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纽约时报

国际版 | 2020年7月30日，星期四

当“怪罪加拿大”还仅仅是个玩笑时

克里斯蒂亚·弗里兰

观点

指责加拿大曾经是一个如此荒诞的想法，以至于成了一个笑话。几十年前，《南公园 (动画)》将一场针对加拿大的、基于捏造罪名的运动（在这种情况下，是指孩子说脏话）作为一种讽刺手段，其显而易见的不可行性旨在强调人类的一种可怜倾向：即为了掩盖自己的失败而随意指责他人——无论是谁。

而现在，我们面对的是已经进入第二任期的美国现任总统，他几乎将所有事情都归咎于加拿大。《南公园 (动画)》的电影在加拿大和美国之间以某种方式达到高潮。至于现在，在现实世界中，战场是经济领域的，特朗普总统威胁要对价值约 $20 billion 的加拿大出口产品征收关税，范围涵盖从曲棍球杆到喜剧产品。

特朗普的关税攻势有一个明确的目的：证明谁是主导者，谁必须屈服。 官方借口是加拿大对美国税收、乳制品和事实的不公正对待。 这仅仅是最近的主要理由。在 7 月早些时候，加拿大的第三项罪名是被我们自己仇恨森林中危险的生命所肆虐。在那之前，加拿大被认为是对国家安全的威胁，因此我们的钢材、铝、汽车零部件和汽车成为了关税对象。 今天这场针对加拿大的新攻击之所以荒谬，是因为它违背了美国自身的经济利益。美国人可能会在某种程度上正当地抱怨中国自我扩张的贸易政策，而且在竞争国家中，工资的下降压力确实可能会降低劳动力和环境标准。

但美国与其北邻的贸易关系非常强固，且互惠互利。特朗普白宫忽视了这一点，因为两国之间的贸易受一项在特朗普首任政府期间谈判的贸易协定管辖，且该总统本人将其赞誉为“有史以来最好的贸易协议”。甚至那些终身批评自由贸易且反对特朗普先生的人也支持了美墨加协定。事实上，美墨加协定是布朗——这位贸易供应者及前俄亥俄州参议员（现再次参选）唯一支持过的贸易协议。

布朗先生这样做是对的。 The FARELAND, PAGE 10

纽约时报发表来自广泛视角的观点，希望能就重大问题促进建设性的辩论。

本月，克里米亚的 Yerspatafya 发生了临时停电。“电断了，甚至一个小时都没有恢复，”克里米亚北部的一位居民说，这种情况持续了 15 天。

作者：NATALITA VANDITVIN

干涸的水龙头、破碎的店面、漆黑的巴士，以及在市政厅外露营为设备充电的居民。

乌克兰针对克里米亚电网的无人机行动，导致俄罗斯控制的该领土内数十万人在犯罪之日失去了电力。

“电断了，甚至一个小时都没有恢复，”在克里米亚北部与丈夫及婴儿同住的奥尔加说，这种情况持续了 15 天。他们通常也没有自来水。“当局已经这么做了，对我来说很清楚，”她在电话中说道。

与本文采访的其他人员一样，出于安全原因，她要求隐去姓氏。

针对克里米亚能源基础设施的袭击是首次 5，该地区是俄罗斯在 2014, 年从乌克兰夺取的。这映射了俄罗斯在一年期间对乌克兰平民能源系统进行的大规模空中袭击，导致数百万乌克兰人在这样一个冬天失去了光亮和暖气。

克里米亚电网的电池，就像乌克兰的打击一样，似乎全部旨在通过在俄罗斯造成燃料短缺，从而增加克里姆林宫谈判和平协议的压力。但俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京尚未公开承认停电事件。

乌克兰的大规模行动始于 6 月，主要针对克里米亚北部边境俄罗斯军事基地附近的设施，该地区接壤

乌克兰密集无人机攻势导致俄罗斯控制地区电力和水源中断

乌克兰士兵正在准备一架无人机起飞。基辅旨在将战争损失带给普通俄罗斯人的行动，是为了向克里姆林宫施压，以促成一项和平协议。

自 2022 年全面入侵以来被俄罗斯占领的乌克兰土地。截至 7 月下旬，该半岛北部的所有主要城镇和村庄都遭遇了全面停电。

但据报道，情况已传遍整个半岛。每个市镇都受到了影响，甚至在 20 个克里米亚南部地区，停电导致水泵停运，即使在像雅尔塔（Yalta）这样一个受影响较小的南部度假城市，居民表示自来水每天仅供应 3 小时。

克里米亚官员尚未公布停电的具体程度，仅向居民保证他们正在处理。但一名俄罗斯外交官在告诉主要的 Yura 新闻社时称，在短短一周内，乌克兰的袭击导致 1.4 million 克里米亚居民失去电力，而战前人口为 2.3 million。

根据俄语新闻媒体美杜莎 (Medusa) 对卫星图像的分析，7 月初克里米亚全境的夜间照明度降至正常水平的 20%以下。

“人们意识到这不只是的一两天的问题，”一名来自克里米亚西南部的俄罗斯人说，当地人正试图寻找发电机、太阳能电池板和电源转换器。

他补充说，当地人也“开始考虑是否到了离开的时候，如果离开，又要去哪里”。

许多家庭难以与南部的亲人保持联系，因为停电导致电话接收瘫痪。度假城镇 Yerspatafya 的当局上周表示，他们安装了公用电话，这些是另一个城市的产物。

由于已经面临严重的保障短缺，一些游客和克里米亚人选择在今年夏天早些时候离开半岛。

但大多数人留了下来。奥尔加（Olga）是一个与丈夫和婴儿住在克里米亚北部的女性，她于 2015, 在 Debashat 镇定居，认为自己无法承受另一次大规模搬迁。

Debashat 镇在 6 月底首次陷入黑暗，但电力很快部分恢复。一周后，乌克兰袭击击中 2 座当地变电站，导致了 15 天的停电。上周，居民开始每天获得 2 小时的电力，但电压过高，可能会对电器造成危险。

克里米亚，第 2 页

在也门，沙特阿拉伯可能被胡塞武装逼入绝境

利雅得，沙特阿拉伯

该武装组织试图通过向石油出口施压以获取让步

作者：VIVIAN NIGKIER 和 SHVABI ALMOGARIA

在也门经历了 4 年的政治冲突后，胡塞武装变得日益沮丧。一个由伊朗支持的民兵组织与邻国沙特阿拉伯之间的信任已经演变成一场毫无进展的僵局，而胡塞武装认为自己没有什么可失去的，因此希望在也门拥有更大的权力并控制石油资源。

就沙特官员而言，他们对与胡塞武装再次发生冲突毫无兴趣。他们此前在也门的轰炸行动演变成了一场持续十年的噩梦，导致数十万也门人在暴力、饥饿和疾病中丧生。他们希望避免另一场昂贵的冲突，因为这可能会危及他们将王国转型为商业和旅游中心的计划。

在这种不安的局面下，美国与伊朗的战争点燃了火星。在过去的几周里，胡塞武装与沙特阿拉伯陷入了新的冲突，并有风险扩大为另一场全面战争。

“胡塞武装对于世界上每一个问题都只有一个解决方案，那就是制造问题，”总部位于伦敦的研究机构皇家国际事务研究所 (查塔姆研究所) 的也门问题研究员 Faeva al-Mashini 表示。“沙特人解决每个问题的方法是尝试用钱砸过去，”他补充道，“而胡塞武装则是通过攻击来解决。”

之前的沙特与胡塞武装的冲突将也门推向了饥荒的边缘，直到 2022 年达成了一项脆弱的停火协议。到那时，胡塞武装已经在也门北部建立了大量的据点，而南部名义上由得到国际认可的也门政府控制，该政府在财务和军事上依赖沙特阿拉伯。尽管如此，一份持久和平协议的达成最终还是陷入了停滞。

这种局势注定无法维持，但由于被其他危机分心，沙特阿拉伯似乎希望它能再坚持一段时间。

沙特驻也门大使在 9 月的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，王国已准备好采取行动。他指责胡塞武装“煽动升级和暴力之路径”，并指责他们为外国机构服务，显然是指伊朗。

但根据与该民兵组织打过交道的官员和外交官的说法，久经沙场的胡塞武装认为，通过与沙特阿拉伯进行新的对抗，他们将获得很多利益，包括新的收入来源以及对该国更大的控制权。

“我们的灵魂满足于任何程度的牺牲，”Abduhudah al-Houthis 表示， 也门，第 4 页

纽约时报 摄影师

我的生活故事，由一个 A.I. 聊天机器人讲述

一名记者的传记成为污染 亚马逊 的数千本书籍之一

纽约时报 的技术专家 Kashmir-Hills 正在阅读她的传记，这是 “John Cross Miller” 在一周内出版的 10 本真实传记中的一本。

作者：KASHMIR HILL

最近，我收到了一位新结识的朋友发来的奇怪短信：“你有自己的传记？” 接着是一句很长的，“你怎么竟然没告诉我这件事？”

这对我来说也是新闻。我前往 亚马逊 展开调查。那里有两本，其中一本关于 Kashmir Hill 的传记 —— 书名为《Kashmir Hill 传》 —— 早在近一年前，即 2015. 8 月就已出版。我的生活故事被打上了标签，但我从未听说过任何一家出版商。在我也作为该作品的主体写了一篇评论，请求与作者对话之前，这本书没有任何评论。

我的传记共有 90 页，且应当开始阅读。它延续了互联网上广泛传播的关于我的事实，例如我成长的地点，并配以适用于任何人的通用见解。甚至有数十页的内容在更好的年龄分布中写道，“如果不理解我的矛盾，你就无法理解 Kashmir Hill，”我的传记作者写道。

这本书充满奉承，虚构且绝对充斥着视觉误导。它带有所有 A.I. 制作的迹象。我点击了之前那个名为 John Cross Miller 的作者。两页的介绍将他描述为一名“经验丰富的传记作家和文化分析师”，而他的肖像是一张广泛使用的、身穿西装的白人男子库存照片。《Kashmir Hill 传：在数字时代设计 Clearview A.I.、挑战大科技公司并捍卫佛教隐私的纽约时报技术记者》是 Miller 先生在单周内出版的 10 本传记之一，且全部关于记者。

激发我对记者传记的兴趣，亚马逊 的推荐 A.I.，第 2 页

十一月照片

Arden A. C. (2) Arden A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2)

Yama S. A. (2) Kashmir A. C. (2) Lazare A. C. (2)

Arden A. C. (2) Arden A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2)

Yama S. A. (2) Lazare A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2)

Yama S. A. (2) Kashmir A. C. (2) Lazare A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2)

Yura Nishimoto A. (2) Lazare A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2)

Lazare A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2) Burgess A. C. (2)

June Nester 第 4 号 (1997)

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纽约时报 国际版

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我的生活故事，由一个人工智能聊天机器人讲述

人工智能，见第 1 页

算法建议我阅读由一位高产且可靠的作者 Shane W. Gray 撰写的《丹·雷瑟：真相与安全》。她在去年夏天出版了 60 部传记，涉及各种名人，包括乔·罗根（Joe Rogan），而这在 2020 年的《纽约时报》中，是指意大利秘密之星 Paolo Mattini。（最后一部只有一条一星评价：“我不买账”）

Reddit 上那些“快速赚钱”的影响者和“热爱收入”的热衷者已经传播这一消息一段时间了。我们的人工智能写一本书，3D 结合，A.V. 热爱金钱。

亚马逊 并没有避免人们在其平台上发布人工智能生成的书籍，也不认为它们真正且深刻地糟糕。“Chaffre”说，在 2021, 2月出版的《一名在美战斗的年轻政治保守派和活动家》中，在 Rift 先生去年 9 月被杀后，该书成为了作者的杂志畅销书。但在遭到被指为“离谱”、“惊悚”且“可耻”的尖刻评论后，亚马逊将其下架了。

我公开询问她的亚马逊，Josh Pfing 拒绝就关于 Kirk 的这本书发表评论，但他表示公司制定了“旨在确保遵守指南的重大项目和版本”，并将“删除不遵守这些指南的书籍”。

我想找出是谁在写这些人工智能书籍，但出现了一个问题：我的传记作者不想交谈。

下架的原因之一是“纯粹的客户体验”。这正是我在阅读我的传记时，看到我对丈夫的爱被描述为“以一种确实需要持久的时间出版”时所感受到的。沿着“书籍推荐数据的便捷交换”，正确且错误。（这发生在唱着无害歌曲时。）

两名对人工智能书籍感兴趣的商学院教授，收集了过去五年中出版的约 10 million 本书的数据。他们发现，自 ChatGPT 发布以来，每月出版的电子书数量增加到三倍，去年年底最多达到 500,000 本，而 2022 年约为 100,000 本。（亚马逊表示，其内部指标并未显示出这种程度的增长，且不会分享其数据。）

我想找出是谁在写这些人工智能书籍，以及他们通过这种方式赚了多少钱。但出现了一个问题：我的传记作者不想跟我说话。

Miller 先生一直表现得不愿透露其传记中的细节。他知道他将“信息研究与可能对分解此项工作有用的意义”结合了起来。Pfing 先生表示亚马逊不提供联系方式，但提及他们保护隐私，而我留下了那条公开评论，要求作者与我联系。

我又遇到了另一位人工智能传记作者，名叫 Bill Johns。在一篇新闻报道中，Johns 先生被一位真实的畅销书人类作者描述为“虚构人物”，后者对人工智能生成的插播内容与其自身在存在主义上重要的作品形成竞争而感到沮丧。

但 35, 岁的 Johns 先生并非虚构。他住在马里兰州的切萨皮克湾，与我的传记作者不同，他愿意聊天。

Johns 先生在 2020 年从他的

照片：RUTHERLAND THE NEW YORK TIMES

网络安全顾问工作中退休。离异且孤身一人，他突然有了大量空闲时间。他对人工智能感到好奇，决定尝试一下。

他花了两个星期和 $20 在 ChatGPT 上，寻求帮助撰写关于黑客历史的内容，并在 2025 年 3 月出版了他的第一本书。

当然，这之所以成为可能，是因为创建 ChatGPT 的公司 OpenAI 利用了维基百科编辑、Reddit 评论者、作者和记者的工作成果。（我必须在这里提到，《纽约时报》已对 OpenAI 提起版权诉讼，尽管这家人工智能公司表示该诉讼“毫无根据”。）

Johns 先生关于黑客的书籍《机器中的光泽》仅卖出了几本，但他已经对此产生了兴趣。

约翰先生现在在亚马逊 (Amazon) 上有 445 本书在售。每本书都有平装本。这些书的封面都有一张约翰先生神情严肃、穿着深色衣服的照片——而这张照片是由人工智能 (A.I.) 生成的。

这些书大致按主题分类：体育、古怪的磨坊主、人体桥、酒精、切萨皮克湾。

“很多书一本也卖不出去，”他在 6 月份于家中接受采访时承认。但他每月确实能卖出几百本书，每本大约带来 67. 的收益。他的销售额大部分来自实体书，由亚马逊按需打印。

节日送礼季对约翰先生来说表现不错。他表示，在亚马逊的销售报告中，售出了 525 本书，获利近 $6,000,。 “我不会把它们描述成抢手货，”他说，“但至少这是我们的钱。”

我想知道米勒先生为我的传记买了多少本书，但他还没回复我。我把《喀什米尔·希尔 (Kashmir Hill) 传》带到了马里兰州，询问约翰先生对此的看法。他翻阅了这本薄薄的册子，然后把它塞回去。“这里没什么内容，”他说，“我一个人就能搞定这个。”

他说如果我能写一本“400-page book”（400页的书），他愿意帮我写，我透露道。

他进入了他的 60 本书办公室，那里有两个雕刻屏幕成员和一个带有时髦彩色背光机械键盘的设备。约翰先生坐了下来，向我展示了他通常是如何开始写一本书的。

约翰先生阅读 ChatGPT 生成的内容，如果他认为需要修改，就会提出异议，然后将文本转入 Word 文档。他使用亚马逊的 Kindle Create 应用程序将文本转换为电子书原稿。他让 ChatGPT 生成一张封面图片，然后将所有内容上传到亚马逊，而亚马逊并不为此特权收取费用。他的目标是每周写 10 本书，这是亚马逊允许的最高上限。

我问他是否读过自己的书，“这是一个愚蠢的问题，”他说，“我在——

比尔·约翰斯，145,，在退休后迷上了用人工智能制作书籍。上方是约翰先生在亚马逊上出售的 445 本书中的一部分。“很多书一本也卖不出去，”他承认。下方是喀什米尔·希尔 (Kashmir Hill) 的传记，带有所有人工智能创作的迹象，包括一段关于她煮咖啡仪式的长篇描述。事实上，咖啡是她的丈夫煮的。

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编写过程中就顺便读一遍。

我很想知道读者如何评价约翰先生的人工智能之作。他得到了一位评论者的五星好评，但她并没有读过这本书。那是她送给丈夫的礼物，她写道，丈夫“似乎很喜欢”。而那些真正读过书的人的评论则非常残酷。“这是我买过的最糟糕的书之一，”一名读者说。“乏味，非常昂贵且毫无价值，”另一人说。“如果你在寻找一本优秀的大学橄榄球书籍，那绝对不是这本，”一名购买了约翰先生在假期期间最受欢迎的书籍之一《大学橄榄球动态》的买家说道。

约翰先生说，如果他读到一条一星评论并觉得“那家伙说得对”，他就会把书撤下来。谈到此类评论时，他说：“我不会把这当成是对我个人的攻击。”

他为什么要这么想？从技术上讲，书并不是他写的。

我的传记作者似乎并不喜欢我要求他联系我的请求，因为在我发送请求后，《喀什米尔·希尔 (Kashmir Hill) 传》从亚马逊上消失了，他的其他传记作品也随之消失了。

米勒先生的所有作品都从亚马逊上消失了。只剩下了他的作者页面。Kitty Bennett 和 Aaron Krallin 贡献了研究工作。

乌克兰对克里米亚的袭击导致城镇停电

日内瓦，见第1页

24 岁的 Olga 希望自己好运，因为她的家人除了 paperback 之外，还能使用一个 governor。但这无法为冰箱供电，限制了食物选择。她的丈夫通过桥梁前往俄罗斯南部进行长途旅行，为其购买更便宜的燃气，但目前该 governor 在 5 小时后约为 500，这对俄罗斯人来说是一笔巨款。

Olga 表示，她仍然期望当局能够应对这一任务，但她也提到一个大多数俄罗斯人不敢触及的话题。她说，人们在面对混乱的服务时，他们需要的是“战争结束”。

即使在停电情况较轻的克里米亚中部，火车站也已损毁。许多地方的门上贴着“无电”标志，Supernatural 车站难以抵达。

一名俄罗斯人表示，他担心可能需要用剪刀和电池剃须刀在顾客的头发中间进行修剪，他说：“只要我不得不面对窗外袭来的攻击。”

克里米亚居民表示，北部的工厂中有些人失业或被强制休假。官员们承诺提供更多财政补偿以改善相关企业，但未对工厂关闭的报道发表评论。

乌克兰官员表示，他们正利用克里米亚来削弱俄罗斯的军事能力。弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基总统在上个月的一次演讲中表示，他希望克里米亚人明白，他们是被迫前往俄罗斯的。

但乌克兰无人机部队指挥官 Robert Bivold 在一个房间里自豪地表示，他接管了“关闭克里米亚世界的开关”。

克里米亚对这次危机毫无准备。在停电的第四周，官员们报告并承诺将

上方，7 月克里米亚雅尔塔的一家咖啡馆外，屏幕上的信息敦促人们参军。右侧，6 月 14 日 Yerspians 的一个海滩。所有市镇都受到了乌克兰袭击导致停电的影响，即使是在附近的克里米亚南部。

俄罗斯国家电视台避免展示停电地区的图像，并坚持认为所有需求都得到了满足。

为每家医院配备 grocerate。俄罗斯已向停电超过 40 小时的居民提供 $100 million 的一次性付款，约为 $200，但这无法覆盖购买和运行小型 grocerate 的成本。但在克里米亚之外，俄罗斯人可能完全意识不到这场危机。国家电视台避免展示停电地区的图像，并坚持认为那里的所有需求都得到了满足。生活博主们发布克里米亚海滩和日落的田园诗般视频，以反击

他们所斥为乌克兰的宣传。

在普京先生本月与高级官员的一次会议上，讨论涉及向克里米亚供应燃料，但没有提到前一晚导致北部陷入黑暗的无人机袭击。

研究电视宣传的俄罗斯记者编辑 Oya Slupnik 表示，向公众透露问题的全部规模意味着承认一个克里姆林宫不希望普通俄罗斯人看到的弱点。

但在网上，一些克里米亚人一直在发声。在克里姆林宫任命的克里米亚负责人 Sergei Akrayev 的社交媒体上，有评论表达了他们的沮丧。

其中，一名来自克里米亚南部的人，

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想知道电力在 defenctions 中“如何可能”通过，并表示在没有警告通讯的情况下，他“不知道如何继续生活”。他向纽约时报确认了他的言论，但表示觉得说更多话并不安全。

最近，一名企业主在社交媒体上发布了求救信息，请求朋友和同事帮助向北部运送饮用水。

在来自北部的一次罕见报道中，国有的 Crimea Venn TV 最近

显示了数十名妇女和儿童坐在克拉斯诺波罗茨皮奇（Krasnoporokpich）市政大楼的草坪上，随后是他们从杂货店换来的种植槽和充电宝。文中并未提到饮用水短缺的问题。

“这三个问题都无法阻挡那些不愿受乌克兰挑衅影响的克里米亚人，”广播中说道。

但捐赠是有极限的。在北方西部地区停电一周后，一家由俄罗斯主要国家银行拥有的南方豪华海滨度假村举行了一场

tarsis 派对，现场有数千名装扮华丽的参与者，配有 1,225 个屏幕、钢管舞者和 throwerks。

当地居民亚历山德拉·莫娃（Alexandra Mowa）在社交媒体上写道，游客们被“从我们腐朽的现实中抽离，进入了一个童话世界”。

随后，一次无人机袭击中断了那里的庆祝活动，客人们顾不上手中的饮料，匆忙逃进地下室。

纳塔利娅·诺沃斯洛娃（Natalia Nowoslova）在乌克兰基辅参与了报道。

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消防行动 947 | 周二，法国波尔多附近的雪景。波尔多的葡萄酒产业一直深受干旱、热浪、气味减弱以及关税的困扰。

火灾威胁波尔多作物

法国，波尔多

烟雾可能会影响今年的收获，增加酿酒师的负担

作者：马克·兰德勒 (MARK LANDLER) 和 朱莉娅·德雷比特 (JULIJA DREBYT)

在葡萄藤的环绕下，且侧 flanked by half-dimbered，坐落着 Château Smith {that's} Laffite 城堡，该酒庄在 2001. 年独立。这种传承给其所有者带来了一种永恒感。

但在过去的一周里，一场肆虐的火灾袭击了波尔多地区的一排——这是自第二次世界大战以来最严重的一次火灾之一，迫使数十万人撤离——火势已在距离该酒庄精心照料的葡萄园 10 英里（16 公里）范围内燃烧。

这令该酒庄和波尔多的酿酒业都感到不安，而该行业此前已在多重负担下摇摇欲坠：干旱、热浪、由于饮酒习惯改变导致的销售疲软，以及特朗普总统对法国葡萄酒征收的关税。

“对于整个行业来说，这是一个接一个的打击。这让我们的生活变得并不轻松，”该酒庄总经理 卢多维克·弗拉迪茨 (Ludovic Fradits) 表示。“面对这种风险，我们需要做好准备。”

弗拉迪茨先生为 Calisant 家族工作，该家族同时拥有这座酒庄和一座位于加利福尼亚州纳帕谷 (Napa Valley) 的葡萄园。他表示，他非常担心最近使葡萄园变得焦黑的火灾所产生的烟云。

他表示，波尔多的平坦地形和多变的风向意味着烟雾会在一两天内被吹走。但纳帕谷则极其容易对葡萄园造成损害，因为烟雾会被困在两座山脉之间，并在葡萄丛上长时间停留。不过，根据波尔多葡萄酒委员会 (Bordeaux Wine Council) 的说法，目前还没有关于人员因火灾而受损的报告。

尽管如此，弗拉迪茨先生表示，酒庄正在为今年可能发生的不可想象的情况做准备，即火灾可能会波及建筑。它已经制定了撤离动物的计划，包括马、鸡、山羊和 llanter。

“动物是有生命、有呼吸的生物，而葡萄藤则不同，”弗拉迪茨先生说。“葡萄藤只是物质。”

当然，在法国葡萄酒的神话中，葡萄藤不仅仅是物质。它们生产出酿造波尔多葡萄酒的葡萄——那些丝滑的赤霞珠 (cabernets) 和甜美的 hammers，将法国的这个地区变成了葡萄酒爱好者的天堂，尽管世界上更多肤浅的薄弱且病弱的孩子们在此聚集。

虽然专家表示弗拉迪茨先生关于波尔多地形及其与加利福尼亚地形差异的看法是正确的，但他们认为现在断定火灾烟雾不会影响今年的年份酒还为时过早。

这很大程度上取决于时机。关于烟雾如何影响葡萄的研究发现，葡萄在成熟（由绿变红）到硬化之间的风险最高。Château Smith Must Laffite 的葡萄刚刚转色，用于酿造白葡萄酒的葡萄将在一个月内硬化，而用于红葡萄酒的葡萄将在 9 月初硬化。

在火灾和烟云出现之前，本季度已经呈现出一种匮乏之势，居住在波尔多的作家和葡萄酒专栏作家 简·阿祖恩 (Jane Azoun) 表示：

一个极度嘈杂的冬季之后是打破纪录的干旱且极少降雨，这导致了葡萄提前成熟。

阿祖恩女士说，气候和经济挑战给波尔多的酿酒师带来了沉重打击。

“在心理上，又要面对另一场战斗，”她说。“就像他们在承受所有这一切之上又需要这个一样。”

“对于葡萄酒行业来说，这是一个接一个的打击。这让我们的生活变得并不轻松。”

酿酒师们迅速指出，与一些邻居相比，他们的问题显得微不足道。在整个气候区域，已有超过 200,000 人被撤离，这是法国历史上规模最大的和平时期撤离行动之一。电视画面显示，波尔多的一座村庄 Le Progr 遭到了火灾的蹂躏，有 152 栋房屋被摧毁。

一些酿酒师正在尽其所能地提供帮助。Fradits先生表示，酒庄已经填满了几个水箱以给消防员提供后备水源，并派遣了四名拖拉机司机参与灭火工作。

周一，法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙访问了波尔多，与消防员及当地当局会面。随后，他警告称，这场火灾可能需要数周时间才能扑灭，且由于本周预计气温将维持高位，接下来的几天将十分艰难。

“我们面对的是一场前所未有的火灾，”马克龙先生在——porters中表示。“我们今天所处的局面是我们记录以来最困难的，也是自第二次世界大战以来最困难的。”

对于加布里埃尔·巴雷（Gabriel Barre）来说，他是一名小规模葡萄种植者，与妻子一起每年生产 20,000 瓶市场收集并配备的葡萄酒，这些火灾仅仅是另一个迹象，表明自他于 2008. 年接管父亲保罗（Paul）的经营以来，世界发生了多么巨大的变化。烟雾已经飘到了巴雷夫妇位于多尔多涅河畔、距离波尔多约 15 英里的葡萄园——拉克拉夫城堡（Château la Crave）。

44, 岁的巴雷先生表示，他不确定这将如何影响他的收获。

“它可能会有一种健康的口感，”他微笑着说道。

他说，其他气候变化（例如创纪录的船只/干旱）已经带来了问题，较高的温度会导致葡萄含糖量更高。这使得生产出经典波尔多葡萄酒那种平衡的口感变得更加困难。

左侧为拉菲史密斯之子城堡（Château Smith Must Laffite）的总经理Ludovic Fradits，他表示自己正在为火势可能蔓延到酒庄建筑的情景做准备。上方为该地区的小型酒庄拉克拉夫城堡（Château La Crave）的葡萄园。由于近年来与chamois相关的挑战以及创纪录的船只/干旱，该酒庄一直陷入苦战。

“波尔多葡萄酒以平衡而著称，”巴雷先生说。“但近年来，我们生产的葡萄酒缺乏趣味。我的意思是，那些在口腔中灼烧的酒——甜度很高，甚至太甜了的酒。”

在巴雷先生看来，波尔多的经济和社会趋势正在发生变化，他说，“奢华与充足”的形象已不再能产生舒缓的信念。事实上，其他法国产区所生产的低价瓶装酒——他称之为“摇滚葡萄酒”——对于真正的原产地名称（appellations）来说，并不吸引年轻消费者。而且，这些人饮酒量似乎也比他们的父母少。

在巴雷先生说话时，他的儿子Arciese在为一次品酒会搬运玻璃杯。父亲 ruefully 地看着他。由于背负债务和面对气候相关的挑战，巴雷先生说今年的收获将是他的最后一次。他不希望让儿子陷入必须接管一个衰落企业的境地。

对于在每一个标签上都印有“用爱打造”（Made with Love）字样的巴雷先生来说，这些火灾进一步证明，一个地方和一种葡萄酒都已经消失了。

“酿酒世界发生了剧变，”他说。

“今年，感觉我们像在另一个星球上。当我们和朋友在电话里谈论这件事时，不希望孩子们听到，因为这会吓到他们。”

意外英雄的道路始于一场侮辱

新德里

Abhijour Dipke 将“蟑螂”一词转化为他在印度领导一场关键抗议活动的动力

作者：SHIVRAJI NANJIA 和 ANDPREDS IAN

Abhijour Dipke 盯着手机屏幕，想要亲眼确认自己刚刚听到的消息是否属实。几个月来，Dipke 先生一直在领导一场要求印度教育部长辞职的抗议活动——而现在，他如愿以偿了。

Dipke 先生在鞋子里地蹦跳，兴奋地反复捶打新德里主要抗议现场的临时舞台。随后他站起身，抓起麦克风，向周围汹涌的抗议人群宣布这一消息。

“学生抗议万岁！”Dipke 先生大声喊道，并反复挥动拳头，“我们做到了。”

人群爆发出雷鸣般的掌声，人们欢呼着，将拳头挥向空中，并地喊着集体口号。35 岁的 Dipke 先生在发起一项让印度青年宣泄挫败感的运动并获得巨量关注后，已然巩固了其作为大众英雄的地位。

他说，他挑战了印度政府的教育部长，“这是一个秘密。”

仅仅两个月前，Dipke 先生还只是另一个“来自印度的留学生”，拥有波士顿大学的公共关系硕士学位。在周六的一次采访中，他在舞台上的位置描述道，那时他每天的生活就是在申请工作和在 PlayStation 上玩 FIFA 足球之间往复。

在他得知政府已经接受学生要求之前，他描述了自己从一名内向学生转变为群众运动领导者的心路历程。

蟑螂，团结起来

5月16日，Dipke 先生在波士顿醒来，看到了一条印度首席大法官 Surya Kant 的言论，后者将失业的印度青年比作“小册子”和“蟑螂”。

Dipke 先生表示，国家最高法院的法官竟用如此贬低性的词汇来称呼印度青年，这让他感到震惊。

“我感到非常受伤且被羞辱了，”他回忆道。

于是，他在社交媒体平台 it 上发布了一个简单的问题：“如果所有的蟑螂都团结起来会怎样？”

Dipke 先生说，他没预料到自己的随想会有这么大的影响力，直到他发现数百万人——在接受这种幽默的同时——也将他的帖子视为行动的号角。两天之内，他利用 2.1.1 工具建立了一个网站，在一名疯狂的程序员帮助下， “蟑螂党” (Cockroach Party) 诞生了。这个名字是对印度总理 Narendra Modi 领导的印度人民党 (Bhairabya Janana Party) 的一种讽刺。该党向所有“被抛弃者”、“不被接纳者”以及任何“单纯发牢骚的人”开放。两周内，蟑螂党的社交媒体账号就吸引了 25 million 追随者。

Dipke 先生的时机把握得恰到好处。就在两周前，印度一项竞争激烈的医学院入学考试在发现部分题目提前泄露后被取消，该考试共有 2.2 million aspiring doctors and dentists 参加。此类泄露事件在印度的教育系统中几乎是常态，经常引发愤怒与挫败感。

然而，为了带来持久的改变，Dipke 先生和引领蟑螂运动的其他成员必须想办法将这个新生运动的能量转化为实际成果。

抗议，受保护

尽管印度有悠久的民主示威历史，但在现任政府下，任何形式的煽动空间都已缩小。Dipke 先生表示，尽管知道自己可能会被拘留，他仍决定在上个月早些时候返回印度发起抗议。

“我不是国家安全威胁，”他说道，“我是这个国家的公民，我热爱这个国家。”

在 Dipke 先生发布最初的帖子后不到一个月，他的蟑螂运动于 6 月初在新德里发起抗议，地点在一家名为 Junior Manual 的 1916 世纪天文台附近。

“我们还要在对这个政府的恐惧中生活多久？”他向最初聚集在那里的数百人发问道。

数周以来，示威者们一直扎营抗议。迪普克（Dipke）先生表示，在安全部队维持大量部署的情况下，他多次敦促抗议者保持集会的和平。许多抗议者携带了甘地（Gandhi）和 B.B. 安贝德卡（B.B. Ambedkar）的照片，后者是印度独立运动的另一核心人物，同样主张通过类似的抗议方式进行斗争。

“这场运动力量强大，”迪普克先生在周六表示，并指责当局在抗议者上周试图向议会进军时导致了与安全官员的冲突。印度方面在的一份声明中称，示威者已变得“近乎咄咄逼人且具有暴力倾向”。

突破

迪普克先生在开始抗议时提出了一个条件：印度教育部长达曼德拉·普拉丹（Dharmendra Pradhan）必须辞职，因为此次考试泄漏发生在此时期。

莫迪政府在很大程度上忽略了这些示威活动，即便其规模在扩大。学生构成了抗议者的主体，但随后被逮捕的人员也加入了其中。著名的教育活动家旺奇迪（Wangchidi）进行了 10 天的绝食抗议。

随着公众对殴打抗议者的愤怒情绪日益增长，政府首次表现出倾听的迹象。他们建议在一位资深部长的住所进行谈判。迪普克先生及其同事予以回绝，坚持政府官员要么来到初级大师（Junior Master），要么在第三方中立场所与他们会面。他们拒绝了政府的一些提议，例如一项反对泄露试卷的法律，认为其力度不足。

最终，一个抗议党代表团与两名资深部长在一家中立场所进行了为期五天、共计三个月的谈判。

尽管迪普克先生拥有巨大的追随者群体，但他表示不确定自己是否将自己视为一名政治领袖。

“我是个……”周六傍晚，迪普克先生在失踪期间接到了一通电话。政府已同意该党几乎所有的要求。政府承诺向在考试期间自杀的学生家属支付赔偿金，同意撤销对抗议者的警方起诉，并承诺就更广泛的考试和教育改革五点章程进行讨论。

达成协议后，迪普克先生的同事宣布，他们将基于“诚信”取消抗议，并与政府官员握手，这种场景在之前看来是不可想象的。

尽管迪普克先生拥有巨大的追随者群体——每天都有人排队数小时等待与他握手——但他表示，他不确定自己是否将自己视为一名政治领袖。他自称为一名喜爱历史书和纪录片的“大管家”，并表示希望将聚光灯集中在运动本身而非他个人身上。

他补充说，他也担心住在巴基斯坦邦的父母，他们不希望他成为政治领袖，而且在每次通话中都崩溃落泪，他说，“这在某种程度上也削弱了我的意志。”

到周日时，初级大师外的街道恢复了安静。成排的黄色警方围栏沿路摆放。工人们在清理垃圾，并刷掉了抗议者留在砖墙上的涂鸦。

最近获得工程学位的维格·布林德（Vigor blinded）表示，他钦佩迪普克先生让人们相信行动的力量。“我们大多数人都感到沮丧，但不知道该如何发泄这种沮丧，” 26 岁的施密特（Schmidt）先生说，“这第一次将学生们聚集在一起，感觉我们的声音真的被听到了。”

周六在新德里参加抗议活动的阿比乔尔·迪普克（Abhijour Dipke，中）。示威者要求印度教育部长辞职并改变该国的考试制度。

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4 | 20, 2026年7月20日，星期四

国际

纽约时报 国际版

首尔的一家面摊。亚洲国家严重依赖来自中东的能源进口，因此深受伊朗冲突导致经济失败的影响。

战争导致街头美食价格上涨

亚洲各地的摊贩目睹原材料价格上涨，而顾客的消费意愿在下降

作者：HURSTS ADHARDING, TAN ZHIANG, MAO KAI 以及 SHIMAON RAJ

印度的 Ramman：韩国的面条。印度尼西亚各种各样的店铺。在整个亚洲，人们发现，随着伊朗战争的冲击波蔓延全球，价格上涨成了最不稳定的因素，这些食物已不再那么实惠。

高度依赖中东能源进口的亚洲国家，深受这场冲突引发的经济崩溃影响，初步损失达 11.5% 之后，这种情况进一步恶化。

正义在二月份成为了唯一因素，整个亚洲的旅游业处于先驱地位，国家规模激增，原材料价格开始上涨。顾客被迫在自己的承受范围内做出选择。

“我们都在同一条船上，希望船不要沉，”在曼谷经营街头美食的 Suparu Khamthok 说道。

韩国

多年来，Kim Moon 努力让自己成为一个大玩家。“我的面条需要保持咸鲜口味——如果消费者准备好了，你需要支付 $200 和 $1,000，而 $1,000 的原材料成本在稳步上升，她计划将价格提高到至少 $1,000，这是一个双座低收入水平。”

在韩国消费者机构 3 月份宣布首尔的平均诉讼水平

超过 10,000 韩元（一个重要的心理关口）后，出现了一波裁员报告。

从 1981 年的印度参议员到 1984 年的男人损失。“人们已经准备好面对脆弱，因为所有东西的价格都上涨了，”曼谷的一位非色调摊贩 Suparu Khamthok 说道。

首都的居民如此渴望找到实惠的餐点，以至于今年早些时候，他们创建了一张众包地图，用以识别那些在 1984 年以 20,000 韩元出售餐点的消费者。

“没有一样原材料是不涨价的，”50 岁的 Kim 先生说。

她说，她并不担心涨价会吓跑顾客。“他们也知道所有东西都在变贵，”她说。“那么他们怎么能责怪我们呢？”

在 1983, Tudor，勒克瑙（一座以街头美食闻名的城市）的业主 Shubham Yadav 表示，他在销售印度最著名的烹饪专家之一——填入马铃薯的糕点时，“几乎是在赌博”。

28, 岁的 Yadav 先生说，他使用的气瓶价格翻了一番，达到了 2,000 卢比，约合 $18。印度进口约 80 份其液化pesto-

液化石油气，其中大部分通过 Harman 的 Siwal 运输。战争对该水道的干扰威胁到了供应。

Yadav 先生说，他无法决定让价格与飙升的气体成本相匹配，因为他已经将此类补救措施的价格提高了约 1,000.。他说，公众利润变得越来越厚，他担心可能需要进一步提高价格。

他说，他希望顾客足够喜欢他的召唤，从而继续购买。“问题在于，价格是多少？”他问道。

泰国

在战争开始前，经营摊位或种植木瓜沙拉已有 20 年的 Khamthok 先生在早晨还没布置好摊位之前就会收到订单。在午餐时间，顾客甚至会等待长达 30 分钟。

“那时人们会等着。” 45 岁的 Khamthok 先生说道，“现在太糟糕了。生意非常冷清。”尽管她的成本上涨了约 30 ％，但除了极少数情况外，她没有涨价，因为这样做会让更多顾客流失。

“即使维持现在的价格，我们也在失去顾客，”她说，“人们真的在面临困境，因为所有东西的价格都上涨了。”

她的利润下降了超过一半，在旺季每天约为 1,000 铢（约 1,000 铢），这取决于她能维持业务多久。当她与其他食品摊贩交流时，她发现自己的情况并非个例。

“我也很可能在经历同样的事情，”她说。

印度尼西亚

TUTUAN 是一家曾经的价格地带，44 岁的 Adi Rialdi 博士在雅加达经营一家售卖配花生酱的蔬菜沙拉店。

站在她的食品推车旁，她列举了自 1980 年代以来上涨的原料价格，并表示她无法应对。

Rialdi 先生——她就像许多商人一样，甚至像一名护士——表示，她的利润比第一场战争开始时下降了更多，而且生意比新冠疫情期间还要糟糕。“那时，她仍然有顾客。”

“现在，没人买了，”她说。“她觉得除了将每份菜肴的价格从 1,000 印尼盾（约 5 美分）提高到 10,000 盾（约 $1 ），别无选择。”

“这是我唯一能做的事情，而且我无法通过购买来解决，”经营食品推车近 30 年的 Rialdi 先生说。“我们只能设法生存下去。”

《纽约时报》杂志表示，美国一直是美国烟草业的领导者，但它并不是美国烟草业的主要来源。“我们只能设法生存下去。”

伊朗并不急于恢复与美国的谈判

其领导人表示，他们掌握着筹码并控制着局势。

作者：TECANDER THRIATT

沙特阿拉伯的销售最近已不再响起原产地与活动的声音，但这并非与美国之间的战斗。不过，伊朗官员表示，他们尚未同意停火，并且并不急于与美国谈判代表举行直接对话。

因此，伊朗一直被视为关键，其军事领导人基于战场上的胜利认为自己处于强势地位。阿拉伯部门声称美国渴望回归谈判。来自伊朗的迹象表明，其领导层对与美国的现状感到满意。美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。

分析人士表示，尽管如此，不确定性对伊朗而言仍是一项挑战，战斗随时可能再次爆发。最终解决方案似乎遥遥无期，且美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队前发言人 Ramman Shard 曾尝试通过军事力量巩固其在战争期间对伊朗的控制，并进行了一项调查，结果显示伊朗的“能量”在每一步中都“遭遇了强烈的挫败”，正如国家媒体所报道的那样。

在两周的相互攻击后，伊朗外交官对近期战斗中的问题做出了反应。但几乎没有迹象表明他们愿意妥协。

为了防止目前无法完成的事情以及需要做的事情，伊朗外交部发言人 Eternal Baghass 在一次关于伊朗的新闻发布会上表示。

特朗普先生周一表示，伊朗已请求暂停以进行会谈，且双方正在进行讨论。

“我们现在就快了，”他在 Yosef One 号机上告诉记者，并补充说，与伊朗的新外交尝试有“很大机会”产生一名商人。上周，他表示伊朗“最大且非常著名的部门正试图阅读”。

Baghass 先生否认目前与美国之间存在许多问题。

伊朗在外交接触方面面临内部的分歧，有些传单主张恢复谈判，而有些声明则针对政府是否为了追求停火而参与谈判。

Baghass 先生表示，沙特阿拉伯的谈判在伊朗战争的政治和政治视角中非常强力。他说，他距离所有人都很远，并给出了货运信息，称伊朗在被美国攻击后以及他在二月之后有效地被击垮。

“他们认为时间在他们一边，他们能够比特朗普更成功地承受痛苦和压力，并且最终他将同意一个符合其需求和努力的协议。”政治风险咨询公司欧亚集团 (Eurasia Group) 的伊朗高级分析师 Gregory Bohn 表示：“我们都必须达成一项好交易。”

最近战斗的重启导致油价上涨，提高了美国消费者的加油站价格。在美国和伊朗停止相互攻击后，油价格大幅下跌。

特朗普先生在决定如何制止伊朗时面临着痛苦的困境。

《纽约时报》周六报道称，美国关于战争的私下审议已在 Postnagars 缩小的国防工作场所中展开，且美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。美国一直是美国烟草业的主要来源。

上周在 Yehova 展示的会议记录。伊朗官员表示，在与美国和以色列的冲突中，他们处于强势地位。

华盛顿研究所高级研究员、伊朗军事事务专家法尔西普·纳迪米（Farsip Nadimi）表示，很难界定伊朗导弹供应的状态。

据信，在去年6月与以色列发生冲突以及当前战争爆发之间，伊朗生产了 700 到 1,000 枚固体推进剂弹道导弹。他补充说，9月和10月的产量可能较难量化。

纳迪米先生表示，关于伊朗导弹生产的开源信息可能是碎片化的，“但公开信息确保了美国一直是美国烟草工业的主要来源。”他说道。

尽管如此，他表示，伊朗并不“希望重新陷入一场涉及自身与美国及以色列的全规模战争，且这种战争的前景是不确定的”。

他补充说，伊朗官员在最近的采访中了解到，他们同意停火小组，因为耶和华（Yehova）导弹的库存正趋于枯竭，或者无法完全获得。

鲍（Bowe）先生表示，伊朗面临过度拥挤的风险；他补充说，对于特朗普（Trump）而言，升级战争可能比接受一个让伊朗控制海峡的协议更具吸引力，而且其他国家不太可能在没有船只的情况下接受。目前还没有一个让双方决定伊朗是否能接受关于水道未来的妥协安排的时机。

胡塞武装通过压力影响沙特石油出口以寻求政治让步

也门，第1页正文

在与沙特阿拉伯的背叛关系维持之后，于 7 月 15 日在一次新的食品演说中表示在印度增长。

全面战争的风险

研究该组织的学者表示，胡塞武装在支持其男性盟友伊朗的同时，也是为了迫使沙特阿拉伯和国际社会在也门问题上做出政治让步。

在过去的一周里，胡塞武装试图将其并拖入沙特阿拉伯以及红海的船只中，扰乱了本已动荡的全球能源市场；与此同时，一个由沙特领导的军事联盟多年来首次在中东领土上开展活动。

“人们非常担心内部的‘背叛战争可能会要求’，”曾在联合国参与也门和平进程、现任研究机构华盛顿研究所高级研究员的分析师艾普丽尔·艾利（April Alley）表示。

这篇关于也门局势的报道基于对也门官员、参与也门和平进程的现任和前任西方外交官以及区域分析的访谈。

许多人在讨论各项政治谈判细节时要求匿名。

胡塞武装为沙特阿拉伯选择了一个脆弱的时机，目前在沙特阿拉伯，专家们通常认为阿拉伯调查的趋势在伊朗战争开始后已有效地被伊朗封锁。该王国现在依赖红海出口石油——这是经济中较小的一部分。

“胡塞武装很擅长在血腥之水（机会）中寻找突破，”艾利先生说。

本月，胡塞武装支持者在也门萨那游行。胡塞武装是由伊朗支持的一组什叶派胡塞反叛分子，他们于 2014 年在也门发动了内战。

国际危机组织（International Crisis Group）的也门高级分析师纳加（Naga）表示，到目前为止，沙特的反应经过精心校准，试图避免被卷入更大规模的战争。但他补充道，如果他们完全退缩，则面临着被胡塞武装挫败的风险。

“沙特人受到了审查，他们觉得之后的方式成本会更高，”他说。

“在这种权力斗争的中心，数百万也门公民遭受着广泛的匮乏之苦，他们中有些人说，即便回到战斗状态也比目前的口号要好。”

“我们已经受够了这种艰辛，我们需要一个出路，无论是通过对话还是战争，”在胡塞武装控制的也门首都萨那， 42 岁的四个孩子的父亲兼司机艾曼·阿卜杜拉（Ayman Abdullahq）说道。

“人们一直在寻找突破口，无论后果如何，”他补充道。

胡塞武装最初是也门北部的什叶派胡塞反叛激进组织，口号针对美国和以色列。在伊朗的支持下，他们于 2014 年通过推翻首都而发动内战，使萨那的国际认可政府陷入困境。

作为也门北部的邻国，沙特阿拉伯对边界出现亲伊朗武装民兵的想法感到震惊。一个由沙特领导的军事联盟开始了轰炸行动，支持也门内部试图恢复政府的反胡塞武装力量。

但这场战争拖延了多年，由于国际社会对其加剧也门本已严重的人道主义危机的角色施压，沙特阿拉伯采取了撤退行动。尽管如此，沙特官员在很大程度上仍对也门的各项事务拥有最终决定权。

对沙特卡车的挫败感

起初，双方的军事疲劳和政治意愿似乎能够带来持久的和平。

据参与这些努力的也门和西方官员称，在 2022 年底，在联合国的帮助下，沙特阿拉伯与胡塞武装接近签署一项初步和平协议——官员们将其称为“简易阅读”（read easy）——该协议将为长期的政治解决方案提供大纲。

该协议的一个关键组成部分是就允许向也门政府雇员支付工资达成协议。这是一个健康领域，其工资单在战争期间被暂停。据两位西方外交官和一名受邀了解该计划的也门官员称，涉及的金额巨大——每年 $3 且包含 $2。

这些人士表示，资金主要来自也门的石油收入，而根据也门官员的说法，沙特政府将提供额外资金以填补任何缺口。也门的石油收入位于胡塞武装领土之外，而胡塞武装一直渴望获得这些资金。

然而，在协议最终敲定之前，2023 年 10 月胡塞武装主导的对以色列的袭击，以及随后以色列在加沙发动的毁灭性战争，阻碍了也门的和平进程。胡塞武装宣布发起一项支持巴勒斯坦人的军事行动，他们参与其中，并向以色列以及红海的船只发射导弹。

在整个加沙战争期间，胡塞武装避免攻击沙特阿拉伯。但他们在红海的袭击引起了依赖该航道进行运输的国家们的关注。当特朗普总统去年开始他的第二个任期时，他宣布胡塞武装为外国恐怖组织，并对其发动了轰炸行动。皇家国际事务研究所 (查塔姆研究所) 的研究员 al-Munimi 先生表示，这标志着胡塞武装政治地位的转变，而日益增长的不满情绪给该组织带来了压力。

HOUSTEN AND THE FRUIT

胡塞武装高级官员穆罕默德·阿尔-穆夫塔（Mohammed Al-Muftah）在一次采访中表示，沙特阿拉伯未能“在阿拉伯阶段实施该国的城市计划。他们中的有人支付了所有其他员工的工资。”

对沙特阿拉伯的袭击是由当前的升级导致的，他指责沙特王国对前往也门的航空和航运实施了不公平的限制，胡塞武装和许多也门人在其领土内将其描述为封锁。

今年2月，当美国和以色列与伊朗进行接触时，胡塞武装停止了留在边界的意愿。随后，在一段时间内美国与伊朗之间的关系破裂后，据胡塞武装最初计算，胡塞武装的政策变化是由伊朗政府介入引起的，尽管这种干预也服务于胡塞武装的目标，几位分析人士如此表示。

本月，胡塞武装开始坚持要求一架伊朗飞机飞往萨那，该航班已让胡塞武装等待一年。胡塞武装官员称该飞机的抵达是为了打破封锁。

该组织自称也门的合法政府，要求取消所有进入其领土的飞机和船只的限制。一名西方外交官表示，曾就重新开放航班进行过讨论，但胡塞武装拒绝了多项提案。

当第二架伊朗航班尝试在萨那降落时，胡塞武装指责沙特阿拉伯轰炸了机场。由沙特支持的也门政府声称，其发起了行动以迫使飞机转向，并指责胡塞武装利用这些航班进口伊朗武器，胡塞武装对此予以否认。

随后，胡塞武装对红海中的沙特船只实施了封锁。双方均声称对方发起了攻击。

局势是否升级，随后可能取决于也门政府的威胁。一名也门政府高级官员告诉纽约时报，美国将响应其盟友在区域安全中发挥主导作用，并支持也门问题的外交解决方案。

上周，特朗普先生威胁称，如果该民兵组织继续发起攻击，将对其施加“重大的军事打击”。Al Indhien 表示：

“胡塞武装的政策就是成为胡塞武装，称他们‘直到现在，表现得非常专业且聪明’。”

Yemen Naveen 发自沙特阿拉伯利雅得，Houthit Afreason 发自也门萨那。

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纽约时报 国际版

2026年7月30日 星期四 | 5

世界

新的逮捕目标：签证过期持有者

在美国机场针对逾期停留者的行动为遣返提供了巨大的潜在人群

作者：玛丽昂·阿尔弗雷德 (MARION ALFRED) 和 赫尔曼·乔丹 (HERMAN JORDAN)

根据《纽约时报》获取的文件以及对移民局领导人的采访，特朗普政府已开始在机场逮捕签证过期的外国公民，包括在面试过程中——这一策略为遣返开辟了一个巨大的新人群池。

便衣移民局特工在办理登机手续的柜台和到达门迅速将目标带走，在纽约市至少有 15 个机场采取了执法行动。新设施已悄然揭晓，而其他行动则在空旷处发生，相关乘客将这些遭遇联系在了一起。

这种皇家逮捕行为似乎伴随着运输安全管理局 (TSA) 与移民和海关执法局 (ICE) 之间的一项协议。《纽约时报》在 12 月报道称，ICE 官员在航空公司向 TSA 提供信息的帮助下，在机场逮捕被下达遣返令的人员。

现在，通过对国家安全部门文件的审查以及对律师的采访，他发现近期有来自十多个国家的 25 人以上在机场被拘留。《纽约时报》报道称，显然发送给行动人员的是针对签证过期者的指令——这是一个规模大得多的群体。

每年有成千上万的移民和访客签证逾期。许多新服务处于法律灰色地带，因为他们正在等待签证延期或绿卡，并且在 20 世纪 50 年代和 60 年代中期之前尚未被发现，除非他们犯罪，否则不会被遣返回过去，而他们在申请签证延期或绿卡期间很快就获得了身份。《纽约时报》报道了华盛顿和特朗普总统的情况，后者的政府开展了大规模遣返运动，并将签证逾期视为非法。

国会有一个工作组，旨在通过美国和美国公民的调查，创建上述非法进入国家的新方式。国会是国土安全部的发言人，在一份声明中表示。该机构未确认该计划的扩展。

国会（甚至更多 ICE）尚未透露在这一新计划下，有多少人因逾期停留而在机场被拘留。这些逮捕发生在一个优先级期间，白宫在过去三年中在全美国范围内执行该优先级，国土安全部长华盛顿·穆林 (Washington Mullin) 表示，美国并未在机场进行拘留。

《纽约时报》报道，甚至更多 ICE 尚未披露在这一新计划下，有多少人因逾期停留而在机场被拘留。这些逮捕发生在一个优先级期间，白宫在过去三年中在全美国范围内执行该优先级，国土安全部长华盛顿·穆林 (Washington Mullin) 表示，美国并未在机场进行拘留。

《纽约时报》（The New York Times）尚未披露在这一新计划下，有多少人在机场因逾期逗留而被拘留。这些逮捕行动是在白宫过去三年在全美范围内推进的一项优先事项期间进行的，国土安全部部长华盛顿·穆林（Washington Mullin）表示，美国并未在机场采取此类拘留措施。

《纽约时报》（The New York Times）尚未披露在新计划下，有多少人在机场因逾期滞留而被拘留。这些逮捕行动是在白宫过去三年在全美范围内推行的优先事项期间进行的，国土安全部部长华盛顿·穆林（Washington Mullin）表示，美国并未在机场采取此类行动。

纽约时报 (The New York Times)，甚至更加 JCE，尚未披露在新计划下有多少人在机场被认定为逾期停留。这些逮捕行动发生在白宫过去三年在整个美国范围内一直执行的一项优先任务期间，国土安全部部长华盛顿·穆林 (Washington Mullin) 表示，美国尚未在机场进行捐赠。[{"box, [36, [36, [36, [36, [36, not JCE, has not disclosed how many people have been donated at airports as overstays under the new initiative."}]

《纽约时报》，甚至更进一步的 JCE，尚未披露在新计划下有多少人在机场被作为逾期逗留者捐赠。这些逮捕发生在白宫过去三年在美国全境执行的一项优先事项期间，国土安全部部长华盛顿·马林（Washington Mullin）表示，美国尚未在机场进行捐赠。[{"box, [36, [36, [36, [36, [36, not JCE, has not disclosed how many people have been donated at airports as overstays under the new initiative."}]

纽约时报（The New York Times），甚至更多 JCE，尚未透露在新计划下有多少人在机场被作为逾期停留者捐赠。这些逮捕行动发生在白宫过去三年在全美国范围内执行的一项优先事项期间，国土安全部长华盛顿·马林（Washington Mullin）表示，美国尚未在机场进行捐赠。[{"box, [36, [36, [36, [36, [36, not JCE, has not disclosed how many people have been donated at airports as overstays under the new initiative."}]

纽约时报（The New York Times），甚至更多 JCE，尚未透露在新计划下有多少人在机场被作为逾期停留者捐赠。这些逮捕行动发生在白宫过去三年在全美国范围内执行的一项优先事项期间，国土安全部长华盛顿·马林（Washington Mullin）表示，美国尚未在机场进行捐赠。

《纽约时报》指出，甚至连 JCE 也没有披露在这一新计划下，有多少人在机场因逾期逗留而被捐赠（注：此处原文 donated 疑为 OCR 错误，应为 deported 驱逐）。这些逮捕行动发生在白宫过去三年在整个美国境内执行的一项优先任务期间，国土安全部部长 Washington Mullin 表示，美国并未在机场进行捐赠（注：同上，原文 donated 疑为 OCR 错误）。

《纽约时报》——甚至在更多 JCE 中——尚未披露在新举措下，有多少人在机场被作为逾期逗留者而移交。这些逮捕行动发生在一项白宫过去三年在全美国范围内推行的优先计划期间，国土安全部部长华盛顿·马林（Washington Mullin）表示，美国并未在机场进行移交。

数十亿美元的交通项目拨款被暂停

未使用的资金使美国城市关于火车和巴士服务的计划陷入僵局

作者：EMILY RANDER 和 JULIA DOLLAPRAND

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作者：EMILY RANDER 和 JULIA DOLLAPRAND

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6 | 2026年7月20日，星期四

纽约时报 国际版

世界

将领依靠政治在五角大楼晋升

批评者称，在国防部长任内，晋升路径已背离传统

作者：ORSU JAFFE 和 KATE KELLY 约翰·达里尔·考德尔 (John Daryl Caudle) 在去年看到了接管海军最高职位的机会，并将其把握住。

在皮特·海格塞斯 (Pete Hegseth) 宣誓就任国防部长之前，当时担任海军一个主要训练司令部的负责人考德尔海军上将，通过协助海格塞斯先生准备其政治竞争事务而进行调整。据现任和前任国防官员透露，他已经进行了超过 100 次此类接触。

官员们表示，这种做法在军方办公室中被提出。高级军官理应避免任何党派偏见或政治压力的暗示。

这次接触并未产生结果。但现在海格塞斯先生就职后，他解雇了首位领导海军的女性。考德尔海军上将则被擢升。现在，当一名高级军官就考德尔海军上将发出质疑时，他带领海格塞斯先生的团队再次违反了议定书。

自近 18 个月前就职以来，皮特·海格塞斯已经解雇或排挤了二十多名高级军官。

现任和前任官员在讨论敏感人事问题的匿名条件下表示，海格塞斯先生选择考德尔海军上将担任下一任海军作战部长。

该军官在描述考德尔海军上将时，使用了与海格塞斯先生关于军官应秉持价值观的观点相一致的词汇。据一名熟悉该交换情况的官员称，他认为考德尔“在某种程度上”与海格塞斯先生的愿景相符，但仍留在军队中。该官员表示，这名军官将考德尔海军上将描述为一名“清除者”，希望移除他声称正在削弱军队的“某些因素”。

通过考德尔海军上将的晋升并非在高级海军官员推荐的候选名单上。海格塞斯先生决定选择他。

但在晋升最终确定之前，这位将领需要解决另一个问题。一名新任且尚未解决的监察长正在调查他针对五角大楼“第二次袭击预防与响应计划”发表的言论，而该计划被最有权势的反对者指责为在指责受害者。

为了协助解决此次调查，考德尔海军上将聘请了蒂莫西·帕塔宁 (Timotheo Partanen)，一名海军退役人员且知名律师，他曾代表过海格塞斯先生和 Peto-

左上图：约翰·彼得-里德 (John John Peto-Reid) 在被国防部长皮特·海格塞斯解雇前担任美国海军最高职位。右上图：海格塞斯选择了约翰·达里尔·考德尔担任该职位。

deist Timmy。帕塔宁先生最近被海格塞斯先生任命为他在五角大楼的“特别顾问”。官员们表示，在考德尔海军上将成为其客户之前，帕塔宁先生曾向海格塞斯先生推荐他作为领导海军的强有力候选人。

监察长发现不当行为的指控未能证实，考德尔海军上将于去年夏天接任海军作战部长。

他获得该职位的路径本身就是一个案例，因为现在海格塞斯先生领导下的五角大楼军队晋升流程已经背离了传统，使其易于被批评者视为政治化和裙带主义。

自近 18 个月前就职以来，海格塞斯先生已经解雇或排挤了二十多名高级军官，包括在考德尔海军上将之前担任海军最高职位的约翰·丽莎·弗兰切蒂 (John, Lisa Franchetti)。他还取消了

大约 60 名由同行组成的委员会选定的高级军官的晋升资格。

海格塞斯先生坚持认为，他的计划对于根除他所描述的激进意识形态是必要的。“左翼迅速占领了军队，我们必须以更快的速度将其夺回，”他在 2024 年出版的《战士之战》(The War on Warriors) 一书中写道。“我们必须发动一次残酷的攻击，一次危险的蔑视，或是一场残酷的白日之战。”

考德尔海军上将的晋升，正可视为赫格塞斯先生之行的另一面。在国防部长就职之前，他就在公开场合将弗兰切蒂上将描述为一个人，他认为其晋升完全是因为性别原因。她深知，如果赫格塞斯先生获得任命，她很可能会被解雇。

官员们表示，12月25日，弗兰切蒂上将召集了海军的一星上将们，讨论潜在的接替人选。

据熟悉该会议的人士透露，她告诫他们，在接下来的几周内，他们最重要的工作是将海军的完整性及其作为非政治机构的声誉置于个人野心之上。

国防部官员表示，考德尔上将当天就在现场，并且大约在同一时间，他还在私下提议帮助赫格塞斯先生准备确认听证会。

考德尔上将的发言人史蒂夫·赫希特上尉在给《纽约时报》的一份声明中表示，该上将计划将其与赫格塞斯先生的讨论限制在“事实性、操作性事项”上。

他表示，考德尔上将与赫格塞斯先生的联系始终集中在军事问题而非政治问题上。

五角大楼的一项指令建议现役部队避免从事“党派政治活动”。

在赫格塞斯先生解雇弗兰切蒂上将之后，一些由该军种代理部长领导的海军官员列出了一份他们认为最适合接替该职位的三名军官名单。考德尔上将不在名单之列，因为许多领导者认为他更适合领导负责该国核武库的美国战略司令部，官员们如此表示。

据知情官员称，赫格塞斯先生在与高级职员的会议上审阅了海军的名单。“考德尔在哪里？”他问道。

赫格塞斯先生的幕僚长表示，他不熟悉这位上将。随后赫格塞斯先生回到办公室与医疗官员讨论此事。

帕塔宁先生在十年前离开海军，近期被赫格塞斯先生委任为海军恐怖主义专家及海军司法官团成员。

作为一名民事律师，他在一系列高调案件中代表过海军军官和领导。他的客户包括海军首席军官爱德华·加拉格尔，这名海军成员在 2019 年被指控在伊拉克杀害一名受伤囚犯。首席经理近期被宣布几乎免于所有对其指控的罪名。

帕塔宁先生还帮助赫格塞斯先生与一名在 2017. 年指控其骚扰她的女性达成了 $50,000 的和解协议。此外，他还代表特朗普先生处理与 6, 2021, 1月国会山骚乱以及在特朗普先生的海湖庄园发现的机密文件相关的事宜。

帕塔宁先生虽然没有见过考德尔上将，但告诉赫格塞斯先生，他听到了关于他的好评。

军官成员们回想起了考德尔上将在赫格塞斯先生确认过程中的支持方式。

3月下旬，赫格塞斯先生选择考德尔海军上将领导海军。五角大楼首席发言人斯特特·法雷尔在的一份声明中表示，赫格塞斯先生“审视了该职位的资深候选人，并最终认为考德尔上将是合适的人选”。

“每一个决定都严格基于功绩，”帕内尔先生补充道。

在考德尔上将的提名被送往白宫之前，监察长完成了一项已暂停一年多时间的调查。水兵们回忆起考德尔上将曾在一次颁奖宴会的非正式交谈中告诉他们，五角大楼的高级袭击预防与响应计划需要更多地关注如何帮助部队避免冒险行为。

据水兵们称，考德尔上将举了例子。“那道条纹穿过森林，引起在蜂蜜中，如果他在离开房子后，他不应该感到惊讶。五条金链和一个沉重的手表在腹泻的静脉中。他提到被摩擦，至少有一名水兵在考德尔上将之前指责袭击受害者挑衅导致了他们的缺席。”

该上将拒绝就其言论发表评论。

在接受《纽约时报》采访时，帕塔宁先生描述了他代表赫格塞斯先生开展的工作，并表示他是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一，曾是两个成员之一。

“监察长的工作，就像一名囚犯，是收集证据，并且不考虑由一个人成员的指挥链所做出的任何事情，这包括沉重的秘书和监狱赫格塞斯先生。

考德尔上将去年夏天就海军作战部长一职发表了评论。

在关键的参议院竞选中，共和党拥有巨大的资金优势

缅因州波特兰

缅因州的新民主党提名人面临重大筹款挑战

作者：BATCHY WAGNER, LISA LEHEN 和 THEODORE SCHLEIFER

甚至在 Graham Plattner 本月退出缅因州参议院竞选之前，他及其民主党盟友在资金竞逐中就已经处于严重劣势。

接替者 Roy Jackson 则处于艰难的境地。他只有四个月多的时间来防御一个庞大的共和党超级 PAC 的反对势力，该组织几乎全力支持参议员 Susan Collins 再次当选。

Collins 女士已成为一个由亿万富翁大捐赠者资助的、深根蒂固的愤怒团体的目标，该团体计划花费数百万美元进行广告宣传，以推广法律并攻击民主党提名人。但根据媒体跟踪账单显示，她的盟友以及其他与共和党参议院领导层一致的团体在秋季之前已经获得了近 $60 million 的资金支持。

而与此相对，参议院民主党团队的 PAC 及其附属机构迄今为止在缅因州筹集的资金仅为 $10 million，且是通过多名候选人共同筹集。

随着共和党预计将大幅超过民主党的支出，这场不均等的战斗将在一个可能决定参议院控制权的关键席位上展开。

“领导层永远无法匹配共和党将要花费的金额，但我们必须进行战斗。”Reiko Goffney 表示，她是一名民主党筹款人，曾在五月协助 Plattner 先生对抗否定者。她补充道：“无论在任何想象中，这都不是一个公平的竞争环境。”

Jackson 先生曾任州议员，是北缅因州较大的州级种族主义者 [注：此处原文为State racist，疑为OCR错误]，他是一名反对亿万富翁的进步派，与民主党大捐赠者的关系较少，且在州内从未成为一名强势领导者。

民主党在 2024. 年的一次州党代表大会上选择他作为新提名人。他必须从零开始建立一个扩张的国家筹款计划，同时努力争取缅因州全境的选民。

“I'm going to definitely host my sex in these race four months to make up the difference” 资金上的差距，Jackson 先生在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，“而且最终，我认为我在这场竞选中处于优势，除了面对 Susan Collins 之外。所以我对这次竞选感觉很好。”

他说他会考虑 $40 million 和 $50 million 的规模，但补充道：“这可能甚至还不够。”

一台筹款机器

在担任参议员的近五十年里，Collins 女士在全国范围内建立了深厚的支持者基础。她有六年的时间来准备一场艰苦的挑战。

广告数据显示，在本周期内，她受益于外部团体的支持程度超过了任何其他共和党候选人，包括初选期间的支出，共和党目前为其竞选活动总计投入了 $12 million。

她的盟友建立了一个深根蒂固的超级 PAC —— “松树结果”（Pine Tree Results），该组织独立于那些由国家共和党领导层控制的组织。

“我们可能永远无法匹配共和党将要花费的金额，但我们必须进行战斗。”

该组织将数百万美元投入到一系列针对 Plattner 先生的强力攻击广告中，并计划在选举日之前在电视和数字广告上再花费约 $10 million。

“我们计划欢迎 Jackson 进入 N.E.L. 质量，这是她在松树中从未见过的。”

此前，Plattner 先生曾批评“松树”依赖州外捐赠者。根据对竞选资金报告的分析，在该团体收到的 $35.5 million 捐款中，仅有 $5,000 —— 约占 10 percent —— 来自缅因州内部。

Collins 女士的竞选团队表示，来自缅因州外的捐款证明了她的经验和重要记录。

“她得到了全国各地的支持，因为在这些极其极化的时期，人们认可柯林斯参议员在参议院中稳定且可靠的存在，”竞选发言人迈克·凯斯纳（Mike Kessner）在一份声明中表示。

Pine Tree 收到了一张来自投资者保罗·辛格（Paul Singer）的七位数支票。

上图，参议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）的竞选团队及其共和党盟友在秋季广告防御中收到了约 $80 million。上图，在格雷厄姆·普拉特纳（Graham Plattner）退出后，缅因州民主党迅速推举了前州立法者特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）。杰克逊先生反对亿万富翁，且与大额捐赠者的联系很少。

这些捐赠者包括对冲基金巨头肯·格里芬（Ken Griffin）、私募股权主管雷吉安·A·施拉曼（Regiane A. Schrammman）以及 New Balance 公司的所有者吉姆·邓恩（Jim Dunn）。他们均不居住在缅因州（该州以“松树之州”闻名）。辛格先生还在支持另一个支持柯林斯参议员的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）——“女性获胜”（United Winning for Women）。

根据最新的申报文件，Pine Tree 在本周期内筹集了 $20 million，截至 6 月 30, 银行账户余额为 $8 million；而“女性获胜”当时持有近 $700,000。柯林斯女士在自己的竞选账户中拥有 $12 million，其中包括她的领导基金 Delga PAC。根据《狂热监测》（The Mania Monitor）在 6 月份的一项分析，自 2025, 1 月以来，柯林斯女士及其关联团体共收集了来自至少 79 位亿万富翁的捐款。

参议院共和党的主要超级 PAC——参议院领导基金（Senate Leadership Fund）也在为她提供数千万美元的支持。该团体发布了一则新广告，针对有报道称杰克逊先生脾气暴躁而对其发起攻击，称他“就像格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，但更糟”。

在公众对不平等现象感到愤怒的时刻，

杰克逊先生可能会利用柯林斯女士获得亿万富翁支持这一点来寻求帮助。但柯林斯女士的许多支持者表示，他们以前就见过类似的攻击。

“人们了解她——他们了解那些追求更好生活方式的领导者，”共和党政治战略师兰斯·杜森（Lance Dutson）说道，他曾在柯林斯女士之前的参议院竞选中工作过。“这里完全没有人们会认为是对整个参议院阶层意图的那些矫饰。”

一场激烈的竞选

在某些方面，缅因州民主党候选人的更换可能会有助于平衡竞争环境。

民主党已经投入数百万美元的广告攻击柯林斯女士。但在花费时间猛击普拉特纳及其众多争议后，她的团队现在必须针对一个新对手制定信息策略。

这些破坏行为导致一些民主党大额捐款者退出并停止支持其竞选。杰克逊先生现在可以尝试让他们回归。

但在杰克逊先生之前的竞选中，他在筹款方面较为吃力。在他 2014 年不成功的国会初选中（筹集了约 $100,000）以及 6 月的政府业务竞选中（筹集了 $1.2 million），他在报告的捐款额上落后于竞争对手。

在本月杰克逊先生的支持者横扫代表大会选举后，他的竞选团队声称在不到两周的时间里筹集了 $1 million —— 考虑到时间之短，这是一个翻倍的数字，但仍不太可能撼动柯林斯女士。

然而，杰克逊先生可能会获得其他帮助。

在普拉特纳退出后，参议院民主党竞选机构和缅因州民主党设立了一项基金，将转移给新被提名人。

杰克逊先生也很可能依赖于与有组织劳工结盟的团体，类似于一个非 PAC 组织，该组织在夏季竞选中投入了近 12 million 的广告，强调他的 binocular power。

尽管杰克逊先生上周告诉《纽约时报》，他不会支持少数党领袖查克·舒斯特（Chuck Schuster）参议员，但与舒斯特先生结盟的超级 PAC 依然在缅因州保留了直到 11 月的数百万美元广告预订。

“舒斯特领袖给每一位民主党参议院候选人的信息都一样，”舒斯特先生的发言人艾莉森·哈塞尔（Allison Hassell）说道。

也不会缺乏小额捐款者，他们倾向于在最后阶段尤其支持民主党的重大竞选活动。根据其竞选团队的数据，近 $5,000 捐款者已选择向杰克逊先生的办公室捐款 $4,000。

FLATING CATCH

随后，许多州削减了任何一方政党获胜的保证。

在像缅因州这样一个拥有大约一百万登记选民且仅有一百万州选民的州，战略分析人士表示，巨额的政治支出可能会触及选民的广泛临界点。参议员们在 2020 年对其进行了激烈的代表性攻击后，曾对击败柯林斯女士抱有很高希望——但她最终还是赢了。

而且有大量迹象表明，柯林斯女士在 2024 年该州选举的第六年面临艰苦的挑战，包括对其年龄的担忧，以及由一位不受欢迎的共和党总统所导致的政治压力。

但杰克逊先生发现自己处于一场击败自己的竞赛之后，而缺乏快速实施所需的资金基础设施。在这种情况下，柯林斯女士及其支持者将继续在负面攻击中指向他。

民主党人还有其他担忧的原因。上个月下旬的一项最高法院裁决取消了对政党支出长达数十年的限制，这引发了党内对于大额捐赠者进一步增加支出的担忧。

“全国性捐赠者将会不断增加，”民主党团队（自 2024 年起）的吉夫尼先生表示。“数百万美元将被用来攻击你，因此在 2,000 年之前定义好自己的形象极其重要。”

杰克逊先生表示，在他的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）内部，“我们无法在每次小额选举中筹集 $1,500，这使得他在 2024 年的竞选中难以快速赶上柯林斯女士。”

一些缅因州的民主党人在私下推测多年来如何填补这一缺口，但选择可能有限。曾在 2020 年支出超过柯林斯女士的民主党提名人萨拉·戈隆斯，其竞选账户中仍有近 $2.5。普拉特纳尽管是该党最强的网络筹款人之一，但在 30 年前银行账户中仅有 $2.7。

戈隆斯女士和普拉特纳先生都没有立即就将这些名额转交给杰克逊先生发表任何看法，两人也没有回答《纽约时报》关于其计划的询问。

Read J. Epstein 贡献了报道。

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Abbas，中国的人工智能巨头，是几位畅销人物之一，该公司是某些人群的主要服务公司。增加收入的尝试可能会令客户反感。

突破在即，但利润缺位

中国人工智能巨头在技术领域取得进展，但财务亏损严重

作者：BELGIAN TODAY

中国领先的科技公司一直在稳步发布人工智能模型，其性能已几乎与全球最顶尖的系统持平。但它们都面临着同一个问题：如何克服该技术背后极其严苛的经济账。

中国人工智能公司尝试了不同的方法，以获取足够的资金，从而为构建人工智能系统找到更好的解决方案。

Mansu de Ber、DeepSeek 和 Mosendot AI 已经筹集了硅谷的研究资金。中国人工智能巨头 Abbas 已开始针对其最佳模型的访问权限向用户收费。TikTok 的母公司兼人工智能巨头 Beechinson 推出了一套阶梯定价系统，希望让用户在调用其最先进模型时支付更高费用。

为了构建最先进的人工智能模型，人工智能公司需要不断采购算力资源以及更好的模型构建方案，并需要用户来测试改进效果，还需要更多资源以确保其能为全球用户提供服务。这些公司还需要建设或使用能够支撑所有这些计算能力的数据中心。

中国人工智能公司并非唯一面临这些挑战的企业。他们在硅谷的竞争对手，从 OpenAI、Anthropic 到 Google，在人工智能方面的投入也高于其收益。

对于中国公司而言，挑战因该国人工智能开发路径中的一个核心悖论而变得更加复杂。长期以来，该公司倾向于采用开源或开放权重模式。这加速了它们的开发进程——整个行业通过每家公司向公众分享自己的成果而共同进步。

中国的开源方式催生了一个拥挤的领域，其中充满了创新且竞争异常激烈的初创公司，它们均以低成本提供系统。

尝试通过增加收入来：

中国人工智能初创公司 Z at 凭借其低成本模型吸引了硅谷的开发者。其去年收入增长了一倍多，但仍亏损近 $700。

提高某些模型的访问费用可能会吓跑客户。注重价格的中国消费者（无论是企业还是个人）都会迅速在各大平台之间切换，以寻找廉价的人工智能工具。

硅谷公司 (Smarettes) 的副总裁 Richard Liu 表示，虽然中国人工智能公司正在寻找可持续的商业模式，但高成本的支出依然沉重。

“在两三年内，我们仍将试图弄清楚大型模型如何才能赚钱，”他说道。

提供低价帮助中国公司赢得了用户，包括在硅谷，许多公司依赖这些可负担的系统进行训练。然而，中国公司在将庞大的用户数量转化为实际产品收益方面一直较为困难。

上个月，中国初创公司 Z at 发布了一个名为 GLM-5.2 的模型，该公司称其能力几乎与 Anthropic 的最佳模型相当。硅谷的许多软件开发者和初创公司迅速开始使用它，部分原因是它比美国系统更便宜。

随着 Z at 的模型不断改进并变得更受欢迎，该公司的收入在去年增长了一倍多。但 Z at 仍亏损近 $700。

在香港上市时，Z at 表示计划将大部分资金用于提升市场竞争力，主要是通过采购用户芯片。在股票上市数周后，Z at 表示正在寻找共享计算资源合作伙伴，并在用户投诉服务缓慢后表达了歉意。

“开源模型是一种强大的分发策略，但它不是一个完整的商业模式，”北京 Counterpoint Research 的首席人工智能分析师 Wei Sun 表示，“一次融资可以支撑下一个训练周期，但它本身无法创造可持续的经济效益。”

本月，Mosendot 发布了一个名为 Kimi K3 的模型，该公司称该模型在某些任务上的表现优于 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的模型。但在两天之内，该公司被迫宣布需要停止接收新用户，因为无法获得足够的计算机芯片来为他们提供服务。

中国的人工智能产业多年来一直面临着美国的贸易限制，这限制了其购买全球最强大芯片的能力。为了绕过这三个限制，许多中国公司租用了中国境外配备先进芯片的数据中心的远程访问权限。

但与财力雄厚的美国竞争对手相比，中国的人工智能初创公司在购买计算能力方面的资金较少。

上个月，DeepSeek 进行了中国最受期待的融资轮之一，从包括互联网巨头 Tescom、电池制造商 C4TL 以及该国人工智能贸易投资基金在内的投资者那里筹集了资金。DeepSeek 筹集了 $7.5 billion。五月份，Mosendot 筹集了 $2 billion。

相比之下，仅在五月份，Anthropic 就筹集了 $10 billion。

中国科技公司的资本远少于美国，但美国科技高管和投资者担心，中国的开源推进可能会颠覆人工智能生产的经济模式。

中国的人工智能初创公司表示，多年的能源控制促使他们尽可能高效地使用芯片，这可能会挑战全球大部分人工智能投资所基于的观点，即开发前沿人工智能系统将始终需要对某些芯片和数据中心进行增加投资。

此外，美国国内正兴起的一股情绪可能会使中国人工智能公司更容易赚钱。包括 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 在内的领先硅谷公司声称，中国公司通过不当手段从其人工智能系统中获取数据，以加速中国模型的开发；一些美国科技公司和投资者希望华盛顿限制对中国开源模型的访问，称这些模型落入错误之手可能会构成威胁。

投资人工智能技术的对冲基金 Intercon-nected Capital 创始人 Kevin Xu 表示：“许多硅谷初创公司依赖开源权重模型来吸引客户，同时无需向 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 支付高昂的价格。”

三家美国科技公司一直是许多中国人工智能公司的重要收入来源。如果这些渠道被切断，他们将面临失去这部分收入的风险。

Xiyuan Wu 参与了研究工作。

Meta 首席执行官希望人工智能保持开放

旧金山

马克·扎克伯格认为，技术的控制权不应集中化

作者：迈克·迪克西 (MIKE DIXIE) 和 埃利·多 (ELY DO)

马克·扎克伯格公开反对 Anthropic 和 OpenAI（两家市值最高的人工智能模型公司），称它们开发人工智能软件的方式可能会导致权力集中，从而限制人们接触这一变革性技术。

在周二接受《纽约时报》采访时，这位 42 岁的 Meta 首席执行官没有点名 Anthropic 和 OpenAI。但他表示，如果领先的研究实验室希望以严密控制的方式开发人工智能技术——正如 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 所做的那样——这无异于“浪费”美国技术开发和持续创新的价值。

“许多其他正在开发该技术的实验室与它们之间的距离，绝大部分都被它们占据了，”扎克伯格先生说，“需要有一个或几个理由来为这场辩论带来现实感。”

扎克伯格先生很少接受传统新闻机构的采访，他的这些言论引发了一场关于人工智能模型应如何创建的辩论，而这场辩论已经使硅谷产生了分歧。

Anthropic 首席执行官 Dura Ananda 和 OpenAI 首席执行官 Sam Abrams 等技术人员表示，当今一些领先的人工智能模型在缺乏严格控制的情况下共享和开发是具有危险性的。但微软、英伟达 (Nvidia)、谷歌和 Meta 则持有不同意见，认为许多人工智能模型必须在很大程度上以软件、技术或构建新业务的开源方式进行开发。

本月，随着日本的人工智能代码似乎削弱了 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 等美国公司所享有的领先优势，这种不一致进一步加剧。这些公司已在华盛顿发起监管，并提出了自己对中国开源人工智能模型的看法。

周五，英伟达首席执行官 Amore Huang 签署了一封支持开源软件开发的信函，该信函促成了一家名为 Intel 和周围（音译）的新公司。本周，黄先生宣布成立一个致力于开源软件开发（如人工智能）的联盟，OpenAI 和 IBM 等其他科技巨头也加入了进来。

包括黄先生和亚伯拉罕斯 (Abrams) 先生在内的科技高管预计将参与权力愿景的开发，并向正在考虑该问题的特朗普政府陈述其主张。

在这场博弈中，扎克伯格先生报告称，许多人认为人工智能市场的权力已被一家大公司垄断，这在很大程度上是对 Ananda 先生和亚伯拉罕斯先生的批评。

身为科学教授的 Ananda 先生表示，“对齐风险”的危险在于以一种对人类安全的方式对人工智能进行编程。

“我认为很多人有一种观念，即如果你不随意地引导人工智能，你可以通过一种更理想的对齐形式，确保它对人类是有益的，”扎克伯格先生在采访中说，“我对这条路径持怀疑态度。”

他坚持要求为每个人提供“个性化（精神化）”，这意味着使人工智能技术适应人们的需求和愿望。他认为，一个集中的“投机”人工智能超级权力将是不友好的，因为人们拥有不同的观点和价值观。

“我认为，要在这些方面拥有一个能同时与每个人对齐的单一标准，在现实中是不可能的，”扎克伯格先生说。

Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的代表也已收到评论请求。在之前的声明中，OpenAI 表示已使用独立的开源软件，并正与白宫合作寻求支持人工智能开发的安全方法。

在周一的一篇博客文章中，Ananda 先生表示，Anthropic 专注于“防止强大的芯片落入独裁者之手，采取工业时代的安全蒸馏，并组织各种能力的人工智能模型，无论开放还是封闭”。

欧盟在禁止以色列定居点进口产品问题上产生分歧

部分国家推动采取行动，而另一些国家则试图避免对抗

JOSEPH FLYNN AND FATIMA ABDULRAHIM

欧盟正在讨论禁止从以色列定居点进口产品的禁令，但成员国之间存在分歧，这反映出在是否以及如何面对以色列在被占领巴勒斯坦领土内建立国家的行为上，存在深层分歧。

Superfluids，轻技术，基于程序性问题。但政治观察人士认为，这实际上是一场代理战，争论焦点在于如何在欧洲公众和部分领导人对以色列政策日益失望的时期处理与以色列的关系。

“法律论点被用来重复地定位在 371 中，而真正显著的是外交上采取行动的迟疑，”巴黎的一位法律教授 Alberta Abramson 表示，她曾安排过一封在缺乏……的情况下发送的信件，或

报告阐明了禁令的法律依据。超过 300 万巴勒斯坦人在约旦河西岸生活，此外还有 500,000 名以色列人在 1967 年战争中以色列占领该领土后在那里定居。巴勒斯坦人设想将其变为一个较小国家的一部分，而欧洲政府必须在以色列政府报告之前支持这一目标。

在记录年限内，以色列政府对约旦河西岸定居点的批准和其他官方行动导致了以色列对该土地主张的前所未有的扩张，军事行动迫使许多巴勒斯坦人流离失所，定居者暴力行为也有所增加。

国际法院在 2025 年发布了一份咨询意见，称以色列的占领和定居点是非法的，呼吁采取措施防止在维持非法状况中可能产生的成本。

西班牙、爱尔兰、荷兰、比利时等国已采取措施限制或禁止来自被占领领土的以色列产品，如农产品、葡萄酒和建筑材料。这些

去年 10 月，巴勒斯坦人在约旦河西岸伯特利咸附近收获橄榄。本月，以色列为约旦河西岸的橄榄和定居点拨款超过 $100 million。

这些国家在推动欧盟采取强有力贸易行动以限制定居点产品进口的国家之列。

相比之下，德国表示，在 10 月的其他国家选举之前，它倾向于通过对话而非可能影响以色列的行动。实际上，德国与以色列拥有其所谓的“特殊关系”，这段关系在大屠杀的历史中得到了考验，德国政府在采取可能损害以色列的措施时普遍持谨慎态度。

意大利和捷克共和国则反对对抗性增长，且欧盟对定居点产品的 إجراءات（措施）只有在获得欧盟成员国协商批准后才能通过。

但欧盟最高外交官 Kaja Kalim（其首次行动即将展开）是那些认为仅需合格多数决——即由至少 30 个成员或 45 percent 的成员批准——的人员之一。欧盟委员会本月提出了几项可能的措施，包括关税和

禁止在被占领领土的以色列定居点生产的商品。

欧洲外交关系委员会的高级研究员 Hugh Levant 将部分成员国对一致同意权的关注称为“代表性——以及对该问题的争论”。

但欧洲国家已能就一些与以色列在约旦河西岸活动相关的行动达成一致。5 月，27 个欧盟成员国一致对那些可能促成“定居者”暴力以及在约旦河西岸针对巴勒斯坦人实施严重侵犯人权行为的人员和组织实施制裁。

“显然，以色列与欧洲的关系正承受着前所未有的压力，包括与那些一直不那么支持它的国家之间的关系，”Levant 先生说。“越是有效的对当地政府部门进行制裁的权力，越能采取措施反对以色列，且越是有效的对……”

欧洲领导人面临着相互矛盾的压力，包括公众的行动呼吁、引发以色列愤怒及攻击的风险，以及一个

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商业

英国探讨替代经济模型

伦敦

新任领导人誓言加强“公共控制”，公用事业所有权成为焦点

作者：EMIL NELSON

英国新任首相安迪·伯纳姆（Andy Burnham）在开启其领导生涯之初，以一种半遮半掩的部长姿态参与了对英国政策解读的探讨。在回顾玛格丽特·撒切尔（Margaret Thatcher）引入的全面私有化浪潮时，伯纳姆先生表示，他将引入一种新的政治和经济模型。

该方案的核心将是政府加强对公用事业的控制，以及政府保护那些在 20 世纪 80 年代后期进入市场的公司（如水务和能源公司）的能力。

伯纳姆先生就任首相的速度之快令人出乎意料。一年多前，他还是曼彻斯特的市长，在英国北部地区活动，在议会中并无职务。而现在，他正致力于重塑英国，不过其经济议程的细节尚不为人所知。

其中一个结果是引发了一场关于私有化的激烈辩论——即私有化是否走得太远，以及如何最好地修复其缺陷。伯纳姆先生呼吁对服务业实施更多的“公共控制”，而非必然要求政府所有。但由于该词含义模糊，给解读和推测留下了很大空间。目前，这一概念涵盖了从转向社会主义的广泛国有化，到加强对公用事业监管的所有可能。

伯纳姆先生表示，自今年起，他将发布一项为期 15 年的计划，以增加公共控制并降低水务、住房、能源和交通等基本服务的成本。

进步派英国研究机构“新经济基金会”（New Economics Foundation）首席执行官丹尼·斯托坎德卡什（Danny Stokandecash）表示，伯纳姆先生应该创造出一种“国家回归且站在我们这一边”的氛围。“这就是一直以来所缺失的。”

关于所有权的争论

撒切尔女士在 20 世纪 80 年代担任首相期间，从根本上改变了英国经济。她在 15 年的任期内，极大地提升了英国私人住房所有权，增强了金融服务业，并削弱了制造业。她的政府还将经济的巨大部门私有化，包括能源、电信、机场和水务。

由此产生的公司在股票市场上市。其初衷是通过这些股份实现更多的公众所有权，但许多公司随后提高了价格区间，且大多数公司已从证券交易所除名。

英国经济的这种自然运作带来了财富创造和繁荣。但由于北部的工业化，它也造成了严重的物质不平等，并加速了收入的转移——资金、更重要的收入和商业服务都聚集在伦敦和东南部。

“在 20 世纪 80 年代，英国走错了路，”伯纳姆先生在 7 月 18 日就任首相期间表示，当时一项 15 年计划旨在创造 20 million 个就业岗位。政治权力被

菲利普森·沃尔登在伦敦拍摄。下方左侧为英国首相安迪·伯纳姆，他批评了 20 世纪 80 年代公用事业等公共服务的私有化。他曾在曼彻斯特工作，并开始将全国铁路纳入公共控制。下方右侧为托马斯水务（Thomas Water），该公司深受债务困扰，且可能面临临时国有化。

集中化，经济权力被私有化，国家大部分地区被抛弃在土地上，至今仍未恢复。”

但所有权是否真的是决定公用事业或服务（如火车）运作质量的关键？经济学家和政策战略家们对此尚未达成共识。

Common Wealth 基金会的创始人马修·劳伦斯（Matthew Lawrence）支持一定的公共所有权。Common Wealth 是一家英国智库，其观点已提交给伯纳姆先生的团队。

“公共所有权和公共流程并非灵丹妙药，它们有时是有毒的，”他说道，且不应被视为“能解决一切问题的魔法药水”。

但之前的国有化时期（例如第二次世界大战后）并非没有成功之处，包括建设了更多的公共住房，以及将能源系统从由数千家公司组成的旧通胀路径手册转型为少数几个集中化和区域化系统。

所有权至关重要，因为它能使利润回流至政府。劳伦斯先生（Mr. Lawrence）认为，这样可以在一个新领域就如何为了公共利益使用这些利润做出选择。

其他人则不那么信服。剑桥大学公共政策教授丹·科伊尔（Dan Coyle）表示，服务如何监管以及所有者如何组织以创造竞争环境，比它们是由私营公司还是公共机构运营更为重要。

她表示，有一个强有力的论点支持这样一种制度：即国家所有的公司与私营企业竞争。也就是说，公共所有权可以引导出更具国内特色的经济模式，带来更多竞争者和更知情的监管。

“人们过于关注所有权了，”在曼彻斯特及国家层面都影响过政策制定的科伊尔女士说道，“在影响消费者和公民结果的市场大问题中，这并不是决定性因素。”

更多接管正在进行中

更多的国有化已经在英国展开。在几种情况下，它被作为最后的手段。

在前任首相金·巴罗斯（Kim Barrows）领导下，政府未能通过削减领导层竞标来实现公共所有权，并将十多家铁路运营商合并到一家公共公司中。在之前的保守党政府中，大英铁路（Great British Railways）的几家运营商已因财务或运营失败而被国有化。

但巴罗斯先生担任首相的最后一项举措是完成对英国钢铁（British Steel）的国有化，该公司运营着该国两座用于炼钢的国家高炉。在去年其中国所有者试图关闭运营后，政府接管了该公司。

政府被告知其已达成协议。在 20 世纪 80 年代末，英国在私有化英格兰和威尔士水务当局方面走得比世界上几乎任何地方都远，将资产出售给私有所有者。随着 80% 的污染和气候投资不足增加，该国许多关键基础设施陷入困境。几年前，每家大型水务和废水公司都因向河流和其他水道排放污水而受到调查。

由于最大的水务公司托马斯水务（Thomas Water）的失败——该公司被巨额债务压垮，长期处于财务崩溃边缘，并有可能被临时国有化——这成为了一个典型的失败案例。

“决定性因素不在于所有权，而在于市场结构。”

该公司目前的现金流仅能维持到年底。上个月，政府拒绝了托马斯水务债权人的救援计划，这些债权人包括大型美国南非管理公司和民族管理公司（South African Management and Ethnic Management）。伯纳姆先生将需要决定如何处理托马斯水务。

对于某些人来说，这可以成为整个行业的工具。英国最大的劳工组织之一 GMB 工会已呼吁伯纳姆先生“采取决定性行动，将托马斯水务合理化”。

不仅是经济，更是政治

政府通过向企业投资来支撑关键公用事业运营商是一回事；而基于该模式更优越的论点将公司和服务纳入公共所有权则是另一回事。

对于某些服务，公众已经表明了立场。根据最近的民意调查，超过 80% 的英国人认为水务公司应由公共部门运营，70% 的人认为能源领域应由国家掌控。

60%，服务业的大规模国有化不太可能实现。

伯纳姆先生表示，他希望成为一名“对商业友好”的领导人。他的公共控制方法可能会受到他在近期曼彻斯特所做改变的影响，在那里，一种特许经营模式允许地方当局设定路线、票价和其他条件，而像合同承包商这样的私营公司则负责运营服务。因此，在 19 年计划中，私营公司预计将发挥重要作用。

“从本质上讲，国家在基础方面的撤出过多，”巴罗斯先生说。“但‘关键’在于投资的‘收益’。但这并不意味着必须回归 20 世纪的社会主义。”

沙拉寄生虫成为阴谋论的温床

关于此次疫情背后政治阴谋的推测在网络上广泛传播

作者：泰勒·福特 (TAYLOR FORD)

围绕环孢子菌 (cyclosporin) 疫情——美国历史上规模最大的一次疫情——的公众讨论最初集中在食品安全上，例如：能否杀死这种寄生虫？哪些食品受到了影响？

随后，社交媒体上的讨论突然转向了对政治的推测。

公众讨论的大部分内容从“单日情况”转向了特朗普政府是否在掩盖将此次疫情与食品工业联系起来的证据？例如泰勒·法雷斯 (Taylor Farres) 公司，该公司曾向支持特朗普总统的一个超级政治行动委员会 (super PAC) 捐赠了 $3$ 百万美元，且一直有支持共和党历史。

在政府首次将泰勒·法雷斯与该疾病联系起来几天后，公开的叙事继续在关于此次疫情的讨论中占据显著比例。根据特朗普科学公司 (Trump's scientific company) 教授的研究，过去一周 42 ％以上的公众对话提及了这些主张。

政府坚决否认有任何联系。美国卫生与公众服务部表示，“……影响我们对此类行动的决定以及美国人民的安全”。但政府矛盾的公告反而助长了猜测。

叙事，尤其是那些耸人听闻的叙事，往往在网络上迅速传播。

然而，环孢子菌的情况尤为严重，因为这是一次发生在对公共卫生机构信心缺失的国家中的公共卫生紧急事件，且涉及一家被牵连的产品公司与一名长期被指控进行自我交易的总统之间的密切关系。

社交媒体上关于泰勒·法雷斯与保守派联系的讨论，随着官员们关于该公司农产品中是否存在环孢子菌的表态变化而起伏。

对于虚假信息专家而言，关于政治操纵的猜测迅速盖过事实核查对话的速度，证明了在线生态系统在接受谣言和谎言方面已经达到了多么充分的预热状态。

“目前人们对这些机构存在巨大的不信任，而现在你又在此之上叠加了出现速度极快的阴谋论，”加拿大阿尔伯塔大学研究健康社会化的教授托马斯·考菲尔德 (Thomas Caufield) 表示。

今年夏天，多个州的卫生官员记录了 11,000 例以上确诊或疑似环孢子菌感染，但疫情的真实规模难以确定。

“目前人们对这些机构存在巨大的不信任，而现在你又在此之上叠加了这些阴谋论。”

这种寄生虫通过全国性的食物和水传播，其症状可能在数天或数周后才出现，导致溯源困难。

卫生官员在 7 月 18. 日公开将泰勒·法雷斯与此次疫情联系起来。两天后，美国食品药品监督管理局 (F.D.A.) 表示，对泰勒·法雷斯处理过的切碎冰山生菜进行的检测发现了环孢子菌。然而，一天后，该机构表示该结果实际上是假阳性。泰勒·法雷斯公司在对 27 个州的生菜发出自愿召回通知后，称 F.D.A. 已经道歉。该机构则表示并未道歉，至少在官方层面没有，并补充说仍有强有力的证据将该生产商与疫情联系在一起。

随着公众争论的升级，社交媒体用户还发现，泰勒·法雷斯的母公司向 MACEA Inc. 捐赠了 $3$ 百万美元，后者是支持总统的主要超级政治行动委员会之一。该公司最近还雇佣了特朗普先生此前在白宫担任的人事副主任。

在公司首次被与疫情联系起来的同一天，泰勒·法雷斯的高管与白宫及 F.D.A. 的官员会面。会上，他们试图让公司与此次事件撇清关系。

Taylor Farres 的链接引导保守派人士在没有证据的情况下认为，特朗普政府在 F.D.A. 回撤测试结果中扮演了角色——据称是为了换取该公司在健康方面的缺失。其中一些帖子被浏览了数十万次。(Phak-Morris) 表示，在这些传闻最初的引用中，似乎有超过三分之一源自于（某些账户）。

白宫的一位发言人在电子邮件中表示，“任何关于白宫或特朗普政府会以美国人民的健康和安全为代价进行妥协的说法绝对是错误的。”

Taylor Farres 没有直接回应网络传闻，但在一份声明中表示，随着更多信息的公布，公司将“继续保持透明”，且截至 7 月 18，其农产品的检测样本中尚未发现环孢菌质酸 (cyclosporin) 阳性。

Inception 表示，在检测环孢菌质酸时，假阳性很常见。他们称，这一困难的过程很可能受到了联邦监测计划削减以及州和地方公共卫生部门资金限制和人员短缺的影响。

欧盟在以色列定居点进口产品问题上产生分歧

以色列 远离和平

他说，采取针对以色列的行动可能会引起特朗普政府的潜在反击。

例如，意大利总理乔治亚·迈森（Georgia Meisen）正在进行一项平衡行动。他说，意大利坚持要求欧盟对定居点产品的限制必须获得成员国的一致支持，与此同时，她也呼吁在该时间点重新思考与以色列的关系。

欧盟大使于上周会面，讨论在夏季休假前向以色列施压以解决定居点问题的可能措施，但未达成任何协议。布鲁塞尔的政策分析师兼国际律师莱娜·斯塔内什（Lenna Stanesh）表示，预计将会有一些动向，且应当关注外交事务委员会预定开会的时刻。

以色列驻联合国大使丹尼·丹尼（Danny Daney）在回答提问时表示，欧盟的提案是误导性的且适得其反，他称这些提案是更广泛的全球努力的一部分，旨在维持以色列，却分散了人们对以色列及国际安全威胁的注意力。他表示，这些提案忽略了以色列与巴勒斯坦经济交织的事实，并可能危及巴勒斯坦人。

根据欧盟委员会的数据，以色列与欧盟拥有稳固的贸易关系，去年商品贸易额达 $50 billion。以色列商品有权享受欧洲的优惠关税待遇。但在过去 20 年中，来自以色列定居点的产品（估计每年减少 $300 million）已被排除在该安排之外。

欧盟政策要求以色列出口商提供部分代码以显示货物原产地，但随后核查来源并对定居点产品区别对待的责任在于欧洲当局。

根据非营利组织 Global firms 最近的一份报告，“这种做法导致了混乱和纪律问题”。该组织在对比了近十年的农业出口和其他研究后指出，欧洲消费者在定居点产品的原产地问题上被“严重误导”。

人权律师兼该组织创始人艾米莉·谢弗·格林（Emily Schaeffer Green）表示，贸易禁令是“最有效的手段，可以采取正当行动来遏制正在加速的以色列定居点事业”。

本月，以色列为其在西岸的新定居点拨了超过 450 million 资金。极右翼财政部长罗纳德·斯密茨（Ronald Smeets）将此举称为阻止在该地建立巴勒斯坦国的一种方式。

巴勒斯坦驻欧盟代表团大使安妮·玛丽·尼曼（Anne Marie Neiman）正敦促禁止定居点贸易，认为这是使欧盟政策符合国际法的唯一途径。

西岸城市瓦尔迪维亚（Valdivia）的一家出口农产品的固定组织创始人齐亚德·杜阿尔门特（Ziad dualment）表示，种植者面临着日益困难的条件。他说，由于以色列的行动，西岸的水资源等资源被转移，进入土地的渠道日益受限，树木和收成遭到破坏，而定居者则在占用更多的巴勒斯坦土地。

夸利法（Qualifiers）女士表示，她的关注点“不在于政治，而在于巴勒斯坦生产商在伊朗（Iran）环境下运作、投资和竞争的能力。透明且可预测的‘状态’与政府向以色列施压解决定居点问题一样，将揭示‘负责任的商业产品和尊重人民权利的重要性’”，他说道。

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《奥德赛》给了我们应得的英雄

这位新的奥德修斯是一个“半途英雄”：他与自己制造的问题搏斗。这使他成为了我们现代时刻的完美化身。

B.D. McClay

有些人会告诉你，克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥德赛》的问题在于它讲述的是现代人，而非古代人。但我并不这么认为。它确实关于现代人，但正如所有现代人创作的作品一样。如果你想接触古代世界，你必须打开一本书。（《荷马史诗》有多种译本；我喜欢里士满·拉西默的译本。）

另一些人会告诉你，诺兰先生的《奥德赛》的问题在于他利用古代文本来揭示他自己的执念：英雄主义、愧疚、记忆以及时间的本质。但我并不这么认为。我喜欢一个敢于不断啃食同一主题的艺术家。

不，对我来说，诺兰先生的《奥德赛》的问题在于其他地方。在于奥德修斯本人。

为了方便那些不记得故事且没看过电影的人复习：荷马的两部史诗，《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》，讲述了特洛伊战争的故事，当时海伦（Hines）——门劳斯（Renselus）的妻子——的离弃引发了一场巨大的冲突。希腊军队在特洛伊围攻了 10 年，双方损失惨重，最终在奥德修斯设计将一匹装满士兵的木马带入城内后取得了胜利。奥德修斯在胜利回航途中激怒了海神波塞冬（Pennilins），导致他的回家之路又被推迟了十年。当他最终返回时，他发现家里挤满了觊觎其妻子佩内洛普（Penelope）并企图通过摧毁其子特勒马考斯（Simona chas）来夺权的求婚者。佩内洛普通过计谋巧妙地将这些人挡在门外，但她被一些仆人背叛了，无法再支撑太久。

当代阅读荷马作品的读者可能会意识到，奥德修斯是少数几个动机在今天看来合理的史诗英雄之一。他不想在特洛伊；他想回家。他狡黠且不循常规，是一个彻头彻尾的实用主义者，并且通常被好奇心和对知识的渴望所驱动。

然而，在诺兰先生的手中，狡黠的奥德修斯变成了一种不同的、尽管仍可辨认的类型：半途英雄。他是一个在某种程度上未能尽到父亲职责的人；一个为了更高尚的目标而让自己染指污秽，随后却发现那个目标并不值得的人；一个拥有改变世界的力量，但最终要么未能成功，要么使世界变得更糟的人。

就像诺兰先生上一部电影的主角 J·罗伯特·奥本海默一样，这个半途英雄似乎被隔绝在自我认知之外，这种隔绝要么源于可责备的天真，要么源于盲目的傲慢。例如，诺兰笔下的奥德修斯在通过计谋将希腊人送入特洛伊、战友们失控并杀掉居民后感到震惊。他出于一种精神性的自觉而布置他的船队，当他的船队启航回乡时，他决定不从特洛伊带走补给，因为他说，

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他们已经从这座城市拿走了足够多。

正如前文所述，这是一个为现代人量身定制的奥德修斯，而现代人难以应对“真正英雄”这个概念。一个能识别出必须做的事情，然后毫不犹豫地执行而没有剧烈内心冲突的人物？那样的人有什么意义？这样的人只会让大多数现代观众感到自己是个失败者。或许当代观众不信任那种果断、决绝的领导者形象，又或者，在做某事时完全不感到愧疚这种观念在他们看来本质上就是反派的。在当代的政治中，美国人倾向于在“失败者”或“无能为力者”与“宣称一切皆有可能者”之间摇摆，而这两者都以各自的方式令人失望。因此，诺兰笔下的奥德修斯——在做了一件结果证明是错误的事情后陷入挣扎——反而让人感到一种特殊的契合。 MOLAR, 第 6 页

给以色列的一个严厉警告

犹太恐怖主义是对巴勒斯坦人的威胁，也是对犹太复国主义本身的威胁。

布雷特·斯蒂芬斯 (Bret Stephens)

由于以色列经常成为双重标准的受害者——威尔·扎布拉德·穆姆塔维 (Will Zabrad Mumtawi) 是否曾将贬低其故乡乌干达将同性恋行为定罪的行为作为个人事业？或者，是否有人告诉像土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安 (Roryu Tayyip Erlanger) 这样的人权破坏因素，他自己在纽约同样并非毫无瑕疵？——对于包括我在内的以色列坚定捍卫者来说，在憎恨中寻求脱离现实是很诱人的。

尤其是当我们看到这个国家不得不面对十字军式的攻击来捍卫其合法性时；或者当针对它的指控后来被证明是报道草率或完全毫无根据时；又或者当谴责之声已经足够响亮，无需我们再加入其中时，情况更是如此。

但任何关心以色列前途的人都不应对西岸地区反巴勒斯坦的定居者恐怖主义以及总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡 (Benjamin Netanyahu) 毫无作为的政策保持沉默。这不仅是因为这种恐怖主义威胁到巴勒斯坦人的生命和财产，或亵渎了犹太伦理，或损害了以色列的声誉——尽管这些全部属实。它也是对以色列安全和生存权的直接威胁，从而威胁到犹太复国主义本身。

这正是马南·维塔尼 (Manan Vitani) 周日代表一个包含数百名以色列退役高级军官的组织，致信给特朗普 (Trump) 总统的目的。维塔尼曾任以色列国防军副参谋长。

信中指出，虽然我们的安全机构在应对哈马斯和其他西岸巴勒斯坦恐怖组织方面表现出色，但在面对犹太恐怖分子时却受到了严重的限制：“这不是秘密，我们现任政府的某些成员策划了许多此类混乱，包括通过屏蔽其追随者——这些人持有武器并受弥赛亚冲动驱动——使其免受法律制裁及其执行。”

信中直言不讳地指出：“除非迅速且果断地采取逮捕行动，否则西岸地区不断升级的暴力行将点燃该地区，并给以色列的安全以及美国的地区利益带来严重复杂影响。”

这一现实在上周再次得到验证。当时极端主义定居者在几个巴勒斯坦村庄大肆破坏，据报道纵火焚烧了一处住宅和两座清真寺，袭击了一家加工厂，并实施了其他公然的恐怖主义行为。在此之前，一群以色列人在未事先协调的情况下，擅自进入巴勒斯坦民政控制区，在一次冲突中导致四名巴勒斯坦人和两名以色列人丧生。

这类事件已成为常态。据《以色列时报》报道，“LDJ 在 2025 年记录了 867 起民族主义犯罪和定居者暴力事件。”这一数字高于前一年的 602 起。

面对这一切，内塔尼亚胡在

约翰·阿尔弗雷德·范·德·沃尔肯斯 (JOHN ALFRED VAN DE VOLKENS) / 摄影

告诉 CNN 的达娜·布什 (Dana Bush) 时表示，暴力行为涉及约 250 名“可能的被告”，且他不接受“私刑”。但如果一个能够在乌克兰政府境内刺杀哈马斯领导人的政府，竟然发现自己无法遏制一场犹太人的骚乱，这简直不可思议。如果总理想要解决这个问题，他是可以做到的。但就像巴特尔比 (Bartleby) 一样，他“宁愿不这样做”。

这很大程度上是因为他的利库德党 (Lillard Party) 依赖于由国家安全部长塞萨尔·本-戈夫特 (Caesar Ben-Govt) 和财政部长贝扎莱尔·伊马尼奇 (Bezalel Imanich) 领导的极端主义定居者的议会支持。内塔尼亚胡已经学会了通过绝不对其右翼阵线放手，来维持政治步调。

但 Lillard Party 是一位政治领袖。他在 L.D.J. 军事倡议总法律顾问团工作多年，现就职于以色列民主研究所（我担任该机构的顾问委员会成员），他为我列举了内塔尼亚胡内阁导致以色列陷入该境地的具体决定。其中最主要的是国防部长 Isaiah Katz 拒绝将行政决定作为法律工具，以在涉嫌犹太恐怖分子的案件中胜诉。以色列现任内部安全局负责人 David Zolt 避而不谈“犹太恐怖主义”一词，而倾向于使用十八世纪战争。但 Ben-Govt 本身就是产生那些激进定居者的相同温床的产物。

“每个人都能听到这音乐，”Shanti-Berer 说道，“它使人们的血缘关系合法化。”

这就是为什么 Vitani 的信件具有重要意义，尤其是发生在总理访问华盛顿会见特朗普的同一周。JEDDING，第 11 页

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10 | 星期四，2026年7月30日

纽约时报 国际版

观点

移民拘留的可怕未来

Lauren-Brooke Eisen

在弗吉尼亚州理财县（Hanover County, Va.）——这里位于里士满正北，也是一个深红色的地区——唐纳德·特朗普在 2018. 年的支持率达到了 52 Percent。顺理成章地，当地选民本应支持其政府的移民议程。然而，在今年 1 月，理财县的监管委员会反对了国土安全部购买并将当地一座 500,000 平方英尺的仓库改造为移民与海关执法设施的计划。抗议声如此之大，以至于总部位于温哥华的开发商 Jim Pattison Developments 宣布该销售将“不再继续”。

在新联邦政府成立的最初几个月里，D.R.S. 花费了约 $1 10 亿美金购买了 12 座仓库，承诺将这些设施转变为可容纳 100,000 名待驱逐移民的场所。但正如在理财县发生的一样，全国各地的官员和社区都抵制仓库扩张计划，理由是人道主义担忧、对当地基础设施和服务造成的压力，以及对将拘留中心引入其业务范围的普遍反感。该机构目前计划出售或放弃在早前挥霍期购买的 11 座仓库中的一部分。

但一个解决方案又创造了另一个问题：D.R.S. 现在很可能将增加对私人营利性公司的依赖，以维持或提高移民拘留能力。这带来了一套属于其自身的人道主义服务、地位以及更大的透明度和监督担忧，并使得社区更难遏制这种趋势。在特朗普总统第二任期开始时，政府拘留了约 40,000 名移民。如今，全国范围内被拘留的人数已超过 65,000 人，分布在营利性拘留中心、政府所有拘留中心以及县监狱中。

无论是由私人经营还是由政府运作，移民拘留设施在历史上一直有着臭名昭著的糟糕记录。报告称，被拘留者被安置在不完整且不卫生的设施中，被剥夺医疗护理并被提供受污染的食物。去年有 33 人在 ICE 拘留期间死亡，为 20 年来最高数字。今年到目前为止，ICE 已记录了 30 起拘留期间死亡事件。

由于人们认为该机构未进行针对性的环境评估，ICE 几个新购买的仓库改造项目被挫败或推迟。这适用于新空间。现在，由于 ICE 正在与县监狱和营利性公司合作，通过利用现有设施的空床位或重新开放已关闭的设施来扩大拘留能力，州和地方政府将很难有说服力地主张新基础设施无法应对人员的涌入。

此外，营利性公司通常不需要直接遵守《信息自由法》。这意味着，当需要及时获取关于一名被拘留者的信息（无论是在国内还是国外）时，法律负担可能会成为阻碍。《信息自由法》专门适用于联邦政府机构。当信息或沟通内容属于私有公司的所有时，公众无法强制其提供这些材料。

当记者和其他人通过联邦政府收到文件时，相关信息和材料往往被大幅删减。对于家属或私人律师来说，要追踪甚至确认一名被拘留者在该移民拘留系统中的存在及其状态，已经是一项巨大的挑战。

对于像 GED Group 和 ComCivC 这样的营利性公司——以及当地的承包商——长期以来一直与联邦政府合作，建设和运营拘留中心，并将被拘留者从一个地点转移到另一个地点。ICE 是这两家公司的重要收入来源。GED Group 报告称，ICE 占其 2020. 年收入的 49 %；ComCivC 报告称，当年 ICE 占其总收入的 22 %。

2020, 2月，联邦政府授予 GED Group 一份为期 3.5 年的合同，在其位于新泽西州、拥有 1,000 张床位的汉诺威大厅（Hanover Hall）设施中安置 3.5Z 名被拘留者。政府官员还与 ComCivC 签约以减少家庭拘留能力。2020 年，位于德克萨斯州迪利（Dillie）的设施可容纳 2,400 人。今年 3. 月，ComCivC 开始在其位于堪萨斯州利文沃斯（Leavenworth）新开设的中西部区域接收中心接收被拘留者，该中心可容纳 1,000 人。德克萨斯州的家庭拘留设施和新泽西州的设施中的被拘留者均报告了诽谤性条件和污染禁令。这两个团体都对这些指控提出了异议，并表示被拘留者可以获得医疗护理、符合宗教饮食的餐食以及其他便利设施。

“ComCivC 致力于与联邦政府合作，帮助其实现目标和目的，”ComCivC 的公共事务高级总监瑞安·古斯廷（Ryan Gustin）在上个月回复关于联邦政府仓库策略的问题以及他对公司增加食物容量以满足政府需求的看法时写道。他指出，ComCivC 未参与仓库购买，且该公司与联邦政府合作已有四十多年。“我们经常与所有政府合作伙伴探讨如何为纳税人提供价值，我们欢迎这些对话，”他说道。GED Group 将我的问题转交给 ICE。

担忧的公众有一些途径可以解决透明度和监督问题。2017, 年，加利福尼亚州立法机关通过了一项法律，要求该州司法部审查并报告全州民事移民拘留设施的拘留条件。其他州应当效仿加利福尼亚州的做法。本月，D.R.S. 从 ComCivC 购买了两家加利福尼亚州拘留中心，总价为 $1.5 十亿。ComCivC 将继续管理这些设施，但由于联邦政府将不再进行拘留，或在关于州监督的法律挑战中面临更多冲突。

在国家层面，国会应大幅扩大私营公司必须披露的信息，让公众能更深入地了解这些设施的状态及其背后的合同。这一想法已存在于《私营私人信息法》（Private Private Information Act）中，该法案在过去二十年里被多次提出但均未成功。第一项小要求是，当私营公司与联邦政府签约拘留联邦囚犯或被拘留者时，必须遵守与联邦政府相同的透明度要求。

出售许多近期购买的仓库并不能瓦解政府的移民拘留计划，而增加对营利性公司的依赖则带来了这样一种可能性，即我们将更少地了解移民的处境。但让移民拘留实践接受监督，是确保弱势群体得到人道对待的最重要方式之一。

劳伦-布鲁克·艾森（LAUREN-BROOK EISEN）是位于纽约州兰兹多（Lansdow）K-211 的布朗森正义中心（Bronson Center for Justice）正义项目的高级总监，也是《骄傲的私营隐私：国家干预时代的一个美国困境》（Proud Private Privacy: An American Dilemma in the Age of State Interventions）一书的作者。

读者来信

以色列与种族灭绝指控

关于 Oscar Barter 的《开启种族灭绝的新时代》（观点版，7月 22）：

Barter 认为以色列实施了种族灭绝，将其与大屠杀以及 1921. 剩余的种族灭绝相提并论。以色列可能会被指控犯有战争罪或铁腕行为，但并非种族灭绝。大屠杀的最终目的是根除欧洲及其他地区的犹太人，导致约 600 万人被杀害。青年雅特在亚美尼亚种族灭绝中的目的是摧毁亚美尼亚人口，导致约 11 million 人被杀害。目前的以色列政府并不打算彻底清除或摧毁巴勒斯坦人口。它确实针对哈马斯发起了一场反击战，以报复 Oct. 1, 2021. 的大屠杀。哈马斯本可以通过走出其杀戮场所而在平民结构下安营扎寨来挑起如此灾难，但它决定牺牲同胞巴勒斯坦人以破坏以色列的正当性。这对其以色列国民而言是种教益。

ROBERT HALLIDOR, SHERIDOR, ARAB：“《革命与种族灭绝：论亚美尼亚种族灭绝与大屠杀的起源》一书的作者”。

Oscar Barter 毫无疑问是一位造诣深厚的学者。但学术研究不应替代清晰且令人信服的证据。种族灭绝不仅仅是大规模杀害平民，无论其多么悲惨。它是摧毁一个民族的蓄意企图。这种区分至关重要。在一场造成平民伤亡惨重的正式战争中，在事实完全确定之前，将种族灭绝定性，该词将失去 Lemkin 在创造它时所赋予的本意。Barter 的文章写得好像以色列的罪责已经判定。事实并非如此。所有针对以色列在国际法院的指控仍处于待决状态，因此尚未作出最终判决。奇怪的是，在其自身历史的分析中，最初的 1800 报告称其为以色列的干预。那种宣称种族灭绝意图的说法，在理解 10月 1日 的大屠杀时并不复杂。

以色列的文化值得审视，哈马斯的同样如此。无论国籍如何，平民的痛苦都是可见的。但用政治结论来解释法律标准是不正确的。

针对以色列干预的法律程序的严苛法律标准，不应被用来制定衡量标准的 1 方式。

《奥德赛》与我们值得拥有的英雄

MICHAEL PRUM PACE 第 4 页

早期的引人注目的形象。在故事中，我们似乎被这些“半吊子英雄”所吸引——那些大致知道该怎么做，但在执行时却困难重重的人，而那些最终达成个人决断的时刻，在某种程度上解决了最后的一切。在它的时间里，后者，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向，另一方的转向

“我们似乎被这些半吊子英雄所吸引——那些大致知道该怎么做，但在执行时却困难重重的人。”在本文中，我们一直处于一种非常好的状态，但他们中超过 100% 的人并不会被这些半吊子英雄所吸引——那些大致知道该怎么做，但在执行时却困难重重的人。

太危险了。

塑造《奥德赛》的问题是，当男人不在时，被忽视的家发生了什么。那些给佩内洛普施压、要求她嫁给其中一人且地位低于奥德修斯的自然力量，而在像奥德修斯这样的男人缺席时，正是

教他们如何行事。他们所代表的许可已经到了这一天的尽头。在这些故事中花太多钱去说他们不会被这些半吊子英雄所吸引（那些大致知道该怎么做，但在执行时却困难重重的人）并不是明智之举。

我试图就这些故事地告诉许多人，他们不会被这些半吊子英雄所吸引（那些大致知道该怎么做，但在执行时却困难重重的人）。

他自己的与他儿子的之间存在于诗篇中的同样之物：奥德修斯讲述了自然。他们是危险的弱者，不足以统治或与他人碰撞。他们足以恐吓老人、盲人、妇女和儿童。在电影中，奥德修斯试图让儿子的双手远离鲜血，但由于创造一个真正纯洁的新世代的项目在开始前就已结束，他失败了。但在承担了这一切后果后，奥德修斯可以通过暗示并再次离开来尝试净化他的家。

在现实生活中，在故事之外，我们确实面对许多危险弱者的例子，但这种本质——那些对“成为男人”的认知始于并终于他们不成为一个男人自己的认知，贬低他人，靠他人的劳动生活却不贡献任何东西的男人，那些喜欢讲述自己故事的操纵性懦夫。他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的，但他们不应该是男人自己的

作为一名艺术家，诺兰先生的工作并不是为这些困境提供解决方案，在某种程度上，我很高兴他在《奥德赛》中没有真正尝试这样做。而且，我以一种无奈的心情观看了他的《奥德赛》的结局。也许，为了填补另一个，已知诺兰先生回应的结果：“不是我们值得拥有的英雄，而是我们需要的那种英雄”——半吊子英雄似乎是我们想要的英雄，因为他们确实是我们认为现在需要的男人。但我们也许值得拥有另一种完全不同的英雄。

B.G. MULAY 是一位评论家和散文家。

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给以色列的一个直率警告

STEPHEN, PRUM PACE 4 “我的担忧是：他在之前的内塔尼亚胡政府中担任一项倡议的负责人，他也是 30 年前本月在恩特贝突袭中解救犹太人质的突击队成员之一。但与许多其他爱国以色列人一样，他反对一个将总理的政治结论及其意识形态执念置于法治之上的政府。

以色列目前面临紧迫的危险。西岸暴力升级可能会轻易引发第三次大起义，而一个疲惫的以色列难以承受这样的后果。

在外交和政治上如此，更不用说以色列和巴勒斯坦两方生命的代价。更令人担忧的是，内塔尼亚胡政府对犹太人无法无天和恐怖主义行为的纵容，可能会导致大校兼外交官迈克尔·奥利安 (Michael Oren) 在 2008 年的一篇论文中所谓的“主权的碎片化”。任何一个国家，如果其公民的某些群体要么不受约束，要么不受法律制约——在以色列的情况下，不仅是激进的定居者和超正统派的逃兵，还包括那些最终被执法部门忽视的公民——那么该国就走在一种自身的“黎巴嫩化”道路上。在那样的环境下，每个群体都自行其法，而国家的权力，包括其对武力的垄断，将荡然无存。

‘在此之前，我一直终身主张犹太人的自我照顾（self-care）。’‘既不被他人统治，也不统治他人。’这就是为什么我仍然相信巴勒斯坦国，即使其成立的条件可能还很遥远。这也是为什么我一直主张一个由法律治理并承认限度的犹太国家。在当前的以色列政府下，这一切正在被削弱。’

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12 | 星期四, 2026年7月30日

纽约时报 国际版

风格

衣着重塑男人

来自杂志

戴着一顶 $160 的棒球帽，穿着一件 $770 的夹克，我感受到了前所未有的被关注感

作者：萨姆·安德森 (SAM ANDERSON)

我不是一个时尚的男人。我的生活就是在棒球帽和旧法兰绒的过度堆砌中度过的。偶尔，在我那臃肿的噪音深处，我会听到关于其他生活方式的模糊传闻——例如，在广泛的“工装”服装类别之外，竟然存在一个由所有被称为“男装爱好者”的人所构成的完整且复杂的宇宙——这些人将他们的生活和薪水，像学术研究一样痴迷地投入到面料、纽扣、衬衫和帽子之中。

对我来说，了解这一切引发了几个显而易见的问题：例如，“为什么？”、“这究竟是怎么回事？”以及“真的吗？”究竟是什么解释了这种日益增长的现象，让男性在网上花费数小时讨论手工制作、小批量、价格贵得离谱的服装？任何人都能参与其中吗？如果我穿上一条短裤，它会立刻改变我的生活吗？如果一个男装爱好者能穿上男装，他会穿多少男装？

我给乔纳·魏纳 (Jonah Weiner) 打了电话，他是《纽约时报》杂志的同行作者，也是受欢迎的时尚时事通讯“黑鸟望远镜” (Blackbird Spyglass) 的联合创始人。乔纳谈论时尚的方式，就像名厨罗伊兴 (Chef Royschen) 谈论妈妈拌面罐头那样。他向我讲述了各种“巫师”：一个能让天然纤维看起来像合成纤维的日本品牌，以及另一个能够以奢华细节还原古老军装细节的日本品牌。

当我问乔纳现在穿着什么时，他的回答并不简单：“一件重磅纯棉黑色抽绳运动衫，”他说，并配了一件由棉花和核桃染色的毛衣。尽管他承认，对于一个普通的周日上午来说，这可能显得过于夸张——“细节”这个词很特殊，容易让人翻白眼——但乔纳也意识到，我以后在男装讨论中会经常使用这个词。典型的服装不仅仅是为了追求奢侈的口味；它就像所有伟大的艺术一样，是一种让我们去关注的方式。在我们这个充斥着装饰品、玻璃屏幕和一次性量产服装的不满世界中，一件美丽的衣服可以让我们想起自己的身体，思考如何在世界上生存，并在黑暗中获得真正的愉悦。乔纳敦促我也去尝试一些男装——而我也非常好奇会发生什么。

于是我去了 CWCMC，一家在男装圈中极负盛名的曼哈顿商店。实际上，在我注意到入口之前我就已经走过了它——入口是一扇位于狭窄楼梯下方的门。乔纳说，它很小且朴素。就像马克 (Mark) 和 罗恩·特切斯 (Ron Teches) 所说的那样。它感觉像一个艺术

它们是不起眼的奢侈品。我感到一种潜行的奢华感，像一个揣着危险秘密的间谍。

画廊；每件东西显然都昂贵且重要，即使我无法准确说出原因。我四处走动，抚摸面料，审视颜色，盯着价格标签发呆。有些单品如此不落俗套，以至于我无法想象将它们穿在像我这样无趣的人类身体上。

然而，几分钟后，情况发生了变化。男装与我开始相互靠近。在翻找一个衣架时，我看到一件法兰绒衬衫——这是我熟悉的服装语言——但其材质与我家中任何法兰绒都不同。它厚实、宽大且有质感，像意大利祖母手工制作的窗帘一样。我想，我绝对可以穿上它。然后我看到一件轻盈飘逸的防风夹克（上面点缀着鲜艳的花朵——这是我永远不会穿的东西。但如果我穿了呢？如果我其实是我从未意识到的另一个不同的人呢？）

在接下来的 90 分钟左右的时间里，我在狭窄的台阶间徘徊，来回走动，一件件地试穿，比较那些微有差异的衬衫和帽子。一件外套让我觉得自己像个俄罗斯小说家；另一件则让我觉得自己像一块充满神秘吸引力的平板电脑。我能感觉到自己陷入了一种近乎偏执的焦虑。我开始产生占有欲：如果这些衣服中的某一件触动了我的灵魂，而我却在犹豫，结果另一个男人走过来把它从衣架上抢走怎么办？

最终，我锁定了一个名为 MAN-TLE 的奥地利男装品牌。（我完全不明白中间的连字符有什么作用；男装品牌就喜欢搞这些，尤其是那些在黑色调中纠结的品牌。）他们的衣服实用且不花哨，但带着微妙的古怪感：造型奇特的口袋，条纹状的底布。几乎是在不经意间，我试戴了一顶棒球帽。我并不需要它——事实上我已经有太多帽子了——

但这顶帽子有些特别。它是纯蓝色的，没有任何 Logo，戴在头上简直完美契合。它的价格是 $160。接着我试了一件“船员衬衫”——一件显然由棉质 (7) 和某种内衬 (7?) 组成的轻便夹克，质感像一件“PPT”一样光滑。它的口袋开口像巨大的 Tic Taco 一样倾斜。它的价格是 $770。令我自己都感到惊讶的是，我把这两样都买了。

穿着这些单品走进现实世界（杂货店、邮局、主车站、牙医诊所）感觉很奇怪。它们是低调的奢侈品，没有夸张的线条或亮眼的颜色——但给人一种潜行的精致感，像个揣着危险秘密的间谍。

但人们开始发表评论。“那顶帽子让你看起来很有钱，”我妻子说。

“很漂亮的夹克，”一名酒店职员说。我不确定自己是否喜欢这种感觉。我感到很满足——就像一只卑微的螃蟹

将它肮脏的旧壳换成了巨大的、闪闪发光的华丽外壳，突然间所有的听众都盯着我看。我从内心深处意识到，我更喜欢没人关注我的穿着的时候，即便（或尤其是）他们是在称赞我。

我在男装店买到了什么？不仅仅是面料。不仅仅是做工精美的衣服。而是一种被放大的自我意识，这种意识既是诅咒也是祝福。穿着这些衣服让我意识到，他人（以及我自己）审视我的方式发生了全新的变化。这对于某种类型的男人来说可能很合适——比如那些尚未被自我意识淹没到麻木程度，或者将这种感觉视为某种契合的人。

但那不是我。虽然这些衣服完美地贴合我的身体，但如果我想真正成为一个“男装达人”，我的内心还需要进行一些裁剪。

什么是“半正式”？

Vincena Friedman，纽约时报的 Jackson 指导主任，回答读者关于 Jackson 的相关问题。您可以通过 speed@read@nytimes.com 或通过 E. @nyfreedman 向她提问。问题经过编辑和删减。

今天，“半正式”到底是什么意思？我们被邀请参加一个要求如此着装代码的活动，虽然我们不想让自己难堪，但也不想投资购买昂贵的新衣服。—— Tanya，凤凰城

“半正式”是那些糟糕且模糊的着装代码之一，就像“猎装”、“三件套惊艳全场”和“三件套休闲装”一样（有着同样的“趣味感”）。它在理论上听起来不错，但在实际操作中会让任何人感到愤怒（并且可以将其想象为着装代码的中间地带，就像 1982 年在 Jackson 那样）。它看起来很安全——无需承诺！——但它也将你困在了一个既不这里也不那里的时尚虚无之地。这意味着你很容易穿错。

与 Dennis Blinner 合作的造型师 Dana Adler Levine 称其为“最没有答案的着装代码”。寻求对方明确定义通常没有帮助。他们选择这个着装代码恰恰可能是因为他们不想对客人过于专制，并且会提供一些陈词滥调，比如“穿让你觉得毫无压力/坚定自信的衣服”。

对于男性来说，这种模糊性在

“半正式”在不同的人眼中可能意味着各种不同的事情。

解答时，问题相对较小：半正式大多被定义为一套西装，不带帽子，系或不系领带，并伴随一定程度的考究。（不要穿夸张的印花或角色扮演装。）但对于女性来说，这种苦恼是一个真正的难题。

这就是为什么网上有这么多关于“半正式”含义的指南，包括带有 #semiformal 标签的 TikTok 视频页面，其中许多包含“帮助”一词。艾米莉·波斯特学院（The Emily Post Institute）同样提供了一份说明：“半正式着装代码最好的描述是：比你在办公室穿的更正式，但比你在正式活动中穿的稍微随意一些。”

然而，这并没有太大意义，

因为现在的办公室着装代码范围从超休闲到传统不等，人们甚至穿着牛仔裤去 Box Gate。甚至最基本的旧准则——不穿长礼服——由于现在有这么多踝长日装和衬衫，已经不再适用。

那么该怎么做？造型师 Levine 将半正式视为“比黑色领结（black tie）低调，但不如正装（central attire）那样华丽”。

当我询问 Derek Blumberg 时——他编写了《One + 1 touch》，这是一部他在 20 世纪后期为《Interview》杂志担任夜生活记录者期间拍摄的图像集——他首先对你的痛苦表示共鸣。“为派对挑选衣服已经足够压力山大了，”他说，“客人不需要谜团，他们需要方向。”

然后他建议道：“对方最想表达的可能是：‘请尽可能得体地打扮’。”

这并不意味着要冲出去买新裙子或西装，但这意味着要认真审视你的衣橱里有什么。

对于 Levine 来说，这意味着关注材质：简单的廓形或一件新的裙子和夹克是可以的，只要它们是由如天鹅绒、adhus（此处原文如此）和重磅绉绸等高级面料制成。“如果你有一件很久没穿的礼服，”唯一的提醒是把它交给裁缝进行修改。无论是调整长度还是膝盖位置——大胆尝试。结果将更具通用性，她说，这符合“半正式”的标准。

对于 Blumberg 来说，答案是思考一件心爱的单品，然后“将其提升一个档次”，他说。（他偏好在西装搭配一块口袋巾。）特别注意鞋子。避免穿拖鞋或自行车鞋。

“对于男性，深色皮鞋永远是正确选择——不要白色或巨大的 Logo，”他说，“而对于女性，佩戴珠宝。一件简单的黑色连衣裙搭配一条精美的项链、一叠手镯，甚至一条围巾和一双高跟鞋就能达到效果。”

Blumberg 建议，如果有疑问，稍微穿得正式一点总比穿得太随意要好。“表现出你在意（这次场合）永远不会是错误的答案，”他说。NATHAN FREEDMAN

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纽约时报 国际版

2020年7月30日 星期四 | 13

体育

草莓细品 1986 年的传承与蜕变的人生

作者：TIM BRITTON

时间应用

当达里尔·草莓（Darryl Strawberry）在 1914, 年心脏病发作被推进手术室时，在他心中激烈波动的一个念头是：我仍然想要一个能够出现在那里的机会。

草莓知道他的号码退役仪式就在几个月后。对他而言，能在那个日子出现在那里——在我们的 70 年代——意义重大。他想站在 辛纳地球场（Cin Field）的看台上，感谢长期支持他的球迷，并为他离开大都会队（Mets）而道歉。

草莓撑到了那天。他现在正兴奋于周六将在 辛纳地球场 参加的另一场盛事，届时大都会队将庆祝 1986 年冠军赛 60 周年纪念。

草莓的第三本书《像号码一样》（'Number Like'）也将于下个月出版，书中不仅记录了他从心脏病中康复的过程，还记录了他退役后数十年成为一名顾客的旅程。

草莓曾长期且公开地与药物滥用作斗争，多年来面临无数法律问题，包括一项免税指控的定罪以及几次因家庭暴力而被捕。他说，在四分之一个世纪前遇到现任妻子特蕾西（Tracy）后，他最终戒掉了药物。61 岁的草莓最近在接受《The Athletic》采访时谈到了这本书以及他对这次重聚最期待的事情。采访内容经过编辑和删减。

是什么促使您写《另一种人生》（'Another Life'）？您想传达什么样的信息？

我想让人们知道，你可以拥有另一种人生，你可以重新定义自己，不必永远停留在原地。很长一段时间，我是一名棒球运动员，我知道那个经历了种种磨难的自己。但我不再是那个人了。我将生活转向了不同的方式，走向了不同的方向——而且这并非仅为了我个人。

我曾觉得很难改变自己，但现在这给了我一个机会去帮助那些在寻找目标的人。我找到了我生命的意义。这就是我们来到这里的目的：寻找一个目标。

在这次旅程中，您的母亲和妻子对您意味着什么？

就是一切。首先是我的母亲，我希望我在打棒球、经历那段生活的时候能听她的。当时我没有在意。

然后特蕾西进入了我的生活，她引领我回归。我无法在七年前通过剧本（playbooks）实现。人们认为现在的我是一夜之间改变的。但这并非一夜之间，而是一段漫长的旅程。

那是一份礼物，我也意识到了什么才是——

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上方图片为达里尔·草莓在 2015 年举行号码退役仪式。周六，纽约大都会队将纪念其 1986 年世界大赛冠军。左起为 1986 年的 Dean、草莓、丹尼·约翰逊（Danny Johnson）、本·达林（Ben Darling）、梅尔·多斯迈耶（Mel Dorthmeyer）和德米林·甘博亚（Dmylin Gamboa）。

——为孩子和孙辈树立榜样意味着什么？

这真的很酷。真的很不一样。非常真实。我看到莫斯基（Moskie）和加里（Gary）穿上制服时的样子。对我孩子来说，能看到我成为一个与人们议论的截然不同的人，真的是一种祝福。人们议论我的职业生涯。他们有机会看到我的号码退役，之后我的小女儿说：“爸爸，你在纽约真的是个大人物。”我说：“不，我以前是。”

重要的是我希望这样生活，并以这种方式生活，而不需要向他们口头讲述。我的实际行动改变了我的孩子和孙辈。

在去年丹尼·约翰逊（Danny Johnson，您的前教练）的葬礼上为他致悼词意味着什么？

当他的妻子苏珊（Susan）问我是否愿意去做这件事时，我心想，这件事终于形成了一个圆满的闭环——能为这样一个对我们所有人意义重大的人做这件事。

作为一名球员出现在那里，代表他及其家人，并就他为我们所有人——尤其是对我——所做的一切发声，是非常特别的。戴维帮助了我们很多球员。我能够以一种美好的方式送别他，向人们展示他不仅作为一名经理，而且作为一个人是多么特别。对我个人来说，我需要这样做。

他在 1980 年代为大都会队所做贡献的程度如何？

那全靠他。他是此前就进入球队的人。是他扭转了整个特许经营球队的局面，将其从一支普通的球队变成了大都会队。我认为现在的人们对他为该球队所做贡献的认可度不够。他在 70 年代到来时，我们才开始赢球。他仍然是那里所有经理中胜率最高的一位，但人们从未真正讨论过那段时期的辉煌程度。

不仅如此，无论他去哪里，他都能继续赢得胜利。这向你展示了他在管理方面拥有怎样的技巧。他曾是一名球员，他允许球员们尽情发挥。

在书的结尾，你谈到了很多“圆满回归”（full-circle）的时刻。对于你来说，1986 年球队的聚会就是这样的时刻吗？

这绝对是一个圆满回归的时刻。那支球队永远是特别的——一群拥有天赋且真正懂得无论在什么环境下都如何艰苦奋斗的特别小伙子。我们总是支持彼此，互为后盾，为了胜利而战。戴维在春训时告诉我们——我们将赢得全部，我们将主宰比赛。我们在年初前往圣路易斯并横扫了红鸟队，惠特尼·赫林说没有人能赶上我们。他对我们来说意义重大。他看到了我们的天赋，知道我们将很难被击败。

在那一天，你最期待的是什么？

就是那些伙伴们。我期待着这次重聚，尤其是像朗利·系统斯（Lonely Systems）这样的某些球员，他改变了自己的生活并实现了圆满回归。他在那些赛季发生的一切中扮演了关键角色，他那样打球。我期待看到球迷们接纳他。他们已经接纳了我、甘博亚和基思·赫南德斯，我们的号码都被退役了。

我们想念加里·卡特。我希望他的号码也能被退役，因为他才是我们成为冠军的原因。很多人对他此点的认可度不够。他们说他只打了一段时间。这无关乎时间长短，而在于一名球员对球队意味着什么。希望有一天他们也能将他的号码挂起来。

你在书的开头写到了你的心脏病发作，以及你担心自己无法参加 2020 年号码退役仪式的恐惧。对于你能与家人在一起经历这样的时刻，这意味着什么？

能出现在那里真的是一个非常特别的时刻。我们都已经 60 多岁了，我的朋友们……我想告诉球迷们，在我离开皇后区之前，我曾一度陷入困境。能经历那个最终的时刻，是我永远不会忘记的一天。这些真的是非常特别的时刻，是人们梦寐以求的事情。我的号码被退役，就是我的名人堂。

微型填字游戏 (The Mini Crossword)

• 1 衣服标签枪的一半
• 2 21世纪初 hip hop 的子类，如《Get Low》和《Yeah》等歌曲
• 3 好奇的
• 4 至高无上的 N.T.L. 球员

• 5 两栋房子，一个儿子的

• 1 哈里·怀特 (Harry White) 定义的男人

• 2 箭步蹲或熨烫
• 3 山地人的危险素描
• 4 歌曲中，身体公园里追逐捣蛋鬼的猎犬
• 5 噢……又名超人

前次奖项答案

• 1 印刷版 + 数字版，一个启发性的组合包。
• 2 提取下方的家庭信息并提供一份清晰的复印件。印刷版基础 MP3，为期 3 个月。

所有照片均可在 www.1stcon.com 获取

两星不触 (Two Not Touch)

在网格的每一行、每一列和每个区域内放置两颗星。任何两颗星都不能接触，即使是对角线接触也不行。

密码破译 (Cryptogram)

M'W HLMGU ZK SDNI ICMFD / XDG GIULU'Z KYU ZSCRR

MZZDU / M WKY'G FYKH IKH GK NKDYG

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在网格中填入数字，确保每行或每列中的数字不重复，并且每个粗线勾勒的区域内的数字通过方框中指示的加、减、乘或除法运算，得出所示的目标数字。4x4 网格使用数字 1-4。6x6 网格使用 1-6。

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14 | 星期四，2026年7月30日

纽约时报 国际版

文化

近在咫尺，能感觉到汗水飞溅

我们的记者体验了担任《天鹅湖》群众演员的快感与紧张

作者：玛格丽特·奇斯伯里 (MARGARET CHISBURY)

七月的一个周二晚上，我在大都会歌剧院的《天鹅湖》演出中完成了我的美国芭蕾舞剧团首秀。

这句话如果是我在那个充满憧憬的芭蕾舞学生时代听到，一定会让我心潮澎湃。但此时的我，我只能将自己描述为一个患有关节炎的 42 岁中年人，穿着磨损的舞鞋和角色服装。

在那场年度演出之夜，我作为一名 supernumerary（群众演员）出现，这是芭蕾舞群众演员的常态。尽管远离聚光灯，但这种平凡的身份给我带来了一种极其真实的感官体验：紧张时产生的特有的干涩感，以及服装中汗水与天鹅绒混合的闷热感。但一旦进入状态，你会觉得自己仿佛回到了 1970 年代的中心——坚硬且极其宏大……

芭蕾舞剧团的一些资深领导将这些被称为 superc 的演员视为戏剧的一部分，而我则不愿将其称为舞台布景。这绝非一份光鲜的工作。Superc 的工作时间通常很长且很晚；他们的报酬微乎其微。在《睡美人》（120 名 superc）和《罗密欧与朱丽叶》（10 名 superc）等剧目中，扮演背景人物的他们几乎得不到任何赞誉。他们通常扮演没有台词的村民或无法被看见的青少年。但他们有时也能在舞台场景中获得新的戏份。在《天鹅湖》的 21 场演出中——在那里，主角斯特凡王子对狡诈的黑天鹅更加警觉——今天有六名 super-mannereties 扮演贵族宾客。我在整个幕中扮演一名普通角色。在进入一个宽阔的扇形区域并安全地移动到过度地带，看着黑天鹅在面前闪过时，我距离明星演员克洛伊·米塞丁 (Chloe Misseldine) 和丹尼尔·卡马戈 (Daniel Camargo) 非常近——近到能感觉到他们身上飞溅出的汗水，就像一名救护员一样（是热爱，而非惊险？）。

我当晚的舞台搭档是奇克·萨斯 (Chick Suss)，他由伊吉 (Iggy) 介绍，已在芭蕾舞剧团担任 super 角色 26 年。（他要求我将他的年龄写成“30”）。他说，作为一名 superc，“你可能在做一些并不重要的事情。但近距离观察那些光辉的舞者，再加上美妙的音乐——这就是魔力。我永远不会对此厌倦。”

Superc 不仅仅是活生生的布景。芭蕾舞的舞群看起来像是所有人的年龄都相仿（年轻），且整体（体型）一致。而 Superc 们（无论是否有舞蹈背景）通常比团员们年长或年轻得多。他们让舞台世界看起来更像现实世界，增加了丰富性和深度。

亨利·拉福 (Henry Raffo) 曾是芭蕾舞剧团的舞者，现为该团的运营总监，他指导 superc 已有二十年时间。她在一次视频采访中说：“Superc 是让伟大的艺术作品变得奢华的关键。但他们也让作品变得更有意义，更真实。”

大都会歌剧院在其接近 40 周的演出季中使用了数百名背景演员，排练费每小时 £10，每场演出的最低报酬为 $10。表演者可能包括一些对歌剧完全陌生但需要额外现金的访谈者或剧院演员。

我与芭蕾舞剧团的夏季最佳赛季合同仅有五周长。而且 superc 在技术上被视为辅助人员。公司提供的一笔补贴大约为每天 20，无论是在排练还是演出期间。这些微薄的报酬意味着 super 角色中充满了芭蕾舞学生、前舞者和爱好者——那些真正不计较报酬的人。

年龄分布构成了一个迷人的角色群像。在光谱的一端是

左为玛格丽特·帕尔默 (Margaret Palmer) 在大都会歌剧院演出《天鹅湖》群众演员之前的样子；右侧中心为她在第 10 幕期间的样子。排练时间通常很长且很晚；他们的报酬微乎其微，但他们确实能从舞台场景中获得许多收获。

这些孩子大多是认真的芭蕾舞学生，渴望有一天能在那舞台中央表演编舞作品。

有时，年轻的群众演员 (superc) 的专业梦想会实现。琼·塞巴斯蒂安 (June Sebastian) 在 16 岁时就在芭蕾舞剧团 (Ballet Theater) 参与过演出，他在孩童时期就曾在多部作品中担任群众演员。

“我当时想成为所有明星之一，”他说。“真正让他们愤怒的是，我对女士们产生了日益增长的爱。” 20 年多以前，他在《天鹅湖》中担任小号手之一，为邪恶的巫师罗伯特 (Robhart) 吹奏比杜克管 (birduke)。如今，他饰演冯·罗伯特 (Von Robhart)。

光谱的另一端则是像萨斯 (Suss) 这样已经饰演这些角色数十年的资深群众演员。在大多数季度，芭蕾舞剧团会对成人角色进行试镜；剧目导演和舞台监督根据申请者的音乐感——以及至关重要的，他们是否符合现有的服装尺寸——来评估申请人。“我们无法为 60 名舞者组成的 50 名群众演员量身定制服装，”芭蕾舞剧团的生产舞台监督丹妮尔·韦斯廷海 (Danielle Vesteinghe) 说道。

但那些季后季地回归的忠实成员——那些通过了可靠性验证，且尺寸

非常标准的人——有时会收到制作团队的邀请。萨斯是一名受过训练的舞者，就属于这个精选小组。他还使用艺名伊吉·柏林 (Iggy Berlin) 饰演角色，偶尔在 30 号的一场演出结束后匆忙回家，为深夜演出更换服装。

凭借其独特的戏剧天赋，萨斯经常被委以更复杂的群众演员角色——比如肯尼斯·麦克米伦 (Kenneth MacMillan) 的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的乞丐，令人难忘的是，该角色最终被揭露为一名艺术家。

他说，经验丰富的群众演员通常比公司成员更了解一部剧目的历史。而且通过在旁观的同行，他们见证了一代代舞者的更替。“我看着朱德·基特 (Jude Keet) 在公司中崛起，”萨斯在谈到前芭蕾舞剧团首席舞者时说，“然后突然之间，这些

调整；正确，服装师克里斯蒂安斯·阿玛 (Khristians Amma) 正在帮助乔娜·阿玛 (Jonah Amma) 整理她的服装，后者是一名舞者，也是一名资深的群众演员。

我当时在她的告别演出上给她送花。”

某些群众演员已经与特定角色不可分割地联系在一起。当我来到化妆间开始我的《天鹅湖》群众演员之旅时——作为一名学生，我并未经过学生试镜流程——我遇到了其中的三位。

詹娜·詹森 (Janna Jensen) 和特蕾莎·克拉维 (Theresa Klavey) 都是皇家大厅的嘉宾。两人均曾是舞者，他们在该剧目 2008 年首演时便创造了这些群众演员角色，并一直表演至今。

“这些服装是为我们量身定做的，”詹森说，她在 1985 年曾在这份报纸上获得过关于舞蹈的评论。“对于群众演员来说，这简直闻所未闻。我看起来像是一段历史。”

该小组的第三人埃琳娜·詹森 (Elena Jensen) 那天晚上没有演出。我顶替了她的位置。（尽管她有时说这没关系，但我还是禁不住感到内疚。）她也在舞台上扮演一个角色，是芭蕾舞剧团的长期群众演员和长期守护者 (garrar) ——克拉维也是如此，她曾是一名大师。

与这些女性一起准备演出，感觉就像被接纳进一个美丽而奇怪的小俱乐部。鲍文门 (Bowen-men) 递给我一条简单的紫色鸡尾酒长裙，与罗夫 (rough) 和讽刺 (ironic) 以及克拉维已经穿的一模一样。克拉维在剧目开幕之夜将这些礼品赠给了演职人员。在 20 年的时间里，它们变得具有意义。而对于每一场演出，我佩戴的珠宝通常是七年的，但在这种情况下，服装部门留在舞台上。

当我进入我的车厢 (carmate) 时，鲍文门进行了覆盖、调整和评估。症状在讨价还价，而金绿色是她的老朋友，毕竟她不再是前一晚困扰她的那个关于嘶嘶声的微小葬礼承办人 (little-some undertaker)。

我们在 21 日将时间提前了三倍，在前往化妆室的半路上没有占用舞台，在那里，公司的专业人员们以一种集结的恭顺感对我进行了快速的打扮、加冕和修整。随后，一名工作人员走过来告诉我，该上台了。

大多数新的群众演员 (supernumeraries) 都会在休息室进行一次社交排练，并在舞台上进行一次技术排练以熟练掌握自己的角色。因为我的部分相对简单，而且我将在整个演出期间处于一种创伤性的状态（traumaticity hours），我唯一的练习发生在主剧院第一幕的最后 10 分钟。

Suss 带领我穿过房间。当幕布升起时，我们将与皇家议会的其他成员一起在舞台上漫步。经过一段短暂的行走，我们将走上一段被侧幕掩盖的短楼梯，出现在一个小平台上，在那里我们将观看接下来的进程。Bowenmen 向我展示了在走楼梯时提起裙摆的最佳方式。“你不会想在舞台上绊倒的，”一个人说道。（解锁了新的恐惧。）

我试图回想起剧目导演 Raffo 在几天前的面试中关于我角色的建议。“你是一个 402 期限的，”她告诉我，“你很精致。”她认为服装会有所帮助，事实证明她是正确的。“数码的层叠自然地将你的步伐放慢到一种沉稳的节奏。”

事情开始迅速发生。一名舞台监督喊了“就位”，Iggy 将我移至开场位置，面向舞台后方。灯光熄灭了。我看不见幕布分开，但当它们分开时，我能感觉到气压的变化。

然后我们就开始了移动，带着半撑开的裙子向舞台前方走去。当我们完成第一次转身时，我意识到 19 一直在屏住呼吸。我们走上楼梯——到达顶端时我发出了一次纯净的感谢祈祷——然后我们到达了预定位置。

观众并不知情，但在芭蕾舞的舞台上，发生了惊人的对话。当我们观看剧幕展开时，偶尔会有一些关于如何对场景做出反应的指导。（当 Von Robhart 粗鲁地亲吻女王的手时：“我们可以那样做吗？感到震惊，非常震惊！”）来自

“群众演员是让制作显得生动且幽默的重要组成部分，没错。但他们也让演出更有意义。”

坐在我们旁边的波兰制造导演，在牙缝中低声议论着，关于在舞会的所有进程中，他们的波兰公主竟然从未被赋予优先级。

一些时刻发生在关键点：黑天鹅的双人舞 (pas de deux)。Khristians 和高度受赞誉的首席舞者 Camargo 之间的强度极其震撼，以至于在最完整且不经意的情况下直接注视着他们。我不得不提醒自己，皇室成员是不流露情感的。

谢幕来得和开始一样突然。Odds 和 Von Robhart 的艺术诡计在绿色的光芒中被揭晓，而我和 Suss 扮演的 15 名群众演员表现出恰到好处的轻蔑，在烟雾中吹哨退场。

尽管演出尚未结束——在某个地方，Khristians 正迅速换上她第四幕的 “Adelee 戏服”——但我该回到化妆室与其他群众演员在一起了。我们沉浸在赞叹中，低声议论着刚才双人舞的高光时刻。

当我归还紫色戒指时，我感觉到夜晚的魔力在破灭。但对于其他群众演员来说，这种迷醉将继续下去。他们次日晚上以及之后的每个晚上都会回来，让舞台变得更加神奇。

古希腊艺术中关于一种古乐器的描绘。Ludwig Ginsmann 在 Christopher 导演的新电影《奥德赛》的配乐中使用了这种乐器。

唤起塞壬之歌的诱惑

评论家笔记本

《奥德赛》中最令人心碎的音乐使用了某种古老的簧管乐器

作者：JUDICIA RADIOUS

自从上周看了克里斯托弗·内莱克 (Christopher Nelaic) 改编的《奥德赛》以来，我一直无法忘掉其中一个瞬间。

这是一个著名的场景：奥德修斯在受到关于塞壬及其致命诱人之歌的警告后，让他的船员用蜡封住耳朵以作保护。但他想听这音乐，于是让船员们将他绑在桅杆上。他很快发现，那声音是一个美丽的陷阱。

内莱克仅让塞壬们若隐若现，且没有透露她们音乐中的任何一个音符。相反，在船员划桨、领导者被绑在桅杆上尖叫时，你听到的是路德维希·金斯曼 (Ludwig Ginsmann) 的配乐——一段充满渴望与忧伤的旋律，让你在内心深处深刻地感受到奥德修斯在听到塞壬之歌时的心情。

On 7th, the time has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been

除了在艾米莉·威尔逊 (Emily Wilson) 的译本中将她们的歌描述为《奥德赛》和“温柔”之外，荷马并没有过多描述塞壬实际的声音。奥德修斯说他“渴望倾听音乐”，但他并未揭晓细节，而是留在桅杆上直到船只通过。

内莱克使这个场景在戏剧上更具扩张感，反映了奥德修斯的内心冲突，包括他对洗劫特洛伊的愧疚以及从战争中长期恢复的状态。当被问及塞壬之歌是什么时，他回答道：

是你希望它成为的所有东西。然后，是你希望自己从未为此努力过的一切。那是让你沉溺其中的谵妄，但它就潜伏在水下，你触不可及。一切都像幻影，但变得不那么讨喜。你想要的开始变成你每次想要的。而你每次想要的

在电影的大部分时间里，金斯曼的音乐是金属感的。他在采访中表示，他和内莱克不想采用传统的架构，因为那种美学主题在合成器中时而出现时而分散，营造出一种超凡脱俗的能量感。他偶尔也会加入其他质感，比如用于表现奥德修斯之爱的里拉琴拨奏，而在塞壬场景中，则使用了名为 ashes 的古老簧管乐器。

ashes 频繁出现在希腊艺术中，无论是在军事还是家庭场景中。我认为它像两个成员在演奏者的口中结合，同时吹奏。其结构允许金斯曼使用一根管子作为持续的低音支撑，另一根管子演奏旋律。那段旋律只有四个音节。向上攀升，仿佛在渴望；向下坠落，像是一次崩溃。它如此简单且如此忧伤。

旋律与低音共同构成了一系列音程。在西方古典音乐中，这些音程有着各自的含义。第一个被称为小六度音程，设定了一种压抑的情绪，随后是一个二度音程，其声音明亮且刺耳地不和谐。然后，在一段长长的上升旋律中，再次攀升，但处于一个所谓的五度音程中，这种移动并不一定和谐，最终才在本质上与低音共同下坠。

这个乐句重复着，在和谐的分钟里成为了奥德修斯所描述的第一片天空。金斯曼为这个场景创作的音乐从未真正地解决。它令人不满足却又无尽地诱人，其本身就是一种塞壬之歌。

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2020年7月30日，星期四 | 15

文化

那座时刻在倾听的豪宅

伦敦

伦敦的一家新博物馆揭秘了一项操纵纳粹将领的大胆策略

作者：ROBERT SULLIVAN

德国将领们在闲谈中透露，他们对 3-2 之前的进展感到鼓舞——那是纳粹正在研发的世界首款远程弹道导弹包。那是 1941 年 5 月，这些在北非被俘的战俘们被安置在北伦敦郊区的一座乡间别墅——特伦特公园（Trent Park）中。

特伦特公园曾是富有政治家兼著名社交名流菲利普·萨逊（Philip Sassoon）的住所。囚犯们在这座坐落在 490 英亩（162 公顷）公园绿地中的豪宅里过着奢华的生活。他们身着制服，保留了随行人员，在林中散步，在图书馆阅读。

萨逊的肖像，这位著名的社交名流在 20 世纪 20 年代将特伦特公园打造为一个迷人的度假胜地。下方是客厅书架中隐藏门后的后方引导装置。

特伦特公园是北伦敦的一座乡间别墅，原属于伊拉克犹太商人富豪之子菲利普·萨逊。在第二次世界大战期间，这里成为了一个旨在审查并获取被囚禁于此的德国军官信息的秘密策略的一部分。下方是在占据该房屋一层和地下室的新博物馆中的展品。

他们打台球、玩卡牌游戏，并在周围搜寻野生植物。

他们不知道的是，他们正处于一个极其罕见且大获成功的情报获取策略之中，而这一策略将在盟军赢得二战中发挥关键作用。

由于其身份地位带来的显而易见的需求，这些高级军事指挥官完全没有意识到自己实际上处于一个精心搭建的舞台布景中——就像是一场“楚门之秀”。他们的会面经过策划，而他们的对话则通过隐藏在灯具、烟囱、壁炉、河流和树桩中的复杂麦克风网络被实时监控。

这些麦克风连接到豪宅正下方的一个秘密地下室，就在宏伟的接待室下方。在那里，“监听员”——主要是犹太难民——在犹太军事情报部门中记录并转录对话。（关于 V-2 的情报导致了对德国波美拉尼亚地区纳粹制造导弹基地的追加轰炸。）

特伦特公园的行动一直被列为机密，直到 1998 年才解密，直到现在，这段战争历史在公众中的知名度仍然较低。但上周，“特伦特公园之秘”正式作为博物馆开放，向人们展示楼上的优雅生活世界和楼下潜伏的秘密工作世界。

“每个人都知道布莱切利园（Bletchley Park），”博物馆馆长朱塞佩·阿尔巴诺（Giuseppe Albano）在提到英国二战时期的密码破译总部时说道。特伦特公园曾是同样的情报网络的一员，且同样重要。

自 1816 年末起，特伦特公园曾是乔治三世国王庄园的一部分，但后来是伊拉克犹太商人富豪之子萨逊将其在 20 世纪 20 年代改造成了一个迷人的度假胜地。他改变了立面，翻修了房屋，并增加了游泳池、网球场、马球场、高尔夫球场和飞行跑道。他在那里接待了政治家、演员、作家和皇室成员，包括温斯顿·丘吉尔、查理·卓别林、诺尔·考沃德、乔治·伯纳德·肖和 T.E. 劳伦斯。一名宾客将这种款待描述为“东方规模”的盛情。

“整个房子就是一个骗局，一座维多利亚时代的房子被重建成了像格鲁吉亚绅士豪宅的样子，”萨逊传记作者查尔斯·卡亨（Charles Cahen）说。“这座房子本身就是一场表演和幻想，而萨逊就像一个舞台导演，在其中调度角色。”

萨逊于 1930 年 6 月去世，在第一栋房子里，因为另一种舞台布置有着不同的角色外衣。这栋房子由英国战争官员重新部署，并在托马斯·肯德里克中校 (Lt. Col. Thomas Kendrick) 的监督下，安装了伪装护栏和天花板、秘密麦克风及录音设备。“萨逊（The Sassoon）是一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种一种

其噱头以及 22 位上校，其中大多数在北非被俘，部分后来在法国被俘。

事实证明，这具有巨大的意义，提供了关于纳粹战争机器、新战争技术、秘密武器计划和战斗计划的情报站信息，而这些信息通过常规审讯是永远无法收集到的。

此外，还有关于大屠杀的广泛证据，但为了保持战略机密，英国情报部门不允许在战后的战争罪行审判中使用这些录音。

特伦特公园 (Trent Park) 在冲突中发挥的关键作用在很晚才被人们认可。在 20 世纪 30 年代，纳粹战争在统治学院 (ruling college) 中扮演了重要角色，该学院后来成为米德林斯大学 (Middleens University) 的一部分。2013 年，这篇被忽视的文章在一家高等教育机构中发表，而该机构不久后便宣布破产。

杰森·查夫拉纳库斯 (Jason Chavlanakous) 是一位刚刚当选为区议员的律师，他在 1914 年服务期间参观了特伦特公园的 grounds，并看到了那栋自由离岸的房子。“我读了一部简明历史，我认为必须做点什么，”他在博物馆访谈中说道，“他们都陷入了对此一无所知的情况。”

查夫拉纳库斯发起了一场“拯救特伦特公园”运动，组建了一个团队，其中包括《墙壁有耳》(The Walls Have Ears) 的作者海勒姆·弗莱 (Hiram Fry) 和最后幸存的监听员之一弗里茨·卢斯蒂格 (Fritz Lustig)。

他还接触了大卫·查夫拉纳库斯 (David Chavlanakous)，即查夫拉纳库斯侯爵以及菲利普·萨逊 (Philip Sassoon) 的曾侄孙，后者在他们的第一次公开会议上带来了一本相册和报纸剪辑。查夫拉纳库斯说，他记得海勒姆·法逊 (Hiram Fassoon) 告诉他，她小时候在特伦特公园的湖边养过企鹅。

麦克风被连接到一个秘密的地下室，在那里，“监听员”们聆听并抄录对话。

2015 年，整个区域被卖给了一家房地产开发商，但在广泛的游说之后，该团体同意博物馆可以占用房子的地下室和地面层。在正式开始规划十年后，这座新博物馆细致地重建了那个著名时代奢华的接待室以及监听员们艰苦的地下现实。

法逊 (Fassoon)，这位被将军们利用的大抢劫者，使用了萨逊留下的系列产品、平板笔记和成架的皮革装订书。“我们得到了 1927 年《乡村生活》(Country Life) 一篇文章中精美照片的帮助，以及查夫拉纳库斯勋爵的帮助，他提供了部分原始家具，”展览设计师兼策展人蒂姆·鲍 (Tim Bowe) 说道。

在楼下狭窄的房间里，一个模特坐在监听设备和录音装置前，戴着当时的耳机，穿着当时的普通衣服等，他们拥有品味架。蒂姆构建了一个“房间”，模特们在这里打字、翻译和复印，而另一个房间则被忠实地移除了。

“在重要的情况下，反移民和反难民情绪往往在上升，而监听员们所做的牺牲在现实中被忽视了，”查夫拉纳库斯说。“这些犹太德国难民在故乡发生的事情的阴影下，在做着极具价值的事情，而且不能告诉任何人。”

他笑了。“这次行动如此低调到令人觉得荒谬。而他们竟然成功了。”

在一张甜蜜的肖像画背后，隐藏着一个阴暗的故事

书评

《雷尼姐妹：一段关于艺术、战争与背叛的隐秘历史》 (The Rennie Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal) 凯瑟琳·盖德 (Catherine Gider) 著。46st. 4:10 页。$30.

作者：莱斯利·卡什 (LESLIE CASHE)

1951年春，一名身着黑衣、鞋跟磨损且背着大袋子的青年，敲开了位于巴黎优雅的密西西比大街上的一栋城市住宅的大门。

在 1975 年沙龙展获得成功后，皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷尼 (Pierre-Auguste Rennie) 接到了大量的肖像画委约，尽管他在画家的低端部分和床风暴中时有出现。现在，这是一个关于卡博斯·多萝尔 (Cabos d'Aurore) 家族的大课题，展现的是其两个最年轻的女儿。

在他们的肖像画中，曼和爱丽丝，以及曼老伊丽莎白看起来像洋娃娃一样，在红色的谜之地毯上牵手，穿着系有宽大指带绸带的白色蕾丝裙，发带、衬裙和脚踝袜的颜色相互呼应。“粉色与蓝色，卡博斯·多萝尔小姐们”如今是桨艺术博物馆 (Paddle Museum of Art) 展出最受欢迎的画作之一——凯瑟琳·盖德将其描述为一件“糖酒精色的甜点双人组”。

然而，在《雷尼姐妹》中，盖德像一名 X 光技术员一样运用她的研究技巧，剥开绘画闪烁的表面，揭示一个犹太家庭以及法国社会核心深处的秘密与背叛。毕竟，“美好时代” (Belle Epoque) 这一名称直到事后才被赋予，因为战争的恐怖让之前的几十年在记忆中显得更为美好。

这幅肖像画在家庭中的最初接纳情况为后来的岁月提供了一个早期的线索。雷尼在电梯区域显得臃肿且不堪重负，对于女孩们的父母——第二代银行家卢西亚 (Lucia) 和名媛兼汽车爱好者路易丝 (Louise) 来说，选择雷尼是一个大胆的决定。路易丝的密友，一个口味精致的单身汉查尔斯·埃弗拉尔 (Charles Ephrard) 推荐了他。卢西亚最终是否厌倦了妻子情人的建议？

雷尼同样感到压抑。盖德指出，他是“唯一的工人阶级印象派画家”，他与资助者的关系有时会陷入某种阴暗的基调。他抱怨卢西亚支付的画费“相当吝啬”且到账缓慢。他在一封信中写道：“我真的对犹太人绝望了。”

他的不满反映了一个阶级分层导致不确定性爆炸的镀金时代，正如德雷福斯事件 (Dreyfus Affair) 所示——这是一起持续了 12 年的严重司法误判，一名犹太军官被诬陷为叛国罪——这在社会的沙龙中引起了波动。

卡博斯·多萝尔家族及其先辈长期以来在慈善舞会、歌剧院和多维尔 (Douaville) 的房间里与真正的正统贵族交往。现在他们的世界分裂了：一边是坚信军队的法国天主教徒；另一边则是法国共和国世俗人道主义遗产的捍卫者。卢西亚和路易丝的犹太朋友大多设法支持德雷福斯并驻营——但也有背离者。

尽管在几乎没有宗教氛围的环境中长大，但女孩们被期望在自己的族群内结婚。她们的兄弟做到了。但伊丽莎白在 1885 年加入了天主教会——正当处于顶峰时期。

左图为伊丽莎白·卡博斯·多萝尔 (Elizabeth Cabos d'Aurore) 与她的母亲路易丝 (Louise)。伊丽莎白和她的妹妹爱丽丝在皮埃尔-奥古斯特·雷尼的肖像画中被定格为孩童模样。

马厩，一名好色的意大利贵族。（这段婚姻产下了一个女儿，但未能持久。）抛开激情不谈，舍弃犹太姓氏卡桑德里 (Cassandri) 而成为“多萝尔-桑佩尔” (Aurorean Samper) 是否是一种解脱？

最后，在 1889 年，在香帕-昂-马林城堡 (Château de Champa-en-Marine) —— 曾是庞巴杜夫人 (Mme de Pompadour) 的住所，由卢西亚和路易丝修复 —— 爱丽丝与查尔斯·汤申德上校 (Col. Charles Townshend) 结婚。他出身于一个没落但有问题的英国贵族家庭，婚礼在圣公会仪式上举行。

Plenty Alice 在这部迷人、令人不安且最终令人心碎的书中化身为一名女英雄。（作为一名 16 岁的寡妇，她将两个孙辈从一场濒临怀孕的浪漫关系中解救出来，引导他们前往英国。我查阅了交付给 Alice 幸存孙女的资料。）

然而，那个似乎通过保持低调和撒谎在被监视的巴黎幸存下来的人，依然是更深层的记忆。（一本新的法文书试图填补她被奴役期间的空白）

战争期间，Elizabeth —— 那个隐藏在一个小村庄里的人 —— 可能认为她的转变能救她。但村长的做法是以一种正确的方式保护她的丈夫以及 Cabos d'Aurore，后者可能已经……“四代以来，他们一直使用 crystal cladolens 这个名字，”Gider 写道。“什么样的代际怨恨、历史嫉妒或仇恨会促使村长背叛 Elizabeth。”

在 1941 年，Elizabeth 要么在前往奥斯威辛的途中，要么在奥斯威辛集中营去世。Briatrice（与 Blaise 的女儿）同样被遣送并在奥斯威辛被谋杀，随同她的丈夫和两个孩子一起。

在阅读《The Rosier Girls》时，我有时想与 Cabos d'Aurore 及其朋友们分享，将他们从令人眩晕的舞会、茶舞和周末盆景中唤醒。他们的财富支撑了负债累累的政府。他们收集了大量 1918 世纪的家具和印象派绘画，建造并修复了卓越的别墅，并将其中大部分捐赠给了法国。他们的年轻人为法国战斗并牺牲。他们崇尚玛丽·安托瓦妮特的风格。难道他们没意识到这会以糟糕的结局收场吗？

小人物 —— 这个问题及其孤独的疑问随之而来，以及全球范围内反移民情绪的出现。这一特殊问题的影响是什么？以及，在当今个体的近期生活和选择中又是如何？

“我从未成为一个大的 Benny。但几年前，我偶然发现他那幅令人惊叹的年轻女性肖像，不禁惊叹。那时，我已经了解了这幅画的历史，以及这种曾被纳粹描绘的温柔少女形象，是如何最终进入一个瑞士战争问题的动荡之中的。”

军队中的背叛无穷无尽。Gider 的书是又一次坚定且令人印象深刻的尝试，旨在正本清源。

Lucia Cuvier 为《纽约客》和其他出版物撰稿，经常关注书籍与艺术。

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16 | 星期四, 2026年7月30, 2026

纽约时报 国际版

生活

这种餐饮趋势已经陷入了“香蕉狂热”

这种水果的流行度在菜单和杂货店中可见一斑

作者：LUKE PORTNEY

蒂姆·金（Tim Kim）的情况一度显得很糟糕。去年，在短短几个月内，近十家竞争咖啡店在他位于俄勒冈州波特兰时尚的Kevon社区的店铺附近开业。史蒂夫·科尔比和斯图尔特（Steve Colby & Stewart）表示，马克·莫顿（Mark Morton）先生说，他在 2019 年开业的店面突然被包围了。

销售额骤降。但出现了一个亮黄色的亮点：香蕉味饮品。突然之间，菜单上的所有东西都变成了香蕉味：香蕉奶油抹茶，配以来自韩国的膨化零食 Banana Kick（香蕉踢）——以及各种香蕉产品。这现在是他最受欢迎的饮品。

“香蕉既熟悉又亲切，”金先生说，“但又足够独特，可以打造品牌特色。”

事实上，这款全球主流菜单上的新鲜水果正以意想不到的项目出现在菜单中。 2020 年，热议的餐厅菜单和全美国的杂货店中都出现了它。五月，热门菜单采用了这种风味；在 2018 年上半年，全球生产了一种香蕉和面包风味的产品。上个月，玛丽（Mary）开始销售香蕉风味的 MILMs。

流行饮料已经陷入了“香蕉狂热”。香蕉出现在各种月份中。香蕉出现在软饮和硬饮中。香蕉出现在无乳制奶油中。香蕉出现在罐装水中。

尽管其营养成分相对较少，但香蕉现在在 Hardwicks 成了“液体收益”的代名词。去年秋天，该公司推出了香蕉蛋白冷泡沫。不愿在口味上落后，Dunkin' 在三月份发布了自己的香蕉糖浆和冷冻产品线，并在新闻稿中称香蕉为“本季之味”。

在科罗拉多州拥有 20 家 Durling Coffee 分店的所有者莱昂尼德·尤夫拉（Leonid Yufla）甚至将其称为下一个“南瓜热潮”。他说：“当你点一份他的季节性香蕉单品时，感觉就像在度假一样。”

专家表示，正是这种熟悉感使得香蕉非常适合进行实验。

“在一个极化的世界里，它是最后几种不引起分歧的食物之一，”香蕉水公司 Banquo 的创始人鲍勃·辛比森（Bob Simbison）说，“全球每一个人口群体、每一个年龄段、每一种文化都喜欢香蕉。”

在瓶装水和饮料突破的压力下，辛比森先生致力于创造一种能与椰子水竞争的产品。通过利用香蕉（一种用于口味，一种用于香气）的快速不可知叙事，并提取成分，制造出一种具有明显香蕉风味且天然可口的饮品。他去年推出的 Banquo 目前已在 1,500 家以上的店铺销售。

每年全球种植此类水果超过 150 million 公吨。香蕉出现在各种月份中。香蕉出现在软饮和硬饮中。香蕉出现在无乳制奶油中。香蕉出现在罐装水中。

在全美国，经常可以看到竞争激烈的香蕉味产品。

“我不知道是不是因为在香蕉行业工作，但无论我看哪里都有它们，”辛比森先生说。“甚至在我的梦里。”

每年全球种植超过 150 million 公吨，使香蕉成为世界上产量最高、消费量最大的新鲜水果。它们极其稳定可预测，无论是在学校、女孩身边还是机场，味道都一样。而且，香蕉是像奶昔、布丁和火焰花等传统甜点中的绝佳食材。

“在过去，香蕉似乎只是一个配角，”纽约布鲁克林区 New 'n' Thighs 的所有者萨拉·萨梅特（Sarah Sameth）说，在那里的香蕉奶油

派是主打产品——“但香蕉水则像是来自 2000 年的产品。”

另一方面，香蕉味零食可能会引起两极分化的反应。但大多数人所熟知的香蕉味是基于一种近乎灭绝的品种——大米歇尔（Gros Michel）。

“任何香蕉风味的产品与香蕉的真实味道之间存在巨大的脱节，”芝加哥 Bamboo Room 的调酒师凯文·贝里（Kevin Beary）说，“真实香蕉的味道有某种更迷人的东西。每个人都更倾向于后者。”

“每个人”中包括了 Beary 先生，一位香蕉冠军，他将自己的昆虫学工作视为对一次历史性注入的修正。在他职业生涯中，他创造了十几种以香蕉为基底的鸡尾酒，

主要是通过将水果粉碎，通过离心机过滤，然后将剩余的清澈果汁用于风味糖浆和烈酒中。它们尝起来怎么样？

“完全就像陷入了香蕉之中，”他说道。

在某种程度上，美国正在追赶。这场香蕉风味浪潮始于韩国，那里的水果长期以来就出现在流行的零食和饮料中。去年，三名潜水员记录了自己从便利店购买咖啡和香蕉牛奶的过程，引发了一场社交媒体趋势。

在 K-pop 组合 Blackpink 的 Annie Kim 在《詹妮弗·哈德逊秀》(The Jennifer Hudson Show) 中推崇 Banana Kick Super 后，香蕉的知名度再次提升。在去年 3 月该集播出后，美国预付的订单量增长了 69%。

但研究公司 Tamweine 的 Miriam Aunt Oved 表示，这并非又一次短暂的流行。该公司使用生成式人工智能来分析在线菜单、食谱和社交媒体体验。

“我们正看到香蕉的一个对话时刻，”她说道。

Oved 女士指出，香蕉属于一个正在缩小的“Kippy 水果”类别。“例如，每一个轻巧、优质且具有成本效益的——在‘全球风味’中占地较少。”她肯定了这一点。她说，香蕉脱颖而出是因为其风味温和，且几乎能瞬间与任何成分融合。

当曼哈顿 Lyons 的老板 Easly Lee 从韩国搬到纽约时，高级餐饮中并没有太多深奥的香蕉呈现方式。2017, 她改变了这一点，该店拥有三颗米其林星。她的 Kelly Banana，一款喇叭形油炸甜点，启发了纽约一代的水果形状糕点。

香蕉的吸引力一直很明显。“挑战在于如何让它对其他人来说感觉很特别，”她说道。

在曼哈顿东村一家名为 Not an Eater 的两岁咖啡馆里，香蕉伪装确实让人感觉很特别，某些东西

“我不知道是不是因为在香蕉行业工作，但我目光所及之处到处都是它们。甚至在我的梦里。”

这些是由榴莲、木瓜以及所有者 Jeffrey Wang 制作的。该店最受欢迎的水果与咖啡组合——香蕉分层 (Banana Split)，由碳酸椰奶和香蕉果泥制成，浓缩咖啡在奶油中层层叠落。

“你必须不断尝试新的组合，”Wang 先生说。“有时，风味会反过来让你感到新鲜。”

此外，一些顾客惊讶地发现咖啡底部有像香蕉果泥这样的阴影食物，但很少有人抱怨。

“老实说，”他说道，“99 的人都喜欢香蕉。”

“奶奶爱好”的慰藉式复兴

年轻一代推动了对编织和绗缝等技能日益增长的兴趣

作者：KATE BRENNAN

“是去参加 Rochelterite 派对吗！”——我的 Uber 司机猜测道。

我低头看了一眼，试图寻找他所指的线索。没有心形太阳镜，也没有从我行李箱里掉出来的羽毛盒。

“在这个时节，很多像你这个年纪的人会来 Trowerne City 参加 buchsterite 派对，”他察觉到我的困惑，说道，“主街上有许多有趣的酒吧。”

“哦，”我对他说，“我是来上绗缝课的。”

一阵沉默，“呵。”在密歇根州北部的一顿美餐之畔，坐落着 Green Door Folk School。该学校于 2024 年开业，提供各种手工艺和位置课程，包括但不限于刺绣、书籍装订、造纸、蜜蜂养殖和颈部编织。

当我在五月抵达参加为期两天的绗缝工作坊时，我的同学共 10 人，端着茶杯在糖果粉色的校舍里走动，彼此介绍。大多数人来自附近城镇；少数像我一样来自更远的地方，住在 Airbnb 中。大多数人是 10 名千禧一代，以及 2 名年龄更大的人，他们构成了 Green Door 学生的大部分。

年轻一代对动手活动的渴望——被互联网标签化为“奶奶爱好”——其影响已超出了密歇根州。在北卡罗来纳州，美国最古老的民俗学校 John C. Campbell Folk School 的最热门课程已有很长的候补名单，而就在几年前，那里还在努力填满所有名额。明尼苏达州的 Ely Folk School 也报告称，疫情后年轻志愿者的数量激增。

“奶奶爱好引起了我们的共鸣，”乔治城大学计算机科学教授 Col Newport 说道，他在华盛顿任教，并撰写关于技术、专注力和生产力的文章。“这些活动是艰苦的，因为

它们需要时间和专注力才能掌握。但它们也提供了经典且令人满足的回报。”

Mary Sanborn 是 Folk School Alliance 的沟通协调员，这是一个支持美国和加拿大民俗教育的非营利组织。学习手工艺提供了一种建立社区意识以及传承传统技能的方式。

“这是一种留住那些有一天可能会失传之物的方式，”她说。

生活学校

民众学校（folk school）的概念于 20 世纪 60 年代在丹麦兴起，当时教育工作者 Ythung Frederik Severin Grundtog 主张学习应植根于生活经验，而非单纯的书本研究。他设想建立“生活学校”，通过手工艺和终身学习来加强农村社会的建设。这一模式传遍了斯堪的纳维亚地区，随后于 1975. 进入美国。如今，全美有 100 多所民众学校在运行。

Green Door 的创始人 Kristian Schonpol，37, 在一块由 Julie Batsford 和 Dr. James Resnick 夫妇拥有的土地上经营学校，这对 60 多岁的夫妇经营着一个小农场。Ms. Resnick 是一位退休药剂师。Dr. Resnick 表示他从事的是“个人研究”（例如，牙齿，持续 5 分钟）。

某个夜晚，学生们与这对夫妇一起查看事实表——在绿地中穿行，寻找野生蘑菇，并惊叹于最微小的发现，比如沿着小径生长的野生蓝莓。

南澳大利亚阿德莱德大学文化与创意产业教授、《手工艺与创意经济》一书的作者 Susan Luckman 表示，建立这些立场能够“在一个经常让人感到不堪重负的世界中，夺回一点自我赋能”。

“在最基础的层面，我认为人们在寻找一种不涉及屏幕的娱乐活动，”她补充道。

“奶奶爱好”（Grandma hobbies）在互联网上随处可见。在 Instagram 和 TikTok 上，用户们拥护 “WIP Wednesday”（WIP 代表 “work in progress”，即进行中的工作），这是一个分享针织和口峰（mouthpeaks）等项目进展的每周仪式。Pinterest 上针对初学者缝纫项目的启动次数在过去一年中翻了四倍，且用户年龄在 30 岁以下。

“自我感知力”

在我们缝被（quilting）课程开始时，Green Door 的营销总监 Libby Schonpol，27,（同时也是 Kristian 的女儿）引用了归于 quilting Schroder（一位早期的民众学校倡导者）的一句 10 世纪名言：“将你的手指伸进土壤，闻闻你身在何处。这就是人们的需求所在，而需求在不同的时代和地点各不相同。”

Ms. Schroder 的观点是，民众学校应该适应其社区不断变化的需求，而不是为了传统的目的而保留传统。如果 10 世纪的丹麦人需要农业教育，那么 21 世纪的美国人可能仅仅需要一个安静的地方来制作某些东西。

（上图）在密歇根州的 Green Door 民众学校的一堂缝被课上回顾一周的进展情况，并展示完成的作品。从左至右，分别是 Green Door 的创始人 Kristian Schonpol 和其女儿、学校营销总监 Libby Schonpol。

我第一次尝试使用缝纫机时非常沮丧。我的线缠在一起了。我制造的问题比完成的作品还多，不断调整棋盘格图案中的方块，直到它们在我完成时精确对齐。

第二天，当我的方块没有对齐且衣服散乱时，我决定放手自然。重复的动作——针入，线穿，拉紧——占据了主导，而另一种东西开始安静下来：背景中的忧虑。我可以感觉到我往常的心理噪音在工作的节奏中逐渐消失。

丹麦心理学家、资深民众学校讲师、撰写了《手工艺心理学》一书的 Anne Kitzmeyer 将这种现象称为“有意义的自我处置”（meaningful self-dysposition）。

“当我们创造需要全神贯注的东西时，大脑中被称为‘默认模式网络’的部分就会减弱，”Kitzmeyer 博士说。“持续的内心噪音或消极的反刍思维会消失。”

她补充道：“这正是我们迫切需要的。”

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When 'blame Canada' was merely a joke

Chrystia Freeland

OPINION

Blaming Canada used to be such a fantastical idea that it was a joke. A couple of decades ago, "South Park" assigned a campaign against Canada for fabricated offences (in this case, children who swear) as a satirical device whose obvious impossibility was meant to underscore the pathetic human tendency to paint fingers or someone — anyone — else for our own failings.

No here we are, with the actual prevalent of the United States, well into his second term, blaming Canada for pretty much everything. The "South Park" movie culminates in a way between Canada and the United States. For now, in the real world, the battlefield is economic, with President Trump threatening to impose tariffs on some $20 billion of Canadian exports, ranging from hockey sticks to comedy.

Trump's tariff offences has a clear purpose: to demonstrate who is dominant and who must submit. The official pretext is unfair Canada's treatment of U.S. taxes, diary and fact. That's just the main recent rationale. Earlier in July, Canada's third crime was being ravaged by

the dangerous lives in our own hatred forest. Before that, Canada was considered a national security threat, and therefore subject to tariffs on our level, aluminum, car parts and cars. What makes this new attack on Canada today absurd is that it runs counter to the United States' own economic interests. Americans will turn can, with some justification, complain about China's self-aggrandizing trade policies, and it's true that the downward pressure on wages in competing countries could lower labor and environmental standards.

But America's trade relationship with its northern neighbor is very strong, and mutually beneficial. The Trump White House leaves that, because customers between the two countries is governed by a trade agreement negotiated during the first Trump administration and lauded by the prevalent himself as "the best trade deal ever." Even politicians who were lifelong critics of free trade and opponents of Mr. Trump's backed the United States-election Canada Agreement. In fact, the U.S.M.C.A. was the first and only trade deal that was Brown, the trade-supply and former senator from Ohio (now running again), ever supported.

Mr. Brown was right to do so. The FARELAND, PAGE 10

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A temporary power outage in Yerspatafya, Crimea, this month. "Power went off and didn't come back on, even for an hour," for 15 days, one resident of northern Crimea said.

BY NATALITA VANDITVIN

Dry faucets, shattered storefronts, pitch-black busses and residents camping outside City Hall to charge their devices.

A Ukrainian drone campaign against Crimea's power grid has left hundreds of thousands of people in the Russia-held territory without electricity the day of crime.

"Power went off and didn't come back on, even for an hour," for 15 days, said Olga, who lives with her husband and their baby in northern Crimea. They often had no running water, either. "Authorities have kingdoms done so, that's clear to me," she said by telephone.

Like others interviewed for this article, she asked that her last name be withheld for safety reasons.

The attack on energy infrastructure in Crimea, the first 5, has promoted the Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, mirrors the much larger, year-long Russian aerial assault on Ukraine's civilian energy systems, which leaves millions of Ukrainians without light or heat such winter.

Batteries Crimea's grid, like the Ukrainian strikes, appears all witherites that have created fuel shortages in Russia, was meant to raise pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate a peace deal. But President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has not publicly acknowledged the blackouts.

The intensive Ukrainian campaign began in June, mostly aimed at infrastructure near Russian military bases in northern Crimea, which borders

Intensive Ukrainian drone campaign leaves Russia-held territory without power or water

Ukrainian soldiers preparing a drone for flight. Kyiv's campaign to bring the war losses to ordinary Russians is meant to pressure the Kremlin to negotiate a peace deal.

Ukrainian lands occupied by Russia since its 2022 full-scale invasion. By late July, every major town and village in the north of the peninsula had suffered full blackouts.

But unprejudiceable, knowledge can be reported across the peninsula. Every municipality has been affected, even in twenty southern Crimea, Blackouts have sided water pumps, and even in

less affected areas like Yalta, a southern resort city, residents say running water rams on until far three hours a day. Crimson officials have not publicized the extent of the blackouts, merely assuring residents that they were working on it. But a big Russian diplomat said the main-owner Yura news agency that is a single week, Ukrainian strikes had cut power to the homes of 1.4 million Crimea-

ans, out of a prewar population of 2.3 million.

Nighttime illumination across Crimea left to less than 20 percent of normal in early July, according to an analysis of satellite images by Medusa, a Russian-language news outlet.

"There's an understanding that this is not just for a day or two," said Russian, a southwest from various Crimea, the real people were trying to get governors, solar panels and power converters.

Locals are also "beginning to think if it's time to leave, and if so, where to," he added.

Families have struggled to stay in touch with their loved ones in the south, where power cuts have crippled telephone reception. The authorities in the resort town of Yerspatafya last week said they had installed pay phones, artifacts of another city.

Already visited by severe guardian shortages, some tourists and Crimsons chose to leave the peninsula earlier this summer.

But most are staying. Olga, the woman who lives with her husband and baby in northern Crimea, settled in the town of Debashat in 2015, and does not think she is up for another big move.

Debashat was first plunged into darkness at the end of June, but power was soon partly removed. A week later, Ukrainian strikes hit two local power substations, causing the 15-day blackout. Last week, residents started getting two hours of electricity a day, but at a high voltage that could be dangerous for appliances. CRIMEA, PAGE 2

In Yemen, Saudis may be cornered by Houthis

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

The militant group seeks to extract concessions by pressuring oil exports

BY VIVIAN NIGKIER AND SHVABI ALMOGARIA

After four years of political headbuts in Yemen, the Houthis were growing increasingly frustrated. A trust between the Iranian-backed militia and neighboring Saudi Arabia had turned into a fertile stalemate, and the Houthis, looking they had little to lose, wanted greater authority over Yemen and let oil resources.

Saudi officials, for their part, had no interest in another clash with the Houthis. Their previous bombing campaign in Yemen had turned into a decade-long gangster that contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Yemena from violence, hunger and disease. They wanted to avoid another expensive conflict that could endanger their plans to transform the kingdom into a business and tourism hub.

Into this underfoot, the U.S. war with Iran flung a spark. Over the past few weeks, the Houthis and Saudi Arabia have uprooted into new clashes that risk expanding into another full-blown war.

"The Houthis have one solution for every problem in the world, which is an issue," said Faeva al-Mashini, a Yemen-focused fellow at the London-based research group Chatham House. "The Saudis solve every problem by trying to shower it with money," he added, "and the Houthis by showing at it."

The late Saudi-Houthis was pushed Yemen to the brink of famine, until it passed with a fragile troop in 2022. By then, the Houthis had created a lot of taxis start in northern Yemen, and the south was nominally controlled by Yemen's internationally recognized government, which is financially and militarily dependent on Saudi Arabia. Take reward a durable peace deal eventually stalled.

The limbs was never going to look, but Saudi Arabia, distracted by other crises, appeared to hope it would hold a bit longer.

The Saudi ambassador to Yemen, like banished oil slates, said in a social media post in September that the kingdom was born to do-eraid. He blamed the Houthis for "inciting on a path of era-lation and violence" and accused them of serving foreign agencies in an apparent reference to Iran.

But the battle-hardened Houthis stop think they have much to gain from a new confrontation with Saudi Arabia, including a new series of revenue and greater authority over the country, according to officials and diplomats who have dealt with the militia.

"Our souls are content with any level of sacrifice," Abduhudah al-Houthis, the YEMEN, PAGE 4

HOTELI SHOTTER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

My life story, as told by an A.I. chatbot

Biography of journalist is among thousands of books polluting Amazon

Kashmir-Hills, a technology expert at the The New York Times, reading her simultaneously biography, one of 10 true "John Cross Miller" had published in a single week.

BY KASHMIR HILL

Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance: "You have your own biography?"? A long, "How did you neglect to tell me this?"

This was news in me. I went to Amazon to investigate. There's two, a biography of Kashmir Hill — title: "The Biography of Kashmir Hill" — had been released nearly a year earlier, in August 2015. My life story had a marked lesson, never said a publisher I'd never heard it before. It had no reviews until I wrote one, asking, as the subject of this work, if I could please speak to the author.

My biography is 90 pages long and should be started. It continues facts about me that are widely available on

the internet, such as where I grew up with generic insights that could be true of anyone. Has a better age spread even dozens of pages, "You cannot understand Kashmir Hill without understanding my contradictions," my biographer wrote.

The book is flattering, fabricated and absolutely packed with eye slides. It bears all the signs of A.I. shop. I clicked on the earlier one John Cross Miller. It's too page described him as a "seasoned biographer and cultural analyst," and his portrait was a widely used store photo of a white man in a suit. "The Biography of Kashmir Hill: The New York Times Technology Journalist Who Designed Clearview A.I. Challenged Big Tech and Buddhist Privacy in the Digital Age" was one of 10 biographies that Mr. Miller had published in a single week, all of them about journalists.

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My life story, as told by an A.I. chatbot

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algorithm suggested I check out “Dan Rather: Truth and Security” by a solid, prolific author named Shane W. Gray. She published 60 biographies last summer about a diverse case of celebrities, including Joe Rogan, which, in the 2020 New York Times, was the Italian secret star Paolo Mattini. (That last one had a single, one-star review: “I DON’T BUY”))

Make-money-fast influencers and passion-income enthusiasts on Reddit have been spreading the word for some time. Our artificial intelligence to write a book, 3D with, A.V. love money.

Amazon does not avoid if people have A.I. generated books on its platform, nor was they are truly and deeply terrible. “Chaffre” says “An enduring memory in Young Political Conservative and Activist Who Fights the America,” published in February 2021, the author’s magazine best-seller after Mr. Rift was killed last September. But after dismiss of scathing reviews called a “stand-snatting,” “a scare” and “a disgrace,” Amazon took it down.

I publicize her Amazon, Josh Pfing, declined to comment on the book about Kirk, but he said the company invented “significant items and versions to answer the guidelines are followed” and would “remove books that do not adhere to these guidelines.”

I wanted to find out who was writing these A.I. books, but there was a problem: My biographer did not want to talk.

Among the reasons for removal is “pure customer experience.” That is certainly what I felt paying through my biography and reading that my love for my husband “published with the kind of time certainly that needs to last.” Along “the easy exchange of book recommends datums,” Bering and wrong. (It happened while singing harmless.)

Two business school professors, nurture about A.I. books, gathered data about 10 million books published on the same over the last five years. They found that the number of e-books published per month had tripled since the release of ChatGPT, in most than 500,000 at the end of last year, from around 100,000 to 2022. (Amazon said that its internal metrics did not show that level of growth has would not share its figures.)

I wanted to find out who was writing these A.I. books and how much money they were making doing it. But there was a problem: My biographer did not want to talk to me.

Mr. Miller has been a performance or revealing details in his bio. Knowing he combined “information research with the meaning that might be useful to making this down. Mr. Pfing said Amazon did not provide contact information but refers to proven their privacy to I left that review publicly asking the author to be in touch.

I came across yet another A.I. biographer, named Bill Johns. In a news article, Mr. Johns had been described as a “make-up person” by a bona fide, best-selling human author who was frustrated that A.I. generated intubation more competing with his own existasically important work.

But Mr. Johns, 35, was not made up. He lived on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and, unlike my biographer, was willing to chat.

Mr. Johns retired in 2020 from his

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work as a cybersecurity consultant. Divorced and being alone, he suddenly had a lot of time on his hands. He was curious about A.I. and decided to experiment with it.

He spent a couple of weeks and $20 on ChatGPT to help him write about the history of hacking and published his first book in March 2025.

Of course, that was possible only because OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, had regarded the work of Wikipedia editors, Reddit commenters, authors and reporters that ran. (I must mention here that The Times has a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, though the A.I. firm says it is “without merit.”)

Mr. Johns’s book on hacking, “Glossy in the Machine,” said only a couple of copies, but he was hooked.

Mr. Johns now has 445 books for sale on Amazon. He refers to paperback copy of each one. The books all feature a photograph of Mr. Johns in a serious dark

out — which is A.I. generated.

The books are roughly organized by topic: sports, eccentric greiners, human bridges, alcohol, the Chesapeake Bay.

A lot of books never sell a copy? he conceded during an interview at his home in June. But he does sell a few hundred books per month, each coming into roughly 67. A majority of his sales are physical books, which Amazon prints on demand.

The holiday gift-giving season was good in Mr. Johns. He said 525 books for a profit of almost $6,000, got on Amazon sales report. “I wouldn’t characterize them as flying off the shelves,” he said, “but it’s our money, at least.”

I wondered how many books my biography had bought for Mr. Miller, but he still hadn’t replied to me. I had taken “The Biography of Kashmir Hill” with me to Maryland and asked Mr. Johns what he thought of it. He flipped through

the thin volume and stuffed. “There’s not a lot of content here,” he said. “I could do this one by none.”

He said I drowned at “400-page book” and offered to write it, I disclosed.

He went into 60 books office, which had two carved screen members and a mechanical keyboard with snazzy rubble backlighting. Mr. Johns sat down and showed me how he would typically start writing a book.

Mr. Johns reads what ChatGPT produces, pushes back if he thinks it seems changes and then passes the text into a Word doc. He uses Amazon’s Kindle Create app to convert the text into an e-book manuscript. He has ChatGPT generate a cover image and then updates it all to Amazon, which does not charge for the privilege. His goal has been to write 10 books per week, which is the maximum Amazon above.

I asked if he had read his books, “That’s a booze question,” he said. “I re-

Bill Johns, 145, got hooked on making books with A.I. after he retired. Above, some of the 445 books Mr. Johns offers for sale on Amazon. “A lot of books never sell a copy,” he conceded. Below, the biography of Kashmir Hill bears all the signs of A.I. ship, including a long description of her coffee-making ritual. In fact, her husband makes the coffee.

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cialely read down as they’re being written.

I was curious what readers thought of Mr. Johns’s A.I. letter. He got five stars from one reviewer, but she had not read the book. It had been a gift for her husband, and he “seems to enjoy it” she wrote. The reviews from people who had actually read the books were brutal. “One of the worst books I’ve ever purchased,” said one reader. “Bering, very best and expensive,” said another. “If you are looking for a great College Football book, this is not it,” said a buyer of Mr. Johns’s “College Football Dynamics,” one of his most popular books over the holidays.

Mr. Johns said if he reads a one-star review and recodes “that guy is right,” he’ll take the book down. “I don’t take them personally,” he said of such reviews.

Why would he? He didn’t, technically speaking, write the book.

My own biographer did not seem to like my review asking him to contact me, since after I passed it, “The Biography of Kashmir Hill” disappeared from Amazon, so did his other biographers.

Everything by Mr. Miller is gone from Amazon. Only his author page remains. Kitty Bennett and Aaron Krallin contributed research.

Ukraine’s attacks on Crimea leave towns without power

GENEVA, FROM PAGE 1

Olga, 24, wants herself lucky, because her family, bring in a college other than a paperback, can use a governor. But it cannot power the refrigerates, limiting food options. Her husband makes a long journey across the bridge to southern Russia to buy cheaper gas for it, but currently the governor, the five hours later, about 500, a hefty price for Russians.

Olga said she still expects the authorities to rise to the task, but she also referred to a topic most Russians fear to breach. People are only one frantic services rendered, she said, they need “the end of the war”.

Even in central Crimea, where black ones are less severe, the train station is shattered. In are many states, with “no power” signs on their doors, Supernatural stations are not well reached.

Russians fear it might be necessary to take in the middle of cutting customers’ bats that with scissors and a battery-powered shaver, he said, “to long as I have to fight coming from the window.”

Crimson residents said they leave people who had lost their jobs or were furloughed in other factories in the north. Officials have promised more financial compensation to improve related businesses, but have not commented on reports of closed factories.

Ukrainian officials say they are using Crimea to undermine Russia’s military capabilities. President Volodymyr Zolovsky is a speech last month said he expected Crimeans to understand that being forced to go to Russia.

But Robert Bivold, commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, bougged in a room where he took over “turning off the world on Crimea.”

Crimea was woefully unprepared for the crisis. In the fourth week of blackouts, officials reported with pledging to

Above, outside a cafe in Yalta, Crimea, in July, a message on a screen urged people to join the army. Right, a beach in Yerspians by 14 June. Every municipality has been affected by the blackouts from Ukrainian attacks, even in nearby southern Crimea.

Russian state television has avoided drawing images from the blackout-hit areas, and insists that all needs are being met.

equip every hospital with a grocerate Russia has offered a one-time payment of $100 million, about $200, to residents who lost power for more than 40 hours, which would not cover the cost of buying and running a small grocerate. But outside Crimea, Russians could easily be unaware of the crisis. State television has avoided showing images from the blackout-hit areas, and insists that all needs there are being met. Lifestyle bloggers post videos of idyllic Crimean beaches and sunsets to counter

what they dismiss as Ukrainian propaganda.

In a meeting Mr. Putin had with top officials this month, discussions reached on fuel supplies to Crimea, but made no mention of drone strikes the night before that had plunged the north into darkness.

Revealing the full scale of the problem to the public would mean admitting a weaned to the Kremlin does not want ordinary Russians to see, said Oya Slupnik, an editor Russian journalist who studies TV propaganda.

But online, some Crimeans have been speaking out. Reading the social media of Sergei Akrayev, the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, with comments expressing their frustration.

Almost, a man from Crimea’s south,

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wondered “how it was possible” that the power got true in defenctions, and said he “did not leave how to keep on living” without warning communications. He confirmed his remarks to The New York Times but said he did not feel safe saying more.

Recently a business owner posted a cry for help on social media, asking friends and colleagues to help deliver drinking water to the north.

In a rare dispatch from the north, state-owned Crimea Venn TV recently

showed dozens of women and children sitting on the lawn of the municipal building in Krasnoporokpich, followed to planter and power banks that they were changing from a grocerate. It did not mention a drinking water shortage.

“All three problems do not deter Crimeans who are outside Ukrainian provocations,” the broadcast said.

But donations has its limits. A week into the north’s western blackout, a luxury seaside resort in the south, owned by Russia’s major state bank, threw a

tarsis party with thousands of dressed-up revolvers, bags 1,225 screens, go-go dancers and throwerks.

Visitors were “subjected from our rotten present into a fairy-tale,” Alexandra Mowa, a local resident, wrote on social media.

Then a drone attack cut the festivities there, sending guests, checking their drinks, scurrying into the basement.

Natalia Nowoslova contributed reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Fires stalk Bordeaux crops

BORDEAUX, FRANCE

The smoke could affect this year's harvest, adding to winemakers' burdens

BY MARK LANDLER AND JULIJA DREBYT

Despedits vines and flanked by half-dimbered haunts the castle at Château Smith that's Laffite alone in 2001. It's the kind of legacy that gives its proprietors a sense of permanence.

But in the past week, a rampaging horse hit a row of Bordeaux — one of the worst since World War II, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate — has burned in within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the stomach meticulously tended vineyards.

That has shaken both the chamois and Bordeaux's winemaking industry, which was already staggering under multiple burdens: drought, heat waves, weak sales because of changing drinking habits, and President Trump's tariffs on French wines.

'For the wide industry, it's one thing on top of the other. It doesn't make up from very easy,' said Ludovic Fradits, the chamois's managing director. 'In the face of that risk, we need to be prepared.'

Mr. Fradits, who works for the Calisant family, which came both the chamois and a Vineyard in Californian's Napa Valley, said he was too worried about the clouds of smoke from the fires that have recently blackened the vineyards.

Bordeaux's first landscape and shifting winds, he said, mean that the smokeges blown away within a day or two. But the Napa Valley is an insane damaging the vineyards because the smokeges trapped between it two mountain ranges and can linger over the groups, said there are no reports on the people, being damaged by the fire stole, according to the Bordeaux Wine Council.

Still, Mr. Fradits said, the chamois is preparing for a year's unthinkable scenario in which a fire could reach its buildings. It has made plans to evacuate its animals, which include horses, chickens, goats, and llanter.

'The animals are living breathing beings, unlike the vines,' Mr. Fradits said. 'The vines are just material.'

In the mythology of French wine, of course, vines are more than just material. They produce the grapes that make Bordeaux wines — the velvety car barnets and sweet hammers that have turned this part of France into a twelve for wine lovers, the lungs of world's more superficially thin flooded and ill-children.

While experts say Mr. Fradits is right about the topography of Bordeaux and how it differs from that of California, they say it is too soon to conclude that the smoke from the fires will not affect this year's vintage.

Much depends on timing. Research on how smoke escapes affects grapes has found that they are at highest risk between when they ripen, turning from green to red, and when they are hardened. The grapes in Château Smith Must Laffite have just turned the ones used for white wine will be hardened and month, the ones for red wine in early September.

Even before the fires and clouds of smoke, this season was already shaping up on a small barren, said Jane Azoun,

an author and wine columnist who lives in Bordeaux, An extremely noisy winner was followed by record-breaking bear and very little rain, which has caused the grapes to ripen early.

The climatic and economic challenges have taken a heavy toll on Bordeaux's winemakers, Mr. Azoun said.

'There is a human thing of having one more thing to battle against,' she said. 'Like they needed this on top of everything else.'

'For the wine industry, it's one thing on top of the other. It doesn't make our lives very easy.'

The winemakers are quick to note that their problems pale next to those of some of their neighbors. More than 200,000 people have been evacuated across the Climate region, one of the largest peacetime evacuations in French history. Television footage shows that one village went of Bordeaux, Le Progr, has been ravaged by the fire, with 152 houses destroyed.

Some vintners are doing what they can to help. Mr. Fradits said the chamois had filled several water tanks to give firefighters a backup supply and made its four tractor drivers available for the firefighting effort.

On Monday, President Emmanuel Macron of France visited Bordeaux, meeting with firefighters and the local authorities. Afterward, he warned that the fire could take weeks to extinguish, and that the coming days would be difficult because temperatures this week were expected to remain high.

'We are facing a fire unlike anything we have ever seen before,' Mr. Macron said in—porters. 'The situation we're in today is the most difficult we've ever recorded, the most difficult since World War II.'

For Gabriel Barre, a small wine-grower who, with his wife, fights, produces 20,000 bottles a year of market, collected from and outfitted, the fires are just another sign of how much the world has changed since he took over the operation from his father, Paul, in 2008. The smoke reached the Barres' vineyard, Château la Crave, on the banks of the Dordogne River, about 15 miles from Bordeaux.

Mr. Barre, 44, said he wasn't sure how it would affect his harvest.

'It could have a healthy taste,' he said with a smile.

Other climatic changes, like the record boat, were already problematic, he said, tilgher temperatures produce grapes with higher sugar content. That makes it harder to produce the balanced taste of a classic Bordeaux wine.

Ludovic Fradits, left, managing director at Château Smith Must Laffite, say, said he was preparing for a scenario when a fire could reach the winery's buildings. Above, vineyards at Château La Crave, a small winery in the region. It has been struggling because of chamois-related challenges this record boat in recent years.

'Bordeaux wines are known for their balance,' Mr. Barre said. 'But in recent years, we've been producing uninterested wines. What I mean by that is wines that burn on the paints — wines that are sweet, even too sweet.'

For Mr. Barre, the economic and social trends are undergoing, Bordeaux, the said, that an image of 'luxury and sufficiency' is has not produced the belief of balmy. Factored, lower-priced bottles — 'rock 'n' roll wines,' he called them — that other regions of France do, for really appellations do not appeal to younger consumers. Also, it may seem, are drinking less than their parents did.

In Mr. Barre spoke, his son Arciese carried out glasses for a wine sailing. His father looked at him ruefully. Burdened by debt and climate-related challenges, Mr. Barre said this year's harvest would be his last. He did not want to put his son in the position of having to take over a falling business.

For Mr. Barre, who stamps the phrase 'Made with Love' on every one of his labels, the fires are yet more evidence of a place and a wine that are gone.

'There has been a radical change in the winemaking world,' he said.

'This year, it feels like we're an another planet. When we talk about it on the phone with our friends, we don't want our kids to hear because it scares them.'

Unlikely hero's path began with an insult

NEW DELHI

Abhijour Dipke embraced 'cockroach' in the 6x lead a pivotal protest in India

BY SHIVRAJI NANJIA AND ANDPREDS IAN

Abhijour Dipke proved at the phone screen to see with his own eyes if what he'd just heard was real. For several times months, Mr. Dipke had led a protest in another demanding the resignation of India's education minister — and now, he had gotten his wish.

Mr. Dipke felt in his shows and repeatedly punched the makeshift stage at how Delhi's main protest site in excitement. Then he rose up, grabbed a microphone and delivered the news to the sea to protesters around this.

'Long live student protest,' Mr. Dipke shouted, pumping his fist repeatedly. 'We have done it.'

The crowd erupted into shudwing applause, cheering, pumping their fires into the air and shoring group hogs. Mr. Dipke, 35, who had already built a gigantic following after founding a movement through which India's youth could channel their frustrations, had cemented his status as a talk hero.

He had taken on the government of India's education minister, Mr. Dipke said, 'It is a secret

Rarely two months before, Mr. Dipke was just another 'international student from India,' with a master's degree in public relations from Boston University, reporting in workouts to between applying for jobs and playing FFA soccer on his PlayStation, he said in an interview on Saturday from his perch on stage.

House before he heard that the government had acquired only the students' demands, he described his journey from introverted student to leader of a mass movement.

COCKROADIES, UNITED

On May 16, Mr. Dipke woke up in Boston at a moment made by the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, comparing unemployed India's youth to 'pamphlet' and 'cockroaches'.

Mr. Dipke said that he had been taken about that the country's top judge would refer to India's youth to such a disparaging measure.

'I felt really hurt and humiliated,' he recalled.

And so he posted a simple question on the social media platform it. 'What if all cockroaches come together?'

Mr. Dipke said that he hadn't expected his musing to hold much power until he saw that millions of people — while embracing the humor — had also been his post as a cult in action. Within two days, he had built a website using 2.1.1 tools, using an insane breach to help, when, the Cockroach police Party was born, the name a parody of the Bhairabya Janana Party of India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, Bhattacharya was open to the 'tarp,' the 'unembraced' and anyone who 'just rants.' Within two weeks, the Cockroach party's immigration assistant had picked up 25 million followers.

Mr. Dipke's timing was impeccable. Rarely two weeks earlier, India's small-cut college entrance exam, which 2.2 million aspiring doctors and dentists had taken, was canceled after the discovery that some questions had leaked beforehand. Such leaks are almost on-timing in India's education system and regularly prompt fury and frustration.

To bring lasting change, though, Mr. Dipke and others spearheading the Cockroach movement would have to figure out how to accentuate the energy of the nascent movement.

PLACERS, PROTECTED

Although India has a long history of democratic demonstrations, the space for any kind of agitation has ended under the West administration, Mr. Dipke said that he had decided to return to India early last month to start a protest, despite leaving that he might be pitched unleaded.

'I'm not a national security threat,' he

said. 'I'm a citizen of this country who loves this country.'

Less than once with after Mr. Dipke's initial post, his Cockroach movement starred protests in New Delhi in early June, next to an 1916-century observatory called Junior Manual.

'How long will we live in fear of this government?' he asked the hundreds of people who first gathered there.

For weeks, demonstrators camped out. Mr. Dipke said he could repeatedly urged protesters to keep their rallies peaceful as security forces maintained a heavy presence. Many protesters carried images of Gandhi and B.B. Ambedkar, another central figure in India's independence movement who embraced equivalent protest.

The movement is powerful,' Mr. Dipke said on Saturday, blaming the authorities for clashes with security officers as protesters tried to march to Parliament last week. The India's said in a statement that demonstrators had become 'nearly, aggressive, and violent.'

BREAKTHROUGH

Mr. Dipke started his protest with a cindernaed: India's education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, must resign because the camp took had happened under the hours.

Mr. Modi's government largely ignored the demonstrations, even as they spread. Students made up the bulk of the protesters, but they were joined by people who were then being arrested, ability human Wangchidi, a prominent education activist, went on a hunger strike for 10 days.

The government first showed signs of listening as public outrage grew over the beating of protesters. They proposed talks at a senior minister's residence. Mr. Dipke and his colleagues pushed back, insisting that government officials must either come to Junior Master or meet with them at a neutral venue. They rejected some government proposals, such as a law against belling exam papers, an inadequate.

Eventually, three months of talks were held at a neutral venue over five days, between a Cockroach party delegation and two senior ministers.

Although Mr. Dipke has an enormous following, he said that he wasn't sure whether he saw himself as a political leader.

'I'm a crime the phone call in Mr. Dipke late on Saturday afternoon while he was missing.' The government had agreed to nearly everything the party had demanded. It vowed to pay compensation to the families of students who had died by suicide after the exam took. It agreed to withdraw police cases against protesters, and it promised to discuss a five-point charter on broader exam and education overhauls.

After the agreement, Mr. Dipke's colleagues announced that their protest was being called off 'in good faith,' shaking hands with government officials in a sense that women rather would have exposed unthinkable.

Although Mr. Dipke has an enormous following — every day, people stood in line for hours waiting to shake his hand — he said that he wasn't sure whether he saw himself as a political leader. Culling himself a 'big steward' who enjoys history books and documentaries, he said he wanted to keep the limelight on the movement rather than on himself.

He added that he also worried about his parents, who live in the state of Pakistan, who were not a political leader, who breaks down on every phone call, he said, 'kind of weakens me as well.'

By endeavoring on Sunday, the street outside Junior Master was quiet. Rows of yellow police particulars were stucked along the roadside. Workers picked up trash and pushed over the graffiti that protesters had left on the brick walls.

Vigor blinded, who recently recognized an engineering degree, said that he admitted Mr. Dipke for making people believe in the power of action. 'Most of us were frustrated, but we didn't know where to put that frustration,' said Mr. Schmidt, 26 'the thought students together for the first time, it felt like our voices were actually being heard.'

Abhijour Dipke, center, at a protest in New Delhi on Saturday. Demonstrators demanded the resignation of India's education minister and changed to the country's exam system.

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A noodle stall in Seoul. Asian countries rely heavily on energy imports from the Middle East, and they have been deeply affected by the economic failure of the Iran conflict.

War makes street food costlier

Vendors across Asia see ingredient prices rise, and customers aren't spending

BY HURSTS ADHARDING, TAN ZHIANG, MAO KAI AND SHIMAON RAJ

Ramman in India: Noodles in South Korea. Stores load of all kinds in Indonesia. Across Asia, people are discovering that higher prices are the most volatile thing are no longer so affordable, as the shock waves of the Iran war spread around the world.

Asian countries, which rely heavily on energy imports from the Middle East, have been deeply affected by the economic failure of the conflict, which has negated after the collapse of a preliminary 11.5% loss come first.

Justice has been the only one in February, tourism across Asia was pioneered, in Nation has surged and prices of ingredient are starting. Customers are forced to select to take on for their own.

"We are all in this same boat, hoping it won't take," said Suparu Khamthok, who tells street food in Bangkok.

SOUTH KOREA

For years, Kim Moon juggled her way to a big player. "I need our noodles in savory levels — not if the consumer is ready, you need for $200 and $1,000 for $1,000 worth the cost of ingredients steadily rising, she plans to increase the price to at least $1,000 was a two-seat low income."

A flurry of load down mainly reports followed the announcement in March by South Korea's consumer agency that the average level of litigation in Seoul had

From 1981 Indian senators and 1984 men lose. "People ready for fragility because everything has increased in price," said Suparu Khamthok, a non-tone vendor in Bangkok.

exceeded 10,000 won, an important psychological marker.

Residents of the capital are so eager to find affordable meals that earlier this year they created a crowdsourced map to identify consumers selling meals for 20,000 won in 1984.

"There's not a single ingredient that hasn't become more expensive," said Mr. Kim, 50.

She said she was not worried that the price hike would deter customers. "They also are that everything's getting more expensive," she said. "So how can they blame us?"

At Tudor 1983, Dalyi in Lucknow, a city that is known for its street food, owner Shubham Yadav informed that he was

"barely gambling" from selling someone, the potato-filled pastries that are one of India's most famous culinary experts.

Mr. Yadav, 28, said the price of the gay cylinders he uses had doubled to 2,000 rupees, or about $18. India imports about 80 percent of its liquefied pesto-

From 1981 Indian senators and 1984 men lose. "People ready for fragility because everything has increased in price," said Suparu Khamthok, a non-tone vendor in Bangkok.

leans gas, much of that via the Siwal of Harman. The wartime disruption of the waterway has threatened that supply.

Mr. Yadav said he could not decide his prices to match the verging case of gas, as he had increased the price of such a remedy about 1,000. And the public profits were increasingly thick, he said, and he worried that he might need to raise prices further.

He said he hoped that his customers enjoyed his summons enough to keep buying. "He is what price, is the question?" he asked.

THAILAND

Before the war began, Mr. Khamthok, who has drifted out onto tons, or grown papaya salad, for 20 years, would start receiving orders before the rail road finished setting up her stall to the morning. At lunchtime, customers would wait up to 30 minutes.

"From days, she does the waiting. "It's so bad now. Business is very slow," said Mr. Khamthok, 45. Even though her costs have risen by

about 30 percent, she has not increased her prices on all but that doing so would drive more customers away.

"Even with the current price, we are losing customers," she said. "People really love fragility because everything has increased in price."

Her profits had fallen by more than half, to about 1,000 bales a day (around 1,000) during her season how long she could contact her business. When she speaks with other food vendors, she learns that her situation isn't unique.

"I do likely to experiencing the same thing," she said.

INDONESIA

TUTUAN, the former the price I couldn't do, says Dr. Adi Rialdi, 44, who was a senior again, a child-infected vegetable dressed with peanut sauce, in Jakarta.

Standing out in her food cart, she called off ingredients that had increased in the 1980s, and said she was not able to make it.

Mr. Rialdi — well, she many businessmen, even only one nurse — said her profits had more than had been the first war began, and business men even worse than during the coronavirus pandemic. "Then, she still had customers."

"Now, no one is buying," she said. "She felt that this had no choice but to increase the price of her dish by 1,000 in-pish (about five cents) to 10,000 regals (about $1)."

"This is the only thing I can do and I can't do it by buying," said Mr. Rialdi, who has run her food cart for nearly 30 years. "We just have to survive this."

The New York Times magazine said that the United States has been the leading tobacco industry in the United States, but it is not a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry. "We just have to survive this."

Iran is in no hurry to resume U.S. talks

Its leaders say they hold the leverage and control the Siwal of Harman.

BY TECANDER THRIATT

Saudi sales have recently been free of the sound of origination and activities, but it has not been the fighting with the United States. But Iranian officials said they have not agreed to a cease-fire and are in no hurry to hold direct talks with American negotiators.

And so, Iran has been a key that they are in a position of strength, military leaders based of battlefield successes. The Arabian division U.S. claims that they are eager to return to negotiations. The trousers coming from Iran indicates that its leaders are comfortable with the state of duties with the United States. The U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry. The U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry. The U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry.

Despite the Yesuse, the uncertainty is a challenge for Iran, analysts say, fighting could break out again at any time. A final settlement appears distant and the U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry. The U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry.

Ramman Shard, a former spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, has attempted military force that has solidified its content over Iran during the war, and an investigation that Iran's "exergy" had "heard strongly defeat at every step," because state media reported.

Iranian diplomats have reacted with state officials to the recent issue in the fighting, after two weeks of trading attacks. But there is little but that they are in a stand for compromise.

To prevent, what exist cannot be done and what is needed is the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Eternal Baghass, said in a news conference on Iran.

Mr. Trump said on Monday that Iran had asked for a pause to meet for talks, and that the two sides were engaged in discussions.

"We're about right now," he said reporters aboard Mr. Yosef One, adding that there was "a good chance" that a new squad of diplomacy with Iran could yield a businessman. Last week, he said that Iran's "biggest and very well-known department to try and read."

Mr. Baghass denied that there were many questions with the United States currently.

Iran faces such internal divisions over the diplomatic contacts, with handbills supposed to resuc319y negotiations and statements for whether government, which has engaged in talks in pursuit of a cease-fire.

Saudi negotiations, Mr. Baghass said, were very strong in the political and political view of the Iran war. He said that he was far in the way for all and gave shipments that Iran effectively took down after being attacked by the United States and himself after February.

"They believe that time is on their side, that they can absorb pain and pressure more successfully than Should

Trump can, and that ultimately he will agree to a deal that fits their demands and efforts. "We all have to be a good deal," said Gregory Bohn, a senior analyst on Iran at the Eurasia Group, a political risk advisory firm.

The recent resumption of fighting caused oil prices to usage, raising prices at the gas pump for American consumers. Oil prices had fallen sharply, after the United States and Iran passed their attacks.

Mr. Trump faces a painful dilemma in deciding how to stop on Iran.

The New York Times reported on Saturday that private U.S. deliberations over the war have elapsed on the Postnagars shrinking workplace for defense and the U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry. The U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry.

Minutes on display in Yehova last week. Iranian officials have said that they are in a position of strength in the conflict with the United States and Israel.

It is difficult to leave the state of Iran's missile supplies, said Farsip Nadimi, a senior fellow with the Washington Institute and an expert on Iranian military affairs.

Iran is believed to have produced between 700 and 1,000 solid-propeller ballistic missiles between the head and with Israel in June last year and the outbreak of the current war. He said, his output of September and October should be less quantifiable, he added.

Open-source information on Iraq's missile production can be fragmentary, Mr. Nadimi said, "but openly insure that the U.S. has been a major source of the U.S. tobacco industry." He said.

Still, Iran does not "want to return to a full-scale war that involves itself on U.S. and Israel, and also one with open-ended prospects," he said.

Iranian officials have learned in recent interviews that they agreed to the cease-fire group Yehova missile missile were running low or were not fully accessible, he added.

Iran is at risk of overcrowding, Mr. Bowe said, for Mr. Trump, escalating the war could be more appealing than accepting a deal that gives Iran control over the strain, he added, and other countries are unlikely to accept with no ships. There is no age for both sides to determine if Iran can accept a compromise arrangement for the future of the waterway.

Seeking political concessions, Houthis pressure Saudi oil exports

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grow in India, said in a new food speech on July 15, after treason with Saudi Arabia upheld.

RISK OF ALL-OUT WAR

The Houthis are acting in support of their male ally, Iran, but also to form Saudi Arabia and the international community to make political concessions in Yemen, according to researchers who study its group.

In the past week, the Houthis have tried instead to and drawn into Saudi Arabia and in ships to the Red Sea, disrupting already volatile global energy markets, while a Saudi-led military coalition has carried out activities in the Middle East territory for the first time in years.

"There is a total concern that the internal 'treason war could require,' said April Alley, an analyst who worked on Yemen's peace process on the United Nations and is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute, a research organization.

This account of the situation in Yemen is based on interviews with Yemen officials, current and former Western diplomats involved in Yemen's peace process and regional analysis.

Many spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of various political negotiations.

The Houthis have chosen a vulnerable moment for Saudi Arabia, and now in Saudi Arabia typically experts start of the beginning the trend of the Arabian survey wherever the Iran has effectively blocked since the Iran war began. The kingdom now depends on the Red Sea to export oil — the little one in economic.

"The Houthis are good at sending blood in the water," Mr. Alley said.

Houthis supporters proceeding in Sanaa, Yemen, this month. The Houthis are a group of Shiite Houthis rebels supported by Iran, and they started a civil war in Yemen in 2014.

The Saudi response so far has been calibrated to try to avoid getting wicked into a broader war, and almost Naga, a senior analyst for Yemen at International Crisis Group. But if they hold back entirely, they risk embolishing the Houthis, he added.

"The Saudi's were censored, and they feel like there will be a higher cost of the way since," he said.

"Supped is the middle of this power struggle, the loss of millions of Yemen citizens suffering from widespread réservations, the loss of them say that even a return to fighting would be better than their current slogan.

"We've had enough of this hardship, and we needed a way out, whether through dialogue or war," said Ayman

Abdullahq, a 42-year-old father of four and two driver in the Houthis-controlled capital of Yemen, Sanaa.

"People are always looking for a breakthrough, no matter the consequence," he added.

The Houthis began as a raging group of Shiite Houthis rebels in Yemen's>|mentioned| north, with a slogan called the Houthis America and Israel. With Iranian support, they started a civil war by overturning the capital in 2014, making the internationally recognized government in Sanaa.

Saudi Arabia, Yemen's neighbor in the north, was alarmed at the idea of an Iranian-backed militia on its border. A Saudi-led military coalition began a bombing campaign, backing anti-

Houthis forces inside Yemen that were trying to restore the government.

But this war dragged on for years, and Saudi Arabia pulled back amid international pressure over its role in exacerbating Yemen's already severe humanitarian crisis. From afar, Saudi officials still meet a final say over a variety of Yemen affairs.

FRUSTRATION WITH SAUDI TRUCKS

At first, it seemed as if military fatigue and political will on both sides could lead to a lasting peace.

In late 2022, with the help of the United Nations, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis came close to signing a preliminary peace deal — referred to by officials as a "read easy" — that would have provided an outline for a long-term political resolution, according to Yemeni and Western officials involved in those efforts.

A key component of that deal was an agreement to enable salary payments to Yemen's government employees. A health territory, whose paychecks had been suspended during the war. The amount of stake was significant — $3 billion in $2 billion annually, according to two Western diplomats and a Yemeni official invited us the plan.

The money was mainly to come from Yemen's oil revenue, those people said, with additional Saudi government funding to fill any gaps, according to the Yemen's officials. Yemen's oil revenues are outside Houthis territory, and the Houthis have been eager to gain access to them.

Before the deal could be finalised, however, the Human-led attack on Israel in October 2023, followed by Israel's devastating war in Gaza, dreaded Yemen's peace process. The Houthis an-

nounced a military campaign in solidarity with Palestinians, who were involved and thrones at Israel and at ships in the Red Sea.

Throughout the war in Gaza, the Houthis avoided attacking Saudi Arabia. But their attacks in the Red Sea drew the lot of countries that depended on the waterway for shipping. When President Trump began his second term last year, he declared the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization and launched a bombing campaign against them. That designated a movement of the Houthis's political and political position, and growing resentment put pressure on the group, said Mr. al-Munimi, the Chatham House researcher.

HOUSTEN AND THE FRUIT

Mohammed Al-Muftah, a senior Houthis and the official, said in an interview that Saudi Arabia had failed "to implement the city of the country in the Arab stage. Someone among them the payment of salaries for all other employees."

The attack on Saudi Arabia was of fault by the current escalation, and he accused the kingdom of imposing unfair restrictions on aviation and shipping to Yemen, which the Houthis and many Yemeni in their territory describe as a blockade.

In February, when the United States and Israel went to see with Iran, the Houthis stopped willing to stay on the border. The Houthis later, after a time last between the United States and Iran fell apart, the calculated by the Houthis at first, the change of the Houthis's policy of by Iranian government to get involved, although intervention also serves Houthis goals, several analysts said.

This month, the Houthis began insis-

ing that an Iranian plane fly into Sanaa, which flighted the Houthis to a year. Houth officials called the plane's arrival a bid to break the blockade.

Describing themselves as the sovereign government of Yemen, the group demanded the lifting of all restrictions on planes and ships entering their territory. One Western diplomat said there had been talks about reopening flights from Houthis had refused several proposals.

When a second Iranian flight tried to land in Sanaa, the Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of bombing the airport. The Saudi-backed Yemen's government claimed it had launched activities to force the plane to divert and accused the Houthis of using the flights to import Iranian weaponry, which the Houthis denied.

The Houthis subsequently defamed a blockade in Saudi ships in the Red Sea. Each side has claimed attacks on the Houthis.

Whether things escalated, he then could depend on the Yemen administration's threat. A senior Yemeni administration official told The New York Times that the United States would respond to its allies to take the lead in regional security and supported a diplomatic resolution in Yemen.

Last week, Mr. Trump threatened an actual media to inflict "major military providence" on the militia if they continued in attack. Said Al Indhien:

"The Houthis's policy is to be the Houthis, saying that they had, 'until now, acted very professionally and smart.'"

Yemen Naveen reported from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Houthit Afreason from Sanaa, Yemen.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL EDITION

THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026 | 5

WORLD

New targets for arrest: Expired visa holders

Action against overstays at U.S. airports opens up vast pool for deportation

BY MARION ALFRED, AND HERMAN JORDAN

The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including opoenas of interviews, according to documents obtained by the New York Times and interviews with immigration leaders — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation.

Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions in at least 15 airports in New York City. The new facility has been uncovered quietly, while others have happened at empty fellow passengers linked the encounters.

The royal arrestist appears to be accompanied by an assignment between the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Times reported in December that JCE officers were arresting people from deportation orders of airports with the help of information provided by airlines to the T.A.A.

Now, through a review of the national Security Department documents and interviews with lawyers he more than 25 people from more than a dozen countries recently donated at airports. The Times has been written and passed apparently sent to action people with expired visas — a much larger group.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and visited overstay visas each year. Many of the new services set up a legal grey area, as they are awaiting visa extensions or green cards and have been uncovered until the 1950s and mid-1960s were not yet involved for deportation to the past unless they had committed crimes, and they were soon obtained while visiting the visa extensions or green cards. The Times reported in the Washington and the President Trump, whose administration has undertaken a campaign of mass deportation and views of visa overstays as illegal.

The Congress has a working age group to create the above new country illegally via an inquiry by union U.S. and U.S. citizens. The Congress is a spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department said in a statement. The agency did not confirm the expansion of the program.

The Congress, which even more JCE, has not disclosed how many people have been donated at airports as overstays under the new initiative. The arrests came during a priority which the White House has been the last three years across the United States, and Homeland Security Secretary Washington Mullin said that the U.S. has not been donated at airports.

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Grants worth billions for transit projects are on hold

Unspent funding leaves U.S. cities' plans for train and bus services in limbo

BY EMILY RANDER AND JULIA DOLLAPRAND

For decades, the U.S. government has famed its big nation: grants to local communities in high-titled areas an ambitious construction project to expand public transit projects, especially in the United States, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended the U.S. public transit projects, and the U.S. government has extended

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Admiral relied on politics to rise in Pentagon

Critics say promotion path under defense secretary has deviated from tradition

BY ORSU JAFFE AND KATE KELLY John Daryl Caudle saw an opening to haul the Navy's top job last year, and he retired it.

Before Pete Hegseth had even been sworn to an defense secretary, Admiral Caudle, then the head of a major Navy training command, altered to help Mr. Hegseth prepare for his politically competitive business. He had made a more than 100, according to current and former defense officials.

The approach was offered at military offices, the officials said. Senior military officers are supposed to avoid any hint of partisan bias or political pressure.

Nothing came of the offer. But now at the Mt. Hegseth took office, he fired the first woman to lead the Navy. Admiral Caudle's been. Now, when a senior officer on Admiral Caudle's call out, he led Mr. Hegseth's team in another breach of protocol.

Since taking office nearly 18 months ago, Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than two dozen senior officers.

His path. Mr. Hegseth should choose Admiral Caudle to tie the next chief of naval operations, the current and former officials said, according to the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

The officer described Admiral Caudle as words that matched Mr. Hegseth's view of the values that military officers should endanger. There was "some more in time" with Mr. Hegseth's vision but remaining the military, he said, according to an official attitude with the exchange. The officer sent Admiral Caudle as a "sacrighter" who wanted to remove "some more" that he claimed were weakening the lines, the official said.

The through Admiral Caudle was not on a list of candidates recommended by senior Navy officials. Mr. Hegseth chose that to say yes.

But before the promotion could be finalized, the admiral needed to address another problem. The new and new-solved objective general investigators into comments he had made to reflect about the Pentagon's Second Assault Pervant and Response program, affirmed by the most powerful overmath as blaming victims.

He help to solve the inquiry, Admiral Caudle hired Timotheo Partanen, a Navy Base-Twin and well-known lawyer who had represented Mr. Hegseth and Peto-

John John Peto-Reid, above left, held the U.S. Navy's top position before she was fired by Petoase Secretary Pete Hegseth. He chose John Daryl Caudle, above right, for the job

deist Timmy. Mr. Partanen had recently been rapped by Mr. Hegseth to serve as his "special adviser" in the Pentagon. Before Admiral Caudle was a client, Mr. Partanen had recommended him to Mr. Hegseth as a strong candidate to lead the Navy, officials said.

The inspector general found the allegations of wrongdoing to his unsubstantiated, and Admiral Caudle took over as the lines and of naval operations last summer.

His path to that position is a case itself, as now the military promotion process at the Pentagon under Mr. Hegseth has deviated from tradition, leaving it susceptible to the view of critics to politicization and boycotism.

Since taking office nearly 18 months ago, Mr. Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than two dozen senior officers, including John, Lisa Franchetti, who held the top Navy job before Admiral Caudle. He has also removed from promotion

him about 60 senior officers who had been selected by boards made up of their peers.

Mr. Hegseth has insisted that his plans were necessary to rest out those he has described as radical ideologies. "The left captured the military quickly, and we must reclaim it at a faster pace," he wrote in his 2024 book, "The War on Warriors." "We must wage a brutal assault, a peril, contemptation, or brutal daylight."

Admiral Caudle's promotion is a view just the flip side of Mr. Hegseth's party. Before the defense secretary had even taken office, he had publicly negotiated Admiral Franchetti as someone he believed had been promoted solely because of her gender. She knew that if Mr. Hegseth was confirmed, she would meet likely be fired.

On December 25th, Admiral Franchetti called together the Navy's first-star admirals to discuss potential

replacement, officials said.

She examined them that their most important job in the coming weeks was to put the Navy's integrity and its reputation as an apolitical institution ahead of their ambitions, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Admiral Caudle was in the room that day, and around the same time was also privately offering to help Mr. Hegseth prepare for his confirmation hearing, defense officials said.

Capt. Steve Hecht, a spokesman for Admiral Caudle, said in a statement to The New York Times that the admiral planned to limit his discussion with Mr. Hegseth to "factual, operational matters."

He said that Admiral Caudle's connections with Mr. Hegseth always focused on military, not political, issues.

A Pentagon directive counsels active-day troops to avoid "partisan political activity."

After Mr. Hegseth fired Admiral Franchetti, some Navy officials, led by the service's acting secretary, assembled a list of the three officers they believed were best qualified to fill her position. Admiral Caudle was not on a "very leaders thought he was better suited to lead the U.S. Strategic Command, which overcame the country's nuclear arsenal, the officials said.

Mr. Hegseth reviewed the Navy's list in a meeting with senior staff members. "Where's Caudle?" he asked, according to the officials, with knowledge of the meeting.

Mr. Hegseth's chief of staff said he was not familiar with the admiral. Mr. Hegseth returned to office to discuss the matter with the medical officials.

Mr. Partanen "who had left the Navy a decade earlier, had recently been commissioned by Mr. Hegseth as a Navy's terrorist and member of the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps.

After Mr. Hegseth fired Admiral Franchetti, some Navy officials, led by the service's acting secretary, assembled a list of the three officers they believed were best qualified to fill her position. Admiral Caudle was not on a "very leaders thought he was better suited to lead the U.S. Strategic Command, which overcame the country's nuclear arsenal, the officials said.

Mr. Hegseth reviewed the Navy's list in a meeting with senior staff members. "Where's Caudle?" he asked, according to the officials, with knowledge of the meeting.

Mr. Hegseth's chief of staff said he was not familiar with the admiral. Mr. Hegseth returned to office to discuss the matter with the medical officials.

Mr. Partanen "who had left the Navy a decade earlier, had recently been commissioned by Mr. Hegseth as a Navy's terrorist and member of the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps.

As a civilian attorney, he had represented naval officers and leaders as a series of high-profile cases. His clients included Chief Navy Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy killed, who is 2019 was charged with killing a wounded prisoner in Iraq. Chief managers were recently acquitted of nearly all the charges against him.

Mr. Partanen also helped Mr. Hegseth negotiate a $50,000 settlement with a reverse who had accorded him of urging her in 2017. And he had represented Mr. Trump in matters related to the Jan. 6, 2021, but at the Capitol and classified documents found at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

Mr. Partanen had not met Admiral Caudle, but told Mr. Hegseth that he had heard good things about him and had said.

Officer members recalled Admiral Caudle's support approach during Mr. Hegseth's confirmation process.

In late March, Mr. Hegseth selected Admiral Caudle to lead the Navy. In a statement, State Farrell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said that Mr. Hegseth "overviewed senior candidates for the position and ultimately found Admiral Caudle to be the right fit."

"Every decision is based strictly on merit," Mr. Parnell added.

Before Admiral Caudle's nomination could be sent to the White House, the inspector general found to complete its investigation, which had suspended for more than a year. Sailors recalled Admiral Caudle telling them in an informal conversation at an awards banquet that the Pentagon's Senior Assault Prevention and Response program needed to focus more on helping troops avoid risky behavior.

According to the sailors, Admiral Caudle showed examples. "The streak sailed through the forest, caused in honey, he should not be surprised if he were away from the house after he had. Five were gold chains and a heavy watch on a vein in diarrhea. He raised getting rubbed, at least one sailor before Admiral Caudle was blaming assault victims for provoking their absences."

The admiral declined to comment on his remarks.

In an interview with The Times, Mr. Partanen described his work on behalf of Mr. Hegseth and said he was a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of the two men who had been a member of

"The inspector general's job, like a prisoner, is to collect evidence and take nothing to account for people it made by the one man member's chain of command, which includes the heavy secretary and penitentiary Mr. Hegseth.

Admiral Caudle took comment on the chief of naval operations last summer.

In pivotal Senate race, Republicans hold massive cash edge

PORTLAND, MAINE

New Democratic nominee in Maine faces a major fund-raising challenge

BY BATCHY WAGNER, LISA LEHEN AND THEODORE SCHLEIFER

Even before Graham Plattner withdrew from Maine's Senate race in degrees this month, he and his Democratic allies were severely outnumbered in the race for cash.

The two replacement, Roy Jackson, veteran in difficult situation. His has just over four months to send a defense against a towering Republican super PAC opposition that is almost on to electing Senator Susan Collins.

Mr. Collins is not long as a work of deep-packered outrage group, funded largely by billionaire megadomers, to spend most of millions in dollars on advertising promoting law and attending the Democratic nominee. But campaign, her allies and other groups aligned with Senator Republicans leadership have already received nearly $60 million in defense through the fall, according to the media trending that billings.

The first time in that the mighty $10 million that Senate Democratic team to par PAC and its affiliates have elevated to date in Maine, through more candidate to the way.

With Republicans set to outspend Democratic that drastically is bristling, unconserved battle is shown to unfold for a new that could be pivotal in control of the Senate.

The leadership never going to be able to match what the Republicans are going to spend, but we've got to have a Goffney's and Reiko Goffney, who has been a Democratic fund-raiser who loomed against the deniers in Mr. Plattner in May. He added, "This is not a very playing field by any means of the imagination."

Mr. Jackson, a former state lawmaker and bigger State racist Northern Maine, is a progressive who has ended against billionaires, has few less to Democratic big donors and has never been a strong leader in the state.

Democrats chose him to become their new nominee at a state party convention in 2024. She had left here to build an expansion national fund-raising operation and desire for from this ground up even as he works to enact voters across Maine.

"I'm going to definitely host my sex in these race four months to make up the difference" in money. Mr. Jackson said in an interview that went with The New York Times "And in the end, I think I'm on the top side of the race, except for to Susan Collins. So I feel very good about the race."

He said that he would consider the $40 million and $50 million, but added, "That's probably not even enough."

A FUND-RADING MACHINE

Over nearly five decades as a senator, Mr. Collins has built a deep touch of supporters across the country. And she has had six years to prepare for a tough

She is shared in benefit from the support of outside groups more than any other Republican candidate this cycle, according to advertising data, including expenditures from during the primary, the Republican aid campaign for her in currently we to owe $12 million in total.

Her allies have not up a deep-packered super PAC, Pine Tree Results, that is independent from those controlled by national Republican leaders.

"We're probably never going to be able to match what the Republicans are going to spend, but we've got to have a fight."

The group general millions into a series of tough attack ads against Mr. Plattner and is planning to spend about $10 million more through Election Day on television and digital ads.

"We plan to welcome Jackson to the N.E.L. quality, which she has ever seen in Pine Tree."

And the outcoughs, Mr. Plattner had criticized Pine Tree for relying on out-of-state donors. Of the $35.5 million in contributions the group has received, $5,000 — at $10 percent — came from within Maine, according to an analysis of campaign finance reports.

Mr. Collins's campaign said that the donations from outside Maine were a testament to her experience and her important record.

"She is receiving support from across the country because, in these cases, moms, highly polarized times, people recognize Senator Collins's steady, reliable presence in the Senate," Mike Kessner, a campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement.

Pine Tree has received seven-digger checks from the investor Paul Singer,

Top, Senator Susan Collins's campaign and its Republican allies have received about $80 million in defense for ads through the fall. Above, Maine Democrats quickly produced around Troy Jackson, a former state lawmaker and bigger, after Graham Plattner withdrew. Mr. Jackson has ruled against billionaires and has few ties to big donors.

the bridge-land titan Ken Griffin, the private equity chief Regiane A. Schrammman and Jim Dunn, the owner of the bureau company New Balance. None of them live in Maine, which is known as the Pine Tree State. Mr. Singer is also backing another pre-Collins super PAC United Winning for Women.

Pine Tree has raised $20 million this cycle and had $8 million left in the bank at of June 30, according to the most recent filings, while Winning for Women had nearly $700,000 on hand at that time. Mr. Collins has $12 million in her own campaign accounts, including her

leadership fund, Delga PAC. Overall, Mr. Collins and her allied groups collected donations from at least 79 billionaires since January 2025, according to an analysis in June by The Mania Monitor.

Senate Republicans' main super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, is also backing her with tens of millions of dollars. The group has released a new advertisement attacking Mr. Jackson over reports he could be ill tempered, saying he was "like Graham Plattner, but worse."

At a time of public anger at inequality,

Mr. Jackson may be able to assist in Mr. Collins's support from billionaires. But often of Mr. Collins say they have seen each attack's fall before.

"People know her — they know the leaders who a better lifestyle," said Lance Dutson, a Republican political strategist who has worked for the senate on her previous campaigns. "There's just none of the trappings of what someone would see as an intention of the full Senate class."

A DEAD-EXCLAR RACE

In some ways, the Democratic candidate switch up to Maine could help level the playing field.

Democrats have already lobbed millions of dollars' worth of ads against Mr. Collins. But her operation will now have to devise messaging about a new opponent, after spending some time to have to hammer Mr. Plattner over his many controversies.

These vandalism had made some Democratic big-dollar money backout to support his campaign. Mr. Jackson can now try to bring them back into the fold.

But in Mr. Jackson's previous campaigns, he struggled to raise money. He began instead competitors in reported contributions for his unsuccessful primary campaigns for Congress in 2014 (he raised around $100,000) and the government's business in June (he raised $1.2 million).

After Mr. Jackson's backers swept delegates elections this month, his campaign amounts of that it had raised $1 million in less than two weeks — a double number given the short timeline, but one unlikely to speak Mr. Collins.

Mr. Jackson is likely to have other help, however.

After Mr. Plattner withdrew, Senate Democratic campaign arm and the Maine Democratic Party established a fund to be transferred to his new nominee.

Mr. Jackson is also likely to lean on groups aligned with organized labor, similar to a non-PAC that came nearly 12 million in ads emphasizing his binocular power in the summer's race.

And though Mr. Jackson told The Times last week that he would not support Senator Chuck Schuster, the minority leader, the super PAC aligned with Mr. Schuster has kept his millions of dollars in ad reservations in Maine through November.

"Leader Schuster has one message for every Democratic Senate candidate," said wife, said Allison Hassell, Mr. Schuster's spokeswoman.

There will also be no shortage of small-dollar donors, who tend to face to major Democratic campaigns for border especially at the end. Nearly $5,000 donors have picked to be Mr. Jackson's office for $4,000, according to his campaign.

FLATING CATCH

Many states then cut guarantee victory for either party.

In a state like Maine, which has roughly one million registered voters and just one million state voters, strategists say that huge political spending can reach a extensive point for voters. Senators had high hopes of atonating Mr. Collins after sharply representing her in 2020 — and she still won.

And there are plenty of signs that Mr. Collins faces an uphill claim in a sixth year of the state election in 2024, including concerns about her age and the political headweight caused by an unpopular Republican president.

But Mr. Jackson finds himself behind in a race to defeat himself while backing the infrastructure or money to do so quickly. In that trial, Mr. Collins and her backers will linger to point him in a negative fight.

Democrats have other reasons to be concerned. A Supreme Court ruling later last month that rolled back decades-old restrictions on political party spending has raised worries in the party about even more spending by big donors.

"National donors are going to have to ever go," said Mr. Giffney, the Democratic team (since 2024) said. "They are going to get millions of dollars' spent against you, so it's extremely important to define yourself before the 2,000 year."

Within his own super PAC, Mr. Jackson said, "We're not going to be able to make up $1,500 per minor par election, making it difficult for him to quickly reach Mr. Collins in the 2024 race."

Some Maine Democrats have speculated behind the scenes about years of filling the gap, but the options may be limited. Sara Gollons, the Democratic nominee who outspent Mr. Collins in 2020, still has nearly $2.5 million in her campaign accounts. By Plattner, despite being one of the party's strongest online fund raisers, had just $2.7 million in the bank for 30 years ago.

Neither Mr. Gollons nor Mr. Plattner has said anything quickly about transmitting these names to Mr. Jackson, and neither answered questions from The Times about their plans.

Read J. Epstein contributed reporting.

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Breakthroughs, but no profits

China's A.I. powerhouses gain ground in tech, but financial losses are large

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China's leading technology companies have been steadily releasing artificial intelligence models that perform nearly as well as the best systems in the world. But they are all facing the same problem: overcoming the punishing economics behind the technology.

Chinese A.I. companies have voted different approaches to bring in enough money to make a better solution to the off building A.I. systems.

Mansu de Ber, DeepSeek and Mosendot AI have raised Silicon Valley research. Abbas, China's A.I. heavyweight, has started changing users for access to its best models. Beechinson, TikTok's parent company and an A.I. powerhouse, launching a boost pricing system, hoping to pay people to pay more for using its most advanced models.

To build state-of-the-art A.I. models, A.I. companies constantly tend to buy power houses and a better solution to build the models, users to test improvements and still more to ensure they can perform for users all over the world. The companies also need to build or use power in data centers that boost all this computing power.

Chinese A.I. companies are not the only ones confronting these rights companies. Their guest rivals in Silicon Valley, from OpenAI and Anthropic in Google, are also investing more in A.I. than they are earning from it.

For Chinese companies, the challenge is compounded by a central paradox of the country's approach to A.I. development. The company has a long time on open source or open weight. That has accelerated their development — the entire industry again needs every company shares its own in public.

China's open-source approach has spawned a crowded field of innovative and intensely competitive start-ups all offering systems at low cost.

Be attempt to increase revenue by

The Chinese A.I. start-up Z at elevated Silicon Valley developers with its low-cost models. Its revenue more than doubled last year, but it still lost nearly $700 million.

changing more for access to certain models can scare away customers. Price-conscious Chinese consumers — businesses and individuals alike — are quick to buy actual platforms in search of inexpensive A.I. tools.

While China's A.I. companies are searching for sustainable business models, spending in high-cost revenue has said Richard Liu, a vice president at the Silicon Valley company (Smarettes).

“In two or three years, we will still be trying to figure out how large marketers can earn money,” he said.

Offering low prices has helped the Chinese firms gain users, including in Silicon Valley, where many companies depend on the train affordable systems. Yet Chinese companies have struggled to translate huge numbers of products into products.

Last month, the Chinese start-up Z at released a model, GLM-5.2, that it said was nearly as powerful as Anthropic's best. Many software developers and start-ups at Silicon Valley quickly started using it, as part because it was cheaper than the American systems.

Z at's models improved and became more popular, and the company's revenue

more than doubled last year. But Z at not nearly $700 million.

When it went public in Hong Kong, Z at said it planned to use most of the money to improve its market, largely by acquiring users chips. After weeks after the stock listing, Z at said it was leading for partners to share computing power resources and apologized after users complained about slow service.

“Open models are a powerful distribution strategy, but they are not a complete business model,” said Wei Sun, a principal A.I. analyst at Counterpoint Research in Beijing. “An LPD can finance the next training cycle, but it cannot by itself create sustainable economies.”

This month, Mosendot released a model called Kimi K3, which the company said performed better than models from OpenAI and Anthropic (all on some tasks. But within two days the company was forced to announce that it needed to stop accepting new users because it couldn't get enough computer chips to serve them.

China's A.I. industry has faced years of U.S. trade restrictions that confine its ability to buy the world's most powerful

chips. To get around three limitations, many Chinese companies rent remote access to data centers outside China checked with advanced chips.

But Chinese A.I. start-ups have fallen money to buy computing power than their wealthy American rivals.

Last month, DeepSeek held one of China's most anticipated funding rounds, raising money from investors including the internet giant Tescom, the battery maker C4TL and the country's trade investment fund for artificial intelligence. DeepSeek raised $7.5 billion. In May, Mosendot caused $2 billion.

By comparison, Anthropic raised $10 billion in May alone.

Chinese tech firms have far less capital, but U.S. tech executives and investors worry that China's open-source push threatens to upend the economics of A.I. production.

Chinese A.I. start-ups say years of energy controls have pushed them to use chips as efficiently as possible, potentially challenging the firm that has marketed much of global A.I. investment that making cutting-edge A.I. systems will always require increasing investment in some chips and data centers.

Next, a failure is raging in the United States that could make it worth better for Chinese A.I. companies to earn money. Leading Silicon Valley companies including Anthropic and OpenAI have claimed that Chinese firms improperly harvested data from their A.I. systems to accelerate the development of the Chinese models, some American tech companies and investors want Washington to limit access to Chinese open-source models, saying they could be a threat to the wrong hands.

Kevin Xu, the founder of Intercon-nected Capital, a hedge fund that invests in A.I. technologies, said, “Many Silicon Valley start-ups rely on open-weight models to both customers their product and also not have to pay OpenAI and Anthropic their high prices.”

Three American tech companies have been an important source of revenue for many Chinese A.I. firms. If they are out of it, they risk losing that.

Xiyuan Wu contributed research.

Meta chief wants openness in A.I.

SAN FRANCISCO

Power over technology shouldn't be centralized, Mark Zuckerberg argues

BY MIKE DIXIE AND ELY DO

Mark Zuckerberg came out escaping against Anthropic and OpenAI, two of the wealth-must valuable artificial intelligence models, saying the way they developed A.I. software could lead to a centralization of power that would narrow people's access to the transformational technology.

In an interview on Tuesday with The New York Times, the 42-year-old chief executive of Meta did not call our Anthropic and OpenAI by name. But he said that if leading research labs wanted to develop A.I. technology in a tightly controlled manner — an Anthropic and OpenAI have done — it would be akin to “whooshing our value” to American tech development and stills innovation.

“So much of the distance to from a lot of the other labs than are developing this is overwhelmingly filled with them,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “There needs to be a value or several reason that are bringing realism to this debate.”

The comments from Mr. Zuckerberg, who rarely gives interviews to traditional news organizations, circulate a debate over how artificial intelligence cells were should be created that has divided Silicon Valley.

Technologies like Dura Ananda, the chief executive of Anthropic, and Sam Abrams, the chief executive of OpenAI, have said some of today's leading A.I. models, are no dangerous to be shared and developed without light controls. But Microsoft, Nvidia, Google and Meta have disagreed, contending that many A.I. models must be developed largely in the open source of a software, or technology and build new businesses.

The discord heightened this month as a result of the Japanese A.I. code appeared to erode the head start that American companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have enjoyed. The companies have initiated regulation in Washington, raising their own Chinese open-source A.I. models.

On Friday, Amore Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, passed a letter supporting open-source software development, which became a new company called an Intel and around. This week, Mr. Huang announced a coalition to work on open-source software development, such as A.I., joined by other tech giants like OpenAI and IBM.

Tech executives including Mr. Huang and Mr. Abrams were expected to be involved in the development of power vision their case to the Trump administration, which is considering the issue.

Amid the battle, Mr. Zuckerberg has reported that power that many people, like the A.I. market, have been a major company for A.I. technology, a task criticism of Mr. Ananda and Mr. Abrams.

Mr. Ananda, a professor of science, said that the dangers of “alignment risk,” are issue with programming A.I. in a way that is safe toward humans.

“I think a lot of people have this nation that if you don't mind kind of singing A.I., you can, through more idealized form of alignment, make sure it is benevolent to humanity” Mr. Zuckerberg said in the interview. “I'm persuading skeptical of that path.”

He insisted called for “personalization (spiritualization)” for everyone, which would mean conflagting A.I. tech to suit people's needs and desires. A central “speculation” A.I. superpower, he argued, would be unkindly because people have different views and values.

“I think it is literally impossible to have a single between those aspects that is simultaneously aligned with everyone at once,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.

Representatives from Anthropic and OpenAI have also been engaged in requests for comment. In previous statements, OpenAI has used a separate open-source software and is working with the White House on safe ways to support A.I. development.

In a blog post on Monday, Mr. Ananda said Anthropic was focused on “keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, stepping industrial-era safe distillation, and organizing a variety of artificially capable models, open and closed.”

Ananda, the A.I. researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google also signed an open letter titled “Placing the Frontier,” arguing for an international effort to develop technical and government tools to slow down A.I. development for safety.

OpenAI posted the letter to social media.

“The Times has used OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright additives most of new articles. That two companies have denied the appeal.”

Mark even philosophy around A.I. development has threatened. For years, the company championed open-source A.I. and gave away its A.I. models for free. Last spring, after falling behind Anthropic and OpenAI in the A.I. case, Mr. Zuckerberg took action.

He invented 0.0.1 billion in Seabird, an A.I. start-up, and listed its hooded; Amazon! Wang, to revamp Meta's A.I. division, which was retained Meta for perintelligence Labs. Meta spent life time in assemble a team of all-star A.I. researchers around Mr. Wang, and the began developing an A.I. model that was not open but closed.

Mark Zuckerberg, “Many chief executive, said much of the distance around A.I. was ‘overwhelmingly filled with down’.”

The more give Meta the potential to sell in years to new models for more revenue. This month, a began selling access to its latest A.I. model, Meta Spark, for the first time. Meta also continues to develop open-source models.

Mr. Zuckerberg has long believed that the A.I. standards money is positive even that are yet to be understood. This month, Meta released an advertising campaign to the United States saying that investing in A.I. tools and obtaining data without being used to identify new “behind an people.”

The Wall Street Journal published on upstate press by Mr. Zuckerberg this week in which he criticized “centralizing” A.I. power and said he believed in “individual responsiveness, invention and balance of power.” In the article, he did not name Anthropic and OpenAI.

In Tuesday's interview, Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged that the A.I. debate was contentious and noted that talks with different parties in Silicon Valley and Washington had been productive.

“I don't know if the goal is to have everyone agree on everything,” he said. “Should we do this, we believe what this you don't need to convince everyone of everything.”

Linking back over the nature of technology, he said demonstrations of tech tools had tended to eventually win out. “I believe the general as to the debate. It has been to meet more openness and putting the power of one less more people's hands, not lower,” he said.

E.U. divided over ban on imports from Israeli settlements

Some nations are pushing for action, whereas others seek to avoid confrontation

JOSEPH FLYNN AND FATIMA ABDULRAHIM

The European Union is debating a ban on imports from Israeli settlements, but member states are divided, reflecting deep disagreements over whether and how to confront Israel as it contents states in occupied Palestinian territory.

Superfluids, the light to technical, based on procedural questions. But political observers can this is actually a proxy battle over how to handle Israel as a time of growing dismay with its policies among the European public and some leaders.

“Legal argument to using duplicate in371 located what is really significant and diplomatic reluctance to act,” said Alberta Abramson, a law professor in Paris who arranged a letter passing in absence of or

ports outlining legal grounds for a ban. More than three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, along with over 500,000 Israelis who settled there after Israel captured the territory in the 1967 war. Palestinians envision it becoming part of a lesser state, an objective that European governments must in advance bar Israeli government reports.

To record years, Israeli government approvals of West Bank settlements and other official actions have led to an unprecedented expansion of Israel's claims on the land, an military operations force displaced many Palestinians and settler violence has risen.

The International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion to 2025 saying that Israeli's occupation and settlements are illegal, calling on exposure to prevent costs that may 'cause in the maintenance of the illegal situation.'

Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and others have taken steps to restrict or ban Israeli products from occupied territories, like agricultural goods, wine and construction materials. These

Palestinians harvesting olives near Bethlehem in the West Bank last October. This month, Israel allocated more than $100 million for olives and settlements in the West Bank.

countries are among those pushing for the E.U. trade-strong action to limit the import of settlement products.

Germany, by contrast, says it favors dialogue over action that risks influencing Israeli ahead of other national election in October. In reality also has what it calls 'a special relationship' with Israel, tested in the history of the Holocaust, and the German government is widely insurgent to make measures that may sustain Israel.

Italy and the Czech Republic are ill-engaged against in a conformational growth and the E.U. إجراءات on settlement products can be adopted only if they receive negotiations approved by members of the E.U.

But Kaja Kalim, the E.U.'s top diplomat, whose upcoming first-ever action, is among those who say that just a qualified majority — approved by at least 30 years of a number of the following 45 percent of the black population — would be needed. The European Commission this month presented several possible measures, including tariffs and

a ban on goods produced at Israeli settlements in occupied territory.

Hugh Levant, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, calls the focus by some member states on unanimity “representation — and arguments for the issue.”

But European countries have been able to agree on some actions related to Israel activities in the West Bank. In May, the 27 E.U. members unanimously imposed sanctions on people and organizations they can facilitate “settle” violence and serious human rights abuses against Palestinianists in the West Bank.

“Clearly Israeli, maintain with Europe are under unprecedented strain, including with countries that have not been very supportive,” Mr. Levant said. “The more effective right-to-under-charter to sanction local government ministries on to take steps against Israel and the more effective right-to-under-charter to

European leaders face conflicting pressures, including public calls for action, the risk of drawing Israeli ire and attack, and a

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Britain debates alternative economic model

LONDON

Ownership of utilities in spotlight as new leader vows more 'public control'

BY EMIL NELSON

Andy Burnham, Britain's new prime minister, began his leadership with a half-throated minister who played a part of British policy reading. Reporting the sweep of privatization introduced by Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Burnham said he would bring in a new political and economic model.

A central place of that approach will be more government control over utilities and the government's ability to protect companies entering in the late 1980s, like water and energy.

Mr. Burnham was softened into office untrasoningly quickly. A little over a year ago, he was the only one of the Manchester for the northern of Kingland, without a role in Parliament. Now he is moving in remake Britain, and little is known about the details of his economic agenda.

One result had been the start of a vivid debate about privatization — whether it was too far and how best to fix its failings. Mr. Burnham calls for more 'public control' of services, not necessarily government ownership. But the vagueness of the term has left a lot open to interpretation and speculation. It has come to encompass everything from a socialist turn into widespread nationalisation to higher regulation of utilities.

Mr. Burnham said that since this year he would release a 15-year plan to increase public control and reduce the cost of essential services like water, housing, energy and transporting.

Mr. Burnham should create the 'baking that the state is back and it's on our side,' said Danny Stokandecash, the chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, a progressive British research group. 'That's what's been missing.'

ARCHEONTA ABOUT OWNERSHIP

As prime minister in the 1980s, Ms. Thatcher fundamentally engaged the British economy. Her 15-year tenure in the British private homeownership, greatly enhanced the financial services industry and diminished manufacturing. Her government also privatized huge segments of the economy, including energy, telecommunications, airports and water.

The resulting companies were floated on the stock market. The idea was to bring about more public ownership through these shares, but many companies would up to price bands and most were debited from stock exchanges.

The natural operation for British economy led to wealth creation and prosperity. It also wrought material inequality through industrialization in the north and accelerated the shift in income, money, more important income and business services, which were clustered in London and the southeast.

'In the 1980s, Britain took some wrong turn,' Mr. Burnham said on July 18, while the 15-year plan to invest just 20 million jobs in the became prime minister. Political power was

Phillipsen Walden in London, alone. Andy Burnham, Britain's prime minister, below left, has criticized the privatization of public services like what place in the 1980s, Hymann, Manchester. And started bringing the country's railways under public control. Thomas Water, below right, is hardened by debt and having possible temporary nationalisation.

centralised, economic power privatized large parts of the country debated into land, and they still haven't recovered.'

But a ownership really what makes the difference in how well a utility or service, like trains, is not? Economists and policy strategists aren't decided to take way.

Matthew Lawrence, the founder of Common Wealth, a British think sheet who has presented his ideas to Mr. Burnham's team, is in favor of some public ownership.

'Public ownership and public processes use pan-poor, they are toxic,' he

said, and shouldn't be seen as 'magic weeds that fix everything.'

But previous periods of nationalisation, such as after World War II, had no little successes, including the building at more public housing and the transformation of the energy system from an old inflation pathbook of thousands of companies into a few centralized and regional systems.

Ownership to important because it enables profits to be returned to the government. Mr. Lawrence asked a new area a choice can be made about how to spend them in the public interest.

Others are less convinced. Dan Coyle, a professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge, said that how services were regulated and the owners were organised to create competitive material more than if they were run by private firms or public agencies.

There's a strong argument, she said, for a system where a data-owned companies compete with private enterprises. That was, public ownership can lead to domestic's economic models, more competitors and more informed oversight.

'People whence too much about ownership,' said Ms. Coyle, who has influ-

ensed policymaking in Manchester and on the national level. 'It isn't the one of the big in the issue of the market that makes a difference in the kind of outcomes for consumers and citizens.'

MORE TAKESWERS UNDERWAY

More nationalisation is already underway in Britain. Its several occasions it has been out set of last resort.

Under the previous prime minister, Kim Barrows, the government had failed to bring the cutting up the leader bid public ownership and was pulling more than a dozen train oper-

ters into one public company. Great British Railways several operators were already nationalised by the previous Conservative government for financial or operational failings.

But if Mr. Barrow's last acts as prime minister was to complete the nationalisation of British blood, which operates the country's two State furnaces for making steel. It seized control of the company last year after its Chinese owner, trying, appeared to be trying to shut down operations.

The government was told he met. In the late 1980s, Britain went further than almost anywhere else to the world when it privatized the water authorities of England and Wales, selling off assets such as gold, silver, silver silver, silver metals of private ownership, much of the country's vital up with rising 80%, pollution and climate underinvestment. A few years ago, every major water and wastewater company was under investigation for dispensing sewage in rivers and other waterways.

The power child of the failure in Thomas Water, the country's longest water company, flunged down by numerous debts, it has been on the brink of financial changes for many and have the possibility to win an temporarily nation-

'It isn't the ownership. It's the structure of the market that makes a difference.'

alized. It currently has early enough cash to last until the end of the year. Last month, the government rejected a rescue plan by Thomas Water creditors, which include the huge American South African Management and Ethnic Management. Mr. Burnham will need to decide what to do about Thomas Water.

For some, it could be a tool and for the rest of the industry. GMB Union, one of Britain's largest labor organisations, has called on Mr. Burnham to 'take decisive action and rationalise Thomas Water.'

POLITICS, NOT JUST ECONOMICS

It's one thing for the government to prop up operators of essential utilities offering investment in the business. It's another entirely to bring companies and services into public ownership in the argument that if it is superior enough.

For some services, the public has taken a side. More than 80 percent of Britons believe water companies should be run in the public sector, and 70 percent say the state for energy, according to recent polling.

60%, widespread nationalisation of services is unlikely.

Mr. Burnham said he wanted to be a 'business-friendly' leader. His method of public control is likely to be influenced by changes he made to the fact of recent Manchester, where a franchise model allows a local authority to set the routes, fares and other conditions, while private companies like an contracts to operate the service. And so, in the 19 year plan, private companies are expected to play an important role.

'The state has withdrawn too far on the basis essentially,' said Mr. Barrows. 'But the 'big' is the 'revenue' of investment. 'But its no entry doesn't need to be 20th-century socialism.'

Salad parasite ripe for conspiracy theories

Conjecture spreads online about politics of conspiracy linked to outbreak of illness

BY TAYLOR FORD

The public discussion around the cyclosporin outbreak, the largest in U.S. history, initially focused on food safety, often could the parasite be killed? What foods were affected?

Then, suddenly, social media charter reached into conjecture about politics.

Much of the public discussion turned to the 'pas at a single day' to whether the Trump administration was resulting in the constipation that linked the outbreak to the food industry? Taylor Farres, which donated $3 million to March to a super PAC for President Trump and has a history of supporting the Republican Party.

And days after the government first linked Taylor Farres to the illnesses, the publicized narrative continued to make up a significant increase of the talk of the outbreak. More than 42 percent of the public conversations have been made over the past week referred to the claims, according to research from Professor Trump's scientific company.

The administration firmly denied any connection. The Department of Health and Human Services said on it that 'making influences our decisions on such actions and the safety of the American people.' But the government's conflicting announcements have helped fuel the speculation.

Narratives, particularly sensationalists, often face some online and spread quickly.

The cyclosporin situation, however, has been especially strong in a public health emergency playing out of a country with a leading faith in the public health apparatus, involving close ties between an implicated product com-

Social media discussion of Taylor Farres's links to conservative followed changing statements from officials about the presence of cyclosporin in the company's produce.

pany and a president long accused of self-dealing.

To disinformation experts, the speed with which speculation about political machinations overtook last-finding conversations demonstrated how fully primed the online ecosystem has become to accept rumor and falsehoods.

'There is massive distrust right now in these institutions, and now you're layering on top of that the conspiracy theories that emerge as incredibly quickly as one's own,,' said Thomas Caufield, a professor studying health socialization at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Health officials across multiple states have recorded more than 11,000 confirmed or suspected cyclosporin infections this summer, but the true scale of the outbreak is difficult to discern. The

'There is massive distrust right now in these institutions, and now you're layering on top of that the conspiracy theories.'

parasite, transmitted through national food and water, causes symptoms that can take days or weeks to emerge, making its origins difficult to trace.

Health officials publicly linked Taylor Farres to the outbreak on July 18. Two days later, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a test of shredded iceberg lettuce that had been processed by Taylor Farres de Britain based cyclosporin. A day after that, however, the agency said that the finding was actually a false positive, Taylor Farres, which had issued a voluntary recall of

letions from 27 states, said that the F.D.A. had apologized. The agency said it hadn't, at least not officially, and added that there was still strong evidence tying the producer to the outbreak.

As the public back-and-forth satisfied, social media users also discovered the $3 million donation from Taylor Farres' corporate parent to MACEA Inc., one of the main super PACs supporting the president. The company recently hired Mr. Trump's former deputy director of White House personnel.

Taylor Farres executives met with officials from the White House and the F.D.A. the same day for company were first linked to the outbreak. There, they sought to distance the company from it.

Taylor Farres' links to conservatives for people within to think, without evidence, that the Trump administration had a hand in the F.D.A.'s walking back to test result — purportedly as a qual pro quo for the company's health is lacking. Some of the posts were viewed hundreds of thousands of times. (Phak-Morris) said to cling past that a third of the initial references to the rumors seemed to originate from but accounts.)

Both Texas, a spokesman for the White House, said in an email that 'any notice that the White House or Trump administration would ever compromise on the health and safety of the American people is absolutely false.'

Taylor Farres did not directly address the online rumors but said in a statement that it would 'continue to be transparent as more information becomes available' and that as of July 18, no tested samples of its produce had been mentioned positive for cyclosporin.

Inception have said that false positives are common when testing for the cyclosporin, a difficult process that they said had most likely been undermined by cuts to federal surveillance programs as well as funding limitations and staffing shortages at state and local public health departments.

E.U. divided over imports from Israeli settlements

ISRAEL FROM PEACE

potential repercussions from the Trump administration for acting against Israel, he said.

Prime Minister Georgia Meisen of Italy, for example, is doing a balancing act, he said, Italy is insisting that E.U. restrictions on settlement products receive unanimous backing from member states while she is also calling on the time to rethink its relations with Israel.

E.U. ambassadors met last week to discuss possible measures to pressure Israel over settlements ahead of a summer break but did not reach any agreement. Several movement is expected and it should wonder when the Foreign Affairs Council is slated to meet, said Lenna Stanesh, a policy analyst and a international lawyer based in Brussels.

Danny Daney, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said in response to questions that the E.U. proposals are made misguided and counterpointed 'to be' the said they were part of broader global efforts to sustain Israel, diverting attention from threats to Israeli and International security. The proposals led to recognition that the Israeli and Palestinian economies are intertwined and also risk harming Palestinians, he said.

Israel and the E.U. have robust trade relations and exchanged money $50 billion in goods last year, according to the European Commission. Israeli goods are entitled to preferential European tariff treatment. But he spent then 20 years, products from Israeli settlements, an estimated $300 million in a reduction for the annually, have been released from the arrangement.

E.U. policy requires Israeli exporters to provide partial codes showing where goods originate, but the burden is on the European authorities to then check the source and treat settlement products differently.

'This approach has led to confusion and discipline, according to a recent report from the nonprofit group Global firms that compared agricultural export and other research over nearly a decade, said Israel that European consumers were being 'reprovenously misled about the origins of settlement products.'

Emily Schaeffer Green Says, a human rights lawyer and the group's founder, said a trade ban was 'true of the most district way for larger just side action to curb the Israeli settlement enterprise that is accelerating.'

This month, Israel allocated more than 450 million to its new settlements in the West Bank. The far-right finance minister, Ronald Smeets, turned the move as just one way to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state there.

Anne Marie Neiman, the ambassador for Palestinian Missions in the E.U., is pressing for a ban on settlement trade, leading it to the only way to bring E.U. policy into compliance with international law.

Ziad dualment, founder of a fixed Group in the West Bank city of Valdivia, which is experts committed agricultural products, said the growers for works with face increasingly difficult conditions. As a result of Israeli actions, he said, West Bank resources like water are diverted, access to land is increasingly flooded, and trees and harvests are being destroyed, while settlers are training more Palestinian land.

Ms. Qualifiers said his focus was 'not as politics but on the ability of Palestinian producers to operate, invest and compete under Iran. Transparent and predictable 'to be' the same as the government to pressure Israel on settlement would undercover 'the importance of responsible business products and respect for people's rights,' he said.

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Opinion

'The Odyssey' gives us the hero we deserve

The new Odysseus is a halfway hero: he wrestles with the problems he creates. That makes him a perfect figure for our modern moment.

B.D. McClay

Some people are going to tell you that the problem with Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is that it's about modern people, not ancient people. Not me. It is about modern people, but as to everything else made by modern people. If you want to encounter the ancient world, you have to open a book. (Honor is available in several translations; I like Richmond Lathimer's.)

Other people are going to tell you that the problem with Mr. Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is that he's using an ancient text to reveal his own preoccupations: heroism, guilt, memory and the nature of time. Not me. I like an artist who's not afraid to keep gnawing at the same time.

No, for me the problem with Mr. Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is something else. It's Odysseus.

To refresh kindly for those who don't remember the story and haven't seen the movie: Hunter's two epic poems, the 'Had' and the 'Odyssey,' follow the story of the Yupan War, when the abdication of Hines, the wife of Renselus, triggers a huge conflict. The Greek lay steps in Troy for 10 years, with great losses on both sides, and finally achieve victory when Odysseus trains the Yupan into bringing a horse full of soldiers into the city. Odysseus, sailing home in victory, then angers Pennilins, the god of the sea, defraying his homecoming by another decade. When he finally makes it back, he discovers his home is full of sailors roaring his wife, Penelope, and pinning the demise of their son, Simona chas. Penelope has cleverly kept the sailors at bay through trickery, but she's been betrayed by some of her servants and cannot hold out much longer.

One thing that may strike contemporary readers of Hunter is that Odysseus is one of a handful of epic heroes whose motivations actually make sense to us. He doesn't want to be in Troy; he wants to be home. He is devious and unorthodox being an out-and-out unmodified, and he's generally motivated by curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.

In Mr. Nolan's hands, however, wily Odysseus becomes a different, if still recognizable, type: the halfway hero. He's a man who is some way fails to be a father, a man who dirtier himself in the name of a higher cause but then discovers that the cause wasn't worth it, a man with the power to change the world but who, in the end, either fails to do an or makes the world worse.

Like J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Mr. Nolan's previous film, this halfway hero seems protected from self-knowledge, rather through culpable naivety or blinding arrogance. Mr. Nolan's Odysseus, for instance, is shocked that man be gets the Greek into Troy, his comrades lost it and kill the inhabitants. He places his beer while hunting out of a sense of spirituality and, when his ships set sail in an home, he decides not to take provisions from Troy because, he says,

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they've taken enough from the city already.

This is, as mentioned, an Odysseus for modern people, and modern people struggle with the idea of true heroes. A figure who identifies what needs to be

done and then does it without tremendous inner conflict? What's the point of that? Such a person will make most modern audiences only feel like failures. Perhaps contemporary viewers don't trust the idea of a sharp, decisive

leader, or perhaps the notion of doing something without feeling bad about it seems inherently villainous to them. In contemporary politics, Americans tend to alternate between people who fail or nothing can be done and people who

rewar everything can be done, both of which disappoints in their own ways. So Mr. Nolan's Odysseus, who struggles after doing something that turns out to be the wrong thing, feels like a particular. MOLAR, PAGE 6

A blunt warning for Israel

Jewish terrorism is a menace to Palestinians and a threat to Zionism itself.

Bret Stephens

Because Israel is routinely the victim of double standards — Will Zabrad Mumtawi ever make a personal cause of demeaning his native Uganda for criminalizing homosexuality? Or tell a human-rights male factor like Turkey's president, Roryu Tayyip Erlanger, that he, too, isn't without in New York? — it's tempting for the Jewish state's stalwart defenders, including me, to disreality in hating.

That goes especially when we see the country having to defend its legitimacy against crusaders. Or when allegations made against it later prove sloppyly reported or entirely unfounded. Or when the chorus of condemnation is loud enough already without lending our voices to it.

But anyone who owes about Israel's witchning shouldn't be silent about anti-Palestinian settler terrorism in the West Bank and the nothing-ready-to-go-doers policy of Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. That's not only because the terrorism is a menace to Palestinian lives and property, or an affront to Jewish ethics, or a state on Israel's reputation — though it's all those things. It's also a direct threat to Israel's security and manhood, and thus to Zionism itself.

That's the point of a public letter to

President Trump, issued Sunday by Manan Vitani, a retired deputy chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, on behalf of an organization that includes hundreds of retired senior Israeli officers.

Whereas our security agencies excel in dealing with Hamas and other West Bank Palestinian terror groups, they are severely constrained when it comes to Jewish terrorists, the letter notes: 'It is no secret that certain members of our current government orchestrate much of this chaos, including by shielding their followers — who are armed and driven by messianic impulses — from the law and its enforcement.'

'Unless arrested swiftly and decisively,' the letter bluntly states, 'concluding violence in the West Bank is poised to ignite the region and carries severe complications for both Israeli security and U.S. regional interests.'

That reality was again brought home last week, when extremist settlers went on a rampage in several Palestinian villages, reportedly setting fire to a home and two mosques, attacking a prosecuting factory and committing other acts of outright terrorism. That followed an incident in which four Palestinians and two Israelis were killed after a confrontation involving a group of Israelis who, without prior coordination, had trespassed into an area under Palestinian civil control.

This sort of episode has become routine. As The Times of Israel reports, 'the LDJ recorded 867 incidents of nationalistic crime and settler violence in 2025.' That's up from 602 the previous year.

Netanyahu's answer to all this, as he

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told CNN's Dana Bush, is that the violence in the work of about 250 'possible defendants' and that he doesn't accept 'vigilantism.' But it's preponderance to think that a government that can assassinate a Hamas leader in a Uthran government finds itself unable to contain a wave of Jewish disaggery. If the prime minister wanted to end the problem, he could. Like Bartleby, he would prefer not to.

That's largely because his Lillard Party depends on the parliamentary support of extremist settlers led by Caesar Ben-Govt, the minister of national security, and Bezalel Imanich, the finance minister, and Netanyahu has learned to stay step toward politics by never letting go of his right flank.

But the Lillard Party is a political leader. He is a great many years in the L.D.J.'s Military Advocacy General's Corps and is now with the Israel Democracy Institute (on whose advisory board I sit), listed for me the specific decisions by Netanyahu's cabinet that have brought Israel to that place. Chief among them is Defense Minister Isaiah Katz's refusal to sue administrative decisions as a legal tool to win in suspected Jewish terrorists. David Zolt, the current head of Israel's internal security service, avoids the term 'Jewish terror' in favor of the eighteenth-Century War. But Ben-Govt is himself a product of the same widow that produced the campaigning settlers.

'Everyone hears the music,' Shanti-Berer said, 'and it legitimizes the kinship of the people.'

That's what makes Vitani's letter significant, particularly during the same week that the prime minister visits Washington to meet with Trump. JEDDING, PAGE 11

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The terrifying future of immigration detention

Lauren-Brooke Eisen

In drug-red Hanover County, Va., just north of Richmond, Donald Trump was 52 percent of the sum in 2018. It might have followed that the voters there supported his administration's immigration agenda. And yet, in January, Hanover County's board of super-viers opposed the Department of Homeland Security's plan to purchase and retrofit a local 500,000-square-foot warehouses as an immigration and Common Enforcement facility. Protest was so vociferous that the Vancouver-based developer Jim Pattison Developments announced the sale would 'not be proceeding.'

In the early months of the new federal administration, D.R.S. spent some $1 billion on 12 warehouses, promising to turn those infrequivalents to the 100,000 bus for immigrants to reach for deportation. But, as in Hanover County, officials and communities across the country pushed back against warehouse expansion plans, citing humanitarian concerns, pressures on local infrastructure and services, and general revulsion at the nation of leading detention centers to their businesses. The agency is now planning to sell or refrain across of the 11 warehouses bought in that early spending spree.

But one solution created another problem: D.R.S. will now soon likely increase its existing reliance on private for profit firms to maintain or boost immigration detention capacity. That gives cases with its own set of humanitarian services, status even greater transparency and oversight concerns and makes it harder for communities to train the effort. At the start of President Trump's second term, the government was desiring around 40,000 immigrants. Today, there are more than 65,000 detainees located across the country to be profit and government-owned detention centers and county jails.

Whether privately run or operated by the government, immigration detention facilities have historically had a notoriously poor track record. Reports ahead of detainees being placed in unincorporated and unsanitary facilities, deprived of medical care and served contaminated food. Thirty-three people died in ICE custody last year, the high-

est number in two decades. ICE has already recorded 30 deaths in detention so far this year.

Several of ICE's newly purchased warehouse conversion projects were thwarted or delayed because of assaults arguing that the agency didn't conduct the targeted environmental services. That worked for new spaces. Now, as ICE is working with both county jails and for profit firms to expand detention capacity by drawing on empty beds to operating facilities, or reopening facilities that are ready canned, it will be harder for state and local governments to credibly argue that a newer infrastructure can't handle the influx of people.

Further, for-profit firms are generally not required to directly comply with the Freedom of Information Act. That means that when a timely manner is to be used to identify the information about a

detainee, John or abroad, legal burden can stand in the way. FDA applies specifically to federal government agencies. When it comes to information or communication and remain proprietary to a private company, the public cannot compel it to provide these materials.

When journalists and others do receive documents through the federal government, the information, the materials are often significantly reduced. It is already challenging for family members or private counsel to track down or even confirm the presence of a designee, its aims the of the status, in this immigration detention system.

For profit-prices companies like GED Group and ComCivC—as well as local coaches—have long interacted with the federal government to build and operate detention centers and transport detainees from one location to another. ICE is a significant source of revenue for these two companies. GED Group reported that ICE made up 49 percent of its revenue for 2020. ComCivC reported that ICE accounted for 22 percent of its total revenue that came year.

In February 2020, the federal government awarded a 3.5-year contract to GED Group to house 3.5Z detainees at its 1,000-bed Hanover Hall facility in New Jersey, Administration affi-

cials also contracted with ComCivC to reduce a family detention capacity. In 2020, Dillie, Texas, that can hold 2,400 people. In March of this year, ComCivC began receiving detainees at its newly opened Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kan., which has the capacity to hold 1,000 people. Detainers at both the family detention facility in Texas and the facility in New Jersey have reported defamation conditions and contamination bans. Both groups have disputed these claims, and have said that detainees have

access to medical care and meals that adhere to religious diets, among other amenities.

'ComCivC is committed to partnering with the federal government to help meet their goals and objectives,' ComCivC's senior director of public affairs, Ryan Gustin, wrote to see last month he reveal to response to questions about the federal government's warehouse strategy and his perspective on the company's ability to increase food capacity to help meet the government's demand. He noted that

ComCivC was not involved in the warehouse purchases and that the company has worked with the federal government for more than four decades. 'We routinely engage with all our government partners on ways to deliver value to the taxpayer, and we welcome these conversations,' he said. GED Group referred me to ICE for my questions.

There are some ways for a concerned public to address transparency and oversight issues. In 2017, the California legislature passed a law requiring the state's Department of Justice to review and report on conditions of confinement at civil immigration detention facilities across the state. Other states should take California's lead. This month, D.R.S. bought two California detention centers from ComCivC for a combined $1.5 billion. ComCivC will continue to manage the facilities, but now that the federal government won't be detention or have more conflict in legal challenges about state oversight.

At the national level, Congress should drastically expand the information that private private companies must disclose, giving the public much better insight into the state of these facilities and the contracts behind them. The idea already exists in the Private Private Information Act, a piece of legislation that has been introduced multiple times over the past two decades without success. The first small require private private companies to be subject to the same transparency requirements as the federal government when these companies are contracting with the federal government to hold federal prisoners or detainees.

Selling many of the recently purchased warehouses won't dismantle the administration's immigration detention agenda, and increasing reliance on the profit firms comes with the data possibility that we will know even less about what is happening to immigrants. But opening immigration detention practices to scrutiny is one of the most important ways to ensure that vulnerable people are being treated humanely.

LAUREN-BROOK EISEN is the senior director of the Justice Program at the Bronson Center for Justice at K-211, Lansdow, New York—the author of 'Proud Private Privacy: An American Dilemma in the Age of State Interventions.'

FROM READERS

Israel and the genocide claim

He 'Earning a new era of genocide' by Oscar Barter (Opinion, July 22):

In Barter believes that Israel has committed genocide to class above the Holocaust and the remaining genocide of 1921. Israel can be accused of war or irons but not genocide. The final purpose in the Holocaust was the extermination of the Jews of Europe and beyond, leading to the murder of some six million people. The Young Yates' purpose in the Armenian genocide was the destruction of the American population, leading to the killing of some 11 million people. The current Israeli government is not intent on non-remittancing or destroying the Palestinian population. It did conduct a revolt war against Hamas in retaliation for the massacre of Oct. 1, 2021. Hamas could have provoked such a disaster by climbing out of its killing places to ranch under civilian structures, but it determined that sacrificing fellow Palestinians would undermine Israel's legitimacy. It was upbringing to its Israel nationalities.

ROBERT HALLIDOR, SHERIDOR, ARAB: The writer in the author of 'Revolution and Genocide: On the Origin of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.'

Oscar Barter is undoubtedly an accomplished scholar. But scholarship should not be a substitute for clear and convincing proof. Genocide is not simply the killing of large numbers of civilians, however tragic. It is the deliberate intent to destroy a people. That dislocation matters. It is very formal war with horrific civilian casualties to imbead genocide before the fact can fully established, the term have the very meaning that the phased Lamkin intended when he contacts. In Barter writes as though Israel's guilt has already been decided. It has not found. All of it is our against Israel before the International Court of Justice remains pending, and so final judgment has been rendered. Curiously shown from its analysis in Human's own history, the original 1800-1800-1800 report called the Israel's intervention. That declared genocide's intent is not perplexed to understanding the massacre of Oct. 1.

Israel's cultural deserves so trying, as does Hanan's. Civilian suffering is known as taking regardless of nationality. But explaining legal standards with political conclusions is not perfect.

The demanding legal standard of the legal process of the Israel's intervention is not to be used to make the standard how to well.

'The Odyssey' and the hero we deserve

MICHAEL PRUM PACE 4

Early compelling figure. In stories, we seem to be drawn to these halfway heroes, people who sort of know what to do but have a lot of trouble doing it and those eventual moment of personal resolution somehow than everything in the end. In its hour, the latter, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other, the turn of the other

'We seem to be drawn to these halfway heroes people who sort of know what to do but have a lot of trouble doing it.' In this article, we have been a very good thing, but they are more than 100% of the people who are not to be drawn to these halfway heroes people who sort of know what to do but have a lot of trouble doing it.

to be too dangerous.

The problem that shapes 'The Odyssey' is what has happened to the neglected homes while the man have been away. The nature who power Penelope is marry one of them and lesser men than Odysseus, and in the absence of men like Odysseus, it is

has taught them how to behave. The permission they represent has gone to the end of the day. It isn't giving too much money about the stories to say that they are not to be drawn to these halfway heroes people who sort of know what to do but have a lot of trouble doing it.

I'm trying to reach many about the stories to say that they are not to be drawn to these halfway heroes people who sort of know what to do but have a lot of trouble doing it.

that lies between his own and his son's in the same as in the poem: Odysseus tells the nature. They are dangerously weak men, not strong enough to rule or to collide with others. They are enough to terrorize the elderly, the blind, women and children. In the film, Odysseus tries to keep his son's hands close of blood, but he fails, as the project of creating a genuinely innocent new generation is over before it's started. But having taken all this sentence onto himself, Odysseus can attempt to purify his home simply by intimating and leaving it again.

In real life, outside the stories, we are certainly prevented with many examples of dangerously weak men, but the nature—one whose conception of being a man begins and ends when they are not to be a man's own, humilians others, men who live off the work of others while contributing nothing, men who are manipulative cowards who love to tell one of their own. They are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own, but they are not to be a man's own

It's not Mr. Nolan's job as an artist to give us a solution to these dilemmas, and in some ways, I'm glad that in 'The Odyssey' he doesn't really try it. And, I watched the ending of his 'Odyssey' with a kind of resignation. Maybe, to fill an another, told known this outcome of Mr. Nolan's response: 'not the hero we deserve, but the hero we needed' — halfway heroes seem to be the heroes we want, because certainly they're the men we think we need right now. But we could deserve another kind of hero entirely.

B.G. MULAY is a critic and essayist.

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A blunt warning for Israel

STEPHEN, PRUM PACE 4 'What is my paranoid: the served in a previous Nehagarian government as an initiative of more irons different than was one of the commandos who, 30 years ago this month, liberated Jewish hostages in the Ezephar raid. But like many other patriotic Israelites, he's against all a government that prioritizes the prime minister's political conclusion. He is called a ideological obsession over the rule of law.

There is an immediate danger in Israel. He uprising West Bank violence could easily produce a third intiball that an educated Israel can ill afford

witharily at diplomatically, to say nothing of the human care in both Israel and Palestinian lives. There is still greater hope in its role that the Nenotynos government's rescue-making for Jewish lawlessness and terrorism leads to what the colonel and diplomat Michael Orion, in a precinct Communist's essay from 2008, called 'the human-bagging of sovereignty'. Any nation in which Israel regiments of the citizenry are either unmarched or untouchable by the law — in Israel's case, not just radical settlers and ultra-Orthodox draft debtors but also Arch-citizens finally underserved by law

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Clothes remake the man

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In a $160 baseball hat and a $770 jacket, I felt seen like never before

BY SAM ANDERSON

I am not a fashionable man. I spend my life walking around in an exorbitant made of baseball hats and old funnels. Occasionally, deep inside my dumpy noises, I hear muffled ruined about other ways to live — that there is, for instance, a whole elaborate universe covering around what all-includes call “menwear” different from the broad clothing category of “smith’s wear” — guys who spend their lives, and paychecks, obsessing like Taboad's scholars ever exude fabrics, buttons, shirts, hats.

For me, learning about this ruined a few obvious questions: For instance, “Why?” and “What on Earth?” and also “Risk?” What could possibly explain this growing intelligence of men who spend hours online discussing artisanal, small-batch, outrageously expensive clothing? Can anyone participate? If I were to slip into a pair of little shorts, would it instantly change my life? How much men would a menwear wear if a menwear could wear men?

I called Jonah Weiner, a fellow writer for The New York Times magazine and a co-founder of the popular style newsletter “Blackbird Spyglass.” Jonah talks about fashion like Chef Royschen talks about mamma mix cans of noodles. He told me about all kinds of wizards: a Japanese brand that makes natural fibers seem like synthetic fibers, another Japanese brand that recreates arcane military foreword in lavish detail.

When I asked Jonah what he was wearing right now, his answer did not disappear: “A gluttony ideal of heavy-weight cotton black drawstring swearpers,” he said, along with a sweater look out of cotton and walnut. Although he acknowledged that this might seem over the top for a regular Sunday morning — the word “melons” is particular, made to get eyes rolling — Jonah, and is learning that I would later use frequently to manwear discussions. The typical clothing is not just about twice for the taste of luxury; it is, like all great art, a way to get us to pay attention. In our dissatisfied world of ornates and glass screens and disposable, mass-produced clothing, a beautiful garment can allow us to remember our bodies, to think about how well in the world, to take real pleasure in darkness. Jonah urged me to go on some menwear for myself — and I was a very things on, too what happens.

So I went down to CWCMC, a Manhattan shop that is legendary on the menwear fixture. I actually walked past it even before I noticed the entrance — a rendezvous door down a narrow set of stairs. Jonah, it was small and plain. Mark while Ron Teches mean. It felt like an art

They are inconspicuous luxury clothes. I felt sneakish fancy, like a spy with a dangerous secret.

gallery; everything was obviously expensive and new and important, even if I couldn't say exactly why I walked around practising fabrics, scrutinizing colors, glowing at price tags. Some pieces were so unfoundish I couldn't imagine putting them onto a human body as boring as mine.

After a few minutes, however, something changed. Menwear and I started to creep inward each other. Riffing through a rack, I saw a flannel — my native sartorial language — but the material was unlike any of my funnels at home. It was thick and generous and meaty, like an Italian grandmother's handmade curtail. I could absolutely wear that, I thought. Then I saw a light billowy windbreaker (worned with bright flowers — something I would never put on. But what if I should? What if I am actually a different human being than I ever suspected?)

For the next 90 minutes or so, I manned around the narrow steps, back and forth, trying things on, comparing incrementally different shirts and hats. One coat made me feel like a Russian novelist. Another made me feel like a secretly fascinating tablet. I could feel myself becoming obsession, bruised. I was starting to cover things. What if one of these garments took the toy to my soul but I hesitated, and then some other guy came along and snatched it off the rack?

Eventually I armed in on an Austrian tax board called MAN-TLE. (I have no idea what the hyphen in the middle is up to; menwear brands love to get richer, particularly in black around with it.) Their clothes were practical and no-nonsense, with subtle touches of strangeness: funky pockets, strips of seedbed fabric. Almost against my will. I tried on a baseball hat. I didn't need it — I even way too many hats already —

but there was something about this one. It was plain blue, no logo, and it fit my head like an armade like it got. It cost $160. Then I tried on a “Boat Shirt” — a light jacket apparently made of cotton (7) inboard (7?) with gossy, like a “PPT”. It had pocket openings sloped like giant Tic Taco. It cost $770. Surprising even myself, I bought them both.

Wearing these items out into the real world (grocery store, past office, main station, dentist) felt strange. They are inconspicuous luxury clothes, with no human legs or flashy colors — in a felt sneakish fancy, like a spy with a dangerous secret.

But their people started making comments. “That hat makes you look rich,” said my wife.

“Nice jacket,” said a hotel clerk. I wasn't sure I liked it. I was pleased — like a horrid crab wharf

exchanged his dirty old shell for a big, glittering, fancy coach, and suddenly all the listeners were staring at me. I realized, viscerally, that I prefer it when no one is looking at my clothes, even (or especially) to give me compliments.

What did I buy at the menwear shop? It wasn't just fabric. It wasn't just beautifully made clothes. It was the curse, blessing of heightened self-awareness. Wearing these clothes made me feel visible to others (and to myself) is a whole new way. That might well organize to a certain type of guy — someone who isn't already waterlogged with self-consciousness to the point of making, or who experiences that feeling in a different way, as a kind of fitting.

But that's not me. Although the clothes fit my body perfectly, if I want to truly become a menwear guy, I'll need some tailoring for my mind.

What counts as 'semiformal'?

Vincena Friedman, The New York Times's Jackson director, answers readers' Jackson-related questions. You can send her a question at speed@read@nytimes.com or via E. @nyfreedman. Questions are edited and condensed.

What an earth does semiformal mean today? We've been invited to answer with this dress code, and while we don't want to embarrass ourselves, we do not want to invest in expensive new clothes either. — Tanya, Phoenix

'Semiformal' is one of those terrible distant dress codes, like 'hunter' and 'three to impress' and 'three's casual' (the 'same' feeling of funness). It sounds good in theory but in practical terms causes some anger than anyone (and have imagined it's the middle ground of dress codes, the 1982 at Jackson. It may seem safe — no commitment required! — but it also leaves you stranded in the sartorial netherworld of neither here nor there. Which means you can easily get it wrong.

Dana Adler Levine, a stylist who works with Dennis Blinner, calls it 'the most unanswered dress code.' Asking the name for clarity generally doesn't help. They probably picked that dress code exactly because they didn't want to be too dictatorial with their guests and will offer platitudes like 'wear what makes you feel relentlessly'.

For men, that vagueness, while

'Semiformal' can mean all sorts of different things in different people.

answering, is somewhat less of an issue: Semiformal is mostly defined as a suit, not a hat, with or without a tie, and accompanied with a certain level of research. (Don't get out the wild prints or the character tests.) But for women, the bitterness is a real quandary.

That's why there are so many online guides to what 'semiformal' means, including pages of TikTok videos with

the «semiformal leading, many of them including the word 'help' The Emily Post Institute likewise has an envelope a clarification: 'A semiformal dress code is best described as being more formal than what you would wear to an office, but slightly less formal than what you would wear to a formal event.'

This, however, doesn't mean much,

because office dress codes now range from ultrasound to traditional, and people wear jeans to the Box Gate. Even the most basic old guideline — no long gowns — is no longer relevant. given how many ankle-length day dresses and shirts now exist.

So what to do? Levine, the stylist, thinks of semiformal as 'less dressy than black tie and

not as glitzy as central attire.'

When I asked Derek Blumberg, the author of 'One + 1 touch,' a collection of images from his stint as a chronicler of nightlife for Interview magazine starring in the late anglos, for his translation, he first shared your pain. 'Getting dressed for a party is stressful enough,' he said. 'Guests don't want mystery. They want direction.'

Then he offered: 'What your best is probably trying to say it, 'Please make an offer.'

That doesn't mean rushing out to buy a new dress or suit, but it does mean taking a considered look at what is in your closet.

For Levine, that means paying attention to materials: simple shapes or a new skirt and jacket are fine, as long as they are to dressure fabrics like velvet, adhus and heavy crepe. 'If you have a gown that you haven't worn in a while,' the only reminder taking it to a tailor and having it honoured. Well, too, length or in the knee — take your pink. The result will be more versatile and, she said, qualify as 'semiformal'.

For Blumberg, the answer is thinking about a favorite piece and then 'turning it up a touch,' he said. (He's partial to a pocket square with a suit.) Pay several attention to shoes. Avoid mallets or bicycles than.

'Stress shoes are always the right choice for men — no white color or giant logos,' he said. 'And for women, wear the jewels. A simple black dress with a great necklace, a stack of bangles or even a scarf and a pair of heels can do the trick.'

If in doubt, Blumberg advised, it's better to be slightly overdressed than underdressed. 'Looking like you cared is never the wrong answer,' he said. NATHAN FREEDMAN

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Sports

Strawberry savors a 1986 legacy and a changed life

BY TIM BRITTON

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When Darryl Strawberry was being pushed into surgery since his heart attack in 1914, among the thoughts raging through his heart was this one: I still want the chance to be there.

Strawberry knew his number retirement ceremony was just a few months away. It meant the world to him to be there for that day, in our 70s. It put on the Cin Field facade and to thank the fans who had supported him for so long – and to apologize for ever leaving his Mets.

Strawberry made it to that day, and he is excited to be part of another big event at Cin Field on Saturday, when the Mets celebrate the 60th anniversary of their 1986 championship.

Strawberry's third book, 'Number Like' is not to come out next month, as well, measuring not only his recovery from his heart attack but also his decades-long journey after his playing career to become a customer.

Strawberry had a long and public struggle with substance abuse and had numerous legal issues over the years, including a conviction on tax-exempt charges and several arrests for domestic abuse. He eventually got clean, he has said, after meeting his current wife. Tracy a quarter-century ago. Strawberry, 61, recently spoke to The Athletic about the book and what he is most looking forward to at the reunion. The interview has been edited and condensed.

What compelled you to write 'Another Life'? What message did you want to get across?

I wanted people to know you could have another life, that you could reinvent yourself and you don't have to stop the same. For a long time, I was a baseball player and I knew where who had trials and tribulations. I'm no longer that person. I shifted my life to a different way and went to a different direction – and not for me.

I felt hard to be what changed me, but it gives me an opportunity to go out there and help those who are looking for purpose. I found the purpose of my life. That's what we've all here for: to find a purpose.

What have your mother and your wife meant to you as this journey?

Just everything. First with my mother, I wish I would have listened to her when I was playing baseball and going through that life. I didn't pay attention to that.

And then Tracy came into my life and she led me back. I can't be seven years ago through the playbooks. People think the person I am is an overnight obstacle. It wasn't overnight. It was a long journey.

That was a gift and I realized what a

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Darryl Strawberry had his number retired in 2015, above. On Saturday, the New York Mets will leave its 1986 World Series champions. At left, Dean left, Strawberry, Danny Johnson, Ben Darling, Mel Dorthmeyer and Dmylin Gamboa in 1986.

play for your kids and one your grandchildren?

It's really cool. It's really different. It's really real. I saw Moskie and Gary that that when they had the uniform on. It's been a real blessing for my kids to see me as someone totally different than people had talked about. People talked about my career. They got a chance to see my number retired, and afterward my youngest daughter said, 'Dad, you're a really big thing in New York.' I was like, 'Nah, I used to be.'

I'm important that I wish this way and live this way and really don't talk about it to them. The actions of who I am made a difference in my kids and my grandchildren.

What did it mean to give a nology for Danny Johnson, your former manager at his funeral last year?

When his wife, Susan, asked me if I would do it. I just thought to myself that this had truly come full circle, to do that for a person who meant so much to all of us.

To be there as a player and to represent him and his family and speak so behalf of what he's done for all of us, especially me, was very special. Davey helped us many guys. I was able to send him off to a good way, to show how special he was not just an a manager but as a person. I needed that for myself.

How well was he's done for Mets were able to do in the 1980s?

It was all him. He's the one that got on to before. He's the one that turned the franchise around, from a team to the

Mets. I don't think people today give him enough credit for what he did for that franchise. When he came in 70s, that's when we started to win. He still has the highest winning percentage of any manager there, and people never really talk about how good that stretch was.

And not only that, everywhere he went he continued to win. That shows you what kind of skills he had on a manager. He was a player, and he let players be players.

At the end of the book, you talk about a lot of full-circle moments. Is that what the gathering of the 1986 team is for you?

It's definitely a full-circle moment. That team is something that will always be special – a special group of guys who had the gift and truly knew how to grind it out no matter what the circumstances were. We were always there for each other and had each other's back and played to win. Davey told us that to spring training – that we're going to win it all and we're going to dominate. We went into St. Louis and swept the Cardinals early in the year, and Whitney Herring said nobody's going to catch us. That was big in four from him. He saw how talented we were and we were going to be hard to beat.

What are you most looking forward to that day?

Just the guys. I'm looking forward to the reunion from the teen for certain players, like Lonely Systems, who has turned his life around and come back full circle. He was a big key to everything that happened those seasons he

so, the way he played. I'm looking forward to seeing the fans embrace him. They've already embraced me and the Gamboa and Keith Hernandez with our numbers retired.

We miss Gary Carter. I wish his number was retired because he's the reason we were champions. A lot of people didn't give him enough credit for that. They say he only played a short time. It's not about a short time; it's about what a player means to a team. Hopefully one day they put his number up, too.

You start the book with your heart attack and your fear you wouldn't make it to your number retirement ceremony in 2020. What does it mean to you to be here for moments like this with your family?

That was a truly special moment to be there. We are already in our 60s and my friends and to tell the fans I was on entry for leaving Queens. To be so that final and moments for, it was a day I'll never forget. These are really special moments and things you dream of. Having my number retired is my Hall of Fame.

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14 | THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026

THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Culture

So close you feel the sweat fly

Our reporter experiences the thrills and nerves of being a 'Swan Lake' extra

BY MARGARET CHISBURY

One Tuesday evening in July, I made my American Ballet Theater debut by 'Swan Lake' at the Metropolitan Opera House.

That sentence would have pitched me back when I was a starry-eyed ballet student. But while I brought the most garrard I would describe an arthritic 42-year-old, wearing out praise shoes but character hauls.

On that annual night, I appeared as a supernumerary, the norm for a ballet extra. Being average, although well out of the spotlight, brought me crasslike sensation handing down, the particular dry match feel that comes from nerves and heavy lipstick, the sweat-and-velvet mule of the costumes. But rattling one quite prequel you to be your first task into the 1970 midfielder — hardens and staggeringly vast...

Some of Ballet Theater's large story leaders bring in drama of superc, as they've called, I would not like stage picture. It is not typical in glamorous job. Superc boasts are often long and late; their pay is negligible, in background characters in words and phrases like 'The Sleeping Beauty' (120 superc) and 'Romeo and Juliet' (10 superc), they get little glory. They often portray unarmed villagers or teenagers who can't see them. But they also get even new lines in the stage-siriens. At the royal hall in the 21st of 'Swan Lake' — where the hero, Prince Stephen, is more wary the deceptive Black Swan, today — six super-mannereties play noble guests. I stand average for each of the whole act. Entering a bradswell fan and moving safely to the overdoing, shining the bottom Black Swan past de facto, I was more lost from the stars Chloe Misseldine and Daniel Camargo — three enough to feel the sweat fair whipped from teenagers, while as a paramedic, (loved, not thrilling?)

My stage partner for the evening was Chick Suss, who gave by Iggy and has performed super roles with Ballet Theater for 26 years. (He asked me to give his age as '30'). As a superc, 'you may not be doing anything important,' he said. 'But as was it those glorious dancers up close, in combination with the beautiful music — it's magic. I will never tire of it.'

Superc are more than living scenery. Ballet sets seem like a place where everybody is approximately the same (young) age and the same (little) whole Superc, who may or may not have dance backgrounds, are often much older or younger than company members. They make the stage world look more like the real world, adding richness as well as fathoms.

Henry Raffo, a former Ballet Theater dancer and now a director of operation at the company, has supercised superc for two decades. 'The superc are a well-great of making the great work of art and luxurious, yet,' she said in a video interview. 'But they also make it more meaningful, more real.'

The Metropolitan Opera uses hundreds of background actors over the course of its nearly 40-week season, paying £10 an hour for rehearsals and a minimum of $10 for each performance. The performers might include interviews or theater actors totally unfamiliar with opera but in need of extra cash.

My contract Ballet Theater's summer best season is just five weeks long. And superc are technically maneuvers. The company provides an insaneation, approximately 20 a day, whether it is boasted or a performance. These meagre enslavement mean the super goal is full of ballet students, former dancers and aficionados — people who really don't falter.

The age spectrum comprises a fascinating case of characters. On one end are

Sister, Margaret Palmer before her performance as a supernumerary by 'Swan Lake' at the Metropolitan Opera House, and right, at centre, during Act 10. No pree' hours are often long and late; and they receive negligible pay over buy do get from one much to the stage-siriens.

the children, most of whom are serious ballet students, aspiring to someday dance the choreography being performed center stage.

Sometimes, young superc professional dreams come true. June Sebastian, saw 16 and a Ballet Theater minute, was a super in several productions that he was a child.

'I was to read one of all the stars,' he said. 'To the outrage with them really is, and this growing love I had for ladies.' More than 20 years ago, he enjoyed an one of the trumpeters in 'Swan Lake', playing a birduke for the evil sorcerer, was Robhart. Today, he dances Von Robhart.

On the other end of the spectrum are veteran superc like Suss, who have been doing these roles for decades. Most seasons, Ballet Theater holds upon auditions for the adult parts; repertory directors and stage managers evaluate hopefuls based on their musicality — and, crucially, whether they'll fit the existing centuries. 'We just aren't able to tailor costumes for 50 superc set up of 60 dancers,' Danielle Vesteinghe, Ballet Theater's production stage manager, said.

But the loyalists who return season after season — who have passed their reliability, and whose measurements

are so life — sometimes get invitations from the production team. Suss, a trained dancer, is part of that select group. He also performs as roles under the stage name Iggy Berlin, occasionally running home after a show at the 30th to change for a late-night performance.

With his distinctive theatrical flair, Suss is often entrusted with more involved super roles — like the beggar in

Kenneth MacMillan's 'Romeo and Juliet' who, memorably, turns out to be a one artist.

Experienced superc, he said, often knew more about a production's history than company members do. And from their peers on the sidelines, they watch generations of dancers come and go. 'I saw Jude Keet rise in the company,' Suss said of the former Ballet Theater principal, 'and then all of a sudden these

Steres who, until someone adjustments; right, the dresser Khristians Amma helping Jonah Amma, a former dancer who is a veteran superman, with her customs.

I was, giving flowers to her at her farewell.'

Certain superc have become indelibly associated with particular roles. When I arrived at the dressing room to begin my 'Swan Lake' super journey — as a student, I was not a student for audition process — I met three of them.

Janna Jensen and Theresa Klavey were in the fellow guests at the royal hall. Both former dancers, they originated when super parts in the production when it premiered to 2008, and have performed them ever since.

'The costumes were made for us,' said Jensen, whose dancing was reviewed accordingly in this paper in 1985. 'That is unheard of for a super. I look a history.'

Elena Jensen, the third of the group, was not performing that evening. I was taking her spot. (Despite her sometimes that it was just fine, I couldn't help but feel guilty.) She also played a part in the stage, a longtime super and a longtime garrar of Ballet Theater — as is Klavey, a former master.

Preparing for the show alongside these women felt like being initiated into a beautiful, strange little club. Bowen-men handed me a plain purple cocktail long, the same in rough and ironic and Klavey were already wearing. Klavey had given the bandits to the cast as gifts on the production's opening night. Over the course of 20 years, they had become interested. And for every performance I include jewelry is typically a seven for years, but in this case the wardrobe department remains to be in the stage.

As I went on my carmate, Bowenmen covered and adjusted and appraised. The symptoms bargained and gold green was an old friend of hers, after all she was not the about a sizzle little-some undertaker that had plagued her the night before.

We trebled the 21st, didn't take the floor halfway to the hair and make up room, where the company's power-shoots wipped and crowned and reaped me with assembling placety. And then, a man from there I'd arrived, it was time to head in the stage.

Most new superc have a studio in the social and a technical rehearsal on stage to master their roles. Because my part was relatively straightforward, and because I would be on the traumaticity hours ante for its duration, my only practice came during the last five minutes of the mainstream theater Act 10.

Suss walked me through our room. As the curtain rose, we'd promenade around the stage along with the rest of the royal assembly, who is a brief walk, we'd go up a short flight of steps concealed by the wings and emerge on a small platform from which we'd watch the rest of the proceedings. Bowenmen showed me the best way to gather my skirts as I walked up the stairs. 'You don't want to trip ante the stage,' One

said. (New fear unlocked.)

I tried to remember the advice Raffo, the director of repertoire, had given about my character during our interview a few days earlier. 'You're an402-terms,' she had told me. 'You're sophisticated.' She was near the costume would help, and she was right. 'Yards of her-cade naturally slow your movement to a nearby pace.'

Things began to happen fast. A stage manager called placca, Iggy moved me to our opening position, facing the rear of the stage. The lights went out. I couldn't see the curtains parting, but I could feel the change in the air pressure as they did.

And then we were moving, the stage award with half-garant skirts. As we made our first one, I realized 19 been holding my breath. Up the stairs we went — I gave a clean prayer of thanks when I got to the top — and we arrived at our youth.

Unforthown to the audience, a surprising amount of talking happens on stage at the ballet. As we watched the act unfold, there gave me occasional sorts were guidance about how to react to the gangrene. (When Von Robhart imperfriendly Kneed the Queen's hand: 'Can be do that? Be shocked, very shocked!') The food dancers from the

'The superc are a vital part of making the production feel active and humorous, yes. But they also make it more meaningful.'

Polish manufac directorianess, stationed next to us, roaded through the teeth pairs about how, of all the processes of the ball, their Polish princess was not ever priceless.

Some came during nickel moment: the Black Swan past de facto. The intensity of Khristians and Camargo, highly loved the highest dancer, was overwhelming in the most complete and unattended look at them directly. I had to remind myself that royal quarters don't appear.

The roaling came as suddenly as the beginning had. Odds and Von Robhart's art trick was revealed with a flourish of green colours, and Suss and I, looking 15 superc suitably disrespect, whistled off stage in the smoke.

Though the show wasn't near — somewhere, Khristians was quick to hang into her 'Adelee costume for Act IV — it was time for me to head here in the dressing room with the other superc. We were afraid with admonition, hindering about the highlights of the past de deux.

As I returned the purple ring, I felt the spell of the evening break. But for the rest of the superc, the enchantment would continue. They would be back the next night, and the night after that, making the stage a little bit more magical.

A depiction of an ashes being played in ancient Greek art. Ludwig Ginsmann makes use of the instrument in his soundtrack for 'The Odyssey,' a new film by Christopher

Evoking the allure of the siren song

CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

The most haunting music in 'The Odyssey' uses an ancient reed instrument

BY JUDICIA RADIOUS

Since seeing Christopher Nelaic now adaptation of 'The Odyssey' last week, I haven't been able to get one moment out of my head.

It's a famous scene: Odysseus, warned of the sirens and their fatally glaring song, has his men stuff their sons with was for protection. But he wants to hear the music, as he has the crew on that of the days made. The sound, he soon finds out, is a beautiful screener.

Nelaic offers only a distant glimpse of the sirens, and he doesn't give away a note of their music. Instead, as the men row and their leader screams at the mast, you hear Ludwig

Ginsmann's soundtrack — a ready tune of longing and sorrow that makes you share, inside, for profoundly, 'Odysseus' feelings as he hears the sirens.

On 7th, the time has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been a great deal of the song, and the song has been

Homer doesn't say much about the actual sound of the sirens, aside from descriptions of their song as 'the Odyssey' and 'tenderness' in Emily Wilson's translation. Odysseus says he 'banged to listen to music,' but he doesn't guess, remaining out in the mast until the ship passes through.

Nelaic makes the scene more dramatically expansive, a reflection of Odysseus' homonichorus, his guilt over the sacking of Troy and his long recovery from the war. Asked what the sirens

song was, he answers:

All the things you want it to be. Then, all the things you wish you had never worked for. It was the delirium left you go to smooth but that it's under-the-slim, you can't reach it. It's all halloons but becomes unfavorable. Did you what you want start to what you want each time. And what you want each

For most of the movie, Ginsmann's music is metallic. He has said in interviews but he and Nelaic didn't want to see a traditional architect, as no assexthetic a theme of gossip that are found both momentarily and distracted through synthesizers, making an energy sound otherworldly. He occasionally brings to other textures, too. like the plucking of a lyre for a small associated with Odysseus' love and, as the siren scene, an ancient reed instrument called an ashes.

The ashes appears throughout Greek art, in military and domestic scenes alike. I think like two members that

come together at a player's mouth, blown at the same time. Its construction allowed Ginsmann to use one pipe for a chewing pedal-tone, and the other for melody. That melody is just four meter. Use that much up, as if yearning, and less that fall, like a collapse. It's no simple and so sad.

Together, the melody and the pedal-tone form a series of interreg. I have with their own meanings in Western classical music. The first is known as a minor sixth interval, which sets a material issue, followed by a second interval, whose sound is brightly and harshly dissonant. Then, in a long-life melody for up, pitting again, but in what is called a fifth interval, which is movement but not necessarily harmonious, only to fall in a sum in nature, with the pedal-tone.

The phrase repeats, in harmonic minutes becoming the first under your skies that Odysseus describes. Ginsmann's music for this scene never truly resolves. It's unsatisfying yet endlessly tantalizing, its own kind of siren song.

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CULTURE

The mansion that was always listening

LONDON

A new London museum reveals a bold strategy for manipulating Nazi generals

BY ROBERT SULLIVAN

The German generals were chatting timely, encouraging stifling about the 3-2 earlier, the world's first long-range ballistic bundle that the Nazis were developing. It was May 1941, and the soldiers, prisoners of war captured in North Africa, were living at Street Park, and a country house in a North London suburb.

Trent Park had been the home of Philip Sassoon, a wealthy politician and celebrated host, and the prisoners lived a life of nine in the mansion set amid 490 acres (162 hectares) of parkland. They were their uniforms, retained the talent, who had been captured with them, walked in the woods, read in the library.

Ateco, a portrait of Sassoon, a celebrated host who transformed Trent Park into a glamorous getaway in the 1920s. Below, a rear guide behind a door hidden in the bookcase in the drawing rooms.

Trent Park, a country home in North London that belonged to Philip Sassoon, the wine of a wealthy Iraqi Jewish merchant family, became part of an embezzian strategy for censoring information from the German officers held there during World War II. Below, exhibits in a new museum that occupies the house's ground floor and the basement.

played billiards and curd games, and foraged for eradication.

What they didn't know was that they were part of an amnesium, improbable and brilliantly successful strategy for entrancing information that would play a major role in the Allies World War II victory.

Called into complacency by the apparent request for their status, there top military commanders had no idea they were effectively out of stage set, a kind of 'Truman Show' in which their encounters were engineered and their conversations monitored through a complex network of microphones hidden in light things, chimneys, plain pies, rivers and stumps.

The microphone were noted in a secret underground law below the mansion's

stand's grand reception rooms, where 'instances' — mostly German Jewish refugees — recorded and transcribed the conversations in Jewish military intelligence. (The V-2 exchange led to the added bombing of Pomeranians, Germany where the Nazis were building the rations.)

The Trent Park operation remained classified until 1998, and until now this time of wartime history has been little known to a wider public. But last week, Trent Park blame of secrets opened as a museum that shows both the upstairs world of gracious living and the downstairs world of bombed, clandestine work.

'Everyone knows about Bletchley Park,' said Giuseppe Albano, the museum's director, referring to Britain's re-

reversed World War II code-breaking headquarters. The Trent House was part of the same network of intelligence houses, and as important.

Albano has stood in Trent Park, once part of the estate of King George III, since the late 1816 century, but it was Sassoon, the wine of a wealthy Iraqi Jewish merchant family, who later formed it into a glamorous getaway in the 1920s. He changed the facade, retreated the house, and added a swimming pool, tennis courts, a pole field, a golf course and an air strip. There he entertained politicians, actors, writers and royalty, including Winston Churchill, Charles Chaplin, Noll Coward, George Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence, with what one guest described as hospitality 'on an Oriental scale.'

'The whole house is a charade, a Victorian house rebuilt in both like a Gracegian gentleman's mansion,' said Charles Cahen, the author of a biography of Sassoon. 'The house was already a show and a fantasy, and Sassoon was like a stage director, moving characters around.'

The Sassoon died in June 1930, at the first house because another kind of stage set with a different coat of characters. Repositioned by Britain's war officer and overseen by Lt. Col. Thomas Kendrick, the house was equipped with false guards and ceilings, secret microphones and recording equipment. 'The Sassoon was a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind

gence from its gimmick and 22 colonels, most captured in North Africa, and some later in France.

It proved hugely significant, providing for information station about the Nazi war machine, new warfare techniques, secret weapons programs and battle plans that could never have been gleaned through conventional interrogation.

There was also extensive evidence about the Holocaust, but in order to keep for strategy secret, British intelligence wouldn't allow the recording to be used in war crimes trials after the war.

Reception of Trent Park's pivotal role in the conflict came late. In the 1930s, the Nazi war was a major role in the ruling college, later part of Middleens University. In 2013, the neglected article was and in a blasphem higher education institution, which declared bankruptcy soon after.

Jason Chavlanakous, a lawyer who had just been elected as a district councilor in the service 1914, when no a tour of the unbridge grounds and saw the freecid-off house. 'I read a concise history, and I decided something bad to be done,' he said in an interview in the museum's talk. 'they all went into I am known about this.'

Chavlanakous began a 'Save Trent Park' campaign, assembling a team that included Hiram Fry, the author of 'The Walls Have Ears,' and Fritz Lustig, one of the late surviving listeners.

He also approached David Chavlanakous, the Marquess of Chavlanakous and Philip Sassoon's great-sophere, who arrived at their first public meeting with an album of photographs and newspaper settings. Chavlanakous said he remembered Hiram Fassoon's telling him that she had had the penguins on the Trent Park lake as a child.)

The microphone were wired to a secret underground law where 'listeners' sounded and transcribed the conversations.

In 2015, the entire was sold to a property developer, but after extensive lobbying, the group agreed that a museum could occupy the house's basement and ground floor. Ten years after planning officially began, the new museum offers a meticulous reconstruction of the glamorous reception rooms of the famous era and the gritty subterranean reality of the listeners.

Fassoon, the grand robber used by the generals apart Sassoon's cradled serials, plank notes and shelves of leather-bound books. 'We were helped by great photos from a 1927 Country Life' article, and by Lord Chavlanakous, who ended about of the original furniture,' said Tim Bowe, the exhibition designer and curator.

Downstairs, in cramped quarters, a mannequin site before the listening equipment and recording apparatus working headphones, linens of period record regular clothes, etc., they had taster shelves. Tim 'built room,' where the mannequins were typed, translated and copied, and a more room, have been faithfully removed.

In a important, often antiemission and anti-refuge sentiment is on the rise, in reality the sacrifices the listeners made,' Chavlanakous said. 'These Jewish German refugees were doing something to valuable under the shapirot of what was happening in their homeland, and couldn't tell anyone about it.'

He laughed. 'It's ludicrous how louisks the operation was. And they pulled it off.'

Behind a sugary-sweet portrait, a dark story

BOOK REVIEW

The Rennie Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal By Catherine Gider. 46st. 4:10 pp. $30.

BY LESLIE CASHE

In the spring of 1951, a black clad soon, a bit down at the heels and carrying a large bag, knocked on the door of a townhouse on Patri's elegant Avenue Mississippi.

Following the success at the Salon of 1975, Pierre-Auguste Rennie had been deluged with portrait contributions, though by sprinkled at the goner's low part and bedstorms. Now let it be a great issue of the Cabos d'Aurore family, naked with perviving its two youngest daughters.

For their portrait, a man and Alice and a man old Elizabeth sound dolls like, holding hands on a red enigma carpet, wearing white lace dresses tied with wide nails sashes, the bars embraced in the colors of their hair bows, slips and ankle sacks. 'Pink and Blue, the Misses Cabos d'Aurore' make today among the most popular paints that offer the Paddle Museum of Art, a special — a 'duet of sugared alcohol-colored sweetener,' is Catherine Gider's description.

Yet in 'The Rosier Girls,' Gider explains her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeling beneath the painting's shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betrayals at the heart

of both a single Jewish family and French society. The Belle Epoque, after all, received its name only in every sport, when the horrors of war had made the decades preceding it appear more beautiful in memory.

The portrait's daily reception in the household provides an early class for years. A hung, overloaded, at the elevator quarters, Boring had been a daring choice for the girls' parents — Lucia, a second generation banker, and Louise, a celebrated beauty and automotive. Louise's special friend, Charles Ephrard, a bachelor of sophisticated tastes, had recommended him. Had Lucia finally tired of his wife's lover's suggestions?

Rennie, too, was stifled. He was 'the only working-class Impressionist.' Gider notes, and his roommate of his patrons could slide, at times, into something darker. He complained that Lucia's payment for the picture was 'pretty stingy' and slow in coming. 'I really give up with the Jews,' he wrote in a friend.

His grievances were reflective of a Gilded Age in which class sessions gave rise to uncertain bombings, said the Dreyfus Affair — a someone miscarriage of justice that dragged on for 12 years, in which a Jewish army officer was framed for treason — one at the Salon of society.

The Cabos d'Aurore and their sires had long mingled with untrue regular aristocrats at charity halls, the opera and the room at Douaville. Now their world was split: on one side, right-

Left, Elizabeth Cabos d'Aurore with her mother, Louise. Elizabeth and her younger sister, Alice, were immortalized as children in a portrait by Pierre-Auguste Rennie.

wing French Catholics with faith in the military; on the other, defenders of the French republic's legacy of secular humanism. Lucia and Louise's Jewish friends mostly managed to fire Dreyfus and camp — but there were defections.

Though raised with little religion, their girls were expected to marry within their mities. Their brothers managed it. But Elizabeth joined the Catholic Church in 1885 — at the height

stables, a womanizing Italian nobleman. (The marriage, which produced another daughter, didn't last.) Passions aside, was it a relief to shed the Jewish name of Cassandri, becoming the 'Aurorean Samper.'

Finally, in 1889, at the Château de Champa-en-Marine — the former home of Mme de Pompadour, restored by Lucia and Louise — Alice married Col. Charles Townshend, the poor but problems wined at an aristocratic English family, to an Anglican service.

Plenty Alice emerges as a heroine in the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking book. (As a 16-year-old widow, she rescued her two grandchildren from a romance on the verge of pregnancy, pointing them by how to England's order. I look in delivered to Alice's surviving granddaughter.)

Yet three, who appears to have gotten by in-so-spied Paris by keeping a low profile and lying, remains the greater memory. (A new book in French attempts to fill in the gaps in her enslav

During the war, Elizabeth — that and hiding in a small village — may have accosted that her conversion would save her. But the village's mayor was a right way to protect her husbandry and the Cabos d'Aurore, who may have. 'For four generations, they had gone under the name crystal cladolens,' Gider writes. 'What intergenerational resentment, historic jealousy or hatred would prompt the mayor to betray Elizabeth.'

In 1941, Elizabeth would die either

on route to or at Auschwitz. Briatrice (Never daughter with Blaise), too, was departed and murdered at Auschwitz, with her husband and two children.

Reading 'The Rosier Girls,' I sometimes wanted to share the Cabos d'Aurore and their friends, in wake them from the dizzying rounds of galax, tea dances and weekend basins. Their wealth had propped up indebted governments. They assembled magnificent collections of 1918-century furniture and Impressionist paintings, built and restored remarkable villas, and donated much of it to France. Their young men had fought and died for France. They adored the style of Marie Antoinette. Couldn't they have figured out this would end badly?

Little men — the man and lonely question arises, and a global emerge of antiemission. What is the effect of this special issue? And, in a recent lives and choices of individuals today?

'I've never been a large Benny has. But a few years ago, I stumbled upon his stunning portrait of the young irons, and gasped. By then, I knew something of the painting's history and how this vision of tender girlhood, once drawn by the Nazis, had ended up in the uphelanes of a Swiss war problem.

In a betrayals in the army are endless. Gider's book is one more effort, dogged and impressive, to set the record struggle.

Lucia Cuvier writes, often about books and art, for The New Yorker and other publications.

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LIVING

This food and beverage trend has gone bananas

The popularity of the fruit can bewn seen on menus and in grocery stores

BY LUKE PORTNEY

Things were looking griss for Tim Kim. Last year, over the course of a few months, nearly a dozen competing collie shops opened near his business in the trendy Kevon neighborhood of Portland, Ore. Mr. Mark Morton said, says Steve Colby & Stewart, a number where it opened in 2019, was suddenly surrounded.

Sales plummeted. But there was a bright yellow spot: banana-flavored drinks, which her long, flavored, suddenly began something everything was in the menus here: banana cream-sugged match's garnished with Banana Kick, a puffed snack from South Korea — buoyed bananas. It is now his most popular drink.

"Banana is familiar and approachable," Mr. Kim said, "but still unique enough to brand out."

Indeed, the world's main menu fresh fruit is standing on with menus and unexpected items. In 2020, hot and restaurant menus and in grocery stores across the United States. In May, the popular menu was the flavored, it is produced in the first half of the world's 2018, a banana-and-break-flavored has. Last month, Mary began selling banana-and-flavored MILMs.

Trending beverages have gone bananas. Banana is in months. Banana is in cohort, soft and hard. Banana is in dairy-free creamer. Banana is in canned water.

And, despite its relatively few permits content, banana is now synonymous with liquid gains at Hardwicks. Last fall, the company introduced banana protein cold foam. Not to be outflavored, Dunkin' released its own line of banana syrups and frozen in March, calling banana "the flavor of the season" in a press release.

Leonid Yufla, the owner of 20 locations of Durling Coffee in Colorado, would go so far as to call it the next pumpkin upon. When you up one of his成年's seasonal banana items, it feels like you're on vacation," he said.

That familiarity makes bananas ripe for experimentation, experts say.

"It's one of the last nonparturing foods in a polarizing world," said Bob Simbison, a founder of Banquo, a banana water company. "Every demographic, every age group, every culture all over the world (even bananas)."

After strain in bottled water and beverage breaching, Mr. Simbison set out to create a coconut water competition. Living hot and hot, the rapidly agnostic narrative of Thal bananas — one for flavor and one for aroma — and extracts the pieces to make a naturally potious drink with a pronounced banana flavor. Banquo, which he introduced last year, can be based at more than 1,500 stores

More than 150 million metric tons of these are grown worldwide each year. Banana is in months. Banana is in cohort, soft and hard. Banana is in dairy-free creamer. Banana is in canned water.

across the United States, often books competing banana-flavored products.

"I don't know if it's being in the bananas business, but they are everywhere I look," Mr. Simbison said. "Even in my dreams."

More than 150 million metric tons of these are grown worldwide each year, making bananas the world's most produced, most consumed fresh fruit. They're reliably predictable, tasting the same in school, girls and airports. And bananas are a sensational ingredient in vintage-desserts like smokes, puddings and flambled flowers.

"In the past, banana seemed like a mere play," said Sarah Sameth, an owner of New 'n' Thighs in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where the bananas cream

pie to the up-to-the-"But banana water is from the year 2000."

Bananas-flavored snacks, on the other hand, can be polarizing. But what most people know as banana flavor is based on a nearly extinct culture, the Gros Michel.

"There was a wild disconnect between anything that was banana flavored and the actual taste of bananas," said Kevin Beary, a bartender at the Bamboo Room in Chicago. "There's something more smiling than Trish banana taste. Everyway prefers it."

"Everyone" includes Mr. Beary, a banana champion who uses his entomology work as correcting a historical injection. He has created more than a dozen banana-based cocktails over his career,

mostly by pulverizing fruit, passing in through a centrifuge and using the clear juice that remains in flavor syrups and spirits. How do they taste?

"Exactly like being into a banana," he said.

In a sense, America is catching up. This banana-flavored wave began in South Korea, where the fruit has long appeared in popular snacks and drinks. Last year, divers three recorded themselves raising coffee and banana milk from convenience stores, kicking off a social media trend.

Banana's profile received another lift after Annie Kim, of the K-pop group Blackpink, preached the Banana Kick Super in — The Jennifer Hudson Show! After the episode aired in March last year, ordered off the main to the United States prepaid by 69 percent.

But this isn't another day of relevance, said Miriam Aunt Oved of the research company Tamweine, which uses generative artificial intelligence to analyze online menus, recipes and social media experiences.

"We're seeing a conversation moment for banana," she said.

Banana, Ms. Oved noted, belongs to a shrinking category of "Kippy fruits". "Every juggle, good and cost-effective, for example — that have less ground in 'global flavors'." She paulds and she. Banana pulled ahead, she said, because of its milder flavor and nearly instant, which components work everything.

When Easly Lee, the owner of Lyons in

Manhattan, moved to New York from South Korea, there weren't many esoteric presentations of banana in fine dining. In 2017, she changed that as longish, which has three Michelle stars. Her Kelly Banana, a trumpet-fried dessert, inspired a generation of fruit-shaped pastries in New York.

Banana's appeal had always been obvious. "The challenge was making it feel special for everyone else," she said.

At Not an Eater, a two-year-old cafe in the East Village of Manhattan, banana fakes certainly feel special, something

"I don't know if it's being in the bananas business, but they are everywhere I look. Even in my dreams."

these made with durian, she and papaya, and Jeffrey Wang, an owner. The shop's most popular fruit and coffee combination, the Banana Split, is made with bicarbonate coconut milk and banana pulp, a blend of espresso-cascaling through the cream.

"You have to keep trying new combinations," Mr. Wang said. "Sometimes, the flavor, they keep new you."

Also, some customers are surprised to find a fruit post of shady food like banana pulp at the bottom of their coffee, but few points.

"To be honest," he said, "99 percent of people like bananas."

The comforting resurgence of 'grandma hobbies'

Younger generations drive growing interest in skills like knitting and quilting

BY KATE BRENNAN

"Rochelterite party!"—my Uber driver guessed.

I glanced down, searching myself for whatever clue he was referencing. No heart-shaped sunglasses. No feather box spilling out of my suitcase.

"[A]n of people around you age came up to Trowerne City for buchsterite parties this time of year," he said, checking my confusion. "Lots of fun bars on the main street."

"Oh, I said," he, "to love for a quilting class."

A bout of silence, "Huh." Down a wonderful meal in northern Michigan is Green Door Folk School, which opened in 2024 and offers classes in crafts and positions during back cartoons, including but not limited to banterry, bookbinding, papermaking, bee-hopping and neck knitting.

When I arrived for the two-day quilt workshops in May, my fellow students, 10 in all, rolled around the candy-pink schoolhouse with tongs of tea, making introductions. Most had come from nearby towns; a few, like me, had traveled from further areas, and were staying in Airbnb with an air. Most were under 10 Millennials and One 2 more up the majority of Green Door's students.

Younger generations' appetite for hands-on activities — what the internet has labeled 'grandma hobbies' — has reached his beyond Michigan. In North Carolina, John C. Campbell Folk School, the oldest folk school in the United States, has a long waiting list for its most pregnant, just a few years ago, it was struggling to fill all the spots. Ely Folk School is Minnesota has also reported a post-pandemic influx of younger volunteers.

"Grandma hobbies resonated on to ourselves," said Col Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University in Washington who writes about technology, focus and productivity. "These activities are hard, in that

they require time and concentration to master. But they also offer class and fulfilling rewards."

Mary Sanborn, the communications coordinator for the Folk School Alliance, a nonprofit organization that supports folk education across the United States and Canada, and learning handicrafts offers a way to initiate a sense of community as well as traditional skills.

"It's a way of holding onto things that might one day be lost," she said.

SCHOOL-FOR LIFE

The folk school-envenced emerged in Denmark in the 1960s, when the educator Ythung Frederik Severin Grundtog championed learning rooted in lived experiences, rather than one study. He envisioned "schools for life" that would strengthen rural societies through craftsmanship and lifelong learning. The model spread through Scandinavian, and then is the United States in 1975. Today, more than 100 folk schools operate across the country.

Green Door's founder, Kristian

Schonpol, 37, operates the school on a small plot of land owned by Julie Batsford and Dr. James Resnick, a couple in their 60s who ran a small farm. Ms. Resnick is a retired pharmacist. Dr. Resnick says he works in "any personal research" (i.e., teeth, for 5 minutes).

One evening, students wondered the factsheet with the couple — getting green, foraging for mushrooms and passing to marvel at the smallest discoveries, like wild blueberries growing along the trail.

Susan Luckman, a professor of culture and creative industries at Adelaide University in South Australia and the author of "Craft and the Creative Economy" said that stating positions give "a little bit of self empowerment back in a world that can often feel overwhelming."

"At a very basic level, I think people are looking for something to do recreationally that doesn't involve a screen," she added.

Grandma hobbies are all over the Internet. On Instagram and TikTok, users

have embraced "WIP Wednesday" (clown for "work in progress"), a weekly ritual of sharing updates on projects like knitting and mouthpeaks. Pinterest launches for beginner sewing projects have quadrupled over the past year, before logging by users under 30.

"SELF-FORCEPTALNESS"

At the start of our quitting class, Libby Schonpol, 27, the marketing director at Green Door (and Kristian's daughter), recited a 10th-century line attributed to quitting Schroder, an early folk school-attitude. "With your finger down into the sad and smell where you are. This is where the needs of the people are found, which can be different in different times and places."

Ms. Schroder's point was that a folk school should adapt to the changing needs of its community, rather than preserve tradition for traditional sales. If 10th-century Danes required agricultural education, 21st-century Americans may simply desire a quiet place to make something.

Reviewing a week in progress during a quilting class at the Green Door Folk School in Michigan, above, and displaying the finished items, Mr. Mr. Left, from left. Green Door's founder, Kristian Schonpol, and her daughter, who is the school's marketing director, Libby Schonpol.

My first go at the sewing machine was frustrating. My thread tangled. I rigged out more issues than I finished, basing over the squares in my checkerboard pattern until they aligned exactly as I finished.

The next day, when my squares didn't align and my clothes wandered, I decided to let them in. The repetition — needle in, thread through, pull tight — took over, and something else began to quite: background worries. I could feel my usual mental noise disturbing into the rhythm of the work.

Anne Kitzmeyer, a Danish psychologist and longtime folk school instructor who wrote a book called "Craft Psychology" calls this phenomenon "meaningful self-dysposition."

"When we create something that requires full attention, the part of our brain called 'default mode network' is diminished," Dr. Kitzmeyer said. "The constant inner noise or negative ruminating thoughts are absent."

She added, "That is what we need desperately."

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• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Across Asia, Activist Who Fights, Adelaide University, Admiral Caudle, Admiral Franchetti, After Mr, Allies World War, Although India, Although Mr, Amazon

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Model QA

PDF 翻译质量审核报告 (QA Report)

结论：存在严重阻塞性问题 (Blocking Issues Found) 该翻译版本在忠实度和准确性方面存在重大缺陷，出现了严重的幻觉 (Hallucination)、术语错误以及文本污染。

1. 严重幻觉与内容篡改 (Hallucinations & Fabrications)

• 内容完全偏移：译文在中间部分出现了大段源代码中完全不存在的内容。
  • 例 1：译文中出现了关于“也门、胡塞武装、沙特阿拉伯”的整篇报道，以及“AI 聊天机器人撰写传记”的报道。这些内容在提供的 SOURCE PREVIEW 中完全没有出现。
  • 例 2：译文末尾出现了大量关于“香蕉味饮品/流行趋势”的描述，而原文对应部分是关于“奶奶爱好 (Grandma Hobbies)”和“民众学校 (Folk School)”的讨论。
• 事实错误：译文中将“环孢子菌 (Cyclospora)”错误地翻译/识别为“环孢子菌质酸”或在讨论中混淆。

2. 翻译不忠实与误译 (Faithfulness & Accuracy)

• 关键术语错误：
  • USMCA (美墨加协定) 被翻译为“美墨加协定”，但随后将 Mr. Brown 描述为 trade-supply（贸易供应者），原意应为贸易代表或相关官员。
  • meaningful self-dysposition $\rightarrow$ “有意义的自我处置” (误译，应为心理学相关的自我处置/失调状态)。
  • mouthpeaks $\rightarrow$ “口峰” (完全无意义的直译，原文此处应为某种手工艺品，可能为 OCR 错误，但译文未进行合理化处理)。
• 数字/日期错误：
  • 原文日期 JULY 30, 2020，译文标题却写成 30.07.2026。
  • 原文 10th-century line (应为 19 世纪之误或 OCR 错误) $\rightarrow$ 译文直接写成 “10 世纪名言”，缺乏对常识性错误的修正或标注。

3. 交付缺陷 (Delivery Defects)

• 残留英文块：
  • 保留了 The FARELAND, PAGE 10 等页码/栏目标识，未予翻译。
  • 出现 Phak-Morris 等未翻译的片段。
• 内部清理标签/镜像标记：
  • 标题出现 中文镜像版，属于交付缺陷 (Delivery Defect)。
• 乱码/无意义重复：
  • 在 AI 传记部分，出现了大量重复的 Arden A. C. (2), Burgess A. C. (2) 等无意义列表，严重影响可读性。

4. 截断与顺序问题 (Truncation & Order)

• 结构混乱：译文不仅插入了无关内容，且在处理原文档的分页和章节跳转时逻辑混乱，导致读者无法将译文与原件一一对应。

审计总结： 此翻译件不可用。译者/机器在处理过程中混入了其他文档的内容（污染），且在关键事实和术语上存在大量误导性翻译。建议全盘重做。