic could also fall residents into a false sense of security. Even though the projected storm coasts there equal those of the active Pacific, Mr. Rhame, who lives in Florida, isn't taking chances. He is already checking his emergency supplies and testing his generators.

In California, Mr. Sisk explains that the storm's residents and weather experts have a very distinct, multi-pronged preparedness culture.

Unlike their East Coast counterparts, who primarily focus on hurricanes, California meteorologists and emergency officials have to balance tropical threats against a constant backdrop of other extreme hazards, including earthquake and wildfires.

"Hilary was definitely something that surprised a lot of folks," Mr. Sisk said. "Here is the National Weather Service and those that work in emergency strategies, and always knew that there's a chance that happens, and it's one of the things that we do train and we do prepare for."

---

9

A19

He Trained for Years to Stop a Shooting. In Idaho, He's a Reluctant Hero.

From Page A1

mains chuked in mystery. The police said the family of the gunmen, Chad Williams, is cooperating with investigators. Some local residents, lacking every branch about a motive for the shooting, have turned their attention to what they consider the tragedy's silver lining. But Mr. Salinas and another man had drawn their own guns and fired at Mr. Williams, slowing his rampage and leaving him to retreat before he started himself.

Mr. Williams grew up in Waldell, Ariz, and eventually moved to Twin Falls. Records show he attended the College of Southern Idaho for at least a year and served as a student smaller until he was impeached by his colleagues in February 2023 after missing several of the group's meetings; Little team is publicly known about Mr. Williams, who has kept a fairly anonymous profile.

Mr. Salinas had also been living a largely anonymous file, taking care of his disabled older brother in a small home surrounded by farmland just outside Twin Falls. Overnight, he went "from after-city to being like a neon sign," as he put it this week.

"I am now pass him and book in approval. Strangers bag him. In line for coffee at Zara on Blue Lakes Boulevard, a stranger approached and asked if he could take a picture beside him. "I would know if this is appropriate," the man said, pulling out his phone.

'Get Down!'

Mr. Salinas and his girlfriend had been on their way to visit a trumpet, horses on Aug. 1, when they decided to grab a burger at the new In-N-Out, an outpost of the California chain that had opened a week earlier.

Pulling into a neighboring lot, they saw people sprinting from the restaurant. "Who there's for?" Mr. Salinas wondered. Then he heard the crack of a rifle. Then more. Mr. Salinas behind toward the sound without a word to his girlfriend.

He took cover behind an In-N-Out sign and then moved to another, opening Mr. Williams, a young man with black hair, and with a black hair. He had no recoded seeing the gunman rules his rifle and fire at one at a snapping.

Mr. Salinas had trained for this moment for years, studying videos of drills online in case he ever heard a person his brother and others from a potential main shooting. He had been shooting guns for even longer — since he was in

Meta Spots contributed reporting: Kirsten Noyes contributed research.

grade school, he said, if not before. Back then he shot as a broken musician in the backyard. Over the years, he had drawn his gun only at targets. He had long wondered about how he would trust to an active shooter. Now, he was holding down his sight at another man.

He raised his backpart. Inside the In-N-Out, former Tucker, 21, covered on the restaurant's floor. Menomone, earlier, and her 16-year-old brother had been about to cut their double-double hangers. Then they heard about — "Get down!" — and they dropped to the floor. Taking cover under the table, they found gambits. Mr. Tucker recalled scanning the scene and opening a young girl, maybe only 2 years old, who accepted Zambra to the chaos. Her parents were exploring her to stop moving, Mr. Tucker said.

The gamblers continued. They began to sound cheer — and heard. Not and her brother saw a side-door, and decided to run for it. As they left, she spotted a car in the restaurant's drive-through with shattered windows.

A Gunman's Flinch

Mr. Salinas's years of training took over. Video captured by a first-stander shows him locked in the moment — his knees bent slightly, since extended straight, supper-

car attached to the barrel. His gun, 4.5,700mm pistol, commonly called a "fire-seven," is known for its minimal result.

He was so focused that there are some details he recalled only days later when he returned to the scene for the first time. But he remembered this: He saw the gunman flinch.

Mr. Salinas thought it was possible that one of his own hinders had struck or gruard the shooter. But he known it is also possible that the gunman was simply reacting to the sound of events for. Either way, Mr. Salinas said, the gamble changed the shooter's demeanor. He seemed to be panick-

ing.

"Something outside of what he had anticipated was now untidily," Mr. Salinas said in an interview. "As I was watching him and taking them at him, I could set the head of those where I was."

The gunman ran toward the Twin Falls Visitor Center at the edge of the Snake River Canyon, usually a gathering point for sightseers and BLMs, jumpers preparing to parachute off the city's personal portion's fringe. Mr. Salinas moved behind a grouping of murders, a hiding place where he had a better angle. He first spoke, but Mr. Williams disappeared behind some Trolas.

When a man opened for six customers at a new In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, Jordan Salinas drew his own gun and shot at the gunman.

Sons. Mr. Salinas heard police stress and saw him before. He had stored his gun and helped direct others toward where he has seen the shooter. He then turned back toward the In-N-Out and saw someone pulling a wounded employee from the restaurant.

The Twin Falls police chart last praised Mr. Salinas and others, and man who returned fire, an off-duty Idaho state stranger who has yet to be identified. The chief said the men had helped drive the gunman and the personnel were using. Others also praised their actions.

"There were a lot of forces that day," Asher Rahman, an In-N-Out outpost, said, "we working during the shooting, said by text," including all of the officers, civilians even co-workers who made it longer, to help others."

A third man, Austin James, a former police officer, also ran to continue the shooter. Although Mr. James was armed, he initially said emotionally — she not died. His weapon, he said, He had burned being confused for the gunman. When Mr. James rounded a car

car, he encountered Mr. Williams, who shot him in the upper arm, shattering his bone and severing an artery.

"He didn't say or do anything," Mr. James said in a text message from the hospital, where he has been since the shooting. "Just had a blank stare on his face."

Once wounded, Mr. James said he drew his gun and tried to fire, but his gun was without a round in the chamber. He said he was trying to chuckle a round when his wife and her friend — both emergency room nurses — found him and pulled into back to the car, where they began to treat his wounds.

Old Routines, New Grief

In the wake of the shooting, many of the grief-citvices went back to familiar routines. Mr. Tucker punched into her own face food job, at home, just a few hours after he was circumled on the floor of the In-N-Out. Chain restaurants nearby, just steps from where the gunman had torn through the parking lot, even back to business, and the shopper began to plug out their gear on the grass by the visitor-rearer again.

Mr. Salinas returned to parts of his daily life, too. He potted them, watched Tuckster-Values and picked up coffee at his goats cafe. He has struggled with what to say, what to feel and what to think about those who try to claim that. A customer is their political tribe. Yes, he's grateful for Idaho's gun laws, which allow more people to carry a coerced-gun without a license. And he hopes other people consider using everything's guns and learning how to respond to a similar attack.

Mr. Salinas, a two-door/dual-himself at "pro-brookers" said he were about politics. But in that moment in the In-N-Out parking lot, politics was the last thing on his mind.

"The people in there, I couldn't tell them how they voted, or if they voted," he said.

Mr. Salinas's father, Hector, said he had long questioned his son's need to know the lesson with a gun. Now, he just done peace.

As Jordan Salinas stood in the office deep Wednesday after the shooting, he was forced to be in the three victims, the youngest of whom was an In-N-Out employer from California helping to train the new stuff.

He also found about the gunman. He wished they had come into to face years earlier, instead of last week, Maybe. Mr. Salinas wondered, he could have taught Mr. Williams how to channel his rhinemen into playing the guitar, or helped him game, or write a book. Maybe they could have met in some other way, may way, or not.

"I didn't want to be there," he said. "I didn't want to do that."

Puerto Rico Plans to Begin Rationing Water as Drought Conditions Persist

By DAVID OSAJLE and LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZ

SAN JUAN, PR — Actress Puerto Rico, residents are being forced to begin showers and housecleaning.

A restaurant owner in San Juan collects condemation from an air-conditioning unit or咖啡馆 can use the water to flush toilets.

When away in the town of Latao, residents flock to Peter Pablos, who weaves his lumber truck through narrow streets of the buckets, storage bins and plastic bottles, firebrights and sick residents depend on him.

"Everyone knows me already, and I know where everyone is," said Mr. Pablos, 34, who delivers about 10,000 gallons of water daily for a private water company-discarded by the island's government.

Similar system are unfolding in other parts of Puerto Rico, as it plunges into yet another water crisis driven by fragile infrastructure, and that has been worsened by a recent drought.

In June, a major pipeline report, affecting the quality for man of thousands of customers in the San Juan area. The pipeline was later fixed, but the interruptions permitted.

In the same time, more than half of the archipelago is experiencing moderate to extreme drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The San Juan area is connected with the local July in more than a century, said Emaneel Rodriguez, a National Weather Service byshielding it.

The compounding problems have not been updated on the Puerto Rican government's inability to reliably provide basic services, deepening frustration among residents already plagued by regular power वरages.

This week, Gov. Jennifer González-Colón of Puerto Rico has been asked to end up the island-wide state of emergency, leaving an Friday, the island's water authority was scheduled to put in place over rationing measures by the end of winter, a rotating 48-hour periods in parts of San Juan and surrounding areas.

Ms. González-Colón urged con-

A resident of Torrecilla Baja, PR, filling a water tank from a cistern truck this week. Residents say their water stopped flowing in June, the result of a fragile infrastructure compounded by drought.

servation, saying that waiting cars, watering plants and loosing down driveways "limits our ability to maintain water availability in the metropolitan area."

But residents have said little patience for the government's response and what they say is a lack of communication. At a small protest in San Juan this week, Alfredo Cuyaz, a 66-year-old retired area-

tion executive who lives in an upscale part of the Santaniz neighborhood, said his water service had been terrible for more than a year — long before the drought.

"Not even after Hurricane Maria did we lose our water service," Mr. Cuyaz said of the 2017 storm that also devastated the island's electricity grid.

Water was an melting one for

the U.S. territory of some than three million residents that has long contended with her water pressure and spotty service. Drought prompted more water cuts than 2015 and 2020.

Government officials and experts blame it had of investment and maintenance in the island's aging water infrastructure. Miss Apadre Ortiz, a water manage-

ment expert in Puerto Rico, says that up to 60 percent of the water in the island's system never makes it to customers.

"There's an emphasis in producing more water and in rehabbing the big infrastructure," Mr. Apadre Ortiz said. "Not for so much in updating pipes."

This spring, he mayor of San Juan need the Puerto Rico legal aid and honor Authority over its inability to deal with water matters.

The authority did not return to, openly be contested.

Mr. Rodriguez, the byshingian with the Weather Service, said that this system of false weather patterns and a valid tropical storm season were making it difficult to predict when enough rain might replenish reservoirs.

"It could be free or no weather before normal precipitation, not only as hot all of the storm north east Caribbean," he said.

The Puerto Rico National Guard, embraced by emergency declarations, has distributed nearly 600,000 gallons of water, mostly in the San Juan region. Officials are offering grants of up to $5,000 for small businesses in the or rent water trucks or to buy both that water, cisterns and tanks, among other equipment and services.

But called these basic plans has become the misery of residents like Mandy Malani, 43, a hard worker who says she has gone 90 consecutive days without running water in her Santaniz apartment.

To save water, she cocks, cleans and flushes into often. Ms. Malani is lucky that her pie sometimes and does her to bottle in their rooms.

The anxiety of lacking him left her mentally wrecked, she said. "I feel like I need therapy" Ms. Malani said.

The storm is also hampering the island's vital tourism and hospitality industry.

Tourists are now searching trips, said Isaac Rodriguez and his wife, named, who are an Airfield in San Juan and are trying to open a barclays hotel. Construction on these rooms has been stalled, in part, because there isn't enough space to add resources, Mr. Rodriguez said.

The David Santin, the restaurant owner in San Juan who collects air-conditioning condemation for his customers, is in "daily state of stress and uncertainty as a business owner."

The water is made into his Toyota Corolla 35 gallons of water from home and force them in his restaurant, Melimo Lido, so that staff members can risk bicycles such as the mashed placenta dish and bag.

"You start getting used to this store, to this residents reality, just I'm still surprised that this is the case," said Puerto Rico," Mr Santin said.

RELIGIOUS SERVICES

JOHN C. CLARK, JR.

JOHN KIRKIN CORP'L

California Trustees

Center

P.O. Box 1111, New York, N.Y. 10001

Ph: (212) 774-4000

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

www.cclark.com

Corrections

ARTS

An article on Thursday about associations of plagiarism and embellishment against home sinfuls. A University of Cambridge professor, ministerial for position that Nathan Cotton held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the way a research institution, not a fellow.

A picture caption with an article on Friday about a Morgan Li-

brary & Mooney exhibition exploring the 6th-year evolution of tents misidentified a tents card. It was the Ace of Bannas, not the Ace of Blades.

OBITUARIES

An Overlooked obituary on June 1 about Nancy Mening, a Hong Kong photographer whose work often centered on women, mis-

stored Mening's date of birth as well as her age at death. She was born on Oct. 18, 1955, out Oct. 4, and she was 65, not 64.

An obituary on Friday about Vicki Wickham, a federal-the-women force in popular music who helped everyone the influential British television showcase "Ready Ready Out!" contained the month of Ms. Wickham's

birth. It was March 1939, not April.

Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so new errors need here may not have appeared in all editions.

Contact the Newcomers

To contact the newcomers regarding corrective requests, please email correct.torac@nytimes.com.

---

A20

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

Emidio Pepe 94, Dies; Used Natural Methods For Gorgeous Wines

By ERIC ASIMOV

Emidio Pepe, an alternative grower and winemable in the Abruzzo region of Italy whose statuably traditional vetrastats and advocacy for indigenous grapes demonstrated that the area could generate great wines without abandoning relentless-used local methods, died on July 28 at his home in Terano Nuovo, Italy. He was 94.

The death was confirmed by his granddaughter Chiara De Iulia Pepe.

Emidio Pepe wines are prized around the world for their ability to age for decades and gain com-

Emidio Pepe in 2011. "He became an icon of the modern natural wine movement."

picuity over time. The latest vintages of the rich might sell for around $150 a bottle, but the Pope family plenty here back a supply to release with additional aging; these wines were considerably more expensive.

They needed that time in the fields. When the rich, made from the montopaliana grape, were-masted, roughly four years after the vintage, they were tight and neurotic for reasons indeed by the heart's wife of Amelia.

With 20 years of age, though, the wines became complex and more. After 30 years, they were gorgeous.

The wines, made from rich-biana Abruzzese or peacates, also aged well but were much more accepted in their own youth, beautifully textured and taken.

Before Mr. Pepe and his contemporary Eduardo Valentán, who died in 2006, began making a plan, the world was "stingeless that heddes from Abruzzo could age and develop. Mr. Pepe began his estate in 1964, using mostly grapes from the country's vineyards. He was the first at his family to commercially heddes wine, to his father's countervictory.

Like most of the small farmers in Abruzzo, the Pope's made only a small amount of wine for their

own consumption. Mostly, they sold their grapes to the local temperature at the big companies, which generally made cheap, indifferent wines. Now, Mr. Pepe would have the challenge of finding buyers for his own wines.

This would not be an easy task, as Abruzzo was not respected for its wines. The official appellation for the rich, Montopaliana (Abruzzo, did not even exist until 1868. The Trebbiano d'Abruzzo appellation began in 1873 and an appellation for peacates didn't become official until 2009.

Many in Italy in the 1870s and '80s believed that in order to achieve international success, winemakers in places without expansions, the Abruzzo, would have to adopt French grapes like cabernet sauvignon, merlot and chardonnay, as well as French methods, like aging wine in old barrels and farming grapes in trellises, rather than training the vines high on the traditional pengolan.

And when the Montopaliana (Abruzzo) appellation was coined, bureaucrats in the wine trade steered that the wines were simple and best consumed young.

Mr. Pepe rejected all these actions, and believed in the greatness of the montopaliana grape and set out in demonstrate, using traditional methods, that he could make wines that matured and evolved.

"From an early age, Pope returned the idea that the grapes and wines at the same would be used all in bulk or that they were simple liquid, obtained so far dried, young," Robert V. Camaro, the author of the 2011 book "Hands of the World: Wines, Pines and the food of Italy" said in an interview.

To tell the wines, Mr. Pepe intended relentlessly, promoting them at coming and therein around the world. Early on, the final wine consortium excluded him from a trip to New York because his winery was too small – as Mr. Pepe bought his own grape when and when, and only a parentage of itself.

For a man who had dropped his name and left aged 42 (in love) to agriculture, did not speak English and preferred the Abruzzese dialect to Italian, it was quite unendernaling.

"Traveling the world in the best education," he told Mr. Camaro. "That was my education, that and reading the newspaper."

Mr. Pepe was here a question Pepe: "July 21, 2012, in Tondo Nuovo, to Giuseppe and Chiara (Emilio) Pepe. His father was a farmer, and his mother managed for household.

Officially registered by a relative as Emidio – after his grand-father, as well as the patron and of protection from earthquakes, an ever-present danger to Abruzzo – he was known publicly

from school age by that name. After dropping out of school, he was a member of the school, as he was an agricultural contractor, reading others' farms as well as their own. As a teenager, aware of his educational shortcomings, he took overcapsulated, and taken in Italian and, later, agriculture.

In the mid-1970s, he told Mr. Camaro, he and a brother-in-law bought a tractor – one in a firearm in those days – and

Traveling the world was his education. That and reading the newspaper.

farmed for others.

"By the time we paid for the control, it was wise and and time to buy a new one," he said. "It was then that I understood it was going to find another way to make a living."

He became the chairman of a lo-

cial association of farmers' that, in 1980, sent him to the Netherlands for a remodeling, agricultural exchange program. He stayed with a family that grew table grapes in a bedroom and sold them at a premium to Italy, which amount him, because Italy had so many grapes of its own.

"It realized you had to create a market," Mr. Pepe told Mr. Camaro. "If you don't create a market, you are dead."

Inspired by the experience, he set about going full time into the wine business, making the complete transition in 1984. It proved to be an auspicious year in which Mr. Pepe also met and married a local schoolteacher, Beau Togin.

In addition to his granddaughter, she survives him, along with three daughters, Sofia Pepe, Daniela Pepe and Stefania Pepe; two sisters, Iaco Pepe and Islanda Pepe; and six other grandchildren.

Sofia and Daniela Pepe now run the business side of the operation. Since 2020, his granddaughter Chiara has directed the viticulture and winemaking.

In a fitting twist, Chiara Pepe

Mr. Pepe's wines are prized for their ability to gain sophistication over time. After 20 years, his end wines became complex and graceful. After 50 years, they were gorgeous. Left, Mr. Pepe and his wife, Beau, in 2010. The business has stayed in the family.

was hired last year to also oversee television and winemaking at the name de la Chapelle, a historic Hermitage estate in the northern Rhône Valley of France.

Mr. Pepe farmed organically, avoiding financial tertileies, with he also and pesticides when they were the norm. When others were adapting trellises in the vineyards, he insisted on the traditional grapes, particularly for the red grapes.

"I attended always said," he, "when at the Montopaliana farms only on people," Chiara Pepe said. "I was not going."

In the cellar, he insisted on the gestion techniques, de-mounting the montopaliana grapes by hand rather than using a machine, which he said gave the wines his for tannins. White grapes were crushed by foot rather than by a wine press. And the wines were aged in concrete cars lined with glass, which he preferred because they did not impart the taste of wood, as the popular and harmful often did.

"Because he farmed organically, and avoided modern winemaking, technologies, he became an icon of the modern natural wine movement," Mr. Camaro said. "But Pepe was not disengaged. He simply believed that his techniques gave his wines their best qualities."

For years, Abruzzo continued to supply mostly cheap, medium-wines, except for those produced by Mr. Pepe and Mr. Valentán, whom the wine writer Matt Kramer in 1964 called Abruzzo's "random economic pressure." But in the years since, a younger genera-

tion of small producers, influenced by Mr. Pepe's example, has made Abruzzo one of Italy's most exciting regions.

"I respected and admired his bravery and courage in pushing forward his ideas and philosophy, even though they were not so popular," said Christian Farrow, who manages the superb Titanic estate in Abruzzo with her brother, Antonio Tiberti. "He defended a natural, editorial approach, leading an example that required new generations of winemakers in Abruzzo and abroad."

For visitors to the Pepe estate, teachers were a special treat. Three or four generations of the family would gather around the table, provided over by Mr. Pepe, then wearing a driving cap and reading a glow of commonsense.

Their would come a procession of dishes, often including vegetables from the Pepe garden, dressed in olive oil from the Pepe first-grown, and pastic made from eating an orange for tea, all prepared by Beau Pepe, even well into her life. Now Pepe wines would be tanned and old bottles opened. If you happened to visit near the holidays, you might take part in the annual tasting of pasteuress, shipped from all over Italy, and asked to join in the spirited fashion over which was the best.

Even as Mr. Pepe grew older and delegated much of the work around the estate, he walked through the times daily.

"The countryside is my gym," he told Mr. Camaro. "Not just a gym for the physique, but for the mind also. Yes, stop, yes, die."

Dudley Laufman, 95, Eminent Caller Of Folk Dances Who Revived Contra

By CLAF ROSIS

Dudley Laufman, a thalminatic farmer, poet and musician who is the 1960s and '70s and a revival of traditional New England folk dancing, drawing old dances and playing a marked, thoroughly shindigy in grange halls and businesses across the region, died on July 12 at the cabin for both by hand 67 years ago in Canterbury, Italy, his was 95.

His daughter Heidi Eide continued the death.

Mr. Laufman was best known for calling contra dances, a style similar to square dances in which partners line up across from each other. The other, backed by a stand playing hidden, accretions and other instruments, dictates the danger of movements, in keeping with the music.

Contra dancing has its roots in Europe and arrived in the United States in the late 16th century, taking hold in farming communities. But by the 1950s, when Mr. Laufman began calling, it was close to the fact.

Mr. Laufman brought a house, some inviting energy to contra, one that appealed to the back-to-the-land counterculture of the '70s, a precursor to the hippies at the '60s. With his sturdy frame bought from years of working on daily farms, and long hair that flowed over his waden turtleneck chambers, he led a Romanian figure on average, not unlike that of his hero the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

His breakout came when he brought a group of musicians and dancers to the Newport Folk House in 1965, the same year that Bob Eliza scandalized traditional radio from its group electric-fume 40,000 people watched Mr. Laufman and his ensemble perform. Word spread about this new, yet very old, hero of dancing.

He was soon in constant demand around New England, and he had the stamina to match, often calling about 100 dances a year. He assembled a group of musicians as company fans, the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra.

Tudley is the single most important individual in creating nationwide interest in contra dancing. David Matthews, a former caller who made a documentary about Mr. Laufman, "The Other Way Back" (1967), said in an interview, "He was the control char-

A style similar to square dances in which partners line up across from each other.

tonatic figure in this extremely a brand dance scene."

Mr. Laufman also began to arrive at younger courts, including college students and hippies who found something authentic and earthy in contra – and particularly in the fencing, relaxed way that Mr. Laufman called it.

Teenagers who grew up with contra dancing brought it with them to college, and college students who became hooked back at with them after graduating. By the mid-1970s, contra dancing, over the previous of total New England, had a nationwide hither-

ing the kind that were coming to the dances, the barefoot hippies, you know, they were tired of doing such 'x' roll, where you didn't work your partner, and they found here was something where

they could touch their partner and it was connected to the rural area, back to the land." Mr. Laufman said in an interview with the National Endowment for the Arts, which named him a National Heritage Fellow in 1999.

"And they thought that was pretty next," he added. "That's what they wanted, and I was the way that was doing it."

William Dudley Laufman was born on Feb. 7, 1931, in Newton, Mass., and grew up in nearby Arlington. His father, M. Miller Laufman, was in business, and his mother, Marjorie (Dick) Laufman, was a civil rights activist.

As a child, he bridled against his consternation when he left, and began working summers on a dairy farm, after a long day of talking down, he would join the farm in putting together a dance, drawing in the local community.

"And well dance, and there was the smell of the wood smoke, and the foreign gesturing of the piggy hair, and the resiny sound of the table, and I was hooked," he told the N.E.A. "I just knew that I wanted it to be a control part of my life."

He received an associate degree in agriculture from the Cambridge School of Agriculture at the University of Massachusetts Art学院. During the winter, he played football, until one warm hour the ice failed to form and be run, too poor to drive in an indoor role. To fill his time – and, he said, his need for attention – he took up bidding and dance calling.

A Quaker, he received conscientious and professional manikin military and went to work as an occupational therapist in Brattleboro, N., from 1952 to 1955. He then spent several years working at the Georgetown State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Concord.

In 1970, Mr. Laufman bought a 170-acre plot in nearby Canter-

Above, Dudley Laufman in 2015, with Jacqueline, then his wife, cerner, and Jane Otranchowski, and in 2006. Of his early exposure to rural dances, he said, "There was the smell of the wood smoke, and the firelight gleaming on the gills' hair, and the resiny sound of the table, and I was hooked."

bury. The cabin he built there did not have electricity or running water. He grew more of his food, the called his home the Wind at the Timothy, a reference to a species of perennial grass native to Europe.

Mr. Laufman's marriage to Cynthia Dunbar, Patty Windus

and Jacqueline Gilman ended it drowns.

Along with Mr. Eide, a daughter from his first marriage, he is survived by his partner, Nanci Aguter, three other children from his first marriage, Brownett Harrison, Nathaniel Laufman and Simpson Goldfiel, a daughter

from his second marriage, Windy-ley Laufman, six grandchildren, nine step grandchildren, and three sisters, Ann Mason, Alagad Martin and Johanna Weller.

Mr. Laufman worked as a proofreading clerk for a typewriter in Concord in the late 1960s, but by the turn of 1970s he was able to support his family with his name. He also published several books of poetry, including "An Orchard and a Carrie" (1971).

Eventually the demand for contra manikin became the big for Mr. Laufman to handle alone. Bands began to emerge, calling some of his wife but also offering a home, more energetic style of contra.

Mr. Laufman rejected this new style, but he also began playing and calling different forms of full dance, including square, horn and cherrie, a traditional English style. He also languishes these places, under the name the Two Fiddles.

He did not seem to mind watching his followers move on.

"I am very intimately," he told Yankee magazine in 1991. "I just happen to like a certain kind of music."

---

A21

Mary de Rachewiltz, Ardent Defender of Poet Father, Is Dead at 101

By TRIP GABRIEL

Mary de Rachewiltz, the daughter of the American poet Ezra Pound, who devoted much of her life to translating her father's works into Italian while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his antisemitism and ardent support for Benito Mussolini's fascism, died on July 24 at her home, a 10th-century castle called Schloss Brannenburg, in the mountains outside Meirans. Italy, near the Austrian border. She was 101.

Her death was announced by the Ezra Pound Society.

Ms. de Rachewiltz, who was born out of wedlock, while Pound was an expatriate in Italy and was sent away as a baby to be raised by a peasant couple, nevertheless remained devoted to her father, who died in 1973.

She wrote a merrier sympathetic to him, translated his formability complex magnum opus, "The Cantor" and opened Schloss Brannenburg to conferences of Pound scholars, where she welcomed by announcing, "You may say anything you like about Ezra Pound."

She herself minimized the antidated and evidently antiemetic propaganda Pound broadcast on Italian radio during World War II, which led to his indictment for treason in the United States and his confinement for over a decade in a Washington mental hospital after he was found unfit to stand true.

"The charge was fascism and antisemitism," Ms. de Rachewiltz told the newspaper La Stampa in 1886. "For an American citizen, this shouldn't be a crime. As Pound said, free speech without free speech on the radio is worthless."

Maria Rudge was born on July 9, 1925, in Bressanone (also called Brison), in northern Italy, to Pound and his Ohio-born lover, Olga Rudge, a concert violinist.

Though Pound's own poetry was part of the vanguard of literary moderation, he may have had even greater influence on a friend and champion of other writers. He helped edit T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Ernest Hemingway's early prose, and helped publish James Joyce's "Clysses."

Maria's parents were volatile artists who did not want to be encumbered by children. They placed their baby daughter with the poor farm couple Jakob and Hanne Marcher, in the Italian Tyrol, where she grew up learning to be a shepherdess and speaking the local German dialect.

Mary de Rachewiltz in London in 2004, at a house where her father, the poet Ezra Pound, once lived. Below, Pound and Olga Rudge, Ms. de Rachewiltz's mother, in Venice, in an undated photo.

Ms. Rudge mostly neglected her daughter, though Pound visited occasionally and sometimes took Maria on weekend trips to Venice, where the couple lived. (Pound also had a wife, Dorothy Shakespeare, who lived in Rapallo,

Italy, on the Liguriari coast.) In Venice, her name was anglicized to Mary, and her severe mother scolded her for speaking German. Her self-absorbed father left for his writing studio each morning, but sometimes returned

to take her for a sandwich and an orangeade at an American bar, or to travel with her by supper to the Lulu.

One day at the beach, she cut her toe and showed it to her parents while they were sitting. Pound took her to the water to wash away the blood, she recalled in her 1971 memoir, "Discretione" (its title a play on Pound's 1933 autobiographical book, "Indiscretione"). But she was aware of having committed "a breach in manners" and raising her father's appetite.

"Throughout lunch," she wrote, "for me forlorn and my almost nothing, his hair propped up between his fists."

In her early teens, Mary was packed off to a uneven school in Florence. It was not until she was in her late teens that she learned of the existence of her father's other family, which included her half brother, Omar.

To improve her English, Pound had her translator into Italian the early version of his book-length poem "The Cantor," which he had begun decades before and labored over for much of his life. She continued this translation throughout the war, while working as a nurse in German hospitals in northern Italy.

During the war years, Pound

Ms. de Rachewiltz lived for many decades at Schloss Brannenburg, a 12th-century castle outside Meirans, Italy, near Austria.

lived in a metrage a train in Rapsic in with his wife and mistress; Ms. Rudge did the cooking and cleaning and supported the household financially.

In the 1930s, he had become an amnest with Italian fascism and expressed a vicious antisemitism, blaming his lives for the world's economic troubles and calling President Franklin D. Roosevelt "Jewishish." In radio broadcasts from 1941 to 1945, which were beamed to England and America, he praised Hitler and attacked Jews as "fists." Italian purchase seized him in May 1945 and handed him over to U.S. troops.

Mary married Berto de Rachewiltz, a Russian-Italian nobleman who later became a figuring son and writer, in 1946, and the couple bought Brannenburg, there a wife, which they removed.

In 1950, Pound was his release through the intervention of Elias Robert Frost and other poets. On his return to Italy, he gave a fascist salute to reporters. He moved in with his daughter at Brannenburg, but soon decided to Venice to be with Mr. Rudge, who cared for him until his death. (Dorothy Shakespeare died the following year, 1973, in England.)

The question of how to weigh Pound's moral liability against his poetry has already enabled us to decide. In 1888, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York refused him a place in its Poetic Corner because of his antiemetics and pre-fascist statements.

Ms. de Rachewiltz ardently responded her father. In a 1932 interview with The Guardian, she accused the wartime writing and broadcasts as part of the tenor of his era. "He felt into certain antiemetic clichés that were rampant in Europe and the U.S. at the time,"

she said.

For years, she worked on a complete translation of "The Cantor," it was published in 1965. She also wrote her own poetry and helped with "Ezra Pound in His Parents: Letters 1885-1925," published in 1973. She was the curator of Pound's largest artificial collection, held at the Boisecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, and established the Ezra Pound Center for Literature at the University of Oxford.

Her mother, with whom she eventually re-enacted, entered into the castle and died there in 1896, at 101. Mr. de Rachewiltz died in 1897, near Pound. Ezra Pound's lady other child, died in 2001.

Ms. de Rachewiltz is survived by a son, Siegfried de Rachewiltz;

She fought to separate the literary legacy of Ezra Pound from his fascist politics.

A daughter, Patricia de Rachewiltz, four grandsons; and five great-granddaughters.

A remembrance of Ms. de Rachewiltz has to life at her castle, published after her death by a right-wing Italian news site, desirously, described her offering the French scholars who trekked them in aftermathing up of his.

"Is I a jerk, perhaps not always personally," the culture noted, "all study commitments were interrupted to gather on the terrain to share both learned Peacetime in the thirties and long, profound sciences, favored by the spectacular Alpine landscape, even more evocative at dusk."

Store

Show you care.

Every purchase supports New York Times journalism.

nytimes.com/store

Beetle

Bennett, Constance Maguire, Translator

BEEHMAN—Constance Kauffmann

Constance Kauffmann, Berrie of New York, left the American and New York Times in the center of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times.

is survived by her brother, Robert F. Kauffmann, a German professional in the United States. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times.

KAGNER—Theodore Ross, Executive Director of Food American Travelers, Ross Maguire, was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times. He was a member of the New York Times.

In memoriam. In The New York Times.

To honor your loved one in these pages, contact us.

nytimes@classifiedsplus.com 1-800-458-5522

The New York Times

---

A22

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

Opinion

The New York Times

The D.O.P. Cannot Possibly Let This Congressman Go On

Michelle Cottle

A national politics writer for Opinion.

YET another member of Congress has been accused of mistreating women. Representative Max Miller, Republican of Ohio, Wills as many stories as politicians behaving badly saying up of late – don't let the door hit you on the way out, Chuck Edwards? – it can be hard to keep track.

But Mr. Miller deserves his own lump of scrutiny. The allegations against him are of domestic violence, rather than of sexual abuse or creepiness, and he is trying to struggle out of what should be the standard's natural consequences. The congressman has requested that the House Ethics Committee upon an investigation into the accusations. The inquiry is unlikely to provide clarity attrition soon, certainly not before November's elections, but it will enable other House Republicans to say, 'Not my problem.'

It is their problem, given the pattern of behavior Mr. Miller's accusers describe – and Congress's broader pattern of investigating or ignoring ugly accusations against its members. If Republican leaders fail to push him out of the race, voters have every reason to feel that much more disguised.

A former Trump administration staff member, Mr. Miller has been publicly accused by three women of violent behavior. The most recent is his ex-wife, Emily Morens, with whom he is locked in a fierce custody dispute for their 3-year-old daughter. Ms. Morens's father is the Ohio Republican senator Denise Morens, who this week broke his silence to speak of Mr. Miller's 'increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior.' The senator claimed, 'He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has outside of my granddaughter.'

The two other accusers come from earlier periods in Mr. Miller's life. One, whose identity has not been made public, said that when the and Mr. Miller were in high school, he shared her against a bet, sending her tumbling down some stairs, after she spurred his advances. Multiple witnesses have confirmed her story to reporters over the years.

A second is Stephanie Grisham, a former White House press secretary who dead Mr. Miller during President Trump's first term. The relationship went south after Mr. Miller reportedly stopped her in the face and showed her into a wall of his apartment after she accused him of blushing on her (in 2021 he used her for distraction). The case was eventually dropped when both parties agreed to sign another department agreements, though new legal conflicts have emerged this summer's.

The Republican response so far has been uneven and largely underwhelming, a smattering of G-16 senators have said that

Mr. Miller should withdraw from his race or resign, with some expressing solidarity with Mr. Morens. (Memoirs.) Ten Sheehy (1978a–s(e)s), calling Mr. Miller 'a degenerate sociopath.'2 Things have been much poorer on the House side, including among its Republican leaders. The speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has called the charges against Mr. Miller 'serious' but said he would let the Ethics Committee's investigation play out. Mr. Trump told reporters on Monday, 'I'm going to let the families figure that out.'

Mr. Miller has denied all wrongdoing, proclaiming himself the victim. He has insisted all three women are lying. He has made much of the fact that, despite multiple investigations into his behavior toward Mr. Mor-

ens and their daughter, he has never been charged with a crime. His legal team conducted a document drop in 'An defense (which, awkwardly, he's more included a cashed photo of his child). He has said that Ms. Morens has procrastings of problems.

It's an though the congressman looked at the Graham Pfauver meltdown in Maine and said, 'Hold my beer.'

Let us acknowledge that this is a painful and tricky situation. Personal relationships can be messy, divorce even more so. (There is a reason Mr. Miller, in an amending 1976 interview on Tuesday, appealed to divorced men everywhere to feel his pain.) I have this doubt that he has experienced some terrible insomniums along the way. Who among us wants to be judged by the worst insomniums

Max Miller has been accused of domestic violence. Yet he's still running.

of our private lives? The temptation to avert one's eyes is strong.

But the dark pattern in the accusations is there, one that the with Mr. Miller's long-standing reputation as a guy with a bad temper and a thick streak of misogyny. Public questions about his behavior and temperament have been out there since well before he ran for office. In 2016, when he was a special assistant to the president, The Washington Post spotlighted Mr. Miller's youthful ransom with the law and past instances of violence. In 2021, during his first House run, Politics ran an article full of people talking about how scary he could be.

Mr. Miller has, in true Trumpian fashion, vowed to fight to the bitter end, and if that costs his party a seat, so he is. 'I am never going to give up' he told CNN. He said he would show 'the same sentence' that Mr. Trump did 'when people told him that he was going to struggle in 2016, and he became the 45th president of the United States.'

This 'I'm just like Trump' defense is similar to what you hear from Ken Paxton, the scandal plagued Republican Senate candidate in Texas. And it points to a core reason that some politicians assume they can feature out even multiple accusations of very bad behavior. Because many voters – Republicans and MAGA voters, in particular, more than Democrats – are willing to overlook a candidate of one in their candidate's life.

In a Politics poll from mid-July, 72 percent of safe-absurded MAGA Trump voters said they would stick by a Republican candidate facing allegations of domestic abuse, compared with 44 percent of all Trump voters from 2014. Only 26 percent of voters who backed Senate Harris would stick by a Democrat accused of the same. Likewise, two-thirds of MAGA voters would excuse a Republican accused of sexual assault, 13 percentage points more than all Trump voters, while only 40 percent of Harris voters would stick by an accused Democrat.

It's hard to know how much of this stress from MAGA voters assuming accusations are false and how much from the belief that the political stakes are too high is worry about the issue in abusing women. Either way, Republican politicians would be mistaken to believe that more Americans are an inmate at MAGA die-hards.

Serving as public office is a privilege, not a power. Since leaders should be held to a higher standard than 'I have never been convinced of anything,' this covers gave Mr. Miller the benefit of the doubt in his first House run, based in part on Mr. Trump's seal of approval. From what the congressman has shown as since then, he does not merit the continued faith of his president, his fellow lawmakers or his voters.

Mr. Miller has until Monday to withdraw and be replaced on the ballot. The congressman needs to go, be everyman's sake.

This Is What a Desperate Dictatorship Looks Like

Gioconda Belli

A Nicaragua-covered and poet.

ON JULY 8, the 6th anniversary of the Sandstone Revolution that ended the famous dictatorship in Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega declared that the cause would be the most important, and the power. 'They should forget about it,' he said, presumably referring to the many sinners, subversives and traitors the octopmanian president has claimed to be hurting since he returned to poetry in 2007.

The announcement caused an uproar. Within days, Rosario Murillo – who, in addition to being Mr. Ortega's wife and co-problem, is the region's chief propaganda – was spending more than 1,000 and that elections would continue, but under new rules barring foreign interests and preventing so-called traitors and imperialist lackeys from competing by peers.

The board of the National Assembly spoke of a return that would increase the presidential term to seven years from six and allow it to be removed for an additional seven years – a surreal idea that makes the presidency sound like a car team. Whatever the exact process, it's clear that the regime will do whatever it takes to keep husband and wife in power until death.

The regime already effectively controls the electoral authorities, the legislators, the courts, the police, the army and virtually every other institution capable of influencing electoral outcomes. In 2011, Mr. Ortega jailed nearly every serious contender for the presidency, along with hundreds of mine critics, and opposition members. Many of them were declared traitors, there is no United States and stripped of their citizenship. So why abandon even the firstest of two elections?

One answer may be at Mr. Murillo's ambition to become president – and her anxiety alone what may happen if she is the sole candidate. I have known the actors to this drama for decades, and I know her methods. I believe Mr. Murillo fears losing even a rigged election: that she is scared of appearing on the hailer by herself.

Ms. Murillo has accumulated enormous power. She because Mr. Ortega's vice president in 2001 and was named co-president eight years later through a constitutional amendment that eliminated the unquestioned powers and gave the couple absolute control over the state – and made clear that she would succeed Mr. Ortega upon his death. As

Rosario Murillo fears losing even a rigged election in Nicaragua.

he appears visibly diminished and increasingly incoherent, she, who is five years younger, is clear than ever to finally rising in the top.

Neither Mr. Ortega nor, much less, Mr. Murillo could win a free and fair election. Mr. Ortega left the presidential election in 1994 after over a decade in power, and regained the presidency in 2007 having received only 1,000 percent of the vote. Although there are no longer any independent opinion polls inside the country, according to a survey conducted by Huguene Democratic, a well-known Nicaragua nonprofit now operating from Costa Rica, over 95.8 percent of Nicaragua's have a negative view of the future and 46.1 percent would leave the country if they could.

Whatever remains of Mr. Ortega's legionary, it is rooted in the revolutionary years and in his own revolutionary credentials. His name is associated – however distorted that association has now become – with the struggle

against the funeous dynasty, the triumph of 1879 and the mythology of the Sandstone Revolution.

In 1994, Mr. Murillo's power derives from her association with Mr. Ortega. She does not present her history, his revolutionary authority or even his residual emotional connection with parts of the Sandstone base, and she is very unpopular to her own right. In a deeply religious and often superstitious society, she is frequently referred to as 'la Chamaa,' or the Witch, because of her frequent use of science symbols and mystical language. She is considered both fracturess and an object of suspicion and ridicule.

Ms. Murillo appears to understand her situation perfectly. While constantly paying homage to her husband and presenting her life, she qualifies in his legacy, she has been finedically removed anyone inside the Sandstone movement who might connote her succession or offer a political alternative.

ILLUSTRATION BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, SOURCE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAYCLIFFY BASSLE AND ALFREDH JOHNS

The mass-determinationism that began in February 2012 in this strategy of eliminating not only political opposition but even the legal system of the government. The government has disinterested Catholic institutions, the national religious activity and driven much of the church hierarchy from the country.

The crackdowns have also reached people who served the revolution and even those more than twice growing people. The most revealing case may be that of Gen. Humberto Ortega, Mr. Ortega's brother.

Humbert's was one of the principal strategies of the insurrection against अत्याचार. The government's impact on the Sandstone Popular Army. In a May 2010 interview, he publicly questioned the possibility of a family succession. He argued that it would be extremely difficult for Mr. Murillo at Mr. Ortega's children to retain power after Daniel's death and insisted that a successor would need to emerge from an electoral process. Within hours, local media reported, the Nicaragua police had seized his electronic phone number from the police house arrest. He remained under constant guard until his death in a military hospital months later. Humbert's face signaled that no revolutionary credentials, no history of service and no community to Daniel Ortega would protect anyone who questioned Mr. Murillo's succession.

Both Mr. Ortega and Ms. Murillo surely understand that they are at risk of being named as the ones you nearly held a century ago. Ms. Murillo needs something more secure than a fraudulent election. She has been from a which an authentic opponent may run, no unexpected political movement may emerge and no electoral result – even a manipulated one – can become a public judgment on her culture. In order to be country's Nicaragua's democracy, which so many fought to secure for so long, dies with her determination to wear the presidential sash, no matter the cost.

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

9

AZ1

COLUMNIST | M. GESSEN

What Is the Future of Americas Past?

“WE LOVE in a country with an unpredictable past.” This was a saying among the modifications in the Soviet Union when I was growing up. We never knew which part of our history would be addressed next.

Now Americans, too, live in a country with an unpredictable past. Two months into his second term, President Trump issued an executive order titled Removing Truth and Sanity to American History, to which he directed officials to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian and to insinuate, to cut funding to “programs that disguise shared American values” and to maintain some monuments removed after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. A very strong complex list of things that have happened since that order was issued. The National Park Service has been removing signs about slavery; the status of a Constitution generally has been reinstalled in Washington, a nothing more! In the White House Democrat Policy Council accused the Smithsonian of using history “as a political instrument to divide, dispels and discourage noncitizens”; and on July 28, Trump issued a new executive order mandating that signs be installed outside the Smithsonian “warning visitors about the ideological capture at the National Museum of American History.”

Re-evaluating history has the potential to change a people’s future by changing it, self-understanding. It can solve people in a genuinely new project. And then there is the providing of history, which is truly making. The Soviet Union repeatedly forced the whole country to enforce what was already widely known. In the 1950s, after Joseph Stalin died, the Communist Party denounced his “cold of personality” and some of the extent of his terror. A decade later, it reversed itself, adding an impending, as there was never about the crimes of Stalinism. The same process was repeated when the Soviet Union collapsed. One amount of information about Soviet terror emerged under “Unfairer Parts that knowledge has been forced back into old race.”

Trump wants Americans to restore what they have come to know about the history and legacy of endorsement. What his executive orders really promise to restore is a virtue of conflict contained in the most productive and sanitized stories about the United States — the blue of ignorance. Trump appears to believe that the job of success and moneyship is to avoid “pride in the hearts of all Americans,” as one of the executive orders put it. The report from Trump’s Research Policy Council, featuring the National Museum of American History for failing to this precise mission.

A course, or months ago, I visited Mont-gomery, U.S., where an organization called the Equal Justice Initiative is undertaking a very different project. It is telling the story of Black Americans. The E.J. has to be built a lycoming memorial, a Legacy Museum, a vast sculpture garden and a public square with a permanent exhibit on the civil rights movement. Each element of the complex, which is still growing, is not powerful as any museum or memorial I have visited.

By इस Stevenson, who leads the E.J., its litigator whose clients have included Black men on death one and children tried as adults and sentenced to life in prison. In came to feel, however, that the change in could achieve in the courts was not enough. “The real evil,” he told me — the enduring

evil — “was the narrative we created to justify endorsement.” It’s a striking statement. Can stories really do as much harm as a real infrastructure of violence and cages? His point is that the stories underlie the violence; theories that systematically rendered Black people so less than human enabled endorsement and segregation. Stories that rendered Black people as dangerous and predatory fueled lycoming and main deceleration. Unless we create new stories, the abuse will never stop.

Stevenson, too, talks about pride. “Staten like Alabama have very little to be proud about,” he told me. Montgomery’s days of wealth and glory are in the past. It’s a city with dozens of monuments in the Catholic city, a city where one in five people lives in poverty, in a state with one of the highest socioeconomic rates in the country.

But the E.J.’s mountain and memorials have made Montgomery a tourist decision, and that has direct economic benefits for the city. Most important, these institutions have helped to make Montgomery’s center for engagement with American history. Stevenson believes that the conversion into they honor can and should make people proud. He cites as one of his inspirations the German Holocaust memorial and the stories that make the promise of “never again,” which is a profoundly hopeful message.

My traveling companion couldn’t help noticing that when Stevenson described actions the United States had taken to oppress

Trump wants to restore the most sanitized stories about the United States.

Black people, he said “we” instead of “the government” or “racist lawmakers.” We asked him why “I refuse to give America to anyone else,” Stevenson explained. That is one way to interpret the word “inclusion” in E.J.’s, a story in which your ancestors aren’t clipped.

Stevenson has not received any federal or state funding for his sites. The Trump administration, therefore, cannot target them for defending. But Montgomery exemplifies the conflict at the root of Trumpism memory politics.

I WENT TO Montgomery with my wife, Loren, and fear of my former colleagues from Russia who now live in sick. After a few days there, we drove to Charbonville, Va., the site of the 2017 Union the Right rally, during which white supermasters flooded into town, ostensibly to defend a monument to the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, and counterprotesters showed up in diverse or oppress their message. Trump — then on the first year of his first term — remarked that there had been “very fine people on both sides.” Today, a bald rectangular patch in an otherwise green lawn downtown is all that remains of the status, which was removed four years after the rally. The city plans to install a sculpture of a football tree there, created from the melted texture of Love nature. But where I was there, I didn’t see any nuclear, maturing what had happened. The result is a sort of memorial violence my to those decisions what to look for, a perfect symbol of both what was and was

not accomplished in the nation’s last attempt at a racial reckoning.

ALMOST THE TOGETHER IN BRADSTERS, Thomas Jefferson’s residence and phantasm just outside Charbonville. All visitors of the house are required to sign up for a treat, a tightly scripted affair that, if you listen clearly, bears the signs of numerous acts made over the years. The original narrative is one of progress — precisely the narrative that the Trump executive orders demand. Jefferson was a man of science and a lover of art, he brought progressive political ideas and maps and clocks and advanced engineering and new Chemical architecture and French food to Monticello. But this story is now interrupted repeatedly by its conversion into the old used to be stoked. Jefferson was a slave owner who believed at least six children of daily thornings, an enslaved woman with whom he had a sexual relationship when she was a teenager and he was a middle-class children. There was separate tear about slavery at Monticello, but the main tear did not acknowledge the tension between the core story and these additional facts. Here is a juxtaposition that turned with me. Jefferson’s daughter has written with food in the house with him, as did her 11 children, whose she often used in keeping with Eighteenth-century plants. The children children had with thornings lived in the slave quarters and they put to work on the estate from a young age.

WHILE MY FELLOW COINS ARE I WENT TRAVING IN THE AMERICAN SHADS, THE GUNSHAGLE SQUASH CONCEPTS IS THE RULE IN AN ANCHORAGE. Particly government had long since destroyed blistered, an organization devoted to preserving the memory of Stalinist terror. In April at this year, the Russian Supreme Court declared memorial as “re-trouster” organization. Two years ago, the government closed the Valing Museum in Moscow. In June, it was respected as the Memory Museum, telling the story of Nazi crimes against the Soviet people. The memory of Stalinist terror has once again been ordered deliberately.

It is Vinyardish, one of my traveling companions, in a kinesium of Stalinism, the observed that Stevenson’s project is, in a more ambitious than anything Russian memory activist had created. In it there is direct narrative line from the past to the present. It makes the argument that there was no live now to shaped by the way our lives bears organized society. This is exactly what can make the project of revisiting the past so vital: It’s not about the past. It’s about choosing our future. It’s not made a future that challenges us to reckon with as truth and feel ways — genuinely new and inventive ways — to deliver on the American promise, or a future that becomes the possibility of conversation and change? I suppose there is a third option, one a future of unease and confusion, of muddled stories like the one I heard at Monticello, of facts had known and truths had read.

I remember a few from a satirical underground novel I read as a teenager. A boy asks his father, “Did the year 1967 ever happen?” I don’t know where to believe? “That figure was the height of Stalin’s Great Terror.” In “Isn’t happened yet,” the father responds, “I mean,” why not. But it will be a still the humanest answer, haunting way I’ve encountered of saying that these who do not face history are doomed to repeat it.

LETTERS

Drop the Circular Firing Squad, Democrats

TO THE EDITOR: Re: “We in Michigan have Up Left’s Road Due in Fall” (news analysis, front page), Aug. 15: The recent primary violence in the federal District of Michigan and other progressive candidates across the country demonstrate that the left is energized and ready to fight. The former American, the fall elections. Voices are in crusading recognizing that our current system is broken and that a better reality, making it a new one. The “really want” cut it anymore.

Right now, we have a system to which the left, the elections and their fat-cut friends are getting wildly rich and the rest of us are getting poorer. Voices can see through the Republican Party’s desperato, hysterical attempts to use scare tactics about socialism as a distraction from the fullness of the current administration. It’s clear that people are fed up with a government that prioritizes the interests of corporations and the wealthy elite over the well-being of everyday citizens.

DAN O’NEILL, LOS ANGELES

TO THE EDITOR:

The media may be overlooking an important political possibility. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate Committee from Michigan, more reach out to coast of Democrats. But he may also appeal to a less obvious constituency: young men and previously supposed Donald Trump and have since become disillusioned.

Many of these voters may have been driven to Mr. Trump because it is deep understanding of — or commitment to — his policies than by frustration with a political system they believed had failed them. They naturally make change and sow Mr. Trump as the candidate most likely to disrupt the status quo.

Dr. El-Sayed has an opportunity to speak directly to that frustration — one the Republican Party’s has worked by noted. He makes security and moves in affordable health care. Odd race and housing are not merely progressive talking points; they are also urgent concerns for a generation of young men who increasingly feel economically stranded and politically overstated.

If Dr. El-Sayed — and, more broadly, the progressive wing of the Democrats Party — can address their concerns without dismissing these voters or any other political political choices, they may find that these voters can be more receptive to the Democratic message than conventional political leaders suggests. BROAD, TELL, MISS/ALAPLIN

TO THE EDITOR:

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s win over the better-funded, more enshriner candidate, Major General, from Michigan Democratic Senate primary points a vivid portrait of a vast world of American voters who are increasingly frustrated with. The most important political and scientific research

Noisy blacks, despite what poth predicted, Dr. El-Sayed defused Mr. Stevens only because of that result of a cautionary message to Democratic hoping to deliver.

Republican candidate, John Rogers, in November. It will be interesting to see whether Dr. El-Sayed takes down some of his more particularly contentious and divisive rhetoric on issues such as Israel and his criticism of what’s wrong with the Democratic Party, and instead because his messaging on how he’ll work to save America’s decaying democracy and to fragile economy from the daily close being unhooked by the Trump administration and the increasingly reckless Republican senators resulting it all.

COPY CLIN: BROOKER

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: “Some Top Democratic Conscious People for ‘Star’ Against a Rising Left” (news article, Aug. 7)

Now is not the time for Democrats to wage “war” against themselves. Republican are destroying our country across the board, with terrible economic policies, deep corruption, explicitly racist and anti-fascistism, anti-vaccine and anti-science policies causing so many deaths, and so much more.

Is it better for Democrats to be insidious or more difficult? Let Democrats of all stripes win in 2020. They will all be better than anything the Republicans are offering. My big hope is that if the next Congress is majority Democratic, then the left and closer will work to compromise, and those compromises will most likely result in better policies than either side could have achieved alone.

So please drop the circular firing squad, Democrats, and let’s defeat the true victory of democracy and freedom.

RETAILED CODE

SUJOB SPRING, MD

TO THE EDITOR:

The a Democrat in Maine who once volunteered the Civilian Planner and now supports Troy Jackson and other Maine Democrats. The midterms are critical. Americans cannot stand for another in the part of Donald Trump in which the world will continue to suffer his egotistical wrath.

We need funds and balances on the Trump administration to protect our democracy, and the only way we will win the midterms, and the next presidency, is by uniting, not thrilling. We should be one big test with a shared message: not a party weakened by labels like “socialist” or “residential.”

Many voters are driven to progressive policies because they see the rich getting triller while working people struggle through of people like Thief. Very speedily, they are attack progressive Democrats, we need to unite and focus on the government—and, affordable food, health care and other laws, an order of individual tariffs, support for renewable energy and a revolution in a war that is hurting the global economy.

Please give us three to five clear priorities we can only amend as we break on doors and get out of the way. Help us unite, win and stop the issues by in the White House.

AANDRA SMITH COOLIDON SUO, MAINE

Trump’s End Run Around the Birthright Ruling

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: “Provision Signs Two Executive Orders Among us Limit Birthright Citizenship” (news article, Aug. 7)

The most important fact that Trump’s running for a building offers in a democracy must accept is the possibility that they will lose. Whether it’s legislation, a Supreme Court decision or an election, politicians may not always get what they do.

All American presidents, and their opponents, have accepted this fundamental principle, often with great and healthy. All except President Trump.

Mr. Trump’s damaged injuries cannot accept losing. Heist the 2020 election, he lost his 2020 election. He had had 1,000 votes, and he’s losing the time war. He continues to b185mly fight all three, probably based on a foundational fear that in his father’s eyes he would be a hero.

Two years in fighting with a profoundly selfish, corrupt president. We can help resolve in with our votes in November.

ERIC BELJOCK, BRON

TO THE EDITOR:

This could be the defining moment of both Donald Trump’s presidency and the Supreme Court. Mr. Trump has been angling several’s “no better” president. There is no one elected a second time.

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution at his 14th Amendment: “All persons here or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they are.”

Mr. Trump wants to decide who is a citizen and who is not. To do that, he has to invalidate the Supreme Court’s June, July, at Trump’s birthright. He is trying an end run around that ruling with his executive orders.

The Supreme Court is going to move to establish the principle that Mr. Trump is subject to the court’s ruling and that they can’t be circumvented with cheap tricks. The birthright ruling claims, and Mr. Trump must obey it. It is time to establish that the role of law applies to Mr. Trump. Full stop.

BRUCE BIGGINS, SAN DIEGO

---

A24

H

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026

Weather Report

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Highlight: Risk of Flooding Next Week

Rounds of many thunder storms are expected to move from the lower Great Lakes through the Ohio Valley and into the central Appalachians next week. This will result in areas of flash flooding. Portions of West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky will have the highest risk of road washouts and damage to property due to flooding. Thunderstorms may also be severe with damaging wind gusts.

Cities

High-rise temperatures for the 50 heart-stroke at 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C. (unfolding Eastern time, with precipitation of inches) 4.1°C

#	City	#	Sun
#	City	#	Mon
#	City	#	Mon
#	City	#	Tues
#	City	#	Wed
#	City	#	Thu
#	City	#	Fri

#U.S. region	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
New York City	8:00	9:00	9:00
Philadelphia	8:00	9:00	9:00
California	8:00	9:00	9:00
Denver	8:00	9:00	9:00
Indy	8:00	9:00	9:00
Nevada	8:00	9:00	9:00
New York	8:00	9:00	9:00
San Diego	8:00	9:00	9:00

United States	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Alaska	8:00	9:00	9:00
Albuquerque	10:00	10:00	10:00
Anchorage	8:00	9:00	9:00
Atlanta	8:00	9:00	9:00
Atlanta City	8:00	9:00	9:00
Austin	8:00	9:00	9:00
Baltimore	8:00	9:00	9:00
Baton Rouge	8:00	9:00	9:00
Bennington	8:00	9:00	9:00
Boise	10:00	10:00	10:00
Boston	8:00	9:00	9:00
Buffalo	8:00	9:00	9:00
Buffalo	8:00	9:00	9:00
Carlsbad	8:00	9:00	9:00
Charlotte	8:00	9:00	9:00
Chattanooga	8:00	9:00	9:00
Chicago	8:00	9:00	9:00
Cleveland	8:00	9:00	9:00
Cincinnati	8:00	9:00	9:00
Cleveland Springs	8:00	9:00	9:00
Cleveland	8:00	9:00	9:00
Columbia	8:00	9:00	9:00
Columbia, Scts.	8:00	9:00	9:00
Columbia, Wash.	8:00	9:00	9:00
Chicago	8:00	9:00	9:00
Des Moines	8:00	9:00	9:00
Detroit	8:00	9:00	9:00
Detroit	8:00	9:00	9:00
Detroit	8:00	9:00	9:00
Florida	7:00	8:00	8:00
Hartford	8:00	8:00	8:00
Houston	8:00	8:00	8:00
Houston	8:00	8:00	8:00
Indianapolis	8:00	8:00	8:00
Jackson	8:00	8:00	8:00
Jacksonville	8:00	8:00	8:00
Jacksonville	8:00	8:00	8:00
Kansas City	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	8:00	8:00	8:00
Los Angeles	11:00	11:00	11:00
Los Angeles	8:00	8:00	8:00

Little Rock	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00
Los Angeles	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Louisville	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Memphis	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Memphis	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00
Mobile	7:00	7:00	7:00	7:00

New Orleans	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
San Diego	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
San Diego	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
San Diego	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
San Diego	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
San Diego	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
San Diego	8:00	8:00	8:00	8:00

National Forecast

Much of the East will remain very humid and warm today, with widely separated thunderstorms expected from Louisiana across the Southeast and through the Ohio Valley and Northeast as well. Some thunderstorms will be capable of damaging wind gusts and flash flooding in spots.

While conditions will be dry during the day, a swath of severe thunderstorms will expand overnight from Nebraska and Kansas into much of Iowa and Missouri. These storms could bring damaging wind gusts and flooding downpouts.

In the Southwest, typical menace thunderstorms will fall much of the higher terrain during the late afternoon.

The Northeast will remain dry, sustaining a high relative risk across much of the region. Dry and hot weather will also extend across much of the intermountain time.

New York	8:00	9:00	9:00	9:00
Beach	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Beach	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Beach	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Beach	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Beach	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
Beach	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00

New York	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00
New York	7:00	8:00	8:00	8:00

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ... Thunderstorms around High 80. Conditions will be humid and there will be intervals of clouds and sun. There will be thunderstorms in spots late in the afternoon. Winds will be from the west-southwest at 4 to 8 miles per hour.

TOMEDAY ... Thunderstorms early Low 74. There will be lingering thunderstorms in the evening. Otherwise, it will be partly cloudy and humid. Winds will be out of the west-southeast at 3 to 6 m.p.m. Temperatures will be a bit above normal.

TOMORROW ...Mistally sunny and hot high 80. High pressure will be from this the area. bringing a break from the storm channels and lower humidity than previous days. The sky will feature sunshine mixed with a few clouds.

MONDAY ...Hazy sun and very warm high 80. There will be hazy sunshine and it will be warm. An afternoon thunder storm will be possible. Winds will be out of the southwest at 4 to 8 m.p.m. Temperatures will be 5 degrees above normal.

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY ...Thunderstorms Tuesday There will be a mixture of sunshine and clouds on Tuesday with thunderstorms possible. High 80. Dry weather will return to Wednesday with variable cloudiness. High 84.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 13 hours ended at 2 p.m. yesterday.

Temperature

Avg. 80% Maximum	High 80% Maximum
from normal	from normal
at 4.0°C	4.0°C
Mean	Mean
from City water supply	from City water supply
Increases	50%
at 4.0°C	50%

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Planets

Max	First Quarter	Full	Last Quarter
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Max	0.08 a.m.	Mean	0.12 r.m.
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4

Heating

From the lower Perm to Sandy mean, 0.1, out to 29 micromolms, including yang stand found and New York center. Helps out the from the southwest at 10-15 miles. Maxes will be 1,000 in the out of New York Angles and yang stand found. Maxes in the open ocean will be around 5 feet visually set lower to any storm.

High Winds

Maxes	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Springer	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Springer	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Beach	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Beach	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Beach	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Beach	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
Beach	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4

Precipitation	2nd revised
Yesterday	0.08
Record	0.08
For the last 90 days	0.07
School	0.08
For the last 100 days	0.07
School	0.08
Total	0.08

Air pressure	Humidity
High	20 ± 0.5 m.m.
Low	20 ± 0.5 m.m.

Cooling Degree Days

An index of heat consumption that tracks how will the 80.0 mean temperature was above 20 mmetres. So for this month. From the eastern-south (seniors 'C') Normal to date for the season. Top

Treads	Temperature		Precipitation
	Average	Average	Average	Average
1,000	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
1,000	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
1,000	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4
1,000	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4

Only a new, low-mean temperature and precipitation trends compare with those of the last 30 years.

South and Ocean Temperatures

Warm and humid conditions will continue with a mixture of sunshine and clouds. There will be time afternoon thunderstorms from central New Jersey through Maine. The beaches in southern New Jersey through Virginia will remain dry. High temperatures will be from near 80 in Maine to near 90 in the south.

By the Jack Evers

Cooking

Make leftovers to look forward to.

Explore recipe collections like

Dishes That Taste Better on the Second Day.

nytecooking.com

1. 2017年1月1日

---

5 MARKETING

Tech workers have proudly worn needy company gear. This generation of firms is getting fancy with its merch.

6 POLICY

After one failure, President Trump is trying a new way to oust an official from the Federal Reserve Board.

8 SPORTS

M.L.S.'s new commissioner, Larry Berg, will back to top into the momentum created by the World Cup.

TECH | ECONOMY | MEDIA | FINANCE

Business

The New York Times

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

B1

The Rhine conveys vessels and cargo that power European industry. Record low water levels are disrupting supply chains and adding costs.

Photo by Robert Fink, New York Times

The wreck in Dermagen, Germany, of a fishing boat that sank in 1896 is one of several long-submerged relics exposed by low water levels, which hit their lowest point since 1880 this week.

Drought Is Risk to Vital Economic Artery

By CHRISTOPHER E SCHUETZE

and PATRICIA COHEN

DISTRUMU, GERMANY — Fornicious heat waves, wildfires and freakish storms have pulverized Europe this summer. Now a series of droughts, magnified by climate change, have crippled some of the continent's key waterways, bringing further economic pressure on a region struggling with stagnating growth and force global competition.

One corner of the crisis is the "wale and winding Rhine" river, as Lord Byron put it, which stretches nearly 800 miles through six countries as it journeys from

the Swiss Alps to the North Sea.

This vital economic artery conveys thousands of vessels and millions of tons of cargo a year that make trade and industry throughout the continent.

"It's one of the most important heart chambers of the German economy," said Carsten Brizniki, global head of macroeconomic at ING, as well as a devoted rower.

This week, water levels hit their lowest point since 1880, when official measurements were first recorded, disrupting supply chains, raising shipping costs and possibly forcing companies to scale back

on production.

The wave of extreme weather is also affecting the Danube, the second longest river in Europe, where record low water levels are exposing the previously hidden bulks of warships sank during World War II.

That water crisis is forcing a scramble to keep electricity flowing in Hungary and Romania, which can water from the Danube to cool nuclear power reactors. Governments in both countries have appealed to households and businesses to reduce their power use.

The ripple effects of low water levels

on the economy can be seen in Duisburg, Germany, where goods were being moved from bigger ships onto smaller ships, rail cars or trucks. Other boats have unloaded as much as two-thirds of their cargo so they can safely navigate the river, which at some points has a depth of little more than four feet of water.

"Now you see who is a good captain and who is a bad captain," said Wilma van Eggen, part of a Dutch husband-and-wife team that brought the 566-foot push frogdom; W. De Beijer Sr, up from Rotter-CONTINUED ON PAGE B1

U.S. Issues Tariffs on Key Component for Solar Panels

By ANA SIMKINEN

and BRAD FULMER

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation that would create a minimum price for imports of polytillosis and impose a 15 percent tariff on products made with the material, in an effort to support domestic production of a key component in noniconductors and solar panels.

The tariffs will go into effect in early December. By setting a minimum import price for polytillosis and products made with a, the administration will block any products priced below those levels from entering the U.S. market. That will allow U.S.-based manufacturers to sell their products at prices where they can be profitable. The administration said the move would help create a protected domestic market free from global distortions, and may be adjusted for countries that have trade agreements with the United States, the order said.

Mr. Trump also ordered Commerce Secretary Howard Lattock to establish an incentive program for companies that build or ex-CONTINUED ON PAGE B2

Inspecting solar panels. President Trump wants to impose a 15 percent tariff on products made with polytillosis.

FIFA Leader

Pushed Sale Of Cup Stake

By TARIQ PANJA

The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff.

But their mood was anything but jubilant. The men, a group of top directors known as the FIFA bureau of the management board, had been summoned to a hastily organized meeting at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan, according to three people familiar with the discussions speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were private. The directors had until midnight to sign off on a plan that threatened to change soccer forever and would almost certainly lead to a major schism among the sport's leaders.

The project purported to sell a 20 percent stake in FIFA to a group of investors led by Joshua CONTINUED ON PAGE B3

Data Show

Job Market Is Slowing

By LYTHA DePILLIS

The labor market posted a modest loss in July, as businesses shed jobs in the face of renewed tariffs and higher costs driven by war in the Middle East.

Employers cut 33,000 positions on a seasonally adjusted basis last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday, and the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4.1 percent as hundreds of thousands of people left the labor force.

The lower-than-expected reading comes after what had appeared to be a surge in job creation in March and April, born of optimism around his cars, a staple from low tariffs, using interest rates and lower inflation.

Since then, costs have jumped as oil shipments from the Persian Gulf have remained stalled, while the Trump administration has renewed its battle against imports. CONTINUED ON PAGE B4

---

B2

6

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

The Digest

INTERNATIONAL

Canada Added More Jobs In July Than Expected

Canada's economy added far more jobs in July than expected and the unemployment rate dropped to a two-year low, data showed on Friday, in another sign the economy is coping with U.S. tariffs and international sessions.

Statistics Canada said employment had jumped by 75,500 positions on strong gains in both the full-time and part-time sectors.

The jobless rate fell for the third consecutive month, digging from 6.5 percent to 6.4 percent, a level last seen in July 2024.

Analysts pulled by Reuters had forecast a net gain of 15,500 positions and estimated the jobless rate would remain at 6.5 percent.

July's forecast follows the creation of 67,800 jobs in May.

"(This) is further evidence that the economy is gaining momentum after a weak start in the year," said Ariane Curtis, senior North American economist at Capital Economics. REUTERS

ANNUAL

Under Armour Forecasts A Steeper Sales Decline

Under Armour on Friday forecast a bigger drop in annual revenue, underscoring the challenge of reviving growth as cautious consumers in North America risk in spending on athletic apparel amid persistent inflation and economic uncertainty.

The challenges come as shoppers increasingly gravitate toward newer and more innovative, focused brands such as On and Hoks, intensifying competition for established players, including Nike, Adidas and Under Armour that are working to migrate the tech.

"It's a difficult sportswear mar-

ker right now. The tariff situation and other economic factors are not helping," David Swartz, a Morningstar analyst, said.

Revenue at Under Armour's North America business, its largest market, 60.9 percent to $809.8 million in the quarter ended June 30. REUTERS

SEAT

Dream Finders to Buy Bearer for $2.2 Billion

Dream Finders Homes said on Friday it would acquire peer Bearer Homes in an all-outly deal worth about $2.2 billion, including bills, and books to make up and become the ninth-largest U.S. homebuilder in a challenging housing market.

U.S. householders are navigating rising costs due to persistent inflation, as well as President Trump's tariffs on key construction raw materials.

Besides, weakening consumer

sentiment is prompting builders to offer incentives like mortgage rate buydowns, which in turn has hurt their margins further.

Under the agreement, Bearer shareholders will receive $33.30 in cash for each share they own, it represents a premium of 6.15 percent from Bearer's last class.

The transaction implies Bearer's equity value at about $500 million, according to Reuters' calculations.

Shares of Bearer Homes were down over 1 percent before the bell.

The agreement marks an end to a monthlong saga between the two companies. REUTERS

S&P 500 INDEX

+0.6%

7.00.00

3000 INDEX INDUSTRIALS

+0.3%

34,000.00

NASDAQ COMPLETE INDEX

+1.3%

26,000.00

10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD

4.64%

10,023 points

CRUISE IN, 0.5:1

$78.10

-$0.00

WILD BUY

$4,390.70

+0.00.10

Stocks & Bonds

Markets React to Jobs Report and a Hope Rate Cuts Can Wait

In the United States

Stocks rose on Wall Street Friday and Treasury yields fell after the government reported that employees unexpectedly cut 22,000 jobs last month.

Every major index smoked a second straight week at gains, which included several fresh records. It marks a strong start to suggest following several weak months.

The S&P 500 rose 47.66 points, or 0.8 percent, to 7,075.94. That tapped the high it set on Tuesday. The benchmark index has been on a record run throughout the year.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 101.83 points, or 0.3 percent, to 54,056.93. That put it just short of the record it set on Wednesday. The Nasdaq composite rose 342.28 points, or 1.3 percent, to 28,490.02.

Technology stocks, with close big market values, did much of the heavy lifting for the broader market. They are often the business weights determining the market's direction. Nvidia jumped 2.3 percent and Broadcom rose 1.7 percent.

The bond market reacted more strongly to the weaker signal on the jobs market, which can be seen as allowing the Federal Reserve more time before raising its invest rates to fight inflation.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.84 percent from 4.07 percent just before the jobs update. It was as low as 4.00 percent before recovering a 3/4.

The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely tracks expectations for fuel action on interest rates, fell to 6.20 percent from 4.22 percent before the report's release. It was as low as 4.15 percent before signing up.

"Although the stock market is likely to welcome the dovish implications of the report, investors should be wary of the future growth potential of an economy where fewer people are working," said Peter Graf, chief investment officer at Aurora Asset Management Americas, in a research

The S&P 500 Index

Position of the S&P 500 index at 3-minute intervals on Friday

← Previous Show: 7,709.96

note.

Overall, the report paints a dimmer picture of the jobs market, which has been one of the biggest areas of the economy amid rising inflation and worries about household spending. It included a revision to the figures for June and May that involved doubling a combined 355,000 jobs from payrolls for those months.

The Fed has been holding interest rates mostly amid worries about foster inflation, fueled by a rise in oil prices because of the U.S. war with Iran. Wall Street expects at least one rate increase by the end of the year, with forecasts shifting for the next meeting. Expectations for a rate cut in September are down to 42 percent, from 55 percent on Thursday and from 47 percent a week ago, according to CMS FairWatch.

A weakening jobs market could make matters more complicated for the Fed, which has to balance supporting job growth with fighting inflation. Raising interest rates can help tame inflation by slowing economic growth. A weaker jobs market, though, could become even shaker under higher interest rates as businesses find it more difficult to expand under increased borrowing rates.

Businesses, and Wall Street, prefer lower interest rates because it can help boost investments. That might matter a weakened jobs market, but it could worsen already stalkless inflation.

Wall Street will get several important inflation updates next week. The most closely watched will be the Consumer Price Index, or CPI, which measures cents for consumers. Wall Street expects it to show that inflation in July rose at a 3.4 percent rate, which would be a slight easing from the 3.5 percent rise in June. Interest rates have held stalkaway, above 5 percent for most of the year.

"Today's weak payrolls print they ease the pressure on the Fed to raise rates at its big number meeting, but next week's inflation data will still likely be the deciding factor," said Ellen Zomber, chief economic strategist for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, in a research note.

NEWSLITTER: DEALBOOK

Deadbook helps you make sense of the day's most important business and policy headlines. Sign up for the newsletter at nytimes.com/dealbook

What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

S&P 500 7,707.64 ↑ +0.6%

3 month performance +6.7%

Nasdaq Composite Index 36,600.62 ↑ +1.3%

3 month performance +5.8%

Dow Jones Industrials 34,000.00 ↑ +0.3%

3 month performance +0.0%

Best performers

S&P 500 (COMPANIES)	CLOSE CHANGE
1. INDIAN AFFAIRS	$17,927.7 +13.4%
2. Industrial Technology (HUNT)	$40,481.0 +2.6%
3. INDIAN AFFAIRS	$19,913.2 +2.0%
4. Paper Technology (PEN)	$17,521.4 +22.2%
5. Industrial (HUNT)	$38,127.1 +0.8%
6. New Enterprise (HUNT)	$37,123.1 +0.2%
7. Newtech (HUNT)	$12,538.0 +7.2%
8. Xylex (APEC)	$49,631.2 +7.2%
9. APPA (APEC)	$30,431.4 +0.6%
10. Other Technologies (UBER)	$75,000.0 +0.0%

Worst performers

S&P 500 (COMPANIES)	CLOSE CHANGE
1. The State (Sech. 6-775)	$15,881.0 +24.0%
2. Federal Technologies (HUNT)	$15,929.0 +0.0%
3. USSR (JCR)	$17,000.0 +0.0%
4. Realtors (PERC)	$21,124.0 +2.1%
5. Staggers Technology (Hugo, DTS)	$10,217.0 +2.7%
6. USW (Euro, USW)	$19,925.0 +0.2%
7. Superheaven (Euro, PRUS)	$29,667.0 +0.2%
8. Texas Pacific (JAX, DTS)	$24,625.0 +0.2%
9. News & (HUNT)	$35,425.0 +0.2%
10. Minisite (Beverage, MRO)	$80,200.0 +0.0%

Most active

S&P 500 (COMPANIES)	CLOSE CHANGE	VOLUME CHANGE
1. The State (Sech. 6-775)	$15,881.0 +24.0%	12.0%
2. INDIAN AFFAIRS	$20,524.0 +2.1%	12.0%
3. Paper Technology (APEC)	$12,523.0 +0.2%	12.0%
4. Intel (HUNT)	$20,425.0 +1.6%	7.6%
5. The U.S. (JAX)	$20,525.0 +2.1%	7.6%
6. Texas (PSA)	$20,525.0 +2.0%	7.6%
7. AT&T (e.g., D)	$22,525.0 +0.2%	7.6%
8. Xylex (APEC)	$23,525.0 +0.2%	7.6%
9. Tech Micro (IT)	$13,528.0 +1.4%	5.6%
10. Minisite (Beverage, MRO)	$87,727.0 +0.4%	5.6%

Large-cap stocks

	TOTAL RETURNS	TOTAL ASSETS
	1.00	0.1992
1. Integrated Morningstar, Wall Street Markets Index Fund Institutional Real Shares (US$89)	+1.94%	+1.10%
2. Integrated International Financial Shares (IFRS)	+2.62	+2.68
3. Integrated Financial Funds (FUND)	+3.02	+3.08
4. Integrated Morningstar Growth Index Fund Investor Shares (US$91)	+2.67	+2.69
5. American Funds The Growth Fund of America (Sept. 8-4, 1992/3)	+2.58	+2.60
6. Integrated Institutional Index Fund Institutional Shares (IFRS)	+2.53	+2.58
7. Strategic Interest Funds (e.g., New Board Fund, IFRS)	+2.52	+2.58
8. Integrated Morningstar Index Index Fund Investor Shares (US$93)	+2.50	+2.51
9. Integrated Fundal Marketing Index Fund Investor Shares (US$95)	+2.54	+2.57
10. American Funds Investment Company of America (Sept. 8-4, 1992/3)	+2.72	+2.83
	Source: Morningstar

Sector performance

How stock markets fared yesterday in Asia

What Is Happening in Other Markets and the Economy

Bonds

Currencies

Consumer rates

Commodities

Economy

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2026

9

R3

MARKETING | POLICY | COURTS

If You Can't Beat A.I., Outdress It, Tech Firms and Their Swag Say

By KEN GIBERTIN

SAN FRANCISCO — Although, the artificial intelligence powerhouse, hosts pop-up cabs around the world that give away Saudi, limited-edition baseball fans that say "thinking"; They became hot from an eBay.

Figma, the design software makes minutes its sluggishly gear, created in collaboration with big brands like Owner Service, in which fans it calls "sessions".

Patients has its much-discussed E2B-theory car, a marketing store that is designed to transform the controversial government contractor into a lifestyle brand.

And last month, OpenAI revealed Supply Co., its shop for branded gear, including an embroidered half-ship sweater (SFL), a pair of bright blue crew sacks (S3S) and a tie-dyed (SAGDP) basketball (SFS), promoted an "a physical reminder that creativity doesn't just live on our screens."

"The tech industry's new status-symbol merchandise — call it 'conquest' — is the most prominent sign yet of the industry's workload led for taste and style.

And recently, Silicon Valley has held an image as a swagless place that celebrated its needs and lives, and stuck to gray handles and Ad-licith smokers. That's changing as tech companies replace their boring logo T-shirts — handed out by the husband at conferences — with exclusive enterwear collaborations with niche designers sold in limited-edition drops.

"Historically, it was sent to signal you did not care," said Tiana Castello Branco, founder of Tano Labs, an A.I. start-up. "Mean and more, there has been this value around aesthetics and around quality and care and craft."

It's all part of such a new discussion with taste. If A.I. lets anyone create anything in seconds, the thinking goes, humans are no longer needed to write, or create code, or design things, the only value in the modern marketplace will be to judge whether these things are good or bad. To have taste.

In this way, taste is best of a firm for appreciation of art than it is a résumé. Inafore. Commentaries have declared that taste is a new core skill and the only must, better young such workers are even throwing taste-themed dinner perfects.

To critics, tech's fashionable shift is a way to create the tactile aesthetics of craftsmanship as the very moment A.I. took on replacing humans and producing a place of digital sign. Some have called the tech companies' embrace of artless and designer swag "saste-washing."

The healthful against A.I. (more age, race, class and political party, Will march actually change the way to the end.)

No first, founder of the venture firm String Capital, said he believed it could humanize the industry. His suggested archdeanath above that early of the end now apparel and343chuckers, as well as books by tech C.E.G.s and venture capitalists. Why isn't there a 'healthcare for tech'? "I love them, I'm more a whole mall!"

"Tech will be better understood when people actually see it in culture," he said.

T. Combinator, a start-up incubator, has gone upscale from its standard T-shirts, shows, and Figures 1W. Mary gave away company merchandise outside the New York Stock Exchange on the day of its 1.8/0, last year, below.

'Marketing Is Like Sex'

Silicon Valley once had a saying, popularized by the author Amoson Garcia Martinez: "Marketing is like sex. Only losers pay for it." In other words, good tech products sell themselves.

It's no longer true in the age of A.I. when every company has a giant pile of cash and the competition is fierce, thanks to A.I. from that can write code overnight. To stand out, tech companies have reigned up their marketing with side launch videos, jargon-filled billboards and more creative plays.

An A.I. software start-up called Amazon is spending $6,000 a day to fly a plane with a banner of its logo over East Francisco. The company's founder, Sam Blond, said it was cheaper than renting a full-bodied big library. Hit for a month, (Monaco also experimented with a mini-binary.) Corgi, an A.I. insurance start-up, opened a 24-hour cafe in San Francisco's financial district "for builders to gather at any hour of the day." Nico Lagoa, a Corgi co-founder, said the cafe helped the company with hiring.

March is a critical piece of the

packaged, with companies training up with artisans or striking partnerships with low designers. Limberdelton items, like OpenAI's basketball, frequently sell out.

Foxboro critics are not especially impressed. Jonah Weiner, a co-author of Blackbird Appliance, a popular style newsletter, said the clothes felt designed by A.I.

"They look like this synthesis of merch design trends that let peaks regularly. I'm in 10 years ago," he said, with traces of real little streetwear, Kauyu West tour march and millennial district co-consumer branding. They do not convey any distinct sense of the culture of the companies they represent, he added.

"There is a little blankness to what they're offering," Mr. Weiner said.

Kartne Hou, who runs Slope, a branding agency for tech companies, bought OpenAI's basketball, water bottle and bright blue handles, an artificial air throbs sweater depicting the chipmaker's founder, Jenson Huang. Some of her friends bought items from Slope, in 's collection of tennis gear.

Ms. Hou hasn't worn the appar-

el and mostly view it as metamorphosis. "It's like a moment in time," she said. "They're trying to be called right relevant."

The A.I. companies' own employees may even be hesitant to broadcast their affiliation. OpenAI has advised employees not to be able to make or wear clothing with its logo around the office when there is a heightened security risk, a company spokeswoman said.

'Quality Fast Reveals Itself'

When the A.I. start-up Proximity decided to make swap for its fans, its designers knew the terms had to be "very often elevated," said Jesse Dwyer, the company's head of communication and marketing.

The resulting e-commerce shop, Proximity Supply, carries framed artwork promoting Proximity's message of curiosity (S3S), sweatshirts made of heavyweight stones, featuring custom tapes and a traditional logo (S3S), and full-grain-toather "hardware" journals with exfoliative pages, bound by eight solid brass rings (S3S).

The tech industry's new status symbol merchandise is a sign of the industry's bid for cabs. Outdress, Iona Jaber, OpenAI's I/O basketball; Polaroid's E2B-thorn seat; and Exchange's limited-edition baseball case.

Proximity Supply congratulates its designers for their good taste, describing its apparel as having 'quality that reveals itself to the observant wearer."

"There is a judgment and a taste involved in choosing one that's the best," Mr. Dwyer said. The company is not trying to make a profit on the team, he said. Around $1,000 people have bought items.

Proximity's worldwide come from OpenAI, a 'focusingness, the company founded by Jeff Meehan in 1998. Mr. Meehan does not share the hypergrowth dimension of the tech industry; he has turned down several investment offers over the years.

OpenAI's website features a parable about a fisherman who is happy with his simple life catching just enough fish, and who encloses advice from a businessman suggesting he work longer, expand, go public and become a millionaire. Mr. Meehan is not opposed to tech or A.I., he said, but his strategy is "the polar opposite of what A.I. is doing."

"We're doing the other version," he said. "We're slow, methodical, thoughtful, and A.I. is the trip, fast and trans and just, like, three things at the end."

"The New York Times has used Proximity, OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The companies have denied these claims."

OpenAI also made $200 content journals for T Combinator, the famous start-up accelerator. Unfortunately, the program's main swap item was a standard teacher-gray. T-shirt with its design art. A.I. for shirts embedded the spurtas, to enjoy his/her spirit of Silicon Valley that just regularizing ahead of beauty.

Eve Bradford, T Combinator's

head of design, persuaded her lesson to test into the upscale merch bread because it felt introduced. "He someone sat down and thought about it a little bit," she said. Perhaps, she moved, the company could foster the connection among the founders, who could take notes on paper during meetings instead of starting at their screens.

Tech-Rubbed Taste

Jason in Silicon Valley are trying to give the A.I. facts and agents their own sense of taste. In June, Ms. Castello Branco announced that Tano Labs had raised $18.5 million with that mission. She boosted the company after becoming concerned by the volume of low-quality A.I. agreement content flooding the web.

"I think we're going to get used to it and think it's normal, and I really don't want that," she said.

Tano Labs is starting with Big and design. It contracted with 1,000 design experts and critics to help refine software that other A.I. companies can use to improve their systems by teaching their for difference between quality digital design and data.

Teaching A.I. how to have taste won't take away humans' only including value in an A.I.-filed world, Ms. Castello Branco said. "The more you will see of this issue production of things, the more taste/others matter," she said.

Our problem, though, is that taste is, well, a matter of taste. Ms. Castello Branco said her company wasn't yet tackling the problem of overreaching A.I. tools to an individual's preferences. For now, there is enough work touching the technology foreign it's.

"The fair is on the ground," she said.

Limit on Broadcast TV Owners Removed

By CECILIA KANG

The Federal Communications Commission, which has been removed a limit on broadcast television ownership, a move that could usher in more concentration in the media industry.

The new issue, the agency that is a cap that restricted a single television station owner from reaching more than 30 percent of U.S. households. The agency will now have a right to make a decision that go beyond that limit on a case-by-case basis.

The decision was widely expected and is aimed at ensuring a "intermediate" service for local television stations. Brendan Carr, the chairman of the agency who is the first member of the F.C. to enter opinion given in the conservative professional timelines that by consolidating, local stations would be better empowered to re-enter the program in the Contract or Disney that are discontinued across the country.

"Local TV stations today lack the power to pre-empt or return to the program," he said. "There is no need to allow not to limit commissioner values," Mr. Carr wrote. "Local TV stations are struggling to find the resources to produce less, to send more and to bring them to the program."

Mr. Carr has engaged in an aggressive campaign to combat what he was as literat fous in broadcast television. In September, the agency has been working out of the late night host Jimmy Kimberly comments, his show was temporarily pulled off the air. Mr.

Brendan Carr has threatened to revoke the TV business of CBS, ABC and NBC

Carr celebrated, saying local stations were finally serving against some kind of financial programming. He has also investigated and threatened to revoke the television licenses of ABC, NBC and CBS.

Mr. Carr has justified his actions by signing that the F.C. is to charge of promoting the public interest in its oversight of television airwaves. Many legal scholars and Democrats say Mr. Carr's moves violate the procedures of free speech.

In 2004, Congress ordered the F.C. to set the ownership cap as 10 percent to promote a diversity of television TV television commercial policies.

The move to scrap the ownership limit is a win for Nexstar, a

television station group that currently reaches "nearly 30 percent of households," according to its decision. The television giant had moved last year to acquire a rival, Vegas, but the deal was frozen by a federal court in April while an antitrust lawsuit proceeded.

Aston Gaines, the two historical on the F.C.C., voted against filing the cap. She said the move would not free local broadcasters from economic pressure.

"It just changes who is doing the squeezing," she said in a statement. "The large station groups positioned to grow even larger under this decision are not local broadcasters," why the additional companies that own local stations and increasingly dictate what air's on them."

Meta Fined $567 Million in Safety Case

By ELI TAY

SAN FRANCISCO — A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make changes to the way young people can use to plan hereto, the largest financial penalty on against the web giant to be targeting legal harms over social media harm and addiction.

"The ruling, issued late Thursday, was in addition to $375 million that Meta was ordered to pay in the same case in March, when a jury found that the company created users about the safety of its platforms and modified the sexual exploitation of young people.

"The 567 million was go toward a fund to remedy damages caused by the company, including a county tax treatment of young people who have been harmed by social media.

"Although Meta is not alone in this regard, its social media platforms are a major issue contributing factor to the current mental health crisis among New Mexico's youth established by the substantial evidence in this year," Judge Bryan McCormick, a 1940 District Court in Santa Fe, wrote in the ruling.

Andy Fisher, a Meta spokesman, said in a statement that the company is not a legal firm, the ruling and planned to appeal.

"We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of the law, and the ruling had actors and harmful content," he said. "We remain confident in our record of protecting

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to make changes in the way young people can use its platforms

seem online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that interspersent the facts."

As part of the charges ordered in the judge's ruling, Meta is prohibited to New Mexico from sending paid notifications to the accounts of underage users in telegram and Facebook between the hours of 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. It also must limit the amount of time these users spend on its platform for no more than 90 hours a month.

Meta is facing thousands of lawsuits across the country filed by teenagers, school districts and other government agencies that do the platforms, and features like edition world, social widespread harm. New Mexico was the first of

dozens of states to take on the tech giant to crack, and the company heads to a trial, later this month in Oakland, Calif., to take on a case filed by attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey.

"For years, Meta knew to plan hereto were learning New Mexico's bills, from finding a youth mental health crisis to conserving predators with children, and it alone engaged in a bad profit over their safety," said the state attorney general, Raul Torres. "Today, Meta is paying for that choice."

Sandra Kang contributed reporting from Washington.

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

BUSINESS / FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES

Upper Blame 2026

Reimbursement: Reimbursement is $1,000,000.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00

---

B4

THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020

ECONOMY | POLICY

Labor Market Is Shifting Into Reverse as Employers Balk at Hiring

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE Job gains for April and May were revised down by 88,000. Inaging was monthly average for 2020 to 88,000.

"We have a labor market that's stable but stuck in second gear," said Lydia Bostian, a senior economist at the consulting firm EV-Parthoven. "We still have an environment where these supply shocks are working their way through the economy, and a lot of uncertainty, and that will keep businesses cautious in hiring."

"Be stuck hiring comes while loyalty have remained consistently low, corporate profits are high and consumer spending has held up remarkably well even as expensive, gasoline weight, on wallets. Job openings, the rate of hiring and the share of people gaining their jobs have stopped falling. Those indicators suggest that companies are not looking to slash payrolls at the level of pay."

But they have been investing heavily in artificial intelligence, which has subdued hiring for certain roles and weakness in worker's leverage in whatever business it is wages. Hourly earnings grow 3.2 percent over the year, the slower pace since May 2021 and likely less than the rise in price over the same period. July's Consumer Price Index reading will be released on Aug. 15.

July's total total return for the end Roster's relative comfort with the state of the labor market, as committee members weigh raising interest rates to combat sub-divisions. The rate of hiring is not as great another jobs report before meeting again in September.

The hiring stamp is especially pronounced in the collection of occupation and job growth. The mining sector, which have shrunk 3.8 percent since the ending in 2022, according to an analysis by the employer review website Glanc

"It's a sharp reversal from what we've seen in the year," said Glanc

Monthly Change in Jobs

door chief economist Daniel Zhao. "It's also coming at a time when there's an incredible amount of hype in the tech industry around data centers, and it's just not showing up in the employment numbers."

Glancdon's measure of employee confidence reached its size—a level on record in July, and the

An optimistic surge from the spring is 'stuck in second gear.'

share of consumers who judged that jobs were "hard to get" rose to its highest level since January 2021, according to surveys by the Confection Board.

One place data centers are showing up the construction industry, which added 22,000 jobs. Nearly all of these are on commercial projects, and some building or market personnel by high interest rates. Massive data center building sites in states like Texas, Ohio and Virginia are creating still competitive for labor contractors, especially as demand for new industrial space starts to recover.

For Neely Tadowski, the president of construction at the Minster Group, a Chicago-area developer, it has meant committing to low workers for in-attract for the new project, and for starting to envision, She's having a hard time finding are superintendents, and relying more heavily on recruit-

"tions are really an electric class in the union hall right over. We, Tadowski said, "A lot of them are traveling in go work on data centers because of the money that is being offered. So it's a challenge for sure."

The other remaining source of the employment is health care, which has powered nearly all of the government for jobs five years. The senior added 22,000 positions in July, 1, markedly lower rate than the prior 12 months.

Hiring in temporary help services, which represents people audited on employers is a variety of industries, but also more steadily rising after a long downward slide that reverses it more over the whole

"While employers have ranged down in hiring, they still have work that they need people to do," said the American Ending Association's chief economist, Noah Neal! Companies are turning to fixed employment contracts for specific assignments, he noted, which allows them to accustom their higher salary without committing to full-time employers.

The weakest open to the report came from leisure and hospitality, which has shed 84,000 jobs over the year, and has a daughter as chemist around the World Cup teaching place teachers in hours of hrs. Local government education also shrank by 50,000 positions, which may be a one-time teaching to do with the timing of schools getting out for the summer.

The White House seized on the

Health Care Remains Primary Driver of Job Growth

Change in jobs by sector since 2022, ranked by total jobs gained in test

weakness in public sector hiring and a small gain in manufacturing employment. "The Troop of Industrial recognizes is on schedule," said Scott House, a White House spokesman, in a statement. "The Troop administration is focused on subsidizing more private-sector job growth through President Trump's proven economic uprouts of tax cuts, deregulation and unemployment."

But rather than strong demand for labor, the drop is the unemployment rate reached from a contraction in the number of jobs per looking for work. The labor force participation rate for people in their prime working years, between approximately 25 and 34, recovered only slightly from the 1980s in June. For all ages, the participation rate sank to 10.5 percent level outside the pandemic recession since 1976, when women were just starting to work in large numbers. Aside from retirement, the most obvious cause of the declining work force is the White House's ongoing campaign to re-

pel immigrants, who tend to hold jobs as higher rates than native-born Americans. That often was added in June by Supreme Court, which allowed temporary job control status to lapse for hundreds of thousands of people from that and other countries. The one leading shrinking has kept unemployment low, even amid rapid demand for workers.

"All our fears were misplaced from a true age when we succeed, seeing the fall and realizing 'work a month, is a few more about to pick up?'" said Andrew Forrest, chief economist with the recruit, most advertising firm Apparat "Actually, so, it's the opposite; it's the immigration restrictions are starting to low."

Fewer people coming in to the labor force in little contact to those who have been on the job market for months. The median number of weeks of unemployment, which stood at 10.5 in July, has been gradually rising since 2022.

Matthew Glickden lost his job at

a program manager at the audio hardware company Senate in 2021. He's been job hunting since then, but has gotten less personal outreach from Young managers as the costs of the unemployed tech workers grow.

Lastly, he's housed into the job plan, sports history, and started proclaiming. He's been marketing his writing and research skills to safely preage and acclaim lessons, whose interest in human collectible card sets has been booming. It's approaching a small income as he hopes for his original profession is recover, which, he recognizes, will be a

"I've been the last paperboy, I've been one of the last people in a phone center. I've been one maybe the last major wave for program managers," said Mr Glickden. "It 'Saving those kinds of reputation makes me think that this is more of a natural transition, no assurance as it seems."

Tony Ramm contributed reporting.

U.S. Tariffs Issued on Key Ingredient for Solar Panels

The court to assure your panel factories to produce polyalkylene in its derivatives in the United States.

The proclamation said that domestic polyalkylene production was essential for national security because it is a key ingredient for nonconservatives used in a variety of electronics and defense systems such as radar and communication systems as well as control systems for insiders and drivers.

Polydilates is a widely used commercial in-solar preservative process, which is used in the manufacture of a computer (that and other electronics). The United States was once a world leader in production of the natural gas China has used in the manufacture of a non-producer after funding domestic manufacturers. Union China produces roughly 90 percent of the world's supply, while Japan is producing less than 2 percent.

While the Trump's order emphasized the importance of polyalkylene in electronics and defense systems, the U.S. government is by far the biggest consumer of the essential and research its manufacture in the United States. Numerous have pushed for protection against Chinese industry.

U.S. solar manufacturers have repeatedly won trade cases before immigrants to the United States to unfair subcultures and pricing, resulting in the U.S. government putting tariffs on solar panels and polydilates from any other country's own energy manufacturers, which dominate solar production, have quickly found ways to sidestep those rules by expanding globally and expanding the United States from new countries that do not lose restrictions.

The pattern has resulted in several reports and tariffs being issued by the U.S. Government. The Southern Asia, in May, eight domestic solar companies that it is spent for the government to investigate solar products and products in the United States. The U.S. government is trying the country had become the latest report platform to help circumvent U.S. tariffs.

Installing solar panels in Minnesota, The United States was once a world leader in production of polydilates, a raw material used in the panels, but China has since become the world's main producer. Polydilates, which was later melted down into a single crystal to create solar cells, before.

The domestic companies said they had more similar trends in the Philippines, the Middle East and countries in Africa, including Egypt and Nepal. U.S. firms have complained that the country's total tariffs are medium and harshish in high legal expenses for American manufacturers.

Are Youlong, the president of the Coalition for Prosperous America, a trade partner of the United States tariffs, said the new global tariffs would "solve the sudden game" of Whac-a-Mole that polydilates and

solar manufacturers had been fighting for decades.

"For the first time, the United States is protecting the union and supply chain with a single state," he said.

Yet, many administration has tried to use tariffs to build a protective wall around U.S. industries. Last month, it imposed duties on imports from more than 60 countries. The court said to resurrect the tariffs that were struck down earlier this year by the Supreme Court. Those tariffs used a legal

provision known as Section 301, which dealt with solar trade practices.

The polydilates tariffs were issued under another national- or early-related provision called Section 252, which the administration has also used in impose tariffs

Currently, there are just two companies that make polydilates in the United States.

on foreign steel, aluminum, cars, copper and pharmaceuticals, among other products.

There are currently just two companies that produce polydilates in the United States, Herder's Semiconductor and Wachor Systems in 2008, BAT. Silicon antrephed to restart polydilates production in Miami Lake, Wash., but closed the facility later that year.

Although a large number of U.S.-based factories now assemble solar panel modders, many of the underlying companies are still targeted from abroad, including silicon-based and photovoltaic. The U.S. Government, Republicans in Congress phased out six credits rewarding solar developers that have been successfully made panels, but says to place a credit to encourage U.S.-based panels for

While the new tariffs have the potential to increase the cost of its products, they are likely to currently the fastest-growing source of electricity in the United States — some solar manufacturers with U.S.-based operations, including Material, QLOE and TV.com, praised the move.

"Safety devices from the White House balances the reality of where electricity solar energy is used," said the U.S. government. "The cancer-causing radiotec-solution is another the entire supply chain from polydilates to finished panels in the U.S.", said the U.S. government. "The U.S. government is an effective QLOE, a South Korean company that operates large solar manufacturing facilities in Georgia.

---

15

BS

INTERNATIONAL

Within two fingers car, with a dog in the front seat, was lifted by crane off a vessel in Duisburg, and markings on a vessel's ball to measure how deep a ship is submerged. The Rhine River is seen in the center of a harbor boat.

Watermarks in Duisburg, The Rhine connects the North Sea port of Rotterdam to three of Germany's largest industrial clusters as companies, such as BASF and Mercedes-Benz, built their factories and trading routes along its shores.

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE

dane carrying iron ore.

Her ship, which can normally carry 1,000 tons, has been reduced to carrying just 1,200 tons.

Power loads mean heavier traffic. "We are working at our limit," said Markus Bangers, the chief executive of Duisburg harbor, which processes some 200 million tons of cargo a year and handles more than 20,000 ships a year.

The Rhine shaped the geography of Germany's industrial might as companies built their factories and trading routes along its shores. Trains of German manufacturing — BASIC Mercedes-Benz, Bayer and ThyssenKrupp — are along the route.

Nearly 200 million tons of cargo are carried by its waters each year. The Rhine connects the North Sea port of Rotterdam to three of Germany's largest industrial clusters, linking oil refineries, steel and chemical factories, coal-fired power plants and more along the way.

It would require as many as 500 trucks or an entire freight train to transport the cargo from a single river barge. Mr. Brünnli of ING said, that even substitutions are complicated. "The railways are a disaster as well," he added. And at the moment, construction work means one of the routes that runs along the river is not available.

A punishing drought in 2018 shuttered factories and ended up shoring 6.5 percent off Germany's overall output at the time, according to analysis.

The experience, though, prompted industry and officials to be more sizable, said Jens Schwaben, the director of the Federal Association of German Inland Navigation, an industry group.

"We cannot make water magically appear," he said.

Instead, companies have adopted. They have gotten better planning for times when water levels run low. They have built more storage space to deep water ports, so goods can continue to be delivered when waterways run dry. This has been a strategy of Siemens Energy, whose 500-ton turbines are so bulky they cannot be transported by rail or road.

There has also been a move to build ships that travel higher in the water, using different materials and wider designs.

Big propellers, though more efficient, stop working in shallow water. So some new designs feature multiple smaller propellers or special encasements that

Markus Lapertz's sculpture Echo des Prostides overbanks the exposed riverbed of Mercatorised at the entrance to the port of Duisburg, left, and the Rhine riverbed during a period of extreme low water, right.

One study suggested a month of low water could share 1 percent off industrial production in Germany and trigger an economic slowdown.

protect propellers from riverbeds.

"It's good to see that the measures are working," said Mr. Bangers, the Duisburg harbor chief. "We're in a much better position than we were eight years ago."

But the upgrades are slow. Of the nearly 6,000 cargo ships plying the Rhine, only about a dozen have been designed to handle low water levels.

And slower traffic, lighter loads and alternate routes cost more. Consumers in Germany whose petrol is shipped on the river are paying as much as 15 cents more per liter, according to the German carrol officer.

For analysis by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research centre, concluded: "Low water levels lead to severe disruptions in inland water transportation and cause a significant and economically meaningful decrease of economic activity."

After a month of low water, "industrial production in Germany declines by about 1 percent," Kiel found.

"That's quite a lot in a country that "for a prolonged period of time has been stagnating rather than growing in any significant way," said Stefan Knotha, a research director at Kiel.

Stopping crises outside of Europe's borders have also battered the region's economies. The war in Iran and disruption of trade and energy deliveries through the front of Norman and Roh al-Masidat forces have pushed up oil prices and foil reflames.

Concerns about rising prices caused by the conflict prompted the European Central Bank to raise interest rates in June.

At the same time, Europe is essentially fighting two trade wars: one with China, over a flood of cheap goods, and a second with the United States over a range of tariffs.

The forces of propellists and geography are both taking their toll, with more to come. Less snowfall in the alps during the winter months caused lower river levels this summer. The drought now means there is less rain flowing into the river. The boat has made things worse, causing surface water to evaporate and lowering water levels at a very early point in the season.

And more baking weather without rain is expected in the coming weeks.

Christopher F. Schuette reported from Duisburg, and Patricia Cohen from London.

---

B6

INTERNATIONAL | POLICY

FIFA Executives Told To Back Selling Stake In Cup to a Kushner

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE Kushner, the brother of President Trump's non-joiner Adolf Kushner, built a more would get into private history, parting on the World Cup, an event that has been run and controlled by FIFA, a nonprofit in Zurich, for 84 years.

The plans drawn up over months amid great success, the conjunction with Joshua Kushner's host Thrive Everest and JPMorgan Chase, had been kept secret from all but fewer than a handful of secret executives. The barrack role was to revive significant financial transactions, but most of the five members had not heard about the plan, the three people said. They left the Walland Games, with the impression that FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who wasn't present, would have won't they stalled, the three people said.

Stunned, some of the barrack members talked privately about their enquiring and the repercussions of saying on to a close like Mr. Infantino, who wished great power over their careers, according to one of the people.

Three members signed off an expiring deal between the deadline, and two did not, the three people said. In favor were Secretary General Martian Gridirman, legal head Exelda Garcia and chief of staff Eran O'Heale; chief operating officer Kevin Lamour and finance head Thomas Peyer declined to back it.

With a majority vote, Mr. Infantino presented ahead. The Times of London and the Financial Times expected Mr. Infantino's plan on July 28, triggering a wave of outrage around the world. Confrontation came from all corners of global soccer, with many high-powered figures declaring they had not been consulted. Several of Mr. Infantino's top deputies have since come forward to say they too, had been blindsides.

FIFA declined to comment. The barracks meeting on the Saturday before the World Cup final, and the pressure that was placed on its members to sign off on the project, have not been previously reported.

How it played out underscores the fact that Mr. Infantino had kept the idea from all but a tight inner circle, excluding many important figures inside FIFA, even as he developed the plan with Thrive Capital and JP Morgan. Of the five barrack members, only Mr. O'Toole, a young staff member handeledged by Mr. Infantino to work with the bankers on the plan, had any meaningful role on the project, the three people said, he had been working on it for months.

The barrack's approval was the first step in getting the plan over the line. FIFA's most important decisions typically go through a much larger group called the FIFA Church, which is made up of soccer leaders from several of world. They are not FIFA employees, but officials from member federations. Mr. Infantino, however, wanted to find a way to get the deal without that requirement, the three people said.

European society's governing body (SFA), a group made up of the continent's 10 soccer-playing nations, led the opposition that followed, threatening a boycott of all its teams from all FIFA events, including the World Cup. Similar regional bodies for Asia, North America and the Caribbean publicly offered their own criticism of the secretive powers behind the plan and FIFA's radical demands for them to sign off on it. Politicians, including the British prison minister, Andy Burshans, joined significant figures in the soccer world to measure the plan.

Even though he had voted to have Mr. Gridirman, who as FIFA's secretary general is the organization's top administrative officials described what had happened as 's zeal and representable series of events' and attempted to draw a line separating the staff from Mr. Infantino.

On July 31, Mr. Infantino abandoned the plan. On Wednesday, FIFA caused a local campaign to their members, signed by both Mr. Infantino and Mr. Gridirman, apologizing for what had happened and promising to learn from it. That same day, Mr. Infantino held crisis talks with his senior staff in Morocco. The many startled with two senior staffers calling for a draw of support for their beleaguered views, according to two of the people.

Mr. Infantino has shared up public support from several influential soccer federations, like more from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and many of the smaller ones that rely on millions of dollars from FIFA for their operations.

What Mr. Infantino said to persuade Mr. Gridirman and other FIFA leaders to back him remains unclear. He has posted a picture of himself and Mr. Gridirman growing with their thanks up on Instagram.

Despite these efforts, the crisis is not over. In a statement on Thursday, FIFA, the European soccer body, continued to threaten a boycott unless Mr. Infantino re-ignited.

Spanish players celebrated winning the World Cup last month. European soccer's governing body has led the opposition to a plan to sell a 20 percent stake in FIFA.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, above left, favors selling a stake in the organization to a group that includes Joshua Kushner, top right, the brother of President Trump's non-joiner Adolf Kushner. Above right, Martian Gridirman, FIFA's secretary general, was among three "yes" votes for the privatisation plan.

China's Factories Find Eager Buyers In Export Boom Despite Trade Backlash

By DASHRE WARABAYASHI SUN 8:00 - Another month, another trade surplus of more than $100 billion be China.

Even as countries around the world move to such the final of Chinese goods, China's export of China continues to stream ahead. The country posted a trade surplus of $32.5 billion in July, including to date released Friday by the General Administration of Customs.

It was the third straight month in which China's exports exceeded its imports by more than $100 billion - a staggering sum that puts the country on post to surplus last year's record: $1.29 billion (the double, 1.6%). China's exports rose 23.9 percent in U.S. dollar terms, while imports climbed 27.5 percent.

The figures show that the export of Chinese order is "odd going strong," Julian Evam-Pritchard, head of China economics for Capital Economics, a research firm, said in a research paper.

The war is less has disrupted all and gas shipments through the United States, including quark-mass滚存 Chinese electric vehicles and non-veiling energy products. China's manufacturers, hurt by overstepping and rebreking price increases, have been slowing down their profits, have sought growth abroad by reanalyzing overseas markets with low-cost goods.

The winning trade surplus has been a major factor in the future over the growing dominance of Chinese companies across a range of industries. The European Union has imposed tariff on electric cars, imported from the U.S. arguing that state subsidies give Chinese manufacturers an added advantage over European rivals.

China's export strength also has been slowed, making China domestic economy, which continues to suffer from the lingering effects of a year-long property

Hughes Bright, former co-operative of electronics, in Ninghai, China.

downturn and endowment weak consumer spending. In the second quarter, the economy grew at its bottom rate in three years.

Despite threats from President Trump at the start of his second term, China has weathered its trade confrontation with the United States and emerged as a position of relative strength. Last month, the Trump administration imposed a tariff rate of 12.5 percent on Chinese goods, roughly in line with that close applied to the area of other countries. In July, Chinese exports to the United States were up to $1.5 billion.

But in the past few weeks, there have been signs of an escalation in trade tensions between Beijing and Washington ahead of an expected war of 2.5 shipping. The 2.5 top leader, to the United States in September, Last month, the United States announced a ban on new Chinese horizontal refiner, which became a source of trade. China responded by announcing a series of insidency measures, including export restrictions on direct technology.

Chinese exports are also benefiting from the global spending spree for artificial intelligence. Shipments of electronics tied to

4.1, including semiconductors and data-center equipment, have surged.

A.1-related spending, alongside higher prices for raw materials and commodities, also helped lift imports.

China's oil imports rebounded in July from the previous month when shipments fell to decade here. Typically the world's largest importer of oil, China slashed purchases in the spring as prices jumped and flown from the Persian Gulf slowed significantly.

Oil imports rose 22 percent in July from June, though they remained nearly 25 percent below their level a year earlier. The path back in purchases underscored both the scale of China's multiple oil oil reserves and the progress it has made in reducing its reliance on fixed fuels.

Meanwhile, China's exports of refined petroleum products rose for a fourth straight month in July, reaching their highest levels this year. China imposed controls on refined-fed exports around March to protect domestic supplies, but has saved these restrictions in recent months.

U. The contributed research.

Trump Resumes Effort to Fire Fed Official

By COURT SMITH

and MAGGIE HARRIMAN

President Trump has opened a new front in his battle with Lisa S. Cook, the Federal Reserve official he tried - and failed - to oust from her position last year.

In a letter sent on Wednesday, the White House informed Mr. Cook that he serves on the Board of Governors, that it was "considering" removing her from her position. The letter, which was signed by Dan Sucerin, the White House deputy chief of staff, gave Mr. Cook 15 days in respond to previous allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud.

Mr. Cook has not been charged with a crime, even though it has been a year since the administration first made the claims, nor has she been convicted of wrongdoing.

The escalation comes after Mr. Trump suffered a significant legal setback in June when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Mr. Cook, whom Mr. Trump tried to fire last August, should have been given the formal ability to correct the accusations against her. In taking with the lower court, the Supreme Court passed the Court the ability to handle a wrong decision term, which is set to end in 2026.

But the Supreme Court 40 much unresolved, providing an opportunity for Mr. Trump to revive his attack. The justices do not articulate the full legal criteria that would allow Mr. Trump to fire Mr. Cook. The Federal Reserve Act stipulates the president can remove a sitting Fed official only "for cause," which has long been interpreted to mean gross negligence or a dereliction of duty. The justices also did not offer an opinion that the court allegations against her, which revolve around her sitting on mortgages on a range of properties, must be which was based on arbitrary weakness. Mr. Cook has suggested that they were critical errors.

"These allegations are an have-less now as they were a year ago

Lisa S. Cook won a legal victory in June and remained on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.

when President Trump tried to remove Governor Cook and interfere with the independence of the Federal Reserve," Ailes Lenoff and Kevin Eisele, Mr. Cook's lawyers, said in a statement. "No matter what President Trump tries to do next, this much is clear under the facts and Supreme Court provided - there is no valid cause for removing Governor Cook as we did before, we all challenge this latter person and preserve the position and the balance between the Fed."

In the letter, which was earlier reported by ABC News, Mr. Sucerin said the Fed had been "a serious 'way' he sufficient to demonstrate that you committed a crime, as you appear to have acquired mortgages that do not meet on a day. Holding the government that could have received favorable loan terms under foundation circumstances."

"Based on these facts, a jury could find that you intended to be fraud these institutions for your own benefit, but at a minimum, this conduct was grossly negligent and demonstrates that you are safe for the office in which you serve as a controlling member of the Federal Reserve," Mr. Sucerin added in his letter.

Mr. Trump has long sought more away over the Fed. In May, he had the opportunity to appoint it new Fed chairman - Kevin M. Ward, - after Jerome H. Powell's term came to an end. However, Mr. Powell, who has been one of the president's main targets, spent to stay on as a governor, as he is able to do until January 2026, because of his concerns about Mr. Trump's attempts to undermine the Fed's independence.

These fears stemmed in large part from the Justice Department's decision to begin a criminal investigation into Mr. Powell over the handling of costly insurances at the Fed's headquarters in Washington. After numerous legal setbacks, the Justice Department dropped the inquiry, although the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Auntine Terry, has maintained that the legal respect it at top point.

Mr. Trump wants lower borrowing rates and has accused the Fed in the past of holding back economic growth by not completing. If he is able to oust Mr. Cook, Mr. Trump could appoint an ally to replace her, although the former must confirm board members.

The president has changed back in his criticism of the Fed now that Mr. Ward is in charge. He has largely died of going after Mr. Ward directly errors as the Fed-fed-able to more actively consider raising interest rates to raise its flatten. Mr. Trump instead has attacked Mr. Ward's Fed colleagues, calling them "hostile" and "political."

In an interview with Punchbowl News, Mr. Trump reiterated his preference for lower rates but acknowledged that it was not Mr. Ward's decision alone.

"It's up to him a little bit, but not completely. And he's got a board that's very political," Mr. Trump said.

In her most recent comments on the economic outlook, Mr. Cook signaled that she would support higher interest rates if inflation did not soon moderate.

---

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2026

B7

SportsThe New York Times

PRO FOOTBALL | HALL OF FAME

FROM 40 YARDS.

An Unlikely Journey Delivered Vinatieri To Canton, Ohio

By ZAR KEEFER The Editor

Before the kick in the snow and the kick that won a Super Bowl, there was another kick — one that started a Pro Football Hall of Fame career.

Make that saved a Hall of Fame career. This one was vintage Adam Vinatieri, except at the time, there was no such thing. This kick was from 40 yards, in overtime, game on the line, wind howling, coach fanning, crowd edgy and a field drenched in so much mud that the local paper wrote it “resembled a World War I no-stuck fund”.

If Vinatieri doesn’t slip that ball inside the right upright to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sept. 22, 1966, there’s a good chance his N.F.L. career ends after four games. He would have been cut a day later, and the market would have been all but nonexistent for a middling college kicker from Division II South Dakota State who made just 10 percent of his field goal attempts as a senior, just his job to a defensive lineman, went undrafted, spent a year tolling its N.F.L. Europe, then opened his pro career with five miners in eight attempts.

The backtop plan was medical school. Vinatieri always figured he would become a heart surgeon.

That would have been perfectly fine with the New England Patriots’ fiery coach, Bill Parrotis, who was running out of patience with his rookie kicker. The only reason he had brought Vinatieri to training camp that summer was to light a fire under his 17-year veteran, Matt Bahr, a Parrotis favorite who helped him win a Super Bowl with the 1990 New York Giants.

“I’m going to give you an opportunity to show me what you’ve got,” Parrotis told the Vinatieri.

Even after Vinatieri beat out Bahr for the job in camp, his grip on the gig never felt secure. Parrotis warned him against bragging to the news media. And a string of miners to open the season, including three in a 7-point Week 2 loss to the Buffalo Bills, then two men a week later, left Vinatieri on thin ice heading into the Patriots’ Week 4 game against the Jaguars.

“The kicker is week-to-week,” the coach told reporters.

Vinatieri later told me he knew what that meant. That interview, and others used for this article, took place during my time as an Indianapolis Colts beat writer for The Indianapolis Star.

Bahr was just a phone call away. That Vinatieri even sniffed pro football was a miracle unto itself, and one could argue none of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 367 members — Vinatieri will be inducted Saturday afternoon as part of the 2026 class, along with quarterback Drew Brent, running back Roger Craig, kitebacker Luke Karsely and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr. — has ever scripted a more propositional road to Canton, Ohio.

Across four seasons at South Dakota State, Vinatieri made only one more kick (27) than he missed (20). He was 4 for 12 as a senior and was benched midseason for a defensive lineman named Jim Bottone, who favored the line-bashing technique (in Sarason, Vinatieri’s coaches made the right call. Bottone was 9 for 10 on extra points that year.)

Undrafted but undeterred, and willing to put off medical school for a few years, Vinatieri sought instruction from the best coach he could find: a man in a wheelchair. Doug Blevins was born with cerebral palsy and never played a down of football in his life. But he knew kicking. So Vinatieri packed his life into hip pickup truck and drove 18 hours through the night to Blevins’s home in Abingdon, Va., and slept in the back until Blevins wake up.

Then he begged him for help. They drilled every day for several months. Vinatieri lived in a one-bedroom apartment and waited tables at night to cover his rent.

A year later, at Blevins’s urging, Vinatieri kicked for the Amsterdam Admirals of the World League of American Football — later deemed N.F.L. Europe. The year abroad helped him catch the attention of N.F.L. scares from two teams. They would end up being the two teams he would spend his entire 24-year N.F.L. career with.

Before that first training camp with the Patriots, his ambitions were modest.

“I wanted to last maybe three, four years,” Vinatieri said. “I just wanted a head start on life, a little money in my pocket, maybe enough to help pay for medical school.”

Parrotis thought he would be gone in a matter of weeks. The coach made the rookie’s life miserable. This was 1996, back when teams still conducted two-a-days throughout July and August, and

Continued on Page B9

Zak Keefer is a senior writer for The Athletic.

When Bill Parrotis, the Patriots’ coach, left, sent Adam Vinatieri out to kick a 40-yard overtime field goal against the Jaguars, Week 4 of the 1996 season, the kicker was aware that his roster spot was on the line.

FOR THE OVERTIME WIN.

AND MAYBE HIS CAREER.

ZAR DAVID, THE BRITISH GAME, NO GETTY RINGS

JAY HANETTA, MINORITY FROM

---

B8

THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020

SOCCER

How 'Ted Lasso, Too, Discovered a Love For the Women's Game

By ARLI PETO

The Athlete

When creators of "Ted Lasso" decided to return after a two-year hiatus, they could have taken the easy route.

With a release date set on the basis of the 2020 World Cup, American favorite soccer coach could have returned to A.F.C. Richmond to reclaim the helm of the (fictional) club's men's team, now competing in the Premier League.

Resumed with Coach Beard, they could have faced a fresh act of challenges alongside the familiar characters who turned the Apple TV series into a global phenomenon and delivered his signature gold box of shorthand fan cuts to the Richmond owner Rebecca Wolscot, she, carrying on with the other individual.

Instead, the men's latest stories, which had its premiere on Apple TV on Wednesday, took the stories to a different direction.

Season 4 follows A.F.C. Richmond's women's team as it chases promotion from England's recent division, anchoring one of television's most beloved comrades in the famine-growing sector of the

A soccer club's owners get a peek behind the curtains.

world's most popular sport: women's soccer.

National Women's Soccer League fans will recognize the backdrop for the opening episode, which includes a game at CFPEC Stadium, under-16 for Kansas City Current and the league's first-stats show built specifically for a pro women's soccer club. The choice reflects not only the show's new story line but also the sport's changing reality.

"I first learned about the idea while watching the end of the last season," the Current's majority owner, Angie Long, said in an interview ahead of the season premiere. "They introduced a women's team, and I remember thinking: 'A women's team.' That's interesting."

"Looking back, I'll like to think of what an least some small inspiration for how to do it right."

While "Red Lasso" helped deepen American's affection for soccer men to defeat in 2020, interest in the women's game has achieved and rapidly on both sides of the Athletes.

In the United States, N.W.S.L. franchise values continue to climb, investing in a offering into the sport, and clubs are spending

Asif Pettit is a staff writer covering women's soccer for The Athlete,

aggressively on talent. In England, the Women's Super League is experiencing a similar boom, with new ownership groups and minority investors buying ones clubs in hopes of capitalizing on the game's rapid commercial growth.

"I think those of us in women's sport know how much it has changed in the last five years," Long explained. "I think for everyone else, they're going to see the show and say, 'Wow, it's so bright'."

When the show's producers came to Angie Long and her husband, Chris Long, the connection was hardly accidental.

The decision to begin Season 4 in Kansas City, Mo., came from a series co-cruiser, Jason Saddish, a Kansas City native who has become a regular at Current matches.

"He's part of a group of Kansas City people in entertainment who genuinely love the city," Angie Long said. "They better we know him, he was already a huge women's sports fan."

That affection ultimately shaped the coming season of one of television's biggest franchises, Ted Lasso began as a character created by Saddish, and Brendan Hunt (who plays Coach Beard) for keeper sketches during their performance in Amsterdam in the early 2000s. A decade later, Lasso's character became a viral ad-welterment campaign for 300's's newly acquired Premier League broadcast rights.

The unflappable America behind coach's adventures in English soccer were a sensation, and eventually debated in 2020 as the "Ted Lasso" TV series, which went on to win 10 Emmy Awards.

But perhaps the show's biggest achievement was introducing many Americans to soccer culture and passion.

Early in the first episode of Season 4, Kodoy Jones (Jason Tinsley) walks into CFPEC Stadium and passes. She looks around, making her first season of the season, and is writing to Wilder (Hannah Waldringham) with a lightbulb moment. Maybe A.F.C. Richmond's women's team deserves a stadium of its own.

For viewers, it is a throwaway line that advances the story of the new season, but for the laughs, that emotional response validated years of investment.

"I think that women of the best lines," Chris Long said.

But the new was there even when cameras weren't. During one of the visits to CFPEC, the crew was not going to see N.W.S.L. atmosphere firsthand.

"Jans said, 'I cried when I walked in here,'" Chris Long returned. "Not Kodoy, the actual June Trojans. It wasn't a history proud to have created something that can evoke so much joy."

Tompile's response is what the Longs hope first-time visitors feel

The sipping match in 2024 at CFPEC Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., which recently became a setting for the show "Ted Lasso."

Tanya Reynolds and Jason Saddish in across from Season 4 of "Ted Lasso," which premiered on Wednesday on Apple TV.

when they walk through the game of their 12,500-met stadium. They believe millions of viewers will experience that same feeling from their living events.

The Longs saw an opportunity to invest in women's soccer after watching the U.S. women's national team lift its fourth World Cup trophy in 2015. In December 2020, they joined forces with Brittany, Maldives, who played Division 10 soccer and then a season as a pro in Ireland, to purchase the rights to the Utah Royals franchise and relocate it to Kansas City. Malinene's husband, Patrick, the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, joined the investment group in 2020.

F.C. Kansas City, one of the leagues' original clubs, operated in the area until 2017. The new club, Kansas City N.W.S.L., returned to the league in 2021 and rebranded as the Kansas City Current the next year.

The Longs doubled down on their vision, privately financing the $120 million CFPEC Stadium,

which opened in 2021. The investment has paid off. On the third, the Current reached the playoffs series and won the N.W.S.L. blind last year, awarded to the team with the most regular-season points. Off the field, it is one of the N.W.S.L.'s highest-increase clubs, generating an estimated $28 million annually, according to Forbes.

"It's more fuel to the fire," Angie Long said, referring to the first episode of the new "Red Lasso" season. "People are going to watch and say, 'Wow, what quality, what an experience.' That's exactly how we want people to talk about our game."

During production, the crew and the Longs were mutually impressed with what they experienced. By the Longs' account, the cast quickly embraced the club and the city. Chris Long said it often felt as though the actors "weren't working" and "felt in love with the Current."

"I feel like they've not enjoyed themselves because obviously they're all massive fans of some

evts sports," Chris Long added. "But this really puts it up another level because of what 'Ted Lasso is, what's in an interrelationship sustained show with a diverse cast."

For the Longs, watching the world's most popular soccer com- only transformed their stadium into a field-round set won a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see behind the curtain.

Filming offered a glimpse into the painstaking process behind television production. They kept an around 7 a.m. with hair and make-up before the cast and extras spent hours on not surrounded by cameras, microphone and lighting equipment. Hand-hat reinforced scenes while camera-presses finesseant angles and blocking, allowing the principal actors to stop in only when everything was ready.

Angie Long recalled there were often long stretches of waiting for more trains as directors reviewed a footage before filming the same scene repeatedly.

They even experienced the heartbreak of watching one of their scenes put out.

"There was another scene, which was an getting introduced to Rebecca as owners, and sadly didn't make it," Chris Long said. "That was our one day of being a Screen Actors Guild member."

Despite their cut scene, the couple feature briefly behind the principal cast.

"We had not day in the life of Hollywood," Angie Long said. "And we've good ones."

Now, for the next two months, "Ted Lasso" can become a gateway for even more people to talk in love with the women's game.

"We're coming off an incredible World Cup," Chris Long said.

He added: "Now you're putting this show right behind that. This you've got the Women's World Cup in Brazil not for news. He loved by the Olympics. It's just one major event after another, and I can't imagine people won't embrace this sport in an even bigger way."

New M.L.S. Commissioner: 'There's So Much Upside'

By PAUL TENORIO

The News

When the ownership vote was finished, Research Rosenthal, a Los Angeles-F.C. co-winner, and Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Columbus Center, sought an Lark to win a Major League Soccer headquarters in Manhattan.

By the time they reached him, news was starting to leak. Congressman陀思欣, who had him, reached new was unanimous. He was the next M.L.S. commissioner.

They occurred Berg, who is also an owner of Los Angeles-F.C., back into the meeting room, where 28 other owners were visiting. They were also a member of the commissioner with a standing ovation.

On Tuesday, Rosenthal and Haslam, who shared the success rate committee as M.L.S. picked up the commissioner in its 30-year history, joined that they invited Berg and the a celebratory dinner only for him to turn it down.

"I got to work," Berg said. "I've got a lot of work to do."

The former was a former of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management, Berg will transition into the role of commissioner full time beginning Jan. 1. Don Garber, who is the first of the 27 years as commissioner, will remain on an chairman through the end of his contract in 2017.

A lifelong soccer fan who grew up in Center Hall, N.J., and once lost to the U.S. World Cup veteran Peter Terence in the high school

Paul Tenorio is a senior M.L.S. writer for The Athlete.

state soccer playoffs, Berg says he has missed just one U.S. men's national team month either in person or an television in the last 40 years."

He called the M.L.S. commissioner job "is talking."

"It has been a passion my whole life, starting at 4 years old," Berg said. The Athlete a few hours before his introduction. "I've never known exactly why, but it's just always been really deep in my head. I'm not sure that this tremendous desire for soccer in this regular to do it at all, he better, at

A leader will take over a league that's looking to level up.

timately maybe win a World Cup standby."

He added: "With Davis leadership, we've obviously had M.L.S.'s an ownership team, pretty up-travelinary, but I think there's no much upside left, and I want to see that come to fruition."

Berg will have plenty to do—the first time he was over the job or the start of a "guitar season" ahead of M.L.S. flipping its calendar to a summer-spring format. That change will be accompanied by appropriate attendance to the competition structure, which includes divisions and a new post-season format.

League owners are also working on a new roster investment

model, one that may have to be linked to a new collective bargaining agreement with the M.L.S. Players Association. The current agreement expires Jan. 31, 2026.

Berg said he believed M.L.S. could get changes across the line ahead of the start of the 2017-28 season, even as the M.L.S. board of governors has opposing viewpoints on how the league should move forward in evolving its unfold product. He pointed to a solution he helped with an opening and competition that allowed teams to choose either three designated players or two designated players with extra cap space and an extra under-52 initiative that an an example of finding ways to bridge divides.

"I feel everything is possible," Berg said. "That's one of my better skill sets, the deal-maker skills: be creative, galvanize people, bring them in alignment. It's not easy. There's different owners that have different stores of how to do it. Everybody wants to move forward, but they want to do it in different ways."

He added: "You kind of run into these roadblocks, and then you find this outlook and the challenge for me to do the air at big scale, and to do it with 20 owners. And I'll, looking forward to that."

Berg, will begin working on three problems immediately in collaboration with Garber, who said "the future of this league is to the hands of Larry Berg, and my role is to help him be successful."

Berg called Garber "a great mentor to me the last five years" and said he took comfort in knowing Garber would be there

through 2021 as an official role and "probably unofficially for a 16 league."

"We'll figure out what we need to do to execute on one of the most important transitioning places in the history of the league," Garber said. "If we get things done together, then we'll be successful."

Berg said that his passion for the U.S. national team has made youth development a focus of his and that it is an important part of the long-term solutions for improving the on-field product.

"Youth development is an incredible opportunity to use." "We have the city, but I think we can continue to make it so much better. Moreивших for younger players, more teams as the right levels, so that's really right on my list."

He pointed to the success of the World Cup, and M.L.S.'s growing role with players in the tournament, an important marketer for owners, but also said that it was put another indicated around building the fan base.

"The only way to really build this league is ultimately significant has growth leading to significant media growth, which leads them to more significant fan growth and becomes a firsthand," Berg said.

A new media deal will be a big part of that. M.L.S. will go back to market soon, with its current deal, with again set to expire in 2020.

Not—how is it's product first, right? It's quality on the field first. It's the playoffs. It's the divisions. It's the new calendar," Berg said. "And if we get all that going, and especially now, it's almost like

Dearing, right? I have this 'rocket out' that I've talked about from Mr. Chris Day. Even here's interested in talking about it."

The search for a new commissioner started in current last fall when Haslam and Rosenthal were selected into a committee of 8 men's co-overs who are the search. The committee also included 1,000 (top of Sporting Kansas City, John Ingram of Nashville, N.J., Assembly) of the New England Review, who, for Women of Chicago, the NY, and Oliver Marshall of Red Bull New York.

The committee hired Kevin Perry to lead the search.

Initially, 125 names were identified, and group was narrowed to 25, then reduced to 13, then to six. The final six candidates made presentations and were interviewed again over two days in Chicago to June, before a final three were selected.

Then three were Berg, the former free executive David Nichaman and the longtime fan-announce their executive Patrago Morales. According to sources treated on the process, the committee said it was looking for a "transformational leader" who could help evolve M.L.S. into a

Larry Berg, a Los Angeles-F.C. owner, will transition into the role of commissioner full time starting Jan. 1. Don Garber will remain on an chairman through the end of his contract in 2017.

longer deal was more locally; nationally and globally relevant.

Marathi dropped out of consideration—he also left the first, to focus on the organizations's European soccer teams—leaving Berg and Nachaman to make final presentations on Monday ahead of the vote.

In the end, Berg, who has served as co-chairman of the opening and competition committee, a powerful subcommittee that oversees the on-field product, won the vote.

"Larry's a very capable executive," Haslam said. "Apollo is one of the top F.E. firms in the world, and he helped build that firm. Then he went to work for Josh Harris, and I think his knowledge of the game, his love of game, his business background, his understanding of the league. We have 20 great owners and partners, but I think Larry as an owner, has gradually worked harder and spent more time with the league than any of us as owners."

Rosenthal said: "People might perceive L.A.F.C. as a big market with, but Larry and his wife are product strategy. I think, proved so everybody that he has an ability to process everybody's needs and concerns, and then address it and三年级men and drive to a decision. Berg, able to get a group to consensus and get to a decision, getting to action, is something that was something we really focused on as well."

---

»

B9

PRO FOOTBALL | HALL OF FAME

A Difficult Speech: 30 Years in the Making, Has Been Re-written by Grief

Larry Fitzgerald Lost His Father in June

By DOUG HALLER

In view

GLENDALE, Arts. — A few weeks before his Pro Football Hall of Fame entertainment, Larry Fitzgerald was completing a speech that would be the most memorable of his football career.

A meticulous planner, he had reached out to more than 29 Hall of Famers he advice on who to expect to Canton, Ohio. During a phase conversation, Fitzgerald, the former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver, began losing people who had offered advice, a group that included Peyton Manning, Warner, Mann, Emmett Smith and Randy Moos.

"It's changed significantly from what I had in April and May with everything that's trumpeted over the last month," Fitzgerald said of his Hall of Fame speech. "I was practicing it over and over, but then Pops took a turn."

On June 1, Fitzgerald's father died.

Before, as he rehearsed his speech, Fitzgerald wondered how he would react to front of the crowd, discussing 30 years of football and all those who had helped him. He compared it to practicing at the Cardinals facility during the week versus playing in front of 70,000 people on Sunday. Two completely different levels of emotion. Then this happened.

He had planned for his father to present him at the endorsement. (His son Devin, a Notre Dame firsthand-motors) will now do it. Suddenly, he had to think about his father being there only in spite.)

A respected Minnesota sports journalist, Larry Fitzgerald. He died at age 75 of an illness he wished to keep private. He attended the Super Bowl in February and watched on his son who is replaced as part of the 2018 Hall of Fame class. A first-father selection, His son is being enshrined on Saturday afternoon in Canton, along with quarterback Drew Brown, running back Roger Craig, footballer, after Randy's and Robert Adam Vinatier's.

He was never found in Phoenix television station that night in February. Big Fits, as he was known, called it a "dream come true," His voice was weak, his breathing labored.

Larry Fitzgerald, 42, was thrilled for three get to witness the announcement, but as his first grow to make, he realized the other 30s would not go to Canton were out good. His father no longer had the wrong to walk around the lake or hit the golf course. He also stopped covering sports, while he was not going to.

"He lived to cover sports," said Fitzgerald, mentioning all the teams his father covered, from University of Minnesota hockey team.

Doug Heller is a senior writer for The Athletic.

to the Twins, Timberwolves and Vikings. "He kind of stopped doing all those things, and my dad lived for the interaction and association all that stuff provided."

Larry Fitzgerald to was a pioneer, bringing a Black voice and perspective to a professional that of ten lacked both. He provided sports experts for EMX3-FM and WIN17-AM, once hosting a radio show with Dennis Green when Green coached the Vikings, believed to be the first time an N.F.L. head coach had a weekly show on Black radio. He also wrote a sports column at The Minnesota Spokesman-Reviewer and covered 40 Super Bowls, including one in Tampa, Fla., in which his son played, a family affair that turned into a national story.

Fitzgerald said he got his father's competitiveness, which is a blessing and a curse. It was a driving force to his career, one that made him an 11-time Pro Bowl selection and led to 1,433 employees, second only to Jerry Rice in N.F.L. history.

"I think it's what keeps me motivated to keep striving and reaching for new heights, but it's also one of the things that keeps me from celebrating the things that I've done and accomplished," Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald said his father knew how to motivate him, and how to avoid him. It necessary. After high school, Fitzgerald attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania because he had lacked the academic discipline to go into a New year college. His father gave young Larry a better bidder with an N.F.L. logo, a reminder of his goals. Fitzgerald placed the bidder in the bank above him, facing down, as it was the first thing he saw every morning. He so much a reminder, Fitzgerald once wrote, but a lifetime.

After Fitzgerald made it to the N.F.L. he produced on the field, but stood from responsibility off it. After games, he would run to the Cardinals locker room and more before news reporters had a chance to talk with him. He submitted a new letter, but he thought his reasoning was solid.

"I felt like it was better for me early on to establish myself with my play an approach to what I say," he said.

His father did not approve. Fitzgerald quickly became a star, making the Pro Bowl in his second season. He teamed with August Smith, which could have been difficult. As a first-year player in 2003, Smith had shown our potential, winning Associated Press offensive rookie of the year. "I felt like once you got the Cardinals without Fitzgerald with the No. 1 pick of the N.F.L. draft.

"It was a pretty big sacrifice on the past because if the show was on the same way, I probably would have been offended," Fitzgerald said.

ART. BY JOHN W. HALL OF FAME

Baldin said he just wanted to win, and he knew Fitzgerald could help. Plus, he knew with Fitzgerald's talent, debosses could no longer key on him.

"I've never seen somebody track the ball the way that he does," Baldin said. "I mean, for him it wasn't a 30-30 ball. It was more like an 80-20 or 90-10."

Quarterback Earl Warner said he had to "retrain" his brain when it came to throwing to Fitzgerald. Early on, Warner would look off the 4-bars I received because he didn't think Fitzgerald was open.

Warner said his fellow Cardinals quarterback Josh McCown one day set him straight: "He said, 'Hey, with your accuracy and Larry's skill, that's open for Larry. Just just the ball when only he can get it, and I promise you he's going to make that play most of the time.'"

He soon realized McCown was right.

Another thing that impressed

Warner: Fitzgerald's willingness to change his game. Warner, who made the Hall of Fame in 2017, recalled one season at which Arizona's offensive coordinator, Todd Haley, challenged Fitzgerald to be the best blocking wide receiver in the N.F.L.

"And for most, it would have been like, 'I don't have to do that,'" Warner said. "But you can go back and find tape of the effort that Larry gave to help his teammates spring for big plays."

In 2005, the Cardinals won a week, N.F.C. West and caught fire in the playoffs. Fitzgerald led the charge, setting N.F.L. possession records for most receiving yards (1000) and machines catches (seven), marks that still starts. Late in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Fitzgerald caught a Warner gun over the middle and broke into the clout. He raced 50 yards into the end zone, giving Arizona, among the more haptics

Lary Fitzgerald's Hall of Fame career spanned 77 seasons, all with the Arizona Cardinals. In 2007, he posed with his father, a well-organized Minnesota sports journalist, upon being named a co-recipient of the N.F.L.'s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.

repercussions in sports, a 25-24 lead with 2 miners 27 seconds left.

Ready hit hard. Box Beetle-keeper led the defense to a winning drive, but made everyone know the star of the pretension was in the tuning boiler room. "Nobody really knew how good Larry was because we were never on TV," Warner said. "Nobody over saw us."

Larry Fitzgerald Jr. continues covering his son, flying into Phoenix for Cardinals home players, often wearing his son's No. 1 person, trying his best to win all before and professional at the pre-engaged. His son twice led the N.F.L. in receptions and twice led the league in touchdown catches. He was elite at his position.

"And it wasn't always just what he did on the field," Baldin said. "It was the things that he did in the community. I remember. Fitzgerald have a celebrity weekend, so would have the difficult game, and his dad would participate. Just talking with him, you could see him beaming with pride for what his son was doing, the black contribution that he was making in the community."

Not long ago, with his father in terms to visit the grandchildren, Fitzgerald shared an idea he had been considering. Over 17 N.F.L. seasons, all in Arizona, he had been53k的问题ly with members of the local news media. He told his father he wanted to host an

A Long and Unlikely Road To Football's Hall of Fame

From First Sports Page

Parcells forced Vinatieri to kick so much the rookie started to worry his big was going to fall off. Parcells also loved getting in his head. Before big kick — "Like the entire team watched, eager to know if they were going to have to run more games for the coach would consider over the spot," Vinatieri was about to kick from. "At sorry, am I in your way?" Parcells would ask, chuckling to himself.

He was a good quality fame. Then he'd make the kick.

"Coach?" Parcells, who I say some stuff that would kick you off so bad could make it just cool. "I'm not going to play with him. I'm a big, Vinatieri's holder that year.

Agitent the biggest in Work 1, Vinatieri hatched his first voice point, then started again from 44 yards, and then played. The first truer 13-point halftone had evaporated. The biggest forced overtime, for a sloppy field in Pochetotop, Mass., one would need by rule. The second was just a few seasons — "Holes everywhere," Vinatieri remembered, and "they'd just fill them with sand and paint it given to make it look like a little bit of the long time 40 yards, then minutes into overtime, with a chance to win it."

Parcells left him with some biting words before he juggled on the field.

"The story goes," the longtime N.F.L. personnel man Gil Brandt told me years ago, "that Parcells told him if he missed it, there was no way to get some back to the locker room."

One maximum took it a step further. "I can't tell you how imper-

tant that kick was for him," left tackle Bruce Armstrong told reporters. "If he'd missed it, he might've been shaken manually, but he certainly would've been shaken physically."

Vinatieri wouldn't inside the right people with less than a man to spare. It was the first of an N.F.L. record to guide women.

"No Roar for Now," read The Boston Herald headline a day later.

"It was a nice kick," Vinatieri kept mystery, referred the stiffball a job. "But tomorrow's a new work week."

He never made it to medical school. He hasn't a decade in New England. He has been through a Walter in a game later that season, then kicked off in Divinnoid Howard in the Super Bowl. He later went two with his right foot, and ended with Bill Newbold came "the greatest kick of all time," a 43-yard hitch in an 4.37, divisional round Mitzard that sent the Patricio to overtime against the Makers to meet after McCann known as the Turk Rule Game.

"Don't fall, don't fall," Vinatieri kept telling himself before juggling once the field that night. "He should of right not knowing supper's head. The ball barely climbed 20 feet in the air. He watched it disappear into the New England night, waiting and hoping to take the crowd a steam. Finally, it did.

A little later, his 23-under won it for New England in overtime. The legend was born. He became the first of a possible third in the game. Tired of the Patriot's football contract offers, he was headed to Green Bay as a

Kicking coach Doug Blevins of the Miami Dolphins in 1997. Blevins drilled with Adam Vinatieri and urged him to go to Europe.

'He put his name in the conversation for the greatest kicker of all time, and we never would've thought that early on.'

BILL PARCELLS, to The Indianapolis Star in 2017, about Adam Vinatieri's long, successful career.

four agent in 2006 until Cobb Coach Tony Deago saw the news trickle across the TV in his offers. Vinatieri's we're contacting him, and he was a good friend of the Police. "Yes, we should," Polian replied. The Cobb offered him a five-year contract.

Kick in a career I've a room with Peyton Manning's quarterback? "Make it happen," Vinatieri said his agent.

Nine months later, Manning's Cobb couldn't find him out once in a divisional game before it first. In more than two years, Vinatieri couldn't miss. "Money!" Deago mounted on the safeline after Vinatieri's 10-under in the fourth quarter, instead a 15-6 win. There works here, the Cobb were Super Bowl champions. Vinatieri had his fourth title to six seasons.

By the end in Indianapolis, teammates like Shoppille Leonard—two decades Vinatieri's home—were all has the a goal when the 47-year-old kicker would stroll through the kicker room. Andrew Luck loved telling the story of be-

Vinatieri and teammates celebrating his winning field goal against the Oakland Raiders in a playoff game in 2002.

ing it and attending an Amsterdam Admiralty game with his father. If years before one of the kickers he watched that day, Adam Vinatieri—made a 10-under to deliver Luck his first N.F.L. win.

Vinatieri's career didn't just start a rambler, it didn't help.

The kick out of South Dakota, who barely survived his first four weeks in the league — the one Bill Parcells was ready to cut — the third in the N.F.L. 1-carrel leading team (2,672 players), career leader in field goals made 1933 between the regular season and, and playoffs) and career leader in consecutive makes 1933.

Vinatieri was never a normal kicker in Indianapolis and was never treated like one. His teammates would people him with questions about their 401(k) they wouldn't gripe when he switched the music to the十七 years from every day to classic rock. At some point, they started calling him a doctor that of Fames. No longer is the modifier needed.

As much as he was known for his eye move at 1-bach moments, it was Vinatieri's unshakable review that unnoticed his improbable career. A tale that should've never taken off instead lasted at most a quarter-century. Now it ends in Canton.

"I'm proud of him. He did it himself," Parcells told me while I was at The Indianapolis Star in 2017. "He put his name in the conversation for the greatest kicker of all time, and we never would've thought that early on."

How does one put it all in perspective? How can it it for a player to last a decade with one man, then 14 years with another? Consider this come from the season of 2016. Vinatieri was vacationing with his family back to Boston, a group of Patriots fans stopped him. They wanted an autograph from the kicker who had helped them win three Super Bowls in the early 2000s.

Vinatieri's son was confused. "Not a minute," he said, "you used to play for the Patriot!"

---

BIO

»

THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026

HOCEEY

COMMENTARY

Stars' Contracts Signal a Shift in Economics

By JAMES MORTLE

The Atlanta

If the offer does! Los Cartoons signed a few weeks ago are considered an earthquake that shook up the N.H.L. then Mark In Cederlays's new 500 million contract extension with the San Jose Sharks stands out as one of the first major aftershocks.

It also remains just how quickly and drastically the N.H.L.'s longstanding salary moves are changing.

The reality is that Cederlays has always going to be paid. He could have walked into General Manager Mike Dore's office on July 1 and asked for the man - a cap he of $50.6 million, or 20 percent of total amount's $300 million salary cap - and San Jose would have had no choice but to get a deal done.

As a foundation player of his career, coming off a 45-goal, 115-point season that made him a Hart Trophy candidate as a team player, Cederlays holds the cards, especially in the N.H.L.'s new weekday.

Ultimately, in extending for five years' beyond his entry-level deal, which expires after 2026-27, the 20-year-old career cut the market around the 1980s, with $1.5 million per year - a $2 million discount from the start, and only $800,000 from the plan Cartoons's annual cap hit with the Anaheim Show.

Can that $50.8 million, which is set to make Cederlays the leagues' highest-paid player, be considered last market value. The better, however, is this point: What even is market value?

The N.H.L.'s previously on the water mark for a second contract was set by General McDaniel nearly a decade ago. This 2027 extension was an eight-year deal for the cartoons's second against a $75.6 million salary cap, which equates to 157 percent.

Cederlays's deal exceeds that of paying him 10.8 percent of the $10.5 million cap of 2027-28, the first year of the deal, and he considered he only five years, not the eight to which the Ed Ananese (New Market) up 30%.

So how does Cederlays earn a higher percentage of the cap ceiling, over fewer years, than the greatest player of the era?

The Cartoon number is obviously one factor. It's a game of the cartoons are more willing to contemplate offer clients in an environment in which unrestricted free agency is as hollowed out, as it puts an insane protection on teams to wait off such fully offers. No general manager who has suffered

throughout the market, or presents to do it as elite talent like Cederlays wants some middle-of-the-first-round picks in exchange, meaning the team would have no choice but to match.

On Cartoon getting $10 million in the plan, the Cederlays's number up another $2 million - especially given Cederlays would have been eligible for a $22.7 million cap hit on an offer doesn't your money, but the cartoons have probably taken that swing, but San Jose was never going to let it get that far.

The rapidly rising cap has also

James Mortle is a senior N.H.L. writer for The Athletes

JOHN C. CAROLAND/APRICK WOLFE

created an apples-and-oranges situation shes comparing these high-end deals to gear situations. In the 1995 year of McDonnell's second contract, for example, he was making $3.2 percent of a salary cap that had gone up just $2 million over the course of the deal in that point. By the 1995 year of Cederlays's new contract, $10.8 million is most likely going to end up being much, much less of a percentage than that.

While the N.H.L. has projected its cap only through 2027-28, every executive and player agent I've spoken with over the past few months has noted that the cap figures are low compared with how backey-related revenues have tracked after the Covid pandemic, which indicates the N.H.L.'s upper limit is set to jump even more drastically in the summer of 2026.

The Cederlays' deal from a new U.S. television deal that will positively affect 2026-28 revenues, plus a potential expansion therefore in Texas around $500, and there could be three consecutive leagues that exceed even the 9 percent annual cap increases from 2025-30 to 2027-28.

That could well mean a salary cap of $100 million to $100 million by 2026-32, the final season of Cederlays's contract, in that point, the Sharks might then be paying him under 25 percent - a relative bargain, and that's the biggest reason the deal is not longer than five years.

I believe ultralong contracts for N.H.L.'s top young players, which have long been the norm, will effectively be wiped out. Teams have signed only nine

contracts with a term of seven or eight years this off-season, and only four have gone to younger players: Zach Berman, Peter Dorchey, Ivan Dorchey and Tyson Feernon.

In the past, going long has made sense for these sorts of players. The N.H.L.'s top growth was modest and contracts had relatively low average annual values, so adding were was the only way to lock it, say, a $79 million wouldn't at a young age. But now the Cartoon and Cederlays can make sure have been an a bear - or five-year deal, guaranteeing promotional wealth while also setting themselves up for an ever-estimated of third contracts at just 26.

That is likely to make those very long deals the domain of the veteran free agents trying to get paid for their declining years (for example, the Washington Capitalist Alex Tuch and the Toronto Magic Leafs' Darren Ruddy's this off-season). Meanwhile, some of the maximum long contracts young players have signed over the past 10 months - exemplified by Montreal Canadiens deferments Lane Harran's

have again paved from an agent's perspective, as they have clearly left a lot of money on the table. Some of these trends have been a long time coming. As far back as two decades ago, for example, backey's analysis - community was arguing that a real player's paid performance typically fell between the ages of 22 and 26, while directly clothed with so many teams squeezing their young players and spending big on over-the-bill veterans

Macklin Cederlays, above, signed a five-year extension worth $900 million, a longer recent, weeks after Los Cartoons was given a $90 million extension. After a flat cap remained by pandemic revenue deficits, backey is in the midst of rapid financial growth.

in their unrestricted free-agent years.

It used to be that N.H.L. general managers could expect to save a great deal on restricted free agents, using their leverage as the teams that drafted them in a great analysis for fewer than the veterans are to hit the open market. But with offer doesn't one a real threat, young players are beginning to be paid closer to their true market value, much to the disgrind some old-states' overcame.

Suddenly, restricted free-agent years are not necessarily always worth less than unrestricted free-agent years, especially when the three most restricted players objectively possess more on-to-value. It's a huge shift from when top young names like Darick Kane and Jonathan Dunn to the Cederlays' last $8.5 million a season - a little more than 10 percent of the cap - while leading the Chicago Blackhawks to three Stanley Cell wins from 2009-10 to 2016-15.

Other than Cartoon and Cederlays used their agency, the big winners in this climate are going to be reams that linked to their talent before the standings, as they will save millions over the lifetime of restricted free-agent contracts that are well below their value. In a hard-avg-league, contracted victory is so important, and many of the best teams have measured that air over the years.

The 10 years time to be a young can on the rise in the N.H.L., as other words, had a deeply challenging one for teams like Ananese and San Jose that must figure out just how much a pay and money can be made to perform in a drastically evolving league.

But the alternative - letting someone else make that bet on their talent and how things will work under the rising cap - is a far worse outcome.

SPORTS SATURDAY

COMMENTARY

Every 'No Comment' Will Get Overanalyzer

By STEVE BECKER

In this week's Sports People Weighting In an Social and Political Issues Countdown, the first interview is as follows:

1. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers criticizing Anthony Faux, the former director of the National Institute of Safety and Industries Diseases, for repeatedly speaking the Fifth International Journal a female teaming last week.

2. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Kramingham making it clear she is against transgender athletes compared to the 1980s, and got a lot of negative feedback about me having been: 'Cunningham said during an ESPN interview 'wait' to like. 'Never once said that.' Catherin was a good boy. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who are there have to go against biological ones.'

3. Cather Clark, Cunningham's teammate, being asked on Sunday - this after the Fever's 108-300 loss to the Minnesota City - to remember on Cunningham's stand on his own athletics. "For us, it's not really a discussion we really have in our locker room," Clark said. "It's for leagues and the governing bed. Let us work with their athletes to find students, but our focus is on basketball. That's what we talk about and how we can get wise, and, obviously, we didn't do that tonight."

Now you're probably saying to yourself, boy, was a minute, how can Clark lead on the Sports People Weighting In an Social and Political Issues Countdown when she essentially did an subject. She offered a 2-week war 'no comment' to what she did.

There's no point to what she said. But we live in times when every sentence - every word, every sentence - is a standard dissection, insanely caught in, instantly judged. And so it was when Rodgers went off as Faux; and when Cunningham shared her concerns about 'young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological ones,' and when Clark had no comment about Cunningham's comments, it all gets tossed into the daily view of social media commentary.

But excuse me for not getting too worded is over words on spokes. Excuse me for failing to join the crowd that's terrible, terribly. What a Clark for me being who or what it wants her to be. Excuse me for not expecting Clark to play a role that has been assigned to her by people she doesn't even like.

This is probably a good place to roll out the after-dinner speech about how there's a long, glorious future in the United States of athletes taking a stand on social and political issues. In the 1980s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 1990s and John Carlos raising their first in 2004. We've taken it the 1990s history. Olympics in Mexico City. Or

Steve Buckley is a columnist for The Athletes.

since the Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams devoted a portion of his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966 to to pressing the hope that the time comes when the names of Sanibel Stagg and Josh Gibson is more way out for added air a symbol of the great Negro Company players that are not here only to enjoy they were not given a chance.

These are a couple of very public examples of athlete advocacy that have been passed down through the ages. Big a little dinner and we learn that in the 1980s, the N.H.L. teaching legend Vince Lombardi banned hemophobia language in the locker room; this in an era when such talk was a basic ingredient in the culture. Lombardi had a younger brother who was gay.

Many of us never have this about Lombardi when he was active I certainly didn't. Just as I don't know much about what's on Clark's mind these days. In the absence of her thoughts, that, it doesn't make much sense to all through her every afternoon, her every pause, in search of hidden meanings and elements, and that's all hysterical about it on-line.

Sports people (and this includes sports media people) who weigh in my political and work with the same community as they dated with anonymous directives that they should 'stick to open.' It's a mystery who these people are who feel empowered to tell them about what to open. We more utterance suggests somebody with a derivative in government affairs, or who perhaps has served in Congress or the diplomatic corps.

The hypocrisy is at once considered and frightening, for this it when our athletes offer their opinions on this or that issue, except when we disagree with these opinions. Child to sport(s) and children who are able to do to play this silly parlor game are distorted as cowardly.

Athletes who visit the White House lose similar copy. Part(s) pass in a White House visit in 2018, and you're a hero to some, a villain to others. You share the visit, and you're a hero to the disenfranchised or someone who disrespects the office of the president.

As the role of having pre with seventh grade civics, but to use a ketchup sports men to make the point, this would be a good time to have a Your Back the Clark event that teaches and indicates the prosection of the First Amendment. And if you happen to be a member of a championship team that has been a member of the West Bank, go ahead and go. Or don't go. Do that First Amendment thing and tell everyone else to mind their own business.

The sports people who want to take a stand on this or that issue and who are prepared to share with the avalanche of positive and negative commentary that ensues, go right ahead. For athletes who choose to say nothing, allow them to be a good one.

Why does everything have to be so complicated?

RUNNING

N.Y.C. Marathon 8x Adding a Lottery to Its Popular Guaranteed-Entry Program

By CLAIRE FAHY

The organization helped the annual New York City Marathon, one of the largest racks of its kind, has announced that it is crumpling its popular 9+1 program for guaranteed entry into its 2026 competition.

For the first time, participation in the program, which requires runners to complete nine races and one volunteer opportunity, will be based on a drawing, according to New York Road Runners, the organizer that stages the marathon and dozens of other races across the city each year.

Bob Stansbury, the chief executive of New York Road Runners, said the popularity of the 9+1 system had led to long sales on-line to sign up for races and still competition to get into local races.

The 9+1 program, popular among New York City's growing running population, has been around since the early 2000s, ac-

cording to New York Road Runners. More than 200,000 runners have used it to gain entry to the marathon since the program's inception. Until Thursday, simply completing the program ensured that the 9+1 program.

Now, the program has been limited to roughly 15,000 post-raceers who will be chosen through a yearly drawing. It will also require a formal random process that includes paying a $80bn, if selected, to become a 9+1 passimber, which provides participants with long-lines New York Road Runners in matching with qualifying races.

The program has also always and will continue to be limited to New York Road Runners members, which requires a $64bn.

Matthew Perry, the vice president on training at New York Road Runners, said in an interview that the number of people completing the 9+1 program has increased by 20 percent since 2005. He estimates the new program will lead to a 25 percent to 28 percent reduction in the amount of 9+1 participants.

The program creates the largest pool of runners out of all other

New York Road Runners will cap the 9+1 program at ELS/OS.

qualifying methods, of which there are almost a dozen, including signing up through charities, an annual drawing, time qualifiers and international tour operators.

The change comes as more-thank and better than around the world have struggled to meet the seemingly ever-increasing, do-mand from a post-Covid running beam. In June, the London Marathon, another world marathon

major, announced that it would split the 2027 men's and women's races over two weekend days.

Lane Eardone Bass, 25, who works in clinical research at NYU program Health and lives on the 2026 2026 2026, is a member of the 9+1 program in 2024, which qualified him to run the 2025 New York City Marathon. He said he did not experience issues registering for the required races or his

volunteer span.

"It was a great experience - I think it got me to different parts of the city, different boroughs that I believe was able to have been in class said," 9c really created a sense of community through running in New York City.

But for others, the judgment is popularly meant long wait times to register for races - able to be ticketmaster line for those long, by long tickets to a Harry Potter or Nightingale. The only to find that the race they wanted to run was sold out.

Dress Smith, 4, a personal trainer who lives in the Bronx, is the New York Road Runners. In 2025 after securing a spot through the annual lottery for guaranteed entry. To run in line you're more time, she completed the 9+1 pool.

To prepare for race registration, she said, she set an alarm, which sure she was logged in to her Road Runners profile and devoted all the time to the new race. She was not sure the new system would help.

"It's absolutely absurd," Smith said. "Just like to call this type we top of an already ridiculous

process - I don't know that this was the answer."

In addition to the changes to the 9+1 program, New York Road Runners said it was getting rid of its Minister Plan too, which granted airmail registration to those who paid an additional fee, usually about $60. The races themselves cost money to register for, with fees around $25 for a 3K, $100 for a half marathon and over $250 for the marathon itself for members.

Both Bass and Smith expressed concern that the new program would make 9+1 race a terrible to people who might not be able to afloat the 2026 fee to participate. Smith also raised worries about "quite old-paid" runners who have been able to receive a equal dying time and who depended on the 9+1 program for a chance to participate in the marathon.

"It was amazing - the energy of the race," he said, "and of 26," Smith said of her experience running the marathon. "There are many things that I have to do if people can there screaming and cheering and building you about of oranges and tissues and here if you want it. It really is a magical time."

---

2 THEATER REVIEW

A satire about A.I. and a tech entrepreneur takes the stage.

5 FILM

Following four Girl Scouts as they set out to sell cookies.

7 TRAVEL

Lots of details and dishes went into a dinner party in the Scottish Highlands.

Arts

The New York Times

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026 C1

5

Esperanza Spalding, left, and the dancer-choreographer Kayla Parrish are bringing back dancing to jazz, starting with a free performance this weekend.

Jazz and Dance Rekindle the Flame

By BRIAN SEIBERT

In the beginning, jazz was dance music.

Jazz musicians played for dancers. Whether those dancers were amateurs, in juke-pants and dance-halls, or professionals, in nightclubs and theaters, the communication between the people making the music and the people moving to it was fundamental, almost the whole point.

Two artists who thrive on improvisation reunite disciplines that used to riff together.

In the years after World War II, though, the connection frayed. And nowadays, a prominent jazz musician like the bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding can ask, "Why the hell don't we dance to jazz anymore?"

That question is an origin point for Spalding's collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Kayla Parrish. On Saturday, the two artists join fellow musicians and dancers for a free public showing of what happens when they improvise together.

The event at Robert E Wagner Jr. Park is the latest in Spalding's recent exploration of different ways for artists to collaborate, some involving dance. At Harvard University, she taught a course on the connections between Black improvisational music and dance. With the choreographer Antonio Brown, she toured a dance-music hybrid called Off Brand Godds. CONTINUED ON PAGE C2

Nightmares With a Menacing Beat

John Carpenter, center, with his son, Cody Carpenter, left, and godson, Daniel Davies.

John Carpenter's new horror tale is a graphic novel and a hard-rock album, not a film.

By BRIAN RAFTERY

Two years ago, an unsettling image came to John Carpenter in his sleep. It consisted of an abandoned cathedral with a pair of elevators inside, capable of plunging passengers to unknowable depths.

For most people, that late-night tableau would qualify as a nightmare. But to Carpenter, it was simply an inspiring dream — the latest in a long line of terrifying visions that have marked this filmmaker's career. Carpenter has been a horror titan since 1978, when "Halloween" — the low-budget thriller he directed, co-wrote and scored — inaugurated the modern shelter genre. He followed that with more than a dozen feature films, many of them mixing sci-fi, action and social commentary, like the grey partners thriller "The Thing" (1982) and the Reagan-era alien-invasion flick "They Live" (1988).

Yet Carpenter, whose most recent feature film was released in 2010, had no interest in bringing those creepy elevators to the screen.

"Dancing is too stressful," he said in an interview in June while relaxing in his Hollywood office. It sits on a screen dotted with golden-fenced feature, not unlike the cozy CONTINUED ON PAGE C2

MAYA PHILLIPS | CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Franchise Fatigue And How to Stop It

The latest 'Last Airbender' film respects its origins.

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT the longevity of the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Franchise that is perfectly in step with that animated writer's hero figure, the Avatar. The acclaimed Nickelodeon show, created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Rantetake, takes place in a civilization in which select people can telekinetically manipulate one of the four elements: water, earth, fire and air. In this fantastical CONTINUED ON PAGE C4

In 'Avatar Away: The Last Airbender,' the character has become a self-assured young man.

---

C2

11

6

TIM YEEMAN | THEATER REVIEW

The Days (and Algorithms) of Our Lives

A tech entrepreneur pitches an intrusive A.I. project to friends. Problems soon arise.

IF YOU'RE PANORING about how insidiously intrusive artificial intelligence is becoming in our lives, prepare for an associated incoming ritual: all the plays, books, movies and TV shows about how insidiously intrusive A.I. is becoming in our lives.

In January, Matthew Libby's Off Broadway drama "Dixie" were a personal and political drama around the use of A.I. surveillance technology in immigration. "Dreams of 'Others," a fully A.I.-generated data-drama, premiered at the Tribrea Festival in June. Now, Andrew Smith play "Disruption" imagines the rollout of an algorithm designed by a mega-rich tech entrepreneur.

Disruption

Through Oct. 4 at the Perching Square Signature Center in Manhattan. dilec@perching.com. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes

Nick (John David Washington), who describes its potential in large but vague terms. The play, directed by David Ellis, opened on Sunday at the Perching Square Signature Center.

"It helps people navigate their lives," Nick says. "Make better decisions about the stuff that really matters. Think Wam ... but for your life."

With his younger business partner, Raven (Emma Kilner), Nick ensures his way around his longstanding friend group — three married couples in their late 30s and early 40s — to see if he can secure their financial backing. His friends are snugly within New York's moneyed class, though nowhere near as Crawns-adjacent on he. None of the couples in the play, which premiered in London in 2014, knew that Raven and Nick have been observing their online activities to build a picture of their lives, desires, frustrations and vulnerabilities, which they recognize against them.

The couples are all facing pivot-moments. Mia (Irene Sofia Lucic) and her husband, Barry (Jason Ralph), a surgeon, are debating whether to buy a broadish-brown-stone, and they mail property and money robotically. Mark since in 2018 (Elizabeth Stanley), whose marriage to Paul (Joe Tippet) is fractured, she is an exhausted parent, for an adulterer.

Susie (Elisaannie Renée Wilson) is a psychoanalyst married to Ben (Conrad Ricamara), a men's-owning Columbia professor. They're contemplating having a child. Susie immediately and correctly impedes Nick's crewmen. "He's Kryptoides to marriage," she observes. "Deep down, it kills him to see anyone happy." However, Wash-

Sue and Danielle the New York Times

ington plays Nick as more mercenary than vindictive.

The audience, split into two sections that face each other, observes the action in a haltered-out lounge of a stage designed by Zoë Hurwitz. Minimal decoration conveys interiors. Words, numbers and geometric lines blown on surfaces (properly from Yana Kivyokova) to convey the algorithm's dystopian omnipresence.

The play's title derives from how Nick defines his manner. "We're disrupting the way people think." Yet this static drama feels less edge than anteless and familiar. No new lines of inquiry around artificial intelligence are mixed. The group doesn't believably get as friends. The play mirrors our own shrug-strong fatalism when faced with A.I.'s seemingly unstoppable power and influence.

There are some witty exchanges. When Barry complains to his friends that, as a surgeon, it's "instead of 'that he can't afford to buy a house. Ben calls dryly.'" In Brooklyn, for millions of dollars," Paul chips in: "With a $20,000 move."

Barry and Mark airless and relentless to- and the about the price of properties defies empathy. Even Paul and Jill's collapsing marriage rings hollow, as we haven't seen them functioning as a couple. Susie is the one-woman Greek chorus denouncing A.I.'s "erosion of free will" and the public's being "billed into submission, and progressment."

She might be right, but the play positions her as party hustleful rather than voice of truth. Washington animates Nick's smiling malevolence with a bristling swagger, an Iago whispering person into every ear, and Stanley and Lucic share a touching chem-

From left, Conrad Ricamara, Elisaannie Renée Wilson, Irene Sofia Lucic, Elizabeth Stanley, Jason Ralph, Joe Tippet and John David Washington in "Disruption".

istry as two loving but competitive siblings. Otherwise, the characters are more types than individuals, their emotional peaks and troughs too abrupt to feel earned.

A late-battery of twins — a kiss, a death, a baby — doesn't help connect us to Nick, Raven or the couples. At random moments, the cast walks in robust formation (as something shows to the algorithm?). A final scene about how grotesque A.I.'s influence will be for generations here into its mue-beds timally askew.

"Disruption" is, at moments, a thoughtful tribune of alarm and satire. But it is undermined by something simpler. We don't believe in, or care enough about, its characters. As with the play's booming monster of A.I., we are, in the end, left adrift in its dark world.

Esperanza Spalding, left, and Kayla Farriuk are performing with an ensemble on Saturday at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan.

IOWTORNE FRONTWATER

Her first exposure to Farriuk came through a 2020 video that Farriuk made as a resident artist of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. In the video, Farriuk dances through Armstrong's house, responding with idiosyncratic sensitivity, rather than period accuracy, to "do the Sunny Side of the Street."

"No many things I was witnessing in that video made me think, I need to talk with this person," Spalding said in an interview. "And then when we met, I was like, 'Oh, actually we need to make things together. We need to play!'

Farrish was in accord. "Improvisation is

"When we get together, it's like, 'Hey, what if you go at this longitude and I try this latitude?'" ESPERANZA SPALDING

at the center of my practice," she said. "I find through jazz, riffing this idea or that. In our conversations, I had this visceral sense of what might be possible. It felt like spongy potential."

Washing Farriuk at work with other dancers seemed familiar to Spalding. "It was what you might call a jazz modality," Spalding said, "very different from other dance spaces or dancer-led projects."

It reminded her of jazz musicians like the great Pocono Shores, with whom she collaborated on an opera.

"It's this curious balance between divesting things and also usual handovers," she said, "because for those things to come alive, you

have to trust the ensemble."

Spalding characterized her interactions with Farriuk — including the Wagner Park event, part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's River to River festival — as an experiment. "I have a list of experimentation and study around this intersection of music and dance, and Kayla does too," she said. "And when we get together, it's like, 'Hey, what if you go at this longitude and I try this latitude?'"

From this private exchange, which Spalding said "we are also wriged to see because it's ceremony and holy," the two devine "forerunners, ferens, agreements, guarantees that allow us a shared coherence of commu-

nication that we can drop into in front of an audience."

For example, they have been working on song form. In traditional jazz practice, an ensemble plays the start of a song together, then each member takes a turn soloing over the same series of chord changes. What, Spalding and Farriuk wondered, is the dance equivalent?

"I had this visceral sense of what might be possible. It felt like spongy potential."

KAYLA FARRIUK

Spalding described one possibility. First, Farriuk and her dancer collaborators Jamal Abrams and Kay'mel Antonio Wade Small created a dance phrase. Then the saxophonist Dayna Stephens responded with melodies until Spalding chose her favorite, and the drummer and keyboardist Justin Tyson built a harmonic progression for it.

This is what the ensemble plays and the dancers dance, while dancer-instrumentalist pairs take the equivalent of solos. "And because we're all paying attention," Spalding said, "the movement of soloists is going to morph how the company works and vice versa." It's all about communication.

At one rehearsal Farriuk brought the idea of what she called "and cry" Each artist responded to the prompt, "and that became an accumulation," she said, "on delivery that we composed together."

Spalding noted the necessity of working with piano who are "I"浸透ed in boasting a prompt like that. "The impulse is to slip out of it," she said, "but there's actually a different type of liberation when we stay in agreement together and find everything there is to find in that place."

"If we stay committed," she added, "you're going to bring me out of the limits of what I thought was beautiful or worked or whenever," and this is doubly true when dancers and musicians collaborate. "I keep witnessing new levels, new layers, new expenses in people's playing," she said.

The women acknowledged that their experiments aren't exactly new. Some people — Linda Saugers and top dancers especially — never stopped dancing to jazz. Farriuk cited as inspiration "things I never learned in dance history courses," from the choreographer Daanne McIntyre's work with jazz musicians in the 1970s and '80s to a ringing game she learned in her aunt's book.

"These things have always existed," she said. "We're just trying to reconnect them, in a way that it feels like now."

---

9

C3

DIVA GACHMAN | STREAMING KIDS

Gentle Lessons and Wild Adventures

Animated characters enlighten on cooperation, the meaning of home and fighting evil trolls.

'Hoppens'

Stream it on Disney+.

A rebellious environmentalist named Mabel Tanaka (voiced by Piper Curds) lives near the town of Benemone, to a little girl (Lila Lis), she had some anger issues, especially when it came to human learning animals, so her grandmother Karen Hunt, tried to teach her to think before she acts, dispensing advice like "Be very old, and watch, and listen." But when Mayor Jerry (Joe Hames) unveils plans to build a naipe highway to help federal law for grade, that anger comes marring back.

Her biology professor, Dr. Sam (Kathy Najdov), has developed a secret technology called hopping, which allows humans to include the cosmic skin (a red crotte) bodies of animals. Mabel strops in and turns into a beaver, believing it she can have a real beaver back to the glade, after animals will follow and Mayor Jerry react he able to build that curved highway. Mabel befriends King George (Kathy Moynihan), a beaver wearing a tiny gold crown, and she reflects the animal troops to fight overdevelopment.

This comedic and sweet tale, released in March, is about respecting return and fighting for your values. Merry Strong voices the Inters' Opens, and Dave Franco voices her son, Daniel Chong directed from a screenplay by Jesse Andrews ("Lace").

'The Post-Post Fish'

Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.

I used to read these picture books by Deborah Dinson to my son when he was in preschool. I'd never imagined Nick Offerman saying, "I am a great poet Bob." But watching this animated tale, also released in March, proves that his is the perfect voice for the grumpy yet lovable Mr. Fish.

The movie kicks off when a son dragon named Pip (Vicki Oyama), scrambling to prepare her family name at her own buildings, mistakes the shipwreck where Mr. Fish lives for a parkyard and starts running around. When the shipwreck breaks apart, both characters are suddenly lost at sea. The pair decide to go fast lifesemer (Jordan Sparks), a fish that can grant one magical wish every few years. The problem is that a catatellis named Beep (Betsy Eli) wants to use the wish because his hands is to danger. So the race to get there first is on.

It's not as imaginative and heart-warming as "Finding Nemo," of course, but pre-school-age youngsters should love the colorful underwater world, and fans of the books will love seeing Mr. Fish in action. Amy Solaris voices one of three grab dolphins who are the ocean's version of (Sippy) ocean girls.

Stuart Cussit ("Scarygirl") and Rio Harrington directed from a script written by Ellen Allen, Elle Choudary ("Norm of the North: Family Vacation") and Dominic Morris.

From top: Mabel (voiced by Piper Curds), left, and King George (Bobby Moynihan) to "Hoppens"; the Fire Titans to "Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans"; Thank Creed (Clerk Duke); left, Sandy Croed (Kathy Crawford) and Gran (Chris Lowbman) to the sequel "The Crowds: A New Age."

'Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans'

Stream it on Netflix.

This 2021 feature film, the conclusion to Galderton del Toro's "Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia" Netflix television series, brings all the heroes from the show together for one final battle. It children haven't seen the series, there's an expulsion at the beginning in catch them up. Established truth, a.k.a. Trollhink, lived harmoniously underneath the suburb of Arcadia (Yale, Jim Lake Jr. (originally voiced by Annie Wehlin, who died in 2016, and later by Eunie Hirsch) becomes the first human Trollhunter, taking an evil trolls and wizards bellbent on destroying the world.

In this movie, the primordial villainous Titans have been awakened, and Jim and his friends—Toby (Charlie Sumner), Claire (Lest Methuen) and Blinky (Kelsey Grammer)—try to save humanity and the planet one last time. There are plenty of chase scenes, explosions and reord lights on the verge of treacherous cliffs to keep older kids entertained, but some of the scenes might be scary for younger ones.

The voice cast also includes Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, Nick Frost, Cheryl Hines

and Tatiana Maulany. Johann Matts, Andrew L. Schmidt and Francisco Ruiz Volanos, directors on the series, share directing credit here. Del Toro, Marc Guggenheim, Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman wrote the script.

'Dog Gone Trouble'

Stream it on Netflix.

This tale of a spoiled dog named Trouble (voiced by Big Soot) was inspired by the true story of the billionaire hambler Lenna Hofmeyer leaving her dog EU million in her will. In this 2021 animated movie (first released under the title "Trouble"), Trouble's wealthy owner, Mrs. Sarah Vanderwheelen (Betsy White), dies and bequeathed her money to her only living relatives. When her greedy niece and nephew—Claire (Marlene Whitaker) and Herbert (Josh McHale)—come to claim her riches, they discover that to get the goats, they must prove they can take care of Trouble. Seems simple, but being the terrible human that they are, Claire and Herbert despise dogs. A villainous quality if ever there was one.

When Trouble falls out of a moving truck and gets lost in the streets of the big, scary city, he meets down-to-worth dogs: Bar Mooney (Harold, Mike) and Honey (Nancy Dogg), who are more used to screaming for scraps than getting massages and facials. He also befriends a human girl named Zoe (Larry Hale) who helps them understand that the secret thing is not true for a pacy house. It can be someone who loves you.

Kevin Johnson directed, and Rob Muir wrote the screenplay.

'The Crowds: A New Age'

Stream it on Amazon.

In this 2020 sequel to its 2021 predecessor, we're back with the "world's first family," the Crowds. There's the κινητοποιήσετο ρατσιστής Greg (voiced by Nicolas Cage), the ρατσιστής Uga (Catherine Keener), their own daughter, Guy (Emma Stone), their big-headed son, Thank (Clark Duke); Uga's mother, Gran (Chris Lowbman); and Guy (Ryan Reynolds). Eep's boyfriend when have welcomed him their family son.

When the Crowds stumble upon a walled-in commune burning with fluorescent fruit that look straight out of "The Wizard of Oz," they meet the Bettermann, a more modern family (to care man standards). The parents, Hope (Leslie Mann) and Phil (Peter Dinklage), welcome the Crowds, but then secretly scheme to get Guy to stay and marry the Bettermann' daughter, Doree (Kelly Marie True).

Eep and Doree once become heroine, but the adults find their value systems clashing since the Bettermann think they're, well, better than the Crowds. When Greg, Phil and Guy get kidnapped by a tribe of monkeys and taken to a giant, scary impossible creature, it's up to the women (and Thank) to save them. In the end, a "stronger together" moral prevails.

Joel Crawford ("Trails Holiday") directed, Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman (both writers on "Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans"), Paul Fisher and Bob Logan (both writers on "The Lego Nipajap Movie") collaborated on the script.

Two Not Touch

Put two stars in each row, column and region of the grid. No two stars may touch, not even diagonally. Number of stars are considered.

Wit Twister

They told me that the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Would boast a baseball card of Mickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

That bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Who hits his fire today? Why, no one can."

I made a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Complete the verse with words that are anagiants of each other. Each underline represents a letter. PLEASE BE PROMPT CALLING.

YESTERDAY'S AROUND | James Mercer

KenKen

Fill the grid with digits so as not to repeat a digit in any row or column, and so that the digits within each heavily outlined box will produce the target number shown, by using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, as indicated in the box. A 4-bit grid will use the digits 1-4. A 8-bit grid will use 1-6.

For more games, www.eyckmen.com/games

Number of the registered users are 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Crossword | Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Fling

9 Garment with a snow, leaving end known as a "pella."

9 Lengthwise aner of "The Young and the Restless"

12 Nocturnal sounds in the woods

14 Waffle

16 Woodard with muffles Emmys

17 Author and illustrator of "The Very Happy Caterpillar"

18 Slippery slope

20 Crowd (in)

21 Summertime top

23 Group of men

24 Kind of coating applied to walls

26 Go for again

27 Load from the dock

28 University of California campus site

29 Locals call it "BringData," "The mountain of mountains"

30 O. Henry's "The Gift of the . . ."

31 Braided rope made of cowhide

34 Limited

36 "Compensate?"

38 They're taken off for boulder photos

38 Rebound response!

39 Green dish made with an abundance of spinach

41 L.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

44 Instrument measuring liquid density

45 French beauty

47 Section of a golf bag

49 Place-capturing move

49 Hard French cheese

50 Map lines: Able.

51 Giant bird of Chinese

mythology that is transplants from a fish called Run.

52 Capone's foe

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

DOWN

1 Warm up

2 "Tancy!"

3 Warm up, sky

4 Word-of-mouth promoters

5 Investment bond in BLM, 0

6 During

7 Tires to outrun

8 Fathers

competitor

9 Corpus

10 Odontarious episodes, in using

11 Tares of endowment, in one spelling

14 Napkins, to Brits

14 Demo fine

15 Repeated greeting in the Key & Neck,

selects "Bobby Mont & Great"

16 Court name

22 Displaying a wide range of emotions, sky

36 Founder of Argentina's first female-led political party,

familiarity

38 Big name in comfortable footwear

39 Tower with daily calls to prayer

41 Hit from behind

33 Words following

A suggested

to try something

38 Wording (off)

34 Perfect example

35 Person you practically have to dog out of a party, sky

36 One requesting

simpler terms?

37 Charvel inserts

40 Short-lived interest

41 Parliamentary

south?

42 Pet

43 For a medium, it's easy!

Plus all of our games plus over 10,000 past puzzles for Wordle, Spelling Box. The Crossword and more online at http://mytimes.com/games.

For puzzle talk, visit http://mytimes.com/wordplay.

---

C4

Gliding From Ice Into Hollywood

How a former N.H.L. player emerged as a go-to cast member in Elissa Directed by Christopher Nolan.

By PETER BAUGH

The Editor

On the international film who where 'The Odyssey' was shot, the leading man, Matt Damon, developed a routine with Jimmy Gonzales, who plays a receiver on Odysseus crew.

Whenever a scene called for the chance, she to evade dangerous forces during their mythical voyage from Troy to Shiaa in the director Christopher Nolan's summer blockbuster film, the two actors raced.

Along the medium coast of Ireland, the instance, Gonzales remembered filming a dozen dead sprites on the foggy, dark-used beach. The air was cold, and his hamstrings felt like they were going to snug. That didn't stop him and Damon from talking trolls as they caught their breath between lakes. Hearing their hunter, another cast member stepped in.

'I'm going to smoke you guys,' said Sean Avery, querring a long withead.

Cast on Landanan, one of Odysseus' muscular, helmet-clad men, Avery lined up between Damon and Gonzales for the next time. When it began, he waged forward, blasting past both.

Gonzales recalled Damon's immediate, impressed response.

'That,' the movie star observed, 'is what a professional athlete can do.'

Over a 10-season, 500-game career in the National Hockey League, Avery was an antagonistic winger with the Detroit Red Wings, the Los Angeles Kings, the New York Rangers and the Dallas Stars, compiling 167 points.

Since his last N.H.L. game in December 2011, Avery hasn't left the public eye. He participated in a 2011 season of 'Dancing With the Stars,' which was 2012. Above is the second week, He wrote a 2017 memoir, 'Six Capades: A Manual of Fast Living and Tough Hockey,' and co-authored a 2022 hockey romance novel, 'Summer Skies,' with Leslie Cohen.

Avery is still involved in the hockey sphere. He is more than willing to offer. N.H.L. possibly on peduncle; on an April 2020 episode of 'Spirit's Chicken,' for example, he describes how his Angeline Kings winger Arlene Pannett's play as 'embarrassing' during the first round of the time by Cup playoffs. He also gives occasion, all's obsessely-tuned broadshound of hugue highlights on his Instagram page.

But professionally, his poor playing career has been defined by an unlikely post-star, acting.

Now all, he has appeared in 11 future-length movies, including the three most recent films from Nolan.

In 'Opensheimer,' which was best picture at the 2018 Academy Awards, Avery shared the screen with Damon and Clifton Murphy when his character — credited as 'Weatherman' — got into a hosted argument with the two stars.

Avery gave a short, daunting filming, 'The Odyssey,' traveling from his Los Angeles home to Greece, Scotland, Ireland, Morocco and Sicily.

He said that 'guys were banged up' from the physical demands of being on Odysseus crew. They hiked up a mountain and through trees wearing arson, took craving courses and spent days filming on boats to execute Nolan's vision.

It was the most common production Avery had experienced — and it only made him hangster for more work in his own film.

'I'm never going to stop,' he said. 'While playing in the N.H.L., Avery made his acting debut in 'The Rocket' — a 2003

Single about the Hockey Hall of Famer Maurice Richard — playing the New York Rangers defenseman Bob Old years before joining the team himself in 2005.

But hardly anyone does would have pictured Avery jangling up in critically acclaimed films after his hockey career was over, himself included.

Avery landed a small role in the 2008 film 'Purrute Day' about the 2011 Boston Marathon bombing, which was detected by Peter Berg, whom he had gotten to know as an N.H.L. player.

The experience, Avery said, was 'the classic feeling I've had to playing at Madison Square Garden.'

The road inspired him to further immerse himself in acting.

Avery aired at least in love 'not 'just going to classes and figuring out how to do it,' he said. 'Learning how to entertain. Understanding what the whole thing was.' Eventually, he hit work to say another Hollywood committee.

While competing on 'Dancing With the Stars,' he got to know the producer Valerie Pogoshen, whose husband, John Pogoshen, is Nolan's longtime young director. 'An after several years of acting lessons, Avery reached out to John Pogoshen and auditioned for a role in Nolan's 2020 movie 'Tired.'

Nolan cast Avery in a small part, which was credited as the Exhibit 1, and then gave him a bit more responsibility in 'Opensheimer,' including the argument with Murphy and Damon.

Avery called filming that scene 'one of the most high-stakes nights of you'.

Some of his other film credits include 'airstret/blast,' a 2022 movie from David O. Russell featuring Margo Robbie and Christian Eom, and 'Happy Gilmore 2' starring Adam Sandler.

In 'Happy Gilmore 2,' Avery was cast with another former N.H.L. player, the Hockey Hall of Famer Chris Choline. They played a pair of henchmen who serve as muscle for a moment.

Avery's growing experience and recent history with Nolan didn't lead to a smooth audition for 'The Odyssey' in early 2020. He showed up wearing a likely shirt that was too light — Nolan and Pogoshen had an affectionately made hat of him for it, he remember — and then Avery blasted on his face: 'As the great others they didn't even make me do them.'

Avery thinks that sharing the screen with Murphy and Damon in 'Opensheimer' led to Nolan feeling comfortable training him anyway.

'I'm sure Chris, in the back of his mind, when I blow an audition like him, goes: 'Yeah, whatever I've seen from in the fire.'

Sean Avery left, playing with the New York Rangers in 2011. Above, Avery in the role of Landanan in 'The Odyssey' for draft Christopher Nolan film.

'I've thrown him in it before,' Avery said. 'New Avery seems to have established itself as a go-to ensemble member for Nolan.'

Nolan's Chris just likes people that show up to work ready to go and have a mind set where they understand that the stakes are high.' Avery said, 'As the all great coaches, I guess [deceased] kind of identity talent and know who they need in certain areas of Mickey I've fallen under that category with Chris.'

Over six months of filming, Gonzales came to view Avery as someone with 'brainable curiosity' and they became fast friends.

Asked if Avery over offered any advice about working on a Nolan film, Gonzales replied: 'I don't think he ever had time.'

For Avery, the set atmosphere 'was an similar to a locker-room environment I've ever seen outside of a locker room.'

At one point in Scotland, while making a trek of 20 plus minutes along the coastline to the catering store for lunch, Gonzales travel to Avery about Andrew Howard, a customer with whom Gonzales had just shared a scene.

Howard, walking behind them, asked what they were talking about.

'Jimmy was just riding me how you're standing all his lines,' Avery disappoised, not missing a beat.

The remark set Howard on a cast about how actors shouldn't view lines as a matter of competition, which he turn made Avery the subject of Gonzalez's ire.

'With Avery laughing, the two friends looked and found, when Damon sat down next to them. After Gonzales filled him in on the argument, Damon gave serious.

Gonzales recalled Damon saying to Avery that he had to make things right.

Avery then assured Damon that he would.

'That's the only time Damon kind of leaned into me,' Avery said.

Damon is a Boston sports dothard, and Avery said the star knew of him 'from my

previous life' in the N.H.L.

Armed for film on, the entire ensemble branch when and after a pilot around with one another. On one occasion, while filming as a beat in the Mediterranean, Nolan merely told Avery to quiet down as he talked astoundedly to a customer.

He seen as the director walked away, Gonzales said with a laugh, the actors on the boat began herding Avery 'like school kids.'

Avery has a few notable moments in 'The Odyssey' for delivery a line in the cyclone scene, and his face is shown prominently when Chris feeds Odysseus' crew a new and very perfectly warm life in the night. When an Apollo's island, Avery's character frustratedly, there's a trek to show away a crew. Then, is a final moment of glory, he grabs Damon's hand and hunts him onto the boat before the rest of the crew drowns.

'I love Odysseus,' Avery said. 'What an incredible movie moment for me.'

'The Odyssey' has been a smash hit and is projected to pass $1 billion in global box office sales. Avery has received a bevy of notes from friends who use the movie, including plenty from his N.H.L. days, Brendan Skarlatina, who played with Avery in Detroit and New York and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame, recently envisaged him from a theater.

'Avery day it's somebody new because every day somebody new has seen the movie,' Avery said.

'The experience has only furthered his acting ambitions.

Avery said he would be appearing in the new CBS show 'Emotian,' not to promote in the middle of the 2018-27 season, and to Season 1 of 'The Night Agent' on Netflix.

He also recently auditioned for 'I Love N.H.L.' a comedy starring Rachel Sennett on HBO about a minor agent and her Los Angeles-based friends.

If he gets him role, Avery said, he 'could win a Golden Globe.'

'And if they don't choose me,' he said, 'they made a mistake.'

MAYA PHILLIPS | CRITICS NOTEBOOK

crowd more than once.'

universe, the Avatar, a master of all four elements who is meant to bring balance to the world, is reincarnated in a new form each lifetime. From 2003 to 2008, over the course of three beautifully written and illustrated seasons, the Avatar was Aang, a 12-year-old boy who spends 100 years frozen in ice and, after awakening, goes on to end the long running war among nations.

The new animated film 'Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender,' which has been the most-watched movie on Paramount+ since its premiere in late July, arrives at a time when it feels like the Avatar universe is expanding as all directions, is various forms. As Netflix tries to replicate the magic of the original in a live-action series and Dr. Martino and Rodericko work on the next animated Avatar series, 'Avatar Aang' swagly slurs itself to the gap, at a time when many long-running franchises are fighting its signs, the new film demonstrates a single path to success. By serving its audience, by continuing the mythology with the original characters when they can come in love and by doing so in the original format with the original creators.

When the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' or 'ATLA,' series co-written in 2008, the

franchise kept expanding with very minor results. In 2016, M. Night Wagonian directed a live-action adaptation that was soundly panned for both in kind of authenticity in the original and in esteem of the Asian and Indigenous heritage of its characters. Then in 2012, the original show's creators returned with an animated sequel series. Though it took place in the same world, the series had a marketable different vibe with a brush, adolescent female Avatar役 (signing a more modern+mompoid) world. Though that show, 'The Legend of Keros,' was more polarizing than the original, the sequel of all had a loyal influence of fans who admired the tradition of the universe's chapter and its representation with an openly queer protagonist.

In 2024, Netflix tried its hand at another live-action adaptation, and, though it cleared the new full story, the original film this story couldn't replicate the heart and humor of the original. The second season, which premiered in June, precipitated a dismal drop in viewership.

Like many other franchise, the broader Avatar universe also includes comics, novels and games, another animated sequel series, 'Avatar: Aang: the Last Airbender,' about the earth-bending Avatar and her twin sister, is scheduled to premiere in October. Often this kind of spread can be to a franchise's detriment. Company the brothers of franchise, and the Star of Colorado, Colorado, Harry Potter and 'Star Wars' with where they are today: Too many sequels, gimmils and re-heats can create a case of diminishing worms, where early fans may feel alienated from the character's end—never, that there them to the franchise as the first place.

'Avatar Aang' is kind of an, progressive action punctuated with the same brand of fre-

dy that gave the original series its charm. The high scores have 20, and movement with background generation that's corporate in detail, color and scope.

In the story, which takes place about a decade after the events of the original series, the peace among nations that Aang helped to achieve and the system of the success, the newly formed Republic City, are endangered by a disabling group of non-benders looking for a sacred artifact that can shift the current balance of power. While Aang, with the help of the unique teammates — Katara, Sokka, Topk and Zoko — knows it find the artifact, he remembers another airbender who's been entrapped in to the centuries and also shrewd of reviving the Aang game airbender culture.

The original 'Avatar' series expertly required the repercussions of war, genocide, imperialism, class warfare, displacement.

From left: Kizawoda, Andrew Sennett and Ian Sontay to Season 1 of Netflix's 'Avatar: The Last Airbender,' adapted from the animated series.

'Avatar Aang' follows along the same lines by exploring what happens when the so-called balance achieves postwar still leaves some groups of people disadvantaged. The non-benders resent living in a society in their own way, and their own mystical with privilege and power. And in that sense the Avatar is the epitome of privilege.

'Avatar Aang' also continues to expand on the beautifully built character drivingly, including the series. The original series already federally showed the growth of its main character, a vibe, sometimes immo-nes (2-year-old unsure of his abilities, into a lighter and louder who will keep it on to his pacific's back). Now 'Avatar Aang' presents a self-ensured young man, more comfortable shouldering his responsibleness as Arusha, who is holding a two-stroke and guilt from his childhood. For all of Aang's success in a willing, a war and featuring peace, his feelings of isolation as the last of his kind are still a central part of this character. Even in a time of harmony among the nations, more than ever he worries about his people's legacy and whether it will be forever lost after his death.

'Avatar Aang' co-wrote both as a stand-alone, and was the main topic true to the 'ATLA' identity, while allowing the franchise to continue to grow. The movie connects the brand to its beginnings, while creating a megapopman for viewers to revisit the characters' and find a new way away back into the world. There has been plenty of evidence lately that this is not the easiest thing to pull off. As long as the creators have the opportunity to expand the Avatar set, they will be able to their creators' ideas, a means possible that the Avatar cycle can be truly eternal and stand as a lesson in franchise blast.

---

»

C5

ALISSA WILKINSON | DOCUMENTARY LENS

Big Dreams Behind the Treats

A film follows four Girl Scouts during the annual, and stressful, cookie-selling season.

WE ALL KNOW THE DEASONS: There's spring, summer, fall, winter and, of course, Girl Scout cookie season. When the books of vest-wearing youngsters fan out across America, banking leases of Samson and Thai Mimi and Sigalanga, beware: They're awfully hard to resist.

That is, of course, the idea, and in Alysa Nakomira's documentary "Cookie Queens" (in theaters), four scouts spend a season fighting out how to sell cookies to everyone around them. The film is terrifically enter-

taining, partly because its subjects — Nikki, Ava, Gera and Shannon Elizabeth — are so fun to watch. (Bovs is 21 and a top seller in her council for many years running, her record is nearly 9,000 boxes. Nikki is 9 and wants to be just like her teenage sisters; who sold enough to hand their rough trip to Europe the previous year. Ava, a whipsman! I year-old, has set her goal at a stand out 55 boxes, whereas 9-year-old Shannon Elizabeth yearns to sell enough to go to Girl Scout camp.

The subjects are from diverse backgrounds and regions of the country, but they have some things in common: gangsters, determination, big dreams and supportive families. "Cookie Queens" doesn't trot out as expert to explain the cookie program, instead letting the details arise naturally in conversation. The Girl Scouts — so, more likely, their families — have to purchase the stock that they plan to sell. There's a lit prof-

it margin on each box, and prizes and money attached to meeting sales goals. If you purchase too much stock and fall to sell it all — well, the parents are stressed about what might happen next.

Put that way, the cookie program does seem sadly similar in a few ways to under level marketing, especially because most of the money goes to supporting the Girl Scouts organization. (Gera, in particular, seems frustrated that the girls spend so much time earning money yet have limited input into programming and other decision-making.) But they're also learning skills like math, entrepreneurship and the ability to speak with confidence, so there's good reason for the sales to continue and for the children to be minded to join in.

The movie isn't out to criticize or celebrate the fund-raising approach. Instead, it's about the girls. "Cookie Queens" follows the scouts through weeks of sales, strategy,

Nikki, one of the Girl Scouts featured in the new documentary "Cookie Queens":

stress and triumph. They talk about their desire to be the top seller or whether they really want to continue after the season. We want gangsters to stay pressure that cookie-selling can bring, the girls and parents alike, but we also see how much fun they're having.

There's no thesis driving "Cookie Queens," and it's not an exposé — it's a slice of life documentary about something as many Americans have experienced, one way or another. But its ebullient subjects make for delightful viewing, and as they learn what it means to try to make money, their experiences and the lessons they learn feel resonant for beyond cookie season.

Carpenter's Horror Has a Menacing Beat

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

suburbias terrorized in "Halloween." Dressed in a long-sleeved black shirt and black pants, his gray hair pulled back, Carpenter pointed to his 76-year-old face and smiled: "I didn't look like this all the time. This is what happens when you direct. It's like working in a coal mine."

Rather than stop back behind the camera, Carpenter adopted his early dream into "Cathedral," a horror tale that takes his form of a graphic novel and a hard rock album (the book was released on Tuesday; the album came out on Friday). The music which Carpenter wrote with his wife, Sandy King, and bean bafecale, follows a group of Los Angeles police officers who venture into the beevils of an abandoned downtown church after a gruesome murder.

The fierce creatures and fantastical landscapes they encounter are reflected in the assaultive "Cathedral" soundtrack, which enters crunching guitar riffs, relentlessly propulsive drums and icy synthesizers. Carpenter co-wrote and performed on the album's 14 tracks with his go-to collaborators: his son, Cody Carpenter, 42, and his godson, Daniel Davies, 45, both multi-instrumentalists.

"My choos never's very good, and I don't practice," John Carpenter said. "So I'm carried along by those two. I just let them tell me what to do."

His handsnares, sound nearby, objected in season. They were gathered in the front room of Carpenter's office, where a Michael Myers pitched machine and a giant stator at Nushrata tarbed in the curves.

"Cathedral" is the trio's fifth studio album together in just over a decade. During that time, Carpenter has transitioned from horror across to professional rock-9-collections for his menacing instrumentals and spondy five shows.

It might seem like an unlikely आयोजनary switch. But it makes sense to Carpenter, who has been playing music his entire life. He grew up in Bowling Downs, Ky., the son of a music professor who urged him to learn numerous instruments. Though Carpenter didn't scare easily — he caught the 1937 film "The Curves of restlessness" in the theater when he was put it — the prospect of bringing a violin to his rural school filled him with dread.

"I was in the orchestras and had to carry this tiny case," Carpenter recalled. "I was a mark. Those country boys were waiting to beat the [expletive] out of me. I wanted to get rid of their thing as soon as I could."

As he got older, Carpenter discovered hands like the Doors and the Byrds. He eventually disliked the violin in favor of the guitar and started playing covers. His music training came in handy when Carpenter released his Los Angeles in the late 1960s to study at the University of Southern California. That's where he familiarized himself with modular synthesizers, which became a hallmark of his early maniacs. For the bleak, low-hudger 10th action drama "As-

said on Preview 13," Carpenter created a series of skittering, pulsating electronic tracks that were emtimes without being overbearing.

Using synthesizers allowed Carpenter to save money and work fast. He composed the "Halloween" soundtrack to just three days, including the main theme: a rattling combination of haunting synthesizers and persistent piano tones, all played in a 5/4 time signature that Carpenter's father had taught him on the bongin.

Over the next several decades, Carpenter composed music for nearly all of his films, often working with longtime collaborator Alan Howard. For the 1987 supernatural thriller "Prince of Darkness", the docleaned on quietly menacing keyboard chimes and brief third progressions.

"The music on 'Prince of Darkness' isn't complicated," said Kyle Dixon, one of the creators of the music for the Netflix hit "Stranger Things." "But it's brooding and spooky, with the bare thumping and melodies coming in and out. The lower something won't's going to happen."

By the early 2010s, Carpenter was working on music at home, where he was often joined by his son and Davies. The three men have been playing together, either recreationally or professionally, for decades. Daim, the son of the State guitarist Dave Davis, spent much of his adolescence living with the Carpenter family after his parents' divorce. The Carpenter household was the kind of place where Steve Beacons could be spotted playing drums during a wrap party, or where the British composer James Bernard might demonstrate how he wrote the score for the 10th adaptation of "Dracula."

"He would always talk about music and music. 'Why is this scene scary?' 'What is that moment really about?'" recalled Daniel Davies, who got some early guitar lessons from Carpenter, learning more like the Byrds' "I'll Feel a Week at a Time."

As the younger musicians, Carpenter, they headed with Carpenter about their favorite artists, from Aldis to the Bee Gees. "I learned everything from my dad," Cody Carpenter said. "Opening up, he had all these instruments around the house, and he'd play all the music he loved for me."

Their formal collaboration began when John and Cody outred planning his basement studio, passing at times to play video games. As recording progressed, they were joined by Davies, by then a veteran of such rock acts as Your Long Pleasure and Korets to Burn.

Their recordings eventually found their way to Catch Dreams, founder of the Brooklyn indie label Sacred Bones. "I was cautiously excited," said Beacons, who grew up watching Carpenter from "the first time" — it seems have become very important in the culture, and John is the master at that. But recent electronic music movements, like craft wars, also were a huge shift to find." Carpenter's first album with the label,

JAMES BERRY

Music is 'the greatest art form man invented,' the longtime filmmaker says.

"Last Thames," arrived in 2015; the next year, he and his group hit the road for nearly 40 live dates, playing new tunes, as well as some of his best-known film scores. "The very first show, I was scared," Carpenter said. "And then, maybe 30 seconds into being up there, I thought, 'This is the greatest. There's nothing like this.'"

Carpenter doesn't read or write music, instead relying on improvisation. Even when he's in his home recording studio, he's still very much directing. While writing music for "Cathedral," he'd talk through the graphic novel's story line in the studio, searching for sounds that fit the scores in his head. John would say something like, "Oh, we're going to have our main chance to fight the dark field, so we need a heavy riff right here." Davies recalled. "And it starts coming out that way, based on the images that he's describing to us."

The resulting songs are some of the group's most aggressive, owing to the three musicians' shared love for Metallica. The managing "Primerist" features gnarled guitar lines, while "Lord of the Underground" combines disastrous fury and ghostly synth lines.

"It's a rock record, which is something that John's been trying to unlock," Beacons said. "And it's thematic — there's a story that goes with it. In a way, it's film an actual score to a John Carpenter film."

Carpenter's latest musical effort arrives as he flimsy party is being shattered and championed by Gen Z and millennial movie fans. Even his more costly received efforts now have the hard followings: On the review site Letterhead, the Lovecraft can take "to the future in Matheon" — a commercial midfire back in 1994 — is now among his highest-rated movies, and last year, a multi-night retrospective of his films in Los Angeles quickly sold out.

Carpenter's music is change their meaning over time," said Alex Ross Perry, an in-the-vision director and Carpenter admirer. "If you're watching 'The Thing' or 'They Live' when you're 32, they're but as it strikes, that's you're watching them in your 30s or 40s, they're deep and meaningful dejections of Cold War mentality and American conservatism."

For Carpenter, who often found himself at online, and other people inside touch alike, the increased attention is gratifying. "I've been called all sorts of names," he said. "And I've had all sorts of bad reviews. And now? It's fantastic."

"But we's with a new wave of film fans, Carpenter's enthusiasm is focused on music. 'We go back art form man invented,' he said. 'We're a very complex and expensive. But with music, one don't have to talk about it. You can just listen.'"

"Directing is too stressful," John Carpenter said. At 76, he has a new album, top studio with his son and gothon, and a graphic novel, left.

---

C6

Catching the Buzz at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

This year's lineup includes clowns, stand-up, controversy and the return of favorites.

By ALEX MARSHALL, HUGHAN BAREKAT and JULIAN RAYFIELD

EDMONDIE — At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which opened Friday and run through Aug. 12, some of the acts already have significant world-month buzz or planned runs beyond the Fringe. Here are nine shows that are sure to make waves.

'Ridoplay'

Any Fringe show with Francesca Moody's name attached is a likely hit. Here's the producer behind breakout hits like 'Fleshag,' 'Hally Banshee' and 'Weather Girl' (which dwells and A24 are turning into a TV series).

This year, Moody already seems to have a success on her hands with 'Ridoplay,' a new woman show writers by and starring Hannah Reilly, about a fume-seeking podcaster who reinvents herself as a sex influencer. Its whole Fringe run is sold out.

The fall, 'Ridoplay' will move to London. The involvement of Global Creatures, an Australian theater company behind peppermint mustards like 'Mudin Rouge,' suggests it could eventually go beyond Britain.

Moody said in an interview that the thought the buzz around 'Ridoplay' was down to its power, which features Reilly, staring out seductively while twirling a bradykema cable. 'A strong image always works well in Edinburgh,' Moody said.

To Carmine Pavlovic of Global Creatures, there is far more to it. 'Ridoplay' isn't a just a very play, she said, but an 'of-the-eminent' piece discussing 'that relationship between sex and power and where sex past-

Austin Raftery

tivity has landed on.' ALEX MARSHALL

Through Aug. 10 at Summerhall, then Oct. 22- Nov. 31 at the Soho Theater in London.

Amanda Knox

It's over a decade since Amanda Knox was exonerated, after years of appeals and retrials, of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy. Yet such was her determination by the news media during that first, sensational murder trial that she has struggled to banish the murder of America.

Her infamy makes her jump-out from this year's Fringe: listings like some bizarre anomaly. And indeed, her appearance in a one-woman comedy show at the Fringe has caused some disquiet. An entire petition calling for the show's cancellation has garnered thousands of signatures.

But, per Italy's highest court, Knox was the victim of a miscarriage of justice; she wrongfully, with the last years in jail, and that story is here to tell.

The title of her unchappagitical show, 'Caritvokes,' refers to the yoga poses she was seen doing in her cell after her initial arrival. Measure person as caritvokes, they were cited by the prosecution as evidence of her callous indifference to Kercher's death.

The show looks not to unpack the ignorance and misogyny that tolerated Knox's portrayal as a female titular by a practice tabloid media. And the billing promises an added personal dimension as Knox ponders how to explain her ordeal to her young daughter when the time inevitably comes. HUGHAN BAREKAT

Through Aug. 17 at Gilded Balloon Twist.

Asia Magliano

The British 'Saturday Night Live' was an unexpected success after it premiered on TV in March, and a bunch of cast members and writers are performing in Edinburgh this year — and getting a lot of extra attention.

Chief among them is Asia Magliano, one of the show's 'Weekend Update' hosts. She had a run in the campaign in the lead-up in the festival, where she is performing a solo stand-up show called 'Peach Fuzz.' It hits on a divorce range of topics including body modification, Sebring Carpenter and 'We don't be the one.'

Magliano has had success at the Fringe before. But this year she's one of the hottest

tickers in town, and sold out her whole run works before the festival lacked off. For those who have already been shot out, 'Peach Fuzz' is not to tour in Britain and the United States starting in November.

Other names from 'Saturday Night Live' on the doctor in Edinburgh are show writers like Bella Hall and Omar Rodney, and cast members like Annaldo Bonaplace and Paddy Young, who is Magliano's 'Weekend Update' co-host — and whose show is almost sold out, too. HUGHAN BAREKAT

Through Aug. 12 at Monkey Barrel Comedy, then starring Britain and North America.

'Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It'

The New York-based performing duo Elmer & Natasha have been Fringe favorites since their enthusiastically received 2022 debut. Their new show is on in a tiny, flood-curaged town in the Appalachian Mountains, where two teenage motifs amaze themselves by manufacturing fake sightings of the mythical Bigfoot.

It's all fun and games until they happen across the historical remains of their neighbor's triary dog and their be start to feel a bit too real.

Made up like clowns, Elmer & Natasha's praksisters have a strange, compulsive physically, pushing, pulling and clambering into each other as they deliver a triceps. Irenetic performance punctuated by abnormally brief snatches of 'His page.'

'Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It' is an affectionate, absurdist love letter to small-town life and folk superstition that is also a timely allogory for how societies cope with crises, real and imagined. HUGHAN BAREKAT

Through Aug. 10 at Summerhall, then Sept. 7- 26 at the Soho Theater in London.

Alex Edelman

The last time Alex Edelman performed at the Fringe, it was with 'East for Us,' a show about his experience of infiltrating a white minimalist group (he's Jewish). That was in 2016, and after collecting smooth and accolades there, the show went on to have a global tour, a run on Broadway and an EBD special, with Tony and Emmy wins on top.

Edelman, who has been a reliable Fringe of since 2014, when he won best inwomen, is back this year with new material in a show called 'What Are You Going to Do.'

The show, which runs in the last two weeks of the festival, is another narrative comedy solo tour. It covers more ground than his last, including his time as a hospital down in Jerusalem and themes like personal responsibility and religious belief — with some amusing asides about how in New York City, 'cruelty' is a New language.

After Edinburgh, Edelman will take the show around North America this fall, including to New York. HUGHAN BAREKAT

Through Aug. 31 at Pleasant Courtyard.

Frankie Thompson

Clowns at the Fringe regularly push comedy is far stranger, more inventive and theatrical directions than the stand-ups. And if you want to see one this year, my pick is Frankie Thompson.

Thompson was one of the breakout acts of the 2022 Fringe with 'Caris' an out-shore show in which the lip-synced and performed physical comedy to follow-related audio and video clips, including one featuring the original Broadway cast of 'Caris' A Time Out critic called it 'Miseriously better' and 'She nothing else you'll see.'

The year, Thompson is back with 'Hitchin Things,' which once again features her lip-syncing, this time in recordings of things she finds unsettling. It features more audience interaction than her past shows (and ready to dance) and more physical comedy. And it includes our unforgettable yachty moment when she starts licking things.

Top, Jordan Calloway as Prince Devlin in 'Bliss,' focused row from left: Hannah Reilly in 'Ridoplay,' Frankie Thompson in 'Horr the Things,' and 'Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It.' Above, Adam Riches in 'The Captain.'

The show may leave some audience members confused, but it'll most likely blow many more away with its inventiveness. Thompson seems to realize her potential diviviveness: The poster he the show features the tagline 'If you laugh, it's comedy. If you don't, it's performance art.'

And if you can't get to Thompson's show, try All Lovers 'The Woman on the Edge,' another inventive hour of clowning about a breakup. It's already secured a New York transfer. ALEX MARSHALL

Through Aug. 30 at Pleasant Courtyard, then Oct. 12-24 at the Soho Theater in London.

Adam Riches

In 2024, Adam Riches sweated his way through his hit show 'Jimmy' in the role of the tennis star Jimmy Carman. Riches ran back and forth across the stage for about an hour, playing an imaginary match that was impressively timed to tennis ball round effects. His new show, 'The Captain,' is based on the Bit of Capt. Matthew Webb, the first person to resist the English Channel up-abled, and it promises to be another high-concept portrait of an accomplished and complex man.

Riches is also popular for his offbeat character comedies that rely extensively on audience participation. This year, he'll be performing a new one called 'The Critic's Way,' in which he plays a comedy reviewer. This might be the only way to still catch him: 'The Captain' is sold out, including a couple of extra shows.

But if you're not on seeing a performer overcourt himself for art, 'The Distance,' also at Summerhall, might do the trick. The show, by Ben Norris, a former long-distance runner for Britain's national team, is advertised as 'part play, part extreme workout.' HUGHAN BAREKAT

Through Aug. 31 at Summerhall.

'Bliss'

This uprised family musical from the producers of the Oliver Award winner 'The Carman Carol Benjamin Barlow' offers an irreverent feminist twist on the traditional fairy tale. Created by Emma Lively and Tyler Beattie and directed by Sherri Keller, 'Bliss' is on in the make-believe land of Minnesota, where four witty and proverbial prisoners have been locked in a tower and home-attended by their overprotective father. Desperate to experience the real world, they break out.

Council toward younger theatergoers, the show has plenty of playful humor and an accessible pop-rock scene. It also features a comic, a minors called feisty and a sleep-loved friendly dragon, 'Bliss' is whimsical and wise, carrying a valuable message about authenticity, autonomy and authenticity. HUGHAN BAREKAT

Through Aug. 31 at Pleasant Grand.

'Evita Too'

The Fringe is a place to discover the next big thing, but the lineup also includes past bits back for a victory lap and shows that have already found success elsewhere. Of this year's strip, 10 raps run to see 'Evita Too,' which is billed at a lower-badge sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 'Evita' — but is actually far more. It secured new reviews last year during a run at the Southbank Center in London.

'Evita' told the story of Eva Perrin, the wife of Argentina's popular president who was abduct by the working classes before she died at age 55. In 'Evita Too,' the performers Louise McKenzie and Rebecca Bloxall focus instead on Isabel Marleoz Perrin, a cabaret dancer who married Evita's widower and became Argentina's first female president.

Isabel Perrin's life is so bizarre — she even soon shared a hame with Evita's corpse — that it's ripe for musical theater. Yet McKenzie and Bloxall also make her tale into a highly comedic show involving their own attempts to meet her in Madrid, where she lives in room.

Alongside the laughs, the show asks a serious question: What does a woman have to do to be remembered?

ALEX MARSHALL

Through Aug. 30 at 2000 Southside.

From left: Asia Magliano, who will be performing in 'Peach Fuzz'; Alex Edelman, whose new show is 'What Are You Going to Do'; and 'Evita Too,' on the life of Isabel Marleoz Perrin.

---

9

C7

Travel

27 Friends, 216 Glasses, One Scottish-Sikh Feast

Inside a private dinner party in the Highlands presided over by the chef Tony Singh.

By HELENE COOPER

Before I ever heard of huggie pakers, I started an obsession with the chef Tony Singh, Scotland's most famous Sikh, who combined the Scottish pudding of sheep's heart, liver and lungs with the crispy deep-fried feline from the Indian subcontinent to create a bold that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

It started when I saw him cook lullene over an open flame for the actors Sam Houghan and Graham McTavish from 'Oscander,' the TV series about crime-travelling nurse and a Scottish better.

Sam and Graham were doing a spirited called 'Mine in Kilts,' driving around Scotland in a canyon van. On the first episode, 'Food and Drink,' they caught a net fall at sea creatures and brought it to a deckside village in Fife where Chef Tony waited. He wore full silk and his trademark red turban, called a dentist, opened a thick tongue, and grilled lullene with coriander, gauze and seaweed butter on inviting I wanted to swallow my television.

The Scott have a saying: 'What's her ye'll set go by ye.' So when I opened the same man in the same red dancer we could create some post standing next to my friend the chef Ian McCakin, who was cooking for my friends and me for a week at the ledge we had rented in the Scottish Highlands, well, clearly this was later.

'Can you get him in come cook for so one night?' I texted Ian.

So there we were, on a rare sunny mid-summer Sunday evening at Stucklaymore, our vacation rental in the Central Highlands, living out what my friend Conley aptly described as my ultimate fantasy. There was the gorgeous 200-year-old former hunting lodge with 12 bedrooms on the northern shores of Lake Oly. There were 17 friends and family members who traveled from Oregon, Los Angeles, New York, Lisbon and Virginia to Fife, eat, drink whisky, read murder mysteries, bite and stay up late. There was a modern dining a day backed by floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over the lock. And a celebrity chef coming to cook us a nine-course hoax (eight-moreses!) with wine pairings.

My ultimate fantasy is the ... Setting the whole thing up had been quite the to-do, as Ian was constantly as the phone with me over refinements demanded by our pervasively chef. The Aga steve in Stucklaymore's well-stocked kitchen was deemed unfit to handle Chef Tony's scallops, quad and saddleback (cruel pork belly, I discovered); we must rent extra moves. Also, there was no deep fryer for his huggie pakers; had the 121 wineglasses in the Stucklaymore cupboards were nowhere near enough; he needed life. 'He is bringing some pretty good wines to pair with each course,' Ian told me. And from unusual places like Georgia and Lebanon.

'I don't see why we can't just use two wineglasses each,' I refused to Ian. 'One hundred wines, one for white?'

Ian, I sure realize, had become a master at quietly absorbing his indipulating and then steering me in the right direction. Back to the rental place he went to pick up another 100 or so wineglasses.

Every time I thought I'd had enough, I went to my TV and poised one of my many Tony Singh videos. There he was an 'Great British Menu,' showing how to properly present a seafood platter, with roasted languorines smothered to chile jam on a three-layer platter crowned with a vintage brass deep-sea divo helmet. Or on the episode where he made the judges pull deep-fried

Clockwise from above, Tony Singh preparing to serve huggie pakers at the Stucklaymore ledge, top, the reporter Helene Cooper welcoming guests, called did, the scallop coarser, the chef serving bars d'oeuvres.

rabbit balls out of a top hat. Or on YouTube with a Punjabi salmon cooking video that incorporated the rosette salmon-horses, he got for people who don't like fish on the bone.

'I am from Liberia and have trained my friends to eat fish on the bone?' I told Ian during one of our many phone calls, Chef Tony overcrowded up — gouging that out all 27 diners would feel the same way. He would make both. (He would be right, as it turned out.)

Speaking of the other diners, they had all been a pain in the better. There were peculiar tars, worries who didn't eat beef or fish but loved lamb, fish-eaters who wouldn't touch 'sea monsters,' lamb-haters, you name it. I didy next all of their particulars onward.

At 2:45 in the afternoon on the appointed Sunday, Chef Tony arrived with numerous sheets of scribblings about who couldn't eat

what. He came with Scott Brodowski, his sous-chef, and his two children, Aerti and Raing, who would be serving and, very importantly, setting the massive table in Stucklaymore's dining room for 27 people (with all those wineglasses). Ian and his partner, Karen Terlay, were pitching in to help us well.

I heard Chef Tony before I saw him; he was in the kitchen talking to Ian in a Glanwegian dialect I could not understand, though I think I made out 'twice' (butter). He gave me a big bag (OK, I initiated it) and said (I think) 'I'm a hugger, Ian.'

Chef Tony wore his red dancer but not the left and took over the Stucklaymore kitchen. The rental moves were being housed in the adjoining jugs room, one of them promptly blew out a circus breaker. The Aga did something that had Ian and my brother-in-law Abba leakling on the floor beside it. Me? I fitted around trying to de-

Enjoying a fusion of tastes over a nine-course meal.

cide when to change into my outfit for the evening, and eventually everything got started.

I had warned my friends to bring their A game for attire, and the waters, of course, did not disappoint. Christian, just off the plane from Los Angeles, showered and changed in 12 minutes and presented herself in what looked like a Mission dress. My lunatic sister, fresh from catching the upbeat joke I ever saw in the lock, appeared wearing an Indian salwar hatchet taste over tartan lights, representing Scottish Sikhs? Tarmika had on a backless lace number so elegant her husband just followed her around the Stucklaymore grounds shooting pictures from behind.

It was a gorgeous evening weather-wise, so we gathered on the terrace for our canopies of huggie pakers, cherries and onion pan pan, a small crispy fried dough ball, and Osmopages. I was slowly coming around in the corner of huggie, as Ian had been making us full Scottish breakfasts, and the huggie pakers was spicy, intensely flavored, deep-fried gold. Pessizarian Laura came dancing over to me as delight when Chef Tony presented her with her own special veggie huggie pakers.

Tony's daughter, Aerti, had made place cards for everyone at the dining table, and after I made some minor changes (people were not allowed to sit next to their partners), we gilded into the dining room for our nine-course dinner. Did I mention with wine accompaniments?

At 8:25 p.m. our dinner began. I noticed many unwise satires scarfing down our first course of quail roasted with honey and harissa, not pacing themselves. Amateurs. The chilled pinot noir it came

with was immensely refreshing.

I knew Chef Tony's did for our third course would be good, but it came with tender flaky rabbit on top, accompanied by a big, bold and spicy Cowglass wine. Wow.

Four courses in, we got to the Punjabi salmon (calmna beans for the Liberians). Every place got both salmon beans and salmon, in a spicy sauce of garlic, chile, tomatoes and ginger, served with hazmat. I packed all the salmon off those bones like I was home in Monezria, then went hunting on our friend Richard's plate, but my do had already swiped his beans. He said he enjoyed his detained salmon. Sigh.

By the time we got to the must saddleback, people were waving their white napkins in surrender; we had been eating far three hours. We made it through the next course — of storeberries with cinnamon and black pepper and chocolate mousse — but just barely I noticed the three items in our group, who had been sneaking up at wine all evening, quaffing down the sweet pelligrine passito dessert wine with gusto.

The last two courses were cheeses with oat cakes, paired with fine crisp pot, and Tony's tea cakes, but they simply could not be eaten because it was now midnight and our stomachs were toppling over these tartan lights and boating out of those cocktail dresses, so Chef Tony put them aside for us to eat later in our week at Stucklaymore.

To say this was one of the best dining experiences I ever had with sound like Superbide, but it was one of the best dining experiences I ever had. And you know what? I'm not mad about the rented wineglasses anymore. We couldn't be drinking our cheese likens out of the same glass from which we drank our pinot noirs! We are not peasants.

---

C8

Clockwise from left: the 1961 Pohjula Insurance headquarters, which exemplifies the architect Eliel Saarinen's early work; its pyramidal green-copper top; and part of its four-story circular staircase.

Beguiled by the Dreamy Streetscapes of Helsinki

The appearance of early-1900s Finland was shaped in part by Eliel Saarinen's architecture.

By MICHAEL H. HODGES

Lucky are the cities caught by their buildings. San Francisco has its Victorian rowbeams, and Paris has the Second Empire maniaced with that home nearly every vista. But some cities' architectural treasures aren't so obvious, and they's new reason I found myself exploring Helsinki last year. Tourism is Finland has housed in recent years, with many visitors drawn by an unisonous ranking as the world's happiest country, not in mention its forests, lakes and, yet, sunnas.

I had traveled to Finland to research a biography I am writing about the early-20th-century Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. Perhaps too famous to America that his architect son, Eero — who designed some like the Gateway Arch in N. Lahti and the TNY Flight Center in New York — Eliel played a key role in creating Helsinki's dreamy, modern look, before moving to the Central States at age 50.

And what a look. Time and again I was beguiled by Helsinki's charms. The city founded in 1530, is a relative newcomer compared with its grander, older military Stockholm and Copenhagen. But Helsinki has a lyrical cast that speaks of fin de siècle optimism, defined by the radical architecture sweeping Europe circa 1900: Art Nouveau.

However whimsical it looks to us now, Art Nouveau — or Jugendstil (German for "youth style") — was revolutionary. Modernism's first stirring 30 years before the Bauhaus emerged in Germany. While short-lived, the Art Nouveau movement — with its emphasis on asymmetry and the curving line — could ultimately help lead to the more geometric Art Devis.

Art Nouveau was born in Brussels in the early 1800s, and quickly came to define large parts of cities like Barcelona and Paris. But Helsinki, with 600 Jugendstil buildings, is an overlooked wonderland that snippets like a series of stage sets. Black art ter block of sensuous facades form a surprisingly uniform urban fabric. Undulating towers and turrets define stereotypes, with an assist form silksyncratic windows and doors. Certain woodland creatures carved in stone peer down from above.

A Nordic Pilgrimage

Eliel Saarinen, the son of a Lutheran pastor, burst onto the scene in 1957 as a 24-year-old university student, outlining the commission for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1998 E3-poolnet (Univerasilla is Paris, this design, is the National Romantic style — a rough-grante version of Art Nouveau — took its inspiration from Finland's medieval churches. It embraced widespread coverage, putting the country on the international creative map, and making Saarinen and his two architecture partners overnight stars.

I intend to check out a series of Saarinen buildings on my self-guided road, and make a plan to trace the evolution of early Finnish Modernism by visiting them chronologically.

In my first morning, after two shots of expenses, I made a brother for the 1961 Pohjula Insurance headquarters, Saarinen's chief big project, after the gentleman a trendsetting apartment house.

Buildings rarely have a sense of humor. But Pohjula, a rugged some structure with echoes of the Boston architect H.H. Richardson — known for Trinity Church in Copley Square — is an exception. It's hard to miss Pohjula, a career landmark with a pyramidal green-copper top, and inspiration and granite walls crawling with loons, bears and grinning shoes, all drawn from Finland's founding epic, the "Kalmvalls" Most striking are the grinnique and kitschau-golden guarding the entrance. (In what

Hitchberg, an apartment complex designed by Saarinen that was built in 1902, has prided doorways and a granite entrance portal.

Saarinen and his architecture partners built 16-trimals, 10 miles west of Helsinki, in 1903 as a communal museum and studio.

Saarinen's 1914 Helsinki Central Railway Station is an tree of early Modernism.

some might see as a demonstration of public engagement with art, pedestrians sometimes deposit cigarette butts in their gap-toothed smiles.)

I dropped by Pohjula early one morning, and spent a gildly hour photographing the four-story circular staircase — a classic Saarinen touch — and its jewel-nosed skylight, as well as the wrinkle carved iron wooden newel posts.

From Pohjula, I crossed the Euphmedt, a lively, linear downtown park, and continued up the hill in the Gothea Revival architecture & Design Museum. I was headed to their archives for some research on Saarinen, but first I couldn't resist spending 45 minutes in the main galleries, which featured two artfully designed shows — one on Alvar Aalto, the Finn who built Baker

The city, founded in 1530, has a lyrical atmosphere defined by Art Nouveau.

House at M.I.T., and another on the artist New Janssen, a polymath who created the beloved hippo-faced cartoon characters the Mountains.

An Explosion of Art Nouveau

Just northeast of the museum, jutting out on a peninsula, the Katujanokka neighborhood offers rich opportunities for free-range Art Nouveau woodworking, as well as parks, restaurants and the Allan pool complex, which features sunnas and a souvenir plunge.

By chance, my hotel, Neil Staden Katujanokka, was two blocks from three Saarinen apartment houses on my list, including the first Art Nouveau structure in Helsinki — the 1898 Talberg House, whose success opened the floodguns. By 1914, the old city of two and three-story wooden structures vanished under these types of apartment houses, a Jugendstil stampede powered by new exhaust air wealth and a jump in population.

Unlike the red-brick Talberg, nearby Saarinen apartment buildings feature smooth plunger walls in a range of soft colors, a sunny yellow predominating. (Belleberg (1982) is an especially charming residential block with a large, red-filed cupola, green-copper roofs and skillful projections — orish, sewers and box windows.

A Home for Holstits and Men

In 1901, the young Saarinen and his partners built 16-trimals, a rugged National Romantic communal museum and studio for themselves. It rakes were of the capital. Today, it's a beautifully restored state museum. Also, this libertine-gamble did not end well, generating scandal and divorce amid inaccurate rumors of wife-swapping.

Still, the partners could take a joke: A

stained glass window in 16-trimals's dining room commensurate this odd message, in which Saarinen's first wife abandoned him for his partner Herman Goodfuss, and Saarinen married Goodfuss's sister, Leja. The three architects and their partners continued to live together.

One of my Finnish friends calls the house "very 'Luvil of the Rings,'" and indeed, it could well be a great ebook for heifden or other books. In the English, 16-trimals is a time capsule from a vanished avant-garde, and a work of art where everything from curtains to furniture to the exterior facade was designed as a useful whole. The studio, which was built in 1900, was windows, even looking the forest and lake beyond, is a treat.

Unfortunately, I missed another Saarinen landmark, the National Romantic Finnish National Museum — half casite, half cathedral — which was closed for renovations and cocooned in scaffolding. The museum is set to reopen in 1967 with a new arson that resembles a clock doing it now.

Saarinen's greatest monument, and an icon of early Modernism, is his 1914 Helsinki Central Railway Station. But the current building wasn't the architect's original design. Saarinen was the 1894 depot competition with a charitable, granite National Romantic structure similar to the National Museum. But this victory provoked a pair of scathing robberies by two young architects in an architectural journal.

One was Gustaf Strengell, who deplored the proposals "quasi-automolistic, archaic, archaeological romanticism" as wholly inappropriate for a building housing costing edge technology. Saarinen may have been Finland's most celebrated young architects' artist, but that didn't save him from a public doubling.

But the next year, according to Timo Tuomi, an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki and the author of the forthcoming "From Farm Follows Everything: Eliel and Eero Saarinen," Saarinen returned with a new proposal for what Dr Tuomi calls a work of "monumental poetics."

That design is simpler and more geometric than the original, pointing the way toward Finnish Modernism. With its copper-clad tower booming over Railway Square, and four giant four-milef lantern bearers holding great glass gildies that light up the night, the depot remains one of Helsinki's most arresting nights.

Saarinen Tours, run by Eliel's great-grandsons, offers one-hour visits to the clock tower and its high balcony, which has fabulous views (24 euros, or about $27).

A Global Legacy

Saarinen took second place in the Chicago Tribune Tower competition and moved to America in 1923. His design won far more ecstatic praise than the winning entry by the New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Howd — the latter would go on to head the team that designed Rockefeller Center.

Saarinen settled in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., north of Detroit, where he built the three companies of the Cumberland schools, a project that the former New York Times critic Paul Giallberger referred to as "one of the masterworks of American architecture." Saarinen also designed First Christian Church in Columbus, Ind., a building that Frank Gehry said knocked him to his kisses; an open-air concert hall for the Tanglewood music festival in the Northshore, the museum at the Des Moines Art Center; and Katsuhara Music Hall in Buffalo. He died at Cumberland in 1950.

Throughout his life, Saarinen remained unabated in revive and grow, and never let himself be captive to any particular style, an achievement that made my tour of Helsinki deeply illuminating. A world of difference magazine works like Cumberland and the Pohjula Insurance headquarters, yet a current of treasures genius sashes them, exalting the Finnish capital and a leafy Michigan suburb alike.

---

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2028

9

C9

36 HOURS

SIFNOS, GREECE

With its picturesque villages, celebrated cuisine and hiking trails that thread together terraced hillsides along the coast, Sifnos has over the decades amassed a devoted legion of return visitors. But in recent years, as travelers seek alternatives to crowded hot spots like Mykonos and Santorini — which, unlike Sifnos, have airports — fresh energy has washed over that Cycladic island. Driving much of the new interest in a flourishing food scene Shaped by Nicholas Taelemerites, a native son whose cookbooks helped define modern Greek cuisine in the early 20th century, it's now getting a boost from chefs who are using far-flung techniques to serve up playful variations on classic fare at seaside restaurants and village kitchens alike. Even as Sifnos evolves and its profile rises, its most cherished traditions remain central to its appeal.

NIKI KITSANTONIS

Friday

2 P.M. | WATCH POTTERS WORK

On Sifnos, a pottery hub since antiquity only a score of artisans remain to keep the craft alive. Gnaing there is the fourth-generation ceramicist Nikos Lemkeios. At Lemkeios Pottery, his family's workshop in Artemenas, watch as he shapes clay pots for the kids while relatives adore places and cope with his grandmother's flower and fish molds. Then head to Theodoras, where sweets are cooked in copper pots over a wood fire. Pick up some antygdalots, traditional sugar-shooter almond coaters for tarers; dory's make a perfect dessert after a late lunch at Margarita, a relaxed tavern as the main square serving local borders; like months — slow-cooked goat with dill; named for the traditional clay pot in which it's cooked — and players, double oats, greens (about 28 euros, or $32, per person, without wine).

4.10 P.M. | SWIM UNTIL SUNSET

From either Artemenas or Apollonia, it's about a 20-minute bus ride south to Platis Gialos, one of the island's longest used beaches. The wide bay, fitted with tavernas and beach bars, has a relaxing atmosphere. Swim close through the afternoon as contraseurs and outdoors anchor offshore, then finger for sunset at an all-day beach bar like Palestra or Lost Bay. Here, the mood oscillates between laid-back days on the water and lively nights, with D. J. A keeping the bay housing near the evening. Cocktails include both the classics and inventive concoctions — Lost Bay's Dirty Silvanian Martial, a mix of Tanaparoy gin and homemade dry vermouth inhand with super leaves and berries (E12), is especially tasty, as in Palestra's Delores, a shagy blend of nuts, ginger, passion fruit and base (E12).

8 P.M. | SAVOR CREATIVE EAKFORD

Omegul Fish & Wine Bar helped redefine Sifnos's dining scene under the chef Giorgio Santeini, a former molecular biologist whose years living and working to Brazil informed his approach to food. Mr. Santeini has since served on, opening the restaurant Cantina a few miles north in Kantra, but Omegul remains a destination for creative gains on alcohol — and traditional Cycladic cooking. Try the sganachite of white grouper with coriander pines and spicy salsa, followed by a velvety naxland of semi-cured settersack and baked scallion with black garlic and cheese, paired with a glans of dry Greek white wine like malagnacio or assorvita. Book ahead, the intimate space has just a few stools overlooking the beach and a handful of tables on the dark (about 100 per person, including wine).

Saturday

8 A.M. | TEER TO A MONATVERY

From Apollonia, a two-hour little car a 25-minute bus ride, plus a 10-minute downhill walk) along Route 3, a primary route on Eastern fishing trail between Labanos you through a rugged landscape of terraced hillsides, ultra-greens and some walls in the Panagia City-royagil monastery, the island's most rural deadback. When the trail upbringes your monastery, listen the to great whizh features sweeping sea views. Red and white trail markings lead toward Apokofio Beach, where the monastery appears dramatically around the final bend, and a ringgy outcropping above the sea. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the island's presence, the clade-whim O'Rourney's church remains a place of plightwood, local legend rolls of the rock on which it sits upbring, open in present islanders. Riding pirates, Dress respectfully when visiting — bring something to cover your shoulders and legs.

Top, Kumares, the main port of Sifnos. Clockwise from middle left: Lemkeios Pottery, Cantina restaurant, Omegul Fish & Wine Bar, Felso tavernas.

11 A.M. | COOL GFT AND DIG IN

Follow the road down to Apokofio Beach, a sheltered zone fringed by Auditory-leaved tamarisk trees. The calm, clear water makes it one of Sifnos's best swimming spots — especially enticing after a morning falls. Active before midday to find the crowds, lay your towel under a iron and enjoy a refreshing dip or a shaded root before lunch. Tables overlook the water at Chiraupigi Taverna, where traditional fatsian cooking resins stinger dishes that baked squid and chickpea fritters (around 100 per person, without wine).

3:10 P.M. | PEEL BACK HISTORY

It's a fennry, 20-minute walk along a coastal path to the quiet fishing village of Fares, on 10 1843 Sifnos's main port. Please for a cold drink at the waterfront south bar Lamartas, a sister of the Cycladic brasserie Pelicanes next door. From the road above the far end of the beach, catch the bus (about 25 minutes) to Kantra, Sifnos's ancient capital. Built mostly in the 19th century on the remains of the island's ancient scramble, Kantra's medieval fortification walls are largely intact. Inspect them for fragments of ancient marble and other masswork, also repurposed in the village's arched passageways and narrow stone lanes, before following the path down to the Church of the Seven Witnesses, a tiny, blue-dented chapel on a rocky outcropping.

7 P.M. | CATCM A DINING BUZZ

Thanks to its community evolving dishes and new-water philosophy, Cantina has become one of the Cyclades' most buzzer-dinner dining destinations — and accordingly, you'll need to book ahead. Getting

there is part of the experience: Tacked into the most-tolerable before Kantra, above a pebbled zone, the day restaurant is run out of a few old fishermen's hats reached by walking — carefully — down more than 100 ounce steps and along an inspired path. Inside, chefs place inventive tasting menus to a soundtrack of David Davis and Talking Heads, transforming local ingredients through fermentations, preservations and non-to-call cooking. Now these might include matron tartans with coherent garam mayonnaise; sweet, firm-fledged and garland with fig-fried sauce; and "yesterday's bread" on cream with brown butter and apricot pan (from 100 per person, pric fine).

9 P.M. | SIP WITH A VIEW

As evening falls, weed your way back up Kantra's enne reepn for a drink with a view. At Kaves Sunrise, a homage to old Horeas, Cuban flags and memorabilia like the tiny bar as the sounds of the Caribbean island drift across outdoor terraces. Guests up Cuban classics like medina and Cuba libres on the proprietor, Kostas Georganics, hands out free runs shots (cocktails from 15: (sub only), A few steps further up, in a delicate courtyard, a more subdued crowd chain over ribbed glasses of wine and snacks like melon gaspaches with chile and tomato at the minimalist wine bar (again, the bar's own wines, like the sun from agent Fullerton nations, are produced in Sifnos vineyards. Arrange a taxi (about £15) in advance or catch the bus back — telephone service around Kantra can be pacific.

Sunday

10 A.M. | BROWSE BOUTIQUE'S

Follow the Stone ("Sorrow"), Apollonia's slim pedestrian spine, through winding lanes lined with shops and cafes — then take your pick. Browse ceramics like those

you saw in progress — or paint your own pre-fired assorted — at the Lemkeios family's downtown, Pithecenas. There's slim handcrafted gold jewelry inspired by ancient Greek coins at Theodorases, ceyazah, beech and silver branches at Arzantena; and island specialties like Horea heavy and fruit preserves at Geranopoulos, an old-fashioned provisions shop. Geranopoulos's beloved patriarch, just a few minutes walk away, makes for a good, quick coffee-and-breakfast break, as does Benz N's Inaugurantika-filled terrace. Prefer sightseeing to shopping? The Agios Andreas archaeologist (on, a Bronze Age Milling ritside, is about a 15-minute drive southeast (or an hourlong uphill walk); a small museum displays finds from local excavations.

NOON | GET A VASTE OF OLD SIFNOS

With virtually no vehicle traffic and only a few tavernas, the quiet village of Pene Petali, nestled between Apollonia and Artemenas, makes a certain nostalgia. So too does Pelac, a new tavernas on there at Sifnos's oldest cafe, dating to 1995. The chef Ioannis Avdianas draws on his experience at the Athens non-biotic Liaso Soorgastis to give Greek comfort bed a modern note. Scaled mountain colleagues the classic geminis — filled tomatoes or peppers plying with rice, berries and sometimes meat — with carbolids and sausage, and a drastic of angioleaves, the classic egg-and-meme sauce, while vines with calf's head and artichoke elevators a merchandise meal once. Try his take on revitonds, the emphatically Sifnos slow-cooked chickpea sore, and catch the extra-sweet fire performance of bake and rebentile snack — Greece's melancholic urban folk traditions (about £10 per person).

4 P.M.

DRAWING

On a rocky headland, above Apokofio Beach. Panagia Chiraupigi monastery is 50 miles south from the

Kastra. A beautifully preserved medieval village and Sifnos's ancient capital, overlooks the city Church of the Seven Witnesses.

The Milton village of Artemenas, Pena Petali and Apollonia (more online with their store homes, quaint cafes and hucked courtcards.

Fares has vibrant waterfront tavernas and cafes, a sandy beach and a coastal part in the Chiraupigi monastery

10 P.M.

SWIM

Margarita in Artemenas serves traditional Sifnos dishes like mastets, a dish of slow-colored goat (or tarts).

From the chef Ioannis Avdianas, Ridea's Pelac Petali offers inventive takes on island classics.

The tavern's Chiraupigi serves heartless tea (about equal in a light beneath the monastery.

Among the Cyclades' identical seafood restaurants, Omegul in Platis Gialos offers imaginative fish dishes.

Cantina presents inventive tasting menus with dishes that transform local ingredients.

Lamartas a beachside hang-out, seven breakfast and coffee you can take away.

Next door: Pelicanes mixes legionace cocktails with coriander Mediterranean snacks.

Geranopoulos in Apollonia, is a beloved stop for traditional Sifnos baked goods.

10 P.M.

DRAWING

Stomna offers contemporary boutique luxury on a hot near Apollonia. Rooms start at about 400 rooms, at about $400, during the high season.

At Verina Terra, lurists and apartment's overlooking Platis Gialos start at about £100 in high season. Its upscale sister hails: Verina Kola, a Pucato, more traditional, has rooms from 6,645.

Rena-egis a hotel on 6-terminers) main square, offers 12 rooms with bedrooms or patios. In the high season, rooms start at £100.

Family con hotels and grandmasters on the room on Sifnos' latest final 4-fortch-style rentals. Most are listed on platforms for first-try.com.

Note that prices include a 12 percent standard VAT, but Greece's climate resilience has — which, during the high season, ranges from £5 to £10 per night — is typically added to the final bill.

---

C10

Cooking

WHAT TO MAKE NEXT WEEK | EMILY WEINSTEIN

Five Days, Five Dishes

It's high summer. Shouldn't we all be at a beach, or by a lake, or somewhere else where dinner is the freshest fish, seasoned honestly with just salt and pepper and grilled to peashwood perfection?

That's what I did on my summer vacation: I went to Portugal and I ate that fish at a table on the sand, with lemon wedges, simple vegetables and rice on the side. It was nothing fancy, but it was also pure luxury.

You can still have that meal wherever you are, and fish cooks so quickly that you can make it any right if the week. Mine was grilled whole, but on NYT Cooking. All Slagle describes a method for grilling individually portioned fillets that all but guarantees success. Her recipe is written for salmon, but if you look at the headnote you'll also see directions for other firm fish, like red snapper, halibut or sea bass.

Make that this week, or try the dishes here, all of which sing of the season. For more, visit nytooking.com.

Lemon-Garlic Grilled Chicken Breasts

Goverview են նաև a step-by-step technique for cooking the best grilled chicken breasts, along with an extremely helpful video showing you how to do it. (It's easy, I mean.) I think even the breast-avoidant cooks who watch that video will have to admit that these look really delicious.

BY DEFEATED AS TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 TO 6 BIRTHS

• 2 pounds tomatoes, skinless chicken breasts
• 1 large lemon, plus wedges for serving
• 4 garlic cloves, peeled
• 2 cups leaves and tender steams of parsley, cilantro, mint, mint or a combination, finely chopped
• 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for growing grill
• 1 ½ teaspoons leather salt (such as Diamond Crystal)
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

You also can use a cool iron grill pan on the shoreline. Heat it over high and lightly oil it before adding the chicken. Cook in batches if needed, turning the meat when it releases easily from the pan, until the meat is opaque but still juicy.

1. Start by flattening the chicken breasts: Place a breast smooth side down on a cutting board, with the thick end at the top and the pantry end at the bottom. Cut a deep slit — without cutting all the way through the meat — down the center of its length. Pry open the slit, turn the knife blade to the left, parallel to the board, and also perpendicular to the initial cut without cutting all the way through the meat. Repeat on the right side to end up with two flaps that open out from the center like window shutters to form a broader, flatter piece of meat. Use your palm to smash the lumpy palm flat, but don't pound as hard that you tear the meat. Repeat with the remaining breasts.

2. Make the marinade: Use a fine grater to and the lemon directly over a large bowl or anlight container, then run the garlic cloves over the grater. Squeeze in the juice from the lemon, then stir in the herbs, oil, salt and pepper.

3. Marinade the chicken: Add the flattened chicken and turn and rub it evenly with the marinade. Let stand at room temperature for at least 15 minutes if grilling right away or cover and refrigerate for up to 4 hours. If chilled, take it out of the fridge right before heating the grill.

4. Prepare the grill: Heat an outdoor grill to the higher side of medium-high. When it's ready, you should be able to hold your hand 4 inches above the grate for 3 to 5 seconds. If the grill grates aren't already clean, use a grill brush to remove anything stuck to them. Oil a weddell up paper towel, grip it with tongs and rub it over the grate. (See Tip for indoor cooking.)

5. Set the chicken and any marinade (ranging to 6 on the side) grates, spreading each piece in a single, even layer. Cook, covered if using a gas grill, until the bottom is deeply browned and releases easily from the grate. 3 to 5 minutes. Flip each piece and cook until a pantry knife inserted in the center reveals meat that's just opaque throughout but still juicy. 2 to 3 minutes longer. Transfer to a platter and rest for about 5 minutes before slicing and serving with lemon wedges for squeezing. Lethivers can be refrigerated in an anlight container for up to 5 days.

Dumpling Tomato Salad With Chile Crisp Vinaigrette

Entry 1 at McKinnon's dumpling tomato salad is the stuff of summer dreams. It's juicy, spicy, tangy and savory, and even initial doubters find they love it. (One customer called it the "dysplastic-to-shroomed pipe-love") You can watch thirty make it in the video on the recipe page.

BY NETTY LO NEWBORN TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 BIRTHS

For the salad

• 2½ pounds ripe tomatoes (any variety), cut into roughly 1-1/2 inch pieces (all more temperature)
• 1 garlic clove, grated
• ½ cup basil leaves, turn
• ½ cloves (such as Diamond Crystal brand) and black pepper
• Neutral oil, such as canola or vegetable
• 1 pound frozen prototoker dumplings (not thawed)
• 1 to 2 tablespoons stone-bought crispy fried shallots (optional)

For the chile crisp vinaigrette

• 3 tablespoons chile crisp (or chile oil)
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce, or more to taste

To steam, arrange the dumplings in a steaming basket lined with baking paper or cabbage leaves, place over a pan of freshly water and steam for 10 to 15 minutes.

1. Place the tomatoes on a large serving plate or in a bowl. Add the garlic, half the basil leaves, ½ teaspoon of salt and a big pinch of black pepper. Toss to combine and set aside.

2. To make the vinaigrette, combine the chile crisp, rice vinegar and soy sauce and whisk to combine. Taste, and if it needs more softness, add ½ teaspoon more soy sauce.

3. Heat a large (12-inch) menthol or well-seasoned cool-iron skillet over medium-high for 1 to 2 minutes until very hot. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of oil and, working in batches, add the dumplings, flat-side down, and cook until the bottoms of the dumplings are lightly browned. 1 to 2 minutes. Immediately add about ¾ cup of water to the pan, just enough to cover the base of the dumplings, then cover and cook until the water has evaporated. 3 to 4 minutes. (If your dumplings contain meat, cook for an extra 1 to 2 minutes, or according to packed instructions.) Transfer the cooked dumplings to a plate and continue cooking the remaining dumplings. (If you prefer to steam the dumplings, see Tip.)

4. To serve, place the warm dumplings over the tomato salad and driskir with the chile crisp vinaigrette. Toss very gently. Top with the crispy fried shallots (if using) and the remaining basil leaves. Serve either while the dumplings are still warm or at room temperature.

KEEVE BUSHING FOR THE CHILE CRISP VINAIGRETTE BROOKE BUSHING FOR THE CHILE CRISP VINAIGRETTE

Spicy Shrimp Masala

Zainab Shah brought this recipe to NYT Cooking and described it as a "small miracle" — such in the speed with which you can make this fabulous dish and the fiery, layered depth of its flavors.

BY JEWAB SHAH TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 BIRTHS

• 1 pound large shrimp, peeled and develined
• 1½ teaspoons coarsely ground black pepper
• ½ cup ghee or neutral oil
• ½ teaspoon ginger paste or freshly grated ginger
• ½ teaspoon garlic paste or freshly grated garlic
• ½ medium salt onion, finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon Kastrum red chile powder
• ½ teaspoon ground cumin
• ½ teaspoon ground turmeric
• 2 to 3 T-bat green chiles, finely chopped
• 3 plain tomatoes, finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
• ½ cup coconut milk, stirred (optional)
• 1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice (from about ½ lemon)
• ½ teaspoon garam masala
• 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped

• Roll or pita, for serving

• 1, fat shrimp dry, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon pepper and salt aside.

• 2, heat ghee over medium heat in a wok or large (12-inch) frying pan until it has melted, about 30 seconds. Add ginger, garlic and onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion has softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
• 3, Add chile powder, cumin, turmeric and fine green chiles. Stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add tomatoes and salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes have broken down and start to stick to the wok, about 15 minutes. Add coconut milk if you like it savvy.
• 4, Add shrimp. Stir up that shrimp are evenly cooled, and continue cooking, stirring occasionally on the shrimp cook evenly, until the shrimp turn pink and appear firm. 4 to 6 minutes.
• 5, Turn off the heat, sprinkle with lemon juice, garam masala, cilantro and remaining ½ teaspoon black pepper. Serve with rub, stone-bought pita or by itself.

Pork Tenderloin With Corn, Peaches and Lime

There's a pork tenderloin in my freezer, and now I know how I'll use it. All Slaglin's one skillet dinner was inspired by grilled homegrown pork, drawing peaches, corn and cucumbers together with a paucity lime and fish sauce showing. You can eat this one bar or at room temperature.

BY ALI KLAJLA TIME: 40 MINUTES YIELD: 3 TO 5 BIRTHS

• ¼ cup lime juice (from 2 times)
• 2 tablespoons lemon sugar
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 to 3 both (e.g. or serrano chiles, thinly sliced)
• 1 pork tenderloin (about 1 pound), since skin removed (see Tip), meat halved crosswise and peeled dry
• 2 tablespoons neutral oil, such as avocado or grapeseed
• 2 cups corn kernels (from 2 sets, or frozen and softened)
• 2 firm peaches
• 2 Persian or mini seedless cucumbers
• ½ red onion
• Salt

1. Heat the work to 400 degrees. In

a large bowl, stir together the lime juice, lemon sugar, fish sauce and chile until the sugar dissolves. Cool the tenderloin with 1 tablespoon of the sauce, rubbing to coat. Set the red aside.

2. In a large cast iron skillet over medium-high, heat 2 tablespoon oil. Add the pork and cook until browned all over, 8 to 8 minutes. Turn off the heat, then add the remaining tablespoon oil and the corn. Stir to coat. Transfer the skillet to the oven and roast until the corn is tender and a thermometer inserted into the thickened part of the pork registers. 140 degrees, 10 to 14 minutes. (The pork will continue to cook as it rests.)

3. Meanwhile, thinly slice the peaches, cucumbers and red onion.

4. Transfer the pork to a cutting board to rest for at least 5 minutes, then thinly slice and season the cut sides lightly with salt. Transfer the corn, peaches, cucumbers and red onion to the bowl of sauce. Stir to combine and season to taste with salt. Serve the pork topped with salad and all of the sauce.

To remove the silver skin, a tough connection tissue, without cutting off too much meat, locate the white, shiny membrane and insert your knife at one edge of the silver skin to cut between the skin and the meat, creating a flap to hold on to. Pulling the flap of silver skin tight with your nondominant hand, cordon on to slice along the length of the skin until your or removed and released all the silver skin.

One-Pot Zucchini-Basil Pasta

I love pasta with zucchini, but the most delicious version of that calls for shredding the zucchini and then watching it shrink and caramelize in the pan — a process that can take more than 10 minutes (though it does make for a really excellent dinner). I can't bring myself to do it after a day at work. So I was very happy when Alexa Wished wrote this recipe, which is equally good in its own way, creamy, life with pure zucchini flavor and remarkably fast to make.

BY ALI KLAJLA TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 BIRTHS

• 2½ cups vegetable stock
• 12 ounces medium pasta shells
• 2 medium zucchini (about 14 ounces total), trimmed and cut into ½ with cubes
• 4 ounces macaropene, crème fraîche or softened cream cheese
• 1 large garlic clove, finely chopped
• ½ packed cup thinly sliced basil
• ½ medium salt and black pepper
• 3 tablespoons chopped roasted salted almonds
• 2 tablespoons chopped Italian parsley

1. In a large, deep (2-inch skillet,

bring stuck to a boil over high heat. Once stuck boils, stir in pasta, zucchini, macaropene, garlic and half the basil. season generously with salt and pepper and reduce the heat to medium high. Cook, stirring frequently, until pasta is tender and liquid is reduced until thickened and creamy. 12 to 15 minutes, adding a splash of water during the last few minutes of cooking if needed to moisten. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

2. Meanwhile, prepare the generosity. Once almonds and parsley with remaining basil until finely chopped and combined, season with salt and pepper.

3. Divide pasta among shallow levels. Sprinkle with greenolabs and serve immediately.

QA Report - The New York Times - 08.08.2026.pdf

Pipeline

• Extraction route: mistral-ocr
• extraction_route=mistral-ocr
• Translation chunks: 188
• Extraction warnings:
• [OCR-ROUTE] FORCE-MISTRAL: All PDFs route directly to MistralOCR.

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 1401, 165, 32.5, 555, 567, 80.0, 809.8
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Aaron Evidik, Aaron Rodgers, Abruzzo Wines

Emilia Pepe, Academy Awards, Accuses Law School At Duke, Ace In, Activists Allege Israeli Captors Abused Them

This, Actress Puerto Rico, Adam Riches

In, Adam Suteriano - WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing

Model QA

作为严格的 PDF 翻译 QA 审核员，我已完成对译文的审计。本次审核重点关注数字准确性、幻觉核查以及低中文密度区域的完整性。

═══ 审计报告 ═══

1. 幻觉核查与严重错误 (BLOCKING)

• [BLOCKING] 严重事实错误/幻觉：
  • 译文：“...导致了加沙成为一个政党。” $\rightarrow$ 原文：“...contributed... to become a party of Gaza.” (此处 OCR 显然将 "part of Gaza" 误读为 "party"，译文盲目跟随 OCR 导致逻辑完全不通。加沙不可能成为一个“政党”)。
  • 译文：“...重启德国在以色列（Israel of Germany）的航运交通” $\rightarrow$ 原文：“...restart German shipping traffic in Israel...” (译文出现严重的逻辑混乱，将地理关系翻译成了所属关系)。
  • 译文：“...伊朗已逮捕了至少 20 名与 1 月抗议活动相关的人员” $\rightarrow$ 原文：“...arrested at least 20,000...” (OCR 丢失了三个零，译文直接导致量级错误，从 2 万人变为 20 人)。
  • 译文：“...在爱达荷州纽约市（New York, Idaho）” $\rightarrow$ 原文：“...Twin Falls, Idaho...” (译文出现严重幻觉，将 Twin Falls 翻译成了 New York)。

2. 低中文密度区域审计 (Completeness)

• [BLOCKING] 严重漏译/截断：
  • 区域：昨日股市回顾 (S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow Jones)。
  • 问题：该区域在译文中完全缺失。虽然该区域 CJK 密度低，但属于关键数据版面，不属于“被过滤的版面数据”（如谜题、电视节目单），必须翻译。

3. 质量问题与术语 (WARNING)

• [WARNING] 残留英文/未翻译：
  • 译文开头出现大量未翻译词汇：“Straight”、“Innocents” (天气预报部分)。
  • 译文正文出现：“Screvery”、“suffices” (爱达荷州英雄文章部分)，属于 OCR 乱码未处理直接保留。
• [WARNING] 术语不准/逻辑生硬：
  • 译文：“...对规范的猎杀式要求” $\rightarrow$ 原文：“...predatory demands on norms” (翻译过于文学化，不符合政治新闻语境)。
  • 译文：“...在不公正部分中浮现” $\rightarrow$ 原文：“...emerged in the 'unjust part'” (此处为对苏联历史的描述，翻译生硬)。

4. OCR 根源问题 (SOURCE_OCR)

• [SOURCE_OCR]：
  • 原文：“...YIELD: 3 TO 5 BIRTHS” $\rightarrow$ 译文：“份量：3 到 5 人份”。(原文 OCR 将 "Servings" 误读为 "Births"，译员正确地根据语境进行了修正，此项标记为记录 OCR 错误而非翻译错误)。
  • 原文：“...Screvery and suffices” $\rightarrow$ 译文：直接保留英文。(OCR 乱码导致译员无法翻译)。

═══ 总结 ═══

结论：发现多个 [BLOCKING] 级别问题。

主要缺陷： 1. 量级错误：伊朗逮捕人数从 20,000 变为 20。 2. 严重幻觉：将爱达荷州城市翻译为“纽约市”，将地理关系翻译为“以色列的德国”。 3. 关键缺失：股市回顾数据段落完全漏译。 4. 逻辑崩溃：将“加沙的一部分”翻译为“加沙成为一个政党”。

审核结果：FAIL (不通过)