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Veterans of Freedom Summer 1964returned to Mississippi to join a youthgroup registering voters. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A12-20

Same Cause, 50 Years Later

Officials are making long lists ofcoaches, trainers and others bannedfrom sports for sexual misconduct, butthey need a way to share. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-11

Goal: A List of Predators

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — BillCosby, who for years dodged accu-sations that he had preyed onwomen while brightening Ameri-ca’s living rooms as a beloved fa-ther figure, left a courtroom inhandcuffs on Tuesday after hewas sentenced to three to 10 yearsin prison for sexually assaulting awoman in his home.

The sentence capped Mr. Cos-by’s stunning fall from a toweringfigure in popular culture to an 81-year-old convicted sex offender.

“It is time for justice,” JudgeSteven T. O’Neill said as he an-nounced the term. “Mr. Cosby, thishas all circled back to you. Theday has come. The time hascome.” Acknowledging the impactthat the case has had on Mr. Cos-by’s legacy, Judge O’Neill added:“Fallen angels suffer most.”

Mr. Cosby, who has said he willappeal the conviction, was deniedbail and ordered to prison imme-diately.

As he listened to his sentence,Mr. Cosby leaned back in his seat,staring at the ceiling, and thengazed calmly forward. He de-clined to address the courtroombefore hearing his fate, and didnot react when the sentence wasannounced. Just before 3 p.m., Mr.Cosby was taken into custodywearing an undone white shirtand red suspenders, having re-moved his tie and jacket.

The actor and comedian wasfound guilty in April of druggingand assaulting Andrea Constand,a former Temple University em-ployee to whom he had been amentor. The case marked the firsthigh-profile conviction since the#MeToo movement put an inter-national spotlight on women’sstories of abuse, especially in Hol-lywood, and represented a sym-bolic victory for the many otherswho said they were victimized byMr. Cosby over the years.

Ms. Constand, who now worksas a massage therapist in Canada,stared straight ahead as Mr. Cos-by’s sentence was delivered. Shewas joined in the MontgomeryCounty Courthouse on Tuesday byat least nine other women whohad accused Mr. Cosby of sexualabuse.

In a victim impact statementfiled with the court, Ms. Constandsaid of Mr. Cosby: “We may neverknow the full extent of his doublelife as a sexual predator, but hisdecades-long reign of terror as aserial rapist is over.”

After her assault, “life as I knewit came to an abrupt halt,” Ms.Constand wrote. “I was a youngwoman brimming with confidenceand looking forward to a futurebright with possibilities. Now, al-most 15 years later, I’m a middle-aged woman who’s been stuck in a

Once a ModelOf Fatherhood,Now an Inmate

Cosby Gets 3 to 10 Yearsfor Sexual Assault

By GRAHAM BOWLEY and JOE COSCARELLI

Bill Cosby left court in handcuffs on Tuesday after being sentenced for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES

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Last week, more than 30 yearsafter they graduated from Yale,Deborah Ramirez contacted herold friend James Roche.

Something bad had happenedto her during a night of drinking inthe residence hall their freshmenyear, she said, and she wondered ifhe recalled her mentioning it atthe time.

Mr. Roche, a Silicon Valley en-trepreneur, said he had no knowl-edge of the episode that Ms.Ramirez was trying to piece to-gether, with her memory faded bythe years and clouded by thatnight’s alcohol use.

Days later, in a New Yorkerstory, Ms. Ramirez alleged thatJudge Brett M. Kavanaugh, Presi-dent Trump’s Supreme Court no-minee, exposed himself to her at a

dorm party. Mr. Roche, a formerroommate of the judge, believesher account, he said, and supportsher decision to speak out.

“I think she feels a duty to comeforward,” Mr. Roche said. “And Ithink she’s scared to death of it.”

Ms. Ramirez’s allegation — sheis the second woman to levelclaims of sexual misconductagainst Judge Kavanaugh — hasroiled an already tumultuous con-firmation process and riven theYale community.

More than 2,000 Yale womenhave signed a letter of support forMs. Ramirez; a similar letter hasbeen circulating among Yale men.Dozens of students, dressed inblack, staged a protest at YaleLaw School on Monday, urgingthat the claims against Judge Kav-anaugh be taken seriously. Otherswent to Washington to hold signsoutside the Supreme Court, justdays before the Senate Judiciary

Committee is scheduled to hearfrom Judge Kavanaugh’s first ac-cuser, Christine Blasey Ford.

Judge Kavanaugh, 53, deniesthe allegations of both women, de-scribing the accusations as

Outsider Faced Culture of Privilege and AlcoholThis article is by Stephanie Saul,

Robin Pogrebin, Mike McIntire andBen Protess.

Deborah Ramirez attendedYale with Brett M. Kavanaugh.

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UNITED NATIONS — Presi-dent Trump thrust his commit-ment to an “America First” for-eign policy back onto the UnitedNations General Assembly onTuesday. But in his second ad-dress on this diplomatic stage, hesounded as eager to claim creditfor his achievements after 20months in office as he was to dis-rupt the world order.

If Mr. Trump had changed, sohad his audience — no longer asdaunted by the insurgent figurewho left them slack-jawed lastyear when he vowed to “crushloser terrorists,” mocked NorthKorea’s leader as “Rocket Man”and declared that parts of theworld “are going to hell.”

This time, emissaries fromaround the world listened quietlyas Mr. Trump fulminated at foeslike Iran and failing states likeVenezuela. They nodded as he sin-gled out an enemy-turned-part-ner, Kim Jong-un of North Korea,expressing optimism for a diplo-matic opening that would haveseemed far-fetched even a yearago.

But when Mr. Trump declared,“In less than two years, my ad-ministration has accomplishedmore than almost any administra-tion in the history of our country,”the crowd broke into murmursand laughter.

Briefly disconcerted, the presi-

Trump at U.N.:Scorn for Iran,Praise for Kim

By MARK LANDLER

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To an untrained eye, USAReallymight look like any other fledglingnews organization vying for atten-tion in a crowded media land-scape. Its website publishes asteady stream of stories on hot-button political issues like race,immigration and income inequal-ity. It has reader polls, a video sec-tion and a daily podcast.

But this is no ordinary mediastart-up. USAReally is based inMoscow and has received fundingfrom the Federal News Agency, aRussian media conglomerate withties to the Internet ResearchAgency, the “troll farm” whose

employees were indicted by thespecial counsel, Robert S. MuellerIII, for interfering in the 2016 pres-idential election.

Caught flat-footed by the influ-ence campaigns of 2016, intelli-gence agencies and tech compa-nies in the United States havespent months looking for hiddenRussian footprints ahead of themidterm elections.

USAReally’s website, which be-gan publishing in May, does notadvertise its Russian roots. But inmany ways, it is operating in plainsight.

Russian Website, in Plain View,Stokes the Fire of U.S. Politics

By KEVIN ROOSE

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The federal government couldsoon pay more in interest on itsdebt than it spends on the military,Medicaid or children’s programs.

The run-up in borrowing costsis a one-two punch brought on bythe need to finance a fast-growingbudget deficit, worsened by taxcuts and steadily rising interest

rates that will make the debt moreexpensive.

With less money coming in andmore going toward interest, poli-tical leaders will find it harder toaddress pressing needs like fixingcrumbling roads and bridges or tomake emergency moves likepulling the economy out of futurerecessions.

Within a decade, more than

$900 billion in interest paymentswill be due annually, easily out-pacing spending on myriad otherprograms. Already the fastest-growing major government ex-pense, the cost of interest is ontrack to hit $390 billion next year,nearly 50 percent more than in2017, according to the Congres-sional Budget Office.

“It’s very much something to

worry about,” said C. EugeneSteuerle, a fellow at the Urban In-stitute and a co-founder of the Ur-ban-Brookings Tax Policy Centerin Washington. “Everything elseis getting squeezed.”

Gradually rising interest rateswould have made borrowing moreexpensive even without addi-tional debt. But the tax cuts

What May Soon Exceed Cost of U.S. Military? Interest on U.S. DebtBy NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

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Fund-Raising Focus Shifts

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The Chinese restaurant chain Haidilao— which woos customers with mani-cures, board games and other distrac-tions — has expansion plans. PAGE B1

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Archaeologists and engineers are work-ing to save an ancient Egyptian templefrom destructive groundwater. PAGE A4

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Mummy’s Curse: Bad Drainage

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BURDENED Parts of Brett M.Kavanaugh’s résumé that seemedgolden became lead weights. OnWashington. PAGE A18

TWO STEPS Democrats dream ofdefeating the court nominee, thenwinning back the Senate. NewsAnalysis. PAGE A16

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump assailed the latest womanto accuse Judge Brett M. Kava-naugh of sexual misconduct, say-ing on Tuesday that she “has noth-ing” because she was “messedup” at the time, even as a key Re-publican senator urged col-leagues to take the accusations se-riously.

With pressure rising in advanceof a make-or-break hearing onThursday, Mr. Trump lashed out ina more vociferous way than he hassince his nominee came under firefor allegations of sexual assault,blaming Democrats for orches-trating a “con game” and target-ing one of Judge Kavanaugh’s ac-cusers in scathing, personalterms.

“The second accuser has noth-ing,” Mr. Trump said. “She thinksmaybe it could have been him,maybe not. She admits that shewas drunk. She admits timelapses. There were time lapses.This is a person, and this is a se-ries of statements, that’s going totake one of the most talented andone of the greatest intellects froma judicial standpoint in our coun-try, going to keep him off theUnited States Supreme Court?”

The Senate Judiciary Commit-tee’s Republican leadership saidon Tuesday that it had retained anoutside counsel — Senator MitchMcConnell of Kentucky, the ma-jority leader, called her a “femaleassistant” — to aid in Thursday’shearing to question Judge Kava-naugh’s first accuser, ChristineBlasey Ford.

Rachel Mitchell, the chief of theSpecial Victims Division of theMaricopa County attorney’s officein Arizona, has been hired to ques-tion Dr. Blasey rather than havingthe 11 male Republicans grill herabout the sexual assault in highschool that she has described. Dr.Blasey had sought to have thesenators question her rather thana lawyer.

As Mr. Trump and Republicanleaders insisted that they will in-stall Judge Kavanaugh on the Su-preme Court despite the accusa-tions, Senator Lisa Murkowski ofAlaska, a crucial Republicanswing vote, offered a blunt warn-ing of her own: Do not prejudgesexual assault allegations againstthe nominee.

“We are now in a place whereit’s not about whether or notJudge Kavanaugh is qualified,”Ms. Murkowski said in an ex-tended interview on Monday

TRUMP TAKES AIMAT NEW ACCUSER:SHE ‘HAS NOTHING’

DEFENDING HIS NOMINEE

Key Republican Wavers— Outside Counsel Is

Hired for Hearing

By PETER BAKERand NICHOLAS FANDOS

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