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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015
© 2015 The New York Times
GLOBAL ECONOMY
FORCED TO ADAPT
AS CHINA FALTERS
HURRICANE KATRINA: 10 YEARS LATER
NO LONGER A SURE BET
Amid Slowdown, Firms
and Nations Rethink
Their Strategies
By KEITH BRADSHER
WILLIAM WIDMER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
2015 Rodney Lavalais, who lived in the old B.
W. Cooper complex, visiting the area. It has been rebuilt, but fewer people live there and wait lists are long.
HONG KONG — The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent
heavily for years, mining iron ore
across Australia, digging for copper in Chile, and pumping oil off
the coast of Trinidad. The company could be confident in its direction as commodities orders
surged from its biggest and best
customer, China.
Now, BHP is pulling back,
faced with a slowing Chinese
economy that will no longer be
THE CHINA FACTOR
Exporting Uncertainty
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
2005 B.
W. Cooper a few months after Hurricane Katrina roared through. The complex was widely seen as dilapidated and violent before the storm.
New Orleans Remade, for Better and Worse
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
and RICHARD FAUSSET
NEW ORLEANS — It is a wonder that any of it is
here at all: The scattered faithful gathering into Beulah Land Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward.
The men on stoops in Mid-City swapping gossip in the
August dusk. The brass band in Tremé, the lawyers in
Lakeview, the new homeowners in Pontchartrain
Park.
On Aug. 29, 2005, it all seemed lost. Four-fifths of the
city lay submerged as residents frantically signaled
for help from their rooftops and thousands were
stranded at the Superdome, a congregation of the desperate and poor. From the moment that the storm
surge of Hurricane Katrina dismantled a fatally defective levee system, New Orleans became a global
symbol of American dysfunction and government
negligence. At every level and in every duty, from engineering to social policy to basic logistics, there were
revelations of malfunction and failure before, during,
and after Katrina.
Ten years later, it is not exactly right to say that
New Orleans is back. The city did not return, not as it
was.
It is, first of all, without the more than 1,400 people
who died here, and the thousands who are now making their lives someplace else. As of 2013, there were
nearly 100,000 fewer black residents than in 2000, their
absences falling equally across income levels. The
white population decreased by about 11,000, but it is
wealthier.
The city that exists in 2015 has been altered, by both
Continued on Page A12
Trump Gets Earful in Spanish Gunman Kills 2 on Air and Posts Carnage Online
As Latino Outlets Air Disdain
This article is by Michael D.
Shear, Richard Pérez-Peña and
Alan Blinder.
By ASHLEY PARKER
Ricardo Sánchez, known as “El
Mandril” on his Spanish drivetime radio show in Los Angeles,
has taken to calling Donald J.
Trump “El hombre del peluquín”
— the man of the toupee.
Some of Mr. Sánchez’s listeners are less kind, referring to Mr.
Trump, who has dismissed some
Mexican immigrants as “rapists”
and criminals, simply as “Hitler.”
Mr. Sánchez says that he tries
to focus on the positive in presidential politics, but he, too, at
times has used harsh language to
describe Mr. Trump, according to
translations of his show provided
by his executive producer.
“A president like Trump would
be like giving a loaded gun to a
monkey,” Mr. Sanchez said in one
broadcast. “But a gun that fires
atomic bullets.”
The adversarial relationship
between Mr. Trump and the
Spanish-language news media,
which has simmered publicly
since he announced his candidacy in June, boiled over on Tuesday at a news conference in Dubuque, Iowa, when the candidate
erupted at Jorge Ramos, the
main news anchor at Univision
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NATIONAL A10-17
ROANOKE, Va. — He was a
fired television reporter with a
history of conflicts at work and
rage apparently stoked by racial
grievances. And when he sought
revenge on Wednesday, gunning
down two former colleagues, he
used the tools of social media to
ensure that his crime was broadcast live, recorded from multiple
angles and posted online.
Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41,
identified by the authorities as
the gunman, waited until Alison
Parker and Adam Ward, young
journalists at WDBJ in Roanoke,
were on air, then killed them
while recording on his own video
OBITUARIES B16-17
St. Paul’s Defendant Testifies
A graduate of the elite boarding school
in New Hampshire defended himself at
his rape trial, highlighting his achievements and denying the charge. PAGE A10
Mormons to Stay in Scouting
The Mormon Church will keep ties to
the Boy Scouts, despite its objections to
PAGE A10
allowing gay leaders.
Civil Rights
Champion
Amelia Boynton
Robinson, an organizer of — and
a beaten crusader in — the
epochal civil
rights march in
Alabama known as Bloody Sunday, has
PAGE B17
died. She was 104.
Arrest Made
In ’96 Attack
NEW YORK A18-21
Saudi Arabia is
believed to have
captured the
mastermind of
the Khobar Towers bombing,
which killed 19
Ernie, a gorilla at the Bronx Zoo, has a
delicate balancing act. He has to get
along — and perhaps procreate — with
five companions: Julia, Layla, Tuti,
Kumi and Suki. Summer Love. PAGE A18
PAGE A4
South Sudan Leader Signs Deal
President Salva Kiir signed an accord
with rebels aimed at ending nearly two
years of conflict marked by atrocities
and fought along ethnic lines. PAGE A9
camera. Mr. Flanagan shot himself in the head hours later, the
authorities said, but as the chase
for him was on, he wrote about
the shooting on Twitter, uploaded
his video to Facebook and sent a
manifesto to ABC News that
CULTURE C1-8
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
United States airmen.
WDBJ-TV, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alison Parker and Adam
Ward, TV journalists, were
killed Wednesday in Virginia.
A Match (or 5) at the Bronx Zoo
SPORTSTHURSDAY B11-16
Yankees’ Revolving Door
To keep their staff fresh, the Yankees
have developed the Scranton shuttle, recalling a pitcher from or demoting a
pitcher to their affiliate in Pennsylvania
about once every three games. PAGE B11
A Hacker Heroine Returns
Lisbeth Salander is back in “The Girl in
the Spider’s Web,” a novel by David Lagercrantz based on Stieg Larsson’s
characters. Fans of the thrillers won’t
PAGE C1
be disappointed. A review.
THURSDAY STYLES D1-8
Obama Style,
Redefined
After more than
eight years in the
public eye, Malia
Obama, now 17, is
increasingly
seen as a fashion
icon for young
women — one who is not afraid to take
PAGE D1
risks in her wardrobe.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
Nicholas Kristof
PAGE A21
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spoke admiringly of mass killers
and said that as a black, gay man
he had faced discrimination and
sexual harassment.
The shooting and the horrifying images it produced marked a
new chapter in the intersection of
video, violence and social media.
The day began with the most
mundane of early-morning interviews. Ms. Parker and Mr. Ward
were working on a story for
WDBJ about the 50th anniversary of Smith Mountain Lake, a reservoir tucked among farms and
rolling mountains that is popular
with anglers, kayakers and sunbathers. They stood on a balcony
of Bridgewater Plaza, a shopping
and office complex on the lakeshore, talking with Vicki GardContinued on Page A16
the same dominant force in commodities. Profit is falling and the
company is cutting its exploration budget by more than twothirds.
China’s rapid growth over the
last decade reshaped the world
economy, creating a powerful
driver of corporate strategies, financial markets and geopolitical
decisions. China seemed to have
a one-way trajectory, momentum
that would provide a steady
source of profit and capital.
But deepening economic fears
about China, which culminated
this week in a global market rout,
are now forcing a broad rethinking of the conventional wisdom.
Even as markets show signs of
stabilizing, the resulting shock
waves could be lasting, by exposing a new reality that China is
no longer a sure bet.
China, while still a large and
pervasive presence in the global
Continued on Page B6
Soothing Talk
By Fed Official
Buoys Wall St.
By PETER EAVIS
Once again, the Federal Reserve helped save the day for investors.
The United States stock market soared in late trading on
Wednesday, shrugging off earlier
declines in China and Europe.
The powerful rally, which came
after several days of severe
plunges in the world’s major
stock markets, was inspired by
soothing words from an influential Fed policy maker.
At a news briefing in New
York, William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, said that the recent
turmoil in the financial markets
was a risk to the United States
economy. Crucially, he added that
he found the prospect of raising
interest rates next month “less
compelling.” [Page B1.]
Mr. Dudley’s words were manna for investors who had been
starved of good news in recent
days. On Thursday, stocks in
Asia opened broadly higher for
the first time since last week, inContinued on Page B2