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Resilience Rises at Christmas Coping With Loneliness A Digital Shift for Bollywood Little Progress for Diversity
The cheer was muted in New York City, For many New Yorkers who have been India’s film industry is increasingly Despite public pledges by major sports
but many residents still tried to hold to isolating at home during the pandemic, sending its content straight to major leagues to combat racial injustices,
their holiday traditions. PAGE A7 the holiday season is presenting a streaming services. PAGE B1 most coaching and management roles
difficult challenge. PAGE A15 have gone to white candidates for the
Overwhelmed in California Ski Resorts Expect a Rough Go past 30 years. PAGE B10
The hospitals are under strain, and this No Rhyme, Some Reason The industry, which took a hit in the
week the state became the first to reach How to reflect on 2020? We chose five spring when the pandemic struck, has
Shutting Down Their Season
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two million virus cases. PAGE A4 poems and asked five photographers to low expectations this season. PAGE B1 The Duke women were the first Power
find some meaning in all this. PAGE A16 Five conference basketball team to stop
early because of the pandemic. The
men’s team is expected to continue
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Local figures from around the world fill know,” Ms. Stevis-Gridneff said. “I heard biggest stars, and also some of its
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NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER
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In a typical year, more than 50 blind Henderson Island, an atoll in the
runners complete the California South Pacific, has the highest
International Marathon with guides. concentration of plastic pollution in
His Dream: Running Blind and Running Free B6 the world.
Punching Above Their Weight on Climate B4
• JAMES JARVIS
It was a rough year for Homo sapiens. But what creature from the animal kingdom most
Nashville Explosion Appears embodies this pandemic year? Journalists from The Times’s science and climate depart-
Intentional, Authorities Say ments shared their picks in an online interactive article. Read an edited selection below.
The news that an explosion in
downtown Nashville on Christ-
mas morning sent smoke rising
high above the city and forced
evacuations was Friday’s most
read article.
Covid-19 Patient
Is Bludgeoned to Death
In California Hospital Danish “Zombie” Mink They became infected Bear When not hibernating, a bear lumbers
On social media, readers shared with coronavirus from another species around, mostly doing bear things. But in
this article that an 82-year-old (humans). Many got very sick and suffered today’s world, it stumbles upon people, filling
man, who was being treated for and eventually died; others were slaughtered itself with our garbage. The bear would cause
Covid-19 at a hospital north of and buried. Then, typical of 2020, politically no problems without us, as 2020 would
Los Angeles, was beaten with an and pandemically, the buried mink failed just be another year. But here we are, and
oxygen tank last week by his to decompose properly and rose from the in our presence and our stories, a year or a
roommate. ground to the sorrow and horror of us all. bear becomes something else, and we don’t
JAMES GORMAN always like it. MICHAEL ROSTON
Hospital Workers Start
To ‘Turn Against Each Other’
To Get Vaccine
Joseph Goldstein’s report re-
vealed that hospital workers in
New York were cutting lines and
starting to “turn against each
other” to get the coronavirus
vaccine, inciting a backlash
among staff.
Platypus The platypus seems like a Tardigrades The unlovely but weirdly adorable
Eight-Armed Underwater ridiculous animal, but it can also poison you tardigrade is tiny but mighty, and can survive
Bullies: Watch Octopuses with a venomous spike on the back of its incredible abuse. Bubbling hot springs? They
Punch Fish foot. Researchers recently discovered that live there. Antarctic ice? Oh, hi. Some “water
This article on the tactics that platypuses glow under UV light. They don’t bears” have even survived the cold vacuum
octopuses use to hunt fish was know why. These duck-billed mammals’ and radiation of space. The tardigrade: as
popular with readers. Video fluorescence is just another thing to be baffled tough as we all need to be after a year like
shows an octopus curling its arm by, and that’s how I feel about the year as a 2020. JOHN SCHWARTZ
back and explosively releasing it whole. CARA GIAIMO
onto a fish. To read more, go to nytimes.com/science.
The
When siblings fight, you don’t need to
“My fear is we’re not decide who’s right or wrong or how the
conflict should be resolved. Instead, use
just losing jobs, we’re
losing careers.”
these mediation techniques to build empa-
thy and help them settle disputes them-
selves. MELINDA WENNER MOYER
Morning
ADAM KRAUTHAMER, president of 1. Lay down ground rules
Local 802 of the American Federation You can take steps to prevent further
of Musicians in New York, on arts
fighting as the issue is being worked out,
venues most likely being among the
and obtain consent to move forward.
last businesses to reopen. GIULIA SAGRAMOLA
Sample script:
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take some deep breaths, and I’m going to So Connor, why did Jayden say he got so A Newsletter
take the bear you’re fighting over and put it mad? Jayden, why did Connor start yelling
up on the cabinet. Then we’ll talk about when you hit him?
this, with no interrupting. OK? 4. Help brainstorm solutions
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Identify points of contention and common them in.
ground. Sample script:
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With so many employees falling sick or taking leave after months of the pandemic, hospitals such as Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, Calif., are struggling to find enough workers.
THE RESURGENCE
phe. In Los Angeles County, a vast region day. She was planning to work late that things will only get worse. Califor- Ms. Thompson, the nurse at St. Mary’s. ing the pandemic, were on Zoom.
whose population is roughly the size of Christmas Eve, and hoped to spend at nia’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has pro- Judging by what she sees in her com- But the holiday was only a brief
Michigan’s, there are roughly 6,500 peo- least Christmas morning with her three jected that hospitalizations would reach munity after another traumatizing day in respite, and she is scheduled to work
ple hospitalized with Covid-19, a fourfold daughters before returning to the hospi- close to 100,000 in January if residents do the intensive care unit, she is not opti- over New Year’s, handing a surge with
increase over the last month. The num- tal. not lock down for the holidays. On Thurs- mistic. no end in sight.
ber of patients in intensive care units is As the holiday season has collided day, California reported 351 deaths. “We’re all talking about the middle of “Trying to work all this overtime and
close to 1,300, double what it was a month with the height of the pandemic in South- “I can only imagine what is going to January for when we’re expecting to see then trying to keep up with all the death
ago. ern California, there is little joy for the happen after Christmas and New Year’s a major surge from both holidays,” she and dying and trying to keep a straight
And the county on Thursday reported health care workers on the front lines, if we don’t get the community educated said. “It’s kind of scary.” face and keep moving forward, it’s ex-
146 new deaths, according to a New York who are bracing for the near certainty on how to stay home and be safe,” said California was the first state to impose hausting,” she said.
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In Brooklyn, Giant Freezers for the Dead, With Room for More to Come
By SHARON OTTERMAN At the peak of the crisis, federal
At the marine terminal in South disaster workers and the New
Brooklyn this month, a sign that York National Guard helped to
said “funeral director” pointed to process and store thousands of
the left of a vast warehouse just bodies at Disaster Morgue 4, as
past the guard gate. A row of 53- the marine terminal was named.
foot refrigerated trailers, about 20 By the end of May, the pier held a
in all, sat in the black-tarred park- total of 2,137 bodies — 1,468 in
ing lot. Tucked past the fashion- long-term storage and 669 in re-
able furniture warehouses of In- frigerated trailers, the medical ex-
dustry City and next to a crum- aminer’s office said.
bling pier building, the facility was As of Dec. 4, the city’s facility at
quiet. the marine terminal still held 529
New York City officials believe bodies in long-term storage and
this little-known site will help 40 in refrigerated trailers. (The
them avoid a repeat of one of the Wall Street Journal first reported
most shocking tragedies of that bodies were still being held at
Covid-19’s first wave: the crush of the facility.)
bodies that overwhelmed the The city has not set a time limit
city’s capacity for dealing with the on how long a body can remain
dead. there, as long as there are discus-
The warehouses at the pier held sions underway with the family
about 570 bodies earlier this for a final resting place. The serv-
month, most of which have been ice is free, Dr. Sampson said.
there frozen for months, with She said that those held in long-
room for hundreds more. term storage there in December
As the virus surges across the were a mixture of Covid-19 and
country, states and cities have non-Covid fatalities, which have
been ordering or using refrigerat- continued to arrive at the terminal
ed trailers for excess morgue ca- since May. The site, she said, is al-
pacity after watching New York’s leviating the strain on her office’s
example in the spring. In Texas, 10 regular morgues, which can hold
trailers were delivered to El Paso 900 bodies, and also provides a
in early November. In California, central place for funeral directors
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced to retrieve remains.
recently that the state had 60 re- Burials at Hart Island have not
frigerated trailers standing by as stopped, however: This year,
makeshift morgues. 2,225 adults have been buried in
But no other city yet appears to BRENDAN M cDERMID/REUTERS the city cemetery there, the most
have had a death surge so severe Rows of refrigerated trailers that New York City set up at a Brooklyn pier in April to store the bodies of victims of the coronavirus. in decades, according to the city's
that bodies have had to be held for Department of Correction. Now,
months on end. waterfront warehouse in South numbers of Covid patients. “There’s just a real sense of remains at the pier’s warehouses. burials there take place either at
New York City experienced a Brooklyn into a long-term freezer Covid-19 deaths in the city are now dread, this kind of pall hanging This time, the medical examiner, family request or because the bod-
harrowing wave of fatalities as it storage facility for the dead — al- averaging about 35 per day, up over us,” said Patrick J. Kearns, with assistance from the federal ies remained unidentified or un-
became the global epicenter of the lowing overwhelmed families to from an average of fewer than 10 who operates three funeral homes government, reopened the site on claimed after an investigation of
virus in the spring, with 17,507 hold off on retrieving bodies for per day in early November. in Queens and one on Long Island, April 14 as a temporary disaster roughly two months, the medical
confirmed virus deaths between months before a Hart Island buri- For now, a repeat as severe as and who retained his own refriger- morgue for hospital deaths, days examiner said.
March 14 and June 18. At the peak al would be considered. the spring appears unlikely, given ated trailer after the first wave, after announcing it would stop Officials have made adjust-
of the pandemic in early April, “What they came up with, these improvements in care and the ar- just in case. “We have spent a lot temporary burials of unclaimed ments based on what they learned
about 800 people died in a single freezer containers for long-term rival of the vaccine, the medical of time getting supplies and set- bodies on Hart Island. in the spring. During the first
day. storage, I think is going to be the examiner and hospital officials ting up facilities. The position we Film footage captured by wave, shelves were placed inside
More than 135 refrigerated new expectation,” said John Fu- said recently. Hospitals are re- are in now is kind of anticipation.” drones of mass graves being dug the trailers at hospitals to double
trailers were deployed to the denberg, the executive director of porting that their internal Over the last few months, the on the island in early April had their storage capacity. But they
streets around hospitals, in what the International Association of morgues, which tend to hold an city has required each hospital to shocked the city. Families, terri- were unstable and at risk of col-
became one of the most enduring Coroners and Medical Examiners average of 15 bodies, were about redraw its fatality management fied of that fate, implored hospi- lapsing if the trailers were moved.
images of the city’s crisis. But that and the former coroner of Las Ve- 25 percent full in mid-December, plans, designating surge staff for tals to keep bodies longer, increas- So the city sent strike teams of Na-
was not enough. Shelves were gas. “They did it, they proved that according to the Greater New morgues, parking spots for multi- ing the crush there, hospital offi- tional Guard and medical examin-
placed in the trailers, doubling it works, and I think it will be the York Hospital Association, which ple 53-foot trailers and teams to cials said. er staff to hospitals to collect more
their capacity, as funeral directors wave of the future, because it’s a tracks that data. Funeral directors handle paperwork and counsel On April 28, the city opened the than 2,000 bodies and bring them
ran out of storage room. Cemeter- lot more socially acceptable and are not yet reporting backlogs. families. Some hospitals have pre- long-term freezer storage facility to the pier.
ies and crematories could not han- more sensitive than temporary “In planning, we are always built ramps to access the trailers, at the Brooklyn pier, which can This time, the medical examin-
dle the load. burial.” ready for the worst-case scenario, 100 of which now wait in depots. hold at least 1,500 bodies. (The er has told hospitals not to install
One Brooklyn hospital resorted How to find somewhere safe to and I feel confident that we are The medical examiner has distrib- city declined to provide a precise shelves, so trailers can be towed
to using a forklift to lift shrouded store hundreds of bodies for long ready for that,” said Dr. Barbara uted thousands of heavy-duty capacity). full to the pier, increasing efficien-
bodies into its morgue trailer, and stretches was one of the hardest Sampson, the city’s chief medical body bags. “That was a real game chang- cy and decreasing the possibility
a funeral home was caught storing lessons in the first wave of the cri- examiner. “But my expectation is But the facility that will most er,” said Jenna Mandel-Ricci, the that the city could lose track of a
dozens of decomposing bodies in sis, one that hospitals, funeral di- that we will not be in the kind of make the difference in the event of co-author of a Greater New York body.
two U-Haul trucks and its visita- rectors and the city medical exam- place that we were in the spring. I mass casualties, Dr. Sampson and Hospital Association report on fa- “After what we have all been
tion rooms. iner’s office are reviewing as the hope that with all my heart.” others said, is the marine termi- tality management that docu- through, with losing jobs and los-
In an effort to ease the backlog, second wave of Covid-19 grows in Still, normally about 150 people nal, a city-owned concrete ex- mented lessons learned in the cri- ing loved ones, the only thing that
the medical examiner’s office bur- New York. a day die per day in the city, so panse at the end of 39th Street in sis. “I hope that we don’t need it, could make all of this worse is if
ied dozens of unclaimed bodies in Last week, officials said that adding even an extra 100 deaths a Sunset Park. but knowing that it’s there, and the O.C.M.E. or the funeral direc-
early April at Hart Island, its pot- public hospitals in the city had day as a result of Covid-19 is likely After the Sept. 11 attacks, the knowing that it’s part of the frame- tor has the wrong decedent,” Dr.
ter’s field. But a few weeks later, it canceled elective surgeries in or- to stress the system, several fu- city’s Office of the Chief Medical work that has been built, is incred- Sampson said. “I will not allow
pivoted by transforming the huge der to save space for the growing neral directors said. Examiner sifted rubble for human ibly comforting.” that to happen.”
SARAH BLESENER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES JOHN MINCHILLO/ASSOCIATED PRESS DEMETRIUS FREEMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
From left: Digging a grave at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn; a burial site for unclaimed bodies on Hart Island in the Bronx; a temporary morgue at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn.
IMMUNIZATION
Boston Doctor Reports Serious Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna’s Shot
By KATHERINE J. WU pointment to get the Moderna González, a spokeswoman for the people with other allergies should breath, dizziness, palpitations and sit.
A Boston physician said he de- shot in the afternoon. In an inter- C.D.C., referred further questions still get their shots and wait the numbness after receiving the None of the ingredients in ei-
veloped a severe allergic reaction view, Dr. Sadrzadeh said he expe- to local public health authorities. standard 15 minutes post-injec- Covid-19 vaccine.” ther vaccine have been identified
minutes after receiving Moder- rienced a severe reaction almost With more than 1.1 million injec- tion before leaving the vaccina- Four hours later, Dr. Sadrzadeh as common allergens. But several
na’s coronavirus vaccine on immediately after he was inocu- tions already delivered to arms tion site. Anyone who previously was released from care. As of Fri- experts have cautiously pointed
Thursday, in the first week of the lated, feeling dizzy and with his across the country, severe allergic had an anaphylactic reaction to a day morning, he said he felt fully to polyethylene glycol, or PEG,
nationwide rollout for the compa- heart racing. reactions remain a rarity, and substance, including another vac- recovered. But the previous day’s which appears in both recipes, al-
ny’s shots. In a statement, David Kibbe, a should not prompt concern in cine or injectable drug, should be events shook him. “I don’t want beit in slightly different formula-
The case was the first of its kind spokesman for Boston Medical most people, said Dr. Merin Ku- monitored for an extra 15 minutes. anybody to go through that,” he tions, as a possible culprit. PEG is
reported to be linked to Moderna’s Center, confirmed that Dr. ruvilla, an allergist and immunol- In the case on Thursday, Dr. said. found in a bevy of pharmaceutical
vaccine. Federal agencies are in- Sadrzadeh had received Moder- ogist at Emory University. “This Sadrzadeh said he brought his Dr. Sadrzadeh reported his re- products, including ultrasound
vestigating at least six cases in- na’s vaccine on Thursday. The EpiPen to his vaccine appoint- action to both Moderna and a na- gel, laxatives and injectable ster-
volving people who suffered ana- statement said that Dr. Sadrzadeh ment because of his serious al- tional vaccine safety surveillance oids, and allergies to it are ex-
phylaxis after receiving the Pfi- “felt he was developing an allergic lergies. He said that within min- system run by the F.D.A. and the tremely rare.
zer-BioNTech vaccine, which con- reaction and was allowed to self- The first severe utes of the vaccine injection at C.D.C. Dr. Kuruvilla said it remained
tains similar ingredients, during
the first few weeks of its distribu-
administer his personal EpiPen.
He was taken to the Emergency
response linked to the 3:30 p.m., his heart rate had
spiked to 150 beats per minute,
The vaccines developed by Pfi-
zer-BioNTech and Moderna are
possible that something else was
responsible, and more investiga-
tion in the United States. Department, evaluated, treated, company’s vaccine. about twice its normal cadence; the only ones that have been au- tion was needed to nail down the
Officials with the Food and observed and discharged. He is his tongue prickled and went thorized for emergency use so far cause of this smattering of events.
Drug Administration and the Cen- doing well today.” numb. Before long, he was during the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Kimberly Blumenthal, an al-
ters for Disease Control and Pre- Ray Jordan, a spokesman for drenched in a cold sweat and with mostly health care workers lergist and immunologist at Mass-
vention had discussed the reac- Moderna, said on Thursday should not deter people who are found himself feeling dizzy and receiving top priority for immuni- achusetts General Hospital, noted
tions involving some of the Pfizer evening that the company could not obviously at increased risk,” faint. His blood pressure also zation. that anaphylaxis can sometimes
cases, but have not determined not comment publicly on an indi- she said. plummeted, he said. Moderna’s vaccine, like Pfi- be difficult to confirm without
whether an ingredient in the vac- vidual case. On Friday, Mr. Jordan After the initial cases accompa- His immune system, he real- zer’s, is designed around a mole- blood work that hunts for an en-
cine caused the allergic respons- added that the company’s medical nying the Pfizer shots, the C.D.C. ized, was in revolt. cule called messenger RNA, or zyme called tryptase, which is re-
es. A few health care workers in safety team would look into the issued advice that the Pfizer and “It was the same anaphylactic mRNA, that’s injected into the up- leased during allergic reactions.
Britain had also experienced ana- matter, and he referred further Moderna vaccines might not be reaction that I experience with per arm. Once inside human cells, It’s essential, she added, for there
appropriate for people with a his-
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phylaxis after receiving the Pfizer shellfish,” Dr. Sadrzadeh said. the mRNA instructs the manufac- to be protocols in place so similar
vaccine earlier this month. Warp Speed, the federal program tory of anaphylaxis to ingredients Dr. Sadrzadeh used his EpiPen ture of a protein called spike, cases can be investigated further.
The incident on Thursday in- overseeing vaccine distribution. in either injection. Anaphylaxis, and was taken on a stretcher to which then teaches the immune According to data filings from
volved Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a The F.D.A. would not comment which typically happens within the emergency room, where he system to recognize and thwart its late-stage clinical trials, Mod-
geriatric oncologist at Boston on the new report on Friday. minutes after exposure to a trig- was given several medications, in- the coronavirus, should it ever in- erna did not report any links be-
Medical Center, who has a severe Tom Skinner, a spokesman for gering substance, can impair cluding steroids and Benadryl, to vade the body. Each vaccine con- tween its vaccine and anaphy-
shellfish allergy and had an ap- the C.D.C., said that information breathing and cause precipitous calm the immune reactions that tains a handful of other ingredi- laxis. But when products emerge
on reactions to the new vaccines drops in blood pressure, poten- had overtaken his body. A record ents that sheath the fragile mRNA from closely monitored studies
Shao Neis was among the few people at Grand Central Terminal
on Friday. Some New Yorkers tried to keep to family traditions.
Resilience Permeates
On Pandemic Holiday
By MICHAEL GOLD ened by the pandemic’s shadow.
and TÉA KVETENADZE Coronavirus cases have been ris-
There was no Santa Claus at the ing in the region for weeks, as
flagship Macy’s store, no Rock- have hospitalizations and deaths
ettes dazzling audiences with sky- linked to the virus.
high kicks at Radio City Music On Friday, Gov. Andrew M.
Hall. Broadway stayed dark Cuomo said there had been 122 vi-
through what is usually its busiest rus-related deaths in the day pri-
season, and with tourism severely or. Mayor Bill de Blasio reported
diminished, there was so much the city’s seven-day average pos-
room at New York’s inns that itive test rate was 6.69 percent, PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRITTAINY NEWMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
many hotels had to close. the highest since late May, when Yude Guingnard near the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on Friday. People strolled through the city on a gray and drizzly holiday.
Amid a pandemic that has killed testing was far less widespread
thousands of New Yorkers while and New York was emerging from
upending the rhythms of daily life a monthslong lockdown. If the
indefinitely, the holiday cheer that seven-day positive rate hits 9 per-
typically buoys city residents cent, the city’s schools must close
through dark winters and fills the under state guidelines.
streets with tourists has been Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio
muted this year. have urged residents to avoid holi-
Still, New Yorkers’ resilience
was evident on Christmas Day,
day gatherings outside their own
homes and have pleaded with
Prices go up Monday, December 28
with some people determined to them to avoid traveling. Both ac-
observe the holiday largely as tions, the governor and the mayor
they always have, though with al- warn, could cause another dan-
terations to accommodate current gerous spike in virus cases that
circumstances. would force nonessential busi-
Despite gray skies and a steady nesses to shut down again.
drizzle, people in masks strolled in Shakira Lewis, 24, said her fam-
Central Park and ambled along ily had heeded the warnings.
Fifth Avenue to gawk at holiday There are usually at least 20 peo-
window displays. Christmas Mass ple at their annual Christmas cele-
was still celebrated at St. Patrick’s bration in New Jersey; this year,
Cathedral, with attendance lim- the limit was 10.
ited. “It wasn’t exactly the same, but
Although the area’s bus and it was still fun,” she said on Friday
train stations were remarkably afternoon as she stood in the Port
quiet — a sign that people were Authority Bus Terminal, which
heeding the repeated urgings of was mostly empty. “It’s important
federal and local officials not to to celebrate.”
travel — a small number of resi- Even those who were observing
dents were leaving the city to be more secular traditions tried to
with loved ones. hold to them in some way. Nick
“I feel like it’s important to visit Resnick, 27, and two childhood
family in times like this,” said friends from Birmingham, Mich.,
met in Manhattan’s Chinatown to
DESIGNER
Christian Deleon, one of the few
people on the platforms at the partake in a longstanding tradi-
Metro-North Railroad’s 125th tion among Jewish people: eating
Street Station. He was toting bags Chinese food on Christmas.
of gifts that he was taking to his “I’m excited we even get to do
brother and sister-in-law in Con- this,“ Mr. Resnick said through his
necticut. mask, gesturing to the damp
Robert Lima, 35, and Curtis streets. “This is beautiful.”
Engelhart, 33, were on their way In addition to hurting business
SALE
from Astoria to visit relatives in owners, the economic damage
Danbury, Conn. Standing at the created by the pandemic has also
station in colorful Christmas- exacerbated the harsh conditions
themed sweaters, a Corgi experienced by the city’s neediest
strapped to Mr. Engelhart’s back, residents.
they said they were determined to Volunteers and workers at the
keep the holiday bright. Harlem headquarters of the Rev.
“We’re just trying to make the Al Sharpton’s National Action
most of it in small ways,” Mr. Lima Network, which has fed hungry
New Yorkers on Christmas for
%
said. “Trying to keep the spirit
75
alive as much as possible. Each decades, said the number of peo-
day feels the same. Anything to ple seeking meals this year was
make the day feel a little bit spe- practically unprecedented.
cial.” Katrina Jefferson, who has or-
The weather added its own ganized the Christmas event for
wrinkle to some holiday celebra- six years, said that when she first
tions. Overnight, driving rain and started, the group would serve
fierce wind gusts knocked out about 600 people. By the end of
power in much of the region. Con
Edison said that more than 22,000
customers in New York City and
Friday, she said she expected that
nearly 3,000 people would be fed
at this year’s event.
Up to
the Westchester County suburbs “The need this year is astro-
had lost electricity. By 5 p.m., nomically higher,” Ms. Jefferson,
more than 5,000 customers, most 41, said.
of them in Westchester, were still New Yorkers lined up down the
without service. block to wait for meals or toys,
In New Jersey, more than some of which Mr. de Blasio
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OFF
75,000 households woke up handed out. Among those who
Christmas morning without were waiting was Sidney Jones, a
power, officials there said, as did food service worker who cur-
30,000 in Connecticut. It was un- rently lives in a homeless shelter.
clear whether all those who had Mr. Jones said the pandemic had
lost power would get it back by kept him from traveling to see
day’s end. family members outside the city.
The outages threatened to cast Still, despite a hard year, he said
even more of a pall on Christmas he was determined to keep a
plans that had already been dark- shred of hope.
“2021’s got to be better,” Mr.
Sarah Maslin Nir and Brian M. Ro- Jones, 49, said. He added: “Every-
senthal contributed reporting. body’s holding on by a thread.”
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U.S. Will Require Negative Coronavirus Test for All Travelers From the U.K.
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN Saturday when tighter domestic
and ISABELLA KWAI rules were announced. But em-
The United States will require ployees at Heathrow on Friday de-
all airline passengers arriving scribed a normal, if quieter,
from Britain to test negative for stream of passengers typical of
the coronavirus within 72 hours of Christmas Day, with most appear-
their departure, the Centers for ing to travel on long-haul flights.
Disease Control and Prevention Several airlines had already an-
said on Thursday. nounced policies requiring proof
The move comes as a new of a negative test after a demand
highly transmissible variant of from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of
the virus, which first appeared in New York that passengers arriv-
Britain, has led more than 50 ing from London to John F. Ken-
countries to seal their borders to nedy International Airport would
travelers from there or to impose need to provide documentation of
restrictions on their arrival. a negative test result.
The new rule, which takes effect “We can’t let history repeat it-
on Monday, will apply to Ameri- self with this new variant,” Mr.
cans as well as foreign citizens, Cuomo had written on Twitter.
and will require passengers to Also on Thursday, Gov. Phil
show proof of a negative result on Murphy of New Jersey said that
a genetic test, known as a P.C.R., passengers arriving at Newark
or an antigen test. Airport would need negative tests
“This additional testing re- within 72 hours of departure to en-
quirement will fortify our protec- ter.
tion of the American public to im- The American travel require-
prove their health and safety and ments are less draconian than
ensure responsible international those of other countries in Europe
travel,” the C.D.C. said in a state- and Asia, which barred all trav-
ment. elers from Britain after the new
Passengers will be required to coronavirus variant emerged. Ex-
“provide written documentation perts are skeptical that travel
of their laboratory test result (in bans can stop the spread of the
hard copy or electronic) to the air- variant. In fact, Dr. Anthony S.
line,” the C.D.C. said, adding that Fauci, the top U.S. infectious dis-
“if a passenger chooses not to take ease expert, said there was a good
a test, the airline must deny chance that the variant was al-
boarding to the passenger.” ready in the country.
The new rules were a reversal “I don’t think that that kind of a
for the Trump administration, draconian approach is necessary,”
which initially told American air- he said of a travel ban on “PBS
liners that the government would NewsHour.” “I think we should se-
not require testing for travelers riously consider the possibility of
from Britain. requiring testing of people before
United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic they come from the U.K. here.”
and Delta Air Lines had already Over 4.8 million British resi-
announced similar policies, re- dents visited the United States in
quiring all passengers on their 2019, according to Britain’s Office
flights between Britain and the of National Statistics.
new testing requirement. “We are gives a result in around 30 min-
United States to submit proof of a A recent study by British scien-
in close contact with U.S. authori- utes, but it is not as widely avail-
negative test result within 72 tists found no evidence that the
ties and working urgently to min- able, although it is cheaper.
hours of departure. British Air- variant was more deadly than oth-
imize disruption as far as possi- Heathrow Airport, for example,
ways had also been requiring neg- ers. But the researchers estimat-
ble,” the office said in a statement. charges passengers about $130
ative test results for passengers ed that it was 56 percent more
arriving in New York. “British travelers should follow for P.C.R. results with 48 hours
contagious. The country also an-
The announcement from the the U.S. authorities’ guidance, and and about $60 for antigen tests nounced a ban on travel from
United States adds another layer speak to their airlines for the lat- with results within 45 minutes. South Africa after the health sec-
of difficulty for Britons hoping to est travel options in the first in- Both tests are offered at major retary, Matt Hancock, said two
travel. Nonessential travel will stance.” British airports — including people had been discovered with
also be banned within much of People traveling immediately Heathrow and Gatwick, London’s another variant that emerged in
Britain starting on Saturday, new after the holiday may face uncer- two major hubs, and Manchester the African country. Another vari-
restrictions further limit socializ- tainty: Many private testing clin- Airport — but passengers must ant has also emerged in Nigeria.
ing, and schools and universities ics and labs are closed on Christ- register in advance. It was un- But concerns over the variant
might soon have to close. mas Day, so testing within the 72- clear how many would be able to still led governments to impose
The British Foreign Office up- hour window may prove difficult, procure a test and get a result in restrictions on travel from Britain.
dated its travel advice online on especially for the P.C.R. screen- time for travel. A French ban on both travelers
Friday to warn travelers of the ing, which must be sent to a lab The introduction of new travel and freight led to blockages at the
and can take several days to restrictions led to concerns that port of Dover for 48 hours, leaving
process. travelers to the United States thousands of truck drivers
Vivian Wang contributed report- The rapid antigen test, a rela- would flock to the airport, as Lon- stranded even as the ban was
ing. tively new tool to detect the virus, doners did at train stations last lifted on Wednesday.
GLOBAL ECONOMY
Poorer Nations, Left at Back of Line to Get the Vaccine, Risk Falling Further Behind
ing restaurants, sporting events nary market failure. Access to
From Page A1 and holiday destinations. House- vaccines is not based on need. It’s
mains largely under control of holds have saved up as they have based on the ability to pay, and Co-
large pharmaceutical companies canceled vacations and enter- vax doesn’t fix that problem.”
in the advanced economies.” tained themselves at home. On Dec. 18, Covax leaders an-
International aid organizations, “If people’s spirits are eased, nounced a deal with pharmaceuti-
philanthropists and wealthy na- and some of the restrictions are cal companies aimed at providing
tions have coalesced around a lifted, you could see a spending low- and middle-income countries
promise to ensure that all coun- splurge,” said Ben May, a global with nearly two billion doses of
tries gain the tools needed to fight economist at Oxford Economics in vaccines. The arrangement,
the pandemic, like protective gear London. “A lot of this will be about which centers on vaccine candi-
for medical teams as well as tests, the speed and degree to which dates that have not yet gained ap-
therapeutics and vaccines. But people go back to more normal be- proval, would provide enough
they have failed to back their as- haviors. That’s very hard to doses to vaccinate one-fifth of the
surances with enough money. know.” populations in 190 participating
The leading initiative, the Act- But many developing countries countries by the end of next year.
Accelerator Partnership — an un- will find themselves effectively in- India is home to pharmaceuti-
dertaking of the World Health Or- habiting a different planet. cal manufacturers that are pro-
ganization and the Bill and Melin- The United States has secured ducing vaccines for multinational
da Gates Foundation, among oth- claims on as many as 1.5 billion companies including As-
ers — has secured less than $5 bil- doses of vaccine, while the Euro- traZeneca, but its population is
lion of a targeted $38 billion. pean Union has locked up nearly unlikely to be fully vaccinated be-
A group of developing countries two billion doses — enough to vac- fore 2024, according to TS Lom-
led by India and South Africa cinate all of their citizens and then bard, an investment research firm
sought to increase the supply of some. Many poor countries could in London. Its economy is likely to
vaccines by manufacturing their be left waiting until 2024 to fully remain vulnerable.
own, ideally in partnership with vaccinate their populations. Even if masses of people in poor
the pharmaceutical companies High debt burdens limit the countries do not gain access to
that have produced the leading HANNAH YOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ability of many poor countries to vaccines, their economies are
versions. In a bid to secure lever- pay for vaccines. Private creditors likely to receive some spillover
age, the group has proposed that Vials of vaccine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Wealthy nations have vowed to have declined to take part in a
help all countries battle the pandemic but have failed to back their assurances with enough money. benefits from wealthier nations’
the World Trade Organization debt suspension initiative cham-
return to normal. In a world
waive traditional protections on pioned by the Group of 20.
shaped by inequality, growth can
intellectual property, allowing Promised aid from the World
poor countries to make affordable
from the economic disaster
brought on by the public health
ing to its precrisis size for two
years. But a deal struck between
One proponent of Bank and the International Mone-
coincide with inequity.
As consumer power resumes in
versions of the vaccines.
The W.TO. operates on consen-
emergency is underway. The re-
strictions that have shut down
Britain and the European Union
on Thursday, preserving much of
suspending drug tary Fund has proved disappoint-
ing. At the I.M.F., the Trump ad-
North America, Europe and East
Asia, that will drive demand for
sus. The proposal has been businesses could be lifted, bring- their trading relationship after patents asks, ‘Is this ministration has opposed an ex-
pansion of so-called special draw- commodities, rejuvenating cop-
blocked by the United States, Brit- ing meaningful economic benefits Brexit, has eased the worst fears
ain and the European Union, as soon as March or April. about a slowdown in regional a time to profit?’ ing rights — the basic currency of per mines in Chile and Zambia,
and lifting exports of soybeans
where pharmaceutical companies For the moment, the picture is commerce. the institution — depriving poor
wield political influence. The in- countries of additional resources. harvested in Brazil and Ar-
bleak. The United States, the But by 2025, the long-term eco- gentina. Tourists will eventually
dustry argues that patent protec- world’s largest economy, has suf- nomic damage from the pandemic “The international response to
movie theaters and on airplanes? return to Thailand, Indonesia and
tions and the profits they derive fered death tolls equivalent to a 9/ will be twice as severe in so-called the pandemic has essentially been
Any lingering disinclination to- Turkey.
are a requirement for the innova- 11 every day, making a return to emerging markets compared with pitiful,” said Mr. Kozul-Wright at
ward human congregation is But some argue that the rav-
tion that yields lifesaving medi- normalcy appear distant. Major wealthy countries, according to the U.N. trade body. “We are wor-
likely to limit growth in the leisure ried that as we move into the dis- ages of the pandemic in poor
cines. economies like Britain, France Oxford Economics.
and hospitality industries, which tribution of the vaccines, we are countries, largely unchecked by
Proponents of suspending pat- and Germany are under fresh Such forecasts are notoriously
ents note that many blockbuster are major employers. going to see the same again.” vaccines, could limit economic
lockdowns as the virus maintains inexact. A year ago, no one was
drugs are brought to market via momentum. The pandemic has accelerated One element of the Act-Acceler- fortunes globally. If the poorest
predicting a calamitous pan-
government-financed research, But after contracting 4.2 per- demic. The variables now con- the advance of e-commerce, leav- ator partnership, known as Co- countries do not gain vaccines, the
arguing that this creates an im- cent this year, the global economy fronting the global economy are ing traditional brick-and-mortar vax, is meant to allow poor coun- global economy will surrender
perative to place social good at the appears set to expand by 5.2 per- especially enormous. retailers in an especially weak- tries to buy vaccines at affordable $153 billion a year in output, ac-
heart of policy. cent next year, according to Ox- The production of vaccines is ened state. If an enduring sense of prices, but it collides with the re- cording to a recent study from the
“The question is really, ‘Is this a ford Economics. That forecast as- fraught with challenges that could anxiety prompts shoppers to ality that production is both lim- RAND Corporation.
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time to profit?’ ” said Mustaqeem sumes annual growth of 4.2 per- limit supply, while their endur- avoid malls, that could limit job ited and controlled by profit- “You need to vaccinate health
De Gama, councilor at the South cent in the United States and a 7.8 ance and effectiveness are not growth. Online retailers like Ama- minded companies that are an- care workers globally so you can
African mission to the W.T.O. in percent expansion in China, the fully understood. The economic zon have aggressively embraced swerable to shareholders. reopen global markets,” said Clare
Geneva. “We have seen govern- world’s second-largest economy, recovery will be shaped by ques- automation, meaning that an in- “Most people in the world live in Wenham, a health policy expert at
ments closing down economies, where government action has tions of psychology. After the most crease in business does not neces- countries where they rely on Co- the London School of Economics.
limiting freedoms, yet intellectual controlled the virus. profound shock in memory, how sarily translate into quality jobs. vax for access to vaccines,” said “If every country in the world can
property is seen to be so sacro- Europe will remain a laggard, will societies exercise their free- Many economists assume that Mark Eccleston-Turner, an expert say, ‘We know all our vulnerable
sanct that this cannot be touched.” given the prevalence of the virus, dom to move about once the virus as the vaccines ease fear, people on international law and infec- people are vaccinated,’ then we
In the wealthy nations that have according to IHS Markit, with the is tamed? Will people liberated will surge toward experiences tious diseases at Keele University can return to the global capitalist
Dr. Jessica Du Preez and Lulama Ndzuzo, a nurse, checking on a patient at a field hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that was constructed within an old Volkswagen plant.
AFRICA
SocialAbdiraxan
rector, Dr. Abdirizak Yusuf Ahmed. Unable to
secure medical oxygen for its patients — a Media Pakistan
Ali Warsame, 0345-6738217
a public health officer, visited a primary school in Hargeisa, where children are given masks on a daily basis.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2020 Y A11
The nurse Randa Hasan Mohamed, left, taking a patient out for some fresh air at the Atu Daryeel Hospital in Hargeisa,
Somaliland. Above middle, a community health care worker near Hargeisa. Mahad Yusuf Kahiye, below, works 12-hour
shifts keeping oxygen bottles filled at the De Martino hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. In many parts of Africa, medical
equipment and those with the knowledge to use it are scarce, and the job of disseminating information can be daunting.
at higher rates than their share of the popula- spent her day attending to nearly 40 coronavi- At the nearby field hospital in Port Elizabeth, ‘Killing People Silently’
tion, probably because of their higher average rus patients, inserting breathing tubes and doctors were forced to ration. Dr. Black, the in-
age. But the institute found that when control- catheters. fectious-disease specialist, saw that a 84-year- In Howlwadaag, a rubble-filled settlement in
ling for age, Black, Indian and mixed-race The hospital was not proning Covid pneumo- old man had been placed on a high-flow oxygen Hargeisa for Somali and Ethiopian refugees
South Africans were more likely than white nia patients — turning them on their bellies — device, a decision he said was “completely displaced by conflict and drought, the risks of
South Africans to die of the disease in hospitals. even though evidence shows that it improves against” the protocol tacked to a wall, labeled transmission were evident. Residents live
Still, experts generally believe that fatalities oxygen levels and reduces the need for ventila- “Allocation of Scarce Critical Care Resources among prickly cacti, sleeping in crowded corru-
on the continent are far lower than in the West, tors. “We don’t have enough manpower to do During the COVID-19 Public Health Emer- gated sheet metal shacks and rounded cloth-
potentially for reasons beyond demographics. it,” Dr. Maepa said. gency.” covered dwellings. Polio outreach workers ad-
For instance, countries that regularly immu- The 16-bed I.C.U. was full, and she shifted pa- “If I need it, I’m going to take it away from vised residents to sleep separately if sick and
nize babies with a tuberculosis vaccine also tients like puzzle pieces to make space for the him, because he’s not a great candidate,” Dr. wash their hands often. But community mem-
tend to have lower coronavirus mortality, sickest. A wealthy executive begged her to save Black said. bers said they could not afford soap.
though a causative link has yet to be proved. him because his affairs were not in order, ask- According to the guidelines, patients more A woman complaining of a cough and diffi-
ing to buy his own ventilator and be treated at than “mildly frail” at baseline, including those culty breathing rejected the advice of health
To achieve widespread immunity, more tar-
home. A middle-aged man sobbed as he visited who “often have problems with stairs” and workers to go to the hospital one day this
geted vaccines are needed, like those now
his dying wife. “There’s a mountain coming, need minimal help with dressing, were to be de- month. “I’m afraid of people not being able to
rolling out in the United States and Europe.
and I may not be able to get over it with her,” Dr. nied critical care. Other patients were to be di- come see me,” said Khadra Mahdi Abdi, adding
Most African countries have not struck direct
Maepa told him. “But we’re trying either way.” vided into low-, medium- and high-priority that the price of transport was too steep.
deals with Western vaccine makers, though
groups based on pre-existing conditions and In the region, the pandemic often inspires de-
some are importing Chinese-made vaccines The scene inside two of the city’s public hos-
degree of illness, with age groups as a nial. Restaurants are busy, social distancing
not yet vetted by stringent regulators. The con- pitals was more dire. Dozens of medical work-
tiebreaker. rare, large family gatherings common. Mask
tinent itself has little vaccine-manufacturing ers were out sick, and patients stayed hours,
In practice the procedure was cruder. If wearing carries a stigma.
capacity. Biovac, a company in Cape Town, was sometimes days, in crowded observation
you’re 60 with another health condition, “the “People are watching you and point their fin-
trying to find a partner and would need up to a rooms awaiting ward admission. One aging
chance of you getting into an I.C.U. is close to gers at you and say, ‘This is corona man,’ ” said
year to begin filling vials. hospital, Dora Nginza, lacked an I.C.U. and was
zero,” Dr. Black said. “I have patients dying Hassan Warsame Nor, a senior lecturer at Be-
But Africans have played an important role rushing to finish a renovation because it could
here in their 30s who couldn’t get into a hospi- nadir University, in Mogadishu, who led a
in developing coronavirus vaccines. In Durban, not properly isolate patients. The physician in
tal, and now I.C.U.s are full.” Unicef study of attitudes in Somalia’s capital.
Senzo Maloyi, 30, volunteered for a clinical trial charge, Dr. Lokuthula Maphalala, spent her
That night, the nursing staff wound through And resisting medical treatment is routine.
of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as part of the shift pushing stretchers and lifting patients.
the wards singing hymns and the Lord’s Pray- At Hargeisa’s designated Covid hospital,
United States’ Operation Warp Speed. “By us The other public hospital, Livingstone, had to
er. A nurse who sang in her church choir beat an Daryeel, five patients separated by empty met-
participating, if it does go well, we’ll be helping refuse most patients who needed transfer to
empty water bottle against a cardboard box la- al frame beds lay beside hissing oxygen tanks,
a lot of people,” he said. There was no guaran- the I.C.U. “These cases and faces come back to
beled for compliments and complaints. with handwritten medication orders taped to
tee, though, that those who’d be helped would you,” said its director, Dr. Lizette van der
the walls. Nurses swatted away flies that flew
be in South Africa. Merwe.
in through windows facing a courtyard, where
patients were sometimes rolled for a dose of
A Rattled Health System sunshine and bird song. Most had a family
member attending them, which the hospital di-
Last month, South African officials thought rector, Dr. Yusuf M. Ahmed, felt compelled to
they had a brief opportunity to douse hot spots allow.
of infection in the Eastern Cape before they He said that about 80 percent of patients
spread across the country. scheduled for transfer to Daryeel after testing
Crowded post offices, college dormitory par- positive at the main public hospital never
ties and migrant farmer encampments were showed up. People were dying at home. “The
potential sources of outbreaks. So were the tra- virus is now killing people silently,” said Dr.
ditional three-week initiation retreats where an Hussein Abdillahi Ali, a junior physician there.
expected 50,000 18-year-old boys would un- Judging by the condolence pages on Face-
dergo circumcision in December and January. book, the director said, Covid-19 has come back
The government imposed a nighttime curfew “with a vengeance.”
in Port Elizabeth and limited alcohol sales and At least two of those hospitalized that day lat-
the size of gatherings. A proposal to screen er died. “Patients are coming at a late stage,” he
nearly all adults in the most affected areas, said. “It’s much harder than the first round.”
though, was dropped after a pilot project At the Baqiic cemetery on the outskirts of
strained labs. Hargeisa, about 50 men and boys gathered at a
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Meanwhile, cases mounted, highlighting the grave site this month to bury a family matri-
health system’s inequalities. Most South Afri- arch who had died of unknown causes. Their
cans rely on public health services; only 14 per- shovels hit the ground in a frenzy, causing a
cent get medical care from better-endowed pri- plume of earth to rise in the air like smoke.
vate providers. In Port Elizabeth one recent A caretaker at the cemetery’s entrance
day, 57 of the 59 patients on ventilators were in produced a notebook with handwritten entries
private hospitals. for the deceased. Because families often dug
Even the private sector was hard-pressed in graves for their loved ones, he said, he logged
For a Woman Without a Country, a Long Quest Ends in Brazil, and in Victory
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO truck to earn money as a They helped Ms. Mamo obtain
RIO DE JANEIRO mover. The children got new a travel document, and soon she
clothes twice a year — around was flying across the world,
T
HE subject was taboo
during her childhood in Christmas and Easter. telling her story and urging
Lebanon, whispered Since the children had no lawmakers to create legal ave-
about but never discussed documents, their parents had to nues to citizenship for the untold
openly. work miracles to get them millions without a nationality.
It came to a head when Maha enrolled in school, pleading
T
Mamo was 15 and, furious to with officials for waivers and HE United Nations created
miss out on a Girl Scouts trip favors. When she was old two conventions regarding
abroad, she confronted her enough to consider college, Ms. the rights of stateless
parents. It was then that she Mamo found only one univer- persons after World War II, but
learned that she and her two sity willing to take her, which they got relatively few signato-
siblings had been born state- meant giving up her dream to ries.
less, ineligible for citizenship in study medicine. That meant even countries
any country, and deprived of She pursued the longest of with a history of welcoming
the basic rights that come with long shots, including adoption immigrants, including Brazil and
it — including the passport by a friend’s parents. The the United States, lacked a path-
needed for her scouts trip. Mamo family paid a small for- way for stateless people who
Lebanon does not automati- tune to people who said they aspired to become citizens.
cally grant citizenship to the knew someone who knew Ms. Mamo was getting weary
children of immigrants who are someone who could make them of putting so much work and
born there, as she and her Lebanese. “We lost a lot of time into the activism that was
siblings were, her parents ex- money paying people who said not bringing her and her siblings
plained. And documents from they had connections,” she said. closer to a resolution of their
their own home country, Syria, Her siblings seemed resigned statelessness. Then Eddy, her
were out of the question, her to their fates. But Ms. Mamo brother, was killed during a
mother and father said, because decided she would not rest until robbery attempt near their home
their interfaith marriage was she found a way out. She made in June 2016.
illegal there. a list of all the embassies in
The death generated wide-
Ms. Mamo’s search for a Lebanon and sent each one an
spread news coverage in Brazil
homeland led her to Brazil, email describing the missed
and gave Ms. Mamo’s activism
where in 2018 she and her opportunities and the dreams
urgency. Officials in the capital,
sister, Souad, became the first she harbored.
Brasília, took note. In 2017, when
stateless people to become lawmakers updated the coun-
F
citizens under a new immigra- OR years, most embassies
try’s immigration code, they
tion law in the country. Over ignored her and some
included a new provision to
her yearslong quest, Ms. sent curt replies. In 2013,
Mexico’s ambassador wrote provide stateless people a
Mamo, who recently published streamlined path to citizenship.
a memoir about her ordeal, has back, offering to help find a way
to get her there. That possibility In June 2018, Torquato Jardim,
become the most visible for- who was then the minister of
merly stateless person and a prompted Ms. Mamo’s sister,
Souad, to try her luck as well. justice, invited Ms. Mamo and
singularly effective advocate her sister to the capital for a
for the plight of millions who She sent her own barrage of
emails to diplomatic missions. ceremony in which they became
remain in limbo. the first stateless people desig-
Years before she got a pass- In 2014, Brazil’s embassy invit-
ed Souad, and subsequently nated as eligible for citizenship
port, Ms. Mamo, now 32, trav- in Brazil.
eled the world using a special Ms. Mamo and her brother,
Eddy, an invitation to travel to A few months later, Brazilian
travel document issued to some
Brazil under a special visa for officials in Geneva surprised Ms.
stateless people, delivering
Syrian refugees. Mamo with her citizenship pa-
impassioned speeches at
With the audacity that had pers when she finished one of
United Nations conferences and
gotten her that far, Ms. Mamo her trademark statelessness
other events.
scrolled through Facebook to speeches, which she often deliv-
“Thanks to her public ap-
see if she could find friends who ers with a Brazilian flag draped
pearances and social media
had been to Brazil and found over her shoulders.
presence across different conti-
nents,” said Melanie Khanna, that a scout from her former United Nations officials credit
the head of the statelessness troop had once stayed briefly Ms. Mamo’s persistence with
section at the United Nations with a Brazilian family. putting the issue on the political
ERIN KIRKLAND FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
refugee agency, “thousands of She sent a message to the agenda in Brazil, which is
people have understood how ‘Whenever they hear my story, no one is going to ask me: Are you Muslim, family introducing herself. To
her surprise, the family invited
among only 23 countries that
currently have legal pathways to
someone can wind up stateless
through no fault of their own, are you Christian? They value you simply for being a human being.’ her and her siblings to stay at absorb stateless people.
and how devastating the conse- their home in the southeastern Ms. Mamo said she had grown
quences of that are.” MAHA MANO city of Belo Horizonte. to feel viscerally Brazilian, feel-
The number of people around In September 2014, when she ing at home in a nation with
the world who lack a nationality was 26, Ms. Mamo boarded a such a broad amalgam of races,
is difficult to assess. There are at flight out of Lebanon — after creeds and countries of ancestry.
least 4.2 million stateless people paying the government thou- “Whenever they hear my story,
in the 79 countries that report sands of dollars in fines for no one is going to ask me: Are
them, but the U.N. agency be- overstaying her visa. you Muslim, are you Christian?”
lieves that the problem actually Once in Brazil, she was ini- she said. “They value you sim-
affects many millions more. tially dazzled by the size of the ply for being a human being.”
Statelessness arises from a country and the hospitality she In December 2018, during one
variety of situations, including encountered. But soon, it of the first trips she took using
redrawn borders, discriminatory dawned on her there was no her Brazilian passport, Ms.
laws that prevent women from clear pathway to legalize her Mamo found herself clearing
passing on their nationality to a immigration status — a fact no customs in Paris just as a flight
child, births that go unregis- one at the Brazilian Embassy in from Beirut landed.
tered, and the mass expulsion of Beirut had made clear. She couldn’t help noticing that
an ethnic group. “You start feeling confusion, immigration control officers
Ms. Mamo’s journey to becom- like, what am I doing here,” Ms closely inspected the passports
ing a passport-bearing, globe- Mamo said. “I don’t understand and visas of the Lebanese pas-
trotting activist and author who the language, I don’t understand sengers, and asked lots of ques-
delivers pitch-perfect speeches, the culture.” tions.
including a TED Talk in Geneva, Ms. Mamo worked odd jobs in Unlike the Lebanese, Brazil-
began with years of despond- Belo Horizonte, like distributing ians don’t need a visa for
ence. pamphlets in the street. France. When she presented her
Life in Lebanon felt stifling for In March 2015, an interview passport, she was welcomed
Ms. Mamo and her two siblings. she gave for a Brazilian televi- with a warm smile — no ques-
Her parents worried whenever sion program about stateless- tions asked.
the children crossed checkpoints ness sparked her career as an “I was like, oh my God, I love
in war-ravaged Beirut, where activist. Officials at the United my Brazilian passport.” she said.
Syrians were often treated with Nations, which the previous Watching the Lebanese getting
hostility. Money was tight, she year had begun a campaign more scrutiny, she couldn’t
said. Her mother, who had been FABRICE COFFRINI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES urging countries to enact poli- shake a bit of schadenfreude.
a nurse in Syria, didn’t work in Maha Mamo, in Troy, Mich., this week and at a news conference in Geneva last year in connection cies to eliminate statelessness, “What comes around goes
Lebanon. Her father used his with a United Nations gathering there. Ms. Mamo was born in Lebanon to Syrian immigrants. took note. around,” she said.
Francis used his traditional Christmas that they will be unable to provide the Church of the Nativity, which was built Pope Francis delivered his Christmas address from a hall inside the Apostolic
address to argue that widespread suffer- vaccine for much, if any, of their popula- on the spot where Christians believe Je- Palace of the Vatican, rather than before thousands in St. Peter’s Square.
ing should compel people to reflect on tions. sus was born.
their common humanity, and apply those Around the world this year, Christians Christmas Eve Mass at St. Patrick’s
have plagued the planet in the past year. balances only worsened by the coronavi-
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principles to how vaccine rollouts are scaled back or reimagined Christmas Cathedral in New York City was sub-
handled. traditions. dued, with attendance limited to 25 per- And he did so again on Friday, asking rus pandemic.”
“We cannot allow the various forms of A choral concert was held at Notre- cent of capacity, or 500 people. the world to recall the suffering of so But it was the pandemic that largely
nationalism closed in on themselves to Dame in Paris, where a fire nearly de- At the Vatican, Christmas Eve Mass in many in 2020 — from the Yazidis in Iraq shaped the world this year and the pan-
prevent us from living as the truly hu- stroyed the cathedral in 2019, but this St. Peter’s Basilica was moved ahead two to the Rohingya in Myanmar. He said it demic, he said, that would allow human-
man family that we are,” the pope said. season the annual French tradition took hours to comply with the Italian govern- was the duty of every citizen of the world ity to really consider what global cooper-
“Nor can we allow the virus of radical place without the usual audience. ment’s 10 p.m. curfew. to help end violence and ease suffering. ation can achieve.
individualism to get the better of us and Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathe- The pope traditionally uses his Christ- Francis said the world faced a “mo- At the end of his address, bells pealed
make us indifferent to the suffering of
other brothers and sisters,” he said. “I Social Media Pakistan 0345-6738217
dral in London is normally a festive affair
with pomp and pageantry, but this year’s
mas Day address to focus attention on
the conflicts or natural disasters that
ment in history, marked by the ecological
crisis and grave economic and social im-
and echoed in an empty St. Peter’s
Square.
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2020 Y A13
of people’s day-to-day life; they do est appears to have stemmed in ist building in Singapore deserves “The government kind of treats
not necessarily have to be very part from a reappraisal of Brutal- als of their architectural legacy. Penh, a decade-long project to to be saved, said Karen Tan, the this, either intentionally or unin-
pretty to be significant,” Haider ism in Europe and beyond, and so- In Thailand, symbols of quirky document dozens of Modernist founder of the local design consul- tentionally, as something that’s re-
Kikabhoy, who leads heritage cial media buzz as people redis- Modernist design — stand-alone buildings found that the majority tancy, Pocket Projects, the plan placeable,” he said. “They don’t
walking tours in Hong Kong, said cover their unusual features. movie theaters — have been had been destroyed or modified for Golden Mile Complex is an “ac- really see it as a symbol or a land-
of the city’s postwar landmarks. In some cases, buildings from nearly erased. Several hundred amid a wave of construction tual endorsement of the impor- mark, which makes people think:
With older buildings, the au- the mid- to late-20th century gen- had dotted the landscape in the funded by overseas developers, tance of such buildings to the na- ‘Are you doing that intentionally,
thorities “tend to focus on the rar- erate public interest precisely be- 1980s, said Philip Jablon, a re- said Pen Sereypagna, a Phnom tion’s social and cultural identity.” to erase colonial history, or are
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From left: Migrants face an uncertain future in Britain; Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised there would be “no non-tariff barriers” to selling goods in Europe; London’s financial district may suffer.
supporters was that they were airport. the country put in place its travel that of the 2,367 drivers tested, the queen said. “Today, our front-
driven by a desire for Britain to Britain’s foreign and common- get one — and then get a result — ban — tested positive for the vari- three were positive. Thousands line services still shine that lamp
“take back control,” the nation’s wealth offices updated their travel in time. ant, German health officials said more remain to be tested. Britain’s for us — supported by the amaz-
immediate destiny is being advice on Friday to include the Nonessential travel will also be on Thursday. It was the first case military has sent an additional 800 ing achievements of modern sci-
shaped by forces beyond any indi- new testing requirement. Those banned within much of Britain identified in the country, but be- soldiers to assist the 300 already ence — and we owe them a debt of
vidual’s control — and perhaps looking to travel will have to pro- starting on Saturday. cause the variant has been there to aid health workers con- gratitude. We continue to be in-
none more so than the coronavi- vide the result of either a PCR test Despite the restrictions, there is spreading since at least Septem- ducting the screenings. spired by the kindness of strang-
rus. — which must be sent to a lab and concern that the variant, which ber, experts said it was probably As concern deepened in the ers and draw comfort that even on
The muffled sound of Ahnaf Islam play- came augmented with physical isola-
ing the Velvet Underground’s “Sunday tion,” he said.
Morning” on his guitar could be heard Alone in his bedroom, Mr. Islam had a
throughout his apartment in the Mid- hard time focusing on his schoolwork,
wood neighborhood of Brooklyn. preferring to read and play guitar.
“It describes how I feel,” he said. It was like this for months, until Owise
Mr. Islam, 24, lives with three other Abuzaid moved into the apartment in Oc-
people, immigrants like him, but keeps to tober.
himself. Since moving to New York from “I have been feeling better since Owise
Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 2015, he has moved in,” he said. The two have devel-
found it difficult to connect with his oped a friendship, occasionally playing
roommates and classmates at New York music together and chatting on their
University, where he studies physics. roof.
Even though he felt socially isolated, Mr. Islam is planning to spend the rest
he said being physically in class motivat-
ed him. But when the pandemic hit, his
of the holiday season catching up on his
schoolwork: “This is the only thing I care
‘I bought 46 plants.’
struggles with depression intensified. about right now.” JENNIFER GAGLIARDI
“The mental isolation I felt before be-
“Being a spreader is my worst fear,” said
Jennifer Gagliardi, 27, who lives in a one-
bedroom apartment near Prospect Park
with Helen, her blind and deaf cat.
Ms. Gagliardi tried to cope with the
loneliness the pandemic imposed on her
‘These aren’t things life by finding new hobbies: She learned
you should tough out embroidery and adopted 46 plants.
Ms. Gagliardi moved to Brooklyn from
on your own.’ Long Island in January last year for a
teaching job at St. Joseph’s College. In
GRACE DE OLIVEIRA
her pre-pandemic life, she would drive to
Long Island to spend Thanksgiving with
In November, Grace de Oliveira, 66, had her family.
gender reassignment surgery. She took “We decided against it this year,” she
an Uber ride to the hospital where she said. “We don’t want to kill each other.”
stayed after surgery for four days — Instead, Ms. Gagliardi ordered Indian
alone. food for two and dined while standing in
“I wanted this to mean something,” her kitchen with her best friend, Danny
she said. “I wanted my family to look at Pinghero.
me and see me. I’m not being seen and “I usually love the holidays,” she said.
that’s what’s making me crazy.” “This is the first year I’m very much
She said her family — including her dreading them.”
five children — has been supportive of Ms. Gagliardi said on Christmas Eve
her since she came out to them in 2016. her family would usually all gather at a
But because of the pandemic, they could- Mexican restaurant and then go to Mass.
n’t be at the hospital with her. This year, she said she would likely be
“I imagined that there would be this sitting alone with Helen, watching “The
embrace of my family,” she said. “I feel Muppet Christmas Carol.”
like all of that was taken from me.” “I’m worried about the winter,” she
In the Throgs Neck area of the Bronx, said.
where she lives alone, Ms. de Oliveira
takes her daily routine seriously: She
writes in her journal, meditates, reads
and plays the piano.
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are
here.
MIRANDA BARNES took pictures in New York and Texas. She said she was inspired by the poem to “photograph quiet moments of both spaces.”
TOWARDS
S A R A LU P I TA O L I VA R E S
obligatory orchids
wave
I crawl under
the leaves
to understand
the garbage
what is anyone’s
karma
besides a
misunderstanding
ELLIOT ROSS photographed in the San Luis Valley, which has “a long and complicated story of the conquered and the conquerors, of riches stolen and gained, of an empire built off the backs of the
humble.” There, he says, he “hoped to find a world parallel to Sara’s. A world where we, as a society, reckon with our flaws and redirect our collective inertia down a different road.”
Figs
JIM WHITESIDE
CRISTINA BAUSSAN grew up listening to her mother’s memories of the civil war in El Salvador. “The blackouts, the
curfew, the sound of bullets stroking the sky above my grandparents’ home,” she said. “Making these photographs
became a way of gently honoring the courage and pain of those who fled and those who stayed.”
STORM
KAMILAH AISHA MOON
a new history
a forked tongue
a priestess
church and communion
a woman with her own legacy
dirt turned to pavement. Karen A symbolic and literal crossroads in Montgomery is down the street from the site of the childhood home of Mr. Gray, far right, with Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon in 1955.
Performers Wonder if Careers Can Survive Pandemic The police released a photo of
the R.V. on Friday afternoon and
said the vehicle had arrived on
the large, heavy doors at the build-
ing’s entrance. The explosion also
triggered the sprinkler system,
Second Avenue North at 1:22 a.m. which flooded the restaurant for
Disneyland after the last reces- The R.V. was parked outside an about eight hours.
From Page A1 sion. She has been playing a series AT&T transmission building, a “It’s a mess,” said Mark Rosen-
waiters; 19 percent for cooks; and of characters in the park’s Califor- separate building from the land- thal, one of the restaurant’s own-
about 13 percent for retail sales- nia Adventure — Phiphi the pho- mark 33 story AT&T office tower ers. “We have about 115 people
people over the same period. tographer, Molly the messenger less than half a mile away. working there, but that’s 115 peo-
In many areas, arts venues — and Donna the Dog Lady — sev-
It is still unclear if a person was ple that now don’t have jobs. So
theaters, clubs, performance eral times a week, doing six shows
inside the R.V. when it exploded, that’s rough to think about.”
spaces, concert halls, festivals — a day.
officials said. In a news confer- Freddie O’Connell, a city coun-
were the first businesses to close, “It was the first time in my life I
ence on Friday evening, police of- cilman who represents the af-
and they are likely to be among had security,” Ms. Clark said. It
ficials said there were no indica- fected area, said that dozens of
the last to reopen. was also the first time she had
tions of fatalities, but possible hu- people had been displaced and
“My fear is we’re not just losing health insurance, paid sick leave
man tissue had been found amid were brought to a triage area
jobs, we’re losing careers,” said and vacation.
the debris. where they could be checked for
Adam Krauthamer, president of In March, she was furloughed,
Gas lines were shut off in the injuries and stay warm on a bit-
Local 802 of the American Federa- though Disney is continuing to
area, and AT&T experienced out- terly cold morning. “It’s going to
tion of Musicians in New York. He cover her health insurance.
ages, which forced the Federal be a little bit of time,” he said, be-
said 95 percent of the local’s 7,000 “I have unemployment and a
Aviation Administration to tem- fore they can return to their resi-
members are not working on a generous family,” said Ms. Clark,
porarily halt flights out of the dences.
regular basis because of the man- explaining how she has managed
Nashville International Airport. “2020 already had plenty of dev-
dated shutdown. “It will create a to continue paying for rent and
Mayor John Cooper said he saw astation,” Mr. O’Connell said. “It’s
great cultural depression,” he food.
extensive damage when he sur- hard to wake up on Christmas
said. Many performers are relying
veyed the area, including shat- morning and see more of it in my
The new $15 billion worth of LYNSEY WEATHERSPOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES on charity. The Actors Fund, a
tered windows and glass that had hometown.”
stimulus aid for performance ven- Terry Burrell is unemployed in Atlanta after her touring show, service organization for the arts,
showered onto sidewalks, charred The explosion punctuates an
ues and cultural institutions that has raised and distributed $18 mil-
“Angry, Raucous and Gorgeously Shameless,” was canceled. lion since the pandemic started
trees and water main breaks. At agonizing year for Nashville: In
Congress approved this week — least 41 businesses have been ma-
for basic living expenses to 14,500 March, a deadly tornado swept
which was thrown into limbo after terially damaged by the explo-
people. through some of the city’s most
President Trump criticized the bill sion, he said. Fire officials added
“I’ve been at the Actors Fund bustling neighborhoods, which
— will not end the mass unem- that one building across from the
for 36 years,” said Barbara S. Da- still have streets lined with man-
ployment for performers anytime explosion collapsed.
vis, the chief operating officer. gled debris. And the coronavirus
soon. And it only extends federal Still, he acknowledged a meas-
“Through September 11th, Hurri- pandemic hit Tennessee hard —
unemployment aid through mid- ure of relief: Had the explosion
cane Katrina, the 2008 recession, through the spread of the virus
March. taken place on a workday, he said,
industry shutdowns. There’s and then as it devastated a tour-
The public may think of per- the outcome could have been far
clearly nothing that compares to ism industry that has thrived in
formers as A-list celebrities, but more perilous. But, he added later
this.” recent years.
most never get near a red carpet in the day, that solace had shifted
or an awards show. The over- Higher-paid television and film And now, Nashville has been
actors have more of a cushion, but to resolve to find the perpetrators rattled, left to confront a bizarre
whelming majority, even in the and rebuild.
best times, don’t benefit from Hol- they, too, have endured disap- and terrifying mystery.
pointments and lost opportuni- “This morning’s attack on our “One more event in Nashville’s
lywood-size paychecks or institu- community was intended to cre-
tional backing. They work season ties. Jack Cutmore-Scott and 2020,” Mr. Cooper said in a news
Meaghan Rath, now his wife, had ate chaos and fear in this season of conference on Friday.
to season, weekend to weekend or peace and hope,” Mr. Cooper said.
day to day, moving from one gig to just been cast in a new CBS pilot, Tom Cirillo, who lives down-
“Jury Duty,” when the pandemic The F.B.I. field office in Mem- town, said the blast on Friday re-
the next. phis was taking the lead in the in-
The median annual salary for shut down filming. minded him of the tornado, a har-
“I’d had my costume fitting and vestigation, working with state rowing experience for Nashville
full-time musicians and singers and local law enforcement agen-
was $42,800; it was $40,500 for ac- we were about to go and do the ta- as it raked through homes and
ble read the following week, but cies, as well as the federal Bureau businesses, leveling or partly col-
tors; and $36,500 for dancers and of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
choreographers, according to a we never made it,” Mr. Cutmore- lapsing 48 structures. In addition
Scott said. After several postpone- Explosives. to the damage, signs declaring
National Endowment for the Arts “Acting Attorney General Jeff
analysis. Many artists work other ments, they heard in September “Nashville Strong” still dot the
that CBS was bailing out altogeth- Rosen was briefed on the incident city.
jobs to cobble together a living, of- early this morning and directed
ten in the restaurant, retail and er. “It’s just sort of a terrible thing
Many live performers have that all DOJ resources be made
hospitality industries — where that it happened on a Christmas
looked for new ways to pursue available to assist in the investiga-
work has also dried up. morning,” Mr. Cirillo said. “You’re
their art, turning to video, stream- tion,” a Justice Department
They are an integral part of lo- lucky that it happened at the time
ing and other platforms. Carla spokesman said in a statement.
cal economies and communities in that it did. I’m just wondering
Gover’s tour of dancing to and Mr. Rosen became the acting at-
every corner of rural, suburban what exactly happened.”
playing traditional Appalachian torney general on Wednesday af-
and urban America, and they are Lawrence Cosson was sleeping
music as well as a folk opera she ter William P. Barr stepped down.
seeing their life’s work and liveli- on the street outside one of the
composed, “Cornbread and Torti- Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee said
hoods suddenly vanish. downtown bars when he felt the
llas,” were all canceled. “I had in a statement on Twitter that the
“We’re talking about a year’s explosion. He said the ground
some long dark nights of the soul state would supply any needed re-
worth of work that just went shook and he could hear alarms
trying to envision what I could sources to determine what had
away,” said Terry Burrell, whose sounding in nearby buildings.
do,” said Ms. Gover, who lives in happened and who was responsi-
touring show, “Angry, Raucous When a police officer guided him
SEPTEMBER DAWN BOTTOMS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Lexington, Ky., and has three chil- ble.
and Gorgeously Shameless,” was away from the area, he said, “I
“This was projected to be my biggest year financially,” said Steph dren. He said he was “praying for
canceled. Now she is home with saw there was so much debris
Simon, a musician in Tulsa, Okla. “Then the world shut down.” She started writing weekly those who were injured” and was
her husband in Atlanta, collecting coming from the other side of the
emails to all her contacts, sharing thankful to the emergency work-
unemployment insurance, and building.”
videos and offering online classes ers.
hoping she won’t have to dip into said: “Someone owed us $75 and Richard Florida, a professor at the The explosion interrupted the
in flatfoot dancing and clogging. A spokesman for President
her 401(k) retirement account. wouldn’t even pay.” University of Toronto’s Rotman Trump said the president had Rev. Jayd Neely, the pastor at St.
The response was enthusiastic. “I
Linda Jean Stokley, a fiddler Then there’s Tim Wu, 31, a D.J., School of Management and School been briefed on the explosion and Mary of the Seven Sorrows, as he
figured out how to use hashtags
and part of the Kentucky duo the singer and producer, who nor- of Cities. was “grateful for the incredible finished his morning prayers. He
and now I have a new kind of busi-
Local Honeys with Monica Hobbs, mally puts on around 100 shows a This year, Steph Simon, 33, of first responders and praying for thought it could be construction, a
ness,” Ms. Gover said.
said, “We’re resilient and are used year as Elephante at colleges, fes- Tulsa, Okla., finally started work- those who were injured.” common occurrence, near his Ro-
But if technology enables some
to not having regular paychecks.” tivals and nightclubs. ing full time as a hip-hop musician man Catholic parish, which is a
artists to share their work, it does- The authorities said the explo-
But since March hardly anyone He was in Ann Arbor, Mich., do- after a decade of minimum-wage sion happened around 6:30 a.m. few blocks from the explosion and
n’t necessarily help them earn
has paid even the minor fees re- ing a sound check for a new show jobs cleaning carpets or answer- outside 166 Second Avenue North, across the street from the Tennes-
much or even any money.
quired by their contracts, she called “Diplomacy” in mid-March ing phones to pay the bills. in a stretch of downtown with a see State Capitol. But then he real-
The violinist Ms. Koh, known
when New York shut down. Mr. He was selected to perform at Hard Rock Cafe, Hooters, Red- ized that was unlikely on a holiday.
for her devotion to promoting new
Wu returned to Los Angeles the the South by Southwest festival in That it could be an intentional
Corrections next day. All his other bookings Austin, Texas, played regular gigs
artists and music, donated her
time to create the “Alone Togeth-
neck Riviera Barbecue and
Honky Tonk Bus Tours. It is an act is troubling, he said. “It’s re-
were canceled — and most of his at home and on tour, and produced er” project, raising donations to area where the tourists who come ally evil,” Father Neely said, “es-
income. “Fire in Little Africa,” an album commission compositions and to Nashville often flock. pecially on Christmas Day.”
ARTS & LEISURE
Mr. Wu, and hundreds of thou- commemorating the 1921 massa- then performing them over Insta- But on Christmas morning, it
An article on Page 4 about the cre of Black residents of Tulsa by
sands of freelancers like him, are gram from her apartment. was quiet. “It’s not a very popu-
online variety show “Stars in the not the only ones taking a hit. The white rioters. The project was widely praised, lated area,” Mr. Cooper said.
House” misstates the date of its broader arts and culture sector “This was projected to be my but as Ms. Koh said, it doesn’t After police officers arrived,
first livestream. It was March 16, that includes Hollywood and pub- biggest year financially,” said Mr. produce income. they hurried to roust anyone they
not March 17. The article also lishing constitutes an $878 billion Simon, who lives with his girl- “I am lucky,” Ms. Koh insisted. could find: The guests staying in
misstates when the number of industry that is a bigger part of friend and his two daughters, and Unlike many of her friends and nearby hotels. Residents just wak- Announcing
shows per week was reduced. It the American economy than was earning about $2,500 a month colleagues, she managed to hang ing up in apartment buildings. Announcements
was in June, not May. sports, transportation, construc- as a musician. “Then the world onto her health insurance thanks People who had curled into the
tion or agriculture. The sector shut down,” he said. Celebrate births,
to a teaching gig at the New warmest crevices they could find
Errors are corrected during the press supports 5.1 million wage and sal- A week after the festival was School, and she got a forbearance as they slept on the street. engagements, weddings,
run whenever possible, so some errors ary jobs, according to the U.S. Bu- canceled, he was back working as on her mortgage payments A voice announced through a anniversaries and
noted here may not have appeared in reau of Economic Analysis. They a call center operator, this time at through March. Many engage- speaker on the R.V. that a bomb more in The Times.
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LETTERS
This year, the exams will work like accelerant in a giant a New York State Assembly committee last year. ate-confirmed political appointees, The writer, a former president of
Clementine Roach, a senior at Hunter College High and “there is not a single serving Vassar College, is managing director of
conflagration of inequality.
School, said the attachment of some alumni to the exams career official in the 23 Senate- Ithaka S + R, which offers strategic
Few voices have articulated the unfairness and absurd- confirmed assistant secretary
was mystifying. “We don’t think that’s what makes us spe- advice for academic and cultural
ity of continuing this tradition more clearly than the public positions.” Among the report’s 10
cial,” said Ms. Roach, 17. institutions.
high school students across New York City who have pro- major recommendations is legisla-
tested and organized in recent years to demand an end to Instead of allowing the pandemic to worsen longstand- tion mandating that career profes-
ing inequities, New York could seize on the disruption to fix sionals occupy 90 percent of all
the admissions tests and screening policies.
ambassadorial positions and 75
Some of the high schools in question, known as special- its broken high school admissions practices at all its schools.
percent of all assistant secretary of Don’t Defer Medical Care
ized high schools, are required by state law to use a common Several promising proposals have emerged in recent years.
state positions by 2025. TO THE EDITOR:
exam as the single point of entry. Another exam, for Hunter Instead of a single exam, Albany could allow the city to Given the increasingly serious The prolonged Covid-19 pandemic
College High School in Manhattan, a public school overseen use state test scores, class rank and other measures. These nature of threats to our country, has led to an increase in the num-
by the City University of New York, is administered sepa- important reforms would require the State Legislature to America needs an expanded and ber of patients who present with
overturn Hecht-Calandra, the 1971 law that explicitly re- revitalized corps of career profes- late-stage, previously undiagnosed
rately. sionals in the most senior positions
quires three of the specialized high cancers, and recurrence of a previ-
The specialized high school exam is scheduled to be ready and able to carry out our ously diagnosed malignancy.
held next month. Hunter’s exam, which is usually given in Scrapping the schools — Stuyvesant, Bronx High most pressing diplomatic missions This is probably due to the reluc-
January, has been postponed indefinitely. In a statement, of- high-stakes School of Science and Brooklyn Techni- at home and around the world. tance to seek medical care because
ficials at Hunter said they were still weighing how to ap- admission tests cal High School — to use an exam as the
PAUL DENIG, WASHINGTON of fear of contracting Covid-19 at
proach admissions for September and were “looking at ho- for New York’s only point of entry. medical facilities; the closing or
specialized The writer, a retired Foreign Service reduction in clinical services; the
listic ways to remedy the diversity concerns.” Changing admissions policies to al-
officer, is president of DACOR, an requirement to obtain Covid-19
public high low talented Black and Latino students
With the exam for Hunter delayed, students there see organization of foreign affairs profes- testing before some medical pro-
schools is long — indeed, all students — a fair shot at
an opportunity to abolish it entirely. In a letter to the school sionals. cedures; and the use of
overdue. attending the city’s top high schools telemedicine without physical
administration, students questioned why the school had not
done so already, even as Boston and other cities suspended should be the easy part. The far harder examination instead of an actual
challenge facing the city in the coming years is how to pre- office visit.
similar admissions tests over concerns they would worsen
inequality in the midst of the pandemic. vent millions of children who were already vulnerable be- Military Spending It is important that people not
defer their medical care during the
“Their leaders are recognizing that the dual public fore the pandemic from falling far further behind. TO THE EDITOR: pandemic. It is especially important
health and equity emergencies they are facing necessitate One in every 10 public school students in New York is Re “How to Meet Our Global Chal- that those who previously received
homeless. Many live in communities that have been hit hard lenges,” by Robert M. Gates (Op- a cancer diagnosis continue their
suspending their tests and taking action to ensure fair ac-
by the coronavirus, while others have disabilities that have Ed, Dec. 21): treatment and follow-up. Those who
cess for highly qualified Black and Latinx students,” the When someone of the stature of experience new or unusual signs
Hunter students wrote. “Why isn’t Hunter doing the same?” made remote learning especially difficult.
Mr. Gates, a former defense secre- and symptoms that may indicate
Hunter’s three-hour exam is for most students the sole In the coming year, New York must do everything pos- tary, speaks about foreign policy aggravation of their condition or a
point of entry into the school, which is just 2.4 percent Black sible to identify these students, and make sure they don’t issues, it is prudent for all to take new ailment should seek medical
get left behind. notice. However, when he says that care without delay.
and 6.2 percent Latino, in a district that is 25 percent Black
The first task is to assess where each student is aca- “unparalleled military power must Postponing care or ignoring
and 41 percent Hispanic over all. symptoms may lead to complica-
demically, according to education experts like Tim Daly, the remain the backdrop for America’s
The student activists at Hunter have a list of complaints relations with the world,” he does- tions and deterioration, making
and demands. They argue that the exam unfairly disadvan- chief executive of EdNavigator, an education nonprofit. Mr. n’t answer a fundamental question. future care more difficult and lead-
tages Black and Hispanic students, who are less likely to Daly said the most straightforward way is to use next year’s Why? ing to increased morbidity and
state exams, though it needn’t be the only measure. Chil- Does the exorbitant price we are mortality.
have access to extensive test preparation. They say they
have been denied the opportunity to attend school with New dren who are behind will need an action plan, one with seri- paying for our military make us ITZHAK BROOK, WASHINGTON
ous buy-in from parents. feel more secure? Military expen-
Yorkers of other races and socioeconomic backgrounds. The writer is a professor of pediatrics
ditures are taken as a given. Per-
They also describe a difficult environment for the Black and Halley Potter, a senior fellow at the Century Founda- haps our real security is tied to a
at Georgetown University.
Latino students and students from lower-income house- tion, a public policy research group, suggested using sur- greater investment in health care,
holds who do attend Hunter. veys to determine what kind of life changes students have education, infrastructure and
Chloë Rollock, a senior at Hunter who said she is one of faced since the pandemic started. She said New York would research. It seems as if anyone
just a handful of Black students in her grade, said being the almost certainly need more social workers and counselors who questions the amount we West Point’s Scandal
spend on the military is viewed as TO THE EDITOR:
only Black student in class “when we’re talking about slav- to help students process trauma — a task that may be diffi- putting our national security at
ery, or things that are going on in New York City right now cult given the city’s bleak fiscal circumstances. risk. Re “More Than 70 West Point
that have to do with Black people,” had often been a painful Once virtual learning is behind us, getting students up This issue needs to be looked at Cadets Are Accused in Exam
to speed academically may require a dedicated, citywide anew. A case in point would be the Cheating Scandal” (news article,
experience.
war in Iraq, which cost us lives and Dec. 22):
“Everyone is always looking at me, and I always know campaign. That could mean a greater focus on parent- So West Point is giving most of
treasure. American security was
it,” said Ms. Rollock, 17. “It really reminds me, I’m this outli- teacher conferences, an intensive tutoring program and ex- these cadets a “second chance,”
not enhanced. Perhaps if resources
er. I questioned my worthiness being at Hunter. It made me tra learning time in summer or after school. These are just were not automatically poured into through a relatively new “rehabili-
question my own self-worth.” the kind of programs that can be expanded in the coming the military industrial complex, tation program”? How must the
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High school students across the city have raised many years to address longstanding achievement gaps. our leaders would be more reluc- cadets who took the exam without
tant (or at least more prudent) cheating feel?
of the same issues in recent years, demanding changes to In the 19th century, Horace Mann, the education re-
before making militaristic deci- Values of character have given
admissions policies by staging walkouts, marches, a sit-in at former, described public education as “the great equalizer” way to cheating and lying. The rot
sions. Adding dollars to our mili-
City Hall and other protests. of the conditions of men. How sad, then, that New York’s tary budget should no longer be has started below and runs right
Because of the coronavirus, city officials said the spe- public schools have for years now been a mirror of the city’s automatic without some question- up to the presidency. Turpitude is
cialized high school exam will be administered in each test- enormous inequities. As the city emerges from the pan- ing of the need for such expendi- rampant at all levels it seems.
Welcome to America!
W
honor and acknowledge the sacrifice of HEN our congregation, family abandoned the church clothes and initial season of zeal. People are excited kind of people who live lives of charity and
those men and women that had come Church of the Savior, moved makeshift pews. Everyone’s attention and energetic about their newfound faith; service.
over to Iraq to fight for them and free to online services some nine lagged. the services seem transcendent. But that The very inadequacy of church serv-
them from Saddam Hussein,” Paul Dick- months ago, our family tried Maybe it was screen fatigue. My chil- feeling often fades and becomes some- ices, Zoom and otherwise, is a reminder
inson, a lawyer who represented Kinani to keep things normal. We had the chil- dren have Zoom school. As a professor, I thing else. we do not come into churches to encoun-
and others in a civil suit against Black- dren dress in nice Sunday clothes, though have Zoom teaching. With my wife de- If bodies and physical spaces are really ter a life lesson on how to raise our chil-
water, told me. we would be watching via screen instead ployed in the Navy, we have a Zoom mar- means by which we attempt to encounter dren or to learn to be good Americans,
Until Tuesday, the American system of entering a sanctuary. We arranged the riage and, now, Zoom church. Something whatever that means. Our aim is much
worked to give Ali’s family a modicum of chairs in the living room to look like pews. had to give. more audacious. We are attempting to en-
justice. Blackwater settled with the fam- counter God and, in so doing, find our-
ily. The guards were prosecuted crimi-
We tried to follow along, bowing at the
right times and crossing ourselves at the
In July, researchers at Barna, a group
dedicated to studying faith and culture,
Virtual church services selves, possibly for the first time.
nally. The process was torturous, with
several roadblocks, but powerful figures
right moment. found church attendance in America had are inadequate — One recent weekend we gathered once
more for Zoom church. My wife logged on
Anyone who has ever attended a reli- dropped significantly during the pan-
in the United States were determined to
see it through.
gious service (or any event) with children demic. I’m not surprised. I, too, have gone but I keep going. from her military outpost and I logged on
with the kids. I settled into my role at tech
knows it is a constant struggle to get them through periods where I couldn’t stomach
Eventually three of the Blackwater support. Two of the younger kids lingered
to sit still, pay attention and not distract a Zoom service. Instead, we open our God on earth, something immeasurable is
guards, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and on the couch happily coloring.
those around them. Every Sunday in the Book of Common Prayer and worship as a lost when worship goes virtual. This loss As I followed along in the service, some-
pew is a battle of wills. But if in-person family. becomes all the more acute during the hol- thing surprised me. I looked up from the
services were a skirmish, online church is And yet this is what we’ve got — lest we iday season, a time when churches are computer and saw my daughter standing
Blackwater mercenaries war. simply shut down these services until the usually filled with candles, flowers and in the middle of the living room. Her
My family is a group of outliers. Just 33 church can gather without restriction. flowing vestments. Instead, the choir
committed a massacre. percent of Americans attend religious It is true that Zoom religious services stalls and pews will be largely empty.
tender, beautiful voice resounding
throughout the space. She was singing. I
Now they’ll go free. services weekly. As for the rest of the
country, about one-third make their way
are fundamentally inadequate. This is not
a criticism of the clergy and lay leaders
W.E.B. Dubois is famous for describing
the Black church as “the preacher, the mu-
found myself ushered into the presence of
something that defies description. 0
to a place of worship somewhere between who have put in tremendous creative ef- sic and the frenzy.” That is true enough as
Dustin Heard, were convicted of volun- a couple of times a month and a few times fort. In a sense it is an indictment of the a sociological analysis, but to members of ESAU McCAULLEY is a contributing opinion
tary manslaughter and other charges. A a year. The final third attend rarely, if at all. very idea of what we look for in church, the congregation there is a fourth element writer, and an assistant professor of New
fourth, Nicholas Slatten, was convicted But no matter where one falls on that and a chance to realign our perspective. to that mix: finding God’s own presence Testament at Wheaton College.
of murder and last year sentenced to life
in prison. Kinani moved to America and
became a citizen, though he was back in
Iraq when the BBC reached him on
I
dent acted to free the mercenaries; N 1492, Christopher Columbus netic material taken from skeletal re- 19 pairs of DNA cousins living on differ- How should the new findings change
Trump’s enthusiasm for war crimes is touched land for the first time in the mains. Together with another study of ent large islands or island groups in the the way we think about the fate of Indige-
well known, and last year he pardoned Americas, reaching the Bahamas, ancient Caribbean DNA published re- Caribbean: for example, an individual in nous people in the pre-contact Caribbe-
three men accused or convicted of them. Hispaniola (present-day Dominican cently by a different lab, scientists now Hispaniola with a cousin in the Bahamas, an? In some ways, not at all. Whatever
Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, is Republic and Haiti) and eastern Cuba. have data concerning the entire ge- and another individual in Hispaniola the starting population, what happened
a close Trump ally and the brother of his After he returned to Spain he reported nomes of more than 260 people of the an- with a cousin in Puerto Rico. This meant to Indigenous Americans after Euro-
education secretary, Betsy DeVos. that he had encountered islands rich in cient Caribbean. (This work was done in that the entire population had to be very peans arrived amounted to genocide:
Neither the predictability of these par- gold. A few years later his brother Bar- collaboration with Caribbean scholars, small; you wouldn’t find that random the systematic obliteration not just of in-
dons, however, nor our dulled capacity tholomew, who also traveled to the with permission from Caribbean govern- pairs of people had such a high probabil- dividuals but also of their culture and
for shock, lessens their grotesqueness. Americas, reported that Hispaniola had ments and institutions and in consulta- ity of being closely related if the entire community — what the philosopher
The last days of Trump’s reign have been a large population whose labor and land tion with Caribbean people of Indigenous population was large. (To put this in per- Claudia Card called the “social death” at
an orgy of impunity, as he hands out in- could be put to the advantage of the descent.) spective, if you did the same analysis on “the center of genocide.”
dulgences like party favors and rubs Spanish crown. He estimated the popula- In recent years, researchers studying random pairs of people across China to- Even if you focus more narrowly on
America’s face in his power to put his tion at 1.1 million people. ancient DNA have accumulated more day, DNA cousins would be detected statistics, the numbers of deaths in both
supporters beyond ordinary law. On Was this figure accurate? It soon was a many thousands of times less often.) absolute and relative terms are horrific.
than 5,000 ancient human genomes (up
Wednesday, Trump pardoned even more matter of dispute. Bartolomé de las Ca- According to a 1540 census, the number
cronies, including, most egregiously, his sas, a Spanish monk and colonist who be- of Indigenous people in Hispaniola had
former campaign chairman Paul Man- came the first chronicler of the human dropped to 250 people. It dropped to zero
afort, a likely reward for Manafort’s help disaster that unfolded in the Americas in later counts.
undermining Robert Mueller’s investi- after the arrival of Europeans, estimated In other ways, however, ancient DNA
gation. But even in this low moment, the a far larger number: three million to four research significantly changes how we
pardons of the Blackwater killers stand million. think about Indigenous people in the pre-
out for their depravity.
The population size of “pre-contact” contact Caribbean. Another surprising
They also exemplify a core tenet of
Hispaniola would continue to be a con- finding, for instance, is that the genetic
Trumpism: absolute license for some
tested issue until the present day, not
and absolute submission for others. No-
least because of its profound emotional
where is that truer than in Trump’s con-
and moral resonance in light of the de-
ception of the relationship between
struction of that world. Modern scholars New research reveals
American soldiers and paramilitaries
and foreigners.
have generally estimated the population
at 250,000 to a million people.
surprising findings
Last year, Trump intervened to re-
verse a demotion of Eddie Gallagher, a Some of the arguments for large popu- about the region.
Navy Seal special operations chief who lation numbers in the pre-contact Ameri-
took a celebratory photo with a corpse cas have been motivated by an attempt
and was described by men under his to counter a myth, perpetuated by apolo- legacy of pre-contact Caribbean people
command as “freaking evil” and “toxic.” gists for colonialism like the philosopher did not disappear: They contributed an
But the president didn’t just spare Galla- John Locke, that the Americas were a estimated 14 percent of the DNA of living
gher. He lionized him, and his movement vast “vacuum domicilium,” or empty people from Puerto Rico, 6 percent of
made him an icon. The Times described dwelling, populated by a handful of In- that in the Dominican Republic and 4
Gallagher “making appearances at influ- digenous groups whose displacement percent of that in Cuba. In addition, by
ential conservative gatherings and rub- could be readily justified. In a similar KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES illuminating the highly mobile lifestyle of
bing elbows with Mr. Trump’s inner cir- vein, some of the arguments for large pre-contact Caribbean people with many
population sizes have been motivated by
A technician in Boston works with the DNA of ancient Carribean people.
cle at Mar-a-Lago.” DNA cousins across different islands,
You could argue that Trump has sim- a desire to underscore how disastrous the research underscores the degree to
ply stripped pretense from the dynamics the arrival of Europeans was for Indige- which they were connected — a relative
from none a decade ago), making it pos- The rate of close relationships that the
that always drove the “war on terror.” nous people. unity later fractured by centuries of divi-
sible to use this methodology to ask and Reich team found is what would be ex-
But if the approach to Iraq that preceded By any measure, the arrival of Euro- sion into colonial spheres by European
answer questions about how past people pected for about 3,000 people — at most
Trump was infested with hypocrisy, that peans was catastrophic for Indigenous powers.
related to one another and to people liv- 8,000 people — in their childbearing
hypocrisy at least revealed an aspiration Americans. This is true whether the Colonization resulted in such immense
numbers of people were in the hundreds ing today. The Caribbean is now the first years in Hispaniola. The true numbers of
to a humane foreign policy. That aspira- destruction that the rich cultures of the
of thousands or millions — or for that place in the Americas where we have this people could have been threefold to ten-
tion did more than flatter the sensibilities pre-contact Caribbean can be recon-
matter, the tens of thousands. It is ques- kind of high-resolution data set for un- fold larger because at any given time structed only through a blend of oral tra-
of liberals and neoconservatives. It could
tionable to pin our judgments of human derstanding the past, previously avail- only a fraction of a population is in its ditions and scientific study, including the
be leveraged to allow a man like Kinani
atrocities to a specific number. To learn able only in Western Eurasia. childbearing years. Still, we can confi- new insights provided by ancient DNA
to make demands of the country that oc-
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from the past, it is crucial to be willing to The finding about the pre-contact pop- dently conclude that the pre-contact pop- analysis. It is a blessing to be able to get
cupied his.
Trump’s pardon, Kinani told the BBC, accept new and compelling data when ulation size in Hispaniola was made pos- ulation size of Hispaniola was no more closer to this heritage. And it is the loss of
made him feel as if Ali, who should now they become available. sible by a new scientific advance: We are than a few tens of thousands of people. the people and cultures that produced
be 22, had been killed again. Before, he In the case of the pre-contact popula- now able to detect “DNA cousins” in an- This is a classic ancient DNA surprise this heritage that most provokes our out-
said, he felt that no one was “above the tion of Hispaniola, such data have ar- cient genomes — taking two people and — the kind of unexpected finding this rage. 0
law.” No more. rived. By analyzing the DNA of ancient determining whether they share large new technology has shown repeatedly
“I feel I’m nothing today. I feel I’m Indigenous Caribbean people, a study segments of DNA inherited from a recent that it can deliver. For example, the se- DAVID REICH is a professor of genetics and
nothing. I lost my son and I feel I’m noth- published in Nature on Wednesday by ancestor. This is similar to what personal quencing of a finger bone from Siberia human evolutionary biology at Harvard.
Stella Tennant, 50, Aristocratic British Model Who Inspired Designers, Dies
By GUY TREBAY
Stella Tennant, the unimpeach-
ably aristocratic model and inspi-
ration to designers like Karl La-
gerfeld and Gianni Versace, died
on Tuesday in Duns, Scotland. She
was 50.
Her death was announced by
her family, which did not provide a
cause. Police reports noted no sus-
picious circumstances surround-
ing her death, according to the
BBC.
The granddaughter of Andrew
Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Dev-
onshire, and Deborah Cavendish,
Duchess of Devonshire, the
youngest of the Mitford sisters,
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Ms. Tennant was directly de- GUY MARINEAU/CONDÉ NAST, VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY IMAGES
scended from Bess of Hardwick, Ms. Tennant, a runway staple Decked out during the Chris-
builder of the opulent Elizabethan for three decades, at the spring tian Dior haute couture fall
manor Hardwick Hall, who was
1994 Chanel show in Paris. 2006 show in Paris.
once reputed to be the richest
woman in England.
Ms. Tennant wore her rarefied
heritage lightly throughout her
three-decade run in fashion, dur-
ing which she walked the runways
for most major fashion designers;
BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS
was featured in advertising cam-
paigns for nearly every important Stella Tennant with Karl Lagerfeld in 2011 during the Metiers D’Art Show for Chanel in Paris.
label; appeared on scores of mag-
azine covers; and worked with a What the two women did have Valentino Garavani, Alber Elbaz, mother, English, aristocratic but
full roster of the world’s elite pho- in common, though, was an ele- Giorgio Armani, Marc Jacobs and with a golden heart.”
tographers, editors, makeup art- ment of androgyny. Ms. Tennant’s Gianni Versace (whose family, in a Stella Tennant was born in Lon-
ists and stylists. brushy haircut, along with her statement on Tuesday, called her don on Dec. 17, 1970, the youngest
Along with Naomi Campbell boyish cool (and a punk septum the designer’s “muse”). If they ad- of three children of Lady Emma
and Kate Moss, Ms. Tennant was piercing), caught the attention of mired her beauty, designers also Cavendish and the Honorable To-
chosen to represent English fash- the photographer Steven Meisel banked on her ability to embody bias William Tennant, son of the VALERIO MEZZANOTTI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ion at the closing ceremony of the in the early 1990s. After turning multiple fashion archetypes. second Baron Glenconner, himself At her last show, the Valentino spring 2020 event in Paris.
2012 Olympics. In the late 1990s, up at a casting call Mr. Meisel sent “She was equally beautiful in a the younger half brother of Colin
Karl Lagerfeld signed her to an out for unknowns, Ms. Tennant Tennant, the rakehell favorite of
exclusive contract as the face of found her face featured on the Princess Margaret and the force tive maturity served her well in a Ms. Tennant is survived by her
Chanel. In doing so, Mr. Lagerfeld cover of Italian Vogue. behind the development of the Ca- business notorious for flightiness husband, David Lasnet, a photog-
noted the very English Ms. Ten- She soon found favor with de- A classic beauty with ribbean island of Mustique. and helium-hit extravagances of
temperament.
rapher and osteopath from whom
she had separated in August after
nant’s likeness to the incompara- signers across the spectrum, from Raised on her family’s 1,500-
bly Gallic founder of that fabled New York indies to the renowned a punk attitude who acre sheep farm in the Scottish
“As soon as anyone mentioned 21 years of marriage, and four chil-
dren, Iris, Jasmine, Cecily and
her name, the reaction was al-
house.
It was a fanciful assertion by
couturiers of Europe.
“Steven Meisel sent Stella for a
stood at fashion’s apex Borders, she attended St. Leon-
ards School in St. Andrews and
ways ‘I want her to be in my Marcel.
show,’” Mr. Elbaz said. Asked why, Just before the world went into
any standard, given that Coco go-see to my design studio, and I for three decades. later Marlborough College in the he replied, “At the moment when lockdown last winter, Mr. Piccioli
Chanel was short and better immediately cast her in my spring English countryside. She was still you are at your most crazed and cast Ms. Tennant for the coveted
known for her style than her looks, ’94 show as an aristocratic punk a student at Winchester School of panicked, she was the one calming opening spot in his couture show.
while Ms. Tennant stood nearly princess,” the designer Anna Sui Art when she caught the eye of the you down.” It would prove to be her last.
six feet, had crisply regular fea- said. “She was so elegant and had tuxedo or a chiffon dress,” said Mr. fashion writer Plum Sykes at And, while she was no stranger “When she came for her fit-
tures and retained into adulthood the prettiness and androgyny of Elbaz, who cast Ms. Tennant to British Vogue. When cast for “An- to grandeur in attire (not every tings, she was so nice to everyone
the “limpid blue eyes” her grand- an Elizabeth Peyton drawing. star in his first advertising cam- glo-Saxon Attitude,” a Steven child, after all, is set free to play — not just me, but all the seam-
mother Deborah Devonshire first Plus, there was that posh accent paign for Yves Saint Laurent Meisel shoot featured in the De- dress-up in the wardrobes of stresses, everyone,” Mr. Piccioli
noted in a letter to the Anglo-Irish and the defiance of the nose ring.” when he assumed design respon- cember 1993 issue of British Chatsworth, the Derbyshire seat said in a phone call from Italy.
writer Patrick Leigh Fermor Ms. Tennant’s offhand ease sibilities there in 1998 (and soon Vogue, she was already 23. Calcu- of the dukes of Devonshire), she “What she showed was that ele-
when Ms. Tennant was in diapers. with duality — particularly of after Ms. Tennant gave birth to lated in modeling-business dog had an elegance of spirit and atti- gance is not just about physical at-
class and gender — kept her in de- her first child). years, that is almost retirement tude that was innate, according to tributes or a walk, but something
Vanessa Friedman contributed re- mand throughout the decades “She was not really a model,” he age. the Valentino designer Pierpaolo inside. She had a grace that was
porting. with designers including added. “She was a woman, a Yet her detachment and rela- Piccioli. impossible to copy or explain.”
email. from 1962 to 1971 and participated ceived and eventually presented “Blue” Gene Tyranny at La MaMa in Manhattan in 2004.
His memorable pseudonym, in the Once Festival. Mr. Tyr- as a television series: Buddy, the
coined during his brief stint with
Iggy and the Stooges, was derived An eclectic composer anny’s works from this period, like
“Ballad” (1960) and “Diotima”
World’s Greatest Piano Player.
Their relationship was deeply col-
Music label, Mr. Tyranny moved gave up performing after 2016,
from early efforts with graphic no- helped to compile the set, hoping
partly from Jean, his adoptive
mother’s middle name. It also re-
who deftly balanced (1963), were abstract and fidgety,
chiefly concerned with timbral
laborative. Presented by Mr. Ash- tation and magnetic tape to com- to give his disparate canon a co-
ley with a blueprint indicating positions that drew from popular herent shape.
ferred to what he called “the tyr-
anny of the genes” — a predisposi-
conceptual rigor with contrast. keys and metric structures, Mr. styles. Some selections on his de- Mr. Tyranny’s compositions di-
In 1965, Mr. Tyranny helped Tyranny filled in harmonies and
tion to being “strongly overcome breezy pop sounds. found the Prime Movers Blues supplied playfully ornate piano
but solo album, “Out of the Blue”
(1978), like “Leading a Double
vided critical response. “To this
taste, Mr. Tyranny’s work too of-
by emotion,” he said in “Just for writing.
Band, whose drummer, James Os- Life,” were essentially pop songs. ten skirts the trivial,” John Rock-
the Record: Conversations With
terberg Jr., would achieve fame as “Blue and Bob had this symbiot- “A Letter From Home,” which well wrote in a 1987 New York
and About ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny,” a
is survived by a brother, Richard the proto-punk singer-songwriter ic relationship from back in Ann closed that album, mixed found Times review. But Ben Ratliff, in a
documentary film directed by Da-
vid Bernabo released in Septem- Sheff, and three half siblings, Iggy Pop. Another founder, Mi- Arbor,” Mr. Gordon, who also par- sounds and dreamy keyboards 2012 Times review of the last new
ber. William Gantic Jr., Vickie Murray chael Erlewine, later created All- ticipated in the creation of “Per- with an epistolary text, spoken recording issued during Mr. Tyr-
Music, Mr. Tyranny explained and Justa Calvin. Music, which became a popular fect Lives,” said in a phone inter- and sung, ranging from the mun- anny’s life, “Detours,” offered a
in the film, was a source of solace, He was born Joseph Gantic to reference website to which Mr. view. “The character Buddy is like dane to the philosophical. different view: “Mr. Sheff repre-
but also a means “of deeply in- William and Eleanor Gantic on Tyranny contributed, occasion- the avatar for the music of ‘Blue’ He worked extensively with sents a lot of different American
forming myself that there’s an- Jan. 1, 1945, in San Antonio. When ally writing about his own work. Gene.” electronics and labored through- energies.”
other world. Music is my way of Mr. Gantic, an Army paratrooper, In the late 1960s, Mr. Osterberg “What we commonly recognize out the 1990s on “The Driver’s He added, “He does not stint on
being in the world.” was reported missing in action in transformed himself into Iggy as music in ‘Perfect Lives’ was Son,” which he termed an “audio beautiful things — major arpeg-
A master at the keyboard and Southeast Asia during World War Pop and formed the Stooges. After ‘Blue’ Gene’s,” Mr. Gordon ex- storyboard.” A realization of that gios, soul-chord progressions,
an eclectic composer who deftly II, Mr. Tyranny related in “Just for releasing the album “Raw Power” plained, “but the overall composi- piece, a questing monodrama set lines that flow and breathe — and
balanced conceptual rigor with the Record,” his wife gave up their in 1973, he invited his former tion was Bob’s.” Mr. Tyranny to lush timbres and bubbly his keyboard touch is rounded and
breezy pop sounds, Mr. Tyranny infant child for adoption. bandmate to join him on tour. Mr. would contribute in different ways rhythms, will be included in “De- gorgeous, a feeling you remem-
was active in modern music as He was adopted 11 months later Tyranny accepted, performing to later Ashley operas, including grees of Freedom Found,” a six- ber.”
early as his teenage years. by Meyer and Dorothy Jean Sheff, with red LED lights woven into his “Dust” (1998) and “Celestial Ex- CD boxed set of unreleased Tyr-
From curating contemporary- who ran a clothing shop in down- hair. cursions” (2003). anny recordings due on Unseen
music concerts in high school, he town San Antonio, and renamed He also played in the bands of In his own music, much of Worlds in the spring. Mr. Tyranny, More obituaries appear on
went on to participate in the Robert Nathan Sheff. He began pi- jazz composers like Bill Dixon and which he recorded for the Lovely who lost his eyesight in 2009 and Page B12.
zella Murphy on December the Murphys' son, Christop- Brent Murphy, Joseph Mi- VINOGRADOV—Serge N. Brooklyn, New York, Gordon
was a graduate of New York berg, and Canada Lee and since you left us, too young
21, 2020. JoAnn, known as her. JoAnn attended St. Pius chael Murphy III, Brian Mur- Passed on November 24, 2020 and too suddenly. We still
TeeMa to her grandkids, was V High School in the Bronx, phy and Christina Murphy, from COVID-19 in St. Paul, University, School of Com- then went into the U.S. Army.
merce. Gordon was the Pres- When he was discharged he miss you.
a very kind, generous, loving where she later served as and two great-grandchildren, MN. Lifelong reader of The
LUKACHKO—Margo and intelligent woman who trustee, and is a graduate Avery Annunziata and Carter New York Times; son of Rus- ident and owner of Bayard
Ann (Jackson) and was cherished by her family Cum Laude of Marymount MacGillivray. She also is sur- sian refugees from 1917 Re- Advertising Agency, Inc.,
William Bela, and inspired everyone Manhattan College, where vived by her brother Frank volution; emigre to the U.S. headquartered in New York
Verona, NJ due to Covid-19. around her. She was a devout she majored in art history. Mazzella and wife Mary, from Beirut. Tenured profes- City, established in 1923 by
Bill, born Izmir, Turkey 1929. member of Immaculate She was Vice Chair of Coun- nieces Antonia Polcini, Cara sor of Biochemistry at Murray Waldorf. Gordon was
Dedicated psychiatrist, avid Heart of Mary Church in try Bank, President and Gadero, Janice Mazzella Sta- Wayne State University for loved by many and will be
puzzler, table tennis champ. Scarsdale. A dedicated mem- broker-owner of Ellinghouse race and husband Gary, nep- over 50 years; a consistent sorely missed. Funeral servi-
Margo, born Pleasantville, NJ ber of the Iona family for & Stacy, and owned an an- hews Dennis Capponi and supporter of women in ces: Sunday, December 27th
1938. Psychiatric social work- over 20 years, JoAnn Mazzel- tiques gallery in Scarsdale, wife Laura, John Mazzella academics. Co-author on his at 12 Noon at Sinai Chapels,
Smaller foundations are The life coach Tony Robbins Petr Cech retired as a
leveraging their energy and was accused in a lawsuit of goalkeeper, but he’s still
resources to make an outsize discriminating against an saving Chelsea — in a new,
impact on climate issues. employee who had Covid-19. front-office role.
Quack Ads
Circulating
Like the Flu
By TIFFANY HSU
With a pandemic raging, a spate of
ads promised dubious remedies in
the form of lozenges, tonics, un-
guents, blood-builders and an
antiseptic shield to be used while
kissing.
That was in 1918, during the in-
fluenza outbreak that eventually
claimed an estimated 50 million
lives, including 675,000 in the
United States.
More than a century later, not
much has changed. Ads promot-
ing unproven miracle cures — in-
cluding intravenous drips, ozone
therapy and immunity-boosting
music — have targeted people try-
ing to avoid the coronavirus pan-
demic.
“History is repeating itself,”
said Roi Mandel, the head of re-
search at the ancestry website
MyHeritage, which recently un-
earthed and compared pandemic
ads published generations apart.
“So many things are exactly the
same, even 102 years later, even
after science has made such huge
progress.”
This year, a company with a Cal-
ifornia address peddled products
containing kratom, an herbal ex-
tract that has drawn concern from
regulators and health experts,
with the promise that it might
“keep the coronavirus at bay.” The
Food and Drug Administration
sent the company a warning in
May.
The claims are an echo from
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Bollywood
Starts Shift
To Streaming
By PRIYA ARORA
and KARAN DEEP SINGH
“Coolie No. 1” has all the hall-
marks of a big Bollywood film:
colorful costumes, larger-than-life
sets, foot-tapping music and a
melodramatic story about a man
who pretends he has a twin to woo
the woman of his dreams.
After shooting wrapped in Feb-
ruary, the film was set for a May
theatrical release. But when
“Coolie No. 1” finally reached
screens on Christmas Day, it did
not show up in one of India’s 3,000
theaters. Instead, debuted on Am-
azon’s streaming service.
“I make films for the theater,
but this time there was no way we
could do that,” said David
Dhawan, the director. After the co-
CAYCE CLIFFORD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ronavirus pandemic barreled in
Squaw Valley Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe has limited ticket sales to 50 percent of the norm and is “operating at lower profit margins,” its president said. and shut down movie theaters, the
wait for a theatrical debut became
excruciating, he said.
So a deal to send the film to Am-
azon after its release shifted to a
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VIRUS FALLOUT
$2B said the mind-set was “to just maintain sta- “We survived Hurricane Irene. Our sales
tus quo and survive.” He declined to provide took a real dive after 9/11. We’ve made it
any financials, but said, “if we break even, through the Great Recession,” Mr. Rose
Losses for the ski industry this said. But “this pandemic is by far the worst.”
that’s almost considered a success.”
spring when the pandemic There are some bright spots. Backcoun-
Even before the pandemic, the ski indus-
started and led to shutdowns. try was laboring to build interest in the try skiing, or ski touring — which often in-
sport. The number of skiers has stagnated volves climbing secluded, snowy mountain
in the past decade, according to the Na- ranges — is booming. Backcountry equip-
tional Ski Areas Association. Adrienne ment sales jumped 76 percent from August
Isaac, a spokeswoman for the trade group, through October compared with the same
said resorts have tried to make skiing and time a year ago, according to the NPD
snowboarding more accessible for newcom- Group.
ers, but have grappled with perceptions “The Covid environment that favors out-
that they primarily cater to the rich and door, socially distant recreation activities,
white. Climate change also continues to af- coupled with the restrictions in place at ski
fect snowfall, she said, which can lead to resorts, has accelerated the interest in
shorter seasons. backcountry skiing this season,” said Eric
How the ski resorts do this winter will Henderson, a spokesman for Snowsports
have a domino effect on tax revenues for Industries America, a trade group.
state economies. In New Mexico, the trun- Those who have made the trips to the re-
cated ski season last winter and this spring sorts said they were glad they made the ef-
generated $41 million in taxes, but George fort. At Squaw Valley recently, Ms. Notting-
Brooks, the executive director of the state’s ham, 21, who was visiting with other stu-
ski association, said he expected no more dents from California State University, San
than 40 percent of that number in the com- Luis Obispo, said that even though the re-
ing months. sort was quiet, the experience “felt more
Vail Resorts, the world’s largest ski com- safe than going into a grocery store because
pany with 37 resorts around the globe, in- everyone’s all covered up anyway.”
cluding 34 in the United States, reported in Squaw Valley, which opened in 1949 and
an earnings call on Dec. 10 that it lost $153 hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics, has un-
million from August through October, wider dergone significant changes in recent
than the loss of $106.5 million in the same years. In 2010, it was bought by a private eq-
period a year ago. Rob Katz, chief executive uity group called KSL Capital Partners, and
of Vail Resorts, said that season pass sales merged with neighboring Alpine Meadows
were up about 20 percent, but he expected the following year. Combined, the two re-
fewer visitors and less revenue this winter sorts stretch for 6,000 acres, the most of any
than in previous seasons. in the Lake Tahoe area, and have 42 lifts and
For smaller resorts, the pain may not be more than 270 trails.
as severe. The Diamond Peak Ski Resort in In August, Squaw Valley said it would
Incline Village, Nev., said it came out about change its name by 2021, because “squaw”
$1 million ahead of projections after the is considered a racist and sexist term for
spring shutdown. Mike Bandelin, the re- Native American women.
sort’s general manager, said smaller resorts But nothing the resort has been through
often operate at a loss in the final weeks of has rivaled the chaos of the pandemic, Mr.
the season, so closing early actually saved Cohen said. While he declined to disclose
money. the financials for Squaw and Alpine, he de-
Many resorts said they still expected scribed the losses in the spring as “devas-
tating” and said the resorts were “operating
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of what happened in the room Post, is shown in the film. Amazon the story of the poisoning of Kim Fogel is still hoping that people
executive of the nonprofit Human changed. Jong-nam, half brother of the
where Mr. Khashoggi was suffo- did not respond to a request for will see the film.
Rights Foundation, who financed “This is unquestionably politi- North Korean leader Kim Jong-
cated and dismembered. He also comment. “I love Netflix and considered
the film and was a producer. cal,” said Stephen Galloway, dean un.
spent a significant amount of time Fox Searchlight, now owned by myself part of the Netflix family
Documentaries are not usually of Chapman University’s film The film’s director, Ryan White, after our wonderful experience
with Omar Abdulaziz, a young dis- Disney, did not bid. Neither did the
sident in exile in Montreal who independent distributor Neon, big box-office draws, so they have school. “It’s disappointing, but referred to the 2014 hack of Sony with ‘Icarus,’” he said. “Sadly,
had worked with Mr. Khashoggi to which was behind last year’s Os- traditionally found their audi- these are gigantic companies in a Pictures in an interview with Vari- they are not the same company as
combat the way the Saudi Arabian car-winning best picture, “Para- ences in other places. PBS has death race for survival.” ety, and chalked up the “bumpy a few years ago when they pas-
Fake Virus Cures Echo Quack Flu Ads From Century Ago Robbins Sued
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
1918, when an ad for Dr. Pierce’s
By Employee
Pleasant Pellets promised that
the pills — made from “May-ap-
Who Had Covid
ple, leaves of aloe, jalap” — offered The F.T.C. has sent By AZI PAYBARAH
protection “against the deadly at-
tack of the Spanish Influenza.”
warnings to peddlers and MICHAEL LEVENSON
Other flu-fighting products of dubious products. Tony Robbins, the life coach and
motivational speaker, discrimi-
from back then included Cin-u-
form lozenges, Calotab laxatives, nated against one of his employ-
Hudson’s Iron and Nux Tonic, ees by refusing to grant her the ac-
ital advertising has led to more commodations she needed to
Anti-kamnia tablets, Pepto-Man- space for ads on more platforms,
gan blood builders and treatments work from home after she con-
and the ability to switch them out tracted a debilitating case of
made with “syrup of hypophos- within seconds. But as print publi-
phites, cod liver oil extractives, Covid-19 in the spring, according
cations, broadcast television and to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
malt, iron, wine and wild cherry other traditional media outlets
bark.” The lawsuit also charges that
tightened their advertising proto- Mr. Robbins falsely claimed to
An ad for another remedy, Neuf- cols, online advertisers began re-
fer’s Lung Tonic, amplified the have helped the employee recover
lying on automated auctions by asking a doctor friend of his to
fear of the flu by noting that the rather than human gatekeepers
pandemic’s death toll was “more intervene in her care after she was
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS for placement. placed on a ventilator in a medi-
than double our total war casu- Readers who find the examples
alties.” Peruna, a widely popular LIBRARY OF CONGRESS cally induced coma.
of quack ads from 1918 laughably The suit, filed in federal court in
medicine that later became syn- quaint should know that many ex-
onymous with quackery, pro- Manhattan, accuses Mr. Robbins;
amples from 2020 are no less ab- his company, Robbins Research
moted itself by claiming that surd. They include marketing for
“nothing is any better” to help International; and his wife, Bon-
Musical Medicine, a compact disc nie P. Robbins, who is known as
“ward off Spanish influenza.” that plays “specifically formu- Sage, of violating several disabili-
“Human beings haven’t lated frequencies to assist in ty laws, including the Americans
changed all that much,” said Jason boosting your immune system With Disabilities Act, which re-
P. Chambers, an associate profes- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
and weakening the virus,” and the
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS quires reasonable accommoda-
sor of advertising at the Univer- Eco Air Doctor, a clip-on device tions for people with disabilities.
sity of Illinois. “We’d like to be- that emits chlorine dioxide gas. The employee, Despina Kosta,
lieve we’re smarter, that we’d be The makers of both products were worked for Mr. Robbins for 18
able to spot the lies, but the ability among the dozens of companies years — the first nine in Europe
of advertising to maintain its ve- that received warnings from the and the last nine in the U.S., where
neer of believability has only be- F.T.C. telling them to stop making she had a job in New York as a
come more sophisticated over unsubstantiated claims that they sales executive, or “personal re-
time.” can help treat or cure the corona- sults specialist.” She was one of
Everyday items were billed as virus. the highest-rated sales employees
health aids. Horlick’s promoted its As Americans begin receiving in the company, the lawsuit said.
malted milk product as “the diet coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer At the start of the pandemic, the
during and after influenza” that and Moderna, authorities are wor- lawsuit says, Mr. Robbins down-
was “endorsed by physicians ev- VIA MYHERITAGE ried that misleading ads might played the severity of the corona-
erywhere.” N.B. Long & Son urged complicate the rollout or fuel virus and pushed his team to con-
customers to “fight the flu with skepticism about the treatments. tinue selling in-person events.
good eats,” such as seeded raisins. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Facebook said it would block ads In April, Ms. Kosta, 52, devel-
Mottman Mercantile Company VIA MYHERITAGE
that promoted the sale of Covid-19 oped a high fever and was found to
said that “one of the best prevent- Ads touting unproven miracle cures have targeted people trying to avoid the coronavirus. “Human beings haven’t vaccines or expedited access. have Covid-19. She was placed in a
atives to keep away the ‘Flu’ is to changed all that much,” a marketing professor says of the similarities between ads from 1918, above, and today. Twitter and YouTube have banned medically induced coma from
provide yourself with good warm content featuring unproven April 12 through May 1, according
underwear.” Advertising regulations were in more than 66 percent of newspa- Manoj Hastak, a marketing pro- claims about the vaccines. to the suit and Ms. Kosta. After-
There were contraptions as their infancy in 1918. The Federal per revenue in 1920, up from 44 fessor at American University But algorithms meant to serve ward, Ms. Kosta struggled to re-
well, including a screen fastened Trade Commission, which polices percent in 1880. Over roughly the and a longtime adviser to the ads based on existing interests cover, finding it difficult to walk or
to a sterling silver handle like a unfair or deceptive marketing, same period, advertising revenue F.T.C. will continue to deliver problem- even to hold a cellphone, she said.
miniature tennis racket, which had been open for less than three surged to $850 million from $30 “I’m not sure there’s a clear atic content to people who are in- Ms. Kosta tried to return to
served as a shield between lovers’ years. Companies could still million, according to data cited in sense that this will get any better clined to believe it, said Michael work on July 1 and asked her su-
lips. An ad for the product told po- claim, with minimal evidence, the Journal of Historical Research when the next pandemic comes Stich, the chief executive of Cour- pervisor and a human resources
tential customers that they could that they were backed by science, in Marketing. along,” he said. “Companies are tAvenue, a digital growth agency. official if she could work “just a
“kiss your lady friend and you more than a decade after the jour- Since then, advertising has be- just selling the same old false- “There’s a lack of a public few hours” a day as she built back
needn’t worry about germs.” nalist Samuel Hopkins Adams come a global business worth hun- hoods in new packaging, and the broadcast system within the inter- her strength, she said in an inter-
There was also the Branston Vio- showed that popular medicines dreds of billions of dollars. But incidents are only increasing. The net,” he said. “My fear is that, be- view on Wednesday night. “They
let Ray Ozone Generator, which were often made primarily with regulators have struggled to keep regulations are getting better, but cause of how we take in informa- said no to that,” she said.
was sold on the promise that it alcohol and sometimes with up with deceptive advertisers, the process is still quite slow and tion now, the circles where we Since July, Ms. Kosta said, she
“keep your nasal passages, throat deadly toxins. which are often smaller compa- budgets are quite thin. It’s a bit of choose to spend our time don’t has been unable to get access to
and lungs in a perfectly antiseptic At the same time, advertising nies that make quick sales before a Whac-a-Mole problem.” have a common baseline of what is her work email or the company’s
condition.” was gaining traction, making up suddenly disappearing, said In recent years, a surge of dig- ‘true.’” database, where information
about the clients she served is
stored. Without that access, she
has been unable to work, she said.
Bollywood Starts to Debut Movies on Streaming Services Ms. Kosta said she had been earn-
ing about $250,000 annually.
J. Christopher Albanese, a law-
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE yer representing Ms. Kosta, said
direct streaming plan. that the company had not termi-
“It’s a compromise, definitely,” nated her but that the lockout had
said Mr. Dhawan, whose movie is left her unable to perform her job.
a remake of a 1995 blockbuster of Jennifer Connelly, a spokes-
the same name that he also di- woman for Mr. Robbins, said the
rected. “But at least my film is re- claims in the lawsuit were “ridicu-
leasing.” lous and baseless.”
“Coolie No. 1” is just one of the She said that Ms. Kosta “re-
movies from Bollywood — the mains a current employee” and
shorthand for India’s nearly $2.5 that the company had “provided
all needed accommodations” and
billion Hindi-language film indus-
“continues to pay the complete
try — that has shifted toward
cost of her medical insurance,
streaming in a year upended by
even though its legal obligation to
the pandemic. In all, 28 big-star- do so ended in June.”
led Bollywood features that were Ms. Kosta also said that re-
headed to theaters went straight marks made by Mr. Robbins on a
to streaming instead, compared podcast had caused her distress.
with none last year, according to In the podcast, recorded in May,
the research firm Forrester. Mr. Robbins described a female
Among them were “Gulabo employee who had a cough and a
Sitabo,” a dark comedy starring 102-degree fever and “got very
Amitabh Bachchan, and “Shakun- scared.”
tala Devi,” a biopic of the Indian “And so she went to the hospital,
mathematician, both of which be- and then out of fear, she felt short
gan streaming on Amazon in July. of breath, kind of hyperventilating
Another, “Laxmmi,” a comedy- a little bit, so they immediately put
drama featuring Akshay Kumar, her on a ventilator,” he said.
was released in November on the Mr. Robbins said that after he
Disney-owned streaming service had found out that the employee
Hotstar. had been placed in a coma, he
The shift echoes that of Holly- called a doctor friend who knew
wood, where the pandemic has people at the hospital. He said that
caused studios to push back the- he had asked his friend to call the
atrical releases for many movies hospital and that the friend had
and, in some cases, toward eventually gotten through to the
streaming as part of a first run. In night physician, who reduced the
September, Disney debuted “Mu- pressure on the ventilator.
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
lan” on Disney+. Last month, “As a result, four or five days
“Coolie No. 1,” with Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan, is one of 28 major Bollywood films to go straight to streaming this year, up from zero last year. later, she opened her eyes,” Mr.
Warner Bros. said it would release
Robbins said, asserting that the
“Wonder Woman 1984” on HBO
lion to create content for Indian global content. nearly 30 percent of its employ- than half of its Indian films and se- episode showed that ventilators,
Max and in theaters simulta-
audiences, nearly $100 million Bypassing theaters is a huge ees. “It’s like having a restaurant ries have women as central char- at least with too much pressure,
neously on Christmas Day. The seemed to be “doing damage.”
studio later announced that it more than in 2019, according to departure for Bollywood. India’s with no food.” acters.
Forrester. The shutdowns have also forced “That sort of lowest common In July, Ms. Kosta said she had
would send all 17 of its 2021 movies film industry has long relied al-
some single-screen theaters to denominator or one-size-fits-all been contacted directly by a client
to streaming and theaters at the Netflix said it had invested most exclusively on theatrical re-
close permanently, which may content strategy is now slowly in Poland who said he had listened
same time. about $400 million to license and leases for revenue. But when the to Mr. Robbins’s podcast and un-
The number of Bollywood mov- create more than 50 films and pandemic sent movie theaters mean less access to cinema expe- fading out,” said Vikram Malho-
riences for much of India’s work- tra, the producer of “Shakuntala derstood that Mr. Robbins had
ies headed to streaming is just a shows in India over the past two into lockdown, revenues fell as been describing Ms. Kosta.
small fraction of what the industry years. Of those, 34 were original much as 75 percent, according to ing class and rural populations. Devi.” “People are demanding
more nuanced, more intellectu- Ms. Kosta listened to the pod-
makes. Last year, Bollywood Hindi-language films. estimates by analysts at KPMG. All of this is making it easier for
streaming services to land new ally relevant content. These cast and said on Wednesday night
produced more than 1,800 films, or “The current environment gave Even as the government re- that Mr. Robbins’s claims of hav-
us some opportunities to add to movies, even with some theaters stories need to mean something
an average of 35 a week, and do- ing intervened in her treatment
reopened. There is “an opportuni- now.”
mestic theatrical releases gener- our film slate, including some were entirely false.
ty to get recent theatrical releases Mr. Dhawan, the director of
ated more than $1.5 billion in reve- films which our members would
have otherwise enjoyed on the
Investment in content within four to eight weeks of their “Coolie No. 1,” said there was still
nue, according to a report by appetite for big, colorful, melodra-
Ernst & Young. service after a theatrical release,” has resulted in more release, depending on language,
to a large set of customers,” said matic love stories on streaming.
But the pandemic-spurred shift Netflix said in a statement. It add-
toward streaming is unmistak- ed that it “was already a big be- varied subject matter. Vijay Subramaniam, the director “Every time, I think I’ll make a
and head of content for Amazon different kind of film,” he said.
able, Bollywood producers, film- liever in original films for the Prime Video India. “But the people don’t let me
makers and experts said. service, and we’re investing in it.” opened theaters in October, PVR The investments by streaming change. They come back to this
Netflix, Amazon and Hotstar Disney+ also started in India Cinemas, the country’s largest services in Bollywood content great atmosphere, they laugh,
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have all been investing in India, during the lockdown in April, multiplex chain, reported a net have also led to a surge of creativ- they enjoy the sounds, they
one of the fastest-growing inter- merging with Hotstar, one of In- loss of 184 crore rupees, or about ity. Instead of the usual romantic dance.” COMMERCIAL &
net markets in the world. The dia’s largest platforms. (Disney $25 million, for the quarter that or action-hero films with all-star And Sara Ali Khan, who plays
companies, which combined have bought Hotstar in March 2019 as
INDUSTRIAL
ended in September, because of casts, more shows and movies are the romantic interest, said she
tens of millions of paying Indian part of its $71 billion deal to ac- the lack of new movies. now centered on women, war and was just as exhilarated for “Coolie
PROPERTIES
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subscribers, have poured billions quire 21st Century Fox, which “Our revenues are abysmal be- other topics, analysts said. More No. 1” to debut on streaming as in
of rupees into producing edgy, In- owned Star India, then Hotstar’s Brooklyn 321
cause we’re still an incomplete of- than half of the Netflix films re- theaters.
dia-specific original content in a parent company.) The combina- fering,” said Ajay Bijli, the chair- leased in India this year were “The excitement and nervous- Huge Roller Skating Rink For Sale
Thomas Panek, who is legally blind, last month tested technology that allowed him to run a 5K in Central Park without a dog or another person to guide him. The line was painted for the experiment.
R AC I A L J U S T I C E
PRO FOOTBALL
The Dolphins’ Xavien Howard, right, leads the N.F.L. with nine Matthew Stafford will probably throw for 250 to 300 yards C.J. Beathard, who is 1-9 as a starting quarterback, gets the nod
picks. The Raiders would be well advised to avoid him entirely. against the Buccaneers. And the Lions will probably lose. for the 49ers, which could bolster the Cardinals’ playoff hopes.
Our Picks Against the Spread for the N.F.L.’s Holiday Saturday Schedule
By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN produced a takeaway in 10 of Mi- TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS AT DETROIT and Stafford’s ribs are still ex- events will be acceptable to the nia. That’s the most interesting
MIAMI DOLPHINS AT LAS VEGAS ami’s 14 games. LIONS, 1 p.m. Eastern, NFL Network tremely sore, but the team’s inter- Buccaneers. Covering the spread subplot of a game between San
RAIDERS, 8:15 p.m. Eastern, NFL If the Raiders (7-7) want to win this Line: Buccaneers -9.5 | Total: 54 im coach, Darrell Bevell, said there will be harder, though, with run- Francisco’s injury-riddled team
game, they should give Howard the were no plans to shut him down: ning back Ronald Jones out after a and the Cardinals (8-6), an up-and-
Network When Matthew Stafford inevitably
“To be honest with you, I don’t positive test for the coronavirus. coming squad that can clinch its
old Darrelle Revis “island” treat- makes a run at Drew Brees’s
Line: Dolphins -3 | Total: 47.5 think he’ll let that happen.” PICK: Lions +9.5 first playoff berth since 2015 by
ment. But it shouldn’t matter much record for career passing yards,
At this point it is ridiculous that if Derek Carr (injured groin) or stretches like the final three weeks So what should people expect from winning Saturday and having
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AT ARIZONA
opposing quarterbacks are chal- Marcus Mariota starts at quarter- of this season will be a big reason. this game? Between hard hits from Chicago lose to or tie Jacksonville.
CARDINALS, 4:30 p.m. Eastern, Prime
lenging Xavien Howard of the Stafford sustained a rib injury in the fierce pass rush of the Bucca- With Nick Mullens requiring elbow
back for Las Vegas, as the Dol- Video
Dolphins (9-5). He is the top-rated Week 14; it was serious enough neers (9-5), Stafford will probably surgery, San Francisco will start
phins are a better team and have
coverage cornerback, according to that he struggled to walk. He throw for 250 to 300 yards and the Line: Cardinals -5 | Total: 49 C.J. Beathard at quarterback.
more motivation to win thanks to
Pro Football Focus, but teams have surprised everyone by starting in Lions (5-9) will lose anyway. Be- Both teams should feel at home Quarterback record is an overrated
their dogfight with Baltimore for
thrown in his direction often Week 15, and threw for 252 yards cause a win or a tie will put Tampa since the 49ers (5-9) have relo- statistic, but Beathard has lived up
the A.F.C.’s last wild-card spot.
enough that he is leading the N.F.L. in a loss to Tennessee. Detroit is Bay in the playoffs for the first cated to Arizona as a result of to his last name with a career mark
PICK: Dolphins -3
with nine interceptions and has eliminated from playoff contention, time since 2007, that series of coronavirus regulations in Califor- of 1-9. PICK: Cardinals -5
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Duke Women’s Team Cuts Its Season Short Over Safety Concerns in the Pandemic
By GILLIAN R. BRASSIL Durham, N.C., said in the an- game against the University of League canceled its winter sports basketball tournament is ex- Maine−Sales 2361
The women’s basketball pro- nouncement. Miami because of contact tracing and delayed its spring seasons in pected to tip off in March in one re- Maine Coast- Deer Isle- 2 houses, stu-
dio, Post & Beam barn, distant harbor
gram at Duke University will end All other Duke sports were ex- concerns. It was scheduled to play November. And a New York Times gion to limit travel and hopefully views, 3-acres, walk to village. $225,000.
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its season early, the team an- pected to continue as usual, fol- Louisville next week. analysis published in early De- mitigate the virus’ spread, with www.downeastproperties.com
lowing recommend safety proto- Kara Lawson, Duke’s first-year cember showed that at least 6,600 the N.C.A.A. eyeing San Antonio
nounced Friday, because of
cols, he added. head coach, had said after a game college athletes, coaches and and the surrounding area. The
mounting coronavirus concerns.
The women’s team, which had a against Louisville this month that other personnel had tested pos- men’s Division I tournament is
It’s the first Power Five basketball
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3-1 record, had initially suspended she did not think the team should itive for the coronavirus. also expected to be held in one re-
team to start and stop its season be playing during the pandemic. Duke’s announcement comes gion this spring, with the N.C.A.A.
operations on Dec. 16 after two
because of the pandemic. members of its traveling party “That’s my opinion on it,” she said. as coronavirus cases climb announcing in November that it
“The student-athletes on the tested positive for the virus, re- Other conferences and sports throughout the United States; in was talking with officials in Indi-
Duke women’s basketball team quiring contact tracing. The Blue have postponed games or sus- North Carolina, there has been a anapolis.
have made the difficult decision to Devils consequently postponed pended seasons during the pan- steady daily average of over 5,500 The 2020 men’s and women’s
conclude their current season due games against North Carolina demic. College football completed new cases per day for the past few tournaments were among the first
to safety concerns,” Michael State and the University of North the regular season despite several weeks, according to a New York major sporting events in the
S C O R E B OA R D SOCCER
FOOTBALL
N.F.L. STANDINGS
Cech Is in His Comfort Zone: In the Middle of Everything
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PA
LONDON — Petr Cech does
yx-Buffalo . . . . 11 3 0 .786 407 340 not watch a lot of television.
Miami . . . . . . . . 9 5 0 .643 352 257 Switching his brain off, by his
N. England . . . . 6 8 0 .429 289 301
Jets . . . . . . . . . 1 13 0 .071 206 413 own admission, does not come
South W L T Pct PF PA easily to him. He has always
Indianapolis . . . 10 4 0 .714 399 320
Tennessee . . . 10 4 0 .714 436 361 preferred, he said,
Houston . . . . . . 4 10
Jacksonville . . . . 1 13
0
0
.286
.071
315
275
386
423
RORY to fill every minute
of his day, not just
North W L
x-Pittsburgh . . . 11 3
T
0
Pct
.786
PF
366
PA
264 SMITH with work and
Cleveland . . . . 10 4 0 .714 368 374
Baltimore . . . . . 9 5 0 .643 403 287 family but with a
ON
Cincinnati . . . . . 3 10 1 .250 271 355
SOCCER moderately intimi-
West W L T Pct PF PA dating litany of
yx-Kansas City . 13 1 0 .929 435 310
Las Vegas. . . . . 7 7 0 .500 377 421 pastimes and projects. Settling
Denver . . . . . . . 5 9
L.A. Chargers. . . 5 9
0
0
.357
.357
276
327
395
389
down on the sofa counts, to his
mind, as time wasted.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
This year, though, Cech and
East W L T Pct PF PA
Washington . ...6 8 0 .429 302 295 his wife, Martina, have started
Dallas. . . . . ...5 9 0 .357 339 433 getting into “The Crown.” Even
Giants . . . . ...5 9 0 .357 244 311
Phila. . . . . ....4 9 1 .321 303 361 then, though, he is not the sort to
South W L T Pct PF PA allow himself to be washed away
x-New Orleans . 10 4 0 .714 397 297 by the lavish Netflix melodrama.
Tampa Bay . . . . 9 5 0 .643 401 321
Atlanta . . . . . . . 4 10 0 .286 355 353 Each episode — he is some-
Carolina . . . . . . 4 10 0 .286 323 356
where in the middle of the sec-
North W L T Pct PF PA
yx-Green Bay. . 11 3 0 .786 434 339 ond season — prompts him to go
Chicago . . . . . . 7 7
Minnesota . . . . . 6 8
0 .500 315 318
0 .429 360 388
away and fill in the gaps in both
Detroit . . . . . . . 5 9 0 .357 335 435 his knowledge and the series’
West W L T Pct PF PA contested historical authenticity.
x-Seattle . . . . . 10 4 0 .714 413 339
L.A. Rams . . . . . 9 5 0 .643 345 269 “Obviously it’s not completely
Arizona . . . . . . . 8 6 0 .571 391 329 accurate,” he said. “But there are
San Fran. . . . . . 5 9 0 .357 333 352
x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division lots of interesting things. You
Friday, Dec. 25 start Googling those parts of
Minnesota at New Orleans
Saturday, Dec. 26 British history, and you realize
Tampa Bay at Detroit, 1 there are lots of things you didn’t
San Francisco at Arizona, 4:30
Miami at Las Vegas, 8:15 know.” That, just about, encapsu-
Sunday, Dec. 27
Atlanta at Kansas City, 1 lates Cech: He is inclined to see
Chicago at Jacksonville, 1 an hour or two of fairly mindless
Cincinnati at Houston, 1
Cleveland at Jets, 1 television in his rare downtime
Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 1
Giants at Baltimore, 1
not as a chance to relax, but as a
Carolina at Washington, 4:05 learning opportunity.
Denver at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 That Cech has time to disap-
L.A. Rams at Seattle, 4:25
Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:25 pear down a rabbit hole about JOHN SIBLEY/ACTION IMAGES, VIA REUTERS
Tennessee at Green Bay, 8:20
Monday, Dec. 28 the Suez crisis — or anything Petr Cech spent the bulk of his career as a goalkeeper at
Buffalo at New England, 8:15 else — is faintly remarkable.
Spooling through all of the
Chelsea, right, but finished in 2019 at its London rival Arsenal.
BASKETBALL things he does, it is hard not to He said his new role as technical director at Chelsea calls on
assume he is handcuffed by every bit of what he learned in the game.
N.B.A. STANDINGS having a mere 24 hours in his
EASTERN CONFERENCE day. He is studying for an M.B.A.
Atlantic W L Pct GB He plays the drums well enough
Philadelphia ... . 1 0 1.000 —
Boston. . . . .... 1 0 1.000 — that last year he released a gets injured, you would take Cech, at Chelsea — both ap-
Nets . . . . . .... 1 0 1.000 — charity single with Roger Taylor someone from the academy, but pointed last year, both with vast
Knicks . . . . .... 0 1 .000 1
Toronto . . . .... 0 1 .000 1 of Queen. because we had to be in bubbles, experience as top players — are
Southeast W L Pct GB He is fluent in five languages that was not possible. exceptions.
Orlando . . . . . . . 1 0 1.000 —
Atlanta. . . . . . . . 1 0 1.000 — — his native Czech, English, “At one point, we were short a For Cech, the appeal of the job
Miami . . . . . . . . 1 1 .500 { German, Spanish and French — goalkeeper, so the solution was lies in how different it is from
Washington. . . . . 0 1 .000 1
Charlotte . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 but speaks seven. He admits, as either I stepped in, or a goal- playing. He had thought in great
Central W L Pct GB if confessing to some great flaw, keeping coach did. I was fit, so I depth about what he would do
Indiana . . . . . . . 1
Cleveland . . . . . . 1
0 1.000 —
0 1.000 —
that he cannot write quite as said OK.” It was intended as a after he retired. He had, he said,
Milwaukee . . . . . 1 1 .500 { well as he might like in Italian precaution, a form of emergency realized after fracturing his skull
Detroit . . . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 in 2006 that “it took only a split
Chicago . . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 and Portuguese. He has started cover, but Cech was still more
WESTERN CONFERENCE running, too; every so often he than good enough to be a viable second for everything to be KERIM OKTEN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Southwest W L Pct GB will knock out a quick 10K on a option. He was briefly registered finished.” He knew he had to be
San Antonio . . . . 1 0 1.000 — weekend morning. prepared. suited to his new role. His play- circling, and Frank Lampard, the
New Orleans . . . . 1 1 .500 { on Chelsea’s squad list for the
Houston . . . . . . . 0 0 .000 { All of this, he said, means that He studied for his coaching ing career, as it turned out, was Chelsea manager, and the club’s
Champions League this season. not entirely irrelevant. As a
Dallas . . . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 his “time management has to be licenses while still playing — on recruitment department, led by
Memphis . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 His primary focus, though, player, he was always involved Scott McLachlan, were eager to
W L Pct GB right.” These are extracurricular international duty with the Czech
Northwest what all of his other interests Republic, he said, “there was with the various liaison commit-
Utah . . . . . . . . . 1 0 1.000 — activities, after all. He also has a find an edge in the chase.
Minnesota. . . . . . 1 0 1.000 —
job to think about. Strictly must swirl around, is his new always time” — but it occurred to tees that express the squad’s
Oklahoma City. . . 0 0 .000 { Over lunch at the club’s train-
Denver. . . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 speaking, in fact, he has two. role. Cech is — by English soc- him that coaches, essentially, live feelings to the club’s representa- ing facility one day, Cech pointed
Portland . . . . . . . 0 1 .000 1
Cech retired as a player in cer’s standards — something of a the same life as a player: “You tives. He feels, still, that he
Pacific W L Pct GB out that he spoke German. What
L.A. Clippers . . . . 1 0 1.000 — 2019 — after a decorated career spend time training, traveling, at knows instinctively how players if he called Werner directly?
Phoenix . . . . . . . 1
Sacramento . . . . 1
0 1.000 —
0 1.000 — spent at Rennes, Chelsea and, in games, in hotels. The routine is would react to certain sugges- Those involved with the deal
L.A. Lakers . . . . . 0 1 .000 1 his twilight, Arsenal. He made the same.” tions. point to it as the decisive mo-
Golden State . . . 0
Thursday, Dec. 24
2 .000 1{
the decision before it was made During the pandemic, A front office role, by contrast, The luster his playing career ment.
for him; within a few months, he “allows me to be close to the carries can be an advantage, too.
prepared to return to
No games scheduled.
Friday, Dec. 25 But there is something
Miami 111, New Orleans 98 found that his “mind started to game, but to organize things in a At one point this summer, he flew broader, too, that has smoothed
Milwaukee 138, Golden State 99
Nets at Boston
Dallas at L.A. Lakers
clear, that I had a new motiva-
tion, a new happiness.”
goal for Chelsea. different way.” The challenge
was that soccer the game and
to Germany to meet with Kai
Havertz, the playmaker Chelsea
Cech’s transition. The position of
L.A. Clippers at Denver technical director varies from
He went back to the gym, soccer the industry are distinct would eventually sign for $81
Saturday, Dec. 26 club to club and country to coun-
Atlanta at Memphis, 5 reveling in the fact that his body entities; a life in one does not million.
Cleveland at Detroit, 7 try. In Chelsea’s case, Cech is
Oklahoma City at Charlotte, 7 — without “a big ball being fired rarity. In certain parts of conti- wholly prepare you for a life in Cech impressed Havertz’s
there to tie together the various
Orlando at Washington, 7 at me at 60 miles an hour” hun- nental Europe, and especially the other. Cech was, effectively, family not only with the depth of
Philadelphia at Knicks, 7:30
his analysis but his human strands of the club’s sporting
Indiana at Chicago, 8 dreds of times every day — was Germany, it is not unusual for “starting from zero.”
Toronto at San Antonio, 8:30 touch: He spent as much time vision, the linchpin between the
recovering from the wear and high-profile players to eschew To some extent, what he has
Minnesota at Utah, 9
Houston at Portland, 10 tear it had endured. As far as he seen since has been eye-opening. discussing raising children in first team, the academy and the
Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 coaching and move into front- recruitment department. The
was concerned, his life as a Cech chose his agents at the age London and his own memories of
Sunday, Dec. 27 office roles immediately after business side is handled by Ma-
Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 player was over. He had plenty of 17; they still represent him moving to England as a young
Nets at Charlotte, 7 retirement: Marc Overmars and rina Granovskaia, Chelsea’s
Orlando at Washington, 7 of job offers. The one that ap- now. He always made a point of player as he did the 21-year-old
Edwin van der Sar at Ajax; director and its de facto chief
San Antonio at New Orleans, 7 pealed the most was a post as knowing not only exactly what Havertz’s role on the team. His
Milwaukee at Knicks, 7:30 Leonardo at Paris St.-Germain; mere presence, though, helped executive.
Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7:30 technical director at Chelsea. they were doing, but how they
Boston at Indiana, 8
He had been doing that for almost the entire off-field hierar- were doing it. He can see now, of persuade Havertz: He was im- It is, in other words, the sort of
Golden State at Chicago, 8 chy at Bayern Munich.
Phoenix at Sacramento, 9 almost a year when the pan- course, that not every player is pressed that the player he had job that requires someone used
Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 10
demic struck. Suddenly, he found England is only now catching quite so thorough, and not every seen winning the Champions to balancing a whole host of
Monday, Dec. 28
Detroit at Atlanta, 7:30 himself dragged back to a life he up. For the most part, where agent quite so transparent. “Lots League in 2012 would come to different demands and needs and
Memphis at Nets, 7:30 Premier League clubs employ a
Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 thought he had left behind. “We of players leave things with the see him in person. priorities. Someone given to
Houston at Denver, 9 were lucky to be able to finish technical director, it is seen as a agent and carry on,” he said. His other skills have proved thinking in four dimensions to
Portland at L.A. Lakers, 10
the season,” he said. “But no- position for a recruitment spe- “There are parts of football on useful, too. Earlier this year, make sure their many and varied
body knew how many players cialist, someone who can navi- this side that are very surprising, Chelsea was trying to figure out commitments can all be met.
SOCCER would get the virus, and we had gate the choppy, unpredictable in a negative way.” how to make headway with the Someone, like Cech, who does
really strict numbers and re- waters of soccer’s transfer mar- For all that surprise, the early signing of the German forward not, as he put it, “like to waste
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE strictions. Normally, if a player ket. Edu Gaspar, at Arsenal, and results suggest Cech is well Timo Werner. Liverpool was time.”
Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
Liverpool . . . . . 14 9 4 1 36 19 31
Leicester. . . . . 14 9 0 5 26 17 27
Man United . . . 13 8 2 3 28 21 26
Everton. . . . . . 14 8 2 4 25 19 26
Chelsea . . . . . 14 7 4 3 29 14 25
Tottenham. . . . 14 7 4 3 25
Southampton . . 14 7 3 4 25
Man City . . . . . 13 6 5 2 19
14
19
12
25
24
23
Christmas in the N.B.A.
Aston Villa. . . . 12 7 1 4 24 13 22
West Ham . . . . 14 6 3 5 21 19 21
Wolverhampton 14 6 2 6 14 19 20
Newcastle . . . . 13 5 3 5 17 22 18
Crystal Palace . 14 5 3 6 19 25 18
Leeds. . . . . . . 14 5 2 7 24 30 17
Arsenal . . . . . . 14 4 2 8 12 18 14
Burnley . . . . . . 13 3 4 6 8 19 13
Brighton . . . . . 14 2 6 6 16 22 12
Fulham . . . . . . 14 2 4 8 13 23 10
West Brom . . . 14 1 4 9 10 29 7
Sheffield United 14 0 2 12 8 25 2
Saturday, Dec. 26
Leicester vs. Man United
Aston Villa vs. Crystal Palace
Fulham vs. Southampton
Arsenal vs. Chelsea
Man City vs. Newcastle
Sheffield United vs. Everton
Sunday, Dec. 27
Leeds vs. Burnley
West Ham vs. Brighton
Liverpool vs. West Brom
Wolverhampton vs. Tottenham
Monday, Dec. 28
Crystal Palace vs. Leicester
Chelsea vs. Aston Villa
Everton vs. Man City
Tuesday, Dec. 29
Brighton vs. Arsenal
Burnley vs. Sheffield United
Southampton vs. West Ham
West Brom vs. Leeds
Man United vs. Wolverhampton
Wednesday, Dec. 30
Tottenham vs. Fulham
Newcastle vs. Liverpool
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
BOWL SCHEDULE
All Times EST
THURSDAY, DEC. 24
New Mexico Bowl
Frisco, Texas
Hawaii 28, Houston 14
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Camellia Bowl
Montgomery, Ala.
Buffalo 17, Marshall 10
N.F.L. The Nets’ DeAndre Jordan, left, dunking on Friday in the Nets’ 123-95 victory over the Boston Celtics. Duncan Robinson of the Miami Heat, right,
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From left, Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts, Chicago Sky Coach James Wade, Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin and Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra are among the few coaches of color in professional sports.
Picture the North American major sports leagues in the 1990s: The splashy declarations co-opting the causes of their athletes, namely Players of color Head coaches of color
players were mostly people of color, but the coaches, managers and pledging to combat systemic racial injustices in the United States. N.F.L. W.N.B.A. N.B.A.
team owners were almost all white. A snapshot today looks mostly the The data used in this analysis, which comes from five leagues, is self- 2020 2019 2020
same. reported by teams and league offices. The information is voluntary, 74% 83% 83%
Despite a handful of initiatives meant to increase diversity in the based on how individuals identify themselves, and in some instances 13% 25% 30%
leadership of sports organizations, coaching and management roles does not account for people who may identify with two or more races. As
M.L.B. M.L.S.
have mostly gone to white candidates in the past 30 years, according to a result, some of the data is incomplete and may be imprecise. The per- 2020 2020
a New York Times analysis of data from The Institute for Diversity and centages used in this analysis have been adjusted to account for a small
40% 60%
Ethics in Sports. number of people who did not respond to the surveys in each league.
20% 41%
The data calls into question whether the policies work effectively. It The analysis includes data from the N.F.L., the W.N.B.A., Major
also shows a gap between what sports organizations say publicly about League Soccer, the N.B.A. and Major League Baseball. The N.H.L. is not Note: Managers are shown instead of head coaches for M.L.B.
The most recent available data is used for each league. The data
race and how they operate internally. Even as organizations have included because it only recently started working with the institute, is self-reported and may not include all league members.
shown little progress in diversifying their leaders, many have made based at the University of Central Florida. Source: Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport THE NEW YORK TIMES
IN 1921, the year after the Na- Percentage of each employee group by race White Black Latino Asian Other newer franchise than Washington
tional Football League was or Atlanta — do the same with Ro-
100% 1995 2000 Rooney Rule 2010 2015 2020
formed under a different name, meo Crennel, that total will be
Jim Thorpe and Frederick Doug- Players nine.
lass “Fritz” Pollard became its The N.F.L. updated its rules this
first coaches of color, said Joe Hor- year to apply its interview stand-
Assistant
rigan, former executive director Coaches ards to more front-office positions
of professional football’s hall of and to require teams to interview
fame. Pollard was the only Black Head Jason at least two nonwhite external
head coach in the N.F.L. until 1989, Coaches Wright candidates, up from one, for head
when Art Shell took over the Los First Black coaching vacancies. It also re-
Angeles Raiders. General team quired at least one nonwhite can-
president,
Tony Dungy and Herm Ed- Managers
2020 didate to be interviewed for co-
wards were the only Black head ordinator positions and senior
coaches in the 32-team league in C.E.O.s football operations roles, to boost
2002, when a study found that diversity beyond the playing field.
Black coaches were less likely to Gap in reporting “We’re focusing on getting
be hired and more likely to be fired THE NEW YORK TIMES more Black candidates in coach-
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than their white counterparts, ing — especially for quarterbacks
even when they won a higher per- and coaches on the offensive side
Tony Dungy in 2002, when he centage of games (Dungy himself of the ball, since those positions
was head coach of the Indian- was fired by the Tampa Bay Buc- But the rule does not require closed their race in the survey American head coaches have tend to have a higher chance of as-
apolis Colts. caneers after a playoff appear- teams to hire nonwhite candi- were people of color. been fired in the N.F.L., it has been cending to the head coach level,”
ance in the 2001 season and was dates once they conduct those in- Among the five leagues that more difficult for them, as com- said Samantha Rapoport, the
hired by the Indianapolis Colts terviews, and their coaches, man- submit data to The Institute for pared to white and Latino Ameri- N.F.L.’s senior director of diversi-
eight days later). agers and top executives have re- Diversity and Ethics in Sport, the can head coaches, to obtain an- ty and inclusion.
Under pressure from players mained mostly white. At any giv- N.F.L. had the biggest discrepan- other head coaching position at This August, 100 years after the
and advocates, the N.F.L. adopted en time, the league has had as cy between the percentage of the same level,” the study said. N.F.L.’s inception, Jason Wright
the Rooney Rule in 2003. The rule, many as eight nonwhite head head coaches and the percentage When that study was published, became the first Black team presi-
named for the late Pittsburgh coaches (a number it first reached of players who were nonwhite: a 12 of the N.F.L.’s franchises had dent when he was hired by the
Steelers owner Dan Rooney and in 2011) but that has since dipped, difference of 61 percentage points. only hired white head coaches Washington Football Team amid a
which has since been expanded, according to the data. A 2019 study by the Arizona since the N.F.L. merged with the broader overhaul within the orga-
required teams to interview at In 2020, the N.F.L. started the State University Global Sport Ed- American Football League in nization. Two N.F.L. team presi-
least one nonwhite candidate for season with four coaches who ucation and Research Lab showed 1970. Ron Rivera was hired by the dents are Asian, according to the
head coaching positions. Busi- identified as nonwhite (three as that Black coaches were hired at Washington Football Team on data: Paraag Marathe of the San
nesses within sports and beyond Black, one as Latino), meaning older ages, had much more play- Dec. 31, 2019, dropping that total Francisco 49ers and Kim Pegula
have looked to the rule as an ex- that 13 percent of head coaches ing experience and did not get sec- to 11. If the Atlanta Falcons hire in- of the Buffalo Bills. The Jets’
ample as they developed their were people of color. Almost 74 ond chances at the same rate as terim head coach Raheem Morris Hymie Elhai identified as His-
own hiring practices. percent of the players who dis- white coaches. “When African and the Houston Texans — a much panic. The rest are white.
THE W.N.B.A. HAD almost as large a Percentage of each employee group by race White Black Latino Asian Other or general manager since 1998,
disparity between the percentage the league’s second season.
of players and head coaches who 100% 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019
An assistant coach hired in 1998
were nonwhite as the N.F.L in Players identified as Asian; another as-
2019, the most recent year for sistant coach in 2019 identified as
which data was available. Three “other.” (“Other” includes individ-
out of 12 head coaches were peo- Assistant
Coaches Swoopes
uals who identified as Native
ple of color compared with 119 out American, Pacific Islander, Native
of 144 players, a difference of 58 First signed
Head player, 1996 Hawaiian or Alaskan and, in later
percentage points. All three Coaches years, biracial, depending on the
coaches of color were Black. league.)
Compared with the racial make- General The Dallas Wings hired Vickie
up of the U.S. population, however, Managers
Johnson in early December, mak-
the W.N.B.A. has the best marks Cheryl Miller ing her the league’s only female
among the North American pro- Majority First Black head coach of color. Neither the
fessional leagues in the analysis Owners coach to lead
for Black coaches. Twenty-five team to finals,
W.N.B.A. nor the N.B.A. has a
percent of the league’s head 1998 guideline like the N.F.L.’s Rooney
coaches were Black and 13.4 per- Rule.
OCTAVIO JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
cent of the U.S. population was THE NEW YORK TIMES “We need to work with the
Wade is a head coach in a Black, according to the United teams more when there are open-
league that is often cited for its States Census Bureau. The only ings, like a general manager or a
other league with representation Richard Lapchick, the director nual Racial and Gender Report at any category,” Lapchick said. head coach, that they’re looking at
coaching diversity.
that exceeded 13.4 percent was of The Institute for Diversity and Cards based on how closely the ra- But the W.N.B.A. lacks repre- all candidates, including diverse
the N.B.A., for which 23 percent of Ethics in Sports, praised the cial makeup of each league com- sentation across all races. Only candidates, in a very constructive
head coaches identified as Black. W.N.B.A. for its diversity com- pares with society at large. two individuals who did not iden- way,” W.N.B.A. Commissioner
The N.F.L. trails at just above 9 pared with the U.S. population. He “The W.N.B.A. is the best, peri- tify as white or Black have held a Cathy Engelbert said before the
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percent. determines the grades for his an- od — consistently when you look role of assistant coach, head coach 2020 finals.
Note: The data shown in each graphic is self-reported and may not include all league members or all years. The category for N.F.L. general managers includes personnel in similar management positions for time periods
before the term “general manager” was widely used. Source: Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. Photo illustration credits: Matthew Stockman / Getty Images (James Borrego); Chris Young / The Canadian
Press, via Associated Press (Ali Curtis); Otto Greule Jr / Getty Images (Robin Fraser); Scott Troyanos / Associated Press (Cheryl Miller); Lucy Nicholson / Reuters (Arte Moreno); Darryl Webb / Associated Press
DESPITE LAPCHICK’S PRAISE for Percentage of each employee group by race White Black Latino Asian Other tem to increase Black representa-
the W.N.B.A., Major League Soc- tion in executive and sporting po-
100% 2000 2005 Coaching Diversity Initiative 2015 2020
cer actually had a higher percent- sitions at the league office, the
age of head coaches who are peo- Players member clubs and other North
ple of color than any of the five American soccer organizations,”
leagues we assessed: 41 percent the announcement said.
in 2020. It also had the smallest Assistant Robin Fraser
Coaches One leader pushing for more ex-
disparity between head coaches First Black
ecutives of color is Ali Curtis, To-
and players of color. And M.L.S. coach hired in
Head six years, ronto F.C.’s general manager, who
players make up one of the most Coaches 2019 became the league’s first Black
racially diverse sets of athletes. sporting director at the end of 2014
M.L.S. matches census data for General for the New York Red Bulls.
the number of white coaches. Just Managers (Sporting directors are equivalent
over 59 percent of coaches identi-
to general managers in this data.)
fied as white while 60 percent of Majority Ali Curtis
the U.S. identified as white. Other Owners Curtis acknowledged that inclu-
First Black
leagues had a much higher com- sporting sion in M.L.S. has improved since
plement of white coaches. director, 2015 he played in the early 2000s, but
This is largely because a high said there is more to be done.
percentage of M.L.S. head THE NEW YORK TIMES “I’m incredibly fortunate that I CHRIS YOUNG/CANADIAN PRESS, VIA AP
coaches identified as Hispanic or am where I am,” he said in a phone Ali Curtis, the general man-
Latino in 2020 — 29.6 percent, interview. “I know that I have to ager of Toronto F.C., has
compared with 18.5 percent of the Black. Data shows that no Black M.L.S. has had a Coaching Di- crease Black representation in open that door for other people. pushed for executives of color.
U.S. population who identified as coaches were hired between 2013 versity Initiative since 2007, management. In consultation And I have to work as hard as pos-
Hispanic or Latino. and 2018; Robin Fraser changed which is similar to the Rooney with its new diversity committee, sible and be as successful as possi-
Few players are Black, and that in 2019 when the Colorado Rule. This October, the league an- the league intends to create “poli- ble so that there’s more than just
even fewer managers identify as Rapids hired him. nounced a commitment to in- cies and an educational ecosys- me out there.”
The Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic boycotted a playoff game in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting in August. N.B.A. players have championed a number of social justice initiatives.
JUST AS ATHLETES in the W.N.B.A. Percentage of each employee group by race White Black Latino Asian Other structure for interviewing non-
and other sports leagues have for white candidates, a standard
years, N.B.A. players have cham- 100% 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 practice in several other leagues.
pioned social justice initiatives in Players A lot of league reshuffling of head
several highly visible forms re- coaches has occurred since then:
cently. This summer, the Milwau- Now there are nine head coaches
kee Bucks sparked a walkout Assistant Erik Spoelstra of color.
Coaches
across American pro sports by re- First Asian The N.B.A. has seven Black
fusing to play after the police head coach,
Head 2008 head coaches, one Latino head
shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black Coaches coach (James Borrego of the
man in Kenosha, Wis. Charlotte Hornets) and one Asian
While the N.B.A. has co-opted General head coach (Erik Spoelstra of the
its players’ protests, it has not Managers Miami Heat).
adopted a hiring rule like the James Five general managers were
N.F.L. or M.L.S. As of July, about Majority Borrego
Black and two identified as
30 percent of N.B.A. head coaches Owners First Latino
“other” through July 2020.
from the 2020 season identified as full-time
head coach, Spoelstra, who is of Filipino de-
people of color, while 83 percent of
2018 scent, became the first Asian-
players identified as nonwhite.
American coach in one of the “Big MARK J. TERRILL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The N.B.A. has a training pro- THE NEW YORK TIMES
gram called the Coaches Equality Four” North American leagues in Spoelstra, an Asian-American,
Initiative, but it does not specify 2008. In fact, a lack of Asian play- has been the head coach of the
guidelines for racial inclusion. It Oris Stuart, to cover “people and dress before the 2020 N.B.A. Fi- point guards in professional bas- ers in most major pro sports led to Miami Heat since 2008.
also has a Global Inclusion Coun- inclusion” in August, putting him nals. ketball history. Sean Marks, the a disproportionate number of
cil, which recommends inclusion in charge of both human re- Conversation about the N.B.A.’s team’s general manager, said he leaders who identify as Asian
strategies for the N.B.A. and sources and diversity and inclu- hiring policies reignited when hired Nash for his name, record compared with athletes, espe-
W.N.B.A., offering guidance on sion. Steve Nash, in his own words, did and ties to players. cially in the N.F.L, M.L.S. and
policies, benchmarks and “serves “We’ve looked at what might be “skip the line” when he became Choosing him over the team’s N.B.A. Still, Asian-Americans
as a catalyst for diversity and in- an equivalent to a Rooney-type head coach of the Nets without interim coach, Jacque Vaughn, were underrepresented in all five
clusion efforts worldwide.” rule in the N.B.A. and I’m not sure any coaching experience. Nash, who is Black and had experience leagues compared with the popu-
The league updated the role of it makes sense,” Commissioner who is white, is a Hall of Famer as a head coach, renewed ques- lation of the United States, accord-
its diversity and inclusion officer, Adam Silver said in a media ad- recognized as one of the greatest tions about the league’s lack of ing to census data.
MUCH LIKE OTHER LEAGUES, Percentage of each employee group by race White Black Latino Asian Other team this year: Arte Moreno, who
M.L.B. has had players who iden- acquired the Los Angeles Angels
100% 1995 Selig Rule 2005 2010 2015 2020
tified as African-American, Latino in 2003. Moreno is the first Latino
and Native American since its Players to own a majority stake of a fran-
founding years, according to the chise in any major league sport in
league’s historian, John Thorn. the United States. Hiroshi Ya-
Hiroshi
Despite some early firsts, similar Coaches mauchi became the first Asian
Yamauchi
opportunities were not afforded to person to own a major U.S. team
First Asian
upper level staff until much later: majority when he bought the Seattle Mari-
Frank Robinson became base- Managers ners in 1992.
owner, 1992
ball’s first Black manager in 1975, M.L.B. had another “first” this
nearly 30 years after Jackie Rob- General fall when Kim Ng became the first
inson broke the color line after Managers female general manager in any of
playing in the Negro leagues. (In the North American major men’s
baseball, head coaches are called Majority Arte Moreno
sports leagues. She was hired by
“managers” and assistant Owners First Latino
majority the Miami Marlins in November.
coaches are called “coaches.”)
owner, 2003 Ng, who is Asian-American,
“I don’t think I was hired be-
joins Kenny Williams (White
cause I was Black,” Frank Rob-
THE NEW YORK TIMES Sox), who is Black, Farhan Zaidi JOSEPH GUZY/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS
inson, who died in 2019, told The
New York Times when he was (Giants), who is of Pakistani de- Kim Ng, who was recently
hired. “I hope not. I think I’ve been scent, and Al Avila (Tigers), who named general manager of the
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K.C. Jones, 88, Celtics Standout as a Defensive Player and a Coach, Is Dead
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN 1989. He averaged 7.4 points a
K.C. Jones, the quietly tena- game for nine pro seasons and
cious Hall of Fame guard who ranked No. 3 in the league in as-
played on eight consecutive sists per game for three consecu-
N.B.A. championship teams with tive seasons.
the Boston Celtics and later After retiring as a player, Jones
coached the team to two league ti- coached basketball at Brandeis
tles, died on Friday. He was 88. University for three seasons and
His death was announced by then became an assistant coach
the Celtics. According to The As- under Cousy’s former backcourt
sociated Press, the team said partner, Bill Sharman, on the Los
Jones’s family confirmed that he Angeles Lakers’ 1972 N.B.A.
championship team. He was later
died at an assisted living facility in
head coach of the Washington
Connecticut, where he had been
Bullets team that reached the 1975
receiving care for Alzheimer’s dis-
N.B.A. finals.
ease for the past several years.
Jones was named the Celtics’
Jones wasn’t much of a scorer,
head coach in 1983 and took the
and he was often overshadowed
ASSOCIATED PRESS team to championships in 1984
by flashier teammates. But he
Clockwise from left: K.C. and 1986. He left the bench after
Jones, right, and Oscar Rob- the 1987-88 season, having
ertson in a 1964 playoff; kneel- brought the Celtics to the N.B.A.
finals in four of his five seasons
A Hall of Fame guard ing, with teammates and Red
with lineups featuring Larry Bird,
Auerbach in 1964; and, coach-
who frustrated many ing the Celtics in the 1980s.
Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and
Dennis Johnson. He was the Celt-
backcourt stars. ics’ vice president for basketball
les Rams at defensive back. operations for one season after his
After playing as a reserve on coaching stint and coached the Se-
five Celtic championship teams, attle SuperSonics in the early
was renowned for his defensive Jones became a regular in 1963 1990s.
play — the work that doesn’t nec- when Bob Cousy retired. That sea- Information on survivors was
essarily show up in box scores — son, he was part of the first all- not immediately available.
in frustrating many an opposing BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES RICK STEWART/GETTY IMAGES Black starting lineup in N.B.A. Whether playing for the Celtics
backcourt star. history: K.C. and Sam Jones (no or coaching them, Jones was de-
He was an All-American at the key roles in a ferocious Celtic de- does not have a bagful of defen- After starring in basketball and relation) at guard, Russell at cen- cidedly low-key.
University of San Francisco, fense on teams coached by Red sive moves. He has a whole truck- football in high school, Jones was ter and Sanders and Willie Naulls “People want to see a coach who
teaming up with Bill Russell on Auerbach. load of defensive moves. He will recruited by the University of San at forward.
“K.C. stuck to you like glue,” pester a guy so much that the guy Francisco. A 6-foot-1-inch guard, has a whip in one hand and a chair
teams that won 55 consecutive Jones ran the offense while con- in the other,” he told Knight-Rid-
Lenny Wilkens, the Hall of Fame will start to look for K.C. even he played with the 6-foot-10 Rus-
games and captured two N.C.A.A. tinuing to play dogged defense for der Newspapers in May 1986,
guard and coach, told Terry Pluto when he’s not there.” sell on teams that won the
championships. He joined with the last three championship while en route to his second Celt-
for his N.B.A. oral history, “Tall K.C. Jones — who according the N.C.A.A. championship in 1955
Russell on the United States Tales” (1993). “He was with you, and 1956. teams in the Celtics’ title run. He ics championship as a coach. “I
N.B.A.’s website was named for
Olympic basketball squad that right on you, every step. He’d his father, K.C., an oil field worker, Auerbach’s Celtics obtained retired after the 1966-67 season, don’t fit that mold. I prefer not to
won the gold medal at Melbourne, bump you, hold you, get in your who in turn was named for Casey Russell in the first round of the when the Celtics were eliminated embarrass my players in front of
Australia, in 1956 and then played way.” Jones, the legendary railroad en- 1956 N.B.A. draft in a trade with from the playoffs by the Philadel- 15,000 people just to impress the
alongside him as the Celtics Speaking to Sports Illustrated gineer — was born on May 25, the St. Louis Hawks and selected phia 76ers. world.”
forged a dynasty in the late 1950s in 1965, when the Celtics were em- 1932, in Taylor, Texas. When he Jones in the second round. Jones The Celtics retired Jones’s No. He certainly impressed Auer-
and ’60s. barking on what would be their was 9, his parents separated and joined the Celtics in 1958 after 25 during his final season. He was bach, who once remarked, “The
Jones, Russell (at center) and eighth straight championship sea- his mother moved the family to Army service and a preseason elected to the Basketball Hall of biggest thing you can say about
Tom Sanders (at forward) played son, Russell said: “K.C. Jones San Francisco. football tryout with the Los Ange- Fame in Springfield, Mass., in K.C. is that he’s a winner.”
Minoru Makihara, 90, Who Led Robert Thacker, 102, Test Pilot Who Survived Pearl Harbor
Mitsubishi Through Downturn By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Robert Thacker, who found him-
By BEN DOOLEY Mitsubishi office in Washington, self caught in the middle of Ja-
TOKYO — Minoru Makihara, where his social circle grew to in- pan’s surprise attack on Pearl
who led Mitsubishi — then the clude elite figures like Katharine Harbor when he was piloting an
world’s largest company — Graham, then the owner of the unarmed B-17 bomber to Hawaii
through the doldrums of Japan’s Washington Post. for refueling, but managed to
post-bubble era in the 1990s and By the end of the decade, he had make a hair-raising landing and
helped it meet the demands of a returned to Japan to head the ma- went on to a distinguished flying
globalizing economy, died on Dec. rine products department that career in war and peace, died on
13 in Tokyo. He was 90. had once been led by his father. Nov. 25 at his home in San Clem-
The cause was heart failure, his The company took notice of his ente, Calif. He was 102.
family said. work. He was promoted to head of Mr. Thacker’s daughter, Bar-
Educated in England and the Mitsubishi’s international opera- bara Thacker, confirmed his death
United States, Mr. Makihara intro- tions in 1987, and in 1992 he was to The New York Times on Friday.
duced a new international spirit to named the company’s president She said she had not provided con-
what was once Japan’s most pow- and chief executive. firmation until last week to The
erful company and helped move it With his foreign education and San Clemente Times, which pub-
away from its staid, traditional his decades abroad, Mr. Makihara lished an obituary on Thursday.
business practices. And despite did not fit the profile of a Mitsubi- Lieutenant Thacker, who ar-
his father’s death at the hands of shi president. His selection was rived on the island of Oahu as Jap-
the United States Navy, he be- widely viewed as a message to the anese warplanes devastated the
came a lifelong champion of U.S.- world that the company was trad- American naval base there, would
Japan relations, leading organiza- ing its stubborn traditionalism for soon be dropping bombs of his
tions dedicated to building ties be- a more international mind-set. own. He flew some 80 missions
When Mr. Makihara took over during World War II, seeing ac-
Mitsubishi, it was at the top of the tion in both the Pacific and Euro-
Fortune 500, the largest company pean theaters. He later became a
among the sprawling Japanese record-setting test pilot and flew THE NEW YORK TIMES
conglomerates known as keiretsu, in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Lt. Col. Robert Thacker on the
which dealt in everything from But it was on the morning of wing of his P-82 fighter with
fine art to jet engines. But the Dec. 7, 1941, that he faced his first
test in battle.
his co-pilot, Lt. John Ard, at La
company’s size hid major weak- Guardia Field in 1947 after
nesses. Its culture was sclerotic His plane was among a flight of
and its profits meager. newly built B-17s arriving from they completed the first non-
It was a fraught time for the ti- California en route to the Phil- stop flight from Hawaii to New
tans of Japanese industry. The ippines. As he began his descent York City. Colonel Thacker,
country’s frothy stock market had to the Army Air Corps’ Hickam left, and Lieutenant Ard with
collapsed in 1990, ushering in Field, at first unaware of anything their wives after the flight. Mr.
amiss, he was astonished to see
what would become known as the Thacker with his plane, named
“lost decade,” a period of eco- bombers and fighters roaming the
skies and black smoke rising from after his wife, at the National
nomic torpor. Museum of the United States
the American base and adjoining
Mr. Makihara quickly under- Air Force in Ohio.
military installations.
YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
took a program to reorient the
One of the fighters shot out the
Minoru Makihara in 2000. company’s businesses along more
front landing gear of his Flying year college education, so in 1939
Western lines, placing an in-
Fortress as he approached the he joined what was then known as
creased emphasis on returning
tween the former enemies. runway. But he careened to a land-
value to shareholders. “One of our the Army Air Corps. He received
Mr. Makihara was born on Jan. main tasks is to transform our- his wings as a lieutenant in June
12, 1930, in London, where his fa- selves from a Japanese trading
THE NEW YORK TIMES
1940.
ther, Satoru Makihara, worked as company into a global trading He flew World War II bombing
a branch manager for Mitsubishi, company,” he said in a 1996 inter- A record-setting missions out of New Guinea, Italy
which was already a substantial
company. His mother, Haruko,
view.
But changing a behemoth was
aviator flew some 80 and England. He later joined the
nation’s leading test pilots in ex-
was a writer, librarian and kinder-
garten teacher. He was raised bi-
not easy. Unnerved by his efforts World War II missions. perimental flights over Califor-
to shake up business, his son said, nia’s high desert at Muroc Army
lingual, developing an ability to
his colleagues referred to him as Air Field in California, later re-
shift between cultures that he
“the alien.” An effort to encourage named Edwards Air Force Base.
would tap throughout his life. ing and led his crew to a swamp
the company’s employees to In addition to flying B-17 Flying
Rising tensions between Japan alongside the runway to escape
speak English at work never took Fortresses in World War II, Colo-
and the West drove his family the inferno.
off. nel Thacker piloted Super-
back to their native country ahead In February 1947, about 18
of the war. In 1942, Mr. Makihara’s Nonetheless, Mr. Makihara was fortresses in the Korean War and
able to introduce major reforms at months after Japan surrendered, high-altitude missions in the Viet-
father, who was a member of a he was back at Hickam Field, this
business delegation to the Japa- the company, pushing to update nam War.
its corporate governance and tak- time to make aviation history. The P-82 (renamed the F-82)
nese-occupied Philippines, was
ing the step, then unusual, of writ- Now a lieutenant colonel, he pi- flew combat missions in the Kore-
killed when the ship he was on
ing down portfolio losses from in- loted a North American Aviation an War, when it was given radar
was sunk by an American subma-
vestments that had soured with P-82 fighter plane on the first non- capability, but jet fighters soon
rine, Mr. Makihara’s son, Jun,
Japan’s reversal of economic for- stop flight from Hawaii to New rendered it obsolete.
said. U.S. AIR FORCE
tune. In 1998 he was appointed Mi- York City in what remains the Mr. Thacker retired from the
In 1949, Mr. Makihara went to
tsubishi’s chairman, a position he longest nonstop flight, 5,051 miles, mission. and an editorial hailing the Army Air Force as a full colonel in 1970.
the United States to study at St.
held until 2004. ever made by a propeller-driven During the 14½-hour flight from Air Forces’ growing readiness for
Paul’s, a private boarding school His awards included two Silver
In addition to his work at Mitsu- fighter, according to the National Hickam, a mechanical glitch pre- postwar combat. It viewed the
in New Hampshire. The scars of Stars and three Distinguished
the war were fresh. Some stu- bishi, he dedicated considerable Museum of the United States Air vented the plane from jettisoning flight as providing “further proof Flying Crosses.
dents’ parents had been killed by time to nurturing ties between Ja- Force, near Dayton, Ohio. three empty fuel tanks, and the of how rapidly the globe is shrink- He was later an adviser to the
Japanese soldiers. But they still pan and the United States at a Developed at the end of World P-82 fought drag from the unwant- ing.” aviation industry and pursued his
welcomed him with a warmth that time when many Americans War II, the twin-fuselage, twin- ed weight and strong headwinds. Robert Eli Thacker was born on hobby of flying radio-controlled
“left a deep impression” and in- viewed Japanese economic might propeller P-82 had been envi- By the time it touched down, it had Feb. 21, 1918, in El Centro, Calif., model planes.
spired a lifelong fondness for the as a threat to their own dominance sioned as a long-range escort for only enough fuel left for another one of three children of Percie and Mr. Thacker’s daughter is his
country, his son said. In 1950, he of global trade. the giant B-29 Superfortresses on 30 minutes of flight. Margaret (Eadie) Thacker. only survivor. His wife, Betty Jo
began his undergraduate studies From 1997 to 2002, he was chair- missions to Japan. The fighter had But Colonel Thacker handled When he was 8, his father, who (Smoot) Thacker, died in 2011.
at Harvard University; he gradu- man of the U.S.-Japan Business two cockpits, one for the pilot and his plane with aplomb. The P-82, owned a moving company, bought
Council. In 2008 he became a the other for the co-pilot/naviga- Although the record-setting
ated in 1954 with a bachelor’s de- named Betty Jo after his wife, him a kit to build a twin-pusher
chairman of the U.S.-Japan Con- tor, so they could take turns flying. propeller fighter that Colonel
gree in government. landed at La Guardia Field in model plane, a craft with two pro-
ference on Cultural and Educa- But the war was over before the Thacker flew has faded into ob-
Two years later he followed in Queens shortly after 11 a.m. on pellers that rides air currents with
scurity, it has not been entirely
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his father’s footsteps, returning to Feb. 28, 1947, greeted by a host of the aim of achieving maximum
onstrated a passion for expanding Early in the Cold War, the P-82 forgotten.
Japan and joining Mitsubishi, reporters and news photogra- distance in competitions.
international educational oppor- was viewed by the Pentagon as a phers and hundreds of onlookers. “I was hooked on aviation from That silver plane is on display at
where he would work for the rest
tunities formed during his own potential escort in the event Since “nothing else happened in that age on,” he recalled in the the National Museum of the
of his life. He affirmed his ties to
time studying abroad. He held bombers like the B-29 were called the world that day,” he told the Ar- 2014 interview. United States Air Force, inscribed
the company the next year, when
that position until 2014. upon to attack the Soviet Union. rowhead Club, a California mili- He attended a two-year commu- “Betty Jo” in red script.
he married his childhood friend
Kikuko Iwasaki, the great-grand- Besides his son, Mr. Makihara is The pioneering test flight by Colo- tary research organization, in a nity college in El Centro, hoping to
daughter of the Mitsubishi survived by his wife, Kikuko Mak- nel Thacker and his co-pilot, Lt. 2014 interview, “I was front-page become an aeronautical engineer.
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Group’s founder, Yataro Iwasaki. ihara; his daughter, Kumiko; and John Ard, provided evidence that news.” The New York Times ran But his family did not have the
In 1971, Mr. Makihara opened a three grandchildren. the fighter could carry out such a its own Page 1 article on the flight money for him to complete a four- Page A22.
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Erik Carter took this picture for a project that showcased self-portraits from Black photographers reflecting on America: “As an artist who is Black and queer, photography grants me the power to
confront villains and explore the depths of my mental health. When that examination is focused on the world around me, and on those I love and want to celebrate, that’s when I’m able to find a way out.”
ELLIOT ROSS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES DANA SCRUGGS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Genevieve Allison, fiancée of the photographer Elliot Ross, makes a toss on a “Chris wasn’t the only person in the pool fully clothed,” Dana Scruggs said of photographing
Saturday-evening game of bocce ball along a deserted county road in Colorado in May. Chris Rock. “To get the shot, I got in there with him and happily rode back to the city sopping wet.”
From left: Alexander Lambie, Ren Dara Santiago and Julissa Contreras, contributors to an audioplay series with episodes set inside the No. 2 train, at the Wakefield-241st Street station in the Bronx.
In a Low Year,
Some High Points
The comedy boom finally busted. Not only did the pandemic shut down
comedy institutions, but New York clubs like Dangerfield’s, which was half
a century old, and the stalwart the Creek & the Cave closed for good, as did
the city’s branches of the improv powerhouse, the Upright Citizens
Brigade. At the same time, comedians adjusted to the new abnormal, tran-
sitioning to Zoom and Instagram Live, and to shows in parks and on
rooftops. It was a period of experimentation and stagnancy, contraction
and accessibility, despair and occasional joy. In a low year, here were the
highlights.
Funniest Special
Do you find an angry blue-collar guy yelling
about being high on molly funny? Does the
phrase “Stalin on Spotify” amuse you? Do
pivots from ragingly unhinged roars to an
The people who kept us
NPR voice make you lose your breath in
laughing in 2020, clockwise
laughter? No? Not to worry: Eddie Pepi-
from top left: Leslie Jones,
tone will still delight. An overlooked master
John Wilson, Hannibal
of the form, he’s perfected a persona of the
Buress, Beth Stelling, Cole
silly grump that makes anything funny.
Escola, Eddie Pepitone and
Smart comedy that aims for the gut, his new
Ziwe Fumudoh.
special (available on Amazon Prime) is ti- CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: RAHIM FORTUNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; HBO; AARON RICHTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; HBO MAX; COLE ESCOLA; TROY CONRAD; CHASE HALL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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like the French Suffix with
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e.g. (“disappoint”) 62 Major chip maker
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42 From dawn to
while? DOWN 13 No-nos at a
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32 1 Joshua trees, 44 N.F.L. Hall-of-
e.g. 15 Respected figure Famer who was
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Philip Sousa landing
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name in march)
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Daniel Arnold photographed Jerry Seinfeld via FaceTime in May, in advance of the comedian’s Netflix special: “I had an idea to shoot Jerry pressed up against glass,
that goofy old trick that makes a portrait look trapped in a frame, only it would be Seinfeld trapped in the TV. So I said, ‘Jerry, do you have any indoor windows?,’
imagining a French door or something along those lines. He looked at me like I was out of my mind for a long second and said, in the world’s Seinfeldy-est voice:
‘What?! All windows are indoors!’ Click. After that he muted me. Perfection.”
STORIES
BEHIND
SCENES
The magenta glow of an exhibition outside
the Guggenheim Museum, whose white
Erykah Badu at her
spiral was off-limits to art lovers. The de-
Dallas home in July. At serted grand staircase of a Metropolitan
the time, she said, she
didn’t mind canceling her
Opera silenced by the pandemic, its Sput-
travels. “A little piece of nik chandeliers with no crowds to illumi-
me dies every time I have
to leave my home.”
nate. Movie buffs, barred from cinemas, en-
RAHIM FORTUNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
joying films at least semi-communally at a
drive-in.
Yes, there was absence and apartness
and pain as this most socially distant of
years upended art and culture. But with
hindsight, 2020 had many other things to
say, too, as this selection of some of our fa-
vorite arts photography published this year
by The New York Times makes clear.
Maggie Shannon on Photographers for The Times captured
photographing Susan it all, relying on their P.P.E. as well as their
Boyajian, who was
featured in an article on light meters and lenses to bring us not just
screaming: “I went door the year’s pain but also its pleasures, with
to door on our block to
warn folks that they glimpses of much-needed triumphs and
might hear some life-affirming beauty. Have a look.
screaming coming from
MICHAEL COOPER
our yard that afternoon,
and not to worry since it’s
a portrait photo shoot, no
one is getting murdered.
The reactions were
hilarious; one neighbor
actually bent over he was
laughing so hard.”
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Camila Falquez on photographing Manuel Liñán and his dance company: “It was a trip to a parallel reality — one Daniel Dorsa photographed the Warwick Drive-In in Warwick, N.Y., in May. “Five minutes after I shot this photo,
“Usually, photo shoots at the Met Opera are pretty hectic but on this occasion I
had no one rushing me. I had access to most of the building and went into rooms
I would have never thought of,” said Victor Llorente on photographing the
Metropolitan Opera during the pandemic.
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Cait Oppermann and Yael Malka on photographing horror masks: “We fell into a
collaborative rhythm and appreciated the opportunity to work on something that felt
a bit more abstract and playful during a time of so much uncertainty.”
“I waited until the sun went down and the color came. The light let me think of an
oasis that brings life into the city,” said Jeenah Moon on photographing the
“Countryside” exhibition outside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were scheduled to begin performances of
SASHA ARUTYUNOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES “Plaza Suite” the day after Broadway shut down. “I wanted to make an image that spoke
“It was the first time I cried through a shoot,” said Sasha Arutyunova on photographing to the quiet tension of being confined to a small space with your loved one. Little did I
Nayaa Opong of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, in the dance “Afterwardsness.” know, many of us would soon be experiencing this intensity of closeness during the
The piece speaks to the trauma of the pandemic and to the calling out of racism. pandemic,” said Philip Montgomery on photographing them in February.
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“A beautiful, charming subject, a farm filled with animals and great light,” Molly Matalon said on photographing “When I arrived, the makeshift stage in their parking lot exuded this sense of joy that I hadn’t experienced in a
GORDON RENDER
nificant inroads into the United States, Above, Dickie Beau in “Dick Whittington” at
despite a 19-year-old Ariana Grande the National Theater. Far left, the cast of
once starring as Snow White. So if you’re “The Snow Queen” by the New Wolsey
looking for some Covid silver lining, take Theater. Near left, Johnny McKnight in a
this bit of tinsel. National Theater of Scotland production of
Last week, the theater critics Elisa- “Rapunzel.”
beth Vincentelli and Alexis Soloski saw
eight pantomimes, which is arguably too
many, and then met remotely to discuss dress covered in baked beans and black
toilet humor, pop-song rewrites and pudding. Legendary. But other dames
whether there is in fact nothing like a felt tired to me, empty accumulations of
dame. These are edited excerpts from stereotype.
their conversation.
VINCENTELLI Panto has been said to per-
ALEXIS SOLOSKI I had wanted to see pan- petuate stereotypes, but I didn’t feel any
tomime for so long, probably because ac- of the shows we watched reflected that.
tors throw candy at the audience. I used It’s an ancient, some may say rickety, art
to wonder why panto had never caught form and it can bend to be extremely in-
on here. After this week, I have ideas! Or clusive. “The Fairytale Revolution,” an
maybe we just overdosed? all-female take on “Peter Pan,” had a
ELISABETH VINCENTELLI I loved it all, from feminist slant while keeping the genre’s
the really budget shows to the fancy building blocks. I enjoyed its shambolic,
ones. I’ll take panto over saccharine riot grrrl attitude — very Mickey and
American-style Christmas anytime, and Judy, or rather Judy and Judy.
certainly over “A Christmas Carol.” MIKE KWASNIAK KIRSTY ANDERSON
SOLOSKI Their metatextual stuff proba-
SOLOSKI Fighting words! Me, I felt like bly made more sense if you are a panto
an ethnographer studying a foreign cul- drag, disrupted pop songs, cheeky puns, SOLOSKI All of them? Even “Cinderella aficionado. Which I clearly am not. But I
ture’s strange ceremonies. Panto has its Dick Whittington topical references. The Perth Theater’s Live”? admired their spunk. Surprise! Even
origins in commedia dell’arte, royal Through Sunday; “Oh Yes We Are!” included a riff on “The feminist panto includes fart jokes.
masque and the peculiarities of Victorian nationaltheatre.org.uk. VINCENTELLI Because they really are
12 Days of Christmas” with lines like “fiii- about the communing. There was always VINCENTELLI And an anti-vaxxer one.
theater licensing. Somehow this has Jack and the Beanstalk iiive toilet rolls.”
gifted us men in fright drag who pretend a moment when they made me miss SOLOSKI And one about a character be-
Through Jan. 10; from the Belgrade SOLOSKI I tried to do the call-and-re- multigenerational togetherness so ing so evil that she still follows J. K. Row-
to fart while a chorus sings Rihanna. Theater, belgrade.co.uk. sponse with that one. They kept me much. And the imperfections of live per- ling on Twitter. Mostly I saw companies
VINCENTELLI You say that like it’s a bad Jack and the Beanstalk muted. We both adored “The Snow formance: I really felt for the actors who making the best of a really calamitous
thing. I relish juxtapositions of high- and Through Jan. 10; from Peter Queen.” Aside from some old-fashioned sounded distinctly winded during a big situation, lighting up the dark. I loved
lowbrow sensibilities, though admittedly Duncan, pantoonline.co.uk. stage magic (trap door entrances!), why number. this line from “Rapunzel”: “This festive
in this case it’s low and low. I can’t recall did that one work so well? season might not be how we imagined it,
Rapunzel SOLOSKI My throat went lumpy during
ever hearing as many fart jokes, and I but if the story of Rapunzel has taught us
Through Jan. 4; VINCENTELLI It was filmed in front of a the opening of Belgrade Theater’s “Jack
laughed at all of them. anything, it’s this: You could have been
nationaltheatrescotland.com. live (distanced) audience. Panto relies and the Beanstalk,” when two actors
SOLOSKI And so many sex jokes. These heavily on audience participation and stare out at an empty house and wonder trapped in a tower for 15 years.”
are family shows! Are English children the actors clearly feed on it. Mugging how to go on. Still, some shows handled VINCENTELLI Watching those shows I was
big into bawdry? and chewing the scenery is a lost art, ex- Covid-era limitations superbly. Like the either laughing uproariously at terrible
VINCENTELLI It’s the “Simpsons” cept in pantomime. Another favorite was “Jack and the Beanstalk” staged in Peter puns or misting up watching the Zoom
method: Some jokes fly over the chil- the National Theater’s “Dick Whitting- Duncan’s colossal backyard. Other audiences. At times I felt as if I was wit-
dren’s heads to reach the parents’. I was ton,” where Dickie Beau’s dame followed shows, like the National Theater of Scot- nessing the kind of attitude that carried
stunned when Dame Sigrid Smorgas- a Sondheim reference with a rewrite of land’s “Rapunzel,” felt as flat as a sat-on the Brits through the Blitz.
bord (Steve Simmonds) in the New Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now.” mince pie. SOLOSKI “Keep Calm and Panto On”? I
Wolsey Theater’s “The Snow Queen” SOLOSKI That bit from “Losing My Mind” VINCENTELLI I loved the costumes — like it. When things get back to what I
said, “My first husband was hung like a — my personal 2020 theme song — was Rosey Posey looked out of a psychedelic will laughably call “normal” and in-per-
horse — a sea horse.” genius. And when the couple hugged “Ascot Gavotte” — but being a succes- son theater returns, would you keep
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SOLOSKI That was extremely funny. I through a plastic sheet and everyone sion of monologues didn’t help. If the ac- watching livestream panto?
don’t think we can repeat her Roger sang “We Found Love,” I got a little tors don’t get that lifeline from the audi- VINCENTELLI If it’s like “The Snow
Moore joke. misty. It’s been such a catastrophe of a ence or each other, there’s little for them Queen” or “Dick Whittington,” abso-
year — theatrically, otherwise — and this to hang on to in this specific format. lutely. But the truth is, if I ever find my-
VINCENTELLI We’ll save that for the R-
company managed to create this big, They’re not doing Beckett monologues. self in Britain over the holidays, I’d go
rated version of this article, behind a silly, lovely show, only to see it close as
double pay wall. I’m now a huge fan of SOLOSKI What did you make of the cross- see just about any of them and yell and
London went back into lockdown.
Simmonds, whose performance was half casting? Like you, I loved Simmonds and clap and boo and have a grand time.
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