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VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,155$3.00

NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018

© 2018 The New York Times Company

Clinton Warns DISSIDENT KILLING
Europe of Peril MUDDLES A DEALOf Open DoorsON NUCLEAR FUEL

Policies ‘Lit the Flame’for the Extreme Right FEARS OF A BOMB PLAN
This article is by Matt Stevens,Megan Specia and Patrick Kingsley.

JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMESEternal Yellowstone Is Changing Before Our Eyes
Climate change is transforming America’s first national park so quickly that its herds ofbison, rushing rivers, forest-covered mountain ranges and other treasured scenes may look
radically different by the time today’s children visit with families of their own. Page A16.

Golden Goose Road to Being ‘Real Men’ in China Starts Here
Presents a Test
— Tang Haiyan runs
For Democrats hisBEIJING
school with a clear mission inBy SUI-LEE WEE

By VIVIAN WANGIn the months before the Nov. 6elections, New York’s Senate
Democrats received $25,000 froma mysterious group of five donors,
with names like 2332 7 Ave L.L.C.,
207 Silver Lane L.L.C. and 228 W
132 L.L.C.
The donors shared one address,
at 223 West 138th Street in Manhattan — home to a real estate
management firm with properties
across Harlem and the rest of thecity. Two more donors from thesame address gave $20,000 to another Democrat: Letitia James,
who was just elected New York attorney general.
The donations were made possible by a loophole in New York’scampaign finance law that, formore than 20 years, has allowed
corporations to create limited liability companies for the sole purpose of giving virtually unlimited
amounts of money to candidates.
The law treats limited liability
companies as people, allowing
each to donate up to $65,100 to every statewide candidate per election cycle — far more than the$5,000 aggregate contribution
limit for corporations. Firms cancreate multiple L.L.C.s, effectively erasing any maximum.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, has been by far the greatestbeneficiary of the state loophole inrecent years, raising more than
$17.5 million from L.L.C.s since
taking office in 2011. The Senate
Republicans’ campaign committee raised more than $3.4 million
from L.L.C.s in that time, compared with $1 million for the Democrats.
The loophole’s existence is one
reason critics call New York’s
campaign finance laws among theweakest in the nation. The real estate industry in particular has
made ample use of it. And Democrats, in their successful bid to recapture the State Senate for thefirst time in a decade, campaigned
on a promise to close it.
But even as they vowed to muzzle big money’s influence, they
benefited from the same L.L.C. donations they were railing against.
Before the 2016 election, when theDemocrats’ chances of regaining
power seemed less certain, theircampaign committee amassed$42,500 from L.L.C.s in the final
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mind: He will train boys to bemen.
There are many ways to be aman, of course, but the broadshouldered Mr. Tang has a particular kind of man in mind. Thisman plays sports. This man conquers challenges.
“We will teach the children toplay golf, go sailing and be equestrians,” said Mr. Tang, 39, “but wewill never cultivate sissies.”
Mr. Tang founded the Real Boys
Club, which stands at the forefrontof a deep conversation in China
about what it means to be a man.
It’s a debate that has been stirred
by worries about military effectiveness, an embrace of traditional culture and roles, disappointing academic performance
among boys and echoes of the defunct one-child policy.
To the club’s thinking, the alternative for the boys, ages 7 to 12, islife in a society where androgynous pop idols, overprotective
mothers and mostly female teachers would turn them into effeminate crybabies.
On one recent Sunday afternoon, 17 boys from the Real Boys

GILLES SABRIÉ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMESAt the Real Boys Club’s weekly training session, students takepart in exercises aimed at teaching them about collective effort.
Club blocked, sprinted and tackled one another as they learned
about American football. Wearing
a red hooded sweatshirt, Mr. Tang
led the boys in a call-and-responsechant.
“Who’s the best?” he shouted.
“I’m the best!” they shoutedback.
“Who’s the strongest?”“I’m the strongest!”“Who are you?”“Real men!”

Arguably, the club is intended toaddress a problem that China
does not have. Chinese men still
dominate the top echelons of politics and business. Institutional
sexism is widespread. Wealth isconcentrated in the hands of men.
Women complain of sexual harassment within public transport,universities and companies.
But China’s preoccupation withstrong men has taken on a poliContinued on Page A8

Europe’s leaders need to send amuch stronger message that they
will no longer offer “refuge andsupport” to migrants if they wantto curb the right-wing populism
spreading across the Continent,Hillary Clinton warned in an interview published Thursday.
Mrs. Clinton said that while thedecision of some nations to welcome migrants was admirable, it
had opened the door to politicalturmoil, the rise of the right andBritain’s decision to withdraw
from the European Union.
“I think Europe needs to get ahandle on migration because thatis what lit the flame,” Mrs. Clinton
said in the interview with TheGuardian, which was conducted
before the United States midterm
elections this month.
“I admire the very generous
and compassionate approaches
that were taken particularly byleaders like Angela Merkel, but I
think it is fair to say Europe hasdone its part, and must send avery clear message — ‘we are notgoing to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ — because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roilthe body politic,” she said.
The issue of migration has beena divisive one worldwide, and especially so in Europe, in the wakeof an influx of refugees and migrants that, in 2015 alone, drew
one million people to the continent.
In the United States, President
Trump has mobilized his base of
supporters by focusing on what hecalls the perils of immigration. He
spoke frequently before themidterm elections about a caravan of immigrants traveling north
toward the country’s southernborder. Democrats agreed on a
strategy of mostly ignoring thatissue, but the party is divided on
how best to grapple with immigration in general.
Mrs. Clinton’s remarks to The
Guardian drew criticism and adose of surprise from an array ofscholars, immigration advocatesand pundits on both the left andthe right, some of whom were soperplexed by the comments thatthey wondered aloud whether
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Saudis Say They Want
Help From the U.S. toBuild Power Plants
By DAVID E. SANGER
and WILLIAM J. BROAD

WASHINGTON — Before
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing ofJamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying tosolve a separate mystery: Wasthe prince laying the groundwork
for building an atomic bomb?
The 33-year-old heir to theSaudi throne had been overseeing
a negotiation with the Energy Department and the State Department to get the United States tosell designs for nuclear power
plants to the kingdom. The deal
was worth upward of $80 billion,
depending on how many plants
Saudi Arabia decided to build.
But there is a hitch: Saudi Arabia insists on producing its own
nuclear fuel, even though it could
buy it more cheaply abroad, according to American and Saudi officials familiar with the negotiations. That raised concerns in
Washington that the Saudis could
divert their fuel into a covert
weapons project — exactly what
the United States and its allies
feared Iran was doing before it
reached the 2015 nuclear accord,
which President Trump has sinceabandoned.
Prince Mohammed set off
alarms when he declared earlier
this year, in the midst of the negotiation, that if Iran, Saudi Arabia’s
fiercest rival, “developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit assoon as possible.” His negotiatorsstirred more worries by telling theTrump administration that Saudi
Arabia would refuse to sign anagreement that would allow
United Nations inspectors to lookanywhere in the country for signs
that the Saudis might be working
on a bomb, American officials
said.
Asked in Congress last Marchabout his secret negotiations withthe Saudis, Energy Secretary
Rick Perry dodged a question
about whether the Trump administration would insist that theContinued on Page A11

Racial Projection by the Census
Is Making Demographers Uneasy
By SABRINA TAVERNISEGABRIELLA ANGOTTI-JONES/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Shivering in Step
Thousands braved one of the coldest Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades on record. Page A20.

NATIONAL A14-18, 28

Stayed. Alive.

New Uniform, Same Mentor

In every evacuation, there are a few
holdouts who hunker down at home.
Kevin Jeys stayed put during the CampFire to save his animals.
PAGE A14

After delivering in 2016 on his promise
to bring a championship to Cleveland,
LeBron James tries his brand of toughlove in Los Angeles with a young andinexperienced Lakers team. PAGE B10Call for Comey to Testify

OBITUARIES A24-25

New Path for F.A.O. Schwarz

House Republicans want to talk toJames B. Comey and Loretta E. Lynch
about the Clinton email case. PAGE A15

Dominican-American Pioneer
José R. Peralta spent 16 years in the New
York Legislature. He was 47. PAGE A24

INTERNATIONAL A4-13

Goldman Boss Met Fugitive

Tower of Pisa Leans a Bit Less

Lloyd C. Blankfein, the ex-Goldman
Sachs chief, sat down in 2012 with afinancier now accused of fraud. PAGE B1

After work to keep the tower fromtoppling over, officials said its tilt hadbeen reduced by 1.5 inches.
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In a nation preoccupied by race,
the moment when white Americans will make up less than half
the country’s population has become an object of fascination.
For white nationalists, it signifies a kind of doomsday clock
counting down to the end of racialand cultural dominance. For progressives who seek an end to Republican power, the year points toinevitable political triumph, when
they imagine voters of color willrise up and hand victories to theDemocratic Party.
But many academics havegrown increasingly uneasy withthe public fixation. They point torecent research demonstratingthe data’s power to shape perceptions. Some are questioning theassumptions the Census Bureau
is making about race, andwhether projecting the American
population even makes sense at atime of rapid demographic change
when the categories themselves
seem to be shifting.
Jennifer Richeson, a social psychologist at Yale University, spotted the risk immediately. As an anContinued on Page A18

SPORTSFRIDAY B10-13

BUSINESS B1-9

A private-equity-backed company isreintroducing the storied toy seller withan updated business model.
PAGE B1

WASHINGTON — The graphic
was splashy by the Census Bureau’s standards and it showed anunmistakable moment in America’s future: the year 2044, when
white Americans were projected
to fall below half the populationand lose their majority status.
The presentation of the data
disturbed Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director, who
saw it while looking through agovernment report. The graphic
made demographic change look
like a zero-sum game that white
Americans were losing, hethought, and could provoke a political backlash.
So after the report’s release
three years ago, he organized ameeting with Katherine Wallman,at the time the chief statistician
for the United States.
“I said, ‘I’m really worried
about this,’” said Dr. Prewitt, nowa professor of public affairs at Columbia University. He added,“Statistics are powerful. They area description of who we are as acountry. If you say majority-minority, that becomes a huge fact inthe national discourse.”

NEW YORK A20-24

Next Stop: Dingy Masterpiece
Two art students playfully reframed
subway stations as a museum. PAGE A22

WEEKEND ARTS C1-24

Tiger and Phil, and That’s It?
The $9 million pay-per-view exhibition
match might have helped build up golf
and been more entertaining if female
players had been included, Karen
Crouse writes.
PAGE B11
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Paul Krugman

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A Guide to Broadway
Want to catch a show this holiday season? We have suggestions on what tosee, and how to get discounts. Above,Mary Antonini, in “The Prom.” PAGE C12U(D54G1D)y+[!/!,!#!{