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Recent deaths have devastated GreenBay Packers teams of the 1960s. PAGE 24

SPORTS 24-26

Losing an Era’s StarsA decade ago, protests in the Cairoplaza ignited an Egyptian revolt and theArab Spring. Now, it is quiet. PAGE 9

INTERNATIONAL 9-12

History Haunts Tahrir Square

Most colleges and universities now use a“merit” aid strategy to solicit teenagers.Good high school grades could be worth$100,000. Your eighth grader probablyought to know how it works. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

A 6-Figure College Discount?“Getting the vaccine is the hottest thingyou could be doing on a dating app rightnow,” a spokesman for OKCupid said. Atemporary social elite may result. PAGE 1

SUNDAY STYLES

The Vaccinated ClassThe hospital in Arizona’s Yuma Countyis so overwhelmed it has had to flypatients to other cities. No other regionhas had a higher case rate. PAGE 4

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK 4-8

A Fertile Ground for Covid-19

“Moulin Rouge!” was a Broadwaysmash until the pandemic. PAGE 7

ARTS & LEISURE

Windmills, Tilted

For Adam Aron, who runs the world’slargest movie theater chain, the pastyear has been filled with thriller-liketwists and turns. PAGE 1

Nobody Knows the Ending

Think of your child’s body changes assomething to be curious about, not apandemic problem to be solved. PAGE 4

Packing on the Pounds

Dining out in the pandemic? Take ad-vantage of loaner blankets, and don’tforget your handwarmers. PAGE 3

AT HOME

Bread, Wine and Wind Chill

When Sofia Bekatorou, a Greek sailingchampion, spoke up on sexual assault, itset off a national reckoning. PAGE 10

Olympian Breaks a Silence

President Biden, a Roman Catholic whoregularly attends Mass, is perhaps themost religiously observant commanderin chief in half a century. PAGE 13

NATIONAL 13-20

Biden Lifts Liberal Christians

Ezra Klein PAGE 6

SUNDAY REVIEW

The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among studentsin Clark County, Nev., have comein droves.

Since schools shut their doors inMarch, an early-warning systemthat monitors students’ mentalhealth episodes has sent morethan 3,100 alerts to district offi-cials, raising alarms about suicid-al thoughts, possible self-harm orcries for care. By December, 18

students had taken their ownlives.

The spate of student suicides inand around Las Vegas has pushedthe Clark County district, the na-tion’s fifth largest, toward bring-ing students back as quickly aspossible. This month, the schoolboard gave the green light tophase in the return of some ele-mentary school grades andgroups of struggling studentseven as greater Las Vegas contin-ues to post huge numbers of co-ronavirus cases and deaths.

Superintendents across the na-tion are weighing the benefit of in-person education against the costof public health, watching teach-ers and staff become sick and, insome cases, die, but also seeingthe psychological and academictoll that school closings are havingon children nearly a year in. Therisk of student suicides has qui-etly stirred many district leaders,leading some, like the state super-intendent in Arizona, to cite thatfear in public pleas to help miti-

Student Suicides Push Las Vegas Schools to OpenBy ERICA L. GREEN

The cafeteria at Sierra Vista High School in Nevada. The district wants to get students back.BRIDGET BENNETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — During thefour-and-a-half-hour attack on theCapitol on Jan. 6, one of the mo-ments when the mob came closestto the lawmakers they were pur-suing took place just after 2:30p.m.

On one side of a set of antiquewood and glass doors were dozensof lawmakers and their aides try-ing to evacuate the House cham-ber.

On the other were riotersyelling “Stop the steal” as theyhammered the panes with a flag-pole, a helmet and even a bare fist.

In between was a Capitol Policelieutenant, scrambling to pile ta-bles and chairs into a makeshiftbarricade. He had 31 rounds forhis service weapon, and he hastold others that he feared he mightneed them all.

At the height of the standoff, awoman named Ashli Babbitt triedto vault through a window. Thelieutenant, his weapon already ex-tended, pulled the trigger once,killing her in a confrontation thatwas captured on video and widelyviewed around the world.

At least three investigationsinto the security response on Jan.6 are underway, and officials havenot provided the full details of Ms.Babbitt’s death.

But videos taken of the episode,legal documents and witness ac-counts point to a dire set of cir-cumstances and an officer left toconfront a mob. The officer, a lieu-tenant who has not been publiclynamed, has been placed on admin-istrative leave while his actionsare reviewed by authorities.

The use of deadly force by offi-cers is considered legally justified

if they have an “objectively rea-sonable” fear of serious, imminentharm to themselves or others.Several policing experts said thatvideo of the encounter was notenough for them to offer an opin-ion on the shooting. But inter-views with two people with directknowledge of the officer’s accountsuggest he will make the case thathe acted to protect lawmakersfrom harm.

“I could look them in the eyes,”said Representative Jim McGov-ern, Democrat of Massachusetts,who had been presiding in thespeaker’s chair and was one of thelast to leave as the mob attemptedto break through the doors. “Imean, that’s how close they were.”

He added: “I don’t even knowwhat would have happened hadthey breached that area.”

Ms. Babbitt’s husband, Aaron,told a Fox affiliate on the day ofthe riot that he had seen his wifedie on the news.

“She didn’t have any weaponson her, I don’t know why she hadto die in the People’s House,” hesaid, adding, “She was voicing heropinion and she got killed for it.”

He did not respond to an emailrequesting comment. One of Ms.Babbitt’s brothers, reached byphone, declined to comment.

Ms. Babbitt was one of five peo-ple who lost their lives at the Capi-tol that day. A Capitol Police offi-cer was overpowered and beatenby rioters. A Georgia woman ap-peared to have been killed in acrush of fellow rioters. One manhad a stroke, and another a heartattack.

The lieutenant had heard on the

Shouting, Smashed Glass,A Lunge, Then a Gunshot

A Lone Capitol Officer’s Deadly Decisionas Lawmakers Scrambled to Safety

By ADAM GOLDMAN and SHAILA DEWAN

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LOS ANGELES — Betty Riverawas the first in her household tofall sick, early last month. To pro-tect her family, she locked herselfin the bedroom she shares withher grandson. Her daughter leftchicken soup and herbal remediesof ginger and garlic and rosemaryoutside her door.

But it was impossible to stop thespread, not with three genera-tions crammed into a one-bed-room apartment in one of Los An-geles’s most overcrowded com-munities.

Her three-story brick buildingis wedged between Koreatownand Pico-Union, neighborhoodsfilled with immigrants who stockgroceries and drive buses and

where the streets are dotted withbusinesses that serve the under-privileged — 99-cent stores, checkcashing outfits that dole out pay-day loans, pawnshops. Thesedays, the wail of ambulance sirensnever seems to fall silent.

“It’s all day long,” Ms. Rivera,69, said in a recent interview inher living room, where her familysleeps and where the fireplace isjammed with toys.

Ms. Rivera’s daughter was thenext to fall ill, and then her son-in-law and two of her grandchildren.Even Chloe, the black-and-white

dachshund and Chihuahua mixscurrying around the apartment,became sick, she said.

Los Angeles may not have thepopulation density of New York,may not have as many sky-scrapers or high-rise apartmentbuildings or jam-packed subways,but the county does have a higherpercentage of overcrowdedhomes — 11 percent, according tothe U.S. Census Bureau — thanany other major metropolitanarea in America.

Overcrowded housing is de-fined as more than one person perroom, excluding bathrooms. If youdrive across the vastness of LosAngeles County, starting at theocean and going east, the shiftinglandscape tells the story of the

Virus Ravages Cramped Homes in Los AngelesBy TIM ARANGO Dense Enclaves Reflect

Surge’s Unequal Toll

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NAIROBI, Kenya — As the re-sults of the American presidentialelection rolled in on Nov. 4, ayoung Sudanese couple sat upthrough the night in their smalltown south of Khartoum, eyesglued to the television as state tal-lies were declared, watching anx-iously. They had a lot riding on theoutcome.

A year earlier, Monzir Hashimhad won the State Department’sannual lottery to obtain a greencard for the United States, only tolearn that President Trump, in hislatest iteration of the “Muslimban,” had barred Sudanese citi-zens from immigrating to theUnited States.

The election seemed to offer asecond chance, and when Mr.Trump was eventually declared tohave lost the vote, Mr. Hashim andhis wife, Alaa Jamal, hugged withjoy and erupted in wedding-styleululations.

But the couple were on a knife’sedge for the next 11 weeks as fraudallegations, legal challenges andthe mob attack on the Capitolseemed to cloud the results. Ms.Alaa, compulsively checkingFacebook, had to stop herself. “Icouldn’t stand it anymore,” shesaid.

She dared to look Wednesdaywhen Joseph R. Biden Jr., hoursafter being sworn in as president,rescinded the entire raft of Trump-era orders that had blocked peo-ple across the world, mostly Mus-lims like herself, from entering theUnited States. She wept with joy.

“Finally, happiness,” she saidover the phone. “Now we startplanning again.”

Few foreigners welcomed Mr.Biden’s election victory as enthu-siastically as the tens of thou-sands of Muslims who have beenlocked out of the United States forthe past four years as a result ofthe Trump-era immigration re-strictions popularly known as the“Muslim ban.”

By one count, 42,000 peoplewere prevented from entering theUnited States from 2017 to 2019,mostly from Muslim-majority na-tions like Iran, Somalia, Yemenand Syria. Immigrant visas issued

Muslims ExultAs Biden Ends

A Trump BanBy DECLAN WALSH

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Larry King, who shot the breezewith presidents and psychics,movie stars and malefactors —anyone with a story to tell or apitch to make — in a half-centuryon radio and television, including25 years as the host of CNN’s glob-ally popular “Larry King Live,”died on Saturday in Los Angeles.He was 87.

Ora Media, which Mr. King co-founded in 2012, confirmed thedeath in a statement posted on Mr.King’s own Twitter account andsaid he had died at Cedars-SinaiMedical Center.

The statement did not specify acause of death, but Mr. King hadrecently been treated for Covid-19.In 2019, he was hospitalized forchest pains and said he had alsosuffered a stroke.

A son of European immigrantswho grew up in Brooklyn and

TV SchmoozerWho Chatted

With Anyone

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

Larry King in 2007 on the setof his CNN interview program.

MONICA ALMEIDA/THE NEW YORK TIMES

LARRY KING, 1933-2021

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Officers cracked down in Moscow on Saturday as thousands rallied for the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny. Page 10.Navalny Protests Spread Across Russia

EQUITY President Biden’s earlyfocus on racial issues has cheeredcivil rights activists. PAGE 19

WASHINGTON — When Rep-resentative Scott Perry joined hiscolleagues in a monthslong cam-paign to undermine the results ofthe presidential election, promot-ing “Stop the Steal” events andsupporting an attempt to overturnmillions of legally cast votes, he of-ten took a back seat to higher-pro-file loyalists in President Donald J.Trump’s orbit.

But Mr. Perry, an outspokenPennsylvania Republican, playeda significant role in the crisis thatplayed out at the top of the JusticeDepartment this month, when Mr.Trump considered firing the act-ing attorney general and backeddown only after top departmentofficials threatened to resign enmasse.

It was Mr. Perry, a member ofthe hard-line Freedom Caucus,who first made Mr. Trump awarethat a relatively obscure JusticeDepartment official, JeffreyClark, the acting chief of the civildivision, was sympathetic to Mr.Trump’s view that the election hadbeen stolen, according to formeradministration officials whospoke with Mr. Clark and Mr.Trump.

Mr. Perry introduced the presi-dent to Mr. Clark, whose opennessto conspiracy theories about elec-tion fraud presented Mr. Trumpwith a welcome change from theacting attorney general, Jeffrey A.Rosen, who stood by the results ofthe election and had repeatedlyresisted the president’s efforts toundo them.

Mr. Perry’s previously unre-ported role, and the quiet discus-sions between Mr. Trump and Mr.

House MemberWas Key to PlotIn Justice Dept.

By KATIE BENNERand CATIE EDMONDSON

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