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VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,389 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 15, 2019 U(D54G1D)y+$!;!#!=!} Tropical Storm Barry dropped heavy rain, but fears of catastrophic flooding in the state’s biggest cities eased. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-17 Louisiana Escapes the Worst The creator of “A Strange Loop” talks about his process, Liz Phair, soap op- eras and everything else. PAGE C1 Who Is Michael R. Jackson? The Golden Lion winner at this year’s Venice Biennale depicts a deceptively relaxing day at the beach. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Disaster Cloaked in Beauty The Greens, challenging both tradi- tional and far-right parties, strive to show that environmental policy can be compatible with social justice. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Taking Root Around Europe Facts brought to light by the award- winning investigative reporting team of “In the Dark” have made their way to the Supreme Court. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-6 Justice in a Podcast The nation finally won its first Cricket World Cup, edging New Zealand in an extraordinary tiebreaker. PAGE D5 SPORTSMONDAY D1-5 England Rules Sport It Invented Two senior members of Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló’s cabinet have stepped down amid a political crisis. PAGE A17 Calls to Resign in Puerto Rico India is poised to launch an unmanned rover into space. If successful, it will join a select group of nations capable of landing on the moon. PAGE A8 India Captivated by Moon Shot Hong Kong’s top broadcaster, TVB, has been scorned by demonstrators, who accuse it of a pro-Beijing bias in its newscasts. PAGE A7 A Battle Over Protest Coverage The social network may have escaped restrictions with one settlement, but its pain is just beginning. PAGE B1 Closing In on Facebook Some candle-roasted wieners or popped champagne from a warming fridge. “It’s beautiful,” said a New Yorker. PAGE A22 NEW YORK A18-19, 22 A Blissed-Out Blackout Procter & Gamble, donating more than $500,000, backed the World Cup cham- pions against U.S. Soccer. PAGE D4 In Support of U.S. Women Kevin McCarthy PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 LOS ANGELES — Dolly Parton recently held court there, big wig and all. Leonardo DiCaprio and John Kerry arrived at the same time last month. Cindy Crawford on the left, David Letterman on the right. And isn’t that Beyoncé by the espresso bar? Welcome to the hottest see-and- be-seen spot in Hollywood: Net- flix’s first-floor waiting room. Scratch that. It’s a “lobby expe- rience” and “creative gateway,” according to a design firm that worked on the space. An 80-foot by 12-foot video screen makes vis- itors feel like they are inside Net- flix shows — visiting the “Narcos” cocaine lab, for instance, or sitting on the Blue Cat Lodge boat dock from “Ozark.” Another wall is cov- ered by at least 3,500 plants, a liv- ing mural that includes red Fla- mingo Lilies, known for their big pistils. Every era in Hollywood has a symbolic epicenter, a place that sums up everything, especially power and sometimes absurdity. Gifting suites at the Sundance Film Festival epitomized the over- heated indie boom of the 2000s. The monolithic new Creative Art- ists Agency headquarters arrived on cue at the end of that decade and represented an increasingly corporate film business. Next came Comic-Con International, a sweaty July convention for super- Netflix’s Lobby Offers Flash and Freebies to Hollywood’s A-List By BROOKS BARNES Continued on Page A17 GETTY IMAGES Novak Djokovic, right, edged Roger Federer in a fifth-set tiebreaker for his 16th major title. Page D1. A Wimbledon Final Like None Before DOBRUSA, Moldova — Thirty years ago, the village of Dobrusa had about 200 residents. At the start of this year, it had just three. Then two were murdered. And now there is just one: Grisa Muntean, a short, mustachioed farmer often found in a flat-cap, a checked shirt and a ripped pair of blue trousers held up by a drawstring. For company, Mr. Muntean has his two cats, five dogs, nine turkeys, 15 geese, 42 chickens, about 50 pigeons, 120 ducks and several thousand bees. The other humans have either died, left for larger towns and cities in Moldova, or emigrated to Russia or other parts of Europe. “The loneliness kills you,” Mr. Muntean, 65, said on a recent afternoon. His former neighbors’ houses are vanishing almost as fast as their owners. With few animals to graze the roadsides, and with only Mr. Muntean to prune the orchards, the buildings are sink- ing below a canopy of walnut groves and apple trees. Dobrusa (pronounced Doh- BROO-shuh) was once a village of 50 houses that lined two paral- lel streets at the bottom of a shallow valley. Like many settle- ments across Moldova, it emp- tied out after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, an exodus mir- rored across Eastern Europe, which has the world’s fastest shrinking population. Now only a few corrugated iron roofs can still be seen in Dobrusa, poking above the un- dergrowth. They are visible from the dirt track that connects the village to the nearest tarmac Lone Survivor Holds Down Village of One By PATRICK KINGSLEY Grisa Muntean is the last survivor of Dobrusa, first settled in the 19th century, when the area was part of the Russian Empire. LAETITIA VANCON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A6 MOLDOVA DISPATCH NEWPORT, Del. — In July 1974, with a federal court in Delaware on the verge of ordering busing to integrate Wilmington’s over- whelmingly black public schools, Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived at a school auditorium in this predomi- nantly white suburb to find him- self the target of a political am- bush. Just two years after narrowly winning a Senate seat at the age of 29, Mr. Biden had recently cast two votes to protect the practice of busing to achieve desegregation — despite his own very public un- ease with it. He thought he had come to Newport simply to ad- dress a local civics organization. But when he got there, more than 200 people, organized by a largely white parent group that opposed busing, jeered and heckled Mr. Bi- den, demanding that he more vo- cally join their cause. “If you think I’m in trouble with you people,” he said then, seeking to assure the crowd that he was on their side, “you ought to hear what my liberal friends are telling me.” The meeting marked a turning point for the young senator, who counted himself a liberal Demo- crat and an ardent defender of civ- il rights. Not long after that verbal drubbing, Mr. Biden plunged headfirst into one of the most po- litically fraught and racially divi- sive topics in America. He emerged as the Democratic Par- ty’s leading anti-busing crusader — a position that put him in league with Southern segregationists, at odds with liberal Republicans and helped change the dynamic of the Senate, turning even some lead- ers in his own party against bus- ing as a desegregation tool. “No issue has consumed more How Biden Became the Anti-Busing Democrat By ASTEAD W. HERNDON and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG THE LONG RUN A Turnabout in Turbulent Times Continued on Page A14 CBS PHOTO ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES Joseph R. Biden Jr. as a sena- tor from Delaware in 1974. WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Sunday that a group of four minority congress- women feuding with Speaker Nancy Pelosi should “go back” to the countries they came from rather than “loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States” how to run the govern- ment. Wrapped inside that insult, which was widely established as a racist trope, was a factually inac- curate claim: Only one of the law- makers was born outside the country. Even though Mr. Trump has re- peatedly refused to back down from stoking racial divisions, his willingness to deploy a lowest- rung slur — one commonly and crudely used to single out the per- ceived foreignness of nonwhite, non-Christian people — was largely regarded as beyond the pale. “So interesting to see ‘Progres- sive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from coun- tries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, “now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Na- tion on earth, how our govern- ment is to be run.” Mr. Trump added: “Why don’t they go back and help fix the to- tally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.” Delivered on the day he had promised widespread immigra- FANNING FLAMES, TRUMP UNLEASHES A TAUNT: ‘GO BACK’ A Slur on 4 Nonwhite Congresswomen Fuels Outrage By KATIE ROGERS and NICHOLAS FANDOS Continued on Page A13 President Trump’s comments were swiftly condemned. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON — President Trump woke up on Sunday morn- ing, gazed out at the nation he leads, saw the dry kindling of race relations and decided to throw a match on it. It was not the first time, nor is it likely to be the last. He has a pretty large carton of matches and a ready supply of kerosene. His Twitter harangue goading Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the country they came from, even though most of them were actually born in the United States, shocked many. But it should have sur- prised few who have watched the way he has governed a multicul- tural, multiracial country the last two and a half years. When it comes to race, Mr. Trump plays with fire like no other president in a century. While others who occupied the White House at times skirted close to or even over the line, finding ways to appeal to the resentments of white Americans with subtle and not-so-subtle appeals, none of them in modern times fanned the flames as overtly, relentlessly and even eagerly as Mr. Trump. His attack on the Democratic congresswomen came on the same day his administration was threatening mass roundups of immigrants living in the country illegally. And it came just days after he hosted some of the most incendiary right-wing voices on the internet at the White House and vowed to find another way to count citizens separately from noncitizens despite a Supreme Court ruling that blocked him from adding a question to the once-a-decade census. His assumption that the House Democrats must have been born in another country — or that they did not belong here if they were — fits an us-against-them political strategy that has been at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presi- dency from the start. Heading into next year’s election, he appears to be drawing a deep line between the white, native- born America of his memory and the ethnically diverse, increas- ingly foreign-born country he is presiding over, challenging vot- ers in 2020 to declare which side of that line they are on. NEWS ANALYSIS An Assumption That Spoke Volumes By PETER BAKER Continued on Page A13 With San Francisco banning menthol cigarettes last year, and the Food and Drug Administra- tion considering a nationwide ban, it seemed like the time was ripe for New York to follow suit. Then Reynolds American, the tobacco giant, got to work. It en- listed the Rev. Al Sharpton and his group, the National Action Net- work, as well as the boss of the Manhattan Democratic Party, Keith L.T. Wright, a former 12- term assemblyman from Harlem, to fight the ban proposed by the City Council. In closed-door meetings with Council members in May, they ar- gued that a ban would dispropor- tionately affect black New York- ers. They invoked Eric Garner, who was killed on Staten Island by police officers enforcing cigarette regulations, and suggested such encounters could increase if men- thol cigarettes were to go under- ground. The bill has since been set aside. The effort to stop the menthol ban was centered on a longstand- ing but increasingly prominent and effective strategy for waging political warfare in New York: De- ploy the concerns of black resi- dents as a weapon to sway the Democrat-heavy Council toward a stance favored by corporate cli- ents. The approach has been a cen- tral part of a lobbying effort on be- half of the fur industry, which is working with black pastors to knock down a proposed ban on fur sales in New York, and a feature of campaigns mounted by lobbyists Black New Yorkers Lend a Hand, And Corporate Lobbyists Prevail By J. DAVID GOODMAN Continued on Page A19 Late Edition Today, mostly sunny, warm, low hu- midity, high 85. Tonight, clear, low 72. Tomorrow, partly sunny, very warm, increasingly more humid, high 89. Weather map, Page D6. $3.00
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Tropical Storm Barry dropped heavyrain, but fears of catastrophic flooding inthe state’s biggest cities eased. PAGE A10
NATIONAL A10-17
Louisiana Escapes the WorstThe creator of “A Strange Loop” talksabout his process, Liz Phair, soap op-eras and everything else. PAGE C1
Who Is Michael R. Jackson?
The Golden Lion winner at this year’sVenice Biennale depicts a deceptivelyrelaxing day at the beach. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
Disaster Cloaked in BeautyThe Greens, challenging both tradi-tional and far-right parties, strive toshow that environmental policy can becompatible with social justice. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
Taking Root Around EuropeFacts brought to light by the award-winning investigative reporting team of“In the Dark” have made their way tothe Supreme Court. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-6
Justice in a PodcastThe nation finally won its first CricketWorld Cup, edging New Zealand in anextraordinary tiebreaker. PAGE D5
SPORTSMONDAY D1-5
England Rules Sport It Invented
Two senior members of Gov. Ricardo A.Rosselló’s cabinet have stepped downamid a political crisis. PAGE A17
Calls to Resign in Puerto Rico
India is poised to launch an unmannedrover into space. If successful, it willjoin a select group of nations capable oflanding on the moon. PAGE A8
India Captivated by Moon Shot
Hong Kong’s top broadcaster, TVB, hasbeen scorned by demonstrators, whoaccuse it of a pro-Beijing bias in itsnewscasts. PAGE A7
A Battle Over Protest Coverage
The social network may have escapedrestrictions with one settlement, but itspain is just beginning. PAGE B1
Closing In on Facebook
Some candle-roasted wieners or poppedchampagne from a warming fridge. “It’sbeautiful,” said a New Yorker. PAGE A22
NEW YORK A18-19, 22
A Blissed-Out Blackout
Procter & Gamble, donating more than$500,000, backed the World Cup cham-pions against U.S. Soccer. PAGE D4
In Support of U.S. Women
Kevin McCarthy PAGE A21
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
LOS ANGELES — Dolly Partonrecently held court there, big wigand all. Leonardo DiCaprio andJohn Kerry arrived at the sametime last month. Cindy Crawfordon the left, David Letterman onthe right. And isn’t that Beyoncéby the espresso bar?
Welcome to the hottest see-and-be-seen spot in Hollywood: Net-flix’s first-floor waiting room.
Scratch that. It’s a “lobby expe-rience” and “creative gateway,”according to a design firm thatworked on the space. An 80-footby 12-foot video screen makes vis-itors feel like they are inside Net-flix shows — visiting the “Narcos”cocaine lab, for instance, or sitting
on the Blue Cat Lodge boat dockfrom “Ozark.” Another wall is cov-ered by at least 3,500 plants, a liv-ing mural that includes red Fla-mingo Lilies, known for their bigpistils.
Every era in Hollywood has asymbolic epicenter, a place thatsums up everything, especiallypower and sometimes absurdity.Gifting suites at the Sundance
Film Festival epitomized the over-heated indie boom of the 2000s.The monolithic new Creative Art-ists Agency headquarters arrivedon cue at the end of that decadeand represented an increasinglycorporate film business. Nextcame Comic-Con International, asweaty July convention for super-
Netflix’s Lobby Offers Flash and Freebies to Hollywood’s A-ListBy BROOKS BARNES
Continued on Page A17
GETTY IMAGES
Novak Djokovic, right, edged Roger Federer in a fifth-set tiebreaker for his 16th major title. Page D1.A Wimbledon Final Like None Before
DOBRUSA, Moldova — Thirtyyears ago, the village of Dobrusahad about 200 residents. At thestart of this year, it had just
three.Then two were
murdered.And now there is
just one: GrisaMuntean, a short, mustachioedfarmer often found in a flat-cap, achecked shirt and a ripped pairof blue trousers held up by adrawstring.
For company, Mr. Muntean hashis two cats, five dogs, nineturkeys, 15 geese, 42 chickens,about 50 pigeons, 120 ducks andseveral thousand bees. The otherhumans have either died, left forlarger towns and cities inMoldova, or emigrated to Russiaor other parts of Europe.
“The loneliness kills you,” Mr.Muntean, 65, said on a recentafternoon.
His former neighbors’ housesare vanishing almost as fast astheir owners. With few animalsto graze the roadsides, and withonly Mr. Muntean to prune theorchards, the buildings are sink-ing below a canopy of walnutgroves and apple trees.
Dobrusa (pronounced Doh-BROO-shuh) was once a villageof 50 houses that lined two paral-lel streets at the bottom of ashallow valley. Like many settle-ments across Moldova, it emp-tied out after the fall of the SovietUnion in 1991, an exodus mir-rored across Eastern Europe,which has the world’s fastestshrinking population.
Now only a few corrugatediron roofs can still be seen inDobrusa, poking above the un-dergrowth. They are visible fromthe dirt track that connects thevillage to the nearest tarmac
Lone SurvivorHolds DownVillage of One
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
Grisa Muntean is the last survivor of Dobrusa, first settled in the 19th century, when the area was part of the Russian Empire.LAETITIA VANCON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A6
MOLDOVADISPATCH
NEWPORT, Del. — In July 1974,with a federal court in Delawareon the verge of ordering busing tointegrate Wilmington’s over-whelmingly black public schools,Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived at aschool auditorium in this predomi-nantly white suburb to find him-self the target of a political am-bush.
Just two years after narrowlywinning a Senate seat at the age of29, Mr. Biden had recently casttwo votes to protect the practice ofbusing to achieve desegregation— despite his own very public un-ease with it. He thought he hadcome to Newport simply to ad-dress a local civics organization.But when he got there, more than200 people, organized by a largelywhite parent group that opposedbusing, jeered and heckled Mr. Bi-
den, demanding that he more vo-cally join their cause.
“If you think I’m in trouble withyou people,” he said then, seekingto assure the crowd that he was ontheir side, “you ought to hear what
my liberal friends are telling me.”The meeting marked a turning
point for the young senator, whocounted himself a liberal Demo-crat and an ardent defender of civ-il rights. Not long after that verbaldrubbing, Mr. Biden plungedheadfirst into one of the most po-litically fraught and racially divi-sive topics in America. Heemerged as the Democratic Par-ty’s leading anti-busing crusader— a position that put him in leaguewith Southern segregationists, atodds with liberal Republicans andhelped change the dynamic of theSenate, turning even some lead-ers in his own party against bus-ing as a desegregation tool.
“No issue has consumed more
How Biden Became the Anti-Busing DemocratBy ASTEAD W. HERNDON
and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
THE LONG RUN
A Turnabout in Turbulent Times
Continued on Page A14
CBS PHOTO ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES
Joseph R. Biden Jr. as a sena-tor from Delaware in 1974.
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump said on Sunday that agroup of four minority congress-women feuding with SpeakerNancy Pelosi should “go back” tothe countries they came fromrather than “loudly and viciouslytelling the people of the UnitedStates” how to run the govern-ment.
Wrapped inside that insult,which was widely established as aracist trope, was a factually inac-curate claim: Only one of the law-makers was born outside thecountry.
Even though Mr. Trump has re-peatedly refused to back downfrom stoking racial divisions, hiswillingness to deploy a lowest-rung slur — one commonly andcrudely used to single out the per-ceived foreignness of nonwhite,
non-Christian people — waslargely regarded as beyond thepale.
“So interesting to see ‘Progres-sive’ Democrat Congresswomen,who originally came from coun-tries whose governments are acomplete and total catastrophe,the worst, most corrupt and ineptanywhere in the world,” Mr.Trump wrote on Twitter, “nowloudly and viciously telling thepeople of the United States, thegreatest and most powerful Na-tion on earth, how our govern-ment is to be run.”
Mr. Trump added: “Why don’tthey go back and help fix the to-tally broken and crime infestedplaces from which they came.Then come back and show us howit is done.”
Delivered on the day he hadpromised widespread immigra-
FANNING FLAMES,TRUMP UNLEASHES
A TAUNT: ‘GO BACK’A Slur on 4 Nonwhite
CongresswomenFuels Outrage
By KATIE ROGERSand NICHOLAS FANDOS
Continued on Page A13
President Trump’s commentswere swiftly condemned.
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump woke up on Sunday morn-ing, gazed out at the nation heleads, saw the dry kindling ofrace relations and decided tothrow a match on it. It was notthe first time, nor is it likely to bethe last. He has a pretty largecarton of matches and a readysupply of kerosene.
His Twitter harangue goadingDemocratic congresswomen ofcolor to “go back” to the countrythey came from, even thoughmost of them were actually bornin the United States, shockedmany. But it should have sur-prised few who have watched theway he has governed a multicul-tural, multiracial country the lasttwo and a half years.
When it comes to race, Mr.Trump plays with fire like noother president in a century.While others who occupied theWhite House at times skirtedclose to or even over the line,finding ways to appeal to theresentments of white Americanswith subtle and not-so-subtleappeals, none of them in moderntimes fanned the flames asovertly, relentlessly and eveneagerly as Mr. Trump.
His attack on the Democraticcongresswomen came on thesame day his administration wasthreatening mass roundups ofimmigrants living in the countryillegally. And it came just daysafter he hosted some of the mostincendiary right-wing voices onthe internet at the White Houseand vowed to find another way tocount citizens separately fromnoncitizens despite a SupremeCourt ruling that blocked himfrom adding a question to theonce-a-decade census.
His assumption that the HouseDemocrats must have been bornin another country — or thatthey did not belong here if theywere — fits an us-against-thempolitical strategy that has been atthe heart of Mr. Trump’s presi-dency from the start. Headinginto next year’s election, heappears to be drawing a deepline between the white, native-born America of his memory andthe ethnically diverse, increas-ingly foreign-born country he ispresiding over, challenging vot-ers in 2020 to declare which sideof that line they are on.
NEWS ANALYSIS
An Assumption ThatSpoke Volumes
By PETER BAKER
Continued on Page A13
With San Francisco banningmenthol cigarettes last year, andthe Food and Drug Administra-tion considering a nationwideban, it seemed like the time wasripe for New York to follow suit.
Then Reynolds American, thetobacco giant, got to work. It en-listed the Rev. Al Sharpton and hisgroup, the National Action Net-work, as well as the boss of theManhattan Democratic Party,Keith L.T. Wright, a former 12-term assemblyman from Harlem,to fight the ban proposed by theCity Council.
In closed-door meetings withCouncil members in May, they ar-gued that a ban would dispropor-tionately affect black New York-ers. They invoked Eric Garner,who was killed on Staten Island bypolice officers enforcing cigaretteregulations, and suggested such
encounters could increase if men-thol cigarettes were to go under-ground.
The bill has since been setaside.
The effort to stop the mentholban was centered on a longstand-ing but increasingly prominentand effective strategy for wagingpolitical warfare in New York: De-ploy the concerns of black resi-dents as a weapon to sway theDemocrat-heavy Council toward astance favored by corporate cli-ents.
The approach has been a cen-tral part of a lobbying effort on be-half of the fur industry, which isworking with black pastors toknock down a proposed ban on fursales in New York, and a feature ofcampaigns mounted by lobbyists
Black New Yorkers Lend a Hand,And Corporate Lobbyists Prevail
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Continued on Page A19
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