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VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,978 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018 U(D54G1D)y+$!$!%!=!{ WASHINGTON — President Trump, stung by criticism that he has gone soft on China and less worried about Beijing’s ability to disrupt a potential summit meet- ing with North Korea, reversed course on Tuesday and declared that the United States would im- pose tariffs and other punitive measures on China. Barely a week after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the trade war was “on hold” and that tariffs would be sus- pended as negotiations continued, the White House issued a state- ment saying the United States would move ahead with its plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion worth of imported Chinese goods within the next month. Mr. Trump’s reversal was yet another twist in a long-running ideological battle in the West Wing between economic nationalists, who channel Mr. Trump’s protec- tionist instincts, and more main- stream advisers like Mr. Mnuchin, who worry that tariffs and invest- ment restrictions will hurt the stock market and hobble long- term growth. The nationalists seem to have won this round. While Mr. Trump is sending Wilbur Ross, the com- merce secretary, to Beijing this weekend to try again to resolve the dispute, people briefed on the talks said Mr. Trump was frus- trated with the first round of trade negotiations and wary of giving Democrats an opening on one of his core issues. The trade offensive comes at a sensitive moment, days after Mr. Trump pulled out of his planned June 12 meeting with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, after sug- gesting that China played a role in derailing the encounter. But the president has since expressed more optimism about the meet- ing, and negotiators from Wash- ington and Pyongyang have scrambled to reinstate it, giving Mr. Trump a freer hand to resume his tough approach to America’s greatest economic adversary. In addition to the renewed trade threat, the United States has hard- ened its military posture toward China, canceling an invitation for the Chinese to take part in a large Pacific naval exercise and sailing two Navy warships past a handful of disputed islands in the South China Sea. The administration is pushing back against China’s in- stallation of military facilities in the heavily trafficked waterway. “On every issue, the balance of power in this administration leans toward a more hostile and adver- Continued on Page A6 U.S. Resumes Trade Dispute Against China Trump Plans to Impose Tariffs Once Again By MARK LANDLER and ANA SWANSON LISBON — Through more than two months of tough negotiations to form a government in Italy af- ter inconclusive March elections, global financial markets re- mained relatively calm. Italy’s un- certainties seemed contained to Italy, and Europe’s economy kept growing. That changed this week when Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, effectively blocked two populist parties from forming a government. He judged that a crucial member of their proposed cabinet was intent on having Italy abandon the euro, though they had not explicitly campaigned on that issue. In doing so, Mr. Mattarella may have laid the groundwork for a new election, one that amounts to a referendum on the euro. The Eu- ropean Union and financial mar- kets reacted with dread. On Tues- day, the Dow plunged almost 400 points, the value of the euro plum- meted and the cost of borrowing for Italy shot up. For the European Union, an- other Italian election would be ter- rifically bad timing. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, a linchpin of the bloc, is weakened; she needed six months to form a government af- ter a rough election of her own last year that was marked by a far- right, populist surge. Spain’s gov- ernment could face a no-confi- dence vote as early as this week and possible new elections as well. However unlikely an Italian withdrawal from the eurozone may be, the mere prospect is more dangerous to the future of the Eu- ropean Union than the bailout of Greece, whose economy is dwarfed by Italy’s; Britain's vote to leave the bloc; or the squabbles over the rule of law with Hungary and Poland. Italy is a founding member of both the European Union and the euro and the bloc’s fourth-largest economy, and psychology counts. After all, it was Brussels that warned Greece in 2011 that a pro- posed referendum on its bailout and the euro would actually be a Continued on Page A8 TUMULT IN ITALY ROCKS MARKETS AS E.U. SHUDDERS ANXIETY OVER THE EURO Dreading a New Election, and Its Effect on a Bloc and a Currency By STEVEN ERLANGER JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The chain closed most of its stores in the United States for four hours Tuesday to give 175,000 employees anti-bias training. Page B1. Starbucks Pauses LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. — There’s no trace of Jimmy A. Williams, the Show Jumping Hall of Fame trainer, at the eques- trian club where he was an in- structor for nearly four decades, cultivating young riders, some of whom went on to Olympic fame. The pictures and paintings of Mr. Williams, who died in 1993, and the sterling trophies he won all vanished without a word re- cently from the clubhouse where he had spent many afternoons tip- ping back Champagne with some of Los Angeles County’s biggest and richest names: the parents of his young charges. Last month, the club removed his name from the grand show jumping stadium at the heart of the sprawling prop- erty at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, once the Jimmy A. Williams Oval. Today it is just Ring 1. But his former riders cannot forget Mr. Williams. Across the country, in her New Jersey barn adorned with her Olympic med- als, Anne Kursinski, one of the country’s most decorated show jumpers, remembered her former coach. How he tasted of alcohol when- ever he pinned her in a horse stall and crammed his tongue into her mouth. And far more. “He pene- trated me when I was 11,” Ms. Kursinski said, revealing publicly for the first time the details of what she said became six years of continual rape and molestation. “I was a little kid,” she said. “And he was God.” The equestrian community has been rocked by the revelations of abuse made by Ms. Kursinski and four other students, the broad strokes of which were first re- ported last month by The Chroni- cle of the Horse, an industry publi- cation. It has shaken an insular universe in which Mr. Williams, in life and after, was a mythic figure, revered for his knack with difficult Behind an Equestrian Legend, a Legacy of Abuse By SARAH MASLIN NIR Jimmy A. Williams, in an undated photograph. He died in 1993. GIGI GASTON Continued on Page A12 Two months ago, Roseanne Barr was a star again. Her sitcom “Roseanne” re- turned in March after a two-dec- ade absence to enormous ratings on ABC. Network executives were celebrating their strategy of ap- pealing to wider swaths of the country after Donald J. Trump’s surprising election win, and the president himself called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the show’s large audience. But on Tuesday, that all came crashing down. ABC abruptly can- celed “Roseanne” hours after Ms. Barr, the show’s star and co-cre- ator, posted a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, an African-Ameri- can woman who was a senior ad- viser to Barack Obama through- out his presidency and considered one of his most influential aides. Ms. Barr wrote if the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” Ms. Barr later apologized, but it was too late. In announcing the show’s cancellation, ABC’s enter- tainment president, Channing Dungey, said in a statement that “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and incon- sistent with our values.” The show had ended its suc- cessful comeback season last week and was expected to return in September for a 13-episode run. Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s corporate parent, shared Ms. Dungey’s statement on his own Twitter account, adding, “There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.” The sudden cancellation of a hit show — it had the highest ratings of a new TV series in years — be- cause of offscreen controversy was almost without precedent. The show brought in an esti- mated $45 million of advertising revenue for ABC this year, and the network probably would have col- lected more than $60 million next season, according to Kantar Me- dia. The move was decided by top Disney and ABC executives, in- cluding Ms. Dungey, who was ap- pointed to her role in February 2016, becoming the first black en- tertainment president of a major broadcast television network. She had the backing of Ben Sherwood, ‘Roseanne’ Self-Destructs With a Racist Tweet By JOHN KOBLIN Roseanne Barr’s sitcom drew tens of millions in ad dollars. ABC/ADAM ROSE Continued on Page A18 WASHINGTON — By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions ar- rived at President Trump’s Mar-a- Lago resort for dinner one Satur- day evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential si- lent treatment for two days. Mr. Sessions had flown to Florida be- cause Mr. Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing de- cision on his travel ban. When they met, Mr. Trump was ready to talk — but not about the travel ban. His grievance was with Mr. Sessions: The president objected to his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investiga- tion. Mr. Trump, who had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry, berated Mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an un- usual and potentially inappropri- ate request. Mr. Sessions refused. The confrontation, which has not been previously reported, is being investigated by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, as are the president’s public and pri- vate attacks on Mr. Sessions and efforts to get him to resign. Mr. Trump dwelled on the recusal for months, according to confidants and current and former adminis- tration officials who described his behavior toward the attorney gen- eral. The special counsel’s interest demonstrates Mr. Sessions’s over- looked role as a key witness in the investigation into whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the inqui- ry itself. It also suggests that the obstruction investigation is broader than it is widely under- stood to be — encompassing not only the president’s interactions with and firing of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, but also his relationship with Mr. Sessions. Investigators have pressed cur- rent and former White House offi- cials about Mr. Trump’s treatment of Mr. Sessions and whether they believe the president was trying to impede the Russia investiga- tion by pressuring him. The attor- ney general was also interviewed at length by Mr. Mueller’s investi- gators in January. And of the four dozen or so questions Mr. Mueller wants to ask Mr. Trump, eight re- Trump Pressed Sessions to End Russia Recusal By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Continued on Page A17 Eric Greitens was a decorated member of the Navy SEALs who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, the founder of a veterans’ charity in Missouri and a Rhodes scholar. Chiseled and charismatic, he was elected governor of Missouri and seen by his fellow Republicans as a potential superstar in the party, someone with the brains and poli- tical instincts to perhaps rise all the way to the White House. But on Tuesday, Mr. Greitens abruptly resigned, more than four months into a scandal involving a sexual relationship with his for- mer hairdresser and claims that he had taken an explicit photo- graph of her without her permis- sion. He was also accused by pros- ecutors of misusing his charity’s donor list for political purposes. Defiant but somber, Mr. Greit- ens, who was voted into office in 2016, insisted that he had commit- ted no crimes or “any offense wor- thy of this treatment.” He de- scribed “legal harassment of col- leagues, friends and campaign workers” and said “it’s clear that for the forces that oppose us that there is no end in sight.” “This ordeal has been designed to cause an incredible amount of strain on my family,” Mr. Greitens said. He added: “I cannot allow those forces to continue to cause pain and difficulty to the people that I love.” It was both a shocking end to his governorship and a kind of cathar- Missouri Governor, Rising Star Swamped by Scandal, Resigns By MITCH SMITH and JULIE BOSMAN Continued on Page A16 THE UPSHOT What the political crisis in Rome means for the global economy. PAGE B1 Extreme heat has left people in a fever- like haze, even in the shade. Scores have died. Karachi Journal. PAGE A9 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Heat Cripples Pakistani City As the era of sprawling office parks ends, some New Jersey towns see redevelopment possibilities. PAGE A20 NEW YORK A19-21 Transforming Suburban Relics Alexei Ratmansky is restaging Marius Petipa’s “Harlequinade” by consulting a Harvard trove of century-old dance notations. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 A Ballet Reassembled Fund-raising at the Mayor’s Fund has slowed with New York’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, at the helm. PAGE A19 City-Run Charity Sputters Canada said it would buy an oil pipeline to its west coast, ensuring a protested expansion will proceed. PAGE A4 Deal on Controversial Pipeline As Puerto Rico prepares for another hurricane season, a new study finds that the island’s death toll from Hurri- cane Maria may exceed 4,600. PAGE A13 NATIONAL A10-18 Seeing a Far Deadlier Storm Community workers who used to be incarcerated themselves help other ex-prisoners get care for addiction and other health problems. PAGE A10 Expert Guides to Life After Jail Twenty years ago, President Bill Clin- ton was interrogated by prosecutors. People in the room and watching else- where share recollections. PAGE A11 When the President Testified Serena Williams said she felt she was “on the right track” after winning her first match at a Grand Slam tourna- ment in nearly 16 months. PAGE B7 SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-11 At French Open, a First Step Dolester Miles, whose coconut pecan cake sets her apart, has been named the nation’s best pastry chef, but she isn’t making a big deal about it. PAGE D1 FOOD D1-8 Her Desserts Are Just the Best Beppe Severgnini PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Late Edition Today, mixed clouds and sunshine, cooler, high 75. Tonight, mostly cloudy, low 60. Tomorrow, variably cloudy, a few showers in the area, high 70. Weather map, Page A24. $3.00
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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump, stung by criticism that hehas gone soft on China and lessworried about Beijing’s ability todisrupt a potential summit meet-ing with North Korea, reversedcourse on Tuesday and declaredthat the United States would im-pose tariffs and other punitivemeasures on China.
Barely a week after TreasurySecretary Steven Mnuchin saidthat the trade war was “on hold”and that tariffs would be sus-pended as negotiations continued,the White House issued a state-ment saying the United Stateswould move ahead with its plan toimpose 25 percent tariffs on $50billion worth of imported Chinesegoods within the next month.
Mr. Trump’s reversal was yetanother twist in a long-runningideological battle in the West Wingbetween economic nationalists,who channel Mr. Trump’s protec-tionist instincts, and more main-stream advisers like Mr. Mnuchin,who worry that tariffs and invest-ment restrictions will hurt thestock market and hobble long-term growth.
The nationalists seem to havewon this round. While Mr. Trumpis sending Wilbur Ross, the com-merce secretary, to Beijing thisweekend to try again to resolvethe dispute, people briefed on thetalks said Mr. Trump was frus-trated with the first round of tradenegotiations and wary of givingDemocrats an opening on one ofhis core issues.
The trade offensive comes at asensitive moment, days after Mr.Trump pulled out of his plannedJune 12 meeting with the North’sleader, Kim Jong-un, after sug-gesting that China played a role inderailing the encounter. But thepresident has since expressedmore optimism about the meet-ing, and negotiators from Wash-ington and Pyongyang havescrambled to reinstate it, givingMr. Trump a freer hand to resumehis tough approach to America’sgreatest economic adversary.
In addition to the renewed tradethreat, the United States has hard-ened its military posture towardChina, canceling an invitation forthe Chinese to take part in a largePacific naval exercise and sailingtwo Navy warships past a handfulof disputed islands in the SouthChina Sea. The administration ispushing back against China’s in-stallation of military facilities inthe heavily trafficked waterway.
“On every issue, the balance ofpower in this administration leanstoward a more hostile and adver-
Continued on Page A6
U.S. Resumes Trade DisputeAgainst China
Trump Plans to ImposeTariffs Once Again
By MARK LANDLERand ANA SWANSON
LISBON — Through more thantwo months of tough negotiationsto form a government in Italy af-ter inconclusive March elections,global financial markets re-mained relatively calm. Italy’s un-certainties seemed contained toItaly, and Europe’s economy keptgrowing.
That changed this week whenItaly’s president, SergioMattarella, effectively blockedtwo populist parties from forminga government. He judged that acrucial member of their proposedcabinet was intent on having Italyabandon the euro, though theyhad not explicitly campaigned onthat issue.
In doing so, Mr. Mattarella mayhave laid the groundwork for anew election, one that amounts toa referendum on the euro. The Eu-ropean Union and financial mar-kets reacted with dread. On Tues-day, the Dow plunged almost 400points, the value of the euro plum-meted and the cost of borrowingfor Italy shot up.
For the European Union, an-other Italian election would be ter-rifically bad timing.
Chancellor Angela Merkel ofGermany, a linchpin of the bloc, isweakened; she needed sixmonths to form a government af-ter a rough election of her own lastyear that was marked by a far-right, populist surge. Spain’s gov-ernment could face a no-confi-dence vote as early as this weekand possible new elections aswell.
However unlikely an Italianwithdrawal from the eurozonemay be, the mere prospect is moredangerous to the future of the Eu-ropean Union than the bailout ofGreece, whose economy isdwarfed by Italy’s; Britain's voteto leave the bloc; or the squabblesover the rule of law with Hungaryand Poland.
Italy is a founding member ofboth the European Union and theeuro and the bloc’s fourth-largesteconomy, and psychology counts.
After all, it was Brussels thatwarned Greece in 2011 that a pro-posed referendum on its bailoutand the euro would actually be a
Continued on Page A8
TUMULT IN ITALY ROCKS MARKETSAS E.U. SHUDDERS
ANXIETY OVER THE EURO
Dreading a New Election,and Its Effect on a Bloc
and a Currency
By STEVEN ERLANGER
JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The chain closed most of its stores in the United States for four hours Tuesday to give 175,000 employees anti-bias training. Page B1.Starbucks Pauses
LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE,Calif. — There’s no trace of JimmyA. Williams, the Show JumpingHall of Fame trainer, at the eques-trian club where he was an in-structor for nearly four decades,cultivating young riders, some ofwhom went on to Olympic fame.
The pictures and paintings ofMr. Williams, who died in 1993,and the sterling trophies he wonall vanished without a word re-cently from the clubhouse wherehe had spent many afternoons tip-ping back Champagne with someof Los Angeles County’s biggestand richest names: the parents ofhis young charges. Last month,the club removed his name fromthe grand show jumping stadiumat the heart of the sprawling prop-erty at the foot of the San GabrielMountains, once the Jimmy A.Williams Oval. Today it is justRing 1.
But his former riders cannotforget Mr. Williams. Across thecountry, in her New Jersey barnadorned with her Olympic med-als, Anne Kursinski, one of thecountry’s most decorated showjumpers, remembered her formercoach.
How he tasted of alcohol when-ever he pinned her in a horse stalland crammed his tongue into hermouth. And far more. “He pene-trated me when I was 11,” Ms.Kursinski said, revealing publiclyfor the first time the details ofwhat she said became six years ofcontinual rape and molestation. “Iwas a little kid,” she said. “And hewas God.”
The equestrian community has
been rocked by the revelations ofabuse made by Ms. Kursinski andfour other students, the broadstrokes of which were first re-ported last month by The Chroni-cle of the Horse, an industry publi-cation. It has shaken an insularuniverse in which Mr. Williams, inlife and after, was a mythic figure,revered for his knack with difficult
Behind an Equestrian Legend, a Legacy of AbuseBy SARAH MASLIN NIR
Jimmy A. Williams, in an undated photograph. He died in 1993.GIGI GASTON
Continued on Page A12
Two months ago, RoseanneBarr was a star again.
Her sitcom “Roseanne” re-turned in March after a two-dec-ade absence to enormous ratingson ABC. Network executives werecelebrating their strategy of ap-pealing to wider swaths of thecountry after Donald J. Trump’ssurprising election win, and thepresident himself called Ms. Barrto congratulate her on the show’slarge audience.
But on Tuesday, that all camecrashing down. ABC abruptly can-celed “Roseanne” hours after Ms.Barr, the show’s star and co-cre-ator, posted a racist tweet aboutValerie Jarrett, an African-Ameri-can woman who was a senior ad-viser to Barack Obama through-out his presidency and consideredone of his most influential aides.Ms. Barr wrote if the “muslimbrotherhood & planet of the apeshad a baby=vj.”
Ms. Barr later apologized, but itwas too late. In announcing the
show’s cancellation, ABC’s enter-tainment president, ChanningDungey, said in a statement that“Roseanne’s Twitter statement isabhorrent, repugnant and incon-sistent with our values.”
The show had ended its suc-cessful comeback season last
week and was expected to returnin September for a 13-episode run.Robert A. Iger, the chief executiveof the Walt Disney Company,ABC’s corporate parent, sharedMs. Dungey’s statement on hisown Twitter account, adding,“There was only one thing to dohere, and that was the right thing.”
The sudden cancellation of a hitshow — it had the highest ratingsof a new TV series in years — be-cause of offscreen controversywas almost without precedent.
The show brought in an esti-mated $45 million of advertisingrevenue for ABC this year, and thenetwork probably would have col-lected more than $60 million nextseason, according to Kantar Me-dia.
The move was decided by topDisney and ABC executives, in-cluding Ms. Dungey, who was ap-pointed to her role in February2016, becoming the first black en-tertainment president of a majorbroadcast television network. Shehad the backing of Ben Sherwood,
‘Roseanne’ Self-Destructs With a Racist TweetBy JOHN KOBLIN
Roseanne Barr’s sitcom drewtens of millions in ad dollars.
ABC/ADAM ROSE
Continued on Page A18
WASHINGTON — By the timeAttorney General Jeff Sessions ar-rived at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Satur-day evening in March 2017, he hadbeen receiving the presidential si-lent treatment for two days. Mr.Sessions had flown to Florida be-cause Mr. Trump was refusing totake his calls about a pressing de-cision on his travel ban.
When they met, Mr. Trump wasready to talk — but not about thetravel ban. His grievance waswith Mr. Sessions: The presidentobjected to his decision to recusehimself from the Russia investiga-tion. Mr. Trump, who had toldaides that he needed a loyalistoverseeing the inquiry, beratedMr. Sessions and told him heshould reverse his decision, an un-usual and potentially inappropri-ate request.
Mr. Sessions refused.The confrontation, which has
not been previously reported, isbeing investigated by the specialcounsel, Robert S. Mueller III, asare the president’s public and pri-vate attacks on Mr. Sessions andefforts to get him to resign. Mr.Trump dwelled on the recusal formonths, according to confidantsand current and former adminis-tration officials who described hisbehavior toward the attorney gen-eral.
The special counsel’s interestdemonstrates Mr. Sessions’s over-looked role as a key witness in theinvestigation into whether Mr.Trump tried to obstruct the inqui-ry itself. It also suggests that theobstruction investigation isbroader than it is widely under-stood to be — encompassing notonly the president’s interactionswith and firing of the former F.B.I.director, James B. Comey, but alsohis relationship with Mr. Sessions.
Investigators have pressed cur-rent and former White House offi-cials about Mr. Trump’s treatmentof Mr. Sessions and whether theybelieve the president was tryingto impede the Russia investiga-tion by pressuring him. The attor-ney general was also interviewedat length by Mr. Mueller’s investi-gators in January. And of the fourdozen or so questions Mr. Muellerwants to ask Mr. Trump, eight re-
Trump PressedSessions to EndRussia Recusal
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTand JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Continued on Page A17
Eric Greitens was a decoratedmember of the Navy SEALs whoserved in Afghanistan and Iraq,the founder of a veterans’ charityin Missouri and a Rhodes scholar.Chiseled and charismatic, he waselected governor of Missouri andseen by his fellow Republicans asa potential superstar in the party,someone with the brains and poli-tical instincts to perhaps rise allthe way to the White House.
But on Tuesday, Mr. Greitensabruptly resigned, more than fourmonths into a scandal involving asexual relationship with his for-mer hairdresser and claims thathe had taken an explicit photo-graph of her without her permis-sion. He was also accused by pros-ecutors of misusing his charity’s
donor list for political purposes.Defiant but somber, Mr. Greit-
ens, who was voted into office in2016, insisted that he had commit-ted no crimes or “any offense wor-thy of this treatment.” He de-scribed “legal harassment of col-leagues, friends and campaignworkers” and said “it’s clear thatfor the forces that oppose us thatthere is no end in sight.”
“This ordeal has been designedto cause an incredible amount ofstrain on my family,” Mr. Greitenssaid. He added: “I cannot allowthose forces to continue to causepain and difficulty to the peoplethat I love.”
It was both a shocking end to hisgovernorship and a kind of cathar-
Missouri Governor, Rising StarSwamped by Scandal, Resigns
By MITCH SMITH and JULIE BOSMAN
Continued on Page A16
THE UPSHOT What the politicalcrisis in Rome means for theglobal economy. PAGE B1
Extreme heat has left people in a fever-like haze, even in the shade. Scoreshave died. Karachi Journal. PAGE A9
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
Heat Cripples Pakistani CityAs the era of sprawling office parksends, some New Jersey towns seeredevelopment possibilities. PAGE A20
NEW YORK A19-21
Transforming Suburban RelicsAlexei Ratmansky is restaging MariusPetipa’s “Harlequinade” by consulting aHarvard trove of century-old dancenotations. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
A Ballet Reassembled
Fund-raising at the Mayor’s Fund hasslowed with New York’s first lady,Chirlane McCray, at the helm. PAGE A19
City-Run Charity SputtersCanada said it would buy an oil pipelineto its west coast, ensuring a protestedexpansion will proceed. PAGE A4
Deal on Controversial Pipeline
As Puerto Rico prepares for anotherhurricane season, a new study findsthat the island’s death toll from Hurri-cane Maria may exceed 4,600. PAGE A13
NATIONAL A10-18
Seeing a Far Deadlier Storm
Community workers who used to beincarcerated themselves help otherex-prisoners get care for addiction andother health problems. PAGE A10
Expert Guides to Life After Jail
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clin-ton was interrogated by prosecutors.People in the room and watching else-where share recollections. PAGE A11
When the President Testified
Serena Williams said she felt she was“on the right track” after winning herfirst match at a Grand Slam tourna-ment in nearly 16 months. PAGE B7
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-11
At French Open, a First Step
Dolester Miles, whose coconut pecancake sets her apart, has been named thenation’s best pastry chef, but she isn’tmaking a big deal about it. PAGE D1
FOOD D1-8
Her Desserts Are Just the Best
Beppe Severgnini PAGE A23
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Late EditionToday, mixed clouds and sunshine,cooler, high 75. Tonight, mostlycloudy, low 60. Tomorrow, variablycloudy, a few showers in the area,high 70. Weather map, Page A24.
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