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WHITESBURG, Ky. — Moon-shine packs a punch in this cornerof Appalachia, where makinghooch is steeped in local lore. Butwhen Colin Fultz, the grandson ofa bootlegger, opened a gourmetdistillery here last fall, he ranafoul of a spirit even more potentthan white lightning: Universityof Kentucky basketball.

With his outlaw grandfather —who spent 18 years behind bars forsmuggling — very much on hismind, Mr. Fultz, a businessmanand onetime coal miner, set out tocarry on his family’s tradition in alegal, and thoroughly modern,way.

He tinkered with recipes, blend-ing peaches and blackberries intomash brewed in his garage. Hehired a lawyer — “My wife got onme, said I was going to get intotrouble,” he said — and renovatedan old car dealership, where henow distills and sells fruit-infusedwhiskey, serving it in thimble-sizecups from an exposed-brick tast-ing bar.

But Mr. Fultz also tried to trade-mark his business name: Ken-

tucky Mist Moonshine. And that,sports lovers, is how a moonshinemaker wound up suing the Uni-versity of Kentucky — the basket-ball behemoth exalted by its “BigBlue Nation” of fans — in federalcourt over a fundamental ques-tion: Who owns the rights to thename of the state?

Kentucky Moonshiner in CourtOver Trademark, Not the Hooch

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Colin Fultz is suing the Uni-versity of Kentucky in federalcourt over naming rights.

GEORGE ETHEREDGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — When itcomes to nominating presidentialcandidates, it turns out the world’sforemost democracy is not sopurely democratic.

For decades, both major partieshave used a somewhat convolutedprocess for picking their no-minees, one that involves ordi-nary voters in only an indirectway. As Americans flock this yearto outsider candidates, the kindmost hindered by these rules,they are suddenly waking up tothis reality. And their confusionand anger are adding another vol-atile element to an election beingwaged over questions of fairnessand equality.

In Nashville a week ago,supporters of Donald J. Trump ac-cused Republican leaders of try-ing to stack the state’s delegateslate with people who were anti-Trump. The Trump campaignposted the cellphone number ofthe state party chairman on Twit-ter, leading him to be inundatedwith calls. Several dozen peopleshowed up at the meeting at whichdelegates were being named,banged on the windows and de-manded to be let in.

Backers of Senator BernieSanders, bewildered at why hekeeps winning states but cannotseem to cut into Hillary Clinton’sdelegate count because of heroverwhelming lead with“superdelegates,” have used Red-dit and Twitter to start an ag-gressive pressure campaign toflip votes.

Javier Morillo, a member of theDemocratic National Committeeand a superdelegate from Minne-sota, said he had discovered hisemail posted on a website called a“Superdelegate Hit List.” The list

PRIMARY PROCESSHAS MANY VOTERSFEELING SIDELINED

ANGER OVER DELEGATES

Supporters of Outsider

Candidates Upend

Political Parties

By JEREMY W. PETERS

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SYDNEY, Australia — KimCobb, a marine scientist at theGeorgia Institute of Technology,expected the coral to be damagedwhen she plunged into the deepblue waters off Kiritimati Island, aremote atoll near the center of thePacific Ocean. Still, she wasstunned by what she saw as shedescended some 30 feet to the rimof a coral outcropping.

“The entire reef is covered witha red-brown fuzz,” Dr. Cobb saidwhen she returned to the surfaceafter her recent dive. “It is other-worldly. It is algae that has grownover dead coral. It was devastat-ing.”

The damage off Kiritimati ispart of a mass bleaching of coralreefs around the world, only thethird on record and possibly theworst ever. Scientists believe thatheat stress from multiple weatherevents including the latest severeEl Niño, compounded by climatechange, has threatened more thana third of Earth’s coral reefs. Manymay not recover.

Coral reefs are the crucial incu-bators of the ocean’s ecosystem,providing food and shelter to aquarter of all marine species, andthey support fish stocks that feed

more than one billion people. Theyare made up of millions of tiny an-imals, called polyps, that formsymbiotic relationships with al-gae, which in turn capture sun-light and carbon dioxide to makesugars that feed the polyps.

An estimated 30 million small-

scale fishermen and women de-pend on reefs for their livelihoods,more than one million in the Phil-ippines alone. In Indonesia, fishsupported by the reefs provide theprimary source of protein.

“This is a huge, loomingplanetary crisis, and we are stick-

ing our heads in the sand about it,”said Justin Marshall, the directorof CoralWatch at Australia’s Uni-versity of Queensland.

Bleaching occurs when highheat and bright sunshine causethe metabolism of the algae —

Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists

By MICHELLE INNIS

A turtle swimming over bleached coral near Heron Island, in the southern Great Barrier Reef.

XL CATLIN SEAVIEW SURVEY

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A new detainee was the “man in thehat” seen with two suicide bombers atBrussels Airport, officials said. PAGE 9

A Breakthrough in Belgium

FREMONT, Calif. — The bang-ing on the door jolted Sal Shafiawake. F.B.I. agents were lookingfor his son. “Where’s Adam?” theyyelled. “Where’s Adam?”

Terrified, Mr. Shafi led theagents, guns drawn, up the stairstoward his son’s bedroom. Hewatched as they led his 22-year-old son away in handcuffs, backedby evidence of Adam Shafi’s ter-rorist ambitions.

He had come to the attention ofofficials not by a well-placed in-formant or a sting operation. Hisfather, concerned and looking forhelp, had simply picked up thephone and led the governmentright to his son. For months, overthe objections of his lawyer, Mr.Shafi had been talking to theF.B.I., believing he was doing theright thing.

“My God,” he thought, soon af-ter the arrest in July. “I just de-stroyed Adam.”

Had things been different, Mr.Shafi, 62, a Silicon Valley execu-tive, might have become a much-needed spokesman for the Obamaadministration’s counterradical-ization campaign. Who better totalk to other parents about the se-ductive pull of terror organiza-tions? Trust the government, hewould tell them. They do not wantto take away your children.

Despite nascent efforts to steeryoung people away from terror-ism, the government’s strategyremains largely built on persuad-ing people to call the F.B.I. whenthey first suspect a problem.

“Alert law enforcement,” Attor-ney General Loretta Lynch said inDecember. “It could simply beyour neighbor having a bad day.But better be safe than sorry.”

For parents, particularly thosewho see their children as mis-guided but not dangerous, the de-cision to make that call can be ago-nizing. Do you risk sending yourson to prison? Or hope things im-prove and he does not hurt any-one?

The Justice Department

LIMITED OPTIONSTO KEEP CHILDRENFROM TERRORISM

A FATHER’S CRY FOR HELP

American Strategy for

Prevention Is Called

Into Question

By MATT APUZZO

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Seventeen cuts lined Alejandro Uribe’sforearm like tally marks — each, he said,for a year he had been with Nadia Saave-dra, his hometown bride from a riversidevillage in Mexico.

Ms. Saavedra had asked her husband toleave their Bronx apartment in late Janu-ary, after years of absorbing his abuse. ButMr. Uribe grew obsessed, cutting himselfand, after Ms. Saavedra called the police,planting himself in the stairwell andknocking on her door.

A short stay in a hospital psychiatricward had not kept him from grasping at avanishing marriage. He took to walkingthe 400 or so steps from his new home toMs. Saavedra’s apartment — past a boxinggym, a pharmacy, two churches and amosque — to watch who came and went.He followed her to Manhattan. He calledtheir 16-year-old son, Uri, almost daily, ask-ing about a man who he suspected was Ms.Saavedra’s boyfriend.

On Ms. Saavedra’s 34th birthday, March7, Mr. Uribe waited in the hall outside hersecond-floor apartment, this time withoutknocking. When Ms. Saavedra opened thedoor to take their 11-year-old daughter,Naiyela, to school, he pushed his way pastthe girl and forced Ms. Saavedra into herbedroom.

She screamed her son’s name, but by thetime Uri broke down the door, his motherhad been stabbed 13 times. His father,shirtless, moved the 12-inch kitchen knifefrom one hand to the other before plungingit into his own rib cage, forcefully enoughto pierce his heart. Mr. Uribe’s dead body

cases often take shape out of the Police De-partment’s view — less than one-third ofvictims and abusers in domestic homi-cides have had previous contact with offi-cers — frustrating an agency that is tryingto home in on the most violent and vulnera-ble people.

And, like gang killings and attacks bymentally ill people, domestic murders oc-cur overwhelmingly in poor neighbor-hoods, where jobs are scarce and seekinghelp from city agencies is not necessarilythe norm. Among those neighborhoods isMott Haven, part of the 40th Precinct, atwo-square-mile trapezoid at the southern

crumpled on top of his wife’s.A neighbor, Celin Feble, 16, heard Ms.

Saavedra screaming “Stop, please stop!”She did not understand the gravity of whatwas happening until she saw Naiyela,weeping, emerge onto the sidewalk with asmall black-and-white dog. Uri walked out-side with blood all over his hands.

As murders in New York City have fallento record lows in recent years, domestickillings have come to make up an everlarger part of detectives’ workloads. The

Investigators dusted the door of the Bronx apartment of Nadia Saavedra afterher husband, Alejandro Uribe, pushed his way inside and stabbed her.

ÁNGEL FRANCO/THE NEW YORK TIMES

MURDER IN THE 4-0

Domestic Killings Frustrate Detectives

Nadia Saavedra, in a recentphoto posted on Facebook,was fatally attacked on her

34th birthday.

When

Marriage Turns

Murderous

A Husband’s Final Act,

And a Familiar Pattern

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This article is by Benjamin Mueller,Ashley Southall and Al Baker.

A new commander cleaned up the 215thCorps in Helmand Province, above, butthe Taliban keep making gains. PAGE 6

INTERNATIONAL 6-11

Afghan General Shifts Tactics

Chicago State University, a 150-year-oldpredominantly black school, has re-ceived no state funds since July be-cause of a budget fight. PAGE 12

NATIONAL 12-21

Black College Under Threat

After Julie Miller’s dazzling triathalonperformance in Canada, some athleteswondered if she had cheated. PAGE 1

SPORTSSUNDAY

Swim. Bike. Cheat?

A confidential report on the cameramaker Olympus found ethical lapses, a“slush fund” and a caterer that resolveda yearslong customs dispute. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

A Shadowy Fixer in China

THE MAGAZINE

The first sex enhancement pill for wom-en was undone by a series of misstepsby the drug maker’s new owner. PAGE 1

Why ‘Female Viagra’ Faltered

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanderscompete in a borough where eachclaims a local advantage. PAGE 1

METROPOLITAN

Just Whose Brooklyn Is It?Dr. Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnette wascredited with successfully using antibi-otics to treat sickle cell anemia. PAGE 22

OBITUARIES 21-23

A Pioneer in Sickle CellMaureen Dowd PAGE 1

SUNDAY REVIEW

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A lawyer for J. Dennis Hastert, theformer House speaker, said his clientacknowledged “transgressions.” PAGE 16

An Apology From Hastert

Senator Bernie Sanders wonWyoming’s caucuses, a symbolictriumph over Hillary Clinton butnot a race-altering one. Page 15.

Sanders Wins Wyoming

Jordan Spieth, the defending champion,led the Masters by one stroke overSmylie Kaufman. PAGE 1

A Familiar Name at the Top

VOL. CLXV . . . No. 57,198 © 2016 The New York Times NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016

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