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Trevor on the Front Page of the New York Times On Saturday, June 10th, a beautiful image of Trevor student Amon-Ra K. '21 graced the front page of the New York Times. e photograph depicts a scene from an 8th-grade history endeavor called the Story Project. As individuals, or in small groups, students are asked to discover a kindred spirit in medieval history—one that was not covered in class—and to relate an important part of that character's story in presentation form. David Zheutlin, Grades 6–8 History Teacher and 8th-Grade Dean, further describes this aspect of the course: History is, ultimately, the study of stories. Over the past eight months, our classroom has been the cloister in which the medieval world revealed its secrets; we have learned to listen, to question, and to evaluate. What tales, tall or real, speak to your deepest sense of self? e historian's choice—now, your choice—is how to tell the tale. As part of an end-of-semester trip to the Cloisters, the class went to Fort Tryon Park (the Cloisters' "backyard"), where they presented their Story Projects in full medieval costume. e stories took many forms: short story, song, dialogue, dramatic scene, speech, storybook, even choreographed fights. Amon-Ra's presentation illustrates a scene with the character King Hrothgar, who appears in two Old English poems: Beowulf and Widsith. is image speaks volumes about the power of inquiry-based learning at Trevor. It is a spectacular capstone to a year of teaching and learning. C M Y K Nxxx,2017-06-10,A,001,Bs-4C,E2 U(D54G1D)y+?![!.!#!/ When companies settle claims of wrongdoing, they are often compelled to pay for envi- ronmental or community develop- ment projects as well as pay fines and direct compensation to vic- tims. Sometimes the third-party payments are only marginally re- lated to the damages caused by the company's actions. To settle claims from the Gulf oil spill, BP was required to spend bil- lions on coastal restoration projects that were not directly re- lated to spill damage. Volkswagen is financing electric vehicle charg- ing stations under its settlement of the diesel emissions cheating scandal. Duke Energy paid for soil restoration on federal land as part of its compensation for air pollu- tion violations at some of its power plants in North Carolina. That longstanding practice is now under attack on two fronts, potentially jeopardizing a source of financing for initiatives across the country that supporters say have paid great environmental and social dividends. Critics say the practice effectively creates "slush funds" for favored organi- zations or causes. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a memo issued this week, di- rected the Justice Department to no longer include funding for projects managed by outside groups in settlements with corpo- rate wrongdoers. The settlement money will instead go exclusively to the federal Treasury or to vic- tims of the company's actions, Mr. Sessions said. "It has come to my attention that certain previous settlement agreements involving the depart- ment included payments to vari- ous nongovernmental, third-party organizations as a condition of set- tlement with the United States," Mr. Sessions said. "These third- Settlements for Company Sins Can No Longer Aid Other Projects By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG and HIROKO TABUCHI Continued on Page A12 TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Amon-Ra Kamit, an eighth grader at Trevor Day School, performing as King Hrothgar as part of a medieval history project during a class trip to Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan on Friday. King for a Day Election results were fueled partly by the turnout rate among young Britons angry over the vote to leave Europe. Page A10. Youths Get Payback LONDON — Britain was sup- posed to wake up on Friday with the political clarity, finally, to be- gin formal negotiations to leave the European Union, a process scheduled to start in 10 days. Instead, the country is staring at a hung Parliament and a deeply damaged Prime Minister Theresa May, her authority and credibility fractured by her failure to main- tain her Conservative Party's ma- jority in Parliament. Ignoring demands that she re- sign, the prime minister said on Friday that she would cling to power by forming a minority gov- ernment with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. Because the Conservatives won the most seats and the most votes, Mrs. May gets the first chance to form a new government, despite winning only 318 seats, 12 fewer than in 2015, and short of a formal majority of 326 in the 650-seat House of Commons. The Democratic Unionists won 10. But minority governments tend to be fragile and short-lived, and many expect that Mrs. May will be a lame-duck prime minister, that she may not last as long as a year and that she will not lead her party into another election. For European Union leaders, who were expecting her to emerge with a reinforced major- ity, the uncertainty is unwelcome, especially as they try to prioritize issues such as climate change and their relationship with an unpre- dictable and unfriendly President Trump. There is also resentment that, once again, the British have complicated things out of political hubris and partisan self-interest. Mrs. May called the snap elec- tion three years early — and her decision backfired. So did the deci- sion by her predecessor, David Cameron, who called the referen- dum on European Union member- ship in the first place. "I thought surrealism was a BRITAIN'S REBUKE OF ITS LEADERSHIP UPENDS E.U. EXIT NEW CALCULUS ON TALKS Uncertainty Rises With May's Failure to Seize Election Mandate This article is by Steven Erlanger, Katrin Bennhold and Stephen Cas- tle. Prime Minister Theresa May with her husband, Philip, in London on Friday after announcing plans for a minority government. JUSTIN TALLIS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Continued on Page A9 WASHINGTON — President Trump scrambled American di- plomacy on two fronts on Friday, delivering a stinging rebuke of Qatar at the very moment his sec- retary of state was trying to mend fences in the Persian Gulf, while at the same time reaffirming sup- port for NATO two weeks after he had declined to do so. Unpredictable as always, Mr. Trump's comments cut in two di- rections: He appeared to under- mine Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who has thrown himself into an effort to mediate a resolu- tion to the bitter dispute between Qatar and several of its neighbors, chiefly Saudi Arabia. But he also soothed NATO allies by explicitly reaffirming Article 5, the clause that commits members to defend any ally under attack. Mr. Trump conspicuously avoided making that pledge at a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brus- sels two weeks ago, opening a rift with allies that widened after he pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Yet the pattern of sudden rever- sals in the Trump administration's diplomacy was most pronounced in the Middle East. On Friday afternoon, Mr. Tiller- son called for a "calm and thought- ful dialogue" to resolve the deepening dispute among Sunni Muslim states in the Persian Gulf. Barely an hour later, Mr. Trump's comments were anything but that. He accused Qatar of being a "funder of terror at a very high level" and demanded that the tiny, energy-rich nation cut off that money flow to rejoin the circle of responsible nations. "We had a decision to make," Mr. Trump declared at a Rose Gar- den news conference with the president of Romania, Klaus Io- hannis. "Do we take the easy road or do we take a hard but necessary Trump's Diplomatic Turns Jolt Some, Ease Others By MARK LANDLER and GARDINER HARRIS A Rebuff for Qatar, but Affirmation for NATO Allies Continued on Page A7 LONDON — It was a scathing put-down. "He can lead a protest, I'm leading the country," Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain said about the leader of the oppo- sition Labour Party, Jeremy Cor- byn. Over the past seven weeks, Mr. Corbyn led the protest of his life. As Mrs. May faltered, stumbling her way toward an election she herself had called, the veteran left winger and serial campaigner turned his party into a movement. Even in his own party, many de- rided Mr. Corbyn as a hopeless and hapless leader, an unre- formed Marxist who would sink the Labour Party into oblivion, and wanted him to lose the elec- tion — badly. Mr. Corbyn did lose the election. But he won more than anyone else. He deprived the prime min- ister who had treated him with such dismissiveness of both her Parliamentary majority and her authority. Far from obliterating Labour, he re-energized it, shifting its politics far to the left. By Friday afternoon, some of his critics were eating their words. "He's had a brilliant campaign," Labour Chief Is Real Victor In British Vote By KATRIN BENNHOLD and STEPHEN CASTLE Continued on Page A8 WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday accused James B. Comey, the fired F.B.I. director, of lying under oath to Congress, saying he would gladly provide sworn testimony disputing Mr. Comey's charge that the president forced him out because of his han- dling of the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collu- sion with Russia. Mr. Trump asserted that the comments on Thursday by Mr. Comey, whom he called "a leaker," had proved that there was no col- lusion between his campaign and Moscow, nor any obstruction of justice by the president. He hinted again that he had tapes of his pri- vate talks with the former F.B.I. chief that would disprove Mr. Comey's account, but declined to confirm the existence of any recordings. "Yesterday showed no collu- sion, no obstruction," Mr. Trump said in the White House Rose Gar- den, during a news conference with the visiting Romanian presi- dent, Klaus Iohannis. He dismissed Mr. Comey's testi- mony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is investigating whether his cam- paign worked with Russia to sway the election, as a politically moti- vated stunt orchestrated by ad- Trump Accuses Comey of Lying To the Senate Says He Will Provide Sworn Testimony By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and GLENN THRUSH President Trump on Friday. AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A16 Evidence is growing that Iranian Kurds affiliated with the Islamic State carried out the deadly terrorist assaults this week in Tehran. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-10 Kurds Linked to Iran Attacks States make contraceptives a priority as the president moves to weaken coverage in the health law. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A11-18 Front Lines on Birth Control Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,624 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2017 The ruler in the new "Julius Caesar" at the Delacorte Theater is petulant and blondish and has a Slavic wife. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Burying, Not Praising The jury is out on how we handle the combustible questions of power, preda- tion and due process. PAGE C1 Society, on Trial With Cosby Even with OPEC cutbacks and Middle East tensions, the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline tumbled to $2.35, a 12-year low for this point in the calendar. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 Gas Prices Dip to 2005 Levels After decades as a committed seeker, a man found his calling — as a "suffering prevention specialist" who helps repair retirement plans. Your Money. PAGE B1 From Monk to Money Adviser With a $480 million cash infusion, the satellite radio provider became the leading candidate to eventually buy the struggling music service. PAGE B1 Sirius XM Invests in Pandora Lena Dunham PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 THIS WEEKEND KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainians have long struggled with fake news from Russia, but last week, they discovered something even more insidious: a fake journalist. The man was tall and dapper. He wore a dark suit and spoke with a French accent. When he met politicians in Kiev, he intro- duced himself as Alex Werner, a reporter with the French newspa- per Le Monde. "He was elegant, calm and con- fident," recalled Amina Okuyeva, who is a minor celebrity in Ukraine because she served with her husband as a volunteer sol- dier in the war against separatists in the eastern part of the country. Mr. Werner had interviewed her several times. It was midway through one of those purported interviews, in a terrifying flash of gunpowder, that Mr. Werner's true identity came to light: He was, in fact, a Chechen assassin, the Ukrainian authori- ties now say. Under the guise of a journalist, the assassin, Artur Denisultanov- Kurmakayev, tried to murder Ms. Okuyeva and her husband, Adam Osmayev, Ukraine's Interior Min- istry said. The plot went awry because Ms. Okuyeva was also armed, and the details of the attack and its after- math are now shedding light on Kiev's role as a testing ground for what Ukrainian officials say are hybrid war activities by Russia, including assassinations. The attack was the third high- profile killing or attempted killing in Kiev that the Ukranian authori- ties have attributed to the Russian security services, but the first in which the accused killer imper- sonated a journalist. In a statement published June 3, Le Monde said it "wants to stress that none of its journalists are in Ukraine at the moment and that its staff does not include an Alex Werner. Le Monde firmly condemns any impersonation of its journalists or of its title, for whatever purpose." In 2006, the Russian govern- ment legalized targeted killings abroad of people posing terrorist threats, resuming a Soviet-era He Hunted Putin's Enemies, Posing as a Reporter By ANDREW E. KRAMER Continued on Page A10 Artur Denisultanov-Kurma- kayev posed as a journalist. As he seeks to navigate a party dealing with anti-Wall Street populism, Philip D. Murphy, the Democratic nominee for governor, has opted to steer an uneasy course. PAGE A19 NEW YORK A19-21 Spotlight on New Jersey Race Olympic leaders recommended the 2024 and 2028 Games be awarded together, all but assuring rival bidders Paris and Los Angeles as host cities. PAGE D7 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-7 Olympic Rivals? Not Anymore Aleksei Navalny is rallying supporters to protest across Russia and aims to run against the entrenched president — if he can get on the ballot. PAGE A6 Kremlin Critic's Campaign Today, partly sunny, morning show- ers, warmer afternoon, high 84. To- night, patchy clouds, warm, low 70. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, hot, high 90. Weather map is on Page C8. $2.50 Above, from left to right: Mikel S., Nick A., and Briggs S. enact a scene from the tragic Children's Crusade of 1212, which ended in capture of the zealous young Christian warriors. Left, top: Gabby P. and Natalie B. sing a song about Isabella, the "She-Wolf of France," a queen who rebelled against medieval cultural norms. Left, bottom: Abigail B. and Emma K. present a coronation at the Stone of Scone. e Stone was thought necessary to legitimize the English crown—in this scene, a would-be queen finds that the Stone has been captured.