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Emmerson Mnangagwa, in blue, anex-aide to Robert Mugabe, will ascendto the presidency on Friday. PAGE A6

INTERNATIONAL A4-14

Zimbabwe to Swear In Leader

When Ingrid Batista found out that hertwins had Down syndrome, she commit-ted herself to caring for them and show-ing the world their beauty. PAGE A26

NEW YORK A25-29

Raising ‘Princesses’ by Herself

Eight people were rescued and a searchwas underway for the other three, theNavy’s Seventh Fleet said. PAGE A13

Navy Plane Crashes Off Japan

Gail Collins PAGE A30

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31

THE HAGUE — It was the clos-ing of one of Europe’s mostshameful chapters of atrocity andbloodletting since World War II.

With applause inside and out-side the courtroom at the Interna-tional Criminal Tribunal for theFormer Yugoslavia, Gen. RatkoMladic, the former Bosnian Serbcommander, was convicted onWednesday of genocide, crimesagainst humanity and war crimes.He was sentenced to life in prison.

It was the last major item ofbusiness for the tribunal in TheHague before it wound down, a fullquarter-century after many of thecrimes on its docket were commit-ted.

From 1992 to 1995, the tribunalfound, Mr. Mladic, 75, was thechief military organizer of thecampaign to drive Muslims,Croats and other non-Serbs offtheir lands to cleave a new homo-geneous statelet for BosnianSerbs.

The deadliest year of the cam-paign was 1992, when 45,000 peo-ple died, often in their homes, onthe streets or in a string of concen-tration camps. Others perished inthe siege of Sarajevo, the Bosniancapital, where snipers andshelling terrorized residents formore than three years, and in themass executions of 8,000 Muslimmen and boys after Mr. Mladic’sforces overran the United Na-tions-protected enclave of Srebre-nica.

Sitting impassively at first inthe court in a blue suit and tie, Mr.Mladic seemed much smallerthan the burly commander in fa-tigues who had often appeared be-fore the news media during thewar to defend himself and hisforces.

At one point, Mr. Mladic disap-peared from the court, apparentlyto receive treatment for a danger-ous surge in blood pressure. Uponreturning, he began shouting atthe court in a dispute over hisblood pressure.

“Everything you are saying is apure lie!” he yelled at the bench.The judges then ordered him re-moved.

In pronouncing the life sen-tence, the presiding judge,Alphons Orie, said that Mr. Mla-dic’s crimes “rank among themost heinous known to hu-mankind.” Mr. Mladic’s lawyers

SENTENCE OF LIFEFOR BOSNIAN SERBIN WAR ATROCITIES

A DARK CHAPTER CLOSES

New Era of UncertaintyLooms as Nationalist

Passions Swell

This article is by Marlise Simons,Alan Cowell and Barbara Surk.

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WASHINGTON — The detailswere spare when the event ap-peared this summer on AttorneyGeneral Jeff Sessions’s publicschedule. He would speak on reli-gious liberty to a group called Alli-ance Defending Freedom. No ex-act location was specified. Nonews media would be allowed in.

Only after an outcry over suchsecrecy — and the anti-gay rightspositions of its sponsor — did atranscript of Mr. Sessions’s re-marks emerge on a conservativewebsite. “Many Americans havefelt that their freedom to practicetheir faith has been under attack,”he told the gathering in OrangeCounty, Calif. “The challenges ournation faces today concerning ourhistoric First Amendment right tothe ‘free exercise’ of our faith havebecome acute.”

Mr. Sessions’s focus was not anaccident. The First Amendmenthas become the most powerfulweapon of social conservativesfighting to limit the separation ofchurch and state and to roll backlaws on same-sex marriage andabortion rights.

Few groups have done more toadvance this body of legal think-ing than the Alliance DefendingFreedom, which has more than3,000 lawyers working on behalfof its causes around the world andbrought in $51.5 million in revenuefor the 2015-16 tax year, more thanthe American Civil Liberties Un-ion.

Among the alliance’s successeshas been bringing cases involvingrelatively minor disputes to theSupreme Court — a law limitingthe size of church signs, a churchseeking funding for a playground— and winning rulings that estab-lish major constitutional prece-dents.

But it hopes to carve out aneven wider sphere of protected re-ligious expression this term whenthe justices are to hear two moreof its cases, one a challenge to aCalifornia law that requires “crisispregnancy centers,” which arerun by abortion opponents, to pro-vide women with information onhow to obtain an abortion, and an-other in which it represents a Col-orado baker who refused to make

Using FreedomTo Lead AttackOn Gay Rights

Religious Group Seeksto Roll Back Rulings

By JEREMY W. PETERS

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SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Lunchtime on Wednesday gave Olaf from the movie “Frozen” more time to come to life in Manhattan. Around 3.5 million spectatorsare expected to brave chilly temperatures in the low 40s on Thursday to attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Page A29.

He’ll Have the Helium

Meghan Roark isn’t too proud toadmit she has an addiction. Herhabit? Makeup.

Ms. Roark, a 27-year-old whoworks in retail in Abingdon, Va.,estimates that she spends $300 amonth on cosmetics and skin care.She watches at least three hoursof tutorials each week onYouTube, learning new tech-niques or keeping up on emergingbrands. Her morning makeup rou-tine takes 30 minutes and involvesup to 15 products.

Young shoppers like Ms. Roarkare the driving force behind aboom in the cosmetics industry.Always camera ready, they arebuying and using almost 25 per-cent more cosmetics than they didjust two years ago and signifi-cantly more than baby boomers,according to the research firmNPD. And millennials who iden-tify themselves as “makeup en-thusiasts,” NPD found, are usingsix products each day.

Ms. Roark, after setting asidemoney she had received as abirthday gift, spent $109 during arecent shopping spree at UltaBeauty, picking up primer, foun-dation and a new eye shadow pal-ette. “I think every girl likes buy-ing clothes, but for me, I prefer tospend my money on makeup,” she

said.The striking expansion in cos-

metics is a bright spot in what isotherwise a challenging envi-ronment for retailers and pack-aged goods companies. Big jumpsin the sale of shimmery highlights,lush liquid stain lipsticks anddewy foundations have propelledthe stocks of cosmetics giantsEstée Lauder and L’Oreal torecord highs.

Revenues at Ulta Beauty, whichsells both prestige and drugstore

brands and has been openingabout 100 new stores annually inrecent years, are expected to top$5.9 billion this year, up from $3.9billion two years ago. Revenues atSephora, part of the luxury giantLVMH Moët Hennessy LouisVuitton, have doubled since 2011.

Moreover, the growth in the cos-metics industry is probably un-derstated, since most estimatesfail to capture sales at online re-

Young and in Love, With Lipstick and EyelinerBy JULIE CRESWELL

A shopper at an Ulta Beauty store in Chicago. Millennials are thedriving force behind a recent boom in the cosmetics industry.

SAVERIO TRUGLIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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On any other Sunday, FrankPomeroy, the pastor at First Bap-tist Church of Sutherland Springs,Tex., would have been in the pul-pit. He would have seen the gun-man, his steely gaze familiar,barge in mid-sermon. He wouldhave heard the gunfire break out.

But he was hundreds of milesaway. And so Mr. Pomeroy, reflect-ing in his first extensive interviewon the mass shooting that tookplace inside his church, can onlyimagine the awfulness of it. Andponder whether he could havemade a difference had he beenpreaching that day.

Instead, Mr. Pomeroy was at-tending a class in Oklahoma Cityon the morning of Nov. 5. A three-word text message came acrosshis cellphone. “Shooting atchurch,” it said.

He thought the sender, who was

the church’s videographer, waskidding. “I hope you are joking,”he wrote back.

The reply came seconds later:“No.”

Mr. Pomeroy frantically tried tocall parishioners who were at the

service, but no one picked up. “Bythen, it was too late,” he recalled.“They had been shot.” He finallyreached a friend, who was 10 min-utes away from the church. Thefriend rushed to the scene andsoon confirmed the unimaginable.Bodies were sprawled every-where. Among the dead was thepastor’s 14-year-old daughter, An-nabelle.

“I am trying to follow the Bible,which says you should not let thesun set on your anger because an-ger only makes it worse,” Mr.Pomeroy said. He is attempting tolive by the advice he typicallygives to parishioners in mourning.Good versus evil. God’s plan. Theimportance of faith.

“We are supposed to find thatpeaceful place and to pray about itand accept what it is,” he said.

But finding that spiritual refugehas hardly been easy.

His Flock Massacred, a Pastor Looks for ComfortBy SERGE F. KOVALESKI

Frank Pomeroy, a Texas pastor,and his wife, Sherri, lost adaughter in the mass shooting.

TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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LONDON — Tanja Pardela isleaving London. Her last day isNov. 26. She wells up talking aboutit. She will miss jacket potatoes,and Sunday roasts, and her morn-ing commute — past playingfields, small children in school uni-forms and a red telephone box —to the hospital where she has beena pediatric nurse for 11 years.

Ms. Pardela does not want toleave the country she came toover a decade ago. But that coun-try no longer exists. On June 24last year, she said, “We all woke upin a different country.”

Seventeen months after Britainvoted to leave the European Un-ion, many Europeans are voting toleave Britain — with their feet.Some 122,000 of them packed their

bags in the year through March,according to the latest figuresavailable, while the stream of newarrivals has slowed.

In London, a city long sustainedby European bankers, buildersand baristas — “a place thatmakes you dream,” Ms. Pardelasaid — the departures are begin-ning to hurt. Construction compa-nies and coffee shops are strug-gling to recruit. Top universitiesworry about retaining talent. Andnowhere are the concerns moreelemental than in Britain’s treas-ured and already overstretchedNational Health Service.

Long before Brexit, the N.H.S.suffered from chronic staffing

shortages, and today the countryhas 40,000 nursing vacancies. Butrecruiting nurses from the Euro-pean Union had helped plug thegap — especially in London,where the share of nurses fromthe Continent is about 14 percent,or twice the national average.King’s College Hospital, the mas-sive institution where Ms. Pardelaworks, is short of 528 nurses andmidwives, and 318 doctors.

Brexit seems certain to make itharder and costlier to recruit fromthe Continent, assuming that peo-ple will still want to come fromthere. Even the legal status of Eu-ropean Union citizens already liv-ing in Britain remains unclear, en-tangled in the stalled Brexit talksbetween Brussels and London.Many fear they could lose rights,job security, pensions and accessto free health care.

This uncertainty is one reasonthat some European health careprofessionals are either leaving,or thinking about leaving. In theyear following the referendum, al-most 10,000 quit the N.H.S. Thenumber of nurses from other Eu-ropean Union countries register-ing to practice in Britain hasdropped by almost 90 percent.

As yet, there is no mass exodus

Where Brexit Hurts: A Hospital Staffing CrisisBy KATRIN BENNHOLD LOSING LONDON

A Taxed System

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump began his first Thanksgiv-ing vacation in office with anearly-morning Twitter rage inwhich he again vented about someof his favorite targets: sports fig-ures he thinks have defied him.

The president called LaVarBall, the father of one of threeU.C.L.A. players arrested in Chinafor shoplifting, a “poor man’s ver-sion of Don King,” the black sportspromoter. He also called Mr. Ballan “ungrateful fool!” and insistedthat “IT WAS ME” who deservedmore thanks for rescuing Mr.Ball’s son from the Chinese au-thorities.

Mr. Trump followed the angryrant toward Mr. Ball, who is Afri-can-American, with a return to hismonthslong demand for footballplayers to be more respectfulwhile the national anthem isplayed — an issue that has strongsupport among some Americans.On the idea of asking players tostay in locker rooms during the

Trump’s HowlsAbout AthletesSerenade Base

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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The luxury, 46-story SoHo hotel hasslashed room rates to attract guests inheavily Democratic New York. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Trumps Cutting Ties to a HotelLarry Nassar, a former doctor for U.S.A.Gymnastics, pleaded guilty to sevencounts of sexual assault. He could faceat least 25 years in prison. PAGE B11

SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-12

Guilty Plea in Gymnastics Case

Uncooked flour can make people veryill, a study confirms. E. coli bacteria canthrive in the powdery host. PAGE A22

NATIONAL A18-23

No, Don’t Lick That WhiskA quiet if pungent revolution led bywomen is underway in America’s dairycases. Above, Erin Bligh of the DancingGoats Dairy in Newbury, Mass. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-10

Cheese’s Feminist CultureAs retailers struggle, Macy’s real estateholdings are worth far more than thecompany’s market value. PAGE B7

Four Walls of Wealth

Families battered by wildfires, stormsand mass shootings consider a holidaybased on giving thanks. PAGE A18

Grateful and Grieving

Spike Lee has remade his film “She’sGotta Have It” as a streaming series onNetflix. Now, Nola is seeing three men,including Mars Blackmon. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Having It Again, in Color

Late Edition

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