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WASHINGTON — William B.Taylor Jr. was the witness thatDemocrats had hoped Robert S.Mueller III would be but was not— the image, at least, of a wise,fatherly figure with Kevlar credi-bility expressing restrained butunmistakable disapproval ofwhat he found when he turnedover the rock.

House Democrats led off theirhighly anticipated impeachmenthearings on Wednesday with afigure projecting probity, a com-bat veteran turned career diplo-

mat who narrated with a deepbaritone voice reminiscent ofWalter Cronkite’s what he saw asthe corruption of American for-eign policy to advance PresidentTrump’s personal political inter-ests.

It was not clear that mindswere changed. Certainly theywere not inside the room, andmost likely not elsewhere on

Capitol Hill, where Republicansand Democrats were locked intotheir positions long ago. Norwere there any immediate signsthat the hearing penetrated thegeneral public. While majortelevision networks broke intoregular programming to carry itlive, there was little sense of ariveted country putting every-thing aside to watch à la Water-gate.

But whether voters werewatching, history certainly was.Over the course of five hours ofrelatively sober testimony, inter-rupted by fewer partisan histri-

Witnesses Embody the Power of the Moment

By PETER BAKER Diplomats Who Have aLifetime of Service

NEWS ANALYSIS

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EVANSTON, Ill. — Jeff Ses-sions, President Trump’s formerattorney general, was speaking toa packed lecture hall on North-western University’s campus lastweek, but the real action was un-folding offstage.

Student protesters were push-ing through a back door of thebuilding. The police confrontedthem and tried, unsuccessfully, toblock their entrance. Colin Boyle,a student photographer for TheDaily Northwestern, the campusnewspaper, captured it all.

After the event, Ying Dai, one ofthe students, saw a photo of her-self on his Twitter feed —sprawled painfully on the floor —and addressed him directly.

“Colin please can we stop thistrauma porn,” she wrote on Twit-ter. “I was on the ground beingshoved and pushed hard by thepolice. You don’t have to intervenebut you also didn’t have to put a

camera in front of me top down.”By the end of the night, Mr.

Boyle had deleted the picture, andnot long after, editors at The DailyNorthwestern published a state-ment apologizing for their journal-ists having posted photographs ofprotesters on social media, and forusing the school directory to at-tempt to contact students.

The newspaper’s response setoff a national firestorm this week.Prominent professional journal-ists derided the apology andweighed in to note, often incredu-lously, that the Northwesternjournalists had been doing someof the most basic, standard workthat reporters have always done— watching public events, inter-viewing people and describingwhat they saw.

“The Daily had an obligation tocapture the event, both for thebenefit of its current audience aswell as for posterity,” CharlesWhitaker, dean of Northwestern’shighly acclaimed Medill journal-

Campus Clashes Pit the ViewsOf Activists vs. Journalism 101

This article is by Julie Bosman,Mitch Smith and Kate Taylor.

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Hong Kong Baptist University on Wednesday. Clashes between protesters and the police moved tothe city’s universities as the unspoken rule of campuses being off limits was broken. Page A4.

From Sanctuaries to Citadels

Nearly 35,000 people in theUnited States are dying each yearfrom drug-resistant infections,public health officials said onWednesday, an alarming problemthat New York State underscoredby revealing that it had found oneparticularly new and virulent fun-gus in 64 hospitals and 103 nurs-ing homes.

The numbers show just howwidespread drug resistant infec-tions have become, with the latestprojection of deaths in Americadouble previous estimates.

“A lot of progress has beenmade but the bottom line is thatantimicrobial resistance is worsethan we previously thought,” saidMichael Craig, the senior adviseron antibiotic resistance for theCenters for Disease Control andPrevention, which released the

More Are Dying From Infections That Foil Drugs

By MATT RICHTELand ANDREW JACOBS

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WASHINGTON — After somuch noise, a formal feeling fellupon the Capitol. The civil ser-vants had entered the room.

In a sense, seriousness itselfstood trial on Wednesday asWilliam B. Taylor Jr., the topAmerican diplomat in Ukraine,and George P. Kent, a top State De-partment official, strode into thevelvet-draped hearing room justafter 10 a.m. They wore sternstares and were seemingly oblivi-ous to the discord that broughtthem there.

If they were annoyed about be-ing lumped among the “unelectedbureaucrats” or “deep-state oper-ators” by the president’s defend-ers, or “human scum” by the pres-ident himself, it did not show.Cameras clacked and commotionswirled as they held up theirhands.

The swearing-in photo flurrythat followed is a staple of momen-tous Washington hearings. Butthis was also a resolute state-ment: The witnesses had come to

A Return of Old WashingtonIn Defiance of a Raucous Era

By MARK LEIBOVICH

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The Museum of Capitalism

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Sizing Up the Hollywood BuzzDeval Patrick, a former governor ofMassachusetts, told leading Democratsand allies that he would announce apresidential bid this week. PAGE A12

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Democratic Field to Expand

The state’s antiquated caucus systemand its pre-eminent position in the nomi-nating process take heat again. PAGE A14

Grumbling Over Iowa

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Brooklyn Bishop Accused

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DeGrom Is N.L.’s Best (Again)

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A Millennial Green Mania

WASHINGTON — The Houseof Representatives opened his-toric impeachment hearings onWednesday and took startlingnew testimony from a seniorAmerican diplomat that furtherimplicated President Trump in acampaign to pressure Ukraine topublicly commit to investigatingformer Vice President Joseph R.Biden Jr.

In a nationally televised hear-ing from a stately committee roomacross from the Capitol, WilliamB. Taylor Jr., the top Americandiplomat in Ukraine, brought tolife Democrats’ allegations thatMr. Trump had abused his officeby trying to enlist a foreign powerto help him in an election.

Mr. Taylor testified to the HouseIntelligence Committee that helearned only recently of a Julytelephone call overheard by one ofhis aides in which the presidentwas preoccupied with Ukraine’swillingness to say it would lookinto Mr. Biden and work by his sonHunter Biden for a Ukrainian en-ergy firm. Immediately after-ward, Mr. Taylor said, the aide hadbeen informed that Mr. Trumpcared more about “investigationsof Biden” than he did aboutUkraine.

A powerful witness for Demo-crats, Mr. Taylor appeared as Con-gress embarked on the third set ofpresidential impeachment hear-ings in modern times. Forceful,detailed and unflappable in theface of Republican taunts, the vet-eran diplomat delivered a remark-able rebuke of the actions takenby the president and his allies in-side and outside of the govern-ment who placed Mr. Trump’s po-litical objectives at the center ofAmerican policy toward Ukraine.

“Security was so important forUkraine, as well as our own na-tional interests,” Mr. Taylor testi-fied, describing his growing senseof alarm at learning that $391 mil-lion in vital military aid for the for-mer Soviet republic had been heldup. “To withhold that assistancefor no good reason other than helpwith a political campaign made nosense. It was counterproductiveto all of what we had been trying todo. It was illogical. It could not beexplained. It was crazy.”

The proceedings pushed intothe public gaze an epic impeach-ment clash between Mr. Trump,his Republican allies and Demo-crats that has shifted into high

ENVOYS REVEAL SCOPE OF TRUMP UKRAINE PUSH

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Testimony Cites a‘Highly Irregular’

Policy Channel

‘The member of my staff asked Ambassador Sondland what President Trump thought about Ukraine.Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden.’

WILLIAM B. TAYLOR JR., center, the top American diplomat in Ukraine

By NICHOLAS FANDOSand MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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