U(D547FD)v+&!_!/!?!# In the 1950s, Cary Grant and other celebrities experimented with LSD, inspiring the new Broadway musical “Flying Over Sunset.” PAGE 8 ARTS & LEISURE Psychedelic Eisenhower Years The supermodel and longtime spouse of David Bowie talks about their Catskills refuge and her new perfume. PAGE 1 SUNDAY STYLES Iman Opens Up A former school outside Syracuse, N.Y., has been transformed into American High, a production hub for making inexpensive films aimed at streaming platforms and teenagers. PAGE 1 SUNDAY BUSINESS ‘The Breakfast Club’ for Gen Z The former president’s campaign of retribution against some fellow Republi- cans threatens to throw cold water on an energized party in 2022. PAGE 23 NATIONAL 18-29 Trump as Midterm Wild Card Blamed for flooded fields and the occa- sional death, the beaver, which has played a seminal role in Canadian his- tory, is no longer a point of pride. PAGE 4 INTERNATIONAL 4-17 Furry Friends? Not in Canada. Marvin Stein, a former boxer now in his 90s, has battled with his family mem- bers over his fortune. PAGE 1 METROPOLITAN The Fight of His Life Zeynep Tufekci PAGE 4 SUNDAY REVIEW The city’s nightclubs are now crowded again, but months of lost revenue have left many deep in debt. PAGE 1 Party’s Back. Bills Never Left. Forget goal-oriented five-year plans: Some newfangled career coaches are urging clients to look deep within themselves, and then act. PAGE 1 Career Dream Catchers For many women who are going “child- less by choice,” there’s a moral dimen- sion to their decision. PAGE 12 No Kids? It’s a Calculation. The number of defecting soldiers is growing, galvanized by the nationwide anti-coup movement. PAGE 6 Morale Crisis in Myanmar Dark heroin cut with so much white powdered fentanyl that it’s known on the street as “gray.” Co- caine laced so frequently with fen- tanyl that club DJs stock anti- overdose medication. Fake pre- scription pain pills that are in fact all fentanyl. The synthetic opioid fentanyl, a legal prescription pain medica- tion, is now a black market com- modity blasting through the street drug marketplace. Cheap and up to 100 times more powerful than naturally derived opioids, it is also lethal. Behind the trend is a growing body count: In the 12-month peri- od that ended in April, more than 100,000 Americans, a record num- ber, died from overdoses, accord- ing to preliminary data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ma- jority of the deaths were linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. In New York City, most autop- sies of overdose deaths now re- veal that fentanyl was involved, including that of Michael K. Williams, the actor found dead in his Brooklyn apartment. It is spliced into party drugs where it can be consumed unwit- tingly, as it was by six people killed by a single batch of laced co- caine on Long Island this summer. While the mounting deaths show the devastating conse- quence of fentanyl’s seep, it is less ‘This Is Poison’: Fentanyl Jolts Drug Epidemic By SARAH MASLIN NIR Continued on Page 28 PARIS — The wealthy socialite was found dead in the basement of her villa on the Côte d’Azur. The only door was locked from the out- side but also barricaded from within. A message, scrawled in the victim’s own blood, seemed to ac- cuse her gardener. The brutal killing, in 1991, of Ghislaine Marchal and the subse- quent conviction of her Moroccan gardener, Omar Raddad, became one of France’s most enduring murder mysteries, capturing the popular imagination. Now, three decades later, new DNA technology may lead to a second trial that supporters hope will exonerate Mr. Raddad, who has always maintained his inno- cence, and reopen a case that, though seemingly settled legally, has long unsettled France. It has done so not only because of the violence that was visited upon an enclave of proud homes just north of Cannes, or because the protagonists were from dia- metrically opposed backgrounds. There was also the enigma of the locked room that was never satis- factorily unraveled. And there was the final message — which contained a grammatical error. “Omar killed me,” Ms. Marchal appeared to have written in her dying moments. Or, in the original French, “Omar m’a tuer” — not “m’a tuée,” as it should have been. The mistake raised very French Bloody Scrawl, Dead Socialite And a Mystery By NORIMITSU ONISHI Continued on Page 9 CARMEL, Ind. — It’s getting harder and harder to run a stop- light here, because there are fewer and fewer of them around. Every year, at intersections throughout this thriving city, traf- fic lights and stop signs have dis- appeared, replaced with round- abouts. Lots and lots of roundabouts. There is a roundabout deco- rated with the local high school mascot, a greyhound, and another with giant steel flowers. A three- mile stretch of Carmel’s Main Street has 11 roundabouts alone. The roundabout that locals per- haps prize the most features box hedges and a three-tier bronze fountain made in France. In 2016, it was named International Roundabout of the Year by no less than the U.K. Roundabout Appre- ciation Society, which, according to the Carmel mayor, Jim Brain- ard, is largely made up of “three guys in a pub.” (Their actual mem- bership is six. But still.) Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 round- abouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; com- pared with regular intersections, roundabouts significantly reduce injuries and deaths. But there’s also a climate bene- fit. Because modern roundabouts don’t have red lights where cars sit and idle, they don’t burn as much gasoline. While there are With 140 roundabouts, Carmel, Ind., has eased intersection traffic and decreased emissions. AJ MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The Midwestern City Where Rounder Is Greener By CARA BUCKLEY Continued on Page 22 WASHINGTON — On a Wednesday night in September, while President Biden back- slapped in the Republican dugout during the annual congressional baseball game, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat nearby, sober-faced and wagging her finger while speak- ing into her cellphone, toiling to salvage her party’s top legislative priority as it teetered on the brink of collapse. On the other end of the line was Senator Joe Manchin III, Demo- crat of West Virginia, a crucial swing vote on Mr. Biden’s sweep- ing social policy bill, and Ms. Pelosi, seated in the V.I.P. section behind the dugout at Nationals Park, was trying to persuade him to embrace $2.1 trillion in spend- ing and climate change provisions she considered essential for the legislation. In a moment captured by C- SPAN cameras that went viral, Ms. Pelosi appeared to grow agi- tated as Mr. Manchin, according to sources apprised of the call, told her that he could not accept more than $1.5 trillion — and was pre- pared to provide a document clearly laying out his parameters for the package, benchmarks that House Democrats had been clam- oring to see. The call reflected how Ms. Pelo- si’s pivotal role in shepherding Mr. Biden’s agenda on Capitol Hill has reached far beyond the House that is her primary responsibility and into the Senate, where she has engaged in quiet and little-noticed talks with key lawmakers who have the power to kill the package or propel it into law. HOW PELOSI GOT HER DEMOCRATS OVER FINISH LINE PIVOTAL ROLE ON AGENDA In Background, Cajoling Manchin and Sinema to Get on Board By CARL HULSE Continued on Page 24 KISANFU, Democratic Repub- lic of Congo — Just up a red dirt road, across an expanse of tall, dew-soaked weeds, bulldozers are hollowing out a yawning new can- yon that is central to the world’s urgent race against global warm- ing. For more than a decade, the vast expanse of untouched land was controlled by an American company. Now a Chinese mining conglomerate has bought it, and is racing to retrieve its buried treas- ure: millions of tons of cobalt. At 73, Kyahile Mangi has lived here long enough to predict the path ahead. Once the blasting starts, the walls of mud-brick homes will crack. Chemicals will seep into the river where women do laundry and dishes while wor- rying about hippo attacks. Soon a manager from the mine will an- nounce that everyone needs to be relocated. “We know our ground is rich,” said Mr. Mangi, a village chief who also knows residents will share lit- tle of the mine’s wealth. This wooded stretch of south- east Democratic Republic of Congo, called Kisanfu, holds one of the largest and purest untapped reserves of cobalt in the world. The gray metal, typically ex- tracted from copper deposits, has historically been of secondary in- terest to miners. But demand is set to explode worldwide because it is used in electric-car batteries, helping them run longer without a charge. Outsiders discovering — and exploiting — the natural re- sources of this impoverished Cen- tral African country are following a tired colonial-era pattern. The United States turned to Congo for uranium to help build the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Naga- saki and then spent decades, and billions of dollars, seeking to pro- tect its mining interests here. Now, with more than two-thirds of the world’s cobalt production coming from Congo, the country is A mining site owned by a Chinese company in Kisanfu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The land contains a vast reserve of cobalt, vital to making electric car batteries. ASHLEY GILBERTSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution This article is by Dionne Searcey, Michael Forsythe and Eric Lipton. Continued on Page 14 RACE TO THE FUTURE A Mining Frenzy in Congo Four days before Kyle Ritten- house was acquitted of murder, the judge in his case tossed out a charge: illegal possession of the military-style semiautomatic rifle he used to kill two people. The withdrawal of the misdemean- or charge, which carried a maxi- mum sentence of less than a year, was a footnote in a much bigger drama. Yet it was a telling reminder that the Rittenhouse case, in addition to examining the polarizing issues of race and the right to self-defense in the country, highlighted the growing proliferation of guns on Ameri- ca’s streets and the failure of efforts to enact even modest new gun restrictions. While the government remains mired in stalemate on gun con- trol, weapons purchases are at record levels: The run on ammu- nition has become so frenzied that gun shop owners have had to turn away hunters heading out for the winter big-game season. A spike in the firearm-related homicide rate during the pan- demic has overwhelmed local police departments, and the proliferation of homemade fire- arms, “ghost guns,” has reached epidemic proportions in Califor- nia. Gun control advocates thought they would make some headway under President Biden but have faced a backlash. For the advocates, there have been some gains, including a pending ban on the online sale of kit guns and $5 billion in new violence prevention funding that was included in the social spend- ing passed by the House hours before the verdict was an- nounced. But congressional Republicans have blocked efforts to expand federal background checks on gun purchasers and restrict the sale of semiautomatic guns, or even to confirm a per- manent director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. All of that has limited the White House to adopting a series of executive actions, including Kenosha Trial Shows Nation Split by Guns By GLENN THRUSH Continued on Page 29 NEWS ANALYSIS Three clips of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai on Twitter don’t make it clear if she is safe. PAGE 33 SPORTS 33-35 New Videos, Same Worries Late Edition VOL. CLXXI . . . 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