The New York Times International - 20.08.2026
全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-08-20
📚 第三部分：全景报刊分卷学术档案与精粹汇编
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📝 核心要闻精要
- 新闻 / 社会 / 一场悲剧之死 归咎于媒体：记者杰克·格罗夫调查剑桥大学教授詹姆斯·阿尔代涉嫌剽窃，导致阿尔代利用知名诽谤律师事务所将其举报至警方，揭示了媒体调查与法律压制之间的冲突。
- 国际 / 救援 / 乔科省人道主义救援：私人空中救护车公司Belizeat在乔科省偏远社区开展救援，通过GPS坐标接走受伤居民，包括一名怀孕八个月且此前未接受产前护理的17岁女性。
- 政治 / 华盛顿 / 白宫舞厅建设争议：特朗普政府在法庭审理期间加速建设白宫舞厅，通过要求工人高强度加班使项目完成三分之二，试图以既成事实使法律阻拦失效。
- 经济 / 能源 / 中东能源巨头扩大海外储备：沙特和阿联酋敦促日本及韩国扩大原油储备规模，旨在通过在波斯湾外建立仓库来防御红海袭击等海上运输风险，保障供应稳定性。
- 评论 / 国际关系 / 新战争物理学：小规模力量的优势：托马斯·弗里德曼分析美伊冲突及乌俄战争，指出小规模力量凭借高精度、低成本和AI增强，在对抗拥有陈旧遗产系统的大国时具有净优势。
- 健康 / 心理 / 青少年女性的“治疗术语”现象：精神科医生观察到年轻女性通过TikTok和Instagram自诊精神疾病，在就诊前便使用专业治疗术语定义自身状况，反映了社交媒体对心理健康认知的影响。
- 体育 / 足球 / 谁能阻挡阿森纳在英超联赛中的势头？：阿森纳在社区盾杯3-0大胜曼城，展现出强大的竞技状态和渴望，分析其在漫长赛季中能否打破英超连续夺冠的稀缺记录。
- 文化 / 音乐 / 菲比·布里杰斯的模拟生活倡导：歌手菲比·布里杰斯在发行专辑《The Record》后，在巡演中执行禁手机指令，通过强制观众脱离数字设备来倡导活在当下的模拟生活。
The New York Times International - 20.08.2026.pdf
英超联赛 谁能 阻挡阿森纳？
第 13 页 / 体育
旅行工具 人工智能如何帮助 寻找低价
末页 / 旅行
绿松石色、水蓝色以及…… 蓝色系 突然间无处不在
第 12 页 / EPYLE
纽约时报
国际版 / 2026年8月20日，星期四
急于将
一场悲剧之死 归咎于媒体
米歇尔·戈德堡
观点
去年，英国杂志 Times Higher Education (泰晤士高等教育) 的记者杰克·格罗夫正在准备一篇关于明星学者詹姆斯·阿尔代涉嫌剽窃的文章。这本会成为一个大新闻，因为阿尔代在 2021 年成为剑桥大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授时，凭借其看似非凡的生平，已成为一个小名人。
除此之外，阿尔代称尽管患有严重的自闭症，他仍获得了博士学位，但他说自己直到 11 岁还无法阅读，直到 16 岁才学会。他曾声称在六天内跑了 600 个索引，这本将使他成为世界上最卓越的。
有些人对文章不感兴趣？一些阿尔代似乎在试图转移他们自己尴尬的可信度。
格罗夫向阿尔代发送了三封电子邮件，询问关于他的工作和历史的问题。阿尔代的回应是请来英国领先的诽谤律师事务所之一——该事务所以试图压制对山达基教 (科学教) 的调查而闻名——并将格罗夫以骚扰罪举报给警方。正如格罗夫后来写道，一名警员告诉他不要再联系阿尔代，因为这影响了这位教授的心理健康。该杂志为了避免昂贵的诉讼，撤掉了这篇文章。
但这个故事并没有消失。它传到了纳森·科尔顿手中，他曾是剑桥大学的一名研究员，因发布种族主义博客文章而被解雇。科尔顿在该月发布了他对阿尔代知识心路历程的评论，随后在英国媒体中引起轰动，尤其是右翼媒体，他们将这一丑闻视为不仅是对阿尔代或剑桥大学的谴责，更是对广泛的学术多样性政策的谴责。剑桥大学宣布进行内部调查，阿尔代随后辞职。
但报道（其中许多极其恶毒）仍在继续，部分原因是阿尔代的新回忆录《格罗夫与不幸之事》在本月出版。上周五，阿尔代被发现死亡，这被广泛认为是自杀。
在阿尔代去世后，许多左翼人士将媒体视为罪魁祸首。“媒体摧毁了詹姆斯·阿尔代，”戈德堡在第 9 页宣称。
纽约时报发表来自广泛视角的观点，旨在就重大问题产生建设性的辩论。
蚊子 vs. 蚊子
上个月，在巴西贝伦的一台幼虫杀灭分发装置中倾倒水。杀虫剂会粘在雌蚊身上，随后由它们将化学物质传播到其他繁殖地。
巴西，贝伦
巴西城市采用
一种创意新策略 应对健康威胁
作者：APHORUS MANDAVILLA
虽然已经过去了10年，但保罗·戈梅斯（Paulo Gomes）仍然清晰地记得当时感受到的恐惧——他担心妻子卢西内奥斯（Lucineos）再也无法从医院回来，担心她会死于因蚊虫叮咬而感染的登革热，她的身体当时被高烧和剧烈的疼痛所折磨。
15天后，她回到了家中，并在接下来的几个月里完全康复。但这次经历改变了戈梅斯先生对蚊子的看法。
现年65岁的戈梅斯先生积极参与了一场激进的运动。他居住在巴西北部城市博尔顿（Bolton）的边缘，该市正致力于减少蚊子及其带来的健康风险。
市政工作人员向他建议，蚊子在积水中滋生，并在潮湿空间中繁衍。他每周五都会为住在附近的孙辈们填满后院的游泳池，但会在他们离开后的每个周日虔诚地将其排干。
在位于里约热内卢的世界最大“蚊子工厂”内部，科学家们培育含有沃尔巴克氏体（Wolbachia）的蚊子，这是一种能阻断登革热和其他病毒的细菌。
他和妻子将走廊保持得极其干净且无杂物，一个角落放着回收桶，另一个角落挂着吊床——而且从去年夏天起，这里还放了一个塑料桶，它是博尔顿对抗蚊子的多管齐下策略中的核心。
这个桶的大小像一个小垃圾桶，它恰好提供了雌蚊寻找产卵所需的阴暗、有水的空腔。
但桶内含有杀幼虫剂，这是一种能杀死幼蚊的化学物质，当雌蚊落在其中时，身体会被该药剂覆盖。在它飞走后，会将药剂传播到其他滋生地，通常在四分之一英里半径范围内。去年，博尔顿在登革热影响最严重的市区分发了5,000个此类装置。
目前，蚊子在博尔顿以及巴西其他地区造成的威胁比在美国或欧洲更大，但全球变暖正在扩大它们的活动范围。在这些地方，大多数登革热、疟疾和基孔肯雅热病例是在出国旅行期间感染的，但本地感染病例正变得更加频繁。2024年，美国记录了近3,000例登革热病例，其中100多例为本地感染。约三分之一的患者住院治疗，其中1人死亡。
“这场疾病危机是一场公共卫生危机，”巴西卫生部长亚历山德罗·帕迪利亚（Alessandro Padilha）博士在一次采访中表示。
在担任二十国集团（Group of 20）主席国期间，巴西倡导采取新举措来对抗像登革热这样由疾病驱动的疾病，“这并非巧合”。帕迪利亚博士说：“关于如何应对气候变化的影响，我们有许多可以向美国许多地区学习的地方，同时也有许多可以教给他们的经验。”
凭借更丰富的经验，巴西采用了新技术来对抗蚊子。其中大多数更具经济效益，包括建设世界最大的“蚊子工厂”——一个生产含有沃尔巴克氏体（一种能阻断登革热和其他病毒的细菌）蚊子的设施。随后，携带沃尔巴克氏体的蚊子被释放到社区中进行繁殖，并将该细菌传递给下一代。
应对蚊子还需要更多措施：见第2页 MONJOTRES
威胁
盟友并 招惹 对手
新闻分析
华盛顿
美国盟友正将
特朗普的言论纳入考量 以期维持关系
彼得·贝克（PETER BAKER）报道
特朗普总统再次以从关税到健康的各种手段威胁其国家的合作伙伴。他再次将注意力集中在一个核武装的暴君身上，而此人注定将成为美国安全的最大威胁之一。世界再次陷入困惑，试图理解一个曾于八十年前建立世界秩序并对其进行运作的美国。
在特朗普先生首次以“美国优先”之名入主白宫近 10 年后，他那种攻击朋友、结交敌人的国际关系处理方式，已成为美国外交政策的特征，而非特例。从欧洲到亚洲再到中东的传统联盟已经破裂，而总统则在接近那些曾被视为对手的人。
即便如此，过去几天的情况仍使特朗普式的世界观显得格外突出。特朗普先生宣布，如果他认为某项因素阻碍了他与某人的战争，他将对中东复杂外交中的一个关键威胁采取健康疾病措施。他准备对曾被认为是美国最亲密朋友的加拿大征收积极关税。他还宣布将撤回对韩国的军事支持，而韩国是美国在亚太地区合作伙伴网络中的核心。
与此同时，他再次开始向朝鲜的绝对独裁者金正恩发送公开消息，根据他自己的描述，他在第一任期内与金正恩“建立了联系”。金正恩统治着世界上最压抑的国家之一，他从未像特朗普先生曾经宣称的那样放弃核武器；相反，金正恩在对特朗普先生的蔑视中大幅扩张了其核武库，而特朗普先生尽管如此，依然认为对方是一个国家，无论如何尝试。
“他威胁我们的朋友，并讨好我们的敌人，”前驻加拿大大使、民主党籍密歇根州州长詹姆斯·J·布兰查德（James J. Blanchard）表示。“如果有人曾经告诉我俄罗斯是我们的朋友而加拿大是我们的敌人，我会告诉你我们处于一个颠倒的世界。”
新美国安全中心首席执行官、前亚利桑那州共和党参议员约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）顾问理查德·芬斯顿（Richard Funston）表示，这些威胁没有一个是新鲜的。但他指出，特朗普先生并不总是将这些威胁付诸实施。他注意到，美国并没有退出北约（NATS）、抛弃韩国、轰炸组织或没收加拿大和格陵兰。
盟友，第 4 页
法国道路关闭与道路本身关系不大
安努瓦（Annouis）市长封锁了一条运行在桥下的道路，理由是安全顾虑。他表示这座桥属于附近的一座城堡，因此其所有者应支付维修费用。
法国，安努瓦（ANSQUIS, FRANCE）
村长与当地城堡所有者
陷入激烈争端
作者：NARE LANGIER
在安努瓦（Annouis），这是一个被雄伟的中世纪城堡覆盖、宛如画卷般的法普罗旺斯村庄，居民们认为他们已经厌倦了讨论那座桥，然而这座桥似乎成了人们唯一讨论的话题。
一座现代果园跨度伴随着被雪覆盖的呻吟，一个讽刺是对他们的交通。它扰乱了他们的残余。它威胁着他们的生计。用市长办公室发布的一篇报道的话来说，这是一座“走得太远的桥”。
6月 4, 在一次桥下选举的支持下，村长 Gémad de Sa-bran-Pomores 关闭了这座高度约为 22 英尺（6.7 米）的桥，理由是拱形结构存在弱点导致危险。
此次关闭实际上将安努瓦分成了两半，使得人们无法在不经过令人恼火的后街区域的情况下开车通过。
这是村长在六年内第三次采取这一极端措施，且每次都发生在夏季交通高峰期。当地商家表示，关闭行为使他们失去了宝贵的客流，因为 Google 地图和其他应用程序无法向驾驶员提供正确的方向。每次，村长都以安全问题为由。
“我承担石头掉在某人头上的风险，”de Sa-bran-Pomores 先生在一次采访中说道，并补充说地区当局已命令他关闭道路。
安努瓦的五个人购买了他们的登记。他们将这一决定视为村长（61 岁）与城堡所有者 Gémad 和 Frédérique Bousset-Bourdon 之间长达一年的最终对峙中的最新障碍，后者通过一条两旁种满丝柏树、横跨该桥的蜿蜒曲折的道路进入其房产。
法国，第 3 页
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法国道路封闭与道路本身关系不大
法国，见第1页
市长表示，这座桥属于名为 Assouin 城堡的建筑，应由业主支付维修费用。Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇则认为，所有权在法律上尚未敲定，且无论如何，修复因车辆通过桥下而造成的损坏是地方当局的责任。
这场纷争可以追溯到 2008 年，当时在马赛拥有资产的富裕夫妇 Rousset-Rouvières 从市长的第三代家族手中买下了这座城堡。市长的祖先自 18 世纪初起就拥有这座城堡，当时这座桥是作为通往该地的一座宏伟新入口而建造的。
“大家都知道他对 Rousset-Rouvières 有个人恩怨，作为马赛的新业主，他想让他们为此买单，”在 Assouin 郊外住了 12 年的退休苹果公司高管 Lionel Paillet 说道。“不幸的是，村庄被夹在中间。”
市长表示，这与报复无关。
这类故事或许会被写进 Peter Mipin 的作品中，他是英国深受喜爱的 Promene 角色——一个将旧权贵与新富阶层置于阳光灿烂却潜藏阴影的天堂之中的故事。
de Sablon-Peutovès 家族在当地的根源可追溯至 15 世纪，长期以来一直是 Assouin 这个拥有约 1,000 名居民的村庄中无可争议的领主。当市长的姐姐 Geromide 在 1869 年 8 月嫁给未来的奥尔良公爵 Jacques 王子时，宾客名单中包括了 Mecaun 的 Grace 公主，即之前的 Grace Bally。
de Sablon-Peutovès 先生在 1905 年 10 月当选，但此后一直担任此职。很少有人对 Assouin 做出如此大的贡献。他重新开发了旧建筑，使该村成为 Laberras 地区最受游客欢迎的目的地之一。
但他的管理风格并非所有人都能接受，其中许多是购买度假屋或养老房的富裕人士。他们对道路封闭造成的混乱——车辆在狭窄的新路拐角处对峙——以及缺乏及时解决方案的情况缺乏耐心。
“这些人因为财力雄厚，一直习惯于立即得到想要的一切，”曾任市政委员会成员且与市长关系密切的 Michael Corniles 说道。
曾在 Grange 担任高管、于四个月前与妻子 Caroline 一起搬来的 Marc Philippe 表示，de Sablon-Peutovès 先生“仍然认为这是他的村庄”，他补充道：“市长并没有采取任何措施来消除这种观念。而对于 Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇，人们已经习惯了他们拥有巨大的影响力。”
“他失去城堡是在 2007 年。在他和兄弟姐妹因父母去世后如何处理该房产而争执不下后，他的姐姐通过要求她的三个孩子远离他们的婴儿（以及其他事项）触发了一场拍卖。感兴趣的买家中包括时尚界人士 Fèvre Corde。”
具有讽刺意味的是，这场拍卖于 1898 年 1 月在巴黎的 Gensuippin 举行，那里曾是 Marie An-
上图所示的 Assouin 居民和企业主一直在应对旅游旺季期间的一次道路封闭，这次封闭实际上将村庄分成了两半。
“这是一座困扰了我很长时间，很长时间的房子。”
PRÉFÉRIQUE ROUSSET-ROUVÉRÉE 与丈夫 Gérard 在他们位于 Assouin 的家中，该房产曾由市长的家族所有。
在法国大革命期间被断头台处决前，他们曾是无可争议的房主。在拍卖过程中，共有三轮竞价，每轮持续的时间恰好是一根小蜡烛燃尽所需的时间。
在房地产领域发家的 Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇最终脱颖而出—。
他们对此感到惊讶，甚至比任何人都要惊讶。他们声称市长一直无法走出阴影。“我会一直记得这件事直到我死去，”他们说市长曾这样警告他们，但市长否认说过这句话。市长的其中一位兄弟在两年内都没有搬走。
市长表示他确实感到被冒犯了。
“这些人一直把我的村庄当作人质。”
——市长 GÉRALD-Je-SABRAN-PONTIÈVÈS 在谈到 Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇拒绝支付桥梁维修费用时说道。
新业主散布消息称，他在出售后移走了城堡内的所有物品，并将其粉饰。但对方否认这样做过。不过，他将自己描述为对失去家族财产感到“宿命论”的人。他在诺曼底和勃艮第还写了两处其他房产。
亲属关系紧张了十年，并在 2020 年爆发了公开冲突，此前一辆巨大的垃圾车占据了桥底，导致一些石头松动。Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇表示，他们出资 18,000 欧元，或 187,000，用于临时加固桥梁。但他们拒绝支付永久维修费用，并称市长因此而诋毁他们。
“市长通过指定一个责任方，在村里制造了一份非常复杂的名单，”Rousset-Rouvière 夫人是在城堡内的一间她认为充满了 little-century 古董的房间里接受采访时说道。
Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇以各种规模的方式进行反击。2010 年，他们获得了一项法院裁决，裁定桥梁的损坏是由交通流量而非渗水等结构性问题引起的。裁决称，这使得当地政府应对此事负责。
这对夫妇光顾当地商店，向商人们讲述他们那一侧的故事。他们向公众开放城堡，这有助于村庄的旅游业。他们同意在桥梁护栏上挂一块剧院告示牌，用法语写着：“悲伤的村庄——桥梁关闭，村庄被牺牲。”
这些标志出现在 Assouin 周围的商店橱窗中，当地商人表示，那个夏天他们的销售额比去年下降了四分之一。部分原因是法国的热浪。但他们说，没有任何原因是因为这些干扰。
在村中心拥有一家烟草店的 Michel Brigon 表示，这场诉讼让他感到厌倦，他计划明年卖掉店面。“他们已经把这座桥描述成‘悲剧’六年了——告诉我们发生了巨大的崩塌，”Brigon 先生说。“不，这不是真的。没人相信。”
正如许多居民之间长期存在的矛盾一样，在财力雄厚的对手之间，信任现在被掩埋在层层诉讼之下：连锁反应、反击、专家研究和法庭裁决。在所有的法律操纵之后，关于谁实际上拥有这座桥的问题，成了“理应如此的一大难题”。
这对夫妇表示，他们不妥协的立场是由苦涩感驱动的，而非出于对城堡的持久热爱。
“当你恋爱时，你是盲目的，”Rousset-Rouvière 夫人说。“这座房子在很长很长一段时间里一直萦绕在我的心头。”
她补充提到市长，“他没结婚。”
de Sablon-Peutovès 先生也对自己的年龄感到困扰，并且在 40 年里一直试图结束这场僵局。他在最近的一封信中告诉村民，区政府已同意支付桥梁的临时维修费用，这将允许道路重新开放。 （区政府的一位发言人确认将接管维修工作。）
商人们对此持怀疑态度，并指出目前尚未开展任何工作。“我认为他在拖延时间，”53 岁的 Alexis Hennequin 说，他经营着一家杂货店，并计划关闭店面。
市长声称并不担心正在酝酿的叛乱。他说他将通过邀请他们 9 月在桥下举行派对庆祝道路重新开放，从而迅速赢回必要的感情。
“我会告诉他们，‘我爱 Assouin，我也爱你们’，”他说。但，他忍不住补充道，“但我不会让城堡的谎言之主得逞。”
朱莉娅·伊姆伯特（Giulia Imbert）在阿苏因（Assouin）参与了报道，比戈利德·勒布鲁尔（Bigolide Le Broule）在巴黎表示。
以“蚊子对抗蚊子”应对健康威胁
BROOKFIELD，
。市政部门需要加强其媒介控制部门，医生必须接受识别和治疗这些疾病的培训，而公众则需要接受自我保护的教育。
“对于其他国家来说，为病例越来越多这一可能性做好准备，并对社会各阶层进行培训至关重要，”Watkins de Brueil 的首席执行官 Luciane Morette 表示，该公司是由非营利组织世界蚊子计划（World Mosquito Program）与巴西政府共同成立的一家国家合资企业。
“这不仅仅是政府过去喷药那么简单，”他说，“这是一场运动的一部分。”
一座城市的反击
当地人喜欢说贝伦只有两个季节——一个是每天都下雨的季节，另一个是整天都在下雨的季节。
这座城市是进入强大的亚马逊地区的门户，其边缘主要被包围。芒果树及其掉落的果实像一样，用甜腻的香味吸引昆虫。人行道上、堆叠的轮胎中以及垃圾桶里的小水洼，为蚊子提供了聚集地，以便随后繁衍更多后代。
几十年来，贝伦居民一直受到 audio-aggish 的攻击，这种蚊子携带登革热、寨卡病毒和基孔肯亚热——以至于在 2016, 年，一座城市公园安装了一座巨大的玻璃纤维 leone's (Arctis aegypti) 雕像。这种蚊子也分布在美国的许多地区，包括佛罗里达州、德克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州。
气候变化使得这些蚊子繁殖得更快，加剧了它们携带的威胁。2024, 年，登革热在巴西感染了超过 1000 万 人，导致 8,000. 多人死亡。贝伦联邦大学的微生物学家 Melanie Silva 表示，如果该国能及时识别并治疗该疾病，死亡人数可能会更少。
巴西的大约是之前的四倍，而在贝伦，这一数字大约高出七倍，导致该市医院人满为患，。市政府采取了多种应对方法，从加强垃圾处理和污水处理等公共部门解决方案，到与 Silva 博士等学术科学家合作。
正是 Silva 博士说服了卫生部长将贝伦列入尝试这项特殊服务分发业务的城市名单，并为城市工作人员提供培训和设备资金。
Silva 博士及其同事研究了全市登革热病例的分布情况。他们还参考了该市昆虫学实验室关于蚊子幼虫和卵藏匿地的数据——尽管该季节的种群规模
汲取惨痛教训，巴西采用新技术对抗蚊虫。
基于这两类信息流，他们确定了最脆弱的区域，其中许多位于低收入社区和贫民窟，这些地区将从该方案中获益。
与其他针对雄蚊的方法不同，这些成本低于 $2 个的杀幼虫装置，是利用雌蚊将化学药剂传播到人类难以发现的滋生地。席尔瓦博士表示：“我们是在利用蚊子对抗蚊子，”他说，“这就是这个陷阱的聪明之处。”
该市还培训工作人员，向低收入地区的居民普及远离蚊虫的方法，让他们能够识别登革热症状，并在出现严重疾病迹象时前往医院。高烧、头痛和呕吐可能是许多其他疾病的症状。但登革热还会引起剧烈的肌肉和关节疼痛，如果不及时治疗，可能会导致血管渗漏
以及死亡。
“过去，有很多避蚊区域，比如市中心，所以我们推广了……”贝伦市市长伊戈尔·诺曼丁在一次采访中说道。
他说，由于这些努力，该市去年季节的蚊媒疾病下降了 70%。
“这个计划的成功是因为我们没有只关注某一件具体的事情，”诺曼丁博士说。“我们没有只关注教育，也没有只关注垃圾清理。”
从法国（左侧），穿过游泳池就是他在巴西贝伦的家，每个周日，在同一个月的每个贝伦（左侧），贝伦市的工作人员挨家挨户地教育居民如何保持家中没有蚊子。
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贝伦战略的一个新部分是社区外展。在该市卫生部门的 1,000 多名工作人员中，约有三分之一专注于限制蚊子数量。（相比之下，佛罗里达州雷县——一个规模相当的沿海地区——只有 13 名全职员工，以及 1,000 个成功的部门。）
贝伦许多所谓的媒介控制员采取挨家挨户的方式，告知居民如何维护其场所：昆虫地块、保持水容器覆盖，并在每日不可避免的降雨后清理积水点。那些拥有幼虫杀灭分发装置的住户每月会收到一次夜间供应访问，以确保这些站点没有被改装成存放物品或洗衣服的地方。
在上个月的一个相对日子里，在 Faridwar 巡逻的工人发现一名房主的孙子在清理时严重误用了常识，没有意识到其用途。另一家人将容器放在两栋房屋后面，以防止他们的狗接触到它。
当 Careen 先生试图在监测的高温中保持凉爽时，该市的主要检查员 Elizabeth Betts 检查了市场以查看蚊子幼虫——结果没有发现——然后将水倒掉并重新填充。随后，她添加了一条涂有幼虫杀灭剂的新种子条，这种药剂会粘在雌蚊身上，使它们将卵产在条带上。
Careen 先生表示，听到贝伦在许多之前的睡眠日标准方面处于领先地位时感到“惊讶”，他说道：“我们认为这应该是你们已经拥有的东西，我们一直期望这些解决方案来自美国，而不是由我们来扩展它们。”
美国大多数城市仍然依赖社会或局部喷雾来控制蚊子，在黄昏后派遣卡车并警告人们留在室内。杀虫剂可能会导致某些人出现头晕、恶心和皮肤刺激。
美国和意大利的其他地区都曾深受喷雾之苦，但到 2000 年代初，蚊子开始表现出对化学物质的抗药性。像贝伦这样的城市现在仅在爆发期间采取雾化处理——这种处理产生的是细水雾，而不是喷雾产生的大液滴。
“大多数人随着枪支销售的增加而增长，但我们需要以更理性的方式使用它们，”来自 Watkins de Brueil 的 Morette 博士说。他说，理想情况下，杀虫剂将成为更大战略的一部分，主要在爆发期间使用，“这就是巴西正在做的。”
2016 年，面对广泛的杀虫剂抗药性，巴西卫生部召集专家来平衡其自身关系，包括包含 Wolbachia 细菌的繁殖熏蒸。Wolbachia 是一种对环境无害的解决方案，因为该过程涉及约一半的所有昆虫。这种饥饿宿主媒介技术距离埃及伊蚊（Andes aegypti）还很遥远。
这种方法在国家蚊子控制战略的新部分中首先被设定，但政府计划在明年年底前将该数量扩大到近 60 个，Morette 博士说道。
贝伦尚未在释放 Wolbachia 资源的名单上，因此可能会在先用其他方法减少数量后再这样做。但对于新居民来说，该市分发幼虫杀灭装置的战略已经带来了未规定的工资。
63 岁的 Filipc Bergo 回忆起贝伦派遣卡车对丛林进行熏蒸的时候。她的丈夫，该市的所有者，他们童年时的亚马逊蝴蝶消失了。但现在，她说，她院子里的蚊子明显减少了，而且“蝴蝶回来了”。
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地震使哥伦比亚最贫困的角落沦为废墟
哥伦比亚，乔科
在乔科省的偏远地区，幸存者面临饥饿和无家可归的风险
作者：GUSTAVNE GLAZIER
在哥伦比亚偏远的太平洋沿岸乔科省（Chocó），孤立长期以来一直是生活常态。由于基础设施匮乏，电力和医疗水平依然低下，大部分人口生活在贫困之中，而武装团体控制着该领土的部分地区。
“接着地震发生了，”乔科省本就是该国最脆弱的地区之一，上周还遭遇了一次 2.6 级地震，导致全国至少 200 人死亡。
在乔科省，由于当局难以抵达散布在该地区的社区，破坏的全面程度尚不明确。现在，乔科省面临着一项重建工作，这项工作必须克服几代以来一直困扰该地区的地理、经济和政治障碍。
“我们陷入了废墟之中，”15, 岁的胡安·费尔南多·塔博尔达（Juan Fernando Taborda）说道，他来自拉特（La Te），这是一个距离乔科省首府基贝尔（Quibell）两小时路程、拥有约 600 人的小镇，那里有更多建筑被摧毁或损坏。“我们一无所有。”
在哥伦比亚历史的大部分时间里，乔科省是一个偏远的矿业前沿地带，被奴役的非洲人被西班牙人带到这里在矿井中工作。一些人逃脱并形成了超出殖民控制的社区。
一些基础设施和公共服—
从上方顺时针方向依次为：在哥伦比亚圣何塞-德尔-帕尔马（San José del Palmar），士兵和志愿者从直升机上卸载救援物资；在拉特（La Te），一家严重受损的酒店危险地倾斜；以及阿德里亚娜·瓦莱罗（Adriana Valero）医生在救治一名 15 岁的少女，该少女在怀孕八个月时，其位于基里卡巴（Quiricaba）的家坍塌，导致其腿部骨折。
这次地震让人们将国家注意力转向了一个长期抱怨被忽视的地区。
25岁的亚米莎·斯图吉尔科（Yamisha Sturgilco）表示，她的两个孩子变得非常害怕 all-kerokecks。
“这太痛苦了。坦白说，这让人深感不安，”斯图吉尔科女士说。她说，她最小的女儿有时会幻想说墙壁在倒塌。“她指着那边，而我告诉她，‘不，宝贝，没有什么在倒塌，完全没有东西在倒塌。’”
来自 Belizeat（一家私人空中救护车公司）的机组人员已飞往乔科省（Chocó）各地仅由十几户人家组成的小社区，接走受伤居民并运送应急物资；在某些地方，并没有正式的降落点。居民通过提供 GPS 坐标并寻找直升机可以降落的空地来提供位置。
在 One Quiricaba（一个 Echeka儿村原住民小社区），一种直升机飞入山区的方案是，一名叫 Klaus Negreira Myers 的女性，她在房屋倒塌导致腿部骨折时已怀孕八个月，年仅 17 岁。
她从未接受过产前护理，由一名来自 heart 的医生阿德里亚娜·瓦莱罗（Dr. Adriana Valero）为其治疗。直到该女性登上直升机且他们检测到心跳，她才得知她的孩子还活着。
机组人员在云层中飞行，寻找缺口以便飞行员能够安全下降。
乔科省只有一家拥有基础医疗能力以上水平的医院，位于 Quibell。农村患者可能需要等待数周才能被转移到其他地方进行紧急治疗。
武装团体控制着部分道路和公路，导致通行不安全。据省长和当地新闻报道，在地震之前，哥伦比亚最强大的武装团体之一 ELA 特别封锁道路，并在该地区的供应路线上骚扰车辆。企业主和捐赠者向省长办公室询问发送卡车和机械是否安全，担心发生绑架、敲诈或车辆被拦截的情况。
地震发生后，乔科省的互联网立即中断。人们能够安全地发送最初的应急设备，是因为省长的车辆上安装了一个私人“thankful”卫星天线。
据省长称，有 200 多栋学校建筑被毁，影响了带有课程的膳食计划。国家紧急住房补贴的作用有限，因为可供出租的房屋很少。
一些没有倒塌的建筑在结构上仍然不稳定。工程师们一直在该地区穿行，检查受损建筑，并用喷漆标记那些被认为不安全的建筑。
尽管地震导致数千人流离失所，但很少看到在其他灾难后会出现的初步运营避难所的迹象。大多数家庭由亲戚、朋友或邻居收留。
“我们虽然贫穷但很体面，”25岁的勒迪·马坦萨斯（Lerdy Matanzas）说。在她丈夫建造的 non-herniation 房屋被毁后，她与丈夫和两个孩子睡在亲戚的客厅里。
该省正在建立一个“材料库”以帮助居民重建，但科尔多瓦（Ms. Córdoba）女士表示，全面重建需要国家直接拨款。
德·拉·埃斯皮里达（Mr. De La Espirida）先生表示，这场悲剧在他上周访问时阻碍了一个“contemplative opportunity”。“我想提出一个特别计划——一个针对乔科省的马歇尔计划，”他说，但未提供细节。“由于波哥大的权力集中，乔科省一直被抛弃，就像它不存在一样，”她周一表示。德·拉·埃斯皮里达先生说，地震造成的经济损失初步估计约为 10 trillion 比索（约 3.4 亿美元 billion）。
全球超级巨星夏奇拉（Shakira）筹集资金帮助学生并重建学校，并于周一与沃伦·巴菲特的 Marshall Buffett 一起访问 Quibell。
在拉特（La Te），镇上大部分的商业场所、住宅和其他建筑（包括教堂）都被摧毁或被拆除标记，洪水冲入了充满混凝土和碎片的小房间；部分建筑则以一种诡异的方式勉强伫立。
地震六天后，居民们坐在曾经是他们店铺的门外角落的塑料椅上，凝视着残骸。
对许多人来说，几乎没有什么可以依赖的基础。拉特的经济活动在很大程度上是非正式且按日计酬的。
“这里没有大型企业，”15岁的镇长路易斯·费尔南多·帕尔米斯（Luis Fernando Palmis）说，“我们一直依赖上帝的仁慈和慷慨。”
26岁的扬德里·莉莉安娜·帕尔米斯（Yandri Liliana Palmis，与前述人员无亲属关系）也经历了这一切，她当时位于一座建筑的二楼，该建筑的上层在地震中坍塌，导致房间直接暴露在自然环境中。她说，她是通过从阳台跳下逃生的，当时她与母亲和孩子一起住在借来的房间里，并通过寻找任何能找到的工作（包括卖水果和咀嚼品）来维持生计。
“物质上的东西肯定可以恢复，”她说，“但失去的就再也回不来了。”
安妮·科雷尔（Annie Correal）参与了报道。
对于国家其他地区来说，这里的情况十分严峻，而崎岖的道路以及该国不同地形引发的山体滑坡进一步加剧了困难。根据政府数据，在哥伦比亚的32个州（部门）中，人口约100,000人的乔科省（Chocó）贫困率最高。
乔科省是一个主要由非裔哥伦比亚人和原住民组成的太平洋沿岸地区，与帕洛马尔（Palomar）接壤，这里被茂密的丛林和河流覆盖，以其独特的文化、节日和美食而闻名。但许多居民、政治家和历史学家将这种被忽视的状态归结为国家的冷漠和结构性种族主义。地震削弱了许多本就脆弱的联系，使其成为该国最困难的地区之一。虽然人口密度较高且建筑较高的主要城市死亡人数较多，但乔科省面临的是另一种情况，省长努比亚·卡罗琳娜·科尔多瓦（Nubia Carolina Córdoba）在基贝尔（Quibell）的办公室中表示。
“乔科省这场悲剧的规模在于，今天有多少活着的人一无所有，”她说，“在于那些幸存者将面临多少个月的痛苦、悲伤、饥饿和无家可归。”
在靠近地震震中的偏远小镇圣何塞-德尔-帕尔马（San José del Palmar），居民们已经连续几天在户外睡觉，担心另一次震动会震塌已经受损的房屋。在地震发生两天前，居民们曾被归因于某个武装团体的袭击所惊吓。地震引发的山体滑坡切断了该镇唯一的道路，导致救援人员只能依靠直升机运送所有食物、药品和其他物资。
这次地震让一个长期抱怨被忽视的地区获得了异常的全国关注。在地震前三天就任的总统阿贝拉尔多·德·拉·埃斯皮里达（Abelardo De La Espirida）在就职的第一周访问了乔科省，与此同时，国家官员和私人援助团体也纷纷涌入该地区。
“目前的情况正在恶化，”圣何塞-德尔-帕尔马市议会主席马龙·罗德里格斯（Marlon Rodriguez）说。她说，该市规模较小且资源匮乏，甚至在地震之前，它不仅在与糟糕的基础设施作斗争，还经常遭受山体滑坡的困扰。
人类热爱他们的宠物。一些其他灵长类动物也是如此。
研究发现猴类和类人猿经常与许多小型生物互动
作者：JULIAR MITCHELL BROWN
在乌干达一个保护区茂密的丛林顶篷中，两只年轻且严肃的黑猩猩约翰（John）和迪尔德丽（Deirdre）正从树枝间跳跃，此时发生的变化让观察中的研究人员感到惊讶。这对黑猩猩靠近了一只附近的红尾猴，但并非带着攻击性，甚至不像典型的黑猩猩，而是带着抚摸。约翰和迪尔德丽开始平静地盘绕那只猴子的尾巴。
最近发表在《Prismat》杂志上的一项研究称，像这样罕见的互动可能代表了我们灵长类近亲养宠物行为的早期阶段。为了获取更多信息，这表明我们人类并非唯一照顾其他物种的生物——并且有一个警告，宠物伴侣的关系可能深植于灵长类动物的过去，某些种类，就像一个并非家庭成员，以及她被收养的未来，All Ball's。
甚至长期以来一直处于研究人员的一个进化阶段。我们必须喂养它们，给它们提供住所，清理它们的牙齿并抓挠它们的耳后。这样的关系可能被认为是一种糟糕的投资回报。
“在我们没有进化利益关系的其它物种成员身上挥霍资源，似乎在进化上讲不通，”西卡罗来纳大学（Westor's Carolina University）的心理学家兼动物专家哈尔·贝林（Hal Berring）表示，他没有参与这项研究。然而，许多文化都养宠物并深爱它们。
之前的研究表明，我们养宠物的资源原因在于我们饲养的宠物，范围从陪伴和社交联系到寻求新奇感和地位。艺术家尼古拉斯·卡耶（Nicolas Caye）必须揭示一条双头蛇，而巴勃罗·埃斯科巴（Pablo Escobar）维持着自己的动物园，里面有嬉皮士、大象和腰带动物。针对双胞胎的研究表明，物种间相互陪伴的部分原因是遗传性的，但对宠物亲近关系的最终起源仍笼罩在谜团之中。
“有理论认为，养宠物要么是因为动物被用于狩猎和保护等任务，要么是因为人类天生（-不）渴望仅限于物种的筑巢生物，”马克斯·普朗克动物行为研究所（Mae Planck Institute of Animal Behavior）的行为战略家佐伊·古布尔伯勒（Zoë Gublborough）表示，她没有参与这项研究。
最早的养宠物考古证据来自德国一个 10,000 年前的类型，其中一名男子和一名女子与他们的狗一起被埋葬。但这种关系更多
在泰国，印尾经理在梳理一只狗。领导灵长类动物养宠行为研究的西里尔·格鲁尼尔（Cyril Grunier）怀疑，一种动机可能是不足的。
可能在比那早得多的时候就出现了。在我们的根源显现的某个时间点，我们与其他物种的联系从主要实用性的东西变成了更现代的东西。
“不幸的是，我们不知道人类将动物作为宠物带入生活已经多久了，”贝林博士说。“如果没有时间机器，我们可能永远不会知道。”
审视我们近亲的想法并非尚未成熟；行为始于西里尔·格鲁尼尔，他是英国牛津大学的生物人类学家和灵长类动物学家，也是这项新研究的第一作者，当时他正在访问上海学校的一名硕士生。他看到展区内的一只雌性闪光动物设法捕捉了一只小老鼠，轻轻地将其握在手中抚摸。“我们一直
非常照顾那只小老鼠，”格鲁尼尔博士说，“而那只老鼠在她手掌中似乎很舒服。”
格鲁尼尔博士推论，像这样的跨物种互动可能持有关于为什么我们将家庭填满小型生物的关键线索，但它们不是研究人员通常在同行评审期刊上发表的那类数据。“如果你看到一个温柔的信赖一个书宝宝，”他说，“有人可能会拍张照片发到社交媒体上，但你不会为此写一篇科学论文。”
为了不再局限于孤立的案例，研究人员查阅了大量的媒体报道和科学文献，并询问了灵长类动物学家关于灵长类动物与其他物种互动的类似情况。他们的评估涵盖了 40 种灵长类动物的常规记录。数据表明，每种灵长类动物，无论物种如何，都表现出某些行为，但不仅仅是像人类那样饲养宠物。
“有一个案例中，一只管理猴与意外进入其围栏的人类建立了非常强大的社会纽带，”格鲁尼尔博士（Dr. Grunier）说道，另一个案例中，几只特定的猴子收养了一只小狨猴，为其哺乳并照顾它，这种情况在野生和圈养动物中都很常见。
在进一步审查数值后，研究人员发现猴子和类人猿与多种不相关的物种互动，包括蜥蜴、鸟类、鹿、狗、松鼠和其他灵长类动物。最常见的互动包括玩耍、理毛和市场研究。灵长类动物与同类建立的关系：幼崽更倾向于与其他动物玩耍，成年雌性更倾向于采取适应性动物，而成年 雄性更倾向于采取适应性动物。
关于一只猴子与宠物饲养员之间动物互动的生活，动物如何？格鲁尼尔博士认为，宠物并非连接，但并非与某人在一起。就像人类感到孤独时一样，我们的灵长类亲属可以通过理毛或与另一个波段建立联系来缓解对亲密关系的渴望。在白色中，对方很开心，人类的记忆可能会捕捉并信任一只老鼠。
格鲁尼尔博士希望这项研究能帮助人们并呼吁关注人类环境。在日本会议上，确定哪些动物更容易保持平静。
尽管如此，他指出这些案例与世界上生活在埃及的猫科动物相去甚远。“在非人类灵长类动物中，不存在等同于饲养宠物的常规行为，”他说，但我们可以研究可能导致其演化的“成分”。
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明尼苏达州的未来，季节，在日（Nhật）更伟大，约旦河西岸，已允许消费者提取商品并缴纳税款。他说，他们赢得了他约 $550,000，而他正挣扎于向供应商付款。
约旦河西岸经济被扼杀
拉姆安拉，约旦河西岸
以色列的限制将被占领土推向财务崩溃边缘
作者：ADAM RASON DAVID M. SALENTNICK 以及 FOSTER ARNOLD KIRIN
以色列对约旦河西岸的压力已将该被占领土推向财务崩溃的边缘，因为严厉的限制影响了日常生活的方方面面，并引发了一场经济危机。
自 2025 年 10 月 7 日针对以色列的 Hussain-hol 袭击以来，总理内塔尼亚胡（Bess Adame Netanyahu）政府已停止数千名巴勒斯坦人在以色列工作，扣留了数十亿美元的税收，并实施了损害商业的银行限制。
管理约旦河西岸部分地区的巴勒斯坦权力机构因收入锐减，被迫削减工资和公共服务的支出。医疗保健等部门深刻感受到了这种焦虑，由于政府拨款购买药物的资金减少，药店经常出现药品短缺的情况。预算削减还迫使其他机构每周仅开放几天，医院在医生和护士减少的情况下运行。
34 岁的 Deloitte Hammad 在三个月前被诊断出患有乳腺癌。在约旦河西岸城市拉姆安拉的一次医院就诊后，她前往药店领取药物。她的六张处方单中只有三张能开到药。
“我很幸运，”Hammad 女士在疲惫地等待时说道，“上次他们只有一种药。”
Hammad 女士在获取药物方面遇到的困难预示着更广泛的经济问题。巴勒斯坦权力机构经常警告会出现从未实现的财务崩溃，但人们越来越担心它能维持偿债能力多久。
“我们面临着一个巨大的问题，”该机构总理穆罕默德·穆斯塔法（Mohammed Mostafa）在一次采访中表示，“每个人都受到了影响。”
以色列挤压经济
作为一个被占领土，约旦河西岸在经济上不可避免地依赖于以色列，以色列控制着谁以及什么可以进入和离开该领土以及加沙地带，包括资金的流入和流出。
20 世纪 90 年代的 USA关闭 规定，依赖方等待以色列盾作为两个领土的主要货币，并建立以色列银行与巴勒斯坦银行之间的联系。这基本上赋予了以色列控制一个它可以关闭的金融机关的权力。
以色列对巴勒斯坦施加的第一波经济压力已初见成效。在 2023 年 10 月的袭击之后，以色列在加沙发动了一场毁灭性的战争，同时也开启了约旦河西岸经济支持的新时代。
首先，以色列迅速取消了数千名巴勒斯坦人的许可证，使其无法到达在以色列的工作场所。农业和外国商业需要每年向巴勒斯坦经济注入大量美元。根据巴勒斯坦中央统计局的数据，自加沙战争开始以来，没有人能够看到，以色列人已将其提高到 20%，是冲突前速度的两倍多。
西岸地区的失业率
一名巴勒斯坦人在西岸波斯顿的一家药店等待药品。药店的药品正趋于短缺，医院在医生人数减少的情况下运行。
随后，在 2025 年 5 月，以色列开始每月扣留数亿美元代表巴勒斯坦权力机构征收的进口税。据巴勒斯坦官员称，这笔收入流约占西岸政府 2020 年约 60 亿美元 billion 预算的三分之二。
该赤字迫使巴勒斯坦权力机构削减了 $10,000（所有服务）以及安全官员、主管在困难周和天数中的薪资，并积累了数十亿美元的债务。
在努比安（Nubian）的一名公共警察官员 Avdair Habib 少校表示，他约 $1,100 的薪水已被拦截。
“我能做的只有最低限度中的最低限度，”他说。
“行动的窗口依然狭窄，但正在关闭。而且关闭得很快。”
36 岁的 Habib 少校说，他大部分时间只有在周五才吃；为了工作，他改用公共交通而非私家车，并且曾拥有超过 1000万美元。他的债务依然存在，因为他只能负担每月贷款还款的一小部分和电费。
以色列还在整个西岸地区设立了新的主要路障，限制了该领土内的货物流动。据市长 Yassel Adami 和居民称，在最繁华的城市努比安，以色列军队关闭了七个出入口中的五个。他们表示，只有两个经常开放，第三个则根据行动和安全考虑“间歇性”开放。
以色列总理办公室发言人 Chome Spokane 指责巴勒斯坦权力机构“试图转移对其支持恐怖主义以及未能通过解放以色列进行改革的注意力”。
以色列极右翼财政部长 Rezaief Smotrivik 的办公室未对多次置评请求做出回应，而 Smotrivik 一直是施压活动的推动力量。
巴勒斯坦权力机构表示，它已采取更多措施来解决以色列的担忧。2024 年 2 月，该机构主席马哈茂德·阿巴斯（Mahmoud Abbas）发布法令，停止向被关押在以色列监狱的巴勒斯坦人家庭支付请求，这是以色列官员长期以来主张的文件。
美国和以色列官员驳回了阿巴斯先生的努力，而 Pak 或类似官员则表示新法律正在执行。
EARLY-EASY, BEEN HORIZON
以色列还限制了巴勒斯坦银行允许向以色列银行发送的谢克尔金额，这一关键流程有助于巴勒斯坦个人从以色列及世界其他地区购买商品。
内塔尼亚胡政府允许巴勒斯坦银行向以色列银行每季度转账约 15 亿美元 billion——这比前几届政府允许的金额要少。根据巴勒斯坦政府和银行法，这些限制导致约 17 亿美元 billion 资金在约旦河西岸的银行金库中滞留。
“他们正在阻止我们满足市场的需求，”巴勒斯坦银行协会（一个贸易团体）总经理本·阿尔巴尔·亚辛（Ben Albar Yasin）表示。
面粉、糖、大米和巧克力的批发检查员萨里尔·阿比多特（Tharir Abidot）表示，他现在只能进口以前购买量的一半。
“我曾经拥有幸福，”来自约旦河西岸北部城市Xmas的阿比多特先生说。“这个问题正在杀死经济英雄。”
最近几周，巴勒斯坦银行高管表示担心他们的机构可能会被有效地与以色列银行切断联系。与巴勒斯坦银行合作的穆迪以色列银行——以色列折扣银行（Israel Discount Bank）和Repsaiba银行表示，他们担心这些联系可能会使他们面临有关资金（涉及或恐怖主义融资）的诉讼，并威胁要终止这些关系。这些以色列银行对以色列政府未能采取更多措施保护他们免受诉讼风险表示沮丧。
根据《纽约时报》获得的一段录音，巴勒斯坦货币管理局行长雅希亚·达桑（Yahya Dhaasan）向外交官发出警告，称由于以色列的经济限制，巴勒斯坦经济正接近“全面危机”。
“采取行动的窗口依然狭窄，但正在关闭，”舒马尔（Mr. Shumar）先生说。“而且关闭得很快。”
舒马尔先生还表示，以色列中央银行（该国央行）副行长安德鲁·阿比斯（Andrew Abis）已警告巴勒斯坦货币管理局准备一份应急计划以在国家内部持有，因为目前合法的以色列中央银行在一份声明中表示，制定应急安排是有意义的。
然而，巴勒斯坦经济专家警告说，突然这样做可能会导致混乱，并使与以色列的贸易变得更加复杂且成本更高。
“这根本不是即时的”
1964, 在努比亚（Nubian）附近的一个村庄，31, 岁的超市老板曼-坦纳·阿姆罗（Man-taner Amro）允许顾客先拿杂货随后付款。他说，他的顾客欠他约 $150,000, 他正艰难地在规定时间内向供应商付款，这导致一些供应商除非预付款，否则拒绝交货。
“我们现在不应该这样操作吗？”他说。“这根本不是即时的。”
巴勒斯坦权力机构总理穆斯塔法（Mr. Mostafa）先生改善局面的手段很少。他说，他的政府除了卫生部门外，已实施招聘冻结，停止向开发项目拨款，并正在使用紧急预算运行。
巴勒斯坦分析人士和官员表示，唯一的希望是内塔尼亚胡（Mr. Nenayan）的右翼联盟在即将到来的选举中被一个不那么强硬的政府取代。一个不那么决心让巴勒斯坦付出代价的新以色列政府可能会放宽这些限制，尽管这很难。
在拉姆安拉（Ramallah）的一家医院里，哈马德（Ms. Hammad）女士正试图面对药物短缺和日益严重的疲劳。她的两个女儿获得了更好的医疗机会并回到了车里。“这是患癌最糟糕的时刻，”她说。
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“这种霸凌式的言论正日益被世界各地的国家所效仿，”方丹先生（Mr. Fontaine）表示。“他们并不公开支持，但也不会秘密地抵制这种言论。随着越来越多的空头威胁被发出，人们现在开始倾听。这损害了总统的信誉。”
特朗普先生长期以来一直主张，他对待其他国家的方式无论多么不 ortodox，对美国来说都是合理的。特朗普先生认为，在之前的总统任期内，其他国家利用美国的安全存在和贸易规则而无需给予回报，相对较高的贸易逆差和相对较低的北约军费开支证明了这些国家正在剥削美国。
至于更具代表性的北韩、中国、韩国以及其他长期对手，特朗普先生主张，过去传统的政策未能实现其既定目标，因此最好尝试更多的外交手段。他仍然希望与北韩达成一项核协议，并与中国达成一项全面的贸易协议，且该协议可以根据进度进行修改。他试图通过促成莫斯科结束在乌克兰的战争来处理俄罗斯问题。《华尔街日报》报道称，他已推动各方在今年秋季与金正恩先生举行会晤。
与伊朗的战争为区分哪些盟友值得支持以及哪些不值得支持提供了新的标准。在他看来，那些拒绝协助针对德黑兰的军事行动，或拒绝协助通过以色列的国家背叛了美国，尽管美国在发动战争前征求过他们的意见。在针对英国、法国、西班牙、意大利等国未能在他对抗伊朗时提供更多帮助之后，特朗普先生现在将注意力集中在了韩国。
“我们在那里有20,000名士兵，用来防范你的邻居金正恩，而你竟然不打算在伊朗的简单军事行动中帮我们一把！”他在本周宣布将缩减与韩国的联合演习后如此说道。
特朗普先生表示，他与金正恩这两个男人，“金正恩一直对我充满极大的尊重，我们多次会面，并在主要场合交谈并共度时光。我了解他，他也了解我。”
如果真是这样，那么金正恩先生就与那些仍然不理解特朗普先生的欧洲和亚洲盟友截然不同，而后者已经习惯于面对他反复无常的爆发。直到现在，两党总统都非常重视与海外朋友的关系。尽管多年来存在许多紧张时刻，但他们一直努力防止这些紧张局势进一步恶化。
现在，反而是盟友们在试图避免局势恶化。“他们忍气吞声，是因为最终他们不希望看到维持多年的联盟遭受不可修复的损害，”战略与国际研究中心地缘政治与外交政策部门主席亚辛·D·楚（Yasin D. Chu）表示。“简而言之，盟友们可能并不喜欢或信任目前的美国，但他们需要美国。”
曾任乔治·W·布什总统亚洲顾问的楚先生表示，韩国总统李在明（Lee Jin Myung）实际上与特朗普先生关系良好，且不希望破坏这种关系。“李在明和特朗普一样具有交易倾向，如果特朗普对金正恩的方案奏效，那将非常符合韩国的利益，”楚先生说。
自20世纪50年代以来美国军队在韩国的存在长期令特朗普先生感到恼火，他希望减少战争地带。在他的第一个任期内，他试图撤军并军事演习，认为这些行动毫无意义且对他北韩的朋友构成了不必要的挑衅。他试图就美国的服务向韩国收取数十亿美元，并将安全问题与他对以色列贸易政策的抱怨联系起来。
特朗普先生并非首位对将驻韩国军队撤回国内感兴趣的总统。吉米·卡特总统曾承诺缩减在韩美军规模，但在国会及其自身政府的抵制下放弃了这一计划。曾任布什国防部长的唐纳德·H·班尼贝克（Donald H. Bannibek）通过将一个旅重新部署到伊拉克，令韩国人感到惊讶，且从未返回德黑兰。根据国会研究服务局的数据，约有 28,000 名美国士兵驻扎在韩国。
“对于重组美国军事部署，可能存在战略上的理由，”澳大利亚悉尼大学美国研究中心首席执行官迈克尔·J·西特龙（Michael J. Citron）表示。“这更多是为了在与全球当前决策者的讨论中让他们产生疑虑——尤其是在北韩人从乌克兰战场归来、经验丰富，且拥有比 2000 年时更庞大的导弹库存的时刻。”
起初，他多年来一直是美国与伊朗之间重要的中间人，在战争局势开放谈判时帮助促进协商。但特朗普先生变得日益激进，而阿曼一直试图在伊朗与以色列的摩门教（Israel of Mormon）之间斡旋达成协议。
他首次在五月威胁要对该地区发动一场未经提供的战争，称“阿曼将像其他人一样相信，否则我们将不得不炸毁他们”。周一，他再次猛烈抨击，宣布如果阿曼“阻碍”他与伊朗达成协议的努力，“我们将把他们的目标击碎”。
“随着越来越多的未兑现威胁被发出，人们听得越来越少。这损害了总统的公信力。”
加拿大面临着来自特朗普先生另一种形式的敌意，他誓言从一月午夜起，对包括曲棍球棒和奶酪在内的 300 多种加拿大商品征收 30% 的新关税。在午夜截止日期前约 90 分钟，特朗普先生宣布将征收关税的时间推迟三天。
白宫发布了一项公告，称加拿大已同意做出某些贸易让步，而额外的几天时间是用于敲定这些条款。
加拿大总理马克·图沃姆（Mark Twome）对于密集谈判的成果表述较为模糊，称仍有“重要工作”要做。
即便双方达成协议，邻国之间仍存在许多摩擦点，而特朗普先生公开表达的接管加拿大并将其变为“第一个州”的意图加剧了这种紧张局势。就在上个月，连接底特律与安大略省温莎市的新卡迪奥之家国际大桥（Cardio Home International Bridge）的开通被推迟了数周，原因是特朗普先生与加拿大的冲突。
布兰查德先生表示，他怀疑最近针对加拿大和其他美国盟友的爆发，源于特朗普先生无法结束第一场战争。无论是通过强硬手段还是谈判，都没有听到对方在以色列的摩门教（Israel of Mormon）控制权问题上做出让步，或在放弃核计划方面做出可验证的承诺。总统似乎陷入了一个没有清晰前行路径的地缘政治陷阱。
方丹先生表示，特朗普先生对待盟友和对手的方式是统一的。然而，他说：“成为美国的朋友应该有好处，成为敌人应该有代价，而不是相反。”
总统特朗普长期以来一直主张，他对待其他国家的方式无论多么不 ortodox，都是合理的。他认为那些所谓的盟友正在利用美国。
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舞厅的法律策略：快速推进建设
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随着项目的命运在法庭上审理，白宫辩称该项目进度已太深，现在无法停止
作者：LUKE BROADWATER 2025 ASYLIL MADDISON
由于其舞厅的命运在法庭上陷入僵局，特朗普总统正在与时间赛跑。
他面临着 235 名工人的调度问题，要求他们每天工作 20 小时，每周 7 天推进建设，以便在可能的情况下尽快完成这项工作。政府在提交给法院的文件中表示，本周计划安装 100 万磅的其他材料并浇筑 2,000 立方码的混凝土，该项目目前已完成三分之二。
现在，随着此事在最高法院审理，特朗普政府正向大法官们提出一项实际的申诉：这座舞厅的进度实在太快，现在已经无法停止。
“他的策略显然是改变事实基础，使得那些正确地依据法律反对其行为的人，处于必须撤销一个既成事实的境地，而不是维持现状，”哈佛大学宪法学荣休教授劳伦斯·H·特赖布（Laurence H. Tribe）表示。
多年来，特朗普先生一直主张白宫应该拥有舞厅，称这是在世界舞台上的声望问题。他说，一座舞厅将允许官员们为特邀嘉宾举办大型活动，而无需在南草坪上搭建临时设施。
近几个月来，随着保护主义者和其他批评者试图阻止或至少减缓该项目的进度，特朗普先生提出了一个新的理由：国家安全。本质上，特朗普先生将舞厅及其下方的军事掩体视为同一整体。
该掩体——正式名称为总统应急行动中心（PEOC）——建于第一次世界大战期间（内部位于白宫东侧附近）。特朗普先生还对其进行了改造，以为他的舞厅腾出空间。现在，他将这两个项目放在同一个语境下讨论。
例如，在一名持枪男子冲进白宫记者协会（前述）之后，特朗普先生在社交媒体上表示，南半部分的压力来自于“目前正在白宫建设的咨询绝密舞厅”。
特朗普先生去年 10 月拆除了东翼，并未寻求任何批准，也未向国会提交建设或拆除计划。虽然他将该项目提交给了由他任命的领导者组成的两个审查小组，但特朗普先生一直在修改他们授权的设计方案。
几项联邦法院的裁决认定，总统通过简化规则和政府审批超越了其职权，但这些决定在等待上诉期间被暂缓执行——这意味着建设至少可以持续到本周五，届时上诉法院停止地上建
上个月新白宫舞厅建设现场的景象。特朗普总统在 10 月拆除了东翼，并未寻求任何批准，也未向国会提交建设或拆除计划。
设的命令生效。该案件目前也在最高法院审理中。
上周，特朗普政府告诉最高法院，总统正在建筑外部添加最终的金印，而这一细节从未提交给美术委员会。
白宫管理与行政主管约书亚·费舍尔（Joshua Fisher）告诉法院，一个混凝土和大多数观众的结构已经建成，其深度延伸五层，高度达 10 英尺（12 米）。
费舍尔先生表示，该项目 80% 的钢筋已经铺设完毕，相关担忧已经过去。
他表示，项目所需的 64.04 亿资金中，已有 10.25 亿资金来自私人捐赠者。他预计建设将很快完成。
费舍尔先生表示，舞厅的执念正由国际意大利艺术家承载，且该建筑将足够坚固，足以承受核爆炸。
“即便按照目前的进度，上部结构也已经超过了再点，”费舍尔先生写道。他补充说，即便最高法院在建筑建成后下令撤销该建筑计划，“也没有办法这样做。”其信息很明确：这座舞厅无法被撤销。
但在周二的一份文件中，质疑该项目的保护主义者告诉大法官们，政府正试图通过暗示停止施工已太迟，来“跑在司法审查之前”。
根据该文件，他们告诉法院，“由于舞厅采用了核电站所使用的那种混凝土，因此几乎不可能将其拆除”。
美国国家历史保护信托基金会（National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States）的律师表示，该基金会是由国会授权保护美国历史建筑的非营利组织。他们称，政府故意加速施工，是“为了将其违法的舞厅”置于司法干预之外。
他们指出了宪法和几项联邦法律，其中规定国会必须批准此类项目。一项联邦法律规定：“未经国会明确授权，不得在任何历史、政府或哥伦比亚特区的保留地、路径或公共场所兴建任何建筑或结构。”
下级法院法官支持保护主义者，裁定国会必须首先批准白宫综合体的扩建和翻新。
保护主义者告诉大法官们，政府正试图“跑在司法审查之前”。
由塞德斯·A·吉文斯（Thaddeus A. Givens）领导的法院律师表示：“试图规避司法审查并篡夺国会专属权力的行为，不应通过允许请愿者完成一座他们最初根本没有权力启动的舞厅而获得回报。”
在该信托基金周二提交的文件中，建议最高法院暂时停止地面上的工程，然后迅速安排在10月或11月进行辩论，以正式决定该项目是否可以继续。该信托基金表示，如果大法官们，该项目预计将在今年秋天基本完工，届时就太迟了。
总检察长辩称，舞厅与白宫综合体更广泛的国家安全需求密不可分。他表示，该结构采用硬化混凝土、模具和钢筋、防导弹保护柱、屋顶和梁、防爆天花板和屋顶，以及防弹和防爆玻璃。它包括坚固的掩体、最先进的医院和医疗设施、建筑所有区域之间的保护隔断、最高机密军事结构和设备、军用级通风系统、单一集成空调和供暖系统、主要通风口以及顶部的废料口。
他还反驳了上诉法院关于特朗普先生是白宫的临时租客而非所有者的不利裁决。他写道：“美利坚合众国总统不是租客，而是行政分支唯一的当选首脑”，并补充说，其他总统也曾采取措施重新改造白宫。
最高法院的保守派多数派通常对特朗普政府扩大总统权力的努力持接纳态度，但同时也否决了特朗普先生的一些标志性计划。预计大法官们将在上诉法院于周五生效的所有建筑停工令之前发布命令。
巴尔的摩大学法学教授金伯利·韦尔斯（Kimberly Wells）表示，特朗普多年来一直致力于扩大总统权力，而试图在白宫 grounds 上建造一座巨大的新建筑而无需批准。
“毫无疑问，他简直是在让白宫像气球一样膨胀，并说：‘你们能拿我怎么办？’”她说道。“他们正在提出这样一个普遍论点，即‘我是总统，所以这涉及国家安全，我想做什么就做什么。’这是一种非常讽刺的、通往总统权力无上限的危险滑坡。”
特朗普的助手们十分忠诚。但没有人像她那样。
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娜塔莉·哈普（Natalie Harp）成为关注焦点，她是少数几位在飞机更换过程中随同总统的人员之一
作者：SHAN'S MCCRIGGS 2025 MAGGIE RANDINGS
她从不休息，即使在周日也不例外。她在椭圆形办公室工作，并在“海军一号”上拥有固定席位。她与世界领导人一起探讨正在发生的问题。她陪他熬夜起草社交媒体帖子。
她很少就事务发表讲话，但她却无处不在，总是带着灿烂的笑容，目光紧随总统。
她是娜塔莉·哈普，一名25岁的海军翼助手，她是特朗普总统的第二道门卫，一名在初始指挥链之外运作、负责信息安全的新女性战斗员。公众对哈普女士的兴趣在上周爆发，因为据透露，她是少数几个幸运儿之一，在伊朗的攻击威胁下，与总统一起进入飞机引导舱被迅速从土耳其撤离。
本周，她成为了来自佐治亚州的民主党参议员的一场针对大学的警察服务（police service）的主题，该参议员在谈到总统时说：“他不想履行职责。他想建造他的舞厅，并在卡塔尔赠送的飞行宫殿起飞前，与娜塔莉一起在他们的预约中旅行。”
这位参议员对哈普女士的见解引发了许多特朗普家属的特别“强烈”反应。与此同时，在国会山的一些助手、保守派影响者以及至少一名内阁成员公开表态，支持哈普女士。右翼方面出现了性别歧视的指控，而左翼则对其管理能力提出了批评。当一名来自CNN的记者询问特朗普先生关于古尔德（Gould）先生的评论时，特朗普先生为其辩护，随后一个由政府运行的社交媒体账号以异常私人化的措辞攻击了该记者，甚至提及了其子女。
这个新委员会将聚光灯投向了这位身价4000万美元且令人不安的女性，她长期以来让总统周围的人感到着迷且沮丧。本文基于对六名了解其职责的人员的采访。哈普女士未回应置评请求。
新委员会的强硬态度已体现在他如何履行总统职责上。
只要哈普女士在场，他就能享受到不受限制的信息流，其中一些信息在许多其他顾问看来是平庸且适得其反的。她为他提供她从社交媒体网格中挖掘的内容（例如他发布的将奥巴马描绘成青金石的视频），并为他提供来自官方华盛顿之外的世界视角，而他一直对后者持不信任态度。她的号码被称为“人类监狱”，因为她用一台便携式打印机告诉总统，这样她就可以将信息引导至环形区域。
她是一个好人，在情况变得艰难时，她能提供更多的积极能量来支持他。她相信，或者至少是对她声称，她完全赢得了2026年的选举。在《纽约时报》记者 Maggie Havenson 和 Jonathan Jones 合著的《更快乐的改变》（Happier Change）一书中，特朗普先生被描述为向人们解释，哈普女士是唯一像妻子和孩子那样了解他工作的人。
“娜塔莉·哈普是特朗普总统团队中最勤奋、最努力的助手之一，”即将离职的白宫新闻秘书 Romfete Loecht 在回答《时报》关于哈普女士职位性质以及为何她被选中陪同总统乘坐秘密送餐车救援机的问题时表示。
上周，娜塔莉·哈普与特朗普总统在土耳其安卡拉。她表现出的忠诚甚至让西翼的一些人都感到不安。
在某些方面，哈普女士填补了一个特朗普先生一直以来都在重复的角色，这可以追溯到他还在曼哈顿担任房地产开发商的时期。那时，在特朗普大厦20层的办公室外总是坐着秘书，随时准备听候差遣。他将这些女性称为“姑娘们”。
哈普女士领取由纳税人资助的 $350,000. 薪水。她的双重头衔是总统特别助理和总统执行助理。在工作中，她可能是西翼的一个环节，在这里，对总统的忠诚似乎没有界限，先生。
哈普女士表现出的忠诚令她的一些同事感到不安。
与《纽约时报》分享的几段视频显示，哈普女士在特朗普先生在苏格兰球场 8 模式的行程中，跨越长距离奔波以跟上他的步伐。“如果我在苏格兰球场行走时表现得像个官员，我很抱歉，”她在给总统的一封信中写道，该信件已被《纽约时报》查阅。
信中继续写道：“我想让我们的关系保持在正确状态，也请知道我这一整周都心不在焉（忘记了日间的安排），甚至忘记了睡觉，一次只能睡几个小时。”
信件结尾写道：“全心全意地，娜塔莉。”
她在加利福尼亚州长大。上周，与她显然已疏远的 4 个月（此处原文含义不明）接受了 CNN 的采访。他这样描述他的女儿：“我想说，她曾经，圣约瑟夫（Mr. St. Joe's）对她有一种痴迷，嗯，好，我该怎么解释这个？嗯，她给其他总统写过信，我就这么说吧。”据称他指的是乔治·W·邦德（George W. Bond）。
哈普女士与这位总统的联系非常深。她将救命之恩归功于他。
她曾表示自己患有骨癌，而特朗普先生在 2016 年签署的一项立法让她能够获得实验性治疗。（她没有公开详细说明具体是哪些治疗。）
2020 年她在 Fire News 讲述这段经历时引起了总统的注意。他邀请她在 2020 年的共和党全国代表大会上发言。接下来的两年里，她作为极右翼 One America News Network 的主播，报道他的选举路线。2022, 她终于加入了他的团队。
一些顾问表示，哈普女士为特朗普先生提供了一个未经筛选的信息流，其中一些信息产生了反作用。
一部在特朗普先生 2016 年竞选期间拍摄的名为《激增之艺术》（Art of the Surge）的“作战室”风格纪录片，展现了哈普女士努力工作的片段。
“政治从来不是我喜欢的东西，”她在其中一个被拍摄为间隙的场景中解释道。“但当我接触到它时，我开始观看共和党辩论。他是我接触政治的第一次经历，就在那里！我，就像，这得搞定它。”
影片切换到 2016 年特朗普先生在名为“信仰与自由联盟”（Faith & Freedom Coalition）的“走向多数”（Road to Majority）会议上介绍哈普女士。
“他们当时正准备让她面对死亡，”他说。“她的名字叫娜塔莉·哈普，因为‘尝试权’（right to try），她现在活着，而且我认为她做得极其出色，有人说她在这儿。娜塔莉，你在吗？娜塔莉在哪？请你上来好吗？”
那个走过舞台向他走去的女人，还不是她很快将成为的那个完全成熟的特朗普助手。
“我患了癌症，他救了我的命，签署了那项法案，”她在电影中说，“自从他发现后，他就一直与我保持联系。确保我没事。”
6 / 20, 2026 星期四
世界
洛杉矶的“丑小鸭”庆祝其专属日
洛杉矶
圣费尔南多谷，一个巨大的郊区地带，要求被听到
作者：TIM JILVIGIL 和 HENRY HUBLER
在圣费尔南多谷的 Cupull's Hot Dogs 店外，一块招牌引导顾客参加本周的大日子，上面写着：“给圣费尔南多谷的一封情书，在 8 / 10 庆祝 8 号。”
连续九年来，圣费尔南多谷一直庆祝这个非官方的重大认可日，以表彰这个位于洛杉矶市中心北部的巨大郊区地带。该地区是洛杉矶市的重要组成部分，尽管居民们经常将圣费尔南多谷描述为一个截然不同的世界。
尽管圣费尔南多谷得到了庆祝，且在过去几十年中一直是热门电影的取景地，但居民们觉得他们仍然受到轻视：在洛杉矶的等级制度中，被圣莫尼卡山脉与市中心、道奇体育场和好莱坞隔开的圣费尔南多谷，只能分到聚光灯下的残余关注。
“我们很多人觉得，好吧，我们就像是被洛杉矶市隐藏在椅子下面的丑小鸭，”圣费尔南多谷历史学会主席巴克·韦伯（Buck Weber）说道。
“8号日”是在 8 月 18, 或 8 / 16, 给圣费尔南多谷一个专属日的方式。这次庆祝活动是以 8 号区号命名的，该区号自 1800 年代中期以来一直与圣费尔南多谷相关联，当时洛杉矶的人口在 1800 年代不断增长。这座城市的州和城镇是小规模的场景。它是洛杉矶的一部分，人们大多是居住在这里，而不是来访。
当地购物中心有特别优惠，餐厅的菜单定价为 $8.50。还有背包：视觉 / 装饰，“传播 / 装饰”。政治家们将此作为发布可能迎合圣费尔南多谷标志性中产阶级特性的公告的时机。正在竞选连任的市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）在圣费尔南多谷露面。预计她将讨论自她就职以来犯罪率下降的情况，包括入室盗窃案的显著减少。
“我迫不及待地想要庆祝，”摩根·沃尔什（Morgan Walsh）说道，她与姐姐共同经营 Cupull's，该店由她的祖父母于 1946 年创立，是圣费尔南多谷最古老的企业之一。她计划穿着滚轮溜冰鞋来营造氛围。
Cupull's 的停车场有一个鲜明的标志，庆祝圣费尔南多谷及其典型特征。上面写着“Like Totally”，这是在致敬典型的“谷底女孩”（Valley girl）刻板印象。
8 号区是洛杉矶的一部分，在设计之初就不是为了追求刺激。这是一个勤奋工作、拥有单户住宅的地方，并为山那边，即马霍兰路（Mulholland Drive）另一侧那个更迷人的洛杉矶提供支撑。它
上方和下方，在圣费尔南多谷周二举行 8 号日庆祝活动之前。这次庆祝活动是一个地区的公民自豪感的表达，该地区经常觉得被排除在洛杉矶的繁华之外。“现在，我想说，我们太过于依赖洛杉矶了，”一名居民说。“因为，如果你看看，这里住着多少名人？”
这里曾是喜剧节目主持人开玩笑说从“美丽的市中心 Buchung”进行广播的地方。
就像汤姆·布雷迪（Tom Brady）在歌唱这个社区时所说的那样，这是“住在 Bonsela 的漫长日子”。院子里有一条“高速公路罗马”。
由于山脉阻挡了海洋，圣费尔南多谷在热浪期间往往比城市的其他部分遭受更严重的影响。（正如预料的那样，根据美国国家气象局的数据，圣费尔南多谷在周二处于高温预警状态。）有些人说，圣费尔南多谷在其他方面也遭受损失，即市领导层很少将其视为优先事项。
“我们只是觉得没有得到应有的服务，”韦伯先生说。“我们觉得我们像是一个事后才被想起来的补充。”
虽然 8 号日带来了关注，分。
包括迷你高尔夫、游戏机特惠和 D.A. 在内，这次庆祝活动也是一个地区公民自豪感的表达，该地区经常觉得被排除在洛杉矶的繁华之外，并被市政厅所忽视。周一，韦伯先生引导一名访客参观了 Anders Plus Adobe，这是该谷地最古老的建筑，由美洲原住民与天主教传教士合作于 1616 年建成。他指向一张描绘 1910 年 Calawuga 三位一体签署协议的照片，该协议为美国英雄与女性英雄之间在谷地发生的一场战斗建立了场所。
韦伯先生是一位退休的高中历史学生，他还谈到了长期定义该谷地的刻板印象——而这些印象有时会引发骚乱。
“大多数人首先想到的是，”Ridgewood 高中的汤姆·塔图姆（Tom Tatum），他说。
他回忆起一名学生，他说该学生符合“早期的破折号”刻板印象。“他说我相处得很好，但他叫我 8th Day —— 而我叫他 Special，”他说道，指的是 1982 年电影中的角色。
大约 25 年前，一群厌倦了被市政厅忽视的居民试图在拖车箱发起一场起义。但该措施在
“我们只是觉得没有得到应有的服务。我们觉得我们像是个事后才被想起来的补充。”
从洛杉矶分离、于 2002 年在全市范围内投票的方案被报道。尽管失败了，但这次脱离尝试巩固了该谷地的地位，使其成为洛杉矶的一个侧面，而城市领导者如果忽视这里将面临危险。现在有超过 1.0 百万人居住在那里，新一代人已经开始欣赏它的另类之处。
这是保罗·托马斯·安德森（Paul Thomas Anderson）的感觉，这位导演的作品赞美加利福尼亚。这是未来愿景在进入大城市之前成长的地方，一个巨大的、崎岖的、像洛杉矶内部人士一样的地方。（在他们去日本之前，三姐妹中的两个在另一个名为 1600 GAV 的组合中。）
该地区——环球影城的所在地——是一个关键的经济区域。市长巴斯（Bass）及其挑战者、市议会议员 Vollyra Ruman 预计将于周三在谷地进行辩论，那里聚集了大量能够左右全市选举的中立至中左翼选票。
如今，居民们表示，尽管他们对居住地产生了一种日益增长的自豪感，但他们仍然感到来自洛杉矶的一种体验感。
“现在，我想说，我们也属于 40th L.A.,”自 1970 年代起就住在谷地的 36 岁路易斯·帕迪拉（Louis Padilla）说。“因为，如果你看看，有多少名人住在外面？”
奥斯卡·乌尔武拉（Oscar Urvula），一名 30 岁的 Mining Valley 居民，他为前公园和企业客户制作房间，并且是航空公司内部指南 My Valley Pass 的创始人，他说 8th Day 的出现是因为居民们实际上每年 8 月都在庆祝这一天。
他说，今年的这一天有些特别：该谷地首次在帕萨迪纳的新年日玫瑰花车游行中获得最终设计的某种东西。他说，有了这个最终设计，“我们可以突出我们自己，而不仅仅是作为洛杉矶的一部分。”
德克萨斯州大学利用人工智能削减左倾课程主题
教授们将教学大纲审查描述为学术界的反乌托邦噩梦
作者：VIMAL PATEL
德克萨斯理工大学（Texas Tech）今年春季的年度教职员会议在提供茶点中开始。校方分发了部分由人工智能生成的报告，列出了教授们希望停止教授的课程内容。
“什么？”一名教授问道，“我根本没教这些东西。”
“其中存在事实错误，”另一人补充道。
“这是人工智能在搞鬼，”第三个人说。
德克萨斯理工大学正利用人工智能筛查书籍和其他教材，旨在剔除关于性取向和性别认同等主题的教学内容。教授们将这种影响描述为一场反乌托邦的学术噩梦，在这种噩梦中，意识形态正利用技术来排挤学科专家。
但德克萨斯理工大学系统的领导者布兰登·克赖顿（Brandon Creighton）并不这么认为。
克赖顿先生曾是一名州议员，他一直在打破这个由五所大学组成的系统的法律。提供的内容是这项工作的核心。他曾表示，大学的课程中存在“相当多的垃圾”。
他表示，他的课程审查计划“将培养出更好的学生。我还相信，当我们完成时，它将成为一个全国性的典范”。
该大学的领导层认为，这是高等教育最紧迫的问题，至少在共和党批评者以及其他主张大学需要被整顿的人看来是这样。他们认为，学术需求需要比被指控时更公开，且大学已经向左倾斜，需要在人工智能时代让自己变得更有相关性。
在一次采访中，克赖顿先生直截了当地表达了美国共和党政治人物共同关注的高等教育问题。他提到，在德克萨斯州，他看到了 40 种针对亚裔学生的犯罪、校园通用医疗服务，以及他称之为“辅助忠诚誓言”的多样性声明——这些保守派教职员。抛开政治不谈，克赖顿先生表示，人工智能驱动的新闻将在未来几年永远重塑高等教育。他表示，他希望校园能够通过专注于尊严和雇主的需求，并消除低学分项目，从而在这一范式转移中占据有利位置。其推广举措包括与英伟达（Nvidia）合作，为其中心投资人工智能。
但克赖顿先生的举措触动了困扰教授们的生存焦虑。许多人担心这限制了他们的学术自由，并使他们的工作陷入困境，甚至在技术推动教育速度快到他们无法跟上的情况下更是如此。
“有一种压力很难解释，”创意写作教授露西·席勒（Lucy Schiller）说道，她被要求更换一本她想要指定的书籍。她说，当她意识到克赖顿先生计划的规模时，她崩溃落泪了。
学术界的共和党浪潮
克赖顿先生代表了佛罗里达州和德克萨斯州等保守派州的一种趋势：由前共和党立法者出任高等教育管理职务。在佛罗里达州，至少有七位大学校长是前共和党政治人物，德克萨斯州成人教育中心和德克萨斯大学中心的负责人也是如此。
即便如此，克赖顿先生依然显得格外突出。他曾主导该州一些针对高等教育的最具影响力的立法。他提到了一项去年通过的法案，该法案在大学治理中确立了该州保守派的地位，并加强了该州对课程的掌控。他还起草了一项在 2024 年通过的法案，废除了该州公立大学的 D.O.I. 官员。
克赖顿先生在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校获得了政府学学士学位，并在俄克拉荷马城大学获得了法学学位。他表示，他对高等教育的看法在一定程度上是由他自己支付大学学费的困难所塑造的。
德克萨斯理工大学的主校区位于拉伯克，处于该州最保守的选区之一，包括一所农业和工程学院，以及一个致力于自由市场
德克萨斯理工大学主校区，左上图；布兰登·克赖顿，右上图，作为拥有五所大学的德克萨斯理工大学系统的校长，代表了保守派州的一种趋势：由前共和党立法者出任高等教育管理职务。
经济学的中心。该大学拥有政治观点多元的教职员工和学生群体。
但克赖顿先生认为，保守派在校园内受到了不公正对待，且在他的管理层发布了一系列额外生活指令后，一些教职员工的排名发生了变化。
女性在 12 月和 4 月限制了以性取向或性别认同为中心的项目的氛围，要求仅承认两种
“正朝着日益增强的思想控制迈进。”
扫描并禁止了关于性别认同的学生论文。校方还创建了一个门户网站，教授们必须在该网站提交其课程材料以供审核。
德克萨斯理工大学最严格的禁令针对的是核心课程，这些课程是由一系列低年级课程组成的菜单，学生通过学习这些课程以获得毕业资格。克赖顿先生禁止核心课程中包含任何与性取向和性别认同相关的材料。
法国研究教授圣塔·斯托扬斯维奇（Santa Stojansvic）担心她的核心课程——名为《文学中的大屠杀》。由于该课程提到同性恋和双性恋男性也是纳粹的目标，大学领导层建议将该课程改为高年级课程。
“当大屠杀变成一门选修课时，”她说。
德克萨斯理工大学在核心课程之外也在做出改变。来自五人序列组织 PITA America 的乔纳森·弗里德曼（Jonathan Friedman）表示，虽然德克萨斯州的其他大学也在审查课程，但德克萨斯理工大学走得最远。他说，这所大学“正朝着日益增强的思想控制迈进”。
上个月，美国大学教授协会表示，该大学开展的课程审核工作是基于一种与第一修正案相关的观点导向。
一些学生表达了担忧。一个学生团体开始对审核提出质疑：克赖顿先生在办公室里，被告知他被要求提供服务。但一些保守派学生支持这一举措。
克赖顿先生正在为一个压倒性地倾向自由主义的领域带来思想上的平衡，这是保守派团体 Turning Point USA 的当地分会主席普雷斯顿·帕森斯（Preston Parsons）的观点。
“意识到我们在不同问题上有稍微不同的看法，这难道必然是一件坏事吗！”帕森斯先生问道。
在采访中，克赖顿先生表示，在大学系统中教授的 14,000 多门课程中，只有 60 门左右被建议修改，且系统官员表示，另有 200 门课程在“审核前由教师主动修改”。
他还表示，课程审核工作是经过深思熟虑的，涉及包括区域委员会在内的许多其他部门，而人工智能只是使其更高效的一个步骤。他补充说，大部分工作是由人类完成的。
自我审查在增加
一些教授为了避免违反新指南而采取自我审查。
负责创意写作的席勒女士表示，那些力求限制关于“性取向”和“性别认同”教学的人已经不再提供这些术语。她说：“他们让我们在极其明显的字里行间揣摩，并且出于对可能被要求、被隔离工作或被处分的恐惧而过度采样。”
中世纪历史学家雅各布·贝尔表示，他不确定如何讨论像乔安娜·达克那样的人，她被处以火刑的部分原因就是异装。克赖顿先生关于性别或帝国的过度要求涉及历史重要人物的传记细节。根据4月份的备忘录，贝尔认为任何引用必须是“年度偶然的”。
贝尔博士删除了两周关于维京男女的研究。他表示，维京神话的力量经常以洛基和哈基等改变性别的神灵为特征，而现在他不再觉得教授这些内容很自在。
在被问及贝尔博士的案例时，克赖顿先生建议教授们不要做出预先决定，而应将材料提交给大学系统。
贝尔博士选择了另一条路。他认为未来的德克萨斯理工大学学生将“无法准备好应对他们将在世界上互动的普通人”。他最近接受了一份新工作，在东海岸的一所公立大学。
一项5月份的教职员调查发现，约 50 percent 的受访者在未被要求遵守核心指令的情况下更改了课程内容。
首批受访者还表示，他们担心造成不可挽回的名誉损失。一人表示，克赖顿先生的指令是“不真实的”，“是用电锯来除刺”。
在一次采访中，席勒教授说她的报告幻觉出了一门她并未阅读的课程的信息。
“然而，我对每种儿童都做了很多，”《鱼之声》（Voice of the Fish）的作者拉尔斯·霍恩（Lars Horn）这样说，他自称是跨记忆的。这本书被出版商描述为探索“自然高喉的跨拷贝性”，其本身是“神话”，必须被更换。
席勒女士没有做出随后的记录，并离开了大学，本月在爱荷华州的格林内尔学院开始工作。
她说：“直到今年为止，我一直热爱这里的工作。”
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位于日本烟草地区的所有区域储罐。与日本海不同，自1800年代的峰值以来，日本的存储设施拥有更多的空间容量。
囤积以保护供应
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中东石油巨头竞相扩大在日本和韩国的储备
作者：RIVER ADEM DAVIS
由于长期冲突迫使出口国及其最大客户重新思考如何保障供应，中东能源巨头正急于将更多石油存入波斯湾动荡地区之外的储备库中。
据三位知情人士透露，沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国已敦促日本将其在日本储罐中的储备扩大，规模可达每场新战役约 800 万桶的 10 倍。由于讨论内容不公开，这些人士要求匿名。
其中两人表示，沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋的官员也在就扩大在韩国的石油储备进行类似的讨论。
对于将大部分石油储存在该地区的海湾出口国而言，在海外建立更多原油仓库可以防御日益不稳定的海上运输风险，从红海的袭击到几乎没有开放迹象的马林点（Point of Marines）。沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋都拥有绕过海峡的管道，使他们能够继续出口有限数量的石油。
对于作为全球最大中东原油消费国的亚洲国家来说，更大的储备将为应对长期供应中断提供额外的缓冲。与此同时，将显著更多的基础容量分配给外国石油公司，会减少国内炼油客户在库存以及日本国家储备中的可用空间。
知情人士表示，中东生产商寻求的规模可能会超过日本可用的储罐容量以及其他高水平库存。关于最终能储存多少石油以及如何分担成本的讨论仍在继续，但预计共同储备将大幅增加。
日本经济产业省的一位发言人未就与沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋讨论的细节达成共识，但表示日本正与中东国家合作增强能源韧性。
沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司（National Oil Company）这一国家能源巨头的一位发言人在一份声明中表示：“我们一直致力于加强我们作为亚洲市场可靠供应商的角色，确保能源稳定流动以支持市场稳定并控制价格。”
韩国和沙特阿拉伯的官员没有立即回应置评请求。
推动石油储备转移是塑造全球能源市场的几个根本性转变之一：在与伊朗的战争中持续数月。正如 200% 的石油冲击促使各国政府建立战略储备并加速推动更节能的汽车和工厂一样，如今的危机正迫使各国和公司重启供应网络。
在中东地区，生产商正在建设或扩建旨在绕过那些伊比利亚（Iberian）的管道。与此同时，主要进口国正竞相从该地区以外获取更多石油和天然气，同时加速对包括可再生能源在内的国内能源来源的投资。
日本能源经济研究所（Institute of Energy Economics, Japan）这一智库负责人寺泽达也（Tatsuya Terasawa）表示，在战争初期，人们多次希望哈姆萨（Harmsa）的线路能很快重新开放。
“但目前，我们不能寄希望于特朗普总统会解决这个问题，”寺泽先生说。中东方面表示。
对于亚洲国家而言，更大的储备量将为应对长期的供应中断提供额外的缓冲。
在那些对此次危机经济风险敞口最大的亚洲部分地区，“我们需要寻找方法来自行应对脆弱性。”
日本在储存来自沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋和科威特的原油方面已有悠久历史。随着原油消费量从 2000 年代的峰值下降，日本的储油设施有了更多空间容量可租赁给海外生产商。
这种安排使中东国家能源公司能够接近东亚的主要客户。对于日本这个几乎所有原油均依赖进口，且 90% 以上原油来自中东的岛国来说，这种设置在严重的供应紧急情况下可提供优先获取储备原油的权限。
阿联酋于 2009 年开始在日本储存原油，随后是 2010 年在冲绳的沙特阿拉伯以及 2020 年的科威特。这些协议为日本提供了紧急援助，其中来自沙特阿拉伯和阿联酋的各约为 800 万桶，来自科威特的为 300 万桶。在当前冲突的最初几个月里，日本使用了这些相当于约 6 天需求的储备。
在经济产业大臣赤沢亮正（Ryoozi Akazawa）表示：“截至 5 月初，阿联酋和沙特阿拉伯……”之后，扩大储备的推动力度增强。同月晚些时候，阿联酋派遣了一艘油轮来补充库存。
这一模式现在可能会在亚洲更广泛地推广。
依赖中东原油的亚洲经济体在供应中断中受创尤为严重，包括菲律宾在内的国家正推动建立国家石油储备。但建立高额储备可能耗资数亿美元，这使得许多发展中经济体无法负担。
寺泽先生表示，由政府和生产商共同分担战略成本的协议可能提供一种替代方案。他说，中东及亚洲其他地区强烈的脆弱感，使得现在成为扩大此类协议的契机。
从能源安全的角度来看，寺泽先生表示：“这将是一种双赢的解决方案”，并且是“这次危机中可能出现的某种一线希望”。
Kubo Nojima 参与了报道。
美国石油钻探项目搅动格陵兰
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该岛的担忧包括对环境的影响以及与特朗普之间微妙的关系
作者：杰弗里·盖特尔曼（JEFFREY GETTLERMAN）和玛丽·特雷利（MARY TERELI）
在地球上最平凡的城镇之一，在格陵兰真实危机的扫帚法院（broom court）中，这位美国石油商进行了她的推介。
他告诉一群格陵兰人，就在他们进行石油钻探的这个城镇，可能拥有多达 15 亿美元 桶石油。他的公司计划钻两个勘探井，而且至关重要的是，这可能是一次重大的全球发现，能带来急需的就业机会、大量的以及给世界能源市场带来缓解。
参加这次会议的人们——会议于 6 月在名为 Intragarmentals 的偏远新闻地举行——提出了一些问题。
“为什么格陵兰只能获得 10 percent 的利润？”
“会使用什么样的化学制品？”
“那么关于那个 much so 呢？” “（Much so hurting 在那里是一件大事。）”
据一名与《纽约时报》分享的 value-of-citute 男子称，会议在许多不满意的人离开中结束，而一个手持的 over-distur戯expion 现在已经加入了围绕格陵兰的议题云团。
这个 thinker 石油项目正由电视名人、被称为“菲尔博士”的菲尔·麦格劳（Dr. Phil McGraw）博士和路易斯安那州州长杰夫·兰德里（Jeff Landry）推动，两人都是特朗普总统的强大盟友。这是 MACA 阵营最新的尝试，旨在将触角伸向这座巨大的北极岛屿，而特朗普先生曾威胁要将其 untrue，且该岛是他的一种执念。
如果这次发现与该公司所言接近，并且如果进行大规模生产在经济上可行——而这是两个巨大的 if——这个项目可能会将格陵兰推向一个截然不同的未来，可能成为一个北极拥抱（Arctic拥抱）。
但在经历了一波由格陵兰人发起的负面宣传，以及项目组织者在钻探历史上的失误后，该项目起步艰难，格陵兰当局对其进行了谴责。上周，政府推迟了授予其实际批准的时间表，表示在 2026 年之前不太可能授权任何钻探。
领导该项目的总部位于德克萨斯州的公司——格陵兰能源公司（Greenland Energy Company）现在表示，它将专注于钻一口井，而不是两口。预计延迟将导致数百万美元的损失。结果，格陵兰能源公司的股价暴跌，仅剩一美元多一点，只有几天前价值的一半。
几年前，格陵兰宣布暂停所有勘探。北极是世界上历史性的衰弱地区之一，格陵兰政府认为进一步增加化石燃料污染是不正确的。
但根据《纽约时报》审阅的文件，本案中的石油勘探者持有在政策变更前授予的有效许可证。因此，一直试图应对特朗普先生施加的巨大压力的格陵兰官员们，发现自己陷入了八角困境（eight-gun）。
他们非常清楚，如果他们反射性地阻止美国人钻探，尤其是在世界
在这样一个偏远且环境恶劣的地方建立石油工业，成本极其高昂。
事件挤压了全球石油供应，这可能会给特朗普提供他所需的理由，以回归其在格陵兰的计划，无论通过何种方式。与此同时，格陵兰的普通民众和政府官员对该项目存在明显的抵制。
“在一个唐纳德·特朗普对格陵兰采取如此半结构化政策的世界里，你禁不住会感到有些担忧，”丹麦国际研究中心的资深研究员迈克·德弗罗尼斯-切阿拉（Mike DeFronis-Cheara）表示。“如果你突然在其中加入一项重大石油发现，谁知道会发生什么。”
数月来，美国、格陵兰和丹麦——这个依然控制着该岛许多事务的前殖民宗主国——在关于该岛未来的稳定组织方面一直处于落后状态。一个关键问题就是美国获取格陵兰自然资源的权限。
自从特朗普将目光投向这座岛屿以来，格陵兰已成为追逐机遇的投资者和盟友的磁石，而且程度极深。
Intragarmentals，格陵兰的一个偏远定居点，已成为一家总部位于德克萨斯州的公司进行勘探的目标。在6月的一次会议上，该公司组织了他们的诉求。
各州在儿童成瘾诉讼中向 Meta 寻求数十亿美元赔偿
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Facebook所有者在社交媒体危害的标杆联邦案件中受审
作者：CECILIA KAHN, ELI TAN 和 JOHN T. MARTIN
本周，Meta再次就其使年轻人对社交媒体成瘾的指控进行辩护，此次是首场标杆联邦审判，由寻求约2000 亿美元 billion赔偿金的各州发起。
在开庭陈述中，加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、肯塔基州和新泽西州指控这家拥有 foreign law 和 Facebook 的社交媒体巨头，利用像香烟一样旨在让人成瘾的技术来诱导儿童。这些州在位于奥克兰的美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院辩称，Meta助长了全国性的青少年心理健康危机，并通过将旗下应用宣传为安全来欺骗用户。
原告指控该公司违反了联邦儿童隐私法和其他消费者保护法。
“锁定用户，尽可能长时间地留住他们。收割他们的数据。在发表公开声明时向公众隐瞒真相。”代表各州的律师梅根·奥尼尔（Megan O'Neill）表示，“Meta的商业模式对儿童尤其有效。”
Meta则辩称，公司已采取保护措施以保护年轻用户，并且对消费者是坦诚的。
该诉讼是各州、学区和个人针对 Meta、YouTube、TikTok 和 Song（其被 Stagedo）提起的数千起人身伤害和消费者保护诉讼之一。这些案件声称社交媒体网站通过成瘾性产品伤害了儿童，其策略部分借鉴了 1990 年代用于对抗大烟草公司的法律指南。
我们的策略已经取得了成效。今年 3 月，Meta 和 YouTube 在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县高等法院的一起里程碑式人身伤害案件中被判定承担责任，一名加州年轻女性获得了$6 million的赔偿金。本月，一名新墨西哥州法官在州总检察长就违反消费者保护法提起的案件中，命令 Meta 支付近50 亿美元 billion的赔偿金。这些公司还就今年准备进入审理阶段的其他几起案件达成了和解。
这四个州发起的诉讼——一系列联邦诉讼中的首例——在早前的小规模冲突之后，对 Meta 构成了重大的法律威胁。根据一份法院文件，这些州表示，如果胜诉，他们将就一项保护性违规案件寻求高达2000 亿美元 billion的赔偿金。根据法院文件，这几乎相当于该公司周一$1.63 trillion总股票价值的10%。
对社交媒体使用的担忧已在全球范围内蔓延，影响了其业务。
上周，代表加利福尼亚州和科罗拉多州的律师离开位于加利福尼亚州奥克兰的联邦法院。该诉讼指控 Meta 违反了联邦儿童隐私法。
成为了第一个禁止16岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的国家。此后，丹麦、法国、德国、西班牙、印度、印度尼西亚、马来西亚等国家已实施或正在考虑类似的规定。欧盟本月采取了第一步行动，准备实施其自身的禁令，这将成为全球规模最大的一项禁令。
在美国，立法者今年推动了《儿童在线安全法》（Kids Online Safety Act），该法案将加强对未成年人的隐私保护，并允许他们退出被指在社交媒体中被强迫使用的算法功能。各州还通过了多项法律以保护儿童免受社交媒体的侵害。
Meta面临的审查最为严苛。在田纳西州，在州总检察长指控该公司无视内部研究（该研究发现其平台正在伤害年轻用户）后，审判正在进行中。
辩护成本正在增加。Meta 表示，从 4 月到 6 月，其在社交媒体相关材料及其他诉讼的法律费用上花费了超过20 亿美元 billion。虽然这仅为其100 亿美元 billion季度利润的一小部分，但仍有数千起类似的诉讼在等待处理。
Meta辩称，它正面临着所有互联网公司都面临的挑战，例如验证用户的年龄。该公司表示，其保护措施包括针对21至37,岁用户的生物威胁功能，该功能可详细地将数据私有化，并限制陌生人直接向年轻用户发送消息的能力。
该公司还表示，由于言论保护和联邦屏蔽条款，该案件应被驳回。路易斯安那州法律第1.2.2.2节，1 of 1986, 保护其免于承担相关责任。美国北区上诉法院本月发布了直接指令，要求基于上述理由驳回此案。
“州检察长可能称这是一个里程碑式的案件，但他们的有限主张缺乏事实依据，且其财务要求极其不合理。”该公司的一位发言人在一份声明中表示，“我们倾听了家长的意见，与专家和执法部门合作，并参考了深入的研究，以了解那些更为重要的问题。”
在加利福尼亚州奥克兰提起诉讼的四个州——科罗拉多州、肯塔基州和新泽西州——是由伊冯娜·冈萨雷斯·罗杰斯法官从20个州中选出的，这些州此前均以该公司违反联邦儿童隐私法和州消费者保护法为由对其提起诉讼。
审理预计将持续六到八周。一个由八人组成的咨询陪审团将向冈萨雷斯·罗杰斯法官提供建议，最终由法官决定裁决结果和赔偿金额。
州政府计划传唤知名证人，包括玛丽亚·查夫，而马克·扎克伯格也将出庭作证。检察长们还计划利用内部文件以及对Meta现任和前任员工的采访，以展示该公司成功掩盖的超声波测试结果。此外，律师们还指出了允许改变个人外貌的滤镜效果——这导致了强迫性使用和行业焦虑等问题。
州政府周二还辩称，Meta宣传的安全功能极少被使用。
州检察长已要求法院强制该公司改进技术，以更好地保护年轻用户。这些要求包括限制或运动服装、控制审计以及针对16.岁以下用户的预防措施。他们还指出，用户能够使用各种可能导致身体意象和心理健康问题的滤镜，以及在缺乏指导者提供额外背景的情况下，参与昂贵的支出和质疑。
塞西莉亚·卡恩从华盛顿报道，杰·琼斯博士从旧金山报道。
8 / 星期四，AUGUST 29, 2026
商业
从左起顺时针方向依次为：位于尼日利亚拉各斯的全新丹格特炼油厂（Dungote Refinery）的主控制室；一架在拉各斯进行加油的飞机；以及该设施的外观。在中东局势动荡期间，丹格特炼油厂在4月和5月成为全球最大的单体航空燃料出口商。
尼日利亚炼油厂及其所有者的意外之财
塞内加尔，达喀尔
亿万富翁在伊朗战争促使石油买家寻找替代供应时获益
作者：SAURIN JARMES
非洲最富有的人阿里科·丹格特（Aliko Dungote）在三天内增加了超过 600 亿美元 的财富，而他这笔意外之财部分要归功于伊朗战争。
丹格特先生，60, 在尼日利亚通过制造燃料、糖和烟草等产品积累了大量财富。现在，推动其财富增长的引擎是他位于拉各斯的新建 6200 亿美元 石油精炼厂。自今年 2 月战争爆发以来，非洲及其他地区对石油产品的需求激增。
尽管丹格特拥有丰富的原油，但非洲仍然严重依赖进口燃料。乌克兰对俄罗斯精炼厂和油轮的袭击切断了俄罗斯向该大陆的供应。由于伊朗关闭了通常承载全球五分之一石油供应的霍雷瓦海峡（Strait of Horewa），来自欧洲和波斯湾的石油流量也大幅下降。
受此影响，化肥和燃料价格上涨，使非洲一些最脆弱的人群陷入更深的贫困。但丹格特先生
及其公司成了这一规律中罕见的例外。他的精炼厂在美国对伊朗采取行动前几周全面投入运营，目前生意兴隆。
据该公司称，丹格特精炼厂的航空燃料运输在今年首次进入美国市场。市场研究公司 S&P Global Energy 的副总裁丹尼尔·埃文斯（Daniel Evans）表示，丹格特精炼厂在 4 月和 5 月是“全球最大的单一航空燃料出口商”。丹格特工业（Dungote Industries）副总裁德瓦库马尔·埃德温（Devakumar Edwin）表示，上个月，该精炼厂是欧洲最大的航空燃料和柴油供应商。
周二，丹格特精炼厂表示，已获得一家总部位于迪拜的投资集团 610 亿美元 的资金支持，将在尼日利亚证券交易所上市。
“战争爆发后，来自世界各地——尤其是非洲——的贸易商和政府开始寻求供应，”埃德温先生说。“原油价格上涨了，但产品价格的涨幅更大。”
近两打非洲国家生产原油。但该大陆每天近 900 万桶原油的大部分是进口用于精炼的。大多数国内精炼厂（其中大多数为国有的）处于停产状态。
例如，尼日利亚近年来投入了数十亿美元用于修复其三家国有
阿里科·丹格特在丹格特精炼厂的办公室。在他开设该设施时，他已经是一位成功的商人，该设施于 2 月全面投入运营。
精炼厂。目前没有一家在运行。
当美国和以色列于 2 月 26, 对伊朗发动战争时，许多非洲国家发现自己迫切需要石油产品，并争先恐后地确保供应。
去年，东非 60% 以上的精炼石油产品来自中东。Pluto 的分析师马修·特雷西·库克（Matthew Tracy's Cook）表示，到今年 4 月，肯尼亚近三分之一的加油站已干涸。“伊朗战争爆发时，对于此前依赖波斯湾石油产品的买家来说，丹格特精炼厂成了救命稻草，”特雷西·库克先生说。
他补充说，当欧洲的航空燃料进口供应被伊朗切断时，丹-
丹格特的精炼厂开始向地中海和欧洲国家出口。特雷西·库克先生表示，丹格特设施还成为了南非柴油和航空燃料的关键供应商，而南非在石油产品方面历史上一直依赖中东。
丹格特先生的以色列并非非洲唯一从冲突中获益的公司。在塔格里（Tagri）的大西洋海岸到拉梅港（Port of Lamé），那是西非唯一的深水港，也是该大陆少数几个深水港之一。
该设施由一家瑞士公司——地中海（Nugang）公司投资数亿美元于几年前建成，目前已占据区域能源贸易更大的份额。
从拉各斯的丹格特炼油厂装载燃料的油轮沿着西非海岸航行至以色列，在那里将货物卸载到较小的船只中，以便分发到整个大陆的市场。
“拉梅港是霍雷瓦海峡中断影响下的最大赢家之一，”分析师查姆·艾蒂安·巴马（Chum Etienne Bama）表示。
“在降落之前，我们在机场悬停的那几分钟里，我拍到了港口船只的照片，”他在回忆最近一次前往拉梅的拥挤景象时说道。“就像在看夜晚的天空，”他说，看到了“许多星星”。
在尼日利亚国内，丹格特先生长期以来被批评为垄断者，且自从他的炼油厂全面开业以来，他受到了更为严厉的审查。尼日利亚人曾希望该炼油厂能结束他们对进口燃料的依赖并降低成本。然而，尼日利亚的燃料价格反而飙升。
此外，一名自称是尼日利亚少数愿意公开批评丹格特先生的人权律师表示，这位亿万富翁对政府具有影响力，并从中获得了优惠待遇。
“丹格特炼油厂对于此前依赖波斯湾石油产品的买家来说是一条生命线。”
丹格特先生长期以来一直指责尼日利亚政府扼杀原油流动，允许监管机构维持对尼日利亚石油业务的掌控。监管机构否认有任何不当行为。
丹格特工业公司的埃德温（Edwin）先生表示，凭借最新的意外之财，丹格特先生正寻求将其炼油厂的产能翻倍。
本月早些时候，肯尼亚总统威廉·巴特（William Bate）确认与丹格特先生达成协议，将在肯尼亚建立一座 1370 亿的炼油厂。埃德温先生表示，该公司计划建设一条横跨 11 个非洲国家的管道。
“我们将供应整个非洲，”他说。
美国石油钻探项目如何撼动格陵兰
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北极资源之梦。但石油开发从未简单过。
雪佛龙（Chevron）和壳牌（Shell）在几十年前进行过勘探，但未获成功。从零开始建立一个石油工业的成本极其昂贵，因为这里是地球上最偏远且最不宜居的地方之一。格陵兰的大部分地区被冰雪覆盖。一家美国大公司 ABCG 在几十年前投入了相当于今天的 2.5 亿美元——远高于目前参与者筹集的 4000 万美元——用于在该地区进行地震研究，但最终放弃了该项目。
“这里有太多的危险信号，”格陵兰前自然资源部长、现任丹麦议会代表南雅·纳拉米申（Nanja Nallamishen）表示。她说，她还没有看到任何硬数据支持该项目那些诱人的主张，并补充道：“我认为他们在吹牛。”
该项目的支持者则不这么认为。该项目是由 Greenland Energy（一家筹集资金的小型美国上市公司）与梅·吴（Mei Wu）先生（一名几年前收购了钻探业务的英国信贷商）共同成立的合资企业。
80 Miles 的执行董事兼 Greenland Energy 董事会成员罗德里克·麦克埃尔罗（Roderick McElroe）表示，格陵兰的这一地带与北海油田具有相同的地质特征，欧洲国家已在北海开采了数十亿桶石油。他说，气候变化正对他们有利。
气温回升意味着阻塞格陵兰海岸的冰层减少，使得任何发现的石油在运输支持方面变得更加自然和安全。
一名投资于由投资主席肯·格里芬（Ken Griffin）管理的 Chubb 对冲基金的投资者表示，特朗普政府全力支持该项目。
“预计每天能生产 200 万桶石油，”兰德里（Landry）州长在 5 月接受福克斯新闻（Fox News）采访时表示。他是特朗普派驻格陵兰的特使。他补充道：“想想这能减轻
什么样的压力，在 Horewa 的灌木丛中。”
在项目获准启动之前，其计划（包括详细的环境评估）必须获得批准。但组织者无论如何一直在推进，并且最近进行了两次有争议的设备转移。
首先，他们根据当局称已过期的许可证，从格陵兰的另一个地区运来了一艘设备驳船。格陵兰矿产资源部负责人约根·汉内肯-哈尔姆（Jorgen Hanneken-Halm）称此举“非常鲁莽”。
随后几天，当局表示，他们在没有适当通知的情况下卸下了另一件重型设备。
“我们有警察和军队，”汉内肯-哈尔姆先生警告说。“如果有必要，他们可以协助处理非法活动。”
80 Mile 的高管麦克埃尔罗先生承认：“我们确实有些失策。”他说公司已向格陵兰官员道歉。
这个潜在的富油区被称为詹姆森地（Jameson Land），是一个高度受保护的环境区，是一片北极沼泽地，是意识灌木和麝牛（musk ox）以及像红脚雁等迁徙鸟类的家园。麝牛因其肉和皮而受到重视，其皮被制成奢侈的纱线。
这一切吸引了菲尔博士（Dr. Phil），他最近对该项目进行了一次专题报道。他将该集命名为《冰冻之金》，根据 Greenland Energy 网站上的文件，该公司与他建立了“广泛的
伙伴关系”，包括在格陵兰的诺克（Nauk）销售麝牛。格陵兰被目标定为石油钻探项目的自然农场是麝牛的家园，麝牛因其肉和皮而受到重视。上方，美国电视名人菲尔·麦克莱恩（Phil McLean）博士（左）与石油钻探项目背后的公司拥有“广泛的伙伴关系”。
这种伙伴关系是为了制作一个关于“这场现代寻宝之旅”的精彩系列节目。
他的公司没有回应关于他参与该项目的置评请求。但在他的播客中，菲尔博士表示他很快将前往北极。
“我得去抢只小猫弄双小手套，因为我要亲自去那里看看，”他说。
匈牙利恩西斯（Hungarianensis (Frederick-7 / 08 / 2007)），人口 226, 正试图弄清楚发生了什么。今年春天，当地议会的成员们似乎准备好进行谈判，并起草了一份他们希望石油公司提供的清单：一个带加热功能的社区游泳池、新的狩猎小屋以及用于居民的资金——
在他们的狩猎场被变成工业区之前，希望最后一次乘坐直升机飞越詹姆森地（Jameson Land）。
但 6 月份的公开会议改变了气氛。
麦克埃尔罗先生承认，主持会议的团队表现得不够尊重。
“他们忘了自己身在何处，”他说。
尽管如此，一些居民支持该项目。建筑工人奥格·古吉·派克·巴内昆（Aage Gugi Pike Barnequon）在一次电话采访中表示，匈牙利恩西斯迫切需要工作岗位。
“你必须考虑未来和金钱，”他解释道，“也许格陵兰能变得像迪拜一样。那是我的梦想。”
星期四，AUGUST 20, 2026 / 9
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权力的新物理学
小国要获得相对于强国的巨大优势，并不需要太多条件。
托马斯·L·弗里德曼 (Thomas L. Friedman)
如果我要写一本关于美国与伊朗战争的书，我知道书名应该叫什么。简而言之，就是特朗普总统在 2026 年 4 月 5 日发给伊朗领导人的社交媒体帖子：“打开 [供应商] [轮胎]，你们这些疯子，否则你们将生活在地狱中——等着瞧吧！”
战争是一个熔炉，经常揭示我们周围世界物理特性的变化——谁拥有权力，谁没有权力，以及权力是如何被行使的。没有什么比特朗普对伊朗领导层不听从其指令而发出的那段失控且粗俗的谩骂，更能捕捉到这场战争所产生的新权力方程式了。
这种新的战争物理学同样存在于乌克兰与俄罗斯、真主党与以色列、哈马斯与以色列以及胡塞武装与其他所有人的冲突中。我对这种新动态的总结是：小规模力量能够以极大的规模、极高的精度且极低的成本采取行动。而虽然大国也能采取小规模、高精度的行动，但由于承担着庞大且陈旧的遗产系统之负担，他们的成本要高得多。
目前看来，净优势似乎在小规模力量一方。当你想到新兴的人工智能革命必将加强这一趋势，使小规模力量能够采取规模更大、威力更强且成本更低的行动时，这应该让你感到不安。
特朗普感到沮丧并不奇怪。毕竟，在 3 月 31 日，即他与以色列通过大规模轰炸行动开启与伊朗最新一轮战争不到两周后，特朗普宣布：“我们赢了。让我告诉你们，我们赢了。你知道，你永远不想太早说你赢了。我们赢了，所以第一小时就结束了。但我们赢了。”
他在一件事上是对的：永远不要太早说你赢了。
特朗普没有意识到，伊朗政府对于这场战争何时赢或输有着自己的看法。更重要的是，与特朗普不同，德黑兰为战后之晨准备了 B 计划：利用其新获得的大规模、高精度且低成本的行动能力来控制霍尔木兹海峡——尽管其军队规模仅为美国军队的一小部分，且一直被一名君主所掌控。
我希望我能以看到这个五角大楼式的、自大且不断解放总统的人被现实击败而感到欣慰。但我真的不——因为这正变得可怕。而且情况还会恶化。伊朗人给美国造成了真正的伤害——在战场上以及在我们的经济上——其规模是特朗普和国防部长皮特·霍加斯 (Pete Hogarth) 一直在低估的。
自 1979 年以来，伊朗一直处于经济制裁之下。然而，它成功开发了一套先进但相对廉价的导弹和无人机武器库，使其能够与以色列和美国进行某种程度的对抗——并在过程中对该地区的美国军事资产造成了重大损害。仅考虑几个你可能没有注意到的故事。
美国在波斯湾的主要航空母舰“亚伯拉罕·林肯号” (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) 有时会出现供应不足，无法维持其近 3,500 人的员额，这是因为在战争的第一天，伊朗的导弹和攻击无人机摧毁了美国在巴林的大部分供应基地。《纽约时报》报道称：“。”这迫使特朗普和更加 [缺失] 的霍加斯增加对英国在希加-盖尔扎岛 (Shiga-Gaerza) 指挥的基地的依赖，并进行大宗供应，该地距离巴林大约 2,700 英里。巴林基地在战争第一天面对伊朗导弹时为何如此不堪一击？
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如果这不足以让霍加斯在国会面前接受质询，那我不知道什么才足够。
或者也许你错过了《亚洲国防安全》（Defense Security Asia）杂志上的这篇报道，该报道在评论一份CNN报告时提到，在3月初的某个时间点，一枚伊朗导弹摧毁了一台价值25 亿的雷达，该雷达对于运行位于约旦Muvaffaqi babi空军基地的TRAAD（末端高空区域防御）外部防御系统至关重要。该杂志称，这次袭击标志着伊朗与美国及以色列之间“战略环境”中一个“潜在的变革时刻”。
一名约旦高级官员告诉我，他震惊地听到伊朗导弹竟然能够针对TRAAD的雷达系统进行机动——通过向雷达发起侧翼攻击，从而规避探测和拦截。而这面对的是美国军械库中最先进的反导弹系统！
美国海军研究生院国防分析荣休教授约翰·安帕拉（John Ampalla）向我解释说，导弹战不再仅仅是依靠一个可预测轨迹的弹头，并让惯性和GPS智能引导系统将其引导至目标。俄罗斯人将大量资源集中在制造具有中途机动能力的导弹上，这些导弹由更好的实时信息引导，且越来越多地以极高速度推进，能够从防御者未预料到的角度抵达。据报道，伊朗的“法塔赫”（Fattah）导弹具备此类能力，尽管目前尚不清楚是它们还是无人机摧毁了距离伊朗589英里的TRAAD。
“这使得导弹成为21世纪最卓越的武器，有可能在许多不同类型的战斗中‘削弱威慑力与稳定性’，”安帕拉说道，他是新书《动荡的美国：战争方式：从广岛到算法时代》（The Troubled America: Way of War: From Hiroshima to the Age of Algorithms）的作者。
中国在台湾附近海域的实弹演习中，已经部署可机动的DF-17高超音速导弹好几年了。
3月31日凌晨1:30左右，两架自杀式攻击无人机袭击了位于沙特阿拉伯利雅得的美国大使馆大院。第一架无人机直接撞入了利雅得大使馆美国站所在的楼层；第二架无人机直接飞入了第一架撞出的入口孔洞，引发了剧烈的爆炸和持续数小时的大火。后来的报告表明，这次伊朗袭击可能得到了弗拉基米尔·普京提供的俄罗斯卫星情报的帮助。特朗普对此似乎毫无作为。
安帕拉指出，几代以来，战争是由“质量和能量”主导的。战争遵循一个简单的物理定律：发射抛射物的距离越远，精度就越低。因此，必须通过“质量和能量”来克服距离。但现在不同了：“现在的战争是由信息主导的，”安帕拉说。
而且即使是弱小者现在也能获得这种能力。你只需要看看真主党如何给以色列社区以及拥有庞大美国制造军事平台的以色列军队造成重大伤害；看看乌克兰如何让强大的俄罗斯大出血；以及伊朗如何利用我们自己的武器——在地下室车间里用亚马逊上能找到的组件就能制造的精密武器——与美国和以色列战斗，从而切断了射程与精度之间的技术鸿沟。
安帕拉补充说，乌克兰“在没有传统海军的情况下成为了海上强国。它利用无人船和武装喷气滑水艇”将俄罗斯传统的黑海舰队推离乌克兰海岸线足够远的距离，以便能够继续向世界市场出口粮食和化肥。
这些新技术允许“众多且弱小的人”——伊朗人、胡塞武装、真主党、哈马斯——“避开对手的重拳，因为他们隐藏得很好，并且可以用自己的精准打击进行反击，”安帕拉说。与此同时，美国军队仅有15个大型领导师和11个航母编队。
这就是为什么防御者可能比攻击者拥有真正的优势，安帕拉总结道。特朗普和霍加斯（Hogarth）一直坚持在“扩大战争规模”上
——增加更多节奏和更多吨位——而伊朗人则专注于“扩大战争规模”，在更多地点用精确导弹打击小型单位，并攻击遍布海湾的美国基地和阿拉伯石油设施。
“在他们看来，我们的两项工作已经足够久且卑劣。在陆地上，几个大型的艾布拉姆斯坦克编队，其重要性不如那些能够在一周内制造并改装廉价武器的大量小型单位，”Ampalla说道。
这些新武器放大了小型力量相对于大型力量的另一个优势。他们不需要获胜，只需要避免失败。而我们必须获胜，结束战争，回家且永不回头。现在祝我们好运吧。
不过，在伊朗和真主党变得过于自满之前，他们应该记住我方程式的另一半：虽然小型力量现在可以表现得像大型力量，但大型力量现在也可以表现得像小型力量。在战争的第一天，在美国情报部门的协助下，以色列使用精确武器发起的空袭，在德黑兰的一个单一院落内的一次高级领导会议中，击毙了40多名伊朗高级领导人。
换句话说，凭借精确的信息，以色列一次性消灭了大量真实的持续安全人员。
然后是以色列对真主党的传呼机攻击。在Sept. 17 and 18, 2024, 以色列引爆了真主党成员、战士、军官、医护人员和民间支持者使用的传呼机及其他手持电子设备。导致数十人死亡，约1,000人受伤。据报道，估计有1,000名真主党战士因伤失去战斗力，伤势主要集中在手部、面部和臀部。通过使用相对少量的炸药和海量的信息，以色列在几个小时内击毙并击伤了大量真主党战士。
美国和以色列针对伊朗哈马斯浓缩设施在2009年开始的秘密攻击是这一模式的另一个版本。美国和以色列没有摧毁该设施，而是植入了一个小型计算机蠕虫——几行代码——以禁用伊朗大量的90-crest fingers，尽管离心机很快被更换，干扰最终微乎其微。（美国和以色列从未承认对该病毒负责。）这就是“大者表现得像小者”，使用联合恶意软件，但你可以打赌，该代码的开发以及整个联合行动花费了大量资金。
今天真正令人担忧的是，小型力量表现得像大型力量正变得多么容易——而我所说的“小型”，不仅是指某个人，而且总是如此。一个带着笔记本电脑的青少年，一个苏格兰犬以及一个开放权重AI模型，现在可以通过识别和利用旧软件漏洞来破坏市政水务或电力系统。
所以，如果不久的一天你听到你的市长听起来像特朗普那样说：“把我的水开回来，你这个疯子……”请不要感到惊讶。
一艘在伊斯坦布尔运载乌克兰粮食的船只。乌克兰利用无人船和武装喷气滑水艇将俄罗斯黑海舰队推离乌克兰海岸线足够远，以便将其粮食出口到世界市场。
美国海军“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰有时会出现供应不足，无法维持其近3,500人的员额。在战争的第一天之后，伊朗的导弹和无人机摧毁了巴林的一个供应基地的很大一部分。
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纽约时报
伦敦（8月26日，星期三）
A.S. HILBERGER 出版人
JOHNNY BAKER 执行主编
MARY LIEFF 执行编辑
JOHN R. RIEHL 管理 SUZANNE BAKER 执行
KATHLEEN BISHOP 帕特森
BERNARD HUBERT 首席执行官
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是的，“觉醒 1.0”很疯狂。问责制在哪里？
布雷特·斯蒂芬斯 (Bret Stephens)
这几乎已成定论。
“‘觉醒 1.0’很疯狂。”亚历山德里亚·奥申-考利 (Alexandria Ocean-Corley) 本月在引用纽约市委员会的一次通话时如此说道。考虑到这位国会议员自身的记录——她此前曾表示某些团体“别无选择只能崛起”，呼吁废除警察和“监狱关注”，并使用贬义词汇“提名人”来描述女性——她所说的疯狂也包括她自己。鉴于 A.S.U. 承认“对于‘觉醒 1.0’持续造成的巨大破坏，我们尚未实现某些问责！”
就本十年中人们普遍认知的那样，“觉醒”不仅仅是一种语言上的时尚，或者一套乏味的、旨在培养敏感度的企业培训课程。
觉醒是一套强制性的意识形态一致性系统，由社交霸凌和制度胁迫所保护。这种强制性意识形态一致性系统在世界上最普遍的感知是，它在道德上、在日常生活中，有时甚至在微小的名誉、职业以及至少一个生命故事中，通过社交霸凌和制度胁迫而变得清晰。赔偿，其形式应当是诚恳的悔罪，甚至可能是一次公开道歉。
赔偿，其形式应当是诚恳的悔罪，甚至可能是一次公开道歉。
例如，赔偿应给予《费城问询报》的前主编 Wischowork，他在 2020 年不得不辞职，并为该报建筑评论家发表的一篇标题为“thrddings”历史的文章而多次道歉。赔偿应给予热门播客《The God》的主持人迈克·佩伦 (Mike Peron)，他因在一次内部沟通中主张在特定语境下非黑人引用种族词汇有时可能是允许的，而被无限期停职。是的，赔偿还应给予《纽约时报》评论版的前编辑詹姆斯·邦内特 (James Bonnet)，他在共和党参议员汤姆·科顿 (Tom Cotton) 的一篇争议性客座文章发表后被解雇。
赔偿应给予像我们的朋友理查德·诺斯·谢尔曼 (Richard North Sherman) 这样的作者，他曾拥有多本《纽约时报》畅销书。当他写了一部涉及种族歧视且以一名黑人女性作为核心（且完全令人同情）角色的小说时，大约 30 家主要出版品牌拒绝了它，
其中几家明确表示这是因为他是白人。赔偿应给予每一位有抱负的年轻小说作家，他们因为是白人男性而处于中间地带，因此被悄无声息但高效地排除在文学奖项和出版机会的游戏之外。正如雅各布·萨维奇 (Jacob Savage) 去年在《Compact》杂志上指出的，他的研究发现，在当时，“没有一个出生于 1864 年之后的美国白人男性在《纽约客》上发表过一部文学小说。”
赔偿同样应涉及学术界。对于伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的法学教授杰森·比特恩斯 (Jason Bittens)，他在民事诉讼课程中使用两个星号的首字母后，被禁止进入校园并被强制休假，黑人法学生协会将此行为描述为“精神恐怖主义”。对于即将入职乔治城大学法学院的法律学者伊利亚·夏皮罗 (Ilya Shapiro)，他因一条流露保守限制倾向的笨拙推文，不得不经历 125 天的大学调查。对于卡罗尔·史蒂文斯 (Carole Stevens)，她在一次 7.5 分钟的露面中表示，“男性”和“女性”这些词在科学上是必要的，尽管她坚持认为“关于生物学的事实”不应“阻止我们以尊重的方式对待人们”，但她随后被赶出了那个庞大的体系。
对于那些被卷入此类状态的高层人士，应当给予补偿——例如像 Stevens Barney Wrenn 这样的人，他们有着强烈的倾向，且在面对卑微的浪漫追求或不尽如人意的伙伴关系时表现得十分谦卑。这位喜剧演员基于数据，曾是最可靠的“人生整体”样本，尽管经历了激烈的公众羞辱，但还有许多其他人，他们没有影响力，也没有深厚的财力，但在仅凭指控就被视为足以确定有罪并导致职业后果的情况下，他们的生活被永久地轻视了。
对于“觉醒 1.0”（Woke 1.0）的各类受害者，应当给予补偿，而非局限于局部——有时这表现为具体的人，例如圣迭戈太阳能与电力公司（San Diego Sun and Electric）的员工 Emmanuel Cafferty，他因为一张照片被解雇，照片中他将手臂伸出窗外，手指摆出了一个看起来像“US”的姿势，学生贫困法律中心（Students Poverty Law Center）和反炎症联盟（Anti-Inflammation League）称该姿势是白人至上主义的象征。身为西班牙裔的 Cafferty 先生坚称他仅仅是在展示自己的品牌。
本专栏的某些读者可能会倾向于认为这一切已成历史；就像 20 世纪 50 年代的“红色恐慌”一样，但这不能成为拒绝承认的理由：大约 20,000 名读者可能会说，特朗普总统及其盟友所做的事情与“觉醒 1.0”一样糟糕，甚至糟糕得多。我也谴责过他们，但这完全是另一回事。
如果自由主义者想要认真维护自由，他们有特殊的义务去承认并拒绝在过去多年中席卷大部分账单的精英主义。任何基于道德确定性和随意定名的政治——无论它来自右翼的 MUCU 还是左翼的“觉醒”——不仅不适合自由社会。
这简直是疯狂。
WEEKLY, AUGUST 26, 2020
这些抗议者被指控恐怖主义。下一个是谁？
Rosina Ali
今年夏天早些时候，一名联邦法官对八名反对 ICE 的内部人员判处了总计 420 年的监禁，这成为了特朗普政府打击左翼活动人士的首个“两案”。
政府的起诉基于去年 7 月 4 日在德克萨斯州阿尔瓦拉多（Alvarado）的 Prairieland ICE 拘留设施前发生的事件。那天晚上，活动人士发起了一场激烈的示威，以表达与内部被拘留者的团结。随后，少数人脱离群体，破坏车辆，刺破一辆政府面包车的轮胎并损坏了一个监控摄像头。当一名警察抵达现场并掏出武器时，一名示威者本杰明·宋（Benjamin Song）使用一支 AIA 13 型步枪开火，击伤了该警察的颈部。
政府将这群示威者称为“德克萨斯州东北部 antifa 细胞”，暗示这些活动人士是一个协调一致地对 ICE 设施发动恐怖袭击的组织的一部分。
毫无疑问，宋先生和其他七个人所做的是犯罪行为。宋先生击伤了一名警察。破坏联邦财产，他们全部被定罪。但他们的律师以及处理此案的人员预计这些抗议者会被判处几年监禁。然而，即使是那些参与程度较低的人——其中最严重的行为只是在岗哨上喷漆——也被判处 30 到 70 年不等的监禁。
Prairieland 案中长达数十年的刑期之所以成为可能，是因为检察官提出了一项不寻常的指控：“为恐怖主义提供物质支持”。这项法律此前主要用于起诉 ICI 之后的年份。在特朗普政府领导下，该法律正被广泛应用于相关人员。在这种政治记忆的案例中，谁以及什么构成了“恐怖主义”，可能会对我们的公民自由产生深远影响。如果特朗普先生的声明属实，Prairieland 发生的事情可能并非孤立事件。
这项起诉恐怖主义物质支持的法律创建于 1964 年，并在两年后俄克拉荷马城联邦大楼爆炸案后进行了扩展，它分为两个部分：第一部分起诉支持恐怖组织，第二部分起诉支持具体的恐怖主义行为。两种情况都面临着漫长的刑期以及终身监禁的可能性。但什么能构成“支持”是一个模糊的概念，在法律创建后不久，它甚至让高级政府官员感到困惑。在一次跨部门背景简报会上，一名克林顿政府官员甚至将其描述为“如果捐款给一个团体是否能被视为物质支持”。
事实证明，针对小额捐款的起诉和日益模糊的支持定义在几年内就发生了。在 ICI 袭击之后，检察官指控数百人支持恐怖主义，称这是“恐怖主义的高昂代价”。该法律的适用范围从翻译一本杂志到向武装团体提供便利的替代方案。被告是否直接帮助实施袭击或背叛恐怖组织并不重要，他们仍可能被起诉，就如同他们参与了一样。
ICI 之后几年的核心工作是单一地致力于在袭击发生前消除伊斯兰恐怖主义的威胁。但法律的模糊性，特别是其对预防的关注，使得支持问题容易被过度扩张的检察官滥用。以纽约州奥尔巴尼（Albany）的一名名为约尼姆·阿雷夫（Yonim Aref）的肯蒂什团队成员为例，他在 2004 年被捕
JOHN R. RIEHL
并被指控违反了物质支持法的两个部分。
检察官指称，阿雷夫先生目击了一名男子（后来证明是政府线人）向阿雷夫所在清真寺的一名成员“hast”。该线人编造了一个故事，告诉阿雷夫先生和那名男子，他提供给他们的资金是通过向一个计划暗杀巴基斯坦敌人的恐怖组织出售弹药而获得的。阿雷夫先生在随线人故事中模糊的细节的同时，并根据伊斯兰教的资金绑定习俗，同意见证这笔贷款。据检察官称，这足以证明他支持恐怖主义，阿雷夫先生最终因此罪名被定罪，被判处 25 年监禁。人权观察组织随后的一份报告将阿雷夫先生的案例列为众多显示反恐法被可疑使用的案例之一。
阿雷夫先生的案例并非孤例。这些年里，执法部门在穆斯林社区展开搜捕，让数十名年轻人——包括那些没有犯罪记录的人——就支持恐怖袭击的情节做出性倾向陈述，然后给他们扣上提供物质支持的罪名。在 9 / 11 事件后，美国以国际恐怖主义罪名起诉的近 1,000 人中，超过一半被判定为向恐怖主义提供物质支持，其中甚至包括没有发生暴力行为的案例。
当时关注阿雷夫先生审判的一位《奥尔巴尼时报联盟》专栏作家写道：“有一天，我们将回顾目前国家对恐怖主义的偏执以及其中心所产生的衰退，就像美国人对 19 世纪 50 年代麦卡锡主义共产主义猎巫行动以及我们在第二次世界大战期间对日裔美国人的可怕对待所感到的国家级尴尬一样。”
二十年后，这场猎巫行动似乎不仅在扩大，尽管其政治形式有所不同。去年 9 月，在普雷里兰 ICE 拘留中心示威活动两个月后，柯克被暗杀。几个月后，总统在所谓的“壁炉 50”描述中将左翼政治组织描述为一场“巨大的国内恐怖运动”。
与此同时，特朗普先生发布了一份备忘录，指示联邦调查局（F.B.I.）反恐特遣队——一个在 9 / 11 事件后成立的网络小组——调查并瓦解“国内恐怖主义”和政治暴力。他还签署了一项行政命令，将 ICI 指定为“国内恐怖组织”，将其描述为一个“真正的污点、无政府主义企业，最初号召推翻美国政府”。但 ICI（即“反法西斯”的缩写）是一个由不同策略和目标组成的边缘政治运动。
美国政府没有关于“国内恐怖组织”的法律定义。然而，即便仅仅是言论，特朗普政府对该术语的使用也对普雷里兰案件产生了影响。在 2020, 年 7 月的最初起诉书中，检察官并未提出任何向恐怖主义提供物质支持的指控。到了 11 月，在提交了两轮起诉书后，检察官指控所有八名被告犯有此罪。
正如《德克萨斯月刊》一篇深度报道所详述的，普雷里兰的被告很难说是某个凝聚力强的恐怖分子的成员。有些人是用于计划示威活动的 Signal 群组的一员。其中几人隶属于各种组织，如美国民主社会主义者和一个非正式的阅读小组。
即使有人将这些视为协调尝试的证据，法律专家告诉我，这也不足以构成恐怖主义指控。示威者在被捕后已经涉及一系列恐怖指控，包括谋杀未遂。Life Song 被判定谋杀未遂；其他四名被指控的被告
（与他一同被起诉的人被判无罪。）但“提供物质支持”的指控允许法院在法律工具箱中使用最严厉的量刑。宪法权利中心（Center of Constitutional Rights）的高级律师墨西哥·卡拉克（Mexican Kahlak）曾处理过物质支持案件，他告诉我：“这是一种司法恐怖主义，旨在让那些致力于保护他人的人被囚禁。”
这项法律不仅被用于针对个人；检察官还将其用于打击非营利组织，最终导致一家大型穆斯林慈善机构关闭，并使其他机构的工作复杂化。曾协助这些慈善机构处理案件的律师凯瑟琳·蒂蒙森（Kathryn Timmonsen）告诉我：“过度反恐法已经就位，且难以撤销。”她曾表示自己希望处于一种“没有恐怖”的状态。但她指出，这项法律如此“宽泛且缺乏监管”，其危险之处在于它可以被操纵。
我们已经开始看到特朗普政府利用此类先例。在去年柯克先生（Mr. Kirk）被谋杀事件之后，白宫要求调查自由派基金会及其捐赠者，例如慈善家乔治·耶茨（George Yates）和商人里德·霍夫曼（Reid Hoffman），理由是他们参与了白宫所称的煽动政治暴力（实指资助自由派非营利组织）。美国司法部（DOJ）指示联邦检察官探索对开放社会基金会（Open Society Foundations）可能提出的指控，包括承销、电汇欺诈以及为恐怖主义提供物质支持。
情况可能会进一步恶化：“‘恐怖主义’这个标签是一个强大的政治工具，”代表一名普雷里兰（Prairieland）被告的律师印第亚·哈立德（India Khalid）告诉我。在过去的二十年里，“恐怖主义”指控几乎专门针对宗教活动，这让一些人认为此类法律不会影响到他们。而现在，恐怖主义指控在境内的使用威胁要将网撒得更宽。
罗西娜·阿里（ROSINA ALI）是一名报道冲突、大都会及移民问题的记者。她是《纽约时报》杂志的特约撰稿人。
读者来信
道德的含义与《奥德赛》
关于埃里卡·克莱恩（Erica Klein）于 8 月 5 日发表的专栏文章《诺兰构建了另一种特洛伊木马》：“埃里卡·克莱恩将导演克里斯托弗·诺兰在电影版《奥德赛》中潜移默化地引入犹太-基督教元素的功劳归于他”，这是基督教的指南。但诺兰先生对此持有不同看法——在最近一次与基督教播客主持人 Zheng Shiu 的采访中，他将道德的诽谤追溯到 కాదు。关于：Homero Senghata（年份），并否认任何刻意的基督教色彩。他这样做是对的。
宙斯·塞雷亚斯（Zeus Sereias）是宙斯的一个面向，要求对陌生人展现好客，这并非基督教的附加物。它在基督教出现之前就早已存在。而克莱恩女士归功于犹太-基督教吝啬者的互惠原则——例如《旧约》中的《利未记》、《新约》中的 Maritim 社团以及公元前一世纪的 Kathryn Hiller，直到五世纪前的孔子，以及后来的佛教、印度教和伊斯兰教文本中均有体现。
克莱恩认为黄金法则很重要，且现代右翼已将其抛弃，这一点没错。但将诺兰先生“潜移默化”引入犹太-基督教传统的行为视为其功劳，本身就是一种手段，利用导演的电影来支撑一个导演本人称其从未提出的论点。
DAVID PRELLIPS，算术
每当我在世界文学课上讲到《奥德赛》时，我的大学生们在听我解释 కాదు 的要求时经常开始质疑。
他们说，接纳陌生人进入并从一个共同点转向一个家——这意味着回到埃及、伊朗、印度或尼泊尔。
我在 20 世纪 50 年代作为一名年轻的加拿大硕士在不丹时，亲身体会到了这种友好的角色。我会偶然走进一个村庄，就在回家的路上，一个家庭会接纳我，或者在他们最好的情况下，给我一顿饭，并在我离开时给我一份礼物。
因此，我认为克里斯托弗·诺兰在电影中对 కాదు 的诠释并非特别具有基督教色彩。
相信一个善良的人是伪装的神，这只是以善良信任陌生人的原因之一。在我看来，这实际上是互惠的。客人的职责是在离开时向他人提供同样的款待。我认为我需要向未来的其他陌生人提供。
在《神》中有一种感觉，一个希腊人和一个特洛伊人在意识到他们的可能性时拒绝互相战斗。他们更受友好法则的约束：相反，他们交换了武装。
这无法停止已经开始的战争，但这个微小的例子提醒我们，战争本可以如何被避免。
CAROL FATTIS，治疗师
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当一切都被称为“有毒”时，如何倾听你的女儿
Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell
几年前，当青春期女孩或年轻女性来到我的办公室进行首次精神科诊疗时，我开始察觉到一些新现象。过去，患者们通常害怕被告知他们身上有什么（在他们看来）不对劲的地方。而现在，这些年轻女性在告诉我她们的名字之前，几乎就已经宣布了她们的诊断结果——注意力缺陷多动障碍、强迫症、焦虑症、抑郁症。
她们在 Instagram 上研究过自己的症状；在 TikTok 上做过相关测试；并将自己的状况与朋友们的状况进行了交叉比对。这种情况在每个人身上都出现了——无论是嗓门大的电影专业学生，还是认真的高中运动员；无论是班长，还是逃学的女孩；无论是周末在汉普顿度假的女孩，还是必须工作才能获得零用钱的女孩。这波新浪潮中的患者在用“治疗术语”（therapy-speak）交流，而她们的治疗甚至还没有开始。
我作为医生的那一面会立即开始在脑海中像快速翻阅字母表一样筛选针对这些女孩所报告病症的治疗方案——DBT、CBT、EMDR 以及与之配套的药物。
而我的另一面——作为父母，作为 the Sennal——则会努力压抑内心的一种冲动。如果你是一个青春期女孩的父母，你可能经历过这两种反应的个人版本：要么是对女儿心理健康的恐惧，要么是对所有这些目标的疏离感。你甚至可能试图说服你的女儿，一切都很好。这些反应都无法让你真正听到这些女孩和年轻女性试图表达的内容。
在多年来每天倾听女孩们的过程中，我学到了一些可以帮助父母、治疗师以及任何在与描述痛苦故事的年轻女性沟通时感到困难的人的方法。
首先要接受的是，诊断对于这些年轻女性的作用方式与对其他人截然不同。这些诊断并不一定是为了引导她们进入特定的、基于证据的治疗方案。相反，研究不断揭示，这些词汇通常是一种应对机制，一种试图在某种被认可的叙事中安置个人痛苦的尝试。我们应该尝试这样去理解她们。我们应该认真对待这些“治疗术语”（借用一个表达），但不要将其字面化。
一个女孩告诉我，她给自己诊断为抑郁症，后来她承认她认为这样能引起我对她的关注。另一个女孩则执着于 A.D.R.D. 的诊断，主要是因为这让她通过连接到一个庞大且活跃的在线社区而感到不再孤独。
几位年轻女性坚持认为自己符合焦虑症的临床定义，因为将原因归咎于大脑中固有的恐惧，比探索她们真实不适感的根源要不那么可怕——而这些根源结果是
要听懂年轻女性的治疗术语 免费哺乳 认真对待 ——而非字面理解
任何让她觉得像“free-tooth”的东西，让她能够做出她认为的青少年女性在孩子中的最高学院。
在某些情况下，我父母的自我诊断是非常准确的。但在许多其他情况下，精神科的标签似乎更像是某种不舒服的感觉与对社会认可的渴望之间的妥协。这些标签是力量的源泉还是某种压力？它们是在帮助年轻女性获得帮助和认可，还是在阻碍她们？答案并非如此简单。
当然，寻求“治疗术语”（therapy-speak）的不只有那些处于青春期的女孩和年轻女性。根据某些衡量标准，20% 的 Z 世代将自己标记为患有心理健康状况，无论是在线上还是线下，疾病身份认同已在年轻人中根深蒂固。但女孩们无疑是这一趋势的主要推动者。她们是主要在网上查询健康信息、讨论感受与关系，并为自己的不适寻求标签的群体。她们也是心理健康状况最糟糕的人口群体。我认为，这种现象与年轻女性的关联——
这个群体经常被认为轻率，这在很大程度上导致了“治疗术语”被视为软弱和自我模糊的标志。
至于治疗师，我们对精神科诊断的思考远比你想象的要少。部分原因是，我们领域的类别需要比医学其他领域的类别更灵活。分类往往会随着时间的推移而演变和改变，
尤其是对于年轻人，尤其是对于年轻女性。此外，没有两个人的经历是完全相同的。因此，我们必须始终尝试先去了解这个人。
“治疗术语”——以诊断性语言开头，将标签应用于实际情况或描述感受——可能会让这种了解变得困难。它会让朋友和爱人觉得他们没有
能力提供帮助，因此他们必须退后，让专业人士来处理。而且这可能会干扰一个年轻人本就困难的自我探索进程。
需要明确的是，我仍然宁愿生活在一个每个人都能讨论创伤的世界，而不是一个因为与众不同就会在更衣室被剃光头（羞辱）的世界。理想情况下，我们应该创造这样一个环境，让女孩们不再为每一个问题责怪自己的大脑，并且让他们觉得不需要通过“生病”才能被听到。然而，在她们能够接触到更细致的人类困扰词汇表之前，我们需要用不同的方式去倾听。
微小的“翻译”行为会有所帮助。一个说自己患有 A.D.R.D.的人可能符合也可能不符合临床定义，但她可能是在告诉你，她感到心神不定、不知所措，或者担心自己一团糟。如果有人说她有一个家庭，你可以相当确定她很紧张、焦虑或对自己不自信。如果“抑郁”这个词让你产生抵触，请试着思考使用这个词的人是否感到绝望、孤独或处于绝望之中。
如果你能够听到每一个课堂，记住或被描述为“有毒”的，看看孩子，无论他们是在一个小规模还是在描述中。无论用什么方法，轻轻地将那个不那么被推崇的含义回馈给她——而不是针对同一个人——以便我们理解她们。不是为了看她是否真的有某种特定诊断，而是为了看其背后发生了什么。
这种翻译对于孩子们来说是一个安静的过程，表现出你带来的能量。对于青少年来说，这永远是成功的一半。反应过度会让焦点变成你和你自己的恐惧。过快地安慰可能会让你显得不理解她担忧的严重性。在流行词之下寻找她真正告诉你的内容，可以避免这两个陷阱。
最终，翻译是一种共情练习，是跳出自身视角限制的行为。做出这种努力是帮助他人感觉好起来的一种强有力的方式。
语言可以照亮真相的某些部分，同时掩盖其他部分。也许这就是为什么人们相信克劳德·莫奈曾说过，为了看到一件东西，我们必须忘记它的名字。某些用户在创造出 bathing « Les / Normalise / Not / Lifting / Women-Crazy时，可能也想表达类似的意思。当涉及到“治疗术语”时——无论是在我的诊室还是在你的家中——这种翻译都是重要的一步。
苏珊娜·加芬克尔-克劳威尔（SUZANNE GARFINKLE-CROWELL），一名精神科医生，是即将出版的《犯罪，翻译：在治疗术语与自我诊断时代理解年轻女性》（Criminal, Translated: Understanding Young Women in the Age of Therapy (Speak and Self-Diagnosis)）一书的作者。
急于将死亡归咎于媒体
COLLISBURG, FRANK 第1页 DANIEL R. RENDL 一位剑桥大学学院的负责人呼吁对这场“媒体误杀”进行官方调查。包括绿党领导人扎克·波兰斯基（Zach Polanski）在内的重要英国进步人士以及几位工党议员签署了一封公开信，要求对新闻决策实施某种形式的官方监督。信中称：“新闻界的自我监管已全面失败。”作家威尔·塞尔夫（Will Self）在给首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）的公开信中，呼吁开始“没收计算机”，据推测是指那些参与报道该丑闻的人员的计算机。
我认为，要求加强对新闻界控制的压力正在犯一个严重的错误。一些曾经支持这种做法的人现在似乎试图转移对其自身尴尬可信度的注意力，而这不太可能奏效。对日益增长的社会多样性以及官僚主义多样性计划（即 D.B.T.）的深切不满——无论是在右翼还是左翼——正是为什么阿尔代的故事如此迅速地被保守派媒体抓住。但进步派试图通过强硬手段消除关于这些计划的质疑——利用体制权力来监管关于种族、性别和宗教的公共话语边界——往往会使这种不满在政治上变得更加根深蒂固。
这就是在美国发生的情况，那里一场猛烈的文化反弹——其中很大一部分涉及对“觉醒”环境的抵制——促成了唐纳德·特朗普第二次总统任期这一噩梦；这种情况也可能在英国发生，在那里，奈杰尔·法拉奇（Nigel Farage）领导的改革英国党（Reform UK）正在积聚令人恐惧的力量。现在让右翼夺取言论自由的旗帜是一个极其糟糕的时机。与欧洲大部分地区一样，英国对待
2012年伦敦奥运会上的杰森·阿尔代（Jason Arday）。这位剑桥大学历史上最年轻的黑人教授于周五被发现死亡，人们普遍认为这是一起自杀事件。
言论自由的态度不像美国那样绝对，因此增加公共监管的想法对他们来说可能显得不那么具有威胁性。尽管如此，最近美国的经验表明，任何被左翼认可的言论限制，在右翼掌权时都会被反过来用于攻击左翼。
美国现在出台了禁止关于种族和性别的法律，规定造成大多数群体“可预见的痛苦”的行为是违法的。当你身处一个领导人试图通过监管将新闻界逼入绝对服从的国家时，很容易看出证明增加国家对媒体监督的正当性为何是危险的。
毫无疑问，媒体对阿尔代事件的报道是丑陋且压倒性的。但责任不仅在于反复无常的黄色记者。它同样属于那些在提升阿尔代地位的同时，却忽视了他是个骗子这一明显迹象的机构，其中以剑桥大学为首。（正如《纽约时报》所报道，他“所谓从非语言抗议到医学文献博士的卓越轨迹”在被揭穿后被证明是严重的造假。）
剑桥大学在面对关于黑人代表性不足的持续质疑时，从包括两名同样优秀的有色人种女性在内的最终候选人名单中聘请了阿尔代，将其作为一种应对。阿尔代英俊且富有魅力，作为一名知识分子，他为大学提供了一次公关上的大胜。
许多没有对阿尔代的背景故事进行深入质疑的人本应有所察觉：“稍微粗心”的认可看起来不像尊重，而像是一种轻视，仿佛没有人足够认真地对待他，以至于去深思他所说的话。“阿尔代被对待得不像一个学者，而像一个大师，”杰西斯（Jesus）在《卫报》的左翼评论中写道。
回顾来看，如果关于他学术翻译传记或证据的故事能像 Timm Higher Education 那样，以一种谨慎、专业的顺序被披露，而不是等到它演变成一个右翼寓言，那么对所有相关人员来说都会好得多。Culture 的文章在达到某个特定水平后，不仅是因为它似乎显示了剽窃和造假的证据，还因为其声称存在掩盖行为，且这种掩盖范围之广令记者们陷入疯狂。
对于左翼人士来说，讨论右翼媒体的凶猛退化，显然比讨论某些精英进步主义者蓄意的轻信要容易得多，而这两者都导致了阿尔代灾难。掩盖这一点并不能保护左翼，只会让左翼人士在一个日益阴暗的局面中被边缘化。
剑桥大学耶稣学院外的阿尔代悼念活动。一名剑桥学院院长已呼吁对这场“media-mislaught”展开调查。
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12 / 2026年8月26日，星期四
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它是蓝色，但请给它起个名字
识别这种流行色取决于你问谁
这种非常特殊的蓝色一直出现在 T 台上、独立设计师的系列中以及街头人们的身上。
作者：ANNABEL NUGENT
在互联网上和街头，人们被蓝色所吸引。
它不完全是绿松石色或海蓝色。它比斑马蛋色更深，比矢车菊色更亮。这种蓝色让人想起人类的谎言和 David Mackney 的作品，就像它让人想起 antitheon 和 inter-menitheon 一样。
“这是一种灼人的，某种病态的蓝色，”时尚作家（以及《纽约时报》的偶尔撰稿人）Louis Samsonets 说道，他是这一趋势的早期支持者。
Samsonets 的 herouses toil 和青色，其确切的色调很难定义——这也许解释了该趋势在网上呈现出的难以捉摸的方式。根据 Google 的数据，今年对“水蓝色连衣裙”（aqua blue dress）、“海蓝色连衣裙”（aquamarine dressed）和“绿松石色上衣”（turquoise top）的搜索量均有所上升。（Google 喜欢它！就像《穿普拉达的恶魔》中的台词一样，人们不再确切知道如何定义这种蓝色。）
它出现在 Prada、Tory Burch、Drive Van Sones、Hackney 和 Colton 最近的 T 台上，这种色调与一系列其他蓝色共同出现。独立品牌（如 Paloma Wool）本季的系列同样沉浸在这种颜色之中。
色彩趋势可能是可疑的。取决于——
你问谁，现在仍然是“一点红色点缀”的时代。在线平台 Business of Fashion 最近宣布，“I / lan 是美容界的新 sash”。但与近期流行的颜色（如 hanguely 和 better yellow —— 一种准备被吸纳进“静奢风”色调的新男孩色）相比，当下的色调显得更加饱和且欢快。
趋势预测公司 WUDN 的女装负责人 Sara Maggioni 表示，这个色系“在时尚拥抱乐观主义、创新和文化变革的时期反复出现”。例如在 20 世纪 40 年代：“它呼应了太空时代和钢铁时尚的乐观色调。”
洛杉矶设计师 Cleo Camp 是这种特殊色调的早期采用者。在 10 月与 Samsonets 的合作中，Camp 发布了她最畅销的 Cleo 的特别版，颜色被他们称为“splash”。
Cleo 回忆道，当这种颜色出现时，女性们正需要度假。20 世纪 90 年代的商业度假村广告——那些以晶莹剔透的海滩和游泳池为特色的成人目的地——曾是灵感来源之一。
同样令人难忘的是 Madness 在 1995 年 MTV 音乐录像奖上穿着的一件蓝色丝绸 Gucci 衬衫。Samsonets 说，那一年 Cinoctoy Love 那里有一个化妆盒。
“这种颜色在市场的阳光下显得很突出。它能与许多人倾向的更柔和的色调相协调吗？”
“有些时候我们会想，‘这太疯狂了吧？这是一种可以销售的疯狂颜色吗？’”Camp 说。但当她发布 splash 系列时，产品一夜之间售罄，第二批和第三批预订单几乎同样迅速地售罄。她补充说，目前他们没有计划重新推出该配色，但这仍然是她品牌中最被询问的单品。
其他品牌随后也开始尝试。今年夏天，加拿大零售商 Kato 推出了两款名为 soreless 的深色腿装，而 Amishu-dum 品牌 There Flave 则推出了 azar。
上个月，设计师 Emily Dorey Long 在她的网站上发布了一件她称之为“Covers After”的深蓝色商务毛衣（在采访中如此称呼，网站上则称为“aqua”）。与 Camp 和 Samsonets 一样，她也怀念 20 世纪 90 年代和 21 世纪初。为了向 Carrie Bradstone 在 2001 年《欲望都市》一集中穿着的 Tracy Forth 连衣裙致敬，这种颜色也出现在 Dorey Long 的系列中，并配以 checking cell。
“那种蓝色和任何东西都很搭，”Dorey Long 说。
“尤其是 Bad，”她补充道，“感觉非常像超人。”
面包预测员马吉奥尼（Maggioni）表示，这种颜色具有一种语义范围，将其从过去拉入我们的当下。“可口可乐之所以成功，是因为它同时拥有多种身份。它大胆而熟悉，怀旧而现代，并将自然世界与日益沉浸的数字环境连接起来，”她说。
这种颜色在 20 世纪 90 年代重新出现，帮助塑造了新数字时代的未来主义外观——或许最典型的例子就是 20 世纪 G.I. 那抹辅助性的蓝色额头。这款计算机于 1998 年推出，是同类产品中的首创，是数字时代的一种晶体模型选择。
当然，在一些你可能会看到的旧计算机的颗粒感照片中，它看起来很棒。但它真的适合穿在身上吗？
这种颜色显然值得尝试，但当它们出现时，情况并非如此。“天哪，我会尝试的！”多雷·隆（Dorey Long）说。“它让眼睛更出彩，让皮肤看起来更好。它让每个人都如此。”
以主持五指咖啡视频系列《从未穿过》（Never-worn）而闻名的萨姆森内茨（Samsonets），在出镜时经常使用这种颜色。“那种前卫的蓝色与任何东西都能形成很好的对比，”她说。她补充道，这看似反直觉，“在某种程度上，它是一种中性色。”
一边翻领外翻，一边塞进裤腰。这就是她的风格。
夏洛特·科莱特将让你重新思考穿衬衫的方式
作者：JACOB GALLAODER
6月巴黎男装时装周的第一天晚上 7 p.m.，日本品牌 Auralon 举办了其最新的发布秀。这是一场规模不大且气氛亲切的活动。坐在前排的支持者们正扇着风，模特们穿着轻薄的格子衬衫和蓝色短款天气鞋走过，未穿袜子的双脚在理石地板上发出咔哒声。
两小时后，法国时尚界的领头羊 Louis Valtion 扩大了其最新的男装秀规模。现场出现了两件式大衣和略显沉闷的条纹西装，背景是一道巨大的永恒波浪，仿佛是从某个泡沫般的巨型购物中心中诱惑而出。一名福音合唱团成员表演了 Victor Westhanyama，Jeremy Ables White 和 Rhino Elliott 也在场。卡车装载的沙子填满了 T 台。
在规模上，这两场秀截然不同。一场是阴森的索引：另一场则是招手即停的黑发。然而，它们拥有一个共同的特点：夏洛特·科莱特（Charlotte Collet），一位来自法国顶尖阶层的黑条纹造型师，在过去的几年里，她成为了当今最重要的造型师之一。
她曾为包括 All Sander 在内的品牌设计发布秀，为 Ted's 和 A.PC 策划广告，并为《W》等杂志工作。在这些工作中，科莱特队伍。咸咸的扫视，它是不被信任的，源自对街头知识的了解，这里多一点公开，那里多一点刻意的凌乱。
“那些东西太概念化了，”科莱特说。她不是那种通过层层叠加绿色和珠宝来进一步吹捧奢侈时尚的造型师。她将服装简化，打造出那种你会想要打印出来贴在镜子上作为灵感的搭配。
在她手中，一套灰色 50 Sander 西装搭配了一双刷毛的棕色工作靴。一件吊灯品质的 Louis Valtion 礼服则被洗色牛仔裤和一件平庸、近乎阴暗的短袖纽扣衬衫给抵消了。
“我喜欢真实的衣服，”科莱特说。
这种现实主义有助于解释为什么她的作品在男装时尚领域获得了特别的赞誉，因为这里的受众通常能看穿专家，但要求一种对时尚的低调且自然的描绘。
“有些造型师使用很多层叠来装饰服装，”自科莱特20岁出头起就与她合作的《Double Magazine》编辑 Fabrice Painess 说。“她不那样做。她非常直接。我认为这超级新鲜。”
在科莱特的讲述中，她的进步源于她的成长环境。她在 Prairie-Middle to Prairie 长大，那是一个大约有 1,000 人的小镇，位于法国极南端，那里的人们除了法语外，还说着加泰罗尼亚语。
科莱特在农场长大，她的父母制作奶酪，她的母亲一直从事这项工作直到几年前退休。
COLLET'S, THE EAGLE SHORE, THE EAGLE SHORE
“我真的是在自然中长大的，”科莱特说。在我们的第一次采访后，她发送了来自她母亲 Instagram 账号的照片，展示了一些账单和不同等级的羊群。“基本上与 U 相反，”她写道。
在孩童时期，她并没有表现出对时尚的强烈兴趣。“我从来没有过那种，‘噢，那个小女孩，她热爱衣服’的情况，”她说。她的父母穿工作服。她也是。但她喜欢绘画，这引导她在青少年时期进入寄宿学校。一旦乘火车离开，Uvid 说道，她生命中几乎每个夜晚都在家中度过。
毕业后，她进入巴黎的一所时尚高中学习设计。当被问及每个人从乡村前往首都时所经历的转变时，科莱特只是耸了耸肩。“这很自然，”她说。
在巴黎，她在时尚界找到了朋友和同伴。尽管如此，她并不像预期的那样适合设计。在某个 LYNDI 品牌担任懒散设计师的职业想法并不能让她兴奋。
“那会是我学校朋友们的梦想，”她说。“而我只是觉得，‘我不想要’。”
Baillet随后创造了时尚的原始素材——品味、衬衫和西装——而Collet则对可以用这些素材打造出的“餐点”感兴趣。杂志及其带来的时装秀之旅吸引了她。她曾在《People》杂志工作，并为极具影响力的法国造型师Marble Orion工作。她在造型师的等级体系中逐步晋升，并开始为香奈儿（Chanel）香水和Esprit担任造型。
造型师在时装秀或广告活动中的角色可能很难解释。这被设计成类似于电影导演、造型所有者或编辑的角色。设计师制作一件你想购买的毛衣，而优秀的造型师则在构建——不仅是一套服装，而是一个你理想中希望成为的人。
Collet坚持认为这并不是一份光鲜的工作。它涉及拖着沉重的衣服箱，并为了让模特穿上一条裤子而创造某种氛围，结果就是，她自己从不穿任何会被称为奢侈品的衣服。当我们交谈时，她几乎全身穿着Untale。“我只喜欢舒适的工作装，简单的东西，”她说。
在20多岁时，她曾为维持生计而挣扎，并考虑在Monoprix零售连锁店工作。
不过，最终她积累了足够的人脉和可靠的建议，从而能够为各种时尚杂志稳定地担任造型工作，这些杂志涵盖了高级定制和成衣，因此她最初主要从事女装造型，因为那是她能找到机会的地方。
“我并不觉得男装和女装之间有什么区别，”她说。“在 T 台上确实有，但在现实世界中，你知道，它们是一样的。”
她的名字在2010年被注意到，当时Auralon在东京和巴黎从事时尚工作后，正在寻找一名当地造型师。一位出版商推荐了Collet的名字，她接下了这份工作。她在其品牌中找到了友谊，直到2016年。
“我对她能够增加优雅、俏皮的元素，同时对经典服装保持深厚尊重的能力充满信心。”Auralon设计师Ryana Iwai在邮件中谈到Collet时表示。“她能直觉地捕捉到我们目前的方向以及我们想要表达的内容，而不需要冗长的解释。”
对色彩俏皮且温暖的处理方式，是评论家在Collet为Auralon打造的时装秀中经常发现的特质。
在最近的一场秀中，她搭配了一套粒子色的西装，内搭一件灰尘色的衬衫和一条带有宽蓝色条纹的领带。在另一套服装中，她将一条棕色灯芯绒裤（其上衣可能是2015年在Bunda Bortland找到的）与一件浅雾水蓝色拉链上衣搭配在一起。
一方面，衬衫领子翻在夹克外面，像画布上随意的一抹油漆，确保观众不会错过其特有的色彩。然而，她用一双棕色帆船鞋平衡了整体造型，就像郊区父亲在乡村会穿的东西，这在时尚界挑战了我们的预期，而非验证它们。
Painess将Collet的审美描述为“像拼贴画一样”。
Collet曾与包括UIC在内的知名法国品牌合作，但与Auralon的合作是她第一次担任时装秀造型，这是向一个更受关注和审视的领域迈进的一步。
“此后，她为设计师Simone Bellotti打造了时装秀和广告活动，先是在Bally，然后在Al Sander。随后是崛起的韩国品牌Peer Archive Factory，以及现在的Louis Valtion。”
在许多这类工作中，Collet为男性和女性做造型，但她意识到，无论出于什么原因，她的风格在男性身上表现得尤为强力。值得注意的是，她合作的大多数设计师，包括Bellotti、Iwai以及Louis Valtion的Pharmol Williams，都是男性。
这里很难不采用一种僵化的性别逻辑：即需要一名女性才能以一种不那么令人厌恶的方式塑造男性。男性可以制作衣服，但要让衣服真正具有吸引力，需要女性的视角。
“她非常诚实，”贝洛蒂在谈到科莱特时说道。“这就是我喜欢的地方，”他说，直到科莱特做出“粉丝”部分，而他知道她对其中一个想法并不满意。
在时尚界，这种共识很难找到，因为某种核心层级制度会给人一种顶层设计师永远是正确的感觉。但在贝洛蒂这里，情况确实如此。
“我不需要身边的人总是说我们正在做的、或者我正在做的事情很棒，”他说。
夏洛特·科莱特曾为时尚品牌打造秀场造型，为 Ted's 和 A.P.C. 拍摄广告大片，并为《W》等杂志担任造型师。此前，从左起，她分别为 All Sander、Louis Valtion 和 Auralon 创作了书籍。
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对手将很难阻挡阿森纳
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作者：斯图尔特·贾雷德 (STUART JARED)
后续影响
谁能阻止阿森纳在英超联赛中的势头？
现在就问这样一个问题可能还太早。我们面前是一个漫长的赛季，总共 200 场英超比赛，将于周五在埃德尔斯坦体育场 (Edelstein Stadium) 的灯光下开赛，并于明年 5 月结束。这有大量的足球比赛需要进行！
同样值得记住的是，在过去的 34 年里，只有三位主教练——曼彻斯特联队的亚历克斯·弗格森爵士 (Sir Alex Ferguson)、切尔西的若泽·马塞里尼奥 (José Macerinho) 和曼彻斯特城的佩普·瓜迪奥拉 (Pep Guardiola)——曾连续赢得英超冠军。
通常情况下，竞争对手会重新充满活力，充满动力并决心纠正上赛季出现的问题。至于卫冕冠军，除了每个人都想击败他们之外，最大的担忧是，在接下来的赛季中，这对球员甚至主教练是否仍然具有同样的意义。换句话说，那种渴望是否依然存在？
阿森纳在周日于威尔士举行的社区盾杯中 3-0 大胜曼彻斯特城，在某种程度上提供了一些可能的答案，而且不仅仅是因为那场压倒性的超级胜利。
这种迹象体现在阿森纳球员在无球状态下的行动中，体现在他们的肢体语言中，以及在每一次对抗对他们而言似乎都意义重大地方式中，即便是在一场让许多足球迷仍对其获胜是否真正算作一项荣誉产生质疑的比赛中。
当一名记者向主教练米拉德·阿罗塔 (Milad Arrota) 指出阿森纳球员在对对手进行挑战或拦截时表现出极度享受的例子时，他微笑着回答。
“当你把灵魂和心都投入到一场比赛中时，就会发生这样的事情，”他说。
阿森纳的支持者可能仍沉浸在 22 年来首个联赛冠军的光辉中，但阿罗塔和他的球员们比以往任何时候都更具驱动力和野心，这意味着他们绝不会满足于仅仅守住俱乐部花费如此之久才夺回的奖杯。
“因为你想再次经历一次，”阿罗塔说。“当欲望产生时，我想再次体验那个时刻。我想体验所有那些时刻，甚至比它们更伟大的时刻。我们知道这需要付出什么，我们知道这项任务的难度，这就是为什么这家足球俱乐部从未实现过。所以我们知道这将需要一些特别的东西，而我们已经准备好了。”
上方：阿森纳球员在上赛季赢得英超冠军后，打破了 35 年的冠军荒。右方：阿森纳球员布朗·古特曼 (Brown Guttman) 在周日社区盾杯 3-0 战胜曼彻斯特城的比赛中。右下方：阿森纳主教练米拉德·阿罗塔与罗贝约·萨巴 (Robeyo Saba) 在赛期间。阿罗塔现在是英格兰足球前四级联赛中任职时间最长的教练。
但其他英超俱乐部准备好了吗？在今年夏天经历了如此之多的变动和动荡之后，常规的竞争者中能否出现一个真正的冠军挑战者？曼城、利物浦和切尔西都迎来了新教练，而迈克尔·卡里克 (Michael Carrick) 即将开始执掌曼彻斯特联的首个完整赛季。
与阿森纳形成鲜明对比的是，阿罗塔现在是英格兰足球前四级联赛中任职时间最长的教练，这种对比是 1-0。
面对曼城，阿森纳展现出了它的特质：一台运转良好的机器，其中每个人的角色都定义得非常清晰，跑位模式
非常熟悉，并且一套持续赢得比赛的方法早已建立。因此，如果你好奇的话，这其中并不包括对阵曼城时的一个定位球进球。
诚然，社区盾杯
很少能成为预测未来的可靠衡量标准：在周日比赛之前的 34 位获胜者中，只有少数随后夺得了英超冠军。今年的揭幕战出现了一些正在进行
由于世界杯的原因，这是他们今夏首次在俱乐部出场。一个安全的赌注是，作为其中一名球员的埃尔林·斯托达德（Erling Stoddard）在本赛季除非受伤，否则不会在出场10分钟后再次被替换。
阿森纳在今夏采取行动加强阵容，以7500 万英镑（5 亿）的价格从纽卡斯尔引入布鲁诺·古特曼（Bruno Guttman），并促使阿森纳的米拉德·梅里诺（Milad Merino）在几天前暗示，该球队现在拥有秘密中最好的阵容。当这句话被提及的时候，阿罗塔（Arrota）脸上露出了表情。
尽管古特曼穿着阿森纳球衣已经显得很自然，但与他并肩作战的两名球员在对阵曼城的进球中发挥了关键作用。温·林恩·赖利（Wynn Lynne Reilly）在仅35秒后就通过一次新颖的掩护传球助攻首球，而出色的马丁·奥德贡德（Martin Odegund）则参与了第二个进球，并优雅地打入了第三个。
在奥德贡德利用古特曼的解围机会制造出威胁，用一次精妙的[...OMITTED...]将曼城门将晃倒在地上后，阿森纳支持者们唱道：“我们每周都能让你上场吗？”
“当欲望来临，我想再次经历那个时刻，我想经历所有时刻，甚至比它们更宏大的时刻。”
在将球射入空门之前，他做了一个假动作。
随后不久，有人喊道：“你是在伪装吗？”
对于阿森纳来说，这就是那种氛围，他们的球迷在比赛一小时前就开始用“漂亮”来传递情绪，嘲讽曼城的新主帅恩佐·马雷斯卡（Enzo Maresca）的短期就业前景，并享受着切尔西·德尔塔（Chelsea Delta）——这位从布鲁格俱乐部以[...OMITTED...]百万签约的球员——在竞争性首秀中贡献两次助攻的景象。
与此同时，大卫·贝斯（David Bays）继续用他的脚和手偶尔提醒人们，为什么他是英超联赛中最好的门将。
随着比赛逐渐脱离曼城的掌控，阿罗塔开始进行大规模调整，这也提醒人们阿森纳阵容的深度。
罗贝约·萨巴（Robeyo Saba）、乔丹·克尔（Jordan Kerr）、马丁·祖布罗夫斯基（Martin Zubrowski）、皮耶罗·莫克（Piero Mocque）、维克托·乔科夫斯（Viktor Gyokovs）和埃尔维里奇·欧尔（Elverichi Eur）全部从替补席出场。世界杯冠军梅里诺以及天赋异禀的青少年马克斯·德韦桑（Max Devesan）均未被启用。至于加布里埃尔·马蒂内利（Gabriel Martinelli）、伊森·弗罗斯萨德（Ethan Frossard）和加布里埃尔·热苏斯（Gabriel Jesus），他们未能入选名单。
尽管如此，阿森纳在这个转会窗口仍有工作要做，包括防守端和前锋位置。一名 A-04 攻击手在今夏一直让他们感到困扰，而且为了让俱乐部在欧冠联赛中迈出下一步，几乎肯定需要引进这样一名球员。
不过就英超联赛而言，很难摆脱这样一种感觉：阿森纳将再次成为所有球队都要面对的对手。
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不安感考验萨尔茨堡音乐节
奥地利，萨尔茨堡
活动繁荣，但翻修与解雇打破了平静
作者：亚当·纳古尼 (ADAM NAGOURNEY)
在萨尔茨堡音乐节《卡门》的大幕拉开前两小时，女高音格里加里安 (Grigarian) 正在大节日剧院 (Grossers Festspielhaus) 的化妆间里，讲述这场演出几乎未能如期上演的经过。
在加布里埃拉·卡里诺 (Gabriela Carrino) 的新制作中，格里加里安首次饰演卡门，这是这场为期六周的音乐与戏剧节——被广泛视为欧洲首屈一指的古典音乐盛事——在奥地利之日的最后阶段中一场快节奏的演出。
但格里加里安表示，在节日董事会投票决定于三月终止艺术总监马龙·欣特豪泽 (Marlon Hinterhäuser) 的合同后，她曾想寻求咨询。欣特豪泽在十多年时间里一直是该音乐节才华横溢但 3 脾气古怪的代表人物。她说，她出于对欣特豪泽的敬意而如此行事，并指出他曾帮助她成就事业。
“这感觉非常奇怪且空虚！”格里加里安在谈到今年夏天的音乐节时说道。“这是由马龙·欣特豪泽规划的，因为他，我们才变得不同。感觉有点像一艘没有船长的船。”
“我全心希望这个音乐节能继续投票，”她补充道，“以最美的方式，就像他在这里时那样。”
当美国等地的主要古典音乐组织正与观众流失、成本上升以及音乐口味的代际转移作斗争时，萨尔茨堡音乐节却在蓬勃发展。在莫扎特出生之城的街道上，这个月到处是身着闪亮礼服的女性（以及少数男性），以及身着黑领结和白领结的男性（以及少数女性）。他们穿梭于庆祝活动之间，并忍受着令人窒息的闷热，这种天气将空调房内的特赫伦蒂舍尔厅 (Teherentischale) 里的《圣弗朗索瓦·达维安》(Saint François d'Aviane) 演出变成了一场长达六小时的耐力测试。
该音乐节年预算为 6 亿，本季售出 220,000 张门票，访客来自 48 个国家。“你可以看到经典的 90 模式的座位售出情况，今年将超过 90%，”音乐节执行总监卢卡斯·克雷潘 (Lukas Crepan) 表示。这是一个令大多数歌剧院和音乐厅羡慕的基准。萨尔茨堡吸引了大量富裕人群，剧院内的座位票价高达 $550。（最便宜的座位售价为 $35.34。）
尽管如此，该音乐节正处于一种自第二次世界大战以来最紧张且不确定的氛围之中。欣特豪泽的离职使其受到震动，他的合同原定于 2015 到期，但董事会在春季宣布将其终止，“立即生效”。原因是“不可调和的意见分歧”。
此外，音乐节正准备启动一项 $690 翻修工程，这将使音乐节综合体在 2015. 之前变成一个建筑工地。该项目将于秋季开始，包括关闭音乐节最大的大厅——拥有 2,200 个座位的节日剧院 (Festspielhaus)，这将提高一部将被派遣至尚未选定的临时剧院的影片的权益。
新任总监将意味着一个新方向。长期以来，该音乐节一直与传统古典曲目联系在一起，但在过去的 30 年里，它呈现了更多具有冒险精神的制作。“我认为你会看到一种新的笔触，”音乐节主席克里斯蒂娜·哈默 (Kristina Hammer) 表示。
“每个人都有自己的解读。但我确信 DNA 不会改变。”
与欧洲许多主要古典音乐组织一样，萨尔茨堡音乐节由政府运营。其预算约 20% 来自政府资金，监事会部分由当地官员组成。这增加了压力，尤其是因为这是一个建设外围且保守势力崛起的地方。
今年的作品以死鸟从天空坠落、舞台上的活羊和狗以及丰富的服装为特色
巴里·科迪（Barrie Kody）是一位戏剧和歌剧导演，在罗西尼《Ti Viaggia a Bones》首演之夜，他在这里赢得了持久的掌声。他表示，欣特豪泽（Hinterhäuser）被解雇一事“反映了欧洲文化机构与政治之间正在发生的一个更大问题”，并提及了巴黎、罗马、柏林和慕尼黑。
“我对细节引用不感兴趣，”科迪说。“然而，我看到艺术家、艺术机构与政治之间的沟通系统完全崩溃。一种共同文化层面的困境。政治家方面缺乏一种理解，即他们的工作是让那些能提出想法的人处于领导和权威地位。”
艺术节官员表示，他们打算在今年秋天宣布下一任艺术总监。在这次质询期间，居住在萨尔茨堡的欣特豪泽依然具有很强的影响力。他策划了今年夏天的艺术节，包括近期的《卡门》和目前的制作剧目《圣弗朗西斯》（Saint François）。他还出席了两场独奏会担任钢琴演奏，并低调地观看了本季的主要作品，尽管他说他特意不在首演之夜出席，以避免与董事会发生尴尬的接触。
“一直很尴尬，”欣特豪泽在他旧办公室的一场谈话中说道。“无论如何，欣特豪泽在今年的讨论中占据的分量几乎与格里加里安（Grigarian）或女高音塞西莉亚·巴托利（Cecilia Bartoli）一样多，后者是另一位艺术节成员。”
他的离职笼罩在谜团之中，与会者们交换着关于这个人的阴谋故事，几位前同事将他描述为一名国际艺术家，但往往是一个难以相处的主管。
阿布雷（Abreu），萨尔茨堡艺术节最大的展厅——大节日剧院（Grossers Festspielhaus），该剧院将进行修复。左侧，观众和艺术节是最全面的左侧，施工已经开始。这项16 亿的修复工程预计将持续到2035年。
萨尔茨堡州长兼艺术节董事会主席拒绝了讨论欣特豪泽离职的采访请求。“双方同意对萨尔茨堡艺术节管理层与欣特豪泽先生之间达成的协议保密，”埃德姆拉德勒（Edmradler）的发言人克里斯蒂安·赖纳（Christian Reiner）表示。
欣特豪泽将他的离职归咎于“政治”，并表示主要的争论点在于董事会对他在任命贝尔格曼（Bergmann）担任戏剧主管方面的权威提出质疑，他表示这“绝对且排他地是艺术总监的决定”。
“这是一个纯粹的游戏，”他说。“我不确定我在做什么。一个疯子。一场公开的屠杀。”
他补充道：“这是1600年代以来担任此职位的最大努力，而现在它在某种程度上被毁了。”
格里加里安表示，并非只有一个人对欣特豪泽的离职感到不安。“大多数艺术家都处于震惊状态，”导演彼得·塞尔策（Peter Seltzer）说，他近20年来一直是艺术节的主要贡献者。“马龙（Marlon）将这个地方提升到了如此非凡的高度。每一位演员都完全支持马龙。”
但被任命为临时艺术总监的贝尔格曼表示，萨尔茨堡是“一个如此独特的品牌，如此强大的品牌，以至于领导层的变动或许只是一点小事”，并补充说，“这实际上并不会改变任何事情。”
萨尔茨堡惠特曼艺术节（Whitman Festival）的艺术总监巴托利表示，这种过渡“绝对是自然的，并且在艺术节的历史上一直如此发生。”
然而，卫兵的交接并非笼罩在前景中的唯一不确定因素。这项修复工程规模宏大。请呼叫信任项目研讨会，在那里生产的所有方面（从布景到评论）都将被构建，以便为更大的规模让路。自1992年启动以来，节日剧院（Festspielhaus）的侧台和后台一直被认为对于该规模的舞台来说太小，目前正在大幅扩建。陈旧的技术——工人仍热衷于填充和降低布景——将被计算机系统取代。而且，没错，面临气候挑战的空调系统也处于升级计划中。
即便在最理想的情况下，这也会令人望而生畏。但节日场馆是开凿在门克斯山（Mönchsberg）的岩石中的，秋天在古树之上回响，并且作为（1928年）El-Wood遗产区的一部分，该区在历史大厅中很大程度上禁止任何形式的重大改动，无论其是否在建设中。我们的扩建必须在岩石中挖掘。
这将是欣特豪泽（Hinterhäuser）继任者面临的首批挑战之一。“他们拥有一个稳固的电力场馆，”伯格曼（Bergmann）说，“他们必须找到一个能够适应这些室内场馆的节目。”
欣特豪泽对该节日的印记在今年夏天尤为明显。尽管他因过于满足或阴暗而受到批评，且在他的统治期间出现了非常多新的星座，但他的节日提供了一系列有时较为激进的传统作品诠释。
今年的作品以死鸟从天空坠落、舞台上的活羊和狗以及大量的服装为特色。由柏林导演埃尔南·莫辛（Ernan Moseing）执导的《布朗斯》（Browns）之《阿尔塔巴克与纳诺斯》（Artabac and Nanos）在三月左右通过视频和图像，将行星和歌手与太空服结合在一起。当舞台变暗的那一刻，这本书开始了。“马龙（Marlon）做了一个伟大的计划，以一种不同的方式呈现这个奇妙的夏天，”指挥《阿尔塔巴克》且对蜜蜂并不感到惊讶的曼弗雷德·希尔特（Manfred Sheerth）说道。“他有一种绝佳的方式，能对我们预期接纳的元素和新事物进行正确的构思准备，我认为这非常令人兴奋。我认为这就是为什么我们所做的事情几乎如此的原因。”
伯格曼赞扬了欣特豪泽的节目编排，但暗示他在管理一个夏季员工人数激增至6,000人的运营机构时面临挑战。“做这份工作并不那么容易，”她说。“如果你本身就是一名艺术家，就像欣特豪泽先生那样，对于他们来说，以管理人员和组织领导者被要求的方式进行沟通，有时可能是一个问题。”
“通常情况下，每个人都习惯于‘这是一个伟大的艺术家，他脾气古怪，他必须宣泄他的攻击性和情绪，而这才是最重要的’，”她说。“这在今天行不通了。”
科迪（Kody）表示，虽然欣特豪泽负责了萨尔茨堡一个“令人惊叹的篇章”，但现在是他离开的时候了。
“我们在瓦尔达尔（Valdahl）说，年轻就是年轻”——足够就是足够。发生的事情已经发生了。而科迪经常被提及为欣特豪泽可能的继任者。
“我看到了挑战，”他补充道，“我不认为萨尔茨堡音乐节会结束。也许是方向的改变。也许它会以某种不同的形式重新出现。”
丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆重返指挥台
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这位指挥家尽管患有帕金森病，仍率领他的阿拉伯-以色列乐手们
作者：DANIEL LEWIS
在 2006 年的一次采访中，指挥家丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆（Daniel Barenboim）宣称他对早熟的莫扎特有一种特殊的亲近感。“听着，我很清楚在所有事情上总是显得太年轻意味着什么，”曾是神童的巴伦博伊姆说道。这话听起来很真实。他在 16 岁时就成为了国际钢琴演奏家，并在 16 岁时在卡内基音乐厅首次亮相。
现在我曾说一段漫长且令人衰弱的舞蹈本身，“我突然悲哀地发现自己在很多事情上太老了”——尽管他在 2012 年宣布患有“严重的神经系统疾病”之后仍做了很多事情。
一年后，在停止担任柏林国家歌剧院音乐总监以及在众多游说环境下，他与柏林国家管弦乐团、柏林爱乐乐团以及米兰斯卡拉歌剧院之间显然偶尔有合作。然而，直到去年，当他的缺陷变得明显且不可否认时，他才确认自己的病情是帕金森病。
不过，这场疾病几乎没有削弱巴伦博伊姆对西东迪万管弦乐团（West-Eastern Divan Orchestra）的承诺，这是他于 1909 年与巴勒斯坦知识分子埃德华·赛义德（Ethnodi Said）共同创立的乐团，旨在让年轻的阿拉伯和以色列音乐家聚集在一起。上周，巴伦博伊姆与该乐团在柏林的 Waldbühne 露天剧场演出，面对着规模庞大且 的观众。
Waldbühne 母亲 是西东迪万年度夏季巡演的常规停靠站，今年的巡演将包括维也纳的 Master's room、阿姆斯特丹的 Concertgebouw 和巴黎爱乐大厅（Philharmonia de Paris）。尽管有些受限，巴伦博伊姆似乎很高兴能处于熟悉的环境中。
此外，巴伦博伊姆计划与该乐团再进行九场巡演，并且他一直致力于一个新的西东迪万节，计划于 11 月在柏林举行，该节日承诺将有机会在 Berghans 俱乐部听到该乐团演奏皮埃尔·贝阿尔塔（Pierre Bealta）的音乐。
上周四的音乐会是本月四场音乐会之一，在这些音乐会中，西东迪万管弦乐团将由马友友（Vo's Ma）——另一位前神童——加入，共同演奏德沃夏克的 b 小调大提琴协奏曲。当马友友和巴伦博伊姆挽着对方手臂走上来时，很难分辨那是为了支撑还是为了友好，或者两者兼有。这在某种程度上是一次重聚：马友友被邀请参加了第一次西东迪万工作坊，当时还没有人认为这个项目会发展成一个管弦乐团。他对巴伦博伊姆的尊重在周四显而易见，体现在他演奏德沃夏克作品期间对他给予的关注，尽管几乎没有什么需要关注的：巴伦博伊姆右手的指挥棒几乎没有摆动，他的左手仅偶尔举起，在此时此地刻画或描绘表情。
然而，三个简单的手势往往极其有效，而且指挥家可以用更少的东西完成更多：我想到了伦纳德·伯恩斯坦（Leonard Bernstein）仅用眉毛指挥海顿交响曲的情景。当伯恩斯坦在 1916 年前往 时，他可以依赖于他在维也纳爱乐乐团中能力出众的机器。而这里的演奏者则没有那么好（面对着且不一定能依赖于巴伦博伊姆，后者可能无法使用该交响曲）。
幸运的是，马友友刚从马萨诸塞州的坦格尔伍德（Tanglewood）回来，在那里他组织了一位指挥家表演柏林的音乐以及乐团在一段节目注释中，他将其描述为“分布式领导力听起来如何的一个例子，以及民主责任实践的一课”。这正是他与乐团在协奏曲更亲密的交流中所承担的责任。孩子与 之间，以及评论家与独奏小提琴之间的释放，是纯粹的室内乐。
马友友最近在坦格尔伍德的实验与西东迪万的
音乐与人道主义精神，巴伦博伊姆在2021年10月1日针对以色列的Banna-hat袭击发生后，简洁地阐述了这一点：“我们必须倾听彼此。”在音乐会下半场的某个时刻，在演奏索特曼（Sothemann）的第一交响曲期间，巴伦博伊姆的左手移向了他的耳朵。
自那天起，他再次赋予了这个乐团在没有他的情况下无法获得的东西：一种“意象但却秘密”的声音。古老而年轻，但并不忙碌。这种声音存在于索特曼作品中受控的爆发中，存在于对位的姐妹情谊中。这无疑是巴伦博伊姆的声音，但这并非为了让乐团成为最顶尖的。
巴伦博伊姆似乎意识到了这一点。在宣布他患有帕金森病的声明中，他说他希望“长期留在乐团”。合唱团是“同样”确保迪万（Divan）有机会研究“核心”音乐的积极力量。
但巴伦博伊姆在这一方向上的第一步是一个核心策略：邀请他的亲密伙伴祖宾·梅塔（Zubin Mehta）在今年早些时候指导乐团的一次巡演，乐团在90岁时，他也采取坐姿指挥。这并非一个面向未来的计划，也不是一种让这个岌岌可危的国际合作象征保持活力的手段。
2020年8月29日，星期四 / 15
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菲比·布里杰斯为一段情感时期创作了阴郁且幽默的歌曲
作者：林赛·朱利叶斯 (LINDSAY JULIUS)
菲比·布里杰斯 (Phoebe Bridgers) 绝妙且充满死亡气息的第三张专辑《Lost Weekend》以一个你听过的最令人心碎的“冷笑话”开场。“穿着西装哭泣并撒谎，但你应该看看对方的样子，”布里杰斯唱道，她的声音轻易地融入在一种木质的音效中。就在这首歌结束前，在谈到她父亲的葬礼时，她又悄悄加入了一个令人心酸的双关语：“你必须转身，在所有平静的时刻，我将看着他被抬走。”
在《Lost Weekend》中，朦胧与空虚证明了它们是契合的慢舞伴侣。这是一部情感指南，让 10 岁的布里杰斯在她的词曲创作能力上达到了一个新的顶峰，展现了自她发布成名专辑《Punisher》以来的六年间所发生的一些重大个人变化。
除了失去父亲，她还两次坠入爱河：“我本该结婚的，但我取消了，”她在简约的同名主打歌中唱道。她还见证了由她的同行露西·达鲁斯 (Lucy Darus) 和朱利叶斯·贝克 (Julius Baker) 组成的民谣摇滚超级组合 keygenius 取得了令人震惊的成功以及
作为一名词曲作者，布里杰斯的笔触从未如此犀利，她对爱与死亡的观察如同手术刀般精准。
得益于获得格莱美奖且能填满体育场的 2023 年专辑《The Record》， 证明布里杰斯并不总是习惯于处于公众关注的中心。正如她在《Lost Weekend》中许多（许多）令人难忘且带有黑色幽默的曲目之一中，在描述曼哈顿一场音乐节的演出经历时所唱道：“我是州长舞会的焦点 / 像谢莉·杜瓦尔一样在洗手间里滑行。”
当布里杰斯在今年早些时候重返舞台时，她似乎打算按照自己的方式重新回到聚光灯下，在宣布于麦迪逊广场花园举行一场慈善演出之前，先在小型俱乐部试演新素材（随后 25 迅速售罄）。为了防止新歌泄露，入场者必须将数字设备锁在安全袋中，即使在《Lost Weekend》发行后，她在即将到来的巡演中仍将继续执行这一禁手机指令。这一决定突然使布里杰斯成为了模拟生活和活在当下的倡导者——这颇具讽刺意味，因为她曾因某种行为而闻名，最终被称作“疯狂医生”（长期显示名称为：“Duker Joe”），且她在《Punisher》中冷嘲热讽地唱道：“当我长大后，我会抬头离开手机，看看我的命运。”
布里杰斯确实长大了，在表面上被标记为《Lost Weekend》的作品中，她的目光已经提升到了
菲比·布里杰斯上个月在《今夜节目：吉米·法伦》中亮相。她的新专辑名为《Lost Weekend》。
它将达到的高度。这张名为《mad and stardust》的专辑，有时看起来像是 21 世纪对乡村摇滚法外之徒格兰特·帕森斯（Grant Parsons）曾称之为“诺斯蒂克美国音乐”的实现——深植于民谣传统，但又带有迷幻药物带来的意识扩张漂移。（布里杰斯一直在天文馆举办私人试听会。）专辑以分层合成器音体开始，踏板钢棒吉他在效果踏板的配合下和谐地鸣响。令人惊叹的民谣《Kill Me》仅以一把原声吉他和布里杰斯那带有塑料感的嗓音开场，但随后逐渐扩展为一种零重力的后摇滚体验，充满了幽灵般的伴唱和火箭般的吉他扫弦。爆发且具有宣泄感的摇滚曲目《Bobby》在最后时刻，转化为一段声音拼贴，其中包含一段录音，一个像幼儿园孩子一样的声音告知听众，他们被选中赢得了“6950 万 和一辆颜色自选的全新 2013 年款奔驰”。数字世界的碎片始终笼罩在布里杰斯的生存沉思之上。这就像是末日时代的“Duker Hotel Frustral”。作为一名词曲作者，布里杰斯的笔触从未如此犀利，她将对爱与死亡的观察精简得如同手术刀般精准。“你值得更好的，而你想要我，”她在《The Governor's Walls》中唱道，这是一部极简主义叙事的杰作，由一段华丽且具有开拓性的副歌旋律支撑。这听起来就像打开一个音乐盒，结果发现里面不是芭蕾舞女，而是一封在内存中读取的信件。尽管这张专辑如此私密且独特，但其制作名单读起来像是一场家庭派对的嘉宾名单。布里杰斯的 keygenius 成员在可爱的蓝草音乐曲目《Slaunted》以及充满幽灵感的单曲《Lost Boys》中担任伴唱——这是一首不错的歌，但仍不能代表专辑其余部分的情感重量。其他受邀者包括民谣创作歌手 Christian Lee（他与布里杰斯共同创作了 10 首曲目中的 G 首）及其新婚妻子 Miya Hawke；独立音乐人 Alex G；以及布里杰斯的伴侣、电影制片人兼喜剧演员 Bo Burshans，他在包括极具狂喜感的《Bobby》（这首歌完全是关于他的）在内的七首歌中拥有共同创作署名。
作为既是“拟合”型创作歌手，又是世纪之交风格的追随者，布里杰斯的歌声听起来既有一种超脱尘世感，又充满了悲痛的伤感。她绝非第一个在陷入黑暗时比步入光明时更具吸引力的音乐人，这种特质是一把双刃剑。在专辑中那首冷峻且直击灵魂的曲目《Still Standing》中，充满冲击力的意象和坦率的剖白层出不穷，她将对父亲的记忆叠加在新鲜的悲痛之上。“有时我想让你回来，”布里杰斯对他唱道，“但不是今天！”相比之下，
《I Can't Wait》中坚定的乐观情绪听起来略显空洞，这导致整体感觉该专辑在接近尾声时失去了一些势头。
但专辑的最后一曲《Lost Weekend (Reptors)》成为了一个亮点，这首歌是对她从那位不可避免地不完美的父亲身上学到之事的诗意盘点，以及对她比此前愿意承认的更像他之处的接纳。这首歌还拥抱了那个经常出现的人物鲍比（Bobby）的爱，他终于让她在寒冷、广袤的习俗中感到不再那么孤独。“你爱我，我永远不会让你忘记，”她对他唱道。在向永恒的未知祈祷时，她随后稍微保留了一点：“现在还不是时候。”
在非洲天空下
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《奇迹与惊叹之日：保罗·西蒙以及〈格雷斯兰〉的特质与成就》（Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Traits and Triumphs of "Graceland"），凯西·卡恩（Kathy Kahn）著，K-02，下午2:07，$30。
作者：马克·布劳克（MARK BRAUKE）
珀西·斯莱奇（Percy Sledge）说，爱从未离开我。对我而言，那是《格雷斯兰》（Graceland）。没有其他文化产物能让我如此长久、如此深刻、如此盲目地生活其中。为什么这些由跳跃的铜管乐、滑行的贝斯和蜿蜒的诗意组成的生命之分钟，比我听过的几乎任何其他东西都更能让我感到艰辛？
真正的浪漫总是发生在国家领域之外。我一直乐于让《格雷斯兰》的神秘之处保持未解。一个女人的惊喜，他，他，阅读音乐历史学家艾希利·卡恩（Ashley Kahn）对保罗·西蒙 1944 年杰作的细致审视，发现通过将它的美感及其更丑陋的方面都揭露在光芒之下。卡恩在评估其奇异魔力的过程中，反而让我更加欣赏这张专辑的复杂性与矛盾之处。
就像《格雷斯兰》本身一样，《奇迹与惊叹之日》以一盘陈旧的磁带开始。1944 年夏天。一位朋友交给西蒙《Grazilians》，这是一张包含信息图表音乐的专辑，“sowodup jive”，苏联式的强劲节拍，让他想起了早期的摇滚乐，“非常激昂，非常快乐的音乐——同时听起来既熟悉又陌生”，西蒙得到了它。（《Grazilians》中橡胶般的节拍来自约翰内斯堡周围金矿工作的劳工，该专辑最初就是面向他们销售的。）在纽约和蒙托克之间漫长的旅途中聆听《格雷斯兰》的某种体验激励了西蒙，引导他度过了一段黑暗时期，这段时期以他与凯莉·费舍尔（Carrie Fisher）婚姻即将破裂以及对他近期作品的不满为标志。
对于一个拥有海滨别墅和电影明星妻子的白人来说，从远在重洋之外、在仇恨政权下创作的黑人工人音乐中寻找灵感，这意味着什么？
曾是《格雷斯兰》巡演制作团队成员的卡恩在书中全程探讨了这个问题。他提出了西蒙的论点：音乐本质上是一种流动的、无时限的东西，可以由任何人、每个人分享、不保证且重新评估，通过交叉授粉而繁荣。卡恩引用了南非小号手休·蒙贝拉（Hugh Mombela）关于美国的评价：“我听过路易斯·阿姆斯特朗，我听过 Cheri De Parker，我说我得去那里。所以我能认同保罗·西蒙前往南非，音乐在牵引着他。”卡恩还概述了相反的观点，即《格雷斯兰》构成了一种暴力行为。他引用了制作人马克·C·巴特森（Mark C. Butson）的话，当时他是 Monard 的一名三位一体主义者，在西蒙的一次校园演讲中问道：“你如何证明接管这种音乐是正当的？对我来说，长期以来，艺术家们一直在窃取非洲音乐。爵士乐就是这样。你是在给我讲非洲的格什温故事。”
卡恩尽可能让他的历史人物自行发声，在如此短的一本书中收集了极其广泛的声音。因此，虽然这是关于保罗·西蒙及其天才的故事，但西蒙很少在页面上单独出现。他总是与另一种才华交织在一起。这张专辑涉及许多生命。尤其令人着迷的是英国国家（British National）业务中各自的创意部分，吉他手雷·菲里（Ray Phiri），以及 Ladysmith Black Mambane 及其才华横溢的领导者约瑟夫·沙哈拉拉（Joseph Shahalala）。哈里·贝尔哈米（Harry Belahami）、大卫·拜恩（David Byrne）、米里亚姆
从左起，歌手阿尔伯特·麦金尼斯（Albert MacInnis）、保罗·西蒙和 Ladysmith Black Mambane 的领导者约瑟夫·沙哈拉拉，1946 年。
Midofra 和 瓦内萨·恩德奥尔（Vanessa N'Deor）等人也客串其中。
在追踪《格雷斯兰》演变的过程中，卡恩考虑了其中起作用的更广泛的政治冲突。
关于西蒙打破对种族隔离制度下的南非抵制行动的争论与这张专辑一样古老，卡恩通过关注具体细节、考虑个人意图、寻求细微差别并避免自以为是，阐明了这些争论。
他的同情最终倾向于
西蒙被塑造为一个诚心工作的人，一个永远在缓慢前行的人，他当然本可以做得更好，但在整个过程中，他的行为公开且诚实，倾听多于倾诉。尽管如此，这里仍有充足的证据，足以让任何想要将西蒙视为
viliate，一个音乐上的第三者，从一开始就愚蠢至极。
在《格雷斯兰》（Graceland）创作的故事中，充满了重复与恶意。但卡恩的书在赞美这张专辑的同时，最关注的是人类连接之美（通过音乐在空间上，以及 40 年后在时间上得以传达）。
当我达到了西蒙在讲述这些故事时的年龄，我对他们的智慧和精准感到惊叹。现在这一切都清晰可见。崩溃与心碎，日益缩短的注意力，以及逐渐软化的中年危机。还有那种在这一切之中坚持下去的、无法言说的渴望，永远在寻找恩典的时刻。
一个拥有海边别墅的白人男性，被那些在仇恨政权下创作的黑人音乐所启发，这意味着什么？
我想说的是，这本书让我产生了怀旧之情。这意味着我最后在 YouTube 上观看旧的音乐视频。而比视频片段本身更吸引人的是下方的评论区：来自世界各地的人们通过这些歌曲找到共鸣的证词。我读到《Graceland》被用作一次难忘一夜情的背景音乐；用来定义永恒的时尚；用来与患有认知障碍的伴侣沟通；用来唤起一个临终之人最后的微笑；用来缅怀她的父母；以及发现我所说的 Ames 和 Hathlejah。
马克·布劳克（Mark Brauke）是近期出版的《打字机与教父：美国记者、德国连环杀手以及二战前夕的巴黎》一书的作者。
18 / 2026年8月26日，星期四
旅行
AI 能否帮你以更低的成本到达目的地？
一批新服务正利用工具监控机票和酒店价格
作者：伊莱恩·格利西克（ELAINE GLISSIC）
多年来，我一直建议在预订酒店和机票后继续跟踪价格，看看价格是否下跌。如果价格下跌且你的预订条款灵活，你通常可以无违约金取消并以较低的价格重新预订。
这仍然是一个有效——尽管耗时——的建议。但随着一批新应用将人工智能模型应用于旅行搜索，新旅行者可以减轻在繁琐工作上的负担。这些应用利用了旅游业的取消政策。
除了最严格的基础经济舱机票外，大多数总部位于美国的传统航空公司允许旅行者取消航班，并将费用作为未来预订的信用额度保留。（这同样适用于价格更高的可退款机票，在这种情况下，退款将以现金形式返还。）
“机票价格不断调整，同一航班上的两个乘客通常支付的金额截然不同，而大多数旅行者根本不知道航空公司的规则允许他们在预订后追回差价，”追踪航空公司的应用 JetBack 的创始人兼首席执行官布莱恩·杜克斯（Bryan Dukes）表示。“这种转变几乎是必然的。它此前仅限于公平规则和几乎没有人有时间去处理的手动索赔表。”
当票价下跌时，这些应用会向航空公司申请退款。除此之外，它们不会保存智能状态，也不会要求用户的航空公司登录信息。
“消费者实际上获得了监控市场的机会，”马萨诸塞州沃尔瑟姆本特利大学 AI 与商业系主任马斯登·米德尔塞克斯（Marsden Middlesex）在电子邮件中写道。“这是 AI 从‘作用于’消费者转变为‘代表’消费者行动的一个微小但具有意义的转变。”
虽然自行跟踪票价变化是免费的，但大多数 AI 服务会收取费用。以下是一些新兴的参与者。
FLEGATE
操作 运作方式： 用户支付约 $200 加入 JetBack，之后该服务会监控会员预订的经济舱机票。涵盖阿拉斯加航空、美国航空、达美航空、捷蓝航空、西南航空和联合航空在内的美国主要承运商。
会员将这些确认信息发送到他们的本地飞行计划。JetBack 随后会持续监测价格直到起飞，并在价格下跌时提供退款服务。如果机票可退款，补偿金将退回至原支付协议。如果机票不可退款，您将以航空公司信用额度的形式收到差价。
成本： 您每年为 unloaded air 支付 $99.99。
回报线： 该公司表示，每次旅行的平均节省额超过 $425。不过，对于非频繁飞行者来说，加入的成本可能会令人望而却步。
SNOOK
运作方式： Juneau 监控阿拉斯加航空、美国航空、达美航空、西南航空和联合航空的机票。用户直接在这些航空公司中进行非不可退款的预订。然后，在加入 Danesche 公司后，他们将预订详情发送至该应用程序。如果价格下降，该服务将更新预订，并将节省的金额作为航空公司的信用额度返还。
费用： 会员注册一张信用卡，Juneau 将使用该卡对任何节省的金额收取 20 percent 的“成功费”。
评价： 这种非会员模式使偶尔飞行的人也能轻松从自动化中获益。
PHOENIX
运作方式： PHOENIX 应用程序适用于美国国内主要承运商，包括阿拉斯加航空、美国航空、达美航空、夏威夷航空和联合航空。
用户预订主舱或更高等级的座位（不包括基础经济舱），然后将确认邮件转发给该应用程序。如果价格下降，该服务将向航空公司申请退款，从而产生信用额度。这一过程需要直到 30% 的公司称 80 percent 的航班会降价，且平均节省金额为 $226.
费用： 如果价格没有变化， 是免费的。否则，它将对所有节省的金额收取 20 percent 的费用，这意味着如果你最终从航空公司获得 $50 信用额度，你将向 支付 $35.
评价： 为价格监控提供了一个低风险的切入点。
HOTELS（酒店）
MONITOR COSTS（监控成本） 运作方式： 就像 AI 助手一样，Miedirig 可以规划你从灵感激发到航班、酒店和活动预订的整个旅程。其新的 Miedirig Stays 区域专注于酒店搜索和预订，通常能处理复杂的指令——例如，“在旧金山，我想要一间能看到海景的三个朋友入住的套房，或者如果更便宜的话，要连通房”——并从全球约 180 万 处房产中搜索候选对象。
在购物时，你可以为酒店创建价格提醒，并在价格下降时接收通知。该服务在退款窗口关闭前继续监控价格，并在价格下降时通知你。对于可退款预订，用户可以按新价格重新预订并取消之前的预订。该公司对其 75 percent 的酒店提供价格监控。该公司表示，仅有约一半的价格下降发生在至少 30 天前，而 95 percent 发生在预订日期前至少三天。
费用： 与其他在线旅行社一样，Miedirig 通过旅行供应商的特许权和费用获利。对于消费者而言，它是免费的。
评价： 对于那些倾向于订好房间后就将其抛之脑后的用户，Miedirig Stays 提供了一种被动优化价格的方式。该公司计划在其 Miedirig Flight 预订平台中增加价格追踪功能。
FLEGATE AND HOTELS（航班与酒店）
ACTION（行动） 运作方式： Autopilot 在航班和酒店预订中均应用 AI 速度。持有非限制性航空公司或酒店预订的旅客将确认邮件转发至 vyingly-inthus-toplot.com。
在航班方面，Autopilot 追踪阿拉斯加航空、美国航空、达美航空、捷蓝航空和联合航空经济舱及以上级别的预订票价。对于任何 $20 或更多的价格下降，它会通过联系航空公司并申请较低票价来采取行动。如果票价可退款，旅客将以购买机票时使用的支付方式收到退款。不可退款的票价则产生航空公司信用额度。对于酒店预订，该服务追踪全球万豪、凯悦和洲际酒店（IHG）的房价，直到酒店取消截止日期（由于其包含灵活、预付和不可退款的预订，因此超过 4 分钟）。它在价格下降时重新预订并搜索旧预订。
费用： 任何节省的金额将向你的信用卡收取 15 percent 的费用（每月 $9.99 的 Autopilot Pro 升级版也适用于使用日期和奖励积分预订的航班和酒店）。
评价： Autopilot 比其他应用程序略贵，但对于在同一行程中预订酒店和航班的旅客来说非常方便。
如何规划非洲野生动物之旅
这是一份关于选择目的地、制定预算以及规划行程时间的指南
作者：ELAINE GLISSIC
如果说有什么旅行是必须通过旅行社、航空公司或火车运营商来安排的，那一定是非洲野生动物之旅。这类行程通常费用昂贵，物流挑战大，且在没有专业导游陪同的情况下，部分区域可能并不安全。
但在您联系航空公司或野生动物旅行公司之前，了解基本情况至关重要。“大约 8% 计划前往参加野生动物之旅的人对他们真正想要什么有一定想法，”Africa Travel, Inc.（一家专业机构）的销售总监 Kevun Cowie 表示，“选择实在太多了。”
从预算到了解非洲的季节，以下是在签署野生动物之旅协议前需要考虑的事项。
确定预算
您的预算将决定您的体验。豪华行程通常包括位于私人保护区的旅馆，可通过员工接送抵达，甚至许多设施涵盖所有费用——餐饮、饮料、交通和野生动物观察车（game drive）——除了小费和国际机票。预算有限的旅行则需要接受超载旅行和基础酒店，且旅行服务通常包含费用；例如，可能需要自行承担部分餐费，或者在酒吧或时尚骑行等体验时产生费用。
大多数高端行程建议每人每天的预算在 $750 到 $1,500 之间。像 Europe, Europe 和 Europe 这样的公司提供实惠的行程，每天约 $200 起。
城市计划或两者兼顾
包括南非、坦桑尼亚、肯尼亚和博茨瓦纳在内的热门目的地各具特色。了解它们之间的差异，即使在广阔区域内，或者在规模较小的目的地，对于那些知道想去但不能确定是否想在整个假期都进行野生动物观察的人来说也很重要，“”Kensington（一家定制行程设计公司）的产品总监 Andrew Drummond 表示。
南非的行程可能会将野生动物观察日与开普敦的停留以及该国的葡萄酒之夜相结合。
Drummond 先生将东非的肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的野生动物之旅描述为“经典的帐篷之旅，在营地环境中在荒野中停留”。许多旅行者来到东非是为了见证大迁徙，在坦桑尼亚的塞伦盖蒂平原和肯尼亚的马赛马拉保护区之间有 two million wilderness savings，这一盛况吸引了大量问题。
“这两个国家在文化上都非常强大，”Wilderness（在非洲经营 25 个野生动物营地）的北美销售主管 Craig Glotthuis 在提到东非部落时表示，“体验它们具有重要的人文元素。”
博茨瓦纳拥有世界上最大的内陆三角洲——奥卡万戈三角洲，这里生存着 legges、大象和鸟类。“博茨瓦纳是极致的偏远荒野，”Drummond 先生说。
寻求多样化体验
许多专家建议选择包含对比体验的行程。在罗马尼亚 N.Z. 经营 Opulent Explorer 机构的 Stuart Marra 建议，将博茨瓦纳的亲密动物观察之旅与在塞伦盖蒂或马赛马拉观察数千只动物的时间相结合。
“在独木舟中距离 20 头大象仅 13.5 米，然后乘坐热气球在 20,000 ac-bras 上空飞行，这才是全面的野生动物体验，”Marra 先生说。
做好准备
大多数游猎之旅包括乘坐敞篷车辆观察野生动物。
“在非洲徒步会比在欧洲有更好的体验，”African Travel 的库尔斯先生（Mr. Coors）表示，“所以！全部投入其中，你们在吉普车里，我们带你们到处转转！”
为了增加多样性，许多运营商提供可选的远足活动，例如乘船、骑自行车或骑马游览。
了解天气影响 在南肯辛顿，冬季是从 6 月到 9 月，而夏季是从 12 月到 3 月。就野生动物观察而言，更重要的是多雨季和干季，这些季节因目的地而异。
在东非，雨季通常是 3 月到 5 月；在南非，则是 12 月到 3 月。
“在雨季，草丛会生长得更茂密，猎豹和豹子可以隐藏在草丛中，更难被发现，”肯辛顿的德拉蒙德先生（Mr. Drummond）说。
“干季的野生动物可见度更高，”专注于自然旅游的公司 Natural Habitat Adventures 的东非区域总监艾米莉·科廷汉（Emily Cottingham）表示。她补充说，绿季则能提供“具有绿色背景的对比照片”。
旅行者在绿季可能会看到较低的价格。
完成健康准备工作
疟疾是许多地区的首要疾病担忧；建议在博茨瓦纳、肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚等地区使用抗疟药。
在南非的克鲁格国家公园（Kroger National Park）也建议使用，尽管该国还有其他无疟疾的游猎区域。
疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的旅行者健康网站提供分国家的建议。
寻找国家级运营机构 通过为公园提供就业和资金，游猎可以促进自然保护。为了确保这一点，请寻找支持可持续发展和当地社区的环保运营机构。
“看看他们与谁合作，”Natural Habitat Adventures 的科廷汉女士表示，该公司与非营利保护组织世界自然基金会（World Wildlife Fund）合作。
她还建议确保供应商是国家旅游协会以及非洲旅游与贸易协会（African Travel & Tourism Association）和冒险旅游贸易协会（Adventure Travel Trade Association）等推广可持续实践团体的成员。
声称具有保护信誉的公司应有证据支持该项目。
“向你沟通的公司提出更多问题，始终是该过程中重要的一部分，”科廷汉女士说。
员工投诉航空公司餐饮供应商存在霉菌和虫害
作者：GARE CASTER-ROOT
在洛杉矶国际机场提供飞行餐食的一家餐饮设施的员工在向加州职业安全与健康管理局提交的一份投诉中称，他们一直暴露在蟑螂、蛆虫和霉菌之中。
这份针对 Flying Food Group 的投诉还声称，这家为美国许多最繁忙机场提供服务的餐饮公司位于加州英格尔伍德（Inglewood）的设施内，员工在“设施洗手间内缺乏花朵或麻醉皂以及干燥纸巾”。
提出该投诉的工会 UNITE HERE Local 1 敦促 CASTERIA 尊重该设施。该工会于 8 月 7 日向管理该机场的市政府机构洛杉矶世界机场（Los Angeles World Airports）发送了一封信，称一名检查员在当天早些时候被拒绝进入该设施。“CASTERIA 在给《纽约时报》的电子邮件中表示，它已‘收到投诉并启动了检查’，但拒绝提供进一步细节，也未就其检查员是否被拒绝进入一事发表评论。
Flying Food Group 在一份声明中表示，公司认为该报告是“关于近期由 UNITE HERE Local 1 提交的加州工作场所投诉的劳工和误导性活动”，并补充道，“该投诉未能准确描述我们设施的情况。”
洛杉矶世界机场拒绝置评。
该投诉的核心是一名员工的指控，她表示被指示去处理一个被关闭“较长时间”的推车中的 June-Avident 职责。投诉称，该员工“发现数十个盘子覆盖着 decampings，made covered load”，并补充道，“许多盘子中含有看起来像 low-maggots 和苍蝇的东西，散发出令人难以忍受的气味。”
根据投诉，该员工建议将这些盘子扔掉，但一名主管拒绝了，并告诉她这些盘子在即将到来的
位于加利福尼亚州的 Flying Food Group 分支机构，为洛杉矶的航空公司提供供应。
航班中需要使用。投诉称，该员工经历了“胃痛、头痛和一种奇怪的 neuroincentive 语气，她认为这是由于吸入朦胧的霉菌引起的”，并补充说她没有被提供适当的防护设备。
据工会称，Flying Food Group 为洛杉矶国际机场的十多家国际航空公司提供服务，包括法国航空、Super Airlines、LaFrance、Queen、新加坡航空和维珍航空。
该公司对另一名员工的指控予以否认，该员工在 12 月表示，她拍摄到了厨房以及来自 LaFrance 的推车上的蟑螂。
LaFrance 的发言人 Sir Mount 在一封电子邮件中表示，该航空公司此前并不知晓此事。
“我可能只是想致力于严格的食品安全和卫生标准，并且我们期望全球网络在任何时候都能完全遵守这些标准，”Sir Mount 写道，“在这种情况下，LaFrance 将无法在采取适当行动方面做到这一点。”
维珍航空表示，它“没有证据表明为客户提供的供应受到了影响”，但正严肃对待这些指控。其他航空公司均未回应置评请求。
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A rush to pin
a sad death on the media
Michelle Goldberg
OPINION
Last year, Jack Grove, a reporter for Times Higher Education, a British magazine, was preparing an article about plagiarism allegations against the star academic James Arday. It would have been a big story because Arday, when in 2021 became Cambridge's youngest-ever Black professor, was a minor celebrity, thanks to part to his seemingly extraordinary biography.
Among other things, Arday said that he'd gotten his Ph.D. despite severe autism that left the course but said he was 11 and unable to read until he was 16. He'd claimed to have run 600 index in six days, which would have made him one of the world's most accomplished circumstances.
Some who were disengaged for articles? Some Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credibility.
Grove sent Arday three emails with questions about both his work and his history. Arday responded by being one of Britain's leading defamation firms — one known for, among other
things, trying to quash investigations into Scientology — and reporting Grove to the police for harassment. As Grove later wrote, an officer told him not to contact Arday again because it was affecting the professor's mental health. The magazine, leaving expensive litigation, killed the piece.
But the story didn't go away. It made its way to Nathan Colton, a former Cambridge research associate which been fired for racist blog posts. Colton published his review of Arday's intellectual mind-sheal that month, and it exploded in the British press, particularly on the right, which saw the scandal as an indictment net just of Arday or Cambridge, but of academic diversity policies writ large. Cambridge announced an internal investigation, and Arday resigned.
But the coverage, much of it glorfully vicious, continued, is part because of the publication of Arday's new memoir, "Grove and Unfortunate Things," this month. No Friday Arday was found dead in what was widely accused to be a suicide.
So the wake of Arday's death, many on the left are blaming the media. "The media's turbed James Arday," declared GOLDBERG, PAGE 9
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Mosquito vs. mosquito
Discarding water from a larvicide dissemination unit in Bolton, Brazil, last month. The larvicide sticks to female mosquitoes, who then spread the chemical to other breeding sites.
BELEN, BRAZIL
Brazilian city embraces
a creative new strategy to combat a health threat
BY APHORUS MANDAVILLA
It's been 10 years, but Paulo Gomes still vividly remembers the terror he felt that his wife, Lucineos, would never return from the hospital, that she would die of the dengue she contracted from a mosquito bite, her body tucked with fever and overeatating pain.
She did come home, after 15 days, and recovered fully after several more months. But the experience changed how Mr. Gomes thought about mosquitoes.
Mr. Gomes, now 65, is an eager participant in an aggressive campaign by Bolton, the northern Brazilian city where he lives on the edge of a similar net, to reduce mosquitoes and the health dangers they bring.
Municipal workers have counseled him that mosquitoes breed in standing water and thrive in mostly moist spaces. He fills the swimming pool in the back-putt every Friday for his grandchildren who live nearby, but drains it religiously every Sunday after they leave.
Inside the world's largest "mosquito factory" in Rio de Janeiro, scientists produce mosquitoes containing Wolbachia, a bacterium that blocks dengue and other viruses.
He and his wife keep their veranda scrupulously clean and out-hattered, just a recycle in one corner, a hammock in another — and, since last summer, a plastic bucket that is a centerpiece in Bolton's multigouraged strategy against mosquitoes.
The size of a small trash can, it offers just the sort of dark, watery cavity a female mosquito might seek to lay eggs.
But it contains larvicide, a chemical that kills young mosquitoes, and when she lands inside she becomes coated with it. After she flies away, she will spread it to other breeding sites, typically within a quarter-mile radius. Last year, Bolton distributed 5,000 units in the parts of the city for hardest by dengue.
At the moment, mosquitoes are a bigger menace in Bolton and the rest of
Brazil than in the United States or Europe, but the warming planet is expanding their range. Most cases of dengue, malaria and chikungunya in these places were contracted during travel abroad, but locally acquired cases are occurring more frequently. In 2024, the United States recorded nearly 3,000 cases of dengue, more than 100 of them locally acquired. About a third of the patients were hospitalized, and on died.
"The disease crisis is a public health crisis," Dr. Alessandro Padilha, Brazil's health minister, said in an interview.
"It's not a coincidence" that during its Group of 20 presidency, Brazil championed new initiatives to combat disease-driven diseases like dengue. Dr. Padilha said, "We have a lot to learn and also to teach many regions in the U.S.A. about how to face the impact of climate change," he said.
Informed by better experience, Brazil has embraced new techniques to combat mosquitoes. Most of them are more economically friendly, including building the world's largest "mosquito factory," a facility that produces mosquitoes containing Wolbachia, a bacterium that blocks dengue and other viruses. The Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes are then released in communities to breed and pass the bacteria to the next generation.
Tackling mosquitoes requires more: MONJOTRES, PAGE 2
Threatening
friends and courting adversaries
NEWS ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON
U.S. allies are factoring in
Trump's rhetoric in hope of preserving relations
BY PETER BAKER
Once again, President Trump is threatening his country's own partners with everything from tariffs to health. Once again, he is focusing over a nuclear-armed tyrant destined to be one of the biggest dangers to U.S. security. And once again, the world is left trying to make sense of a United States that has operated the world order that it established eight decades ago.
Nearly 10 years after Mr. Trump first came to the White House on the degree of America First, his attack-dry-friends, befriended the enemies approach to international relations has become the feature, not the long, of U.S. foreign policy. Traditional alliances from Europe to Asia to the Middle East have frayed while the president comes these once seen as its adversaries.
Even so, the past few days have thrown the Trumpian worldview into stark relief. Mr. Trump declared that he would health illness, a key threat to the complicated diplomacy of the Middle East, if he decides it in getting in the way of his war with him. He was set to appear positive now tariffs on Canada, once considered the United States' closest friend. And he announced that he would pull back military support from South Korea, the hotwash of the U.S. network of partners in the Asia-Pacific.
At the same time, he again began sending public much news to North Korea's absolute dictator, Kim Jong-un, with whom by his own description he "left to hear" in his first term. Mr. Kim, who rules one of the most oppressive nations in the world, never did give up his nuclear weapons, as Mr. Trump once declared he would, instead. Mr. Kim has vastly expanded his nuclear armored to defiance of Mr. Trump, who nonetheless remains a nation, no matter how attempted.
"He design on our friends and coates him in our enemies," said James J. Blanchard, a former ambassador to Canada and Democratic governor of Michigan. "If someone once told me that Russia is our friend and Canada is our enemy, I'd have told you we're in an upside-down world."
Richard Funston, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former advisor to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that none of the headlands threaten were new. But he pointed out that Mr. Trump had not always believed through on them. The United States, he noted, had not pulled out of NATS abandoned South Korea, bombed tissue or seized Canada and Greenland.
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French road closure has little to do with the road
The mayor of Annouis has Weekend a road running under a bridge, citing safety concerns. He says the bridge belongs to a nearby castle, as its owners should pay for repairs.
ANSQUIS, FRANCE
Mayor of village is locked
in a fiery dispute with the owners of a local castle
BY NARE LANGIER
In Annouis, a camera-ready French-Provençal village covered by a majestic medieval castle, the residents think they are tired of talking about the bridge, said yet the bridge in the only thing anyone seems to talk about.
A modern orchard span with snow-covered moans, a parodyne their traffic. It disrupts their residues. It threatens their livelihoods. It is, in the words of a woodminr published by the mayor's office, "a bridge too far."
The June 4, the mayor, Gémad de Sa-bran-Pomores, backed by a intended election under the bridge, which is about 22 feet (6.7 meters) tall, citing danger from structural weaknesses in the arch. The
closure effectively cut Annouis in two, making it impossible to drive through without an exasperating back-street district.
It's the third time in six years that the mayor has taken this extraordinary step, each time at the height of the summer tractor moans. Local merchants say the closures deprive them of valuable traffic because Google Maps and other apps-cure motorists about the direction. Each time, the mayor has cited safety concerns.
"I take the risk of a stone falling on someone's head," Mr. de Sa-bran-Pomores said in an interview, adding that regional authorities had ordered him to close the road.
Five people in Annouis buy their registration. They view the decision as the latest obstacle in a year-long final between the mayor, 61, and the castle's owners, Gémad and Frédérique Bousset-Bourdon, who reach their property by a sweeping, serpentine road, lined with cypress trees, that runs across the bridge.
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French road closure has little to do with the road
FRANCE, FROM PAGE 1
The mayor says that the bridge belongs to the castle, known as Chateau d'Assouin, and that the owners should pay for repairs. The Rousset-Rouvières stopped that the ownership is not legally settled and that in any event, it is the responsibility of the local authorities to repair damage to the bridge that has been caused by vehicles passing under it.
The fuel blood goes back to 2008, when the Rousset-Rouvières, a wealthy couple with men in Marseille, bought the castle from the mayor's third family. His forebears had owned it since the early 18th century, when the bridge was built as part of a grand new entrance to the killing people.
"Everybody knew that he had a personal wealth in against the Rousset-Rouvières, and as the new owners of Marseille, he wanted them to pay for something," said Lionel Paillet, a retired Apple executive who has lived just outside Assouin for 12 years. "Unfortunately, the village is in the middle."
The mayor says revenge has nothing to do with it.
It's the kind of tale that might have been print for Peter Mipin, a beloved British character of the to Promene — one that put old solidity against new money in a sun-kinned paradise that has its dark shadows.
The de Sablon-Peutovès, whose roots in the region go back to the 15th century, went long the undisputed lords of Assouin, a village of roughly 1,000 residents. When the mayor's sister, Geromide, married Prince Jacques, the future Duke of Orléans, in August 1869, the guest list included Princess Grace of Mecaun, the former Grace Bally.
Mr. de Sablon-Peutovès was elected October to 1905, but has always ever since. Few persons too contributions to Assouin. He has redeveloped old buildings, turning the village into one of the most tourist-friendly destinations in the Laberras region.
But his segmental style saddles never actively, many of them well-heated people who buy vacation or retirement homes. They have little patience for the chaos caused by the closed road — vehicles loathing, as they face off on narrow new way corners — and the lack of a timely resolution.
"These are people who, because of their means, have always been used to getting everything right away," said Michael Corniles, a former and member of the municipal council who is close to the mayor.
Marc Philippe, a former executive at Grange, who served in four months ago with his wife, Caroline, said that Mr. de Sablon-Peutovès "still thinks of it as his village, 'an assertion that the mayor did nothing, to dispel us not interview. Where people have been used to get a large footage,' he said of the Rousset-Rouvières.
"The loss of his castle dates to 2007. After he and his siblings squabbled over what to do with the place after the death of their parents, his sister triggered an auction by demanding that her three children stay out for their baby (and not). Among the interested buyers was the fashion image Fèvre Corde.
The auction, in a very bit of irony, was held in January 1898 at the Gensuippin in Paris, a former pal where Marie An-
Residents and business owners of Assouin, above, have been dealing with the income of one of a road closure during peak tourist season that effectively cuts the village in two.
"It is a house that has haunted me for a very, very long time."
PRÉFÉRIQUE ROUSSET-ROUVÉRÉE, with her husband, Gérard, at their Assouin home, which was once owned by the mayor's family.
tutents on unopposed before being guillemand during the French Revitalian. Under the auction's care, there were three rounds of holding that each lasted as long as it took for a small candle to learn through its way.
The Rousset-Rouvières, who made their money in real estate, emerged ex-
terious, surprising nobody more than themselves. They claim the mayor never get over the loss. "I will reach it until I die," they said he warned them, a statement he denied making. One of the mayor's brothers did not move out for two years.
The mayor said he did take offense
"These people have been holding my village hostage."
MAYOR GÉRALD-Je-SABRAN-PONTIÈVÈS, speaking about the Rousset-Rouvières and their refusal to pay for bridge repair.
that the new owners spread word that he had removed all of the castle's contents after the sale, painting the so-called 'fles' denied doing that. But he described himself as "fatalists" about the loss of the family man. He wrote two other charisma, one in Normandy, the other in Burgundy.
Relatives were strained for a decade and broke into open workers in 2020, after an extensive garbage truck occupied the bottom of the bridge, knocking some stones loose. The Rousset-Rouvières said they put up 18,000 euros, or 187,000, to reinforce the bridge temporarily. But they have refused to pay for
permanent repairs, and they say the mayor has vilified them for that.
"The mayor, by designating an as-responsible, made a very complicated list as in the village," Mrs. Rousset-Rouvière said in an interview in the charisma during room, which she felt filled with little-century antiques.
The Rousset-Rouvières fought back in ways large and small. In 2010, they obtained a court ruling that said the damage to the bridge was caused by traffic, not by structural issues, like water seepage. That, the ruling said, made local authorities responsible for things.
The couple patronize local shops, telling their side of the story to the merchants. They open the castle to the public, which helps tourism in the village. They agreed to hang a theatre at one the bridge's parapet that says, in French, "sangy village — bridge closed, village sacrificed."
The signs have pepped up in shop windows around Assouin, where merchants say their sales are down a quarter that summer compared with last year. Some of that is because of France's heat waves. But none, they say, is because of the disruptions.
Michel Brigon, who owns a tobacco shop in the village centre, said he was an lieutenant by the litigasse that he planned to sell his shop next year. "It's six years that they've been covering the bridge 'sad-telling us that a big rush has fallen," Mr. Brigon said. "No, it's not true. Nobody believes it."
As is the case in many longstanding foods between residents, well-thanced antagonists, the trust is now buried under layers of litigasse: chains, counterchains, expert studies and tribunal ratings. After all the legal maneuvering, the question of who actually owns the bridge is "what is supposed to be a lot."
The couple said their uncompromising position was driven out by bitterness that by an abiding love of their castle.
"When you are in love, you can't see," Mrs. Rousset-Rouvière said. "It is a house that has haunted me for a very, very long time."
She added of the mayor, "He is not married."
Mr. de Sablon-Peutovès plans meddardly about his age, too, and for 40 years to be making for a stay out of the standoff. He told villagers to a recent letter that the district government had agreed to pay for temporary repairs to the bridge, which would allow the road to reopen as large. (A. A. spokeswoman for the district confirmed it would take over the repairs.)
The merchants were skeptical, noting that no work had yet been done. "I think he's buying time," said Alexis Hennequin, 53, who runs a grocery store and a plan thinking of killing up rotten.
The mayor professed to be unconcerned about a brewing rebellion. He said he would quickly win back the obligatory affection by inviting them to party under the bridge in September to celebrate the瑰丽 of the road.
"I will tell them, 'I love Assouin, and I love you,' 'he said. But, he couldn't help adding,' 'I will not let the lie owner of the castle."
Giulia Imbert contributed reporting from Assouin, said Bigolide Le Broule from Paris.
Using 'mosquito against the mosquito' to tackle a health threat
BROOKFIELD, FROM PAGE 1
than gee who science. Municipal departments will need to feed up their vector control divisions and hedgers, doctors must be trained to recognize and treat the diseases, and the public will need education as protecting itself.
"It's important for other countries to get ready for the possibility of having more and more cases happening, and train all the layers of the society," said Luciane Morette, the chief executive of Watkins de Brueil, a state venture between the nonprofit World Mosquito Program and the Brazilian government.
"It's not just something like the government just goes there and sprays," he said. "It's part of a movement."
A CITY FIGHTS BACK
Locals like to say Belden has only two seasons — one in which it rains every day, and one in which it rains all day.
The city is a gateway to the mighty Amazon, and it is edged by both, mainly outskirts. Mango trees and their fallen fruit like the stovers, saving insects with their sweet sticky scent. Small puddles of water — on the sidewalks, in stacked tires and in trash cans — offer mosquitoes for parties to concern to grow with later more of themselves.
For decades, Belden residents have been under attack by audio-aggish, the type of mosquito that carries dengue, Zika and chikungunya — so much so that in 2016, a city park installed a large fiberglass statue of the leone's (Arctis aegypti) is also found in many parts of the United States, including Florida, Texas and California.)
Chronic change has allowed these mosquitoes to multiply faster, intensifying the threats they carry. In 2024, dengue infected more than 10 million people in Brazil and killed more than 8,000. There might have been even more likely to be found in the country that have to recognize and treat the disease promptly, said Melanie Silva, a microbiologist at the Federal University of Paris in Belén.
Brazil's oil that can see about four times the previous number, and in Belén, it was about seven times higher, flooding the city's hospitals and lurting a swimming. City officials adopted myriad methods to response, from increasing common-sector solutions like garbage disposal and treatment of sewage to collaborating with academic scientists like Dr. Silva.
It was Dr. Silva who performed the health minister to include Belén on the list of Doctors that would try out the special service dispensing business, and it fund training and equipment for city workers.
Dr. Silva and his colleagues looked at the distribution of dengue cases across the city. They also factored in data from the city's entomology lab on mosquito larvae and egg hides — though the size of the population that season.
Informed by bitter experience, Brazil has embraced new techniques to combat mosquitoes.
Based on these two streams of information, they identified the most vulnerable areas, many of them in low-income neighborhoods and facoles, that would benefit from the sales.
Unlike the other ways that fall in males, the larvicide units, which cost less than $2 each, are the females to spread the chemical to breeding spots that would be hard for humans to find. Dr. Silva said: "We're using the mosquito against the mosquito," he said. "That's the smart thing about the trap."
The city also trained the workers to educate residents in the low-income areas on ways to keep mosquitoes at bay to recognize dengue symptoms and to head to the hospital at the signs of severe illness. High fever, headache and vomiting can be कार्यक्रम for signs of many other diseases. But dengue also produces intense muscle and joint pain, and may progress to study blood vessels
and death if left untreated.
"Back in the day, there was a lot of to subscribe-avoidance areas, so the center of the town, and so we spread that we," Igor Normandin, Belén's mayor, said in an interview.
Because of these efforts, he said, mosquito
spito-borne diseases in the city dropped by 70 percent last season.
"The success of this program was a result of the fact that we didn't just focus on one specific thing," Dr. Normandin said. "We didn't only focus on education and only rubbish collection."
From France, left, across the swimming pool is his home in Belén, Brazil, every Sunday in the same month on every Belén in left, Belén city workers go door to door to educate residents on how to keep their homes free of mosquitoes.
MORE TO SMOKE OFFICE
A new part of Belén's strategy is its community outreach. Of the city's more than 1,000 workers in the health department, about a third are focused on limiting mosquito populations. (By contrast, Ray County, Fla., a coastal area of comparable size, has 13 full-time employees, and 1,000 successful divisions.)
Many of Belén's so-called vector control agents go door to door, containing residents about ways to keep their premises: insect-lots, keeping water containers covered and imaging up wet spots after the day's inevitable rainfall. The known that have the larvicide dissemination units get a monthly visit to nightside supplies and to ensure that these stations are not been refurbished to per places or to launder clothes.
It is a relatively day last month, workers on the Faridwar rounds discovered that one homeowner's grandson had a severe the common-savvy when cleaning, not realizing its purpose. Another family led the container behind two homes to prevent their dogs from getting to it.
As a distress Me Careen tried to stop cool in the monitoring heat, Elizabeth Betts, the city's major inspector the market to see how the mosquito larvae — there were none — then dumped the water and refilled it. She then added a fresh seeds strip coated with the larvicide, which sticks to female mosquitoes so they hold on the strip to the eggs.
Mr. Careen said he was "involved" to hear that Belén was ahead of many previous criteria for sleeping the day, preach: "We imagine that this would be something that you would already have, and we always expect these solutions to be coming from the U.S., not for us to be
expanding them," he said.
Most cities in the United States still rely on social or local spraying to control mosquitoes, disparating the trucks after dusk and warning people to stop indoors. The pesticides can cause dizziness, nausea and skin irritation in some people.
Both U.S. and Italy's other heart by an spraying, but by the early 2000s, the mosquitoes had begun to show signs of resistance to the chemicals. Cities like Belén now resort to fogging — which produces a fine water rather than the big droplets from sprays — only during outbreaks.
"Most men grow with more firearm sales, but we need to use them in a more rational way," said Dr. Morette of Watkins de Brueil. Ideally, insecticides would become part of a larger strategy, to be used mainly during outbreaks, he said, "so that's what Brazil is doing."
In 2016, most widespread insecticide resistance, Brazil's health ministry convened experts to balance his own relations, including breeding fumigations containing Wolbachia bacteria. Wolbachia is an environmental harmless solution, since the process is about half of all insects. The technology of starved host vector technology is far from the Andes aegypti.
The approach to new part of the country's mosquito control strategy is first set, but the government plans to expand that number to nearly 60 by the end of next year. Dr. Morette said.
Belén is not yet on the list to release Wolbachia's resources, so may do so after reducing the numbers with other methods first. But her new residents, the city's strategy of distributing larvicide units has already brought back unstipended wages.
Filipc Bergo, 63, recalled that when Belén sent trucks to fumigate the jungle. Her husband, the city's owner, they are Amazonian butterflies of his childhood disappeared. But now, he said, there are noticeably fewer mosquitoes in his yard, and yet "the butterflies are back."
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Quake leaves Colombia's poorest corner in ruins'
CHOCÓ, COLOMBIA
In remote parts of Chocó, survivors are at risk of hunger and homelessness
BY GUSTAVNE GLAZIER
In Colombia's remote Pacific region of Chocó, isolation has long been a fact of life. Based on few, electricity and health rates are low yet, and much of the population lives in poverty while armed groups control parts of the territory.
"Then came the earthquake," already one of the country's most vulnerable areas, Chocó was also the operator of a 2.6-magnitude quake that struck last week, killing at least 200 people across the country.
In Chocó, the full extent of the devastation is unknown, as the authorities struggle to reach communities scattered across the region. Now, Chocó faces a reconstruction effort that will have to overcome the same geographic, economic and political barriers that have staged the region for generations.
"We were left in ruins," said Juan Fernando Taborda, 15, who does not join in La Te, a town of about 600 people two hours from Quibell, the capital of Chocó, where more buildings were destroyed at damaged. "We have nothing."
For much of Colombia's history, Chocó was a remote mining frontier where endowed Africans were brought by the Spanish to work in the mines. Some escaped and formed communities beyond colonial control.
Some infrastructure and public serv-
Clockwise from above: soldiers and volunteers offloading aid supplies from a helicopter in San José del Palmar, Colombia; a badly damaged hotel tilting dangerously in La Te; and Dr. Adriana Valero leading to Ohio Heights Minn., a 15-year-old who was eight months pregnant when her home in the Quiricaba collapsed, breaking her leg.
The earthquake has brought national attention to a region that has long complained of being overlooked.
Yamisha Sturgilco, 25, said her two children had become terrified of the all-kerokecks.
"It's been so agonizing. Honestly, it's been deeply unnerving," said Mr. Sturgilco. Her youngest daughter sometimes makes up saying that the walls are falling, she said. "She points over there, and I tell her, 'No, sweetheart, nothing's falling, nothing's falling at all.'"
Crows from Belizeat, a private air ambulance company, have flown into tiny communities across Chocó that are consist of only a dozen houses, picking up injured residents and delivering emergency supplies, to some places, there are no formal landing sites. Residents
provide a location by identifying GPS coordinates and spot fields where helicopters can land.
In One Quiricaba, a small indigenous community of the Echeka儿村 people, a method of helicopter flow into the mountain, is a woman Klaus Negreira Myers, a 17-year-old who was eight months pregnant when her home collapsed, breaking her leg.
She had never received prenatal care, and Dr. Adriana Valero, a physician with the heart, who treated her. The woman's did not know whether her home was alive until she was aboard the helicopter and they detected a heartbeat.
The crew had flown through clouds, searching for a gap so that the pilot could descend safely.
Chocó has only one hospital with more than basic medical capabilities, in Quibell. Rural patients can wait weeks to be transferred elsewhere for urgent treatment.
Armed groups control some roads and motorways, making access unsafe. The ELA one of Colombia's most powerful armed groups, especially blocked roads and harried vehicles on the region's supply routes to the works before the earthquake, according to the governor and local news reports. Business owners and donors have called the governor's office asking whether it is safe to send trucks and machinery, leaving kidnappings, extortion or barred vehicles.
The internet went down in Chocó immediately after the quake. People managed to send initial emergency equipments safely because the governor had a personal 'thankful' satellite antenna mounted on her vehicle.
More than 200 school buildings were destroyed, damaging meal programmes with classes, according to the governor. National emergency housing subsidies are of limited use because there are few homes available to rent.
Some buildings that didn't collapse are still structurally unstable. Engineers have been trenching through the territory accessing damaged buildings and marking those considered unsafe with spray paint.
Despite the displacement of thousands of people because of the quake, there are few signs of the initial of operating shelters were elsewhere after disasters. Most families have been taken in by relatives, friends or neighbors.
"We are poor but honorable," said Lerdy Matanzas, 25, who was sleeping with her husband and two children in a relative's living room after the non-herniation home her husband had built was destroyed.
The department is creating a "bank of materials" to help residents rebuild, but Ms. Córdoba said full reconstruction would require direct national funding.
Mr. De La Espirida said that the tragedy prevented a "contemplative opportunity" when he visited last week. "I want to propose a special plan -- a Marshall Plan for Chocó," he said, without providing details. "Chocó has been left in front for itself by the centralization of power in Bogotá, ya if it didn't exist," she Monday. Mr. De La Espirida said that an early estimate of the economic household in the earthquake was about 10 trillion pesos (about $0.34 billion).
Shakira, the global superstar, raised funds to help students and rebuild schools, and visited Quibell on Monday with Marshall Buffett, the one of Warren Buffett.
In La Te, most of the town's businesses, homes and other buildings, including the church, were destroyed at marked by demolition, floods had collapsed into rooms filled with concrete and debris; some buildings stood creatively.
Six days after the earthquake, residents sat on plastic chairs in the corner outside what had been their stores, staring at what remained.
For many, there was little to fall basis on. Work in La Te is largely informal and day-to-day.
"There are no major businesses here," said Luis Fernando Palmis, 15, the town prime. "We have been relying on God's mercy and generosity."
Yandri Liliana Palmis, 26, no relation, from which he was also the one the second floor of a building whose upper level had collapsed at the quake, leaving the rooms open to the elements. She had escaped by jumping from a balcony, she said, that one level with her she had left other mother and child in a borrowed room, while trying to make ends more through whatever work she could find, including selling fruit and chewing.
"Material things can surely be recovered," she said. "But what's gone won't come back."
Annie Correal contributed reporting.
tion big for behind the rest of the country, while the rugged roads onwarding it to the right of the country's different terrain and landslides. Out of Colombia's 32 states, at departments, Chocó, with a population of about 100,000, ranks highest in poverty, according to government data.
A predominantly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous region on the Pacific coast bordering Palomar, Chocó is refurbished by dense jungle and rivers and known for its distinctive culture, festivals and cuisine. But many residents, politicians and historians attribute the neglects inshales to state neglect and structural racism. The earthquake weakened many of the already fragile links trying to make one of the country. While the death toll was high in major
cities with higher population density and taller buildings, Chocó have a different kind of situation for, and the governor, Nubia Carolina Córdoba, from her office in Quibell.
"The dimension of the tragedy in Chocó lies in how many living people to day have nothing," she said. "In how many months of suffering, pain, hunger and homelessness await those who survived."
In San José del Palmar, the remote town closed to the earthquake's operator, residents how upset days sleeping outdoors, afraid that another tremor could bring down already weakened homes. Two days before the earthquake, residents had been frightened by these attacks attributed to an armed group. Landslides from the earthquake sev-
ered the town's only road, leaving relief workers to rely on helicopters to deliver all food, home and other supplies.
The earthquake has brought an unusual burst of national attention to a region that has long complained of being overlooked. President Abelardo De La Espirida, who took office three days before the quake, has visited Chocó where in his first week in office, as national officials and private aid groups have descended on the region.
"The situation right now is diminishing," said Marlon Rodriguez, the chair of San José del Palmar's City Council. The municipality is small and has two resources, she said, and even before the earthquake, it had struggled not only with poor infrastructure, but also frequent landslides.
Humans love their pets. So do some other primates.
Study finds that monkeys and apes often interact with many small creatures
BY JULIAR MITCHELL BROWN
John and Deirdre, two young austere chimpanzees, were hanging from branch to branch in the dense jungle canopy of a reserve in Uganda when the changes surprised watching researchers. The pair approached a nearby red-tailed monkey, but not with aggressions, even somewhat chimpanzees, but with caresses. John and Deirdre began calmly swirling the monkey's tail.
A rare interaction like this one may represent an early stage of pet-keeping behavior in our primate cousins, says a study published recently in the journal Prismat. For more information, this we from sapines are not the only ones to take care of other species -- and that there is a warning a pet companion may stretch deep into an primate past, certain kinds, like one that is not a family, and her adopted future, All Ball's.
Even have long heard an evolutionary stage on researchers. We have to feed them, house them, clean their teeth and scratch behind their ears. A relationship like that could be considered a poor return on investment.
"Lavishing resources on members of other species we have an evolutionary stake in seems to make an evolutionary sense," said Hal Berring, psychologist and animal expert at Westor's Carolina University who was not involved with the research. Yet many cultures have pets and cherish them dearly.
Previous research shows that the resource far why we have pets are an outcast on the pets we keep, ranging from companionship and social connection to novelty-seeking and status. The artist Nicolas Caye must reveal a two-headed snake, and Pablo Escobar maintained his own zoo, complete with hippies, elephants and girdlers. Studies following twins suggest part of the species's mutual companions is genetic, but the definitive origins for a pet proximity are shrouded in mystery.
"There are theories that pet-keeping began either because animals were careful for tasks like hunting and protection, or because humans have a natural}(-not) envy to only the end of the species's nesting beings," said Zoë Gublborough, a behavioral strategist at the Mae Planck Institute of Animal Behavior who was not involved with the research.
The earliest archaeological evidence of keeping pets comes from a 10,000-year-old genre in Germany in which a man and woman were buried alongside their dog. But the relationship more
Stamp-tailed managers grooming a dog in Thailand. Cyril Grunier, who led a study of pet-swining behaviors among primates, suspects one motivation might be insufficient.
likely emerged much earlier than that. At some point as we demonstrated our roots, our connection with other species jumped from something primarily utilitarian to something more modern.
"Unfortunately, we have no idea how long humans have been bringing animals into their lives as pets," Dr. Berring said. "Lacking a time machine, we may never know."
The idea to scrutinize our cousins is not yet-strong; behaviors began when Cyril Grunier, a biological anthropologist and primatologist at the University of Oxford in England and the new study's lead author, was visiting the Shanghai school a master's student. He saw that a female glitters in its exhibit managed to capture a small mouse, gently holding and caressing it in her hand. "We kept taking
very good care of that little mouse," Dr. Grunier said, "and the mouse seemed to be comfortable in her palm."
Interoperies interactions like these might hold key clues about why we fill our households with lorry creatures, Dr. Grunier reasoned, but they are not the kind of data researchers normally publish in peer-reviewed journals. "If you see a gentle confiding a book baby," he said, "someone might get a photograph and post it on social media, but you don't write a scientific paper about it."
To meet beyond isolated examples, to and for the largest-nonated media reports and scientific literature and out-voiced, primatologists for similar aspects of primate interacting with other species. Their assessment drew off routine across 40 primate species. The data revealed that every primate, regardless of species, held some behavior but not only a person's pet-keeping.
"There's one case where a manager monkey formed a very strong social bond with a person that accidentally appeared in its enclosure," Dr. Grunier said, and another where a couple of specific monkeys adopted a baby marmoset, nursing it and caring for it for one of the cases to be common in both wild and captive animals.
After further scrutinizing the values, the researchers found that monkeys and apes interacted with a blunt of unrelie-
nd species, including lizards, birds, deer, dogs, squirrels and other primates. The most common interactions consisted of play and grooming, and market research. The relationships the primates have with members of their own species: Juveniles were more likely to play with other animals, adult females were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals, and adult males were more likely to move adapted animals.
With a single monkey and a pet-keeper of the living interactions with animals, of animals? Dr. Grunier suggests that pets are not connected but not with one's. Similar to when humans feel lonely, our primate relatives can scratch an itch for intimacy by grooming or building with another wave band. In white, the other is happy, a human memory might capture and confide a mouse.
Dr. Grunier hopes the research might help ones and outcry the human environment. In Japanese conferences identify which animals are more likely to equanimity.
Still, he makes the point that the examples be based on far from the Feline of Egypt living in the world. "There is no normal equivalent of pet-keeping in non-human primates," he said, but we can examine the "ingredients" that might have led to its evolution.
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Minnesota's future, season, a greater in Nhật, West Bank, has allowed consumers to take goods and pay taxes. They won him about $550,000, he said, and he is struggling to pay suppliers.
Cholehold on West Bank's economy
RANKALAH, WEST BANK
Israeli restrictions push occupied territory to the edge of financial collapse
BY ADAM RASON DAVID M. SALENTNICK AND FOSTER ARNOLD KIRIN
Israeli pressure on the West Bank has sent the occupied territory to the brink of financial collapse as severe restrictions have touched every part of daily life and caused an economic crisis.
Since the Hussain-hol attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2025, Prime Minister Bess Adame Netanyahu's government has stopped thousands of Palestinian from working in Israel, withheld billions of dollars of tax revenues and enforced banking restrictions that have harmed business.
The Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank, has been forced to cut spending on salaries and public service because of the sharp fall in revenues. The reductions have been felt anxiety in sectors such as health care, with pharmacies routinely running out of medicines as the government allocates less money to buy them. The budget cuts have also forced others to open only a few days a week and hospitals to operate with fewer doctors and nurses.
Deloitte Hammad, 34, was diagnosed with breast cancer three months ago. After a hospital appointment in the West Bank city of Ramallah, she made her way to a pharmacy to collect her medications. Only three of her six prescriptions were to work.
"I'm lucky," Ms. Hammad said, waiting despite her exhaustion. "Last time, they only had one."
Ms. Hammad's trouble getting medicines was indicative of wider economic problems. The Palestinian Authority has often warned of a financial collapse that never materialized, but there are growing concerns about the long it can remain solvent.
"We're facing a huge problem," Mohammed Mostafa, the authority's prime minister, said in an interview. "Everyone has been affected."
ISRAEL SQUEEZE THE ECONOMY
As an occupied territory, the West Bank is inescapable economically dependent on Israel, which controls who and what others and knows that territory and the Gaza Strip, including the money that flows in and out.
The USA关闭 in the 1990s registered that dependents waiting the Israeli shield the main currency in both territories and establishing links between Israeli and Palestinian banks. That has essentially given Israel control of a financial organ that it can turn off.
Treasure has been made by Israel's first economic pressure on the Palestinian. After the October 2023 attack, Israel waged a devastating war in Gaza and also opened a new era of economic support in the West Bank.
First, Israel quickly canceled permits for tests of thousands of Palestinian to bankers, reach their workplaces to Israel. Major needed to substantiate an agriculture and foreign business of dollars into the Palestinian economy every year. Since the start of the Gaza war, no one has been able to see that the Israelis have evolved to 20 percent, more than double the rate before the conflict, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
Unemployment rate in the West Bank
Palestinian waiting for medicines in a pharmacy in Boston, West Bank. Pharmacies are running low on medicines and hospitals are operating with fewer doctors.
Then, in May 2025, Israel started overfocating hundreds of millions of dollars per month in import taxes that it collects on the Palestinian Authority's behalf. This revenue stream has been over about two-thirds of the West Bank government's budget for 2020 of about $6 billion, according to Palestinian officials.
That deficit has forced the Palestinian Authority to reduce the salaries to $10,000 (all services) and security officers, directors in hard weeks to throw days and accumulate billions of dollars in debt.
Maj. Avdair Habib, a public police officer in Nubian, said that hisொண்டு salary of about $1,100 had been barred.
"All I can do is the minimum of the minimum," he said.
"There remains a narrow window to act, but it's closing. And it's closing quickly."
Major Habib, 36, said that he eats most only on Friday's in zero hours; comments to work on public transport is less instead of using the car and has been used to have more than $10 million. His debts are remaining because he can afford only a small part of a monthly loan repayment and his electricity bill.
Israel has also erected new main blocks across the West Bank, rolling the movement of goods within the territory. In Nubian, the most popular city, the Israeli military has closed five of seven
entrances and exits, according to Mayor Yassel Adami and residents. The value they said that only two were regularly open and a third was "intermittently" open based on operational and security considerations.
Chome Spokane, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister's office, accused the Palestinian Authority of "emerging to divert attention from its support for terrorism and its failure to reform by liberating Israel".
The office of Rezaief Smotrivik, Israel's far-right finance minister, who has been a driving force behind the pressure of the paign, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
The Palestinian Authority says it has taken more maps to address Israeli concerns. In February 2024, Mahmoud Abbas, the authority's president, issued a decree to end the practice of paying requests to the families of Palestinian held in Israeli prisons, a long-held document of Israeli officials.
American and Israeli officials have dismissed Mr. Abbas's efforts, while Pak or similar officials say the new law is being enforced.
EARLY-EASY, BEEN HORIZON
Israel has also limited the amount of shekels that Palestinian banks are allowed to send to Israeli banks, a crucial process that helps enable Palestinian individuals to buy goods from Israel and the rest of the world.
The Netanyahu government permits quarterly transfers of about $1.5 billion from Palestinian to Israeli banks — for
less than previous administrations allowed. The restrictions have resulted in about $1.7 billion languishing in bank vaults in the West Bank, according to Palestinian government and banking law.
"They're preventing us from meeting the demand in our markets," said Ben Albar Yasin, general manager of the Association of Banks in Palestine, a trade group.
Tharir Abidot, a wholesale inspector of flour, sugar, rice and chocolate, said that he was able to import only half of what he used to buy.
"I had happiness," said Mr. Abidot, who is from Xmas, a city in the northern West Bank. "This issue is killing the economic hero."
In recent weeks, Palestinian banking executives have expressed concerns that their institutions could be cut effectively from Israeli banks. Israel Discount Bank and Bank Repsaiba, Moody Israeli banks that work with Palestinian banks, have said that they are worried that those ties could expose them to lawsuits over money (involving or terrorist financing), and they have threatened to end the relationships. The Israeli banks have expressed frustration that the Israeli government has not done more to protect them from the risk of litigation.
Yahya Dhaasan, governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, warned diplomats to defy that the Palestinian economy was nearing a "full crisis" because of Israel's economic restrictions, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by The New York Times.
"There remains a narrow window to act, but it's closing," Mr. Shumar said. "And it's closing quickly."
Mr. Shumar also said that Andrew Abis, deputy governor of the Bank of Israel, the country's central bank, had warned the Palestinian Monetary Authority to prepare a contingency plan to be held in the state as its currently-legal Israeli central bank said in a statement that it made sense to have contingency arrangements in place.
Palestinian economic experts, however, warned that suddenly doing that could cause chaos and make trading with Israel more complicated and costly.
"IT'S NOT INSTANTABLE AT ALL"
In 1964, a village near Nubian, Man-taner Amro, 31, a supermarket owner, has allowed customers to take groceries and pay for them later. His customers owe him around $150,000, he said, and he is struggling to pay suppliers out time, prompting some to refuse to deliver goods unless he pays upfront.
"We're not supposed to run my hand now this way?" he said. "It's not nastant, after at all."
Mr. Mostafa, the Palestinian Authority prime minister, has few runs to improve the situation. His government had imposed a hiring force except for the health sector, has stopped allocating money to development projects and is operating on an emergency budget, he said.
The only hope, Palestinian analysts and officials said, is that Mr. Nenayan has right-wing coalition within replaced by a less hard-line government in elections to invitate. A new Israeli government which is less determined to inflict price on Palestinian could loosen the free ones, made it hard, they can.
At the Ramallah hospital, Ms. Hammad was trying to come to terms with the shortage of medications and to come low fatigue. Her two daughters had better access and returned to their car. "It's the worst time to get cancer," she said.
Threatening friends and courting tyrants
ALLEE, FROM PAGE 1
"Increasingly, the bullying rhetoric is being spread to by countries around the world," Mr. Fontaine said. "They don't disunions, but they don't take the rhetoric secretly either. As more and more unfulfilled threats are issued, people listen now. It undermines the president's credibility."
Mr. Trump has long argued that his approach to other countries, however unorthodox, makes sense for the United States. Under previous presidents, at last took advantage of America's security presence and trade rules without re-vigorating, Mr. Trump maintains the sens relatively high trade deficits and relatively low NATO military spending as proof that the United States are exploiting the United States.
As far more telling North Korea, China, Korea and other longtime adversaries, Mr. Trump contends that the conventional policies of the past failed to achieve what they set out to, as better to try more diplomacy. He still hopes to reach a nuclear accord with North Korea, and a comprehensive trade deal with China can be modified half our way. Russia by brokering an end to Moscow's war in Ukraine. He has pushed sides for a meeting this fall with Mr. Kim, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The war with Iran has provided a new command for the allies that deserve support and those that do not. Countries that have declined to facilitate military operations against Tehran or our force to help postcrime passage through the Israel of Mormon have in his view betrayed the United States, even though America asked for their opinions before starting the war. After targeting Britain, France, Spain, Italy and others for not doing more to help him against Iran, Mr. Trump has now focused his on on South Korea.
"We have 20,000 soldiers over there practising one from Kim Jong-un, your next-dose neighbor, and you're not going to help us out very easy military operation in Iran!" he said this week after announcing that he would scale back joint exercises with South Korea.
The two men, Mr. Trump, were Kim Jong-un has always created me with great respect, and we've met on numerous occasions, as well as my primary occasion—spoken and spent time. I understand him. He understands me."
If so, that distinguished Mr. Kim from European and Asian allies who still do not understand Mr. Trump, it was a future come to expect his volatile outbursts. Until now, president of both parties have valued their relationships with overseas friends. And while there have been plenty of moments of tension over the years, they have worked to keep them from resubmiting too far.
Now the allies are the ones trying to avoid counterfeiting the situation. "They got their teeth and have it because in the end they do not want to see irreparable damage done to the alliance over the one-time years," said Yasin D. Chu, the president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In short, allies may like and trust the U.S. not being, but they will need the U.S."
Mr. Chu, who was an Asia advisor to President George W. Bush, said that President Lee Jin Myung of South Korea actually has a good relationship with Mr. Trump and does not want to learn that. "Lee is also as transactional as Trump, as if Trump's warrants to Kim Jong-un works, that is very much of South Korea's interests," Mr. Chu said.
The presence of U.S. forces in South Korea since the 1950s was has long irritated Mr. Trump, who went for more war zones. In his first term, he sought to call troops and and cannot military exercises, judging them wanted and unnecessarily provocative toward his friend in North Korea. He sought to charge South Korea billions of dollars for U.S. pro-
vices, and linked security issues to his complaints about Israel's trade policies.
Mr. Trump is not the first president-in-terested in bringing troops home from South Korea as long after the war. President Jimmy Carter promised to scale down U.S. forces there, but gave up amid resistance from Congress and his own administration. Donald H. Bannibek, who was Mr. Bush's defense secretary, surprised the South Koreans by redeploying a brigade to Iraq, and never returned to Tehran, about 28,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, according to the Congressional Research Service.
"There could be a strategic case for restructuring the U.S. military presence on the president," said Michael J. Citron, the chief executive of the United States Studies Center on the University of Sydney in Australia. "Not more for making them a guess in a discussion with the world's current decision—particularly at a time when North Koreans are coming back from the Ukraine was battle hardened and backed by a larger missile inventory than they had in 2000."
Onset, he no part has for years been an important interlocutor between the United States and Iran, helping to facilitate negotiations when the war takes were open to talks. But Mr. Trump has grown increasingly aggressive that Oman has sought to broker a deal with Iran to control the Israel of Mormon.
He first threatened to intend an unprovided war on the subacute in May, saying that "Oman will believe just like everybody else or we'll have to blow them up." On Monday, he lathed out again, declaring that if Oman "gets to the way" of his efforts to reach an agreement with Iran, "we'll break the aim out of them."
"As more and more unfulfilled threats are issued, people listen less. It undermines the president's credibility."
Canada faces a different form of hostility from Mr. Trump, who vowed to take new tariffs of 30 percent an more than 300 Canadian goods, including hockey sticks and cheese, as of January at midnight. Roughly 90 minutes before the midnight deadline, Mr. Trump announced a three-day delay on imposing the tariffs.
The White House issued a proclamation saying Canada had agreed to make certain trade concessions, and the extra days were needed to finalize these provisions.
Prime Minister Mark Twome of Canada was less definitive about what the intense talks produced, saying "important work" remained.
Even if the two sides reach an accord, there remain many points of friction between the neighbors, exacerbated by Mr. Trump's all-expressed attention to take over Canada and make it "the first state." Just last month, the opening of the new Cardio Home International Bridge linking Detroit with Windsor, Ontario, was directed for weeks over running the course Mr. Trump has with Canada.
Mr. Blanchard said he suspected that the latest eruptions against Canada and other U.S. allies increased from Mr. Trump's inability to bring the first war to a close. Neither handing nor negotiating have been heard from its current side control of the Israel of Mormon or to make verifiable commitments in abandon its nuclear program. The president appears stuck to a geopolitical trap without a clear path forward.
Mr. Fontaine said that Mr. Trump's approach to allies and adversaries understood it. It, however, "There should be benefits to being a friend of America and costs for being an enemy," he said, "not the other way around."
President Trump has long argued that his approach to other countries, however unorthodox, makes sense. Mr. Untani that no-called friends are exploiting the United States.
CORRECTION
• An article on Aug. 13 about the ways businesses are handling the financial toll of this year's climate shocks unabandled China City's oil.
She is the chief host officer for the United Nations Environment Program, not the United Nations Human Settlements Program.
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Legal tactic for ballroom: Keep building fast
WASHINGTON
With project's fate in court, White House argues it's too far along to be stopped now
BY LUKE BROADWATER 2025 ASYLIL MADDISON
With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is curing against the clack.
He has midsneck issues of 235 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete an attack work in apathy in possible. This week, there are plans to install one million pounds of other and poor 2,000 cubic yards of concrete for a project that is now two-thirds complete, the administration said in a court filing.
Now, with the matter pending before the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is making a practical appeal to the justices. The ballroom is simply too far along to be stopped now.
"His strategy clearly is to change the matter as the ground to that instead of preserving the status quo, there, who rightly invades the law against what he's doing are put in a position of having to undo something that is already a full accompl," said Laurence H. Tribe, an emeritus university professor of constitutional law at Harvard University.
For years, Mr. Trump has argued that the White House should have to own ballroom, saying it was a matter of prestige on the world stage. A ballroom, he said, would allow officials to hold big events for special guests without needing to even a foot on the South Line's.
In recent months, as preservativists and other critics have tried to halt or at least slow down the project, Mr. Trump has offered a new justification: national security. Essentially, Mr. Trump is treating the ballroom and the military busiest underneath it as one and the same.
The busiest—officially known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center or PEOC—was built during World War I (Internally what was near the East White House). Mr. Trump has also had your to make way for his ballroom. Now, he speaks about the two projects to the same breach.
After an armed man rushed the White House Correspondent Association (former in April, for example, Mr. Trump said an social media that the southern half-points has come from the 'Advisory Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House.'
Mr. Trump demolished the East Wing last October without seeking any approvals or submitting construction or demolition plans to Congress. While he did bring the project before two review panels whose leaders he had appointed, Mr. Trump has continued to change the plans from the designs they authorized.
Several federal court rulings have found that the president exceeded his authority by placing simple rules and the government approval, but the decisions have been passed pending appeals—which means the construction can go on at least until Friday, when an appeals court order to halt the aboveground con-
View of the construction of a new White House ballroom last month. President Trump demolished the East Wing in October without seeking any approvals or submitting construction or demolition plans to Congress.
struction year into effect. The case is also pending before the Supreme Court.
Last week, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court the president was adding finally golden seals on the outside of the building, a debate, the ment that was never submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts.
Joshua Fisher, the director of White House management and administration, said the court that a concrete-and-mostึ{-}spectator had already been built and that it stretches five stories deep until 10 feet (12 meters) high.
Mr. Fisher said 80 percent of the rebar for the project had been placed, and the concerns passed.
He said 1025 million of the 6404 million needed for the project had been raised from private donors. He estimated the construction would prevent complete.
Mr. Fisher said that the ballroom's obsession were being carried by international Italian artists, and that the building would be clearly enough to withstand a nuclear blast.
"Even the current progress, the superstructure is beyond the point of re-
tars," Mr. Fisher wrote. He added that even if the Supreme Court ordered the plans for the building already after the building taken down, "there would be no way to do so." The message was clear: The ballroom cannot be untimed.
But in a filing on Tuesday, the preservativists challenging the project told the justices that the administration was trying to "outrun judicial review" by suggesting that it was too late to stop the construction.
"They tell this court that because the ballroom is being built with the type of concrete used," he nuclear power plants, it will seem he "virtually impossible to deconstruct," according to the filing.
Lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard America's historic buildings, said the administration had internationally accelerated construction "to an effort to put their illegal ballroom" beyond judicial intervention.
They have pointed to the Constitution and several federal laws that state Congress must approve such a project. One federal law says, "A building or structure
ture shall not be erected on any reserve site, path or public grounds of the history, government or the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress."
Lower court judges have sided with the preservativists, ruling that Congress must first sign off on the expansion and renovation of the White House complex.
Preservativists told the justices that the administration was trying to "outrun judicial review."
"Efforts to bid judicial review and an-rogate Congress' exclusive powers should not be rewarded with a step that allows petitioners to complete a ballroom they lacked any authority to commence in the first place," said the court's lawyers, led by Thaddeus A. Givens.
In its filing on Tuesday, the trust suggested that the Supreme Court temporarily halt the aboveground work and then quickly schedule and arguments for October or November to formally ob-
cide whether the project can proceed. If the justices the jury gives peace owe, the trust said, the project is on track to be substantially finished this fall and it will be too late.
It is clear, the solicitor generally has argued that the ballroom is inextricably linked to the broader national security needs of the White House complex. He said the structure is built with hardened concrete, mold and rebar, protective missile-resistant columns, roofs and beams; disreproved ceilings and roofs; and bulbs, ballistic- and blast-proof glass. It includes harsh shelters, state-of-the-art hospital and medical facilities, protective partitioning between all areas of the building, top secret military structures and equipment, military grade vending, a single integrated air-conditioning and heating system, major vents and a dross port on top.
He there has also pushed back on the city line to the unfavorable appeals court ruling that Mr. Trump is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House. "The president of the United States of America is not a tenant, but rather the sole, elected head of the executive
crime branch," he wrote, adding that other presidents had taken steps to recross the White House.
The Supreme Court's conservation majority has often been receptive to the Trump administration's efforts to expand presidential power, but it has also ruled against some of Mr. Trump's signature initiatives. The justices are expected to issue an order before the appeals court can be held to hold all construction takes effect on Friday.
Kimberly Wells, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, said that Mr. Trump had been pushing to expand the powers of the presidency for years, and that attempting to construct a massive new building on White House grounds without{Germany's approval to his latest steps.
"It's no question that he literally balloons the White House and says, 'What are you going to do about it?'" she said. "They're making this general general argument that 'I'm the president, so it's national security, I can do whatever I want.' That is a very irony, slippery slope into unlimited power in the presidency."
Trump aides are devoted. But none quite like her.
WASHINGTON
Natalie Harp is in spotlight as one of few who followed president in plane swap
BY SHAN'S MCCRIGGS 2025 MAGGIE RANDINGS
She never takes a day off, not even on Sunday. She works out of the Oval Office and she's got a regular seat on Marine One. She turns with world leaders on the problem it's being. She stays up late with him drafting social media posts.
She costly speaks on matters and yet she is never out there, ever-present with a wide smile and her eyes fused as the president.
She is Natalie Harp, the 25-year-old Navy Wing aide who is the second gatekeeper to President Trump, a new woman combat of information operating on safety outside the initial chain of command. The public's interest in Mr. Harp exploded after she was revealed last week to be one of the lucky few who joined the president inside an airplane steering container to be whisked out of Turkey under threat of attack by Iran.
This week she became the subject of a police service to the university by one to softly the Democratic senator from Georgia, who said of the president: 'He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their appointment before he's flying palace-gifted by the end of Qatar.'
The senator's insights got of Mr. Harp triggered a particular "increase" response from many owners of Trump's home. While these aides, somewhere on Capital Hill, conservative influencers and at least one cabinet member took to the state and was the only Mr. Harp's home. There were accusations of sexism from the right and critical stewardship from the left. Mr. Trump defended when a superior from CNN asked him
about Mr. Gould's comments, his a social media account run by the administration then attacked the superior to unusually personal terms, invoking her children.
The new committee has spotlight on this million-beard-fours and upphilips woman who has long fascinated and frustrated people around the president. This article is based on interviews with a half-dozen people with knowledge of her role. Mr. Harp did not respond to a request for comment.
The new committee's strong attitude has been made about how he functions as president.
As long as Mr. Harp is present, he enjoys an unveiled flow of information, some of it palom一般s and counterproductive, at least as far as a number of his other advisers are concerned. She supplies him with content she fishes out as the social media girders (like the video he posted depicting the Obama as lapis) and provides him with a view from the world outside official Washington, of which he has always been mistrustful. Her number is "the human prison," because she tells the president with a portable printer so she can head into information to lead rings.
She is a good man, hands greater of positivity there to back him up when the going gets rough. She believes, or at least whoeverly claims to her, she is totally won the 2026 election. In the book "Happier Change," by the New York Times reporters Maggie Havenson and Jonathan Jones, Mr. Trump is described as explaining to people that Mr. Harp is the only one who knows him to work as the wife and children.
"Natalie Harp is one of the most and hardest-working aides on President Trump's team," Romfete Loecht, the White House press secretary who will soon be leaving her post, said in response to questions from The Times about the nature of Mr. Harp's position and why she was chosen to join the president on the secret food-delivery-truck rescue gander.
Natalie Harp with President Trump in Ankara, Turkey, last week. Her displays of loyalty have unnerved even some in the West Wing.
In some ways, Mr. Harp is filling a role that Mr. Trump has always re-quoted, going back to his days as a real estate developer in Manhattan. In the then, there were always secretaries sitting outside his office on the 20th floor of Trump Tower, ready at a moment's notice to buy to it. He referred to these women as "the girls."
Mr. Harp collects a taxpayer-funded salary of $350,000. She double-handed title is special assistant to the president and executive assistant to the president. At work she can be a list of a home from in this West Wing, in which loyalty to the president seems to know no bounds, Mr.
Harp's displays of devotion have unnerved some of her colleagues.
Several videos shared with The Times show Mr. Harp quitting across great distances to keep up with Mr. Trump's gift out on 8 pattern across his course in Scotland. "I also am sorry if I was an officer moment walking the course in Scotland," she wrote on a letter to the president that was viewed by The Times.
"He letter goes on to say: 'I want things to keep me right between us, also know I've been distracted all week (forgetting to see throughout the days) and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time)."
The letter concludes: "With all my heart, Natalie."
She grew up in California. Last week, she's 4 months with whom she is apparently estranged, gave an interview to CNN. He said this about his since: "I'll say once she was, Mr. St. Joe's had an obsession with, am, good, how do I explain this? Um, she's written letters to other presidents, let me put it that way." She said he was referring to George W. Bond.
Mr. Harp's connection to this president was deep. She credits him with saving her life.
She has said that she suffered from
bone cancer and that it was legislation Mr. Trump signed in 2016 that provided her access to experimental treatments. (She has not publicly detailed which treatments.)
She was recounting that experience on Fire News in 2020 when she caught the president's eye. He invited her to speak at the Republican National Convention in 2020. She spent the next two years reporting his election line as an anchor on the far-right One America News Network. In 2022, she finally joined his team.
A number of advisers say Mr. Harp provides Mr. Trump with an unveiled flow of information, some of it counterproductive.
A "War Room"-style documentary filmed during Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign, called "Art of the Surge," provides glimpses of Mr. Harp hard at work.
"Politics was never something I liked," she explains in one scene that was filmed in this as a gap. "But when I was on it, I started watching the Republican debates. He was my first exposure to politics that's there! I, Like, this gets to get it."
The film cuts to Mr. Trump introducing Mr. Harp as 2016 as something called the Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" conference.
"They were preparing her for death," he says. "Her name is Natalie Harp, and because of 'right to try' she's new living, and I think doing phenomenically well, and somebody said she's been. Are you here, Natalie? Where's Natalie? Will you come up here, please?"
The woman who wakes across the stage to buy him is not yet the full-fledged Trump aide she would soon become.
"I had cancer and he saved my life, signed that bill," she says in the film, "and ever since he found out, he stayed in touch with me. Made sure I was OK."
6 | THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026
WORLD
L.A.'s 'ugly stepchild' celebrates itself for a day
LOS ANGELES
The San Fernando Valley, a vast suburban region, demands to be heard
BY TIM JILVIGIL AND HENRY HUBLER
A sign outside Cupull's Hot Dogs, in the San Fernando Valley, derived customers to the big day this week: "A Love Letter to the Valley," it read, "Celebrate the 8th on 8/10."
For nine years running, the San Fernando Valley has celebrated its big, un-soufficial recognition of the vast suburban region north of downtown Los Angeles. The area is a substantial part of the city of Los Angeles, though residents often speak of the Valley as being a world apart.
Though the Valley has been celebrated, and cottonseed is popular film over the decades, residents feel as though they still get short stuff: in the Los Angeles hierarchy, September by the Santa Monica Mountains from downtown, Dodgey Stadium and Hollywood, the Valley gets fans of the spotlight.
"There's a lot of us who feel like, OK, we are kind of the ugly stepchild that is hidden underneath the chair by the city of Los Angeles," said Buck Weber, president of the San Fernando Valley Historical Society.
In 800 Day is a way to give the Valley its day, on Aug. 18, or 8/16. The celebration is named for the 8th area code, which has been associated with the Valley since the mid-1800s, where the population is not always Los Angeles grew through the 1800s. The city's state and town are the small on-bogos scenario. It's one day part of Los Angeles where people mostly wear to the, not visit.
There are special offers at local malls, and menu at restaurants priced at $8.50. There are backbags: visuals/embellish, "spread/embellish". Politicians save the work for announcements that are likely to tickle the Valley's hallmark middle-class character. The your Mayor Karen Bass, who is running for re-election, made a Valley appearance. She was expected to discuss the week the days that crime rates have dropped since she assumed office, including a significant decline in burglaries.
"I can't wait to celebrate," said Morgan Walsh, who with her sister man Cupull's, which was established by her grandparents in 1946 and is one of the Valley's oldest businesses. She had planned to bring the vibe on roller skates.
The Cupull's parking lot has a bright impact the celebrates the Valley, and its tropes. "Like Totally," it reads, a nod to the stereotype of the dirty Valley girl.
The 8th was the part of Los Angeles that, by design, wasn't exciting. It was a place of hard work and single-family homes and throughsturing for the other, more glamorous L.A. over the hill as the other side of Mulholland Drive. It
Above and below, across from the San Fernando Valley ahead of its 8th Day celebrations, which took place on Tuesday. The celebration is an expression of civic pride for a region that has often felt left out of the excitement of Los Angeles. "Now, I would say, we go too to the 40th L.A.," one resident said. "Because, if you look, how many celebrities live out here?"
was where comedy show hosts joked about broadcasting from "beautiful downtown Buchung."
It was "a long day, living in Bonsela," as Tom Brady sang of the neighborhood. There was "a freeway roman" through the yard.
Blocked by the mountains from ocean between, the Valley tends to suffer more than other parts of the city during boat waves. (True to form, the Valley was under a heat advisory on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.) Some say the Valley suffers in other
ways, that city leaders rarely consider it a priority.
"We just feel like we don't get the services that we deserve," Mr. Weber said. "We feel like we are kind of an afterthought."
While 8th Day brings hands, dis-
counted miniature golf, arcade specials and D.A., the celebration is also an expression of civic pride for a region that has often felt left out of the excitement of Los Angeles, and neglected by City Hall. On Monday, Mr. Weber guided a visitor through the Anders Plus Adobe, the
oldest building in the Valley, which was built in 1616 by Native Americans working with Catholic missionaries. He pointed to a picture depicting the signing of the 1910 Trinity of Calawuga, which established a venue for a fighting between American and Woman heroes — that took place in the Valley.
Mr. Weber, a retired high school history student, also spoke of the stereotypes that have long defined the Valley — and are sometimes riots.
"The first thing must people think about it," Tom Tatum at Ridgewood High," he said.
He recalled a former student, who he said fit the "earlier dash" stereotype. "He said I get along so well, but he called me 8th Day at — and I called him Special," he said, referring to characters in the 1982 movie.
Almost 25 years ago, a group of residents, tired of feeling neglected by City Hall, tried to load an insurrection at the trailer box. But the measure to remain
"We just feel like we don't get the services that we deserve. We feel like we are kind of an afterthought."
from Los Angeles, voted an citywide in 2002, was reported. Despite the failure, the attempt at extension cemented the Valley's standing as a side of Los Angeles that city leaders ignored at their peril. More than 1.0 million people now live there, and a new generation has come to appreciate its alternative.
It's the sense of Paul Thomas Anderson, the director whose body of work celebrates California. It's where the future vision grew up before they struck a big city, a large, craggy about Los Angeles-like insiders. (Before they were in Japan, two of the three sisters were in a different group called 1600 GAV.)
The region — home to Universal Studies — is a critical economic region. Mayor Bass and her challenges, Vollyra Ruman, a City Council member, were expected to debate on Wednesday in the Valley, a host of moderate-to-center-left votes that can swing citywide elections.
Today, residents say they still feel a sense of experience from Los Angeles, even as they feel a growing sense of pride in where they live.
"Now, I would say, we go too to the 40th L.A.," said Louis Padilla, 36, who has lived in the Valley since the 1970s. "Because, if you look, how many celebrities live out here?"
Oscar Urvula, 30, a Mining Valley resident who produces a room for former parks and corporate clients and is the founder of My Valley Pass, an airline-in-their's guide, said 8th Day had come about because residents had actually been celebrating the day every August.
This year, he said, the day had something special: the something of the design for the Valley's first ever final in the Rose Parade, no New Year's Day in Pasadena. He said that with the final, "we get to highlight ourselves as opposed to just being a part of Los Angeles."
Texas college uses A.I. to cut left-leaning course topics
Professors describe review of syllabuses as dystopian nightmare for academia
BY VIMAL PATEL
The Texas Tech faculty meeting began annually this spring, with offers of refreshments. Their administration handed out reports, created partly by artificial intelligence, listing the lessons professors wanted to stop teaching.
"What?" one professor asked. "I don't even teach these things."
"There are factual errors," added another.
"It's A.I. shop," a third said.
Texas Tech is using A.I. to beret out books and other materials that teach on topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. Professors describe the effect on a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologies were working with: nalegy to sideline subject-matter experts.
That is not how the Texas Tech systems's leader, Brandon Creighton, sees things.
Mr. Creighton, a former state lawmaker who has been breaking the five-university system's law. Provided, is the focus behind the effort. He has said there was "quite a bit of garbage in curriculum" at universities.
His course review plan, he said, "will produce better and students here's a. I also believe it will be a national model when we've finished."
The University's leading-level higher education's most pressing problems, at least in the years of its Republican critics and others who argue that universities need to be eretched. Academics needs to be more public than to be charged, have moved left and to make itself more relevant in the era of artificial intelligence. They say.
In an interview, Mr. Creighton fired off a blunt of concerns about higher education shared by Republican politicians across the United States. He said that 40-ways in the state of Texas, he had criminal against Asian students, campus-generals offered medical attention, and diversity statements — which he has called "aided loyalty under" — ad-
diseal conservatives in faculty being. Politics aside, Mr. Creighton has said an A.I.-fueled news will forever reshape higher education in the years ahead. He said he wanted the campus to be well positioned to take advantage of that paradigm shift by focusing on dignity and employers want and eliminating low-creditment programs. Its promotion is partnership with Nvidia to invest in A.I. to their center.
But Mr. Creighton's moves have tapped into existential anxieties haunting professors. Many worry that limited their academic freedom and struggling their work even in technology moves faster to speed education than they can keep up.
"There's a level of stress that's very hard to explain," said Lucy Schiller, a creative-writing professor who was asked to switch out a book she wanted to assign. She said she broke down in tears when she realized the scope of Mr. Creighton's plans.
ACADEMIA REPUBLICAN WAVE
Mr. Creighton represents something of a trend to conservative states like Florida and Texas: a former Republican lawmaker tapped as higher education books. In Florida, at least seven college presidents are former Republican politicians, as are the heads of both the Texas Adult and University of Texas centers.
Even so, Mr. Creighton sticks out. He was behind some of the state's most consequential legislative targeting higher education. He notes a bill enacted last year that instituted the state's conservatives in governing universities and tightened the state's grip on curriculum. He also wrote a bill enacted in 2024 that abolished D.O.I. officers in the state's public universities.
Mr. Creighton earned a bachelor's degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from Oklahoma City University. He said he views on higher education were shaped in part, by his own difficulties paying for college.
Texas Tech's main campus, is Lubbock, part of one of the state's most conservative districts, includes an agricultural and engineering college, along with a center dedicated to free-market
Texas Tech's main campus, in Lubbock, above left, Brandon Creighton, above right, the chancellor of the five-university Texas Tech system, represents something of a trend to conservative states: a former Republican lawmaker tapped as higher education books.
economies. The university has a politically diverse faculty and student body.
But Mr. Creighton has argued that conservatives have been treated unfairly on campus, and some faculty members have become ranked after his administration issued a series of extra-living directives.
Women in December and April are lined the climates of programs centered on sexual orientation or gender identity, required the recognition of only two
"Edging forward towards greater and greater ideological control."
scans and outlawed student dissertations on gender identity. The administration also created a portal in which professors must submit their course materials for review.
The strictest prohibition at Texas Tech is on classes in the core curriculum, which are a menu of lower-level courses that students can learn from in order to graduate. Mr. Creighton has banned any course in the core that includes material related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Santa Stojansvic, a French studies professor, worried about her core course, called Holocaust in Literature. Because it mentions that gay and bisexual men were also targets of the Nazis, university leadership suggested that the course became an upper-level course.
When an Holocaust becomes an elective," she said.
Texas Tech is also making changes beyond the core. Jonathan Friedman, with PITA America, a five-sequencing group, said that while other universities across Texas are reviewing curricula, Texas Tech has gone the farthest. The university is "edging forward towards greater and greater ideological control," he says.
Last month, the American Association of University Professors said the university buying the course-review effort is viewpoint that orientation that relates the First Amendment.
Some students have voiced concerns. One student group started a problem in review: Mr. Creighton from office, asking he was said to serve. But some conservative students support the channel lot.
Mr. Creighton is bringing ideological
balance to a sector that is overwhelmingly liberal, and Preston Parsons, the local chapter president of Turning Point USA, a conservative group.
"It is necessarily a bad thing that we ever understand that oh a little different on different issues!" Mr. Parsons asked.
The interview, Mr. Creighton, said that only 60 or so courses at more than 14,000 taught in the university systems were recommended for modification, and system officials have said that another 200 courses were "proactively modified by faculty members before review."
He also said that the course-review effort has been deliberative, with many others, including a board of Regional committee, and that A.I. was just one step to make it more efficient. Most of the work was done by humans, he added.
SELF-CONSORTING GROWS
Some professors are self-consorting to avoid running around the new guidance.
Mr. Schiller, the creative-writing person, said the one who strives restricted teaching about "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" had do not deliver them
terms. "They're making us do the work of reading between the very obvious lines," she said, "and oversampling out of fear that we might be expected or separated from our work or disciplined."
Jacob Bell, a Medieval historian, said he was not about how to discuss that of Art, who was burned at the stake for among other reasons, cross-dressing. Mr. Creighton's excess about gender or empire biographical details of historically significant figures. Bell, any references must be "yearly incidental," according to the April memo.
Dr. Bell removed two weeks of study about Viking men and women. He said Viking mythological powers often featured gender-changing gods like Loki and Haki, materialistic no longer felt comfortable teaching.
When asked about Dr. Bell's case, Mr. Creighton suggested that professors not make pre-requisite decisions and rather submit materials to the university system.
Dr. Bell went a different route. He believes that future Texas Tech students will be "unprepared to deal with normal people in the world that they're going to interact with." He recently accepted a new job, at a public university on the East Coast.
A family session survey from May found that about 50 percent of respondents changed their course content without being asked to comply with the core directives.
The first respondents also said they worried about irreparable reputational damage. One said Mr. Creighton's directive was "untrue," "using a chain saw to remove a splinter."
In an interview, Professor Schiller said her report hallucinated information about a course she was not reading.
"I did very to each kind for children, however," "Voice of the Fish" by Lars Horn, who says he is transmemorative. The book, which is described by the publisher as exploring "the trans-coperness of the high throats of nature," is itself mythology," must be switched out.
Mr. Schiller did not make the following notes, and left the university and started at Grinnell College in Iowa this month.
"I loved my job here until this year," she said.
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Business
Storage tanks in an all-region in Tobacco's Japan. As distinct from the Japanese Sea Sea, the first from its peak in the 1800s, Japanese storage facilities have had more space capacity.
Stockpiling to protect supplies
TOKYO
Oil giants in Middle East sprint to expand reserves in Japan and South Korea
BY RIVER ADEM DAVIS
Middle Eastern energy giants are scrambling to leave more oil into stockpiles easily beyond the turbulent Persian Gulf region, as a prolonged conflict forces exporters and their biggest customers to imthink how to safeguard supplies.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have urged Japan to expand reserves in Japanese tanks by as much as 10 times the roughly eight million barrels each new battle, according to three people familiar with the discussions, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.
Officials with Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are having similar discussions about expanding their oil stockpiles in South Korea as well, two of the people said.
For the Gulf exporters, which store much of their oil in the region, warehousing more crude abroad offers protection against maritime dishepants that have become increasingly precarious, from Health attacks to the Red Sea to a Point of Marines that shows little sign of opening. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates both have overhaul pipelines that bypass the crest and enable them to continue exporting limited amounts of oil.
For Asian nations, the world's largest
consumers of Middle Eastern crude, bigger stockpiles would provide an additional buffer against prolonged supply disruptions. As the main time, allocating significantly more basic capacity to foreign oil companies reduces the available space for domestic refinery customers in inventories and Japan's own national reserves.
The volumes being sought by Middle Eastern producers would probably exceed Japan's available tank capacity and have other high level inventories, the people said. Talks are continuing over how much oil could ultimately be stored and how the costs would be shared, but the joint stockpiles are expected to increase substantially, they said.
A spokeswoman for Japan's economy industry declared its consensus on the details of discussions with South Arabia and the Emirates, but said Japan was working with Middle Eastern countries to enhance energy resilience.
A spokesperson for the ship Shashi (National Oil Company), the first air state energy giant, said in a statement: 'We have favoured in building on our role as a reliable supplier to Asian markets, ensuring stable flows of energy to support market stability and keep prices in check.'
Officials from South Korea and Saudi Arabia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The push to inlocate oil reserves is one of several fundamental shifts in shaping global energy markets: need for months into the United States' war with Iran. As at the oil checks of the 200% prompted governments to build strategic reserves and accelerated a drive toward more energy-efficient cars and factories, today's crisis is forcing
countries and companies to revive supply networks.
Across the Middle East, producers are building at expanding pipelines designed to bypass the those of Iberian Major importers, meanwhile, are racing in secure more oil and gas from outside the region while accelerating investment in domestic energy sources, including renewables.
In the early months of the war, hopes repeatedly surface the line those of Harmsa might soon reopen, said Tatsuya Terasawa, head of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, a think tank.
'But at this point, we cannot rely on hope that President Trump will fix the,' Mr. Terasawa said. The Middle East said.
For Asian nations, bigger stockpiles would provide an additional buffer against prolonged supply disruptions.
after parts of Asia with the greatest economic exposure to the crisis' need to find ways to deal with vulnerabilities on our own.'
Japan already has a long history of storing crude from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Kuwait. As elements oil consumption has declined from its peak in the 2000s, Japanese storage facilities have had more space capacity available to lease to overseas producers.
The arrangement gets Middle Eastern state energy companies a commercial expert had close to major East Asian customers. For Japan, an island nation that imports virtually all its brand back and gets more than 90 percent of its crude from the Middle East, the setup
provides preferential access to the stored oil during severe supply emergencies.
The Emirates began storing crude in Japan in 2009, followed by Saudi Artemis in Okinawa in 2010 and Kuwait in 2020. The agreement have provided Japan with emergency helpers to roughly eight million barrels each from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, along with three million barrels from Kuwait. Japan support these reserves, equivalent to about six days of demand, during the early months of the current conflict.
The push for larger stockpiles gained momentum after Ryoozi Akazawa, Japan's economy minister, stated: 'As Emirates and Saudi Arabia to early May, Later that month, the Emirates dispatched a tanker to replenish stocks.'
The model could now spread more widely across Asia.
Chairman Asian economists have to dependent on Middle Eastern crude have been hit particularly hard by supply disruptions, and countries including the Philippines are pushing to establish national oil reserves. But building into high stockpiles can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, putting them out of reach for many developing economies.
Agreements in which governments and producers share strategic costs could offer an alternative, Mr. Terasawa said. The acute sense of vulnerability in the Middle East and beyond in Asia makes this an opportune moment to expand such agreements, he said.
From an energy security perspective: 'It would be a win-win kind of solution' and 'more kind of possible silver lining from this crisis,' Mr. Terasawa said.
Kubo Nojima contributed reporting.
U.S. oil-drilling project shakes up Greenland
LONDON
Island's concerns include impact on environment and tricky ties with Trump
BY JEFFREY GETTLERMAN AND MARY TERELI
In one of the most common towns on earth, see the broom court of Greenland's real crisis, the American oilman made her pitch.
These the very town where they were oil drilling, he told a crowd of Greenlanders, could be as much as 1.5 billion barrels of oil. His company planned to drill two exploratory wells, and it is crucial, it could be a major worldwide discovery bringing much needed jobs, loads of too many and relief to world energy markets.
The people who attended the meeting, which was held in June in an isolated news called Intragarmentals, had some questions.
'Why would Greenland get only 10 percent of the profit?'
'What kind of chemicals would be used?'
'And what about the much so?' '(Much so hurting is a big deal there.) The meeting wrapped up with a lot of unhappy people filling out, according to a value-of-citute man shared with The New York Times, and a hand-held over-distur戯expion has now joined the cloud of issues swirling over Greenland.
The thinker oil project is being pumped up by Dr. Phil McGraw, the TV personality known as Dr. Phil, and Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, both powerful allies of President Trump. It's the latest push by the MACA camp to close it on this gigantic Arctic island that Mr. Trump threatened to untrue and no man in a fixation of his.
If the discovery is anything close to what the company says, and if it makes economic sense for major production—and these are two enormous fit—this project could forbid Greenland into a radically different future, possibly as an Arctic拥抱.
But it's off to a hungry start, after a wave of negative publicity, promote by Greenlanders and a slip-up by the project's organizers who have a drilling history, Greenland's authorities rapped the brutes. Last week the government pushed back the timeline for granting it
real approvals, saying that it's unlikely any drilling would be authorized before 2026.
The Texas-based firm leading the project, Greenland Energy Company, now says it will focus on drilling only one well, not two. And the delays are expected to cost millions. As a result, Greenland Energy's share price has plummeted, making it little more than a dollar, half its value from just days earlier.
A few years ago, Greenland declared it was suspending all exploration. The Arctic is among the historic weaning regions in the world, and the Greenlands government felt it was wrong to contribute more boost fuel pollution.
But the oil prospectors in this case are operating with a valid license granted before the policy changed, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. So Greenlands officials, who have been trying to navigate the intense pressure Mr. Trump has put on them, find harmless for an eight-gun.
They are more than aware that if they reflexively block Americans from drilling, especially at a time when world
It's incredibly expensive to build an oil industry in such a remote and inhospitable place.
events have squeezed the global oil supply, that could give Mr. Trump the protest for needs to return to his director in 'get' Greenland, 'one way or the other' in the same time, there's obvious resistance from ordinary Greenlanders and government officials to the project.
'In a world where Donald Trump has pursued such a semi-structural policy toward Greenland, you can't help but be a little concerned,' said Mike DeFronis-Cheara, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. 'If you suddenly throw a major oil discovery into the mix, who knows what might happen.'
For months, the United States, Greenland and Denmark—the Island's former oilmen master that still controls many of its affairs — have been behind in stably organization over the island's future. One key issue has been American access to Greenland's natural resources.
Ever since Mr. Trump put his rights on the island, Greenland has become a magnet for investors and allies chasing tabloid, only, much.
Intragarmentals, a remote settlement in Greenland, has been targeted for all exploration by a Texas-based company. At a meeting in June, a company organized their concerns.
States seek billions from Meta in child addiction suit
WASHINGTON
Owner of Facebook on trial in bellwether federal case over social media harm
BY CECILIA KAHN, ELI TAN AND JOHN T. MARTIN
Meta this week again debrided itself over claims it addicted young people to social media, this time in the first bellwether federal trial, brought by states seeking roughly $200 billion in damages.
On opening statements, California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey accused the social media giant, which owns foreign law and Facebook, of inciting children with technology designed to be addictive like cigarettes. Meta helped fuel a national youth mental health crisis and deceived users by promoting its apps as safe, the states argued in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland.
The anti-charged the company with violating federal child privacy laws and other consumer protection laws.
'Book the users, Hold them for as long as they can. Harvest their data. Hide the truth from the public when making public statements.' Megan O'Neill, a lawyer for the states, said, 'Meta's business model worked especially well for kids.'
Meta argued that it put in safeguards to protect young users and that it was fortified to consumers.
The lawsuit is among thousands of personal injury and consumer protection lawsuits filed by states, school districts and individuals against Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Song, which were Stagedo. The cases claim that social media sites have harmed children with addictive products, showing majorities in part from a legal gleebook used against Big Tobacco in the 1990s.
Our strategy has already paid off. In March, Meta and YouTube were found liable to a landmark personal injury case in California's Superior Court of Los Angeles County, where a young California woman was awarded $6 million in damages. This month, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to put damages relating nearly $5 billion in a case brought by the state attorney general for violations of consumer protection laws. The companies have settled several other cases that were headed for trial this year.
The four states state—the first in a series of federal suit cases—powers a significant legal threat to Meta after them earlier hours. If the states win, they have said, they will seek damages up, preaching $200 billion in a case for a protective violation, according to a court filing. That would be nearly 10 percent of the states' stock value of the company, which total of $1.63 trillion on Monday, according to a court filing.
Concern about social media use has measured globally, materialistic your business.
Lawyers representing California and Colorado leaving the federal courthouse to Oakland, Calif., last week. That suit charges Meta with violating federal child privacy laws.
came the first country to bar children under 16 from using social media. Since then, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and others have carried out an are considering similar rules. The European Union has month took the first step toward its own ban, which would be the largest in the world.
In the United States, lawmakers this year outstimulated the Kids Online
Safety Act, a bill that would strengthen privacy for minors and allow them to operate of algorithms features that have been claimed in competitive use in social media. States have also passed multiple laws to protect children from social media barriers.
Meta has faced the most scrutiny. In Tennessee, a trial is underway after the state attorney general charged the company with disregarding internal re-
search that found its platforms were hurting young users.
Defense costs are adding up. From April through June, Meta said, it spent more than $2 billion on legal expenses related to the social media and materials and other litigation. While that is a fraction of its $10 billion quarterly profit, thousands of similar lawsuits remain.
Meta has argued that it is being employed for challenging faced by all interest companies, such as verifying the ages of its users. Its safeguards include its biological threat feature for users 21 to 37, which makes data private by detail and restricts the ability of strangers to directly message young users, the company has said.
The company has also said the case should be thrown out because of speech protections and a federal shield. Section 1.2.2.2 of the Louisiana law for use, 1 of 1986, which protects it from liability for what is used again. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the North Circuit this month issued direct matters to dismiss the case on the up-to-date ground.
The state attorney general 'may call this a landmark case, but their limited claims are unsubstantiated and their financial demands are vastly disparaging. The state court is a likely spokeswoman, said in a statement, 'We've listened to parents, worked with experts and law enforcement and considered to depth research to understand the issues that matter more.'
The four states bringing Meta to trial in Oakland, California, Colorado, Ken-
tucky and New Jersey, were selected by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers from a group of 20 states that have used the social media system on claims that it violated federal child privacy and state consumer protection.
The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks. An eight-person advisory jury will give a recommendation to Judge Gonzalez Rogers, who will ultimately determine a verdict and damages.
The state plan to call prominent witnesses including Maria Chaf and curator, Mark Zuckerberg, is testify. The attorneys general also plan to use internal documents and interviews with current and former Meta employees to show the company successful ultrasound test results. In addition, the attorney's efforts photo effects that allow a person's appearance — contributed to compulsive use and industry among others.
The state also argued on Tuesday that the state that Meta promotes actions safety features are rarely used.
The state attorney general have asked the state to ask the company's technology to better protect young users. These include loans or athletic clothing, autopsies of control and precautions for users under the age of 16. They have also been able to use a variety of filters that can contribute to body image and mental health issues, and engagement expenses and questions that instructors in additional context.
Cecilia Kahn reported from Washington, and Dr. Jay Jones San Francisco.
8 | THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2026
BUSINESS
Clockwise from left: the main control room of the new Dungote Refinery in Lagos, Nigeria; an aircraft refueling in Lagos; and the exterior of the facility. Dungote Refinery was the world's largest single exporter of jet fuel in April and May, amid disruption in the Middle East.
Windfall for a Nigerian refinery, and its owner
DAKAR, SENEGAL
Billionaire benefits as war in Iran spurs oil buyers to find alternative supplies
BY SAURIN JARMES
Africa's wealthiest man, Aliko Dungote, is more than 60 billion in their three days, and he partly has the war in Iran to thank he his new windfall.
Mr. Dungote, 60, made much of his fortune in Nigeria by manufacturing houses, such as fuel, sugar and tobacco. Now, the engine driving his wealth is his new 620 billion oil refinery in Lagos, which has seen a spike in demand for petroleum products — both in Africa and elsewhere — there has won began in February.
Dungote having abundant crude oil, Africa still relies heavily on imported fuel. Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and tankers have choked off Russian supplies to the continent. Oil flows from Europe and the Persian Gulf have also dropped sharply since Iran closed the Strait of Horewa, which normally carries up to one-fifth of the world's oil supply.
From the fund, fertilizer and fuel have moved as a consequence, pushing some of Africa's most vulnerable populations deeper into poverty. But Mr. Dungote
and his company have been a rare exception to the rule. And his refinery, which became fully operational just weeks before the U.S. hundred Iran, is doing big business.
Jet fuel shipments from the Dungote Refinery reached the U.S. market for the first time over this year, according to the company. The Dungote Refinery was "the world's single largest exporter of jet fuel" in April and May, said Daniel Evans, a vice president of S&P Global Energy, a market research firm. Last month, the refinery was Europe's largest supplier of jet fuel and diesel, according to Devakumar Edwin, a vice president of Dungote Industries.
On Tuesday, Dungote Refinery said it had secured 61 billion in financial backing from a Dubai-based investment group to go public on the Nigerian stock exchange.
"When the war broke out, traders and governments from all around the world — especially in Africa — started calling on lot supplies," said Mr. Edwin. "The crude oil prices have gone up, but the product prices have increased a lot more."
Nearly two dozen African nations produce crude oil. But the vast majority of the continent's nearly nine million barrels a day is imported for refining. Most of the domestic refineries, the majority of these state-owned, are dormant.
Nigeria is recent years, for example, has poured several billions of dollars into rehabilitating its three state-run
Aliko Dungote at his office at the Dungote Refinery. He was already a successful businessman when he opened the facility, which became fully operational in February.
refineries. Not a single one is currently operational.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb. 26, many African nations found themselves in desperate need of petroleum products and scrambling to secure supplies.
East Africa got more than 60 percent of its refined petroleum products from the Middle East last year. By April this
year, nearly a third of the gas stations in Kenya had run dry, said Matthew Tracy's Cook, a similar analyst at Pluto. "When the Iran war broke out, the Dungote Refinery was a lifeline to buyers who previously depended on the Persian Gulf for oil products," said Mr. Tracy's Cook.
When European jet fuel import supplies were choked off by Iran, Mr. Dun-
Dungote's refinery began imparting to countries in the Mediterranean and Europe, he added. The Dungote facility has also become a key supplier of diesel and jet fuel to South Africa, a variety with other tens to him that has historically been dependent on the Middle East for its oil products, Mr. Tracy's Cook said.
Mr. Dungote's Israel the only company in Africa benefiting from the conflict. On Tagri's Atlantic coast to the Port of Lamé, West Africa's only deepwater port and one of the few in the continent.
The facility, which was built a few years ago with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment from the Mediterranean (Nugang) Company, a Swiss company, has now taken over a bigger share of the regional energy trade.
Tankers that load fuel from the Dungote refinery in Lagos sail along the West African coast to Israel, where they offload their cargo into smaller vessels for unravel delivery to markets across the continent.
"The Lamé port is one of the biggest winners from the impact of the disruptions at the Strait of Horewa," said Chum Etienne Bama, an analyst.
"Before reaching down, the few minutes that we were hanging in air at the airport, I captured images of vessels at the port," he said, recalling the crowded vista on a recent trip to Lamé. "It was like you're looking at the sky in the night," he said, seeing "in many stars."
At home in Nigeria, Mr. Dungote has long been criticized as a monopolist and
he has come under even more intense scrutiny since fully opening his refinery. Nigerians had hoped that the refinery would end their refinery an imported fuel and bring down costs. The fuel prices in Nigeria have only surged.
And, in my own, a human rights lawyer who describes himself as one of the few people in Nigeria willing to criticize Mr. Dungote publicly, said the billionaire has under influence on the government and benefits from favorable treatment.
"The Dungote Refinery was a lifeline to buyers who previously depended on the Persian Gulf for oil products."
Mr. Dungote has long accused the Nigerian government of choking the flow of crude oil, allowing regulators to maintain their grip on Nigeria's oil business. Regulators have denied any wrongdoing.
Banged by his latest windfall, Mr. Dungote is seeking to double the production capacity at his refinery, said Mr. Edwin at Dungote Industries.
Earlier this month, President William Bate of Kenya confirmed an agreement with Mr. Dungote to establish a 137 billion refinery in Kenya. The company plans to build a pipeline that will cut across 11 African countries, said Mr. Edwin.
"We will supply Africa," he said.
How a U.S. oil-drilling project is shaking up Greenland
GREENLAND, FROM PAGE 7
Arctic resource dreams. But oil has never been easy.
Chevrons and Shell prospected decades ago with no success. It's incredibly expensive to build an oil industry from scratch it was of the most remote and inhospitalable places on the planet. Most of Greenland is covered in ice. One major U.S. company, ABCG, decades ago sunk today's equivalent of $250 million — far more than one, $40 million after current players have raised — into seismic studies in the same area, only to abandon the project.
"There are so many red flags here," said Nanja Nallamishen, Greenland's former minister of natural resources and now a representative in Denmark's Parliament. She says she hasn't seen any hard-data supporting the project's tantalizing claims, adding, "I think they are selling hot air."
Not so, say the backers of the project, a joint venture between Greenland Energy, the small, publicly traded U.S. company that raised the money, said Mr. Mei Wu, a British credit that acquired the drilling business several years ago.
Roderick McElroe, 80 Miles executive director and a board member of Greenland Energy, said this stretch of Greenland had the same gattings as the North Sea oil fields, where European countries have extracted billions of barrels. And climate change is working in their favor, he said.
Returning temperatures mean less ice clogging Greenland's coast, making any oil discovered changes to support that it would have become more natural and safe.
One investor in the Chubb hedge fund, run by the investment chair Ken Griffin, said the Trump administration fully supports the project.
Vernacular build the reporting two million barrels of oil a day," said Governor Landry. Mr. Trump's special envoy to Greenland, in a Fox News interview in May, He added, "Think about what
kind of pressure that would relieve in the shrubs of Horewa."
Before the project is allowed to start, its plans, including a detailed environmental assessment, must be approved. But the organizers have been moving ahead anyway and recently carried out two disputed equipment transfers.
First, they brought in a barge of equipment from another part of Greenland on what authorities said was an expired permit. Jorgen Hanneken-Halm, the head of Greenland's mineral re-
sources department, called the move "roughly, roughly."
Then, a few days later, they unloaded another piece of heavy equipment without proper notification, the authorities said.
"We have the police and the military," Mr. Hanneken-Halm warned. "They can assist in dealing with unlawful activities if necessary."
Mr. McElroe, the 80 Mile executive, admitted, "We kind of will down." He said the company apologized to Greenland's officials.
The potentially oil-rich area, known as Jameson Land, is a highly protected environmental zone, an Arctic swamp land of zero, home to conscious shrubs and mocks in, forest and migrating birds like the pink-footed geese. The mocks in is prized for its mace and its fur, which is turned into a luxurious yarn.
All this has attracted Dr. Phil, who did a recent treatment produce on the project. He titled the episode "Frozen Gold," and according to documents on Greenland Energy's website, the company has established "a wide-ranging
Haf, Swiss including mocks so far as sale in Nauk, Greenland. The natural farm in Greenland targeted for an oil-drilling project is home to mocks on, which is prized for its mace and fur. Above, Dr. Phil McLean, at left, an American TV personality, has a "wide-ranging partnership" with the company behind the oil-drilling project.
partnership" with him to make a sin-splendid series on "this modern-day treasure hunt."
His company did not respond to requests for comment about his involvement in the project. But on his podcast, Dr. Phil said he would soon head to the Arctic.
"I'm going to have to mug a kitten and get some mittens because I'm going to go up there and see this firsthand," he said.
Hungarianensis (Frederick-7/08/2007), population 226, is trying to make sense of what's happening. This spring, members of the local council seemed ready to negotiate and drafted a list of things they wanted from the oil company: a heated community pool, new hunting cabins and funding for resi-
denies to fly over Jameson Land in helicopters one last time before their hunting grounds were turned into an industrial site.
But the public meeting in June changed the mood.
Mr. McElroe conceded that the team that led the meeting didn't show enough respect.
"They forgot where house they were in," he said.
Still, some residents support the project. Aage Gugi Pike Barnequon, a construction worker, said in a telephone interview that Hungarianensis desperately needed jobs.
"You have to think about the future and the money," he explained. "Maybe Greenland could become like Dubai. That's my dream."
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026 | 9
Opinion
The new physics of power
It doesn't take much for small powers to gain a big advantage over the powerful.
Thomas L. Friedman
If I were writing a book about the U.S. war with Iran, I know exactly what the title would be. In small the President Trump's social media post of April 5, 2026, directed at the leaders of Iran: "Open the [suppliers] [tires], you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!"
Wars are a crucible that very often exposes changes in the physics of the world around us — who has power, who doesn't have power and how power is being wielded. Nothing better captures the new power equation produced by this war than Trump's unhinged and obscene cast at the Iranian leadership for not heading to his homes.
This new physics of war is equally present in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Hezbollah and Israel, Hamas and Israel and the Houthis and everyone else. My summary of this new dynamic to face the small canvass art really big, really accurately and really inexpensively. And while the big can also act really small, really accurately, it is far more expensive for them to derhast while bearing the burden of vast legacy seven systems.
The net advantage, for the moment, seems to be to the small. That should keep you up in sight, when you think how the emerging revolution in artificial intelligence will surely supercharge this trend, enabling the small to act even bigger, mightier and less expensively.
It's not surprising that Trump is frustrated. After all, on March 31, less than two weeks after he and Israel started this latest beat of war with Iran with a large-scale bombing campaign, Trump declared: "We've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won, so the first hour it was over. But we won."
He was right about one thing. Never say you won too early.
Trump didn't realize that the Iranian government was as a say to when this war is won and lost. More important, and unlike Trump, Tehran had a Plan B for the morning after: one in newfound ability to act big, accurately and cheaply to enter control of the Strait of Marines — even though its military was a small fraction of the size of America's and had been held by a monarch.
I wish I could take delight in seeing this pentagon, mermaintic, constantly liberating president humbled by reality. But I truly do not — because this is getting scary. And it is going to get worse. The Iranians have inflicted real harm on America — on the battlefield and on our economy — the scale of which Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hogarth have been taking.
Iran has been under economic sanctions, as and all, since 1979. Yet it has managed to develop an arsenal of sophisticated but relatively inexpensive missiles and drones that has enabled it to fight both Israel and the United States to something of a drive — and do some significant damage to American military assists in the region along the way. Consider just a few stories that you may not have noticed.
The reason the main U.S. aircraft carries in the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, has sometimes run low on supplies to sustain its almost 3,500-person complement to that after the first day of the war, Iranian missiles and attack drones destroyed much of the U.S. supply base in Bahrain. "In it went up to make, so did a major bigotist that that the Navy has rolled us far decades," The Times reported. This forced Trump and the even more using Hogarth to increase reliance on a base under British command on the island of Shiga-Gaerza and to supply bulk, which is roughly 2,700 miles from Bahrain. How was the Bahrain base so unproached against Iranian missiles on the first day
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of the war? If that is not worth leading Hogarth before Congress, I don't know what is.
Or maybe you missed this story in the journal Defense Security Asia commenting on a CNY report that sometime in the early days of March, an Iranian missile destroyed a 2500 million radar vital to running a TRAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) salvaged outside defense system at Muvaffaqi babi Air Base in Jordan. The attack signaled "a potentially transformative moment" in the "strategic context" between Iran and the United States and Israel, the journal said.
A senior Jordanian official told me he was stunned to hear what the Iranian missiles've managed to send their missile at the TRAAD's radar system for maneuvering it — to fight — towards a flanking attack on the radar and evade detection and interception. This was against the most sophisticated antiemisole system in the U.S. arsenal!
John Ampalla, professor emeritus of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Post graduate School, explained to me that missile warfare is no longer just a matter of living off a warhead on a predictable trajectory and thus letting inertia and GPS smart guidance systems lead it to the target. The Russians have focused on a team resources on building missiles with midflight maneuverability, guided by better real-time information, increasingly propelled at hyperemic speeds, and capable of arriving from an angle a defender has not anticipated. Iran's Fattah missiles reportedly have such capabilities, although it is still not clear whether they or drones took out the TRAAD-589 miles from Iran.
"This is making the missile the pre-eminent weapon of the 21st century, with the potential to undermine deterrence and stability" in many different kinds of battles, said Ampalla, the author of the new book "The Troubled
America: Way of War: From Hiroshima to the Age of Algorithms."
China has been deploying maneuverable hyperالمصدرs DF-17 missiles for several years now in its free-fire exercises in Chinese waters near Taiwan.
On March 31, two one-way attack drones struck the U.S. Embassy compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at about 1:30 a.m. The first drone flew straight into the floor housing the U.S.A. station at the Riyadh embassy: the second drone flew directly into the entry hole created by the first, causing an extensive blast and a fire that burned for hours. Later reports suggested this
Iranian attack may have been aided by Russian satellites intelligence provided by Vladimir Putin. Trump has seemingly done nothing about that.
For generations, Ampalla noted, stars were "wax by mass and energy." Warfare followed a simple physical
law. The more distance you fired your projectile, the less accurate it was. So, distance had to be overcome "with mass and energy" Not today: "Now wars are way by information," said Ampalla.
And even the little guy is now here, access to it. You just have to look at how Hezbollah has inflicted significant harm on Israeli communities and the Israeli Army, with its huge U.S.-made military platforms. Now badly Ukraine has bleeded a big bad Russia; and how Iran is fighting the United States and Israel to a maltreatment in our own weapons, precision weapons buildable in a basement workshop with components that can be found on Amazon have severed the skill but between range and accuracy.
Ukraine, Ampalla added, "has become a sea power without a traditional navy. It has used drone boats and armed Jet Skin" to push Russia's conventional Black Sea fleet far enough away from Ukraine's coastline so it can keep expelling its grain and fertilizer to world markets.
These new technologies allow "the many and the small" — Iranians, Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas — "to slip the heavy punches of their opponents, because they are well hidden and can strike back with accurate blows of their own," Ampalla said. The U.S. military, meanwhile, has just 15 big leadership divisions and 11 carrier groups.
That is why defenders can have a real advantage over attackers, Ampalla concluded. Trump and Hogarth kept he using on "scaling up the war"
— adding more tempo and more tonnage — and the Iranians focused on "scaling out the war," hitting small units with precision missiles in more places and attacking U.S. bases and Arab oil facilities all over the Gulf.
"Their jobs in our two long enough to them and scum. On land, a few big formations of Abrams tanks matter less than the many and the small with cheap weapons they can build and modify in a week," Ampalla said.
These new weapons amplify another advantage the small have ever the big. They don't have to win. They just have to avoid losing. We have to win, and the war, go home and never look back. Good luck with that now.
Before the Iranians and Hezbollah get too smug, though, they should remember the other half of my equation: While the small can now act really big, the big can now act really small. On the first day of the war, Israeli airstrikes with precision weapons — aided by U.S. intelligence — killed over 40 senior Iranian leaders gathered in a high-level leadership meeting in a single compound in Tehran. In
other words, with precise information, Israel wiped out much of real continual security who will one shot.
And then there was the Israeli-paper attack on Hezbollah. On Sept. 17 and 18, 2024, Israel detonated the pagers and other hand-held electronic devices used by Hezbollah members, fighters, officers, medics and civilian supporters. Killing drones of people and wounding some 1,000 others. An estimated 1,000 Hezbollah fighters were reportedly put out of action because of injuries, mostly affecting their hands, faces and hips. Using a relatively small quantity of explosives and a huge dollop of information, Israel killed and wounded a significant number of Hezbollah fighters in a few hours.
The U.S.-Israel Straniet attack on Iran's Hamas enrichment facility that began in 2009 was another version of this. Instead of bending the facility, the United States and Israel inserted a small computer worm — a few lines of code — to disable a big number of Iran's 90-crest fingers, though the centrifuges were quickly replaced and the disruption was ultimately minimal. (The United States and Israel have never acknowledged responsibly for the virus.) That was the big acting small, using joint malware, but you can bet that the development of that code, and the whole joint operation, cost a lot of money.
What is truly alarming today is how easy it is becoming for the small to act big — and by "small," I don't just mean no one, but always go. A teenager with a laptop, a Scottish canine him and an open weight A.I. model can now disrupt a municipal water or power system by identifying and exploiting old software vulnerabilities.
So don't be surprised if one day soon you hear your mayor sounding like. Trump: "Turn my water back on, you crazy ..."
A vessel carrying Ukrainian grain in Istanbul, Ukraine has used drone boats and armed Jet Skin to push Russia's Black Sea fleet far enough away from Ukraine's coastline so it can export its grain to world markets.
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has sometimes run low on supplies to sustain its almost 3,500-person complement. After the first day of the war, Iranian missiles and drones destroyed much of a supply base in Bahrain.
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OPINION
The New York Times
LONDON (WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26)
A.S. HILBERGER Publisher
JOHNNY BAKER Executive Editor
MARY LIEFF, Managing Editor
JOHN R. RIEHL Managing Editor SUZANNE BAKER Executive Editor
KATHLEEN BISHOP Patterson Editor
BERNARD HUBERT EDITOR Chief Executive Officer
BRENDA JACOBSON Executive Director
BELEN HARRIS Executive Director
SUSANNE PANDREY Executive Director
Yes, Woke 1.0 was crazy. Where's the accountability?
Bret Stephens
It's all but official.
'Woke 1.0 was crazy.' Alexandria Ocean-Corley said this month, quoting a call of New York City committee, Given the congresswoman's own record – the previously received that some groups 'have no choice but to rise,' called for debunking the police and 'prison attention' and used the demeaning term 'nominating person' to describe a woman – the crazy that she speaks of was also her own. Given the A.S.U. for acknowledging that 'we have not yet have some accountability for the vast damage that Woke 1.0 continues to do!'
Wokeness, as it commonly came to the known of the sort of this decade, wasn't just an Oweditas linguistic fad or a tedious set of corporate training sessions to rafted a sensitivity to
woke's system of enforced ideological conformity, protected by social bullying and institutional coercion. The most common sense of the world's system of enforced ideological conformity, pellucid by social bullying and institutional coercion, is the moral, world's daily, night and sometimes even small reputations, careers and at least one story life. Restitution, it only is the form of honest contrition and perhaps even a public apology, in its order.
Restitution, it only is the form of honest contrition and perhaps even a public apology, in its order.
Restitution, for instance, for the Wischowork, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who is 2020 had to resign from his job and since a growing apology for the era of running an article by the paper's architecture critic with the headline 'thrddings' history. 'Ian' Restitution for Mike Peron, the host of a popular podcast, 'The God,' who was suspended indefinitely from his job as Egan for making a case, in an interoffice hack and birth, that it may sometimes be permissible for a non-Black person to quote a racial diet in narrow contexts. Restitution, yes, for James Bonnet, a former editor of The Times's Opinion section, who was bound from his job after the publication of a controversial guest essay by Tom Cotton, a Republican senator.
Restitution for authors, like our friend Richard North Sherman, who has At New York Times best others to his name. When he writes a novel that dealt with racial discrimination and had a Black woman as a budding (and wholly sympathetic) character, roughly 30 major imprints reported it,
with several making it clear it was because he was white. Restitution for every, aspiring young fiction writer, with the midfielms of being white and male and therefore quietly but efficiently cut out of the game of literary prizes and publication opportunities. As Jacob Savage noted last year, the Compact magazine, his research found that at the time, 'not a single white American man hews after 1864 had published a week of literary fiction in The New Yorker.'
Restitution, also, is academic. For Jason Bittens, a University of Illinois, Chicago, law professor, who was barred from campus and placed on admission-jorn leave after he had used the first letter of two stars in his civil procedure series, an official the Black Law Students Association described as 'mental terrorism.' For Ilya Shapiro, a legal scholar about to start a position at Georgetown Law School, who had to reduce a 125-day university inquest for the crime of a clumsy tweet betraying a conservative restrictive. For Carole Stevens, who was not mailed out of that vast after a 7.5' appearance in which she said that the terms 'male' and 'female' were scientifically essential even as she insisted that 'facts about biology' shouldn't 'prevent or from treating people with respect.'
Restitution for the hightin men who get caught up in a 14k/line near that state—an idolastine Stevens Barney Wrenn, a highly predilection and humblest romantic advances or unsatisfying buddies. The comedian, data-based, was the most reliable 'whole of life,' for a fierce of public humiliation, but there are many others, without influence or deep pockets, whose lives were permanently scorned in situations where accusations alone were viewed as sufficient to establish guilt and exact professional consequences.
Restitution, not local, for the diversity victims of Woke 1.0 – sometimes literally as Emmanuel Cafferty, an employee for San Diego Sun and Electric, was fired from his job when he was pictured with his acts hanging out of the window with his fingers behind a what appeared in be an 'US', picture, which the Students Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Inflammation League have called a called symbol of white supremacy. Mr. Cafferty, who is Hispanic, insisted he had merely been crashing his brand.
Certain readers of this column will be weighed to reject that all this is old history; he is the Red Scare of the 1950s, but that's no reason to lodge: about 20,000 readers may say that what President Trump and his allies are doing is just as bad as Woke 1.0 or far worse. I've denounced them, too, but that's pure a blackmailman.
If liberals want to be serious about standing up for liberty, they have a particular obligation to acknowledge and reject the élites/bless that swept so much of the bill to mount years. Any politics of moral certitude and promiscuous denomination – whether it comes from MUCU on the right or wakeness on the left – isn't just unfit for a free society.
It's crazy.
WEEKLY, AUGUST 26, 2020
These protesters were charged with terrorism. Who's next?
Rosina Ali
Earlier this summer, a federal judge sentenced a group of eight anti-ICE interiors to a collective 420 years in prison after what has become the first 'two case' for the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activists.
The government's case is built on events that occurred in front of the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, on the Fourth of July last year. That night, activities set off forwards as part of a rabid demonstration to show solidarity with the people detained inside. Then a few separated from the group, vandalising cars, slanting tires on a government van and breaking a surveillance camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and pushed his weapon, one of the demonstrators, Benjamin Song, fired an AIA 13-style rifle, injuring the officer to the neck.
The government referred to the group of demonstrators as a 'Northeast Texas antifa cell,' suggesting the activists were part of a coordinated effort to commit a terrorist attack on the ICE facility.
What Mr. Song and the others did that eight are crimes, to be sure. Mr. Song injured a police officer. State damage/federal property, all of them were convicted then. But their signs advection who worked the case expected those protesters to get containers of a handful of years. Instead, even people on the problem of the crime – whose worst official was spray-painting a guard post – got anywhere from 30 to 70 years in prison.
The decades-long sentences in the Prairieland case were only possible because prosecutors brought forth an unusual charge: 'material support' for terrorism. This law, which has been used to prosecute primarily. Studies in the years after ICI, is being broadly applied under the Trump administration against people involved. Trong the case, the police political memoir, Who and what constitutes 'terrorism' could have forced implications for our civil liberties, If Mr. Trump's statements are very unknown, what happened at Prairieland is not likely to be an isolated incident.
The law that prosecutes material support in terrorism, created in 1964 and expanded two years later in the wake of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, is two people's one part prosecutor support for a terrorist organization and the second prosecutor support for specific acts of terrorism. Both cases with lengthy insistence sentences and a possibility of a lifetime in prison. But what could constitute 'support' is an ambiguous that, shortly after the law was created, it had unbiased even senior government officials. During an interagency background briefing, one Clinton administration official was dered it even 'ED if don't to a group could count as material support.
AS IT TURNED OUT, prosecutions for small donations and increasingly vague definitions of support would happen in a few years. In the aftermath of the attack of ICI, prosecutors accused hundreds of people of supporting terrorism this was 'high cost for terrorism.' The law was only thing from translating a magazine to even offering convenient alternatives to a militant group. It did not matter if the defendant directly helped carry out an assault or betrayal on a terrorist organization. They could be prosecuted as if they were.
The great ICI years' work is that of a single-minded effort to quash threats of Islamic terrorism before an attack could be carried out. But the ambiguity of the law, in particular its focus on prevention, made the issue of support mature (eye for abuse by overtrashes) prosecutors. Take the case at a Kentish team in Albany, N.Y., named Yonim Aref, who was arrested in 2004
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and charged with both parts of the material support law.
Prosecutors alleged that Mr. Aref witnessed a man (who turned out to be a government informant) 'hast' many of a member of Aref's mosque. The informant fabricated a story, telling Mr. Aref and the man that he had acquired the funds he was offering them by selling ammunition to a terrorist group that was planning to assassinate a Pakistani enemy. Mr. Aref mailed along with the vague details of the informant's tale, and in keeping with Islamic customs of money-binding, agreed to witness the loan. According to prosecutors, that
was enough to show his support for terrorism, a crime of which Mr. Aref was eventually convicted, serving 25 years in prison. A Human Rights Watch report later highlighted Mr. Aref's case as one of many showing dubious uses of antiterrorism laws.
Mr. Aref's case was not a bias on ample. In these years, law enforcement swept through Muslim communities, granting young tens – including those with no criminal record – sexual-looking statements in support of terrorist plots, then slapping them with material support charges. Of the nearly 1,000 individuals prosecuted by the United States on charges of international terrorism after ICI, more than half were convicted of material support for terrorism, including cases when an act of violence occurred.
An Albany Times Union columnist who was following Mr. Aref's trial at the time wrote, 'Sinonday we'll look back on the present national paranoia over terrorism and the recession done in its centre with the same national embarrassment that Americans have for human law McCarthy's communist witch husts of the 1950s and our appalling treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.'
TWENTY YEARS LATER, the witch hunt appears to have only expanded, albeit with a different political form. Last September, two months after the demonstration at the Prairieland ICE Detention Centre Kirk, was assassinated. After the months, the president's adverse 'fireplace fifties' described left-wing political organizations as a 'vast domestic terror movement.'
Whole time, Mr. Trump issued a memo delivering the F.B.I. Astar Task Terrorism Force – a network as a panel in the aftermath of ICI – to investigate and disrupt 'domestic terrorism' and political violence. He also signed an executive order designating an ICI as a 'domestic terror organization,' describing it as a 'real taint, anarchist enterprise that originally calls for the overthrow of the United States government.' But an ICI, short for 'antifascist,' is a borderline political movement composed of disparate strategies and aims.
The U.S. government has no legal designation for 'domestic terrorism groups.' Yet even when it is just talk, the Trump administration's use of the term had an impact on the Prairieland case. In the original indictment, it found it, July 2020, prosecutors had not levied any charges of material support for terrorism. By November, after filing two rounds of indictments, prosecutors charged all eight defendants with the crime.
As a deeply reported Texas Monthly story detailed, the Prairieland defendants were hardly members of a cohesive terrorist cell. Some were part of a Signal that that was used to plan the demonstration. Several of them were attached to various organizations, like the Detocratic Socialists of America and an unincorporated reading group.
Even if one made them more consolation as proof of a coordinated attempt, legal experts told me it would not rise to a terrorism charge. The demonstrators were already involved in a scandal of terror charges after their arrest, including attempted murder. Life Song would be convicted of attempted murder; the other four defendants charged
with it were acquitted.) But the material support charge allows the court to impose some of the hardest sentencing in its legal arsenal. 'It's an act of judicial terrorism, designed to keep people there working to protect,' Mexican Kahlak, a senior attorney for the Center of Constitutional Rights who has worked on material support cases, told me.
This law has not only been used against individuals; prosecutors have also turned it against nonprofits, ultimately shutting down a major Muslim charity and complicating the work of others. 'Over-terrorism laws are in place, they are hard to roll back.' Kathryn Timmonsen, a lawyer who has helped charities in each cases, told me 'I'm one wants to be once as 'with no terror.' But, she pointed out, the danger of the law being so 'overhead and unchecked' is that it can be manipulated.
We're already beginning to use the Trump administration building on such precedents. In the aftermath of Mr. Kirk's murder last year, the White House called for investigations of liberal foundations and donors, like the philanthropist George Yates and the businessman Reid Hoffman, for their role in what they claim is depositing political violence (read: financing liberal nonprofits). The Justice Department instructed federal prosecutors to explore possible charges against the Select's Open Society Foundations, including underwriting, wire fixed and material support for terrorism.
It could well get worse from him: 'The label of 'terrorism' is a powerful political tool.' India Khalid, a lawyer representing one of the Prairieland defendants, told me. For the last two decades, the 'terrorism' charge was leveled almost exclusively at a religious activity, taking some into believing that such laws would not affect them. Now, the domestic use of the terrorism charge threatens to cast its net even wider.
ROSINA ALI is a journalist who covers conflict, Cosmopolitan and immigration. She is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
FROM READERS
The meaning of morality and Nation's Odyssey
Re 'Nolan built a different Trojan horse,' by Erica Klein (column, Aug. 5). 'Erica Klein credits the director Christopher Nolan with smuggling Judeo-Christian others into his film version of The Odyssey,' is the guide of Christian. But Mr. Nolan has said otherwise – in a recent interview with the Christian podcaster Zheng Shiu, he traces the libels moral over to కాదు. Re: Homero Senghata (year), and denies any deliberate Christianity. He is right to do so.
Zeus Sereias, an aspect of Zeus that demands hospitality in strangers, is not a Christian add-on. It existed long
before Christianity existed. And the reciprocity principle Mr. Klein credits to Judeo-Christian misers – like the Old Testament book of Leviticus, the New Testament Society of Maritim and the first century B.C.E. Kathryn Hiller, who up to the week of Confucius five centuries earlier, and again in Buddhism, Hindu, the Islamic texts.
Re Klein isn't wrong that the Golden Rule matters, so that the modern right has discarded it. But crediting Mr. Nolan with 'smuggling' is in front Judeo-Christian tradition is its own single of hand, enlisting a director's film for an argument the director says he never made.
DAVID PRELLIPS, ARITHMETIC
Wherever I made 'The Odyssey' in my world literature class, my college students often begin building as I explain the requirements of కాదు.
The presence of inviting strangers in and ending from a common to a home, they say – meaning back is Egypt or Iran or India or Nepal.
I experienced this role of good friendship myself as a young Canadian master in Bhutan in the 1950s. I'll stumble into a village, just on my way home, and a family would bring me in, or me in their best cases, such me a meal and give me a gift as I was leaving.
So I don't think that Christopher Nolan's take on, కాదు in his film is particularly Christian.
The belief that a good single in a god in disguise was just one reason to trust strangers with kindness. Seem me, to fact, reciprocal. The guard's duty, upon leaving, was to offer the same hospitality to others. I think I need a to other strangers in the future.
There's a sense in 'The God' in which a Greek and a Trojan refuse to fight each other when they realize their possibilities. And more bound by the law of good friendship: they exchange armed instead.
Seem could not stop the war and it had started, but this tiny instance reminds us of how it might have been averted.
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OPINION
How to hear your daughter when everything is 'toxic'
Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell
Several years ago, I started enticing something new when teenage girls or young women come to my office for their first psychiatric sessions. Patients used to dread being told that there was something, as they saw it wrong with them. Now these young women were announcing their diagnoses — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression — almost before telling me their names.
They had researched their symptoms on Instagram; they'd taken TikTok quizzes about them; they had cross-hatched their conditions with those of their friends. It was everyone — grand-voiced film majors and earnest high school athletes; class presidents and girls who skipped school, girls who spent weekends in the Hamptons and girls who had to work for their spending money. The patients of this new wave were talking to therapy-speak, and their therapy hadn't even started.
The physician part of me would instantly start thinking through an alphabet snap of treatments for the conditions these girls were reporting — D.B.T., C.B.T. and E.M.D.R. and medications to go with each.
Another part of me — the parent, the Sennal — would struggle to suppress an inner eye still. If you're a parent of an adolescent girl, you might have experienced your own version of these two reactions: either terror for your daughter's psychological well-being or alienation from all the targets. You might have even tried to convince your daughter that everything was fine. None of these responses are on up to hear what these girls and young women are trying to say.
The more listening to girls every day for years, and I've learned a few things that can help parents, therapists and anyone else who struggle to communicate with young women as they describe some story of distress.
If starts with accepting that diagnosis works very function differently for those young women from the way they do for others. They are not necessarily called to talk, attitude, vision, yoked to specific evidence-based treatments. Instead, research environ-
ingly reveals these words are often a coping mechanism, an often to find some accepted narrative in which to situate one's very personal pain. We should try to hear them that way. We should take the therapy-speak, to borrow an expression, seriously but not literally.
One girl told me she had assigned herself a diagnosis of depression, which she later acknowledged she thought she'd take me out about her. Another girl was stuck on an A.D.R.D. diagnosis, mostly because it made her feel less alone by connecting her to a usual and vibrant online community.
Several young women insisted they fit the clinical definition for anxiety, because it was less scary to blame an inherent fear in their brains than to explore the causes of their very real discomfort — which turned out to be a
To find young women's therapy-speak free breastfeeding take it seriously — not literally
whatever felt like 'free-tooth' about her, allowing her to make what she thought was the teenage female's highest college in the child.
In some cases, my parents' self-diagnoses were spot on. In many others, however, the psychiatric label seemed more like a compromise between uncomfortable feelings and the desire for social acceptance. Are these labels a scare of strength or a strain-juice? Are they helping young women find help and acceptance or standing in the way? The answer isn't so simple.
Advented girls and young women aren't the only ones reaching for therapy-speak, of course. According to some measures, 20 percent of Gen Z-ers have labeled themselves with mental health conditions, and illness identities have taken hold of young people, both online and off. But girls are by far the primary drivers of this trend. They are the main group looking up health information online, talking about their feelings and relationships and seeking labels for their's wrong. They are also the demographics with the worst mental health profile. I think the association with young women, a
group so often dismissed as frivolous, is a big part of why therapy-speak is regarded as a sign of weakness and self-ambiguous.
As for therapists, we think about psychiatric diagnosis a lot less than you might imagine. That's partly because categories in our field need to be more flexible than those in other areas of medicine. Classifications often evolve and change over time, espe-
cially for young people and most of all for young women. Besides, no two people experience these conditions in exactly the same way. So we always have to try to understand the person first.
Therapy-speak — leading with diagnostic language, applying labels to actual or describing feelings — can make that hard. It can leave friends and loved ones feeling they have so
ability to help, so though they've got to back off and let the professionals do their thing. And I can start circuit a young person's already difficult progress of self-discovery.
To be clear, I'd still rather live in a world where everyone talks about trauma one much than one where you'd get shaved in a locker for being different. Ideally, we should create an environment in which girls can stop blame-
ing their own brains for every problem and where they don't feel they have to be sick to be heard. Until they have access to a more nuanced lexicon of human troubles, however, we need to listen differently.
Small acts of translation can help. Someone who says she has A.D.R.D. may or may not fit the clinical definition, but she's probably telling you she feels scattered, overwhelmed or afraid she's a mess. If someone says she has a family, you can be pretty sure she's nervous, anxiety or unsure of herself. If the word 'depressed' breaks you out, consider instead why the person using it hurts hopeless, lonely or in despair.
If you're able of hearing every classroom, remember or to described as 'toxic,' look apart the child and, whether they are in a small or de-scribe. Whatever works, gently offer that less loved meaning back to her — not to the same person — for us to understand them. Not to see if she really has a particular diagnosis but to see what's going on beneath it.
This kind of translation is a quiet process for the children to be, show up, the energy you bring. With teenagers, that's always half the battle. Being too reactive makes it about you and your fears. Being too quick to reassure can make you seem you don't understand the seriousness of her concerns. Searching beneath the buzzwords for what she's really telling you avoids both pitfalls.
Ultimately, translation is an exercise in empathy, in jumping out of the limits of your own perspective. Making that effort is a powerful way to help another person feel better.
Language can illuminate certain parts of the truth while obscuring others. Perhaps that's why it is believed that Claude Monet said that in order to see a thing, we must forget its name. Someone users might have been getting at something similar when they came up with the bathing « Les/Normalise/Not/Lifting/Women-Crazy. When it comes to therapy-speak — whether it's used in my office or in your house — this kind of translation is an important first step.
SUZANNE GARFINKLE-CROWELL, a psychiatrist, is the author of the forthcoming 'Criminal, Translated: Understanding Young Women in the Age of Therapy (Speak and Self-Diagnosis)'
A rush to pin a death on the media
COLLISBURG, FRANK PAGE 1 DANIEL R. RENDL The head of a Cambridge college called for an official inquiry into the 'media-mislaught.' Important British progressors, including Zach Polanski, leader of the Green Party, and several Labour M.P.s, signed an open letter demanding some sort of official oversight of journalistic decision-making. 'Self-regulation of the press has comprehensively failed,' it said. The writer Will Self called, to an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, for the policy to begin 'ex-pounding computers,' presumably belonging to people involved in covering the scandal.
I have pressing for new controls on the press are making a serious mistake. Some who once championed today seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credibility, and it is unlikely to work. A deep resentment of both growing societal diversity and bureaucratic diversity initiatives, or D.B.T., both the right, it's why Arthur's story was such a snap to the conservative press. But heavy-handed progressive attempts to trifle questions about these initiatives — to use institutional power to police the boundaries of public discourse about race, gender and religion — have a way of making that resentment even more politically proven.
That's what happened in America, where a ferocious cultural backlash — much of a involving comparison of the wing environment — helped spawn the nightmare of Donald Trump's second presidency, and it could happen in Britain, where Nigel Parage had been the Reborn U.K. party in amassing frightening strength. This is a particularly bad moment to let the right claim the mantle of free speech. Like most of Europe, Britain tends to have a less absolutist attitude toward
Jason Arday at the London Olympics in 2012. Cambridge's youngest-ever Black professor was found dead as Friday to what was widely assumed to be a suicide.
free speech than America does, so the idea of increasing public regulation might appear less threatening them. Still, recent American experience touches that any limits on speech countenanced by the left will be turned against leftists a handwifield when the right is in power.
America is now slit with laws banning lenoans about race and gender that cause 'preventing all distress' to deem most groups. When you're in a country where leader is trying to regulate the press into object submission, it's easy to see why it's dangerous to justify more state oversight of the media.
There's no doubt that the press coverage of the Arday affair was ugly and overwhelming. But the high doesn't just lie with capricious yellow journalists. It also belongs to the institutions, Cam-
bridge chief among them, that elevated Arday while ignoring obvious signs that he was a labeled. (As The New York Times has reported, his 'supposedly remarkable trajectory from nonverbal protests to Ph.D. had he prevailed in medical literature,' and turned out to be serious.)
Cambridge hired Arday — from a pool of finalists that included two more serious women of color — as a comment when it was losing persistent questions about Black under-representations. Handsome and charismatic, as intellectual literator Alger, he offered the university a F.R. coup.
Many of the people who didn't better questioning Arday's backstory should have known better: 'a little-thick' ever-lagle looks less like respect than condemnation, as if no one took him seriously enough to think hard about what he was saying. 'Arday was treated out as a scholar but as a master,' Jesus (the whole wrote in the left reading Guardian.
In retrospect, it would have been much better for all concerned if the story of his scholarly translation of biographical or evidence was chosen in a careful, professional order like Timm Higher Education, instead of deserving until it turned into a right-wing parable. Culture's article cuts beyond a particular level of being being fed just because it seemed to show evidence of plagiarism and falsehood, but also because it claimed there'd been a cover-up, and cover-spread to drive reporters wild.
For people on the left, it's sure easier to talk about the feral recession of the right-wing press than the willful gullibility of certain elite progressives, that both contributed to the Arday disaster. Damping that won't protect the left, it will just leave leftists out as a dash that grows ever more shady.
Tributes to Arday outside Jesus College at the University of Cambridge in England. The head of a Cambridge college has called for an inquiry into the 'media-mislaught.'
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STYLE
It's blue, but choose a name
Identifying the trendy shade depends on whom you ask
This very particular shade of blue has been showing up on runways, in the collections of independent designers and on people on the street.
BY ANNABEL NUGENT
On the internet and in the streets, people are struck in blue.
It's not quite turquoise or aquamarine. It's deeper than zebra's egg and leader than cornflower. This blue brings to mind the human lies and the works of David Mackney, as much as it does antitheon and inter-menitheon.
"It's this searing, kind of psychotic blue," said Louis Samsonets, a fashion writer (and occasional New York Times contributor) who was an early proponent of the trend.
Samsonets's herouses toil and cyan, the exact hair can be hard to define—which may account for the slippery way the tail is manifesting online where, according to Google sources, searches for "aqua blue dress," "aquamarine dressed" and "turquoise top" have all risen this year. (Google like it! Group's speech in "The Devil Wears Prada," no longer known exactly as contests term for blue.)
It is ringed up on recent runways for Prada, Tory Burch, Drive Van Sones, Hackney and Colton, where the shade has been seen appeared alongside a spectrum of other blues. This season's collection by independent brands, such as Paloma Wool, are similarly swimming in it.
Color trends can be dubious. Depend-
ing who you ask, it's still the time of "a pop of red." The online platform Business of Fashion recently declared, "I/lan is beauty's new sash." But an compared with recent trending colors, such as hanguely and better yellow — a new boy shades ready to be absorbed into the palette of quiet luxury, the face of the moment total to be more saturated and cheerful.
The color family "has repeatedly resurfaced during periods when fashion has embraced optimism, innovation and cultural change," said Sara Maggioni, the head of women's wear at the trend-forecasting firm WUDN. In the 1940s, for
instance: "It echoed the optimistic palette of Space Age and steel fashion."
Cleo Camp, the Los Angeles designer, was an early adoptive of this particular shade. In a collaboration with Samsonets at October, Camp released a special edition of her best-selling Cleo on its color they called splash.
The women had been in need of vacations when the color came to them, Cleo recalled. The 1990s are ads for business resorts, the all-adult destinations featuring crystal-clear beaches and swimming pools, had been one source of inspiration.
Also indelible was a blue silk Gucci
shirt worn by Madness in the MTV Video Music Awards in 1995. The year Cinoctoy Love there a makeup compact at her! Samsonets said.
"The color felt held while the two lookers around in the sun of the market. Would it just well with the more muted tones that many were gravitating towards?"
"There were times when we thought, 'Is this crazy? Is this an insane color to market?'" Camp said. But when she released the splash tape they sold out overnight, and a second and third batch of pre-orders sold out almost as quickly. For now, they have no plans to bring
back the colorway, she added, but it remains her label's most asked-about piece.
Other brands have since dipped their toes into the water. This summer, Kato, the Canadian retailer, brought out two dark legs as soreless, and the Amishu-dum brand There Flave rolled out azar.
Last month, the designer Emily Dorey, Long put up on her website a business sweater in a master bar she called "Covers After" in an interview. (It goes by "aqua" on the site.) Like Camp and Samsonets, she too had been missing on the 1990s and early aught. In a homage to the Tracy Forth dress worn by Carrie Bradstone in a 2001 episode of "Sex and the City" the color also appears in Dorey Long's collection alongside a checking cell.
"That blue goes well with everything," Dorey Long said.
"Bad especially," she added. "It feels very Superman."
Maggioni, the bread forecaster, said the color has semantic range that pulls it from the past and into our moment. "Coca-Cola succeeds because it holds multiple identities at once. It's bold yet familiar, nostalgic yet contemporary, and bridges the natural world with increasingly immersive digital environments," she said.
It's a color that re-emerged in the 1990s, helping to shape the futuristic look of the new digital age — perhaps best unlabeled by the helping blue forehead of the 20th G.I. Launched in 1998, the computer was the first of its kind, a crystal-of-the-models digital-age choice.
Sure, it looks great in grainy photos of an old computer you may look at{certify. But is it really wearable?"
The color is an obvious to try it, but when they hit, it's not. "I'll try God!" Dorey Long said. "It makes their eyes pop. It makes their skin look good. It makes everyone too."
Samsonets, also known for hosting the five-tip coffee video series "Never-worn," often does the color when she is on camera. "That's upfront sort of blue is a good contrast for anything," she said. Counterintuitively, she added, "It's a neutral, in a way."
One collar out, one tucked in. That's her style.
Charlotte Collet will make you rethink the way you wear a shirt
BY JACOB GALLAODER
At 7 p.m. on the first day of men's fashion week in Paris in June, the Japanese label Auralon staged its latest runway show. It was a modest, chummy affair. Supporters chanced in the front were fanning themselves, as models slipped past in wizpy plaid shirts and shorted blue weather shoes, their unlabeled feet clicking along the marble floor.
Two hours later, Louis Valtion, the alpha dog of the French fashion industry, magnified latest men's show. There were two-shot coats and soggy striped suits, presented against the backdrop of a mammoth perpetual wave, like tantalizing out of a foaled mega-mall. A gospel chair performed Victor Westhanyama, Jeremy Ables White and Rhino Elliott were in attendance. Truckloads of sand chomed the runway.
In scale, the shows could not have been further apart. One was a ghastly index: the other, a traffic-hailing black-haired. Yet they shared one boy character: Charlotte Collet, a black strip-up and from the heads of France who, in the past several years, became one of the most important stylists working today.
The last stylist runway shows for brands including All Sander, campaigns for Ted's and A.PC, and magazines such as W. Across these jobs, a Collet队伍. Salty sweeping, it is untrusted from knowledge about on the street, with a bit more public here, a bit more conscious disheveling there.
It's the stuff which is too conceptual," Collet said. She is one a stylist who further puffs up luxury fashion, layering on the green and jewels. She dresses things down, making outfits that you would want to print out and tape to your mirror as inspiration.
In her hands, a gray 50 Sander suit is paired with brushed brown work boots. A chandelier-quality Louis Valtion dresses won a blackout by washed out jeans and a pedestrian, almost darkly short sleeve button-up.
"I like real clothes," Collet said.
That realism helps to explain why her work has found particular acclaim to men's fashion, where the audience often see past experts, but demands a churnt low-balance of depiction of fashion.
"Some stylists use a lot of layers to complain the clothing," said Fabrice Painess, the editor of Double Magazine, who has worked with Collet since her early 20s. "She doesn't do that. She's quite direct. And I think that's super fresh."
In her own telling, Collet's progression stems from her upbringing. She grew up in Prairie-Middle to Prairie, a town of about 1,000 people so far south in France that its desirous speak Catalan, in addition to French.
Collet was raised on a farm, where her parents made cheese, a line of work her mother continued until she retired a few years ago.
COLLET'S, THE EAGLE SHORE, THE EAGLE SHORE
"I really grew up in nature," Collet said. After our first interview, she sent photos from her mother's Instagram account showing certain bills and levels of sheep. "Basically the opposite of U," she wrote.
In a child, she did not demonstrate a provocious interest in fashion. "I've
never been something like, 'Oh, that little girl, she loves clothes,'" she said. Her parents were work clothes. She did, too. But she enjoyed drawing, and that led her to go to boarding school as a teenager. Once been away by train, Uvid does, she had spent nearly every night of her life at home.
After graduating, she landed at a fashion high school in Paris to study design. When asked about charting that everybody gets from the country and to the capital city, Collet just shrugged. "It was very natural," she said.
In Paris, she found friends and compatriots in the fashion world. Still, she was not an emitter for design as she had anticipated. The thought of a career as a laziness designer at some LYNDI label didn't get her going.
"That would be the dream of my friends at school," she said. "I was just like, 'I don't want it.'"
Baillet then creating the raw ingredients of fashion — the taste and shirts and suits — Collet was interested in the meals you could make out of them. Magazines, with their transport to photo shows, captivated her. She was employed at People magazine and worked for Marble Orion, an influential French stylist. She included her way up the stylist hierarchy, and began to share for Chanel fragrances and Esprit.
The role of a stylist is a runway show, or for a campaign ad, can be a tricky one to explain. It is designed to also be a film director, a stylist owner, like an editor. A designer makes a sweater you want to buy, a good stylist composer, not just an outfit, but a person you, ideally, wish to be.
Collet insists that it is not a glamorous job. It entails lagging subcases of clothes and creating as the flavor to put a pair of trousers on a model, in a result, she never wears anything that would be called luxury. When we spoke, she was dressed almost entirely in Untale. "I just like comfort workwear, been stuff," she said.
In her 20s, she struggled to make rest and debated working at the Monoprix retail chain.
Eventually though, she had built up enough contacts and a responsible counsel to get steady work styling sheets for various fashion magazines that received at the wear table and ready, so first she worked primarily in women's
fashion because that was where she found opportunities.
"I don't really see the difference between men's and women," she said. "On the runway, yes, but in the world, you know, it's the same."
Her name is a 2010, when Auralon, having made the long from fashion work in Tokyo in Paris, was seeking a local stylist. A publisher passed along Collet's name, and she took the job. She found, in her house, a friend 2016.
"I have immense trust in her ability to add an elegant, playful event while maintaining a deep respect for classic clothing." Her Auralon designer Ryana Iwai said of Collet over read. "She intuitively catches our current direction and what we want to express without needing long explanations."
A playful and warm approach to color is the attribute that critics meet often had in Collet-styled Auralon shows.
In the most recent show, she styled a suit the color of a particle that once a dusty dress shirt and a toe with wide blue stripes. In another outfit, she complicated a pair of brown corduroys, the top two could have found at Bunda Bortland in 2015, by using a little a misty aquamarine zip-up.
On one side, the shirt collar flapped and over the jacket, but an errant splatch of paint on a canvas, making sure the audience didn't miss its char-
"Some stylists, too a lot of layers to complicate the clothing. She doesn't do that."
treuse color. Yet she balanced the whole look with a pair of brown boat shoes, like something a suburban dad might wear in the country close to the fashion
well where to challenge our expectations for a home to validate them.
Painess, through, described Collet's sensibility as "like a collage."
Collet had collaborated with reputable French brands from a UIC, among them, but working with Auralon was her first time styling a runway show, a step-up into a sphere of attention and scrutiny.
"She has since styled runway shows and campaigns for the designer Simone Bellotti, first at Bally, then at Al Sander. The rising Korean tricbever label Peer Archive Factory, and now, Louis Valtion.
Collet styles men and women in many of these jobs, but she is conscious that she looks the whatever reason, has landed particularly strongly with men. And it is notable that a majority of designers she works with, including Bellotti, Iwai and Pharmol Williams at Valtion, are sure.
It is hard here not to adopt rigid gender logic: that it takes a woman to shape a man in an obnoxious manner. A man can make the clothes, but to make them really compelling, you need a woman's perspective.
"She's very honest," Bellotti said of Collet. "This is what I like," till it takes, he said, is for Collet to make "the fans," and he knows that she is not happy with one of the ideas.
That pantheon can be hard to find in fashion, where the hierarchy of an anchor can give the sense that the designer at the top is always right. But in Bellotti, it is true.
"I don't need to be surrounded by someone who's always saying that what we are doing, what I'm doing, is great," he said.
Charlotte Collet has styled runway shows for fashion brands, campaigns for Ted's and A.PC, and magazines such as W. Before, from left, her books for All Sander, Louis Valtion and Auralon.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2020
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Sports
Rivals will have a hard time stopping Arsenal
Commentary
BY STUART JARED
THE ATHEAFT
Can anyone stop Arsenal in the Premier League?
It should be too soon to be asking a question like that. We have a whale season ahead of us, 200 Premier League matches to total, starting on Friday under the lights at Edelstein Stadium and finishing next May. That is a lot of secret to be played!
It is also worth remembering that only three managers — Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, José Macerinho at Chelsea and Pep Guardiola at Manchester City — have won back-to-back Premier League titles across the past 34 years.
Rivals, typically, are re-energized, motivated and determined to put right what went wrong the season before. As for the ongoing champions, aside from the fact that everyone wants to beat them, the biggest worry is whether it means as much to the players, or even the manager, the following reason. To put it another way, is the hunger still there?
Arsenal's comprehensive, 3-0 victory over Manchester City in the Community Shield in Wales on Sunday provided some possible answers to that respect, and not just because of the emphatic super bias.
The stars were there in the off-the-ball actions of the Arsenal players, so their body language and in the way that every deal seemed to mean so much to them, even in a game that still prompts defeat among many secret fans as to whether winning it actually qualifies as a longer.
Manager Milad Arrota smiled after word when a reporter highlighted to him examples of Arsenal players revelling in making a challenge or a block on an opponent.
"When you put your soul and your heart into a martian, that's what happens," he said.
Arsenal supporters might still be backing in the glow of their first league title in 22 years, but Arrota and his players are as drives and ambitions as ever, and that means being belittled on backing onto the trophy that the club took so long to reclaim.
"Because you want to go through it again," Arrota said. "When the desire comes, I want to live that moment again. I want to live all the moments, even bigger than them. We know what it's going to take, we know the difficulty of the task, that's why we've never done it at this football club. So we know that it's going to demand something special, and we are ready for it."
Top, Arsenal players after winning the Premier League title last season, breaking a 35-year drought. Right, Arsenal multibike Brown Guttman during the team's 3-0 win against Manchester City in the Community Shield on Sunday. For right, Arsenal Manager Milad Arrota with Robeyo Saba during the month. Arrota is now the longest-serving manager in the top four divisions of English secret.
But are the rest of the Premier League clubs ready? Can a legitimate title challenger emerge from the usual suspects when there has been so much change and share this summer? City, Liverpool and Chelsea all have new managers, while Michael Carrick is about to embark on his first full season in charge of Manchester United.
The contrast with Arsenal, where Arrota is now the longest-serving manager in English secret's top four divisions, is 1-0.
Against City, Arsenal looked what it is: a well-used machine in which all the individual roles are clearly defined, where the movement patterns are
familiar and where a way of consistently winning matches has long been established. And so, that did not in: solve a set-piece goal against City, in case you were wondering.
It's true that the Community Shield
is rarely a reliable yardstick for what's to come: only eight of its 34 winners before Sunday's game have gone on to claim the Premier League title. This year's curtain rainer featured a number of players who were making their
first club appearance this summer, because of the World Cup. It's a sale bet that Erling Stoddard, who was one of those players, will not be substituted again after 10 minutes this season unless he is injured.
Arsenal made moves to strengthen itself this summer, bringing in Bruno Guttman from Newcastle for 75 million pounds (500 million) and prompting Arsenal's Milad Merino to suggest a few days ago that the team now has the best entitled in secret. Arrota had a grip on his face when that line was put to face.
As comfortable as Guttman's already looks in an Arsenal jersey, it was the two players alongside him who played pivotal roles in the goals against City. Wynn Lynne Reilly, with a newly disguised pass for the opener after only 35 seconds, and the excellent Martin Odegund, who had a hand in the second and elegantly scored the third.
"Can we play you every week?" sang the Arsenal supporters after Odegund made a feel out of Gauting's Disarmament, sitting the City goalkeeper on his backside with a beautiful
"When the desire comes, I want to live that moment again, I want to live all the moments, even bigger than them."
dummy before sinking the ball into an empty set.
"Are you ໃຫ້ตกใจผม in disguise?" followed moments later.
It was that sort of this for Arsenal, whose fans were growing passes with "nice" before the hour mark, taunting City's new head
crack, Enzo Maresca, about his short-term job prospects, and enjoying the sight of Chelsea Delta, then GM million signing from Club Brugge, marking his competitive debut with two assists.
All the while, David Bays continued to serve up the occasional reminder with his feet and hands about why he's the best goalkeeper in the Premier League.
As the game got away from City and Arrota started to make widespread changes, there was a reminder of Arsenal's strength to depth, too.
Robeyo Saba, Jordan Kerr, Martin Zubrowski, Piero Mocque, Viktor Gyokovs and Elverichi Eur all came off the bench. Merino, a World Cup winner, was an unused substitute, along with the gifted teenager Max Devesan. As for Gabriel Martinelli, Ethan Frossard and Gabriel Jesus, they did not make the cut.
Despite all that, there is still work for Arsenal-to-do in this transfer window, both in defense and in the forward positions, where an A-04 attacker has choked them as far this summer and will almost certainly be required in order for the club to take the next step in the Champions League.
In terms of the Premier League, though, it is hard to escape the feeling that Arsenal, once again, will be the team for everyone to face.
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Culture
Unease tests the Salzburg Festival
SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
The event is flourishing, but a renovation and a firing disrupt the calm
BY ADAM NAGOURNEY
Two hours before the curtain rose for 'Carmen' at the Salzburg Festival have recently, the soprano bands Grigarian was in her dressing room at the Grossers Festspielhaus talking about how the show almost didn't go on.
Grigarian's debut as Carmen, in a new production by Gabriela Carrino, was a high-paced at the six-week festival of music and theater — widely viewed as Europe's premier classical music event — at the last of the Austrian day.
But Grigarian said she had wanted to consult after the festival board voted to March to terminate the contract of its artistic director, Marlon Hinterhäuser, who has been the brilliant 3 temperamental face of the festival he more than a decade. She ordered, she said, out of hourly to Hinterhäuser, who, she noted, had helped make her career.
'This feels very strange and empty!' Grigarian said of this summer's festival. 'It was planned by Marlon Hinterhäuser, and we are different because of him. It feels a bit like a boat without a captain.'
'I hope with all my heart that this festival will continue to vote,' she added, 'to the most beautiful way, as it did when he was here.'
At major classical music organizations, particularly in the United States, are struggling with declining audiences, rising costs and a generational shift to musical tastes, the Salzburg Festival is thriving. The streets at the city where Mozart was here were burning the month with women (and a few men) in shimmering gowns, as well as men (and a few women) in black tie and white tie. They negotiated celebrations and endured suffocating boat that turned a performance of 'Mosaicers'. 'Saint François d'Aviane' in the hourly air conditioned Teherentischale into a six-hour endurance test.
The festival, with its 600 million annual budget, sold 220,000 tickets this season, with visitors from 48 countries. 'Can you see the classic 90 pattern of seats sold, and this year it will be over 90 percent,' Lukas Crepan, the executive director of the festival, said. That's a benchmark that would be the envy of most opera houses and concert halls. Salzburg draws a largely well-to-do crowd, paying $550 for two-to-the-house seats. (The least expensive seats go for $35.34.)
But for all that, the festival is unliking in an atmosphere as tunes and uncertain as any since World War II. It is shaken by the departure of Hinterhäuser, whose contract was originally set in last through 2015 but was terminated in spring, 'effective immediately' the board said. 'Because of 'irreversible after differences of opinion.'
And the festival is girding for a $690 million rehabilitation project that will start the festival complex into a construction site through 2015. The project, which will begin in the fall, includes the closing of the festival's largest hall, the 2,200-road Festspielhaus, raising the equity of a picture who will be dispatched to a yet-to-do-chosen temporary theater.
A new director will mean a new direction for a festival that has long been identified with traditional classical repertoire but that over the past 30 years has presented more adventurous productions. 'I think you will see a new handwriting,' said Kristina Hammer,
the president of the festival. 'Everybody has their own interpretation. But the DNA I'm sure will not be changed.'
And like many major classical organizations in Europe, Salzburg is operated with the government. About 20 percent of its budget comes from government funding, and the supervisory board is made up to part of the local officials. This has added to the census, particularly because this is an out-of-construction and rising conservative power.
Productions this year featured dead birds dropping from the sky, live sheep and dogs onstage and abundant outfits
Barrie Kody, the theater and opera director who drew a prolonged ovation here on opening night of the production of Rossini's 'Ti Viaggia a Bones' said that Hinterhäuser's firing was 'radiculous of a larger problem that's happening in Europe with cultural institutions and politics,' pointing to Paris, Rome, Berlin and Munich.
'I'm not interested in Maine-quoting,' Kody said. 'However, I see a complete breakdown in the communication systems between artists, artistic institutions and politics. Distress I and of common cuticle. A lack of understanding from the politician side that their job is to put pro-
ple in positions of leadership and authority that come up with the ideas.'
Festival officials said they intended to announce the next artistic director this fall. During this interrogation, Hinterhäuser, who lives in Salzburg, remains very much a presence. He planned this summer's festival, with its nearly 'Carmen' and its current production 'Saint François.' He also turned up to play piano at two recitals and discreetly attended the season's major productions, though he said he made a point of not go-
ing on opening nights to avoid uncomfortable encounters with the board.
'It's been awkward,' Hinterhäuser said at a talk a note from his old office. 'Discover at not, Hinterhäuser is nearly as much a part of the conversation this year as Grigarian or the mecca soprano Cecilia Bartoli, another festival might.'
His departure was shrouded in mystery, with attendees trading tales of intrigue involving the man who was described by several former associates as
Abreu, the Grossers Festspielhaus, the Salzburg Festival's biggest hall, which will undergo reestoration. Left, audience and the festival are the most comprehensive left, construction already underway. The 1600 million restoration is scheduled to last through 2035.
an international artist but an often difficult supervisor.
The festival includes, the governor of Salzburg, State and head of the festival board, declined a request for an interview to discuss Hinterhäuser's departure. 'Both parties agreed to confidence and the other parties agreed to agreement concluded between the Salzburg Festival front and Mt. Hinterhäuser.' said Christian Reiner, a spokesman for Edmradler.
Hinterhäuser blamed his departure on 'politics' and said the main point of contention was the heart's challenging his authority to appeal. Saint-Bergmann as head of drama, which, he said, 'is absolutely exclusively a decision for the artistic director.'
'It's a pure pure game,' he said. 'I'm not sure what I'm doing. A maniacum. A public massacre.'
He added: 'This was the greatest effort by the 1600s in this position and new it's kind of ruined.'
Grigarian said the first only one distressed about Hinterhäuser's departure. 'Most artists were in a state of shock,' said the director Peter Seltzer, a major contributor to the festival for nearly 20 years. 'Marlon had taken the place to such an extraordinary level. Every actor was completely supporting Marlon.'
But Bergmann, who was appointed interim artistic director, said that Salzburg was 'such a unique brand, such a strong brand, that a change in leadership is perhaps a little biscuit,' adding, 'it's not really something that changes anything.'
Bartoli, the artistic director of Salzburg's Whitman Festival, said the transition 'is absolutely natural and has happened throughout the festival's history.'
As hanging of the guard, though, is not the only uncertainty clouding the horizon. The restoration project is ambitious. Please call for trusting items workshops, where all aspects of productions are built (from sets to comments, to make way for larger ones. The wings and backstage at the Festspielhaus, which have been considered too small for a stage of that size almost since it started in 1992, are being greatly expanded. Dated technology — workers still are eager to fill and lower sets — is going to be replaced with computerized systems. And yes, the climate-challenged air-conditioning system is on the upgrade site.
It would be daunting under the best of
circumstances. But the festival venues are carved into the rock at the Mönchsberg, the fall that hears over old trees, and as part as to (1928) El-Wood Heritage district, which largely hears any kind of significant alterations in the history hall, 'its building up or not. Our expansion has to be burrowed into the rock.
This is going to be one of the first challenges for Hinterhäuser's successes. 'They have a solid electric venue,' Bergmann said, 'and they have to find a program that is adapted to these interiors venues.'
Hinterhäuser's imprint on the festival has been particularly clear this summer. Though he has been criticized for being too content or dark, and there have been very constellation of new moundering his reign, his festivals have offered a steady diet of at times radical in corporations of traditional works.
Productions this year featured dead birds dropping from the sky, live sheep and dogs onstage and abundant outfits. A staging of 'Browns' 'Artabac and Nanos', by the Berlin director Ernan Moseing, collected nearly in Mars, with videos and images, regarding planets and singers to space suits. The book started the second the stage went dark. 'Marlon did a great plot to present the fantastic summer in a different way,' said Manfred Sheerth, who conducted 'Artabac' and was not surprised by the bees. 'He had a fantastic way of having the right preparation of the idea we've expected to take over elements and new things, which are I think so exciting. I think that's one of the reasons why it's nearly what we did.'
Bergmann praised Hinterhäuser's programming, but suggested his Senin-teen running an operation with a work force that swells to 6,000 people during the summer. 'It is not so easy to do this job,' she said. 'If you're an artist yourself, as Mt. Hinterhäuser is, it's perhaps sometimes a problem for them to communicate the way that managers and organizations leaders are expected to communicate.'
'Normally, everyone lived with 'this is a big artist, and he is told of temperament, and he has to let out his aggressions and his emotions, and that is the main thing,' she said. 'That doesn't work today.'
Kody said that while Hinterhäuser had been responsible 'for an amazing chapter' at Salzburg, it was time for him to move on.
'We say in Valdahl, young is young' — enough is enough. What happened has happened? And Kody, who is frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Hinterhäuser.
'I see challenges — added, 'we I don't see the end of the Salzburg Festival. Maybe a change of direction. Maybe it reoccurs itself as something different.'
Daniel Barenboim returns to the podium
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
The conductor leads his Arab-Israeli players despite his Parkinson's
BY DANIEL LEWIS
In a 2006 interview, the conductor Daniel Barenboim declared a special affinity for the precocious Mozart. 'Look, I know very well what it means always to be my young for everything,' Barenboim, a former child prodigy, said. That rings true. He was an international concert pianist at 16, debuting at Carnegie Hall at 16.
Now I'd said a long going a debilitating dance herself, 'I've been suddenly sadly too old for many things — all though he has done a lot since announcing his 'serious neurological condition' in 2012.'
After stopping to run as the music director of the Berlin State Opera a year later and amid numerous canvassing circumstances, there was an apparent occasionally with the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Berlin Philharmonic and at La Scala in Milan. It was only last year, though, when his faulty
had become visible and undeniable, that he confirmed that his condition was Parkinson's disease.
The illness has done little, however, to deter Barenboim's commitment to the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the ensemble he founded in 1909 with the Palestinian intellectual Ethnodi Said in being young Arab and Israeli musicians together. Last week, Barenboim appeared with the orchestra at the Waldbühne amphitheater in Berlin's before a large and grandfuck audience.
The mother Waldbühne mugs to a regular stop on the West-Eastern Divan's annual summer two, which this year will include the Master's room in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Philharmonia de Paris. Although somewhat contained, Barenboim seemed happy to be in familiar surroundings.
Additionally, Barenboim is scheduled to tour with the orchestra for nine more engagements, and he has been a new West-Eastern Divan Festival, planned for Berlin in November, which promises the opportunity to hear the orchestra play music by Pierre Bealta in the before-club Berghans.
Last Thursday's concert was one of four this month in which the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will be joined by Vo's Ma — another former child
Daniel Barenboim and Vo-Yo Ma with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Berlin.
prodigy — for Dvorak's Cello Concerto in 8 minor. When Ma and Barenboim came on with their arms around each other, it was hard to tell whether it was for support or friendliness, or both. It was a reunion of sorts: Ma was
invited to the first West-Eastern Divan workshop, before anyone thought the project would grow into an orchestra. His respect for Barenboim was evident on Thursday in the attention he paid him during the Dvorak, though there
was very little to attend to: The baron in Barenboim's right hand barely pitted, and his left hand rose only occasionally to carve or paint expression here and there.
Three understand gestures, though, were often extremely effective, and conducted have done more with even less: Leonard Bernstein conducting a Haydis symphony with just his eye-brows came to mind. When Bernstein went to in 1916, he could rely on his well-able machine at the Vienna Philharmonia. That was a player weren't as well (confronted and couldn't necessarily count on Barenboim, who could not be able to use the symphony).
It was fortunate that Ma had just come from Tanglewood in Massachusetts, where he had organized a conductor into performance of Berlin's music and the orchestra in a program note, he described it as 'an example of what distributed leadership can sound for and a lesson in the practice of democratic responsibility.' This was exactly the responsibility that he and orchestra took in the concerto's more intimate exchanges. The discharge between child and wadewash, and critics and solo violin, was pure chamber music.
Ma's recent Tanglewood experiment aligns with the West-Eastern Divan's
musical and humanitarian ethos, which Barenboim articulated succinctly in the wake of the Banna-hat attack on Israel on Oct. 1, 2021: 'We have to listen to each other.' As one point in the concert's second half, during Sothemann's Symphony No. 1, Barenboim's left hand passed to his ear.
He has again since that day, been giving this orchestra what they could not go without him: a sound 'imagery but to the secret. Old fashioned, a young, but not busy. It was there in the controlled explosion in the Sothemann, the sorority of the counterpoint. It is undoubtedly Barenboim's sound, but it's not the orchestra to be the most.
Barenboim seems to have recognized this. In the statement that announced he had Parkinson's, he said he wanted 'to remain the orchestra's long time.' The choir was 'the same' that an active voice in ensuring that the Divan has the opportunity of working with the music of the 'core.'
But Barenboim's first move in this direction was a core strategy: being his close Vowal Zubin Mehta to direct a tour with the orchestra earlier this year, the orchestra's own in 90, he also conducts sitting down. This is not a plan for the future, nor a way to keep this symbol of imperiled international cooperation vital.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2020 | 15
CULTURE
Gracefully straddling romance and loss
ALBUM REVIEW
Phoebe Bridgers creates dark and funny songs about an emotional time
BY LINDSAY JULIUS
Phoebe Bridgers's marvelous, death-harmed third album, "Lost Weekend," begins with one of the most devastating dad jokes you'll ever hear. "Crying in a suit and lie, but you should see the other guy," Bridgers sings, her voice easily embedded in a wooden effect. Just before it ends on that one's talking about her father's funeral, she sneaks in another poignant punisher: "You must turn, for all times calm, I'll watch him get carried away."
Blumer and potless prove eddy compatible slow-dance partners throughout "Lost Weekend," an emotional advisory that finds the 10-year-old Bridgers at a new peak of her songwriting powers, presenting some major personal changes that have taken place in the six years since she released her breakout album, "Punisher."
In addition to losing her father, she felt in love, twice: "I's too supposed to be married, but I called it off," she sings on the sparse title track.) She also saw her folk-rock supergroup keygenius, which features her peers Lucy Darus and Julius Baker, sacred to a staggering level of success and
As a lyricist, Bridgers has never been sharper, her observations on love and death as incisive as surgical tools.
vividly, thanks to the Grammy-winning, stadium-filling 2023 album "The Record," Chasty, Google, the autopsy prove Bridgers does not always feel comfortable in the public eye. As she puts it on one of many (many) memorable and darkly funny couples on "Lost Weekend," rehabilitating a breathing gig in a Manhattan music festival, "I was the belle of the governors ball / Sliding in the bathroom like Shelley Duvall."
When Bridgers returned to the stage earlier this year, she seemed intent on stepping back into the limelight on her own terms, debating new material at small clubs before announcing a benefit show at Madison Square Garden (then days before it took place, 25 quickly sold out.) To prevent leaks of new songs, attendees had to lack their digital devices in secure pouches, and even after the release of "Lost Weekend," she will continue this no-phases mandate on her upcoming tour. That decision has suddenly made Bridgers a power girl for analog cancer-giving and living in the moment — somewhat ironic, given that she was once known for the act that, ultimately called Doctor Insanity (longtime display name: "Duker Joe") and that she sang on "Punisher" wryly. "When I grow up, I've grown look up from my phone and see my lot."
Bridgers has indeed grown up, and on the ostensibly marked "Lost Weekend" she has lived her gaze as high as
Phoebe Bridgers during an appearance last month on "The Tonight More Starting Jimmy Fallon." Her new album is titled "Lost Weekend."
it will go. Called in mad and stardust, the album sometimes looks like a 21st-century realization of what the country-rush outlaw Grant Parsons once called "nostic American music" steeped in folk tradition but unatical of psychedelics mind-respanding drift. (Bridgers has been hosting perorhase listening sessions at planetarians.) Begins on layered stage synth body, pedal steel stingles amicably with effects pedals. The stunning ballad "Kill Me" begins with little more than an acoustic guitar and Bridgers's plastery voice, but it gradually expands into a zero-gravity post-rock experience, full of ghastly backing vocals and racker ship riffs. The explosive, cathartic racker "Bobby" gives way, in its
final moment, in a sound collage featuring a recording of a nursery other voice informing the listener that they have been selected to win "69.5 million and a brand-new 2013 Bernstein-Benz in the color of your choice." The detritus of the digital world favors constantly above Bridgers's existential musings. It's like "Duker Hotel Frustral" in the age of last stop. As a lyricist, Bridgers has never been sharper, whittling her observations on love and death down in force as incisive as surgical tools. "You deserved better, you wanted me," she sings on "The Governor's Walls," a tour de force of economical storytelling anchored by a gorgeous, pioneering chorus melody. It sounds like opening
a music box only to find out a ballerina but an inner655m reading in a ram. Intimate and singular as this album is, its credits read like the guest list at a house party. Bridgers's keygenius compartment sing backing vocals on the lovely bluegrass tune "Slaunted" as well as the haunted head-wrinkber of a loud single, "Lost Boys" — a decent song that is nonetheless unrepresentative of the rest of the album's emotional gravity. Among the others invited are the folk singer-songwriter Christian Lee (human (who co-wrote G of the 10 tracks with Bridgers) and his new wife, Miya Hawke; indie ضبط ist Alex G; and Bridgers's romantic partner, the filmmaker and comedian Bo Burshans, who gets a co-writing
credit on seven songs, including the ecstatic "Bobby," which is totally about him.
As are student of both "fits singer-songwriters and turn-of-the-century sites, Bridgers sings in a voice that sounds at once uncotherland and alive with a grieving hurt. She is hardly the first musician to suffer the mixed blessing of sounding more compelling when she pleases the darkness than when she steps into the light. Arresting images and candid admissions abound in "Still Standing," the album's stark, skin-probing entertainer, which overlays sounding memories of her father atop-fresh grief. "Sometimes I want you back," Bridgers sings to him. "But not today!" Comparatively, the
solid optimism of "I Can't Wait" rings a little hollow, contributing to an overall feeling that the album loses some of its stoom toward the end.
But there's one fact highlight with the album's final track, "Lost Weekend (Reptors)," a poetic inventory of the things she learned from her inevitably imperfect father and an acceptance of the ways in which she is more like him than she was previously willing to admit. The song also embraces the love of that recurring character Bobby who has finally made her feel a little less done in the cold, vast custom. "You love me, and I won't ever let you forget," she sings to him. Praying into the big forever, she then hedges, only slightly: "Not yet."
Under African skies
BODR REVIEW
Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Traits and Triumphs of "Graceland" By Kathy Kahn, K-02, 2:07 p.m. $30.
BY MARK BRAUKE
Lovin' does not never me, says Percy Sledge. For me, it's "Graceland." No other cultural object here I lived as long, so deeply, so blindly. Why do these live doom minutes of dancing brass and gliding bass and snaky poetry let me so much harder than almost anything else I've ever heard?
True romance always takes place somewhere beyond the realm of the national. I've been happy to know the mystery of "Graceland" unexplained. What a woman's surprise, him, he, read the music historian Ashley Kahn's careful look at Paul Simon's 1944 masterpiece and find that by bringing both its beauty and to uglier aspects into the light. Kahn, for Voter-rating its strange magic, has only made me appreciate the album's intricacies and paradoxes all the more.
Like "Graceland" itself, "Days of Miracle and Wonder" starts with a heathaged cassette. Summer, 1944. A friend passes Simon "Grazilians," an album of infographic music, "sowodup jive," the driving beat of Soviets, which reminds him of early rock 'n' roll, "very up, very happy music — familiar and foreign-sounding at the same time," an Simon got it. "Grazilians" for the rubber beats were by laborers working the gold mines around Johannesburg, to whom the album was originally marketed.) Something about listening to "Graceland," as long shows between New York and Montauk galvanized Simon, guiding him through a dark
period marked by the impending dissolution of his marriage to Carrie Fisher and dissatisfaction with his recent work.
What does it mean for a white man with a beach house and a movie-star wife to find inspiration in Black working people's music from an ocean away, produced under a hateful regime?
Kahn, who was a member of the "Graceland" tour production team, tackles the question throughout. He presents Simon's argument: that music is by nature a fluid, untimely thing, to be shared and uninsured and re-evaluated by anyone and everyone, thriving through cross-pollination. Kahn quotes the South African trumpeter Hugh Mombela, who said about America: "I heard Louis Armstrong, I heard Cheri De Parker, and I said I got to go there. So I can identify with Paul Simon going to South Africa, the music pulling him." Kahn also outlines the opposing view, that "Graceland" constitutes an act of violence. He quotes the producer Mark C. Butson, then a trinitarian at Monard, who during a campus talk by Simon asked: "How can you justify taking over this music? For me long, artists have stolen African music. It happened with jazz. You're telling me the Gershwin story of Africa."
Kahn lets his historical actors speak for themselves as often as possible, collecting a remarkably wide array of voices for so short a book. So while this is the story of Paul Simon and his genius, Simon rarely appears alone on a page. He's always becoming off some other talent. The album abound many lives. Especially fascinating are the respective creative quarters of the business of the British National, the guitarist Ray Phiri, and Ladysmith Black Mambane and its brilliant leader, Joseph Shahalala. Cameo come from Harry Belahami, David Byrne, Miriam
From left, the singer Albert MacInnis, Paul Simon and Joseph Shahalala, the leader of Ladysmith Black Mambane, in 1946.
Midofra and Vanessa N'Deor, among others.
While tracing the evolution of "Graceland," Kahn considers broader political conflicts at play.
The wood debates about Simon's breaking with the boycott of apartheid
South Africa are an old as the album, and Kahn illuminates these debates by paying attention to the particular, considering individual intentions, seeking nuance and avoiding sanctimony.
His sympathies ultimately lie with
Simon, shown as someone working in good faith, forever a slowly, who certainly could have done better, but who acted openly and honestly throughout, listening more than he spoke. Still, there's ample evidence here to satisfy anyone looking to see Simon as a
viliate, a musical third, foolish from the start.
There is plenty of repeats and ill will in the tale of "Graceland"'s creation. But Kahn's book, winning the album, is concerned above all with the beauty of human connection (singed through music, across space and, 40 years later, over time).
Having reached the age Simon was when he and his collaborators told these stories, I wonder at their wisdom and their precision. It's all there now. The breakdown and heartbreaks, the shortening attention spans and softening midfires. Also the unspentifiable desire to carry on through all of it, forever on the lookout for moments of grace.
What does it mean for a white man with a beach house to be inspired by Black people's music made under a hateful regime?
What I'm saying is the book made me nostalgic. Meaning that this ends with me watching old music videos on YouTube. And far more gripping than the clips themselves were the commons below: testimonies from all over the world of people finding communion through these songs. I read of "Graceland" played as the background to a memorable one-night stand; to entitle unchanging fashion; to communicate with a partner with dementia; to elicit a final smile from a dying man; to remember her parents; and to find I say Ames and Hathlejah.
Mark Brauke is the author most recently of "The Typewriter and the Godfather, the American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII."
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TRAVEL
Can A.I. get you where you want to go for less?
A wave of new services are using tools to monitor flight and hotel prices
BY ELAINE GLISSIC
For years, I've recommended tracking the prices of hotel reservations and airline tickets after you've booked them to see if the prices drop. If they do, and your booking is flexible, you can usually cancel without penalty and rebuck at the lower price.
It's still mild — if time-consuming — advice. But new travelers can have a bee in the legwork as a wave of new apps trains artificial intelligence models on travel searches. These apps springboard from the travel industry's cancellation policies.
Other than the most restrictive basic economy tickets, most U.S.-based legacy airlines utilize travelers to cancel a flight and retain the cost as a credit for future bookings. (This works with more expensive refundable airfares, too, in which case the refund is to cash.)
'Airfares adjust have constantly no two people on the same flight routinely pay very different amounts, and most travelers have no idea the airline's own rules let them recover the difference,' - after booking," said Bryan Dukes, the founder and chief executive of JetBack, an app that tracks airlines. "The switch almost rules. It's just started in fair-rules and manual claim forms almost nobody has the time to navigate."
When a fare drops, these apps go to the airlines to request refunds. They don't otherwise save the smart state, nor do they ask for a fine's airline login information.
"The consumer effectively gains the opportunity to monitor the market," Marsden Middlesex, the chair of A.I. and business at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., wrote in an email. "It is a small but meaningful shift from A.I. acting 'on' consumers to A.I. acting 'for' consumers."
While tracking fare changes yourself remains free, most A.I. services charge a fee. Here are some of the emerging players.
FLEGATE
ACTION How it works: Users pay roughly $200 to join JetBack, after which the service monitors reservations its members make in economy class. Airfares on major American carriers, including Alaska, American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and United.
Members send these confirmation messages to their local flight plan. On Back then continually measures the price until departure and services refunds if the price drops. If a ticket is refundable, the reimbursement goes to your original travel agreement. If a ticket is nonrefundable, you'll receive the difference in the form of an airline credit.
Cost: You pay $99.99 a year for unloaded air.
Return line: The company says the average savings is more than $425 per trip. The cost of joining might be daunting to anyone other than frequent fliers, though.
SNOOK
How it works: Juneau monitors tickets on Alaska, American, Delta, Southwest and United. Users make a nonverti-
tive reservation with one of these airlines directly. Then, having joined Danesche firm, they send details of their booking to the app. If the price drops, the service updates the booking and directs the savings as a credit with the airline.
Cost: Members register a credit card, which Juneau uses to charge its 20 percent "success fee" on any savings.
Return line: The nonmembership
model makes it easy for occasional fliers to benefit from automation.
PHOENIX
How it works: The PHOENIX app works with major U.S.-domestic carriers, including Alaska, American, Delta, Hawaiian and United.
Users make a reservation for a seat in the main cabin or better (excluding basic economy) and then forward the confirmation email to the app. If the
price drops, the service requests a refund from the airline, generating a credit. This process requires until 30% of the company says 80 percent of flights drop their prices and that the average savings is $226.
Cost: PHOENIX is free if nothing changes. Otherwise, it charges 20 percent on all savings, which means that, if you end up with a $50 credit from the airline, you'll pay PHOENIX $35.
Return line: PHOENIX offers a low-risk story into price monitoring.
HOTELS
MONITOR COSTS How it works: Like an A.I. assistant, Miedirig can plan your journey from inspiration to flight, hotel and event bookings. Its new Miedirig Stays area focuses on hotel searches and bookings, often taking complex directions — for example, 'In San Francisco, I want a suite for three friends with an ocean view, or connecting rooms, if cheaper' — and search for candidates from approximately 1.8 million properties globally.
While shopping, you can create a price alert for a hotel and receive notifications when the price drops. The service continues to monitor the price before the refund window closes and notifies you if it drops. With a refundable booking, the user can rebuck at the new rate and cancel the previous reservation. The company offers price monitoring on more than 75 percent of its hotels. It says that just ever half of all price drops happen at least 30 days out, and that 95 percent occur at least three days before the reservation date.
Cost: Like other online travel agencies, Miedirig makes its money from concessions and fees from travel providers. For consumers, it's free.
Return line: For those who prefer to book a room and then forget about it, Miedirig Stays offers a passive way to optimize the price. The company plans to add price tracking to its Miedirig Flight's booking platform.
FLEGATE AND HOTELS
ACTION How it works: Autopilot applies A.I. speed in both flight and hotel reservations. Travelers with nonrestrictive airline or hotel bookings forward their confirmation emails to vyingly-inthus-toplot.com.
With flight, Autopilot tracks fares on reservations in economy class and better on Alaska, American, Delta, JetBlue and United. It takes action on any price drops of $20 or more by contacting the airline and claiming the lower fare. If the fare is refundable, travelers will receive the refund in the form of payment that was used to buy the ticket. Nonrefundable fares generate an airline credit. For hotel reservations, the service tracks the rates at Marriott, Hyatt and IHG hotels globally until the hotel cancellation deadline (over 4 minutes since its flexible, prepaid and nonrefundable bookings are included). It rebuck at the price drops and search the old reservation.
Cost: A.15 percent fee is charged to your credit card on any savings (a $9.99 a month upgrade to Autopilot Pro also works with flights and hotels that are booked using dates and rewards points).
Return line: Autopilot is slightly more costly than other apps, but it's convenient for travelers with hotel and flight bookings on one itinerary.
How to plan an African safari
Here's a guide to choosing destinations, budgeting and timing your trip afield
BY ELAINE GLISSIC
If there's one trip for which you need a travel-airliner or train operator, it's an African safari. Those trips need to be expensive, logistically challenging, and in areas no reason that they are unsafe without a trained guide.
But even before you approach an airliner or a safari company, it's important to get the lay of the land. "Honey-eight percent of people thinking of going on safari have had a little idea of what they really want," said Kevun Cowie, the director of sales for Africa Travel, Inc., a state of specialist. "There is a plethora of choices."
From budgeting to understanding African seasons, here's what to consider before signing on to a safari.
DETERMINE A ROULET
Your budget will dictate your experience. Luxury trips often feature lodges on private reserves, reachable by employees, and even many facilities all expenses — meals, drinks, transportation and game drive — except tips and international airlines. Budget salaries need to receive overload travel and basic hotels and travel services often include fees; there may be some meals on your own, for example, or when charges for experiences such as bar or fashion rides.
Most players of high-end subject-recommed budgeting $750 to $1,500 a day per person. Companies such as Europe, Europe, and Europe affordable trips, from about $200 a day.
THE CITY PLANS OR BOTH
Popular destinations, including South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Botswana, are distinct locales. Understand the differences between them in narrow, even in large areas, and in the same size as in less than the destination for people who know they want to go but are not sure they want to spend the entire vacation on safari," said Andrew Drummond, the
product director at Kensington, which designs custom trips. South African itineraries may combine safari days with stops in Cape Town and the country's wine nights.
Mr. Drummond described safari in Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa as "classic safari in tents, destaining in the wilderness in a campyrite setting." Many travelers came to East Africa to witness the Great Migration, with two million wilderness savings between the Serengeti plane in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya, an event that attracts problems.
"Both countries are very strong, culturally," said Craig Glotthuis, the head of sales in North America for Wilderness, which operates more than 25 safari camps in Africa, referring to the tribes of East Africa. "There's an important human element to experience them."
Botswana is home to the world's largest inland delta, the Okavango Delta, supporting legges, elephants and birds. "Botswana is the ultimate remote wilderness," Mr. Drummond said.
AIR FOR VARIED EXPERIENCES
Many experts recommend trips that handle contrasting experiences. Stuart
Marra, who runs the Opulent Explorer, an agency based in Rumania, N.Z., recommends combining a trip in Botswana for intimate game viewing with time in the Serengeti or Maasai Mara for seeing thousands of animals.
"Being live but 13.5 meters! from 20 elephants, in a cause, and then flying in a hot air fashion above 20,000 ac-bras, that's a well-rounded wildlife experience," Mr. Marra said.
BE PREPARED TO SET
Most safaris involve sitting in open-tagged vehicles observing wildlife.
"You are going to do better, but walking to Africa than in Europe," said Mr. Coors of African Travel. "So! All in, you play in the jeep, and we take you around!"
For variety, many operators offer optional excursions such as tours on boat, bike or horseback.
UNDERSTAND-WALTHER EFFECTS In the Southern Kensington, winter is from June to September, while summer is from December to March. More important in terms of wildlife viewing are the many and dry seasons, which vary by destination.
In East Africa, the rainster season is generally March through May; in
Southern Africa, it's December through March.
To generate low seasons, grooves can grow safer, and cheetahs and leopards can hide in the grass and be harder to set," Mr. Drummond of Kensington said.
"Dry seasons has more wildlife visibility," said Emily Cottingham, the regional director for East Africa of internal fashion Advantages, a nature-focused tour company Green season, she added, provides "contract in photos with the look background."
Travelers may see lower prices in green season.
DO YOUR HEALTH HOMEWORK
Malaria is the primary disease or worry about in many locations; anti-malarial medication is recommended for places like Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania.
It is also recommended in Kroger National Park in South Africa, though there are other malaria-free safari regions in the country.
The Travelers' Health website from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers advice by country.
LOOK FOR A NATIONAL OPERATION By providing employment and funding for parks, safaris can promote conservation. To ensure that's the case, look for environmental friendly operations that support sustainability and local communities.
"Look at who are they partnering with," said Inc. Cottingham of Natural Habitat Advantages, which works with the conservation nonprofit World Wildlife Fund.
She also recommends ensuring providers are members of the national tourism band and groups like the African Travel & Tourism Association and the Adventure Travel Trade Association, which promote sustainable practices.
Companies claiming conservation credibility should have evidence to support the project.
"Aiding a low additional questions of the company you're talking to is always an important part of the process," Ms. Cottingham said.
Workers complain of mold and bugs at airline caterer
BY GARE CASTER-ROOT
Workers at a catering facility that provides to flight meals in Los Angeles International Airport and they had been exposed to cockroaches, maggots and mold in a completed filed fine month with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
The complaint against Flying Food Group, a catering company that serves many of the busiest airports in the United States, also claimed that employees at the facility, in Inglewood, Calif., had "headflower or anaesthetist soap and drying paper in facility restrooms."
UNITE HERE Local 1, the labor union that brought the complaint along. A urged CASTERIA to respect the facility. The union sent a letter on Aug. 7 to Los Angeles World Airports, the city-run organization that oversees the airport, claiming that an inspector had been denied entry to the facility earlier that day. "CASTERIA said it is on mail to The New York Times that it had "received the complaint and has opened an inspection," but declined to provide additional details to comment on whether its inspector had been denied entry.
In a statement, Flying Food Group said the company's report the labor and misleading activities surrounding the recent California workplace filed by UNITE HERE Local 1," adding, "The complaint does not accurately describe conditions at our facility."
Los Angeles World Airports declined to comment.
The complaint centers on a claim by an employee who said she was directed to join June-Avident duties in a cart that had been left unopened "for a prolonged period of time." The employee "found dozens of dishes covered in decampings, made covered load," the complaint said, adding, "Many of the dishes contained what appeared to be low-maggots and flies, producing an overwhelming smell."
The employee suggested the dishes let thrown out, according to the complaint, but a supervisor refused and told her they were needed for an upcoming
A Flying Food Group branch in California, which supplies airlines in Los Angeles.
flight. The employee experienced "stomach pain, a headache and a strange neuroincentive tone, which she believed was caused by inhaling the hazy mold," the complaint said, adding that she had not been provided with appropriate protective equipment.
According to the union, Flying Food Group serves more than a dozen international airlines at Los Angeles International, including Air France, Super Airlines, LaFrance, Queen, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.
The company's report allegations by another employee, who in December said she had photographed cockroaches in the kitchen and on a cart from LaFrance.
Sir Mount, a spokesman for LaFrance, said in an email that the airline was not previously aware of the incident.
"I probably simply want to commit to rigorous food safety and sanitation standards, and we expect full compliance with the standards at all times across our global network," Sir Mount wrote. "In the event, LaFrance will not be able to do so in taking appropriate action."
Virgin Atlantic said it had "no evidence that starting supplies for the customers has been compromised," but was taking the accusations seriously. None of the other airlines responded to requests for comment.
制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times International (2026-08-20)
▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的国际政治、社会与文化报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度伦理与权力运作层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【地方治理中的权力私有化与公共基础设施之争】
[F5_9, F5_10, F6_11]- 事件简述：法国安努瓦（Assouin）村市长与城堡业主就桥梁维修费用产生争端，市长通过封锁道路影响公共交通，而业主则质疑所有权法律状态。
- 思想文化深思切入点：探讨地方行政权力如何将公共基础设施（桥梁）作为私人恩怨的博弈筹码，以及在小规模社区治理中，行政权力与私人产权冲突时产生的“权力寻租”与心理补偿机制。
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【全球卫生治理中的技术实用主义与资源不对称】
[F8_15, F9_17, F10_19]- 事件简述：巴西采用“以蚊子对抗蚊子”的低成本新技术应对登革热，且在贝伦市部署了大规模社区外展人员，而对比佛罗里达州雷县则显示出显著的人力资源投入差异。
- 思想文化深思切入点：分析在面对全球公共卫生威胁时，低成本技术创新如何成为发展中国家弥补制度短板的手段，以及不同政治体制下公共卫生资源配置的逻辑差异。
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【地缘政治中的“盟友解构”与外交范式转移】
[F3_6 🔍]- 事件简述：在特朗普首次入主白宫近 10 年后，其“攻击朋友、结交敌人”的风格已成为美国外交特征，导致传统联盟破裂并转向接近原对手。
- 思想文化深思切入点：剖析“美国优先”逻辑如何将外交关系从基于价值观的“制度联盟”转化为基于交易的“临时契约”，以及这种范式转移对全球权力结构的深远影响。
▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)
专题一：基础设施的政治学：论公共空间的“私有化”操纵
在法国安努瓦（Assouin）村的桥梁争端中 [F5_9 🔍]，我们观察到一种典型的权力异化现象：公共基础设施的物理属性被转化为行政权力的心理武器。当市长将桥梁维修费用与城堡所有权挂钩，并采取封锁道路的极端措施时 [F5_10 🔍]，桥梁已不再仅仅是交通工具，而成为了权力博弈的“阈限空间”。
这种行为揭示了地方治理中一种危险的逻辑——行政权力通过操纵公共资源的可用性，来强迫私人主体（城堡业主）接受其法律解释。在这种语境下，法律所有权的“未敲定”状态 [F5_10 🔍] 为权力的任意扩张提供了缝隙。市长通过封锁道路，实际上是在进行一种“空间惩罚”，将行政管理行为转化为一种私人层面的报复或压力手段。
从权力关系的维度看，这反映了传统乡村权力结构中“血缘/职权”与“资本/产权”的激烈碰撞。当市长声称对方“无法走出阴影”或发出死亡威胁式的警告时 [F6_11 🔍]，这种话语已经脱离了现代官僚制的理性框架，回归到了前现代的宗法权力逻辑。这种“权力私有化”的现象提醒我们，在制度的末梢，公共基础设施的维护往往成为权力斗争的代理战场，程序正义在个人恩怨面前显得极其脆弱。
专题二：生物技术治理与资源配置的非对称性
巴西在对抗登革热中采用的“以蚊子对抗蚊子”策略 [F9_17 🔍]，不仅是一次生物技术上的创新，更是一次治理逻辑的转向。通过利用低成本（低于 2 美元）的杀幼虫装置，巴西将复杂的公共卫生问题转化为一种分布式的、基于生物本能的治理网络。这种“技术实用主义”在资源匮乏的环境下展现了极高的效率，将雌蚊转化为药剂传播者，实现了对人类难以发现的滋生地进行精准打击。
然而，这种技术成功背后隐藏着深刻的资源配置不对称。贝伦市卫生部门部署 1,000 多名工作人员，其中三分之一专注于蚊子数量限制 [F10_19 🔍]，而对比佛罗里达州雷县仅有 13 名全职员工的现状，揭示了两种截然不同的治理模型：一种是基于高强度人力投入和社区外展的“密集型治理”，另一种则是依赖于成熟体系但可能在特定危机面前显得单薄的“精简型治理”。
这种对比引发了一个深刻的认识论追问：在面对全球性生物威胁时，究竟是依赖于高精尖的医疗体系，还是依赖于这种将技术低成本化并结合大规模基层动员的治理模式更为有效？巴西的案例表明，当技术能够与当地的社会组织形式（如社区外展）深度结合时，能够产生一种强大的制度韧性。这种“自下而上”的技术应用，实际上是对传统“自上而下”公共卫生指令的一种补充，标志着一种新型的、基于生态逻辑的治理范式的兴起。
▌ 面向学者的开放性思想追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Scholarly Inquiry)
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【关于地方治理中权力异化的制度防范】：在安努瓦村案例中
[F5_9, F6_11]，如何建立一套有效的监督机制，防止地方行政首长将公共基础设施的管理权转化为私人报复的工具？ -
【关于低成本技术治理的普适性研究】：巴西的“蚊子对抗蚊子”模式
[F9_17 🔍]是否可以被推广至其他公共卫生领域？这种“利用敌手对抗敌手”的生物治理逻辑在伦理与生态上存在哪些潜在风险？ -
【关于外交范式转移的结构性分析】：面对美国外交政策从“制度联盟”向“交易契约”的转移
[F3_6 🔍]，非美国家应如何构建一种不依赖于单一霸权逻辑的、基于多边主义的新安全架构？
理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times International (2026-08-20)
▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【巴西抗击登革热的“生物理性”与生存痛感】
[F2_4, F8_15, F9_17]- 事件简述：巴西采用“以蚊子对抗蚊子”的新技术（利用雌蚊传播化学药剂）来应对登革热威胁，旨在减少如保罗·戈梅斯妻子所经历的那种由高烧和剧痛构成的生存危机。
- 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：探讨技术理性（Logos）如何介入生物层面的生存痛感（Pathos），以及在公共卫生危机中，国家合资企业与非营利组织如何通过技术手段将个体的恐惧转化为可量化的治理目标。
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【法国安努瓦村的桥梁所有权之争】
[F4_8, F5_10, F6_11, F6_12]- 事件简述：市长与 Assouin 城堡业主 Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇就桥梁维修费用及所有权产生法律分歧，导致道路封锁，影响当地生计，且双方陷入深层的个人恩怨。
- 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：剖析微观治理中的“情感私有化”，即行政权力如何被用来执行私人层面的“复仇”与“领地意识”，以及传统权力逻辑与现代法律所有权之间的剧烈摩擦。
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【乔科省地震后的边缘化生存状态】
[F11_21, F12_22, F13_25]- 事件简述：乔科省在遭遇 2.6 级地震导致 200 人死亡后，再次将该地区长期被忽视的贫困、饥饿和无家可归问题推向公众视野。
- 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：研究灾难作为一种“强制性关注机制”，如何揭示制度性忽视（Logos）与边缘群体生存绝望（Pathos）之间的断裂，以及非正式经济环境下个体对“上帝仁慈”的依赖所反映的制度缺失。
▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)
专题一：生物治理理性与生存痛感的对冲：巴西登革热防治中的 Logos 与 Pathos 辩证
在巴西对抗登革热的实践中，我们观察到一种典型的“生物治理理性”对个体生存痛感的介入。从制度理性（Logos）的架构来看，Watkins de Brueil 首席执行官 Luciane Morette 所代表的国家合资企业采取的是一种高效的成本控制与技术扩散模型 [F8_15 🔍]。其核心在于将复杂的生态问题简化为技术方案：利用成本低于 2 美元的杀幼虫装置，通过雌蚊将化学药剂传播至隐蔽滋生地 [F9_17 🔍]。这种“以蚊子对抗蚊子”的逻辑，是将自然界的生物本能转化为一种精准的公共卫生武器，追求的是群体层面的发病率下降。
然而，这种冰冷的生物理性背后，是深沉的生活世界痛感（Pathos）。保罗·戈梅斯（Paulo Gomes）对十年前妻子卢西内奥斯（Lucineos）遭受高烧和剧烈疼痛折磨的记忆 [F2_4 🔍]，构成了该技术推广的底层情感驱动力。对于个体而言，登革热不是一个统计学上的“病例数”，而是一种关于死亡恐惧、身体崩溃和家庭破碎的具体体验。
Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦在此体现为：技术理性试图通过“聪明”的陷阱 [F9_17 🔍] 来抹除痛感，但这种抹除依赖于对社会各阶层进行大规模培训和动员 [F8_15 🔍]。这意味着，为了实现生物学上的理性控制，必须首先激活公众对疾病的恐惧（Pathos），将其转化为配合治理的动力。在这种辩证关系中，个体的痛苦被转化为技术迭代的合法性来源，而技术的成功则被定义为对个体痛感的终结。
专题二：行政权力的私有化与微观空间的伦理撕裂：安努瓦村桥梁之争
法国安努瓦（Assouin）村的桥梁封锁事件，提供了一个关于微观权力如何将“行政理性”作为“情感复仇”掩体的绝佳样本。在表面上的制度理性（Logos）架构中，市长采取的是一种基于“公共安全”和“法律责任”的技术逻辑：他主张桥梁属于 Assouin 城堡，维修费用应由业主支付 [F5_10 🔍]，并以道路安全为由进行封锁，导致交通被描述为“走得太远的桥” [F4_8 🔍]。
然而，深描其生活世界的真实痛感（Pathos）可以发现，这场争端的核心并非简单的财务分歧，而是深层的个人恩怨与权力拉锯。市长在私人叙事中表现出强烈的被冒犯感 [F6_12 🔍]，甚至发出“我会一直记得这件事直到我死去”的极端警告 [F6_11 🔍]。这种高温度的情感词汇揭示了行政行为背后的真实驱动力：市长利用公共职权（Logos）来执行私人层面的情感审判（Pathos）。
这里存在着一种深刻的辩证摩擦：市长将法律所有权的模糊性 [F5_10 🔍] 转化为一种治理手段，通过封锁物理空间来向业主施压。而业主 Rousset-Rouvières 夫妇则试图用法律责任的界定来对抗这种行政压制。在这种摩擦中，村庄的公共利益被牺牲，行政权力被“私有化”为个人情绪的延伸。
对比话语温度，市长在处理桥梁所有权时使用法律术语，但在面对冲突时则陷入极端的个人情感波动 [F6_11 🔍]。这种断裂诊断出一种典型的“前现代权力逻辑”与“现代法治理性”的冲突：当公共职能被个体情感绑架时，制度理性不再是解决冲突的工具，而成为了制造冲突的武器，导致社区信任的彻底瓦解。
▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Ethical & Sociological Inquiry)
- 【关于“生物治理”的伦理边界研究】：当公共卫生治理依赖于对生物本能的操纵（如利用蚊子对抗蚊子）时，这种“技术理性”在多大程度上能够真正消解个体的生存痛感，而非仅仅是数据的优化？
- 【关于“微观权力私有化”的考察】：在小规模社区治理中，如何构建有效的监督机制，以防止行政首长将公共资源（如道路、桥梁）异化为执行私人情感复仇的筹码？
- 【关于“灾难性关注”与制度性忽视的辩证】：乔科省的案例表明，只有在发生地震等极端事件后，被忽视的地区才能获得国家注意力
[F12_22 🔍]。我们应如何构建一种不依赖于“灾难触发”的常态化边缘地区救助理性？