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Russia Athletes
Have to Prove
Drug-Free Past
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016
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LEAKS BRING DOWN A DEMOCRATIC LEADER
Discord for Party
on Eve of Its
Convention
Sanctions Stop Short
of Full Olympic Ban
By REBECCA R. RUIZ
Olympic officials said on Sunday that all Russian athletes were
tainted by the country’s state-run
doping system and would not be
allowed to compete in the Summer Games unless they convinced
individual sports federations of
their innocence.
With just 12 days before the
Games begin, the International
Olympic Committee said in a
statement that “all Russian athletes seeking entry to the Olympic
Games Rio 2016 are considered to
be affected by a system subverting and manipulating the antidoping system.”
The showdown between Russia
and Olympic officials was rich
with intrigue beyond the playing
fields in Rio de Janeiro. President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had
suggested the doping allegations
were politically motivated and
meant to undermine his country’s
standing in the world. The
Olympic leadership had been under pressure to expel a major
sports power for perpetrating one
of the most expansive doping programs in history and corrupting
results at the Summer and Winter
Games.
In the end, Russian officials received a reprieve, in their view.
The Russian flag and at least
some of the country’s athletes will
be a part of the Rio Olympics. The
burden now shifts to sports federations to vet Russia’s individual
Olympic candidates.
Antidoping officials and some
athletes had publicly lobbied for a
blanket ban on the entire Russian
delegation. Anything short of that,
they argued, was too soft a punishment for what the Olympic committee president, Thomas Bach,
had called a “shocking new dimension in doping” with an “unprecedented level of criminality.”
“This may not please everybody on either side,” Mr. Bach said
Sunday, repeating his desire to
balance “the individual justice to
which every human being is entiContinued on Page D6
Killer in Nice
Long Drawn
To Violence
This article is by Adam Nossiter,
Alissa J. Rubin and Lilia Blaise.
MSAKEN, Tunisia — His own
parents were so frightened by his
violence that they kicked him out
when he was 16. Desperate, by the
time he was 19, they dragged him
to a psychiatrist, who prescribed
an antipsychotic drug, a tranquilizer and an antidepressant.
“There were the beginnings of a
psychosis,” the doctor, Hamouda
Chemceddine, recalled in an interview in the Tunisian city of
Sousse, looking over his notes
from that visit in August 2004. “He
wasn’t someone who was living in
the real world.”
In France, he even created a
Facebook page with an alter ego,
listing his profession as a “professor of salsa dancing” and displaying a mock image of Nicolas
Sarkozy, the former French president, in drag.
That man — a 31-year-old delivery driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej
Bouhlel — trained his violent
tendencies on a crowd watching
fireworks along the French Riviera on July 14, running over hundreds of people and killing 84 in a
rented cargo truck during Bastille
Day celebrations in Nice.
Since then, all of France has
struggled to explain the single
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By JONATHAN MARTIN
and ALAN RAPPEPORT
MARK MAKELA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Protesters including backers of Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday in Philadelphia, the site of the Democratic National Convention.
Yahoo, a Star of the Early Web, In Hacking, Russia Is Accused
Is Selling Its Business to Verizon Of Playing in American Politics
By VINDU GOEL and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo
was the front door to the web for
an early generation of internet users, and its services still attract a
billion visitors a month.
But the internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday’s great
idea, and Yahoo has now reached
the end of the line as an independent company.
The board of the Silicon Valley
company has agreed to sell Yahoo’s core internet operations and
land holdings to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion, according to people briefed on the matter, who were not authorized to
speak about the deal before the
planned announcement on Monday morning.
After the sale, Yahoo shareholders will be left with about $41
billion in investments in the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, as well as Yahoo Japan and
a small portfolio of patents.
That compares with Yahoo’s
peak value of more than $125 billion, reached in January 2000.
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief
executive, is not expected to join
Verizon, but she is due to receive a
severance payout worth about $57
million, according to Equilar, a
compensation research firm.
Verizon and Yahoo declined to
comment on the deal.
Founded in 1994, Yahoo was one
of the last independently operated
pioneers of the web. Many of those
groundbreaking companies, like
the maker of the web browser Netscape, never made it to the end of
the first dot-com boom.
But Yahoo, despite constant
management turmoil, kept growing. Started as a directory of websites, the company was soon doing
much more, offering searches,
email, shopping and news. Those
services, which were free to consumers, were supported by advertising displayed on its various
pages.
For a long time, the model
worked. It seemed as if every
company in America — and
across much of the world —
wanted to reach people using the
Continued on Page A3
By DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH
WASHINGTON — An unusual
question is capturing the attention
of cyberspecialists, Russia experts and Democratic Party leaders in Philadelphia: Is Vladimir V.
Putin trying to meddle in the
American presidential election?
Until now, that charge, with its
eerie suggestion of a Kremlin conspiracy to aid Donald J. Trump,
has been only whispered.
But the release on Friday of
some 20,000 stolen emails from
the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers, many of
them embarrassing to Democratic leaders, has intensified discussion of the role of Russian intelligence agencies in disrupting
the 2016 campaign.
The emails, released first by a
supposed hacker and later by
WikiLeaks, exposed the degree to
which the Democratic apparatus
favored Hillary Clinton over her
primary rival, Senator Bernie
Sanders of Vermont, and triggered the resignation of Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, the party
chairwoman, on the eve of the con-
vention’s first day.
Proving the source of a cyberattack is notoriously difficult. But
researchers have concluded that
the national committee was
breached by two Russian intelligence agencies, which were the
same attackers behind previous
Russian cyberoperations at the
White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
last year. And metadata from the
released emails suggests that the
documents passed through Russian computers. Though a hacker
claimed responsibility for giving
Continued on Page A14
ELECTION
2 016
RUNNING MATE Gifts for Tim
Kaine while he was governor of
Virginia face scrutiny. PAGE A11
BLOOMBERG The former mayor
of New York will endorse Hillary
Clinton, an adviser said. PAGE A14
PHILADELPHIA — Democrats arrived at their nominating
convention on Sunday under a
cloud of discord as Debbie
Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, abruptly said
she was resigning after a trove of
leaked emails showed party officials conspiring
to sabotage the
campaign
of
Senator Bernie
Sanders of Vermont.
The revelation, along with
sizable
proSanders
pro- Debbie
tests here in the Wasserman
streets to greet
arriving dele- Schultz
gates,
threatened to undermine the delicate healing process that followed
the contentious fight between Mr.
Sanders and Hillary Clinton. And
it raised the prospect that a convention that was intended to
showcase the Democratic Party’s
optimism and unity, in contrast to
the Republicans, could be marred
by dissension and disorder.
The day also veered extraordinarily into allegations, not easily
dismissed, that Russia had a hand
in the leaks that helped bring
down the head of an American political party.
Despite those concerns, Democrats are hoping that focusing on
Donald J. Trump, the Republican
nominee, will galvanize the party
to rally around Mrs. Clinton, and
on Sunday those efforts received a
major boost when Michael R.
Bloomberg, the former Republican and independent mayor of
New York, said he would endorse
her.
In her resignation statement,
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, a representative from Florida, said she
would continue to fight for Mrs.
Clinton from the sidelines.
“I know that electing Hillary
Clinton as our next president is
critical for America’s future,” Ms.
Wasserman Schultz said in a
statement. “I look forward to serving as a surrogate for her campaign in Florida and across the
country to ensure her victory.”
She added, “Going forward, the
best way for me to accomplish
those goals is to step down as
party chair at the end of this convention.”
Donna Brazile, a vice chairContinued on Page A15
Tesla’s Chief Sticks to Mission
Despite a Series of Setbacks
By MATT RICHTEL
ADAM FERGUSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Afghans Buried, One After Another
Ethnic Hazaras gathered on Sunday at graves dug for victims of a bombing near Kabul. Page A4.
FREMONT, Calif. — Elon
Musk, the chief executive of Tesla
Motors, sat in a glass-walled conference room here last week in the
company’s auto factory. Around
him, workers and robots were
building the $70,000 luxury vehicles that have redefined how people think about electric cars.
But autos are just one of Mr.
Musk’s many projects. A South
African-born billionaire and entrepreneur, he is the top investor
in the country’s largest provider
of rooftop solar power, runs a private rocket company, and in a blog
post last week pledged to create a
ride-sharing car service and battery-powered trucks and buses.
And then there is his plan for
the world’s largest battery factory.
The so-called Gigafactory, in Nevada, is to be unveiled this week.
“What’s going to be really crazy
about the Gigafactory is not just
BOBBY YIP/REUTERS
Elon Musk wants to ramp up
production of electric cars.
that it’s giant,” Mr. Musk said.
“You can’t change the world with
tiny factories that move slowly,”
he said. “We need big factories
with high-velocity output.”
Scale and speed are watchwords for Mr. Musk and his savethe-world view of business, which
Continued on Page B5
NEW YORK A20-21
NATIONAL A11-18
INTERNATIONAL A3-10
ARTS C1-6
Test Case on DNA
Bravery, Confusion in Attack
Gunman’s Troubled Past
Of Doll Heads and Apple Stems
A man accused of killing a 12-year-old
upstate has challenged a novel method
of obtaining DNA evidence.
PAGE A21
After the shooting in Dallas began on
July 7, there were acts of bravery, confusion akin to the fog of war and improPAGE A16
visation under fire.
Officials said a teenager who fatally
shot nine people in Munich had been a
psychiatric inpatient and was obsessed
PAGE A6
with a 2009 school shooting.
Inspired by “The Keeper,” an exhibition
at the New Museum, we asked readers
to tell us about their collections. PAGE C1
Extending Border Security
Explosion at Music Festival
Homeland Security wants to expand
preclearance checks at foreign airports
to reduce the risk of potential terrorists
PAGE A18
entering the United States.
A blast in Ansbach, Germany, injured 10
people and killed the man believed to be
behind it, officials said.
PAGE A6
A Superhero Future: Diversity
It’s Not Easy Being This Cool
Advice for keeping pets cool during a
heat wave varies from the practical to
PAGE A20
the strange.
Agreeing on Birth Certificates
Texas will expand the documentation
parents without legal immigration
status can use to obtain certificates for
PAGE A17
their children born here.
SPORTSMONDAY D1-8
Two More for Cooperstown
BUSINESS DAY B1-5
Mike Piazza, left, and Ken Griffey Jr. let
the tears flow during their induction
into the Baseball Hall of Fame. PAGE D1
Celebrated Lab Is Struggling
The Yankees’ Master of Data
Researchers who exposed Volkswagen’s
diesel emissions deception still need to
scrounge for funding.
PAGE B1
As the Yankees retool, they will turn to
Michael Fishman, a Yale graduate who
leads the analytics department. PAGE D1
Peeks at “Black Panther,” “Captain
Marvel” and “Wonder Woman” shifted
PAGE C3
the dynamic at Comic-Con.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
Charles M. Blow
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