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A tech mogul is paying for a city’s sur-veillance system. It may sound creepy,but Chris Larsen says it’s not. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

Security Cameras, My TreatIn a new memoir, Colin Jost, a “Satur-day Night Live” star, contemplates a lifeand a career still in flux. PAGE 10

ARTS & LEISURE

‘A Very Punchable Face’

At peace, the trio formerly known asthe Dixie Chicks is returning with itsfirst album in 14 years. PAGE 8

Wide Open SpacesAmid deteriorating economic condi-tions, a rally has left the market richlyvalued and facing uncertainty. PAGE 11

The Disconnect of a Bounce

A trade and military pact would extendBeijing’s reach into the Middle East andundercut the Trump administration’sefforts to isolate Tehran. PAGE 18

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China and Iran Near Deal

China is moving to revamp an educa-tion system in Hong Kong that hasgiven rise to young rebels. PAGE 14

Squelching Student Unrest

A Phoenix activist was arrested whilesupporting Black Lives Matter, but herDACA status put her in peril. PAGE 19

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Calling ICE on a Protester

An all-fiction issue features 29 newshort stories from David Mitchell, Kar-en Russell, Tommy Orange, Yiyun Liand others.

THE MAGAZINE

Inspired by the 14th Century

The world is reopening, and differinglevels of anxiety can strain relation-ships. Here are some strategies forgetting through it all together. PAGE 7

AT HOME

Couples Tested by Stress

Farhad Manjoo PAGE 4

SUNDAY REVIEW

With university plans for reopening thatlimit dormitory housing and put classesonline, at full tuition, many first-genera-tion, low-income students feel that theelite institution has failed them. PAGE 1

SUNDAY STYLES

Harvard Minus the Campus

Many people wonder if a new wave ofunscripted shows about the lives ofyoung social media influencers couldcaptivate the next generation of view-ers. Will the industry bite? PAGE 1

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As school districts across theUnited States consider whetherand how to restart in-personclasses, their challenge is compli-cated by a pair of fundamental un-certainties: No nation has tried tosend children back to school withthe virus raging at levels likeAmerica’s, and the scientific re-search about transmission inclassrooms is limited.

The World Health Organizationhas now concluded that the virusis airborne in crowded, indoorspaces with poor ventilation, a de-scription that fits many Americanschools. But there is enormouspressure to bring students back —from parents, from pediatriciansand child development special-ists, and from President Trump.

“I’m just going to say it: It feelslike we’re playing Russianroulette with our kids and ourstaff,” said Robin Cogan, a nurse atthe Yorkship School in Camden,N.J., who serves on the state’scommittee on reopening schools.

Data from around the worldclearly shows that children are farless likely to become seriously illfrom the coronavirus than adults.But there are big unansweredquestions, including how oftenchildren become infected andwhat role they play in transmit-ting the virus. Some research sug-gests younger children are lesslikely to infect other people thanteenagers are, which would make

HOW TO RESTARTSCHOOL THIS FALLBAFFLES EXPERTS

MURKY DATA ON YOUNG

U.S. Only Nation to PushAhead With Infection

Still Rampant

This article is by Pam Belluck,Apoorva Mandavilli and BenedictCarey.

Many schools are unequippedto ventilate spaces properly.

AUDRA MELTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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On an afternoon in early April,while New York City was in thethroes of what would be the dead-liest days of the coronavirus pan-demic, Dr. Lorna M. Breen foundherself alone in the still of herapartment in Manhattan.

She picked up her phone and di-aled her younger sister, JenniferFeist.

The two were just 22 monthsapart and had the kind of bondthat comes from growing up shar-ing a bedroom and wearingmatching outfits. Ms. Feist, a law-yer in Charlottesville, Va., was ac-customed to hearing from her sis-ter nearly every day.

Lately, their conversations hadbeen bleak.

Dr. Breen worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital inUpper Manhattan, where she su-pervised the emergency depart-ment. The unit had become a bru-

tal battleground, with supplies de-pleting at a distressing rate anddoctors and nurses falling ill. Thewaiting room was perpetuallyovercrowded. The sick were dyingunnoticed.

Ms. Feist had taken to sleepingnext to her phone in case her sis-

ter needed herafter a lateshift.

When Dr.Breen calledthis time, shesounded odd.Her voice wasdistant, as if shewas in shock.

“I don’t knowwhat to do,” she

said. “I can’t get out of the chair.”Dr. Breen was a consummate

overachiever, one who directedher life with assurance.

When she graduated from med-ical school, she insisted on study-

With an E.R. Doctor’s Suicide, The Virus Took Another Life

This article is by Corina Knoll, AliWatkins and Michael Rothfeld.

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Dr. LornaM. Breen

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — SandraAbello grew up poor, left school at11 and spent her teenage yearsscrubbing floors as a live-in maid.But by this year, something re-markable had happened.

Ms. Abello, now 39, finally had ahome in a decent neighborhood.One of her daughters, Karol, wasabout to finish high school. An-other, Nicol, was turning 15, andthey were planning a party with abig dress and many guests. Theywere saving for a washing ma-chine. Ms. Abello was proud of allshe had accomplished.

Then the pandemic hit, and Ms.Abello lost her cleaning work. ByMay, she had been evicted, forcing

her to move her children into a tinshed in an illegal settlement highabove the city. At night, a bittercold pushed its way in. A lifetimeof effort had evaporated in a mat-ter of weeks.

Ms. Abello’s oldest daughter,Karol, an aspiring nurse, called itthe “great regression.”

Not long ago, Colombia, andLatin America more broadly, werein the middle of a history-makingtransformation: The scourge ofinequality was shrinking as neverbefore. Over the past 20 years,millions of families had marchedout of poverty in one of the mostunequal regions on earth. The gapbetween rich and poor in LatinAmerica fell to its lowest point onrecord.

Now, the pandemic is threat-ening to reverse those gains like

nothing else in recent history,economists say, potentially up-ending politics and entire socie-ties for years to come.

We — two reporters and a pho-tographer with The New YorkTimes — wanted to understandwhat this meant for the region’sfuture, and in particular for thefamilies that had been so centralto that march toward economicequality.

So we began to drive, packingthe car with masks and travelingmore than 1,000 miles from Co-lombia’s capital to the northeast-ern border and back, interviewingdozens of people about the waythe pandemic was changing thecourse of their lives.

As we went, leaving the moun-

In Pandemic, for Colombia’s Poor, ‘Hope Is Over’By JULIE TURKEWITZand SOFÍA VILLAMIL

Amado Daversa, 9, waiting in Bucaramanga, Colombia, for a bus to take him and his mother, Roraima, to the Venezuelan border.FEDERICO RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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CAMDEN, N.J. — As officialsacross the United States face de-mands to transform policing,many have turned to a small NewJersey city that did what some ac-tivists are calling for elsewhere:dismantled its police force andbuilt a new one that stresses a lessconfrontational approach towardresidents who are mostly Blackand Latino.

The Camden Police Depart-

ment’s efforts to reduce its use offorce have made it one of the mostcompelling turnaround stories inU.S. law enforcement. Thechanges have led to a stark reduc-tion in the number of excessive-force complaints against the po-lice and have helped drive downthe murder rate in what was onceone of America’s most dangerouscities.

“If you’re looking to be a high-speed operator, we’re probablynot the right department,” said thecurrent chief, Joseph Wysocki, re-ferring to the type of officer he

does not want to attract. “If you’relooking to be a guardian figure inyour neighborhood, this is foryou.”

Still, even as many other com-munities look to Camden as a tem-plate for reform, it is far from aneat model.

The disbanding of its old forceseven years ago was promptednot by a desire to rethink policing,but by dire finances, a publicsafety crisis and a political powerplay meant to break the police offi-

The City That Fired Its Whole Police DepartmentBy JOSEPH GOLDSTEINand KEVIN ARMSTRONG

Camden, N.J., was one of the country’s riskiest cities until it disbanded and rebuilt its police force.HANNAH YOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — With Presi-dent Trump’s poll numbers slidingin traditional battlegrounds aswell as conservative-leaningstates, and money pouring intoDemocratic campaigns, Joseph R.Biden Jr. is facing rising pressureto expand his ambitions, competeaggressively in more states andpress his party’s advantage downthe ballot.

In a series of phone calls, Demo-cratic lawmakers and party offi-cials have lobbied Mr. Biden andhis top aides to seize what they be-lieve could be a singular opportu-nity not only to defeat Mr. Trumpbut to rout him and discredit whatthey believe is his dangerous styleof racial demagogy.

This election, the officials ar-gue, offers the provocative possi-bility of a new path to the presi-dency through fast-changingstates like Georgia and Texas, anda chance to install a generation oflawmakers who can cement Dem-ocratic control of Congress andhelp redraw legislative maps fol-lowing this year’s census.

Mr. Biden’s campaign, though,is so far hewing to a more conser-vative path. It is focused mostlyon a handful of traditional battle-grounds, where it is only now scal-ing up and naming top aides de-spite having claimed the nomina-tion in April.

At the moment, Mr. Biden is air-ing TV ads in just six states, all ofwhich Mr. Trump won four yearsago: Michigan, Wisconsin, Penn-sylvania, Arizona, North Carolinaand Florida. The campaign includ-ed perennially close Florida onlyafter some deliberations aboutwhether it was worth the heftyprice tag, and when Mr. Trump’sstruggles with older populationsmade it clearly competitive, ac-cording to Democrats familiarwith their discussions.

The campaign’s reluctance topursue a more expansive strategyowes in part to the calendar: Mr.Biden’s aides want to see wherethe race stands closer to Novem-ber before they broaden their fo-cus and commit to multimillion-dollar investments, aware that noswing states, let alone Republi-can-leaning states, have actuallybeen locked up.

Yet they are increasingly bump-ing up against a party embold-ened by an extraordinary conver-gence of events. Mr. Trump’s mis-handling of the pandemic, his self-defeating rhetorical eruptions

Biden Is UrgedTo Make a PlayFor More States

By JONATHAN MARTIN

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Months before F.B.I. agentsarrived in darkness at his Flor-ida home to take him into cus-tody, Roger J. Stone Jr. promisedthat he would remain loyal to his

longtime friend. “Iwill never roll onDonald Trump,” hesaid.

He did not, andMr. Stone is now a free man.

The president’s decision onFriday to commute Mr. Stone’sprison sentence for impeding acongressional inquiry and othercrimes was extraordinary be-cause federal prosecutors hadsuspected that Mr. Stone couldshed light on whether Mr. Trumphad lied to them under oath orillegally obstructed justice. EvenMr. Stone suggested a possiblequid pro quo, telling a journalisthours before the announcementthat he hoped for clemency be-cause Mr. Trump knew he hadresisted intense pressure fromprosecutors to cooperate.

It was the latest example ofhow Mr. Trump has managed tobend America’s legal machineryto his advantage and underminea criminal investigation that hasdominated so much of his presi-dency.

A jury determined that Mr.Stone, 67, was guilty of sevenfelonies, including witness tam-pering and lying to federal au-thorities, and a judge sentencedhim to 40 months in prison. Butto some, his brazen taunting ofF.B.I. agents, prosecutors and afederal judge for the past threeyears indicated that he knewhow the story would end: Hisfriend Mr. Trump would rescuehim.

Mr. Stone has always de-scribed the special counsel inves-tigation as bogus. And he hassaid he refused to help prosecu-tors because he would not “bearfalse witness” or “make up lies”about Mr. Trump — not becausehe was covering up any wrong-doing.

But recently unsealed portionsof the report by Robert S. Muel-ler III, the special counsel whoinvestigated Russia’s electioninterference and has insistentlyrefused to go beyond what was inhis report, underscore why in-vestigators were so eager to gainhis cooperation. The passagesshow that prosecutors suspectedthat the president had lied tothem in written answers when he

Trump RepaysAide’s LoyaltyWith a Rescue

Latest Case of BendingJustice to His Ends

By SHARON LaFRANIEREand MARK MAZZETTI

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