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A fishmonger’s death has led to one ofthe longest protest movements in NorthAfrica since the Arab Spring. PAGE 8

INTERNATIONAL 4-12

Morocco Shaken by Protests

As killings rise in Mexico, the rebels arerenouncing violence for electoral poli-tics. Below, an indigenous family. PAGE 6

‘Breaking Point’ for ZapatistasHow Lara Pia Arrobio, below, a fashionschool dropout, built a clothing linebeloved by celebrities. PAGE 1

A Tailor-Made Brand

As refugee camps swell with familiesescaping Islamic extremists and civilwar, a 1990 act gives an edge to appli-cants from former Soviet areas. PAGE 14

NATIONAL 14-24

Help for Unoppressed Migrants

An inquiry, shareholder anger and anemail prank hindered James E. Staley’sefforts to reshape the bank. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

Barclays’s Unfortunate Events

At a golf course managed by PresidentTrump’s company in Dubai, workers saytheir checks are often deferred. PAGE 4

Waiting Weeks to Be Paid

Visiting Wesleyan University two dec-ades later, an alumna finds a new mind-set about consent on campus. PAGE 1

SUNDAY STYLES

Let’s Talk About (Ethical) SexCharles R. Bentley, who in the 1950s leda team of scientists that measured theWest Antarctic Ice Sheet for the firsttime, was 87. PAGE 26

OBITUARIES 25-27

Pioneer of Polar Science

Sarah Lyall talks to John le Carré,whose new novel, “A Legacy of Spies,”will be published next month, and BenMacintyre about spying. PAGE 1

BOOK REVIEW

Masters of Espionage

Frank Bruni PAGE 1

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ROCKPORT, Tex. — HurricaneHarvey bombarded a stretch ofthe Gulf Coast in Texas on Satur-day with home-ripping winds andepic rains. As emergency officialsscrambled to assess the damage,hundreds of thousands of peoplewere without power after utilitypoles were knocked to the groundas if they were twigs.

The storm made landfall in thiscoastal city, ripping away roofs,leveling palm trees and roadsigns, and turning fields intolakes. Mayor Charles J. Wax saidearly Saturday that conditionswere too dangerous to send outemergency officials but that aninitial review, as the storm’s eyepassed overnight, showed “wide-spread damage.”

“We took a Category 4 stormright on the nose,” the mayor said.

Harvey was the first major hur-ricane to make landfall in theUnited States since 2005, and itwas expected to hover over Texasuntil at least midweek. A fierceCategory 4 hurricane when itstruck land on Friday night, iteased by Saturday into a Category1, with winds of about 80 miles perhour. Still, meteorologists warnedthat as much as three feet of raincould fall across a vast area fromCorpus Christi to Houston, the na-tion’s fourth-largest city.

“Storm surge is the most dan-

gerous element of hurricanes,”Brock Long, the administrator ofthe Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency, told CNN. “It hasthe highest potential to kill themost amount of people.”

There were no immediate re-ports of casualties, but forecasterswarned that Harvey’s onslaughtwas just beginning. In an advisoryon Saturday, the National Hurri-cane Center in Miami said thestorm was already producing“torrential rains,” and it warnedthat “catastrophic flooding” waslikely in the days ahead.

The storm remained a hurri-cane well after it made landfallabout 10 p.m. Friday, and the del-uge of rain made it difficult for theauthorities to conduct even pre-liminary damage assessments.More than 250,000 Texans werewithout electricity on Saturday, afigure that was likely to increase.

Images and videos on socialmedia showed substantial dam-age to buildings, including roofstorn away and walls toppled. Theauthorities in Corpus Christiurged residents who were still inthe city to boil water, and shelterswere open in at least four coun-ties.

In Houston, the lights began toblink and, in some places, go out.The city’s bayous were rising, andits roads, mostly quiet since Fri-day night, remained eerily empty.Although Houston, a city of about

Hurricane Harvey StrikesA Powerful Blow to Texas

Widespread Damage as Roofs and Trees RipAway and Thousands Lose Power

This article is by Manny Fernan-dez, Alan Blinder and Simon Rome-ro.

Cattle wading through a flooded field near Rockport, Tex., asHurricane Harvey continued to strike the state’s coast.

TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Abraham Daviswas sitting on a thin blue pad on the con-crete floor of Cell 3 in a jail in western Ar-kansas when a guard came around withstamped envelopes and writing paper.

The first person he wrote to was hismother. Abraham, just shy of 21, hadbarely spoken to her since his arrest a fewdays before, and he had a lot to explain.

It all began on a night last October whenhe borrowed her white minivan and droveto the home of a friend. They’d gottendrunk on cheap whiskey. Kentucky De-luxe. Abraham agreed to drive his friendto a mosque in town. His friend drewswastikas and curses on the mosque’swindows and doors while Abraham stood

watch in the driveway.The next day, the vandalism was all

over the news. Abraham watched the re-ports over and over on his phone, hisstomach curdling with regret.

Even now, as he was facing up to sixyears in prison for the act, Abraham couldnot explain why he had done it.

He had grown up in Fort Smith, a city oftall oak trees and brick churches that hasthe look of a faded Polaroid. His father,charismatic but violent, died when Abra-ham was 5, leaving him with a feeling ofpowerlessness so intense that he has beentrying to conquer it ever since. “Most ofmy life I’ve spent trying to train myself tobecome something that’s too strong to bebroken through,” he said. Life has teed

him up for a fight, and he walks tiltedslightly forward, as if someone is pullinghim with an invisible wire.

As a poor student in the high school onthe wealthier side of town, Abraham oftenfelt like an outsider. He walked, not drove,hung out on playgrounds, not in restau-rants. He got into a lot of fights. He didpoorly in school, but he doesn’t rememberhis teachers seeming surprised. Expecta-tions were low, and he bent to fit them. Heslept a lot in class. At 18, he dropped out.

Fort Smith has two country clubs, sev-eral golf courses, a Talbots and a sym-phony orchestra. But a proliferation ofpawnshops and a circuit court crowded

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ETHAN TATE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A repentant Abraham Davis, above, who was in-volved in spray-painted vandalism last year at Al

Salam Mosque, below, in Fort Smith, Ark. A forgiv-ing Hisham Yasin, right, a Palestinian immigrantand one of the mosque’s founders, in his office.

The Two AmericansAbraham Never Fit In. Hisham Finally Felt at Home. Then Their Worlds Collided in Western Arkansas.

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

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It has not been a market for thefaint of heart.

Supporters of the AffordableCare Act achieved a major victorythis past week when, thanks to ca-joling and arm-twisting by stateregulators, the last “bare” countyin America — in rural Ohio —

found an insurer willing to sellhealth coverage through the law’smarketplace there. So despite ear-lier indications that insurancecompanies would stop offeringcoverage under the law in largeparts of the country, insurers havenow agreed to sell policies every-where.

But a moment of truth stilllooms for the industry in the com-

ing weeks under the law known asObamacare. Companies must settheir final plans and premiums bylate September, even as theTrump administration continuesto threaten to cut off billions of dol-lars in government subsidiespromised by the legislation. Insur-ers are also awaiting Senate hear-ings set to start on Sept. 6 for ahint of what steps, if any, lawmak-

ers may take to stabilize the mar-ket.

With congressional Republi-cans’ yearslong quest to disman-tle the Affordable Care Act deadfor now, the fate of the landmarklaw depends in large part on thehealth of the insurance market-places and the ability of insurersto make a viable business out of

As Trump Feeds Jitters on Health Law, Some Insurers Press On

By REED ABELSON

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ATHENS — After years ofstruggling under austerity im-posed by European partners and achilly shoulder from the UnitedStates, Greece has embraced theadvances of China, its most ardentand geopolitically ambitious suit-or.

While Europe was busy squeez-ing Greece, the Chinese swoopedin with bucket-loads of invest-ments that have begun to pay off,not only economically but also byapparently giving China a poli-tical foothold in Greece, and by ex-tension, in Europe.

Last summer, Greece helpedstop the European Union from is-suing a unified statement againstChinese aggression in the SouthChina Sea. This June, Athens pre-vented the bloc from condemningChina’s human rights record.Days later it opposed tougherscreening of Chinese investmentsin Europe.

Greece’s diplomatic stancehardly went unnoticed by its Eu-ropean partners or by the UnitedStates, all of which had previouslyworried that the country’s eco-nomic vulnerability might make it

a ripe target for Russia, always ea-ger to divide the bloc.

Instead, it is the Chinese whohave become an increasinglypowerful foreign player in Greeceafter years of assiduous courtship

and checkbook diplomacy.Among those initiatives, China

plans to make the Greek port ofPireaus the “dragon head” of itsvast “One Belt, One Road” project,

Angry at E.U., Greece WarmsTo China’s Cash and Interests

By JASON HOROWITZ and LIZ ALDERMAN

The Greek port of Piraeus, where China has invested heavily.ANGELOS TZORTZINIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump’s decision to pardon JoeArpaio was characteristically un-conventional. It came late on a Fri-day night as a hurricane boredown on Texas. It concerned acrime that some said was particu-larly ill suited to clemency, and itwas not the product of the careand deliberation that had in-formed pardons by other presi-dents.

But it was almost certainly law-ful. The Constitution gives presi-dents extremely broad power togrant pardons.

Last month, a federal judgefound Mr. Arpaio, a former Ari-zona sheriff, guilty of criminalcontempt for defying a court orderto stop detaining immigrantsbased solely on the suspicion thatthey were in the country illegally.The order had been issued in alawsuit that accused the sheriff’soffice of violating the Constitutionby using racial profiling to jail Lat-inos. Mr. Arpaio had faced a sen-tence of up to six months in jail.

Mr. Trump thus used his consti-tutional power to block a federaljudge’s effort to enforce the Con-stitution. Legal experts said theyfound this to be the most troubling

aspect of the pardon, given that itexcused the lawlessness of an offi-cial who had sworn to defend theconstitutional structure.

Noah Feldman, a law professorat Harvard, argued before the par-don was issued that such a move“would express presidential con-tempt for the Constitution.”

“Arpaio didn’t just violate a lawpassed by Congress,” ProfessorFeldman wrote on BloombergView. “His actions defied the Con-stitution itself, the bedrock of theentire system of government.” Bysaying Mr. Arpaio’s offense wasforgivable, Professor Feldmanadded, Mr. Trump threatens “thevery structure on which his rightto pardon is based.”

It was the first act of outrightdefiance against the judiciary by apresident who has not been shyabout criticizing federal judgeswho ruled against his businessesand policies. But while the movemay have been unusual, there is

Why Trump’s Pardon of ArpaioFollows Law, Yet Challenges It

By ADAM LIPTAK

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POLITICAL OUTCRY Democratscondemned the decision, but mostRepublicans were silent. PAGE 16

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