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Today, cloudy, rain, some heavy, milder, high 61. Tonight, evening rain, mostly cloudy, mild, low 55. To- morrow, cloudy, occasional rain, high 62. Weather map, Page B10. VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,431 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+&!;!$!=!] Trevor Noah, below, the host of “The Daily Show,” describes in a new book his harrowing South African childhood as the son of a Xhosa mother and a Swiss-German father. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 Memoir of a Biracial Boyhood The expansion of state Medicaid pro- grams under the Affordable Care Act has brought coverage to previously uninsured shooting victims. PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-6 After the Bullets Hit Jimmy Carter PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 SHAKTOOLIK, Alaska — In the dream, a storm came and Betsy Bekoalok watched the river rise on one side of the village and the ocean on the other, the water swallowing up the brightly col- ored houses, the fishing boats and the four-wheelers, the school and the clinic. She dived into the floodwaters, frantically searching for her son. Bodies drifted past her in the half- darkness. When she finally found the boy, he, too, was lifeless. “I picked him up and brought him back from the ocean’s bot- tom,” Ms. Bekoalok remembered. The Inupiat people who for cen- turies have hunted and fished on Alaska’s western coast believe that some dreams are portents of things to come. But here in Shaktoolik, one need not be a prophet to predict flooding, especially during the fall storms. Laid out on a narrow spit of sand between the Tagoomenik River and the Bering Sea, the vil- lage of 250 or so people is facing an imminent threat from increased flooding and erosion, signs of a changing climate. With its proximity to the Arctic, Alaska is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the United States and the state is heading for the warmest year on record. The gov- ernment has identified at least 31 Alaskan towns and cities at immi- nent risk of destruction, with Climate Change Pushes Towns In Alaska to Wrenching Choice By ERICA GOODE Brightly colored houses line the single road in Shaktoolik, Alaska, where the waters are rising. JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES CARBON’S CASUALTIES A Threatened Village Prepares Continued on Page A12 WASHINGTON — In the first few months of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, if recent history is any guide, intelligence officials will meet to discuss a terrorism sus- pect living abroad. This suspect might become the next target for the nation’s not-so-secret drone force. Or maybe, Mr. Trump’s ad- visers could decide, he is worth trying to capture. Under President Obama, secu- rity officials have followed a famil- iar script once they have taken someone into custody. They ask an allied country to conduct the in- terrogation, or instead question the suspect aboard an American warship using military interroga- tion techniques, then turn him over to the Justice Department for prosecution in a civilian court in- side the United States. Mr. Trump campaigned on a promise to bring back water- boarding, a banned method previ- ously used by C.I.A. interrogators, and allow unspecified practices he called “a hell of a lot worse.” The president-elect said in an inter- view last week that he had heard compelling arguments that tor- ture was not effective, though it is not clear whether he intends to re- treat from his position. If he moves ahead to fulfill his campaign pledge, it will not be easy. Federal law, international pressure and resistance from in- side the C.I.A. stand in his way. Even if he overcomes those obsta- cles, the toll of America’s agoniz- ing treatment of captives has left a legacy of harm that will make it harder for Trump administration lawyers to justify resuming use of the tactics. Dozens of prisoners developed persistent psychological prob- lems after enduring torture and other brutal interrogation tactics in secret C.I.A. prisons or at the PLAN TO REVIVE WATERBOARDING FACES OBSTACLES A TRUMP CAMPAIGN VOW Return to Torture Tactics Would Set Off Legal and Moral Fight By MATT APUZZO and JAMES RISEN Continued on Page A19 BEIRUT, Lebanon — With the Syrian government making large territorial gains in Aleppo on Monday, routing rebel fighters and sending thousands of people fleeing for their lives, President Bashar al-Assad is starting to look as if he may survive the uprising, even in the estimation of some of his staunchest opponents. Yet, Mr. Assad’s victory, if he should achieve it, may well be Pyrrhic: He would rule over an economic wasteland hampered by a low-level insurgency with no end in sight, diplomats and ex- perts in the Middle East and else- where say. As rebel forces in Aleppo ab- sorbed the harshest blow since they seized more than half the city four years ago, residents reported seeing people cut down in the streets as they searched franti- cally for shelter. The assault punc- tuated months of grinding battle that has destroyed entire neigh- borhoods of the city, once Syria’s largest and an industrial hub. If Aleppo fell, the Syrian gov- ernment would control the coun- try’s five largest cities and most of its more populous west. That would leave the rebels fighting Mr. Assad with only the northern province of Idlib and a few iso- lated pockets of territory in Aleppo and Homs Provinces and around the capital, Damascus. But analysts doubted that would put an end to five years of war that have driven five million Syrians into exile and killed at least a quarter of a million people. Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran di- plomat in the Middle East, includ- Assad’s Prize If He Prevails: Syria in Tatters A Nation of Insurgency and Economic Ruin By ALISSA J. RUBIN Continued on Page A10 HAVANA — It seemed like a fresh moment in a long and trou- bled history. Thousands of Cubans bid farewell to Fidel Castro on Mon- day, filing into a plaza where he of- ten railed against American impe- rialism. The same morning, the first regularly scheduled flight from the United States in more than 50 years landed in Havana, a potent example of the newly opened doors between the former rivals. But President-elect Donald J. Trump warned on Monday that the push to build ties with Cuba af- ter decades of animosity could quickly be wiped away. “If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will termi- nate deal,” he said on Twitter. Mr. Trump’s message threat- ened to end one of President Oba- ma’s signature foreign policy ini- tiatives. Mr. Obama’s moves to re- lax restrictions on commerce, trade and financial transactions with Cuba were never part of a single “deal,” but rather a decision that engagement with the island nation would bring more change than decades of isolation. “Change is going to come to Cuba,” Mr. Obama said shortly af- ter announcing the thaw in De- cember 2014. “It has to.” Since then, the number of American visitors to Cuba has ris- en quickly, with hotels in Havana sometimes being booked nearly a year in advance, often with large American tour groups. Billions of dollars in goods from American stores like Walmart and Best Buy, financed on American credit Trump’s Threat to Close Door Reopens Old Wounds in Cuba This article is by Damien Cave, Azam Ahmed and Julie Hirschfeld Davis. Cubans paying respects to Fidel Castro on Monday at Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, where he often railed against America. TOMAS MUNITA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A8 Dylann S. Roof, accused of killing nine people in a Charleston, S.C., church, will conduct his own defense. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A11-21 Suspect to Represent Himself China is tightening control over a settle- ment that includes the world’s largest Tibetan institute. Supporters call it a blow to religious practice. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 Destruction at Tibet Treasure Germany has become a major global test case for how the social network polices what may be published online, and how it should respond to inappro- priate and illegal content. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Facebook’s Hate Speech Test A $1.7 billion rehabilitation for the aging workhorse roadway will focus on the tri-level section topped by the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. PAGE A22 NEW YORK A22-25 More Repairs for the B.Q.E. The Mets’ Curtis Granderson tirelessly supports charities in New York and in the Chicago area, where he grew up. Sports of The Times. PAGE B8 SPORTSTUESDAY B8-13 A Most Charitable Player The sale and quick resale of a newly discovered painting by the Renaissance master has entangled Sotheby’s in a dispute between a Swiss art dealer and a billionaire Russian collector. PAGE C1 A Leonardo Sold and Resold A student at Ohio State Univer- sity intentionally rammed a car into pedestrians on a busy cam- pus sidewalk on Monday morning and then began slashing passers- by with a butcher knife, the au- thorities said, injuring 11 students and faculty and staff members, and setting off panic at one of the nation’s largest public universi- ties. A university police officer fa- tally shot the suspect within about a minute of the attack, but the sprawling campus in Columbus, Ohio, remained on lockdown for about an hour and a half as people ran for cover and barricaded themselves in academic buildings and dorms. Investigators were looking into whether the attack was an act of terrorism and were seeking infor- mation on the student, Abdul Ar- tan, a permanent United States resident from Somalia who was studying logistics management at Ohio State. The F.B.I. was investigating comments on Facebook indicating that he may have felt Muslims were being persecuted, an investi- 11 Are Injured In a Rampage At Ohio State This article is by Mitch Smith, Richard Pérez-Peña and Adam Goldman. Continued on Page A14 WASHINGTON — If Presi- dent-elect Donald J. Trump wanted a cabinet secretary who could help him dismantle and re- place President Obama’s health care law, he could not have found anyone more prepared than Rep- resentative Tom Price, who has been studying how to accomplish that goal for more than six years. Mr. Price, an orthopedic sur- geon who represents many of the northern suburbs of Atlanta, speaks with the self-assurance of a doctor about to perform another joint-replacement procedure. He knows the task and will proceed with brisk efficiency. Mr. Trump has picked Mr. Price, a six-term Republican congress- man, to be secretary of health and human services, according to a transition team official. Also on Monday, Mr. Trump met with David H. Petraeus, the highly decorated but scandal-scarred former military commander, who has emerged as a new contender for secretary of state. [Page A18.] While some Republicans have attacked the Af- fordable Care Act without proposing an al- ternative, Mr. Price has intro- duced bills offer- ing a detailed, comprehensive replacement plan in every Congress since 2009, when Demo- crats started work on the legisla- tion. Many of his ideas are includ- ed in the “Better Way” agenda is- sued several months ago by House Republicans. In debate on the Affordable Care Act in 2009, Mr. Price railed Fierce Critic of Health Care Law Said to Be Pick for Health Dept. By ROBERT PEAR Tom Price Continued on Page A17
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VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,431 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016
Late Edition
$2.50
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Trevor Noah, below, the host of “TheDaily Show,” describes in a new bookhis harrowing South African childhoodas the son of a Xhosa mother and aSwiss-German father. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
Memoir of a Biracial BoyhoodThe expansion of state Medicaid pro-grams under the Affordable Care Acthas brought coverage to previouslyuninsured shooting victims. PAGE D1
SCIENCE TIMES D1-6
After the Bullets Hit
Jimmy Carter PAGE A27
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
SHAKTOOLIK, Alaska — Inthe dream, a storm came andBetsy Bekoalok watched the riverrise on one side of the village andthe ocean on the other, the waterswallowing up the brightly col-ored houses, the fishing boats andthe four-wheelers, the school andthe clinic.
She dived into the floodwaters,frantically searching for her son.Bodies drifted past her in the half-darkness. When she finally foundthe boy, he, too, was lifeless.
“I picked him up and broughthim back from the ocean’s bot-tom,” Ms. Bekoalok remembered.
The Inupiat people who for cen-turies have hunted and fished onAlaska’s western coast believethat some dreams are portents ofthings to come.
But here in Shaktoolik, oneneed not be a prophet to predictflooding, especially during the fallstorms.
Laid out on a narrow spit ofsand between the TagoomenikRiver and the Bering Sea, the vil-lage of 250 or so people is facing animminent threat from increasedflooding and erosion, signs of achanging climate.
With its proximity to the Arctic,Alaska is warming about twice asfast as the rest of the United Statesand the state is heading for thewarmest year on record. The gov-ernment has identified at least 31Alaskan towns and cities at immi-nent risk of destruction, with
Climate Change Pushes TownsIn Alaska to Wrenching Choice
By ERICA GOODE
Brightly colored houses line the single road in Shaktoolik, Alaska, where the waters are rising.JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
CARBON’S CASUALTIES
A Threatened Village Prepares
Continued on Page A12
WASHINGTON — In the firstfew months of Donald J. Trump’spresidency, if recent history is anyguide, intelligence officials willmeet to discuss a terrorism sus-pect living abroad. This suspectmight become the next target forthe nation’s not-so-secret droneforce. Or maybe, Mr. Trump’s ad-visers could decide, he is worthtrying to capture.
Under President Obama, secu-rity officials have followed a famil-iar script once they have takensomeone into custody. They askan allied country to conduct the in-terrogation, or instead questionthe suspect aboard an Americanwarship using military interroga-tion techniques, then turn himover to the Justice Department forprosecution in a civilian court in-side the United States.
Mr. Trump campaigned on apromise to bring back water-boarding, a banned method previ-ously used by C.I.A. interrogators,and allow unspecified practices hecalled “a hell of a lot worse.” Thepresident-elect said in an inter-view last week that he had heardcompelling arguments that tor-ture was not effective, though it isnot clear whether he intends to re-treat from his position.
If he moves ahead to fulfill hiscampaign pledge, it will not beeasy. Federal law, internationalpressure and resistance from in-side the C.I.A. stand in his way.Even if he overcomes those obsta-cles, the toll of America’s agoniz-ing treatment of captives has left alegacy of harm that will make itharder for Trump administrationlawyers to justify resuming use ofthe tactics.
Dozens of prisoners developedpersistent psychological prob-lems after enduring torture andother brutal interrogation tacticsin secret C.I.A. prisons or at the
PLAN TO REVIVEWATERBOARDINGFACES OBSTACLES
A TRUMP CAMPAIGN VOW
Return to Torture TacticsWould Set Off Legal
and Moral Fight
By MATT APUZZOand JAMES RISEN
Continued on Page A19
BEIRUT, Lebanon — With theSyrian government making largeterritorial gains in Aleppo onMonday, routing rebel fightersand sending thousands of peoplefleeing for their lives, PresidentBashar al-Assad is starting to lookas if he may survive the uprising,even in the estimation of some ofhis staunchest opponents.
Yet, Mr. Assad’s victory, if heshould achieve it, may well bePyrrhic: He would rule over aneconomic wasteland hampered bya low-level insurgency with noend in sight, diplomats and ex-perts in the Middle East and else-where say.
As rebel forces in Aleppo ab-sorbed the harshest blow sincethey seized more than half the cityfour years ago, residents reportedseeing people cut down in thestreets as they searched franti-cally for shelter. The assault punc-tuated months of grinding battlethat has destroyed entire neigh-borhoods of the city, once Syria’slargest and an industrial hub.
If Aleppo fell, the Syrian gov-ernment would control the coun-try’s five largest cities and most ofits more populous west. Thatwould leave the rebels fightingMr. Assad with only the northernprovince of Idlib and a few iso-lated pockets of territory inAleppo and Homs Provinces andaround the capital, Damascus.
But analysts doubted thatwould put an end to five years ofwar that have driven five millionSyrians into exile and killed atleast a quarter of a million people.
Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran di-plomat in the Middle East, includ-
Assad’s PrizeIf He Prevails:Syria in Tatters
A Nation of Insurgencyand Economic Ruin
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Continued on Page A10
HAVANA — It seemed like afresh moment in a long and trou-bled history.
Thousands of Cubans bidfarewell to Fidel Castro on Mon-day, filing into a plaza where he of-ten railed against American impe-rialism. The same morning, thefirst regularly scheduled flightfrom the United States in morethan 50 years landed in Havana, apotent example of the newlyopened doors between the formerrivals.
But President-elect Donald J.Trump warned on Monday thatthe push to build ties with Cuba af-ter decades of animosity couldquickly be wiped away.
“If Cuba is unwilling to make abetter deal for the Cuban people,the Cuban/American people andthe U.S. as a whole, I will termi-
nate deal,” he said on Twitter.Mr. Trump’s message threat-
ened to end one of President Oba-ma’s signature foreign policy ini-tiatives. Mr. Obama’s moves to re-lax restrictions on commerce,trade and financial transactionswith Cuba were never part of asingle “deal,” but rather a decisionthat engagement with the islandnation would bring more changethan decades of isolation.
“Change is going to come toCuba,” Mr. Obama said shortly af-ter announcing the thaw in De-cember 2014. “It has to.”
Since then, the number ofAmerican visitors to Cuba has ris-en quickly, with hotels in Havanasometimes being booked nearly ayear in advance, often with largeAmerican tour groups. Billions ofdollars in goods from Americanstores like Walmart and Best Buy,financed on American credit
Trump’s Threat to Close DoorReopens Old Wounds in Cuba
This article is by Damien Cave,Azam Ahmed and Julie HirschfeldDavis.
Cubans paying respects to Fidel Castro on Monday at Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, where he often railed against America.TOMAS MUNITA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A8
Dylann S. Roof, accused of killing ninepeople in a Charleston, S.C., church, willconduct his own defense. PAGE A16
NATIONAL A11-21
Suspect to Represent Himself
China is tightening control over a settle-ment that includes the world’s largestTibetan institute. Supporters call it ablow to religious practice. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
Destruction at Tibet Treasure
Germany has become a major globaltest case for how the social networkpolices what may be published online,and how it should respond to inappro-priate and illegal content. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
Facebook’s Hate Speech Test
A $1.7 billion rehabilitation for the agingworkhorse roadway will focus on thetri-level section topped by the BrooklynHeights Promenade. PAGE A22
NEW YORK A22-25
More Repairs for the B.Q.E.
The Mets’ Curtis Granderson tirelesslysupports charities in New York and inthe Chicago area, where he grew up.Sports of The Times. PAGE B8
SPORTSTUESDAY B8-13
A Most Charitable Player The sale and quick resale of a newlydiscovered painting by the Renaissancemaster has entangled Sotheby’s in adispute between a Swiss art dealer anda billionaire Russian collector. PAGE C1
A Leonardo Sold and Resold
A student at Ohio State Univer-sity intentionally rammed a carinto pedestrians on a busy cam-pus sidewalk on Monday morningand then began slashing passers-by with a butcher knife, the au-thorities said, injuring 11 studentsand faculty and staff members,and setting off panic at one of thenation’s largest public universi-ties.
A university police officer fa-tally shot the suspect within abouta minute of the attack, but thesprawling campus in Columbus,Ohio, remained on lockdown forabout an hour and a half as peopleran for cover and barricadedthemselves in academic buildingsand dorms.
Investigators were looking intowhether the attack was an act ofterrorism and were seeking infor-mation on the student, Abdul Ar-tan, a permanent United Statesresident from Somalia who wasstudying logistics management atOhio State.
The F.B.I. was investigatingcomments on Facebook indicatingthat he may have felt Muslimswere being persecuted, an investi-
11 Are InjuredIn a Rampage
At Ohio StateThis article is by Mitch Smith,
Richard Pérez-Peña and AdamGoldman.
Continued on Page A14
WASHINGTON — If Presi-dent-elect Donald J. Trumpwanted a cabinet secretary whocould help him dismantle and re-place President Obama’s healthcare law, he could not have foundanyone more prepared than Rep-resentative Tom Price, who hasbeen studying how to accomplishthat goal for more than six years.
Mr. Price, an orthopedic sur-geon who represents many of thenorthern suburbs of Atlanta,speaks with the self-assurance ofa doctor about to perform anotherjoint-replacement procedure. Heknows the task and will proceedwith brisk efficiency.
Mr. Trump has picked Mr. Price,a six-term Republican congress-man, to be secretary of health andhuman services, according to atransition team official.
Also on Monday, Mr. Trump metwith David H. Petraeus, the highly
decorated but scandal-scarredformer military commander, whohas emerged as a new contenderfor secretary of state. [Page A18.]
While some Republicans haveattacked the Af-fordable CareAct withoutproposing an al-ternative, Mr.Price has intro-duced bills offer-ing a detailed,comprehensivereplacementplan in every
Congress since 2009, when Demo-crats started work on the legisla-tion. Many of his ideas are includ-ed in the “Better Way” agenda is-sued several months ago byHouse Republicans.
In debate on the AffordableCare Act in 2009, Mr. Price railed
Fierce Critic of Health Care LawSaid to Be Pick for Health Dept.
By ROBERT PEAR
Tom Price
Continued on Page A17
