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U(D54G1D)y+$!\!=!#!/ French voters backed the party of the new president, Emmanuel Macron, in parliamentary voting. PAGE A5 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 Wave of Support for Macron Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly to become America’s 51st state, in a flawed election most voters sat out. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A11-16 Landslide for Statehood People in transition because of layoffs, moves or illness turned to Affordable Care Act marketplaces as a stopgap, but that option may soon be gone under the Republican health plan. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-4 Flexibility of Care at Risk DUNWOODY, Ga. — Demo- crats are facing an open breach between the demands of their po- litical base and the strict limits of their power, as liberal activists dream of transforming the health care system and impeaching President Trump, while candi- dates in hard-fought elections ask wary independent voters merely for a fresh chance at governing. The growing tension between the party’s ascendant militant wing and Democrats in conserva- tive-leaning terrain, where the party must compete to win power in Congress, was on vivid, split- screen display over the weekend: in Chicago, where Senator Bernie Sanders led a revival-style meet- ing of his progressive devotees, and in Atlanta, where Democrats are spending colossal sums of money in hopes of seizing a tradi- tionally Republican congressional district. It may be essential for Demo- crats to reconcile the party’s two clashing impulses if they are to re- take the House of Representatives in 2018. In a promising political en- vironment, a drawn-out struggle over Democratic strategy and ideology could spill into primary elections and disrupt the party’s path to a majority. On the one hand, progressives are more emboldened than they have been in decades, galvanized by Mr. Sanders’s unexpected suc- cesses in 2016 and empowered by the surge of grass-roots energy dedicated to confronting an un- popular president and pushing the party leftward. Mr. Sanders rallied his youthful, often-raucous coalition Saturday night at a gathering named the DEEPENING DIVIDE ROILS DEMOCRATS AS BASE TILTS LEFT PARTY VS. PROGRESSIVES Struggle Over Ideology and Tactics May Put ’18 Goals in Peril By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN Continued on Page A15 MARK R. CRISTINO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY The bodies of marines killed in clashes with militants in Marawi arrived at an air base near Manila on Sunday. Page A4. Rise of ISIS, Long Ignored, Takes Toll in Philippines WASHINGTON — A new fig- ure has swept through the West Wing lately, a man with silver hair combed back across his head, rim- less glasses perched on his nose, a white handkerchief tucked neatly into his suit pocket, a taste for le- gal pugilism and an uncertain role in a building confronted by a host of political and legal threats. Marc E. Kasowitz, a New York civil litigator who represented President Trump for 15 years in business and boasts of being called the toughest law- yer on Wall Street, has suddenly be- come the field marshal for a White House under siege. He is a person- al lawyer for the president, not a government employee, but he has been talking about establishing an office in the White House complex where he can run his legal de- fense. His visits to the White House have raised questions about the blurry line between public and private interests for a president facing legal issues. In recent days, Mr. Kasowitz has advised White House aides to discuss the inquiry into Russia’s interference in last year’s election as little as possible, two people involved said. He told aides gathered in one meeting who had asked whether it was time to hire private lawyers that it was not yet necessary, according to another person with direct knowledge. Such conversations between a Trump Lawyer Amasses Clout In White House Lines Blurred Between Public and Private By REBECCA R. RUIZ and SHARON LaFRANIERE Marc Kasowitz Continued on Page A12 The ads have been popping up on billboards, buses and subways and in glossy magazines, with por- traits of attractive men and wom- en and a simple question in bold letters: What is Vivitrol? Five years ago, Vivitrol was a treatment for opioid addiction that was struggling to find a mar- ket. Now, its sales and profile are rising fast, thanks to its man- ufacturers’ shrewd use of political connections, and despite scant science to prove the drug’s effica- cy. Last month, the health and hu- man services secretary, Tom Price, praised it as the future of opioid addiction treatment after visiting the company’s plant in Ohio. He set off a furor among sub- stance abuse specialists by criti- cizing its less expensive and more widely used and rigorously stud- ied competitors, buprenorphine and methadone, as medications that “simply substitute” for illicit drugs. It was the kind of plug that Viv- itrol’s maker, Alkermes, has spent years coaxing, with a deft lobby- ing strategy that has targeted law- makers and law enforcement offi- cials. The company has spent mil- lions of dollars on contributions to officials struggling to stem the epidemic of opioid abuse. It has also provided thousands of free doses to encourage the use of Viv- itrol in jails and prisons, which have by default become major detox centers. With the Trump administration sending $1 billion in new addiction prevention and treatment funds to states over the next two years through the 21st Century Cures Act, Alkermes’s marketing has shifted into even higher gear. The company’s strategy high- lights the profit opportunities that drug companies and investors see in an opioid epidemic that killed 91 Americans every day in 2015 and is growing worse. But some of its marketing tactics, and Mr. Price’s comments, ignore widely ac- cepted science, as nearly 700 ex- perts in the field wrote the health secretary in a letter. Not a single study has been completed comparing Vivitrol Opioid Crisis and Lobbying Give Drug a Boost That Tests Don’t By ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATE ZERNIKE Scientific evidence of the drug Vivitrol’s effectiveness is scant. SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A13 OPENING DOORS Democrats are calling for testimony by Attorney General Jeff Sessions before a Senate committee to take place in an open hearing. PAGE A12 LONDON — In a little more than two years, Britain has had two general elections and a na- tionwide referendum. Each time, the politicians, pollsters, betting markets, political scientists and commentators have gotten it wrong. Once considered one of the most politically stable countries in the world, regularly turning out majority governments, Britain is increasingly confusing and unpre- dictable, to both its allies and it- self. Far from settling the fierce divi- sions exposed by last year’s refer- endum on Britain’s exit from the European Union, or Brexit, the election on Thursday only made them worse. In the early hours of Friday, flushed with his party’s surprising showing, Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, proclaimed: “Politics has changed! And politics is not going back into the box where it was be- fore.” But where British politics is go- Britain Sheds Predictability In Its Politics By STEVEN ERLANGER Continued on Page A5 HARD TIMES A year after the Brexit vote, Britain’s economy is markedly slowing and consumers are facing rising prices. PAGE B1 HIELLEN, British Columbia — Speaking Haida for the first time in more than 60 years looked painful. Sphenia Jones’s cheeks glistened with sweat, and her eyes clenched shut. She tried again to produce the forgotten raspy echo of the Haida k’, and again she failed. Then she smiled broadly. “It feels so good,” Ms. Jones, 73, said. “Mainly because I can say it out loud without being afraid.” Like 150,000 indigenous chil- dren across Canada, Ms. Jones was sent far from home to a res- idential school to be forcibly as- similated into Western culture. There, any trappings of her native culture were strictly forbidden. When a teacher caught Ms. Jones learning another indigenous lan- guage from two schoolmates, Ms. Jones said, the teacher yanked out three fingernails. It worked: Ms. Jones spoke nothing but English, until re- cently, when she began learning her lines in the country’s first Haida-language feature film, “Edge of the Knife.” With an entirely Haida cast, and a script written in a largely forgot- ten language, the film reflects a resurgence of indigenous art and culture taking place across Cana- da. It is spurred in part by efforts at reconciliation for the horrors suffered at those government- funded residential schools, the last of which closed only in 1996. Restoring the country’s 60 or so indigenous languages, many on the verge of extinction, is at the center of that reconciliation. The loss of one language, said Wade Davis, a University of British Columbia anthropology professor, is akin to clear-cutting an “old-growth forest of the mind.” The world’s complex web of myths, beliefs and ideas — which Mr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere” — is torn, just as the loss of a species weakens the biosphere, he said. A Haida glossary dedicates three pages to words and expres- sions for rain. “English cannot begin to de- scribe the landscape of Haida Gwaii,” the Haida homeland, Mr. Davis said. “There are 10,000 shades of nuance and interpreta- tion. That really is what language is.” Fewer than 20 fluent speakers of Haida are left in the world, ac- cording to local counts. For the Haida themselves, the destruc- tion of their language is pro- foundly tied to a loss of identity. “The secrets of who we are are wrapped up in our language,” said Gwaai Edenshaw, a co-director of the film, who like most of the cast A Language Nearly Lost Is Revived in a Script Sphenia Jones, right, in British Columbia rehearsing lines in Haida, a language she hadn’t spoken for more than six decades. RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A8 A Canadian Film Taps an Indigenous Cast to Tell Its Story By CATHERINE PORTER SAN FRANCISCO — Facing ac- cusations that Uber executives turned a blind eye to sexual har- assment and other corporate mis- behavior, the ride-hailing service’s board moved on Sunday to shake up the company’s leader- ship, ahead of the release this week of an investigation’s findings on its troubled culture. Uber directors were weighing a three-month leave of absence for Travis Kalanick, the chief execu- tive who built the start-up into a nearly $70 billion entity, according to three people with knowledge of the board’s agenda. In addition, Uber’s board said it would accept the recommenda- tions made in a report by the for- mer attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., who was retained to in- vestigate the company’s internal culture. One of the recommenda- tions included the departure of a top lieutenant to Mr. Kalanick, Emil Michael, said the people, who spoke on the condition of ano- nymity because the discussions With Its Brash Ways Under Fire, Uber Weighs Leadership Shuffle By MIKE ISAAC Continued on Page A16 A housing co-op in Mexico City symbol- izes the fight for the right to city life for all, not just for the wealthy. PAGE A10 A Community Amid the Sprawl An elevated walkway to Belvedere Castle would alter Central Park’s char- acter, critics say. Grace Notes. PAGE A18 NEW YORK A17-19 Battle Lines Over a Park Path A collector sold her prized Lichtenstein for $165 million to fund reforms to re- duce mass incarceration. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Using Art to Champion Justice An adaptation of an 1882 play about tainted water was painfully resonant when performed in Flint, Mich. PAGE A15 A Timeless Problem Unlike the Watergate scandal, the Trump-Russia inquiry is unfolding in an era of informational chaos, with rival versions of reality vying for supremacy, Jim Rutenberg writes. PAGE B1 The Rise of Dueling Narratives Charles M. Blow PAGE A21 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 Delta Air Lines and Bank of America criticized the Public Theater’s produc- tion of “Julius Caesar,” which depicts the killing of a Trump-like ruler. PAGE A19 Play Loses Two Big Sponsors SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES The improbable hit won for best new musical, and its star, Ben Platt, clinched the award for best leading actor. Arts, Page C1. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Rules Tonys Pittsburgh broke a scoreless tie with 1:35 left in Game 6 and beat Nashville, 2-0, to become the first back-to-back Stanley Cup winner since 1998. PAGE D1 SPORTSMONDAY D1-6 Penguins Repeat as Champions Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,626 + © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017 Today, humid, hazy, record-chal- lenging heat, high 92. Tonight, clear, warm, humid, low 76. Tomorrow, near-record heat, storms late, high 94. Weather map is on Page D8. $2.50
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French voters backed the party of thenew president, Emmanuel Macron, inparliamentary voting. PAGE A5
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
Wave of Support for Macron
Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly tobecome America’s 51st state, in a flawedelection most voters sat out. PAGE A16
NATIONAL A11-16
Landslide for Statehood
People in transition because of layoffs,moves or illness turned to AffordableCare Act marketplaces as a stopgap,but that option may soon be gone underthe Republican health plan. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-4
Flexibility of Care at Risk
DUNWOODY, Ga. — Demo-crats are facing an open breachbetween the demands of their po-litical base and the strict limits oftheir power, as liberal activistsdream of transforming the healthcare system and impeachingPresident Trump, while candi-dates in hard-fought elections askwary independent voters merelyfor a fresh chance at governing.
The growing tension betweenthe party’s ascendant militantwing and Democrats in conserva-tive-leaning terrain, where theparty must compete to win powerin Congress, was on vivid, split-screen display over the weekend:in Chicago, where Senator BernieSanders led a revival-style meet-ing of his progressive devotees,and in Atlanta, where Democratsare spending colossal sums ofmoney in hopes of seizing a tradi-tionally Republican congressionaldistrict.
It may be essential for Demo-crats to reconcile the party’s twoclashing impulses if they are to re-take the House of Representativesin 2018. In a promising political en-vironment, a drawn-out struggleover Democratic strategy andideology could spill into primaryelections and disrupt the party’spath to a majority.
On the one hand, progressivesare more emboldened than theyhave been in decades, galvanizedby Mr. Sanders’s unexpected suc-cesses in 2016 and empowered bythe surge of grass-roots energydedicated to confronting an un-popular president and pushingthe party leftward.
Mr. Sanders rallied his youthful,often-raucous coalition Saturdaynight at a gathering named the
DEEPENING DIVIDE ROILS DEMOCRATSAS BASE TILTS LEFT
PARTY VS. PROGRESSIVES
Struggle Over Ideologyand Tactics May Put
’18 Goals in Peril
By ALEXANDER BURNSand JONATHAN MARTIN
Continued on Page A15
MARK R. CRISTINO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
The bodies of marines killed in clashes with militants in Marawi arrived at an air base near Manila on Sunday. Page A4.Rise of ISIS, Long Ignored, Takes Toll in Philippines
WASHINGTON — A new fig-ure has swept through the WestWing lately, a man with silver haircombed back across his head, rim-less glasses perched on his nose, awhite handkerchief tucked neatlyinto his suit pocket, a taste for le-gal pugilism and an uncertain rolein a building confronted by a hostof political and legal threats.
Marc E. Kasowitz, a New Yorkcivil litigator who representedPresident Trump for 15 years inbusiness andboasts of beingcalled thetoughest law-yer on WallStreet, hassuddenly be-come the fieldmarshal for aWhite Houseunder siege.He is a person-al lawyer for the president, not agovernment employee, but he hasbeen talking about establishing anoffice in the White House complexwhere he can run his legal de-fense.
His visits to the White Househave raised questions about theblurry line between public andprivate interests for a presidentfacing legal issues. In recent days,Mr. Kasowitz has advised WhiteHouse aides to discuss the inquiryinto Russia’s interference in lastyear’s election as little as possible,two people involved said. He toldaides gathered in one meetingwho had asked whether it wastime to hire private lawyers that itwas not yet necessary, accordingto another person with directknowledge.
Such conversations between a
Trump LawyerAmasses CloutIn White House
Lines Blurred BetweenPublic and Private
By REBECCA R. RUIZand SHARON LaFRANIERE
Marc Kasowitz
Continued on Page A12
The ads have been popping upon billboards, buses and subwaysand in glossy magazines, with por-traits of attractive men and wom-en and a simple question in boldletters: What is Vivitrol?
Five years ago, Vivitrol was atreatment for opioid addictionthat was struggling to find a mar-ket. Now, its sales and profile arerising fast, thanks to its man-ufacturers’ shrewd use of politicalconnections, and despite scantscience to prove the drug’s effica-cy.
Last month, the health and hu-man services secretary, TomPrice, praised it as the future ofopioid addiction treatment aftervisiting the company’s plant inOhio. He set off a furor among sub-stance abuse specialists by criti-cizing its less expensive and morewidely used and rigorously stud-
ied competitors, buprenorphineand methadone, as medicationsthat “simply substitute” for illicitdrugs.
It was the kind of plug that Viv-itrol’s maker, Alkermes, has spentyears coaxing, with a deft lobby-ing strategy that has targeted law-makers and law enforcement offi-cials. The company has spent mil-lions of dollars on contributions toofficials struggling to stem theepidemic of opioid abuse. It hasalso provided thousands of freedoses to encourage the use of Viv-itrol in jails and prisons, whichhave by default become majordetox centers.
With the Trump administrationsending $1 billion in new addictionprevention and treatment funds tostates over the next two yearsthrough the 21st Century CuresAct, Alkermes’s marketing hasshifted into even higher gear.
The company’s strategy high-lights the profit opportunities that
drug companies and investors seein an opioid epidemic that killed 91Americans every day in 2015 andis growing worse. But some of itsmarketing tactics, and Mr. Price’scomments, ignore widely ac-
cepted science, as nearly 700 ex-perts in the field wrote the healthsecretary in a letter.
Not a single study has beencompleted comparing Vivitrol
Opioid Crisis and Lobbying Give Drug a Boost That Tests Don’tBy ABBY GOODNOUGH
and KATE ZERNIKE
Scientific evidence of the drug Vivitrol’s effectiveness is scant.SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A13
OPENING DOORS Democrats arecalling for testimony by AttorneyGeneral Jeff Sessions before aSenate committee to take place inan open hearing. PAGE A12
LONDON — In a little morethan two years, Britain has hadtwo general elections and a na-tionwide referendum. Each time,the politicians, pollsters, bettingmarkets, political scientists andcommentators have gotten itwrong.
Once considered one of themost politically stable countries inthe world, regularly turning outmajority governments, Britain isincreasingly confusing and unpre-dictable, to both its allies and it-self.
Far from settling the fierce divi-sions exposed by last year’s refer-endum on Britain’s exit from theEuropean Union, or Brexit, theelection on Thursday only madethem worse.
In the early hours of Friday,flushed with his party’s surprisingshowing, Labour’s leader, JeremyCorbyn, proclaimed: “Politics haschanged! And politics is not goingback into the box where it was be-fore.”
But where British politics is go-
Britain ShedsPredictabilityIn Its Politics
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Continued on Page A5
HARD TIMES A year after theBrexit vote, Britain’s economy ismarkedly slowing and consumersare facing rising prices. PAGE B1
HIELLEN, British Columbia —Speaking Haida for the first timein more than 60 years lookedpainful. Sphenia Jones’s cheeksglistened with sweat, and her eyesclenched shut. She tried again toproduce the forgotten raspy echoof the Haida k’, and again shefailed. Then she smiled broadly.
“It feels so good,” Ms. Jones, 73,said. “Mainly because I can say itout loud without being afraid.”
Like 150,000 indigenous chil-dren across Canada, Ms. Joneswas sent far from home to a res-idential school to be forcibly as-similated into Western culture.There, any trappings of her nativeculture were strictly forbidden.When a teacher caught Ms. Joneslearning another indigenous lan-guage from two schoolmates, Ms.Jones said, the teacher yanked outthree fingernails.
It worked: Ms. Jones spokenothing but English, until re-cently, when she began learningher lines in the country’s firstHaida-language feature film,“Edge of the Knife.”
With an entirely Haida cast, anda script written in a largely forgot-ten language, the film reflects aresurgence of indigenous art and
culture taking place across Cana-da. It is spurred in part by effortsat reconciliation for the horrorssuffered at those government-funded residential schools, thelast of which closed only in 1996.
Restoring the country’s 60 or soindigenous languages, many onthe verge of extinction, is at thecenter of that reconciliation.
The loss of one language, saidWade Davis, a University ofBritish Columbia anthropologyprofessor, is akin to clear-cuttingan “old-growth forest of the mind.”The world’s complex web ofmyths, beliefs and ideas — whichMr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere”— is torn, just as the loss of aspecies weakens the biosphere, hesaid.
A Haida glossary dedicatesthree pages to words and expres-sions for rain.
“English cannot begin to de-scribe the landscape of HaidaGwaii,” the Haida homeland, Mr.Davis said. “There are 10,000shades of nuance and interpreta-tion. That really is what languageis.”
Fewer than 20 fluent speakersof Haida are left in the world, ac-cording to local counts. For theHaida themselves, the destruc-tion of their language is pro-foundly tied to a loss of identity.
“The secrets of who we are arewrapped up in our language,” saidGwaai Edenshaw, a co-director ofthe film, who like most of the cast
A Language Nearly Lost Is Revived in a Script
Sphenia Jones, right, in British Columbia rehearsing lines inHaida, a language she hadn’t spoken for more than six decades.
RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A8
A Canadian Film Tapsan Indigenous Cast
to Tell Its Story
By CATHERINE PORTER
SAN FRANCISCO — Facing ac-cusations that Uber executivesturned a blind eye to sexual har-assment and other corporate mis-behavior, the ride-hailingservice’s board moved on Sundayto shake up the company’s leader-ship, ahead of the release thisweek of an investigation’s findingson its troubled culture.
Uber directors were weighing athree-month leave of absence forTravis Kalanick, the chief execu-tive who built the start-up into anearly $70 billion entity, according
to three people with knowledge ofthe board’s agenda.
In addition, Uber’s board said itwould accept the recommenda-tions made in a report by the for-mer attorney general Eric H.Holder Jr., who was retained to in-vestigate the company’s internalculture. One of the recommenda-tions included the departure of atop lieutenant to Mr. Kalanick,Emil Michael, said the people,who spoke on the condition of ano-nymity because the discussions
With Its Brash Ways Under Fire,Uber Weighs Leadership Shuffle
By MIKE ISAAC
Continued on Page A16
A housing co-op in Mexico City symbol-izes the fight for the right to city life forall, not just for the wealthy. PAGE A10
A Community Amid the Sprawl
An elevated walkway to BelvedereCastle would alter Central Park’s char-acter, critics say. Grace Notes. PAGE A18
NEW YORK A17-19
Battle Lines Over a Park Path
A collector sold her prized Lichtensteinfor $165 million to fund reforms to re-duce mass incarceration. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
Using Art to Champion JusticeAn adaptation of an 1882 play abouttainted water was painfully resonantwhen performed in Flint, Mich. PAGE A15
A Timeless Problem
Unlike the Watergate scandal, theTrump-Russia inquiry is unfolding in anera of informational chaos, with rivalversions of reality vying for supremacy,Jim Rutenberg writes. PAGE B1
The Rise of Dueling Narratives
Charles M. Blow PAGE A21
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
Delta Air Lines and Bank of Americacriticized the Public Theater’s produc-tion of “Julius Caesar,” which depicts thekilling of a Trump-like ruler. PAGE A19
Play Loses Two Big Sponsors
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
The improbable hit won for best new musical, and its star, BenPlatt, clinched the award for best leading actor. Arts, Page C1.
‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Rules Tonys
Pittsburgh broke a scoreless tie with1:35 left in Game 6 and beat Nashville,2-0, to become the first back-to-backStanley Cup winner since 1998. PAGE D1
SPORTSMONDAY D1-6
Penguins Repeat as Champions
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