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Goldman
returns
to the seat
of power
For Trump,
a pivotal
Russian test
COMMON SENSE
Exit from wilderness
for bank once linked
to financial meltdown
Roger Cohen
OPINION
BY JAMES B. STEWART
There’s a mood of confidence in Moscow bordering on triumphalism. Russia is dictating the grim outcome in
Syria. It has annexed with impunity
part of Ukraine and set limits on the
country’s westernizing ambitions. It
has influenced through hacking the
outcome of the American election. It
has fostered the fracture of the European Union. All this from a nation
President Obama dismissed in 2014 as
a mere “regional power” acting “not
out of strength but out of weakness.”
In addition, whether or not Donald
Trump was ever lured into some Moscow honey pot
(the oldest trick
Hurtling into
in town for
a love fest
Vladimir Putin’s
intelligence
with Putin
services), Russia
would be
has reason to
calamitous.
regard with
Trump must
satisfaction the
coming presidenshow toughness, or NATO cy. Trump has
called Putin
and the E.U.
“very smart” and
could unravel.
“very much of a
leader” (more
than Obama); he
has cheered on a British exit from the
European Union; he has signaled deep
skepticism of NATO; he has, in short,
intimated that he may be ready to be
complicit with Putin in the dismemberment of the Western alliance.
America’s European allies are in a
state of high anxiety. For the first time
in decades there seems to be a possibility that the White House will deal
with Moscow at Europe’s expense. The
last thing Europe needs at a time of
huge internal pressures, and in the
year of the French and German elections, is a crisis in trans-Atlantic relations, or an American president openly
dismissive of the European integration
that brought peace to a war-racked
continent.
“There have never been so many
uncertainties about the future of the
trans-Atlantic bond,” Wolfgang
COHEN, PAGE 11
CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Justice, Shariah style
Religious officers leading a woman onstage to be whipped as punishment for dating outside of marriage in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, last
August. Aceh Province has been experimenting with Shariah since 2001, and now other regions of the country are following its lead with the Islamic legal code. PAGE 3
Seeking reprieve, not pardon
Army analyst who made
WikiLeaks famous tells of
gender struggle in prison
BY CHARLIE SAVAGE
Most mornings at 4:30 a.m., half an hour
before the “first call” awakens inmates
at the Fort Leavenworth military prison
in Kansas, an alarm rings within an 80square-foot cell. Inmate 89289A, slightly
built with close-cropped hair, rises to apply makeup and don female undergarments and a brown uniform before the
still-slumbering men in the adjacent
cells stir.
That is the routine for Chelsea Manning, America’s most famous convicted
leaker and the prison’s most unusual inmate. She is serving the longest sen-
tence ever imposed for disclosing government secrets — 35 years — and her
status as a celebrity of sorts and an incarcerated transgender woman presents continuing difficulties for the military.
During the day, Ms. Manning, who
was an Army intelligence analyst
known as Bradley Manning when she
disclosed archives of secret military and
diplomatic files to WikiLeaks in 2010,
builds picture frames and furniture in
the prison wood shop. In the evenings,
before the 10:05 p.m. lockdown, she
reads through streams of letters from
antisecrecy enthusiasts who view her as
a whistle-blower.
“I am always busy. I have a backlog of
things to do: legal, administrative, press
inquiries, and writing — lots of writing,”
Ms. Manning wrote in response to questions submitted by The Times because
REUTERS
Chelsea Manning pictured in 2010.
the Army does not permit her to speak
directly to journalists. “Being me is a
full-time job.”
But Ms. Manning, who is struggling to
transition to life as a woman while en-
A slower pace for the ‘Galloping Gourmet’
MOUNT VERNON, WASH.
Graham Kerr, now 82,
finds a balance after
indulgence and restraint
BY KIRK JOHNSON
He injected extra fat into already wellmarbled roasts with a grin and an everpresent glass of wine. He laughed uproariously at his own jokes and told
Americans that cooking at home did not
have to be particularly sophisticated or
difficult (Julia Child, the only other major TV chef of his era, had pretty much
staked out that turf anyway) to be wild,
and wildly fun.
But always, Graham Kerr leapt. Decades before Emeril Lagasse shouted
“Bam!” in administering a pinch of cayenne or garlic, Mr. Kerr defined the television cook as a man of energy and constant motion — “The Galloping
Gourmet,” as his show’s title put it.
RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Graham Kerr was a pioneer in cooking as televised entertainment in the 1970s.
Starting in 1969, in front of a live audience (another pioneering step, long before the Food Network arrived) Mr. Kerr
lassoed America into the 1970s with the
novel concept that watching someone
cook was, first and foremost, entertaining.
He was hunky and British and funny,
and in that heyday of the sexual revolution he could titillate audiences with a
one-liner about circumcision while peeling a cucumber. The media christened
him “the high priest of hedonism.”
His trademark gesture of cheerful
abandon came in the first few minutes of
every show, when he sprinted into the
audience, armed with a glass of wine,
then ran back and leapt over two diningtable chairs and onto his set without
spilling a drop (thanks to plastic wrap
across the top). He invariably ended by
slumping into his chair with a little,
“Whew!”
Today, at 82, Mr. Kerr is more measured. His leaping days are over, but he
still speed walks every morning from
his house here, an hour north of Seattle,
where he lives with his daughter Tessa
and her husband.
He still cooks, too but will not make
himself a hamburger because he believes that two ounces is plenty of meat
for a meal, and, he said, “you can’t make
a decent two-ounce hamburger.”
Finding that place of moderation,
though, was hard. In the 1970s, Mr. Kerr
lurched from indulgence to asceticism
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during a bleak existence at a male military prison, has asked President Obama
to commute the remainder of her sentence before he leaves office next week.
She poses particular challenges as a
prisoner, with a volunteer support network that helps bring global attention to
her treatment, fragile mental state —
she twice tried to commit suicide in 2016
— and need for special care that the military has no experience providing.
Her request comes as the world is
again focused on WikiLeaks and its
founder, Julian Assange, whom her
leaks made famous. The organization
last year published Clinton campaign
emails, obtained in a hacking, as part of
what American intelligence officials
claim was a covert Russian operation
aimed at tilting the election to President-elect Donald J. Trump. (Ms. ManMANNING, PAGE 5
“Government Sachs” is back.
After eight years in the political wilderness, its name synonymous with the
supposedly undue and self-serving influence in Washington that brought us
the financial crisis and the Wall Street
bailout, Goldman Sachs is again making
its presence felt. In the Trump administration, to an unprecedented degree,
economic policy making is largely being
handed over to people with Goldman
ties.
The Goldman alumni include Steven
T. Mnuchin, the nominee for Treasury
secretary; Gary D. Cohn, tapped as director of the National Economic Council
and White House adviser on economic
policy; and Stephen K. Bannon, who
was named chief White House strategist. Jay Clayton, named to head the
Securities and Exchange Commission,
is a Wall Street lawyer who has represented Goldman.
In the past week, President-elect
Donald J. Trump hired Dina H. Powell, a
Goldman partner who heads impact investing, as a White House adviser. Anthony Scaramucci, a Goldman alumnus
(whom I spotlighted recently), is on the
Trump transition committee and is expected to be named to a White House position as well.
And this after Mr. Trump campaigned
against Wall Street, excoriated Senator
Ted Cruz for his ties to Goldman, and
castigated Hillary Clinton for giving
paid speeches to big banks, Goldman
among them.
The Goldman influx has so far drawn
little criticism, perhaps because worries
about what once would have been
deemed undue influence now mix with
relief that there is some adult superviGOLDMAN, PAGE 8
WHO DISAGREES WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT?
Donald J. Trump’s cabinet nominees
have broken with him on almost every
major policy. PAGE 4
IN IOWA, TRUMP VOTERS ARE UNFAZED
A reporter who spent a year in the
state returns to hear residents’ expectations and concerns. PAGE 4