Senate Republicans released an austere budget that maintains strict caps on mil- itary spending, sending a rebuff to their House colleagues. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A14-18 G.O.P. Discord on Defense Cap French lawmakers are debating legislation that would set minimum weights for women and girls to work as models as a way to combat the persistence of anorexia. PAGE A6 INTERNATIONAL A6-13 The coffee chain’s attempt to start a na- tional conversation on race relations one customer at a time met with “a cas- cade of negativity.” PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-13 Wave of Criticism for Starbucks The long-delayed center in Manhattan has a new leader, Michelle D. Gavin, but still no opening date. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Africa Center, 6 Years Later Through electronic media, it is possible to survey an extraordinary number of masterworks and zoom in on details. But what is being lost by not putting those filters aside and just standing in front of the thing itself? Also, seeking new ways to welcome young people and visitors from abroad. SECTION F SPECIAL TODAY Museums Gail Collins PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 By JODI RUDOREN JERUSALEM — Israelis em- boldened Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu with a clear man- date in balloting on Tuesday, pav- ing the way for him to lead a right-leaning and religious coali- tion that could be far easier to control, since his own party holds many more seats now. But despite the resounding vic- tory after Mr. Netanyahu’s hard- line statements in the campaign’s final days, the direction he will take in what would be his fourth term is as much a mystery as the man himself. While the new coali- tion will almost certainly be more purely conservative, it is also more narrowly tailored, poten- tially freeing its leader of the con- straints that often guided his last government. As he puts together a govern- ment in the next few weeks, Mr. Netanyahu may no longer have the center-left factions that he re- lied on to ease Israel’s relations with the world and that pushed him back into negotiations with the Palestinians in 2013. But he also has gotten rid of extremists in his own party, Likud, and shrunk the Jewish Home party, which he often placated over the last two years by expanding set- tlements in the occupied West Bank. Analysts said Mr. Netanyahu would undoubtedly continue his strong opposition to the Iranian nuclear program, but might well limit settlement construction and make other gestures to soothe the Palestinian situation, while also seeking to address calls to lower the cost of living. Crucial players in the coming coalition are a new center-right party and two ultra-Orthodox factions, whose kitchen-table concerns are Coalition to Lean Right, but With New Focus Continued on Page A13 By HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON — President Obama and Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu of Israel had a poisonous relationship long be- fore Mr. Netanyahu swept to vic- tory on Tuesday night in elec- tions watched minute-by-minute at the White House. But now that Mr. Netanyahu has won after aggressively cam- paigning against a Palestinian state and Mr. Obama’s potential nuclear deal with Iran, the ques- tion is whether the president and prime minister can ever repair their relationship — and whether Mr. Obama will even try. On Wednesday, part of the an- swer seemed to be that the presi- dent would not make the effort. In strikingly strong criticism, the White House called Mr. Ne- tanyahu’s campaign rhetoric, in which he railed against Israeli Arabs because they went out to vote, an attempt to “marginalize Arab-Israeli citizens” and incon- sistent with the values that bind Israel and the United States. The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, told reporters trav- eling with Mr. Obama on Air Force One on Wednesday that Mr. Netanyahu’s statement was “deeply concerning and it is divi- sive and I can tell you that these are views the administration in- tends to communicate directly to the Israelis.” And with Mr. Netanyahu’s last- minute turnaround against a Pal- estinian state alongside Israel, several administration officials said that the Obama administra- tion may now agree to passage of a United Nations Security Coun- cil resolution embodying the principles of a two-state solution White House Ties May Be Past Mending Continued on Page A12 By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday moved to the verge of raising interest rates for the first time since the econ- omy fell into recession more than seven years ago, even as officials suggested that the Fed might not pull the trigger until well into the second half of the year. In a statement released after a two-day meeting of its policy- making committee, the Fed said that it would consider raising its benchmark rate as early as June, and it removed from the state- ment a promise that it would be “patient.” Yet the Fed tempered that message on Wednesday, includ- ing the release of economic fore- casts by its senior officials that showed they now think the unem- ployment rate can still fall signif- icantly without setting off higher inflation. That conveyed an im- pression that Fed officials may feel less urgency about raising in- terest rates so soon. “Just because we removed the word ‘patient’ from the state- ment doesn’t mean we’re going to be impatient,” Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, said at a news conference after the state- ment’s release. Ms. Yellen said Fed Creeps Closer to Higher Rate That May Not Arrive for Months Continued on Page B2 CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chief. By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and SHARON OTTERMAN Growing up, Mayor Bill de Bla- sio was the only child on his block who did not attend Mass on Sun- days. “Everyone else was at church, and I wasn’t,” he recalled in an interview last week. “Some of the kids envied me.” His mother, a lapsed Catholic, had little interest in organized re- ligion, and Mr. de Blasio inherited her skepticism. To this day, he be- longs to no church, and prefers to call himself “spiritual” rather than religious. Yet as the leader of a famously secular city, Mr. de Blasio has been emerging as something un- expected: a champion of religion whose administration has ad- vanced the cause of faith groups in the unlikeliest of public squares. In Mr. de Blasio’s New York, public prekindergarten classes will soon be able to include a mid- day break for observant students to pray. Schools will be closed citywide for two Muslim holy days. He is poised to relax health regulations governing a contro- versial circumcision ritual that is favored by some ultra-Orthodox Jews. And the mayor says he is intent on finding a way for church groups to continue hold- ing services in public schools on weekends, even as the United States Supreme Court could de- cide as early as next week to take up a case about whether the city has the right to prohibit the prac- tice. In finding novel ways to com- mingle church and state, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, has carved himself a niche as a more inclu- sive kind of liberal, one who is willing to embrace religious groups rather than treat them as adversaries. His moves have put him at odds with some of his usual allies, like civil libertarians, who are in- New York City’s Unlikely Voice For Religion: A Secular Mayor Continued on Page A24 YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Mayor Bill de Blasio being blessed at a Mass last year. By RONNIE COHEN and MICHAEL WINES YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — Per- haps it began with the red Adidas gym bag stuffed with $800,000 in cash. Then came the trail of over- hyped and failed wine ventures here in the heart of Napa Valley, and the furious court battles be- tween Robert Dahl, who ran a struggling vineyard, and his chief investor, Emad Tawfilis, who had willingly handed over the gym bag to offer the vintner seed cap- ital. Their dispute, in a region where money flows like, well, wine, climaxed Monday in the style of a pulp fiction thriller, with a wounded Mr. Tawfilis rac- ing frantically through the grape- vines as Mr. Dahl, carrying a si- lencer-equipped .22-caliber semi- automatic pistol and driving a black sport utility vehicle, me- thodically pursued and then killed him in sight of arriving sheriff’s deputies. Mr. Dahl, 47, a former Minneso- tan with a checkered back- ground, later shot himself to death as officers closed in after a chase up a twisting valley road. The Napa County sheriff’s of- fice said Wednesday that it was still sorting out Monday’s events. But Mr. Tawfilis, who had given Mr. Dahl the $800,000 and more to finance another winery that A Vineyard Dispute, $800,000 in Cash, and Two Dead in Napa JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES Napa County sheriff’s office personnel looking for evidence in the vineyard where a fatal shooting took place on Monday. Continued on Page A18 In Chicago, a special force seeks to speed up the response when children in state care disappear. PAGE A14 Fast Action on Runaways A real estate agent in Manhattan died after she was struck by plywood fencing blown from a construction site. PAGE A20 NEW YORK A19-24 Fatal Debris on a Windy Day An Afghan warlord, now a vice president, has said he is marginalized in government, acting out his frustrations with tears, outbursts and rambling speeches. PAGE A6 Battlefield to Sidelines The fall of the tech site Gigaom does not offer easy lessons for media start-ups, Farhad Manjoo writes. PAGE B1 The Problem With Gigaom In two new books, the rapper and poet Kate Tempest trafficks in the mundane and the mythic. A review. PAGE C1 The Epic in the Everyday As the N.C.A.A. tournament begins, men’s college basketball teams are play- ing slower and scoring less. PAGE B14 SPORTSTHURSDAY B14-19 Looking for a Livelier Game OVERNIGHT SURPRISE Looking for answers after Israeli exit polls failed to detect a lopsided lead. Video and an article at nytimes.com/world. Rethinking Model Figures Decisive Win in Israel Sets Netanyahu on Path To Rebuild and Redefine VOL. CLXIV ... No. 56,810 © 2015 The New York Times NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015 Late Edition Today, mostly sunny skies, chilly, high 42. Tonight, clear to partly cloudy, low 30. Tomorrow, snow at times, 1 to 3 inches into the evening, high 36. Weather map, Page B12. $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+#!?!&!=!, By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — Gunmen in military uniforms killed 19 people on Wednesday in a midday attack on a museum in downtown Tunis, dealing a new blow to the tourist industry that is vital to Tunisia as it struggles to consolidate the only transition to democracy af- ter the Arab Spring revolts. Tunisian officials had initially said that the attackers took 10 hostages and killed nine people, including seven foreign visitors and two Tunisians. When securi- ty forces retook the museum about four hours later, however, the death toll more than doubled, raising questions about how and at what point the hostages had died. Prime Minister Habib Essid said in a news conference that se- curity forces had killed two gun- men inside the museum but that two or three accomplices might still be at large. He said 17 foreign visitors — including Polish, Ital- ian, Spanish and German tourists — as well as two Tunisians, one of whom was a member of the secu- rity forces, had been killed in the attack. At least 22 others were wounded. Mr. Essid urged national unity, calling the attack “the first opera- tion of its kind ever to occur in Tunisia” because it struck the crucial tourist economy. “We will show no compassion and no mer- cy in defending our country,” he said. The two gunmen killed were believed to be Tunisians, he said. Yet their identities and motiva- tions were not immediately clear, and there was no claim of respon- sibility. Tunisia is the Arab world’s most successful democracy, and it recently completed its first free Fatal Museum Attack Is a Blow To Tunisia’s Democratic Shift HASSENE DRIDI/ASSOCIATED PRESS A victim was evacuated on Wednesday from the National Bardo Museum in Tunis after gunmen in uniforms killed 19 people. Continued on Page A10
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Senate Republicans released an austerebudget that maintains strict caps on mil-itary spending, sending a rebuff to theirHouse colleagues. PAGE A16
NATIONAL A14-18
G.O.P. Discord on Defense CapFrench lawmakers aredebating legislation thatwould set minimumweights for women andgirls to work as modelsas a way to combat thepersistence of anorexia.
PAGE A6
INTERNATIONAL A6-13
The coffee chains attempt to start a na-tional conversation on race relationsone customer at a time met with a cas-cade of negativity. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-13
Wave of Criticism for Starbucks
The long-delayed center in Manhattanhas a new leader, Michelle D. Gavin, butstill no opening date. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
Africa Center, 6 Years Later
Through electronic media, it is possibleto survey an extraordinary number ofmasterworks and zoom in on details.But what is being lost by not puttingthose filters aside and just standing infront of the thing itself? Also, seekingnew ways to welcome young people andvisitors from abroad. SECTION F
SPECIAL TODAY
Museums
Gail Collins PAGE A27EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
By JODI RUDORENJERUSALEM Israelis em-
boldened Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu with a clear man-date in balloting on Tuesday, pav-ing the way for him to lead aright-leaning and religious coali-tion that could be far easier tocontrol, since his own party holdsmany more seats now.
But despite the resounding vic-tory after Mr. Netanyahus hard-line statements in the campaignsfinal days, the direction he willtake in what would be his fourthterm is as much a mystery as theman himself. While the new coali-tion will almost certainly be morepurely conservative, it is alsomore narrowly tailored, poten-tially freeing its leader of the con-straints that often guided his lastgovernment.
As he puts together a govern-ment in the next few weeks, Mr.Netanyahu may no longer havethe center-left factions that he re-lied on to ease Israels relationswith the world and that pushedhim back into negotiations withthe Palestinians in 2013. But healso has gotten rid of extremistsin his own party, Likud, andshrunk the Jewish Home party,which he often placated over thelast two years by expanding set-tlements in the occupied WestBank.
Analysts said Mr. Netanyahuwould undoubtedly continue hisstrong opposition to the Iraniannuclear program, but might welllimit settlement construction andmake other gestures to soothethe Palestinian situation, whilealso seeking to address calls tolower the cost of living. Crucialplayers in the coming coalitionare a new center-right party andtwo ultra-Orthodox factions,whose kitchen-table concerns are
Coalition to LeanRight, but With
New Focus
Continued on Page A13
By HELENE COOPERand MICHAEL D. SHEAR
WASHINGTON PresidentObama and Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu of Israel had apoisonous relationship long be-fore Mr. Netanyahu swept to vic-tory on Tuesday night in elec-tions watched minute-by-minuteat the White House.
But now that Mr. Netanyahuhas won after aggressively cam-paigning against a Palestinianstate and Mr. Obamas potentialnuclear deal with Iran, the ques-tion is whether the president andprime minister can ever repairtheir relationship and whetherMr. Obama will even try.
On Wednesday, part of the an-swer seemed to be that the presi-dent would not make the effort.
In strikingly strong criticism,the White House called Mr. Ne-tanyahus campaign rhetoric, inwhich he railed against IsraeliArabs because they went out tovote, an attempt to marginalizeArab-Israeli citizens and incon-sistent with the values that bindIsrael and the United States. TheWhite House press secretary,Josh Earnest, told reporters trav-eling with Mr. Obama on AirForce One on Wednesday thatMr. Netanyahus statement wasdeeply concerning and it is divi-sive and I can tell you that theseare views the administration in-tends to communicate directly tothe Israelis.
And with Mr. Netanyahus last-minute turnaround against a Pal-estinian state alongside Israel,several administration officialssaid that the Obama administra-tion may now agree to passage ofa United Nations Security Coun-cil resolution embodying theprinciples of a two-state solution
White House TiesMay Be Past
Mending
Continued on Page A12
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
WASHINGTON The FederalReserve on Wednesday moved tothe verge of raising interest ratesfor the first time since the econ-omy fell into recession more thanseven years ago, even as officialssuggested that the Fed might notpull the trigger until well into thesecond half of the year.
In a statement released after a
two-day meeting of its policy-making committee, the Fed saidthat it would consider raising itsbenchmark rate as early as June,and it removed from the state-ment a promise that it would bepatient.
Yet the Fed tempered thatmessage on Wednesday, includ-ing the release of economic fore-casts by its senior officials thatshowed they now think the unem-ployment rate can still fall signif-icantly without setting off higherinflation. That conveyed an im-pression that Fed officials mayfeel less urgency about raising in-terest rates so soon.
Just because we removed theword patient from the state-ment doesnt mean were goingto be impatient, Janet L. Yellen,the Feds chairwoman, said at anews conference after the state-ments release. Ms. Yellen said
FedCreeps Closer to Higher RateThat May Not Arrive for Months
Continued on Page B2CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
Janet L. Yellen, the Feds chief.
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and SHARON OTTERMAN
Growing up, Mayor Bill de Bla-sio was the only child on his blockwho did not attend Mass on Sun-days. Everyone else was atchurch, and I wasnt, he recalledin an interview last week. Someof the kids envied me.
His mother, a lapsed Catholic,had little interest in organized re-ligion, and Mr. de Blasio inheritedher skepticism. To this day, he be-longs to no church, and prefers tocall himself spiritual ratherthan religious.
Yet as the leader of a famouslysecular city, Mr. de Blasio hasbeen emerging as something un-expected: a champion of religion
whose administration has ad-vanced the cause of faith groupsin the unlikeliest of publicsquares.
In Mr. de Blasios New York,public prekindergarten classeswill soon be able to include a mid-day break for observant studentsto pray. Schools will be closedcitywide for two Muslim holydays. He is poised to relax healthregulations governing a contro-versial circumcision ritual that isfavored by some ultra-OrthodoxJews. And the mayor says he isintent on finding a way forchurch groups to continue hold-ing services in public schools onweekends, even as the UnitedStates Supreme Court could de-cide as early as next week to takeup a case about whether the cityhas the right to prohibit the prac-tice.
In finding novel ways to com-mingle church and state, Mr. deBlasio, a Democrat, has carvedhimself a niche as a more inclu-sive kind of liberal, one who iswilling to embrace religiousgroups rather than treat them asadversaries.
His moves have put him atodds with some of his usual allies,like civil libertarians, who are in-
New York Citys Unlikely VoiceFor Religion: A Secular Mayor
Continued on Page A24
YANA PASKOVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mayor Bill de Blasio beingblessed at a Mass last year.
By RONNIE COHEN and MICHAEL WINES
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. Per-haps it began with the red Adidasgym bag stuffed with $800,000 incash.
Then came the trail of over-hyped and failed wine ventureshere in the heart of Napa Valley,
and the furious court battles be-tween Robert Dahl, who ran astruggling vineyard, and his chiefinvestor, Emad Tawfilis, who hadwillingly handed over the gymbag to offer the vintner seed cap-ital.
Their dispute, in a regionwhere money flows like, well,wine, climaxed Monday in thestyle of a pulp fiction thriller,
with a wounded Mr. Tawfilis rac-ing frantically through the grape-vines as Mr. Dahl, carrying a si-lencer-equipped .22-caliber semi-automatic pistol and driving ablack sport utility vehicle, me-thodically pursued and thenkilled him in sight of arrivingsheriffs deputies.
Mr. Dahl, 47, a former Minneso-tan with a checkered back-
ground, later shot himself todeath as officers closed in after achase up a twisting valley road.
The Napa County sheriffs of-fice said Wednesday that it wasstill sorting out Mondays events.But Mr. Tawfilis, who had givenMr. Dahl the $800,000 and moreto finance another winery that
A Vineyard Dispute, $800,000 in Cash, and Two Dead in Napa
JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Napa County sheriffs office personnel looking for evidence in the vineyard where a fatal shooting took place on Monday.
Continued on Page A18
In Chicago, a special force seeks tospeed up the response when children instate care disappear. PAGE A14
Fast Action on Runaways
A real estate agent in Manhattan diedafter she was struck by plywood fencingblown from a construction site. PAGE A20
NEW YORK A19-24
Fatal Debris on a Windy Day
An Afghan warlord, now avice president, has said he ismarginalized in government,acting out his frustrationswith tears, outbursts andrambling speeches. PAGE A6
Battlefield to Sidelines
The fall of the tech site Gigaom does notoffer easy lessons for media start-ups,Farhad Manjoo writes. PAGE B1
The Problem With Gigaom
In two new books, the rapper and poetKate Tempest trafficks in the mundaneand the mythic. A review. PAGE C1
The Epic in the EverydayAs the N.C.A.A. tournament begins,mens college basketball teams are play-ing slower and scoring less. PAGE B14
SPORTSTHURSDAY B14-19
Looking for a Livelier Game
OVERNIGHT SURPRISE Looking for answers after Israeli exit polls failedto detect a lopsided lead. Video and an article at nytimes.com/world.
Rethinking Model Figures
Decisive Win in IsraelSets Netanyahu on PathTo Rebuild and Redefine
VOL. CLXIV . . . No. 56,810 2015 The New York Times NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015
Late EditionToday, mostly sunny skies, chilly,high 42. Tonight, clear to partlycloudy, low 30. Tomorrow, snow attimes, 1 to 3 inches into the evening,high 36. Weather map, Page B12.
$2.50
U(D54G1D)y+#!?!&!=!,
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
CAIRO Gunmen in militaryuniforms killed 19 people onWednesday in a midday attack ona museum in downtown Tunis,dealing a new blow to the touristindustry that is vital to Tunisia asit struggles to consolidate theonly transition to democracy af-ter the Arab Spring revolts.
Tunisian officials had initiallysaid that the attackers took 10hostages and killed nine people,including seven foreign visitorsand two Tunisians. When securi-ty forces retook the museumabout four hours later, however,the death toll more than doubled,raising questions about how andat what point the hostages haddied.
Prime Minister Habib Essidsaid in a news conference that se-curity forces had killed two gun-men inside the museum but thattwo or three accomplices mightstill be at large. He said 17 foreign
visitors including Polish, Ital-ian, Spanish and German tourists as well as two Tunisians, one ofwhom was a member of the secu-rity forces, had been killed in theattack. At least 22 others werewounded.
Mr. Essid urged national unity,calling the attack the first opera-tion of its kind ever to occur inTunisia because it struck thecrucial tourist economy. We willshow no compassion and no mer-cy in defending our country, hesaid.
The two gunmen killed werebelieved to be Tunisians, he said.Yet their identities and motiva-tions were not immediately clear,and there was no claim of respon-sibility.
Tunisia is the Arab worldsmost successful democracy, andit recently completed its first free
Fatal Museum Attack Is a BlowTo Tunisias Democratic Shift
HASSENE DRIDI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
A victim was evacuated on Wednesday from the National Bardo Museum in Tunis after gunmen in uniforms killed 19 people.
Continued on Page A10
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