VOL.CLXII..No. 55,930 ©2012 The New York Times NEWYORK,SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 Late Edition Today,periodic clouds and sun, high 69. Tonight,partly cloudy, cool, low 49. Tomorrow,sunny to partly cloudy, breezy, cooler, high 64. Weather map appears on Page C8. $2.50 By MATT RICHTEL SAN FRANCISCO — Phil Libin, chief executive of Ever- note, turned to his wife last year and asked if she had suggestions for how the software company might improve the lives of its em- ployees and their families. His wife, who also works at Evernote, didn’t miss a beat: houseclean- ing. Today, Evernote’s 250 employ- ees — every full-time worker, from receptionist to top executive — have their homes cleaned twice a month,free. It is the latest innovation from Silicon Valley: the employee perk is moving from the office to the home. Facebook gives new par- ents $4,000 in spending money. Stanford School of Medicine is pi- loting a project to provide doctors with housecleaning and in-home dinner delivery. Genentech offers take-home dinners and helps em- ployees find last-minute baby sit- ters when a child is too sick to go to school. These kinds of benefits are a departure from the upscale cafe- teria meals, massages and other services intended to keep em- ployees happy and productive while at work. And the goal is not just to reduce stress for employ- ees, but for their families, too.If the companies succeed, the thinking goes, they will minimize distractions and sources of ten- sion that can inhibit focus and creativity. Now that technology has al- lowed work to bleed into home life, it seems that companies are trying to address the impact of home life on work. There is, of course, the possibil- Housecleaning, Then Dinner? Silicon Valley Perks Come Home DREW KELLY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Andrew Sinkov has his apart- ment cleaned free, courtesy of his employer, Evernote. Continued on Page A17 By ERIC LICHTBLAU and ERIC LIPTON WASHINGTON — In the rar- efied world of political consult- ants who straddle the line be- tween campaign adviser and cor- porate strategist, Anita Dunn has few peers. As a confidante of President Obama and a senior campaign adviser, Ms. Dunn has helped prepare him for the debates this month, plotted campaign strat- egy and acted as a surrogate of sorts in attacking Mitt Romney for a “backward-looking attitude” on issues like women’s rights and health care. She and her colleagues at SKDKnickerbocker, a communi- cations firm, have built a growing list of blue-chip companies — food manufacturers, a military contractor, the New York Stock Exchange and the Canadian com- pany developing the Keystone XL pipeline — willing to pay handsomely for help in winning over federal regulators or land- ing government contracts. Some clients and lobbyists who have teamed up with SKDK say they benefit from the firm’s ability to provide information about the Obama administration’s views. “It is difficult to penetrate this administration,” said Jason Mah- ler, a lobbyist for the computer technology company Oracle, which was part of a coalition that hired Ms. Dunn’s firm to push for reduced tax rates on offshore profits. “Anyone that has an in- sight into what they are thinking or their strategy or thoughts on issues we are working on is help- ful, and they provided that.” SKDK executives said that Ms. Dunn, who declined to be inter- viewed, was scrupulous about separating her political work from her corporate agenda, and that she followed White House ethics rules barring her from ap- pealing on behalf of clients. What the firm offers, said Hil- ary Rosen, an SKDK partner who is also a high-profile Obama ally, is help in navigating the political landscape in Washington. “It is not that people assume we can talk to the White House to influence them on policy,” Ms. Rosen said, “but that we under- stand progressive Democrats, in- cluding the administration — how they communicate their own message, think about their mes- sage — and therefore we under- stand how things will play.” Still, Ms. Dunn’s dual roles show the limits of Mr. Obama’s attempts to change the culture of Washington. Even as he pledged to curb the influence of special in- terests in the capital and has re- stricted the role of lobbyists in his administration, the president and his top aides continue to rely on political operatives like Ms. Dunn who also represent clients seek- ing to influence public policy. “He’s gone in the right direc- tion,” said James Thurber, a pro- fessor at American University, referring to measures that opened more White House records to public scrutiny and that slowed the revolving door between government and lobby- ing firms. “But in the wide sweep of things, he didn’t really change Washington that much.” The rules, for example, do not apply to the army of consultants, advisers, communication strat- egists and others who represent clients with federal agendas. Un- like lobbyists, they are not re- Strategizing for the President, and Her Corporate Clients, Too DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES President Obama with his advisers Anita Dunn, a partner in a communications firm, SKDKnickerbocker, and David Plouffe. Continued on Page A13 FEISAL OMAR/REUTERS Somalis relaxed in the waters off Lido Beach, once a popular destination, as the ruins of Mogadishu, the capital, attested to dec- ades of conflict. Conditions in the city have improved since the Shabab militants left last year, but occasional attacks still occur. Somali Buildings in Rubble, but the Water’s Fine By ANNE BARNARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — A power- ful bomb devastated a Christian neighborhood of this capital city of Lebanon on Friday, killing an intelligence official long viewed as an enemy by neighboring Syr- ia and unnerving a nation as Syr- ia’s sectarian-fueled civil war spills beyond its borders and threatens to engulf the region. The blast, which sheared the faces off buildings, killed at least eight people, wounded 80 and transformed a quiet tree-lined street into a scene reminiscent of Lebanon’s long civil war, threat- ened to worsen sectarian ten- sions. By nightfall, black smoke from burning tires ignited by an- gry men choked the streets of a few neighborhoods in the city, which has struggled to preserve a peace between its many sects, including Sunni, Shiite, Christian and Druse. Within hours of the attack, the Lebanese authorities announced that the dead included the intelli- gence chief of the country’s in- ternal security service, Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, instant- ly spurring accusations that the Syrian government had assassi- nated him for recently uncover- ing what the authorities said was a Syrian plot to provoke unrest in Lebanon. “They wanted to get him, and they got him,” said Paul Salem, a regional analyst with the Car- negie Middle East Center. But if the attack was targeted, the blast was most certainly not. The force of the explosion left eld- erly residents fleeing their wrecked homes in bloodied paja- mas and spewed charred metal as far as two blocks. Residents rushed to help each other amid the debris, burning car wreckage and a macabre scene of victims in blood-soaked shirts. It was the first large-scale bombing in the country since 2008 and was the most provoca- tive violence here linked to the Syrian conflict since it began 19 BLAST IN BEIRUT SEEN AS EXTENSION OF SYRIA CONFLICT OFFICIAL AMONG VICTIMS Attack Ignites Violence, Upsetting an Uneasy Sectarian Peace Continued on Page A8 This article is by Michael Bar- baro, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael Wines. BOSTON — As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney could not resist burrowing into the bureaucratic weeds: He once took the statewide math and reading test for 10th graders, then startled his education com- missioner by calling to say, “I like No.14” and rattling off the an- swer. As head of the private equity firm Bain Capital, he was so un- comfortable cutting loose strug- gling employees that a legend grew: executives sent in to his of- fice to be fired emerged thinking they had been promoted. And as a candidate for presi- dent this year, he resisted pres- sure from advisers to select a running mate before leaving on a high-profile trip overseas, insist- ing that he makes better deci- sions with time and reflection. Mr. Romney’s bid for the White House largely hinges on his own narrowly drawn image of himself as a chief executive: the data- splicing, cost-cutting turnaround expert. But dozens of interviews with those who have worked for him over the past 30 years — in the Mormon Church, business, the Olympics and state govern- ment — offer a far more textured portrait of the management style that he might bring to the presi- dency. A serial chief executive, the Republican presidential nominee is steeped in management theory and eschews gut instincts.He is not so much a micromanager as a microprocessor, wading deeply into the raw data usually left to junior aides. He entrusts advis- ers with responsibility, but keeps them on a short leash, monitoring them through a flurry of progress reports and review sessions. Mr. Romney is, colleagues said, “con- flict-avoidant.” His decision-mak- ing process is unhurried and So- cratic, his instinct to exhaustively debate and prod. “He was not somebody who forced decisions to be made be- fore they needed to,” said Geof- frey Rehnert, a longtime execu- tive at Bain Capital. In his approach, there are in- triguing echoes of and depar- tures from presidents past. His intensely hands-on style sets him apart from George W. Bush, the self-styled chairman of the board, and Ronald Reagan, who cared only for the big picture and left dirt-under-the-fingernails policy work to his staff. His tendency to immerse himself in the details re- calls Lyndon B. Johnson, who closeted himself with Pentagon brass to personally choose tar- Romney as a Manager: Unhurried and Socratic THE LONG RUN Leadership Style Continued on Page A14 By C.J. CHIVERS DEIR SONBUL, Syria — The government of Syria, trying to contain a rapidly expanding in- surgency, has resorted to one of the dirty tricks of the modern bat- tlefield: salting ammunition sup- plies of antigovernment fighters with ordnance that explodes in- side rebels’ weapons, often wounding and sometimes killing the fighters while destroying many of their hard-found arms. The practice, which rebels said started in Syria early this year, is another element of the govern- ment’s struggle to combat the op- position as Syria’s military finds itself challenged across a country where it was not long ago an un- contested force. The government controls the skies, and with air- craft and artillery batteries it has pounded many rebel strongholds throughout this year. But the rebels continue to resist, mostly with small arms. Doctored ammunition offers an insidious way to undermine the rebels’ confidence in their ammu- nition supply while simulta- neously thinning their ranks. “When they do this, you will lose both the man and the rifle,” said Ghadir Hammoush, the com- mander of a fighting group in Idlib Province who said he knew of five instances in which rifles had exploded from booby- trapped ammunition. The practice has principally in- volved rifle and machine-gun car- tridges, but also the projectiles for rocket-propelled grenades and perhaps mortar rounds, ac- cording to interviews with more than a half-dozen rebel leaders in Syria and many fighters, as well as an examination of shattered ri- fles and the contents of a booby- trapped cartridge. The tactic is highly controversial, in that it is potentially indiscriminate. The primary source for doc- tored ammunition has been the Syrian government, which mixes exploding cartridges with ordi- Syrians Place Booby Traps In Rebel Guns Ammunition Is Rigged So Weapons Explode Continued on Page A8 Three leading Democratic “super PACs” raised more money in Sep- tember than they have in any oth- er month this election, underscor- ing the growing willingness of wealthy Democrats to bankroll groups whose existence they had long opposed. PAGE A14 Democrats Put Aside Distaste for ‘Super PACs’ ELECTION 2012 Before a drone strike killed an Ameri- can-born cleric in Yemen, Danish and American intelligence officials concoct- ed a ruse to try to find him. PAGE A11 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 A Wild Ruse to Trap a Jihadist Berkeley, Calif., a bastion of populist politics that championed free speech and the antiwar movement, wants to ban sitting on the sidewalk. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A16-18 A Movement to Keep Moving “Country Bear Jamboree,” Walt Disney World’s 41- year-old attraction, is back without the changes some fans had feared, but Big Al and the other stars have restyled fur. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 New Fur, Same Act In the digital race for market share, Microsoft has instituted a privacy policy to improve customer services while stepping up competition with Google, and illustrating the confusion surround- ing Internet consumer privacy. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-8 Confusion in a Privacy Policy No matter which way the election goes in November, the Republican vice-presiden- tial nominee is seen as having a limitless fu- ture. For the G.O.P., this is the ushering in of the new face of the party. MAGAZINE THIS WEEKEND No Downside for Ryan Gail Collins PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 Large families have been slighted by New York’s efforts to provide housing for the poor, advocates say. PAGE A19 NEW YORK A19-21 Housing Woes for Big Families Major indexes,pressed by a growing list of blue-chip companies posting disap- pointing quarterly results,had their worst day in four months. PAGE B1 On Poor Earnings, Stocks Drop Big Tex, the 52- foot-tall mechani- cal cowboy who towered over the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in size-70 boots and a 75-gal- lon hat, was all but destroyed by fire. PAGE A16 Fire Leaves Big Boots to Fill The Pakistani girl shot by a Taliban gun- man may make a full recovery, doctors say, but is “still very ill.” PAGE A9 Hope for Injured Pakistani Girl The race for president is hardly over, but the race for choice posi- tions in the still-theoretical next administration is on. In keeping with Washington etiquette, the contenders publicly deny any am- bition for appointments. PAGE A12 If He’s Elected, I’d Serve President Obama reached out to women in the battleground state of Virginia, accusing Mitt Romney of developing “Romnesia” by con- veniently forgetting his most con- servative positions. PAGE A15 Obama Gives a Diagnosis Virginia authorities charged a vot- er registration supervisor hired by Republicans. PAGE A15 Vote Drive Scrutinized U(D54G1D)y+[!%!.!=!$ With a 5-0 victory, the Giants forced Game 6 against the Cardinals. PAGE D3 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6 Giants Prolong N.L.C.S. A2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 Inside The Times INTERNATIONAL Hamas Works to Suppress Other Militant Groups Hamas, the Islamic group that gov- erns Gaza and was once considered an extreme Palestinian movements itself, is working to suppress radical Islamic militant groups, according to militants, putting Hamas in the unusual position of sharing an inter- est with Israel. PAGE A4 Twitter Removes Postings Hours after Twitter blocked access to the account of an outlawed neo- Nazi group to users in Germany, the social networking site agreed to re- move anti-Semitic posts that were proliferating in France under the hashtag #unbonjuif, or “a good Jew,” a French Jewish group an- nounced. PAGE A9 G.I’s in Japan on Curfew The United States military imposed a curfew on all of its uniformed per- sonnel in Japan, as it tried to re- spond to public outrage over reports of the rape of a woman on Okinawa by American sailors. PAGE A10 South Africa’s Jobs Program Amid mounting criticism that he has failed to stem the tide of labor unrest roiling South Africa, President Ja- cob Zuma announced nearly $100 billion in infrastructure spending to create jobs, hoping to quell broad frustrations over rising inequality, persistent poverty and low wages. PAGE A10 NATIONAL Diabetes Study Ends Early With a Surprising Result A large federal study of whether diet and weight loss can prevent heart attacks and strokes in overweight and obese diabetics has ended ahead of schedule because the inten- sive program did not help. PAGE A17 Judge Denies Hearing A judge rejected a request for hear- ings from three men imprisoned by the United States military for nearly a decade in Afghanistan without trials. PAGE A19 Young Catholics Unite A program called the Alliance for Catholic Education, created at Notre Dame, puts young idealists in needy schools to fill an educational and a spiritual gap. PAGE A19 NEW YORK Arrested in the News, Exonerated in Silence A mistakenly charged Brooklyn man faces being identified publicly as a possible murderer, even though he was later cleared. Crime Scene. PAGE A19 Lower Manhattan Grows After the population loss that fol- lowed Sept. 11, the downtown area has undergone a renaissance and has become a magnet as a place to live and work. PAGE A21 BUSINESS Bank Secretary Accused Of Embezzling From Boss The secretary for William J. Salo- mon, the former head of Salomon Brothers, has been accused of steal- ing nearly $2 million from her 98- year-old boss. PAGE B1 Russian Global Oil Power Pending deals would bring more than half of Russia’s oil industry un- der government control and create a new player on the world stage. PAGE B3 Bank Aid in Doubt Chancellor Angela Merkel of Ger- many dampened expectations that Irish and Spanish banks hobbled by the financial crisis would receive di- rect aid from a newly established European bailout fund. PAGE B3 SPORTS Giants Need Pitching To Stage a Comeback The Giants won three elimination games in a row to escape their divi- sion series with Cincinnati, and now they need to do it again, against St. Louis. On Baseball. PAGE D3 Commissioner Steps Aside N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell recused himself from overseeing the appeals of suspended players in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. PAGE D6 ARTS Museum Defends Security After Theft of Art After the theft of seven artworks, the Kunsthal Rotterdam says re- ports of a rear door’s being opened for the thieves is nonsense. But the police clearly are looking into that possibility. PAGE C1 FRONT PAGE An article on Friday about an unauthorized iron fertilization experiment in the Pacific Ocean misstated the year in which a sanctioned experiment that was analyzed in a recent journal arti- cle had been carried out. It was 2004, not 2009. An article last Saturdayabout the handling of security at Ameri- can diplomatic stations mis- spelled the surname of the author of a history of the design and con- struction of embassies. She is Jane Loeffler, not Loefller. NATIONAL An article on Friday about the release of Boy Scouts of America files that detail decades of sexual abuse misstated the role played by a lawyer, Kelly Clark. Mr. Clark won a judgment against the Scouts in an abuse case in which the files were used as evidence; he did not lead the court fight to seek public access to the files. (That was led by another lawyer, Charles F. Hinkle.) An article on Friday about the unusual camaraderie between President Obama and Mitt Rom- ney at the Alfred E. Smith Memo- rial Foundation Dinner in New York on Thursday night de- scribed imprecisely the formal attire worn by both men. They wore tailcoats, not tuxedoes. NEW YORK An article in some editions on Tuesday about a lawyer, Kenneth P. Thompson, who is challenging the longtime Brooklyn district at- torney, Charles J. Hynes, next year, referred incorrectly to a purported endorsement. Assem- blyman Hakeem Jeffries said he has not made an endorsement in the race; it is not the case, as Mr. Thompson’s spokesman had said, that Mr. Jeffries backed Mr. Thompson. THE ARTS An article on last Saturday about an exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis Uni- versity of works by Dor Guez, an artist from Jerusalem whose work is critical of Israel, included a number of errors and misquota- tions. Visitors who left comments at a 2011 exhibition of Mr. Guez’s work in Tel Aviv wrote, “Trai- tor!” “Go show it in Gaza,” and “Go to your friends in Gaza” — not “You’re a terrorist” or “Go back to Gaza.” The artist did not say in a 2011 interview that his work sought to “deconstruct the Zionist master plan”; in an e-mail exchange, he wrote that the ex- istence of Muslim and Palestin- ian minorities in the Jewish state “formed an interference in the Zi- onist master plan.” Brandeis students who were quoted in the article commenting that Mr. Guez’s work shown at Brandeis seemed less overtly po- litical than art displayed in Israel were referring to exhibitions in Israel by various Palestinian art- ists, not to Mr. Guez’s shows there. While publicity materials about Mr. Guez’s Rose exhibition described his work as focusing on Christian Palestinians, they did not “label” him a Christian Pales- tinian. Contrary to the article’s asser- tion, the university’s news direc- tor says museum and university officials do not acknowledge that there is scant sympathy on cam- pus for the Palestinian cause. And Professor Gannit Ankori is a curator of the Guez exhibition, not a staff curator at the Rose. MAGAZINE An article this weekend on page 16 about how Mitt Romney might deal with unemployment if he is elected president misstates the year that Bobby Jindal, whose job-creation policies as governor of Louisiana were men- tioned as a possible model for Mr. Romney, was sworn into office. It was 2008, not 2009. T MAGAZINE An article this weekend on page 60 about the makeup artist Pat McGrath misstates her in- volvement with Dolce & Gabbana in the development of its Perfect Luminous Liquid Foundation and Glam Intense Liquid Eyeliner. She was not the sole creator of the products; she worked with designers to create them. 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THE NEW YORK TIMES 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018-1405 N A3 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS Muslims clashed with the police Friday for the third straight day on the semiautonomous island of Zanzibar, above, over the disap- pearance this week of Sheik Farid Hari,a leader of the Islamic Uamsho movement. Violence spread to the capital, Dar es Salaam. Religious Tensions Worsen in Tanzania By DAN BILEFSKY BUCHAREST, Romania — Per- haps the best that can be said of relations between the president and prime minister of Romania is that they are unambiguous: they can’t stand each other. That is less than surprising, given that one of the first major actions taken by Prime Minister Victor Ponta after he came to power in May was to push for a vote on whether to impeach the president, Traian Basescu. The attempt to oust Mr. Basescu failed in July, but the poisonous effects are still being felt. The acrimony has dashed the high hopes that accompanied the electoral victory of the 40-year- old Mr. Ponta, who promised to usher in generational change in a country that has struggled to overcome one of the harshest Communist legacies among the former Soviet bloc states. The two men are now locked in an uncomfortable cohabitation until elections in December, leav- ing this poor Balkan nation adrift. And even that vote, analysts say, may prove inconclusive. In an interview at the gargan- tuan and opulent 1,100-room Pal- ace of Parliament, built by the former Communist dictator Nico- lae Ceausescu as a monument to his authority and grandeur, Mr. Ponta acknowledged mistakes but fell short of expressing out- right regret. He could barely conceal his contempt for Mr. Basescu, a for- mer ship captain, whom he ac- cused of brazenly clinging to power despite having been re- jected by a majority of Roma- nians, calling the president politi- cally “illegitimate.” “My mentality as a new gener- ation of politician is to respect the institution even if I don’t respect the person,” he said. “He will nev- er give up. He is a former sea captain, and you won’t see a for- mer sea captain being humble or giving up.” Romania’s troubles have add- ed to concerns in the United States and Europe about the po- litical instability and threats to democratic institutions that are intensifying across the former Communist bloc. In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has come under criticism for flouting democracy with a series of measures that have brought the judiciary and the news media to heel. In the Czech Republic, the government has teetered on the edge of col- lapse with ministers involved in corruption scandals. Romania, in particular, lacked a history of stable, enlightened governance even before it en- dured World War II and then dec- ades of the Ceausescu dictator- ship, which ended with his vio- lent overthrow in 1989. Since then, Romanians have la- bored to build democratic struc- tures virtually from scratch, find- ing themselves in a far more challenging position than almost any of their post-Communist neighbors. Romania’s foibles have provoked debate about whether it and Bulgaria, which both entered the European Union in 2007, were invited too soon, be- fore their cultures of lawlessness, corruption and winner-take-all politics had been uprooted. The vociferousness of the do- mestic battle in Romania has overshadowed policy-making; rattled the currency, the leu; and undermined investor confidence in a country that is the second poorest in the European Union after Bulgaria. Mr. Ponta’s government has is- sued more than two dozen emer- gency decrees — moves that, while legal, have alarmed West- ern diplomats and many Roma- nians. The government dis- missed the speakers of both chambers of Parliament, which the opposition said was unconsti- tutional. And amid accusations that it was pressuring the Consti- tutional Court, the government ousted the ombudsman, who has the power to challenge emergen- cy legislation before the court. Some members of the progo- vernment media have accused foreign journalists of being anti- Romanian agents. The public re- mains largely disgusted with en- demic graft and corruption. Add- ing to the mistrust are accusa- tions that Mr. Ponta, a former prosecutor, plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis. (He says the accusations were politically moti- vated, but an academic panel at the University of Bucharest, where he was awarded the Ph.D. in 2003, upheld them. Yet, he has not been stripped of his title.) Romania’s mercurial president has also played a key role in fo- menting crisis. The move for impeachment was prompted by accusations from the government that Mr. Basescu had overreached his mandate by, among other things, refusing to appoint ministers chosen by the prime minister, pressuring prosecutors in legal cases and using the secret serv- ices against enemies. Mr. Basescu, who has denied the accusations, accused Mr. Ponta — already being criticized for abusing the system of parlia- mentary checks and balances — of orchestrating a “coup d’état.” Mr. Ponta said his main short- coming had been to not effective- ly communicate the reasons be- hind the impeachment vote. To repair the nation’s image, Mr. Ponta said, he was studiously avoiding confrontations with the president, and had recently re- moved himself from an acrimoni- ous meeting about foreign policy to avoid another public and dam- aging altercation. “Our European and American partners appreciate stability and predictability, and the lack of these two leads to overreaction and misunderstanding,” Mr. Pon- ta said, explaining the lessons he has learned since becoming prime minister. Mr. Basescu declined an in- terview request, in keeping with the conspicuously low profile he has maintained since the referen- dum on his impeachment, which was favored by an overwhelming majority in July, even though the turnout of 46 percent was below the 50 percent needed to make the vote valid. Western diplomats were so concerned in August that the country was teetering toward lawlessness that in August, Washington dispatched Philip H. Gordon, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eur- asian affairs, to Bucharest, where he met both men and warned that Romania must uphold the rule of law. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and José Manuel Bar- roso, the European Commission president, have also voiced con- cerns. Talks on Romania’s bid to join the European Union’s cov- eted visa-free zone, scheduled for September, were postponed. Romania has to “remove all doubts on its commitment to the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and the respect for constitutional rulings,” Mr. Bar- roso warned Mr. Ponta last month in Brussels. Monica Macovei, a former min- ister of justice and close ally of Mr. Basescu, argued in an in- terview that the breaches of the rule of law in the run-up to the impeachment referendum were worse than anything since the Ceausescu era, referring to the government’s measures to con- solidate its power. But she insisted that Roma- nia’s membership in the Euro- pean Union had been instrumen- tal in overcoming the political showdown. The European Union closely monitors Romania’s jus- tice system and also gives Bucha- rest much-needed financing. That gives Brussels significant leverage over the country. “We joined the E.U. to follow the rules, not to destroy them,” she said. There is little indication, how- ever, that the political tumult will end soon. Mr. Ponta’s leftist coali- tion is expected to do well in the December elections, analysts say, but may fall short of winning a majority. Voters appear even more disenchanted with Mr. Basescu and his rightist party, which they associate with pun- ishing austerity measures. More than anything, the re- lentless sparring and stalemate have engendered deep disap- pointment among Romanians in the promise of their young de- mocracy and disillusionment with their political leadership. “Our politicians behave like children fighting over a toy,” said Monica Cristea, 43, a manicurist from Poenari, a village near Bu- charest. “They have destroyed our international reputation,” Ms. Cristea said. “I am outraged. I don’t like any of them. I don’t trust them.” CRISTIAN MOVILA FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Soon after taking office, the Romanian prime minister, Victor Ponta, above, sought to have the president, Traian Basescu, im- peached. The attempt failed, but the enmity continues, contributing to instability and undermining investor confidence. Symbol of Romanian Leadership? Hands on a Throat A host of emergency decrees alarmed Romanians and Western diplomats. A4 N SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By DAMIEN CAVE MEXICO CITY — Like a tropical storm, rumors about the failing health of Fidel Castro strengthened, swirled, dissipated and left everyone guessing again on Friday, as a doctor in Florida — and a Twitter account falsely linked to the Cuban foreign minister — claimed that Cuba’s retired leader was on his deathbed or dead. It was at least the fifth time (or was it 50th?) that Mr. Castro had been sent to the grave by uncorroborated accounts since he left government after a myste- rious ailment in 2006. And as with past claims, the reality of the situation was impossible to immediately determine. Members of Mr. Castro’s family and the Cuban government, which consid- ers Mr. Castro’s health a matter of na- tional security, have denied the rumors. Officials with the Cuban foreign min- istry, in a rare step, even used Twitter on Friday to denounce an account claiming to be administered by the for- eign minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, after it sent out a death announcement for Mr. Castro. The Twitter account was created only Thursday and, despite its official-seem- ing pronouncements, did not match the Foreign Ministry’s Twitter handle. Similarly, the comments of a Venezu- elan doctor in Naples, Fla., about the state of Mr. Castro’s health raised eye- brows because of the source: Dr. Jose Marquina, a sleep specialist who claimed in April that Hugo Chávez, Ven- ezuela’s cancer-stricken president, was in his “last days.” (Mr. Chávez is not only alive, but he just won a heated presidential race this month). Dr. Marquina seems to have set off the latest round of speculation by telling a Spanish newspaper and The Miami Herald this week that Mr. Castro had had a stroke and was in a vegetative state. He offered no proof, and when asked outside his Florida home on Fri- day to explain the basis for his as- sertions, he said:“No, no, no, no, no. I’m not doing interviews.” Previously, Dr. Marquina has said he had a number of sources in Venezuela and Cuba who keep him informed about the health of both leaders, Latin Ameri- ca’s two most voluble leftists. Mr. Chá- vez has been out of the public eye for several days, without explanation. The speculation among some theorists: He is in Havana saying his final goodbyes to his close friend and mentor, Mr. Cas- tro. Cuban state media published a letter on Thursday that was said to be written by Mr. Castro, in which he congratulat- ed medical school graduates. But for those who watch Cuba closely, Mr. Cas- tro’s long illness;his age, 86;and the lack of visual proof that he is still alive have become too much to ignore. Ann Louise Bardach, the author of several books on Cuba, including “With- out Fidel,” said this round of rumors amounts to what could be the first “au- thentic red alert.” “Here is what we know: We know there has been no photograph since March,” she said. “Every other time when they say he is dead or dying they show you a photo or video of someone visiting him.” On Twitter, skeptics and believers seemed to emerge in equal number. A search for “Fidel” yielded a never-end- ing stream of commentary on Friday. Another Day, Another Claim That Castro Is Really Dead Rumors, denials and silence follow the health of Cuba’s retired leader. By FARES AKRAM and ISABEL KERSHNER GAZA — Hamas, the Islamic group that governs Gaza and was once consid- ered one of the most extreme Palestin- ian movements itself, is working to sup- press the more radical Islamic militant groups that have emerged here, ac- cording to militants, putting Hamas in the unusual position of sharing an in- terest with Israel. The jihadist extremists, known as Salafists and inspired by the ideology of Al Qaeda, are challenging Hamas’s in- formal and fragile cease-fire with Israel. Salafist militants say Hamas has been making arrests in recent days and confiscating weapons from one of the groups, Jaish al-Umma, or Army of the Nation. While some Salafists seek to further their uncompromising form of Islam by peaceful means, others here have turned in recent years to violence. Both Hamas and Israel view the Sala- fist militant groups with increasing con- cern. Israeli officials point to the contin- ued flow of arms into Gaza and to links forged between the groups in Gaza and those across the southern border, in the rough and mountainous desert terrain of the Sinai Peninsula. “Hamas is tightening the grip on our necks and storms our houses,” a Salafist said in an interview this week at his house in a refugee camp in central Gaza. Speaking on the condition of ano- nymity to avoid the attention of the Ha- mas authorities, he added, “We are chased down by Israel, Hamas and Egypt.” The activist used to belong to another radical group called Jund Ansar Allah, or Soldiers of the Supporters of God, which was crushed by Hamas in 2009. Now, he spends most of his time re- searching Islamic law and consulting with other Salafists who come to his home, which has a library of about 100 books on Islamic subjects. A Salafist leader who also spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal by Ha- mas said in an interview, “The jihadists as groups are over now.” He said Ha- mas had been going after the groups one by one. Hamas government officials refused to comment on measures against the Salafist militants. But Yahiya Moussa, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Par- liament, said that while the Salafist groups had the right to carry out resist- ance against Israel, it must be “within the unified and national program,” meaning in line with Hamas policy. A senior Israeli defense official, Yossi Kuperwasser,said that in Gaza, Israel was facing a “hostile governing element challenged by an even more hostile ele- ment” and that “radical Islamic groups are competing with each other over who is more radical.” In a briefing with re- porters in Jerusalem this week, Mr. Kuperwasser, the director of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs,also said the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, an- other significant force positioned some- where between Hamas and the Sala- fists, was becoming stronger and better armed. Twice this month, Israel has launched deadly missile strikes against militants in Gaza whom it identified as operatives in the global jihad move- ment, saying they were involved in fir- ing rockets and planning other attacks against Israel. One of the strikes killed Hisham al- Saidini,a senior militant who led the Al Tawhid and Jihad group.The Israeli military said Mr. Saidini had been plan- ning a complex attack against Israel along the Sinai border by Gaza-based militants in collaboration with Salafist operatives in Sinai. Hamas has been tightening security along Gaza’s border with Egypt in an ef- fort to prevent logistical cooperation be- tween the groups on both sides, carry- ing out more identity checks of people in the area, according to Palestinians who work in the smuggling tunnels that run beneath the border. While some point to the success of Hamas in containing the Salafist groups, others note that the effort is complicated by the fact that most of the jihadists emerged from the ranks of Ha- mas. They left after the group decided to participate in Palestinian parliamen- tary elections in 2006 and beat its sec- ular rival, the Fatah movement. Salafists said Hamas’s decision to participate in the elections derailed it from its Islamic course. A year later, af- ter bouts of bloody factional fighting, Hamas seized full control of Gaza, rout- ing the Fatah forces there. Salafists have been active in Gaza for decades, engaged in charitable activi- ties and Islamic education, and depend- ent on donations from supporters abroad, mainly in Persian Gulf states. But after the elections in 2006, mil- itant jihadists began attacks against Is- rael and also against Internet cafes, res- taurants and women’s hair salons in Gaza, places they saw as being at odds with their deeply conservative interpre- tation of Islam. A turning point came in August 2009, when the radical group Jund Ansar Al- lah declared an Islamic emirate in the southern part of Gaza. About 100 of the group’s men holed up in a mosque in the southern city of Rafah and engaged in a standoff with Hamas security officers that ended in a shootout. In all, 28 Pales- tinians were killed in the fighting, most of them Salafists, including the group’s leader, Abdel Latif Moussa. Nathan Thrall,a Middle East analyst at the Brussels-based International Cri- sis Group,noted that since the crack- down in 2009, the number of attacks against cafes and entertainment sites in Gaza had decreased dramatically. “Hamas has been overwhelmingly successful in containing Gaza’s Salafi- jihadi groups,” Mr. Thrall wrote by e-mail. Adnan Abu Amer, a political analyst in Gaza, said the Salafists, especially those engaged in violence, had only a “modest structure” in Gaza that lacks popular support, making it easier for Hamas to curb them. Israeli officials also point to a degree of ambivalence in Hamas’s dealings with the jihadist groups. “Till now, Hamas has not reached a strategic decision to put an end to this phenomenon,” said Mr. Kuperwasser, the defense official. He noted that Ha- mas had released Mr. Saidini, the mil- itant recently killed in an Israeli strike, from prison in August. Mr. Kuperwasser said Hamas’s re- luctance to decisively confront the ji- hadist groups may stem from a fear of their strength, as well as the possibility that some Hamas security members would balk at taking tough action against former colleagues. “They do take some steps on the ground,” Mr. Kuperwasser said of Ha- mas, “but never full-heartedly.” MAHMUD HAMS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Palestinians paid their final respects to the Salafist leader Hisham al-Saidini, who was killed in Gaza by one of two Israeli missile strikes this month. Hamas Finds Itself Aligned With Israel Over Extremist Groups HATEM MOUSSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS Guarding the smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt in Rafah. Ha- mas has worked to prevent logistical cooperation between militant groups. Fares Akram reported from Gaza, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem. By KEITH BRADSHER BEIJING — Advocates for far-reach- ing economic policy changes in China have long pinned their hopes on Wang Qishan, a cagey former banker with a reputation for forcing difficult decisions through recalcitrant bureaucracies. When Zhu Rongji was prime minister of China from 1998 to 2003, dismantling thousands of state-owned enterprises while opening the path for a boom in private enterprise, Mr. Wang was the protégé at his side. When the SARS vi- rus began running unchecked through the city of Beijing in the spring of 2003, Mr. Wang was named acting mayor and quickly brought the disease under con- trol. And when President Hu Jintao need- ed a vice prime minister in 2008 to man- age day-to-day financial and economic policies and oversee economic relations with the United States, he turned to Mr. Wang. But a number of Communist Party in- siders say that with the approach of the 18th Party Congress, scheduled to begin on Nov. 8 and the forum for China to usher in a new leadership team for the first time in a decade, Mr. Wang’s chances of being named to a top job with broad authority over the economy appear to be dwindling by the day. While the responsibilities of China’s new leadership team have not yet been finalized — and are not expected to be announced until the end of the Party Congress — the emerging consensus is that Mr. Wang is likely to be promoted to a position on the Standing Committee of the Politburo, China’s top decision- making body, but not to have day-to-day control of the bureaucracy that over- sees China’s still largely state-driven economy. Insiders say they now expect that economic policy will be left mostly in the hands of Li Keqiang, who is set to replace Wen Jiabao as prime minister next year. Mr. Li, 57, is a highly educat- ed official with an almost professorial style who is said to read voluminous economic policy reports in often minute detail. But he has considerably less experi- ence than Mr. Wang, 64, in handling cri- ses or pushing through tough decisions that offend vested interests, said a long- time associate of both men. Mr. Li “might not have the leverage to get things done,” he said. A broad consensus exists at senior levels of the Chinese government in fa- vor of shifting the economy toward a more sustainable trajectory. That tra- jectory could rely more on domestic de- mand than exports, more on consump- tion than investment spending, more on small and medium-size private compa- nies than state-owned enterprises and more on creditworthiness than political connections to allocate loans from the state-owned banking system. But practically every specific policy change required to carry out that broad objective is blocked by a different in- terest group, often including the “princelings” — children of current and former senior Chinese officials. Indeed, Mr. Wen, the departing prime minister, has spent a lot of time talking about the need for economic changes, but has had little success in pushing dif- ficult decisions through the bureaucra- cies of the Communist Party and the government. Mr. Wang had been considered until recent days to be a strong candidate to become executive vice prime minister, an influential position with the main re- sponsibility for putting in place policies on practically all nonmilitary issues. But while that cannot be entirely ruled out, opinion in elite circles seems to be moving quickly against him, said an- other admirer of Mr. Wang with high- level access in the Communist Party. Party insiders with access to min- isters and more senior officials said that Mr. Wang now appeared most likely to be made the chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Confer- ence — a figurehead position at the head of a national advisory body. He also has an outside chance of becoming the chairman of the National People’s Congress, which has important respon- sibilities for legal changes but a lesser role on economic policy. Either position would confer mem- bership in the Standing Committee of the Communist Party’s Politburo, the nine-member panel that rules China and might shrink to seven members af- ter the Party Congress. Indeed, both chairmanships are considered senior As China Weighs Shifting Economic Policy, a Rivalry for Its Stewardship CHANGING OF THE GUARD A Top Contender Fades YVES HERMAN/REUTERS Li Keqiang is expected to become prime minister of China next year. Continued on Page A10 N A5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 A6 N INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By STEVEN ERLANGER T HIRÉ , France W ILLIAM CHRISTIE, among his many ac- complishments, has managed to merge his vocation and his avocation. Having found- ed one of the world’s best Ba- roque orchestras, he has brought its music to his extraordinary garden here, which he has de- signed, shaped and cultivated over the last 30 years. The garden mixes whimsy and formality and has been listed by the French government as a his- torical monument. It was the first time a garden has been officially listed during its creator’s lifetime since Monet’s Giverny. The garden has been a private retreat, Mr. Christie said, a “se- cret garden” for himself and a few friends, where he found sol- ace, contentment and privacy in a life filled with travel, rehearsals and performances. He spends half of his life on the road, direct- ing and playing with the orches- tra he founded in 1979, Les Arts Florissants, giving master class- es at the Juilliard School and oth- er institutions and, as he travels, coming up with ideas for his 37- acre garden, which is never quite finished. The latest, he said, is a design for a chicken run. The garden contains different styles and settings — a formal Baroque courtyard, for example, and a topiary theater shaped like a pagoda, designed as living stages for performances. But only this year did he establish a music festival here, where for several days last month he and the orchestra, joined by singers and recent graduates of Juilliard, played selections from Handel, Charpentier, Corelli, Couperin and others. “It’s an important part of my life, to construct something where I can feel comfortable and protected, and away from some- thing else, which is what gardens historically were for,” Mr. Chris- tie said. “The idea of creating a whole world of one’s own, that’s very important. So I’ve always been ambivalent” about opening it to strangers, he said. “This garden has a Baroque exuberance, or ex- travagance, and I’ve been hold- ing on to this for a long time, so that when it started to get pre- sentable I decided I would do something more open to the pub- lic.” The revelation of any private place is wrenching for any pri- vate person, he said, but it has also been a gesture to some of his closest collaborators. “Very old friends have suddenly discovered a facet, an aspect of my music, of my life,” he said. M R. CHRISTIE, 67, came to France in 1970 to escape the Vietnam War and a period of American history he says he found unbearable. Born in Buffalo, he signed up for the Army Reserve to stay in gradu- ate school at Yale and spent a summer training at Fort Benning in Georgia, which horrified him. “Seeing beaches full of ladies in white gloves applauding mock at- tacks on mocked-up Vietnamese villages and someone calling out the body count and people ap- plauding, it was pretty gro- tesque,” he said. He taught music at Dartmouth, and his contract was not re- newed. At the height of the Viet- nam War, and after the killings of student protesters at Kent State, “I was fed up,” he said. Then serendipity struck. In Vermont, he met a man named John Evarts, who had been a sen- ior Unesco official involved with music. “He was bigger than life, an American Brahmin,” he said, a descendant of William Evarts, a secretary of state, attorney gen- eral and senator in the years af- ter the Civil War. “You’ve got to get out of this place,” he said Mr. Evarts told him, because Dart- mouth was no place to begin a music career. He introduced Mr. Christie to the orchestra of the BBC. Equipped with a music degree from Yale and an untested talent, Mr. Christie, a harpsichordist, got a contract with the BBC and then built a new life in France. Here he has become a famous figure who has restored to the French their Baroque repertory and has been repeatedly honored by the gov- ernment for his work. The garden is considered a clue to the private Mr. Christie. “Bill has been making this gar- den for 30 years,” said John Hoy- land, a garden consultant who has Glyndebourne, in England, as one of his clients. “This is a man who knows what he wants and has a vision. Who would dream of planting yew and turn- ing it into a Chinese pagoda?” The garden is a palette of greens, with relatively few flow- ers, Mr. Hoyland said, built on four basic plants: yew, horn- beam, box and lime trees. “But the range of greens and their vi- brancy, and the way the wind moves through it, and the light, it’s just magnificent,” he said. “It’s a garden that calls me back.” “The French had turned their back on their own musical tradi- tion, and their gardening tradi- tion, too,” Mr. Hoyland said. “Bill has shown the French their own heritage.” B UT relations with the neigh- bors have not always been easy for such a flamboyant foreigner, who is both appreciat- ed and resented. Mr. Christie de- scribed a meeting of the Thiré council to discuss some houses he had bought. One was to be a rehearsal space, and a council member said, “That means you’re going to make noise.” He wanted to say that he would make less noise than her yapping dogs, but restrained himself. “I thought I’d be cute and amusing and said, ‘Well, I get paid for the noise I make, and sometimes rather well!’” he said. “But that went down very badly.” He said he felt it was important to open his sanctuary to his neighbors, and he also played concerts in the Thiré church. But his beautiful house, which dates from the 17th century and was an abandoned wreck when he dis- covered it in 1985, is off-limits ex- cept to friends. One of Mr. Christie’s friends and sponsors, Dena Kaye, said that “to fill his garden with his music is a very great thing; this is monumental for him.” Ms. Kaye, the daughter of the actor Danny Kaye, runs a foundation named after her parents, and she and her husband stayed in the house for the festival. She is working with Mr. Chris- tie on plans for a French-Ameri- can nonprofit foundation to con- tinue the work of his orchestra and to preserve the garden and the festival. “I’m 67, going on 68, and I can see where I’m going now,” Mr. Christie said. “I’m talking about the garden but also the Arts Flo- rissants, and that’s far more im- portant.” He fears that the French government, in these budget-crunching days, can no longer provide as much support to culture, and he feels a bit in a hurry. “I haven’t had my say yet,” he said, staring out over the garden toward the grotto, on the hill be- yond the river, as a fountain splashed and birds called to one another in the trees. “There’s an immense amount of music I want to do, to share and play with oth- ers.” He used the French word “pérennité,” or sustainability. “How do we keep things going?” he said. “And this has to do with this garden, the epicenter of my life.” It is inspiring to open his gar- den to visitors, he said, but it is also a great relief when they leave. “You look forward to the moment when, ah, you can walk out into the garden at any mo- ment of the day or the early evening,” he said. “And there you are, all by yourself.” “Very old friends have suddenly discovered a facet, an aspect of my music, of my life.” WILLIAM CHRISTIE AGNES DHERBEYS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES THE SATURDAY PROFILE Opening the Gate to a World All His Own STEPHANE AUDRAN/LES ARTS FLORISSANTS Mr. Christie, the founder of an acclaimed Baroque orchestra, opened his garden in Thiré, France, for a music festival. By ALAN COWELL The British police said Friday that the allegations of sexual abuse leveled against one of Brit- ain’s best-known television per- sonalities were “unprecedented,” with more than 400 leads and at least 200 potential victims, more than three times the tally only days ago. The disclosure represents a significant widening of the scan- dal, as victims and accusers over- come decades of reticence to step forward and denounce the for- mer BBC host, Jimmy Savile, who was knighted by Queen Eliz- abeth II and had often been de- picted as a national treasure. “The public’s response to this issue has been astounding,” Pe- ter Spindler, a commander with Scotland Yard, said in a state- ment. “We are dealing with al- leged abuse on an unprecedented scale. The profile of this opera- tion has empowered a staggering number of victims to come for- ward to report the sexual ex- ploitation which occurred during their childhood.” The accusations against Mr. Savile, who died last year at the age of 84, have stunned many Britons, shattering the public im- age of a television personality who for decades attracted a young audience through his role as host of two popular BBC pro- grams, “Top of the Pops,” a chart- countdown show, and “Jim’ll Fix It,” in which Mr. Savile promised to grant viewers’ wishes. The accusations first came to light in a documentary broadcast this month on the rival commer- cial channel ITV. With his hallmark peroxide- blond hair and long cigars, Mr. Savile was widely known as a showman whose celebrity en- abled him to sponsor many char- ities. The complaints of abuse of under-age girls in hospitals that Mr. Savile visited as a volunteer, in children’s homes and on the premises of the BBC, Britain’s public broadcaster, have also raised searing questions about why the station did not move ear- lier against Mr. Savile, whose be- havior was the topic of much- discussed rumors among BBC employees. One question is why the BBC’s often pugnacious current-affairs program “Newsnight” decided to drop a planned segment about Mr. Savile’s behavior, chronicled by women prepared to say pub- licly that he had abused them. The reason, officials have said, is that the editor in charge of the segment did not believe that the available evidence was sufficient. Three separate inquiries are investigating the BBC’s decision not to air the “Newsnight” seg- ment and the broadcaster’s fail- ure to investigate Mr. Savile, threatening the prestige of one of Britain’s most venerable and trusted institutions at a time when the tabloid press is under separate scrutiny for its behavior in a phone hacking inquiry. Earlier this week, Scotland Yard put the number of likely abuse victims at 60. But in its statement on Friday, Scotland Yard said, “After two weeks of gathering information from both the public and a num- ber of organizations, in excess of 400 lines of inquiry have been as- sessed and over 200 potential vic- tims have been identified.” The police also said officers were prepared to work in parallel with the BBC’s own inquiries in a way that ensured that “any fu- ture potential criminal action is not jeopardized.” “As we have said from the out- set, our work was never going to take us into a police investigation into Jimmy Savile,” the police said of their inquiry, which is code-named Yewtree. “What we have established in the last two weeks is that there are lines of in- quiry involving living people that require formal investigation.” Commander Spindler indicated that more people might come for- ward. “I am pleased that victims feel confident enough to speak out about the abuse they suffered and would like to reassure the public that we take all these cases very seriously and they will be investigated with the ut- most sensitivity,” he said. Abuse Allegations Against BBC Host Multiply in Britain N A7 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 A8 N INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 nary rounds on the black mar- kets through which rebels ac- quire weapons, the commanders said. Some booby-trapped ammuni- tion may also have entered Syria from Iraq, where during the most recent war the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency se- cretly passed doctored ammuni- tion to insurgent groups, several American veterans and officials said. The United States runs a simi- lar program in Afghanistan, try- ing to undermine the Taliban. The United States has provided humanitarian and communica- tions aid to the Syrian rebels, but has refused to supply weapons of any kind. The practice of manufacturing and surreptitiously distributing tampered military equipment that explodes at unexpected times has a long history, but it is not often publicly documented as it happens. The British and Ger- man militaries used the tactic in World War II, and the United States developed exploding Kalashnikov ammunition in the 1960s and leaked it to South Viet- namese guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers. One classified American ord- nance intelligence document, viewed by The New York Times, suggests that the Soviet Union pursued a similar program in Af- ghanistan in the 1980s. Governments labor to keep their doctored-weapons pro- grams secret, in part because they are potentially indiscrimi- nate and often provide enemy forces with working ammunition, with which the rigged ammuni- tion has been mixed. The tactic can also jeopardize friendly forces, causing casualties or de- stroying weapons among govern- ment troops or proxies — raising political sensitivities and eroding morale. Nicholas Marsh, a research fel- low at the Peace Research Insti- tute Oslo who covers arms and arms trafficking, said that for these reasons, while there are many precedents, the tactic is not widespread. “The problem with them is the same as with land mines,” Mr. Marsh said. “You can’t be sure who is going to pick up and try to use the spiked ammunition.” In many cases in Syria, the spiked ammunition found its in- tended target: fighters seeking to overthrow President Bashar al- Assad. The wounding of Muham- mad Saleh Hajji Musa, 36, in the highlands of Jebel al-Zawiya, pro- vided an example. Mr. Musa was part of a group that had surrounded a govern- ment checkpoint late this spring and was pressing its attack. As he fired his rifle, he said, there was an explosion between his hands. It knocked him over. “I thought a shell had landed on me,” he said. Mr. Musa’s face was badly cut, and his right hand was mangled. He spent months convalescing, but he is now fight- ing again. His hand remains twisted and scarred. American military and Special Operations veterans who had been involved in the distribution of such ammunition in Afghani- stan and Iraq described a variety of steps taken to contain the spread of the most dangerous doctored ammunition to civilians. In the Pentagon’s programs, they said, some rounds are packed with relatively small amounts of high explosives, enough to jam a firearm perma- nently. These are used in cases involving ammunition that runs the risk of reaching unintended targets, as when an ammunition crate including the doctored car- tridges is shoved off a transport truck to make it appear as if it has been lost. Other rounds carry a lethal high-explosive charge. These are used when the ammunition is ex- pected to remain in narrow pos- session, as when exploding car- tridges are inserted into the mag- azines of dead enemy fighters on the assumption that their fellow fighters will find those magazines and use them later. The legality of such tactics is uncertain. The Pentagon declined to comment on its doctored-am- munition programs in Afghani- stan and Iraq. “Unfortunately, we won’t be able to provide any in- formation to you about this,” Lt. Col. James Gregory, a Pentagon spokesman, wrote by e-mail. The officials and veterans who spoke about the tactic did so anonymously because the prac- tice remained classified. It is not known whether the Syrian government has distribut- ed explosive rounds of varying power. But analysts and fighters alike agreed that as time passes, such programs often become less effective because insurgent forces become wise to the decep- tion. This appears to be happen- ing in Syria. At the time he was wounded, Mr. Musa said, rigged cartridges were not recognized by fighters. Now rebels are familiar with the markings on many doctored car- tridges, he said, and are able cull them. This was made evident by rebel leaders in Kafr Takharim,in the north. When asked about the doctored ammunition, they pro- vided a suspect 7.62x39-millime- ter cartridge, the standard am- munition for Kalashnikov assault rifles. Its head stamp suggested original manufacture in 2006. The cartridge’s provenance was not clear. Arms analysts who reviewed a photograph for The Times said the stamp was not commonly seen on ammunition circulating through conflicts. One said it appeared to be Iranian. Another, Nic R. Jenzen-Jones of Australia, said it was probably Syrian. The propellant inside the car- tridge had been replaced by a cinnamon-colored substitute with white granules. Bob Gravett, a private explosive-ordnance dis- posal consultant who has docu- mented exploding cartridges in previous wars, said the powder resembled granular TNT, per- haps spiked with sugar to in- crease its flammability. Rebel commanders said that Syrian Army officers who had de- fected and informants inside the government had told the rebels that Syria’s military was manu- facturing the rigged cartridges and had begun distributing them about nine months ago. “They have people who spe- cialize in such things,” said Abu Azab, who commands a fighting group in the mountains. Fighters also said that black markets had been salted with rocket-propelled grenades that were duds, that had the propel- lant in their booster motors re- moved and replaced with an inert substance, or that had exploded when launched. Moreover, they said some mor- tar rounds killed mortar crews in a violent roar and flash when dropped into the tube — another possible form of booby trap. That tactic has been a staple of American efforts to kill or dis- suade insurgent mortar teams in Afghanistan and Iraq, said three American veterans with experi- ence with such rounds, and it helped stop incoming fire on American outposts. Abu Azab, the commander in Jebel al-Zawiya, suggested that the Syrian government’s booby- trapped ordnance program, while it might evolve, was less effective than it had been. “We stopped buying that stuff from the markets, and we get what we need now by capturing it,” he said, but added, “We do still have some ammunition that we bought a long time ago.” Syrian Government Booby-Traps Ammunition to Turn Rebels’ Guns Against Them From Page A1 BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A booby-trapped round mangled the right hand of Muhammad Saleh Hajji Musa, a Syrian rebel, when it exploded in his rifle. A way to undermine the insurgents’ confidence in their own arsenal. months ago. The attack struck a heavy blow to a security service that had as- serted Lebanon’s fragile sover- eignty by claiming to catch Syria red-handed in a plan to destabil- ize its neighbor, which Syria has long dominated. It threatened to inflame sectarian tensions by eliminating General Hassan, a Sunni Muslim known for his close ties to fellow Sunni politicians who support the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al-As- sad. General Hassan was viewed by Syrian opposition activists as an ally and protector. Imad Salamey, a political sci- ence professor at Lebanese American University, blamed Mr. Assad’s government and said that the attack seemed intended to show that Syria has the ability to destabilize Lebanon and threaten to embroil the region in chaos. The Syrian government issued a statement condemning the bombing, quoting the information minister, Omran al-Zoubi, as say- ing, “These sort of terrorist, cow- ardly attacks are unjustifiable wherever they occur.” The attack harked back to the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a longtime foe of Mr. Assad’s, in a car bomb- ing in 2005. Syria was widely blamed, and protests in the af- termath of that killing forced Syr- ia to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a major blow to its re- gional influence. But a series of bombings targeting politicians, journalists and security officials followed, shaking Lebanon and sending the message that Syria’s power still reached deep into its neighbor. The size and location of the bomb on Friday awakened a gen- eral feeling of dread that the Syri- an conflict, which has already de- pressed Lebanon’s economy and sent thousands of Syrian refu- gees into the country, was com- ing home to Lebanese civilians, and could set off tit-for-tat kill- ings and reprisals that could spi- ral out of control. The blast seemed to accelerate a pattern already established, as the Syrian civil war increasingly draws in the region, crossing the borders of its many neighbors. Recently, a mortar blast from Syria killed civilians in southern Turkey, prompting the Turkish military to respond with artillery strikes into Syria for several days. Jordan has struggled to ab- sorb as many as 180,000 refugees. Shells have exploded in the dis- puted Golan Heights region occu- pied by Israel. Iran has been ac- cused of sending weapons and advisers into Syria to help Mr. Assad. Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon have been killed in Syr- ia and sent home for burial. Saudi Arabia and Turkey have provided weapons and cash to the rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad, and rebels have taken control of bor- der crossings between Syria and Iraq. In Beirut, there were efforts to tamp down animosities, and keep the peace. Not far behind the am- bulances, politicians arrived at the scene of the blast. They urged Lebanese citizens to resist being drawn into the conflict — but also pointed fingers at Syria and its Lebanese allies in sharp lan- guage that seemed as likely to in- duce anger as to warn against it. “For the first time, we feel that it is the regular Lebanese citizen who is being targeted in this ex- plosion and, maybe, this is the be- ginning of what Syrian authori- ties have promised us in the past,” said Nadim Gemayel, a member of Parliament from the Christian Phalange movement that is part of Lebanon’s opposi- tion March 14 bloc. “The Syrian regime had talked about burning everything in their path.” As news spread of the bomb- ing, the streets of Beirut’s largely Christian Ashrafiyeh district were initially calm. People walked dogs and escorted chil- dren home from school. But they also gathered in small groups warily discussing the bombing and clutched cellphones to share news. Outside a damaged gro- cery stood Sandra Abrass, a film- maker and former Red Cross worker, frustrated that she was not allowed to help on the scene because her skimpy yellow flats were no protection against bro- ken glass, and said she was in pain first for the wounded and then for Lebanon. “You don’t feel safe any more,” she said. After growing up during the 1975-1991 civil war, she said, she was no longer used to the idea that bombs could go off at any moment, and feared that there would be more bombings and reprisals. “They cannot let us live happi- ly,” she said. General Hassan came to prom- inence as a security chief for the assassinated former prime min- ister, Mr. Hariri. Early on, he was a suspect in that killing, but later helped build a circumstantial case, based on phone records, that a team from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese Shiite organ- ization aligned with Syria, had coordinated the Hariri attack and was at the scene of the murder. Hezbollah, which has since be- come an important member of Lebanon’s government, claims the records were fabricated. Another security official, Wis- sam al-Eid, who helped compile the phone records, was killed in a car bombing in 2008, part of a se- ries of assassinations of political figures, journalists and investiga- tors. More recently, in August, Gen- eral Hassan shocked Lebanon by arresting a prominent pro-Syrian politician, Michel Samaha, on charges of importing explosives in a bid to set off bombs and wreak sectarian havoc as part of a Syrian-led plot. It was a sur- prising move in a country where state institutions have rarely had the power to take on political fig- ures, especially those backed by foreign powers or Lebanese mili- tias. In a brief interview on Friday, the chief of the Internal Security Forces, Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi, said, “Wissam al-Hassan was tar- geted because of Samaha’s case.” The Internal Security Forces have often been seen as allied with Sunni anti-Syrian factions. But Mr. Salem of Carnegie said that General Hassan did not pur- sue only his friends’ political ene- mies; he was also credited with disrupting numerous networks of Israeli spies. Mr. Salem said that General Hassan and his investigators were “one of the bright spots that saw the Syrian influence appar- ently ebb,” demonstrating that “the Lebanese state was begin- ning to develop capacities, they could arrest Samaha, they were doing things that a sovereign state does.” While some anti-Syrian poli- ticians suggested that the bomb- ing was intended to distract from allegations that Hezbollah is fighting on the Syrian govern- ment’s side, they stopped short of accusing the party of involve- ment in the bombing. Several an- alysts said Hezbollah was un- likely to carry out such an attack, which would threaten its political standing inside Lebanon. In the bombed neighborhood in Ashrafiyeh district on Friday, Civil Defense officers picked pieces of flesh off a security fence and put them into plastic super- market bags. In an upstairs apartment near- by, Lily Nameh, 73, said she had been taking a nap with her hus- band, Ghaleb. “I thought it was an earthquake,” she said. “Sud- denly everything was falling on us.” Her husband said, “It felt like a plane landed on the building.” On Friday nights, areas of cen- tral Beirut are usually crowded with cars and pedestrians head- ing out to party. But after the bombing, the usual Friday night traffic jams never materialized, and watering holes that usually send excess crowds onto the side- walks in neighborhoods known for night life sat quiet and forlorn. Beirut Blast Is Viewed As Extension Of Syria War From Page A1 Reporting was contributed by Hwaida Saad, Hania Mourtada and Josh Wood from Beirut, and Christine Hauser and Rick Glad- stone from New York. HUSSEIN MALLA/ASSOCIATED PRESS A rescue worker with an injured boy at the scene of a bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday. At left, apartment buildings after the explosion, which killed at least eight people and wounded 80. BILAL HUSSEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Events that recalled more violent times in a still-recovering capital city. N A9 INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 guage of Pakistan. He said that one question she asked her doc- tors after recovering conscious- ness on Tuesday was what coun- try she was in. Dr. Rosser said the hospital would try to link her by telephone with her father, so she could hear his voice. He has remained in Pa- By JOHN F. BURNS and CHRISTINE HAUSER LONDON — The Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pa- kistan is out of a medically in- duced coma and has recovered enough to stand with assistance and communicate by writing, a doctor at the British hospital where she is being treated said Friday. A hospital bulletin issued a few hours later, apparently aimed at discouraging premature opti- mism in a case that has drawn a wave of sympathy around the world, said that the girl, Malala Yousafzai, 15, was “still very ill,” and that a full evaluation of her brain injury had not been pos- sible because her brain was still swollen. The statement added: “This is still a fluid situation, and she sus- tained very grave injury. She’s not out of the woods yet, but we are hopeful she will make a good recovery.” In an earlier statement to re- porters, Dr. David Rosser, med- ical director of the Queen Eliza- beth Hospital in Birmingham, said that Ms. Yousafzai had the “potential” for a full recovery. But he said the “key source of concern” for the medical team looking after her was an infection in the path traveled by the bullet. Dr. Rosser said the medical team’s assessment was that there was “some damage to the brain” but “no deficit in terms of function,” and that there was “no good reason to think that she wouldn’t be able to talk” once a tube was removed from her throat. “She seems able to under- stand. She’s got motor control. She’s able to write,” Dr. Rosser said, adding that Ms. Yousafzai had been able to give doctors written approval to make details of her condition public. “Whether there’s any subtle intellectual or memory deficits down the line is too early to say,” he said. Had the bullet that hit her been “a couple of inches more central,” he said, her injury would have been “unsurvivable.” Although Ms. Yousafzai can speak English, Dr. Rosser said, she was writing her responses to doctors in Urdu, the principal lan- kistan awaiting a valid passport. The hospital bulletin said the girl had been shot “at point-blank range” on the upper left side of her head, with the bullet trav- eling under her skin without pen- etrating the skull as it coursed the length of her head, through her neck and into her left shoul- der. The shock wave from the bul- let “shattered the thinnest bone of the skull,” it said, “and frag- ments were driven into the brain.” She is not expected to undergo reconstructive surgery for “weeks to months down the line,” the bulletin said. Ms. Yousafzai was shot while riding a school bus on Oct. 9 in the Swat Valley. She had become a symbol of resistance against the Taliban, advocating access to education for girls in an area that has been one of the Taliban’s main strongholds in Pakistan. The Taliban have vowed to continue to try to kill Ms. Yousaf- zai, who was flown to the hospital in central England aboard an air ambulance after officials in Paki- stan chose Britain’s offer of spe- cialized care over an array of of- fers from other countries, includ- ing the United States. The British police said Tuesday that they had questioned and turned away two people who tried to visit Ms. You- safzai by claiming falsely that they were members of her family, but had concluded that there was no threat to the schoolgirl. In Pakistan, security forces have detained relatives of a man accused of attacking Ms. Yousaf- zai, neighbors of the man’s family said Thursday. The authorities in the Swat Valley said they were still searching for the man who shot her and wounded two other girls on the bus, as well as an ac- complice. The man suspected of being the gunman has been iden- tified as a member of the Paki- stani Taliban named Attaullah. Pakistani Schoolgirl Shot by Taliban Shows Signs of Recovery, but Is ‘Still Very Ill’ QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM, VIA REUTERS Doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, Eng- land, said Malala Yousafzai was able to stand with assistance. Malala Yousafzai is out of an induced coma, but she’s ‘not out of the woods yet.’ John F. Burns reported from Lon- don, and Christine Hauser from New York. Declan Walsh contrib- uted reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Alan Cowell from Paris. By DECLAN WALSH RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — The smartly dressed Internet en- trepreneur basked in the sun out- side a McDonald’s, down the road from Pakistan’s military headquarters, considering the fu- ror over Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who had taken on the Taliban only to be shot in the head. “We have mixed feelings about Malala,” said the man, Raja Imran, 30, his eyes shaded by sunglasses, fiddling with a pack of Marlboros. “Was it the Ameri- cans who shot her or was it Al Qaeda? We don’t know. Some people think this is all an Ameri- can publicity stunt to make their point against the Taliban.” And what did he himself think? Mr. Imran shrugged. Several young customers at the restaurant were similarly am- bivalent. Others asked: What about the other two girls wound- ed in the shooting? “And what about Aafia Siddiqui?” asked one young woman, referring to the Pakistani woman convicted on charges of trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents by a New York court in 2010 and sen- tenced to 86 years in prison. “Nobody mentions her,” said the woman, who gave her name as Maria, with a pointed glance before darting away. Such conspiracy-laden skepti- cism about Ms. Yousafzai, who was shot by a Taliban gunman in- side her school bus, is only one strand of public opinion here; others have expressed unquali- fied anger at the attack. But it does suggest something dispiriting: that Pakistan’s “Malala moment,” and the possi- bilities it briefly excited, has passed. In the immediate aftermath of the Oct.9 assault, some Paki- stanis hoped it could set off a sea change in their society. For years, the country’s ability to resist Tali- ban militancy has been ham- strung by a broad ambiguity that undermined a national consensus against Islamist violence. Religious groups hesitated to challenge the Taliban for reli- gious reasons. Politicians feared speaking out on safety grounds. And the military, which has a his- tory of nurturing Islamists to fight its proxy wars in India or Afghanistan, equivocated by tac- itly supporting selected militant outfits, known among militancy experts as the “good Taliban.” But after Ms. Yousafzai was shot, heart-rending images of the wounded child bounced against coldblooded Taliban statements that the militants would shoot her again, if they had a chance. The country suddenly spoke with a unified, furious voice. Politicians and religious lead- ers condemned the Taliban with unusual passion. The army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, vis- ited Ms. Yousafzai’s bedside and released a rare public statement that the military would “refuse to bow before terror.” Writers compared the teenage blogger to Anne Frank. Con- servative politicians came under harsh scrutiny. Just two days before the at- tack, Imran Khan, the former cricket star whose political star has soared in the past year, had led a honking motorcade of sup- porters to the edge of the tribal belt, where they mounted a pro- test against C.I.A.-directed drone strikes in the nearby mountains. They received largely favorable news media coverage. But after the shooting, Mr. Khan came in for sharp criticism, partly because he favors negoti- ating with the Taliban instead of fighting them, and partly because he refused to condemn the mili- tants in a television interview, cit- ing safety concerns for his follow- ers in the tribal belt. “If today I start shouting slogans here against Taliban, who will save them?” Mr. Khan asked. Commentators said the epi- sode hurt Mr. Khan’s credibility. “There had been latent fears about his Taliban policies,” said Fahd Hussain, a television pre- senter. “This thing suddenly re- minded people that he is not real- ly clear on this subject.” Mr. Khan, for his part, is stick- ing to his guns. “Our liberals sup- port military solution despite them being counterproductive,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Each mili- tary operation leads to more mili- tancy and fanaticism.” A military operation, however, is exactly what was being specu- lated about early this week, when the country’s top generals held a secretive two-day meeting that stoked speculation they were planning a long-anticipated as- sault on the Taliban stronghold of North Waziristan — a major de- mand of the Obama administra- tion. By then, however, the backlash against Ms. Yousafzai had al- ready started in earnest. The reli- gious right attacked the wounded schoolgirl, circulating images on the Internet that showed her meeting senior American offi- cials and implying that she was an American agent. Other politicians showed little conviction.With the exception of the Karachi-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement, no party or- ganized mass street rallies against the Taliban — a stark contrast with the violent riots that seized the country weeks earlier in reaction to an Ameri- can-made video insulting the Prophet Muhammad. In Parliament on Wednesday, a government motion in favor of a “military operation” against the Taliban was blocked by the oppo- sition. Most commentators now say a military drive into North Waziristan is unlikely anytime soon. Whatever window had been opened — for military action, or a new unity against the Taliban — now appears to have closed. “It was a golden moment,” said Mr. Hussain, the journalist. “But that’s what it was — a moment.” Others doubted the moment ever existed. “Remember that we are a confused and psychological- ly divided society,” said Ayaz Amir, an outspoken opposition politician. “So it is too much to hope that our national thinking could turn in the other direction so quickly.” In some senses, the clearest policy comes from the Taliban. This week the militants published a seven-page justification for their violence against Ms. You- safzai — “Malala used to speak openly against Islamic system and give interviews in favor of Western education, while wear- ing a lot of makeup,” it read — and threatened to kill journalists who criticized its tactics. Others, however, see a silver lining: that Pakistanis have drawn one major red line when it comes to Taliban aggression. “You can be a devout Muslim, hate America and be more upset than Imran Khan about drones,” said Nusrat Javed, a television commentator. “But if you have daughters who want to go to school, there is universal con- demnation of something like this.” The whole episode shows that Pakistanis have an urgent need to “be clear” about the Taliban, said Mr. Amir, the politician. “There needs to be an intellectual consensus that we have gone far enough,” he said. “We must draw a line.” NEWS ANALYSIS ‘Malala Moment’ May Have Passed in Pakistan,as Rage Over a Shooting Ebbs For some, skepticism and conspiracy theories supplant indignation. By STEVEN ERLANGER and ALAN COWELL PARIS — Hours after Twitter blocked access to the account of an outlawed neo-Nazi group by users in Germany, the social net- working site agreed to remove anti-Semitic posts that were pro- liferating in France under the hashtag #unbonjuif, or “a good Jew,” a French Jewish group an- nounced on Friday. The agreement was announced by lawyers for the Union of Jew- ish Students of France, who had a conference call with Twitter rep- resentatives in California on Thursday evening. The posts had produced increasing criticism and outrage over the last week from the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France and from SOS Racisme, a lobby- ing group that denounced a “wave of feverish hatred.” Some of the posts had been removed as of Friday evening. The anti-Semitic posts some- times included photos from the Holocaust and a variety of jokes. There were also anti-Muslim posts. The student union had threatened to get an injunction under French law, which prohib- its discrimination based on reli- gion, ethnicity or race, one of its lawyers, Stéphane Lilti, told French news agencies. Several Twitter users posting under the hashtag criticized the decision to delete the anti-Se- mitic posts, calling it censorship. A user calling himself Andre said: “Better to educate than cen- sure. Shame on you Twitter.” An- other, Craig McLeod, asked, “Who decides what is anti-Se- mitic and abusive?” Asked for comment, Twitter re- peated its standard policy state- ment: “Twitter does not mediate content. If we are alerted to con- tent that may be in violation of our terms of service, we will in- vestigate each report and re- spond according to the policies and procedures outlined in our support pages.” No one at Twitter would talk on the record about the French posts, but it has its own criteria for regulating content and will sometimes suspend an individual account or withhold individual posts. In Germany on Thursday, Twit- ter applied for the first time a pol- icy known as “country-withheld content,” which allows it to block an account at the request of state authorities. The neo-Nazi group had been banned by the govern- ment of Lower Saxony. In the French case, the student union said it was providing Twit- ter with a longer list of what it considered particularly offensive posts using the same hashtag. Jewish groups in France have cited an increasing number of anti-Semitic episodes since a French Muslim, Mohammed Merah, who claimed to be allied with Al Qaeda, murdered seven people, including four Jews, in Toulouse in March before being killed in a shootout with the po- lice. “We salute the decision of Twit- ter to respond to our request and promptly remove racist and anti- Semitic tweets,” said the presi- dent of the student union, Jona- than Hayoun. He said the union still intended to file a complaint against the company, which has refused to identify the people be- hind the posts. Two other cases involving Twitter created news this week. On Friday in Britain, the police were investigating remarks that appeared on the Twitter account of a right-wing political leader about a case of discrimination against a gay couple who were refused accommodation by the owners of a lodging house. British news reports said the account — @nickgriffinmep — had been suspended after it was used to publish the couple’s ad- dress and call for a demonstra- tion there. It later appeared to have been reactivated without the couple’s address. The account belongs to Nick Griffin, the British National Party chairman and a member of the European Parliament. The party is a small, xenophobic group that has made electoral gains in re- cent years, culminating in Mr. Griffin’s election to the European Parliament in 2009. The party campaigned on a platform op- posed to what Mr. Griffin calls the “creeping Islamification” of Britain, supporting the voluntary repatriation of immigrants, and calling for Britain to quit the Eu- ropean Union and NATO. Mr. Griffin reacted angrily to the lodging house case, telling the BBC that discrimination was “a fundamental human right” and that the owners of the lodg- ing house had the right to decide who could enter their home. And at a hearing in Istanbul on Thursday, a Turkish pianist and composer, Fazil Say, 42, denied charges of insulting religion after he cited a thousand-year-old poem on his Twitter account. The case was adjourned for four months. In April, Mr. Say reposted a verse in which Omar Khayyám, an 11th-century Persian poet, mocked pious hypocrisy. His case is an indication, critics say, of an increasing distortion of justice by a more conservative interpreta- tion of Islam promoted by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Twitter has said that its goal is to balance freedom of expression with compliance with local laws. Twitter Removes French Anti-Semitic Posts A move comes after the account of a neo-Nazi group is blocked in Germany. Everything you need to know for your business day is in Business Day. The New York Times A10 N INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON — A group of former national security officials from both Republican and Demo- cratic administrations is leaving for Japan and China on Saturday to try to defuse the mounting ten- sions over a chain of uninhabited islands in a potentially energy- rich area of the East China Sea. The visit, backed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, follows a naval exercise by China on Friday to support its territori- al claims and talk by a prominent candidate for prime minister in Japan about stationing personnel on the islands to improve securi- ty. “As each side tries to assert its position, there is a risk of an inad- vertent escalation of tensions and even confrontation,” said James B. Steinberg, who served as the deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration and is one of those on the trip. “The ques- tion is, how we get back to the rel- ative stability in which the is- lands were in dispute but people were not trying to change facts on the ground.” Other members of the group include Richard L. Armitage, who served as deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush; Stephen J. Hadley, Mr. Bush’s national security adviser; and Joseph S. Nye Jr., a former Pentagon and intelligence official in the Clinton administration. The group is scheduled to meet with Japan’s prime minister, Yo- shihiko Noda, on Monday and to visit with the Chinese leadership on Tuesday. China has not in- formed the group with whom they will be meeting. The trip was arranged after Mr. Steinberg and other mem- bers of the group discussed what might be done to tamp down the tensions over the islands, which are called Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese. After the idea of a visit was pitched to State Department aides, Mrs. Clinton endorsed it, giving it a quasi-official status. A member of the group said there was no plan to present a specific proposal to the Chinese and Japanese, but that the mem- bers were prepared to discuss different approaches. Mrs. Clinton took up the issue with Chinese officials in Beijing and with Mr. Noda in September at an Asian summit meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, but made no apparent progress. The United States is in the awkward position of maintaining that it has no position on the dis- pute while acknowledging that the islands nonetheless fall under a United States-Japan defense treaty. Administration officials hope the semiofficial nature of the trip by the former officials might fa- cilitate discussion. “A little bit of ‘hands off’ probably creates space for everyone,” said a senior Obama administration official, who asked not to be identified be- cause he was discussing delicate diplomatic matters. American officials have ex- pressed growing alarm about the sparring over the islands, which has arisen just as China and Ja- pan are making difficult political transitions. The Japanese gov- ernment recently purchased the islands from a private business- man to prevent their falling into the hands of the conservative governor of Tokyo, who has talked about developing the is- lands, which would almost cer- tainly escalate tensions with Chi- na. But China was hardly placated, denouncing Japan for stealing the islands. “It is not clear to us that in the current environment there are solutions,” the Obama adminis- tration official added. “In fact, we think, what might make the most sense is for both sides to back down and export this into the fu- ture and recognize that the hard- est issues cannot be solved but can only be managed. “In the past when these issues have flared it has been for a peri- od of time, and then things return to the status quo,” the official said. “But this time, over the course of the last several weeks, both countries have shown little sign of backing down and are in- creasingly navigating each other into a corner.” In Asia Trip, U.S. Group Will Tackle Islands Feud An effort to find, if not a solution, a way to decrease growing tensions. By MARTIN FACKLER TOKYO — The United States military imposed a curfew on Fri- day on all of its nearly 50,000 uni- formed personnel stationed in Ja- pan, as it tried to respond to pub- lic outrage over reports of the rape of a woman on Okinawa by two American sailors. The commander of United States forces in Japan, Lt. Gen. Salvatore A. Angelella, apolo- gized for the case, saying that American military personnel will also be required to take “core val- ues training.” Earlier Friday, the United States ambassador to Ja- pan, John V. Roos, told the Japa- nese defense minister and the governor of Okinawa that the United States would cooperate “in every way possible” with the investigation of the two sailors, who are in Japanese custody. General Angelella told a news conference at the United States Embassy in Tokyo, “I want to personally apologize for the grief and trauma the victim has en- dured and the anger it has caused among people on Okina- wa.” He said the curfew,from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.,would take effect immediately at bases in Okinawa and the rest of Japan. The Japanese police say the two sailors in the latest case had been out drinking when they at- tacked the woman, who is in her 20s, as she walked home before dawn on Tuesday. The sailors, Seaman Christopher Browning and Petty Officer Third Class Skyler Dozierwalker,were ar- rested soon after by Japanese po- lice officers. The Navy has also begun its own investigation. The case, with its uncomfort- able echoes of the 1995 gang rape of a schoolgirl by three American servicemen,struck a nerve in Okinawa. The earlier crime prompted huge demonstrations that for a time seemed to threat- en the entire American military presence on the island. The current case comes during what is perhaps the largest wave of anti-base sentiment on Okina- wa since the 1995 rape. Last month, as many as 100,000 dem- onstrators gathered to protest the deployment of the Marine Corps Osprey aircraft, which many Okinawans see as adding to what they already consider an unfairly heavy American pres- ence. More than half of all American military personnel in Japan are on Okinawa, a legacy of the tropi- cal island’s control by the United States after World War II. Many Okinawans say Ameri- can bases are a source of crimes on their otherwise peaceful is- land. Okinawan leaders have ex- pressed outrage over the attack, using it to renew calls to reduce the American military presence. ISSEI KATO/REUTERS In Tokyo on Friday, Lt. Gen. Salvatore A. Angelella listened as Ambassador John V. Roos pledged cooperation in a rape investigation involving American sailors. Curfew Is Imposed on U.S. Military in Japan Amid Rape Inquiries within the committee to the post of executive vice prime minister. But the two chairmanships have traditionally carried less admin- istrative authority and actual power. The leading candidate to be- come executive vice prime min- ister now appears to be Zhang Gaoli, the party secretary of Tianjin, a party insider said. He is an economist by training but has a reputation as a cautious official more preoccupied with maintain- ing political stability than with undertaking economic policy ex- periments. The actual transfer of the prime ministership and vice prime ministerships will not take place until the National People’s Congress next March. But the succession will be determined by the new membership and rank- ing within the Politburo Standing Committee. Party insiders and China ana- lysts suggest that Mr. Wang was edged aside in the brutal game of one-upmanship and back- scratching politics that takes place behind closed doors in the Politburo. “The main concern is that if Wang Qishan is vice prime min- ister, then Li Keqiang could be in his shadow in economic policy,” said one insider who deals reg- ularly with senior officials. “Wang is older than Li, and has more experience and standing, and that makes their relationship awkward.” Willy Lam, a specialist in Chi- nese politics at the Chinese Uni- versity of Hong Kong, said that personal animosity appears to exist between the two men. “If Wang Qishan becomes first vice premier, that will set off a vicious power struggle between Wang Qishan and Li Keqiang,” he said. Two Beijing insiders who know Mr. Wang and Mr. Li said that the two men were not openly hostile to each other, but had radically different personal styles. Mr. Wang likes to take charge of is- sues and spend a lot of time talk- ing through policies with col- leagues, while Mr. Li is more ce- rebral and spends more time reading reports, they said. One of them said that there had been a push in late summer by some party elders for Mr. Wang to be named prime minister in- stead of Mr. Li. But that push ap- pears not only to have fallen short but possibly backfired by hurting relations between them, the insider said. Cheng Li, the research director at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institu- tion, said that Mr. Wang “always wants to do something and take the initiative.” But that is not necessarily an unalloyed virtue in the consen- sus-driven upper circles of the party. Besides Mr. Wang and Mr. Zhang, the other candidates that political insiders and observers in Beijing say are favorites for Standing Committee posts are Zhang Dejiang, a vice prime min- ister and party chief of Chong- qing; Li Yuanchao, the head of the Organization Department; and Liu Yunshan, director of the Propaganda Department. Two other contenders, Wang Yang, party chief of Guangdong Province, and Yu Zhengsheng, party chief of Shanghai, have en- countered growing opposition in recent weeks. But any lineup cur- rently in vogue could change be- fore the Party Congress. The two people who are virtu- ally assured seats are Xi Jinping, designated to be the next party leader and the country’s presi- dent, and Li Keqiang, heir to the title of prime minister. China Weighs Stewardship Of Its Economic Policy From Page A4 JASON LEE/REUTERS Wang Qishan, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at an economic conference in Bei- jing in May, now appears unlikely to be given broad authority over China’s economic policy. Edward Wong contributed report- ing. Articles in this series are examin- ing the implications for China and the rest of the world of the coming changes in the leadership of the Communist Party. Changing of the Guard ONLINE: Previous articles in this series: nytimes.com/world By LYDIA POLGREEN JOHANNESBURG — Amid mounting criticism that he has failed to stem the tide of labor un- rest roiling South Africa, Presi- dent Jacob Zuma announced Fri- day nearly $100 billion in infra- structure spending to create jobs, hoping to quell broad frustrations over rising inequality, persistent poverty and low wages. Mr. Zuma, who is likely to face an internal challenge to his lead- ership of the governing African National Congress at its confer- ence in December, has begun to act more forcefully in what ap- pears to be an attempt to bolster the country’s flagging growth and to instill confidence in Afri- ca’s biggest economy. On Wednesday, Mr. Zuma spent five hours meeting with un- ion and business leaders to try to ease tensions that have led to a wave of wildcat strikes in which 75,000 workers have walked off the job. Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Mr. Zuma called upon business leaders to make personal sacrifices by vol- untarily foregoing raises and bo- nuses for a year “as a strong sig- nal of a commitment to build an equitable economy.” Then on Friday, speaking at a conference focusing on infra- structure, he laid out plans to spend about $100 billion on roads, bridges and ports in the next three years, part of a $475 billion plan to upgrade the country’s creaky infrastructure over the next decade and a half. He also took the opportunity to plead with politicians and ana- lysts to stop telling journalists how bad South Africa’s current situation is. “We urge those who have ac- cess to the media from all sec- tors, including opposition politi- cians, to stop talking our country and economy down,” Mr. Zuma said. “We wish to encourage pub- lic opinion makers to also reflect the strides that have been made in all 18 years.” Two credit rating agencies have slashed South Africa’s debt rating in the past month, and the value of the country’s currency, the rand, has slid sharply. Al- ready hit by the slowdown in Eu- rope, South Africa’s biggest trad- ing partner, the country’s growth prospects have dimmed further, even as some other African coun- tries are booming. The labor unrest has brought to the surface problems that have been bubbling for many years in South Africa, whose peaceful transition from white rule to non- racial democracy in 1994 made it a powerful symbol of nonviolent conflict resolution. But inequality and joblessness have increased since the end of apartheid while politicians and businessmen have grown wealth- ier, leaving many South Africans feeling betrayed. Mr. Zuma has faced sharp crit- icism for his handling of the labor crisis from the moment the police opened fire on striking miners in Marikana on Aug. 16, killing 34. Mr. Zuma was at a regional con- ference in Mozambique and did not return until the next day to visit the site of the shootings, which were the worst police vio- lence since the end of apartheid. Mr. Zuma is seeking a second term as president of the A.N.C. and the country, but his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, has hinted that he might challenge Mr. Zuma. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES President Jacob Zuma, left, met on Wednesday with business leaders like Jabu Mabuza, right, in a bid to ease labor tensions. South Africa to Spend $100 Billion for Jobs Addressing labor unrest, low wages and persistent poverty. Everything you need to know for your business day is in Business Day. The New York Times N A11 INTERNATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 MIDDLE EAST Yemen: Militants Attack Military Base At least 14 soldiers and 12 operatives of Al Qaeda were killed Friday when suicide bombers attacked a military base in south Yemen, military officials and local residents said. Five suicide bombers infiltrated the base about five miles east of Shuqrah in the southern province of Abyan, military officials said. Two of the bombers blew themselves up,and the three others were killed in clashes with members of the 115th Brigade. At least three military officers were among the dead. The bodies of seven more at- tackers were found around the base, local residents said. The Defense Ministry confirmed the attack but did not specify the number of casualties. NASSER ARRABYEE EUROPE Turkey and Germany Urge Syrian Truce Turkey and Germany on Friday joined the secretaries general of the United Nations and the Arab League to support an internation- al peace envoy’s call for a cease- fire in Syria during a three-day Is- lamic holiday next week. The ap- peals came as the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, left, prepared for meetings in the Syrian capital to press for the cease-fire during the Id al-Adha holiday, which starts Thursday. In Syria, rebels said Friday that government forces had car- ried out more airstrikes against insurgents seeking to encircle a military base at Wadi Deif in Idlib Prov- ince. New airstrikes were also reported on the rebel- held town of Maarat al-Noaman in northern Syria, which was pounded Thursday by government at- tacks that claimed scores of lives, according to re- ports from activists. HWAIDA SAAD France: Authorities Stopped Tracking Toulouse Gunman Before His Attacks The French police and domestic intelligence serv- ices stopped regular monitoring of a Toulouse man who killed several people four months later in the city, according to documents leaked to the newspa- per Le Monde. The killer, Mohammed Merah, shot seven people, including four Jews, in March before being killed in a shootout with the police. French in- telligence had stopped tracking him the previous November, despite his visits to Pakistan and Af- ghanistan, close links to jihadists,and financing from abroad, the documents suggest. The police even knew that he was composing songs about kill- ing “Western infidels,” and one officer reported that Mr. Merah had stayed close to home and was acting suspiciously, with no Internet service at home, no fixed cellphone and a penchant for public phone booths. Before he died, Mr. Merah said he had been recruited by Al Qaeda. STEVENERLANGER Germany: 10 Somali Pirates Convicted A court convicted 10 Somali men of piracy on Friday in what was said to be the first trial of pirates in Ger- many in centuries. Judges in the northern city of Hamburg gave the men sentences ranging from two to seven years in prison for the April 2010 hijacking of a German-flagged container ship, the Taipan, and for trying to hold the vessel’s crew for ransom. Hours after the men seized the Taipan, Dutch forces retook the ship and captured the pirates, who were extradited to Germany. Pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa have declined this year in the face of ag- gressive patrols by international forces. CHRIS COTTRELL ASIA North Korea: Threats Over Propaganda North Korea threatened on Friday to attack South Korea if activists proceeded with a plan to send leaf- lets across the border criticizing the North’s govern- ment. South Korea’s military said it would immedi- ately strike back if the North did so. An umbrella group of anti-North Korean groups, led mostly by defectors from the North, says it plans to release balloons carrying propaganda leaflets on Monday in Imjingak, near the border with North Korea. Activ- ists have conducted similar balloon launchings be- fore. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said, “The leaflets are a most undisguised act of psychological warfare, a violation of the armi- stice and an intolerable act of war.” It urged South Koreans to leave the targeted area. South Korea’s defense minister noted that North Korea had issued similar threats before about leaflets from the South without acting on them. CHOE SANG-HUN Myanmar: Another Sign of Change Myanmar’s military, long criticized for human rights abuses, may be invited to be an observer next year at an annual joint military exercise involving the United States and Thailand, officials in Washington and Bangkok said Friday. For years, Myanmar has been frozen out of many international activities be- cause of Washington’s disapproval of the former re- pressive military government. But with an elected government undertaking some political changes, Myanmar’s relationships with its neighbors and the West have improved. The joint exercise, based in Thailand and known as Cobra Gold, is the biggest and longest-standing American military exercise in the Asia-Pacific region. A final decision on the mat- ter has not been reached, the Pentagon press secre- tary, George Little, said Friday, adding that Thailand sends out the invitations in consultation with the United States. (AP) UNITED NATIONS Sanctions Planned for Congo Rebels The United Nations Security Council said Friday that it intended to impose sanctions on the leaders of the M23 rebel movement in the east of the Demo- cratic Republic of Congo and on others who are breaking the arms embargo in Congo. The M23 rebels have a stronghold on the border with Uganda and Rwanda, which has fueled accusations that Uganda and Rwanda are backing the rebellion as arms are easily smuggled into their territory. On Tuesday, a leaked report by a United Nations panel of experts accused both Uganda and Rwanda of sup- porting the rebellion, which both countries deny. (AP) World Briefing By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — The man with the wire-rim glasses and bushy beard, speaking calmly in American-accented English, is fa- miliar from dozens of Web videos urging violent jihad against the United States. But in one astonishing clip, re- corded more than a year before the man, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed by a C.I.A. drone strike in Yemen, the American-born cleric had a very different mission: to propose marriage to a third wife. “This message is specifically for Sister Aminah,” Mr. Awlaki says in the video to his future bride, a comely 32-year-old blonde from Croatia who he hoped would join him in his fu- gitive existence. The woman had expressed fervent admiration for Mr. Awlaki on his Facebook page and later made clear in her own video reply that she shared his radical views, saying, “I am ready for dangerous things.” Neither Mr. Awlaki nor his pro- spective wife knew it, but their match was being managed by a Danish double agent as part of an attempt to help the Danish intelli- gence service and the C.I.A. find the cleric’s hiding place in Yem- en. The attempt failed, but the un- dercover agent, Morten Storm, 36, a former motorcycle gang member who had converted to Is- lam, continued to communicate with Mr. Awlaki. When Mr. Awla- ki was killed in a drone strike on Sept. 30, 2011, Mr. Stormwas cer- tain his efforts had been instru- mental in it. But eventually Mr. Storm’s re- sentment at not getting what he regarded as sufficient credit boiled over. He phoned Jyllands- Posten, the second-largest news- paper in Denmark, and told the bewildered receptionist that he had helped track down one of the world’s most wanted terrorist leaders. The Danish newspaper spent 120 hours interviewing Mr. Storm and verifying his account. Among the evidence that the burly, red-haired Mr. Storm pro- duced to confirm his wild tale, in addition to the video of Mr. Awla- ki and e-mail exchanges with him, were postcards from intelli- gence agents, an audiotape of a C.I.A agent he knew as Michael and a photograph of $250,000 in $100 bills — money he says the C.I.A. paid him for his role as marriage broker. As part of that plan, the suit- case carried to Yemen by the bride, identified only as Aminah in her video messages to Mr. Awlaki, was secretly fitted with a tracking device that the C.I.A. hoped would reveal the cleric’s location, Mr. Storm told the Dan- ish reporters. But a wary associ- ate of Mr. Awlaki’s had her dis- card the suitcase when she ar- rived in Sana, Yemen’s capital. She traveled on to meet and mar- ry Mr. Awlaki, but the C.I.A. plan was thwarted. Mr. Storm’s tale shows the lengths to which American intel- ligence officials went to hunt down Mr. Awlaki, a leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen who some counterterrorism officials believed posed a greater threat to the United States than Osama bin Laden did. Their method was a variation on the traditional so- called honey trap, in which spy services use the lure of sex to en- snare male targets. Mr. Awlaki had been arrested during his years as an imam in the United States for hiring prostitutes; his two Arab wives lived apart from him in 2010, and he had asked Mr. Storm to find him a European woman willing to stay with him in hiding. His eloquent calls for violence, scattered across the Web, helped radicalize dozens of young, Eng- lish-speaking Muslims. He was added to the Obama administra- tion’s “kill list” after intelligence officials concluded that he had helped plan the failed bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25, 2009. His influence has survived his death. A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man, charged Wednesday with trying to blow up the Federal Re- serve Bank of New York in a sting operation by the F.B.I., told an undercover agent that he had formed his jihadist views listen- ing to Mr. Awlaki’s sermons. The killing of Mr. Awlaki, an American citizen, without a trial and based on secret intelligence, set off a legal and ethical debate in the United States. Now, in Den- mark, the articles in Jyllands- Posten have prompted some Danes to ask whether their gov- ernment was complicit in Mr. Awlaki’s death and, if so, whether that violated Danish law. Mr. Storm, whose life has been threatened since he went public, is in hiding and could not be reached for comment. The Dan- ish intelligence service said in a statement that it “cannot and will not publicly confirm whether specific individuals have been used as sources.” A spokeswom- an for the C.I.A. said the agency had no comment. In a conversation in October 2011 with Mr. Storm and a Danish intelligence officer, which Mr. Storm recorded on his cellphone and which the Danish newspaper posted online, the purported C.I.A. officer known as Michael praised Mr. Storm’s efforts and even said that President Obama had been briefed on his efforts against Mr. Awlaki. But he said “other projects” by the agency had located Mr. Awla- ki. “We were very, very close,” Michael said on the tape, com- paring their position to players in a World Cup soccer champion- ship who might have scored the winning goal but did not. Mr. Storm can be heard on the tape protesting that the C.I.A. officer was playing down his own role and Denmark’s role. Pierre Collignon, the editor in chief of Jyllands-Posten, said in an interview that the two report- ers who met with Mr. Storm over a period of months, Orla Borg and Carsten Ellegaard, corrob- orated much of what he said about his dealings with Mr. Awla- ki, the Danish intelligence serv- ice and the C.I.A. “We were very cautious,” Mr. Collignon said. “We were afraid he might still be a jihadist and might be luring our reporters into a trap, maybe to kidnap them. He was a criminal before becoming a devout Muslim, and it’s difficult to trust him entirely. But we were able to document his story.” The newspaper has examined paperwork showing regular pay- ments to Mr. Storm from the Danish intelligence service and has confirmed that the snapshot of $250,000 spilling from an at- taché case — the purported C.I.A. fee — was taken at his mother’s house. Mr. Collignon said the newspaper was planning to pub- lish more articles based on Mr. Storm’s account of his six years of undercover work if it could confirm the details. But he said that Jyllands-Pos- ten, which was the target of ter- rorist threats after it published a dozen cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, had decided not to post another video that showed Aminah removing her head covering to prove that she had blond hair, Mr. Collignon said. He said it might be consid- ered provocative and invade the woman’s privacy. Aminah is hiding with Qaeda militants in Yemen and helping produce Inspire magazine, a slick English-language publication that offers bomb-making advice and taunts against the United States. She last contacted Mr. Storm a month ago, Mr. Collignon said, and told him her dream was to become a suicide bomber. A Biker, a Blonde, a Jihadist and Piles of C.I.A. Cash: A Danish Double Agent’s Tale SITE INTELLIGENCE, VIA EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY A Dane says he arranged a marriage for the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as part of an effort to find him in Yemen. A story shows the lengths officials went to hunt down an American-born cleric. Conservatives in the Commons, had concluded that Mr. Mitchell’s continued presence in the gov- ernment was costing their party heavily in public opinion. An- other decisive factor was the de- mand for Mr. Mitchell’s resigna- tion from the federation that rep- resents 125,000 police officers, al- ready angered by the sharp cuts in police jobs ordered by the Cameron government. For Mr. Cameron, the episode seems likely to deepen a growing mood of discontent among Con- servative members of Parliament who have questioned his leader- ship in recent months. By JOHN F. BURNS LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron, after a month of bristling resistance that many close associates saw as politically unwise, switched course on Fri- day and accepted the resignation of a senior cabinet minister who had admitted using abusive lan- guage in a confrontation with po- lice officers on duty at the prime minister’s residence and office. Andrew Mitchell, the 56-year- old Conservative whose position as chief whip made him responsi- ble for maintaining party disci- pline in the House of Commons, had clung to office after the tab- loid The Sun and other newspa- pers had given headline promi- nence to the incident, last month. The reports said that Mr. Mitch- ell, riding a bicycle, had de- nounced police officers as “plebs” for refusing to open the security gates separating Down- ing Street, the residence and of- fice, from Whitehall, the avenue that runs to Parliament, barely 500 yards away. In his resignation letter, Mr. Mitchell gave his own account of what he had said to the police of- ficers who demanded that he get off the bicycle and leave the se- cured Downing Street area through a pedestrian exit. He de- nied the official police account that he had used the term plebs, meaning people of a lower social class, but admitted adding a com- mon expletive in telling the police officers, “I thought you guys were supposed to be helping us.” In the letter, Mr. Mitchell add- ed, “It was obviously wrong of me to use such bad language.” The incident was seized on by the Labour Party as an example of the “toff,” or upper-class, atti- tudes of Mr. Cameron and many of his senior ministers as they push a stringent austerity pro- gram that Labour says has hit the working poor and the unem- ployed disproportionately hard. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, demanded as recently as Wednesday that Mr. Mitchell re- sign, but Mr. Cameron, in an acerbic House of Commons ex- change, said Mr. Mitchell’s apol- ogy to the officers had put an end to the episode. By the time Mr. Mitchell met Mr. Cameron at the prime min- ister’s country residence, Che- quers, on Thursday night, it was clear that a majority of other Conservative cabinet ministers, and a powerful lobby of junior PAUL ELLIS/A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES Andrew Mitchell British Premier, After Resistance, Accepts Cabinet Minister’s Resignation A12 Ø N SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 CAROLYN KASTER/ASSOCIATED PRESS THIS WAY, MR. PRESIDENT President Obama was directed to the stage on Friday at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where he spoke about women’s issues at a campaign event. It was the president’s only scheduled appearance of the day before he headed to Camp David to prepare for the final debate. By NATE SILVER The Gallup national tracking poll now shows a very strong lead for Mitt Rom- ney. As of Friday, he was ahead by six points among likely voters, having led by seven points on Thursday. However, the poll’s results are deeply inconsistent with the results that other polling firms are showing in the presi- dential race, and the Gallup poll has a history of performing very poorly when that is the case. Other national polls now show a very slight lead for President Obama on av- erage, while state polls continue to indi- cate a narrow advantage for the presi- dent in tipping-point states like Ohio. The FiveThirtyEight forecast has Mr. Obama as a modest favorite in the elec- tion largely on the basis of the state polls. The Gallup poll is accounted for in the forecast model, along with all other state and national surveys. There are two major pieces of infor- mation that we’re looking to extract from each poll. One is simply the raw number — who is ahead or behind? The other is the trend it shows in the race — which candidate is gaining or losing ground? Different types of polls are relatively more or less useful for these purposes. Because national tracking polls like Gal- lup are published every day, they are useful for the trend part of the calcula- tion. There are six national tracking polls published most days. The others are from Rasmussen Reports, Ipsos, the RAND Corporation, Investors’ Business Daily and United Press International. (A seventh daily tracking poll, from Public Policy Polling, made its debut on Thursday.) But of the daily tracking polls, the Gallup survey receives the largest weight in the model’s trendline calcula- tion. It uses a larger sample size than most other polls, and its methodology includes calls to cellphone voters. On the other hand, our pollster rat- ings are also based in part on past accu- racy, and Gallup’s performance is mid- dling in that department. The Gallup poll seems to have an out- size influence on the subjective percep- tion of where the presidential race stands, however — especially when the poll seems to diverge from the consen- sus. This simply isn’t rational, in my view. Usually, when a poll is an outlier rela- tive to the consensus, its results turn out badly. You do not need to look any further than Gallup’s track record over the past few election cycles to see this. In 2008, the Gallup poll put Mr. Oba- ma 11 points ahead of John McCain on the eve of that November’s election. The average of the 15 or so national polls released just before the election put Mr. Obama up by about seven points. The average did a good job; Mr. Oba- ma won the popular vote by seven points. The Gallup poll had a four-point miss, however. In 2010, Gallup put Republicans ahead by 15 points on the national Congres- sional ballot, higher than other polling firms, which put Republicans an aver- age of 8 or 9 points ahead. In fact, Re- publicans won the popular vote for the House of Representatives by about sev- en percentage points — fairly close to the average of polls, but representing another big miss for Gallup. The Gallup poll also has often found implausibly large swings within a race. In 2000, for example, Gallup had George W. Bush 16 points ahead of Al Gore among likely voters in polling it con- ducted in early August. By Sept. 20, about six weeks later, the firm had Mr. Gore up by 10 points instead: a 26-point swing over the course of a month and a half. No other polling firm showed a swing remotely that large. Then in October 2000, Gallup showed a 14-point swing toward Mr. Bush over a few days, and had him ahead by 13 points on Oct. 27 — just 10 days before an election that ended in a virtual tie. After the Republican convention in 2008, Gallup had Mr. McCain leading Mr. Obama by as many as 10 points among likely voters. Although some other polls also had Mr. McCain pulling ahead in the race, no other polling firm ever gave him more than a four-point lead. It’s not clear what causes such large swings, although Gallup’s likely voter model may have something to do with it. Even their registered voter numbers can be volatile, however. In early Sep- tember of this year, after the Democrat- ic conventions, they had Mr. Obama’s lead among registered voters going from seven points to zero points over the course of a week — and then revert- ing to six points just as quickly. Most other polling firms showed a roughly steady race during this time period. Because Gallup’s polls usually take large sample sizes, statistical variance alone probably cannot account for these sorts of shifts. It seems to be an endem- ic issue with their methodology. To be clear, I would not recommend disregarding the Gallup poll. You should consider it — but in context. The context is that its most recent re- sults differ substantially from the doz- ens of other state and national polls about the campaign. It’s much more likely that Gallup is wrong and every- one else is right than the other way around. In National Polling, It’s Gallup vs. the Rest Nate Silver’s blog on polling and the November elections:  fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com FiveThirtyEight By PETER BAKER and ASHLEY PARKER WASHINGTON — Senator John Ker- ry headed to Camp David on Friday to spend the weekend with President Oba- ma. Senator Rob Portman has been on and off Mitt Romney’s plane for weeks and will spend the next few days with him in Florida. Each senator is playing the other par- ty’s nominee in rehearsals for Monday’s final debate, as Mr. Obama seeks to keep his job and Mr. Romney tries to take it away. Left unspoken is that both Mr. Kerry and Mr. Portman may also be unofficially auditioning for jobs of their own. Mr. Kerry, a Democrat from Mas- sachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is one of two leading candidates for secretary of state if Mr. Obama wins, according to White House officials. Mr. Portman, a budget director under President George W. Bush who now represents Ohio, is seen by Republicans as a potential treasury secretary in a Romney admin- istration. Never mind that the race for presi- dent is hardly over. The race for choice positions in the still-theoretical next ad- ministration is on. With two and a half weeks until the election, the subtle and not-so-subtle positioning has intensified into a multifront struggle for the fruits of a victory not yet won, according to three dozen Democratic and Republican insiders who described the situation on the condition that they not be named. In keeping with Washington eti- quette, the contenders publicly deny any ambition for appointments and in- sist their only focus is on winning the election. But they are meeting friends in the White House for coffee, volunteer- ing for campaign work, raising their profile through speeches and television appearances, and dropping hints about availability come November. “People are jockeying like mad but they have to be careful because to some degree this administration has frowned on explicit, overt jockeying,” said a for- mer Obama administration official. Sim- ilarly, word has gone out to donors from Mr. Romney’s Boston headquarters not to ask for jobs until after the election. Most intense has been the struggle to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rod- ham Clinton, who is stepping down. On the Democratic side, Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, was the clear front-runner for months. After the deadly attack on a Libya diplomatic post, the White House sent her to the Sunday television programs, raising her prominence for a possible promotion. But the move backfired when she de- scribed the assault as an outgrowth of protests only days before the govern- ment shifted its explanation and called it a terrorist attack. Mr. Kerry signed letters to the admin- istration requesting information about the attack but issued a statement de- fending Ms. Rice. It is a mark of Wash- ington cynicism that even a statement defending her was seen by some as an effort by Mr. Kerry to undercut her by keeping attention on the matter. The Obama team has rallied behind Ms. Rice, saying she reflected information from intelligence agencies, but it recog- nizes that she now could face a confir- mation fight from Senate Republicans. Mr. Kerry bolstered his standing with a fiery convention speech for Mr. Oba- ma and has had more face time with the president during debate preparations in CHARLES DHARAPAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS Senator John Kerry, center, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Susan E. Rice, second from right, ambassador to the United Nations, are top candidates to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Jockeying Begins for Cabinet Positions With the Election Just Weeks Away Unofficially auditioning for choice jobs in the still-theoretical next administration. Continued on Page A15 FiveThirtyEight Ø N A13 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 ELECTION 2012 quired to disclose their activities, clients or issues, a freedom that has allowed them to become even more influential in recent years, ethics experts say. (Coincidental- ly, Ms. Dunn’s husband, Robert J. Bauer, who was White House counsel from late 2009 to 2011, helped shape and put in place some of the ethics measures.) Like Ms. Dunn, some other top Obama campaign advisers are both insiders and outsiders. Erik Smith, a senior media ad- viser for the Obama campaign, is the founder of a communications and issue advocacy firm whose current and former clients in- clude Citigroup, Ford, Delta Air Lines and Genentech. Jim Margolis,another senior campaign adviser on media strat- egies, has an outside consulting firm that promotes his work “at the intersection of politics, ad- vertising and advocacy.” And Broderick Johnson, a sen- ior Obama aide, is a former lob- byist who has a consulting shop promising “a wealth of public and private relationships” that corpo- rate clients can use “to secure useful intelligence.” He is taking a leave from the consulting shop while he is with the campaign. But it is Ms. Dunn, 54, a former White House communications di- rector, who has the highest pro- file. Incisive and sharp-witted, Ms. Dunn acts as a sounding board for Mr. Obama and his campaign. “Who is a smart, aggressive woman who has been at the top of strategic battles for president, gubernatorial and Senate races? Anita Dunn would be near the top of the list,” said Joe Trippi,a long- time Democratic consultant. After starting her career in politics answering phones as an unpaid White House intern in the Carter administration, she ended up on Capitol Hill, working for Senator Bill Bradley before join- ing the firm now called SKDKnickerbocker in 1993. In the years since, she has served as a Democratic strategist and a com- munications specialist for Sena- tor Tom Daschle, Representative Nancy Pelosi and other Demo- crats in Congress. She was an adviser to Mr. Oba- ma’s upstart presidential bid in 2007, and has been a central play- er in defining his public image, taking a leave of absence from her firm in April 2009 to take over as Mr. Obama’s communications director. She left the White House in No- vember 2009 to return to SKDK. She and her husband, who is now the top legal adviser to Mr. Obama’s campaign, form a Wash- ington power couple who regular- ly attend White House social events. After leaving the admin- istration, she continued to confer with leading officials, according to government records, including Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser; Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner; Jay Carney, the press secretary; Elizabeth Warren, who was a special adviser on con- sumer protection and is now a Senate candidate in Massachu- setts; and Christina D. Romer, who was the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Ms. Dunn regularly attends closed-door political strategy briefings with top Obama aides; White House records show she has visited more than 100 times since leaving her communica- tions job. She is now serving as a paid adviser to the Democratic National Committee. Both the White House and the campaign defended Ms. Dunn’s involvement. Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman, said the administration “in all in- stances” took steps to avoid any conflicts of interest. Adam Fetch- er, a campaign spokesman, said it was “nonsense to think” that a communications consultant like Ms. Dunn should be precluded from doing campaign work be- cause she had outside clients. Her consulting firm has thrived. SKDK focused for years on media campaigns for Demo- cratic candidates, but soon after her return from the White House, it announced a “major expan- sion” emphasizing strategic com- munications and advocacy work for businesses. Nearly doubling in size to 60 employees, the firm hired a doz- en Washington insiders tied to the Obama administration or the Democratic Party, including Ms. Rosen, a former lobbyist; Jill Zuckman, a senior Transporta- tion Department official; and Doug Thornell, a former senior aide to House Democrats. And it took on corporate clients includ- ing General Electric, AT&T, Time Warner, Pratt & Whitney, Kaplan University and TransCanada, which is developing the Keystone XLpipeline. The firm has also helped run industry coalitions seeking to in- fluence federal policy on partic- ular issues, working with lobby- ists and other media specialists that represented companies like Oracle, Google, Disney, Pepsi and Microsoft. Josh Isay, a managing partner at SKDK, attributed the firm’s success in communicating chal- lenging policy issues to a team that has “decades of experience working in the highest levels of government, the news media, corporate America, labor and po- litical campaigns.” Sometimes the firm has been at odds with the Obama adminis- tration, as when it worked with food manufacturers and media companies in an attempt to block guidelines intended to curb food commercials for unhealthy prod- ucts like sugared cereals that are aimed at children. The adminis- tration ultimately dropped the proposed limits, after the coali- tion successfully pushed lawmak- ers to oppose the plan. Executives at SKDK said their work did not extend beyond de- vising ways to drive public opin- ion in a way that benefits the campaigns — by setting up Face- book pages and Web sites and lin- ing up favorable news media cov- erage. While SKDK promotes Ms. Dunn’s prominent role as an Oba- ma adviser on its Web site, it said it had never traded on its White House access to help clients. “Anita would not be welcome at the White House as often as she is if she was over there selling them on issues,” said Ms. Rosen, a frequent White House visitor herself.She and others at SKDK said the firm pointed out to cli- ents that it did not lobby and not- ed the prohibitions on Ms. Dunn at the White House. A half-dozen clients and con- sultants working with the firm, who asked not to be named be- cause the work for the corporate clients was supposed to be confi- dential, said information pro- vided by SKDK that was not pub- licly available had been instru- mental in planning strategy. Two consultants involved in the children’s advertising project said Ms. Dunn provided guidance on the likelihood that the admin- istration and the Federal Trade Commission would back away from the proposal. In helping the New York Stock Exchange seek approval for a merger with a Ger- man exchange, SKDK’s associ- ates told corporate partners that the Obama administration did not appear to have objections, participants said. And working on behalf of Pratt & Whitney, a military contractor, SKDK told other consultants that the administration appeared un- willing to move aggressively to kill a deal forcing the company to share a multibillion-dollar jet en- gine contract with General Elec- tric, several participants said. Among its biggest assignments was representing a business co- alition seeking to reduce tax rates on about $1 trillion in off- shore earnings. Ms. Rosen told members of the corporate team that the Treasury Department was unwilling to go to bat for the idea, one participant recalled. SKDK and several senior Treas- ury officials say they never dis- cussed the issue. But an official with knowledge of the issue said Ms. Rosen had spoken by phone with Jake Siew- ert, then a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, asking whether there was any chance that the adminis- tration would allow such a plan to be included in a debt deal then under discussion.  Mr. Siewert told Ms. Rosen that the idea had no administration support, acc- cording to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Ms. Rosen acknowledged that she probably spoke to officials at the Treasury press office to learn the administration’s public posi- tion on the tax plan. When The New York Times asked the Treasury Department last week about its contact with SKDK on the issue, that inquiry was forwarded to the firm within an hour. A Strategist Straddles a Line by Advising Corporate Clients and Obama CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES Anita Dunn with David Axelrod in 2009, when she was White House communications director. Dual roles show the limits of efforts to change Washington. From Page A1 Kitty Bennett and Tom Torok con- tributed research. A14 ØØ N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 ELECTION 2012 By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and JO CRAVEN MCGINTY Three leading Democratic “su- per PACs” raised more money in September than in any other month this election cycle, offi- cials said, underscoring the growing willingness of wealthy Democrats to bankroll groups whose existence they had long opposed. Priorities USA Action, the group backing President Obama, will report raising $15.2 million in September, thanks in part to ag- gressive fund-raising by party leaders like former President Bill Clinton and Mayor Rahm Eman- uel of Chicago. The group has al- ready reserved millions of dollars in advertising for the closing weeks of the campaign. Majority PAC, which supports Senate Democrats, raised $10.4 million in September and has brought in an additional $9.7 mil- lion through mid-October, offi- cials announced on Friday, a peri- od during which the party’s chances of holding a majority in the chamber appeared to be im- proving. House Majority PAC, the Congressional Democrats’ super PAC arm, raised $5.9 mil- lion, a figure the group said it was on pace to double this month. “Democrats know that this race is even closer than we thought it would be, and if we’re going to close this deal every- body has to get involved,” said Bill Burton, a spokesman for Pri- orities USA. Mr. Obama and the Democratic National Committee said they raised about $181 million in Sep- tember, slightly more than Mitt Romney and the Republican Na- tional Committee, which raised $170 million, according to offi- cials. Mr. Obama’s campaign, fil- ing on Friday, reported spending $115 million in September and ending the month with about $99 million in cash on hand for the rest of the campaign. But heavy spending by Demo- crats over the spring and sum- mer on registration, organizing, and early voting turnout has left the committee in the red, with $4.6 million in cash on hand at the end of September and debts of $20.4 million. The Republican committee, by contrast, has amassed a huge war chest for the final days of the campaign. The party began Octo- ber with $82.6 million in the bank, much of which can be spent to match Mr. Obama on the air- waves. Mr. Romney was expect- ed to file his campaign disclo- sures on Saturday. Despite fears among Repub- licans that Mr. Romney’s political difficulties in September would hurt his fund-raising, Restore Our Future, the super PAC back- ing his White House bid, brought in $14 million, more than in the past two months combined, and began October with $16 million in the bank, according to disclo- sures filed on Friday with the Federal Election Commission. On Thursday, the group re- served $12 million for six days of television commercials, one of the largest such reservations this election cycle. Most super PACs are required to file detailed disclosures with the election commission by mid- night Saturday, documents that will shed light on the sources of the contributions and how much money they had on hand going into October. But early disclosures filed on Friday by Restore Our Future re- vealed that close to $4 million of the group’s September contribu- tions came from corporations, suggesting that businesses have begun to take full advantage of regulatory and court rulings that legalized unlimited corporate giv- ing to independent political com- mittees. In some cases, the true source of the corporate money is hard to trace. An entity called KSMK Venture II, LLC, which listed an address in Peabody, Mass., con- tributed $200,000 to Restore Our Future on Sept. 11, bringing its to- tal contributions to the pro-Rom- ney super PAC to $250,000. KSMK’s listed address is the headquarters of Christian Book Distributors, a Goliath in the world of Christian book and mu- sic sales. The company’s presi- dent, Ray Hendrickson, has con- tributed more than $70,000 to the Romney campaign and its joint fund-raising committee with the Republican National Committee. A $200,000 donation from Meu- chadim of Maine, LP, which listed an address in Hollywood, Fla., appears to be connected to Simon Falic, the chairman of Duty Free Americas, the chain of airport duty-free shops, who is a major pro-Israel donor. The sources of other corporate donations are more obvious. Greenpoint Technologies, which contributed $250,000 to Restore Our Future, is a company based outside Seattle that builds high- end aircraft interiors for “private individuals and heads-of-state cli- ents,” according to its Web site. Scott Goodey, Greenpoint’s president and chief executive, and his wife, Julie, have contrib- uted at least $100,000 to the Rom- ney campaign and the Repub- lican National Committee. Individual donors contributed $11 million to Restore Our Future in September. Much of it came from a few wealthy Romney sup- porters who are mainstays of the Republican super PAC world. Bob Perry, a Texas home build- er who is one of the biggest do- nors to conservative candidates and causes, contributed $2 mil- lion, bringing his total donations to Restore Our Future to $9 mil- lion — more than 10 percent of the group’s war chest this year. Stanley Herzog, a Missouri construction company owner, contributed $1 million, as did Robert McNair, the billionaire owner of the Houston Texans football team. With Growing Willingness, Donors Come to Aid of Democratic ‘Super PACs’ Bankrolling the very groups whose existence was long an object of scorn. Kitty Bennett, Michael Luo and Derek Willis contributed report- ing. gets for American bombers during the Vietnam War. His passion for mastering policy and deliberative decision-making evokes the man he wishes to replace, Barack Obama. Each president’s style resonated across his administration, establishing how staff members functioned and how the public assessed them. “Everything flows from that Oval Office,” said Mack McLarty, the chief of staff to Bill Clinton during his first term. “Everyone else, the chief of staff, cabinet members, real- ly start to adapt and work with that.” The president’s management, he said, “is the epicenter.” Mr. Romney has shown a genuine tal- ent for recruiting disparate teams (lur- ing top-flight business people into the governor’s office), molding a workplace culture from scratch (as the founder of Bain Capital) and establishing priorities (as chief executive of the Olympics, he wrote down and distributed a list of “Five Guiding Principles.”) But the skills, habits and quirks that fueled Mr. Romney’s ascent are untest- ed in the crucible of the White House, where the crises, conflicts and chal- lenges are unrelenting, the learning curve sharp and political instincts and personal diplomacy are invaluable. “Some of Romney’s experience prob- ably would be useful to him. But if he thinks it’s going to translate so easily into the Oval Office, I think he has a sur- prise coming,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential historian. Mr. Romney’s diplomatic, low-drama approach, admired by many of his em- ployees, has at times proved problemat- ic for the organizations he oversees, ac- cording to interviews. Four years ago, campaign aides said, he allowed distracting conflicts to fester within his presidential campaign when members of his advertising team split into warring factions. As new operatives arrived, touching off a power struggle, weekly meetings devolved into angry shouting matches that stretched on for hours. “It was ab- solutely perfectly horrible and I have tried to completely repress it,” said the campaign’s pollster at the time, Jan van Lohuizen. The solution seemed obvi- ous: Mr. Romney needed to step in, un- tangle the egos and eliminate some- body. But he did not act. “The problem should have been resolved,” Mr. van Lohuizen said. “It wasn’t. He would have better off had it been.” Colleagues from every phase of his career said that Mr. Romney loathes pushing out people with whom he works closely and will do just about anything to avoid it — an approach that has in- spired deep loyalty to him even as it has raised questions about his ability to make tough personnel calls, as presi- dents inevitably must. (Mr. Obama, for instance, is on his third chief of staff.) Mr. Romney’s image as a pink-slip is- suing corporate raider, who drew deri- sion for once saying he liked being able to fire those who provide him with serv- ices, stems almost entirely from his role at Bain Capital buying and selling of far- away companies, whose workers he never met. But in his own offices, “he’d be much more apt to simply push some- body to the side and rely on advice from somebody else he perceives as better than to fire somebody,” said Ben Coes, who ran Mr. Romney’s campaign for governor in 2002. After Mr. Romney’s traveling press secretary, Rick Gorka, was caught on tape this summer cursing at reporters during a trip to Poland, he was briefly removed from the campaign trail. But he remained in his job. Fraser Bullock, who was Mr. Rom- ney’s top Olympics aide, said his then- boss’s reluctance to fire people stemmed from concern about their fate. “He personalizes the situation, from what I saw,” he said. “It’s ‘Oh, boy, what will happen to this person? Are they go- ing to be able to get another job?’ “ “That is why he gives people chances to recover,” Mr. Bullock said. That was the case with Doug Arnot, the managing director of event opera- tions for the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. Not long after Mr. Romney was named chief executive of the games in 1999, with a mandate to clean house af- ter a bribery scandal, Mr. Arnot was in- volved in a road rage incident in Salt Lake City. After repeatedly punching a pedestrian in a crosswalk, he pleaded guilty to an assault charge. While some board members advised firing him, Mr. Romney refused after agonizing for weeks, citing Mr. Arnot’s good work record and critical role. “They gave me a chance to prove my- self,” Mr. Arnot said in an interview. Mr. Romney did cut employees loose. As governor, he pushed out several offi- cials whose actions reflected badly on his administration. “In state govern- ment, my observation is that the gover- nor had a low tolerance for people who underperformed and he wasn’t reluc- tant to hold them to account,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, Mr. Romney’s director of communications in the Statehouse, and now a campaign adviser. As a boss, Mr. Romney was big on small gestures. At Bain Capital, he insti- tuted a rule that every meeting begin with a joke. At the Olympic offices in Salt Lake City, he once showed up with a griddle and apron to cook his staff a surprise pancake breakfast. And on his last campaign, he took a break from de- bate preparation for a game of touch football with his advisers. Employees said he seemed to intu- itively understand how to motivate peo- ple who worked long hours in high- stress jobs. He doled out generous bo- nuses, to be sure. But he also roamed halls, poking his head into cubicles and offices, inquiring what people were working on, quietly studying the mood. “He would say, ‘People aren’t smiling enough,’” recalled Cindy Gillespie, who worked with him at the Olympics and the governor’s office. Just a few weeks before the Olympics began, Mr. Romney starred in an office rendition of “Romeo and Juliet.” He played Romeo, opposite a male col- league in drag. There was no kiss, but Mr. Romney ad-libbed a few lines: “Ju- liet, you are ugly as sin and need a shave to boot.” “People just died,” Ms. Gillespie said. Mr. Romney’s aptitude for problem- solving has a corollary: he often tries to solve them himself. In the early 1990s, when he was the highest-ranking Mormon official in Bos- ton, he asked Ron Scott to serve as the church communications director, a job that would require him to act as a liai- son to other religious institutions and the local government. But when they talked the job over, Mr. Scott said, “It became pretty clear that he wanted to do most of the outreach himself, and that I wouldn’t have much to do.” The urge to personally intervene is a recurring pattern. At times, it earned him plaudits, like when he temporarily took control of Boston’s Big Dig tunnel project after a construction accident. Occasionally, it could ruffle those around him. Mr. Romney’s 2002 cam- paign run for governor did not employ a full-time speechwriter: he asked col- leagues to draft them and then rewrote them, a habit he has carried over into the current presidential bid. (A frequent sight: foot-tapping aides waiting to load his revised speeches into teleprompters moments before he takes the stage.) Mr. Romney even made time as gov- ernor to review the state Republican Party’s spending, line by line. “Well, do we really need to be spending $32,000 on a receptionist?” Rob Gray, a friend and political adviser, recalled him say- ing. Mr. Romney had a better idea. “Couldn’t we just have a voice mail system?” Romney’s Style as a Manager: Unhurried, Socratic and Hands-On From Page A1 STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES Mitt Romney and his campaign staff. Employees say he seems to intuitively understand how to motivate people working long hours in high-stress jobs. DAVID L. RYAN/THE BOSTON GLOBE Mr. Romney in his office at Bain Capital in Waltham, Mass., in 1993. He cites his private sector experience as a prime qualification as president. GEORGE FREY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE As chief executive of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Mr. Rom- ney wrote down and distributed a list of “Five Guiding Principles.” A chief executive who savors details yet seeks to avoid conflict. Articles in this series are exploring the lives and careers of the candidates for president and vice president. The Long Run ONLINE: Previous articles in the series: nytimes.com/politics Ø N A15 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 ELECTION 2012 By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR FAIRFAX, Va. — President Obama reached out to female voters in this battleground state on Friday, saying that Mitt Rom- ney would “turn back the clock” on women’s rights and accusing him of developing “Romnesia” by conveniently forgetting his most conservative positions. “Mr. Severely Conservative wants you to think he was se- verely kidding about everything he said over the last year,” Mr. Obama said. “We’ve got to name this condition that he’s going through. I think it’s called Rom- nesia.” The president mocked Mr. Romney’s remarks about recruit- ing women to serve in his cabinet when he was governor of Mas- sachusetts, saying, “You don’t want someone who has to ask for binders of women.” His campaign also released a television adver- tisement accusing Mr. Romney of not wanting to hire schoolteach- ers or reduce classroom sizes for students. Mr. Obama delivered his speech to 9,000 supporters at George Mason University here before heading to Camp David to prepare for the final presidential debate on Monday. Mr. Romney held a rally late Friday in Dayto- na Beach, Fla.; he was spending the weekend in the state ahead of the debate. Mr. Romney responded at a campaign rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., late Friday, by say- ing that Mr. Obama’s was re- duced to   “silly word games.”  “Have you been watching the Obama campaign lately?” he said. “They’ve been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. Just watch it. The Obama campaign has become the incred- ible shrinking campaign. This is a big country with big opportuni- ties and great challenges, and they keep on talking about small- er and smaller things.” Mr. Romney received the en- dorsement of The Orlando Senti- nel on Friday, four years after the paper endorsed Mr. Obama for his first term. Editors of the paper said, “It verges on magical thinking to ex- pect Obama to get different re- sults in the next four years.” But newspapers in Denver, Salt Lake City and Tampa, Fla., all endorsed Mr. Obama on Fri- day. The Salt Lake Tribune, which endorsed the president four years ago, called Mr. Rom- ney a “shape-shifting nominee” and asked, “Who is this guy, real- ly, and what in the world does he truly believe?” The editorial boards’ decisions arrived as new data from the fed- eral government this week showed the unemployment rates in most battleground states have fallen, in some cases significant- ly, during the past 12 months. In Nevada and Florida, the un- employment rate dropped by nearly two percentage points, though joblessness in both states remained above the national av- erage, which is 7.8 percent,ac- cording to state-by-state num- bers released on Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Nevada, the unemployment rate is now 11.8 percent, and in Flor- ida, it is 8.7 percent. Several other battleground states — including Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Wisconsin — saw smaller drops in unemploy- ment. But in all of those states, the unemployment rate is well below the national average. The economic improvement, and the perception among voters that things are getting better, has helped bolster Mr. Obama even as a strong performance in the first debate has given Mr. Rom- ney a lift going into the final month of the race. The fight for female voters in- tensified this week after the town-hall-style debate in Hemp- stead, N.Y., which included a question about equal pay for women that prompted a clash be- tween the candidates over who would better serve women’s needs. That debate spilled onto the airwaves, with Mr. Romney’s campaign quickly releasing an ad contending that he does not op- pose contraception and believes that abortion should be legal in cases of rape and incest, and to save the life of the mother. The Obama campaign hit back with its own ad, featuring a clip from a CNN debate in 2007 in which Mr. Romney said he would be “delighted” to sign a bill ban- ning all abortions. (He went on to say that he believed the country was not ready for that.) At the rally here, Mr. Obama criticized Mr. Romney for chang- ing his positions on abortion, en- ergy and other issues. Proclaim- ing the benefits of his health care law, the president reassured the crowd that “Romnesia” was cur- able. “If you come down with a case of Romnesia and you can’t seem to remember the policies that are still on your Web site, or the promises you’ve made over the six years you’ve been run- ning for president,” he said, “here’s the good news: Obama- care covers pre-existing condi- tions.” Mr. Romney’s campaign quick- ly issued a statement from Bar- bara J. Comstock, a Republican state lawmaker in Virginia. “Women haven’t forgotten how we’ve suffered over the last four years in the Obama economy with higher taxes, higher unem- ployment and record levels of poverty,” Ms. Comstock said. “What is really frightening is that we know a second term for Presi- dent Obama will bring devastat- ing defense cuts that will cost Virginia over 130,000 jobs, more burdensome regulations and the biggest tax increase in history on our small businesses and fam- ilies.” DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES About 9,000 people attended an event Friday at George Mason University in which President Obama mocked Mitt Romney’s remarks about recruiting women. Campaigning in Virginia, Obama Presses Fight for Women’s Vote Dueling rallies and ads on birth control and other issues. Binyamin Appelbaum contributed reporting. recent weeks than Ms. Rice prob- ably has in a year. While some Democrats blamed him for Mr. Obama’s poor performance at the first debate, the president told advisers it was not Mr. Kerry’s fault. But if the Senate is closely divided after the election, the White House may be reluctant to risk his seat, particularly if Sena- tor Scott P. Brown, a Republican, is defeated, because Mr. Brown could then jump into a special election for Mr. Kerry’s seat. Thomas E. Donilon, the nation- al security adviser, would like to be secretary of state, friends say, but would face confirmation questions about security leaks and his past work for Fannie Mae, the mortgage company at the heart of the housing melt- down, and he has told Mr. Obama he wants to stay in his current post. A dark horse discussed in the White House is Deputy Secre- tary of State William J. Burns, a career diplomat. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner also plans to leave after the election. Jacob S. Lew, the White House chief of staff, is deemed the odds-on favorite to take over. Others mentioned in- clude Erskine Bowles, co-chair- man of Mr. Obama’s deficit re- duction commission; Roger Alt- man, a former deputy treasury secretary; Laurence D. Fink, chairman of BlackRock, the giant money management firm; and Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale. If Mr. Lew goes, Mr. Obama would need a fourth chief of staff. David Plouffe, his senior adviser, would be a logical choice, but he wants to leave after the election. Valerie Jarrett, a close friend of the first family, might want the role, but she has detractors. Mr. Donilon turned down the job once before but could be pressed again. Also mentioned are Michael Froman, the president’s interna- tional economics adviser; Robert Bauer, the former White House counsel; Ronald A. Klain, the for- mer vice-presidential chief of staff now helping with debate preparations; and Deputy Secre- tary of State Thomas R. Nides. Defense Secretary Leon E. Pa- netta and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. are expected to leave, although they may wait until after the inauguration, per- haps even six months or a year into the new term. Mr. Panetta, who flies home to California every weekend, is ea- ger to retire but may see through a looming struggle over military spending first. Waiting in the wings are Michèle A. Flournoy, a former undersecretary of de- fense who would be the first woman to run the armed forces, and Ashton Carter, the current deputy secretary. Democrats said Mr. Donilon or Mr. Kerry might be considered. Mr. Holder had been thought ready to go but may hang on to avoid looking like he was driven out by controversy over a botched anti-gun operation. The main internal candidate to suc- ceed him is Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, whose supporters have spread word of her interest. The Romney side is more in flux. A transition team called the Readiness Project led by former Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah has as- sembled lists of candidates but no one has been interviewed, aides said. That has not stopped the lobbying, though. Transition team members are inundated with calls and e-mails. Mr. Romney would draw from his campaign circle for White House staff. Mr. Leavitt seems a likely chief of staff, although Sen- ator Portman is also mentioned. Richard Williamson, a foreign policy adviser, may become na- tional security adviser, while an- other aide, Dan Senor, seems likely to get a top position, per- haps working for a Vice Presi- dent Paul D. Ryan. Bob White, a longtime Romney friend and campaign chairman, could be senior adviser. Either Eric Fehrn- strom or Kevin Madden could be press secretary. The competition for secretary of state has exposed an ideologi- cal rift. When Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president, was tapped to run the national security transition team, it ignit- ed protests from conservatives who viewed him as too moderate. They prefer John R. Bolton, the outspoken former ambassador to the United Nations, although he could not win confirmation even for that post during the Bush ad- ministration and had to be in- stalled by recess appointment. Other options include Mr. Port- man; Robert M. Kimmitt, a for- mer undersecretary of state and deputy treasury secretary; or even Senator Joseph I. Lieber- man, the hawkish independent from Connecticut who caucuses with Democrats. Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota had been held up for a top job but ef- fectively bowed out to take a pri- vate-sector position starting Nov. 1. To run the Treasury Depart- ment, Mr. Romney could tap, in- stead of Mr. Portman, Mr. Zoell- ick, Mr. Kimmitt or R. Glenn Hub- bard, the Columbia Business School dean. Former Senator James M. Talent of Missouri is seen as a possible defense secre- tary. Gov. Bob McDonnell of Vir- ginia could be attorney general, as could Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. Senator Orrin G. Hatch and former Senator Robert F. Bennett, both of Utah, and Senator Marco Rubio of Flor- ida all are in the mix. Jockeying Begins for Cabinet Positions, Weeks Before the Election STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES Senator Rob Portman, center, joined Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan at a rally in September in Ohio. Mr. Portman is seen as a potential treasury secretary in a Romney administration. From Page A12 By STEPHANIE SAUL A Republican Party effort to register voters in advance of next month’s presidential election be- came the focal point of new con- troversy Friday when the au- thorities in Virginia charged a voter registration supervisor who had allegedly thrown eight completed voter registration forms into a recycling bin. The sheriff’s office in Harrison- burg, Va., said the supervisor, Colin Small, had been charged with 13 counts of destruction of voter registration applications, disclosure of voter registration information, and obstruction of justice. Mr. Small was employed by PinPoint, a company working for the Virginia Republican Party to run local registration drives, and reported to a party head- quarters in Harrisonburg. Mr. Small, of Phoenixville, Pa., had until recently worked for Strategic Allied Consulting, the Arizona company that was fired by the national Republican Party last month after allegations of voter registration improprieties in Colorado, Florida and Nevada. PinPoint, which also has offices in Arizona, had previously been a subcontractor for Strategic Allied Consulting, which is run by a Re- publican operative, Nathan Sproul. Mr. Sproul had been under con- tract with the Republican Party to run registration drives in five states, including Virginia. The Florida Department of Law En- forcement began investigating his operation after state elections officials noticed problems with registration forms including false addresses, registrations filed in the names of dead people and registrations on which party affil- iations had been changed. A spokesman for Strategic Al- lied Consulting, David Leibowitz, said the company had not been involved in voter registration ef- forts in Virginia since Sept. 27 and had had no contact with Mr. Small since then. Mr. Small did not respond to a telephone mes- sage seeking comment. A résumé posted on LinkedIn, which identified Mr. Small as “grass-roots field director” for the Republican National Commit- tee, said he recently graduated from Catholic University in Washington. He was listed as having internships at the Catho- lic Family and Human Rights In- stitute and the office of Repre- sentative Mike Kelly, a Pennsyl- vania Republican. The Republican Party of Vir- ginia, which paid Strategic Allied Consulting $700,000 in August and September, issued a state- ment after Mr. Small was charged, saying “the actions tak- en by this individual are a direct contradiction of both his training and explicit instructions given to him.” The authorities in Harrison- burg, in the Shenandoah Valley, were first alerted to the discard- ed voter registration forms on Monday by a local retailer named Rob Johnson, who had noticed a man drive behind his store in a black Toyota Camry with Penn- sylvania license plates, then throw a white trash bag into the store’s cardboard recycling bin. Mr. Johnson said he went to move the trash out of the recy- cling so he would not incur extra charges for it. He became curious because the bag was very light- weight and discovered a manila folder containing the completed voter registration forms. The voter registration applica- tions were discarded just hours before a deadline — 5 p.m Mon- day — for submitting them. Elec- tions officials said they made sure the registrations were pro- cessed. Virginia does not register voters by party, and it was not clear why the particular registra- tion forms may have been se- lected for discarding. Man Aiding G.O.P. Effort In Vote Drive Is Charged A controversy with a link to a company already under scrutiny. Michael Moss contributed report- ing. Other points of view on the Op-Ed page seven days a week. The New York Times A16 N SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By MANNY FERNANDEZ HOUSTON — In a big state proud of its big things, few were bigger than Big Tex, symbolical- ly as well as physically. The 52- foot-tall mechanical cowboy tow- ered over the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in bluejeans, size-70 boots and a 75-gallon hat, the city’s very own Howdy Doody, if Howdy Doody were the size of a four-story building. At this year’s fair, which ends its three-week run on Sunday, Big Tex — his mouth moved as he uttered “Howdy, folks!” — was celebrating its, or his, 60th birthday. But on Friday, Big Tex caught fire and was all but de- stroyed in the flames and thick smoke. His fiberglass head, hat and boots were consumed, as were most of his fabric clothes, leaving only his outstretched arms, belt buckle and metal skeleton intact. The one-alarm fire started at 10:30 a.m., and 15 firefighters had put it out by 10:50. A spokes- man for Dallas Fire-Rescue, Lt. Joel Lavender, said investiga- tors were trying to determine the cause of the blaze, though a fair spokeswoman said the prob- lem appeared to be electrical and started at ground level. The Dallas mayor, Michael S. Rawlings, who rushed to the fairgrounds as word spread, vowed on Twitter, “We will re- build Big Tex bigger and better for the 21st century.” The state fair president, Errol McKoy, said that Big Tex would be in place for the 2013 season. Gov. Rick Perry issued a statement, calling it a “sad day for fairgoers across the Lone Star State” and expressing con- fidence Big Tex would be rebuilt. The Dallas Morning News creat- ed an online guest book for read- ers to “leave condolences, share your Big Tex memories,” and the newspaper also posted a link to the 911 call (“We’ve got a rather tall cowboy, all his clothes burned off.”). The fair’s mascot was some- thing more than a mascot. The fair named its Web site after him, bigtex.com, and he had his own official clothier, Dickies. Big Tex began his career not as Big Tex, but as another famil- iar icon: Santa Claus. In the late 1940s, merchants in Kerens, Tex., built what they considered the world’s tallest Santa Claus to promote holiday shopping. In 1951, the state fair president, R.L. Thornton, bought the components of the Kerens Santa for $750, according to “The Great State Fair of Tex- as: An Illustrated History,” by Nancy Wiley. Mr. Thornton then hired an artist, Jack Bridges, to transform them into a super-size cowboy for the 1952 fair. In 2002, when Big Tex turned 50, he was given an AARP card. It was, naturally, gigantic. Fire Fells a Really Big Cowboy in Dallas LM OTERO/ASSOCIATED PRESS, LEFT, AND JOHN M c KIBBEN, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Big Tex started life as a Santa Claus in the 1940s, but ended his days as the 52-foot-tall cowboy that greeted visitors at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. Big Tex was destroyed on Friday. By PAM BELLUCK A large study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that boys are entering puberty earlier now than several decades ago — or at least earlier than the time frame doctors have historically used as a benchmark. The study, widely considered the most reliable attempt to measure puberty in American boys, estimates that boys are showing signs of puberty six months to two years earlier than was reported in previous re- search, which historically taught that 11› was the general age pu- berty began in boys. But experts cautioned that because previous studies were smaller or used dif- ferent approaches, it is difficult to say how much earlier boys might be developing. The study echoes research on girls, which has now established a scientific consensus that they are showing breast development earlier than in the past. The study, which was to be an- nounced at the Academy of Pedi- atrics national conference on Sat- urday and published online in the journal Pediatrics, did not try to determine what might be causing earlier puberty, although it men- tioned changes in diet, less phys- ical activity and other environ- mental factors as possibilities. Experts said that without further research, implications for boys are unclear. “This should perhaps set a standard going forward for being very attentive to puberty in boys and being mindful that they’re developing earlier,” said Dolores J. Lamb, a molecular endocrinol- ogist at Baylor College of Medi- cine and president of the Ameri- can Society for Reproductive Medicine. She was not involved in the study. Praising the study as well done, she said, “Whether the dif- ference is as large as what they say on some papers 40 years ago is not clear.” However, she added, “this is going to be incredibly useful to pediatricians and urol- ogists.” The new study also found that African-American boys began pu- berty earlier than whites and Hispanics, a result that other studies have shown also applies to African-American girls. Re- searchers said that difference is most likely driven by the role of genes in puberty. On average, black boys in the study showed signs of puberty, primarily identified as growth of the testicles, at a little older than 9, while white and Hispanic boys were a little older than 10. Several experts said the study should not be seized upon as cause for alarm, but rather as a way to help parents and doctors gauge what to be aware of in boys’ development and whether to start conversations about so- cial issues sooner. “It was an important study to do, and their methodology is im- proved over prior studies in that they based their assessment of puberty in boys on what I consid- er to be the gold standard: the size of the testicles,” said Dr. Lau- ra Bachrach, a professor of pedi- atric endocrinology at Stanford University. But the study should not prompt a magazine “cover article that shows a 9-year-old boy shav- ing,” Dr. Bachrach said. And be- cause some parents fear that ear- ly puberty is related to more hor- mones in milk — speculation that is unproven — “I don’t want peo- ple to get up in arms and rush out and buy organic milk,” she said. “When patients ask me, I say, ‘Do that for political reasons or be- cause you like the taste, but don’t do it because you think it’s going to influence puberty.’” For the study, researchers en- listed about 200 pediatricians in 41 states to record information on 4,131 healthy boys ages 6 to 16 during their well-child exams. Physicians were trained to use an orchidometer, a string of oval wooden or plastic beads of in- creasing size that are compared against the size of the testicles. Urologists use orchidometers to measure testicular volume when men have fertility concerns. Nor- Boys Now Enter Puberty Younger, Study Suggests, but It’s Unclear Why A respected study echoes findings made earlier about girls. Continued on Page A17 By MALIA WOLLAN BERKELEY, Calif. — Hardly a stran- ger to political movements, this is a city that has championed free speech, no nukes, the antiwar movement and now: no sitting on the sidewalk. During years of economic downturn, cities across the country have reported rising vagrancy and rushed to pass laws banning aggressive panhandling, giving food away in public parks and even smelling foul. This bastion of populist politics is no exception. The City Council and mayor have put a measure on the November ballot that would ban sitting and lying on commercial sidewalks from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., at the risk of a $75 citation. “These laws are an example of a star- tling national trend to criminalize home- lessness,” said Maria Foscarinis, execu- tive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, an advo- cacy group. In a 2011 survey of 234 cities, the group found that 40 percent prohibited camping, 33 percent banned sitting and lying down in public places and 53 per- cent outlawed begging. Recent exam- ples of laws intended to shoo off, keep out, or otherwise restrict the homeless are everywhere. In July, Newport Beach, Calif., a seaside city south of Los Angeles, instituted rules banning public library patrons who smell, park their shopping carts near entrances or sleep in the library. In April, Denver passed a law forbidding “urban camping.” In March, Philadelphia prohibited chari- ties from distributing free food in public parks, a rule that was recently suspend- ed after church groups sued the city. Other municipalities have removed park benches, closed public restrooms and banned sleeping in cars. “Making it a crime just to sit here?” griped Chris Escobar, 23, who left Mi- ami five weeks ago after losing a job as a delivery driver for a sandwich shop. “This is not the Berkeley I’ve heard about my whole life,” said Mr. Escobar, who hitched a ride west with only a backpack, a yellow dog named Marley and a tiger-striped kitten on a leash. “This is not the Berkeley I came for.” That might come as welcome news to proponents of the city’s Measure S and some business owners along Telegraph Avenue, where Mr. Escobar and his ilk spend most days hunkered down on the sidewalk with their belongings, pets and cardboard signs. “Some people don’t come to Tele- graph or downtown to shop or eat be- cause they are intimidated,” said John Caner, chief executive of the Downtown Berkeley Association, a group repre- senting commercial property owners. Some small-business owners say they hope the measure will curb what they describe as roving bands of nomadic youths, many of whom openly use and deal drugs, keep pit bulls, panhandle and scare off potential customers. Several small businesses, including a coffee shop and a gelato store here, fault the homeless crowd for a recent 30 per- cent drop in business. But opponents of Measure S say such blame is misguided. “When economic times are hard there is a tendency to scapegoat,” said Bob Offer-Westort, an organizer of the groups opposing the measure, which include dozens of clergy members and the student government at the University of California, Berkeley. On any given night in the United States, there are an estimated 650,000 people like Mr. Escobar without an in- door place to sleep. At last count, Berke- ley had some 680 homeless people, far exceeding the 135 beds available year- round in local emergency shelters. Many cities are similarly stretched, un- able to provide services to the growing number of people seeking help. Last year, 86 percent of the cities surveyed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors re- ported an increase in requests for emer- gency food assistance. City officials here say they already spend $2.8 million annually on services for the needy. But the Obama administration has cautioned cities against trying to cope with homeless populations by passing laws against “act of living” crimes like sleeping or sitting. In March, the United States Inter- agency Council on Homelessness, a group of 19 federal agencies including the Departments of Justice, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Devel- opment, issued a report warning that such measures can be costly, ineffective and lead to lawsuits. “Criminalization policies further marginalize men and women who are experiencing homeless- ness, fuel inflammatory attitudes, and may even unduly restrict constitutional- ly protected liberties,” the report read. In recent years, advocates for the homeless have filed suit, and in some cases received multimillion-dollar set- tlements, after cities cleaned up indi- gent encampments, in some cases de- stroying the property of the homeless. The courts found such actions violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. Ordinances prohibiting begging have been found to violate the First Amend- ment right to free speech. Other law- suits have been filed on behalf of the homeless for violations of the Cconstitu- tion’s equal protection clause. “What cities are doing is criminaliz- ing behavior, not homelessness,” said James Brooks, a program director at the National League of Cities. “Cities are acting under state law to create safe en- vironments.” Proponents of Berkeley’s measure say it is modeled on best practices culled from the experiences of cities like Seattle; San Francisco; Santa Monica, Calif.; and Santa Cruz, Calif. “Out here you can’t sleep, you can’t find a place to go to the bathroom, cops are always telling you to move,” said Josh Keys, 35, who has lived on the street in most of those cities. For now, he is on Telegraph Avenue. Last year, Mr. Keys was ticketed for sitting on the street in Santa Cruz but he says he has no intention of paying the fine. He has been homeless since he was a teenager. If a city gets too cold or re- strictive, he moves on. “When you’re homeless, you feel like a hunted ani- mal,” he said. Free Speech Is One Thing, Vagrants, Another Berkeley Would Ban Sitting And Lying in Commercial Areas PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAMIN RAHIMIAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES James Young, co-owner of Paul’s Shoe Repair in Berkeley, Calif., supports the proposed ban. Allen Lange, homeless in Berkeley since 2002, sprawled Tuesday outside the public library. A mural salutes the social movements of the 1960s on Telegraph Avenue. Critics see a growing trend to “criminalize homelessness.” Ø N A17 NATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By GINA KOLATA A large federal study of wheth- er diet and weight loss can pre- vent heart attacks and strokes in overweight and obese people with Type 2 diabetes has ended two years ahead of schedule be- cause the intensive program did not help. “I was surprised,” said Rena Wing, the study’s chairwoman and a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Uni- versity’s medical school. Like many, she had assumed diet and exercise would help, in part because short-term studies had found that those strategies lowered blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. But, Dr. Wing added, “You do a study because you don’t know the answer.” Still, medical experts said there were many benefits to diet and exercise even if they did not reduce cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes. About 25 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes. Many are overweight or obese. On average, the disease increases heart dis- ease risk by 2 to 2› times, said Dr. Ronald Kahn, chief academic officer at the Joslin Diabetes Cen- ter in Boston. It seemed logical that diet and exercise would help reduce that risk. An earlier federal study found that an intense diet and ex- ercise program helped prevent overweight or obese people with elevated blood sugar levels from crossing the line into diabetes. The hope was that a similar pro- gram could also protect people from heart disease. The study randomly assigned 5,145 overweight or obese people with Type 2 diabetes to either a rigorous diet and exercise regi- men or to sessions in which they got general health information. The diet involved 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day for those weighing less than 250 pounds and 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day for those weighing more. The exercise pro- gram was at least 175 minutes a week of moderate exercise. But 11 years after the study be- gan, researchers concluded it was futile to continue — the two groups had nearly identical rates of heart attacks, strokes and car- diovascular deaths. The investigators are analyz- ing their data and will be pub- lishing them in research papers. But the outcome is clear, said Dr. David Nathan, a principal in- vestigator and director of the Di- abetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. “We have to have an adult conversation about this,” he said. “This was a nega- tive result.” The study participants as- signed to the intensive exercise and diet program did lose about 5 percent of their weight and man- aged to keep it off during the study. That was enough to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. “We showed that meaningful weight loss — let’s put ‘meaning- ful’ in quotes — could be estab- lished and maintained,” Dr. Na- than said. “To me that means we did a good experiment. We had a fair test of this hypothesis.” Some, like Dr. John Buse, di- rector of the University of North Carolina’s diabetes center, said the study confirmed what they would have expected. Dr. Buse, a former president of the American Diabetes Association, said treat- ments including smoking cessa- tion, statins to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure medications are so powerful that they could swamp the modest effects of weight loss or exercise on cardio- vascular risk. Other medical experts said they were waiting for release of the detailed data collected by the researchers before interpreting the study. “It is hard to tell anything with- out the details of the study,” said Dr. Irl Hirsch, medical director of the Diabetes Care Center at the University of Washington. Dr. Nathan, though, said the re- sults meant that people with dia- betes might have a choice. The group assigned to diet and exer- cise ended up with about the same levels of cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar as those in the control group, but the dieters used fewer medications. “That may be the choice we are highlighting,” Dr. Nathan said. “You can take more medica- tions — and more, I should say, expensive medications — or you can chose a lifestyle intervention and use fewer drugs and come to the same cardiovascular disease risk.” He is not going to say which is better, Dr. Nathan added. That is up to the individual. But, he said, “those are real choices.” Diabetes Study Ends Early With a Surprising Result Diet and weight loss were not as effective as doctors assumed. ity that relieving people of chores at home will simply free them up to work more. But David Lewin, a compensation expert and man- agement professor at the Uni- versity of California, Los Ange- les, said he viewed the perks as part of a growing effort by Ameri- can business to reward people with time and peace of mind in- stead of more traditional finan- cial tools, like stock options and bonuses. “They’re trying to get at peo- ple’s larger lives and sanity,” Mr. Lewin said. “You might call it the bang for the nonbuck.” At Deloitte, the consulting firm, employees can get a backup care worker if an aging parent or grandparent needs help. The company subsidizes personal trainers and nutritionists, and of- fers round-the-clock counseling service for help with issues like marital strife and infertility. De- loitte executives, and other ex- perts, said they believe that such benefits were likely to spread. “The workplace was built on the assumption that there was somebody at home dealing with the home front,” said Anne Weisberg, a longtime human re- sources executive who helped write a book about new kinds of workplace policies. Not only is that no longer the case, she said, but the work-life pressures seem to be building. “There’s a greater awareness that we’re pushing things to the limit and something’s got to give,” she said. Hannah Valantine, a cardiolo- gist, professor and associate dean at the Stanford School of Medicine, said the university’s experiment with helping out at home was part of a broader effort to support doctors, given their hyperkinetic pace of life. “If you’re coming home at the end of the day exhausted and you have a pile of cleaning to do, it’s the kind of things that leads rap- idly to burnout, and burned-out physicians don’t give the best care,” Dr. Valantine said. “We’re trying to send a very strong mes- sage that the institution cares about you and about your life.” Some compensation experts argue these types of perks ulti- mately do little to attract employ- ees and might obscure more fun- damental problems at companies that have trouble retaining talent. That is a challenge Stanford owns up to, given the brain drain suffered by academic hospitals, where relentless demands in- clude treating patients, writing grants, doing research and trav- eling to conferences. So 18 months ago, Stanford hired a consulting firm called Jump Associates to better un- derstand why so many academic doctors feel burned out. The com- pany videotaped them from the time they woke up, through the workday and until they and their families went to sleep. In one video, a kidney special- ist told a story that shocked the researchers: while she was on maternity leave, she bought a minivan to ferry the children of friends and neighbors to school and sports practices. That way, the doctor explained, she would be able to ask for fa- vors when she returned to work — and that, in theory, would en- able her to juggle the dual de- mands of work and family. In another interview, a doctor in her eighth month of pregnancy told researchers that she was signing up for more on-call shifts than ever. Her motivation? While she was not required to do the ex- tra work, she said she hoped it would give her a clear conscience when she took a few months off with her baby. Dr. Valantine said the findings had led her to scrap the idea that people should strive for “work- life balance” and instead think in terms of “work-life integration.” That shifting mind-set — the idea that life and work must be blended rather than separated — is increasingly common, accord- ing to other doctors, scholars who study work habits and the gener- ally well-compensated workers of Silicon Valley like Andrew Sin- kov, 31, a vice president of mar- keting at Evernote, a digital note- taking service. “‘Life-work balance’ is a non- sense term,” Mr. Sinkov said. “The idea that I have to segment work and life is based on some archaic lunar-calendar thing.” Given that his employer is pay- ing to clean his apartment, Mr. Sinkov and his girlfriend do not have to quibble about cleanup du- ties. The value of the perk is greater than the money saved, he said. “It eliminates a decision I have to make,” Mr. Sinkov said. “It’s just happening and it’s good, and I don’t have to think about it.” His boss, Mr. Libin, also gives employees $1,000 to spend on va- cation, but it has to be “a real va- cation.” “You can’t visit the in-laws; you have to go somewhere,” Mr. Libin said, adding that he did not see these perks just as ways to keep his work force — and their families — engaged. He said he also tended to be frugal as a chief executive, preferring these types of peace-of-mind benefits to, say, business-class travel, which the company does not pay for. “Happy workers make better products,” he said. “The output we care about has everything to do with your state of mind.” At Google, the company has expanded its benefits beyond free meals, dry cleaning and oth- er services on campus to offering $500 to new parents. The compa- ny has also arranged for fresh fish to be delivered to the office for employees to take home. “What you’ve seen is benefits moving away from free food into thinking more holistically about individuals and their health,” said Jordan Newman, a Google spokesman. “And a lot of that happens outside of the office.” At Facebook, employees can take home a free dinner or, if working late, their families can come in to eat with them, leading to a regular sight of children in the campus cafeteria. The com- pany also pays $3,000 per family in child care expenses, and offers adoption assistance of up to $5,000. Slater Tow, a Facebook spokes- man, said company was not try- ing to be New Age but simply strategic. “We don’t want to give aro- matherapy for your dog,” he said. “We want things that are func- tional for you and your family.” To Reduce Stress at Work, Bosses Pitch In at Home DREW KELLY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Andrew Sinkov in the San Francisco apartment he shares with his girlfriend, Alina Liberman. Rewarding workers with time and peace of mind instead of financial incentives. From Page A1 mal adult size is about 22 to 25 milliliters, Dr. Lamb said. In boys, 2 milliliters is pre-pubertal; some doctors consider 3 millili- ters and others 4 milliliters as an indicator of puberty, so the study included analysis for both sizes. Doctors in the study also eval- uated boys using the Tanner scale, a five-stage ranking sys- tem developed from a 40-year-old British study. While Tanner is the textbook benchmark, doctors in- creasingly consider it outmoded because it involved only 228 white boys in juvenile detention in London and evaluated them from photographs. In the new study doctors also took note of pubic hair, but, said Dr. Bachrach, “pubic hair is very very misleading” because it is a later, less predictable indicator. The study’s lead author, Mar- cia E. Herman-Giddens, a child and maternal health specialist at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, said she originally proposed an additional measure used in Europe: identifying through urinalysis, or by asking, if boys had begun to ejaculate. But she said that urinalysis would have made the study more expensive, and colleagues re- viewing the proposal “just freaked out” about the prospect of asking boys about ejaculation, wondering, “How would a child understand that?” Dr. Herman-Giddens led a large study on girls’ puberty in 1997, and its conclusion that girls were developing earlier generat- ed great controversy. Now, though, experts generally agree that subsequent research has shown breast development as young as 7 or 8. With menstrua- tion, however, studies conflict: some suggest it is starting earli- er, while others suggest the age has not changed much. Experts said this could mean that puberty is beginning sooner but lasting longer, or that different physio- logical processes underlie breast development and menstruation. With girls, there is also scien- tific consensus that heavier girls enter puberty earlier, which makes sense, experts said, be- cause body fat is tied to estrogen production. In the study of boys, weight was not analyzed intensively, but the heaviest boys were develop- ing earlier than what Dr. Her- man-Giddens called “the little bit- ty skinny boys.” Experts said it is unclear if weight gain precipi- tates puberty or is a conse- quence. Some experts said that while earlier development in girls can be worrisome because girls may be treated as more socially ma- ture than they are, implications for boys are uncertain. “With girls, the first signs are obvious, and social ramifications are much more pronounced and they’re negative,” said Dr. Wil- liam P. Adelman, associate pro- fessor of pediatrics at the Uni- formed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and a member of the Acad- emy of Pedatrics committee on adolescents. But early-maturing boys “get called on more in school, tend to be better athletes. I’m less likely to get a parent of a boy saying, ‘Oh my gosh, my boy’s developing — he’s too young,’” Dr. Adelman said. More common is, “My boy, he’s a fresh- man in high school, his best friend is 6 feet already and he’s 4-11.” Dr. Frank M. Biro, a puberty researcher and director of ado- lescent medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, said there are some common implications for girls and boys. “If kids are looking older, it means that parents should be monitoring them, because that superego doesn’t kick in until late teens or early 20s,” he said. “The kids need a hand. Know what they’re doing.” Puberty Starting Earlier in Boys, New Research Suggests From Page A16 A18 Ø N NATIONAL THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 Ranschaert guided a conversa- tion about the values Jesus con- sidered blessed and about the solace that faith can provide. “I want you to write about a time when you had to rely on God,” he said. “A time when you felt beat down, or there was something wrong, when your spirit was just down.” A girl asked, “When someone died?” Mr. Ranschaert replied, “It could be that.” As if he could TUCSON — On the Sunday night before his ninth week as a teacher, Daniel Ranschaert sat down to a communal dinner of tortilla casserole with his house- mates. All eight of them had come to this desert city after finishing college in the Midwest. They share a rented home, modest paychecks and a commitment to educate the poor, the struggling and the striv- ing in Tucson’s Catholic schools. Before eating, the young tea- chers made the sign of the cross, clasped hands and said grace. Then, as they dug into the casse- role, they talked about the test on Mesopotamia, the lesson on root words, all the things Monday morning would bring in their var- ious classrooms. Because that day would also be Columbus Day, they slid into a conversation about the Spanish explorers and conquistadors, a tender subject in schools filled with Latino and American Indian children. For a time, as he was finishing his studies at Wabash College in Indiana, Mr. Ranschaert had thought about going into busi- ness. He kept hearing, though, about a program created nearby at the University of Notre Dame called the Alliance for Catholic Education, which put idealistic young teachers in especially needy schools. And he recalled what his own Catholic education had meant as a bulwark in a childhood marked by his parents’ divorce and his brother’s nearly fatal liver disease. So now, 23 years old and five months past graduating, he was sitting at dinner in his gym shorts and tank top, looking very much the bro, but feeling a mixture of anticipation and anxiety. He wasn’t moving through his lesson plans on schedule. He was having to repeat so much material. Was he giving his fifth graders every- thing he meant to give? “You try to trust that you have an impact,” he said, “whether they learn every thing or some things.” In his imperfect way, Mr. Ran- schaert and his housemates — Ruby Amezquita, David Bernica, Kevin De La Montaigne, Matt Gring, Rachel Hamilton, Eliza- beth Shadley, Caitlin Wrend — were filling not just an education- al but a spiritual gap. Notre Dame was providing them with training in education and Catho- lic theology, especially the social teachings on service. They, in turn, had committed two years of their young lives. Devoting themselves to soci- ety’s overlooked and left-behind, voluntarily accepting a wage of $1,000 a month that is roughly at the federal poverty line, living in intentional Christian households, the 1,600 teachers produced by ACE in its 19-year history have formed the 21st-century equiva- lent of the sisters and brothers from Catholic religious orders whose sacrifices for decades sus- tained the American parochial school system. “Perhaps the ACErs were an anticipation of what the religious life would look like in the next generation,” the priest and au- thor Andrew M. Greeley wrote in his novel “The Bishop at the Lake.” The Rev. Nathan Wills, a for- mer ACE teacher who recently visited with the Tucson cohort, looked backward for an analogy. “It’s a reflection of the disciples,” he said. “This is what the apos- tles did when Jesus sent them to teach. They set up communities in the midst of difficult circum- stances.” Thirteen hours after dinner, now wearing shirt and tie, Mr. Ranschaert stood before his stu- dents at a 150-year-old mission school on an Indian reservation south of Tucson. The second peri- od of his day was for religion class, and today’s lesson was on the Beatitudes. Weaving through the rows, Mr. intuit how he looked to the reser- vation’s children — this white dude in glasses and nice clothes, what could ever have gone wrong in his life? — he talked a little bit about his brother’s illness and the recent death of the grandfa- ther who had been more like a parent. One pupil wrote, “When I was being bullied.” Another wrote, “When me and my BFF started fighting.” And a third wrote, “When my Dad went to jail.” Mr. Ranschaert asked what you could do for someone feeling so hurt. He deflected the class clown, who said, “Beat him up,” and went on to the other an- swers. “Hug them.” “Invite them over.” “Give him a teddy bear.” Then he talked about the forgive- ness and mercy Jesus bestowed. The religion period was almost over. “When was a time,” Mr. Ranschaert asked, “when you forgave someone or someone for- gave you?” The children ner- vously giggled. It was the sound of conscience being stirred. Back at the rented house that night, Father Wills came over to celebrate Mass in the den, joking about how he had bought the sac- ramental wine at a convenience store. Then came takeout pizza, and some Monday-night football on TV and the inevitable return to the inevitably waiting home- work. Lately, Mr. Ranschaert had gotten a tip from Ms. Hamilton and Ms. Amezquita, to assign his fifth graders to each write him a letter so he could then write back. The children told him about their favorite movies, what they did over the weekend, whom they had a crush on. They asked Mr. Ranschaert if he was married and had children. One boy, who had been so espe- cially shy in class, invited the teacher to come and watch his youth-league football game. Mr. Ranschaert wrote back to prom- ise he would, just as his grandfa- ther had always been there for his baseball games. By touching those children’s souls, he felt something within his own. “My faith wasn’t always the strongest,” he said. “I didn’t go to a Catholic college. I’d go to Mass with my friends, but you get lost in everything else. But I did want to give something back. I did want to show thanks for the tal- ents I was given. Doing this work, praying at dinner, it has forced me to grow, and to build these bonds.” E-mail: sgf1@columbia.edu PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Daniel Ranschaert, in checked shirt, sharing down time with his housemates, teachers with the Alliance for Catholic Education,in their basement. Serving Needy Schools, Brothers and Sisters of the 21st Century SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN ON RELIGION Teachers like Mr. Ranschaert, top, and Caitlin Wrend, above,at San Xavier Mission School are a modern equivalent of those from religious orders who filled parochial schools in the past. By LIZETTE ALVAREZ MIAMI — A judge in the sec- ond-degree murder case against George Zimmerman, the Sanford, Fla., man who said he shot an un- armed teenager, Trayvon Martin, in self-defense, ruled on Friday that Mr. Martin’s school and so- cial media records should be pro- vided to the defense. The judge, Debra S. Nelson of Seminole County Circuit Court, said Mr. Martin’s Twitter, Face- book and school records were rel- evant in the self-defense case. In those instances, showing whether a victim “had an alleged propensity to violence” or ag- gression is germane, the judge said. Mr. Zimmerman, 29, who at- tended the hearing, told the po- lice that he shot Mr. Martin on the night of Feb. 26 only after the teenager attacked him, breaking his nose and hurting his head. Mr. Martin, 17, was walking in the rain back to a house where he was a guest when he was spotted by Mr. Zimmerman, the neigh- borhood’s crime watch leader, who found him suspicious. The trial is scheduled to begin June 10. Hoping to create a fuller por- trait of Mr. Martin, Mark M. O’Mara, Mr. Zimmerman’s lawyer, argued that the teen- ager’s postings on Facebook and Twitter could reveal relevant details about his inter- ests and atti- tudes. Mr. Martin had posted, among other things, videos and pictures that suggested he was somehow involved in mixed martial arts, Mr. O’Mara said after the hear- ing. The school records are impor- tant because Mr. Martin had been suspended from his Miami high school for 10 days for pos- sessing a baggie with traces of marijuana; the teenager had been suspended twice before. “The issue in this case is, who did what during those couple of minutes that we don’t know what happened,” Mr. O’Mara said. “Was the victim the aggressor?” The defense also got permis- sion for access to the social me- dia postings of a Miami girl who said she was on the phone with Mr. Martin just before the shoot- ing. Afterward, there were posts online describing how she was too devastated to attend school or Mr. Martin’s memorial service, Mr. O’Mara said in court. “What I have seen online,” Mr. O’Mara said, “contests those sug- gestions.” But Mr. O’Mara was quick to acknowledge that persuading Facebook and Twitter to release information to him — if that is, in fact, the only way he can get it — would not be easy. Asked later if he was ready to battle the two social media com- panies, he replied, “I’m not pre- pared at all to take on Facebook and Twitter.” Appearing outside the court- house, Mr. Martin’s mother and father said they were distressed by efforts to paint their son as the aggressor. “Trayvon was the victim,” said Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father. “And I think it’s wrong that we at- tack the victim.” In a possible boost to his case, Mr. O’Mara said that a Sanford police sergeant — a prosecution witness — stated during a deposi- tion that the department’s top of- ficers, several sergeants and a lo- cal prosecutor agreed over sev- eral meetings that there was not enough evidence to bring charges against Mr. Zimmerman. Mr. O’Mara plans to depose the sergeant again. “This information was not oth- erwise disclosed to us,” Mr. O’Mara said. “A door gets cracked open a lit- tle bit, then a lot more light rush- es in.” Judge Rules Martin Files Can Be Used By Defense George Zimmerman By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — A judge on Friday rejected a request for hearings from three men impris- oned by the United States mil- itary for nearly a decade in Af- ghanistan without trials. The judge ruled that new information was not sufficient to undermine a previous appeals court ruling against them. The ruling by Judge John D. Bates was a victory for the Oba- ma administration and a blow to efforts to extend to detainees at the Parwan detention complex at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, the same habeas corpus rights that the Supreme Court has granted to similar prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The men are two Yemenis and a Tunisian who say they were captured outside Afghanistan and are being held by mistake. They want a judge to review the evidence and order their release. In 2009, Judge Bates ruled that they had a right to hearings. But the Court of Appeals for the Dis- trict of Columbia reversed him in 2010. It cited the government’s declaration that the detention op- eration was not permanent, the practical obstacles raised by it being in a war zone, and the po- tential negative diplomatic con- sequences. Their lawyers, Tina Foster and Ramzi Kassem, argued, however, that new evidence had called into question the basis for that ruling. Among other things, they not- ed, the United States is turning over most Afghan detainees, but not non-Afghan ones, to Afghan control. A court is now holding trials at Bagram. And President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff said the Afghan government did not want custody of non-Afghan de- tainees captured outside the country and favored “adjudica- tion of their case” by a court. The Justice Department ar- gued that the appeals court’s ra- tionale remained valid. The judge portrayed the material as mixed, adding, “More important than these arguments, however, is the fact that the court simply sees no way to accept petitioners’ argu- ment under the framework laid out by the D.C. Circuit.” Ms. Foster said the men would appeal.   The United States is holding about 50 non-Afghans at Bagram, about a dozen of whom were cap- tured outside of Afghanistan. Judge Denies Hearing Request From 3 Afghanistan Detainees MIDWEST Keystone Pipeline Expected to Restart TransCanada said it planned to resume moving oil through its 2,100-mile Keystone XL pipeline on Sat- urday. The pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after tests indicated potential problems in a section running from Illinois to Missouri. Heavy rains have slowed inspection efforts, but the company said it expected oil to resume flowing on Saturday. A fed- eral inspector has been sent to the site. A company spokesman said no leaks had been detected but de- clined to provide more details until the inspection was completed. The pipeline carries about 590,000 barrels of crude a day from Canada’s oil sands to fa- cilities in the Midwest. (AP) WEST California: Donation Under Scrutiny The group California Common Cause on Friday asked the state’s campaign finance watchdog to in- vestigate an $11 million political contribution from a nonprofit group based in Phoenix, as Gov. Jerry Brown called on the donors to “show their faces.” The contribution was received this week by the Small Business Action Committee PAC, a political action committee based in Orange County that is campaigning against a tax initiative by Mr. Brown and in favor of one that would erode union power. California Common Cause called the donation from the group, Americans for Responsible Leadership, possibly the largest “secret political donation in Cali- fornia history.” It asked the California Fair Political Practices Commission to investigate under a new campaign finance law that requires groups to dis- close the source of money to be used for political ac- tivity. (AP) SOUTH South Carolina: Diocese Leaves Church After years of controversy over the ordination of gays and other issues, the conservative Diocese of South Carolina split from the Episcopal Church this week. The split came after the leader of the diocese, Bishop Mark Lawrence, was notified by the Dis- ciplinary Board for Bishops that he was considered to have abandoned the national church. A board con- sidered similar issues a year ago and reached the opposite conclusion. The diocese has 70 congrega- tions with about 29,000 parishioners. (AP) WASHINGTON Inauguration Web Site Is Established Congress has set up a Web site and a Facebook page as it prepares for the 57th presidential inauguration on Jan. 21. The Web site includes information about the inauguration and about past ceremonies, ac- cording to Senator Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat who is a member of the Joint Congres- sional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The Web site is at www.inaugural.senate.gov, and the Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/JCCIC. (AP) National Briefing AVE MARIA CHAPEL Catholic Traditionalist Center 210 MAPLE AVE (off Post Ave) WESTBURY,L.I.,N.Y.11590 TEL:(516) 333-6470 TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS ASWASOFFEREDBYTHE LATE FATHERGOMMARA.DE PAUW SUNDAYMASS @9 a.m. FIRST SATURDAYS&HOLYDAYS: @9:30 a.m. DAILY:RADIOMASS VIDEOINTERNET MASS www.latinmass-ctm.org A19 Ø N SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By WINNIE HU When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the city was planning to develop new super-small apartments — called “microunits” — it represented another step toward his ambitious goal of building or preserving 165,000 homes for poor and moderate-income families across New York by 2014. But some housing advocates, commu- nity leaders and elected officials say this latest proposal only highlights that one demographic group has been left out: large, poor families. This group includes members as dis- parate as West Africans in the South Bronx, Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and Bangladeshi in Queens,who are united by their inability to afford the high prices for large market-rate rentals and their inability to find publicly subsidized alternatives even as the overall housing stock has swelled. So Mahamadou Tounkara and his wife and six children squeeze into one room of a market-rate, three-bedroom apartment in the South Bronx that they share with two other families because they cannot afford the monthly $1,112 rent alone. Twenty more large families at their mosque are in a similar bind even as several new city-financed build- ings have risen nearby. “It’s hard to live like this,” said Mr. Tounkara, who is a part-time auto me- chanic. “You want more space, but if you don’t have money, how are you go- ing to pay for it?” The overwhelming majority of city- financed housing has consisted of small- er apartments — studios, one- and two- bedrooms — in part because city offi- cials see the greatest need for them based on demographic patterns, and be- cause many developers say the city pro- vides subsidies for projects in a way that does not encourage building larger apartments. The shortage of housing for bigger families has been exacerbat- ed because many of the existing apart- ments with three or more bedrooms in the city’s public housing stock currently have only one or two occupants. The struggles of these families come as those who have long applauded the efforts of the mayor, who has been cred- ited with overseeing the city’s largest expansion of affordable housing since the 1980s, look more closely at the re- sults. “We’ve learned as a community that having a big number to shoot for is im- portant,” said Bernie Carr, the coordina- tor for Housing First, a coalition of groups. “But if you focus too much on it, it can be easy to lose a sense of where are the specific needs.” The issue has also raised the question of whether it is fair to focus limited re- sources on a small minority. Just 11 per- cent of the city’s 3.1 million households have five people or more, with the larg- est share in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, according to an analysis of cen- sus data by Queens College. Citywide, the average household size is 2.5. “It’s not the city’s job to give open- ended subsidies and reward people for having more members in the family,” said Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Re- search. “It is responsible behavior not to have children until you can reason- ably support them.” When the city approved a plan in 2009 for a large percentage of multibedroom apartments in a new affordable housing Some See Little Room for Large, Poor Families in Mayor’s Housing Plan Continued on Page A21 Google me, Travis Tremell said. See what comes up. The first item on the screen is a short 2006 article in The New York Times. The headline read, “Man Charged in Killing After Brooklyn Robbery.” Travis Tremell’s was the first name that popped up in the article. The second was Earl Williams, shot dead in a Bedford-Stuyvesant basement two weeks before. Now, almost six years later, Mr. Tre- mell said, “I was arrested for a murder I didn’t do.” That he said this standing on a sunny Brooklyn sidewalk, not inside a prison, lent him some credibility. None of Travis Tremell’s Google hits call himan angel. The eldest of his mother’s five children, Mr. Tremell, then 21, was charged with selling crack earlier that year. He pleaded guilty and, after two months in jail, was ordered to enter a drug program for the remainder of his sentence. On Dec. 15, 2006, the drug program not yet completed, Mr. Tremell was walking to the store for a “loosie” ciga- rette. “A black truck pulled up, and a couple of fugitive officers got out,” he said. They arrested him and charged him with killing a man he swore he had never heard of. On Dec. 2, 2006, at 6:28 p.m. — the time would prove important — three armed robbers forced their way into an apartment at 131 Decatur Street. There was little to steal, and at some point, a neighbor named Earl Williams was “summoned” to the basement via cell- phone, the witnesses said. Mr. Williams was 52, originally from Montgomery, Ala., and soon to be wed. He answered the call, went to the apart- ment and was shot in the shoulder, a wound that sounds less severe than it was, for he was struck from the side and the bullet passed horizontally through his chest, piercing both lungs. He died a few hours later. Three witnesses picked Mr. Tremell out of a lineup or from photos, the police said. “I did not rob anyone,” he told de- tectives, according to a police report. “Who said that I did it? I did not do it.” His drug sentence unfinished, the young man was shipped upstate to pris- on. The murder charge upgraded him to maximum-security status, and he went to Attica Correctional Facility. He was uneasy, but his mother was terrified. She visited him, and brought along her 5-year-old son, Devante, who, now 11, remembers it well. “I saw some big people, and he was scared and smaller than them,” Devante said this week. Of his mother, he said, “She was getting depressed and losing weight and her hair was falling out.” Mr. Tremell told his mother, “I could prove it wasn’t me.” He told his appoint- ed lawyer, David T. Roche, that he had called a car service to take him to see a girlfriend in Park Slope that afternoon. Mr. Roche called United Express Car and Limo Service, and there it was, call No. 1688, originating at Mr. Tremell’s aunt’s house in Bedford-Stuyvesant, destination Eighth Avenue. The time was 5:40 p.m. Mr. Tremell said that after visiting his girlfriend, he took another car service home, after walking directly to a dispatcher’s office. That service told Mr. Roche that visits like that should be logged, but usually are not. Mr. Roche drove the route himself. Could Mr. Tremell have gone to Park Slope and back in 48 minutes? It would have been tight. Mr. Tremell’s story seemed more likely.“It has the ring of truth to it,” Mr. Roche said. As the alibi developed, the prosecu- tors seemed to have found other evi- dence clearing Mr. Tremell, and the charges against him were dismissed on April 4, 2007, almost four months after his arrest. He got the news in a Brook- lyn courtroom, only to be shipped back to Attica for another month, still serving his drug sentence. Asked what Attica was like, Mr. Tremell just stared. “You can’t just go to jail and come home normal,” he said. He dwells — and dwells — on the article people can read online, about the murder charge, and he thinks it cost him financial aid at a col- lege he applied to. He is out of work, but concedes he hasn’t been looking very hard. He assumes the arrest will keep an employer from hiring him. He reads the article on the computer “and just stares,” his mother said. Why was an article about his exoner- ation never written? Pick a reason. There is no indication it was announced by the prosecution or the police, and neither Mr. Tremell nor his family or lawyer called reporters with the news. The homicide was not the sort of high- profile case that led newspapers to rou- tinely update its status. It went unno- ticed. By chance, Mr. Tremell ran into a photographer for The Times, Todd Heis- ler, this summer and told him his story. Now there is a new hit on Google. There are two suspects in Mr. Wil- liams’s murder, the police said. Both are in federal prison on other charges. An Arrest in the News, An Exoneration in Silence TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Travis Tremell, 26,was charged in 2006 with a murder in Brook- lynthat he didnot commit. MICHAEL WILSON CRIME SCENE E-mail: crimescene@nytimes.com Twitter: @mwilsonnyt ON E-MAIL: “I did send a few e-mails. The first one I sent 16 times.” Sally Anderson, 78 ON SMARTPHONES: “People say, ‘What if there is an emergency?’ I say, ‘There’s nine people around me who have one.’ I’ve never had that emergency, and neither have they.” Sandy Guzik, 72 “I think it’s going to end badly, this lack of contact in the world.” Bob Moran, 76 ON THE SEMINAR: “It was fascinating. But it’s not my generation,so I didn’t know what he was talking about half the time.” Robert McCarl, 81 Better Informed, But Still Skeptical Comments from people who attended an Aging Well seminar on Wi-Fi and smartphones at the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich Village on Thursday. By CARA BUCKLEY Mary Kipin, 82, has a computer, but all she really uses it for is to play bridge. Marie Mutz, also in her 80s, is eager to find out what a PDF is — “I’m waiting for my neighbor to tell me,” she said. Sally Anderson, 78, has been promising her- self a new computer for years — her old one was a dial-up that spent the bulk of the early aughts gathering dust. “I did send a few e-mails,” Ms. An- derson, who lives near Gramercy Park, said. “The first one I sent 16 times.” Thus did the three women find themselves in a ground-floor room, bathed in fluorescence,on Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church, in Greenwich Village, just north of Washington Square Park. Every month the church hosts a seminar as part of its Aging Well series, and on this night the topic was “What’s Wi-Fi and Do I Really Need a Smartphone?” New York may be one of the most wired, smartphone addicted- slash-addled cities in the nation, but the pace of the technological leaps has left a lot of older peo- ple behind, wondering what they were missing and whether it was worth finding out. About three dozen people attended, most in their 70s and 80s. Many came armed with an- swers of their own. Whatever Wi-Fi was, it sound- ed a little scary, untrustworthy or hopelessly com- plicated. As for smartphones, they had turned people, body snatcher-like, into distracted drones. “They’ve dropped out of social intercourse on the street,” said Bob Moran, a 76-year-old mostly retired social worker who owns a dying computer but no cellphone. Mr. Moran said he cursed out people who chatted on smartphones in restaurants or who texted their way down sidewalks, heads in that telltale bend. “I think it’s going to end badly, this lack of contact in the world,” he said. Sandy Guzik, 72, proud to own neither a smartphone nor a cellphone, was there “so I can tell people even more about why I don’t want one.” “People say, ‘What if there’s an emergency?’ I say, ‘There’s nine people around me who have one,’” she said. “I’ve never had that emergency, and neither have they.” “I’ve seen children neglected,” she added darkly. “I’ve seen friends neglected.” Several others said they were there for the light dinner that was served beforehand — $7 a head for cold cuts on baguettes with tortilla chips, soda, coffee and a pastry. Still, the place really filled in at 6:45 p.m., when the seminar began. Robert Finkenthal stood before them, a tech- nology trainer at NYU Langone Medical Center who spent six years working at a nonprofit or- ganization that specialized in teaching technology to older people. Many of his elderly students felt fearful or anxious about technology, he said be- forehand, or were embarrassed about not being in the digital mainstream. “The worst is not knowing what it is, not knowing how to get there, and knowing that everyone around you is completely hooked in,” Mr. Finkenthal said. PowerPoint slides glowed on a roll-down screen. Mr. Finkenthal explained what smart- phones were, and what the differences between them were, and what apps were. “Has anybody heard of Angry Birds?” he asked. Murmurs followed. Not one hand went up. He moved onto Wi-Fi. “WiFi,” a seminar participant wrote on a pad of paper, adding the phonetic pronun- ciation for Wi: “Y.” After an hour and a half, Mr. Finkenthal took questions. Do all smartphones have In- ternet connections? Is there a way to turn the Internet off? Did he use a headset and was he concerned about radiation? Could you watch an Audrey Hepburn movie on your phone? Afterward, the Rev. Richard Pease, who organizes the seminars, thanked Mr. Finken- thal, saying, “I’m too old to understand this, but I think it’s great.” The audience began filtering out. Ms. Guzik said the seminar reinforced her re- solve to never get Wi-Fi. The Internet was ad- dictive enough, she said; when she logged on at li- braries, whole afternoons vanished. Ms. Anderson said that when she did get around to buying a computer, she would be sure to get wireless, to obviate the need for wires. Robert McCarl, 81, found it terrifying that smartphones could pinpoint the user’s location. “They could put a bomb on your head anytime,” he said. Who could? “Your enemies,” he replied. “Your slobbering enemies.” Still, Mr. McCarl deemed Mr. Finkenthal’s presentation “terrific.” “It was fascinating,” he said as he rose to leave. “But it’s not my generation, so I didn’t know what he was talking about half the time.” PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT STOLARIK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES In a City Drunk on Wi-Fi, a Generation of Teetotalers An Aging Well seminar on technol- ogy, above, led by Robert Finken- thal, in Greenwich Village this week. A20 Ø Ø N NEW YORK THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By LISA W. FODERARO A team of 15 is caring for him around the clock. His favorite toy is a plastic bucket. He has taken swimmingly to a large pool. And on Friday, he had his first taste of solid food — surf clams. “He’s hitting every milestone we’re hoping to see,” said Jon Forrest Dohlin, director of the New York Aquarium in Coney Is- land, Brooklyn, part of the Wild- life Conservation Society. “He still has some issues with his bladder, but they are trending in the right direction. Behaviorally, he’s doing great and we’re feeling good about his progress.” He was describing Mitik, or Mit for short, one of two walrus calves separated from a herd in the Artic Ocean and orphaned in Alaska in July. The Alaska Sea- Life Center took them in and found new homes for each. (The other walrus, Pakak, went to the Indianapolis Zoo.) The New York Aquarium, eager for a young companion for its two older wal- ruses, stepped up, flying a staff member, Martha Hiatt, to Alaska to work with Mit for a month. On Oct. 11, Ms. Hiatt, the aquar- ium’s behavioral husbandry su- pervisor, along with a veterinari- an, accompanied Mit on a FedEx cargo jet from Anchorage to Newark. The walrus, believed to be about 16 weeks old, stayed in his crate during the six-hour flight. “It was loud,” Ms. Hiatt said of the trip. “He pretty much sang to us the entire time. We stayed with him, talked to him and hosed him off now and then.” At the aquarium,Mit has adapted to his new environment, a state-of-the-art medical facility built in 2008 that was designed for marine mammals. There is a large, eight-foot-deep pool that is a considerable leap from the one he used in Alaska. “He’s in it from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to sleep,” Ms. Hiatt said this week. “He’s a big swim- mer. He plays and swims literally until he falls asleep.” With his curious, playful per- sonality and expressive eyes, it is tempting, aquarium officials say, to think of Mit as a big, slippery toddler. (The giant bottle of for- mula does not help.) He still needs — and receives — a lot of human contact. “He likes us to be physical, grab his flippers and roll him over,” Ms. Hiatt said. “And he still really loves to snug- gle in close.” But the veterinarian techni- cians and keepers caring for Mit are trying to dial that physicality back a bit, both for their safety and his own good. For one thing, he now weighs 242 pounds, a size that could start to pose risks for staff members. More important, Mit must begin to identify with his own species, in preparation for his eventual debut in the wal- rus exhibit. “We want to make sure that we don’t give him so much contact that the day he actually meets his buddies he’s more interested in us than the other walruses,” Ms. Hiatt said. “He needs to know he’s a walrus.” Still, much of Mit’s day con- sists of play, which helps his de- velopment and encourages his cooperation during medical pro- cedures and feedings. One of his favorite activities is to scoop up a giant white bucket with holes through it. “He loves to run around with that on his head and vocalize,” Ms. Hiatt said. “I think it echoes. And we put our faces up to the holes and shout in there.” One interesting quirk of Mit’s was his initial aversion to wom- en. At the Alaska SeaLife Center, he gradually adjusted to his fe- male caregivers, but Ms. Hiatt said she thought that Mit might regress after the stress of his trek east. So for now, Mit’s entourage of trainers, technicians and keep- ers is entirely female. “He was rescued by a group of men, and he showed a great preference for men after that,” Ms. Hiatt ex- plained. He had better get used to the opposite sex. Sometime next spring, Mit will join the two other walruses at the aquarium, both females: 30-year-old Nuka and 17-year-old Kulu. Baby Walrus Adapts to Life in City JULIE LARSEN MAHER/WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY Martha Hiatt of the New York Aquarium with Mitik,who was separated from his herd in Alaska. By YUKA YONEDA Thompson Davis climbed off the sidewalk into an old silver trailer with no door. “This is a park?” he asked, eyeing the beds of rubber tree plants, goldenrods and white snakeroot within. “It’s a trailer park,” Kim Holle- man answered. “But I’ve been to a trailer park before,” Mr. Davis, 25, said after some consideration. “This is dif- ferent.” Indeed it is. Ms. Holleman’s en- vironmental artwork “Trailer Park” is a nature preserve built inside a 1984 Coachmen Travel Trailer that has traveled New York City since 2006. On Wednes- day last week, it made a stop on an industrial block in East Wil- liamsburg, Brooklyn. Some visitors had questions. “Wow, are these really grow- ing?” Brianna Stachowski, 25, asked as she brushed a shrub growing up and out of a skylight. Others, like a 5-year-old named Rosa, offered exclamations: “Tiene pescados!” she said, pointing at a miniature fish pond. The mobile garden bills itself as the only place in the city where you need to go inside to go outside. Once you’re outside, which is really inside, it’s a breath of fresh air. The 14-by-8-foot “park” is a condensed version, or perhaps an excerpt, of what you might find at a conventional park. A narrow aisle of hand-laid brick is flanked by raised beds overflowing with grasses and flowers. There are benches for those who want to read, socialize or simply enjoy a snack. Glassless skylights fill the space with air and light, and even snow in the winter. Birds and bees have been known to flutter in to do bird and bee things. Ms. Holleman, 39, a multidisci- plinary artist from Tampa, Fla., said she came up with “Trailer Park” “to make the statement in a heavy way, that if we didn’t change our ways, there would be no more nature left to go to, and we’d be put in the unfortunate po- sition of putting nature inside to protect it — from us.” Since the trailer’s debut at the Storefront for Art and Architec- ture in downtown Manhattan, she has transported it to nearly every institution that has requested its presence. The trailer, pulled behind a U-Haul truck, also makes sponta- neous appearances, like last week’s pop-up on Bogart Street in East Williamsburg, a few blocks from the lot where Ms. Holleman keeps it. (She an- nounces the trailer’s perambula- tions on Twitter and Facebook and to her mailing list.) While “Trailer Park” may have started as a call to heal the envi- ronment, Ms. Holleman said she had seen that something as sim- ple as a trailer filled with plants could also heal the people who visited it. Last month, she said, at the do- it-yourself technology show Mak- er Faire in Queens, a father kept bringing his son back every hour or so. “He told me that his son loved robots but has Asperger’s and gets easily overstimulated,” Ms. Holleman said. “So when his son would become overloaded by the thousands of people and the sounds and the machines and ro- bots everywhere, he would take his son back to my ‘Trailer Park’ so he could recover.” The trailer’s guest book in- cludes hundreds of haikus, odes and love letters. A visitor named Jesus wrote: “Dear Park, I like you this way. I like you for who you are on the inside. It’s like I see less and less of you on the street.” Another guest wrote, “If every block in NYC had one of these, crime would go down.” The trailer has occasionally at- tracted unwanted attention. “The park has no door, so anyone can come in at night, and I once start- ed to get the sense that a man was doing bad things in here,” Ms. Holleman said as she fixed a stray piece of moss. “I would come back in the morning and be like, oh, he’s been here again, be- cause there would be random burn marks on the wall or pieces of litter stuffed in corners.” The intruder turned out to be a patient at a local veteran’s hos- pice, and Ms. Holleman decided not to involve the police. “It’s not about getting the guy in trouble, you know? He just needed help.” Other than that, though, and “Good Art” graffiti-sprayed across the back, the trailer has gone largely unmolested. “People see it as theirs; it’s like a people’s park,” Ms. Holleman said. On Bogart Street last week, the people certainly seemed appre- ciative. “We normally just sit on the street, but then we saw this,” said Adrian Buckmaster, 57, as he sa- vored the last few bites of a strawberry FrozFruit on a bench beneath a skylight. “This is bet- ter.” To Flourish, Nature Park Doesn’t Put Down Roots PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES “Trailer Park,” an exhibition created by Kim Holleman, above left, is, simply, a park in a trailer, with grass, rubber tree plants, even a fish pond. By SAM ROBERTS Scott Anderson grew up out- side Boston and eventually moved to San Francisco, but when he started a technology company in 2001, he moved to New York. “The opportunity I perceived in New York was far greater,” Mr. Anderson said. “Better talent, fertile business environs, and thriving and vibrant culture to support it all,” he added. He rent- ed an office in the Woolworth Building and settled his family in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. “I have a 10-minute commute to school, to drop off the kids, and then another 10 minutes to my of- fices in Lower Manhattan, or LoMa, as it is being called,” Mr. Anderson, 40, said. Nataly Yackanich works on Wall Street and lives 20 minutes away in Hoboken, N.J. “We briefly considered the suburbs a few years ago, but ruled it out fairly quickly, as we felt we would never see our kids” because of the commuting in- volved, she said. After suffering through a loss of jobs and residents in the af- termath of the Sept. 11 attacks, Lower Manhattan has undergone a renaissance; two new studies show that downtown has become a magnet. Between 2000 and 2010, the Census Bureau reported last month, the population within a two-mile radius of City Hall bal- looned by nearly 40,000 people. A separate analysis for the Downtown Alliance, a coalition of property owners, released on Fri- day, concluded that neighbor- hoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey within a 30- minute commute of downtown experienced an increase in the population of young, educated workers. Lower Manhattan itself grew, in part as a result of incentives, including subsidies and mass transit improvements, intended to spur a rebound after Sept. 11. “Today, Lower Manhattan is surrounded by communities that have an increasing share of the region’s high-value workers, while the far-off bedroom com- munities in Long Island, New York and Connecticut have seen their shares shrink,” the Down- town Alliance analysis found. “Our study has shown a pro- found shift in the greater New York region in where the talented labor pool wants to live,” said Elizabeth H. Berger, the presi- dent of the alliance, which man- ages the local business improve- ment district. “Why aren’t people moving to the suburbs?” she added. “One thing we hear anecdotally is they like the shorter commute.We wanted to validate all the anec- dotal evidence.” The analysis of census data by the Downtown Alliance found 717,000 college-educated people between 18 and 44 living within a 30-minute commute of Lower Manhattan in 2010 — 172,000 more than a decade earlier. “If these growth trends contin- ue,” the analysis said, “it will not be long before the young, educat- ed population of areas surround- ing Lower Manhattan outranks that found in all of Long Island; Hudson Valley, N.Y.; and south- ern Connecticut combined.” Already, the number of cre- ative and professional workers (in fields like advertising, media, arts, finance, insurance and real estate) in neighborhoods 30 min- utes or less from downtown out- number those workers who live on Long Island, in Westchester County and in other parts of the Hudson Valley and southern Con- necticut, the analysis concluded. The biggest gains among those workers were in two areas — the Newport-Grove Street-Jersey City Heights area on the New Jersey waterfront and Williams- burg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, each of which had an increase of more than 10,000 residents. Ryan Farnsworth, 31, lives in TriBeCa and walks to work at Frank Crystal & Company, an in- surance brokerage near Wall Street, where he is an associate director. He and his wife moved to Lower Manhattan from Utah in 2005 and returned downtown after a stint in California. “Once we moved back to New York a year later with a 9-month-old baby,” he said, “we did not con- sider the suburbs at all because we knew what downtown had to offer for young families and young professionals.” Kristi Nowicki, an account ex- ecutive at Aon Global Americas, moved to Hoboken a decade ago because of its proximity to work. “I’ve gone through several cy- cles of life in Hoboken, single, married and now we have two children,” she said. “At each change in my life, my husband and I evaluated a move to the ’burbs, but never wanted to do it.” Adam Mietus, a risk officer at Morgan Stanley, also lives in Ho- boken, where he moved in 2007 from Norwalk, Conn. “The move changed my commute from two hours to about 30 minutes,” he re- called. “My wife felt like a single parent before the move, and I was barely seeing my 3-year-old daughter during the week.” For Mr. Anderson, who has the tech company, living in Brooklyn means not only a relatively easy commute to downtown, but also a far different childhood for his children than what he experi- enced growing up in the Boston suburbs. “The social education they re- ceive by living in diverse neigh- borhoods is much different than the suburbs, where, historically, things can be a bit more segre- gated and you typically get in a car to get from one place to an- other without social interaction,” he said. Downtown and Environs Enjoy a Population Boom NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Ryan and Shanna Farnsworth chose TriBeCa over suburbia. By ANDY NEWMAN George Carlin may get his Way after all. After a contentious yearlong battle, the community board in Morningside Heights approved a compromise measure Thursday night to rename a sec- tion of the comedian’s childhood street after him. The compromise is that the block of West 121st Street that Mr. Carlin lived on would not be re- named; instead, the block east of it would. Mr. Carlin’s own block is also home to Corpus Christi Church and its school, his alma mater, both of them frequent tar- gets of his unprintable irrever- ence, and the church had ob- jected strenuously to the original measure. The 25-to-4 vote of Community Board 9, with three abstentions, sends the renaming on to the City Council, which is expected to in- clude it in its next semiannual bulk-street-renaming bill. Such bills usually pass without contro- versy. The block that would become George Carlin Way is the 400 block, between Amsterdam Ave- nue and Morningside Drive. Mr. Carlin, who died in 2008, grew up on the 500 block, between Am- sterdam and Broadway. Kevin Bartini, a comedian who has led the renaming effort, pro- nounced himself satisfied. “At the end of the day, our goal was to get a sign to commem- orate George Carlin, and we’re much closer to that goal,” he said on Friday. “And it took the church out of the equation, so now we have really no known opposi- tion.” The vote was first reported by The Columbia Spectator. The Rev. Raymond Rafferty of Corpus Christi Church, who had spoken out against the renaming, was not available for comment on Friday. 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Ø N A21 NEW YORK THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 By J. DAVID GOODMAN and WENDY RUDERMAN The chief of an elite New York Police Department unit that was involved in two high-profile fatal shootings in less than a month will be transferred to a post in Queens, according to a police or- der issued this week. Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly issued the order on Wednesday to move Deputy Chief James G. Molloy, the head of the Emergency Service Unit, to run the Queens detective bu- reau. Chief Molloy, who officers say is generally well liked and re- spected, is to be replaced by Vin- cent Giordano, a deputy chief in the counterterrorism unit, effec- tive Monday. The move follows two deadly police shootings that have cast a harsh light on the Emergency Service Unit, a highly trained di- vision of the department often called upon to perform some of its most dangerous tasks. It was not immediately clear whether the move came in re- action to recent events or as a re- sult of Chief Molloy’s tenure at the helm of the unit, which at four years could be considered long. Chief Molloy, 51, joined the police force in 1982 and has served in about a dozen precincts, detec- tive bureaus and narcotics squads. On Sept. 25, emergency service officers shot and killed Mohamed Bah, 28, in the doorway of his Harlem apartment after he lunged at officers with a knife, stabbing two officers in their pro- tective vests. Three officers fired 10 bullets after twice using a Tas- er and also firing a rubber bullet, the police have said. Relatives have questioned whether officers used proper pro- cedures in dealing with Mr. Bah and other people classified by the police as “emotionally dis- turbed.” His sister has said police did not allow their mother to speak to Mr. Bah through the doorway before the shooting. About 20 minutes after their ar- rival, Emergency Service Unit of- ficers broke the lock on the apart- ment door and tried to slip a cam- era into the apartment. Mr. Bah then flung open the door and charged at them with a knife, the police said. Just over a week later, an offi- cer from the elite unit fired a sin- gle shot that killed Noel Polanco, an unarmed 22-year-old National Guardsman who was pulled over for driving erratically in the early hours of Oct. 4. A lawyer for the officer, Detective Hassan Hamdy, said his client believed Mr. Polan- co was reaching for a weapon un- der the driver’s seat. A woman riding with Mr. Polanco said he kept his hands on the wheel and that the gun went off before he had a chance to comply with po- lice orders to raise them. No weapon was found in the car, though a small power drill was on the floor in front of the driver’s seat, the police said. Norman Siegel, the lawyer rep- resenting Mr. Bah’s family, said on Friday that the transfer of Chief Molloy was “good news” from the family’s perspective. “This raises a strong possi- bility that he was trans- ferred because the police com- missioner de- termined that the shooting death of Mohamed Bah was improper and did not comport with N.Y.P.D. protocol,” Mr. Siegel said. “Here Mr. Bah is, in the apartment by himself. He’s not going anywhere. There is no reason to rush in and create a sit- uation where the result was that Mr. Bah was shot to death. The protocol says you wait; you wait him out.” Chief Molloy did not return a call to his office Friday afternoon. Paul J. Browne, the chief spokes- man for the Police Department, declined to comment on the transfer. Roy T. Richter, presi- dent of the Captains Endowment Association, the union that repre- sents Chief Molloy, described the transfer as a “step up.” Mr. Rich- ter said he did not believe the transfer was linked to the recent fatal shootings. “The timing is unfortunate, but no, I don’t see it as having any- thing to do with those incidents,” Mr. Richter said, adding that Chief Molloy has led a “very suc- cessful career with ever-increas- ing responsibilities” attached to each transfer. “He is taking over Queens de- tectives, which is a high-profile job,” Mr. Richter said. “It follows the career path that prior com- manding officers of the Emergen- cy Service Unit have taken. A transfer such as this is a normal progression in the career path of a high-ranking chief in the Police Department.” Commissioner Kelly appointed Chief Molloy to head the Emer- gency Service Unit in September 2008, and he took the reins only days after the death of a man be- lieved to be emotionally dis- turbed during a standoff with of- ficers from the unit. At the time, the police said the decision to appoint Chief Molloy reflected Commissioner Kelly’s desire to have a higher-ranking officer in charge. (He replaced the acting commander, a deputy inspector.) Sanford A. Ruben- stein, a lawyer representing Mr. Polanco’s family, said of the transfer, “It’s interesting that it’s happened at this time, and we’d like to know if it’s connected to the investigation into the wrong- ful death of Noel Polanco.” The Queens district attorney’s office is investigating the shoot- ing; Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, the union represent- ing Detective Hamdy, did not re- turn a phone call Friday. Chief of an Elite Police Unit Involved in Two Fatal Shootings Is Reassigned Deputy Chief James Molloy percent were four-bedroom or larger. Those apartments, howev- er, do not open up often, with three-bedrooms occupied for an average of 24.8 years, and four- bedrooms for 22.9 years, com- pared with 10.1 years for studios and 16.1 years for one-bedrooms. Housing authority officials said many of the multibedroom apart- ments were unavailable for large families despite being “underutil- ized”; currently, one or two peo- ple occupy 14,597 three-bedroom apartments, 1,354 four-bedroom apartments and 159 five-bed- rooms. They said that those ten- ants would eventually be moved to smaller apartments, but that the process was slow because even smaller units had long wait- ing lists: about 91,000 people for studios or one-bedrooms, 62,000 for two-bedrooms, and 14,000 for three-bedrooms or larger. The city’s expansion of afford- able housing has been overseen primarily by the Department of Housing Preservation and Devel- opment, which has provided bil- lions of dollars in subsidies to pri- vate developers who design and carry out projects that were re- viewed by the agency. By the de- partment’s count, 124,418 of the 165,000 promised housing units had been completed through fis- cal year 2011. Of those, 65 percent — 81,393 units — were preserva- tions of existing units, and 35 per- cent — 43,025 units — were new construction. But it is not clear how many of those units were three-bedroom apartments or larger because the department was unable to pro- vide a complete breakdown of apartments by unit size. Instead, it supplied that data for only 65,796, units, or 53 percent, say- ing it had only recently started tallying such information. The partial data showed that large units had been a low priori- ty in new building projects: 3,660 three-bedrooms, 57 four-bed- rooms, no five- or six-bedrooms. “Our goal is to target our re- sources as efficiently and effec- tively as possible,” a spokesman for the housing department, Eric Bederman, said in a statement. “While data shows that house- holds of four people or less make up the vast majority of the pop- ulation, we have worked to en- sure that we are balancing our city’s needs while also serving a diversity” of family sizes. Many developers said, howev- er, that the city’s longtime prac- tice of awarding subsidies for af- fordable-housing projects based on the total number of units planned, regardless of size, had discouraged building larger apartments. A developer would receive more money by packing a building with studios or one-bed- rooms than with larger apart- ments that take up more space but still count as single units. In the Bronx, for instance, a 2008 project was originally de- signed with 28 units, of which 5 were to be three-bedrooms. But the developer, PWB Manage- ment Corporation, eventually eliminated the three-bedrooms to squeeze in more of the smaller apartments to bring the total unit count to 32. Peter Bourbeau, a co- owner of the company, said the additional four units netted an- other $240,000 in subsidies — at $60,000 per unit — and increased the rental income “to put us over the hump in terms of making the financing work.” Developers and current and former city housing officials said the practice of awarding money by number of units, and not unit size, was widely used. RuthAnne Visnauskas, a depu- ty housing commissioner, said the city was open to building larger units and could provide subsidies case by case, if needed. “These are complicated negotia- tions, and we do make excep- tions,” she said. Chana Leibowitz said she had no choice but to continue living in the 880-square-foot, two-bedroom Williamsburg apartment where complex in Brooklyn, a coalition of housing and community groups sued, arguing that the larger units would unfairly favor Hasidic residents over blacks and Latinos and that it was prefera- ble to have more smaller units than fewer large ones. In 2011, a State Supreme Court justice is- sued an order blocking the plan. Still, Councilman Stephen T. Levin, who represents part of Williamsburg, said the city had an obligation to help large fam- ilies living in overcrowded condi- tions. “I’ve had people come to me crying,” said Mr. Levin, who re- ceives a call nearly every day about this issue. “There’s got to be a way we can address the af- fordable-housing needs of large families. It’s certainly not for the government to essentially dis- criminate against families be- cause of their size.” For large families, ample space has long been hard to find in al- most any price range. Of the city’s 2.1 million rental apart- ments in 2011, which included both market-rate and subsidized housing, only 14 percent were three-bedroom units and 2 per- cent were four-bedroom units or larger, according to the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University. Many of these are in aging housing projects that were built when large families were more common. Of the 178,889 apart- ments managed by the New York City Housing Authority, 22 per- cent were three-bedroom, and 4 she married her husband, Mi- chael, two decades ago. Now they share it with their six children. “We’re trapped,” Ms. Leibo- witz, said. “We’re hoping every day for a miracle.” Mr. Tounkara, the father of six, who does not have a high school diploma, said he moved to the Bronx in 1996 for a better life than he had in his native Mali. His wife, Assetou, followed four years later, and they had six children. “I like kids, so I make more,” he said. “My culture has a lot of kids.” The Tounkaras, who together earn about $1,700 a month, said they had been on the waiting list for the city’s housing projects for more than four years. For now, their family sleeps in one room the size of two parking spaces, with two children in their double bed, and two more on a blanket on the floor. “It’s too hard,” Mrs. Tounkara said. “I don’t know what we’re going to do.” Shortage of City Housing For Large, Poor Families From Page A19 MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Mahamadou Tounkara lives with his wife and six children in one room of a three-bedroom apart- ment they share with two other families because they cannot afford the rent by themselves. Apartments with two or fewer bedrooms dominate the options in New York. By DANNY HAKIM New York State’s jobless rate fell for the first time in 11 months in September, a welcome sign for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, though the rate remains well above the national average. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that New York was the only state in the na- tion with a statistically signifi- cant increase in its unemploy- ment rate over the last 12 months, through August, accord- ing to the federal household sur- vey. The Cuomo administration has pointed to more positive sta- tistics, notably the federal payroll survey — those numbers have of- fered a more favorable picture of New York’s job growth. Last month, however, there was improvement in the house- hold survey. New York was one of 41 states to report a decline in un- employment, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, which released state num- bers for September on Friday. New York’s jobless rate is now 8.9 percent, compared with 7.8 percent nationwide. The state’s rate fell from 9.1 percent in Au- gust. One state that did not fare nearly as well was Ohio, a key swing state in the presidential election. The state had one of the largest decreases in employment in the nation, losing 12,800 jobs from August to September. New York, by contrast, added more than 10,000 jobs in the same peri- od, according to the payroll sur- vey, which does not measure ag- riculture or the self-employed. “The jobs data is still obviously uneven,” said Edmund J. McMa- hon, senior fellow at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative research group. “The story is still one of fairly pronounced unevenness region- ally. Downstate, the city is still much stronger than the suburbs, and upstate you have these is- lands of growth — Rochester and the capital region — and the rest is not great.” New York State Registers Drop In Jobless Rate By COLIN MOYNIHAN A man and a woman who have been imprisoned since 1997 for the fatal shooting of a livery-cab driver in the Bronx took an im- portant step toward exoneration and freedom on Friday when prosecutors told a judge that they had agreed to vacate the convic- tions while they look into asser- tions that the killing was commit- ted by somebody else. The defendants, Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins, have long maintained that they were wrongfully convicted in the mur- der of Baithe Diop, a Senegalese immigrant who was shot twice in 1995 and left to die as his livery cab rolled through a street in the Soundview neighborhood. The case has been re-exam- ined as a result of evidence that has recently emerged suggesting that the murder was committed by members of a Bronx narcotics gang who later became federal informers. Mr. Glisson and Ms. Watkins stood handcuffed in State Su- preme Court in the Bronx before Justice Denis J. Boyle, as a pros- ecutor in the Bronx district at- torney’s office, Nicole Keary, agreed to free them for at least 90 days. “During that time we will in- vestigate the claims that two oth- er individuals, not Mr. Glisson and Ms. Watkins, committed the murder,” Ms. Keary said. She added that if the district at- torney’s office found evidence within 90 days that absolved Ms. Watkins and Mr. Glisson,the temporary clearing of their con- victions would become perma- nent. A memorandum of agree- ment also gave the district at- torney’s office the option of ask- ing that the charges be reinstated if they determined that Mr. Glis- son and Ms. Watkins were in fact guilty. Ms. Keary said the two would be released, probably on Wednes- day, after they had been fitted with electronic bracelets to en- sure that they abided by the terms of the conditional release, which limits their travel. As the prosecutor spoke, Ms. Watkins’s lawyer, Paul Castelei- ro, stood next to her, gripping her hand. A moment later, court offi- cers briefly uncuffed Ms. Watkins so that she could sign paperwork. Mr. Glisson and Ms. Watkins gained influential support a few months ago after Mr. Glisson wrote to federal prosecutors in Manhattan saying that he thought members of a gang called Sex Money and Murder, or S.M.M., had killed Mr. Diop. The details of the crime res- onated with a federal investiga- tor, John O’Malley, who had once been a homicide detective in the Bronx. Mr. O’Malley remem- bered that two former S.M.M. members, Jose Rodriguez and Gilbert Vega, who had agreed to cooperate with federal prosecu- tors against the gang, had told him that they had shot an African livery driver in Soundview in late 1994 or early 1995. Mr. O’Malley confirmed details of the crime with Mr. Vega and Mr. Rodriguez, then met with Mr. Glisson and eventually prepared a detailed affidavit in which he wrote: “I believe the evidence is overwhelming that Vega and Rodriguez, acting alone, robbed and shot Baithe Diop on Jan. 19, 1995, causing his death.” Ultimately, six people were tried in Mr. Diop’s death in two trials in the 1990s and five were convicted. Lawyers for Mr. Glis- son and Ms. Watkins first cited the information from Mr. O’Mal- ley in August as they asked the court to dismiss the charges against their clients. On Thursday, Bruce D. Aus- tern,a lawyer for Carlos Perez, among the five convicted in Mr. Diop’s death, filed a motion ask- ing that his client’s conviction be vacated. A lawyer for Mr. Glisson, Peter A. Cross, told reporters that he thought his client should be cleared swiftly, saying: “I think we all know that Eric and Cathy are innocent. We know who the real killers are.” Even as supporters of Mr. Glis- son and Ms. Watkins were cheered on Friday by the district attorney’s decision,they said they had been hoping they would be released immediately. Among those present was Mr. Glisson’s daughter, Cynthia Mo- rales, who was 2 weeks old when he was arrested. “Going to school and hearing other girls talk about their dad and the times they enjoyed to- gether,” she said,“that’s hard for me.” 2 Convicted in ’95 Killing of Livery Driver Near Exoneration PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL KAMBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Cynthia Morales, daughter of Eric Glisson, cried outside court on Friday. In the photo at right, Mr. Glisson, second from right, and Cathy Watkins learned they would be conditionally released. A22 Ø N EDITORIALS/LETTERS THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 Diplomats and soldiers: A security company executive discusses risk management versus risk avoidance, and a reader responds to an editorial that cited his research on armored vehicles. nytimes.com/opinion ONLINE:MORE LETTERS If Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate, Representative Paul Ryan, were to win next month’s election, the harm to women’s reproductive rights would extend far beyond the borders of the United States. In this country, they would support the recriminaliza- tion of abortion with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and they would limit access to contraception and other serv- ices. But they have also promised to promote policies abroad that would affect millions of women in the world’s poorest countries, where lack of access to contraception, prenatal care and competent help at childbirth often re- sults in serious illness and thousands of deaths yearly. And the wreckage would begin on Day 1 of a Romney ad- ministration. Mr. Romney has pledged that,on his first day in the White House,he would reinstate the “global gag rule,” the odious restriction that has been used to deny federal money for family-planning work abroad to any organiza- tion that provided information, advice, referrals or serv- ices for legal abortion or supported the legalization of abortion, even using its own money. Merely talking about abortion could cost groups not only federal money, but also useful technical support and American-donated supplies of contraceptives, in- cluding condoms for distribution in the communities they serve. The gag rule, also known as the “Mexico City policy,” was imposed by the last three Republican presidents, be- ginning with Ronald Reagan in 1984. It was rescinded by President Bill Clinton in 1993, then reinstated by President George W. Bush in 2001. President Obama, fulfilling a cam- paign pledge, signed an executive order lifting the global gag rule shortly after taking office in 2009. The gag rule did nothing to prevent use of govern- ment financing for abortions because that was already il- legal under federal law. But it badly hampered the work of family-planning groups overseas, forcing clinic closures, reduced services and fee increases. It also violated princi- ples of informed consent by requiring health care provid- ers to withhold medical information from female patients. And,by stifling political debate on abortion-related issues and violating free speech principles, the gag rule badly undermined America’s credibility as it tries to promote democracy abroad. Republican opponents of family planning and wom- en’s reproductive autonomy in Congress have been try- ing to reinstate the gag rule by legislation. If elected, Mr. Romney has said he would do so with a stroke of the pen. Mr. Romney also vows to renew another of George W. Bush’s shameful policies (which was ended by President Obama), which blocked the United States from contribut- ing to the United Nations Population Fund. That fund sup- ports programs in some 150 countries to improve poor women’s reproductive health, reduce infant mortality, end the sexual trafficking of women and prevent the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.Like Mr. Bush, Mr. Romney has embraced the bogus charge that the Popula- tion Fund supports coerced abortions in China, ignoring a State Department investigation that found no evidence for that claim. In fact, the fund has helped promote a volun- tary approach to family planning. The annual federal contribution to the fund is now down to $35 million,compared with $55 million in fiscal years 2010 and 2011; overall support for international fam- ily planning and reproductive health programs stands at $610 million — far short of the need. Even so, this amount of money pays for contraceptive services and supplies that reach more than 31 million women and couples, avert- ing 9.4 million unintended pregnancies, 4 million abortions (three-quarters of them unsafe) and 22,000 maternal deaths annually, according to the Guttmacher Institute. House Republicans want to cut the nation’s invest- ment in international family planning severely. Mr. Rom- ney’s record of bending to suit the most extreme elements of the Republican Party suggests that he may well go along on this critical issue as well. A World of Harm for Women The Romney agenda takes aim at international family planning and lifesaving care The Boy Scouts of America has known for nearly a century that scout leaders were preying on boys under the its protection. Yet for most of those long years, it kept what it knew about scout leaders who were sexual preda- tors locked away in secret “perversion files.” The Scouts’ excuse was that the files, compiled at least since the 1920s,were a system of internal controls, to ensure that known abusers could not rejoin scouting. No doubt this helped to protect many boys, but in many other instances the system failed, and it kept failing. The Scouts had no right to protect these criminals from the police, from parents and even from many troop leaders. They serve as yet another example of the disaster of institution- al secrecy, of the danger when officials decide that an or- ganization deserves protecting more than a child. Now a light is finally being shined on the Boy Scouts’ failure — not because the institution had a change of heart, but because of orders from judges. In the latest case, in Portland, Ore., a law firm that won an $18.5 million civil judgment in an abuse case fought all the way to the Oregon Supreme Court to make public the “perversion files,” also known as the “ineligible volunteer” files. It posted a cache of them online on Thursday. The files cover the period from 1965 to 1985,more than 15,000 pages detailing accusations against 1,247 scout leaders. In a separate case dating to the 1980s, a Sacramento lawyer persuaded a judge to order the release of another trove of files; an index of those cases, involving nearly 1,900 ac- cused abusers from 1971 to 1991,was shared with The Los Angeles Times last year and has also been posted online. Some of the records seem to show scouting officials trying to rid themselves of abusers. But others, as Kirk Johnson of The Times reported on Friday,betray secre- tiveness and negligence. “I would like to let this case drop,” one executive said. “My personal opinion in this particular case is, ‘If it don’t stink, don’t stir it.’” Still oth- ers show that the “ineligible volunteer” file system could be ineffective, if not useless. In 1981,a Colorado man who had three sons in scouting warned that a scoutmaster named Joe,who had abused his sons and others, had re- emerged at a Boy Scout jamboree.“Your assurances that Joe was out of scouting and would have no further con- tact with scouting have just become meaningless,” he wrote. The Boy Scouts say they have adopted many strong reforms and are now a model for effectiveness in protect- ing children, which may be true. But for that,parents and scouts can thank the courage of victims and the persist- ence of lawyers and journalists, not the goodwill of an or- ganization that minimized the problem and fought tena- ciously for decades to keep its secrets hidden. The files are surely the tip of an iceberg, says Gilion Dumas, a lawyer with the firm that posted the Oregon files, because the Boy Scouts kept no records on how many files were created or lost and because many cases were never reported, since most families, troops and sponsoring organizations had no idea the files existed, or how to use them. For an organization that extols trustworthiness, these files lay bare an appalling dissonance. The Boy Scouts bat- tled to the Supreme Court to protect their right to purge gay and lesbian leaders and to exclude gay boys, insisting that openly gay people were bad role models. It bent to bigotry while hiding sexual predators. The ‘Perversion Files’ Come to Light Boy Scout records on sexual abuse expose a familiar pattern of secrecy and negligence TO THE EDITOR: Re “The Wrong Way to Help the Poor” (Op-Ed, Oct. 11): Gary E. MacDougal rightly questions if the current patchwork of public pro- grams is the best way to improve the prospects of our country’s 46 million poor, which includes 22 percent of all children. But he widely misses the mark when he suggests that Representative Paul D. Ryan’s proposed budget would make things better. In making his case, Mr. MacDougal cites my work at the Institute for Edu- cational Leadership. During a 1995 Con- gressional hearing, policy makers stepped into the shoes of a working- poor family applying for help from 20 public programs. Astonishingly, even the very people who had created the laws couldn’t figure out how to make them work. But funding cuts or block grants that starve programs will not reduce com- plexity or improve results. We need a more thoughtful look at the largest pro- grams — from Medicaid to nutrition programs and tax credits for low-in- come families — so they really do lift this generation and the next. Whether you are liberal or conserva- tive, that’s the American way. MARGARET DUNKLE Port Republic, Md., Oct. 15, 2012 The writer is a lead research scientist at the department of health policy of George Washington University. She was previously director of the Policy Ex- change at the Institute for Educational Leadership. TO THE EDITOR: The tired call to replace the welfare state with block grants to states does not take seriously the nature of both poverty and the economy. Gary E. MacDougal’s thought experi- ment — dividing the total spending on poverty by the number of poor people — is highly misleading; for example, it fails to consider the number of people lifted out of poverty by such programs. Though the experiment packs rhetor- ical punch, substantively it is as weak as his larger argument supporting block grants as the answer to poverty. Some states might do a great job, but others surely would not. Destroying the federal safety net in the name of federalism would have trag- ic consequences, particularly for poor children and families, and should be re- jected on moral and social grounds. EZRA ROSSER Washington, Oct. 12, 2012 The writer teaches poverty law at Ameri- can University Washington College of Law. TO THE EDITOR: Gary E. MacDougal is right that candi- dates should pay more attention to pov- erty and that low-income families too often face a confusing maze to get help. However, the budget proposed by Repre- sentative Paul D. Ryan, which relies on cost shifts to states, should not be the discussion’s starting point. The Supplemental Nutrition Assist- ance Program and Medicaid played a critical role helping people in this re- cession. Block grants would make these programs far less responsive in the next recession, as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families was less responsive in this recession. Mr. MacDougal is right to focus on re- sults — children who are healthy and school ready, adults with the skills need- ed to compete. But block grants won’t get us there. Instead, we should learn from communi- ty programs, such as Harlem Children’s Zone and the Strive Partnership of Cin- cinnati and Northern Kentucky, achiev- ing these outcomes by coordinating services to families, even if the services are financed by different programs or delivered by more than one institution. ELIZABETH LOWER-BASCH Policy Coordinator Center for Law and Social Policy Washington, Oct. 11, 2012 TO THE EDITOR: While Gary E. MacDougal makes some good points, I am left speechless and utterly confused by his statement that Pell grants “are more focused on promoting education than stemming poverty.” Have I missed something? 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It had been creat- ed during Mr. Thompson’s administra- tion as a way to provide health insur- ance to far more uninsured adults and children than were covered by Medic- aid. Now the two are increasingly bitter opponents in the Wisconsin Senate race, and one of the biggest issues that divides them is coverage for the unin- sured. Ms. Baldwin, the Democrat, sup- ports President Obama’s health care re- form. Mr. Thompson calls it a “budget- busting government takeover.” At Thursday night’s debate in Wausau,he repeated the standard Republican false- hood that Ms. Baldwin and other Demo- crats had “stolen” $716 billion from Medicare “to fund Obamacare.” Mr. Thompson’s long, sad slide from a forward-looking Republican policy mak- er on health care to a member of the right-wing choir is familiar to anyone who has watched Mitt Romney’s paral- lel path. In some ways, however, Mr. Thompson’s fall has been even steeper. Mr. Romney may have been acting out of political expediency in creating the universal health care system in Mas- sachusetts — it is never easy to de- termine his actual principles. But Mr. Thompson seemed to believe in using government to extend health coverage, both as governor and later as secretary of health and human services. In 2008, he said he wasn’t opposed to a mandate requiring people to obtain health insurance, though he preferred a tax-credit system. In 2010, he was invit- ed to a White House meeting on health care reform where administration offi- cials say he supported it and offered ad- vice. But he would never have made it through the Republican primary by breaking with current party orthodoxy. Now, though he is campaigning in a deeply divided swing state, Mr. Thomp- son supports Paul Ryan’s government- shrinking budgets and Gov. Scott Walk- er’s anti-union bills. His son, Jason Thompson, 38, had to apologize after twice asserting that voters have an op- portunity to send President Obama “back to Chicago — or Kenya.” And the former governor had to apologize last month when one of his senior aides sent a message mocking Ms. Baldwin, who is openly gay, for dancing at a gay pride rally. Ms. Baldwin, though not a compelling debater or speaker, has moved beyond her base in Madison to pull slightly ahead of Mr. Thompson, largely on her full-throated support for Mr. Obama’s agenda on taxes and health care and her negative ads portraying Mr. Thompson as a tool of the moneyed class. As one of the most liberal members of Congress, Ms. Baldwin has also had to pull back from earlier positions, partic- ularly her regrettable opposition to sanctions on Iran, which she now sup- ports. That inevitably produced an over-the-top outburst from Mr. Thomp- son, who said it proved she was “anti- Israel” and “anti-Jewish.” (He later had to clarify that, too, saying he only meant she was anti-Israel, itself a baseless charge.) On Friday, she campaigned here in the northern city of Rhinelander, using a favorite slogan, “Whose side are you on?” — a variation of an old union tune. That question, though, is increasingly tough to answer in a state that refuses to fit the conventional paradigms. “I voted for Scott Walker,” said Joyce Gibson, who works in Danner’s Shoe Store, where Ms. Baldwin visited Fri- day. “But I’m supporting Tammy and Obama. I didn’t like what the unions did to the state, but I think the Democrats are better for the middle class.” In a Volatile Swing State, Two Senate Candidates Shift From Prior Positions One slides far right and one steps toward center in Wisconsin. EDITORIAL OBSERVER DAVIDFIRESTONE TO THE EDITOR: Re “In Cancer Care, Cost Matters,” by Peter B. Bach, Leonard B. Saltz and Robert E. Wittes (Op-Ed, Oct. 15): Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s decision to forgo an expensive new cancer drug reflects a much-need- ed willingness to address the elephant in the room: unsustainable costs in can- cer care. As doctors, we have a responsibility to provide high-quality, high-value care according to the best available evi- dence. This means ensuring that every test, treatment and procedure offers patients meaningful benefits and avoiding those that do not. It is a responsibility that the oncology community takes seriously. This year, my organization joined other medical societies to release “top 5” lists of com- mon tests and treatments that are ex- pensive, overused and not supported by clinical evidence. The net result of providing evidence- based care is that patients not only re- ceive the highest quality care but also the highest value care because unneces- sary costs are eliminated. Cancer research has yielded remark- able advances in recent years, but we must remember that the best medical care is not always the most expensive. SANDRA M. SWAIN President, American Society of Clinical Oncology Alexandria, Va., Oct. 16, 2012 The High Cost of a Cancer Drug: An Oncologist’s View By Judy Bolton-Fasman B OSTON O NE of the more hotly contest- ed issues in the Massachu- setts Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren has been Ms. War- ren’s claim that her mother was part American Indian. Ms. Warren has only family lore to back up her claim, and Senator Brown, accusing her of oppor- tunism, has demanded proof. But as Ms. Warren counters in her own ads: what kid asks her mother for documentation? I can sympathize. Growing up, I nev- er questioned my mother’s claim that our family was descended from the Spanish dukes of Albuquerque. My mother is fiercely proud of her royal ancestry. A Sephardic Jew who traces her lineage back to 14th century Andalusia, she swears the dukes were Jewish until forcibly convert- ed during the Inquisition. She be- lieves we are entitled to a castle in Spain, and possibly own property in New Mexico. The property claims never real- ly mattered to me, though. What was important was that her story helped me define my- self as a Jew and a citizen of the world. Our royal gene- alogy isn’t my mother’s only story. She also likes to tell about how, as a student at the Universi- ty of Havana, she was caught in the crossfire on the day when henchmen for Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban dictator, murdered the president of the University Student Feder- ation. She says she had been in class and ran outside to see what all the com- motion was about. After she arrived in the United States, my mother told that story to gain entry to a master’s program in Spanish litera- ture, and she went on to a long, satisfy- ing career as a Spanish teacher. But while doing some research a few years ago for a family memoir, I discov- ered the dates didn’t align. The uni- versity had been closed for over four months when the student body presi- dent died in 1957. It didn’t reopen until 1959, when my mother was already in the United States, safe in the knowledge that, back then, a university transcript was impossible to retrieve from Cuba. My mother had other school stories, and it took just one phone call to some- one who knew her in her youth to real- ize that every one, in all that beloved de- tail, was completely fabricated. “She told you she went to the Uni- versity of Havana?” said the woman, in- credulously. The stories were made up. Did that matter? To me, my mother’s university stories defined her as fierce- ly Cuban and sadly exiled from her country. It was clear to me from an ear- ly age that the passion in those stories was inextricable from the passion that fueled her love for Spanish literature. When I was a child and she was still a graduate student, she told me intrigu- ing bedtime stories about Miguel de Unamuno’s loss of faith when he was just five years old — my age at the time. I thrilled at Lazarillo de Tormes’s pica- resque escapades. I eagerly anticipated serial installments of Don Quixote’s quests with the hapless Sancho Panza from the genuine Cervantes, rather than Broadway’s “Man of La Mancha.” The revelations about my mother’s Cuba stories should arguably lead me to doubt her claims about our ancestry. But I haven’t felt the need to do any for- mal genealogical research to dispute the essence of her account. Am I in denial? Or worse, am I know- ingly perpetrating a lie? I don’t think so. And I don’t think the details of Elizabeth Warren’s story mat- ter as much as the fact that the story has been perpetuated with well-inten- tioned conviction. It’s a family legend that has inspired her to identify with the dispossessed and work on behalf of the marginalized. For my own history, I’ve found as solid and authoritative proof as any in my father’s 25th Yale University Re- union book, published in 1965. The thick hardback volume sat on our living room coffee table for years. In it my father re- ported that his much younger wife, the former Matilde Albuquerque, “is a de- scendant of the Duke of Albuquerque, and graduated from the University of Havana. She is an English and Spanish teacher, translator and singer, and ac- tive in aiding Cuban refugees.” That’s all the confirmation anyone should need of the peripatetic fam- ily lore on which I was weaned. Elizabeth Warren says her parents eventu- ally eloped because her father’s family disap- proved of him marrying a woman with Native Ameri- can blood. That’s all of the corroboration we should need from her too. When it comes to family lore, true and false are often beside the point.Ø All My Mother’s Stories Does it matter whether Elizabeth Warren’s family lore is true? Judy Bolton-Fasman is a columnist for The Jewish Advocate of Boston. JENNIFER DANIEL Ø N A23 OP-ED THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 On Nov.17, 2011, less than two weeks after a grand jury indicted Jerry San- dusky, thus igniting the Penn State sex- ual abuse scandal, ESPN broke the news that a second big-time college as- sistant coach had been accused of abus- ing young boys. His name was Bernie Fine, and he was the longtime top as- sistant to Jim Boeheim, Syracuse Uni- versity’s legendary basketball coach. Like Sandusky, Fine had deep roots in the community. Like Sandusky, he spent plenty of time around young boys; for instance, he coached every summer at Syracuse’s basketball camp. Fine’s two accusers were stepbrothers who had been Syracuse ball boys during their teens. One of them, Bobby Davis, 40, said that Fine had abused him from the seventh grade until he was 27. Within 10 days of the ESPN article, Fine had been fired by the university. In the meantime, two more accusers came forward. It also emerged that The Syra- cuse Post-Standard had investigated Davis’s charges in 2003, but had not written an article. The university had learned of the charges in 2005; it kept the information to itself. Boeheim, for his part, had issued a vehement defense of his assistant — “It’s a bunch of a thousand lies,” he told ESPN — but backpedaled after Fine was fired. In the heat of the moment, it was easy enough to assume that what had hap- pened at Penn State had also happened at Syracuse: that the university — and the larger community, which lived and breathed Syracuse basketball —had en- tered into a conspiracy of silence. When I wrote a column about Fine last year, I essentially accused The Post-Standard and the school of covering up the allega- tions. It’s now 11 months later. Sandusky is behind bars, as he should be. And Ber- nie Fine? Although a grand jury is still investigating, it is unlikely that charges will ever be brought. Two of Fine’s ac- cusers have recanted. One of them ad- mitted that Davis had put him up to it. Serious questions have also been raised about a third accuser, Mike Lang, Da- vis’s stepbrother, who had always de- nied that he had been abused by Fine — until the Sandusky story broke. The refusal of The Post-Standard to publish an article about Davis’s allega- tions — charges it could never corrob- orate —now looks like responsible jour- nalism rather than a dereliction of duty. The university hired the law firm of Paul Weiss to review its actions in 2005. The firm concluded that while the uni- versity had made mistakes, it had in- vestigated Davis’s allegations diligently and had come to the same conclusion as the newspaper: there was simply no proof. With the passage of time, ESPN is the one that appears to have acted ir- responsibly (although the network dis- agrees with this assessment) — along with the rest of us who piled on. In a recent New Yorker article, Mal- colm Gladwell described the dynamics that allowed Sandusky to get away with it for so long. “A pedophile,” he wrote, “is someone adept not just at preying on children but at confusing, deceiving and charming the adults responsible for those children.” That is one reason, he concluded, that adults can be reluctant to go to the po- lice;they have a hard time believing that their charming friend could be a child molester. As Gladwell put it to me in an e-mail, “These guys are so slip- pery — and the nature of the evidence so subjective — that it is much harder than people realize to make a definitive diagnosis.” But there is another reason as well. What if they’re wrong? What if it turns out that the accuser is lying? What hap- pens then? In the public mind, pedophil- ia is such a heinous crime that it has be- come almost impossible to recover from a false accusation. And people realize that. “It is the enormity of the crime,” says Gladwell, that weighs on people. They want to be sure, but it’s hard to be sure. In Bernie Fine’s case, the accusation alone cost him his job and his rep- utation. The chances of him ever coach- ing again at the college level are close to nil. The charges will cling to him for the rest of his life. Earlier this week, we saw the release of thousands of pages of documents de- tailing 20 years of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. They document what The Times called “a corrosive culture of se- crecy,” that allowed pedophilia to exist within its ranks with virtually no conse- quences. They are a painful reminder of the many decades our culture refused to confront child abusers squarely. Today we’re all sensitized to the dam- age that child sexual abuse can do. That is all to the good. But as long as an accu- sation alone can be ruinous, there will always be some reluctance to report a suspected child molester. What the Ber- nie Fine case really shows is not how far we’ve come, but how much further we have to go. Ø JOE NOCERA Why Syracuse Isn’t Penn St. Two very different responses to allegations of sexual abuse. Let’s give a cheer for Nina Gonzalez, the woman who asked Mitt Romney and Barack Obama about gun control at the presidential debate. People, have you noticed how regular- ly this topic fails to come up? We have been having this campaign since the dawn of the ice age. Why wasn’t there a gun control moment before now? True, the candidates were asked about it after the horrific blood baths last sum- mer in Colorado and Wisconsin. But there have been 43 American mass shoot- ings in the last year. Wouldn’t you think that would qualify guns for a more reg- ular mention? “I felt very empowered,” said Gon- zalez, a 57-year-old mental health practi- tioner from Long Island. We were talking on the phone a few days after the debate. She had been fielding calls from stran- gers who were eager to give her their opinion about guns,and she still couldn’t quite understand why the candidates were less enthusiastic. “What’s the prob- lem?” she asked. Democrats running for national office are terrified of the whole subject. Party lore has it that passing the assault weap- ons ban in 1994 cost them control of Con- gress and Al Gore’s election. (There is ample evidence that this isn’t true, but that’s what makes it lore.) So President Obama, a vocal gun con- trol supporter in his Chicago days, is now a gun control nonmentioner. And, when it comes to legislation in Congress, a non- helper. Republicans are usually eager to bring up gun control, the better to denounce it. But Mitt Romney has — surprise! — a complicated history of policy molt on the issue. He was once on the same page as Ted Kennedy, and then the page turned. For purposes of running for president, Romney is against new gun laws. And he would rather not have any discussions that lead to a mention of his pre-molt state. Or the fact that he once unsuc- cessfully attempted to woo rural voters by recounting his skill as a hunter of “small varmints.” Into all this stepped Gonzalez, who was haunted by the Colorado theater shooting in July that killed 12 people. The gunman carried a 100-bullet assault rifle. The ban on assault weapons, which allow you to fire as fast as you can keep pulling the trigger, expired in 2004. Congress has been afraid to renew it because, you know, there’s the lore. “What has your administration done or planned to do to limit the availability of as- sault weapons?” Gonzalez asked Obama. “You know, we’re a nation that be- lieves in the Second Amendment,” Oba- ma began. “And I believe in the Second Amendment. You know,we’ve got a long tradition of hunting.…” When in doubt, say something nice about hunters. The president signaled that he favors renewing the ban by saying that weap- ons designed for soldiers at war “do not belong on our streets.” Then he swerved away to the importance of better law en- forcement, good schools and faith groups that work with inner-city children. That was pretty much it for the guns, except that Obama did call for getting “automatic weapons that kill folks in amazing numbers out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.” Actually, automatic weapons, like machine guns, are already heavily regulated. Although, in a different world,we would be discuss- ing why they’re in the country at all. Mitt Romney wasted only 42 words on assault weapons before veering off into the importance of good schools. When it comes to gun control, both presidential candidates are strongly in favor of quali- ty education. Romney followed up with a long dis- quisition on the virtues of two-parent families. (“But,gosh, to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone — that’s a great idea.…”) It was about here that he lost Nina Gonzalez. “Single mothers have enough problems. Leave them alone,” she said. “Why are we even talking about that? That’s not the issue.” Romney then lurched into an attack on “Fast and Furious,” a much-criticized Justice Department program involving Mexican drug lords. The moderator, Can- dy Crowley, was forced to round him up and send him back toward the United States.Crowley noted that Romney had signed a ban on assault weapons when he was governor of Massachusetts. “Why is it that you’ve changed your mind?” she asked. This was an excellent question, and Romney’s answer was basically that in Massachusetts nobody was against it. I think that,by now,we have plenty of re- assurance that whenever something uni- versally popular comes up, Mitt Romney will be there with his signing pen. The president then interrupted urgent- ly for what turned out to be a comparison of his and Romney’s positions on hiring teachers. Gonzalez still thought Obama did bet- ter. (She’s really irked about the single mothers.) But she says she’s maintaining her undecided status, just in case Rom- ney comes up with a credible jobs-cre- ation strategy in the next fewweeks. Ø GAIL COLLINS The Least Popular Subject The unmentionable gets mentioned. Let me be upfront: The data here seemto raise more ques- tions than provide explanations. Gallup and the Williams Institute at the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles, on Thursday published the results of “the largest single study of the distribution of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pop- ulation in the U.S. on record.” From June through September,Gallup asked 121,290 Ameri- cans if they personally identified as lesbi- an, gay, bisexual or transgender. The re- sults, at least when viewed through a ra- cial and ethnic lens, did not conform to some social stereotypes. The numbers were small, but the implications large. The poll found that nonwhites are more likely than whites to answer “yes.” And, although,in general,younger people were more likely to answer af- firmatively than older ones, young black men (those between 18 and 29 years old) were 56 percent more likely than young white men to answer yes. Young Hispanic men were 49 per- cent more likely than young white men to answer with a yes and young Asian men were 23 percent more likely than young white men to answer yes. This wide discrepancy did not exist among young women. Young black women were only 12 percent more likely than young white women to say yes,and young Asian and Hispanic women were less likely to say yes than young white women. (The only group in which older people were more likely to answer yes than younger people was among Asian men.) It’s a head-scratcher. Was there a fluke in the methodology?It seems solid to me, and because the sample size is huge,the margin of error is tiny. So I did what columnists do when they’re stumped: I reached out to social scientists, cultural critics and activists in the subject area hoping that they could clarify. They had theo- ries, but they were also scratching their heads. They did,however,offer some in- triguing ideas and posed some interest- ing questions. Could it be that outreach programs on H.I.V. and AIDS are better at reaching young people of color? Could it be a new level of openness among celebrities and acceptance by politicians? Could it be that some men of color have less at stake financially that could be jeopardized by identifying as gay than their white counterparts? The theories kept spinning, but there were few clear an- swers. Dan Savage, a syndicated sex columnist and the origi- nator of the “It Gets Better” antibullying campaign, summed up the consensus concisely: “Boy, this is fascinating stuff.” On the one hand, it’s a positive statistic. It shows that the gay and lesbian community is more diverse than many be- lieve, and it shows that many young men of color feel empow- ered to identify as they feel most comfortable. On the other, the causes behind it remain a mystery. Ø CHARLES M. BLOW Shades of Gay A new survey finds pride in people of color. Darker Rainbow Men Women Non- Hispanic White Asian Hispanic Non- Hispanic Black Other 18-29 30-49 6.1 3.6 5.8 3.6 3.9 3.1 4.1 6.9 4.8 4.1 Ages 50-64 65+ 2.3 4.1 3.3 3.0 2.4 Undesignated 2.6 1.1 2.8 1.4 3.1 0.0 1.7 5.2 18-29 30-49 9.6 3.4 6.6 2.6 8.6 3.3 11.0 3.7 8.0 2.7 50-64 65+ 2.6 2.0 2.0 1.4 1.5 2.3 1.5 6.0 0.6 1.5 2.3 4.7 0.7 1.2 0.4 Average: 3.4% At or above averageBelow average Source: Results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of the Gallup Daily tracking survey June 1-Sept. 30, 2012, with a random sample of 121,290 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, selected using random-digit-dial sampling. For results based on the total sample of [national adults/registered voters], one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is <±1 percentage point. Percentage of each group that said they were lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. note to readers TheOp-Ed page (Monday through Saturday) and the Sunday Review welcome unsolicited manuscripts sent to oped@nytimes.com. We regret, however, that because of the volume of submissions, we cannot reply to all messages. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author will be notified within three busi- ness days. A24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 B1 Ø N SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 S.& P. 500 1,433.19 D 24.15 Dow industrials 13,343.51 D 205.43 Nasdaq composite 3,005.62 D 67.24 10-yr. Treasury yield 1.77% D 0.06 The euro $1.3019 D 0.0053 Personal Business Beyond the Bin There’s more than recy- cling that can help the en- vironment. 5 Russia’s Rosneft stands to become a global oil power. 3 McDonald’s profit falls as its sales decline. 4 News Corporation signs Roger Ailes to four more years as head of Fox News. 2 When Greg Smith resigned in March as an executive director and vice president of Goldman Sachs with an Op-Ed page article in The New York Times, he lev- eled some sweeping charges: Goldman’s culture was “toxic and destructive”;the firm promoted “mor- ally bankrupt peo- ple”;and — most dev- astating to any professional or- ganization — Goldman Sachs bankers were “ripping their cli- ents off.” Mr. Smith’s letter clearly hit a popular nerve, coming as it did during a devastating financial crisis in which Goldman emerged as the rich, arrogant and unfeel- ing perpetrator of much of the fi- nancial wreckage still afflicting Americans. And it’s hard to quar- rel with Mr. Smith’s overriding message: Wall Street should put clients interests’ first or risk oblivion. Indeed, that was Gold- man Sachs’s own credo, “Our cli- ents’ interests always come first.” But stripped of its incendiary conclusions, Mr. Smith’s manifes- to was curiously short on facts. Other than the now-infamous ref- erence to muppets —“I have seen five different managing di- rectors refer to their own clients as ‘muppets,’ sometimes over in- ternal e-mail” —there were no examples of a toxic culture at work, no actual names of morally bankrupt people and no exam- ples of a client getting ripped off. Mr. Smith declined to elaborate after the article was published, heightening suspense and no doubt fueling the literary bidding that reached a reported $1.5 mil- lion for a book that would deliver the goods. That book, “Why I Left Gold- man Sachs,” goes on sale on Monday. Despite tight security, copies of the book have been cir- culating, and I read one.The book not only fails to deliver con- crete examples to back up his sweeping conclusions,but he ad- mits changing “names or de- scriptors” for some (but not all) people and acknowledges that what he does disclose is “from memory.” He says he has tried “to retain the spirit” of what actually oc- curred. This makes it nearly im- possible to verify much of what he says. Beyond that, from his perch on the equity trading desk he seems to have had a narrow viewof the institution where he worked for nearly 12 years. His disillusion- ment comes across as heartfelt, but much of it seems to have come less from his own experi- ences than from news reports about the firm’s behavior in deals he wasn’t involved in. Mr. Smith’s book might even bolster Goldman’s reputation. Af- ter all, if Mr. Smith is the ultimate insider, and this is as bad as it gets — Mr. Smith in a hot tub at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas with a topless woman — A Tell-All On Goldman Has Little Worth Telling JAMES B. STEWART COMMON SENSE Continued on Page 7 By EDWARD WYATT and NICK WINGFIELD Microsoft instituted a policy on Friday that gives the compa- ny broad leeway over how it gathers and uses personal in- formation from consumers of its free, Web-based products like e-mail, search and instant mes- saging. Almost no one noticed, how- ever, even though Microsoft’s policy changes are much the same as those that Google made to its privacy rules this year. Google’s expanded powers drew scathing criticism from privacy advocates, probing in- quiries from regulators and broadside attacks from rivals. Those included Microsoft, which abilities to gather and sort in- formation about individuals’ habits and interests — even as Congress, federal regulators and the Obama administration have been seeking ways to protect In- ternet users against unwanted privacy incursions. Microsoft’s policy, which it calls its Services Agreement,al- lows it to analyze customer con- tent from one its free products and use it to improve another service — for example, taking information from messages a consumer sends on Windows Live Messenger and using it to improve messaging services on Xbox. Previously, that kind of sharing of information between bought full-page newspaper ads telling Google users that Google did not care about their privacy, an accusation it quickly denied. The difference in the two events illustrates the confusion surrounding Internet consumer privacy. No single authority oversees the collection of per- sonal information from Web us- ers by Internet companies. Though most companies have written privacy policies, they are often stated in such broad, ambiguous language that they seem to allow virtually any use of customers’ personal informa- tion. Web companies like Microsoft and Google have been moving aggressively to expand their Microsoft Expands Gathering and Use of Data From Web Products STUART ISETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The Bing search engine is one service covered by the new policy. Continued on Page 6 By NATHANIEL POPPER The growing list of downbeat financial announcements from American companies generated on Friday the worst stock sell-off in nearly four months. General Electric and McDon- ald’s disappointed analysts and sounded cautionary notes about future global economic growth. That came on the heels of weak reports on Thursday from the technology giants Google and Microsoft. With the shadow of the 25th an- niversary of the 1987 stock mar- ket crash hanging over the mar- ket, share prices began dropping Friday morning and fell all day, leaving the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index down 1.66 per- cent, or 24.15 points, to 1,433.19. It was the worst single day for the index since June 21, when invest- ors were worried about the Euro- pean debt crisis. Corporate earnings have served as perhaps the strongest engines of economic growth since the financial crisis, and have helped fuel a broader market ral- ly. The benchmark S.& P. index is still up 14 percent for the year. While analysts have expected profits to grow at a slower rate, they are now concerned about slowing revenue, which can be a purer indicator of economic health. Among the quarter of the S.& P.companies that have re- ported earnings so far, revenue rose just 0.8 percent, below the 1.5 percent that had been antici- pated. “This is an indication of what consumers are doing globally, Shares Fall As Earnings Disappoint On Wall St. Continued on Page 7 The worst single-day market performance in nearly four months. By PETER LATTMAN At 98, a venerable banker still goes to the office, even after the name of the storied investment firm he once ran has faded from Wall Street. William R.Salomon uses space and a secretary paid for by Citi- group, which swallowed his firm, Salomon Brothers,in a merger. It is the least that the banking giant can do for the son of one of three brothers who started the firm a century ago. But federal prosecutors say that Mr. Salomon’s longtime sec- retary did him no favors. Karen R. Febles, his former assistant at Citigroup for over a decade, has been charged with stealing nearly $2 million from him, according to a person with direct knowledge of the case. Court papers filed by the gov- ernment in February accused Ms. Febles of defrauding a retired bank executive but kept the name of the bank and the executive con- fidential. The victim is Mr. Salo- mon, according to this person, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity. A Citigroup spokesman, Mark Costiglio, said the bank “informed law enforcement immediately upon discovery of suspicious ac- count activity by this former em- ployee, and we have cooperated fully to ensure that justice is done.” Matthew Reilly, a spokesman for the United States attorney in New Jersey, whose office brought the case, declined to comment. Ms. Febles, 47, of Palisades Park, N.J., has pleaded not guilty and is set to stand trial in Federal District Court in Newark on Nov. 13. Her lawyer, Edward J. McQuat, said that she “was not responsible A Secretary to a Salomon Is Accused of Embezzling Continued on Page 6 A common theme this cam- paign season has been disap- pointment over how little our elected representatives have ac- complished of late. Gridlock and infighting have pre- vented the passage of much legislation that deals with long-term challenges related to tax reform, energy and immigration,among other issues. Blame whomever you want for this. But don’t underestimate how much help you can some- times get with your own finan- cial problems from the people you put in the Senate or the House of Representatives. Every one of them has em- ployees who do what is known as constituent service, helping people with thorny problems that may involve a federal agen- cy. Most often, they are trying to sort out Social Security prob- lems, federal disability filings, Internal Revenue Service head- aches, veterans’ benefits and mortgage issues. Immigration requests involving small-busi- ness employees and newly mar- ried couples are common, too. These staff members often re- fer to their efforts on your behalf as casework and treat it as a so- cial worker would, keeping files on each person who seeks help. “When we hire new workers, I tell them that the only difference between customer service and constituent service is the way you spell it,” said Mike Cantwell, the district director for Repre- sentative Steve Chabot, Republi- can of Ohio. So far this year, Representa- tive Chabot’s staff has handled nearly 700 requests for help. About 270 concerned veterans’ issues, including benefits, and another 170 had to do with Medi- care or Social Security. Many of- fices have specialists who work in one or two areas and have longstanding relationships with officials at federal agencies who can help. While all of this may resemble retail customer service, remem- ber that it is also retail politics. When trying to help you, Repub- licans and Democrats both say that they don’t know or care whomyou voted for, but there will always be legislators on ei- ther side of the aisle who make constituent service less of a pri- ority than others. “Some members have safe seats and do not have to worry about going to great pains to When to Call Your Elected Representatives for Help ROBERT NEUBECKER RON LIEBER YOUR MONEY Continued on Page 4 By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Like most women, Tina Hines has her size — an 8 — and then she has her list of clothes that actually look good on her. Side pockets are out (they make her hips look too wide).Halter tops are difficult (she needs to wear a bra). Defined waists are good, and she likes a bit of Lycra to ac- centuate her curves. Despite knowing all that, when she shops online, she is still flummoxed. The models are generally rail-thin and flat- chested — not like her. “Someone who’s an A-cup doesn’t help me, because it’s definitely going to lay a little bit differ- ently,” said Ms. Hines, 44, a life coach in Franklin Park, N.J. Now, for women like Ms. Hines, the e-commerce site Rent the Runway is offering a striking solution: replacing models with regular women, and allowing visitors to search for women of a certain age, height, weight and even bust size, to see how that dress looks on someone similar. Think of it as crowdsourced sizing. Rent the Runway’s new approach, which it introduced on Friday, is the latest example of a retailer rejecting the idea that women want fantasy when they shop. Instead, it is offering reality, catering to women who are fed up with Photoshopping, airbrushing and the headache of returning multiple sizes of clothing. The start-up Quincy offers clothes in different lengths, bust sizes and waist sizes. Me-Ality in- ÁNGEL FRANCO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Jenny Fleiss, left, and Jennifer Hyman founded Rent the Runway in 2009. It rents dresses and formal accessories. High Fashion, No Airbrushing Site Lets Women ViewClothes On Models From Real World Tina Hines, left, in a Rent the Runway testimonial. Continued on Page 2 By JULIE CRESWELL The chief executive of the re- tailer Abercrombie & Fitch, Mi- chael S. Jeffries, is a stickler for details, especially when he flies. Employees working on the company’s Gulfstream jet must greet Mr. Jeffries and his guests wearing the uniform of an Aber- crombie polo shirt, jeans, flip flops, boxer briefs and a “spritz” of the company’s cologne; pro- vide copies of several magazines (inserts removed); and respond to requests by saying, “No prob- lem,” rather than “Sure,” or “Just a minute,” according to a manual that was submitted in an age- discrimination lawsuit brought against the company by a former pilot. The document meticulously describes where Mr. Jeffries’s dogs should sit (“When Ruby and Trouble travel, Ruby will sit op- posite Michael in the cabin”); in- structs employees how to vac- uum the aircraft (“from the front of the aircraft to the back, pulling the vacuum toward you to make smooth, even lines”); and directs how to make the beds (“iron the exposed top sheets”) and what snacks to provide (“prepare a bowl of pretzels, and one of Squir- rel Nuts”). The emergence of the docu- ment comes at a rough time for Mr. Jeffries. Shares of Abercrom- bie are trading at half what they were a year ago as same-store sales decline. Shares on Friday fell 1.36 percent to $32.01 in step with a broad market sell-off and one day after Bloomberg News reported on the lawsuit. Mr. Jeffries is widely credited with turning the staid Abercrom- bie brand into a sexy, cool, must- wear fashion on college campus- es across the country in the late 1990s. But along the way, Mr. Jeffries has attracted more than his share of controversy, including a recall of catalogs in the 1990s over im- ages that critics say promoted binge drinking and a call for a consumer boycott in 2004 from the head of USAGymnastics over a T-shirt that said “L is for Los- er,” next to a picture of a gym- nast. That same year, Abercrom- bie agreed to pay $40 million to black, Hispanic and Asian em- ployees and job applicants to set- tle a class-action federal discrimi- nation lawsuit that accused the clothing retailer of promoting whites at the expense of minor- ities. The aircraft manual is part of a lawsuit filed in 2010 by Michael Stephen Bustin, who piloted the company’s corporate jet from February 2008 until he was termi- nated in December 2009. Mr. Bus- tin, who is now 55, claims he was let go so that the company could hire younger pilots more in step with its corporate image. Aber- crombie denied the allegations in its court filings, saying Mr. Bus- tin had been employed by a jet aviation company, not Abercrom- bie. A message left on Abercrombie & Fitch’s investor relations voice mail was not returned, nor were a call and e-mail sent to the compa- ny’s lawyers. Neither did Mr. Bustin’s lawyer respond to a call and e-mail. After some shareholders raised questions about his unlim- ited personal use of the company jet, Mr. Jeffries received a lump- sum payment of $4 million two years ago to limit that use. But when Mr. Jeffries traveled on the company jet, he expected to do it in style. According to the manual, em- ployees had to look for finger- prints on the cabinet doors of the aircraft lavatory, make sure the bar of Jo Malone soap on the van- ity did not slide out of place dur- ing takeoff, provide eight tri-fold- ed washcloths, and make sure that toilet paper was not visible and that the end square was not folded. SIMIN WANG/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Abercrombie & Fitch models at a store in Singapore. In flight, the crewhad to wear jeans, polo shirts, boxer briefs and flip flops. Suit Exposes Strict Manual for Abercrombie Flight Crew MARK LENNIHAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Michael Jeffries, chief execu- tive, specified where his dogs Trouble and Ruby would sit. Following are the most popular business news articles on NYTimes.com from Oct. 12 through 18: 1. Quick, Hide the BlackBerry, It’s Too Uncool 2. Pandit, Citigroup’s Chief, Resigns His Post in Surprise Step 3. Reverse Mortgages Costing Some Older Americans Their Homes 4. Europe Presses Google to Change Privacy Policy 5. Google Shares Drop After Earnings Disappoint 6. Glenn Hubbard Is Romney’s Go-To Economist 7. Income Inequality May Take Toll on Growth 8. Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley Win Nobel in Economic Science 9. A Hard Landing for University Endowments 10. Google Aims to Move Ever More Seamlessly Into Daily Life And here are the most popular blog posts. 1. Newsweek Will Cease Print Publication at End of Year (Media Decoder) 2. Republicans Like Golf, Democrats Prefer Cartoons, TV Research Suggests (Media Decoder) 3. Jon Stewart Proposes an Entrepreneurial Policy. Don’t Laugh. (You’re the Boss) 4. Bruce Bartlett: Romney’s Tax Plan and Economic Growth (Economix) 5. Graphene Could Usher in Flexible, Ultra-Slim Gadgets (Bits) ONLINE:MOST POPULAR AUTOMOBILES Nissan to Add Third Shift at Tennessee Factory The Japanese automaker Nissan Motor announced Friday that it would add a third shift at a vehicle assembly plant in Tennessee, adding more than 800 jobs. Gov. Bill Haslam made the jobs announcement at an eco- nomic development conference. Mr. Haslam said it’s the first time the plant would operate on three shifts. The expanded work hours will bring the total new Nissan jobs in the state to more than 2,000 since the middle of last year. About 5,600 people work at the Smyrna plant, which first began production in 1983. The Smyrna plant makes Nissan’s most popular car, the midsize Altima sedan, among other models. Production of the all-electric Leaf is set to begin at the plant in December, while as- sembly of the Rogue is set to come to Smyrna next year. That will be the first time the small S.U.V. is made in the United States. The Nissan Americas vice chairman, Bill Krueger, said the new shift would begin work on Sunday. “By 2015, 85 percent of Nissan vehicles sold in the U.S. will be built here in North America,” Mr. Krueger said. (AP) ENERGY Crude Oil Prices Fall as Economic Concerns Persist Brent crude prices fell on Friday for the fourth straight session, dragged down by fresh global economic concerns and expectations that a major Canadian crude oil pipeline to the United States would restart on schedule. Concerns about the lack of progress on a Spanish bailout dampened risk appetite, helping send equities and commodity markets lower and lending support to the dollar. Oil prices initially turned nega- tive in early trade following news that the TransCanada Corporation ex- pected to restart the 590,000-barrel-a-day Keystone pipeline to the Unit- ed States market over the weekend. (Reuters) BUSINESS BRIEFING stalls scanners in malls to match women’s bodies to mall brands. Clothes Horse sells retailers an algorithm and quiz so they can advise customers what size will fit in the retailers’ apparel. Rent the Runway, though,is taking it a step further. Users of the site can already upload pho- tos of themselves in the clothing — Rent the Runway rents dress- es and formal accessories for a few days, at about 10 percent of the retail cost. And women can list their height, weight and chest size alongside their reviews. Now, visitors can perform find- women-like-me searches, ask questions of the other wearers, and choose to see only real-life women rather than models wear- ing the clothing. (While Rent the Runway will not get rid of the photographs of the models, it will push shoppers toward the real- women photographs and reviews instead.) When Rent the Runway began allowing users to upload photos a year ago, not only did more than half of the people who gave reviews volunteer their weight and bust size, but the site also found that the conversion rate for shoppers who clicked on real photos was double that of shoppers who clicked on model photos. “Women are smart: you know that while Gisele is beautiful, you don’t look like Gisele,” said Jenni- fer Hyman, chief executive and co-founder of Rent the Runway, which is based in New York and was started in 2009. The push toward real-world images, however,could upset some of the luxury brands that sell to Rent the Runway. “When you present a luxury brand, in my opinion it’s not about being accessible — it’s all about the dream, it’s all about the aspiration,” said Marc Beckman, founder of Designers’ Manage- ment Agency, which has negoti- ated deals for the designers Os- car de la Renta and Stella Mc- Cartney. While embracing cus- tomers’ own photos made sense for midprice brands, he said, it did not work at the higher end. “There’s a lot at risk,” he said. Still, high-end fashion has been becoming more inclusive: Ralph Lauren is featuring a plus-size model in a campaign, and other designers are introducing plus- size lines. And the designer Lan- vin is featuring real people in an ad campaign. While Ms. Hyman said she ap- plauded Lanvin for using women who are not models, the design house went only so far. “They cast them, they edited them, they retouched them — it’s not real,” she said. “We’re saying, ‘Any woman can submit a photo.’” (Rent the Runway screens for nudity and offensive images, but otherwise, anything goes.) “We are going to see a continu- ing steady stream of this,” said Kelly O’Keefe, a professor at Vir- ginia Commonwealth Universi- ty’s Brandcenter,pointing to sites like Threadless that feature user photos.“It has the advan- tage for the consumer of seeing how something looks on real peo- ple, which is very attractive, and it has the advantage for the brand of getting real user partici- pation, which is great. The disad- vantage: people are an imperfect species.” The reader-submitted photos resemble a bunch of feel-good photos on someone’s refrigera- tor, giving glimpses into different lives — and body types. Almost 300 women have uploaded pic- tures of themselves on Rent the Runway in a gold, floor-length, strapless Badgley Mischka dress that rents for $125. They include, for instance, a woman heading to a Marine Corps ball, another pos- ing for a prom in front of a “You’re in Steelers Country” banner, a third wearing it to the Zulu Ball in New Orleans.Laura Sartori, a 24-year-old merchan- dise planner in Bentonville, Ark., said she depended on other us- ers’ photos to see what works for a tall woman like her. “Seeing them on real girls, you can get a better gauge of what the dress is going to look like, be- cause it’s not perfect photogra- phy or a perfect model,” she said. Ms. Sartori has lately been posting her own reviews, and she happily volunteered her own height, weight, bust size and body type. “I see that it’s helpful to people, so I don’t mind,” she said. On the revamped Rent the Runway site,users can ask ques- tions of the real-life wearers: what heel height did you wear with that? Did you wear Spanx? Will that work as a maternity dress? All of this, of course, could take away from the cachet of a luxury item. “It’s not about the girl around the corner that lives near you and has a Gucci jacket, a martini in her hand and is smok- ing a cigarette — it’s about the supermodel in Paris, shot by the best photographer,” Mr. Beck- man said. Kylie Murray had some reser- vations when she was about to rent a DVF sequined dress over the summer and found so many photos of other women in the same dress. “There’s a part of me that was a little bit discouraged, because if anybody can wear this, then what makes it so special?” she said. On the other hand, said Ms. Murray, 25, who works in merchandising in Manhattan, she is 5 feet and 100 pounds, and pho- tos of petite women in the dress were helpful. In fact, Ms. Murray now avoids Rent the Runway dresses that do not have multiple photo reviews. Ms. Hyman said that design- ers’ focus on fantasy was mis- placed. “Real women are aspira- tional, when they’re confident and having fun,” she said. “We believe the industry has gotten it wrong when they think of what’s aspirational.” She said that no brands had withdrawn merchandise since the site started encouraging user photos, and while some brands do not put their goods on Rent the Runway, most of the design- ers on the site “know that our brand is about getting customers into their brands — we think we’re a gateway drug to designer fashion,” she said. Ms. Hines, for her part, finally ordered from Rent the Runway when she needed a dress for a company party. She found a Ra- chel Roy coral sheath, with a square neckline, fitted waist, and a little bit of stretch. Still, she said, she wasn’t that confident in it, since there were no reviews from women who looked like her. The dress fit — but she ordered another size as backup, just in case. A High Fashion Site Lets Women View Clothes on Models From the Real World From First Business Page A feeling that designers focus too heavily on fantasy. By BRIAN STELTER Roger Ailes will remain in charge of the Fox News Channel for the next four years, News Corporation said on Friday, end- ing a protracted period of spec- ulation about his contract negoti- ations. The previous contract was set to expire next summer. By re- newing, Mr. Ailes will remain at Fox through the next presidential election season in 2016. News Corporation, which owns Fox,confirmed the renewal in a brief news release on Friday af- ternoon. It was reported earlier in the day by The Daily Beast. It was unclear whether the new contract takes effect immediate- ly, or next year. Either way it will take Mr. Ailes through the 20- year anniversary of Fox News. Mr. Ailes, 72, has run Fox News since its founding in 1996. He has also run a spinoff channel, the Fox Business Network, since 2007, and he has oversight of Fox’s local television stations and its television syndication arm. The notion that Mr. Ailes might decide to retire has intrigued many media observers this year, especially after he hinted that he might not stay at Fox News. Mr. Ailes is widely credited with the financial and cultural success of Fox News, the highest-rated ca- ble news channel and a mega- phone for conservative commen- tators like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. The channel now rivals the broadcast networks during some big news events, like the presidential debates this month. The terms of the new contract were not released. Mr. Ailes is al- ready one of the highest-paid ex- ecutives in television; he has re- ceived a base salary of $5 million and a bonus of $1.5 million a year for several years, as well as mil- lions in compensation based on the financial performance of Fox News, according to public filings by News Corporation. In the fiscal year that ended in June, for instance, Mr. Ailes re- ceived $9 million, paid in cash rather than stock, as a reward for Fox’s record earnings. Further- more, he received $4 million in stock awards tied to the perform- ance of Fox Business. His total compensation for the fiscal year was $21 million, making him the third-highest-paid executive at News Corporation, behind the chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, who made $30 million, and Chase Carey, the chief operating officer, who made nearly $25 million. Tellingly, Mr. Murdoch’s and Mr. Carey’s total compensation dropped between 2011 and 2012; Mr. Ailes’s compensation rose, from $15.5 million the previous fiscal year. In the public filing that disclosed the compensation, News Corporation cited the fact that Fox News “held the top posi- tion in cable news, grew its dis- tribution to nearly 100 million homes and successfully expand- ed its brand to radio, Internet, in- ternational and mobile markets.” Roger Ailes Signs Up for Another 4 Years at Fox News ALEX KROKE/2MK STUDIO/FOX NEWS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Roger Ailes, 72,ended speculation that he might retire as the head of Fox News when he renewed his contract on Friday. Mr. Ailes has run Fox News since its founding in 1996. 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If her view prevails, and Ger- many’s often does, European res- cue loans for the troubled banks, at least in the near term, would be carried on the books of the gov- ernments in Dublin and Madrid, adding to their debt burdens. The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has been particularly in- tent on avoiding that burden. But Ms. Merkel’s comments here on Friday, at the conclusion of a two-day summit meeting of European leaders, made it clear that Germany was among the countries not willing to let bailout money flow directly to troubled banks any time soon. And even if it consented someday, the money would be meant to solve the banks’ future problems,not to clean up existing messes. “If recapitalization is possible, it will only be possible for the fu- ture,” Ms. Merkel said at a news conference. Spanish and Irish hopes had been buoyed at a summit meeting in June, when the bloc’s leaders agreed on a way that direct aid to banks might be able to flow from the new bailout fund, the Euro- pean Stability Mechanism. The condition was that a central reg- ulator for euro zone banks first be put in place under the aegis of the European Central Bank. But market pressures have eased significantly since June, and with them the sense of crisis. And Germany, backed by Finland and the Netherlands, has been urging a more carefully consid- ered approach to centralized banking regulation for the region. On Friday, Ms. Merkel said preparations to set up the single banking supervisor would prob- ably take until 2014.But by then, she said, “we won’t have any more problems with the Spanish banks — at least,I hope not.” Her comments would not affect the availability of an emergency pool of up to 100 billion euros, or $131 billion, that euro zone finance ministers have pledged for shor- ing up Spain’s banking industry. The Spanish government recently indicated that it might seek up to 40 billion euros for that purpose. But until this week’s meeting, Spain had hoped its banks,and not the government,would carry those loans on their books and be responsible for repaying them. Now, if Mr. Rajoy wants to en- list that aid, it seems he will have to add it to Madrid’s debt load. Germany is the biggest contrib- utor to the permanent bailout fund, and Ms. Merkel faced the unwelcome prospect of dipping into that pot before national elec- tions in Germany in September 2013. Such aid could be an election issue because German citizens have grown weary of paying most of the bill for bailouts, and they are wary of using more money to help Spanish banks. At the news conference, Ms. Merkel denied that one of her goals at the meeting had been to block the prospect of any new German-financed bailouts before the elections next year. But she acknowledged that it would be hard to erase that perception. “No matter what I’m going to say,it will probably not be the right answer by your standards,” Ms. Merkel said in response to a question about the political impli- cations of her stance,but “I ha- ven’t even thought about this.” On Thursday night, European leaders had agreed that the legis- lation to establish a more unified banking system should be com- pleted by the end of the year. But they tweaked language in their fi- nal report to make it clear that they did not expect the new sys- tem to enter into force by Jan. 1. The leaders left it to finance ministers “to agree on the practi- cal details, and the discussions will likely be complicated and de- layed,” Philippe Gudin, an econo- mist at Barclays, wrote in a brief- ing note on Friday. The French government and the European Union’s administra- tive arm, the European Commis- sion, had sought to hasten the legislation to let direct aid go to some of the euro zone’s most vul- nerable banks starting Jan. 1. But in comments early Friday after a late-night session, François Hollande, the French president, was unable to give a date for the start of the system and instead said the markets should take com- fort that direct recapitalization of banks should still be able to go for- ward over the course of 2013. Mr. Rajoy, the Spanish prime minster, said after the summit meeting that he remained con- vinced that direct recapitalization of his country’s banks would be possible once the supervision was in place. But he said Spain’s fi- nances would be manageable even without that option. Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, said finance ministers would determine exactly how di- rect recapitalization would work. When agreed to in principle in June, the creation of a banking regulator for the euro area was supposed to be relatively simple. But Germany has since balked at proposals by the European Com- mission and France to put all 6,000 euro zone lenders under the direct supervision of the regulator. Before any changes occur, the government in Berlin wants to en- sure that the central bank has the capacity to do that job, while some German regional leaders oppose greater scrutiny of state and local banks by the central bank. German Refusal on Bank Aid Mars End of Europe Summit to oil reserves but are also open to private sector investment, like Petrobras in Brazil and Statoil in Norway. The company has taken pains to emphasize that it will be run ef- ficiently, hiring former executives from Exxon Mobil and TNK-BP in anticipation of the deal with BP. It has also reaffirmed its privileged access to new exploration sites in the Arctic Ocean after Mr. Sechin blocked a proposal by a liberal wing of the Russian government to open offshore drilling to com- petition. Cliff Kupchan,an analyst at the Eurasia Group, which conducts risk analysis on Russian politics and economic policy for large in- vestors including oil companies, wrote in a research note that Ros- neft’s expansion could tempt the Russian government to use it strategically, just as Aramco, the Saudi Arabian company, is used to influence oil prices. This would By ANDREW E. KRAMER and STANLEY REED KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia — Russia appears poised to ap- prove deals that would all but double the size of the state oil company Rosneft, bringing more than half of the country’s oil in- dustry under government control for the first time since the early 1990s and creating a new player on the world stage. At the heart of the maneuver- ing is the country’s third-largest oil company, TNK-BP, which is a joint venture between the British oil giant BP and four Russian bil- lionaires. Rosneft is negotiating to buy out one or both partners. If either or both of the sales are concluded, Rosneft, whose head- quarters is a mansion across the Moscow River from the Kremlin, is sure to expand its power on global oil markets. If both deals get done, Rosneft would become the world’s largest publicly trad- ed oil company in terms of crude oil production, with the Russian government as the majority own- er.The transactions would also lift the fortunes of Igor I. Sechin, a former spy and close aide to President Vladimir V. Putin, who has championed them as Ros- neft’s chief executive. The company has been trying to play down negative associa- tions with state ownership. Ros- neft is like a teddy bear, Mr. Sechin told a group of investors in London this month, in a video posted on the company’s Web site. “We love our teddy bear. We clean it, look after it and take care of it.” The shift of BP’s Russian oper- ations from private to state hands is fraught with risks, both for the company and the Russian industry more broadly. BP’s partnership with private sector billionaires has yielded a return of 34 percent annually since it began in 2003. BP has earned $19 billion in dividends on an $8 billion investment and is now poised to sell its stake for a reported $25 billion to $28 billion. BP’s investment in Rosneft stock from 2006, when the state company held an initial public of- fering, brought BP a loss. “The state is tempted to milk the oil industry as a cash cow,” Peter Westin,the chief equity an- alyst at Aton, an investment bank in Moscow, said by telephone, re- ferring to both high taxes and ex- panding government control. The Kremlin, eager for invest- ment to maintain the flow of oil that props up Mr. Putin’s pop- ularity and the improved living standards of ordinary Russians, has sought both control and mar- ket-oriented policy changes un- der Mr. Putin. Rosneft is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is among a group of oil companies that are owned or closely affiliated with governments that control access come with a distinction: unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia would be unlikely to coordinate such moves with the United States. Rosneft, if the acquisitions are completed, would pump about four million barrels of oil a day, or about 40 percent of the output of Saudi Arabia. Oil analysts say Russia is un- likely to withhold oil, even as this becomes more feasible, because shutting down continent-span- ning oil pipelines is too expen- sive. Also, many Siberian oil wells cannot be stopped without destroying them because perma- frost surrounding their upper portions would freeze the well bore solid. BP is hoping a deal with Ros- neft might follow a similar arc of profit as its deal with the oli- garchs. BP made a fortune in Russia by applying Western oil field techniques to Soviet-era wells and infrastructure, which worked well despite BP’s blundering technical reputation after the Gulf of Mexico spill. Sometimes, engineers made adjustments as simple as open- ing the spigot wider at the mouth of a well because the previous owners, following the Soviet axi- om that they would pretend to work for pretend pay, had never bothered to check if more oil could flow. From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, Russian oil output dropped by half to just more than six million barrels a day, before deals like the creation of TNK-BP helped reverse the trend. Overall production is now at about 10 million barrels a day, about tied with the levels of Saudi Arabia, but again in decline. But future growth from fixing sloppy late Soviet work is un- likely, and a new chapter is open- ing in the history of the Russian oil industry. “The landscape going forward looks a lot less attractive than the experience of the last 10 years,” said Peter Hutton,an analyst at RBC Capital Markets. Referring to the revival of old fields in Sibe- ria using Western technology, he said:“TNK-BP has been able to get fairly low-hanging fruit in the brownfield revolution. Getting additional reserves is going to be a lot more difficult.” One senior oil company execu- tive close to BP said the part- nership could similarly transfer know-how to Rosneft. “Mr. Sechin and Mr. Dudley have known each other for years,” he said, referring to BP’s chief executive, Robert W. Dud- ley, a former director of TNK-BP. “There is a willingness on the part of the leadership of Rosneft to get expertise and people from BP to improve the capability of Rosneft.” With 2 Big Deals Approaching, Rosneft Stands to Become a Global Oil Power Andrew E. Kramer reported from Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, and Stanley Reed from London. THE NEW YORK TIMES The state oil company Rosneft has its headquarters in a mansion across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. It is looking to buy out the partners in TNK-BP. A R C T I C C I R C L E Arctic Ocean North Pole Norwegian Sea GREENLAND DENMARK UNITED STATES NORWAY ICELAND NORWAY FINLAND SWEDEN SVALBARD RUSSIA CANADA ALASKA Chukchi Sea Shaded areas contain potentially more than 100 trillion cubic feet, or 2.8 trillion cubic meters, of natural gas and more than 10 billion barrels of oil. Source: U.S. Geological Survey BP’s assets in Alaska are concentrated in the North Slope region Rosneft has priviledged access to these potential oil and gas resources Kara Sea SERGEI ILNITSKY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY By FLOYD NORRIS T HROUGHOUT much of the developed world, people are working more years than they used to. Many are retiring later, presumably because they need the money. The Organization for Econom- ic Cooperation and Development this week released its latest fig- ures on the proportion of people in older age groups working, showing that some European countries, whose social welfare systems had made possible ear- ly retirements, have begun to keep more people on the job. In 2003, less than a third of German men age 60 to 64, and less than a sixth of German woman of the same age, were working. In the numbers for 2011 released this week, more than half of the men and a third of the women had jobs. But as can be seen in the ac- companying charts, it is still rel- atively rare for Germans over 65 to continue working. Italy is one country that seems to have avoided change. In 2001, about 30 percent of men in their early 60s had jobs, as did 11 percent of women. A decade later, the figures were virtually identical. Older workers in the United States have long been more like- ly to have jobs than their Euro- pean counterparts. But since 2008,the proportion of American men in their early 60s who are working has fallen by three per- centage points, to 54.7 percent, as a weak economy limited hir- ing. But the proportion of men with jobs in the 65 to 69 age bracket has continued to rise as men who could do so delayed re- tirement. The proportion of men in their early 60s with jobs also fell in Iceland, Portugal and Turkey. In Greece, the proportion of men in their early 60s with jobs fell to 37.5 percent in 2011 from 44 per- cent in 2008. In many countries, said Anne Sonnet, a senior economist at the O.E.C.D. and team leader of its older workers review, “the main problem for older workers is to be hired” for new jobs, not to keep jobs they already have. “There is almost no job mobility for older workers.” The figures were released for the 34 countries in the O.E.C.D., which includes all the major de- veloped countries and some countries that have developed since the organization was estab- lished half a century ago. But the group still does not include such rapidly growing countries as Bra- zil, India and China. Ms. Sonnet said the recession that enveloped the world in 2008, and that seems to have returned in some European countries, was different from earlier downturns in the 1970s and 1980s in that countries did not encourage ear- ly retirements of older workers to make jobs available to young- er people. She sees longer working years as a good thing in a world where life expectancies have risen. “For the society,it is very im- portant to work longer to avoid higher social costs from having to pay retirees for many, many years,” she said in a telephone interview. There remains a large diversi- ty in employment patterns, a di- versity that is growing in Eu- rope. While Germans are more likely to keep working into their 60s, their French neighbors still generally quit before they reach their 60th birthdays. In 2011, just one in five Frenchmen age 60 to 64 still held jobs, as did one in six women. Of the 34 O.E.C.D. countries, only Hungary, with 17.9 percent of men in their early 60s holding jobs, had lower employment among men in that age range. At the other extreme, more than 70 percent of men 60 to 64 were working in Iceland, New Zea- land, Chile and Japan. In five countries — Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, France and Hungary —fewer than 10 per- cent of men in their late 60s had jobs, In four others — Mexico, Iceland, Chile and South Korea — more than half of those men were employed. OFF THE CHARTS Working Longer in the Developed World Source: O.E.C.D. THE NEW YORK TIMES In Most C ountr i es, People Work Longer The length of work lives has risen in most developed countries over the last decade, as some countries pushed up minimum retirement ages. But in some countries, including the United States, the proportion of people in their early 60s with jobs has declined, reflecting the poor economy since the financial crisis. *The 21 E.U. countries in the O.E.C.D. are Austria, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Men 60-64 Percentage of each age group with jobs, 2001-2011 Women 60-64Men 65-69 Women 65-69 0 20 40 60 80% % U.S. ’11’05’01 CANADA ’11’05’01 MEXICO ’11’05’01 CHILE ’11’05’01 JAPAN ’11’05’01 SOUTH KOREA ’11’05’01 AUSTRALIA ’11’05’01 0 20 40 60 E.U. 21* ’11’05’01 BRITAIN ’11’05’01 GERMANY ’11’05’01 FRANCE ’11’05’01 ITALY ’11’05’01 SPAIN ’11’05’01 PORTUGAL ’11’05’01 Still want to retire young? The choices are narrowing. Try France or Italy. B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 Focus on the Personal Economy As many of the social structures we have relied on in the past for re- tirement seem to disappear or appear vulnerable (company pensions and Social Security to name two), we’re becoming increasingly re- sponsible for our own financial futures. But at the same time we’re overwhelmed with information about how to handle our money. Never before have we had so much information about how to han- dle money, and never before have so many felt out of control. Sorting though this noise is more important than ever, not only for our finan- cial futures but also for our mental health. Obviously, it’s easy to get distracted. And based on the questions I get, people are really distracted when it comes to money. Should I buy this stock? What do you think the market will do? Will Europe go down in flames? Will the economy ever recover? But what if instead of asking those questions, we asked these ques- tions: How much can I save? How is my portfolio allocated? Can I pick up some extra work this month? Can I start a little business on the side? By asking these questions we switch our focus to things we have at least some control over. We start to focus on our personal economy, in- stead of the global economy. Our personal economy becomes the filter for all the noise. The sooner you figure out the value of this filter, the faster you’ll be able to make sense of the noise. CARL RICHARDS COMMENT When I started getting serious about improving my finances last year, I was reading a ton of blogs about money. I would read for an hour a day. Eventually, it became more noise, even though it was help- ful noise and it definitely drilled some principles and values in me which I never had before: don’t spend what you don’t have, set aside savings from everything you earn, have a plan for your money and a plan to get out of debt. Now, it’s a matter of taking it to the next step and making a little more money to get out of debt faster. I don’t need to read everything, just to make sure I do research on the things I am do- ing.— AmericanDebtProject, LA Student Loans Get Scrutiny Complaints received about the handling of private student loans bear an “uncanny resem- blance” to complaints about mortgage servicing during the housing crisis, says the federal ombudsman for student loans. Rohit Chopra,the loan om- budsman for the Consumer Fi- nancial Protection Bureau and the author of a new report pre- pared for Congress on private loans, says the bureau has re- ceived nearly 3,000 complaints about private student loans since March. Unlike student loans made by the federal government, private loans lack some protections, like income-based repayment plans to help borrowers manage pay- ments. Many borrowers said they were never advised about the difference between a federal and private student loan and complained that they had not been fully informed of the terms of their loans. The vast majority of the com- plaints related to servicing of the loans, like problems with fees, billing, deferments and for- bearances. Many borrowers told the agency that they had trouble getting their payments credited properly, and obtaining accu- rate information about their loans from their servicing firms. They often ran into trouble when their loans were trans- ferred or sold to different servic- ers. The report notes that some borrowers reported problems with unauthorized payments, in cases where the borrower had a checking or savings account with the same institution that was servicing the loan. If the borrower was late with a pay- ment, the bank might deduct the money from the account auto- matically — sometimes even charging an overdraft fee if the payment overdrew the account. Many borrowers reported that they had tried to make “good faith” payments but were placed in default anyway. Mr. Chopra’s report makes several general recommenda- tions. Congress, he urges, should consider options that would allow borrowers to modi- fy or refinance their student loans at lower interest rates. It also suggests that the head of the consumer bureau and other federal agencies look into ways to improve servicing of such loans. The report also urges offi- cials to consider broader appli- cation of income-based repay- ment plans already available for federal loans, to reduce the bur- den on students who also have private loans. ANN CARRNS COMMENT He’s proposing forcing private companies to permit re- financing to a lower interest rate, when Congress flat refuses to do so for federal loans? I knew what I was signing up for, and I make all of my payments, but federal di- rect loans were sold as a better deal than private ones, not worse. — Susan, New Jersey Reviewing Medicare Plans Medicare has an annual open enrollment period, just as em- ployer-based health insurance plans do, when beneficiaries can change their coverage options. This year’s window opened this week and remains open until Dec. 7. Consumer Reports has tips from its health insurance expert, Nancy Metcalf, to navigate the open enrollment period. If, for instance, you have the original version of Medicare and pay extra for prescription drug coverage (so-called Part D cover- age), you may want to make sure medications you need are still covered under your plan, to avoid having to pay more for them. If you have a Medicare Advan- tage plan — with private H.M.O.’s or P.P.O.’s that you may choose, instead of original Medi- care — you should also check to see if your plan is still the best available option. The plans may include drug benefits or cover- age for other health needs, like dental care, but benefits can change from year to year. You will want to make sure that you can still afford the premiumand that your doctor is still included in the plan. The Medicare.gov Web site has a tool that can help in com- paring options for both Part D drug coverage plans and Medi- care Advantage plans, based on where a person lives. To get the most out of it, you will need to know what type of plan you nowhave. If you do not know, the tool lets you enter in- formation, including your Medi- care number, to find out. Or you can call 1-800-MEDICARE (633- 4227) and ask. You will also need a list of your medications, along with details of dosage and fre- quency of use. ANN CARRNS CARL RICHARDS By Reuters McDonald’s posted its worst quarterly restaurant sales growth in nine years on Friday, lifting the curtain on the fast- food industry’s fight for custom- ers in a weak economy. The world’s biggest fast-food chain is battling more than the bleak global economy that is curbing appetites for its ham- burgers, salads and smoothies. Resurgent chains like Burger King Worldwide and Yum Brands’ Taco Bell are challeng- ing McDonald’s in the United States with revamped menus, ce- lebrity endorsers and a renewed focus on low-priced food. McDonald’s domestic market falls just behind Europe as the company’s top region for sales. “You have a scenario where the overall pie is shrinking, and companies are competing ag- gressively to take their piece of it,” Sara Senatore,a Bernstein Research analyst, said. Third-quarter net income at McDonald’s fell 3.5 percent to $1.46 billion, or $1.43 a share, from $1.51 billion, or $1.45 a share, a year earlier. It missed analysts’ average estimate by 4 cents, according to Thomson Reuters. Total sales slipped 0.2 percent to $7.15 billion. When asked to explain why the third quarter’s results lagged even those put up during the height of the financial crisis, Mc- Donald’s chief executive, Don Thompson,attributed the results to the tougher battle for custom- ers and economic challenges in each of the company’s major re- gions. That confluence of factors forced McDonald’s to miss Wall Street’s earnings estimates for the second quarter in a row. It also warned that sales at estab- lished restaurants,a closely watched gauge of restaurant per- formance,were down so far this month. “When the economic crisis be- gan in 2008, few people thought the environment would still be as uncertain and fragile as it is to- day,” Mr. Thompson said. He added that the company’s market share was flat or up in all major markets. McDonald’s stock fell 4.5 per- cent to close at $88.72, The impact of a stronger dollar, which decreases the value of sales overseas for American companies, trimmed earnings by 8 cents a share. McDonald’s global sales at res- taurants open at least 13 months rose 1.9 percent, the first gain of less than 2 percent since the sec- ond quarter of 2003. That result just missed the 2 percent increase that analysts polled by Consensus Metrix had expected because of shortfalls in the United States and the Asia- Pacific, Middle East and Africa region. McDonald’s Profit Falls as Sales Growth Slows ERIC PIERMONT/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES AMcDonald’s in Paris. The impact of a stronger dollar trimmed earnings by 8 cents a share. thoroughly serve every constitu- ent who contacts them,” accord- ing to “Keeping It Local,” a guide published by the Congressional Management Foundation, a non- profit organization focused on of- fice operations and citizen in- volvement. It’s worth a shot, however. What follows is a rundown of some of the many roles that these caseworkers take on, in- cluding surprising advice on how early in your problem-solving process you should contact them. SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR Some- times people call or write to their representatives because they don’t know who else to call. “A woman called who thought that a member of Congress could give her free birth control,” said Ryan Stenger, chief of staff for Repre- sentative Bob Gibbs, Republican of Ohio. “I don’t think people un- derstand what Congress does sometimes.” Often, callers’ issues are ones that state legislators or local offi- cials must handle. Still, that’s an easy referral to make:many House and Senate staff members know whomto contact else- where,and many have even worked in other parts of govern- ment. So don’t worry too much about being a pest. In fact, it’s better to call too soon than too late. “Hun- dreds if not more times, we’ve told them, ‘If you could have only contacted us earlier,’” Mr. Cant- well said. “A lot of this stuff has things that have to be in by a cer- tain date, or there are so many months to appeal this or do that.” Not long ago, Representative Chabot’s staff heard from a woman who had received per- mission in 2000 from the Equal Employment Opportunity Com- mission to file a lawsuit. She had only a limited time in which to sue,and she did not meet the deadline. Years later, she want- ed the congressman to somehow turn back the clock. The bottom line is this: If you’re dealing with a federal agency, it’s a matter of real fi- nancial importance and there is even a small chance that you’re not understanding the process or the agency’s decision, ask your elected representative for help. MEDIATOR In a recent article in the Sunday Review section of The New York Times — one that gave me the idea for this column — Fred A. Bernstein, a journalist and lawyer, mentioned a friend who got a mortgage modification. Her senator made an inquiry with a regulator after her own ex- tensive efforts at persuading her lender to adjust her loan had failed. Caseworkers are wary of promising too much on this front. They are not supposed to talk to your lender; they can only speak to its regulator, often the comp- troller of the currency. And they will usually do so only if they be- lieve a legitimate question has gone unanswered. “We’re not trying to twist arms,” Mr. Cant- well said. “The fact is, we’re not allowed to do that.” Mr. Stenger added that the role of the staff in Representative Gibbs’s office was often to pass something along,beginning with an innocent inquiry. “You need to be careful in casework to give the benefit of the doubt to both sides,” he said. “What we do is make people communicate with whom they are supposed to be communicating with quicker.” RED-TAPE CUTTER This is a close cousin to the mediator role, and the fact is that House and Senate staff members have a better set of scissors than you do. Gene Crockett, a constituent liaison for Representative Tim Ryan, Dem- ocrat of Ohio, has wielded the shears a number of times. A couple of years ago, he heard from a constituent who relied en- tirely on his Social Security check for his living expenses. The check had stopped coming, and he couldn’t figure out why. Neither could Mr. Crockett,at first. “I asked him if he had a first wife or something, but that wasn’t it,” he recalled. He made a few calls and got the Internal Revenue Service in- volved. Eventually, he discov- ered that a clerk had switched two digits when recording some- body else’s Social Security num- ber,causing the man to be mis- taken for a woman in Illinois who owed the I.R.S. a lot of money. The man probably would have starved before figuring that out on his own. Another time, Mr. Crockett helped a befuddled nun whose Medicare drug plan kept switch- ing, no matter how many times she switched it back to the one she wanted. He soon discovered that there was a woman in Flor- ida with the same name who was born on the same day. “Every time the woman I was helping switched it, the lady in Florida would get mad and switch it right back,” he said. “How would they have ever found that out?” He is quick to note, however, that he is not in the business of changing inconvenient facts, like the ones that govern qualification for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. “You have to have worked five out of the last 10 years,” he said. “There are people who haven’t worked,and they get administra- tively denied. And then they want to argue with you, and you can’t change the rules.” EXPEDITER But every so often, when things are truly dire, a nudge from a member of Con- gress can make the rules work as they ought to more quickly. This year, Amanda Binion, a 22-year- old nursing student in Niles, Ohio, came down with a life- threatening form of pancreatitis just after her father lost his job and her health insurance was about to disappear. Qualifying for Medicaid was the only way to pay for the treat- ment she needed, but state rules made her ineligible unless the So- cial Security Administration de- clared her disabled. When it became clear how long that might take under normal cir- cumstances, Ms. Binion wrote an e-mail to Representative Ryan’s office and crossed her fingers. She received a reply the next day, and within about six weeks she was on the Medicaid rolls. “We were desperate,” she said. “Without their help, I would have been waiting for months.” When to Call Your Elected Representatives for Help From First Business Page CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES Every member of the House of Representatives has employees who help constituents with thorny issues, many of them financial. A chance to cut red tape or to make the rules work as they should a little faster. Readers of the Bucks personal finance blog share tales of their efforts to get help from their elected representatives. And caseworkers in those offices share their successes and failures. www.nytimes.com/bucks ONLINE:OVERLOOKED OPTION N B5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 PERSONAL BUSINESS By PAUL SULLIVAN O F all the types of insurance peo- ple are thinking about,dis- ability insurance may be the last on the list. One reason is that most people who have it got it through their employer and have given it little thought. Another is that people are not likely to go out and buy it on their own because it is so ex- pensive, the exception being certain oc- cupational groups, like doctors.Yet it does serve an important purpose in re- placing a portion of your salary if you get hurt or become sick and are unable to work for several months or more. Still, figuring out the real risk of be- coming disabled is difficult. My col- league Ron Lieber wrote a Your Money column about the various and divergent estimates in 2010. According to the Social Security Ad- ministration,a 20-year-old in 2011 had a 30 percent chance of being disabled for at least six months before retirement. That is a fairly scary statistic, but I couldn’t help thinking it was slightly misleading. After all, someone who moves refrigerators for a living is at greater risk for the most common dis- ability claim —muscular-skeletal inju- ry, according to Sun Life Financial — than someone who works in an office. But the second most common cause for a claim, cancer, doesn’t care what you do for a living. If you are like me, you also wonder about the likelihood of an insurer pay- ing a disability claim. Will it pay promptly when you submit the proper paperwork or give you the runaround until you give up, as was the case with one insurer, Unum, several years ago? And to be clear, I am talking about private disability insurance. Anyone who is working and paying into Social Security is eligible to apply for Social Security disability insurance, though the average benefit is only $1,188 a month. So how do you make an informed de- cision? THE COST The first thing anyone who has looked into buying disability insur- ance has probably been struck by is the cost. Dallas L. Salisbury,president and chief executive of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a public policy re- search group in Washington, said that the cost for coverage in a group policy runs about $16.30 per $1,000 of coverage with a waiting period of 30 days and a maximum benefit of $15,000 a month. For individuals buying their own poli- cies, he said,the cost is $18.60 per $1,000 of coverage but with a 90-day waiting period. That may seem comparable, but it’s not. The 90-day waiting period is like a higher deductible on your homeowner’s insurance, and it makes the policy con- siderably cheaper than it would other- wise be.The 90 days is also long enough to eliminate most smaller, short-term claims. Compare that with the costs for life insurance, which Mr. Salisbury said typically are about 22 cents per $1,000. Chris Quinn, vice president for the employee group benefits division at Sun Life Financial, said another way to think about it was that the premium was 1 percent of someone’s salary in a group plan and 3.5 percent of that sala- ry in an individual plan. Mr. Salisbury said that while the number of disability claims had re- mained constant for decades, the costs remained high because of the small pools of people with disability insurance and the fact that insurance companies might be obliged to make payments for decades. “The old theory was as soon as fewer people are doing backbreaking work, there will be fewer claims,” Mr. Salis- bury said. “But it turns out more people are doing damaging work. Take carpal tunnel syndrome from repetitive usage. Some of the old theories hadn’t contem- plated computer keyboards.” The cost of policies that increase someone’s disability payment above the typical 50 to 60 percent of income is even higher. The reason, Mr. Salisbury and others said, is what is called ad- verse selection bias: the people most likely to buy additional coverage are likely to have some condition or family history that makes them believe they will need it. THE CALCULATION The decision for most people on whether to buy an individual policy or add to an employer-sponsored one comes down to a personal risk as- sessment. David Ropeik,a consultant and teach- er who has written two books about as- sessing risk, said that when he and his wife had young children and were con- templating buying additional disability insurance, they decided against it. “We engaged in the process because we were worried about it in the first place,” Mr. Ropeik said. “If we had been more emotionally worried, we would have fantasized about worst-case sce- narios. We were fortunate that our in- comes could support the other one if something happened.” But Mr. Ropeik was careful to say that he was not arguing against buying disability insurance. “Our willingness to spend money to defray our worry de- pends on who we are as individuals,” he said. “It’s not a waste of money if you never collect. You’re buying something. You’re getting a value.” For some people like Jonathan Skin- ner,a professor of economics at Dart- mouth College who has done research on disability coverage around the world, that value is peace of mind. He said he bought as much additional coverage as he could under the college’s plan. “As an economist,I’m happiest to in- sure the things that are rare occur- rences that don’t cost much to insure against,” he said. “The disability top-up gives me peace of mind 100 percent of the time.” When I asked him how someone steeped in economic reasoning could want to have maximum coverage for a low-probability event, he said, like oth- ers I spoke to who had done the same, that he had been driven by fear. “The thing I fear the most is becom- ing disabled and requiring outside care that’s really expensive,” he said. “I don’t want my wife and my family to drop what they’re doing and take care of me.” What both Mr. Ropeik and Professor Skinner did, though, was ask whether they could maintain their lifestyles if they could no longer work.But most claims do not last that long. Sun Life said claims on policies with a 90-day waiting period last about three years, while those filed on policies with a 180-day waiting period run to 4.5 years. But insurers are quick to point out that every company is paying claims on people in their 20s who will be on disability until their policies end, usually at 65. Andy Sullivan,senior vice president for disability and small market business operations at Prudential, said most peo- ple went back to work in two years. “If they go beyond that 24-month point, you see the extension of the disability to several years,” he said. To help people make their own calcu- lation, the Council for Disability Aware- ness, a trade group backed by the insur- ance industry, created a calculator called What’s My Personal Disability Quotient. When I put in some basic in- formation about myself, I was told that I had a 12 percent chance of becoming disabled for at least three months. Barry Lundquist,president of the group, said the site was created using the same actuarial tables that disability insurers use to price policies. But he, like everyone I spoke to in the industry, cautioned against taking consolation from a low percentage chance. “The important take-away is that we all have a disability risk that is too high to ignore, whether 5 percent or 50 per- cent,” he said. “The potential loss of in- come is usually in the millions of dollars considering one’s career earnings po- tential.” THE PAYOUT Of course, people do get disabled and collect payments. What struck me was how frank insur- ers were about trying to get people back to work quickly so they could stop mak- ing payments. This is good —who wants to be loafing around?—but it also ran counter to how I imagined dis- ability insurance working. “We have incentives in our program that offer transition benefits,” Mr. Quinn said. “We now include rehabilitation in- centives. If you go back to work and it’s at a lower salary, we’ll augment your salary for some period of time. The in- centives we provide are focused on the notion that most people want to be back at work.” This was the case with Linda Hatch- ett, who is 62 years old. But not all of these programs work out as planned. An experienced dialysis nurse in Nash- ville, she fell and broke her hip last year. She rested for several months, and then her doctors decided her hip needed to be replaced. While she was recovering, her job was eliminated. In January, her hip healed,she start- ed looking for a job that would use her skills but not be too strenuous. Sun Life offered her career counseling and she accepted a lump sum settlement from it in April, thinking she would easily find a job. But it hasn’t happened yet, despite a lot of networking. “The longer I’m out of work,the more scary it becomes,” she said. “I love to work. I miss it. Financially,we’ve had to scale back.” WEALTH MATTERS Weighing the Odds Of Disability, For Insurance Purposes CHRISTOPHER BERKEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES While Linda Hatchett of Nashville was recovering from a hip replacement, her job was eliminated.Her disability in- surer offered her career counseling and she accepted a lump sum disability payment. But she hasn’t found a job. By ALINA TUGEND L IKE most households, we recycle pretty religiously. It’s easy, though, because our town in suburban New York allows us to throwpretty much everything into one bin,and it gets picked up at the curb. Recycling has become so automatic that if we’re out and there’s no place to recycle that soda can or bottle, it feels slightly illicit to just drop it in the trash. It’s like littering. You just don’t do it. Lately, however, I started wondering —are we really doing anything with all this recycling besides feeling better about the stuff we buy? Much of the discussion has focused on the economic impact. That issue has been batted back and forth with mixed results, although most experts now agree that cities have become more ex- perienced and more effective —and therefore made it more cost-efficient — to recycle most products rather than dump them in landfills. I’m more curious about what impact it has on other environmental behavior. And when I started looking at that more closely, I discovered that there’s an in- tense debate going on about this issue. Recycling “is good civic behavior,” said Samantha MacBride, an assistant professor of public affairs at Baruch College, City University of New York, but it’s oversold as a panacea to a whole host of environmental ills,from over- flowing landfills to global warming.“I wouldn’t say that people who do recy- cling feel they’ve done everything they can by participating, but they think there’s a lot more being achieved than there actually is,” she said.Nationally, said Professor MacBride, who is the au- thor of “Recycling Reconsidered” (MIT Press, 2011),recycling prevents only about one-third of all trash from ending up in landfills. Partly, she said, that is because peo- ple are not recycling everything they can. Partly it’s because the recycling model in most municipalities of picking up a bin with all the recyclables mixed together, especially the plastics,doesn’t work well. “There’s a huge range of plastic ma- terials and hundreds of different res- ins,” Professor MacBride said. “We need markets and processes to route them back into production and for the most part,those processes don’t exist.” So some plastics are sent in bales to China and developing countries,and some are disposed of in landfills. The emphasis, she said, has to be much more on regulating and recycling waste from manufacturers rather than consumer waste. The other problem is that while “re- cycling is a wonderful thing to do if we’re comparing it to throwing stuff away, it has become a reward for con- sumption,” said Michael Maniates, a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. Gernot Wagner, an economist with the Environmental Defense Fund and author of “But Will the Planet Notice: How Smart Economics Can Save the World,” (Hill and Wang,2011),agrees. “There’s a well-documented phenom- enon known as single-action bias, where people do one thing and move on,” he said. “People don’t explicitly think,‘I’ve recycled a cup and solved global warming,’ but rather once they’ve done an action like recycling, they feel consciously or subconsciously like they’ve done their part.” Or as the Center for Research on En- vironmental Decisions, which is affiliat- ed with the Earth Institute at Columbia University,says on its Web site: “Al- though recycling is important, it should be but one activity in a series of behav- ior changes aimed at reducing climate change. Switching to wind or other re- newable energies, consuming less meat, conserving daily energy use and eating locally grown food are other effective ways to mitigate climate change, to name but a few. However, if individuals and institutions participate in recycling programs, they may be prone to the sin- gle-action bias and feel like they are al- ready doing enough to protect the envi- ronment.” Hold on there, said Allen Hershko- witz,senior scientist and director of the solid waste project at the environmental organization the Natural Resources De- fense Council.“I’ve never dealt with a person or company who said, ‘We recy- cle so we don’t have to do anything else.’ It’s,‘We recycle, what else can we do?’” In his role as an adviser to the Nation- al Hockey League, Major League Base- ball and the National Basketball Associ- ation,among others, he said he found that recycling was “an entry activity that leads to other activities such as buying recycled, energy effectiveness and fan education.” Juliet Schor, a professor of sociology at Boston College, said that a number of European studies had demonstrated that people who bought green products or did some sort of similar “conscious consumerism” didn’t stop there, but continued on with other types of envi- ronmental activism. A study conducted by Professor Schor and a graduate student,Margaret Willis,and published recently in The Annals of the American Academy of Po- litical and Social Science,called “Does Changing Light Bulbs Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Con- scious Consumer” looked at the concern that “individual action substitutes or ‘crowds out’ civic and collective action.” Part of the study included 2,271 sur- vey responses from people identified as being “conscious consumers” through an ecologically oriented nonprofit or- ganization the Center for a New Ameri- can dream.These respondents, largely white, female and highly educated, were asked questions like how often (ranging from “never” to “very consistently”) they engaged in such activities as choosing to drive less, contacting gov- ernment representatives to express an opinion and buying local or green goods. While the study didn’t look at recy- cling in particular, it found that those who chose to do individual green ac- tions were also more involved in other broader political activism. But Professor Schor said she was troubled that recycling “is what they’re teaching kids in school is going to save the world.” And that was the point Professor MacBride wanted to emphasize. “We don’t want to hear the bad side of recycling,” Professor MacBride said. “That’s a child’s view of the world. It’s time to grow up.” So what can we do? Remember that there’s two other Rs —reduce and re- use —that are far too often ignored. “As it has turned out ‘reuse’ is some- thing that our kids learn in school as part of the ‘three Rs,’” Professor Ma- niates said.“But it has no resonance or meaning in mainstream or popular en- vironmental politics and living. I brought my hangers to the dry cleaner and said, ‘Maybe you can reuse these’ and they said, ‘Sure, we’ll recycle them.’” David N. Pellow, a professor of sociol- ogy at the University of Minnesota,of- fered a similar perspective.“I would urge people to buy fewer things, buy higher quality, fix things when they’re broken. I would encourage people to re- cycle as a last stage after they’ve done all these other things.” And remember not to buy into single- action bias. As Mr. Hershkowitz said: “We are dealing with a gigantic problem and there is no one large undertaking that any individual or business or coun- try can do to solve our ecological prob- lems. It will take billions of people mak- ing highly intelligent ecological choices.” SHORTCUTS Recycling Helps, but It’s Not All You Can Do for the Environment MICHAEL STRAVATO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A lone recycling bin alongside trash cans on a street in Houston, which recycles only about 3 percent of its trash. E-mail: shortcuts@nytimes.com Readers of the Bucks personal finance blog discuss whether they have bought disability insurance — on their own or through their employer — and their experience, if they ever had to use it. www.nytimes.com/bucks ONLINE:COSTS OF DISABILITY B6 Ø N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 for the government’s allegations and we hope to convince a jury of that.” Ms. Febles is hardly the first executive assistant accused of fleecing a corporate boss, a crime that investigations and securities firms say happens with some fre- quency. One of the more memo- rable incidents happened in 2002, when a secretary who worked for E. Scott Mead, a top banker at Goldman Sachs in London, was imprisoned after looting more than $5 million by wiring blocks of his money to bank accounts in Cyprus. Experts say that these inci- dents arise for several reasons. Investment bankers and corpo- rate lawyers are often on the road, working 60 to 80 hours a week, and they give secretaries a lot of discretion.They also say that class envy often factors into these crimes. And in cases like the one involving Mr. Salomon, elder abuse can play a role. “People put an excessive amount of trust in individuals who have fiduciary duty and signing power over their ac- counts,” said Daniel E. Karson, chairman of Kroll Advisory Solu- tions, a corporate investigations firm. “And part of what goes into the larcenous thinking is that this is a wealthy person who isn’t counting their nickels and dimes and will never miss the money.” Prosecutors say that Ms. Febles worked for Mr. Salomon from 2000 until September 2011, answering his phones, schedul- ing his appointments and paying his bills.Mr. Salomon authorized Ms. Febles to prepare personal checks that he would sign.After he signed the checks, many of which were made out to “cash” or “petty cash,” Ms. Febles would al- ter the withdrawal amount and deposit excess funds in her own bank account, according to the government’s complaint. In 2010, for example, Mr. Salo- mon’s expenses,paid in cash,to- taled about $450,000, but checks in excess of $1.1 million were is- sued that year from his bank ac- counts, the complaint said. Pros- ecutors say that Ms. Febles was the only other person given ac- cess to his accounts. The money, totaling $1.8 mil- lion, is said to have been stolen in small increments over a period of years. In one instance, prosecu- tors say, Ms. Febles made out a check for “nine hundred” dollars, but when the check was negotiat- ed, the words “nine thousand” were added before the words “nine hundred.” Ms. Febles lived more like a Wall Street banker than a secre- tary who earned no more than $93,000 a year, according to court filings. Last year she paid more than $50,000 cash for a Range Rover and about $35,000 for a Mercedes-Benz. Recent cruise vacations cost her $45,000. She paid for such extravagances, the government says, by skimming from Mr. Salomon’s fortune. Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Salomon, who is known as Billy, skipped college and joined his father’s firm at 19. While serving as senior manag- ing partner for 15 years during the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Salomon orchestrated the firm’s transfor- mation from a small bond-trading house to one of the country’s largest and most profitable in- vestment banks. “Pleasant, well-tailored and casual, it would be easy to think of him as another example of Wall Street nepotism,” wrote The New York Times of Mr. Salomon in a 1965 profile. “Colleagues and competitors dispel that notion.” Among Mr. Salomon’s protégés was an ambitious young trader named Michael R. Bloomberg. Another was John H. Gutfreund, who succeeded him in 1978 as head of the firm. The newly mint- ed chief executive of Citigroup, Michael L. Corbat, also began his career at Salomon. Mr. Gutfreund presided over Salomon during a tumultuous pe- riod that ended in a scandal, drawing charges that the firm had rigged the Treasury bond market. Salomon’s brash, risk- taking culture under Mr. Gut- freund was chronicled in “Liar’s Poker,” a tell-all memoir by Mi- chael Lewis, who worked as a bond salesman at Salomon before he became a writer. In a 1991 interview with The Associated Press, Mr. Salomon, embittered after a falling out with Mr. Gutfreund, lamented that the firm had lost its way. “In my time,the customer was God and we would no more take advantage of him than we’d fly out the window,” Mr. Salomon said. “We wanted to maintain a high ethical standard.” Salomon became swept up in the financial services mega- mergers of the late 1990s. The in- surer Travelers acquired the firm in 1998 and later that year com- bined with Citicorp, which would become Citigroup. Through it all, Citigroup pro- vided Mr. Salomon with a Mid- town Manhattan office and a sec- retary. A fixture of the Upper East Side old-money crowd, Mr. Salomon lives in a Park Avenue apartment and has an oceanfront home in Southampton on Long Island. He was widowed in 2008 when his wife of more than 70 years, Virginia Foster Salomon, died. It was around that time, the government says, that Ms. Febles started embezzling from him. Mr. Salomon, who, despite his advanced age is said to have all of his mental faculties, did not re- turn multiple calls seeking com- ment. Another assistant now an- swers his phone. Secretary to a Salomon Is Accused of Skimming From Her Boss’s Fortune ARTHUR BROWER/THE NEW YORK TIMES William R.Salomon at Salomon Brothers in 1965, when he was a managing partner. Now 98, he still has an office at Citigroup. From First Business Page products would not have been al- lowed under Microsoft policies, which limited the use of data col- lected under one of its products to that product alone. Microsoft has promised, how- ever, that it will not use the per- sonal information and content it collects to sell targeted advertis- ing.It will not,for example, scan a consumer’s e-mails to generate ads that might interest the user. Google does that, and expanding its ability to draw on that content was part of the reason Google changed its privacy policy this year. But the new Microsoft policy does allow for such targeted ad- vertising. Microsoft promised not to do so in blog posts and e-mails informing its customers about the change, but not in the formal policy.That has some privacy ad- vocates nervous. “What Microsoft is doing is no different from what Google did,” said John M. Simpson, who mon- itors privacy policy for Consumer Watchdog,a California nonprofit group. “It allows the combination of data across services in ways a user wouldn’t reasonably expect. Microsoft wants to be able to compile massive digital dossiers about users of its services and monetize them.” Jack Evans, a Microsoft spokesman,says the company’s plans are benign. He differenti- ates between the Services Agree- ment, also known as the terms of use, that was changed on Friday and the company’s Privacy Pol- icy,which was last updated in April. “Over the years, we have con- sistently informed users that we may use their content to improve the services they receive,” Mr. Evans said in a written state- ment. “For instance, we analyze content to improve our spam and malware filters in order to keep customers safe. We also do it to develop new product features such as e-mail categorization to organize similar items like ship- ping receipts in a common folder, or to automatically add calendar invitations. “However,” he added, “one thing we don’t do is use the con- tent of our customers’ private communications and documents to create targeted advertising. If that ever changes, we’ll be the first to let our customers know.” Microsoft’s new services agreement affects only its free, Web-based products, not the soft- ware programs that individuals and companies buy off the shelf for home or business use. It cov- ers Hotmail, and its related e-mail service,Outlook.com, but not the Outlook e-mail and calen- dar program that is individually loaded onto computer hard drives and widely used by corpo- rations. Bing, its search engine, is covered, but Internet Explorer, its browser, is not. Microsoft’s pledge not to use the data from its Web services to target advertising has some cred- ibility, given the company’s broader privacy initiatives. The company has said it will include a “do not track” feature in its new Internet Explorer 10 Web brows- er that prevents online advertis- ing companies from monitoring the browsing habits of users so they can target promotions. Microsoft has made “do not track” the default setting on the new version of Explorer, a move that has caused a firestorm among online advertising compa- nies. Microsoft’s push to provide better privacy protections for consumers comes at a time when its efforts in Internet advertising have sputtered. Online advertis- ing remains a small fraction of Microsoft’s overall business, ac- counting for $2.6 billion,or about 3.5 percent,of the company’s rev- enue during its last fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to Microsoft’s filings with securi- ties regulators. But it is easy to see how Micro- soft customers might be con- fused, because the different divi- sions of Microsoft that draft and oversee its user agreements and privacy policies did not antici- pate that the changes in the serv- ices agreement would raise pri- vacy questions. The drafters of the service agreement, a more technical bunch, thought the changes were so small that they were men- tioned in August in a specialty “Volume Licensing” blog dedicat- ed to commercial customers, but seemingly nowhere else on Microsoft’s vast array of corpo- rate Web sites. Microsoft also sent an e-mail about the change in late August to all of its 325 million Hotmail us- ers. But those notices became the subject of nervous online chatter when some users learned that a similar message, using the same template, was being used by hackers to distribute harmful malware. Online message boards warned against even opening the messages. Inside Microsoft, officials were focused not on whether the policy changes affected privacy but rather on a different change, one that limits the ability of Microsoft customers to sue the company, in- cluding in a class action, over its products. The new agreement re- quires the use of binding arbitra- tion. Mr. Evans said the change put in place on Friday in the Services Agreement “did not alter our ex- isting privacy policies.” Those policies include a 4,000-word main policy and at least 16 related prod- uct-specific privacy policies. That itself is an example of how users cannot possibly know what Internet companies are doing with their personal information, said Jeff Chester, executive di- rector of the Center for Digital Democracy,a consumer protec- tion group based in Washington. “No one understands how all this data is being put together and being used,” he said. “All of these companies are in a digital arms race to tie together all the in- formation they have about indi- viduals. For companies like Goo- gle and Microsoft, the real goal is to expand market share.” Microsoft Expands Its Gathering and Use of Personal Data From Web Products From First Business Page Pledging not to mine users’ content to serve up tailored ads. By Reuters General Electric on Friday re- ported weaker-than-expected third-quarter revenue, hurt by unfavorable exchange rates, and set a cautious tone for 2013, say- ing it expected the tough eco- nomic environment to continue. The company reported a 2.8 percent rise in sales, to $36.35 bil- lion. Revenue was down at its aviation and health care arms, while the stronger dollar crimped total results by dimin- ishing the value of its foreign sales. Third-quarter net income in- creased 8 percent, to $3.49 billion, or 33 cents a share, compared with $3.22 billion, or 22 cents a share, in the period a year earli- er. Excluding one-time items, the profit was 36 cents a share, meet- ing the analysts’ average esti- mate, according to Thomson Reuters. G.E., the maker of electric tur- bines and jet engines, stood by its forecast for full-year earnings to rise at a double-digit percent- age rate. It said full-year sales would be up just 3 percent, down from a previous forecast for 5 percent, reflecting continued ef- forts to cut back the GE Capital finance arm and exchange rate fluctuations. Among G.E.units, the energy arm had the biggest revenue growth, with a 12 percent in- crease in the quarter. The company is not counting on any significant improvement in the world economy next year. “We’re not assuming that Eu- rope gets any better,” the chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, told investors in a conference call. “We’re looking at ’13 being kind of like ’12, with the big variable being the fiscal cliff.” The fiscal cliff refers to $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases that could take effect at the end of the year if lawmakers fail to reach a deal on reducing the federal deficit. G.E. does not expect those cuts to take effect, Mr. Immelt said. “We’re making the same as- sessment most people do, that somehow it gets resolved,” said Mr. Immelt, who is a top adviser to President Obama on jobs and the economy. Shares of G.E., which is based in Fairfield, Conn.,fell 78 cents, or 3.4 percent, to $22.03. Revenue Lags at G.E., but Profit Rises 8% in Quarter GARY TRAMONTINA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES A GE Energy wind turbine plant in Pensacola, Fla.The division had a 12 percent jump in sales. By The Associated Press Honeywell International said on Friday that its profit rose 10 percent in the third quarter as new products and emerging market growth offset weakness in Europe. The earnings topped Wall Street estimates, but revenue fell short of estimates. The com- pany reduced its full-year reve- nue guidance and narrowed its earnings estimate. Honeywell’s chief executive, David M.Cote,said in a state- ment that he was encouraged by the commercial aerospace out- look, increasing spending on in- frastructure and oil and gas in- vestments. But looking ahead to 2013, he said the company was planning for a “continued chal- lenging macro environment,” al- though it expected to deliver good growth helped by new products and geographic expan- sion. Honeywell reported net in- come of $950 million,or $1.20 a share, in the third quarter, com- pared with $862 million, or $1.10 a share, in the period a year ear- lier. Revenue rose slightly, to $9.34 billion from $9.30 billion in the year-earlier period. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of $1.14 a share on revenue of $9.5 billion. Aerospace sales rose 4 per- cent, to $3 billion, while automa- tion and control solutions sales were flat at $3.9 billion.Sales for the performance materials and technologies segment rose 1 per- cent, to $1.48 billion,while trans- portation systems revenue slipped 10 percent, to $863 mil- lion. Honeywell cut its full-year rev- enue estimate. It now expects revenue of $37.5 billion to $37.7 billion, compared with a previ- ous forecast of $37.8 billion to $38.4 billion.Wall Street predict- ed revenue of just more than $38 billion for the full year. Honeywell also raised the low end of its full-year earnings fore- cast but cut the top end. The company now expects full-year earnings of $4.45 to $4.50 a share. Previously it was $4.40 to $4.55 a share.Analysts expect earnings of $4.50 a share. Shares of Honeywell rose $1.07. or 1.7 percent, to close at $62.49. 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This time around, shares moved down in an orderly fashion, and after it was over, some traders and investors said that while they were pre- pared for company profits to grow at a slower pace, they were not worried that earnings would disappear. “It’s really a paring back of re- cent optimism, as opposed to a pessimism that will last for weeks,” said Ryan Larson, the head stock trader at RBC Global Asset Management. “This is a normal healthy thing for the mar- kets to go through.” One major threat is increas- ingly hanging over conversations across Wall Street: the fiscal cliff that the economy could go over if Congress and the White House do not find a way to avert loom- ing tax increases and spending cuts by the end of the year.While the deadline has been expected all year, most investors have pushed it aside and assumed that politicians will reach a compro- mise. “Now it’s becomes a more im- mediate issue, and everybody re- alizes it is going to be hanging over the market but not re- solved,” said Ed Clissold, the chief global strategist at Ned Da- vis Research. Mr. Clissold said he expected investors to think more about the fiscal cliff as the election ap- proached, particularly if neither of the candidates talked about how they planned to deal with the problem. The recent choppy market has come at the same time that sev- eral reports indicate that the eco- nomic recovery may be gaining firmer footing. The Bureau of La- bor Statistics said on Friday that the unemployment rate fell in 41 states — the latest indication that the job picture may be improv- ing. While data on existing-home sales on Friday came in lower than expected, most signs point to the housing market emerging from its long slide. The bigger economic worries have generally come from abroad.Spain’s prime minister gave the market pause on Friday when he said that he had not yet decided whether to request a full bailout from the European au- thorities.But Spain is expected to take assistance if its situation grows worse. The chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Jim O’Neill, said Friday that his mod- els showed the global economy gaining momentum for the first time since late last year. But for the immediate future, the focus continued to be on cor- porate profits and revenue. At General Electric, analysts who expected revenue to rise $1.6 billion from the quarter a year ago were disappointed when they rose only $1 billion. Shares of the company dropped 3.4 percent on Friday, but they are up nearly 23 percent for the year. The biggest disappointment this earning season has come from the technology stocks that have led the markets up for most of the year.Apple was heralded earlier this year when its stock market capitalization rose above $600 billion. But since hitting a high in mid-September, its share price has fallen 13 percent, bring- ing its market capitalization down to the more pedestrian $571 billion. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index was hit by the steepest drop among the indexes on Friday, declining 2.19 percent, or 67.24 points, to 3,005.62. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 205.43 points, or 1.52 percent, to 13,343.51. Many executives have been warning that future revenue and profits may end up growing more slowly than they had expected as a result of a recession in Europe, and the slowdown in China and elsewhere in the developing world. So far, 17 companies have given what is known as negative guid- ance for future profit growth, and none have given positive guid- ance,a Thomson Reuters ana- lyst,Greg Harrison,said. The chief executive at McDon- ald’s, Donald Thompson, said Fri- day morning that so far fourth- quarter sales were “currently trending negative.” Taking a step back, corporate profits are still expected to grow this year,though just in the single digits, rather than the double dig- its that have become common over the last three years. What’s more, most analysts expect that profit growth will go back up to the double digits in 2013. “We had a great year so far, and perhaps it did get ahead of it- self,” said Ms. Caughey Forrest of Fort Pitt. “This was a rational pullback based on rational infor- mation.” ANDREW BURTON/GETTY IMAGES A trader, Frank T. Masiello, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as shares fell on Friday. STOCKS & BONDS Shares Tumble on Disappointing Company Reports The Dow Minute by Minute Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals yesterday. Source: Bloomberg THE NEW YORK TIMES 13,300 13,400 13,500 13,600 10 a.m.Noon 2 p.m.4 p.m. Previous close 13,548.94 From First Business Page WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Home resales retreated in Sep- tember from a two-year high, a reminder that America’s housing sector is a long way from a full recovery despite recent signs of improvement. Existing home sales fell 1.7 percent last month,to a season- ally adjusted annual rate of 4.75 million units, matching the medi- an forecast in a Reuters poll, data from the National Association of Realtors showed on Friday. Housing has been a relative bright spot in the nation’s econ- omy this year, and Friday’s data did not point to a reversal in that trend. The reading for August was revised slightly higher to show resales at a rate of 4.83 mil- lion units. The median price for a home resale rose 11.3 percent from a year earlier,to $183,900. The rise in prices appears to be a result of tight inventories and a down- ward trend in sales made under distressed conditions like fore- closures. To support the economy, the Federal Reserve began a pro- gram last month to buy housing- related debt, an action that has driven mortgage rates to record lows. Fed policy makers meet next week, but are unlikely to take new steps. The economy has shown signs of faster growth recently, with the jobless rate falling and retail sales picking up. Threats to that momentum remain, however. The United States government is on track to tighten fiscal policy in January, while Europe’s debt cri- sis also looms heavily. Tight inventories have helped support home prices in recent months. The nation’s stock of existing homes for sale fell 3.3 percent last month,to 2.32 million units. At the current rate of sales, in- ventories would be exhausted in 5.9 months, the lowest rate since March 2006, the Realtor’s associ- ation said. This week, Goldman Sachs es- timated growth in the housing sector would most likely add about a quarter of a percentage point to economic growth this year and half a point in 2013. Much of the economic lift comes from the building of new homes, although existing-home sales also help growth as people go out to buy furniture and real estate agents reap more in com- missions. Existing-Home Sales A nnual pace of existing single- family homes sold during the month, seasonally adjusted. Home Prices Median price for existing homes, not seasonally adjusted. Source: National Association of Realtors 3.5 5.0 million JULY +2.3% AUG. +8.1% SEPT. –1.7% JULY –0.5% AUG. +0.1% SEPT. –2.1% ’11 ’12 150 170 $190 ,000 180 160 ’11 ’12 4.5 4.0 THE NEW YORK TIME S Home Resales Retreat From a 2-Year High then he hasn’t made much of a case. But Mr. Smith isn’t in much of a position to exonerate Goldman, either. The firm was deeply en- meshed in nearly all aspects of the financial crisis and its causes, including mortgage-backed secu- rities. And after an injection of taxpayer support, it managed to profit handsomely and pay the lavish bonuses that Mr. Smith shared in.But you won’t find that story in “Why I Left.” Mr. Smith declined to discuss any of this before his scheduled appearance on Sunday on “60 Minutes.” Goldman Sachs re- sponded to some of my questions with copies of parts of their inter- nal investigation and made sev- eral employees available. Potential problems with Mr. Smith’s approach surface almost immediately. The first paragraph of Chapter 1 describes “an intern named Josh” who’s being “grilled” and asked to explain risk arbitrage but “was flounder- ing badly.” Josh, Mr. Smith adds, is the son of a billionaire. There was no “Josh” in Mr. Smith’s group of interns, and only one son of a billionaire: Ted- dy Schwarzman, son of Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman and chief executive of the asset man- agement firm Blackstone Group. “I was never grilled on risk ar- bitrage, or asked to give a pre- sentation on it,” Mr. Schwarzman said when I contacted him this week. “I realize it was a long time ago, but I would certainly have remembered it if I had floun- dered.” Nor did anyone else in the class I spoke to recall such an episode. Mr. Smith also recounts what purports to be a verbatim ex- change between a Goldman vice president and a fellow intern named Brynn Thomas who grad- uated from Brown University. Brynn is interrogated and humili- ated by her lack of knowledge about Microsoft, and “starts to tear up and runs out of the room.” Goldman said it has no record of anyone named Brynn Thomas,and other members of Mr. Smith’s intern class said no one by that name was in his class. Nor did they recall any such inci- dent. “The program wasn’t that cutthroat, and it certainly wasn’t abusive,” said Mr. Schwarzman, nowa movie producer. “No one ever ran out of a room crying. They were trying to recruit us and also to shape us. They had high expectations, but I learned a tremendous amount.” (The actual person apparently described in the anecdote, a Brown graduate named Ebony Thomas who was an intern with Mr. Smith, didn’t respond to re- quests for comment.) On the larger issue of whether Goldman was “ripping off” cli- ents,his principal evidence is that while he was working in London in the two years before his resignation, Goldman was urging clients to buy or sell op- tions on European banks while countries like Greece and Portu- gal were in the midst of debt cri- ses. In Mr. Smith’s telling, Gold- man was trying to get clients to take positions that Goldman was trying to get rid of, which Mr. Smith describes as “axes.” “The firm believes,deep down, that one outcome is going to tran- spire, yet it advises the client to do the opposite, so the firm can then take the other side of the trade and implement its own pro- prietary bet.” But Goldman officials told me the firm never acted as a princi- pal on any of those trades, and Mr. Smith doesn’t provide any specific examples where it did. Moreover, they noted, Mr. Smith sold United States equities and derivatives while he was in Lon- don, not European ones, so he would have had no direct knowl- edge of European options trad- ing. Mr. Smith also faults Goldman for constantly changing its views on the outlook for European banks, requiring clients to keep trading and presumably generat- ing more commissions for the firm. “No thinking client could believe that conditions on the ground could change that fre- quently. It was so obviously mis- leading and disingenuous,” he writes. But Goldman officials said that anyone immersed in the European debt crisis and govern- ment responses at the time would understand that conditions changed frequently, and it was Goldman’s obligation to keep cli- ents informed. As for muppets —a mildly de- rogatory term common in British slang — Goldman officials said they had conducted an exhaus- tive search after Mr.Smith re- signed.They said they found only one such reference to a client, and it was about educating the client, a midsize European bank, not taking advantage of it. The mere mention of Mr. Smith invokes passionate reactions at Goldman, but much of the initial anger seems to have dissipated. People I spoke to who had been close to himfelt hurt, wronged and saddened by a broadside from someone they considered a friend and colleague, dedicated to the firm and its values, who was hard-working, reliable and hum- ble. He seemed, they said,the last person to attack the firm and its culture. One of Mr. Smith’s fellow in- terns said, “I thought he loved the firm and its culture.” The for- mer intern,now a managing di- rector, said he helped organize a going-away party for himat SPiN, a Manhattan club with 17 Ping-Pong tables.(Mr. Smith was a table tennis champion in his na- tive South Africa.) “In his book he makes every element of our intern program seem demean- ing,” the former intern said. “It was intense and stressful, but it was fun. And we learned so much.” He showed me a year- book he had saved from that summer with several photos of a beaming Mr. Smith. The Goldman officials I spoke to all asked not to be named be- cause they didn’t want to be drawn into a public debate about the book. Apartner who said he acted in many ways as Mr. Smith’s men- tor and was in regular contact with him until shortly before he left, said:“He never raised any issue with me. I had no inkling. I thought he’d settled in in London and was doing fine. I know he was disappointed he hadn’t been made a managing director yet, but he just wasn’t ready. For some people it’s a sprint, but it took me 18 years to make manag- ing director and 20 years to make partner. I told him to keep at it and good things will happen. Serve clients and they’ll serve you. Give them good ideas. Lon- don was a great opportunity for him,and I thought he was excit- ed.” One thing Mr. Smith was clear- ly unhappy about was his com- pensation, which had peaked at $500,000 and,like the compensa- tion of most Goldman employees, had recently declined slightly. Af- ter he asked for a $1 million bo- nus, his supervisor wrote in an e-mail, “Greg Smith off the charts unrealistic, thinks he shld trade at multiples, we told him there’s v little tolerance for reactions like that and he needs to tone it down.” The partner told me this week: “He was an outlier in London. Most people were disappointed but realistic. He had a complete disconnect from the macro envi- ronment. Europe wanted to out- law bonuses.They were discuss- ing bonus caps. We were laying people off. People were very sen- sitive to this.” The former intern added, “I was floored;I was be- yond shocked” by Mr. Smith’s resignation and accusations. “He was making $500,000 at the age of 26 or 27 at a time when people were being laid off, and he com- plains? I can only conclude he was motivated by personal gain. The firm has been under attack, and I think he’s being opportunis- tic. None of it feels virtuous to me.” Virtuous or not, “Why I Left” will surely not be the last word — good or bad — on Goldman. Fab- rice Tourre, the young Goldman trader at the center of a now-infa- mous subprime mortgage deal,is scheduled to go on trial for civil fraud next July. Unlike Mr. Smith, Mr. Tourre was involved in a deal in which Goldman mis- led investors,the Securities and Exchange Commission has said. That deal has come to embody many of the excesses of the sub- prime mortgage bubble —some- thing that actually did help cause the financial crisis. Mr. Tourre has denied any wrongdoing and is on unpaid leave from Goldman while studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and doing volunteer work in Rwanda. Mr. Tourre hasn’t signed a sev- en-figure book deal, but he could surely get one —and if he does, it could be a tell-all worth reading. A Tell-All About Goldman Has Little Worth Telling CBS NEWS/“60 MINUTES” Greg Smith, left, with Anderson Cooper in a “60 Minutes” in- terview that is to be broadcast on Sunday. He has a book ex- panding on his hotly discussed reasons for leaving Goldman. From First Business Page The conclusions are vast and damning, but evidence is weak. B8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 Australia (Dollar) 1.0329 .9681 China (Yuan) .1599 6.2533 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1290 7.7495 India (Rupee) .0186 53.8400 Japan (Yen) .0126 79.3000 Malaysia (Ringgit) .3280 3.0490 New Zealand (Dollar) .8156 1.2261 Pakistan (Rupee) .0105 95.3500 Philippines (Peso) .0242 41.3000 Singapore (Dollar) .8188 1.2213 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1105.2 Taiwan (Dollar) .0342 29.2180 Thailand (Baht) .0326 30.6700 Vietnam (Dong) .0000 20820 Britain (Pound) 1.6003 .6249 Czech Rep (Koruna) .0525 19.0600 Denmark (Krone) .1747 5.7253 Europe (Euro) 1.3019 .7681 Hungary (Forint) .0047 213.94 Gold COMX $/oz 1934.60 766.00 Dec 12 1742.40 1744.70 1716.00 1724.00 ◊ 20.70 332,574 Silver COMX ¢/oz 4951.00 347.50 Dec 12 3281.50 3291.50 3194.50 3209.70 ◊ 77.10 84,145 Hi Grade Copper COMX ¢/lb 448.65 308.85 Dec 12 373.30 374.75 362.70 363.75 ◊ 10.55 100,159 Nasdaq 100 2678.31 ◊ 65.85 ◊ 2.40 + 15.60 + 17.58 Composite 3005.62 ◊ 67.24 ◊ 2.19 + 15.42 + 15.37 Industrials 2530.14 ◊ 46.37 ◊ 1.80 + 14.68 + 16.69 Banks 1858.13 ◊ 11.83 ◊ 0.63 + 23.56 + 14.85 Insurance 4691.38 ◊ 54.46 ◊ 1.15 + 16.98 + 9.69 Other Finance 4062.17 ◊ 67.01 ◊ 1.62 + 21.35 + 17.89 Telecommunications 191.26 ◊ 3.57 ◊ 1.83 ◊ 1.03 ◊ 2.88 Computer 1569.96 ◊ 41.16 ◊ 2.55 + 11.98 + 13.87 Industrials 13343.51 ◊ 205.43 ◊ 1.52 + 15.98 + 9.22 Transportation 5082.16 ◊ 74.38 ◊ 1.44 + 9.60 + 1.24 Utilities 483.76 ◊ 3.60 ◊ 0.74 + 9.35 + 4.11 Composite 4484.53 ◊ 61.09 ◊ 1.34 + 12.89 + 5.96 100 Stocks 657.11 ◊ 11.36 ◊ 1.70 + 20.05 + 15.12 500 Stocks 1433.19 ◊ 24.15 ◊ 1.66 + 18.46 + 13.96 Mid-Cap 400 987.40 ◊ 13.84 ◊ 1.38 + 17.71 + 12.31 Small-Cap 600 458.80 ◊ 7.77 ◊ 1.66 + 19.96 + 10.54 MARKET GAUGES +10% + 5% 0% – 5% Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index 3-MONTH TREND 1,300 1,350 1,400 1,450 1,500 Aug. Sept. Oct. +10% + 5% 0% – 5% Nasdaq Composite 3-MONTH TREND 2,800 2,900 3,000 3,100 3,200 3,300 Aug. Sept. Oct. +10% + 5% 0% – 5% Dow Jones Industrial Average 3-MONTH TREND 12,000 12,500 13,000 13,500 14,000 14,500 Aug. Sept. Oct. NASDAQ COMPOSITE 3,005.62 –67.24 D 10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD 1.77% –0.06 CRUDE OIL $90.44 –$2.09 D GOLD (N.Y.) $1,722.80 –$20.50 D THE EURO $1.3019 –$0.0053 D DOW INDUSTRIALS 13,343.51 –205.43 D S.&P. 500 1,433.19 –24.15 D STOCK MARKET INDEXES % 52-Wk YTD Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg DOW JONES STANDARD AND POOR’S NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NASDAQ OTHER INDEXES NYSE Comp. 8324.15 ◊ 118.66 ◊ 1.41 + 14.97 + 11.33 Tech/Media/Telecom 6032.06 ◊ 80.41 ◊ 1.32 + 10.68 + 9.97 Energy 12938.20 ◊ 173.46 ◊ 1.32 + 8.36 + 4.26 Financial 4895.78 ◊ 71.67 ◊ 1.44 + 21.93 + 20.50 Healthcare 8012.84 ◊ 108.20 ◊ 1.33 + 20.97 + 13.73 American Exch 2408.53 ◊ 25.72 ◊ 1.06 + 11.86 + 5.71 Wilshire 5000 14959.87 ◊ 248.71 ◊ 1.64 + 18.01 + 13.42 Value Line Arith 3043.58 ◊ 52.62 ◊ 1.70 + 18.19 + 12.91 Russell 2000 821.00 ◊ 16.12 ◊ 1.93 + 18.24 + 10.81 Phila Gold & Silver 185.80 ◊ 0.27 ◊ 0.14 + 1.69 + 2.86 Phila Semiconductor 364.92 ◊ 11.36 ◊ 3.02 ◊ 1.42 + 0.13 KBW Bank 50.44 ◊ 0.35 ◊ 0.69 + 34.15 + 28.09 Phila Oil Service 229.59 ◊ 3.67 ◊ 1.58 + 8.30 + 6.15 When the index follows a white line, it is changing at a constant pace; when it moves into a lighter band, the rate of change is faster. CONSUMER RATES 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Federal funds 0.25 0.25% % Prime rate 3.25 3.25 15-yr fixed 2.85 3.45 15-yr fixed jumbo 3.33 4.15 30-yr fixed 3.47 4.17 30-yr fixed jumbo 4.02 4.84 5/1 adj. rate 2.98 3.01 5/1 adj. rate jumbo 2.82 3.17 1-year adj. rate 4.85 2.95 Mortgages 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 $75K line good credit* 4.20 4.31% % $75K line excel. credit* 4.19 4.23 $75K loan good credit* 5.18 5.62 $75K loan excel. credit* 5.11 5.45 Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 36-mo. used car 3.63 4.48% % 60-mo. new car 3.27 4.33 A uto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Money-market 0.50 0.51% % $10K min. money-mkt 0.52 0.60 6-month CD 0.47 0.48 1-year CD 0.72 0.76 2-year CD 0.85 0.87 5-year IRA CD 1.42 1.59 CD’s and Money Market Rates Home Yesterday Year Ago Yesterday’s rate Change from last week 1-year range Up Flat Down GOVERNMENT BONDS 0 1 2 3 4% 3 6 2 5 10 30 Months Years Maturity Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago Y ield Curve 0 1 2 3 4% 2012 2011 Fed Funds Prime Rate10-year Treas. 2-year Treas. Key Rates Source: Thomson Reuters INVESTMENT GRADE FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA Credit Rating Price Issuer Name (SYMBOL) Coupon% Maturity Moody’s S&P Fitch High Low Last Chg Yld% End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE. Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded. Investment grade or high-yield is determined using credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. *Par value in millions. Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. Issuer Name provided by S&P Capital IQ Total Issues Traded 5487 3909 1403 175 Advances 2572 1941 579 52 Declines 2650 1855 679 116 Unchanged 155 49 102 4 52 Week High 428 287 134 7 52 Week Low 67 45 18 4 Dollar Volume * 17,998 10,838 6,093 1,065 All Investment High Issues Grade Yield Conv Market Breadth Most Active Morgan Stanley (Ms.Mhu) 5.500 Jul ‘21 Baa1 A 113.436 109.427 111.967 0.350 3.875 Goldman Sachs Group (Gs.Aeh) 5.750 Jan ‘22 A3 A 118.956 115.723 116.346 –0.451 3.651 Bank of America (Bac.Ahk) 5.700 Jan ‘22 Baa2 A 120.604 118.896 119.010 –0.825 3.298 JPMorgan Chase (JPM) 3.250 Sep ‘22 A2 103.950 101.956 102.310 0.319 2.979 General Elec Cap Medium Term Nts Bo (Ge) 3.150 Sep ‘22 A1 103.535 101.419 101.555 0.104 2.967 Walgreen (Wag) 4.400 Sep ‘42 Baa1 104.617 102.715 102.778 –2.686 4.235 Bank America (Bac.Hap) 6.000 Sep ‘17 Baa2 A 119.563 115.000 117.856 –0.100 2.109 Citigroup (C.Aly) 4.500 Jan ‘22 Baa2 A 112.040 109.344 109.896 –0.406 3.249 Goldman Sachs Group (Gs.Ro) 5.250 Oct ‘13 A3 A 104.872 102.882 104.243 0.226 0.870 BP Cap Mkts P L C (Bp.Jv) 3.125 Oct ‘15 A2 A 107.100 106.559 106.724 –0.206 0.803 HIGH YIELD ATP Oil & Gas (Atpg.Ge) 11.875 May ‘15 Wr 22.850 16.250 18.188 –3.812 N.A. Amkor Technology (Amkr.Nt) 7.375 May ‘18 Ba3 105.553 103.500 103.500 –0.875 6.251 Istar Finl (Sfi) 5.950 Oct ‘13 B3 B– 102.800 102.125 102.500 0.312 3.322 Sungard Data Sys (Sgrs) 7.625 Nov ‘20 Caa1 B 109.500 109.000 109.000 –0.250 5.544 Berry Plastics (Apo) 9.750 Jan ‘21 Caa1 116.000 115.625 116.000 0.125 5.647 Advanced Micro Devices (Amd.Aa) 7.750 Aug ‘20 Ba3 B+ 97.250 85.573 86.750 –11.500 10.261 Sprint Cap (S.Gj) 6.875 Nov ‘28 B3 B+ 106.500 100.073 102.750 –0.750 6.594 Sprint Cap (S.Hk) 8.750 Mar ‘32 B3 B+ 122.142 116.820 119.000 –0.500 6.950 Ally Financial . (GMA) 4.625 Jun ‘15 B1 Bb– 105.500 103.480 103.480 –0.989 3.253 Del Monte (Kkr) 7.625 Feb ‘19 B3 Ccc+ 104.779 103.375 103.875 0.375 6.304 CONVERTIBLES Advanced Micro Devices (Amd.Gg) 6.000 May ‘15 N.A. B+ 100.485 93.530 96.000 –3.125 N.A. Cemex S A B De C V (Cx) 3.250 Mar ‘16 N.A. 107.625 105.218 105.650 –1.543 1.534 Cemex S A B De C V (Cx) 3.750 Mar ‘18 N.A. 107.051 105.343 106.073 –1.126 2.537 Sandisk (Sndk.Gd) 1.500 Aug ‘17 N.A. 117.577 114.720 115.375 0.875 –1.566 EMC (Emc.Gf) 1.750 Dec ‘13 N.A. N.A. 158.400 155.100 156.421 –2.141 –35.440 Medtronic (Mdt.Gk) 1.625 Apr ‘13 A1 N.A. 100.634 100.000 100.000 –0.105 1.624 Navistar Intl New (Nav.Gm) 3.000 Oct ‘14 N.A. Cc 92.625 87.000 87.434 –5.191 10.183 Anixter Intl (Axe.Gi) 1.000 Feb ‘13 N.A. Bb– 106.273 105.900 106.050 0.050 –17.528 Gilead Sciences (Gild.Gm) 1.000 May ‘14 N.A. 153.158 151.604 151.604 –3.207 –24.829 Lam Resh (Lrcx) 0.500 May ‘16 N.A. 95.924 95.800 95.836 –1.858 1.711 0 2 4 6 8 10% 2012 2011 Yields FINRA-BLOOMBERG CORPORATE BOND INDEXES high yield +6.52% invest. grade +3.16% – 5 0 + 5 +10 +15 +20% 2012 2011 52-week Total Returns FINRA-BLOOMBERG CORPORATE BOND INDEXES high yield +15.09% invest. grade +10.36% ECONOMIC INDICATORS Source: Bloomberg 5-YEAR HISTORY %+10 –20 ’07 ’12 Construction Spending Change from previous year A ug. ’12 %+6.5 July ’12 +9.3 %+10 0 ’07 ’12 Personal Savings Rate Percent of disposable income A ug. ’12 %+3.7 July ’12 +4.1 –20 –70 ’07 ’12 Balance of Trade In billions of dollars Seasonally adjusted A ug. ’12 –44.2 July ’12 –42.5 14 4 ’07 ’12 Housing Supply In months Sept. ’12 5.9 Aug. ’12 6.0 60 30 ’07 ’12 Manufacturing Index ISM; over 50 indicates expansion; seasonally adjusted Sept. ’12 51.5 Aug. ’12 49.6 Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield Source: Thomson Reuters T-BILLS 3-mo. 6-mo. BONDS & NOTES 2-yr. 5-yr. 10-yr. 30-yr. TREASURY INFLATION BONDS 5-yr. 10-yr. 20-yr. 30-yr. Jan 13 ◊ ◊ 0.10 0.09 –.00 0.10 Apr 13 ◊ ◊ 0.14 0.14 –0.01 0.14 Apr 17 [ 107-12 107-14 –0-01 -1.46 Jul 22 [ 108-22 108-27 +0-17 -0.74 Jan 29 2ø 142-15 142-31 +1-13 -0.10 Feb 42 } 109-07 109-31 +1-21 0.42 Sep 14 ü ◊ 99.91 99.91 ◊ 0.30 Sep 17 | ◊ 99.40 99.41 +0.19 0.75 Aug 22 1| ◊ 98.73 98.75 +0.59 1.77 Aug 42 2} ◊ 96.34 96.38 +1.47 2.94 Most Recent Issues % 52-Wk YTD Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS Bank of Am (BAC) 9.44 ◊0.03 ◊0.3 1685834 Sirius XM (SIRI) 2.92 ◊0.02 ◊0.7 1378579 Advanced M (AMD) 2.18 ◊0.44 ◊16.8 1096981 General El (GE) 22.03 ◊0.78 ◊3.4 1073179 Microsoft (MSFT) 28.64 ◊0.86 ◊2.9 904563 Sprint Nex (S) 5.65 ◊0.13 ◊2.2 803965 Clearwire (CLWR) 1.85 ◊0.18 ◊8.9 702946 Cisco Syst (CSCO) 18.04 ◊0.56 ◊3.0 637118 Citigroup (C) 37.16 ◊1.26 ◊3.3 592024 Intel Corp (INTC) 21.26 ◊0.41 ◊1.9 556026 Marvell Te (MRVL) 7.57 ◊1.26 ◊14.3 544851 Ford Motor (F) 10.18 ◊0.25 ◊2.4 404098 Pfizer Inc (PFE) 25.76 ◊0.28 ◊1.1 400607 Facebook I (FB) 19.00 +0.03 +0.1 347696 Yahoo! Inc (YHOO) 15.84 ◊0.16 ◊1.0 328906 American I (AIG) 35.70 ◊1.51 ◊4.1 301587 EMC Corp (EMC) 24.58 ◊0.42 ◊1.7 296809 JPMorgan C (JPM) 42.32 ◊0.69 ◊1.6 296264 Morgan Sta (MS) 17.53 ◊0.26 ◊1.5 291200 Wells Farg (WFC) 34.34 ◊0.23 ◊0.7 276806 magicJack (CALL) 23.03 +2.57 +12.6 16416 US Concret (USCR) 7.45 +0.79 +11.9 324 Riverbed T (RVBD) 23.06 +2.37 +11.5 171252 Manpower I (MAN) 39.53 +3.55 +9.9 31343 UniPixel I (UNXL) 6.18 +0.49 +8.6 675 Southwest (SGB) 9.22 +0.60 +7.0 10 Orient-Exp (OEH) 11.79 +0.74 +6.7 33019 ImmuCell C (ICCC) 5.28 +0.33 +6.7 19 Forward Ai (FWRD) 32.54 +1.93 +6.3 6936 Manitowoc (MTW) 15.26 +0.89 +6.2 99679 Sussex Ban (SBBX) 5.68 +0.33 +6.2 11 Capital On (COF) 60.75 +3.45 +6.0 117380 First M & (FMFC) 8.84 +0.49 +5.9 157 Robert Hal (RHI) 27.24 +1.31 +5.1 47541 DSP Group (DSPG) 5.41 +0.26 +5.0 661 Electronic (EFII) 17.89 +0.85 +5.0 4737 Aegean Mar (ANW) 5.96 +0.28 +4.9 922 Ethan Alle (ETH) 29.42 +1.36 +4.8 13249 Carolina B (CLBH) 7.44 +0.34 +4.8 11 ExactTarge (ET) 22.51 +0.92 +4.3 4138 Meadowbroo (MIG) 6.18 ◊1.61 ◊20.7 17935 Chipotle M (CMG) 243.00 ◊42.93 ◊15.0 63428 Marvell Te (MRVL) 7.57 ◊1.26 ◊14.3 544851 Corporate (CEB) 46.30 ◊7.00 ◊13.1 8064 Howard Ban (HBMD) 6.31 ◊0.84 ◊11.7 22 Bluegreen (BXG) 5.60 ◊0.74 ◊11.7 1432 Cempra Inc (CEMP) 6.90 ◊0.91 ◊11.7 1543 Federal-Mo (FDML) 8.40 ◊1.04 ◊11.0 6356 Affymax In (AFFY) 24.47 ◊2.87 ◊10.5 27567 Griffin La (GRIF) 27.63 ◊3.03 ◊9.9 115 Pain Thera (PTIE) 5.28 ◊0.55 ◊9.4 3000 Proofpoint (PFPT) 12.51 ◊1.28 ◊9.3 649 E*TRADE Fi (ETFC) 8.57 ◊0.85 ◊9.0 201415 Pharmacycl (PCYC) 62.24 ◊6.13 ◊9.0 9656 MakeMyTrip (MMYT) 14.80 ◊1.40 ◊8.6 1209 Strayer Ed (STRA) 56.38 ◊5.24 ◊8.5 5286 Athenaheal (ATHN) 73.31 ◊6.76 ◊8.4 33576 Spherix In (SPEX) 7.80 ◊0.69 ◊8.1 5 Perficient (PRFT) 10.97 ◊0.96 ◊8.0 2545 Net Elemen (NETE) 6.06 ◊0.53 ◊8.0 141 % Volume Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) % Volume Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) % Volume Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) 20 MOST ACTIVE 20 TOP GAINERS 20 TOP LOSERS FUTURES Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time. Source: Thomson Reuters FOREIGN EXCHANGE Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding. Foreign Currency in Dollars Foreign Currency in Dollars Dollars in Foreign Currency Dollars in Foreign Currency Monetary units per Lifetime Open Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE Norway (Krone) .1767 5.6586 Poland (Zloty) .3173 3.1519 Russia (Ruble) .0324 30.8870 Sweden (Krona) .1521 6.5761 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0776 .9280 Turkey (Lira) .5577 1.7931 Argentina (Peso) .2111 4.7375 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1437 6.9600 Brazil (Real) .4933 2.0270 Canada (Dollar) 1.0065 .9935 Chile (Peso) .0021 474.15 Colombia (Peso) .0006 1797.5 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0254 39.4000 El Salvador (Colon) .1144 8.7425 Guatamala (Quetzal) .1276 7.8340 Honduras (Lempira) .0508 19.7000 Mexico (Peso) .0776 12.8849 Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0419 23.8919 Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 4450.0 Peru (New Sol) .3874 2.5810 Uruguay (New Peso) .0506 19.7500 Venezuela (Bolivar) .2331 4.2893 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6526 .3770 Egypt (Pound) .1638 6.1040 Iran (Rial) .0001 12245 Israel (Shekel) .2617 3.8205 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4150 .7067 Kenya (Shilling) .0117 85.2000 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.5665 .2804 MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA AMERICAS Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 135.55 121.90 Dec 12 127.88 128.28 126.95 127.28 ◊ 0.78 131,113 Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 86.00 70.05 Dec 12 79.15 79.80 79.00 79.63 + 0.78 102,191 Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3630.00 2050.00 Dec 12 2445.00 2498.00 2445.00 2489.00 + 51.00 86,747 Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 291.95 153.70 Dec 12 158.65 162.85 158.15 161.65 + 3.05 79,974 Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 25.39 14.70 Feb 13 19.92 20.47 19.71 20.23 + 0.44 374,835 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 849.00 386.75 Dec 12 760.75 769.00 758.25 761.50 + 0.75 577,531 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1781.50 1092.75 Jan 13 1545.00 1557.00 1534.50 1536.50 ◊ 9.75 199,088 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 977.50 629.50 Dec 12 868.00 885.50 866.00 872.50 + 4.00 236,621 Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 143.13 59.00 Nov 12 92.48 93.49 90.19 90.44 ◊ 2.09 355,274 Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 3.35 2.30 Nov 12 3.17 3.20 3.11 3.12 ◊ 0.05 83,557 Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 11.40 3.06 Dec 12 4.02 4.09 3.99 4.07 + 0.04 264,777 Source: Thomson Reuters 0.65 0.70 0.75 0.80 0.85 euros 2012 ’11 One Dollar in Euros $1 = 0.7679 70 80 90 100 110 $120 2012 ’11 Crude Oil $90.44 a barrel 74 76 78 80 82 84yen 2012 ’11 One Dollar in Yen $1 = 79.34 Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1500.0 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7500 So. Africa (Rand) .1158 8.6362 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6726 S&P 100 STOCKS Prices shown are for regular trading for the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange which runs from 9:30 a.m., Eastern time, through the close of the Pacific Exchange, at 4:30 p.m. For the Nasdaq stock market, it is through 4 p.m. Close Last trade of the day in regular trading. · + or · – indicates stocks that reached a new 52-week high or low. Change Difference between last trade and previous day’s price in regular trading. „ or ‰ indicates stocks that rose or fell at least 4 percent. ” indicates stocks that traded 1 percent or more of their outstanding shares. n Stock was a new issue in the last year. 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg 3M Co (MMM) 75.49 95.46 92.94 ◊ 1.80 + 19.61 + 13.7 Abbott Lab (ABT) 52.05 72.47 66.15 ◊ 0.49 + 24.23 + 17.6 Accenture (ACN) 51.08 71.79 67.75 ◊ 1.15 + 18.15 + 27.3 Allstate C (ALL) 24.50 42.81 42.01 ◊ 0.61 + 64.87 + 53.3 Altria Gro (MO) 26.80 36.29 32.63 ◊ 0.46 + 19.44 + 10.1 Amazon.Com (AMZN) 166.97 264.11 240.00 ◊ 4.85 + 3.66 + 38.6 American E (AEP) 36.97 45.41 44.98 ◊ 0.29 + 16.92 + 8.9 American E (AXP) 44.70 61.42 56.86 ◊ 0.75 + 23.26 + 20.5 Amgen Inc (AMGN) 54.59 89.95 87.16 ◊ 2.63 + 52.06 + 35.7 Anadarko P (APC) 56.42 88.70 70.34 ◊ 1.54 ◊ 9.47 ◊ 7.8 Apache Cor (APA) 77.93 112.09 86.87 ◊ 1.85 ◊ 3.65 ◊ 4.1 ” Apple Inc (AAPL) 363.32 705.07 609.84 ◊ 22.80 + 52.99 + 50.6 AT&T Inc (T) 27.41 38.58 35.32 ◊ 0.70 + 21.42 + 16.8 ” ‰Baker Hugh (BHI) 37.08 61.90 44.75 ◊ 2.35 ◊ 17.59 ◊ 8.0 ” Bank of Am (BAC) 4.92 10.10 9.44 ◊ 0.03 + 47.50 + 69.8 Bank of Ne (BK) 17.67 25.26 24.68 ◊ 0.30 + 26.31 + 24.0 Baxter Int (BAX) 47.55 63.05 61.92 ◊ 0.82 + 12.56 + 25.1 Berkshire (BRKb) 72.60 90.93 89.26 ◊ 1.36 + 20.44 + 17.0 Boeing Co (BA) 62.12 77.83 74.01 ◊ 0.25 + 17.27 + 0.9 Bristol-My (BMY) 30.10 36.34 33.81 ◊ 0.48 + 4.51 ◊ 4.1 ” „Capital On (COF) 39.30 60.89 60.75 + 3.45 + 52.83 + 43.7 ” Caterpilla (CAT) 78.25 116.95 83.86 ◊ 2.76 + 0.36 ◊ 7.4 Chevron Co (CVX) 92.29 118.53 113.38 ◊ 1.27 + 10.90 + 6.6 ” Cisco Syst (CSCO) 14.96 21.30 18.04 ◊ 0.56 + 5.13 ◊ 0.2 ” Citigroup (C) 23.30 38.72 37.16 ◊ 1.26 + 26.44 + 41.2 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD Stock (TICKER) Low Close ( • ) High Close Chg Chg % Chg Coca-Cola (KO) 32.37 40.66 37.40 ◊ 0.44 + 11.59 + 6.9 Colgate-Pa (CL) 86.19 110.97 107.74 ◊ 2.26 + 16.88 + 16.6 Comcast Co (CMCSA) 20.90 37.60 36.95 ◊ 0.34 + 56.97 + 55.8 ConocoPhil (COP) 50.41 59.68 57.45 ◊ 0.82 + 8.34 + 3.4 Costco Who (COST) 78.81 104.43 94.78 ◊ 1.55 + 12.33 + 13.8 CVS Carema (CVS) 35.05 49.23 46.20 ◊ 0.39 + 33.06 + 13.3 ”Dell Inc (DELL) 9.33 18.36 9.55 ◊ 0.25 ◊ 39.94 ◊ 34.7 Devon Ener (DVN) 54.01 76.34 62.00 ◊ 0.65 ◊ 0.48 0.0 Dow Chemic (DOW) 24.42 36.08 29.86 ◊ 0.36 + 12.30 + 3.8 E. I. du P (DD) 43.06 53.98 49.34 ◊ 1.08 + 12.65 + 7.8 ”eBay Inc (EBAY) 28.15 50.94 49.97 ◊ 0.86 + 50.60 + 64.8 Eli Lilly (LLY) 35.46 53.99 52.86 ◊ 0.95 + 36.59 + 27.2 ”EMC Corp (EMC) 21.25 30.00 24.58 ◊ 0.42 + 3.63 + 14.1 Emerson El (EMR) 43.58 53.78 48.25 ◊ 1.35 + 3.45 + 3.6 Exelon Cor (EXC) 34.54 45.45 37.01 ◊ 0.47 ◊ 13.00 ◊ 14.7 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 73.90 93.67 92.15 ◊ 1.33 + 17.49 + 8.7 FedEx Corp (FDX) 76.06 97.19 92.11 ◊ 1.38 + 22.36 + 10.3 ”Ford Motor (F) 8.82 13.05 10.18 ◊ 0.25 ◊ 11.94 ◊ 5.4 ”Freeport-M (FCX) 31.08 48.96 41.18 ◊ 1.25 + 19.78 + 11.9 General Dy (GD) 60.60 74.54 67.17 ◊ 1.41 + 7.52 + 1.1 ”General El (GE) 14.68 23.18 22.03 ◊ 0.78 + 33.35 + 23.0 Gilead Sci (GILD) 34.45 70.39 66.59 ◊ 1.70 + 63.21 + 62.7 ”Goldman Sa (GS) 86.90 128.72 123.62 ◊ 1.53 + 22.65 + 36.7 ”Google Inc (GOOG) 556.52 774.38 681.79 ◊ 13.21 + 17.41 + 5.6 H.J. Heinz (HNZ) 49.75 58.56 57.71 ◊ 0.71 + 10.41 + 6.8 ”Halliburto (HAL) 26.28 40.43 34.98 ◊ 0.67 + 3.25 + 1.4 ”Hewlett-Pa (HPQ) 14.02 30.00 14.48 ◊ 0.32 ◊ 42.03 ◊ 43.8 Home Depot (HD) 34.58 63.20 61.89 + 0.09 + 74.83 + 47.2 ”Honeywell (HON) 48.82 63.48 62.49 + 1.07 + 28.00 + 15.0 ”Intel Corp (INTC) 21.22 29.27 21.26 ◊ 0.40 ◊ 12.27 ◊ 12.3 Internatio (IBM) 177.06 211.79 193.36 ◊ 1.60 + 9.00 + 5.2 Johnson & (JNJ) 61.05 72.74 71.86 ◊ 0.66 + 14.72 + 9.6 JPMorgan C (JPM) 28.28 46.49 42.32 ◊ 0.69 + 31.22 + 27.3 Lockheed M (LMT) 72.37 94.90 92.89 ◊ 1.43 + 23.08 + 14.8 ”Lowe’s Com (LOW) 20.34 33.29 32.64 + 0.07 + 55.13 + 28.6 MasterCard (MA) 324.58 486.08 470.06 ◊ 5.77 + 45.18 + 26.1 ”‰McDonald’s (MCD) 85.92 102.22 88.72 ◊ 4.14 ◊ 1.00 ◊ 11.6 Medtronic (MDT) 33.11 44.79 42.00 ◊ 1.18 + 24.85 + 9.8 Merck & Co (MRK) 32.82 48.00 47.03 ◊ 0.93 + 44.53 + 24.7 ”Metlife In (MET) 27.60 39.55 35.93 ◊ 1.18 + 14.50 + 15.2 ”Microsoft (MSFT) 24.30 32.95 28.64 ◊ 0.86 + 5.57 + 10.3 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 22.31 28.48 27.01 ◊ 0.41 + 18.46 + 10.5 Monsanto C (MON) 67.09 92.20 88.69 ◊ 1.29 + 22.30 + 26.6 ”Morgan Sta (MS) 12.26 21.19 17.53 ◊ 0.26 + 5.35 + 15.9 National O (NOV) 59.07 89.95 80.70 ◊ 1.33 + 25.80 + 18.7 News Corp (NWSA) 15.93 25.50 24.91 ◊ 0.51 + 49.16 + 39.6 Nike Inc (NKE) 85.10 114.81 96.45 ◊ 1.12 + 5.65 + 0.1 ”Norfolk So (NSC) 62.82 78.50 65.64 ◊ 1.06 ◊ 2.58 ◊ 9.9 Occidental (OXY) 76.59 106.68 84.35 ◊ 1.17 + 0.48 ◊ 10.0 Oracle Cor (ORCL) 24.91 33.81 30.48 ◊ 0.64 ◊ 3.22 + 18.8 PepsiCo In (PEP) 61.50 73.66 69.88 ◊ 0.88 + 12.51 + 5.3 Pfizer Inc (PFE) 18.15 26.09 25.76 ◊ 0.28 + 36.95 + 19.0 Philip Mor (PM) 67.75 94.13 88.12 + 0.12 + 33.45 + 12.3 Procter & (PG) 59.07 69.97 68.57 ◊ 0.90 + 5.90 + 2.8 Qualcomm I (QCOM) 49.78 68.87 58.75 ◊ 1.21 + 11.69 + 7.4 Raytheon C (RTN) 42.00 58.68 55.87 ◊ 1.19 + 30.05 + 15.5 Schlumberg (SLB) 59.12 80.78 74.00 ◊ 0.80 + 8.98 + 8.3 Simon Prop (SPG) 115.21 164.17 153.54 ◊ 1.26 + 32.87 + 19.1 Southern C (SO) 42.11 48.59 46.64 ◊ 0.16 + 8.52 + 0.8 ”Starbucks (SBUX) 40.55 62.00 45.68 ◊ 1.72 + 11.64 ◊ 0.7 Target Cor (TGT) 47.25 65.80 62.23 ◊ 0.71 + 16.82 + 21.5 ”Texas Inst (TXN) 26.06 34.24 27.81 ◊ 0.95 ◊ 8.07 ◊ 4.5 Time Warne (TWX) 32.09 46.59 44.93 ◊ 0.95 + 34.32 + 24.3 U.S. Banco (USB) 23.72 35.46 34.23 ◊ 0.17 + 41.86 + 26.5 Union Paci (UNP) 94.24 129.27 123.77 ◊ 1.57 + 36.07 + 16.8 United Par (UPS) 66.46 81.79 72.30 ◊ 1.31 + 5.06 ◊ 1.2 United Tec (UTX) 70.41 87.50 77.99 ◊ 1.24 + 6.46 + 6.7 UnitedHeal (UNH) 43.42 60.75 55.66 ◊ 0.35 + 19.83 + 9.8 Verizon Co (VZ) 35.32 48.77 45.16 ◊ 0.62 + 21.89 + 12.6 Visa Inc (V) 88.78 143.10 139.97 ◊ 1.91 + 55.38 + 37.9 Wal-Mart S (WMT) 55.68 77.60 75.62 ◊ 0.94 + 34.44 + 26.5 Walgreen C (WAG) 28.53 37.34 35.79 ◊ 0.32 + 6.04 + 8.3 Walt Disne (DIS) 33.28 53.40 51.90 ◊ 0.52 + 54.42 + 38.4 Wells Farg (WFC) 23.19 36.60 34.34 ◊ 0.23 + 36.38 + 24.6 ”Williams C (WMB) 23.70 37.56 34.97 ◊ 0.54 + 45.27 + 29.7 ONLINE: MORE PRICES AND ANALYSIS Information on all United States stocks, plus bonds, mutual funds, commodities and foreign stocks along with analysis of industry sectors and stock indexes: nytimes.com/markets D % Total Returns Exp. Assets Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$) % Total Returns Exp. Assets Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$) LARGEST FUNDS +10.6 +13.0 +2.0 589 589 567 American Funds Inc Fund of Amer A (AMECX) MA +11.4 +16.3 +2.7 0.59 57,461 Franklin Income A (FKINX) CA +13.5 +17.7 +4.1 0.63 41,267 Vanguard Wellington Adm (VWENX) MA +12.4 +16.5 +4.2 0.17 37,273 American Funds American Balanced A (ABALX) MA +13.2 +16.5 +3.4 0.64 34,216 Vanguard Wellesley Income Adm (VWIAX) CA +9.9 +14.4 +7.0 0.18 20,561 Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Inv (VTTVX) TG +11.7 +14.4 +1.8 * 20,021 Oakmark Equity & Income I (OAKBX) MA +7.9 +12.1 +3.8 0.78 17,890 Permanent Portfolio (PRPFX) CA +6.7 +6.4 +7.7 0.71 17,397 Vanguard Target Retirement 2015 Inv (VTXVX) TD +10.0 +12.6 +2.9 * 16,838 Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Inv (VTWNX) TE +10.8 +13.5 +2.4 * 16,077 Fidelity Puritan (FPURX) MA +13.3 +15.8 +2.9 0.59 15,736 Fidelity Balanced (FBALX) MA +12.4 +14.7 +2.4 0.60 15,224 Vanguard STAR Inv (VGSTX) MA +11.6 +14.0 +3.0 * 14,833 Fidelity Freedom 2020 (FFFDX) TE +10.9 +12.8 +1.3 * 14,255 Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Inv (VTTHX) TI +13.2 +16.2 +1.0 * 14,220 T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation (PRWCX) MA +12.7 +16.9 +4.9 0.72 13,124 Dodge & Cox Balanced (DODBX) MA +16.9 +20.4 +1.5 0.53 12,680 Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Inv (VTHRX) TH +12.4 +15.3 +1.3 * 12,646 T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020 (TRRBX) TE +13.1 +15.4 +2.4 * 12,305 Fidelity Freedom 2030 (FFFEX) TH +12.5 +14.6 +0.1 * 10,954 JHancock2 Lifestyle Balanced 1 (JILBX) MA +12.1 +14.3 +2.5 0.11 10,906 T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030 (TRRCX) TH +14.4 +16.8 +1.7 * 10,374 JHancock2 Lifestyle Growth 1 (JILGX) AL +13.1 +15.3 +0.9 0.11 10,259 Mairs & Power Balanced Inv (MAPOX) MA +15.5 +20.6 +5.4 0.74 246 Dodge & Cox Balanced (DODBX) MA +16.9 +20.4 +1.5 0.53 12,680 AllianceBern Balanced Shares Adv (CBSYX) MA +14.4 +19.2 +2.9 0.81 50 Villere Balanced Inv (VILLX) MA +14.1 +18.8 +6.8 1.02 237 Franklin Templeton Founding Allc Adv (FFAAX) AL +15.2 +18.4 +0.3 0.08 72 Delaware Dividend Income A (DDIAX) MA +12.9 +18.3 +2.8 1.16 204 JPMorgan SmartRetirement 2040 Instl (SMTIX) TJ +14.9 +18.2 +1.9 0.04 448 Wells Fargo Advantage Idx Asst Allo A (SFAAX) AL +13.0 +18.1 +2.0 1.15 644 American Beacon Balanced AMR (AABNX) MA +13.7 +18.0 +3.0 0.31 910 JHancock Balanced A (SVBAX) MA +15.0 +18.0 +3.4 1.19 516 MainStay Income Builder A (MTRAX) MA +13.6 +17.8 +3.6 1.06 292 Thrivent Diversified Income Plus A (AAHYX) CA +14.0 +17.8 +5.6 0.98 262 LEADERS LAGGARDS Oppenheimer Flexible Strategies C (QOPCX) MA +3.0 +0.5 ◊1.1 2.58 140 SunAmerica Focused Multi-Asset Strat B (FMABX) CA +1.3 +0.6 ◊2.9 0.87 56 Hussman Strategic Total Return (HSTRX) CA +1.7 +2.9 +5.7 0.63 2,432 Calamos Convertible C (CCVCX) CV +3.8 +3.6 +1.3 1.86 417 BPV Core Diversification (BPVDX) CA +4.4 +5.3 NA 1.00 63 AllianceBern Cnsrv Wlth Strat B (ABPBX) CA +5.2 +5.9 +1.2 1.75 75 Nationwide Inv Dest Cnsrv Svc (NDCSX) CA +4.6 +6.0 +3.2 0.63 222 Permanent Portfolio (PRPFX) CA +6.7 +6.4 +7.7 0.71 17,397 Fidelity Advisor Freedom Inc T (FTAFX) RI +5.5 +6.6 +3.1 0.50 54 Wells Fargo Adv DJ Target 2010 Adm (WFLGX) TA +5.4 +6.8 +3.7 0.83 218 DFA Global Allocation 25/75 I (DGTSX) CA +5.9 +7.0 +3.8 0.27 414 Franklin Templeton Cnsrv Allocation C (FTCCX) CA +5.9 +7.0 +2.4 1.25 449 Average performance for all such funds Number of funds for period MUTUAL FUNDS SPOTLIGHT: CONVERTIBLE BOND AND DOMESTIC HYBRID FUNDS *Credit ratings: good, FICO score 660-749; excellent, FICO score 750-850. Source: Bankrate.com *Annualized. Leaders and Laggards are among funds with at least $50 million in assets, and include no more than one class of any fund. Today’s fund types: AL -Aggressive Allocation. CA -Conservative Allocation. CV -Convertibles. MA -Moderate Allocation. RI -Retirement Income. TA -Target-Date 2000-2010. TD -Target- Date 2011-2015. TE -Target-Date 2016-2020. TG -Target-Date 2021-2025. TH -Target-Date 2026-2030. TI -Target-Date 2031-2035. TJ -Target-Date 2036-2040. TK -Target-Date 2041-2045. TL -Target-Date 2050+. TN -Target-Date 2046-2050. NA -Not Available. YTD -Year to date. Spotlight tables rotate on a 2-week basis. Source: Morningstar By BROOKS BARNES ORLANDO, Fla. — The panicked ru- mors started to swirl on Disney fan blogs last spring: “Mama, Don’t Whip Little Buford” was a surefire goner. That not-so-politically-correct song, performed at Walt Disney World since 1971 as part of a corny Magic Kingdom revue called “Country Bear Jamboree,” would never survive an impending modernization, fans worried. Trixie, an obese animatronic bear with a boozy performance (“Tears Will Be the Chas- er for Your Wine”), might also be in trouble. “It’s outdated, but it’s also like step- ping back into your childhood,” Evelyn Garcia, a fan,said after taking in the show in May. “They mess with it over my dead body.” And therein lies one of Disney’s most vexing challenges: How do you keep these outdated but beloved shows rele- vant to the iPad generation while not angering hard-core fans? “Country Bear Jamboree,” which closed in Au- gust and reopened on Wednesday — shorter, without two songs and featur- ing new fur styles for its stars — is a window into how that entertainment gi- ant is lately trying to walk that line. The overhaul “was done with a lot of love,” said Bruce E. Vaughn, chief cre- ative executive at Walt Disney Imag- ineering. “You want to be really sensi- tive to the original spirit. But tastes also change, how people consume media changes. We must keep our product rel- evant.” “What used to be a ‘wow’ may not be a ‘wow’ any longer,” he said, referring to the way that rudimentary animatron- ic figures used to enthrall audiences. “Country Bear Jamboree,” featuring 24 animatronic animals who promise in their opening to dispense with any “chitchat, yick yack and flim flam,” was one of the last attractions worked on by Walt Disney, the company’s founder. He developed the revue for Mineral King Ski Resort, planned for a spot near Se- quoia National Park in California. Marc PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD ANDERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES “Country Bear Jamboree” reopened at Walt Disney World on Wednesday with a shortened program missing two of the original songs and with new fur styles for the stars, including Trixie, below. C1 N SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012 Despite Fans’ Fears, Disney’s Country Bears Remain Corny An attraction changes its fur but not its approach. Continued on Page 7 By CHARLES McGRATH “Don’t have the monkey,” Da- vid Quammen said before lunch the other day at Casa Mono, a Catalan restaurant on Irving Place in Manhattan. “Or if you do, order it medium-well.” There was a haunch of some strange salted and air-cured mammal on the bar, but despite the restaurant’s name (Casa Mono means Monkey House in Spanish), there is no monkey on the menu, and a good thing too. As Mr. Quammen points out in his scary but hard-to-put- down new book, “Spillover: Ani- mal Infections and the Next Human Pan- demic,” eating tainted chim- panzee meat is a good way to come down with the Ebola virus. Ebola is just one of many horrific diseases that turn up in “Spillover.” Some of the others are SARS, AIDS, bu- bonic plague, Lyme disease, West Nile fever, Marburg virus, swine flu, bird flu and Hendra virus, or horse measles. What they have in common is that they are all zoo- noses — animal infections that jump over into humans — and the book’s unsettling thesis is that such crossovers are bound to happen with more frequency, and possibly greater virulence, as people increasingly encroach on formerly wild and undisturbed habitats. “We’re shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren’t very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal,” Mr. Quammen said. “We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, The Subject Is Science, The Style Is Faulkner The writer David Quammen. Continued on Page 5 During the course of “Symphony #9,” the new ballet by Alexei Ratmansky, the balleri- na Polina Semionova returns to the stage and to her partner, Marcelo Gomes, seated alone. Instead of rousing him or dancing, her first action is to place her hand ten- derly over his mouth, as if to stop the words he is ready to utter. This largely ebullient and pure- dance work, whose premiere was given by American Ballet Theater on Thursday night at City Center, is studded with such private inci- dents,indicating a secret, darker drama we can only guess at. The ninth symphony that Mr. Ratmansky has choreographed here is by Dmitri Shosta- kovich. Its premiere occurred in 1945, and the composer — an artist of secrets, codes and double messages — seems to have been ad- dressing the largely positive mood brought on by the close of World War II. Because the end of Hitler did not mean the end of Stalin, and because some of the eventual Russian gains were to prove as appalling as the incal- culable losses, postwar relief was laced with tension. Mainly, like its music, “Symphony #9” is bright in energy. To watch it the first time is to keep finding surprises. Its dance language, its unfolding structure and its moods are dy- namic, as if the terrain about it were contin- ually shifting, like a kaleidoscope. Whereas previous Russian-themed works by Mr. Rat- mansky have suggested a single imaginary world, “Symphony #9” has no such sense of fixed place. History strangely whirls through and around it. At first the choreographic structure recalls George Balanchine’s “Stravinsky Violin Con- certo,” with soloists chasing around (first Craig Salstein, then Simone Messmer), each accompanied by four lively supporting danc- ers.Meanwhile the dance language blends Balanchine (steps off balance, and foot-cir- cling gargouillade jumps for the women) with Frederick Ashton (brisk hops on point and vividly pliant upper bodies). Mr. Salstein’s role is unstoppably Puckish;Ms. Messmer is ardently playful. Often we see bodies leaning ALASTAIR MACAULAY DANCE REVIEW Swirls and Shifts in a Kaleidoscope ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES Symphony #9 Marcelo Gomes and Polina Semionova, aloft, with other American Ballet Theater dancers in the premiere of this work by Alexei Ratmansky at City Center. Continued on Page 7 By DOREEN CARVAJAL and CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE PARIS — In the aftermath of the theft of seven valuable art- works, the Kunsthal in Rotter- dam on Friday denied accusa- tions of sloppy security instead of celebrating its 20th anniversary as a museum designed with open and flexible architecture. The gallery’s director, Emily Ansenk, dismissed as nonsense reports that a back emergency door had been left unlocked for the thieves, who made their way into the museum on Tuesday morning without leaving obvious pry marks. But the police made it clear that they were investigating whether someone had remained behind in the museum after clos- ing hours and could have opened the door. Late on Friday, the police re- leased three dark, grainy photos from surveillance cameras, ap- parently showing the thieves walking out the rear door. Their faces were not visible, but the hope is that their bags are recog- nizable. The police have also can- vassed the neighborhood and posted leaflets calling on witness- es who might have seen some- thing suspicious. The museum, which has no permanent collection, has come under withering scrutiny. The Algemeen Dagblad, a local news- paper, reported this week that a visitor complained that three months ago he and another per- son were trapped there at closing time and left through the same Continued on Page 5 Museum Defends Its Security After Theft The police look into possibility a rear door was left unlocked. Among the flock of devotees at- tending Barbara Cook’s 85th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening, I imagine everyone coming away from this love-in sa- voring a different fa- vorite moment, for there were so many choices. Here are two. The first was an a capella rendition of “House of the Rising Sun,” in which the world seemed to fall out from under her on the words “Oh God,” uttered as a gasp of despair. The second, the relatively obscure early-1930s ballad “If I Love Again,” by Jack Murray and Ben Oakland,was turned into a heartbreaking con- fession of emotional duplicity by a woman fantasizing the pres- ence of a departed lover while in the arms of others. More possibilities: a slow, sul- try rendition of “Lover Man,” in which the late-blooming jazz torch singer inside Ms. Cook rose to the fore, and an unamplified encore of “Imagine,” with a skele- tal piano accompaniment that she infused with hope and sweet- ness. And there was her recently adopted signature song, “Here’s to Life,” which she sang very slowly, imparting every phrase as if it were a hard-won life les- son. To hear a singer in her 80s whose voice transcends age bearing down on the words, “As STEPHEN HOLDEN MUSIC REVIEW Still in the Game, and Still So Passionate to Play ROBERT CAPLIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Barbara Cook’s 85th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall, witha relaxed Ms. CookandTedRosenthal, left, and Jay Leonhart among the musicians. Continued on Page 7 C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 Two orchestras showed up on Thursday evening at Avery Fish- er Hall. One featured a band of uninterested players policed by a conductor who, for the most part, seemed content to beat time. The other was a tight- knit group of mu- sicians who of- fered an incandes- cent performance under the direc- tion of an artist with a fine sense of line and color. Both were identified in Playbill as the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in a program of exotically flavored French works — Éduard Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnole” and Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” — that should have made for a unified evening. But the electrically charged rendition of the “Fantastique” only under- lined the orchestra’s lackluster performance of Lalo’s work.That the first half nevertheless offered moments of excitement was en- tirely because of the energetic performance of Augustin Hadel- ich, who threw himself into the virtuosic solo violin part with a passion bordering on impatience. To be fair, Lalo gives the violin- ist all the best lines. Written with the fiendish dexterity of Pablo de Sarasate in mind, “Symphonie Espagnole” is closer in spirit to other 19th-century violin concer- tos than to the form its name im- plies. Its five movements are driven by the vigorous rhythms of Spanish dances, including the lilting habanera of the opening. At 28, Mr. Hadelich is part of a generation of musicians with mul- tidisciplinary curiosity; when he was studying the music of Astor Piazzolla, he took tango dance lessons. I don’t know whether he practiced the flamenco and segui- dilla before this performance, but his Iberian dances were sharply characterized: by turns flirta- tious, raunchy and arrogant.  Mr. Hadelich appeared un- daunted by the technical chal- lenges, bringing humor to the em- bellishments in the final move- ment and making the most of his instrument’s distinctive low range in the extensive passages on the G string.  The orchestra, which had seemed cowed during the first part of the evening, gave an ar- dent performance of Berlioz’s phantasmagoric tone poem. With his very precise conducting, Mr. Frühbeck shaped each movement with an extraordinary flexibility of tempo, bringing out the falter- ing heartbeat suggested by the cellos and creating space for the delicate woodwind solos to un- fold.For the concluding “Witches’ Sabbath” the Philharmonic dug into its full arsenal of special ef- fects, with jazzy glissandos in the woodwinds, hoarse whispers in the muted violas and the com- manding might of the orchestra’s own church bells turning the fan- tastical into science fiction. CORINNA da FONSECA- WOLLHEIM MUSIC REVIEW Playing Jekyll and Hyde With Exotic French Flavors IAN DOUGLAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES New York Philharmonic Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos led the orchestra and the soloist Augustin Hadelich in a performance of Éduard Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnole” on Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall. This program will be repeated on Saturday and Tuesday evenings at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Cen- ter; (212) 875-5656,nyphil.org. For maybe a third of his late set on Thursday night at the Jazz Standard, Jacky Terrasson played piano at the volume of a windup music box, or left fat stripes of si- lence as the other mem- bers of his trio played on steadily. This was extreme-dy- namics brinkmanship, figuring out how music can intensify while growing ever quieter. The game descends directly from Ahmad Jamal;the song Mr. Terrasson used it on most was “But Not for Me,” a tune Mr. Jamal radically personalized in 1958. But that song appeared almost as a sur- prise, after Mr. Terrasson rum- maged through parts of other standards, moving among them without breaks. The formof the whole set, not just the individual songs within it, felt elastic; very little was fin- ished or codified. There were short breaks for applause —this was music that challenges and re- wards an audience in regular ro- tation —but Mr. Terrasson most- ly played through them, pushing down single notes like sketch ideas, seeing what might grow out of various combinations. Generally he seemed loose, at liberty. He’s got a new record, “Gouache,” which has just been released by Universal France. (Forty-five now — he’s been a sig- nificant figure in jazz for nearly 20 years, though sometimes an elu- sive one,with irregular career moves — Mr. Terrasson grew up in France and lives in New York.) But it won’t be available here till next year, and the set wasn’t based on it. Instead it was based on the possibilities inherent in his cur- rent band, which can be heard on that record. The trio includes the bassist Burniss Earl Travis, whose notes come in elegant, subtle shapes, groove with no os- tentation; and the drummer Jus- tin Faulkner, who played aggres- sively, with an extra snare and a will to dominate. Sometimes Mr. Terrasson encouraged that. And sometimes he defused it with playfulness and acts of redirec- tion —a new melody or a change in tempo after a long vamp. (May- be another third of the set was just vamps: thickening, frag- menting, then turning into some- thing else.) It’s a great band; it feeds itself. So a long version of “America the Beautiful” began as unaccompa- nied piano through a shuffle of styles, then added bass and drums for a reggae section, and slipped into swing with speed and volume.It looped through New Orleans rhythm, which Mr. Faulk- ner took apart after about 30 sec- onds, played with “I Got Rhythm,” and then returned to the theme, making a vamping cy- cle of chords out of the song’s closing line.But he left out one: that for “sea,” its final word. When Silence Powers Sound TINA FINEBERG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Jacky Terrasson Trio Mr. Terrasson performing with his band at the Jazz Standard on Thursday night. BEN RATLIFF MUSIC REVIEW The Jacky Terrasson trio per- forms through Sunday at the Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan;(212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net. ‘Rebecca’ Producers Sue Over Phantom Investors The producers of the scuttled Broadway musical “Rebecca” filed a lawsuit on Friday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan against Mark C. Hotton, a former stockbroker from Long Island on whom they were relying to raise $4.5 million of the show’s $12 million budget. The civil suit comes after federal authorities arrested Mr. Hotton on Mon- day, saying he made up phantom investors in the show in return for fees and expenses. Mr. Hotton, the authorities said, collected $60,000 from the producers without bringing in any money. Mr. Hotton, who is being held without bail, faces a maximum of 20 years for each of two counts of wire fraud if convicted. The producers’ lawsuit said that Mr. Hotton “invented fictitious in- vestors, forged financial documents and orchestrated dozens of seem- ingly independent communications” by e-mail from his fake investors to the “Rebecca” producers. Mr. Hotton also provided signed agree- ments from his phantom investors pledging their money, the lawsuit says. The alleged scheme fell apart last month after questions arose about the existence of one of the Hotton investors, who was supposed to provide $2 million to “Rebecca.” The producers, Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza, are trying to raise new money to mount the musical on Broadway or elsewhere next year. If they do not, their producing company will be liable for $7 million owed to investors and third par- ties. In addition to Mr. Hotton, the producers are also suing his wife, Sherri Hotton,who they say conspired with him. They are also suing one or more unknown individuals who sent an e-mail to a different in- vestor who had been expected to put in $2.25 million.That e-mail raised questions about the quality of “Rebecca” and the judgment of Mr. Sprecher; the investor dropped out upon receiving the e-mail, ap- parently believing his request for confidentiality had been breached. PATRICK HEALY Gagosian Drops Suit Against Perelman The art dealer Larry Gagosian has withdrawn a lawsuit he filed last month against the billionaire investor Ronald Perelman over payments involving several works of art.  But the legal battle of the titans — and former friends — is not over. Mr. Perel- man continues to pursue his own suit against Mr. Gagosian, below, who Mr. Perelman says cheated him out of millions of dollars. Mr. Perelman, who bought a gran- ite “Popeye” that the artist Jeff Koons was working on, said that Mr. Gagosian had failed to dis- close “secret contract provisions” between the gallery and Mr. Koons that pre- vented Mr. Perelman from earn- ing a fair return on his artistic in- vestment.   In a letter sent to State Su- preme Court in Manhattan with- drawing the suit, Mr. Gagosian’s lawyer, Matthew Dontzin,  ex- plained that the purpose of the lawsuit had been to establish that his client owned the works in question. Since the Perelman complaint concedes that is the case, Mr. Dontzin said, there is no need for Mr. Gagosian to contin- ue his suit. Mr. Perelman’s law- yer, Keith Fleischman, declined to comment. PATRICIA COHEN ‘Homeland’ a New Source Of Middle East Tension While American audiences wait to see how the lives of the former C.I.A. officer Carrie Math- ison (Claire Danes,above) and the Marine-turned-terrorist- turned-congressman Nicholas Brody (Damian Brody) will inter- sect on the current season of “Homeland,” that Showtime se- ries is not exactly helping to rec- oncile rival nations in the Middle East. The minister for tourism in Lebanon told The Associated Press that the government was considering a lawsuit against “Homeland” for recent episodes that used Tel Aviv, in Israel,to stand in for Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. While Carrie is on a mission there, she is confronted by militia members and fired at by gunmen — all of which “does not reflect the reality” of Beirut, according to the tourism minister, Fadi Abboud. “It was not filmed in Bei- rut and does not portray the real image of Beirut.” He added that “the information minister is studying media laws to see what can be done.” Among the give- aways that “Homeland” was filmed in Israel and not Lebanon, The A.P. said, were landmarks, li- cense plates and traffic signs, and even a Coca-Cola logo in He- brew letters. Eytan Schwartz, a spokesman for the mayor of Tel Aviv, had a different point of view when he spoke to The A.P. “If I were Leba- nese,” he said, “I’d be very flat- tered that a city, and a World Heritage Site thanks to its incred- ible architecture, and residents who were named among the Top 10 most beautiful people in the world could pass as Lebanese.” NBC Pulls the Plug On ‘Animal Practice’ NBC announced that it was canceling the new sitcom “Ani- mal Practice” and replacing it on Wednesdays with the sec- ond-year sit- com “Whitney.” Starting on Nov. 11, “Whit- ney,” which stars the stand- up comic Whit- ney Cummings, will take over the 8 p.m. Wednes- day time period that has been home to “Animal Practice.” That comedy, about a veterinarian (Justin Kirk, above) with a mon- key as an assistant, has received poor ratings since NBC gave it a plum spot at the end of the clos- ing ceremonies of the Olympics (pre-empting a performance by the Who in the process). BILL CARTER New Comedies’ Ratings Not Very Amusing Although this young fall televi- sion season has already deliv- ered a new breakout drama in the form of NBC’s “Revolution,” no- ticeably absent from the broad- cast network schedule is any kind of breakout comedy. On Fox “The Mindy Project” has struggled to connect with viewers. Its most recent episode,on Oct. 9,drew 3.6 million viewers, down from the 4.7 million who tuned in to the se- ries premiere. “Ben and Kate” has fared even worse,with 2.7 million viewers for its latest epi- sode on Tuesday. Fox has or- dered full seasons of both shows, but if they continue at these num- bers it is hard to believe that ei- ther will see a second season. For CBS the only new comedy this season is “Partners,” which had 6.1 million viewers for last Monday’s episode. That is a de- cent number, but it may not be enough for CBS, which has made a yearly habit of canceling its lowest-rated comedy, which “Partners” definitely is.ABC’s new comedy “The Neighbors” has also performed decently with 6.5 million viewers, and more im- portant, settled in that range over the last few weeks after a very quick drop from the 9.2 million who watched the premiere. The lone bright spot, it seems, has been “Go On” on NBC. That Matthew Perry-led program sta- bilized on Oct. 9 — after a few weeks of steady declines — at 6.7 million total viewers, the highest audience total among all the new broadcast network comedies. ADAMW.KEPLER Arts, Briefly Compiled by Dave Itzkoff MARILYNN K. YEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES RONEN AKERMAN/SHOWTIME N C3 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 One of the greatest trips around the world has come to an end. Pina Bausch died in 2009, soon after completing her final work, “ ... como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si... ” (“Like moss on a stone”). In it she fo- cused on Santiago, Chile, as part of a se- ries of dances inspired by a place. Over the years Bausch has shown us the world through a set of eyes that twinkled knowingly, all the while exploring elements that make up the human experience: beauty, awkwardness, cruelty, lunacy, hu- mor and despair. On Thursday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that final pro- duction began its run, performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, which is now led by the artistic directors Dominique Mer- cy and Robert Sturm. It’s not Bausch’s strongest effort; her presence is still in the work, but just as with Wim Wenders’s popu- lar documentary “Pina,” a senti- mental edge crept in. Yes, the women still wear their hair luxuriously long and glide in floor-length gowns — impeccably designed by Marion Cito — but those details, while integral to Bausch’s vision, always struck me as part of the overall design. Now they are what a Bausch fan clings to. Whimsy remains an in- tegral part of the Bauschian ad- venture, but what’s on shakier ground is her German bite. “Como el musguito,” named after lyrics in the Chilean singer Viole- ta Parra’s “Volver a los 17” (“To Be 17 Again”), seems incomplete. The piece begins with Silvia Farias Heredia, a ghostly vision in white,with dark hair forming a veil around her face, as she takes a position on all fours. As soon as two men pick her up — preserv- ing her shape in the air — she yelps like a dog. Later more men take turns hoisting her from be- hind so that she appears to float; she barely looks alive. In Bausch’s episodic work, seemingly unrelated scenes cre- ate a labyrinth of ideas fed by im- ages and, never to be discounted, sound. But in “como el musguito” the musical selections, credited to Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider, are more about creating an atmosphere than about igniting memories and emotions. As usual, the work’s structure flickers between quirky, comedic interludes and intricate solos in which the dancers let loose, tak- ing charge of the stage with all of Bausch’s signature moves: arms weave above the head in pretzel shapes, leaving behind an invisi- ble lattice, while torsos twist to volatile extremes. In many of the solo dances what remains prominent is how the weight of the head drives the body’s momentum, engaging the torso to bow and tilt like a boat in choppy water. Regardless of the dancers’ gender, their bodies are tornadoes, often trapped in a place of passionate, cathartic nos- talgia, which causes the dancing to slip into effusiveness. Mr. Mercy, also a dancer, a frac- tion too mournful, rushes to the front of the stage with his arms held out to either side,like a trag- ic bird. Ditta Miranda Jasjfi, her usual diminutive self, is a whirl- wind in crushed pink velvet. But Azusa Seyama is sharper, more refined: after she rolls across the stage with a pillow, her melting movement quality becomes taut. Flexed wrists and feet give her precise shapes an emphatic edge. She woke me up. Highly personal solos are an- other one of Bausch’s signatures, but we get a better feel for the dancers as individuals in more absurd, theatrical moments. Rainer Behr pours water over Anna Wehsarg’s head as she calmly, resolutely reapplies pow- der and lipstick and runs a brush through her auburn hair. The saucy Morena Nascimento stretches across the ankles of two men as they perform situps. And the regal yet self-effacing Clé- mentine Deluy engages an audi- ence member in whispered con- versation and uses her gown to clean his glasses. Group sections also underscore Bausch’s fanciful side, as when the dancers line up in a seated di- agonal — falling back on one an- other like dominoes,while strok- ing the hair of the person in front of them — or stretch on their bel- lies to face the audience while performing a series of hand ges- tures. Both exemplify another Bauschian feat: unearthing the child in the adult. In contrast to these lightheart- ed scenes is the severity of Peter Pabst’s set, distinguished by a black backdrop and a white stage that cracks and mends through- out the piece. (Perhaps a refer- ence to ice floes in southern Chile?) While handsome, the décor can’t help making you dwell on the cracks in the founda- tion of “como el musguito” and with that, the future of Bausch. For that reason the what- comes-around-goes-around end- ing — the opening sequence is re- peated, leaving Ms. Heredia again perched on all fours — is more than merely lazy: it’s the most heartbreaking moment in the show. DANCE REVIEW GIA KOURLAS Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch continues performances through Oct. 27 at the BAM Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene; (718) 636-4100, bam.org. A Fanciful Finale To a Tour Of the World PAULA LOBO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Tsai Chin Yu in “ ... como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si ... ,” by this company at the BAM Opera House. The latest “Paranormal Activi- ty,” No. 4, is unlikely to attract new viewers to this horror series; by now you’ve signed on or not. But there are reasons these movies persist, mainly a con- sistency and a deter- mination not to overreach; un- derstatement and adherence to formcarry these films. “Paranor- mal Activity 4” will please the fans, and that should sustain this low-budget, highly profitable franchise. In a surprising — and refresh- ing — “Paranormal” first, the fo- cus in No. 4 is a teenager. Alex (Kathryn Newton, wonderful), the heroine, hangs out with her friend Ben (Matt Shively, also de- lightful) or talks to him via Skype when she’s not dealing with her bickering parents and young adopted brother, Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp). Then there’s the solemn, brooding Robbie (Brady Allen), the boy next door, adopted by Alex’s family after his mother, Katie (Katie Featherston,the se- ries’ mainstay), became sick. Ever since he moved in,chande- liers and kitchen knives just ha- ven’t been able to stay still. And something’s happening with the living room Xbox. Expect the customary surveil- lance cameras throughout a sub- urban home; jump cuts; bodies and faces pressed oppressively close to the lens; de rigueur dark hallways, closet doors and dis- tant noises. But the mood is often playful, with teases and fake- outs that are sometimes humor- ous and usually right before shocks. Violence is rare, quick and devoid of lingering close- ups. Can we expect a No. 5? Stick around after the closing credits. “Paranormal Activity 4” is rat- ed R (Under 17 requires accompa- nying parent or adult guardian). Violence, strong language and child endangerment. Watch Out for Swaying Chandeliers and Rogue Knives FILM REVIEW ANDY WEBSTER Paranormal Activity 4 Opened on Friday nationwide. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schul- man; written by Christopher Landon, based on a story by Chad Feehan and the film “Paranormal Activity” by Oren Peli; director of photography, Doug Emmett; edited by Gregory Plotkin; production design by Jennifer Spence; costumes by Leah Butler; produced by Jason Blum and Mr. Peli; released by Paramount Pic- tures. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. WITH: Katie Featherston (Katie), Kath- ryn Newton (Alex), Matt Shively (Ben), Aiden Lovekamp (Wyatt), Brady Allen (Robbie) and Stephen Dunham (Doug). 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Today at 2 &8,Tomorrowat 3 BEST PLAY!2011 Tony Award Winner Lincoln Center Theater presents ANational Theatre of Great Britain Production WAR HORSE Tue 7;Wed-Sat 8;Wed &Sat 2;Sun 3 Telecharge.comor 212-239-6200 Groups 12+:212-889-4300 WarHorseOnBroadway.com Vivian Beaumont Theater (+) 150 W.65 St. BROADWAY OFF−BROADWAY NORTH(D) S Q 10 6 2 h K 10 9 d Q J 8 7 C A 10 WEST S K 8 5 4 3 h A J 3 d A 9 5 3 C 3 EAST S J 9 7 h Q 7 2 d K 6 4 C Q 9 6 2 SOUTH S A h 8 6 5 4 d 10 2 C K J 8 7 5 4 Neither side was vulnerable. The bidding: West North East South — 1 d Pass 1 h 1 S Dbl. 2 S 3 C Pass Pass Pass West led the club three. he would have doubled.) Against three clubs, Schwartz (West) led his singleton trump, which was covered by the ten, queen and king. South played a club to dum- my’s ace (West discarded a spade), then called for a low dia- mond. What did Fisher (East) know? He was aware that his partner had only one spade honor, be- cause with the ace and the king, he would have led the suit at Trick 1. And that honor was prob- ably the king, because if South had the singleton king, he surely would have led it at Trick 2. So West was marked with both red aces. And to defeat the contract, the defenders had to take two hearts, two diamonds and one club. To make this clear to his part- ner also, East won this trick with his diamond king and shifted to the heart deuce. West won with his ace and im- mediately played another heart to establish those five tricks. Plus 50 gave Fisher and Schwartz 14 imps on the board. The Cavendish Pairs tourna- ment, which finished on Friday, was won by Lotan Fisher and Ron Schwartz from Israel. They finished with 481.15 international match points, 63.55 ahead of Phi- lippe Cronier and Jean-Chris- tophe Quantin from France, with Agustin Madala from Italy and Zia Mahmood from the United States another 90.31 further back, in third. It was a most impressive per- formance by the young Israelis (Fisher is 22,and Schwartz is 25), because they led after each of the six sessions against a very strong field that included 7 of the world’s Top 10 ranked players. The diagramed deal from the second session resulted in only a small gain, but it shows how to make defense as easy as possible for partner. In the auction, North’s double showed three-card heart sup- port. South’s three clubs was a signoff,indicating longer clubs than hearts. (With a good hand, Phillip Alder Bridge Karlheinz Stockhausen con- ceived his final masterpiece, “Klang” (“Sound”), as a daylong event of both sprawling scale and surprising intimacy. “It seems that I am listening again more for moments, atmos- pheres,” he said of the project, “rather than formulas.” He could have been speaking for much of the music from the past 50 years, which achieves its effects through de- tails and mood — those moments and atmospheres — rather than from broad allegiance to systems like serialism. He imagined what he called the 24 “musical mo- ments” of “Freude” (“Joy”), the second hour of “Klang,” as a day within the work’s larger day. “Freude” (2005), which the Chamber Music Society of Lin- coln Center presented on Thurs- day during the excellent opening concert of this season’s New Mu- sic in the Kaplan Penthouse se- ries, is scored for two harps. The musicians, here the passionate June Han and Bridget Kibbey, do not just slap, pluck and rub their instruments. They sing — and sing-speak — the words of the Pentecost hymn “Veni, creator spiritus.” The work is alternately playful and somber, with a firm grounding in the austere medi- eval troubadour and plainsong traditions. It is also an immersion in subtle differences of texture: between a string rubbed and gently tapped, or plucked with a pick versus a finger. Georges Aperghis’s “Quatre Pièces Fébriles” for piano and marimba (1995) is similarly an ex- ploration of texture, of the piano’s resonance,as opposed to the ma- rimba’s dry precision — and, sometimes, vice versa. On Thurs- day the pianist Gilles Vonsattel and the percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum were precisely at- tuned to the details that make the work’s solemnity vibrate with life. Mr. Vonsattel and the cellist Nicolas Altstaedt stormed mood- ily through Heinz Holliger’s “Ro- mancendres” (2003). A contrac- tion of “romance” and “cendres” (French for “ashes”), “Roman- cendres” was inspired by a series of Schumann cello-piano ro- mances that Clara Schumann burned before they could be pub- lished. Passages of Schumann- esque Romanticism peek out from behind spiky bursts, misty harmonics and metallic filaments of sound, a delicate interplay be- tween cello and piano. The chamber society was once viewed as dependable but stodgy, the place to go for Beethoven and Schumann. That commitment to the classics is still present, but the main-stage concerts now have far more variety. And the Kaplan se- ries is hard to beat for intimacy, quality of programming and vir- tuosity of performance. Attuned to Nuances of Mood and Texture MUSIC REVIEW ZACHARY WOOLFE Chamber Music Society Kaplan Penthouse There’s a multipage chronology of Congolese history spanning the 1200s to the present day in the program for “Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo.” Onstage a large screen of- fers detailed maps and dates about the Democratic Republic of Congo and its dismal past. Yet amid all the data about colonization, bor- ders and conflicts, one moment late in this 80-minute documenta- ry theater piece proves most moving. “I see snow for the first time,” says Emmanuel, who fled the vio- lence of Congo only to spend 12 years in a camp in Uganda before arriving in Syracuse. “When I hold the snow in my hands,I find it is water. And in America, peo- ple stay with their dogs in the house! In my country you cannot see this! And in the winter I see dogs putting on clothes!” His words, filled with awe, help illustrate how far he has jour- neyed. That anecdote and others like it are the most stirring parts of “Cry for Peace,” which is inter- esting (and often overwhelming) when it dispenses information, but affecting when it relates indi- vidual tales of suffering and en- durance. The narrative focuses mainly on five people who have lived in Congo and witnessed murder, rape and other horrifying acts. They later worked with the thea- ter group Ping Chong + Company to shape their stories into a stage program. Those accounts are read to the audience (much as in “The Exonerated,” which centers on former death-row inmates and recently opened at the Culture Project) and can be disturbing and tense; they lose power, how- ever, when the talk moves into history lesson mode. “Cry for Peace,” which ends on Sunday, is part of the Undesirable Elements Festival at La MaMa, in which Ping Chong will present two other pieces: “Secret Survi- vors,” with adults who were sexu- ally abused as children, and “In- side/Out,” concerning people with disabilities. With a few ex- ceptions, the participants are nonprofessional actors relating their own experiences. While the best sections of “Cry for Peace” are the human ones, not all are uplifting. “I feel ha- tred,” says Kambale, whose fa- ther was tortured and killed. “When you are mad like this is when you want to go and shoot the people who murdered your family.” Such moments reveal more about the cycle of violence than any numbers could. Here, statistics don’t tell the essential stories. People do. “Cry for Peace” continues through Sunday, and the Undesir- able Elements Festival through Nov. 4,at La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater, 66 East Fourth Street, East Village; (212) 475-7710, lamama.org. KEN JAWOROWSKI THEATER REVIEW Survivors of Horrors,and Their Journey ADAM NADEL Cry for Peace From left, Cyprien Mihigo, Beatrice Neema, Emmanuel Ndeze, Kambale Syaghuswa and Mona de Vestel,at La MaMa. N C5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 emergency exit. The recriminations are part of a standard ritual in high-profile art thefts in which museums confront questions about security and then face years of trying to track down valuable paintings. In the second stage, the cast generally includes police investigators, insurance adjusters and lawyers who often emerge,offering information from what one museum official characterized as the murky “other side.” In this case the artworks’ owner, the Triton Foundation, has left it to the Kunsthal to endure the public pres- sures. The foundation, which was formed in 2011 after the death of Willem Cordia, a millionaire Dutch investor and collector, has no Web site; museum cu- rators who have benefited from its tem- porary loans refuse to share contact de- tails. The foundation, which is not regis- tered in the Netherlands, is now run by a family member, Marlies Cordia-Roe- loffs, who did not respond to repeated messages seeking comment. The family also owns a stable, the Jewel Court Stud farm, near Antwerp, Belgium, with a Web site containing extensive informa- tion about the births of foals and show horses for dressage competitions. A person at the stud farm also declined to provide any contact information about the Triton Foundation. The seven stolen works, which in- clude paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, were quickly replaced with oth- er works from the foundation so that the museum opened on Wednesday with no empty spaces. Its windows were forti- fied outside by new, enormous stone planters. And Kunsthal officials avoided dwelling on the theft, refusing to identi- fy where the missing paintings had hung. “Seven works were stolen,and there are seven new works from the same foundation,” said Mariëtte Maaskant, a museum spokeswoman. One of the stolen works, “Woman With Eyes Closed,” a 2002 painting by Lucian Freud, was exhibited on tempo- rary loan in the spring at the National Portrait Gallery in London, which had upgraded its security in connection with a Freud exhibition, said the museum’s director, Sandy Nairne. “We redid all our security systems because of the high values of Lucian Freud’s paintings,” said Mr. Nairne, the former program director at the Tate Gallery, in London. “I was hugely con- scious of it and now I feel such sympa- thy for the Kunsthal.” Mr. Nairne is the author of “Art Theft,” a book about his own journey to the recovery of two J.M.W. Turner paintings that belonged to the Tate, which were stolen in 1994 and missing for more than eight years. In that case the art was on temporary loan to the Schirn Kunsthalle, a Frank- furt gallery that also does not have a permanent collection. The thieves stayed behind after hours and attacked a guard before fleeing with the Turners. Three low-level thieves were arrested and imprisoned, but in a typical pattern, Mr. Nairne said, they passed the works to others in a criminal underworld. While the paintings were missing, a number of lawyers emerged offering in- formation from anonymous sources, in- cluding a Frankfurt lawyer who had represented a Balkan organized-crime figure based in Germany. The Tate eventually paid for investi- gative expenses and more than 5 million euros, about $6.5 million at current ex- change rates, to the lawyer for informa- tion that led to the recovery of the paint- ings, in 2002. “It taught me a lot of things I didn’t want to know about the criminal world,” Mr. Nairne said. “There are criminal ac- tivities that flit around the world we work in, and we need to consider that. There’s a link between the huge values of paintings and the incentives to steal.” That art theft left scars; this past summer the Tate created a special digi- tal exhibition of missing and stolen works, “The Gallery of Lost Art.” Since the Kunsthal theft, museum officials have avoided estimating a price for the seven paintings, in effect denying a benchmark to thieves,who typically de- mand 10 percent of the value of a stolen painting, experts said. Museum Defends Its Security After Theft From First Arts Page POLICE ROTTERDAM, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS The stolen painting “Woman With Eyes Closed,” by Lucian Freud. Christopher F. Schuetze reported from Rotterdam. where they can flourish more abundant- ly and cause more trouble.” Mr. Quammen, who is 64 but looks much younger, grew up in Cincinnati but has lived for the last 40 years in Montana. He is wiry and tanned, and though Dwight Garner, reviewing “Spillover” in The Times, called him “not just among our best science writ- ers but among our best writers, period,” you could easily mistake him for a fish- ing guide or a field biologist. “Spillover,” which took Mr. Quammen some 12 years to write, has chapters on virology, scientific history, even on math, but in most of the book he is not just in the lab or the library but also in remote loca- tions all over Central Africa, Malaysia and China. He loves arduous travel, he said over lunch, and he enjoys the com- pany of adventurous scientists. In the book some of them become as vivid as characters in a Michael Crich- ton scientific thriller, or as obsessed as the questers in a Rider Haggard novel, only in search of pathogens instead of buried treasure. “I’m not one of those heroic types,” said Edward C. Holmes, a leading ex- pert on viral evolution and one of the stay-at-home scientists also in the book. “I’m more comfortable sitting at a com- puter in an air-conditioned office. But David is almost like a new explorer.” Charles H. Calisher, a virologist and emeritus professor at Colorado State, whom Mr. Quammen also interviewed, said of him: “It’s weird — he’s an Eng- lish major,” in a tone that suggested that he didn’t think particularly highly of that particular academic species. “But he wanders around, talks to scientists, reaffirms his impressions. He actually understands. He gets the bigger picture sometimes more than the little things, but that’s O.K., because he goes back and checks with you. He takes the time.” He added: “I think some graduate students these days think viruses come from freezers. They don’t understand what people had to go through to collect them; maybe they had to go into a sew- er system. But David gets it. He’s also a very pleasant person. He had no trouble getting interviews, because people like talking to him.” Mr. Quammen, who is also the author of “The Song of the Dodo: Island Bioge- ography in an Age of Extinction” and a biography of Charles Darwin,went to Yale, where he wasn’t just an English major but also a protégé of the novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren,with whose encouragement he wrote a novel that came out just a few months after he graduated, in 1970. “I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published,” he said. “I paid my dues later.” He went on to publish two more nov- els and a collection of short stories be- fore gradually switching over to non- fiction. He was having trouble getting published as a novelist, he said, and at a certain point he decided: “I’m a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.” From reading authors like Stephen Jay Gould,Lewis Thomas, Annie Dillard and John McPhee, moreover, he discovered, he said, that “nonfiction could be wondrous and imaginative, shapely and literary — it didn’t just have to be explanatory.” But his greatest influence as a sci- ence writer, Mr. Quammen insisted, was the seemingly unscientific William Faulkner, about whom he wrote both undergraduate and graduate school the- ses. Though few critics have been subtle enough to notice, he said, smiling, the structure of “Spillover” was as intricate as that of “Absalom, Absalom” or “Light in August.” “There are four levels braided togeth- er like cords in a rope, all moving in the same direction,” he explained. “Or that’s what the author thinks,anyway.” There is also some Faulkner, perhaps, in a sentence like this: “A whitetail in the woods of Connecticut, during No- vember, is like a teeming singles bar in Lower Manhattan on Friday night, crowded with lubricious seekers.” The subtext of “Spillover” — the like- lihood of what Mr. Quammen calls the Next Big One, a global pandemic on the order of the 1918 influenza outbreak — belongs more to Robin Cook than to Faulkner. The chances are compound- ed, he explained, not just by our way of disturbing wild habitats but also be- cause we can get on a plane immedi- ately afterward. “You can’t take a knife on a plane anymore,” he said, “but you can get on carrying a virus.” He added that he didn’t mean to alarm readers. “There are enough things out there to lose sleep over,” he said. “I hope instead that readers will experience what I’ve experienced and feel that to understand this phenomenon is empowering. It’s serious,and we need to know about it, and there are some things to be done. “If your presidential candidate wants to cut the budget for the Centers for Dis- ease Control in half, find another presi- dential candidate. They’re doing im- portant stuff.” He smiled. “Some other things to be done? Don’t eat the monkey. Get a flu vaccine. If you live in the Northeast, brush the ticks off your kid when he comes in from the woods.” ROBERT CAPLIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES David Quammen in New York. His new book, “Spillover,” looks at how animal diseases have jumped to humans. A nonfiction thriller on disease has the intricate structure of a novel. For Author, the Subject Is Science,but the Style Is Faulkner From First Arts Page There are no heroes in Kacey Mus- graves’s songs, no role models, no one with a good track record in decision making. They’re about broken-down people. But really they’re about inertia. Take “It Is What It Is,” a song titled after as in- ertial a sentiment as there is. Ms. Musgraves, a young country singer full of verve and cyni- cism, sings it to someone she wants to see, and then wants to see go: “Put on your shoes and get in your car/And put it in drive and point it this way/You don’t have to talk, don’t have to stay.” “My grandma calls this the slut song,” she explains on a YouTube clip of her performing it. The chorus is tragic and perfectly emotionally empty: I ain’t got no one sleeping with me And you ain’t got nowhere that you need to be Maybe I love you, or maybe I’m just kind of bored It is what it is ’Til it ain’t Anymore When she got around to that song on Thursday night, the third in her set at the Highline Ballroom, she didn’t seem especially drained. She delivered it with matter-of-factness, almost a shrug. Peo- ple are damaged, no need to make a scene about it. That was the theme Ms. Musgraves kept returning to during this too-short but authoritative set at One Night in ... New York City, an annual benefit by the gossipmonger Perez Hilton for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. Ms. Musgraves has a smallish but te- nacious voice, and her songs are wordy and thick, with no fat whatsoever. It took some time to get to that place. In 2007 she was a poised teenager on “Nashville Star”; that same year she re- leased a traditional-minded,self-titled album. Since then she’s grown steadily. A duet with the Josh Abbott Band was a hit on the Texas Music Chart. A song she helped write was used on a recent episode of the ABC drama “Nashville.” Recently she released “Merry Go ‘Round,” the first single from her forth- coming major-label debut album. In this song, too, the characters are lost — ad- dicts, adulterers and hypocrites — but she sings about them almost affection- ately. They know not what they do. The same is true on “Blowin’ Smoke,” about waitresses with big dreams and big mouths, with which she opened her performance here. Again, inertia: “Still hasn’t lost that baby weight/And that baby’s bout to graduate/From college.” These lyrics reward close listening, but Ms. Musgraves got little of that at the Highline, in her first New York per- formance. She struggled to overcome a chatty, disjointed crowd, many of whom were probably there to see one of the better-known performers scheduled for later in the night: the brassy Elle King, the gratingly whimsical Karmin, the re- surgent R&B diva Brandy. Had they been paying attention, they might have appreciated Ms. Mus- graves’s slightly profane streak — light stuff for a pop star, but bold for a coun- try music aspirant in an age of fake out- laws. She melds a contemporary pop ear with a firm grasp on darker country archetypes of the 1970s and 1980s, which have lately been largely scrubbed from the genre. Her songs exist beneath its typical value system. “Same hurt in ev- ery heart/Same trailer, different park,” she sang on “Merry Go ‘Round.” When that song was done, the audi- ence applauded distractedly. She thanked the listeners, and before she began “Everybody’s Got a Story,” about not placing your own struggles over others’, she qualified it with a warning: “Depressing again.” CHAD BATKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Kacey Musgraves, in her first New York appearance, performed thoughtful, dark country tunes at the Highline Ballroom for the One Night in ... New York City party. MUSIC REVIEW JON CARAMANICA Everyday Tales About a Tough World. But That’s Life. ‘It Is What It Is’ is a title and a recurring theme for a young singer. 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(HD) SPIKE Bar Rescue (HD) Bar Rescue (HD) (PG) Bar Rescue “Murphy’s Mess.” (HD) Bar Rescue “Owner Ousted.” (HD) Bar Rescue “Bottomless Pit.” (HD) Bar Rescue “Weber’s of Lies.” (HD) STYLE Spanglish (2004). (PG-13) (5:30) Giuliana & Bill (HD) (PG) Giuliana & Bill (HD) (PG) Giuliana & Bill (HD) (PG) Tia & Tamera (HD) (PG) Tia & Tamera SUN The Mortified Sessions (HD) Iconoclasts (CC) (HD) (14) . The Good Thief (2002). Nick Nolte. Drug addict pulled into French Ca- sino art heist. Brazen haven for Nick’s seedy charisma. (R) (CC) (HD) . The Untouchables (1987). Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro. T-men vs. Capone in 1930’s Chicago. Evocative and great-looking. (R) (CC) (HD) Public Sex (2009). (CC) (HD) SYFY . Daybreakers (2009). Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe. Vampire works on blood substitute as humans grow scarce. Impressively styled. (R) (CC) (HD) Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009). Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy. Lucian leads the Lycans against Viktor, the king of the vampires. (R) (CC) (HD) . Stake Land (2010). Nick Damici. Vampire hunter and protégé seek haven. Unusually taut. (R) (CC) (HD) TBS The King of Queens (HD) The King of Queens (HD) > The Big Bang Theory > The Big Bang Theory 300 (2007). Gerard Butler, Lena Headey. Outnumbered Spartan warriors battle the Persian army. Muscle-bound, grunting self-seriousness. (R) (CC) (HD) Con Air (1997). Nicolas Cage, John Cusack. (R) (CC) (HD) TCM . The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). Stewart Granger. (CC) (6:15) . Camille (1936). Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor. Dumas’s doomed Paris courtesan. Garbo never greater. (CC) . Gigi (1958). Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier. Thank heaven for Lerner, Loewe, Colette and Paris. (G) (CC) . Madame Du Barry (1934). (CC) TLC Dateline: Real Life Mysteries (HD) Dateline: Real Life Mysteries (HD) Dateline: Real Life Mysteries (N) Dateline: Real Life Mysteries (N) Dateline: Real Life Mysteries (HD) Dateline: Real TNT ● Hitch (2005). Will Smith, Eva Mendes. Smooth-talking New Yorker teaches other men how to attract women. Soft and sweet. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) Hitch (2005). Will Smith, Eva Mendes. Smooth-talking New Yorker teaches other men how to attract women. Soft and sweet. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) Our Family Wed- ding (2010). (HD) TRAV Legends Of Alaska (N) (CC) (HD) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adventures (CC) (HD) (PG) Ghost Adv. TRU Wipeout “Feed Jill.” (CC) (PG) Wipeout “Couples.” (CC) (PG) Wipeout (CC) (PG) Top 20 Most Shocking (14) Top 20 Most Shocking (14) Most Shocking TVLAND Cosby Show Cosby Show Cosby Show Cosby Show > Raymond > Raymond > Raymond > Raymond > Raymond King of Queens King of Queens USA Couples Retreat (2009). Vince Vaughn. (PG-13) (CC) (HD) (5:30) Eat Pray Love (2010). Julia Roberts, James Franco. Divorcée travels globe to change life. Sumptuous and leisurely. (CC) (HD) Mr. Deeds (2002). Small-town pizzeria owner inherits $40 billion. Shambles of a comedy remake. (CC) (HD) VH1 The Lost Boys (1987). Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland. (R) (CC) I’m Married to A. (HD) (14) Rehab With Dr. Drew (14) Love & Hip Hop “Reality Check.” T.I. and Tiny WE My Fair Wedding With David Tu- tera: Unveiled (G) My Fair Wedding With David Tu- tera: Unveiled (G) My- Wedding With David Tutera- David, Divas and Disasters My Fair Wedding With David Tu- tera: Unveiled (G) My Fair Wedding With David Tu- tera: Unveiled (G) To be announced YES CenterStage Running (HD) SportsMoney Nets 2012: Hello Brooklyn Wild Spirits Boxing 30 CenterStage Football 9 P.M. (Starz) CARNAGE (2011) A meeting between two sets of parents, played by Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, and, above, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, to discuss a playground scuffle between their sons,degenerates into a vitriolic verbal sparring match in this adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play, directed by Roman Polanski. “The spectator, gliding and feinting around the edges of the room with Mr. Polanski’s nimble camera, anticipates violence and perhaps hopes for it to erupt,” A.O. Scott wrote in his review in The New York Times. “All of the actors conduct themselves skillfully — hitting their marks and tearing through the sometimes awkward idioms of a translated script — without being entirely convincing.” 11 A.M. (USA) JUNO(2007) A pregnant teenager (Ellen Page) goes in search of Mr. and Mrs. Right (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner) after deciding to put up her unborn child for adoption in this comedy directed by Jason Reitman. J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney play Juno’s father and stepmother; Michael Cera is Paulie, the friend who had unprotected sex with Juno. Diablo Cody, who wrote this coming-of-age tale, won an Oscar for best screenplay. “The film outgrows its own mannerisms and defenses,” A.O. Scott wrote in The Times, “evolving from a coy, knowing farce into a heartfelt, serious comedy.” 7 P.M. (TNT) HITCH (2005) Close your eyes and pucker up. Will Smith,below,plays Alex Hitchens, a smooth-talking New York love doctor who teaches social misfits how to get their way with women who are better looking than they are — until, of course, he finds one (Eva Mendes) immune to his techniques. Kevin James is the chubby accountant who hires Hitch to help him get a beautiful heiress (Amber Valletta) to look his way, and who gets a man-to-man lesson in the art of seduction in the process. 9 P.M. (A&E) PARKING WARS DeAndre, a ticketing employee of the Municipal Parking Department in Detroit,who goes by the name Ponytail, is confronted by an angry parking violator who refuses to admit to any wrongdoing. At 9:30 Hawk, the owner of a private towing business in Trenton, gives his son some on-the-job training. 9 P.M. (BBC America) BEDLAMEllie (Lacey Turner) continues to see ghosts lurking around Brightmoor,accompanied by visions of how they met their demise. In this episode a wedding is haunted by the spirit of a former bride. 10 P.M. (FX) EASY A(2010) Emma Stone plays Olive, a good girl who pretends to be bad to raise her social standing in high school, as well as that of some persecuted class virgins, in this satire directed by Will Gluck. But when her faked promiscuity generates an unexpected chain reaction, she sews a capital A on her clothes and parades around the school in suggestive outfits. Amanda Bynes is the leader of the Christian club, who denounces Olive as a slut. Penn Badgley is Olive’s prince-in-waiting. “Whatever else it accomplishes, the sassy high school comedy ‘Easy A’ commands attention for the irresistible presence” of Ms. Stone, Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. 11:30 P.M. (21) AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Bonnie Raitt presents songs from her latest album, “Slipstream,” released this year, and the blues singer Mavis Staples performs tracks from her 2010 album,“You Are Not Alone,” which received a Grammy Award for best Americana album in 2011. 11:30 P.M. (NBC) SATURDAY NIGHT LIVEThe musician Bruno Mars will pull double duty as the host and the musical guest. 11:30 P.M. (Comedy Central) OFFICE SPACE (1999) In this grim yet comedic portrait of the ’90s workplace,written and directed by Mike Judge, Ron Livingston is Peter Gibbons (below right, with Gary Cole), a computer programmer at a pre-bubble tech company where management seemingly prides itself on demoralizing employees and cutting costs. Fed up, Peter concocts a plan with two of his cubicle colleagues to use a computer virus to steal company funds out from under their memo-serving overlords. Jennifer Aniston plays a waitress and the object of Peter’s affection. “Anyone who has endured work as a low-level cog in a corporate machine should appreciate the acute frustrations of the eager young beavers who rebel against the system in Mike Judge’s moderately savvy satire,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. He added that the movie “distills the pettiness of office life in its sneakily savage portrait of a quintessential middle-management boss named Bill Lumbergh.” ADAMW.KEPLER WHAT’S ON TODAY GUY FERRANDIS/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS N C7 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 two ways at once — the lower body is forward, while the torso plunges back — but this self-contradictory mood is jubi- lant, unconflicted. A second-movement pas de deux for Ms. Semionova and Mr. Gomes brings calm; the tone is trusting, loving, quietly lyrical. They too are joined, though later, by four men and four women.But when Herman Cornejo arrives,the ballet’s structure veers in other directions. His role keeps it perpetually unresolved un- til the final curtain. What contribution does this late arriv- al make? Mr. Cornejo here is part of the same world, and yet he has no retinue and partner. He is maybe the genius of the place, the force of history. The impe- tus and fervor of Mr. Cornejo’s dancing are superb,and his personal beauty has never been better displayed. In the third movement he pounces gloriously,only then to hover on one leg in a luminously sculptural attitude. The ballet ends with him alone, spinning like a tornado. This marvelous artist, rightly, has the final bow. On further viewings it will be fascinat- ing to analyze how the changes of thread in Shostakovich’s score have prompted aspects of Mr. Cornejo’s im- personal but thrilling role. Shostako- vich’s third, fourth and fifth movements run together; their moods, both onstage and in the score, include the symphony’s most ominous as well as the most viva- cious parts. Mr. Cornejo personifies their force. But the others, especially Mr. Gomes, carry the ballet’s more hu- man and mortal feelings. At the end of the second movement, accompanied by a solo piccolo, Ms. Semionova and Mr. Gomes lie down,as if to sleep, and yet the timing is amus- ing. They descend to the floor in abrupt sections, bit by bit. And no sooner do they lie there than Mr. Gomes raises a finger: he’s signaling, “Wait.” In the third movement Mr. Gomes waits on the floor at the back of the stage, then slow- ly rises. It seems to take ages for his tor- so and eventually his head to become upright; he is apparently coping with an immense internal burden. Like Ms. Semionova’s early “hush” gesture, these dramatic images haunt the ballet with- out ever being explained. In Jennifer Tipton’s lighting the back- drop changes from dark to bright and back again. Keso Dekker’s patterned costumes are predominantly black and white. There will be much more to say of this ballet, which returns to New York as part of Mr. Ratmansky’s all-Shostako- vich, all-symphonic trilogy during American Ballet Theater’s spring sea- son at the Metropolitan Opera House. This will be an unprecedented choreo- graphic undertaking, which Mr. Rat- mansky considers as a single work. The configurations for the corps de ballet are full of individualizing strokes as well as remarkable numerical and geometric shifts. Here we see three of them, here six, here seven. At one point we see a Semionova-Gomes scene through a passing colonnade of women slowly walking across the front of the stage. The texture of the movement is often colored by rich transitions; you feel dancers stretching their way from A to B. After this first viewing my applause is tempered by three reservations. Though Mr. Salstein dances admirably, his need to communicate with knowing facial ex- pressions — in a role that starts the work — misleads the audience into thinking that he holds the key to the bal- let. Ms. Semionova, though glowingly lovely, seems to dance only with Mr. Gomes’s assistance, whereas he, gor- geously, often slips in sumptuous steps in between partnering in their pas de deux. And there are too many instances of women carried with snug fondness across their men’s chests, joining their arms around their partners’ necks. On Thursday this fond neck hanging was all too reminiscent of the evening’s previ- ous ballet, Antony Tudor’s “Leaves Are Fading,” which, a friend remarked, may be the most boring (but by no means the worst) ballet ever made by a great chor- eographer. The program ended with “Rodeo.” Ballet Theater’s season, crammed with repertory and cast changes, ends on Saturday. I look forward to reporting on it further. ANDREA MOHIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES From left, Joseph Phillips, Eric Tamm and Arron Scott with fellow members of American Ballet Theater in “Symphony #9,” choreographed to music by Dmitri Shostakovich. Swirls and Shifts in a Kaleidoscope, Colored by a Whiff of Mystery From First Arts Page The Ballet Theater season ends on Satur- day at City Center, 131 West 55th Street, Manhattan; (212) 362-6000, abt.org. Davis, an animator who created Cruella De Vil from “101 Dalmations” and Cin- derella, designed the characters. Disney died in 1966,and the resort was shelved, but the jamboree joined the lineup at Walt Disney World here. The banjo-playing bears with James Carville accents were such a smash that Disney installed them in its Califor- nia park a year later. But by the late 1980s, the bears, ex- pensive to maintain, looked as if they had played one music hall too many. And the crowds had thinned, drawn in- stead to new shows like “Captain EO,” a 3-D short film starring Michael Jackson and his sidekick, Fuzzball. “Country Bear Jamboree” closed in California in 2001. A movie based on the characters, “The Country Bears,” flopped in 2002. The Orlando show powered on but did not pull its weight; at the peak of the summer season, you could often walk right in. It was starting to become a museum exhibit, a dreaded situation for Disney. Mr. Vaughn said his team considered a series of questions. How could they make the show relevant to modern kids? How could new technology be in- troduced to make it better? Are there ways to integrate new Disney or Pixar characters into the show? But Disney has learned the hard way that change can enrage fans. When the company tried in 1998 to update the “Enchanted Tiki Room,” a 1960s-era re- vue starring singing flowers and robot birds, fans greeted the changes with venom. “The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management” — featuring Iago from “Aladdin,” voiced by Gilbert Gottfried — was abandoned last year, and Disney reinstalled the original. (“Occasionally, you’re going to get a miss,” Mr. Vaughn said.) Disney has successfully updated some attractions, like Pirates of the Ca- ribbean, the Spanish Main ride that spawned the movie series, but when fans caught wind that changes were afoot at “Country Bear Jamboree,” the blogosphere lit up. “Keep those bears the same, dag nabbit!” one fan wrote on the site WDWRadio.com. On Wednesday the company un- veiled the new show. Exhale: Disney has a sense of humor too. “Buford” re- mains, as do Trixie and Liver Lips McGrowl, who sings “My Woman Ain’t Pretty (But She Don’t Swear None.)” The Sun Bonnet triplets — Bunny, Bub- bles and Beulah — still perform “All the Guys That Turn Me On Turn Me Down.” No new characters were added, not the giant demon bear from “Brave” or Justin Beaver or reality TV’s Honey Boo Boo, as some fans worried. Mr. Vaughn’s main change was length. The revue is now 11 minutes in- stead of 16, accomplished by removing two numbers — “Fractured Folk Song” and “Pretty Little Devilish Mary” — and some banter from the peanut gal- lery: mounted animatronic buffalo, moose and deer heads that serve as this show’s version of Statler and Wal- dorf. (Gone are their fat jokes, for in- stance: “That’s a mighty big song, Trix- ie!” Response: “That sure ain’t all that’s big.”) The faster pace, Mr. Vaughn said, re- flects the speedier way that people speak today and the rise of interactive media. It’s not necessarily that atten- tion spans are shorter, he said, it’s that kids raised on video games are not as accustomed to more passive entertain- ment experiences. There are new costumes, props, lighting, stage curtains and sound sys- tems; modernized backstage controls give Disney the ability to add seasonal changes easily. Fresh animatronics give the bears “an increased sense of aliveness,” Mr. Vaughn said. How is it going over? For some fans, the changes may take some getting used to. Tom Bricker, writing on Twitter, complained, “The wittiest attraction at Walt Disney World dumbed down.” Pixiedustmaker, a com- menter on WDWmagic.com, where the Country Bears discussion ran to 34 pages on Friday, declared it “garbage.” But Disney also got applause for keeping some of the cheekier numbers, and many comments were quite posi- tive. Touring Plans, a company that pub- lishes unofficial guides to Walt Disney World, live tweeted from the first per- formance of the new show. While it “feels very abrupt,” Touring Plans also said in one Twitter post that it liked the “really great new sparkly hat and para- sol” on Teddi Barra, who performs on a swing. “It did not feel butchered at all,” Aladdin2007 wrote on WDWmagic.com, while a visitor to that site commented: “I can’t say I’m angry about it. It’s nice to see the bears looking in such good condition.” The visitor wasn’t so sure about some of the new coifs, though, writing, “Liver Lips’ hair does look weird.” DISNEY ENTERPRISES The show,with 24 bears, which closed for refurbishing in August after a run from 1971, has devoted fans. Disney Bears Remain Corny From First Arts Page long as I’m still in the game I want to play,” was inspiring. The program was a slightly augment- ed version of the cabaret show Ms. Cook brought to Feinstein’s at Loews Regen- cy last April, in which she sang 11 new songs, none by Stephen Sondheim, whose music has preoccupied her in re- cent years. As Ms. Cook’s voice has low- ered and darkened, its innate expres- siveness has intensified, erasing the last vestiges of the ingénue she used to be. Unless you’re a fetishist for the high notes she used to toss off singing “Glit- ter and Be Gay,” that’s all to the good. Ms. Cook, whose actual birthday is Oct. 25, talked movingly about her ac- companists, including Wally Harper, her musical director for more three dec- ades,who died eight years ago after steering her toward swing. The jazz pi- anists Lee Musiker and Ted Rosenthal, who succeeded him and continued the process, were both present. Like Barbra Streisand in her recent concerts at Barclays Center in Brook- lyn, Ms. Cook has reached the point in her career where she has nothing left to prove. For most of the evening she was supremely relaxed, and amusing anec- dotes poured out of her. The final part of the night was a trib- ute with special guests. John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey sang a Vincent Youmans medley. Sheldon Harnick sang a cleverly rewritten version of “She Loves Me,” and Josh Groban per- formed a beautiful, unadorned rendition of the concert’s only Sondheim number, “Not While I’m Around.” The choicest words came from the so- prano Susan Graham, who sang “Till There Was You,” from “The Music Man” and praised Ms. Cook for her “unfailing honesty.” An early recording of Ms. Cook that she heard as a child in New Mexico, Ms. Grahamrecalled,was the first time she had ever heard a beautiful voice. “I wanted to be you when I was growing up,” she said. “And I still do.” ROBERT CAPLIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES In her showBarbara Cook, whose actual birthday is on Thursday, also spoke of her accompanists, offered anecdotes and was joined by special guests. Still in the Game, and Still So Passionate to Play From First Arts Page Barbara Cook celebrates her 85th birthday. C8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 80° 70° 60° 50° 40° Record highs Normal highs Normal lows Record lows M T W T F S S M T W TODAY High High Actual Forecast range LowLow Past peak Peak Near peak Some color Still green Burlington Portland Albany New York Boston Philadelphia Washington Pittsburgh Charleston Norfolk H L L L 80s 80s 70 0s 0s 0s 40s 40s 30s 20s 10s 90 s 9 0 s 90 s 80s 80s 80s 80 0s s 70s s 70s 70s 70s 70s 70s 70s 7 70s 70s 60s 60s 60s 6 6 6 60s 60s 50s 0 50s 50s 50s 50s 50 4 40s 40s 40s 0s 4 0s 4 0s 40s 40s 40s 4 P ierr e Bi smarc k F argo is Minneapoli is n St. Paul S hicago Chic hic o kee Milwauk Indianapolis i D etro it C leveland P ittsbur gh Washington Wash h ash Philadelphia Phi New York N chmond Ri Richm Ric Norfolk N N N gh Raleigh Ch harlotte ha bia Columb Atlant anta anta Jacksonville J Orlando O Tampa a M Miami N assa u mingham Birmin ming m Mobile Mo New New Orleans Jackso n Baton Rouge o Little Rock Memphis M M N as hvill e ouisville Lo ou Charleston sto C Sioux Falls o Cas sper s Cheye enne e De nv e r Colora rado ora o Sp Springs Sp s eg Winnipeg R egina Billi ngs He elena e Boise Boi Bois e S pokan e V ancouver attle Sea a Reno Reno Reno R R S Sa an Francisco a Francis Francis co F r es n o Los Los Angeles Los geles ngeles S Sa San Sa an Diego an o H ono l u l u Hilo H F banks Fairb b orage Anchorage A A Juneau eau enix Phoen eni Ph Ph cson Tuc c Las Las Las s Vegas s ke Salt Lak ak y City y Albuque uerque ue Santa Fe an e e L ubboc k El Paso o o F t . 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Temperature .............. –0.0°this month Avg. daily departure from normal ................ +2.8° Avg. daily departure from normal this year Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) ............... 76%Yesterday ............. 72%Est. normal Precipitation (in inches) ............... 0.89Yesterday .................... 4.35Record For the last 30 days ..................... 4.19Actual .................... 4.39Normal For the last 365 days ................... 40.61Actual .................. 49.92Normal LAST 30 DAYS Air pressure Humidity Heating Degree Days Trends ........... 29.95 1 a.m.High ............ 29.75 4 p.m.Low ........... 100% 7 a.m.High .............. 83% 1 a.m.Low An index of fuel consumption that tracks how far the day’s mean temperature fell below 65 Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation trends com p are with those of the last 30 y ears. ..................................................................... 2Yesterday ...................................................... 132So far this month .............................. 154So far this season (since July 1) ................................. 175Normal to date for the season Last 10 days 30 days 90 days 365 days Temperature Average Below Above Precipitation Average Below Above H L TODAY’S HIGHS FRONTS PRESSURE COLD HIGH LOW RAINSHOWERS ICEFLURRIES SNOWT-STORMSMOSTLY CLOUDY WARM STATIONARY COMPLEX COLD PRECIPITATION <0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Weather patterns shown as expected at noon today, Eastern time. Cities High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Expected conditions for today and tomorrow. C ....................... Clouds F ............................ Fog H .......................... Haze I............................... Ice PC ........... Partly cloudy R ........................... Rain Sh ................... Showers S .............................Sun Sn ....................... Snow SS ......... Snow showers T .......... Thunderstorms Tr ........................ Trace W ....................... Windy –.............. 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Wind will be mostly from the west at 7-14 knots. Waves will be 3-5 feet on the ocean and 1-2 feet on Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Visibility reduced in morning fog, then improving. Atlantic City ................. 11:57 a.m. .......................... --- Barnegat Inlet ............. 12:13 p.m. .......................... --- The Battery .................. 12:28 a.m. ............ 12:52 p.m. Beach Haven ................. 1:16 a.m. .............. 1:43 p.m. Bridgeport ..................... 3:26 a.m. .............. 3:48 p.m. City Island ...................... 3:23 a.m. .............. 3:40 p.m. Fire Island Lt. ............... 12:44 a.m. .............. 1:11 p.m. Montauk Point .............. 12:55 a.m. .............. 1:27 p.m. Northport ....................... 3:21 a.m. .............. 3:43 p.m. Port Washington ............ 3:09 a.m. .............. 3:26 p.m. Sandy Hook ................ 12:25 p.m. .......................... --- Shinnecock Inlet .......... 11:46 a.m. .......................... --- Stamford ........................ 3:29 a.m. .............. 3:51 p.m. Tarrytown ....................... 2:17 a.m. .............. 2:41 p.m. Willets Point ................... 3:20 a.m. .............. 3:37 p.m. High Tides New York City 65/ 61 0.89 Metropolitan Forecast TODAY ...........................Partly sunny, breezy High 69. The recent cold front will move to the east, and a flow of dry air from the west will follow. The result will be a mostly dry and mild day throughout the region, with periodic sunshine and moderate breezes. TONIGHT ....................................Partly cloudy Low 49. The air will turn cooler as the front moves farther away. The night will be part- ly cloudy, and there will be light to gentle breezes from the west. TOMORROW .................Mostly sunny, breezy High 64. A west to northwest flow of air will result in a cooler day throughout the region. It will remain dry, with sunshine and a few clouds, along with moderate breezes. MONDAY .............................Sunshine, milder A large area of high pressure will move into the region, bringing an abundance of sunshine, with light to gentle breezes. The afternoon will be slightly milder. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY ................Sunshine and clouds A warmer weather pattern will set up as high pressure settles off the Middle Atlan- tic Coast. There will be sunshine and a few clouds, with highs of 70 degrees on both days. Western and northern areas will be rather cloudy and chilly, with a few showers. Far- ther south and east, the weather will be mostly dry and mild, with occasional sun- shine after periods of morning fog. Clouds and showers will persist tomorrow in west- ern and northern New York and northern New England. A weakened storm system moving through southern Canada will bring chilly rain from the eastern Great Lakes through western New England today. Rain will con- tinue to fall across parts of Maine and Newfoundland, while drier conditions move into the upper Midwest. High pressure on the southern side of this storm will lead to dry and pleasant conditions from the Gulf Coast through much of the Plains. Dry weather will also remain in place over the Desert South- west, while clouds and showers affect the Northwest and the northern Rockies. High-elevation snow will also fall in the Washington Cascades, mostly above 3,000 feet. Travelers heading through the mountain passes in the Cascades may ex- perience detours and delays. By TONY GERVINO MINNEAPOLIS — It was a Saturday night in early October, and the temperature was be- low freezing. A half-hour before team cur- few, Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings’ punter and an unlikely voice of the national debate on same-sex marriage, was polishing off a family-size box of Gobstopper candy, re- luctant to leave band practice. Earlier, while driving to rehearsal at a wasp- infested warehouse in a dicey north Minneapolis neighborhood, Kluwe said, “Football is what I do for a living, but it’s not even remotely who I am.” Despite the unseasonably frigid air, he wore a World of Warcraft baseball cap backward, a Nice Vibe T-shirt, low-slung jeans and sandals. “I only wear shoes when it’s absolutely neces- sary,” said Kluwe, who grew up in California. “Oth- erwise, it’s sandals or, when I’m forced to, boots.” Kluwe might look to some like an undercover cop trying to pass as a college student. He fits right in. His bandmates in Tripping Icarus — an energet- ic four-piece rock group that Kluwe was enlisted to join mainly because of his prowess on the video game Guitar Hero (true story) — ended the session with a typical flurry of insults. They seized on Kluwe’s recent shirtless photos in a magazine and his decidedly uneven singing voice. A scruffy- haired 30-year-old, he took it in stride and grinned, his mouth filled with sugar. When he is under assault, Kluwe is clearly in his element. In late August, the Maryland state delegate Emmett C. Burns Jr. wrote to the Baltimore Rav- ens’ owner, Steve Bisciotti, urging him to silence linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo. Ayanbadejo had been supporting the state’s Civil Marriage Protec- tion Act, which will allow gay couples to obtain a civil marriage license beginning Jan. 1 if it passes a Nov. 6 referendum. Burns asked Bisciotti to “inhibit such expressions from your employee and that he be ordered to cease and desist such injurious ac- tions.” “I know of no other N.F.L. player who has done what Mr. Ayambadejo is doing,” Burns wrote, mis- spelling Ayanbadejo’s surname. Nine days later, at 11:30 p.m. in the master bed- room of the modest Savage, Minn., home that Kluwe shares with his wife, Isabel, and daughters, Olivia, 4, and Remy, 2, Kluwe came across Burns’s dispatch while surfing the Web. “So I’m lying in bed, and I keep thinking over and over about this letter, and I’m like, ‘I can’t fall asleep,’” he recalled. “I have to write something.” So he pulled off the covers, turned on his Mac- Book Pro and spent less than an hour composing a response to Burns that was published on Dead- spin.com and lifted Kluwe off the sports pages and into the national conversation about the rights of ‘It was funny because it felt like a sign of the apocalypse that Rush Limbaugh and whoever it was from the far left end of the spectrum were both congratulating me. Are pigs flying overhead now?’ CHRIS KLUWE, the Minnesota Vikings punter and unlikely voice of the national debate on same-sex marriage Chris Kluwe rehearsing in Minneapolis with the rock band Tripping Icarus, above, and punting for the Minnesota Vikings, below left. The Punter Makes His Point Vikings’ Kluwe Lands in Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage Continued on Page D5 BELOW LEFT, ANDY KING/GETTY IMAGES; ABOVE, STEPHEN MATUREN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ØØ N D1 SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 The Playoffs In 2006, after the first flameout in De- troit, while enjoying the honking horns in the mostly abandoned downtown, I wrote that the Yankees had descended to organizational complacency: “As of now, the Yankees are officially the Atlanta Braves. They have a nice little season. They qualify for the playoffs. And then bad stuff happens to them.” That was two flameouts ago in De- troit. Watching a beleaguered city, giv- en hope from the federal investment in the auto industry, celebrate a rare vic- tory in anything, it is hard to keep a straight face, if you love underdogs. As for what has befallen the Yankees, it seems to be the predestination of an old-fashioned children’s fable — the prince or princess haunted by a fatal prediction: If you sip from the magic potion, you may enjoy the bloom of youth. But nev- er forget that someday the dark angel will return and claim his percentage. The curse, if you will, of the Yankees has been the rush to acquire Alex Rodri- guez from Texas for the 2004 season, a continuation of the Steinbrenner Fatal Flaw — the Yankees cannot stop over- paying for aging sluggers and pitchers. This flameout has been coming on a long time. A-Rod was clearly on the make in Seattle, although he insisted his departure to Texas was not about money. This led one sainted sports col- umnist of that epoch to nickname him Pay-Rod, a nickname he, oddly enough, has never much cared for. In his perambulations, Rodriguez has been able to live large. His current man- sion in Miami is listed for $38 million. But now the curse has come due. Rod- riguez is 37, and cannot hit righties. Come to think of it, he can’t hit lefties, either. Original Sin is catching up to the Yankees. They reaped one champion- ship with him, in 2009 — and yes it was a joyous time, and yes he contributed. Are A-Rod’s chemical adventures catching up with him? This is no 0-for-21 slump suffered by Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952. Hodges was still only 28 when he started going oh- fer against the Yankees, but Manager Yankees’ Old Ways Catch Up With Them MICHAEL APPLETON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Outside Yankee Stadium, a day after the Yankees were swept by the Detroit Tigers in the A.L.C.S., a reminder of one of the team’s major investments. Continued on Page D2 GEORGE VECSEY SPORTS OF THE TIMES By TIM ROHAN On the rare occasion when Bill Sny- der would stop working and be able to spend time with his children Sean, Shannon and Meredith, he would tell them stories about his mother. How she had raised him herself in their downtown, one-bedroom apart- ment in St. Joseph, Mo. How she had worked at a department store to be able to send him to college. How she had thrown herself — all 4 feet 9 inches — in front of the door when he tried to leave without permission. Or how he had broken curfew when his divorced father bought him a con- vertible for his 16th birthday, and how she had told his father, “Either you come and get the car, or I’m going to drive it in the river.” Some weekends,he went to see his fa- ther three hours away, but he grew to be his mother’s son: accountable, consis- tent, meticulous. Even obsessive. Every detail mattered. If any little thing was left undone, he came to believe,there would be consequences. Now 73, Snyder, the patriarchal Kan- sas State football coach, has his Wild- cats (6-0) ranked No. 4,wringing the most out of their talent as they travel to face No. 17 West Virginia on Saturday. It is what he does. Now in his 21st season in Manhattan, Kan., Snyder has rescued perhaps the nation’s worst major-col- lege program, retired, returned and has now done it again. His secret is in the details. This he taught to his oldest child, Sean. So when Snyder retires again — the decision of when that happens will almost assuredly be his — he will rec- ommend his son as his successor, he says. But for some time, Sean had longed not to succeed his father, but simply to know him better. Snyder worked 16- Coach Bill Snyder, 73, and No. 4 Kansas State are unbeaten heading into Satur- day’s game against No. 17 West Virginia. South Carolina’s kicker is hard to miss on a football field. He’s the only player wearing glasses. Page D4. Landon Ard, Bespectacled Kicker Sharing a Family Bond Off and On the Field Continued on Page D4 ORLIN WAGNER/ASSOCIATED PRESS With a 5-0 win, the Giants closed the gap in their series with the Cardinals to three games to two. Page D3. Giants Stay Alive In N.L.C.S. 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KNICKS (PRESEASON) BOSTON 7:30 p.m. MSG PHILADELPHIA 7 p.m. MSG NETS† 7:30 p.m. MSG TV Highlights More listings are at tvlistings.nytimes.com, under the Sports-Events category. WASHINGTON GIANTS 1 P.M., SUNDAY FOX NEW ENGLAND JETS 4:30 P.M., SUNDAY CBS KANSAS CITY RED BULLS 7 P.M., SATURDAY MSG NETS (PRESEASON) KNICKS† 7:30 p.m. MSG By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN In 2003, Ramon Santiago of the Detroit Tigers was the worst of- fensive player on one of the worst teams that had ever played the game. In 2012, he sat on the bench and watched his team eliminate the Yankees in the American League Championship Series. In his unlikely journey, Santia- go has been a member of the three Tigers teams that eliminat- ed the Yankees from the playoffs over the last seven seasons. The St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers are the only other teams to eliminate the Yan- kees three times in the playoffs, and it took them a lot longer than it did Detroit. But then again, those clubs never had Santiago, a utility infielder and emerging good luck charm with 11 seasons in the major leagues. Justin Verlander, perhaps the best pitcher in baseball, is the only other current Tiger to have been around in 2006, when De- troit bounced the Yankees out of the playoffs in four games in the first round, and in 2011, when the Tigers did it again, this time in five. But only Santiago goes back to the 2003 club that went 43-119, needing a win on the final day to avoid joining the 1962 Mets as the only 120-loss teams of the modern era. As the starting shortstop for that team, Santiago hit .225 and his on-base plus slugging per- centage, when adjusted for his home field, was 41 percent below the league average. He barely edged teammate Brandon Inge, then a catcher, who was 36 per- cent below average. Santiago, 33,briefly left the Ti- gers after the 2003 season (could you blame him?),spending 2004 and 2005 with the Seattle Mari- ners. But he has been back in De- troit since the beginning of 2006, playing a utility role for the Ti- gers and only once topping 300 at-bats. This season he hit .206 in 228 at-bats, spending time at sec- ond base, shortstop, third base and, amusingly, designated hit- ter. His versatility led to a spot on the postseason roster, although he did not bat in either the divi- sion series against Oakland or the just-completed A.L.C.S. Santiago has been asked to do little this October, but Verlander did not do much against the Yan- kees in the postseason before this past week, when he pitched a dominant Game 3, allowing one run in eight and a third innings. In his three previous postseason starts against the Yankees, in 2006 and 2011, Verlander allowed eight earned runs in 14·innings for a 5.02 earned run average, with one of those starts ending after one inning when rain began to fall. Proving the Tigers have the Yankees’ number, Detroit still won two of those three games. If the Tigers win the World Se- ries this season, it is not likely that Santiago’s baseball prowess will be what gets them there.But at this point,having been frus- trated by the Tigers over and over again, the Yankees may start viewing Santiago, a .245 ca- reer hitter,as some kind of Babe Ruth in reverse.The Curse of the Bambino has now been supplant- ed by the Curse of the Santiago. KEEPING SCORE Third Time Shows Santiago May Be the Charm TANNEN MAURY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Ramon Santiago, center, and Justin Verlander are the only Ti- gers to celebrate three postseason eliminations of the Yankees. Chuck Dressen started him in all seven games. That was a different age. For one thing, Hodges was already a Brooklyn icon, and fans sent reli- gious objects to him. (Joan Hodg- es’s home in Brooklyn still has a trunk full of Mass cards and rosa- ry beads.) Today, fans post vile or spurious Twitter comments rath- er than pray. Hodges also did not have a huge salary on his shoul- ders as do A-Rod and all the oth- er becalmed Yankees sluggers. Besides, the World Series was a sun-spangled event, with no wild-card rounds or division rounds or championship rounds, and there was hardly time for a pattern to develop. Good pitching and solid role players have usu- ally come to the fore in the post- season. With all due respect to Joe Girardi, his mass benching of key players might have looked like panic within the Yankees clubhouse. Still, all dynasties fade, by defi- nition. Players fall apart. Derek Jeter’s ankle snapped making a play he has made a zillion times. Mariano Rivera fell apart jogging for a fly before a game. Willie Mays was hired to be a mascot, Mr. Met, and found himself stum- bling on the bases in the 1973 World Series. This A-Rod inevitability has been a long time coming. Now he has a contract for five more years and is owed $114 million. This impasse is straight out of mythology. The Yankees ignored the warning signs, the one fact the organization should have known. But there is no guaran- teeing institutional memory. Somebody always has a better idea. It could be argued that the golden age of the entire Yankees franchise was from 1995 through 2000, when they won four World Series and just missed twice — as deep and home-built and funda- mentally sound as this organiza- tion has ever been. The five cornerstones were Ri- vera, Jeter, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte, and they stayed together because wicked King George was ban- ished to the tower at a crucial time, allowing Gene Michael to hold on to the prizes the organi- zation had wisely cultivated. No prodigal sons in the grand era, at least until Pettitte was shunned for a while. What separated the Yankees from the eminently respectable Braves and other challengers was huge New York cable money — put in the hands of a terrific baseball executive, Michael, who was unencumbered by the Boss and his Kooky Kollege of Kollabo- rators. Brian Cashman, the team’s current general manager, re- ferred Thursday to Michael’s “big, hairy monster” theory: go after lefty hitters with patience and power. Once the Yankees pursued A-Rod for the 2004 season, they became the flawed suitor in the nursery tale. These stories al- ways have three wishes or three chances or three-strikes-you’re- out. The funny part is that the curse struck the Yankees three times against the same team within seven seasons. In 2006, Rodriguez was in such a slump that Manager Joe Torre dropped him to eighth in the line- up. I can remember the shock of the Yankees’ going down so ear- ly; Torre was close to tears. At that point, it seemed that one of them had to go, but Torre sol- diered on, and so did A-Rod. And with its own not-insub- stantial cable money, the Tigers organization has accumulated a team with Miguel Cabrera, Prince Fielder and Justin Verlan- der, and invaluable role players who recall the era of Girardi, Scott Brosius and Paul O’Neill. Don’t believe in spells? The Yankees have won exactly one World Series in nine seasons with A-Rod. They are not a dynasty anymore. But maybe there are no dynasties. Since Luis Sojo — little guys tend to do huge things in the World Series (see: Martin, Billy) — dribbled a hit up the middle in the fifth and final game of 2000, there have been nine different champions in the past 11 Series. I don’t know about you, but I revel in reciting this list from 2001 onward — Arizona, Anaheim, Florida, Boston, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis, Boston, Philadel- phia, Yankees, San Francisco, St. Louis. A lot of happy people in a lot of different towns. True, the four teams in the league championship series this year were the franchise with the highest payroll (Yankees) and the ones with the fifth (Tigers), eighth (Giants) and ninth highest (Cardinals). But what makes this postseason so delightful is that the Galácticos (the soccer term for expensive all-stars) of Phila- delphia, Boston and the Los An- geles Angels failed to make the postseason at all. They couldn’t even slip into the little wild-card gimmick initiated this year, which, as some wordsmith said in a different context, was “a sketchy deal.” Meantime, heartwarming things were happening in Oak- land and Baltimore, although both outsiders eventually lost in authentic best-of-five series. All this democracy is good. And seems to be a trend. As Tyler Kepner pointed out recently, sound management still counts, particularly in the know-thyself regime of the DeWitt family and the smart folks hired to run the Cardinals. The real disgrace is the Yan- kees — with their payroll of $197 million — flopping around like 42- year-old Willie Mays. Just as in the nursery tales, the Yankees made their deal with the Fates. Inevitably, that deal has turned out to be, as the fella said, sketchy. Yankees’ Old Ways Catch Up With Them From First Sports Page By DAVID WALDSTEIN When the Yankees lost the 1981 World Series to the Dodgers, George Steinbrenner issued an apology to New York City for the team’s performance. He vowed significant changes for 1982. The Yankees, though,finished fifth in the American League East with a 79-83 record and did not re- turn to the playoffs for the next 14 years. Perhaps an overreaction to Game 6 — days after Steinbren- ner claimed to have fought with two Dodgers fans in a hotel eleva- tor in Los Angeles — proved more costly than the loss itself. Steinbrenner’s son Hal, the managing general partner of the team, is far less impulsive than his father.Despite the public out- cry following a humiliating four- game sweep by the Detroit Tigers in the American League Champi- onship Series, Hal Steinbrenner took a longer view of the 2012 sea- son, saying he was proud of a team that fought through injuries to earn the best record in the league and finish among the final four teams in the postseason. “We fell short of our singular and constant goal, which is a World Series championship,” he said Friday in a statement. “How- ever, I am proud of the accom- plishments of this year’s team.” But Steinbrenner, who thanked the fans for their passionate sup- port, also recognized their dismay over how feebly the team played in its final four games. The Yan- kees hit .157 in the series, scored 6 runs and were swept for the first time in 37 playoff series dating back to 1980. They were last swept in a best-of-seven series in 1976, by Cincinnati. “Make no mistake:this was a bitter end to our year,” the state- ment said, “and we fully intend to examine our season in its totality, assess all of our strengths and weaknesses and take the neces- sary steps needed to maintain our sole focus of winning the World Series in 2013. Great teams — and organizations — use disappoint- ment as a motivation for future improvements and success. In the days, weeks and months ahead, we plan to do what’s necessary to return this franchise to the World Series. “Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. My family — and our organization — has a long-stand- ing commitment to provide all of our fans a championship-caliber team year after year.” Although not the direct, em- phatic apology of his father in 1981, it expressed more urgency than his statement a year ago af- ter the Yankees were eliminated by the Tigers in the first round. “I personally share in our fans’ disappointment that this season has ended without a champion- ship,” the 2011 statement said. “This disappointment will strengthen our resolve to field a team in 2012 that can bring a 28th championship to the Bronx.” Even George Steinbrenner’s statements mellowed in the years following the championship run from 1996 to 2000, although their tone seemed to fluctuate annu- ally. With those four rings in his pocket,Steinbrenner was more forgiving — especially after a first-round loss in 2002 to the An- gels, whose owner, Gene Autry, Steinbrenner greatly admired. Indeed, his statement that year was downright lyrical. “Will there be changes?” it asked. “Of course. But will these changes be made arbitrarily or unilaterally by me? Absolutely not. “There is an old Scottish prov- erb that says, ‘I am wounded but I am not slain. I shall lay me down and bleed a while, then I shall rise and fight again.’ That should be the feeling of all of the Yankees to- day.” But two years later, following perhaps the most agonizing of all Yankee exits, Steinbrenner did not hold such a romantic view.In 2004 the Yankees became the first team to blow a 3-0 lead in a seven- game series, and to the hated Red Sox, no less. The statement issued by Steinbrenner that year was a terse masterpiece of passive-ag- gressive understatement. “I want to congratulate the Boston team,” it read. “They did very well. They have a great team.” A year later, Steinbrenner was engaged in a simmering feud with his manager,Joe Torre, as re- flected in public statements that needled him. His statement fol- lowing the Yankees’ first-round loss to the Angels contained a line praising their skipper, Mike Scios- cia, which was perceived by many as a subtle shot at Torre. “I congratulate the Angels and their manager on the great job they’ve done,” the statement said. “Our team played hard, but we let our fans down.” He was even more pointed in 2006, when the Yankees were ousted in the first round by the Ti- gers. Doing little to conceal his anger, Steinbrenner issued a statement that said in part: “Rest assured, we will go back to work immediately and try to right this sad failure.” Nothing approximating “sad failure” was in Friday’s state- ment.But Hal Steinbrenner touched on a standard theme found in almost every statement after a Yankee campaign that doesn’t end with a parade. “We may have fallen short yes- terday,but we never feel sorry for ourselves and never make ex- cuses,” he said.“We already are beginning the process to find a way to win our 28th world cham- pionship.” VINCENT LAFORET/THE NEW YORK TIMES Boston’s comeback in 2004 drew a tersely pointed statement from George Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ managing general partner. Statement Suggests There Is Only Heck to Pay DUANE BURLESON/ASSOCIATED PRESS From left, Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi and Alex Rodriguez in the final inning of the Yankees’ loss to Detroit in a 2006 divi- sion series, which prompted Steinbrenner to declare,“We will go back to work immediately and try to right this sad failure.” In 1981, after saying he had fought with Dodgers fans, Steinbren- ner, left,apologized to New York for a World Series loss. ASSOCIATED PRESS ØØ N D3 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 By BILL MORRIS Detroit had earned its hang- over — the Tigers pulling off a sweep of the Yankees on Thurs- day to win their 11th American League pennant — so I left the slumbering city early Friday and hit the road home to New York. Soon after I got around Toledo and turned east on the Ohio Turn- pike, I came to a realization about this insanely important swing state: it’s so flat and so boring that driving across it gives your mind a chance to roam. And mine was way off the leash. Through my ancient Mazda’s cracked windshield, I kept seeing vivid snapshots of my three whirlwind days in the Motor City. Odd to say, but one of the most memorable days was Wednes- day, when Game 4 was scheduled but no game was played. It proved to be a great day for con- spiracy theorists. I arrived at the ballpark late, detained by a fat Dominican ci- gar and a much fatter raconteur at a downtown saloon. “It’s a myth that Dick the Bruiser beat the tar out of Alex Karras at the Lindell A.C.,” he told me with iron conviction, disputing some- thing I had reported as fact in this newspaper. “Never hap- pened!” Chastened, I quit the saloon. The game should have been half an hour old by the time I ap- proached the turnstiles at Comer- ica Park, but the packed stadium, usually a house of bedlam, was eerily quiet. I turned to a guy standing next to the big statue of the tiger and asked what was up. “Rain delay,” replied Terry Franconi, who had come to the game carrying a broom — a goad for the Tigers to turn their 3-0 lead into a four-game sweep. Alas, brooms were banned from the ball yard. Besides, Franconi didn’t have a ticket. “But it’s not raining,” I said. “They say it’s going to.” Then he offered a prediction that had nothing to do with the weather: “I honestly don’t think the Tigers are going to win tonight because there’s too much money to be lost if they sweep. The umps and refs know how to make it a close game.” It wasn’t raining inside the park either, but I heard people talking about a big storm that was to the west and closing in fast. Half an hour passed, an hour, an hour and a half — and still no rain. It was like being trapped inside a jampacked keg party with 43,000 guests, every- one getting hammered because there was nothing else to do. I no- ticed that the grounds crew hadn’t even pulled the tarp over the infield dirt, despite that big bad storm that was supposed to be on its way. Strange. I started thinking about how much money the concession stands were mak- ing, and that got me thinking about Terry Franconi’s remarks. Maybe some kind of fix really was on. Finally, the rain started to fall two hours after the first pitch was supposed to be thrown — plenty of time to get in most of a game — and the tarp came out and the fans went home. It was a first for me: a two-hour rain delay with- out any rain. After the nongame, I went to a different saloon and bumped into Brian McGuire, who works as something called a search engine marketing analyst for a Detroit advertising agency. “I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist,” he told me, “but I think the powers that be knew this game wasn’t going to happen. The interest is in money — the chance for advertising, market- ing, alcohol sales. Let’s milk the cow, then put her to bed and milk her again tomorrow. It’s capital- ism.” All these dark theories became moot the following day, when sunshine drenched the field and Game 4 started on schedule a lit- tle after 4 p.m. As I gazed out at the emerald outfield, I had to ad- mit that I, like many old-school- ers before me, had been utterly seduced by Comerica Park, which opened in 2000, replacing Tiger Stadium, the charming old dowager where I grew up watch- ing baseball and football games. They tore the place down in 2008, breaking many hearts. One such heart belonged to Tom Derry, a postal worker who formed a crew to maintain the former playing field and the vast prairie at the legendary corner of Michigan and Trumbull. Derry and I interrupted a game of pick- up baseball so I could snap a pic- ture of him standing on home plate, the original flagpole visible in the distance, where it has stood since 1912 — on what used to be the center-field warning track, in fair territory. Vaughn Derderian Sr. was not among the brokenhearted. Cur- rent patriarch of a family that has been in the bar business in down- town Detroit since the 1920s, he offered the sacrilegious opinion that Tiger Stadium, with all of its view-blocking girders, was a “dump.” Even Loren D. Estle- man, a fellow old-schooler and a prolific author of western and crime fiction, much of it set in De- troit, conceded that the new ball- park had beguiled him. “The only bad thing is that they named it af- ter a damned bank,” he said. “But that’s the way the world’s going.” The snapshots kept coming as I crossed Ohio. There was Lamarr Webb, the sweet-na- tured, hardworking beer vendor who passed a sunny afternoon with me on his front porch, telling stories. There was the vertigo-in- ducing view straight down on the ballpark from the 34th floor of the nearby Broderick Tower, which is being converted into a luxury apartment building. If the people who rent apartments on that side of the building are baseball fans, they’ll be living in heaven. After the Tigers completed the sweep on Thursday evening, the streets around the stadium were blasting music by Diana Ross, Bob Seger, the White Stripes. The throngs were ecstatic but orderly. No burning cars. No ugliness that I could see. Finally, I made my way down to the Tigers’ clubhouse. I could smell the perfume from 50 yards away. Then I stepped into the roomand saw it: cigar smoke so blue and so thick you couldn’t have cut it with a chain saw. For the most part, the players had stopped spraying the alcohol-free champagne and were popping corks on the real thing: Dom Pérignon. Nothing could kill this eupho- ria. When teammates gave the star pitcher Justin Verlander a refreshing ice-water shower, he just laughed and laughed and laughed. Then he relit his cigar and kept on puffing. ESSAY Whiffs of Conspiracy and Victory PHOTOGRAPHS BY BILL MORRIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Pitcher Justin Verlander received an ice-water shower from teammates after the Tigers won the A.L.pennant, top.Tom Derry, above,helps maintain the former site of Tiger Stadium. A rain delay with no rain could not quell Detroit’s joy. Bill Morris grew up in Detroit in the 1950s and ’60s. He is the au- thor of the novels “Motor City” and “All Souls’ Day,” and has fin- ished another, “Vic #43,” set dur- ing the 1967 Detroit riot and the Tigers’ 1968 championship sea- son. BAS E BA L L P L AYO F F S C HA MP I O NS HI P S E R I E S By ANDREW KEH ST. LOUIS — The San Francis- co Giants have secured another two days to dream, another trip home, and another opportunity to conjure more of the unthink- able magic that has pro- pelled them this far. Facing elimination in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series on Friday night, the Gi- ants beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-0,following the lead of Barry Zito, whose gutsy and sparkling pitching performance stunned and silenced a capacity crowd at Busch Stadium. Once already this October the Giants achieved the near impos- sible, winning three straight games away from home to over- come a 2-0 deficit against the Cincinnati Reds in the division series. Now, trailing in this se- ries by three games to two, they head back to AT&T Park for Game 6 on Sunday night. “I’m happy for the team,” Zito said, “and I’m happy the fans get to see us back at AT&T Park.” At home, the Giants will send Ryan Vogelsong, who pitched seven strong innings during their Game 2 win, to the mound for Game 6. Should they force a Game 7, the ball would go to Matt Cain. They are still the un- derdog, but they have been here before.   “Our backs are against the wall, and there is no tomorrow,” outfielder Hunter Pence said. “We’re not here to fall and fold. We got here because we’re going to fight.” Zito, 34, produced the most significant performance of a stir- ring bounce-back season. Zito, who won nine games in 2010 — and was left off the playoff roster as the team won the World Se- ries — and only three during an injury-plagued 2011, recorded 15 regular-season victories this year. The Giants have not lost a game started by Zito since Aug. 2. “You’ve got to be professional and you can’t pout,” Zito said of his struggles. “I worked on a lot of stuff during the off-season and came back stronger for it.” As Zito thrived, Cardinals starter Lance Lynn was knocked out after just three and two- thirds innings for the second time this series. His outing Fri- day was uncannily similar to his Game 1 start, when he no-hit the Giants through the first three in- nings before falling apart in the fourth. Lynn opened the fourth Friday by allowing a pair of singles. One out later, Pence hit a potential double-play ball to the mound. But Lynn’s throw was so low it bounced off the front of the sec- ond-base bag and into center field, and the error let Marco Scutaro race home from second. “A good throw there and we’re out of the inning,” Lynn said. “I just short-armed it a little bit. I could have gotten myself out of an inning. It was definitely my fault.” One out after that, he walked Gregor Blanco, loading the bas- es, before Brandon Crawford slapped a sharp single to center, scoring two. The misery contin- ued, and Lynn’s night ended, when Zito pushed a bunt single down the third-base line, making the score 4-0. The Cardinals could not inflict similar damage on Zito, though they had chances early on. Like Lynn, Zito was trying to bounce back from a poor showing during his last start, a two and two-third innings outing in Game 5 of the division series. He vowed to be more aggressive this time, and he was, more through precision than force. Employing a curveball that looped in as slowly as 71 miles an hour and a fastball that maxed out at 85, Zito left a runner on second in the first, got an inning- ending double play to escape a bases-loaded jam in the second, and escaped the fourth un- scathed after allowing a leadoff double to Allen Craig. “I was just living pitch to pitch, moment to moment,” Zito said. “Looking back on it, things work out.” Zito said he regretted how nit- picky he was in his last start, when he gave up four walks. On Friday, the only walk he had was intentional. He left the game in the eighth after allowing six hits and recording six strikeouts, and his 115 pitches were the most he has thrown since August 2010. “I don’t know how many times we needed to win this year, he found a way to get it done for us,” Manager Bruce Bochy said. The Cardinals’ offense had re- ceived a pregame lift when out- fielder Carlos Beltran was pen- ciled into their starting lineup. Beltran, who entered Friday bat- ting .400 this postseason with three home runs, strained his left knee during Game 3 and missed Game 4. But it was the Giants’ offense that hummed, and Pablo Sando- val pounded a solo home run off Mitchell Boggs in the eighth, giving the Giants a five-run cushion. That quieted the St. Louis fans to near silence and stamped the Giants’ ticket home for a reunion with their own. JOHN GRESS/REUTERS The Giants’ Hunter Pence made a sliding catch in the fifth inning.“We’re not here to fall and fold,” Pence said. “We got here because we’re going to fight.” The Giants will host Game 6 on Sunday. Zito Baffles Cardinals and Gives Giants Hope for Another Comeback GIANTS 5 CARDINALS 0 St. Louis leads series, 3-2 San Francisco was in a similar situation against the Reds. D4 Ø N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 C O L L E G E F O OT BA L L Crucial conference showdowns abound on Saturday, mainly in the Southeastern and Big 12 con- ferences, including a brunch-time start to kick off the action. UP AND AT ’EM What is the oppo- site of the bacchanalia that is a night game in Death Valley? How about an 11 a.m. kickoff in College Station,Tex.,with reveille still echoing over the Corps of Ca- dets? After beating South Caroli- na at home to revive its Bowl Championship Series hopes, No. 6 Louisiana State will try to slow No. 20 Texas A&M’s Johnny Man- ziel. Manziel, a freshman quar- terback,thrust himself into the Heisman Trophy discussion after a 59-57 victory over Louisiana Tech last week,throwing for 395 yards and 3 touchdowns and rushing for 181 yards and 3 more scores. Can Manziel’s improvisa- tional schoolyard style pierce the tough Tigers defense that suffo- cated previously unbeaten South Carolina last Saturday? L.S.U. seems to have found its own play- maker in the freshman running back Jeremy Hill. He will try to avoid Aggies defensive end Da- montre Moore, who leads the SEC in sacks and in tackles for loss. SWAMP SHOWDOWN Steve Spur- rier returns to his old Swamping grounds to find No. 3 Florida back in the rarefied rankings air for the first time since Tim Tebow left Gainesville to pursue a ca- reer as a meme. With Jeff Driskel at quarterback, the Gators are even more reliant on a power running game than when Tebow was at the helm, and No. 9 South Carolina proved vulnerable to the ground and pound against L.S.U., surrendering 258 yards rushing. Three starters from Florida’s re- spected offensive line are back from injury to tangle with the Gamecocks’ suddenly less cock- sure defensive front, and the game plan is sure to feature run- ning back Mike Gillislee, who is averaging 102.5 yards per game. South Carolina’s feature back, Marcus Lattimore, has a bruised hip and may not start. K-STATE OF MIND Speaking of Tebow — because all football writers are legally bound to do so —No. 4 Kansas State has a rea- sonable facsimile, Collin Klein, who is battering defenses with his 228-pound frame, rushing for 86 yards a game and 10 touch- downs this season. The Wildcats venture to Morgantown to face No. 17 West Virginia and its de- fense constructed of gossamer. The unit, ranked 117th in yards al- lowed, seems unlikely to slow Klein and K-State’s sledgeham- mer attack, so quarterback Geno Smith will need to recapture his Heisman-caliber form for the Mountaineers to win. TANGLE IN TEXAS Back in the days of the Southwest Confer- ence, Texas Tech and Texas Christian loathed each other. That feeling has been rekindled in the Big 12. The 18th-ranked Red Raiders were allergic to tackling last season, but they are fourth in total defense nationally this season, and they embar- rassed West Virginia last Satur- day. T.C.U., unranked at 5-1,an- nually hangs its Stetson on a strong defense and is surrender- ing just 14.5 points per game. Tex- as Tech seems to have the edge at quarterback. Seth Doege has been impressive — 21 touchdown passes in 6 games —while the Frogs are relying on the fresh- man Trevone Boykin after Casey Pachall was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated. But the last four times Tech has beat- en a ranked team, it has lost its next game, and the Frogs have won 28 of 30 in Fort Worth. ROBERT WEINTRAUB MATCHUPS SAM GREENWOOD/GETTY IMAGES Florida’s Mike Gillislee is av- eraging 102.5 yards rushing. hour days as a young coach un- der Hayden Fry at North Texas. That earned him a job at Iowa when Fry went there in 1979. That pace also earned Snyder a divorce. He had not been around much at home, sometimes wak- ing up the children at night to play with them. In their home’s narrow hall- way, he taught Sean how to carry a football and how to tackle. Then at Iowa, Snyder mostly saw Sean and his sisters each summer. The first thing he asked about was school. He never yelled, never swore, never raised his voice, but if their grades had slipped, he checked their progress nightly come fall. Those summers, Sean watched his father.He wondered: Why the act? Why the discipline? Why the work? A soccer player, Sean joined his high school football team to punt, to make it to Iowa, to an- swer all of the whys. “If you want to punt, then how are you going to be good at it?” Snyder asked, making his son plan, strategize and set goals. This was a lesson; Snyder raised his children the way he coached his players.Sean learned to punt on his own and earned a schol- arship to Iowa in 1988. “Coming from a divorced fam- ily, to me, to be whole and fill ev- erything out, there was a lot of areas I needed to learn,” Sean said, adding,“I needed to be around him to learn those things and understand a lot of previous years and put it together.” After Sean’s freshman year, Kansas State interviewed his fa- ther for its head coaching posi- tion. No Division I team in the sport’s history had lost more games. The Wildcats played “home” games at Oklahoma and Nebraska, where their oppo- nents’ fan bases would buy tick- ets and generate more revenue. Steve Miller, then the athletic director,interviewed 18 other candidates, but only Snyder had a patient, long-term plan, and a calm, knowing presence. He was hired, and in his first meeting with the team, address- ing a group of players who had never played in a game Kansas State won, he explained his rules: no “ear screws” — his word for earrings — no foul language, no being late. At one point, a schol- arship player stood up and left the room. Snyder continued. They would wear blazers and ties on trips. They would practice Sundays at 8 a.m., so they should spend their Saturday evenings accordingly. They would act like gentlemen. Sean joined his father in 1990, after being benched during his sophomore season.He moved with his wife and daughter to Manhattan, about two hours west of Kansas City, but his father made himwalk on, because, Sny- der said, “I wanted him to grow up and be able to take care of himself.” By Sean’s senior year, he had earned a scholarship and was an all-American punter. He returned to Kansas State as a part-time as- sistant coach in 1994. By the time he became the director of football operations in 1996,the whys about his father had been an- swered,and the Wildcats’ pro- gram had been jump-started. To overcome the losing, to build a powerhouse in the heart of Kansas, Snyder spent uncount- able hours studying film. He re- cruited junior college players and gave opportunities to walk-ons. “He sort of runs an orphan- age,” said Mark Janssen, who co- wrote a book with Snyder. The trend started in 1997 when the athletic Michael Bishop trans- ferred to Kansas State because Snyder let him play quarterback. In one-on-one film sessions, they watched the same play hun- dreds of times, Bishop said. This went on for hours until Bishop, who would go on to be a Heisman Trophy finalist, excused himself for a bathroom break.That re- lentlessness helped the Wildcats win 11 games in six of the next seven seasons. He bounced ideas off Sean, who handled off-the-field issues — from the budget, to travel, to personnel. Sean shared his fa- ther’s nose, lighter hair and now his work ethic. Snyder said of his son: “I think he’s the only individual, other than myself, that really under- stands the totality of what the Kansas State program is all about.” But Sean often made it home for dinner, and sometimes he sneaked out to have lunch with his wife. “In all the good ways, Sean is a miniature Bill,” his sis- ter Shannon said. Snyder’s teams eventually sputtered, winning four games in 2004 and five in 2005. He retired and for three years he attended his grandchildren’s activities. The highway from the inter- state to campus was named after him. The stadium was called Bill Snyder Family Stadium.But Ron Price, Snyder’s replacement, was not Bill Snyder. Details were missed, said Sean, who had stayed with the program. Imagine Alabama without Bear Bryant, if Alabama won 66 percent of its games with him and less than 36 percent without him. Snyder was rehired in 2009 to fix the program again. He said he came back for the people. Last season, he promoted Sean to associate head coach. Snyder jokes that Sean’s con- tract requires him to bring his children to work. But Snyder’s family —he remarried while at Iowa and had two more children — says he is at ease these days, that he makes time. He says he is not slowing down. There is much that looks the same. Players run the stadium stairs every Wednesday morning as punishment for missing class. Fifty-seven players on the roster either walked on or came from a junior college. Snyder’s quarter- back, Collin Klein, is a dual threat and Heisman contender.Sean’s son, Tate, plays linebacker. “When we feel like the waters are smooth, and the program is secure, then I’ll get back on to do- ing some other things in my life,” Snyder said in a phone interview this week. Then, he will recom- mend Sean as his successor. “If I were to step down today, I certainly would,” he said, adding, “I think he’d be absolutely fan- tastic at it, but I wouldn’t encour- age him to take the job. “I’d rather see him live a more complete life than this.” At Kansas State, Sharing a Bond Off and On the Field From First Sports Page ORLIN WAGNER/ASSOCIATED PRESS Bill Snyder, talking to his team during a timeout, works closely with his son Sean, who is the associate head coach and director of football operations. SUE OGROCKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS Snyder with Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops after a 24-19 victory in Norman on Sept. 22. The Wildcats are 6-0 this season. By DAVE SEMINARA Landon Ard does not think he is the only football player who wears glasses on the field. But when asked to name another, Ard, a freshman kicker at South Carolina, was stumped. So were historians at the Pro and College Football Hall of Fames. That Ard wears eyeglasses is a distinction that has sometimes diverted attention from his strong leg to his poor eyesight. “They’re an easy target for trash-talking,” Ard said of his ti- tanium Flexon frames, which have a cord around the back to keep them in place. “But I love football more than anything,and I can’t give that up just because I wear glasses.” Ard has worn glasses since he was 15 months old. When he was 2, he had an operation to try to correct a condition called accom- modative esotropia, which refers to the crossing of the eyes.The surgery did not work,but his bi- focals correct the problem. His vision became a source of fascination last Saturday, when he entered the game in the clos- ing minutes of South Carolina’s loss to Louisiana State to attempt an onside kick. It was unsuc- cessful. His glasses prompted comments on Twitter, message boards and, days later, even from an ESPN N.F.L. analyst. The interest is understandable. As contact lenses and prescrip- tion sports goggles have prolifer- ated and the technology has im- proved, glasses have all but dis- appeared from the sporting land- scape. From the 1970s through 1990s, there were a host of promi- nent athletes who competed wearing prescription glasses, in- cluding the tennis stars Arthur Ashe and Martina Navratilova, baseball’s Reggie Jackson, the track great Edwin Moses and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kurt Ram- bis and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Even fringe sports figures —like the Hanson Brothers in hockey, a fictitious trio in the 1977 film “Slap Shot,” based on the broth- ers Jeff, Steve, and Jack Carlson, and the British Olympic ski jum- per Eddie Edwards, nicknamed The Eagle — were celebrated for their chunky eyewear. The most recent football player who gained widespread attention for wearing glasses while playing was Brandon Burlsworth, an of- fensive lineman for the Arkansas Razorbacks who was drafted by the Colts in 1999 but died in a car accident 11 days later. Burls- worth’s Woody Allen style frames were his trademark, and after his death, his family set up a founda- tion that provides glasses to needy children in Arkansas. As for Ard, he said he had tried contact lenses and goggles but neither worked for him. When he tried out for the football team at South Pointe High School in Rock Hill, S.C.,some of the coaches were concerned. “I worried about him because he wasn’t your typical kicker,” said Straight Herron, then a South Pointe assistant. “He was always looking to hit somebody.” Ard kicked, punted and was also the team’s starting free safe- ty as a senior. In a high school game that was broadcast on ESPN, he blasted a kickoff right through the uprights and halfway across the roof of the locker room behind it. He led the team in tack- les on kickoffs,and Herron said that despite his size — Ard is list- ed at 5 feet 9 inches and 189 pounds — he was one of the most ferocious hitters on a team that went to the state championship game. On one occasion, Ard hit an opponent so hard that he gave himself a concussion. “People ask me if it’s safe to wear glasses,and I tell them I’ve taken huge hits and had concus- sions,and my glasses didn’t even come off,” said Ard, who walked on at South Carolina. Ard says that his frames are designed to absorb impact and that South Carolina has not made him sign a liability waiver. Ard’s ophthalmologist, Dr. Erin Gosh- orn, says concerns about the glasses are unfounded. “Why is everyone making a big deal be- cause he wears glasses?” she asked. “His glasses are very safe.” For years, Ard has diffused the questions and occasional jibes about his eyewear with humor. But he never expected his glass- es to become fodder for ESPN football analysts, as they did on Monday. “Check out my man Landon Ard, not very good,” the ESPN analyst Cris Carter said on televi- sion this week, describing the un- successful onside kick attempt against L.S.U. during a segment on “Monday Night Countdown” called “C’mon Man!” As Carter spoke, the highlight briefly paused,and Ard’s glasses were highlighted. “He rocking the specs,” Carter said.“Now, I don’t believe he’s there to be kicking at South Carolina, I think he there to help out with the G.P.A. C’mon, man!” Ard’s father, David, said Car- ter’s remarks and the laughter of his colleagues on the show disap- pointed him. “That was wrong,” he said. “They don’t even know Landon. He has to wear glasses.” Ard, however, sheepishly ac- knowledged that he had a 4.0 G.P.A. last semester. “I guess glasses might make you look a little smarter,” he said. “But I think I just look normal.” Once again, as a bespectacled kicker of modest stature in a sport of behemoths, Ard said he had more to prove than most. “I guess I do have a chip on my shoulder,” he said. “I want to show people that I might look dif- ferent than everyone else, but I can do the same things. My glass- es don’t limit me.” Gamecocks Kicker Ignores Jabs That Frame Him as Bookworm UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ‘I guess glasses might make you look a little smarter. But I think I just look normal.’ LANDON ARD, a freshman at South Carolina PAT SULLIVAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel N D5 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 same-sex couples. For a man who had a perfect verbal score on the SAT, and whom friends, family, teammates and coaches de- scribe as having “no filter,” the brickbat that Kluwe gorilla-swung at the notion of civil discourse became as much the story as the message itself. “This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom?” he wrote. “Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life?” The letter is a profanity-laden rant, as well as a multilayered, point-by-point decimation of Burns’s argument, so in- sidiously thorough that Burns waved the white flag two days later in an in- terview with The Baltimore Sun in which he said, in effect, “Never mind.” “My writing style comes from a sto- ried history on the World of Warcraft forum boards,” Kluwe said, referring to the enormously popular online role- playing game. “And in that context, the letter was actually really tame. I toned it down quite a few notches. I knew from the start, I wanted to make it fun- ny, but I definitely couldn’t go full-bore on it.” His definition of full-bore is debat- able; what’s not in question is the posi- tive manner in which his missive has been received across all sexual orienta- tions and political affiliations. “The guy’s got a way with words,” Rush Limbaugh said of Kluwe on his ra- dio show. Kluwe said: “It was funny because it felt like a sign of the apocalypse that Rush Limbaugh and whoever it was from the far left end of the spectrum were both congratulating me. Are pigs flying overhead now?” Some in the Minnesota news media, used to local athletes and celebrities stringing clichés together, appreciate Kluwe’s candor and his ability to speak extemporaneously on any number of subjects. A voracious reader of as many as five books a week, he has emerged as the local go-to guy for a sound bite about a Michael Moore documentary or the latest action video game. (He stopped playing World of Warcraft 18 months ago, he said, because “it wasn’t a challenge anymore.”) After his re- sponse to Burns became widely known, people in the news media privately and publicly expressed admiration for Kluwe’s ability to turn a memorable phrase. “He might be a better writer than he is a punter,” said Bob Sansevere, a col- umnist with The St. Paul Pioneer Press, who has covered the Vikings since 1984 and is a regular on the Twin Cities’ top- rated morning radio show on KQRS. He added, “I’ve never seen an athlete who can write like that.” What added to Kluwe’s angst that night in his bedroom was the proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitu- tion known as Recognition of Marriage Solely Between One Man and One Woman, which is on the Nov. 6 ballot. “There are only 4 percent of Minneso- tans undecided on this question,” says Richard Carlbom, the campaign man- ager of the coalition Minnesotans Unit- ed for All Families, an umbrella or- ganization for more than 600 groups working to defeat the amendment. “Right now it’s a dead heat.” Kluwe lent his brash voice against the amendment, appearing in radio adver- tisements and writing a letter on behalf of Minnesotans for Equality, a fund- raising arm of Minnesotans United for All Families. He recently began selling T-shirts printed with two of the more colorful terms from his letter to Burns. Proceeds will be split between Kluwe’s charity, Kick for a Cure, which benefits children with Duchenne muscular dys- trophy, and Minnesotans for Equality. “Last spring we contacted Chris through Twitter,” said Brad Michael, a committee chairman for Minnesotans for Equality. “He had tweeted about the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries di- vorce.” (Sent via his @ChrisWarcraft Twitter handle, Kluwe’s message was: “Dear Sanctity of Marriage — Nyah hah!”) Kluwe responded to Michael immedi- ately. “I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a good thing,’” he recalled. “I really want to make sure that the amendment doesn’t pass because I think it’s an assault on human rights and civil rights.” Kluwe followed up with appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and local network news, and conducted newspa- per, radio and Web interviews. He has been written about in The Guardian and The Times of London. In addition, Kluwe wrote two profan- ity-free (and much less publicized) let- ters to other opponents of same-sex marriage, the first to Ravens center Matt Birk, his former teammate. In the second letter, to Archbishop John C. Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis and Pope Benedict XVI, he quoted Scripture despite his being agnostic. “He’s the polar opposite of your ster- eotypical football player,” said Cullen Loeffler, the Vikings’ long snapper and Kluwe’s close friend. Most recently, Kluwe was featured in Out magazine, posing shirtless, at his wife’s urging, for several photos that he expected to be locker-room fodder among relatively tight-knit, conserva- tive teammates. Handling such politically delicate matters is new territory for the N.F.L., which has recently been assaulted by concussion issues, player bounties and inept replacement referees. When asked to comment about the Ayanbade- jo situation during a Politico forum in September, Commissioner Roger Goo- dell said: “Listen, I think in this day and age, people are going to speak up about what they think is important. They speak as individuals, and I think that’s an important part of our democracy.” Paul Tagliabue, the previous N.F.L. commissioner, said he planned to do- nate $100,000 to support same-sex mar- riage in Maryland. Despite the league’s macho culture, Kluwe said: “I had quite a few team- mates come up to me and say: ‘We ap- preciate you speaking out in support of Brendon. We may not agree with you on that marriage issue, but at the same time everybody has got the right to speak.’ And then I’ve had a couple teammates come up and say, ‘We agree with you, we think you did the right thing and that was a great letter you wrote.’” Last year, during the final weeks of the N.F.L. lockout, after the stars Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Logan Man- kins and Vincent Jackson tried to alter some of the contract language, Kluwe wrote to Deadspin, describing them in a way that is unprintable here. At that moment, the world became aware of Kluwe. The former Broncos tight end Nate Jackson’s response on Deadspin was ti- tled, “Dear Chris Kluwe: When We Want the Punter’s Opinion, We’ll Ask for It (We Won’t).” Kluwe fired back,ridiculing Jackson’s lack of playing time in a Deadspin col- umn called “Can I Kick It? (Yes, I Can),” which he ended, “You’re not the only one who can craft a sentence, my friend.” The roots of Kluwe’s activism can be traced to his upbringing in Los Alami- tos, Calif. His parents, Ronald, an execu- tive at a company that works with bio- fuels, and Sandy, an anesthesiologist, raised him and his younger brother and sister, Greg and Kim, to be freethinkers who embraced both culture and sports. Kluwe became a violin prodigy who could play by ear, and he developed an advanced vocabulary. “His grandmother gave him ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl when he was 4 or 5,” Sandy Kluwe said, referring to the dark children’s tale. “He could read it, so obviously he had subversive litera- ture at a very early age, and it appar- ently stuck with him.” Family dinners often involved lively discussions in which the children were encouraged to defend their opinions. They were taught to treat people the same way, no matter their race, sexual orientation or financial status. The con- stant companions of Kluwe’s childhood were not toys but books that showed him a world beyond his bedroom. When he was 11, his grandmother, an aero- space engineer and adventurer who climbed Kilimanjaro in her 70s, took him on a two-week trip to Antarctica. In 1994, his parents opted to home- school Kluwe, who tested above his grade. They wanted to keep him with his peers athletically rather than have him enter high school a year early. Sandy Kluwe created a rigorous curric- ulum, which consisted of “Shakespeare, the Federalist papers and Latin conju- gations,” he said. At Los Alamitos High School, Kluwe decided to play football instead of soc- cer. A kicker and punter, he once struck a 60-yard field goal in a playoff game to force overtime. (Los Alamitos eventu- ally won, 30-23.) “He came home one day from a kick- ing camp and said, ‘I’m going to get a scholarship to play football in college,’” Sandy Kluwe said, “‘and then I’m going to play in the N.F.L.’ Just like that.” Much to his parents’ dismay, Kluwe turned down Harvard to attend U.C.L.A., where he graduated in 2003 with a double major in political science and history. Ronald Kluwe said: “When he got off the phone with the Harvard coach, he said: ‘Dad, I’ll be the second biggest guy on the Harvard team, and I’m the punter.’ And I said, ‘O.K., Chris, just let your mother know because I’m not that brave.’” Although no team drafted him out of college, Kluwe joined the Vikings in 2005 and had three successful seasons, averaging 43.6 yards. That led to an $8.3 million contract extension that runs through 2013. Through six games this season, he is averaging 46.4 yards per punt, just above his career average. His position coach is pleased. “He’s a very intelligent guy and he’s a fine punter,” Mike Priefer, the Vikings’ special teams coordinator, said. “Al- though he’s a very funny guy, he’s very motivated and focused on game day, and very coachable.” Whether his deal will be extended is uncertain, as is where his family will live. For his first five years with the Vik- ings, the Kluwes lived in Minnesota year-round. “Minnesota’s not bad in the few weeks of spring,” he said dryly. But they recently bought a second home in Huntington Beach, Calif. He and Isabel are considering bringing up the children there while visiting Minne- sota during the season. Although Kluwe says he has no idea what he will do in retirement (“Play vid- eo games?” his mother said), he will probably not recede from public view. He blogs for The Pioneer Press several times a week, and his growing popular- ity makes it possible that he will have a national platform someday. The good he has done for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in the Twin Cit- ies and elsewhere is tangible. “In the sports bar where I hang out, they now see this issue differently be- cause of Chris Kluwe,” said Brad Mi- chael, of Minnesotans for Equality. “That impact can’t be measured.” It is doubtful that Kluwe will join the fraternity of former coaches and play- ers in sports broadcasting. There is a better chance of seeing him on an epi- sode of “Nova,” bemoaning the fact that after centuries of studying the heavens, we still know so little about our exist- ence. “I saw a study a couple days ago where they showed a scaled picture of the size of the dust cloud that surrounds our galaxy,” Kluwe said, putting his bass guitar down. “And then you zoom out and see how far away our galaxy is from all the others, and it’s this mi- croscopic dot. And that’s just one galaxy out of the billions and trillions there are in the universe. You’re going to tell me we have all the answers?” He did not wait for a response before continuing, “If you look at it, our planet and our being on the planet is almost a 0.0 percent chance of happening in the size of the universe.” He thought for a moment. “You know, we could be noth- ing more than a quantum fluctuation in the stat line of the universe.” With that, the most interesting man in the N.F.L. popped a few more Gob- stoppers into his mouth and stepped into the cold night air before driving back to the team hotel, moments before curfew. Vikings’ Kluwe Makes Point in Broad Debate STEPHEN MATUREN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Chris Kluwe, top and second from right above, at a rehearsal with Tripping Icarus, a rock band that enlisted him mainly because of his prowess on the video game Guitar Hero. “Football is what I do for a living, but it’s not even remotely who I am,” he said. Kluwe, from California, prefers sandals, top right, even in the cold. From First Sports Page ROSS D. FRANKLIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS Harvard wanted Chris Kluwe, but U.C.L.A. led to a pro football career. STEPHEN MATUREN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES STEPHEN MATUREN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES P RO F O OT BA L L D6 ØØ N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 20, 2012 S C O R E B OA R D PRO FOOTBALL BASEBALL M.L.B. LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) AMERICAN LEAGUE All games televised by TBS DETROIT 4, YANKEES 0 Oct. 13: Detroit 6, Yankees 4, 12 innings Oct. 14: Detroit 3, Yankees 0 Tuesday: Detroit 2, Yankees 1 Thursday: Detroit 8, New York 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE All games televised by Fox ST. LOUIS 3, SAN FRANCISCO 2 Sunday: St. Louis 6, San Francisco 4 Monday: San Francisco 7, St. Louis 1 Wednesday: St. Louis 3, San Francisco 1 Thursday: St. Louis 8, San Francisco 3 Friday: San Francisco 5, St. Louis 0 Sunday: St. Louis (Carpenter 0-2) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 14-9), 7:45 p.m. x-Oct. 22: at San Francisco, 8:07 p.m. WORLD SERIES DETROIT VS. N.L. CHAMPION (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) All games televised by Fox Wednesday, Oct. 24: at N.L. Champion (n) Thursday, Oct. 25: at N.L. Champion (n) N.F.L. STANDINGS AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Jets 3 3 0 .500 133 141 N. England 3 3 0 .500 188 137 Miami 3 3 0 .500 120 117 Buffalo 3 3 0 .500 137 192 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 5 1 0 .833 173 115 Indianapolis 2 3 0 .400 100 145 Tennessee 2 4 0 .333 114 204 Jacksonville 1 4 0 .200 65 138 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 5 1 0 .833 161 118 Cincinnati 3 3 0 .500 149 163 Pittsburgh 2 3 0 .400 116 115 Cleveland 1 5 0 .167 134 163 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 3 3 0 .500 170 138 San Diego 3 3 0 .500 148 137 Oakland 1 4 0 .200 87 148 Kansas City 1 5 0 .167 104 183 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Giants 4 2 0 .667 178 114 Phila. 3 3 0 .500 103 125 Washington 3 3 0 .500 178 173 Dallas 2 3 0 .400 94 119 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 6 0 0 1.000 171 113 Tampa Bay 2 3 0 .400 120 101 Carolina 1 4 0 .200 92 125 New Orleans 1 4 0 .200 141 154 North W L T Pct PF PA Chicago 4 1 0 .800 149 71 Minnesota 4 2 0 .667 146 117 Green Bay 3 3 0 .500 154 135 Detroit 2 3 0 .400 126 137 West W L T Pct PF PA San Fran. 5 2 0 .714 165 100 Arizona 4 2 0 .667 110 97 Seattle 4 3 0 .571 116 106 St. Louis 3 3 0 .500 110 111 THURSDAY San Francisco 13, Seattle 6 SUNDAY Washington at Giants, 1 Jets at New England, 4:25 Arizona at Minnesota, 1 Green Bay at St. Louis, 1 Baltimore at Houston, 1 Dallas at Carolina, 1 New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 Cleveland at Indianapolis, 1 Tennessee at Buffalo, 1 Jacksonville at Oakland, 4:25 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:20 Open: Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia, San Diego MONDAY Detroit at Chicago, 8:30 PRO BASKETBALL W.N.B.A. CHAMPIONSHIP All Times EDT (Best-of-5) (x-if necessary) INDIANA 2, MINNESOTA 1 Oct. 14: Indiana 76, Minnesota 70 Wednesday: Minnesota 83, Indiana 71 Friday: Indiana 76, Minnesota 59 Sunday: at Indiana, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, Oct. 24: at Minnesota, 8 p.m. SOCCER M.L.S. STANDINGS EAST W L T Pts GF GA x-Sporting KC 17 7 8 59 40 26 x-Chicago 17 10 5 56 45 39 D.C. 16 10 6 54 49 40 New York 15 9 8 53 54 46 Houston 13 8 11 50 45 38 Columbus 14 11 7 49 40 40 Montreal 12 15 5 41 45 50 Philadelphia 10 15 6 36 35 37 New England 7 17 8 29 37 44 Toronto FC 5 20 7 22 35 60 WEST W L T Pts GF GA x-San Jose 19 6 7 64 69 40 x-Real Salt Lake 17 11 5 56 46 35 x-Seattle 14 7 11 53 48 31 x-Los Angeles 15 12 5 50 56 45 Vancouver 11 12 9 42 35 40 FC Dallas 9 12 11 38 39 42 Colorado 9 19 4 31 40 50 Portland 7 16 9 30 32 55 Chivas USA 7 17 8 29 22 54 x- clinched playoff berth Saturday’s Games Montreal at Toronto FC, 1:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at New York, 7 p.m. Chicago at New England, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at D.C. United, 7:30 p.m. Colorado at Chivas USA, 10:30 p.m. N.B.A. PRESEASON FRIDAY Toronto 107, Knicks 88 Philadelphia 106, Brooklyn 96 Orlando 112, Indiana 96 Chicago 92, Minnesota 81 Oklahoma City 107, Phoenix 97 Sacramento vs. L.A. Lakers at Las Vegas Golden State at Portland GOLF MCGLADREY CLASSIC Sea Island Resort, Seaside Course ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. Purse: $4 million Yardage: 7,005; Par: 70 Second Round Arjun Atwal. . . . . . . . . . .67-63—130 -10 Davis Love III . . . . . . . . .65-66—131 -9 Jim Furyk. . . . . . . . . . . .66-65—131 -9 Bud Cauley . . . . . . . . . .62-70—132 -8 David Toms . . . . . . . . . .65-67—132 -8 Gavin Coles . . . . . . . . . .67-65—132 -8 Michael Thompson. . . . . .65-68—133 -7 Brian Gay. . . . . . . . . . . .65-68—133 -7 D.J. Trahan. . . . . . . . . . .66-67—133 -7 Chad Campbell. . . . . . . .66-67—133 -7 Mathew Goggin. . . . . . . .67-66—133 -7 Greg Owen. . . . . . . . . . .64-69—133 -7 Vijay Singh. . . . . . . . . . .66-68—134 -6 Charles Howell III. . . . . . .66-68—134 -6 Jason Day . . . . . . . . . . .67-67—134 -6 Martin Flores. . . . . . . . . .65-69—134 -6 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCORES EAST Assumption 44, S. Connecticut 0 Syracuse 40, UConn 10 Ursinus 36, Susquehanna 0 A.P. TOP 25 SCHEDULE All Times EDT Saturday No. 1 Alabama at Tennessee, 7 p.m. No. 3 Florida vs. No. 9 South Carolina, 3:30 p.m. No. 4 Kansas St. at No. 17 West Virginia, 7 p.m. No. 5 Notre Dame vs. BYU, 3:30 p.m. No. 6 LSU at No. 20 Texas A&M, Noon No. 7 Ohio State vs. Purdue, Noon No. 8 Oregon State vs. Utah, 10:30 p.m. No. 10 Oklahoma vs. Kansas, 7 p.m. No. 11 Southern Cal vs. Colorado, 6 p.m. No. 12 Florida State at Miami, 8 p.m. No. 13 Georgia at Kentucky, 7 p.m. No. 14 Clemson vs. Virginia Tech, Noon No. 15 Mississippi St. vs. Mid. Tennessee, 7 p.m. No. 16 Louisville vs. USF, 3:30 p.m. No. 18 Texas Tech at TCU, 3:30 p.m. No. 19 Rutgers at Temple, Noon No. 21 Cincinnati at Toledo, 7 p.m. No. 22 Stanford at California, 3 p.m. No. 23 Michigan vs. Michigan St., 3:30 p.m. No. 24 Boise State vs. UNLV, 3:30 p.m. N.F.L. INJURY REPORT WASHINGTON AT GIANTS REDSKINS: OUT: S Brandon Meriweather (knee). DOUBTFUL: WR Pierre Garcon (foot). QUESTIONABLE: CB Cedric Griffin (hamstring), CB David Jones (Achilles), S Jordan Pugh (head), P Sav Rocca (right knee), RB Darrel Young (hamstring). PROBABLE: NT Barry Cofield (shoulder), TE Fred Davis (knee), CB DeAngelo Hall (knee), DE Doug Worthington (calf). GIANTS: OUT: DT Rocky Bernard (quadriceps), S Kenny Phillips (knee), RB Da'Rel Scott (knee), LB Jacquian Williams (knee). QUESTIONABLE: LB Michael Boley (hip), RB Ahmad Bradshaw (foot). PROBABLE: RB Andre Brown (concussion), WR Hakeem Nicks (foot, knee), CB Corey Webster (hand, hamstring). JETS AT NEW ENGLAND JETS: DOUBTFUL: DT Kenrick Ellis (knee), DT Sione Po'uha (low back), RB Bilal Powell (shoulder), S Eric Smith (knee). QUESTIONABLE: WR Clyde Gates (shoulder), C Nick Mangold (ankle), RB Joe McKnight (ankle). PROBABLE: WR Stephen Hill (hamstring), TE Dustin Keller (hamstring), WR Jeremy Kerley (finger), S LaRon Landry (heel), G Brandon Moore (hip), LB Calvin Pace (shoulder), QB Mark Sanchez (low back), LB Bart Scott (toe), G Matt Slauson (knee), LB Bryan Thomas (hamstring).: PATRIOTS OUT: RB Brandon Bolden (knee), S Steve Gregory (hip), LB Tracy White (foot). QUESTIONABLE: DT Ron Brace (back), S Patrick Chung (shoulder), WR Julian Edelman (hand), TE Rob Gronkowski (hip), TE Aaron Hernandez (ankle), LB Dont'a Hightower (hamstring), G Logan Mankins (calf, hip), G Nick McDonald (shoulder), S Sterling Moore (knee), T Sebastian Vollmer (back, knee), WR Wes Welker (ankle). PROBABLE: DT Kyle Love (knee). HANABANK CHAMPIONSHIP Sky 72 Golf Club, Ocean Course INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA Purse: $1.8 million Yardage: 6,364; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Suzann Pettersen. . . . . . . .33-30—63 -9 Karin Sjodin . . . . . . . . . . .32-32—64 -8 Ha-Neul Kim. . . . . . . . . . .33-33—66 -6 Ai Miyazato. . . . . . . . . . . .32-34—66 -6 Hyun-Hee Moon. . . . . . . . .34-32—66 -6 Azahara Munoz. . . . . . . . .35-31—66 -6 So Yeon Ryu. . . . . . . . . . .33-33—66 -6 Yani Tseng. . . . . . . . . . . .34-33—67 -5 Mina Harigae . . . . . . . . . .33-35—68 -4 Karine Icher . . . . . . . . . . .34-34—68 -4 Hyo Joo Kim. . . . . . . . . . .34-34—68 -4 Catriona Matthew. . . . . . . .33-35—68 -4 Angela Stanford. . . . . . . . .33-35—68 -4 Lexi Thompson . . . . . . . . .32-36—68 -4 LUXEMBOURG OPEN CK Sportcenter Kockelsheuer LUXEMBOURG Singles Quarterfinals Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, d. Lourdes Dominguez Lino, Spain, 7-5, 6-0. Monica Niculescu, Romania, d. Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-4. Andrea Petkovic, Germany, d. Ksenia Pervak, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-2. Venus Williams, United States, d. Roberta Vinci (1), Italy, 7-6 (2), 6-4. KREMLIN CUP Olympic Stadium MOSCOW Singles Men Quarterfinals Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, d. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Andreas Seppi (2), Italy, d. Tatsuma Ito (8), Japan, 6-2, 6-1. Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, d. Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Thomaz Bellucci (4), Brazil, d. Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, 6-4, 7-6 (3). Women Quarterfinals Caroline Wozniacki (3), Denmark, d. Dominika Cibulkova (5), Slovakia, 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1. Sofia Arvidsson, Sweden, d. Maria Kirilenko (7), Russia, 6-3, 6-3. Sam Stosur (1), Australia, d. Klara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-3. Ana Ivanovic (4), Serbia, d. Vesna Dolonc, Serbia, 6-4, 6-1. TENNIS ERSTE BANK OPEN Wiener Stadthalle VIENNA Singles Quarterfinals Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, d. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 6-4. Janko Tipsarevic (2), Serbia, d. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, 6-2, 4-2, retired. Juan Martin del Potro (1), Argentina, d. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-2, 6-2. Grega Zemlja, Slovenia, d. Tommy Haas (3), Germany, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. GIANTS 5, CARDINALS 0 San Francisco ab r h bi bb so avg. Pagan cf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .261 Scutaro 2b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .429 Sandoval 3b 4 2 2 1 0 1 .286 Arias 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Posey c 4 0 1 0 0 2 .167 Pence rf 4 1 0 0 0 2 .105 Belt 1b 3 0 0 0 1 2 .214 G.Blanco lf 2 1 0 0 2 1 .133 B.Crawford ss 4 0 1 2 0 2 .235 Zito p 2 0 1 1 0 1 .500 S.Casilla p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- A.Huff ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Romo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Totals 33 5 6 4 3 12 St. Louis ab r h bi bb so avg. Jay cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .238 Beltran rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .333 Holliday lf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .190 Craig 1b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .125 Y.Molina c 4 0 2 0 0 0 .350 Freese 3b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .263 Descalso 2b 4 0 1 0 0 1 .222 Kozma ss 2 0 0 0 1 1 .250 Lynn p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 J.Kelly p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- S.Robinson ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Rosenthal p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Boggs p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Schumaker ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Mujica p 0 0 0 0 0 0 --- Totals 33 0 7 0 1 8 San Francisco 000 400 010—5 6 0 St. Louis 000 000 000—0 7 1 E—Lynn (1). LOB—San Francisco 5, St Louis 7. 2B—Craig (1), Freese (2). HR— Sandoval (2), off Boggs. RBIs—Sandoval (4), B.Crawford 2 (4), Zito (1). SB—Belt (1), Beltran (1). S—Zito. DP—San Francisco 1 San Francisco ip h r er bb so np era Zito W1-0 7 Î/¯ 6 0 0 1 6 115 0.00 S.Casilla Í/¯ 0 0 0 0 1 7 0.00 Romo 1 1 0 0 0 1 21 0.00 St. Louis ip h r er bb so np era Lynn L0-1 3 Î/¯ 4 4 0 2 6 66 4.91 J.Kelly 1 Í/¯ 1 0 0 0 1 12 0.00 Rosenthal 2 0 0 0 0 4 27 0.00 Boggs 1 1 1 1 1 1 24 3.38 Mujica 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00 T—3:03. A—47,075 (43,975). COLLEGE HOCKEY SCORES EAST Army 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sacred Heart 2 Boston College 5 . . . . . . . UMass 4, OT Buffalo St. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . Penn St. 0 St. Lawrence 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . Maine 0 Bowling Green 3 . . . . . . . . . Colgate 1 Ohio St. 1 . . . . . . . . . . Quinnipiac 1, OT MIDWEST Providence 1 . . . . . . Miami (Ohio) 1, OT RPI 3 . . . . . . . . Minn. St., Mankato 3, tie Lake Superior St. 2 . . . . . . Bemidji St. 0 Ferris St. 7 . . . . . . . . . . . Mercyhurst 3 Michigan St. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . Niagara 2 Notre Dame 4 . . . . . . . . Minn. Duluth 1 Michigan 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bentley 3 Neb.-Omaha 5 . . . . . . . . . N. Michigan 2 W.Michigan 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . Canisius 1 Michigan Tech 5. . . . . . . . . Minnesota 3 St. Cloud St. 8 . . . . . . . . Ala.-Huntsville 3 FAR WEST Colorado College 6 . . . . . . . . Air Force 2 North Dakota 5 . . . . Alaska-Anchorage 0 By JUDY BATTISTA In an unexpected twist to a long- running drama, N.F.L. Commission- er Roger Goodell recused himself Friday from his role overseeing the appeals of four players suspended in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal. Goodell’s predecessor, Paul Ta- gliabue, a lawyer, will instead hear the appeals of Scott Fujita, Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove and Will Smith on Oct. 30. The four can play until the appeals are decided. Goodell said in a statement that he decided to recuse himself — an action the N.F.L. Players Associa- tion requested —“to bring this mat- ter to a prompt and fair conclusion.” In the collective bargaining agree- ment, the commissioner’s office is given the right to hand out discipline and hear appeals in cases involving conduct detrimental to the league, or to appoint another person to de- cide appeals. Goodell has designat- ed others to hear appeals before, but he has been the face —and the iron fist — of the case.He has already twice considered appeals to the pun- ishments that were originally hand- ed down in the spring. The league’s handling of the in- vestigation into the case has drawn harsh criticism and strong push- back from the players involved, in- cluding their taking their pleas for relief to federal court. On Friday, Jimmy Kennedy, a player the N.F.L. identified as having informed a coach that he had been told there were bounties, said in a statement that the league was lying. A few hours later, the league announced that Goodell was stepping aside. Vilma was suspended for the 2012 season,and Smith was barred for four games for their supposed roles in the bounty program, which the N.F.L. says was a system in which players were offered money if they injured opponents. Fujita, now with the Cleveland Browns, was origi- nally suspended three games, a pun- ishment Goodell subsequently re- duced to one game. Hargrove, a free agent, had his suspension reduced from eight games to seven. Players, with the union’s support, have complained that Goodell abused his power and was biased and that they could not receive from hima fair hearing of their appeals. A federal judge in New Orleans, con- sidering a defamation case filed by Vilma against Goodell, has indicated that she might agree. “Commissioner Goodell’s belated recognition that he cannot possibly serve as an impartial and unbiased arbitrator is certainly a positive de- velopment,” Vilma’s lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, said. “Having said that, we now need to learn whether Com- missioner Tagliabue plans to pro- vide to us the fundamental rights that Commissioner Goodell ignored, including the right to examine the accusers and to see the evidence, and also we need to consider that Commissioner Tagliabue is counsel to the law firm representing Com- missioner Goodell in Jonathan’s def- amation lawsuit as well as Jona- than’s challenge to the N.F.L.’s en- tire process in this matter.” In a statement, the N.F.L.said Goodell consulted with the players union’s leader,DeMaurice Smith, before deciding to let Tagliabue take over. The move could serve three purposes: it could allay the judge’s concern about the players receiving a fair internal appeal, it blunts the judge-and-jury argument against Goodell,and it could allow the league to save face if Tagliabue de- cides to reduce the suspensions. Goodell said in the statement that he would have no role in the hearing or in Tagliabue’s decision. “Paul Tagliabue is a genuine foot- ball authority whose tenure as com- missioner was marked by his thor- ough and judicious approach to all matters,” Goodell said. Tagliabue was one of Goodell’s mentors, but it is no certainty that he will rubber-stamp Goodell’s deci- sions. He will undoubtedly make his decision with an eye on the courts, whose involvement the N.F.L. would prefer to avoid. Tagliabue is well regarded by New Orleans fans;he was instrumental in persuading the Saints’ owner, Tom Benson, not to move the team in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Tagliabue to Hear Appeals in Bounty Case P RO F O OT BA L L P RO BAS K E T BA L L By HOWARD BECK The preseason calendar is shrink- ing, the tuneups growing more crit- ical and ever more revealing. The Nets may be a long way from estab- lishing a firm identity, but it is coming into fo- cus. As expected, they can score. As expected, they may have difficulty defending. Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Brook Lopez combined for 63 points Friday night, but the Nets lost their second straight game, falling,106-96, to the Philadelphia 76ers at Barclays Center. Thaddeus Young eluded the Nets’ defense all night, scoring 24 points for Philadelphia. Dorell Wright add- ed 18 points, and the 76ers shot 49.4 percent from the field. They also ou- trebounded the Nets (49 to 41) and outplayed them down the stretch, turning a 1-point game into a 10- point margin in the final three min- utes. “We just got some things to work on, man,” Williams said, adding: “We’ve only been together for three weeks. You hope things jell faster than they do. But who says they won’t?Sometimes it just clicks.” Lopez led the Nets with another strong performance,with 23 points and 9 rebounds. Williams had his best game of the preseason, scoring 22 points. Johnson, after a sluggish start, finished with 18. Friday’s game was one of two chances the Nets had left to test themselves before the regular sea- son, so Coach Avery Johnson treat- ed it like a real game. He shortened the rotation, stuck with veterans and rode his starters to the final minute. The Nets close out the preseason on Wednesday against the Knicks and will not play again until the Nov. 1 season opener against the Knicks. “In a normal N.B.A. season, I have a pretty good gauge on what we’re dealing with somewhere around that 20-game mark,” Avery Johnson said. “We’re not there yet. So we got some work to do.” But, he added, “I was really encouraged by some of the things that I saw tonight.” Chastened by a 30-point rout at the hands of the Boston Celtics a night earlier, the Nets returned to the court with a clear picture of their flaws. Johnson viewed the rout as a teachable moment. The starting unit was better Friday, racing to an early 7-point lead. Lopez was especially active, with 10 points, 4 rebounds and a block by halftime. Gerald Wallace, the starting small forward, spent most of his night at power forward, to match the 76ers’ small lineup (specifically Young). That left Kris Humphries (13 min- utes) on the bench most of the night. “When teams are small at the four position to start games, we’ve his- torically had problems,” Johnson said. If this was Johnson’s rotation, it was a bad sign for MarShon Brooks, the Nets’ onetime sixth man. Brooks was the 11th man off the bench Fri- day and did not play until the third quarter. He did play some critical minutes in the fourth and finished the game with 6 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists in 11 minutes. For now, Johnson prefers the de- fensive-minded Keith Bogans over the offensive-minded Brooks as his first shooting guard off the bench. Bogans played 11 minutes of the first half, helping to contain Nick Young (5 points). Brooks missed a week of training camp, and three preseason games, with foot tendinitis, and he is still catching up. The Nets also need de- fense more than scoring, and Brooks can be an indifferent defender. Brooks did get some good news before tip-off, when the Nets picked up his option for the 2013-14 season. “It’s the right decision,” Johnson said. “He’s a young guy;he’s tal- ented, still trying to find his way this year. Obviously, the foot injury set him back a little bit. But it’s the right thing to do.” BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES Guard Joe Johnson shooting over three Philadelphia defenders. He finished with 18 points. Defensive Problems Clear in Nets’ Loss 76ERS 106 NETS 96 AUTO RACING No Formula One Race In New Jersey for 2013 Fans of Formula One who expected to watch open-wheel racing on the streets of Weehawken and West New York, N.J., will have to wait an- other year. The organizers of the Grand Prix of America, who hoped to stage a race along the Hudson River wa- terfront in 2013, with the skyscrap- ers of Manhattan just beyond, have decided to push their plans back a year. The postponement was first re- ported by The Jersey Journal. Race organizers have been work- ing on the logistics of the race and also on locating investors to help pay for it. KENBELSON BASKETBALL Fever Take Lead in Finals Shavonte Zellous scored a career- high 30 points to help the host Indi- ana Fever beat the Minnesota Lynx, 76-59, in Game 3 of the W.N.B.A.fi- nals. The Fever’s lead of 70-33 with 1 minute 58 seconds left in the third quarter was the largest lead by any team in W.N.B.A.finals history. Tamika Catchings added 17 points, and Erlana Larkins had 10 points and 15 rebounds for the Fever, who took a 2-1 lead in the series and can clinch their first title at home Sun- day night. Rebekkah Brunson, who scored 12 points, was the only Min- nesota player to reach double fig- ures. (AP) ¶ Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee and is not expected to re- sume on-court activity for about six weeks. Dallas opens the regular sea- son in 11 days. Nowitzki, 34, had ex- perienced swelling in the knee for most of the preseason. He had had the knee drained twice since train- ing camp started Sept. 29. (AP) HOCKEY More Games Canceled The N.H.L. wiped out the third week of the regular season as the lockout dragged on, leaving little wiggle room if the league hopes to play a full 82-game schedule. A day after the league turned down three coun- terproposals from the players union, it canceled 53 games. A total of 135 games through Nov. 1 have been scratched. The N.H.L. says that an 82-game schedule could be played if the sea- son begins by Nov. 2, but that a deal must be reached by Thursday for that to happen. (AP) COLLEGE FOOTBALL Syracuse Beats UConn Alec Lemon had eight catches for 166 yards,Jerome Smith had a ca- reer-high 133 rushing yards,and Syracuse beat visiting Connecticut, 40-10, to spoil Huskies Coach Paul Pasqualoni’s return nearly eight years after he was fired by the Or- ange.Pasqualoni’s firing after the 2004 season came only three weeks after the university’s chancellor, Nancy Cantor,gave him a public vote of confidence to return for the final year of his contract. Instead, the new athletic director,Daryl Gross, fired him after Syracuse’s 51- 14 loss to Georgia Tech in the Champs Sports Bowl.A loss for Syr- acuse (3-4, 2-1 Big East) on Friday not only would have been embar- rassing, but also would have made reaching a bowl game a daunting task with five games left. 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Ware, a powerful and contemplative jazz saxophonist whose career began in the early 1970s but who did not make a sig- nificant name for himself until 20 years later when he helped lead a resurgence of free jazz in New York,died on Thursday in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 62. The cause was complications of a kidney transplant in 2009, said Steven Joerg, Mr. Ware’s manager and record producer. The musical world in which Mr. Ware traveled has few breakout stars, but he was one. In 1995 a review of his album “Cryptology” received the lead slot in Rolling Stone, which rarely reviews jazz albums. In 2001, after the release of his album “Corridors & Paral- lels,” Gary Giddins of The Village Voice called Mr. Ware’s quartet “the best small band in jazz to- day.” Mr. Ware was a large man with a big sound. Among his influ- ences were the breadth of tone Sonny Rollins could invest in a single note and the ferocity John Coltrane could put into a hundred of them.He wrote his own music, performed some jazz and pop standards (“Yesterdays,” “Angel Eyes,” even “The Way We Were”) and sometimes impro- vised within standard harmony. But for the most part he played less conventionally, planning his strategies and diving in deeply. “I’m not interested in chord changes,” he said in a recent in- terview for a short film produced by the David Lynch Foundation. “I don’t need that. I work on con- cepts.” He could roar, and he could un- settle. One landmark of his re- cording career was “Flight of i,” from his album of the same name in 1992: the piece is one unbro- ken, tremulous, nearly five- minute tenor saxophone cry, a feat of circular breathing. Still, he insisted that his music not be mistaken for aggression or pain. He practiced yoga and medita- tion from his early 20s on and said he sought a state of balance from which he could observe in- tense emotional states. David Spencer Ware was born in Plainfield, N.J.,on Nov. 7, 1949, and grew up in nearby Scotch Plains. He started playing alto saxophone at the age of 10, and music soon became his primary focus.By 14 he was making trips with friends into Manhattan to hear jazz in nightclubs. After he introduced himself to Mr. Rollins at a gig, the two prac- ticed together in Mr. Rollins’s Brooklyn apartment. The two de- veloped a bond. Mr. Rollins taught Mr. Ware circular breath- ing techniques, and later talked with himabout Eastern religion. “We were close,” Mr. Rollins said in a telephone interview on Friday. “He was a very conscien- tious young fellow.”After gradu- ating, Mr.Ware switched to tenor saxophone, his main instrument thereafter. He studied at the Ber- klee College of Music in Boston in the late 1960s, and during that pe- riod met the pianist Cooper- Moore and the drummer Marc Edwards, with whom he per- formed through much of the 1970s in the free-jazz group Apo- gee. He later looked back on that time and described himself as an “avant-garde purist”; instead of building solos, he said in 1991: “I’d come out just blasting. I’d come out like I was coming out of a cannon.” In 1973 Mr. Rollins invited Apo- gee to open for himat the Village Vanguard. “I got a lot of mean looks from my fans in the club,” Mr. Rollins said in on Friday. By 1973 Mr. Ware had moved to New York,where he became part of the SoHo loft-jazz scene.He performed and recorded with the pianist and composer Cecil Tay- lor and also collaborated with some of the new jazz’s better drummers, including Andrew Cyrille,Beaver Harris and Mil- ford Graves. By the late 1980s Mr. Ware was recording as a leader, but he was still not well known outside cer- tain small circles. Through that period and into the 1990s, while living in Scotch Plains with his wife,Setsuko S. Ware,who sur- vives him,he drove a cab in New York to make ends meet. Mr. Ware is also survived by his sister, Corliss Olivia Farrar. In 1991 Mr. Ware began record- ing for the Japanese label DIW. Through a temporary licensing arrangement in the 1990s, his DIW album “Flight of i” was re- leased in the United States by Co- lumbia Records.In 1997 he was signed outright to Columbia by the saxophonist Branford Marsa- derwent self-administered dialy- sis for almost a decade; by 2009 a transplant was required to save his life. Mr. Joerg made a plea to Mr. Ware’s fans and friends, and one, Laura Mehr, offered hers. The operation was that May, and Mr. Ware performed again in October, unaccompanied, at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. That concert was re- corded and quickly released by Aum Fidelity as “Saturnian (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 1).” Four more albums followed before his death, ending with “Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011,” from his final performance, in Austria in Au- gust of last year. David S. Ware,Adventurous Saxophonist, Dies at 62 JOSHUA BRIGHT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES David S. Ware in New York in 2009 after a kidney transplant. Influenced by Rollins and Coltrane but going his own way. By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Slater Martin, the Hall of Fame guard whose playmaking and de- fensive brilliance helped take the Minneapolis Lakers to four N.B.A. championships in the league’s first decade, died on Thursday in Houston. He was 86. His death was announced by the University of Texas, for which he starred in the 1940s. In the era before the 24-second shot clock, the Lakers dominated pro basketball behind the N.B.A.’s biggest attraction, center George Mikan. Their front line also featured the rugged Vern Mikkelsen and the agile Jim Pol- lard.The Lakers player who put everything in motion was the 5-foot-10-inch Martin, a sparkling passer and a quick and pesky de- fender, the archetype of today’s point guard. Martin played for Lakers teams that captured the N.B.A. championship in 1950 and then won three consecutive titles, from 1952 to 1954. He played on his fifth N.B.A. championship team with the St. Louis Hawks in 1958. Martin appeared in the N.B.A. All-Star Game every year from 1953 to 1959 and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., in 1982. The Lakers prized Martin for his ability to defend against star guards like the Davies-Wanzer backcourt of the Rochester Royals and the Sharman-Cousy tandem of the Boston Celtics. “All they expected of me was to hold Bob Davies or Bobby Wan- zer or Bill Sharman or Bob Cousy to 12 points,and then we’d win the game,” Martin told Charles Salzberg in the 1987 oral history “From Set Shot to Slam Dunk.” “If I got 6 or 8 points extra, I was home free. Besides, they found out I could pass.” Whitey Skoog, who played with Martin in the Lakers’ backcourt on their three consecutive title teams, recalled in an interview Friday that Martin “was very confident, very aggressive, and he played defense hard.” “A lot of teams had their of- fense centered on the guards,” Skoog added,“but the Lakers were centered up front with Mikan, Pollard and Mikkelsen. Martin was a good shooter, but he didn’t do much shooting.” Slater Nelson Martin, some- times known as Dugie, a boyhood nickname deriving from the “Mutt and Jeff” comic strip, was born on Oct. 22, 1925, in Elmina, Tex.,near Houston,the son of a railroad stationmaster, and grew up in Houston. He played on two Texas state championship teams at Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, but at only 5 feet 7 inch- es and 130 pounds he was an un- likely college prospect. Undeterred, he hitchhiked to Austin for a tryout at the Uni- versity of Texas and made its 1943-44 team. But after playing in only a few games, he joined the Navy. While serving in the Pa- cific during World War II, he grew to 5-foot-10. When he returned to Texas in 1946, Martin starred as one of the team’s three quick guards, known as the Orange Mice or the Mighty Mice,who ran weaves until Martin or one of his team- mates got open for a one-handed push shot. Martin led Texas to the semi- finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament in 1947 and set a Longhorns record by scoring 49 points against Texas Christian. Soon af- ter joining the Lakers in 1949, he became one of their key players. The Lakers traded Martin to the Knicks before the 1956-57 sea- son, but the Knicks sent him to the Hawks in December. While continuing to play at guard, Mar- tin coached the Hawks for eight games that season between the head-coaching tenures of Red Holzman and Alex Hannum. Martin teamed with Bob Pettit and Cliff Hagan to bring the Hawks franchise its only N.B.A. championship, a six-game vic- tory over the Celtics in 1958. Martin and Cousy confronted each other three times in the N.B.A. finals during Martin’s time with the Hawks. Cousy could take advantage of bigger guards who weren’t too quick, but Martin gave him trou- ble. “Slater was the only one I used to call for help on,” Cousy was once quoted as saying by NBA.com.“I used to tell my big people to set picks as often as they felt like it." Martin retired after the 1959-60 season, having been among the N.B.A.’s top 10 players in assists six times while averaging 9.8 points a game. He coached the Houston Mavericks of the Ameri- can Basketball Association in 1967-68 and for part of the follow- ing season. Martin, who lived in Houston and had owned a restaurant there, is survived by his sons, Slater and Jim, and one grand- child. His wife, Marjorie, known as Fay, died in 1995. The season after Martin re- tired, the Minneapolis Lakers were no more, having moved to Los Angeles. But in April 2002, the Los Angeles Lakers honored Martin and the other surviving stars from the Minneapolis years in a Staples Center ceremony. Martin long relished the aura of the rough-and-tumble, old-time N.B.A.“Guys would knock you if you went into the lane,” he told The Houston Chronicle in 1999. But Martin could dish it out when it came to someone more his size, even an immense talent like the 6-foot-1-inch Cousy, who dazzled with his dribbling. “Cousy could do all that stuff, going behind his back and every- thing, but of course they let him get away with palming the ball,” Martin said. “But he went behind his back on me, and I told him that if he did that again, that I would break his nose. He didn’t do it again.” Slater Martin, 86, Pesky Hall of Fame Guard for Lakers ASSOCIATED PRESS Slater Martin driving for the St. Louis Hawks against the Cincinnati Royals in 1959. Asparkling passer, a quick defender and a 5-time N.B.A. champ. By WILLIAM YARDLEY Frank Moore Cross, an influ- ential Harvard biblical scholar who specialized in the ancient cultures and languages that helped shape the Hebrew Bible and who played a central role in interpreting the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on Tuesday in Roch- ester. He was 91. The cause was complications of pneumonia, family members said. “When you walked into his classes, you felt you were on the frontier of knowledge in the field,” said Peter Machinist, who studied under Dr. Cross as an un- dergraduate at Harvard and now holds the endowed professorship there that Dr. Cross had held un- til his retirement in 1992. “What- ever happened in the field would come to him first, before it got published, because people want- ed to know what he thought.” Dr. Cross grew up in Birming- ham, Ala., the son of a Protestant minister. After earning a divinity degree, he went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and be- came one of the most prominent students of William F. Albright, whose work is part of the founda- tion of biblical archaeological studies. The field was shaken in 1947 af- ter a Bedouin goatherd stumbled across ancient scrolls in a cave west of the Dead Sea. More scrolls were eventually found in other caves near the site of an an- cient settlement called Qumran, and many people believed that they would reveal new insights into the Bible. Mr. Albright and some of his students were among a small group of scholars given exclusive access to the scrolls. Dr. Cross was given responsibility for Cave No.4, and he published his find- ings in “The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies” in 1958. Mr. Albright, writing that year in The New York Times, praised his student’s work as an “au- thoritative survey on the bearing of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Bi- ble.” “It is now demonstrated,” he wrote, “that there were many dif- ferent Hebrew versions of such books as Exodus, Deuteronomy, Samuel, Kings, etc., and that the uniformity of medieval Hebrew manuscripts is chiefly the result of careful editing by Jewish rab- bis in the first two centuries A.D.” But the scrolls were a continu- ing source of debate. Some schol- ars disagreed with Dr. Cross’s in- terpretations — or revised them through newer archaeological work — while others were critical of him and his colleagues for not sharing their access to the scrolls and publishing them more quick- ly in their entirety. Some suggest- ed that the scholars were with- holding material that could be sensitive to one religious group or another. (This concern proved largely unnecessary after the documents were eventually pub- lished in their entirety.) Criticism over the delays, led by Hershel Shanks, the founder and editor of Biblical Archaeolo- gy Review, crested in the 1990s. But on the publication’s Web site, Bible History Daily, Mr. Shanks wrote on Thursday: “All this con- cerning the scrolls was a blip that fades into insignificance with the passage of time. Frank’s schol- arly achievements have had a ra- diating and lasting influence.” In 1994, Mr. Shanks published a book-length series of interviews with Dr. Cross. “The more light we can shed on crucial moments in the history of our religious community — or on the birth of Western culture, to speak more broadly — the bet- ter,” Dr. Cross said of the scrolls in the interview. “The longer and more precise our memory is, the more civilized we are.” Dr. Cross studied culture, reli- gion and politics of the period in which the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, was written and re- vised, and he traced the ways dif- ferent nations and cultures had translated its early texts. He also traced the evolution of ancient script and developed expertise in dating documents by the slight- est shifts in writing style. “That we know that a partic- ular scroll comes from 100 B.C. and not 50 A.D. is almost entirely due to the study of the scripts and their development that he worked out,” Mr. Machinist said. “That may seem like a trivial point, but if you don’t have a sense of when these texts are dated, you have no sense of their historical importance.” Once, several colleagues said, after carbon dating confirmed dates that he had established through script analysis, Dr. Cross joked that he was happy to hear that his script studies had vali- dated the practice of carbon dat- ing. Frank Moore Cross Jr. was born on July 13, 1921, in Ross, Calif. (He dropped the Jr. after his father died.) His family moved to Alabama when he was a young boy. He graduated from Maryville College in Tennessee and received a divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago and a doc- torate from Johns Hopkins. At his death he was emeritus Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages at Harvard, where he had super- vised the doctoral work of more than 100 students. “There are very few areas in which you do not meet with Frank Cross,” said Jack M. Sas- son, a biblical scholar at Vander- bilt University, who did not study under Dr. Cross. “If you do not meet with Frank Cross, you meet with one of his students who had ideas he had launched.” Dr. Cross is survived by his daughters, Susan Summer, Ellen Gindele and Rachel Cross, and six grandchildren. His wife of more than 60 years, the former Elizabeth Anne Showalter, died in 2009. Dr. Cross often sequestered himself in his study at home until late into the night. “He was very intense, and we would just kind of tiptoe by the study,” Ms. Gindele recalled. “My mother liked to say you could feel the wheels turning and not to bother him.” Frank Moore Cross, Biblical Scholar, 91 THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELON Frank Moore Cross on an ex- pedition to Ashkelon, Israel. BLAIR—Ellen Lopin,born July 18,1933,died October 18,2012 after a short illness.Beloved wife of William Granger Blair. Stepmother to Laura and Robert Blair and devoted aunt to Abby,Jeremy,and Carol Nash.In lieu of flowers please donate to the Solo Competition of the Oratorio Society of New York,1440 Broadway,23rd Floor,New York,NY 10018. BUCHANAN—Susi,84,beloved wife of John [New York,NY], died October 18,2012,after a long illness.Her husband was at her bedside.Susi was born in Goeppingen,Germany,and grew up in Tuttlingen on the upper Danube.The daughter of an outspoken anti-Nazi, who was officially labeled po- litically unreliable,Susi and her mother lived in straitened circumstances during World War II.Nevertheless,she be- came a gifted fencer and at age 16 won the women's foil championship of the state of Wuerttemberg.For several years she was an antiquarian book dealer specializing in children's and illustrated books and was well known and popular on the antiquari- an book fair circuit in New York and New England.She was equally at home in her lovely garden at Pond Hill Cottage in Columbia County, NY,where she spent sum- mers for thirty-four years,un- til illness overtook her.Susi was much loved by all who knew her.She will be missed. FRANKEL—Paul David.A wonderful man has left us too soon.Paul's many interests opened others'eyes to beau- ty,fun and adventure.His generosity inspired us to fol- low suit.Our love goes out to Evy,Justin,Rachel,Jackson, Ava and the Fruhlings. Laurie Disick and Family JACOB—Jerry R.The Board of Directors of the Police Ath- letic League mourn the loss of their long-time member. His extraordinary interest and generosity on behalf of 40,000 PAL youngsters was unfailing and deeply appreciated.Our deepest sympathies to his wife,Phyllis and family.Jerry will be missed by all his friends at PAL. Robert M.Morgenthau, PAL Chairman Robert J.McGuire, PAL Vice-Chairman John B.Osborn, PAL President KOPPEL—Florence,age 95, died in Bronx,NY on October 18,2012.Devoted wife of the late Herbert Koppel;loving mother of Andrew,Richard, and Mildene;adoring grand- mother of Adam,Alison and Heather;cherished sister of Julia Price and the late Ros- alie Moselman;beloved aunt and great-aunt to numerous nieces and nephews;and dear friend to so many won- derful people.Funeral service Sunday,October 21,2012 at 10:15am at the Riverdale Jew- ish Center,3700 Independence Avenue,Bronx,NY.To be fol- lowed by burial at the Hun- garian Union Field Cemetery, Brooklyn,NY. LEWIS—Jonathan Samuel Jonathan Samuel Lewis,25,a resident of New York City and Westport,Connecticut, died suddenly on Wednesday, October 17,2012 in Manhat- tan.Jon was a graduate of Fairfield Country Day School, Staples High School,and Pace University.Jon had many interests - from sports and movies to books,art and travel;but above all,Jon was a true believer in the human spirit,passionate about the environment and the world we live in.Born in Hong Kong on November 3,1986,our beloved Jonathan is survived by his parents Peter and Joan Lewis,as well as his younger brother Daniel,two older brothers,Zachary and Greg, and his sisters Alexandria and Jacqueline.In addition to his loving and close family,Jon's absence will leave a great void in the lives of his many friends.A Memorial Service will be held this Sunday,Octo- ber 21st,in Westport at 1pm at the family home.Email lewisfamilyrsvp@gmail.com for details.In lieu of flowers or gifts,donations can be made to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - www.gatesfoundation.org or the Clinton Foundation –  www.clintonfoundation.org. Shaughnessey Banks Funeral Home,50 Reef Road in Fair- field,CT is in charge of the services.To send an online condolence,please visit www.shaughnesseybanks.com MATULIS—Jim (GEM),de- parted on October 12th. Beloved husband of Ranjit, father of Jaideep and grand- father of Sandeep,you came like an Angel into our lives and departed so suddenly. We miss you so much and will never forget you. Your loving family & friends MILLET—Marion - Born Octo- ber 31,1927,wife of David D. Millet.Retired school teacher. Civic leader.Parent of Robin Lubell (Mrs.Ned) Shankman, Jay ( Marilyn ) Lubell,Steven (Claudia) Lubell and Holly (Mrs.Adam) Logan.Beloved sister of Paula (Dr.Samuel O.Their).Leaves behind six grandchildren and one great- granddaughter.Graveside service Sunday 11:30am at New Montefiore Cemetery. For info go to:www.jewish- funeral-home.com NOYES—Jose Wentworth,son of the late Julius Wentworth Noyes and Rosita de Tejada Noyes,died in New York City on October 18th,2012 at age 75.He is survived by his beloved wife of 43 years Gigi, dear sons Jose Jr.and Pren- tiss and nephew William.A lifelong resident of New York City,Mr.Noyes graduated from the Browning School and Columbia University.He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy prior to becoming a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.Known for his warmth and charisma,he was loyal to his family and friends and dedicated to his many inter- ests.Mr.Noyes served as the President of the Buttonwood Foundation and the St.Antho- ny Educational Foundation. He was an active member of The Union Club,the Racquet and Tennis Club,the Leash Club,the Sharon Country Club and the Holland Lodge.A his- tory buff,he was also a member of The Pilgrims,the Society of Colonial Wars, Squadron A and the Veteran Corps of Artillery.An avid sportsman,he was a member of the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club.His love of music was reflected in his support of the Mannes College The New School for Music.In lieu of flowers,contributions may be made to the Buttonwood Foundation at 11 Wall Street, New York,NY,10005 and the St.Anthony Educational Foundation at P.O.Box 4633, Chapel Hill,NC 27515-4633. His family will receive at Frank E.Campbell's from 2- 5pm and 7-9pm on Monday, October 22nd.Funeral ser- vices will be held at the Church of St.Vincent Ferrer at 3:30pm on Tuesday,Octo- ber 23rd. PERSON—Ethel.The Board of Directors and staff of the Marion Kenworthy-Sarah Swift Foundation mourn the loss of Dr.Ethel Person. Ethel was an esteemed and trusted Board member and colleague who approached is- sues of child development and mental health with great sensitivity and intelligence. We will miss her and extend our deepest sympathy to her family. The Board of Directors & staff Kenworthy-Swift Foundation QUINT—Ira.We note with sor- row the passing of our mem- ber Ira Quint and extend sin- cerest condolences to his be- reaved family. Rabbi Peter J.Rubinstein and President David B.Edelson, Central Synagogue of New York City VOLOW—Gerald,age 90,of NYC and Florida.Loving hus- band,father,stepfather, grandfather and step-grandfa- ther.Services,Sunday,Octo- ber 21,1:00pm at"The River- side,"W 76th St.and Amster- dam Ave.,NYC.In lieu of flowers,send donations in the memory of Gerald to The Metropolitan Jewish Health System.www.MJHS.org Aisenberg, Bernard Barnett, Marilyn Blair, Ellen Buchanan, Susi Frankel, Paul Jacob, Jerry Koppel, Florence Lewis, Jonathan Matulis, Jim Millet, Marion Noyes, Jose Person, Ethel Quint, Ira Volow, Gerald Wertz, Pierre Zlatin, Albert AISENBERG—Bernard,of New York City and formerly of New Rochelle,NY,peacefully, on October 17,2012.President of Rosedale Management Company.With his partners, he developed and built The Coliseum Park Apartments lo- cated at Columbus Circle in New York City,as well as many other apartment build- ings.Lifelong supporter of the ACLU and many other similar causes.Beloved husband of Michele,devoted father of Elizabeth (Betty) and Robert (Bob) and daughter-in-law Kathy.Adored grandfather of Danny,Alison,Jonathan and James.Dear brother of Alan. Service Sunday,October 21, 2012,11:15am at"The River- side",76 St.and Amsterdam Ave.Contributions in his memory may be made to MJHS Hospice,440 9th Ave, 14 Fl.,New York,NY 10013 or The ACLU,125 Broad St., New York,NY 10004. BARNETT—Marilyn,87,died on October 19,2012.She is survived by her loving hus- band for 66 years,Albert.She was beautiful and very talent- ed as a singer.She graduated from Queens College with a degree in music.Later she became a kindergarten teach- er,where she was always ready to lead the class in singing.She will be missed by her three children Larry,Hol- ly and Jonathan and their spouses and her five grand- children. WERTZ—Pierre Andre.Age 70,died on August 9,2012 at home in Leonia,NJ.Beloved husband of the late Barbara. Predeceased by brothers John and George,beloved sis- ter-in-law Olga,and niece Cathy.Friends will celebrate his life with a memorial ser- vice and reception on Satur- day,October 20,2012 at 11am, at Church of the Heavenly Rest,90th St.,and Fifth Ave., New York,NY. ZLATIN—Albert.October 17, 1918 - October 17,2012. Beloved father and father-in- law of our sustaining mem- bers,Marsha and Henry Laufer.The wonderful cre- ativity of your posters for ou r performances have lit up the walls of our main lobby for so many years.We waited with great anticipation each fall to see what new wonders you would produce.We will think of you,always,with love and fond memories as each new season begins. Your friends at the Staller Center for the Arts - Stony Brook University WEISMAN—LorenzoDavid. (April 22,1945 - September 22, 2012).A memorial service will be held on October 22,2012 at 11amat TheBrickPresbyterian Church,Park Ave.at 91st St., NewYorkCity. OLIVER—LilyRowan Your power hasnot diminished nor your influencefaded.We carryon.All our Love,Mommy SEIDEN—Howard.Time does not lessen how much we miss you.Your memory will live forever;never to beforgotten. Love,TheSeidenFamily Deaths Deaths Deaths Memorial Services In Memoriam