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On Nov. 8, American voters forthe first time in history will see awoman’s name on the ballot as amajor party’s nominee for presi-dent. A broad majority of voters —men and women — say they arehappy this milestone has beenreached, but fully half of them saythey would have preferred thatthat first woman not be HillaryClinton, according to the latestNew York Times/CBS News poll.

The poll looked closely at

women’s political views andbroader outlook on American life,as well as how the wider societyviews the role of women. The sur-vey found that women think moreprogress has been made towardending sexism than racism in soci-ety. They value motherhood morethan marriage. They think thatsexual harassment is a significantissue in the workplace. And theythink the greatest problem facingAmerican women is inequality inpay and career opportunities.

Mrs. Clinton is supported by 52percent of women likely to vote inNovember, while 39 percent back

Mr. Trump.Mr. Trump’s problems with

women are significant: 55 percentof female respondents say he doesnot respect women and about halfthink a Trump presidency wouldbe bad for women. Only 11 percentthink electing him would be goodfor women, while 45 percent ofwomen say Mrs. Clinton’s electionwould benefit them.

Mrs. Clinton’s nomination hasdone little to reverse women’s per-ceptions of gender discriminationin America, and in many cases,

Spot on Ballot Is No Cure-All, Women Say in PollBy MARY JO MURPHY

and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN

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LEGISLATION DIES A criminal-justice overhaul bill seemed ready forbipartisan approval. The election got in the way. PAGE A8

It was not true in 2011, whenDonald J. Trump mischievouslybegan to question PresidentObama’s birthplace aloud intelevision interviews. “I’m start-ing to think that he was not bornhere,” he said at the time.

It was not true in 2012, whenhe took to Twitter to declare that“an ‘extremely credible source’”had called his office to informhim that Mr. Obama’s birth cer-tificate was “a fraud.”

It was not true in 2014, whenMr. Trump invited hackers to“please hack Obama’s collegerecords (destroyed?) and check‘place of birth.’”

It was never true, any of it. Mr.Obama’s citizenship was never inquestion. No credible evidenceever suggested otherwise.

Yet it took Mr. Trump fiveyears of dodging, winking andjoking to surrender to reality,finally, on Friday, after a remark-able campaign of relentless de-ception that tried to underminethe legitimacy of the nation’s firstblack president.

In fact, it took Mr. Trump muchlonger than that: Mr. Obamareleased his short-form birthcertificate from the Hawaii De-partment of Health in 2008. Mostof the world moved on.

But not Mr. Trump.He nurtured the conspiracy

like a poisonous flower, wateringand feeding it with an ardor thatstill baffles and embarrassesmany around him.

Mr. Trump called up like-minded sowers of the same cor-rosive rumor, asking them foradvice on how to take a false-hood and make it mainstream in2011, as he weighed his own runfor the White House.

“What can we do to get to thebottom of this?” Mr. Trumpasked Joseph Farah, an authorwho has long labored on thefringes of political life. “What canwe do to turn the tide?”

What he could do — and whathe did do — was talk about it,uninhibitedly, on social media,where dark rumors flourish in140-character bursts and, inevita-bly, find a home with those whohave no need for facts and whosesuspicions can never be allayed.

And he mused about it ontelevision, where bright lightsand sparse editing ensure thatmillions can hear falsehoodsunchallenged by fact-checking.

“Why doesn’t he show his birth

Trump Gives Up a LieBut Refuses to RepentNo Apology After 5 Years of Nurturing‘Birther’ Issue to Undermine Obama

NEWS ANALYSIS

By MICHAEL BARBARO

Mr. Obama released his long-form birth certificate in 2011.

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Donald J. Trump, campaigning Friday in Washington, finally acknowledged that President Obama was born in the United States.DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

The message to the dozens ofWells Fargo workers gathered fora two-day ethics workshop in SanDiego in mid-2014 was loud andclear: Do not create fake bank ac-counts in the name of unsuspect-ing clients.

Similar warnings were beingrelayed from corporate headquar-ters in San Francisco to regionalbankers in Texas, as senior man-agement learned that some Wellsemployees had been trying tomeet exacting sales goals by cre-ating sham bank accounts andcredit cards instead of making le-gitimate sales.

Across the vast retail bank,more “risk professionals” weredeployed in efforts to stamp outthe illegal activity.

But the bank’s efforts were notenough. Three years after the firstfalse accounts were exposed pub-licly and the authorities began in-vestigating, Wells, one of the na-tion’s largest banks, said it wasstill firing employees over the

questionable accounts well intothis year.

Some former employees say theexplanation is simple: Wells hascontinued to push the sales goalsthat caused employees to breakthe rules in the first place. In fact,the goals at the center of a $185million civil settlement and inves-tigations by prosecutors in threestates are not set to be phased outfor another three months.

“They warned us about thistype of behavior and said, ‘Youmust report it,’ but the reality wasthat people had to meet theirgoals,” said Khalid Taha, a formerWells Fargo personal banker whoresigned in July. “They needed a

Warned About Excesses, Then Prodded to SellBy MICHAEL CORKERY

and STACY COWLEY

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Bending the Rules atWells Fargo Just toGet ‘a Paycheck’

DAKAR, Senegal — TheYouTube video shows a grimscene from Ivory Coast: An un-armed man lies on a street withhis arms up. A police officer fires ashot that appears to strike him.

The man, a theft suspect,squirms on the road as the officerkicks and hovers over him, firinghis weapon several times near hishead, bullets hitting the groundjust inches away. The officer thenaims directly at the man’s fore-head and pulls the trigger, killinghim.

The video, recorded by an on-looker using a cellphone camera,spread widely across social mediathis summer, attracting com-ments like “What is this horror.”

“Isn’t this what’s happening inthe USA right now?” one viewerwrote. “We’re killing innocentpeople.”

Inspired by the videos that havecaptured police killings and de-fined the Black Lives Mattermovement in the United States,West Africans are increasinglydeploying social media in nationswhere corruption and abuse bysecurity forces sometimes occurwith few repercussions.

In America, videos of white po-lice officers shooting unarmedblack men have caused a socialuprising, exposing what manypeople see as a deadly nationalbias in law enforcement.

Here in West Africa, where cell-phone and internet use has ex-ploded in recent years and socialmedia websites are hugely popu-lar, race is rarely a factor in thevideos being shared online. But

Africans TurnA Video Lens On the Police

By DIONNE SEARCEYand JAIME YAYA BARRY

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European Unionleaders are consid-ering greatercoordinationamong theirarmed forces asvoter sentimentagainst the blocspreads. PAGE A6

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Europe Ponders Military TiesPrison sentences were delivered threemonths after the men were convicted offirst-degree attempted gang assault inthe beating of an inmate. PAGE A13

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6 Ex-Rikers Guards Sentenced

As the Chinese rush to take stakes inthe European technology industry,skeptics are asking questions about theorigins of the money and what theinvestors have in mind. PAGE B1

Europe Wary of China Buyers

It never madesense to shop in abright showroom,but a few compa-nies have the rightidea. Now if onlyreturns wereeasier, Ron Lieberwrites. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

Seeking the Perfect Mattress

Gov. Paul R. LePage’s denigrating ofrefugees has left many recent arrivalsconcerned about living there. PAGE A8

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An Unwelcome Mat in Maine

The special Arts &Leisure survey ofthe performancelandscape includesa profile of TaylorMac, right, and hismarathon piece “A24-Decade Historyof Popular Music.”

THIS WEEKEND

The New Season

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Alumni embracing a Joe Paterno eventseem fine with his connection to JerrySandusky, Juliet Macur writes. PAGE D1

SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6

Penn State’s Puzzling Priorities

The Toronto International Film Festi-val, with its 400 features and shorts,offers a preview of several must-seefilms. A critic’s notebook. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

A Breath of Fresh Fall Film

A dozen notable playwrights recall howthings went the first time they tried towrite for the stage. PAGE C2

What They Wrote at 18

EDWARD ALBEE, 1928-2016

Edward Albee, widely consid-ered the foremost American play-wright of his generation, whosepsychologically astute and pierc-ing dramas explored the con-tentiousness of intimacy, the gapbetween self-delusion and truthand the roiling desperation be-neath the facade of contemporarylife, died Friday at his home inMontauk, N.Y. He was 88.

His personal assistant, JakobHolder, confirmed the death. Mr.Holder said he had died after ashort illness.

Mr. Albee’s career began afterthe death of Eugene O’Neill andafter Arthur Miller and TennesseeWilliams had produced most oftheir best-known plays. Fromthem he inherited the torch ofAmerican drama, carrying itthrough the era of Tony Kushnerand “Angels in America;” AugustWilson and his Pittsburgh cycle;and into the 21st century.

He introduced himself suddenlyand with a bang, in 1959, when hisfirst produced play, “The ZooStory,” opened in Berlin on a dou-ble bill with Samuel Beckett’s“Krapp’s Last Tape.” A two-handed one-act that unfolds inreal time, “The Zoo Story” zeroedin on the existential terror at theheart of Eisenhower-era compla-cency, presenting the increasinglymenacing intrusion of a probing,querying stranger on a man read-ing on a Central Park bench.

When the play came to theProvincetown Playhouse inGreenwich Village the next year, ithelped propel the blossoming the-ater movement that becameknown as Off Broadway.

In 1962, Mr. Albee’s Broadwaydebut, “Who’s Afraid of VirginiaWoolf?” the famously scabrousportrait of a withered marriage,won a Tony Award for best play,ran for more than a year and halfand enthralled and shockedtheatergoers with its depiction ofstifling academia and of a couplewhose relationship has been cor-roded by dashed hopes, woundingrecriminations and drink.

The 1966 film adaptation, di-rected by Mike Nichols and star-

ring Richard Burton and Eliza-beth Taylor, turned the play intoMr. Albee’s most famous work; ithad, he wrote three decades later,“hung about my neck like a shin-ing medal of some sort — reallynice but a trifle onerous.”

But it stands as representative,too, an early example of theheightened naturalism he oftenventured into, an expression ofthe viewpoint that self-interest isa universal, urgent, irresistible

The Trenchant Playwright of a Desperate EraBy BRUCE WEBER

Edward Albee at his home in 1991. “All of my plays are aboutpeople missing the boat, closing down too young,” he said.

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Critics say a wide-scale crackdown hasreached witch-hunt proportions, en-snaring not just coup plotters but citi-zens with the wrong book, job or bankaccount. PAGE A4

Rising Fear of Turkish Purge

MIAMI — Donald J. Trumponce again raised the specter of vi-olence against Hillary Clinton,suggesting Friday that the SecretService agents who guard her vol-untarily disarm to “see what hap-pens to her” without their protec-tion.

“I think that her bodyguardsshould drop all weapons,” Mr.Trump said at a rally in Miami, toloud applause. “I think theyshould disarm. Immediately.”

He went on: “Let’s see whathappens to her. Take their gunsaway, O.K. It’ll be very danger-ous.”

In justifying his remarks, Mr.Trump falsely claimed that Mrs.Clinton wants to “destroy yourSecond Amendment,” apparentlya reference to her gun control poli-cies.

Presidential nominees are pro-tected at all times by heavilyarmed teams of Secret Serviceagents, some uniformed and someundercover, who are devoted tothe candidates’ physical safety.

Mr. Trump’s comments were aprovocative echo of widely con-demned remarks he made in earlyAugust at a campaign rally inWilmington, N.C. There, he airilysuggested that gun rightssupporters should rise up againstMrs. Clinton if she were elected tostop her from appointing judgeswho might favor stricter gun reg-ulation.

“If she gets to pick her judges,nothing you can do, folks,” Mr.Trump said, as the crowd began toboo. He quickly added, “Althoughthe Second Amendment people —maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Those remarks were widely in-terpreted as an invitation for gun-

‘See What Happens’ to ClintonIf Guards Disarm, Trump Says

This article is by Nick Corasaniti,Nicholas Confessore and MichaelBarbaro.

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CAMPAIGN CONFLICT Is Donald J. Trump’s $1 trillion tax-cut plan forsmall businesses on or off? It depends on his audience. PAGE A11

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Bratton’s Formal Farewell