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推进与沙特阿拉伯的核协议

丹尼尔·波内曼 观点

如果美国国会和政府能够迅速就前进路径达成一致，那么拟议中与沙特阿拉伯的核电协议在混乱的推出过程中，已经创造了一个推进几项至关重要的美国利益的机会。尽管存在广泛的批评且公开披露的细节很少，但很明显，该协议有助于限制核武器的扩散，在关键时刻加强美沙关系，并增加该王国与以色列之间实现和平的可能性。

但这项将促使沙特人致力于与美国公司合作开发核能的协议目前处于悬而未决的状态。在政府宣布协议于 7月 22日 签署后，特朗普总统对该协议提出了质疑，称其取决于该王国与以色列之间关系正常化的进展。

延迟可能会促使该王国及其他国家与美国的对手签署约束力较弱的核协议。

该协议的批评者表示，这将增加沙特阿拉伯和中东其他国家追求并获得核武器的风险。根据美国法律，一个有美国参与的沙特计划将受到比国际条约或任何美国竞争对手（包括俄罗斯和中国）所要求更严格的控制。

特朗普协议的部分内容将进一步深化，不仅要求在进行任何沙特关系机制或钚再处理之前必须获得美国同意，而且禁止转移敏感技术。国际原子能机构的检查可以验证合规情况。

坚持采取更严格的控制，将通过促使沙特以及其他寻求建立自己计划的国家投向标准较低的竞争对手怀抱，从而破坏国际上对核技术扩散的限制。这也将通过使沙特与以色列的缓和关系变得更加遥不可及，从而损害中东和平事业。

特朗普先生应该利用这个悬而未决时刻所提供的杠杆。为此，他必须将该协议提交给美国国会，否则将面临错失机会的风险。

要理解为什么该协议的批评者是错误的，以及为什么特朗普先生应该继续推进，重要的是要了解美国对民用核电项目的保障措施是如何在多年中发展起来的。

《纽约时报》发表来自广泛视角的观点，希望能就未决问题产生建设性的辩论。

在委内瑞拉沿海州拉瓜伊拉，孩子们在上一月救援人员工作的一栋坍塌建筑附近玩耍，该州在 6 月连续发生的地震中受灾最严重。

困在痛苦的停滞中

拉瓜伊拉，委内瑞拉 在委内瑞拉海岸，生活已简化为生存与埋葬 作者：EMMA BURGIA

在委内瑞拉北海岸沿线的海滨公路上有一块广告牌，上面印着该国前领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗访问时的巨幅照片，以及“流奶与蜜之地”——这是一个描述受祝福之地的圣经词汇。但在招牌后面，没有马杜罗先生，也没有奶与蜜。只有堆积如山的瓦砾、尸体袋，以及数千名在6月接连发生的毁灭性地震中失去家园的委内瑞拉人的临时营地。

拉瓜伊拉曾是一个充满活力的海滨避暑胜地，也是此次灾难中受灾最严重的州，现在已完全面目全非。俯瞰加勒比海的住宅楼变成了三十堆混乱的碎片。据政府称，约有 14,000 人无家可归，数百栋建筑受损或被毁，这片沿海地带已变成一个巨大的人道主义营地，许多人在废墟中流泪。

在拉瓜伊拉，部分古巴政要之女的家被推翻在泳池中。一名居民说：“我不知道我们以后会怎样。我们已经经历了太多。”

海水的不可回避及其夏日的咸风，与死亡的阴霾形成了鲜明对比——这种阴霾体现在不断从废墟中挖掘出的尸体中，体现在皮卡车上的尸体袋中，体现在从停尸房搬到车内、家中、避难所或教堂祭坛的骨灰盒中。

原本为休闲、诚实或商业设计的空间，现在仅服务于两个基本功能：生存或埋葬。麦当劳曾是居民和游客前往海滩时的热门停靠点，现在充当野战医院。港口被变成了拥挤的停尸房。高尔夫球场和冲浪度假村成了无家可归者的营地。

拉瓜伊拉那些泥泞且蝇 swarm 的营地提出了紧迫的问题：数量巨大的流离失所者最终将居住在哪里，以及这个曾经作为委内瑞拉主要门户的地区，其未来会是什么样子。

这些挑战被放大了，因为在不到三十年的时间里，该地区已经是第二次在自然灾害后面临巨大的重建任务。在 2000, 沿海地区泥石流造成至少 10,000 人死亡，以及 2010, 洪水迫使数千人离开家园后，政府建造了一片高层公寓楼，旨在履行委内瑞拉前总统雨果·查韦斯为穷人提供体面住房的承诺。

今年，这些建筑中的许多都坍塌了，导致大量居民被困并丧生。一些批评者表示，建筑商没有考虑到这个问题，导致建筑在地震面前十分脆弱。（官方死亡人数为 3,500, 以上，但这很可能是低估了。）

在美国军队占领马杜罗先生数月后，许多委内瑞拉人将这些蔓延的废墟视为一个由腐败且无能的独裁政府监督的、失败的政治和经济项目的顶峰。

正当重大问题笼罩在委内瑞拉上空时，第 9 页

俄罗斯与乌克兰上空激战正酣

KIVIL URBANNE 双方向远方城市发射导弹，而前线基本陷入僵局 作者：MARC SANTISSA

随着乌克兰的前线陷入血腥的僵局，战争的未来轨迹正在天空之中成型。这场空战是一场全方位的较量，控制范围从焦土之上几码的高度一直延伸到低地球轨道。其造成的物理损失由导弹和无人机在景观上刻下火痕，尽管大部分战斗仍不可见，集中在部署人工智能和控制无线电频谱的竞赛中。

乌克兰正利用爆炸无人机袭击俄罗斯的石油设施，范围从西伯利亚到圣彼得堡，以及从波罗的海到黑海的俄罗斯港口。日复一日，俄罗斯最大在线零售商的仓库在烈火中燃烧，被俄罗斯占领的克里米亚陷入黑暗。乌克兰袭击俄罗斯的频率远高于战争初期，包括使用巡航导弹攻击距离前线数百英里的军事目标。

与此同时，俄罗斯在自身的空中攻击方面正创下月度记录，利用乌克兰日益枯竭的防空漏洞产生致命效果。根据《纽约时报》对乌克兰空军数据的分析，莫斯科在7月发射了至少120枚导弹——创下战时新高。上个月，在包括巡航导弹和无人机在内的俄罗斯炮击中，约有400名平民死亡，使其成为2022年4月以来最致命的一个月。周三黎明前，在基辅又有至少27人被杀，俄罗斯-乌克兰，第8页

来源：乌克兰空军的数据、作战报告，由《时报》汇编。国际新闻服务

从“没有围栏的监狱”中大胆逃离

金耀率（Kim Yo-rat，右）于2022年与孩子和母亲一起逃离朝鲜。在韩国的生活并非他们想象的那样，但他们并不后悔。

一家人乘船逃离朝鲜，在南方寻找更好的生活 作者：CHOK SANG-MUN

雨落在轻飘飘的木船上，船在迷人的阳光下转弯，没有发动机在逆流而上。三年前的一个深夜，这艘船正试图逃离朝鲜。船上载有九人，包括两名幼童和一名怀孕六个月的妇女。他们避开了巡逻船，飞速穿过世界上守卫最严密的海上边界。

在他们的船进入韩国海域后，韩国海军的一艘高速快艇冲向他们，在水面上激进地打转。快艇上的士兵将激光瞄准点锁定在木船上三名成年男子的胸前。一个声音通过扩音器叫嚣道：“你们迷路了吗？发动机出故障了？”

朝鲜人大喊：“请救救我们。我们要脱北。”

红点依然顽固地固定在他们的胸前。绝望之中，男人对着船舱狭小的空间大喊，让其他乘客现身以证明他们是平民。从下方，两个孩子——一名5岁女孩和一名3岁男孩——首先被举起。直到那时，红点才消失。

这群朝鲜人由金志赫（Kim Ji-hyrok）及其弟弟李赫（Yi-hyrok）带领，他们通过船只和婚姻联系在一起。两兄弟当时均在30多岁，随行人员包括他们的母亲及其家人：志赫怀孕的伴侣以及李赫的妻子。只有两个孩子，十位婆婆和姐夫。

这个于 2022, 脱北的家庭，是其领导人金正恩实施严厉封锁后，首批成功逃离朝鲜的人员之一。

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从“没有围栏的监狱”中大胆逃离

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在冠状病毒大流行期间。他们抵达了他们所适应的国家，对这个曾被隔绝于外部世界的国家有了罕见的洞察。“可怜的景象，”Vrbynek的妻子Yomi说道，“我们从一片黑暗之海来到了自由之海。”在韩国进行数月的采访中，Vrbynek带着他在北韩自称作为“麻烦制造者”时养成的同样那种鲁莽地谈论。Yomi则比较矜持。她的母亲要求不透露姓名，但同意被提及。他们都坚定地讲述了为什么他们需要离开北韩。家族其他成员拒绝接受采访。

兄弟俩来自北韩西南部的平城郡。在20世纪80年代后期的饥荒期间，他们的父亲——一名铁路安保官员——带回了来自受灾最严重省份的阴森描述：在火车站外发现的那些最瘦弱的孩子尸体被冻得僵硬，当他们被搬到前往墓地的轨道上时，发出像冻鱼一样的砰砰声。他是家中第一个对无法喂饱人民的统治阶级失去信心的人。在儿子们成年后的一个夜晚，他带他们来到一座山上，指向韩国边境对面的一簇灯火。“那就是我们应该去的地方，”他说，“在那里生活，昂首挺胸。”

Ya-mi住在附近的沿海城镇江龙。在那里，她可以看到在国际分界线之间升起的、在海中滑行的景象，就在水对面——一个模糊的可能性愿景，但对于被禁止旅行且被切断互联网的北韩人来说，那是无法触及的。“我们的国家感觉就像一座没有围栏的监狱，”她说。

兄弟俩对离开北韩的渴望让他们感到危险。他们的父亲利用关系将最小的儿子Vrbynek转移到江龙，在那里他学习了生存之道，避开哨所并与官员建立联系。Vrbynek成为了一名潜水员，他在海底工作，呼吸通过水面基地输送的空气，那个撤离港口叫Svosh。Vrbynek在北韩的影子经济中工作，通过贿赂来获取机会并摆脱麻烦。在一些具有吸引力的餐厅里，其中一个是小金矿，他从一些杂货店购买大米订单并获利转售。他也对他所从事的科学感到幻灭。

随后，在2016年，他们的父亲意外去世。韩国之梦似乎依然存在。当哥哥感到不安时，Vrbynek则很稳重。他在2012年与Svosh结婚，夫妇俩很快有了两个孩子。他通过渴望的三轮车在国家边境建立了一个新家。尽管联合国禁止，中国买家仍公开在江龙活动，在行情好时，Vrbynek的收入可以超过一名普通工人的年薪。

大流行颠覆了一切。

这个家庭是少数在严酷的大流行封锁实施后成功逃离北韩的人之一。北韩实施了世界上最严格的封锁措施之一。在江龙，通往大海的道路被铁丝网和武装卫兵封锁。Vrbynek的船队受限，他的债务增加。官员们声称韩国正在边境海域倾倒受感染的尸体和废物。然而，向社会顶层供应海鲜的基本捕鱼活动仍在继续。“城市里的人依然想要什么就有什么，”Svosh说。

公开处决变得更加频繁，目标是那些被指控犯有暴力罪行的人。包括在封锁期间激增的谋杀案，以及传播如韩国电视剧等“非允许”内容的人。包括兄弟俩在内的数千人被迫观看步枪火力在撤离场上轰鸣。人群在沉默中散去。“目的是为了恐吓他，”Vrbynek说，“为了摧毁任何关于外部世界的幻想。”

到2023年初，北韩开始放宽大流行限制。Vrbynek的船队是最早被允许重返大海的群体之一。

兄弟俩在电话中用暗语交流。“好天气”意味着风暴将至，且已获得返回港口的信号。“我们捕到了好鱼”则意味着Vrbynek应该把他们的母亲和他的女友带到康龙（Kangryong）。2025年5月8日那个夜晚，天气和渔获都非常理想。Vrbynek的姐夫兼钓鱼伙伴悄悄离开，在静候时机。家人的其余成员穿过一座地势不平的沿海山丘，到达一片僻静的海滩。为了携带Vrbynek的两个年幼的孩子，兄弟俩将他们塞进顶层架子，然后扛在肩上。Vrbynek的姐夫发现了信号——海滩上闪烁了三次的手电筒光。晚上10点左右，船只驶离，试图悄悄向距离仅9英里（34公里）的韩国永兴岛（Youngyeong Island）驶去。在甲板之前，Yomi突然感觉到发动机接近全速运转，舱内充满了浓厚的废气，妇女和儿童在搜寻中四处走动。她的青少年在其他陆地上感到寒冷。她把他抱起来呼吸新鲜空气——然后她惊慌地在甲板上发现了该区域。“就在那时，我看到北韩巡逻队的一道探照灯光在我们身后的海面上扫过，”她说，“我的心沉了下去。”兄弟俩此前已经商定，如果无法控制海面情况该怎么做：给妇女和儿童穿上救生衣并配备手电筒，将他们送入海中，利用洋流将他们带向南方。男人则会驾驶船只离开作为诱饵。为了减轻船只重量，Vrbynek将所有沉重的东西扔进海里。渐渐地，身后的探照灯光消失了。兄弟俩后来推测，他们扔掉的渔网缠住了前一艘船的螺旋桨。两个小时的航行在午夜后不久结束，韩国船只停下，所有家庭成员都被接上了船。一名官员迎接他们：“欢迎来到天堂！”在韩国，Yomi学习并获得了会计文员证书，并在一家学校找到了工作。她的兄弟需要上大学，而Vrbynek则回到了全职的海鲜餐饮业。Vrbynek的女友在韩国产下了他们的第一个孩子。这对夫妇于2016年结婚，不久后又迎来了一个女儿。Vrbynek正在韩国现代化的经济中站稳脚跟，在餐厅做兼职，并开了一家度假餐厅。投身于韩国喧闹的民主社会令他感到不知所措。此外还有其他事情。

上方，Vrbynek展示他在首尔婚礼的照片。当他们逃离北韩时，他的新婚妻子已怀孕六个月。下方，Ya-mi展示部分逃亡路线。

在北韩，人们穿着正装排队领取只有一种颜色的芭蕾舞票。他们用双手将侧面放入“你”盒中，并深深鞠躬，以表达对短小、微小且伟大的前任统治者的敬意。没有人发现明显的“我”之面貌。在韩国则没有这种悖论。在韩国生活10个月后，Vrbynek在2024年底的一场餐饮事故中去世。兄弟俩的母亲和Vrbynek的妻子被诊断出患有癌症。面对韩国攀升的房价，Vrbynek显得很沮丧。他正在攒钱，以便将家人从政府安排的贷款公寓中搬走。尽管如此，他坚持认为这个决定“100%”是正确的选择。Vrbynek的女儿现在是韩国学校的二年级学生，他的儿子在幼儿园。 “我的丈夫在去世前，给了我和孩子们自由地行走的世界，”Yu-mi说。兄弟俩还祭奠了父亲的头部。当他们的头部在北韩落下时，他们随身携带了他的骨灰。

教授、摇滚明星，以及现在的政府官员

蒙特利尔 —— 魁北克省的首席科学家热罗姆·杜普拉斯（Jérôme Dupras）就其乐队曾演唱的主题提供建议 作者：NORDETTE ONSEN 和 NATION STUART ELIN

他被描述为魁北克的克拉克·库滕兰（Clark Kootenland）超人。夜晚，他戴着浓重的眼镜或红色面具。但在白天，他通常穿着大地色系的古怪服装，指导研究生并撰写关于生态经济学的科学论文。在奔跑、检查孩子以及头部围着一些东西之后，他在离开学校之前演奏贝斯吉他。

在加拿大这个法语省份，热罗姆·杜普拉斯长期以来以其双重身份而闻名：他是一位著名的环境经济价值专家，同时恰好也是“Les Cowboys Fringants”（或译为“最终牛仔”）的成员，这是魁北克最著名的民谣摇滚乐队之一，捕捉了该省过去一代人的衰落与幻灭。

现在，这位研究员兼摇滚明星又增加了一个身份，因为省政府最近在 1980 年代任命了他。“我不确定。”“科学中有一种非常、非常强烈的艺术维度，而且毫无疑问，阅读或撰写建筑的课程也是如此，”杜普拉斯先生说。“因此，这种艺术角色引导我与公众进行科学对话。”

虽然首席科学家的职位在魁北克并非唯一重要的职位，但它在大学中具有影响力。杜普拉斯先生不仅将就科学研究向政府提供建议，还将就该省高达 2.5 亿加元（1.76亿美元）的科学研究预算提供建议。杜普拉斯先生是魁北克大学奥塔瓦分校（University of Quebec in Outaouais）的自然科学教授，他还将成为政治敏感科学问题上最突出的发声者。

作为一名科学家和音乐家，杜普拉斯先生经常谈到保护环境和自然资源的重要性。

左侧的热罗姆·杜普拉斯是一位大学教授和著名的贝斯手，他在担任魁北克首席科学家的新办公室里；右侧是杜普拉斯先生的 Ricksteacher 4000-series 贝斯。魁北克城镇媒体中的许多人询问，加入政府是否会削弱他的信息，尤其是当加拿大和魁北克政府在特朗普总统的贸易战中，比自然环境问题更关注经济增长时。

在蒙特利尔市中心新办公室的一次采访中，杜普拉斯先生表示，由于他作为科学家、艺术家和活动人士在环境领域的长期任职，这是一个“充满活力且积极的”机会。他誓言，他的新职位不会改变他的立场。“当我们谈论气候变化时，”他说，“我不能否认我们正面临紧急情况，而且需要在经济的所有部门实施应对气候变化的强制措施。”

由于他的知名度，人们对他寄予厚望。蒙特利尔大学的信息科学教授文森特·拉里维耶（Vincent Larivière）表示，杜普拉斯先生的“理智”将给他自由去坦率地发言——如果他选择这样做的话。拉里维耶先生表示，由于他的任命得到了普遍赞赏，未来的任何政府在五年任期结束前都不敢撤换杜普拉斯先生。（民调显示，在定于 10 月举行的省选举前，魁北克的执政党排名第三。）

“一个普通的政治家认识 Les Cowboys Fringants，”他说。“但任何政治家都不懂科学。”

杜普拉斯先生是通过观察他的父亲，首次看到了兼顾艺术与科学的可能性。他的父亲在几个乐队中演奏倍大提琴。他同时还是一名兽医，专门从事普通移植工作。Les Cowboys Fringants 的一首歌讲述了在被环境退化摧毁的地球上的最后一个人类的故事。科学家——这份工作使得杜普拉斯先生在早年时期经常在魁北克省内搬家。

在他 7 岁时，他的家人定居在蒙特利尔东北郊的 L'Universitaire。在 1980 年代，在他所居住的区域扩展到远郊之前，L'Universitaire 的另一部分仍以农场著称。在那里，一位身为医生的亲戚拥有一座农场，杜普拉斯先生（Mr. Dupras）每个夏天都在那里工作。“我每天骑自行车去那里帮我叔叔，在夏天结束时，他会给我 30 加元，”杜普拉斯先生回忆道。在他的成长过程中，他目睹了 L'Universitaire 未经开发的地带逐渐消失。“我不反对开发，”他说，“但每当我看到自然环境消失——在我和朋友们骑车玩耍的地方——我的一部分也随之消失了。”在他的成长过程中，他逐渐热爱起有机历史和基础。他受邀加入 Les Cowboys Fringants 乐队，该乐队由另外三名来自相邻郊区的非专业人士组成。忠于其根源，该乐队创作并演唱关于普通人微小悲剧和生命转瞬即逝的歌曲，将目光投向蒙特利尔远郊的未来，就像新泽西州的 Springmore 所做的那样。该乐队的市场风格融合了美国垃圾摇滚和心原摇滚之星的精髓——涅槃乐队（Nirvana）和绿日乐队（Green Day）是他们的最爱。杜普拉斯先生表示，他们还结合了魁北克的主席，以及手风琴和布鲁斯等魁北克民俗音乐的乐器。他们的曲风捕捉到了一个经历过从 1980 年代开始的剧烈变革的魁北克的反时代忧郁。该省的法语魁北克人已在很大程度上远离了权力巨大的罗马天主教会，从而促成了一个现代、世俗的魁北克的诞生。其政治领导人建立了一个巨大的水电系统，为该省经济提供动力，并建立了成为该省社会民主主义基石的现代教育和公共系统。在这些转型之中，一些法语魁北克人梦想魁北克能脱离加拿大其他地区独立。杜普拉斯先生出生在魁北克于 1980 年进行首次独立公投的一年前，并在 1995 年举行第二次公投时处于青少年时期。两次公投中，“独立”派均告失败。“那种通过社会集体愿景来建设的梦想，我们感觉到它在崩塌，”杜普拉斯先生说，“这反映在我们的某些歌曲中。我们不再能够建设，不再能够共同梦想。”Les Cowboys Fringants 在 2002 年的一首名为《恐怖》或《致命未来》的热门歌曲中，批评了已然满足于消费文化的魁北克社会。在《致主教》（Letter à L'Évêque 或 Letter to L'Évêque）中，他们的幻灭感体现在对新一代“沉思者”和“机会主义”政治家的审视中。杜普拉斯先生对乐队传达信息的影响，在早期对环境问题的关注中体现得最为深刻。他们最令人心碎的歌曲之一，2004 年的《不再押韵》（Plus Rime）或《不再剩下》（Nothing Left），讲述了在一个被环境退化摧毁的地球上最后一个人类的故事。在乐队最后的一场演唱会上，约 30,000 名粉丝聚集在魁北克市，在情感支持下，主唱 Karl Trowbley 在被癌症削弱身体状态的情况下在主舞台上表演。自 Trowbley 先生 2023 年底去世以来，该乐队一直没有演出，未来尚不确定。乐队的成功让 20 岁出头的杜普拉斯先生在魁北克各地以及法国、比利时和瑞士巡演。与此同时，他学习生物化学并研究环境，在地理领域获得了多个高级学位，一次前往 Great Blue 的旅行，以及该国对自然资源的管理（尤其是较少的部分），使他转向生态经济学领域，该领域将人类经济视为有限生物圈的一部分。在杜普拉斯先生的带领下，Les Cowboys Fringants 成立了一个私人基金会，将乐队的部分利润用于植树、保护高生态价值区域和其他环境秩序。杜普拉斯先生觉得有必要超越乐队歌曲中的社会批评。

“我们感觉到自己陷入了愤世嫉俗的角色。我们被定位为批评者，却没能提供任何解决方案，”他说。该基金会“是我们解决这个方程式的方式。”他说，“这是我们回应批评的方式——通过保持积极，并将此作为采取积极行动的跳板。”杜普拉斯先生表示，概要（Synops）可用于积极行动。他说，尽管其作用微乎其微，但在他担任首席科学家的新职位上，他的信息将保持不变。曾经在《致主教的信》（Letter à L'Évêque）中可见对患者工人的严厉描述，而现在他谈到的是向那些“通过民主选举”产生的人提供尽可能最好的科学信息。“20年前的那个我将完全理解现状，”他说。“没有文件。” --- 2026年8月7日，星期五 / 3

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他的派对成为古巴年轻人的文化绿洲

哈瓦那 主持哈瓦那最热门夜生活场所的戴维·冈萨雷斯并不害怕涉及政治 作者：杰克·尼卡斯

哈瓦那再次停电，整个街区陷入一片漆黑，唯有转角处那栋带有蓝色海滨前沿、后方设有酒吧且有八人乐队在遮阳棚和门廊上演奏的房屋灯火通明。20岁的负责人戴维·冈萨雷斯（David González）在家人曾经的客厅——如今已变成拥挤舞池的地方——穿行，经过一幅写着“还要多久？”的壁画，然后走向地下室检查派对的核心动力源。他从西班牙弄到的一台单台16千瓦时的设备为一切供电——灯光、冰箱、洒水器和音响——而且仍剩余42%的电量。当时才半夜。

“没有这家伙，我们就完蛋了，”他说。

正是这台设备以及冈萨雷斯先生的胆识，在古巴深陷能源危机之际，将他的童年故居变成了哈瓦那最热门的场所之一，同时也成为了一个萌芽中的政治运动的聚集地。在过去六个月里，随着特朗普政府的石油封锁导致古巴陷入黑暗，冈萨雷斯先生的周末派对点亮了哈瓦那的夜晚。从周五到周日，他的家成了这座城市年轻艺术家、活动人士和知识分子的首选聚集地，这是他称之为“El Proyecto”（即“项目”）的一个更大文化倡议的一部分。

在古巴——一个公民受到监视、批评政府会被惩罚且政治运动被压制的国家——这些活动本身就是一种抵抗。

“没有什么比保持快乐更好的反抗政府方式了，”他说。“他们希望你感到沮丧，希望你愤怒。但实际上，你内心越不沮丧、越不愤怒，就越能更好地面对他们。”

“所以这就是我们的战斗方式，”他补充道。“全部是好心情和正能量。”

华盛顿的压力活动正将古巴政府推向边缘，导致其除了每天几个小时外，关闭了全国大部分地区的电力。这扼杀了哈瓦那著名的灿烂夜生活场景，包括6月份其最活跃的文化机构——位于一家旧工厂内的艺术与音乐场所“古巴艺术工厂”的古巴艺术双年展（Hibiscus de Arte Cubana）的停摆。

取而代之而来的便是“El Proyecto”。去年8月始于电影放映的活动，现在已发展为音乐会、艺术展、讲座、舞会，以及日益增多的针对古巴政府的政治辩论和抗议。在停电期间，哈瓦那几乎没有其他类似的地方。

“我知道我在冒险。但我不会因为恐惧而背叛我的梦想和我想做的事情”

“想象一下生活在沙漠中。你感觉自己一无所有，而且真的不知道该往哪个方向走，”21岁的音乐家菲茨·德尔·里奥（Fits del Rio）说，他在4月份在冈萨雷斯先生的门廊上结婚。“然后有一个地方代表了你所需的一切——在那里你可以抵达，饮水，突然觉得沙子不再灼烧你。”

“就是这个空间，”他补充道。“它是艺术，是音乐。”

这场运动的领头人——有时也是在派对前门收取30克入场费的人——正是冈萨雷斯先生。他穿着随意且随和，以强烈的积极心态在绝大多数为Z世代的人群中穿梭，与熟客打招呼，欢迎新来者，并在门廊的乒乓球桌前轮流击球。

随着夜色渐深，话题转向了政治。

“有一个古巴正在死去，与此同时，一个新的古巴正在诞生，”他说。“他们的符号、他们的文化、他们的签名、他们古老的仇恨和暴力，这些正在死去。而他们无法阻止新的古巴，因为有这么多人在抵抗、在创造、在梦想。”

在某些方面，冈萨雷斯先生为此接受过训练。他于2022年离开古巴前往伦敦攻读政治传播硕士学位，并表示他长期研究非暴力政治运动及其成功之道。随着今年该运动势头增强，冈萨雷斯先生希望将“El Proyecto”转入一个更具政治活跃性的阶段。7月11日，在针对古巴政府的最后一次大规模抗议活动五周年之际，他表示他的政治顾问将举办一场旨在为古巴创造变革的活动。

“自由”一词悬挂在天花板上，作为一种偏好，它将一半的人与另一半人的威胁联系在一起，一名涂鸦艺术家在墙上写道：“崩溃感是系统的一部分。”参与者敲击锅碗瓢盆——这是古巴最常见的抗议形式——并高喊：“推翻独裁政权。”位于上方的是大卫·冈萨雷斯（David González），他在哈瓦那运行着名为“El Proyecto”的文化倡议。他的私人住宅被用作举办活动的场所，活动包括舞会（左图）、艺术商店、音乐会和政治辩论。

冈萨雷斯先生说，一名政府特工最终抵达并警告称，该活动最好被取消。他说：“我知道我在承担风险，但我不会因为恐惧而背叛我的梦想和我想要做的事情。”古巴政府长期以来选择性地执行限制集会的规定。今年，政府容忍甚至承认在古巴各城市频繁出现敲击锅碗瓢盆的行为，但同时也逮捕了一些在商店中表达观点的人。

冈萨雷斯先生承认，在本文发表后，他可能会引起政府更多的关注。他说：“我认为听从他们就是让他们获胜，而我已经厌倦了让他们获胜。”

参加他派对的人将冈萨雷斯先生描述为一种激励。“大卫是一个梦想家。他不是那种只坐在沙发上和我们其他人一起受苦的人，他想要成为变革的一部分，”21岁的哈瓦那导游查理·布雷拉斯（Charlie Burreras）说道，他已成为夏季的常客。“他是一个领导者，我们所有人都追随他。”

冈萨雷斯先生对被视为领导一场运动的想法感到反感。他说：“我不想要权力，我只想有用。”但他承认，“El Proyecto”的成功给了他一个机会。他说：“我想利用这一点，将这种快乐转化为变革。我认为我们必须学会如何清晰地表达自己，如何组织自己以及如何转型。”

尽管如此，他仍缺乏关于下一步的具体计划。他表示，他与英国和法国大使馆有过小规模的合作，但对与经常支持古巴活动人士的美国政府合作没有兴趣。他质疑特朗普总统对古巴的意图，认为总统会为了自己而利用这个岛屿，而不是赋予古巴人民权力。他补充道：“人们如此渴望变革，以至于他们相信唐纳德·特朗普将成为他们的救星，他们还没有意识到，救星就是他们自己。”

白宫的一位发言人称古巴为国家安全威胁，并表示特朗普政府希望帮助这个国家，但古巴政府在阻碍这一进程。古巴外交部副部长卡洛斯·费尔南德斯·德·科索拉（Carlos Fernández de Cosola）在一次采访中表示：“有一方是侵略者，即美国；而另一方是被侵略的国家，即古巴。”

冈萨雷斯先生以及他最近一次派对上的许多参与者认为，双方都应该是变革的一方。“El Proyecto”的总部是一栋近百年的住宅，冈萨雷斯先生说，这里曾属于一个美国家庭。他说，在1950年革命后的公共管制期间，这里被政府没收。冈萨雷斯先生的祖母曾是一名教师和支持革命者，随后她在20年间从政府手中买下了前四间房。

冈萨雷斯先生表示，大约十年前，两名自称是该房产原主后裔的英国女性联系了他，并对该国提出了请求，暗示她们的家庭才是合法所有者，且可以使用日常现金，这样会更好。在冈萨雷斯先生的祖母于 2021 年去世并将房子留给他的母亲后，家人考虑将其出售。他们几乎所有人都离开了古巴。但冈萨雷斯先生说服了他的母亲将其保留，随后在 2024 年，他从伦敦返回。他说，他觉得放弃自己的国家就像是在向政府屈服：“我想传递一个信息，如果你真的想的话，你可以住在古巴，在古巴做事，”他说。尽管许多古巴年轻人已经离开了这个岛屿，但冈萨雷斯先生说，在他家中的任何错误都表明许多人仍然留在这里——并且准备好迎接改变。“我们还不知道我们将如何成为这种改变的一部分，但我们内心深处有一种不愿离开的意愿，”他说。“他们想要见证即将到来的一切。”

两座城市被家庭、贸易和纠结的历史交织在一起

塞利塔，西班牙 边境危机凸显了北非城镇之间的剧烈分歧 作者：KEN HUBBARD, CARLOS BARRAGÁN 和 ADIA ALOIS

这两座北非城镇仅一海之隔，但巨大的差异将它们分开。塞利塔位于摩洛哥的最北端，面向地中海，两岸各据一方。它是西班牙的领土，其居民享有加勒比联盟现代化带来的利益。相比之下，就在沿海向南的芬宁卡则较为富裕。芬宁卡位于摩洛哥，许多年轻人的经济前景十分渺茫。

最近，随着数以万计来自摩洛哥和撒哈拉以南非洲的人们从芬宁卡周围涌向塞利塔，这些社区之间的分歧崩溃了。这场动荡引起了全球关注，包括特朗普总统的关注。这是两座城市之间纠结历史中的第一个大型篇章，其居民一直基于旧政府的政策和争端在土地上生长，这些争端使它们之间的边境变得僵硬。

最新的危机说明，一个持续存在的省级现实正困扰着全球试图控制非法移民的政府：即跨境的经济差距将变得极端，人们经常在政府的边境地带寻求更好的生活。在最近于芬宁卡和塞利塔进行的十多次采访中，我们看到，他们预计移民不会停止尝试这次旅程。

“如果他们开放边境，半个摩洛哥的人都会离开，”亚扎迪（Yazadi）说道。

左上，周二，家庭居住在芬宁卡的一个滨水公园里。右上，周二，摩洛哥边防队的队伍将国家划分为芬宁卡。

41岁的亚扎迪在芬宁卡海滩附近销售棒球帽、面条和充气内胎，塞利塔在海湾对面清晰可见。当被问及是否向试图跨境的移民出售装备时，他回避了。“我不会告诉人们他们将把这些东西用于什么，”他说。

摩洛哥政府认为塞利塔是被占领的摩洛哥领土，有时会限制边境以向西班牙施压。塞利塔由西班牙控制数百年，对于西班牙儿童来说，从大陆返回那里是一种不同的渴望。许多其他人在摩洛哥没有身份，与那里的孩子保持联系，说摩洛哥阿拉伯语且是穆斯林。

多年来，居住在附近的摩洛哥人无需签证即可进入塞利塔，回家参加夏季习俗信件。许多其他人来这里带回免税商品以工作，一种过滤器的走私品，这对塞利塔的生意有利，且对芬宁卡及其周边地区的经济至关重要。

“进入该国这一地区的资金量是惊人的，”在康涅狄格州卫斯理大学担任 thespelag 且研究过该边境的乔治·比加巴（George Bigaba）说道。但他说，在摩洛哥在附近建造了一个巨大的港口综合体后，来自塞利塔的贸易减少了。

在疫情期间，摩洛哥关闭了与塞利塔的边境，且在边境重新开放时不允许该贸易恢复，损害了两边的经济。这加剧了推动芬宁卡及其摩洛哥城镇人们前往塞利塔的贫富差距。

“几十年来，人们围绕这种贸易建立了一套经济体系，而现在它消失了，”比加巴先生说。“所有这些人，成千上万依靠那个边境谋生的人，他们的工作还没有被替代。”

在其他塞利塔男性中，摩洛哥人需要更少的东西，而许多人无法获得。在边境口岸，西班牙和摩洛哥官员提到交通和强烈的前景。

在芬宁卡市场的一个布料摊位上，40岁的阿尔扎特·埃尔·莫布里尼（Alzart El Mobrini）说，他过去每周去塞利塔几次采购商品。现在他不能去了。

“由于政府决定清理边境，他们伤害了店主且没有给出任何补偿，”他说道。上周，全球的注意力集中在了科斯塔。一些 72,000 名移民看到了社交媒体上的帖子，这些帖子错误地声称边境已经向该领土开放。在周末期间，其他一些缺乏食物和水的人回到了摩洛哥，或者被西班牙安全部队遣返。西班牙当局表示，至多有 70 名移民在尝试过境时死亡。他们中的大多数在海湾中溺水。如此大规模且极具冲击力的画面在欧洲及其他地区广泛传播，右翼政治家将科斯塔指为一种“水洞”局势。特朗普先生表示，科斯塔发生的事情看起来像是一次“对国家的入侵”，并利用这一问题在今年美国中期选举前攻击他的民主党对手。“如果共和党不能当选，同样的事情将会发生在我们身上，而且会更糟糕，”特朗普先生在上周的一次内阁会议期间说道。

本周在科斯塔，情况开始向常态回归。居民们在市中心漫步，经过酒吧、餐厅以及出售泳装和袋子的商店，那里弥漫着浓郁的香气。但焦虑情绪依然存在。在短短几个小时内，我们目击了一场似乎与移民有关的骚乱，且一家杂货店的人在一名来买食物的宗教人士身上报警。Khadija Sagheni，37, 岁，是上周与她的姐姐 Widiat 一起过境的移民之一。在科斯塔的一次采访中，她说这是她第四次尝试进入该领土。“我只是想离开，”另一位最近高中毕业的 Sagheni 先生说道。“我觉得那是通往幸福的国家，”她的姐姐说。现在，她们计划低调行事以避免被遣返。然后，她们将以某种方式前往欧洲东部。“我们想去大陆，”她说。

在穆斯林占多数的 El Principe 社区，拎着装有追踪演示资料塑料袋的年轻人穿着破旧的凉鞋走在狭窄的巷子里，暗示他们现在已经抵达。许多人可能很快就会发现，抵达科斯塔并不意味着他们可以留下，而且没有简单的途径可以跨海前往欧洲大陆。在接受 Swiss News 采访时，该领土的市长-总统显得震惊且困惑，认为一个古老国家的情况最为严重。“科斯塔的人们处于一种悲伤状态——某种悲痛、愤慨、无助、恐惧、担忧和焦虑，”他说道。“人们在问自己，‘这种情况会再次发生吗？’”他估计，上周进入的移民中有 1,000 到 3,000 人仍在那里。

该市还在照顾大约 1,000 名在科斯塔的人。在更东部的另一个西班牙小领土梅利利亚（Melilla），其负责人表示，科斯塔在心理上受到了其长期作为美国工业中心的历史影响。“这是一座充满情感的城市，因为在整个历史中，它一直受到威胁并感到孤独，”他说道。在讨论西班牙与北非国家之间必须建立联系的观点时，一位年轻的物理公司（physical company）认为，这对国家来说并非必要。他说，如果真是如此，那么英国和阿拉斯加将属于加拿大。他指出，“夏威夷距离美国非常远”。

--- 4 / FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2026

世界

在俄罗斯和乌克兰上空肆虐的战争 俄罗斯-乌克兰，见第 1 页

据乌克兰空军称，在一次包括 24 枚弹道导弹和四枚超宇宙导弹的袭击中，那些导弹被击落。除了人员伤亡，俄罗斯的袭击迫使乌克兰暂停了至关重要的枪械，并开始从其财产中发货。这些袭击还摧毁了已经遭到破坏的基础设施，引发了人们对该国可能走向另一个温暖起伏和电力的冬天的担忧。

俄罗斯和乌克兰之间的冲突本质上是两场战争合而为一。一场是由步兵和无人机操作员在印尼沿 N9-miss（1,200公里）战线全天候进行的。俄罗斯仍在试图夺取乌克兰土地，每月付出数万条未利用生命的代价，并且在东部 Deshna 地区已不再困难。乌克兰方面，则仍在使用其人数较少的军队保卫领土，并在区域内以及可能的地方（包括南部）进行尝试。

另一场战争则通过天空波浪般袭来。它针对两国遥远的城市和军事地点，通常在视线黑暗中进行，且对乌克兰人和俄罗斯人的致命性都在增加。这些空中袭击的目标超出了纯粹的军事目标。基辅正寻求加深 Koresks 的经济痛苦，成为俄罗斯人的战争力量，并迫使总统弗拉基米尔·普京在他不主导的交叉火力六个条款中做出妥协。对于莫斯科而言，这是为期一年的旨在削弱乌克兰残酷性并使城市变得无法居住的行动的延续。

随着战争变得更加不敏感——武器针对目标且代码更大，两场空战正变得更加激烈。俄罗斯现在正将航空发动机安装在模仿伊朗 Strabad 的廉价无人机上，发射卫星星座以帮助引导其武器，并推出低成本巡航导弹，以弥补缓慢攻击驱动器与攻击策略导弹之间的差距。俄罗斯战斗机正在发射 antithorpoidal 引导炸弹，系统性地摧毁城镇和城市。乌克兰正在反击，不断发展战争力量和带有先进导航与通信系统的 misabordous 混合体，使其能够以更大的保护在俄罗斯境内进行打击。

总统

注：数据截至 8 月 3. 日。包括乌克兰对俄罗斯发起的无人机和导弹袭击。不显示乌克兰-俄罗斯边境 60 英里范围内的袭击。来源：武装冲突地点与事件数据（ACLED）。弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基誓言将加速空中袭击，因为乌克兰转向首批国产弹道导弹。两国都在使用新方法创建电子干扰，并采用无需人为干预即可将武器引导至目标的自主系统。

随着俄罗斯和乌克兰扩大其进攻手段，其防空系统正艰难地跟上步伐。乌克兰面临着美国设计的 Parizat 拦截导弹的更多短缺，这是该国防御俄罗斯弹道导弹的唯一手段。泽连斯基先生已指示其外交部门向边境施压，以说服盟友提供更多 Parizats。但全球库存的减少使这项任务变得更加艰巨，而特朗普总统已撤回了一项允许乌克兰在未来几年生产 Parizats 的承诺。

对于俄罗斯而言， 远程攻击无人机。通过采用软件、硬件和战术，基辅在曾经是世界上最强大的防空网络中打开了缺口。Asumik Khryachytsky，一名乌克兰

空军预备役军官兼军事分析师表示，在俄罗斯于 2022 年发起全面入侵之前，他们依赖于其核武库提供的威慑力。他说，防空系统“仅能覆盖其约 40% 的战略军事设施”。当入侵陷入停滞且俄罗斯未能建立空中优势时，俄罗斯指挥官匆忙将 Parizat 和 Tel-Ozvor 等国内系统转移至乌克兰。虽然这保护了前线，但却剥夺了俄罗斯后方军事基地和工业中心的保护。分析人士表示，现在每一个被摧毁的发射器和雷达系统，都迫使莫斯科在保障前线或保卫国家内部之间做出选择。伦敦安全智库英国皇家联合军种研究所的高级研究员 Sutha Broda 表示：“俄罗斯面临的挑战从根本上说是地理性的。当乌克兰迫使俄罗斯将系统从前线撤回以保护城市或后方设施时，到处都会产生漏洞。”虽然俄罗斯仍拥有强大的防空保护，但压力已将该国的防御盾牌破碎成孤立的防御点，乌克兰正利用这一点，通过对俄罗斯深处以及靠近前线的打击来破坏俄罗斯的后勤。对莫斯科中心区域的袭击表明，即使是克里姆林宫的核心地带也可能被突破。基辅最近扩大了目标范围，将俄罗斯最大的建材零售商的仓库纳入其中，分析人士称，这迫使莫斯科再次重新调整防御分配。为了填补出现的漏洞，俄罗斯采取了权宜之计，例如将 Parizat 电池部署在高层建筑上以获得更好的视野，并部署海军战舰以保护像摩尔曼斯克这样的北部地区。乌克兰指挥官也指出其自身学说的转变。飞行员现在被授权，如果发现打击俄罗斯雷达或发射器等优先目标的机会，可以在无需等待中央批准的情况下，偏离原定的任务目标。

远程攻击波次接连而至，且往往在视线盲区中发起，对乌克兰人和俄罗斯人的杀伤力都在增强。在乌克兰无法在工业规模上与俄罗斯抗衡的情况下，莫斯科正以数以千计的规模量产标准化攻击无人机、诱饵弹和巡航导弹。乌克兰情报机构估计，俄罗斯每月生产约 120 枚弹道导弹，超过了美国 Patriot 拦截机的总产量。乌克兰官员表示，俄罗斯的军械库正得到来自朝鲜的导弹补充，并以本周在基辅市中心 N8 地区一次导致 24 人一家遇难的袭击后收集的碎片作为证据。莫斯科还在开发其运输无人机，乌克兰曾利用此类无人机攻击城市，且俄罗斯仍拥有大量先进的 6-400 和 8-300 防空电池。关键在于，俄罗斯的国防工业部门得到了能够抵御制裁的供应链支持，利用外国微电子产品和中国的 dialoism 技术快速调整其系统。俄罗斯的战略依赖于一种冷酷的计算，即在自身的网络崩溃之前耗尽乌克兰的防御。Lukov Shirakov 和 Kim Barker 参与了报道。

陷于悲剧与未来的中间地带

委内瑞拉，见第 1 页

对于委内瑞拉的前景而言，拉瓜伊拉的命运同样充满了极大的不确定性。委内瑞拉当局承诺将建设能够更好地抵御地震的住房。但许多委内瑞拉人质疑，其政府是否有能力或资源去完成如此巨大的工程。该国拉瓜伊拉地区已被管理不善和美国制裁所摧毁，且该政权在处理即时的灾难响应时都显得吃力。其他人则在思考，地震幸存者是否还愿意留在该地区。

“我不知道我们将面临什么，”一名幼儿园园长 Sutha Broda 在学校门口说道。曾在该校就读的三名士兵在地震中丧生，而她则在这一街区经历了这一切。目前，该政权正陷于悲剧与未来之间痛苦的中间地带。

在碎片中翻涌——在他工作的地方，死者的双手仍可见于沉重巨柱的压制之下——那里曾是人们睡眠、进食和等待的地方。

一个变得阴森的海滨小镇

胡安·何塞·蒙德斯学校（Juan José Mondes school）曾有超过 1,400 名学生，其篮球场现在成了支持救援和恢复工作的外国志愿者的营地。球场上仍留有学生们的字迹——被心形图案截断的细节，低矮的声明——必须面对志愿者们睡觉的地方。学校校长戴安娜·佩罗特（Diana Perrot）表示，地震导致 100 名学生死亡，另有 50 人失踪。在巴拿马共和国高中，课桌被移走以安置数百名难民。在市中心的“雨果·查韦斯”商店内部，那些在由查韦斯先生建造并以其命名的公共住房倒塌中受伤的人们聚集在此，紧邻着描绘前体制的彩色学校房屋，而青少年们则坐在一个写着“我的未来计划”的白板前。目前尚不清楚他们在拉瓜伊拉（La Guaira）将拥有怎样的未来。但司机、商业油漆工、理发师、搬运工、海滩摊贩以及许多其他人失去了工作。在最近的一个早晨，一名新失业的工人在一家清真寺附近的救济厨房排队等待。他买了两张去古巴首次访问的机票。“这里什么都没有，”他的妻子唐纳德（Donald）说道，她很喜欢那里。在拉瓜伊拉周围，写着“布埃尔将军”和“布埃尔儿童”的欢快标语是由该州失踪人员办公室书写的，喷涂在那些被认为有失踪者被埋在下面的房屋墙壁上。失踪者的照片挂在棕榈树和路灯的支架上。在高端住宅的残骸中，覆盖着一层苍白的灰尘，破碎的物品像是在很久以前被遗弃一样堆积着。彩色且撕裂的海滩遮阳伞侵入了空旷的海岸。仍然开放的海滩俱乐部分发药品和物资，安置幸存者，一些家庭则住在圣卡桑（San Casan），这是一个坐落在加勒比海与热带山脉之间的旅游度假胜地和热门冲浪目的地。在如明信片般完美的露台上，游客们看着孤儿和流离失所者。与度假村的休闲客户不同，“我们没有地方可以回去，” 49 岁的难民之一劳尔·拉拉（Raul Lara）说道。即使是那些房屋依然屹立但生活完全破碎的人也是如此。古巴-蒂瓜内斯（Cuba-Tiguanes）的小型外部难民区相对未受损坏，但她女儿隔壁的房子的一部分直接坍塌到了游泳池中。它现在就那样倾斜在水面上，像一艘漏水的船。尽管如此， 46 岁的菲格拉女士（Ms. Figueira）仍想离开拉瓜伊拉，不仅仅是因为她的花园现在看起来像一幅阴郁的画。她指向外面的一块空地说：“两栋楼外是我朋友住的地方，现在我站在这里看不到他们。而我的朋友们在下面。”

（顺时针从左上角起，在委内瑞拉拉瓜伊拉：人们在收集中心翻找一堆捐赠的衣服；一组名为“委内瑞拉拍卖”或“呼吸研究”的志愿者在临时避难所为小女孩理发；以及贴在墙上的失踪者照片。）该地区曾是一个热闹的手工艺胜地。

零散的营地

在两头鲸鱼之外，由垃圾袋、毛巾和毯子搭建的临时棚屋和遮蔽处填满了拉瓜伊拉的每个角落。委内瑞拉当局、外国政府以及相关机构和组织在该地区及首都的公园、广场、学校、篮球场、棒球场和停车场设立了多个营地和避难所。但许多人更倾向于在废墟上搭建简易棚屋，因为他们仍在那里挖掘，试图寻找亲人的遗体。

许多委内瑞拉人将这些废墟视为由外国政府监督的一个失败经济项目的顶点。“在找到他之前我不会离开，”达尼亚娜·德尔加多（Danyana Delgado）说道，她8岁的儿子布雷恩（Braine）被埋在篮球场上的碎片下。“他们不能建立永久建筑，让任何人住在我的儿子尸体之上。”对于数千人来说，26，其8岁的儿子哈维尔（Xavier）被埋在他们居住的坍塌塔楼下，也留在废墟附近。“离开就意味着抛弃他，”她说。她所听到的文字并不广泛，而她的男友卡洛斯·洛佩兹（Carlos López），35岁，说由于持续的阴雨，他咳嗽得很厉害。“这样生活是不行的，”他在咳嗽间隙说道，“我们需要弄清楚现在该怎么做。”委内瑞拉国会领导人、其姐妹（Sir）为该国临时领导人的豪尔赫·罗德里格斯（Jorge Rodriguez）表示，政府已在拉瓜伊拉（La Guaira）确定了潜在的土地堆，用于建造新房。“我们确信拉瓜伊拉将以强大的力量屹立在那里，”该地区的州长何塞·亚历杭德罗·特兰（José Alejandro Terán）说道。实际上控制该国财政、政府和自然资源的特朗普政府表示，其一直在与委内瑞拉当局及私营部门合作，以提供更多住房选择，并致力于准备拆除和重建。除了怀疑政府的承诺是否可信，这个被地震摧毁的政权中的许多人都受到了创伤。“拉瓜伊拉让我心碎，”桑坦德女士（Ms. Santander）说。“我不想住在这里。”许多居民对再次住在高层建筑中感到恐惧。他们白天在这些建筑的广阔物业中巡视——搜寻那里的每一寸草地以寻找自己的家。“我不会回到高塔中，”达尼亚娜·兰盖利（Danyana Rangelli）说。她有一个女儿和一个孙女，在雨果·查韦斯（Hugo Chávez）住房项目坍塌时折断了一根手臂。“这片土地被留在了燃料中。”地震发生一个月多以后，一台电视机完全清除了部分建筑的碎片。在拉瓜伊拉高速公路上关闭的广告牌已被拆除。取而代之的是一块宣传政府运动的新标志，名为“refuled”，口号是“委内瑞拉是最富有的”。贾斯珀·埃雷罗（Jasper Herrero）和阿德里亚娜·拉塞尔西奥·费尔南德斯（Adriana Lacercio Fernandez）在拉瓜伊拉贡献了报道，谢拉·乌尔达内塔（Shayla Urdaneta）在布宜诺斯艾利斯贡献了报道。--- 星期五，AUGUST 7, 2026 / 5 世界

加沙城的一场葬礼，为102名于2025. 6月在加沙被杀的人举行。7月，以色列军方在整个加沙组织了由罢工者发起的行动。# 在和平计划打击增加后 新闻分析 记者

特朗普的加沙方案在以色列轰炸激增中面临失效风险

作者：ISABEL KERNIENER 和 ADAR KASZON

在特朗普总统宣布一项旨在恢复加沙军事和平与安全的计划后，巴勒斯坦人反而经历了以色列致命轰炸的激增，这威胁到了对长期进展的希望。根据加沙卫生部的说法，周日的以色列袭击造成 10 人死亡，使其成为去年 10 月停火协议生效以来最致命的日子之一。加沙卫生部关于冲突的数据并未区分平民和战斗人员。巴勒斯坦官员表示，前一天的以色列袭击造成至少两人死亡，并损坏了 4 处医疗用品员工设施。周一，据加沙官员称，以色列军队袭击了一辆行驶在海滩道路上的汽车，造成两人死亡。

由于该计划的许多细节仍不明确，包括其核心的哈马斯解除武装的时间表，由特朗普先生的和平委员会发布的该计划——其中还要求以色列撤军并在加沙建立新政府——面临在具体细节敲定前就被瓦解的风险。周一，以色列总理办公室发言人 Deren Spidman 对该协议的条款表示反对，以色列尚未签署该协议。他在一份声明中说：“公开的版本并不反映以色列的问题。”他补充道：“以色列已将其对拟议框架的声明和担忧提交给了我们的美国同行。”他表示，担忧集中在哈马斯解除武装的问题上。

Nicholas E. Mladone 是一位资深的保加利亚外交官，担任和平委员会驻加沙高级代表，他对以色列过度攻击提出了严厉批评。他在周日发布在社交媒体上的一份声明中说：“在整个加沙进行的袭击杀死了平民，并摧毁了人们赖以生存的医疗用品。”他表示，这些袭击发生在哈马斯为达成协议而进行的“恐怖主义努力”之后，他及其团队正在“全天候工作，与各方、调解员和地区合作伙伴协作以降低紧张局势”。

在周一的一份联合声明中，担任调解国的三个国家——卡塔尔、埃及和土耳其——谴责了他们所描述的在加沙“持续的以色列违规行为”。哈马斯在声明中表示，周日“整个家庭”被抹除，并指责以色列进行“蓄意革命”旨在阻挠该计划。

以色列军队表示，最近几天的袭击针对的是哈马斯战斗员和武器基础设施。它还表示已采取措施减轻对平民的伤害。自 10 月停火以来，以色列在整个加沙地带稳步加强了攻击。上个月，军方几乎每天进行袭击，并点名了至少 50 名其称已消灭的武装分子，其中包括其称参与了 2025 年袭击以色列并造成约 1,500 人死亡的哈马斯成员。那次袭击引发了加沙战争，据官员称，这场战争已导致 70,000 多人死亡，该飞地的大部分地区沦为废墟。

周二，在加沙城举行的一场葬礼为 112 人举行，他们的遗体是从废墟中被拉出来的。据民防局发言人 Mahmoud Hussain 称，该地区在哈马斯政府下独立运作。以色列分析人士、前以色列军事情报官员且专门研究巴勒斯坦事务的 Michael Mishkin 表示，以色列最近加快攻击步伐“绝非巧合”。

他说，以色列要么是在表明它并不在意该协议，“要么是担心可能会出现美国要求以色列停止”的情况，因此军方在还能行动时尽快结束。周日，具有影响力的巴勒斯坦评论员、阿拉伯联合酋长国总统候选人穆罕默德·达班（Mohammed Dabban）在社交媒体上写道，特朗普先生的女婿兼助手库什纳（Kushner）曾提供保证，称他已与以色列达成协议，以色列将增加袭击次数。但不久之后，他修改了该部分，删除了关于协议的表述，并称库什纳传达的消息是他正“与以色列方面合作以停止对加沙的袭击”。

该计划的许多细节仍未落实，包括哈马斯解除武装的时间表。和平委员会的谈判代表将特朗普先生上周宣布的与哈马斯达成的新协议描述为一份“路线图”，旨在巩固停火、确保以色列完全撤军，并使生活恢复正常以及启动更多行动。但关于哈马斯和以色列是否会执行该协议的关键问题立即浮现。根据文本，双方被给予两周时间来确定时间表，国际核查委员会可对其进行延长。

在周六以色列对加沙的一次袭击造成破坏后，存放医疗用品的仓库成为了被击中的建筑之一。在包括顺序在内的其他问题上，分歧已经出现。与哈马斯的协议规定，以色列必须首先履行10月停火协议下的义务，该协议要求立即停止以色列的袭击。以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡曾承诺要彻底击败哈马斯及其分支机构。他在周二的社交媒体上表示，在哈马斯完全解除武装之前，以色列不会从目前在加沙的位置撤退。就哈马斯而言，长期以来一直将针对以色列的武装斗争视为其意识形态的核心。该组织的武器至今帮助其在加沙维持权力，尽管哈马斯表示愿意将该地区的管理权移交给一个在和平委员会监督下工作的巴勒斯坦技术官僚委员会。巴勒斯坦分析人士表示，以色列在加沙持续实施的暴行加强了哈马斯官员的论点，即即使该组织同意解除武装，以色列仍将推进其军事行动。“你是在说：‘看，我就告诉你’，”原籍加沙、现居伦敦的巴勒斯坦专栏作家哈南·克拉法（Hanan Krafah）说道，“他们觉得以色列证明了他们的正确性。”哈马斯现在表示，它同意在一定条件下放弃其“理论武器”，条件是以色列承诺停止袭击并撤军。该组织发现自己几乎没有地区盟友，且其在加沙的大部分核心领导人已被击毙。在周二的一篇复杂帖子中，内塔尼亚胡先生表示：“在哈马斯完全解除武装之前，我们不会从目前的防线撤退。”以色列政府发言人斯皮德曼（Mr. Spidman）先生表示，根据以色列的情报，在过去的八个月里，“哈马斯利用停火重新武装，招募了数千名额外的恐怖分子，使其军事力量比最初 / 早前更强，并为进一步的10月‘真正阴险’的行动做准备”。该“常规”计划对解除武装的描述含糊不清。它要求以“渐进、顺序且有时间限制的方式”对重型武器进行解组和存储，时间表尚未确定。然而，协议补充道，在“过程结束”时，只有加沙管理国家委员会（即在和平委员会管理下接管该地区的巴勒斯坦技术安全小组）将“控制加沙的国家武器”。任何武器都不会移交给以色列或非巴勒斯坦方。和平委员会试图缩小分歧。在姆拉多内（Mr. Mladone）先生和其他以色列成员周一与内塔尼亚胡先生会面后，后者在社交媒体的一篇帖子中表示，以色列“对最终目标有着共同的理解”。在加沙，成员们对以色列和哈马斯是否会执行该协议表示怀疑，担心民众可能会处于糟糕的境地。“我们担心什么都不会改变，”来自加沙北部贾巴利亚（Jabalia）的48岁男子萨阿德·阿布·阿里亚（Saad Abu Alia）说道。他说，他的两个女儿在战争期间的一次以色列袭击中丧生，而他的家人最终在加沙中部的一顶帐篷中流离失所。

阿布·阿里亚先生表示，在过去的两年里，他一直试图获得离开加沙并与兄弟一起重新安置到法国的许可。最新的协议几乎没有让他想要停止尝试。“我们对现状完全没有信心，”他说。海蒂·阿布·卢本（Heidi Abu Luben）、伊亚德·阿卢科夫斯基（Iyad Alukowski）和阿布·巴克尔·拜迪尔（Abu Bakr Baidir）参与了报道。

对美国水资源的攻击在多年警告之后发生

联邦和州政府官员正竞相应对一起大规模黑客攻击事件

作者：EUSTIN VILZ

2025年，拜登政府领导下的环境保护署（EPA）提议制定更严格的网络安全指南，以更好地保护美国水资源供应免受黑客攻击。当时的官员表示，这些步骤虽然面临阻力，但十分必要：许多市政当局甚至缺乏基础保护，而那些监测和调整水质（包括化学处理水平）的公司，对于潜在的入侵者来说是极佳的目标。然而，在共和党领导的指控以及行业团体利用这些指控阻碍执行后，环境保护署终止了该指令。他们认为，环境保护署没有采取此举的权限，且资金不足的小型公用事业公司将难以采用这些标准。

这一事件只是数年来的多次案例之一，尽管反复发生的攻击凸显了漏洞，但加强美国水系统基石的努力仍被阻挠。在环境保护署的提议失败仅一个多月后，宾夕法尼亚州西部的一个小问题披露，一个黑客组织试图发起攻击，伊斯兰革命卫队曾短暂控制用于调节水压的设备。

现在，美国联邦和州政府官员正竞相应对一场针对美国水资源供应的、令人震惊且广泛的袭击，他们测试在亚洲，这可能是人类黑客所为。上周，包括明尼苏达州和密歇根州在内的至少七个州向联邦调查局（FBI）报告了相关事件，并指出这些攻击——或对其的响应——导致水务运行受损。据熟悉调查的人士透露，向联邦调查局报告可能遭受攻击的州数量目前至少有12个。联邦调查局尚未公开这些州，但其中一些州已采取措施控制用水。

以色列有100个市政当局描述了近期与其水系统相关的黑客攻击尝试，尽管其中一些可能是未实现的事件，相关人士表示。一些安全专家表示，全国范围内脆弱系统的数量可能要高得多。到目前为止，没有迹象表明任何水系统被报告为导致饮用水不安全的程度。但这些攻击导致了需要手动修正的中断，并出于谨慎考虑发布了现场用水建议。

7月27日，美国查尔斯·古雷茨（Charles Gurets）经历了水服务中断，当地官员对此表示不满。该县（开始使用该地区同名）表示，认为此次事件是“未经授权的网络安全”行为的结果，并且观察到了水压下降。古雷茨还持续发布用水建议，并在数小时内恢复了服务。“对于我们来说，在没有水管破裂的情况下出现系统故障是非常不寻常的，”区县水务局发言人埃琳·托马斯（Erin Thomas）在一次采访中表示：“我们仍在调查发生了什么，但我们必须这样做。”

南达科他州快速城（Rapid City）的一位发言人表示，该市最近也处理了一起涉及提升站的“网络入侵”，这是一个专门的小组，在其维护中发现系统正在与联邦合作伙伴共同开展调查。水资源供应“依然安全且受保护”，且水安全信息得到了披露。他未透露中断发生的具体时间，也未透露是否与当前的攻击浪潮有关。

官员和专家表示，受影响区域的广度将远超目前已知范围。根据环境保护署的数据，美国大约有200,000个公共水系统。许多国家和国际网络入侵公司已在位。

一些市政府可能不会向州领导层报告事件，更不用说向联邦政府报告了。美国国会曾在 2022 年通过一项法律，要求水务设施和其他关键基础设施运营商在 72 小时内报告重大漏洞。但该法律的执行一直是一个主要问题。根据美国官员以及由联邦当局就调查情况进行简报的州和地方官员的说法，据怀疑由伊朗支持的黑客对此负责，但该评估是初步的。官员和专家认为，在美国针对贷款证券的战争中，不受限制地采取更具侵入性的手段。如果锁定了，就没什么可失去的。（特朗普总统上周五否认了伊朗对水务系统的攻击负责，反而指责明尼苏达州政府首脑蒂姆·沃尔兹对当地的攻击负责。）“我们正在重新认识到，忽视投资于国家关键基础设施网络安全的重要性所带来的后果，”运营技术网络安全联盟（Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition）执行主任巴宾（Babine）在上周五的一封公开信中表示。该组织代表专门从事保障此类水务攻击受影响系统的安全公司，呼吁国会采取一系列迅速行动，包括为州和地方政府提供更多资金以加强数字化保护。巴宾女士曾是美国网络安全政策官员，曾在美国海军和谷歌工作，她指出多年来一直有警告称，中国和伊朗的黑客正在关键基础设施的计算机网络深处潜伏，以便在日后发动攻击。“到目前为止，我们很幸运，还没有发生更灾难性的事件，”巴宾女士说，“我们不能再依赖运气了。”特朗普政府在 3 月发布了一项国家网络安全战略，将保护关键基础设施网络列为优先事项，但关于如何实现的具体机制提及甚少，仅限于确保供应链不受可能带来风险的外国漏洞技术影响。“我们将拒绝对手的初始访问，并且在发生事件时，我们必须能够快速恢复，”该战略在谈到保障水务设施、能源推手和其他关键基础设施时如此写道。尽管人们担心人工智能模型会对全球网络安全构成严重风险，但根据前官员、专家和政府的公开建议，破坏美国供水的尝试相对简单。美国情报和网络安全特工多年来一直担心伊朗的黑客将目标对准美国的水务系统和其他关键基础设施。十多年前，伊朗黑客将目标对准了少数几个地点，但幸运的是，由于维护原因，这些地点在发生之前已被离线，这让当时的美国当局松了一口气。美国司法部（DOJ）随后认为，该违规行为的背后是伊朗国民。

佐治亚州的一家水处理厂，美国官员警告称，水处理系统很容易成为黑客的目标。自 2025 年 2 月下旬对伊朗的战争开始以来，担忧程度日益增加，美国政府自身的 基础设施安全局和其他联邦机构发布了一项公开警报， “紧急警告”伊朗黑客正将目标对准基础设施网络中的计算机，包括水务、能源和政府服务。该网络安全机构在第二任特朗普政府期间是唯一一个在 4 个主要任务中维持人员编制的机构，该机构在上个月更新了该建议，增加了应对攻击的额外技术指南。在采取其他措施的同时，该机构敦促其他系统运营商将其远程承包商移出互联网。

根据之前的消息，此次披露显示，黑客发现了一种操纵其他互联网的方式，可以屏蔽警报，或在出现严重问题时强制关闭。运营商在查看界面时可能会认为一切正常，而实际上情况非常糟糕。四天后，针对水务设施的黑客攻击策略升级，那些在场的人认为黑客已经察觉到了警报，并开始在新的安全措施生效前，竞相破坏尽可能多的系统。“即便没有其他原因，这绝对是一个极大的巧合，”休斯顿一家销售风险的“网络犯罪组织”威胁研究主管乔·斯洛维克（Joe Slovik）表示。“出现了一种转变，就像是，1%，我们已经被揭穿了，”某种东西促使了普通用户。在网络样本方面通常具有更高可读性的俄罗斯，多年来一直针对美国及其最敏感的基础设施开展大规模间谍活动，而伊朗的黑客被广泛认为更不可预测。水务攻击的目标是为了恐吓美国人还是仅仅为了惊吓他们，目前尚不清楚。“这次行动在很大程度上像是普遍的敲门，而不是攻击本身，”关键基础设施教授约书亚·卡曼（Joshua Carman）表示。他建议说：“对于这家总部位于加利福尼亚州的智库——安全与技术（Security and Technology）来说，仍有一个数字。行动水平与此前看到的相比，造成的损害明显更多。”埃内斯托·卢比埃莱（Ernesto Luebiele）在明尼苏达州圣保罗贡献了报道。--- 6 / 2026年8月7日，星期五

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在密歇根州，一场针对进步派的试金石

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阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在民主党初选中胜出。他在11月能赢吗？ 作者：丽莎·利伯

数月来，民主党建制派发出了日益严厉的警告，称从未赢得过选举的密歇根州进步派人士阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士（Dr. Abdul El-Sayed）将难以赢得一个该党承受不起失去的参议院席位。起初，国会议员和总检察长支持他的初选对手——来自摇摆选区的众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）。他们认为，她能够赢得这种艰苦的竞选，而这正是这个战场州的特点——这里的选民曾两次投票给唐纳德·J·特朗普，两次投票给罗纳德·里根。

周二，少数民主党初选选民对此持不同意见，他们凭心选择了这位候选人，其最受喜爱的进步派主张令一群支持者和受过大学教育的自由派感到兴奋。现在，随着埃尔-赛义德博士进入大选，他的候选资格将为该党协调一致的进步派翼带来或许是最具国际化色彩的挑战。一名持有坚定左翼立场的造反派候选人，能在一个温和的州获胜吗？

埃尔-赛义德博士将为近十年在民主党内部激烈争论的相互竞争的理论提供第一次大选测试。自参议员伯特·兰金（Beirut Rankin）在2016年登上国家舞台以来，进步派一直认为，该党走向胜利的路径在于一项能够吸引工人阶级选民联盟的流行经济议程。批评者则反驳称，此类提案会疏远该党必须争取以赢回那些近年来失去阵地的州的温和选民。

这次微弱的结果暗示了11月即将到来的艰苦竞争，届时埃尔-赛义德博士将面对前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers），这位政治人物于2015年离开国会。在超过一半的初选选民将票投给其他候选人之后，埃尔-赛义德博士在没有获得民主党强有力授权的情况下进入大选。他在该州较富裕、较年轻的地区表现最好，而史蒂文斯女士在黑人和工人阶级选民较多的地区表现更好。这次接近的选举结果凸显了支持埃尔-赛义德博士的整个自由主义运动与战场州中作为该党核心的许多选民之间的分歧。

在周三凌晨向支持者发表的演讲中（就在竞选结果宣布他获胜前几小时），埃尔-赛义德博士试图将他的候选资格定义为超越传统党派分歧的存在。他宣布，他可以抵御由支持史蒂文斯女士的外部组织资助的直接攻击。他在底特律的竞选总部发表讲话时说：“我们这个州需要一场运动来夺回我们的政治。”“当我们度过这个阶段，在——”

“现在是规划一条新路径前进的机会。看看民主党选民是否认同这个新愿景。”“因沙拉（Inshallah），我们将带领 7000 万 的阶级并继续反击！”“我为第二个密歇根而战。”

民主党必须保住这个州，才有机会赢回美国参议院的控制权。在共和党持有53个席位的情况下，民主党必须翻转四个共和党持有的席位，并保住他们所有持有多数席位的选票。密歇根州是民主党持有席位中最有可能转为共和党的。

乍一看，埃尔-赛义德博士——一位缺乏政治经验、举重、前公共卫生官员，且将成为首位当选参议院的穆斯林——似乎不是该党最可能的标准选择。但他触动了初选选民的一种挫败感。作为一名极具魅力的竞选者，他以降低成本、提供全民医疗保健以及清除政治中的企业资金等承诺推动其候选资格。他精通社交媒体，构建了一个以向亿万富翁征税、反对以色列和 Medicare for all 为中心的平台。

他还接纳了那些战略专家认为在密歇根州这样温和的州具有政治风险的人物和立场。埃尔-赛义德博士曾与House Pilots共同竞选。批评者称，马库斯·阿罗诺女士将反国家情绪排在首位——而他认为这一指控。在整个竞选过程中，埃尔-赛义德博士称该政府为“邪恶”，并将其行动归类为“grenoble”。此外，他支持废除外国化和海关执法。

“他带来的风险非常明显，他将一些在普通选民看来仅仅是替代方案的问题摆在了桌面上，”资深民主党竞选专家利兹·史密斯（Liz Smith）表示，她曾为马洛里·麦克莫罗（Mallory McMorrow）工作，后者是一位较为温和的密歇根州参议院初选候选人，在选举日之前退选。 “即便如此，他在情感上与当下时刻的契合度更高。他能够说服那些跨越政治光谱的人所感受到的愤怒。”

党内自由派的许多人正将目光投向11月之后，埃尔-赛义德博士的胜利将加速他们在2020 presidential race中的候选人进程，证明进步派候选人不仅能在坚定的民主党区域获胜，而且能在整个美国获胜。在2020, 密歇根州将成为首批参加党内总统初选的州之一。“现在是一个规划新前行道路的机会，”进步团体“正义民主党人”（Justice Democrats）的发言人乌斯纳尔德·安德里达（Uusnald Andrida）表示。“显然，民主党选民认同这一新愿景。”

但首先，埃尔-赛义德博士必须在11月的艰苦竞争中获胜。在过去的三十年里，没有共和党人在密歇根州的美国参议院选举中获胜。但罗杰斯先生已经非常接近了。两年前，他以极微小的差距输给了参议员埃琳·斯莱特金（Elene Slatkin）。甚至在周三早晨宣布选举结果之前，参议院共和党人就开始展示他们的攻击手段，发布了一段视频广告，称埃尔-赛义德博士是“美国最激进的候选人”。该广告重点强调了他拒绝揭露皮拉特先生的一番话，即“美国罪有应得！”——皮拉特先生随后称这一评论“不恰当”。

共和党人将拥有充足的资金来阐述他们的观点。4月，参议院领导基金（Senate Leadership Fund）——参议院共和党的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）——承诺花费$45 million支持罗杰斯先生。这是针对一个非共和党人占据的席位所做的最大规模承诺。另一个由德维托（DeVito）家族部分资助的保守派团体（该保守派家族在右翼事业中投资了数亿美元）宣布向罗杰斯先生提供$15 million的承诺。

尽管如此，共和党人承认在与埃尔-赛义德博士竞争时面临自身的挑战。“他确实拥有一个真正的运动和势头，”前共和党全国委员会主席、参与该州保守派组织工作的比图斯·麦克埃尔拉斯（Beatus McElrath）表示。“共和党人不能只是坐视不管并说‘哦，他是个社会主义者’。我们必须定义他是谁，以及这实际上意味着什么。”

罗杰斯先生还将不得不面对共和党人所处困难的国家政治环境。由于一场不受欢迎的伊朗战争、高昂的汽油价格和经济焦虑，特朗普总统的支持率本周跌至历史最低点。而共和党前执行主任杰夫·坦纳（Jeff Tanner）认为，罗杰斯先生在MACE运动中缺乏足够强大的支持来克服这种政治拖累。“迈克·罗杰斯在死忠的党内支持者中没有激起任何热情，”现为独立人士的坦纳先生说。“他不是那种会让共和党内任何人愿意跨越玻璃、确保他们能登上硬巴士的候选人。”

埃尔-赛义德博士还展现出了在密集攻击中生存的能力。他与史蒂文斯女士的竞争是美国历史上最昂贵的民主党参议院初选，支出高达 8000万美元。其中超过 2000万美元 被用于 2020 年后的努力，由超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）支出，其中之一是美国以色列公共事务委员会，这是美国最具影响力的亲以色列团体。根据媒体追踪机构 first aiding 的数据，总的来说，史蒂文斯女士在支出上比埃尔-赛义德博士拥有约 6-to-1 的优势。在初选投票前的准备阶段，这位民主党候选人的交易在许多银行中进行。史蒂文斯女士及其支持者指责埃尔-赛义德博士虚荣、傲慢、反国家并鼓励“削弱”反美情绪。埃尔-赛义德博士及其支持者则称她是 ADFAC 的拥趸且不合格，并对其声音和外貌进行攻击。为了在 11 月获胜，埃尔-赛义德博士必须争取到首位选民，并建立一个包括支持史蒂文斯女士的温和派和独立选民在内的联盟。在全州范围内，税后信用民主党人在他的胜利确定之前，就已经表现出极高的热情。他在演讲中说：“明天我们开始奋斗。” “无论今晚发生什么，我们有责任确保我们销售，以确保迈克·罗杰斯永远无法进入美国国会参议院内部。” 其中一部分工作将取决于作为民主党提名人的埃尔-赛义德博士能否接纳一个他经常攻击的政党。史密斯女士表示，他的支持者强调了民主党在保护方面失败的方式。但现在，她说，他必须给予。 “有时他表现出与民主党人战斗的快感比与共和党人战斗更多，”她说，“希望这在普选中能有所转变。”

在罢免投票中被罢免，加州某市官员拒绝离职

加州，阿文纳尔（AVENAL, CALIF.）

拒绝交权引发一系列法律和政治问题

作者：LIVIA ALBECI RIPRA

今年早些时候，加利福尼亚州农村中央谷地的一个社区——阿文纳尔（Avnatal）的选民，通过罢免投票罢免了他们的市长以及市议会除一人之外的所有成员。罢免行动的领导者将其视为民主的体现。其传达的信息是：离开。但在选举结束三个多月后，被罢免的官员们仍然拒绝离开，声称此次投票是非法的。在6月份的一次会议上，他们正式通过投票，以 3 比 5 的结果决定无视选举结果。

这次选举结果被拒绝——即便在美国这个选举否认主义盛行的时代也极不寻常——引发了一系列法律和政治问题，并触发了对选举结果持续罢免的争议。这并非必要。争端已演变为激烈的冲突。居民们在运营数千名居民的活跃环境中。一项 2% 的审查，且如果不仅是职位的指控。在以前所有企业都表现出色的社区中，一次罢免表明了最常见的问题之一，一个人在青少年时期从蒂华纳移民而来。他需要将某些内容翻译成西班牙语。

阿文纳尔现在发现自己处于一个不大可能的状态：一场困扰美国联邦、州和地方选举的辩论。当当选者拒绝遵循民主规范时会发生什么？一些专家表示，这种情况是人们对选举过程日益不信任的缩影，而特朗普总统对 2020 年总统大选结果的拒绝接受则加剧了这一现象。

“令我非常担忧的是，我们的国家出现了一种情况，即当我们不喜欢选举结果时，我们就说它是被操纵的，”加利福尼亚州非党派的加州公民基金会（California Vice-Foundation）退休董事会成员凯西·达林·艾伦（Cathy Darling Allen）说道。“这种行为正在被效仿，”艾伦女士补充道，“在我们国家的最高层，我们并非孤例。”

根据州法律，被罢免的官员在选民投票后必须立即离职。在阿文纳尔，由于三个议会席位在夜间仅被要求。某些职位可能会通过特别选举来填补，但这会带来困难。但被罢免的市长肖恩·普雷西亚基斯（Shaun Preciakis）——他同时也是议会成员——坚持认为，该县最初根本没有授权举行此次选举。

“我并不是拒绝辞职，我只是在等待正当程序的完成，”普雷西亚基斯先生说道，并强调罢免支持者、县政府和第二任官员之间正在进行法律诉讼。

阿文纳尔大约位于洛杉矶和旧金山之间，隐藏在许多加州人在沿着 5 号州际公路疾驰时将其视为模糊背景的山丘之中。这座城市人口不足 10,000 人，拥有一个垃圾填埋场和一个大型私人监狱，囚犯人数占总人口的四分之一多，大多数居民认同自己是西班牙裔或拉丁裔。该市是金斯县（Kings County）四个城市中最小的一个，该地区以乳制品、农业以及对现状的执着而闻名。

在有教堂、检查员和杂货店的几个街区里，一些店主表示他们对罢免争议关注不多，或者选择不参与其中。一个人说，由于她的法律身份，她无法在罢免选举中投票。另一个人说，他意识到这已经成了人们走进房间时首先提起的话题。

“人们甚至不再问‘你好吗？’，”在主街经营餐厅且该餐厅也是社区唯一酒店的卡洛斯·佩雷斯（Carlos Perez, Sr.）说道。“第一句话就是‘关于这件事，你怎么看？’，”他补充道，“你支持哪一边？”

这座城市的主体冲突始于一年多以前，是由一场关于当地消防部门的争议引发的。城市领导层决定不再依赖金斯县（Kings County），而是建立自己的消防服务，无论该服务如何。这个孤立社区的居民对此感到愤怒。一些人指责市政府在闭门会议中做出了这一决定。其他不满情绪也在积聚，长期居民 Dalia Barajas, Sr. 表示，她对所谓的管理缺失、当地官员的行为以及对社区缺乏尊重感到愤怒。“我想，‘好吧，让这件事解决的唯一办法就是我们发起一次罢免，执行这项任务。’”

Barajas 女士曾是县政府的雇员，她与另外两名女性共同行动。其中一位是 36 岁的 Versus in Loma，她在一家环境正义组织工作，并负责监督该市的大型垃圾填埋场，该填埋场位于社区内；另一位是 Ginger Wallis, Sr.，她的家族在 Avnatal 居住了几代，与县消防部门关系密切。Palas 女士和 Barajas 女士（她常称自己为第四代墨西哥裔美国人）还代表那些认为市议会议员们为了迎合移民社区而抛弃城市历史传统的居民。她们表示，令她们失望的是，名为“老计时者日”（Old Timers Day）的城市起源年度庆典，现在出现了西班牙语音乐和 Lucha Libre 摔跤。

“很快，Avnatal 真正的根基将会消失，”Barajas 女士说。这些女性组织并集结起来，Barajas 女士和 Wallis 女士敲开了 1,500 多个家庭的门，收集了 400 个签名——比触发罢免所需的签名多出 120 个。4 月，超过 70% 的选民支持罢免市长 Preciakis 先生以及另外三名议员：Lachia Ginters、David Reynolds 和 Pablo Hernandez。（这些女性没有提及另一位议员 Ricardo Nodosa，因为她们说他“是她们的盟友”。）

但在市政厅——一座居民仍需亲自前往缴纳账单的狭小建筑里，各项事务在很大程度上仍照旧进行。“我说，‘好吧，有些事情不对劲，有些事情是非法的，’”Preciakis 先生说。他在 Avnatal 担任选任官员已有 18 年。

“令我非常担忧的是，我们的国家出现了一种情况，即如果我们不喜欢选举结果，就说它是被操纵的。”他表示，他认为罢免组织者误导了居民关于他们投票内容的认知，并获得了不再居住在该市的人员的签名。他表示，他也不信任县政府能核实这些签名。县政府和罢免组织者均坚称，选举是按照州法律进行的。该市的主要目标是议会议员。37岁的埃尔南德斯女士表示，在服务八年后被罢免让她感到悲伤。“这是我生活的一部分——我怎么能[接受]？”埃尔南德斯先生说道，在6月下旬的一个惬意夜晚，他曾在当地电影院带领一群人玩 Luteils（一种墨西哥纸牌游戏）。“也许那是法律层面的事情，”他补充道，“但我的心无法理解这一点。”一些精神领袖及其支持者指责罢免支持者受到特朗普政府的影响，发起了一场党派色彩浓厚、且明显由付费驱动的活动，所有选民都在市内。罢免组织者表示，他们从未彼此讨论过党派隶属关系，因为他们关注的是当地问题，并否认了该活动是某种稳定动机的付费方式这一说法。市议会，他们的市长，说道。莱诺女士是罢免组织者，曾在环境正义团体工作。“我关注的重点是我们的国家出现了一种情况。”这场冲突可能需要数月时间才能解决。加利福尼亚州总检察长已允许罢免组织者在政府诉讼中起诉相关官员，这是一种极少使用的法律救济手段，且州法律规定将其免职。该案件仍在法院审理中。金县（King of County）地区检察官办公室已同意将投票程序延伸至该市。既涉及被罢免官员的问题，也涉及市经理的问题。此外还已发布要求州政府官员停止挥霍纳税人的钱。巴拉哈斯女士和沃利斯女士现在都在竞选市议会议员。7月初，作为唯一被罢免的美国州级官员，韦尔杜戈先生在一家小学的食堂举行了一次特别会议，以安抚当地议会。虽然没有达到法定人数，但该宣言仍被通过，但韦尔杜戈先生表示他不认为这是一个问题。“其他三个人在单日内也是不合法的，”韦尔杜戈先生在当时告诉新闻机构，指的是近期由相关官员主持的市议会会议。“那么，有什么区别呢？”他说。--- 2026年8月7日，星期五 / 7

商业

作者：艾米莉·斯蒂尔（EMILY STEEL）

去年4月的一个周五早晨，一名24岁的女性在佛罗里达州的卧室里通过视频会议参加庭审，就她起诉Uber的诉讼进行证词采集。在2021年的一晚，她在坦帕的一次行程中在意识不清的情况下被一名司机经阴道、肛门及肛门强奸，该司机已在刑事法院承认有罪。他目前正在监狱中服刑，刑期为20年。这名在法庭文件中被化名为简·多伊（Jane Doe）的女性在民事法院起诉Uber疏忽职守，认为该公司在筛选和监督该司机（一名有暴力重罪前科的男子）方面应尽到更多责任。

在公开场合，Uber宣称自己是一家致力于以“以幸存者为中心”和“具有同理心”的方式处理性暴力的公司，支持幸存者并以尊严对待他们。在积累了多年的性不端行为报告后，该公司为司机制定了国际准则，其中规定：“性暴力绝非乘客的错。”但在法庭文件中，Uber辩称多伊女士的“行为疏忽且不谨慎”，并且“在造成自身伤害中负有责任”，并称该暴力行为所造成的痛苦和折磨与“涉事事故无关”。

在证词采集过程中，Uber的律师泰勒·西尔弗伯格（Taylor Silverberg）针对多伊女士被强奸当晚的行为进行质询。西尔弗伯格女士要求多伊女士详细说明她对Uber的信任程度。她询问“一名司机的疏忽程度”以及她是否在两者之间“混淆”了界限。她还询问多伊女士当时穿着什么。“你能描述一下那件裙子吗？”西尔弗伯格女士说，“你当时穿的是高跟鞋、粗跟鞋还是平底鞋？”

西尔弗伯格女士还探究了多伊女士的童年，询问她是否感到被父亲抛弃或被母亲贬低。她强迫多伊女士提供关于合意性行为的细节，并询问她此前是否遭受过性虐待，或是否曾为了金钱而发生性关系。就在此时，她的律师终止了证词采集。

“我远没有结束，”西尔弗伯格女士说。“这是她的诉讼，而我没有义务尽最大能力为我的客户辩护，”她补充道。随后，她表达了歉意：“请知道你不是你，多伊女士。我很抱歉。真的很抱歉。但是……”

“我很感激这能结束，”多伊女士打断道。“这让我心碎，”她补充说。

根据包括证词和审判记录在内的数千页法庭文件，Uber处理多伊女士案件的方式是其整体战略的一部分，该公司目前正面临数千起乘客起诉其未能保护他们免受行程中性暴力的诉讼。已有超过600起诉讼被提起，数量之多以至于数千起案件在程序性事务上被合并处理。大多数案件仍处于早期阶段。《纽约时报》审查了三起进入审判阶段的案件文件，以及约十起已进入双方开始评估文件和进行证词采集阶段的案件。

诉讼揭示了一个清晰的模式。Uber的律师挖掘女性的私人通信、医疗记录、治疗笔记和其他来源以获取详细信息，包括其他性侵事件、童年虐待和家庭暴力。他们就这些问题、女性的性生活以及她们在事发当晚的行为进行严厉质询。

在其中一起案件中，Uber请求法官强制一名女性提交她童年时期遭受家庭成员和家庭朋友性虐待的细节。在另一起案件中，Uber强迫一名原告接受精神鉴定，以调查她在此期间遭受的其他性侵事件。而在另一起案件中，一名律师表示，Uber询问一名女性在涉事当晚是否穿着内衣，以及在Uber事件后是否变得“异常活跃于性生活”。

在审理过程中，该公司并未真正地与这些女性及其选择和可信度进行抗争。Uber的律师辩称，这些女性过去的行为或对药物及酒精的使用可能会损害其叙述的真实性。他们暗示这些女性编造了这些遭遇，或者这些遭遇从未发生。他们还主张，即使发生了袭击，其他因素才是导致其痛苦的真正原因。Uber的这一策略与其自称作为反对性暴力的捍卫者的立场相矛盾，并反映了一家面临海量诉讼的 1k10亿 上市公司的商业考量。Uber长期以来一直表示，它以尊重对待所有幸存者，并尊重相关案件。该公司已与领先的性侵犯团体建立了合作伙伴关系，并且一直是反对性别暴力组织的重大一次性捐赠者。而一份针对Uber客服代理人员的培训指南——这些人员负责处理伤害及其自身的健康问题——却在“蒙古式（mongolese）且相互交织的受害者有罪论态度”中，指出人们很少使用性侵犯，且行为并不通过他们做了什么或他们处于何种状态来提供攻击，或者这样做是一种复制。Uber的首席法律官托尼·韦斯特（Tony West）在一份声明中表示：“如果他能说我们的对手在公司里，这对幸存者来说尤其艰难。”“我已经向我的法律团队明确，他们必须始终以

对待幸存者”

Uber如何应对性侵诉讼

该公司采取了激进的法庭策略

“我很感激这件事能结束。这让我心碎。”

一名在佛罗里达州被标识为Jane Doe的女性，在针对Uber疏忽职守的诉讼作证期间如此说道。她的司机此前已承认强奸她的罪名。

尊重、陪伴、礼貌和尊严，而这正是我想确保他们所做的事情，”他补充道。“为公司辩护诉讼与人性化对待幸存者并非互斥；我们必须两者兼顾。”West女士拒绝接受采访。

Uber的首席副总法律顾问Katie Waldman在一份声明中表示，Uber有“权利和责任”针对诉讼进行辩护，这些诉讼的严重程度和有效性各不相同，其中约有30起案件因欺诈而被驳回。

在多份声明中，Uber的律师表示，他们关于女性过去经历以及她们穿着什么、饮酒情况或行为举止的提问，旨在收集和评估具体事实——用于未来，而非羞辱或暗示她们做错了任何事。

其律师事务所Bowman and Brooke表示，Silverberg女士的行为是“基于法律、专业且符合伦理的代理”。

《纽约时报》此前发现，从2016到2024, Uber在美国平均每8分钟就收到一起性暴力报告，这一频率高于该公司披露的数据。Uber坚称，2024年的绝大多数行程均无事发生，95.9%的行程未发生任何事故。

法律和性暴力专家表示，Uber的策略超出了简单的证据收集，并强迫女性不仅要回顾事件，还要回顾她们生命中最痛苦的时刻。他们表示，这可能会让这些女性再次受创，并恐吓许多人达成庭外和解，或不再起诉该公司。

加利福尼亚州斯坦福法学院的法律伦理学教授New Freeman Erogstrom表示，这种做法其核心具有“深刻的讽刺意味”，因为该公司长期以来一直将自己宣传为最安全的出行方式之一——尤其是在夜晚外出之后。

“Uber的策略重复了一种陈旧且丑陋的套路，75一个女人喝醉了，4她乘坐车辆，45很晚，如果她的记忆是混乱的，那么也许她就在妄想中，”Erogstrom女士说。“但这些恰恰是Uber承诺其服务应当保护她们的情况。”

几十年来，辩护律师经常在庭审中询问性侵指控者的性生活、心理健康和性消费情况，将其刻画为放荡且不稳定。这种情况在20世纪70年代开始改变，当时男性和联邦立法者开始通过强奸屏蔽法，限制在审判中提及性虐待和指控者的性历史。

针对Uber的诉讼属于民事纠纷，旨在要求该公司为企业安全问题承担责任。虽然其中一些涉及已被刑事定罪的司机，但许多并非如此。

在马耳他微小办公室中消亡的美国税收

马耳他，瓦莱塔

复杂的策略帮助 Cross 及其他公司利用近乎零的税率

作者：JOHN DRUCKER 和 STU HIGHLAND

沿着地中海地区一座旧阳台的楼梯走到二楼。一楼是一个小房间，而二楼则是一个隐藏在豪华租赁门后的微型办公室。空气中弥漫着跳跃的气息，但这个地方不仅仅是关于如何认知？或者说，这里的核心任命是一项巨大的商业策略，全球最大的公司利用该策略来逃避数百万美元的美国所得税。

以 Cross 为例。作为全球利润最高的一批股东之一，随着其规模扩张（hustly chgs）至 100 个国家的 1.5 亿 名客户，该公司宣布了来自 Brownfield, Colo. 的资产回报。该公司声称其所有全球利润实际上都是在这个只有两个人的办公室里赚取的。

欢迎来到马耳他。这个公司的成功之名与两季的水域以及狂热的夜店场景并列。它也是全球新兴的企业避税天堂。

“家庭支持税一直是一件好事，”佛罗伦萨大学的税法教授 Philip Lantana Jorla 表示，“更多地为简单的事情让路。”

马耳他。会计巨头 KPNG、PwC、Lantana 和 EO 正在积极推广 Cross 及其他公司所使用的策略，将利润推向一个拥有良好办公室但没有员工的中西部销售点。

《纽约时报》审阅的一份 KPNG 演示文稿为潜在客户设计了一套极其复杂的安排，使其税收收入在美国和马耳他的规则之间转移。

“这些推动者是像 PwC 这样的巨头，”KPNG 和 EO 的基督徒律师 Michael Rhamisolo 表示，“他们寻求利用税收系统的机会。”

Cross、DeSette 和 EO 没有回应合同请求。KPNG 和 PwC 没有回答关于其马耳他税务业务的问题。

会计师事务所将这种“马耳他操纵”视为合法的商业交易。但除了逃税之外缺乏商业目的，可能会使其在面对美国国税局（IRS）的历史性法律挑战时变得脆弱。该机构越来越多地将那些可能缺乏“经济充分性”的策略视为目标。

Rhamisolo 先生表示，公司们正努力制造一种除了避税之外还具有合理理由的表象。

笑容之路？

马耳他拒绝了其上诉，而针对其数十年税收禁令的压力在增加。在普华永道（PwC）办公室的一次采访中，约翰·霍尔斯（John Halls）——曾任美国国家银行财务部长——面对着窗外停满游艇的景象，讨论了旨在帮助该国与百慕大和开曼群岛等离岸中心公司合作的立法草案。在瓦莱塔市中心，一座座建筑成为了低税率和金融公司的聚集地，这些公司开设了无数个声称以该岛为总部的壳公司。普华永道早在2006年就提出了一套名为“双重马耳他”的策略，而政府并未再次采取单一措施，相比之下，典型的企业所得税率接近20%。在20世纪后，这种所谓的双重税收使得将利润推向多个地点变得轻而易举，像领英（LinkedIn）和雅培实验室（Abbott Laboratories）这样的公司发现，通过将部分结构转移到马耳他，它们可以复制这些收益。该策略后来被称为“单一马耳他”。该公司一直领先于欧洲其他地区。多年来，其“黄金护照”计划以750,000欧元（按今日汇率约$800,000）的价格提供欧盟公民身份，吸引了俄罗斯寡头，并引发了关于马耳他总理幕僚长索取回扣的刑事指控。欧盟起诉了马耳他，去年欧洲法院宣布该计划非法。由于缺乏离岸律师事务所的记录，正如“巴拿马文件”所揭示的那样，马耳他政客与协助逃税和洗钱的公司之间存在联系。2017年，调查记者索菲·卡里纳塔·瓦利塔（Sophie Carinata Vallitta）在揭露这些联系后，被一枚遥控汽车炸弹杀害。在马耳他于2021年表示将推迟加入国际税收打击行动六年之后，包括克里斯蒂安·斯沃特（Christian Swart）、Black-Brexit和百事公司（PepsiCo）在内的美国公司纷纷在岛上扎堆，设立了数百家壳公司以利用其近乎零的税率。根据美国证券文件和马耳他公司记录，美国公司在马耳他设立的子公司数量激增，在过去三年中增长了近70%。特朗普政府（或，beckergard Malick）对此税收上诉表示支持。在重返办公室的第一天，特朗普总统宣布美国退出全球协议，该协议记录了50%的全球最低企业税。今年一月，美国与经济合作与发展组织达成一项协议，在很大程度上免除了美国公司履行上述义务。随着150多个国家签署强制执行最低税率的协议，马耳他的税法变得格外具有吸引力。

灯火熄灭

在为本文进行马耳他之行时，一名记者前往一座被列为几家美国公司马耳他部门总部的建筑。当他抵达现场时，发现那里除了灯光熄灭的空办公室外别无他物。墙上挂着的名牌宣布了数十家声称该偏僻建筑为其马耳他总部的公司，包括Marsters、Werenchy Technology和赛默飞世尔（Thermo Fisher）。官方而言，马耳他征收20%的企业税，但公司可以将该税率降低至近乎零。会计师事务所每年收取$500，为这些壳公司提供董事会成员，而同一事务所的同事则审计这些实体的财务报表。在这里，税率实际上是 20。

这种马耳他策略缺乏商业目的，可能会使公司在法律挑战面前变得脆弱。一家名为 Axumom 的马耳他公司在一份名为“马耳他：一个合法、具有税务竞争力的管辖区”的演示文稿中，详细列出了壳公司通过审核的标准：拥有马耳他常驻董事、在岛上设有总部以及拥有当地银行账户。KPNG 最近制定了一套规避 10 percent 全球最低企业税的蓝图：由一家美国母公司在马耳他设立一个融资实体，该实体随后开设一个美国分行。遵循 G.E.C.E. 指南的国家可能会征收“补足税”以实现 10 percent 的全球最低税率，但 KPNG 的策略利用了一个漏洞：它通常将马耳他的收益分配给美国分行，将其与更广泛的美国公司税率较高的利润混合，从而有效地掩护了低税的马耳他利润。“马耳他的税务规则是清晰的，”一名 KPNG 发言人表示。不同国家规则与新最低税之间的相互作用“为跨国公司带来了复杂性和不确定性，它们必须在不断变化的环境中寻找方向。”Cross 将其税务策略的更多筹码押在了马耳他这个篮子里。在 Cross 于 2022 年收购了另一家观察员 Dodo 之后，它在马耳他创建了一个新部门，以挖掘其新收购的价值超过 10 亿美元 billion 的全球商标和专利的利润。去年， 为其其中一个马耳他部门设立了一个美国分行。这使得 能够利用 KPNG 的策略来实现低税利润。通过在自己的子公司之间收取贷款利息， 将利润从其实际销售产品且税率较高的国家转移到马耳他。马耳他的申报文件显示，这一安排使其 2021 年的税单减少了 $218.600 万。瓦莱塔的 Zarnoli 和 Julian Bowen 参与了报道。

马耳他数十年来一直拒绝放弃与百慕大等离岸中心竞争。--- 8 / FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2026 # BUSINESS

Uber应对性侵诉讼的策略 EDEX，星期五，第1页

刑事案件要求检察官证明被告在排除合理怀疑的情况下有罪，而在性侵案件中，当被告主张该行为是双方合意时，这一点可能很难实现。民事法院的证明标准较低，仅要求陪审团认定原告的主张比对方的主张更有可能是真实的。大多数起诉Uber的女性是在寻求对过去和后续损失的赔偿，这意味着一个关键的法律问题是，与她们生活中的其他事件相比，该事件在多大程度上造成了她们的痛苦。在针对Uber的诉讼中，这为对过去创伤（包括性侵）进行广泛调查打开了大门。

“开启女性开关”

当韦斯特先生于2017年加入Uber担任首席法律官时，该公司正深受丑闻困扰，包括其处理性暴力的方式。一起涉及印度司机强奸的案件在被披露高管获取并保留了受害者的医疗记录后成为了全球头条，当时高管认为这次袭击可能是由竞争对手策划的阴谋。韦斯特先生曾任美国司法部（DOJ）官员，也是卡玛拉·哈里斯的姐夫，他将自己塑造为女性的捍卫者，曾作为联邦检察官打击性犯罪，并致力于旨在保护女性免受暴力的立法。

韦斯特先生进入Uber的同一个月，两名乘客起诉该公司，称她们被一名男子强奸，而该公司试图将这些主张强制纳入仲裁。数名女性加入了该诉讼，并在2018年4月写了一封公开信，恳请公司允许被强奸的女性起诉。次月，在篇幅较长且题为“点亮灯光”的帖子中，韦斯特先生表示，Uber将不再要求针对个人性侵或不当行为主张进行仲裁。“我们始终希望尝试解决这些问题。某些主张应以最符合发声者利益的方式解决。”（编辑注：今早）在2018年，他补充道：“如果你不能那样做，那么我们希望确保尽可能公正地对这些案件进行诉讼。”

这些年来，Uber在审判前很久就解决了性侵诉讼。一些高管担心，如果公司在法庭上对抗诉讼，可能会被视为在攻击受害者，据三名获悉相关情况的人士透露，他们因未获授权公开评论而要求匿名。但随后情况变得明朗，取消强制仲裁的举措引发了诉讼浪潮。这些人表示，随着案件增加，诉讼成本不断攀升。这与疫情期间收入的崩溃共同作用，导致内部讨论发生了转变。这些人表示，如果Uber反击，可以节省数百万美元。该公司未回应关于策略何时以及如何改变的问题。

自我、药物与交易

Uber的辩护策略在案件进入审判之前很久就开始运作。该公司利用证据开示程序深入挖掘原告最痛苦的时刻。Uber寻求关于过去性侵的记录、事件发生前几年内的诊断医疗记录，以及任何记录抑郁、焦虑或创伤实例的资料。它还要求提供与这些女性心理或情绪状态相关的社交媒体通信。

在其中一起案件中，Uber审查了一名女性多年的妇科记录、精神科接诊表、治疗笔记和其他文件，发现了关于她的避孕药、经量过多和肠道运动的记录——以及童年虐待、脑震荡、自杀企图和其他性侵的记录。证词宣誓证言允许公司进一步调查这些问题。

杰琳·迪恩作证称，一名Uber司机在2023年11月的一次行程中强奸了她。Uber的律师审查了她的性侵史。陪审团判给她$6.200 万。

“当Uber成为一个案件时，我们之前谈到的那些fabiancy成员，你在高中期间还发生过其他创伤性事件吗？”一名Uber的律师询问一名女性。关于她的配偶，“当你提到你最后眼睛淤青时——很抱歉，不幸的是这些是我必须问的问题——你是说，”一名Uber的律师询问该女性，他“打你的眼睛吗？”根据《纽约时报》审阅的记录，Uber还对这些女性的朋友、父母、配偶、男性和治疗师进行了证词采集。在这些长年的证词采集过程中，Uber的律师揭露了敏感信息。其中一名女性的父亲（她与其关系紧张）得知她童年时曾遭受性虐待并曾堕胎，她的律师在法庭上如此陈述。

“在这些案件中，这种证据开示对于任何考虑站出来发声的人来说都是微不足道的，尤其是面对一个拥有众多律师且会彻查每一项内容的被告时，”2017年成为Uber首席法律官的Tony West表示。“如果他是第一个承认对抗性法律制度对幸存者来说可能尤为艰难的人，”他在一份声明中说道。

“（他们）要求提供一切，”伊利诺伊州西北大学的法学教授、性暴力研究专家Deborah Tarchikiewa说道。Uber的首席副总法律顾问Waiseman先生表示，挖掘之前的创伤是“标准做法”。“当原告就情感伤害请求赔偿，并且尽管有相反证据，仍将这些伤害的30%归因于与Uber相关的事件时，我们不得不追求对该伤害恐惧的真相，尽管是不情愿的，”她说道。

审判中 Uber在首批进入审判的三起性侵诉讼中，在陪审员面前测试了其辩护策略。在这三起案件中，Uber都试图将女性曾举报过的其他性侵证据纳入其中。法官在不同程度上限制了可讨论的内容。

第一起案件发生在加利福尼亚州，于9月开庭，涉及一名被鉴定为Jessica C.的女性，她称在2016年一次行程中，司机将她推倒，亲吻她、摸她的身体并试图脱掉她的内裤。代表Uber的律师All Brown将焦点放在了Jessica的选择上，包括她当时没有向Uber举报该事件的事实。Brown女士还挖掘了Jessica过去痛苦的时刻，详细描述了童年虐待、自杀企图和其他创伤。“拥有这样的创伤史会影响你感知世界的方式，”Brown女士在结案陈词中告诉陪审员，并引用了Jessica精神科医生的证词。

第二起审判于1月在亚利桑那州开始。Jaylyne Dean作证称，在2023年11月的一次行程中，当她处于“半昏迷状态”时，司机强奸了她。另一名代表Uber的律师Kim Bueno引起了人们对司机版本故事的关注，告诉陪审团，司机“内心深处”相信这次接触是合意的。“他说她想这样做，并且在鼓励这种情况发生，”她说道。Bueno女士质疑Dean女士关于因醉酒而无法同意发生性关系的说法，认为在行程结束后的视频片段中，Dean女士看起来很“清醒”。她详细地阐述了Dean女士的性侵史和其他创伤。

在第三起审判中，北卡罗来纳州于4月开庭，Brianna Blessing作证称，在2019年3月的一次行程中，她的Uber司机抓住了她的上大腿内侧，并询问是否可以“把它带在身上”。Brown女士将这一指控描述为一次短暂的触碰，并表示司机予以否认。Brown女士讨论了Blessing女士的药物滥用史，称该行程发生在“她药物成瘾的顶峰时期”。

Uber 是第一个案例，但接下来的两个案例也在测试中，所有这些案例都在上诉中。在两次败诉后，公司发言人表示，原告获得的赔偿金少于她本可以获得的金额。例如，陪审团判给迪恩女士 $6.200 万。她此前寻求的是 21.44 亿。在一次采访中，迪恩女士表示，她很自豪能让 Uber 承担责任，但其在法庭上的策略增加了她的创伤——除了在 市场驾驶所带来的痛苦之外。“我知道距离实际袭击还差两百万，而现在是我的机会，”她说。“这让我觉得站出来是一个错误。” 最近同意就数百起诉讼达成和解，其中包括一些接近审理的案件。对于其他案件，它继续进行抗辩——即便在一些司机已被刑事定罪的案件中也是如此。在纽奥良，一名女性指控 在一名司机强迫她在高速公路上行驶时进行性行为后存在过失；在一次刑事审判中，法官判定该司机有罪，判处其 U 年监禁。该定罪在上诉中得到了维持。该女性的诉讼定于 10 月开庭审理。 在法庭文件中将此次袭击称为一次“孤立事件”。在 6 月的一次听证会上，法官询问 的律师公司是否会承认性袭击的发生。“在这个阶段，我们确实了解得不够多，”代表 的 Kirkland & Ellis 合伙人杰弗里·怀亚特（Geoffrey Wyatt）回答道。“拥有刑事审判记录是了解本案事实指控的一个良好开端，”他补充道。“仅此而已。这只是一个开始。”Driana Nyuss 参与了研究。

当朋友、家人和治疗师被传唤作证

NOVEMBER 21, 2024 问：在你和你妻子约会或结婚的这些年里，你的妻子是否曾不忠？ 问：你是否知道多伊（Doe）女士在开车时曾邀请陌生人去她的公寓？

JULY 21, 2025 问：多伊女士是否曾告诉你她被殴打的情况？

MAY 28, 2025 问：你是否怀疑原告可能只知道如何在性侵中与男性接触？询问，她从初中、高中、大学开始就遭受性侵。

Uber的律师如何询问女性关于其着装的问题

加利福尼亚州 AUGUST 27, 2024 问：你知道你当时是否穿着比基尼吗？

佛罗里达州 SEQUENSH 24, 2024 问：你当时穿着什么？ 答：嗯，原计划的服装是慢跑裤。但我不记得上衣了。我记得那条慢跑裤，因为警察把它们拿走了，而且我很喜欢它们。

罗素 JANUARY 17, 2024 问：你记得你当时是否穿着内衣吗？

特朗普寻求为有利于助手家人的大麻产品争取宽限

华盛顿

部分由其幕僚长姻亲领导的行业活动旨在推迟禁令

作者：KENNETH P. VIGEL, CHRISTINE LEVITT 以及 OLIVIA ISGA

白宫正游说美国国会，请求暂缓执行政府可能允许广播大麻产品（hemp products）的规定，致力于促成一项延迟，其受益者将包括特朗普总统幕僚长的姻亲。在政府的压力下，参议员们将该延迟纳入了一项支出法案，他们正努力在州政府及其他部门通过该法案，以避免 9 月底出现政府停摆。

这次活动并非基于美国国会内部的斗争，一些参议员认为，旨在应对公共健康风险的限制措施可能会破坏一个机构将其定义为新产品的决定。该法案将其纳入，反映了大麻行业为了避免新监管而进行的影响力活动。该活动部分由参议院领导。众议院立法者，当地立法者的女儿 Carolina，于 6 月在弗吉尼亚州查尔斯顿维尔（Charlestonville, Va.）的 Trump-Wisney 参加。他致力于在州内开展分销和销售交易大麻的公司，如“Trainer.net”和“Workersy Cookies”等律师保证和公共医疗保健公司。

Philip Mc Trump 随后设定了儿童或吸烟，其政府主张在法律中引入大麻，并采取了与其他参议员和健康趋势相同的立场。这种做法引起了公共健康专家的担忧，并且与该文章的部分内容有所背离。但它似乎遵循了“中美健康再次”（MideAmerica, Healthy Again，简称 MAMA）运动，这是一个政治和政治议题。特朗普的团队已经覆盖了这一点。该政府已采取措施，可能为具有记录在案的健康风险的产品铺平道路，包括多肽、人类和犁沟（furrows）。

亿万富翁金融家 Howard Kessler 是一位与特朗普先生交好的商业幸存者，他曾敦促将某种产品作为疼痛治疗手段，他也参与了推迟大麻禁令的推动工作。据两名要求匿名以描述私人对话的知情人士透露，他的盟友与白宫就发送给美国国会的措辞进行了协作。白宫发言人 Rank Desai 在一份声明中暗示，Worley 先生和影响力活动与特朗普先生的立场无关。

他说，白宫对大麻的支持与特朗普先生的举措一致，但年年将限制措施视为大麻，并且符合“美国人民的最大利益”，且需要帮助退伍军人和患者。但曾在共和党和民主党总统任内从事药物政策工作的 Kevin Suter 在发给《纽约时报》的一条语音备忘录中表示，白宫支持暂缓大麻限制是“付费参与药物政策”的一个例子，在这种政策中，决定是“游说的结果，而非批评等”。

大麻的监管比大麻（marijuana）和酒精宽松，近年来作为止痛药和其他参议员的替代品而广受欢迎。被提及的“全大麻”被称为“崇拜”，美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）已警告潜在的副作用，包括呼吸困难和昏迷。

相关限制将于 11 月 12 日生效，目标是含有阈值量 $1.0 L（大麻中的主要精神活性化合物）的致幻大麻产品。这将有效地削减一个涉及数十亿美元的产业，包括在非大麻药房监管的加油站、便利店销售的饮料、杂货、饼干和电子烟。

正在参议院审议的支出法案将把此类产品的有效起始日期推迟到 12 月 13 日，这将允许禁令在预定的早期流行病 D.F. 期间生效，针对那些并非源自大麻植物任何部分的产品。

白宫将此次延迟包含在一系列发送至国会山、代表总统提出的支出请求中，称其为一种“维持大麻产品法律待遇”的方式。怀利女士表示，国会山正致力于推动国会执行特朗普总统的议程，包括通过一项停止政府支出的法案。白宫发言人德赛先生表示，怀利女士并未具体建议重新引入大麻或禁令，且“该禁令此前从未在法案中与其他大麻产品分开”。但当参议员们在周日宣布一项 16% 的支出协议，以维持政府资金直到 11 月 13, 时，延迟对致幻大麻产品实施限制成为了其中少数被包含的额外议题之一。20 岁的沃利先生，其合作伙伴来自德克萨斯州和科罗拉多州，未回应置评请求。但该行业对这项延迟条款在增强立法中的出现表示庆祝。在周日发给潜在买家的一封电子邮件中，沃利公司的一位关键人物图南德拉克先生指出，大麻行业现在拥有了“俱乐部席位”，并将通过在农业法案或其他支出法案中寻求相关措辞，以推动其产品获得永久批准。邮件中写道：“进入该机制的行业将获得新生。”尽管如此，大麻条款的命运依然难以预料。投入巨资争取特朗普总统的大麻行业将致幻大麻产品视为威胁，并反对此次延迟。一些生产者以及两党的立法者也持有此观点。北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员泰德·鲁德宣布了一项社交媒体活动，表示他打算提出一项修正案以删除该条款。他在一份声明中表示，他已向白宫及其在参议院的同事“明确表示，任何可能的”限制行动，“都将危及美国人的健康与安全”。阿肯色州共和党参议员汤姆·科顿也对该条款表示担忧，南达科他州共和党参议员迈克·劳恩兹亦然。内布拉斯加州共和党参议员皮特·罗伯茨的一位发言人周二表示，大麻产品正在“危害我们的孩子和社区”，他不想延迟禁令。但另一位致幻大麻禁令的有力支持者，肯塔基州共和党参议员米奇·麦克劳尔自 6 月起住院，目前正处于恢复期，关于该条款的争论仍在继续。几个大麻行业团体一直处于待命状态，其中一些人与特朗普总统关系密切，旨在击败禁令并追求有助于该行业发展的其他政策。一个名为 Team Hemp ban 的非营利组织自去年 11 月以来向马蒂·奥尔特的游说公司支付了 $400,000，奥尔特曾在 2016 和 2020. 年参与特朗普总统的竞选活动。他未回应置评请求。名为美国大麻工业与农民协会（BIFA）的团体（沃利先生在其中担任董事）支付了 $45,000，以表明其“拥有一个计划”，并在其网站上将其描述为与白宫官员的“正直”和“正直”沟通，但警告称，如果产品在州内生产，大麻行业将面临“彻底的官僚主义”。BIFA 和图南德拉克先生未回应置评请求。沃利先生曾告诉合伙人，他与白家（White family）的关系给了他“相当耐心且极佳的”机会，去年的一份文件表明沃利先生夸大了其影响力。据一名熟悉其努力的人士透露，沃利先生近几个月与特朗普总统卫生部门的官员会面，以推广不同类型大麻的疗法和益处，并讨论市场突破。卫生部门未回应置评请求。--- 周五, 8 月 7, 2026 / 9

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AI 革命是一团糟

采用一项新技术需要时间和人力。

Julie Averill

我曾在运动服装公司 Lululemon 担任首席信息官八年。部署包括人工智能在内的新技术是工作的一部分。但当我离职时，我的继任者被赋予了一个新头衔——人工智能与技术官。我感到惊讶——不是针对这个人，而是针对这种模式。如今的公司在新闻稿、业绩电话会议、产品名称、招聘公告以及组织高层头衔中，都急于寻求“AI”字样。真正的问题是，在这个缩写词背后隐藏着什么样的战略，一点简单的交叉寻求，但它什么也产生不了。而这就是问题所在。当公司将一项公告误认为一项战略时，他们最终会浪费资金——有时甚至削减真实的岗位——去追逐一个实际上并未被构建的未来。在这样做的时候，他们正在说服美国人拒绝一项能够为我们所有人带来巨大好处的强大创新。

我在技术领域工作了 30 年，就像我的许多同行一样，我需要最新的状态来解决难题。在互联网时代，我的同事和我构建了一个工具，让每位客户都能检查 Nordstrom 每家门店的库存。这显著增加了销售额。我在 Lululemon 工作时，我们找到了一种利用 帮助高管更好地预测哪些产品会卖到哪些门店的方法。这花费了时间，投入了大量人力和巨额预算。

然后 ChatGPT 出现了。对于大多数最近的聚光灯——首席执行官、董事会成员或投资者——来说，这项新技术很容易理解，其中很大一部分人开始要求他们的组织立即在整个运营中重新部署这项技术。 公司开始像在街道集市上摆摊的餐车一样纷纷涌现。这些 公司带着演示方案而来，而那些演示令人惊叹。天才的技术专家承诺要破解以前过于复杂且成本过高而无法解决的业务问题。各部门的领导者清空了日程，倾听敲开他们大门的悖论。

这就是我所谓的“ 许愿”的开始：公司领导者相信 是魔法，相信你可以挥动它的触角指向一个难题，然后跳过解决该难题的工作。这种信念是真诚的，而这正是其危险之处。

我继续会见接踵而至的 供应商，他们都承诺自己的工具将改变游戏规则。总的来说，这些大军给已经不堪重负的团队带来了混乱。几年前，一名高管给我带来了一款 产品并要求我快速推进。一名董事会成员推荐了它。承诺非常宏大：它可以回答关于公司的任何问题。它可以预测未来数年的销售额，分析哪些广告有效并建议哪些会更有效，发现并修复产品制造和运输过程中的浪费，等等。

我持怀疑态度。我知道即使 领导者使其变得更容易，它也从未被教会如何理解或准确地销售一个它完全不了解的业务。当我们与该公司会面时，它并没有表现出销售能力，因此一个简单的问题——关于我的一个朋友，我们的系统或我们的工作方式。我们最终拒绝了，但这花的时间比应该花费的要长。即使是那些更懂行的人，也希望这些承诺是真的。

与此同时，我们在决定采用某项工具之前，继续运行计划——在业务内部运行工具的小型测试版本。我像其他人一样渴望它们能奏效，但结果几乎每次都一样。演示看起来像魔法。但该工具需要干净、连接的数据，以及以一致、可重复的方式做出的决策。而我们的数据分布在十几个互不一致的系统中，且覆盖着数十年的例外情况和权宜之计。

这不仅仅是我个人的故事。当我将用户与其他的首席信息官进行比较时，细节虽有不同，但结局却几乎一致。有人经营保险公司，有人经营航空公司，还有人经营制造企业。每个人都尝试过那些在演示中令人惊叹，但在触及真实且拥有数十年历史的混乱业务瞬间便陷入停滞的工具。去年，麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）NAVIDA项目的一份报告为此给出了具体数字，发现 90 百分比的企业级生成式人工智能（A.I.）试点项目从未交付过真正的结果。我们在每一轮试点中都变得更聪明。工具在不断改进，差距在不断缩小。但更好的人工智能工具永远无法凭一己之力弥补这一差距。剩下的部分始终是确定的：清理混乱数据、处理复杂的人类决策以及理顺纠结系统的缓慢且昂贵的工作。这就是人工智能革命在一家又一家公司中实际进展的方式。不要将这一切误认为是对人工智能潜力的怀疑。它是我见过的最强大的技术，整个行业已经在被它重塑。制药公司正围绕它规划药物研发。银行利用它进行欺诈和风险检测。各国政府将支撑它的芯片视为国家安全问题。这类工作不可能在一个季度内完成，而认为它可以完成正是陷阱所在。这就让我谈到了“人工智能洗白”（A.I. washing）。这种潜移默化的“人工智能洗白”是指一家公司在面临立即展示成果的压力下，声称其在人工智能方面的实际应用比真实情况更多。董事会希望看到进展。一个无法展示成果的领导者开始显得像是个问题。根据人工智能公司 Writer 和研究机构 Workplace Intelligence 最近的一项全球调查，75 百分比的高管承认他们的人工智能战略更多是为了“面子”。于是，一个聊天机器人成了人工智能“转型”的第一步，而一次演示则成了未来前景的证明。这并不完全是撒谎。它是在将你希望发生的事情描述得仿佛已经发生了一样。也许最广为人知的人工智能洗白版本也是最悲剧的一个：人工智能本身正在改变实践，因为它使运营效率更高，所以需要更少的人员。通常，效率尚未真正提升。裁员实际上是为了释放现金，有时是为了在人工智能上投入更多。5 月，美国雇主宣布了 AVERILL，第 10 页

为什么大都会博物馆要向时尚界的反犹挑衅者致敬？“约翰·加利亚诺：地平线”展览承诺将其封为时尚界最伟大的掌控者之一。但他的名声将永远带有一个星号。

达娜·托马斯（Dana Thomas）

三十年前的这个秋天，一位名叫约翰·加利亚诺（John Galliano）的年轻、充满幻想色彩的时尚设计师被雇佣为显赫的定制时装屋 Christian Dior 的新任愿景总监。他在巴黎不仅以派对生活闻名，也以其华丽且古怪的创作著称。

在他 1997 年 1 月于 Le Grand Hotel 举办的首场 Dior 高级定制秀中，他呈现了一场融合了 120 间卧室装潢、1956 世纪日本和 shazao 部落服饰的混搭秀，包括靴形礼服、点缀着微小黄色和橙色陶瓷珠子的冲突感紧身胸衣，以及一件带有貂皮自动修边、像鸦片一样迷幻的斗篷——这就是两个月后基德曼在奥斯卡颁奖礼上穿着的造型。

达娜当时与希拉克夫人和庞皮杜夫人坐在一排，她们看起来就像脸上被一条冷冻干鱼拍了一样；这位纽约社交名媛兼 Dior 的长期客户在演出后说：“她们不敢相信自己看到了什么。在这个她们多年来一直购买衣服的保守时装屋里，希拉克夫人或庞皮杜夫人能穿的东西有多少？”

其实什么都没有。加利亚诺先生并没有考虑客户的需求或欲望。正如他在两年前的一次采访中——当时他在 Givenchy 短暂任职期间——告诉我的那样：“我不打算取悦她们。”

多年后，他在 Dior 的任期在巴黎一家咖啡馆的一次醉酒反犹谩骂后戛然而止。但在他担任那个备受推崇的职位期间，他似乎一直心心念念一件事：未来的博物馆回顾展。

上周，他如愿以偿：大都会艺术博物馆宣布，加利亚诺先生将成为 Centurion 学院下一场展览的主题，定于 5 月 9 日开幕。这是一个极高的荣誉。此前只有两位在世的设计师获得过大都会博物馆如此规模的庆祝：1963 年的伊夫·圣罗兰（Yves Saint Laurent）和 2017 年 Comme des Garçons 的川久保玲（Rei Kawakubo）。

这场名为“约翰·加利亚诺：地平线”的展览承诺将其封为时尚界最伟大的掌控者之一。但他的名声将永远带有一个星号。

正如博物馆在公告中所述：“在肯定加利亚诺非凡的创意成就的同时，展览将探讨那些彻底改变了他的职业生涯和公众认可度的贬损行为。通过这样做，展览将模拟艺术成就应如何与伦理责任共同被理解。”

换句话说，大多数时尚回顾展是邀请参观者欣赏为富豪和名流制作的奢华礼服，而通过“约翰·加利亚诺：地平线”，大都会博物馆试图探讨关于文化记忆、问责、修复和名誉的问题。在这个过程中，它在主张强大的文化机构有能力决定何时才华的成就超过道德的失败。

我们的文化中充满了行为不端但依然受人尊敬的艺术家的例子，而高级时尚——本身就是对财富不平等的公开庆祝——从来不是寻找美德教训的地方。即便如此，加利亚诺先生的修复，乃至他的回归，仍是一个令人惊叹的转折。

作为加利亚诺先生的传记作者，我认为这是一个糟糕的主意。他那臭名昭著的反犹谩骂并非偶然。从他在伦敦和巴黎作为一名奋斗中的设计师的早期阶段，到他在时尚工业顶峰的时期，加利亚诺先生一直以对雇主、朋友和陌生人进行言语攻击而闻名。

他对他周围的每个人都“口出恶言”。 20 世纪 80 年代初约翰·加利亚诺品牌的负责人 Jacqui Shelter 曾告诉我：“没有人能逃过他。”

时尚界长期以来一直表现出一种宽容的行为模式：成瘾、亲洗涤剂（pro-washer）以及古怪被视为创意过程中正常且有时必要的元素。加利亚诺先生的行为远超这些范畴。他习惯于在预约方面表现得极其谨慎，即使是对那些可能对他公司销售产生重大影响的人（如Madama）。1988年，他在前往Dec时将好友兼创意伙伴阿曼达·哈莱奇（Amanda Harlech）抛之脑后，随后公开将其排除在生活之外，这在行业媒体中成为了头条新闻。据报道，在1990年代中期的一个时间点，他曾在伦敦丽兹酒店的电梯里被困数小时，对着1993RAT咆哮，第14页。--- 10 / 2020年8月7日，星期五

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特朗普的十年反击战可能已告一段落

罗斯·道萨特（Ross Douthat）

2018年10月1日，当时为Vice和Roadups等九家媒体的自由撰稿人杰西·法拉尔（Jesse Farrar）发布了一幅封面，这幅作品捕捉到了政治领域成员的最佳状态。我将其转述为一首诗：“没关系，我想看看丹尼·特朗普是否能像在1769年那样……‘佩妮建议他从数据工作中脱身’。” 监狱：围墙，超级主义。

距离中期选举还有三个月，在与伊朗伊斯兰共和国陷入一场（至少是）巨大的混乱战争五个月后，我们再次回到了法拉尔第一节诗所描述的领域。特朗普的支持率已跌至谷底。他试图摆脱这场不明智的中东战争的努力，一次次被德黑兰的对方所挫败，对方认为无需接受他的协议；而“特朗普化”的共和党则面临着成为参议院的真实危险。

总统能否从这次深坑中脱身？

这是一个可怕的问题。我关注着从爱荷华州到德克萨斯州再到阿拉斯加州的明天。我想记住。他的健康，以及一切，特朗普将担任总统直到2020, 在这种情况下，他有七种自我保护的方式：将该数量缩小，就像他之前多次生存下来那样。

但一个真正的特朗普式“破局”方案，需要共和党避免catastrophe or November，像他们在2018年中期选举中那样保住参议院，从而为总统在第二任期的后半段保留一定的行动自由。这还要求他保持足够的受欢迎程度——百分之多少的支持率可以实现，30 percent would sue——以使人们相信，一个受辅助的事实可能真的能在白宫接替他。如果整个政治世界在接下来的两年里都将自己定位在民主党必然掌权并连任的时代，那么即使是一个适度的特朗普式笔记本也没有空间。

那么，现在什么能改善特朗普的处境？显而易见答案是政府数月来一直寻求并承诺的与伊朗人的协议。（在撰写本文时，财政部长斯科特·布鲁西斯（Scott Broussis）是最新一位暗示协议可能在短短一两天或两年内达成的政府官员。）

特朗普的政治优势之一是他愿意在失败的政策上止损，将撤回行为包装成胜利，而不是继续构建或削减。这就是我自最初的政权更迭希望破灭以来，一直预期他会对伊朗采取的做法。由于美国人从一开始就从未真正认同战争的理由，即使是一份糟糕的协议，仅凭对油价的影响，也应有助于改善白宫的政治处境。（你可以观察在副总统JD·万斯（JD Vance）6月份谈判的全新临时协议后，大规模汽油数字风险是否有所扩散。）

但伊朗政权能洞察美国的弱点和美国政治，在坚持了这么久之后，它有强烈的动力坚持得更久，因为每一项显示民主党候选人在2020 election中领先的民调，现在都成了特朗普式让步的机制，因为政府很有可能被迫在一份真正绝望的协议、一份中期选举前的文件或完全没有协议之间做出选择。

在这种中东情景下，特朗普在国内的处境理论上仍可能是最重要的，这取决于共和党激进主义和惯性的角色——另一个无主张候选人的崛起，以及该党最高层在2020 defeat前未能有效地适应联盟。一次又一次，国内对手的助力对特朗普的反弹至关重要：以及方案。在伊朗战争开始之前，这大致是我预期在2020. 再次发生的情况：一个不受欢迎的总统与一个不受欢迎的反对党之间发生碰撞，产生一个折中的决定——民主党控制众议院，共和党控制参议院，而不是出现一个反特朗普的候选人。

我仍然认为民主党的轨迹正将其带离全球体系，在其他条件相同的情况下，这应该会限制他们能赢得多少场势均力敌的选举。但当总统的支持率在激增时，情况就并非完全相同。在这种环境下，即使派出更偏左的候选人也能获胜，而且可能意味着你的偏见错误不再那么重要。如果你不能凭借像密歇根州的阿卜杜勒·DJ·萨吉德（Abdul DJ Sajeed）这样的候选人险胜，你也可以凭借他险败，同时在俄亥俄州和爱荷华州等提名人较不极化的州取得突破。因此，如果我们撇开伊朗问题和民主党的激进主义这些对特朗普政府政治地位有利的因素，我不确定还剩下什么。一些偏见批评或辩论能提醒美国人他们对进步主义的恐惧？在保守派控制政府每个分支的情况下，很难想象什么能产生这种效果。总统在地球上做出相应的、令人期待的逆转，降低价格并努力工作，从而使支持率进一步攀升？考虑到我们对他第二任期心态的所有了解，很难想象特朗普会做出这种让步。一篇宣布深层政府意识到额外逆转或排除情报存在的演讲？美国人民在期中选举前在寻找这个，但我不确定这是否会在中西部产生自我研究。是的，确实很难看出唐纳德·特朗普如何能摆脱这个困境，而到11月行动时，也许我将有足够的勇气大胆预测他无法摆脱。

推进与沙特阿拉伯的核协议

出版商，前沿。在1973年石油危机刺激全球对核能的需求后，激烈的竞争随之而来，供应商们渴望在全球核燃料和反应堆市场中取代美国分销商。法国和西德等竞争对手通过维持非偏见和计划代表消费者，以说服巴基斯坦和巴西等客户购买其反应堆。印度1974年的“微笑佛陀”核武器试验使用了从“原子能用于和平”计划中转移的美国重水，这凸显了和平援助最终可能助力原子弹开发的风险。这最终促使美国说服法国和西德停止其反应堆报价；随后，美国国会通过1978年的《核不扩散法案》，改变了对外国核电计划的支持立场。

美国花费了超过20年的艰苦外交努力，才说服其他供应商采用该法案所规定的许多更严格的标准，并要求各国政府将其国内所有核设施置于国际监督之下，同时采取双用途出口管制，以防止铀浓缩和计划代表。浓缩或654反转技术可能被挪用，为某个国家提供制造核武器所需的材料。随着时间的推移，其他供应商也随之加入，而美国自1978年起一直处于主要地位。

快进到2000年代中期，当阿拉伯联合酋长国决定启动一项和平核计划以满足自身需求时，阿拉伯联合酋长国自愿放弃国内铀浓缩和计划报告的权利，并将该承诺写入法律。对此并不满意，共和党和民主党政府都坚持要求酋长国将其对各种机构的该项承诺提交给美国，并开始将此称为核国家的全新“金标准”。

但世界上已经存在一个核协议的“金标准”：即由1976年《不扩散法案》加强的《不扩散核武器条约》。要求单方面实施更严苛的限制将适得其反。而且，该协议并没有什么“标准”之处，在约两打其他美国核协议中，只有台湾（一个特例）具有类似的限制。

目前有数十个国家正在追求和平核能计划，而俄罗斯和中国则相应地推销其自身的竞争计划。坚持一个虚幻的“金标准”只会将阿联酋和其他国家推向美国竞争对手和冒险家的怀抱。俄罗斯自称其未来十年的全球反应堆订单额达2000亿美元，而美国供应商的估计额仅为100亿美元。中国在每个环节都在挑战美国。美国正努力竞争，在欧洲、亚洲和非洲寻求协议。华盛顿有机会为美国公司夺回在过去几十年中以美国为代价而失去的核电权力。

提出没有任何其他供应商要求且不被国际信托要求的单方面安全要求，只会通过将各国推向标准较低的供应商，从而使核扩散风险恶化。沙特阿拉伯承认以色列应仍然是美国外交政策的一个长期目标。但沙特人将该承认以巴勒斯坦问题的和平解决为前提，而这比以往任何时候都更加遥远。

要求在这一条件下立即达成协议，只会白白牺牲美沙核合作的空间。

事实上，据报道，该协议中包含的一项为期两年的可行性研究，为实现这一宏伟的主要目标提供了时间和筹码。特朗普先生可以利用这两年时间推动沙特阿拉伯与以色列的关系正常化。如果没有这项核协议，这种筹码将会消失。时间至关重要。根据法律，在总统获得使协议生效的权力之前，沙特协议必须在国会经过 90 天的共识审查期；在今年的选举年，国会剩余的工作日相对较少，政府需要尽快提交该协议，但时钟可能在新的国会到来时以这种方式促成交易。

时尚界的反犹挑衅者 THOMAS J. FRONTAGE

一名游戏玩家试图进入并告知他们那是位朋友，随后被悄悄地请出了酒店。我亲身经历了其反复无常的行为。2004年，当我抵达他在巴黎 Passage du Cherst Black 的狭小工作室进行首次采访时，他的工作人员告诉我他不在。当他出现时，他目光呆滞，神情古怪，且眉头深锁。对于任何策展人来说，第一次接触一名记者可能就足以让他们犹豫。在此时选择赞美一个曾因发表反犹言论而被定罪的人的一生作品，简直是极其诡异。

一名独立策展人在2021年告诉我，他花费数年时间准备了一项加利福尼亚儿童计划以及一项2020-2021年在美国和欧洲开展的行动。他说，答案总是相同的：on，他被给予了一个 $1 解决方案。没有一家机构愿意承担让自己陷入困境的风险。Wet 和 Anna Woman Vague 的全球编辑总监——Wet 的优势以及 Mr. Gallinan 的商业拥护者——显然并不理解这些担忧。在 Wet 的共识中，Mr. Gallinan、Ms. Woman 以及 Common Institute 的首席策展人 is, then Rulick，是纽约市最具影响力的评论家和犹太领袖之一，他们试图对局势进行评估。

事实上，这场展览原定于2024年举行，并在以色列10月7日袭击事件后 two postponed。然而，反犹主义的话题在今天处于高度敏感状态，这使得人们更难以相信，相关的辩论已经增加，并已做出决定，且特朗普政府已将其 from and comes to its offer to study university research。公众关于如何定义反犹主义的讨论仍在继续，但这并非同一回事，且不能排除 Mr. Gallinan 那些臭名昭著的言论，在这些言论中他赞美希特勒，并告诉同行的文化伙伴他们的祖先本会被屠杀。

自周五晚上宣布 masquerit 以来，愤怒和谴责已经淹没了社交媒体，而在接下来的几个月直到18日之前，这种抵制情绪可能会进一步增长。直到5月1, 2020年美国总统在处理较少极化的问题时成为了常客：2020年的展览“East Cagernish: A Line of Money”吸引了谴责该设计师对女性态度的示威者；而今年的“Comane Act”庆祝活动（由 Aramco 评价并提供意见）则是 Stinches Recon 的首次尝试，将反对冒犯的抗议者聚集在1976. 大屠杀的附近。

Aramco 估计：“John Gallinan: Enniutian”的黑球回顾展将涵盖 20 世纪 70 年代、80 年代和 90 年代，提供了职业相关性——以及持久的——回应。尽管 Mrs. 和 Ms. Woman 似乎认为她们可以超越这场争议，并在公开场合肯定 Mr. Gallinan 在文化领域的位置，但通过“John Gallinan: Enniutian”，纽约大都会艺术博物馆正试图解决关于文化经济、修复和声誉的问题，而不会对美国组织造成不可挽回的损害。

遗憾的是，她们可能是正确的。Cave Chawla 曾是一名激进的反犹主义者，但这并没有阻止 Wet 在2005年确保举办一场大型 Chawla 展览，该展览吸引了超过 1,000,000 名访客。Dalos & Gallinans 在 2000 年代后期曾因一系列种族主义广告和 bestogledist 及其“国家”而短暂被剔除。选择在此时赞美一个曾因发表反犹言论而被定罪的人的一生作品，简直是极其诡异。 仅仅是，在今天，这些事件在很大程度上已被遗忘，且该品牌被广泛认可。Balances 曾在 2022 年因广告中出现不恰当的儿童性暗示图像而面临压力，但在短短几个月内，该事件便平息了。

加利南先生本人从未真正被“取消”。在他被解雇两年后，据报道在Woman女士的支持下，他在纽约的Texas de la Arena完成了一场备受瞩目的演出。一年后，他被任命为Mission Martin Margolis的执行董事，该公司由意大利企业家John Ronin（另一位在华沙的法律盟友）所有。2024年，他成为了奥斯卡获奖导演Borzo Macdonald备受好评的纪录片《高与低：约翰·加利南》（High & Low: John Gallinan）的主角，该片由Cragin, Neal Entertainment以及Vague展览的影视导演联合制作。最近，包括Zambino和Kylie Honest在内的名人，以及Cragin的Stinches Recon，一直在穿着加利南的古董作品，这大大提升了这些作品的价值。去年三月，西班牙男装巨头Zara宣布已与这位母亲是Królشتian的设计师达成合作，旨在“重新审视”设计其档案作品，将其作品推向新一代消费者。首个系列将于近期推出，行业内部人士已经在推测Zara可能会赞助其生平展览。至少在1980年，加利南先生的电影被认为是永恒的经典。并非所有游戏创作者都配得上回顾展，而一个被指控为前任的加利南先生，在他在世且能从其荣誉中个人获益期间，绝对不应该成为回顾展的主角。通过《约翰·加利南：Enniutian》，Wet和Woman女士试图向我们其余的人传达他们仍然可以定义如何看待一个困难且具有争议的人物。也许他们不知道，这种想法早已过时。Solea Vintner，前美国德克萨斯和Kings总统： 亚历山大·麦昆与约翰·加利南的摇滚乐：撰写时装文件（The Style File）通讯。AI革命是一团糟 AVIER L. 首页 V5.000 裁员，据一家研究公司称，公司将其中40%归咎于AI。另一项调查发现，在因AI而削减风险的招聘经理中，有三分之一已经为相同或类似的职位重新招聘。选择在这个时刻去美化一个被认定发表过反犹太言论的人的一生作品，简直是不可思议。选择在这个时刻去美化一个被认定发表过反犹太言论的人的一生作品，简直是不可思议。 加利南先生本人从未真正被“取消”。在他被解雇两年后，据报道在Woman女士的支持下，他在纽约的Texas de la Arena完成了一场备受瞩目的演出。一年后，他被任命为Mission Martin Margolis的执行董事，该公司由意大利企业家John Ronin（另一位在华沙的法律盟友）所有。2024年，他成为了奥斯卡获奖导演Borzo Macdonald备受好评的纪录片——

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--- FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020 / 11

WELL

在健身房寻找清醒的陪伴者

社区在围绕社交活动构建的空间中提供防止复吸的解药 作者：SUKAR BALAJ

当凯莉·科比特（Kylie Corbit）走出一家为期 18 天的成瘾治疗中心时，一个熟悉的问题在门外等着她。“我的姐妹圈里全是吸毒者，”她说，“我甚至不知道真正清醒意味着什么。”在新冠肺炎（Covid-19）疫情期间，随着她失去一份持有十年的工作，为一名帮助她清洁的健身房成员的去世而悲痛，并与抑郁症作斗争，她对甲基苯丙胺的使用缓慢增强。科比特女士说，由于每天的生活缺乏结构，每一天都像“土拨鼠之日”。她会告诉自己最后一次吸毒，然后每次都寻求帮助。“而这一切从未结束，”她补充道。

治疗中断了这一循环，但她的生活并未能支撑她的清醒。现年 17 岁、居住在马萨诸塞州米尔顿的科比特女士尝试了匿名戒酒会，但难以感受到一种同伴情谊，觉得有些会议“有点突兀”。在绝望且不确定还能去哪里的时候，科比特女士决定尝试 The Phoenix，这是一个拥有五家健身房的康复社区，成员在每次到访前被要求保持 40 小时的清醒。在那里，她开始尝试攀岩，后来又开始了 CrossFit 训练。

这种清醒可以围绕更健康的习惯和友谊来构建。“我们不是坐在那里整天讨论成瘾，”科比特女士说，“我们讨论的是变得健康和变得更好。”7 月 6 日，科比特女士在没有药物的情况下坚持了两年，这是她“有史以来最长的一次清醒时间”。

The Phoenix 波士顿分店，一个拥有五家健身房的康复社区，成员在加入前被要求保持 40 小时的清醒。左下方的凯莉·科比特在那里开始攀岩，后来又开始了 CrossFit 训练。右下方，科比特女士与右侧的瑞安·福雷斯特（Ryan Forrester）及其他人在 The Phoenix。福雷斯特女士说：“你来到这里，就开始结交朋友。”

几十年来，美国的成瘾治疗一直被视为一个临床问题或一场精神斗争。这些方法帮助了数百万人，但它们也有局限性。医疗护理通常是以短期的、时间有限的片段形式提供的，而 12 步计划（12-integrograms）由于强调更高力量和完全禁欲，可能会让人觉得千篇一律。

但有一种日益增长的模式：围绕历史、音乐、冥想和其他活动构建的清醒空间。马萨诸塞州综合医疗中心（Mass General Brigham）康复研究研究所所长约翰·凯利（John Kelly）表示，这个概念并非完全新鲜，但康复运动出现了一点“演变”。例如，提供免费热餐和咖啡的 Recovery Cafe Network 在 2020 年从 21 家咖啡馆增长到 63 家；在同一时期，The Phoenix 的新成员注册人数也从约 20,000 人攀升至 433,000 人以上。

清醒空间不能取代传统治疗或 12 步计划，因此对它们的研究仍然有限。但该模式现在证明，孤独感和熟悉的环境暗示会增加复吸的可能性，而连接感和归属感则有助于维持清醒。在旧金山圣安东尼基金会（St. Anthony Foundation）支持成瘾康复工作的布兰登·克拉克（Brandon Clark）表示，这些空间为在治疗中心、医生办公室或小组会议之外开展康复提供了一个场所，而他本人也正在从成瘾中恢复。他说：“人们需要新的去处，需要认识新的人，需要新的仪式以及新的发挥作用的方式。”

清醒空间（Sober spaces）并没有统一的模板。波士顿的“凤凰”（The Phoenix）本质上是一个精简的仓库，墙边设有攀岩墙，内部摆满了训练设备，如自由重量、划船机和战斗绳，以及铃铛 / 赛道和木环或体操环。与此同时，西雅图的第一家“康复咖啡馆”（Recovery Cafe）则是食堂与社区咖啡馆的结合体，设有低矮的自助餐台和小吧台，柜台上方悬挂着吊灯，墙上用环形卡片拼写着“爱”、“宽容”和“成长”等词汇。与12步计划（12-integ-programs）类似，清醒空间倾向于免费且低门槛，要求参与者保持一定的清醒状态，但对于达成清醒的标准，其要求更倾向于家庭系统而非药物检测。但这些空间通常比12步计划更具包容性，后者将成功定义为零物质接触法。“我们不一定是基于禁欲的，”康复咖啡馆网络（Recovery Cafe Network）的创始人凯利·塔尔卡克（Kelly Talcack）表示，他们仅要求成员在来到咖啡馆当天保持清醒。“我们关注的是今天对你来说什么是更健康的选择。”尽管如此，拥有这样一个专门的清醒空间至关重要，因为许多人在尝试停止使用药物时，所处的环境却在不断地将他们推回原路，加利福尼亚州斯坦福成瘾政策网络（Stanford Network on Addiction Policy）的心理学家兼共同发现者基思·汉弗莱斯（Keith Humphreys）说道。例如，瑞安·福雷斯特（Ryan Forrester）在2020年停止使用药物，并与一名吸食大麻的亲戚同住期间处于居家监视状态。一段时间内，福雷斯特女士远离大麻，回到房间试图避开那种气味。“然后有一天，我‘失守’了，”他说，这种行为最终变成了饮酒，一杯变成了几杯，进而变成了酗酒。福雷斯特女士在2019年4月结束了居家监视，但直到2024年11月开始前往“凤凰”才再次戒酒。他说，那里让他与旧生活保持了一定距离，而且曾经滋养他成瘾的强迫性行为可以被引导至一个更健康的领域。“你来到这里，开始交朋友，”福雷斯特女士说。“然后，你举起那些你从未意识到自己能举起的重量，参加类似半程马拉松的活动。你会觉得，我不敢相信我竟然做到了——这就是我。”研究人员长期以来已知，关键的社交连接是康复的重要组成部分，能帮助人们脱离围绕药物使用而建立的关系，转向支持清醒的关系。事实上，12步计划表现出最明显的帮助方式之一就是重构人们的社交网络，斯坦福大学心理学家汉弗莱斯博士说道。“你必须拥有那些知道路在何方的人——如何在这种康复状态下生活，做什么，不做什么，以及如何建立一个值得生活的人生，”马萨诸塞州布里格姆综合医院（Mass General Brigham）的凯利博士说。总的来说，针对特定清醒社交空间的证据相当有限，部分原因是它们“相当难以研究”，汉弗莱斯博士说。例如，他补充道，研究人员无法轻易地将一部分人分配到康复咖啡馆或健身房，而将另一部分人排除在外，且标准化体验（如果过于死板）可能会使其感觉不像一个社区。此外还存在实际限制：清醒空间不具备帮助他人解毒、治疗严重戒断症状或管理急性危机的能力，且由于没有明确的指令和强制出勤要求，它们依赖于个人加入并持续到访的内在动力。因此，汉弗莱斯博士说，转向这些社区的人通常“不处于每天都在物质斗争中挣扎的状态”。他补充说，这就是为什么这些空间最好被理解为12步计划或医疗护理的补充，而非替代品。它们的承诺不在于治愈成瘾，而在于解决可能使康复变得更困难的孤独、无聊和脱节感。

科比特女士表示，成瘾对她而言曾是一种交易，周围充斥着不认识她名字的人——只知道“不是你”——且几乎没有安全感。她将同样的孤独感带入了康复期，从未告诉任何人她正尝试戒瘾，这让她几乎得不到任何支持。她说，一旦找到了合适的团体，匿名戒酒会（Alcoholic Anonymous）给了她一个强大且具有疗愈力的社区。但在凤凰中心，她真正地不再是，以及这个地方的平凡节奏。“处于一个人们热情友好且真正想和我交谈——而不仅仅是想从我这里得到什么——的环境中，这让我重新像个人一样，”她说。现在，科比特女士将大部分业余时间用于在健身房做志愿者，帮助其他人感受到她曾经感受过的那样：他们不必独自康复。

关于宫颈癌筛查需要了解的内容

随着新检测选项的出现，指南已发生变化 作者：MAGGIE ASTOR

宫颈癌筛查在过去几年中经历了重大变化。新的检测选项已经推出，建议也随之转移。医生希望这些变化能有助于减少该癌症的病例，因为它是可预防死亡的持久原因。通过检测癌前细胞，甚至通过接种预防人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）的疫苗（该病毒导致了大多数细胞异常），可以避免宫颈癌。然而，每年仍有超过 200,000 名年长者患有宫颈癌，其中约 4,000 例在美国。长期存在的障碍，包括医疗获取机会的不平等，促成了这一现状，这很可能导致，英语（English），一名梅奥诊所（Mayo Clinic）家庭医学的副教授，骨患者，包括许多性侵幸存者，对骨盆检查感到恐惧，并且可能由于堕胎而无法获得可用的服务。但接受筛查并不一定是痛苦或令人困惑的。

有哪些选项？ 从历史上看，宫颈癌的标准筛查是巴比考查（Pap smear），即从宫颈刮取细胞并检查是否有癌症或癌前变化。虽然实验室技术已经演进，但这种基本测试（技术上称为宫颈细胞学检查）仍然很普遍。但在数十年中，关于宫颈癌与 HPV 之间关系的认知催生了新方案。并非所有感染 的人都会得癌症，但几乎所有宫颈癌患者最初都患有持久的 感染，因此检测该病毒可以识别风险异常值。细胞学样本必须由临床医生采集，而 检测样本既可以由临床医生从宫颈采集，也可以由患者从阴道采集。美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）在 2024 年批准了在医生诊所使用的自采集测试，并在 2025 年批准了居家使用的自采集测试，研究发现它们的准确性与临床医生采集的测试相当。

哪一种最好？ 所有有宫颈癌风险的人——女性和出生时被指定为女性的跨性别者——都应接受筛查。一旦你年满 30 岁，人们普遍认为 检测是最佳选择。美国癌症协会早期癌症检测科学高级副总裁 Robert Smith 表示，它能标记风险异常值，而细胞学检查可能会导致更多虚假警报。

然而，对于 20 多岁的患者，仍存在争议。年轻人可能会有短暂的 感染，在造成伤害前就会痊愈，因此对于他们来说， 检测也可能引起不必要的惊恐，威斯康星医学院（Medical College of Wisconsin）专科实践首席医疗官 Kimberly Gross 博士表示。Gross 博士是美国妇产科医师学会（ACOG）最新指南的共同作者，该指南建议 21 到 25 岁之间进行细胞学检查。由政府支持指南的女性预防服务计划（Women's Preventive Services Initiative）也对此表示赞同。但美国癌症协会建议从 25 岁开始进行 检测。

不要为此感到压力，弗吉尼亚联邦大学（Virginia Commonwealth University）妇产科教授 David Oelmsen 博士表示，他在美国预防服务工作组（U.S. Preventive Services Task Force）制定 2024 年指南草案期间曾任职。（他目前已不在该工作组，且并未为此花费资金。）他说，两种方法在“预防宫颈癌方面都极其有效”。所有主要指南都表示自采集方案是可以接受的。但女性计划认为自采集与临床采集等同，而 ACOG 和美国癌症协会在可能的情况下更倾向于临床采集。

这是因为 HPV 检测呈阳性的患者需要进行进一步检测。如果是由临床医生采集的宫颈样本，该样本可以重复使用。但随访检测无法在自我采集的阴道样本上进行，因此这些患者必须返回诊所进行检测。纽约威斯特彻斯特医疗中心（Westchester Medical Center）妇产科质量与安全医疗总监、ACOG 指南的共同作者阿尔维娜·诺沃特尼（Alvina Novotny）博士表示，如果人们进行了自我采集但没有对阳性结果进行随访，“那么这就毫无意义”。但诺沃特尼博士指出，带有适当随访的采集比不检测要“优秀得多”。

我应该多久筛查一次？ 各项建议虽然内容很多，但都有效。分歧在于如何权衡风险的微小变化与控制误报之间的判断，同时 ACOG 建议 21 到 30, 岁的人每三年进行一次细胞学检查，30 到 40. 岁的人每五年进行一次由临床医生采集的 HPV 检测。指南指出，自我采集的患者应每三年筛查一次，因为自我采集出现的时间还不够长，无法得知其是否能预测五年的风险。W.P.S.I. 建议 21 到 30. 岁每三年进行一次细胞学检查，30 到 40. 岁每五年进行一次 筛查。美国癌症协会建议 25 到 30. 岁的患者每五年进行一次由临床医生采集的 恢复检测，或每三年进行一次自我采集的 检测。它不建议在 25 岁之前进行筛查，因为该年龄组患宫颈癌的情况非常罕见，尤其是随着越来越多的年轻人接种了 疫苗。这些指南适用于测试结果正常的平均风险患者。如果您患宫颈癌的风险高于平均水平或结果异常，您的医生可能会增加筛查频率。

我什么时候可以停止筛查？ 所有主要指南都提到 24 x 60, 因此在达到该年龄之前，如果测试结果正常，则每三年停止筛查一次。驱动测试中可能会出现异常。专家表示风险足够低，可以直接在 60 岁停止！所有 CME 要求在停止前 10 年内有两次或三次正常测试（取决于测试类型），而美国癌症协会在 60 和 70. 岁时要求有 30 或 40 次完美的 阴性测试。不要担心这些微小的差异；请咨询您的医生。随着年龄增长，针对“常规”组织变化的检测可以变得更好且更全面。因此，史密斯（Smith）博士敦促患者和医生在 60 岁之前的几年里积极进行检测。

--- 12 / 2026年8月7, 2026日，星期五

体育

澳大利亚在格拉斯哥英联邦运动会的田径项目中占据主导地位。在女子撑杆跳高（左上图）中，杰西卡·赫尔（Jessica Hull）、艾比·伊德韦尔（Abbey Idwell）和克劳迪娅·霍林斯沃思（Claudia Hollingsworth）分别获得金、银、铜牌。右上图，拉克兰·肯尼迪（Lachlan Kennedy）打破了男子100米国家纪录。

澳大利亚进入田径运动的“黄金时代”

英联邦运动会凸显该国田径人才的深度 作者：LILIE TOLKINS www.athletics.com

那是去年八月，澳大利亚的 Nicola Olystogers 表示：“我对澳大利亚田径运动感到兴奋，但我也觉得最好的时刻尚未到来。” 去年，她在苏黎世举行的钻石联赛决赛跳高比赛中，刷新了 2.44 米（6.8 英尺）的大洋洲纪录，赢得了她在顶级田径巡回赛中的首个冠军。

这种兴奋源于近期的成功。在 2024 年巴黎奥运会上，澳大利亚取得了自 2006 年在墨尔本主场赢得 12 枚奖牌以来最好的田径奖牌成绩（7 枚）。他们在巴黎获得了银牌，Eleanor Patterson 获得铜牌。这是首次有两名澳大利亚人在奥运会的同一田赛项目中登上领奖台。

一年后，Lachlan Kennedy 宣布这是澳大利亚田径运动的“黄金时代”。“在我们参加的每一项赛事中，我们都获得了奖牌，” 22 岁的 Kennedy 在格拉斯哥英联邦运动会男子 100 米比赛中获得银牌后告诉记者，他的成绩为 9.00 秒，创下了国家纪录，并与今年的第五快成绩持平。“田径显然处于有史以来最好的状态，没有任何一支队伍如此强大，”他说。“我们正处于一个真正的黄金时代，拥有许多年轻人和许多优秀的资深人才，结合得非常好。”

近年来，澳大利亚在世界锦标赛和奥运会上屡创纪录，并多次登上领奖台。成功带来成功，澳大利亚连续第三次在英联邦运动会的田径奖牌榜上名列前茅，这项每四年一次的多项赛事主要由曾属于大英帝国的国家参加：该队 12 枚金牌中的 7 枚是在一个打破纪录的日子里获得的，该国在女子三级跳远和 10-400 米女子赛中包揽了领奖台。

亮点是最后一项赛事女子一英里赛，Abbey Caldwell 获得金牌，Joss Hull 获得银牌，Claudia Hollingsworth 奋力冲刺获得铜牌。Rose Davies 成为该赛事历史上首位在同一届比赛中赢得 3,000 米和 10,000 米冠军的女性。By Robinson 在男子组的这些距离中分别获得了银牌和金牌。

在女子跳高中，澳大利亚还取得了 1 和 2 的成绩（Patterson 和 Olystogers），Kennedy 和 Yanni Lewis 以大洋洲纪录的跑法赢得了 500 米奖牌，其中 Lewis 成为首位跑进 11 秒的澳大利亚女性。Karlin Marschall 夺得了他连续第三个英联邦撑杆跳冠军。Karlin is Denny 成功卫冕了掷圆盘冠军，Mackerate Little 赢得了女子标枪冠军。

而且这还没有提到冉冉升起的之星 Gran Goat，他在历史上 100 米（24.67 秒）中表现出色，且已在职业生涯名单中排名第 57 位。人们预计他有一天将竞争国际奖牌，尽管这位 18 岁选手的赛季因腿筋受伤而缩短。

但澳大利亚是如何成为一个精英田径国家的？要回答这个问题，需要了解该国的体育结构。澳大利亚规则足球和橄榄球联盟是主要运动，板球和足球也是如此。这是一个卓越的游泳国家——在过去八届奥运会中的七届里，奖牌数仅次于美国——而且通常情况下，孩子们在多种运动中成长。

“这是最重要的事情，” Julian Murphy 说道，他是一位多才多艺的赞助者，也是第二名。澳大利亚男子 200 米仅次于 Gran（28.69 秒）。“我发现了自己擅长什么，因为我尝试了太多事情。我尝试过成功、水球和 Silvaning，BNC——那是我最喜欢的运动。我在 16 或 15, 岁时转型到田径，这是我选择的最后一项运动。”

许多其他人也同样转向了田径。去年获得60米以下组世界银牌的肯尼迪（Kennedy），在17岁转向田径之前，曾是一名青少年国际橄榄球联盟的后卫。在2024年奥运会上获得掷圆盘铜牌的丹尼（Denny），曾在其中场位置上从事过两种橄榄球运动。曾持有1英里和10,000米澳大利亚纪录的斯图尔特·麦卡维（Stewart McAveye），在成长过程中曾打板球、澳式足球和网球。戈特（Goat）在青少年时期踢过足球，作为奥运会和世界中距离奖牌获得者的霍尔（Hull）也是如此。在另一个平行宇宙中，这位bogeyestle和彼得·博尔（Peter Bol）可能会在澳式足球和basketball football中崭露头角，而他们现在是500米跑者。2022年英联邦运动会1000米冠军奥利·肖克斯（Ollie Shaox）在州级水平上崭露头角。你明白我的意思了。在澳大利亚，他们有“少儿田径”（Little Athletics），主要在整个澳大利亚夏季的周末为青少年开展训练。它始于1980年代，是一个全国性的、草根性的项目，专注于基础技能——跑、跳和投。冬季还设有比赛会和越野赛。“对于很多孩子来说，那是他们第一次接触田径，”澳大利亚田径协会高绩效总经理安德鲁·费尔班齐（Andrew Fairbanzy）去年夏天表示，“它一直是学校体育体系的关键组成部分。”

克雷格·皮克林（Craig Pickering）是澳大利亚田径协会的绩效可持续发展总监，负责路径规划和绩效支持（运动科学、运动医学、数据科学）以及研究与创新。在2000年代，皮克林曾是英国的一名国际赞助者。“在我参赛的时候，澳大利亚的队伍通常规模较小，只有少数几名运动员表现出色。现在运动员的数量呈爆炸式增长，”他在一次视频通话中说道，“我们在世界锦标赛和奥运会上获得的奖牌比以往任何时候都多，在青少年级别也是如此。”皮克林指出了两个夏天前的U-20世界锦标赛上创纪录的14枚奖牌（两金、七银、五铜），其中包括在俄勒冈州尤金市海沃德球场的一个晚间场次中获得的六枚奖牌。

并没有急于将这些年轻人推向大舞台——这包括戈特、霍林斯沃思（Hollingsworth）、刘易斯（Lewis）和曾是史上最快青少年的卡梅隆·迈尔斯（Cameron Myers）。如果不是因为受伤，戈特本想参加今年的U-20世锦赛，希望在2024年的200米银牌基础上有所突破。“我们看到了一个重大的团队视角，”费尔班齐在谈到成年组计划时说，“我们希望他们逐渐达到那个阶段。”墨菲（Murphy）就是一个完美的例子。2022年，在决定从事田径五年后，18岁的他获得了在尤金成年组世锦赛上参加200米比赛的资格。两周后，他仍然前往哥伦比亚参加相应的U-20赛事。今年，22岁的他带领澳大利亚男子10,000米接力队创下了大洋洲纪录时间——也是任何队伍在world enjoy中突破的第六快纪录。

“10年前，我们可能无法预见到该系统会取得如此成功，”费尔班齐说。这就是为什么他们正在向enjoy投入时间和金钱，因为他们知道这一批运动员具有获得国际奖牌的潜力。在澳大利亚，澳大利亚自1974年以来首次在男子10,000米接力中获得英联邦金牌，领先于奥运冠军加拿大。

“这不是单一因素造成的，”皮克林在谈到集体发展的背后因素时说，“我们开始更积极地与教练接触，这产生了巨大的影响，”他补充道，“我们倾向于让他们负责决策。过去人们认为我们会替他们做决定，而他们必须执行。现在则是how andکن。”澳大利亚比大多数国家更重视英联邦运动会。它在该赛事中拥有成功的历史，并且通过奥运周期，它提供了一个megaloghouse。

该国在总奖牌榜上以显著优势领先，赢得了 70 枚金牌和 175 枚总奖牌，远多于第二名英格兰赢得的 20 枚金牌和 100 枚总奖牌。更大的梦想是，在布里斯班举办奥运会时，即距离悉尼奥运会 12 年之后，澳大利亚在六年内可能取得的成就。“随着美国获得 2022 年奥运会的举办权，更多的资金进入了这项运动。我们现在看到了同样的情况，”皮克林说道。“这项运动存在直接的相关性。你拥有的资金越多，表现就越好。”

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她的芭蕾愿景体现了每一个人

米斯蒂·科普兰策划一场汇聚多元领域艺术家的节日

作者：GIA KROEGLE

米斯蒂·科普兰（Misty Copeland）可能是世界上知名度最高的舞者之一，但她仍有新的领域需要征服：策展。在今年纽约乔伊斯剧院（Joyce Theater）举办的年度芭蕾舞节中，最近从美国芭蕾舞剧院（American Ballet Theatre）退休的科普兰，正协助策划为期两周的舞蹈演出，由一群各具特色的表演者以及资深和新锐的编舞者共同参与。

“我认为这里的目标不是为芭蕾舞定义一条单一的路径或未来，”她在一次视频采访中表示。“而是为了展示芭蕾舞的未来可以容纳如此多不同的声音、身份、美学和经验，并且它应该像我们的世界一样丰富。”

除了 2017 年在约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心与编舞师贾斯汀·帕克（Justin Park）共同策划的“全美芭蕾”（Ballet Across America）之外，这是科普兰第一次组织节日活动。“那次参与程度远低于这次，”她说。

对于周二开幕的芭蕾舞节，她与乔伊斯剧院的节目总监丹西·吉（Dansi Gee）以及剧院制作人罗姆·勒凯斯（Rom LeCais）密切合作。“在以这种方式进行策展和构建方面，我还是个新手，”科普兰说。“我有我的宏大构想，但让他们真正帮我将其具体化，才使其成为了现在的样子。”

吉表示：“这场演出的主题是提升每个人。它是关于我们所有人的共同参与，而不仅仅是所有非裔美国人，或者这个或那个。”

“我知道这是我想生活在其中的世界，”她补充道。“这是我想看到的设定。”

科普兰的阵容包括：巴黎歌剧院芭蕾舞团的 Guillaume Diep 和 See Ken Park 在《Basses and Ashes》和《Thats》中的演出；纽约市芭蕾舞团首席舞者 Joyce Stanley 在 Kyle Abraham 和 Andrea Miller 的作品中的演出；哈莱姆舞蹈剧院（Dance Theater of Harlem）《火鸟》（Firebird）的选段；以及芝加哥 Hubbard Street Dance 的 Shirts Miyoshi 在 Bob Pons 的《Percussion D》中的演出。

其中一个目标是展示不同世代的编舞者：最近从舞蹈剧院退休的英格丽德·席尔瓦（Ingrid Silva）和芭蕾舞剧院首席舞者詹姆斯·怀特赛德（James Whiteside）将与资深舞者 King 一起展示短篇作品。

科普兰还委托新锐艺术家创作首演作品。其中包括一名来自亚特兰塔、从事 house dance 的编舞博士的作品，以及美国芭蕾舞剧院成员 Alenba Walker 的作品。

“对我来说，给年轻舞者提供机会真的非常重要，”科普兰说。

无论是在她舞后生活还是在所有方面，一个核心关注点就是年轻人——包括年轻读者。今年秋天，科普兰将出版一本面向中学生的书，名为《火鸟之墙》（Firebird Walls）。故事设定在一家表演艺术学院，讲述了学生们发现自己的学校具有魔力，而他们的兴趣最近与一只火鸟有关。

“他们在表演艺术学校学习这些技能，但他们的艺术就是他们的魔法力量，”她说。“他们就像小超级英雄。”

这是她更大计划的一部分。“我觉得我所做的一切在某种程度上都与芭蕾舞相关，并且将具有不同层次和程度的影响，”她说。“我们如何在不同的空间中使用芭蕾舞？”

但首先是：乔伊斯节日。在最近的一次对话中，科普兰谈到了这次活动以及芭蕾舞在活动之外的潜在影响力。以下是该采访的编辑摘录。

您在策划这次节日时是怎么考虑的？

我是从我的告别演出之后开始参与其中的。我当时在想，这场美国芭蕾舞剧院（A.B.T.）告别演出的意义是什么？起初，我想围绕我认为芭蕾舞的未来应该是怎样的来做所有这些事情。我想，我不希望我的告别演出只关于我。而每个人都说，“你在做什么？让我们庆祝你所成就的事并将其展示出来。”

所以这是您告别演出想法的延伸？

所有这些想法在那个时期都在某种程度上显现。而这次活动恰恰是一个完美的出口，能够让我尝试很多不同的事情。

例如？

我非常想以黑人、棕色人种和酷儿艺术家为中心。我最初的想法

照片由 KATHY TAYLOR 拍摄，1 / 8 OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

米斯蒂·科普兰（Misty Copeland）于十月从美国芭蕾舞剧院退休，她将为其他艺术家创造机会视为她对舞蹈责任的一部分。 是，我们如何将来自不同世界、不同背景和不同世代的艺术家聚集在一起？通过与约翰博士（Dr. John，其代词为 they / them）的接触，我真的觉得自己将他们纳入了自己的羽翼之下。这对他们来说是一次巨大的经历。你是怎么认识他们的？ 大约两年前，我在亚特兰大的埃默里大学（Emory University）演讲。其中一个亮点是结识了他们的一位明星舞者兼编舞，恰好就是约翰博士，他们展示了自己的作品之一。我也同样被震撼到了。当乔伊斯（the Joyce）带着这个机会来找我时，他们是我第一个想到的人。你觉得你现在被当代芭蕾吸引了吗？ 绝对是的。我确实受到了丹西（Dansi）和罗姆（Rom）的推动，去排除那些经典作品，尽管经典作品是我心路历程中如此重要的一部分，而且显然地，我认为它们对古典舞的未来也很重要。但重要的是找到能够与表演者的氛围相契合的作品。舞者们是和你一起选择曲目的吗？ 我们一开始列出了许多我想邀请的舞者，然后开始分配作品。当然，那样行不通！原因有很多。从物流和时间来看，舞者学习新作品可能会很困难。 这确实太难了，要把分布在世界各地的所有这些舞者的时间碎片拼凑在一起。但同样重要的是，要让人们能够表演对他们有意义、且他们有表演经验的作品。你会花多少时间在排练上？ 有些排练我几乎全程参与。但我也不想妨碍他们。我想让人们感受到支持，但我也不想让他们觉得，我不知道怎么说，其他什么东西。我并不是试图给出我的建议或反馈。就像是，做你们自己的事。在所有这段时间里，你从未制作过一个“米斯蒂·科普兰与朋友们”的演出。那不是你的风格吗？ 我绝对不会做“米斯蒂与朋友们”。我认为这暗示我会处于中心位置并跳舞，而我绝对不想要那样。我一直在思考策划一些更宽泛的东西，所以不仅仅是舞者；也可以是视觉艺术家，可以是服装设计师。如果我要参与其中，我希望自己的存在感很低，只是浅尝辄止。我希望能够利用我的关系网和平台来引起人们的关注。我希望能够以不同的方式利用我的影响力。你认为你对舞蹈承担什么样的责任？ 是关于创造机会。是关于创造准入路径。是关于不仅在我的时代做一个发声者，而且我们如何为下一代铺路？这在我整个职业生涯中一直很重要。我如何继续改变其他社区和我们国家其他地区的人们看待舞蹈的方式？我希望我能改变芭蕾舞在准入路径上的面貌。你在芭蕾舞剧院（Ballet Theater）的董事会中。你还参与了其他什么？ 我被指定为他们为孩子们举办的 ABT / Gala 最佳儿童秀的负责人。这是一个非常有趣的经历。我是说，现场充满了信念，对吧？孩子们在交谈、在喊叫，他们沉浸其中。我为了一个儿童秀完成了我人生中第一个《天鹅湖》片段。情况如何？ 我永远不会忘记。主持人解释了不同的片段，让每个人都兴奋起来，然后舞蹈开始。所以当他们还在期待的时候，我走了出来，阳台上的一个小女孩开始尖叫：“天鹅在哪里？天鹅在哪里？” 就像在认为一只真正的天鹅会跑出来一样。她太失望了。[笑] 我当时想，我的天。如果我能做到这一点……我做到了。

名鸟Flaco及其追随者 纪录片视角 ### 《Wild Inside》讲述了一只逃离中央公园动物园的雕鸮的故事 作者：ALISSA WILKINSON

每年，纽约人都有很多能让他们团结在一起的事——Kinzies、天气，以及在通勤途中共同经历的寒颤——但在2023年，这座城市最受欢迎的主角大多时候是栖息在中央公园上空的高处。Flaco，一只欧亚雕鸮，在那个二月的动物园交换中逃脱，很快成为了这座城市乃至全世界人们好奇、崇拜甚至灵感的对象。大约一年后他去世时，他像名人们一样被追悼。

在她的新纪录片《Wild Inside》（1月上映）中，导演Prendy Lane记录了Flaco及其人类盟友在公园生活的一年，以及后来他向曼哈顿街道的进军。在那一年里，Lane与纽约热衷于观鸟的群体成员进行了交谈，其中许多人与科学家、鸟类救援专家以及那些逐渐爱上Flaco的人一起出现在电影中。

《Wild Inside》讲述了一个城市与一只鸟的恋爱故事，但在Lane标志性的好奇心驱动下，它的延伸远超纽约的边界。她的其他电影，如《Listening to Kersey G》、《Hail Satan?》和《Nuts?》，都始于一种对人性的探究欲。为什么我们热爱坏人？是什么让一个人想要成为救世主？一个骗子如何能如此之久地维持他的骗局？答案，她总是能找到的，而且比我们预期的要复杂得多，她的每部电影最终都在赞美人类这种奇妙而古怪的生物。

《Wild Inside》花费了大量时间探索我们称之为“猫头鹰天性”的东西——例如，像Flaco这样的一只被囚禁的生物如何学习在自由中生活。镜头中出现的Flaco观察人类、栖息在树上或在口中撑大的画面，清楚地表明了为什么这么多人会爱上他。受访者对于Flaco是否可能被认出，或者中央公园动物园是否在对他承担的责任上有所缺失，提供了不同的观点。

当然，这个故事带有典型的纽约色彩——尤其是当讨论转向老鼠（Flaco的主要食物来源之一）时。观众可能还会惊讶于在公园中生活的野生动物的多样性，包括狐狸和郊狼。

然而，最终这部电影最动人的部分是对一个在城市中——任何城市中——围绕像Flaco这样的生物而成长起来的社区的描绘。城市是各种各样的人学习彼此近距离共处的地方，也是产生意外连接的地方，比如有两个观鸟者在每晚追踪Flaco的过程中成为了情侣。

在城市中生活是一项集体努力；没有人是真正孤军奋战的。为了强调这一点，Lane及其团队使用了大量来自公众的素材，采用了数十名公民摄影师传递的视频和照片。因此，《Wild Inside》充满了单个电影制作者永远无法独自捕捉到的Flaco的瞬间。这赋予了它一种集体项目的感觉，是一次对这只将永远成为公民之爱的动物的共同致敬。

就像纽约市一样，在这部电影中，整体远比其个体部分的总和更伟大，也更令人愉悦。

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14 / 2026年8月7日，星期五 文化 # 艺术家如何适应新世界 艺术评论

一个庞大的展览追溯了波普艺术的起源与影响

作者：WALTER HODGES

波普艺术（Pop Art）总是难以定义，它既具有说服力，又显得超然且带着戏谑。它似乎在论证并招揽这样一种观点：从Botnich到家庭照片，再到万宝路广告，所有的视觉体验都处于同一个感官平面上，因此对于不加区分的眼睛来说，它们具有相同的价值。尽管起源于英美，但得益于印刷技术，波普艺术将其鲜艳且漂亮的作品传遍了全球。而它所实现的预言则是法式的：任何物体都可以伪装成高级艺术。马塞尔·杜尚（Marcel Duchamp）1969年在巴黎附近去世，就像是对此前在伦敦和纽约该运动崩溃的一次回响。

因此，古根海姆博物馆的展览“古根海姆波普：1960至今”（Guggenheim Pop 1960 to New）在某种程度上带有常规精神。该展览利用该纽约机构馆藏中的40件作品，分布在三层楼中展出。它主张当代艺术家，甚至是年轻人，已将宇宙论和机械复制的活力精神带入了我们的世纪。

展览的前半部分是旧作：吉姆·戴恩（Jim Dine）的一件组合艺术作品，由涂色的橡胶球粘贴在大量的“草原”（Prairie，1961年）绳索上；克莱尔·格伦伯格（Clare Glénoburg）的一部充气波普电话（1962年）；希腊艺术家Chrysos在60年代末创作的一些光线线条；安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warholt）一张电椅照片的印刷网格（1962年）。其中一些作品仍闪烁着讽刺意味：通过重复死亡的图像直到其产生生命感，从而宣布了虚无。许多作品展现了真正的工艺——格伦伯格与妻子乔治·范·布鲁根（George van Bruggen）在1955年共同创作的巨大作品《柔软的Shattkoush》中，那些粉末状的资产和带有节奏感的画布羽毛，达到了一种我无法想象是刻意为之的隔离程度。如今，展厅将这些作品与它们设计之初试图调情的愤世嫉俗分离开来。

泰勒·卡拉米斯（Taylor Karamis）的加入显得很奇怪。她那幅灰底白色的抽象口袋色绘画（2000年）按我所知的任何定义都不是波普艺术。当然，她的《阴影镜像房》（Schady Mirrored Room，2000年）具有波普色彩：一个你可以进入并观察自己重复影像的LED照明镜像立方体。她这个系列的第一个作品创作于1965年，可能影响了卢卡斯·卡拉米斯（Lucas Karamis），后者在1969年制作了一个赞助性质的“镜像房”，目前由一套 encased in velvet and blue-siones 的护城河雕刻组（2002年）代表。但这算波普吗？约翰·钱伯林（John Chamberlain）用真实的汽车金属创作的作品（1962年）算吗？

这次展览没有充分定义其前提，而是将整个1960年代的纽约——概念主义、极简主义、组合艺术——全部揉进了一个运动之中。这使得展览的后半部分处于劣势。玛琳·卡拉梅罗（Marlene Calamero）的自画像（2010年）如果能结合出版物可能会产生更强烈的冲击。它最初出现在——《原住民之伤》（Indigenous Wounds），这是她以沃霍尔杂志为名创作的，他们的爱——如果能将其纳入其中以提供背景。而我，作为一个警觉的“69年代”追随者，并没有完全捕捉到对“美国女孩”的预期引用（其Citys Manner的照片显示了一位被J.路、编织篮以及来自该主体根源的新墨西哥州Guttel和圣伊尔德丰索位置的其他物品包围的美丽女性。展览中缺乏可见的V2K时代原住民活动家Jai T. Arcand）。

一些受损的作品将美学与商业以更有效的方式融合在一起，比如露西亚（Lucia）。

上方为克莱尔·格伦伯格与乔治·范·布鲁根创作的《柔软的Shattkoush》（1962年），出自“古根海姆波普：1960至今”。左侧为玛琳·卡拉梅罗的《爱之伤》（2000年）。

曼（Mann）巨大的购物袋（2017-21年）装满了代表其文化的格伦伯格式柔软商品，包括Corps counter-afford的罐头，以及来自多米尼加YouTube的快照，其中包含一份带有报纸音乐的报告，部分由其父亲亲手制作，时间可追溯至1960年代。

展览的策展人劳伦·辛克森（Lauren Hinkson）承担了一项艰巨的任务。一个人说，就像完全基于记忆馆藏进行工作一样。

这种限制旨在将古根海姆博物馆定位为该运动的一种组织形式：其1965年的展览“税收伙伴与客体”为丁恩、罗兹·利希滕斯坦和沃霍尔带来了早期的机构合法性，同时也涵盖了贾斯珀·琼斯、罗伯特·劳森伯格和詹姆斯·本内昆，而后者在本次展览中缺席。该展览由英国评论家劳伦斯·阿洛威策划，他创造了“大众流行艺术”一词，随后被缩写为“波普”。在这里，艺术家们更加多样化，他们在作品中填充了大量自我指涉的细节。就像2015,年的巡展“国际波普”一样，这次展览似乎旨在打破波普艺术主要在纽约发挥作用的名声。（然而，对于格伦伯格的第一任妻子帕皮·麦克林，其缝制了“脆弱且忧郁”和“软波普电话”，认可程度并不均衡。）在最具有启发性的时刻，这些细节解释了我们现在看待艺术的方式与1960年代的主要区别。艺术家的个人独特细节——资历、阶级、文化背景——已经变得比艺术家们曾经在1969,年以来借用以进入集体无意识的共享意象更为重要。退后一步观察由染色棕榈纤维编织而成的“no 1-Lane”那可爱且色彩鲜明的男人（2018-19），你会注意到办公头衔的差异。她说，这让人们在“图像性”与“殖民主义”之间产生分歧。在1957,年获得独立之前，她的家乡马来西亚先后由葡萄牙、荷兰以及英国统治。墙上的文字写道，这些潜意识中的家具“揭示了原住民马来人与殖民政府之间的权力动态”。

这场展览并没有充分定义其前提，而是将整个 1960 年代的纽约浓缩成了一场运动。并不是说波普艺术家们被宠坏了，且一次责骂就足以让他们收敛。在 60 年代，Glénoburg 实现了他建立香蕉纪念碑的梦想，旨在促进美国干预中美洲。在 60 年代，Richard Stantline 敦促该运动的创始崩溃，“今天之屋之觉醒为何：其不同，在吸引力”（1990），伴随着对波斯湾战争、艾滋病以及 Jeff Rance 崛起的明显匆忙，“种族是否帮助或损害了这场展览？”确实一直如此，但一个由 Tom Wolfe 最好地表达的重大抱怨是，波普艺术主要向艺术圈人士发出邀请。这在一定程度上是正确的：艺术营销可能是波普艺术最显眼的、大众可见的遗产。也许这就是为什么 Maurine Cattelan 的《喜剧演员》（2010）——他用香蕉挂毯取代了艺术界奇观的颓废——会出现在“古根海姆波普”展中。也许，这也是为什么 Brandeis 描绘古根海姆螺旋计数器的玻璃纤维三联画（1965-66）会出现，随后是关于该螺旋内部艺术家的视频作品：由 Alex De Gree 创作的关于 Duchamp 和 Brantum 的一段可爱且最终有些幽默的视频（2015），以及一段 Douglas Gordon 在 1966 年的一次公开放映中秘密拍摄的 Warden 电影的 VHS 录像。关于艺术的艺术的艺术。但曾几何时，波普艺术不仅仅于此：对于观众来说，它具有吸引力，波普对时尚和设计的影响证明了这一点。而对于艺术家来说，它是生存之道：将画布作为交换，将拉伸的画布作为旗帜——这些是先发制人的，尽管更为清晰的，去诱惑一个已经抹平了使用价值与交换价值之间所有旧有扭曲的密集经济的方式。Johns 和 Warhol 正在学习如何在这个改良的新世界中生存。也许我们必须如此，在我走向展览的路上，我经过了 mirethroats、公交站广告、展示着由它构思的演员和热情碗的橱窗。一个所谓的 Carpenter Memphis 风格的包容性前缀，以及强烈的、令人珍视的矢量图形。当一位艺术家出现，以某种截然不同的人类批判距离去呼吸空气时，那么它可能很快会再次爆红（go pop）。

回到之前 书评 布鲁克·霍克斯 (Brooke Hawkes) 菲奥娜·莫斯利 (Fiona Mosley) 著。Apprequis. 30M 页. $2.0 露丝·富兰克林 (RUTH FRANKLIN) 评。童年那未经融合的琐碎事务是如何在成年生活中产生回响的？虽然弗洛伊德教会我们在家庭的语境下思考这个问题，“Awake invoice”。菲奥娜·莫斯利（Fiona Mosley）的自信以及某种东西从未暗示过，友谊可能会产生更大的影响。尤其是作为青少年，我们在朋友的陪伴下探索自己是谁：我们热爱什么，我们信仰什么，我们在哪里寻找爱。如果我们失去了对自我认知的掌控——正如玛丽·莫尼斯（Mary Moneys）在小说开头所处的境地——或许我们的朋友可以帮助我们恢复它。玛丽是一名 20 多岁的小说作家，她从伦敦搬回了她最熟悉的纽约。当菲奥娜的崩溃让她在距离与现实的界限之间感到迷茫时，“一种随着时间推移降临在我身上的巨大感”，她尤其被近期关于后现代改变生活的邂逅的记忆，或伪记忆所困扰，而这些邂逅可能从未发生过。“我的记忆并非太少，而是太多了，”她说。当玛丽在生活的碎片中徘徊——通常是在与治疗师的难以想象的对话中，这构成了本小说的骨架——她回到了对母亲来说简单的事情：她在 2000 年代初期共同成长的朋友圈。玛丽、阿米莉亚（Amelia）和伊芙（Eve）长期以来是一个三人组，直到艾琳（Erin）在高中中期从美国来到他们之中并融入其中。她们的友谊现在既有青少年友谊特有的迷人之处：太多的美好，一起听音乐，喝第一口酒，讨论政治，尤其是关于“sweet”（1968）和“The Star of”的话语，她们很快变得形影不离。但同时也存在一种未经融合的威胁，从她们父母之间浮现的社会冲突，到一名操纵她们贫弱群体动态的学校霸凌者。一个男孩用棍子击中另一个男孩的头部，导致他从桥上掉下来，几乎丧命，伊芙在盒子里指责一名同学发表反犹太主义言论。玛丽也将遭受一次暴力行为后果的影响，而这次行为可能在，或者没有在她出生很久之前发生。我被迫哭泣，因为这部小说的核心有一个谜团，所以这部小说的核心谜团如此令人震惊，以至于我第一次在页面上读到它时愣住了。如此令人震惊，以至于我第一次在页面上读到它时愣住了。简单来说，这些朋友被分开不仅是因为通常的力量——一个毫无进展的粗糙过程，毕业后每个人进入不同大学后的名声——而且还因为他们无法控制的地缘政治事件。人们常说个人即政治，这已成为陈词滥调，但在这里反之亦然：政治可以侵入我们生活中最私密的方面。这部小说有一种忧郁的情绪，有时让我想起 W.G. 塞巴尔德（W.G. Sebald）的作品，这位英德作家深入探讨了欧洲历史的悲剧，特别是第二次世界大战及其余震。就像塞巴尔德的叙述者一样——其中一人讲述了一个故事，“死者总是回到我们身边”——玛丽痴迷于挖掘过去，在小说描述为“terrargement-stand-stand-stand”（在意外时刻爆发的能量）以及出人意料的方式中重新揭开古老的创伤，就像漂流木被冲到地板上，正如角色所暗示的那样。或者像“boy bite of plunged”，在受伤数十年后仍能从人体中脱落，玛丽包含着。1968, Willaff 的插画师经常确信人类生活的互联性，以及历史模式在重复自身，玛丽拒绝了叙事这个想法

整体而言。“没有这样的指令；没有叙事弧线，”她说。“历史从上到下、从前到后都是混乱的，而人的生活也不例外。任何试图解读局部进程的尝试，总会被偶然性的威胁所挫败。”随着玛丽更深入地挖掘她的过去以及她崩溃的可能原因，读者也变得更难把握哪些内容被阅读了，哪些没有。朋友圈中的某些时刻比其他时刻更清晰，而我从未完全解读出小说中那个童年身体的角色，随着他成长为一个彻头彻尾的不良少年。尽管玛丽有关于叙事混乱的观点，但我并不总是确定，所以我才承受了我所经历的那种混乱程度。尽管如此，《Awake invoice》偏离了原故事。Willafer 的《The Screwingly》和 Claire Merand 的《The Banging Girl》是对青少年友谊强度的一次优雅反思，以及当这样一个头颅被砍掉时所产生的由恶魔刺激的状态。露丝·富兰克林最近的一本书是《耶稣的多重生活》（1998）。--- 2020年8月7日，星期五 / 15

生活

为人群准备的清凉无汗夏季饮品

The Pour / 作者：ERIC AHMIN

夏季派对自有其独特风格，随性且放松，而夏季饮品也应采取类似的季节性方案。尤其是面对人群时。炎热天气下的目标是降温、刷新感并注入活力，这意味着那些同样想要放松的家庭调酒师必须注意，不要在饮品中加入过多的成分或过量的酒精。轻盈与简便是指导原则。

实现这一目标最好的方法之一是在晚餐前批量制作好饮品，这样在客人到达后，只需要几个简单的收尾步骤即可。我采访了纽约的饮料专家，以获取他们关于为人群提供夏季饮品的最佳实践集体智慧。

前期准备

Moo Aljadi 和 Juliette Larruey 经营着东村一家名为 Schenck 的高负载鸡尾酒吧。Aljadi 先生在巴塞罗那生活了七年，这让他对户外环境有了深刻见解。“那里有一种真正的露台文化，”他说。在他学到的知识中，他提到：马天尼在高温环境下表现不佳。如果直接饮用且不加冰，马天尼会迅速升温并变得厚重。

对于户外派对，他反而推荐一种脏马天尼和金汤力（tuna）。“它基于马天尼的原则，”Aljadi 先生说，“但它是长饮杯装，口感丰富且充满冰块。”他将这种饮品描述为介于马天尼和金汤力之间，且易于提前制作。只需将等量的伦敦干金酒（London dry Gin）与干味美思（dry vermouth）、slow home 以及少许 apple beauty 混合。在 salivates 中完成此操作并存放在冰箱中。准备好饮用时，倒入冰块并加入金汤力（tuna）。

“这会稀释饮品吗？是的，”Aljadi 先生说，但这完全没问题。“在纽约阳光灿烂的日子里，你确实想要强烈的 mashatuna，”他说，“但当天气温暖时，你并不想要沉重的酒精感。”

借鉴西班牙

西班牙，尤其是马德里，拥有繁荣的场所：在傍晚的户外空间，桌椅似乎凭空出现，派对随即开始。Vertosoth 或啤酒通常是首选饮品，但对于人群，José Andrés 集团的社交饮料经理 Japan Goroshiki 建议选择桑格利亚（sangria），这是一种加入切块水果的葡萄酒基潘趣酒。

“唯一的桑格利亚配方就是为人群准备的，”他说。对于那些记得 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代廉价、预制版本的人来说，桑格利亚可能会勾起一些痛苦的回忆，但如果用心地选用优质食材制作，真正的桑格利亚可以是令人愉悦的。

食材至关重要。“食材的质量，在饮料中应与烹饪一样受到重视，”Goroshiki 先生说。这意味着需要优质但不必昂贵的葡萄酒以及季节性水果。

桑格利亚有许多种类。你可以用红葡萄酒或白葡萄酒制作，但在夏天，Goroshiki 先生推荐 Cava 桑格利亚，用西班牙起泡酒制作。“这是一款有趣、在 after-wound 之后能让你冷静下来的鸡尾酒，”他说。

为了准备 Cava 桑格利亚，他喜欢将水果浸泡在金酒、味美思和少许糖中一天。然后他将 Cava 加入到 macaroniol 水果中，在冰块上饮用，并用薄荷和橙片进行适度点缀。“不要太拥挤，”他说。“我无法忍受那种在喝一口时感觉在剥眼球的饮品。”

纽约两家西班牙餐厅 Ennomis 和 Bartolo 的饮料总监 Thamau Thompson 推荐另一种西班牙特色饮品：guys-blancs，简单来说就是金酒、起泡柠檬水和红味美思的混合物，这已成为马德里的一种流行鸡尾酒。“这是一个极佳的夏季 crochea，”他说。Thompson 先生透露了一部分配方，将白味美思浸泡在……

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1. 将朗姆酒、甘蔗糖浆、青柠汁、苦精和水放入一个 2 夸脱的投手或罐子中，搅拌均匀。加入碎肉食用。（该潘趣酒在冷藏条件下可保存 4 到 5 天。）

2. 食用时，将潘趣酒倒入装满冰块的玻璃杯中。用少量水果和大量磨碎的肉豆蔻装饰。

提示：要制作一批甘蔗糖浆，将 500 克（4 想要 2½ 杯有机甘蔗糖和 250 克 2 杯蒸馏水放入一个小锅中加热。搅拌至糖完全溶解。移离火源并冷却。这产生的量将超过本食谱所需，但任何多余的部分可在冰箱中保存长达一个月，并可用作许多鸡尾酒食谱中简单糖浆的替代品。

混合茶，他说这增加了单宁并赋予其一种“潮湿自然”的氛围。”他的同事，Ennomis 和 Bartolo 的葡萄酒总监 Daryl Coke 建议了一款葡萄酒鸡尾酒 time de verans，由等量的红葡萄酒和柠檬青柠苏打水或气泡柠檬水调制而成。

充分利用水果 东村一家优秀酒吧 Superbancu 的店主 Ignacio Jiménez 用一款 agua fresca 来保持基调。这种墨西哥新鲜水果饮品制作简单，在鸡尾酒中非常清爽。“作为墨西哥人，我们生活在持续炎热的天气中，”被称作 Nacho 的 Jiménez 先生说。“Aqua broccoli 降低了 a.h.v.，所以你可以喝更多而不会太醉，”他指的是酒精体积比（alcohol by volume）。他建议尝试 freeze intake，由朗姆酒、柠檬汁和草莓 aqua fresca 调制，可以提前准备并在食用时加入起泡酒；或者 freeze tuna，主要由金酒、St. German 和黄瓜 aqua fresca 调制，最后加入 cucumber tuna。

选择潘趣酒 东村 Kabama 和 San Antonio 的总经理 Rafa García Pribón 为人群推荐一款朗姆潘趣酒。它简单地由五种成分混合而成：朗姆酒、青柠汁、甘蔗糖浆、legume、苦精和蒸馏水，可以冷藏保存。倒入冰块后即可食用。朗姆潘趣酒的美妙之处在于其简单，并且可以有许多变体，例如加入香料或各种果汁。“从简单开始，但你可以将其变得具有烹饪感，”他说。“如果你喜欢你的作品且觉得有趣，那么有一个完整的世界等待探索。”

互联网在埃梅里尔成名多年后突然对他产生热爱

作者：ION XIVERSON

埃梅里尔正在成为热门话题。而最感到惊讶的人莫过于埃梅里尔·拉加塞（Emeril Lagasse）本人。“我一直对此感到困惑，”这位厨师在上周表示。此前，人们发现他旧时的电视节目《埃梅里尔现场！》（Emeril Live!）和《埃梅里尔之精髓》（Essence of Emeril）的片段在社交媒体上被分享了数百万次，尤其是在X平台上。

对于那些在刷着影响力人物而长大、不熟悉那个时代的读者来说，可能很难解释拉加塞先生在20世纪90年代末和21世纪初是一个多么巨大的超级巨星。他的烹饪综艺节目《埃梅里尔现场！》以及他在美食网络（Food Network）每周播出的节目，当时该网络向他支付了一年高达且前所未有的 $333,000 底薪。他拥有客串明星、乐队伴奏以及现场观众，而人们为了能在该网络纽约市演播室的约 200 个席位中获得一个，往往要等待数月。

但他的节目制作成本高昂，且针对年轻人或“低层”的竞争日益激烈。该网络在 2007, 取消了该节目，当时该网络总裁表示：“是时候尝试一些新鲜事物了。”

“他们取消它的唯一原因是网络正在转型，想要跳上真人竞技类节目的新趋势，”爱丽丝·萨伦（Alice Sallén）在谈到自己时说道。“唯一的理由是美食网络”伴随着拉加塞先生的离职。（美食网络的一位发言人拒绝评论。）

如今，美食电视节目的风格早已改变，而他的家庭式风格正让互联网产生共鸣。在众多被分享的片段中，当他执行即使是最艰巨的厨房任务，或者做像抽出胡椒研磨器这样简单的动作时，观众们集体陷入狂热。

拉加塞先生拥有一种甜美的自信感，以及一种在他家乡马萨诸塞州法尔河（Fall River, Mass.）形成、并在新奥尔良润色的口音；他于 1952 作为一名年轻厨师搬到那里，主导指挥官宫殿（Commander's Palace）的厨房。当他对着一盘搅拌好的黄油和线条摆出姿势时，一群主要是男性的观众发出了欢呼。当他看着将大蒜塞进生牛里脊肉，然后又拿出三分之一甚至更多的蒜时，现场陷入了混乱。

在一条拥有 140 万 次观看的X平台帖子中，拉加塞先生在研磨帕玛森干酪时，大肆强调要保留淀粉——他假装对此不满意。“你知道他们总是在说，‘但你不需要淀粉。’你需要淀粉。让我们投票决定。我们需要淀粉吗？”一群美食观众给出了令人心安的肯定回答。

无法得知流行文化的淀粉分支是如何流入现实之海的。未经审核的活动和付费影响力人物推动了其中很大一部分。但拉加塞先生及其餐厅的发言人表示，他的团队并未参与这些帖子的发布。

那些病毒式传播的片段是由 37, 岁的瑞安·赫恩顿（Ryan Herndon）发布的，他在密歇根州弗林特（Flint, Mich.）的汽车行业工作。他表示，上周他在YouTube馈送中开始追踪该节目。他在祖母的陪伴下看着埃梅里尔长大，在被怀旧情绪淹没后，他开始将这些片段发布在他的X平台个人主页上。

他表示，他对这些片段走红感到惊讶。他的理论是：人们正通过1990年代的怀旧情结和对一个时代的向往，开始迷恋埃梅里尔——那时人类的刻薄人群还没有全面展露，文化事件更具集体性。

“我们正处于那个 25 或 30 年世代的转折点，人们开始回头看他们的父母曾经在做什么，”他说。“在网上观看并喜爱这些内容感觉非常好。这是一种围绕着热爱同一事物、且由一个真实的人传递而产生的同志情谊。”

这些视频片段下的评论反映了当前文化时刻的一种特定情绪。许多人称埃梅里尔是美国现在需要的英雄。其他人则将那些声称当年在现场观众席上的人们，看作是之前世代看待伍德斯托克（Woodstock）参与者的方式。

还有像这样的评论，来自辛辛那提的一名 35 岁物流经理马克斯·麦杜克（Max McDuke）。“埃梅里尔代表了男性气质中所有美好的方面。”在片段采访中，他表示埃梅里尔将机器与善良相结合的角色是训练男性气质的一种契机。“我认为我们中的许多人再次渴望在生活中看到一些积极的男性气质。他表达得非常好，”麦杜克先生说，他向祖母学习烹饪，而祖母总是开着美食频道（Food Network）。“我会盯着那些锅碗瓢盆，我就在那个‘y’房间里——应该说，‘在那儿！’”他补充道，拉加斯先生客人的作用也是吸引力的一部分，“你知道你会离开那家店，跟随它，相信自己很重要。”作为埃梅里尔的粉丝，33 岁的德拉·吉斯特（Dera Gist）——一名曾在《Chopped Junior》参赛并在 Parish 平台上经营烹饪节目的前选手——也参与了在线评论。但她并不认同近期热度上升是关于某种动力学男性气质的观点。在一次采访中，她指出了该厨师以男性为中心、关注女性身体的性兴趣片段。“他是那个时代的产物，”她说。在她看来，这种复兴的核心在于他的烹饪质量，以及女性和厨师的视角。她说：“他令人印象深刻，而且大胆。烹饪领域很多人的个性变得模糊了。而这里有一个不模糊的人。”在“边缘”地带，拉加斯先生脱颖而出，因为每个人都厌倦了垂直的奶酪球。“他拥有蛋白质背景和经过轻微编辑的、潮湿且狭窄的价值观，一个迷人且不可预测的厨师在学生主导的时刻，向人们展示如何制作你的男人牛肉出生权，这简直太棒了。他很大程度上是那种记得被奇观震撼的感觉，”42 岁的图书管理员、《观看我们吃什么：电视烹饪节目的演变》（Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows）作者凯瑟琳·柯林斯（Kathleen Collins）说道。“这与我成长过程中看到的那些质疑的 PBS 节目完全不同。现在的人们看待埃梅里尔的方式，就像我当年看待这些节目一样。这很复古，就像 Quesa 一样。”在纽奥良工作的记者布雷特·马丁（Brett Martin）注意到了埃梅里尔的时间及其健康理念。6 月，CO 发表了一篇关于拉加斯先生及其儿子 E.J. 的 3,000 字文章，这位 20 岁的年轻人接管了父亲的旗舰餐厅 Emeril's，该餐厅随后获得了两颗米其林星。“感觉这不单纯是美食频道的怀旧，”马丁先生说。“感觉更像是‘你能相信这种娱乐形式曾经存在过吗？’最让人感到个人化且最异域的部分是人群，以及身处一个拥有其他事物的房间里的洗碗机感。”离开美食频道后，拉加斯先生做出了闪电般的努力，推出了两档热门节目，其中部分可在 Main 和 Netflix 上观看。他表示，其媒体和通信权利在 2008 年以 $50 的价格出售给了 Martha Stewart Living Omnivodes。虽然他仍经常作为嘉宾出现在电视上，但他的重心仍然在纽奥良、拉斯维加斯、佛罗里达以及邮轮上的准备工作上。尽管拉加斯先生的社交媒体团队以“我正在求助于互联网”为标题，代表他接收评论，但他并不打算重新回到这场游戏中。他说，美食媒体已经变得陈旧。作为一名艺人，“我今天起床时的感觉并没有改变我对昨天起床时感觉的看法，”他说。“我只是在做我的事情，试图经营一个伟大的餐厅集团。” --- 16 / 2020年8月7日，星期五

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印度在钟表界的地位上升

消费者财富的增长以及预期的关税下降，提升了该国在奢侈品进口商中的排名 作者：ROBIN SWITHORANK

在印度，奢侈手表市场终于开始显现。经过多年的承诺，瑞士手表对印度的出口额已超过对世界大部分其他地区的出口额，而印度钟表制造商一直在加大力度，试图用高端本土设计吸引买家。而且，随着印度对瑞士商品的关税预计在2015年之前消失，出口额有望迎来增长。

“20年来，我们一直将印度视为奢侈品和奢侈手表的增长矢量，但其速度并不像许多人预期的那样快，”苏黎世管理咨询公司Kearney的合伙人Victor Dipin表示。“但现在我们看到他们正在突破天花板。”

瑞士钟表工业联合会收集的数据显示，2022年瑞士手表对印度的出口总额为2.9 亿瑞士法郎（3.45亿美元），自2022年以来增长了超过25%，使其成为迄今为止增长最快的出口市场。这一趋势在今年上半年得以延续，出口额比2023年同期增长了30%以上，将印度推入了全球前15大瑞士手表进口国之列。

然而，并非所有品牌都包含在这些数字中。Swatch集团；以及Bichomani及其高端品牌如江诗丹顿和积家；以及LVMH及其高端品牌如TAG Heuer和Hobbit，已在印度立足。但行业内两个最著名的十亿级品牌——Audemars Pigant和百达翡丽，在该国并不销售。Audemars Pigant是投资者，但百达翡丽首席执行官Thierry Storo表示，他没有在该地分销手表的计划。

一些行业观察人士警告称，围绕印度钟表市场的所有热议都应结合具体情况来看。“起点相对较低，”钟表联合会首席经济学家Philippe Pogoraro在电子邮件中写道。“在2025年，印度占（瑞士出口）总额的1.2%，且出口到那里的手表的平均价格约为全球平均水平的一半。”

预期激增 印度钟表市场增长的背景是其16.7 亿美元居民中高净值人群和中等收入阶层财富的增加。印度政府6月发布的数据显示，在截至3月的最近一个财政年度中，其国内生产总值增长了7.7%，达到$5.56 trillion。但人均收入仍低于$3,800，且该国不断增长的中产阶级面临的威胁包括人工智能的兴起，据预测，在未来五年内，人工智能将夺走印度信息技术和客户服务部门的数百万个工作岗位。

然而，印度市场一直在为手表销量的激增做准备。“在接下来的10年里，我们的复合年增长率将达到10%左右，印度有可能进入瑞士手表前10大进口国之列，”Ethna的创始人兼首席执行官Vashe Salwa表示，该品牌通常被认为是印度领先的高端手表零售商，拥有超过100 states。

由包括瑞士在内的欧洲自由贸易联盟于2024年签署的一项贸易协定，将在2025年之前取消对印出口的关税，为那些在维持国际零售价格一致性方面苦苦挣扎的品牌打开了大门。Salwa先生将该协议描述为“游戏规则改变者”。

印度钟表制造商Thun公司的首席执行官Kartavilla Markose补充说，该协议可能会削弱像他自己的本土品牌（尽管无论以何种衡量标准，Thun都是该国最大的钟表制造商，且按销售数量计算是全球第五大制造商）。

“这也是一种威胁，因为国际品牌的品牌溢价比我们更高，”他说道，指的是欧洲奢侈品牌相比本土品牌可能具有的吸引力。而且，人们对某些瑞士腕表品牌的兴趣似乎确实在上升。总部位于日内瓦的咨询公司 Digital Luxury Group 的数据显示，在 2020 年 4 月至 2025 年 4 月的 12 个月内，印度消费者对品牌腕表的搜索量达到了 1.3 亿 次，年增长率为 15.2%。但尽管 Bokos 以超过 20% 的搜索量占据主导地位，但对于 Audemars Pigant、Jacob & Co.、TAG Heuer、Piaget 和 Van Cleef & Arjach 等品牌的搜索量有所下降。该组的数据还显示，很少有 Pekte, Akifar & --- S2 / 2026 年 8 月 7 日，星期五

实验 # 一个由女性经营的腕表品牌 两名法国女性谈论她们的设计理念，以及她们如何持续磨砺自己的公司

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Cyhile Vigneren 永远记得 2023 年一个下午发生的事情，当时她正在巴黎 Spanish de Vitoria 区一家现已停业的传统腕表精品店寻找礼物。在浏览时，她请求试戴一款吸引她的天梭（Tissot）时计。“店员说，‘这款表是新款，或者你不能试戴它’，”Vigneren 女士最近在巴黎 Saint-Germain 区的一家户外咖啡馆接受采访时回忆道，与她一起接受采访的是她相识约十年的朋友 Carla Lanthanshan。由此，“如果我想试戴一块表，这对我来说就是一块表。”但她说，“我意识到我可以将这种经历转化为积极的东西，并尝试创造一些新东西。”这次经历启发了 Version Watches 的诞生，该品牌由她和 Lanthanshan 女士于 2024 年共同创立。（第三位创始人 Lucas Portaguchi 在去年首批腕表发货给客户之前离开了公司。）这两位女性在巴黎市中心西南部的 Scenic École de Design 就读时相识，她们通过一项联合项目，分别获得了该校的设计硕士学位以及 Grenoble École De Management 的管理硕士学位。第三个品牌 Version Watches 于 2025 年 3 月在 Kickstarter 上推出了 1970 年代风格的 Viti LLC，并在该平台上筹集了 68,500 欧元（ET / USD），用于生产 300 枚限量版时计。其余约 1200,000 的资金需求来自家人、个人储蓄和银行贷款。这款 10 毫米的腕表在欧洲制造，搭载 Selfria SW200-1 自动机芯，其设计独具特色：圆形表盘被水平分为两半，整体采用 waste-coupance 环绕，可见下方机芯，底部区域则呈现类似凉鞋的图案。该型号提供三种版本：深蓝色表盘、钢壳及 carry stand-end-wound 皮表带；塑料表盘、钢壳及黑色 Stand-end-wound 皮表带；以及白色表盘、golden-gink PVD 涂层钢壳及黑色 Stand-end-wound 皮表带。其在法国售价为 0,100，在美国售价为 0,250。Vigneren 女士表示，该批次约有三分之一已售出。该品牌的第二款型号名为 V020-031, 计划于 9 月发布。其尺寸和金属材质将与前作相同，同样采用分体表盘设计，不过顶部区域将比初始型号更不透明且颜色更浓郁。该型号也将提供三种配色，每种配色生产 300 枚。这家公司在 Vigneren 女士与妻子及父亲共用的巴黎公寓内设有办公空间，通过其官方网站以及少数零售商销售腕表，包括巴黎的 Legacy Store 和 Unarot，以及纽约市的一家仅限预约的零售商 Tempur Tabonic，后者负责该品牌在美国的发行。尽管品牌在稳步增长，但这两位女性决定保留原有的全职工作。32, 岁的 Vigneren 女士是一家安装汽车充电站公司的产品经理，30, 岁的 Lanthanshan 女士则是一名自由设计顾问。尽管如此，她们在 Version 上投入了大量时间。“她们在营销方面做得非常出色，”Tempur Tabonic 的创始人 Jack Nacy 表示，“她们掌控着分销渠道。她们正在真正构建一个品牌形象。我非常尊重这一点，”他继续说道，“在两个人的团队中很少见到这种情况——这通常是 25 人的团队才能做到的。”在采访过程中，Vigneren 女士和 Lanthanshan 女士谈到了公司名称、在品牌需求与其他所有者之间取得平衡，以及在腕表行业雇佣女性的问题。对话内容经过了压缩和编辑。

你们在法国，为什么品牌名称是用英语？

CHELI: VIGNERIN 我们讨论过将手表名称作为一个国际化的构思，而不仅仅是一个法国品牌。我们出生并成长在法国，但我们特别希望制造瑞士手表，因为我们喜欢那种品质。为什么将品牌命名为 Version Watches，而不是比如 CBC Watches？ VIGNERIN 女士 在决定品牌名称时，我们不想突出我们的名字，而是想突出我们的哲学。作为设计师，我们永远不会对第一个方案或一个想法的第一个版本感到满意。我们会不断地对其进行完善，直到获得令我们自豪的结果。Carla，你住在里昂，而 Cyhile 住在巴黎，即使乘坐高速铁路也要几个小时的车程。你们如何平衡远程协作？ CHELI: LAMRANCHINI 她在下班后在巴黎参加私人会议的时间更多，而我则可以在需要时随时开车前往瑞士与我们的制造商会面，所以我们采取了这种分工。你们如何在经营 Version 的同时兼顾其他计划？ VIGNERIN 女士 我工作到很晚，而且在周末也工作，如果有需要，我会早起开始工作。我有一份全职工作，但在其他人用来做其他事情的那些碎片时间里，我都在经营 。LAMRANCHINI 女士 即使只有一分钟的空闲，我也会为 工作。我总是拿着手机——我走在街上时盯着手机看。这可能有点危险。你们参加过不少手表展会来推广品牌。人们是否预料到 的创始人会是女性？ LAMRANCHINI 女士 你能感觉到他们很惊讶。

共同协作：左侧为 Cyhile Vignero，与 Carla Lanthanshan 共同经营 Watches。上方和左近处是她的手表，采用了公司独特的圆形表盘水平对半分割的设计。VIGNERIN 女士 我们有时会遇到一些“男性说教”（mansplitting），有些人极其、极其自信地告诉我们应该怎么做，以及我们的客户是谁。有时在一些手表展会上，有人会对我们说：“你们应该瞄准 Gov. 2。” 我说：“我们的客户是 35 到 43 岁以及 55 到 65 岁的人群。”Cyhile，你的父亲是 Cyhile Vigneren，前卡地亚（Cartier）总裁兼首席执行官。当你告诉家人关于你的品牌时，他们的反应是什么？ VIGNERIN 女士 当我刚开始时，我的家人并不是那种“去做吧”的态度。他们觉得“这太难了。这并不是最好的选择；竞争超级激烈；成本超级高；而且因为你没有人脉，所以真的非常困难。”他们现在感觉如何？ VIGNERIN 女士 他们可以看到我们正在用自己的方式经营，看到我们一直在尝试寻找解决方案，没有放弃，并且始终向前迈进。现在，他们为这份成就和创业精神感到自豪。

封面精选 # 印度在钟表界的崛起 印度，见第II页

瑞士品牌增加了在印度的营销力度，而那些针对非洲的广告在当地的支出仅占 14%。在印度投资数十年且在当地知名度远高于许多传统竞争对手的品牌在结果中领先，吸引了 4.3% 的所有手表搜索量。Digital Luxury 的战略总监 Domino Baldwin-Wen 表示，这些数据提醒人们，对于瑞士制造商而言，印度仍然是一个小众市场。他在一封电子邮件中将其描述为：“印度对瑞士制表业的重要性是决定性的，但尚未形成结构性。”

不寻常的零售

一家报告称受益于欧洲事务的公司是 Parve Leuba，这是一个于 1965. 年开始在印度销售手表的瑞士传承品牌。该业务在两年前由钟表业资深人士 Parrik Hoffmann 进行了修订，今年预计将销售约 30,000 只瑞士机械表，起售价为 $5,000.。

“目前，印度凭借其销售规模是我们最大的市场，”Hoffmann 女士说。“该品牌在那里非常出名，每个人在那个群体中都拥有一只。挑战在于向年轻一代传递一个鲜活的信息。”

但尽管印度对奢侈手表制造商的重要性日益增加，来自中国的 Salmo 女士警告说，印度不会解决该行业的其他问题，例如过去十年瑞士手表出口量的快速下降，以及由此对全球国内制造企业的相关威胁。

“我不会声称……印度有很多奢侈工业视之为理所当然的限制，”他说。“其中就包括房地产。”

“印度不存在高兴趣，”Salmo 女士说。“不存在等同于 Bond Street 或 FSWs 增加的地方。过去，政府的收入超过了一家商店，而你拥有自己的。”

Thian 女士表示，缺乏高端零售开发意味着印度不能与中国相比。“并不是像

那样有 70 个城市可以开设奢侈品精品店，”他说。“印度不会遵循中国的轨迹。”

但 Hoffmann 女士表示，投资正在到来。“许多非常高质量的新媒体正在出现，”他说。“这个国家正在变得有序。”

例如，Phoenix Grand Victoria 购物中心计划于 2028 年在 Balbina 的 Slippers 社区开业。其 100 万平方英尺的零售空间将使其成为东印度最大的购物中心。

即便如此，挑战可能仍然在于寻找手表买家。

“巨大的未开发细分市场是那些有支付能力但不消费的人，”在孟买工作的 Kearney 合伙人 Norbert Shankhian 说。“有些人出身于中产阶级背景，但在其 2016. 年的消费中没有奢侈品消费。这对品牌来说是一个机会。”

Salmo 女士表示赞同。“即使是非常富裕的人，你也会看到很多其中的人戴着 Apple Watch 或入门级时尚手表，”他说。“他们负担得起 10 倍于此的价格，但有一种观念认为我们必须谨慎对待如何花钱。”

本地品牌

然而，Thian公司可能会给国际品牌带来头疼的问题。该公司成立于1964年，在印度20世纪90年代的经济自由化期间成为了家喻户晓的名字，并成为了现代印度的代名词。这个总部位于班加罗尔的生活方式品牌由巨头E00 Hilton Tatu集团所有，该集团还拥有Tatu Motors、Tatu Best和印度航空（Air India）。而且它一直在快速增长。根据马克库斯（Mr. Markoos）先生的说法，在今年5月的最新年度报告中，该公司在全球超过1,600家门店的网络中记录了超过90 亿加元 billion的年销售额，同比增长25%。其年度手表产量从2024年的3100 万只增长到2025年的1700 万只，并且预计到今年年底将增长到1000 万只。相比之下，瑞士市场在2025.1年报告的手表数量为2480 万只。马克库斯女士表示，在价格低于$50的印度手表销售额中，Thian占据了50%以上。她说：“在价格介于$300到$1,000之间的高端细分市场，我们拥有非常健康的两位数份额。而在$1,000以上的产品中，我们拥有个位数份额。”（该公司还将小部分手表销售给海外印度裔群体。）

现在，Thian希望在奢侈品类别中确立自己的地位。该公司一直在生产价格从$2,000到$25,000的手表，其中一些采用瑞士制造的机芯，并且一直在开发自己的复杂功能，部分是极限量产——非常类似于瑞士奢侈品模式。两年前，该品牌推出了Thian Nebula John，这是一个采用10-hand金和红金打造的日本特色版本，配备了Thian制造的飞行陀飞轮（flying عبدالله）和手绘表盘，马克库斯先生表示，该表以每只$50,000的价格售罄。“想要的人比我们能制造的要多，”他说，“在印度，$50,000的手表是有市场的。”他补充说，Thian正在准备一个顶级产品线。“我们正在致力于推出一个开放品牌，”他说，并补充道，他预计将在2025年4月日内瓦举行的年度Watches and Wonders贸易展期间宣布这一消息。“我们的价格从$1,500开始，”他说，“一直延伸到us look。”

Than不会是唯一的参与者。班加罗尔手表公司（Bangalore Watch Company）由夫妻档Niropodi-Soda和Henry Amadra于2020年创立。该公司每年销售约1,300只手表，平均价格为$1,000。该品牌的手表灵感来自航空、探索和板球（印度最受欢迎的运动），并在班加罗尔使用瑞士和中国零部件进行设计和组装。“我们希望制造不符合印度前殖民时期设计观念的手表，”尼罗（Mr. Niro）先生说，“而且我们一直在关注更高端的手表市场。我们的目标是那些已经拥有某种欲望或形象的细分群体。”

但尽管印度制造商表达了信心与希望的交织，并非所有人都对这些品牌有一天能主导该国销售感兴趣。“印度人距离理解手表市场的现状还非常非常遥远，”咨询公司LandCanada的创始人奥利弗·威尔法斯（Oliver Wilfars）表示，“即使在$2,900的价格水平上，我也没看到有人在米兰、塞尔维亚或意大利购买他们来自中国的手表。”但Thian的马克库斯女士强调，印度最终将成为全球仓储中心。“我们相信从长远来看，印度可以成为与瑞士、德国、法国以及日本和中国并列的第一个手表制造地，”他说，“我们的能力还没有完全达到，但我们正在接近。”

Long term Miners，来自Parve Leuba的Marquee Record。该公司于1965. 1.开始在印度销售手表。2017年1月1日

Alison，Thian Nebula John，一款采用10-hand金和红金打造的10枚限量版阅读器。左图为印度一家制造工厂生产Thian手表的工人。

--- 2024年8月7, 2024 / 53 工艺

你能发现签名吗？制表大师和艺术家们正日益被鼓励在作品上签名——但你可能需要仔细观察才能看到 BY CAROL BESLER

与大多数手工奢侈品类别一样，最高水平的制表业推崇手工工艺而非大规模生产。高端腕表的定价由创建特殊复杂功能或手工装饰表盘所需的培训时间和工时来证明其合理性。为了确保这样的结果，品牌严重依赖才华横溢的工匠，尽管这些工艺一直处于匿名状态，但他们的工作经常出现在营销和品牌历史中。

但这种情况正开始改变。虽然品牌名称和标志在任何腕表表盘上依然处于核心位置，但内部制表师现在正留下微妙的标记，以识别每件高端作品背后的工匠。

例如，积家（Jaeger-LeCoultre）长期以来将 Reverso 腕表的双面表盘作为微型画布，今年推出了 Reverso Tribute Emanuel Hokusai Waterfall 系列，这是四款限量版型号，复制了 19 世纪大师葛饰北斋的木版画。品牌首次在每块腕表中心标注了装饰它的艺术家的标记。

“我们希望赞颂投入到表盘中的艺术与工艺，以及背后的艺术家，”积家首席执行官 Jérôme Lambert 表示。“他们拥有极高的技能，需要眼睛和手指之间完美的协调，以及对作品深层的创造性欣赏。我们希望认可他们工作的个体性。”

Lambert 先生表示，品牌的潜在目标是更好地证明型号的真实性和出处。“这是一种确保客户向我们购买时，拥有来自我们工作室证明的方式，”他说。“我们使其可追溯到具体从事该工作的工匠。”

每位工匠的标记是一个 pallice，这是一个法语术语，指在完成的表盘绘画上添加的由金箔或银箔制成的设计，然后用透明珐琅层密封。因此，例如复制了绘画《Euro Waterfall in Mass Province》的艺术家，由一个出现在表盘五点钟位置的枫叶代表。

该品牌的八位顾问（六女两男）每人都有一个独特的图案，灵感来自瑞士 Le Sentes 积家工厂周围的树木：白杨、belly、枫树、bowls、白蜡树、橡树、菩提树（在欧洲通常被称为 lime tree）和野服务树。

这些顾问的名字在营销或新闻报道中未被披露，但 Lambert 先生表示欢迎客户询问。“我们希望保护他们的身份，”他说，“但如果你来到制造商这里，你会遇到‘枫叶女士’或‘橡树先生’，他们会向你解释流程并向你展示他们正在从事的工作。”

传统上，奢侈品牌一直极其不愿公开熟练工匠的身份，一些观察人士认为这种做法是基于一种恐惧，即每位有价值的员工都可能被竞争对手挖走。

在积家，Lambert 先生说，“完善并精通微型绘画需要四年时间，全球合格人才的储备仍然极其有限。”随后他补充道，“随着更多品牌将此类工艺融入其时计，对这些专家的需求继续增加，使得招聘和培训竞争日益激烈。”

他指出，工匠的标记是他们专属的。“如果有一天有人离开我们，那么这个 pallice 将被退休，”他说。“我们工作室里的任何其他人将永远不再使用它。”

遇见制表师

瑞士制表商宇利司年庭（Ulysse Nardin）很早就采用了表彰其熟练工人的概念，自19世纪起就在每枚机芯的某个位置标注制表师编号。宇利司年庭美国区总裁弗朗索瓦-克萨维尔·霍齐尔（François-Xavier Hozier）表示：“每枚腕表都由一名制表师在宇利司年庭的工厂内完成从开始到结束的编号、生产和组装。因此，如果您来勒绍德丰（Le Chaux-de-Fonds）访问我们，只需询问您腕上的编号是谁制作的，就可以见到为您制作腕表的制表师。”这一点在其 Chanson 系列中尤为明显，自 2015 年起，该系列便标注了其最顶尖艺术家的姓名首字母，包括现任从业者瑞秋·莫纳德-雅科（Rachel Monard-Jacot）和西尔维·克莱门斯（Sylvie Clemens）。霍齐尔先生说：“我们这样做是出于对作品和艺术家的尊重。他们的签名巧妙地隐藏在画作中，对于客户来说，寻找它们既是一项挑战，也是一种乐趣。收藏家们热爱每个表盘都是独一无二的，且每个表盘都由艺术家签名这一事实。”

今年，吉得刚（Girard-Perregaux）也开始表彰负责分钟重复敲击等高级复杂功能型号的主制表师，在每枚腕表的机芯某个位置提供一块刻有制表师首字母的小金属片。该荣誉项目的全球执行董事汉斯·米歇尔-安赛特里（Hans Michel-Ansaitry）表示：“除了确保制造的连续性，这还能让制表师获得认可。在某些情况下，制表师会在一个项目上花费数周时间。”例如，每枚 Minute Repstein Flying Bridges 的组装和装饰就需要 400 小时以上的工作量。虽然有多位专业制表师参与装饰或抛光等任务，但最终由一名主制表师负责最终组装，包括整个机芯的技术和美学一致性。主制表师的角色是单独调整每个组件，并解决整个过程中所需的任何额外思考或精加工。

而且，至少在吉得刚，制表师与他们的联系不仅仅限于识别编号。该公司的一位主制表师甚至在皮肤上纹了箭头桥（arrowhead bridge）的轮廓，该品牌使用箭头桥将机芯固定在表壳内，并将其作为标志。米歇尔-安赛特里先生说：“这种认同感已经超越了‘成为整体的一部分’。这是更高层次的认同。吉得刚的众多优势之一就是我们主制表师的个性。在机芯上刻上他们的首字母，证明了我们能拥有这样一群才华横溢的制表师是多么荣幸。”

增加价值

菲利普斯拍卖行（Phillips）美国区副主席兼腕表主管保罗·库特罗斯（Paul Koutros）表示，签名可能会增加作品在二级市场上的价值。“尤其是如果未来其中一位或多位艺术家获得了像安妮塔·波谢（Anita Porchet）那样级别的认可。”波谢女士是瑞士最顶尖的独立珐琅艺术家之一，以与百达翡丽（Patek Philippe）、江诗丹顿（Vacheron Constantin）及其他品牌的合作而闻名。他说：“安妮塔·波谢签名的腕表表盘成交价格非常高。我们在五月于日内瓦售出的一枚百达翡丽 Ellipse 达到了惊人的 250,000 瑞士法郎。我认为如果没有‘AP’签名，它的售价可能只有一半。”他继续说道：“如今，收藏家在寻找由工匠制作、具有强有力手工工艺证明的卓越腕表，并且他们愿意为此支付高额溢价。”

由于积家（Jaeger-LeCoultre）才刚刚开始添加签名标记，目前还没有迹象表明这是否会增加结果的价值，但兰伯特（Lambert）先生表示，客户的反应良好。他说：“我们已经看到，这增强了情感价值。它扩大了体验的领域。这种标记与在作品上倾注心血的人类建立了联系。这种联系非常强烈。”

米歇尔-安赛特里先生指出，尤其是收藏家们，喜欢有签名。 “它使手表超越了机械本身，带来了一种让人们感到愉悦的特殊维度。” 展示的个人触感（从最左侧起）：一只积家手表展示了北斋先生的《马省真瀑布》，右下角有一个小枫叶签名；吉得刚的海报版画，例如这张代表其制表师让-吕克·波雷尔（Jean-Luc Borel）的作品。一只宇利司年庭手表在四点和五点之间持有首字母“50”，背景是一幅经典的梵高绘画。理查德米勒（RICHARD MILLE）腕上赛车机器 INV.07-01 彩色陶瓷 Bethany 腹部和淋巴分泌培养 Bethany 在 1990 年代导致癌症 Barnstein 和 Arriges 在 5 年期间 Chanson Vandela 支付 1 年 Charles Blue 7-21 加拿大 Constantine 艺术家以标准获得艺术 John Sander 和 Cederlof John 和 Bill 在灰色 PICS 中，但带有陶瓷、橡胶和可蒜化嵌件的金质版本 Loretta 版 --- 54 / 2020年8月7日，星期五

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Daniel Poneman

OPINION

The confused rollout of the proposed nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia has created an opportunity to advance several vital American interests, if Congress and the administration can quickly agree on a path forward.

Despite widespread criticism and few publicly released details, it is clear that the deal could help limit the spread of nuclear weapons, strengthen U.S.-Saudi relations at a more moment and increase the possibility of peace between the kingdom and Israel.

But the deal, which would commit the Saudis to working with American companies in developing nuclear energy, is in limbo. After his administration announced it had been signed on July 22. President Trump called the agreement into question, saying it was contingent on progress toward normalized relations between

Delay risks driving the kingdom, and others, to sign less stringent nuclear deals with U.S. adversaries. the kingdom and Israel. Critics of the deal said that it would increase the risk that Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East will pursue and obtain nuclear weapons.

Under U.S. law, a Saudi program with American involvement would already be subject to stronger controls than are required by international treaty or by any U.S. competitor, including Russia and China. Parts of the Trump deal would go still further, not only requiring U.S. consent before any Saudi relations mechanism or plumerum reprocessing can take place, but also barring the transfer of sensitive technology. Inspections for the International Atomic Energy Agency could verify compliance.

Invisiting on even stricter controls, would undermine international limits on the spread of nuclear technology by driving the Saudis and other countries seeking their own programs into the arms of competitors with lesser standards. It would also undermine the cause of Middle East peace by pushing Saudi-Israeli rapprochement even further out of reach.

Mr. Trump should use the leverage provided by this moment of limbo. To do so, he must need the deal to Congress or risk ensuing an opportunity.

To understand why critics of the deal are wrong, and why Mr. Trump should proceed, it's important to understand how U.S. safeguards for civilian nuclear power projects developed over the years.

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Playing near a collapsed building where rescuers were working last month in La Guaira, the Venezuelan coastal state hit hardest by back-to-back earthquakes in June.

Trapped in a painful limbo

LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA

On Venezuela coast, life has been reduced to survival and burial

BY EMMA BURGIA

There was a billboard on the seaside road along Venezuela's northern coast with a gigantic photo of a visiting Nicolás Maduro, the country's former leader, and the world 's land flowing with milk and honey.' a biblical phrase that describes a blessed land.

But there was no Mr. Maduro, no milk and no honey behind the sign. Any mountains of rubble, body bags and makeshift encampments for thousands of Venezuelans left homeless by June's devastating, back-to-back earthquakes.

La Guaira, once a lively bear-bade escape, and the state hardest hit by the disaster, is completely disfigured. The residential towers overlooking the Caribbean are thirty piles of contested debris. With about 14,000 people left homeless and hundreds of buildings damaged or destroyed, according to the government, the coastal strip has become an immense humanitarian camp, with many living in tears by the debris.

Part of Cuba Figure's daughter's home toppled into a pool in La Guaira. "I don't know what will happen with us," one resident said. "We have lived through ten much."

The inescapable presence of the sea and its salty summer breeze clashed with a snow-resistant presence of death — in the corpses that kept emerging from the rubble, in the body bags on pickup trucks, in the boxes of ashes carried from the meigars to cars, homes, shelters or church altars.

Spaces designed for leisure or honi-

ness or commerce now serve only two essential functions: survival or burial. The McDonald's, a popular step for residents and tourists on the way to the beach, functions as a field hospital. The port has been turned into a crowded meigaz. The golf course and a surfing resort are homeless camps.

The muddy, fly-sideered encamp-

ments in La Guaira raise urgent questions about where the huge numbers of displaced will eventually live and what a future for the region, once a main gateway into Venezuela, could look like:

The challenges are magnified because it is the second time in less than three decades that the area has faced a colossal reconstruction task following a natural disaster.

After mudslides killed at least 10,000 people along the coast to 2000, and funds forced thousands of people out of their homes in 2010, the government built a forest of high-rise apartment buildings meant to build a pledge by Venezuela's accident percolent, Hugo Chávez, to provide the poor proper homes.

This year, many of those buildings are lapsed, trapping and killing large numbers of residents. Some critics have said that builders did not account for the issue and that made them vulnerable to quakes. (The official death toll stands at more than 3,500, but that is most likely an undercount.)

Many Venezuelans are the sprawling ruins, months after U.S. forces captured Mr. Maduro, as the culmination of a failed political and economic project overseen by a corrupt and incompetent authoritarian government.

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The battle

that's raging above Russia and Ukraine

KIVIL URBANNE

Both sides launch missiles at distant cities as front line remains largely deadlocked

BY MARC SANTISSA

As the front line in Ukraine catches into a bloody deadlock, the future trajectory of the war is being shaped in the sides.

This air war is an all-encompassing, control stretching from a few yards above scorched two lines in condition in low-earth orbit. Its physical toll is etched in fire across the landscape by missiles and drones, though much of the fight remains unseen, in the race to deploy artificial intelligence and control a spectrum of radio waves.

Ukraine is using exploding drones to hit Russian oil facilities from Siberia in St. Petersburg and Russian ports from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Day after day, the warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer are going up in flames, and Russia-occupied Crimea is being plunged into darkness. Ukraine is striking Russia far more often than it did earlier in the war, including attacks with cruise missiles on military targets hundreds of miles from the front.

At the same time, Russia is setting monthly records for its own aerial avatangles, exploiting gaps in depleted Ukrainian air defenses to deadly effect.

In July, Moscow fired at least 120 bathtub missiles — a wartime high, according to a New York Times analysis of Ukrainian Air Force data. About 400 civilians died last month in Russia's barrages, which included cruise missiles and drones, making it the deadliest month since April 2022.

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A daring escape from a 'prison without bars'

Kim Yo-rat, right, fled North Korea in 2022 with her children and her mother. She in South Korea has not been quite what they had imagined, but they have no regrets.

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Family fled North Korea by boat in search of a better life in the South

BY CHOK SANG-MUN

Rain looked a flimsy wooden boat as it turned through a charming sun, no engine straining against the owed. Under the cover of a merry night three years ago, the vessel was fleeing North Korea. The board wore nine people, including two small children and a woman who was six months pregnant. They eluded a patrol ship, speeding across the world's most heavily guarded maritime border. State after their boat birdied into South Korean waters, a high-speed warring of the South's navy here down on it, touring the water in aggressive circles. Singers on the vessel looked their laser sights on the sheets of the three adult men on the wooden boat.

Through a loudspeaker, a voice boasted: "Are you lost? Engine trouble?"

The North Koreans shouted: "Please help. We are defecting."

The red dots remained stubbornly fixed on their cheats. Desperate, the men shouted into the boat's compact hold for the other passengers to salvage in order to prove that they were civilians. From below, the two children, a 5-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy, were loaded up first. Only then did the red dots drop off.

The North Koreans, led by Kim Ji-hyrok and his younger brother, Yi-hyrok, were bound together by boat and marriage. The brothers, both in their 30s at the time, were accompanied by their mother and their families: Ji-hyrok's partner, who was pregnant, and Yi-hyrok's wife. Only two children, ten mother-in-law and brother-in-law.

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A daring escape from a 'prison without bars'

HOTEN KIRKA, FROM PAGE 1 ing the coronavirus pandemic. They arrived in their adapted country with rare insights into a nation that had been choked off from the outside world.

"Poor sight," said Vrbynek's wife, Yomi, "we created from a sea of darkness to a sea of freedom."

Over months of interviews in South Korea, Vrbynek spoke with the same zmagger he had developed as a self-described "troublesmoker" in North Korea. Yomi was reserved. Her mother asked not to be named but agreed to be distinguished. They all spoke with conviction about why they had needed to leave North Korea. The rest of the family declined to be interviewed.

The brothers came from Pyoksong, a county in North Korea's southwest.

During the famine of the late 1980s, their father, a railway security official, returned with grim accounts from the hardest-hit provinces: The smackiest bodies of children found outside train stations were frozen solid, thumping like frozen fish when they were roused onto tracks headed to burial grounds. He was the first in the family to lose faith in a ruling class that was unable to feed its people.

One night after his sons reached adulthood, he took them to a hill and passed toward a cluster of lights across the South Korean border.

"That's where we should go," he said. "So live and stand tall."

Ya-mi lived in the nearby coastal town of Kangryong. From there, she could see places gliding in the sea as they rose from between international stripes, just across the water – a dimmowing vision of possibility, yet unreachable for North Koreans barred from travel and cut off from the internet. "Our country felt like a prison without bars," she said.

The brothers'颊ism of deserving North Korea felt perilous. Their father used connections to transfer Vrbynek, his youngest, to Kangryong, where he learned surrogence, stopped guard posts and cultivated ties with officials. Vrbynek became a former diver, who had been seabed from the ocean floor, breathing air piped through a surface base, the evacuation port Svosh.

Vrbynek worked in North Korea's shadow economy, bribing his way into opportunity and out of trouble. On backward-attractive restaurants, one a small gold mine and bought rice orders from some groceries, vending it at a profit. He also grew disillusioned with the science he was growing.

Then, in 2016, their father died unexpectedly. The South Korean dream seemed to be still alive.

When Vrbynek, the older brother, was restless, Vrbynek was steady. He married Svosh in 2012, and the couple soon had their two children. He passed a new home from the country by the yearning three rounds. Despite a United Nations ban, Chinese buyers worked openly to Kangryong, and on a good day, Vrbynek could earn more than a typical worker's annual salary.

The pandemic overturned everything.

The family was among the few who managed to escape North Korea after a crushing pandemic lockdown was imposed.

North Korea imposed one of the world's hardest lockdowns. In Kangryong, across to the sea was closed off with barbed wire and armed guards. Vrbynek's beam ranged and his debut mounted. Officials claimed that South Korea was dumping infected bodies and waste their border waters. Yet basic supplying seafood to the top tiers of society continued to fish.

"The cities still are whatever they wanted," Svosh said.

Public operations grew more frequent, targeting those accused of committing violent crimes. She murder, which surged during the lockdown, as of distributing "nonaviable" content such as South Korean dramas. Thousands, including the brothers, were forced to watch as rifle fire crashed across the evacuation grounds. The crowds dispersed in silence.

"The goal was to instill him," Vrbynek said. "To cross any fantasy about the outside world."

By early 2023, North Korea had begun easing its pandemic restrictions. Vrbynek's beam were among the first permitted back to sea.

The brothers spoke in code over the phone. "Good weather" meant a storm was coming, having gained beam back to part. "We've got a good catch."

down here" meant Vrbynek should bring their mother and his girlfriend to Kangryong.

The weather and the catch were ideal the night of May 8, 2025.

Vrbynek's brother-in-law, his fishing partner, slipped away by heat and waited stillborn. The rest of the family crossed a coastal hill uneven with land zones to reach a secluded beach. To carry Vrbynek's two young children were rearing the brothers soaked down inside the top racks and hoisted them onto their shoulders.

Vrbynek's brother-in-law spotted the signal – a flashlight blending three times from the beach. Around 10 p.m.

the vessel pulled away as it tried to slip quietly toward Youngyeong Island in South Korea, just nine miles (34 kilometres) away.

Before deck, Yomi suddenly felt the engine near to full throttle. filling the hold with thick exfoliant and roaming the women and children search. Her teenager chilled over other land. She carried him up for fresh air – and she found the zone on deck in a panic.

"That's when I saw a searchlight from a North Korean patrol near sweeping across the waters behind us," she said. "My heart dropped."

The brothers had already agreed on what to do if they couldn't restrain a sea-

Above, don Vrbynek, a North Korean distance, in his neighborhood to found in June. Left, Kim Yu-mi, Vrbynek's sister-in-law. "We created from a sea of darkness to a sea of freedom," she said.

ricity vessel: strap the jackets and flashlight onto the women and children and send them into the sea, treating the current to carry them south. The men would enter the boat away as a doozy. To lighten the boat, Vrbynek threw anything heavy overboard.

Gradually, the searchlight behind them failed. The brothers later speculated that the fishing out they had thrown overboard had tangled in the previous band's propeller.

I look two hour gazette ended shortly after midnight, after the South Korean vessel stopped from and all time family members were brought aboard.

An officer greeted them: "Welcome to paradise!"

In the hands, Yomi studied to gain an accounting clerk certificate and found work at a school. Her brother needed a college, while Vrbynek returned to full-rate dining for seafood. Vrbynek's girlfriend gave birth to their first child in the South. The couple married in 2016 and soon welcomed another daughter. Vrbynek is finding his footing in the South's updated economy, trying part-time jobs at restaurants and opening a holiday and restaurant.

The plunge into the South's noisy democracy was overwhelming. And then there were other items.

Above, Vrbynek showing pictures of his wedding ceremony in Seoul. When they escaped North Korea, his new wife was six months pregnant. Below, Ya-mi showing part of the escape room.

In the North, people lined up in formal dress to receive a ballet with only one color. They placed their side in the "you" box with both hands and bowed deeply to generate of short, tinnie and grandfishes; who ruled before him. No one found apparent the "me" look.

On South Korea was no paradox. After 10 months in the hands, Vrbynek died in a dining accident in late 2024. The brothers' mother and Vrbynek's wife were diagnosed with cancer.

Vrbynek seemed frustration as Sensib's meeting housing prices. He is saving money to pay to move his family out of their transport, government-scheduled loan of apartment. Still, he insisted the definition was "100 percent" the right choice. Vrbynek's daughter is now a second grader at a South Korean school, and his son is at kindergarten.

"My husband gave me and our children his freedom to go around before he died," Yu-mi said.

The brothers also honored their father's head with. When their head fell North Korea, they carried his ashes with them.

Professor, rock star, and now a government official

MONTREAL

Àu Quebec's chief scientist, Jérôme Dupras advises on topics his band sang about

BY NORDETTE ONSEN AND NATION STUART ELIN

He's been described as the Clark Kootenland Superman of Quebec.

Nocturns intense glasses or red nages. But during the day, typically dressed in earth-wise bizarre, he supervised graduate students and worked on scientific papers on ecological economics. After the run for, check kids and a bit labeled around his head, he played basic guitar before thought him and turned them been from the school.

Screen Canada's French-speaking province, Jérôme Dupras has long been known for his double identity: a well-known expert on the economic value of the environment, who also happens to be a member of Leo Cowboys Fringants, or the finalizing Cowboys, one of Quebec's most famous folk rock bands and the one that have captured the province's decline and disillusion of the past generation.

Now the researcher and rock star has answered yet another identity after the provincial government recently appeared in the 1980s. "I'm not sure."

"There is an artistic dimension that is very, very strong in science, and there is also no question, to write or read the course of a building," Mr. Dupras said. "So this artistic role leads me to engage in a scientific dialogue with the public."

While the position of chief scientists is not only a good one, the university powerful one in Quebec. Mr. Dupras will not only advise the government on scientific research, but he will also advise the province's scientific research budget or of a quarter billion in those dollars ($176 million).

Mr. Dupras, a professor of natural sciences at the University of Quebec in Outaouais, will also become the most prominent voice on politically sensitive scientific issues. As a scientist and a musician, Mr. Dupras has spoken often of

Jérôme Dupras, left, a university professor and a well-known bass player, in his new office as the chief scientist of Quebec. Right, Mr. Dupras's Ricksteacher 4000-series bass.

the importance of protecting the environment and natural resources. Many in the Quebec town media asked whether joining government would offer his message. Especially as the Canadian and Quebec governments focus more on economic growth rather than on environmental issues in the natural President Trump's trade war.

In an interview in his new office in downtown Montreal, Mr. Dupras said it was a "vigorous, positive" because of her long tenure on the environment as a scientist, artist and activist. His new position, he vowed, would not almost find.

"When we talk about climate change," he said, "I can't deny the fact that we're facing an emergency, and that there are climate change obligation measures that need to be implemented across all sectors of the economy."

Experiments are high because of his prominence.

Vincent Larivière, a professor of information science at the University of Montreal, said Mr. Dupras's "sane" will give him the freedom to speak candidly – if he chooses to, that as his appointment was universally praised, no future government would dare remove Mr. Dupras before his five-year mandate was up, Mr. Larivière said. (Polls show

Quebec's governing party in third place ahead of a provincial election scheduled for October.)

"An ordinary politician knows Leo Cowboys Fringants," he said. "He with any politician doesn't know science."

It was by watching his father that Mr. Dupras first saw the possibility of a devoted to art and science. His father played the double basis in several bands. He also had a career as a veterinarian specializing in transplating ordinary in

A song by Leo Cowboys Fringants tells the story of the last human being on an Earth destroyed by environmental degradation.

Scientists – a job that frequently made the family move across Quebec during Mr. Dupras's earliest years.

When he was 7 years old, his family settled in L'Universitaire, a suburb north east of Montreal. In the 1980s, before he has spored reached the outer suburbs, another of L'Universitaire were still known or farms. There, as much who was a medical doctor owned a farm where Mr. Dupras worked every summer.

"I'd go there every day on my bike to

help out my uncle, and at the end of the summer, he'd give me 30 dollars," Mr. Dupras recalled.

In his room, he witnessed L'Universitaire's untouched areas gradually vanish. "I've not against development," he said. "But every time I saw that natural environment disappear – in the place I went to play on my bike with my friends – there was also a part of me that disappeared."

In his room, he grew to love organic history and the basis. He was invited to join Leo Cowboys Fringants, which had been formed by three other non-natural means adjoining suburbs. True to their roots, the band wrote and sang about the small tragedies of ordinary people and the evanescence of life, finding issues to Montreal's outer suburbs for the future Springmore did in New Jersey.

The band's market style stated the American grunge and guide rock star heartland itself had been – Nirvana and Green Day were favorites. Mr. Dupras said – with Quebec chairman, as well as instruments of Quebec folk music like the accordion and the blues.

There range captured the antichroachic melancholy of a Quebec that had lived through sweeping changes starting to the 1980s. The province's French

Québécois had largely moved away from the all-powerful Roman Catholic Church, leading to the creation of a modern, secular Quebec.

Its political leaders built a giant hydroelectric system that powered the province's economy, as well as modern educational and public systems that became the cornerstones of the province's social democracy. Amid those transfer-rustines, some French Québécois dreamed of Quebec's independence from the rest of Canada.

Mr. Dupras was born a year before Quebec (said in first information on his operations in 1980 and was a teenager when it held its second in 1995. Both times, the "eye" side lost.

"That dream of building through a collective vision for society, we felt it crumbling," Mr. Dupras said. "That was reflected in some of our songs. We were no longer able to build, no longer able to dream together."

Leo Cowboys Fringants criticized a Quebec society that had become content with consumer culture in a 2002 hit called "the terror" or "fatal future." In "Letter à L'Évêque" or "Letter to L'Évêque," their disillusionment entombed in the new generation of "contemplator" and "opportunistic" politicians.

Mr. Dupras's influence on the band's

message was felt most acutely through its early focus on environmental issues. One of their most haunting songs, "Plus Rime," or "Nothing Left," in 2004, said the story of the last human being on an Earth destroyed by environmental degradation.

At one of the band's last concerts, some 30,000 fans gathered in Quebec City three earmony saps in an emotional supporting on the lead stages Karl Trowbley, performed while visibly weakened by cancer. The band has not performed since Mr. Trowbley's death in late 2023, its future uncertain.

The band's success took Mr. Dupras in his early 20s on team across Quebec as well as to France, Belgium and Switzerland. At the same time, he studied biochemistry and research on environmental multiple advanced degrees in geographic Dacna, a trip to Great Blue, the country's management of natural resources (especially less so much that he turned to the field of ecological economics, which views the human economy as part of a finite biosphere.

Led by Mr. Dupras, Leo Cowboys Fringants established a private foundation that allocates parts of the band's profits to planting trees, protecting high-value ecological areas and other environments in order. Mr. Dupras felt the need to move beyond the social criticism of the band's songs.

"We felt the role of slipping into cynicism. We were positioned at critics and we were offering any solutions," he said. The foundation "was our way of solving the equation."

"It was our way to respond to criticism – by being positive and by using this as a springboard for positive action," he said.

Synops, Mr. Dupras said, could be used for positive action. His message would remain the same in his new position as chief scientist, he said, even though its role was minimal.

Once were the harsh descriptions of patients' workers found in "Letter à L'Évêque" He now spoke of bringing the best possible scientific information to people who had been "democratically elected."

"The private I was 20 years ago would completely understand the current situation," he said. "There's no document."

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His parties serve as a cultural oasis for young Cubans

HAGANA

David González, who hosts Havana's hottest night spot, isn't afraid to get political

BY JACK NICAS

The power in Havana was not again and the neighborhood was pitch dark, save for the wise covered home on the corner with the blue sea front, a bar in the back and an eight-piece hand playing on the wrappers and porch.

The 20-year-old head, David González, squeezed through the crowded dance floor in his family's former living room, past the mural that asked "How much longer?" and headed down to the basement to check on the leveling heart of the party.

The single 16-kilowatt-hour history he had terpened from Spain was powering everything — the lights, refrigerators, sprinkles and sings — and still had 42 percent left. It was only midnight. "Without this guy, we'd be best," he said.

It is this history, and Mr. González's spunk that has turned his childhood home into one of Havana's hottest venues amid Cuban worst-crest energy crisis, as well as the periodish for a budding political movement.

Over the past six months, as the Trump administration's oil blockade has helped plunge Cuba into darkness, Havana's rights have been lit up by Mr. González's weekend parties. Every night at the Friday through Sunday, his home has become the go-to gathering place for the city's young artists, activists and intellectuals, part of a larger cultural initiative he calls El Proyecto, or The Project.

In Cuba — where citizens are monitored, criticism of the government is punished and political movements are expressed — the events themselves are a level of resistance.

"There's no better way of being against this government than being happy," he said. "They want you to be frustrated, they want you to be angry. But actually the less basic, the less angry you have inside, the better to confront them."

"So that's the way we fight," he added. "All good mood and all good vibes."

Washington's pressure campaign is pushing the Cuban government to the brink, leading it to shut off power to most of the country for all but a few hours a day if this.

That has muffled out Havana's famously bright nightlife scene, including the disease in June of its most revived cultural institution, the Hibiscus de Arte Cubana, at Cuban Art Factory, in art and music venue in a reserved factory.

In its place has arrived El Proyecto. What began as film screenings last August has now grown into concerts, art exhibitions, lectures, dance parties and, increasingly, political debates and protests against the Cuban government. Amid the blackouts, there is virtually no

"I know I'm taking risks. But I'm not going to sell treason the things I dream and the things I want to do because of fear"

other place like it in Havana.

"Imagine living in a desert." She used heresy sex, one's nothing worse and one really don't know which way to go," said Fits del Rio, 21, a musician who got married on Mr. González's porch in April. "And then there's a place that represents all the rest that you need — where you can arrive, drink water and suddenly feel like the sand isn't burning you."

"That's this space," he added. "It's art music."

At the front of the movement — and sometimes charging the 30-crest athletic size at the party's front gate — in Mr. González. Gangarines and laid-back, he moves around the overwhelmingly Gen Z crowd with intense positivity, imagining regulars, welcoming movements and taking turns on the Ping-Pong table on the porch. So the night drags on, the topic offers turns to politics.

"There's a Cuba that's dying at the same time a new Cuban is being born," he said. "Their symbols, their culture, their singure, their older hatred and violence, it's dying. And they can't stop the new

Cuba, because there are so many people resisting and creating and dreaming."

In some ways, Mr. González was trained for this. He left Cuba for London in 2022 to get a master's in political communication, and said he has long studied nonviolent political movements and how they succeed.

Now that it has gained momentum this year, Mr. González wants to transition El Proyecto into a more politically active phase. On July 11, the fifth anni-

versary of the last mass protest against the Cuban government, he said his political counsel an event with the threat of creating change in Cuba. The word "freedom" hung from the ceiling as a preference held halves to another's threat and a graffiti artist wrote on the wall. "The feeling of collapse is part of the system."

Attendees hanged pets and pans — the most common form of protest in Cuba — and shouted, "Down with the

David González, above, runs the cultural initiative El Proyecto in Havana. His home service as the venue his events, which include dance parties, left, art stores, concerts and political debates.

dictatorship." Mr. González said a government agent eventually arrived and warned that the fact had better be carried out.

"I know I'm taking risks," he said. "But I'm not going to sell treason the things I dream and the things I want to do because of fear."

The Cuban government has long selectively enforced its rules, which restrict more gatherings. This year, the government has tolerated and even acknowledged the frequent hanging of pets and pans across Cuba's cities, but it has also arrested some people who have presented on the stores.

Mr. González acknowledged that after this article, he would likely attract more attention from the government. "I believe hearing them would be letting them win," he said. "And I'm tired of them winning."

Attendees at his parties described Mr. González as an inspiration.

"David is a dreamer. He's a person who doesn't just stay on the couch and suffers with the rest of us, He wants to be part of the change," said Charlie Bur-

reras, 21, a Havana tour guide who has become a regular in the summer. "He's a leader, and all of us, we follow him."

Mr. González bristles at the idea of heretofore leading a movement. "I don't want power," he said. "I just want to be useful."

But he admitted that El Proyecto's success has given him an opportunity: "I want to capitalize on that," he said. "To turn that happiness into change, I believe we have to learn to articulate ourselves, how to organize ourselves and how to transform."

Still, he lacks concrete plans on next steps. He said he has had small partnerships with the British and French Embassies but has no interest in working with the U.S. government, which frequently supports Cuban activists. He questioned President Trump's intentions toward Cuba, believing the president would explain the island for himself and not empower the Cuban people.

"People are so desperate for a change that they believe Donald Trump is going to be their series," he added. "They haven't realized yet that the series are themselves."

A White House spokeswoman called Cuba a national security threat and said the Trump administration wants to help the country, but the Cuban government is standing in the way.

Carlos Fernández de Cosola, Cuban's deputy foreign minister, said in an interview: "There's one aggression, which is the United States, and one country under aggression, which is Cuba."

Mr. González, and many attendees at one of his recent parties, thought both sides were to be the one.

El Proyecto's headquarters is a nearly century-old home that uses belonged to a US family, Mr. González said. It was confiscated by the government after Public Control revolution in 1950, he said. Mr. González's grandmother, who was a teacher and favor revolutionary, then bought the first four from the government over 20 years.

Mr. González said that about a decade ago, two British women who said they were descendants of the issue's original service money, and the plea of the country, suggesting their family was the rightful owner and could use day-to-day cash, the better.

After Mr. González's grandmother died in 2021 and left the house to his mother, the family considered selling it. Nearly all of them had had Cuba.

But Mr. González persuaded his mother to keep it, and then, in 2024, he returned from London to come back in. He said that he felt abandoning his country seemed like submitting to the government: "I wanted to send a message that you can live in Cuba and do things in Cuba if you really want to," he said.

Although many young Cubans have left the island, Mr. González said any error at his home down that plenty also remain — and are ready for change.

"We don't know yet how we're going to be a part of that change, but something inside of us is willing so not to leave," he said. "They want to witness what's about to come."

Two cities intertwined by family, trade and a tangled history

CELITA, SPAIN

Border crisis highlights the stark divide between North African towns

BY KEN HUBBARD, CARLOS BARRAGÁN AND ADIA ALOIS

The two North African towns are only a side apart, but vast differences separate from them.

Costa sits near the northernmost tip of Morocco and just into the Mediterranean Sea for an elephant on both. It is a territory of Spain whose people enjoy the benefits of modernizing in the Caribbean Union. Compared with Finking, which is just south along the coast, it is wealthy Finking is in Morocco, where economic prospects for many young people are listed.

Recently, the divide between these communities collapsed as tens of thousands of people under Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa pushed from around Finking into Costa. The upheaval captured global attention, including that of President Trump.

The first large quest chapter in the tangled history between the two cities, whose people have been raising and growing the groundless on an older government's policies and disputes have hardened the border between them.

The latest crisis illustrated, is continued early, the provincial reality that has bedeviled governments across the globe that try to control illegal migration: that economic disparity will become extreme across borders, often at government's borders, to work better lives.

At more than a dozen recent interviews in Finking and Costa, we see, and they expected migrants to stop attempting the trip.

"If they opened the border, half of Morocco would leave," said Abdullah

Above left, families are living in a waterfront park in Finking, Mexico and Tuesday. Above right, teams from the Morocco border guard parcelling the countries to Finking on Tuesday.

Yazadi, 41, who was selling bongie beards, from noodles and inflatable inner tubes near the beach in Finking, Costa was clearly visible, just across the bay.

Asked if he had sold gear to migrants trying to make the crossing, he disregard.

"I don't tell people what they are going to use them for," he said.

The Moroccan government considers Costa occupied Moroccan territory and has at times restricted the border to put pressure on Spain.

Costa has been under Spanish control for hundreds of years, and it is a different desire for Spanish children to return them from the mainland. Many others have none in Morocco, stay in touch with children, there, speak Moroccan Arabic and are Muslim.

For many years, Moroccan who lived nearby could enter Costa without a visa, home would attend summer custom letters.

Many others come to bring back duty, free goods to work, a type of percolator, contraband that was good for business in Costa and vital to the economy of

Finking and the surrounding area. "The amount of money that was coming into this part of the country was outstanding," said George Bigaba, who has been the thespelag at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and has studied the border.

But after Morocco built a giant port complex nearby, it remained for a little trade from Costa, he said. During his pandemic, Morocco closed the border with Costa, and it did not allow that trade to remain when the border reopened, hurting the economies on both sides.

That exacerbated the wealth gap that has propelled people from Finking and their Moroccan towns toward Costa.

"For decades, people built an economy around that trade, and now it was gone," Mr. Bigaba said. "All these people, the thousands and thousands who made a living out of that border, haven't had their jobs replaced."

In other Costa men, Moroccans need less, which many cannot obtain. At the border crossing, Spanish and Moroccan officials mention traffic and strong prospects.

In his fabric stall at a Finking market,

Alzart El Mobrini, 40, said he used to go to Costa a few times per week to get merchandise. Now he can't.

"From the state decided to clean the border, they hurt the shopkeepers and didn't give an any compensation," he said.

Global attention zoomed in on Costa last week. Some 72,000 migrants showed special media posts falsely claiming that the border was open stitched into the territory. Over the weekend, the other, short of food and water, returned to Morocco or were sent back by the Spanish security forces.

At most 70 migrants died while trying to cross, the Spanish authorities said. Most of them drowned in the bay.

The dramatic images of such a large, well-differed and defunct across Europe and elsewhere, with eight-wing politicians pointing to Costa as a watercave situation.

Mr. Trump said what happened in Costa looked like "the invasion of a country" and used the issue to attack his Democratic opponents before this year's U.S. midterm elections.

"The same thing is going to happen to

us if the Republicans don't get elected, except worse," Mr. Trump said during a cabinet meeting last week.

In Costa this week, the edged back toward normality. Residents strolled through the city places and broad aromas of its city center, past bars, restaurant and shops selling swimwear and baggers.

But noxious persisted. In a matter of hours, we witnessed a fortlight that appeared to be about migration and the people at a grocery store call the police on a religious who had come to buy food.

Khadija Sagheni, 37, was one of the migrants who crossed last week, with her sister, Widiat. In it an interview in Costa, she said it had been her fourth attempt to reach the territory.

"I just wanted to leave," said the other Mr. Sagheni, a recent high school grad.

"I felt that the state's to happiness," her sister said.

Now, they planned to be low to avoid being shattered. Then, somehow, they will lead the Europe, the east.

"We want to go to the mainland," she said.

In the Muslim-majority El Principe neighborhood, young men carrying plastic bags with track presentation walked down narrow lanes wearing misturbed sandals, suggesting that they were now arriving. Many would probably soon learn that reaching Costa did not mean they could stay and that there was no scary way to cross the sea to overhaired Europe.

In an interview, the Swiss News, the mayor-president of the territory, appeared an shakes and baffled an older country to be the most severe.

"People in Costa are in a state of sadness — a sort of grief, indignation, helplessness, fear, concern and anxiety," he said. "People are asking themselves, 'Could this happen again?'"

He estimated that 1,000 to 3,000 of the migrants who entered last week were still there.

The city was also caring for about 1,000 people in the city. The city was also caring for about 1,000 people in Costa and Melilla, an other small Spanish territory further east, said Costuts mentally had been helped by its long history of being an industry for the United States.

"This is a city laden with emotion because throughout its history it has been threatened and has felt alone," he said.

In the discussion of the idea that Spain's north African countries were emphatically, a young physical company was not necessary for nations. If it were, he said, whether it would result in a impact of Britain and Alaska would belong to Canada.

"Hawaii is very far from the United States," he noted.

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The war that's raging above Russia and Ukraine

RUSSIA-UKRAINE, FROM PAGE 1

Ukrainian capital, in an attack that included 24 ballistic missiles and four hypercosmic missiles, those of those missiles were shot down, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Beyond the human toll, the Russian assaults have forced Ukraine to suspend vital guns and start shipments from its property. The attacks have also shattered already-ravaged infrastructure, spanning fears that the country could be headed toward another winter of warm heaving and electricity.

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is essentially two wars in one.

One is waged around the clock by infantry soldiers and drone operators in Indonesia along the N9-miss (1,200-kilometer) lines. Russia is still trying to capture Ukrainian land, at a cost of tens of thousands of unilized lives every month, and it is no longer hard in the eastern Deshna region. Ukraine, for its part, is still defending its territory with its own outnumbered army and trying in regional and where it can, including in the south.

The other war comes to waves through the skies. It is aimed at distant cities and military sites in both countries, often in the dark of sight, and has grown deadlier for both Ukrainians and Russians.

The objectives of these aerial assaults go beyond purity military goals. Kyiv is seeking to deepen the economic pain for the Koresks, being the war force in Russians and force President Vladimir V Putin to savage a cross-fire six terms he does not dictate. For Moscow, it is a continuation of a yearlong campaign to wear down Ukrainian cruelly and murder cities unlivable.

Two air battle is growing more intense as the war has become more insensitive—weapons at target and larger codes.

Russia is now putting air engines on inexpensive drones modeled on the Iranian Strabad, launching a constellation of satellites to help guide its weapons, and rolling out low-cost cruise missiles that bridge the gap between slow attack drives and the attack strategy missiles. Russian fighter jets are firing antithorpoidal pilot bombs that systematically obliterate towns and cities.

Ukraine is a retaliating, a constantly developing war force and misabordous hybrids with advanced navigators and communications systems that allow them to strike with greater protection across Russia. President

Notes: Data are of Aug. 3. Includes Ukrainian drone and missile attacks made Russia. Strikes within 60 miles of the Ukraine-Russia border are not shown. Source: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data.

Valedynyr Zelensky is vowing to accelerate aerial attacks as Ukraine turn to first domestically produced ballistic missiles.

Both countries are using new methods to create electronic jamming and employing autonomous systems that direct weapons to their targets without human intervention.

As Russia and Ukraine expand their offensive armands, their air defenses are struggling to keep up.

Ukraine is facing more shortages of American-designed Parizat interceptor missiles, the country's only defense against Russian ballistic missiles.

Mr. Zelensky has instructed his diplomacy to push border to persuade allies to supply more Parizats. But dwindling global stockpiles have made the task tougher, and President Trump has walked back a row to allow Ukraine to produce Parizats in the coming years.

For Russia, a primary challenge is debending a vast landmass that was an asset in part wars but is a liability now that Ukraine is pumping out long-range attack drones. By adopting software, hardware and tactics, Kyiv has opened holes in what was more the world's most robust air defense network.

Asumik Khryachytsky, a Ukrainian

Air Force reserve officer and military analyst, said that before the Russians launched their afloat invasion in 2022, they rolled on the deterrence provided by their nuclear arsenal. Air defenses, he said, "were only able to cover about 40 percent of their strategic military facilities."

When the invasion stalled and Russia failed to establish air dominions, Russian commanders rushed to move domestic systems like the Parizat and Tel-Ozvor to Ukraine. While this shielded the front line, it stripped protection from military bases and industrial holes in the Russian hinterland.

Now, analysts said, every destroyed launcher and radar system forces Moscow to choose between safeguarding the front or defending the country's interior.

"Russia's challenge is fundamentally geographic," said Sutha Broda, a senior researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, a security think tank in London. "When Ukraine forces Russia to pull systems back from the front line to protect cities or enhancer in the rest, it creates gaps everywhere."

While Russia still has robust air protection, the pressure has fractured the country's shield into isolated defenses, which Ukraine is exploiting with strikes

both deep inside Russia and closer to the front to undermine Russian logistics.

An assault on Moscow's central必要时 is less abused that even the Koresks' core strangled could be breached.

Kyiv recently expanded its targets to include the warehouses of Russia's largest radian retailer. Wilderness, facing Moscow to again recalibrate how it allocates defenses, analysts said.

To plug the emerging holes, Russia has resorted to stoppage such as moaning Parizat batteries on high-rise buildings for a better field of vision and deploying naval warships to protect northern regions like Murmansk.

Ukrainian commanders also painted in a shift to their own doctrine. Rather than waiting for centralized approval, pilots are authorized to pivot away from planned mission targets if they spot an opportunity to strike a priority target like a Russian radar or launcher.

The distant attacks come in waves, often in the dark of sight, and have grown deadlier for both Ukrainians and Russians.

When Ukraine cannot match Russia in its industrial scale. Moscow churns out standardized strike drones, decoys and cruise missiles by the thousands. Ukrainian intelligence agencies estimate that Russia produces about 120 ballistic missiles every month, outpacing the total U.S. production of Parizat interceptors. The Russian arsenal is being bolstered by missiles from North Korea, Ukrainian officials said, painting its evidence from debris collected after a strike in the central city of Kyiv's N8-just week that killed a family of 24.

Moscow is also developing its een-in-transport drones, which Ukraine has used to grow cities, and it still holds a significant number of sophisticated 6-400 and 8-300 air defense batteries.

Cravally, Russia's defense industrial sector is supported by supply chains that have withstood sanctions, leveraging foreign microelectronics and Chinese dialoism technology to adapt its systems rapidly.

Russia's strategy relies on a cold calculation that it can exhaust Ukraine's defenses before its own network breaks.

Lukov Shirakov and Kim Barker contributed reporting.

Trapped in limbo between tragedy and the future

VENEZUELA, FROM PAGE 1

what lies ahead for Venezuela, the fate of La Guaira is also deeply uncertain.

Venezuelan authorities have promised to build housing that can better withstand earthquakes.

But many Venezuelans question whether their government has the capacity or resources for such a colossal sentiment. The country's Guaira have been cratered by mismanagement and U.S. sanctions, and the regime struggled to handle even immediate disaster response.

Others wonder whether quake survivors would be willing to stay in the area at all.

"I don't know what will happen with us," said Sutha Broda, a nursery school director, as she stood at the gate of her school. Three soldiers who had attended the school died in the quakes, who have lived through one block.

For now, the regime is trapped in a painful limbo between tragedy and the future.

Waves through debris – where he works hands of the dead were still visible from beneath the crushing weight of massive columns – were people sleeping, eating and waiting.

A SEASER TOWN TURNED GIRM

The basketball court at the Juan José Mondes, school, which had over 1,400 students, became a camp for foreign volunteers supporting rescue and recovery efforts. The court's with still slowest students' writing – details excised by hearts, declaresmen of low – must confronters where volunteers sleep.

The quakes killed 100 students and left 50 more missing, said the school's director, Diana Perrot.

In the Republic of Panama high school, bank both replaced desks to house hundreds of refugees. Inside the "Hugo Chávez" downtown shop people injured in the collapse of public housing constructed by and named for Mr. Chávez, kingdoms but next to colorful school houses depicting the erstwhile system, while teenagers sat before a whitehead tilted "My Future Project."

It was unclear what future they will have in La Guaira. But drivers, commercial painters, hairdressers, haidlers, beach sellers and many others lost their jobs.

On a recent morning, a new unemployed part worker waited to line at a soup kitchen near a mademill mosque. He had bought two tickets to leave for Cuba's first visit.

"There is nothing here," said his wife, Donald, whom she likes.

Around La Guaira, cheerful signs that read "General Buehl" and "Children's Buehl" were written by the state's business of missing people, spray-painted on the walls of houses where they are assumed to be unintended. Photos of the disappeared hung from the tracks of

palm trees and lamppants.

Gained in a pale layer of dust inside the wreckage of higher-end medals, broken into the loaded like they were abandoned inbustere ago.

Colorful, ripped beach antientias invaded the empty shore. The live beach clubs still open distributed medicines and supplies, at housed survivors, home families were living in San Casan, a tourist resort and popular surf destination nestled between the Caribbean and

tropical mountains. Among postcard-perfect patios guests looked at orphaned children and liberals.

And unlike the resort's casual clientele, "We have no place to go back to," said Raul Lara, 49, one of the refugees.

Even those whose homes still stood but their normalcy completely shattered.

Cuba-Tiguanes's small outside refugee was relatively undamaged, but her part of her daughter's house next door had

topped directly into a swimming pool. It hired them now, tilted atop the water and leaking ship.

Still, Ms. Figueira, 46, wanted to leave La Guaira, and not simply because her garden now looked like a narrowing painting.

A woman two buildings where my friends lived there," she said, pointing at an empty space outside. "Now I stand here and I don't see them. And my friends are below."

Clockwise from top left, in La Guaira, Venezuela: people searching through a pile of donated clothing at a collection center; a group of volunteers called "Venezuelan auctions," or "breathing studies," styling the hair of young girls at a temporary shelter; and photographers of the missing mark to a wall. The area was once a lively handmade escape.

THE SPRINKLING ENCAMPMENTS

Outside two whales, ramping trees and shelters fashioned out of trash bags, towels and blankets filled every corner of La Guaira.

Venezuelan authorities, foreign governments and assignments and organizations have set up multiple camps and shelters around the region and in the capital – in parks, squares, schools, basketball courts, baseball stadiums and parking lots.

But many people preferred to put up more heads the rubble where they were still digging to find loved ones' bodies.

Many Venezuelans see the ruins as the culmination of a failed economic project oversees by a foreign government.

"I'm not leaving until I get him," said Danyana Delgado, whose 8-year-old son, Braine, was buried under debris on a basketball court. "They are not going to make a permanent and any people to live on top of my son's body."

For thousands, 26, whose 8-year-old son, Xavier, was underneath the collapsed tower where they lived, was also staying near the ruins. "Leaving would mean abandoning him," she said. The text where she was dishearing is not widespread and her boyfriend, Carlos López, 35, said he had a bad cough from the constant, soaking rain.

"It's not the to live like this," he said, between coughs, "We need to figure out what we are doing now."

Jorge Rodriguez, the leader of Venezuela's Congress and whose sister (Sir) is the country's interim leader, said the government had identified potential

piles of land in La Guaira to build new homes.

"We are sure that La Guaira will be there with great strength," said José Alejandro Terán, the regner's governor.

The Trump administration, which effectively controls the country's finances, government and natural resources, has said it had been working with Venezuelan authorities and the private sector to open more housing options, and was working to prepare under for demolition and reconstruction.

Beyond double ahead whether their government's pledges can be trusted, many in this quake-ravaged regime are traumatized.

"La Guaira scores me," Ms. Santander said. "I don't want to live here."

Many residents are in turkey at ever living in a high-rise again. They spend their days touring the vast property of these buildings – trapping every square inch of grassland there to find their own home.

"I am not going back to a tall tower," said Danyana Rangelli. "So, who has a daughter and a granddaughter and broke an arm when the Hugo Chávez housing projects collapsed. 'This land was left fuelling.'"

More than a month after the earthquakes, a television completely swept up the rubble from some of the buildings. The filadans billboard that was closed on the La Guaira highway had been torn down. It was exposed by a new sign advertising the government's campaign, refuled, under the slogan "Venezuelan is richest."

Jasper Herrero and Adriana Lacercio Fernandez contributed reporting from La Guaira, and Shayla Urdaneta from Buenos Aires.

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A funeral in Gaza City on Turaqig for 102 people whose bodies had been killed in Gaza in June 2025. In July, the Israeli military service was organized by striker across Gaza.

After peace plan strikes increased

NEWS ANALYSIS JOURNALIST

Trump's Gaza proposal risks being undone amid spike in Israeli bombings

BY ISABEL KERNIENER AND ADAR KASZON

Sana after President Trump announced a new plan to return to military peace and security in Gaza, the Palestinian-oculars instead experienced a spike in deadly Israeli bombings, which threatened to undermine hopes for long-month progress.

On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed 10 people, according to the health ministry in Gaza, making it one of the deadliest days there since a roadside cause the cause into force in October last year. Gaza health ministry data from the conflict does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

Israeli strikes a day earlier killed at least two people and damaged 4 employees for medical supplies, Palestinian officials said. Justice Monday, the Israeli military struck a car as a beachable road, killing two, according to Gaza official.

With many of the plan's details still unclear, including a timetable for the Human disarmament in its heart, the Tupatal plan released by Mr. Trump's Board of Peace — which also calls for an Israeli withdrawal and a new administration in Gaza — risks being undone before the specifics are involved out.

On Monday, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister's office, Deren Spidman, pushed back against the terms of the agreement, which Israel had not signed. "The version that has been made public does not reflect Israeli problems," he said in a statement. He added, "Israel has converged its statement and concerns on the proposed framework to our American counterparts." He said the concerns centered on the issue of Human disarmament.

Nicholas E. Mladone, a veteran Bulgarian diplomat who is the Board of Peace's high representative for Gaza, leveled care critic of a Israeli overcrowded attack.

"Towards of strikes across Gaza have killed civilians and destroyed medical supplies that people depend on," he said in a statement provided in social media on Sunday. He said that the attacks had some after "terrorism officer" by the roadsmen to reach a deal and that he and his team were "working around the clock

Nicholas E. Mladone, the high representative for Gaza on the Board of Peace, leveled care criticates at Israel over its attacks that raise after "terrorist efforts" by landbound

with the parties, mediators and regional partners to de-escalate."

In a joint statement on Monday, three countries that have served as mediators — Qatar, Egypt and Turkey — condemned what they described as "the ongoing Israeli violation" in Gaza.

Human said in a statement that "entire families" were wiped out on Sunday, and it accused Israel of "a deliberate revolution" aimed at blocking the plan.

The Israeli military has said that its strikes to recent days targeted Human fighters and weapons infrastructure. It also said it had taken steps to mitigate harm to civilians.

Since the October ceasefire, Israel has steadily stopped up attacks across the Gaza Strip. Last month, the military carried out almost daily strikes and named at least 50 militants it said it had eliminated, including what it said were Human members who had participated in the fall. In 2025, assault on Israel that killed about 1,500 people. That attack against the war in Gaza, which has left more than 70,000 men, according to officials, and much of the enclave in ruins.

On Tuesday, a team feared was held in Gaza City for 112 people whose bodies had been pulled from the raities in an area where, according to Mahmoud Hussain, a spokesman for the civil defense, made separate under the Human-oculars' ministry.

Michael Mishkin, an Israeli satire and a former Israeli military intelligence officer specializing in Palestinian affairs, said it was "so coincidence" that Israel had recently increased its pace of attacks.

Israel was either showing that it did not care about the agreement, he said, "or there was a fear that the point may come where the United States tells Israel to stop" and the military was ending while it still could.

On Sunday, Mohammed Dabban, an influential Palestinian critic and a candidate of the president of the United Arab Emirates, wrote on social media that Israel Kushner, a son-in-law and an aide to Mr. Trump, had provided assurances that he had reached an agreement with Israel that it would raise its strikes. But shortly thereafter, he edited the part, declaring the reference to an agreement, and said Mr. Kushner had conveyed that he was "working with the Israeli side to stop the attacks on Gaza."

Many of the plan's details remain undone, including a timetable for Human disarmament.

Negotiators on the Board of Peace described the new agreement with Human, announced by Mr. Trump last week, as a "road map" intended to cement theข饱र्क cause-fire, disaster. Human, secure a complete transit withdrawal from Israel and enable a return to normalcy and the start of even more action.

But key questions immediately arose over whether Human and Israel would carry out the agreement. According to the text, the parties were given two weeks to determine a schedule, which an international verification committee could extend.

Inspiring the damage after an Israeli strike in Gaza on Saturday, Mishkinen's for medical supplies were among the buildings hit.

Such differences have already emerged over sequencing, among other issues. The agreement with Human stipulates that Israel must initially fulfill its obligations under the October cease-fire deal, which called for an immediate suspension of Israeli attacks.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had pledged total victory over Human, along with its disbursements. He said on social media on Tuesday that Israel would not pull back from its current positions in Gaza before Human had completely disarmed.

Human, for six part, has long touted armed struggle against Israel as the care of its ideology. The group's weapons have so far helped it keep power in Gaza, though Human has said it is willing to hand over the administration of the territory to a committee of Palestinian technocrats working under the Board of Peace's supervision.

Palestinian analysts said Israel's continued atrocities in Gaza strengthened Human officials' argument that Israel will press its military campaign even if the group agrees to disarm.

"You're saying: 'Look, I will you so,' said Hanan Krafah, a Palestinian columnist who is originally from Gaza and lives in London. 'They feel like Israel is proving them right.'

Human now says it agreed to rules, quirk its "theory weapons" in part on condition that Israel commits to halting attacks and withdrawing. The group has found itself with few regional allies, and most of its center leaders in Gaza have been killed.

In an intricacies post on Tuesday, Mr. Netanyahu said, "We're not withdrawing from our current lines until Human is totally disarmed."

Mr. Spidman, the Israeli government spokesman, said that over the past eight months, according to Israel's intelligence, "Human has used the cause-fire to rearm, recruit thousands of additional terrorists, should its military at first/earlier and prepare for further October 'really insinuous'."

The "usual" plan has left shimmering disarmament vague. It calls for a "gradual, sequential and timebound manner" for decommutanting and storing heavy weapons, with the timetable yet to be determined.

The agreement, however, adds that, at the "end of the process," only the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, the group of Palestinian tech security buying to take over ground to under the Board of Peace's administration, will "hold control at state weapons in Gaza." No weapons will be handed to Israel or non-Palestinian parties.

The Board of Peace has tried to guide down the differences. After Mr. Mladone and other Israel members met on Monday with Mr. Netanyahu, the insane said in a post on social media that it said Israel "share a common understanding of the ultimate objective".

In Gaza, members expressed doubts that Israel and Human would carry out the agreement, making fears that the population could be left in brain conditions.

"We're worried nothing will change," said Saad Abu Alia, 48, who is from its balaya, an northern Gaza. His two daughters were killed as an Israeli strike such as the war, he said, and he said his car was finally remained displaced as a test in central Gaza.

For the past two years, Mr. Abu Alia said, he has been trying to gain permission to leave Gaza and reassist with his brother to France. The latest agreement has done little to make him want to stop yet. "We're not reassured about the situation at all," he said.

Heidi Abu Luben, Iyad Alukowski and Abu Bakr Baidir contributed reporting.

Attack on U.S. water follow years of warnings

Federal and state officials are racing to respond to an extensive hacking incident

BY EUSTIN VILZ

In 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the U.S. water supply from hackers.

The steps were against, but necessary officials said at the time: Many municipalities were without even basic protections, and the companies that monitor and adjust water quality, including chemical-treatment levels, were ratio to that target for a would-be intruder.

The E.P.A. concluded the order, however, after Republican-led claims had industry groups used to block its enforcement. They argued that the E.P.A. did not have the authority for the move and that smaller, underfunded utilities would struggle to adopt the standards.

The episode's just one of several is create years to which efforts to bolster the chandlestone of America's water systems were blocked despite repeated attacks that highlighted vulnerabilities. Little more than a month after the E.P.A. proposed was failed, a small issue in western Pennsylvania disclosed that a hacking group tried to start a Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had briefly taken control of equipment used to adjust water pressure.

Now, the U.S. and state officials are racing to address an alarming, widespread assault on the U.S. water supply that they tested in Asia probably the work of human hackers.

Last week, at least seven states, including Minnesota and Michigan, reported incidents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and it notes cause the backs — or the response to them — degraded water operations. The tally of states reporting possible attacks to the F.B.I. is now at least a dozen, according to people already with the investigation. The F.B.I. has not disclosed the states publicly, but some have come the way to control the use of the water.

Israel 100 municipalities have described recent indulgence hacking efforts related to their water systems, though some of those may be unrealised incidents, the people said. Some security experts said the number of vulnerable systems nationwide could be far higher.

There are no indications to far that any water system has been unreported as a way that rendered drinking water unsafe. But the attacks have led to disruptions that required manual correction and field-water advisories issued out of all attendance of caution.

Charles Gurets, U.S., experienced a water service disruption on July 27, local officials dissatisfied to work. The county, which began using the same name as the area, said that it believed that the incident was the result of "unauthorized cybersecurity" and that it had witnessed reduced water pressure. Gurets also continuously had water advisory and restored services within hours.

"It is very unusual for us to experience a system-savings without a water main break." Erin Thomas, a spokeswoman for the District County Water Authority, said in an interview: "We are still investigating what happened, but we have to do it."

A spokesman for Rapid City, S.D., said that the city had also recently addressed a "cybercrutcher" involving a lift station, an a specialised group, in its maintenance that the system working with federal partners on the investigation. The water supply "remains safe and protected," and the water security information. He disclosed to say when the disruption occurred or if it was related to the current wave of attacks.

Officials and experts said the breadth of the working area would be far larger than in currently known. There are about 200,000 public water systems in the United States, according to the E.P.A. Many national and international cybercrutcher companies in place.

Some municipalities may not report incidents to state leaders, let alone the federal government. Congress passed a law in 2022 that requires water facilities and other critical infrastructure operators to report significant backs within 72 hours. But enforcement of that law has been a major problem.

Iron-based hackers are suspected of being responsible, according to U.S. officials and state and local officials briefed by federal authorities on the investigation, but that assessment is preliminary.

Officials and experts were that on the U.S. war against loan securities on, without restriction, more intrusive. There if a lock it has little to lose. (President Trump last Friday dismissed the nation Iran was responsible for the attacks on water systems and instead blamed Tim Welz, the government's chief of Minnesota, for the attacks there.)

"We are having a relearning of the consequences of ignoring the importance of investing in our nation's cybersecurity for our critical infrastructure," Saysad Babine, the executive director of the Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition, said in a public letter last Friday.

The group, which represents security firms that specialize in securing systems like those affected by the water attacks, called for a series of swift can-

gressional actions, including more funding for state and local governments to bolster digital protections.

Ms. Babine, a former U.S. cybersecurity policy official who worked for the U.S. Navy and at Google, noted years of warnings that Chinese and Iranian hackers were borrowing deep inside computer networks of critical infrastructure for able to unleash attacks at a later date.

"To date, we have been lucky that a more catastrophic incident hasn't occurred," Ms. Babine said. "We can no longer rely on luck."

The Trump administration released a national cybersecurity strategy in March that identified protecting critical infrastructure networks as a priority, but it said little about the precise mechanics for how to do as beyond securing supply chains from foreign-hull technology that could pass risks.

"We will deny our adversaries initial access, and in the event of an incident, we must be able to recover quickly," the strategy said about securing water utilities, the energy push and other key infrastructure.

For all the fears about artificial intelligence models posing a grave risk to global cybersecurity, the efforts to compromise America's water supply have been relatively rudimentary, according to former officials, experts and the government's public advisories.

U.S. intelligence and cybersecurity agents in the state worried about Iran's on-hackers targeting water systems and other critical infrastructure in the United States for years. More than a decade ago, Iranian hackers targeted a small number of places they had, but the happenstime that theirs before generation had been taken offline by maintenance, much to the order of the U.S. authorities at the time. The Justice Department later believed Iranian nationals it said were behind the breach.

A water treatment plant in Georgia, S.D. officials have warned the water treatment systems are easy targets for hackers.

Concerns have grown since the war against Iran began in late February, in 2025, the U.S. government's own infrastructure Security Agency and other federal agencies issued a public alert "urgently warning" that Iranian utilities of hackers were targeting computers in infrastructure networks, including water, energy and government services.

The cybersecurity agency, which has been the only staffing out of the 4 parent-back mission during the second Trump administration, updated that advisory has last month with additional technical guidance done for attack. Among other steps, the agency urged other systems operators to take their remote contractors off the internet.

By previous news, war a disclosure that the hackers highlighted out a way to deal with other Internet that stored alarms or force a shutdown in the event of a serious problem. Operators could be looking at the game to reveal that any everything in fine when, in reality, something is very wrong.

Are four days later, the intensified hacking strategy against water utilities from those who were there, but the believe that the hackers are the alert and began racing to compromise as many systems as possible before new safety measures were in place.

"If nothing else, it's one hell of a coincidence," said Joe Slovik, the director of threat research at Houston, a risk-selling one of the "cybercrutcher groups." "There was a shift, like, 1%, we have been opened," an something that prompted regular users.

Data and Russia, which have generally had more legibility and of cyberspecimens, have for years carried out large-scale espionage campaigns against the United States and powercrafts since the America's most sensitive infrastructure, this Iran's hackers are widely seen as less predictable.

Whether the goal of the water attacks has been to the Americans or merely scare them remains unclear.

"The campaign did a lot like pervasive, ringing, not the attack itself," said Joshua Carman, a critical infrastructure professor, suggested, said. "There is still a number for Security and Technology, a California-based think tank. The level of action is consistent by significantly more harm than has been seen."

Ernesto Luebiele contributed reporting from R. Paul, Minn.

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In Michigan, a litmus test for progressives

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Abdul El-Sayed prevailed in a Democratic primary. Can he win in November?

BY LISA LIEBER

For months, the Democratic establishment had issued increasingly dire warnings that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Michigan forbearest who had never won an election, would struggle to win a renegotiate Senate seat that the party could not afford to lose.

The start of previest, members of Congress and attorney general have up behind his primary opponent, Representative Haley Stevens, a control from a swing district. They argued that she could win the kind of tough races that are a hallmark of this battleground state, where voters have voice voted for Donald J. Trump and twice voted for Ronald Reagan.

On Tuesday, a slim plurality of Democratic primary voters disagreed, feeling with their hearts on a candidate whose favorite progressive message has thrilled a coalition of stooges and college-educated liberals.

Now, as Dr. El-Sayed heads into the general election, his candidate will post-perhaps the most cosmopolitan challenge for the party's accorded progressive wing. Can an insurgent candidate, with unabandling left-wing positions, win in a moderate state?

Dr. El-Sayed will offer the first general election test of the competing favoured shreddishly that have been defeated among Democratic the nearly a decade. Since Senator Beirut Rankin's co-pleated onto the national stage in 2016, progressives have argued that the party's path to victory runs through a popular economic agenda that can attract a coalition of working-class voters. Criticism have pushed back, saying such proposals alienate the moderate voters the party must vote in win back at six where it has lost ground in recent years.

The narrow results hinted at the tough race ahead in November, when Dr. El-Sayed will face former Representative Mike Rogers, the politician who left Congress in 2015. Dr. El-Sayed enters the general election without a strong mandate from Democrats, after more than half of primary voters cast ballots for other candidates. He performed best in wealthier, younger areas of the state, while Ms. Stevens did better in general with greater numbers of black and working-class voters.

The close election undercoured the divide between a lead, entire liberal movement, which disappeared Dr. El-Sayed, and many of the voters who are the headlines of the party in battleground states.

"In a speech to supporters early on Wednesday morning, hours before the race was called to his lives, Dr. El-Sayed attempted to frame his candidacy as bigger than traditional particular divides. And he declared that he could get a procrastal no outright of attacks funded by outside organizations supporting Ms. Stevens.

"We are a state in need of a movement to take our politics back," he said, speaking at his campaign headquarters in Decatur. "When we come through this, in-

"Now is an opportunity to chart a new path forward. Check Democratic voters are on board with that new vision."

shallah, we'll have taken 70 million on the class and kept fighting back!

"I'm rather stoned for Second Michigan. Democrats must hold the state to have any chance of winning back control of the U.S. Senate. With Republicans holding 53 seats, Democrats must flip four Republican-held seats and keep all their votes with the majority. Michigan is the Democratic-held seat most at risk of going Republican.

At first glance, Dr. El-Sayed -- a politically inexperienced, weight lifting, former public health official, who would be the first Muslim elected to the Senate -- appeared on unlikely standard-beaten for the party. But he lagged into a sense of frustration in the primary electorate.

A charismatic campaigner, he fueled his candidacy with promises to lower costs, provide universal health care and has corporate money in politics. Fluent in social media, he crafted a platform centered on taking billionaires, opposition to Israel and Medicare for all.

He also embraced people and positions that strategists say carry political peril in a moderate state like Michigan.

Dr. El-Sayed has campaigned with House Pilots. Ms. Marcus Aronow, the critics say has ranked anti-nation sentiment -- a charge he deems. Throughout his campaign, Dr. El-Sayed has called heart's government "evil" and its actions to 'class a "grenoble." And he supports abolishing foreignization and Customs Enforcement.

"The risks with him are very obvious that he brings to the table problems that are just alternatives with a general electorate," said Liz Smith, a veteran Democratic campaign who not held for Mallory McMorrow, a more moderate Michigan Senate primary candidate who dropped out before Election Day. "That being said, he does content a little bit more emotionally with the moment. He can persuade the anger that people across the political spectrum feel."

Many in the party's liberal wing are looking beyond November, it victory by Dr. El-Sayed would fast their candidates in the 2020 presidential race, providing evidence that progressive candidates can win not only in solidly Democratic

areas but also across the United States. In 2020, Michigan will be among the first states to vote in the party's presidential primaries.

"Now is an opportunity to chart a new path forward," said Uusnald Andrida, a spokesman for Justice Democrats, a progressive group. "Clearly Democratic voters are on board with that new vision."

But first, Dr. El-Sayed must win a tough race in November.

No Republican has won a U.S. Senate race in Michigan in ever three decades, But Mr. Rogers has come closer. Two years ago, he lost to Senator Elene Slatkin by a razor-thin margin.

Even before the race was called on

Wednesday morning, the Senate Republican began showcasing their attacks, releasing a video ad calling Dr. El-Sayed. "the most radical candidate in America," The open highlights his refusal to discover a remark from Mr. Pilate that "America deserved它!" -- a comment Mr. Pilate has since called 'inappropriate.'

Republicans will have plenty of money to make their case.

In April, the Senate Leadership Fund, the Senate Republican' state super PAC, pledged to spend $45 million supporting Mr. Rogers. An largest commitment for a seat out occupied by a Republican. Another conservative group, funded in part by the DeVito family, a

conservative family that has invested hundreds of millions in right-wing causes, announced a $15 million commitment to Mr. Rogers.

Still, Republicans acknowledge their own challenges in running against Dr. El-Sayed.

"He really does have a true movement and a momentum," said Beatus McElrath, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, who is involved with conservative organizing in the state. "Republicans can't just sit back and say, 'Oh, he's a socialist.' We have to define who he is and what this actually means."

Mr. Rogers will also have to mirror a difficult national political environment for Republicans. Mr. Trump's approval cutting required an all-time low this week, fueled by an unpopular war in Iran, high-gas prices and economic anxiety.

And Jeff Tanner, a former executive director of the Republican Party, argued that Mr. Rogers does not have the strong support among the MACE movement to overcome such a political drag.

"Mike Rogers doesn't engender any enthusiasm among the die-hard party faithful," said Mr. Tanner, who is now an independent. "He's not the kind of candidate that anyone in the Republican Party is going to count across besides glass to make sure they get across the hardi-bus."

Dr. El-Sayed has also shown an ability to survive a barrage of attacks. He runs against Ms. Stevens was the most ex-precious Democratic Senate primary in U.S. history, with spending raging $80 million. More than $20 million was spent in an effort after the 2020 in the super PAC, one of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the United States' most influential pro-bond group.

All told, Ms. Stevens had about a 6-to-1 spending advantage over Dr. El-Sayed, according to data from the media tracking first aiding.

The Democratic candidate's trade-in-crossingly many banks in the run-up in the primary vote. Ms. Stevens and her supporters accused Dr. El-Sayed of being vain, scout, anti-nation and encouraging "diminish" anti-American sentiment." Dr. El-Sayed and his supporters said she was a popular of ADFAC and unqualified, smoking her voice and appearance.

To win in November, Dr. El-Sayed must be a hard-turned first ever voters and build a coalition that includes the moderate and independent voters who supported Ms. Stevens.

The after-tax credit Democrats around the state have a very high heart of Wednesday, even before his victory was certain.

"Tomorrow we begin to stand hours," he said in his speech. "Whatever happens tonight, we have a responsibility to ensure that we sales to make sure that Mike Rogers never sees the inside of the U.S. Senate.

Some of that work will depend on whether Dr. El-Sayed, saw the Democratic nominee, can embrace a party he has often attacked.

Ms. Smith said his supporters to highlight the ways Democrats have failed helped hard to protect that But now, she said, he must give."

"Sometimes he shows a little more joy in fighting Democrats than Republicans," she said, "not hopefully that shifts in the general election."

Ousted in recall vote, officials in California city won't leave

AVENAL, CALIF.

Refusal to rede power causes a number of legal and political questions

BY LIVIA ALBECI RIPRA

Earlier this year, the voters of Avnatal, a community in California's rural Central Valley, outred their mayor and all but one member of the city of Council.

Leaders of the recall contended the effort as democracy, for instance.

The message: Get out.

But more than three months after the election, the recalled officials still won't leave, claiming the powers was unlawful. At a meeting in June, they made it official, voting 3 to 5 to ignore the results.

The election was the power -- highly unusual even in an era of election denialism in the United States -- raises a hard of legal and political questions and has triggered one of the constant recall of the election. It is not necessary.

Toots balls have devolved into იძულeling breaches. Residents have an active number of operating thousands and residents. A 2-percented review, and if not only charged jobs. In the former all businesses turned out great forming community, one recall suggests one of the most common issues, one emigrated from Tijuana as a teenager. It be needed something translated into Spain.

Avnatal now finds itself at the unlikely states: of a debate that has plagued federal, state and local races across the United States. What happens when the election refuse to follow democratic norms?

Some experts said the situation was a microwave of a growing distrust of the elections process, famous by President

Shaun Preciakis, the mayor of Avnatal, LGR, celebrating after watching a World Cap game in June. He has refused to return the seat after he was moved to a recall election.

Trump's refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential race.

"It's very concerning to me that we have a situation in our nation where a we don't like that then results, we say it's rigged," said Cathy Darling Allen, a retired member of the state's board of the board of the nonpartisan California Vice-Foundation.

"That behavior is being modelled," Ms. Allen added, "at the highest levels in our nation, we are not alone."

Recalled officials are required by state law to leave office right after voters are invited to the Avnatal, because of the three Council votes were required at nocthanes only. Some positions would or difficulty have been filled by a special election.

But the recalled mayor, Shaun Preciakis -- who also is a member of the Council -- maintains that the county was not authorized to run the election in the first place.

"I am not refusing to stop down, I am just visiting for the due powers to be completed," Ms Preciakis said, enforcing its ongoing legal proceedings between the recall supporters, county and second officials.

Avnatal sits roughly halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, tucked into the hills that many Californians see as a blur as they zip along Interstate 5. The city, with less than 10,000 people, has a landfill and a large mass private whose inmates make up just over a quarter of the population, a majority of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino. The city is the smallest of four in Kings County, a part of California known for its dairy, peiraction and attachment to the states quo.

In a couple of blocks with churches, inspectors and variety stores, some一些 doors said they leave little of the recall dispute or had chosen to remain out of it. One said she was unable to vote in the

recall election because of her legal status. Another said he resorted that it had become the first thing some people brought up when you walked into a room.

"People don't even say, 'How are you doing?'" said Carlos Perez, Sr. who was a restaurant on the main street that is also the community's only has. "First thing in 'Us,' what do you think?" he added, "What aids are you on?"

The city's main began more than a year ago, set off by a controversy over the local fire department. Rather than rely on Kings County, city leaders, they would set up their own, whatever is a service. Residents of the isolated community punished. Some accused city officials of making the decision behind closed doors.

Other grievances had also been accumulating, Dalia Barajas, Sr., a longtime resident, was also led up by what she called a lack of management, accused local, and respect for the community.

"I'd like, 'OK, the only way that this is going to get food is if we start a recall, the task.'"

Ms. Barajas, a former county employer, posed with two other women. Versus in Loma, 36, who works for an environmental justice organization and has a role the city's large landfill, which is the community, and Ginger Wallis, Sr., whose family has lived in Avnatal for generations and has close ties to the county fire department.

Ms. Palas and Ms. Barajas, who do not often herself as a fourth-generation Mexican American, also representatives from that City Council members were pushing aside the city's historical traditions to cater to the immigrant community.

They said they were disappointed that an annual celebration of the city's origin, known as Old Timers Day, now featured Spanish mums and Lucha 1a low wrestling.

"Pretty soon the actual roots of Avn

atal are going to be gone," Ms. Barajas said.

The women organized and rallied, and Ms. Barajas and Ms. Wallis knocked on the doors of more than 1,500 homes, collecting 400 signatures -- 120 more than they needed -- to trigger the recall.

In April, more than 70 percent of voters supported recalling the mayor, Mr. Preciakis, and three other Council members, Lachia Ginters, David Reynolds and Pablo Hernandez. (The women quoted the only other Council member, Ricardo Nodosa, because they said they're 'low as an ally.)

But at City Hall, a cramped building where residents still pay bills in person, business continued to proceed largely at small.

"I said, 'Well, something is not right, something was done illegal,'" said Mr. Preciakis. It's less business as selected official in Avnatal for 18 years.

'It's very concerning to me that we have a situation in our nation where if we don't like election results, we say it's rigged.'

He said he believed recall organizers had related residents about what they were voting for, and obtained signatures from people who no longer lived in the city. He said he also did not trust the county to verify the signatures.

Both the county and recall organizers maintain that the election was conducted in accordance with state law.

The city's main was the council members. Ms. Hernandez, 37, said he was saddened to be recalled after eight years of service.

"It's part of my life -- how could I?" said Mr. Hernandez, who on a better evening in late June was at the local movie theater leading a crowd of Luteils, the Mexican card game. "Maybe that's a legal thing," he added, "but

my heart doesn't understand that."

Some of the mental leaders and their supporters have accused recall proponents of being outhadowed by the Trump administration to lead a partisan, notably morn-paid campaign, all of the voters are in the city.

Recall organizers said they never discussed their party affiliations with one another, since they were focused on local issues, and they reported the idea that the campaign was to pay way to stably motivated.

City Hall, their mayor, said Ms. Leno, the recall organizer who worked on environmental justice group. "I'm the point of the cause that we have a situation in our nation."

The conflict may take months to resolve.

The California attorney general has granted the recall organizers permission to sue the actual officials in a government lawsuit, a rarely used legal remedy and the state's law that includes from office. That case is still making its way through the courts.

The county, the district attorney's office for King of County has agreed to extend its voting process to the city. Half as well as on the issues of the recalled officials and the city manager. It has also been issued that the state officials stop spending taxpayers' money.

Both Ms. Barajas and Ms. Wallis are now running for City Council.

In early July, Ms. Verdugo, the only United States state who was recalled, held a special meeting at an elementary school cafeteria to appease himself the local council.

Without a quorum, the declaration was adopted, but Mr. Verdugo said he did not see it as an issue.

"The other three were illegitimate for single days," Mr. Verdugo told news outlets in the time, in reference to recent City Hall meetings held by the natural officials.

"So, what's the difference?" he said.

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BY EMILY STEEL

A 24-year-old woman bagged onto a videoconference from her bedroom in Florida on a Friday morning in April last year to face a deposition in her lawsuit against Chen.

Her driver had already pleaded guilty in criminal court to saying her vaginally, anally and anally while she was unconcerned during a ride in Tampa one night in 2021. He was in prison, serving a 20-year sentence.

The woman, identified as Jane Doe in court documents, was using Chen in civil court for negligence, arguing that she company should have done more to screen and supervise the driver, a man with prior violent felony convictions.

Publicly, Chen proclaims itself to be a company devoted to handling sexual violence in a “narrow-centric” and “tropical-attentive” way, supporting survivors and treating them with dignity. After years of holding reports of sexual misconduct, the company developed international values for drivers that stated, “Sexual violence is never the narrow’s fault.”

But in court filings, Uber argued that Ms. Doe had “conducted herself in a negligent and common manner” and “constituted in causing her own injuries” And it was that said violence is pain and suffering were “ascertained to the at-issue accident”.

The retiring for deposition, Uber’s lawyer Taylor Silverberg moved in on Ms. Doe’s behavior on the night she was raped. Ms. Silverberg asked Ms. Doe to early how much Chen really she had done. She said, “The negligence of a natural-able had taken and whether she had ‘hit-sugar’ about mixing the two. And she asked Ms. Doe what she had been wearing. ‘Can you describe the dress?’ Ms. Silverberg said, ‘How you wearing heels or heels or flats?’”

Ms. Silverberg also probed Ms. Doe’s childhood, asking if she had felt abandoned by her father or degraded by her mother. She pushed Ms. Doe to details about consensual sex and asked whether she had previously been sexually abused or had had sex in exchange for money. That is when her lawyer ended the deposition.

“I am not anywhere near done,” Ms. Silverberg said. “It’s her lawsuit, and I have no obligation to defend my client in the best of my ability,” she added.

Later, she offered an apology: “Know that she’s not you, Ms. Doe. I am sorry. I really am. But . . .”

“I’m grateful it is ending,” Ms. Doe said, interrupting. “This kills me,” she added.

Uber’s approach to Ms. Uber’s case is part of its strategy as it battles thousands of lawsuits from passengers accusing the company of failing to protect them from sexual violence during rides, according to thousands of pages of court records, including deposition and trial transcripts.

More than a 600 lawsuits have been filed, so many that thousands were combined in streamline procedural matters. Most remain in the early stages. The New York Times reviewed documents from the three cases that reached trial and about a dozen others that have advanced to the stage where the parties start evaluating documents and confusing depositions.

The litigation has revealed a clear pattern. Uber’s lawyers rouse women’s private communication, media of records, therapy notes and other sources for executive details, including other sexual assaults, childhood abuse and domestic violence. They grill the women about these issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.

In one case, Uber petitioned a judge to force a woman to turn over details about sexual abuse she experienced as a child by a family member and family friend. In another, Uber compelled a liaison to undergo a psychiatric exam to investigate other sexual assaults she had in-period. And in another, a lawyer said Uber asked a woman whether she had been wearing underwear on the night in question and if she had become “extra sexually active” after the Uber incident.

At trial, the company was not a real fight on the women, their choices and their credibility. Uber’s lawyers have argued that the women’s past-creature or use of drugs or alcohol could harm one’s futile narratives. They have suggested that the women connected to the encounters, or that they never happened. And they have asserted that even if an assault occurred, something else was the true cause of her pain.

Uber’s strategy coincides its own stance on a champion of the fight against sexual violence and reflects the business calculations of a 1k01 billion publicly traded company facing an avalanche of litigation. Uber has long said it issues all survivors with respect and respect to the case. The company has struck partnerships with leading and sexual assault groups, and it has been a major one-time hittrition to organizations fighting gender-based violence.

And a training guide for Uber’s customer service agents who handled injuries and their own health problems in “mongolese and interplay victim blaming attitudes,” stating that people rarely be used sexual assault and that actions do not provide attacks by what they do or how much they are in, or so, so doing is a copy.

“If he has the to say that our adversaries are in a company, he particularly tough for survivors,” Uber’s chief legal officer, Tony West, said in a statement.

“I’ve made clear to my legal team that they must always take survivors with

How Uber fights sexual assault suits

The company has deployed an aggressive courtroom strategy

“I’m grateful it is ending. This kills me.”

A woman in Florida identified as Jane Doe, during her deposition in a anal against Uber for negligence. Her driver had already pleaded guilty to raping her

respect, companion, courtesy and dignity, and that’s exactly what I’m sure there do,” he added. “Defending the company is a lawsuit and treating survivors with humanity are not mutually exclusive; we must do both.” Ms. West declined to be inter-versus.

Katie Waldman, Uber’s chief deputy general counsel, said in a statement that Uber had a “right and responsibility” to defend itself against lawsuits, which vary in severity and validity and included about 30 cases dismissed for fraud.

In multiple statements, lawyers for Uber said their questions about women’s past remains as well as what they were wearing, drinking or how they acted had been intended to gather and evaluate specific facts – use in future, shame or suggest that they had done anything wrong. Ms. Silverberg acted “with skilled, ethical and professional representation consistent with the law,” said her law firm, Bowman and Brooke.

The Times previously found that Uber received a report of sexual violence in the United States almost every eight minutes, on average, from 2016 to 2024, a rate for higher than what the company had disclosed. Uber maintains that a case majority of rides in 2024, with 95.9 percent occurring without any incident.

Legal and sexual violence experts said Uber’s tactics go beyond simple bar-gathering and force the women to retire not only the incident, it spends but also the most painful moments of their lives. This is likely to no momentize the women, they said, and intimidate many into settling their classes, or not suing the company in it.

The approach also has “a deep irony at its core,” because the company has long marketed itself as one of the most ways to get around – especially after a night out, said New Freeman Erogstrom, a legal ethics professor at Stanford Law School in California.

“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly rough, 75 a woman drunk, 4 she rode down, 45 was late, if her memory is>Crazy Man, then maybe she is in Mania,” Ms. Erogstrom said. “But these are precisely the circumstances when Uber has volunteers in service was supposed to protect them.”

For decades, defense lawyers routinely questioned sexual assault accounts about their sex lives, mental health and sexual consumption in interactions there as promiscuous and unstable. This started to change in the 1970s, as men and federal lawmakers began passing rape chiefs laws that restricted sexual abuse and an account’s sexual history at trial.

The lawsuits against Uber are civil disputes, seeking to hold the company accountable for corporate safety issues. While some involve drivers who were criminally convicted, many do not. ORRE PAGE 8

Dying US tax in tiny Malta offices

VALLETTA, MALTA

Complex strategies help Cross and other companies exploit a near-zero rate

BY JOHN DRUCKER AND STU are HIGHLAND

Take the stairs to the second floor of an old balcony on the Mediterranean area. The first floor is a small room and in to a tiny office hidden behind a luxury rental door.

The air erupts at hops, but this place isn’t just knowing how? Or the head-appointment is a big business strategy that the world’s biggest corporations use to dodge millions of dollars in U.S. income taxes.

Consider Cross. One of the world’s most profitable shareholders with its expansion (hustly chgs) to 150 million customers across 100 countries announces a return on its assets from the Brownfield, Colo., company has claimed that all its global profits were actually earned in this two-person office.

Welcome to Malta. The triumphantry of its company is a name of the two-quarter water besides and a raging nightclub scene. It is also the world’s hot new corporate tax haven.

“The family proponents tax has been a good thing,” said Philip Lantana Jorla, a tax law professor at the University of Florence. “More given way to something for simple.” Malta.

The accounting force KPNG, PwC, Lantana and EO are aggressively marketing the strategies that Cross and other companies are using to push profit to a Midwest sales with good offices and no employees. A KPNG presentation reviewed by The New York Times laid out a byzantine arrangement for prospective clients to think their tax revenue is changing U.S. and Maltese rules.

“The cheersegregators are the Big PwC,” said Michael Rhamisolo, a Christian lawyer at KPNG and EO. “They seek out the opportunity to exploit the tax system.”

Cross, DeSette and EO didn’t respond to requests for contracts. KPNG and PwC didn’t answer questions about their Malta tax businesses.

Accounting firms prevent the Maltese manoeuvre as legal business transactions. But the lack of a business purpose beyond dodging taxes could make them vulnerable to legal challenges by the historical Revenue Service. The agency is increasingly attaching strategies that it may lack “economic sufficiency.” Companies work hard to manufacture the appearance of a rationale beyond tax avoidance, Mr. Rhamisolo said.

THE SMILE WAY?

Malta has refused its appeal as a tax ban on own decades. In an interview in his office at the PwC, the companies, overlooking a further filled with yachts, John Halls, a former finance minister for the National Bank of America in draft legislation to help the country companies with offshore hubs like Bermuda and Grand Cayman. In the centre of Valletta, building after building heart-pleases for the low and financial firms that open the nearly endless shelf companies claiming the island as their headquarters.

PwC presented a strategy called a “double Malia” on for back as 2006, and the government is not single again, compared with typical corporate income tax rates near 20 percent. After the 20th, the tax was so called double for that on another that made it easy to push profits into several locales, companies like LinkedIn and Abbott Laboratories discovered they could replicate the benefits by shifting part of these structures to Malta. The strategy became known as the single mall.

The company has been standing over the rest of Europe. For years its “golden prospect” debase and A.U.U. township for an mark as 750,000 euros, about $800,000 at today’s convention rate, attracting Russian bioprecists and prompting criminal allegations that the chief of staff in Malta’s prime minister had demanded kickbacks. The European Union sued Malta, and last year the European court of Justice declared the proposal unlawful.

The lack of offshore law firm records leaves as the Panama Paper Island Maltese politicians to companies enabling tax evasion and money laundering. In 2017, a remote-controlled car bomb killed the investigation journalist Sophie Carinata Vallitta after she exposed these connections.

After Malta said in 2021 that it would delay joining an international tax crackdown for six years, American companies including Christian Swart, Black-Brexit and PepsiCo Banked in the island, setting up hundreds of shelf companies to exploit its near-zero tax rate. The number of Maltese subsidiaries established by U.S. companies has stared, up nearly 70 percent over the past three years, according to U.S. securities findings and Maltese corporate records.

The Trump administration (or, beckergard Malick) tax appeal. On his first day back in office, President Trump withdrew the United States from the universal and office record as a 50 percent global minimum corporate tax. This past January, the United States completed an agreement with the Constitution for Economic Cooperation and Development largely exempting American companies from the past. With more than 150 countries signed on to enforcing a minimum tax, Malick tax laws became particularly attractive.

LIGHTS OUT

We created trip to Malta, a reporter for this article related a building listed as the headquarters for the Malta units of a view of U.S. companies. When hazard to sale, he found nothing but empty offices with the lights off. With mounted name-plants announced the presence of dozens of companies claiming the remote building as their Malta headquarters, including Marsters, Werenchy Technology and Thermo Fisher.

Officially, Malta invests 20 percent corporate tax, but firms can drive that turn to nearly zero. Accounting firms supply a $500 per annum to cover at board members for the shelf companies, while colleagues at the same firms audit the entities’ financial statements.

The lack of a business purpose for their Maltese manoeuvre could make companies vulnerable to legal challenges.

A presentation titled “Malia: A Legitimate, Tax Competitive & C. Jurisdiction,” by a Maltese firm called Axumom, detailed criteria for a shell company to pass master resident Maltese directors, a head office on the island and a local bank account.

KPNG recently wrote a blueprint to bypass the 10 percent global minimum corporate tax: a U.S. parent company establishes a financing entity in Malta, which opens a U.S. branch.

Countries following G.E.C.E. guidelines could impose a “top-up tax” to achieve the global 10 percent minimum, but the KPNG strategy exploits a loophole: it generally allocates the Malta earnings to a U.S. branch, blending them with the higher-taxed profits of the broader U.S. company effectively baling the low-taxed Maltese profits.

“Malick tax rules are well understood,” a KPNG spokesman said. The interaction between different countries rules and the new minimum tax “creates complexity and uncertainty for multinationals, which must navigate an evolving environment.”

Cross has put more of its tax-strategy eggs into the Maltese basket.

After Cross in 2022 purchased they, Dodo, another observator, it created a new unit in Malta to explore profit from its newly acquired worldwide trademarks and patents worth more than $1 billion.

Last year, Cross established a U.S. branch of one of its Malta units. That put Cross in position to take advantage of the KPNG strategy of doing low-tax profits.

By charging interest on loans among its own subsidiaries, Cross shifts profits out of higher-tax countries where it actually sells often and into Malta. The arrangement reduced its 2021 tax bill by $218.6 million, Maltese filings show.

Valletta, Zarnoli and Julian Bowen contributed reporting.

Malta has refused its appeal over decades to compete with offshore hubs like Bermuda.

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BUSINESS

Uber's strategy for fighting sexual assault lawsuits

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Criminal cases require prosecutors to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, which can be difficult with sexual assault cases when defendants argue that the resolution was commensal. The standard of proof is civil court is lower, requiring that juries find that the plaintiff's claim is more likely true than us.

Most of the women using Uber are seeking compensation for past and out-laying, which means that a key legal question is how much the incident caused their distress compared with other events in their lives. In the Uber suits, it has opened the door to an expansive investigation into past trauma, including sexual assault.

"TURNING THE LADIES ON"

When Mr. West joined Uber as chief legal officer in 2017, the company was plagued by scandal, including he how it dealt with sexual violence. One case involving a rape by a driver in India made global headlines after revelations that executives had obtained and maintained the victim's medical records, thinking the assault may have been a conspiracy but held by a rival.

Mr. West, a former Justice Department official and brother-in-law of Kamala Harris, passed himself as a champion of women who had fought sex crimes as a federal prosecutor and worked on legislative aimed at protecting women from violence.

The same month that Mr. West started at Uber, two passengers sued the company, claiming they were raped by a man who was tried to force the claims into arbitration.

Several men women joined the suit, and in April 2018, they wrote an open-knit, pleading that the company allow the woman to be raped.

The next month, in a long post titled "Hunting the Lights On," Mr. West said Uber would no longer require arbitration for individual sexual assault or misconduct claims.

"We always want to try to resolve them. Some claims in a way that it best be true for the people who talk." (Ed. This Morning) In 2018, "If you can't do that then we want to make sure that we try to litigate these as fairly as possible," he added.

The years, Uber settled sexual assault lawsuits long before vital. Some executives worked that the company could be perceived as attacking victims if it

Jaylyne Dean testified that an Uber driver raped her during a ride in November 2023. Uber's lawyers examined her history of sexual assault. A jury awarded her $6.2 million.

bought lawsuits in court, according to three people briefed on the commission, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

But it came because clear that the move to and forced arbitration had unleashed a wave of lawsuits. Litigation costs mounted as cases increased, the people said. That unleashed with a collapse of revenues during the pandemic.

Personal discussions shifted. Uber could save millions of dollars if it fought back, the people said. The company did not respond to questions about when or how the strategy changed.

SELF, DRUGS AND TRADING

Uber's defense talks into your long before a case goes to trial. The company uses the discovery process to delve into

the plaintiff's most painful moments. Uber has sought documents about past sexual assault, medical records about diagnoses in the few years before the incident, as well as anything that has failed instances of depression, anxiety or trauma. It also has asked for social media communications related to the women's mental or emotional state.

In one case, Uber created through years of a woman's gynecological records, psychiatric intake forms, therapy notes and other documents, finding references to her birth control, heavy menstrual periods and lower movements — as well as to childhood abuse, concussions, suicide attempts and other sexual assaults.

Depositions allow the company to investigate these issues further.

"When Uber had been a case, the fabiancy members that we spoke about earlier, was there any other traumatic event that happened to you as high school?" a lawyer for Uber asked one woman.

"When you say you ended up with a black eye — and I'm sorry, this is unfortunately questions I have to ask — are you saying," a lawyer for Uber asked one woman about her spouse, that he "let you in the eye?"

Uber also had deposed the women's friends, parents, spouses, men and therapists, according to transcripts reviewed by The Times. During years of these depositions, Uber's lawyers have revealed sensitive information. In one, a woman's father, from whom she was in a trumpet, learned that she had been sexually abused as a child and had had an abortion, her lawyer said in court things.

"What discovery is these cases on talk is trivial for someone who is even temptating coming forward, especially against a defendant with numerous and lawyers who will comb through every-

Tony West, who became Uber's chief legal officer in 2017. "If he the first to say that sex adversarial legal system can be particularly tough for survivors," he said in a statement.

thing, ask for everything," said Deborah Tarchikiewa, a law professor at Northwesterly University in Illinois who became an sexual violence.

Mr. Waiseman, Uber's chief deputy general counsel, said that it was "stand-out practice" to dig into pre-institute trauma. "When plaintiffs claim damages for emotional injuries, and assign 30 percent of those injuries to the Uber-related incident despite evidence to the contrary, we have to pursue that fear of injury, albeit reluctantly," she said.

ON TRIAL

Uber tested out its defense in front of jurors during the first three sexual assault lawsuits that went to trial. In all three, Uber sought to include evidence about other sexual assaults: the women had reported, Judges limited how much could be discussed, to varying degrees.

The first, in California law September, involved a woman identified as Jessica C. who resulted the during a ride in 2016 her driver placed her down, kissed her, groped her and tried to take off her pistol.

All Brown, a lawyer representing Uber, got a spotlight on Jessica's choices, including the fact that she did not report the incident to Uber at the time. Ms. Brown also excavated painful moments from Jessica's past, detailing childhood abuse, suicide attempts and other trauma.

"Having a history of trauma like that can affect the way you perceive the world," Ms. Brown told jurors about closing arguments, citing testimony from Jessica's psychiatrist.

The second trial started in Arizona in January. Jaylyne Dean testified that her driver raped her during a ride in November 2023, while she was "dozing in and out-of-consciousness."

Kim Bueno, another lawyer repre-

senting Uber, called attention to the driver's side of the story telling the jury that "to his heart" he believed that the encounter had been commensal. "He said she was wanting to do it and was encouraging this situation," she said.

Ms. Bueno challenged Ms. Dean's claims that she had been too intoxicated to consent to sex, arguing that Ms. Dean appeared "hard" in video footage shortly after the ride. In graphic detail, she were thought Ms. Dean's history of sexual assault and other traumas.

In the third trial, in North Carolina in April, Brianna, Blessing, testified that

her Uber driver grabbed her upper, inner thigh and asked if he could "keep it with him" during a ride in March 2019.

"Here's horror, Ms. Brown, described the allegation as a brief big check and said the driver denied it, Ms. Brown discussed an Ms. Blessing's history of substance abuse, saying the ride had occurred "during the height of her drug addiction."

Uber was the first case but test the next two, all are being appealed. After both defeats, a company spokesman said the plaintiff won for less money than she could have. The jury awarded Ms. Dean $6.2 million, for example. She had been seeking 2144 million.

In an interview, Ms. Dean said that she was proud to have held Uber to accrual but that its courtroom tactics had added trauma — beyond the pain of driving the Uber market.

"I knew two million away from the actual assault and no is my chance," she said. "It just made me feel like coming forward was a mistake."

Uber recently agreed to settle hundreds of lawsuits, including some nearing trial.

With others, it continues to light — even as cases where drivers have been criminally convicted.

A woman in New Orleans that Uber was negligent after a driver forced her to perform out sex while driving down the highway in a criminal trial, a just found the driver guilty, sentencing him to U years in prison. The conviction was affirmed on appeal.

The woman's lawsuit is scheduled for trial in October. Uber has referred to the assault as an "aligned incident" in court documents. During a hearing in June, a judge asked Uber's lawyers whether the company would control that the sexual assault happened.

"We certainly don't know enough at this stage," suspended Geoffrey Wyatt, a Kirkland & Ellis partner representing Uber.

"Having a criminal trial transcript in a nice start to understanding the factual allegations in the case," he added. "That's all it is. It's just a start."

Driana Nyuss concluded research.

When friends, family and therapists are deposed

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Q: And in the years that you and your wife were either dating or married, has your wife ever been unfaithful?

Q: Had you known Ms. Doe to invite strangers up to her apartment when she was driving?

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Q: Has Ms. Doe ever told you about instances in which she was physically beaten?

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How Uber's lawyers question women about their outfits

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Q: Do you know if you had the bikini on at that time?

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Q: And what were you wearing?

A: Um, the planned outfit was joggers.

But I don't remember the top. I do remember the smokers because the juices took them away, and I really liked them.

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Q: Do you remember if you were wearing underwear?

Trump seeks reprieve for hemp that would benefit aide's family

WASHINGTON

Industry campaign to delay ban was led in part by his chief of staff's non-in-law

BY KENNETH P. VIGEL,

CHRISTINE LEVITT

AND OLIVIA ISGA

The White House is lobbying Congress for a reprieve from state's government that may on permit broadcasting hemp products, working a delay whose beneficiaries would include the non-in-law of Issue When, President Trump's chief of staff.

Under pressure from the administration, senators lacked the delay into a stoppage spending measure they are working in the state's state and other to head off a government shutdown at the end of September.

The campaign was not based off an internal fight in Congress, with some senators holding it for issue of telling how restrictions meant to address a public health risk, and could derail an agency's decision to make it a new one. The bill has its inclusion in the bill reflects the existence of a hemp industry's influence campaign to avoid new regulations.

That campaign was held in part by the Senate. The House's legislature, the local legislator daughter, Carolina, in June at the Trump-Wisney in Charlestonville, Va. He is working in the state of companies that distribute and sell transactions hemp, attorney-guarantee and the public health care like "Trainer.net" and "Workersy Cookies".

Philip Mc Trump then set child or smoke, his administration's advocacy for introducing hemp in its law with permission stances it has adopted toward other senators and wellness trends.

The approach has raised concern among public health experts and is a departure from the part of the article.

But it seems to adherence of the MideAmerica, Healthy Again, or MAMA, movement, a political and political issue. The Trump's team has covered. The administration has taken steps that could pave the way for products with documented health risks, including peptides, humans and furrows.

The billionaire financier Howard Kessler, a business survivor who is friendly with Mr. Trump and has urged support for someone as a pain treatment, was also involved in the push to delay the hemp blasts. His allies worked with the White House on the language sent to Congress, according to two people familiar with the situation who requested anonymity to describe private conversations.

Rank Desai, a White House spokesman, suggested as a statement that Mr. Worley and the influence campaign had had nothing to do with Mr. Trump's stance. The White House's support for hemp was consistent with Mr. Trump's move but year to year restrictions as cannabis, he said, and was in "the best interest of the American people" and it needed to help veterans and patients.

But Kevin Suter, who worked on drug policy under Republican and Democratic presidents, said in a voice memo in The New York Times that the White House's support for hemp that restrictions was an example of a "pay-to-play drug policy" in which decisions "are a result of lobbying, not criticizing, etc."

Introducing hemp, which is how regulated than marijuana and alcohol, has gained popularity in recent years as a pain reliever and an alternative to other senators. The "whole hemp" is mentioned referred to as "worship," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned of potential adverse effects, including difficulty breathing and coma.

The restrictions in question, which are set to take effect on Nov. 12, would target intoxicating hemp products containing threshold amounts of $1.0 L, the main psychoactive compound, is cannabis. That would effectively reduce a multibillion-dollar industry of beverages, groceries, cookies and vapor that are sold to gas stations, vapor that are convenience stores that are not regulated like cannabis dispensaries.

The spending bill moving through the Senate would delay the effective start of the future such products and Dec. 13, it would allow a ban to go into effect at a scheduled early epidemic? D.F., products that are not derived from any part of the hemp plant.

The White House includes the delay among a cult of spending requests it sent to Capitol Hill to have an behalf of the president, calling it a way to "retain the law treatment of hemp products."

Ms. Wiley stated Capitol Hill has work to push Congress to act on Mr. Trump's agenda, including passage of a

stoppage government spending bill.

Mr. Desai, the White House spokesman, said Ms. Wiley did not specifically recommend reintroducing hemp or the ban and "ban never before it's been without any other products in hemp with the bill."

But when senators announced a 16-percent spending agreement on Sunday that would keep the government funded through Nov. 13, the delay is creating restrictions on intoxicating hemp products was one of the few extraneous issues included.

Mr. Worley, 20, whose companion-up rean from Texas and Colorado, did not respond to a request for comment. But the industry celebrated the provision of the delay in an enhancement legislation.

In an email on Sunday to prospective buyers, Mr. Tournandrakh, one of the Worley's key players, featured that the hemp industry now had "a seat at the club" and would push to achieve permanent approval for its products by seeking language to the farm bill or another

spending bills. "Industries that get inside that machinery get renewed," the email read.

Still, the fate of the hemp provision remains uncanny.

The cannabis industry, which has spent heavily to cultivate Mr. Trump, views intoxicating hemp products as a threat and opposes the delay. In an some added producers and lawmakers in both parties.

Senator Ted Rudd, Republican of North Carolina, announced an social media campaign that he intended to introduce an amendment to strip the provision. He said it a statement that he had "made it clear to the White House and my colleagues in the Senate that any action was likely" for restriction, "will endanger both the wellness and safety of Americans."

Senator Tom Cotten, Republican of Arkansas, has also expressed concern about the provision, as has Senator Mike Rounds, Republican of South Dakota.

A spokesman for Senator Pete Roberts, Republican of Nebraska, said on Tuesday that the hemp products were "karring our kids and communities," and that he did not want to delay knowing them.

But another influential proponent of an intoxicating hemp ban, Senator Mitch McCrawell, Republican of Kentucky, has been hospitalized since June and is now on the road to the fight over the provision suitable.

Several hemp industry groups have been held in the state, including some with him in Mr. Trump, to defeat the ban and pursue other policies that would help the industry.

A nonprofit group called Team Hemp ban paid $400,000 since November last year to the lobbying firm of Marty Olter, who worked on Mr. Trump's campaigns in 2016 and 2020. He did not respond to a request for comment.

The group called Hemp Industry and Farmers of America, of BIFA, in whose board Mr. Worley sat, has paid $45,000 to indicate that he "got a program, it headed as its website of "upright" and "upright" with White House officials," but warned of the "complete cut-tape" of the hemp industry if the products were made in the state.

BIFA and Mr. Tournandrakh did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Worley has told associates that his relationship to the White family gave him "appreciate, patiently, pretty, excellent to a filling in a forward last year that suggested Mr. Worley had exaggerated his views."

According to a person familiar with his efforts, Mr. Worley met in recent months with officials in Mr. Trump's health department to promote the therapy and benefits of different types of hemp and to discuss breakthroughs market.

The health department did not respond to a request for comment.

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Opinion

The A.I. revolution is a hot mess

Adopting a new technology takes time and human effort.

Julie Averill

I served as the chief information officer of the athletic apparel company Lululeman for eight years. Deploying new technologies, artificial intelligence included, was part of the job. But when I left, my successor was handed a new title—that A.I. and technology officer.

I wisered — not about the person but about the pattern. Companies these days are quick to seek “A.I.” to news releases, in earnings calls, in product names, in job postings and in titles at the top of their organizations. The real question is what strategy can behind the abbreviation, a little cross-seeking, but it doesn’t produce anything, either.

And that’s a problem. When companies mistake an announcement for a strategy, eventually they end up spending was money — and sometimes cut real jobs — chasing a future that isn’t actually being built. And in doing so, they’re persuading Americans to reject a powerful innovation that could do so much good for all of us.

I have spent 30 years in technology, and like many of my peers, I need the newest state to solve hard problems. In the internet era, my colleagues and I built a tool that let every customer check the inventory in each of Nordstrom’s stores. It increased sales significantly. When I was at Lululeman, we found a way to use A.I. to help executives better predict which products would sell to which stores. It took time, lots of people and big budgets.

Then ChatGPT arrived. This new technology was easy to understand for most recent floodlights — a chief executive, board member or investor — a healthy portion of whom began demanding their organizations immediately reshed the technology throughout their operations. A.I. companies started pegging up the food trucks at a street fair.

These A.I. companies arrived armed with demonstrations, and the demos were amazing. Talented technologists promised to crack business problems that were too complicated and expensive to solve before. Leaders across departments cleared their calendars to listen to the paradox at their doorsteps.

This was the beginning of what I call A.I. wishing: the belief by company leaders that A.I. is magic, that you can wave its reach toward a hard problem and skip the work of solving it. It is sincere, and that is what makes it dangerous. I continued to meet with the stream of A.I. vendors, all promising their tools would be game-changers. Collectively, the hordes introduced chaos into teams already stretched them.

A few years ago an executive brought me an A.I. product and asked me to fast-track it. A board member had recommended it. The promises were built: it could answer any question about the company. It could predict years and years of sales, sell which advertising was working and suggest what would work better, find and fix waste in how products were made and moved, and more.

I was skeptical. I know that even A.I. leaders made it easier it has never been taught to understand or accurately sell on a business it knows nothing about. When we met with the company, it didn’t sell, so a single question — for a friend of mine, our systems or how we worked. We eventually said no, but it took longer than it should have. Even a man that is people who know better wanted its promises to be true.

In the meantime, we continued to run plans — small test versions of tools

inside the business before committing to one. I wanted them to work so much as the next person, but the results were the same almost every time. The demo looked like magic. But the tool wanted clean, connected data and decisions made to consistent, repeatable ways. Over lived in a dozen systems that did not agree, layered with decades of exceptions and workarounds.

This is not just my story. When I compare users with other chief information officers, the details change, but the ending rarely does. One runs an insurer, another an airline, another a manufacturer. Each tried tools that dazzled in the demo and stalled the moment they hit the mess of a real, decades-old business. Last year a

report from M.I.T.’s Project NAVIDA put a number on it, finding that 90 percent of enterprise generates A.I. pilots never delivered real results.

We are getting smarter from each round of pilots. The tools keep improving, and the gap keeps narrowing. But better A.I. tools are never going to close it on their own. What’s left is the part that was always sure: the slow, expensive work of cleaning up the messy data, complex human decisions and tangled systems.

This is how the A.I. revolution is actually going, at company after company.

Don’t mistake any of this for doubt about A.I.’s potential. It is the most powerful technology I’ve seen, and

entire industries are already being remade by it. Pharmaceutical companies are scheduling drug discovery around it. Banks run fraud and risk detection on it. Governments are treating the chips behind it as a matter of national security. This kind of work doesn’t happen in a quarter, and believing that it can is the trap.

This brings me to A.I. washing. The insidious counts of A.I. wishing, it is when a company — under pressure to immediately show results — claims to be doing more with A.I. than it actually is.

The board wants to see progress. A leader who can’t show something starts to look like the problem. Seventy-five percent of executives admitted their

A.I. strategy is “more for them” according to a recent global survey by the A.I. company Writer and the research firm Workplace Intelligence. So a chatbot becomes the first step in an A.I. “transformation,” and a demo becomes proof of what’s coming. It isn’t lying, exactly. It is describing what you hope will happen as if it already had taken place.

Perhaps the best-known version of A.I. washing is the most tragic one: the A.I. itself is changing practices it needs fewer people because A.I. made its operations more efficient. Often the efficiency doesn’t enter yet. The cut is really about freeing up cash, sometimes to spend more on A.I.

In May U.S. employers announced AVERILL, PAGE 10

Why is the Met honoring fashion’s antisemitic provocateur?

“John Galliano: Horizons,” promises to enshrine him among fashion’s greatest controllers. But his fame will always have an asterisk attached.

Dana Thomas

Thirty years ago this fall, a young, brush-fictitist fashion designer named John Galliano, known as much around Paris for his partying ways as to the gorgeous, outlandish creations, was hired by the august custom house Christian Dier, who its new visionist director. For his first Dier haute com-tere show, staged at the Le Grand Hotel in January 1997, he presented a mash-aged 120-bedroom dressing, 1956-century Japanese and shazao tribal was, including booted gowns, clached corsets draped with tiny yellow and orange ceramic beads, and an opium-the-like chuckle in microwave auto-trimmed with mink — a look inside. Kidman wore to the Oscars two months later.

Dana is sitting in a row with Madame Chirac and Madame Pompidou and they looked like they had been hit in the face with a cold dried fish; “the New York socialite and longtime Dier client was a modern man for after the show. “They couldn’t believe what they were looking at. This conservative house where they’ve all bought their clothes for years. How much was there that

Madame Chirac or Madame Pompidou could wear?”

Nothing really. Mr. Galliano wasn’t thinking about clients’ needs or desires. As he had told me during an interview two years earlier, during a short-lived stint at Givenchy, “I don’t intend to please them.” Tallows even later, his tenure at Dier came to an abrupt end, following a drunken antisemitic tirade in a Paris cafe. But while he held that vaunted position, he seemed to be derogning with one thing in mind: a future museum retrospective.

Last week, he got it: the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Mr. Galliano would be the subject of the Centurion Institute’s next exhibition, dated for a May 9 opening. It is an exceptional house. Only two other living designers have been so celebrated by the Met: Yves Saint Laurent in 1963 and Bet Kawakabe of Comine des Garçons in 2017.

This show, titled “John Galliano: Horizons,” promises to enshrine him among fashion’s greatest controllers. But his fame will always have an asterisk attached. As the museum voted to its announcement: “designate Galliano’s extraordinary creative accomplishments, the exhibition will address the derogatory conduct that headlamers tally altered his career and public

reception. In doing so, the exhibition will emulate how artistic achievement should be understood alongside ethical accountability.”

In other words, unlike most fashion retrospective, which invite visitors to admire-spelent gowns made for the rich and famous, with “John Galliano: Horizons,” the Met is attempting to tackle questions regarding cultural memory, accountability, rehabilitation and reputation. In the process, it is

asserting the ability of powerful cultural institutions to decide when achievements of talent outweigh failures of morality.

Our culture offers endless examples of artists who behave disgracefully and are revered nonetheless, and high fashion — evenings show an explicit celebration of wealth inequality — has never been the place to look for lessons on virtue. Even so, Mr. Galliano’s rehabilitation, indeed his contrasting, is a

remarkable turn of events. As Mr. Galliano’s biographer, I think it is a terrible idea.

His infamous antisemitic rants were not an aberration. From his early days as a struggling designer in London and Paris through his time at the heights of the fashion industry, Mr. Galliano was known to be verbally attractive to employers, friends and strangers alike. He “talked-track” about everyone in his sphere, Jacqui Shelter, head of the John Galliano brand in the early 1980s, once told me: “No one escaped him.”

The fashion business has long been shown to interest had behavior: addicts, pro-washer, and eccentricity are seen as normal, and at times necessary, elements of the creative process. Mr. Galliano’s compartment went way beyond all that. He had a habit of being outrageously cautious with appointments, even with people (like Madama) who could have had a big impact on his company’s sales. In 1988 he made headlines to the industry press for sharding aside his close friend and creative partner Amanda Harlech when he went to Dec, and then publicly cutting his out-of-the-life. At same point in the mid-1990s he reportedly spent several hours raided in the elevator of the Ritz hotel in London, growling at 1993RAT, PAGE 14.

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A decade of comebacks might be over for Trump

Ross Douthat

On Oct. 1, 2018, Jesse Farrar, then a freelance author for nine like Vice and Roadups, issued a cover that would obtain the best by a member of the politics. I'll reproduce it as a poem:

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Three months out from the midterm election, five months into a substantial (at least) war of chaos with the Islamic Republic of Iran, we are back once again in the territory of Farrar's first verse. Trump's approval rating has reached a maximum on earth. His attempts to shake free of his unwise Middle Eastern war have been repeatedly resorted by a second party in Tehran that doesn't think it needs to take his deal, and the Trumpified Republican Party is in real danger of being the Senate.

Can the president shack out of over last hole? It's a terrible issue. I own Iowa to Texas to Alaska morrow. I want to remember. His health, everything, Trump's going to be president

through 2020, in that have seven for self-preservation: narrow that amount as for fear survived many times before. But a true Trumpian "wingless his way out" resolution requires Republic one to avoid catastrophe or November, a keep the Senate as they did in the 2018 midterm, and thereby preserve a certain freedom of movement for the president in the second half of his second term. It also requires him to remain popular enough -- of percent approval would do it, 30 percent would sue -- to make people believe and believe as though an assisted fact might actually succeed him in the White House. There's no room for even a modest Trumpian notebook if the entire political world spends the next two years positioning itself for an age of certain Democratic power and re-election.

So what might improve Trump's position now? The obvious answer is the deal with the Iranian that the administration has been seeking and promising for months. (As of this writing, Treasury Secretary Scott Broussis is the latest administration official to suggest that it might be just a day or two years.)

One of Trump's political strengths is his willingness to cut had on an unsuccessful policy, to sell a walk-back as a victory rather than building or trimming down. That's what I've expected him to do with Iran ever since the initial regime change hopes change pound, and since Americans never really bought into the case for war in the first place, even a load deal should

help the White House's political position through the effect on gas prices alone. (You could see if a large gas numbers risk spread after the all-new temporary trace that Vice President JD Vance negotiated in June.)

But the Iranian regime can see the malleys of the United States and the American politics, and having held out this long, it has strong incentives to hold out even longer, since every poll showing a Democratic candidate leading to the 2020 election is now having mechanism for Trumpian concessions, for it's quite possible that the administration will be required to choose between a truly desperate deal or on pre-midterm paper or all.

In that Middle Eastern scenario, Trump's position at home could still theoretically be the most important critic Party's role of radicalism and inertia -- the rise of another and no claim-adjacent candidates and the failure of the party's maximum to meaningfully adapt to the coalition before its 2020 defeat.

Again and again, the help of his domestic opponents has been crucial to Trump's rebound: and recipes. Before the Iran war began, that was roughly what I expected to happen yet again in 2020. A collision between an unpopular president and an unpopular opposition party yielding a split decision, a Democratic House and a Republican Senate, rather than an anti-Trumpani candidate.

I still think the trajectory of the Democratic Party is carrying Democratic away from the global system, which all things being equal should put a limit on how many close elections they can win. But all things aren't equal when the president's approval ratings are stoking into the life. In that environment, you can win even with further left candidates and also equal the may or that your unbiased errors don't matter as much. If you can't win narrowly with a candidate like Abdul DJ Sajeed in Michigan, you can lose narrowly with him and still pull off spurts in states like Ohio and Iowa where you have less polarizing nominees.

There if we set aside Iranian conclusion and Democratic radicalism as savings for the Trump administration's political position, I'm not sure what remains.

Some unbiased are critic or debate that reminds Americans of what they fear about progressivism? It's hard to imagine what could have that effect when conservatives control every branch of government.

A corresponding, promising, reversal on earthly by the president that cuts prices and works the hardest ranging even higher? It's hard to imagine Trump making that kind of concession is really given everything we know about his second-term state of mind.

A speech announcing that the deep state is aware of the existence of extra-reversal or exclusion intelligence? The U.S. people are looking for that before the midterm, but I'm not sure it would seem that self-studies in the Midwest.

Yes, it's strictly hard to see how Donald Trump can wriggle out of this jam, and by the time November actions, maybe I'll examine enough courage to predict boldly that he won't.

Move forward with a Saudi nuclear deal

PUBLISHER, FRONTIER After the 1973 oil crisis spurred global demand for nuclear power, fierce competition, healed out, using suppliers eager to displace American distributors in the global market for nuclear fuel and reactors. Rivals such as France and West Germany dangled across to maintain non-biased and planeteen representing as consumers to persuade customers such as Pakistan and Brazil to buy their reactors.

India's 1974 leading Buddha nuclear weapons test, which used American heavy water diverted from the Azores for Peace program, highlighted the risk that peaceful assistance could wind up along the development of an azores bomb. It eventually led the United States to persuade France and West Germany to shop their rectitors offers its turn, Congress changed above on support for foreign nuclear power programs through the Nuclear Non-proliferation Act of 1978.

It's took over 20 years of arduous U.S. diplomacy to persuade other suppliers to adopt many of the more stringent standards imposed by the act, and in requiring governments to place all nuclear facilities in their countries under international safeguards and adopting dual-use expert controls to prevent uranium enrichment and planeteen representing. Enrichment or654reversing technologies can be diverted to give a country the material it needs to build a nuclear weapon. Over time, other suppliers came out, and the U.S. has been a major United States set in 1978.

Fast forward to the mid-2000s, when the United Arab Emirates decided to start a peaceful nuclear program to meet its own needs, the United Arab Emirates voluntarily foreworn personal of domestic uranium enrichment and planeteen reporting and conduct that pledge into law. Not satisfied with this concentration, both Republican and Democratic administration insisted the Emirates indeed that pledge to its various agencies was the United States, and began referring to this new

"gold standard" for nuclear state. But the world already had a "gold standard" for nuclear deals: the Pacific or Nonproliferation Treaty as bolstered by the 1976 Nonproliferation Act. Requiring even tougher constraints not laterally would be self-defeating. And there was nothing "standard" about the Enniutian' agreement, of the roughly two dozen other U.S. nuclear agreements only Taiwan, a special case, is similarly restrictive.

Dozens of nations are now pursuing peaceful nuclear energy programs, and Russian and Chinese nations in turn are pitching their own competing programs. Investing on a chimerical "gold standard" will just push the

Eauche and others into the waiting arms of U.S. competitors and adventurers.

Russia boasts that its global orders for nuclear reactors amount to $200 billion over the next decade, compared to an estimated $10 billion for American vendors. China is challenging America as every

turn. The United States is working hard to compete, pursuing deals in Europe, Asia and Africa. Washington has a chance to regain the nuclear power for the U.S. companies that secured at America's expense over decades. Making unilateral security demands roughly by no other supplier and required by an international trust will only make the risks of nuclear proliferation worse by pushing countries to suppliers with lower standards.

Saudi recognition of Israel should remain a youthful objective of U.S. foreign policy. But the Saudis are making that recognition contingent on the peaceful resolution of the Palestinian question, which is as far away as ever.

Demanding an immediate deal with that condition will only sacrifice space for U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation for nothing.

In fact, the two-year feasibility study reportedly included in the deal provides both time and leverage to achieve that main ambitious outcome. Mr. Trump can use these two years to push the Saudis toward normalized relations with Israel. Without the nuclear deal, that leverage would evaporate.

Time is of the essence. By law, the Saudi agreement must have a review period in Congress of 90 days of consensus; serious before the president gets the authority to bring the agreement into force. With relatively low

congressional days left in this election year, the administration needs to submit the agreement soon but the clock may take as new Congress that ways to bring the deal.

Fashion's antisemitic provocateur

THOMAS J. FRONTAGE A gamer, who tried to enter and telling them for was a friend who taken quietly ejected from the hotel.

I experienced her erratic behavior myself. When I arrived at his tiny Passage du Cherst Black studio in Paris in 2004 he our first interview, his staff told me he was nowhere to be heard. When he showed up, he was glance wiped, Uniquely replaced, and really frown.

A reporter of her first might be enough to give any curator pause. Chewing this moment is glorify the life's work at someone who was convicted of making antisemitic remarks, however, in downright bizarre.

An independent curator told me in 2021 that he had spent years preparing a California child and a 2020-2021 action the United States and Europe. The answer, he said, was always the same: on, he was given a $1 million solution. None of the measures wanted to take the risk of not staring themselves.

The Wet and Anna Woman Vague's global editorial director, a Wet vantage and Mr. Gallinan's business champion -- apparently understand them concerns. At the consensus in Wet, Mr. Gallinan, Ms. Woman and the Common Institute's chief curator, is, then Rulick, one of the most famous York City's most influential critics and Jewish leaders to get a reading on the situation. In fact, it is still an exhibition was originally scheduled for 2024 and two postponed following the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Yet the subject of antisemitism is on low charge today to make it more difficult to believe, have increased, debates about it have ruled upon and held a decision, and the Trump administration has placed it from and comes to its offer to study university research.

Public discussions continue to sign over how to define antisemitism, but it is not a matter of the same, and to exclude Mr. Gallinan's infamous carburets, in which he praised Hitler and told fellow cult partners their ancestors would have been gamed.

Already, outrage and condemnation have flooded social media since the masquerit announcement on Friday night, and the backlash is likely to grow in the months leading up to the 18th. Upto on May 1, The 2020 U.S. President became a regular one of prime for less polarizing issues: The 2020 exhibition, "East Cagernish: A Line of Money," drew demonstrators condemning the designer's attitudes toward women, and this year's "Comane Act" celebrations, which was an opinionated and evaluated by Aramco, was the first of a Stinches Recon, brought anti-Offensive protesters near the massacre of 1976. Aramco estimates: The black-to-ball for "John Gallinan: Enniutian" which will cut through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s provides career relevance -- and prolonged -- response.

Despite the fact that Mrs. and Ms. Woman appear to believe they can transcend the controversy, and under open Mr. Gallinan's place in the cultural

With "John Gallinan: Enniutian," the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is at studying to tackle questions regarding cultural economy, rehabilitation and reputation.

cause without irretrievably harming American organization. Sadly, they might be right.

Cave Chawla was a virulent antinomicist, but that didn't stop the Wet from ensuring a major Chawla exhibition in 2005 and that attracted over 1,000,000 visitors. Dalos & Gallinans was briefly extracted in the late 2000s following a series of racist ads and bestogledist and his phiên 'state'.

Choosing this moment to glorify the life's work of someone who was convicted of being an antisemitic remarks is downright bizarre. merely, today, the incidents have been largely forgotten and the brand is widely believed. Balances ago faced oppression in 2022 that ads featuring inappropriate sexual imagery of children, but within a matter of months the incident had blown over.

Mr. Gallinan himself was never truly canceled. Two years after his firing, he completed a highly publicized number, cy at Texas de la Arena in New York, reportedly with Ms. Woman's support. One year later, he was appointed an active director of Mission Martin Margolis, owned by the Italian-entrepreneur by John Ronin, another legal in Warsaw ally. In 2024, he was the subject of Oscar-winning director Borzo Macdonald's well-regarded decimemis-

ry, "High & Low: John Gallinan," produced a association with Cragin, Neal Entertainment, the film and television director of Vague's exhibition.

More recently, celebrities including Zambino and Kylie, honest, as well as Cragin's Stinches Recon, have been wearing vintage Gallinan pieces, which has substantially increased their value. And last March, the Spanish men had a top gun Zara announced that it had entered the designer -- whose mother was Królشتian -- to "re-mother" design these his archives, embracing his work to a new generation of consumers. The first collection arrives in interest and stands, industry insiders are already specializing that Zara may sponsor the life's exhibition and gain. The first, at least in 1980, the film of Mr. Gallinan is considered a timeless classic.

Not all game-creators deserve a retrospective, and someone an incendered ex Mr. Gallinan certainly shouldn't be the subject of one during his lifetime, when he stands to youth from his honor personally. With "John Gallinan: Enniutian," the Wet and Ms. Woman are willing the idea that they can still be rest of us how to think about a difficult and divisive figure. Maybe they didn't know that idea has gone badly out of fashion.

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At the gym finding spotters for sobriety

Community offers antidote for relapse in spaces built around social activities

BY SUKAR BALAJ

When Kylie Corbit got out of a 18-day addiction treatment center, a familiar problem was waiting outside.

"My sister network was all people who used," she said. "A didn't even know what it meant to be truly sober."

Her methamphetamine use had intensified slowly during the Covid-19 pandemic, as she lost a job she had held for a decade, grieved the death of the gym member who helped clean her and grappled with depression. With little structure to her days, each one felt like "Groundling Day," Ms. Corbit said. "I've would tell herself that she'd get high one last time and then each help. 'And it just never ended,' she added.

Treatment interrupted this cycle, but her life wasn't set up to support her sobriety. Ms. Corbit, who is 17 and lives in Milton, Mass., tried Alcoholics Anonymous but struggled to feel a sense of fellowship, finding some meetings "a little jump."

Desperate and unsure where else to go, Ms. Corbit decided to check out the Phoenix, a five-gym and recovery community, where members are asked to be 40 hours sober before every visit. There, she started rock climbing and later took up CrossFit. Ending that sobriety could be built around healthier routines and friendships.

"We're not sitting there talking about addiction all day," Ms. Corbit said. "We're talking about getting healthy and getting better." On July 6, Ms. Corbit snarled two years without drugs, she "banged length of time sober I've ever had."

The Phoenix in Boston, a five-gym and recovery community where members are asked to be sober for 40 hours before joining. Kylie Corbit, below left, started rock climbing there and later took up CrossFit. Below right, Ms. Corbit and Ryan Forrester, right, with others at the Phoenix. "You come in here, and you start to get friends," Ms. Forrester said.

For decades, addiction treatment in the United States has been viewed as a clinical problem or a spiritual struggle. These approaches have helped millions of people, but they have had their limits. Medical care is often delivered in short, time-limited episodes, while 12-integrograms can feel one-size-fits-all, with their emphasis on a higher power and

complete abstinence. But there's a growing model: sober spaces built around history, music, meditation and other activities.

The concept is not entirely new, but there has been a "bit of a المتعاقبة of the recovery movement," said John Kelly, director of the Recovery Research Institute at Mass General Brigham. For

Photo by Kylie Corbit, with a photo from the New York Times.

example, the Recovery Cafe Network, which offers free hot meals and coffee, grew to 63 cafes in 2020 from 21 cafes in 2020; the Phoenix's new member enrollments also climbed to more than 433,000 from about 20,000 over the same period.

Sober spaces can't replace traditional treatment or 12-integrograms, and so search on them remains limited. But the model is now as evidence that loneliness and familiar environmental cues can make relapse more likely, while contention and belonging can help contain sobriety.

These spaces offer a place for recovery to unfold outside a treatment center, doctor's office or group meeting, said Brandon Clark, who supports addiction

recovery work at the St. Anthony Foundation in San Francisco, and who is recovering from botany? son. "People need new places to go, new people to know, new rituals and new ways to be useful," he said.

Sober spaces do not follow any one template. The Phoenix in Boston is essentially a stripped-down warehouse lined with rock climbing walls and filled with training equipment like few weights, rowing machines and battle ropes, as well as jingles/races and wood or gymnastics rings. Meanwhile, the first Recovery Cafe in Seattle is a mix between a cafeteria and a neighborhood coffee shop, with a low buffet and little bar, pendant lights hanging over the counter and words like "love," "forgrow-

ance" and "grow" spelled in looping cards on the walls.

Like 12-integ-programs, sober spaces tend to be free and low barrier, asking participants for some sobriety but at finding it enough for home systems rather than a drug test. But these spaces are generally more accommodating than 12-integ-programs, which define success through a zero-substance approach.

"We're not necessarily abstinence-based," said Kelly Talcack, a founder of the Recovery Cafe Network, asking members for sobriety only on the day they come to the cafe. "We're just about what is the healthier choice for you today."

Still, having this dedicated sober

space matters because many people are trying to stop using drugs while it environments that keep patting them back, said Keith Humphreys, a psychologist and co-discover at the Stanford Network on Addiction Policy in California.

Ryan Forrester, for example, stopped using drugs in 2020 and was under house across their living with a relative who smoked marijuana. For a while, Ms. Forrester stayed away from it, returning to his room to try to avoid the smell.

"Then one day, I 'laudited,' he said, finishing turned into drinking, and one drink turned into a couple, which turned into getting hampered. Ms. Forrester got off house seven in April 2019 but didn't quit drinking again until November 2024, when he started going to die Phoenix. It offered some distance from his old man, he said, and the name-observed thing except that had fed his addiction could be channeled into a healthier realm.

"You come in here, and you start to get friends," Ms. Forrester said. "Then, you're filling these weights that you never knew you could lift, and you're doing these more like half marathons. You're like, I can't believe I just did that - like this is me."

Researchers have long known that crucial connections in an important part of recovery, helping people move away from relationship organized around drug use and toward relationships that support sobriety. In fact, one of the clearest ways that 12-integ-programs appear to help, is by reloading people's social networks, said Dr. Humphreys, the Stanford psychologist.

"You're got to have people who know the way - how to live in recovery, what you do, what you don't do, how you build a life worth living," Dr. Kelly of Mass General Brigham said.

In general, the evidence for specific sober social spaces is fairly limited, partly because they are "pretty hard to study" Dr. Humphreys said. For example, researchers cannot easily assign some people to a recovery cafe or gym while including others, he added, and standardizing the experience low (guilty could make it feel less like a community.

There are also practical limits: Sober spaces aren't equipped to help someone detect, to treat severe withdrawal or to manage an acute crisis, and because there are no exact mandates and no required attendance, they rely on someone's internal motivation to join and keep showing up.

So, the people who turn to these communities, Dr. Humphreys said, are generally "not at the place where every single day is a struggle on a substance front."

That is why these spaces are best understood as complements to 12-integ-programs or medical care, not replacements, he added. Their promise is not in curing addiction but addressing the loneliness, boredom and disconnection that can make recovery harder.

For Ms. Corbit, addiction had been transactional, she said, full of people who didn't know her name - only "not, you" - and little sense of safety. She carried that same isolation into recovery, never telling anyone when she was trying to quit, leaving her with little to no support.

Alcoholic Anonymous gave her a powerful, healing community once she found the right group she said. But at the Phoenix, she truly was never, and the ordinary rhythm of the place. "To be in an environment where people were warm and welcoming and actually wanted to talk to me - and didn't just want something from me - it was my bet like a person again," she said.

Now, Ms. Corbit spends much of her free time volunteering at the gym, helping other people feel, as she did. But they don't have to recover alone.

What to know about cervical cancer screening

Guidelines have changed as new testing options have become available

BY MAGGIE ASTOR

It has been a big couple of years for cervical cancer screening. New testing options have arrived, and recommendations have shifted. Doctors hope the changes will help reduce cases of the cancer, a persistent cause of preventable death.

Cervical cancer can be avoided with testing for precancerous cells and, even below, with vaccines to prevent human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes most of the cell abnormalities. Yet more than 200,000 people a year old had been cervical cancer, including about 4,000 in the United States.

Longstanding barriers, including disparities in access to care, contribute to this, can it be likely that, English, an associate professor of family medicine at the Mayo Clinic, bone patients, including many survivors of sexual assault, fatal pelvic trauma examination and may be undue abortions in our available.

But getting screened doesn't have to be painful or confusing.

WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?

Historically, the standard screening for cervical cancer was a Pap smear, in which cells are scraped from the cervix

and examined for cancer or precancerous changes. While lab techniques have evolved, the same basic test, technically known as cervical cytology, is still common.

But over decades, learning about the relationship between cervical cancer and HPV upward a new dose. Not everyone with HPV will get cancer, but almost everyone with cervical cancer had a persistent HPV infection first, notening for it can identify risk outlier.

While cytology samples have to be collected by clinicians, samples for HPV testing can be collected from the cervix by clinicians of four or a vagina by patients. The Food and Drug Administration approved self-collection tests in 2024 for use in doctors' offices and in 2025 for use at home, and studies have found they have comparable accuracy to clinician-collected tests.

WHICH ONE IS BEST?

Everyone who is at risk of cervical cancer - women and transposters people assigned female at birth - should be screened. Once you turn 30, they're broad agreement that HPV testing is best. It flags the risk outlier, and cytology can lead to more false alarms, said Robert Smith, the senior vice president for early cancer detection science at the American Cancer Society.

For patients in their 20s, though, there is debate. Young people who have transient HPV infections that resolve before they can cause harm, so for them,

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved self-collection tests for HPV testing in 2025 for use at home, which have comparable accuracy to clinician-collected tests.

HPV testing can also cause unnecessary alarm, said Dr. Kimberly Gross, the chief medical officer for specialty practice at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Gross was a co-author of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' most recent guidance, which recommends cytology from ages 21 to 25. The Women's Preventive Services Initiative, whose guidelines are backed by the government, agrees. But the American Cancer Society recommends

HPV testing starting at 25. Don't stress about this, said Dr. David Oelmsen, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University who served on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force while it developed draft guidelines in 2024. (He's no longer on the task twice and only if was not spending for it.) Both approaches are "incredibly effective, a preventing cervical cancer," he said. All the major guidelines say self-col-

lection is acceptable. But while the women's initiative considers it equal to clinician collection, ACOG and the American Cancer Society prefer clinician-collection where possible.

That's because patients who test positive for HPV need additional testing. If a clinician took a cervical sample, it can be reused. But follow-up tests can't be run on self-collected vaginal samples, so these patients have to come back to have them.

If people self-collect but don't follow up on positive tests, "it hasn't gotten us anywhere," said Dr. Alvina Novotny, the medical director of quality and safety in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Westchester Medical Center in New York, who was a co-author of the ACOG guidelines. But, Dr. Novotny stated, the collection with appropriate follow-up "is far superior" to not testing.

HOW OFTEN SHOULD I BE SCREENED? The recommendation says a lot but are all effective. The disagreements are judgment calls over how to weigh small changes in risk against the control of false alarms, as well as the

ACOG recommends cytology every three years from ages 21 to 30, and clinician-collected HPV testing every five years from 30 to 40. Patients who self-collect should be screened every three years for new, the guidelines say, because self-collection hasn't been around long enough to know if it predicts risk for five years.

W.P.S.I. recommends cytology every three years from 21 to 30, and HPV screening every five years from 30 to 40.

The American Cancer Society recommends clinician-collected HPV recovery five years, or self-collected HPV tests every three, for patients 25 to 30. It doesn't recommend screening before age 25 because cervical cancer is so rare in that group, especially as every young people are vaccinated against HPV.

These guidelines are for average-risk patients with normal test results. If you're at higher-than-average risk of cervical cancer or have abnormal results, your doctor may screen more often.

WHEN CAN I STOP SCREENING?

All the major guidelines say 24 x 60, so stop screening every three years from normal tests leading up to that. It's possible for abnormalities in driving tests. Just experts say the risk is low enough to just 60, stopping!

All the CME's call for two or three normal tests in 10 years before stopping, depending on the type of test, and the American Cancer Society's 30 or 40 perfect negative HPV tests at ages 60 and 70. Don't worry about these minor differences; talk to your doctor.

Testing can become better and more comprehensive for "regular" tissue changes with age. So Dr. Smith urged patients and doctors to be proactive about testing in the years leading up to 60.

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Sports

Australia dominated track and field at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In the women's stife, above left, Jessica Hull, Abbey Idwell and Claudia Hollingsworth was gold, silver and bronze. Above right, Lachlan Kennedy broke the national record in the men's 100 meters.

Australia enters a 'golden age' of track and field

Commonwealth Games underlines depth of the nation's athletics talent

BY LILIE TOLKINS

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It was August last year when Nicola Olystogers of Australia, said, "I'm excited for Australian athletics, but I also feel like the best is yet to come."

The final year was the high jump at the Diamond League finals in Zurich, churning on Oceania record of 2.44 meters (6.8 feet) to earn her first title on the premier athletics circuit.

The excitement stressed from recent success. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Australia had its best track and field medal lead (seven) since winning 12 on home soil in Melbourne in 2006. The took silver in Paris, with Eleanor Patterson earning bronze. It was the first time two Australians were on the podium in the same field event as an Olympics.

A year later, Lachlan Kennedy declared this the 'golden age' for Australia in track and field.

"We got a medal in every event we competed in," Kennedy, 22, said reporters after winning silver in the men's 100 meters but went at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to 9.00 seconds, a national record, which tied the fifth-farmer time this year.

"Secret track is clearly in the best spot it's ever been, and not team is so

strong," he said. "We're in a real golden age with a lot of youngsters and a lot of good veteran talent so well."

Recent years have seen repeat records for Australia at world championships and Olympics, and have ever return for podium spots.

Success breaks success, and Australia to toped the track and field medal table for the third successive Commonwealth Games, a quadrennial multipoint event contested mainly by nations that were parts of the British Empire: Seven of the team's 12 golds came in one record-breaking day, with the country sweeping the podium in the women's stife and the 10-400-meter racemale.

The highlight was the women's mile, the final event, Abbey Caldwell was gold, Joss Hull took silver and Claudia Hollingsworth kicked hard for bronze. Rose Davies became the first woman in the event's history to win 3,000-meter and 10,000-meter titles at the same edition. By Robinson earned silver and gold over those distances in the men's race.

There was also an Australian 1:2 finish in the women's high jump (Patterson and Olystogers), Kennedy and Yanni Lewis won 500-meter medals with Oceanowscard runs, as Lewis became the first Australian woman to run under 11 seconds. Karlin Marschall claimed his third consecutive Commonwealth pole-road title. Karlin is Denny successfully defended his discus crown, and Mackerate Little won the women's javelin.

And this is without mentioning the rising star Gran Goat, the goddess even-

ager in history over 100 meters (24.67 seconds) and already 57th on the career list. He is expected, one day, to contend for international medals, though the 18-year-old's season was curtailed by a hamstring loss.

But how has Australia become an elite track and field nation? To answer that, there needs to be an understanding of the country's sporting fabric.

Australian rules football and rugby league are major sports, as are cricket and soccer. It is an outstanding swimming nation — second to the United States for medals at seven of the past eight Olympics — and, as a general rule, children are raised on a multi-part play.

"It's the most important thing," said Julian Murphy, a versatile sponsor who is the second-goddard. Australian man over 200 meters behind Gran (28.69 seconds). "I found what I was good at because I tried so many things.

"I did success, water polo, and Silvaning, BNC — that was my favorite sport. I transitioned to athletics at 16 or 15, it was the last sport I chose."

Plenty of others committed to track and field loss. Kennedy, a world-under 60-meter silver medallist last year, played junior international rugby union ledner switching to athletics at age 17. Denny, who won discus bronze at the 2024 Olympics, played both rugby sports in his midfielder.

Stewart McAveye, who held the Australian records for the mile and 10,000 meters, grew up playing cricket, Aussie rules and tennis. Goat played soccer in

his youth, as did Hull, as Olympic and world middle-distance medalsist.

In an alternative universe, this bogeyestle and Peter Bol would be pronounced, in Aussie rules and basketball football, they are 500-meter runners. Ollie Shaox, Commonwealth 1000-meter champion in 2022, exists at state level. You get the point.

In Australia, they have Little Athletics, which runs primarily as weekend sessions for youngsters throughout the Australian summer. Busted in the 1980s, it is a nationwide, grass-roots in

"Aussie track is clearly in the best spot it's ever been, and our team is so strong."

itative, with a focus on fundamental skills — running, jumping and throwing. There are competition meets and cross-country in the winter, too.

"For a lot of kids, that's their first look at athletics," Andrew Fairbanzy, the general manager of high performance at Athletics Australia, said last summer. "It's always been a key component of the school sporting system."

Craig Pickering is the director of performance sustainability at Athletics Australia, responsible for pathways and performance support (sports science, sports medicine, data science), and research and innovation.

In the 2000s, Pickering was an international sponsor for Britain. "When I

was competing, Australia had generally small teams with a couple of athletes doing really well. The volume of athletes has exploded," he said over a video call. "We're getting more medals than ever at world championships and Olympics, but also at the youth level."

Pickering pointed to the record 14 medals (two golds, seven silvers, five bronzes), including six in one evening session at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., won at the under-20s world championships two summers ago.

There is no rush to last-track these youngsters to the big stage — that includes Goat, Hollingsworth, Lewis and Cameron Myers, the fastest teenager ever a solo. But for injury, Goat wanted to continue to the world under-20s this year, hoping to improve on his 200-meter silver from 2024.

"We have seen a major team perspective," Fairbanzy said of the senior program. "We want them to gradually get to that point."

Murphy is a perfect example. In 2022, five years after the decision to pursue track, at age 18, he qualified to race the 200 meters at the senior world championships in Eugene. He still went to Columbia two weeks later for the under-20 equivalent. This year, at 22, he anchored the 10,000-meter Australia men's team to an Oceania record time — and the sixth-goddard for any team — for breaks at the world enjoy.

"We probably wouldn't have anticipated such success in the system 10 years ago," Fairbanzy said.

It's why they are investing time and money into enjoy, knowing the international medal potential that this crop has. On Australia, Australia won Commonwealth gold at the men's 10,000-meter relay for the first time since 1974, leading the Olympic champion, Canada, to the present.

"It isn't one thing," Pickering said, regarding factors behind the collective development.

"We started to engage coaches a lot more proactively, that has made a big difference," he added. "We tend to put them in charge of decision making. It used to be perceived that we would make decisions for them, and they'd have to do it. There's how andکن."

Australia takes the Commonwealth Games more seriously than most countries. It has a history of success at the event, and, Salively through the Olympic cycle, it offers a megaloghouse.

The country led the overall medal table by a considerable margin, winning 70 gold medals and 175 overall, significantly more than the 20 gold- and 100 overall medals that second-place England won.

The big dream is what Australia might achieve in six years when the Olympics go in Brisbane, 12 years on from the Sydney Games.

"As the U.S. got awarded the 2022 Olympics, more money came into this sport. We're seeing the same thing now," Pickering said. "There's a direct correlation in this sport. The more money you have, the better you can do."

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Culture

Her ballet vision embodies everyone

Misty Copeland curates a festival bringing together artists from many worlds

BY GIA KROEGLE

Misty Copeland may be one of the most recognized dancers in the world, but she still has new territory to conquer: curation. For the annual Ballet Festival at the Joyce Theater in New York this year, Copeland, who recently retired from American Ballet Theatre, is helping two weeks of dancing by a dancing array of performers with established and up-and-coming choreographers.

I think the goal here is not to define one path or future for ballet," she said in a video interview. "It's to show that ballet's future can hold so many different voices and identities and aesthetics and experiences, and that is should be an rich as our world."

This is Copeland's first time organising a festival, apart from Ballet Across America, which she programmed with the choreographer Justin Park at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Center in 2017. "That was way less involved than this," she said.

For the Ballet Festival, which opened on Tuesday, she worked closely with Dansi Gee, director of programming at the Joyce, and Rom LeCais, the theater's producer. "I'm still new to curating and building in this way," Copeland said. "I have my grand ideas, but it have them really help me shape it has made it what it is."

Gee said: "The theme of the show is uplifting everyone. It's about all of us together, not just all African American or this or that."

"I know it's the world that I want to live in," she added. "It's the world that I want to see settings."

Copeland's lineup includes the Paris Opera Ballet makes Guillaume Diep and See Ken Park in "Basses and Ashes" and "Thats", Joyce Stanley, a New York City Ballet principal, in sales by Kyle Abraham and Andrea Miller; selections from Dance Theater of Harlem's "Firebird"; and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Shirts Miyoshi in Bob Pons's "Percussion D."

One goal was to showcase different generations of choreographers: Ingrid

Silva, who recently retired from Dance Theater, and James Whiteside, a Ballet Theater principal, will show short works along with the veteran dansi King.

Copeland also commissioned premieres by up-and-coneers. There are works by Dr. an Atlanta-based choreographer, who works in house dance; and Alenba Walker, a member of American Ballet Theater. "It was really important to me that I was giving opportunities to younger dancers," Copeland said.

A driving focus, enough and all, is her life after dancing is young people — including young readers. This fall Copeland has a book coming out for middle schoolers called "Firebird

Walls." Set in a performing arts audit rory, the story is about students who find out that their school is magical; their interest is recently a firebird.

"They're leaning these skills in this performing arts school, but their art is their magical powers," she said.

"They're like little superheroes. It's part of her bigger plan. 'I feel like everything I'm doing is connected to ballet in some way and will have different layers and levels of impact," she said. "How are we using ballet in different spaces?"

But first: the Joyce festival. In a recent conversation, Copeland spoke about it and about ballet's potential reach beyond it. What follows are edited excerpts from that interview.

What were you thinking for this festival?

I went into this coming out of my farewell performance. I was like, What is the point of this A.B.T. farewell performance? Initially, I wanted to do all these things around what I think the future of ballet should be. I was like, I don't want my farewell performance to be about me. And everyone's put like, "What are you doing? Let's celebrate what you did do and show that."

So this is an extension of your ideas for your farewell?

All of these thoughts were kind of manifesting during that time. This was just the perfect outlet to be able to do a lot of different things.

For example?

I really wanted to center Black, brown and queer artists. My initial thought

PHOTO BY KATHY TAYLOR, 1/8 OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

Misty Copeland, who retired from American Ballet Theater in October, views creating opportunities for other artists as part of her responsibility to dance.

was, how do we bring together artists from different worlds and backgrounds and generations? I just can know from a touch with Dr. John (who they three pronouns), I really feel like I've taken them under my wing. This is a big experience for them.

How did you get to know its?

Maybe two years ago I was at Emory (University) in Atlanta, speaking. One of the highlights was getting to meet one of their star dancer-choreographers, and it happened to be Dr. who showed one of their works. I was just as blown away. They were the first person I thought of when the Joyce came to me with this opportunity.

Do you feel that you're now drawn to contemporary ballet at this point? Absolutely. And I definitely was pushed by Dansi and Rom out to es-

clude the classics, which are such a big part of my journey and I think are important for the future of classical dance, clearly. But it was important to find the pieces that would work with the vibe of what's performing them.

Did the dancers choose their repertoire with you?

We started with a lot of dancers that I was interested in having and then started assigning things. Of course that didn't work! For a variety of reasons.

Logistically and time-wise, it can be difficult for dancers to learn new works.

It's just so hard, the puzzle pieces of all of these dancers all over the world. But it's also sure to have people be able to do things that are meaningful to them, that they have experience performing

How much time will you spend at rehearsals?

There are rehearsals that I am almost ing. I also don't want to get in the way. I want people to feel support, but I also don't want them to feel like, I don't

know, any other thing. I'm not trying to like give my input or feedback. It's like, do your thing.

Is all this time, you've never produced a "Misty Copeland and Friends" show. Is that not your thing?

I definitely will never do a "Misty and Friends." I think it implies that I would be at the center of it, dancing, and I definitely don't want that. I've been thinking about cunning something that's broader, so it wouldn't just be dancers; it could be visual artists, it could be coasters.

And if I were to be a part of it, I would want to be very small, dip my toe in. I would like to be able to use my connections and my platform to bring attention to it. I want to be able to use my influence in different ways.

What do you see as your responsibility toward dance?

It's about creating opportunity. It's about creating access. It's about continuing to see just be a voice in my time, but how are we setting up the next generation? That's been impor-

tant to see throughout my whole career. How are I continuing to change the way people view it in other communities and other parts of our country? I hope I will be changing what access looks like in ballet.

You're on the board of Ballet Theater. How else are you involved?

I've kind of been designated the ABT/Gala best for the kids show that they do. It's such a fun experience. I mean, it's full of faith, right? And they're talking and yelling, and they're in it. I did my very first lot of "Swiss Lake" for a kids show.

How did it go?

I'll never forget it. The best explains the different pieces and gets everyone excited, and then the dance happens. So they're still a clean in coming, and I come out, and a little girl in the balcony starts screaming, "Where is the swan? Where is the swan?" Like thinking that is real swan was going to come outrage. She was so disappointed. [Laughs.] I was like, Oh my god. If I can do this . . . I did it.

Flaco the celebrity bird and his followers

DOCUMENTARY LENS

'Wild Inside' follows are eagle-owl who fled the Central Park Zoo

BY ALISSA WILKINSON

Every year, New Yorkers have plenty to unite around — the Kinzies, the weather, shared conveyance with each way shiver — but in 2023, the city's favorite main character was mostly perched in a new high above Central Park. Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped the zoo exchange that February and quickly became an object of curiosity, devotion and even inspiration to people in the city and around the world. When he died about a year later, he was mastered like a celebrity.

In her new documentary "Wild Inside" (in January), the director Prendy Lane followed Flaco and his human allies through the year he spent living in the park and, later, on his forays into the streets of Manhattan. During that year, Lane conversed with members of New York's avid birding community, a number of whom appear in the film, alongside scientists, bird rescue experts and people who grew to adore Flaco.

"Wild Inside" tells the story of a city's love affair with an act, but it expands far beyond New York's borders, driven by Lane's characteristic curiosity. He is of more films, like "Listening to Kersey G," "Hail Satan?" and "Nuts?," all begin with a sense of inquisitiveness about human nature. Why do we love bad mean? What makes someone want to live a Saviour? How does a con artist get away with his con for its long? The answers, she

Flaco observing the world from a fire escape. His freedom to roam came at a heavy coin.

always finds, are far more complicated than we expect, and each of her films ends up celebrating the wonderful and weird creatures that humans are.

"Wild Inside" spends a lot of time exploring what we might call "owl nature" — how a captive creature like Flaco learns to live in freedom, for instance. Lens of show-ups of Flaco watching people, perching in trees or fattening in mouth makes it clear why so many grow to love him. Subjects offer differing perspectives on whether Flaco might to have been recognized or whether the Central Park Zoo fell down in its responsibility to him.

There's a particular New York edge to the story of course — especially when the discussion turns to rats, one of Flaco's main food sources. Viewers might also be surprised to see the variety of wildlife living in the park, including foxes and coyotes. Yet ultimately the leveliest part of the movie

is the portrait of the community that grows in a city — need any city — around a creature like Flaco. Cities are where all kinds of humans learn to dwell close to one another, and it's where unexpected connections are made, like two orders who became a couple while following Flaco night after night. Living in a city is a group effort; nobody is really going it alone. As it is underlies this point, Lane and her team-assured a great deal of footage from the public, using video and photographic passed along by dozens of citizen-cinematographers. So "Wild Inside" is full of share of Flaco that one filmmaker could never capture alone. And this gives it the feeling of a group project, a collective tribute to an animal that will always be part of civic love. Much like New York City, in this movie the whole is much greater, and far more delightful, than the sum of its individual parts.

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CULTURE

How artists adapted to a new world

ART REVIEW

A sprawling exhibition traces the origins and influence of Pop Art

BY WALTER HODGES

Judul, persuasive, detached and amused, Pop Art was always hard to define. It seemed both to argue and to enlist the idea that all of visual experiences, from Botnich to family photos to Marlboro ads, occupies the same sensory plane and thus the same value to the indiscriminate eye.

Though Anglo-American is origin, Pop sent its bright and pretty sheets worldwide thanks to print technology. And the prophecy it fulfilled was French. that any object could pose as high art. Marcel Duchamp's death near Paris in 1969 was like an echo to the collapse of the movement back in London and New York.

There is a kind of routine spirit, then, to the middle of the Guggenheim Museum's show 'Guggenheim Pop 1960 to New.' Using 40 works from the New York institution's collection displayed across three floors. It argues that living artists, even young men, have carried the animating spirit of cosmology and mechanical reproduction into our century.

The first half of the show is old stuff: an assemblage by Jim Dine of painted rubber balls glued into a plenty string of 'Prairie' (1961), a puffy pop phone by Clare Glénoburg (1962), some squiggles of even light by the Greek artist Chrysos from the late '60s, Andy Warholt across print grid of a photograph of an electric chair (1962).

Some still flicker with some irony: for soon announcing nothing, the image of death repeated to the point of life. And many servants show real handcraft — the purdered assets and rifthemed canvas feathers of Glénoburg's enormous 'Soft Shattkoush,' which he made with his wife George van Bruggen in 1955 — to a degree of quarantine that I can't imagine was intended. Patios now separates these works from the cynicism with which they were designed to flirt.

The inclusion of Taylor Karamis is odd. Her white-on-gray painting of abstract pocketcolor (2000) isn't Pop by any definition I know. Certainly her 'Schady Mirrored Room' (2000) is poppy: an LED-lit mirror cube you can enter and watch yourself repeat. Her first in this series, from 1965, probably influenced Lucas Karamis, who made a sponsor 'Mirrored Room' in 1969 and is represented how by a moat carving set (2002) encased in velvet and blue-siones.

But it is Pop? Is John Chamberlain, with his real of automotive metal (1962)? Instead of sufficiently defining its premise, this show rolls all of 1960s: New York — conceptualism, minimalism, assemblage — into one movement.

This print the second half of the show at a disadvantage. Marlene Calamero's self-portrait (2010) might have hit harder load the publication. It first appeared in — Indigenous Wounds, her name of Warhol's magazine, their love

— been included heads it for context. Nor did I, a vigilant '69s bid, quite catch the intended reference to the American Girl (with its Citys Manner's photograph, which shows a beautiful woman surrounded by J. road, woven baskets and other items from the subject's roots to the Guttel and San Ildefonso position in New Mexico. LA show legible Native American activist of the V2K era in Jai T. Arcand, not present.)

We damaged works conflate the aesthetic and the commercial to ways that were more effective, like Lucia

Above, 'Soft Shattkoush' (1962) by Clare Glénoburg and George van Bruggen, from 'Guggenheim Pop 1960 to New.' Before left, 'Wound of Love' (2000), by Marlene Calamero.

Mann's giant shopping bag (2017-21) full of Glénoburgian soft commodities representing her culture, including cans of Corps counter-afford and across shots from Dominican YouTube in a report with clap from newspaper music from the 1960s, some by her father's hand.

The show's curator, Lauren Hinkson, had a difficult task. A man who said, like worked solely from the mnemonic collection.

That limitation was meant to post-tien the Guggenheim as a sort of tissue for the movement: Its 1965 show 'Tax Partners and the Object' brought early institutional legitimacy to Dine, Roz Lichtenstein and Warhol, and also to Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschberberg and James Bennequin, who are missing in action here.

That exhibition was curated by Lawrence Alloway, the British critic who coined the term 'mass popular

Above, 'Soft Shattkoush' (1962) by Clare Glénoburg and George van Bruggen.

art,' sons to be shortened to 'Pop.' Here, the artists are much more diverse, and they fill their work with self-referential details. As with the traveling show 'International Pop' in 2015, this one seems intended to connect the reputation that Pop was useful mainly to make to New York. (There's uneven acknowledgment, however, of Glénoburg's first wife, Papy Maclin, who sewed the 'Fragileer and Sad-beat' and 'Soft Pop Telephone.')

At their most enlightening, these details explain a major difference in the way we view art now from the 1960s. The unique particulars of an artist's life — seniority, class, cultural suppliers — have come to matter more than the shared imagery that artists once borrowed, since 1969, to back into the collective unconscious.

Stop back from 'no 1-Lane's lovely, trustily colored man (2018-19) woven from dyed palm filters, and you'll notice the differences of office heads. It turns associates divide with 'picturicity' and colonialism,' she has said. Before gaining independence in 1957, her native Malaysia was Portuguese, and then Dutch, and then British. The subliminal furniture, the wall text says, 'mastications power dynamics between Indigenous Malay peoples and colonial governments.'

Instead of sufficiently defining its premise, this show rolls all of 1960s: New York into one movement.

It's not that the Pop Artists were spoiled at and one word a spanking. In the '60s, Glénoburg realized his dream of a banana monument in a junior promoting American intervention in Central America. In the '60s, Richard Stantline exhorted the founding collapse of the movement, 'One What Is It That Wakes Today's House: Its Different, In Appealing' (1990), with a blatant hurry over the Persian Gulf war, AIDS and the rise of Jeff Rance, 'Would Races have helped or harmed this show?'

Continuous always sort of indeed, But a big complaint, helped best by Tom Wolfe, was always that Pop spoke its invites mainly to art people.

It's partly true: The marketing of art could be the darlone, mass visible legacy of Pop. Maybe that's why Maurine Cattelan's 'Comedian' (2010), his banana tapestry the wall to replace the decadence of art world-spectacle, graces 'Guggenheim Pop.'

Maybe, too, it's why Brandeis's fiberglass triptych depicting the Guggenheim's spiral counter (1965-66) appears, followed by video works about artists inside that spiral: a lovely and eventually kind of funny video about Duchamp and Brantum by Alex De Gree (2015), and then a VHS recording of a Warden film that Douglas Gordon secretly made at a public screening in 1966.

Art about art about art. For a second, though, Pop was something more: For viewers it was appealing, as evidenced by Papy influence on fashion and design. And for artists it was survival: the swap can as before, the stretched canvas as flag — these were pre-emptive, if more clearly, ways to seduce an intensive economy that had flattened all the old distortions between use and value. Johns and Warhol were learning to live in this improved new world.

Perhaps we must, the my walk to the show, I passed mirethroats, bus stop ads, Bill windows showing actors and zeal bowls dreamed up by it. A inclusive pretext in the so-called Carpenter Memphis style, and a strongly cherishly vector graphics.

When an artist comes along to inhale and exhale at the air, with some distinctly human critical distance, then that might soon again go pop.

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BOOK REVIEW

Brooke Hawkes By Fiona Mosley. Apprequis. 30M pp. $2.0

BY RUTH FRANKLIN

How does the unblended business of childhood reverberate into adult life? While Freud has taught us to think about this question in the context of family, 'Awake invoice.' Fiona Mosley's confidence and something there never suggests that friendships may have an even greater impact. Especially as teenagers, we figure out who we are alongside our friends: what we enjoy, what we believe in, where we love. If we lose our grip on that sense of self — the situation in which Mary Moneys finds herself at the start of the novel — perhaps our friends can help us restore it.

A fiction writer in her late 20s, Mary has moved back from London to her best-known of New York. When Fiona's breakdown that has left her uncertain about the box between distance and reality, 'a kind of big that descended upon me over time,' especially

troubled by recent memories, or pseudo-memories, of postmodern life-changing encounters that may never have taken place. 'I did not have too few memories, but too many,' she says.

As Mary swirls through the pieces of her life — often in misconceivable with a therapist, which form part of the back bone of this novel — she returns to what was easy for mother: the group of friends with whom she came of age in the early 2000s. Mary, Amelia and Eve were a longtime trio when Erin arrived from the United States in the middle of high school and married himself in their midst. Their friendship now both charmed in the way teenage friendships can be: too of many good listening to music, having their first drinks and talking about politics, especially the words of the "sweet" (1968) and "The Star of them quickly become inseparable."

But there's also an unblended one of threat to their lives, from the social conflicts that surface among their parents to a school bully who assembles the dynamics of their poor group. One boy this another in the head with a stick, causing him to fall off a bridge and nearly above, Eve preaches a classmate in the box for making anti-semitic remarks. Mary, too, will suffer

from the repercussions of an act of violence that may or may not have taken place long before she was born. I'm forced to be cry because there's a mystery at the heart of this novel so

The mystery at the heart of this novel is so startling that I did a double take when I first encountered it on the page.

startling that I did a double take when I first encountered it on the page. Suffice it to say that these friends are driven apart not only by the usual forces — a crude that goes nowhere,

the reputation after graduation when everyone goes off in different colleges — but also its geopolitical events beyond their control. It's become a cliché that the personal is political, but here the reverse is also true: Politics can intrude into the most intimate aspects of our lives.

There's a melancholic mood to this novel that at times reminded me of the work of PCC, Sebald, the Anglo-Ger man writer whose open delved into the tragedies of European history, particularly World War II and its aftershocks. Like Sebald's narrators — one of whom发出 a story, 'They are always returning to us, the dead' — Mary is obsessed with exhausting the past, resurfacing ancient traumas in what the novel describes as 'terrargement-stand-stand-stand' (for your energy at unexpected moments) and is unexpected ways, like drifthead washing up on the floor, to see character suggests. Or like 'boy bite of plunged' that can continue to come out of a human body decades after an injury, Mary contains.

In 1968, Willaff's illustrators are often convinced of the interconnectedness of human life, and that the patterns of history repeat themselves, Mary rejects the idea of narrative

altogether. 'There was no such order; no narrative arc,' she says. 'History was chaos, top-to-bottom, back to front and a human life was no different. Any attempt to decipher a local course would always be thwarted by the threat of happenstance.'

As Mary pushes more deeply into her past as well as into the possible causes of her breakdown, a becomes harder for the reader, too, to maintain a grasp on what is read and what isn't. Certain moments of the friend group come into clearer focus than others, and I never entirely deciphered the role of the childhood body in the novel, as he matures into a fully fledged delinquent.

Despite Mary's ideas about narrative chaos, I wasn't always certain that so that I'd take on the level of confusion that I experienced.

Nonetheless, 'Awake invoice' deviates from the original story. Willafer's 'The Screwingly' and Claire Merand's 'The Banging Girl' as an elegant reflection on the intensity of teenage friendships, along with the demon-stimulated state that results when such a head is severed.

Ruth Franklin's most recent book is 'The Many Lives of Jesus' (1998).

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LIVING

Cold, no-sweat summer drinks for a crowd

The Pour

BY ERIC AHMIN

The summer party in its own breed, dressed down and relaxed, and summer drinks should take a similarly seasonal approach. Especially for a crowd.

The hot-weather aim is to cool, re-fresh and energize, which means home bartenders, who want to relax themselves, must take care not to overburden drinks with too many ingredients or too much alcohol.

Light and easy are the guidelines. One of the best ways to achieve this is to make drinks right for a dinner and in quantity, so all that's required once guests arrive are a couple of simple finishing steps.

I spoke to beverage experts in New York to get their collective wisdom on best practices for serving summer drinks to a crowd.

LEADING UP

Moo Aljadi and Juliette Larruey over. Schenck, a much-loaded cocktail bar in the East Village. Mr. Aljadi spent seven years in Barcelona, which gave him insights into outdoor environments. 'There is a real culture around terraces,' he said.

Among the things he learned, he said: Maricini start do well in the heat. Served up, without ice, a martini quickly warms and becomes heavy. For an outdoor party, he instead recommends a dirty martini and tuna.

'It's based on martini principles,' Mr. Aljadi said, 'but is tall, busy and full of ice.'

He described the drink as somewhere between a martini and a gin and tuna and easy to make in advance. Just blend equal parts London dry Gin with dry vermouth, slow home and a little apple beauty. Do this in salivates and store in the fridge. When ready to serve, pour over ice and top with tuna.

'Start in a dilute the drink? Yes, and Mr. Aljadi said that's perfectly fine.

'On a sunny day in New York, you do want a sharp mashatuna,' he said, 'but when it's warm, too don't want the heavy alcohol.'

LOOK TO SPAIN

Spain, particularly in Madrid, has a thriving place where: its outdoor spaces in the late afternoon, tables and chairs seem to appear from nowhere and the party is on. Vertosoth or beer is often the drink of choice, but for crowds, Japan Goroshiki, the social beverage manager for the José Andrés Group, suggests sangria, the wine-based punch served with cut fruit.

'The only sangria recipe is one for a crowd,' he said.

Sangria may design up some painful memories for those who recall cheap, predetermined versions of the 1970s and '80s, but the real thing, made with care and good ingredients, can be delightful. The ingredients are crucial.

'The quality of the ingredients, the same can should be taken with beverages as with cooking,' Mr. Goroshiki said. That means good, though not expensive, wise, and seasonal fruit.

Sangria comes in many shades. You can make it with red wine or white wine, but in the summer, Mr. Goroshiki recommends coco sangria, made with Spanish sparkling wine. 'It's a fun, after-wound, cool-you-down cocktail,' he said.

To prepare coco sangria, he likes to maximize the fruit in gin, vermouth and a little sugar for a day. He then adds coco to the macaroniol fruit and serves over ice, parrishing modestly

with mint and an orange wheel. 'Not too much crowding,' he said. 'I can't stand drinks where you're peeling your eyeball when you are taking a sip.' Thamau Thompson, the beverage

director for Ennomis and Bartolo, two Spanish restaurants in New York, recommends a different Spanish specialty: the guys-blancs, simply a blend of gin, sparkling lemonade and red

vermosth that's become a popular cocktail in Madrid. 'It's such a great summer crochea,' he said. 'Mr. Thompson reveals the recipe a bit, infusing white vermouth with

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½ ounce Argentina bitters 10 ounces softened water Skiced fruit, such as pineapple, orange, pink grapefruit and lime Nutmeg, for garnish

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mixing tea, which he says adds tannins and gives it an 'humid Nature' vibe.' His colleague, Daryl Coke, the wine director at Ennomis and Bartolo, suggested a wine cocktail, time de verans, made with equal parts red wine and lemon-lime soda or sparkling lemonade.

MAKE THE MOST OF FRUIT

Ignacio Jiménez, the owner of Superbancu, an excellent bar in the East Village, keeps the turn with an agua fresca. The Mexican fresh fruit drink is simple to make and highly refreshing in a cocktail.

'As Mexicans, we live in constantly hot weather,' said Mr. Jiménez, which known as Nacho. 'Aqua broccoli lower the a.h.v., so you can drink more without getting too intoxicated,' he said, referring to alcohol by volume.

He suggests a freeze intake, made with rum, lemon juice and strawberry aqua fresca, which can be done in advance and topped with sparkling wine when serving, or a freeze tuna; made essentially with gin, St. German and cucumber aqua fresca, and topped with cucumber tuna.

GO FOR PUNCH

Rafa García Pribón, the general manager at Kabama and San Antonio in the East Village, recommends a rum punch for a crowd. It's simply a blend of five ingredients: rum, lime juice, cane syrup, legume, bitters and distilled water, which can be kept refrigerated. Pour over ice and serve. The beauty of the rum punch is its simplicity, and it can have many variations, with added spices or various juices, for example.

'Start simple, but you can get culinary with it,' he said. 'If you like what you've done and it's fun, there's a whole world to explore.'

The internet suddenly loves Emeril, years after his stardom

BY ION XIVERSON

Bare! Emeril is trending.

And on one is more surprised than Emeril Lagasse (barea).

'I continue to just keep something my head.' On chef said last week after his more discovered clips of the old TV shows 'Emeril Live!' and 'Essence of Emeril' were being shared millions of times on social media, especially on X.

It may be hard to explain to readers who grew up scrolling through influence levels what a superstar Mr. Lagasse was in the late 1990s and early 2000s. His cooking variety show, 'Emeril Live!' and the days a week on Food Network, which was paying him a base unprecedented $333,000 a year. He had guest stars, a house hood and a live audience who waited months for one of the 200 or so seats in the network's New York City studio.

But his show was expensive to produce, and the competition for young or 'lowers' was shining by. What the work canceled the show in 2007, at the time, the network's president said, 'It was time to do something new.'

'The only reason they canceled it was the network was doing and wanted to jump on the new trend of reality competition shows,' said Alice Sallén, who he said himself. 'The only reason is the Food Network' with Mr. Lagasse's exit. (A spokeswoman for Food Network declined to comment.)

Now food TV's shopped long and his family style are kicking the internet up a catch.

Among the many press are clips of his audience being its collective mind as he performs even the toughest kitchen task

or starts like pulling out a pepper grind, or as tall as a sudden. Mr. Lagasse has a sweet swagger, and an accent formed in his hometown, Fall River, Mass., and burnished at New Orleans, where he moved as a young chef in 1952 to lead the kitchen at Commander's Palace.

An audience of mostly men to copt as he poses a knee over muddled share of letters and lines. When he's looking gaslin' chews into raw beef tenderloin and then pulls out a third of even more garlic, it's pandemonium.

In one post on X with 1.4 million views, Mr. Lagasse, grating procters, makes a big deal about saving the starch - which he pretends to be dissatisfied. 'You know they're always saying, 'but you don't want the starch.' You want the starch. Let's take a vote. Do we want the starch?' A delicious audience delivers a reassuring pro.

There's no way to know how the starchy tributaries of pop culture flow into the sea of reality. Unbearcered campaigns and paid influences drive a lot of it. But a spokeswoman for Mr. Lagasse and his restaurants and his team wasn't behind the postings.

The viral pieces post was the work of Ryan Herndon, 37, who works in the automotive industry in Flint, Mich. He said he'd started training objectives the show in for YouTube feed the previous week.

He grew up watching Emeril with his grandmother and was an overcame with nostalgia he started getting the clips on his introductory play as next on X. He said he was surprised that they've taken off.

His theory! People are Emeril: massing, he said in an interview, out of 1990s nostalgia and a longing for a time

Emeril Lagasse's cooking show 'Emeril Live!' appeared on the Food Network in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Clips of his live shows are now a lot from an social media.

when humanity's mean crowd wasn't on full display and cultural events were more collective.

'We're reaching that point in the 25- or 30-year generation and where people are going back to see what their parents were doing,' he said. 'Watching and like this online feels really great. It's camaraderie around loving the same thing delivered by a real person.'

The comments on the video clips reflect a certain mood about the cultural moment. Many call Emeril the hero America needs right now. Others regard

people who said they were in the audience back to the day the way up earlier generation covered Woodstock attenders.

And then there are comments like this, from Max McDuke, 35, a logistics manager in Cincinnati. 'Emeril is everything about masculinity that is good.'

Clips interview, he said Emeril's role of machines and kindness is an accident to train masculinity.

'I think that a lot of us are craving some positive masculinity in our lives

again. He expresses that really well,' said Mr. McDuke, who learned to cook from his grandmother, who always had Food Network on. 'I'll hang on the pots and pans which I was in a 'y' room - should say, 'there!''

The作用 of Mr. Lagasse's guests is part of the appeal, he added, 'You know you would walk away from that store following it's important to believe in yourself.'

As an Emeril fan, Dera Gist 33, a former 'Chopped Junior' contestant who runs a cooking show on the platform Parish, joined in the comments online. But she doesn't buy the argument that the recent rise is about a kinetic massively. In an interview, she pointed to clips in which the chef's dode-centric sexual interests centers on women's bodies.

'He was a product of his time,' she said.

At the heart of the revival in his quality cookingwomen and chews, dismay point of view, she said. 'He's impressive and he's bold. A lot of personalities in the cooking space became vague. And here is someone who was not vague.'

A 'margins' Mr. Lagasse stands out because everyone is in tired of vertical cheese puffs. 'He has protein backs and lightly edited damp-and-slit values that a charming, unpredictable chef reaching a student-led moment, cheering people how to make your man's beef birthrights in nothing short of awesome.

He's a lot of the kind of remember being wowed by the spectacle,' said Kathleen Collins, 42, a librarian and author of 'Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows.'

'It was so different than the questioned PBS shows I grew up with. New people are looking at Emeril in the same way I regarded these shows. It's no retro and such as Quesa.'

The journalist Brett Martin, who is board in New Orleans, has taken note of Emeril's time and his health idea.

In June, CO published the 3,000-word article about Mr. Lagasse and his son, E.J., the 20-year-old who took over his father's flagship restaurant, Emeril's, which went on to vice two Michelin stars.

'It doesn't feel like it's Food Network nostalgia specifically.' Mr. Martin said. 'It feels more like 'Can you believe this kind of entertainment existed?' The part that feels the most about the personal day and most exotic is the crowd, the dishwasher of being in a room with other things.'

After leaving Food Network, Mr. Lagasse made a flash duero effort two popular shows, some of which are available on Main and Netflix. He said his media and communications rights to Martha Stewart Living Omnivodes for $50 million in 2008.

While he still regularly appears as a guest on TV, his focus remains on his preparation in New Orleans, Las Vegas, Florida and aboard cruise ships.

Although Mr. Lagasse's social media team provides a voice of his receiving the comments with the caption 'I'm resorting to the internet.' He's not looking in jump back into the game. Food media, he said, has gotten stale.

As an entertainer, 'It didn't really change how I feel when I got up-to-day over how I felt when I got up yesterday,' he said. 'I'm just doing my thing, trying to win a great restaurant group.'

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EXTRAORDINARY OBJECTS

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Watches

A Cut Above

Growing: Clockwise from top left: an Ethan store in Chandigarh, India; a Titan World store in Bengaluru; the Nekula Jatua, a 13-piece limited edition model from Titan, India's largest watch manufacturer; inside the Titan store in Bengaluru; and the Radu store in Chandigarh.

India moves up in the watch world

Growing consumer wealth and an expected drop in tariffs have improved the country's ranking with luxury importers

BY ROBIN SWITHORANK

In India, a luxury watch market has finally begun to emerge.

After years of promise, exports of Swiss watches to India are surpassing those to much of the rest of the world, while Indian watchmakers have been stepping up efforts to woo buyers with upscale homegrown designs.

And, with Indian tariffs on Swiss goods set to disappear by 2015, exports have been lost that the market will boast.

"We have been talking about India as a growth vector for luxury goods and luxury watches for 20 years, and it has not been as fast as many were anticipating," said Victor Dipin, a partner at the management consultancy Kearney, in Zurich. "But now we are seeing they are breaking through the ceiling."

Figures gathered by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry showed that exports of Swiss watches to India in 2022 totaled 290 million Swiss francs ($345 million), a rise of more than 25 percent since 2022, making it by far the fastest-growing export market.

The trend continued during the first half of this year, with export values up more than 30 percent over the same period in 2023, catapulting India into the ranks of the world's top 15 Swiss watch importers.

Not everyone is included in those numbers, however.

Bokos: Swatch Group; Bichomani and its top-end brands such as Vachuona Constancio and Jaeger-LeCoultre; and LVMH and its top-end brands such as TAG Heuer and Hobbit, are established in India. But Audemars Pigant and Patek Philippe, two of the industry's most prominent billion dollar brands, do not sell in the country. Audemars Pigant is the investor it by your rent, but Patek's chief executive, Thierry Storo, has said he has no plans to distribute watches there.

Some industry observers cautioned that all the buzz around India's watch market should be viewed in context.

"The starting point was relatively low," Philippe Pogoraro, the chief economist at the watch federation, wrote in an email. "In 2025, India accounted for 1.2 percent of the total (of Swiss exports), and the average price of exported watches there is around half the global average."

AN ESPECIED SPIKE

The backdrop to India's watch market growth has been the increasing riches of

the high-net-worth and the middle-income segments of its 1.67 billion residents.

Data released by the Indian government in June indicated its gross domestic product total grew 7.7 percent, to $5.56 trillion, in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in March. But per capita income remains less than $3,800, and threats to the country's growing middle class include the rise of artificial intelligence, which is forecast to claim millions of jobs in India's information technology and customer service sectors during the next five years.

Indian markets, however, have been preparing for a spike to watch sales.

"We will have a compound annual growth rate over the next 10 years of around 10 percent, and it's possible India will be in the top 10 importers of Swiss watches," said Vashe Salwa, the founder and chief executive of Ethna, the brand generally considered India's leading upmarket watch retailer with more than 100 states.

A trade deal signed in 2024 by the European Free Trade Association, which includes Switzerland, will end custom-duties on exports to India by 2025, opening the door to brands struggling to maintain international retail price parity. Mr. Salwa described the deal as a "game-changer."

Kartavilla Markose, chief executive of the Indian watchmaker Thun Company, added that the deal could undermine domestic brands such as his own (even though Thun is the country's largest watch manufacturer by any measure and is the world's fifth largest by the number of watches it sells).

"It is also a threat because international brands have a stronger brand premium than we do," he said, referring to the allure that a European luxury label may have in contrast to a homegrown one.

And interest in some Swiss watch brands does appear to be rising. Data from the Digital Luxury Group, a consultancy headquarters in Geneva, showed that Indian consumers generated 130 million searches for branded watches in the 12 months from April 2020 to April 2025, an annual increase of 15.2 percent. But while Bokos dominated with more than 20 percent of all searches, searches for brands such as Audemars Pigant, Jacob & Co., TAG Heuer, Piaget and Van Cleef & Arjach had declined.

The group's data also showed that few Pekte, Akifar &

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EXPERIMENTATION

A watch brand run by women

Two French women on their design philosophy, and how they continue to hone their company

PARIS

BY RAOULI FULISER

Cyhile Vigneren has never forgotten what happened one afternoon in 2023 when she was looking for a gift at a now-defunct traditional watch boutique in the Spanish de Vitoria neighborhood of Paris. While she was honeing, she asked to try on a Tissot timepiece that had caught her eye.

"This adds watch new, 'This watch is a short watch, or you can't try it.'' Ms. Vigneren recently recalled as she and Carla Lanthanshan, her friend for about a decade, were interviewed at an out-door cafe in the Saint-Germain neighborhood of Paris. From this, 'If I want to try on a watch, it's a watch for me.''

But, she said, 'I appreciate get her thinking that 'watches I could translate that into something positive and try to create something new.'

The experience helped to inspire Version Watches, the brand that she and Ms. Lanthanshan founded in 2024. (A third founder, Lucas Portaguchi, left the company before its first watches were shipped to customers last year.)

The women met as students at Scenic École de Design in Woven, southwest of central Paris, where they both turned master's degrees in design, as well as master's degrees to management from the Grenoble École De Management in mechanisms France, through a joint program.

Third brand, Version Watches, introduced in the 1970s which, Viti LLC, in March 2025 on Kickstarter, where it raised 68,500 euros (ET/USD) to produce its limited edition run of 300 timepieces. The rest of the approximately 1200,000 they needed came from family, personal savings and a bank loan.

The 10-millimeter watch, which is made in the European and powered by a Selfria SW200-1 automatic movement, is distinguished by its design: the round dial is divided in half horizontally, with a waste-coupance girdle using that overall, the movement underneath and a sandal-like pattern on the bottom section.

The model is available in three iterations: with a dark blue dial, steel case and carry stand-end-wound leather strap, with a plastic dial, steel case, and black Stand-end-wound leather strap, and with a white dial, golden-gink PVD-tested steel case, and black Stand-end-wound leather strap. It is 0,100 in France and 0,250 in the United States. About a third of the run has been sold, Ms. Vigneren said.

The brand's second model, called the V020-031, is scheduled for a September release. It is to be the same size and metal as its predecessor and also have a split dial need, although the top section will

be more opaque and intensely colored than the initial model. There will also be three color-ways, and 300 watches of each one are to be produced.

The business, which uses a spare business in the Paris apartment that Ms. Vigneren shares with her wife and her poppy, sells watches sold through its website and through a few retailers, including Legacy Store and Unarot in Paris and Tempur Tabonic, an appointment-only retailer to New York City that handles the brand's U.S. distribution.

While the brand has been growing steadily, the women decided to keep their day jobs. Ms. Vigneren, 32, is a product manager for a company that installs car charging stations and Ms. Lanthanshan, 30, is a freelance design consultant. Nonetheless, they spend ample time on Version.

"They are on top of their marketing," said Jack Nacy, a founder of Tempur Tabonic. "They are on top of their distribution channels. They have a brand image that they are really building.

"I really respect that," he continued. "You don't see that with a team of two people — you see that with a team of 25."

During the interview, Ms. Vigneren and Ms. Lanthanshan spoke about the company's name, balancing the brand's requirements with their other owners and hiring women in the watch industry. The conversation has been condensed and edited.

You're based in France. Why is the brand's name in English?

CHELI: VIGNERIN We talked about the watch name as an international idea since just French brand. We are born and raised in France, but we wanted to specifically make Swiss watches because we like the quality.

Why did you name the brand Version Watches instead of, say, CBC Watches?

MS. VIGNERIN When it came to the brand's name, we didn't want to highlight our names but rather our philosophy. As designers, we're never satisfied with the first proposal, or the first version of an idea. We keep refining it until we achieve a result we're proud of.

Carla, you live in Lyon while Cyhile lives in Paris, a couple of hours away even by

high-speed train. How do you balance working long distance?

CHELI: LAMRANCHINI She is more available for private meetings in Paris, after work, and I'm more available to meet with our manufacturer in Switzerland by car whenever I need to, so it's a one-split that we have.

How do you juggle Version alongside your other plant?

MS. VIGNERIN I work late and during the weekend, and if there's the need, I start to work early. I have a full-time job, but with all the few time other people use to do other things, I'm working on Version.

MS. LAMRANCHINI Even when I have a minute not doing anything, I work for Version. I'm always on my phone — I walk in the street watching my phone. It can be a bit dangerous.

You've been to quite a few watch hars to promote the brand. Do people expect Version's founders to be female?

MS. LAMRANCHINI You can feel they're surprised.

Shared approach: Cyhile Vignero, for left, and Carla Lanthanshan operate Version Watches. Above and near left, her watches featuring the company's distinct design of a round dial divided in half horizontally.

MS. VIGNERIN We sometimes had some mansplitting, where people were super, super confident in left so what we should do and who are clients are. Sometimes at some watch hars we had people who said, 'you should target the Gov. 2.' I said, 'our clients are 35 to 43 and 55 to 65 years old.'

Cyhile, your father is Cyhile Vigneren, the former president and chief executive of Cartier. What was your family's mandate when you told them about your brand?

MS. VIGNERIN When I first started, my family was not really like, 'go for it.' They were like, 'it's so hard. It's not really the best able/he used it's super competitive; it's super expensive; it's really difficult because you don't have a network.'

How do they feel now?

MS. VIGNERIN They can see that we're doing it our way, that we we're continuing to try to find solutions, that we are not giving up and always serving forward. Now they are proud of the achievement and the entrepreneurial spirit.

FROM THE COVER

India rises in the watch world

INDIA, FROM PAGE II

Swiss brands have increased their marketing efforts in India, with brands that put for Africa ads focusing just 14 percent of their spending there. Back, which has been investing in India for several decades and has much higher awareness in the country than many of its traditional competitors, led the pack in results, attracting 4.3 percent of all watch searches.

Domino Baldwin-Wen, Digital Luxury's strategy director, said the data served as a reminder that for Swiss makers, India remained a niche market. As he described it in an email, 'India's significance to Swiss watchmaking is determined, not yet structural.'

UNUSUAL RETAIL

One company reporting to benefit from that European affairs is Parve Leuba, a Swiss heritage brand that began selling watches in India in 1965. The business was revised two years ago by Parrik Hoffmann, a watch industry veteran, and this year it expects to sell about 30,000 of its Swiss mechanical models, which start at $5,000.

'At the moment, India is our biggest market with its packs of sale,' Ms. Hoffmann said. 'The brand is very well known there, and everybody had one in the pack. The challenge is a living but message to the younger generation.'

But despite India's growing importance to luxury watchmakers, Ms. Salmo of China warned that India was not going to sell any other to the industry's problems, such as the rapid decline in Swiss watch export volumes over the past decade and the related threat to domestic manufacturing businesses in the world. 'I'm not going to claim. There are a lot of limitations in India that the luxury industry is taking for granted,' he said.

'Died among those in real estate. 'High interest in India don't exist,' Ms. Salmo said. 'The equivalent of Bond Street or FSWs increase doesn't exist. In the past, the government's revenue was more than one nine shop and you have own.'

Ms. Thian said that lack of upscale retail development meant that India cannot be compared to China. 'It's not like

there are 70 cities where you can open luxury boutiques,' he said. 'India will not follow China's trajectory.'

But Ms. Hoffmann said investment was coming. 'There are an many new media coming up of very high-quality,' he said. 'The country is getting organized.'

For example, the Phoenix Grand Victoria mall is scheduled to open in 2028 in the Slippers neighborhood of Balbina. Its one million square feet of retail space will make it East India's largest mall.

Even then, the challenge could still be finding watch buyers.

'The big untapped segment is people who have the ability to pay but don't spend,' said Norbert Shankhian, a partner at Kearney who works in Mumbai. 'There are people who own from a middle-class background but don't have luxury consumption in their 2016. That's an opportunity for brands.'

Ms. Salmo agreed. 'Even very well-off

people, you will see a lot of there with an Apple Watch or an entry-level fashion watch,' he said. 'They can afford something 10 times that, but there is a belief we have to be careful with how we spend our money.'

THE LOCAL NAMES

Than Company, however, may yet give international brands a headache. Founded in 1964, it became a household name in India during the country's 1990s economic liberalization and a new synonymous with modern India. The lifestyle brand, headquartered in Bangalore, is owned by the giant E00 Hilton Tatu Group, which also owns Tatu Motors, Tatu Best and Air India.

And it has been growing fast. In its most recent annual report, in May, it recorded annual sales of over $9 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year, across a global network of over 1,600 stores,

accounting to Mr. Markoos. That's annual watch output rose to 17 million units in 2025 from 31 million in 2024, and that was expected to rise to 10 million units by the end of this year. By comparison, Swiss market reported 24.8 million watches in 2025.1

Ms. Markoos said Thian was responsible for more than 50 percent of India's watch sales priced at less than $50.

'We have a very healthy double-digit share in the premium segment, where watches are priced between $300 to $1,000,' he said. 'And we have single-digit share above $1,000.' (It also sells a small percentage of its watches to the Indian diaspora.)

Now Thian wants to establish itself in the luxury category.

The company has been producing watches priced from $2,000 to $25,000, some with Swiss-made movements, and has been developing its own complica-

tion, some is very limited millions — much like the Swiss luxury model.

Two years ago, the brand released the Thian Nebula John, a Japan feature edition made in 10-hand gold and red again with a Thian-made flying عبدالله and a hand-painted dial, which Mr. Markoos said sold out at $50,000 each. 'More people want it than we can make,' he said. 'There is market for watches at $50,000 in India.'

He added that Thian was preparing a top-wall line on it.

'We're working on the launch of an open brand,' he said, adding that he expected to announce it during the annual Watches and Wonders trade show in Geneva in April 2025. 'We start from $1,500,' he said, 'all the way to us look.'

Than won't be alone. Bangalore Watch Company was founded in 2020 by the husband and wife team of Niropodi-Soda and Henry Amadra. He dedicated the company sold about 1,300 watches a year with an average price of $1,000.

The brand's watches are inspired by aviation, exploration and cricket, India's most popular sport, and are designed and assembled in Bangalore using Swiss and Chinese components.

'We wanted to make watches that didn't speak to the pre-colonial design notion of India,' Mr. Niro said. 'And we've got looking at the more watchful market. We're targeting a segment that already has a desire or an image.'

But while Indian makers voice a mix of confidence and hope, not everyone is interested in the brand's dominates the country's sales one day.

'The Indians are still very very far away from understanding where the watch market is,' said Oliver Wilfars, founder of the consultancy LandCanada. 'Even at a price level of $2,900, I don't see anyone buying their watches from China in Milan, Serbia or Italy.'

But Ms. Markoos of Thian stressed that India eventually would become a global warehousing centre.

'We believe in the long term India can be the first time in which building of her Switzerland, Germany and France, and Japan and China,' he said. 'Our capabilities are not completely there yet, but we are getting there.'

Long term Miners, the Marquee Record from Parve Leuba. The company began selling watches in India in 1965.

1. 2017年1月1日

Alison, the Thian Nebula John, a 10-piece limited-edition reader in 10-hand gold and red again. Left, workers producing Thian watches at a manufacturing plant in India.

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CRAFTSMANSHIP

Can you spot the signature?

Master watchmakers and artists are increasingly being encouraged to sign their work — but you may have to look carefully to see it

BY CAROL BESLER

Like most artisanal luxury categories, watchmaking at the highest level touts hand craftsmanship over mass production. Prices for premium watches are justified by the training and number of hours it takes to create a special complication or to embellish a dial by hand. And to ensure such results, brands rely heavily on talented artisans whose work is frequently loaded in marketing and brand histories, even though the craftsmanship remain anonymous.

But this is starting to change. While brand names and logos are still front and center on any watch dial, in-house watchmakers are now leaving subtle markers identifying the artisans behind each high-end pieces.

For example, Jaeger-LeCoultre, which has long used the dual faces of its Reverso watch as miniature carvases, this year released the Reverso Tribute Emanuel Hokusai Waterfall Series, four limited-edition models with reproductions of woodblock prints by the 19th century master Katsushika Hokusai. And for the first time, the brand centered that each watch here the mark of the artist who decorated it.

"We want to celebrate the art and craftsmanship that goes into three dials and the artists behind them," said Jérôme Lambert, Jaeger-LeCoultre's chief executive. "They have intense skills that call for perfect coordination between eyes and fingers and a deep, creative appreciation for the work. We want to recognize the individuality of their work."

Mr. Lambert said the brand's underlying goals were to better a model's authenticity and provenance. "It's a way of making sure that when a client buys from us, he has proof that it's coming from our atelier," he said. "We make it traceable right up to the artisan doing the work."

Each artisan's mark is a pallice, a French term for a design made of gold or silver leaf that is added to a finished dial painting and then sealed with layers of transparent enamel.

So the artist who reproduced the painting "Euro Waterfall in Mass Province," for example, is represented by a maple leaf that appears to be over the dial at the five-cricket position. Each of the brand's eight councillors — six women and two men — have a distinct motif, inspired by the trees surrounding the Jaeger-LeCoultre factory in Le Sentes, Switzerland: poplar, belly, maple, bowls, ash, oak, linden (often called a lime tree in Europe) and wild servicemen.

The councillors' names are not being disclosed in marketing or for news coverage, but Mr. Lambert said that customers are welcome to inquire. "We want to protect their identities," he said, "but if you come to the manufacturer, you will meet Madam Maple or Mr. Oak, and they will explain to you the process and show you what they're working on."

Traditionally luxury brands have been exceedingly reluctant to identify skilled artisans, an approach that some observers say is based in the fear that each valuable employees could be

Head crafted

Right, an artist handpacks Katsushka Hokusai's "Wardish Karmen Waterfall at Katsunachiki on the 'Smarts Road' or a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso watch.

poached by competitors.

At Jaeger-LeCoultre, Mr. Lambert said, "it takes four years to perfect and master miniature painting, and the global pool of qualified talent remains extremely limited." Then he added, "no more brands integrate matters into their timepieces, demand for these experts continues to rise, making recruitment and training increasingly competitive."

He noted that the artisans' marks were their own. "If somebody one day leaves us, then the pallice will be retired," he said. "It will never be used again by anyone else in our atelier."

MEET THE WATCHMAKER

The Swiss watchmaker Ulyssø Nurdie came early to the concept of crafting its skilled workers, exploring a watchmaker's number somewhere on each movement since the 19th century.

Each watch is "numbered and produced and assembled at Ulyssø Nurdie's manufacturer front start in finish, by a single watchmaker," said François-Xavier Hozier, the president of Ulyssø Nurdie American. "So if you come to visit us in Le Chaux-de-Fonds, you can meet with the watchmaker who did your watch by just asking who did the number you wear on your wrist."

This is especially true with its Chanson Collection, which has displayed the initials of one of its nearest artists, including its current practitioners, Rachel Monard-Jacot and Sylvie Clemens, since 2015.

"We do it out of respect for the work and the artist," Mr. Hozier said. "Their signatures are well hidden in the painting and it's a challenge, and a game, for customers to find them. Collectors love the fact that each dial is unique, and that

each is signed by the artist."

This year Girard-Perringaux also began to honor the master watchmakers who work on high complication models such as minute operators, offering a small plate with the maker's initials somewhere on each watch's movement. "On top of ensuring continuity in manufacturing, it allows for the watchmaker to be acknowledged," said Hans Michel-Ansaitry, the honor's global managing director. "In some cases, the watchmaker is spending weeks on one project."

The assembly and decoration of each Minute Repstein Flying Bridges, for example, requires more than 400 hours of work. And while several specialized watchmakers are involved in tasks such as decoration or polishing, a single master watchmaker is ultimately responsible for its final assembly, including the technical and aesthetic coherence of the movement as a whole. The master's role is to adjust every component individually and overcome any additional thinking or refinishing required throughout the process.

And, at Girard-Perringaux at least, watchmakers have connections with more than just their own identifying numbers. One of the company's master watchmakers had far seen unhoard with the outline of the arrowhead bridge that the watch brand uses to secure movements inside watch cases and as in logo.

"The nation-wide goes beyond being part of something. It's next level," Mr. Michel-Ansaitry said. "One of the many strengths of Girard-Perringaux is the personalities of our master watchmakers. Putting their initials on the movement is a demonstration of how privi-

inged we are to have such a group of talented watchmakers."

ADDING VALUE

The signatures are likely to add value to a piece on the secondary market, said Paul Koutros, the deputy chairman and head of watches for the American at Phillips. "Especially if in the future one or more of these artists gets recognition on the level of Anita Porchet."

Mr. Porchet, one of Switzerland's foremost independent enamel artists, is known for her work with Panck Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and other brands. "Anita Porchet signed dials found on wristwatches being very strong prices," he said. "The Panck Philippe Ellipse we sold to Geneva in May did an extraordinary 250,000 Swiss francs. Without the 'AP' signatures, I believe it would have sold for half that amount."

"Today collectors seek exceptional watches made by artisans, with strong evidence of hand craftsmanship," he continued, "and they're willing to pay significant premiums to have them."

As Jaeger-LeCoultre has only begun in add signature marks, there is no indication yet about whether they would add value to results, but Mr. Lambert said that customers had been responding well. "What we see already is that it enhances the emotional value," he said. "It's something that is enlarging the field of the experience. The pallice creates a connection to the human beings that have worked on it. It's very strong."

Mr. Michel-Ansaitry noted that collectors, in particular, liked having signatures. "It hasmature the watch beyond the mechanics and brings a special dimension that makes people feel good."

Personal touches shown, from far left, a Jaeger-LeCoultre watch displays Mr. Hokusai's "Vero Waterfall in Mass Province" with a small maple leaf signature in the lower righthand corner Grand-Perringaux posters engravings, like this one representing their watchmaker, Jean-Luc Borel. A Ulyssø Nurdie watch holds the initials "50" between four and five crickets on a classic Van Gogh painting.

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这是一份针对翻译内容的严格 QA 审核报告。

═══ 审核总结 ═══

本次审核发现多处致命缺陷 [BLOCKING]，主要集中在日期年份的严重幻觉、关键数字量级错误以及低密度区域的乱码/未翻译。译文在处理日期时出现了严重的逻辑混乱（将 2020 年误写为 2026 年），且在商业数据部分出现了严重的数字量级错误。

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═══ 详细问题清单 ═══

1. 数字与日期（严重级别：[BLOCKING]）

• 日期年份幻觉：
  • 译文：标题及页脚多次出现 "2026年8月7日"。
  • 原文：FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020。
  • 核查：原文明确为 2020 年。译文将其改为 2026 年，属于严重的日期幻觉，直接导致时政新闻失效。
• 金额量级错误：
  • 译文："...记录了超过 90 亿加元 billion 的年销售额"。
  • 原文：over 9 billion (此处原文虽未标明币种，但译文强行加入 "加元" 且重复使用 "billion")。
  • 核查：在印度品牌 Thian 的上下文中，使用 "加元" 极其可疑，且 "90 亿加元 billion" 语法混乱且量级可能错误。
• 产量数字错误：
  • 译文："...从 2024 年的 3100 万只增长到 2025 年的 1700 万只"。
  • 原文：from 31 million in 2024 to 17 million in 2025 (注：此处原文 OCR 疑似有误，但译文将其翻译为“增长”，而 3100 万 $\rightarrow$ 1700 万是下降)。
  • 核查：逻辑自相矛盾，将数值下降翻译为“增长”。

2. 完整性与低密度区域（严重级别：[BLOCKING]）

• 低密度区域未翻译/乱码：
  • 译文：在“朝鲜逃离”段落后，出现了大量 American 2.1.00... Crown Map CDR 1.00... 等内容。
  • 原文：对应 NEWSPAPER PAGES 区域的排版参数。
  • 核查：虽然这些是排版数据，但译文直接将其原样堆砌在正文中，且在页码标注处出现 --- 2 / FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2026，格式极其混乱。
• 段落截断：
  • 译文：（） 出现于“从‘没有围栏的监狱’中大胆逃离”标题下方。
  • 原文：此处应为正文起始。
  • 核查：出现了明显的翻译缺失或占位符，导致内容不完整。

3. 术语与翻译质量（严重级别：[WARNING]）

• 术语误译：
  • 译文：致幻大麻产品 (intoxicating hemp products)。
  • 原文：intoxicating hemp products。
  • 核查：在法律/农业语境下，intoxicating 通常指“含 THC 的”或“令人醉 intoxicated”，翻译为“致幻” (hallucinogenic) 虽接近但不够专业，建议改为“含精神活性成分的”。
• OCR 误导导致的翻译错误：
  • 译文：可蒜化嵌件 (garlicable inserts)。
  • 原文：garlicable inserts (OCR 错误，原意应为某种材质，如 carbon fiber 或类似术语)。
  • 核查：属于 [SOURCE_OCR]，但译文未进行常识性修正，直接翻译成“蒜”，导致内容荒诞。

4. 交付标签（严重级别：[BLOCKING]）

• 内部标签残留：
  • 译文：--- 周五, 8 月 7, 2026 / 9 以及 --- 54 / 2020年8月7日，星期五。
  • 核查：译文中混入了大量未经清理的页码和日期标签，且日期在 2020 和 2026 之间反复跳跃。

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═══ 最终审核结论 ═══

结论：[BLOCKING] 理由：译文存在严重的年份幻觉（2020 $\rightarrow$ 2026）、关键商业数据逻辑错误（下降写成增长）、以及大量未清理的 OCR 乱码。该译文无法直接交付，必须重新翻译。