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BUENOS AIRES — Liliana Fu-rió’s ruby red flat shoes glidedacross the dance floor in swift, as-sured moves, making her baggypants sway gently.

She and a lean young Russianman were rapture personified,clasped in a tight embrace as theycircled counterclockwise with afew other pairs in perfect syn-chrony.

But it was hard to tell who wasleading whom. Some pairs ap-peared lost in a loving embracewhile others swung back and forthplayfully.

And that is precisely what Ms.Furió had in mind when she creat-ed a weekly dance fest that wouldbreak all the rules of tango, Ar-gentina’s prime cultural export.

Ms. Furió started renting ven-ues for the event earlier this year,calling it La Furiosa — or the lividwoman. It’s part of a push by Ar-gentine feminists to make tangoless patriarchal.

In traditional tango, men invitewomen to dance through a subtlehead-jolt gesture known as acabeceo, often signaled fromacross the room. On the dancefloor, the man asserts control in asequence of moves, often fast-

paced, jolting and limb-entan-gling, that range from teasinglysensual to uncomfortably domi-neering.

Whether they’re loving or en-during it, the women, who are ex-pected to wear cocktail dressesand high heels, must hold tight forfour-song sets. Veteran tangodancers say the 15-minutestretches can turn into agonywhen a male partner’s embracefeels suffocating — or when his

hand wanders well beneath thewaistline.

“It’s a bit of a game to test wherethe limits are,” said Victoria Bey-tia, an avid tango dancer who,along with Ms. Furió, is part of aloose coalition of activists knownas the Tango Feminist Movement.

In July the group published aprotocol to make tango halls lessdogmatic about traditional genderroles and more assertive about

Tango: Passionate, Slinky, Sexist. And Changing.By ERNESTO LONDOÑO

Florencia Diaz, left, Romina Permigotte and Mara Morettini ofthe Tango Feminist Movement, which opposes gender inequality.

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HONG KONG — From afar, thered brick sidewalk along King’sRoad in Hong Kong appears to becovered with a mottled white car-pet that stretches for dozens ofyards. Closer up, the white revealsitself to be a mosaic made up ofsheets of paper glued to the pave-ment, each featuring a bespecta-cled man with a self-con-fident smile.

The faces belong to Ju-nius Ho, a local legislator,and this is not an electioncampaign gambit. It is avery public gesture ofdisdain.

In recent weeks, Mr.Ho’s image has beenplastered on sidewalksand footbridges across the city,and its purpose is immediately ap-parent: to force pedestrians towalk on his face.

“He’s human trash,” said StellaWong, 57, a school administratoras she gleefully tromped on Mr.Ho’s nose one recent afternoon. Ateenage boy, dancing on his brow,spit out an expletive.

In a city roiled by months of pro-

test and increasingly riven by po-litical animus, Mr. Ho, 57, hasemerged as one of its most polar-izing public figures. A pro-Chinalawmaker whose rural constitu-ency leans right, Mr. Ho gleefullyantagonizes democracy advo-cates while emboldening thosewho favor a more hard-line gov-

ernment approach to theongoing unrest.

His growing stature asa provocateur coincideswith a new and poten-tially perilous chapter inHong Kong’s increas-ingly fraught politicaldrama. The leadershipinvoked emergency pow-ers for the first time on

Friday by imposing a ban on facemasks, standard gear for the pro-testers. After another round of vi-olent clashes overnight, the citysettled into an eerie quiet on Sat-urday, belying the undercurrent ofanger over the government’s deci-sion.

Though Mr. Ho’s extreme posi-tions are not shared by most pro-

Pro-Beijing Firebrand CourtsInfamy in Restive Hong Kong

By ANDREW JACOBS

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Junius Ho

WASHINGTON — Joseph R.Biden Jr.’s presidential campaignwas under attack, and he and hisadvisers were torn over what todo.

For more than a week, Presi-dent Trump had been hurling un-founded accusations about Mr. Bi-den, his son Hunter and their deal-ings in Ukraine. Mr. Biden and hisadvisers debated whether tomount a fierce counterattack or tostick to a set of policy argumentshe had been planning to roll out.Bad news loomed in the back-ground: Mr. Biden’s poll numbershad already grown wobbly, hisfund-raising was uneven, and ca-ble news was flashing chyrons bythe hour showing Mr. Trump’swild claims.

Mr. Biden himself was equivo-cating: He wanted to defend andprotect his son, but he also be-lieved the president was baitinghim into a dirty fight. And as a life-long adherent to congressionaltradition, Mr. Biden was wary ofacting hastily as an impeachmentinquiry was getting underway.

The strain grew so acute thatsome of Mr. Biden’s adviserslashed out at their own party, tak-ing the unusual step of urgingcampaign surrogates to criticizethe Democratic National Commit-tee — a neutral body in the prima-ry — for not doing more to defendMr. Biden, while the RepublicanNational Committee was runningTV ads attacking him. Frustrated,D.N.C. officials informed the Bi-den camp that it would continuedenouncing Mr. Trump but wouldnot run ads for Mr. Biden or anyother candidate.

The Biden campaign’s tense de-liberations reached a climax lastweekend when Mr. Biden agreedto give a scorching rebuttal to Mr.Trump in a speech on Wednesdayin Reno, Nev. But he delivered itwell into the evening on the EastCoast, and it was mostly lost amidanother long day of Trumpian

Under Attack, Biden WrestlesWith Response

Trying Not to Take Bait,but Looking Hesitant

This article is by Jonathan Mar-tin, Alexander Burns and KatieGlueck.

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in tatters and the lives of immigrant driverson the edge of ruin.

New Yorkers used a similar playbook inseveral cities across the United States:They inflated medallion prices, providedhigh-risk loans to buyers and collected in-

In the fall of 2006, Chicago held an auc-tion to sell taxi medallions, the permits thatlet people own and operate cabs. Hundredsof bids poured in, including some offering topay much more than expected. The city

raised millions ofdollars. Officials de-clared the sale asuccess.

But there wassomething strange

about the auction: None of the winning bid-ders lived in Chicago.

Almost all of them lived hundreds ofmiles away, in New York.

Over the next decade, New York taxi in-dustry leaders — fleet owners, brokers andfinanciers — steadily seized control of Chi-cago’s medallion market and squeezed itfor huge profits. Using tactics honed in NewYork, they made millions of dollars, butthey ultimately helped to leave the industry

terest and fees before the bubbles burst andthe markets collapsed. Medallion pricesrose sevenfold in some places, soaring to$700,000 in Boston, $550,000 in Philadel-phia, $400,000 in Miami and $250,000 inSan Francisco.

But the most ambitious expansion tar-geted Chicago, home of the nation’s second-largest cab industry, a New York Times in-vestigation found. New Yorkers eventuallybought almost half the city’s medallions,records show.

Some adopted an especially aggressiveapproach, according to documents and in-terviews. First, they purchased medallionsat bargain rates and established big fleetsof cabs. Then, they pumped up medallionprices. Finally, they sold their medallions totheir drivers and to rival fleet operators justbefore the collapse.

The incursion created extraordinarywealth for a small number of New Yorkers.

In Chicago, home of the nation’s second-largest cab industry, New Yorkers bought almost half of the city’s medallions.PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

New Yorkers Preyed on Chicago Cabbies, Too

Seizing Medallion Market and Leaving Taxi Industry in TattersBy BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL

‘We took out their loans, and we were wiped out.’

Demetrios Manolitsis, 52, Chicago cabdriver

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KIEV, Ukraine — As soon as hegot the invitation from Rudolph W.Giuliani, President Trump’s per-sonal lawyer, it was abundantlyclear to him what Mr. Trump’s al-lies were after.

“I understood very well whatwould interest them,” Yuriy Lu-tsenko, Ukraine’s recently firedprosecutor general, said in an ex-tensive interview in London. “Ihave 23 years in politics. I knew.”

“I’m a political animal,” he add-ed.

When Mr. Lutsenko sat downwith Mr. Giuliani in New York in

January, he re-called, his ex-pectations wereconfirmed: Thepresident’s law-yer wanted himto investigateformer VicePresident Jo-seph R. BidenJr. and his sonHunter.

It was thestart of what both sides hopedwould be a mutually beneficial re-lationship — but one that is nowcentral to the impeachment inqui-ry into Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump and his allies havebeen fixated on Ukraine since the2016 American election, con-vinced that the country holds thekey to unlock what they view as aconspiracy to undermine Mr.Trump. Mr. Giuliani in particularhas viewed Ukraine as a poten-tially rich source of informationbeneficial to Mr. Trump and harm-ful to his opponents, including Mr.Biden.

But a detailed look at Mr. Lu-tsenko’s record shows how Mr.

ENIGMATIC FIGUREIN UKRAINE FUELSAN IMPEACHMENT

AN OUSTED PROSECUTOR

Self-Proclaimed ‘PoliticalAnimal’ Sought Favor

in Trump’s Circle

This article is by Andrew E. Kra-mer, Andrew Higgins and MichaelSchwirtz.

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Late Edition

VOL. CLXIX . . No. 58,472 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2019

The killer first struck just be-fore 2 a.m. on Saturday on a quietspot on East Broadway in China-town, sneaking up on three home-less men as they slept on a side-walk and bludgeoning them todeath with a rusty, three-foot met-al bar, the police said.

Clad in all black, he then ran ablock north and attacked twomore men sleeping on a sidewalk,killing one. The second manbarely staggered away with hislife.

The rampage ended a few min-utes later with the arrest of a sus-pect whom the police also de-scribed as homeless, but it wasone of the most harrowing eventsin recent memory for New YorkCity’s homeless population, whichhas been steadily rising even asthe city has maintained solid eco-nomic growth. One of the four menkilled was 83 years old, the policesaid, and the surviving victim was

4 Homeless MenKilled in Sleep

In ManhattanThis article is by Edgar Sandoval,

William K. Rashbaum, Jeffrey E.Singer and Yonette Joseph.

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