QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"I think it’s still possible to make energetic, thrashy（スラッシュメタルというロックの一種の） music without necessarily walking around being these sulky（すねた）, angry, sullen（むっつりした）, dark people with black cartoon thunderstorms over their heads."
LARS ULRICH, drummer for the rock band Metallica

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

（１）Senate Democrats’ Surprising Strategy: Trying to Align With Trump
Democrats will try to find common cause with Donald J. Trump on infrastructure spending, child tax credits and dismantling（廃止する） trade agreements.

（２）Donald Trump Digs In at His Tower, Grinding（磨く、研ぐ） Fifth Ave. to a Halt
As the president-elect held meetings, down below it was a snarl（うなる） of barricades, police officers, lead-footed（ぐずの） tourists and aggrieved（悩ます） New Yorkers.

（３）Syrian President Calls Donald Trump a ‘Natural Ally’ in Fight Against Terrorism
Bashar al-Assad also predicted that “opposing forces” in the U.S. government and criticism from the news media could affect Mr. Trump’s actions.

（４）Specter（亡霊） of Race Shadows Jeff Sessions, Potential Trump Nominee for Cabinet
Accusations of racial comments doomed（定める） the 1986 court nomination of Mr. Sessions, an Alabama senator under consideration for attorney general or defense secretary.

（5）Across China, Walmart Faces Labor Unrest（不安） as Authorities Stand Aside
Workers are bypassing Communist Party unions and are appealing to nationalist ideals, though the government has long discouraged labor activism.

（6）A Mother Tried to Escape Gangs. Bullets Found Her Daughter.
A barrage（集中砲火） of gang-related violence struck close to Veronica Lopez in the last year of her life and followed her onto Lake Shore Drive.　母がギャングから逃げようとしたら、弾丸が娘にあたり、レイクショアドライブ通りで死んでしまった

CHICAGO — At Veronica Lopez’s Sweet 16 party, children played among the headstones（墓石）. Aunts, uncles and cousins sat on lawn chairs and striped blankets on the grass. A few feet away from Veronica’s grave, her four older sisters pressed candles into a red velvet cake and carefully lit（ligntのpp、飾り立てる） them.　Veronica’s mother watched them and waited for a sign from the gentle wind. “Let her blow out her own candles,” she directed her daughters, her voice hopeful.　Veronica, called Dayday by her family, was buried in this cemetery west of Chicago（シカゴの西） in June after being shot to death at age 15. She was a friendly girl who loved swimming, labored over science projects and wanted to move away from Chicago’s violence, toward a better life. Instead, she was caught in an onslaught（猛攻撃） of gunfire here that no one has been able to stop — not the police, not the mayor, not parents or preachers.　（ここの銃撃戦は、警察も、市長も、牧師も止めることができていない）　She was one of six people killed（6人が銃殺） in gunfire in Chicago over Memorial Day（戦没将兵記念日、5月の最終月曜日、もとは5月30日） weekend. Altogether, 64 people were shot during those three days（3日間で64人が撃たれた）, which started a summer of bloodshed（流血） that has continued into autumn. That weekend, The New York Times tracked the shootings to chronicle the surge（押し寄せる） in violence that has taken 654 lives in Chicago so far this year（シカゴで今年これまで暴力による死者は654人 ← シカゴは危険な都市だ！）. Veronica stood out among those killed. She was the youngest, a spunky（威勢の良い） ninth grader. She was shot in an affluent lakefront neighborhood that is largely free of Chicago’s gang violence. And she was the only female victim killed by gunfire that weekend. Her death was both mysterious and predictable. She was not in a gang, the police and her family said, but gangs were a part of her life. In Chicago, that is not unusual. Many people are intimately connected to gangs over generations, with allegiances（忠誠） woven through families and friendships the way loyalties to sports teams or alma（踊り子） maters are passed down in the wealthier neighborhoods across town. Young women can be drawn in to the world of gangs because of their brothers or where they live — or by falling in love with the wrong person. They are often more than bystanders（居合わせた人）, but less than participants.　略

family of women（母子家庭）、rivalries（ライバル）、intruded（押しつける）、
dwell（住まう）、cluster（群れ）

"Do you know a Veronica Lopez?” （←警官はこう言う）an officer asked, sounding to Ms. Mercado as though he delivered such news all day long. “She may have been shot.”