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The Failing Inside Mission
To Tame Trump’s Tongue
Often-Sullen Candidate Trusts Instincts Over
Aides’ Coaching, Associates Say
By ALEXANDER BURNS and MAGGIE HABERMAN
Donald J. Trump was in a state
of shock: He had just fired his
campaign manager and was
watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate’s advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.
Joined by his daughter Ivanka
and her husband, Jared Kushner,
a cluster of Mr. Trump’s confidants pleaded with him to make
that day — June 20 — a turning
point.
He would have to stick to a
teleprompter and end his freestyle digressions and insults, like
his repeated attacks on a Hispanic
federal judge. Paul Manafort, Mr.
Trump’s campaign chairman, and
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey
argued that Mr. Trump had an effective message, if only he would
deliver it. For now, the campaign’s
polling showed, too many voters
described him in two words: “unqualified” and “racist.”
Mr. Trump bowed to his team’s
entreaties, according to four people with detailed knowledge of the
meeting, who described it on the
condition of anonymity. It was
time, he agreed, to get on track.
Nearly two months later, the effort to save Mr. Trump from himself has plainly failed. He has repeatedly signaled to his advisers
and allies his willingness to
change and adapt, but has grown
only more volatile and prone to
provocation since then, clashing
with a Gold Star family, making
comments that have been seen as
inciting violence and linking his
political opponents to terrorism.
Advisers who once hoped a
Pygmalion-like transformation
would refashion a crudely effective political showman into a plausible American president now increasingly concede that Mr.
Trump may be beyond coaching.
He has ignored their pleas and
counsel as his poll numbers have
dropped, boasting to friends about
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LASTING LEGACY In its first seven years the Obama administration finalized 560 regulations with significant impact.
How the President Came
To Embrace Executive Power
A Secret Soviet Doping Plan,
Decades Old, Echoes in Rio
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
RIO DE JANEIRO — Late in
1983, months before they announced a boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics, sports officials of
the Soviet Union sent detailed instructions to the head of the nation’s track and field team.
Oral steroid tablets were not
enough, they said, to ensure dominance at the Games. The team
should also inject its top athletes
with three other kinds of anabolic
steroids.
Providing
precise
measurements and timetables for the
doping regimens, the officials said
they had a sufficient supply of the
banned substances on hand at the
Research Institute of Physical
Culture and Sports in Moscow, a
division of the government’s
sports committee.
The potent drugs were critical
to keeping up with the competition, they wrote in the instructions.
The document — obtained by
The New York Times from a former chief medical doctor for Sovi-
et track and field — was signed by
Dr. Sergei Portugalov, a Soviet
sports doctor who went on to capitalize on a growing interest in new
methods of doping.
Now, more than 30 years later,
Dr. Portugalov is a central figure
in Russia’s current doping scandal. Last fall, the World Anti-Doping Agency named him as a key
broker of performance-enhancing
drugs in Russia, someone who in
recent years injected athletes
personally and made a business of
covering up drug violations in exchange for money.
Revelations of the recent
schemes, which antidoping authorities said dated back at least a
decade, compelled the international governing body for track
and field to bar Russia’s team from
the Rio Games, the most severe
doping penalty in Olympic history.
At the track and field events
here this week, no one will represent Russia, a nation that is
usually a fixture on the medals po-
WASHINGTON — In nearly eight
years in office, President Obama has
sought to reshape the nation with a
sweeping assertion of executive authority
and a canon of regulations that have inserted the United States government
more deeply into American life.
Once a presidential candidate with
deep misgivings about executive power,
Mr. Obama will leave the White House as
one of the most prolific authors of major
regulations in presidential history.
THE OBAMA ERA
The Regulator in Chief
Blocked for most of his presidency by
Congress, Mr. Obama has sought to act
however he could. In the process he created the kind of government neither he nor
the Republicans wanted — one that depended on bureaucratic bulldozing rather
than legislative transparency. But once
Mr. Obama got the taste for it, he pursued
his executive power without apology, and
in ways that will shape the presidency for
decades to come.
The Obama administration in its first
seven years finalized 560 major regulations — those classified by the Congressional Budget Office as having particularly significant economic or social impacts. That was nearly 50 percent more
than the George W. Bush administration
during the comparable period, according
to data kept by the regulatory studies center at George Washington University.
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More than 100 executive
actions and regulatory changes.
A proposal to cap
carbon emissions at power plants.
Completed regulations requiring them by 2018.
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Was Alec Baldwin a Victim of Paint and Switch? Bleak Times for Marooned Migrants in Greece
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
Ten years or so ago, as the actor
Alec Baldwin remembers it, the
gallery owner Mary Boone sent
him an invitation to a show of
work by the painter Ross Bleckner, an artist whom she represented and he had befriended.
The card featured a reproduction of Mr. Bleckner’s “Sea and
Mirror,” a work from 1996, when
the artist was at the height of his
popularity.
So began Mr. Baldwin’s love affair with the painting — an infatuation that has ended with Mr.
Baldwin, who occupies a central
role in New York’s cultural life,
now pitted in a bitter dispute with
two formidable players in the
city’s rarefied world of art and
money — Ms. Boone, a prominent
art dealer, and Mr. Bleckner, one of
her notable talents.
This has, to say the least, become awkward.
For years, Mr. Baldwin said he
carried the image of “Sea and Mirror” in his shoulder bag, alongside
a picture of one of his daughters
and his father. In 2010, he asked
Ms. Boone to find the collector
who owned it and pry it away.
“There was a kind of beauty and
simplicity” to the work, Mr. Baldwin recalled in an interview this
month.
Happily, she reported back, the
collector would sell — but at a premium.
Mr. Baldwin put up the $190,000.
Continued on Page 18
Ross Bleckner’s “Sea and Mirror,” left, and Alec Baldwin’s piece.
By LIZ ALDERMAN
NEA KAVALA, Greece — As
her young children played near
heaps of garbage, picking through
burned corn cobs and crushed
plastic bottles to fashion new toys,
Shiraz Madran, a 28-year-old
mother of four, turned with tearrimmed eyes to survey the desolate encampment that has become
her home.
This year, her family fled Syria,
only to get stuck at Greece’s
northern border with Macedonia
in Idomeni, a town that had been
the gateway to northern Europe
for more than one million migrants from the Middle East and
Africa seeking a haven from conflict. After Europe sealed the border in February to curb the unceasing stream, the Greek authorities relocated many of those
massed in Idomeni to a camp on
this wind-beaten agricultural
plain in northern Greece, with
As Aid and Attention
Ebb, Lives in Limbo
in Sordid Camps
promises to process their asylum
bids quickly.
But weeks have turned into
months, and Mrs. Madran’s life
has spiraled into a despondent
daily routine of scrounging for
food for her dust-covered children
and begging the authorities for
any news about their asylum application. “No one tells us anything — we have no idea what our
future is going to be,” she said.
“If we knew it would be like this,
we would not have left Syria,” she
continued. “We die a thousand
deaths here every day.”
Seven months after the European Union shut the doors to large
numbers of newcomers, Greece
remains Europe’s de facto holding
pen for 57,000 people trapped
amid the chaos. Many are living in
a distressing limbo in sordid
refugee camps on the mainland
and on Greek islands near Turkey.
A year after the world was
riveted by scenes of desperate
men, women and children streaming through Europe, international
attention to their plight has waned
now that the borders have been
closed and they are largely confined to camps. Anti-immigrant
sentiment has surged since last
year in many countries, especially
as people who entered Europe
with the migrant flow are linked to
crimes and, in a few cases, attacks
planned or inspired by the Islamic
State or other radical groups. Neither the prosperous nations of
Western and Northern Europe,
where the refugees want to settle,
nor Turkey, their point of deparContinued on Page 8
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Queens Imam Gunned Down
Clean Power, Messy Transition
Phelps Wins 23rd Gold Medal
Nicholas Kristof
Forces now mirror a largely black
population, but trust remains elusive as
killings of and by officers occur at
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higher rates than in America.
The police said that the imam of an
Ozone Park mosque and his assistant
were targeted but that there was no
evidence so far of a hate crime. PAGE 18
NRG Energy, the nation’s largest independent electricity producer, bet big on
solar and wind. Then its stock plunged
and its chief executive was fired. PAGE 1
The United States won the men’s 4x100
medley relay in an Olympic record time,
giving Michael Phelps a final victory
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and his 28th medal over all.
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