Time Off Reviews MOVIES Gyllenhaal only gets Stronger "BOSTON STRONG ” MAY have been the slogan that city needed in the wake 0f the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. But slogans mean nothing ⅲ the face oflife- changing trauma, an idea that vibrate s through Jake Gyllenhaal's agile, unnerving performance ⅲ David Gordon Green's Stronger. GyIIenhaal plays JeffBauman, a real-life marathon spectator who lost both legs in the attack. The day he shows up to watch his ex-girlfriend cross the finish line (she's played, with steel-spined grace, by Tatiana Maslany) becomes the day that forever changes his notion Ofwhat it means tO step up tO the plate, for himselfor for anyone else. Green's film has a tense, nervy energy, most ofwhich seems to glow from Gyllen- very core. one scene, his anguished, hes itant cries give us a sense OfhOW painful it is after an amputation tO have your dressings removed. There's both wildness and weakness in him, an unruly combination that we usually call courage, only because we don't have a better word for it. —STEPHANIE ZACHAREK G. 厄れ h00 s survivor Bauman: Thefirst step is the hardest, closely followed the second Cruise 0 れ d Wright: 0 drug smuggler builds 観 r 楙 m 明 0 e kilO at 0 time Cruise, the smuggest Of drug smugglers THE TRADEMARK TOM CRUISE CHARACTER IS THE cat that eats the canary, lOOks around tO make sure everyone knows hOW awesome he is for getting away with eating said canary—and then eats 10 more. Cruise was practically born tO star in Doug Liman s American Made as Barry Seal, a onetime TWA pilot from Louisiana who smuggled drugs for the Medellfn cartel before becoming a DEA informant. ln reallife, Seal got away with all kinds 0f audaciousness, though the odds did catch up with him: he was murdered, in 1986 , by Medellfn assassins. InAmerican Made, Barry gets away with even more. We watch as he goes to work for the CIA—his handler is a classically inscrutable government fOOt soldier played by Domhnall Gleeson—then enters a deal with a wily Pablo Escobar henchman (Alejandro Edda). Before long he's diverting guns meant for Nicaraguan contras t0 C010mbian drug lords, grinning all the way. Once in a while, he expresses vague worries about the safety ofhis family, including multiple tykes and his seemingly smart but still inexplicably loyal wife Lucy ( Sarah Wright). Cruise plays Barry as an aw-shucks raconteur, and the routine is amusing at first. But midway through American Made, even Cruise devotees might decide enough is enough. At one point, Barry gets thrown in a scary Latin American jail and loses a tOOth along the way, his temporaryjack-o'-lantern smile shining like a beacon ofhuman vulnerability. Cruise lets us have a laugh over it, but that tooth gets fixed pretty fast. We're allowed to laugh with him, not at him. ln the Cruise universe, our jOb iS tO admire. —S. Z. MOVIES STRONGER: SCOTT GARFIELD—LIONSGATE/ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS; AMERICAN MADE: DAVID 」 AMES—UNIVERSAL PICTLJRES ( 2 ) TAPPED OUT Ace pilOt and ' 80S drug smuggler Adler Berriman "Barry Seal, the real-life inspiration for American Made, Often conducted business from pay phones— which is how the FBI eventually caught him. 46 TIME October 9 , 2017

TimeOff ・ THE CHARACTERS ARE NEITHER LIBERATED NOR OPPRESSED BY SELLING THE. MSELVES. ' —NEXT PAGE 1 0 New r た the hard way: PerneII Wa 慊 e ら James Franco 0 れ d Maggie G. ッ″ e れ ha 記ⅲ The Deuce The Deuce speakwith a brisk frankness PRESTIGE TELEVISION IS, IN THE main, notable for itS seriousness Ofpur- that's Often absent elsewhere on TV; pose and for its grimness. But what's that makes it seem like real life. most exciting about HBO'S new drama The story begins with a pair of The Deuce may well be its lightness. twins, both played by James Franco: Which isn't tO say the series isn't Vincent is good,: ” and Frankie is ambitious. The show is set in early- "bad. ” This would be facile if it weren't 1970S Times Square and assays the for the fact that the good twin isn't all lives and livelihoods ofbartenders, that good. Vincent ditches his wife ⅲ prostitutes, pimps and cops at a time order tO immerse himself in making when the concept ofpropriety had long hiS business a success. Meanwhile, since fallen away. Given that setup, Frankie , a gambler, gets tangled up with the mob but also seems equipped The Deuce would have to get a 10t of things right ⅲ order t0 avoid cliché and to de al with it, fluent in the language keep viewers interested. And it does. Of intimidation. ()f Franco's twins are referenced by the show's title, it's only David Simon and George PeIecanos, frequent collaborators who worked a secondary meaning; 'the Deuce ” is local argot for the seedy stretch of together on HBO's The Wire and Treme, have conjured up an immersive West 42nd Street. ) Franco's celebrity can distract from world that's credible because it doesn't his talent. But his double performance feel like pure history. Characters on TELEVISION Porn, prostitutes and heart on HBO's The Deuce By DanieI D 'Addario 0 8 エー一 0 コ V エ一工 0 の 1 コ Vd 43

TheBrief SUPREME COURT 1 卩、 Trump's travel ban might escape judgment THE LEGAL BATTLE OVER PRESIDENT Donald Trump's controversial March ban on travel from six Muslim-majority countries has been put on hold. The day the order expired, Trump issued a version The 8 countries in new Trump travel ban that short-circuited a Supreme Court (Countries in orange along with Sudan, hearing on the ban scheduled for Oct. 10. not shown, were part Of original ban) NOW the immigration and government lawyers readying for a fight at the highest court must help theJustices decide ln Other words, the court wants to figure out whether the case is even worth hearing. whether the expiration ofthe contested travel Trump's new proclamation, unveiled ban and the issuance Ofa new order mean that on Sept. 24 , imposes more tightly focused the case iS no longer a current dispute and travel restrictions on five Of the countries in therefore not subject tO a ruling. the earlier ban—lran, Libya, SomaIia, Syria This doesn't mean the door is shut for the and Yemen—and addS three new nations: Supreme Court tO hear a travel-ban case in the North Korea, Chad and Venezuela. Ever since future. The court could put the same case back Trump announced his original travel ban, on itS calendar after it receives the new briefs. just one week after taking offce (and then But legal experts suspect the most likely revised it one month later), it has been mired outcome is that the court will decide that in legal battles over whether it represents an the case is effectively closed, thus avoiding unconstitutional ban on Muslims entering a me s sy political fight. "I think the court the U. S. Lower courts halted the policy before never wanted this case,' says Garrett Epps, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case. a professor at the University ofBaltimore The highest court then partially upheld School ofLaw. "The case is a stinker, and they the injunctions placed on it ahead of a final would be happy to see the end ofit. ” showdown ⅲ the fall. Even so, the fight may continue. Rights But one day after Trump issued his new groups could choose to file lawsuits against order, the Supreme Court announce d it was the new order, which might start working removing the case from its schedule. The legal their way through the judicial system. Those teams now have until Oct. 5 tO file briefs on affected by the latest iteration of the ban may whether the move renders the matter moot. yet get their day in court. —TESSA BERENSON North Korea TICKER Fraud chargesfor NCAA coaches Four NCAA assistant basketball coaches and an Adidas executive were among 10 people charged by federal authorities in a fraud and corruption probe intO the use Of bribes in the recruitment Of student athletes. lreland to vote on abortion ban lreland's government said itwould ho 旧 a referendum in 2018 on whether tO relax the majority-CathoIic country's strict constitutional ban on abortion. Termination is currently allowed only ifthe life Ofthe mother iS in danger. ThaiIand'sformer PM sentenced toja 社 Thailand's former Prime MinisterYingIuck Shinawatra, whose regime was ousted in a 2014 coup, was sentenced tO five years in jail in absentia. The country's supreme courtfound herguilty Of mishandling a costly government rice- subsidy scheme. Æore charactersfor Twitter users Twitter announced that it is testing a new 280-character limit for posts by selected users, doublingthe current limit. The social network's most prominent user, President Donald Trump, has not yet been granted the extra characters. Syria 4ran Libya Venezuela—-• Yemen Somalia Chad hailing app showed ANNOUNCED GRADUATED "a lack Of corporate HiS eventual resignation A female Marine responsibility" on from the U. S. Senate by 0 市 ce 「 from the safety and security. Tennessee RepubIican U. S. Marines Corps The company is BOb CO 水 e ら whO chairs demanding lnfantry appealing the decision. the powerful Senate Officer Course, for Foreign ReIations the first time. The APPEARED Committee; he said he lieutenant, whO wants British royal Prince will not seek re-election tO keep her identity Harry with his nextyear. private, is the U. S. 's American girlfriend first female infantry Meghan MarkIe, RETIRED officer. an actor, officially Equifax CEO Richard REVOKED together in public for Smith, aftera massive Uber's license to the first time. The pair data breach that operate in し ondon. The were at an lnvictus exposed the personal Games event in city's transportation information Of up tO Toronto. regulator said the ride- 143 million people. Milestones DIED SouIsinger CharIes Bradley, whO battled homelessness and poverty, and whose highly acclaimed debut album NO Timefor Dreamingwas released in 2011. Hewas 68. BRADLEY: RICK MADONIK ・—TORONTO STAR/GETTY IMAGES

LightBox Kurds must now give up control Of their border crossings and airports, his government said, and the region's lucrative 0 il revenue S. Al-Abadi's aggressive response was matched by lraq's neighbors, many ofwhom are grappling with their own Kurdish s eparatist movements. ln lran, Where some Kurds celebrated in the streets in defiance Of Tehran's government, the authorities have closed the airspace to flights heading to the Kurdish region. Turkey staged j 0int military exercises With lraq in response tO the vote, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a dark warning Of an "ethnic and se ctarian war. That may be an exaggeration aimed at Kurdish separatists in Tur- key, but a political crisis is certainly b rewing within lraq's borders , as the standoffbetween Kurdish President Masoud Barzani and al-Abadi deep- ens. The extraordinary success Ofthe yes vote among 3.3 million voters will surely embolden Barzani tO resist the economic pressure and saber rattling from B aghdad. Claiming victory on Sept. 26 , he said, "Negotiations are the right path t0 solve the problems, not threats or the language Offorce. ” The Kurdish separatists and the central government each have much t0 lose and gain in the dispute. At stake is more than 15 , 400 sq. mi. Of disputed territory, including the city of Kirkuk, now controlled by Kurdish militias after lraqi soldiers deserted it when lslamic state forces advanced in 2014. Tensions among the city's Kurds, Sunni and Shi'ite Arabs and ethnic Turkmen were already high before the vote. Now there is a virtual tinderbox sitting on top Of Oil reserves that produce up t0 400 , 000 barrels a day—an economic prize for whoever endS up controlling it. Whatever happens next, the unity that briefly held sway across this country as ISIS was driven out Of its mainstay in Mosul has gone, and lraq's future once again iS an open question. —JARED MALSIN For more ofour bestphotography, visittime.com/lightbox Police ho 旧 c た 0 crowd 可 peo 厄 waiting tO VOte 砒 0 〃 0 ″ⅲ g s ⅱ 0 れⅲ E 浦 0 れ Sept. 25

9 Questions e 取 Pao The former Reddit CEO may have lost her 2015 discrimination suit against venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins, but she's moving ahead with her mission the ladder ⅲ spite Of it? The re are YO 収 write ⅲ your new bOOk, Reset, times when your best bet iS tO stay, even abO 収亡 how Kleiner Perkins tried 亡 0 if there are problems. Racism and sexism get YO 収 intO arbitration, which would are systemic issues in tech, SO there aren t have kept your case private. Why many places you can go where you're not did YO 収 say no? Arbitration is generally going tO encounter some form Of them. part Of mo st employee contracts at large companies in most industries. I think it hinders the free flow ofinformation. lt's What tech companies are succeeding supposed t0 be designed t0 allow for faster, at inclusion? There are no companies that you can call successful—where 50 % cheaper resolution. But it Often ends up covering bad behavior. I thinkwe've seen Ofthe executives are female, where racial diversity reflects the population. with the revelations at FOX News that persistent harassment was hidden. What was your reaction tO the Google engmeer's me 一期 0 earlier this year? DO yo 収 worry that encouragmg I was relieved to see the CEO fire him, women or minorities tO speak up because when you have somebody in your discourages companies from hiring organization WhO believes that women them? That's just a terrible way to run are biologically inferior engineers, I don't your company. Almost nobody litigates. lt's draining financially, p sychologically, know hOW you build an inclus ive culture emotionally and professionally. Betting around that. That there are people who continue tO believe that women lower your company on that 0.01 % risk that someone Will sue makes no sense. the bar is incredibly disappointing but unfortunately not a surprise. What would yo 収 advise women whO experrence sexism or harassment in HOW has society's perception Of sex- the workplace tO dO? Get out. These are ism in tech changed since your case? people WhO arejust not going tO accept When I litigated, people didn't believe you. You're not going tO get promoted. me. And ifyou look at the reception of You don't have to prove yourselfbecause Susan Fowler's blog [on sexism at Uber], there's no way to do that. lfyou don't have there was a beliefthat this had hap- Other opportunities, try tO find someone pened. I think it's because there have been many women and men WhO have 、 3 else tO work with within the company. shared their own experiences. calling に物 out these problems over the past five Some people argue that the reason years has made a difference. few women make it tO the executive level is that they opt 0 収 t tO have kids. DO yo 収 think that's む設 e ? That has not As CEO ofReddit, yo 収 shut been my experience. The Kapor Center down some abusive sub recently conducted a national study reddits.Where should social- looking at why people leave their techjobs. media sites draw the line The biggest reason was workplace culture. between free speech and When people hear sexist comments, abuse? The line is clear: when when they feel they are unfairly critiqued, there's behavior that is in- when they see people being promoted tended tO cause people tO for opportunities they should have been be pushed 0 a platform, promoted for, they leave. lt's not that they your platform is no longer sudde nly want tO be stay-at-home moms. encouraging free speech. They'rejust tired ofthe sexism. The whole concept offree speech iS oriented around different voices being able What dO yo 収 make of a situation like tO share and discuss ideas. that Of Megyn Kelly, where someone endures harassment but moves up —ELIANA DOCKTERMAN 52 TIME October 9 , 2017 'When you have somebody ⅲ your organization who believes that women are biologically inferior engineers, I don't know how you build an inclusive culture. ' BRIAN FLA 工 ERTY—T 工 E NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX

The View LETTER FROM SEOUL What really worries SO t Koreans: Trump By Norman PearIstine IN THE ESCALATING STANDOFF BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP and KimJong Un, Seoul is ground zero. Just 35 miles 仕 om the demilitarized zone, the metropolitan area Of 25 million, with its fashionable, upscale entertainment bars , globe-spanning banks and new 123- sto Lotte Group building, could be wiped offthe m 叩ⅲ any conflict by North Korea's artillery, let alone itS ever improving nuclear arsenal. But it's not Kim that the urbane population Of this capital is most worried about. lt is Trump's seeming indifference tO the value ofWashington's alliance with their city that con- fuses the citizens 0fSeoul. Theyworry that the American President, who has suggested he might abandon U. S. defense ofthe South, or open a trade warwith it, is working with an outdated understanding of the peninsula, and the region ・ South Korea's growth story is the envy ofthe developing world. ln the 1950S , postwar South Koreawas one ofthe poorest places on earth. Thanks tO smart economic policies, incentives for entrepreneurs, foreign investment and generous U. S. government and military support, this nation has emerged with one ofthe dozen highest GDPs in the world, and has an annual per capita income ofmore than $ 27 , 000. T0day Seoul is a Big New York. lts people are well fed and well dressed, and its young strivers are far t00 cool to think Br00klyn is the only place t01 ⅳ e. While South Koreans may complain that their new, shiny cars are Often stuck in traff1C, they take pride in them and in the scores ofimpressive new buildings. We should feel good about whatAmericans and South Koreans have accomplished together. AT A MOMENT WHEN the U. S. , South Korea and their pacific partners have SO much tO lose, South Koreans worry that Trump isn't helping. First there are the economic dangers. After abandoning the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump has threatened to pull out ofAmerica's free-trade deal with South Korea, and there is concern that he may seek additional protectionist measures. There could be big costs in such a separation Of South Korea'S intere StS 仕 OI れ America's. Already, South Korean trade with China is more than twice as great as its exports t0 the U. S. IfAmerica fails t0 support South Korea, it increases the odds that South Korea may find China a more reliable partner. Then there are the military concerns. Many Seoul- based analysts who have studied KimJong Un say Trump is wrong to think him a "madman ” bent on self- destruction. They insist that Kim is rational and that his goal is to stay in power for decades, ultimately reunifying North and S outh Korea under his control. If Trump's "Rocket Man ” taunts are supposed tO bring Kim t0 the negotiating table, they aren't working. lnstead, that belligerence plays into Kim's hands, giving himjustification for devoting so many resources tO his own militarybuildup. 20 TIME October 9 , 2017 EXPLOSIVE WEALTH $ 133.45 South Korea's per capita GDP—the value Of goods and services produced by a country, per resident—in 1966 $ 27 , 538.81 South Korea's per capita GDP in 2016 , a tOta lth at represents 271 % of the world average North Korea's tO 石 r れ ruler Kim れ g Un Which is not to say South Koreans are soft on Kim. They cringe when they hear him talk about his dreams ofreuni- fying the peninsula under North Korean rule. They rightly agree that his family dynasty has turned North Korea int0 a criminal enterprise Whose economyben- efits from drug traffcking, counterfeit- ing, cybercrime and money laundering. They fear that Kim, given the chance, would have no qualms about treating South Koreans as badly as he treats his own citizens. That feeling stretches be- yond the peninsula t0 the rest ofthe countries in the region. Neither China norJapan wants tO see a nation Of75 mil- lion people on the peninsula reunified under North Korean control. THE ISSUE OF NUKES turns Trump S po- tential misreading Ofthe peninsula intO a matter oflife and death for each ofthem, and millions more. 、 my first visit tO Seoul ⅲ 1973 , fittingly, was t0 attend a confer- ence hosted by Herman Kahn, the author 0f0 ThermonucIear War and then head content Offcer 0 れ d editor-in-chief Pearlstine is aformer Time 加 c. c 履げ look for peaceful alternatives. convinces North Korea and China tO there, might be the one threat that a continuing U. S. military pre sence fear 0f such weapons, coupled with nuclear weapons in South Korea. But would oppose the reintroduction of Soviet Union coll 叩 sed. Many ⅲ SeouI it wasn't removed until 1991 , when the nuclear arsenal in the late 1950S , and The U. S. first surrounded Seoul with a refusing tO negotiate in good faith. continuing his nucle ar buildup while in South Korea, should Kim insist on tactical nuclear weapons Of itS own the U. S. may want to consider puttlng bolster its crucial East Asian alliances, To forestall that possibility, and to likely to use them when threatened. possessing such weapons might be more worried that leaders ofsmall countries nucle ar proliferation was inevitable and great growth story. Kahn also thought vinced that it would become the next trained his sights on South Korea, con- templating nucle ar annihilation, had economic miracle When he wasn't con- spent years analyzingJapan's postwar ofthe Hudson lnstitute. Kahn, who had

D LAND 第 A 蓚 THE PARADISE REFUGEES BELIEVE IT TO BE? IN THE SUMMER OF 2015 , A CURIOUS piece 0f world news brought a flicker of hope to the wretched Syrian city of Palmyra. lslamic State fighters had taken over the ancient town, toppling its monu- ments and executing anyone WhO resisted their draconian rules. And yet at one Of the City'S darkest moments, rumors Of a sanctuary far away began t0 filter ⅲ , gen- erating dreams among a populace that had already lost everything. On Aug. 31 ofthat year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that her country was prepared to take in hundreds ofthousands ofrefu- gees fleeing war in the Middle East. "We can dO this; ” she said in a speech in Ber- lin, calling it a "national duty ” t0 support those in danger. Across Syria, preoccupa- tions with the civil war gave way tO fan- tasies 0f an unlikely new promised land: the Germany ofMama Merkel. The Chancellor suddenly became a positive punch line t0 dark jokes about Syrians' futures, says Yehiya M0ham- mad, a driver from Palmyra wh0 at the time had just been released from one 0f syrian president Bashar Assad's notori- ous prisons. "People would be talking t0 each other … One would suggest, Just go ・ ' 'Go where?' 'GO to Mama Merkel—she's accepting everyone. As the war eviscerated what was le 仕 0f Syria's schools and hospitals, many Syrians like M0hammad realized that they had no choice but t0 leave ifthey wanted their children to have a future. Taimaa Abazli, a 25-year-01d ethereal beauty from 第を ~ NourAltallaa,her husband us げ A r 〃 0 d their daughter Rahafexplore their new home ⅲ 0 camp Bad Berleburg, Germany, on 19

MOVIES MOVIES Books, rats and elegant shoes A sublime farewell tO Stanton in c リ HARRY DEAN STANTON, WHO DIED ON e 0 Aイ0れ・—Stanton's gifts prove tO Sept. 15 at age 91 , always 100ked a little be the quiet kind. He doesn't show old and a little young. He had one of emotion; it'S incandescent Within him, those no-age faces, SO radiant in itS like a night-light. ragged beauty that assigning a number Lucky was written by Logan Sparks to it always felt thankless, ifnot outright and Drago SumonJa specifically for wrong. ln も乢 one ofhis final films— Stanton, and director Lynch and the feature directorial debut Of actor cinematographer Tim Suhrstedt d0 John CarroII Lynch (ShutterIsIand, himjustice in every frame. Even as we Gran Torino)—he plays watch, Stanton's face seems a man living quietly but tO melt intO the landscape A VETERAN mindfully ⅲ a small desert ACTOR around him, a kingdom 0f Stanton, like his c acti reaching toward the town. Lucky's day starts character Lucky, with a few cigarettes and a sky with tiers of sheltering was a World War Ⅱ yoga interlude, segues intO mountains in the distance. Navy veteran. He breakfast with a cros sword One ofthe movie's finest was a crew member aboard a tank- lines ofdialogue is one that puzzle at the diner and landing ship in the Stanton's Lucky shrugs 0 圧 ends with a drink down at Battle of Okinawa. when, on his walk home the bar, where his friends after breakfast, he stops at include an elegant, vaguely the convenience store for hiS customary forlorn-looking geezer named Howard carton Of milk. He chats for a minute (David Lynch, quixotic and marvelous). with the friendly proprietor before Howard is mourning the departure taking his leave: "Well, I gotta go, my ofhis elderly pet tortoise, who sneaked out and never returned. Lucky comforts shows are on. " You may have heard 0f the lrish goodbye, or the French exit : the Howard almost without shifting his practice ofleaving a party swiftly and expression. ln this role, as With SO quietly. This is the Stanton goodbye. If many characters OfhiS—・ the amnesiac only every actor we loved could leave us wanderer in 20 ⅱ s , Texas, the deadpan- with a farewell film like this one. —s. z. philosophical car repossessor in Three documentaries out now that deserve tO be on your radar. —S. Z. IN THE STACKS With Ex Libris: New York Public Library, prolific 87-year-old film- maker FrederickWiseman trains his ultra-perceptive lens onthe NYPL system, an organism that makes NewYorkers' lives better in ways bigand small. OF RATS AND MEN The rat-phobic may shy away. But Theo Anthony's Rat Film is as much about a city—specifically, Baltimore—as it is about rodents, lt's a sympathetic, if sometimes disturbing,look at hOW rats and humans get ong. Or don't. 犬 0 厄可 0 lifetime: The character 可 ,Lucky was W れ e れ 工 br S れ tO れ のョ」 X08 OIS コ】 0 コ】エ一のコこ工 VBOddIZ 】の lH8 コ X3 一 S3 エコ 10 一 d V コ ON9V"N 】 AMO ココ THE ART OF THE HEEL Michael Roberts' Manolo: The Boy Ⅳわ 0 Made Shoes forLizards, a portrait Of high-heel maestro Manolo Blahnik, is pure delight for anyone WhO cares about shoes 0 「 aboutthe intricacies Of true craftsmanship. 47

presidential visit t0 the U. S. Virgin lslands and Puerto Rico for Oct. 3. "No gasoline, no water, no nada; ” says Reynaldo Valdez, 57 , driving through a San Juan that looks as though it's been raked. MARIA MADE LAND FALL on the island's southeastern corner, With sustained WindS Of 155 m. p. h. That's more force than that 0f most tornadoes. This particular cyclone covered the entire island, which is 40 miles at its widest point. "lmagine if a hurricane started in Florida and ended up in Washington State; ” NASA disaster offcial MigueI Romån pointed out. "That's what we're dealing with here. AS meteorologists watched the s atellite imagery—radar had been knocked out—Maria stuttered across the island. The inland hills that rise more than 3 , 000 代 . above the heart Of puertO RiCO were drawing moisture out Of the storm, which loosed torrents Of rain. FIash floods tore through valleys, and hillsides collapsed, pulling down houses already shorn Of their roofs. Roadways were turned intO tunnels as trees 0 Ⅱ bOth sides fell intO one another. The entire electricity grid came down, taking with it the pumps that supply drinking water. A week after the storm, 16 people were reported dead, and 44 % ofresidents lacked potable water. A massive reliefoperation was under way—the military planned 240 flights t0 the Virgin lslands and PuertO RiCO ⅲ one 24- hour period—but in a territory nearly the size Of Connecticut, the challenge was getting the help tO remote areas. Off1cials warn that it may be months before power is restored across the island, not least because the grid had decayed as the territory's government was engulfed by a metastasizing debt crisis over the past few years. But while Trump tweeted about the island's debts t0 Wall Street, offcials understood that Maria had also le 仕 behind the gift of leverage. More Puerto Ricans now live on the mainland than on the island. Migration, already up markedly in recent years, may surge tO new heights if swaths Of the territory remain unlivable. "lfwe want tO prevent, for example, a mass exodus, we have tO take action; ” Rosse116 said. "Congress, take note: Take action. Permit puertO RiCO tO have the necessary resources. Outs ide the shuttered h0tel she manage s ⅲ the capital's beachside Condad0 district, Evel Torres reinforced the point. "Everything is closed in PuertO Rico; ” she tOld me with a smile. "l'm going with you tO the States! ” 0 0 , ↓ーに ロ 41

but was outbid. committed suicide in prison in April at coming out as Caitlyn. Part 0f the power When his overtures were spurned, he Of sports is that the imaginary intimacy age 27 ・ lashed out against the league like a jilted between fans and their icons can spur PROFESSIONAL SPORTS have long been suitor. As the NFL grapples with an es- social change. calating crisis over CTE—the degenera- a looking glass for American culture and By the dawn of the 1990S , though, tive brain disease associated with the head identity. At the Berlin Olympics in 1936 , star athletes had become more con- trauma players suffer on the field— Trump the black track star Jesse Owens domi- cerned with protecting their earning po- has derided league executives for their at- nated international competition, dispel- tential than using their talent tO oppose tempts t0 mitigate the damage inflicted by ling Nazi theories ofracial superiority in social injustice. Michael Jordan dodged collisions. "Football has become soft like the process. ln 1940S Brooklyn, Jackie politics as deftly as he did defenders: in our country has become SO 仕 , ” he thun- Robinson broke baseball's C010r barrier, the mid-1990s, the native Tar Heel de- dered in January 2016 at a rally. marking the beginning ofthe end of seg- clined tO endorse a black candidate in a Trump's lament over efforts tO guard regation in the nation's top sports leagues. Senate contest against the segregation- ist Jesse Helms. "Republicans buy shoes too; ” he supposedly told a friend, accord- ing tO an account by author Sam Smith. ln a Nike commercial, fellow basketball star Charles Barkley delivered a line that captured the ethos Ofthe era: "I am not a ビ 3 洋引 0 role model. ” Silence on SOCial issues was seen as a fair trade-off for fat contracts and lucrative endorsement deals. m ぐⅱ C00 Bit by bit, and then in a series Of 05 giant leaps, that reticence tO engage has faded. NBA stars such as LeBron James and Chris Paul endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. Four years later, James led his Miami Heat teammates in donning h00die s after Trayvo n Martin, an unarmed black teen in Florida, was shot dead. ln 2016 , NBA stars opened the ESPY Awards with a speech against police brutality. Then came C01in Kaepernick's sideline protest, which trickled through the ranks of college athletics—where a debate has raged over the creation of a multibillion-dollar industry on the backs of free labor—all the way down t0 youth sports. lt was in this context that Trump's attack on Kaepernick and the NFL landed. lt has been a jolt t0 the NFL in human safety, of all things, is one more A Tennessee Ti s 工れ hoists 0 sign particular. The NFL is one Of the most way Trump has turned the sport intO a during 0 game against the Seattle culturally conservative professional new front in the culture wars. "lf there's Seahawks ⅲ Nashville 0 Sept. 24 leagues, and it has arguably the trickiest ever an issue that shouldn't be political, relationship with race. lt is a sport in it's head trauma in football,: ” says cultural which mostly white fans pay t0 watch The social role of athletes intensified historian Michael Oriard, a former NFL mostly black (some 70 % of players are in the 1960S and ' 70S , when superstars lineman. And yet, he adds, "the response African American) athletes pummel with an activist bent such as Bill Russell, Trump gets seems tO justify the assump- one another. The gladiatorial aspect is Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe helped tion that the nanny state orwhomever are underlined by the fact that 30 of the 31 shape the era's civil-rights movement. ruining the grand old violent game. private-team owners are white. Unlike Tennis star Billie Jean King blazed a trail lndeed, Trump trotted out the bit in the NBA and MLB, contracts are not for female and LGBT athletes, and HIV- again during his visit t0 football-mad guaranteed, which means that every time positive diver Greg Louganis challenged Alabama. The President's remarks came a player takes the field, his career can end misconceptions about the virus. The one day after a new report indicated with a single violent tackle. The owners Olympic-g01d-medalist decathlete that Aaron Hernandez, a former Patriots veer politically conservative, yet the formerly known as Bruce Jenner changed tight end whO was convicted Of murder, econom1C victories that they have won— the debate about transgender issues after had suffered from the disease when he 33 Tennessean. の 39VbN 一Åトト 39 ー N0033d8 YO を 303 ェ」