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IRVINE, Calif. — When the Tai-wanese bakery opened for busi-ness a decade ago, the line for tarobread and sea-salt coffee undulat-ed down the sidewalk, but at leastit wasn’t the three-hour wait forShanghainese hot pot thatplugged up the same shoppingcenter this year. Still, that waspreferable to the half-day’s perse-verance required for entry to theSouth Coast Plaza branch of DinTai Fung, the upscale soup-dump-ling chain that, for three weeksthis winter, threw a crystal-be-decked Lunar New Year partymore elaborate than that of mostChinatowns.

Chinese and Korean immi-grants, and Asian-Americansfrom other states, have madeIrvine nearly half Asian. This hasnot gone unnoticed by the IrvineCompany, the developer that didnot so much develop as invent thismaster-planned city of spotlessparks, top schools and cul-de-sacsout of a former sheep ranch in the1960s, when Orange County wasagricultural (think lima beans andorange groves), conservative(think Richard Nixon and theJohn Birch Society) and white(very, very white).

Known for its devotion to taste-ful Mediterranean-ish homes andstrip malls that bear approxi-mately the same architectural re-lationship to Tuscany as the LasVegas Venetian does to Venice,the company has cultivated a fewnew trademarks in recent years.Developments advertise second

Orange County Was Long Red.Can an Asian Tide Turn It Blue?

By VIVIAN YEE

Dave Min, center, in OrangeCounty, Calif., with volunteersfor his campaign for Congress.

JENNA SCHOENEFELD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Many women with early-stagebreast cancer who would receivechemotherapy under currentstandards do not actually need it,according to a major internationalstudy that is expected to quicklychange medical treatment.

“We can spare thousands andthousands of women from gettingtoxic treatment that really would-n’t benefit them,” said Dr. IngridA. Mayer, from Vanderbilt Univer-sity Medical Center, an author ofthe study. “This is very powerful.

It really changes the standard ofcare.”

The study found that gene testson tumor samples were able toidentify women who could safelyskip chemotherapy and take onlya drug that blocks the hormone es-trogen or stops the body from ma-king it. The hormone-blockingdrug tamoxifen and related medi-

cines, called endocrine therapy,have become an essential part oftreatment for most women be-cause they lower the risks of re-currence, new breast tumors anddeath from the disease.

“I think this is a very significantadvance,” said Dr. Larry Norton,of Memorial Sloan Kettering Can-cer Center in New York. He is notan author of the study, but his hos-pital participated. “I’ll be able tolook people in the eye and say, ‘Weanalyzed your tumor, you have areally good prognosis, and you ac-tually don’t need chemotherapy.’

Many More Can Skip Chemo for Breast CancerBy DENISE GRADY

Bari Brooks, 58, of White House, Tenn., was among the participants in a breakthrough cancer trial.WILLIAM DESHAZER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ORG XMIT: NPX

A Landmark Study for Early-Stage Cases

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WASHINGTON — Two weeksago, Steven Mnuchin, the Treas-ury secretary, declared that thetrade war with China was “onhold” and that the United Stateswould temporarily holster its tar-iffs. The reassuring commentscalmed markets and raised hopesthat Mr. Mnuchin, one of Presi-dent Trump’s most enduring andtrusted advisers, was winning theinternal trade battle that hasgripped the White House.

Then Mr. Trump weighed in. Ina one-two punch last week, thepresident doubled down on thetrade war with China and threw inones with Canada, Mexico and Eu-rope for good measure.

This weekend, some of thosecountries hit back, as finance min-isters from the six other nationsattending the Group of 7 meetingin Canada issued an unusual re-buke over America’s trading prac-tices and the use of tariffs againstallies. The statement said that tar-iffs “undermine open trade andconfidence in the global economy”and called on Mr. Mnuchin tomake their worries known to Mr.Trump.

The scolding laid bare the un-comfortably familiar spot that Mr.Mnuchin finds himself in: tryingto be a voice of moderation and astatesman in an administrationthat sees diplomatic norms andprotocols as signs of weakness.

He has so far managed to stay inMr. Trump’s good graces while ad-vocating a more free-trade ap-proach, but that balancing act isshowing signs of strain.

Mr. Mnuchin, unflappable inpublic, is privately making hiscase with a president who cam-paigned on blowing up tradeagreements and surrounded him-self with hard-line advisers whocontinue to toe that line.

“You have an intellectualslugfest going on in the WhiteHouse,” said Stephen Moore, theHeritage Foundation economistwho advised Mr. Trump’s cam-paign.

“Sometimes Mnuchin has vic-tories and sometimes he has fail-ures, but he is clearly one of the

A PeacekeeperIn a Trade War

Led by Trump

By ALAN RAPPEPORT

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When Nadav Zeimer becameprincipal in 2010 of Harlem Ren-aissance High School, the school,which serves students who havefallen behind or dropped out ofother schools, was failing. It hadreceived a D on its most recent re-port card. At one point, New YorkCity said it planned to closeHarlem Renaissance and reopenit under a new name.

But within three years, theschool’s grade went to a B, then anA. Its graduation rate improved;suspensions plummeted.

As Mr. Zeimer’s supervisorwould say, last year, “PrincipalZeimer has turned a failing schoolinto a successful school.”

Which made it strange that, atthat very moment, the city wastrying to fire him.

As Mr. Zeimer worked to re-make the school, he said, a smallgroup of teachers revolted. He be-came the subject of multiple in-

vestigations and unflatteringnews stories, and lost his position— only to subsequently be clearedof most of the charges.

Mr. Zeimer’s story has becomea familiar one at some of the city’smost troubled schools. Principalsare asked by the Education De-partment to do one of the hardestjobs — turn around a failing school— in most cases without replacingthe staff. Soon they become thetarget of investigations, oftenprompted by anonymous allega-tions, which can range fromclaims of discrimination to grade-fixing or fraud. As the inquiries

Principals Make Waves, Then Drown in InquiriesBy KATE TAYLOR Efforts to Fix New York

Schools Are Stifled

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As Facebook sought to becomethe world’s dominant social mediaservice, it struck agreements al-lowing phone and other devicemakers access to vast amounts ofits users’ personal information.

Facebook has reached data-sharing partnerships with at least60 device makers — including Ap-ple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Micro-soft and Samsung — over the lastdecade, starting before Facebookapps were widely available onsmartphones, company officialssaid. The deals allowed Facebookto expand its reach and let devicemakers offer customers popularfeatures of the social network,such as messaging, “like” buttonsand address books.

But the partnerships, whosescope has not previously been re-ported, raise concerns about thecompany’s privacy protectionsand compliance with a 2011 con-sent decree with the FederalTrade Commission. Facebook al-lowed the device companies ac-cess to the data of users’ friendswithout their explicit consent,even after declaring that it wouldno longer share such informationwith outsiders. Some device mak-ers could retrieve personal infor-mation even from users’ friendswho believed they had barred anysharing, The New York Timesfound.

Most of the partnerships re-main in effect, though Facebookbegan winding them down inApril. The company came underintensifying scrutiny by lawmak-ers and regulators after news re-ports in March that a political con-sulting firm, Cambridge Analyt-ica, misused the private informa-tion of tens of millions of Facebookusers.

In the furor that followed, Face-book’s leaders said that the kind ofaccess exploited by Cambridge in2014 was cut off by the next year,

DEVICE COMPANIESHAVE VAST ACCESSTO FACEBOOK DATA

PROFILES MAY BE AT RISK

Partnerships Could RunAfoul of a 2011 Deal

to Guard Privacy

This article is by Gabriel J.X.Dance, Nicholas Confessore and Mi-chael LaForgia.

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WASHINGTON — As they in-spect the nation’s gun stores, fed-eral investigators regularly findviolations of the law, ranging fromminor record-keeping errors to il-legal sales of firearms. In the mostserious cases, like a sale of a gunto a prohibited buyer, inspectorsoften recommend that gun deal-ers lose their licenses.

But that rarely happens. Seniorofficials at the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms and Explo-sives regularly overrule their owninspectors, allowing gun dealerswho fail inspections to keep theirlicenses even after they were pre-viously warned to follow the rules,according to interviews with morethan half a dozen current and for-mer law enforcement officials anda review of more than 100 inspec-tion reports.

One store was cited for failing toconduct background checks be-fore selling a gun. Another storeowner told investigators he ac-tively tried to circumvent gunlaws. One threatened an A.T.F. of-ficer, and another sold a gun to acustomer who identified as a fel-on. All were previously cited bythe A.T.F. In each instance, super-visors downgraded recommenda-tions that the stores’ licenses berevoked and instead let them stayopen.

Of about 11,000 inspections of li-censed firearm dealers in the yearstarting in October 2016, morethan half were cited for violations.Less than 1 percent of all inspec-tions resulted in the loss of a li-cense.

The episodes shed light on theA.T.F.’s delicate role in policing thegun industry, which has histori-cally resisted regulation and holdspowerful political sway over theA.T.F.’s appropriators in Congress.Lawmakers set a stringent re-quirement decades ago for gun in-spectors: They must prove thatstore owners not only violated thelaw but intended to do so. The bu-reau has sidestepped the potentiallegal appeals and political falloutof revoking licenses by trying towork with gun dealers rather thanclose their stores.

The approach is widely seen bythe A.T.F. as the best option to reg-

Defy Gun Law,Face Wrist SlapFrom the A.T.F.

Strict Statute on IntentKeeps Dealers Selling

By ALI WATKINS

JIM HUYLEBROEK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A leftover rocket killed four and maimed seven young members of an extended family. “I wanted to cry,” the doctor said. Page A4.A Terrible Toll in Afghanistan

FLUMMOXED U.S. allies and ri-vals, seeking a friendly face, arecourting whichever advisers theythink will listen. PAGE B1

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President Trump may have put a bigtarget on Senator Jon Tester’s back, butthe lawmaker is confident that Montan-ans know where he stands. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A9-14

Red-State Democrat Unruffled

Unexpectedly, the president has cut offthe oxygen to the insurgent wing of hisRepublican Party. PAGE A9

Starving the Right Flank

The June 12 meeting between PresidentTrump and Kim Jong-un requires figur-ing out countless details, all of whichcould be thrown out anytime. PAGE A6

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

Setting the Table for TalksStephen Curry led Golden State with 33points and made a finals-record nine3-pointers in a 122-103 victory over theCleveland Cavaliers. The Warriors nowhold a 2-0 lead in the series. PAGE D1

SPORTSMONDAY D1-8

Warriors Trample Cavaliers

As drugs that ease the pain of havingsex get more expensive, women aremostly staying silent about it. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

A Taboo That Costs Women

Charles M. Blow PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23Despite vows after Eric Garner’s death,the disciplinary history of police offi-cers still cannot be disclosed. PAGE A15

Police Secrecy Law Unchanged

After countless radio and TV appear-ances, and two autobiographies, the sextherapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer takesstock of her long career. PAGE A19

NEW YORK A15-19

Dr. Ruth on Turning 90Street artists are painting — with per-mission — at the World Trade Centersite, using corrugated metal sheds astheir canvas. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Like Graffiti, but by RequestWhatever their differences on domesticissues, the four presidential candidatesin Mexico’s elections all oppose the U.S.president. PAGE A4

Mexico’s Yawn-Inspiring Rival

U.S.A. Baseball has introduced newstandards for bats that are intended totame big hits, forcing many families toditch their old bats and dig deep intotheir pockets for new ones. PAGE D1

$350 for a Youth Baseball Bat?

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