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U(D547FD)v+&!_!/!?!# In the 1950s, Cary Grant and other celebrities experimented with LSD, inspiring the new Broadway musical “Flying Over Sunset.” PAGE 8 ARTS & LEISURE Psychedelic Eisenhower Years The supermodel and longtime spouse of David Bowie talks about their Catskills refuge and her new perfume. PAGE 1 SUNDAY STYLES Iman Opens Up A former school outside Syracuse, N.Y., has been transformed into American High, a production hub for making inexpensive films aimed at streaming platforms and teenagers. PAGE 1 SUNDAY BUSINESS ‘The Breakfast Club’ for Gen Z The former president’s campaign of retribution against some fellow Republi- cans threatens to throw cold water on an energized party in 2022. PAGE 23 NATIONAL 18-29 Trump as Midterm Wild Card Blamed for flooded fields and the occa- sional death, the beaver, which has played a seminal role in Canadian his- tory, is no longer a point of pride. PAGE 4 INTERNATIONAL 4-17 Furry Friends? Not in Canada. Marvin Stein, a former boxer now in his 90s, has battled with his family mem- bers over his fortune. PAGE 1 METROPOLITAN The Fight of His Life Zeynep Tufekci PAGE 4 SUNDAY REVIEW The city’s nightclubs are now crowded again, but months of lost revenue have left many deep in debt. PAGE 1 Party’s Back. Bills Never Left. Forget goal-oriented five-year plans: Some newfangled career coaches are urging clients to look deep within themselves, and then act. PAGE 1 Career Dream Catchers For many women who are going “child- less by choice,” there’s a moral dimen- sion to their decision. PAGE 12 No Kids? It’s a Calculation. The number of defecting soldiers is growing, galvanized by the nationwide anti-coup movement. PAGE 6 Morale Crisis in Myanmar Dark heroin cut with so much white powdered fentanyl that it’s known on the street as “gray.” Co- caine laced so frequently with fen- tanyl that club DJs stock anti- overdose medication. Fake pre- scription pain pills that are in fact all fentanyl. The synthetic opioid fentanyl, a legal prescription pain medica- tion, is now a black market com- modity blasting through the street drug marketplace. Cheap and up to 100 times more powerful than naturally derived opioids, it is also lethal. Behind the trend is a growing body count: In the 12-month peri- od that ended in April, more than 100,000 Americans, a record num- ber, died from overdoses, accord- ing to preliminary data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ma- jority of the deaths were linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. In New York City, most autop- sies of overdose deaths now re- veal that fentanyl was involved, including that of Michael K. Williams, the actor found dead in his Brooklyn apartment. It is spliced into party drugs where it can be consumed unwit- tingly, as it was by six people killed by a single batch of laced co- caine on Long Island this summer. While the mounting deaths show the devastating conse- quence of fentanyl’s seep, it is less ‘This Is Poison’: Fentanyl Jolts Drug Epidemic By SARAH MASLIN NIR Continued on Page 28 PARIS — The wealthy socialite was found dead in the basement of her villa on the Côte d’Azur. The only door was locked from the out- side but also barricaded from within. A message, scrawled in the victim’s own blood, seemed to ac- cuse her gardener. The brutal killing, in 1991, of Ghislaine Marchal and the subse- quent conviction of her Moroccan gardener, Omar Raddad, became one of France’s most enduring murder mysteries, capturing the popular imagination. Now, three decades later, new DNA technology may lead to a second trial that supporters hope will exonerate Mr. Raddad, who has always maintained his inno- cence, and reopen a case that, though seemingly settled legally, has long unsettled France. It has done so not only because of the violence that was visited upon an enclave of proud homes just north of Cannes, or because the protagonists were from dia- metrically opposed backgrounds. There was also the enigma of the locked room that was never satis- factorily unraveled. And there was the final message — which contained a grammatical error. “Omar killed me,” Ms. Marchal appeared to have written in her dying moments. Or, in the original French, “Omar m’a tuer” — not “m’a tuée,” as it should have been. The mistake raised very French Bloody Scrawl, Dead Socialite And a Mystery By NORIMITSU ONISHI Continued on Page 9 CARMEL, Ind. — It’s getting harder and harder to run a stop- light here, because there are fewer and fewer of them around. Every year, at intersections throughout this thriving city, traf- fic lights and stop signs have dis- appeared, replaced with round- abouts. Lots and lots of roundabouts. There is a roundabout deco- rated with the local high school mascot, a greyhound, and another with giant steel flowers. A three- mile stretch of Carmel’s Main Street has 11 roundabouts alone. The roundabout that locals per- haps prize the most features box hedges and a three-tier bronze fountain made in France. In 2016, it was named International Roundabout of the Year by no less than the U.K. Roundabout Appre- ciation Society, which, according to the Carmel mayor, Jim Brain- ard, is largely made up of “three guys in a pub.” (Their actual mem- bership is six. But still.) Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 round- abouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; com- pared with regular intersections, roundabouts significantly reduce injuries and deaths. But there’s also a climate bene- fit. Because modern roundabouts don’t have red lights where cars sit and idle, they don’t burn as much gasoline. While there are With 140 roundabouts, Carmel, Ind., has eased intersection traffic and decreased emissions. AJ MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The Midwestern City Where Rounder Is Greener By CARA BUCKLEY Continued on Page 22 WASHINGTON — On a Wednesday night in September, while President Biden back- slapped in the Republican dugout during the annual congressional baseball game, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat nearby, sober-faced and wagging her finger while speak- ing into her cellphone, toiling to salvage her party’s top legislative priority as it teetered on the brink of collapse. On the other end of the line was Senator Joe Manchin III, Demo- crat of West Virginia, a crucial swing vote on Mr. Biden’s sweep- ing social policy bill, and Ms. Pelosi, seated in the V.I.P. section behind the dugout at Nationals Park, was trying to persuade him to embrace $2.1 trillion in spend- ing and climate change provisions she considered essential for the legislation. In a moment captured by C- SPAN cameras that went viral, Ms. Pelosi appeared to grow agi- tated as Mr. Manchin, according to sources apprised of the call, told her that he could not accept more than $1.5 trillion — and was pre- pared to provide a document clearly laying out his parameters for the package, benchmarks that House Democrats had been clam- oring to see. The call reflected how Ms. Pelo- si’s pivotal role in shepherding Mr. Biden’s agenda on Capitol Hill has reached far beyond the House that is her primary responsibility and into the Senate, where she has engaged in quiet and little-noticed talks with key lawmakers who have the power to kill the package or propel it into law. HOW PELOSI GOT HER DEMOCRATS OVER FINISH LINE PIVOTAL ROLE ON AGENDA In Background, Cajoling Manchin and Sinema to Get on Board By CARL HULSE Continued on Page 24 KISANFU, Democratic Repub- lic of Congo — Just up a red dirt road, across an expanse of tall, dew-soaked weeds, bulldozers are hollowing out a yawning new can- yon that is central to the world’s urgent race against global warm- ing. For more than a decade, the vast expanse of untouched land was controlled by an American company. Now a Chinese mining conglomerate has bought it, and is racing to retrieve its buried treas- ure: millions of tons of cobalt. At 73, Kyahile Mangi has lived here long enough to predict the path ahead. Once the blasting starts, the walls of mud-brick homes will crack. Chemicals will seep into the river where women do laundry and dishes while wor- rying about hippo attacks. Soon a manager from the mine will an- nounce that everyone needs to be relocated. “We know our ground is rich,” said Mr. Mangi, a village chief who also knows residents will share lit- tle of the mine’s wealth. This wooded stretch of south- east Democratic Republic of Congo, called Kisanfu, holds one of the largest and purest untapped reserves of cobalt in the world. The gray metal, typically ex- tracted from copper deposits, has historically been of secondary in- terest to miners. But demand is set to explode worldwide because it is used in electric-car batteries, helping them run longer without a charge. Outsiders discovering — and exploiting — the natural re- sources of this impoverished Cen- tral African country are following a tired colonial-era pattern. The United States turned to Congo for uranium to help build the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Naga- saki and then spent decades, and billions of dollars, seeking to pro- tect its mining interests here. Now, with more than two-thirds of the world’s cobalt production coming from Congo, the country is A mining site owned by a Chinese company in Kisanfu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The land contains a vast reserve of cobalt, vital to making electric car batteries. ASHLEY GILBERTSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution This article is by Dionne Searcey, Michael Forsythe and Eric Lipton. Continued on Page 14 RACE TO THE FUTURE A Mining Frenzy in Congo Four days before Kyle Ritten- house was acquitted of murder, the judge in his case tossed out a charge: illegal possession of the military-style semiautomatic rifle he used to kill two people. The withdrawal of the misdemean- or charge, which carried a maxi- mum sentence of less than a year, was a footnote in a much bigger drama. Yet it was a telling reminder that the Rittenhouse case, in addition to examining the polarizing issues of race and the right to self-defense in the country, highlighted the growing proliferation of guns on Ameri- ca’s streets and the failure of efforts to enact even modest new gun restrictions. While the government remains mired in stalemate on gun con- trol, weapons purchases are at record levels: The run on ammu- nition has become so frenzied that gun shop owners have had to turn away hunters heading out for the winter big-game season. A spike in the firearm-related homicide rate during the pan- demic has overwhelmed local police departments, and the proliferation of homemade fire- arms, “ghost guns,” has reached epidemic proportions in Califor- nia. Gun control advocates thought they would make some headway under President Biden but have faced a backlash. For the advocates, there have been some gains, including a pending ban on the online sale of kit guns and $5 billion in new violence prevention funding that was included in the social spend- ing passed by the House hours before the verdict was an- nounced. But congressional Republicans have blocked efforts to expand federal background checks on gun purchasers and restrict the sale of semiautomatic guns, or even to confirm a per- manent director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. All of that has limited the White House to adopting a series of executive actions, including Kenosha Trial Shows Nation Split by Guns By GLENN THRUSH Continued on Page 29 NEWS ANALYSIS Three clips of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai on Twitter don’t make it clear if she is safe. PAGE 33 SPORTS 33-35 New Videos, Same Worries Late Edition VOL. CLXXI . . . 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Transcript of OVER FINISH LINE
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U(D547FD)v+&!_!/!?!#
In the 1950s, Cary Grant and othercelebrities experimented with LSD,inspiring the new Broadway musical“Flying Over Sunset.” PAGE 8
ARTS & LEISURE
Psychedelic Eisenhower YearsThe supermodel and longtime spouse ofDavid Bowie talks about their Catskillsrefuge and her new perfume. PAGE 1
SUNDAY STYLES
Iman Opens Up
A former school outside Syracuse, N.Y.,has been transformed into AmericanHigh, a production hub for makinginexpensive films aimed at streamingplatforms and teenagers. PAGE 1
SUNDAY BUSINESS
‘The Breakfast Club’ for Gen ZThe former president’s campaign ofretribution against some fellow Republi-cans threatens to throw cold water onan energized party in 2022. PAGE 23
NATIONAL 18-29
Trump as Midterm Wild CardBlamed for flooded fields and the occa-sional death, the beaver, which hasplayed a seminal role in Canadian his-tory, is no longer a point of pride. PAGE 4
INTERNATIONAL 4-17
Furry Friends? Not in Canada.
Marvin Stein, a former boxer now in his90s, has battled with his family mem-bers over his fortune. PAGE 1
METROPOLITAN
The Fight of His Life
Zeynep Tufekci PAGE 4
SUNDAY REVIEWThe city’s nightclubs are now crowdedagain, but months of lost revenue haveleft many deep in debt. PAGE 1
Party’s Back. Bills Never Left.
Forget goal-oriented five-year plans:Some newfangled career coaches areurging clients to look deep withinthemselves, and then act. PAGE 1
Career Dream Catchers
For many women who are going “child-less by choice,” there’s a moral dimen-sion to their decision. PAGE 12
No Kids? It’s a Calculation.
The number of defecting soldiers isgrowing, galvanized by the nationwideanti-coup movement. PAGE 6
Morale Crisis in Myanmar
Dark heroin cut with so muchwhite powdered fentanyl that it’sknown on the street as “gray.” Co-caine laced so frequently with fen-tanyl that club DJs stock anti-overdose medication. Fake pre-scription pain pills that are in factall fentanyl.
The synthetic opioid fentanyl, alegal prescription pain medica-tion, is now a black market com-modity blasting through the streetdrug marketplace. Cheap and upto 100 times more powerful thannaturally derived opioids, it is alsolethal.
Behind the trend is a growingbody count: In the 12-month peri-od that ended in April, more than100,000 Americans, a record num-ber, died from overdoses, accord-ing to preliminary data from theUnited States Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention. The ma-jority of the deaths were linked tosynthetic opioids like fentanyl.
In New York City, most autop-sies of overdose deaths now re-veal that fentanyl was involved,including that of Michael K.Williams, the actor found dead inhis Brooklyn apartment.
It is spliced into party drugswhere it can be consumed unwit-tingly, as it was by six peoplekilled by a single batch of laced co-caine on Long Island this summer.
While the mounting deathsshow the devastating conse-quence of fentanyl’s seep, it is less
‘This Is Poison’:Fentanyl JoltsDrug Epidemic
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Continued on Page 28
PARIS — The wealthy socialitewas found dead in the basement ofher villa on the Côte d’Azur. Theonly door was locked from the out-side but also barricaded fromwithin. A message, scrawled in thevictim’s own blood, seemed to ac-cuse her gardener.
The brutal killing, in 1991, ofGhislaine Marchal and the subse-quent conviction of her Moroccangardener, Omar Raddad, becameone of France’s most enduringmurder mysteries, capturing thepopular imagination.
Now, three decades later, newDNA technology may lead to asecond trial that supporters hopewill exonerate Mr. Raddad, whohas always maintained his inno-cence, and reopen a case that,though seemingly settled legally,has long unsettled France.
It has done so not only becauseof the violence that was visitedupon an enclave of proud homesjust north of Cannes, or becausethe protagonists were from dia-metrically opposed backgrounds.There was also the enigma of thelocked room that was never satis-factorily unraveled. And therewas the final message — whichcontained a grammatical error.
“Omar killed me,” Ms. Marchalappeared to have written in herdying moments. Or, in the originalFrench, “Omar m’a tuer” — not“m’a tuée,” as it should have been.The mistake raised very French
Bloody Scrawl,Dead SocialiteAnd a Mystery
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Continued on Page 9
CARMEL, Ind. — It’s gettingharder and harder to run a stop-light here, because there arefewer and fewer of them around.Every year, at intersectionsthroughout this thriving city, traf-fic lights and stop signs have dis-appeared, replaced with round-abouts.
Lots and lots of roundabouts.There is a roundabout deco-
rated with the local high schoolmascot, a greyhound, and another
with giant steel flowers. A three-mile stretch of Carmel’s MainStreet has 11 roundabouts alone.The roundabout that locals per-haps prize the most features boxhedges and a three-tier bronzefountain made in France. In 2016,it was named InternationalRoundabout of the Year by no lessthan the U.K. Roundabout Appre-ciation Society, which, accordingto the Carmel mayor, Jim Brain-ard, is largely made up of “threeguys in a pub.” (Their actual mem-bership is six. But still.)
Carmel, a city of 102,000 northof Indianapolis, has 140 round-abouts, with over a dozen still tocome. No American city has more.The main reason is safety; com-pared with regular intersections,roundabouts significantly reduceinjuries and deaths.
But there’s also a climate bene-fit.
Because modern roundaboutsdon’t have red lights where carssit and idle, they don’t burn asmuch gasoline. While there are
With 140 roundabouts, Carmel, Ind., has eased intersection traffic and decreased emissions.AJ MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Midwestern City Where Rounder Is GreenerBy CARA BUCKLEY
Continued on Page 22
WASHINGTON — On aWednesday night in September,while President Biden back-slapped in the Republican dugoutduring the annual congressionalbaseball game, Speaker NancyPelosi sat nearby, sober-faced andwagging her finger while speak-ing into her cellphone, toiling tosalvage her party’s top legislativepriority as it teetered on the brinkof collapse.
On the other end of the line wasSenator Joe Manchin III, Demo-crat of West Virginia, a crucialswing vote on Mr. Biden’s sweep-ing social policy bill, and Ms.Pelosi, seated in the V.I.P. sectionbehind the dugout at NationalsPark, was trying to persuade himto embrace $2.1 trillion in spend-ing and climate change provisionsshe considered essential for thelegislation.
In a moment captured by C-SPAN cameras that went viral,Ms. Pelosi appeared to grow agi-tated as Mr. Manchin, accordingto sources apprised of the call, toldher that he could not accept morethan $1.5 trillion — and was pre-pared to provide a documentclearly laying out his parametersfor the package, benchmarks thatHouse Democrats had been clam-oring to see.
The call reflected how Ms. Pelo-si’s pivotal role in shepherding Mr.Biden’s agenda on Capitol Hill hasreached far beyond the Housethat is her primary responsibilityand into the Senate, where she hasengaged in quiet and little-noticedtalks with key lawmakers whohave the power to kill the packageor propel it into law.
HOW PELOSI GOTHER DEMOCRATSOVER FINISH LINE
PIVOTAL ROLE ON AGENDA
In Background, CajolingManchin and Sinema
to Get on Board
By CARL HULSE
Continued on Page 24
KISANFU, Democratic Repub-lic of Congo — Just up a red dirtroad, across an expanse of tall,dew-soaked weeds, bulldozers arehollowing out a yawning new can-yon that is central to the world’surgent race against global warm-ing.
For more than a decade, thevast expanse of untouched landwas controlled by an Americancompany. Now a Chinese miningconglomerate has bought it, and is
racing to retrieve its buried treas-ure: millions of tons of cobalt.
At 73, Kyahile Mangi has livedhere long enough to predict thepath ahead. Once the blastingstarts, the walls of mud-brickhomes will crack. Chemicals willseep into the river where womendo laundry and dishes while wor-rying about hippo attacks. Soon amanager from the mine will an-nounce that everyone needs to berelocated.
“We know our ground is rich,”said Mr. Mangi, a village chief whoalso knows residents will share lit-tle of the mine’s wealth.
This wooded stretch of south-east Democratic Republic ofCongo, called Kisanfu, holds oneof the largest and purest untappedreserves of cobalt in the world.
The gray metal, typically ex-tracted from copper deposits, hashistorically been of secondary in-terest to miners. But demand isset to explode worldwide becauseit is used in electric-car batteries,helping them run longer without a
charge.Outsiders discovering — and
exploiting — the natural re-sources of this impoverished Cen-tral African country are followinga tired colonial-era pattern. TheUnited States turned to Congo foruranium to help build the bombsdropped on Hiroshima and Naga-saki and then spent decades, andbillions of dollars, seeking to pro-tect its mining interests here.
Now, with more than two-thirdsof the world’s cobalt productioncoming from Congo, the country is
A mining site owned by a Chinese company in Kisanfu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The land contains a vast reserve of cobalt, vital to making electric car batteries.ASHLEY GILBERTSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy RevolutionThis article is by Dionne Searcey,
Michael Forsythe and Eric Lipton.
Continued on Page 14
RACE TO THE FUTURE
A Mining Frenzy in Congo
Four days before Kyle Ritten-house was acquitted of murder,the judge in his case tossed out acharge: illegal possession of themilitary-style semiautomatic
rifle he used to killtwo people.
The withdrawalof the misdemean-
or charge, which carried a maxi-mum sentence of less than ayear, was a footnote in a muchbigger drama. Yet it was a tellingreminder that the Rittenhousecase, in addition to examiningthe polarizing issues of race andthe right to self-defense in thecountry, highlighted the growingproliferation of guns on Ameri-ca’s streets and the failure ofefforts to enact even modest newgun restrictions.
While the government remainsmired in stalemate on gun con-trol, weapons purchases are atrecord levels: The run on ammu-nition has become so frenziedthat gun shop owners have hadto turn away hunters heading outfor the winter big-game season.A spike in the firearm-relatedhomicide rate during the pan-demic has overwhelmed localpolice departments, and theproliferation of homemade fire-arms, “ghost guns,” has reachedepidemic proportions in Califor-nia.
Gun control advocates thoughtthey would make some headwayunder President Biden but havefaced a backlash.
For the advocates, there havebeen some gains, including apending ban on the online sale ofkit guns and $5 billion in newviolence prevention funding thatwas included in the social spend-ing passed by the House hoursbefore the verdict was an-nounced. But congressionalRepublicans have blocked effortsto expand federal backgroundchecks on gun purchasers andrestrict the sale of semiautomaticguns, or even to confirm a per-manent director for the Bureauof Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearmsand Explosives.
All of that has limited theWhite House to adopting a seriesof executive actions, including
Kenosha TrialShows NationSplit by Guns
By GLENN THRUSH
Continued on Page 29
NEWS ANALYSIS
Three clips of the Chinese tennis starPeng Shuai on Twitter don’t make itclear if she is safe. PAGE 33
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New Videos, Same Worries
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